Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 103 | Fat Pile Friday - The Biggest Little Farm, Dr. Travis Back Injury & It's POLKA Day | Guest: John Chester

Episode Date: May 17, 2019

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Welcome to Fat Pile Friday here on Chewing the Fat as we plow through the pile of fat that is left over from the week plus some new stuff. You know, just some days we can't get to it all. And so I try to pack it in for you on Friday so you, you know, you wrap up the week with stories that were, you know, available to you and out there in the world that are, well, that'll help you get through the day. I like this story. Hershey's changing its look. to its candy bars. What? Now, I love Hershey's chocolate bars.

I know that may come as a surprise to you, but I do. Now, I love Hershey's cookies and cream. I couldn't remember the name of the stupid cookies and cream candy bars. I just eat them. I couldn't remember the name of them. I see the picture. They're in the light wrappers. See the light wrappers?

Oh, those are cookies and cream. I want those. So, forever. Forever. You unwrap the package. and on each little square it says Hershey's and that makes you feel so good

it's like oh it's Hershey's now though the brand is replacing the recognizable logo and etching 25 popular emojis into the rectangles that make up its milk chocolate bar

so you're going to have a smiley face the fifth pound the ghost emoji I don't know if you'll have the poop emoji I mean, that doesn't seem right on a Hershey bar, but maybe it will. So this is the first time since 1900. I mean, they're all three. This better not screw up the chocolate bar.

It's better not screw it up. I don't want to hear it. Man, I mean, I get it. You want Hershey's on it. You want your little emojis on it. And it's a cute little thing. And the packaging is going to have the cute little emoji on the other. outside of the package and it's going to be all kinds of cuteness.

But if it screws up to flavor the Hershey bar, there's going to be trouble right here in River City. That's what I do. Just like the new show open? I don't know. What is it? Do I have to dance? Do I have to kick?

Both. All right, hold on. Well, I haven't done that in a long time. I think I can kick that high anymore. All right, stop, stop. I'm going to drop over. Oh my gosh. I think I could do that anymore.

It's pretty tough. All right. Stoke to know. You're trying to kill me. Seriously. I can't hear this without getting up and dancing, so don't play it anymore, please. So I'm fascinated by the Lamaro. him story.

Lamar, former Mbba player, married to a Chloe Kardashian. He's, you know, he's had a fascinating life. And he just, you know,

came out with this new little life book and he's got, he's gay? No. You know, he came out. He came out with his new little life book,

his book of darkness to light. His triad came awful close to stealing my line. Awful close to stealing the quote from Jeff Fisher. What's your quote? Live in the dark long enough it becomes your light.

Oh yeah, this is the criminal minds quote that you want. Yeah. So it'll be pushing your luck there, Lamar. But I was just saying that I was fascinated by him because in his book he claims to have slept with 2,000 women. Now, I mean, that sounds like a lot. When you break it down, it really isn't. He's what, 39? 39 years old.

All right? 39 years old. What are you looking to me like that for? What are you looking to me like that for? I'm sorry that I only slept with like three people I didn't ask how many women you slept with In 2000 it's like

I didn't ask how many people you slept with So how old is he? So he's 39 And I'm 20 No I'm 30 I'll be 30 He says he climbs to have slept with 2,000 women All right That's a lot

It doesn't say But when you break it down it really isn't Break what down Jeffey So he figured he started having sex 25 years ago Okay Around 14 I don't know

He might have No, that's right. 14-ish. Actually, no, no, let's do this legal. Let's do this 18. Well, now I have to do my math again. I've already got. Oh, you already did you.

I already need to math. Let me break up my calculator again. Redo my math. Here, here. While you do your math. What's that? No, that I can't do my math and dance. That's just silly.

All right. So if you would say, he's 39, so 20 years. Okay. All right? 20 years. So if you're looking at 20, right? So you're looking at 2000. Right, 2,000 women, according to him, divided by 20 years.

Okay. All right. It is 100 women a year. That's a lot. Divided by 12 once in a year. You're looking at eight a month. That's a lot. For him, no.

For any guy. Oh, he's played in the NBA. He's traveling different cities every night. I mean, that's, I'm sorry. That just, that's a lot. Maybe for some. I really want to ask, but I'm not going to. Maybe for some.

But I found it fascinating his story that when he had his heart attack, when he overdosed at the brothel, he, a couple years ago, like three, three years ago or so. And it's still not enough? What's that? He almost died. Yeah, well, he's Mr. Clean now. That's what I'm saying. You know, darkness to light or whatever. But he said it's not enough.

2000 and he almost died. He had a freaking heart event. I didn't say that was doing drugs. I just said it wasn't as much as people think. Sounds more than it is. You're looking at eight a month? I mean, an average guy does what? Four a month, four a month maybe?

They're single? Where is this guy? So anyway, Lamar Odom, overdose. At least I should say the average real man that I'm familiar with. I mean the rock and roll guys and stuff like that. You mean those, don't you? No, if you're a rock and roll guy With your doing blow

With your hip lingo And you're only doing For a month A loser Exactly, that's what I'm saying Those are the guys that you're talking about So So he had

About three and a half years ago He overdosed at At the brothel in Las Vegas And at the Love Ranch And he was going to spend the weekend there and he said that the story he took right is great uh he said he blended uh into the days turned into nights i spent with beautiful women in a mound of drugs my getaway my getaway weekend would be no different um on tuesday morning i lay on the floor in my room at the ranch dying my body was

convulsing the woman who kept me company screamed and called 911 so if he was only with one woman for that weekend. I mean, see what I mean? Loser. Scream to call 911. I was taken to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas. There was an unholy concoction of cocaine, cognac,

and cannabis coursing through my veins. My heart stopped twice. I had 12 seizures and six strokes. My lungs collapsed and my kidneys ruptured. I was on life support. Everyone I'd loved was looking at me

through bleary eyes. wow I mean that is that's something he is lucky to be alive and so he's I mean darkness too light baby he's living large now

he actually we should try to talk to him on chewing the fat man except all I want to talk about is his overdose and drug days I don't want you know okay tell me about your goodness today whatever you're doing today

that's great Lamar did anybody ever tell you that your 2,000 women really wasn't that much because what's his face the one big basketball star years ago said he had 20,000 under his belt. Right? Will Chamberlain said he had 20,000 under his belt.

