Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 209 | Fat Pile Friday - Most Sinful State Edition | Guest: Cara Santa Maria

Episode Date: September 27, 2019

Jeffy uncovers a Match.com scamming technique and he wants his money back! Animals Gone Wild?!?! A list of the most sinful states.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to Fat Pile Friday on the Blaze Podcast Network. This is Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Please subscribe to the podcast. It's free. You can subscribe on any platform you get your podcast from iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. again I feel like I'm turning into another guy that does a show on this network

his name his name escapes me right now it's like Gleene Gleene I think Gleon I can't remember exactly how to say it properly Glenn Beck yes that's him because the world is upside down we found out that the Jewel the CEO out. I mean, Jewel has pulled the plug on all their advertising now. I mean, their doors are not going to be open very much longer. That company is done. eBay, CEO, out.

I know, I know. I know. We work, co-founder and CEO. Out. Have a nice day. What? Did you know this? Get this.

August. CEO turnover in the U.S. reached an all-time monthly high. 159 CEOs out. What is going on? So we've said it all along that on this program and other programs that I've been on and been a part of, that money is a thing to have. now we've had arguments

over the years that have told us that money doesn't really buy happiness and it can't and it's not the money but you know there are and we tell you the stories

of the people who have won lottery great its amount of money and they're in the lottery and their lives are you know worse now than they ever were before but that is we've come to find out that

guess what There's a new study now that says, you know what? Money can buy happiness. Really? Thank you. Appreciate it. We didn't see that coming.

Duh. So economists Andrew J. Oswald and Rainier Winkleman, who I mean, who doesn't know them, they have a new academic book out called The Economics of Happiness, which, you know, cover to cover I've read. Oh my gosh. The Economics of Happiness. I can't put that thing down.

It says that the past research that showed that lottery winners were not happy were as badly designed and didn't work right. Guess what? Money can buy happiness. And winning the lottery does buy happiness. Having more money makes people less stressed and more satisfied with their life. Duh. And money might not actually.

actually buy the happiness, but it buys things that make the pursuit of happiness easier. I would say I should write a book called, duh. You should. Maybe I could get together with the economist, Andrew J. Oswald and Rainer Winkleman at the University of Warwick.

And maybe they could just be like part two of the economics of happiness. They've partnered with Jeff Fisher from chewing the fat with their new book called Duh. Okay, so it's Fat Pile Friday.

And I usually, in the last couple weeks I've gone through some of the phone calls that have come into the CTF hotline, the voicemails, 214, 7359356, powered by Patriot Mobile.

But apparently, we've had, Chris was robbed. Someone stole his phone. He believes that someone stole it in the middle of an expressway.

Yes. 14. 114. 114. 114 here in Texas. Eastbound or westbound? If I'm going to my house, what is that? That way.

So westbound. So he hasn't found the phone. So if you've left the voicemail, good luck, God bless us ever hearing that voicemail, powered by Patriot Mobile. Because I told him where to look inside his car, and he's got this roomy car. I do.

It's a lot to look into it. There's so much room. this car. You can barely, I mean, you just crawl in. Here's what I'll do. It's like, it's like, you know what it is? It's like, it's like, it's like one of those extended limos. It is, it is. It's about the size of a wheel of that, of that limo. Here's what I do. How about this? It's Friday, right? So how about if today, when I get to the house, I'll do a video to see if I can find it. And then you could tweet that out. Looking for the CTF hotline. That's a, that's a good one right there. Okay. You're welcome. All right. So I'll do that. I look it up. And if I find it,

we'll play all the voice mails. No. We'll play all the voicemails that matter. That matter. Yes, yes, yes. All the ones that matter. After I tell Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, we should play, no, Jeffrey tells me,

Chris, you play, no, did not matter. No, but Chris, they're going to be upset. Make a better voice smell. And I, just a side note. Did Stu come in this room? Does it smell like stew? Because it is the fires of hell in here. Why is the air conditioning broken?

Dude, they have it on heater. What is going on? I knew that I knew this had to be stew coming in here. Holy cow. Dude, it was all the way to the right. I could quit. Is someone trying to smoke you out? I think so.

I think so. And I knew there was a problem because when I first walked in here today, there was a pile of ash, which was a former body that had just gone up. It's possible. If Pat doesn't show up on Monday, It was him. I wonder, it is kind of hot. It is kind of hot where I'm at, too.

So I was just looking. I was like, oh my gosh, she's always to the right. It's supposed to be all over to the left. Yeah. And she didn't believe me. She's like, in the middle? No. Oh, the way.

In the middle, it just turns it off. I know you got a new do girl in there, Candice. You heard Candice yesterday on the Wednesday on the podcast. A lot of people loved. Did you see that? They won't be replaced. No, I won't hear of it. That, what are you thinking?

That is wrong. Our listeners don't call the shots of that. Stop it. I feel like you're being, uh, not sincere. Really? Yeah.

That's weird because. It sounds, I feel like you wanted to be sincere, but I feel like you did not sound sincere. I don't know. I mean, I could try again. On this fat pal Friday,

uh, you suck. I could try again. Can you please? Sure. Can you, uh, okay.

