Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 6 | The Truth Behind The TSA Long Lines

Episode Date: January 15, 2019

Jeffy gets information from a insider about the TSA long lines and the airports plan b if the shutdown continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, there's some great stories today. All right, so we got animal news. I got to get to Netflix. I got to get to bookstores. I got to get to airlines. I got an inside story from a flight attendant about the tipping. We got to get to the story that ran all morning on this network about you're more likely to die from an opioid overdose than a

car accident. I'm about to explode. I'm about to explode. We've got to get to that. We've got to get to the city in California. That's bringing you future news from that story. There's definite future news from that

story. No question. And we got breaking news from the flatter of society. I don't even know where to start. We're going to start with education. Education that I know, don't you, Hunt? Don't yawn, I know.

It's education that you're going to be happy to know. Like, did you know that there are 278 squirrel species alive today? I got into this squirrel story, and it is fascinating. First of all, I don't like squirrels. All right. Squirrels, something about them. And this story is right along with them. There's something about them that just isn't quite right.

I don't know what it is, but it's something that isn't quite right. They're like, the title of the story that I got hooked into, squirrels are superpowered rodents hiding in plain sight. Did you know that they're the number two ranked on a list of threats against the U.S. power grid? They bring down power lines all the time, bastards. 82 minutes NASDAQ was shut down in 1987 after a squirrel interfered with the grid, preventing trade for roughly 20 million shares. $11 million is the price Montana paid for 560 squirrel-related power outages in 2015.

I mean, squirrels typically found per acre of green space 1 to 5. Not in my neighborhood. That's like per yard. there's a couple of big squirrels too. One used to just hang on. My daughter had a bird feeder in the back yard, you know, hanging. And that big squirrel would just come up and just hang on that thing. He'd chewed that thing to, I mean, just chewed it to the ground.

Because it was his. And that's all they do. See, the thing about squirrels, all they've got to do is try to figure out a way to screw with what you've got. That's what they do. Did you know this? Did you know that 180 degrees squirrels can rotate their ankles, allowing them to vertically descend a tree. Tell me again why I shouldn't shoot them,

why you don't need a 22 in the back window. Ten lengths of their bodies, squirrels can leap. Ten. Can you leap a length of your body? First of all, I'm not leaping, but I'm asking you, if you can. All right. This story goes out and out, and I know, I got it.

There's just so, it's such a good, story. The giant black squirrels are the heftiest. The most colorful are the Malabar giant squirrel or Indian giant squirrel. It's multicolored. The best

back end, Southeast Asia's vampire squirrel has a tail 135 percent, 135 longer than its body. Did you know that? No, yeah.

I don't think he did. That's right. You didn't. Most adorable tie between the Siberian and the Japanese dwarf flying squirrels who can compete for attention with big eyes and excellent aviation ability. Yeah. You heard me. The smartest is the Arctic Ground Squirrel.

The Arctic Ground Squirrel has figured out a way to re-establish neural connections it loses when its brain freezes during hibernation. So the brain freezes and they come back to life. We are doomed. As a human being, we are doomed. The squirrels are taking over. They bury three to 10,000 nuts each year. We are doomed.

I just got hooked into this. There's so much more on this squirrel story. I mean, it's all there for you. Enjoy it. It's entitled, Squirrels are superpowered rodents hiding in plain sight. That is fascinating.

As long as we're on animal news, let's go with the birth control for the deadly mosquitoes that could save lives. I question this. So they've come up with a plan because mosquitoes, of course, you know, malaria,

dengue fever, Zika, West Nile, just a little. little bit. And of course, now that I'm on all these blood thinners, if I get bit by a mosquito, I could be dead unless I hold on to it. So when you see me walking around with a giant mosquito on my arm, that's just because I don't want him to take the blood away. But they've just, scientists at the University of Arizona have recently discovered a protein in the mosquitoes necessary for reproduction. So with this information, they hope to develop a birth control for the mosquito. Now, you know, right off the bat, you think,

Good. Get rid of them. We don't need them. But I don't really like messing with Mother Nature too much like that. That seems to be just a little bit dangerous. Mosquitoes are here for a reason. It just seem like they're here for a reason. And I hate to think about killing them. Maybe we just kill a few. What happens is we don't just kill a few.

