Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Emergency Emergencies Only… Guest: Brian Boone, Strange USA | 6/21/23

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

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Delegates at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, the AMA, House of Delegates adopted a policy aimed at clarifying how body mass index, BMI, can be used as a measure in medicine. Under the newly adopted policy, the AMA recognizes issues. with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm. When you think of historical harm, you think of BMI. It's used for racist exclusion. That's because BMI is based primarily, based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations. Oh, okay.

So it's an imperfect way to measure body fat in multiple groups, given that it does not account for differences across race, ethnic groups, sexes, genders, and age span. Given the report's findings, new policy supports AMA and educating physicians on the issues with BMI and alternative measures of diagnosing obesity. Then we have a group of health experts that have now said Americans age 19 to 64 should get screened for anxiety, even if they don't have any symptoms. The task force said pregnant women and new moms should also be examined. Now about 19% of adults in the U.S. have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in the past year. Now, for the first time, the group of health experts have issued a final recommendation on anxiety screenings for adults. The task force plays a key role in influencing what preventative services insurance should cover, but doctors don't have to follow the recommendations.

Now, I thought that, along with BMI of this anxiety, that would be what your physician would take care of. Now, I don't know if I've ever been screened for anxiety or not, and I was wondering what the screening process is. Apparently, it's through a questionnaire at a doctor's office visit. I feel like I have, and it's been quite a while since I've been screened for anxiety. But doctors want to know how often within the past two weeks, the patient has been easily annoyed or irritable. Oh, man. Bothered by uncontrollable worries or feeling so restless that it's difficult to sit still. Yes, I have definite anxiety and I need something for it, Doc.

So if you could just prescribe a medication that would help me out a little bit, that would be great. Look, it's important. Not making fun of anxiety. I mean, it's important. Anxiety, depression symptoms. and they may not be obvious during a regular doctor visit. So if you feel like you are easily annoyed or irritable or bothered by uncontrollable worries

or feeling so restless that it's difficult to set down and be still, well, you suffer from anxiety. The horror. Welcome! Welcome to chewing the fat. Well, for those of you listening live, today is the 21st of June, 2023, and it is officially summer. So welcome to summer. For those of us living in Texas, it has already arrived.

It has been smoking hot and not in a good way already in Texas. So it's a happy summer and happy to be a part of it. We also have a tropical storm, the second-named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, expected to arrive in the Caribbean by the end of the week. I was surprised at the second-name storm, Brett. I was thinking, I don't even remember when Harleen showed up. And then I find out there was also another storm that appeared, and it appeared earlier than hurricane season.

So they just rode it off. Yeah, well, it would just, that didn't matter. We don't need to name that. It happened before hurricane season. So just writing it up. So really, this is not only, this is the third storm, but it is the only, you know, the second name storm of the hurricane season. So it's off and running.

Yay! And then I see in Florida a very, very strange thing. It happened last year around Tampa Bay where they had a quarantine. So now a quarantine in Florida has been placed. because of the foreign gastropod, I know, the African land snail. It was spotted in the Miramar area of Broward County earlier this month. Now, this type of snail is known to be one of the most damaging mollusk subtypes in the world. The quarantine was initiated this week by Agricultural Department's Division of Plant Industry

after officials were able to confirm reports of the foreign gastropod. and it applies to three and a half square mile radius in Broward County, including Fort Lauderdale. The department said that the quarantine order will remain in effect while officials treat the surrounding area with metalthahide, with a metaldahide based molluskyed side. They got poison. They're going ahead and poisoning it. The goal is to completely eradicate the pest, which can grow as long as eight, inches long and is able to lay thousands of eggs at a time during procreation. Yeah, no, thank you.

Now, apparently, the land snail poses a sign, the African, I'm sorry, the African land snail, poses a significant threat to both humans and vegetation. The breed carries a parasite called rat lungworm that can cause meningitis in humans. It also consumes over five, types of plants as well as paint and stucco that causes property. Wait, what? We have a snail that eats paint and stucco and that causes property damage? Yes, yes, it does. Now, they had this problem up in Pascoe County last year when they had a, you know,

confirmed sighting of an African land snail. Now, the weeks had followed more than a thousand land snails were captured. Holy cow. Now they believe that people are bringing the African land snails into the U.S. wanting them as pets. Who's a good little African land snail? You are. Come here.

