Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - It’s Just Weird… | 3/18/25

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

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years ago. According to a new report from Active Track, that's a workforce analytics and productivity software company. Love them. They claim that we now leave work 42 minutes earlier than we did just two years ago. Checkout time hovered around 521 p.m. And now it is at 439 p.m. Oh, okay. So the report tracked workplace behaviors of over 200,000 employees across 777 companies. And despite the shorter workday, the data suggests that overall productivity has increased by about 2%. Oh, okay. So, they also go on to talk about in this report how employees are working more on the weekends. So overall, people have grown more comfortable with flexibility. So many don't mind leaving work early on weekdays, leaving the remaining work for the weekends.

So really, I feel like they're getting more from us than they were before. Because we're on call 24-7 with connectivity, the work. way it is. And so it's very difficult for people to turn it off and have that separation between work and home and non-work life. And so organizations, I guess, have made significant strides to foster healthy work habits. Uh-huh. And so we'll see how that works out. But just know, according to the report, that more people are leaving work at four. 4.39 p.m. I would say that's because they want to listen to this broadcast. This broadcast is available at 4 p.m. Central. And so you want to get out of there as soon as you can to listen to it every day.

And it doesn't say that in the report, but I have my own personal report. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. I'm reading this story about something called bathroom divorce. I know. I know. No, it's where a couple would have two sinks, two mirrors, and two toilets. So it would be separate, it didn't have to be separate bathrooms necessarily, but you would have two sinks and two mirrors and two toilets. I would be a fan of this. I am a fan of it, actually, but I don't have two toilets. Although, for many years, you know, we had the two sinks and two mirrors,

and one of us would use the bathroom. in our main bathroom and the other one would be, you know, that the small one would be the regular one that you use. Is that a bathroom divorce? I think it is. And so then there's also a thing called sleep divorce, right? When married couples sleep in separate bedrooms, granting each other peace and privacy.

Now, many believe that if you have a bathroom divorce and a sleep divorce, that's probably just called divorce. So if you, you know, have a separate, I don't know, separate bathroom for you and your spouse, how's that working out? Because I think it's probably working out pretty good. One of the things that I would love to have, and I don't, is a shower big enough for, you know, to adult humans to shower in, that you could shower in with your spouse.

we can, but I'm talking about a shower where you walk in and there's two shower heads and, you know, you have a, you're able to shower together. I mean, I just feel like that's, that's a really good thing for married couples, but I don't have one. I wish I did. I do have a separate mirror and a sink that I use. It's, you know, behind the other sink and mirror that my wife uses. And I don't consider that a bathroom divorce since there's a, you know, behind the other sink and mirror that my wife uses. is only one god man i am such a sad individual i only have one toilet in the main bathroom i know got to get that fixed and you know the sleep divorce thing now i don't have a separate bedroom

uh you know we do share the same bedroom however the way our schedules are a lot of times you know i'm i go to sleep early every night uh because i'm up early and uh you know she comes into the bedroom late. So a lot of times, uh, we are in the bedroom at the same time, amazingly. But, uh, not for very long. Uh, we're there for different times. However, we spend time, you know, together in the bedroom when we're awake, so I don't think we technically have a sleep divorce. But I can get it where you sleep in separate bedrooms and you're together, but you don't want to, if you have different schedules, you want to be able to get sleep when it's time for you to sleep. and when it's time for your spouse to sleep, it seems I get it.

But I also get that if you have a bathroom divorce and a bedroom divorce, it's probably leaning into, well, it's just a divorce. You know, speaking of divorces, I see where Butch and Sonny Williams are headed back to the planet Earth. Yes, the SpaceX Dragon left the ISS last night. and if you are listening to this particular broadcast, after 5.57 p.m. on the 18th of March, they will have already landed back on Earth. So Butch and Sunny are coming back, and they should be landing on the planet at 557 p.m. if you follow the timeline of SpaceX slash NASA. So they have left the ISS.

So once they get back to the planet, they're going to move on with their lives. It's almost like a divorce. They've been with each other for nine months in this confined area of the International Space Station. And now they're supposed to just, yep, you're fine. We'll check you out.

