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Episode Date: October 8, 2024

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The show is just hasn't even started yet and we already have breaking news from our man on the street, Chris Cruz. When you hear that sound, you know that it's breaking news here on Chewing the Fat. Chris, what do you have for us today? I got something juicy for you, Fisher.

Are you ready for this? Are you sitting down? I am. You are. Okay. Jets have fired their head coach, Robert Salo. What? The Jets have fired their head coach.

And so what? They have said, Robert Swala, whatever the hell is. Sala. Yeah, yeah, Robert Swala. Sala. Yeah, Sala. Yeah, Robert Sala.

That means that Aaron Rogers doesn't like him at all. And they've been fighting. They've been the rumors of mill about them fighting. They finally got rid of him. Holy cow. That's amazing.

Who's the interim coach? I bet it's the offensive coordinator. Okay. So I just got, thank you for telling me because I did not know what that is, but wrong. It's defensive coordinator. Jeff Ubersch. Oh. Is reportedly to be named the interim head coach.

Wow. That is fascinating. The Jets, they lost this past weekend over in London. Aaron is very unhappy, and he's really the coach. I mean, Aaron Rogers is really the coach. coach. And so they fired their head coach. That is, are you outside the Jets? I am. Actually, I was just getting off the plane. I just got back from London. Right. I was attracting business to Texas. Well, that's where the game was. That's all. The game was

there and I was attracting business to Texas. That's good. If you don't know what that means, make sure you listen to Pat Grand Leash today. But yeah, that was the game where, you know, Aaron Rogers threw three interceptions. Yes, he did. They did not look good. And the offense looked lost. for much of the game. And they have looked lost for quite some time. That's amazing. So as of this morning... Is there anybody coming outside of the building

that you could talk to right now? No, no. Right now, they put the... The only reason why I came, because I saw the flag half staff. Oh. And I thought someone died. They put the flag half staff for it's all?

That's awesome. But yeah, there you have. Just a fired head coach after a two to three start of the season. Yeah, bad. And he was, you know, he's... I thought he was a mediocre head coach anyway. But they didn't ask me.

They didn't ask me. And that does not surprise me. So, I mean, good luck to Robert. Does he get his check? Absolutely. Whatever contract he gets. Okay. So he does get that?

100%. I don't know what his contract was, but whatever it was, he gets it. And the NFL is paying all kinds of coaches a huge amount of money that, and they're not working. So if the NFL wants to hire me and then fire me and sign me to a contract and give me that money, I am willing to do it. Hello? Hello? No, no calls yet? Okay, well, that breaking news today on Chewing the Fat, right off the bat from Chris Cruz. Thank you for reporting live whenever you hear that sound here. So let's get to it. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the fat.

It's a little slow on the trigger. I mean, I guess it's still excited over the breaking news right off the bat. So, I mean, I could continue to just talk about sports, to be honest with you, but I won't tell it won't because there's big news out of Uganda today, and it's sad news, actually, out of Uganda. They have banned the popular form of funeral celebration known as Disco Montanga. that they claim where it was leading to sexual abuse.

The all-night events, whose name means funeral disco in Swahili, duh, typically involve men paying for dances from young women to raise money for barely expenses. And they're not going to do that anymore. They can't do it. It's illegal.

It's been criticized. And they believe that it's leading to unwanted prostitution and sexual exploitation. So if you need money for funeral expenses and you hire a female to dance at your funeral for money. That is unwanted prostitution. I don't think so. I think she wants it.

Everybody is making money from it. But anyway, it's an evil dance, according to all around in Uganda. And it is now, well, you can't have it anymore. You can't do it. We won't do it. I don't know what happens to you if they catch you doing a disco mantanga or a funeral disco in Uganda from now on, but it probably isn't good. So the enforcement of that band probably will be more than you anticipated.

So anyway, if you planned on going to Uganda or live in Uganda and you're listening to Chewing the Fat, stop with the old funeral discos, okay? Because they're illegal now. Sex and run C. Yeah, you hear music like that, you're getting shut down. Yes, welcome to the party. You're going to shut down in Uganda, man. Apparently, those are other countries

were having their funeral discos, too, like Kenya. They've shut them down. So you can't do anything. That's darn it. We're being held down from the man all over the world. That's not good, man. You can't even have a funeral disco. Come on.

