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That's something else. Anyway, eggs are now being rationed at stores around America, and I don't like it. I don't like it at one bit. Now, I don't buy hundreds of eggs at a time, but I do like to go in and purchase, you know, multiple cartons of eggs so that we have them, you know, in the refrigerator to eat at our will. But no, no longer. Well, most places. Now, we know that Trader Joe has said, no, we're putting limits on eggs.

Egg purchases are one dozen per customer per day. Oh, okay. And we saw the videos of everyone loading up the pallet of eggs from Costco as they were filling up their shopping carts, overfilling their shopping carts with eggs. Now, those were probably restaurants or bakeries, that sort of thing. However, you know, people got all. freaked out. So now Costco has limited the supply of eggs that you can purchase. Oh, okay. Now, I don't know that it's all over the country. I know that they said in California, they put a limit

of three cartons per customer. I'm not sure if that's around the whole country. I haven't gone to Costco to purchase eggs, so I'm not quite sure if the limit holds true. Wouldn't surprise me that these big box stores, a warehouse stores, put limits on it. So it just calms people down a little bit. Stop hoarding all your eggs. It'll be fine. But, you know, we had the story about Waffle House now announcing a 50 cents surcharge on each egg it sells. And then, of course, you know, we get the fight back from restaurants like Cracker Barrel that said, yeah, we're not charging extra for eggs. Okay, well, good for you, but someone's going to eat that cost. And, uh, For many places, it's going to be you and me and not just the restaurant.

Of course, Cracker Barrel will raise their prices on something else. It's not eggs. We're not charging more because of the eggs on that. Uh-huh. Okay. So just be ready for more and more issues with filling your refrigerator with eggs. And it isn't just because of hoarders. It's because of that doggone bird flu that continues to not go away.

Plus, I mean, eggs are the magical fruit. No, again, that's the, sorry, that's the wrong item. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So our Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, you know them, you love them, issued a recall for 60 baked products, including donuts. And the other products no one cares about. Yeah, they recall donuts.

And overconcerns of potential low. Listeria contamination. Now, they had a recall on these, and now, of course, we've revised the recall to a Class 2 classification. So be careful out there. The Class 2 is defined as a situation in which the use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote. So heads up, they have recalled donuts. Now, there were more products, I know,

but this is products that were manufactured by FGF brands, which is a pastry wholesaler that distributes baked goods within the U.S. and Canada. Oh, okay. Some of the products were a variety. of filled and flavored donuts, cinnamon sticks, French crullers, and fritters,

some of which were also sold at Duncan. Okay, so just a heads-up. There are 60 items on this recall list all from the FGF brands. So I would just pay attention to your baked goods

and if they are manufactured by FGF, you may want to think twice at least for a little while. According to this, Listeria is the third leading cause of death from foodborne illnesses in the U.S. That's quite the breakdown.

So they're the third leading cause of death from foodborne illnesses in the United States. So approximately 260 people dying from those infections of about 1,600 people, 1,600 Americans get sick with listeria poisoning. So if you have fever, muscle aches, headaches, stiff neck, confusion, that sounds like my day. loss of balance, convulsions, diarrhea, no, I don't have those, other gastrored intestinal symptoms, wow, miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, and or life-threatening infection of newborn infants, death. That's what could happen with Listeria poison.

So I would go easy. Make sure you know if your baked goods are from the FGF Manufacturing Center. Okay, speaking of donuts and eating too many of them, Many people want to lose weight these days, and they're using OZempic and Mungero. But now the headlines everywhere are, hey, you could go blind. Really? Well, kind of. You have vision issues.

So there's a new study that raised concerns about the potential vision issues in people using the GLP1 weight loss drugs, like semi-glutide from WagoV and Ozemic and Tizepetide, which, is Mungero and Zepbound. Well, some people reported eye problems after taking these medications. Experts, it's still unclear. We didn't know if the drug actually had the issues or not. Oh, okay. Well, researchers examined the cases of nine.

Count them nine individuals. You know what? I mean, there are millions of people on OZemPEC right now, or one of these weight-lossed drugs. So anyway, researchers examined nine. nine individuals in their 50s and 60s who developed serious vision problems after using GLP1 medications. Seven of the nine were diagnosed with non-arthoretic anterior isemic optic neuropathy. Yeah, what was that again, Doc?