Make sure you can walk around a little bit. Walk on the treadmill. Make sure your muscles are fine. Yep, you don't have to pee in a bag anymore. We've got a bathroom for you. And go home. Have a nice day. Take care.

We'll see you back here tomorrow. Work starts at 8 a.m. So, I mean, that's good news, right? Now, when they get back to the planet, they probably are going to say, hey, you know what I really miss is a fresh cup of coffee. Well, don't put any certain coffee creamers in your coffee. Cineabon, classic cinnamon roll International Delight Coffee Creamer,

the 32 fluid ounces, and the Hazelnut, International, National Delight Coffee Creamer, the 32 fluid ounces, have been recalled. Don't put that in your coffee. It's a Class 2 recall as well, which means that it still could cause some injuries and possible death. There's still potential for significant adverse events with irreversible consequences. Ooh, that's not good.

So this voluntary recall on some of these Delight Coffee Creamers came for. following reports of potential spoilage and illness related to the product's use. It doesn't say what, okay, they're spoiled and illness with their use. Okay, why was that? I don't know. It doesn't say. But it has been recalled in 31 states. I mean, it's shorter to tell you the states that it wasn't recalled in.

So if you are a fan of the Cinnibon, Classic Cinnamon Roll International Delight Coffee Creamer, from the 32 fluid ounce container, or the Hazelnut International Delight Coffee Creamer from the 32 fluid ounce container. Think twice, at least, for a little bit of time, okay?

And those were talking about recalls. There was also a big recall, and they call it a popular macaroni and cheese recall. And I saw it. It got me. You know, I saw the recall. I don't report every recall that happens, although I should, should be just a completely different show,

recalls. Two food products. from two different companies have been recalled. And they've been recalled because of undeclared eggs. And we cannot have that. We cannot have undeclared eggs in our product. Now, they claim that this is a popular product. Okay.

It's two food products from two different companies, and they've been recalled for the same thing, the undeclared eggs. Small bites macaroni and cheese packages were recalled. from C.H. Gunther and Son, LLC and San Antonio, Texas, love them. Due to the possibility the bites might contain undeclared egg and meat ingredients. Okay. And then the recall of small bites were sold at wholesale food markets sites nationwide.

The products were located in the frozen food aisle in the grocery stores. Okay. There's been no reported illnesses related to the... the products. So if you've purchased the product, you know, throw them away or take them back and get your money back. But there also, you know, has been, I don't think anyone has complained that, hey, you didn't say that there were eggs in here and I think I tasted some eggs. Okay. So be careful out there with the small bites macaroni and cheese. I don't know how popular they are, but they have on declared eggs and also had some kind of meat ingredient in them.

You bastards. And then we have the HAR-MASPeth Corporation of Mazpeth, New York, has recalled their 8-ounce and 12-ounce packages of jinga glass noodles with vegetables. J-P-C-H-E. I think that's how you pronounce it. J-A-P-C-H-E. Chop cha. Yeah, that was pretty close.

Chopchae, is that right? Chop chae. Yeah, that's what it's called. Okay, so they've been recalled. Due to the presence of undeclared eggs, what is happening? How are we putting eggs in the product without telling people there's eggs in the product? I don't understand. So these items were distributed to H-Mart stores in multiple states.

And the product obviously comes in 8 ounce and 12 ounce clear plastic packaging because they were both recalled the 8 and 12 ounce packages of the jinga glass noodles with vegetables. Chopche. Yeah, I got it. Okay. They've been recalled. And so you don't want allergic reactions if you consume the product. So don't.

I will say, though, that they're telling you that they're recalled because of this. non-disclosure of an egg ingredient. But as of right now, there have been no illnesses or allergic reactions involving this product. Huh. But of course, that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. So, I mean, anyone could come along

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Let's talk about emergency preparedness a little bit. You know, it's always good to be prepared. Everyone talks about it, but a lot of times we don't do anything about it. We just, yeah, you know, I need to be prepared. Well, you know what? We live in a world that's constantly changing in ways we don't see coming. But one thing that will remain the same is the need to be ready now. And of course, some emergency preparedness vitals include emergency contacts, a plan for evacuation routes,

meeting places, a getaway bag, important documents, flashlights, batteries, non-perishable foods. We went through this for years when I lived in Florida when we got into hurricane season, and, you know, you just need to be prepared that way. But the one thing that you really need to consider is medicines. And that's where the Jace case comes in. I was, you know, when I first started hearing about the Jays case, I thought, now that is a genius idea because you, always forget about your medicines. You remember the flashlights and the non-perishable food,