Pretty soon we have, we've wiped out the entire mosquito population. Oh, wait. We didn't kill them all. There's four living in the Amazon rainforest that are eight feet tall now because they've become resistant to our poison. And so we have to run from giant mosquitoes in the streets. We shouldn't have used the birth control. I can see it coming. Do you have animals at your house?

Are you an animal lover? I know most of you are. And I mean, I like animals and they're nice, but it's bad enough I have to take care of the family. in other humans. I don't want to take care of fish. And they died, by the way. I brought fish into the house. They died.

Do you know you have to clean the... Did you realize you actually have to clean the tank? See, I never do that. I thought they cleaned it themselves. A pen owner rents a $1,500 a month Silicon Valley apartment. I'm for two cats. See, that's...

I mean, I really don't have a problem with this. If you've got the money and you want to have your animals have a hunt. Okay, fine. I mean, that's Freddie Mercury bought a monster house, right? So he keep all his cats in. That's the only reason he had a giant house so he keeps his cats in. You got the money. Have fun. This story,

I don't know that this story is a fascinating story, but it is fascinating just to read. All right? Just to read the story. The title? Great tits are eating bird brains and climate change is to blame. Great tits are eating bird brains.

and climate change is to blame. The pied flycatchers make an annual road trip from sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Europe to Chowan Caterpillars build nests and mate. They typically return to Africa a few months later with their new vacation babies. But over the past decade, flycatchers are arriving for mating season

to find their nesting sites already occupied by great tits. These territorial tits don't just get their feathers ruffled, Sea great tits are locals, and these townies don't tolerate tourists. A turf war ensues, one which they peck flycatchers to death and eat their brains. This rise in brutal bird-on-bird violence is due to a shifted migration and nesting timelines. Tits traditionally made it two weeks before pied flycatchers, but since the 1980s, flycatcher breeding season has increasingly inched up earlier in the

month of April. Warmer spring temperatures cause caterpillars to flourish sooner in the month. So flycatcher is adapted to arrive earlier as well. Today, their breeding periods occasionally overlap with tit time. And this is due to climate change. So just so you know, I just wanted to just updating you on the war between flycatchers and great tits. According to data, 950 nests and nearly 3,000 birds between 2007 and 2016,

the authors found the great tits killed nearly one in 10 flycatchers. Those bastards. Those murdering great tith. I'll stop. You could read the story yourself. I mean, it's just, I'm just educating you. It's just education. I'm going to give you, this is a headline from Future News.

Back in 2019, a northern California town launched a goat fund me campaign. The crowdfunding campaign launched by Nevada City Mayor Renette Sinem stated that raising $30,000 for the project would bring in goats. They were working with local ranchers to launch goat sheep prescriptive grazing in city-owned, including over 450 acres of city-owned Greenbelt. We brought the goats in to save on, to eat the brush and the underbrush, to help with wildfires. Today, however, the town is being overrun by goats, and we're issuing hunting licenses for town residents to shoot goats. You get one week a year to shoot as many goats as possible because there's just too many goats. This has been future news. That's what's coming.

guaranteed. Every time people try to start messing with things like that, they bring in too much, down they go. Good luck. So I talked to an insider flight attendant last night. You know, we talked yesterday on the podcast about tipping flight attendants. And, you know, would you or wouldn't you? And look, I know there is, I know there, you know, I know there's sky waitresses.

I got it. But that's been a thing. for quite some time now on some of the lower class. Well, I don't want to say lower class. On some of the lower end carriers. All right. So when you order things on the screen, it asks you if you want a tip.

And you can say yes or no, yeah. Yeah. Now, well, some originally, so what happened was some guy took a picture. What started this as a thing, some guy took a picture of the screen, but it's been that way for a long time. All right?

You just say no. What does they know? What are they do? And what the airlines, a lot of the airlines were doing, was that they would, you know, whatever they ended up being in the tip fund on that flight, that breaks up to all the flight attendants for 5% of it or something. Now, some of the airlines had a separate screen.

