Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Maybe It’s Just Me… | 11/30/22

Episode Date: November 30, 2022

Soda rankings 2022… Monks on Meth… Found after 51 years… Holiday Season spending up… Figgy Spam song… Oscars change up… Miami losing crypto money… Jim Carrey leaving Twitter?...�...�Who Died Today: Clarence Gilyard Jr. 66 / Jake Flint 37… Bank Robber with a walker… Spare audiobook for free… Harry & Meg not seeing Will & Kate in U.S. … Emails: Joke chewingthefat@theblaze.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:00 Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements. What you win is yours to keep groovy. Hey, I won! Boating will begin when passenger fisher is done celebrating.
Starting point is 00:00:22 19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close, you call 1866-3-3-1-2-60 or visit comexonterio.ca. Blaze Radio Network And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Congratulations are in order to Coca-Cola. Once again, proving strong in the soft drink category. Number one in the 2022 ranking is Coca-Cola. Now, my Coke Zero is all the way down to seventh.
Starting point is 00:00:54 We have Coca-Cola. We have Diet Coke number two. Pepsi Max, number three. Schweps Lemonade. Sweps Lemonade up to number four. R. Whites, down one to number five. Pepsi, down one to number six. Coke Zero, of course, moved up.
Starting point is 00:01:18 Is it up one from eight to seven? Diet Pepsi, down one to eight. Schweps lime cordial stayed the same at nine. And Red Bull stayed. the same as number 10. All data provided by CGA for the 12 months to October 2020. Now, CGA is an insight and research consultancy to food and drink businesses across the globe.
Starting point is 00:01:48 So you can trust them 100%. So now, if you're still drinking Coca-Cola, you are drinking the number one soft drink according to CGA. I am still stuck on number seven with Coca-Cola zero sugar as, you know, my go-to drink. But if you're drinking Diet Coke, Pepsi Max,
Starting point is 00:02:14 Schwepps a lemonade, R. Whites, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Schwab's Lime Cordial or Red Bull, you're still in the top ten. So you should be feeling good about yourself. I know. I know. me too welcome welcome to chewing the fat so i've talked many times about uh j shetty and his book and life as think like a monk and i'm you know i'm a fan i want to think like a monk i believe i want to think
Starting point is 00:02:51 like a monk even more in today's world so there's a buddhist temple in thailand and four Buddhist monks have been shipped off to rehab after they all tested positive for meth. The holy men, including the temple's abbot or head monk, failed the drug tests
Starting point is 00:03:14 in the province of Bongsamphon district on Monday. The temple is now empty of monks and nearby villagers are concerned they cannot do any merit making. Boy, that just what's the problem? need a monk to come in.
Starting point is 00:03:30 Police forced the monks to undergo urine tests after they raided the temple as part of the province's crackdown on drugs. I'm not sure what made them think that the temple was a drug haven, but they did and they were. The monks who haven't been named have since been sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehab. They were also immediately booted from the monkhood. Wait, what?
Starting point is 00:03:57 Yes. Merit making is a Buddhist practice that involves followers donating food to monks as a good deed. Backup monks are being sent to the temple so villagers can still practice their religious obligations. That's good because anytime you are someplace where people give you free food to feel good about themselves, I am all for it, whether you're a Thai monk or not. They didn't say that they found any drugs stashed at the temple, so they just know that Thailand is a major. transit country for methamphetamine flooding into neighboring nations. And I, you know, okay, so it's a terrible place. And now we even have the monks smoking meth.
Starting point is 00:04:42 They don't know that they were traffickers. They were just drug-addicted monks smoking meth in Thailand. Okay. Now, we do know that, I guess this is where they found out that they might have a problem. the drug-addled monk named Farrar and Apollo was arrested earlier in the month after allegedly carjacking two vehicles and leading the cops on a frantic chase.
Starting point is 00:05:14 He's facing, obviously he's facing jail time, car theft. He's going to be charged under Thailand's narcotic act, so he was high, obviously, when he was doing it, which led them to think that, hey, I bet he's not the only. only monk doing meth. So, man, how bad you want to live like a monk now? And look, if you're doing it right
Starting point is 00:05:39 or think like a monk as Jay Shetty's book, if you're doing it right, you absolutely would be, you know, you need, it would be, it would be cool. I could see myself as a monk. I know. I don't look at me like that. I could see myself as a monk.
