Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 854 | Just Take Off and Land…

Episode Date: April 19, 2022

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We have all workplaces where everybody has to have a birthday party. Oh, it's your birthday? We've got to have a birthday party. It's Joe's birthday party. Let's have it in the break room. Everybody gets a cake. And we have a piece of cake and maybe a little ice cream and sing happy birthday. And how great it is to have Joe working for us.

Well, a company in Kentucky always did that. And they had one employee that said, you know what? I don't want a birthday party. I freak out. I have panic attacks. Don't throw me a birthday party. And they threw him a birthday party anyway. And so he had a birthday.

He went around the corner and they were saying, hey, it's your birthday. Yay, we're having a birthday party. Come on. Let's have a birthday party for Kevin. Kevin, it's Kevin's birthday. Yay. So he freaked out and had a panic attack and went outside.

went to his car, had his lunch in the car, texted the HR employee and said, hey, I asked for you not to throw me a birthday party. So I don't know what the deal is, but I'm not going to come back in until the lunch break is over. So after the day of big celebration, he was called into a meeting

and he was confronted and criticized for his reaction. It's according to the lawsuit. The confrontation itself triggered another panic attack at the conclusion of this meeting because of the panic attack. He went home. And he said, I'm just going to work from home for the next couple of days. And then three days later, three or four days later, yeah, you know what, Kevin, we like you, but we're going to go ahead and fire you. You don't have a job here anymore. Wait, what?

Yeah, you're fired. We don't like you. So he sued them, alleging disability, discrimination, and retaliation. Now, the company has said, look, he was a part of workplace violence, and he was terminated because of a workplace violence policy. And the company stands by the decision. The lady for the company, the CEO, Julie Brazil, said that there's been an increase in incidence of workplace violence. And my employees de-escalated the situation to get the plaintiff out of the building as quickly as possible, while removing his access to the building, alerting me,

and sending our security reminders to ensure he could not access the building, which is exactly what they were supposed to do. Now, his attorney says, let's be real. My client posed no threat whatsoever. Well, he was just awarded $450,000 for the lawsuit because of the unwanted party. And there you have it. Good luck, God bless. He'll take $450,000.

I don't know. Does he get his job back? doesn't even want his job back, probably not. But it's nice to know that you don't have to have a birthday party if you don't want one. Now, personally, I'm always a fan of the birthday parties. Anytime that you get free cake is a plus. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat.

I really don't understand what the big deal is. I mean, if the guy doesn't want him a birthday party, don't throw him a birthday party. I've worked. There's different office managers that all believe. in. It's nice to have work camaraderie with the birthday party and the break room for whosoever birthday it is.

And it's, you know, it's okay. I don't have a panic attack over it. And I don't, you know, as far as birthdays go, you know, I don't believe in them. I think they're silly. And they're fine, and you have to have them in real life. Everybody, for some reason, believes that a birthday party is a big deal. I do not.

I don't like to worry about age. But that's just me. But you want to throw a party and bring me some cake? All right, fine. I mean, I'm not going to turn down cake. Okay. So last week, on a beach in Texas, I don't know why. I think this is so funny.

But to me it is. And that's wrong. I know. It's wrong of me to think this is funny. But it just, I can't imagine doing it. A group of people started harassing a dolphin that washed up on shore in Quintana Beach, Texas. So apparently this dolphin washes up on shore.

Now, dolphins don't just wash up on shore. So it had to have been some kind of sick dolphin, right? Either wanting to commit suicide or it was sick and just gave up swimming. And so that's it. You know, I'm just washing ashore. I've had enough. I'm going to die on the beach. Okay.

So there he is on the beach. or she. And so the crowd starts gathering around her, and beachgoers tried to push her back into the water. But as they were trying to push her back into the water, they're riding her. And they're taking pictures of each other sitting on top of the dolphin. And it's just, it's just so wrong. I don't know what I would have done if I was there. I was like, come on now. You can't be doing that.

We've got to help the dolphin or we have to call for help, which they eventually did. But it's, you know, the dolphin ends up dying. And she died, I guess, before the rescuers could arrive. Could they have saved her? I don't know. I mean, I'm guessing probably not because, I mean, the dolphin washed up on shore. That's not a natural act for dolphins. So it's something that the dolphin is really sick at the time.

