Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Minor Deviations… | 1/8/25

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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I mean, they had the big weather alert yesterday or the night before from the National Weather Service saying life-threatening, destructive, widespread windstorm warming, has been issued. And they said that they were the conditions with the high winds and the combination of rapidly spreading wildfires. And that is exactly what is happening. More than 30,000 people have been told to evacuate in Southern California. The Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Los Angeles is, I don't know that it's completely

destroyed, but 3,000 acres have burned in a matter of hours. There's the Eaton fire, which broke out a few miles from the Palisades fire in Altonina, California. And that has grown to 1,000 acres. The Hearst fire has erupted and spread northeast to San Fernando, California, burning at least 500 acres so far. they're talking about 150,000 or 200,000 people without power, thousands of acres on fire. Anyway, those of you in Los Angeles and Southern California,

you know, Southern L.A., look out. Get out. And if you're going to abandon your car, I saw reports where people are finally, they're trying to drive out and then they get trapped so that they abandon their car. and I can't blame them really, but you've got to think about it.

How about you leave your keys in it? Because they're bringing in bulldozers to move these cars out of the roadways for the emergency vehicles and other evacuations that are going on. Instead, people are just leaving their cars. I'd get out. And I can understand, you know,

you get out of your car, you put your keys in your pocket. I don't know. You put your key fob in your pocket because it starts remotely. But if you do that, in Los Angeles area. Just leave your keys.

I just leave your keys. Don't worry about it. I'd rather have someone else move it than a bulldozer move it. Will insurance cover it? I don't know. I don't know. I've actually had a car bulldozed before. It's not fun.

It's not fun. I left a car parked in a parking lot. And a company I used to work for and it was winter. This is up north in the great state of Michigan. Right here, Saginaw, Michigan. And they left it in the parking lot and it stormed really bad. We had a big winter storm.

And I was just like, well, my car is there. It's fine. Nope. They got to bulldoze the parking lot. And I ended up, I thought someone stole my car. Nope. I just bulldozing into this giant mound of snow in the back of the parking lot. So I couldn't even get to it until spring.

and prior to that holy cow I hadn't even thought about this story in a long time so prior to that some young hipster punks

decided that there's a car underneath there so they dug in and broke the windows and had a big party time in my I had was a

station wagon I had a it was a Ford station wagon it was a black he used to haul flowers for a funeral home I loved that car

and it was no no it was black it was solid black because it was from the funeral home. And it was, I loved that car. Had the CB in it with the speaker in the grill. So you could do the outside speaker.

Hey! Oh, we had so much fun of that car. Loved that car. Anyway, I have, I have witnessed and had cars bulldozed, a snow plowed, out of the way. It's not fun.

That is not fun. Because if you're a banding in it, because of the fire if they're going to move it out of the way before it gets burned they need the keys all right but for the moment come to think of it if you don't leave your keys

and it gets burned up they're going to bulldoze that thing anyway ah never mind don't worry about it welcome welcome to chewing the fat as long as we're on natural disasters I saw yesterday where there was a seven point one earthquake 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Tibet and originally again that's my like I care about these wildfires in Los Angeles because that's here in the United States of America where this

show originates from and then where I was born so when I see that there's an earthquake in Tibet I think eh okay yeah I'm sorry but okay but however I don't wish bad things on people I just, I just, it's tough and it's tough for me to care. So apparently this 7.1 earthquake, I mean, 126 people lost their lives. Very sad. The epicenter was located in this Chinese county of Dingre, which is about 47 miles northeast of Mount Everest. And so the tremors were felt across Nepal and India and Bhutan. More than a thousand homes were damaged and rescue teams.

have deployed to search for survivors, so we're probably going to get much more loss of life. And the efforts were, you know, hampered because of the freezing conditions and the temperatures are now dropping to below minus five degrees. So it's a little nippy out there.