Well, we'd just call it the N-A-I-O-N. Oh, okay, no problem. A condition where blood vessels fail to deliver enough blood to the optic nerve, leading to sudden and irreversible vision loss. So the study published in Gemma ophthalmology was led by this Dr. Katz from John A. Moran Eye Center, John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah Health.

Love that place. He first identified the issue when one of his patients lost vision in one eye after starting semi-glutide, the patient briefly stopped the medication, but upon resuming it, they experienced vision loss in the other. eye.

Yeah, it's working. I got vision back in my eye. Oh, wait, there goes the other one. So apparently they found eight more similar cases leading to the study's findings. So heads up for all you, OZempic, semi-glutide users, a heads up. I mean, eyes open because you may end up being eyes wide shut. That could be a movie. So anyway, they're not certain that the medications are directly.

responsible and uh-huh and uh-huh and uh-huh uh we'll see and i'm sure the percentage i mean you're talking about millions of people using the product and uh the side effect listing will be could cause blindness uh would you still take it i'm guessing probably yes i actually was going to start it at one point and my wife is like no no you're not so uh there you go I put my foot down and I said, you know what, honey, this time you win. 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,

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Okay. So his post last night was things that he doesn't want. anymore and I found it fascinating. I don't want to connect my coffee machine to the Wi-Fi network. I don't want to share the file with OneDrive. I don't want to download an app to check my car's fluid levels. I don't want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don't want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don't want to include a team's link on the calendar invite. I don't want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don't want to upgrade to TurboTax Platinum plus audit protection. I don't want to install the WebEx plugin to join the meeting.

I don't want to share my car's braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don't want to text with your AI chatbot. I don't want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don't want to type in my email address to view the content on your company's website. I don't want text messages with promo codes. I don't want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don't want to join your exclusive community in the Metaverse. I don't want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don't even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place. I just want to pay for a product one time, in parentheses, and only one time. Know that it's going to work flawlessly, press is zero,

speak to an operator if I need help and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity if that's not too much to ask anymore. And then the first comment is he realized he missed one thing where he said, I can't

believe I type that entire rant and forgot to mention, I don't want to leave a 25% tip on the touchscreen. So, Robert's rant on X, pretty much sums up the way many of us feel because I talked about it, right? I mean, we know that we okayed, you know, these apps to look at our phones inside our phones because we just wanted to take the picture, okay? That's all I want. I just want to take the picture. I don't care. At that,

point, you know, in time, I don't, yeah, look at my phone. Fine. You have access to my phone. I just want to take the picture. But really, what I want is to be able to take the picture and not give you rights to look into my phone. And apparently that is too much to ask in today's world. But according to Robert, it is not. Oh, did I mention that you only have three months now to get a real ID? Huh. Yep.

You have until May 7th of this year, 2025, depending on when you listen to this broadcast, maybe less than three months. But you have until May 7th of this year 2025 since today is the 11th of February, 2025 and you have to have a real ID if you're in the U.S. United States. Oh, okay. So you need the Real ID Act, which was passed in 2005. We talked about this before. You know, they wanted to set standards for the issuance of sources of identification,

driver's license, and they've been arguing over when it's going to start, who's going to implement it, who has to have it. Well, starting May 7th, any U.S. travelers, 18 or older, will need a U.S. passport, a real ID compliant driver's license, a U.S. military ID, a DHS trusted travelers card, or an enhanced driver's license. And I'm not quite sure what that enhanced driver's license is to get through airport security. Because we talked about this because I did get the real ID the last time I updated my driver's license here in Texas. I realized, yep, that's the real ID. It's got the identification, and I think it has a little hard on it or whatever to say that you do.

So according to the DHS, the DMV will require the following information to issue you a real ID. Full legal name, date of birth, social security number, two proofs of address of principal residence, lawful status. Okay. So be ready for that. I'm just, I don't know, I'm pretty sure Robert knows that. I'm sure he doesn't want to have.

the real ID just to travel somewhere, but you're going to have to. And also, just remember that individual states may require additional information. So check with your state's DMV for specific requirements. But have it if you plan on traveling, because if you don't, I don't know what happens. If you go to the airport with a ticket that you purchased and you don't have an actual real ID act, do they just arrest you right then? throw you down on the ground and handcuff you and make you go get a real ID

be interesting to see go ahead, you be the one to try that out though, okay? I'll watch. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. As I mentioned earlier, you can follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR. You can follow me on Facebook and Instagram,

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And you can also order a cameo from me at Jeffey JFR on the Cameo app. That is not free, but it's worth every doggone penny. Whether the penny gets canceled or not, it's worth it at Jeffey JFR on Cameo. And we have Valentine's Day coming up the end of this week. Friday the 14th. And I see where, you know that no one supports zoos more than myself or this show.

