Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Gimmie Shelter… | 6/2/25

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

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For those of you listening live, today is the 2nd of June 2025. So be prepared for hurricane season and Pride Month, for that matters. One of my favorite stories I didn't get to on Friday or Saturday on Saturday morning live was the hikers in New York. They were hiking the Adirondack Mountains, and they called 911 to report a third member of their party they believe had died. State Forest Rangers responded to the call about a hiker who had reportedly died in the Cascade Mountains. It's a popular summit in the Adirondock High Peaks. Who hasn't climbed that?

And so the two hikers who called 911 also. told Stewart on the Mountain Summit that they were lost. And the steward determined that the hikers were in an altered mental state. They had taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and yeah, we were mistaken. Yeah, you know, that

person that we thought died, yeah, he was just out hiking around, wandering around high on mushrooms. And then he showed up. So, the ranger escorted, the hikers down to an ambulance and then they took him to a hospital and then they brought the third guy to the campsite

and everything was all. Everything was okay. Yeah, we were just high on mushrooms. I don't know if they get charged for that. I mean, that's a lot of time and money spent on trying to find someone who was reported dead, not dead, because you were high on mushrooms. But just a reminder, if you're out hiking and you decide to take some

hallucinogenic mushrooms, which, you know, no judgment by me. I'm fine with you doing that. Just remember that if you can't find your friend, he probably didn't die. He's just out there wandering around. You know, like you. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. I had several of you email me this story at Chewing the Fat at theBlaze.com and makes me want to go out and purchase the Heribou gummy product. And I never wanted to actually buy the Haribu gummy products because they're okay. I mean, yes, I've had them before. I'm not a big fan, but I don't dislike the product.

I'm just not a big fan of it. However, they have issued a major recall. Apparently, some of their gummies were found to be tainted with cannabis. Now you have me interested in your product. Apparently, these products became tainted with cannabis and several people reportedly fell ill. Uh-huh. Fell ill.

Okay, you got me. So they're investigating how the heck it could happen. They've issued a nationwide recall in the EU in the Netherlands. So they want to find out just what happened.

Apparently, the customers were enjoying the heromoh happy cola fizz gummies including multiple members of a single family. Yeah. And said they felt dizziness after eating the sweets.

Yeah. That's called being high. And samples were taken and cannabis was found in them. And we do not know how that happened. I don't know what. Maybe did someone in your family taint the gummies with cannabis or did it come from the actual factory? But they recalled the entire stock in the Netherlands just as a precaution. And all the bags with the post date before January, 2026 on the shelves, I guess, have been pulled.

So if you've purchased some of it. of the cola fizz, I'm sorry, the Haribu happy cola fizz gummies with that end date on them, I guess you could turn them back in and get your money back or replace the bag with something new, or you could, you know, maybe set them aside and see if yours was tainted with a cannabis as well. Just a thought from me. But either way, be careful if, you know, you don't want to become ill from eating the Hariboo, happy cola fizz gummies, do you? No, no, of course not.

Of course you don't. And then we have a recall from Hormel. Hormel has recalled the 256,000 pounds of canned beef stew over wood fragments. Yeah, that's kind of a bummer. So, I mean, actually, the canned beef stew, and it does show up in my pantry from time to time, the dinty Moore beef stew, does show up in my pantry from time to time.

There are a couple of people in my house that actually like it. And I'm not opposed to it. I've had it many times in my life, but it just, you know, I'm not, again, just like the Haribu, Cola, Fizz, Gummies. You know, whatever, I'm not a fan.

But I do see it on the shelf in the pantry from time to time. So if you have purchased the 20-ounce metal can of dinty Moore beef stew, you can take it back and get your money back or get a refund or get a new can of Dintymore because apparently there's wood chips in the product. Now, here's the thing. There's been no confirmed reports of injury. So this is just a recall out of an abundance of caution, of course.

So earlier this year, we had wood like materials in lean cuisine and stofers frozen meals. We had recalls on those products, and now we have a recall on dinty more beef stew with wood chips. I'm sorry, wood fragments in the product. What is happening at these particular plants that are putting these things together? Are people dropping toothpicks in it? Because I thought we were done, you know, having factories made from wood. I was pretty sure we don't make machines out of wood anymore.