What happens, the reason that they have it like that on the screens in the airplanes is that they don't have Wi-Fi because they're the lower carriers. So they have to use credit cards and it's got to be, you know, because there's no Wi-Fi for prepaid and stuff like that, so it's got to go through there. And it asks you, it's just a screen that says, you know, hey, total is five bucks. And then it goes to the tip screen. And you say yes or no.

And if you say no, it moves on. Or yes, you know, 18% or 15% or whatever the heck the deal is on the screen, whatever you want to do. So then one of the carriers had the separate screens where you had to turn and sign it. You know, the flight attendant would swipe the card and then you'd turn and sign it or push yes, you know, whatever. And so on that screen had the same thing, right? But some flight attendants were bypassing that screen because they felt like it was below them. People don't want to tip me.

I'm a flight attendant, so they would skip that screen. So people didn't realize that they had a tip screen. Okay. Well, is it? Because what happened is that then the other flight attendants would use the tip screen and get tips, and then they would get a piece of the tips. but it was hurting. They would get a piece of the tips that they weren't trying to sell,

and they were hurting the other flight attendants for not asking for it. All right. So now they've worked it out, I think, where tips are tips. Whatever your thing gets, that's you. All right, that's, I believe that's the union that worked that out with them. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The flight attendant union?

Oh, yeah. Big time. Big time union. Yeah. And they, on top of which they also found out that the airline, and I forget what airline this is. I don't really, but I don't want to say it. The airline was screwing some of the flight attendants

out of some of their percentage of the tip money. Big surprise. And the union was having done it. Right capitalism sucked. Big air. Screwing the little guy. Bastards. So now the union shot that down.

And, you know, got the settlement on that. and now they're, you know, they're working through that. But the tip thing has been a thing for quite some time now. It's just this, apparently what started this under roar now of all this story is some guy took a picture because he got pissed. And, you know, of course, with the Internet, everything went viral. And it was like, well, it's been quite some time. And it seems, I talked to two flight attendants yesterday.

And they both, he did, he and she. both were telling me about the process and it felt at the end I'm like you still didn't sell me I know you tried and they claimed they weren't trying to sell me but it sure sounded like they were trying to sell me but it doesn't doesn't necessarily work because I don't get

I mean I we're not walking into the restaurant out of my own choosing I'm walking onto an airplane which I already paid for which I already paid for a lot of money. And if I'm on one of the upper carriers that charge more money anyway because of name recognition and name loyalty and stuff like that who charge, you know, an exorbitant amount of money to business travelers because business is paying for it, not the little guy. That's a problem. That means I'm not going, I don't want to tip you for serving me a Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola. Okay? So, anyway, that's been going on for quite some time, just so you know. Now, we also, you know, yesterday we had the big lines at Atlanta airport, and we talked about the shutdown causing the TSA to back everything up. No. It's all a put on. They're all doing it for a show.

I talked to the same two flight attendants yesterday, and they are traveled around the country, and they've done some traveling, and there's only most of the airports that they went to. They said most of the airports that they went to were not in exorbitant long lines. And that, you know, the TSA, some TSA agents look, you know, they were closing some windows. And I know they closed one place in Houston because they were short workers and everything was going through. But, you know, things were moving pretty smoothly. Now, my plan was, and I said this yesterday in a tweet at Jeffrey MRA. Why aren't the airlines?

If we're coming up on, like, I don't know, it's a big surprise that Atlanta's the airport that they're having all the problems at because where's the Super Bowl this year in a couple of weeks? Where's it at? Atlanta. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right. And all eyes of the world will be focused on what city?

Atlanta. Oh, yeah, that's right. So where are you going to want to have a lot of the protests and people out and long lines and people struggling. Atlanta. Thank you. So, according to my insiders, don't forget my insiders,

according to my insiders, don't forget, Atlanta. Let's see, who else has their main headquarters stationed in Atlanta? The Atlanta Braves baseball team, yeah. The Atlanta Falcons, oh yeah, the football team, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Atlanta Hawks, right?

No, not them. No, not them. Somebody else has their. CNN. So big surprise. Big surprise. So, according to my insiders, I'm right. The airlines do have a plan. I don't want to break the news to you. I don't want to break the news to you, TSA strugglers out there. But they've got people ready to break the line, baby. Break your union ass line. We've got scabs coming in. We are not going to have backups getting into our airplanes and our airports. Amen. Hey man, I got news for you too, TSA workers.