Starting point is 00:05:54 But, I mean, if you're just going to become a monk to smoke math? That seems like it would not be the thing to do. Maybe it's just me. There was an incredible story out of Fort Worth that they're calling, you know, an early Christmas miracle, but a woman who disappeared over five decades ago was found in Fort Worth this week.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Melissa Highsmith went missing when she was kidnapped. by a babysitter at her parents' Fort Worth home in 1971. She was just 22 months old at the time of her disappearance. What is she, Rapunzel? I mean, did she have golden hair? Did she heal people? I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:45 But over the next 51 years, the family and police searched for her, and they followed up on recent tips about a possible siting in North Carolina. In the end, however, Melissa was found. living in Fort Worth under the name of Melanie Walden. The High Smith family said that a DNA test ended up being the key that led them to Melissa. Our finding Melissa was purely because of DNA, not because of any police or FBI involvement or podcast involvement or even our family's own private investigations or speculations. Okay.
Starting point is 00:07:26 None of you worked, okay? you're a bunch of losers. Leave us alone. You couldn't find their kid. So they met for the first time in over 50 years, 51 years of separation. That's pretty amazing. It was good to see what I looked like as a baby as she sits next to her parents looking at photos of her she's never seen before.
Starting point is 00:07:52 It's overwhelming, but at the same time, it's the most wonderful feeling in the world. Wow, they're still trying to process it all. Imagine if you lost your child, I mean, at any time would be horrific, but then to know that you believe that they're still alive and you still continue to search for them and you find them. Wow. So I guess a tip came from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that she had possibly been seen in Charleston, South Carolina. Now, that tip didn't pan out, but it put Melissa's story back in the national spotlight and gave the family the strength to keep looking.
Starting point is 00:08:34 So eventually, a DNA test from 23 and me, connected Melissa's children with their family. When her family reached out to her on Facebook, Melissa thought it was a scam. My father texted me on Messenger, and he told me, you know, I've been looking for my daughter for 51 years. This whole time, I never really knew my real family was searching for. me. The person that raised me, I asked her, is there anything you need to tell me? And it was confirmed that she knew that I was baby Melissa
Starting point is 00:09:06 so that it just made it real. She then agreed to take the DNA test on Thanksgiving and reunited with her brothers and parents. So the lady that took her no information has been released about her kidnapper. Yeah, What happens to them? I mean, that's, hello, you kidnapped this person for 50 years, made them believe that they were someone else?
Starting point is 00:09:32 When does that stop? I mean, after, you know, after 20 years, you're an adult, right? She's, or 21 years, whatever the case is, she was almost two years old at the time. And so once you're an adult, does that mean the kidnapping goes away? Is there a statute of limitations? Just amazing. just amazing but good for the family for finally finally finding their daughter
Starting point is 00:10:00 and the daughter finally finding her real parents not knowing about it that there were her real parents I mean she just the whole thing was a lie but it's amazing that the family it was the DNA and a false spotting of her that brought her back into the spotlight but they made a point of saying, let me tell you, it wasn't because of any police or FBI involvement,
Starting point is 00:10:29 podcast involvement, or even our family's own private investigations or speculations. So amazing. Good for the high smiths. Good for them for finally finding their daughter. And wow, what about so many years of lost time with your child? child and the child with the parents.
Starting point is 00:10:53 Incredible. So it is almost, if not a Christmas miracle, pretty close. Pretty close. You know, unless they don't like each other, what happens if they don't, they sit down with each other over the holidays here, then they realize, yeah, I don't really like you. I know you're my parents, but I don't like you. So I'm out. Take care. Don't call me again. I don't think that would be a miracle. I mean, you know, that's just me. Again, again, maybe that's just me. So we talked today on Pat on Leash, and I think it was overtime, where we talked about in China,
Starting point is 00:11:35 they have these huge high rises that are pig farms. And that's how they're raising their pork in China in these high-rise buildings. And that has got to smell good. and 60% of U.S. pork production comes from one company owned by the Chinese. And their hogs are giving something called erectopamine, which happens to be banned in 160 countries, including China. Yet you can find it in your grocery aisle here in the U.S. every day. There is a better way. I'd like to tell you about Moink.