But maybe they do. Maybe they do. But if you have dinty more beef stew, 20-ounce cans in your pantry, be careful. And as long as we're talking about food products, I might as well tell you about a lawsuit that's taking place from Mondales International.

They are suing all these supermarket chains, alleging that the packaging for all these store brand cookies and crackers blatantly copies the, I can't say this name, Mandela's products, like chips ahoy, wheat thins, and Oreos. So in federal lawsuit, filed in Illinois, Chicago-based Mondalez, said Aldi's packaging was likely to deceive and confuse customers

and irreparably harm Mandelaes and its brands. So they're seeking monetary damages and a court order that would stop Aldi from selling products that infringe on its trademarks. Now, Aldi, of course, didn't respond. I'm sure they know that it's pretty close. When you see the pictures side by side, I mean, it's darn close. Now, does it confuse me as a customer? No, it does not.

I know the difference between Oreo and the Aldi brand of Cookie. But, you know, maybe someone would get confused. I know. I know. Maybe someone thinks that this is the lesser brand of Oreo or the lesser brand of Tips Hoy. Well, it is a lesser brand, but it's not made by that company. so I can understand the reasoning behind Mandelaes suing them. It's Mandelaes.

I got it. Now, Aldi's been in trouble before. They've done this before, so we'll see. They've had lawsuits in Europe where an appeals court said, yeah, you know what? Aldi was using a design similar to the packaging of its lemon cider to this Thatcher's, this cider company in the UK. And they were found guilty of that.

So it's not a surprise that they're doing this. I mean, I'm sure that they're doing it on purpose. But does it confuse me? I mean, that's a tough one. That's a tough one because, no, as a customer, I know the difference. But I guess you're not supposed to do that. And Aldi's like, what? We're just making cookies.

We're just putting our product packaging on our cookies. Oh, my gosh. It does look like yours, doesn't it? Oh, well, I'm sorry. I mean, this kind of thing's been going on for a long time. When did coming to America come out? The documentary coming to America, 88, 89, something like that. And that was what McDowell's was in trouble with with McDonald's in that documentary, right?

I mean, he explained it in the movie. Look, me and the McDonald's people, misunderstand me. Uh-huh. See, they're McDonald's. Right. I'm McDowell's. Right. They got the golden arches.

Mine is the golden arks. See, they got the big Mac. I got the big Mick. We both got two all beef patty, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions. But they use a sesame seed bun. My buns have no seeds. Just think about it. So, I mean, this battle's been going on forever.

And McDowell's obviously remained open for many years once that battle started. So we'll see how much it cost Aldi to keep their packaging looking similar to those from Mandelaes. And I know that Aldi is, I mean, they've been promoted as one of the fastest growing grocery chains in the U.S. They have more than 2,500 stores in 39 states, and they always are talking about expanding. and they just announced that its new CEO would take effect here in the U.S. beginning September 1st, so we'll see if McGrath, the new CEO of Aldi, can handle all this.

And I just want to say this as well. I don't want this to go unnoticed. I thought that the Oreos and Chips Ahoy and Nutter Butter, well, that was a Nabisco product. Well, it's still Nabisco, but it's under the umbrella of Mandelaez. No. I still want it to be Nabisco. Okay?

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Remember when we were supposed to, you know, be new rich people with NFTs, the non-fungible tokens? I wish I had sold some. I'll tell you that. Not purchased, but I wish I had sold some. Well, back in 2021 in March, that digital artist Mike Winkleman, known as Beeple, I mean, he sold his NFT artwork every days, the first 5,000 days. and if you don't know what I'm talking about, you can look it up. It was, you know,

this menagerie of photos altogether that he titled every days, the first 5,000 days. Sold for a staggering $69.9.3 million at Christy's auction. This is for an NFT. So, I mean, Beeple made him, you know, the top three valuable living artists.

