Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 200 | Fun Cities in America, Flesh Eating Bacteria, & Homeless Program

Episode Date: September 17, 2019

The numbers are in and here are the fun cities in America. If you want to not be homeless you can move to Arkansas to pick up trash for the state or move to Florida to become a python hunter. Stu joins the show to discuss flesh eating bacteria and his vacation. Thanks to Alisha for the almond cookies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to worry about here in the United States. It's Russia that has to worry. A massive gas explosion has sparked a fire at a Russian lab that houses viruses ranging from smallpox to Ebola. Don't worry about it. It's a state research center. It just exploded.

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So those of you living in the area of the contamination zone, good luck. God bless. And a very, very important reminder here. Keep away from eyes that bleed. Don't lick vomit off the street. And I know you don't want to die. So slowly back away from that infected guy.

Stay an Ebola free. Stay an Ebola free. I love this. Don't eat that raw meat and see. We'll all be Ebola free. Our friends at Wallet Hub gave us another great list of the most fun cities in America. Now, you can guess who number one is. The most fun city in America?

Las Vegas, Nevada. Of course. But as you head down the list, some are a little surprising. Like a number two The home of Chris Cruz Puerto Rico? No, the real home, the American home. Orlando, Florida?

This is America. Puerto Rico is America. It's America. Orlando, Florida? That's correct. Nice. I think it's at Disney. Wallet Hub determined that they included

182 cities including the 150 most populated U.S. cities. plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state. And they rated them with entertainment and recreation, nightlife and parties, and costs. Yeah, I mean, that's Orlando, number two. Number three, New York.

DFW. Oh, well, see, that's the thing, right? Okay, so we'll get to that because New York is number three, all right? And then you drop down to Miami, Chicago, Atlanta. I mean, I've only seen people smoking, crack, and parking lots in Atlanta. that's a party city right and the lent also has all the movie sets San Francisco

no problem it's party city no no not not what I put in the ear no okay it's uh it's uh it's a it's poop and needles poop and needles oh okay sorry

who would surrender to make the party not the other one you sure that was in my ear that was in your ear yeah and uh I may sure I told you that in your ear Portland Portland, Oregon? Come on.

Yeah, that's because of that TV show, Portlandia. Stu loves that TV show. Yeah, but that doesn't make it the... Yes, it does. That doesn't make it the fun cities in America. People see that TV show and they're like, oh, let's go to Portland, Oregon. San Diego?

Oh, yeah, that's a military town. Los Angeles. Hollywood. Hollywood. Austin, Texas. Number of coming in at number 11, Austin Texas. That's Silicon Valley. Yeah, plus Austin's been, though, the music.

I mean, that's music city. That's where they do the, what's a, South by Southwest, yeah? Correct. By Southwest. Yes. So, yeah. But see, when you talk about like DFW, right?

Well, they break them up because they did the cities. They do Dallas and Fort Worth. They don't put the Metroplex together. They did that with Tampa as well. Right. So Dallas is 26th. Well, there's a lot of poop and needles on there too. Fort Worth, I think, is all the way down to, yeah, 54th.

Not much happened No fun town of Fort Worth No fun Even though Dallas is getting the Uber headquarters They could not go up Even if it was pre-Uber Oh okay yeah But they did that with Tampa Bay as well

What do you mean they did that with Tampa Bay They broke it up They broke what up This Tampa Florida itself is 16th All right And St. Petersburg is down here In the 30 Are those supposed to be together?

Yeah. Really? I didn't know that. St. Petersburg is 46. So it's just like DFW, right? Dallas, Fort Worth should be as one. A one, yeah. Tampa Bay.

Tampa Bay should include, you know, Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater. I mean, that's Tampa Bay. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Well, now you do. Now I do, yeah. I mean, that is Tampa Bay. It's not surprising either that I didn't know that.

I mean, it's, why isn't it? You lived in Florida. I'd never lived in the West Coast. of Florida. I visited when I lived in the West Coast. I don't know what happens.

You lived in Florida. I lived in central Florida. Not in the West Coast. You lived in the state of Florida. You should know this. I should know about the states that you live in. Absolutely not.

I just live in them. So what was one in two and three? So I could write that down for the show description. What was one? Number one is Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Number two, Orlando, Florida.

Number three, New York, New York, baby. And number 11, Austin, Texas. So, I mean, New Orleans is coming in and number 12? Yeah, where's New Orleans? Number 12. Nice. Okay. What about?

