Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 232 | Fat Pile Friday - Epic Journey EDITION

Episode Date: October 25, 2019

It's Friday and Jeffy decided to go on a EPIC JOURNEY with George Stone, Editor-in-chief of National Geographic Travel & Epic Journeys foreword writer. Kris Cruz brings a instagram story that brings out Jeffy TBT and memories of the good old days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to it. Fat Pile Friday on Chewing the Fat. Thank you for coming along for the ride today. Should we start out with a story or should we just go into the open? Because I have so many headlines to get to here in the pile. I mean, the fat pile this week continued to get bigger and bigger and bigger. According to a new study, researchers say that,

chocolate chip cookies trigger the same response in your brain as cocaine. I would like to disagree with that wholeheartedly. I am a fan of chocolate chip cookies. Do you have any facts to support that claim? I do have. I have user facts. You have user facts. Because they say that high sugar and fat content that can spark cravings similar to those induced by the addictive drug. Okay.

Let's round this, clear this up real quick, okay? I love chocolate chip cookies. I'm an 800-pound man who find it difficult to say no to chocolate chip cookies. In a matter of fact, my wife made chocolate chip cookies a couple of nights ago, and for the first time in quite some time, and they were tremendous. They were one of their batch was one of the best batches in quite some time.

That's good. And they were really good. I'm sorry? I brought them. Oh, you did? Okay, thank you. I thought you forgot. They brought them the other day.

No, they brought him yesterday. Yesterday. Right there. I was here yesterday. I know. They were right there. And, uh, darn, they were good. You didn't get any?

I had them right there. I did not. I didn't. That's a lie. I had them right there. Can you bash me up some more? You boy, you know, I would, but she's out of town. So she's out of town.

It is. Very convenient. It is convenient. It is convenient. She's out of town. It is out of town. So were those goodbye cookies for you? Actually, they were a gift for someone where she was going.

They wouldn't even really for me. She was just like, I was just like, those, the first batch round is mine. Okay. And how many rounds did she do? Not enough. Because I don't know, maybe, you know, from the last batch, you grab two.

And like, there's two of her Chris Cruz. I did. Oh, you did? I did. So where did they go from? Unless they fallen out of my car. Oh, okay. I don't know what I got out there.

Because you do care of a bag. I thought they were there. Yeah. It's the next thing. Maybe I can find them. Maybe they're still outside. Maybe they're still in the parking lot. They're in a Ziploc bag.

They're probably still good. They're in a Ziploc bag. Yes, they are good. Yeah, I'll go check. Yeah, you do that. Yeah. Let me know if you're finding. You know what?

I'll be back. Good luck. Good luck. Make sure you look really hard. Oh, I am. I'm going to look under your car, under Sto's car. So I would never walk close to Sto's car. I have anything to do with him.

I walk up. All park next to each other. Don't. No, that's a lie. I have not parked. It usually goes, Stu, you,

me and Jason. I know what Jason ticks me off because he gets here. See, the reason that when the days that I get here early, I park where Jason parks

so I like that parking space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he gets mad at me. Oh, it's not your parking space. Just like Stu gets mad at me. But that's Stu's parking space.

Hey, if I get here first. No, no, it is no. No, it is not. No, it is not. No, it is not. No, it is not.

But I get here first. So what? I know that technically, technically, you want to walk down this road. Okay. Technically, there's not a reserved parking spaces anymore.

Absolutely. All right? I was told that by the man himself, not the man that you're thinking of, but the other man. Yeah. And because that's when, and that's the excuse he used

when he took down my reserved parking space. J.F. My reserve had a sign. and everything. With your name on it. Stu and Pat had their little painting on the driveway. I had a freaking sign.

Did you make that? The company made it? I had a sign. I'm not paying for a sign to be made. The company has a sign for you. That's legit. Not even the Glen Beck has a sign for his name. That's freaking out.