And then we moved into the digital world, right? The NFTs. Hey, you know, The investment is not as good as, not as good as Vignesh Sundison from Singapore was hoping for, because he's a programmer and a cryptocurrency investor, and you probably know him as a Medicovan. Yeah, I mean, who doesn't. He paid for the piece using 42,329 ethers, more cryptocurrency,

and it was worth that $69.3 million. Well, this is kind of an investment that I would do because he bought it for $69.3 million, as I said. But according to the expert, now it's only worth $20,000. Wow. I mean, you might as well junk it. Well, it's a non-fungible token and it's a digital picture. So I mean, you can't necessarily junk it. But I'd be saying, I don't think you could get 20 grand for it.

Honestly, it's probably worth zero. And he spent all that money on it. I mean, good for the artist for pulling that off with his NFT artwork, but wow, that is worth nothing now. And that's the type of investment that Jeff Fisher makes because something I would think, yeah, that's going to be worth something. Not so much. I mean, you can take the savings that you saved getting your subscription to Blaze TV, BlazeTV. BlazTV.com slash Jeffie.

And you could probably just go see a movie. I mean, you can send it to me, Jeffie CTF, at my PayPal. Or you could go see a movie. I mean, the top movies are Lilo and Stitch, number one, Mission Impossible, number two, Karate Kid Legends, took a beating by reviewers. So, I mean, it was number three at the box office, 21 million.

Not bad. Mission Impossible had 27.3 million boys dropped less than 50, over 50%. And Lilo and Stitch dropped well over 50% as well. So that's got 610 million global. Mission Impossible is up to 3,000. 153.8 million global. Ooh, okay.

We'll see how that continues to go. We've had China's 25.2 million debut. Okay, we'll see how that continues to go. Final destination, bring her back, sinners drops down to sixth, Thunderbolt, seventh, friendship eight, last rodeo staying in the top ten, with another 2.1 million for this weekend. So that's continued to hang in there. has made over 10 million for that, for that movie.

And Jay Hope Tour, Hope on stage in Japan was number 10, with $939,000 domestic opening, the BTS members concert film. Man, do I want to see that? Do I want to see that? That is for sure. I did not go to the theater this weekend. However, I did watch a couple of movies.

Did I watch two movies? No, one. I watched The Wild Robot, which is on one of the, the platforms, I think maybe Netflix. My daughter loved it. My father-in-law thought it was nice. I thought it was eh.

Kind of boy, it was just kind of eh. It was fun. It was fun. I got it. A lot of big stars doing voice work in that movie of which I was not one. But it was okay. It was all right. But I did watch, I mean, we had the, holy cow, we had the season finale of Mobland.

So now we have to wait until whenever. Mobland has been re-upped. Everyone's saying it's going to be re-uped, but it hasn't been officially re-up for Paramount Plus. They better do it. They left us with, I mean, the whole thing is, it left us with, wow, I don't know how they're going to do season two, but if they need help writing it, they can contact me. I just reach out on my ex account at Jeffrey JFR. They can reach out on Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. You know, they can email the show Chewing the Fat of the Blaze.com. You can reach out of my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat, with Jeff Fisher. You know what?

Anyone from Bob Blank can order a cameo from me at Jeffrey JFR on the Cameo app. It's not free, but it is worth every darn cent, whether it's pennies or nickels. Anyway, great series really liked it a lot. Friends and Neighbors or My Friends and Neighbors on Apple TV, the season finale show this weekend.

Awesome. That was over with. I'm not quite sure. I mean, I like the end. but if you haven't seen it, I liked the ending, and it got me singing. Both shows ended on a Rolling Stone song. So that was the Stones weekend. Friends and Neighbors at Mobland ended with the Stone song.

Friends and Neighbors ended with Gimmy Shelter, which I love, probably one of my favorite songs by the Stones. And there's a Tazma Hall version of Gimmy Shelter, which I love where they use artists from all around the world. Anyway, I don't know. It's old now. one of my favorite versions of Gimme Shelter. And then Mobland ended with sympathy for the devil, which is interesting.

Anyway, I just enjoyed both shows, and I'm bummed that their seasons are over. I made it through Department Q on Netflix. I know. I know. I know. I couldn't help myself. And I started out on Thursday when it dropped the first two, I think, and then I got a couple on Friday. And then this weekend I needed to end it.

Very good. Enjoyed the heck out of it. Worth the watch. Then we had NBA game 6th, Eastern Conference Finals Saturday night. Indiana Pacers win. So it's going to be the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma Thunder in the NBA Championship. And how is it possible? Just as a side note between you and me.

