Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 293 | Fat Pile Friday - Barbie EDITION | Guest: Mitch Felderhoff

Episode Date: January 31, 2020

Don't worry if you were worried about Barbie not being inclusive, Mattel, Inc is coming out with new Barbies in 2020 that are INCLUSIVE AF. Have you thought of losing weight? Well Mitch Felderhoff, president and 4th generation co-owner of the all-natural pet food company, Muenster Milling, which is located about one hour north of DFW has a new diet that you might find interesting. Mitch has been eating the dog food he makes for the last 30 days and he will eat his first real meal tomorrow. If you have dogs visit muenstermilling.com to learn more about his dog food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now a Blaze Media podcast. So yesterday we talked about the addition of emojis that are being launched, that are covering, you know, all grounds of differences. We're all just the same. But remember, are we? Yeah, we are. Remember Barbie, Mattel, has now launched their new. line of dolls and we talked a little bit about this last year as well but they have new additions that are going to be released throughout this year 2020 for those of you listening live this is the

31st of january 2020 not possible no but i mean if you're listening live you can that's you know that it's january 31st 2020 okay so i'm saying uh they have uh they're going to include a barbie with no hair and the skin condition finiligo And that's, you know, where you have the one model has the white splatches. Fisher! What? That's what it is. Don't say like that.

That's like the whole word midget again. Stop it. That's the disease. No, the disease is called. Fidiligo. Which causes these white splotches on your face and skin. Parts, other parts of your body. I can't

Anyway, they're expanding their offer And I mean, it's unbelievable They're going to have a new doll That has darker skin tone And a gold prosthetic limb Binaligo Along with that They have

Barbies now Come in five body types 22 skin tones 76 hair styles 94 hair colors 13 eye colors Ken One

Now has 13 skin tones Nine eye colors And 22 hair colors I mean That is so good These They also have launched their gender Inclusive dolls

I mean they're all gender inclusive because they don't have They're just dolls They just They don't have They don't have things. You know, they're, they don't have things. They got, you know, they have wheelchairs, fake legs, I'm sorry, prosthetic legs. And they have the white splotches, ball of hair. The dudes is, is,

the Vitilago, right? That's what it's called Vidalago. That doll is going to be a in the spring. I mean, just right around the corner. I can't wait. Now, the doll with no hair and the doll with the prosthetic limb is going to be available later this year. You can't just expect to roll those things out. No, that's impossible.

The machine needs to have time to get caught up and, you know, new design. I mean, Jeffrey, they give and give. Good for Mattel because we want, we want everyone to. They said they were. want to be like gender inclusive right reflection of culture from Mattel and now that's what you want for Madal is the reflection of culture yeah but they also want to be inclusive right they want to represent everybody of course okay how go one more time with the details of the female Barbie i mean sorry yeah the female Barbie tell me what is it that she has how many hairs how many colors

give me all that stats one more time okay um I mean, congratulations to Barbie, really, first of all. I want them to know how proud I am of them. Okay? So the Barbie dolls have five body types, 22 skin tones, 76 hairstyles, 94 hair colors,

and 13 eye colors. Okay. And now give me the dudes? It's Ken? It's Ken. Ken? He has four different body types. See that right there.

We're not equal. In Barbie's eyes, nothing is equal. 13 skin tone. That's less than the Barbie. Nine eye colors and 22 hair colors. So you're right. Not even close. That's not even close.

Not even close. And by the way, did you know that the first Barbie that was in a wheelchair was not 88 compliant? Wait, what? It did not fit? What do you mean? It didn't fit in the elevator of the Barbie world. Is that true? Yes.

So you know the Barbie Dreamhouse had an elevator. The Barbie didn't fit. So they had to recall all those Barbies, you know, and get it right. I want the Barbie house that's not ADA compliant. Well, no, no, no. The Barbie house was 88 compliant. The wheelchair was an ADA compliant. Didn't fit.

Oh, just the wheelchair. Yeah. Wow. Those bastards. I know. Think about that. bastards. Can you imagine the guy that developed the wheelchair?

Let's call him Bob. Bob. Look, I developed this wheelchair. Oh, yeah? We're all inclusive. Is it for the Barbie?

Yes, it's for the Barbie. Also, we're thinking about those people and wheelchair are the handicapped people. People will, you know,

we have to be inclusive and we want everybody part of it. It's a great deal. No problem. So here it is. Oh, that looks good. Does she fit good?

Yes. Can she rolls? And can she sits right? Look at that. It rolls. Look at that. It's even got the little brakes on the wheels down here.

Can none of that stuff like choke a kid? You've got the little bag in the back that you can put stuff if you've got, you know, bandages. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Does she have a flag? Can we get them a flag, you know, to be able to see her? Oh, okay, accessories. You know, add-ons.

Yeah, does that have stickers? Yeah, you can put little stickers on the barbie stickers. Did she come with a blue placards so she can park in the front? You know, when she's driving her convertible. I want the Barbie handicap blackard. I wonder if they have, they have to have one. They got to have one, yes. They have to have the Barbie handicap blackard.

And then in the end, hey, Bob, idiot. It doesn't fit in the, doesn't fit. Doesn't fit where? It's fit. Anybody's seen Bob? Bob who? Nope, I haven't seen Bob anywhere. Hey, Bob, have you heard of the ADA?