I still have the sign too, by the way. It's in your office. But it's not, I can't park in my office, by the way. So I found this. So Stu and Pat still have a space that's theirs. That says it says reserved down the park. It's really worn down,

but you can see where it's reserved. But technically they're not supposed to be reserved spots anymore. Everybody's equal. Except for those spots. Yeah. And now except one of those other spots that are up there to those four, because I've taken it over.

I parked for a whole week on the stew spot, thinking I'm here first. I get the first spot. No, no, you don't. Yeah, he came up to me and said, hey, because I told them it was. you. You're damn right I did. Why did you rat me out? Because I

said, I can't believe you're letting Chris Cruz park in your parking spot. What the heck? What would you do something like that? Because you'll be parking on people's faces. I'm a veteran disabled now at 80%. So park in the freaking disabled slot. They're not willing to give me a blue sticker. I can't help that. I have one. No, I don't. But I can get one. Yes, you can. I could get one. Just like I could get one too. Well, get one then. No, that's sad.

I don't. I do have one in my car. It was not for me. I can't use it. Well, you can. No, I can. So it's the law. Oh, here we are. Jeff Fisher following the law. That's right. It's against the law. The world is ending today on Friday. I have one in my car that I used for my father-in-law when he's in the car with me. Why are you winking? You don't have to wincing. I'm not winking. I'm not winking. No, I look at the people that are watching this live right now. They can't. They can't. Is that possible? Oh, by the way, happy birthday to my stepfather. Gosh darn it. The 25th of October.

Wait, you have a stepfather that's alive? Stepfather, yeah. Well, I didn't know that. I thought like everybody was dead. Happy birthday. No, I didn't think everybody was dead. Happy birthday. Yeah, happy birthday, Richard.

I love you. Thank you. Nice, darn it. I got to call it. Did you send him something? Well, actually, just remembered now. I sent him some chocolate chip cookies. Oh, so that's where the chocolate cookies are for.

Yeah, that's where they are. Oh, that's right. That's right. I just remembered. Just remember that's what I did. No, gosh darn it. I got to call him. Yeah, you better call him.

You want to call him now? Yeah, I got a phone right here. He's busy right now. Oh, he's busy right now. We're recording this live. He knows we're busy. Okay. Does he know that you record?

Oh, yeah. Often you speak to the stepfather. Often enough. Okay? In one week. Often enough. In one week. How much have you picked up the phone and say hello?

No, I don't report to you. I'm not saying that you report to me. So back to the story about the job. The chip cookies. I just want to know. I want to know how close you are to this stepfather that I've never heard of. I love him. I never heard of this stepfather.

I can't help that you've never heard of him. Well, if you love him so much. He was my stepfather for longer than my real dad was my dad. If you love this. How's that possible since your real dad is your dad? Because my real dad passed away when I was 14. Oh, sorry.

You need to laugh. And then, yeah, yeah, who's laughing now? Thank you. Right, way to go. Thanks for bringing that up. and that I was the one that brought it up and then a few years later he had my stepdad and my mom met

he wasn't my stepdad at the time until they got married and then they were together for years yeah a long time is he's just the only parent left or do you still have your mom okay yeah call him gonna laugh again

oh I'm literally joyful right now freaking again okay he's from the far western end of Nebraska I love this man is he in uh Michigan? Yeah. Oh, this man.

He was born in the Far Western, and Broken Bow, Nebraska. And he's one of those guys that went to... Isn't that Gaytown, like Brokeback Mountain? Yesterday, I remember telling you to turn your mic off. I'm really close. It's going to happen again soon. It's Broken Bow, Nebraska.

He went to the University of Nebraska, and he went to the University of Michigan. He has a business degree from the University of Michigan. You know, he has an engineering degree from the University of Nebraska. Yes. I mean, I love him. And he went, and he's one of those guys that, was raising a family

and he'd go to the University of Nebraska and then he'd run out of money so he'd drop out and he'd go back to work and he'd put money for the family and put money to go back to school. That's awesome. You don't see that anymore. No, you do not. Everybody's crying about,

I got a hundred thousand dollars worth of debt. Once you drop out, you don't come back. That's what he, but I mean, there was no debt. True. No debt. And then he went to work for when he moved to Michigan. he went to work for General Motors.