Okay. Just as a side note, how is it possible that Tyrese Halliburton was not the MVP of that series? I don't understand. Apparently they were talking about all the votes were close. It was five to four. and okay, so they ended up giving it to What's His Face, who had a good series, Pascal Sycambe, but he was no, it wasn't Tyrese Halliburton.

Halliburton was the leader of that team and deserved the MVP, but he didn't get it. So we'll see what happens in the finals with Oklahoma and Indiana. Should be a fun series, though, looking forward to it. I don't know that the NBA is looking forward to it. They have two teams that, one from Indiana and one from Oklahoma in the NBA championship. That's not New York. That's not L.A.

That's not California. That is not the East Coast of America. That is right in the middle of America. So have at it. Have at it. And so anything else, did I catch anything else this weekend that was worthy? I think I ran down what I watched, right? We did, I did Dead City, of course, Walking Dead City, Sunday, probably one of the best episodes so far on Dead City.

Talking Walking Dead did not get recorded this morning. For those of you listening live, as I said earlier, it is the 2nd of June 2025. So we had some Fidortner issues. So we'll get to that. So hopefully Talking Walking Dead will drop tomorrow. If you subscribe to you and the fat, you'll know when Talking Walking Dead drops. But probably one of the things. the best episodes ever let you in a little secret of my review.

I enjoyed the heck out of this episode. So I'm looking forward to discussing it with Jason Buttrill and Maximus Fisher on Talking Walking Dead. And of course, we did Saturday morning live with Brad on Saturday. And we discussed something that I have to talk about today, which is just amazing to me. We discussed the Australian government, Queensland government. destroying some COVID vaccine study stuff. And we've got to talk about it here too because it's amazing to me

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Okay, here in this country, we find out that the FBI has an investigation on COVID coverup and they're zeroing in on three separate plans. lots. They're investigating China's hidden virus origins, the deletion of federal data, and political tampering with vaccine approvals. Huh. So they've got whistleblowers and they have some court wins and internal emails showing a coordinated effort to mislead the public. Huh. That is weird. In Australia, Queensland, to be exact, they are looking to destroy a COVID vaccine study, this bio bank, they're looking to destroy it.

So it's a, it's bio samples from a study into the immune effects of COVID vaccines. And they're going to just destroy them. So they've already cut off all the money to this study. And now they're just going to destroy everything before we get the actual report. They just wanted to go away. So this research was addressing. everything, all the on-foreseen complications of the COVID vaccines. And so now we're saying, you know, we're just get rid of that.

Just destroy it. Don't even worry about it. We don't need it. We've stopped giving you money. We don't need any of that information. We're done with it. Why would some government do that? Specifically, Queensland in Australia.

I would you destroy all of that. Huh. It does make one wonder. Doesn't it? Now, there's plenty of people out there that are arguing, hey, we should do this. And so maybe we should not do this. And you know what? I doubt very much that they may have already destroyed it.

I don't know. They doesn't say in the story that that's been destroyed. It does say that they asked if they would ever be told when it was going to be destroyed. and they did not get a response. Oh, they did say that, yeah, we're considering it. Uh-huh. But that's all, I think that's all you're going to get out of Queensland. Yeah, you know, we're considering it.

But you know what? This bio bank and all the data, that just needs to go away. Why do we need all that? We don't need any information on long COVID or how it affected people. Because it's all BS. We know that now. And we just get rid of it. And then be sure to take a booster as well.

I, one would think that the, the information that they had is going to find out that perhaps, perhaps the COVID-19 vaccines were not good. I know, it's a crazy, it's a crazy thought on my part, so never mind. We don't need to know. Just destroy all the evidence and that no one will know the truth, right? Right. I mean, I read a story this weekend about this, I think it's a nonprofit, not sure, but it's down in Florida, and it's, you know, this interspecies communication prize. And good for this group. It's the Collier Doolittle Prize for two-way interspecies communications. It was lost last year. And the winning team is from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,

collaboration with the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. I mean, holy God. That's all it is. It's just the, it's the Woods Hole Oceanographic institution in collaboration with the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, who has been studying

bottle-nosed dolphins in waters near Sarasota, Florida, for more than four decades. So they've been talking, they've been studying these bottle-nose dolphins for 40 years. And talking about interspecies communications. And I went and looked, you know, some of it's fascinating. and you get to hear how the dolphins talk to each other and how they move and how they eat and that kind of thing.

