Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 202 | Super Mosquitoes, Burning Letters, & Diamond Physicians | Guest: Dr. James Pinckney

Episode Date: September 19, 2019

Something is coming and it could be from SUPER mosquitoes. Dr. James Pinckney is the CEO of Diamond Physicians, which has a special concierge service with doctors on call. At Diamond Physicians, the doctors call, text, email, and video chat when it's convenient for patients, including after business hours. They spend on average an hour with patients. The concierge doctors also offer direct primary care to patients so that insurance is only used for catastrophic events like surgery or cancer treatment that would typically cost thousands. Under their plan, getting an MRI or an X-ray is much cheaper. Diamond Physicians also serves as an urgent care facility open 24 hours a day.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So if you're listening to the podcast live, chewing the fat, thank you so much. I appreciate it. And please subscribe to the podcast. Where. Where. Where? Where what? Where can I get the podcast.

You can get it? Wherever you get your podcast from. Give me one title. Where can I get it? Give me one shop. iTunes. And? SoundCloud.

And. Stitcher. And. Spotify. And Google Play. Okay. I was just testing you. Okay.

You pass. We're flying colors. Thank you. So it is a 919-19 today. I know. So cool. It happens. And you actually get the date twice on the clock today, 9-19.

Unless you have military time, then you only get it once. Nobody has military time. I do. I do. Nobody has military time. I do. That's just silly. Nobody has military time.

Right now is 1600. You see? 9-19. That's what I'm saying. So it's also a day that I have to, you know, I have to, you know, kind of bow down a little bit and say, happy birthday to my wife. Been another amazing year. I love you.

It has. It has been an amazing year. And, you know, I love you. And happy birthday. Just know it's another year closer. Jeffrey. Why'd you do that? Why do you do what?

The whole like... What do you mean? Are you wishing her death? No. Why are you talking about? Are you closer to death? I didn't. But you implied it.

I did not. What did you say? It's a year closer to what? There's just two outcomes. Either I'm going to divorce you or are you going to die. Which one is it? And the both are bad. Are they?

Well, for her, yes. For me too, honestly. So, this is a joke? Is this a joke? No one's going to feel. feed you. By the way, wait, what? Before you continue, I saw yesterday since, you know,

I decided to go back to social media. There's a cook-off and it's a Fisher cook-off between Max and your daughter. I guess so. And then she said, you're the judge. I call foul on that. Why? You need another judge.

Why? Because this are your kids and we all know that you have a favorite kid. So... I don't have a favorite kid. It's Max. We all know Max is your favorite. I don't have a favorite. Jeff Fisher, we all know that you have, it's Maximilius. Maximilius. He does. Max, it's a mess. Yes, Maximilius. And, like, he's been on your podcast. He does a walking dead. Everything that has to do with radio, he wants to be like you. So, Max, is your favorite. So I feel like it's not fair for, um, oh, girl, you know, Maya to do this

cook-up when you love Maximilius. She's already paid me off. So don't worry about it. Oh, there you It's already a deal. That is a true fisher right there. We've already worked a cycle, so that's good. No one will hear this. So tomorrow is a big Area 51 day. Now the government has banned flights from flying above Area 51. The Air Force leadership has said, please, we implore you not to storm Area 51.

Please, everyone is trying to distance themselves from the storming of Area 51. What I would like to have happen is if anyone is out there during this gathering, call the CTF hotline [phone], powered by Patreon Mobile, so that we can get some live reports, and we will air it all on Monday so that we can, because it'll be all over the news all weekend long. But I want to have some inside reports for Monday. Can we fire up the CTF helicopter, maybe? We could accept that we had to take it in for,

it's got, it's under recoup and it's got a little refurbish. Yeah. There's ever so many miles. You got to take it in. We don't have the CTF helicopter to go in. You don't have CTF helicopter to go in. You don't have CTF helicopter, too. We don't.

We just, are we that suck in budget that we can only have one? Yeah, so we had to take it in. It's got to get a little tune up, check some things out. I know. I was highly upset because I was going to fire it up and, you know, send you over there. I would love to. You have no idea how I would love to. And boy, I don't want to have the Air Force open fire on a bunch of people trying to storm area 51.

What do you think, Jeff Fisher? I don't want that to happen. like they can't right go down this row I want you to I want you to go down this roll okay boom it's Friday I'm about to storm Air Force you know there for space I want to get the aliens what do you what do we do all they have to do is shoot one and that was our theory like once we found right that this is going to happen right I mean you know you don't bring out the Gatling gun just start spraying the crowd right you don't go Yeah, you just don't bring.

Like, you know, walking dead style, you don't do that. You don't bring out the M50. He's a 50 Cal. It just started blasting. No, no. But one of those shots, you know, you don't have to get hit by the 50 Cal, it will remove limbs. Yeah, I know. So maybe that's the one that we need.

