Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 667 | If Ya Gotta Go

Episode Date: July 19, 2021

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with the final destination of Dallas on July 9th. The CDC said that it's the first case of the virus seen in the United States in nearly 20 years. The patient is hospitalized in isolation in Dallas and is in stable condition. Health officials with Dallas County Health and Human Services have said,

there's no reason for alarm. We don't expect any threat to the general public. Oh, okay. So Monkey Pox was detected in the U.S. in 2003 outbreak. which involved 47 people. That outbreak was traced to prairie dogs in the Midwest

that harbored the virus. Now, the monkeypox skin spread from person to person through respiratory droplets or other bodily fluids. So they are thinking that it's okay, even though he was on a plane, because everyone was wearing a mask. So if you think that not wearing a mask at an airplane, is going away soon.

You are mistaken because this will be part of the problem. So monkeypox is related to smallpox, which was eradicated worldwide in 1980 thanks to a smallpox vaccine. Both illnesses cause a distinctive rash that last for about a month. Smallpox had a higher fatality rate than monkeypox. But I will say this, man, if you look at some of the pictures of the Monkey pox? Holy cow. They do not look like they're fun.

You got these big bumps, you know, pox. No, thank you. No, thank you. And you've got an incubation period, which is 10 to 14 days. So, I mean, he landed here, you know, came into Dallas on the 9th. And if you're listening live today, it is the 19th. of July, and this happened over the weekend, and I think Friday,

so that incubation period was there. So I don't know that he knows how he got it, but we know that it can spread from animal to human, from human to human. We know that you spread it either an animal bite or direct contact with an infected animals bodily fluid. And the virus,

can spread from human to human by both droplet and contact with the infected person's bodily fluids. So we better be doing some contact tracing on this because monkeypox. You don't want none of that. You can quote me on that. You can quote chewing the fat on that. Monkeypox, you don't want none of that. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat.

So that's when we talked about some of the cheapest places to live here in the United States of America. And now we get the report of the best places to live in the U.S. According to U.S. News and World Report, the 2021 Best Places to Live Ranking. And people in Austin are a little bummed out because they drop down to number five Austin, has dropped down to number five. I know. I know. They were really, really kind of bummed.

But if you look at the list of the best places to live in the U.S., starting at number 10, we'll just go to the, well, your number 11, number 12. We can go to 12, 12 to 1. Ann Arbor, Michigan, number 12 in the best places to live in the U.S. Boise, Idaho, number 11, both of those cities are. really nice. No question. Portland, Oregon, how about no as

number 10? Portland's population toes the line between an innocent playfulness and a shameless wild side. Naked bicycle rides, a fully-cost adult soapbox derby and voodoo donut, a bakery known

for making one-of-a-kind donuts. Man, if that doesn't make you want to move there, I don't know what will I know I know believe me so you got Portland

as a number 10 Sarasota Florida number nine that's in the you know they'll probably deny being in the Tampa Bay area but it's a separate separate market as far as radio

goes I think it's in the TV market as well but Sarasota's beautiful just south of Tampa beautiful across the bridge across the skyway Portland, Maine. Naples, Florida.

Number seven best places to live. Naples is awful pretty. Awful pretty. Colorado Springs, Colorado, number six. I know. I know. Austin, Texas, as I said, moved all the way down, but, you know, on this list, right in the smack dab

in the middle of the top ten. Austin, Texas, number five. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Number four. as the best places to live in the USA. Number three, Huntsville, Alabama. Wow, I mean, look, it's moving up, right? It's the space race.

We've got the space back open. They just move the space thing there, right? So it's good. It's a beautiful place. Rally, Durham, North Carolina, number two. Wow. Nice. And Boulder, Colin.

Colorado, number one, the number one place, the best place to live in the U.S., according to U.S. News and World Report, is Boulder, Colorado. Now, I will say there were a couple of things on this list that was a little surprising, like Jacksonville, Florida, while, I mean, I like Jacksonville, was ranked 22nd, and Tampa was 32? No, no. Tampa Bay is way better than Jacksonville. and Sarasota is in that top list as well,

and that's still Tampa Bay. So new Jacksonville is not going to be above Tampa. Sorry. Nashville is 30th. DFW 37th. Wow. Houston 39. Other Texas City, San Antonio 75.