Okay. If you want, if you're going to get a land snail as a pet, how about no? How about choose another animal? Or another mollusk. I want the little six to eight. inch snail. You can take them out for a walk. Are you ready, honey? Okay. Let's go. Come here.

No. No. So be prepared if you're in that neck of the woods and be on the lookout for the African land snail. You don't want none of that. You know, we were doing Talking Walking Dead this week which we do each week with Jason Butchrell and my son Maximus Fisher co-host the show Talking Walking Dead each week. And if you subscribe to this show, you see it pop up on your timeline. And we discuss the latest happenings in the Talking Dead in the Walking Dead world. And the fear of the Walking Dead is in its final season. And there was the midseason finale last week. And it also started the new show, Dead City, with Negan and Maggie. And it was fascinating. We enjoyed it. And you can go back and listen to the review. But in the

the show, Dead City, Negan and Maggie get behind this wall of garbage bags, but it's a wall of roaches. And you see these roaches start crawling on them and they're pushing them off and then they pull this bag down. And it's just thousands, if not millions of roaches crawling everywhere. And, you know, you just hear Negan go, nope, and they get out of there. But I was reminded of a time when I was

living in Florida, and my ex-wife at the time, my oldest son's mother, I just bought a new house, and I was over there helping them move in and do some stuff around the house. And there was an area off to the side of this house where, I guess, an old tree, and there was a shed that was there, which we tore down, but there was still a shed there. But in front of where the shed was, was where there was an old tree. and I guess they just cut it down and left all the roots and everything in the ground. And so while I was getting stuff and moving stuff into this shed,

and as I'm deciding, I'm going to need to mow the lawn. And I know, don't look at me like that. I know she was my ex-wife, but, you know, it was a long story. It's a longer story than this story. So I go to mow that part of the yard, and thousands of roaches come. out of the ground. They were living in this tree stump that was still underneath the ground. It was unbelievable. I'd never seen anything like it. I mean, they were just storming out of the

ground because I was shaking up the ground with the lawnmower. It was unbelievable. And I, to this day, I don't know that we've killed them all or that we've got them all. I mean, I was ready to just burn the place down and create a giant fire pit where these roaches were. It was Amazing. I mean, I don't know if you ever had, like, I, sure, you live in Florida, you have roach problems in your home. When you move into a new house, it's been empty for a while, new for you. And, you know, there's roaches and you got to, all you do in Florida is keep them at bay. You keep the bug spray around the house and inside the house and around the yard and everybody keeps the bugs at bay. It's pretty much built on ants and roaches, you know, that's what it is. And I, and I know that those, those aren't cock, Roaches, Jeff. Okay, I know. I know. Those are Palmetto bugs. Okay, I know. Those are the ones that fly. I got it. But they do have roaches as well. There's, you know, an abundance of cockroaches in Florida. And it was just incredible to me to have this huge pile. I've never seen anything like it. It was at least a five by five square circle. I think you know what I'm saying. And it was just roaches coming out of the ground.

It was, oh, you can quote me on that, too, by the way. All right, all right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So, Blaze TV is trying to bring late night TV that was funny back. They have a new show called Normal World. Normal World. You can join comedians Dave Landau and Quarter Black Garrick. it tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern as they reinvent late night using topical sketches,

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So you don't miss out on the fun. Okay. Did you know that Disney had a new film out? A new Pixar film? I did not. It's called Elemental. Really, I've been to the theater recently as well. And I don't recall seeing a preview for Elemental, which I would think that I would have.