Let me introduce Jill. She's now the one in charge of the Barbie wheelchair design. He's actually in a wheelchair So he knows how this works That's fantastic We do not have placards for Barbies What the hell I don't know if I could make it through the weekend now

Not only do we have The Super Bowl this weekend What are you doing? The big game Whatever It's the Super Bowl The big game It's the NFL Super Bowl

The NFL Big Game I'm promoting the event I'm not giving away tickets I'm not trying to sell tickets Remember last year we talked to that guy Yeah for the big game

Yeah, the big party yeah He had with the big get together and everything Yeah I wonder that must not have worked out too well because we haven't heard

him about this year Remember that? He's shut down Anybody's seen Bill Nope, don't know what happened to him Oh those Super Bowl tickets that he had

A big game tickets I mean the big game tickets Yeah he was having the big parties Yeah Party jet Right And then the party bus

To the party suite And then back to the party. And we've heard nothing this year, right? No, we haven't. They usually, last year, they rest. Bill!

Oh, no, no, shoot. Maybe he went to China and get the corona. It's been Wuhan. Yeah. By the way, I'm sorry. Oh, no. Wuhan sounds better than Corona.

Thank you. I've been Wuhan. Thank you. I have the Wuhan flu. Thank you. Coronavirus. I think this is a big Budweiser pushing this.

I'm going to have to, like, agree on that one. Does Budweiser, I mean, they might own Corona now. Oh, true. Everybody owns each other. So, well, they might, you know, maybe they are. Budweiser's taking a little hit over the years, so it's possible that they've decided. No, A.B. in Bev owns Corona beer.

So it is Budweiser taking them down. Yeah. Yeah, so Budweiser doesn't own them. It's A.B. in Beth, like, they don't own them. So it could be, wait. Yeah, A, B, in Beff? Yeah, I don't know what that stands for. That's the parent company.

So it says, Corona is produced. Stop talking. Stop speaking. Why? That is Budweiser. That's Anheuser-Busch. Oh. Oh, Anheiser-Busch in Bev.

Oh. Sorry. So they want Wu-Han. They want Wu-Han. They want Wu-Han. Yeah. Oof, okay. So those of you that are,

struggling with your New Year's resolutions and you thought I just got to make it through January just got to make it through January I found a band Mitch Felderhof from here in Texas actually from the DFW area

from Munster Milling Company first before I say what you're doing tell us what you mill we make dog food you mill dog food that's the Munster milling company that's correct I am a dog food.

Do you, okay, but now I want to find out more before we talk about what your New Year's resolution was. Bagged, canned, rubber made. What do you put it in? What are you doing? So we do, we do a dry kibble line. We've got a couple lines of dry kibble in ancient grains and a grain-free. And then we also do freeze-dried raw meat. Okay.

And that's where you take frozen raw meat and you put it in a freeze-dryer and we pull the moisture out without cooking it. So it's essentially like astronaut food for dogs. Right. and the name of the dog food is Munster, just like the cheese. So it's really tough, right? I mean, Munster milling company means you're actually making monster dog food. That is correct.

I love it, okay. And business is going good? I mean, dogs are happy all over America? Couldn't be happy. All over DFW. They are living the life. Okay. So, and obviously with your New Year's resolution for the month of January, it's just for a month.

I mean, you did it right. You did a resolution that said, you know, I'm only going to do like a month, and we're going to go from there. Your resolution this year was to eat only dog food for 30 days that we make. Well, you know January is 31 days. Well, that's why I started on January 3rd. Oh. So you're actually cheat. You're cheating.

You're not even going to the first of February. Well, I didn't want to do February because it was 29 days, and I didn't want to do 31 days. So I said, let's end it the day before the big game. Oh, there you go. That way I can have a feast on that day. That's a good idea. All right. So we're coming up on the end.

Today, actually, is the last day of you eating nothing but dog food. How's it going? A little rough. It's good. No, it's been good. It's been great from a standpoint of how I feel. I've dropped over 25 pounds. It's the Munster dog food diet?

The dog food diet. I could be a fan. Yeah. I could be a fan. And outside of being incredibly bored of what I eat and really missing the taste of, you know, brisket and wings, it's been really, really good. But it's like, you know, when you have to go to the bathroom and you're like an hour from home and you don't want to stop.

I am aware of that situation in my life, yes. And you get like five minutes from the house. And all of a sudden you really, really, really got to go. I am at that point where I'm just really, really, really done with dog food. Right. I'm so close. Right. So how many different kinds of dog food do you create?

We have about 39 different skews that we create. So have you run the gamut of your 39 this month? I have eaten every single one of them. Okay. And you're doing it breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack? I mean, have you frozen something to make it kind of like monster ice cream, something? You know, I haven't done that. Maybe I should have.

Oh, yeah. I'm just, look, I'm an idea, man. And it's a good one. I needed you 30 days ago. We've done it a few different ways. So I've got an excellent director of marketing. His name's Eddie Hill, and he kind of helped me map this thing out. And so we said, let's figure out what it's like to eat like a dog.

And so we've- Do you get down on all fours and put it in a bowl? I've done that once. Okay. And we broke that camera so we didn't get a picture. So have we posted all this on YouTube? Are we doing this? I'm not the Monster YouTube channel or is that coming?

