Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Work in Progress… | 2/25/25

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

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How would you feel, and what would you do? A husband and wife say they were forced to sit next to a woman's body for several hours after she was already dead. It's not funny. It's not funny at all. So this couple, I guess their boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife, they have different last names, Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin, were en route to Melbourne, Australia, to Doha, Qatar, and who doesn't want to go to Doha this time of year, when the unidentified female passengers suffered a medical emergency in the aisle during the flight.

And they said, unfortunately, the lady couldn't be saved, which was pretty heartbreaking to watch. No doubt about it. Now, they tried to wheel her up towards business. class. Obviously, they're sitting back and coach. But she was quite a large lady, and they couldn't get her through the aisle. It's not funny. Again, it's not funny. The Australian couple, who had two spare seats in their row of four, said the frustrated flight crew then asked them a shift over a little bit. Let's you move over. We're going to set her right here. Again, not funny. Can you move over, please? And I said, well, yes, no problem.

Okay, well, I guess you almost feel like you have to. Then they placed a lady in the chair, and there's a picture of them just sitting there with a lady propped up in the chair next to him, and they sent four hours sitting next to the woman's blanket-covered body. Now, when they finally landed, the airline crew said, hey, you need to remain in your seats. The first responders are going to come and get the body. So they had to sit there even longer. Now, here's my question.

All right. And I know the airline is saying that, you know, we apologize for any inconvenience or distress. This incident may have caused. We're in the process of contacting passengers in line with our policies and procedures. Okay. So my question is, so they're trying to get this lady up front, at least to, I don't know, sitter in one of the flight attendant's chairs

or lay her on the floor in the kitchen, who knows. But they can't do it. So they just say, oh, we're just going to prop her up right here. Can you move over a little bit? We're just going to set this dead lady right here. We'll cover her up. Don't worry about it. So, I mean, at that point, and when they say,

hey, could you move over a little bit? You say, no, I can give you a hand. We can move this lady up front. Don't you help him a little bit? Don't you say, hey, I'll, I'll be carry this lady up front. I don't want her sitting here in my chair with the rest of the way. us. I'll help you carry her up front. Something. You just let her sit there? And I mean, I don't know what the time limit is on, hey, they set this lady next to me who is dead. And so I'm just going to sit here

on my flight and let this dead lady sit next to me. I mean, it's a quiet time in the row. There's no doubt about that. You don't have a, you don't have another passenger leaning over wanting a yap for the whole flight because, well, well, she can't. Anyway, my first two questions still stand. How would you feel? And what would you do? Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Okay, so I want to know what's going on with the Resolute Desk. I have so many questions. So we got a report at the end of last week that said that the Resolute Desk, Trump had said that it had been taken out of the Oval Office. And and replaced with the C&O desk, one of six available to the sitting president. He said the resolute desk, it's red been replaced temporarily.

It's going to have a light refinish. Actually, the quote was, is being lightly refinished, a very important job. Okay. So, for those of you that don't know, the C&O is short for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which was initially built for that company's owners. It was initially used in the Oval Office in 1975 before rail company's GSX donated it to the White House in 1987. Okay. So, and we got the Resolute Desk, and it's well known, and it's built from the remains of the British Arctic exploration vessel, the HMS Resolute,

and presented by Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. Okay. So there's a little bit of the desk history. So we found out that it had been removed from the Oval Office, and it was being lightly refinished a very important job, according to President Trump. Then I see a post on X from a Jack Lombardi, I'm sorry, at Jack Lombardi on X,

that talked about the resolute desk being removed because there were listening devices in the desk. And I thought, wait, what? And I guess, you know, it made sense. And I'm thinking, okay, that's an issue. But with most posts like that, I take it with a grain of salt because the original post about the resolute desk being taken out was that Elon's kid, X, had wiped a booger on it.

And Trump, being a germaphobe, had to get the desk cleaned. Which, you know, it's funny, but it's not real, right? And so when I see the first post about the resolute desk, having some kind of listening devices in it being bugged. I think, ah, is that real or not? And the post goes away. And there were other online reporters saying, no, that was BS.

