Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep. 7 | #FatBearTuesday, Hippopotamus in the U.S., & Dialing Gecko

Episode Date: October 9, 2018

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, oh my gosh, all he's going to do is talk about Fat Tuesday, Fat Bear Tuesday. Hashtag Fat Bear Tuesday. I know. That's all I want to talk about. I really, I mean, I watched, I sat here after recording the podcast yesterday and watched another hour of the darn GoPro

cams up there at Catmai National Park in Alaska watching the bears. Fascinating. They are fighting for salmon. They're being cranky with each other. It's the end of the season. They're getting fat. They're off to the side, taking care of a little bear bidness. I think you know what I'm talking about.

You see Mommy wrestling with the little cubs and they're just chomping down fish. It was tremendous. And you see him come in and leave and get mad and get cranky and go take care. of a little bit of business off to the side. And, I mean, we could just watch it together, if you'd like. We could just do live commentary on Cat My Park. I mean, no problem. And I want to be clear that it is the Cat Mai National Park and Preserve.

Today is the finals. Okay? Today, we find out who's going to win. 409 B-Nos or 747, not good enough for a name. 747, not good enough for a name. better win this thing. Now, if you're listening to this podcast on October 9th, 2018, before 7 p.m. Eastern, pause it, go to the Facebook page of the Catm. National Park and Preserve.

There's a link on my Jeff Fisher radio page and vote for 747, not good enough for a name. I'm going to announce the winner on my Instagram live this evening when the park tells us who won. Now it is against 409 Beed Nose and 747 not good enough for a name. If it is not, 747 not good enough for a name, the Instagram post is not going to be pretty. And the Katmai National Park and Preserve may not allow me to come. and broadcast live from there next year. That's all I'm saying. Okay.

Now, we can talk some more about it if you want, but there's no way that 747, not good enough for a name, should lose this thing. If he loses this thing, the fix was in. I notice how the Facebook page, ha, ha, ha, tries to put the female first. You know, bead nose is a female, and they put her first and talk about, oh, she had babies, and she's struggled so hard. I see what you're doing. I get it. I get it.

It's got to be a female running the Facebook page for the Catmine National Parking Reserve. Got to be. And it's actually the National Parking Preserve, not Reserve. I got to get it. I apologize for not getting it correct.

But I'm to 747, good enough for a name. It doesn't really work. You don't think of a chant. 747, not good enough for a name really doesn't work as a chant. not to get a hold of the Antifa people. Maybe we get a chant for 747.

Not good enough for a name. Wait a minute. How's it? Not good enough for a name. N-G-F-N. N-G-F-N-G-F-N-S-4-7. N-G-F-N. That still really doesn't work very well.

Anyway, so, I mean, you can use it. No problem. I'm fine with it. Don't worry about it. And so we've been going through all this because, you know, the bears are getting ready to hibernate, and that's what they do, right? They come out, they forage around, they wake up, all this time.

Think of this. Now, they go hibernate. Right. Now, they've just eaten like 18 million pounds of salmon. And they go off and they hibernate. Now, they don't. I mean, they're sleep. There's no urination.

There's no, number two. There's no bare bidness. It is just sleep. hibernation sleep. So you can imagine that when they get up from hibernation, A, they're a little cranky, a little cranky. And they may be concerned about number one and number two, but they're seriously concerned about bare business.

So don't be stepping in the middle of them. They always tell you, always tell you not to walk in front of in between mama and the baby cubs, but don't be walking in front of the male, in between the male and the female when he's ready for bare business. because again, you're in trouble. You're in trouble. So I'm fascinated to see who wins,

and we will broadcast that from my Jeff Fisher Radio, Instagram live tonight when it happens. We're recording this podcast in the afternoon. So I try to get this podcast out for you. Hey, you know, around 5 o'clock Eastern, 4 Central, so you can listen to it on the way home, or you can listen to it when you first get home. I know a lot of people have dropped cable

and don't, you know, really know what to watch when they get home. I'm here for you. I'm here for you. Chew in the fat with Jeff Fisher. I mean, it's simple. You subscribe, you rate, you review, and you share. You're welcome. Okay?

