Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 224 | Felicity Huffman's "Daunting" Prison Sentence & Bulling Prevention Month | Guest: Tracey Hecht

Episode Date: October 16, 2019

Today's show is no disappointment as Jeffy highlights some of the best headlines you need to know about and even talks with Tracey Hecht, who is an acclaimed author of "The Nocturnals" series of books for readers aged 5-12. Her new book is The Kooky Kinkajou which engages parents, educators, and children around the serious topic of bullying in an age-appropriate manner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Sad, sad news breaking as we speak today. Taco Bell is recalling 2.3 million pounds of beef. 2.3 million pounds of beef are being recalled seasoned beef from Taco Bell. I better be able to get my tacos when I go through the drive-through. that right now. A voluntary action involved restaurants in 21 states in the southeast, northeast, and Midwest. I would like to specifically make sure that I have my tacos. It doesn't mention down south, so I think we're okay. Good. Because the reason that they're recalling it, though, and I'm willing

to take a shot, is they found metal shavings in the meat. One customer discovered some metal shavings in their food. What? Little metal never hurt anybody. You know, we talk all the time about the App Wars. You know, earlier we called it the coming App Wars, but they're here. App Wars are here. Yeah, sure.

Sure, the real wars are happening. The Turks and the Syrians and the Kurds. But I'm talking about App Wars, things that matter to you and I. All right. Now we get news that AMC Theaters is announcing its new on-demand streaming service. AMC theaters. They're going to release around 2,000 titles from the biggest studios in Hollywood. You're going to be able to rent or buy them on the chain site.

They've got mobile app, Roku, smart TV apps. That's interesting because that's interesting. Is there someone we could call, Evan? Why wouldn't you be able to just... They're not... You're not getting the app. You're getting the app and then you have to rent. Interesting.

That's interesting. So it's going to cost $3 to $6 to rent titles and $10 to $20 to buy them. I guess that's average, really, but if they want people to rent them, it should be a tad bit cheaper. They've got Disney Warner Brothers. Universal, Sony and Paramount,

giving them movies to rent. Amazing. So you've got AMC looking for to get some extra money from you as well. You're not going to get any new releases, though. They said those will still be available the same time that they're available digitally nationwide.

They will not be available while they are playing in theaters. Of course, I mean, AMC is part of the big theater cabal. It says, now here's, this is where I need to come in. need to call me. The talks that have tried to open the on-demand window for popular movies prior to the exclusive

90-day theatrical window. Those talks have just stopped. Wow. So I just call me and we'll get those talks going again because we can still work out some kind of deal and be able to, I told you on Pat Unleashed, the Wednesday show of Pat Unleashed. For those of you, I know, you know, listening live to the podcast 1016, 2019,

that I gave you the idea, and, you know, that's a rough draft of an idea for how the big theater and movies could work it out so I could, you know, be able to stream the movies in my home instead of having to go to the theater. But they don't even want any part of it. The big theater cabal is not having any of it. So you'll be able to rent movies from AMC app if you want to rent, or buy movies from there.

I mean, there's plenty of places that you can do that. I mean, every site you're able to rent and purchase movies on. So I'm not sure why that's such a huge deal, except that they figure it's probably cheap to set up and they're looking forward to make it a little bit of money. I also read, you know, I also read that they're looking at ideas now that could pause live radio. I'm surprised that hasn't happened yet.

You know, like, I can pause live TV with my, you have a cable box or a dish or whatever they have. I mean, any kind of boxes because the feed is going through that box. So I can pause it and you're good to go. And by the way, speaking of it, oh, speaking of that, why, the cable company I have now, if I pause a show and walk away, who do I have now? I can't remember. I can't remember. If I pause a show and walk away, just pause it and walk away.

It will pause for about 30 minutes. I think it's 30 minutes. And then it goes back to live. No, I still want that paused. I'll come back when I want to. And if I pause one show, all right, let's say I pause it 45 minutes, it's an hour-long show and I pause it 45 minutes in and I walk away and I don't get back in time it goes back to live but it grows back to the live show that's on after that show and it won't let me rewind

back to the previous show are you kidding now the cable company I had in Florida I could do that I could pause until I could I could I could have come to Texas and then come back to Florida and that show would still be paused why is that not like that here in Texas I that's that's That's a problem. That's a problem. I mentioned this earlier today when I was filling in for Pat Gray on Pat Unleashed, but this is an important story and needs to be repeated so that the most amount of people can hear it. You can feel safe for the next 14 days. Felicity Huffman has put herself into federal prison in Northern California.

