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Now, he was worth $500 billion for a brief time. But now, according to the real-time, billionaire trackers, he's gone down. And now he's only worth $497.5 billion. So that's very sad. I don't know how he'll get by, but he isn't at $500 billion. So I was all ready to congratulate him, and now I can't. You know, congratulations on, you know, being a 500 billionaire for a few hours,

but now it's dropped. And I mean, sure, it'll bounce back. Almost $500 billion the man is worth. Larry Ellison, number two on the list, real-time tracking has him at $348.7 billion. Zuck is in third place at $247.7. Wow, he's not even over three. Man, that's sad.

Bezos is in fourth place now at $2.32. 2.6 billion, and Larry Page from Google is in fifth place at $204, barely over $200 billion, $204.4. billion. And then, you know, 189, Sergei Bryn, the Arnaud family at 166.2, and that's a family. I mean, let's break that down a little bit. Jensen Hoang from the Semiconductor's United States, 164.3 billion. I mean, yeah, NVIDIA. And Balmer from Microsoft is at 156.1 billion. And Warren Buffett, number 10, at $149.1 billion. So then when you get down into the teens, you've got the Walton family.

But if you put them together, the Walton's would be number one, probably overall. We've got the Bernard Arna family together. Why don't we have the, if we have the Waltons together, holy cow. that's a whole different realm of money right there. But anyway, congratulations to Elon Musk for, you know, becoming a 500 billionaire for a brief period of time. And I'm sorry that you've now dropped below 500 billion. I don't know what you'll do.

Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Okay, I guess we'll do stories from the billionaire list. a story from the billionaire list. So we have a story about meta. That's our man Mark Zuckerberg who is what was he third on the list

right? And he didn't get there by not trying to sell stuff and making it work. So he's now going to start using the chat bot to try to sell you more stuff and more effectively on its platforms. So

I mean that's good and there's no opt out option. So I guess you could ignore the chat bot, but hello. So I guess if you ask for, you know, the purple and blue circle on your Instagram, that, you know, gets you to recommend nearby nature trails. It could lead to more ads about hiking boots

as well as creator content about mountains. They could appear in your Facebook feed too. So if accounts are linked, voice recordings by Rayband Metaglases will also factor into ad targeting. So AI players are starting to monetize monopatize, monetize, free chatbots,

great. So I guess OpenAI has introduced a feature this week to buy Etsy and soon Shopify, so products through chat GPT, while Google and X recently announced plans to show ads in their AI search results as well.

So be ready, because it's be ready, it's already here. Using your AI, asking about anything, will then drive the algorithm to send you ads about things. And, you know, I, you know, I guess it's okay. You can say no. You don't have to look at the ad or you don't have to buy the product. So, I mean, that kind of works, right? Sure. And then more billionaire news than the more billionaire news from the list. Number four on the list,

Jeff Bezos, Amazon debuted a new grocery brand for its price sensitive shoppers with most items selling under $5. Wow, so they have their own Amazon brand. Nice that. And congratulations to Walmart, you know, the Walton clan. They've announced plans to remove artificial dyes from its house brands. Okay, good night, goodbye, have a nice day. I don't know how that affects. I mean, there's got to be a lot of Walmart products on the shelf that have artificial dyes on it.

So they're removing the brands and dyes from their house brands. Okay. All right. You got it. No problem. And Google, which our boy was sixth on the list, Sergei Bren. Yeah, he was not even over $200 billion. There's multiple billionaires from that Google list. But they have decided that, you know those 100 employees that were doing design roles in our cloud computing unit? Yeah, they're gone. We're going to prioritize our investment in AI.

Oh. Okay. So AI just kicking humans out the door. Yes, that is what's happening. All right. Now we've talked about how EV sales have been dropping and they've been, the companies are going to switching over to hybrids. And, you know, that's the electric future. That's what they believe. And that's they're working on that. However, a giant surge now, according to the, these car makers, Cox Automotive, said EV sales in July, August and September were up 21.1% from last year, which really isn't saying much. Last year was not great, but it's still up. J.D. Power reported that EV sales accounted for 11% of the U.S. market in August. I mean, that was only reached back in 2024, December. Wow. Okay. And Ford, GM, GM, and Hyundai all reported booming EV sales. in Q3. Okay.

So I guess, I mean, how's Tesla doing? I mean, we've got, look, they're saying that the credits are going to go away. So people are trying to take advantage of the credits. Okay, I guess. I know that Tesla is offering a cost increase in some models with its own $6,500 credit. But financing arms of Ford and GM initiated down to, payments on EVs in dealership stock before the deadline. So it makes them eligible for a $7,500 tax credit when the purchase is completed later.