It's very easy. And don't forget Friday, we're going to, we're going to read some of the reviews because, look, when you rate, you can do whatever you want. I'm not the person to tell you what to do, but you really should just rate it 20 stars. And I'm not telling you what to say, but when you review it, best podcast ever.

And now you don't have to think about it. You've already done it. You rate 20 stars, review, best podcast ever, share with a friend. You and I are good right then. And I were buds. All right, so we also have Hurricane Michael bearing down on the panhandle of the Gulf of Mexico.

It's a category two as we speak. looking like it's going to strength into a category three. They'll still do some serious damage once it makes landfall, no question. They're not quite sure how big it will be when it makes landfall. I'm guessing probably it will be a three before landfall, and then it'll make landfall as a two, and it'll weaken quickly. Good that it's coming across through the Panhandle in Georgia, because once after that is, oh, I know, South Carolina,

they're still underwater from the other hurricane that went through. So don't worry about it. There's just more rain coming to them. It's all. One of my favorite things that happened, though, is Santa Rosa County in Florida. posted a trespass warning for Jim Cantori. The Weather Channel man, my wife loves him. Jim is, actually, I'm jealous of him, okay, because my wife loves him.

So I'm forced to like him because she loves him. But, you know, the joke about Jim, the weather, Jim Cantori is that, you know, if you see him in your neighborhood, you should have left yesterday. So Santa Rosa County actually on their Facebook page issued a trash. trespass warning for Jim Cantorre. It's pretty funny. And they may, you know, they were, they were obviously trying to be serious. Maybe somebody needs to lighten up a little bit because most of the stories were

Sheriff's Department issues, trespass warning. Yeah. They were saying, stay away. We don't want the storm here. Remember the joke? If you see Jim in your neighborhood, you should have left yesterday. Yeah. That's pretty much a fact.

Okay. So it was a joke. and in fact if you actually read the trespass warning you would have known that it was a joke they have his pictures they talk about TV man they don't have any it's funny

and I'm sure Jim really appreciates because he's a he really is a good guy and I'm a weather channel fan especially during storms I mean there's nobody does it better right? There's the weather channel that's it that's what they're for I did see the Florida governor

do his hurricane press conference. Now the Florida governor who is out of office now and running for Senate, well, I mean, he's still the governor, but he's this is, he's the yeah, but what do they call that? Not a limp dog.

No, not a sitting duck. Lame duck. Lave duck. He's out. Sitting dog, limp dog. Same thing. Okay, that's what it is. And so he's up there talking about, you know, the hurricane and giving the press conference and giving, you know, warnings and telling people what to do it, all that kind of stuff. Which is, you know, you have to do as Florida, as the governor of Florida more times than you'd like for sure. But he's got a lady that is there a sign language lady?

And I watched it for about five minutes and I think she's lying. I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's, no, I'm just, I don't know. I have no idea. Don't look at me like that. Like, really? No, but remember the guy in Africa? They got up on stage with Obama and gave the fake one. Fantastic.

I mean, if you can do that and get away with it, you're the man. You know what I'm going to do? You're sitting home with your buddies some night. You know what I'm going to do is I'm going to get on stage. And I'm going to pretend that I'm the sign language guy. I don't even know sign language. Let me get that. Let me get that hit.

And I could just do like fake side language. Oh, bra. This will be funny, man. Because the worst can happen. This kick me on stage, right? That's it, right? That's the worst. Let me have another hit at.

So ever since then, I keep thinking that the hand patrol people aren't real. you know, the sign language people, the hand patrol people. There's something. Lame duck, limp duck, sick dog, whatever. Limp dog, hand patrol people. You know what I'm talking about. You do. So when you watch them, you got to watch them and make sure that they're real.