And so remember that every year, zoos across the country have fundraisers so that, you know, they have a little extra money for food for the animals and fixing up the zoos and taking care of, taking care of the people who actually take care of the animals at the zoos.

And remember the San Antonio Zoo always invites you to name a cockroach, a rodent, or a vegetable. After your ex, or soon to be ex, and they will feed them to the animals in exchange for a donation. And you can at the Columbus Zoo an aquarium, and who doesn't love the Columbus Zoo in Aquarium, for 15 bucks, they'll let you name a superworm after an axe that'll end up as lunch to the zoo's sloth bears. Huh? That's kind of cool. Am I right? Of course I am.

But the Memphis Zoo, that would be Memphis, Tennessee, offers for a donation of $10, you can send a video to your ex of an elephant pooping. Boy, nothing says happy Valentine's Day. Like a video of an elephant pooping. That's love right there. Or, you know, former love. When I think of you, this is what I think of.

Happy Valentine's Day. Oh, speaking of poop, yesterday, we missed it. I know, I want to apologize, we missed it. Yesterday was National Poop Day. Now, Edward reminded me last night on X that it was National Poop Day, and I apologize. I missed it. I didn't realize it. So we have to wait until next year to celebrate National Poop.

poop day and it's a day to laugh about things we usually flush away and learn why our bodies are truly amazing and one bathroom break at a time and it's a it's an opportunity to have open conversations about bowel movements and gut health because you can't have that any other day but national poop day which is the 10th of February every year so the way that they say here on the national poop day website that you can gather friends for a poop themed bash and decorate with poop emoji belt balloons and serve chocolate treats and play games like pin the poop man do i want to come to that party i really do you can also post interesting and funny facts about poop on social media yeah that's i know it's a great idea and you can get uh you can create poop

art. We can all get together and create our own poop art at your poop party. But unfortunately, we're going to have to wait until next year. I know, because there's just no way you can celebrate poop day any other day than February 10th. So put it on your calendar and be ready to host that poop theme party. Man, what fun we'll have. You know, well, those of you listening to the... this show, know that you can subscribe for free. If you're listening right now and you're not a

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Tom Robbins, a popular novelist, dies at the age of 92. Tom died at his home in Washington, according to a statement from his friend Craig Poplars. He was 92 years of age. No cause of death was given in any of the stories that I could find, but he was 92. I mean, he's a counterculture author for sure. you knew him for the jitterbug perfume, skinny legs, even cowgirls get the blues, which is they adapted to a film in the 90s.

And so it's sad. He was a counterculture kind of author kind of guy, strange guy. One of the stories that I loved about him was that he said, he was quoted in an interview, I don't know, back in the 90s, that said, I do a lot of useless reading and read a lot. of science magazines. I subscribe to about 30 magazines, and every Thursday night I put on a satin smoking jacket that I bought in a secondhand store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

I light up a big Cuban cigar and read magazines. And it is as if your mind is a Geiger counter. Every now and then, something makes a loud ping. Boy, I understand that process. You just read everything you can get your hands on, and somewhere along the line, something sticks in that dead brain of yours. So a rest in peace

or dead brain of mine, not yours. I know your brain is not dead, but mine is. A rest in peace to Tom Robbins dead at the age of 92. Okay, then we have another one. I say another one. Vadim Stlerichen dead at the age of 58. He happened to

pass away. way as because he fell out a window. Yeah, as a Russian singer who spoke out against the war in Ukraine. I know. That's not funny at all. So apparently security officials were raiding his apartment and he just jumped out the window. So, I mean, rest in peace to Vadim Storrikan dead at the age of 58. he was big time. They were pissed at him because they, you know, he was speaking out against the Ukraine war. And that seems to be an issue