Almost got thrown in jail in New Orleans a couple times. Why? Not a bad city. They said I made a wrong turn. Did you make a wrong turn? Well, that was in the middle of night. It's like 3 a.m. We're pulling into New Orleans.

And, you know, there's no traffic. There's no traffic. And then the police officer thought that my friend had a warrant out for his arrest, which he did not. Uh-oh. Which he did not. Because he had to explain that that is his father, not him. He is a junior. Junior.

So looking for senior. Dad. Senior. Dad is the one that had the warrant out for his arrest. I mean, yeah. What are you going to do? Where's that Alpine Utah? I doubt Alpine Utah is on this list.

It's just a guess on my part, though. Plano, Texas, 82nd. We'll go through here. We'll see if we can find Alpine Utah. Why are you talking about it? That's no way that's in the top 182 of cities in America. What about Fargo, North Dakota? Fargo might be on this list.

Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska is 130th. Casper, Wyoming, 141. So Fargo, Fargo, North Carolina, coming in at 140. Fargo, you could party in Fargo, 140th out of 182.

Irving, Texas. Where's it at? 145. 145 in a party city. There we go. Isn't this like the most diverse city in America? It is.

You got, you know, behind you, you got the Koreans, in front of you got the Indians, on the sides. You got the Mexicans, and the white people are nowhere. Grand Prairie Tech.

Texas, 153. That's tough. Have you find my Alpine, Utah? There's no Alpine. No, Alpine did not make the list. Unless I passed it by, West Valley City, Utah made the list at 146. This is big city keeping Alpine Utah there. I don't like this.

What about Silicon Valley, the real Silicon Valley? Did it make on the list? Utah, you know But there should be some other cities in Utah That made the list, right? What about mine not North Dakota? Boise, Idaho, 59th. I like Boise Idaho, that's a pretty city.

Any Michigan's? That's a pretty city, ooh. Any Illinois? Gotta be Michigan, right? I mean, there are some cities in the top ground. Amarillo, Texas 101. Ooh, why would you want to go there? Where's that?

Missoula, Montana, 105. Wow. Salt Lake. No, Salt Lake. Yeah, that's what I mean, those are, those are heavy cities, right? They've got to be on the list. So they've got to be way down here. Maybe down here in Irving, Texas land.

Yeah, maybe they're next to Irving. Way down. Who's the last city? Who's 182? Pearl City. Pearl City, Hawaii. Huh. There's got to be a, hold on.

Why isn't Salt Lake on this list, right? That's a big city. West Valley City. Right. Glenn is about to do a show there in December. It's a beautiful city. I fell in love with that area when we were there the last time.

I mean, I could live there. I'm still rooting for Alpine, Utah. Yeah, no, Alpine Utah's not... Alpine Utah did not make the top 182. It does not look like it's... I call... I demand, not call, I demand a recount because I like Alpine Utah.

Oh, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Dallas, too, somewhere along the Lardel Center. Salt Lake City, Utah. number 22. It's up there. That's pretty up. I know. Yeah.

I'm a fan. All right. But no, no Alpine, Utah. That's fake news. It's fake news. Alpine didn't make the list. Population of 10,000, I think it was? Yeah, it's not making the list.

All right, if you're looking for a couple of ways to make some money, I'm here to help. And no, don't be silly. Not that way. I'm looking, you can move to Arkansas. For example, Arkansas is paying homeless people. You can just tell them you're homeless. I don't know how they checked that out.

Are you homeless? Yeah. They smell you. Well, when you go to apply for the job, rub a little poop on your face. Smelling salts or something. Go to San Francisco, rubbing the poop, and then come to Arkansas.

I think you could do that without going to San Francisco, but, you know, if you want to go to San Fran, go ahead. $9.25. $0.25 cents an hour to collect trash. That's not bad. That is not bad. Just walk around... You're already walking.

Walk around Little Rock. You already have the shopping cart. It's dubbed Bridge to Work. Whatever. We're super excited about what has gone on and we hope to be able to keep the momentum going. Yeah, that'd be great. That's really good.

That's really good. Start putting those homeless people to work. All they do is, what's that called, pandering? Penhandling. Yeah, that too. They do both. Yes, they do. Yeah.

And all the one is my money. Either way, that's all they want. That's the only one. Here's $9. That's not a bad gig. A total of a $130 sites have been cleaned. $256 bags filled with trash. 1,821 hours worked since the program started.