Starting point is 00:12:12 That's Mu plus oink. Moink. Moink delivers grass-fed. and grassed finished beef and lamb, pastured pork and chicken, and sustainable wild caught Alaskan stammer, straight to your door. Moink farmers farm like our grandparents did.
Starting point is 00:12:30 And as a result, moik meat tastes like it should because the family farm does it better. From small family farms to your dining table, Moink gives you access to the freshest, sustainably sourced meat and fish, all while supporting American Family Farm, The Moink difference is a difference you can taste,
Starting point is 00:12:52 and you can feel good knowing you're helping family farms stay financially independent. You choose the meat delivered in every box, rib-eyes, chicken breasts, pork chops, salmon fillets, and so much more. Plus, you can cancel it any time. I love getting the Moinck box delivered to the house, and you bring it into the kitchen, you open it up, and you start going through it, and you're looking at the chicken breasts, and the rib-eyes and the pork chops and the salmon fillets and the bacon. I love the bacon. The Moink bacon is probably, I don't know, it's the best bacon I've ever had.
Starting point is 00:13:29 It is delicious. I mean, Shark Tank host Kevin O'Leary called Moinck's bacon the best bacon he's ever tasted. He's 100% correct. Ring doorbell founder Jamie Siminoff jumped at the chance to invest in Moink. I'll tell you another thing, that Moinke guarantees that you will. say to yourself, no way, and then once you open that box and you start going through the rib-eyes and the chicken breasts and the pork chops and the salmon filets and the bacon, you are going to say, oink, oink, I'm just so happy I got moined. That's a guarantee. That's a guarantee from Moink,
Starting point is 00:14:06 that you will say, oink, I'm just so happy, I got moint. Keep America Farming going by signing up at moinkbox.com slash jeffey right now. Listeners to this. this show, get free filet mignon in every order for a year. That's one year of the best filet mignon you're ever going to taste, but it's for a limited time. So get there now. Moinkbox.com slash jeffy. M-O-I-N-K-box.com slash J-E-F-F-F-Y. Moinkbox.com slash Jeffie.
Starting point is 00:14:42 All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So we know that the holiday season, it's the holiday season, yeah, we know that according to the National Retail Federation, they defined the holiday season November 1st through December 31st. Now, this past, we talked about Black Friday sales being up. We talked about Cyber Monday sales being up. and we also now know that a record number of holiday shoppers went out back to stores and hunted for deals on Thanksgiving Day. 196. million shoppers shopped out there. It's pretty incredible.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Now, they didn't estimate the spending, but when you look at some of the bargains and the deals, they talk about shoppers spend an average of $325 on holiday restaurants. on holiday-related purchases over the weekend. Last year, the weekend, was $301. So things are going good, right? You know how good it's going? Now, I will say that it does take me back to what you could quote me on from yesterday's show. I'm sure that the 196.7 million people who flocked back to stores hunting for deals,
Starting point is 00:16:16 from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday and then spent an average of $325 on holiday-related purchases definitely got more for less. They spent more for less product. I promise you that. I know what we spent and what we received, and it was definitely spending more
Starting point is 00:16:45 for less. And since we're talking about the holidays, I see where spam has their new figgy pudding which looks delicious. I mean, holy cow.
Starting point is 00:17:03 You think the holidays, you want some figgy pudding with the warm spices and seasonal ingredients that will be the star in many wintertime recipe favorites with
Starting point is 00:17:15 notes of cinnamon and nutmeg combined with fig and orange flavors, you'll taste true holiday comfort that will have you caroling all season long. And they've created here on the Spam website a song from the Spam people. I didn't realize that Spam had these little spammy characters. There's a pig and a reindeer and some elves. and they're singing, We Wish You a Figgie Christmas. And man, if nothing,
Starting point is 00:17:49 will get you into the holiday spirit. The makers of Spam present, We wish you a Ficky Christmas. Oh, yeah. Good tidings we bring to you at your kin. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year. Oh, Santa's there too.
Starting point is 00:18:06 Bring us some Fidipin. Wait, what is Figgie pudding? I think it's some kind of holiday pudding. tree? From yester year. Tadings we bring to you and your kin. Maybe it's like a spread. Or a tasty throat spear.