If you're upset that you haven't got your paycheck, go to the federal credit union, go to a bank and say, hey, look, I'm a TSA worker. I'm a federal worker. Can I have my money? Yes, thank you. They'll give it to you. And so you'll get your money because they know you're going to get your money when the government opens back up whenever that is. And I hope Trump keeps it closed for an indefinite amount of time until they put the money. money in for the wall because we want the freaking wall.

I'm sorry, did I get political? I think I broke political there and I'm sorry. Also yesterday, the VA sent an email to all the veterans that get benefits. Of course, there's benefits. You know, you still get those. But if you're a federal employee and you're for the VA, they have about six to ten different plans so you can get your money today. So plans are being in effect.

Oh, my gosh. So all these crap that people are not getting paid. contact your people. That is agonizing. Everybody's getting... I mean, good for them. I'm happy that they get their money. I don't...

It's not agonizing that they're getting their money and they're able to feed their families. I don't mean that. It's agonizing that I'm being told that it's this horrific hardship on everyone. Exactly. Yeah. And by the way,

six to ten different ways and one of them was what you just said. Yes. The federal credit unions and the banks, especially if you bank with USAA, those people just give you the money. I don't know how they stay in business, but they just give you money.

Hey, I got a paycheck. Oh, don't worry about it. Here, here, here. I, I, I, what, USAA? Do you have USAA? No, no, I don't. No, I don't. I don't.

I used to, I tried at one point and they wouldn't let me in. Bastards. Well, I thought was, didn't you get it because you take care of the grand, you know, the granddad? We're not going to discuss this now. No, okay. We're not going to discuss this now. Just know that I tried for my father, my own father, who fought in Korea, but I couldn't find, I think he only was there for two years or something and it

wasn't enough or there was some information I didn't have that USA was like, thank you for calling. Yeah, but all those people that said they got money, go through your bank, they'll give you the money. They want your money, you're going to get the money? They know they're going to get their money. There's plans. I'm absolutely sure there's one or two people that you're going to hear about that won't

be able to eat out. Yeah. That one article I read was I about through the computer. Guess what? Get some McDonald's like President Trump did for the Clemson people. Which was the greatest move ever, by the way? I don't even want to hear that it was shacky. It was the best thing Trump can do. Jeffie, what is the one thing we're called all over the world? We're fat and we eat fast food.

That was America. And he's celebrating the American football champion. Yes. with burgers from McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King. I think you had pizza from Domino's there. Pizza. Like, what more American can you get?

Oh my gosh. All he was missing is a stupid eagle just flying by with a freaking fly by the, you know, the Navy Jets. I will say that, I will say that, you know, I mean, is pizza American? No, but it's okay. Delivery pizza is.

Yes. Delivery pizza is. The Domino's, the Papa Johns, the Little Caesars, that kind of place. Pizza Hut. Those are American pizzas. You can tell me, look, I started it, Italy.

Shut up. That was a guy pulling it out of a stone oven with this little Italian cheese on it. That wasn't what we did. We made it so it comes right to your house. 30 minutes or less or for free. Thank you. What a great campaign that was.

I mean, they had to stop that campaign because guys were killing themselves to get to people's houses. But it worked, damn it. It worked because I was ready. You called and you were like, good. 30 minutes. There wasn't any 48 minutes.

We'd be there in an hour. It was 30-minute click. Stopwatch. That was a good campaign. Great campaign for Domino's. Made them huge. But, I mean, I would have been okay with Domino's or, or, you know, any of the American pizza chains.

They didn't have any Taco Bell. I would have been okay with Taco Bell. But he can't have Taco Bell. He's trying to put a border wall in the Mexico area. So Taco Bell would be kind of hypocritical. Taco Bell is an American company. True, but what do they? They serve tacos and he's trying to get rid of the taco makers.

They serve American tacos. They don't serve the tacos that come out of the stone ovens like an Italy. I mean, I get what your point. I know. I'm just, I'm teasing. And I get your point. That would, to me, that would have said tough. Taco Bell is an American company.