So you got a couple thousand hours at $9 an hour. 25 an hour. You're paying the homeless people. I mean, without insurance, now you've got homeless people paying taxes. I mean, I'm sure I'm positive they're filling out their taxes. Right. Right. Well, I don't think you ever make the minimum to file taxes if all you're doing is $9 an hour.

I don't know. You're putting in eight hours a day, five days a week? Come on. It's a government program, so I don't think they're doing it five times. week. A lot of barriers that are people experienced to go from homelessness and panhandling to full-time work. They're calling it full-time work.

The Bridge to Work program originally was planned to last just six months. See, they were cutting a short so you didn't make the money. But will it be extended to go through the end of September 2020? So, yeah, the 380 people who joined the work crews with the homeless people are like, no. I had enough. So according to the stats, 380 people joined the work crews, some joining more than once.

No. What? So they work for a couple days, a day, make some cash, they're done. That's it. Then they come back. We come back later.

Give me a different name. Do you look like the guy that was here a week ago? No, that's my brother. That's not me. That's my twin brother. That's not me. I'm Joe now. Today's my,

today my name is Joe. Tomorrow, my name is Bill. And how do you verify that? Exactly. They're homeless. Exactly. So you smell this one?

Okay. I don't know. I don't know. You smell like the guy that was here last week under the name of Bill. I mean, you got to take their picture, right?

I mean, that's what you do with that at stores. Look at you. If you serve trespass warrants. You've been like Hitler right now, taking pictures. Yeah, you want their picture so, you know, you know that they're... Wow.

Next year you can put them a star on their homeless patches. I mean, we got to tell who they are. It's for their own good. How dare. Next thing you're going to start putting tattoos on them. It'll be free work. The city will pay for the ink. Next thing, you're going to put them on trains and stuff and ship them out.

You racist. They might work in different cities. You want to be able to have transportation for them to be able to be. pick up trash in other cities. That's a good work program. You get a little crew. See, a smart homeless person, what we'll do is get a crew together and goes to the little government place.

I mean, like, I got a crew of 25 people. Ten bucks a dollar. Let's give me $500 and I'll divide it up between the 20 people. And then you don't do no work. You put it in 500 bucks in your pocket. Give us a lot. Give us a lot to clean. Give us a lot to clean.

Clean, if you know, here's a bag of booze. There's 20 bucks. And then you're done. 20 bucks, get out of here. Yep. Thanks for the, thank you. Take care. Now that is a smart homeless person. I mean, that's what, that's the, that's what they did for years out of prisons too, right?

I mean, they get the, the, they make the prisoners work. And they just take, you know, they feed money to the prison for the work of prisoners, which I'm not opposed to, by the way. Let's go. Well, we're paying homeless people. We got prisoners that could be picking up. trash for us. And but you use the problem, they lost their freedom once they broke the law.

So I want them to be working, but making license plates. You make license plates and break rocks. That's all you should be doing. I don't know. Chain gang, man. Put them a long highway. Let's go. Oh, that is old school.

That's old school. With a sheriff at the end with shotgun. Good working out. People here's a problem. Clear the land. People see that. They get scared. They don't come back to the city.

That's probably why Alpine, Utah. It's not the fun of the TV. What is your deal with Alpine, Utah? I don't know. You know what? I don't know, but Alpine Utah has a place in my heart. And I'm upset. Do they have a place in our heart on the show?

They do. They do. Excellent. About 1,100 of them. Excellent. Alpine Utah is what represented in our podcast platform. We're fans of Alpine, Utah. The only problem having is there's an Alpine, Texas.

Oh. And we only have one listener from Alpine, Texas. That's probably the one person from Utah that moved here. So you had to go to Alpine, Texas? Oh, baby, you got to... So you can become homeless and pick up trash in Arkansas, or you can go to Florida, which, I mean, why not? Arkansas, Arkansas is beautiful.

I didn't think Arkansas was that big of a deal until I went there and you go there, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful state. Is that when you got robbed by the gold people? No. Was that after or before? No, that was before Before

The first time I went to Arkansas Yeah, yeah, yeah Now you're right You're right Now they've set up They've set up the highway robbery At the gold park Oh, you could find diamonds here

No problem They gave you proof Shut up They gave you proof a month ago That there's diamonds in that mine So So you go to Florida And you can become a python hunter

Hello Is that just for homeless Or can anybody come home? Anybody. Oh, Anybody. Yes. Okay.