Starting point is 00:18:24 We will go until we get some. Please, sir, may I have some? I think I taste some. Oh, cool. Oh, that was the pig. Oh, no. Can't have that. We wish you a Merry Christmas
Starting point is 00:18:38 and a fantastic new year. What would you good a day? Break for Mrs. Claus's cooking. Hey. Oh, Wipple, it's good, cheers. Oh, isn't that beautiful? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. That was the Bumble.
Starting point is 00:19:15 That was the giant Bumble singing at the end. So, man, nothing says the holidays like. Have a spamtastic new year. Right? I know. I don't know if this is good news or bad news from the Oscars, I'll let you decide whether you think it's good news or bad news. Last year, remember, they cut out eight awards from the show.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Eight categories, awards from the show, the original score, makeup, hairstyling, documentary short, film editing, production design, animated short, live action short, and sound. And those were cut from the main telecast. And I guess that brought outrage from across the film industry. So now Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scientists. No, not scientists. What am I saying? Sciences. They're not scientists, although many of them believe they are.
Starting point is 00:20:17 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that he could confirm. He did this exclusively to variety. I can confirm that all categories will be included in the live telecast. Oh, how much do you want to watch the Oscars now? I mean, okay, sure. Jimmy Kimmel's going to come back for a third time to host. We'll just be able to, executive producers are there for the 95th Academy Awards, March 12th, 2023, live from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:20:57 the ceremony will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories. So they're not cutting anything out and you're going to get it all from the beginning to the end because of the outrage that ensued after cutting some of those categories. I don't understand why. I mean, why don't they just do the whole thing from the red carpet to the black carpet? Is that what they call it when everybody leaves, the black carpet, to the exiting? and all the awards and all the parties and all the accesses and side interviews, all of it, on one of the streaming platforms.
Starting point is 00:21:37 And then the live broadcast could be two hours, prime time, we're good. Have a nice day. Well, we'll all sit down for two hours of the Oscars. We'll watch the big ones and we'll move on with their lives. And if you want to watch, if you want to watch the person who got the animated short or the film editing, which I'm not opposed to, I probably will watch it, me personally. But for primetime ABC, you know, I'm guessing two hours is enough. You get the numbers up and maybe they go back and then, you know, the Oscar website can just post each category as a separate YouTube clip on their YouTube page. Oh my gosh, you mean that would mean the film industry would be integrating with the new streaming and internet and that would have to work together?
Starting point is 00:22:32 Oh, I can't. I won't hear of it. It's just silly. It's just silly. 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. It's just $39.99. How could I resist? This luxurious wool. 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?
Starting point is 00:23:15 At these prices, could I find something for everyone at winners? Stop wondering. Start gifting. Winners, find fabulous for less. Now may be a good time to go down to Miami and buy a nightclub. I'm just thinking out loud. I was reading
Starting point is 00:23:31 a story where Miami nightclubs have been rocked. by the absence of big spending crypto whales among the market's deep freeze. So apparently nightclubs in the city became the home away from a home for the crypto entrepreneurs who, when times were good, they would run out venues for half a million dollars and order top shelf champagne. And so, you know, they all, they all spent all kinds of money. in fact, one club, E-11 club, that accepted payment in cryptocurrency, processed $6 million, more than $6 million worth of transactions last year.
Starting point is 00:24:16 In the last three months, it's taken in less than $10,000. Woo! That hurts. I don't care. I guess the nerdy-style guys are all hurting with their crypto money. So we're not going to the bars. We got no crypto money. I mean, Miami was the Magic City.
Starting point is 00:24:40 Right? It went all in on crypto. They were buying up drawings with crypto. The mayor Francis Suarez has removed his laser eyes from his Twitter profile. Miami-Dade County has asked a federal judge to end the Miami Heat Arena's naming rights deal. with bankrupt FDX and the city's personal token Miami coin has dropped 99% from its peak value. So, as I was saying, might be a good time, just maybe a good time, go down to Miami and look around and, you know, buy a bar. Because you could probably get a really good price on it.
Starting point is 00:25:25 And, you know, then times will roll back in. It'll be okay. But you're not used to the old crypto money. Because the crypto money probably isn't coming back. But I don't know. I'm not an investor. Don't take your investment advice from me. I'm just guessing it's possible.