Yeah, there was an earthquake. I'll wait until it warms up a little bit. Sorry. Oh, wow. So this city, Shigate, is the second largest, city in Tibet, and that's the traditional seat of the Pansion Lama.

Please, the Pansion Lama. He's like second in command to the Dali Lama, okay? You're going to be a llama. You want to be the Dali. But this guy is, you know, in, Shizat, lives the Pansion Lama. And, no, I can't. I'm not going to beat up the Dali Lama.

I'm just saying that this guy, the seat of the Panchen Lama, is in the city, which is, you know, just under the Dalai Lama. That's where they live in the Tibetan Buddhism world. That's the way it works. Anyway, the region's location along the Indian-Eurasian tectonic plate boundary makes it prone to seismic activity. I know. They're always having earthquakes there.

In 2015, they had the Cadmandu earthquake. I mean, 9,000 people died. It was incredible. Now, I was looking at a report on earthquakes. So from 1980 to the present, magnitude of five or above, all right. there were

this doesn't have a total this has the total of 2024 okay so the map shows all the earthquakes but it doesn't have a total number of how many earthquakes from 1980 because in 2024 the total was 1,374

earthquakes with a magnitude of five or more that's in one year okay so it's since 1980, that's what? 44 years, what's 44,000, at least 44,000 earthquakes? Okay. Yeah, the earth does, if you're on the tectonic plate, there's going to be an issue.

You can quote me on this, that's a lot of earthquakes, okay? So just be safe out there. And I know I'm supposed to care that there was an earth. earthquake in Tibet. And I do care. I do care. I just, I don't really care. I care.

I don't really care. Like, I think I care as much or more that Chick-fil-A has changed their flavor of their fries. I do about the, no, it's bad. I shouldn't. No, I don't. I don't. I don't care more about Chick-fil-A and their fry flavor than I do about the earthquake in Tibet.

No, really. Anyway, they rolled out this new flavor. Now, it's been a while since I've eaten at Chick-fil-A. It's been some time. I think there's been some Chick-fil-A brought into the house. I may have had them, but I never was really crazy about their fries anyway. Everybody loved them so much.

It was, you know, I just, let me have the chicken sandwich with the cheese, no pickle and a chocolate shake. I am still still a little pissed so they don't have the large chocolate shakes anymore. It's all just one size. Kind of ticks me off, Chick-fil-A. So anyway, they changed their waffle potato fries, their recipe,

what they're calling this slight adjustment to the waffle potato fries recipe. And so people are a little upset because the main issue is the restaurants pea starch coating. So man, nothing says Do I want a crispy or potato fry? I do.

Well, we're going to cook it in pea starch coating. Okay? Oh, that just sounds fantastic. Apparently, I mean, you can't make everyone happy and I get it because people are allergic. Well, now my daughter is allergic to peas and she can't have your fries. Sorry about it.

you know sorry so and and now remember chick-fil-a went against their now allowing you uh lot to eat the uh chickens that have been uh given antibiotics because they used to say they were antibiotic free ooh yeah no we're not doing that anymore either because uh that became way too expensive and we're losing we're culling a bunch of chickens because of bird flew and the prices through the roof so we don't care uh we don't care uh we don't care if it's got antibiotics in it or not. We care that we have chicken to provide on our sandwiches.

So that's what we're doing, okay? So if you taste a little bit different at Chick-fil-A these days, that's why. The chicken now may not be antibiotic-free and the waffle fries are cooked in their

special pea-starch coating. And man, does that sound good, doesn't it? again, I care less about that than I do about the earthquake in Tibet, but they're neck and neck. They're neck and neck right now. Okay, I can't let this earthquake thing go.

All right, I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was just thinking about this. Now, so I've felt earthquakes here in Irving, Texas, where the show broadcast from here in DFW at the Mercury Studios, technically in Irving, Texas, USA. And so, okay, so I've felt earthquakes in this building before, and those were the largest was a three. And that was pretty strong, I felt. So when you look at the numbers that I just said,

so in 2024 they claim in this article that a total of 1,374 earthquakes with a magnitude of five or more were recorded, worldwide. So that's just the five or more. That's not all the aftershocks of the ones and the twos and the threes and the small earthquakes of the fours.