if you're living in Russia and you speak out against the war. Putin does not like that. So that means if you're criticizing the war, you're criticizing Putin, which doesn't go over well. You may get your apartment rated. And that's exactly what happened to him

in St. Petersburg, Russia, and it was an accident. What are you going to do? We were, we were at his house, we were investigating, and the next thing you know, he jumps out the window. What are you going to do? So if Adam Stryk and dead at the age of 58, that list is a long, long list of people who just fall out of windows in Russia. I mean, it's pretty incredible. We had a bus plunge off a bridge and I was carrying 70 people killed at least 51. I mean

so sad. The bodies of 36 men and 15 women were sent to the morgue and the rescuers were able to pull 10 injured people from the bus. Several of them obviously had to be taken to the hospital. It plunged about 65 feet

off of this bridge. Now you're asking yourself why haven't I heard about this story? Well that's because it happened in Guatemala. and that we barely care about what happens in Guatemala. So rest in peace to all these people horrible. They just said it veered off the highway and crashed off the bridge into this polluted ravine in Guatemala City. So rest in peace to the at least 51 people.

And man, the people who survived, just, I mean, surviving that, wow, I mean, you're going to have some flashbacks for a long time. but the reason that we barely care and that we haven't heard about it is because it's in Guatemala. Oh, you know, I didn't mention yesterday that over the weekend, we talked on Friday about the Alaskan plane that was flying from known to Unalika Waka or whatever city that was. And I know it was Unicli, the last guy got it.

and it was overdue. Well, they found it, and it had crashed, and all 10 people on board passed away. Very sad. And so, I mean, it was because of bad weather flying from Nome, Alaska into Unicleg. Did you have to get the Onecleta, Alaska,

that bad? I guess so. I guess they did. But they didn't. So rest in peace to those 10th souls on that flight. And then I see where, we had another deadly crash at the Scottsdale Airport. It was a private plane that crashed into another plane. One person died, three were hospitalized. And it talks about two jets collide on the runway.

Well, that's kind of true, but the footage shows that the one jet, uh, something happened and it was out of control. And you see it as it's racing on the tarmac or at least, you know, around, and the airport parking lot. It loses control and it slams down and you can see the front end crash as it goes over something and loses the front wheels and it just continues to travel. There's no stopping it and it slams into another jet. Very sad. But that was not, I mean, I don't know how you prevent something like that. Well, you don't. And so rest in peace to those, to that one person who died in that crash. And hopefully the people who were hurt. were not hurt that badly.

Also, Pete Hed-Seth, I'm sorry, the defense secretary, Pete Hed-Seth, has now returned the name Fort Bragg to what Biden changed to Fort Liberty in North Carolina. Yes, it is back to being Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

But just to push a couple other buttons, it isn't because of General Braxton, Bragg, who they were all pissed about, the Confederate General. That's what it was originally named after was a Confederate general, Braxton Bragg, and we can't have that. So it's Fort Liberty.

So it was Fort Bragg forever. And so now it's back to being Fort Bragg. But it's back to being Fort Bragg honoring Army Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, a World War II veteran awarded the Silver Star. So just pushing some. buttons. Just pushing some buttons. I like it. So we're back to being Fort Bragg, but not because of that damn Confederate general. Marshall's buyers travel far and wide, hustling for great deals on amazing gifts. So you don't have to. They've bagged this season's Italian leather handbags.

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Okay. Well, I think we're getting some of the numbers in. It looks like the numbers for the Super Bowl were record-breaking again. Fox is projecting their Super Bowl averaged a record 126 million U.S. viewers. They're projecting that. Okay. Across television and streaming platforms for the Super Bowl, the game was televised by Fox, Fox Deportes, and Telemundo,

and streamed on Tubi as well as NFL's digital platforms. So Fox projections Monday included me yesterday as they were looking through the number. that Nielsen's early numbers and streaming data from Tooby and the NFL updated and more complete numbers were expected sometime today. It would be the second straight year the Super Bowl has reached a record audience. Yeah, last year was 123.7 million on CBS with Nickelode and Univision and the streaming platforms. So according to Fox, the audience peaked at 135.7 million in the second quarter.

