Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Now’s The Time… | 4/17/23

Episode Date: April 17, 2023

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Now, the Guinness World Records has not confirmed whether there is a record for voluntary time living in a cave. cave. They gave the longest time survived trapped underground to the 33 Chilean and Bolivian miners who spent 69 days and 68 meters underground after the collapse of a copper gold mine in Chile in 2010. I say this is a record. Go ahead. Give it to her. 500 days in a cave? Yeah, that's a record. She just came out. She entered the cave in a granada, Grenada, tomato, tomato. And think about it, 500 days. Russia had not invaded Ukraine.

The COVID pandemic was still going on. And it was part of an experiment, which was monitored by scientists and her team. She entered the cave at age 48, spent the time 70 meters, 230 feet deep in this cave, exercising, drawing, knitting, wool. Hats. She got through 60 books, a thousand liters of water. Yeah, go ahead and give it to her. It's a record. She was monitored by a group of psychologists and researchers, but they said they made no contact with her. So they have footage of her climbing out of the cave. I don't know if there's any footage of her in the cave. I don't know if her team kept an eye on her with cameras. I can hope so. that would be uh that's going to be a quite a video uh quite a movie actually 500 days in a cave she said i've been

silent for a year and a half not talking to anyone but myself um i lose my balance that's why i'm being held uh you know she's being held when she's uh at the press conference uh if you allow me to take a shower i haven't touched water for a year and a half i thought she was she drank though right they said that she got a thousand liters of water she hasn't touched water she drank but she didn't she didn't bathe oh that's a little frightening and uh there was a moment where i had to stop counting days no kidding um she'd been in the cave for about 160 to 170 days and then she thought it was enough one of the toughest moments came when there was an invasion of flies inside the cave she's covered in flies that doesn't that sound like fun and

And she also had auditory hallucinations. You're silent and the brain makes it up. So she used her time in isolation to study the impact of social isolation, and extreme temporary disorientation on people's perception of time. So get us, give her the record. Okay, it's a record. 500 days living in a cave. I don't know.

I'm going to go out on a limo. We talked about going into the darkness. for two to three days. Five hundred days in a cave. That makes the darkness retreat of three days. I spit on that three-day darkness retreat. My name is Beatrice Flamini, and I spent 500 days in a cave.

Welcome! Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So I was reading about the dairy fire. that burned up, exploded in Texas last week. The footage was incredible. And they say that they believe that it was an accident. You know, we talk a lot about was it, though, was it an accident? Well, this appears to have been.

But I was looking at the size of the structure of this dairy farm. You know, when I grew up in Michigan, and when I was a little kid, we lived on a farm. there was a big dairy farm, you know, on the other side of a field from where we lived. And it was not this. It was not South Fork dairy. I'll tell you that. It's located. This particular dairy farm is in southeast of Dimit, Texas, which is up there in the smokestack of Texas.

I guess that's still the panhandle, but, you know, it sticks up in between Oklahoma and New Mexico. Anyway, they don't know how many cows actually died. yet, but they believe it's close to 18,000. And I was looking at some video footage of the structure prior to it exploding and burning up.

The structure was 2,136,973 square feet, and it's a total loss. Wow. It is monstrous. Monstrous. So they don't know what happened. They have an idea

of what happened. They first reported that it was because of a honey badger machine and they were all pissed at the, I think it was the deputy sheriff or the sheriff that called it a honey badger machine.

What an idiot! It's called a honeyback. They were all pissed at the sheriff for calling the piece of equipment a honeybuck. Badger what an idiot it's a honey vac okay sheriff learn your terms of the dairy farms out there all right So they're guessing because of the charred roof across the in it was The honey vac and insulation is what would cause such a large fire now the honey vac is a manure vacuum that sucks manure from cow lanes and it could have ignited the fire Just amazing.

The explosion was big enough to catch any part of the non-fire-resistant insulation on fire, which would have spread like wildfire, hello, across the entire building. That entire building, 40 acres. You can quote me on this. That's a pretty big building. And then that would, of course, the insulation would be burned and the fuel would be, you know, fire the, that would fuel the fire. and the insulation would just continue,

which would be caused the smoke to be black, which it was we saw in the video and caused a big mushroom cloud of black smoke. However, they, you know, it's an ongoing investigation. I just found it amazing. I mean, the community is already coming together to help these people. I mean, this is a huge loss for them.