I mean, there's a whole lot. There's a whole lot of earthquakes going on. The earth is shaken. So be careful. That's all I'm saying. Just be careful. Because we have a lot of tragedy going on these days with

earthquakes, fires, floods wow it's almost look there's some kind of prophecy there ah

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Norwegian chess grandmaster, was disqualified from the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York. And man, you can't, you can't tear me away from the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York. So he was kicked out, I'm sorry, disqualified, because for violating the dress code. I know. And so what was the problem?

Well, he was wearing jeans. He was wearing jeans, and you can't do that. You can't do that. They initially find him $200, and he said, no, I'm not going to change my attire immediately. No. And they said, okay, well, get out there. Now, I will say this, just as a side note,

there's an updated, an update to this story. But as a side note, the picture that they have of Magnus in his jeans, dude, stop it. Okay. I know you think you look hip and everything with your little sport jacket and your jeans way up above your ankle, no belt, but relax. Okay. Anyway, so I got it. That's your look. And you're the chess master, so good for you.

Well, then the F-I-D-E, which is, you know, the governing body, the International Chess Federation, they had some discussions, and they said, you know what, those genes are fine. Yeah, we're going to allow. elegant minor deviations, including appropriate jeans. And Magnus, come on back. You know, you're the star.

You're the guy that everybody wants to see. And sure, you can wear your jeans. You go ahead. So Magnus is back. It's good for him. And he can wear whatever God-awful jeans he wants. The international, I know, I know. I know. Congratulations.

I'm sure you got a standing O at the event. I'm sure everyone at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York were overjoyed that Magnus was able to stroll back in

and wearing his jeans and say, welcome, Magnus, welcome. Yeah, play chess again. Let us watch you play chess again. Yeah! Yeah! Let us watch you play chess again. And everyone at the International Chess Federation was like, we really don't like

him wearing jeans, but what are you going to do? But a guy wants to wear jeans and he's the only one that's bringing in the audience. So yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. It looks fine. And you know what? We're going to disregard that fine that we gave you to. So good luck.

Good luck, Magnus. We do have some good news, though. I don't want to be just a, you know, negative nanny or negative ninni or whatever you want to call me. I just don't want to be positive too. That's what we do here. Hello. A negative nini. What is it?

Negative Nancy, no, it's not that. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. Don't, just stop talking to be in my ear. So, good news. Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a class action lawsuit, alleging that it's Siri voice assistant inadvertently,

inadvertently, recorded users private conversations without consent. Gosh darn it. And we shared them with other third parties. It was an advert. We're sorry. It was my mistake. My gosh, Zuckerberg took a page out of there. We're sorry, it was my mistake.

We canceled you by mistake. Sorry, we recorded you and your family and everything that went out in your house. And then we sold it to third parties. Sorry. That's darn it. So the settlement, which awaits approval from a U.S. district judge, which I'm sure will be approved, covers U.S. consumers who owned Siri

enabled devices between September 17th, 2014 and December 31st, 2024. I am one of those. I have a Siri and I believe I turned it on at one point in that time frame. I never used it really, but I believe I turned it on. Then it's, I still have the Siri device. It could still be listening to everything that happened in my house.

We've moved, I think, twice since I first got it, but it could have recorded everything. So they owe me money, damn it. So they've settled for $95 million to settle this class action lawsuit. Now they claim that if you are a part of this class action, which I am not, but I'm willing to jump on board now that there's a settlement, that you could get compensation potentially. They're going out of limb here.

Potentially, you could get compensation. of up to $20. Huh? Come on now. There's no way that you're going to end up with $20. They're going to, let's see, attorney fees get you down to $40 million. Attorney fees are going to be at least $60 million.