The listeners who loves Candace and they would like her to replace me. Really? Yes, that's so sad because I feel like I do a good job here. I won't hear of that. Either this again. I still hear. That is wrong. Listeners do not call the shots, Chris.

You know that. Oh my gosh. What do you think? Eh, don't buy it. I thought I sold it pretty good. Because we don't have a problem with me. Have you had a mechanic break into your studios? a mechanic yeah how would you feel if a mechanic just broke into your studios and started reading your

your prep because if a mechanic decides to break into a studio so at work and just starts reading off the prep i will get really upset right i will get really upset i feel like a mechanic should not be reading my prep i feel like a mechanic should be out there changing my oil and rotating my tires. So let me ask a question. Has that happened in the past? It has. It has.

It just somehow a mechanic broke into a studio and just started reading my prep. Wow. I mean, you ought to try to put an end to that. I would like to? I'm a little concerned about the security if that's actually happening. I'm highly concerned about the security of that studios. Like can anybody,

so if a mechanic walked in, can I cook walk in there too and just read prep? Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, there's one, there's one, there's one, there's one, there's one, there's one in the building that does that.

Okay. He gets away with it. Okay. He's that's okay. What about the janitor? What about the janitor? Can the janitor can read English? Oh, you're right.

I don't know she can either. I mean, but she could. If she went in the room and started reading it, I mean, what are you going to do? So a mechanic, where we are with that? And the mechanics got to go. Mechanic has got to go. Got no business in there. Mechanics have their own little stalls to be in.

They do. They do. That's where they're supposed to be. That's supposed to be. Yeah. The car pulls in. Bay two. Car pulls in.

Bay two clear. Horn honks. Backs it out. That's what the... Or just go forward. Or whatever. If you're a good mechanic, you have the bay that will you... In and out.

In and out. Cars are done back there. Yeah. That lob over there. Those are the done ones. Yes. Yeah, you go in and out. If you're a mechanic and you have to go in and back up, I might suggest you rethink your life.

Because you're not a true mechanic. mechanic. So I was looking at the most sinful states. I teased this yesterday a little bit. Because I looked at the list and I realized that I'm like at 25% on the top list of the most sinful states in America of being a part of. Is that all 57? So according to, yes, all 58. So I'm looking at, you know, our friends at Wallet Hub, who I love.

In fact, Wallet Hub should sponsor this program. Somebody get a whole. Who should sponsor this program? Wallet Hub should sponsor this program. Okay. Because I'm a fan. And, you know, this brought to you by Wallet Hub. We get, maybe I get a little mic thing for the cameras.

Can you get a wallet? Sure. Whatever their little, I'm not saying that I don't know what the Wallet Hub logo is, but whatever their Wallet Hub logo is, we get that for a little mic flag. They can sponsor the program. So they compared 50 states with 43, three indicators of immorality. Okay.

Now, do we know those immorality? This was, we do. We do. Are you going to share those? Well, I swear to God. You know. Am I being like a mechanic right now?

Maybe, maybe the listeners are right. The methodology, anger and hatred, jealousy, excesses and vices, greed, lust, vanity,

laziness. I mean, that's a pretty wide swath of stuff. So what would you guess would be the number one state? Vegas, Nevada. Correct. Because Vegas is not a state, but you've covered yourself with saying Nevada. But yes, that's correct. Nevada is the number one state.

Now, number two, I've not lived or rented any property or anything in Nevada. I mean, I think I'm good. I think I'm good. But when you go down the list, number two, Florida. The love of my life state, Florida, yeah. I spent a lot of time in that state. And because I'm not there is why it's number two now. If I was there, it'd be number one.

I actually believe that. Number three is California. And number four is Texas. I've been on my kind of good behaviors since I've been to Texas, so I'm only number four. The state's only number four. But then you get down to number nine, Michigan. Number 13 Pennsylvania

Oh, hello Number 16 Missouri Number 17 New Jersey Where's New York? Number 24 New York Okay So out of the top 25 Okay

I'm looking at one, two, three, three, four, five, six, seven seven on the top 25. What is that in percentage? I'm looking at about 25% Right?

Okay, that's not bad. That's not bad. That's not bad. Something like that. That's not bad. I feel like that's pretty good. I feel like I'm okay with that, right? It's too bad.

But you start going down, the mean streets of Montana, 34. Who's from Montana? Pat Gray. Pat Gray's from the Mean Streets, hell into Montana. Utah 43. Where's Alpine Utah?

Because we all know we love the Alpine. So, I mean, Alpine's in there, right? I mean, they're just overall covered 43. But then our friends at Wallahub start breaking down some other areas, like most thefts per capita. Number one state there, New Mexico. Fewest thefts per capita of New Hampshire.

Of course. Who's stealing New Hampshire? There's nothing to steal New Hampshire. What is New Hampshire? Live free and die in the granite state or whatever. Please. There's nothing to steal. Most excessive.

drinking. Nevada. Oh, no. Number one, Wisconsin. It has to be some more cold. Yeah, Wisconsin. Yeah, sorry. Number 50, the least

excessive drinking state. Come on now. Florida? No, what are you talking about? Utah. Thank you. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Wow.