Colleen Temple, 114. Beaumont, Port Arthur, number 124. Corpus Christi, 129. El Paso, 131. McCallon at number 139 and Brownsville at number 140. Yeah, I don't think so. But no way, no way do I let Tampa be below Jacksonville. Stop it, U.S. News and World Report.

Whatever metrics you were using as far as livability, and I can go down the report that U.S. News and World Report we're talking about as far as their metrics goes. No way. Sorry. No. I remember last week we talked to Andrew Heaton about living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and being paid money to live there. And they were giving him a monthly stipend until it reached a certain point. And I think he had to work from home, and there were other little restrictions. But he was getting, you know, money to live in Tulsa, which, you know, I would say if you're going to live in Tulsa, they better be paying you.

But hey, that's just me. However, if you wanted to get out of the United States and live someplace, you know, gorgeous, like Italy, let's say the Italian region of Calabria, they're now offering new residents $33,000 over three years to move to one of its villages. So that's only, you know, 11,000 a year to live in Calabria. Now, the catch, there's always a catch, new residents must start a small business or work as a specific professional needed within the town. And so it's called the Active Residency Project. It's only available to those under the age of 40, and those selected have 90 days to move to Calabria. The project, they've got 830,000 to give to new residents and provide grants to assist the launches of hotels, restaurants, and other businesses. So you might get a loan to help start one of those businesses.

So you get the 33,000, 11,000 a year. You got to be under 40. And if you start a hotel, a restaurant, or other business, you might get some more money. from the project to help in the building of that business. That's still, that's not too bad. That is not too bad. They want to revitalize the area with new residents. So, I mean, if you want to move there, go ahead.

They said the small municipalities are the true identity of our territory, and they're at risk of dying out. Bringing new residences and businesses to the villages will allow both the rebirth of small villages and the redemption of young Calibrians who want jobs. Well, why don't you let them open up the businesses then? Give them the money. But hey, what do I know?

Don't worry about that. Just if you're under 40 and you want to move to Calabria, spend at least three years in Italy and start a business or work as part of a specific professional that's needed in town, like what, a cobbler? work on shoes, I guess. I don't know what that would be. Maybe an IT guy, internet expert, maybe a cobbler,

but definitely a restaurant, definitely a hotel, and then, you know, whatever else, maybe a pawn shop. Is a pawn shop a professional, specific professional business? Yes. Yes, it is, especially in the Calabria area of Italy. But there you go. There's an opportunity for you to get the heck out of the USA and go to Italy. Maybe they could offer some of that to some of the Cubans that want to get the hell out of Cuba now.

Let them go to Italy and start a new deal. You know, I'm just trying. I'm just thinking out loud. Just thinking out loud. All right, before we head into the break room, I just want to reiterate my prediction that the Olympics will. be postponed. Now they're supposed to still be up and going. I know they're supposed to start Friday.

I think that the first thing that happens during the Olympics is 3.30 a.m. table tennis on the peacock stream. But I, and I know, listen, I know that we love, you know, the unforgettable moments that the Olympics provide. and I realize that we always have, you know, an improbable gold star that we all fall in love with. But I'm telling you that they don't want this to happen. They've already postponed it, and now they're going to postpone it again, I believe. It's still going.

They still have not pulled the plug on it yet, but there's still time for them to pull the plug. We've had some athletes test positive, COVID. We have protesters in Japan who don't want the Olympics because they don't want the, you know, they're in another outbreak in Japan and they're concerned that these, you know, these games are going to be a super spreader event. I know that they had a worker, one of the staffers at the Olympic Village test positive for coronavirus. I know the resident was not of Japan, but was only described as a games concerned personnel.

They're like a lifeguard? Okay. But I'm just saying that, you know, they tested positive. So we've had some Olympic athletes test positive. And I still believe that as badly as they want these games to go off, NBC, the IOC, and the Japan government, the Japanese government, I just think it's going to be too overwe. If when, and this is going to happen, either later today, today is the 19th, which is Monday, I think we have until Wednesday, maybe Wednesday morning.