She's serving her 14 days. day sentence in prison as we speak. I don't even know it was that. I think it's more of a, I mean, because the relief is in. I mean, her crimes. I mean, she paid money to get her kid in school. Wow. That just, I mean, her life is over.

Her life is over. She's got to pay $30,000 fine. She's got to perform 250 hours of community. service and she has been 14 days in prison! Not jail. Come on.

Now I'm sure that the Northern California prison that she checked herself into the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, 40 miles east of San Francisco, we have to look that up.

We've got to look that up. See, hold on. I want to see. I bet that's like a white collar crime prison. Got to be a white collar crime. prison. I'm still talking. I'm not pausing. People don't put them on hold. Take them off hold. I'm not, I didn't put them on hold yet. Relax. I got to find out exactly where the prison is. But now you can put them on hold because I thought I had the link and I don't. Put them on hold. Yeah, put them back. Thanks for holding.

Your listenership is very important to us. We care. No, seriously, we care. We're busy trying to find information to better inform you. Please hold. Thank you for holding. Your listenership is so important, and we appreciate your holding. My name is Jeff, and I'll be helping you today.

We appreciate your holding. Yes, it is low security. I don't even think it has fences. It's just going through the motions of this. It's just God-awful dumb. It's just God-awful dumb. I can't believe it. security with minimum security prison camp so it's a federal correctional institution prison camp okay i mean

see that white line if you pass that white line i'm going to slap your hand and we're going to we're going to write a strongly worded letter to the guy in charge over here and bring you back and you're going to sit on that picnic table up in the sun and you're that's it We'll bring you lunch there. You can't eat lunch across that white line. Do they still have, like, wreck and everything, like regular camp? Yes. Yes, they do.

It's ridiculous that this. Anyway, you can feel safe for the next 14 days, okay? Because she'll be in the correctional camp of prison for 14 days. Wow. Holy cow. Just absolutely ridiculous. And we can feel safer because El Chapo's Kim Kardashian. Dead.

I know. The 35-year-old Mexican woman, she led the assassin the assassin unit of El Chapo's Cinala cartel dead. And they don't know if it was an accident or if it was caused.

I think that's what happened. They didn't find any gun holes. I think she ODed. Remember she was posting pictures of herself with the pink and gold AK-47s and head designer handbags. And she denied, I'm not part of any of that. She denied it all along. Those are lies and slander.

Right. Right. Now, she was connected to El Chino Andrax, who headed the gang before he was arrested. So she ran him off. to jail. And I know he better not be staying at the camp in Dublin, California. I'll tell you that.

And then she took it over. El Chapo, baby! El Chapo was taking care of a little business with this Kim Kardashian, and she was taking care of a little business. If you want someone taking care of, she took care of it. Now, she died according to officials. And you know we are getting the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth.

from officials in Mexico. She died of pulmonary aspiration, which occurs when someone inhales foreign objects, such as fluids into her lungs or a... Yeah, you swallow one of those, you do pass away with that too. You can call it pulmonary aspiration, but really it's just a...

to the mouth. Alcohol and other substances were found in the body, and she died of suffocation. Wait. But her official cause of death has not been released. Well... Okay.

It wasn't immediately clear whether her death was accidental or whether there was foul play involved. I don't know either. What could it have been? I don't know. So, anyway, we could feel safer. She's gone.

But the good thing is, and the good thing for, you know, the Sinaloa cartel and El Chapo is that someone else will step up. It has already taken over. So don't worry about it. It's fine. Maybe you ought to not feel safe.

So it could be in trouble. We also have, uh, whoa, that's not the story I wanted. They're showing a, oh, no,

that's sad. A matador, this has nothing to do with the story that I was going to tell you about, but a matador is an intensive care after he was gored by a bull. A lot of people would say,

uh, good? Uh, what are you doing out there with the bull? some people would not be too happy about it. And just when you think you can feel safe, I mean,

Felicity is in prison, I mean, sorry, camp. And the Kim Kardashian of the Southern Holocaust sent a solar cartel. She's dead.

She dies. She bounced away. She suffocated. She died of a fencing with a bullet. You know, everybody just stops breathing with a bullet. But Asia's El Chapo is missing. So now we have another, we have another El Chapo.

T-C-C-H-I-L-O-P-E-C-H-I-L-O-P. Asia's El Chapo sounds better. Thank you. That's who it is. That's why they call him that. He's just a drug dealer, but, you know, we can't pronounce his name. Call him the Asian El Chapo. Okay, good. People who read those stories.

No problem. That's what we're calling him. So he's a, so that's the end of the story right there. Never mind. Because that's what happened. That's exactly what happened. He's just a low-level drug dealer that's, they're out looking for. He's been selling meth to the Chinese, and now they can't pronounce his name. So we'll just call him the Asian El Chapo. Okay. And everybody reads the story. We're done. How many times?