They didn't do this for nothing. And so then you've got $35 million to break up. And yeah, we can't. We can't do that. So, plus, you're going to, whenever we don't know when the settlement is actually going to be technically finalized. So those attorney fees could go up. So good luck.

Good luck. I do love the story though that says potentially. Potentially. You could get up to, well, first of all, it is 20 bucks. And it's 20 bucks a device. So some people, I guess, had more than one Siri in that time frame. So, man, if you had a couple, now you're looking at 40 bucks. come on now that's a class action lawsuit i can get behind

that's better than the that's better than the quarter for sure more good news too is uh i talked about it this morning on pat gray unleashed that uh we are days away if you're listening live today is the 8th of January happy birthday

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because government and simplifying that never works out ever. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Okay, so it's finally official. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Afflegg, uh, Benifer 2 is over. Done.

Have a nice day. The divorce is. final. They announced that they reached a settlement in their divorce and it's over. Now, she filed for that dissolution of their marriage back in August

of last year. So, source close to the superstar and that would be Jennifer Lopez, the superstar, not Ben. As she said, the star is doing as best she can

as she grapples with the end of what she had previously labeled the dream come true. And the fairy tale that she was promised, and this again is a source, not J-Lo. It was J-Lo, they'd tell us. The fairy tale that she was promised turned out to be a nightmare in the end. She's in a really good place and just wants to close the door on this crazy chapter. So it's over. dry your eyes.

Jenny is back to the block and she is back to Jenny on the block. Maybe not though, because Ditty's in jail and she's got to be laying low. So I know that they're both

just devastated and that's a horrible thing and I honestly don't wish divorce on anyone because it sucks. But you know, Ben moved out. he'd had enough. He had enough of her whining about him smoking

and drinking, dunking coffee. So he moved out. And then that was it. That was enough for J-Lo. And then J-Lo took the big hit when she put all that money into the movie and the tour. There's nobody liked her anymore.

And now Ben doesn't like me either. And I'm just going to quit everything. And I'm going to go back home to my family. And I'm just going to be with them. Because gosh darned, I'm worth it. And then right after that, Diddy fell? Oh, my gosh. J-Lo's going through a tough time.

Now, I will say this. While I'm reading about Benefer 2 and the end, I see a quick hit about Hugh Jackman out with his new girlfriend, this, what's your face, Sutton Foster. And I thought, wait, what, Hugh Jackman? come on now Hugh Jackman was married to that same What's Her Face for a thousand years

They were married forever He was like one of Hollywood's One of the superstars of Broadway And Hollywood and Hugh Jackman And they were married And they meditated together And they got up and crossed their legs every morning And meditated and held hands

And it was just a loving couple forever Ah, eh, nope Nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors I know. I get it. I know it's sad. And I don't know that, I don't know if it's Hugh's fault or if it was, you know, Deborah Lee Furness, the ex's fault, but it's over.

And they were divorced at the end of 2023. So this has been going on, I didn't even see this. I feel so bad. It's been over a year, almost a year and a half, since they announced that they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage. I mean, that's a,

they had a couple of kids together. They've been together for a long time. And apparently, a few months before they split, Jackman penned a furnace a sweet message for their anniversary on Instagram.

Yeah, I remember seeing that. I do remember seeing that. And then in October, of 2024. So they were already announced that they were going to get a divorce in October of 2024. Yeah, because they announced that they were going to

get a divorce back in 23, which I missed. Apparently, Jackman went through a terrible midlife crisis. And so now the chick that he was in one movie with, let's her face, Sutton Foster, there are a couple. So while they were filming,

what was a stupid movie? You know. Music Man, you remember? And it was, oh, that's right, it wasn't the movie. It was the play. She starred in The Music Man, right? The Music Man, is that the name of the stupid thing? Yeah.