Which makes me sad that I don't read the sign language, right? And I should. Series is a business I should. My wife does, and she gets angry at me when she signs stuff, and she's teaching our kids, and our kids know how to sign stuff, and, you know, they're trying, you know, they're always after me to, you know, to learn it. And then I give them my favorite sign language sign, and they leave me alone. Because I know the one, yeah, that same goes to you.

That's my favorite sign language sign. And you know what that is, and we're good. Right? All right. You know what it is. All right. Today is, I talked a little bit about this on Chewing the Fat with Pat Gray. Pat Unleashed during his afternoon show last week for that. He's moving to the mornings here on the Blaze Radio Network.

It's going to be, what is it, 6 to 8 Eastern? I mean, he's going from three hours to two. Are you kidding me? How do I get that deal? Am I right? I mean, they threw me a bone with the podcast. And they finally said, yeah, go out. ahead. I mean, I'm on my way out the door.

Pat gets at least two hours. No, I don't want to say that. Never mind. We'll move on to another subject. Today is a national moldy cheese day. Anyway, I mentioned this on Pat Unleased this afternoon during my chewing the fat segment. And some of the fascinating facts are really cool. Did you know that there are over 2,000

varieties of cheese? That's amazing to me. The number one cheese recipe in America is macaroni and cheese Who's a good little cheese noer? You are? Now, I know Koso's probably coming up close second though. What appears to be the remains of cheese

has been found in Egyptian tombs over 4,000 years old. That's some nasty cheese. I don't know if anyone tried to eat it or not, but still some nasty cheese. The terms big wheel and big cheese originally referred to those who were wealthy enough to purchase the whole wheel of cheese, right?

And there's some interesting things that happened on this day during a National Moldy Cheese Day, which we should celebrate somehow. In 1996, the world's largest grilled cheese sandwich was made. We should try to beat this on chewing the fat. The largest one in 1996? Gotta be able to beat that. right?

Because the world's largest grilled cheese sandwich then was 3,000 pounds. That's a, there may be a problem why that's still a record. Because everyone was like, you know what, that's good. We're just stopping there. It's, you know, you're fine. So I've got to find a picture of it and see if it was just one big, giant piece of bread from Bread World and Cheesland or if it was, you know, like they call, they put slices of bread on top of a.

giant block of cheese and melted it and called it one sandwich and then cut it up. But 3,000 pounds of a grilled cheese sandwich, that's a big old sandwich. You want to talk about getting blocked up after that? In 1985 on this date, Strawberry Fields, a two and a half acre garden memorial in New York City Central Park dedicated to John Lennon. And my favorite little story of what happened on this day in history. In 1906, Joseph Farrell, Joseph Farewell, Glyden. He passed away.

Now, Glidden, an Illinois farmer, received a patent for the first commercial barbed wire in November of 1874. That is thought to be the beginning of the end of the open range and the cowboy. Now, Glidden formed the barbed fence company with Isaac L. Elwood and became one of the wealthiest men in America. That was this day in history. October 9th, National Moldy Cheese Day. So today I'm, you know, scrolling through my social media at Twitter, Jeff EMRA, Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. And I see a story that says, breaking news.

Hippos caught swimming inside the Rio Grande River. And the image is between four to six hippos swimming in the Rio Grande. And the river has been, you know, circulating on all the social media sites. since this morning. And it's reported that the hippos escaped from the Zapata, Texas ranch and made their way to the river corresponding with the authorities,

you know, taking control of the situation. So, no, it's not fat people. I'm talking about hippopotamuses. Now, you're funny. You're funny thinking that. Who's your fat people? I know what you were thinking, and you were thinking it too.

Is you have you talking about his family again? No. Talking about hippopotamuses. everybody ha ha ha everybody wants to get in on the fat jokes but it got me thinking it got me thinking that at one point in our country's history they thought hippos

were going to be like cattle to us there was a guy Frederick Russell Burnham Frederick Russell Burnham and he I was I got I got hooked on a story

from the activist.com a long time ago. I mean, it was, I don't even remember how long ago. And the story is about American hippopotamus is the title of the story on activists. It's a book. And it talks about, it intertwines the lives of these two men. And it talks about Frederick Russell Burnham and this guy Fritz Duskane.

