Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Frozen Fat Beads… | 6/19/23

Episode Date: June 19, 2023

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And most of the time, they're not. They have a bikini on or they have their bra and panties on. Well, this lady in Florida, just outside of Orlando, is now charged with lewd and lascivious exhibition. And she was taken to jail and held on $10,000 bond. Why? Well, she went into a Dollar General wrapped in a towel. And according to police, prior to her walking into the Dollar General,

she had come up to a car at a gas station, the Circle K, nearby, and asked for a lighter. There were two kids in the car and they asked the woman, hey, why you wear it only a towel? She said, I was too lazy to put clothes on. So one of the kids began recording her on his phone. That's when she dropped the towel exposing her breasts and genitals. Now then she went into the Circle K or into the Dollar General and the police were called and they reviewed video surveillance and footage from Circle K, and they arrested her for the, you know, the lewd and lascivious exhibition.

Now, I will, I'm torn between this. A, why doesn't this happen to me ever? And apparently she was intoxicated. No, get out of here. And she was sent to jail with a shirt and shorts donated from the Dollar General. The Dollar General said, here's some shorts and a t-shirt, which I, you know, thought was very nice. Now, if the kids hadn't started filming her, she wouldn't have dropped the towel.

But they're the ones that asked and started filming her. So why is she wrong? They wanted a show. She gave it to them. So just tell your kids that the next time they see a lady walking around a parking lot or a gas station was wrapped in a towel, asking for a lighter, or just say yes or no, give her a light. And don't ask. Don't ask why she's wearing a towel.

Oh, you know what? You can't ask. Just don't start bringing up your phone to film for the TikTok or the Instagram. Okay? Because when that happens, now you're going to get a show. And so I'm torn. I'm torn. Does she need to be arrested for that?

I mean, they're the ones that started filming. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So no one. supports animals and zoos more than this program, Chewing the Fat, and myself, Jeff Fisher. You know, I'm a fan. I've always said humans first. Of course, I believe that humans first. Animals should be subservient to humans. We rule the planet. Okay. But I do have a line, and that line is business with animals. I call me a prude, if you want, but I do think that

business with animals is not a good thing. So I see the story of this Penn State professor, who, by the way, is no longer a Penn State professor. The university has said that he has been released of his duties and his responsibilities. So he's on leave, although he didn't say they fired him. So he's still maybe getting a paycheck, we shall see. However, and I know innocent until proven guilty, although we do have footage of famous Matsukas.

64, a chemical engineering professor charged with numerous crimes related to incidents including sexual intercourse with an animal, open lewdness, indecency exposure, cruelty to animals, and disorderly conduct. So the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources began its investigation after a video from outside a public restroom at the park depicted a man involved in these acts. with his dog. He was, you know, naked from the waist down, except for socks and shoes. The Rangers reached out to campsite owners in the area to see if they had any footage of the person, and they got a photo,

later identified as the professor from 2014, as well as several from 2023. Cameras from the parking area captured him performing similar LUDACs with a collie back in May. So this is his spot This is where he goes As to what he says I do it to blow off steam

Holy cow Dude, what are you doing? Well, I do it to blow off steam Okay Apparently he told The investigators I'm done I'm dead

You don't understand I do it to blow off steam So it seems that he knows that business with animals is not correct. He does it to blow off steam. That's where I draw the line. And I know, like I said, you call me, call me whatever you want to call me.

I do draw the line on business with animals. And that's just the way it is. So we'll find out what happens to the professor on July 19th. That's when the hearing is to be held. So we shall see. And I know, innocent and tell proven guilty, but we do have video footage of the professor and his, his, his,

ongoingings with the animals. Now, I don't know. Maybe the animals agreed to it. Who knows? Maybe that's his argument. It was, can the animals agree to it? Well, in your mind, probably yes is the answer.

But I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say, how about, No. And maybe they'll call as a reference to his, in his case, this author, Joanna Bork, B-O-U-R-K-E. She's the author of Zophilia and Post-Human Love. Now, because of the algorithm knew I was looking at these stories about this professor, they sent me this story, and it's from 2020. And so the book launched her book, Zophilia and Post-Human Love launched a few years ago, and it's about what is meant by love between human and non-human animals. Why is

bidsiness with animals such a taboo? It is only in very recent years that some people have begun to undermine the absolute prohibition of zoo sexuality. Are there arguments dangerous, perverted, or simply wrongheaded? What does it mean to love non-human animals? More pertinately, what does it mean to love? The book launch again in 2020 we'll look at the history of debates about human sexual encounters with other species.