It was wrong information. Okay. All right, fine. No problem. I got it. Well, then I see a post from this U.S. Homeland Security News at Defense underscore Civil 25 to verify the account. And so I figure, okay, well, I'll take it as okay.

It posted that listening devices found in the Oval Office, including President's resolute desk. White House confirms intensive securities sweep, uncovered concealed audio surveillance, desk removed for forensic analysis, miniature transmitter suspected investigation ongoing. Well, that gets community noted, saying that no credible news or official White House statement confirming the discovery of listening devices, a claim appears to originate from an online forum. And then they have a post to a story that talks about how Trump removed the Resolute Desk from the Oval Office to be lightly refinished. So do we have a leak in the White House and they're telling us things we're not supposed to know?

Or is it all BS? I want to know. And since this administration is being so transparent, apparently at some point we need to know whether listing devices were found, bugging devices were found in the Resolute Desk and the Oval Office. I don't expect to know everything, I guess, but since the news is already out there, I think we need to find out exactly what's going on. And if President Trump says, no, no, no,

I just had it removed for a light refinishing, because that's who I am. Are we going to believe it or not? Because if it's true, how long were the devices there? Why did another administration find it? And why is it, were they just put in for this administration from the prior administration? Were they there? I just, I don't know. And I don't know that we are ever going to find out the actual truth behind it. But I want to know. One thing for certain that is if you get sick and need medicine and don't have it, you are are going to be very, very sad, well, and still remains sick.

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He's still in, they say he's better, but still in critical condition. They said originally last go heading into the weekend that he was more unwell than he was the day before. Ooh, that's not good. But then they said he went to church and he's still hanging in there. Okay. They said that he has a prolonged asthmatic crisis. Oh, okay.

So he was hospitalized for double pneumonia. He received high flows of supplemental oxygen. And he had infusions. of a platelet deficiency. He's been experiencing early stages of kidney failure, which I guess at present are under control. He is alert and well-oriented. Okay.

So we'll believe that he is fine for now. Boy, they are busy scurrying around at the Vatican, wondering when they're going to have to have a conclave. I was reading an article this morning about when that conclave would take place. if the Pope were to pass away. And it usually takes place a couple of weeks after the Pope dies. And in the article, it said it's because it takes a couple of weeks for the Cardinals to arrive in Rome. It takes two weeks.

You hop on a plane. We're here. We're doing the conclave tomorrow. Get on a plane. But okay. All right. Sure. Sure.

Take your time. Take a train. Whatever time you need to get to the Vatican so that we can have our conclave. and we don't know there's a list of, I don't know, eight or ten people that are front runners for the Pope. I am not one of them. I can't run again. I made them change the rules.

Originally, I ran for Pope when anyone could run for Pope, and then they change the rules, and now you have to be a cardinal or something and have to actually be Catholic, which is, you know, just whatever. Fine, I made you change the rules. But I see everybody's talking about the Nostradamus, prediction. He believed that, well, we found out earlier this last week that Isaac Newton said that we had at least until 2060, right? Nostradamus doesn't give a year, but he talks about how the next pope, through the death of a very old pontiff, a Roman of good age will be elected. So that would be,

you know, a younger, a younger pun. Of him, it will be said that he weakens his sea. Okay, the church is, you know, going to be weakened. But long will he sit and in biting activity. So a lot happening around this next pope. And he went on to say in one of his quatrains that in the final persecution of the Holy Roman church, there will sit Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations. and when these things are finished,

the city of Seven Hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The end. Ooh. So we have at least until 2060, according to Isaac Newton. So I realize, oh, Nostra didn't give us the exact date. But it appears that it's pretty close. I mean, he's been in the hospital for quite a few days now.

