Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - That’s The Story… | 1/6/25

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

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Where shall we begin? I know if you're listening live, today is January 6th, 2025. This is a day the democracy almost died, you know, four years ago. And just a reminder that we are now. closer to the year 2050 than we are to the year 2000. I know. Think about it. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. So I hope everyone had a tremendous holiday season. I had a, well, we'll just say a tremendous holiday season. It's not true. But, you know, I hope everyone else had a tremendous holiday season. We had a good time. It was fine. You know, there was, I thought we made it through a holiday season without someone going to the hospital.

Nope. Think again. My wife fell down the stairs the other night and broke her, I'm sorry, fractured her ankle in two places. And so she's hobbling around here. And I'm hobbling around here. I need my doobot now. You know, I posted a picture, my social media, of her cooking breakfast

because she wanted to. She said, just give me one of the old bar stools, and I'll put my leg up, and I'll make breakfast because she knows what she wanted, and she knows what I wanted. So, you know, hop-sing on it. And that's what happened.

But I need the do-bot immediately. I need, I don't care if it's X's Optimus. I know it's Tesla's. I don't care what robot it is. I went through a list over the holidays of all the robots that are out now. It's incredible. Incredible. We have to go through this because they are incredible.

And there's 16 on this list. Now, it's a whole thing that Peter Diamandis, put out called MetaTrend of Robots and it breaks it down awesomely. That word, yeah, awesomely. But I mean, I should say the breakdown is awesome. There, there. I rephrased it for the judge. And when you start going through them, it's incredible.

Now, they're all not particular do-bots that are going to help me around the house and do things that I want them to do, be my little dewy bot. But you have Tesla. And you have the Gen 2 and Gen 3 with the technical specifications. The Tesla is 5 feet 10, 130 pounds. Okay. Then we have figure. It's called figure AI.

Figure AI is 5 feet 6 inches, 132 pounds. I don't know if figure, I don't know if Figure AI is going to be a Dubot, but it looks like it is. then we have the agility robotics robot this was founded in 2015 and it is five feet nine inches 143 pounds this looks more like a warehouse robot then you have the boston dynamics which i mean that's been around since the early 90s this particular atlas robot from boston dynamics is four feet 11 inches 196 pounds so it's heavier than the others and this is definitely a warehouse robot we've seen videos of this for sure then we have the unitary robotics robot the unitary robotics robot that is five feet 11 inches 104 pounds wow okay and it can carry a load of 66 pounds all these others were loading in the 40 pounds

of lifting things then you have have a one X technologies one X technologies one X technology's one X technology's robot is five feet five inches tall weighs 66 pounds and it has the load limit of 44 pounds yeah they're all in between 40 and 50 pounds load limit except for the one uh then you have adjabot adjabot is five feet nine inches 121 pounds. Now, this claims that the adjabot has a load limit of 88 pounds, so it's doing some lifting. Then we have the Apptronic robot, Apptronic robot, that's 5 feet 8 inches, 160 pounds, load limit of 55 pounds.

This is where we're at today. We have the Beijing H-R-I-C robot. That is 5 feet 4. inches, 94.7 pounds, and there's no load limit listed. I will say that some of these Chinese robots, they look more like military grade robots. You have the engine AI robotics. This is out of China as well, five feet six inches, 121 pounds, no load limit listed. Then you have the engineered arts robot, which is 6 feet 1 inches tall, 108 pounds. There's no load limit listed.

Then you have the Fourier, F-O-U-R-I-E-R robot. That's out of China as well. That is 5 feet 9 inches, 139 pounds, with a 6.6 pound load limit. That seems like it's not lifting much, you know, anything other than a weapon. Then you have Kepler robotics. which is 5 feet 10 inches tall, 187 pounds, 33 pound load limit. Then you have Robatora, Robatira, R-O-B-O-T-E-R-A.

This, again, is a Chinese robot that is 5 feet 6 inches, 143 pounds, with no load limit list. And this actually looks like a military-grade robot, which is a little frightening. And then we have a sanctuary AI, which is out of Canada, which is 5 feet 7 inches and 155 pounds, load limit of 55 pounds. Then you have X-Peng or Jingping, X-Peng, X-E-N-G, obviously out of China. That is 5 foot 8 inches, 154 pounds, no load limit listed.