Now, Fritz is known as the Black Panther of the Veld. and at one point in their lives, these two men were commissioned to kill each other. It's a fascinating story. So Burnham was a patriot with impeccable integrity, and Descan was found out to be a megalomaniac and a pathological liar, but they ended up fighting together for one cause. Now, I don't remember. I remember that part of the book.

I don't remember. I'm going to have to find it. Maybe we can talk about it. Maybe I'll do the hippopotamus story for a Saturday podcast. You know, so you could, you know, you listen with your kids. Well, I do a podcast, you know, with a podcast every day is Monday through Friday. Maybe we had a Saturday story podcast, a Saturday, American Dream Story or a Saturday, you know, start us. I've got some ideas for different podcasts to give you on Saturday that would, you know, that you could just enjoy for the weekend.

And, no, you do not have to subscribe to something else. Will you stop asking me the easy question? No, you do not have to subscribe to something else. It's the same thing chewing the fat. Once you subscribe, rate and review, that's it. In fact, you may, once it's educational and I start doing hippopotamus stories, you share it even more. Stop asking me. Stupid questions.

Not you. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to him. One acquaintance called this, the Burnham, the most complete human being who ever lived. He was the inspiration for the Boy Scouts and the Indiana Jones. That's how this guy was bad. ass. Okay. Now, his family moved out west. It's a big long story. And we can talk about this. I'll definitely find the book and I'll go through it and we'll do it for Saturday because

the story is fascinating and it's a great story that you can, you know, you can share with your kids or whoever you want, your folks, whatever, you can listen to it and know the story. Okay. But in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the U.S. was changing. It was growing so fast. So many people were coming here, and we had a meat shortage. And the government and the people were trying to figure out what to do. And all the years spent in Africa by this guy, seeing all these different animals, at one point he saw camels being used in the United States. Okay?

And he thought, oh, my gosh, the animals in Africa, we can bring them here. And he started, he thought of the idea of breeding hippopotamuses here in the U.S. Now he imported hipponoponuses from Africa, put them in the swamp lands in the Gulf Coast down in Louisiana, and started to breed them for food. And he wanted to create hippo ranchers. Congressman dispatched people, an agent from Africa to the south to study the feasibility of hippos in the swamps. There's a report title why and how to place hippopotamus is in the Louisiana lowlands. and his conclusion was that it was perfect. All right, so I'll stop.

Because I'm just going by this, by an old email that I sent myself about this, because I don't have the book, and I don't have any of the stories, but it is fascinating. It also leads into one of the things that there was a story that David Barton talked about, about camels in the U.S.,

and people were making fun of them. But this guy talked about there were actual, there were camels in the U.S. And it was because some of our people, some of our people coming here, the immigrants came here from the Middle East and they were bringing their camels with them. And it wasn't really feasible for them to live here, but they thought it would be at the time. So they were, you know, they were trying to fit in who was the end of the Cowboys. And it's all really, really cool. And it's lost history.

Because when people make jokes now, oh, sure, you talk camels in the U.S. That's what you're seeing. Well, yeah, he did. And oh, what are you going to breed hippopotamuses? Well, yeah, that's what we were thinking about doing because there was a hunger shortage. We needed meat to feed our people. So we wanted to have the hippopotamuses. All right, so I got to stop.

Stop, stop. That all from seeing hippos in the Rio Grande. Okay, but I'm going to do this. I'll cut this for you so you can, the hippopotamuses and the camels, because I'll go back and find the camel stuff too for a quick Saturday podcast. just to enjoy on the weekend between football games or between the wife telling you to go out mow the lawn or between, maybe you know what you do. And again, you are so welcome

because I just thought of this and this will be a winner, all right? When the wife says, hey, I want to do a little shopping this weekend and I got to get some stuff for the kids and I know you want to probably stay home, but I'd really like you to come along. Okay. And you go along and you go to Coles and you start walking around Coles,

one earpiece in, you're listening, of the hippopotamus podcast. And the other earpiece out, just walking around, waiting to hear, honey, I'm right here. And you get, you kill two birds with one stone. You get educated on the hippopotamus during my podcast.