Which, you know, I'm not besmirching musicals. That's fine. I'm happy with me. musicals. Music Man, classic. Hello, 76 trombones, the big parade. We've got trouble right here in River City. The capital T stands being at the Rives with Pool.

Hello, I'm all about it. But Sutton Foster was with him in the play. And that's a little music man business is going on behind the curtains. And I know, I know.

When we get done, singing our songs. I want to well, I want to practice singing. Hear you, hear you sing it. You know the song you sang last night. With the bone?

Yeah, that's the one. I know. So, that's disappointing. That's disappointing. Hugh, you've disappointed me. I don't, you know, I know you and I aren't, you know, close. but I'm disappointed

because I thought you and I thought you and you know what's her face Furness the wife the first wife I thought there was hope you were giving us those of us

that were in long relationships hope and now it's all gone it's all gone thanks to you Hugh very disappointing With MX Platinum $400 in annual credits

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Well, let's begin with Peter Yaro. Peter Yaro, you know, you love him. He was a part of the folk trio, Peter Paul and Mary. I know. Very, very sad. Peter Yaro, dead at the age of 86. He died surrounded by his home, by his family at his home in New York City after a four-year battle with bladder cancer. I do not wish that on anyone. I'll be clear, very clear about that. I don't wish cancer anyone. I don't wish earthquakes on anyone, but I most in particular do not wish bladder cancer on anyone. I don't want it. I don't want to say it anymore. I don't want to. I don't want to say it anymore. I don't want to. I'm not sure what brings it on.

I don't want to know. In fact, I don't even know if I have a bladder anymore. I think they did take the gall bladder out, but I don't know if that is there's a bladder and a gall bladder. Don't you know your anatomy, Jeff? I do know my anatomy, okay? So I just, all I'm saying is, all I'm saying is, what do you mean they're not connected?

Everything in your body is connected. I don't know if you know this or not, but everything in your body is, connected. That's the way it works. They're not connected, Jeff. Yes, yes, they are. Okay? I don't want people to have bladder cancer, is all I'm saying. Okay, so rest in peace

to Peter Yarrow or Yarrow or whatever the hell his name was. He was Peter from Peter, Paul, and Mary, dead at the age of 86. Then we have Meredith Vieira's husband, Richard Cohen. I know. I know sad. Richard Cohen. dead at the age of 76.

Apparently he was struggling with multiple sclerosis for a lot of years. So, you know, he was 76 years old. And he was an award-winning journalist. And he was, you know, a producer at CBS and CNN. So I guess Meredith met him to care a little TV business on the set. But then he had multiple sclerosis. And he, you know, their kids are all grown and everything. So it's very sad.

Rest in peace to Richard Cohen, dead at the age of 76. Then we have Olivia Hussey. Olivia Hussey. And you say, Olivia Hussey. Who is that? Well, she's the star of Romeo and Juliet and Black Christmas. She is dead at the age of 73. She's a British, Argentine.

I'm going to rephrase. She's not an Argentiner. People from Argentina get so mad when I call them Argentiners. So she's a British and Argentine actor. That's what gave her the, you know, the strange but cool look, you know, between Britain and Argentineers. That's where you get Argentiners and they get so mad at me. I call them Argentiners. Anyway, she died at the age of 73.

So rest in peace. Olivia Hussey. And she was struggling with breast cancer. So I just sad. I don't wish that. I know the struggles of breast cancer. Unlike I don't know the struggles I can only imagine what the struggles are with bladder cancer. But I do know the struggles with breast cancer. You know what?

All cancers. I don't like it. I'm against them. I'm against them. And maybe we need to cure them. And I thought, that's what Joe Biden Dinglehead, our president said he was going to do at one point in his life. He was going to cure cancer. How's that going, Joe? How's that going?

Is that actually, is it, are we close or what? Because I know you shut down your foundation. Because, you know, we can't do that anymore. You use the excuse of, well, I'm going to be president. I can't run my foundation any longer. Yeah, your foundation that lost money, never spent a dime on cancer research, that foundation.