He's 88. he is you know he's not well he looked like he was looked like they'd been giving him oh what's the stupid drug that they take and then you get puffy from it no not food

it's some sort of steroid they have a specific name for the one drug anyway it looked like they had been he had been taking that and because he looked really puffed out and he's not well and he is unwell And so we'll see.

They say that everything is progressing okay for the pontiff in the hospital. But at 88, man, you're fragile, and especially if you're in poor health, which he appeared to be. He did post on X on Sunday. I don't know that the Pope is actually logging on to X on his smartphone, but someone is. Some of the Pope do people are posting on X. And his post was, apparently he was, he's been receiving, you know, many messages.

He had no kidding. He's the Pope. And he had been particularly struck by the letters and drawings from children. Uh-huh. And thank you for your closeness and for consoling prayers. I have received from all over the world. I urge you to continue your apostleate with joy and to sign, and to be a sign of a love that embrace.

everyone as the hashtag gospel of the day suggests we may may we transform evil into goodness and build a fraternal world do not be afraid to take risks for love oh signed frankie no he did not he did not sign it Frankie. I know. I would have liked that, but he did not. It is interesting how he has gotten sicker in the last couple of years, and he's been a big proponent of the vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine. I mean, he told everyone that they should get it, and he took it. I don't know if he's, I don't know if he got boosters or not, but he's having real health issues. I didn't realize when he was younger, he had partial, a partial lung removal. So he's got really breathing issues as a it is. And so I'm sure that the vaccine didn't help in that. Oh, I know, I know. They would have said

something if it was, if it was really a problem, they would have said something. Well, there's a new study now that, you know, talks about what happened to people in a small number of people. Yeah, just a small number of people. The shots may have led to a constellation of side effects that include fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, tinnitus, dizziness. Yeah, it could be that. It could be that. I mean, you could have what they're calling now post-vaccination syndrome.

Huh, that's weird. Just in a small amount, though, very, very small. Because we all know that the COVID-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of death. We all know that, right? Of course we do. Some people with this syndrome appear to show

the distinct biological changes. Wait, what? Yeah, among them, differences in immune cells, reawakening of a dormant virus called Epstein-Barr, and the persistence of a coronavirus protein in their blood. Wow.

That's it, though. Just a small number of people. They want to make sure that we understand that it is still a work in progress. So I was thinking that maybe it could have had something to do with the Pope being sick and sicker in the last couple of years. But no, no, I guess not.

That would be dumb. of me. To think something like that. Now, I did get round one of the COVID vaccine, which I'm very mad at myself for doing.

My wife is still angry at me for getting the vaccine. I got the Moderna two dose. And I joked and said I didn't grow a third tail. Maybe I got a bad batch. I didn't look at the bad batch website because I don't want to know.

I don't want to know because then it's going to make me like, oh, yeah, I didn't get a bad batch. and now I know that I got a good batch. I do know that, you know, I have exercise intolerance. I have fatigue. I have brain fog, tinnitus. I have it all. I have post-vaccination syndrome.

That's what I have. No question about it. I did not get Epstein's bar, though. So maybe I just got, I just have a little bit, just a little bit of the post-vaccination syndrome. But people are suffering. from it and it's just what we want to be clear though okay it's a small number a very very small number and it's still a this study according to uh akiko awasaki an immunologist at Yale University who led the

work um well it's not like the study determined what's making people sick uh it's the first kind of glimpse at what may be going on within these people maybe but it's a It's a long way from being able to say that any of this had something to do with the vaccination. We just know it showed up in a small amount of people. And we don't want to jump to any conclusions. No, I wouldn't want you to jump to any conclusions. Ugh. All right, let's go to the break room.