We just need one bullet on the 50 Cal. I think you have to, you're going to break down like, you know, Hong Kong or Europe and have the hose. Right. Water, you know. Right. Yeah, I mean you're going to have to do it like that. But would you set up barriers before you get to the base? Going to have to, right?

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. You do like maybe, you know, like three different perimeters. And then if you by the third perimeter and you're not stopping, sorry, buddy, because, you know, the next one is. Right. And I seriously, in all seriousness, I don't want that to happen. That would be ugly.

Why are you looking at me like that? Why are you looking to me like that? In all seriously, you don't want that to happen? All serious, I don't want that to happen. I don't believe you, but we'll let that swing. Because that'd just be wrong. Somebody breaking the law and getting shot like that. Not sad, just wrong.

Wrong. Not sad. No, it'd be sad. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be sad too. But it'd be wrong. Look, you came through the third barrier.

What are we going to do? Right. Right. I think you have to. Holy cow. You know, all these bougie networks and social media,

everybody's going to be filming. Oh. Trump's army takes down someone trying to just find out the truth. Trump's army? Wait a minute.

Trump's army takes down someone just trying to find the truth that area 51. But I think the Navy messed up with their statement that they made either yesterday or today about confirming that those three videos

that we posted. Yeah, yesterday. Are real. Well, yeah, but they didn't say that they were aliens. They just said that they were unidentified. I think instead of UFOs, which obviously it's a UFO, they were unidentified flying objects. Everyone assumes that when it's a UFO, it's alien.

But they called them an unidentified aerial phenomenon, right? Right. So it's a UA, a UAP. So instead of a UFO. It doesn't help. It's tomorrow. I mean, the footage, you looked at the footage. We've all seen the footage when it was released a year or so ago, right?

It does seem kind of strange timing, doesn't it? That's what I'm saying. It's like, are you fueling or are you de-escalating? Because that's not de-escalating. That makes me even want to go right now. I know. Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

Yes, it does. Good luck. All right. We're getting our money. The Yahoo class action lawsuit was settled. Right. Congratulations. If you were a part of the Yahoo Class Action lawsuit.

Yes, we reached a settlement of $117.5 million. Congratulations. Yes, you too. You were involved in the class action. Congratulations. So if you'd like to be eligible to get your $100, I feel like you're about to like get me all bond down with facts. If you like to be eligible for your $100 or your free credit monitoring.

I need you to read that again. If you'd like to be eligible for your $100 out of... Or free credit monitoring. You need to take care of that right now. Get that taken care of. Because the class action law suit has been taken care of with $117.5 million. Yeah. But I don't...

believe that $1.7. $117.15.5 million. $117.1.17.5 million equates to $100. 100 bucks. Or you take the free credit monitor. How long, though? I think it was for a year.

I think it was for a year. Maybe it was for longer. Oh, let me see if that's actually receiving it. And, oh. Oh, there's a hand. Here we go. I hate to bring this up to you. I dug a little bit deeper at this email.

Yeah, I'm, because I'm about, the website right now about to send these. Doug a little bit deeper in this email, there is, the settlement, of course, is the $117.5 million. And if too many people sign up for the cash option, you might sign up for the $100 settlement.

You might not get that. Okay, so who am I to win now? You might not get the $100. It might get a little less. How is it possible that you get $117 million and only a certain group can get? Don't sign up for the cash settlement. You're going to want the credit monitoring.

Yeah, but it should default, though. If I don't have the cash, I should get the credit reporting. Yes. So might as well go for the cash. If you wanted the cash, no, but it doesn't default, though. Because if you put it for the $100. I'm suing them. Give me the name of this company.

I'm going to sue them now. It's Yahoo. I'm doing Yahoo. So Yahoo. So, yeah. The Yahoo settlement. So, no. So, no.

Look, the company's database only took records from about three billion accounts. Three billions account? How many people in the world? Don't worry about it. So, you know, look, the database only had names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birthdays, password, security questions, and answers for about 500 million accounts. Okay.

Of the three billion and all. I'll feel better. Do you? Yeah, it's not three billion. So, it doesn't say here how long, wait a minute, I want to say it was free credit minor service or anyone out of a compromised account, but it doesn't say how long service online

or not quickly sign on. They're like redefined print. It's only for a month. It's got no, it's going to be more than a month, right? Three months. And you get a free credit card. Got it. A free application to a credit card.

Got to be more than a year. Or the APR is 23.99%. That's going to be worth more than the possible $100. So do you take the, do you roll the dice for the $100? Nah, you take the free credit model. Really? Yeah, you take the model. See, they do that so they could scare y'all and then nobody applies for the $100.

Boop, they just cash. It's kind of a good point. Think about it. You just work that on your head. You get reading, you're like, oh, I might not get it. Okay, honey, let's just do the credit report because by now, you know, it's already Thursday, All that $100 bills are taken care of. So let's do the credit report.