It's fascinating. I get it. I get it. But we've got, we're spending all this money and it's private money, so whatever. I at least I think it is as part of this Collier Doolittle Prize, which is the Jeremy Collier Foundation and Tel Aviv University. So I'm guessing that it's all private money. I'm good with that unless they were getting you said money as well. But we're doing all this on interspeople.

BC's communication. Okay, I guess it's okay. Sure. Do I want to know how bottlenose dolphins react to each other and how they talk to their young and everything? Sure, I'm okay with that. Especially, you know, living in Florida for so long, you see them all the time. You know what a big part they are of the ecosystem. I get it. It's fine. If you've never seen dolphins or been around, you know, the inland waterways with the, with the dolphins and the, uh, manatees and all that. You know, whatever. I got it's fine. It's fine. I guess we need to know that. My point to this is we're doing all of this work on finding out how this interspecies communications. But we have governments actively destroying information about the lives of humans on this earth.

And we care more about bottlenose dolphins than we do finding out what the deal is on the COVID-19 vaccines. Is that where that's where we're at? Yeah, okay. All right, fine. Whatever. I get it. I get it. I don't like it, but I get it.

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Well, let's begin with Loretta Swit. Loretta Swit. You remember her as Hot Lips Hoolahan in the hit comedy series MASH. She passed away at the age of 80. they announced that it was suspected natural causes. Okay, sure, whatever you say, that's fine. You realize that she was in 250 episodes of MASH? That's just amazing to me.

250 episodes of that stupid TV show and the two and a half hour season finale. Wow, which, I mean, that aired in 1983, which, according to all reports, remains the most watched episode of a series television. in history. All right. They had 105 million viewers. Okay. It was a 60.2 rating. Yeah, America was watching the end of that show for sure. Now, sure, she was in all kinds. She was in Manix. And she was in Mission Impossible and Gunsmoke and Bonanza and the bold ones. But hello, MASH was her baby. No question. She wasn't, Sally Kellerman played Hot Lips in the movie. But I'm not sure I know the story.

about why Kellerman didn't get the TV gig. But so, I mean, I'm pretty sure Sally Kellerman didn't die. Yeah, she died back in 2022. So she was still alive through all of this. Anyway, she was a good move on Loretta's point of view because she made some serious money and became really famous with MASH. And as she passed away at the age of 87. And I said this weekend, I'm talking to my family.

I'm like, I met her when I was in California. California ones. And then I got to thinking, I'm not sure if it was Loretta Swit or if it was Sally Kellerman. I can't remember which one it was I met because when I look at the picture of Sally Kellerman, I think it was her. We were out to dinner and we were in Venice Beach or on Venice Beach and we were eating dinner there and it was either Loretta Switt or Sally Kellerman sitting there in a booth that I went up to and said hello. That's it. I didn't take any pictures. I didn't ask for any autograph. I just, hello, nice to meet you, enjoy your work, and we moved down with their life.

I'm going to be sitting over here eating my dinner with these people. I think it was Sally Keller, went and not Loretta Swett, but I just don't remember. Yes, I was still partaking in a number of different things in my life at that time. So, I mean, my brain cells have long since died from that time. Then we have actress Valerie Mahaffey, Valerie Mahaffey. Valerie Mahaffey dead at the age of 71. When you see Valerie, you'll say, Oh, yeah, her.

She, remember her from Northern Exposure? What a great TV series that was. Well, the first two or three seasons of that was awesome of Northern Exposure. She passed away at the age of 71. She's from the great state of Texas. Apparently, she was battling cancer. She's been on all kinds of TV shows and movies. You remember at Seabisc,

Sully, Jungle to Jungle. I mean, she's been in a lot of stuff, at Northern Exposure, of course. And she was in the soap opera, The Doctors. I think she won a primetime Emmy for her role in Northern Exposure. And she just appeared, she was just working on this Apple TV show. I mean, she's battling cancer, is still out there working. Good for her.