Hyundai is offering kind of the same thing, $7,500 toward its 2025, Loneg, and as much as $900, $9,800 toward his 2026 model. So they're still, they're coming up with their own cost-cutting ways. Huh. You mean, you mean, these businesses are finding ways to give better deals. to customers than when you were getting a government credit. Hmm, that's interesting. That is interesting.

Isn't it? Oh, and speaking of the government, you know, we're in, I think this is, if you're listening live today, is the second of October, 2025. It is day two of the government shutdown, where, remember yesterday we talked about at least 83% of the government is still open. So, you know, my movement is 83 is the new 100. But now, and they're talking that, I guess this is because of the government's shutdown,

and they're using this as some sort of bargaining tool. And I don't know how, I'm fine with it, make it go away. There's also a bargaining tool with the Democrats in the shutdown. It's also a bargaining tool with them not liking Zamboni, running for mayor in New York, who is probably going to win. The Trump administration has frozen $18 billion in NYC infrastructure funding. So they announced yesterday that it would put on hold federal funds that had been awarded to major projects in New York City, including the construction of a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey,

and the extension of the 2nd Avenue subway. So the Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vaught said the decision was made to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles. And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, later raising questions about the contracting process for the projects.

Oh, okay. So we're just using that as our excuse. We're not using that as a bargaining chip to the congressional leaders of the government shutdown. Am I right? All right. Of course, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, both from the state of New York.

And where is that guy, the socialist, Islamist, running for mayor and probably going to win? Oh yeah, New York City. So big surprise. Yeah, we can't. Poo, man, remember all that money we were going to give you for upgrades on stuff? Yeah, sorry. We can't do that now.

Moving is hard enough without having to guess whether you're a real estate agent actually knows what they're doing. That's where real estate agents I trust comes in. I mean, are they experienced at all? Well, yes is the answer for real estate agents I trust. Do they know the local housing market? Again, yes, if it's real estate agents I trust. Will they return your calls?

Will they fight for your best interest or push you just for the quickest commission? Well, that answer is no. All the others are yes. That's why there's real estate agents I trust.com. Look, Glenn, Glenn Beck, a guy down the hall from where this show is recorded at, asked all those questions the hard way. After going through move after move throughout his career, he ran into agents who didn't communicate, didn't negotiate, and frankly, didn't care.

So he did something about it. He built a network of top performing agents across the country. Hence, real estate agentsitrust.com. People who actually earn your trust by delivering real results time after time. These are full-time professionals with a proven track record of excellence and integrity. They know how to price a home, how to time a sale properly, how to navigate tough markets, how to make a stressful process feel manageable. And most importantly, return your phone calls. Real estate agent site trust takes the gamble out of buying or selling a home. It's not about hype. It's about results. And finding the right person to walk through it with you start to finish. Go to real estateagentatrust.com. Real estate agentsitrust.com. Okay. Who died today? Who died?

today. Well, let's mention Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall. You remember Jane. I know. She's the famed conservationist and primatologist and was known for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and environmental advocacy dead at the age of 91. In 1957, she traveled to England, from England to Nairobi, Kenya, dawn on the Serengetti plane. And she worked as a secretary for this Louis Leakey, who is famous in his own right. Despite her lack of formal training, Leakey recruited Goodall to launch the first long-term study of wild chimpanzees in an effort to better understand human evolution. The animals had been studied for decades in captivity, but never in their natural habitat.

And her groundbreaking observation came when she witnessed chimpanzees. using a grass blade to fish for termites, upending the prevailing belief that only humans could make and use tools. And she would go on to observe the animals hunting, forming social bonds, displaying emotion, adopting other chimpanzees, and even engaging in war. So she played her research. She appealed to conservationists, and she did some groundbreaking work. So Jane Goodall, dead at the age of 91.

I know what you're thinking. Is she the one? Earlier today, someone came to me when I said, hey, Jane Goodall died. She was 91. Is that the lady that was on the Tonight Show that made Johnny run and jump into Ed McMahon's arms? No.

No, it was not. I think Jane was on the Tonight Show once or twice because, you know, she's out hawking, hey, save the chimpanzees. Get it. But the girl, or the, the chick that was on the Tonight Show was that was Joan Emery from the San Diego Zoo. She always, she did several rotating guest spots on the Tonight Show, bringing animals to the tonight show.