Are we doing the Mitch Felderhoff documentary 30 days of dog food? So we are doing a documentary and we are posting weekly updates on our YouTube channel. I think it's a Munster Milling Company. Okay. And so you can see like two-minute recaps of all the burps and all the fun stuff that comes with it. but in trying to learn what it's like to eat like a dog we did it a few different ways so like the first week I ate breakfast lunch and dinner okay and then the second week I ate two times a day and then the third week I ate one time a day and I felt the best at one time a day so that's what I've

continued doing okay and which has been great because it's pretty tough to make yourself eat dog food more than once a day and so yeah it is imagine that huh that's a weird kind of thing. So getting it to once a day has been awesome. I feel better and it's less time eating dog food every day. So you have 39 different styles, brands, flavors, kinds. Eating once a day, that's pretty difficult to hit that 39 mark. I mean, have you made a point to do all 39?

Like once a day you eat two of the different brands or something like that. Is that what you're doing? Yeah, so all combined products for meals. In that first week, you know, it was 21 meals, so it was pretty easy to get them all in. All right. And you, were there any that you sell to dogs now that you think, you know, after these 30 days, we're not going to sell these dogs anymore because these things suck. You know, the thing that I think sucks the most is probably our top seller because dogs love it so much. And that's our elk and venison topper.

Oh, that actually sounds good. It does until you mix it with cold water and try and drink it. It was the closest I've come to giving it back. So you're mixing, and now do you mix, is that how you make it for the dogs too? You mix it, you don't just feed it to them dry or dump it in a bowl. I mean, you mix it with water and you mix it up for them, right? Yeah, you throw the kibble in the bowl, and then you just sprinkle a little bit of this freeze-dried elk and venison topper on top, and it coats it, and it's kind of like

cocaine for dogs, but not cocaine. And it just, they love the taste of it. I don't love the taste of it. Right. But dogs also drink out of the taste of it. toilet. So what do I know? Have you attempted to sprinkle cocaine, actual cocaine on it to help the downpour? I'd tell you what, on day five, if someone wanted to dangle that in front of me, I may have been a taker because I was dragging pretty hard. Have you put other condiments on it? Have you

used other condiments? Like, you know, I mean, I'm a Heinz ketchup police officer, officially through this show. And, you know, maybe you put a little Heinz on there to help you through. Have you done that? So we did a no sauces, no seasonings, no spices rule. tough one. But I would have killed someone for some Heinz, too. Right. But yeah, no, we, we. So it's all, I mean, the actual, the actual focus is 30 days or the month of January,

dog food, with water. I mean, obviously, you're fixing it with water. No coffee, no, no, no alcohol, none of the fun stuff. Wow. Wanted to live life like a dog. And you've lost? As of today, I'm at 28 pounds. I mean, seriously, that's a fantastic.

Yeah. That's a marketing tool. Yeah. That's a marketing tool. Have you been to see, now I just had my gallbladder removal. I had a little gallbladder issue. And I know you brought some goodies with you today. Yeah.

And as much as I'm a fan of wanting to eat some freeze-dried monster milling dog food, I may have to. You're going to eat it. You know, say no, just because, you know, I mean, it's a medical condition. But have you been to see, I mean, my producer, Chris, will, he'll definitely have some. And he'll definitely have it on the air. Have you, did you do this without the help of a physician, or did you go see a doc and say, hey, I'm going to do this dog food thing, and what do you think?

So I did go see a doctor. and the doctor, he did a full physical on me. He pulled blood. We did a urine sample, everything on the first day of this. Okay. And I'm going back tomorrow. So you have not gone back since. I mean, there was no updates throughout the course.

No. What kind of documentary are you doing? It was a, hey, if you need me, if you start feeling bad, call me, but I've been feeling great, so I haven't needed any help. And I do have an appointment scheduled for tomorrow to go back and get another round of blood and urine pool. And so we'll be able to look at blood markers, urine markers. Did the cholesterol go down, up?

How's the liver doing? Just kind of full-plan-old. I'm looking forward to seeing the outcome of that. Yeah. And look, the scale is going to tell the biggest story. And any time you lose a lot of weight, your body typically gets healthier. Now, from time to time, and I've had a couple of dogs in my life. Yeah.

And there's still some family members who have animals and I'm familiar with. from time to time, they have an issue with breath. Yeah. And so, you know, you feed them a dog bone that's supposed to, you know, clean their teeth and lighten up the breath a little bit. You're a married man? I am a married man.

Her name's lucky. Has that. I bet. I bet she is. Has there been any issues with, body odor, breath, changes, and that kind of thing? Well, we just found out we got another kid doing nine months. I'm kidding.

Do we know that it's going to be human? No, I'm kidding. The breath has definitely been an obstacle. I've probably gone through 900 packages of gum this month. Wow. The wife has politely invited me to sit on the other couch. Obviously gum doesn't count as a condiment. No, no, gum does not count as a condiment in my book.

Not this month. That's that's the, that's something I had to have to make it through. How many toothbrushes you got through? Well, I chewed the first two up on accident, but, you know. But no, no changes in, you know, I mean, body odor or anything like that. I mean, it's been pretty normal. No, I mean, look, there's probably been about four or five moments where I had some burps that I wish I could take back. Right, right, right.

Yeah, dispelling some of that dog gas. Yeah. Yeah, it's, you remember those. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it might be time. The wife might be thinking about rooms to go.

