Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - You Never Know… | 10/15/24

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

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that a woman has been arrested with a bag of 29 turtles as she prepared to paddle across Lake Wallace. Lake Wallace is a lake between Vermont and Canada. And this woman who wanted to smuggle turtles across the lake and into Canada by hiding the creatures using socks in a duffel bag has pleaded guilty to a smuggling charge. Now, Wan Yi, Ing, Wan Ye, it's capital N, small case, G, go ahead. In English, ing.

Yeah, I, okay, thank you. I guess my girl was not in the office yet. Ing, okay, so Wan Ye, Ing, was arrested with those 29 turtles. This criminal enterprise, man, I feel so much better now. So she was trying to enter into her inflatable kayak with her bag of 29 eastern box turtles and paddle across Lake Wallace to the border with Canada. And I guess her husband and someone else was in Canada, and they were climbing aboard their inflatable kayak,

and they were going to meet, I guess, in the middle of the lake and swap the eastern box turtles into their kayak. and take them back to Canada, which would then lead them to smuggle the turtles into China. And I guess then China pays like a thousand apiece for them. Seems like a lot of work for, you know, $25,000 or so or $29,000. But, you know, whatever. It was free money and they got busted. Okay, now she has, she, maybe they sell for more.

Maybe this is just, they're sold on the money. black market in China, maybe they, you know, maybe they sell for more. Now, the Eastern Box turtles are protected species. Ah, see, in big trouble. And have a vivid orange and yellow markings atop a dark brown shell. So if you see a turtle with that vivid orange and yellow markings, no, that is an Eastern Box Turtle. And don't do it. Now, she has pleaded guilty to a single count of attempting to smuggle Eastern Box Turtles, faces up to 10 years

in prison, and as much as a $250,000 fine. As I said, I feel safer and you should as well. I don't know how they figured it out. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police notified Border Patrol agents that the two other individuals

had launched an inflatable watercraft, so we set up a sting operation. We set up a sting operation with the Canadian Mountain Police and I say we the United States Border Patrol and we busted them right there they were staying at some Airbnb in in Vermont and then they had their inflatable kayak and put their illegal damn turtles so I feel safer that's all I'm saying I feel safer and I'm glad that Wan Yeing was arrested and she'll be charged in December no word on whether she is still in jail or not.

I hope so. Because if she's not, maybe I don't feel as safe as I should. The Turtle Survival Alliance, which is a conservation organization, and I am just a huge fan of the Turtle Survival Alliance, they describe the turtle as vulnerable

because of habitat destruction and fragmentation, road and railroad mortality, disease transmission, and the collection for personal use and the illegal pet trade. We can't have that. So no word on whether she is still in jail or out on bail. And no word on the charges of hubby and his friend who were set to receive these 29 Eastern box turtles.

So I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't feel as safe as I think I am. And I will say this. I don't want to imagine a planet without an Eastern box turtle on it. Because would it even be a planet without an Eastern box turtle? I think not. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat.

So Bed Bath and Beyond has bent the knee to the critics with their soy candle, their snowed-in socks, wax blend Campbell. And it had a label with what appears to be a stylized paper snowflake. And a spokesman for the company released a statement saying the similarity to KKK White Hoods was completely unintentional. At Bath and Body Works, we are committed to listening to our teams and customers and committed to fixing any mistakes we make, even those that are unintentional like this one. We apologize to anyone we've offended and are swiftly working to have this item removed and are evaluating our process going forward. What's the process? Yeah, let's put it out there.

I mean, I loved some of the posts about the candle. First, it's a bed bath and beyond candle, like this soy socks candle or whatever the hell it is. You know, it's a candle. Relax. But, you know, the KKK, the Klan Christmas candle with all Ks, very funny. And, you know, of course, people, if you see KKK hoods on the BBB candle,

you are the problem, not the candle. Okay. Well, then I see a picture of the actual candle, and I don't know how it got past the evaluating process, because you can't look at it and think, yeah, that's a snowflake, because it does look like a KKK hood and multiple KKK hoods. I mean, it is incredible. If it was a little kid that made the cut out of a piece of paper with, you know, put some holes in it for a snowflake, I would say, Okay, I mean, it's just a little kid making a snowflake. But it's bath and body works, this big company. And it's like a blown up tip of a snowflake that looks a lot like a KKK mask.