I mean, and I don't wish cancer on anyone, but it was very sad. Valerie Mahaffey. dead at the age of 71. Then we have René Victor. René Victor, and I have no idea how you, that's actually how you pronounce it. Renee Victor. She was the voice of Abuela in Pixar's Coco.

She passed away at the age of 86 due to lymphoma. More cancer, gosh, darn it. She died peacefully at her Sherman Oaks home, surrounded by family. Her career spent decades. She played all kinds of work, and her voice did a lot of voice work. She was loved by many people in the business. Renee Victor.

I don't know why I have to say it like that, but I do. Dead at the age of 86. Now, if you're looking for a place to live, and this isn't a real estate agents I trust.com commercial, although you can reach out if you'd like. Quincy Jones, who passed away, I don't know, the end of last year, at the age of 91, dealing with cancer again. He passed away, but his house now, his Bel Air estate, is up for sale.

And it's looking like a pretty fair price for it, $59.9 million. So you might be able to, you know, you might be able to get it for a little cheaper than $59.9. Not sure. The house is gorgeous. I actually would, if I had your money and was able to purchase a $59.9 million house in Bel Air, I might buy this. It's at the end of a cul-de-sac, five-bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, 24,920 square feet of living space.

It sits on 2.3 acres. I mean, it's gorgeous. And the picture from the air of Quincy's house is awesome. It's a large driveway, this circular motor court. It's got all kinds of trees and plants and shrubbery, because it's another shrub snub. And once inside, you've got this central feature, this rotunda.

It's designed apparently after an African mud hut, which I mean, I'm okay with. It looks gorgeous and it's a great way to have this presentation room. It's got a library and bar, an outdoor terrace with a seating area. It also has views of the San Gabriel Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, the city skyline. I mean, it is awesome views. I would definitely love to live there. And it features a double-height atrium wine bar, tasty room cellar, leads to an indoor garden. It's got a game room, a cabana, a swimming pool, outdoor oasis.

Absolutely. It's got the East Wing, which is the primary suite. It's got other spa, bathrooms, multiple walk-in closets, a gym, a private balcony. You've got a primary bedroom. You've got guests in the formal dining room, a family room. kitchen, butlers, pantries, staff, living quarters. Also, you've got, you know, you've got the guest rooms because, you know, you're not going to live in the same wing as the guest.

And so, and they've got their own, you know, their own living quarters and their own terrace and stuff, because I don't want to have to mess with them when they're staying at the place. You've got the screening room, the dedicated office space with its own reception area and a security office and a gallery. I mean, it is gorgeous. Both wings have its own staircase. cases that lead to the upper levels, as well as elevators, because I'm not using stairs all the time. And it's got outdoor seating areas, outdoor dining space.

Okay, it's worth $59.9 million. It is gorgeous. And I want it. Tennis course, all of it. I mean, if you name it, Quincy's place has got it. It is a tad small with the five bedrooms and the 17 bathrooms, but I'm willing to, you know, in with that. You're on 2.3 acres and you've got

24,920 square feet. It's a tad small for my liking. But, you know, for what I say, 69, a 59. Holy God, I don't want to overprice it. 59. You can just walk right into that place.

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You remember Jared Isaacman, right, the billionaire that went to space, and now they had nominated him to be the head of NASA, and I guess it was going pretty good. He had, you know, his ally Elon Musk. and he led the first civilian spaceflight in 2021, and he was going to, he was the first private citizen to complete a spacewalk. Oh, yeah, on the Polaris Dawn mission. Right.

And so it was looking like the confirmation vote was going to happen for him. And now he's out. Have a nice day. Apparently, he had made some donations to Democrats. And the Trump administration was like, oh, yeah, no. Now, I find that hard to believe. There must have been something else because, I mean, all of those people have given money to both sides, even Trump back in his day.

So there had to be something else to that. And I'm sure we'll find out at some point what the actual deal was. But he's out. So they said, though, at their statement that it's essential that the next leader of NASA is in complete alignment with President Trump's America's first agenda. and a replacement will be announced directly. Okay. Okay. All right.