So the hunters are part of the state's Python elimination program. And so far they've removed more than 2,500 Burmese pythons since 2017. Wow. I mean, that is removing some snakes. More than a thousand. What's that? Do we know where these huntings are happening? As far as I know, it would be the Everglades.

Yeah, the glades, yeah. More than a thousand aspiring hunters hoping to get a chance to remove the invasive serpent from the Everglades applied for it. They've got 25 new openings more than a thousand people applied. But they're spreading it out. They're saying, well, you know, maybe we'll, eh, we'll bring in some more people, more than 25. Now, this is where, this is kind of a problem. You only get 8.65 an hour to hunt pythons. But you get bounties and bonuses based on the length of the python.

Yeah. So Swift mud, Southwest Florida Water Management District, says that an extra $50 is given to each python measuring up to four feet. Okay. Plus $25 for each additional foot. So hunters can further collect a $200 bonus for each python founding a nest of eggs. So if you get a 16 foot python guarding a nest of eggs, you're making some cash. on top of the 865 an hour.

I mean, that's amazing that they've already, how many of they've already taken out of the average. So the average Python is, oh, hello. I thought it was like four feet, no, it's 3.7 meters, which is 12 feet. We don't know how long,

we don't know, we can't tell how. Next to it says 12 feet. Oh, okay. So that's a big ass python. So you got a chance to get a 50 bucks on top of whatever you get in. paid. So they also have removed other snakes, but they've eliminated over 3,000 pythons to date. I mean, come on. Can you keep the skin? Because all of them keep the 50 bucks if they let me keep

the snake. I could sell for boots. I could sell, you know. I mean, if the snake you get to keep, right? Can you? It doesn't say. It's homes up. Everglades. A lot across much more habitat. and direct us leave no stone on turn to eradicate the predator. Last month announced significant increase in resources to remove the invasive snakes along with the python hunt. Yeah, it doesn't say whether you get to keep the snake or not. I mean, I guess. You should be capable to keep it.

What is the freaking wall protective searchers going to do with it? The vast majority of pythons removed have been under four feet in length. That kind of stinks. Now you're just working for kill them for the 865. totaling 787 of those. They've included over 500 between 7 and 8 feet. 37 of them between 14 and 17, and only three have been recorded over 17 feet.

Wow. Now, it doesn't say how many they've caught around their nest of eggs, though, that they're giving. I mean, you get a couple hundred bucks for finding their nest. That's pretty sweet. So anyway, there's a couple of ways for you to make some cash if you're hurting for money. You just got to move to Arkansas or Florida.

Again, good luck. God bless. Here's a smart man for you. A spokesman for the Oregon lottery when talking about this man said he hasn't agreed to any interviews or to release any images of himself. So you're just going to have

to imagine the grin on his face when he found out his winnings. Well, this man has been playing the same lottery numbers and tickets every week for, I don't know, years. He's battled cancer a couple times. He always tells the wife, hey, give me the winning ticket. And so one week he doesn't tell her. She picks up the ticket.

That's the winning ticket. But it was only four million. I mean, I say only. I mean, after taxes and everything, he takes up $1.5 million? Puff. Nothing. I mean, what it? Okay, so I'd take it.

I wouldn't say no, hey, keep the 1.5 Oregon lottery. But good for him. And it's a good idea to keep him. People don't need to know who I am. Okay. If you have to print my name, fine. But no pictures, none of that. That's fine.

And this is where they always try to kill you to play the lottery. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot. one in 302,575,350. You know, that's still worth a shot, right? That's still worth a shot. So this study cannot be real. I'm sorry, we're going to have to delve into it a little bit more. So I just saw this headline.

Survey finds one in 16 women call their first, Sexual experience, rape. More than one in, I know, more than one in 16 women consider their first sexual experience to be rape. A survey of 13,310 American women from 18 to 44 years old reported their first sexual experience was rape. 6.5% reported their first sexual experience. The average age of those respondents at the time was 50%. while the average age of their assailants was 27.

Those who experienced rape as their first sexual encounter were found to be more likely to have a variety of health problems, including unwanted pregnancies and abortions. It's quite alarming, and that's just the tip of the iceberg, because this study is only including women aged 18 to 44, said Laura Hawks, the head author of the study and Research Fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance. The researchers analyzed data set from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention

and asked details about respondents for sexual encounters for the study. They noted the data was collected before the Me Too movement. So more women may be willing to come forward now. And if he saves one woman. Boy, that seems awful high. One in 16. Now, don't say that one. Say the other one.