Yep. And then Yahoo is, yeah, we paid $100 to like two people. Right. Everybody else. We kept the other $100 million. Yeah. I'd say roll your dice. Yeah, you might as well.

Go for the $100. All right, just a quick update. Two years. Two years of credit monitoring services. Not worth it. Or the $100. And maybe it's not $100. bucks.

If more people go for the cash, you're only going to send you. Oh, hey, here's 50. Have a nice day. Oh, you know, so many people ask for the hundred. We don't have enough. Here's 22.50. Good luck.

God bless. Here's 1813. Go out and get yourself a McDonald's burger. All right. I mean, I was part of a, I'm trying to think what class action I was part of, but the check was like three or four bucks.

It was foolish. And the settlement, there is millions. But between the, the attorneys and the amount of people in the settlement. It's just insane. Yeah, I just won. Congratulations, you've got $3.22.

I just won a class action against Massage MVP. Really? Yeah, it came like two days ago on Sunday. Yeah, on Sunday. It was on Sunday. And I'm part of it. I filled it out and I could win between 50 and a hundred. Well, we did win.

They were wrong. You won the case. Yeah, we won the case. So, I mean, what now they're saying, hey, Fill this out. And then I could get between $50 or up to $200-something-something but in credit so you could get a massage and massage envy. They'll send you a gift card.

So that's almost that's credit monitoring. Yeah. But it's guaranteed between $200 and worth of credit. You could cash it in at any massage envy. So they're not even giving cash. No, they're not giving cash. They're just giving it back to the company. Wow.

Yeah, and the reason was because Massage NV raised their prices four years ago by 22 cents or something like that and they didn't notify their members. Those bastards. And I'm like, man, if I was the first one that noticed, because I used to belong to Massage NV since 2014. So if I noticed that if I would have been like the first one to like, hey, what the heck. Then you're in. I'll be getting more than just, you know, store credit. Right. So, yeah.

Right. But instead, I will give you a free massage. Welcome to it. Dr. James Pickman. Join me in studio today. Doc, first of all, you're the CEO of Diamond Physicians. Now, the reason that I kind of want to get you in here and talk a little bit today is because healthcare in America is changing so much.

Every day, it changes. We find out new things that are going on. worst that is changing is health insurance itself. Everybody is either complaining about it, worrying about it, trying to pay for it, paying too much for it, not paying enough for what they think they're going to get for it. But your company is trying to help people around that. Yeah, Jeff, I couldn't agree more with you. You know, health insurance has really changed over the last couple of decades. And it's no longer a risk mitigation tool. You know, health insurance It should be used for catastrophic issues.

It should be used for surgeries, hospitalization, ER visits, things that cost thousands of dollars, not for the routine maintenance of primary care. And that's where Diamond Physician steps in and tries to reinvigorate health care delivery in America. So what do I got to do to be a member? I just pay you a monthly fee, a yearly fee, a weekly fee. I just show up and say, hey, here's two bucks. It's a little more than two bucks, but it's less than that. a cup of coffee a day. And you pay us a monthly membership fee. It includes unlimited visits,

no co-pays, 24-hour access to your doc, and unlimited urgent care. So it's amazing how much value we packed into our Diamond Physicians membership. You know, we've got four locations here in Dallas in the Metroplex. We have a pediatrics branch that we just launched with Dr. Elizabeth Thomas. It's unbelievable. And when you think about access to health care, that's exactly what Diamond does. It gives you unlimited access to your physician, which is non-existent in today's health care field. No kidding. So like, let's say you were here today and I wanted to, like I got this, you know, we're not on video, but if I just take my shirt off and show you this thing I've got going on right here, you can take care of that.

Exactly. And in fact, if I wasn't sitting here with you, Jeff, you could actually use our app called Doctor Link and you could FaceTime with us and you could say, hey, Doc, I got this rash. What do I do? You wouldn't even have to come in. It's all about access, efficiency, and streamlining the health care process. The national average, Jeff, with your doctor, is seven minutes. Yeah, and you're lucky to get in to see your doc on the allotted appointment time. Three-month wait time, seven-minute visit.

Who has time for that? And what happens is these ailments that are small turn into big things because you can't get a hold of your doc. And then you go to the ER, which costs thousands of dollars. And that's why our system is so broken right now. So how do you, if I face time... time you, then you're talking about if I need prescriptions or anything like that, that can happen as long as it's not narcotics then, right? Well, even if it is narcotics, because we have a relationship with you, you know, all of our clients have to sign a narcotic agreement to utilize

narcotics in the proper way, you know, long bone fractures, okay, things that are very painful. We can prescribe narcotics for, but the point is you can call us, FaceTime us, text us, we have that relationship. So we're going to give you the benefit of the doubt. We're going to trust you more. And we're not going to make you go to a specialist if we can take care of it ourselves. Okay. So we're talking about having locations here in the Metroplex,

here in DFW, Dallas, Fort Worth. Is Diamond Physicians just, I mean, Diamond Physicians is just here in the Metroplex? Diamond Physicians is just here. Fort Worth, South Lake, Dallas, and Castle Hills, which is formerly Carrollton. Right. Diamond Direct Care. Wait, Carrollton has disappeared now? North Carrollton has become Castle Hills.