You're right, Utah. Utah. You are just letting me down. Most beauty salons per capita. Number one, New York. No, New York. Although, it's not a bad guess.

Florida's number two with most beauty salons. Number, then the worst, where the state that has the least amount of beauty salons? Alaska. Yeah, well, there's no Hispanics. In fact, there's very little happening in Alaska. What other happens there?

A couple of cities. Although then you can see Germany or Russia. No, Russia. Yeah. You get a house next to Sarah Palin. Yeah, I got the joke. The highest adults not exercising. So the most fast-sticizing.

Well, that's not the fat. No, you're just not exercising. It has to be some more cold. So I say North Dakota. See, that would be wrong. Really? You know, I understand a little bit of your methodology there, but no. Adults not exercising, a Kentucky.

Nobody wants to exercise in Kentucky. Yeah. Number three. Texas. Yes. Yeah, nobody's exercising in Texas. Come on, man. There's gyms everywhere,

and people are like, no. That is true. There is literally gyms in every corner here. And is a plan of fitness or 24-7? There's 24-7. There's L.A. Fitness. And there's the little gyms in the strip malls

that you get a key for that you can go at any time, whenever you want. You become a member and you get a key and you're in. Yeah. You get a little fob and you're in at 3 o'clock in the morning or whatever. I mean, whenever you want to exercise, That's if I was going to exercise.

If I was going to exercise. Yeah, that's the time. You get the key five for them all. That's the time. You get up at 3 a.m. Nobody's there. You want to get out there. You're absolutely right.

That is true. Nobody's there. Yeah. You could do whatever you want with those machines. Absolutely. Highest average time spent on adult entertainment sites. Nevada. Yeah, I would think that too, but no.

Number one, Mississippi. So weird. They're not. Mississippi. Mississippi. It's a beautiful state. You should be outside. Right?

Number two, Hawaii. Why would it be Hawaii? That's kind of strange. Unless you're just up in the hotel room, looking down on the beach, and have the site open on the phone or the laptop at the same time. And not that I would ever, but I don't condone any of that.

I'm just saying it's possible that it could happen. And the lowest average time spent on adult entertainment, sites, Rhode Island. And I think that's I think that's just because nobody's there. Right. I mean, nobody lives in Rhode Island. There's only been one show, one TV show

from Rhode Island that I know of. Royal Housewives of Rhode Island? No, that's funny. We should push that. No, the Showtime Brothers, that was Rhode Island, wasn't it? Oh, really? Yeah, that was Rhode Island.

Huh. And that was a good show. I liked the heck out of that show. Yeah, okay. So it wasn't brothers. It's not brothers. It's brotherhood was the show on Showtime. It said the one with the, what's it called?

The Spiders Show, where he was almost dying and had spiders. No. No, okay. That was. I'm sorry. That was not a showtime. Okay, that was a movie. Yeah, that was a movie.

It's called the Sisters Brothers. The Sisters Brothers. Yes, the Sisters Brothers. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah, that's the spider one. Oh, good thing you remember that. I was going to send you down this rabbit hole.

But sisters, brothers, that show. How I got sucked into that god-awful show. It's never any. But the show I'm talking about, though, in Rhode Island. Okay, okay. Was Brotherhood. Brotherhood. On Showtime, which was great.

A really good show on Showtime. It was based in Rhode Island. Now, I don't know where they filmed it. They probably filmed it on the back lot of Paramount outside of L.A. No. I'm just saying, I don't know. I don't know. But it was based.

Once in a while, they go up to Rhode Island for about a week of shooting so they get some shots of Providence and see them walking down the street and then they film with the back lots of, that's how it works. I don't know that. I didn't know that. I actually thought, like when I'm watching Shameless, I actually thought they were in Chicago. Yeah, well, you know, you know what? They are.

For you, they are. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, just like the Dexter, I thought they were in Miami. Everything is right there. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah. There's no.

Or secession? actually thought they were in New York. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That show is so good. I know. I know. I love that show.

I'm so hooked on that show now. Have you figured out why you like it? I'm so hooked on that show now. Because it's not, that show is, I mean, it's about this rich family, but it's really, I mean, it's, it really shows how hard it is on the children. Yeah.

I mean, they just are. And it's like a lot of raw emotions. Yes. Yes. I mean, the old man is just... Yeah, that word. He's a dick. Yeah.

But he's the billionaire, man. He's the guy. How can you say no to him? You can't. You can't. And it's just there, you know, everybody's sucking around to be next in line. Which is why it's called secession. Talked a lot about, on this podcast, about companies using your face to become.

for whatever they want. And there's several lawsuits out there now. We're going to get somebody on to talk about those lawsuits using your face. We've got to talk to somebody about these lawsuits of these companies that are using your face because you've already signed your rights over on Facebook. They can sell them. You know, all your pictures on Facebook, which, you know, of course, the evil Facebook, according to Chris Cruz, those pictures are theirs.

