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Episode Date: March 14, 2024

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More issues with meat. So we have a recall of 35,000 pounds of Johnsonville, Turkey, kilbasa smoked sausage after customers reported finding pieces of rubber in them. I do not think that's a good thing. Psalm Partners LLC is the company that has recalled the 35,000 pounds of Johnsonville, Turkey, kilbasa smoked sausage. certain packages of the turkey kilbasa smoke sausages have been recalled because, eh, you know, it may have been contaminated with pieces of rubber.

And so the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall after Wisconsin-based SOMM Partners LLC received complaints from customers who claim, hey, I think I've found some rubber in my meat. So while the company claims that they have, have not received any reports of adverse reactions or injury as a result of the problem, a recall was initiated, and I'm sure this was just out of an abundance of caution. The company estimates that 35,430 pounds of sausage is part of the recall. It specifically involves the 12-ounce vacuum-packed packages containing a single piece

of Johnsonville Polish Kilbasa turkey sausage, and the sausages were pretty produced between October 30th and 31st of 2023. Think of that, those two days. And they produced at least 35,000 pounds of turkey calbasa. So, you know, you know what you do? If you find, if you have one of the recalled products, you need to either throw it away, which I say, uh, no, too. And you should return it to the place of purchase and get your money back.

Or, you know, you tell them, you go to the store and you say, say, hey, I had a Johnsonville turkey kilbasa smoked sausage that I bought. It's part of the recall. Why don't you just give me another turkey calbasa? And then you eat both of them. And if one, you know, you get a hunk of rubber and one of them, ah, oh well. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. I think that Japan is going to be attacked by a giant cat. very, very soon. So one Japanese city is on high alert for a potentially toxic cat

who fell into a vat of carcinogenic chemicals at a steel manufacturing plant and then escaped into the streets. We all have seen this movie before. And they can't find the cat now. And so they're concerned. They've got people on high alert looking for this cat. The cat is going to come out of the super.

you know, the size of Godzilla very, very soon. So residents of Fukuyama were warned to be on a lookout for an abnormal-looking cat and instructed, do not approach, do not touch, but call the authorities.

Oh, okay. What happened? Well, this cat is believed to have fallen into a tank of molten chromium at the Nomura plating factory over the weekend. Yeah, you don't want to, you mix a cat with some molten chromium weeks from now, we're going to have a giant cat attacking Japan. The worker who arrived for

their shift at the factory discovered a mysterious trail of yellow paw prints across the parking lot. Employees then checked the security camera and found footage showing the kitty entering the factory the night before. Now, the company that owns the factory, set a sheet covering a tank of hexavalent chromium, which is orange and brown in color and highly acidic, was turned over. They believe the cat climbed onto the sheet and plunged into the vat of the toxic chemical,

which is kept at 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The hexavalent chromium can cause a variety of health defects, from skin irritation to rashes, to respiratory problems, to blindness, to cancer, to the growth of this cat being 800 feet tall and attacking a country. That was me.

They didn't say that. So employees who work with the substance often used in plating and welding must wear rubber gloves and masks for protection. So the cat definitely didn't have that problem. Now, the company said, hey, you know, this has

has, this has woke us up to the need to take measures to prevent small animals like cats from sneaking in. It's too late. It's too late. The cat is already there. It's already been poisoned. It's now hiding and growing exponentially. We're going to have a giant cat attacking Japan very, very soon. And don't nobody want a part of this cat. who fell into the molten chromium. It's not going to be funny for this thing is attacking Japan, I'll tell you that. I mean, it's a million-dollar idea for a comic book or a short film, The Fukuyama Monster, for sure.

You could talk about maybe the molten monster or the chromium cat, something to that measure. You're welcome. You're welcome, by the way. That's a million dollar idea. Go ahead and use it. You know, if you're traveling to Japan or anywhere else for that matter, this may be a good time to remind you that you need the Jace case. Go to jacemedical.com. You can enter the code Jephy at checkout for a discount on your order. Jacemedical.com. Look, the Jace case is a personal. personalized emergency medication kit that contains five essential antibiotics, which treat the most common and deadly bacterial infections. It's customizable with dozens of add-on medications available, so you can choose the ones that best fit you and your family's needs. They even have ivermectin as an add-on option. And you can get gift cards for your family or loved ones that are about to travel or that may need it. and then they can even customize it to the way they need and they have their own Jace case.