You can't trust every movement. For new sofas. Yeah. There's no doubt about that. Yeah. So what your favorite, we've found out, your big seller is what you're not really happy with. I mean, for you, right? Yeah.

So what's your favorite? From the kibble standpoint, it's our, kind of our fish recipe. piece. So we have an ancient grains ocean fish. And it's just got, it's got a little bit less of a, I'm trying to think the right way to describe this. It's not as strong of a flavor. Okay. And it's a little bit more mild. And it just is a little smoother. And then from the freeze dried side, our chicken meatballs are by far, my favorite. Really? They, they almost have you cooked any of these? Or you just, I mean, because some people cook food for their dogs. I mean, this is the way, you know, no problem. So, I mean, so, I mean,

You're not changing anything that doesn't normally happen for a dog owner to do. Have you cooked any of them or heated them up or do you just dump it in a bowl and throw some water on it? So I've done it a little bit of each way. Some of the freeze dried I've just reconstituted. And when you reconstitute freeze dried and it's raw, it's raw meat. Right. You know, when you take the bite and you know that there's raw beef liver, beef heart, beef lung, beef tripe, that's pretty hard to make yourself swallow it.

So I was able to do that some. And then I turned to... Have you burped up a worm or anything? You know, most of the time I just pull my rear across the carpet and that solves that problem. So, aside for new carpet, too, as well as the sofa. Yeah, but no, I've definitely cooked some. I like to reconstitute it, take it out to the grill and it adds a little bit of a different flavor profile to it. And the dogs like it that way, too.

so, you know, I'm treating my girls to a nice dinner. Right. I've got two yellow labs. I mean, you're sitting down, are you dining with the family or are you dining with the family? Yeah, so I've had some meals with the dogs, but they're a little bit food aggressive, and they eat a lot faster than I do. And so those experiments didn't really go that well. And so the family is definitely, you know, they don't come near my food. That's a surprise.

Imagine that, right? You're not sharing that? You're going to eat all that? You don't hear that? The wife's a good cook, so the kids tend to stray towards her food. How difficult has that been after the first couple of weeks of getting into it? And then with the family eating what they normally would eat, you know, I mean, you're sitting down to, you know, reconstituted beef. Yeah.

And, you know, wife is making, you know, chicken with cream. mushroom soup. Yeah, she, it's been a little torches. I think they had pizza like five times in the first two weeks somehow. And that one, that one hurt. That's just rubbing it in. But you know, when I get a chance to reconstitute some of those beef meat balls, it's red meat, so it's good stuff, right? And, you know, a good fatty piece of meat is, it goes a long way for me. Yeah. Well, it has to. Yeah, it has to. It definitely has to. So what, if I wanted to do this myself, yeah, and I thought, man, what a great idea. know, if. If I thought this, man, what a great idea, I'm going to do what Mitch did.

Man, that's a good idea. I want to lose, you know, another, I need to lose, you know, four or five hundred pounds right now. And so it'd be more than 30 days of milling dog food. How do I get your product? So you can find our product. We're mainly a regionally distributed brand. We're pretty small.

You can find us anywhere in the Texas area at an independent feed and pet store. We do a lot of e-commerce on our website. and that's munster milling.com. Okay. We have some products available on Amazon as well, if you kind of prefer to buy that way. We really, we like to push people towards the independent brick and mortar stores. Those guys have been our partners for 88 years now in April.

Wow. That's great. Yeah. You don't look that old. I mean, eating dog food is pretty good. It's an anti-aging product. Absolutely. And then you can also go to 30 days of dog food and kind of watch the documentary too.

We got that linked up to the YouTube. page so nice 30 days of dogfood dot com yeah and if I wanted to get your product I can just go to monster milling.com yeah and of course you know when you see it on the shelf at the whatever brick and mortar you're shopping at in the greater Texas area yeah pick it up be sure for your for your animals absolutely so um what's next so I in talking to you as you're sitting down you said last year you had a resolution of just almost what people actually thought the Atkins diet was. I mean, it really wasn't, but most people thought it was back in, you know, 100 years ago when Atkins was huge. I can just eat meat.

That's all I can do. That's good for me. And you did that. You did a month of, I mean, your resolutions are, I can do it for a month. That's a good way to look at it. you ate nothing but meat any difference yeah that that was easier just the meat was easier because

I could flavor it how I wanted to and I could eat steak still and wings and barbecue and I'm pretty efficient with my big green egg so you can go out there and you can make meat in a thousand different ways but dog food's dog food's not easy to make palatable

so have you come up with any new ways to make dog food palatable? Have you thought, you know, maybe if I just do this? Well, I mean, did you green egg the kibbles at all? I didn't green egg the kibbles, because I think that would have made them too hard to eat, but I did, I did green egg a lot of the freeze dried meat. And it makes a little bit of a difference, but at the end of the day, you're still eating a lot of heart, liver, lung, tripe, and kidney fat. And there's just only so much you can do to that. Huh. That's strange that there's only so much you can do if that is. It's really weird. what's next for Mitch Felderhoff?

I mean, you've got, are you going to do two months out of the year or something strange? Are you going to give it a rest? I don't think I can go two months of exclusively dog food, but the plan is... No, but I mean, another month this year of something else. Another month this year of something else. Yeah, we're going to do another month as a team actually of carnivore to kind of celebrate our freeze-dride line of just eating meat. because we encourage a lot of dog owners to just feed their dogs meat and especially stuff with organ meat.