It's a huge loss for us as far as our dairy products. I'll tell you that. But I was just impressed, and I'm, you know, sorry that this happened, and I will find out exactly, how it happened. But 18,000 dairy cows, and the structure, the size of the structure was just amazing to me.

There's videos out there of the structure. 2,136,973 square feet total loss. Wow. Really sad. Really sad. But it looks as though it is just an accident. Was it, though? Was it?

That's what they said. Okay. Oh, and hey, this was not me. I am innocent. Even if you see me using a dime, I didn't take it. Okay? So, Philadelphia police are investigating a crime which saw a million dimes worth $100,000 stolen from the back of a truck. So the trailer left in a Walmart parking lot overnight at a car.

Philadelphia Mills Mall was broken into using bolt cutters and the dimes which weighed around 5,000 pounds were taken off with. I don't know if it was an accident and they realized, hey, we got all these dimes, we might as well take them. We're just going to break into the trailer and see what's in there or if they knew. Not really sure yet. There was $750,000 worth of dimes in the truck, which were picked up from the U.S. Mint, located in the old city in Philadelphia, and were supposed to be delivered to Florida. The driver drove northeast of the city where he lives, left the trailer in the car park overnight, go home and get some rest. He was come back in the morning. Million dollars worth of dimes stolen. And you can see from the pictures there were dimes

strewn everywhere. Stron? Is that a word? Yeah, that is today. They were strown everywhere. And, you know, you see the officers picking up dimes all over the parking lot. It wasn't me. It was not me. But that's a good, I mean, if you, that was by accident. And you just opened up this trailer to see what was in there. And now you've got $100,000 worth of dimes. Okay.

Now, according to Philadelphia police, thefts in the area are very common. Oh, what? crime is common in Philadelphia, stop it. So apparently this is a good place for drivers to pick up their loads and park their trucks overnight and get on the road in the morning at this particular Walmart. So it could be, you know, just a luck of the draw. The thieves thought, let's see what's in this trailer and got lucky and had all these dimes in it. so if you if you're looking to sell a car

and some guy pulls up with $40,000 worth of dimes, I'm pretty sure you know where it came from. I mean, it'd take a while to get rid of those bad boys and turn them into you have to make those trash. Yeah, I'd like to

let me order that. I'll pay you. Let me pay you in dimes. Wow, that would take a long time. $100,000 in dimes? I mean, And it weighed a lot. So, I mean, there's still a bunch of diamonds left, right? I mean, we still got, you know, over $500,000 worth of dimes in this trailer.

And they said he's insured and they believe him, right? They believe the driver is like he didn't have anything to do with it. So it must have been just luck of the draw for these people to open up the trailer and see the dimes because they talked about, I told you, that, you know, it's very common for crime to happen there. And I guess the past few months, they've had lamb, chicken, TVs, refrigerators taken. Okay, so maybe we have a little bit better security, first of all. Now, but Walmart's just like not our problem.

You know, we said you could park here, but we're not guaranteeing anything. Okay. All right. No problem. So anyway, if you see someone purchasing goods and services with dimes, they may have had something to do with this crime. I am not that person. But, man, that would be something to have a hundred thousand dollars worth of dimes.

And speaking to Walmart, I see where they just announced that they're going to dramatically, is the word in the story, expand its EV charging network. It plans to install chargers at thousands of Walmart and Sam's Club locations throughout the country in the next six years. So Walmart's EV fast charging network will expand to its already operating 1,300 EV charging stations located at 280 facilities nationwide. I have not seen any at any facilities here. Maybe there are some, but I live in DFW and the Walmarts and Sam's Club that I frequent,

I have not seen charging stations at those particular stores, which is why we talked about it, right? We talked about those are the places that need to have charge. I don't know. Those are quick charges. I mean, are you going to stay at a Walmart? Hopefully if there's, you know, most of the Walmarts in our neck of the woods have restaurants around the parking area. And plus you could, I don't know, purchase food inside Walmart.

That's what they do. So you could charge and, you know, take care of your dining habits when your car is charging. But that's why Starbucks, you know, is going to. have the charging stations out there. And if you're a business, I would put a couple in. That's for sure. Why not? And maybe somebody can pay you in dimes. Wait, it's not coin-operated charging station?