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Dallas Sivi, he is the Iditarod champion. This guy is an Iditarod Blue Blood. He won and even got penalized early on in the race. And why did he get penalized? Well, he had to kill a moose. And part of the rules of the Iditarod is if you have some sort of animal encounter where you have to put it down, you have to gut the animal. and so he shot the moose with his handgun that he had

which is amazing that's a pretty big handgun and then he realized he had to gut the moose and he took about 10 minutes to gut the moose which was not fast enough according to the rule makers so they went ahead and find him two hours which eventually did not even cost him the race because he started the second to last chapter point with a three-hour lead. I mean, he was kicking butt on that. So then,

then because he shot the moose, because the moose injured one of his dogs. So that was an issue. Now, he's been in the record books at the Iditarod forever. He became the youngest musher to run in the race. In 2012, it became its youngest champion. He also won Iditarod championships in 2014, 2015, 2016, 21. I mean, he's the guy. He's the guy. And he's been tied with the now retired musher, Rick Swenson. And you know, of course, no, Rick Swenson.

I mean, Swenson won the idea around in 77, 79, 81, 81, 81. Duh. Now, his family is a big time. I did her out Blue Blood. His grandfather helped organize and ran the first. I did her out in 1973. And his father is a three-time champion. so it's a big deal now he started out as a wrestler that he got concussions and he said you know what

i'm gonna i want to go back to what i know best and that's running the iditarod which he has done so now i will say this uh there's been some issues this year not only i mean did he get a dog injured and kill the moose but we also had two other separate teams had dogs collapse and die and so then there was another dog who died then they tried to resuscitate all three dogs and it was unsuccessful so we lost three dogs this year now the dogs that were lost were you know they were beginner iditarod people musher's Isaac T.ford of Salt Lake City and Hunter

Keefe of Kinnick both voluntary scratched or they would have been now removed from the race according to the race marshal because the dogs in their care died during the race. It's part of the rules. What are you going to do? They're planting necropsies, but they don't know why these dogs died. Now, our friends at PETA,

they do not like the Iditarod, and they especially don't like the Iditarod when animals are dying. And so they're calling for an immediate end to this nightmare before any more corpses are added to the towering pile this race is already amassed. I mean, the idylleraat is

it's like the Alaska Mardi Gras. I mean, this is part. People line up and party. I mean, they have the preliminary race, the ceremonial run in Anchorage, the day before the actual race begins, which the race actually begins

north of Anchorage. And so, I mean, but they have the ceremonial race. It's a big deal. They all get together. and, you know, the bars make money, they cheer, everybody's making money, the police are there escorting them. It's a big, it's, like I said, it's a Mardi Gras in Alaska with dogs. That doesn't change the fact that PETA is unhappy with this event. Their executive vice president, Tracy Reimann, said that this year's Iditarod has been the deadliest in recent years.

Five dogs were killed in snow machine incidents before this race even began. The Iditarod is the shame of Alaska. How many more dogs need to die before this stops? Dogs' lives are worth more than this. Eh, they really aren't, though. They really aren't. They're just mush dogs, and we moved on with their life. But PETA has not moved out.

I mean, mush dogs' lives matter. Am I right? Of course you are. Now, they like to throw in the fact that a couple of the race, were disqualified. Apparently one of them has allegedly choked his girlfriend.

You know. He couldn't, now they reinstated him. Eddie Burke, Jr. He was the rookie of the year last year, but he had these allegations of violence against women. But they reinstated him because they were just allegedly charges. That's all. Nothing happened.

But he ultimately withdrew because he had leased his dogs to other mushers. And then once he, was not disqualified. He couldn't reassemble his team in time for the race. So then there was another guy that got the boot for a personal and professional conduct, which is part of the racing rules. So we'll see what happens with the old I did ride.

I don't foresee the Mardi Gras of Alaska going away anytime soon, even though Pita should be selling shirts Mush Dogs Lives Matter They should be selling those shirts Absolutely Would I buy one? Not a chance

Do I actually believe that? Not so much I believe it I should do I want dogs to die? No But I'm not I say You know

What a bummer That they did I don't want them to But you know So be it. Probably why PETA is not a fan of me. Let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately.

Let's see we have a new houses of the hoity-toity. A shore club in Miami Beach is looking to set a record for the most expensive apartment, most expensive place sold. The is an art deco hotel in Miami built originally in the 1930s. You can get the penthouse, 10,500 square feet, 7,500 square feet of terraces, private rooftop pool. And the sale is pending for $120 million. I know. So this Whitkoff and Monroe in 2021 unveiled redevelopment plans of the Shore Club.