And it breaks down even more of what these robots can do in this breakdown. And I'm telling it, well, Navidia is a big sponsor of many of these robotic companies. Some of the Chinese robots don't list who's investing in them, which means it's a state-sponsored robot company, which means those are probably going to be a military grade. Now, I'll break down in the future a little bit more of this story, but it is incredible. and we are so close to having robots everywhere. I mean, this is a breakdown. It's a meta-trend from 2025 today to 2035, and it's called The Rise of Humanoid Robots.

And these are the top 16 humanoid robots shaping the decade ahead. And it talks about how they're going to impact industries, society, and our economy. I just want them to impact my home. That's all. want one in here that can clean that can do the dishes. Hopefully the hands can get wet and do what I say.

That's all I want. Is that asking too much? Apparently it is. I'm actually amazed at how far along these companies are with these robots. I'm happy that they are kind of, but I'm unhappy that they're going to be military grade

because it probably well, it's a scary thought. of what could happen. So I'll just stop talking about that right now and just be concerned about the one that I wanted my home to help. I don't want it to just be my complete doobot, but my wife needs help. She fractured a couple of bones in her ankle, and she needs help from the Dubot. And so do I. 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 lift with confidence while peloton IQ counts reps

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But we do have, while today is, as I said, you know, four years ago was the day democracy almost died. And we're celebrating that. Is that a celebration today? I don't know. We're supposed to party. We're supposed to, you know, have a drink. What are we supposed to do? Nothing. And okay. And we do need to get those people that are in jail imprisoned over January 6th out. That is for sure, especially the ones who are just parading and milling. But we have our first major storm of the year, of the year. It's a polar vortex, vortex. And I guess the Weather Channel is the only one that, you know, names them,

but it's winter storm Blair, winter storm Blair, that's plowing its way across the mid-Atlantic and the plains. And there are, you know, there's states of emergency throughout, you know, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and we have over 3,000 flights that have been canceled and boy I would be and obviously the airlines are waving change fees are they that's so nice you're waving the change fees yeah you're not going to be able to change we're going to go ahead and wave the fee so why just you just go ahead and sit down in your seat over there somewhere and find a find a charging station

and you know keep your keep your phones charged because you're not going anywhere But if you were going somewhere, we wouldn't charge you change fees. And so we are looking at dangerous and impossible driving conditions and widespread closures. I mean, where I live here in Fort Worth, Texas, the show originates from DFW. And I technically live in Fort Worth, Texas. It is cold. It is going to remain cold. And I don't like it.

I am not a fan. And they're talking about possible snow. and rain and man if that happens in this neck of the woods this place will be shut down they do not they do not go well when it's when it's ice and snow here in df w so be ready for those stories and when i say i live in fort worth technically because this is all dfdb and there's so many municipalities that uh you know are part of DFW. Because over the holidays, they just said that Fort Worth moved up to number four in Texas with Houston number one, San Antonio number two, with the largest cities in Texas, Dallas number

three, then Fort Worth number four. So then Austin dropped to fifth. But when you go down this list of the top 12, like Irving, that's where Mercury Studios is located. So that's part of the DFW area. Plano, yep, part of DFW is ninth in Texas. Arlington is seventh with 414,000 people living in. Those are all part of DFW.

So DFW is one of the fastest growing municipalities in the country and will be larger than all of them very, very soon. So just when I say technically, because there was a time when I lived, Well, the one house I lived in, the tornado house, the house, we lived, well, it was actually the first house on the street, but there was a corner house facing another street to our side. But when you came down the one street, that was a one city. And when you made the right, that would got you into another city. So, I mean, they're all just, it is the metroplex. It is a D.FW. Anyway, congratulations, I guess, to, uh,