But if you're a sick dolphin and you wash up on shore and then all of a sudden you got a crowd of people taking pictures riding on your back and trying to push you out into the water. I mean, they were trying to help. But I don't know what you'd do. Well, you're supposed to call for help. And apparently this violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act. And so civil penalties can go up to 11. Grant and a year in prison. So all you people that were posted on your Instagram and your TikToks about riding the old

dolphin on Quintana Beach County Park, this could be a problem. It could be a problem for you. So according to the experts at the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, and boy, that's a good gig if you can get it. If a live dolphin or whale strands in Texas, please, and I'm guessing just anywhere, but they're specifically talking about this incident, please do not push the animal back to sea. Do not attempt to swim or interact with them. Do not crowd them. Why wouldn't you try to push them back in the sea?

I mean, if they were, you know, feeling bad about life and trying to commit suicide, maybe you push them back into the sea and they go, yeah, you know what, I want to live. And they swim away. I'm not sure. Okay, I'm not, you know what, it's not funny. I'll stop laughing about it. I'm serious. Don't do it. If a mammal ends up on the beach that you're on, leave it alone.

All right, and call a professional. Don't you dare. Don't you dare walk up to it. Who's a good little dolphin? Are you okay? Don't do it. Don't do it. I mean, they just found a dead hammerhead shark in Florida on the beach.

and they had to call in the construction workers to pick it up and haul it off. And apparently it was a pregnant great hammerhead shark. Those are some big old boys. Those sharks grow to be pretty freaking big. I mean, some of them grow to 20 feet long, 900,000 pounds. And you see them, a lot of times helicopters fly over the beaches in Florida. And you can see them swimming out there, the big hammerheads. And, you know, you don't get a lot of human attacks.

But they're out there, man. Don't be messing with those hammerheads. But this one, you know, I guess washed up on shore. And the people were walking along going, hey, there's a dead hammerhead shark. I don't know that there's footage of anyone riding on it or pushing it back into the sea. Well, it was already dead. It wasn't swimming. I guess the dolphin maybe was still kind of moving around.

So this one, you know, was. And then they find out that it was a mom. And then it was pregnant. So sad. Really sad. But they brought in some forklifts. Well, it says the story says a tractor, but then they show a picture of a forklift. So it was in a tractor with a fork lift on it attached.

And now they were picking up the big old shark off the beach and everybody's looking at it. There's pictures of little kids looking at this giant shark being hauled off on a forklift. But don't you touch it. All right. don't do it. All right. Make sure that you don't do anything to violate the Marine mammal protection act. Are sharks mammals?

Because I don't think they are. I don't think sharks are mammals. So you can still, you can mess with them. They're not part of the protection act. You can ride on them and push them out to sea. Take selfies with the hammerhead. You can do that with sharks, but not with dolphins. Kind of a sad, sad day out there on the beaches when you run across a dolphin or a shark, really.

You know what, it's best just to leave a bee and let the authorities take care of it. Okay, you know, you can take a selfie, you know, far away. But don't come up close. Could be an issue. I mean, we might as well do who died today. Because, you know, we lost the dolphin and we lost the hammerhead shark. We'll talk about the actress Liz Sherry. She said away.

At the age of 93. She celebrated her 93rd birthday earlier last week, and then she died. She passed away. She survived by her daughter and son-in-law. And you ask yourself, wait, who's Liz Sheridan? Well, she played Jerry Seinfeld's mother in Seinfeld, and she played the Snoopy neighbor in the sitcom Alf. And if she's one of those actresses that,

You may not know who Liz Sheridan is, but when you see her, you go, oh, yeah, that's her. And she passed away at 93, very sad. And she talked about it in her one autobiography that she wrote called Dizzy and Jimmy about her relationship with the young pre-stardom, James Dean, as they were aspiring Broadway performers. And so I guess she's been working to develop a book. She was still working. and that's great. And so, you know, we lost Costanza's mother, Estelle Harris,

and now we lost Jerry's mother, Liz Sheridan. I mean, whof, times are tough for the older actors that were on Seinfeld and Alf. But anyway, Liz Sheridan, dead at 93 years of age.