Oh, it will be, though. Maybe that's the next million-dollar idea. Coin-operated EV charging stations. Because I'd like to put a good 50 cents charge, please. All right, you can drive for an eighth of a mile. Thank you. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately.

A lot of things going on today and this week. Hey, that's what Chewing the Fat is for. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can always email the show, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. I get your emails. I read them. I try to read them all.

I do respond to some. not all. Sorry. I get your jokes of the days. I had your request for What's the lie? Thank you. I appreciate it. We'll get that all worked out, okay? I saw where SpaceX attempted to launch its Starship

launch vehicle this morning. Over the weekend, I had people messaging me on Twitter saying it looks cloudy. Well, I didn't go off this morning. And maybe that's why. Now, they claimed that was not the reason. I had some excuse.

uh that it was just they did the countdown down to 10 seconds and they wanted to go through the motions but they did not launch the prototype star hopper uh i was actually watching when they announced because they announced it about i don't know 40 minutes out from the launch oh yeah no we're not going to launch today got a few issues sorry about it not going to happen we're going to continue the countdown and i saw people were still posting that uh that's still on the countdown yeah so what they were going to stop it at 10 after so anyway, it's made a stainless steel, which the space industry has, you know,

really said, it's too heavy, but Elon's like, no, we got it. It's also powered by methane instead of traditional hydrogen. I could allow it to refuel on Mars, since the planet's atmosphere contains trace amounts of the gas.

The super heavy booster uses 33 Raptor engines to blast into space. And it was just incredible look from up underneath. Amazing, all these engines under there. And so then it was supposed to take off and part of it was going to land in the Gulf

and then it was going to go up, fly around, and it was going to, you know, come down in the Pacific. I think in the Pacific, not the Atlantic. And so, and that did not happen today. So maybe it was too cloudy. I don't know. I don't know. Safety first, right? Of course.

Of course. Safety first. Then we have This week We have Ramadan ending on Friday We have Earth Day on Saturday

And Thursday is 420 We'll definitely have to celebrate it 420 Okay I know, okay I don't know about celebrating 419 That's Bicycle Day

Everybody could take their own LSD At their own times Okay, that's up to you Then there was announcement from Samsung or at least this was the headline. It said Samsung may ditch Google as the default search engine on its smartphones

in favor of Microsoft's AI-powered Bing. This was according to the New York Times. I don't think, well, first of all, how about no. No, Samsung don't do that. That's a terrible move. Bing is not what Google is. I'm sorry. Remember, every time I go to Bing,

I want it to be as good as Google, and it's not. So we'll see. But I see, you know, Google is probably, you know, this might be just a negotiating deal to get some more money from Google and good. I hope they do. I hope you do. I hope it works out. But to actually do it and implement your Samsung phones without Google,

I mean, you know, I guess, you know, I can download Google myself and put it on my own phone. Right. But it's nice to have it already in the system when you get the phone. That's all. And to have to, it probably won't, is not going to let you delete it from your system. So you still have Bing. Like I have Bing, for whatever reason it comes up. Some of the stories that I open up on my laptop for, it's a work laptop, come up through Bing.

And it drives me insane because unless, I just, I don't mind. I mean, the stories are fine. They open up in Bing. But I don't know what, I can't change it. I know you computer experts are going to say, oh, just do this. I've tried innumerous amounts of things to get stories that I get sent to my email to open up outside of Bing.

And they won't. So I just live with it. But Bing is not as good as Google. So sorry about it, Bing, but you're just not as good. That was just announced that Jalen Hertz, quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles just signed a new deal that makes him the highest paid player

in the NFL. Wow, good for him. Five years, $255 million contract extension. Wow. It includes $179 million in guarantees. and a no trade clause.

So congratulations to Jalen Hertz. 179 million guaranteed. 255 million total. Why, how, when it makes no sense that Lamar Jackson has not signed a new contract yet. how is it possible that the Baltimore Ravens, or any team for that matter, has not signed

Lamar Jackson. I mean, he's just sitting there. It's got to be because he doesn't have a manager. It's got to be that. I don't know what else it could be. I don't know what else it could be because they even talk about how this deal was done by his agent for Jalen Hertz.