Starting point is 00:25:43 The crypto money isn't coming back. Now, you can follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. If you are listening to this show right now and you are not a subscriber, what are you doing? I appreciate you listening. And you're listening on your friend's device. you know, that's fine
Starting point is 00:26:03 and wherever your friend is subscribe to the show, but you need to get on your device and subscribe to the show, okay? It's free, so, you know, just subscribe. Look, right now you're a freeloader. Nobody likes a free loader. Subscribe on your own device, and it's free, everybody loves that.
Starting point is 00:26:19 Everybody wants free stuff. Nobody likes a freeloader. So make that happen. I see where, and this is sad news as well, and I really don't mean that it's sad news, because there's some big story that talks about Jim Carrey saying he's leaving Twitter. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:26:37 What will I do? The thing is, they never leave. So, Jim, if you're going to go, bye. Talk to you later. He said, I'm leaving Twitter, but first, here's a cartoon I made with my friend Jimmy Hayward. It's based on my painting of a crazy old lighthouse keeper, standing naked in a storm,
Starting point is 00:26:58 summoning the angels and shining his lamp to guide us through a treacherous night. I love you all so much. Well, geez, Jim, thank you. And we love you right back. Bye. I probably shouldn't leave without letting you hear the great work of Jim Carrey and his painting brought to life. Oh, yes, his friend Jimmy Hayward. old crazy lighthouse keeper
Starting point is 00:27:36 standing naked in a storm summoning the angels shining his lamp to guide us through a treacherous night this place with light and others know that's right Oh it's a naked lighthouse Purchas Angels fill this place with light
Starting point is 00:27:59 Angels guide them through West a chain in their sail And I will burn my life It's really great And he's got the lighthouse keeper Giving everybody the finger on one hand And holding up some Strange concoction of fingers on the other
Starting point is 00:28:42 It's awesome That's awesome Jim, we'll miss you We will miss you I mean I'll try to be sad And I don't I'll try I promise I promise this Jim
Starting point is 00:28:53 I'll try to be sad. All right. Who died today? Who died today? Very sad. Clarence Gilliard, Jr., dead at 66 years of age. Now, you remember Clarence from Walker, Texas Ranger? He was in Matlock.
Starting point is 00:29:14 One of my all-time favorite lines in the world coming from Ben Matlock. Murder is a messy business. It wasn't Clarence Gilliard, Jr., though. He played the detective. And in Diehard, he was the, remember in Die Hard, he was the computer genius, the smart guy that knew how to get into the safe. Clarence Gilliard Jr. very sad. He died at the age of 66. He died in his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. He apparently, we haven't claimed what killed him yet.
Starting point is 00:29:49 Huh. But apparently he had not been in good health for a few years. I am absolutely, I know what you're thinking. And don't do it. It has nothing to do with the vaccine. So shut up. Okay? Just shut up.
Starting point is 00:30:06 He was working at the university. He's got 30 years of acting under his belt. And he was a professor at the university. He was in a lot of movies, man. Top Gun, Die Hard. He did a lot of really good stuff. Anyway, he was a professor in Las Vegas, contributed to the College of Fine Arts at UNLV community.
Starting point is 00:30:29 And he was married to Elena Gildyard, his current wife. And then he was called Professor G at UNLV, Professor G. And according to UNLV, he was a beacon of light and strength for everyone around. him. I believe it. He seemed like a really nice man. I wish I had met him before. Clarence Gileard Jr. dead at the age of 66. Rest in peace. Then we have country singer Jake Flint. Dead at 37. Died in his sleep hours after being married. There are video posts of the happy couple dancing. And now the wife is like, I, don't understand Oklahoma singer-songwriter Jake Flynn, 37, died in his sleep hours after exchanging wedding vows on Saturday night.
Starting point is 00:31:29 His wedding to Brenda Flint took place at a remote homestead near Tulsa. Everyone is really, really sad. The cause of his death has not yet been confirmed. Don't do it. Don't go there. Stop thinking like that. Don't think to yourself, aha! Ah, there's another one from the vaccine.