Yeah, that was before it was over for halftime. So it peaked in the second quarter leading up to Kendrick, and then they went away because the Eagles were going to win and did. Maybe hung around for the first half of the third quarter, which showed that the Eagles were definitely going to win. The early data projects 14.5 million watched on streaming platforms, including 13.6 million on Tooby. And that was available for free. And they attribute some of this gains in numbers is because Nielsen is now measuring out-of-home viewers for all states but Hawaii and Alaska, so you don't count in Hawaii and Alaska.

It was previously the top 44 media markets, which covered 65% of the country. So Nielsen also now includes data from smart TVs, along with cable and satellite set-top boxes. Okay. So, of course, you had Trump there, Taylor Swift there. Trump was the first president to attend,

first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. and so it's a third straight year that they've averaged more than 100 million viewers. Yeah, the NFL, you know, everybody says that they're struggling and, you know, people aren't going to watch. Uh-huh. The playoffs average 35.2 million viewers, the first three weekends, down 9% from last years. Yeah, but that was individual, there were individual games that set records in those playoffs. So there were some games that were way below average, but there were other games that, set records. So anyway, those numbers, of course, if they're projecting those numbers,

it's probably even going to be more than that. I see where, you know, we had a bunch of people celebrating in Philadelphia, duh. I'm sure they greased up all the, all the light poles, and they, Philadelphia police reported nearly 50 arrests following the Super Bowl victory. Yeah, I mean, 50 people. That's not bad with probably, you know, thousands out in the streets. Five, they say, were arrested for assault on police. Okay. Two arrests were aggravated assault, one for recklessly endangering another person,

and one for misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the third degree. Okay. And 29 people are arrested for disorderly conduct and issued code violation notices. Yeah. Eight arrests for vandalism incidents, including four city sanitation trucks.

Hugh bastards. Don't be messing with the city sanitation trucks. Two banks and two retail stores. Oh. Yeah. Oh, thank you. Philadelphia won Super Bowl. Let's break into the bank. Oh, okay. Not a good idea. And so, let's see, fans were captured passing a down-to-traffic light pole. Yeah, they had to tear it down because they had them all lubed up. You couldn't climb up them. So that really doesn't sound bad to me. I would have guessed that it was a lot worse in Philadelphia after their win.

But no, seems like the crowd was pretty tame. And then we had the protest. I think we mentioned it yesterday about the protester during the halftime show with his Palestinian Sudanese flag and apparently it was a half-time show performer was part of the big dancers that were you know the dance crew that was part of Lamar Kendrick Lamar's halftime show and then as Lamar went into his final song the protester bearing the flag standing was standing on the hood of the car that was part of the halftime show and Then when they started coming after him, he took off and ran, waving the flag. And then they, you know, tackled him and handcuffed him and got him out of there.

No big deal. We didn't even see it on TV. We saw it on social media. And so, of course, everyone is Rock Nation is saying, hey, who knew, hey, that was an individual. It wasn't planned. It wasn't part of the production. It was never in any rehearsal. And we had nothing to do with it.

We had nothing to do with it. So this guy is now banned. Yeah, I know. He's banned from any NFL stadiums or events for life. So that'll teach him. I don't know if he was formally arrested or charged. They have not reported any of that. They just reported that this person was going to be banned from any NFL stadiums or events.

And I want to remind you again that, no one, no one involved with the production was aware of this individual's intent. He had the flag hidden on himself before the half-time show began. It was a 400-member field cast, and nobody was aware of what he was doing. He did this all on his own. So that Palestinian-Sudanese flag with the fists on it and the heart, that was all him. We had nothing to do with it. And I don't mean to imply that they did have anything to do with it because I really do believe that they didn't have anything to do with it because they don't want this to be a big deal as part of the NFL presentation.

So I do kind of, kind of, kind of believe that they had nothing to do with it. All right, let's get out of here. I'll leave you with the joke of the day. Email to me at Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I don't know that this person actually wrote the joke. but, you know, we're going to go with it. I like it. It made me laugh.

A man was admitted to the hospital today with 27 toy horses in his rectum. I can't say the word rectum without rectum. Damn near killed him. But that's not part of the joke. So we'll go back to the beginning of the joke. And then when you hear the word rectum, just know that in my head I'm saying rectum, damn near killed him. A man was admitted to the hospital today with. 27 toy horses in his rectum.

The doctor said his condition was stable. See, because horses... Ah, you understand. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.