I need something cold to drink desperately. Boy, NBC is going through some shakeouts, aren't they? my main man, Lester Holt, after nearly a decade as being the anchor at NBC News, is stepping down as the anchor of NBC Nightly News. Now, I've always been a fan of Lester. I thought he should have gotten the job when they gave it to Brian Williams. I thought he got overlooked, and they gave it to Brian Williams, and then Brian obviously had a few issues,

and that's when they gave it to Lester Holt, which I thought he was deserving of. it before Brian. Anyway, they didn't ask me. And apparently because of that, Lester Holt became my man, my main man, Lester Holt. And so he's leaving the anchor desk at NBC News. Now, according to the reports, he is still going to work with Dateline. Now, he's been on Dateline for a long time, even longer than he was at the Anchor Desk. So he's still going to be part of NBC News. I guess Dateline is under that heading, but not at the anchor desk. And they have no idea who's going to be their principal anchor.

I don't know. Do you need one? Do you need a nightly newscast anymore? That's a question I don't think any of them are asking. Maybe they are. You know, because MSNBC is shaking everybody out. They're shaking the trees, kicking people out that don't have any viewers. Chris Wallace has long gone from wherever the hell he was at.

And then he was at Fox. and then he's CNN, and now he's, I don't know what he's doing. I guess he's probably doing a podcast somewhere. Chuck Todd's out. Hoda's out. I mean, they are definitely sweeping through the halls of people making a lot of money that aren't bringing in a big audience. Like maybe Hoda was probably the one bringing in the biggest audience out of those people,

and she's still out. Apparently she's going to do some more stuff for NBC. Uh-huh. But we'll see. And Joey Reid gave her farewell. last night. Bye. Take care. See you later. So anyway, Lester is out at NBC, I guess through the summer, or maybe up to the summer, and then they're going to either replace him or maybe you'll just get, you know, an AI

newscast from NBC, nightly news. And maybe they just don't do it. I mean, do you need to do it? If MSNBC breaks away from NBC, does NBC need a nightly newscast? I think I think that's a question they need to ask, because my answer to that would be probably not. It's certainly not the way it has been. It's time to restructure that thought for sure. Well, now I have to talk about, you know him, you love him, Alec Baldwin. And yes, the gunshots still count. When I say his full name, you get the gunshot. If I just say his first name, you get the gun cocking. So if I were to say our friend, Alec, you hear that. And that's just a way of, I mean, it's been a rule since the shooting.

And he's, you know, he's such a douche. And I just, you know, he's such an elitist, just a, I want to say all the bad words. And I'm not going to. But I kind of am out, and I'm on his side here. And I hate myself for being on his side. So he was confronted out of the street by this Trump in person. Jason Scoop. And Jason does other impersonations,

but he does a pretty good Trump, and it's really funny. But, you know, he confronted him on the street. Alec is coming back from somewhere. I don't know. He's got luggage and he's having a driver to get his stuff out of the back of the SUV or the van or whatever he's traveling around it.

Now, so he's confronted on the street in front of his building in New York by this Jason Scoop. who is dressed up as Trump and doing his Trump impersonation. I will offer you a total pardon, because I want to be friends, right? I want to be friends. I will give you a total pardon for murdering that woman. Okay, see, right there, he's already pushing the buttons.

Already pushing the buttons. And when Jason says his name, it's not worth the gunshot, but just only when I say it, okay, because I want to play the video, and I don't want to keep interrupting him with the gunshot. But he's just, I mean, it takes some guts to confront the man on the street like this, but he's already calling it a murder, which it is not. So, I mean, technically. President, look, Alec, I will offer you a total pardon, because I want to be friends, right?

I want to be friends. I will give you a total pardon for murdering that woman. If you kiss the ring, kiss the ring, Alex. And he holds his hand out. Come on, Alec. Come on, look at Alec Baldwin. right? He did that impersonation to me. It was not too

hot, not too good. But back in office, you lost. Kamala lost. He's somewhere getting intoxicated. Look at that suitcase. Unbelievable. Well, Alec, if you don't want that pardon for murdering that woman in Coldwood. See again, he keeps calling the murder.

You can call it first degree. You can call it whatever you want, but it was not good. And he just keeps pushing the buttons. Just pushing the buttons. And I mean, I will say this? Alec lasted longer than I thought.