They also used to have Jim Fowler on from National Geographic, who was, you know, always awesome. But it was not Jane Goodall. So rest in peace to Jane Goodall, dead at the age of 91. So I'm not sure why we're doing this. I guess the family had questions, but Hunter S. Thompson, who died, I don't know, in 2005 at the age of 67, from suicide. I mean, he killed himself, and that's what we all were told and believed. But they, Colorado officials are now reviewing the death of a journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Now, they claim that this is not because of new information.

It's just that they are, we're just revisiting the case. Oh. Okay. Yeah, we got the timeline for the investigation into it, and we, you know, we're just, what's the line that they used? Conducting a case review of the investigation.

Oh. Okay, this was not a result of any new evidence. All right. So, but, you know, by bringing an outside agency for a fresh look. We hope to provide a definitive and transparent review that may offer peace of mind to the family and the public. Yeah, I mean, our peace of mind was that he killed himself and that we moved on, but apparently the family has not moved on. Wow, it's been a long time. You know, 20 years later, let's, I mean, let's move on. But no, they will not. I mean, Hunter S. Thompson

was this renowned writer and journalist. I mean, everybody loved him and he was this genius guy, and he wrote all these books. And you remember Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that made him to a movie with Johnny Depp. I mean, that was his novel. Hello. And he penned a bunch of other novels. But his son, apparently, what we were told

is that Thompson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while speaking on the phone with his wife. His son later found his body in the kitchen. Okay. And the original investigation said, his death, about his death, said they found no evidence of foul play. So I'm not real sure why we're conducting this case review. It seems like they've got enough to work to do at the Colorado Bureau of Investigations,

but apparently not. So I look forward to seeing their case review. I mean, maybe they'll come back in a day and say, yep, he killed himself and there's no evidence to prove anything. else. And that's their case review. And will family please leave us alone? That's probably what's going to happen. But for now, we have to pretend like they're actually looking into what we know was a suicide. Okay. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. With MX Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your

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We call it Saturday morning live. Yeah, yeah, we had a couple focus groups and we thought, you know, we do it on Saturday morning live at 9 a.m. Central. Maybe we should just call it Saturday morning live. And the focus group said, yeah, that works. So that's what we're doing. And the new Talking Walking Dead is up and ready for you.

your discernment. It was a fantastic episode. Jason Betrell and my son Maximus and myself recap the latest episode of Daryl Dixon, season three, episode four. This season has been really, really good. And this last episode was really, really good. So you can get that. If you subscribe to Chewing the Fat, it drops underneath that umbrella as Talking Walking Dead. So you can get that and enjoy it. I saw a trailer for a movie that comes out, I think, in January. I'll be to play this on Saturday Morning Live. In fact, this is a tease for this video to be played on Saturday morning live this week. It's called We Burry the Dead.

And it's being called a new zombie survival thriller. But it's got Daisy Ridley in it, who I love. And the film follows this woman who joins a body retrieval unit, hoping to find her husband alive, but not everyone turns out to be dead. And that's coming in theaters in January. And it looked really good. It looks like it has a great, I hope,

I hope that the trailer isn't the best part to the movie. But it's very possible that it is. But I like the whole premise of, we bury the dead, and that not everyone turns out to be dead. I love that premise. So look for that. that. I'll play that on Saturday.

And I saw where they wrapped up Terminalist Season 2. I saw the wrap-up video from Jack Carr saying Terminalist 2 is wrapped up. So that's, you know, when is that going to be in theaters? Who knows? But actually, they're done filming it. So, I mean, the first Terminalist was really,

really good. I'm watching the Dark Wolf, which is the prequel to Terminalist. I have not finished that yet, but I'm enjoying it. It's okay. I got through about halfway through the first episode and I thought, eh, okay. And then I went, and then I stopped and then I did, went, moved on something else. And then I came back and I thought, no, I got, I got to, I got to go. I got to people are saying good things about it.

So let me finish. And I will watch and I, and I trudged my way through episode one. And I thought, okay, well, that's not bad. And then I, you know, kept moved on. It hasn't been pretty good. I think I'm three episodes in now. So, I mean, I feel pretty good about it. And I will definitely.

I feel good enough that I will finish it and I don't recall how many episodes there are in the season but I will get to it. You know another show I just thought of that I've got to get back to is only murders in the building hell that's probably almost done by now because I watched, I think I watched all of one maybe I only watched part of one

because I remember watching the beginning of the new season and then I stopped it. I haven't gone back to it So I'm sorry. I'll make that happen. Maybe, I don't know, it's football season. So these series have got to take a back seat to some of these college football. It's just the way it is.