Today is also the day, the final day of voting for Fat Bear Week. Fat Bear Week is coming to an end. The final bracket is today voting. The two bears up against each other for the chance to be the champion of Fat Bear Week. 32 chunk and 1 to 28 grazer. 32 chunk and 128 grazer. And I remember picking those earlier. on in the bracket, but they've made it all the way through.

It looks to me, if you look at this picture, it looks to me that 32 chunk has done some serious growing. 128 Grazer looks big, but 32 Chunk looks tired and old and big, and I just want to go lay down and hibernate. So maybe Grazer will win because Grazer looks younger. and more upbeat. But if I'm voting, and I am going to vote, I vote for 32 chunks.

So we shall see what America picks for the fattest bear. So good luck to the final two bears, 32 chunk and 128 grazer. You can go to the website and vote up with the link on the show notes. So you can go. voting is today this is the final vote that you go to the website and vote today for who you want to be the champion of Fat Bear Week

2024 You know speaking of bears I know they had their problem up at Catmine National Park Where the fat bear week takes place With people feeding the bears And they had to shut down some fishermen And they had bears fighting bears In fact one bear died In a bear fight

prior to Fat Bear Week beginning. But there's a story out of Colorado where a black bear with three cubs attacked a man in his home after they crashed in through a sliding glass door. And he was unable to get them to leave. I don't know, do you ask them nicely? Come on, little black bears. Get out of here. So now the state wildlife managers have killed all four bears after the attack.

Wow. The town of 400, the man's injuries were significant, but he didn't go to the hospital. Guys are badass. They were significant, but I'm not going to the hospital. I'm fine. He's certainly lucky it wasn't a fatality. But it was close, according to the wildlife officer. So, I mean, they didn't force him to go to the hospital?

The 74-year-old man tried to shoe the adult female bear out with the kitchen chair, but it knocked him into a wall and clawed at him. The bear injured the man's head, neck, arms, shoulder, abdomen, and calf before he escaped to a bedroom. Then the sheriff's deputy chased the bears out, and medical responders treated the man at his house. Wildlife managers suspect the bears were accustomed to people because recent reports of bears in the area raiding homes in search of food. That doesn't mean people were feeding them. They're just raiding homes, saying, we're taking over. Now, they found the four bears near the man's house and killed them, which is standard practice,

because the problem with bears is they associate people with food, and if they're already breaking into homes, they're going to do a lot worse. Wow, this guy, can't get over this guy. 74-year-old man. He is injured in his head, neck, arms, shoulder, abdomen, and calf before he then escapes to the bedroom. But what kills me is that he didn't go to the hospital. I'm fine. It's tape me up. I'm fine.

Let me get out of here. Damn bear messed up my whole house. I got to clean it up. That is awesome. But they don't name the man. I guess he wanted to remain anonymous. Apparently this is the first bear attack since this year. Because there was multiple bear attacks last year, I remember.

And we haven't heard of any this year. So it's getting time now, though, where we're going to, they need to find food so they can hibernate. And you have food. In fact, you may even be food. But for right now, you have food. And if you don't have food, then you may become food. So be on the lookout for bears and, you know, mother bears with their cubs. And probably isn't going to end well.

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But we have the Mega Millions drawing, which is tonight. If you're listening live today is the 8th of October 2024. The jackpot of the Mega Millions tonight is $129 million, with the cash option of $62.3 million. And then we have the Powerball drawing, which happens tomorrow night. And now that one is actually up to, a decent price.

300 and a decent, you know, amount. $336 million as the jackpot, $165.3 million is the cash payout. That one is tomorrow, October 9th, 2024. So good luck. And, you know, I hope, I really do hope that you win. It would mean a lot to me. Well, I see a story today where the mega millions ticket is now going to be raised. They're raising the price of the lottery ticket.

And I don't know how I feel about it. Right off the bat, I say boo. So right now, the tickets are $2. Now, same with the Powerball. You can get the $2 tickets, but you can upgrade and play the Powerball and the Mega Ball, and that gets you a $3 ticket, which changes the amount that you make if you win the jackpot.

Now, according to this, Starting next year, tickets for the mega millions is going to increase two to five dollars, five bucks. So does that mean if I play the megaball? That's $6? According to this, this increase will mark the second price adjustment since the lottery game launched in 2002. Other changes to debut in the spring include no break-even prizes, meaning when a player wins, they'll always win more than the cost of the ticket. Oh, isn't that special?