How many times you found yourself with a pair of handcuffs and no keys and you think to yourself, I think I'll just handcuff myself. What the heck? You know what the heck? I'll just handcuff myself. Right. It happens all the time, doesn't it? Well, a Wisconsin security guard

called police because he couldn't break free from his restraints after handcuffing himself. He was bored. You know, just bored. He's working at a bath and body works

in Wisconsin at 2 a.m. I mean, that's boring enough as it is, unless you're bringing in some people at 2 a.m. To help you through your boredom in the back of the old bath and body works. So you're saying these handcuffs had fur on them? It doesn't say, but I believe that they did, yes. Now, he said he put the cuffs on for his own amusement.

He was just bored. And then he realized, oh, what did I do with those keys? I left them at home. Oh, no, I don't know what I'd do. So the police showed up, and finally they un-cud, they freed them, they opened the handcuffs up. He said, hey, thanks, you know, appreciate it. I'll just hide him over here, so I don't tempt myself again to put the handcuffs on.

And apparently, this is why this was not a mistake, I am sorry. He was taking care of a little business, and he enjoys wearing the handcuffs in the back of the old bath and body works, because this reportedly, is not the first time the security guard has handcuffed himself without having the key. There's no way he's doing that. Did I do it again?

Oh no. Oh, I'm just so bored in the back of the bath and bodywork store at 2 a.m. in Wisconsin. I'll just handcuff myself. No way. Is that true? I'm sorry. It just isn't.

Those of you that don't know, October is Bullying Prevention Month. Now, we've talked a little bit about some other anti-bullying campaigns on this program before. And, you know, it's a big part of life in our world today. And joining me now is Tracy Heck. Now, Tracy is the author of the Nocturnals series. And along with her series of books, The Nocturnals, She also helps with using that to advance the anti-bullying campaign. And everybody knows in this network no one gets more bullied than Jeff Fisher.

That's true. Everybody bullies you from Glenn, Stu, Pat, even the under people here, myself. Everybody bullies you. And that's a bad thing to do. I'm very happy that you put yourself in the underpeople because that's where you are. I know my place. Do you? Tracy Hecht joins us on chewing the fat today.

Tracy, how in the world are you? Well, thanks for having me. Absolutely. So I'm fascinated how you got started using your Nocturnal series and then bringing that into the anti-bullying campaign and then tied it in with using the zoos as well. I mean, that's genius. Well, I'm not sure it was that calculated.

The Nocturnal's books are middle-grade books, So they're chapter books for like third, fourth, fifth graders. Right. And then the early reader books are for a little bit younger segment for kids just learning to read in first and second grade. But, you know, they deal with these animal protagonists. The main characters are a fox, a sugar glider, and a pangolin. And it's sort of their adventures of the night.

I hate sugar gliders, but. And you do you do? Oh, man, do I hate sugar gliders? They tick me off. What did they do? Those are the biggest bullies on the planet, those sugar gliders. Well, in this case, Jeff, you're right. Thank you.

Sugar, Glatter, Bismarck is not always the best behaved of the bunch. And I will say that the anti-bullying, the way that it's been picked up for anti-bullying is really just because the storylines, they sort of provide both for, you know, families as well as educators and librarians. and, you know, real-world dynamics in the context of fictional characters on, you know, what bullying like in these different ages. And, you know, for the early reader books, it's much more about, you know, name-calling and that kind of bullying. And then as you get into the chapter books, it's much more significant bullying behavior. And I think for kids, you know, being able to read about bullying in a story that's fun and silly and playful is a sort of disarming way to engage them in the conversation around something that happens. in their life. So,

how, I want to say this right now. There's so many times we hear stories about people who have succeeded in life, and they've succeeded in life because they've overcome bullying. Now, I

am not pro-bullying by any means, but I am saying that sometimes it appears that that helps make people stronger. So I'm kind of, you know, where's the line of, of what's too much, what's not enough, is anything worthy? I probably not making any sense.

