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Every year since the team moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992. And this year is no different. After careful consideration, the team selected OZem Pig. That's a cute little name, named after the weight loss drug OZempeg. In a statement to announce the name, the team even offered a cute little backstory, claiming the Saints pigs often feel self-conscious about gaining weight, but that this year's mascot decided a change was in order. After a visit to his doctor, who was extremely worried about his cholesterol and heart,

Zem Pig vowed to change his lifestyle. The name was suggested by Sarah Blood of Minneapolis, and it beat out other tough contenders among the 2,300 submissions, which included Slopenhimer, that's pretty good, Porky Blinders, like that one, Malibu Lardy, and Artifisqueal Intelligence. I like those. However, as a team has recently decided to have a different mass

for the first half and second half of the season. So they bent the knee, kind of. Zem Pig will show off his abs of defined hawks, but only until July. And the name is in good fun, but people were unhappy about the team for insensitivity. One user called the name, OZem Pig offensive.

And my response to that would be, get over it! They did not say that. How do you think fat people will feel showing up to your games. Yet another threat never to take their family to the game again on account of it. Okay. They feel

that it's mean-spirited and gross. Why be a bully? When you could just be kind. It's not being a bully. We're just naming a pig mascot with a fun name. Despite the objections, the executive said, hey, we're standing by our pig name

and we knew how we originally came up with the name and we're good with it. Okay, that came from Sean Aronson, the Saints Vice President and Media Relations Director, but we did discuss it and decided we're going to keep it. In today's world, people don't want to be diminished. They don't want to be made to feel a certain way. And I'm not going to tell them how they feel is wrong.

But I can tell you there was no ill intent. There was no maliciousness. There was never even a discussion in the room where we were going over the name that, hey, this may offend some people. really? Okay. So we've had other pig names in the past. You know, like I said, they have new names every year. Like notorious P-I-G, Piggy Smalls, Denarius Hogarian, I like that one, and 867530 Swine. All those names, every one of them are insensitive, and I won't have it. Now, in this story, by Blaze News, It claims that Novo Nordisk, which manufacturers and markets OZempic, did not respond to Blaze News's request for comment.

Well, I mean, what are they going to say? Really? What's, they're going, oh, our product is meant for people's health and we stand by at 100% and where they're going to say the same thing that Sean Aronson, the Saints Vice President and Media Relations Director said, yeah, in today's world, people don't want to be done. diminished. They want to be made to feel a certain way. And I'm not going to tell them how to, how they feel is wrong. No, of course not. You can't hurt, you don't want people's feelings to be wrong.

And people's feelings are never wrong. It's their own feelings. But get over it. Okay? Because OZem Pig is the mascot, at least through July. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Congratulations. are in order to the victor of the inaugural eating Uranus Fudge Galactic Championship at the Uranus Fudge Factory

off Interstate 44 in St. Robert, Missouri this past weekend. It was promoted by Major League Eating, and we named some names, the previously announced contestants, Patrick Bertoli, Teddy, I think that's his name, Patrick Bertoletti, George,

Crazy Legs Conte, Jeffrey Asper, John Gebhard, Michelle Lesko, Gideon Oje, Matthew Rabel, René Ravtar, Mickey Soda, James Webb, Nick Weary, Greg Wilson, and Jocelyn Young. And the champion would receive $2,500 for his or her efforts with additional cash prizes for second through fifth place. Now, you had to eat the most fudge in 8,000. minutes. Now, the winner, James Webb. Yes, I say sleeper because I didn't realize that he was on the list, and he was. He was a previously announced contestant, so less of a sleeper than I thought. But he won. Congratulations to James Webb for the 2024 eating Uranus Fudge Galactic Championship. Now, he had eight minutes. He received a check for $2,500, a champion belt, and now holds the new world record for the most. most fudge eaten in eight minutes. If you had to guess, how much fudge James ate in eight minutes? This is why I'm not a speed eater.

This is why I'm a distance eater. James ate 13 pounds, I'm sorry, 13.5 pounds of fudge in eight minutes. congratulations to James for now holding the world record and being the champion of the inaugural 2024 eating Uranus Fudge Galactic Championship because wow 13.5 pounds of fudge in eight minutes. Okay, congratulations. Anyway, congratulations. And you can get all the information. at the Uranus Fudge Factory and General Store in Missouri.