Right. You know, Eddie and Chad. And you've discussed this with the organization. I mean, we've got this okay through them. Are you just mandating this from on high? No, I kind of threw it out there to a couple of the guys on the team and Chad and Eddie and I believe Kent are going to join me, maybe a few others. and we're going to go, we're going to pick a month

probably in April or May where we just eat meat and go carnivore for a month and kind of all document that journey together on what it's like to just eat meat. What do you think, I'm just throwing this idea out. What do you think about maybe just having, you know, the family, the wife and kids, maybe mom and dad, you know, the family

does a month of dog food for Munstermilling.com. And you document that. How do you think that go over? Well, I had to start by finding a new thing, new family that could do it. It would, I think I have my two-year-old would sign up in a heartbeat. He loves it. Sure.

He steals it off my plate. Right. And, our dad's doing it. I can do. Exactly. Yeah. So what do you have, what did you bring?

What did you bring today? I see a box of goodies. Yeah. I brought some of my favorites. I brought some ancient grains, ocean fish. And then we brought some of our, our freeze-dried chicken meatballs and our freeze-dried beef meatballs. Nice.

And these are ready to go as we speak? Ready to go as we speak. Okay. So we're going to, what I'm going to do is this interview is going to air on this podcast, chewing the fat. And then I think we'll record the eating on video and release it separately so people can actually see you, Mitch. Yeah. And see Chris, man, I wish I could join you. I just, but it's medical.

It's a medical thing. You know, you can't do anything about it, right? I may, you know, I may snack on something just for the heck of it. But, munsterbilling.com. Fantastic. I love it. It's a, it's a great idea. I'm glad you survived, although it would have made a better story if you had like some kind of sores or something all over here from the dog food.

But that wouldn't bode well for the dog food. No, it would. So, I mean, this actually proves how good your dog food is, right? I mean, people should, I mean, that sells the product itself. I mean, it's good enough for you. It sure enough is good for your dog, right? Yeah, we stand behind our brand and we're not going to feed your dog anything that we haven't eaten ourselves. Monster milling.com.

Mitch Feldershall, thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me. So anyway, we all started back to it. We have the big game this weekend. but Monday is Groundhog Day. And so Ponsetani Phil comes out early in the... Ponsetani Phil.

That's his name? The Groundhog. I thought he was just Phil. Oh, Paxetoni Phil. I like that. He comes out to see if he sees his shadow or he doesn't. And if he comes out and he sees his shadow, there's going to be six more weeks of winter. And if he does not see a shadow, there's going to be an early spring.

Yay! And of course the tradition is completely scientific. Oh, I thought the experience, you dropped the Phil guy. Yeah, well, what's his face? The mayor dropped him. And killed him. Well, I think it just, I don't think he killed him right then. No, he killed him.

He didn't die right then. He dropped him. He didn't go pause to the sky right then. They picked him up. He was still alive. He dropped him and three days later, boom dead. But I don't know. So he just left him dead.

Just leave him there. He's fine. He's fine. I mean, you should. If it wasn't New York, if it was any other city in America. Right. Oh, they dropped him.

Nope. Didn't see his shadow. That's the way it goes. Sorry. But you shot him right on their face. Of course he's not going to see the shadow. No, he didn't see it. But there's others,

which I find fascinating. Okay, so you got Ponsetani Phil that does his thing, that everybody loves his Groundhog Day. It's a big event. Are you into that? And it's all. Oh, man.

No, seriously. I. me and Paxatani Phil are sympathetic. This is why I can't have number of conversations with you because I don't know what is shown at. And I'm being honest, it's that something that you follow like, like...

Yes, I believe everything that Paxatani Phil. I freaking hate you with a fiery hate. So I didn't realize that there were so many other ones. Like there's West Virginia's French Creek Freddie. Is that the same thing?

Georgia's General Beauregard Lee. Ohio's Buckeye Chuck, North Carolina's Sir Walter Wally. Ooh, that's a strong name. Louisiana's Cajun Groundhog. Alabama's Smith Lake Jake. Wisconsin's Jimmy and New York's Staten Island Chuck. I think that's the one that, what's his face drop? Yeah.

Right, Staten Island Chuck. So Staten Island Chuck, Jr. Yeah, we lost. Go to Wisconsin again. What was Wisconsin again? Wisconsin's Jimmy. Dude, they were out of creativity. Everybody has like a nice, strong name.

Wisconsin, Jimmy. Yeah, no, no, but seriously. Like you got Chuck, you got sir something. Yeah, no, Jimmy. I mean, all these groundhogs. And it all happens, you know, February 2nd come out and try to, you know, do their thing. Now, there was never a movie about them, right? So I think that's why, you know,

Groundpox Tony Phil is such a big deal because of Ground Dog Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, boy, it's been a long time, so I've seen that movie. I love that movie, but it's one of those movies that I think I watched it a bunch of times when it first came around and then you're like, you're done with it. I got it.

It's funny. Bill Murray's tremendous. I love him. I need to call his 800 line, too. I'd like to talk to Bill. He needs to come on to Chewing the Fat. Do you know that? I mean, he doesn't have a cell phone or anything,

but he has an 800 number. You call and leave a message? and then if he wants, he calls you back. That's pretty cool. And so I just... Have you done it? I've left so many messages. Fisher.