We're serving tacos. But also, I'm upset that there was no Chick-fil-A. Where was Chick-fil-A? I know. That hurt. That would have really triggered the crowd. That would have been a great trigger, right? Filet? Oh my gosh. Homophobia chicken being served

at the White House. That would have been tremendous. They would have been triggered from here to eternity. I texted my mom because, you know, my family, we work in a McDonald's business and she's like, heck yeah. Really? Your family works at McDonald's that's a surprise. Go ahead.

And they were all happy about it. I was like, are you guys going to use that? You know, because you should. I'd say, duh. Duh? Be hanging Clemson flags. Yes. You might not want to do that. Your family works at the McDonald's of Florida.

It's a little tough business with the Clemson-Sys F. You see FAP, maybe you hang, maybe you hang, if they're in the Orlando area. Yeah, they are. Maybe you hang their flag and say, hey, why don't you guys win? Then you get a free Big Macs, losers. But great day for fast food yesterday.

Great day. Yes, absolutely. And couldn't have done it better. I'm sorry. You can beat them up all you want for anything else, but you're not beating them up for that. That was great. And by the way, you do have to, I saw, oh, what he did you put the candlelights?

How else would you eat a Big Mac if he's not with silver platter and candlelights? Duh. It's the White House. You want him to put it. It's college football players. Yeah. And I love that player that took two Big Macs. Yeah.

That's what I'm talking about. Two Big Macs. Lucky they didn't have 10. Those guys are monsters, man. Now, in real life, in real life. those guys eat really good. Oh, yeah. They're not eating McDonald's and Wednesdays and fast food.

But you know they're happy about the of those McDonald's. Absolutely. Because those diets of like, a president said... Season's over. Yeah, seasons over. And the president said, eat. Seasons. Am I going to say no to the president of the United States?

No, you can't say no. I'll take two big ones, a quarter pounder and some of those French rice in the back. And I need a big box of those chicken nuggets over there. I saw the layout of where it was. It was that the pizza. Yeah. Then you had the quarter pounders. Yes.

And you had the big macs. And the filial fish. Shut up with the filet of fish. I know. I wasn't big on the filet fish. No. I mean, I like the flay of fish plain. I don't like the tartar sauce.

Ooh. The bougie tartar sauce on the filet fish. I'll give you, this is the only time I'll give you that. That is bougie tartar sauce. That's the only sauce I'm going to beushi. That's not a good sauce. Take that off.

Oh, well, does that make me feel better? You agree with me. You should. Nope. Are you want to know why your first class ticket costs so much money? Apple. spends $150 million a year on United Airlines flights. Apple purchases 50, count them 50 business class flights from San Francisco to Shanghai each day.

A ticket for the 14-hour journey normally costs at least $2,500. Why does it cost $2,500? because Apple just pays it. So when you show up at the door with your measly, hey, can I get an upgrade? I just spent $800 on this ticket. Nope. Have a nice day.

Sit back there with the unwashed masses. Okay. Apple's already paid for these seats. Now, it would surprise me. Why not? if Apple's paid for 50 of the seeds, they're on your flight and four of them are paid for

nobody's on them. Why not double sell them? I mean, they double book all the time. Why not double sell those? But they do, only they do at the top dollar, not at the cheap dollar. That should be against the law. That's illegal. Apple is the United's largest

global spender. No kidding. Close. companies, Facebook and Google each spend over $34 million a year. That's why your tickets cost so much money. That's why your ticket, you, the working guy, that's why you got to fly freaking spirit. That's why you got to fly spirit because the brand name airlines are kept afloat by Apple, Google, and Facebook being able to pay exorbitant amount of money for their tickets.