What? You're smiling and smirking? So whatever made you smile and smirk after the transition word? don't say that thing, say the other thing that was right after that thought. I probably shouldn't say either of them. Oh, no? Okay, then this is move on.

If we're going to be honest about it. But it gets one thinking. It does. It gets one thing. It does get one thinking. I don't think I dated 16 people, so I'm good. That's sad. Don't, don't.

Have you dated more than 16 people? Well, see, dated is a hard word. No, it's not. Dated is a difficult word. Actually, you know what, you're right? What is dating? Right. Is it like, hey, let's have a cup of coffee?

Is that a date? Right. Or do we both have to agree that we won on a date? Because I've got another study that talks about how much couples spend on dating, which is an amazing amount of money. Let's go to that one. They start counting dates as pre-marriage, and then they say they're still counting dates after you're married. No, you don't have dates. You do, though.

No. Yes, you do. Once you're married. No. No, no, you don't. You have dates as a marriage do. Just like, is... No, that one.

See, when I tell you things in the ear, see, I don't know if it's in my ear. It is in the ear. Let me do it. Don't say that one. Just like the first one about the San Francisco. Don't say this one on the air either. Well, what I was thinking about

on the one in 16 women was I would be interested to know looking at the... Looking at the study, I would be interesting to know what they consider rape. It should be the definition of rape. Don't give me that. I know that, but I would be interested to see what the study. Oh, I'm so mad right now.

I'm so mad right now. Because the study for rape about kissing is rape. That's possible. Or like she said no and he stopped. That's still rape. it's possible that's what they're considering in this study and if it's that if that is true then that study is a little bit in the fake news

because rape defined has to go into more details other than just a kiss or when the guy goes for it she says no that's not rape and in today's world that is rape I know I mean No

Go to the next study Because I'm interesting to see if I'm gone on dates with my wife now So I don't think I've gone to the date All right So the average American Spence I will move on I will move on

I will because I'm still Working through some thoughts on me too And maybe you can call the CTF hotline And explain you know You know That's probably a pretty good idea This is one of the reasons why we have the CTF hotline Which is 214-735-9356

powered by Patreon mobile. You can leave voicemails on the CTF. Yeah, what do you think about this one in 16 women? If you're a woman, please call us. Let us know. Yes. Because we want to know. And then we're going to transition to the dating.

And over there, the married people, we know that, you know, there's not many of you guys because over the weekend, I got like 300 text message of you all single people. Look for the dating app. Dating app. Yeah. Maybe we should fire one up. Maybe we should. Maybe we should.

Maybe we should fire one up. The CTF dating app. and let us know if this dating after marriage is a thing. So the average American, according to this, in their lifetime, spends $121,082.802.40 on dating. That's not bad. A poll of 2,000 Americans found that on average dating will cost $168.17 a month. And that is a normal day. That number increases for married folks who average $185.65 a month.

Okay. So now, I mean, dating, I guess you're going out to dinner, you're going to a movie. Yeah, because, like, for me, dating is either like a movie and dinner, dinner, dinner and a show, a concert. That would be a show. No, because a show for me in my house is, like, I don't know, the bad. LA, that's a show. And I'm going to one to the Nutcracker. So you're spending more than 168 bucks for those tickets, my friend.

Groupon gave it to him for $23. I'll be seeing the nosebleeds, but hey. Oh, yeah, well, that's because you're cheap. Yes. It's called Groupon. It's called, it's called, you're not willing to have an experience provided by sitting up close. Yes, I am.

I get a sim experience from the orchestra. We can't see. What are you guys doing? No, they give us a little binoes. Oh, yeah. They give you those? Yeah, they give you those. I didn't realize they gave those away.

Yeah, they're like on the side of the, yeah, the bleachers. Right. Uh-huh. So, I mean, it does, when you're married, you're supposed to, I mean, you're right there. You said you don't go out on dates when you're married, but you're, you are going out on a date. You're taking the wife to ballet, even though you're going to be in the building next door watching the show. As soon as a bino's, she's happy. Sad.

Like tonight, we're going to the movies. We're going to go see the goldfin. Oh, yeah. We're going to go see that. You know, thanks to one of my close friends, I get tickets for five bucks. So me and her, and then she doesn't have to pay. So five bucks, I'm going to the Harkins Theater right there in 170. So how long are you going to have this connection at the theater before they get fired?