Rest in peace. I see where the South Carolina inmate has said, yeah, okay, I'll take the firing squad. Wait, what? Yeah, I don't want the electric chair. I've decided. You're giving me a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad.

You know what? I'm going to take the firing squad. Okay. So he's the first state prisoner to face the choice. And since the law went into effect, we talked about the law going into effect, and they spent all kinds of money, fix them up the killing room, so they're able to juice you or zap you or shoot you. Although they don't have the juice.

they were saying that the electric chair is the default killing method, I'm sorry, execution method. But since the law goes into effect, you get to choose, right? If you don't choose, I'm not going to decide. All right, well, we're going to electrocute you then. But if you, if, you know, you're given the choice, you can say, ah, yeah, I'll take the firing squad, which is what Richard Moore did. So he's going to take the firing squad. And so they went along with this deal because they couldn't get the juice for lethal injections. So, okay, we can't get the juice?

No, okay, well, we're going to electrocute you or we're going to put bullets in you. And so you can make your choice. So Richard Moore was supposed to be executed on the 29th of April, 2022. And he will be the first person put to death in the state since 2011, if it is. happens. We will update this story. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold

to drink desperately. So good. I hope everybody had a swell Easter and spent some time with your family as I did and just had fun with all the kiddo. Yes, that was an exciting weekend down in the greater Austin, Texas area.

So happy Easter. Everybody, I hope you had a great time. I know I did. Did you know that? No, really. Really, I did. Oh, man. Nothing I like doing than spending time with my wife's grandchildren.

I just, wow. is just nothing better. Did you know that 97% of concert pianist used Steinway pianos when performing during, in the world, during 2018 and 2019? So, that's according to Steinway. So maybe they've, you know, botched the numbers a little bit.

But they filed to go public this week after nine years in the private markets. So I already thought they were public, but they went public in 1996 under the ticker of LVB, short for Ludwig van Beethoven, and now it's going to be STWI for Steinway. So I guess Ludwig wasn't good enough for him anymore. They're going to go back public and be STWY for Steinway.

So if you want to invest, it's all yours. They're looking to go public. Congratulations to Steinway. So if you have a Toyota, or a Lexus, they're being recalled. 460,000 vehicles from 2020 through 2022 model years. I do not have a 2020 through 2022 model year vehicle in my driveway. But that includes the Toyota Highlander, the Hybrid, the RAV4 Hybrid, the RAV4 Prime,

the VENCUSVs, the Toyota Sienna minivan, the Toyota-Barray hydrogen fuel cell sedan, the Lexus L.S. 500, H sedan, and the Lexus LX-600, NX-35-O-H, and NX-450H plus SUVs. If you have any of those are being recalled, okay? It's a software problem with the electronic stability control, the ESC systems. Ha! Yeah, okay, it's scary out there on the road. When you turn your car on, the ESC may not automatically turn on when the car is started. So, that means you're not. compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards.

So nobody wants that. Nobody wants to be out of compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards. So you take it back to your Toyota dealership or your Lexus dealer and you say, hey, I've got an ESC system that is not in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards. And then they'll go ahead and give you a software update free of charge. to send you on your way. Now, I get it. The ESC, they claim here is critical, critical,

to the safety feature that can keep a car from sliding out of control in a sharp turn and can also avoid the types of crashes where vehicles are likely to roll over. Okay. I mean, in my life, I don't know how many times I can tell you that I've been in a situation

where my car might slide out of control, control in a sharp turn or my car may crash and roll over because the number of times that that has happened is well maybe two maybe two but you know if you're driving one of these cars and uh you have uh you know you need to take it in and get it fixed okay get that software update for free because we don't want any other we don't want anyone anyone and i mean this we don't want anyone to be in non compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards. So get that fixed. Amazon is going to charge merchants more money now.

Oh, that's nice of them. Yeah, you know, it's just because of, you know, fuel costs rising. That's it, though. Yeah, that's all. I mean, Amazon, we're going to start getting charged more for everything. And who do you think is going to pay the extra money to, for the products that is now being made by these companies that Amazon is delivering. I don't know.