I really did, because it was everything he has not to just go off on this guy. I guarantee you that. She's looking down on me right now. Now he's looking at him

and he's really pissed. Confronting the man who took me out, who killed me. He comes in front, stands in front of him. Let me ask you a question. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.

You, you got a camera on me? The ring? No, it's the rig. You realize my kids live in this building, right? But I want to you know. We love the children. We're doing great deals for the children. Okay. Look at me.

I'd snap your fucking neck and have him break your neck right. Okay. Okay. I mean, he's right in his face, tell him I'd snap your neck. I mean, and he doesn't, though. I mean, he just tells him calmly, look, you're lucky. My kids live in this building. You do it all this.

You got a camera on me. But if nothing, if we were just alone, I'd snap your neck. All right, Ale. Bolden. Alec Baldwin, ladies and gentlemen. All right, Alec Baldwin. See, I, and then, you know, it wraps up. I sadly, I'm on Alex's side here.

Oh, a little laid on the trigger. Anyway, I mean, they're just completely, I know it takes a lot of guts, and some of what he said is funny. You know, you're confronting him, and he deserves that he's such a douche, but you're confronting the man in front of his building on the street in New York, and you're, you got what you wanted from, from him. You got what you wanted, uh, because he's going to react. He's Alec Baldwin.

And I will say, has the reality show started yet? Did I miss the premiere of the reality show? Because that's supposed to start really soon, right? I got to find that out now. Hold on. Okay, yeah, it starts this week. That's awesome. It's going to be really bad,

but it's going to be worth watching the Baldwin's on TLC Sunday premiere. That's going to be awesome. Apparently the first episode, which I guess screeners have already seen, of course they have. I was not allowed to be a screener on that show. The wife says that he suffered PTSD from the shooting, or the aftermath of the shooting. This is going to be fun. I will give you a complete rundown of the Baldwin's on Monday because I have to watch this show. It's going to be

that's going to be really bad, but it's good that makes it really good. Doesn't it? Yeah, I think so. Oh, wow, and it's going to premiere on Sunday, which is up against the Oscars. Good luck. Good luck. Because even, I mean, I realize no one watches the Oscars, but some people do. And the people who watch the Oscars would also watch the Baldwin's. So apparently it's going to be, it says here, following its premiere, subsequent

new episodes of the Baldwin's, will air Sundays at 10 Eastern on TLC. So the premiere is going to maybe a different time, or is it just going to be every Sunday at 10 Eastern on TLC? I've got to find it on my show lineup because this is, this premiere episode is going to be a must watch. Marshall's buyers travel far and wide, hustling for great deals on amazing gifts.

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Who died today? Well, let's begin with Clint Hill, Clint Hill, dead at the age of 93. Who, you say, is Clint Hill? Well, he's a Secret Service agent who leaped into the back of President John F. Kennedy's limousine after the president. president was shot. You remember that footage from the Zuprooter film. He's the guy. He was, he had to, he retired early because he was haunted by the memories of the assassination. He died at his home in Belvedere, California, according to his publisher, cause of death was not given, but he was 93 and I'm sure he was,

he wrote a bunch of books afterward. He did an interview with Mike Wallace that he claimed helped him start to begin to get over the shooting. He told Mike Wallace weeping on 60 minutes in 75 that shortly after he retired at the age of 43 at the urging of his doctors, I'll have to live with that going to my grave saying that if I had reacted just a little bit quicker, I could have, I guess.

Oh yeah, I mean, very, very, very sad. He said he would, he blamed himself, for Kennedy's death, saying he didn't react quickly enough and would gladly have given his life to save the president. And so he told the Warren Commission that he reacted

after hearing a shot and seeing the president slump in his seat. Okay. The Zepruder film captured Hill as he leaped from the Secret Service car, grabbed a handle on the limousine's trunk, and pulled himself onto the driver

as it accelerated. He forced Mrs. Kennedy who had crawled onto the trunk back into her seat as the limousine sped off. Wow. So he said if I had reacted five-tenths of a second faster. I mean, he's just living with this trying to recreate it in his mind. I don't think there was anything that he could do. I don't know that you could tell him that. He said, you mean you would have gotten there and you would have taken the shot?

