Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 85 | Instagrammable Potato, How To Be A Good Lookout, & I'm Not From Africa

Episode Date: April 25, 2019

A new AirBnB in Idaho is garnering a lot of attention as you can stay in a giant potato for $200 a night. One mother was recently taken to jail for punching her kid for not being a good lookout while ...the grandmother was shoplifting at Walmart. Lastly, one fossil of an undiscovered animal has been discovered and we asked Google how to pronounce it, but there was just one problem.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Number two, number two, second person has fallen to their death, the Grand Canyon National Park. What? So, we don't really know if it was an accident or, well, I mean, obviously, it's an accident. Somebody's taking a selfie of themselves and they get too close to the edge. That's still an accident. But the National Park Service said that they got a call and said someone needs help. And then by the time they got there, this lady was, you know, 200 feet down below the rim. So I don't know if she was having trouble before she fell or when they first, you know, the guy was looking over the side going, hey,
Starting point is 00:00:45 now somebody needs some help. This lady's down there. You all right? You can hear me? So I'm not sure if she had already fallen by the time they called or not. She was 69-year-old Peoria, Arizona woman. Sad, I know. People are dropping like, and it's actually,
Starting point is 00:01:03 there was another person who had fallen off the rim, but he fell off on the Indian side. So that doesn't count. If you fall off, yeah, if you fall off on the reservation side, you don't count. It's just like, oh, oh, what side did he fall off on? The reservation side? Oh, yeah, we don't care about that.
Starting point is 00:01:25 So John William King, the avowed racist who orchestrated the murder of James Bird Jr., one of America's most gruesome hate crimes from Jasper, Texas, pronounced dead at the age of 44 by lethal injection at the Texas state penitentiary at Huntsville at 7.08 p.m. last night. Now, it would have been earlier, but they were waiting for a posseous. stay to this execution. One last shout out. Help me. I don't want to die.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied the last minute application for a stay. And that was like, nope, we're going through with it. Sorry, click. So it took a little bit longer than usual. That's why 708 p.m. I mean, it was like, it should have been 601. Amazing that he's gone. I remember Texas is one of the states that don't give you a special meal.
Starting point is 00:02:59 I know, I know. I think they should. I think if you're on death roll, you should get a final meal. I don't know why I feel that way. I just kind of feel, I just kind of like, you're going to die. We're going to kill you.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Now, the flip side of that is why should we waste money on feeding you if we're going to kill you the next day? I understand. I got it. I got it. But that just feels like the right thing to do. He's the fourth person to have been executed in the United States this year. three of them have been in Texas
Starting point is 00:03:32 I love the great state of Texas I love it we've got as reported a long time ago other states were fighting the execution Texas was putting in an express line I'm all for it
Starting point is 00:03:51 you're guilty you did something horrible gone have a nice day there's a couple a story today about a couple got 60 years. Just 60 years. Why are we paying for them to be in prison for 60 years? That's right.
Starting point is 00:04:10 They, and this is Texas. They called like the most wicked criminals. That's 60 years in prison for sexually abusing dozens of children, including an infant. They were found guilty of sexual exploitation of children, production of child porn. well I mean, we're going to pay for them to be alive 60 years in prison. No, thank you. I'm sorry. No.
Starting point is 00:04:37 There's not going to be any rehabilitation. So what are we doing? I don't know. And we don't give special meals to people being executed, but we did find out that we got some special meals for people that are in prison. Jared Fogel and Bill Cosby got special meals, according to reports. You know, Cosby is serving his three to ten-year sentence at the Pennsylvania SCI Phoenix Detention Center. He got baked chicken with bread dressing, carrots, gravy, a slice of bread, and margarine, and a fresh apple. Jared Fogle, while I'm sure isn't a big fan of getting Subway sandwiches anymore in prison.
Starting point is 00:05:20 He got some beef or soy tacos, steamed rice, black beans, corn, shredded cheese, and some salt. also. So happy Easter. Bill Cosby and Gerald. As long as we're on crime. If you're a criminal, one of the most, you know, one of them, I don't know, I say the most important thing, but, but an important process of being a criminal is having a good lookout. So police have now seized a parrot that was trained by these Brazilian, drug leaders to start screaming when if the police showed up. So they finally got the parrot in custody now.
