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I mean, according to a survey, the latest survey from KPMG, and I love the surveys from KPMG, survey of CEOs. They said, well, we're considering cutting the work week down, are you? Okay. but Greece has now given the 40 hour work week the boot and made it 48 hours nice and the reason they said that we want business to provide round-the-clock services and we hope that this will make us rebound from a decade-long slump oh okay well I guess this is supposed to address a skilled worker shortage and combat unpaid overtime. And of course the labor unions denounce it as barbaric.

But so Greece will now have 48-hour work weeks. Okay. Now, I mean, they already work more than we do. In Greece, they average 1,886 working hours compared to 1,811 in the U.S. the EU, I mean, they don't even hardly work at all. They have like 1,571 hours in a work week. But kind of making the work week four days, I mean, you're still getting 40 hours in.

They still will expect you to work 40 hours. It's not like they're cutting any work hours off. They're just cutting the days down. And in today's world, when we're connected through a thing called, what's it called again? Oh, yeah, the internet, pretty tough to shut work off. I mean, you have to go out of your way to make sure that you are on vacation and not able to be reached on your email. And if you're, you know, of course, those of us that set up an email that says, I'm on vacation. I'll be back at this date and I won't be answering emails.

If you're on the inside, then a person will go, well, I'll just text them. And so you have to be, you know, be prepared to not answer those texts because, you know, you're on vacation. So it's very difficult to break away from work when you're off. That's why you need to set times. It's 5 o'clock. I'm done working. Ding, ding, ding. That used to be the way that work worked, but no longer for sure.

Anyway, if you're thinking about moving to Greece, just know that it's not a 40-hour work week. You're going to have to work 48 whole hours for a typical work week in Greece. I know, I've already wiping the sweat off my brow. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Okay, this, I know we've got a whole bunch to get to today here on Chewing the Fat. If you're listening live today is the 3rd of July, 2024. So we're just a day away from the Independence Day celebration.

But this cannot stand. I'm reading this story this morning and I'm shaking because we cannot allow this to stand. Okay. Humans first. So it's just been found out from. researchers, they found that Florida carpenter ants, Campanotis, Floridinas, can now identify limb wounds on their nest mate, then treat them with either cleaning or amputation. This cannot stand.

We cannot allow this to happen. We must eliminate Campanotis, Floridanas, the carpenter ant, from our lives in Florida right now, period. Ants in Florida are another species, and this proves it. I mean, we already talked about those little Florida red ants. I studied those for a while living in Florida, and if you kill them,

I followed some of the experts around at my first wife's hospital because they had a big problem. And I found out, you know, I told you about how you could use boric acid and peanut butter, which attracts them, but you have to keep it clean because the ones that die around the boric acid and peanut butter send messages. I mean, the other ants show up and go, whoa, there's some dead ants.

We're not going to go there anymore. So you've got to keep them clean. And so more ants come and die. And also with that species, if you kill a train of them, they just break off and make another train. They don't stop and go away. They're like, oh, I guess that train doesn't exist anymore. And they create another train. So what you're doing is just adding trains of ants.

It was just incredible. But now, you know, and we used to poison them and kill them and they'd go away. Well, now these ants, these carpenter ants, are healing each other? They have a sophisticated and systematic amputation of an individual by another member of the species? No, that cannot stand. I'm sorry. They looked at two types of leg wounds, lacerations of the femur, and though, of the lower down on the tibia.

And these ants are taking care of themselves. They're doctoring each other up. It takes about 40 minutes to complete. No, this cannot stand. I don't care what kind of PETA person tells me, oh, those are ants. We take care of those. No, when ants are diagnosing wound,

and they have some kind of goo that they disinfect the wound with and if the wound is too strong they just they go ahead and rub their goo all over it and then they bite it off and then the ant moves on

no that cannot stay we can't have that we can't have ants doing human-like things human first that's I just I this can't stand so bug professionals all over the world actually actually, but specifically in Florida, kill carpenter ants, period.