And he was a big-time, big boss. General Motors. And then they sent him to the University of Michigan for a business degree at night. So he worked. And then went to night school, got a business degree. That's awesome. I saw you live the American dream.

Maybe what you're having for American Dream. It's probably not about it. He was in the military. Yeah, because Glenn always talked about StoryCorps. Yesterday he brought that 90-something or later talking about a boom exploding. I got a question for that too. I have a question for that story court too.

I heard that silly interview. We should talk to them. We should definitely talk to them. Because my question is, he talked about how I can go to their app. Yes. And I can upload a story. Yes. And it automatically goes to the library of Congress.

How do they know it's true? Ooh. How do they know that my story is true? How do you know any story is true? How do you know that 96-year-old lady did not lie about her boob exploding? No, you don't. I guess you don't. So you're just taking it as.

You're just stories. So I could just call, like, I could upload stories once a week. Yes. There are just stories. Yes. Yeah. I love it. Maybe we do, I don't know, I chew in the fast story once.

Our story core. Yeah. Once a week story core story. And something that happened in our life. And on chewing the fat, it's not on the app, but on chewing the fat, we say, this would be such a great story if any of it were true. But on the app, we leave that off. We live that off.

Yeah. Truth or not. We send that to the library of Congress. I'm a fan. I'm a fan too. Back to this chocolate chip cookies being more addictive than cocaine or as addictive to cocaine. Anyway,

I've eaten many chocolate chip cookies as this physique lets you know. You don't get that way without, you know, you know, cookies. Thank you. Plus, you know what's so good too is chocolate chip cookies and you have some ice cream and they're hot. Anyway.

And just to be clear, I've done a lot of the drug cocaine over the years. I haven't done it in a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long time. I've kicked it. I'm good, good to go. I don't, I don't recommend it. It's illegal.

Don't do it. But I have done it. And I know the difficulty and the process of not doing it anymore and what makes you want to do it. And I can promise you that chocolate chip cookies and cocaine are not the same. Hey Jeff. Nat Geos on the line. Do you want to talk to them? You don't sound like George Stone.

I do not sound like George Stone? No, you do not. You sound like Chris Cruz. Well, Nat Geo is on the line. They're asking because we discovered a new planet and they're calling us, you know, to see a... They are? Yes. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. National Geographic. I'm sorry, Nat Geo. It's not national geographic anymore. What is the planet called? Jeffonia? It's either jafonia or

It's called the planet of Fatima Cruiser. Fatima. Fatima. Fatima. It's Fatima. Fatima. That sounds like it must be a sort of heavyweight planet.

Thank you. It is. Thank you. That's chewing the fat. Thank you. Be here all week. It's absolutely. There's a lot of things orbiting around Fatima

because of the gravitational pull. Hello. Oh, yeah. Thank you. It's got magnetic appeal. Yes, it does. That's the place to go. Thank you.

There's a lot of hot air in that atmosphere, though, I can tell you. Oh, that hurts. That hurts. There's a lot of gas, too. Boom. Just below the surface. Anyway. Don't poke it.

Yeah, you start digging in, man. You don't know what's coming out. Or what end? At one point, at one point, we discussed sending drill. drillers up to drill. Oh, no, no, no. There's some life forms in there. You do not want to disturb.

Yeah, no, you cannot do that, yeah. I mean, I know we've all seen the documentary Armageddon. Hello. And we saw that, you know, that saved the planet. But when you start drilling into Fatima, oh, man. Yeah. The gas release is just too much. Yeah, you just work through sedimentary layers, layer after layer after layer.

Okay, no, I got it. Okay, no, I understand. Yeah, but then you finally get there. No, I understand. I appreciate it, George. I'm not. I understand. I went with a fat joke.

I got it. You opened the door. You opened the door for him, Jeffrey. A round joke. It's a well-rounded joke. Yeah, yeah. Again, I got it. I don't know why the...