For a while? For a while. Really? So if you're interested. family member? If you're interested, just let me know. It sounds to be on Tuesdays only, though. Oh, they only work one day a week.

Yeah. Okay, well. Yeah. It's better than nothing. Wow. So, and then we wait. I want to get back to what we consider a date, though, pre-marriage. You know, because you said, like, this says 16, right? 16.

You said you hadn't been on 16 dates? I haven't dated 16 people. Right. Yeah. That's sad. But then I got to. to thinking, I don't know that technically I've dated 16 people. Exactly.

There's been numerous amounts of togetherness, you know, but some would consider that a date. Others would may just consider that, you know, swiping right. I don't know. In today's world, the CTF date line. Yeah, in today's world, you're swapping right. And that's not, is that a date? I don't think so. I don't think it is.

I just think it's a number. But I don't think it's a number that goes into like. Right. It can't be considered a date. No, I don't think so either. That's not, I mean. A date, for me, you have to go to dinner and something else. Maybe a coffee and something else.

I'll take coffee. You have to adjust some sort of, some sort of. Some sort of liquid? Something. Okay. So. You do have to adjust some. So coffee, a bar, a restaurant.

Having said that, maybe swiping right is a date. True, true. True. True. I just, I just, is where I'm at right now. I just, the average American studied revealed they spent $64 a month on grooming to look good for their date, even if they're in a relationship or married. My name's only $25. bucks.

New shirts. Oh, that too? I mean, that's, well, that's not grooming. That's not grooming. So that's hair cut and a shave. Yeah. You know. So maybe 30 bucks a month.

He used to be 150. Shampoo, body washes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm already there. Right. I got beer oil, beal bombs, beard, scented. So the $25 haircut lady has just soaked you with buying

and their goods on the shop at the place. I hate her. And she's adorable. What you really do is I use this. Yes. I use this. She's like this 19 year old cute blonde and she goes and just massages my face.

I'm like, I'll buy that. Yeah, I use this. That's $25 right there. So I'm already $50 down on the one visit. So don't even get me. I only spend $25 for the hair. Well, that's the membership. It's $25 a month.

Now she comes with a brand new lotion that she just rubs in my cheeks for, Some kind of miracle growth. I'm in. You know when I stopped buying that stuff from them? I remember sitting down at the grooming center and looking off to the side at their workstation,

and I see just this little kind of statue. What's that in the corner? And it's a little trophy that says, no. Congratulations on being the top seller of all their goods. I thought, I'm done. I'm done. You're not, you're not tricking me anymore. So over the course of this past year, I've done what feels like hundreds.

It's only, you know, maybe half a dozen stories on flesh eating bacteria and people suffering from flesh-hating. eating bacteria. So earlier today on the Glenn Beck radio program, I heard Stu, and for whatever reason, I continued to listen because he was on the air, he gave some numbers on the flesh eating bacteria because he's going on vacation. So I know you're getting ready to get out of here, so I'll let you go. But I just wanted to get the numbers from you because it feels like the flesh eating bacteria is everywhere and every piece of water that we even breathe next to. God forbid you turn on local news here in Texas. It's like, you know, there was a really tragic death of a young girl who died of what they think was flesh-eating bacteria.

And there's been plenty of, there's been a couple of stories where they have died and got really sick in Florida. And I think there was one in the Carolinas as well not long ago that was really bad. Most of those, I will say, had some sort of open wound on them. Yes. That is the big thing that they say, if you want to try to stop, you know, any possibility of getting this. that's a precaution you could take. Although a precaution you should take anyway, I don't want to be swimming in whatever body of water you're in with an open wound, weirdo.

So you're going on vacation. You're going on vacation and you're going to be close to some body of water here on the planet. Near the ocean, the Atlantic. And you're saying, they're telling you that you can't take the kids swimming. No, well, my wife, she's freaking out. She's watching local news here. And she's like, I just don't think you should take him swimming. I'm like, we're going to a beach house.