All right, I ran through this a little bit on Saturday. Each Saturday I do a show with Brad Staggs Saturday morning live, and we played a little bit of this on that show every Saturday morning, which you can catch on my ex account at Jeffie JFR, and, you know, enjoy it. It's just a quick Saturday morning live show with myself and Brad Staggs. But this post was from Outer's Out. London TV on X and I don't know that it's real or not I want to know I have a feeling that it's not

because the more I listen to it and watch it I feel like it's not real but it is a video from an Uber driver who has his camera on between the seats and the rider gets in and it is agonizing it's a minute 18 long 18 second long video that is really agonizing and I'm going to put you through it because I want you to, you know, think to yourself, what would you do if you were the Uber driver? Now, many of you, you know, probably going to say I'd just throw her out, but would you? Are you bad? Yes, I am. Do me a favor. Can you move the seat forward because it's hitting my Yeah, yeah, no problem. All right. So he's already nice. All right, so she's already asked to move the seat up. He's been nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem. All right. Now, this lady that is in the

back has her hair pulled back she's wearing glasses and i'm guessing that she identifies as a female she looks uh um plump you like slow down you're in a rush or something yeah go ahead go ahead yeah no one has complained about the seatbelt being too tight because it's not an issue for most people okay although i will say uh i'm not a big fan of tight seatbelt I'm kind of on her side on that. Maybe you just take it off and don't wear the seatbelt in the back of the Uber unless the Uber driver says,

I have to wear your seatbelt. Thank you. Well, then take it off. Thank you. I'm not going to take it off. We're quit complaining. So you just try to have a conversation. Do you have a port of a meeting at 7 p.m.?

Ah, it's not your effing concern. So at this point, if you're the Uber driver, do you just pull over and say get out or do you go on i mean i guess you just go on because he obviously did i don't get i'm not getting any ventilation right now you have your window down you're smart and heart about me having a meeting at seven o'clock sorry about that yeah sorry about that okay i'm sorry you're gonna be an adjutant sir no ma'am i'm not just said i was sorry oh my god seat is leading on my knee. You have to have consideration for passing.

Are you done? And that's where you say, okay, no problem. We're pulling over. Get out. We'll get you another Uber driver. Have a nice day. Okay? I know.

Look, real or not real, you'd like to believe you'd throw her out. But once you're in it, you're in it. You can quote me on that as well. Once you're in it, you're in it. That is a Jeff Fisher, chewing the fat quote. But you just write it to the end, right? You can quote me on that as well.

You just write it to the end. But it's so bad that I feel like it's not real because, I mean, do we want to believe that humans are that terrible? No, don't answer that question. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex.

Conditions apply. Reminder that you can not only follow me on X, which I mentioned previously at Jeffrey JFR on X. You can follow me on Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, my YouTube account, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can always email the show, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. And I have an Instagram account, Jeff Fisher Radio, which is not in the top 10 of Instagram's most followed accounts. And I'm a little sad about that. I'm close, but I'm not quite there yet. I was looking at the list of the top 10 most followed Instagram accounts.

Of course, Cristiano Ronaldo is number one, 624 million. followers on Instagram. Lionel Messe is $501 million. Selina Gomez, $430 million. Kylie Jenner, $400 million. The Rock, $398 million. Ariana Grande, $380 million. Kim Kardashian.

364 million. Beyonce, $320 million. Chloe Kardashian. And Kendall Jenner, coming at it, 9 and 10, $311 million. Kendall. Hasn't even broken 300 million yet. What is happening?

I mean, Kylie is at 400 million. Kim's at 364. Chloe's at 311 and Kendall coming in on bottom. Number 10, at 3-295 million. What is happening with Kendall? Anyway, those are the top ones. Jeff Fisher Radio, Instagram account is not in the top 10. Very, very disappointing.

If you could, if you don't have follow you on Instagram, that would be very nice of you. I'd like to try to get. into that the top 10 of the most followed accounts on Instagram. Now really, really the most followed Instagram account is Instagram itself.

But these are the people that are the most followed accounts. And the most after Instagram you know, as a company, Nike is the most followed corporate account at 306 million followers.