When you win. When you don't, sorry about it. Megamillion said the overhauled game will result in jackpots that start larger, grow faster, and are bigger, more frequently, as well as better odds of winning the jackpot. Plus, I want to go back to the no-break-even. The break-evens are fine. You spend three bucks and you win five bucks or six bucks or three bucks or whatever it is. then guess what?

You just spend it on another lottery ticket. You never rarely deep pocket that. Anyway, so according to the director of the Mega Millions Consortium, Joshua Johnston, we're creating a game that both our existing players and people new to Mega Millions will love and get excited about playing. Are there new people to Mega Millions? Okay. We expect more billion-dollar jackpots than ever before, meaning creating more billionaires and many more millionaires as the jackpots climb.

Plus, this game will continue the important legacy of supporting great causes everywhere mega-millions is played. That's great. They've produced six jackpot wins that have recorded a billion most recently in March. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tickets for the lottery game are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The current odds of winning the jackpot are one in 302.6 million. That's according to mega millions. So it's going to be five bucks a ticket.

I don't see how that's winning people over. I'm sorry, no. You can make all the, hey, the jackpots will be bigger. And there's no break-even jackpots. It's every time if you win, you made money. But five bucks a ticket and probably six. six if you play the mega ball. Come on now.

Now you're pricing people out of the reason they're playing the lottery. The reason they're playing the lottery is because that's the hope. We don't have any money. We have the hope of winning the lottery. Now you're charging us more money for the hope. Come on. We have to stop that. I might have to reach out to Joshua Johnston,

the lead director of the mega millions consortium and see if he can talk. to us here on chewing the fat because I need a little bit more info on how they're going to sell this ticket price increase. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. You know, the more I think about the lottery increase, maybe this was just a test run. They just throw the story out there to see, you know, we'll see what people think.

We'll see the reaction because it's not supposed to happen until next year. That's their date, I think April of 2025. And maybe they change that. If there's an uproar, they say, well, you know, we've decided we're going to push it off for another year or two. And we're going to make sure that we, you know, get everything working properly and tweak everything that needs to be tweaked before we raise the prices. Maybe this was it just it. If there's not a big argument over it, then they can move on with the price increase. So Google apparently now has to let Android users download apps outside his store.

That's what a judge said. And the injunction handed down yesterday that stems from the Fortnite maker Epic Games victory in its antitrust lawsuit against Google, a California federal judge said the search giant must make it easier for third-party developers to have their own app stores on Android devices. Google will have to allow alternatives to its Google Play Store. onto the devices and won't be allowed to pay other companies not to compete with its store or to launch apps on its store first. Okay, so we'll see if that actually takes place. It has to.

That's what they decided in court. Okay. All right. The legal setback comes as Google faces a second suit from Epic and antitrust scrutiny from the Department of Justice. So we'll see. Yeah, I mean, they were, it actually came out that, you know, They were paying other companies. You're not going to compete with us.

Here's some money. Just go away. Go do your thing over there. Just don't do it over here. Can't do that anymore, Google. Sorry, it's not playing fair. I see where Lionsgate is now laying off some people. Interesting.

Well, they're not laying off people. I'm sorry. Let's just call it, what should we call it? tightening the belt. I'm just tightening the bell a little. The John Feltheimer-led studio is offering voluntary buyouts to U.S. employees. So they're saying, hey, hey, you want to quit? Okay, we'll pay you.

Get out. Now, they haven't said what their specified target figure is or, you know, if it's because maybe some of the box office numbers aren't quite up. to snuff as of late from Lionsgate. But we'll see. I guess they're also tightening its remote work policy. Oh, well, that's happening everywhere. They're mandating more in-office days to boost in-person collaboration.

Yeah, that's coming everywhere. There's CEOs and companies everywhere that are saying, yeah, you know, you guys got to come back into the office. I mean, look at the Amazon employees. We're so pissed. You're making us come back to the office? Yeah, we're making you come back to the office. office. So let's see, despite

extending his CEO contract, so Fetimer, I'm sorry, Fetheimer, Feltimer, is that name Feltimer? He's the John Feltimer. I apologize John. You're the, you know, head of the studio.

He, they just extended his CEO contract through 2029. So, hey, you can be CEO, but you got to cut some costs here, baby. So they have a 20,000 title library and upcoming projects that they don't want to be spending all that money on.