How's that going, Joe? Because I wanted to believe that even someone as dufousness as Joe Biden could help cure cancer. And obviously that is not the case. So rest in peace to Olivia Hussie, debt at the age of 73. Then we have

John D. Stewart. John D. Stewart, I know, dead at the age of 89. Now, he, the only reason we really care about John, and I mean, we care about all deaths here at 2 and the fat, but the only reason that we really care about John is that he was a former Nevada test site official, you know, when they were testing all the Cold War stuff, so he was out there, and he lived to be 89.

So, hello. there was no radiation issue sorry I mean to John D. Stewart he was he was 89 he was like yeah yeah it worked out there okay

what do you got for me so he died apparently from pneumonia I don't have anything to do with any testing going on out there at the underground nuclear tests or any of the other Cold War weapons that were being tested out there

So yeah, it was pneumonia. It had nothing to do with anything else. So he was the controller for the last test site. And rest in peace to John D. Stewart, dead at the age of 89. Then we have Britt Allcroft. Britt Allcroft. Now you know Britt, the creator of Thomas and Friends. You know, Thomas the Train and Friends?

Right. she created it. Hello. I don't pretend like you don't know who she is. She just died at the age of 81. She was a visionary. Visionary. She came up with Thomas the Train.

You come up with an idea, Thomas the Train, you're visionary. And that's absolutely true. Left a long-lasting legacy in children's entertainment. There's no doubt about that. Oh, wait. She's known for adapting

Reverend Wilbert Audrey's Railway series into the iconic TV show. So I'm going to say that she's a, they say that she's a visionary, but she stole the idea from the visionary

is Reverend Wilbert-Odrey's Railway series. That's his. He's the visionary. Okay, Britt, I mean, rest in peace at 81, but I'll give you your credit. You adapted it, and you sold it and made a fortune with it

and turned it into a great children's show but you know, they'll be saying it to her visionary. Okay, calm down on that you can, you know, maybe pump the brakes on the whole visionary thing. I mean, it doesn't say what she died of

but rest in peace to Brit. I will say this, and just as a side note, Thomas, the tank engine and friends and Thomas and friends and whatever you wanted to call it, It ran for 27 seasons. 27 seasons.

Holy cow. And wasn't that George Carlin's series as well? Yeah, Carlin was the train, right? He was the guy. Tyra, he was the guy. So, you know, I mean, he won like all kinds of Grammys and Toney's, all the stuff from Tampa. So, yeah, that's the same show. All right.

So it's good that she connects. with other visionaries to make this show run for 27 seasons. Incredible. Rest and peace. To a long way to get to rest in peace for old Britt Elcott. But we're there. And she is dead at the age of 81. This episode is brought to you by Peloton.

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So I didn't know that this was illegal, but apparently you can't spearfish in Texas. I know. I thought this was a Texas. And this is a free damn state and country, but no. Right. No. I don't think you can shoot. I don't think you can fish with a shotgun either.

But maybe you can. Maybe you can. I don't know. Apparently, this fisherman was found illegally spearfishing on Lady Bird Lake in Austin. Oh, that's the serial killer, too, in Austin. That's where they believe there's a serial killer there. That's a whole other story. So the following a public tip, well, somebody,

I think there's a guy Spear fishing out here on Lady Bird Lake and you spend the game warden out and try to see Stop it's so terrible So Texas wildlife officials Got a public tip That's some unlawful activity on a popular lake Let's see Texas game wardens responded

Of course they did To a tip about illegal fishing The incident occurred near Barton Springs Okay upon time Blah blah blah blah Game warden and the captain game warden. Oh, they sent two. Oh, man.

It was a mistake. Speer fishing with a thanks to the tip. Was there a tip? As my real question, I want to know the official tip. Or was it just these two guys were coming back from, you know, lunch or their daily meeting at Lady Bird Lake and said, is that guy spearfishing out there?