What? I'm just telling you, I've left so many messages. Like I'm trying to have a nice conversation. I cannot tell you how many times I've called that line. You make it really hard to be your friend. Oh, no. You make you really difficult.

I'm telling you. I don't know why. Your stupid face, it's like you send me something, but your face is tell me something else. And that stupid laugh. People watching that live can see, and they can see the look on my face. This is the exact reason why I wish they could see you so they could see how much I hate you. You can actually look at the camera and be like, oh, he really hates him.

You know what? I don't know how I'm going to sleep this weekend. I hope you can't sleep this weekend. Tossing and turn and thinking of like Chris doesn't think of me as his friend because of this relationship. So we'll know on Monday by the. the time this show goes live on Monday, February 2nd, what Paux and Tony Phil, whether he saw a shadow or not. So how does this work?

Do we put him in a little cave and he comes out? He comes out of his little home. Okay. And they hold him and he whispers into the guy's ear if he saw his shadow or not. That's what they do. That's the adult. It's not me. I didn't come up with the thing.

Are you telling me that the guy with the. top hat, picks him up and asks him, hey, did you see shadow? Yes. I don't believe you. I don't believe you at all. You've been a really, Tony Phil is a speaking ground dog. I don't know about all the others.

You know, this is, it could tell today's Friday. Then what I'm telling you, look, his predictions. Okay. All right? We have a rate of success? Since 1988 88, the ground dog has been right 14 times and wrong 18 times. Damn was like a moron trivia. I was going to say that sounds like

So he's been wrong 14 times? So 14 of the last 32 years Yeah So he has successfully done He's been wrong 18 times So he's been right 14 I mean you know He pulls it up

I think it's possible A coin toss has a better odds That maybe when he whispers in the guys here He gets misunderstood Oh so like the telephone game Right But it's only just from the groundhog To the guy with a top hat

Right. So maybe we need to get a new top hat guy. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. To be the groundhog whisper.

Very possible. So I don't know about all the other groundhogs, but PETA is calling for our friends at PETA. I love them. Man, PETA and I, simpatico. I like that word these days. Calls for Paxatani Phil to be replaced by an. artificial intelligence groundhog. So it's okay if we have a robot groundhog,

but we don't want an actual living, breathing groundhog to make the call. Peter, just stop. I mean, that groundhog lives a better life than you and me. Once a year, Phil has to come out of his stupid little house, whisper into the stupid ear or the guy with the top hat and crawl back in I think he'll be okay

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It's a little miniature owl One of those little Dingleberry owls That got all wet And owls If you don't know When they get wet They can't fly

You know It's hard for them to fly So that's why they You know They hang out in barns and stuff So when it storms They just hang out in the barns Smoke cigarettes

And wait for the rain to stop And then they take off Plus if they're in a barn They can hang out up top And when the little mice run around, they can, you know, eat the mice in the barn. They don't have to go outside and get wet. That's some pretty smart owls.

You aren't lying. I'm in love with owls. That is pretty cool. There used to be an owl in my old neighborhood. Well, the owl probably is still there. There used to be a human called me in my old neighborhood. Is this Tampa? No, this was here in Texas.

And there was a big owl that would come in our neighborhood. And he'd be out there. He's great, man. He was a big horned owl, man. He was really, I would love to have him. How many secrets do he have? He used to hang out at the neighbor's house. out back up on their chimney

and he would just he would sit out there and you knew when he wasn't when he was done smoking because he'd who who who but when you didn't hear him go who who he was busy

you know waiting for squirrels and stuff to fly by so he could eat and rats or snakes or whatever he wanted because he's an owl he could get whatever he wants so the sanctuary rescues this little owl and they're all worried because they dried him off and they

gave him a clean bill of health, and he couldn't fly still. And they were like, oh, no, what's wrong with the little owl? And they checked them out again, and they're busy, worried about the little, his health, and they're trying to find out what's wrong with the owl. And they say, go owl, free your go. And the owl is just like, I can't fly. I can't fly right now. And they're like, oh, no, what's wrong with the little owl?

to find out, too fat to fly. The barn that he was living in, they went back to see where they caught him from, and the barley's live with is full of mice. This little owl's been doing nothing but eating. There was no, so partly because he couldn't fly, it wasn't because he was too wet. It was because he was too

fat. Thank you. The owl is like, you can dry me off and check me out, pat me down all you want. Thank you by the way. I appreciate it and I'm a little wet right there in the back there if you want to pat there a couple more times. No down a little bit farther.

There you go. That's it. Thank you. But I'm not flying anywhere because I've got too many mice in my belly. Okay. I'm too fat to fly. So appreciate the sanctuary for trying to take care of me. But even owls sometimes overeat.

And so now they're just, you know, now they're starving them. Now they're starving the owl. What the hell? Right. Now they're starving the owl so that he can fly. And the owl is like, I was in this barn. I didn't have to fly. There was mice everywhere.

All I had to do was hang out here. I'm sorry I got a little wet and you thought I couldn't fly. But right now I'm fine. I'm just somebody want to get me one of those old mice over there is. Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. All right, so I want to thank Mitch Felderhoff for stopping by today from Munstermilling.com. You just finished the interview.

I just remember it's the dog food. And it's right there in front of you. Monstermilling.com, I said what it was. Mitch Felderoff, that's his name. I got it. He was a good guy. Thank you. And we recorded a video that will release sometime and somewhere someplace.