So look, if you want to, you know, get out, we'll pay you. Go ahead and get out. Because that always works out great. You know, that always works out great because whatever they promise you, they never fall back on their promises. They give you the cash up front and you leave. and then whatever health benefits or stock options or plans that they have that they say, you'll be fine, we'll give it to you, and then they take them away.

I've actually seen that happen time and time again. So you'd be fine. Just go ahead and walk and believe them when they say they'll stand up to their deal. And the rest of the Hollywood economy is starting to hurt too. You know, they claim that the economy is so robust. The economy is robust. Is it? Is the economy robust?

Oh, it saw 254,000 new jobs last month. Okay. Of course, every month they give us numbers and then they downgrade those numbers halfway through this month. Yeah, you know, those numbers were quite right. We had them wrong. So apparently, the Hollywood is giving people the boot outside of Lionsgate here. but they're talking about there's employment in movies and sound recording

dipped by 1,700 this past month. Oh. While broadcasting shed 1,000 jobs. Tell me about it. It's a stark contrast to the broader economic upswing. So they're saying food services, health care, and construction are leading the charge. Okay.

But a grim picture for entertainment workers. Okay, but don't like that. Hollywood's dealing with its own chilly climate. Major players like Paramount are slatching workforces. Yep. ABC's recent 75 employee cut. Yeah, they've cut more than that, actually. But we'll let you slide with your 75 employee cut layer at ABC.

And then they break it up with their other entities so it doesn't look as bad. You know, like, oh, yeah, ABC cuts some. And then ESPN cuts some. And, you know, then all these other entities, they all cut some too. Yeah, that's more than, that's more than just 75, but, you know, it still goes on. So people are definitely tightening their belt here in Hollywood. Sad to see, sad to see. I mean, maybe Hollywood can have Pizza Hut bring back their resumes plan.

They were sending out free resumes on their Pizza Hut boxes so that you could send your resume to the job that you wanted. with a Pizza Hut cheese pizza, and your resume would be on the top of the box. It's a customized pizza box, spelling out your work experience, holding the cheese pizza, and it would, according to them, make it impossible for an employee or an employer to overlook.

And I just saw this story yesterday, and so I go to their website, and Pizza Hut said that they were doing that in September during the September surge. So I don't know if it's still available or not, and it was only in New York. So they need to spread that out to make, be different markets from time to time during the, well, they called their September

surge, but they could do it, you know, New Year's surge, fall, spurge, whatever. But you had to apply to Pizza Hut, and do they do it free of charge in New York City to stand out before, you know, they have the applicants. You could fill out your plan on Pizza Hut's website, and if they chose you, then you got to have your resume on the pizza box. and it would be shipped to your hopefully future employer from Pizza Hut. So maybe they can start doing that for, you know, different areas at different times. It's kind of a cool idea.

I knew one guy that had sent his resume, this was in radio, so, you know, people would send their tapes to program directors. And in those days, 100 years ago, it was cassettes or whatever you had to send. to your audio to hopefully get noticed by a program director and he would you know call you in and you know talk to you and maybe hire you for you know middays, afternoon's nights, whatever it was. And uh one guy I know used to send his tapes with a trash can so that the trash can would be delivered with the tape. So, you know, they would get noticed because that's what happened. Program directors would throw the tape in the trash can. So he was trying to get noticed by giving them a trash.

trash can with his tape. As far as I know, while it was funny and, you know, grabbed some attention, really didn't work. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel

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Sissy Houston. Grammy winner, author, mother of Whitney Houston, dead at the age of 91. She had an incredible life, actually. She sang, she recorded more than 600 songs as a session singer with, you know, Chuck Khan and Luther V. Andros, Paul Simon, Roberta Flack, all these artists. And in 71, she was featured on a Baccarac solo album that she performed with some standards with Barbara Streisand. And then she won a Grammy for her album Face to Face in 1997.

And He Leadeth Me the following year for the best traditional soul gospel album category. author of three books. She had an incredible life. So she was the youngest of eight children. Anyway, Sissy Houston, mother to Whitney Houston, dead. Rest in peace at the age of 91. Then we have Doc Harris. Doc Harris, best known to anime fans as the narrator for the first English dub of Dragon Ball Z.

He passed away at 76, following a minor search. He was a prominent Canadian broadcaster, voiced multiple characters, including in Dragon Ball, Barbie and the Rockers out of this world. My Little Pony, friendship is magic. And so he was a huge force, and he passed away at the age of 76. I would like to say, you know, if, you know, you need a voice there, Dragon Ballsy. I'm here for you. You can reach out to me at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. and we can talk about, you know, doing some voice work for you.