And they had the architects. put it together the Kobe Carp Architecture and Interior Design and man when you want interior design you definitely have to go to Kobe and Carp architecture. The redevelopment of the Shore Club and the Cromwell

Hotel built in the 1930s will also include a new 200 foot tall tower. So you can get it in that place. You don't have to spend the $120 million on the penthouse. You can get other places, you know like the dump down on the third floor for

6 million. You might be able to get a place up on the 7th or 8th floor for 40 million, something like that. But you're not getting the penthouse for any less than 120 million. Even if you won the lotto, I mean, let's say, no, there was no winner in the Powerball drawing last night. So the Powerball drawing

goes to $600 million jackpot, 293.4 cash payout. And the mega millions, that drawing is tomorrow. the 15th of March, 2024, mega millions is 792 million jackpot with 381.8 million cash payout. Really, you win that, you still,

you're not going to, you don't want to spend 120 million on a condo in Miami, right? I mean, that's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. You're spending 120 million on a joint. You're worth more than just, you know, the mega millions jackpot for sure.

Let's say you don't, Don't hit the lotto. Maybe you can move to Baltimore. Baltimore is proposed to selling abandoned homes for a dollar each. You get a home in Baltimore for a dollar. You know, the sad thing is you still have to live in Baltimore. But more than 13,500 homes in Baltimore remain vacant with the city owning just under 900 of them.

So the new proposal would allow the sale of the homes to private buyers for just one dollar. to nonprofits for $1,000 and to developers for $3,000. Now, the catch is you have to spend $90,000 on renovations. Private buyers would also have to move into the properties within one year and live in them for five years. We have been, they claim these properties have been sitting vacant and abandoned. We all know that all the things that come with that. Yeah, crime and people moving in, squatters saying this is where we're staying now. So good luck.

God bless in saving Baltimore. I would say that's probably a pretty good deal. Although if you're a developer, you could take a neighborhood and spend, you know, $3,000 a house. And still you're going to have to spend, you could probably cut a deal with the city. They say you have to agree to spend $90,000 on renovations.

I'm sure that if you went to Baltimore and said, hey, I'm going to buy this block of how many of her houses, six to ten houses, and I'll give you, you know, $2,000 a house, and I promise to do at least $50,000 of renovations on each house. We'll get it up and running, and I'll have people living in them within a year. I'm sure Baltimore would say, you know what, go ahead. Nonprofits are going to buy a house or two, and that's going to be there to help the homeless, right? they can set up, they can renovate,

and then they can be there to help the homeless. And I know we don't call them homeless anymore. I guess we're supposed to call them unsheltered. Huh? One unsheltered person I was reading about or homeless person I was reading about over the weekend, he prefers inner city off-grid living. Okay, that's what it is.

That's what it is. You are unsheltered, inner city off grid living. That came from a story out of Tucson where they have a community program where they have a mobile shower trailer that travels across the city and they offer like 15 minute warm showers

and resources for the unsheltered community. It's kind of... I like the idea. I actually like the idea. Taking a shower something most, and this is, you know, Tucsonians don't think twice. about. They can start their days and end their nights with a simple act of personal hygiene.

But for some of the unsheltered, it could be days, weeks, or even months. And that's true, you know, around the nation. So they've started this new portable shower trailer that offers warm showers for free. Nothing is for free, but okay, to individuals experiencing homelessness and others going through a tough time. So you can just say, yeah, I'm having a tough time. Can I go take a shower? Yeah, go ahead. So the five-person mobile shower trailer moves around town to help underserved communities. And they give a list of where the trailer shows up and when you can come and visit. It's a pilot program launched early last year thanks to grants from Project Gateway,

an Arizona Department of Housing Funding Opportunity. Huh. I wonder where that money comes from. Oh, I know. Texas. And the HCD's Housing First Program Director, Brandy Champion. Okay, so it was launched with a borrowed shower, now they have a trailer,

and it includes five showers, including an ADA compliance shower. Good, yeah, you don't want anybody, you don't want anybody that's unhoused in a wheelchair that can't just roll in and get hosed off. Don't want that at all. Got it? So what they do is volunteers happily explain.

They write down some basic information when you show up and you put your belongings, in a storage chest. Yeah, I hope that storage chest just, you know, you go ahead, just hose that stuff down. You have 15 minutes to take a warm shower, then leave your dirty towel in a large plastic bucket by the trailer

when you're done. Then hand him a clean towel and a fresh pair of underwear before he heads inside the trailer. So he takes a shower and then he comes back out and wears the dirty stuff again. Don't you, aren't you going to clean that up for him? No, he just has to take a shower. He gets clean underwear and a clean towel

to dry off, and then he has to put that nasty, dirty clothes back on? Okay. All right. If you say so, anything to help the unsheltered, homeless, inner city, off-grid living.

