Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Draconian Measures… | 1/9/25

Episode Date: January 9, 2025

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that's not the first thing that's been recalled from Costco as of late. So the Kirkland Signature, Severe, Cold, and Flu Plus congestion. I mean, if you're going to get some cold and flu medicine, why wouldn't you get the severe cold and flu plus congestion cold medicine? This particular brand, the Kirkland Signature, is potentially contaminated by a foreign material. So that's been recalled. I mean, they just got done recalling their eggs, their butter.

They've changed the recipe to their bread, I think it was, right? Or was it the muffins? I mean, Costco, you've upped your game at security and not allowing anyone that doesn't have a card with a picture on it. Enter the premises. We need to turn those cameras on ourselves for a little bit. And since we're all facing the Polarrow. Vortex, Vortex, vortex, around most of the country,

except for California as they're taking on the fire vortex. We'll get into a little bit of that as the show progresses. A New Jersey cheese manufacturer has issued a recall for two products

over the potential for Listeria contamination. So, Listeria is showing up in all the wrong places at all the wrong times. It wasn't long ago that Walmart had to recall their broccoli. I mean, at that time, they came for my broccoli and I said nothing because I didn't care. That was recalled because of Listeria concerns as well. So the Wicklow Gold Cheddar Cheeses have been recalled because of Listeria.

concern. So if you love the Wicklow Gold Cheddar Nettle and chive and by gosh, who doesn't. And the Wicklow Gold, cheddar, tomato and herb, man,

you're going to be bummed out because they're not going to be on the shelf. They're recalled. And because of Listeria. And if you have some of the Wicklow gold nettle and chive or the tomato and herb, you may want to, you know, just take it back and get your money back or, you know, throw it away and then tell them you bought it and they'll give you your money back.

Welcome! Welcome to Chewing the Fat. It's that time of year again. And Lake Superior State University and, man, do I love Lake Superior State University in Michigan. Way up there in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. If you hold up the... the hand map, then you have to go to the second hand for the upper peninsula and just say that it's way up top. It's almost next to apparently our newest state, Canada. I don't think we should make it a state. It should be just a territory. I'm good with that.

We're just taking over Canada. Now, anyway, Sue St. Marie, Michigan, up there where Lake Superior State University is located at. they have unveiled their 2025 banished word list. Now, they've been doing this, the banished word list edition, since 1976, when I guess this former LSSU public relations director and his colleagues were word enthusiasts, and they said, hey, let's have a list of words banished from the Queen's English for misuse over. overuse and general uselessness.

Okay, let's do that. And so they've continued on that tradition. So here are the top 10, 2025, well, it's not really a top 10 because they just do 10. And they do, here are the top 20, 25 words and phrases selected for banishment and the reasons that they made the list. So number one is cringe. cringe. You're not allowed to use that word anymore. It's banished.

Cringe once packed a punch according to LSSU. It's now overstayed. It's welcome. Overuse was dulled its impact and ironically using it might now cause the very reaction it describes. Yeah, cringe. The second banished word, I guess is really a phrase. A game changer. How many times can a game change before it's no, longer recognizable.

So you're not supposed to use game changer anymore. Era. Era. You're not supposed to use era anymore, according to them, unless you are Taylor Swift. And I would say, let's not do that anymore from her either. So get rid of the word era, according to LSSU. Dropped.

Dropped is another word, banished now, according to LSSU. Once edgy and cool, It's become a letdown. Whether it's an album, a trend, or a product, this term has fallen flat. Okay, so we're not supposed to use dropped anymore. We're not supposed to use this internet slang, if you know, you know, I-Y-K-Y-Y-K. If you are on social media, you know that when you see I-Y-K-Y-K-Y-K, you know that it means, if you know, you know.

Apparently that's been banished now. This phrase offers little clarity of substance. If you know, you might agree it's time to let this one go. I don't know. According to a lot of people, I know it's irritating and nonsensical, and that's, you know, irritating is a good way to describe a lot of these words now. But, you know, if you know, you know.