Houston for remaining number one and San Antonio for remaining number two. But Dallas and Fort Worth and the Metroplex is coming around the final turn. But I guess we'll see about that because I was reading a story that U-Haul has reported that Texas is not the number one destination for people to move to. According to U-Haul. They claim that South Carolina is now number one. Texas is number two, North Carolina is three, Florida is four,

and Tennessee is in fifth place, according to U-Haul, where people are moving to. So Texas is not number one. It held that slot for, I guess, the last three years, and now it's starting to fall. So maybe, you know,

maybe DFW isn't coming around the bend. maybe it's South Carolina that is picking up the pace. I love the Carolinas, man, though Carolinas are beautiful. And North and South Carolina. And at one point, I mean, I know that people are still struggling there because of Hurricane Helene. And now we have Winterstorm Blair blasting across the country, which is going to really affect the people in the Carolinas and Tennessee, for that matter, that we're still living in tents. thanks to FEMA or the lack of FEMA thereof. So, wow, just really, really sad.

But I love the Carolinas. And I could live there. I almost did live there at one point in North Carolina. We were close to moving to Asheville or thereabouts in the greater Asheville area. It just never happened. Now, are people moving without using U-Haul? I guess it's possible, yes. But U-Haul is still got to be number one, right?

I mean, U-Haul, you see those darn U-Haul trucks everywhere. And I must have, I know U-Haul has definitely, definitely put some money from me into their bank accounts. I've used those darn U-Haul trucks over the years way too much, way too much. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. I don't know. We've got so much to get to. This episode could be a week-long series.

So we'll just, we'll get to it as much as we can. And then we'll get to more every day. It's good to be back. Be sure to follow me on social media at Jeffrey JFR on X, Jeff Fisher Radio on Instagram and Facebook. Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher is my YouTube channel. And you can always order a cameo from me at Jeffy JFR on Cameo. That, of course, is not free at Jeffey JFR on Camio.

cameo. What is some of the news that we got over the holiday break? Oh, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have now announced that they are officially divorced. It only took eight years. Yeah, you know, it's tough when you want to work out the details. Now, they didn't leave any info on what the agreement was, but I'm sure we'll get some leaks on that. But Jolie's lawyer stated, that she is relieved to have closed this chapter focusing on healing for their family. I mean, they got married in 2014. I don't know how long they were together before that.

And they share six children, and they began divorce proceedings in 2016, citing irreconcilable with differences. So it's finally over. Angelina and Brad are finally over. I know sad. I don't wish divorce on anyone. Divorice is not fun, no matter who you are.

And to drag it out for eight years, oh my gosh. That's got to be. I feel sorry for both of them. Man, that just cannot be, uh, can't be fun. Congratulations are in order to Sean Hannity and Angelie Earhart, who, uh, are overjoyed, according to the stories. They got engaged over the Christmas holiday. Oh.

And it says that Sean. pop the question at their church, which is the perfect place, and they initially formed a bond over their strong faith. Uh-huh. And so they're overjoyed, and they're so thankful to both their families because, of course, they let the families know. You know, they both have children and exes, and they let everybody know, and they just want to make sure that they're all good with it. And they claim that there are. They get along with their ex-spouses. Do they?

And everyone is just supportive of each other. And so gosh darn it, they're just over the moon, just over the moon, as they are now engaged. I mean, there's going to be some pre-ups to that engagement. That is for sure. I mean, Hannity's got the TV show, which is, I don't know what, he's the longest rated nighttime cable news show ever. He's got his radio show, which he does every day, which is syndicated. She's been on Fox and Friends since, well, 2016, but she's joined the network in 07. So they're doing okay.

She's written a few books. So there's going to be some pre-nups with that engagement. But God bless them and, you know, good luck. No word on if they're going to move in together because, you know, Sean does his shows out of Florida. And Fox and Friends is in New York. And so I know that they, but you can tell when Aangley has been down to Florida on Mondays because she comes back with a little extra tan. So if you, you know, I don't know what's going to happen. I'm sure they'll just quick continue to, you know, fly those private planes back and forth from New York to Florida.

And because, you know, now they're engaged, the full out open business is going to be happening. you know, church or no church. All right, what have I been watching? I watched, you know, I'm still into Landman. That's not over yet, although I think we're two episodes away from, no, one episode away from the end of the season. Everybody's in love with the Jerry Jones scene

from the latest Landman. Lioness, you know, I talked about Lioness not being as good as the last one, but I kind of got back into it again. It took me a little bit. I watched Cross on Amazon Prime, which was pretty good. Pretty good. I enjoyed that. Oh, can we? Oh, oh, oh, we have to talk about juror number two on Max.