Starting point is 00:06:15 So they're rather proud about taking this, you know, parrot into custody from these crack dealers. So whenever the police would come into the community, the bird would start, Mom, Mom, Mom, the police. Mom, Mom, the police. Ha! So.
Starting point is 00:06:37 good. So you want to have a good lookout. You want to have a good lookout. Now, you might want to train. My thought would be to train the bird not to say the police. So it would, you know, you just want the bird to say, you know, have the key word. You know, your safe word. The safe word is, you know, like,
Starting point is 00:06:54 mom, mom, mom would be fine because you would know that is the police if he started yelling, mom. If the bird is in the, you know, process of saying the police, the police, the police, it's not really the police are going to know. you see them coming. I don't really. It's kind of strange.
Starting point is 00:07:14 But you want a good lookout. And that's why we have reports from a lady in Phoenix who was arrested. And she was sad. All right? Because she spanked, slapped, and punched her seven-year-old kid. And you think,
Starting point is 00:07:37 I mean, okay, so maybe what the seven-year-old kid do? I mean, is he that bad of a kid? Was he, what was he doing? Yeah, he was a lookout for his grandmother to be able to shoplift at Walmart. And apparently he didn't do that good of a job. Because he told the police that, yeah, no, my mom hit me because I didn't watch.
Starting point is 00:08:07 out from a grandma good enough. Oh. Well, maybe you ought to start doing that then. Just kidding. Nobody needs to get the kid beat. It's just a joke. Seriously, though, the kids should do what he was told. And good news for,
Starting point is 00:08:36 have people like a Netflix. The Academy, they've been battling with the Academy Awards to, you know, not be counted because they're, you know, viewed on television. You know, Spielberg argued that films from streaming services, which will primarily be watched on television, should not be considered for inclusion based on token qualifications in a couple of theaters for
Starting point is 00:09:03 less than a week, which is just agonizing Steve. But the Academy has now decided that, you know, we're not going to change any of the entry rules to favor of films intended primarily for theatrical release. So we're fine the way, just the way it is. So Steve and the rest of you that are all bad-mouthed Netflix, take a walk. Tired of seeing you. Also, Rule 2, which says the film is eligible to be considered for an Oscar as long as it has its seven-day run in an L.A. theater still remained unchanged.
Starting point is 00:09:43 So they're all for letting the streaming services continue. continue to be the way it is. They also made a couple of minor changes, which was kind of weird. I mean, I guess they get together and they feel like they have to do something. So the animated feature category will no longer require eight eligible animated films to be released in a given year for the award to exist. The Foreign Language Film Award has been renamed to International Feature Film. The Academy's press release includes a statement from the... the International Feature Film Committee.
Starting point is 00:10:21 And we have noted that the reference to foreign is outdated within the global filmmaking community. We believe that international feature film better represents this category and promotes a positive and inclusive view of filmmaking and the art of film as a universal experience. So there isn't that many changes. And the best news out of this is that the streaming services are still going to be to be up for Oscars. So I love the fact that they
Starting point is 00:10:53 went against... I mean, Stephen was a big shot as far as the Academy is concerned. So him fighting against including Netflix was a big deal. And for the Academy to look at Stephen and go, we're done with you.
Starting point is 00:11:12 Have a nice day. Take a walk, Steve. What have you done for us lately? is pretty sweet. You know, there's also a place, I was thinking, what am I going to do to watch the Academy Awards this year? I don't know. Well, I just found out that Airbnb has a new place that I can rent
Starting point is 00:11:33 and watch the Academy Awards. Well, maybe. I don't know if there's any cable or any Wi-Fi. It's a giant potato. A giant potato from, you know, the great state of Utah. Hello. or I mean Idaho, the Idaho Potato Commission, Utah, stupid. Everybody knows Utah doesn't make anything.
Starting point is 00:11:58 This is dumb. Idaho makes potatoes. So this giant potato, 28 feet long, 12 feet wide, 11.5 feet tall. You may have seen it because it toured the U.S. on the back of a truck for, you know, a few years. as a giant potato for the potato commission. But you can get it. It's got the big cut out. It looks like a potato inside.