Who could that be? So it's going to impose an average of 5% fuel and inflation surcharge on merchants to warehouse and ship their products in the United States in response to rising costs, of course. It's Amazon's first such surcharge and follows months of higher wage and labor-related expenses that have chipped away at the online retailers' profit. So, geez, all of that going on. And who ends up paying for all of that?

Not you and me, the customers, no way. It's the evil rich Jeff Bezos that gets charged, right? And all those other CEOs of making products that Amazon delivers. That's who's going to pay, right? Right. So beginning at the end of this month, April of 2022, they're going to charge an average of 24 cents more per unit. It stores and ships through its fulfillment by Amazon FBA service.

The surcharge is not permanent. Uh-huh. And its mechanism broadly used across supply chain providers. That's the message that it sent to merchants. It's broadly used. We're not doing anything any different than anyone else. We've experienced significant cost increases and absorb them wherever possible. But we're trying to reduce the impact on our selling partners.

Oh. Okay. No problem. Now, so far, Amazon has only announced a surcharge in the United States, which is obviously its biggest market right now, and sellers can avoid the higher cost by shipping goods to customers directly. Right. But, hello, you count on Amazon's fast delivery with Prime.

You want that deal. You want people to be able to get your product, you know, dropped in the backyard from the Amazon drone. Otherwise, it's like I go to Amazon and I order my whatever I'm. going to order and yeah we can get it to you next week or I can order one that's under the umbrella of Amazon and have it at my front door today which one am I going to choose which one am I going to choose I don't know which one okay poison pill boy the bill poison bill poison bill poison bill if I hear freaking poison pill one more freaking time that I am

going to go I can't take it I can't take it So Twitter enacted Poison Bill, which is, you know, trying to thwart Elon's hostile takeover bid. So we'll see if they can make that happen. Most of the most people think it will work. Other people think it won't. It's worked in the past. And so we'll see. You know, the company intentionally dilutes the share value by offering shareholders,

the opportunity to buy more at a discounted rate. And then the company is, less attractive or downright financially infeasible for an accusation target. We'll see if it works. I know Netflix and Papa Johns have done it in the past. And so we'll see, you know, it's worked before, but I don't know

that they can get away with it this time. Because it's a lot of money and a lot of people really want Elon to take it over. And so, and there's a lot of people embedded in the system that don't want that to happen. So

we'll see. I know yesterday they were talking about the Twitter followers or Elon asked his Twitter followers whether his boycott buyout offers should be decided by shareholders not the board well everybody says yes to that but with the poison bill that's the poison bill you know happens then that steps aside the shareholder votes so we'll see and you can buy more stock while it's cheaper right then at the point of purchasing it at the cheaper price, it pretty much is doubling your money.

Or, you know, at least, you know, you're getting a third more depending on how much the liquidation cost of those stocks are. Anyway, I'm not a stock guy. I'm not an investment guru. I just have a, you know, a little bit of understanding of what they're trying to do. And I'm just sick of hearing poison pill. And so we'll see. And I know that even Jack, at Jack,

is for the deal. He's like, make it happen. Let's go. So is Jack a conservative now? No. I just feel that the board and the embedded mindset at Twitter is so anti-free speech that it's going to be tough. It's going to be tough to go in there.

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They were telling passengers on four. flights, mid-air. Yeah, it's over. You don't have to wear your mask anymore. We're sick and tired of having to tell people to wear your mask. Only the really hardcore crossing guard flight attendants will be pissed that they can't, you know, lower the hammer on people. You're not wearing your mask right.

Put it up over your nose. Only those people will be upset. And only the people who think it has to be mandated will be the people that are going to be upset over. I can't believe that you're going to make people fly without a mask. It's unsafe. Well, you get to still decide whether you wear a mask or not. It's up to you. That's been the fight all along, okay?

We want you to feel safe. So if you want to wear a mask, wear a mask. If you want to wear a hazmat suit, wear a hazmat suit. It's okay. So they've removed it on Amtrak and on the airplanes and on the buses. and I went to a doctor's office this morning in the great state of Texas, which was making people wear masks no matter what. Today, the sign went up, and apparently the sign went up yesterday afternoon,

just like the airlines, man. When the news came down, boom, the hammer went down on all of it. They hung the sign, masked, are encouraged, but no longer required. And then they have, unless you have signs of illness. If you have signs of illness, you know, you should already be. this was a different type. This was not a illness doctor. This was a doctor that was dealing in other ailments.