And I bet you Magic Johnson, before he retired, had a couple thousand under his belt, too. Easy. Because he quit with his little HIV problem, which, you know, he's cured now. But Magic was quite the go-to guy for sex, too, for a number of years. So how many – look up and see if it says if there's – any report out how many women Magic Johnson was with. Okay, so Magic says, according to this, he reportedly admitted to having sex with three to 500 people a year

before his announcement, before his HIV deal. So, I mean, that's well over 2000. I mean, Lamar is a kid with his 2000. Now, look, is 2000 good? You tell me. I don't know. You're a whore. So you're saying that's bad or?

Yes. Wow. Why do you hate? All right. I'm done talking to you about this. Nice. Okay. Fat Pile Friday.

I've got so, man. Seriously. I didn't think this week was busy, but there's a serious fat pile here. And I'm not just talking about. me. Thank you. I mean, I did my own.

Where were you? You were busy. You're looking the other way is what you were doing instead of being on your job. I've got serious fat going on this week. And I'm not talking about me. Thank you.

So, a family out for a Mother's Day walk stumbled upon a huge gold nugget. They were walking the outskirts of the gold rush town, Bendigo Victoria. I'm sorry? A bendigo, Vendigo.

Bendigo. Bendigo. Bendigo Victoria. That's what I said. They're walking the outskirts of that. Bendigo. That's what I said. The gold weighs 624 grams,

about 20 ounces. Nobody knows how many, what, 600 and 3 grams? Nobody knows. The multiply the divide. A $37,000 nugget.

I mean, that's pretty good even if they were walking in Bendigo, Victoria. Where has Bendigo Victoria? over there by Italy Spain It's over there You know

When you leave this country It's over there The father said They took the nugget to a local supermarket What is he trying to buy food with his nugget Oh he just wanted to do it's the produce I guess he was probably looking for the scale At the produce department actually

You can weigh it Apparently the scale at the house doesn't work We're probably the only people In the world that have scales in our homes I think so too. I was about to say, of course, you idiot, but it's overseas. So, yes. Yep, we're probably the only, the, man, we are so obsessed with weight and our looks.

You probably have one in the kitchen, bathroom, and your room. I mean, so? Because that's the same what I have. So? I want in the kitchen, bathroom, and my room. All right, so we have a scale in the kitchen. Uh-huh. We have a scale, the bathroom.

Uh-huh. We have a scale that we use for out there in the front room We use for luggage and stuff when we're traveling Yep Then we have another scale that I used to use up You know, the triple beam for the drugs No, I don't have those scales anymore And to be, I mean, we joke around

But the scale in the kitchen is actually for food It's not a human scale Yeah, yeah, yeah Well, I mean, they may actually have a human scale That doesn't weigh that big gold nugget in it in Ben Digo Victoria Why is here with the Italian accent?

That's what it is. You said it's right there Bendigo Victoria. Yeah, but you don't have to. Such a need this. I mean, that's a good find. That's a good find. A lot of people would love to find that.

I'll tell you that. By the way, the mother was not walking with them. She was at home. Ooh, so you don't even have to tell her. It was him and his kids. Happy Mother's Day. look what we bought for you.

I bought you a gold nugget just for you. Or did you even tell her? That's, I mean, you have to, right? If you're out with a kid, you don't tell your mom. Whatever you do, don't tell you. Yeah, you know, you have to. You're dead. There's no way.

There is no way. All right, let's see. Game of Thrones. Yeah, yeah. They're doing Star Wars. People gossip. Oh, what people gossip for 52 minutes a day. gossip study

52 minutes a day 52 minutes a day 52 minutes let's see what this people spent nearly an hour each day gossiping but most of our behind the back chatter

isn't necessarily negative interesting so the average person gossips 52 minutes a day 15% of that gossip was negative we actually found the overwhelming majority of gossip

was just neutral. People just yapping. Three quarters of the conversation we heard in our sampled conversations was neither positive or, yeah, people are just yapping. They're just not talking about work, right? Women gossip more than men. I think we can just stop right there. We don't even need to go any farther into that study because I think we all would say women gossip

more than men. Oh, how dare you? There's a study right there that proved it. Study right there that proved it. As we continue through Fat Pile Friday, a New Zealand man found a 12 million-year-old footprint left by an extinct 500-pound bird. Wow.

A footprint. Let's see. New Zealand first settlers arrived in the country. At New Zealand. I used to like New Zealand. What happened? Yeah, the whole gun thing, but I don't want to go.

We're not getting political here on showing the fat button. We're going political. Chewing the back. Yes, New Zealand. Did you see the New Zealand Her with her interview with Christine Aminpour? I wanted to just

See, this is why I don't do politics on the show because I just want to get so angry. And I don't want to. I really don't understand the United States. Good. Stay in your own damn country. And you too, Christine Aminpoor, American hater.

I can't freaking. The Enormous birds stood twice. Oh, okay. Does we really have to have the ending? I mean, is that? Yes, that means we could. The compasses the report. The enormous bird stood twice the height of the adult man.

I mean, these are like the killer birds, the guy killed in Florida, right? Those, uh, what were they called? Imos? No, what they're emo-like. Remember they were called? The emu-likes. Yeah, they were e-bo. By the way, yesterday we talked about a guy.

with a crossbow is he trying to kill this bird? Apparently not. Well, he did. They're extinct. So he did. No problem. Crossbows are making a comeback though. You ever shoot one?

I have. They're really cool to shoot. You know what makes them really cool to shoot too? Especially like even in today's world that you have it's almost like a compound bow, you know, so it's not real hard to pull it back. They pull back easy. I'm sorry, but there's a lot of people in the audience that might know what a compound bow is.

and I feel like I need to ask you because they can't talk to you right now and our phone lines are not ringing. So what is a compound bow? Well, okay, so if you have a bow and arrow, if you just have a regular bow, a regular bow, you just have the bow and you have the string and you pull it back, right?