I'm confusing myself. No, I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying, which is that, you know, to some degree, bullying exists, and pretty much almost everyone experiences bullying in some form, whether they're the bully or they're being bullied. And so it's something that prolific, and so a part of all of our lives, and especially all of kids' lives, like, you know, what do you do with it? And I think that the main thing that is what teachers and families and librarians like about the nocturnals

is that it really talks about how you empower yourself around that kind of behavior, that, you know, you're never going to get someone else to behave or not behave in a certain way, but you can really empower yourself and how you engage with that behavior and what that behavior does to you. And I think that that's a really valuable thing to understand and to be able to do in life because I think you're right. Like I think it does exist. And I think people who figure out how to deal with it, you know, oftentimes have really good skills to succeed in life. I do like the idea of including the parents with a lot of this because I feel like a lot of parents grew up in an era of get over it and move on. And I don't know that that's the exact way to handle the bullying.

of today's world? Because, you know, I mean, I know a lot of people would say, hey, if you're being bullied online, how about close the computer? But I don't know that it's that simple overall. I don't think it is that simple. And I think that bullying in different age groups affects people different ways so that if you're an adult

talking to a 10-year-old about being bullied online, it might be really easy for you to say, just shut the computer. And the same way for a 10-year-old telling a 5-year-old, if someone calls them a dummy or whatever it is, just get over it. I think when you're the age of the person who's actually dealing with it, and that's the realm of your age group, it's much harder. And I think that, you know, look, it exists.

And so I think rather than to get over it, I think a much better way is like, how do you get over it? How do you make this not feel as bad as it does? And that's one of the reasons I think the nocturnals have done, and been as significant to educators and families in this way because it really does give real-life tools for that. It's a very fictional playful way. Right.

And so in your programs with, you know, incorporating the books and the actual zoos with the children and the parents, what are some of the most important tips that you give to both groups? you know, they're different. And, you know, you sort of threw in zoos there too. But, you know, a lot of... First of all, I'm a huge fan of zoos. So anything about zoos I'm going to stick with.

I love it. Well, we had really good programs with zoos. And I will say that, you know, animals are a really good way to sort of teach in a very visceral way, empathy and kindness and treating things well. Because, you know, most children's instincts, especially around, you know, small, vulnerable animals

is to be really kind and generous. to them and for them. And so there's a nice connection in animals and zoos, and I actually think it translates into the storytelling of these nocturnal animals, too. But, you know, in terms of, like, what can you do? You know, one of the reasons I think that books are important for this is that it's oftentimes really hard to say what's happening to you personally. You might, you might, it might be harder for you to say what's happening to me at school, but if you're reading about something that's happening. You can talk about it and then maybe even bring it back to you. So I think stories are a really good place to provide a fodder and almost like a little bit of

a disconnect between yourself and the behavior to be able to have a little bit of conversation around it. I think also you get to see modeling of what works, what doesn't, good behavior, bad behavior, how it's received. I think that's really valuable too. And, you know, another thing, especially that I do in the early reader books, is that there's this hope or this fantasy that, like, we're all going to be good all the time. And the truth is, we're not. And every one of us has probably said something we wish we had at some point in our life. And so the ability to learn how you get yourself out of a dynamic where you are the bully or even where you just do something that you didn't mean to be, you know, offensive to somebody. Figuring how to repair

that dynamic is also, I think, a really important skill. because not everybody is perfect. In fact, everybody is not perfect. Well, for those of us that are as close to perfect as you can get, how can I repair some? I mean, how can someone repair some of those relationships that you've said something that you may regret now? You know, I mean, look, the book that comes out this month

is for the early readers. So it's both a book that's meant to help children learn to read and also engage them in topics that are relevant to their life. So in the story, it's about a kooky kinketsu, which is a marsupial who has like this big imagination and comes up with all these sort of outlandish things. And one of the characters in the book basically like says, I don't buy it, you know, and you're kookoo. Yeah, Kooky.

Yeah, there's a lot of alliterative wordplay. So there's like kuku, kinketoo, hula, baloo, ballyhoo, and all these things that are like also fun in terms of like reading engagement. it, but, you know, what ends up happening is you end up seeing how Bismarck sort of the character who calls Karina the Kinketshu cookie, how he sort of makes good on the fact that, like, he did say this. And in fact, she's not that cuckoo. She's actually, she's kind of fun.

And I think that, I think that's, that's actually a really valuable thing, is to be able to sort of see how you can, how you can come around, not just with the simple, I'm sorry, but in your behavior, too. So now that you've got the series going, how many, how many books? are now available in the series? Well, I started with the chapter books, the middle grade books, and I have four of those that are published, and then the early readers we did later because families and librarians and teachers were telling us that all the little kids were listening, so we did these early readers,

and now I think we have, I think we have eight of those now. Wow. I just finished one. Actually, I feel like you'll really enjoy this one. I just finished one that's called The Best Burp, and it's about a bat, and Ms. Mark, the Sugar Glider, who have a burp off. And the theme of the book is, you know, what is being your best self? So they're playful and silly, but, and in the case of the early readers, they're also educational in the sense that they're meant to be valuable when you're learning to read. And then as they get older, the themes of bullying and bad behavior become more significant because your audience is a lot of,

10-year-old or a 12-year-old. I'm fascinated that the common theme through your nocturnals is those bastard sugar gliders. I told you from the very beginning. Those things rub me the wrong way, those sugar gliders. You know, they're actually, I think there's sensitivity pets now. Like a dog, you can take onto a plane. You can take a sugar glider on one, too. Oh, my gosh.