Then after Wednesday, it probably doesn't matter what happens. They're still, they will still have it. But they're not letting anybody in. There's no fans. And the press has got to be on a, you know, has to travel to Taiwan to watch the games. No, they don't. I'm just kidding. You don't have to be vaccinated,

but if you're not vaccinated, they're going to treat you like dog meat and you've got to be tested 85,000 times a day, and you probably have to social distance to the world. So we probably have until Wednesday, sometime Wednesday. I said Wednesday morning, but sometime Wednesday,

which would be the 21st, right? The 21st of July? Right, because it starts on the 23rd. where a athletic team from a country is going to come into the village and they're going to all test positive for coronavirus. And they're going to say, that's it. We can't have the Olympics. We're going to just postpone it for now.

Tokyo still gets it when we have it. But for right now, no, it's over. Canceled. Have a nice day. And NBC will be airing Bruce Jenner highlight. from now until the end of when the Olympics was supposed to be airing. I just feel it. I just feel like I felt it all along, and I still feel like they're not going to have it

because it's just not going well for them. And I know, I mean, I want it. I want them to do it, but we've got athletes testing positive and they're not going to make it. And then we've got workers testing positive and they're not going to make it. We've got all kinds of people protesting outside. I love the, I love the signs that the one sign that this guy is holding outside of the

outside of one building is, don't use Hiroshima Nagasaki for your own lust of fame. Wait, what? Visit Fukushima. Must visit the Fukushima nuke. And you will cancel the Olympics. Oh, okay. I mean, that's just one pro.

sign. No, Tokyo 2020 Olympics. So, I mean, I just feel like it's not going to happen. I just feel like it's not going to happen. I want you to know that when they cancel it, when they cancel it within the next two and a half, three days,

you can say, you know what? Jeff Fisher and chewing the fat was 100% correct. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Where is my cold drink? Right there.

Oh, yes. So good. And I haven't seen the new, I haven't seen the new Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, red can stuff on the shelf yet. So I guess it's still coming. Don't forget we've got the big launch tomorrow. Jeff Bezos, blasting off in space.

And that Blue Origin rocket is joined by the record-setting crew. Yes, that's right, the record-setting crew. Former test pilot, Wally Funk, 82. would be the oldest person to reach space, and Dutch teenager, Oliver Damon, 18, would be the youngest. Don't forget that the guy that bid 28 million, he had a scheduling conflict. What kind of scheduling conflict do you have

that you can't go into space? It's got to be, I mean, maybe a surgery for him, an emergency surgery for him, or emergency surgery for the wife or children, uh there's got to be something like that right it can't be you had a haircut scheduled or i was getting my toenails done and i can't go into space i know i bid 28 million but i had a scheduling conflict i got to get a haircut i got to get my toenails done and i'm hoping for uh you know i'm hoping maybe i just uh i need a little i need a little facial too so while i'm there we'll get that

done what i mean i just really weird really anyway we have the launches tomorrow and i'm looking i personally I'm looking forward to it. And I saw where they have a, what they're calling, you know, I guess a fail safe, but it's a rocket fails plan as the Blue Origin rocket takes off. Apparently, if it looks like it's going to explode or there's something that could go wrong, it has a fail safe button where it jettisons the capsule, which would be good for the Bezos brothers, and the other two people on the flight to be safe, right? I mean, it's gone up 15 times successfully,

but we don't want anything bad to happen. That is, oh, for sure. And if it does, we want to be able to keep everyone safe. So if you're Jeff's girlfriend, you're making sure that the will is up to date. You're making sure that all the policies are up to date and you're Yeah, you go ahead, Jeff.

You go right ahead. Take your brother. Go ahead. Now, I'm just kidding. She wants everybody to be safe to stop. Speaking of space, though, do you see where Elon Musk and Space X, I'm sorry, they have a starship launch tower that's in Texas,

and the FAA has warned Elon and SpaceX that, hey, work on that massive launch tower. It's part of our ongoing environmental review of your little Starship facility in Bocca, Chica, Texas down there. So you're building that at your own risk there, Elon and SpaceX, because after the environmental review, we could recommend taking down that launch tower.

So, okay. So if they build it, you're going to really make them take it down. I don't think so. They said the FAA last year began an environmental review of the Starships Development Facility. And they're applying for licenses and next generation rocket prototypes. But all of this is in partnership with the U.S. government. So I find it hard to believe that another agency would say, yeah, it's got to come down.