And you can only pull it back so far or depending on the whatever wood or type of metal or whatever you make the bow out of can only go back so far. With a compound bow, you have your bow, but you have the string hooked up with different pulleys.

So you can pull it back farther and easier. And most of them in today's world, the farther you pull back, the easier it gets. And you gain a little bit of strength when you let it grow. On that compound, I want to create some pressure more pressure. I mean, wow. I don't want to say that you're dumb, but why were the listeners not know that? But you have that same with the crossbows. You know, the old crossbows, you just had the bow and then you pull it back.

And I'm sorry. You'd pull it back and boom. Made that sound. There's gumpowder in there? Boom. No, not the gum powder. That's the sound you make when the bow hits. You know, when the string hits the bow.

But in today's world, they come back with that compound pressure on it. And those things fire hard, man. And they're fun to shoot because those arrows, who. And they are in you, man. Is that a cross? Yes, it is. Can you pull it out of my eye, please?

I used to have a friend of mine. We can go back to crossbow days that he used to show up. You know, he always brings his crossbow. What are you shaking your head for? Why are you shaking your head? I was just going to tell you a crossbow story. No, you don't want my crossbow story? You know what, we'll move on.

He was really fun to hang around with, though. He was just crazy. He used to come outside, come out back with his crossbow. And hey, crossbow had nailed the tree. I mean, he could have killed one of us. It's a good thing we, you know, we think we did. KFC story, we did that. We made up for that.

Child abuse, Amazon. We did that. Empire, we did that. Weiner released. We did that. Oh, this is the pile from chewing the fat on Pat Gray. This is not chewing the fat. Hidson.

We did the... This. Oh, we lost them. Tim Conn. We lost them. Did this. D.C. Bill would allow some residents to give parking tickets to neighbors. Oh, this is not a good idea.

You don't want your neighbors writing you tickets, man. This cannot be a good idea. to create more sidewalk and bike lane connections, new citizen traffic safety pilot program. Excuse me. I'm part of the CTSPP. I'm going to write you a ticket for parking wrong. Let's see.

These individuals would file a violation by taking a picture of the vehicle, documenting the time and location, submitting the information through an app. If the people in the program knowingly file a false violation, they will be given a civil fine of up to $100. Okay, I kind of like that. But then that still puts you through the ring or two is you have to prove your innocence.

So I'm back to not like that again. But coming to a neighborhood near you very soon. Man dressed as clown who offered children candy was celebrating his birthday and met no harm. Okay. I mean, a man caused a stir in a small Tennessee town this week when he approached several children. offered them candy while dressed as a clown.

I mean, in today's world. Do you have a van? Come on now. Where was his panel van? I thank you. Thank you. The windows were tinted? Or just painted black.

You know, the back two windows. Yeah. Bad. The incident had Clarksville, Tennessee, and I love Clarksville, Tennessee. I've got to, you know, I was in Clarksville because I took the last trade there. And someday you'll get that joke. And when you do, you'll laugh. the old man behind me laughed so he got it of course the monkeys the last train to clarksville that was a hit song from them wow don't you don't even know your music do you

police said they received calls from a pair of fifth graders who were saying hey someone took the last train to clark'sville So they were approached by a man in a gray or silver or sedan. Okay, so he didn't have a van. He just had a gray or silver sedan. And he had gestured for them to come to the car. Okay. All right. So the guy needs to be.

There's a little mental health issue here. I know he's trying to be nice and he's probably, you know, not worried. You don't have to worry about your kids getting hurt. But at the time, you see this guy dressed as a clown in his gray or silver sedan. saying, come here, little kid, want some emoji ursci bars? And you're thinking, okay, you're going down. So he had a face painted white. He was wearing a red nose.

And he was in several locations. It was Rudolph? It's time to go. According to police, though, he's an older man who dresses up once a year on his birthday as a clown and hands out candy. So we know who he is. He went to a couple of places to see Frank. and then they verified he was at those places this morning dressed up as a clown.

He's a nice man. Had contact with him. Hello. Everyone can now breathe. Thanks to those of us who helped solve the mystery. He's in the 70s. He's an old man. I think maybe someone needs to say, hey, old man that dresses like a clown.

This, I don't you birthday? Maybe we just, why don't you just not do that? that. Or let the kids come to you. That's not a bad idea either. Dress like a clown on your porch and the neighborhood can celebrate Mr. Dingleberry's birthday by going to you. But I like that idea.

Send out flyers or email the homeowners association, do whatever you got to do. Clarksville, they've got a mean homeowners association, man. You know what you took the last train from? You're correct. Yeah. That's why I got, that's why I took the last train out of there because the homeowners Association were bastards. You don't want to mess with them.

But I like that idea, though. At least, you know, or go to the, look, if the police know who he is, maybe the police help out and say, hey, you know, go walk through his neighborhood and he'll give you a piece of candy on his birthday. Early Halloween. Something. Just be nice to the old man.

He's in his 70s. Instead of having him some crazy old man in a clown suit driving his gray sedan around the neighborhood. Walk on, walk out, walk on. Hey, want some candy. little girl. Don't be scared of me, but get in. No, sorry, no.

I don't think that's on the news. Stop it. What's that? Stop it. The get in part? Yes. Stop it. You could have said that, though.

The kid might not have heard it, but he still said it. San Francisco here on Fat Pile Friday, chewing the fat. Thank you for coming along for the ride today. You know what? Before we move on to the fat pile, I need a drink, so let's do some Coca-Cola Zero Sugar and go to the break room, shall we? As long as we're in the break room, we,

had an opportunity to talk to John Chester, who's a filmmaker, and he's got a new film out for you to go see. It's, I loved it. And my daughter fell in love with them. It's called The Biggest Little Farm. They're calling it a documentary, but it really is just a, he's living, he's living an American dream. And he and his wife and his family. And he filmed his time moving from the city to this farm, the biggest little farm. and John Chester joins us here in the break room.