so it's rated for children's ages six and up and apparently it tackles racism and xenophobia and it features Disney's first ever non-binary character and big surprise it could be the worst earning opening ever for the movie what I know now the Hollywood reporter said of Elemental a high concept pitch that could only be rendered via dazzling state of the

art computer animation, a serious overarching theme about ethnic strife and racial tolerance. Humor for both kids and adults. Yeah, nothing says humor for both kids and adults like ethnic strife and racial tolerance. Okay, you know, I got it. Wonderful. But they apparently, they made like 29.1 or 29.5. which is a little bit more than the 29.1 that the original Toy Story opened with in 1995,

although with inflation, I think that may be lower. And I feel like look where, again, they can use the example of look where Toy Story is since 95. So are we going to have, you know, an elemental one, two, three, and four? Who knows? That certainly is possible. Anything is possible in today's world. but I you know

according to variety Elemental landed by far the worst start in modern history for Pixar ranking below some of the more forgettable attempts like 2015's The Good Dinosaur and 2020s onward

so the budget for Elemental was $200 million so only making 29.5 million on opening weekend. You can quote me on this. Not good. So Quentin Tarantino, you know him, you love him.

He was being interviewed by La Liberation. And he claims that, this is Quentin talking, I reject the word offended. Anyone can be offended by anything. Frankly, I think most of the time, and there's are no doubt some exceptions. Saying you're offended by a film is the first response of a very narrow mind. I don't necessarily disagree with Quinn.

Now, he did go on to say that he was offended once by a film. He refused to name the film. He called it very racist. He said there was a movie that came out in the last 10 years. I won't name it that really offended me. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that, that it was my problem. Uh-huh.

No kidding. I found it racist. I wanted to punch the director. I still think it's racist. But it's just an effing movie, man. Thank you. It's just an effing movie. Saying you're offended by a film is the first response of a very narrow mind.

Art is no offense. It's just ridiculous to be offended by the, content of a film. Amen. Amen. Now, in this story, they talk about him getting ready to work on his final film. And I thought, wait, what are we talking about Quentin and his final film? What in the world are you talking about? He's got a new film going to come out. He's set to release his, and this is what the quote, Tarantino was set to release his final. film the movie critic which he will direct in the fall of 2023 oh okay well why is it going to be his final movie i don't get it apparently uh his long-running promise or you know slash threat that he'll

retire from directing movies after his 10th film which the movie critic will be his 10th film and it's in, you know, pre-production as we speak. So he said that he's, this movie is in the year of 1977. The movie critic is based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews. So I'm sure, you know, I love the premise. I think it's a, it's a final.

It'll be awesome. Will it be his final film, Quentin Tarantino? I would say no to that. I would say he'll find a way around that. that like he's not going to call himself the director anymore he'll be the executive producer slash director and they'll just he'll continue to do movies i mean you don't you're not quitting tarentino and you're not giving up the thing that you do because you said some offhand remark uh you know while you were doing drugs with your friends i'm going to quit after my tenth movie

uh directors they start getting screwed up after the tenth movie yeah i want some more though, give me some more of the drugs we're on. And then we can just hang out and drink and party. And for sure, I'm going to be done. And now you're going to hold them to it? No. No. I would say that's not going to happen.

So the owners of Smosh, who sold it, are now buying it back. And they're going to go back to making comedy on YouTube again, I guess. These two guys, Hickok and Padilla, started in 2005, and they were just under the premise of, you know, two friends posting playful videos on the internet. And it was, I mean, YouTube, it was huge. It's got 25 million subscribers still. Now they sold it to Defy Media.

And then Defy Media, that went through the floor. And so these Rhett and Link acquired it in 2019. and then now these two, Anthony Padilla and Ian Hickox, are getting Smosh back. So for those of you that subscribe to Smosh, just know that the original founders are back and they're ready this time.

They're pissed. No, I don't know that they are. But they're ready to go and probably creating content. I don't think it's going to be, you know, we'll see if they can keep up with normal world on the Blaze TV. with on YouTube so and you know my YouTube channel chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher is just under 25 million subscribers so if you could go over there and subscribe that would be great I'd like to

you know kind of catch up to smosh just below 25 million subscribers on my YouTube channel that's I know I don't hate to beg but you know it's just I'd like to you know get I'd like to break 25 million and you know I've got a just a little ways to go so if you can help out That would be great. And while you're doing that, if you could just follow me on Twitter, at Jeffrey JFR, that would be great. You could follow me on Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. That would be very kind of you. You can also order a cameo from me if you'd like.