Happy to do that for you. Then we lost Nell Smith. This is actually really sad. Nell Smith. And why aren't they all sad, Jeff? Well, they are. But Nell is 17 years old. And it's always just a little bit sadder when, you know, a younger human passes away.

Nell Smith, the Flaming Lips collaborator has passed away at the age of 17. Nell was a Canadian singer-songwriter who captured the hearts of many with her collaboration with the flaming lips has passed away at the age of 17. And I know what you're thinking. You'd be wrong. It's not that or that. It was a car accident. Terrible, terrible, terrible. I don't wish that on any parent, but very sad.

And she was in a horrible car accident and passed away. So, uh, Nell Smith, rest in peace, dead at the age of 17. You know, I didn't know you could file a complaint. I guess I didn't think about it because I never would think about filing a complaint about an alert. But I have it on my phone and we get, you know, blue alerts and Amber alerts on my phone. And the, I have the alerts set up and they come through. And I saw one this past Friday morning. It was a blue alert.

and it said, and I always just kind of glance at him. I was up as like, I don't know, it came through at like 5 a.m. and issued for this Seth Altman, and he's wanted for involvement in the injury of an officer by Hall County Sheriff's Office. Suspect is 33-year-old white male, 6-2, 220 pounds. Altman is wearing a blue t-shirt, blue jeans. Suspect is believed to be armed and dangerous,

if seen, do not approach and call 911. Okay, I see that and I slide it away, because I don't know where Hall County is and I'm on my way to Mercury Studios here at the Blaze Studios and I'm never going to run into my man, what's the stupid name again? Altman, yeah, Seth Altman. I don't think anything of it.

Well, then I see for at least 4,000 maybe more Texans filed complaints with the FCC over the alert. What? Yeah, the blue alert, because apparently it was silly to get this blue alert at 5 a.m. And, you know, we're tired. We don't want to get the alert or it's ridiculous to warn the whole state, at least just the county that the event happened in. So I guess I could start complaining about alerts that are coming across my phone.

I like that. I like that. I don't even think anything of it, to be honest. But, you know, since it came through so early in the morning, I remember looking at it and sliding it away and being done with it. Apparently people who were still sleeping at 5 a.m. or a little unhappy.

And, of course, when you're unhappy, you have to complain. Which I'm not opposed to, by the way. I'm okay with complaining. I'm just saying that you have to, you know, actually go out of your way to send a complaint to the FCC because you got a blue alert and it wasn't in your neighborhood and it was at 5 a.m. in the morning. Come on now. Relax a little bit. So now we have Stalantis recalling more than 129,000 RAM,500 pickups that were built in 2023,

according to the National Highway Safety Traffic Safety Administration, which I, man, I love them. I said that wrong. National Highway Safety. It's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Yeah. The NHTSA. The vehicles have an issue with the steering column control module. So the particular issue could cause drivers to use the wrong signal for a lot of.

lane change and result in a potential accident. Drivers of the affected RAM 1,500 pickup trucks will receive a notification in the mail later this month. Why don't they just, why does it take so long the son of a notification? So if you're driving a RAM 1500 pickup truck that was built in 2023, just know that if you put the left blinker on, it might be the right blinker. You don't know. if you put the right blinker on

the left blinker might come on and if you're traveling behind a ram 1500 pickup that was built in 2023 and you see the blinker on you don't know which way they're going to go because the driver may be thinking he's going to make a left and the right hand

blinker is on or the right hand blinker is on and the driver is thinking he's going to make a left so be careful be careful out there until we get this thing fixed because, wow, we don't, that'd be a shame. You're blinking with the wrong way. So many people pissed. Guys in a left-hand turn lane.

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So according to this story, the North Korean consulate in China has been involved in transporting these handicrafts between the two countries using vehicles as Pyongyang boost exports of artificial hair products like wigs and false eyelashes. So China is a little testy. They're not quite sure they want to let North Korea use the North Korean consulate vehicles to transport these goods. So they've been transporting goods between Deng Dong and Liyong Province

and Sinu in North Korea's North Pyongyang province. So the vehicles in question are small trucks that Koreans... Yeah, I mean, those little... small North Korean trucks are really kind of, I mean, they're not carrying many materials. But they carry the raw materials, which, when they enter North Korea and finish goods, when they enter China. So they can't carry much cargo. Yeah, they're really small trucks.