Hey, John. I'm quasi aware of farming. You know, I mean, I know a little bit about what goes on and what has to happen. And it was fascinating seeing the movie the biggest little farm, a film by John Chester, who himself is the man, who is decided that his American dream wasn't what he was doing, but was to become a farmer. And he's joining me now on Chewing the Fat and a quick little American Dream segment. When did you realize that you were going to do something that was different?

I mean, that American dream that was yours, your living, your American dream was to be that farmer over there. Well, first, the big parts that we missed here is that my wife had this dream, which then became my dream through a force of nature that is my wife. No, we were both really interested in the idea of, you know, building a farm that was, you know, regenerative in nature and that it would like, it was not just simply based on extraction, but actually building soil, building wildlife habitats back, and actually integrating the farm within a reawakened ecosystem and using that ecosystem to hopefully solve, you know, the challenges of epidemics of pests and disease that can break out on a real awakened ecosystem and using that ecosystem and using that ecosystem to hopefully solve, you know, the challenges of epidemics of pests and disease that can break out on. monoculture type farm. So yeah, we kind of wanted to do something that was like going to do this dangerous dance with nature that had not, it's not often tried, you know, and that was our very naive, altruistic dream.

So you, you were a filmmaker and you, you know, now you're doing your dream of the farm and you found your farm and you said, hey, this is, this is the place, this is it, this little plot of dirt, this dirt, this plot of dirt, and then, you know, the vision of what it's going to be. And it only took, what, a couple of days. And it's into that vision that you thought it was going to be, right? Right, yeah. Eight years later. I mean, it really took, first of all, the soil was completely dead.

It was so dead. It was white. It's, you know, it's spraying it, you know, get rid of the weeds. But, you know, we saw weeds and grasses as a way to build soil. So we brought that stuff back, but it took us every bit of five years to really see the life return and the biodiversity. And then here we are at year eight. And it's a little bit more balanced for sure. And what is more balanced, too, is our fear is in check.

You know, we know that there's great potential to collaborate now with the ecosystem on levels that we hadn't, you know, even begun to discover. Yeah. So the film, the biggest little farm, is out in theaters now. So you have an opportunity to see it. And it's, you know, if you want to know what it's like, go and see the movie. If you want to know what your grandparents told you talked about for years and years and years, go see the movie. But it took you, you know, you travel through eight years of time. In, like you said, it took about five years to really get the entire plan.

in gear. It might not have been 100%, but it was, you know, that vision was there in four or five years. Yeah. To see the return of the nature. When,

I mean, in that first, we'll say five years, what was it? Three years in, you're thinking, man, I could move back to L.A.

and just live on the beach and make a couple of movies. What was my wife thinking? Yeah. Suddenly the documentary film industry seemed a little easier. I mean, Yeah, there was definitely a lot of fear.

Both my wife and I, the arguments were very intense, and neither of us knew what we were talking about. So there was never really an end to the disagreements of how we got ourselves here. But there was, I mean, honestly, there was never a real thought that we were going to give up because you've got all these things that are alive and you can't just walk away from it. And, you know, even on its worst day, there's just so much more meaning and, you know, the ability to reconnect and understand the intricacies and the means. mutualistic relationships that exist in nature is just so, it's just so inspiring, you know. Did you ever think, you know, walking into it, did you ever think that you were going to become

so attached to, well, let alone the land in itself, but so attached to just animals and being, other beings that live on the planet with you that you become so attached to them? I mean, we see them every day and think nothing of, you know, becoming attached to them. I think I've always been sort of someone who's who's had an openness towards, you know, the, the plight that they go through. And I definitely think it's been even more revealing just to understand the nuances of what brings about contentment for animals. And they operate on the principles of purpose, you know, and that is their meaning and that is their contentment. and it's just fascinating. It's a very reflective experience, you know, that nature mirrors back to you about your own life,

the more deeply you try to understand it and accept the impermanence of it, you know, because it's not easy and it's ultimately all things are dying, including us, and that decay is what fuels all life, you know, and you begin to see purpose and death. So where are we in the feelings of the hateful climate change, world as far as climate change deniers and climate change. I mean, where your feelings on that are pretty extraordinary. I was really,

I was fascinated to, to read what you had to say about that. And then you can probably encapsulate it again for me. But, you know, the, speaking of the planet itself will be fine. Yeah,

I mean, I think, look, we have to look at the ecosystem is an immune system, you know, and I don't, I don't, I don't have the ability.

they say definitively whether we are influencing it or not. But I know that we have had a made dramatic impact to things like the degradation of topsoil and deforestation of 46% of the trees. Like, look, if we're affecting the stability of the immune system, then there are things with consciousness as a force of nature, which people are. As a force of nature with consciousness, we can reverse certain things, you know. And whether, you know, to avoid getting into the debate over climate change is unnecessary. the proof is in the loss of these finite nutrients are the things that give us life.

And there are farming methods that we should all be encouraging people to be innovating with to help future generations have soil. So now you've got your 10,000 orchid trees. You know, you're part of the apricot lane farms. You've got over 200 different crops. and you've got the animals that have, you know, like a couple are, you know, friends of the family, you know, between the pig and the rooster. You have all that. Let's talk a little bit about the actual process of filming this.

You know, eight years is a long time. And it doesn't, you know, obviously you look back and it goes by pretty fast. But how much footage? I mean, we talk about people making movies for two or three years, and I mean, how much footage you had to have been filming darn near every day, if not every day? I mean, it's ridiculous. We became the equivalent of a hoarder. Thankfully, you know, this all is digital now, or it would have been like a barn full of video. But it's somewhere between 80 and 90 terabytes of footage.

But, you know, in terms of like, we never thought, I never thought we were going to make a feature film. I just always documented little things that were fascinating to me. And I began to kind of see how that could weave together and what it all meant into the, integrated into the hole. I was like, wow, no one's told that story. But so I would only spend a few minutes, sometimes maybe an hour every other day shooting something. But over eight years, you know, that adds up. And I had interns that were helping me. And later, I brought in a couple of professional camera guys that I'd worked with to help, you know, sit on barn out boxes for eight hours or eight days and if something happened, you know.