That's so good. I mean, who doesn't want to bring their emotional support? a sugar glider with them, right? Who doesn't? I don't know why you dislike them so much, but there's a whole collection of nocturnal animals if the sugar glider is not for you. So to learn more, obviously, you have, you know, it's the new world. So I not only, I don't have to go to the library.

I can go to the internet and I can find some of your stuff. Where would someone go to the internet and find your stuff? I mean honestly wherever books are found so like you said libraries bookstores anywhere you want to buy a book online and you can also go to nocturnalsworld.com or at nocturnalsworld for Facebook or Instagram so how are you uh how how is life with the libraries these days I mean we hear more and more stories about how they're struggling and now they're you know they're trying to you know release people from who had owed them in the past

so they could come back to the libraries are your relationship relationships with them still really good? You know, for us it's very unique because, you know, young kids sort of, let's call the age group I write for five to 12. They, for the most part, still read in paper form. So libraries and bookstores are still really valuable and important parts of that age group's access to books. They don't get them online. They don't read them on their Kindle. And I will say that, you know, public libraries, you know,

are at the mercy of, you know, government, of government spend. And school libraries are at the mercy of, you know, school spend. And you are seeing a lot of shrinkage. And, you know, I think that most people in education think that's a real shame because, you know, having something free, especially something as great as a book is a valuable thing for a kid. And you want them to have access to it. So is this what prompted the, you know,

circle back to the zoos again. But along with, you know, the tie-in with your books and the nocturnals, is this since, you know, we're, you know, trying to maybe stretch the knowledge that happens away from the libraries. Is that what brought on the idea of, you know, some partnership with some of the zoos? Because I think that's a great idea. It's been so much fun. I mean, one of the things about taking these books into zoos is that when you're, you're,

eight or nine or ten years old, your straddle of fiction versus nonfiction is tighter. You don't have to have those things be so far off. I mean, for instance, you have books where your main characters are animals. So the real reason we ended up there is because when kids read the nocturnals, they, not everyone hates a sugar glider. They like the sugar glider. They love a panglin. They really like all of these really quirky nocturnal animals that they didn't. know about and they start doing research on them and they start looking at YouTube videos and they start actually understanding you know the the science part of the series that's that's really a fun part of the series which informs the character development and the storytelling and it's a pretty

quick connection then to take these fictional books into that science-based animal world and do like really great programs that connect both to you know the actual physical of the animal and also the character in the book Tracy Hecht uh author of uh the the Nocturnal series. The newest one is the Kooky Kinkajoo. Is that what you said? That's what you say, yeah. I'm looking forward.

I'm going to, I promise I will read the Kooky Kinkajoo. Well, the sugar glider in that book, Bismarckiadez badly. So, you know, it'll be right up your hour. That's exactly right. Tracy, thank you so much. I appreciate it, nocturnalsworld.com. So have you heard of a man by the name of Scotty Bowers? I have not heard of him.

Now, it's sad because he passed away. He was 96 years old. But he was the sexual procurer for Hollywood's closeted stars. Now, he claimed to have been one of Holly's most infamous hustlers, and he arranged elicit liaisons with both straight and gay film stars. And he, you know, took part of the hijinks himself. You know what I'm saying? You know, I'm already here.

And so he passed away a couple days ago, very sad. 96, though. I mean, he did some distance. But there's a documentary about him out, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Why have I not seen this? I am so bad at myself right now. Why have I not seen this? I will watch this as soon as I possibly can.

I'd say I'll watch it this weekend, but we're moving. And I got a lot of stuff to do. and I'm figuring I got to pretend like I'm actually doing something. I mean, there's always going to be excuses. If I just say, you guys go ahead, do what you want. I want to be in the bedroom. I got some stuff to watch.

That might make him a little angry. So I'll help him move. But he said his first encounter. He was pumping gas. Just gas this time. In Hollywood. Thank you. Oh, yeah.

I'm pumping gas on Hollywood Boulevard. That's when a well-dressed man drove up in a Lincoln. I couldn't help but notice. He asked if I could help him. I said, this is a full-service tank, sir. And that's when it all started for me. Down the long road, hooking people up together, taking care of a little Scotty Bauer bittance.

I got to watch that. I don't know who this guy is. I'm a fan of him. I'm now a fan of Scotty Bowers. So, we're good. I'm hooking up. I mean, I can't because he's dead. He's 96.