He just continued. Okay, so earlier this week, we talked a little bit about the lonely planet's list of where I'm supposed to visit this year. And I was amazed that two of the top ten were the rolls right off

your tongue when you think of places to visit you think of Denver I mean that's I think right away I'm thinking yeah that's one of the top cities I want to see is Denver and Washington D.C. made the list so I'm thinking really there's got to be better places than

Denver and Washington D.C. While I'm not opposed to those cities and I like them and I've been there before it's not really someplace I'd like to I consider traveling to going out of my way to hey we're going to go to Denver

no it doesn't sound so it's a mile high I know I know I know it is I know it is so joining me is my man from National Geographic now I want to talk a little bit to George about the new National Geographic Epic Journeys book

and I want to tell you there's a big book there's 245 according to the title 245 life-changing adventures. And I actually, I would like to add one life-changing adventure that if you were to drop this on your foot, it would be another life-changing adventure. Nice. This is a- You wouldn't be climbing or hiking.

No, you would not. No, you would not. This is a gorgeous book from National Geographic with 245 adventures. And George Stone, National Geographic Traveler, Editor-in-Chief, is joining us here on Chewing the Fat. and he is going to kind of walk us through places that are different. Not necessarily better, but different than Denver. Well, that's true. There are a few in the world.

And, you know, at National Geographic, since we've been around since 1888, we have been keeping track of a lot of cool places. Yeah, no kidding. When we were building this book, Epic Journeys, what we were really wanting to do is pick ultimate experiences in really cool places and build out itineraries and, you know, add helpful travel tips for what you can do. So, like, on the theme of being outdoors, possibly a mile high, near it thereabout. My wife is such a fan of that.

I mean, I am not. I'm a fan of being on the sofa and looking at it and reading your book. No. What? My epic journey is going through this book. We love armchair travelers. too. Well, my wife is a big time, a big test. She would, she would go on every one of these in a heartbeat. Well, one that's on my mind is stargazing in the Otacama Desert and Northern Chile.

And, you know, the milky way is just, you know, sprinkled above you. And what's the most amazing thing about seeing night sky in the absence of light pollution is that you really get a sense of, you know, our planet where a planet's position is within the solar system. Right. And it's just this amazing experience. So, I mean, we wanted to collect a whole bunch of experiences like that that are kind of life-changing and also ones that build on curiosities that you might have already. Okay.

So just as a side note, I see, you know, we're talking about, you know, South and Central America, which you're talking about, you know, stargazing in Chile, Africa, Europe, Asia, the ocean, the polar regions, and of course, North America is one of the places that you have listed here in North America. I mean, I'm going to have to apologize to Denver, if it is. Is Denver in that package? I don't think it's in the package, but Denver, not Denver proper. I'm sorry to say. Denver County. Yeah. You know, to the friends from Lonely Planet, I can relate to people getting super excited about something.

So they got like, I don't know, super jazzed about Denver. It happens everywhere. It was number 10, to be honest. It really didn't make it to the top. It was on the lid. It's fair. Okay, so in Africa, I've been to Africa in South Africa before. There's some beautiful places there.

Where are we talking about there? Okay, well, I'm glad he says out of Africa because one of the cool stories that we have in this book is about a self-driving safari in South Africa. A lot of people think that maybe a safari is going to be too pricey, and they cannot do it. And this is not true. We're not all working for National Geographic. You know what I'm saying, George. I know.

I know. And who knows how long I will after this interview. But in South Africa, you can drive yourself through crazy wild animal parks, like Kruger National Park, all it takes is fly in, rent a car, fill it up with enough gas so that you can outpace the elephants, and then you are driving yourself right through. And, you know, you don't want to get out of the car. That's the number one thing. Yeah, we just had, there was just a story coming from Kruger National Park. Was there not? I mean, there was there some, some damage. I don't remember what, I can't remember what it was now, but I mean, I would, I would advise staying in your vehicle.