They're theirs. And your phone, you can't use the damn phone app without saying, okay you have access to all my pictures they're all yours fine no problem so if your face ends up say like mine usually ends up in a gym ad really that is so fortunate of you online gym ad or you know

all of a sudden next thing you know I'm up on Pinterest is the you know the exercise guy how to look and what happens when you go to the gym that's what happens yes although or maybe I've been before I can't remember which one of this but I'm part of the gym or you're part of the gym at the gym I can't by the way You remember, it was the last week we talked about settlements and stuff like that?

Remember that, the whole settlement? I just got on the email. Yeah, when you're part of the class action lawsuits. So there's a beginning, I'm part of the beginning of the class suit, the class action lawsuit. That might get you an extra five bucks. Against Equifax. Oh, yeah.

Because there was a breach in 2017. Equifax and Equa, by the way. But go ahead. Oh, sorry. And I could be one of this following. Number one. I thought that was part of it. of the class action lawsuit that just settled?

I don't know, but this one says, I could, I have three options, Jeffie. Oh, boy. One is the credit modern or the cash payment. Yeah, that's the one that just settled. The Equifax one, go ahead. Yeah, but this one is telling me that I could go up to, you know, go into $20,000.

No, that's the one that just settled. You've got like a hundred box or something like that. And that's maybe. If a bunch of people took the cash payout, you don't get nothing. You don't get nothing. You knocks it down. So this one, I have to fill out the paperwork because I could, I follow, according to this, I follow under two categories. The one that could get free credit monitoring or that's it.

For life or? For six months. What? Yes. Or I could go to cash payment up to $20,000. You know, I'll pay you up to $20,000. Here's a buck. So,

plus or minus, you know, a couple of like $25 per hour that they have to pay the lawyers. Everybody gets their cut. The out-of-pocket loss. That's the problem. That's the problem.

Up to 25% of the cost of Equifax credit or Identitive Moderate. That's the one thing that, and we joked around yesterday, about, you know, doing a fundraiser for charity and after, you know, all the proceeds.

would go to the charity. And that's, I mean, that's what some charities do, which Mercury 1 does not, by the way. No, we don't know. But after proceeds, they go to the charity. Well, the proceeds are, you know, they're running down 25%. At least.

At least. Everybody's getting their cut. And then they've got, I think legally they have to give at least like 10% or something. I don't really know. Remember the percentages of if you're a charitable outlet, you have to give the least amount you have to give is I want to say 10%

and that's probably even more than what you have to but it's really, it's damn near criminal. So I have until January 22nd, 2020. Wow. Yeah. So this is a new class action

for Equifax. Yeah. Wow. I just got the email this morning. You're worried about Facebook and all these other companies got all your crap, man. See, but see here Equifax

about to give me some money. We are all doomed. You know what? I want you to say that you want the cash. Oh yes. Oh yes. I won the $20,000. That's for six months of free

Equifax? Please. I already have that through my freaking credit cards. But don't talk down to me with your little credit card talk. I'm just saying this way

you need to do. But we want to see how much you get. Oh yeah, I'm in. Up to $20,000. I would bet I would bet after said fees are taken out

and all $100 bucks? Yes. So I should not be lucky to get a hundred bucks. So I should not be planning to, you know, remodel my house. I would not take a loan out of the class action from Equifax.

No. No, you can. Oh, I can't. But I would not. No, so I can't be like, hey, Tesla, can I get that $30,000 vehicle? Because I got $20,000 coming. Sure. No problem.

Yeah, that's not going to happen. Good luck with that. Thank you. We have to see them. Yeah. I'll file and that. That'd be great. Because how much is six months, though?

How much is six months of Equifax? It's 1995 a month. All right, so $20 a month, right? So you're looking at what, $120, $140? Yeah. All right. So $60, no, $120. Right?

Yeah, $120. You're going to break even. You probably, if they give you less than $120, you could have gone with the six months for free. True, true. Get more for it. But you're getting up to $20,000. That's how they get you.

That's how they get you. Yes. I mean, you want to talk about mafia-like statements, man. Was it yesterday that I said that oh no,

that's the lottery. Criminals only work in lottery. Yes. So what about? They're the same people that go to the same school as the dentists. Yes.

I hate the dentist. Oh my gosh. They're so everyone. Did you get used any fix? Anyway. That's enough. You get them fixed?

Yeah, remember you. The whole thing. I know. Yeah. No, it's still. Still there? Yeah.

Oh, no. I lost my trays, so there goes $4,000. What? Yeah, I lost my trays. Are they the same place as the Patriot Mobile CTF hotline phone? Probably because I had them on the little black case that I, because you should have went on my pockets. It's CTF hotline, black case for the little invisible line.

Both are missing. You need a smaller car. I do. You need a smaller car, yeah, because you're losing stuff in that immense automobile you drive in. Okay. I'll see if there's a smaller car that I own right now. Because if there is, I definitely need it. Because I lost $4,000 in Invisaline.