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at checkout for a discount on your order. That's promo code. Joe F-E-F-F-Y at Jace, J-A-S-E-A-S-E.com. All right, so I continue to watch some TV shows this weekend. There's been some great content being provided for my entertainment. We have Reacher in the middle of Reacher's season two or three or whatever the heck it is. And it's okay. It's not bad. I have to get by his comments.

We've talked about that before, but I enjoy the series Reacher. 1923 on Paramount Plus, Reacher is on Prime. 1923 on Paramount Plus is awesome. This season has been so good. I just am enjoying it very much. I'm almost bummed that I'm watching it one episode at a time because I would,

they're so good. I just want to binge them all at the same time. Go through and watch them all. I just really enjoying it. I did watch. I was told that Adolescence on Netflix was this great new show.

The best, in fact, the review, we talked about it, I think, last week was where the review said, it's the best crime series ever on Netflix. Okay, is it the best? I don't know about that. But I, you know, I did enjoy it. I think it's four episodes

inside the season. And each episode deals with a different part of the crime, either the proposed criminal, the parents, the family, getting the arrest of the surrounding officers, that kind of thing. It was really good. I

enjoyed it very much. And I did get an email from Bill, sent an email Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. He said on your recommendation, I watched Adolescence, what a great show. Story is written great, acting superb. But the directing, I didn't realize this, and I did go back to check and

see if Bill is correct, so I'm just going to go on Bill's word. Okay, we're going to go on Bill's word here. That each episode is filmed with one camera and one shot. No edits, no bloopers, just perfection. Wow, if that's true. And now that I look back and think about the cameras and the way it was shot, I believe that to be true. Awesome. Makes it even better. And he'd say, Bill did put on, I did need captions

because those damn Brits talk with marbles in their mouths. Yeah, that's a difficult process sometimes. This time around, I was listening in my divorce bedroom, so I had it pretty loud. I mean, my TV is pretty loud as it is anyway, since I'm, you know, death in one ear, darn near, for years of wearing headphones. But, so I had it pretty loud, so I'm pretty good.

I wasn't too bad. Although I don't mind having the closed captioned up to get you through that. But I did enjoy it very much. Then I ended up. I ended up watching Daredevil on Disney Plus. The first three episodes are available for the latest Daredevil on Disney Plus. Really good. It was filmed like a couple of years ago.

It's so strange that it's finally out now. I mean, they paid homage to the one actor that died in December of 2023. So, I mean, it's just incredible how long ago it was filmed, but it's finally up and running on Disney Plus. Really good. I started watching Electric St. All the reviews were terrible for it. I say all of them.

All the reviews that I read were terrible for it, although then I talked to Brad Staggs, who I do Saturday morning live with. And I do a Thursday morning hit with him on whatever the show is that he does every day, the daily mojo. Yeah, that's what it is. You can just listen to Saturday morning live on my ex at Jeffrey JFR and be happy.

Anyway, Brad and I were talking off the air, and he loved it. I'd say that he loved it, just to be. make him mad. He said he really liked it, and it wasn't a terrible movie. So I started watching Electric State. I have not gotten all the way through it. I've stopped it two or three times. It's not terrible, but it's not great. And they spent 320 million on it, so, you know, okay. But I'm going to make, I'm vested in the movie now. So I've got to, you know, I'm going to make my way through it. I'm probably about halfway through it. I stopped it, and then I started it, and then I stopped it, and then I started.

because I sat down and I was like, I want to watch some, I need some violence in my life, not just robots. So I ended up watching Rebel Ridge on Netflix. And because I was, as I was reading about it, I read some pretty good reviews about it.