And so if you have some sort of other illness, you probably shouldn't be going to this particular doctor anyway. But I digress. So good news. You can still wear a mask if you want. But you don't have to if you don't want to. And I see Uber also dropped it down too. So good.

Good. I know, talk to me about the judges, a Trump judge, and she's too young. Uh-huh. And all the other Trump judges that are making rulings on the January 6th defendants, you like those judges? Does that, does it matter if it's a Trump judge or not, or does it matter? I'm not sure. Well, what I'm supposed to be. Am I supposed to, I'm only supposed to be mad if they make rulings against what you like, right? Okay. I just want to make sure I have that clear, no problem. And I see where they were picketing. Pilots were picketing out here in Texas in Love Field.

And I went, what the heck is going on? So apparently Southwest Airlines are a little wound up. Okay. Pilots, the pilot's union wrote to the CEO that, hey, fatigue, both acute and cumulative, has become Southwest Airlines number one safety threat. So what they're saying is maybe if you are getting on a plane, maybe, you ought to look into the old pilot's eyes. You know, instead of taking a peek into the cockpit, maybe you ought to look up at the pilot and go, dude, how you doing?

You all right? I mean, if you were to say that, dude, how are you doing? Is the pilot going to say, I'm just so tired? I just want to sit down and go to sleep. The pilot's not going to say that. But maybe if he does, you're like, okay, well, why don't you do that? and we'll go find another pilot. We'll just sit out here on the tarmac for four or five hours

until they get another pilot, because that's what's going to happen, right? So they have all kinds of problems going on. The union insists that problems that existed last year during the pandemic are no better this year. They say that reports showing errors can be directly correlated to fatigue. The pilots have filed increasing number of aviation safety, action program reports, which show errors.

And so that's still going on. They say there has been a 350% more fatigue reports than in March of 2019. Okay. Pilots take aim at the operational systems. They believe that it's broken down to management of the network, pilot scheduling, and that's just destroyed the efficiency. And now safety is becoming untenable. So, you know, you've got bad weather.

You've got airlines changing schedules. You've got people not getting enough sleep. And you're concerned that your pilots are working overtime and flying back and forth. And that's a tough gig, man. And I understand. But I just, you know, you know what? Put it on cruise and take a nap. Okay.

I'm okay with that too. But once you get it in the air, I care about you taking off and I care about you landing. When we're up in the air, put that baby on cruise and go to sleep. I'm okay with that. As a passenger, I'm okay with that. We start getting close to the airports that you're taking me to. Wake back up, slap your face, sip a cup of coffee, get us on the ground.

Maybe that's what's happening now. I don't know. I don't know that I'm not necessarily ready for the, uh, pilotless plane to take me, but I am okay with just get us off the ground, take a nap. And then wake up, open your eyes, stretch out a little bit, take a look at what's going on, take over the helm, get us on the ground. I'm all about that, no problem. And again, that's probably what's happening now.

Hopefully the pilot doesn't have sexomnia, because then, you know, the pilot doesn't want to go to sleep on the plane because they suffer from sexomnia. So apparently if you have a sexomnia, it's a condition that can lead to, you know, well, this story says it could lead to some embarrassing overnight visits. Oh, okay. So it's a condition like sleepwalking, but involves sex acts.

It's a rare type of parasomnia. The sexomnia sleep disorder can result in a variety of behaviors. people with the condition have been known to take care of themselves, make sexual vocalizations, touch a partner, and even experience spontaneous orgasms all while sleeping. Some even initiate intercourse with a partner.

So, I mean, that's not really necessarily a bad thing. I mean, are you walking out the door as a sexomniac and just grabbing the first person you see? See, that's, Now you're in trouble. That's what I'm saying about the pilots. If the pilot falls asleep and then, you know, there's a sexomnia suffer.

I mean, you're grabbing the co-pilot or the whoever comes into the cockpit. Because it does give a whole new meaning to, oh, never mind. Gives a whole new meaning to where the pilots sit, though, doesn't that? So in a study conducted in 2017, 17, 17, whole cases were reported out of 16,000 studied patients. The same study also found that 47% of patients had a history of sleepwalking and or night terrors. But that's 47% of the patients out of the 17, not the 16,000, right?