I mean, you can't look at it and see anything but that. And so it's really strange how it did make it through the, you know, their, what do they call it? They're evaluating process. I'm not sure how it made it through there. But it did. And now they're paying the price for it. So if you have a snowed-in, socks, wax, blend candle with the label

at the paper snowflake. Don't get rid of it. It'll be worse of money someday because you will own the KKK Christmas candle. And it's official now. We've talked about it a couple of times that Walgreens had talked about shuttering stores. Well, they announced this week

that it's going to, to shutter 1,200 stores in the next three years and 500 more locations in 2025. Wow. Okay. They slashed to seek, or they seek to slash, they slash to seek. They seek to slash a billion dollars in cost. So the Chicago-based pharmacy chain has 8,700 locations nationwide. And they told analysts, you have one in four of its stores are unprofitable.

And the closures that were announced in June. June. Yeah, we talked about it, but they had not disclosed a number of affected stores at the time. Walgreens said it could shutter up to a quarter of those stores, which is more than 2,000 locations. The company has been hit by sluggish consumer spending amid stubbornly high inflation, yeah, as well as how drug, low drug reimbursement rates. Oh, well, we can't do anything about that. That's between you and the drug companies, which, you know, and health care providers that are paying the pharmacies for dispensing prescription medications. we the patients can't do anything about that, so you've got to work that out yourself. And Walgreens stock, I guess, is trading a little bit better because of the announcement. Okay. So, you know, Tim Wentworth, the company's CEO, has unveiled a series of changes since taking the top job last year,

including removal of multiple mid-level executives and a billion-dollar cost-cutting program, which is keeping the stores open, less amount of hours, closing, the pharmacy for an hour a day and not having the pharmacy open as long and having the pharmacy shut down at least one day a week. So you only have, you have maybe a pharmacy, I don't know how they work their plan, but there's only so many, a pharmacy within a certain area that's open 24-7 so they can, you know, tell you to go there, which they do. And they say, hey, we're only open these days, this amount of times. Oh, and we get a lunch break every day too. because man, we do not want the pharmacy open all day without having the workers being able to take a lunch break, you know, at the same time.

We couldn't rotate people to take lunches and then, you know, stay open all the time. That's impossible for any pharmacy to do. Right? Right. So just be ready. If your store, if you think your Walgrain store is, it looks like every time I go there, there's not a lot of, of people. Yeah, that's going to be closed soon. So start thinking about maybe buying the property and using it for something else because it's not going to be a Walgreens. I mean, we found out that my

idea, which is a great idea, apparently there are some states that won't allow you to do that. I always wanted to take the old closed CVS's and Walgreens buildings and just turn them into a nightclub and call them the pharmacy. But apparently you can't do that in some stage. Heaven forbid, people won't be able to, won't be able to know a difference between the nightclub, the pharmacy, and an actual pharmacy. So we've got to make that illegal for people to open up a business and call it the pharmacy when it's not really a pharmacy. I know. I know. I know.

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So don't worry about it. 50,000 square foot home, 16 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, and a cliffside pool. It was built by the Hyatt Air, Tony Pritzker. And his then-wife, Janine, or Gene, J-E-A-N-E. I don't know how she pronounced. back in 2011. They are split, and they split in 2022. So in the hills of the Beverly Crest neighborhood,

which is in Los Angeles, there is the Pritzker Estate. It's one of the largest homes in the U.S. It is a beautiful. 50,000 square foot megamansion, six years to build, 16 bedrooms, like I said, 27 bathrooms, tennis court, basketball court,

cliffside pool, detached guest house, Yeah, you can't have them staying in the main house, a bowling alley, and a private movie theater. Hello. So, now, if it sells for $195 million, that would be the record, because the previous record in L.A. was Jeff Bezos, who bought his Beverly Hills mansion, which is just over a mile from the Pritzker estate, for $165 million back in 2020. So, I mean, it is gorgeous. And the hedges and the trees along the drive, driving up to the main house, is awesome. I mean, they had to have gone to fastgrowing trees.com. They had to.