Now I lost it. You haven't lost them. They're in like a backpack. Yeah, they're probably in the same place. Like I said, usually what I do is like one pocket has my invisible line, one pocket has my cell phone, and then the back is the wallet. You'd think when your wife does laundry, she'd clean your pockets out and find those. She does not.

She just, there's one rule is I almost empty my pockets before they go to the shoot you'd think that when your wife does laundry she does not she just would check those and goes so my probably i'll tell you this probably my phone and my invasicilline are in the dryer right now that's your wife's fault you need to get that straight okay i will talk to her today that is if you need me to take care of it i will actually you know what i would like you to do that for me because it seems like you're more on that area no problem can you please take care of that for me yes okay because that is ridiculous that's that's like job complete Is it?

Yes. In what way though? What do you mean? If you're washing clothes, which of course is, you know, the wife's job, if they're washing clothes, you can't just throw a bit like that that goes against all wash etiquette. You check the pockets. And you can't tell me. I refuse to believe that your wife is not checking your pockets because she's looking for

loose cash. Because if you have loose cash in your pockets, that's hers. So I refuse to believe she's not checking your pockets. I don't believe it. Anyway, I started looking at it with the faces on a social media that belonged to other companies. Well, Match.com is now, they say that they're pulling a big con for their people. Now, first, what they do is non-paying match users would receive an email.

So if I go to Match.com and I have the app, But I don't pay for it. You know, I just want to kind of do what I can as much as I can for free. Yeah, yeah. So then I get an email sent to me saying, hey, someone sent you a message on Match.com. Okay. Cool. Then what do I have to do to read the message?

Click here. Subscribe to the service. Yeah. Right? Uh-huh. So I subscribe to the service and I pay for it. Okay. The message disappears.

What? Why, there's no message. What happened? So now some users are saying, hey, match.com, what are you doing? So are they suing? Yes. Nice. You, what are you, you con in me?

Yeah, that is a con, yes. Match.com. We got nothing to do with it. Right. What are you talking about? So, misleading messages were fraudulent in some cases, which is what the F, which is what the, the FTC alleges.

They profited from them, adding 499,691 new subscriptions from people who'd seen an advertisement touting the fraudulent message. Wow. That's pretty good. That is. Right?

And now, here's the thing. This is what we kind of, what we talked about, where it's okay, maybe I was talking about it with my wife. Because a company just tried this where if I was the match

and I did that and then I called Match.com and I went, hey, what happened? And Match.com would go, oh, darn, you're right. That's a problem. We're sorry. And they give you a refund, right? So 499,691 people, how many people out of that call and say, hey,

this is not right. Something is wrong. right so even if you if 10% of the people call and you give them a refund you're still up a lot and maybe those 400,000 people stay for another month or stay for another year or whatever it's just that that is criminal that is criminal and get this the match group don't forget we talked about them remember we talked about them how big they are because they own tinder yeah we went over the list Plenty of fish. Yeah. P-O-S. Hinge.

Okay, Cupid. Prish and Mingo. I mean, I don't know that they own that. Farmers Mingle. They own Farmers Mingle, too. Farmers Mingle, yeah. At some point, you're too big. Cowboys Mingo.

Yeah, you're way too. If you own those two on top of Tinder and plenty of fish and a hinge, I want to see Hinge. I don't know that I've ever seen Hinge. Hinch is usually for the people that are hinged. You know, they're like, hinge. Like a Yeah, that was Yeah

Like a fake leg Or a fake arm or something Yeah You know Imputees is kind of like The new Uh So instead of call it amputees

Dot com It's in Yeah hinged Those are them That is Oh man I hope that is true Man do I want that to be true

If it's not it Jeffie we just thought of another one Hey dude Can we sell CTF Matchmakers To match dot com get them on the phone right now.

I want match.com on the phone now. We need to be a part of the match group. That, if hinges, come on. At least our freaking people have full bodies. That we know of. I know it's Fat Pile Friday, but yesterday we talked a little bit about DM1 ball coming up October 26th

that you can get tickets for. It's going to happen at the, Omni Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Always a fun night. Always really cool things happening. All the people that, you know, Glenn's going to be there. Sarah Gonzalez is going to be the MC. It'll be, you know, I mean, if that, if those two people don't incite funness and happiness, I don't know what, I don't know what does.

Yes. I can bring my mechanic. But we have, what about the mechanics janitor? Apparently I was wrong. Apparently I was wrong. I thought Chris was going to, you were going to have to donate money for a chair that we were going to ship to you

or you were going to have to fly here to pick up. What he was trying to say is that there's a chair at our table that you could sit at with us. I don't know, do we, I mean, is it the biggest donation? Is it for free? Do we pick somebody? I just thought you will come up with the rules. Okay.

So that will happen. We'll give you the rules on money. But something to look forward to is you're going to have an opportunity to sit with us at the M1. ball on the 26th. And if you're at the table with us and your number gets called for the Mercedes-Benz, it actually becomes our car. That's a rule right now.

I'll tell you right now, that's going to be one of the rules on Monday, period. And I think it's a minimum of five raffle of tickets that you have to buy. Yes, absolutely. In order to sit at the table. Yes, you have to buy it. The chair is free. The chair is free. And you can sit at the table, you get dinner, you get food.