Starting point is 00:12:24 It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's in a huge feel with, you can see the mountains, just south of Boise, which is actually beautiful. I don't know if you've been to Boise, Idaho, but I love Boise, Idaho.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Beautiful. So it's, and according to the review, it's stylishly decorated. It sleeps too, one queen bed, and there's a small bathroom, a kitchen, and out of fireplace, and air conditioning too. With millennial pink accents, houseplants, it's an Instagramable inside as out. I love the sales pitch of Instagramable. It's Instagramable inside and out. tremendous.
Starting point is 00:13:14 So maybe they move it for the, where do they have? Well, I guess the potato bowl for college football is it, Boise, right? Isn't that where they're? I'm pretty sure it is. So you'd be able to stay there and go to the bowl game and live in, you know, Airbnb and stay at the giant potato room.
Starting point is 00:13:33 But you're not going to do it for cheap. All right. It's $200 a night. $200 a night for this stupid potato. plus they're charging you a service fee of $31 plus they're charging you $16 in occupancy taxes. So it's going to cost you $247 to stay in this Instagramable potato for a night? I don't think so. With that, it doesn't say I've got Wi-Fi.
Starting point is 00:14:05 I don't even know if my hotspot will work inside the potato. That might be another hotspot you're looking for at this Instagramable. but it's not going to be the hot spot for your computer. Let's go to the break room. I'm thirsty. I need a drink. Expected me to say Coca-Cola zero sugar, didn't you? I didn't say it though.
Starting point is 00:14:40 Starbucks, good news. Getting, uh, helping people out is what Starbucks does. When you think to yourself, what does, what is Starbucks? What is Starbucks? What do they do? You don't think coffee. You don't think, um, little buns, little coffee cakes.
Starting point is 00:14:55 No, you think helping people out by, you know, anybody can use their bathrooms. And now they're installing needle disposable boxes in the bathrooms at their stores. That's so nice of them. I mean, when you think about how many times have you gone into the Starbucks and you need to use the restroom? And if you can ever get in, you got to step on needles to go to the bathroom. You don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:20 There's a guy passed out in the corner. And he's got his needle sticking out of his arm. Just get up and throw him away. That says so nice of Starbucks. I just, I love him for it. And there was kind of sad news about George Zimmerman. Do you remember George, you know, the Trayvon Martin shooting, that whole thing, 2012? And George has been, he's had a tough life.
Starting point is 00:15:49 And apparently he was just kicked off the dating app Bumble. I know. You're looking at me like, hey, why is he getting kicked off Bumble? You know what? He used a fake name to set up an account. And now he's kicked off a Bumble. He was posing with his dog. And his Tinder profile states that his name is Carter.
Starting point is 00:16:15 And he's just looking for carefree fun. So now he's banned from Tinder. He's panned from Bumble. Is there nothing? doesn't this guy do anymore? I mean, it's a little sad. Good thing about Bumble now, though, is that they're coming out with a new feature
Starting point is 00:16:36 that's going to warn you if someone sends you an unsolicited private part pick. You know, a lot of people call them dick picks. I'm saying, you know, private parts picks. I wouldn't just higily-pigley throw out a dick-pick comment. So good, thank you. Thank you, Bumble. I appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:16:57 I want to be able to, if you're on Bumble, like, I mean, I should say, if you're not on Bumble, what are you doing with your life? But for those of us that, you know, that are on Bumble, we're happy that, you know, if somebody sends me an unsolicited dick pick, it's going to alert me. I don't know how it's going to alert me. I'm confused how Bumble. Do I get a, do I get a, do I get a giant penis? my screen. What happens?
Starting point is 00:17:25 How is that unsolicited? Thank you. I don't understand. I don't know if they're just going to send me like a little alert. It's just a blurred version of a phallix shape. I don't know. I don't know. It says, do you want to scratch it? Anyway, but thank you. I appreciate it because I want to know.