This is not a commercial. Although it should be. Because if they used fastgrowing trees.com slash jeffy, by the way, I believe that still works. Fastgrowingtrees.com slash jeffy. they got a deal it is gorgeous on the drive to the Pritzker estate so man

you definitely need somebody and look 195 million you know how much it cost to upkeep this dump I mean holy cow you're just not you'll give you $195 million and then that's it no

no it does the upkeep is what's going to kill you. So I'm surprised that the wife doesn't want it. But maybe she does and maybe he's like, no, we're selling the dump. I built it for you. I'm not going to stay in it anymore. hilarious. So if you got an extra, you know, $195 million laying around, you could buy this dump in LA and do what you want with it. You know, speaking of California, I see where Blythe, California, is it B-L-Y-T-H-E, B-L-H-E, B-L-E, B-L-H-E, B-E, B-L-E-L-F-F-F-F-F-O-F-F-F-R. I hope that's right. If it's not, I apologize. They are pissed at Governor Gavin Newsom because he's closing down the Chukawala Valley State Prison.

And Lord knows, we need to have the Chukawala Valley State Prison open. And I actually believe that to be true. The community's largest and last major employer, the town already battling population decline, economic hardship, and the prison's closure could be the final blow. Yeah. It's located near the Arizona border in Riverside County, has seen its population shrink as residents. seek better opportunities in Phoenix and Coachella Valley. And now they're going to lose another 1,000 jobs when they shut down the Chukawala Valley State Prison. So it's not, they don't have enough people in prisons in California, I guess.

So the local leaders, uh, saying that the town relies on the prison, yeah, uh, we know it's going to have a ripple effect across all sectors. Uh, yeah. And so they want to save the old, they've got, they've launched a campaign called save Chub. So they hired a PR firm and submitted over 40 public records request to understand why Chukawala was chosen for closure. However, these requests were denied, of course, because Newsom wants to just shut it down. And he's decided that, you know what? That's the one we're going to shut down.

Who cares about the people in Blythe, California, Chukawala Valley State Prison? I hope that's how they pronounce that city. If it isn't, email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com and let me know how to pronounce it. I should figure it out on my own. Is my girl back in the office yet? No? All right, well, then we're just going to go with Blythe. Okay, Blythe, California.

So, you know, save Chuck is the, is what we're after right now. We want to save Chuck Chukawala Valley State Prison. And here's the deal. I would like to save Chukawala just so that prisoners have a place to be because the less prisons in California mean more criminals on the street.

And with the state's prison population halved, the past decade, halved over the past decade, currently down to 96,000. Officials argued that fewer facilities are needed. No, what's needed is more people committing crimes going to prison and not being set free. That's the argument, I would say. So save Chuck. Yes, save Chuck and all the other Chuck O'Walla Valley State prisons.

Save those as well. Governor Newsom. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Please follow me on my social media sites at Jeffrey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio on Instagram and Facebook. You can follow me on my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat,

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but it had a historic plummet. Okay, so let's see, Joker, Pellet-a-Du. 7.05-million domestic weekend, an 81% drop. Yeah, I'm the only one in America that liked the musical, Joker, Follet-A-U. Wild Robot was number two. I got to see that, actually. That looks like it's going to be really good, although I'll wait for it to be on streaming.

And the number one movie this weekend was Terrifier. 18.3 million. Not that good of a weekend, really. Microbudget unrated horror sequel. Shocks with massive debut already surpassing Predators, total run. Yeah. Number one, terrifier. Nice. Beetlejuice was number four.