Yes, the third shot. Yes, sir. That would have been all right with you. That would have been fine with me. I mean, certainly defeats the magic bullet theory, doesn't it? Yes. Why, yes, it does. Anyway, rest in peace to Clint Hill.

He wrote several books, co-authored several books, and he said that we had that once in a lifetime. Oh, he wrote about his wife, Lisa McCauvin Hill, whom he married to 2021. Wow. So that was like four years ago. But my math is right. And that makes him,

uh, 80, right? He's, he's dead now at 93. So at 88, maybe 87, you give him the benefit of the doubt.

That's when he met his soulmate and love of his life. Good for him. Good for him. Uh, so rest in peace to Clint Hill, uh, dead at the age of 93. Then we have Roger

Mandigo. Roger, I guess that's how you pronounce his name. Mandigo, Mandigo, M-A-N-D-I-G-O. So it's Roger Mandigo, I'm guessing. He is passed away at the age of five. And again, who is Roger Mandigo? Well, he made chicken nuggets and the McRib possible. That's a sad day. What a guy. Dead at the age of 85. Many people want their meat to become in shapes and sizes that fit neatly into a bun, he made a career out of making that happen. He

produced this restructuring of meat products with odd bits of flesh to adhere to convenient shapes with palate-pleasing textures. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You mean like the deli ham

and skinless bratwurst that he came up with? Yeah, that. That's right. That's correct. So, rest in peace to Roger Mandigo, dead at the age of 85. So then we have 49-year-old Rebecca Maraudi, M-A-R-O-D-I, who has passed away. But she didn't just pass away, she was murdered by her wife, who is now on the run. We don't know where she's at. We have San Diego County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Marshal's service in San Diego Fugitive Task Force are looking for their suspect.

Yolanda Marotti, who is on the run. Now, they found Rebecca stabbed to death in their home with multiple stab wounds. And life-saving measures were administered, and obviously they could know. not save her life. Very sad. So they now have 54-year-old Yolanda Marotti,

also known as Yolanda Oligensat. O-E-J-N-I-C-Z-A-K-O-G-N-I-C-Z-A-K, probably her maiden name. She is suspect in the stabbing of Rebecca. Now, police say that this is familiar to them since she was,

did prison time for stabbing her first husband. So, it's kind of like, yeah, she's done it before. Apparently, she was in prison until 2015.

She did this to her first husband, fled with two young children before turning herself into the police, then she pleaded guilty to voluntary man, slaughter in 2004, and she was sentenced to 11 years in prison. In 2006, she pleaded guilty to felony drug possession in prison, which added 37 months

to her sentence. She was released for prison in December 2015. Between that time and the murder of Rebecca, I guess her and Rebecca just fell in love and couldn't live with each other, even though it was a tumultuous relationship. and nothing in nothing. So if you've seen Yolanda, who's approximately 5 foot 2, weighs 166 pounds,

has brown eyes, brown hair. She has tattoos on her upper right and left arms. I would let authorities know. She's believed to be driving a silver 2013 Chevrolet Equinox with the California license plate which they actually have in the story. 8B.O.J420.

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So I was sent this story from the Bangor Daily News, and I don't normally get every article from the Bangor Daily News. I don't subscribe to their website, but thank you for sending me the story. It's a weird story because it's about a train derailment that spilled 500 gallons of fuel. Now, the train derailment happened in 2023 in this rural Somerset County, and it spilled 500 gallons of diesel fuel,

and it was caused by excessive. of water that flowed through a beaver dam and washed out part of the track. So this has been outgoing since 2023, and I thought, well, why is this ongoing? Well, you want to know why jobs and government jobs don't get done in a timely fashion. And I guess they would say that this probably is a timely fashion because it happened in April of 2023 and it was over by December of 2024 and we're just now getting the final report of everything in February of 2025. So they will say if things moved along great. So after the crash, which was because the six train cars from the Canadian Pacific Kansas City, three locomotive