How much, how much time between, you know, the farming and then you go back and you've got to, you know, prior to, obviously you brought in a little bit of help. I get that, but it's still you. you know, that's a lot of time. And there's only so much time in a day. I mean, I'm barely getting through as it is, and I'm not doing what you're doing, my man. It's unhealthy. Yeah, it's unhealthy.

It was an unhealthy experience. I got myself a couple's therapists out of it. Let's just put it that way. So we're talking to John Chester. The movie is the biggest little farm. It's out in theaters now, a must. You know, it's a family movie. I mean, it's, you know, award-winning film.

And John spent a couple of days making the movie, eight years of his life, eight years of he and his wife's life and friends and family and animals. Where are we at now? I mean, where do we stand now with the film's out. It will do what it will do. You know, things are looking, things are looking well. You know, I mean, they're okay. You're going to battle what battles you have no matter what. That's what farming is, right?

I mean, every day is some kind of new battle. Where are we at now? What does our look forward to the future have? Well, I think for me, like as a farmer, I'll answer that very personally. You know, I think I've become way more comfortable with the embarrassment that goes along with failure. And in the beginning of starting out, I didn't know that failure was a part of the process. And so when things happen now, we spend a lot less energy, you know, freaking out that this is the end of the world for us. And we realize that the time we take to really analyze and break down what happened and how it works and what's fueling this past or, you know, and really try to understand it, the more substantial and effect of our solution is.

So just not having embarrassment draining us constantly because that ends up turning into anger and fear and, you know, overreaction. We all go through that. We're a little more settled for the future. That's good. I mean, we all go through that, that's for sure. So when I was growing up, you know, at times you drive, you know, you're driving home down the country roads or down the, you know, down the roads into the city. And the different farmers had their, had their different goods out by the side of the road for sale whenever the, you know, particular product was good. That was, those, those were interesting times for me.

I mean, my dad always had a salt and pepper shaker in the glove box in case he wanted to stop and get some cucumbers or whatever else was for sale along the way home. How are you handling that as far as what are the trade wars doing for you, the tariffs? I mean, are we affecting any of that for you? Or are we just becoming, you know, we're hoping that the natural grocery business along with the local farmers is going to help you out? Well, what I would like to see is, you know, a more local food economy. I mean, it's, it's crazy to think how much food we grow here in Ventura County and how much of that food, you know, is shipped out to the U.S. and the rest of the world.

You know, so it's not going to affect us as much because our stability is based on our relationship with our local consumer. Right. And that's how farms like this work. Sure. You know, it's not a one-size-fits-all approach, but, you know, farms have this pressure to grow food for the world, and that is a unfortunate, myth of shaming that was done post-World War II.

And, you know, farms and farmers would love nothing more than to build to grow food for their community and to be able to eat the food from their farm. Many farmers can't, you know. They can't eat how many pounds of corn can eat, you know. They're going to grocery stores now where, you know, in 70 years ago, that wasn't even happening. Right. So you're down the road now, you're part of the, you're the farming, you know, you're the

farming man, the Chester's. the farming family. Do you feel like this is going to be your legacy now and your family is going to come right along behind you or are they going to go, man, I just want to be a documentary filmmaker and move back into the city? Well, my son wants to be a chef, which my wife was, a dancer, which my wife does. There you go. A farmer, a filmmaker.

And I hope he leaves a little room for his own dream. But he wants to be all those things. But one thing I was that he's really appreciative, like he's four. and he said to me, Dad, we're lucky. I said, why's that? He goes, because when I'm hungry, I just go eat off the tree. That's right. He's not kidding.

He literally will just eat directly off the tree. I'm like, you know, you could pick it first. Yeah, that's a fun in that. Yeah, like Willie Walker's Chocolate Factory for this kid. That's great. So the movie is the biggest little farm. John Chester is joining us here on Chewing the Fat. John, if there's one, the main thing that you'd like to have people take away from the film,

other than just, you know, enjoying it, which they will. You know, what's the main thing you'd like people to take away from it? I mean, enrich your life, you know, support local farms, you know, try to understand their methods and know that soil is the most precious thing we have on this planet. It really is the thing that differentiates us between Mars and the moon. And it's the regenerator of all life as we know it. And let's try to protect it because our health, you know, is better for it. And so is the planets.

I'll leave it at that, John. Thank you very much, man. I appreciate it. I know you're busy, man. I'll let you get back to it. Okay, this is the trailer. This all started with a promise that we'd leave the big city

and build a life in perfect harmony with nature. Like a traditional farm from the past. Here we are. Apricot Lane Farms. Molly and John are very happy about this. What do you think of this, Todd? This is what we're fighting. Our version of a farm would be different.

Plants, wildlife, livestock, all working together. Here they are. Emma the pig and Mr. Greasy the rooster. Friends for life. Right. We wanted to believe that everything had a purpose. We had our plan. And nature had hers. This feels overwhelming.

But even the pests have a role to play. And these are the opportunities that fuel our farm. We told us we were crazy. And sometimes they were right. Breaking news in California, six major wildfires. I can see a lot of smoke. We're starting to face new problems. We'll knock that fever down and then just pray.

We just don't have answers for it. No, no. Our land reawaken. This is a large chicken egg. We saw things that we had never seen before. Have you washed your hands, John? The hardships we face make the dream itself feel so much more alive. Please be careful.

Biggest Little Farm. Get to know this family with John Chester and his family. Fascinating. Have fun with it while you watch the biggest little farm. It's at theaters now. Look for it and go to see it. We have lost a little bit of control on Fat Pile Friday is really what's happening. But whatever, I don't mind it.

It's fine. You gave me creative control, right? That's fine. Is it bring it back? It's Friday. I don't recall ever saying you can have creative control. I just have kind of allowed it to happen. You said it.

It was kind of allowed it to happen. Because you said it. I guess that's kind of... Said it by not saying it. Yeah, that's... I can bring it back. So, I don't know. That's fine.