Okay, everyone was posting stuff. You must see jury number two. Whack? You must see jury number two on Max. Whack! So, I went over to Max, and I watched juror number two. I was so angry at this stupid movie. Okay, so the premise of the movie is that juror number two,

He's got the preggar's wife, and he's trying to get his life together, and he gets called for jury duty. Hence the title juror number two. And so he gets picked for the jury, of course. And the case is about a person who they're trying that has presumably, allegedly, killed this girl, who juror number two believes that he was the one who hit and was a hit and run and he killed her. Okay. So, okay, so that whole premise,

I get it. It's interesting, whatever, I got it. But this is going to be a spoiler because it just angered me. All right, so all he had to do in the very beginning was to say, I don't know, guilty. Goes through the whole trial. There's a, there is an eye, witness who IDs the other guy?

Obviously, you know, it's, you know, it's wrong because they show that it's our juror number two that he sees. But he picked out the, uh, picked out the man that's on trial, her, this girl's boyfriend. And, uh, so there's eyewitnesses and they fought and the whole thing. And so all he has to do is go back when they start deliberating and say, yep, guilty. And it's over. Nobody cares. Nobody's looking into it. Nothing.

But he and another guy are the holdouts. And so now it opens up a whole new can of worms, which starts getting investigated. And in the end, they find him guilty. But it's too late. As too late then, the can of worms has already been open. So then, in the end, of course, you know, the district attorney who, you know, just got a promotion or just got elected, she was just an assistant district attorney who was now the district attorney and presumably because of this case. So she won't let it go.

And she, you know, the end of the movie is her knocking on the juror number two's door. Sorry, that's the end of the movie. Okay. So, Kiefer Sellerland is his attorney in the movie. Kiefer is like, I don't know, the Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor and he's also an attorney. So he goes to ask Kiefer, hey, what should I do? and Kiefer says, give me a dollar so I can be your attorney. And he gives him some advice that I would say he needs to fire him as an attorney right then.

Okay. I should have went to law school. I should have been an attorney because Kiefer says, oh, no, with your record of drinking and DUIs and leaving the scene, that's at least 30 years. So you can't say anything. You can't do it. You can't say anything. He's just got to let it go. And so my point is, do this whole movie.

This whole movie. he only thinks that he hit this girl he doesn't know he never saw her he never saw the girl who ended up dead now he hit something and uh on the same road that this girl was died on what happened is they are assuming that he hit her she flew off the side of this bridge landed down in this gully and that's where she died and it was storming and raining and so they believe that the boyfriend is the one who beats crap out of her and threw her over the edge, okay? And since it was raining and storming so bad, really they can't make out the, the coroner says that, yeah, she got these damages because she got her ass beat and because of she was thrown off the bridge. And so they blame it on the boyfriend. But really what happened, or they want you to believe what happened is that she was hit by this guy's car and, you know, got knocked off to the bottom of the ravine.

Now, he gets out of the car, which is where the guy has the eyewitness, because he believes that it's the boyfriend, and he looks over the bridge, down into the gully. Can't see anything, because it's dark and storming, so he doesn't see anything. There's a deer crossing sign.

It's possible. It's possible. I know it's highly unlikely, but if I'm this guy's attorney, it's possible that he did hit a deer. Or he hit something else. It's possible that he didn't hit this girl. He never saw her.

There's no evidence except, well, there was some damage to his car, but that doesn't prove anything since the damage was fixed. And there's no proof that he hit a human. So the whole thing is just why are we even? I just drove me insane. What made me crazy is that I get that he believed that he hit her. You know, I got it. He probably did. But if I'm his attorney, I'm telling him, you don't know what you hit.

Kiefer should have said, you have no idea what you hit. You just think, you don't know what, it might not have been her. And just move on with your life. You know, find this person guilty and move on. But no, well, then I wouldn't have been the, I wouldn't have been the movie, would it? So, that just drove me insane. Oh, and another thing that drove me insane. This message is to Amazon Prime.