I realize in most states, well, specifically Florida and Texas, the state that I live in, now you don't really, you can't kill them all, so you just keep them in check. Want them to stay away from where you inhabit, period. But if you run into any kind of ants, you should never feel bad about destroying them, ever. Three ensemble Cephora of the FACET that I've been to deniches that I'm energize

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And I know, I know, I'm not going to make any jokes about Grenada, the island of spice. And a St. Vincent, I mean, thousands are homeless. It was a category five when it made landfall there. And I think at least half a dozen people have been reported. dead from that storm. It's on its way to Jamaica. Jamaica, I think, it's

today or tomorrow. They should already be feeling the effects of that. And then it continues on, and it'll cross the Yucatan Peninsula, Friday, Saturday. Then it goes out back into open water again. And the center of the cone

of death still has it hitting Mexico, but it could wobble to the east easily. that's all hurricanes want to do is turn right. So, you know, it could end up actually making landfall in the United States, Texas. And so be heads up and that's not going to happen until after the weekend. So have a good Fourth of July. Don't even worry about Burrell yet.

That's fine. And for those of you who are concerned that it's climate change, don't be because it's not. You know, we hear all the time that it's, well, he's strengthening storms. Yeah, it's hurricane. season. This is the earliest we've ever had a category five, a category four, hurricane. Well, you know, guess what? It's hurricane season and you need to be ready for hurricanes. That's what happened. There's a disturbance behind Burle, but it doesn't look like it's going to reap it to anything, although you ever know with climate change. Look, they tell us that we're supposed to be

worried about eminent death, about everything. We tell us that we're supposed to be worried about the melting Alaska ice field. They're talking about it's a death spiral. Juno Icefield is melting and it could be, we might be a beyond tipping point. And then we have

another study that talked about, you know what? We talk about the rising sea level and how islands are shrinking. Well, there's new data on 709 small, shallow

islands. in the Pacific and Indian oceans, you know what? They've actually grown in size. Huh. And they only, about 10% of them shrunk. That is weird because you'd think with climate change and the rising sea levels that it would just, I don't know,

go over the islands. And the islands would not only capsize, they would disappear. But no, no, they're not disappearing. In fact, they're actually growing in size. Weird. Not sure why that is climate change as well. And then I saw a story about Mount St. Helens is acting up again.

The U.S. Geological Survey has been monitoring several earthquakes underneath the earth around the active volcano. And they said, don't worry about it. We've only detected about 350 earthquakes under Mount St. Helens. And they're originating about. I don't know, 4.6 miles under the crater. So it should be fine. There are only a magnitude one or lower, so it should be fine. And those of you that think that, hey, could this affect Yellowstone?

And wouldn't we be concerned about Yellowstone blowing? No, don't. Mike Poland, the scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, he's an expert of volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains. including Mount St. Helen. And he said that the recently detected seismic activity, yeah, it's notable, but

it's not toothless. These sort of earthquakes have been associated at its depth with what seismologists have called recharge seismicity. I am a huge fan of recharge seismicity, and that suggests a small amount of pressurization. And there might be a small amount

of magma accumulation. a depth or it could indicate that some gas is being released. You know what? It's unclear exactly what the cause is, but it's very small about in any measure. So don't even worry about it. He's an expert. And yet, you know, after it's a small amount and it could indicate, yeah, it's unclear whether it means anything at all. But don't worry about it.

Oh, okay. But that's all climate change. It's all climate change. So the ice is melting and it's climate change. The islands are growing and they're actually not shrinking and because of the sea levels from climate change, but that's climate change. Mount St. Helens is acting up, but don't even worry about that. That couldn't affect other volcanoes. Even the experts, well, it's unclear.

It could affect the other volcanoes. But don't even worry about it. And what you need to worry about is the hurricane bearing down on you. Climate change or no climate change. You do not want to stand in the way of a hurricane, period. All right, I need to recharge my seismicity. So let's go to the break room and get something cold to drink. Shall we?

How long has it been since you rented a DVD from a Red Box? Well, it's been a long time for me. and I used to use Redbox a lot. There's just no need for it anymore. I mean, I guess you get the movies for cheaper than if you were going to rent a movie and online for a certain price. If you get it cheaper on Redbox, I guess you could get it there and would. But apparently, that's not working out well because they filed for Bankruptcy Chapter 11 this week.

And they've now installed a new CEO and the board of director. And so we'll see. I mean, the guy that they're putting in charge now doesn't really have any entertainment experience. Now, the company that owns Red Box Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, that's now I guess Red Box isn't the only thing that they do. But we'll see if they can pull it out.

It might be a good time to go get yourself some Red Box DVDs because you may not have to bring them back. They're waiting. Employees are waiting to get paid. They're waiting for the, I don't know, they're waiting for the bankruptcy check to come in. I didn't know that existed.