You don't need to play it again. Is that what you're saying? Oh, no. I can bring it back to the old, you know, Monday to Thursday's kind of sounders. Oh, no. This Stephen Foster, uh, turn of the century. 1800s stuff is great

love it just from the 1800s so that's what I said I know where the music is from I know when I listen to it I'm saying I know where I realize I don't know what a crossbow is but I got it

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maybe this weekend, you call everybody for a little family meeting and tell them to bring all their devices and you just do it together. Make it a family event. That's how we bring the family together. You bring them downstairs. You help them bring all their devices down. You know, if they can't carry the TV that's in their bedroom, fine. You could go up there with them.

But all the other devices, laptops, phones, iPods, all of it. And you just get together and as a family, each device subscribes to chewing the fat. I mean, tell me that doesn't sound like fun. Go ahead, tell me. That's what I thought. You can't. So a couple of animals that I'm questioning why they're on this planet. I love animals.

I, you know, I'm a fan. But there's a spider called the Triangle Weaver Spider. It turns its web into a slingshot. So instead of just building its web and the insects or humans crawl into the web, and he's got you or she it creates a slingshot with its web and it catapults itself toward you i mean it's prey uh there's uh there's any reason that this animal or insect or whatever you want to call the triangle weaver spider is alive on this planet i have no idea i do not want it on this planet it needs to go away and if you've ever i understand how people burn their house

this down with trying to kill bees and spiders and stuff because I've come close to that you know I've told you how I've got I never told that story no and actually this is one's where I would I like because I need to know okay there was one night I came home we were coming home and I was at my my my parents house and I was dropping them off at their house because I drove them to an event and we got out of the car and from the lamp post in the front yard you're pulling the driveway and there's a lamp post there yard light and then there's a you know another big bush and between that on the other side of the yard there. And so between the lamp post and the bush on the yard,

there's this giant spider web. And I mean, monster spider web. And so I'm thinking, well, you know, if I just, and I went and got some spray paint. And I kind of spray painted the web, you know, so you see where it's at because I want to see where it's all at and everything. And I'm thinking, well, I just, you know, if I just light a match on this bad boy, it'll just,

and I stopped just before me. I had the lighter in my hand. And then I realized that all that paint that I just sprayed out there, I'd have burned the entire, I'd burn the neighborhood down. It wouldn't have been the PG&E campfire out in California. It'd have been the Jeff Fisher Campfire in St. Petersburg, Florida, man. Because that was close. I was close to just lighten that bad boy on fire. And that's what happens, right?

People get upset. They find a beehive or they sign it, whatever, in their house. And if I just set this little bit on fire, they'll burn them, it will be done. Yeah. It's tough It's tough to put out once it started No, no, no, I gotta stop it Get the hose, get the hose

It's too late, oh no, call the fire department If you gotta call the fire department, it's done. You walk away. If you're lucky to be able to walk away. Wait, wait, don't walk away. Call the fire department still, though, don't just walk away.

You are lucky to walk away. Actually, we know the freaking whole town is ashes. Oh, you're done. That's what I'm saying. You got the easy. You still have to call them one one though. Just don't walk away. That's what I said.

I thought. Would you say just walk away? Yeah, if you've got to call that one one, I mean, hopefully you could just walk away, right? I mean, you can't. But you still have to call 911. I feel like you're saying, just walk away. Yeah, you just need to walk away. But you have to call 911, right? Of course. But if you don't have a phone nearby, just walk away. No.

If you can't get rid to the phone, I mean, Just walk away. Somebody will call. Somebody will call. You don't want them to know you were the one to start it. You're the problem with America. Back out of the driveway and just somebody will call. Maybe a couple hours your mom will call and say,

did you know our front yard was on fire? No. What? Also, I saw headlines as long as we're on, you know, insects and animals we want dead. Snake bites are the world's biggest hidden crisis. Now, I didn't know this. I didn't know this. One person dies from a bite every four minutes.

That seems like too much, to me. I don't know. I guess I could be wrong. It seems like too much. Now, there's a guy, Dr. Williams, an expert on snake bites at the World Health Organization. And, of course, why doesn't it? Of course, the World Health Organization has an expert on snake bites. and it's going to be Dr. Williams.

I love all his stuff and I read all his reports. It's wonderful. I love him. And he calls it the biggest hidden health crisis. Hundreds of thousands are left seriously disfigured. One person dying from a bite every four minutes. Many people need amputations. I mean, we need, do not get bitten by a snake.

Do not get bitten by a snake. 2.7 million cases of snake invenoming. It's poisoning from venom getting into the blood via bite or being sprayed into the eyes. Every year, 81,000 to 138,000 people die annually. 400,000, I'm sorry, around 400,000 people will suffer permanent disability. Venomous bites can cause paralysis. kidney or liver failure, fatal bleeding or amputation.

I say you see a snake. I think that's my new platform. Now, they will disagree with this, and many people will disagree with this, but it could be a new platform for chewing the fat. See a snake, kill a snake. What do you think? Did you see the footage, the video of the lady pushing the old man,

off the bus in Las Vegas I know we see Look I know we see video of people getting pushed and beaten up and shoved and knived and shot and every you know we get all every day

But there's some that just catch you And you feel like Oh just some but why didn't somebody do something You see now in the one story that I read The police are asking for people to come forward Witnesses It's not a bus They have footage

They have footage of it happening. And you see how the people report what they saw, but it really isn't what happened. Like one of the report says that the lady pushed the guy off the bus, and he later died of his injury. So, I mean, this caused his death. And it is, you see the footage where she is on the bus, yapping, talking. You know, it appears that she's talking loud. How can I tell that? I don't know.