So I'd appreciate it. If you follow me on Instagram, I'd like to get a little bit closer to breaking into that top 10. So maybe it's just a coincidence, but as I'm looking up the lotto numbers yesterday, I mean, Mega Millions

is at 36 million, 17.1 million cash payout. That drawing is coming up on Tuesday the 2nd of April, which is tomorrow. For those of you listening live, today is April 1st, 2024. And we have a Powerball drawing today.

975 million is the Jackpot, 471.7 million cash payout. Again, that drawing is tonight. But at the same time that I'm looking up those numbers to see if my tickets won, which is just a futile attempt at winning something. I see an email come through talking about the total of 23 search terms and the top states for divorce searches.

Oh, okay. I don't know what that means. why it was, you know, happening at the same time that I was looking at the lot of. But the number one state for search volume, revealing that they're the most searches per every, per 100,000 people, is the great state of Georgia. Coming in at number two, Alabama. Number three, Florida. Wow.

All southeast, man. Georgia, Alabama, Florida. And then we head out west to Colorado. Colorado. Then we come back to Mississippi. Then we go up to Virginia. And we go over to Tennessee, South Carolina, Nevada, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri. Now, just because you're looking up information about divorce doesn't mean you're going to get one. But I'd be fascinated to know if it was close, if these searches were close to actual huge lotto jackpot drawings. You know, just a, just a thought.

Yesterday was a big day on AMC Plus. We had the end of the ones who live, I'm sorry, the Walking Dead, the ones who live with Rick and Michone, the finale, the grand finale episode. You can listen to our podcast Talking Walking Dead, available under this banner, The Chewing the Fat Banner,

with Jason Betrill and Maximus Fisher. We give you a recap of that show and other Walking Dead shows. And there also was, the release of Parrish with Giancarlo Esposito. You may remember him from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. That's pretty good. I really enjoyed it. It was a fun ride, at least this first episode.

We'll see, you know, if they continue with the same energy from now on, then it will be great. And I really do like Giancarlo Esposito. So, I mean, it's a show. He's set in New Orleans. he's, you know, struggling with his family and his business. He's an ex-crime guy, and now he's going to get back into crime, and, you know, he's going to risk everything to save everything. Seems like a similar theme to a lot of shows.

But it depends on, you know, what they do with it, which I, you know, I appreciate. And it was really good. I mean, we desperately need some good shows. I got an email from a low... Well, it's actually an email. We'll just say from Logan. We'll say, we'll call it Logan. I didn't okay the mention of this person's name,

but they emailed me at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com and saying that they trusted my shows, and they've watched everything that they've heard me mention on the show. And she lists, justified, only murders in the building, the Lincoln lawyer, the night agent, Joe Pickett, Bass Reeves, Deadwood, Succession, the Bear Fargo. Those are all tremendous shows

if you have not watched them. I mean, just tremendous shows. So I responded because I was like, okay, well, there's a couple of other things that you could probably watch. Like, and I sent the email back and I said, I love all these shows. In fact, I went back and watched Lincoln

Lawyer again, which I really do like Lincoln Lawyer. And what's his face? Manuel Garcia Rolfo as Mickey Haller. I mean, he's the lead character, my man, the Lincoln Lawyer, who is great. And I do like Angus Samson as Cisco. There's plenty of characters in that show that I really do enjoy. That's the Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix, and they're filming season three as we speak. I continue in my

response. If you like Justified, there's the new season of Justified City Prime Evil, only one season. You know, and the strike obviously hurt plenty of productions. So I'm not sure there's Will Trent on the network, which I kind of like. It's okay. Season one was great. There's also the FBI's and the NCIS's. NCIS, you know, I was watching NCIS, the latest edition of NCIS,

and I like the characters, and I like the show, and I get it, but I'm still angry at them for not bringing Gibbs back for the funeral of Ducky. And I should just stop watching it to protest that. I should, because I don't care

whose fault it was, CBS, or if it was Mark Harmon or whosoever fault it was, that should not have been allowed to happen. And I'm still kind of mad at them about that. And then I mentioned Bosch on Prime. I really do like Bosch. There's like seven seasons, and then there's the two new seasons on Prime's Freevy Network, which is pretty good.