Your social media. Whatever someplace. be on your Facebook page. Where we, uh, we. Uh, no. No, there's no we here, sir. You did not eat anything. I ate it.

Where Chris and Mitch ate dog food and Jeffrey chickened out of some. I didn't chicken out. I've got health issues. Yeah, chicken down. Chicken out. I saw the surgeon yesterday for post my post. Did you ask them? Yes.

Yes, I did. So you said, hey, we're having an event tomorrow where it's possible. that I could eat dog food and he was like, oh, no. What are you going to do? So people that don't have gobladder should not be eating dog food? Not right after. I mean, if this was maybe a few months, it's been, well, it's been longer than a week. It's been two weeks.

No, yeah, two weeks today. Yeah, two weeks today. Okay, Dan, you tell me that two weeks you can't eat dog food? No, I can't. No, but I'm a little, I'm a different thing because I have. Oh, yes, you are a different thing, baby. You are very different. He said I was.

He said it was because I had a, I had a, I had a little. Oh yeah, you did mess up your kidneys. A cute. He called you cute? Al cute. Oh, cute. Oh, are you cute? No, it was ah, cute.

I had, you know, with the pancreas, the liver, and the acute. You know, I mean, what are you trying to hit on me? I know. I was going to say, like, are you sure he said acute? And he was not hitting on you? I mean, maybe he was. Maybe he wanted to stick something in me again. I don't know.

That's what he did two weeks ago. He did wanted to, he wanted to look at me without my. shirt on see his work so that's all I know oh yeah hey Jeffrey you had a cute gold bladder let me see those robot surgeon holes I put it in oh yeah oh yeah stop there's not only one No, stop. Ew. Everybody just puked. And I just ate dog food.

And I didn't puke when I was eating it. I just puked. So anyway, you'll be able to see, you'd be able to see Munsterbilling.com video which, by the way, 20 pounds?

I don't think that's because of the dog food. I think it's because like after me eating it, I could see. Any weight loss program is, you know, diet exercise. Yes, yes. So. Like after eating the dark food, no wonder he went from three meals to one meal all day.

Right? I mean that. I started out with, you know, three meals. Three meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I decided, you know. They just wanted it. I didn't need all. No, no, no, no.

Yeah, no kidding. It's gross. The first he got tasted was fish. Ugh. Yeah. Well, that's the, the one. That was the, that was the kibbles. Oh, the, that's the one that is their top seller.

The top seller. The big one. And that is that actually smelled like what you think dog food would smell like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I can see why that's a bestseller because the fish taste. Yeah, I mean, it's fine. Yeah. But then they have, you know, we had the beef meatballs and the chicken meatballs.

I didn't like the chicken. I like the chicken. Well, the beef meatballs. I mean, they got, that's actually. It's, he said it's all fat. Yeah, crude fat. Let's look at the ingredients. We probably should have done that.

We should have done that, yes. Look at the ingredient. Now, the actual ingredients, beef with ground bone. Oh, no. Beef heart. He did tell us that. Beef liver. He did tell us that.

Salt and sage. Oh, okay. Now, a guaranteed analysis of this. Uh-oh. Gives you a crude protein minimum of 35%. Crude fat, minimum of 52%. Crude fiber, maximum of 5%. Moisture 5%.

So, hey, if you have any problems with this product, please contact us at gofyourself.com. No, it doesn't say this. Fisher. What are you doing? It doesn't. They're listening right now. He's joking.

He's joking. No, I've read that wrong. I read that wrong. It gives you a contact number or you can email them because they care. They do care. I know they do. Mitch cares. Mitch and Eddie care.

That's why I read that wrong. I don't know what made me. Because you've been to punk again. You've been a punk again. Which, by the way, the chicken meat balls had two of them. They were that good. Yeah, he said that. That's the fish one, right?

No, the chicken. Chicken meatballs. That has nothing with fish on it. Oh, the dog of the other dog put in the fish in it. Yes, that has no fish. It's a chicken liver and chicken something else. Ingredients for the chicken meatballs are chicken with ground bone. What does it mean by ground bone?

Like, are the grinding bone? Ooh. Yeah. Oof. I'm guessing that it's from a chicken. I hope so. You don't know. It just says chicken with ground bone.

You're hoping it's chicken. Beef bone, turkey bone, chicken bone. Ooh, yeah, no. Chicken hearts. Yeah. Chicken liver. Garlic, salt and sage. That's why I like it because he has a garlic.

Right. Yes. All right. And if you have any problems with this product, you can contact them directly at go. No, he's such a jerk. Anyway, thanks, Mitch. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

It was a lot of fun. and we'll send that a video. Bless your heart. I know it's Sunday, big game day. Don't eat too much, bro. He's tearing it up with, he's don't eat too much, though. He's got restaurants booked. I mean, it's going to be some.

Wait, I need to go work for him. We're halfway through the big game, man. Hey, Mitch, how you doing? I feel like that damn little owl. That he's going to sound like the. Too fat to fly. He's going to sound like the stupid mummy. We talked to Mitch Meltzfelderoff from Munstermilling.com who has taken the month of January and eaten nothing but his dog food from Munstermilling.com.