Lamar, you don't have to have an agent, but it certainly seems to be hindering people that do, that do not have an agent and want to represent themselves. I don't know. I don't know any other reason. I don't know why Lamar Jackson could be sitting there, twiddling his thumbs, without a new contract. Lamar Jackson has proven himself to be as good or better than Jalen Hertz.

And Jalen Hertz is signing this new deal? Man, I don't know. I don't know what to make of that. But congratulations to Jailen. you know, the money truck is backing up. And I wish it was backing up here. But congratulations for Jalen Hurds. Look over there.

The truck is coming into the neighborhood and it's at his house. Not mine. Speaking of the neighborhood, I see where we had a Jack Nicholson sighting in Los Angeles. I know. He hadn't been seen for 18 months. I am in love with Jack Nicholson. Okay.

I know. Don't look at me like that. I am. Oh, if you're in love with him, wanted to marry him? I would. If he asked me, I'd marry him. So he came outside to his other side of his house. He has a house there on Mulholl and Drive.

He bought it back in the 90s. I don't know. He's just got like four or five acres. The house is only about 4,000 square feet, something like that. When you see it from the air, it looks beautiful. He's got the pool. He's got everything.

But, you know, it's not a, you know, huge 10,000 square feet mansion or more. It's just a nice 4,000 foot, you know, square foot house. Got everything you need. Why do you need to go anywhere? Jack is in his 80s, 85 to be exact. And he came out on the balcony and everybody's saying, he's looking disheveled. And he doesn't talk. Well, yeah, he just got up.

It's a morning in California. Look like he hadn't shaved in quite some time. I love him. I love him. He looks like I feel every day and he's 85. So, I mean, he was out. He was sitting on his patio. He was bouncing his fingers on the patio railing.

Apparently, you know, the birds were chirping and he was messing with the birds outside. So good for him. People are worried that he's just going to die alone. Like he lived next door. Brando had a place next to Jack's place up on Mulholland. And, you know, we all know what happened to Marlon. He died alone. And that's what's going to happen to Jack.

Okay. So he could do it. he wants. He's been all over the world. He owns homes all over the world. He owns art. He's worth, I don't know what he's worth. Four or five hundred million dollars. Probably less now because he's eating it all up because he's not working and he's just spending money, taking care of himself. And, you know, so what? I love him. Yes, I do. Jack, he looks awesome. He's got his orange shirt on, his baggy sweatpants. And, you know, everybody's out there. There's no wonder he doesn't go out. Everybody can't even go out on his balcony without getting

at somebody focusing TMZ shooting camera shots at Jack's house. And I'm guessing he swims in his pool, but I don't know. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe he needs to put in some sign of, you know, roof over his pool so he can swim without having, you know, helicopters flying over, taking long shots or having the paparazzi taking, you know, mile long shots into Jack's pool where he swims. So he just stays inside. I got no problem with that. And plus, he's at the perfect age, right?

He's 85. Man, I should reach out. I would love to talk to him. You know how many stories he has? You know how many stories Jack Nicholson has? And now's the time he's 85. He has no filter. It doesn't matter to him.

It doesn't matter at all. And he hasn't been seen for 18 months. I mean, he went to the basketball game with his son 18 months ago. And remember we saw the pictures of him sitting there. fries or whatever. He's got the mask on his face. It's agonizing. I hated to see Jack. Jack Nicholson should not have been wearing a mask, although he was forced

to because they wouldn't let him into the game. Anyway, so I mean, I would, now would be a great time to talk to Jack Nicholson because he's got so many stories and so many people to talk about and he's 85. So what are they

going to do to him? He can tell it all. It would be awesome. Jack. Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack. I know you're just sitting there in the house, watching a little TV, just hanging out, smoking every now and then out by the pool side before the sun comes up, before your son comes over to holler at you

and bringing your fresh meds and, you know, some food. So just, you know what? Email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Or you can, you know, direct message me. I'm sure you've got a secret Twitter or Facebook account. So just direct message me, Jeff Fisher Radio, or at Jeffrey JFR on Twitter. Okay?

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So I've had this story in the fat pile for a while, and we're going to finally going to get to it. And I love the headline. The headline is that a snake on a plane, a cobra and an airplane cockpit prompts emergency landing. Okay, so that's why I've had it in my fat pilot for a while. You got me. A snake on a plane, cobra in an airplane cockpit. You got me.