You know that. Don't look at me like that. That's just the way it is. And yes, even my wife knows. I mean, she was talking to me last night while she was making dinner. And I allow that. She can talk to me while she's making dinner. And she said, I was just wondering if you wanted to do something.

should I give you what I'd want to do or the answer that I expect to get? So, I mean, of course, I want to know, well, what's the answer you expect to get? And the answer she expected to get was, oh, man, I would love to, but it's Saturday, and I've got college football to watch. So you just go and have a good time and let me know how it goes. And then she tells me what she wants to do And she was 100% right Now I guess if you don't want to watch football on Saturday Or you want to add it to your viewing pleasure

I see where Reading Rainbow I thought that show was done Reading Rainbow is going to come back It returns Saturday Wow Reading Rainbow they claim A Reading Rainbow Isn't that?

That was LeVar Burton, right? Yeah, I think it was. They claim that this is one of public television's most watched shows, averaging 670,000 weekly viewers. Okay, so that's public televisions. And they won't allow me to open this link. I opened the link to see the rundown of what they were going to tell me about the show. And this website is classified as malicious.

And this is through Mercury Radio Arts here at the studios. We recommend that you don't open this website as opening it might not be safe and could harm your computer or result in malicious use of your personal data. And here's the thing. They don't give me a choice of, well, I don't care. I want to open it anyway. They just not allow me to open it. So you don't get to know. All you get to know is what the line that I have saved in my show prep.

And that is, it's coming back. and it average 670,000 weekly viewers and its public television's most watch shows so you can watch that Saturday. Could I search another website to find out about reading Rainbow? Yes. Do I care that much? Not really.

But I will, just for you. Yeah, it's coming back. Lovar Burton, not part of it. That show ended 20 years ago with Lovar Burton. No wonder our reading skills have gone down in this country. now it's going to be

what's his face from the librarian Michael Threatz Michael Threats Michael Threats is going to be the host and it's he is the internet's favorite librarian

and literacy advocate so yay Threats is a former Solano, California library supervisor who has gained a massive following online and so he's not from the television show librarian. He's just an online librarian. I thought maybe he was working

with Noah Wiley on the librarian, but no, he's not. He's just a internet sensation, and they're giving him a show reading Rainbow. That's fantastic. Good for him. Good for him. So I'm sure the show will be huge. And I guess he's going to have all kinds of celebrity guest stars from the bear, dancing with the stars. Okay, let's do it. Reading Rainbow, let's have it.

Look, the thing is going to be he'll use his social media to just promote the heck out of this PBS show. So good for him and good for them. And I don't know, it doesn't say in this story if they're still going to use the classic reading Rainbow. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything.

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Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. You know, every time I turn around, there's a new Uncle John's bathroom reader. I'd seem like a holy cow. I mean, I've been giving you guys all kinds of love on my YouTube page. Oh, thank you. I bring that with Jeff Fisher.

Thanks to your Uncle John's bathroom reader calendar that I have in my hand. I'm giving people updates on some of the facts and figures that you have in the calendar on my YouTube shorts, so you can go there and subscribe to my YouTube channel and check that out. The only thing I don't do is I haven't done them in the bathroom, but I'm getting there. I'm getting there.

The next round, maybe this next round, of the new book that I'm talking to Brian Boone about from Uncle John's bathroom reader, know-it-all bathroom reader, may actually be done from the bathroom. Brian Boone, welcome to chewing the fat. How in the world are you? I'm great. It's always a great pleasure to talk to you. Thank you much for having me.

I almost believe you. So every time I turn around, you guys are cranking out another book. So this one is No-It-All. What aside from, and the calendar is awesome, by the way, I've been having a lot of fun with that and using it. And hopefully it's, you know, had some people purchase it for their home. But what I'm more concerned about now is the latest book from the bathroom readers institute, which I am not a part of. I'm very disappointed on. So what's the number one thing

that I need to know from know-it-all bathroom reader? Well, I feel like we're embracing know-it-all. We're owning no-it-all. We're making it into a positive because... That's what you do. All the know-it-alls in your life, like everybody who has those fun facts, I'm pretty sure they're getting them from our book.

So you can be like your dad's, your uncles, your grandpas, because they're all just getting their facts from our books. Obviously. Obviously. So, all right. When's the next one coming out? I mean, what are we?

We might as well just set up the appointment now. We just, we just finished number 39. We just, we just put it to bed. This is 38. 39's on the way. And how many,

how many bathroom reader calendars have we done? Oh, I'm fascinated with the calendar, sorry. I think we've been doing that since about 1998. Wow. So, yeah. That's awesome.