Yeah. Oh, sorry. Now, maybe, maybe Jeff, I'm sorry, Mr. Bezos, and maybe Richard, I'm sorry, Sir Richard Branson, Mr. Branson, you know, ponies up some cash, and the FAA says, yeah, Elon, you get here's got to come down. Sorry. and, you know, gives them a little jump ahead of Elon.

But other than that, I don't see that actually happening. But in today's world, who the heck knows? Who the heck knows? You see where I love this story so much. So Marlon Brando had his island, his remote island, right? And now they've got a big problem on the island. Wait, what? Yeah.

It's a 3.7 square mile island. in French Polynesia. But now that Brando has been dead, I mean, it's been left behind the village that he built on the island a few years after filming Mutiny on the Bounty, which was, you know, 1962. And so it's, you know, it's part of the Brando family trust. But right now, the island is inundated with like 65,000. thousand rats.

I don't know who went to count them, but the story says 65,000 rats. So let's say there's 65,000 rats, okay? Like I said, I don't want to be the one to coat, to be the one counting them, but somebody did, and they're saying there's 65,000 of them in. They're all thriving. So a group called Island Conservation think they have a solution to the rat in. Curion. Drones.

They're going to fly drones over the island and carpet it with poison pellets. Wait, what? Yeah, I know. So I guess that there's poison pellets. They're only going to kill some. So they need to kill some. they need to kill them all. I'm surprised that this is being allowed,

but it's in French Polynesians, on an island, and they're just going to see how it works, so they're going to fly the drones in, and they need to kill the rats. I guess the rats have started to, you know, the birds are getting thinned out. The turtle populations are getting thinned out. They're eating all the eggs.

They're eating all the reptiles. They're eating all the birds. And so now the coral reefs are losing out on the proper amounts of nutrients that the other stuff would be giving them. So they need to kill the rats bad. Apparently they tried to do this in 2012 and, you know, they either went in and dusted the place with just people walking around or whatever, but it failed. And so if 100% of the rats are not exterminated, they return, you know, duh in short order. According to this, one pregnant rat can take over a four square mile island in just two years.

So maybe you go in and you kill them all. And I don't know what you do after you kill them all. Do you go in and with the poison pellets, I mean, do you still have to go in and burn them? Or is somebody going to live there? Or are you going to go in and rake them all together and ship them out and put them in a dumpster? I don't know. I don't know. but it's strange that they're going to have to go in there and I and look you know I'm all for it

kill the rats you know what I'm all for killing the rats anyway and in fact what you should do is go in there and then just pay a couple of families to live there for a couple of years and you know let them kill more rats the ones that you didn't get with the pellets and just keep killing them until they're gone. Have a nice day. And then the families can leave and take their money and go back to wherever they want to. But until then, you stay on the island. I see one rat.

You're staying on the island. That's it. So did you catch the KSI show this weekend? I know it was a pay-per-view event. And it was all right. I mean, my son is a big KSI fan, so he purchased the event. And I watched it with them. And I like KSI.

I like some of his music. And I'm not, you know, he's not that bad of a guy. It's sometimes he's funny. But he's the British YouTuber, if you don't know who he is. He's a platinum recording artist. It's been, you know, the boxing. And he promised that his, you know, show this past Saturday would break the internet. And fans were really disappointed.

Now, he, what was fun about it is that he said that it was going to be a one-time event. And he was going to, you know, you could buy in and watch the whole thing. Anytime you buy in, that's where you start. That's what you watch. And if anybody is illegally streaming it, he was going to shut him down, which they did. Now, he said that he was really disappointed, and apparently he has apologized. I don't know what he apologized for. He apologizes for, you know, disappointing the fans.

But I don't know what else he could have done. He was just that it was over-hyped, right? he made a reaction video looking through the Reddit post about the show, and he had high hopes. He finished saying he was seriously deflated, admitted he was gassed to see the response to the show, quickly fell back down to Earth at sheer amount of disappointment posts. I don't know, the fans weren't giving him anything to do.

I don't know what he would have done. Different. You know, he had skits. He had Jake Paul there. They did the bits. They did the concert. it was the songs. You know, it was okay.