So it's just no more Carroll. No, North Carroll. North Carrollton. Okay. I didn't realize that we just, we just killed it and dropped it off the ledge. Wow. So, but but but rest and peach North Carolina. I love you, right?

Nationwide, Diamond Direct Care is alive and well. So we have 41 affiliate locations and we have a subsidiary called Transcend Onsite Care out of Los Angeles that we do business all across the country. And it's not just for individuals, Jeff. It's for businesses as well. And that's the most important thing. 70% of Americans receive their health care benefits through the company that they work for. So if we can start training businesses to go from these fully insured platforms when you have the Buccas, Blue Cross, United, Cigna, Etna, charging astronomical rates, 20% premium increases.

You mean like over $2,000 a month just to be able to see a doc with a co-pay? Exactly. Something like, just stay out of the top of my head. And a $4,000 or $5,000 deductible. Yeah. It's ludicrous right now and what's going on with the third-party payer system. But we can convince it. We can strategize and have employers go from this fully insured model to a self-insured platform

where they control every health care dollars that they spend. Pair up with direct primary care practices like Diamond physicians, we can actually save them 20% off their spend. So we have reference-based pricing. So we have fixed costs that we negotiate for MRIs, CT scans, blood panels, I can get an MRI for $350 instead of $3,000, a CT scan for $250 instead of $2,000. So imagine if you've got 1,000 employees, the number one complaint is back pain when it comes to employer health, and you're getting 40 MRIs a year.

Imagine if you're saving 90% on those imaging and those laboratory tests that you need. It's incredible. And each employee has a concierge physician, a direct primary care doctor, available for them 24 hours a day. So what, then, at what point do I go to the catastrophic? So you always want some sort of catastrophic piece. So we have a captive that we're building where the direct primary care and that catastrophic insurance is integrated into one. That's going to launch January 1, 2020.

Right now, you have to pay separate for the direct primary care physician and whether you have fully insured product, self-insured product, whether you're an individual and employer, you have to pay for your insurance separately. Eventually, we will combine the two and have this ultimate insurance medical primary care plan that is actually going to be a low-cost insurance plan and high value. And so what do I do for prescriptions? Prescriptions, we can do 70 to 80% off generics right now with brand names. I can't do any discounts because those are controlled by the pharmaceutical company that owns the patent on that drug. So unfortunately, specialty drugs, brand name drugs are hard, but in the employer's side, we have a price-transparent

PBM, a pharmacy benefit manager called a CNPBM that can put those rebates right back to the employer. So it can save costs. We have a third-party administrator, a TPA called Ather Health that we work with that is a price-transparent TPA. So we're all about finding tools in this health care system that are price-transparent, free-market healthcare and that can come together and provide the best service at the best cost. So what and just, you know, I rarely go down the political road on the show because it drives me insane.

But you've got to be literally pulling your hair out of your head when you hear some of our presidential candidate nominees talk about making everything free health care. Medicare for all? Yeah. So I've watched the recent debates and I'm telling you, Medicare for all is a really bad idea. Really? And that is nothing to do with politics. That has everything to do with me being a physician and a health care reform expert. If you go to a single payer system, it will be catastrophic. Okay. We have examples of single pair of systems around the world. They don't work. Weight times increase exponentially. There's no way to ever get it right. You can't get in to see your physician.

Yeah, it might be free, but free does not equal high quality. So this country has an access problem. Medicare for All will not improve access at all. Right, right. Zero. So the key to this whole thing is let's not focus on necessarily catastrophic insurance. Let's focus on creating primary care delivery models that people can actually get into see their doctor and allow that PCP, your quarterback, your healthcare,

CEO to dictate where that patient goes, that will lower cost dramatically, make the system more efficient and improve health care in this country. And it also should, when you talk about improving health care, by the time you, if you're improving access to your inside lingo now, PCP, your primary care physician, I got it. The increasing access to that, that's going to actually, in the end, lower the catastrophic. Absolutely. Because the best person to mitigate individual risk is the PCP primary care physician. I got a little inside link. I'm sorry. I'm good.

Now, all right, so I appreciate it. And I'm hoping that I'm actually going to look into your company and I'll let the listeners know exactly a little bit more because I'm going to be on the hunt here in the next few months. I'm looking for to take care of you. I'm, you know, I really, I'm fascinated by this plan and, you know, the way that a plan. And I had talked to your, Dr. Elizabeth, who, for your pediatrics, not long ago. And she was getting started. I'm not surprised that she's, you know, combining and coming in, emerging with you guys a little bit to come together.