And to me, it looked like the modern day Rambo story. That's what it was going to be. Kind of was. What's his face that stars in it? Aaron Pierre. He could be, we could do a Rebel Ridge too,

or call it, you know, something else, but he could definitely be, you know, a Rambo type of guy for Baltimore movies. I mean, that could happen. And Don Johnson is in it. It's good to see Don back on, you know, back on the acting career. Did he retire? No, Jeff, he didn't retire.

Okay, yeah, it was just good to see Don Johnson. And so I watched that. It was pretty good. I wasn't crazy about the ending, but maybe they ran out of money and they just decided, hey, you know what? That's over now. Oh, okay.

We're done? Yeah, we're done. Wrap it up. It's done. Rebel Ridge. Close. The set closed. Okay.

So, it was fun, though. It was fun. I enjoyed it. And then I went back, that's when I went back to Electric State, and then it was time to go to bed. So I moved down. And then yesterday, someone posted a clip about,

from the Last of the Mohicans. And I was Jones in to watch Last of the Mohicans all day yesterday. And I have the DVD, but it's not streaming anywhere. And I'm too lazy to do. dig through my DVDs to find to find the last of the Mohicans. So, the

only one that was streaming was Dances with Wolves, so I watched Dances with Wolvesy. I love that movie. I have that on DVD too. I've probably watched the second half. At one point in my life, all I could watch was DVDs on my laptop when I was living in New Jersey,

which was a fun time of my life. And so I just watched DVDs. And I had dances with wolves was one of the DVDs that I had at my disposal. And the second, it's a two DVD set. So I watched the second half of Dancers was Bulls a lot more than the first half. That's my favorite part of it anyway.

And I did end up watching Crimson Tide in honor of Gene Hackman that, for his role in Crimson Tide and Danzel watching it. And there was all kinds of stars, you know, four or five, in this movie that weren't really big stars until after this movie. Like George Zunda right, he's the chief of the boat. Vigo Mortensen,

James Gandalfini. Holy cow, Rocky Carroll. Rocky Carroll was in it and he's been on NCIS now for what, 14 seasons or whatever, just a monster. Anyway, it was fun to watch Crimson Tide again. Academy Awards around

a lot of those scenes in Crimson Tide. I wanted us for from 1995. Did it win an award? So in 1995, it cost $53 million to make, but it made $157.4 million at the box office. So, I mean, it made money. It doubled, tripled, almost tripled the budget, so it did okay.

I can't see where it won any actual awards, though. Critical reception. Now, here we go. Probably nobody liked it. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for film editing, sound and sound editing. Oh, come on. But lost to Apollo 13 and Braveheart. Okay.

But none of the, I mean, Denzel was not nominated. Gene Hackman was not nominated. Pretty sad, actually. We need to go back and revisit that. And, you know, the films now, I saw the number one movie, Novocaine this week. And then Mickey 17 and Black Bag and Captain America

dropped down to three. Captain America's got 388.6 million global. The day the earth blew up, a Looney Tunes movie, The Last Supper, Paddington and Peru, Dogman, The Monkey, Last Breath. Holy cow. Box office had another rough weekend.

52.6 million total. The worst of 2025 and down 40% from the same time last year. Wow. Not even five new wide releases could muster a pulse. I mean, we have Snow White coming out this weekend and I mean, we're going to talk about

that movie. Wow. It's been getting just crushed by reviewers. We'll see. I mean, the one reviewer, one review I read of how great a movie it was, and she writes for she, her, her, writes

for variety. And then I saw it where variety said, it's being reported, this is the greatest movie of all time. Yeah, from your reporter. So we'll see. We shall see. Wow, have we not even gone to the break room yet? No, you've been babbling for...

Okay, I'm sorry. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. Desperately. So I guess the place to vacation is Japan now. Baseball season began today. There's going to be two games today and tomorrow played in Japan. because of Shohei Otani, hello.

He's there. So baseball season starts today and tomorrow, and then it slows down and doesn't start up again until the 27th, another week. So these Cubs Dodgers games are going to be a pre-work treat. The first pitch was scheduled to take place this morning, and they're supposed to get... I was looking at Shohei Otani's popularity in his home country.