Okay, just a little side note. I mentioned watching Cross. That's on Amazon Prime. There's also a couple other shows that I watch. on Amazon Prime, some older shows, okay? I don't care Amazon Prime, what you do. I refuse to give you more money to get rid of the commercials. And I was close, man, I was close.

Because the newer shows, like Cross, they give them to you at the beginning, and then they give you usually a break in the middle somewhere during an episode. But the older shows, I've noticed, that, you know, you go back and watch some older shows. I went back and watched some of season one from Goliath and they go crazy with the commercials. They just go out of their minds with the promos

and it's just, they almost had me. I was so angry and then I remembered I said, no, I'm not going to do it. Amazon is my line in the sand. I'm not going to pay extra to get rid of the commercials because I already pay. It's just, ah! Oh, man, that definitely.

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Okay. Who died today? Who died today? Well, I got an email from Mike who said, when you get back from a well-deserved vacation, thank you, Mike. Your first podcast will have a new segment called Who Died When I Was Off?

And that will take the full show. You are absolutely right, Mike. I mean, it's unbelievable. The list kept growing and growing and growing. So we're going to do Who Died Today. It may take an entire week of shows to get through all of the Who Died Today's and then be caught up, essentially caught up with Who Died Today, because it seemed, it did seem like the list continued to grow daily. I mean, that's why it's called Who Died Today.

And since we weren't doing a show and people continued to die. So that's what happens. Okay, let's begin with a couple of biggies. I guess, Jimmy Carter, they finally admitted that the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. Now, many people believe that he was long dead, but they weren't admitting it. And now they finally admitted it. You got to vote for Kamala Harris.

Anyway, that's great. And now they're busy dragging them all over the country. They dragged them all over Georgia. Now he's going to be at the presidential library, the Carter Center, for, I don't know, until, I don't know, until tomorrow, I think. And then they move him to Washington, D.C., where he'll lie there and repose until Thursday. And then they're going to have a big funeral for him at the Washington National Cathedral. And then they're going to drag him back to Plains, Georgia, where he's going to be buried next to his wife. So at some point, this week or this month, he will end up being married next to his wife

in Plains, Georgia. When will that be? I don't know. They've got to drag him around the country first and prove to you that he is actually dead. So rest in peace, I guess, to Jimmy Carter, dead at the age of 100. Well, as long as we're sticking with. with the world leaders, we can say that over the holidays we lost former Indian Prime Minister. Mon Mohan Singh. Mon Mohan Singh,

dead at the age of 92. There was no cause of death listed, but they said that he was admitted to the hospital in the capital of Delhai after his health condition deteriorated. So Man Maham Singh,

dead at the age of 92. He was the prime minister, I think a couple of times. He got reelected, which is one of the first times in a long time. Then he was, a prime minister was reelected. And he was a Sikh,

which was a, you know, a first, I guess, in Indian prime ministerish people. And so he had, the second term was marred with a lot of corruption and talk like that. So, you know,

still a good guy, I guess. I have no idea. But rest in peace to the former Indian prime minister. Mr. Manmohan Singh, dead at the age of 92. Then we lost Warren Upton, Warren Upton. And those of you that are asking, Warren Upton, who is Warren Upton? He was the oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

He passed away at 105. Very sad, Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah has passed away at the age of 105. He was suffering with a bout of pneumonia. He's 105. So, I mean, he's battling a number of things. So now we have, I mean, he was a 22-year-old soldier back then,

and he recalled that no one on board knew it made the ship shake. And the second torpedo hit, and the ship began to list. and kept size. He said he swam a shore to Ford Island where he jumped in a trench to avoid Japanese planes straffing the area. He stayed for about 30 minutes until a truck came and took him to safety.

Wow. So now there were an estimated 87,000 military personnel on Oahu on the day of the attack according to military historians. And now there are only 15 still alive. Only 15 still alive.

So they're going away fast. So rest in peace to Warren Upton. Warren Upton dead at the age of 105. Then we have Wayne Osmond. Wayne Osmond.