I have not read the book, been out for a few years. I apologize. I don't know how Joanna feels or what her end thoughts were on zoophilia and post-human love. But I have the impression it's possible that as a professor

of rhetoric at Grisham College, she very well may be all for it. I don't know that though. But if she shows up in court as someone to defend the professor, you know, I'm right. Then you have people like

actress Linda Blair. Remember her from The Exorcist? She's being sued after her pit bulls allegedly mauled the face of a neighbor's miniature horse. Can't be having that. You can't be having that. So she, one of her neighbors, near her acted California animal rescue,

claims two of her pit bulls entered their property and attacked one of their miniature horses. It's not the first time this has happened, according to the neighbors. And this time, the neighbors said they were even injured during the attack. Poor thing. A little miniature horrors. Getting it all mauled by a pit bull. Oh my gosh. According to this,

Linda was aware that they had dangerous animals on the property given that there's at least two previous occasions where the dogs came onto the property and attacked the people's livestock. Shockingly, the neighbor claims he had no choice

but to shoot one of the dogs in order to stop the attack. Wow. And now they want 25 grand. So they shot the dog. I mean, you have to. The dog's attacking your damn miniature horse. You've got to put them down. It's just the way it is.

Sorry, but it has to happen. Now, Linda's a big-time animal rescue person, no problem. And she's working with bully breeds. I will say, we have an American bully now in our house, and it's not a pit bull. It's called an American bully. And he's a big, strong dog, but that darn dog is one of the sweetest darn dogs. I understand it. But if you were to get on that dog's bad,

side. I would not want to be on that side. I would not want to be the miniature horse. Against my daughter's dog. You know, the dog that I swore we weren't going to get and not have in our house. Yeah, that dog, the one that's in the house. And my daughter's always, oh, you like the dog. You're always playing with it. Well, what am I supposed to do? Treat it bad. I mean, it's living here now. Because I said no to this dog. And then all of a sudden it showed up. man, did I put my foot down? Did I put my foot down? But I don't know what's happened.

I don't know if the miniature horses were, you know, taunting the pit bulls. I don't know. I don't know what could happen, but you had to put one of them down and now they still want $25,000 for, I don't know, I guess, for doctors' bills on the miniature horses.

So good luck. I'd luck to Linda. Good luck to the neighbors with their miniature horses. And good luck to the surviving pit bull, knowing that, hey, you go over there and mess with those miniature horses. You're going to go down with a bullet. Okay? All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately.

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It is the mid-season finale for Fear of the Walking Dead at the very first episode of Negan and Maggie in Dead City, which was pretty darn good. And you can listen to the podcast that Jason Butrell and my son Maximus and myself do each week about talking walking dead. Dead's still hanging on. I've got to tell you, still hanging on, while fear has been questionable, but the new Dead City

with Negan and Maggie was pretty darn good. I really enjoyed it. Nice to see. I haven't seen Idol yet. I know everybody's been getting messages. Well, have you seen Idol? What about Idol?

Are you watching Idol? No, I haven't seen it yet. The promos make me want to watch it. There's, you know, that's full of sex. And I know, I know. that we were all wound up at the weekend because he had some strange creepy sex scene in it and now i'm getting to it okay i'm getting to it i'm going to get to it this week at some point and i will let you know exactly how i feel about idle on hbo max and with mac have i talked about their stupid

logo now it got me thinking about the hb o max on the max logo i do not like it maybe we have talked about it. I know I've talked about it to other people. I just don't think Max was a good call for them, but they should... There's no... There's no anything resembling HBO in the logo. I guess maybe... I just don't like it.