six train cars derailed in Sandwich Academy Grant Township April 15th, 2023 into nearby wetlands and the Moose River, which is a tributary to the Brussels Lake, Brousa Lake, B-R-A-S-U-A-Lake, however you pronounce that, to the little Basua Lake. After the crash, then 500 gallons of diesel from the train flowed into the lake during the cleanup because the company failed to empty saddle tanks on the locomotive before removing the engine. So the diesel spill then saturated the soil and extended past the booms,

which were designed to contain the containment and into the little lake. So hydraulic fluid and engine oil also spilled during the crash. Okay, so a flow which allows water to go through the beaver dam, then let go and a vast amount of water came through the culverts under the railroad tracks, leading to a washout. So it's not funny. It's not funny. I'm not laughing at this. So now they believe that the, according to the compliance manager from the main land use planning commission,

we believe that the revelation of the derailment cause is likely the final update about the crash. So we know that new culverts were installed under the tracks. The stream bed was restored and the culverts were grated so fish could travel through. Thank God. I wouldn't want the fish to have to stay on one side of the lake. And they need to be moving, Jeff.

Yeah, I know. And all the affected rows and water crossings are up to state standards as of November. Okay, so they were done by no. November, not December. I gave him an extra month. No, it was fine. What the problem was why it even took longer is because a lot of rain after the derailment meant

that the forest management road used to access the area couldn't stand up to the heavy equipment brought in. So they couldn't get the equipment in, and what equipment was in, they couldn't move around because the road had washed out and into the water and the forest. So

they've issued violation notice. and conducted site visits to monitor the erosion. So that's good. Remediation was done to the site and the road was restored. All restoration efforts were complete by December. That's good. So, I mean, by the end of November and the beginning of December, they had this wrapped up.

It only took them a year and a half. And so a letter was sent to the Canadian Pacific Kansas City closing the enforcement case. So it's all taken care of and filed away. You want to know what takes so long to fix things up from this terrain derailment in 2023? Just know that, yeah, it's all started when a beaver dam washed out and then washed away part of the track, train crashed. And then we put up some, we put up some buoys, and we forgot to empty the gas, the diesel fuel from the engines. So that spilled into the lake, that overflowed.

And that really made the ground wet. and we tried to get all the equipment in there. But then we had heavy rain, and that made the roads, the access roads. We couldn't bring in the heavy equipment. But it's all good now. It's all good now. The fish are able to swim underneath the train tracks. And my gosh, isn't that what's most important?

You know, you'd think that the rail company or the state would be investigating the tracks from time to time to see if I don't know maybe we could not let the beavers build the dam and start destroying bridges that we have to let our trains travel over and our cars travel over maybe we move the beavers uh you know maybe we just I don't know once in a while you go in and you kick the kick the beaver dam down and say hey go build somewhere else and then if they start building again back where the tracks are you may do it again oh no you can't mess with the Okay, well, then never mind. We'll just let them destroy our pathways for commerce.

Well, it's fine. Don't worry about it. All right, let's get out of here. I'll give you the joke of the day and then we'll get out of here, okay? A joke of the day sent from Chris to chewing the fat at the blaze.com. He said, I read this one and it made me laugh and it made me think of you. So I'll repeat it. Chris isn't trying to take credit for the joke, but he is sending it on.

and saying, hey, here's one for the show. A lot of people think T-Rex can't clap because it has short arms. Actually, the reason they can't clap is because they're dead. I mean, that is just stupid. I know, it's stupid. It's just like the other one. I'll give you two jokes because that reminded me of this joke that was sent to me from John.

Why did the chicken cross the road? I don't know. Why did the chicken cross the road? He didn't. He got run over. So now he's dead too. Wow. It's just mean, is what they are mean.

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