The next phrase that has been banished, according to the Lake Superior State University, sorry not sorry yeah i'm kind i'm with them on this uh the half-hearted apology masquerading as bold honesty yeah sorry not sorry yeah uh you know it's i guess it's kind of funny used right uh from time to time but it's banned you know what they banned it so you can't use it anymore uh skibity skibody skibody skibati s k i b i apparently this uh word may have resonated with the younger crowd but form, this is L-SU

reasoning explanation for why this word has been banished. But for many, it is just noise. Agatha from Denmark explains nobody cares about skibbidi toilet, skibbidi-fiz or skimity Ohio

phantom tax. At this point, nobody even knows what it means, and it just annoys people. That's what Agatha from Denmark said about the word skibbidi. What's interesting is that they take submissions, obviously from all over the world,

which is why Agatha from Denmark gets mentioned. So they received submissions this year for these words. From Canada, Australia, Denmark, Germany, India, South Africa, and, of course, the United States. Another phrase that you can't use anymore that's been banned 100%. 100%, 100 with the percentage. Yeah, you can't use that.

No more. Is it possible to be over-enthusiastic about retiring the phrase, 100%. Absolutely. It's overuse has left no room for nuance or doubt. You know, I know that, but I feel like that's, you know, I agree with you. 100%.

100. And it isn't really 100% anymore. It's just 100%. So I'm okay with banning 100%, but if you just want to continue with 100%, you know, I'm okay with that. Utilize. Utilize is another banned word. The classic offender, according to LSSU. Utilize proves that longer is not always better.

Ooh, I don't know that I agree with that. Why complicate things when use, USE works just fine? Everett from Combe, Texas, encourages readers to write like you talk and added, Lord, I hope you don't talk like that. So you utilize, proves when you use use use, those are two different. Okay, all right, just stop use and utilize, according to LSSU. And period. The word, period.

I guess you still could continue using periods in your, you know, in your writings for punctuation, but you can't say it anymore. Stop saying period. Okay, we're tired of hearing period. So those are your banned words this year from Lake Superior State University. So stop using those words, okay? They've been banished. And we don't want to hear.

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appear to be getting any better soon. The LA, the fires in California are, I mean, they're horrible and they're horrific. And it's, it's incredible how terrible it is. We have At least five people have died. More than a thousand buildings were destroyed. I feel like that's low. That's low now. I mean, we've, maybe that's just because the pictures we see are of the same area. But the areas that I've seen, man, it looks apocalyptic.

The coastal Pacific Palisades, I don't even know if that exists anymore, really. Certainly doesn't exist the way it was. Thousands have been, tens of thousands have been evacuated. There's hundreds of thousands of people without power. Apparently, okay, so we've got the Palisades fire. That's burned 15,000 acres. Zero containment. Inland northerly breezes, known as the Santa Ana winds.

Thank you. Blew over the mountains to the coast. It speeds 100 miles an hour. Yeah, we all knew that was coming. Accelerating the flames through the dry brush in the forest. Okay, so farther north and east, the Hearst and Eaton fires grew to over 2,500 and 500 acres, respectively, while two more blazes were sparked late Wednesday. And the officials are just beside themselves because they, for some reason,

didn't think it was going to happen. And it has. And now they have to back up all their policies. And they have to explain why they're running out of water, why things aren't working the way they're supposed to work. And the system is being overwhelmed. And it's just darn ugly. And we've seen reports from all kinds of movie stars and television stars that have been, you know, affected by these fires.

And so I guess we care now, but it is terrible. I have, you know, other things are getting canceled, you know, TV show tapings and award shows and probably football games. I know basketball games are being canceled. And I'm pretty sure hockey games are being canceled as well. in Los Angeles. But they have the Olympics coming up. And I know it's only, it's three years away. And I say it's only three years away.

Three years is, you know, forever from now. So many things can happen. Look what's happened in the last four years. Holy cow. But, I mean, the Olympics is a big deal. And they're going to have all of this damage to fix. And I don't think that can happen. Holy cow.