Tickets were going for about $2,000 a ticket. So yes, fans do want to see him play in Japan. I guess that's the place to go. I was just reading a story the other day about the Japan's ski resorts are the place to go. Oh, okay. So these intense snowfalls have presented a great opportunity for Japan's 500 ski areas. Wow. Some areas had 12 feet of snowpack.

this week alone. Wow, so they're ready to rock and roll right now. That's great. So Japanese ski resort success in counting foreign tourists comes as U.S. destinations have earned a reputation is very expensive. One skier from Colorado is told a New York Times reporter, it's actually cheaper for me to fly to Japan and go skiing there than to spend a week at Aspen or Vale. Wow. So that's the place to go. You want to go skiing? Don't go to Asperin or Vale. Go to Japan.

Yeah, that's what I want to do. I want to go to Japan. You know, speaking of vacations and things to do and going out on the town, I don't know that this is actually happening or if this was just a one-off thing, but they now are making airplane terminals the place to go for, parties and gatherings. Oh, okay. So apparently, you know, with the restaurants and the bars and the shops and the new comfort spaces that they've added at airport lounges, that's the place to go.

So you have people show up at, you know, Terminal 2 or Terminal 4 or whatever terminal you want to go to and have your party there. Now, I will say, you still have to go through TSA. Maybe it is safer. You go through TSA and you feel more comfortable partying at Terminal 4. And, you know, people like to go through TSA so there's no weapons. And you're just partying at Airport Terminal 4. Okay. Sure.

Let's do that. I guess airports are now starting to promote coming to, you know, terminal for whatever terminal they use. And making a night of it. And let's just stay together. and hang out and have fun here at the airport. I mean, you can't even drive. First of all, I don't think I don't mind the idea. It's okay, whatever.

If you ever get together at Terminal 4, fine, no problem. But, you know, I can't drive by Dallas Fort Worth International Airport without being charged. And I know that's not really true, but you can't go on to the property at all without being charged. I can't just drive in and park for 30 minutes for nothing. So I guess that would you still have to pay at other airports too now that I'm talking it out with you? It really ticks me off that I can't just drop someone off at Dallas International Airport,

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, without being charged. And it just makes me angry every time I go there. And I drive by it every day. I drive by it every day. And if I think about it, try not to think about it. And now that I'm talking to you, I'm thinking about it, it pisses me off. that you can't even drive onto the property, which is why I say I get to charge driving by.

I feel like I do. I feel like if I drive too close to the entrance, boop, I get charged from the toll tag. And it just drives me insane that I can't just go and drop someone off or go and pick someone up within a, you know, a 20-minute, 25-minute time frame and not be charged.

Nope, not at DFW. And they brag about how much money it brings in Just very frustrating. But hey, there's a new place for you to have a party if you want. Head to Terminal 4. Come on down. Go through TSA and come on in and have a party with us, huh? And if you're actually going to come in and travel somewhere other than Japan, you're going to want to go to a country that has great air quality, aren't you?

Yes. So there's a new study that was released from the World Health Organization's air quality standards. And this new data was released, and it said that Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, you know, I love Grenada, the island of spice, Estonia and Iceland, that the air quality was beautiful. And that was beautiful.

The Swiss air quality monitoring firm IQ Air did the rankings for the World Health Organization. So those are the countries that you could go to if you want, you know, clean air. Yeah, because, man, Estonia and Iceland, gorgeous. But meanwhile, do not go to Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yeah, you want to go to DRC.

Man, that is just beautiful this time of year. And India have some really bad issues with air pollution. So the WHO recommends no more than five micrograms per cubic meter of tiny toxic airborne particles known as PM2.5. Yeah, I mean, I would, if you asked me yesterday, I would have said, oh, you know, no more than three micrograms. So I guess, you know, that's being revised from the WHO and there's just saying no more than five micrograms per cubic meter of tiny toxic airborne particles known as PM2.5. but I'm just, I'm talking how you already know that. IQ Air determined only 17% of the world cities were able to meet that standard in 2024.

So, good luck. Don't go to Chad. Don't go to Bangladesh. I don't go to Pakistan. Don't go to the DRC. And stay away from India. That's what the World Health Organization says. But you got Australia, you got New Zealand,

you got the Bahamas, you got Barbados, You got Granada, you got Estonia, and Iceland. So that's according to IQ Air and the World Health Organization. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. All right, who died today?