Those are always fun to put together. Those are always, I always enjoy putting those together. And it's a way to bring it out of the bathroom and onto the desk. Yeah. You know, it's not quite so private. And you can share it with everybody. So the know-it-all, the latest know-it-all was Superior Trivia and amazing facts and figures. I usually try to break it down with some of your favorite facts and figures that made it to number 38.

So we'll start with that We'll do the top five The top five from Brian Boone Of the know-it-all Uncle John's bathroom reader book And we'll start with number five I'm gonna read yeah Make you think a little bit

Make me think a little bit Five four three two one Number five I got it I mean I love subcultures And I love slight Like every subculture has its own slang And vernacular and like That's like the secret code

To you know Whether you're a surfer Or a Spalunk or something But I found this I found this old book of Antarctica slang. Oh, wow. And I found this. So like, even though there is such a thing.

There is such a thing. Even though that nobody's there, nobody's from there, nobody lives there year round. It's a rotating group of scientists. But they have this slang that is just perpetuated for 50, 60 years. Oh, wow. Like a, like scratch is food. Freshies is like the rare treat of air dropped produce that comes in. Wintering is when you stay there.

in the punishing winter months. The crud is just what they call, just being sick. You know, the colds and the flus and the viruses that the new arrivals bring. I love that, the Antarctica slang. That is awesome. You just don't think about it. I'm kind of obsessed with Antarctica. Like, I'm always looking for Antarctic facts and things like that.

Okay, so let's pause for just a moment. Let's do four and a half. What other fun fact from Antarctica do we have? have um gosh uh well let me think uh well they call it they call they have different names for all the different kinds of ice like

like young ice is the thin ice that's less than six inches thick so it's still settling and forming and then there's turdicles which are uh the frozen animal done from the out of all i thought it was from them oh never mind it's from the animals okay no that's a good article though they probably have a whole process that the special process that have to do to take care of the human waste down there. You can do that later. Do that on number 40 or whatever you want. Yeah, no problem. All right, so, number four. Number four, geography. I love geography. I love the fact that there are 31 Washington counties around the U.S., but none of them are in Washington.

Washington State does not have one, but Washington does. Yeah, and because it would be too confusing, but that does. but that doesn't make sense because Washington was named after George Washington and when it became a state in the 1880s Congress balked it naming the state Washington because they're like people are going to confuse it with Washington D.C. So Congress suggested, in all their infinite wisdom,

they suggested calling it Columbia, not realizing that that too would be confusing with Washington, D.C. So they just, they're just like, you know what, let's just call it Washington. People figure it out. It's too bad that city is shut down now. What a shame.

Yeah. Anyway. Number three from the know-it-all bathroom reader, Brian Boone. Number three, I like, you know, I grew up on cable TV. I, you know, watched way too much TV as a kid, which obviously supports me in my... Welcome. My mother always used to say, and, you know, rest of soul, but she always used to say television is going to be the

ruination of the world. And she's coming true, actually. I mean, she's not wrong, but at the same time, like, I wouldn't have this job if I didn't watch a lot of TV as a kid. Well, there you go. Like in 1980, CNN launched and became the first 24-hour news network. And people thought that it wouldn't work.

But, you know, cable was the Wild West, but CNN wasn't even the first 24-hour news network. There was something called UPI News Time. UPI News Time. Yeah. Do you remember? Do you remember it? I think so.

I think so. Because that was, really, I mean, that's when you had the super stations, TNT, and the one out of Detroit. They used to watch the afternoon movie guy. What was his name? Ah, shoot. I can't remember his name. Oh, yeah. He was awesome, man.

He would tell stories about the movie as the movie was going on and everything. He was great. That's a job I'd like. So this station, though, it was so rudimentary. They would just take still images. black and white press images, and they were just sort of pan across them while they played the radio news feed over these still images. Oh, wow. And they'd repeat it every 15 minutes, and then every four hours, they'd get a new batch of news in.

But once CNN came along with, you know, live people, video news captures, they just couldn't compete. And so they went out of business pretty quick after CNN came along. That's fascinating because I, you know, we were one of the, first families, I think, that had cable. And I remember, yeah, which is one of the reason my mother was like, that'll be the ruination of the world as television. I appreciate it, but go ahead and pay that cable bill. Anyway, CNN, and then they did the headline news.