And you're looking good with the wife going shopping with her. You're welcome. All right, I know I'm getting thirsty, but I want to tell you a little story here before we head to the water cooler for some water cooler news. This Indian billionaire, is sending his daughter off to school. And you know how everybody talks about sending their kids off to school?

And they set them up with the dorm and they show people going to IKEA. And they show people, you know, getting to setting up the dorm room from Target. Well, this guy is an Indian billionaire. And his daughter is going to study at St. Andrews University in Scotland. And of course, he doesn't want his child to, you know, suffer while she's. going to school. I mean, heaven forbid. So she's now being called the Britain's Pasha student. In addition to a maid and a butler, the freshman will also have a private chef, a chauffeur,

and a footman. Of course, I mean, she isn't really living in the dorms. She can't live in the dorms, okay, because her parents bought a mansion for her to live in, so she won't have to endure dorm life, her four years studying in Scotland. okay at some point you've made too much money right no that's not right but I'm just telling you that at some point you've made too much money good for him I mean bless his heart he's made all this money and he's good of course you want to do the best for your kids I love I mean I'm just fascinated by this because the

butler's going to oversee the student's staff now the staff is going to be expected to open doors for the freshman whenever possible whenever possible have you're asked by the door. You know where I'm at. On the door open. Footman. They'll set the table, serve meals, and clean up. Well, duh. The advertisement stated that the family is very formal and wants

experienced staff. Yes. Okay. I mean, will you beginners? No. I bought a mansion. I'm advertising for workers, for people who are familiar, with waiting on, you know, taking care of homes.

That's work. That's work. You don't just take care of a place. You've got to have people run it for you. And you can't just have her higly-pigley driving off to school. Classes. You've got to have the show for a ready. And you've got to have things.

I love the idea that there's the private chef. I mean, what is she supposed to starve? I mean, she's going to be studying. She can't be expected to cook, even though she's a female. Anyway, oh, that's a bad joke. And, uh, just bad joke. A joke. Bad joke. Just joking. Just joking. Kind of. And the footman. I am a big fan of the footman, I think. The footmen are what you need. Like the chef, cool to have. You know, chef is cool to have if you don't have a wife. A chauffeur, it's cool to have if you don't have a wife. But a footman. A footman is, I mean, that's somebody that's taken care of you. Right? That's the person that's open the doors. That's the person that's making sure you're up. been dressed and taken care of you.

The butler is overseeing all that and making sure that it's done right. But the footman is the person that's right there. Right. I mean, a footman has taken care of business for you. That's what I need as a footman. I need a footman. I thought getting married and having children

would create that for me. I was wrong. Sadly, I was wrong. I hate to admit this. I mean, I'm the first to admit when I'm wrong sometimes. But I just figured, you know, a wife and get the kids that's what you have the kids for i mean that's what my parents had me for i was a damn footman and a butler and a chauffeur and a damn yard worker my whole life what you

think we had you for somewhere somewhere along the line that life got changed okay the belief in that children that's what we had you for to do all this stuff that world changed somewhere in the Somewhere in the distant past, 70, 80s, 80s, somewhere in there. That whole world got turned around. And was it for the better or for the worse? So I, you know, I'm just saying that those days are gone of having kids because you need footman. man do I want kids to be my footman

do I want that to be chappen I do that I do I need footman you can write your own jokes with that all right but you know that the billionaire the Indian billionaire you know for a fact and this kind of ticks me off that he just went around and saw the mansion and bought it

all right I mean the person selling the mansion was lucky. So, I mean, that's a once-in-a-lifetime deal, right? If you don't own a mansion and happen to have an Indian billionaire drive by to buy your mansion and pay for it, it doesn't have the footman come up. Yeah, the billionaire guy probably didn't even show up. It was the footman.