Wow, that had a 30% drop. Ooh, that does not bode well for that movie either. Piece by piece. The Lego animated Farrell Williams dock debuts. Okay, Transformers 1 still hanging in there at 6th place. That was a fun. movie. I really enjoyed Transformers

one. What are they got? Fifty-two-eight million domestic Why is it struggling? I don't understand. It must be the promotion for that movie because it's a darn good movie. It's fun. Badass of Tron. Saturday night, My Hero Academia, you're next. That's probably fun. The Nightmare Before Christmas Release

and the Apprentice. Wow. The Apprentice. That's a lot. The Apprentice. That's that Trump, a biopic, 1.58 million. Huh, I wonder why a movie about Trump, the apprentice, would be so bad. Oh, maybe because the movie itself is bad. And of course, it was done by a journalist that, what would just say is not a friend to Donald Trump. And according to this, with the 1.6 million over the weekend, that translated to less than 10 people in each showing at the 1,750. theaters that the feature that featured the movie so it was bad and it's going nowhere fast kind of like

joker i'm on your side phoenix and gaga i'm on your side everybody else can uh anybody else can make fun of it i i enjoyed the heck out of joker for le or do okay so if you're listening live today is the 15th of october 24 and apparently on the 17th um a couple of days from now, it's going to be a full moon. And Burger King is celebrating this full moon by giving away free purple woppers. And I would like to see one.

I don't want to eat one. I can tell you now, I'd rather see than be one. It's topped with, this is a Wednesday's wopper when they buy one at full price. Okay, so it's buy one, get one. It's the Adams family menu. they're celebrating the spooky season with a little limited time Adams family menu.

Okay. And you have to be a Royal Perks member. And it's going on through November 10th. But on October 17th, they're celebrating the full moon. You can get that free purple-bund Wednesday's Whopper when you buy one at full price. So you're going to end up getting two. The whopper is topped with Swiss cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles, and onions, all on a purple potato bun with black sesame.

sesame seeds. I don't know. It doesn't sound good. I want to see it, but I don't want to eat it. You can write your own jokes with that. So the Adams family menu includes a mortisha's cookie chocolate shake, uh, things onion rings, and Gomez's chiro fries. Each day of the week offer special deals. You get, uh, Wednesday's Wopper on Monday, $12 creepy and cookie meal on Tuesdays, Wopper and a shaking onion rings on Friday. Uh, $22.2 things bizarre bundle with two Whoppers and two shakes. While the $25 altogether family feast on Saturdays include Woppers, chicken sandwiches, rings, and fries.

And then Sundays, you can get a free Wednesday wopper with a $20 delivery or pickup order. Be sure to check out these spooky deals. That's your local Burger King. So, I mean, you get free stuff as long as you spend money at Burger King, so you can celebrate there. Am I the only one that sees ads? Like, I see this in my timeline on Instagram, and I immediately think that's just an ad. Okay?

Sorry, it's just an ad. Now, the story is Netflix viewers warn about watching disturbing horror movie, Veronica, which many found too terrifying to finish. And I think, okay, well, first, I didn't, I subscribe to Netflix, and I don't, you know, I haven't watched quite enough on Netflix as of late. Although I did find out, now that I'm talking about Netflix, that my man, Lincoln Lawyer, comes back this month, the season three. I have fired up for that.

And I believe it's the 17th. I got to check that out. Hold on. Yes, it is the 17th. That's awesome. Okay, I am so excited about this. So it's going to release Thursday at 3 a.m., which is October 17th at 3 a.m.

Eastern and Midnight, season 3. All 10 episodes will drop. That is, I'm excited about that. Because I hadn't been on Netflix in a while. And my wife said last night, isn't that Lincoln lawyer? Isn't that the show you like? Yes.

That's going to be season three. Because when she said that, yes, and I love that. Season two ended, and I believe they're filming season three right now. It's coming out on Thursday the 17th, so they're done filming. That is awesome. The first two seasons of the Lincoln lawyer were awesome. And I love Manuel, got a C.L. Rulfo as the Lincoln lawyer. So very good.

I'm looking forward to that. And I think all the characters are comments. coming back, which will be fun. And so we'll look forward to that. Anyway, back to what I started to talk to you about was this Instagram post in my timeline that said Netflix viewers warned about watching disturbing horror movie, Veronica,

which many found too terrifying to finish. Now, like I said, I've been on Netflix in a while, but I see this and I think, okay, that's just Netflix telling people that you need to watch this movie because nobody's watching it. Because I hadn't heard about this horror movie, Veronica. And so it's inspired by a real-life case of a Spanish teen who died under mysterious circumstances after using a Ouija board.