And so people have not been paid for a few days. We'll see. We shall see. Oh, it's called a debtor in possession loan, Jeff. I would allow them to make payroll. Okay, that's what they're waiting on. And so we'll see. Good luck.

Because holy cow, I've been a long time since I've actually taken out a movie from Red Box. And I guess chicken soup for the sole entertainment spun off from the self-help book publishing outfit. Okay, it grew a very frequent, excluding screen media, 1,091 pictures and streaming service crackle. Oh, yeah. In mid-2020, the company closed its ill-fated takeover of Redbox, assuming $325 million in debt. labor actions restricted, yeah, okay. I mean, you're, look, you've got Walgreens and Walmart

and, you know, once the major players like Target of Netflix said goodbye, have a nice day, there's no room. I mean, who bear, seriously, I'm asking this question, and all seriousness, do you have a DVD player that works hooked up in your home? Because I know that we have two,

and one is not hooked up. It's underneath the main television in the front room. We haven't used that in forever. There's one that we have in our bedroom that's hooked up and we use. If you want to watch a DVD and we still have plenty of DVDs and some, you know, some I watch, I like the DVDs because it's

the longer version, it's the producer cut, it's the director cut, whatever, and it's just I don't have to worry about it online or I don't have to rent it. I already have it. I didn't purchase it online because I already have the DVD. We do watch it from time and time in our bedroom. No question. But to go out and

actually rent a DVD to play in my home? Ooh, no, it's been quite a long time. And think about this. So, you know, they have the red boxes. The ones around here, the ones that I see are in front of Walgreens, right? And Walgreens is talking about closing thousands of stores. So that lessens your traffic even more for whatever you have out in front of Walgreens. So good luck.

Good luck to Red Box. So when I went to see Horizon last weekend, I saw the preview to the new Tim Burton Beetlejuice movie starring Michael Keaton. Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, looked really good. Jenna Ortega, William Defoe, looked really good. Well, it's going to premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the end of August, and then it's going to open in theaters, first part of September. It looked like a, you know, it looked like a Beetlejuice movie. I mean, it's an iconic character.

Don't say it three times. I'm not even going to say it here because I don't want to break out Beetlejuice. If you're listening, if you're listening in your car and I were to go, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beal Juice, oh, no, I just started, and that it's too late. And he was in your car. Sorry. Beetleju showed up. Sorry, I didn't mean to do that.

But it looked pretty good. They're saying now that they're just announced also in November, the musical Wicked film is going to be released the same weekend as Gladiator 2. So, I mean, Horizon opened with Quiet Place, the prequel. And so we're going to get, and just like, you know, it's going to be the guy movie and the girl movie, just like Barbenheimer, with Barbie and Oppenheimer. So the women will want to see Wicked,

the men will want to see Gladiator 2. That's coming in November. They better not spoil Gladiator, man. That's all I'm going to say. I was going to leave it there. Don't spoil the gladiator world. Okay? Better be up to par.

Up to snow. I'll tell you that right now. And the one thing I noticed, too, as at the theater, they, I believe, raised their prices on the snacks because you're not getting out of there without spending a lot of money on snacks.

I know they want to, you know, they make money, huge money off of the, you know, the collectible little plastic popcorn holders. You know, the one they had for Barbie, the Corvette one, and they had the Dune one. I mean, those are,

are reselling for 50 and 130 bucks and those are like, I don't know, 20 or 30 bucks at the movie, right? And you had the um, uh, was the one from, uh, the Wolf, Deadpool and Wolverine one.

There's been some cool ones. The despicable me four premieres this weekend and they have the, you know, they have the popcorn bucket that sells out fast. There was the Spider-Man ones. Anyway, I know people like them. And they make a lot of money off those. A lot of money. Uh, they claim our admissions are down 20%. Yeah, well, they've made up for it

in what they're charging for beverages and other sales. And they're making money off of these themed popcorn buckets. Everybody's making a cut of that. The AMC theaters and the movie theaters have got to be making a cut from that. That's themed merchandise, right? So everybody's happy with that. But they, I was, I wasn't shocked, but, you know, you get a soda and a thing of Twizzlers

and a small popcorn, that's 20 bucks. 20 bucks. Man, then whatever you paid for the movie ticket. So it might be a good idea to start sneak it in. Maybe just get a soda and bring in your own snacks. Shh, don't tell the movie theaters. And I will say I just finished the season three of the bear. I watched all 10 episodes.