Hello, I have a client that's going to buy your home. We're offering you this much money, take it, or I walk away. I'm the footman. And that's the deal, right? And what are you going to say? You're going to say, no problem. a sudden what do I sign here? Because I'll be out of here.

The wife's got me you hauled up. We're out. All right. It's all yours. Move in. That doesn't happen. Once in a lifetime, right? What you do need is Mercury Real Estate Services,

real estate agents, I trust.com. Because you're not going to have, if anyone knows how to find an Indian billionaire to buy your home, real estate agents I trust.com. Clearly, that's a fact. You don't just put a for sale side. up and magically Mr. Indian billionaire drives by with his footman.

Just doesn't happen. And you know this. If you've ever bought or sold a home, you know how hard it is. And you know why. That's why real estate agents, ITrust.com, was started. I mean, Glenn and Tanya obviously didn't have the Indian billionaire drive by, struggled selling their house. And they decided that people can't just wait around for the Indian billionaire.

They need to have somebody helping them out. And that's where real estate agents, Trust.com comes into place. Best agents, over a thousand towns all over America, that will let them earn your business. They're all highly rated agents who get the job done. They have great marketing plans that create demand for your home so that you can sell your home on time and for the most money.

Real estate agentsitrust.com. Or you can wait around for, I don't know, 10 years or a lifetime for that Indian billionaire to drive back. by. Good luck with that. Good luck with that. And after the first, you know, a little while and you're out front sitting in your lawn chair and you realize, you know, that Indian billionaire and his footman probably isn't going to drive by. We should probably call real estate agentsitrust.com. All right. Let's go to the water cooler. I'm parched. Get you through the break room.

I found it fascinating that Netflix says it's going to open a new U.S. production hub in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now, Albuquerque, New Mexico, I always think, what do you think of when you think of Albuquerque? You think of, all right, I heard somebody say aliens? No. You think of Breaking Bad. And you think of meth. that's what you think of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hello?

So that's right. Anyway, Netflix, I mean, I'm not saying they're involved in meth. Ooh, my friend, no. That could not be, that's the farthest thing from the truth, okay? I just found it interesting that they're going to Albuquerque. And then I thought, they're going to bring over a billion dollars in the next 10 years and probably, you know, a heck of a lot more. And I thought, well, A, they should be in Texas or Florida.

B, they should be, why are they not? And then I realized that, oh, that's why. You know, the fiscal policy report card on America's governors was just issued. Who's the number one state? Who's the number one state? What state could be number one in the United States of America? Oh, I know. The governor of New Mexico, Susanna Martinez.

He says the top card. Amazing. Texas. Fifth. Fifth. Greg. Bro. What are you doing, babe?

Let's go. I mean, let's, I'm not, let's just go. In 2017, she vetoed bills that would have increased taxes by $350 million a year. Amazing. Including increasing taxes, gas taxes, vehicle fees, freight truck charges, gross receipt taxes, hospital taxes, hospital taxes. I mean, she's going to town. She means business on this.

And Martinez has pursued reforms to make New Mexico more competitive. She signed a bill reducing gross receipt taxes and inputs to construction, manufacturing. She pushed through a cut to corporate income tax rate. Here you go. And that was in 2013. Okay. And it was supposed to be phased in over five years. When is Netflix moving to New Mexico?

2019, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18. Uh, hello. That's the five-year mark baby. So a big surprise at Netflix. Now, that isn't. When you read that, that isn't a surprise that Netflix is moving to Elbe. Well, it is a surprise they're going to Elbuquerque, but it's not a surprise that they're going to New Mexico.

I guess it's either good to New Mexico. I mean, is there another town? Is there another town in New Mexico, really? I've driven through New Mexico and it's beautiful and it's actually more beautiful than you think. But I'm trying to think when we stopped, we did stop in Albuquerque. So I don't know if there's another town in New Mexico. Sure, you can look on a map and you can find other cities, but there is really no other city. Those are just pretend cities.