Starting point is 00:17:39 I want to know because if it's solicited, maybe they just ask you, did you really want this dick pick? No, not that one. Frankly, it's not that nice. I didn't want that one. I didn't want that one. Now the one that came through yesterday, that's the one I want to see again. As long as we're in the break room, we've got the execs at the Rochester Drug Cooperative,
Starting point is 00:18:00 you know, becoming the first to face criminal charges for their roles in the... And I'm going to say this. It's an epidemic, Jeff. The so-called U.S. opioid epidemic. It's amazing. This company got fined a huge amount of money. One guy's already pled guilty. The big boss man is going to trial.
Starting point is 00:18:20 the government said that they did not do enough to alert the government of wrongdoing, or what possible wrongdoing. They didn't do enough. So they, and they made too much money, damn this company in America for making too much money. But because prescriptions were coming through and they had to fill the orders, it was too much. So they played a role in this hypersensitive U.S. opioid epidemic.
Starting point is 00:18:57 It's just amazing where we're right with this. Just absolutely amazing. So big night tonight. Big night tonight. We've got the big movies starting all over the end game. opens tonight. And in China, it opened all right. It opened yesterday in China,
Starting point is 00:19:24 and it posted an opening day record of $107.2 million. That was last night in China. So, and we've got AMC. That's going to be, they've been open, you know, 96 hours straight. It's going to be, we'll just see. I mean, it's going to be pretty amazing the money, the amount of money this movie is going to make.
Starting point is 00:19:47 I mean, for sure, you're over a billion. Do you rake in a billion this weekend alone? I mean, is it going to just take this weekend Thursday night into Sunday? I mean, they've already got $100 million. They hit the billion end of this weekend. I don't know. Good luck. Good luck.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Sad news on Facebook, if you're a Facebook fan, and who isn't? I mean, who doesn't? I mean, we all have Facebook account. You can follow me on Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. Instagram is underneath Facebook. Jeff Fisher Radio, you can follow me there. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. I know that's not Facebook.
Starting point is 00:20:29 I got it. But, you know, social media. And, you know, I post stuff on Facebook all the time. But apparently Facebook, you know, they divulge their earnings. They had their earnings report yesterday. And they earmarked in their earnings report, they said, yeah, well, we've earmarked. We've set $3 billion off to the side here because we're ready. We probably are going to have to pay the Federal Trade Commission.
Starting point is 00:20:53 They're going to fine us. And it's probably going to be at least $3 billion. So we're going to set that over here. I mean, it must be nice to have the $3 billion to set off to the side, right? Think of that. Think of that. I know we're thinking, oh, Facebook is hurting. Facebook is hurting.
Starting point is 00:21:08 But they're hurting so much. We probably need to set aside at least $3 billion to, yeah, we're going to get fined. Yeah. I think we did something wrong. So, uh, Zuck. Fire one up. Fire,
Starting point is 00:21:30 Mark. Just fire it out, bro. Let me have some. I know. I should probably post something let people know what's going on cutting into our profits a little bit.
Starting point is 00:21:43 I think Facebook will be fine. I mean, look, you got, uh, they tallied 2.7 billion monthly users. I mean, that's pretty impressive.
Starting point is 00:22:01 And they figure they've used, they're making an average of $6.42 in revenue per user. That ain't bad. That ain't bad. Good news if you're looking for a job too. As long as we're in the break room, I know sometimes you tell me that you're looking for a job. You need help.
Starting point is 00:22:25 McDonald's wants to fill $2,500. 50,000 jobs, 250,000 jobs with older workers. Now, everybody knows that, you know, the fast food employee is supposed to be the teenager, but restaurants, of course, are increasingly turning to older people who are eager to remain in the workforce. I wonder why they're eager to remain in the workforce. Oh, I don't know, because they don't have any retirement and they need to work, like many of us will. There's no retirement in my life.