Like, I have to. to take them swimming for nothing to do. There's the ocean is right there. Right, like it's right near the water. Go play on the beach. Don't get sand. Don't get sand. Like, like, there's no way I can make this argument to two kids six and eight years old. And so I was like, well, what can I do about this? Now, when we think about the things differently, you know, Lisa, she doesn't, she's not like a statistical nerd. No, no, it's how you feel, right? Right. You look at some of that stuff. I'm the same way. Jeffrey, you know, we talked about this just the other day. Go back to 2001, September 11th. You know, we're planning to do the shark tank thing.

why? Because it was shark attack, you know, moral panic about there was too many shark attacks in Florida. And then at the end of the year, you'd find out, actually, it was below average. Couple people. Yeah. I mean, so this is what's going on with flesh eating bacteria. Look, it's super scary, right? If you are to get it and have to deal with it. But here's the stats you're talking about.

There's 118 million people who go swimming in oceans, rivers, and lakes every year in the United States. So that's, it's, I didn't include pools because, you know, there has a, you know, there has, been any cases at all. So just oceans, rivers, and lakes, 118 million people, there are only 205 cases of flesh-eating bacteria in the entire country. Now, 205,000, not 205. Like, 205. Now, 205 still is too much flesh eating bacteria. By a lot. Okay. So the main issue is, and I didn't know this going into the research, is that 90% of flesh-eating bacteria cases come not from swimming, but from eating raw oysters. Oh, I didn't know that either.

Much more dangerous for you when it comes to the flesh eating bacteria, which is really scary. I mean, first of all, raw oysters, what are you doing? They're disgusting. You shouldn't be eating them anyway. But, I mean, if you do eat them, you're putting yourself at a much higher risk of this. Now, if you do get it, which is a really small percentage, only about 85% of people who get it survive it. So you're most, about about six out of seven people will survive it. So the odds are if your immune system is pretty good.

Yeah. You're okay, right? It's only, people who die are elderly usually and compromised immune systems. At the risk overall, 0.00002%. And that is you are 3,462 times more likely to die from falling from your bed than bloodshitting bacteria from swimming. I feel confident. Now I sent all this to Lisa. No response.

So I don't know if I'm going to get home and she's going to give me the whole speech about how I don't care about your stupid numbers. That one poor girl had those numbers in her favor too. And of course it's true. But the point is like taking the car from the airport is going to be thousands and thousands of times more risky than going swimming in the water. And honestly, when it talks swimming in the water, the risk is drowning. It's not fleshing bacteria. It's drowning. And you know, you have a really crappy dad who's there watching, so anything could happen. So, anyway, have fun on your vacation.

I will. And good luck making it to the ocean, because I'm foreseeing the entire vacation, poolside. Download and subscribe to more. At the blaze.com slash podcasts. Welcome to dessert on chewing the fat, CTF. remember that if you have comments or you want to become part of the CTF dating app or you want to tell us your thoughts on one in 16 people, their first sexual experience was rape.

You can do so by dialing 214-735-9356. It's our CTF hotline powered by Patriot Mobile. One thing I thought was really fascinating today was I get these emails, you know, with information and updates and what's happening and stuff. But this I found was really cool. You know the Bluetooth logo. Logos that you don't really think anything of, you know, it's just that's the logo.

That means Bluetooth, right? It's on your phone. A tech company, that is named after a Danish king, Bluetooth. Okay. It managed, the king managed to unite people in both Denmark and Norway, similar to how this company's technology.

allows devices to communicate wirelessly. This had to be put together by the company. And the logo for Bluetooth is a combination of the King's initials H&B. And it's from an ancient alphabet, the Bluetooth logo. Now, I know all of you, don't pull into the, don't hit the guardrail as you're looking at your phone for that Bluetooth logo going, what? It's an agent. It's a what?

Yes, that's exactly what. That's exactly what it is. That's your blue. I'm doing the same stupid thing. Yeah, it's an ancient to be. It's an ancient alphabet. So there you go. Little, you know, just a little information for you on chewing the fat here on dessert.

All right, so we got cookies. We got cookies from Costa's Greek eatery and pizzeria from Pompano Beach, Florida. I'm right, I love it from delivery, minimum of $15, $2 charge. I mean, okay. Let's just hook up with Uber Eats. Signed to deal with that. What do I know? There's a private room available for your big fat Greek weddings and other occasions.

She sent a, I got a full menu here of the Giro sandwich lunch special. The Giroz, Slovakia, pizza, salads, sandwiches. And we just got cookies? Costa's right. Thank you. I'll tell you what. The next meeting might not be a Taco Bell the next time we go to Florida. It might be, uh, uh, so we did get.