I'm not sure when that came along as far as timeline goes. But, you know, what, obviously, I mean, I think if we look back at CNN, you're looking at what saved them was the war. Right. I mean, they were probably plugging along pretty good with, uh, with, uh, what's his face, just bumping money into it, believing into it. And then the war saved them. Right. I mean, they were live coverage from the war. Absolutely right. It's stars out of, uh, you know, a Bernard Shaw. Yeah. Even Wolf Blitzer. Was it was, I mean, he's still hanging around. He won't let go. Um, but I mean, that, that's what saved them. Really. We, we had the first war that we watched on TV. Yeah.

Yeah. It was awesome. Okay, number three of the top five. I think that's right. I think I'm counting down properly. We're at three or two? No, we're at two. We're at two. We're three.

Are we two? No, yeah, Antarctica, geography, Washington, TV classics. Yeah, we're at number two. I got to remember to comment. Okay, number two. Number two, we have a whole page of owl facts because owls are interesting and they're the weirdest little animal. They don't have eyeballs. Their eyes are actually tubes, and they basically function as benignal.

They function exactly the same as binoculars. They don't move within the skull and they just offer incredible depth perception. And the owl's eye can admit about three times as much light as a humans and they can focus 10 times faster. Because they need all of this to zoom in on... Yeah, clear tunnel vision. ...d little rats and voles from, you know, a mile at, 270 degree... And every owl is that way? Depend no matter what the different breed is?

No matter the tiniest elf owl up to the... to the, up to the big barn owls and everything, yeah. Olives are really cool. Owls are always really cool. I had an aunt that loved owls, and she, this Jeff Fisher, classic backstories today on chewing the fat. My aunt used to collect all these owl dolls and owl ceramic pieces, and there was just owls everywhere, man.

That particular owl is this. It didn't really stick because I don't remember the different breeds of owls, But I don't know that I knew about the tunnel vision and the binocular eyes. That's fascinating. Yeah. And of course, we're talking to Brian Boone from Uncle John's bathroom reader and their latest book, Know It All, Superior Trivia, Amazing Facts and Figures, book number 38 from the bathroom reader collection. We're now at, Brian's going to giving us a top five rundown of his favorite stories from this latest edition.

We're at number one. Number one, my favorite article in the book is called The Science of Comic Book Junk. I was thinking back on all that garbage that I used to see in the back of, you know, Archie Comics and Boys Life magazine. You know, the Sea Monkeys, the Charles Atlas weight loss were a, you know, muscle building program. So bullies wouldn't kick sand in your face on the beach. X-ray specs in particular. I always wanted those. We wanted those.

Yes, absolutely. I found some. I ordered some off of eBay, and then I looked up how they work. It's an optical illusion, of course. They weren't really x-ray specs. They couldn't give you actual x-ray for, you know, 25 cents. But what they are is their fake lenses with the swirls drawn on them, and they've got holes in them. I used to have this thing. That's more backstories from Jeff Fisher. I used to have this thing, and it was, I can't remember what it was called. It's obvious I can find out. Because I did look up, it's Bill Kennedy, by the way,

that did the afternoon show there on the Super Bill Kennedy. I used to do the movies. He used to tell stories about the actors and stuff. It was awesome. But he used to have this toy, and they promoted it. And I may have been in the back of one of those stupid comic books.

But it was, you know, it wasn't x-ray vision, but you could see around the corners. And it was just a long tube, you know, with a mirror inside each tube. so you'd stick it around the corner, you could look at one end, and the other end would be around the corner so you'd see what was going on around the corner. It was so cool. I had one of those, too.

I think I got one with tickets that, you know, Chequie cheese or an arcade or something. And it, you know, provided minutes of fun before it fell apart. Oh, I got plenty more than minutes out of that, bad boy. No doubt. That was awesome. So, okay, so you got the X-ray vision glasses, finally. You never got it as a child. Did you order anything?

Were your parents letting you order anything as a kid? No, never, never, never. Oh, that's funny. I think my grandma, you know, paid for a, you know, a year's long subscription to Mad magazine, which was, of course, extremely influential. I mean, Merry Christmas, yeah. What a great present. Great, great present.

And that very, very, you know, formative for me. But, no, never actually ordered anything. Never, never sent my $1 money order for shipping and handling. Oh, that's disappointing. That's really disappointing. All right, so those are the top five from Brian Boone. I like them. I'm specifically fascinated by Antarctica, although that was number five.

I love the Antarctica slang because I did not know that existed. That's wild, isn't it? It is really wild because we're not allowed to go there, and they still have their own slang going on down there. So when you arrive, it's like, now we don't know what you're saying. You've got to say something else. We call it this. They're going to think you're a Johnny come lately.