Really good. I really enjoyed season three again. And I had forgotten that this is, I mean, they even end, well, probably shouldn't tell you, but they just know that when they re-upped the bear after season two, they re-upped season three and four. So the three leading right into season four, I don't know when season four is going to be dropped, but it's, I mean, FX is really happy with the bear. I guarantee you that.

I mean, it already had numbers huge, right? Let's see, the bear season, yeah, bear season, last week, season three premiere. The season three premiere episode garnered 5.4 million views globally on Hulu, Hulu on Disney Plus and Disney Plus in some international territories during its four-day streaming debut. Those numbers add up to record-breaking. it was the number one most watched scripted series premiere ever.

The most number one most watched scripted series premiere ever. The number one FX season premiere ever. Three most watched season premiere overall. Okay, I'm starting to break that down a little bit too much. Oh, really? We were the number three most watched season premiere overall. Okay, all right. you. And so it's really good, though. I really enjoyed it. It's just, I like the series. And

this season three had two or three episodes that focus specifically on separate characters, like they kind of did in season two. And it's really good. And it's just, you know, it's good to get to know the characters even better and they're between their relationships. And I don't know, I just, I enjoy the series. Yes, Chef. When I got a great deal on a great gift at Winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list?

Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. At just $39.99, how could I resist? This luxurious will throw for my sister. This gold watch for my partner? A wooden puzzle for my niece? Leather gloves for my boss? Ooh, European chocolate for the crossing guard? At these prices, could I find something for everyone at winter?

Stop wondering, start gifting. Winners, find fabulous for less. Okay, back to blue. 100% back to blue. Of course, back the blue. I don't know if I back the BART police officers, though. So there's a story that's making the rounds because of a video that went viral

of this guy getting arrested for eating, I don't know, a sandwich or a salad. He was eating on a BART platform in California, the Pleasant Hill Station. Steve Foster is his name. And he was stopped on the platform by a BART police officer and was arrested for eating on the platform. I know. Listen, there's no food or drink allowed on the platform, okay?

Now, there's a big sign as you go up the escalator to get to the platform, but it has multiple things out of what you can and cannot do on the platform. So, I mean, I guess unless you took it every day and actually took us a moment to look at it, you wouldn't know. And that's what the guy said, Steve Foster. I did. No, I didn't know. Well, you know, ignorance is no excuse for not following the law.

And they were claiming that there's other people on the platform that was drinking and going through trying to get. on for free, that kind of thing. But, you know, that's kind of like getting pulled over for speeding. You know, hey, I stopped you. Just because I didn't stop everyone doesn't mean I am not going to stop you. I get that. So I just feel, and then citations like 250 bucks.

Now, I would guess that they would prefer as a, BART officers for you to be writing those citations. Let people fight about the $250 citation. Don't take them to jail. waste your time jailing people. Now, the story is really kind of convoluted. What we see in the video, and again, my police officers, even the Bart police, are trained perfectly for these body cam videos. It's got to be in the manual of training for the police officers when they get their body cam because they all do it.

Now, he's been apologized to now from Bart's general manager saying, hey, the laws are in place to keep our system safe, welcoming, and clean. I've seen the video of the incident and eating in the paid area is banned. And there are multiple signs inside the station saying as much, yeah, there are signs inside the station, not on the platform reminding anyone, though. I didn't see any signs there. And according to this, the officer asked the wrong. rider to eat while passing by another call. Okay, so, but according to the

according to this criminal, he was at the end of the platform. There's no way that he walked by them. And in the video that we see, he didn't say he didn't have any inference to writing the citation. He had his hand on the

guy's backpack and said quit resisting arrest. You are going under arrest. You're not going anywhere. I am placing you under arrest. And then here comes two or three other BART police officers as they turn him around and

handcuff him. I mean, all the things that are going on in California and a guy eating a sandwich or a salad on a BART platform is getting arrested. Okay. All right. But when they're handcuffing them, they all, the other police officers are quick. Stop resisting.