You get food, you get drinks, it's free. If I cross the line, but you could take that chair home. Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh, I'll carry it out to the car. And that chair will be personalized and have the CTF steak in the back. So we actually do have a chair to give away. We have a chair. We will walk you with that share outside.

Hey, well, someone will walk you. I said we, so that means you can just send me. Yeah, someone will. I can walk you out of the chair. But you can get the chair home. motto. But if you're at the table, five.

If you found a way victory to be at our table and join us, and your number is called out of the five or more tickets that you purchase for the Mercedes raffle, it's ours. And I think if you buy, the more you buy the higher chances are for you, right? That's always the case. Okay, okay, I just want to make sure that if I buy five and you buy 10, you have a better chance of getting the car than I do, right?

Correct. Okay. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Just want to make sure. And there's also a big event happening this weekend. It's the third annual truckers for Hope in Jambo. I know. I know.

You know, I love, oh my gosh. I'm such a fan of the truckers. I always wanted to be a trucker. I always wanted to grow up to be a trucker. You do have the body for it. And it's to benefit cystic fibrosis. And they've got all kinds of truckers. Optimus Prime is going to be there, which is really cool.

Yo, that's awesome. It's always cool to see. I know. And it's, you know, look, kids under 12 are free. You can go to the event is all this weekend, the 27th, 28th, and 29th of September. If you're listening to this podcast live. Not possible. It is the 27th of September.

So it happens today, tomorrow, but I'm just saying if you're listening live. You can't. You listen to the radio. Thank you. Subscribe to the podcast, but you cannot listen to this live. So it benefits cystic fibrosis. You can hashtag it, Hope, the number four, Hayes, H-A-Y-Z-E. Look, this one trucker has a kid with cystic fibrosis,

and he wanted to start doing something three years ago. So he created this, and it's really cool. So if you, I'm looking at their flyer here on their Facebook page. Okay, yeah. The Facebook page, Truckers for Hope Jamboree. Nice. I like that name. And it's talking about the working class truck show. What time.

It's the third annual truckers for Hope Jamboree. Okay. Today through Sunday. Adults pay a couple of bucks like seven. Children are free. Location. You got the DJ Light Show beer tan tonight. So more description.

How about location? You got all types of semis welcome. Yeah. So how about location? Location is somewhere in Pennsylvania. They don't have the actual location. Oh, they didn't even put a location. Somewhere in Pennsylvania.

So is that exclusive? It's exclusive. exclusive to Pennsylvania. So in order for me to find this Jimberie trucker thing, I'm looking for Optimus. Yes. So as soon as I see Optimus, boop, I'm there.

Yes. You can drive around. Okay. And can I yell. Optimus! Yes. You drive around Pennsylvania. And you start hollering for.

Optimus! Prime! It's prime time! And he might be having the, you know, the Transformers music playing blasting out. So I'm not only visually looking for prime. You're listening. I'm listening also.

And there might be a bunch of semis. So then I'm also looking. Maybe I could follow a bunch of trucks. Maybe the structure going there. Maybe so. So I go in the highway somewhere in Pennsylvania. I look at a truck. I follow that truck.

It might take you there. It may take you. Yeah. So the trucker's now if you leave Pennsylvania. No, you're done. Then you go back. It's in Pennsylvania. It's in Pennsylvania.

Turn around. If you go out of Pennsylvania, you make a you turn around. So follow another truck. And then maybe that truck is going. Oh, my wife. My wife is listening. Oh, she is listening. Live?

She's listening live. You keep saying they can't do it, but here it is. A Texas is listening for live. Okay, sorry, Amber. It's in McEville, Pennsylvania. I don't know what that is. I mean, it's right there in Pennsylvania. You know that I'm very challenged when it comes to geography.

So please, can, is there a hand? Spencer, can we go like this? If we go like this, like a duck. Yes. Where's that at? Like a duck. It's right there. Right.

there. Yeah, but usually when you say Michigan, you hold your own hand and you show them. I know it. McIntyville is right there. It's real easy to find. It's right there. Duh.

All right. Before I leave today, oh, something is going on in the world. We started the podcast out with what is going on. I'm confused. The world is upside down. But now we're getting more and more stories of animals

gone crazy. Maybe we just start our own television show, animals gone mad or animals gone wild. Isn't that already a show? Not that I'm aware. They usually call like girls gone wild. So that's real offenses that you call those girls.

We've got a five-year-old barely escaping a coyote that chasing her in the front yard. All right. We've got a search for bears that are attacking people after fourth hunter mulled. Amazing. back-to-back grizzly bear attacks in Montana.

Wow. I'm guessing in Montana you, the man reportedly fired multiple shots at the bear from a handgun. And maybe you need to be a better shot. Maybe you need to, you know, I target pro. Yeah, yeah, some dry fire.

Yeah, they'll begin to think, you know, maybe when the bear is coming to you, maybe that's what you're shooting at, right? And then we need to, had the lady in England get trampled by a herd of cows these mad cows.