You figure it out, right? I mean, you figure it out. So if you, you know, you realize that, all right, today's the day. The fresh he comes. And you figure, you're like, I don't want to ask what that is because I don't want to sound stupid because I'm a scientist. So I'll wait and see. And then the, you know, the produce shows up and you're like, okay.

Yeah. Okay. Now I know what they're saying. And they call you a tourist. If you're just there for the, for the relatively pleasant summer season, they call you a tourist. Do they not? Now, seriously, isn't it Antarctica? Now, you do have a little kind of a year town thing set up for the tourist for people to come.

Don't they maybe? People can come down there. Is it Arctic? Is it Arctic? It might be Antarctica. Yeah. Down south, it's limited where you can go. But it's pretty much just from what I've seen, just boat rides and things like that.

You can't really go into like the research stations because, you know. Well, they're doing top secret things. Sure. Hello. Checking out the aliens. and the space stuff. What are we talking about? That's what they do there.

Duh. That's why they have their own slang. Yeah. Thank you. That's what I'm saying. And if you're a flat earther, that's the edge. Yeah, you don't want to go past that. No, you do not.

You're going into a whole new world. And in fact, if you're a flat earther, that is where the aliens come from, the other side of Antarctica, just that's right. I mean, I am not one, but I pretend to be one. And I've talked to them before many times. They're fascinating. Okay.

So, Brian, you're the man. Oh, you're the man. I appreciate it very much. Love it. I can't wait until I get a new edition, but I'm still plowing through No-It-All, and I will use it on my YouTube channel, no problem. Fantastic. It's available now. No-it-all is available anywhere you get your books.

Anywhere you get your books. Look in the trivia section or the humor section. That's where you'll find us. And you can get it on all the big major online bookstores. Yeah. So you're sweating at, you just finished. this is 38, you just finish 39. What, what's your, okay, here's one last one before you go, okay, for, did anything from,

that hit the cutting room floor for 38, make it to 39? Or is there still something on the cutting room floor that you want to share, but it just hasn't made a book yet? No, there's plenty. There's so much. Like, I never, I always have more than I know what to do with, and it just, I just don't get around to it or the deadline comes. All right, well, bend down right now and pick up the Post-it note that you last

threw on the floor and tell me what that story is. Oh, I can do that. I can do that. Let's see. Wow. Let's just bend down. You're not bending down and picking up the post-in-note. What is happening?

Well, this is one that I always think of and I never got around to doing. Why we call foods deviled? You know, like why devil legs? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, that is a good one. And then I found out, like, I just thought there'd be some cute little word version, but actually devil eggs as we know them are pretty much prepared the same way that they were in ancient Rome.

It was served at parties in ancient Rome. Like we served devil eggs at parties and stuff now. And the wealthy people would begin their feasts by eating these boiled and whipped eggs. And they were, now we use just the paprika on them, just a little bit of spicy. But back then they were super spicy, super blistering hot sauces that you put on them. Why do they call them deviled? Well, hot food is the food of the devil. Makes sense.

And this has not made a book yet. That's amazing. Hasn't made a book yet. So when it does, we'll know that it started right here, right here from the floor of Brian Boone. We'll sneak pick. Absolutely. Uncle John's bathroom reader, know it all. Superior trivia, amazing facts and figures.

And, of course, don't forget to pick up your Uncle John's bathroom reader. Brian Boone, thank you. We'll talk to you later here. on chewing the fat. We'll do. Thank you so much. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus powered by Peloton IQ, built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift, flow, and go. Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus.

at Onepelleton.ca. I love Brian Boone. He's a good guy, and the Uncle John's bathroom reader is some of my favorite stuff, and I do actually post some stuff on my YouTube page, so you can follow me chewing the fathead

with Jeff Fisher on my YouTube page. I do a lot of shorts, and I give them credit for some of the information that I get there. This week, on this show, we've been doing some of the greatest unusual heists of all time, the most unusual heists of all time,

time. We talked about the Nutella and Kinder Chocolate Egg Heist. We talked about the Clay County Savings Association robbery in 1866. We talked about the Adair, Iowa trade robbery in 1873. Well, now I've got this Manhattan Savings Institution heist from 1878. So I guess this guy, George Leslie, was more of a prophylific thief than Jesse James. But I guess no one's ever heard. heard of him. But he was an architect turned criminal. Police estimated his gang was responsible for 80% of the bank robberies in the U.S. from 1869 to 1878. His jobs included a $786,000 heist from Ocean National Bank in 1869, a $1.6 million haul from Northampton Bank in Massachusetts in 1876, and those would pale in comparison to the famous robbery of the Manhattan Savings

institution in October of 1878. This was a crime that Leslie planned for more than three years, meticulously studying the building and drawing his own blueprints to ensure a full, foolproof plan. Unfortunately, he was killed by one of his own men. Apparently, he was getting into a little bittance with one of his other cohorts in crime, and that cohort in crime did not like him doing a little bittance with his wife and killed him.