Just so you know. I mean, that's good. Good for them. right yeah i got it capitalism i got it i'm happy for him kind of

it's close to happy it's about as close to happy as i'm going to get for the way that they're doing me on the tickets and speaking of that being charged more Netflix raising their prices what now originally i read this article and I thought Netflix

raising their prices. Okay, well this headline says they're raising their prices for their 58 million U.S. subscribers. But I think if we delve into the story, it looks like they're raising their prices. Globally. So, I mean,

think of that. You raise the fee at buck. There's an extra $58 million for you a year. That is, that's a good thing. It's most popular plan. We'll see the largest hike. What? Okay, so to $13 a month from $11. That option offers high-definition streaming on up to two different internet connected devices simultaneously. Even at the higher

price, that plan is still a few dollars cheaper than HBO, who's streaming service charges $15 a month. Okay, so let me tell you a little secret. Like, I pay more than that. and so that that means that my price is going up even more because I pay for the streaming service and I pay for multiple devices so I mean I pay whatever their maximum multiple devices is which I think is five

this one here is two I think they give you they charge you for three more right five that you can have you can have different like I can have 80 devices ready to log into Netflix but I can only do five at a time. The extra cash is going to help for Netflix huge investment in original shows.

Yeah, no kidding. They've been in the red for a long time on those numbers. First time that higher prices will hit all 58 million U.S. subscribers. Yeah, why don't they, you know, raise the price on the little guy? Don't raise the prices on me. They had continued to offer a basic $8 a month streaming plan while raising rates on more comprehensive plans with better video quality and options to watch simultaneously on different devices.

Yeah, I mean, I'm willing to pay for that. Do you want to play? Do you need the 4K, 5K, 6K, 8K? At some point, yes is the answer. But at some point prior to your 4K television, no. If you don't have the 4K TV, why pay for it? Right? So if you're not going to have a compatible viewing device, why pay the extra for it?

As soon as you get the compatible viewing device, pay the extra for it because that's what you want it for. And they're offering it to you. I just want the multiple devices. I want to be able to watch it on my phone. I want to be able to watch it on, I want to watch Netflix in the bedroom and have the kids watching Netflix upstairs. And my in-laws watching Netflix in their bedroom. And then somebody else who doesn't live in my house who steals my account number is watching Netflix. Don't even get me started on that.

But that's going away too, right, with the new app that they talked about that they showed off at the Consumer Electronics Show. That's going to track all the people that log in and where they log in from and their IP. device and they'll be able to say whether you're connected to that particular account or not. So like if I sold my Netflix account, let's say I'm paying 15 bucks a month, right? I'm paying 15 bucks a month, but I sell my, I sell my password to Chris for five bucks a month. So Chris now has a Netflix for five bucks a month that he's paying me. So if I do that 10 times, I'm making money. Or actually it would be five times, right?

You do it five times. So I'm going to sell it to you for a little. Yeah, five bucks. That's still fine. I'm still making money on that. That's a need. It just seems strange. They're out to make a lot of money.

I find it fine that they have 12, right, $12 billion in debt. And though they're getting another $2 billion. So they're going to be $14 billion in debt. I mean, that's, look, that's good debt. Right? I mean, Netflix isn't going to go under. if they stop creating new content, it'll take five years before anybody really complains and goes away.

So that billion goes away. You know, that debt goes away. It's good debt. But I find it amazing that it's okay for Netflix to have 12 billion in debt and they're borrowing another two billion to keep afloat and keep things running. And while they're, you know, they have their 158 million subscribers around the world. but the movie pass company borrowed, you know, five bucks it went under. How much of the movie pass company by them?

I mean, they borrowed, like, I don't know. They borrowed a good chunk of money. It was a little bit more than five bucks. And, but now they didn't have the, it wasn't good debt for them. You know, their whole plan was, a little questionable. Great idea, and I loved it, but the whole thing that they were trying to pull off was a little questionable. And by the time they hit the big debt. screen was they were already on their way down.

So anyway, be prepared for that. And that's going into effect like now. So if you've already paid your Netflix bill and it was the same account, I believe the next time it rolls around, it'll be more money. Look forward to that. I know. What are you looking at me for? I mean, I'm not Netflix.

I don't run Netflix. I'm just telling you. Okay? I'm just telling you. So how much is your kidney worth? How much is your kidney worth? So a Florida Board of Medicine says a West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for removing a woman's healthy kidney that he thought was a tumor. Why is this guy even in the operating room?