That's going to be a good program. And, you know, the beauty of our model really is that we put a calf on how many patients each doctor can take care of. So the normal family medicine doctor is going to take care of three to four thousand patients as many as they can, yeah, depending on. We take care of 600 people max. So an 80% decrease in the number of patients

that we take care of means 80% more time with each individual patient. 30 to 60 minute visits instead of the national average of seven minutes. Well, that's now, I want to talk to you a little bit about, I understand, you know, you're saying that that's, you're seeing 600 patients, but they're seeing 600 patients,

for Diamond physicians, right? So they may be working for someone else as well? No, all of our doctors just work for us. Nice. So we have employed physicians. We have physicians that work on 1099. We have physicians that are partners in our different locations. So this is a call to action for any doctor out there that's tired of the insurance model as well.

This model isn't just great for patients. It's great for physicians. Physician burnout is an all-time high. My doc is... 60% of docs. My doc was, I mean, he sold his practice. Yeah. He's having to be there.

Yeah. Okay. Huge physician shortage. So this is a way for doctors to get back to medicine and the reason why they join the medical field in the first place and really reinvigorate their careers. The quality of life goes up. My doctors make 40% more than the average family doc. So more time with your clients, more time with your family, make more money and not want to pull your hair out. I mean, I think that's a quadruple win, Jeff.

Yeah. Sure is. And you know what? I mean, I don't want to, you know, say that I'm a doctor on the air, but, you know, we might talk about, you know, me coming to work for you. As long as your board certified in something. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm certified. I am certified. So, all right, so diamond physicians here at Dallas Fort Worth and we'll look for the expansion around the country very soon. But speaking of around the country, you look familiar to me. And you look familiar to me from a television. show that I just you know it's well known that I document and watch television around the country and around the networks and you are on a TV show that's airing right now.

Are you not? I am. I am. The show is called Chasing the Cure live. It's on TNT and TBS. Thursday nights 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. I think it re-airs at 9 p.m. Pacific now too. But it's an amazing show, revolutionary show.

it's about crowdsourcing and medical mysteries. So the host, Anne Curry, she is amazing. She really is able to connect with the patients, and I'm one of the medical hosts on the show. So I'm in the crowd cure center, so we actually implement crowdsourcing to try and figure out if we have specialists or people that have seen these disease processes before,

have them call in and help us solve the case. So have you solved everyone? So far? No. The show's been on for a couple months now, right? Something like that. couple months. You're doing the show live? It's live. So I fly to L.A. every week. Got to love that, right? Yeah, my family loves that too. Not really, but, you know, I appreciate my wife and my son in

understanding. Ah, you're getting free air miles. Shut up. I am almost executive platinum on American Airlines now. But, you know, the show, it's live. It's a format that really has never been done before in television. You know, we review the cases, a really challenging cases, medical zebras that we call them. medicine that we've never seen before. You guys are like the TNT. You guys are like the house of TNT. It really is like Dr. Howes.

I used to love that show. We had a case of cutaneous polyartoritis nodosa. Man, I hate that. I had that once. I had that once. There was a cream I took for it. You guys should know that.

As a doctor, you should be aware of the cream. Super rare. And we're trying to figure this thing out and help people. That's the beauty of this show. There's not a lot of feel-good TV. on anymore. You know, they want the drama. But this show is all about helping people.

And it really is amazing. So watch it. I want to get picked up for season two. So make sure you tune in, TNT, TBS. So are you, if it's picked up for season two, I mean, are you out of DFW with the Diamond Physicians and Head to Live in L.A.? Are we going to have Diamond Physician L.A? I would love to have Diamond Physicians, L.A.

But, you know, Diamond is my first love. And it's an amazing. I almost believe that. I almost believe. It's an amazing concept. I'm not going to leave Diamond for anything or anybody. But my clients are, they do know that at some point, if I am asked to run my own TV show full time, then I might have to find somebody else to fill my shoes. And Jeff, I know you want to be a doc.

Oh, I'm here for it. CEO. You're welcome. I'll slide over to chairman. You come in as CEO, you take care of my patients and we'll have... Your patients may frown upon them. But I won't. I'll be good. Hey, Dr. James, thank you so much. Man, I appreciate you coming in today. And that was a great talk and I hope everything goes well for you, both

for Diamond Physicians and you know, for chasing the cure as well. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Good times. We know something is going on. I mean, we absolutely know something is going on. I mean, we just got done talking to Dr. James Pinkney from chasing The Cure on TNT, which airs if you're listening live to this podcast, 919, airs live tonight.