Oh, actually I did hear about this now that I'm reading about what the movie is about. And the film's blend of supernatural tension and unsettling imagery makes it truly chilling to watch. Some viewers have had to stop halfway through. Have they? Have they? With many calling it one of the scariest films on Netflix. So, have they? Okay, all right, you got me.

Okay, I was just an ad. Netflix is saying, hey, nobody's watching Veronica. Get it out there. Tell them people are so scary they can't watch anymore. Oh, okay. It's just like, you know, I see the story of the technical difficulties that happened during Saturday Night Live this past weekend with Stevie Nix. Now, you know, the reason that they're telling you the story about the technical difficulties

is because nobody watched it and nobody really knew that there were technical difficulties because there weren't a whole bunch of people watching it. And yet, we're going to have a story about it now because we want people to know that it actually happened. And the Ariana Grande was the guest host, Stevie Nix was there. I did see the promo with Ariana Grande and Stevie Nix

for Saturday Night Live. Did not make me want to watch Saturday Night Live, but, you know, I knew that she was going to be on. And I guess that there were, you know, some sort of technical difficulty. And look, hey, Steve, it's been 40 years since Stevie Nix last performed on SNL. She was previously joined by guest host Flip Wilson in December of 1983. Nobody, nobody remembers Flip Wilson. I do.

I do, but I'm 185 years old. So that's incredible. And she was having some kind of technical difficulty. with the network. And she said, you don't perform as long as I have to not realize it. You just keep going and plowing through.

Oh, okay. Well, that's great, Stevie. You're a real professional. And I'm not a guy. I like Stevie. She's okay. But it didn't make me want to turn on a Saturday Night Live was on. There was still college football

and good college football being played when Saturday Night was on. So that's not going to happen. This episode is brought to you by Pelot. 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, corrects form, and tracks your progress.

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I don't want to say bad things about the former minister, but I'm just saying it didn't look like he was in the best of health. But apparently he was trying to open a bottle of ketchup and then suffered a heart attack. And they tried to revive him for quite some time as he fell back in his chair, totally out of the blue and he suffered a massive heart attack.

Okay. So rest in peace. He said he'd been complaining about pains in his right leg on Saturday morning. Yeah, I mean, probably should have had that checked out, which he did not.

And so then they tried to blame it on him trying to open a bottle of ketchup. No, he was at a restaurant and had a heart attack. He was in the process of opening a bottle of ketchup when it happened, but it wasn't the struggle

of opening the bottle of ketchup that killed former first minister, Alex Solomon. I will not have the be smirchmen of ketchup. It's in, where do they say he died again in Macedonia? Yeah, North Macedonia.

I don't know if Heinz ketchup is available there in North Macedonia, but I'm sure that it's possible that it is. So rest in peace to Alex Solomon, Scotland's first minister, former first minister dead, the age of 69.

Then we have Lily Ledbetter. Lily Ledbetter. You know her as the sexual discrimination case. So Lily Ledbetter, dead at the age of 86. She sued her company because she was found out that she was making less than the men at her tire plant in Alabama. And she sued because she found out about it. So this lawsuit against Goodyear. and helped pave the way for the Obama Fair Pay Act,

which was signed into law in 2009. She worked there at the tire plan in Alabama, the Good Year tire plan, and she was sent an anonymous note. That's what we're told, that her, and said that your pay is as much as $2,000 a month less than what men were receiving in the same supervisor job. So she sued.

And I don't know why she, why she just didn't go back to her bosses and say, hey, if this is true, I deserve more money. But maybe she did and maybe they told her to take a hike, and that's why she sued. So she sued in federal court in Alabama. A jury awarded her $3 million in backpaying damages. That decision was reversed.