Elbequerque is it. That's why everything is in Albuquerque because that's the only city in New Mexico. I mean, that's clear. All right. So, and we also, today we got news that, just for the break room, just so you know. I mean, we also got news that Nikki Haley was leaving the United Nations. I mean, that's a tough one to take. She's been strong.

She's been strong. Now, the only reason I would like her to leave is have the president say, we're shutting down the U.N. Nikki's leaving because I wanted to get her out of there before all the U-Haul trucks move in, because I've just rented them and I'm pulling them up next week. And I'm telling them, have a nice day. The U.N. is no longer here. Bye. You got two weeks.

Get out. Get out. And we're going to, I would love to see, I would love to see a 300 U.S. parked out front of the U.N. that Trump rented. Here you go. I was at the fine American company. I hope they're, I don't know if U.S. American company, but they will be after this. Now, some other ideas are, which I found fascinating, that, why she's quitting.

Okay. Guessing that Nikki Haley will want to be Lindsay Graham's replacement in the Senate when he replaces Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Wow. They're saying that after the midterms, that's what happens. So after the midterms, President Trump ditches Sessions, put Lindsey Graham in as the Attorney General, which opens up his seat in South Carolina, right?

So the governor of South Carolina then appoints Nikki Haley to be the interim senator, junior senator from South Carolina and so then they have the special election or just set up, well, you know, we didn't do a special election. She could just be senator until the next election. And then you can vote her in or out.

And then once you're in, you're in. No way she loses that. That's her seat, right? And I thought, okay. I kind of like that. What are they going to do with Nikki's seat at the UN since he's, you know, unless they're pulling up the 200 U-Hauls, which I'm not opposed to, by the way? And I don't want any of the old crappy U-Hauls from New Mexico.

I want the new ones. I want the new ones, bright, shiny, 40-footers, all out in front of the U.N. Oh, my God, that would be such a beautiful site. But Donald Trump, our president, will make Ivanka. Be our UN ambassador. I mean, I am in love with that. Because everybody, oh, nepotism, nepotism. Tough.

She's my daughter. She loves the country. She's beautiful. Look at her. And I already had Nikki in there. Do you think I'm going to put some ugly dog in there? Nope. And she knows the country.

She loves New York. She wants to go back home and live in New York. She's sick of living in this hole of D.C. And coming into this crappy house, the white house. house when she can live in the Trump Tower. And she's not going to stay. We're going to save money because we're not going to have her have the UN apartment. We're shutting that bad boy down.

She's just going to stay at Trump Tower. And nobody could do it better. I mean, that sounds very plausible. That sounds really, really plausible. All right, let's go to the flat pile. So earlier this week, the director of a seal hospital in Hawaii, She says they were deluged with more than a dozen mysterious calls to her cell phone. Now, when she picked it up, however, the line was silent.

Nobody was there. To make the situation even stranger, the calls were apparently coming from inside the hospital. He's inside the house. She asked, did anyone call me? No one did. The hospital director of the Kikaiola Marine Mammal Center meanwhile several other people

in the hospital saying hey why are we calling them incessantly we keep getting all these calls and no one is there now Simone says that the Hawaiian telecom the center's phone company and this is what makes me

question the story of it being real all right the quote from Simone what she says the Hawaiian then telecom center confirmed to her that a bazillion calls were indeed coming from a single line inside the hospital and asked her to look around to find the problem. A telecom company, I don't care.

I find it difficult to believe. Oh yeah, you've got a bazillion calls coming from inside your place. But I'll let it go. Maybe that's how they word things in Hawaii. Okay. So anyway, the issue still was going on. It was looked at it. It wasn't hardware. It wasn't software. What it actually was? Footwear. The tow pads of a tiny gold dust day gecko. Stop it. Stop it. The gecko, the gecko, the geico gecko in Hawaii? I don't think so. All right. I let you have this know. The gecko gecko, uh, it's not real. But I know. I know.

Look, I don't want to. Oh, don't. Ooh, kids. Just joking. Oh, man. Just joking. That was funny, wasn't it? Oh, wow.