Oh, we got mad cow disease? She's walking through, I don't know if it's mad cow disease. I mean, the cows were mad. Oh, the cows were mad. Oh, she's walking through this park. Okay. And all of a sudden, see, the day before, yes,

the day before somebody was walking through the park and realized, oh my gosh, I feel like I'm being followed. And these cows were following. They were pissed at her. Oh, so those are. chased her out in the park. Those are dangerous. But then the next day, this lady, a different lady is out in the park with her dog and the cows attacked her.

I mean, we lost her. I'm sorry? We lost her. I mean, it's sad. I'm not, that's why I was crying. But I'm saying something is going on. These cows, man. So the night before, the day before, cows were following a lady.

They threatened another, they threatened a lady. They threatened a lady. They're like, they'll be walking through the park. Nobody was warned. Nobody was warned. Because everybody thought, eh. I mean, this lady thought, eh. Day after another lady with a dog

Walk through the park. Walk through the park. The cows were like, what the hell? And trampled her down. And they trample her to death. Yeah. Got a cow gang. Right.

I mean. Try that in America. See if you don't end up at McDonald's. I'm sorry. What? I want a cow to try that here and that in America. Oh, I see. You end up in McDonald's.

You come here and you have. And you're at a park. If you're at McDonald's, and let's say you drive through this weekend and you go, hey, I'll take a, you know, I'll take a number one. And you bite into it and you feel yourself bite into a bullet. That's one of those cows. Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. It's that time of year again. It's one of my favorite times when the new National Geographic Almanac hits the shelves and hits the internet.

Why are you looking at me like that? Is it? It's my favorite time of the year. I love it. So the entire year, on 365 days, you just went for this day. This day, right here. The day the almanac comes out. It all started last year when we talked to Kara Santa Maria.

And I wanted to get her back on the phone. You got her back? I got her back. She came back amazingly. She said, yes. And I was like, really? And she was like, yes. Okay, great.

Here, how are you? I'm great. How are you guys? I am so good. Thank you. So it's that time of year again. I mean, it's back. We're excited, we're having fun, we're putting new things.

How many, now I know, look, I know that there's no way that anyone could possibly know everything that's in the Almanac. I know that. But each year, you know, National Geographic comes up with exciting new things that they add to the Almanac. What's your favorite ad this year? Oh, gosh. There's so much. I know. I think from the incredible photos, I'm loving that there are portions with Instagram photos from Nat Geo's Instagram page, which of course has a massive following, 122 million followers on Nat Geo's Instagram.

But most importantly you have me, but go ahead. Exactly. But so, yeah, features from incredible Nat Geo photographers, but also really great infographics. And like you said, some really new stuff. So at the beginning of the book, we have these trending topics. And this year, they feature a section on women in power and pioneering women. There's also a section on the future of food, outer space, global connectivity, and, of course, climate change. These are things that are very important that we need to be talking about right now.

How important? I mean, no, I won't. I won't do that. never mind. It's fine. It's okay. I want to be part of your podcast talk nerdy so that maybe, maybe we can actually discuss some climate change talk on your podcast, talk nerdy.

I know, I know you're not here to talk about that, but, you know, it'd be fun, it'd be fun to have that conversation because I know that. Definitely an important one. It is an important conversation to have.

I guarantee you that. So one of the things that I do like about the National Geographic, the Almanac now, is that for many people that want to educate their children at home away from schools. And, you know, obviously you can get the book anywhere. You can get the book at, you know, go to National Geographic.com or you go to Amazon, wherever books, wherever you get your books from. But you can also get it on your, download it to your computer or your phone. And you have the Almanac. You have the Almanac in your hand. Do you have the world information in your hand?

That's kind of cool. Absolutely. So if you're the kind of person who likes to feel the physical weight of the book and who likes to turn a page, you know, you can do that still. You don't just swipe. You can turn physical pages. You have that opportunity. But if you feel the need to swipe, you can do that as well.

So I understand that you work with Bill Nye as well. Is that true? Yeah, I have for many, many years. So I was, I was a correspondent on his Netflix show. Bill Nyesaves the World. That was last year. I was also a correspondent on National Geographic Explorer last year. And coming up this year, at the end of the year, kind of beginning of 2020, I'm the

field host on a brand new show from National Geographic. It's a reboot of brain games. and it's hosted by Keegan Michael Key. Well, that's kind of cool. That'll be really fun. Yeah. So one of the things that I like about the Almanac, though, is when you start talking about the Earth, you know, when you start talking about the Earth and you talk about so much of the Earth

is dedicated to agriculture, I mean, we're feeding the Earth. Right now we've got, what, about 7.5 billion people on the planet? Something like that, right? And I mean. Yep, and it's growing by the day. Right. And so, I mean, we're feeding six, over six billion of those people, right? I mean, we heard the news are talking about we're feeding six billion.

So, I mean, we've got to be, how much of the planet is dedicated to agriculture? Yeah, I mean, all of the mouths on the planet have to eat. And that means 30%. Yes, you can. Okay, thank you. That means that about 30% of the, um, the land mass on the planet is actually used for agriculture. And the truth of the matter is that it's huge and it's still not enough.