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Oh, okay. We're sorry. That's not an emergency. Could you fill out a form online, please click? These incidents include accident reports, vehicle burglaries. identity theft and interference with child custody, among others, that you'll have to just fill out a form on Dallaspolice.net. And a series of pop-ups will guide you through the reporting process.

So you just follow the prompts. It's just that easy. I am sorry, you're going to have to go to Dallaspolice.net. Thank you for calling. For those of you without a computer, you may say to yourself, Hey, I don't have a computer. Well, you kind of do if you're calling 911, but maybe you don't. Maybe you don't have access to Wi-Fi.

You can go on down to the Dallas Police Department headquarters. I've got a little kiosk set up for you, and you can fill out your 911 emergency report right there. Now, the 911 administrator, Robert Irbybib, Urbe, U-R-I-B-R-I-B-E, Robert Irbe. says folks can also use computers at public libraries to file an online report. That's awesome. And I'm sorry, we can't take your 911 call. You can either go down to the police department or you can go to the library or you can use your own computer to fill out an online form.

Thank you for calling. Never mind that the city was just hacked, you know, about a month ago with a ransomware attack. The department's website went down. the 911 computer assistant dispatch was crippled and detectives lost access to electronic case files. That's awesome. And they don't even want to comment about the lingering effects. Now we're not going to talk about that. And so anything that you have questions about the internet and the city, how about you just shut up about it?

Okay? Yeah. How about you just do that? You should feel safe that your information is secure on our website. so don't worry about uploading your personal information to our websites. Everything will be fine. And if you don't think it's going to be, shut your face, okay, because it is. So just remember, starting July 3rd, when you call 911, if it's not an emergency emergency,

you're going to have to go and fill out a form online. That's great. And just so we're updating you a little bit, as of this recording, they have not found the members of the crew that went down to look at the Titanic in the submarine. They're still being searched for. They have not found them. Apparently, we've heard some banging, but we don't know that it's them. We're trying to find them.

And time is of the essence now. I mean, time was always of the essence. But it for sure is coming down to the wire now with the depleted oxygen levels. getting to crucial levels. So by this time tomorrow, we'll know whether we're going to continue to search for them or if we're just going to wait for the sub to pop up and somewhere down the line.

We don't know. I mean, it could have been taken by UFOs. You know what I'm saying? The Tic Tac UFO could have taken the sub and maybe they'll show up a month from now thinking that no time has passed and wonder where the hell everybody is. I don't know.

It could happen. It could happen. But until then, we have to keep listening for the banging. You know, like they did remember the movie Hunter Killer with Gerard Butler. Love that stupid movie. When they went to rescue the Russian captain after his submarine had been hit and was sitting at the bottom of the ocean. They heard what we're told the Coast Guard is hearing today. looking for this sub.

Right. Now they say they were hearing it every 30 minutes and you think to yourself, well, you'd be doing it more than every 30 minutes, but you don't want to use up all your oxygen either. So, you know, obviously our prayers are with them, but it is not looking good. So Michael Jordan in the news, everywhere, it seems,

of these days. His sneakers, his flu game sneakers from 1997, the NBA finals, just sold, including a buyer's premium at an auction on Wednesday for $1.38 million. I mean, good, if you can afford. I'd rather spend the money on the flu game shoes and then go down in the sub run by a game controller. But, you know, what? What do I know? So after putting up 38.7 rebounds, five assists, he was suffering from food poisoning. So it wasn't really a flu game, but he was sick.

He gave, he signed the sneakers and gave him to Preston Truman, a ball boy for the Utah Jazz, who apparently had earned Jordan's favor because he brought him applesauce before the games. The sneakers remained with Truman for 15 years until he sold him in 2013 when he co-signed. them to be sold by gray flannel auctions. They sold for $104,765.

That's a mere pittance to the $1.38 million that they sold for a couple of days ago. So congratulations to the flu game sneakers who broke the million dollar threshold. But it's not the most expensive pair of shoes worn that were sold. they belong to the Air Jordan 8 breads that Jordan wore the second half of game two of the 1998 NBA finals, which sold earlier this year for $2.238 million. So congratulations to Michael. I don't know that he gets a cut of any of that. He is selling his share of the Charlotte Hornets,

his majority share, of his. share of the Charlotte Hornets. And so once the deal is done, he will have a minority investment. He's still hanging around the organization. But it's been a less than, you know, super successful time for the Charlotte Hornets. They really haven't done anything fantastic. But he is now, once he goes away, that will leave the NBA without any black majority ownership, which, you know, they're going to want to change that.