So then she kept pursuing the case, went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said, oh, yeah. No, you were too late to file your claim. You should have filed that claim within 180 days of receiving your first unequal paycheck. Wow. So that's when Justice Ruth Bader against. was pissed and she was saying that it was impossible for her to have known the unfair pay in such a time i don't necessarily disagree with that however i do disagree with i mean it's if you're being paid

for a job and you agreed to do that job for the money that's what you should be paid and so if you're getting less than the other guys that's up to you to know right anyway uh obama disagreed and so did uh so did the rest of our lawmakers and that's why they that's why they came up with the fair pay act which they signed in the law and she was there with an obama signed it yay the fair pay act yay and uh she died uh at the age of

86 rest in peace then we have brooklyn rapper ca born cassim ryan uh dead at the age of 52 wow uh unexpectedly suddenly on saturday huh i'm sure it wasn't that though but he did work uh At 9-11, he was a first responder on 9-11 as well.

So that could have really shortened his lifespan as well, because he put his life on the line to protect fellow citizens. He was a 20-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department and was there during 9-11, according to the story, first responders. And he leaves an extraordinary legacy as he was a recording artist, including 11 remarkable self-release solo albums. He survived by his wife, mother and sister. and we don't know. The loss is incalculable. Is that the word? Yes.

Incalculable loss for the family. No question. Can't even pronounce the stupid word right. Very sad, Ka, dead at the age of 52. Then we have an unnamed person. And I say person because it's a New Jersey transit train operator. We don't know who it was, whether it was a male or a female. but that person is dead.

We don't know the age or anything about it. We just know that light rail train traveling south from Trenton, New Jersey, collided with a chunk of tree on the tracks, killing the operator, and nearly two dozen people were injured when the light rail train collided with the trunk of tree. Now, I don't know how you collide with a chunk of tree. What's going on with the operator?

I don't want him to die, but he didn't see the chunk of tree on the track. on the track and say, you know, I probably should put the brakes on. And maybe he tried. And maybe it was too late. I don't know. I'm not familiar with the investigation that's going on. I'm just saying you see the photos of the train. And you can see where the window of the front car smashed in.

And the tree partly under the train. That was a big tree. There were 42 passengers on board. And the statement said 23 people were treated for non-life. threatening injuries. So there's 42 passengers on board. 23 of them were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, most of which were minor. All 42 of them should have been checked. I mean, if I'm on that train, ow, ow, ow, my middle name is New Jersey Transit.

So they're on there, they're on there investigating it. Oh, my gosh. And I know this was offline. This wasn't a main, one of the main tracks from Trenton to New York to Manhattan going into Penn Station, which I took every day. New Jersey Transit 601 Express out of Trenton into Manhattan. But you'd hope that they would slow down. The investigation is there. But this track was from Florence and Trenton stations. So it was just an offshoot line.

And you'd just think that they would be able to, you know, see the, see the tree on the tracks. I don't know. I don't know. The rest in peace to the train operator of the New Jersey. Jersey train operator who was killed in the collision with the trunk of tree. And if you were part of the, what was that, 19 people that didn't get checked out for injuries on that train, I would go to the doctor right now. Don't sign anything.

Just say, I told the guy I was okay. Maybe, maybe you say that. But you just let them know that you were on that train because there's going to be some payouts coming. I'm not saying lie. just make sure that they're aware that you were on that train and you could possibly have some injuries from this accident because you never know.

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Okay, now, between now and the end of October, astronomers say a pair of comments known as Shushin-Shan Atlas and a C-2020s-1. That's a good name. We'll be visible in the skies above Earth, so take it easy. They're going to first reach, reaching peak brightness, and can be spotted around much of the world,

just after sunset in the western sky. The latter, that would be a C, 2024 S1 is closest passed by our planet on October 24th, today is the 15th, so that it could make a return visit days later, should be visible in just before sunrise in the eastern sky. But neither comet will get close enough to chart a potential collision course. At their closest, both rocks will still be millions of miles away. So that's good. If you see them up there, just know, it's fine. Don't worry about it.