Like projections really do show that like it's just not going to sustain us if we can't figure out how to be more efficient in using the land. And so there are a lot of really cool features within the almanac of innovative science, really smart things that people are doing to yield more with less, less water, less fertilizer, you know, less light. And so you're seeing greenhouse models in the Netherlands, where the yields are just out of control compared to outdoor farming because we can really tightly control those parameters.

It's fascinating. That's great. And as long as we're getting the nutrients that we need for those products, that's wonderful. Who can't be for that? And trust me, I'm always for more food. I'm a big fan. I wonder why.

Wait, what? Isn't your podcast a big piece of steak? It is, yes. It does kind of hold true that I am a fan of food. What was the name of the show? Chewing the fat. Yes, thank you. So I appreciate it.

Now, listen, this year's almanac, you said that they've added so much of it, but really they stick to the basic like always. And one of my favorite things that you can have with the Almanac is that it's there in front of you and you've got the information globally and you've gone, you know, actually

out off the globe. I mean, we're talking about space now on the Almanac and they're talking about, I noticed in the book that they call it Earth's moon. I believe that it's okay to call it Earth's moon, but really it's owned by the U.S. You know that, right? That's our moon.

Oh, I see. Oh, so you're making this distinction between the globe and the U.S. I thought you were going to say. It's our moon. You know that. I thought you were just going to say we could call it the moon. But of course we know.

We can call it the moon. That's fine. You call it the moon, but it's owned by us. You know that. Many other planets have their own moon. You know this, right. And you know what? Other countries can get those if they want them. But the moon to Earth, that's ours.

That's the U.S. I'm fine with that. That's ours. Well, there's so much really cool stuff. I know. about the moon. And it's just, it's absolutely fascinating. Like, did you know what year the first map of the moon was made?

Actually, had you asked me that 25 minutes ago, I would have said no. But I do know the answer because it's in some notes, but I didn't know that. And tell me the year, so the audience knows. 1645. Absolutely amazing. Now, how much did he get every road right, or have they added roads since? Yeah, he's missing some of those roads. Yeah.

You know who built those roads? roads the U.S. That's why it's our moon. Okay, so there are not roads on the moon. We're going to dispel that in this right now. No traffic on the moon currently.

We'll see how that changes in the future. That's right. We're going to be taking that over shortly. Don't worry about it. Does it show also on the moon where we found the Transformers? Because well-known the documentary in the dark side of the moon, that's where the

transformers were. Thank you. Yeah. Did the 1645 cartographer have that? did not even have the far side of the moon, actually. Hard to make a map of something you can't see. That's really fascinating that it was 1645, though, right? I mean, we've tried to figure out what the moon has been to our planet for forever.

Yeah, I mean, you know, as long as we had eyes, we were gazing up at the cosmos. And, you know, back when there was much less light pollution, when people really would dedicate hours and hours. And of course, these are, you know, early scientists just looking up and trying to understand why things look the way that they look. There's a lot of data there. There's a lot of information even with, like, minimal technology that could be transcribed. And so, yeah, there's a very old map of the surface of the moon.

And it's correct. It just doesn't quite have the resolution that we were able to develop obviously in the future. Of course. Kara Santa Maria from the National Geographic's Almanac, 2020, which is out. And I know that you can get the full 2020 Almanac. You also have the Kids 2020 Almanac, which is fascinating for people that want to try to educate your kids at home. Use that Almanac. It's wonderful. Kara, thank you so much for joining us today.

You can get the Almanac wherever books are sold. Thanks, Kara. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Oh, yeah. Let's not forget about the podcast. I talk nerdy. How's that going? Oh, it's great. You know, five years strong. So

not giving that up anytime soon. Nice. And, you know, listen, I'm available. Uh, anytime. You know, anytime, you know, anytime. Good to know. Good to know. Thanks, Kara. I appreciate it. Kara's gone now. I love Kara. She's really, really nice. Just know. I about blew a gasket on about eight things she said. And I'm

sure you listening to this interview blew the same gaskets. I know, okay, I know. It just didn't seem like the time and place to beat her up over it. I got it. However, I will at some point attempt to be on Talk Nerdy. And we will have that conversation because she is right. It is an important conversation to have. I doubt, however, that she wants to actually have the conversation.

I think she wants to have the belief that it's a conversation as long as I believe what she believes. But we don't know that. But I just know that I'm with you. Okay? I'm with you on putting tape over the gaskets that were blown several times during that interview. But, you know. I had to bring you back a couple of times in the year.

Oof Some of it was my fault I was feeding you information at the wrong time I was in the middle of listening to what she was saying and in my head I hear No don't forget about her podcast

Talk nerdy Which is fine I love that Because I want to remember that And then I hear And remember that she worked with Bill Nye I was about the end I almost just said

Hey care Thanks nice talk to you Nice talk to you take care By the way You did the same thing last year too Why do I not remember this I've got to stop drinking or something, man. Why am I saying yes to this?