Yes, from the Osmond family. Funny how that worked. Wayne Osmond, dead at the age of 73. I guess it was cancer. I know that way back in the 70s. He was diagnosed with some

brain tumor that apparently he's you know overcame but he stopped performing because of some sort of hearing impairment or something i don't know if that was brought on by the brain tumor i don't know but uh he is the first of the osmond siblings to pass away and uh he everyone is very very sad wayne osmond uh Wayne osmond dead at the age of 73.

And they all paid their respects and amages as well they should. He was a good man. And in fact, they all say that he was a saint here on earth and will be an even stronger saint now that he has left us. Wayne Osmond, rest in peace, dead at the age of 73. Okay, a couple more today. And then we're just going to have to catch up because I keep going through this list in there.

It's like it is seriously never-ending, and it's very sad. So a couple more today. Linda Lavin, Linda Lavin, the actress, the beloved veteran stage and TV actress, known for her sitcom from the 70s, Alice. She won a Tony for her performance in a play on Broadway. I'll tell you when a Tony. Broadway bound, dead at the age of 87.

Very sad. She was working. There's no good deed. A series of Netflix. She has, she was filming an upcoming Hulu comedy series. So, I guess we put those back on the shelf. She died according to this, unexpectedly, due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer. That's what her PR representative reported. So I'm sure it had nothing to do with that. Because we don't, we don't have any. any news that that causes the reoccurrence and the push of cancer, do we? Oh, wait, we do? Yeah, well, it doesn't say that in the story, Jeff. So rest in peace, Linda Lavin, dead at the age of 87. And then we'll end today with Gwen Van Dam. Gwen Van Dam.

You ask Gwen Van Dam. Who is Gwen Van Dam? Damn. Who is Gwen Van Dam? Well, she's a character actress who has been on TV. TV forever. And when you see her, you'll go, oh yeah, that's her. She has passed away at the age of 96.

Gwen Van Dam dead at the age of 96. I mean, she's got like 140 acting credits. She died in West Los Angeles and the recurrence of cancer. Huh. That's really weird because she's been working all this time for Netflix and Hulu and doing these shows. You know, so that means that she's had, she was working on all these shows. She, you know, true concessions and Halloween and coming home.

And, you know, she, she would have had to have had that, right? And then now all of a sudden she has a quick reoccurrence of this cancer. Huh. That doesn't say that in the story, though. It just talks about the reoccurrence of cancer. So rest in peace to Gwen Van Dam, you know, or when you see her, dead at the age of 96. Well, you know, when you see a picture of her, because you won't be seeing her. So you know her, you know, if you see a picture of her, because you will not see her any longer because she has passed away.

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It's quiet. She's presumably upstairs working, doing it take, editing some photos, or working on her leather, editing some photos, whatever she does up here. And, you know, so I'm, the kids are, you know, you know, up in their rooms. Everybody's quiet. I'm just watching football. He's going to watch some football. And Cincinnati, Pittsburgh.

So it's a late game on Saturday. It's one who wants to football. And so it's quiet and then I hear, oh, oh, oh, oh. And coffee spilled and shoes. And the thing is, she never wears socks, but she had socks on, which I don't understand why she had socks on.

And that's, she slides down the stairs. And that's where she fractured to, bones in her ankle. And so, you know, we got to, you know, carry her around, get the wheelchair that we have in the house for the father-in-law. And, you know, we've got to take her to the hospital, take her to the ER. Now, when she's at the ER, and the whole thing is sad, and I hate it, and she's got to hobble around with this thing, and they've got her in a make-do cast-cass now, and we have to go see the orthopedic guy on Wednesday, and that'll probably cast her up for a while, and it's not going to be fun. But, and she has duties to

take care of them. It's not going to be fun at all. It's going to be harder for her to take care of her, you know, her wifely, womanly, housely duties. But it's going to have to. He's going to have to figure it out because that's, you know, her job. Anyway, so I am surprised that in the ER, not one person. I mean, I wheeled her in in the wheelchair and we set it up. We said, oh, yeah, I broke my ankle, or I think I broke my ankle. I twisted my ankle. We don't know what's wrong. We need some x-rays, whatever. And not one person, I thought for sure, when they, and, Maybe they actually did because she might not have said anything. When they wheeled her off to get x-rays, maybe that's when they questioned her.