It's not possible, but okay. Okay. If you're watching live, it's silly me. If you're watching live. Again, you can watch Dr. James live on TNT. You cannot watch live this program at all, not even close. If you're listening on the Blaze Radio, then yes, you're listening live, but that's about it. Anyway, the, and he does his, we were talking to him about his concierge doctor service,

Diamond Physicians here in the Metroplex, which is, you know, obviously spreading around the country, for sure, with health care. And it's a, you know, a different way of looking at health care, which was fascinating. But his show, chasing the cure, okay. So we find out that an American has become the perfectly dead man in nine days. The what? Yeah, a Michigan artist got bit by a mosquito. Ow, gosh, darn it.

What's that a mosquito? Damn mosquitoes. Is that eastern equine encephalitis that he just should be? Yeah, no, I've gone from a perfectly healthy brain to dead to brain dead in nine days. What? I mean, something is going on, right? Come on now. This is a mission.

All right? Something is going on. Now. You said in Michigan? This was in Michigan. Oh, that's your state. Now, yeah, I know. Did you know him?

He was in Kalamazoo. It was in Kalamazoo. Greg McChesney. Yeah, no. You didn't know him? Greg and I did. That's all sad. I know.

How old was he? I was born in Saginaw. So, he was 64. So I run your age? He's a lot younger than me. Oh, he is? Anyway, he's a lot younger than me.

But in other news, genetically modified mosquitoes that were designed by scientists to help populations decrease are actually thriving and are becoming super mosquitoes. Don't worry about it. I'm sorry? Don't worry about it. They're becoming what?

Yeah, they're becoming super mosquitoes. Do they have capes and superpowers? They were modified mosquitoes, released in Brazil, and they were supposed to mix with the local population. and decrease the numbers of weak offspring mosquitoes. Now, for a short while, the population did decrease. But I wonder what happened to the ones that were left. What could happen to the ones that were left?

They died. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no. No? No. They became harder to kill and became super mosquitoes. So I don't want to say that it had anything to do with our man in Michigan.

with his eastern equine encephalitis mosquito bite, but I'm just saying it's possible. Sounds possible. It does sound possible. So last night, I'm just kind of, you know, sitting there looking at the internet. Yeah, watching Master Chef's just a finale. I did watch that.

Our boy didn't win. No, boy did not win. Very disappointed. Very disappointed. Right. He made it sound like he won. That's the way I took it. And by the way,

the New York Post was listening to our podcast because they were like, they were, something got leaked and were like, oh crap, it was us. Yeah. So.

You're welcome. It's all I'm saying. You're welcome. That's why you need to subscribe to you in the fact. So as I'm sitting there just kind of watching Master Chef on my, on my laptop, looking at my father-in-law's got the scanning the channels,

you know, on the television and the living room. And I see, this story about this American woman who is the first person to swim the English channel four times without stopping. My first question is, why? Why?

My first question is, the headline is wrong because it doesn't say four times without stopping, dumb. It doesn't say that. They do spell it wrong here in the story. They do? They spelled it wrong? How did this go?

They're quoting her. They're telling her like she swam. If you swam it four times, it'd be about 80 miles. Okay. But because of the currents, it's over 130 miles. She swam. And so like for every 30 minutes, they would talk, the boat would toss her a drink, a protein drink with a rope on it, you know.

She would just kind of coast, take a, swing it down, let it go. But she didn't. But she stopped. I know. She stopped. I was, that was my argument too. You stop right there. That was my argument.

Are you swimming? No? Then you stopped. She was still kicking. But you said she was resting, though. She was still kicking. Drinking three quarters of the protein drinking, then back to both arms. I was a little fuzzy on that myself.

But they let that slide. Okay. But she says, she's quoted here, and they're asking her about, she spent 130 miles with the currents. And you can see the GPS, the story of the movement was pretty, I mean, it's a long. She had a GPS on her? Well, it shows her the route that she took. Yeah. So I'm sure she probably did, yeah.

Now, it says here, she's quoted at the end of her swim, I'm really just pretty numb, it says. See, they spelled dumb wrong. And the story it says, it says, I'm really just pretty dumb, she said, but they spelled it wrong and they spelled numb. So, I mean, you'd think that NPR would fix it. It's NPR. Right, is an NPR story.

National Public Radio. You'd think that their stories would be. Our money goes there. Thank you. You'd think that they would spell it correctly. At least, you know, run it through an editor, a copyright. Like, there's many people. She said the saltwater really screwed up her mouth and her throat.

And that's why she said it was dumb. She got bit in the face, she got stung in the face from jellyfish. And again, that's why she said it was dumb. Thank you. Yes. And you'd think NPR would spell dumb correctly. I mean, that's dumb in itself. If you can't trust NPR, Jeffrey, who can you trust?

The world's gone to hell. Okay, so remember a while ago when we were talking about the turkey, that were attacking people in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And people were all concerned. And they were walking in the streets and these wild turkeys were coming up to people and they were scared. They were scaring him.