So you're looking at 47% of patients had a history of sleepwalking and night terrors. so eight people seven you know seven people and the 17 had were sleepwalkers and had night terrors most people suffering from the condition won't remember anything they did or said during the night

I can guarantee you if I get busted I am a sexomniac and you know sorry man it's my sexomnia kicking in I thought I had kicked it but apparently not it's uh I wake

you know I've woken up and why am I in this bedroom of my neighbor. No, officer, it's not rape. It's not breaking and entering. I'm a sexomniac. And that's just the way it is. I'm sorry.

Let me just go back home. I don't even remember what I'm doing over here. They're talking about the one lady. She said she was moaning so loudly in her sleep. It woke up her friend's entire family, leading them to believe that she was, you know, taken care of. a little business while she was staying at their house, but she was all alone and woke up the next day,

no clue that anything had occurred. I mean, that's just a loud dream, right? That's not being a sex somniac. All right. So I guess if you have stress, lack of sleep, even exhaustion could be a factor to create your sex somnia. And some sex somniacs experience the effects. of the disorder more often than others. Right. I mean, sometimes this lady wakes up a few times a month, and she's, you know, taking care of a little business with herself,

and she's blaming the sexomnia for the issue. I'm sure that there's plenty of sex experts out there that will tell you, hey, this is a real thing, and this is something we need to take serious. Okay, I take it serious. You got me. You got me. Therapy is important. Perhaps you need to take care of that to manage the disorder.

I think therapy is important for all of you, sexomniacs. But that's just me. I'm not a doctor. I'm just playing one here on chewing the fat. But in some cases, medication can help. Kind of medication can help you with the old sexomnia issue. Just some kind of medication that knocks you out at night. Make sure you talk to your doctor, though.

If you are concerned or experiencing symptoms of sexomnia, talk to your doctor. I mean that from the bottom of my heart here on chewing the fat. If you are experiencing symptoms of sexomnia, after you email me and let me know that you're experiencing symptoms of sexomnia at chewing the fat at the blaze.com, then talk to your doctor. But let me know exactly what experiences you're experiencing. And we'll go from there. I'd like to hear from any second. ex-somniax we have in the chewing-the-fat audience. I mean that. Seriously. Black Friday is here at IKEA and the clock is taking on savings you won't want to miss.

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The ever-forward container ship was freed Sunday morning, Easter Sunday morning, after being stuck in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland for over a month now. That's how long it's been. Wow, we talked about that not long ago about it continuing to be stuck. and it's finally freed.

It was the third attempt to free the nearly 1,100 foot vessel. It was traveling from Baltimore to Norfolk and got stuck in at least 10 feet of mud while attempting a turn near the Bay Bridge. Oh, maybe it didn't have made the turn too short? I don't know. They claim that it's because of the marsh, and if you ever stepped in the marsh with your boot, and then you try to pull it out, your foot comes out, but not your boot. Yeah, it's kind of the same thing.

Only, you know, it's a ship and not your boot. So they've assisted, they did all kinds of things. They've removed, they planned to remove 500 of the 4,900 containers on board to lighten its weight. Although, I don't know that they actually did do that because they had the navigation channel that they were digging around. They were dredging and they push and pull tugboat operations. and so they kept trying to do it. They resulted in dredging up 43 feet, resulting in 206,280 cubic yards of material being dredged and taken

taken away to Poplar Island, which I hear is beautiful this time of year. And the material is being used to offset erosion at the Paul S. Arbain's ecosystem restoration project. Of course. I mean, why wouldn't you use... I mean, you might as well use it for something instead of just throw. throwing it along the side of the road. So I'm sure Paul S. Sarbanes' ecosystem restoration projects said, hey, we'll take some of that stuff over here.

And so they only worked during the day, because heaven forbid, anybody work at night. We know anything bad happening at night. And so they finally, you know, said, hey, the vastness and complexity of this response was historic. And it was a collaboration with the Evergreen Marine Corporation and dedicated responders that resulted in the successful refloating of the ever forward while, of course, ensuring the safety of the public and response personnel and mitigating pollution potential. We can't have any of that. And what about economic impacts?