I don't go that way. So I don't mess with dead people. Although. Thanks for clearing that out. Anyway. Speaking of Scotty Bowers, though, and up here carrying, you know, hookups.

Did you know that a third of Americans? A third of Americans. A third of... A third of Americans. Think you can get an STD. And if you don't know what an STD is, look it up. from toilet seats.

Come on now. A survey of 2000 sexually active Americans. Are they? Are they? I would like to revisit this survey. Examined their sexual health knowledge and found the majority need a crash course on the topic of sexual health.

When asked about the ways people can contract an SDD, 22% mistakenly believed, incidental physical contact was enough. While 24% erroneously thought you could get an STD from sharing a glass of water with someone who's infected. Wait, you can't. But that's not all, that's not all they got wrong, according to this. They were also unable to identify the common diseases.

63%. 63%, that's not bad. Correctly identified gonorrhea. Oh, they're showing, hey, take a look at this. What disease is this? I don't know. Is that shingles? Is it, ooh, is that some kind of eczema?

It's not going to dry skin? Oh, no, that's gonorrhea? Oh, never mind. Less than half recognized herpes or chlomedia, 42%. Oh, wow. But I know I want to know how they did this stupid survey. Take a look at this. What do you think?

They just asked some middle schoolers. What do you think? Well, they said, well, sexually active Americans. It didn't say what age. 28% identified clap as an STD. It's not. The more you know.

Thank you. This was commissioned by Let's get checked. Conducted by one poll for Sexual Health Awareness Month. Wait, is this Sexual Health Awareness Month? And I have not celebrating? Well, we're celebrating now, doggone it.

Welcome. First, we don't know if it's actually sexual awareness month, but we're just going to go ahead and participate anyway. Yes, it's sexual health awareness month. So, make sure you're aware of healthy sex. This month. And every month, by the way, we're just bringing it to light this month.

81% of people who respondents believe themselves to be knowledgeable about sexual health. the results really didn't show that the results of this this assistant really show that so according to the according to the survey

better education is needed thank you thank you it would be interested to see how much money they got how much money they they took from let's get started

find this to celebrate. I'm sorry, not to find anything, to celebrate Sexual Health Awareness Month. Now, this kind of goes to this survey because Hawaiian officials blame online dating for the sudden rise in STDs. So too many people are swiping right.

Too many people are swiped, meet and hook, I mean, hook it up. I bet you that. Reports of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis have soared in the Aloha state to the highest number in decades. Oh no. All three are near their highest rates.

Wait a minute. Now, okay. Which is it? It's soared to the highest number in decades or is it near the highest rates? Because you're telling me both. I'd like to have you get it straight, please. And how high is that?

Is that like from four to five percent? thinking for 40%? Well, we're going to get to it. Okay. Taylor, you're like Chris Cruz. You just start yapping. We're going to get to it. It's in the story.

You're like Keith Malinac this morning. I'm going to get to it. I hope to God he's not in here. Calm the hell down. I'm getting to it. Back to Hawaiian officials blaming online dating to sudden SDDs. We don't know if it's the highest of decades or near the highest of decades, but we do know that health officials said cases of gonorrhea more than doubled in the past

10 years alone. From 611 to 1,496 cases. Ouch. Ciphylus infections also spiked to 180 cases. Ouch. From just 38 10 years ago. Wow. And holy cow. There were also 7,732 cases of chlamydia last year. Jumping from, well, it was 5,972, 2008.

So it didn't go up that much. The spike is due to online dating, which allows people to meet more people. Oh, I hate it when people meet more people, man. People, people who need people. No, you don't be swiping right. Online dating is horrible and bad for you, and you shouldn't be doing it. Come on. So how do you get an STD online?

You know, that's a good question. That's a good question, isn't it? It's a very good question. I don't think the Hawaiian officials ask themselves that question. They should have. It would have helped them in their answers. I have a feeling that they believe that people are meeting each other after the online meet.

So they're seeing each other online. And then they're getting together in person. See, because when you swipe right, she's coming to meet you. Or he. I don't want to judge. I don't, man,

I do not want to judge. Plus now, a third person has died. Legioneer's disease in North Carolina. I mean, we are starting, things are starting to not look good, man. Officials in North Carolina,

they're calling it an outbreak of Legioneers. In recent week, health officials have confirmed 140 cases among the people who attended the North Carolina Mountain State Fair in Fletcher, North Carolina beautiful this time of year, by the way. We just drive through the smoky mountains and look at the fall colors.