Well, there was one big turkey. He was like the leader of the turkey gang. And he's been coming up to people on the streets and really, really causing people to be concerned. You know, they're out for a jog. And the head of the turkey gang starts chasing him and squawking out of him and taking over. So the city has been trying to do something.

They can't, there's a tough time. They haven't been able to move it, which I don't understand why. I mean, we move all kinds of animals in this world today. We can't move a turkey. But they called the DNR officer and said, hey, you know, come on down to the downtown to see what you could do about it. And so the DNR officer shows up in downtown Ann Arbor and starts coming up to the turkey. And then the next thing you know, he's chasing the turkey.

And the next thing you know, we don't have to worry. So he comes. Chases a turkey and what? We tried to help out. We don't know what happened. And the turkey, you know, just started, turned around and... Talk to you later. So, apparently, you can't move turkeys in today's world. Now, I'm not opposed to getting rid of turkeys.

I say, you know, Thanksgiving's dressed around the corner. But a turkey like this, you know, maybe we throw them in the trunk. What do you say? Take them out to the farm. But no. Download and subscribe to more... content at theblease.com slash podcasts.

A little bit of extra fat for you today. You can call it whatever you want. I know we had some other people. Give us some different names at 214, 7359356, the CTF hotline. I'm done tracking that whole name for this. I'm done trying. We're going to go through some messages tomorrow on Fat Pile Friday. I've gone through.

I've listened to all your messages. Thank you so much. They mean so much to me. If you don't hear your message, it doesn't mean that your message was well you know what yes it does that means that your message was less important I said no to Jeffrey Jeffie Jeffie was like Chris but can we really

I'm like no we don't have time that was a week maybe they should try a little bit harder for sure though I want Area 51 calls Oh definitely Area 51 calls 214 7359356 I want Area 51 calls

In fact Nope No No No because I was just about to say do not go to air 51 and say that you're there to report for chewing the fat and you need to go in no because next thing i know we're going to get phone calls yeah i'm here with that for

one 551 no i do not want to hear those that'd be good promotion for chewing the fat it will be great promotion for sure that we today here in fact if you're going to store area 51 i want you wearing chewing the fat t-shirt from the blaze dot what about the mug at the blaze dot com shop Theblaze.com. Shop. Dot the blaze. Can they run with your mug as well? And throw it as, you know, can they throw the mug?

It looks like someone just a bullet hit a coffee mug. It's zone two outside of Area 51. We've slowed it down. It looks like it says chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Go get that mug on that. I want that guy here. Here. No doubt.

One of that to happen. That's not what I was going to say. Okay, good. I mean, I'm all four. No, we're not for that. We are. We do not condone those acts. I didn't say I condone those acts.

We do not approve of those acts. Well, I was going to say is in fact, if there's any, you know, decent footage, snapshots. Yeah, chewing the fat at theblaze.com. You can email those too. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can't email those as well at chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I mean, just as. Yeah.

And then you could email. Just as email them as email them. Would you have 214, 7359356? It's just as easy to. No, but I think it's much easier if you email them. Is it? Oh, is it? Yes.

Yes. It's chewing the fat, the blaze.com. Email those pictures. Okay. And just put air 51 picks. So don't text reports or send. No, no, no, don't text reports. Or send videos to the CTF outline.

No, do not do those. It's just for voicemails. It's just for voicemails, yes. Okay. So I read a story today that brought back so many memories. A Nebraska teen used a butane torch to burn love letters from her ex. Wait. She was in her bedroom.

This brought your memories? Yes. So you... I've had teens torch my love letters. Oh, your love letters. Oh, can I find that you were in your room as a teen? No, we'll get to that. Okay.

We'll get to that. That's actually, that was a joke of me having my love. love letters burned, although maybe not. But she's all mad at her boyfriend and mad at the, you know, and she's got the love letters. So she torches the love letters in her bedroom and then, right? So initially, she thought didn't catch fire and she just left them on the floor. E, that was a mistake.

That was a mistake because she went to lay down and then the smoke detector was going off. Beep. Beep. That was a fire. Now, the good thing, well, I brought back so many memories is hasn't everyone burned something in their house as a kid and then realized, holy crap, this is way out of control.

No. And you're stopping on and you're trying to stop it. And then you realize finally you get it out and you realize that there's a big burn stain on the wood floor in the corner of the dining room. And then you, I mean, you scrub and scrub and scrub and scrubbed and you're scrubbing fast because you know your parents are going to be home soon.

And there's still, you've got it as clean as you can, but you can still see that there was a fire there and you realize that somebody's going to see that someday so you've got to just kind of keep chairs maneuvered in the dining room so it doesn't jump out at people. Has everybody done that? No. Really?