Starting point is 00:22:58 I know that for sure. And another thing that makes you like older workers is they tend to be punctual, friendly, and have a stronger work ethic, yeah, you think? Think of this, though. The number of working Americans age 65 to 74, expected to grow another 4.5% until 2024, as people are living longer and, you know, they, you haven't really saved enough money to retire to Florida. or maybe you can't retire to Florida, but you realize,
Starting point is 00:23:34 you know, it costs a little bit more for me to live here than I thought. I just probably get a job. Yeah. You want to upsize that? Just work the drive-thru at McDonald's, man. It's work on the drive-thru.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Hello, welcome to McDonald's. How can I help you? Yeah, just a second. I'll send someone to the bathroom. I know your kid just crapped all over the bathroom. Thanks for coming to McDonald's. Is that the same kid I saw, wiping his hand all over the touchscreen order screen just a second ago.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Yeah, I'm going to wipe that up too. No problem. Hey, but by the way, I'm a 75-year-old man. Thanks for coming to McDonald's. You know that's happening. You know it is. I know it's the NFL draft. You know, if you're listening to this podcast on the 25th of April, 2019,
Starting point is 00:24:33 it's the NFL draft night and everybody's, you know, got there, I got all there. NFL draft party scheduled and I get it. It was great. At one point in my life I was kind of excited about the NFL draft. My oldest son was, had the possibility of being drafted. And then in the end, he wasn't drafted, but he was on the phone with the Patriots.
Starting point is 00:24:58 And they said, look, if we don't draft you in this final round, then we're just going to sign you as a free agent, which is what they did. So, I mean, it was, it was, it was kind of cool and I knew that it was you know the tough at that point and at that time in his career
Starting point is 00:25:13 my oldest son's career he hadn't planned on being drafted but it was a good thought because he had gone through some injuries and he just wanted to you know go as a free agent but I know it's a big you know big deal and the draft is exciting
Starting point is 00:25:27 and you get to see who go you know the first the first 10 you know are really huge you get to see who gets picked but I see that the Baltimore Ravens. Is that what you were telling me, Taylor? Baltimore Ravens is there.
Starting point is 00:25:42 What's happening with them? Yeah, so they are having one of the picks. I don't remember what round, but a Ravens fan who is blind is going to actually read out the draft pick. Since he's blind, they're going to present the pick in Braille. Then how will we know who the pick is?
Starting point is 00:25:58 What? How will we know what the pick is? He says it out loud. You don't have to read the Braille. I'm pretty sure it's just a Braille piece. that he gives him. Because most people, though, I mean, like, I can't.
Starting point is 00:26:10 What normal NFL draft, like, they posted, like, what, there's a guy behind the speaker that holds the name of the pick? What picks are you watching? I'm just asking a question. I'm just asking a question. I don't, I can't speak braille.
Starting point is 00:26:24 I'm at loss for words, which is probably, I probably need to speak braille to you. That's unbelievable, Jeffrey. I don't understand why. I just wanted to know how I was going to, you know, figured out. This is the guy that knows all the 600 plus words that are in the new dictionary.
Starting point is 00:26:42 So how do you not know what braille is? I do know what braille is. That's what I'm saying. You don't have a complete understanding. You think you speak braille. It's like speaking sign language. No, I just said I don't speak braille. I don't think I speak braille.
Starting point is 00:26:56 I don't. So anyway, good God. What are we going to do with you? Enjoy the draft. Enjoy the drafts. And it'll be fun. Congratulations to the Raven. for letting that happen.
Starting point is 00:27:07 A couple things that we've got to worry about now. And I'm telling you, I don't know what the heck is going on. Something is happening. Not sure when it's going to happen or why it's happening. But right now the United States has confirmed 695 measles cases so far this year. It's the highest level since we said we eradicated it in 2000. Now, I may not speak braille, but I do know that when we say something is a eradicated, the eradication of something.
Starting point is 00:27:51 That means that it's gone. Zero. Over with. Now, I'm sure the medical community will go, well, in the medical community, when we say that something has eradicated, it's very possible if there's still going to be some outliers and there'll be some other, there'll be a few portions of that disease still hitting people, but for the most part, it's been eradicated. Well, isn't that interesting?
Starting point is 00:28:14 Because now we're getting breakouts all over, as most, specifically in New York and Washington State. Oh, let's see, Washington State is where? Oh, yeah, over, way far over here on the West Coast. And New York is, oh, yeah, way far over here on the East Coast. So there's a whole bunch of stuff in between those two places that could catch the measles. Huh. Huh.