If you felt con from that, no. You just, what happens in today's world is that he was so hyping this event. He spent a couple million bucks on the event. You could tell a lot of the production was really good. And I really, I really liked a lot of the production. But the bits were okay. And I think they could have done a little bit better on that in case I didn't call me.

to ask and, you know, look, he should have. But let's be honest. I mean, just tell KSI to give me a call and I'll help him, you know, lay out the KSI show. There were some really good things that he did in this event. And there were some things that were, you know, eh. Now, if he wants some stuff to do that is not going to be, eh, KSI, call me. Okay, I'm here for you. But I guess he's going to replay the show.

And he'll probably spend some more money and do another show and just say, here you go. this is the show if you wanted it okay fine you know whatever and I think I said Jake Paul but it was Logan duh sorry that was their part of the deal I get the two Paul brothers

messed up but at the end they gave you a tease of them in the ring they gave a rocky scene where they were both in the ring fighting again what they were swinging at each other the only thing they didn't do was the rocky ding ding from Apollo Creed but which I

thought they should have done, by the way. And so we'll see. I mean, okay, you know, it's KSI and he's going to, you know, he's going to continue to continue to do great things on YouTube and continue to box. And, you know, I like him. He's kind of funny. But we'll see if he can, you know, do an event like this and put it together as a show, as a variety show, as an entertainment show, rather than one niche here and one niche there. And if it's going to do an entire variety show, well, maybe you need to, you know, call me, KSI. Call me.

See where Kate Beckinsale decided to come out and say, hey, I'm not interested in long-term relationship. Kate, okay. Boy, that's a surprise, huh? I mean, she really hasn't been in a long-term romance for quite some time. She knows that it's quite easy for women to lose track of their lives when they are seriously involved with someone else. You know that.

And she hasn't been in a long-term relationship since her marriage. She can't even imagine living with a person and maintaining any newfound autonomy. So it's just, you know, for women in relationships with men, it's culturally quite easy to lose track of your life. You've watched your mother, your grandmother, subjugate herself, even on stupid things. So I'm not looking for any long-term relationship. She has a 22-year-old daughter. Wow, Kate Beckinsale is 47 years old.

She has a 22-year-old daughter. And she has said before that she thought marriages would last longer if couples opted not to live together. And I want to ask Kate, does she mean after they're married? before they get married, because if you don't live together after you're married, I can see how that relationship may last longer. But maybe that's just me. Speaking of relationships,

I see where Ben Affleck and Jay-Lo were out house hunting. I don't know if it was for both of them, or for it was just for Jay-Lo on her hunt for a home. They were looking at their own little dump. that J-Lo wanted to move in. One of the places that they show where they stopped. I don't know if you could survive living here. I mean, this has got to be just for J-Lo and her kids.

Not for Ben to move in. Oh, my gosh. No way. This place? No. This place that they toured is just a 31,000 square foot house with eight bedrooms, 12 bathrooms. They only want $65 million for it.

So it's got to be, you know, a big pool and a bowling alley and, you know, I mean, you can't. You could move the whole Ben and the kids and J-Lo into this place. Well, only eight bedrooms and 12 bathrooms, stop. I don't know how you could, it'd be all over each other. It'd be just like a crowded little trailer in there. Apparently they looked at several places during their shopping trip, but we'll see if they can find a place that they both like.

And, you know, I know J-Lo, I don't know if they're going to move in together or not, but Benefer 2.0 is back up and running, and, you know, it's all just a beautiful thing now. Aren't you happy for them? Me too. As long as we're hanging out in Hollywood, we might as well stick to a little Hollywood story. Walking Dead lawsuit finally ends.

The producer Frank Derrmont originally sued AMC way back in 2013 over profits from Walking Dead. This lawsuit has come to an end with a $200 million settlement. Oh, wow. Now, Deribon claimed. the network had used shady accounting to short him on profits. Looks like maybe they did because he's getting $200 million. Wow. That's pretty good.