It was HBO for so long, and then it was HBO Max, and now it's just Max, and I just don't feel like that was a good move on their part. But, you know, whatever. Whatever. They're going to do... They didn't call me, they didn't ask. So, just passing it along. I think it was...

kind of dumb. So I see where this mall, this Lake Forest Mall in Maryland, is having this liquidation auction, and this is going to be happening all around America these days as malls shut down. And I noticed that one-time store, I forget what it was. I think it was

a JC Penny. Maybe it was a Montgomery Ward. No, it was a Montgomery Ward that shut down in one of the cities I was living in. And I really wanted the tables that they had for that displayed pants and shirts and stuff, but they have the different sized tables,

almost like the accordion-like tables that slide under one another or slide out for display. Man, I really wanted those. And I went in and when they asked the guy, hey, you know, can I get these? Oh, we already sold them. Well, okay, well, how come I wasn't,

you know, you didn't get a hold of me? I didn't you call. So, now there's this big mall liquidating their goods. And you can buy this giant teddy bear and you could buy this dairy queen ice cream machine. And it's pretty, it's pretty, some of the stuff is, you know, kind of weird. But you could buy, you know, the mall's holiday decor stuff, oversized Christmas trees,

all of that stuff, which is kind of cool. If you look at, I went to the auction site and there's pages and pages of lots that you can bid on. And some of it looks interesting with bookshelves. There's a pickup truck that they're auctioning off. And there's a front end that's called a smart shield plow that they were using for the parking lot, I assume. Or at least where employees park during the winter. And I've got this giant canoe from the food court. And, you know, they've got the scissors lift.

And they've got a candy, giant candy machine, which would be. kind of cool. They've got this play area for kids with walls, which, you know, it would be kind of cool to have. Although the current bid right now is $760 for that. When I spend it $760 for that, no, not really.

There's some shelving, though, that would be fascinating. I would really like to have for, you know, books and stuff. But I don't know what else is in the lot. You know, they have lot numbers and you've got to bid on the lot. So you take it all. You take it all.

Now, the liquidation starts July 4th. You can go in and take a look at the lots. And then July 7th, that's right. July 7th is when the auction is, right? Closing starts July 6th. So, online auction starts closing Thursday, July 6th. And then you've got to pick it up between the 10th and the 14th. So, and there is, I like this fact,

shipping is not available. So you come and get it. You back your own trailer up and you come and get your stuff. And right over there is lot number six. And that one's yours. Oh, that's the Chevy pickup truck, though. So that bid is at 16,000 right now. Current bid, 16,100.

And it says here required 16,200. Oh, to a bid to go up your bid. Right. Okay, got it. I was thinking there was an actual starting off point. No. 16 grand for a 2014 Chevy Silver Dorado, TK. 2,500.

Eh, maybe. Maybe, but there's pages and pages of stuff. I mean, it's just the kind of stuff. You get the giant Delfield refrigerator, which sits on the floor. You know, then you have the under counter refrigerators. Those are kind of cool. It would not bad to have one. They've got a store, they've got store fixtures and items, but one of the items is a stand-up refrigerator and freezer.

I bid right now for that lot is, you know, $45 bucks. So you get that lot number one zero, 22 for 45 bucks, the refrigerator's worth that. If everything else, if you just throw the rest of the stuff away. So, you know, some of it's worth it to get in there and get some of these lots. And you can make some money with it too. You know, if you had a thrift store or whatever, you go in and you buy the lot, and then you, you know, you make your money back with the things that you don't want. Is that how it works, Jeff?

Yes, that is how it works. You sell your own stuff at a flea market or whatever. People make a lot of money doing that. That's more work than I want to do. You know, buying and selling stuff and going to the flea market. I see this guy pulling through our neighborhood every week, every week, the night before trash or a real early morning trash night. He's got his pickup truck and he's picking up his stuff that he wants, man.

Good for him. Good for him. But I just, you can make a living. If you can make a living doing that, good for you. But I don't know that I want to just drive. through neighborhoods, picking up human liquidation stuff.

But if you take it to your own stuff or fix it up and take it to the flea market and sell it and make a living from that, bless your heart. Keep it up. At some point I may just, you know, wave them in and say, open up my garage door and say, see all this stuff? Take it.

It's yours. I want my garage empty. Please just take it. But, Maybe I should just go through it and sell it online. Maybe. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too.

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He suffered a stroke. Rest in peace, Mr. Brown. He played. Madden said that he believed he could hit you with his forearm and take a quarter out of you. So he played offense with a defensive guy's personality.

He figured that if he really hit you, you wouldn't play hard until the next quarter. So if he hit you really hard, quarter out of you. Awesome. Bob Brown, former NFL offensive lineman, dead, a Hall of Fame offensive lineman, dead at the age of 81. Then we have Big Pokey, Houston legend. Houston, Texas legend, Big Pokey, has passed away at the age of 48.