I'm reading that story. You and I are going to talk about it. So South African authorities are applauding this pilot's courage for safely landing an aircraft after feeling a venomous stowaway cobra slithering on his body mid-flight. That's CNN reporting. Pilot Rudolph Orasmus said he was piloting a small aircraft on Monday with four colleagues aboard when he felt a cold sensation under his shirt by his hip area.

At first I thought it was a bottle leak I looked down, turned to my left, and I saw a head of the snake receding back underneath my seat. I had a moment of a stone silence Yeah, one would And My brain didn't register what was going on And then I thought, well, hey, I got someone, do I tell all the people in the back

And create worry What do I do? I think we should just, you know, maybe land this thing. So in the end, he told the passengers, hey, yes, there's a, we're going to get us. We're going to land as quickly as possible. told the air traffic controllers I got a bit of a situation they landed the plane nearby all five people emerged unscathed all right now all right so this story says and the snake was found under the pilot seat

Was it though it was a large Cape Cobra according to the South African Civil Aviation Authority which congratulated Arrasmus for displaying impeccable bravery after landing his aircraft incident free Okay, so then I am concerned over this because they say that's the kind of snake it was. Well, they claim that before he left, he said people were telling him, hey, there was a cobra slither around your airplane. We don't know what happened to it. Oh, ah, don't worry about it then. We looked around.

We didn't see it, so we're fine. Oh, okay, well, you know, apparently they should have looked harder. However, the rest of the story, it talks about local. local snake catchers were called to the plane after landing, and the snake had disappeared. He and some engineers spent the next two days pulling the aircraft apart, searching for the snake. They took out the seats, the carpets, the panels, basically everything in the aircraft that they could strip at the point. He said, but once again, no success.

So which is it? Did they find the freaking thing, or did they not? I would say they said they did to make everyone feel better, but then in the end, they didn't. They never did find the snake. The cobra is like, I'm out. I'm out of here. They landed and they're tearing this thing apart.

I'm out. Oh, okay. No problem. So he was flying from South Africa, from the western Cape of South Africa to Nels Pruitt. And then, you know, he landed, obviously. the emergency landed, we're getting down, we're going to get this thing on the ground,

and we're going to find out what the heck is going on. And they all end up saying that the snake was never found. The CNN story says, oh yeah, they found the snake. But then at the end, it talks about how he took the plane apart, and the snake was never found. He was never located.

So I have a feeling that the old cobra was never found. Now, I have a question to ask. All right. So was the Cobra ever real? Was it ever real? Or did he just, you know,

was he celebrating 419 early and decided he didn't want to fly all the way with these people on board? So he came up with this story about, hey, there's a cobra underneath my seat. I mean, how many times have you heard that in your life? Whenever you don't want to do something, oh man, I want to, I want to,

but there's a cobra underneath my seat. So I don't know. I'm questioning whether, this is actually true or not. I'm going out on a snake limb here, but I think that the whole thing is a ruse, and there was never any snake on this plane. Just me.

Let's go back over here to America, to Newark, New Jersey, and who doesn't love Newark, New Jersey, and who doesn't love the Newark Airport? Man, it is beautiful this time of year. So the airport baggage claim terminal was evacuated, yesterday. Why was it evacuated? Due to a vibrating bag. I know we have to be safe. I got it. I know we have to be. We have to take everyone's safety as a priority at an airport. And they evacuated everybody across the street to a parking garage. Well, the bomb squad investigated the incident. Okay. And it was all because of a vibrating bag. I know what you're thinking.

I was thinking the same thing. And so now, they sent the bomb squad in, and it was fine. So everybody can go back in. It's all safe. Go ahead. I would be so angry if I was at the airport

and had to be evacuated across the street to a parking garage. And wait, couldn't get my luggage, couldn't go anywhere, couldn't do anything because of a vibrating suitcase. case, if it's just vibrating, don't you think that it's probably not going to explode? I mean, if it was and then it would explode, right? Or it would just explode.

But I find it difficult to believe that some ladies vibrator who got Orgai, oh, sorry, some he, her, they, them, what, I'm sorry, I don't mean to, I'm not judging. someone's, some person's vibrator is vibrating in their luggage. And we're going to evacuate the entire airport. Wow. Okay. All right. No problem.