Starting point is 00:28:40 I mean, that's what I'm saying. I understand that. But I'm sure. I would bet every quarter I own. That's like four quarters. that the medical community would say that it means something else. Guaranteed. Look, eradication, of course, it means zero.
Starting point is 00:28:56 But in the medical community, in the medical field, that doesn't really mean zero. That just means that we've got it down to a manageable portion. Guaranteed. A guarantee. Have you ever heard of an opera singer named Tillyman Dick? Is 35? Did we have to leave that out? Well, that's her name.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Tillyman Dick. It's her name. She was 35 years old. I mean, no, we don't have to bleep that out. We just have to bleep out when you're talking about Bix. So anyway, she passed away. And I hadn't heard of her before, but when I heard what she went through, I mean, it's absolutely amazing. Charity Tillamand Dick passed away.
Starting point is 00:29:42 She was a famed opera singer, which is, you know, I'm not a big follower of opera. so I, you know, I believe you. But she was known at singing at, you know, the most prestigious venues around the world. And she had lung transplants. I mean, this is, she was amazing. She was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension at the age of 20. And which means that it's hardening or,
Starting point is 00:30:17 blockage of the blood vessels connecting the heart and lungs. All right. So she got, she had sorting some breath that she blacked out a few times. So in 2009, she underwent a double lung transplant. It's 2009. All right. Then she suffered a chronic rejection. She received another double lung transplant in 2012.
Starting point is 00:30:47 amazing. Now they told her that she would live five years after surgery. So she did live a little bit longer than five years after surgery, which is tremendous. But it seems like, I mean, that is, talk about the, but that's the will to live and the will to live your American dream. And the will, I should say, just the will to live your dream. Absolutely amazing. I'm so surprised I hadn't heard of her. But, I mean, she's received double lung transplants.
Starting point is 00:31:26 Two double lung transplants. I mean, rest in peace. And maybe, you know, she's for sure out of pain now. And I don't know what pain she was in before, but for sure she was in, she was suffering. But to have to go through that and still just to perform and be the person that you are meant to be, absolutely amazing. I know I don't do a lot of politics here on chewing the fat. And very rare, you know, I'm not a most of the political stories that are out there in the world.
Starting point is 00:32:14 You're going to get other places. I know that. And it's okay. It just, it's fine. And I like a lot of those political stories. And sometimes when I sit in on Pat's show on Friday and I do chewing the fat and sometimes sit in for the rest of the show on Wednesdays on Pat's show. So, I mean, I'm very familiar and I know about the political stories and we have fun with them. But this particular story is political, but not really political.
Starting point is 00:32:40 I have a couple of questions. Why would anyone want to live in the state of New York anymore? I don't understand why more people aren't moving out of that state. governor, Andrew Cuomo, who looks like a great guy. I mean, it just looks like the guy you want to be around and hang out with. He signed a new law that is going to take effect in March. Next March. Can't wait for that to roll around.
Starting point is 00:33:17 He's going to ban plastic bags in the state of, New York, and that he's going to, and he's going to charge you for paper bags as well, which is great. So they're going to ban single-use plastic grocery bags, and this is the third state to do so. So, so good. And those are great states. So what, Hawaii and California are the other two states. And they're banning plastic bags. And then they're going to charge you a five-cent fee.
Starting point is 00:33:49 on paper bags. Three cents of that five cents is going to go to the state's environmental protection fund and two cents are just going to be kept by the government. And that's good. So we're going to help climate change by getting rid of plastic bags. And we're going to help climate change even more by charging you for the paper bags that you're going to need. And we're going to send a little bit of that money. Well, you know, three cents of the five cents.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Obviously more than half of the five cents is going to go to the Environmental Protection Fund. And then the other two cents, we just need. So all five cents goes to the government? 100% correct. 100% correct. But good, good, good. And it's all for climate change. Eganizing.
Starting point is 00:34:46 I am really sick and tired of having websites. tell me I've reached my limit and then I have to subscribe to them to read the story. So I cannot tell you how frustrating that is to me. Cannot tell you. I read the story. Put it on for the show. I want to talk about it. And then I want to read a couple of the facts inside the story.