I've just been around people that stand in crowds like that, that appear that they want to be loud and make other people uncomfortable. And that's their way to bully people. All right. And so you see as Serge Forney gets up out of his seat on the bus, he says something to Kadishabit. Bishop, the 25-year-old. Now, according to other witnesses, he said, why don't you just try to be a little bit nicer to people? Because she was up there, yelling,

hollering up people, telling people to hurry up. And so he grabs his, he's got a basket with wheels, one of those little baskets that people have that you take to the beach or you go shopping. No, it's not, it is not a walker. It is not a walk. Just because it says that in the story,

it's a walker. It's a, no, it's a, it's a, cart. It's like a basket with wheels. Yeah, that he uses to walk with. No. He uses it so that if he has merchandise, like from the store, the produce department, whatever, he can put it in there and carry it home. Wow. Ever don't go on to the beach with your little basket so you can carry stuff out to the beach? No, because I'm not a hundred, so I don't need a walker. You don't need to be a, it's not a walker and you don't need to be a hundred if you have a lot of stuff that you want to take with you on the beach.

How much stuff are you taking to the beach? You need to towel and what else? Yeah, towel and you have some other stuff. Like. Some stuff. Like. Like. Like.

You have buckets and shovels. For what? For the kids to play in the sand. So now we have kids now. Yes. That's why you would have a basket. I mean, and maybe the old man

was coming back from the laundromat and he had his clothes in his little basket and he was going to pick him up because it was empty. Anyway, so he goes to go out and he says, she shoves him out of that bus man. I mean, hard. And he falls.

Well, she killed him, so yes. Oh, yeah, but I mean, well, it caused his death. He didn't die right away. But I mean, it did some serious damage. Yeah. To this old guy. And as you, as you age,

falls don't do well to your body. I just a, What's your theory about the hip? Well, the hips, yeah. If your hip breaks, you're not long for the world. That's a shame. Now, there are some people that have, you know, I know Jimmy Carter, a former past president. You know, he just broke his hip and, you know, they're going to replace it.

And he's, you know. And RGB also break a hip? You know, did she break it? I don't know that she actually broke it. I have to look that up. But it's tough to recover for a lot of that. But I think I have a new theory about that. You know, the theories of you break a hip and fall, or I mean, you fall and break a hip,

the thought is, is that you fall and break your hip, okay, as an old person. All right? So. She broke her ribs. Okay. She didn't break the hip, though, right? She was a bruised or something. Yeah, it was her ribs and she didn't break the hip.

So she's still okay. She's still hanging. But I had a conversation with, well, your father-in-law. As a matter of fact, what was the guy I was talking with about this. And we had other things to talk about, too. Trust me. That about you. But this particular part of the conversation was about hip-breaking.

I am that fascinating to be around. I mean, do you think about wanting to go places with me? That's what we're talking about is hip-breaking. That is the fun I'm having. All right, so you're talking to my following a lot about hip-breaking? He changed your mind? Yeah. So he changed your mind.

He did change my mind. He saw I'm talking to, I'm talking to him. And we're talking about it. And he says that he believes that people do not fall and break their hips. People break their hip and fall. Okay. So when you get old and brittle, you're walking and your hip breaks and that you fall. You do not fall and break your hip.

The hip was already broken. And this came from Dr. Travis? This came from Dr. Travis. And I believe that he's 100% right. How? Because he's right. That's what happens. But how is he right about this?

He's right. Yeah, but what is the... That's what happens. Don't question the doctor. Well, I need to know the experiment. The theory. How was he able to get to that conclusion? The experiment is thousands of people who have fallen and they can't get up.

And they broke their hips. And they broke their heads. We see that television all the time. Help I've fallen and can't get up. Call life alert Right We see it all the time And actual footage of grandma

laying at the bottom of the stairs She didn't fall down the stairs And break her hip Which well maybe grandma did Maybe grandma is an exception Of the rule where she actually Fell down the stairs and broke her hip But the odds are

The odds are As Dr. Travis and I were discussing That grandma was at the top of the stairs Her hip broke How did her hip break? she fell. How did her? Why hits her? Because she's old and brittle. It makes more sense that she falls then she breaks because she hits something hard. No, as you get old, no. As you get old and brittle, it breaks. Go ahead. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. There's no argument against it. There isn't.

No, there is. I just don't know how, I don't have the words to, to, to, to. It's because you can't question Dr. Travis. Oh, I can question Dr. Travis and, no, we're done. And nurse Jeffrey over there. You do not what? Oh, I like that. I love polka. I was raised on polka. Every Sunday, you listen to the radio. You got to play, got to listen to polka. Because I was Frankenuth, Michigan, Germantown in Michigan.

My mom, every Sunday, got to listen to polka. I had to learn how to dance, little polka music when I was. I was a kid at wedding receptions. I can tell you some polka stories if you'd like. Don't shake your head of me. I don't want her. You can have her. She's too fat for me.

This is one of my favorite poker songs. All right, Fat Pile Friday continues. Although, I could just listen to Poka the rest of the day. Do you dance Poka? Do you know how to dance Poka? Yeah, so it's kind of a two-stepish kind of move. Almost like the, you know, are you hip to the, you know, the Texas two-step, right? Since you're living in Texas, you know how to dance the Texas two-step, right?

No? You don't know how to dance the Texas two-step? Are you a married man in the world? You ever dance with your wife? Do you not dance with your wife? No. Are you serious? Yes.

She does want me to go to this two-step, but I don't do that. Thank you, because she knows you're an idiot for. not knowing how to do it already. She knows. Oh yeah, she knows. She knows. She knows. She knows. You saw how at the wedding. Do you have, do you have, are you able to dance? I mean, do you feel? Are you able to? Do you have some sort of thing? Yeah, I got. Yeah, I got ankle problems. Oh, so you're using your so-called handicap to say that you can't dance? Oh, I got, I got, I got, what, they call that. Um, um, uh, dancer's ankles. I got that. You call that dancer ankles?

Is that what I call that? Yeah. Yeah. You have that. I have that. You got dancer, that's your handicap. Yeah,

that's my handicap. Dancer's ankles. Yeah. I thought it was a good thing to have dancer's ankles, but it's not at all. No, no, you do not want that. You get dancers ankles,

your dancer knees, hips back, all of it. Yeah. My wife has that actually. What? Denser hips? Dancer, all of it. Yeah. You got dancer all of it.