We do get cookies. Almond cookies. Made by Alicia. Oh, open in that rubber made package. Swells the room with almond cookie smell. See, 1940, Northeast 49th Street, Papano Beach, Florida. Let's see what's in here. How many did she make for us?

I'm sure that Alicia made these from the heart. Hard work. Yeah. She made them yesterday. She didn't. And shipped them overnight. United. Yep. Oh, that's so sweet.

Mm-hmm. So nice. Thank you, Alicia. I mean, I don't really like all the cookies, but thank you. Why do you have to be that? Why do you have to be that? I thanked her. I'm going to try them. They're delicious. If you don't like them, I'm having them. Because I have a bucket. You have a bucket. Well, you know, just in a dozen. Right? Does it go down another layer.

So you have two layers, so a dozen. So 24, I have three. I have 18. It's just me. These are really good. Actually, I don't have two, but I wanted to piss Chris off, so I said I had three. These are really good, though. You know what these would be better with these?

Milk. You're damn right. Really good, though, Al-Lie. This is sad because I can see myself watching Shameless, a bucket of these, and two glasses of milk. And I'm done. And don't call me soon tomorrow. It's going to be a real shame, too, since my wife can't eat almonds. Oh, dude, that is awesome.

Oh my God, I get through these. And these are like filled with almond. Those are like 10 almonds per cookie. They're really good. That's really good. These are really good, Alicia. Thank you so much. Yeah.

See? You all listeners? Bless your heart. Bless your heart. Yeah. There's a letter. Read the letter. Bless her heart.

That's what you're going to do. Read the letter. I got the address. I gave the menu. Now I've got to read a letter. Yeah. I'll eat my almond cookie. Does you need romantic music?

Is it romantic? It's a sad? It's a chirpy. Are you pre-reading it just in case? It's Alicia. She's not going to buy something they're weird. Hey, play the music. Dear Jeffie and Chris,

here are my almond cookies. I hope you enjoy them. I also have included a menu from the restaurant. I would love to tell you the story of how I came to the craziest state in the country. Anytime you're in town, please stop by. Dinner is on us. Sincerely, Alicia.

I would love to hear your story of how you got to the craziest state of the country and made it to the east coast of Florida. And I know that any time I'm in town, I walk in there, I'm getting a free dinner. I mean, you think I'm walking in this joint and paying? No? I think this is. Why do you do that? What do you mean?

Those are very hard folk that came from the heart. Very nice. And you come in here and like smoohing more free food. But if you're going to send a menu, I least I need one item per section. Yeah. Like the lunch special. Oh, what is delicious. Like, see, I have like two sides of the mouth.

One side is full of cookies. The other side could be filled, I don't know, a guido. You know, a guido on the other side. What else is on this menu? Like, is there lamb? I love lamb. Of course there's going to be lamb on this. Yeah.

Sushi Creek? Lamb chops. Oh, oh my gosh. Four charcoal grilled, single-cut lamb chops served with seasoned pita. And your choice of Greek house salad, string beans, lemon potatoes, house rice or fries. Hmm. I wonder how they cook the house rice.

just have like shives inside I like my rice I don't know that's why change to send us a plate with that I don't know oh no warning there is a health risk associated with the consumption of raw

or undercooked animal proteins oh yeah that's if you do the raw which is that because hop on a beach okay I'll be in Florida in October so set up a table and I'll be there

you get there for the luncheon platters too not bad. How much? How much? Give me the average price of this. Well. No. Alicia, no.

If I'm spending more than $8 in one plate, maybe we've got to talk about your prices. Really? More than $8? Oh, no. I really have to say for this trip. You ain't lying. Specialty pizzas, Greek-style pizzas.

What is that? I just put olive oil on top of them? You are not walking out of there, $100,8, my friend. Not even with the average dating? A average dating. You can walk out of there on average dating? Yeah.

You're going to go here? Yeah. No? Each of you get a meal? Yeah. Ha! No? You're not walking out of there under 20 bucks.

Oh, definitely. We need to talk to Alicia. Definitely meaning for free the time I go there. Maybe you go there for lunch and you walk out of there for 30? And by the way, if you can send a menu, why didn't you sign the menu for us to save it? Right. I'll bring it back. I'll make sure she signs it.

Or do she wants us to sign it and then send it to her? She didn't say that. No, she didn't say that. She does create free Wi-Fi. Well, she creates Wi-Fi? Yes, she creates Wi-Fi at the restaurant. Dude. Nice.

No wonder the charges. Oh,