Anything to help that. I actually like this idea a lot. I think we need to do something with their clothes as well. If we're going to help them, we need to help them in all facets of their life. And so I realized taking a shower

is a wonderful thing and they feel clean and they feel better about themselves and it probably would cut down on some crimes and cut down on uh you know harming other people or or themselves but uh we need to go ahead and think about you know showing up for a shower and getting a putting your clothes in some kind of machine to wash and put back on after your 15 minutes shower can we do that in 15 minutes? Is there a way to wash clothes real quick and then dry them so that you can put them on in 15 minutes? Not sure about that. But we need to make that happen. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. At just $39.99, how could I

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suddenly and many people were not wearing their seatbelts. That's on them. Several people were treated for minor injuries at the airport. 13 were taken to the hospital. The airlines called it strong movement. Now according to what we're looking at

they're saying it was a technical issue that flung passengers around the cabin injuring 50. Then we had another plane make an emergency landing when flames burst out of the engine mid-flight. Wow, I mean, we had that we're still talking about the door plug. The door that opened after the plug flew off on the Boeing 737 Max 9 during that Alaska airline flight.

I mean, they will not let that go. You'd think they'd already be done with that. It was just a door. Some bolts were loose and it flew off. Nobody even flew out of the airplane. They just got a little scared. Get over it. We have criminal investigations against Boeing.

We have the whistleblower who was raising concerns about the company's production line and the production companies and how they were letting things slide. Well, he is now committed suicide. They found him dead in his vehicle. Anybody else want a whistleblow? No? Okay. We're done. no kidding but the problem is now is that Boeing is tapered off its production and many would say good

but that means they're you know one of the two main airplane suppliers so now airlines are going to have fewer aircrafts right so southwest which is uh you know they fly Boeing 737 planes they plan to receive 58 of Boeing's 737 max 8 planes but now ooh yeah no we're only going to get 46 I guess so yeah we're not going to get any of the max seven jets so good luck I'd get new planes for southwest and good luck of having enough planes for people to fly United Airlines puts a pause on hiring pilots Alaska Airlines says its capacity for the year is in flux Iran air lowering its passenger forecast all because Boeing can't deliver planes. Now, Airbus, Boeing's biggest rival is happy. They delivered 49 planes in February compared to Boeing's 27, but still, you know, that's an issue. Then I see a story from Frontier Airlines,

and I think this is just in response to, hey, we still love you? We do. You should come fly with us. They, Frontier Airlines, has announced a new seating option. So customers are going to be able to use up front plus seats and those are going to be the first two rows of the aircraft. It's a seating option that will provide customers with extra space and comfort during flights. Upfront plus seats are available only in the first two rows of the aircraft. Customers in those seats will get a guaranteed window or aisle seat with extra leg room and an empty middle seat. Isn't that special? Many customers strongly prefer a seating option that offers extra space when flying. Yeah, you think so, Frontier Airlines CEO, Barry Biffle, boy, you really have your finger on the pulse of America with that.

Don't you? Yeah, you sure do. What? Many customers strongly prefer a seating option that offers extra space when flying. Now, according to, and I think, okay, well, you know, I got it. Good, thank you, whatever, but they say that this up front plus seating for flights departing on or after April 10th, you start with the upgrade at $49, which isn't too unreasonable. The upgrades will only be available through April 30th. So it's only going to be available for a month? What are we? Is it a trial run?

Are we, what are we doing? I just, I don't understand. We're telling us, yeah, we know customers strongly perform. for a seating option that offers extra space when flying. And we're going to give it to the, you know, for a month. We're going to charge them a little more, but only for a month. We can't guarantee you that you're going to, we're going to offer that forever. Wow.

Thanks. Frontier. Then I see where Congressman Dan Crenshaw is still whining about his wife's interaction between United Airlines and the TSA and over the dog. And if you haven't seen the video, he's, I guess they gave his wife a hard time. And he's still pissed at the airlines because they blew them off. You know, he's a congressman. And he expected somebody to bend the knee to him.

And United and TSA were like, yeah, so. So what? Yeah, good luck. God bless. Well, he has said that he wants to now mandate that airlines and airline employees have to wear body cams. I think I'm okay with that. I really do.