And the country, I mean, we've just completely forgotten the New Orleans terrorist attack now, right? We don't even care. It's over. We've completely, I don't want to bephrase that. We have not completely forgotten the people in the Carolinas, but our government has. We've completely forgotten anything to do with any other natural disasters or terrorist disasters. around the country. So, I mean, we've just bypassed that,

and now we're focused on the fires in L.A. And we're more focused on the fires in L.A. Because of, you know, there's, you know, a lot of rich people. And I say a lot. Many people who are faces that we're familiar with that come into our homes. And they have now lost their homes. And it's sad. It's sad that they lost their homes.

However, there's a lot of people that are living out there that don't come into our homes every day, that are just trying to make a living and raise a family. And they've lost everything. And it is just horrific. So I know Mercury 1 is out there with boots on the ground, and they still have boots on the ground in the Carolinas as well. And there's boots on the ground in Florida.

I mean, there's just all over the country is, I mean, we pretty much are a disaster area waiting to happen. I mean, I'm in a snowpocalypse right now. that we're concerned about here in DFW. It started later than they really anticipated, but it's here, and they're saying it's going to continue. I mean, the snow is on the ground. I posted a post this morning on X

that confirming that the snow apocalypse had begun. It has not stopped. There's more snow accumulating, and I actually forgot to mute the Blaze Radio Network. I was listening to Pat Gray. this morning from the house and so when i went out to film then you can hear on the video the audio on the video is blaze radio network sorry about that and uh i'm not going to redo it okay that's what it is what it is and i did edit that post though that's the first time i've ever edited an unexposed

because usually i'm like this it is what it is i don't care i'm not editing it that's what i posted live with it but i have deleted a couple for uh spelling errors and this was has a spelling error as well although I didn't want to delete it because I had already attached the video and so I, when I said confirming the polar vortex has begun in DFW

when I posted it, Pocalypse was a P-O-C-O-L-A-P-S-E or something like that, whatever it changed to originally and I was like, crap! And so I edited it. That's the first time I've ever edited an ex post, just so you know.

Because I think somewhere in the ex-world, it says this post has been edited. And so now you know that's what I edited, okay? It's a little embarrassing. But, you know, that's just the way it is. Anyway, we have the polar vortex winter storm coming across northern Texas and Oklahoma and the plains and into some of the southern states and, you know, across the Midwest.

So that's, you know, the apocalypse that's happening. in this part of the country. I know many of you, especially in, you know, the states like, oh, I don't know, Michigan. Everywhere on the hand.

I know I was reminded from Nancy at NLo 90 on X. Good morning from Michigan. At least we'll see the sun that we haven't seen in weeks, and she gave me a temperature output in Saginaw. Michigan of four degrees. So yeah, I know. I get it. I get it. I understand. I understand it's all relative,

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And you can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com, chewing the fat at theblaze.com. Now, the show doesn't have a TikTok, but I was looking to see whether TikTok is going to go away or not. I mean, they claim that if Bight Dance or BitDance or how do you pronounce their name doesn't sell the app by January 19th, then TikTok is going to be banned in the U.S. and no longer available to download from the app stores and unavailable to access on internet browsers. Uh-huh. But I just read where, you know, Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary, you remember him from Shark Tank. he claims that he's putting together a team that's going to buy TikTok.

And so, okay, I guess if that happens, then, you know, TikTok will still be around. I don't know that that's going to happen. I don't know that TikTok actually ever gets banned, even though we know, look, we know all that information went back to China and is still going back to China. And Americans just don't seem to care. They should. And we've gone over what that app does when you download it on your devices. And no one cares. They just want to look at the videos.

So TikTok is preparing, though, for the ban. They have started a new app called Lemon 8, Lemon 8. and it's at the top of the free Apple app chart. It was announced back in November, I think, and now it's really taken off because we're getting closer and closer to T-Day. And so Lemon downloads have spiked 150% in the last month and maybe even more.

U.S. users accounted for 70% of that growth. Okay, so it's called Lemon 8, and it's being, you know, it's another Chinese company social app. And so they're saying that it's being promoted as a post-Tick-Tock ban refuge. Okay. Good luck with that. It doesn't surprise me. But good luck with that.