I mean, that's like me in there. I just take it out. Jeff, that's a kidney. Nope, it's a tumor. He was responsible for a cousin. cutting open in 2016, two other surgeries, surgeons would perform the back operation. Had a kidney and never ascended into her abdomen. She thought it was cancerous tumor, removes it.

She later sued the two primary doctors who each settled for, oh wait. Wait a minute. Hold on. This story is getting worse and worse as the time goes. All right, so the two primary doctors each settled for $250,000. That's $500,000. And then she also sued for malpractice and settled the case for a nominal amount. And the doctor has got to attend training and pre-optive patient evaluation.

And then the hospital board fined him another $3,000. He's still working. So his insurance paid out, the two other docs, the insurance paid out 500 grand, $250,000 apiece. The hospital fined him $3,000. This is misleading. The lady did get more than $3,000.

And I don't even think she probably didn't even get the $3,000. That fine from the hospital board, that just goes to their party fund. Say it. The hospitals kind of take care of themselves. Hospital is kind of like Washington, D.C. They all kind of keep each other safe, sound. You know, my friend, Dr. So-and-so, even if he's a douche, my friend, senator,

my colleague from the great state of Montana, my doctor friend who, my surgeon friend down on floor two, they all just rally around each other because they want to pay cheaper insurance rates. That's what it's all about. We all have so much going on in our lives. I mean, I try to make the podcast, you know, at least. some stories and some information that will make you laugh, get you through the day, help you through a little bit. I try not to get too political because we are so inundated with the politics of things. It just drives me crazy some days. And I know it does you too.

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Oh, boy. That makes me nervous. Before you do that, can I tell you that the British Parliament rejects the Prime Minister Teresa's Brexit deal, 432 lawmakers votes against it? Good. Good. Breaking news. This just end from Europe. The United Kingdom has denied Theresa May, her anti-Brexit deal. Back up to you, Alty. All right, so back to the kid.

It's good for them. And you heard we talked to our boy. Now over there in London, my man, Peter Balabie, who said, you know, that was going to happen and that if they don't come up with a deal and they try to make people vote over it again because they're pushing to vote again, they'll be blood in the streets. They'll be fighting in the streets. That's what he said. And be careful. Be careful what you wish for.

And I know you people there. I saw the arguments I watched. I read a huge thread on this on Twitter the other day about people. commenting about don't vote again. We already voted. What could be voting twice is more democratic? No, it's not. Sorry, you can try to sell it that way, but no.

And Theresa Mayo's Brexit plan wasn't a Brexit plan. Her plan was to stay with the EU and have them cherry pick what they want. It was agonizing. It was still part of the EU.

Only just in writing it wouldn't be part the EU. It was bad. Why did you get me off on that tangent? Because you don't want me to talk about what I was going to talk about. Yep. Okay. I thought the FDA, you know, I don't like to talk politics, but I thought the FDA was off. I thought we were, you know, the shutdown. They couldn't investigate any bad food. They couldn't investigate. The food investigators were off. Everybody was done. We're all going to be poisoned to death, right, during the shutdown. And yet,

what comes across the wire? A recall. A recall for dog, food. So those people are still working? The dog people. The dog people apparently have the special dispensation from the Pope. And the people who are supposed to be helping human food do not. No, no. They can't work.

No. Absolutely amazing. Allerting pet owners and veterinary professionals about recalls of several dry dog foods after receiving complaints. Oh, no. They received complaints. That dogs eating the food experienced vitamin D toxicity. Oh, no.

What? Stop it. What's wrong with your dog? I don't know. Too much vitamin D. Really? Come on. Testing found that samples of the dog food

contain excessive, potentially toxic amounts of vitamin D. We can't have that. D is an essential nutrient for dogs and humans, I might add. But very high amounts can cause serious health problems like kidney failure or death. So why do we need vitamin D? we know? Yeah, that's what we get from the sun, bro. Oh, that's it? Okay. Pelo's it. Am I?

Stop talking. I'll find you, Florida, Dr. Money. You know what you're talking about. They know you can't have my kidney. At this time, the only pet products that have been impacted are food made for dogs. Oh, good. We don't want too much vitamin B, D, toxicity, and cats. That's just too much.