I think I'm okay. with them all wearing body cams so that we can, you know, actually see what is happening other than somebody's iPhone recording from one angle and starting at a late time and ending at an early time. We can actually get an idea of what is going on on these airlines. That's not a bad idea. Now, I will say someone pointed out, irritated woman on X, by the way, she pointed out, or he or they or them pointed out that they believe that politicians should also wear body cams.

I love that idea more than having the United Airlines or any airline employees wearing body cams. Yes, every politician should be mandated to wear a body cam. And that thing should not be turned off. Ever. Ever. You're a public servant. And we want to know who you're talking to, when you're talking to them, how long you're talking to them, all of it. And if it shuts off, you better, we want full documentation. Will it ever happen? Yeah. Good luck. Speaking to body cams, I see where, according to a new Reuters investigation, at least 128 people have filed a police complaint saying,

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That's the way it works. So that's what you do. A couple of businesses in trouble, though, I see where Adidas, posted its first annual loss in 30 years and warned that U.S. sales are hurting. So they claim that everything's fine around the world. And we're trying to sell off all of yay's stuff. But we're trying to distance ourselves from yay. But in the U.S., we are posted a lot.

loss and we don't know what is going on, but it is not good. Then I see where there's an issue with the old dollar tree. Dollar Tree said that it plans to shutter 1,000 stores. Holy cow. The company which operates 16,700 plus stores will close 600 family dollar locations in the next year, which accounts for 12% of that chain. It'll close an additional 370 family dollars and $30 dollar trees over the next few years. Dollar Tree CEO Rick Drilling blamed inflation, and a decrease in SNAT benefits.

Those bastards at the government decreasing SNAP benefits. The company also faced challenges since outbidding rival Dollar General in 2015. Yeah, they paid $8 billion to acquire that. and according to the CEO who's kind of he could be blamed for this I guess it turns out that the family dollar stores were in atrocious shape and dollar tree

has spent the last nine years trying to clean them up shouldn't you have known that going in or were you just too enamored with the dollar general so you had to just take it over for $8 billion and I'm sure that family dollar chain was like yeah we'll take $8 billion

no problem we are in deep trouble and we need the money. And I'm just going to take the money and run. I mean, last year, Family Dollar was fined $41.6 million, which really probably should have been more, for selling products from a rodent infested warehouse in Arkansas.

So Dollar General is the fastest growing retailer in the country still, opening 1,000 stores last year, but that's going to slow down now. I mean, they're facing community pushback from, well, you have the online retailers like TeamU and Sheen, S-H-E-I-N. I don't know that I've ever seen or tried to do business

with that particular online mega-cheap rival. Timu I see all the time. And I think to myself, boy, that's a good price for that product. And then I never go there. It's kind of like going to Dollar General. You go, I mean, Dollar General is like a regular store now, right? It's the Dollar Tree and the family dollar stores. The family dollar stores are, uh,

down from dollar general and then the dollar tree is a step down from all three of those as far as products and prices and where they're coming but the dollar tree which is i think you know everything's a dollar i don't think everything's a dollar anymore i think everything's a dollar 25 dollar 50 and they're for sure not just a dollar a dollar general or family dollar you can uh you could for sure count on that the other thing you can count on is me having a rugged man bird out of here in space alone in my head for the rest of the day. And I think it's going to be a long, long time. I mean, happy birthday to SpaceX. Today is the birthday of SpaceX, March 14th, 2002. They launched a super heavy starship rocket this morning. They have another rocket ship they're blasting off tonight.

We had astronauts return to Earth in the Dragon Space capsule. the other day. And Japan had one of their Space One Cairo's rocket exploded on one of their inaugural flights. They were hoping to put some satellites up into space. And so they had a rocket explode just seconds

after the inaugural flight. And that's not the first time that's happened to the Japan flight. Now, they claim that it was obviously a setback and it was a private firm, Space One. They wanted to be the first company in Japan to put a satellite in orbit. No word on whether it was the poisoned giant cat

that made this rocket explode or not, but it was carrying experimental government satellites and that would temporarily replace intelligence satellites, and it was terminated flight after launch. So they're investigating the flight data. So something happened, and then the systems went into autonomous flight terminate. mode and just exploded it right there.

So I think it's going to be a long, long time. Till touchdown brings me around again too fine. I tell you, I could just, I can. I'll stop. I'll stop. I'll give you the joke of the day. Okay. Now, I did not write this joke.

That's the joke of the day. However, I could have, and I believe I have said it before in the past. But this particular word for word joke, I did not write. but it's well worth, well worth the joke. I went for a run, but I came back home after two minutes because I forgot something. I forgot that I'm fat and can't run for more than two minutes. Again, don't look at me. I didn't write that.

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