$143 million of it was for the extinguishment of plaintiff's rights to any compensation in connection with the Walking Dead or any related programs and the dismissal of actions. So they're done. It's all you get. Have a nice day. And 57 million was for ordinary course of a cured participant. Yeah, I mean, you can't. I mean, 57 million. That's just for everyday stuff. Get out of here. So that's it, man. They're done. All right. So the deal's over. Here's 143 million for everything. Yeah, okay. We're not going to admit to shady stuff. But yeah, we did it and we tried to take a bunch of money from you and we did and here's some back and then

here's a little bit more for just putting you through it for the last six or seven years and then you know there you go now I know at one point he talked about 280 million getting so he's come down from 200 million um I don't know if anybody else has got any other lawsuits up against walking dead but now's the time to get the money because they're busy with their new shows in the Walking Dead universe. And if they're paying out a couple hundred million to Derrbond, okay, that's, I mean, it took a long time. And Frank was making some money in the beginning anyway.

I mean, it wasn't like he was not making any money from them. He just realized that he should be making a lot more. And it looks like he was right. Is $200 million enough? I mean, for me, yes. For Darabot? I mean, I guess so since the deal is done, right? I guess he's settled for $200 million.

I'm, you know, okay, good for you, Frank. I wish I was in a position to settle for $200 million. And if you think of The Walking Dead hasn't made a bunch of money and isn't going to continue to make a bunch of money, you are sadly mistaken. because I know the numbers are down on regular viewing. I do the Talking Walking Dead podcast, but overall and AMC with the AMC plus numbers,

those numbers are still pretty strong for the Walking Dead universe, and you have the Walking Dead, which is on their final season now, starting up pretty soon. You have Fear of the Walking Dead, and you're going to have the Walking Dead movies, which is going to encompass everything. And you have the new Walking Dead show that was out. I forget even what the heck the name of it was.

It's called World Beyond. Don't look at me like that. I remember the stupid name. But that's only a couple of seasons. And then you've got the movies that we're told Rick Grimes is busy filming, but we don't know if he's filming to be part of the final season of the Walking Dead or if it's part of the movies. We'll see.

But they're supposed to be three movies. Will there still be three movies? I don't know. we'll see. But it's, you know, they've got to get Rick back into the scene. I'm doing a Talking Walking Dead podcast. So just, you know, maybe we'll do a special one before the new season 11 starts up. Season 11 for the Walking Dead begins on August 22nd, 2021 and, of course, the week before on AMC Plus.

So you'll be getting the Talking Walking Dead podcast prior to that. Okay, sure, there's West Nile virus making the rounds. Sure, we've got monkey pox making the rounds. There's always COVID-19 making the rounds in coronavirus, no matter what variant you're concerned about. And then we have more than 60 people who had to be treated because of a chemical incident at a Six Flags water park in Houston, Texas. What?

we still got to worry about chemical problems at the Six Flags Water Park. It's not enough. We have to worry about pooping the water. No, we have to worry about a chemical thing. So 60 people were treated for inhalation, irritation, and experienced minor skin irritations after the chemical incident was detected at one of the Hurricane Harbor Splash Towns attraction. 26 people were transported to local hospitals, and 39 refused ambulance transport after a hazmat unit put people through a decontamination process.

There were about 4,000 people at the park at the time of the incident. Most of the patients had respiratory distress, a little hard to breathe, things of that sort. We didn't see anyone with chemical burns, anything like that. Oh, okay. There was a three-year-old child who had a severe enough condition that it had to be rushed to the children's hospital. hospital and that was you know put him in stable condition after he got to the hospital a woman appeared to be in labor uh they were you know taking care of her at the scene so i guess there was some kind of leak well i don't guess there was some kind of leak that was contained to just one

attraction so stop it the splash town has 16 different attractions at the press conference at the press conference, they said chemicals they detected were a 10 to 13% hydrochloric acid or hydrochloric acid. Hydraulic. Yeah, they were jacking them up. Hydrochloric acid, bleach and 35% sulfuric acid solution. Yeah, that would give you a little bit of a breathing issue, I would say. Maybe that's just me, but it would. Bleach is often used to disinfect water and pools.