I do like Bosch. And that's with Titus Williver, and Jamie Hector is his partner. There's other characters. Lance Reddick was a big part of that show, too. rest in peace, Lance Reddick, very sad that he is he's not around, that we lost him. Oh, and I saw the ad for

Mayor of Kingston is going to cut his back. I don't know if they're done filming, but they're done filming the first few episodes because that's supposed to start next month as well on Paramount Plus, so really looking forward to that. And that means

our man Jeremy Renner is back this time. He's pissed. And as long as we're talking about shows, we may as well mention the movies. Godzilla X. Kong, the new empire, our Godzilla Times Kong, the new empire, open to 80 million at the domestic box office, well ahead of what was expected, and they ended up with 194 million globally, which pretty freaking good. You know, all the critics, they didn't like the highly Godzilla Times Kong, and the audiences were like, Yeah, we do.

Okay, so why don't you back off? So there's that. Ghostbusters Frozen Empire play second with 15.7 million. I mean, way behind. But they have 108.5 million globally, 73 here domestic. Dune 2 stayed at number 3. And it's grossed out on 11.1 million. Dune 2 now has 373.

3.7 and 626.1 million globally. So it's not bad. Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda. Yeah. That's it. Kung Fu Panda. For those of you that pronounce it like that.

That came in forth with 347.3 million globally, 151 here in the U.S. And Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is still making the rounds. Wow. I mean, I just watched it on streaming again. It was out of my someone in. My house was watching it, so it was on, and I stopped and caught some of it throughout the day off. And it was well worth to watch.

It was really good. It was great. It was an Academy Award winner. Yes. Yes, it was. How was my where? I look at the list of the top ten movies. No mention of the American Society of Magical Negroes.

What is happening? Where is the American Society of Magical Negroes? Okay, so it was, oh, it only got only, that was the opening. We got a million. We're at 2,449,000 worldwide 2 million. Oof, that is not good. That is not good for the American Society of Magical Negroes. Hopefully, this movie will have a better run on streaming.

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Or what died today? A type of flu virus has now died. It's over the now extinct virus. or a branch of the influenza B family tree known as the Yamagata lineage is now, well, dead. We haven't seen it in several years, and it's been around for, I don't know, a decade or so. It's been put in our flu shots, and it will no longer be in our flu shots. So the Yamagata lineage flu virus will not be in our flu shots any longer. So for the past decade, they have protected against four types of flu to influenza A strains and to influenza B strains.

But that number will now fall to three. The advisory committee has been pushing for this change and they wanted to wait. Dropping the Yamagata flu shot formulations could help boost manufacturers' production capacity so they can make more doses. Plus, it would eliminate any potential risk associated with. with growing the virus in a lab. So at least here in the U.S., there will be no Yamagata lineage in our flu vaccine shots

because it no longer exists. Rest in peace, Yamagata lineage. Well, the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas is on its deathbed. Today is its last day. It will close tomorrow to make way for the Major League Baseball Stadium. Now, the Tropicana opened

in 1957, making it, what, 77 years old now? So rest in peace, I should have saved this for tomorrow because tomorrow it will be dead. Who died today? Las Vegas's Tropicana Hotel. Sorry about killing you off today. But I know you're on your deathbed, and we're going to go ahead and just pull the plug tonight.

Now, over the weekend, I don't know, she's not on her deathbed, obviously, but Lizzo said that, well, she posted a post on her Instagram account, which has 12.2 million followers, not up there in the top 10. You know, same as me, not on the top 10 at Jeff Fisher Radio. I'm getting tired of putting up with being dragged by everyone in my life and on the internet. All I want is to make music and to make people happy and help the world be a little better than how I found it.

But I'm starting to feel like the world doesn't. want me in it. I'm constantly up against lies being told about me for clout and views. Being the butt of the joke every single time because of how I look. My character, being picked apart by people who don't know me and disrespecting my name, I didn't sign up for this, S-H-I-Q-U-I-T. So she's going to quit. Is Lizzo going to quit? Very She just wants people to, you know, feel sorry for her and stop making fun of her, which is not going to happen, Lizzo. Sorry. You know, I guess, you know, you making fun of your dancers and making sure your dancers are not in as good as shape as you is a problem. So let's say Lizzo goes on the old, old Zimpic and loses a bunch of weight and exercises and, you know, eats better and isn't, you know, the overweight, Lizzo, that's the star. Does that mean that the Lizzo we know is over?