Starting point is 00:35:18 But when I open it up again for you, I've reached my limit and I've got to subscribe to that website to read the story. is maddening. And I'm not going to subscribe to you New York Times. It's not going to happen. I'll find the story somewhere else, but I'm not going to go out of my way to find the story right now because I'll just tell you about it. Remember the giant bird that we told you about that killed the owner,
Starting point is 00:35:42 the cassowary in Florida, the big mean bird that stands about six feet tall, is about 130 pounds. It's like an emu bird, but it doesn't fly. And it killed its owner. Well, a few more little facts have come out about that. They sure are mean. and they sure do, they have these giant claw feats that they kick with and they, you know, they'll kill you. But apparently the owner was raised, and you can raise them, and he had some special dispensation from the world on high and the Pope to,
Starting point is 00:36:11 that's where you get dispensation from is the Pope, is to, you know, so that he could have his little cassowary in Florida. And he had one or two of them. And this particular one had laid some eggs. So he was out looking at the eggs. And you know what happens? You know, the mom was like, what are you doing with? don't be messing with my eggs, don't be messing with my eggs. And then he fell down and she was like,
Starting point is 00:36:28 I'm going to kick you to death now. But apparently you can get it now. You know, they didn't kill the bird because all the investigators all said, well, no, he didn't, he doesn't have, you know, a taste for human blood. He was protecting his eggs or her eggs. And the guy fell down. We don't know if he was being mean. And she didn't mean to kill him.
Starting point is 00:36:54 is kicking him to protect her stuff. Oh, okay, well, I guess that makes it okay. So we're not going to put the bird down. No, we're not going to put the bird down. So if you're in the market for a cassowary, you want to have a little bird that could kill you, fenced in in the backyard. It's all yours.
Starting point is 00:37:15 It's all yours. Also, a new giant mammal fossil was found in a museum drawer. Unbelievable. So they found it. new species dubbed dubbed Simba Kutukavarika
Starting point is 00:37:35 I'm going to pause for just a moment and I want to put you on hold all right please hold while we have the computer voice the new name of the new species please hold
Starting point is 00:37:51 your listenership is very important to us we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for holding. Your listenership is very important to us. We're in the process of finding the actual pronunciation of Sabakawabha, Kutukafrika, which means big African lion. Thank you for holding.
Starting point is 00:38:37 No, I mean it. Thanks for holding. I appreciate it. We've got the, we've typed in the pronunciation. I pronounce it. Simbako Waba, Okuta, Africa, right? S-I-M-A-K-A-U-A-U-T-O-K-A-F-R-I-K-A, which is the new species that was found in a drawer. Okay?
Starting point is 00:39:03 So let's find, apparently it roamed Africa some 20 million years ago. So I guess somebody brought it, brought it in and threw it in a drawer. And sometime, you know, somebody went, I wonder what's in that drawer. Oh, my gosh, it's fossils. It must be the big African lion that roamed Swahili 20 million years ago. And we should name it Simbako Waba, Kouabha. Let's computer pronounce it for us, please. I'm not from Africa.
Starting point is 00:39:43 I'm not from Africa. Well, that's helpful. Okay, so Taylor, when we're looking these names up, dummy, ask a computer that's from Africa. You know it's an African who came from an African museum in Kenya. I already told you that. I'm sorry, let me go to African Google real quick. Holy cow. Yes, African Google.
Starting point is 00:40:13 What is it? Sima, Waco, Waco, To, Coffee. Exactly what I said. Thank you. They're aired again from the... That's exactly what I said. That's the new... It's the new fossil found in the Kenton Museum drawer.
Starting point is 00:40:32 I find it amazing that they... It's just... What is in this bottom drawer? I haven't looked in this drawer and I don't know. 19 million years. Oh my gosh. It's something that's 20 million years old. It's the old...
Starting point is 00:40:45 It's the old... I'm not from Africa. No, not that one. No, don't... Not that one, dummy? Seriously, I called you dummy as a joke, but maybe it's not. Simbaku, Waku, Waku, Taka, yeah, that.

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