Who died today? Well, let's begin with Emily Ducane, the Belgian actor, actress, who won at Cannes Film Festival for her role in the 1999 film Rosetta passed away. She was 43. Wow. I mean, Emily Ducane. The family confirmed that she died of a rare cancer in a hospital just outside of Paris. she revealed in October of 23 she had been diagnosed

with adrenocortyl colcocosanoma a cancer of the adrenal glands in the kidney interesting how so many people are coming up with these weird cancers now isn't it I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with that that's just if it had something to do with that they would have said so rest in peace to Emily Ducayne

dead at the age of 43 Then we have John Patty Hemingway, John Patty Hemingway, the last person surviving from the Battle of Britain, the pilot, dead at the age of 105. He joined the Royal Air Force as a teenager and at 21 became one of the few who defended Britain's skies during the Luftwaffe's intense assault at 1940. throughout World War II he survived being shot down four times earned the distinguished flying cross for valor continued to serve with courage

his passing marks the end of an era with the RAF and leaders like Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer paying tribute to this bravery uh-huh yeah very thanks Keir and so rest in peace to John Patty Hemingway

the last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain. Very sad, dead at the age of 105. Then we have an update on Gene Hackman. Again, another one. I watched Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide just because. And to pay honor to the man.

At the end of the movie, I'm thinking, it's so sad what happened to Gene. So now, you know, they, we told you yesterday that the family is trying to keep the release of photographs, videos, and police body camera footage, you know, from going public. Uh-huh. And now we find out.

And, you know, what's true and what isn't. I don't know. But apparently there's a doctor who the wife was going to. And he said that she called him February 12th, which would be a day after the Santa Fe, the Santa Fe medical examiner, said she died. She's the medical examiner said she died on the 11th. So was she dead when she called this doc? And the doc said that she made an appointment for herself unrelated to anything respiratory. So he had no idea.

You know, she wasn't calling a doc about hunt a virus, which they said she died from. so again really weird i'm not real sure i mean that still leaves her dying before him uh they said that she changed the appointment and then um then she canceled her appointment because her husband was not well okay and she called back on the morning of february 12th spoke to one of our doctors who told her to come in that afternoon we made an appointment she did not show and she did not show any symptoms of respiratory distress. Oh, really? Yeah.

And they tried to call a couple times with no reply. Yeah, they didn't pick up because they were dead. Or she was, anyway. He was busy wandering around the house, wondering what was going on. So sad. Seriously, it's really sad. So the pacemaker that Gene War said he died on the 18th.

And there was no food in his stuff. stomach and investigators believe his Alzheimer's, he may not have realized his wife of 34 years had died or, you know, he was just walking around wondering why she was laying on the floor. Anyway, so now we think that she died a day later. What else is happening? The medical examiner said she died of a hunter virus and nobody even knew that she had it and she's out running around and she's calling doctors offices and I'm sorry, I guess it's the key. I'm sorry, I guess it's the Cloudberry Health in Santa Fe. Love them. And the doctor

said, yeah, she called, she wanted an appointment, and I didn't know anything about any respiratory thing. As far as I know, there was no Hunter virus. Weird. The whole thing is weird. Oh, you know, another thing that died as well, the president, Donald Trump, said that he has ordered the U.S. Secret Service

to stop providing protection for Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden. Wow. He said that as many as 18 agents were providing security for Hunter Biden, while 13 agents protected his sister, Ashley, and they're supposed to go away effective immediately. Wow. I don't know how I feel about this. I mean, do I want the Biden's milking our system for security? No. Do I think in today's world that they may

need it? I do kind of. But I, you know, I don't want to pay for it. I don't want the government to pay for it. And he's in South Africa right now. So does that mean that he still gets security until he gets back to the U.S.? Or, I mean, Trump said effective immediately? So does that mean that all the people that are protecting him now just hop on a plane and come back to the U.S.? And see you later, Hunter. We don't have to protect you anymore. Take care. And Ashley gets to, you know, have a nice day. I just really, whole thing is really weird. I don't know if they just left him dry in South Africa. I would guess that it would be, you know,

would be the prudent thing to do to wait until you got back to the United States of America, but I'm sure the world will say, no, the president said, now, get out of there. We're not spending another dime protecting Hunter Biden. And you know what? I think I'm okay with that too. I've really torn on this story because I don't think he should have the protection from us, but he, apparently he left the country to visit. That's where the wife is from.