Stop resisting. That is a trained response. from police officers with their body cam on because, you know, we all see what's happening on the video. But if the officer is saying, stop resisting, it makes it look as though you're doing something wrong immediately. You're resisting arrest. And every, every video I see, everyone has them saying that when it looks to me like they're

not actually resisting. And you hear this guy even say, I'm not resisting. I'm not resisting. but they all say it because that is and that is police policy guaranteed. That's an unwritten rule. And the criminal admitted to using homophobic slurs

stuff like this when he was talking to the officer. I didn't hear that on the video but he said I'm not accepting their apology and I'm considering taking legal action. Well, you know, you can't really take legal action. I mean, you technically were breaking the rules. But okay, I digress. But here's the 47 second view.

video and this just this kind of drives me crazy because you know back the blue but you're going arrest this guy for this come on now yeah see so what so i know not so what it's against the law so what so what well you're not supposed to eat why doesn't he just say put it away i don't know i have my right to detain you right there okay so i have a right to detain you and he's holding on to his backpack and there there's no other consideration of the site or anything, just you're going to jail. I'm not resisting arrest. Well, yeah, you just grabbed out to his backpack.

You're holding out to his backpack telling him he's under arrest and he's kind of backing up like, why, I'm not under arrest? Well, yes, you are. Don't resist arrest. Again, he knows he's being filmed. And we haven't seen his dash cam video, but I'm sure that it's on because he has the camera on his chest.

Where's a sign up here that says that we can't get on the platform? Hey, let's on my bag. You are detained and you're not free to go. I'm not detained. I've done nothing wrong. Stop. Stop. Stop. For eating. It's illegal. That's a sandwich, not a salad.

I've already said that. Here comes the other one. Stop, just listen. Stop resisting. Stop resisting. I'm not resisting. That just drives me insane. That's all. It just drives me insane. So, just know that they've apologized.

And I don't know what's going to become of it. You know, if it's going to, this horrific act will go on this man's record. Steve Foster, the Bart criminal. I mean, maybe we're getting ready for a new TV show, the Bart Police. That could happen. I'm not sure why it hasn't happened, actually. Oh, and speaking of criminals,

the professor that turned mass shooter that killed three people at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in December. Remember him? Anthony Polito, who had failed to get a professor, at the university despite several attempts. He, the reason that he did the shooting was because he had a tadaphylophil, which is used to treat ED. He had 15 nanograms per milliliter of oxycodone in his system.

So he had erectile dysfunction drugs and oxycodone in his system. So a typical dose of oxycodone. codone prescribed to adults. It's five milligrams every six hours. And so he had 15 nanograms. And he had erectile dysfunction drugs in his system. So that made him shoot up the university. So there. Now we know why. Do we? We also know that he was a sleaze bag, or at least that's what they want us to believe. Okay.

He was a professor at the university in 2016. And he was reported to the business school's dean and never returned to class after he was reported. And so then he lost his tenured associate professor position. Then he could never get a job after that. So he was pissed about that. And then he started taking oxycodone and erectile. dysfunction pills and set him off.

So he, in 2016, told this girl, this Christian Mashburn, in front of the whole class, he said, you know, you wear a shirt that low cut for the rest of the semester, you're going to get an A. And she reported him for that sleazy comment.

That bastard, how dare he noticed that my blouse is low cut and my breasts are out open, how dare he notice it. And then he said something. He actually said, if I wear this low-cut shirt for the rest of the semester, I'd be sure to get an A, that bastard. Just incredible times. We live in incredible times. It does make one wonder what that Kristen Mashburn, the female, is doing in the world now since that was in 2016. I would

interested to know what Christian is doing now. And if she's still wearing those low-cut shirts. 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. Okay, a whole lot to celebrate the next few days. We have the, obviously, the 4th of July, the 248th commemoration of the Declaration of Independence. Yay! Yay!

We've grown from 13 colonies and a couple million people to over 330 million people and yay for that. Am I right? Yes, of course I am. So, congratulations to us. Congratulations to the United States for,

I mean, we've created the light bulb, modern flight, air conditioning, these polio vaccine, the internet. The United States of America. Four million miles of paved roads. 90%, why isn't it 100% of households having access to broadband internet? We've visited space 800 times

the most of any country. And of course they have to end. there's certainly challenges and ways that we need to improve, correct, but we still are the number one country in the world. I know that's fading. I get it. And I know that many of you have the idea that we're being invaded. I think I have that feeling as well.

But we are still the United States of America, at least for the 248 commemoration. So we're celebrating, if you're listening live today is the third. So tomorrow is the fourth. Many places around the country are celebrating tonight. Tomorrow. And then we're going to have celebrations all weekend long. So our social media accounts will be filled with everybody's fireworks feeds.