Now, his real name is Milton Powell. And we don't know what killed him, so don't look at me like that. let you think you know what it is. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. All I'd know that he was on stage in Beaumont and he passed out and they couldn't revive him. So, I mean, I know Big Poki was 48 and, you know, he was, uh, you know,

he looked to be a little overweight, but I don't know what killed him. They didn't say. They just know that he was on stage in Beaumont and passed out and then he could now. be revived when he made it to the hospital. So big pokey dead at the age of 48. Then we have a man, an unidentified man, fell over 4,000 feet from the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Yeah, you're not going to make that. Sorry about it. You're just not going to make it. Now, it was 33 years old. So rest in peace,

to him and to you know big pokey and to bob brown but the skywalk attraction which extends out over the chasm and allows tourists to look down to its bottom yeah it's like this big circle that comes across

I mean it's 25 bucks to walk out on that thing I don't know I'm looking at the picture of it you could actually you could fall off of it you know they've got the rails that bend in so it would take some doing for you to literally fall off of that by accident.

So they're guessing that it probably wasn't an accident. They're not saying that it was murder, so it could be that he decided to take the leap himself. I know that this is on the Hualapai tribe side of the Grand Canyon. So it costs you money to get into the park and then $25 to go out on the skywalk. It extends 70 feet from the rim. Holy cow.

You see the picture of it. I mean, you are out over the canyon, baby. And I'm sure that the old Hualapai Nation does not want that thing to fall down. So you're probably pretty safe, actually. But I probably would go out there. I don't know if there's a weight limit. Maybe someone from the Huala Pai would say, yeah, no, just we're going to go ahead and give you your 25 back. You're not walking out on that.

It's very possible that could happen to me. I would not be surprised. But they have launched an investigation. They launched a rescue effort, but really, I mean, helicopter support, and they found the victim dead at the scene. Yeah, no kidding. They had two short-haul technicians. you know, respond with the helicopter and he was, they, you know, determined he was, he was deceased and then, you know, they got the man out of there.

However they do it, they got him out of there. I don't know if they, I don't know if the helicopter guys look down and they go, yeah, no, he's not alive. So, that's all yours. Or maybe the helicopter rescue people are Hawalupai too. I don't know that. But I would say, I would say that my guess is when you go out of, on to the old skywalk,

if you want to jump, that's a good way to do it because you're not living through that. You just aren't. And if you do, is life worth living after that? No, thank you. Oh, you know, looking at this too,

along the edges is the walkway, and then there's a glass partition between the inside of the rim and the outside of the rim, so you can look down into the canyon. Holy. cow. I don't see, oh yeah, one guy looks like he's actually walking on the glass. I don't know that I would do that. But, well, Jeff, they probably wouldn't let you out there anyway.

So, anyway, we did lose him, a 33-year-old unnamed man, falling from the skywalk into the Grand Canyon. Rest in peace. Then we had thousands of dead fish that have washed up on the Texas coast. And they were telling people, you know, don't go to the beach. You know, no kidding. I mean, the smell. Oh, and some of the pictures coming from the coastline where these dead fish have washed up, you can smell it from the picture. You can quote me on that. There's very few pictures in life.

There's very few photographs in life that you look at and you can smell it. This is one of them. I can think of a few others that I thought, remember the scratch and sniff? Well, maybe you don't. But a hundred years ago, they had these magazines, and you could scratch and sniff the page. You don't need to scratch and sniff the photograph of the dead fish on the shore because it is a lot of dead fish.

And apparently, they died. The fish kill was a result of low dissolved oxygen in the water, which I guess is common in the summer when temperatures rise. according to Texas Park and wildlife. So they're just trying to keep beachgoers away from the old, from the old, oh man. I'm just looking at some other pictures of it too. Oh, yeah, they're avoiding swimmers to avoid the coast.

Yeah, thank you. Yeah, there are all kinds of bacterial levels and sharp fins of the dead fish. Why don't you just stay away from there? Okay, you know what? We're just going to close this beach down. and you guys can just stay away from there. Now, they say that, you know, I said they call this Fish Killed that happens, it's common.