Starting point is 00:31:51 You don't know that. It doesn't say. It doesn't say that, okay? It just says that we don't know the cause of death is yet to be determined. So it could have been something else. So stop thinking about that, okay? So Jake Flynn, country singer and songwriter dead at the age of 37. Hi, I'm Sophia Loper Carroll, host of the Before the Chorus podcast.
Starting point is 00:32:33 We dive into the life experiences behind the music we love. Artists of all genres are welcome, and I've been joined by some pretty amazing folks, like Glass Animals. I guess that was the idea, was to try something personal and see what happened. And Japanese breakfast. I thought that the most surprising thing I could offer was an album about joy. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, and remember, so much happens before the chorus.
Starting point is 00:32:58 So there's always, you know, interesting crime stories around America every day. This one happened in Fresno, in downtown Fresno, in a bank, Wells Fargo, on Fresno Street and VanS Avenue. If you know Fresno, you know right where that is. And so a man using a walker went into the Wells Fargo on Fresno Street and Van S Avenue. And he's 68-year-old man, an unnamed 68-year-old man. and using a walker. He went into the bank, approached a teller with a note demanding money.
Starting point is 00:33:34 The teller gave him $200 and included a tracker with the cash. The man left headed west towards Fulton Street. And like I said, if you know Fresno, you know exactly where that is. Officers were in the area. And along with the help of the bank tracker and his slow movement, they were able to locate him on Fulton Street just north of Fremont. Resino Street. He had gotten very far. And he was arrested without incident. And good news, the money was recovered. It doesn't say, it doesn't say the man's name. It doesn't say what he needed the money for.
Starting point is 00:34:14 I don't know if he needed it for rent. I don't know if he needed it for drugs or booze or why. I want to know why he went into the bank and demanded the money and thought he could get away with it. Plus, a tracker. I mean, you've got to be smarter. than that. I know you're on a walker and you're moving kind of slow, but, you know, you've got to be smarter than that. You have to be. They gave you 200 bucks. The tracker can't be that. And you have to realize that the tracker is with the money. You have to. Right? Don't you? Don't you? I feel like you do. for those of you that have been waiting for Prince Harry's tell all autobiography I know don't I know yeah I could see right now the way
Starting point is 00:35:01 you're looking that you you've been thinking about buying the autobiography spare when it hits the bookshelves well now the audio book is not going to be available until January 10th however if you sign up for the Amazon Audible you can get your free trial of their audiobook service, and spare can be one of your free audiobooks, and you will have access to it after January 10th. Kind of cool, huh?
Starting point is 00:35:36 I know. I mean, I definitely want to read it. I will see what comes of it. I mean, I know the Royals are all wound up about it. In fact, the Royals are so wound up about it that you have Kate and William, the future king and queen, coming to the United States this month, and Harry and Megan are not going to even see them.
Starting point is 00:36:01 They're going to be in the same neck of the woods a couple weeks later, but they're not showing up to see Kate and Bill. Unbelievable. So we'll see if they actually, if they don't meet up or now, that's pretty strange if they don't. Kate and William are going to be in Boston for the second annual Earth Shot Prize Award ceremony. And the succors, you know, Harry and Megan, as likely they'll still be in California. Aha.
Starting point is 00:36:32 Okay. You guys are coming to New York the next week. Why don't you, you know, come up early and hang out with us for a little while? Nope. Not going to happen. How about you stop in and you talk to me a little bit about the book and what's happening with that since I'm, you know, the future king and you're going to be writing about me and I haven't seen you since grandma's funeral? Nope. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:36:58 I mean, I am a huge fan of the Earth Shot program. This is wonderful that the Earth Shot offers $1 million, $1.2 million a million pounds in prize. money to winners of five separate categories, nature protection, clean air, ocean revival, waste elimination, and climate change. The winners and all
Starting point is 00:37:25 15 finalists will also receive help in expanding their projects to meet global demand. Oh, that's so special they're going to be in there. That's something that Harry and Megan should be able to get behind. And you know, it's kind of a big deal, this Earth Shot Prize Award ceremony.
Starting point is 00:37:43 So they should show up. And it should happen. That's all I should happen. I don't know if money is going to be given to the scientists that tell us now, these two Manitoba researchers who are published in the Journal of Mammology. And I love the Journal of Mammology. It shows that rising climate has led to changes to the sperm of male squirrels in the Canadian prairies and the feet of squirrels in South Africa.