So if Mr. Waterful doesn't buy TikTok so that, so that everyone can still keep their TikTok app in the U.S., everyone will go to 118. So let's hope that TikTok still works out. I don't know why. I don't care. I watch very little of TikTok. I have family members that are on it,

so I'm able to see what get posted on TikTok, and you know, you find out all the posts. And I get it. It's incredible. And it's engaging. And once you start dooms, scrolling, you're there. You're definitely there.

Just like you are on Instagram, just like you are on X. Same thing. So we'll see if it ever gets banned or if someone in the U.S. like Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary buys it and keeps it alive, or if everyone has

to go to Lemon 8 and start doing their TikTok dances on Lemon 8. Boy, that'll be something to look forward to, huh? And I guess congratulations, are in order to the Golden Globe Awards. We haven't broken down the Golden Globe Awards.

They were just kind of eh anyway. But they're all happy with their 7.4% increase in viewers from the year before with, you know, because they're saying Nikki Glazer, the comedian, she was great as the host. And she was fine. And she did a funny, you know, her opening monologue was funny. But they grew, they drew 10.1 million viewers for the, 82nd Golden Globes. At the same time,

the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions were playing a football game, and they averaged 28.5 million viewers. So way more than double. What was almost triple, what the amount of numbers and the amount of people that were watching the Golden Globes, people were watching

a Sunday night football, which was, I mean, the Lions of the Vikings, that was for the number one seed in the NFC. So it was an awesome game. And that, of course, was, I mean, that was one of their, I think the third most viewed game

in Sunday Night Football History. So congratulations to all, to all, to the Golden Globes and to the National Football League. Tube. Tobe is saying that, hey, we now have more than 97 million

monthly active users. And we are the fastest growing streaming market with 10 billion hours streamed. Okay. I guess that's good for Tobe. And Roku said they have surpassed 90 million streaming households highlighting its growth as competition in the fast market and testifies. Yeah, I love Roku.

I have no problem with Roku whatsoever. Obviously, we have a couple of smart TVs in the house that you don't need Roku. and we have, you know, some, some of those decrepit old versions of televisions that aren't smart. And we have Roku on them. And I like Roku. It's a, they do a fine job. I like their product. I will say this.

Some of the smart TVs get pissed when, you know, like, we had a, we had a TV that, uh, here for a while that was a, you know, smart TV. And, uh, started, it never would, uh, there were some things that it wouldn't do anymore because it was old. and it was an old smart TV. So you couldn't update the apps or anything, which I thought was special of them. It was great. Yeah, you can't. That's TV doesn't accept the new updates.

So you either have to get a new TV. You're just going to live with it being crappy. So we used Roku. We put Roku on that TV. And sooner or later, the TV was like, yeah, even with Roku, no, sorry about that. You're going to have to get a new TV. I was so pissed.

So what that's, and guess what we did? Yeah, that's correct. We got a new TV. So their plan work. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice?

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Who died today? Who died today? Okay, so we're still getting caught up from the holidays. I know. I know. If you're listening live, today is the 9th of January, 2025.

But we came back on the 6th. And I'm trying to get caught up. Don't forget the email from Mike who said, when you get back, your first podcast is going to have a new segment called Who Died When I Was Off, and it may take the whole full show. Well, it could have at the time. So I'm trying to get caught up as we go. And I can't believe that I should have done this death earlier out of respect. So I apologize to the family for not getting this one right away because he passed away before we came back.

Greg Gumble, Greg Gumble, known for his work, CBS Sports. He covered NFL and CAA tournament. He was fantastic. And he passed away at the age of 78. He apparently was battling cancer. And like most people, when they have a battle with cancer, you lose. And he did. He was 78, although 78.

That's a pretty good life. and he had a great life. Man, he broadcasts so many big stories and big sporting events. I mean, he had over 50 years in sports broadcast industry. And I think, if I remember reading him correctly, he is the first and only African-American man to broadcast the Super Bowl. I don't really care about that kind of stuff. I never thought of, I never think of these people, you know, by race.