We've seen that they're trying to tell them here, those little Korea, those little pickup trucks. We haven't seen them on the road yet. I don't think. I haven't seen one. But I guess, you know, hey, eyelashes, fake eyelashes, wigs, and the materials to make them don't take up much space. so the trucks are sufficient. North Korea has been using consulate vehicles to transport artificial hair products

for more than a month now, and the Chinese trading companies are, you know, get a little nervous. I don't know if we want to use the North Korean consulate vehicles. Transportation costs are skyrocketing, and Chinese customs are tightening inspections of goods going into North Korea and using consular vehicles to transport items.

We're not quite sure we're going to continue to let that happen. So, from now on, when you think of North Korea, you think of, you know, wigs, fake eyelashes, fake hair. That's what's coming out of North Korea. And they're selling them in China. They're using those damn consulate vehicles to transport the merchandise. And China is not liking it at all. so we'll see if we'll see if it gets shut down real soon because China may just say hey North Korea you need to you just shut down this handicraft movement with using

consulate vehicles okay you go through the regular normal process line just strikes me funny I never thought of North Korea as a as a artificial hair product magnet country and yet they are. So I don't know what happens to him or what happens to the company, but Howard Schultz, the, I don't think he's the CEO of Starbucks any longer, but he came back. He's been gone.

He comes back. He shows up. He makes the business profitable again, and then he leaves. But so in 2022, he was interim CEO. He came back. And he went to a company event in Long Beach, California, to address and improve working conditions at Starbucks stores. Barista Madison Hall attempted to bring up what she described as the benefits of unionization.

And you're going to have to, you know, and Starbucks alleged history of unfair labor practices, according to the NLRB, the national, what is their stupid title, the National Labor Relations Board. Okay. So he was talking to this employee, and she was raising her concerns. And this is, I'm going to tell you what Howard told her. But, you know, this is just for big guy years only, okay? Howard said, if you're not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company. You bastard!

You son of a! Okay. So we can't have that. We cannot have that. So a judge has said that, wow, you can't be doing that. And the National Labor Relations Board said Schultz's statement was an unlawful, coercive threat. Now, I don't know what they can do about it, right?

I mean, Starbucks disagrees with the board's decision, and they're focusing. on, you know, whatever they say they're going to focus on. They've got, I don't know, 500 stores now that have voted to unionize. Other stores have voted against unionization. They ordered the NLRB ordered Starbucks to cease and desist from threatening to fire employees from unionizing activities and said it must post a notice of employee rights at all of his longbee stores. But he didn't threaten to fire her.

He just said, hey. If you don't like it, if you're not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company. You know, that's up to you. And that's unlawful and coercive threat. So there you have it. Howard, you bastard. I don't know if you're still the CEO at Starbucks, but I hope for not much long. This is only your company.

And you've grown into this international. company. So, you know, that's, you need to stop doing whatever it is, you do. And how dare you? How dare you tell an employee that if they're unhappy at Starbucks, they can go work for another company. We won't have it, Howard. We won't have it. All right, let's get out of here. I've had enough today. I didn't even mention Milton bearing down on Florida. Holy cow. If you're in Florida, get out. He'd all the warnings, please. I know that, you know, many of you listeners to chewing the fat are probably not listening to chewing the fat because you're busy taking care of your homestead and your family.

So bless your hearts. Find a way to listen to the show. What are you doing? You know, you can at least reach out on AgS at Jeffrey JFR or Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. Maybe my YouTube page chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Or you can, you know, that's, you can email the show chewing the fat of the blaze.com, and you can let me know how you're doing.

You know, and what's happening in your, as you're being, as you're being moved out of your location, you know, that you're comfortable with and being transported. People are locked, people are backed up on the highways in Florida now. It's just going to be ugly. So please, stay as safe as you possibly can, okay? No joke. Stay as safe as you possibly can. And then when you're done, you can order the cameo at Jeffrey JFR on the cameo app.

You know, that's not free, of course. But, you know, you can get a hold of me that way as well. When you're done, you know, when it's all over. After that, you can. Okay? All right. All right, let's get out of here. A joke of the day.

So I was sitting here eating lunch when I realized cottage cheese is not actually in reality of cheese. just occurred to me. See, because what he was saying is that it was, ah, you understand. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.