How much does Michael get for that? I don't know. He spent in 2010, he bought the team of minority stake in the Hornets for $275 million. All right. So what he's going to sell for? I don't know. It'll probably be another, who knows. The Phoenix Suns just sold for $4 billion.

they're talking about this NBA franchise being valued at $3 billion. Does Michael get all of that? Probably not. He probably keeps his minority stakes and keeps walks away with a couple billion dollars. That'd be tough to take. Really tough to take. Oh, and if you're thinking to yourself, man, you know what I would like is a collector's edition bidet? You know, one that might have been used by celebrities.

Yeah, well, you can get one now. The sale for the bidet that may have possibly been used by Jay-Z and Beyonce, along with the gold hardware features you can get for $2,400. Also, you can get French doors, the arched French doors, $118 by 30 inches, there for sale for $3,600. You can also get another door, a bifold accordion doors that stand 10 feet are on sale for $6,400. And those all could have been used by Jay-Z and Beyonce because it came from a rental home that they rented in 2015. They were renting this dump for $150,000 a month.

Now, they just bought the $200 million mansion. But they did stay in this particular house. The owner has since sold. it and the new owner is renovating it and wanted to get rid of it. So the architectural salvage LA, Eric's architectural salvage LA, is selling the merchandise on eBay and you can get the bidet and the door frames and the windows. And man, how much do I want a bidet that could have been used by Jay-Z and or Beyonce? I don't know if it was, you know, maybe it was just hers.

you might be able to get more money if you say that or maybe they both used it or maybe they didn't use it at all. I don't know. It doesn't say. It doesn't come with a certificate of authenticity that Beyonce and or JZ actually used the bidet. Maybe that's why it's only $2,400. But head over to the eBay site

and make your bid. Because, man, does it look like a beautiful bidet? With MX Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. So today we have an opportunity to talk to Brian Boone, who is the author of Strange USA. And it's a new book, it's historical oddities, roadside rarities, unique e, it's amazing Americans.

and it's fascinating. It's part of the Uncle John bathroom readers series, and we've talked to other Uncle John's in the past. But today. I'm not the first. I'm not the first. Well, sorry about that. It's a title that passes down, you know, like the Pope or the Dalai Lama.

And I appreciate it. As I'm reading through the book, some of the stories, obviously I knew and we had talked about before in the past. Some of them were really new, to me, at least the idea, like I never realized. Like, I never realized that there never actually was a better, a Betty Crocker. I don't know why I didn't know that. I just, I feel like I should have known that, but I did as well, that was fascinating to me. I mean, that's just good marketing.

If they made you think she was a real person. Right. Because there's so many people that, that are like that, that, or that seem fake that are real, like Johnny Appleseed seems fake to me, but is a real person. Right. It really did, you know, traverse around the frontier in the late 18, century planning apple trees not for fruit but for you know cider apples and to make apple jack with right well you know i mean apples actually i believe uh the fun fact with apples right is the only

fruit that's in every state in the united states that's right yeah thank you that's just a little little chewing the fat fun fact on apples and johnny apple seed that guy was everywhere so uh brian thank you welcome to chewing the fat how are you good to see you i know last time i talked to um oh shoot anyway the other Uncle John. And I asked him about his collection of toilets. And he said he had quite a collection. Now I was wondering if, and now I'm a little disappointed for those that are, you know, watching this interview along with listening to it, your background does not have a single toilet in the background. I don't know. Disappointed what's going on. It doesn't. It doesn't. I don't think my wife would let me put little tiny toilets up everywhere. But it's part of the deal.

I've got like 200 pez dispensers in the other room oh nice nice that's a good collection to have I like it that's fun are you are you are you part of the pez collection world we'll get off the book of a strange USA for a second are you part of the pez collectors union not not really I just I just started when I was a kid and then you know just people gave them to me like oh you're pez guy so I just like got more and more it's an easy gift yeah it's a great gift would make me you know Piss dispensers of themselves, like they'd, you know, draw on them and stuff like that. So I just have some, I just have like, you know, I don't have anything like super valuable. I just think they're weird and cool.