Like they're making a big deal now out of, The two coaches, the two football, college football coaches for Penn State, James Franklin, and for Notre Dame, Marcus Freeman. They're making this deal over them becoming the first black, I mean, whoever wins their game will be the first black coach to coach a team to the national championship game. And, you know, I guess that's a big deal. And I congratulate them. and I guess it's a big deal for if you're African-American, you're able to see, that's what they claim, you know, Greg Gumbo, people who are African-American are able to see,

hey, these are African-American guys doing what I would love to do, and it gives them a goal. Okay, that's fantastic. But I never saw it as a race thing. I always saw it as a, boy, those guys are doing great work. I want to do what they do. And these coaches, I could tell you, if you had not said anything, I couldn't tell you, you know, if they were, what nationality they were.

I don't care. And I really, honestly, I don't care. But the world does. So Greg, this all started with Greg Gumble. Greg Gumble passed away over the holidays. Very sad. And I'm trying to get caught up here from the holidays. And I think this who died today will get us caught up if I don't shut up and stop talking

about African-American coaches coaching in the College of Football playoffs. Greg Gumbull, rest in peace, dead at the age of 78. Then we lost Dr. Ralph Mann, Dr. Ralph Mann, three-time, back-to-back NCAA champion and former University of Kentucky Professor. He helped especially in particular Noah Liles win an Olympic gold medal, no Olympic bronze. He didn't win the gold. And he was renowned. in his sports research in golf and track.

And I was just reading a story about how Noah Liles was so sad because Ralph Mann was a guy who really was the person who drove him to the Olympics and to win. So rest in peace to Dr. Ralph Mann, apparently he too had a battle with cancer and lost. dead at the age of 75. All right, let's move on to recent deaths, shall we? I think we're caught up. I think, I think we're caught up. So that's awesome. We lost Jean-Marie LaPen,

Jean-Marie LaPen, co-founder of France's far-right National Front. Yeah, yeah, no, I know, very sad. Dead at the age of 96. I know he faced chariote. of embezzlement, collusion, and being a Holocaust denier. You know, but those are petty, petty little things. They'll bog me down with facts.

Rest in peace to Jean-Marie Le Pen. It doesn't say the cause of death, and I'm pretty sure that many people who run the press in France, like here in the U.S. don't care. They just were like, yep, oh, hey, we're sorry. He died, sorry. He's one of our former leaders, but we didn't like him. and so yep sorry rest in peace he was 96 get over it you know she heard his daughter is probably you know in the frontrunner

to be the president of the next president of french and uh nobody wants that except maybe you know us in the united states but uh we'll see we'll see how that works out anyway rest in peace to jean marilla the pen dead at the age of 96. Then we have two people, unnamed, found dead in a jet blue plane landing gear at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. No one knows why they were there. The flight was going from new JFK to Fort Lauderdale, Flight 1801. And they just landed and the bodies were found during a routine inspection after

the plane landed. Now, I thought they had inspections prior to the takeoff, but maybe they weren't seen. Maybe they went on, you know, climbed up in there after inspection. I don't know. But they, as they were given it, the inspection after Atlanta's like, hey, we had a couple dead bodies up here. That's not funny. I'm sorry for making light of it, because it's not funny. They remind you, if you're thinking about, hey, you know, maybe we can just hit a free ride in the landing gear compartment. Yeah, the cruising altitude is usually about 38,000 feet, thereabouts. And so for a two-hour flight or more, it's freezing up there.

So you're probably going to die. In fact, you will. And they did. So rest in peace, do both these men, I guess they were men. They were two humans. Did they say that they were both men? Nope, just two people found dead in the landing gear. So we don't know.

I don't know if there are a man or a woman, two women, a man and a woman, or what they, I don't know, what they identified as. I just know that they crawled up into the landing gear of this jet blue flight, and they didn't make it. So rest in peace to them. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus,

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J.P. Morgan, J.P. Morgan, one of the biggest banks in the U.S. They are announcing, or at least it's being announced that they're planning to announce. So I guess this is just a warning shot fired across the bow from J.P. Morgan that they are going to expand their existing rules and make sure that. that their employees need to come back into the office full-time. How are their employees not back in their office full-time? Now, the numbers, I don't know the direct number, but according to this story, currently 60% of its workforce is in the office five days a week.