Is she still going to be the star, Lizzo? Without that, that's tough. That's tough because she's a star because of who she is now. And she did kind of sign up for that. That's what she kind of signed up for when she became Lizzo. So, you know, the odds of Lizzo coming back are pretty good. She's just going to say that she was depressed. and she needed some help and everything's fine.

I'm just tired and I need a little bit of a break. Then I'll come back strong and hard or bigger than ever as Lizzo. See, that's the kind of thing she's talking about. And look, if anyone understands how Lizzo feels, it's me. This network, the Blaze, the Blaze TV, Blaze Plus, whatever you want to call it, the Blaze Podcast Network, the Blaze. in general. I am the butt of many, many jokes and have been

for years. Hello. I know how Lizzo feels. I do. And so, gosh darn it, I'm not going to make fun of Lizzo coming back bigger than ever. darn it, I just did. Another entertainer who I quit entertaining. He didn't quit entertaining. He quit touring.

Tony Orlando. Amazing. I had this email. Findingconnetica.com story sent to me to Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. And Tony Orlando did his last show at the Mohegan Sun Arena just a week ago. And it was the end of an era for the legendary artist. The last concert at Mohegan Sun was particularly significant as it marked his 65th overall appearance at the entertainment destination.

across a 23-year period. And it says farewell to a remarkable legacy, Tony Orlando. And he was also inducted into the Mohegan Suns Hall of Fame way back in 2010, commemorating his outstanding contributions and enduring relationship with the resort. Now, there were all kinds of big stars there. The story was sent to me as a Lee Green.

Greenwood sighting, because Lee was there. And we saw Priscilla Presley there. Andy Kim was there and performed. TikTok star, Guy Baldwin, was there. And one picture, I got to tell you, they show a pick. They show Lee out in the audience. They show Priscilla out in the audience. And Andy Kim, I staged.

And then they saw a picture of Tony Orlando with Dawn. And Lee Greenwood and his woman, whether they're married or not, I don't know, is there. and standing to the right of Tony Orlando looks like Tom Jones and then Bill O'Reilly is standing there too everybody has their arms around each other except Bill O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly's not touching anybody.

He's down at the end. And I guess Alie's wife doesn't have her hand around Dawn either. They're not touching. Tony has his arm around Dawn and Tom Jones. So Tony Orlando, very sad, giving up his touring career. He said that he's still going to do his, I did not know this. He still has a radio show.

Saturday nights on WABC in New York. And he said he wants to write a Broadway show. And he wants to write a couple of screenplays. Now, Tony is 79 now. And so he's getting up there. He said that he can still hit the ball. But he has, you know, trouble running the bases. Yeah, no doubt.

We get that, Tony. No problem. He said it's 79. I do not want to live the life. of the road performing any longer. I mean, over his long career, he has sold over 100 million records,

charted 17 top 40 hits. Wow. Tony Orlando bad. I mean, knock three times, tie a yellow ribbon, just iconic songs from Tony Orlando and Dawn. He began, they talks about how he got started,

but he was working for one company and then he recorded for another company and he didn't want them to know. So he didn't put his name out of it, he just called it Dawn, or the Dawn or something like that, and then it turned into Tony Orlando and Dawn. And he still, you know, performs for the military, and he's done great work for the soldiers, which has become, you know, a symbol tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree, still is today. And he's raised an amazing amount of money and helping the veterans, and he's done a great job with that. Love him. Now, I have no problem with that. But he's not going to tour any longer. So very

said. He said if a veterans group needs him, he's there in a heartbeat. But you're not going to be looking at the Tony Orlando and Don touring schedule. And I don't know that Dawn showed up at many of these performances either. They showed up here at this performance because it was his final performance. And so rest in peace to the touring Tony Orlando and Don. And Don. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ. Built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move.

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widely released in 2007. Gmail was created by Google developer Paul Butchelt after Google user lamented over existing email services at the time, particularly about their speed, limited storage space, and inability to properly search through information. And so we got it. And so the press relief for the service was initially met. They thought it was an April Fool's joke, which they were kind of famous for. I mean, that's what they did. I mean, in 2002, they had the pigeon rank PI. They've had the fictitious drink Google gulp, which I like.

They've had the Gmail paper, the Google Romance. I mean, they've done a lot. They've had the TISP, the toilet internet service provider. I mean, that's kind of what Google did. But anyway, happy birthday. to Gmail. I use it. I'm a fan.