Now, they believe that he went there because he was trying to get away from a deposition that he was supposed to do. Okay. I mean, I thought he was broke. He didn't have any money. You know how it is when you don't have any money. Well, let's go to South Africa for a trip. Right?

It's so weird. I'm pretty sure he's not broke. It's just a thought from me that he's not. He may be over-extended, but he's not broke. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So, no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice, yes, we deliver those.

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Wait, what? Yeah, sorry about it. I'm just, we're not going to do it. Amazon is rolling out a new version of its voice-controlled AI assistant known as Alexa Plus. Consumers and regulators have raised concerns about Alexa's privacy implications in the past. Uh-huh. Ah, don't worry about it. They settled with the FCFTC over children's privacy back in 2023 for 25 million. Nothing. Drop in the bucket for them. So if you had your privacy controls set on the Amazon Echo to the private setting where it said do not send voice recordings,

yeah, that's not going to exist anymore. Everything goes to the cloud. It's nice of my thought. And I will say I was reading this story on BYD, which is an electric car company out of China. And they claim that they have created a charger to charge their batteries in like five minutes. If that's true, that is a game changer. So the so-called super E platform will be capable of peak charging speeds of 1,000 kilowatts, enabling cars that use it to travel 249 miles on a five-minute charge. Wow. Okay.

If that's true, that's game-changing. There's no question about that because that's a big problem with the EVs. There are other problems as well. I know, don't get me wrong. But one of the big problems is that you have to take so long wait to charge. And we've talked about that before, and Elon's like, yeah, you just get a cup of coffee and you wait for it to charge. Yeah, no.

I want to be able to go in just like we do gasoline. It's like we go in, we pump for five, ten minutes, we're out of there. Okay, that's the American way. And apparently it's going to be the Chinese way as well. And so you can get one in China for like, I don't know, 37 grand. And they're putting up, they claim that they are going to, they're going to have charging facilities and public charging poles. We'll see.

Now, so far, they've just relied on third-party operators to charge the vehicles. There's Tesla charging stations in China. So they've only sold about 4.2 million cars in China, and they hope to sell another five or six this year. But, and those are hybrids, not really all EVs. But if they have created a charging station and a battery that will accept it, and you can turn those charges over quickly. That is game-changing.

All right, let's wrap this thing. Oh, I'll give you some March Madness trivia before we get to the joke of the day. Okay, so March Madness trivia. So I was looking at this. Somebody posted this in some, you know, so I don't know that it's actually true. Because I didn't look it up.

I just said, oh, that's interesting. I'm going to talk about it. Of the 68 teams in the men's NCAA basketball basketball, basketball tournament. Six have the nickname Bulldogs. And how many can you name? And of course, you know, if you filled out your bracket,

you know that you have a 1-850 trillion gazillion chance of winning. So they claim that Yale, Drake, Mississippi State, Gonzaga, Georgia, and Bryant all have the nicknames Bulldogs. And those teams are in the March Madness Tournament for the NCAA.

I would venture to guess that another trivia question from this would be where these universities are. So Yale, everybody knows, this is in Connecticut, Mississippi State, duh, Georgia, duh, but where is Drake, Gonzaga, and Bryant? So no Gonzaga, that's in Washington State. It's pretty easy. They've been big for a long time. Pretty good on that. Drake University and Bryant University?

Okay, so just so you know, Drake is in Iowa and Bryant is in Rhode Island. So there's some trivia for you as well. But someone says, hey, I'm rooting for Drake. Yeah, they're from Iowa. Someone says, I'm rooting for Bryant. Yeah, they're from Rhode Island, which, I mean, is Rhode Island, do they have like 10 people in that state?

I'll stop it. I know that they have more. Those of you listening in Rhode Island, thank you. I appreciate it. Appreciate it all two of you. All right. A joke of the day from Denny. He sent it to Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com.

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