Oh, so beautiful. They've been diagnosed with Legion and Here's disease. Now, 140 people, there's several counties, 94 people have been hospitalized. Now, this is where my, this is where, if I took this survey right now, I'd be part of the dummies. So I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure.

Oh, here we go. one in ten get sick from legioners die so that's a pretty good odds that's pretty good odds you get it you're probably going to live and you want to get that treated you want to get that treated you don't want to use I don't feel like I'm getting sick you probably got a legionnaires disease I'll be fine I'll be fine I'm just going to take a hauls and I'll be fine no get it checked if it's a possibility get it checked one and ten die wow and if that wasn't a up. Scientists have now found the deadly malaria

parasite jumped from gorillas to humans. Yes. Isn't that a wonderful thing? I'm excited. You too can get malaria from gorillas now. Yay! Scientists, yay! Thank you. Scientists who resurrected a 50,000-year-old

sequence have analyzed it to figure out how the world deadliest malaria parasite jumped from gorillas to humans well we now know that it did thank you they're understanding the process of how it did in the case of the most deadly form of malaria parasite plasmodium flasciparum I think that's pretty good that's pretty close plasmodium flasaparum

this analysis found that it gained its ability to infect human blood cells from a section of DNA that had transferred from a gorilla parasite. That's wonderful. Thank you. We were glad to know that. So just stay away. But it's 50,000 years old, so maybe that particular gene is dead. Now, maybe we just don't worry about it.

And we just, eh, eh, and we don't worry about it. And we just, we look at the guerrillas at the zoo and we say, eh, don't worry about it. We'll be fine. Don't worry about it. Just look at the gorilla and see what happens. So I see the ninth annual streamy award nominees are out.

I saw the hell. I want to see if, you know, chewing the fat or any of my cohorts here at the Blaze Television podcast radio network are part of the streaming nominees because, I don't know, we've been around even longer than the streamies, so we should be on this. So audience choice, the creator of the year. Nobody from here. Show of the year. Let's see, chewing the fat.

Chewing the fat. Nope. Overall, action or sci-fi. Chewing the fat. Nope. Animated. I didn't do anything animated this year. So I'm not going to be on that list.

Breakout creator. Oh, hello. Breakout creator. I should be on that. Jeff Fisher. Oh, no. Comedy. Tell me the comedy.

Hello. If you listen to the show, comedy. Let's see, chewing the fat, chewing the fence. Nope, not on there. Just people, the comedy is all YouTube. Let me breakout creator. I'm not going to get that animated. I'm not going to get that. Let's get the show of the year. Show of the year. I should be on chewing the fat. Let's see if it's here. YouTube premium, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, oh, Facebook and YouTube. Weird. Breakout, I already want to scroll back person here. Oh, wait a first person. Oh, wait a first person. presented by GoPro Hero 8 Black.

What? International A's the Pacific. No, they're not going to give that to me. International Europe, Middle East, and Africa. No, they're not going to give that to me, even though we have listeners all around the world. International Latin America. And for those of you listening all around the world

outside of the continental United States of America, hello. Thank you for listening to Chewing the Fat. I love you. I mean that. I mean that. Indie series. No, I didn't do any indie series.

Scripted series. No, but I don't script any series. No, but I don't do that. unscripted series. Join the fat. Join the fat. Nope. Not on the list.

Unscripted series. YouTube premium. YouTube. YouTube. Snapchat. Unscripted series. Phone swap Snapchat. Okay.

YouTube. Beauty. Now, no one knows beauty in fashion more than me. No one knows beauty and fashion more than me. Let's see if I'm on this list. Jeff Fisher, YouTube, YouTube. No, I'm not on the list. I'm not on the Flaze Podcast Network.

Dance? I mean, hello. I'm like a feather. You ever seen a feather dance? That's what I'm like. YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. No, not there. Fashion.

I am fashion. I am, oh my gosh. I for sure will be nominated on this list of the streamies under fashion. I mean, Jeff, you're not even wearing pants. YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. They don't give it to me under. I have created fashion on this network. I am fashion.

That is, that's a crime. They should shut these streaming awards down. All right, let's check the next, the next category, food. Do they know who I am? I have my face on a piece of steak as my show logo. Chewing the fat food. Got to be under food, right? Okay, let's see.

Chewere the fat, chow to fat, choward the fat, chow to fat, chow to fat, nope. Not on there. Streamy awards. Nope. All right, gaming. Nobody's game. We talked gaming just the other day on this very show.

I'd get anything for it? Nope. Health and wellness. I am the picture of health for some people. I should listen to health and wellness under this. Nope, not under. Kids and family. I have kids and family.