Right. Okay. So we'll get back to the book. Now, I know that this book is, you know, part of a long line of books with those strange and fun facts on them. And there were some really good factoids in this latest book. When you, how long did it take you to have you put been? How long have you been doing this particular book? This one took about a year.

It took about a year. Just about the same amount as a regular bathroom rear. Just sorting through all of the information that we get an influx of just. We've got a research library. We get a dozen magazines. We get newspapers. People send us clippings and email forwards. And you sort through all that.

And then you realize, we've got a lot of good stuff here about one subject. So let's just do an America book. Let's just do like an Uncle John's backseat. Like, take it out of the bathroom, put in the backseat of the car and just like fun trivia that you can that you can look at while you're on your summer road trip. Absolutely. I noticed my favorite, one of my favorite characters. In fact, when I grow my hair long and shave, I look similar to Ben Franklin and have in fact played him on the network that this show broadcast on. I know Ben plays quite a role in this particular episode, Strange USA.

There's a number of stories about Ben. whether it's Ben Franklin or his poor Richard, right? The poor Richard's Almanac. I mean, that's that's our, that's our ancestor. Yeah, it was good stuff. My favorite, I think, was the, and I'm a little disappointed. It didn't happen to myself or someone in my family, getting pinched in the rear end at his grave site. I have been to his grave site in Philadelphia, and I'm a little disappointed.

It didn't happen. That his ghost didn't. Yeah. And Laura reached out to my. wife anyway something i mean somebody in the family he was a bit of a litch so yeah sorry sorry to hear that i love i know thank you i appreciate it that say i'm still sad as i read it i can't stop it okay so at my favorite i one of my favorites i keep saying my favorite because as i was going through i'm like oh i like that i like that that's fascinating uh the top ten sandwiches so when you get obviously uh you know the fight for number one

and grilled cheese wins that right but i am disappointed that uh peanut butter and jelly was that low on the list? And I was like number nine. What are we doing? I think the peanut butter and jelly is just really polarizing. And I think I think like kids like it, but adults don't. And if adults do eat it, like they eat it, you know, furtively late at night, hiding because it's kid stuff.

It's like, I don't want to be seen eating my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But, you know, if it was good enough for Elvis, it's good enough for me. Absolutely. Throw some nanners on there. You're good to go. Pound of bacon. Well, that don't, hey, don't mess with the king. Don't do it.

Don't do it. You need a bathroom reader with the king. I'm all about that. So out of all the stories so far, and I mean, there's plenty, you know, the, the diner lingo. And another thing I really like was the lynch mobs. I don't know that I knew that either.

The lynch mobs? Oh, the hangings. Yeah. I don't know that I actually knew the lynch mobs. story. That was really fascinating. Yeah. The fact that it's named after somebody is a, what a legacy. And that it goes back, you know, all the way to revolutionary times. Yeah. Charles Lynch, you know, led a band of vigilantes to take care of some British sympathizers.

And then they were the first lynch mob. Really fascinating. Right. And then from that on it was, you know, we just carried it on. So lynch mob. And you don't know where it started. I know. Yeah, good for us. It's important that they don't actually happen anymore. I'm a fan of that, actually. So out of everything that you've done on this book now, so much is on the cutting room floor, and I'm sure you'll sweep some up and use,

you know, Uncle John's bathroom reader cutting room floor clipets as well. And why not? But what's your favorite? I mean, there's got to be something in there that you said, oh, wow, I love that. I did not know.

Like, you know, you always talk about like, like ghost stories and stuff about how ghosts are always like, you know, Victorian era ghosts or, or it's always old buildings, but I did not know that the Grand Canyon was haunted. Oh, yeah.

There was a plane crash in the 50s, two plane crashes, like virtually simultaneous in the 50s, and they crashed in this really remote part of the park so remote that they couldn't get rescue efforts or recovery efforts out. So they just kind of left everything and everyone. Just leave it be. So that's Crash Canyon, this very remote part, virtually inaccessible.