I got it. And just don't remember also, holy cow, this is, we're almost going to be in Who died today. We've talked about it before. But Google Podcasts,

bye, have a nice day, which I use. Very disappointed. You have to either go to another platform or they want you to go over to YouTube music.

So there's ways that you could move your podcasts from Google podcast over to YouTube. music. You know, I'm a little bummed that they're doing this, but they are doing this, and there's no stopping it now.

So just remember you have to do that because it's over. I think, is it tomorrow? Hold on. When does this happen? Yeah, it is tomorrow. So, holy cow. We're losing a Google podcast and the Tropicana Hotel in Vegas. Woof.

Tough day tomorrow. Tough day for AT&T Resets. as they had to reset pass codes after 73 million current and former users were affected by a dark web leak. So AT&T said that personal data from 73 million current and former users was leaked on the dark web, and the phone giant already reset the pass codes of millions of current customers who were impacted. Yeah, we're just going to reset you all. That's a way to do it. We're not going to give you the choice.

We're resetting all of you. The information was leaked, varied by customer and account, but may have included full name, may have, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number, and passcode. It may have. We don't know. We don't know. It was a leak. What are you going to do? You're just going to reset a password, that's all. So AT&T is offering free identity theft and credit monitoring to individuals who may have been compromised by the leak. preliminary analysis shows that 7.6 million current AT&T users and 65.4 million former users were impacted. That's good. It's unclear whether the leaked data set came from AT&T or one of its vendors. Currently, AT&T does not have evidence of unauthorized access to its systems resulting in theft of the data set. Did they not just get hacked a while ago? Weren't they down?

Yeah. Yeah. Last month, they were down for like, 12 hours, which they said was like a, it wasn't, was not a cyber attack. It was, we were trying to reset the system. Right. And that's still what they're going with?

They were just, it was an issue and a process that the provider was performing to expand its network. Okay. All right. So if you were impacted by the leak, you're going to get an email from AT&T regarding the incident and what information

was compromised. So, you know, you may be a lucky one that it wasn't everything like your full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, and your AT&T account number and passcode. It may have only been a couple of those. So why don't you just shush a little bit? And know that what appeared to be a hack last month wasn't. Okay? Okay. Sure. We got it. Thanks AT&T. And then I see a story about how they've found a way to speed up transfer data by using a single fiber optic cable, a new record for specific wavelength bands. The university, UK's Aston University, recently managed to coax about 1.2 million times that rate using a single fiber optic cable. new record for specific wavelength bands. So we'll be able to get hacked even faster.

That'll be great. So commercially available fiber cabling utilizes what are known as C&L bands. I don't have to tell you that to transmit data. But constructing a device called the optical processor, researchers could access the never-before-used E and S bands. So Aston University has been developing optical amplifiers to operate in the e-band, which sits adjacent to the C-band in the electromagnetic spectrum, which is about three times wider.

Duh. Ian Phillips, the optical processor's creator, said before the development of our device, no one had been able to properly emulate the e-band channels in a controlled way. What's particularly impressive is that they didn't need new high-tech fiber optic lines to reach these fast speeds. So most existing optical cables have always taken. practically been capable of reaching E and S bands, but lacked the equipment infrastructure to do so. How many times have I said that?

How many times? I want the equipment infrastructure to reach the E and the S bands. I'm sick of saying it. To be honest with you, I am sick of saying it. Now, the international team achieved a data transfer rate of 301 terabytes or 301 million megabytes per second by accessing new wavelength bands. And it's like tiny hollow glass strands that carry data through beams of light. So you can think of these different wavelength bands as different colors of light

shooting through a largely standard cable. So that's great. We'll be able to get hacked at a faster rate. We can download things so much faster. It'll almost be like, it didn't happen, but it did. All right, I'll leave you with the joke of the day. This is going to be, this is kind of a Lizzo joke. And this is exactly what the kind of thing that Lizzo was talking about and why she's so fed up with everything that's going on.

It's just a never-ending butt of the joke. Teacher, kids, what does the chicken give you? And one student said, meat. The teacher said, very good. Now, what does the pig give you? And one student said, bacon. And the teacher said, great. And now what does the fat cow give you?

And one student in the back said, homework. See, that's exactly why Lizzo is quitting. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrant 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.