And on Sunday yesterday, he broke down and went back to eating regular human food. And in an interview after his two briskets, 80 wings, mashed potatoes, french fries, ketchup and other condiments. We asked him, hey, Mitch Felderhoff, how are you? Sounds great. Sounds good. Sounds really good.

Are you going to be able to make it to work tomorrow? Mitch Felderoff, thanks for joining us on chewing the fat. So we've got some people that are mad at us, or at least one person, that are mad, a little upset. I don't know about mad. Why did I do?

Because usually I pissed him off for not knowing whether city or their country is. So this comes from Mike who emailed us at chewing the fat.com chewing the fat at the blaze.com. That's what I said. Nope, you said chewing the fat.com. You can email us there too.

We might not get that one. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. That's the email address, okay? So Mike says, hi Jeff and Chris. In no way trying to shame the African ambassador. You already are.

Right there. You already are. Right there. That's already shamed. You're literally shaming. In parentheses, wink, wink. Oh, so you're just a douche on top of that. I never miss an episode of CTF.

Oh, so he's talking about the comment of like... My list of Blaise favorites goes, and he gives us a list. Before I get to the list, though, yes, he's talking about how... Ambassador Brock. Ambassador Brock told us that he usually never misses an episode. Yeah, which we already gave him flack for it. But Mike is, you know, I never miss an episode. One upper.

He's that one kid that wants to want to up you. In fact, and now he gives us the list, Jeff and Chris. Thank you. Pat and Keith, Glenn and Stu. I see a theme in here. Right? In fact, on Saturdays, with no American dream and Sundays, I listened to past episodes of CTF.

Good for you. That's what you need. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for doing that. Yeah, thank you. I did the same during the heart. and gallbladder events. You mean the heart attack and the gobladder.

Glad you made a full recovery from both. I am the one that called the CTF hotline and said I was going to do a promotion for CTF in Vegas. And how's that coming out? Proof of that will be coming shortly. Oh, okay. So he hasn't done... He's behind the eight ball on that.

He's definitely behind the eight ball. Keep up the incredible work you two are doing daily. Thank you, Mike. Hey, that's a new recognition that we do this stuff for the team of a day. Between the lines. That's what we do here. Let's read between the lines, shall we?

That's exactly what we do here. Reporting live from the CTF headquarters and our reading between the line segment. With news, it doesn't matter because it's the reading between the lines segment. We don't need that banter. So you gave Brock a guy that usually never misses an episode an ambassadorship. I want an ambassadorship. Where's my ambassador? I want to be an ambassador.

I told you guys. I called you and told you I was going to do something, but I still haven't done it, but I still want an ambassador. That's right. Where's my free shirt and mask mailed to Africa? You know what? We may mail you something to Africa. I'm like, are you in Africa? Now, that's my question. Is he an ambassador? I mean, does he live in another country? Because usually, usually ambassadors are people that we send to different countries to represent us. Ambassador Brock is in Africa representing... In the land formerly Swaziland. Swaziland, he's representing God, and then second he's representing CTF. Thank you. Wait, what? Isn't he doing some missionary stuff?

Yes, but CTF needs to come first. I don't know where you went with this whole. He's representing God then CTF. I don't think Ambassador Brock would agree on you on that one. He would pull God first and then CTF. I will pull that ambassador ship out from 100 minutes. You want to talk about quid pro quo, bro. So Ambassador Brack has to put you up first in order to become a...

That rug is pulled out. So if, what does to say, Mike? Yes. If Mike wants to move to another country, we'll give him ambassadorship of Canada, Mexico, pick. We will? Yeah. Hawaii, Alaska, he could be an ambassador for those countries.

Puerto Rico, Cuba. Okay. I'm all for that. Yeah, absolutely. But he just has to leave, you know. I would like him to follow through on his Vegas. Yes. Vegas reports.

So the pre-pro quo is here, you have to follow up with whatever you say you're going to do in Vegas and then move to another country and then we'll give you the ambassadorship. Yes. Yes. And then we'll, you know what? And then we'll revisit the possibility. We'll bring it in the committee. The next committee vote.

The possibility of you becoming an ambassador to CTF. We'll see the committee. Now, on a side note to that. Okay. You definitely are a CTF influencer. Absolutely. Yes. You can still be proud about that.

Absolutely. Well, that's something that's powerful. A CTF influencer? Influencers are big in this world. I mean, swipe up, bro. You're an influencer in CTF. Yes. And we have issued you a swipe up icon.

Come on, man. What more do you want? You're welcome. Since you're going through that, I would like to say that Michelle sent us a letter. And she says, Hi, Chris. Thought Loki and Thor could play some tug of war together.

God bless Michelle And she sent me Yeah she sent me a dog toy What the hell Yeah see A dog shoe toy for my dogs Because you know we got a new puppy And she saw it on social media

That's great And she sent us a That cute Yeah That cute Was there another gift in there for Do you have a dog For me?

Do you have a dog Was there another gift in there For me is the question No because you don't have a dog Last time I checked you don't have a dog So? Oh, you don't have a dog. I don't get a gift.

Yes. Because this is a... That's the way it works? This is a gift for a dog, not for a human. Okay. Here's... Let's back up for just a little bit. Okay, we'll back up.

I realize that she sent you a gift for your stupid dogs. I got it. Yes. Was there a gift in there for me? Didn't have to be for an animal or a pet. Could have been, I don't know. For a human. Look at a time.

You have to go. What I was asking was.