That's what they say. So, but they went out with the crime. He had already done everything to make this crime happen. And it did without him. And apparently they got off with $2.7 million. And that's a lot of money. In 1878, $2.7 million, which was a record at the time, but even, I mean, record or no record, that's a lot of money. I don't know that, I mean, maybe these guys were giving a little bit of money to, what's her face,

Frederica Mandelbaum, right? She was like the mob boss of New York at that time, in that time frame. I'm reading a book about her now called The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum. And I don't know, I'm about a quarter of a way in, but she was running all the, all the criminals in Greater New York and the country. A lot of crimes were going through her. They had to go to her to get it okay to be done and also provide experts for different things.

Like if you were robbing banks, you wanted a safe cracker, that kind of thing. So it's possible that they were, you know, working together for these big jobs. Anyway, that's your heist of the day. All right. I don't know. I was reading a story the other day.

We have time for this. I mean, show's gone on for quite some time today. But I was fascinated. You know, I'm fascinated by these stories. of rich families. I know, big surprise. I started off with Elon Musk being 500 million, 500 million billionaire.

And then I'm reading on the story about the Mars family, and they control $45 billion in candy, pet food, and food processing. But no one ever gives an interview. They don't appear in public. They're like the most secretive food empire. That's incredible. So the Mars family controls one of the world's largest food companies. They own M&Ms, Snickers,

pedigree, pet food, and Uncle Ben's Rice. Annual revenue, $45 billion globally. Most of the people cannot name a single family member. Frank Mars started the company in 1911, making candy in his kitchen in Tacoma, Washington. His son, Forrest, joined the business, but they constantly fought over strategy. Dad wanted to stay small and local.

The son was like, no, we got to grow. We got to be globally. We got to go. So in 1932, the kid leaves. He's out. He's going to start his own candy company in England, and off he goes. So while in England, Forrest creates the Mars bar and learned mass production techniques. He studied European chocolate making and distribution systems.

And his father, Frank, passed away in 1934, leaving the American business to other family members. Forrest spent 20 years building his European Candy Empire separately. but in 1954, he comes back to America, and he says, you know what, I'll, I'm going to merge the American and European operations and be under my control. So this gave him massive scale and global distribution networks. So he became the sole owner of the entire Mars empire at the age of 50. So then he instituted the culture of extreme secrecy, and that continues today. No family members give interviews.

No financial data is published. Employees must sign strict confidentiality agreements about everything. The Mars headquarters in Virginia has no company signs or logos outside. The strategy has worked, I don't know, brilliantly so they can expand without public scrutiny. They're a private company, so they don't have to answer to stockholders. They acquired pet food companies like pedigree and whiskies in the 1960s. Then they stayed private. So, again, there was no shareholders to work.

Then they expanded into rice and food processing when they got Uncle Ben's in 1943. They bought Wrigley Chewing Gum in 2008 for $23 billion. And nobody knew anything about the deals because it's a private company doing private business. So today, Mars controls six brands that generate a billion each. Eminem Snickers, Skittles, Orbit Gum, Pettigree, and Whiscus. Their products are sold in over 180 countries worldwide. The company employs 140,000 people across. 80 countries.

And the current generation includes John Forrest Jr. Okay. And to Jacqueline Mars, they are worth approximately $94 billion. They're not up there, they're pretty close to, you know, they're on the obviously billionaire list, but they're

not up there with Elon and Bezos. But they're pretty close. And they don't have to answer to shareholders like Elon and Bezos. Forbes estimates their wealth, but they never really know that for sure because the family never confirms financial details. They attend no industry conferences, charities, gals, or business events.

They, if they give to any kind of philanthropy, if they do any kind of philanthropy, anonymously through foundations. So no Farr-Mars family member has ever written a book or given a major interview, according to this. That's just incredible. so I just was fascinated by the Marr's story since I was since I was fascinated by it

I thought I would share it with you alright let's get out of here let's do the joke of the day the joke of the day this was an ad this guy has been working hard he's been working hard creating jokes for me and for you

here on chewing the fat who is that madman and he sent this one And I actually, I laughed. And so since I laughed, I'm going to share it with you. Just like the Marstory. It was fascinated me. I thought it would, you know, I'd share it with you.

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