I know. I know it's all for everyone's safety. I get it. But then you have to go back through security to come back in to get your luggage. I got to re-screen everyone. And now it's now. it's not something, it was a vibration

going on, it was just suspicious baggage. Oh, okay. So it wasn't just vibrating. It was apparently unattended baggage which prompt the evacuation. Oh, okay. So it was just a bag there that was vibrating

and somebody just didn't walk up and look inside it. Okay. All right. Let's evacuate everyone. Call in the Bob Squad. And get out of here for everyone's safety. Don't someone just walk up and see, hey, I wonder what's vibrating in this suitcase. No, you can't do that.

That is unacceptable. But evacuating everyone and having to rescreen them and sending them back through, once you send in the robotic bomb squad, then that's okay. All right. All right. Fine, fine, fine.

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Andrew Lloyd Weber's mega hit musical, is closing on Broadway after 35 years, more than 35 years, actually. Gone goodbye last night. If you're listening live, today is the 17th of April, 2023. So the 16th of April, 2023. Phantom of the Opera

took the final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances. That's amazing. Okay, so it opened on Broadway in January of 1988. I mean, it played almost

14,000 performances. Incredible. Audiences is over 20 million, grossing over $1.3 billion. An estimate made it 6,500 people have been employed by the production, including over 400 actors, orchestra, crew,

it'll amazing. People have worked on this show for 25 or 30 years. Amazing, right? I mean, just, it's an incredible time. So, very sad, sad, sad, sad, sad. That Phantom of the opera, we lost it. It's over. I don't know why.

I'm not quite sure I understand why. Hey, it's going good. Let's pull the plug. It's only been playing for 30. We've only had it running for 13,981 performances. I get it. Sometimes the show has run its course, and we've had enough. But why not just let it go?

I'm confused at why we just have to kill it. It's over. Okay, but they did. And they have decided, and they have. So take care. a nice day. Oh, and you people that haven't been around for 30 years that have only been here for

maybe a couple years, maybe five, maybe 10, maybe 15 years. You thought this was going to go on forever? No. You're now out of work. Go find a new gig. So we talked, I don't know, last week or the week before about Rutgers University going

on strike, the teachers, and they were going on strike, and there was three different unions that were going on strike. And 67,000, students can expect to return to classes now although I thought they were still able to go to classes the dinkleberry governor of new jersey stepped in he tried to get everybody to the negotiating table and wanted to make everything fair and equitable we don't want anything that's not fair and equitable for everybody the three striking unions are you know we're all we want it to be fair and

equitable so apparently they found something that's fair and equitable and we have a tentative agreement that they're going to go back to work. Good for them. They're going to increase salaries across the board for full-time faculty and counselors by at least 14% by July of 2025. Is that fair and equitable enough? They're going to provide 43.8% increase in the per credit salary rate for part-time lecturers over the four years of the contract while strengthening their job security. Is that fair and equitable enough? I guess so. Increased the minimum salary for post-doctoral fellows and associates by 27.9% over the same period for the contract.

Oh, okay. Now, I guess that's fair and equitable enough. And according to this, they're going to provide substantial enhancements. Man, that is always fair and equitable when people are going to provide substantial enhancements in wages, plus a commitment to multi-year university support for teaching assistants and graduate assistants, the graduate students, in addition to receiving healthcare coverage

and free tuition and fees, will see their 10th month salaries increased to $40,000 over the course of the contract. I guess that's fair and equitable. You got to have that. We don't know how it's going to work. We're in the process of making that happen. So the governor has said, well, we don't know how it's all going to work, but we'll figure it out.

So all your unions, get back to work. Your A-A-A-U-P-A-F-T and your P-T-L-F-C-A-A-U-P-A-F-T and your A-A-U-B-H-S-N-J. I get back to work. I know that, okay, so the A-A-U-P-A-F-T represents full-time fact. graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and educational opportunity fund counselors. Then we have the PTLFC, AAUP, AFT, which represents part-time lecturers. And then we have the AAP, BHSNJ, which represents workers at Rutgers Health Sciences Schools. So these unions apparently have been working without a new contract for several months.

you bastards and we still have some open issues to be resolved but we want to make sure and what we've read and agreed to tentatively so far that it's all going to be fair and equitable now I've got an idea for you if you want to get a fence

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