This one has that? Yeah. Oh, the other one. Oh, this one. Huh. So you're right. It's time. She was a bit...

San Francisco is the first city to ban facial recognition technology. You know, it does seem strange that San Francisco would be the first city to ban facial recognition technology. You'd think they'd want to know who was pooping in their streets. You'd think they'd want to know... You'd think they'd want to know who was pooping in their streets. Thank you.

You think they'd want to know who was, you know, you know, shooting up in their streets. But no, they don't. They don't want to know that. Isn't Silicon Valley in San Francisco? Well, it's close. So why? Why is this?

Why are you denying this? I don't know. Like, let him do it. I don't know. They think that it has something to do with their privacy. Apparently, they don't like. Now they care. Now they care.

Now they care. I would say put the cameras up and at least use, again, I go back to the reality show of the pooper scoopers. Why are you looking like that? What reality show? The reality show. Yeah, they were hiring people in the city to go around,

pick up all the... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they needed to film that. It's not a reality show. It wasn't a reality show. It was my reality show that I developed for them. Oh, okay. That's what I'm saying. It's a way for them to make their money back.

It was going to be expensive. So you, you know, you filmed them picking up the... And then what are you filming? You're filming them cleaning the streets of San Francisco. Yeah, but what's the point of me watching this? Am I looking at poop? Am I looking at the poop? Yeah, is you're looking at the poop?

Oh. Yeah, I don't think that's a good idea. I do. I think it's a tremendous idea. Nobody's going to log in and watch people picking up poop. I could not disagree more. This is the guy that has a freaking suicide something. That people will watch.

Oh, yeah, the suicide camp. Yeah. People are not going to watch someone picking up poop. Nobody's done that idea. That's a million-dollar idea. It is, but it's very difficult to sell that idea. Yeah, I know. For some reason, people don't like the idea of suicide.

I don't understand it either. Because it's a sin? You can't kill yourself, you know. Oh, okay. Bring it, bring in the religion now all of a sudden. Are you done? A next Minnesota City Council candidate. This is a fat part of Friday.

I've still got some fat in the pile here. An ex-Mnesota City Council candidate sentenced to probation for posting revenge porn on his campaign website. Have you done that? I agree. Not on this guy's website. Oh, I don't even know who this guy is. are you sure David Martinez

yeah I don't even know who he is sentenced on Friday says it's two years probation Big deal oh he's fine That's nothing So you put it on his website Probation and he was undergo Mental Health Evaluation

Okay well doing that And prohibiting him from contacting his wife Well he doesn't want to do that anyways Taking drugs and alcohol If he breaches the terms He's expected to be jailed up to a year What do you mean taking alcohol So he can't do drugs or alcohol

Drugs he can't drink Well you can't do drugs anyway Right, well, of course not. It's silly. He pleaded guilt to be charged in time with non-sincensual dissemination of private sexual images for breaching the state's revenge porn law. I was reading about the revenge porn law. A lot of states have that.

That is amazing. Yeah, they do. Why? Because all the people in office do want nothing to do with that. They don't want anybody revenge porn in them. That's why it's a law. And that's why it went through so quick. and that's why everybody just was there, man.

Under the cover of night. You aren't lying. They will approve it. It's part of that. Pass that bill and it's got the revenge porn law on it too. Okay, go ahead. That passed. A bill number one, two, two, two, two, two, two, passed last night.

Part B is the revenge porn. You did absolutely bad. Those guys are not, they do not want any part of that. That's a fact. Because, uh, there's a website that you could sell those pictures to. Really? Yes. I wouldn't, I wouldn't know about that.

Oh, I thought it was run by you. Why would people, I mean, this is so mean. Is it, though? It's so mean. It's in the word, revenge. Yeah, it's so mean, though. That's what you get for cheating on me. No, it's, no.

Yes. Yes. Everybody cheats. Okay, that's fine. Just don't get caught. She gets caught, boom. Why is it a she? Oh.

Because there's a number of females that tear up their male counterparts in this revenge porn world as well. It's different, though. It's different, though. It's different, though. A rule of thumb that perhaps you don't. No, don't do that. Nope, that's not possible. Absolutely, you have to.

It's a must. But I'm just saying that perhaps people shouldn't. You have to. That is a rule of dating. You must submit at least a couple of nudes a week. But I'm saying that is it. If you don't, you not have a feature in dating or you will be single for the rest of your life.

So you'll never hit that 2000 mark? You never hit that 2000. You were not even in a $100 mark. You're done. I mean, okay, so I, okay, let me say, let me go to this. Okay, so I'm with you on the, let's say, let's say I'm on your side on the, on the quick selfies. Okay.

On your side with that. We have, it's a must. It's a must. Okay. But what about the filming? You know, the actual videos. Oh, you don't, that's freaking, that's old school. We know, we, no one's doing that anymore.

Okay, so how are you revenge porning with just the selfies? I mean, a big deal. It works. So an example, like say if you wanted to do it, how would you do it? If you wanted to do, you know, those pictures that, you know, that your ex-girlfriend. Yeah, that you sent me. And I sent me out of love. Out of love.

Yes. And I was like, oh, I got you doing what? Oh, hell no. Go to revenge porn.com and you can submit. That the actual site? That is the actual site. I got to look it up. Was revenge gf.

Revengeg.f.com. gf.com. And you just submit. Revenge g, it doesn't. Revenge gif. Goet. We're getting in it.

You're going to look at what's going on here? No, it's not up. Revengeg.f.com. It doesn't come up here. Hold on. Oh, sorry. They changed it. Watch my GF.

That me. What? Watch my. IGF. Yes. This site is blocked due to contact filter. What? Come on.

Well, you can't search porn in the company website. This is not porn. This is work. Plus revit. This is unacceptable. This show is over right now, man. This is completely unacceptable. How can I not see?

I'm doing a show. We're discussing what, happens at how people go about this and I can't get to a particular website unacceptable i tell you to have a nice weekend but i can't even get to a website seriously ticks me off