Thank you. And they said they tested the water and the samples came back with a pH 7, meaning it was a neutral balance. So they weren't sure exactly what happened. But, you know, obviously something went wrong. And we're going to go ahead and take a look at it. We're monitoring the air and water quality and investigating the cause. Now, I will say that this park just opened back up a few days ago,

first part of July, since the pandemic in Houston. So maybe some things aren't quite right. I mean, I just read a big story about a person who was responsible for taking care of all the hotels. And this, well, not all the hotels. I'm sorry. It was responsible for taking care of a particular hotel in Vegas, worried about Legioneer's disease. And I'm sure that the other hotels were doing this. I'd like to believe that that's true.

it talked about how they had to go through and make sure all the water kept running and pipes were working and it was room to room floor to floor throughout the pandemic so that there weren't any diseases and in particular Legioneer's disease to show up and keep everything clean because you know things weren't being used so is it possible that something you know that hasn't been used at the park for a while someone doesn't quite know the job or it you know it hasn't been used, so it was working fine, and now it's broken because it was only up and running for a couple of days after it wasn't up and running.

I don't know. I don't know. But it just seems like maybe we have to more now to be careful of at the water parks than just poop and pee. I know. I know. As long as we're talking about health and safety, a new study has shown the prevalence of syphilis among men who have sex with men.

Yeah. Yeah, it's not good. Findings from this global review show that men who have sex with men have high burden of syphilis infection with significant variation across countries and regions. So we need to really really be careful with that because globally there were an estimated 7 million new syphilis infections in 2020. And the who has set ambitious targets to reduce incidence of syphilis by 90% by 2030. Well, I would say good luck with that. Well, there have been modest reductions in congenital syphilis as a result of scale up of interventions and other care, such as syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant women. there's an urgent need to galvanize momentum and better serve our priority populations disproportionately impacted by this disease.

Oh, okay. A major challenge is that populations at higher risk for syphilis, particularly in low and middle-income countries, are often not able to access services due to structural barriers, including criminalization, policy and legal barriers, discrimination and violence. Okay. Yeah. So I love the, you know, the disproportionate populations impacted by the disease. Yeah, the disproportionate population, that would be men having sex with men?

No, no, that wouldn't be them? Oh, okay. I guess that would just be the people who live in low-eastern. income areas and countries that don't allow you to have sex with men who are men, the criminalization. But hey, just know that it's out there and be safe. So if you are part of the 7 million new syphilis infections that we know about, get care. Okay, please, there's treatment.

And so please get help. That's Jeff Fisher. That's not the United Nations. That's not the World Health Organization. That's just chewing the fat and Jeff Fisher saying, hey, get help. Okay, get care. It's out there. You can get it.

All right. All right, good. Hey, you can follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. I was asked a question on Twitter this weekend. And I got to thinking, you know, I've been in that situation before. The question was, how long do you have to wait in stopped traffic on an interstate before it's acceptable to get out of your truck to see a man about a tree? Because I got to go, man.

That's a good question. Because I've been, you know, all of us have been stuck in traffic and highways and interstates and backed up forever. And I, you know, you just have to do it. Now, this person's actual answer was 45 minutes. That's how long he waited until he went to see a man about a tree. It's actually a man. You have to see a man about a horse, but he went to see a tree off the side of the interstate, I guess. But the line is we have to see a man about a horse.

But, okay, whatever. And, you know, I commented, you got to go, you got to go. You can't quote me on that. And I pointed that out to him as well. You got to go. You got to go. But I'm not sure. I think the answer is when you got to go, you got to go.

And there's no way around it. So you just have to find the best place you can for privacy if there is any. And then you just got to go. You just have to. I remember once being stuck in traffic on a bridge in Tampa Bay, the Howard Franklin Bridge in Tampa Bay. That's a bridge that takes you between Hillsborough County and Pinellas County or Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida. And I remember being stuck on that bridge one night coming from Tampa to St. Petersburg. And I had just left Ebor City, which was a, you know, small area in Tampa Bay, a separate little party area, bar area, restaurant area.

And I figured, now I got time. I'm just going home. It takes me, you know, 20 minutes to get home. Nope. Now, if you get stuck on the bridge, man, that was a long, long time on that bridge. Let me tell you what. And just to answer your thought right now, it wasn't 45 minutes. So I made it, but barely.

And I mean, I was in pain when I made it. And if anyone has been through that experience, you know the type of pain I'm talking about.