I should be under this shows. YouTube, YouTube, Facebook, YouTube, YouTube. Lifestyle. I am a lifestyle guru. YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, Instagram, YouTube is 9. name isn't under it. News. What do we do here? News. Anybody from the Blaze should be under this particular

heading, right? News for the streaming awards. Let's see. Nope, sorry. Business Insider today. Are you kidding me on Facebook? You're giving them a award for streaming. You're not giving the Blaze. Any of the shows on the pop culture. I am pop culture, along with fashion and dance. Chewing the fat should be under her. Chewing the fat,

chewing the fat, chewing the fat. No, no, no. science and education. I mean, that's all we do on the show is science and education. Do I get a nominee under streaming? No. Sports. I mean, no one knows sports better than me.

Am I under a YouTube, YouTube, YouTube? Nope. Technology. We do tech all the time. It's all we talk about on the show. It's doing the fat being nominated under there? No. Social video, live streamer.

We live stream once in a while. They're probably not going to make it that. Breakthrough artist. Breakthrough artist. I mean, podcast. There we go. The podcast, the podcast, there we go.

I'm going to be nominated here under the podcast, Eddie. Ready? Chewing the fat. Let's go. Let's take a look. We got the H3 podcast. We got impulsive. We've got On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Tiny Meat Gang podcast, Views from David Dorbick and Jason Nash, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

Nope, not on there. What? That's a crime. That ticks me off, actually. That makes me mad. That makes me mad. Performance, acting. I, acting.

I've acted on this. network. You know how many characters I've been? I should have my own Blaze IMDB page for the characters I've acted on this network. Oh my gosh. I mean, I should have won at least an Emmy for my portrayal of the Fattest Man on Earth. At least an Emmy. Did I know? Did I know? Was that a portrayal? Yes, it was. Yes, it was because I'm obviously not the Fattest Man on Earth. Again, the stipulation of

on earth. Collaboration. I collaborate every day. I should be out there. No, ensemble cast. Oh, I won't make that because I hate the cast around here. The whole ensemble cast.

Cinematography. I mean, no one shoots better pictures than me. I'm not in a costume design. I, hello, fashion again. Hello, costume design, me. Directing. I just do my own directing, so they're probably not giving it to me for that.

Yeah, no, I'm done it to do their editing. Yeah, no, that's visual and special effects. Hello, I mess about writing. I mean, that's all I not do. Social good, company or brand, hello. I'm not under that either. Creator. I mean, non-profit or energy,

no, I'm not a nonprofit yet. Although if you want to send me money, I promise it'll, I promise I'll use it for good. Brand engagement. Hello, that should be me. I don't even get under the honorable mentions. Branded content series. Okay, here we go. This is where we're, branded content series. Here we go. It's going to be, it's going to be, it's going to be chewing a fat under Brandon.

Nope. Honorable mentions under that. No. Branden content video, that's, you know, if we had video, we wouldn't have an emerging platform. Honorable mention, I think, it's, influencer. Yes, I'm an influencer. I mean, I think I am, but nobody's actually giving me the title of influencer. They gave my wife a title of influencer, though, for Haleo. So if you, you know, if you want to get the leggings, workout top, stuff like that,

she's an influencer for them, the Haleo. They just released their fall set. She's an influencer. I gave a little love. This is not a paid endorsement. But she's an influencer for her for them. them. So she could be, yeah, yeah, that's going to rank it in. That's going to rake it in for, but they've got some big event going on down in San Antonio this weekend, too. Go check it out.

If you're listening live on 1016, 2019, they've got a big event going on in San Antonio. Look it up. Go to their website, haelio lifestyle.com. Halio.com. Yeah, that's what, that's, that's, go back to the Streamy Awards. Influenza. Oh, that's where we got, was where we went to Helio in the influencer campaign. We don't go back to that. Social good campaign. Social Good campaign. It's all we do is warn people about social problems that they could have on the show. Social Good campaign.

I should be chewing the fat. No, not there. And that's it. Not one of chewing the fat is up for a streaming. Man, if I was a drinker. You're not? If I was a drinker of alcohol. Yeah.

You know, if I was a drinker of alcohol, I would subscribe to this podcast, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. I'd be a subscriber. I would be. I would go. to the podcast platform of my choice, iTunes, Iheart radio, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play,

whatever was my choice, depending on what I felt like when I was drunk at the bar, and I would subscribe to chewing the fat. You know, if I was a drinker of alcohol. So, and you know what? Even if I wasn't a drinker, like I'm not a drinker of alcohol, you know, Coke Zero's and water. And I would subscribe to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. and if I subscribed on iTunes

or anything any Apple product I would rate and review this I would rate it I would rate it best podcast ever and I would review it as 20 stars

that's what I would do you know if I were you you