Like, nobody asked me, you know, is this an accident or, you know, is this the story you're going with? I did expect some kind of resistance, you know, is some kind of, hey, this was an accident, right? But I didn't get any of it. I don't believe she did either. I was really surprised that not one person said, this is an accident, right? Just to get a gut feeling of, yes, it was, or no, it wasn't, that kind of thing.

Not one person brought that up. So the story I'm going with and sticking with is that it was an accident, and she slipped down the stairs, coming downstairs to refill her coffee cup. And that was just sad. You know, the whole world then freaks out. because, you know, mom is injured and I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I'm not responsible for it. One of the things I saw, one of the things I saw on break was this post on the Internet. That's the way that works. That talks about how conservation efforts have many species have seen significant population recoveries.

Yeah, good, because we've been taken care of them. And that's good. That's why we have zoos. know what supports zoos more than this show or myself. And so they start giving you some numbers of population by the numbers of previous years to 2025. And they talk about white rhinos. In 1940, there was only 100 of them. Well, first of all, I have to ask, I mean, maybe that number could be wrong. But okay. In 2025, there are 18,000 white rhinos.

Okay? In 1930, apparently there were only 50 sea otters left on the planet. Now there are 125,000 sea otters left on the planet. In 1990, there were 11,000 of these orangutans. In 2025, there's only 14,000 of them. So that hasn't increased very much, but it is still increasing. So that's good news, I guess. I mean, do we believe that the planet is better for having these animals on them?

Okay, orangutans, sea otters, white rhinos. Bald Eagles, they claim in 1963, there were 410, now there are 316,700. Some of those are, you know, those numbers got to be dropping, though, thanks to windmills. Bengal Tigers, in 2006, there were only 1,000. Now in 2025, there are 3,500 Bengal Tigers. Giant Pandas in 1979, they claimed there was only 1,114 giant pandas, and now in 2025 there are 1,864. That isn't that much of an increase.

Mountain gorillas, according to this, in 1980, there were only 250. Now there are 1,100 mountain gorillas. Now it doesn't say whether we're talking about these animals in captivity or in the wild. I'm assuming that it's both. Humbback whales, they claim in 1960, there were only 1,400. In 2025, there were 1,400. 35,000 humpback whales on the planet. I guess that's good.

We're bringing some of these animals back from the brink of extinction, but sometimes I kind of think that maybe extinction was meant to happen. Maybe we're messing with the plan of... Who takes care of the planet like that? Is that Mother Nature or is that God? I can't remember. Maybe God just... As long as Mother Nature hasn't broken an ankle bone or so,

God lets her take care. of things on the planet like this. I appreciate it. But then it got me thinking, oh, wait. So on the planet, here on Earth, right? Okay, so in 1960, there were three billion people on the planet in 1960. Now on the planet, we have eight billion people. So we win.

You can save all the animals you want. send them to the zoos, which I'm a fan of. Go ahead. Let's keep them in the zoo so we can look at them and say, yeah, that's great. But as humans, we win. There's over 8 billion of us now. So I'm just saying. I'm just saying we win. All right, let's get out of here.

I haven't even talked about football. Oh, my gosh. I mean, we had the bowl games. We're so great. We're in the playoffs for college football. I'll cover that tomorrow. in the playoffs for the NFL. Well, I'll talk to you tomorrow about that

because I don't want to, I mean, it's been it's been a while. You know, I don't want to get, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to have a three-hour show when we come back when I could, you know, you could just break it up and you can enjoy what I gave you already today. Okay, so I'll leave you with the joke today

and we'll talk about that other stuff, you know, tomorrow or other days this week. So the joke of the day emailed from Dwight. And I feel like I did this one before. But since I was just talking about how important zoos are, even though humans are winning the population contest, I'll leave you with an email from Dwight. And if I did this joke already, Dwight,

you should be you're sending me used material? I don't like it. Even though I don't remember, you're sending me used material. I don't like it. What kind of zoo only has dogs? What kind of zoo only has dogs? I don't know.

I don't know what kind of zoo only has dogs. A shit zoo. Because that's a breed of, yeah, no, you get it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.