So we'll see. I mean, NASA has been a nightmare as it is. And who knows what's going to happen now. But it's surprising that that was what caused them to kick Isaacman to the curb that he had donated some money to Democrats. Weird. Weird. There has to be.

Has to be more to that. And all of you cat people out there is a new study. and especially you men. Apparently, according to this, 40 million Americans have this parasite in them. I know. I do.

I'm not a fan of this, but this parasite can infect any nucleated cell in any warm-blooded animal and can cause a wide range of health complications. Some fatal, such as miscarriage or inflammation of the brain.

Over 40 million Americans are infected with this parasite according to the CDC and it infects an estimated 30 to 50% of the total world population. Oh man! So according to this this particular

parasite can cause a schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, suicidal behavior, researchers in Chile, Germany and Uruguay confirmed in a new period reviewed study published in the

F EBS journal that the rapid I love them, that the rapidly dividing asexual form of this toxoplasma Gandhi I generally known as tachizoites

colonize and prolifolate with intestineses and the coiled sperm storing tube behind each testicle. So it affects men's fertility as well as all the other stuff I just mentioned.

Maybe that's what I have. Maybe that's what I have. So the infections occur as a result of eating contaminated, undercooked meat or shellfish or unwashed contaminated produce, contact with cat excrement. Oh no, you're messing with the cat excrement box. Mother to child transmissions

and receipt of an infected organ transplant or blood transfusion. So, I mean, you need to wear gloves with gardening or touching sand possibly contaminated with the parasite. Ensure your food is cooked to a safe internal temperature. Keeping meat frozen at sub-zero temperatures for several days before cooking, ensuring vegetables are properly rinsed before cooking and or consumption. And in the case of a cat owner, you need to change the litter box daily? We are all doomed.

That's what this is. We are all doomed according to this study. So we all have the parasite and, well, I mean, I say all 40 million Americans. And of course, I mean, it doesn't say how many Europeans have it, but we're talking about 30 to 50% of the total world population has this. Okay. I don't want this. I don't want this toxoplasma gondi.

or I'm sorry, it's generally known as tacky zoiites. I mean, I gave my girl the day off. Are you working today or? Tat-I-Zoi-I-Hits. Yeah, okay. So, Tach-I-Zoi-I-I-Tach-I-I-E-I. Yeah, I got it. Okay, okay, you proved to me you're working.

Okay, I gave her the day off. Now it's your turn. All right, so we do not want that. We do not want that. We do not want, whatever you call it, toxoplasma-Gandi, or we don't want Tach-I-Zoyates. Yeah, we don't.

not want that at all. All right, let's get out of here before I get more scared. Holy cow. Seriously, we, I mean, we're in trouble with this. Toxoplasma Gandhi as the protozoan parasite that can infect any nucleated cell in any warm-blooded animal and can cause all these complications. Holy cow.

I am not a fan. I'm not a fan of whatever you call this damn toxoplasma Gandhi. All right, let's go to. The joke of the day. In fact, we're going to do two jokes. We're going to need two jokes today to get over the parasite. So this one comes from Todd. And I have two that I'm going to share with you today.

And both of them are about genie. So I like that. This one from Todd. Blonde, a brunette, and a redhead are stuck on an island. Todd sent this email to Chewing the Fat of the Blaze.com and, you know, submitted his joke for joke of the day. A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead are stuck on an island. For years, they've left.

live there. One day, they find a magic lamp. They rub it. And sure enough, out comes a genie. The genie says, since I only have three wishes, you may each have one. So the brunette goes first. I have been stuck on here for years. I miss my family,

my husband, and my life, I want to go home. Poof, she's gone. The redhead makes her wish. This place sucks. I want to go home too. Poof. She's gone. And the blonde just starts crying, uncontrollably.

And the genie asked, what's the matter? And the blonde said, I wish my friends were here. So joke number two, from William, who has a genie joke as well. And his genie jokes said, a genie gave me one wish. And I said, I just want to be happy. And now I find myself living in a cottage with five dwarfs and working in a mind. It's very funny.

You get it. William also in his email said that Pat has a great show, but it's always better when you're on it. I know. I know. You're telling me, my friend, you're telling me. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.