So by Monday, we'll all be sick of the fireworks feeds that we all were faced to watch in the last few days. So when you follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR, Instagram and Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on my YouTube channel Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can order a cameo from me at Jeffey JFR on the Cameo app. That, of course, is not free, but you can still do it, and you can follow me on Cameo for free, but at Jeffie JFR on the Cameo app. And then you can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

I will attempt to keep my fireworks posed down the next few days. Oh, look, aren't those pretty, yes. I will attempt. I'm not making no complete promises that there won't be any fireworks post, but I will do my best to keep them at a minimum. So then I see where this website tested the best hot dog brands. They tasted two dozen brands to pick the top dogs. What I find interesting is they did not test my favorite hot dog, which is very, very sad.

So they went ahead and tried the hot dogs. They boiled them all, which, you know, I question their thinking there, but I guess they didn't want to spoil anything with a taste of a grill or a smoker. And they didn't use any buns or ketchup, mustard relish, or any other condiments. They just ate the boiled hot dog. and so they these oh it's delish it's the it's the website delish.com and they wanted to look for flavor and texture and snap and density when considering which hot dogs were the best and since we're coming up on

you know the Wednesday weekend hello we've got to have hot dogs now their best overall hot dog and they don't say whether these hot dogs are a sponsor to their website or not so I'm guessing they probably aren't but I know, I'm just asking a question. They say the best overall hot dog is the Applegate Farms Uncured Beef Hot Dog. Wait, that's the best hot dog? Okay, the Applegate Farms Uncured Beef Hot Dog.

The number two was the Sabre Frankfurter's beef. Is Sabre or Sabrette? It's the Sabrette. Give me one of them. They're Sabret dogs. And they're not even hot dogs. Those are Frankfurters. And then the Hebrew National Beef Franks.

Yeah, those aren't bad. And those are okay. The Neiman Ranch, fearless, uncured beef and pork francs. Ooh, never had those. They really think they look good. Ballpark hot dogs, Angus beef, bun size. Yeah, I like those. Those are okay.

I haven't had hot dogs in a long time. I love hot dogs. But these are not my favorite hot dogs in the whole wide world. The ballpark bun size, regular hot dogs are pretty good. The beef dogs, obviously. The delicious likes the beef dogs, obviously. Bell and Evans, organic chicken hot dogs. No, thank you.

The Oscar Meyer Turkey Franks. No, thank you. Hillsear Farms, beef hotlings. No, thank you. The Feltman's Natural Casing, uncured beef hot dogs. No, thank you. The Fork in the Road, honest dogs.

Pasture raised, uncured beef hot dogs. I don't think so. Wilshire Premium Uncured Beef Franks. Oh, no thank you. Boar's Head Uncured Beef Frankfurters. The Boershead hot dogs are not bad. They're okay. They are close to being my favorite hot dogs.

I guess as close as you can get. Oscar Meyer, classic uncured beef hot dogs. The Oscar Meyer classic uncured weaners. I really don't like those. The uncured grass-fed beef hot dogs. and the Nathan's famous skinless beef Franks. The Nathan's

famous Angus beef Franks. Those are in order of how they were tested by Delish. Now the favorite hot dog, my best, the best hot dog in the world for Jeff Fisher and I've promoted them before Kogles. K-O-E-G-E-L-S. Kogles. The Kogel line of meats. They're predominantly in Michigan.

I guess they have a small percentage and stores in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky. They do make the rounds, though. They have a traveling Kogel's truck. They come to Texas and Florida. They do make the rounds with that. Not that I'm on their email list. But you can order it online and they send it to you.

But the Kogel Viennas, man, I am such a fan of the Kogel's natural casing, fully cooked Viennas. They are the best Frankfurter slash hot dog. Now, the Kogles Frankfurter is what they were originally. I think they were founded in 1960. I was forced to, you know, ring Bologna and all their other Kogel products. But the Kogel, Vienna's, man, if I'm going to, I haven't eaten hot dogs in a long time.

But if I was going to have a hot dog, now I would order Kogels and have it shipped to my home. And then I would fry those bad boys up. I even put them on the grill if I had to whatever. I just, the Kogo Viannas are the best. And they're not even a sponsor of chewing the fat. They should be, though, because I'm a huge fan. But just like anything else, you do you. You know, I gave you a list of what Delish thinks are the best hot dogs.

So you do you. But I'm telling you, Kogo Vienas, number one. All right, have a great holiday. Let me leave you with not necessarily a joke for the day. This is just something that you need to go through. You know what? Go through the next few days with this in mind and then see how it works out for you. Okay?

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