Sometimes. I know some jokes don't seem funny at the time, but they are. So in the end, Simone says she was, she sent a note to the center staff of volunteers about the flood of strange telemarketing calls made by a one foot dialing. The gecko isn't a patient at the hospital or anything. It's just a gecko that came inside looking for bugs. And I guess was able to get inside the phone and start pushing his little geico gecko feet up against the buttons and making calls. I mean, A, the Marine Mammal Center doesn't have security. Right?

I mean, what are we thinking? Right? We just let any old Geico gecko in off the street? You know, maybe he talked his way in. maybe he talked his way in. But it's a little embarrassing for the Marine Center just to be hoodwinked by a gecko. Sad. Sad, sad, sad, sad.

Okay. So let's remember, before we wrap this up today, before we wrap up chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher, thank you so much for being here. We got a couple things to do. We got to remember to vote for 747, not good enough for a name. in the Fat Bear Week contest. You don't have to go back and listen to the beginning of the podcast. I'll tell you how to vote for them again right now. Go to the Facebook page.

You can go to my Facebook page, Jeff Fisher Radio, and there's a link there to the CatMye National Park and Preserve Facebook page. They've got a link there and you vote for the bears there. All right, we're wrapping up Fat Bear Week. So this is Fat Bear Tuesday. Hashtag Fat Bear Tuesday. And they've got 409 bead notes. up against 747, not good enough for a name.

All right? Now, they are just calling 747, not good enough for a name, 747. That's unacceptable. Unacceptable. So we decided yesterday, if you didn't listen to the podcast, why? But if you didn't listen to the podcast, we decided yesterday there's no reason for this bear. It's embarrassing for him not to have a name. and then I decided that instead of trying to name him,

I'm just going to call him not good enough for a name. That's his name. 747 not good enough for a name is his name. Okay. And we want him to win because they tried to diss him without a name. They gave the female a name. They started making you feel good about the female. She's the top picture.

Started talking about having her kids. It's all about the female. No. Not here, my friend. Not here. And we'll announce the winner. When they finally announced the winner tonight on my Instagram page, Jeff Fisher Radio, for those of you listening to this before, say, 7.38 o'clock Eastern tonight,

or you follow me on Instagram. You'll see it come up. I'm going to do, I'll do a live post on the winner. And I hope that I'm not going to have to beat up Catmine National Park and Preserve. And I don't want to hear from them. Oh, the voters pick. No. No, no, no, no.

you had the fix in somehow. If 747, not good enough for a name, loses this, the fix was in. There's something wrong with the voting machines. Facebook has been hacked as part of their hacked thing. You had somebody tallying up the votes wrong. Did somebody find some magical votes in their trunk of their car? Did someone do double votes? I mean, are we using different computers voting two or three times?

Something is wrong. If 747, not good enough for a name. loses this race. Look at the picks. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? All right, I was going to tell you about a woman. Well, you know, I will before I go.

Just remember this story, okay? This could happen to you, and it's really frustrating if it did. A Maryland woman went to her bank and tried to do some banking, and they said, oh, man, we'd like to help you, but you're dead. And she was like, wait, I'm standing right here. No, no, you're dead. listen to your accounts are frozen and the Social Security Administration

notified us that you're dead you're dead and so she two weeks, more than two weeks she spent going back to her bank going to the Social Security office trying to say that she's alive she got more and more annoyed because her prescription and health care plans

also were all affected because everybody gets notified and of course the Social Security spokesman well this erroneous death reports are extremely rare well you know what But maybe they're not. And you know what? They shouldn't be, it should be zero.

And if it happens, if they're so rare, why don't you have a plan in place to put people back to life again? So that all this stuff doesn't happen. Well, you know what I'm talking about. Put people back to life. I mean, that's why you laugh? That's what they do. They killed her. Now they need to put her back to life.

Bank accounts, medical, anything else that she's. trying to do that they've killed, put her back to life. That's not that difficult, okay? If you screwed up somebody's life and you're calling them dead, put them back to life.