So 40% of J.P. Morgan's workforce still works from home? That's a good gig. now they're probably pissed they have to give up working from home because they've gotten pretty comfortable working from home but sorry home comfort is over

we need you back in the office we'll see how I bet you that does not go over well in fact they said it was announced that they're going to announce that workers look if you're not going to come back to the office you can look for work elsewhere from places that offer less draconian policies.

Yeah, man, I hate those draconian policies that make you come into the office every day. Man, do I hate them. And good luck finding a place that has less draconian measures like coming into work every day because I see where the Washington Post laying off 4% of its staff apparently there's some real unhappiness at the Washington Post and there's a whole bunch of tech and telecom

layoffs across the board one story had listed like the hundred of the largest tech telecom sector layoffs so good luck I guess the fastest growing occupations are wind

turbine service technicians. Yeah. That'd be a good gig, at least for a little while. Solar photo olivactic installers. I guess that's P-H-O-T-O-T-O-T-A-I-C installers. Nurse practitioners, data scientists. These are in order, by the way.

So the wind turbine service technicians is the number one projected growth job. Data scientists, information security analysts, medical and health services managers, physician assistants, computer and information research scientists. Yeah, I mean, you know, going back to the physician assistants,

that's a good gig, because you don't have to be an actual doctor. You're just speaking on behalf of the doc. The doc, you know, just as, hold on a second. The doc will see you when I get. done with you, okay? If I deem that the doc needs to see you. That's a good gig. Computer and information research scientists. I'm sure that's been in the top for quite some time. Physical therapist assistance, not the physical therapist, but the assistants. Again,

the physical therapist will see you if I deem it's necessary for him or her to see you. Other than that, you're dealing with me. And Operation Research Analyst, I love them. I love them. I love the operation research analysts, man. Holy cow. I will say this, according to this particular chart, as far as pay scales for these top 10 fastest growing occupations, the one that is making the most money is the computer and information research scientists.

They claim here that that's an average medium wage of $140. 45,000. So if you're a wind to turbine service technician, you're only making $61,000 a year. That seems a little low. I would hold up for more. I would say, you know what, I'll be your wind to turbine service tech, but I need a little bit more than 60,000 a year. That's for sure. But, you know, if you need a job, you need a job. And if you can service those wind turbines, I guess that's, you know, you're still making a wage and putting food on the table for your family. So that's the most important thing. And let's go ahead and get out of here.

Just remember that tonight, for those of you listening live today, is the 9th of January, 2025. We have the Orange Bowl, a CFB playoff game between Penn State and Notre Dame, which we talked about earlier because their coaches are African American, and the winner will be the first African American coach to take their time. team to a national championship if you care about something like that. So I'm looking forward to that. It's down in Florida. I'm sure it's going to be colder than usual in Florida, but it will not be the snowpocalypse

that we're having here in DFW, which is where the game is being held tomorrow night. So we'll see how that works out. We'll give you more information on that during tomorrow's show. But we do have that game tonight, which is awesome. So we can be snowed in and the snowpocalypse. and then we can be comfortable and watch football. All right, let's go to the joke of the day and get out of here. Now, this joke reminded me of Stu Briggear from the Glenn Beck program

and from the Stu Does America show or whatever TV show he does for Blaze TV. He, you know, the other day he posted that he was marking his 1,000 episodes. Stu Does America. I can do a thousand episodes standing on my head. I've got at least two or three thousand chewing the fat shows. But anyway, I don't want to brag or anything. I mean, I work my tongue to the bone for you. I give and I give.

But in his post, saying, reminding people that he was going to celebrate his thousandth episode. I can't even say that word. Thousands, thousand, one thousand episode. I don't know why I can't say that. He said there might be cake. and but I'm off baked goods until February. And then he joked about giving a piece of cake to me, which, you know, I don't want his pity cake.

Maybe I do, but I said I didn't. You know, I remember a hundred years ago when Stu and I worked together in Tampa, Florida, when he ate meat. And he hasn't eaten meat in a long time. And I don't know that he's 100% vegan. He just doesn't eat meat. but this joke reminded me of stew

so that's what I'm going to use the joke of the day what is the most effective way to quit being vegan I don't know what is the most effective way to quit being vegan cold turkey see because

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