Early 2000s, a park ranger working for the National Park Service, decides to, I'm going to go camp there. Camps all the way down. And 3 a.m., she's by herself, 3 a.m., here's voices, footsteps, opens up the flap of the tent and sees just this long line of like 100 people walking up toward the crash site. and they're all dressed in like, you know, they're all dressed like Fonzie, you know, just like 1950s. Pretty amazing. That's pretty tricky.

Yeah, you don't think of ghosts being like outside either. No, you don't. No, you don't. They're usually under a roof. You're 100% right. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I'm sure there's a cave somewhere they're living in. They're not only in the daytime. Right. And of course, we believe her. I mean, there's no way. that something like this could be made up. That's impossible. There's no witnesses.

Don't mind that. Right. It's a good story. It is a good story. So just shut up about it, okay? I mean, we just had a guy fall off the walking. Yeah. From the, oh, shoot, I forget where it's at there.

The one Indian nation. Anyway, the guy fell up. They felt the Skybridge? Yeah. And they don't know, you know, they're still investigating. I mean, it's like 4,000 feet. Obviously, he didn't survive. And so maybe he's growing, you know, part of the ghost people there.

But they, I mean, they found his body. But they don't know if it was on purpose or if somebody pushed him or if it was an accident. But, you know, we're adding to the stories of the Grand Canyon, man. There's just more lore there. And just like, that's, I mean, that's the ultimate roadside attraction. and this natural formation that's, you know. It sure is. Have you ever been out in any part of it?

No, I haven't. It's really incredible. I never realized, I didn't expect it to be as awesome as it is. Right. You know what I mean? And we, it's like a toll on the ground, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, that's always what you're okay. So a river runs through there. That's great. But when you're standing there, I mean, it's awesome. Yeah. It really is. If you get a chance, for sure, do it. It's pretty amazing.

I want to go, but I just, that sky bridge is always, I'm not doing that. Yeah, I'm not doing that. First of all, there's a weight limit, I'm sure, and I would not be on that. I'm sure the Indian nation will be going, no, Jeff. Now, you can stand here, but you're not going out on the bridge. Okay, that's not going to happen. I don't, I didn't want to suspend an air above the Grand Canyon anyway. That's right.

I want my 25 bucks back. I'll tell you that. 25 bucks. Right. So, anyway, the new book, Strange. USA, historical oddities, roadside rarities, unique eats and amazing Americans. We had, and we've covered some of the ones that were some of my favorite. And I had forgotten about, I would just do one more story and then we'll get off the stories because you need to read it yourself.

Is the old Winchester house. I do remember that. So she was just, you know, pretty much back crazy and, you know, had a bunch of money. And I was surprised that, you know, the, the, the didn't say, give me your money and you will, you will feel better. The psych who is just like, no, you have to move and continue to add on to this house. And she did. She just kept going, just kept going because she was so haunted by the ghost of those killed by her husband's, you know, right? Right to the death of the Winchester, right? Yeah, she heir to the Winchester fortune, but it was blood money to her. So she just kept building this, this crazy house that's, you know, there's doors to nowhere. and, you know, hallways that wind up under themselves somehow. It's a trippy place. Yeah.

It feels haunted. So there's plenty of stuff to fascinate you and the kids all summer long. Strange USA. Available, where's the best place I could get it? Do I need to go to your website? Can I get it anywhere? You get a portablepress.com. That's our website.

There you go. That's the best place to get it. More stuff. It's at Amazon. It's at your local bookstore. It's at Barnes & Noble. So, I'll take the places. Have you guys on your at portablebooks.com is, I'm sorry, portablepress.com.

Yeah, don't go to portable books. Those people are bad, but portable press. Those people are scam artists. Right. But go to portablepress.com for all your strange USA historical oddities and roadside rarities. I appreciate you guys so much for putting all this stuff together. It fascinates me. And I would actually mind being a part of it.

Fantastic what you guys do. And I really appreciate you coming on, Brian. And if there's anything we could do for you, chewing in the fat, I'm happy to do it. Keep up the good work. And I appreciate you coming on. Strangey USA is the latest book. And you can get it at Portablepress.com. You're the best.

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