Okay, because of dissolved oxygen in the water. And then I saw a story that talked about the spike in ocean heat, and scientists are all wound up saying that maybe we have breached a climate tipping point. So that's the headline. The headline says, spike in ocean heat, stunned scientists. Have we breached a climate tipping point? And it goes down and down and down, talking about how hot the ocean is in record levels. And they're strikingly hot. And they've gone upward over the past two weeks. And are we past the climate tipping point? And finally, as we get

way down into the story, it quotes a scientist that says, the answer is like, no. But we do get to the answer to being slightly no as we get into the story. Instead, it is much more probable to be a compounding coalescence of various

factors. Well, duh, thank you, Mr. Scientist. It is much more probable to be the compounding coalescence of various factors. Some natural, some human. And so, you know what,

It's probably a little to do with this and a little to do with that. But there's no word on whether this causes the low dissolved oxygen in the water, which kills all the fish. So I'm guessing it has something to do with it. But I am not a scientist. Oh, and as long as we're in the dead segment, how about the guy that faked his own death? Man, the people were pretty pissed off at this guy.

so this David Barton B-A-E-R-T-E-N known on TikTok as Ragnar Le Fu says he felt unappreciated by his relatives so he faked his own death and then he turned up at his funeral in a helicopter to

shock his loved ones and he shocked them many of them and of course all of it was posted on TikTok so you got to go for the moment right? He arrived at his own funeral and the footage shows the mourners watching as the helicopter landed in the field and it cuts to people surrounding him and walking towards him hugging greeting him uh he has finally uh been interviewed and said that uh probably shouldn't have done it

yeah i don't want to do it i felt bad now uh his wife knew that he was going to do it tried to talk him out of it the kids uh only found out after so he'd let the kids think he was dead for a couple of days a bastard and then uh people were some of the family were wound up a lot of the family didn't show up for the funeral. So he figures, well, those are the people, you know, that don't really care. But I guess they've reached out now to him, which he claims, well, I guess I really won

because they did reach out to me. So if you're feeling, I don't know, unappreciated, and you think, gosh, darn it, you know, what would make me feel appreciated is if I, you know, pretend that I'm dead. And then everybody can show up at my funeral, and I'll just show up, surprise!

Here I am. I'm not really dead. I don't know that I would be hugging and kissing him I might be I'd be a little angry I mean maybe I give him a little hug and say you know I'm thankful you're not dead but I'm really pissed that you did this and I don't know I don't know

I guess I'm torn you know I get it he felt unappreciated and it's something new to put on his TikTok channel and some other TikTokers you know videoed it as well so did they videotape it or just video it They just videoed it. There's no tape anymore.

Okay. And so he feels that, you know, he was hurt. And he just now he feels bad. And he probably shouldn't have done it. So, yeah, darn the luck. Sorry. I should have let you in on it. Or you know what?

I should have just not pretended to die and had a funeral. But I did. So get over it. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of... fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton cross-training tread plus powered by Peloton IQ built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run,

lift, flow, and go. Explore the new Peloton cross-training tread plus at onepeloton.ca. So I did not know that fake meat uses what's called frozen fat beads placed into the fake meat patties to make them look and taste like the real thing. Really weird. So what they use is the same thing that they make Dippin' Dots with. I mean, it's the same company. Dippin Dots, the ice cream of the future. Future, future. So we've all had Dippin Dots, right?

When you go to the baseball stadiums or, you know, the zoos, I think some zoos have them. They should if they don't. And amusement parks have them because they're dip-a-diff, their tiny spheres of frozen dairy. You eat them out of the team's little baseball cup dish which you take home as a souvenir because it's ice cream of the future. And so it dates back to 1987 when this researcher at All-Tech Biotechnology was working on a new way

to create flash frozen animal feed. When he was explaining the process to his family, he said, I think I can make ice cream with that. And he did. So the next year, he made DIPAADOTS, and it was the next big thing in frozen tweets, right? I mean, it was going to be the ice cream of the future.