And I see now, we're finally coming around. I've talked for years and years about space junk and something needs to be done and we need to handle space junk. Well, now NASA is seeking an innovative recycling solution for long-term missions on the moon through its Luna Recycle Initiative, part of the Centennial Challenges Program. As the Artemis Program prepares for crude lunar missions, waste management is crucial to minimize environmental impact. Well, yeah, on the flights,

but I'm talking about junk. Wait a minute. So the challenge focuses on recycling solid waste in lunar habitats, reducing the need. Okay, so this is not talking about the space junk. This is just talking about the trash that particular lunar missions are creating. Okay, so the challenge of focus on recycling solid waste in lunar habitats, reducing the need to return waste to Earth.

Teams will compete in two phases, designing virtual systems and creating hardware capable of recycling materials on the moon. Total pool prize is $3 million with phase one starting in September, so it's already up and running. Final submissions are due by March 2025. But this is not space junk. This is they're talking about, this was sent to me. I say, look at this. Space junk. It's not, though.

They're talking about recycling the challenges on the missions themselves. I mean, we already know that They talk about what's that smell on the space station and what's that smell in the rockets? I think we know what the smell is. It's the stuff that needs to be recycled the hell out of here is what the smell is.

I mean, there was a big story not long ago, right? Is that they deal with space smell. Yeah. They even talked about it with the two Boeing Starliner astronauts that are stuck up there until February. Elon had to go up and get them. And they're coming back in February. But now they're saying that they were interviewed talking about how they were dealing with the space smell.

So, yeah, that's an issue. And that's an issue because we don't, we don't, we don't, an issue with the recycling going on in these missions themselves. That's what they're talking about here with their lunar. recycle initiative. Well, I'm talking about the satellite debris and the other junk flying around the space is flying around our planet that is doing nothing but flying around our planet is just dead waste, like dead meat flying around. We need to go up and collect that somehow.

So it doesn't smash into the working stuff we have flying around our planet. I realize, so this is actually, and I do care that we have, you know, we do learn to recycle and use the products and use what we need and get rid of what we don't on our missions. But most importantly, I'm concerned about getting rid of the junk flying around space. And this has absolutely

nothing to do with that. My gosh, somebody gets nassile on the line. And I see where the I robot people are all butt hurt now. They've got their panties in a wad. I figured they would. We mentioned it last week when Elon released his cars and

his robots for his wee robot event in California, how much it was similar to iRobot. And it really is. In fact, it's even more so than I've remembered. And so the iRobot people are pissed. And I know Matt Granger, a filmmaker who worked as an assistant to Alex Proios on the film of I robot posted, I wish to offer my full-fingered F-U. to Elon and his utter lack of creativity. And Alex, proeus, who is, you know, Mr. I-Robot, said, hey, Elon, can I have my designs back, please?

No, you still get your designs. We love the movie. I-Robot. It was, what, 100 years ago now, 20 years ago, and now Elon's using them. So get over it, okay? Elon's putting them to good use, like in real life. You are not. You made a movie and stopped.

I think you did. I don't know if you have been working on that at all. But I'm just saying that while I loved I Robot, and I do love that movie, I get it. And that's cool. And all the stuff in it I liked, you know, except for that whole destruction of the human race thing. But I would say that, yeah, you know what I mean? Elon is using it so that we have, we could use it. And so are we going down the wrong road with these robots?

I don't know. I want one bad, though. I want one bad. I know. I know. I saw how it ended And I robot So I'm hoping that Elon

Won't let that happen here on earth All right, let's get out of here If you're, you know, gonna make it on your own After the end of times And Elon robots try to kill us all You're gonna have to be out there on your own Fishing and hunting and feeding your family So just remember that this joke is

Give a man a fish And he'll eat for a day Teach a man to fish And he'll waste hundreds of dollars on equipment he'll only use a few times a year. That's an old joke. That's probably a Milton Burl joke. I don't know who wrote that joke.

That's absolutely an old joke. That was sent to me at Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com from Alan. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com from Alan. Thank you. I appreciate it. But that's a good joke. But I don't know who I should attribute that to because that's definitely in a rolload decks of all.

old-timey comedians, but give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll waste hundreds of dollars on equipment. He'll only use a few times a year. I know. I know. Think about it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.