No. The only thing I've burned inside my house is the fireplace and I'm able to control that fire inside the fireplace. How many, what were you burning? First of all, what were you burning? That somehow it just cut the whole size. or the corner of the living room on fire dining room what would you what you're burning with the love letters just weird that not everyone was you smoking the it's weird that everybody's done that

no no just because you wanted to see what the fire looked like right you wanted to see what the you're pyru you know usually they say like those people are like you know like murders like murders like murderers. Like, murderers. You see those people that have the tendency to like kill people to start with like little animals and then they say, oh, I want to see how the fire looks. Next you know, serial killer. You're in the next episode of Mine Hunter and our friend from the FBI is making a case out of you. So what you're saying is not everybody has done that. No, the only people that have done that are the ones on criminal minds. Weird. Or CSI or the other TV show we love, law and order.

Huh. Seriously, you did that? I could have sworn that everybody had that on their resume. So, definitely not on the resume. But look at me like that. I'm judging. This is the judgment right here.

Have your kids? I want to talk, you know, we talked about your kids earlier in the show today. Have they had this curiosity of how fire looks in the house? I haven't seen any, I haven't seen these burn marks on the dining room floor. What about your other son? eldest.

I was there any burn marks. I never saw any burn marks on the dining floor, but, you know. They cleaned it pretty good probably. Probably. Yeah. I, you know. So how high do the flames get? Like, this is your living room.

You're actually sitting in your living room right now. Okay. How far was like, I don't recall. No, do you care? So I were talking about medium size. And back in those days, back in those days in the, in the hot. You know, it was a hot? It was a hot?

You couldn't have a whole hot didn't go. Yeah, I know. And they didn't have a smoke detector, so I didn't have to worry about. Or seat bills either. Right. So you turned it off with water, a fire extinguisher. You stomp on it. You stomped on it.

I tried to get it out real fast. So what happened to your shoes? I wasn't concerned about the shoes. I was concerned about the floor. Yeah, but did you get rid of the evidence? I wasn't concerned about the shoes. And what made you, how did you start the fire? What was the ignited?

You know what? I don't know what? What makes the story interesting is if any of it were true. You're taking it back. Correct me from wrong, but I don't believe your parents are alive. Oh. So I think it's okay to say this story. So what did you use?

What's your paper, a trash can, G.I. Joe, a Hot Wheel, a little yenga piece, a little monopoly piece. At first, I didn't use a yenga piece. Here's a yenga piece. There's a wood that burn good. I may have used a jenga piece. That's not how you say yenga.

I may have used a jenga piece. I never would use a yenga piece. It says a yenga piece doesn't exist. What's that? A chess piece, a checkers, monopoly, money. You piled it up and... Well, if I told you anymore, I'd just be continuing the lie. Oh, you don't want to continue a lie.

Okay. All right, just a side note on a royal update. We don't need the soundtrack. It's just a side track story. You said royal, so it automatically kicks as soon as you say royal. So, really? Is that the system built in? That's the system built in, yes, sir.

Wow. You're welcome. So Megan Markle and Prince Harry the Royals. I mean, that's a pretty amazing system. Only the best for TCTF. For TCTF? Yeah, that one too. CTF.

So Megan and Harry are off to, off to Italy. They're going to have a big party in Rome. Three days before they had kicked off. To South Africa? To get off the continent to Africa. I mean, you know, for their royal official Africa.

Tour. Yeah, the African tour, yeah. So they're off to the, what's the, fashion designer, Misha Nono. Yeah, we all know Misha No-No. She's getting married. She's tying the knot to oil tycoon Michael Hess. Out of Texas.

These people, man. I know. Oh, these oil tycoons, just they call the good-looking woman. So they're off to Rome for a party at the big wedding. and uh is uncle elton borrowing is uncle elton are going to then borrow the airplane again they probably already did they're already there oh they're already there okay okay i mean everyone like everyone that's everyone is going to be there have a guest list everyone that everyone is going to be there it's really amazing this list of people that are going to be there uh of course megan is not

going to miss this so they are definitely going to be there now um princess beatrice princess eugene Ellie Goulden Ivanka I'm sorry He's going to be there Ivanka's going to show up Ivanka Trump Yeah

Interesting not Melania Ivanka Milania was a model Not Ivanka Ivanka Ivanka and her husband was going to show up Yeah but they're friends

with No-no and Megan and Harry Right Right Yeah Oh yeah I thought orange man bad Orange Man may be bad

But Orange Man daughter good Oh, okay. Yeah. And I find it funny that, of course, they're, you know, they're walking around. I decided that this would be Archie's first time in Italy. Wait, baby Archie's there? No.

No, they didn't think that at all. Oh, no, baby Arch is not there. They didn't think that at all. That's weird. We're going to go party in Rome. Talk to you later. Have fun. Stay with Grandma.

No. Oh, no, not Grandma? No, no, no, Grandma's got things to do, too. No, no, no, baby, R. There's got things to do, too. No. No. I may drive the carriage by and honk.

Check in on them once in a while. Well, no, because they don't live there. You know, they, they, they live pretty far away. I know.

It's a,