Ingredients are dropped into liquid nitrogen that's about 300 minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit, which is, you know, I'm not a scientist. I'm guessing that's really cold. It freezes instantly, so it doesn't absorb the air or ice crystals that give other types of ice cream its familiar texture. It has to be stored at much lower temperatures, about 50 minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit or less, to maintain its shape. Well, then they started having trouble and they filed for bankruptcy in 2011, 2012-ish, but a father-son duo scooped it up for a bargain and began reviving it. Well, now, and how they revived it is they...

realized, hey, we can make frozen, frozen fat beads and put them into fake meat patties. So they look and taste like the real thing. So the new owners just sold the company that they bought for $12.7 million. They just sold it for $222 million. That's a pretty good increase. I don't know what they spent. Coming up with the fat beans. but it worked because you invested 12.7 million and within less than 10 years later,

you sell it for 222 million dollars. That's pretty sweet. I'll tell you one thing that isn't sweet. Now, this story is from Germany, but this could be happening in America. It could be happening all over the world, and I don't like it. I don't like it at all. So according to this, aunt business is aunt, the, the insect, the ant.

You know, they're busy taking care of business. It's springtime, and that's what ants do, apparently, is take care of a little spring business. Well, all animals do. It's springtime. They're out of their hibernation, and you know what? We're looking for a little business. So apparently, the ant's colony took over this telecommunications distribution box,

and I guess they thought it was a cave, and they thought this is a perfect place for us to take. take care of ant business and they did but when they're together and they're busy crawling all over each other doing whatever ants do to ants they leave a wafer thin acid trail and that ate through the cables and the circuit boards so they just shut down the internet of this german errant town really this whole entire town uh and people were a little wound up now they sent in the you know the bug killer and they got rid of them and so

then they obviously fixed the cables and the circuit boards and their backup. It took a few days to figure out what the deal was and what was happening. According to you know, ant expert, I'm sorry, it's not really an ant, it's expert. It's an insect expert.

They settled in the distribution box because they think it's a cave. That's what I said. Thank you. And while they're crawling around the box, they leave their secretion containing the formic acid. There's so many of them that it eats through all the metal. That is awesome.

They don't know what they're going to do. They don't know how to keep the ants out of these circuit boards. Well, I do. How about you put it some, have the bug guy right there often. Anytime any ant comes in any direction, just no, you're dead. We kill them immediately. Don't try to save them. Ants are part of the planet.

Jeff. No, I know. I know. But I think we need to, if the ants are moving in to take care of ant-orgy business, and that's going to put out the humans internet, no, thank you. No, that's not going to happen. We're not going to allow that to happen.

And we just put up a big sign. No ants a lot. And they'll read it and they'll go to another place. Right? Right. So, I see last week where Fred Ryan, he is the publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post. He's been there for quite a while now since Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post.

I think he came on right after Jeff took over or bought the place, and he's been running it since then. He's stepping down. And Bezos said that his longtime friend and colleague, Patty Stone Seifer, will take him. take over as the interim CEO, and Ryan is going to remain publisher throughout August. Which, you know, good, nice of you. Thanks, Fred. We appreciate it. But what was interesting to me about the story is that the guy who is at the head of the Washington Post, who still is actually until through August, said that he is going to lead the newly formed, nonpartisan Center on Public Civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Huh. The guy who's been running the Washington Post is going to take over the center, or it's actually newly formed. It's not even taking over. They're putting it together as we speak. The nonpartisan center on public civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Will it be nonpartisan? Will it? will it Fred okay you know what if you say so if you say so Fred then I'm sure it will be so all right I'll leave you with something to think about as you go about your day thanks for listening to chewing the fat

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well, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Now, you don't, I know that sometimes you don't listen to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. You know, you listen to other things as well. We all do, but those are just the rules. So you may want to practice it because it's going to be difficult. Sometimes if you haven't done it before, somebody's going to say, hey, what are you listening to? And if it's not chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher at the time, you're going to want to, jump and tell them what you're actually listening to. No, that can't be. And it doesn't change after that. Like you could say, hey, what are you listening to? And if you tell them something, then you go, oh, no, I really meant to say chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. It doesn't have the same effect.

I mean, I appreciate it. And sure, you need to do that if you screw up, absolutely. If you, if someone says, hey, what are you listening to? And you say, oh, I'm listening to. And then you realize after you tell them, I meant to say, I'm listening to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher, it's already that moment. That quick moment is already lost, but, you know, I appreciate you trying. So practice once in a while. Just when you're out and about

and you're walking along the sidewalk just ever so often go, oh, I'm listening to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Just practice. It's important that you practice. All right, so I'm going to leave you with a little something to think about today as you're out walking around doing it

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