Pet owners should discontinue feeding these recalled products. There's a lot. Puppy Formula Naturally. Look it up for yourself. There's a lot, though. Wow. Triumph chicken and rice recipe, dry dog food. I mean, there's a list of things with too much vitamin D.

Okay. So you feed your dog a can of natural life pet products, chicken and potato, dried dog food. One can. Oh, it's a 17-pound bag. Okay, so you feed them a bag. you drop him a couple of bowls. How would I want it was a 17-pound bag of that dog food last? A week maybe, right?

Maybe. So you feed up the week. And what happens? One bag kills your dog because of vitamin, too much vitamin D? I think not. There's going to be a veterinarian and say, yes, it does, champ. It's bad for the dog.

The kidney failure of death. I don't think so. I don't think one bag of chicken coated dog food is going to kill your dog. I'm sorry, I just don't believe it. We have so much more to get to. I have so many stories to get to for you today. The guy that found the, he's got the bronze penny, sold for $200,000 a penny.

A penny. P-E-N-N-N-Y, penny. That would sell more than $200,000, my friend. So, no one had a rare 1943 bronze panty that they sold. At least today, at least today, at least today. Today they're sold the penny for $200,000. That is amazing.

So apparently he got the penny. They were made. There's 10 to 15 of these pennies. They were mistakenly minted in bronze instead of steel. and they were made at a time when bronze and copper were being saved to fill metal shortages during World War II. So apparently he found the penny in his pocket as a teenager in 1947. After getting some change from his high school cafeteria, held onto it ever since. Just held on to it.

He died in September, bless his heart, and he directed all proceeds from the sale to be donated to the Berkshire Athenium or at the public life. That's stupid. That's stupid. Did I enter into the library? That's stupid. He wanted to help the... He probably doesn't have any family or anything. That's stupid.

If I'm a family member, I'm pissed. I am pissed. I'm a family member. I'm fighting that. Oh yeah. He's crazy. He didn't know what he was talking about. He became senile.

He had old timers. He had all that. And old timers. I'm going through my pennies. I'm going through my pennies. I still, you have pennies that? Oh, yeah, I have some pennies rolled up.

Really? Yeah. I still have some pennies, I've been rolled up for a long time. Now, the sad thing is, is we used to roll them up all the time as kids and sell them back to the bank or use it for money and buy stuff.

So, who knows, those money's gone, right? But I still have, I was in the garage not long ago, you know, pre-heart attack. And I was well over there by the tools. That was, you know, pre-heart attack, and really I was just looking at them. I wasn't doing anything with them. I was just saying,

I was going to say, what were you building? my tools over here. That's where I keep them. This whole tools here. There's toolboxes here and stuff in them. What are you looking for? Oh yeah, I was a screwdriver.

That's in the drawer inside the house. It's not out here. Don't look over. So what were you that? I don't know. So I go out there from time to look at the garage. Like, man, I've got to get rid of this crap. If I could just burn this stuff.

If I could just burn it. And I've talked about it before. I should have burned it when we moved out of the last house. Should have burned it in the cul-de-sac. It was right there in the big circle. We could have had a big bonfire, a big party. It would have been great. And I would have to worry about it.

Just gone. What happened? It all burned. But I go out of the garage and I walk through every so often. I was like, it's the only way it's going to happen. It's the only way it's the only way. So anyway, that was my tools. And I open up a toolbox.

And inside the toolbox is like three or four penny rolls, all rolled up. Oh, nice. I've been in there for a while. and I looked up, I threw it back in. I don't want to take anything out of a toolbox. It looks bad. Looks bad for you like you're actually doing something. The tools?

And you don't want to look like that? No, I don't look like that. Okay. But there are the two. I know they're in the toolbox. I have like three. There's three rolls in that toolbox. Good to go.

So maybe one of those pennies in that toolbox is one of the 10 to 15 of these pennies that minted in bronze instead of steel and are worth a couple hundred thousand. Now, my price will go down. because then they'll realize, oh, there must be 16. We're giving you 100 grand. Okay. I'm not donated it to a library either. Period.

The library it gets donated to? The Jeff Fisher Library. The Chewing the Fat section of the Jeff Fisher Library. And then what do I buy with it? New matches.