Yeah, we've got to minimize that, too. No kidding. And so the containers were taken to their original onboarding facility at Seagert Marine Terminal in Baltimore, offloaded and shore-based with shore-based handling gear. after the containers were removed, two pulling barges. Oh, yeah, so they were all removed. They did take those off. And then they used two pulling barges, two tugs, and two tugs.

Okay, so there's two different. They have two tugs from the Don John Dash Smith, two tugs from Moran, and two tugs from McAllister, freed the ever forward at approximately 7 a.m. Sunday morning. So remember about a year ago, we had the sister ship, ever given and got stuck in the Suez Canal for around a week uh what's up with the ever's how about you don't ever freaking do it again how about that how about we do that with the evers the whole ever family mom pa ever and the kids ever and every freaking ever don't get stuck

again you see the picture in buffalo new york that's not funny i'm not laughing how dear it's not funny the historic world war two fletcher class destroyer ship that they have in Buffalo. And so all of a sudden, it starts sinking. And the pictures of it, it's just, there's in between ships and the docks, and it's just starting to sink. And they don't know what happened. Somebody put a hole in it.

That's what happened. Okay. I could be wrong. Maybe it's something else. But usually, when things that float don't float anymore, yeah, there's a hole in it. I know. It's just the way it goes. They have dewatering efforts continuing as we speak.

The large dewatering pumps capable of removing 13,000 gallons per minute have been placed on site. So more than 3 million gallons of water are inside the ship. Oh, we don't know why. We just wondered what was going on. We just, you know, we saw it starting to sink and then, all right, we figured, hey, that's a critical. piece of our nation's naval heritage, we probably ought to not let it sink. Yeah, you think? Yeah, no kidding.

We don't know what happened to it. You know, bad weather. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know how it happened. We don't know how we're going to repair it. But we just know we don't want it to sink. So the pictures of it are awesome. It's not funny, and I'm sorry that it happened.

But I just kind of find it like we're not sure exactly what happened. Yeah, that's a problem. That's a little bit of a problem. Another thing that's a problem, as long as we're talking about ships, although this is just a boat, okay? It's just a fishing boat. It's not a ship. All right, it's a 20 meter long, that's 65 feet, vessel called the AKT1.

And Wednesday, they intercepted this ship, the Spanish police. They intercepted this ship, had three, tons, 3.3 short tons, three metric tons of cocaine. That seems to me, and I'm, you know, I'm out of the business. I'm out of the business right now. That seems to me like that's quite a bit. So the Spanish police have arrested five crew members, four Turkish citizens, and one person from the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia.

They were on the ship that was smuggling the drugs in. fuel tank. The drugs were believed to come from an unspecified location in South America. The Spanish Air Patrol spotted the suspicious ship while it was trying to hide among a fleet of fishing vessels. We just travel with these. We're good. We're no problem. I mean, you'd think that maybe they would have had a deal with the fishing vessels to say, yeah, they're fishing with us. Although, I mean, you don't want to be the head of the the shipping vessels, the fishing vessels with that deal, but

you know, just you can ride along with us. No problem for a little extra cash. If you get caught, you get caught. They're cracking down. They call the African route to South American traffickers who transfer loads of drugs to fishing vessels in the middle of the Atlantic before smuggling

them into Europe. Yeah, they got the big routed. Now that's what they do. They just kind of ride along with the fishing vessels. Don't mind us with our 300 tons. I'm sorry, three metric tons of cocaine, not 300. My gosh, we're not talking ships. This is a fishing boat, Jeff. There's only 3.3 short tons of cocaine on this ship.

It seems like quite a bit. I, you know, again, I could be wrong. It seems like quite a bit of cocaine. And I'll mention it one more time. If you have any time I do stories about, you know, ships and fishing vessels and cocaine being smuggled around the water, world. If you haven't watched 0-00 on Amazon,

watch it. It is fascinating from the very beginning to the end on a shipment of cocaine. From how it gets created, to how it gets shipped, to how it gets delivered, to how it gets spread out. It's just

amazing. It's called 0-0-0 on Amazon. And you can watch Batman on HBO Max too now. The Batman I had to see it to theaters. I had see it. I can watch it on HBO Max now too because it's available. So enjoy Batman

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