And so he was actively spearing black bass using a pneumatic spear gun while snorkeling, violating state fishing regulations. This is America or what? Come on now. So per Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, spear guns, which are hand-operated devices used for propelling spears, really? That's what they are. Thank you.

and are not legal means to take fish in a community, fishing Lady Bird Lake, where fishing is restricted to pole and line only. Only spears are legal to take non-game fish. Okay. 18 black bath. Boy, there's a big, big-ass black bass. I'll tell you that.

That's amazing. he was getting himself some fished out one boy was snorkeling and doing some spear fishing he had 18 they got them all rode up here on the back of a pickup truck it's awesome they're already dead I mean I hope we're going to serve them up I mean I hope they sold them at least served them up

instead of just got you know throw them away they just bought the stupid largest tuna for over a million bucks in Japan maybe you send them up if no five-star restaurant or a Michelin restaurant

in Austin is going to cook them up, sell them, hawk them to Japan. Throw them on ice, ship them to Japan. Because what was that? It was the bluefin tuna. That's right. It was the bluefin tuna from Japan. And the Onodero group,

which is the Michelin-starred restaurant chain, purchased. Okay, so this bluefin tuna, 6008 pounds. $1.3 million. That's amazing. And, of course, the restaurant chain says, oh, it's, uh,

the first tuna is good fortune. Uh, that's what it is. Uh-huh. Oh, what about eating it? Oh, that brings you more good fortune. Yeah, we need to eat it at our restaurant and pay top dollar, you know, while supplies last.

And so, anyway, then back to the, I hope that they got rid of the black bass that way. I hope they just didn't throw them away. I was going to cut them up and cook them out. I don't know that I've ever eaten black bass, but maybe I have. So the suspect on the scene had a cooler in a bag containing the unlawful taken fish, you bastards. 18 black bass weighing 76.5 pounds, measuring a combined 340, okay, 38, 48, 4 inches.

Among them 14 were larger than 18 inches, 9 exceeding 20 inches. And per TPWD, the daily bag limit for all black bass species on Lady Bird Lake is 5.000. in any combination. So, okay, fine. Does it say that they, all the fish, along with the spear guns and gears, were seized, and the bass were donated for consumption? Okay.

So we cooked them up. Somebody got them, where they, so the wardens took them home and ate them is what happened. They were donated for consumption. Yeah, that is. That's the warden's way of having their own civil, That's that forfeiture. We donated them for consumption.

That's fine. Everything's fine. They got them in the freezer right now as we speak. So go ahead. And if you don't, just ask the wardens. Check their freezers. Because you know exactly that's what happened. So the suspect faces multiple citations for illegal fishing.

I'm sorry, illegal fishing methods and unlawful possession of black bass, fines and restitution charges, harvest of this magnitude can be very detrimental to bass populations can they so the guy had 18 you have a limit of 5

okay so if three guys go out there's 15 and that how does that affect the bass populations it's the same thing it's the same thing I don't understand it and they give a toll-free number

that you can call to report violations to operations to operations game thief. So you can find that number if you want to use it. It's 1-800.

What is that? 1-800-go? I can't make out the rest of the words. So it's one of those. It reminds me like, let's get out of here. It's a joke of the day. I give you the joke of the day, which I read this over the holidays,

and it ties in with our spear fishing. Okay? So a warden. These damn wardens. You have a permit for all these fish? No, sir. These are all my pet fish. Your pet fish, how's that?

Well, every night I take all my pet fish for a walk to the lake, and I let them swim for about half an hour, and then I whistle, and they all come back and jump in my basket, and we go home. We do this every night. The warden. That's a crock of eyes. Here, I'll show you. He releases the fish into the lake.

And then the warden says, well, I got to see this. And he waits. About five minutes later, the warden says, well, and that says what? And the warden says, the fish, where's your pet fish? And the man says, what fish? See, because he threw him back in the lake. And there wasn't any, oh, you understand. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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