Starting point is 00:38:15 And we are saying that this is happening because of climate change. Okay. Now, I will say this. Now, maybe they get some earthshot money from William and Kate. I don't know. But according to this, because of the changing climate, it's left many squirrels shooting blinks. Really?
Starting point is 00:38:36 Yeah. And their cousins in African countries are growing larger feet. Now, they claim this is because of global warming. Okay. So how is it affecting it? Are we having less children? Well, no. We're not having less children.
Starting point is 00:38:54 What? Yeah. No, but it's because humans need to be mindful of all effects of climate change, okay? Even the small ones. That means that maybe they are adapting a little bit, but they're, you know, it's fine. I don't understand why this is a big deal. So according to this, they started their research, this fellow researcher, Maya Warrington,
Starting point is 00:39:19 last year when they found that some of Richardson's male ground squirrels species found throughout the Canadian prairies were coming up out of hibernation following a particularly warm winter with sperm unable to swim. While the non-motile sperm did not lead to fewer young born later that year. Wait! what? Yeah, but other negative consequences of male shooting blanks may emerge in other species or situations. So it didn't matter. They came out and we shot blanks, but then you know what? We went ahead and everything changed and we still had a bunch of kids. It's just incredible. Now they claim it to bigger feet on the African squirrels are happening because it's warmer out and they make their bigger feet makes them cool down faster.
Starting point is 00:40:08 Smaller body, bigger feet. They cool it. down faster. I can go on record right now and telling you that I need a smaller body and bigger feet to cool down faster. Now, I've, you know, I wear a size 13, 14, my feet are big enough.
Starting point is 00:40:25 My hands are big enough. But I need to, you know, I need a smaller body to cool down faster. Maybe this study can help me out. But temperatures have risen all over the world. And the climate change is an important fact.
Starting point is 00:40:41 in future Manitoba Highway Planning. We've got everything. It doesn't matter. Anything that you do has to be under the guise of climate change. It's amazing to me, this story. I love the story because changes
Starting point is 00:40:57 to squirrel semen feet a sign of climate change. But nothing is happening. I mean, the squirrels are evolving a little bit. And the sperm that's shooting blanks, okay so they're shooting more blanks but they're still having the same amount of kids so is that why is that because we have more women squirrels now we're out looking for a little squirrel business uh we came out of hibernation and there better be some squirrel business to do okay
Starting point is 00:41:26 i'm shooting blanks but i still want to be shooting i mean that's what this i just whatever you come out of hibernation uh that don't matter if you're shooting blanks or not you're still looking for goodness, you're still looking for some shooting to go on. Okay? So maybe, I don't know, maybe these people can get some money from the Earthshot program with William and Kate, you know, get this to the world because we need to know this. We need to have everything that we do be under the guise of climate change. Okay.
Starting point is 00:42:03 All right. I mean, that needs to happen. You know that as well as I do, right? You can always email the show Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. I'll leave you with a joke that was sent to me last night over an email, Chewing the fat at the blaze.com from John. And it's not funny. This is not the kind of joke I want to use, but it's about the post office. And John is, you know, is, John is emailing me and letting me know, hey, he would be the next Postmaster General.
Starting point is 00:42:36 Well, yes, I want to be on the board of governors for the post office. No question. Okay. But this is the joke. Okay. An ex-GI applies for a job at the post office. In the interview, he tells the supervisor about his disability. He lost his testicles to a sniper in Afghanistan.
Starting point is 00:42:56 It doesn't have anything to do with climate change. The supervisors say, no problem. And asks if he has any problem with drugs or alcohol. No way. No way. devout Mormon. I don't use alcohol or caffeine. The supervisor says, you're hired. See you tomorrow
Starting point is 00:43:12 at 10 a.m. Wait, I thought you guys started work at 8 a.m. Yeah, the supervisor said, yeah, you know, it's a government job, so we spent the first two hours drinking coffee and scratching ourselves, so you don't have to come in for that. See what I mean? Terrible.
Starting point is 00:43:29 Just terrible. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux beauty and fragrance sets, our special selection has something for every style and price point. Visit our Holt's holiday shop and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com.

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.