Every year, there's a handful of people who cannot control themselves. They're, They want to live a special moment from the Lion King and, you know, go hug for charismatic carnivore. And it doesn't end well. Right. It's amazing. I know. We talk about happy stories instead. But, yeah.

But, yeah. But, I mean, Africa is a dream destination for all sorts of different reasons. And there are so many different countries and regions that you can travel to within Africa. So we call them out whether, you know, you're in windy, impenetrable forest. in central Africa and Uganda, where you can see gorillas are close relatives, or you're in the Okavanga

Delta of Botswana toward the south or even Namibia and southwest Africa where deserts and dunes and animals that have become, that have adapted to these Hurricane starter deserts is what those are. Yeah, you're right about that.

That, actually, yeah, yeah. I mean, that is the, I mean, but that too is relevant because the, the more places you go in the world, the more you make connections. And you start to see, okay, well, how does this current that sweeping up the western coast of Africa eventually affect, you know, weather patterns in North America? That's how. You know, how do birds migrate? Where do they go? you know, how are different plants connected? I think if you care about the forests near you,

if you go to a national park and really fall in love with, say, redwood forest, then you're going to start to care more when you hear about a forest far away, like the Amazon on fire. I mean, because you're going to be able to relate to it. You understand that this is special. You might even have a sense of the scale. just by having gotten lost in a forest closer to home. I noticed that, like I noticed when you were talking about Africa,

hey, we found all new a trove of mummies and things in Egypt now with the pyramids, right, surrounding the pyramids, which will definitely make the list sooner than later. Tourism just went up. But I noticed you didn't mention my favorite country in Africa, Digibouti. Oh, yeah. I realize that some people think that you drop the D and just call it Djibouti. But it's my favorite country and I can pronounce it anyway I want.

Was that a Frank Zappa song? No, it was a disease that finally got cured. Yeah, okay. Well, Digibouti, so have you been there? No, I have not. We have a couple of listeners to the podcast, Chewing the Fat in Digibouti. So a shout out to them. Yeah, absolutely.

And I hope if they send me an email or a tweet or anything like that, then maybe we can start doing stories on Dichabooty because we're running a bit low right now. But we would love to. Oh, no. What are you talking about running a bit slow? I went into the kitchen, open the cabinet. There was no jibouti there. Oh, no.

Well, now there is. I mean, you think you got something cured and bang it back again. Yeah. Good. So, out of all the places in the book, and the book is beautiful. I mean, you guys did a tremendous job, epic journeys, 245 life-changing adventures. Out of this book, what didn't make the cut that you thought, you know, I probably should have made. That you probably should have made the cut.

I'll answer this. I'll friend. Puerto Rico did not make the cut. And, you know, it's just, it's sad to see that Puerto Rico could not make. I forgive you for this, but maybe next year's you make it, you know, add one more and then just make Puerto Rico stop. That's fair. Okay, but here's what I can say about Puerto Rico. No, okay.

Well, I just edited an article. We just put it up online one minute ago. And it's about seven cemeteries in the world with views to die for, and one of them is in Puerto Rico. One of them is Puerto Rico. That would be the entire country of Puerto Rico. That's just island, island, not a country, island. And not only that, but we've done a lot.

Puerto Rico. We had a good piece by, you know, Jose Andres, the famous chef. So we, he wrote for us. He talked about how, how his time in Puerto Rico made him feel even prouder as an American. He became an American citizen. And he loves the country. He does exactly what he loves where he goes. I mean, we're strong for it all. I promise. We didn't cover, I'll tell you what we didn't cover, is Toledo, Ohio, where I'm from. And there's nothing there. I can say that. It's a missed opportunity. It's a missed opportunity.

You've got the tire signs in Dayton. You've ever been to Dayton? Is that where the big beer is? The big beer can? No, I don't think so. No, it's not the big beer can. No, it's the tires. Dayton tires.

Well, the tires is probably more Akron. Thank you. And Akron, yeah, and Canton. I mean, we're all the same. Toledo is sort of like. Thank you. The state of Ohio is all the same. Let's be clear about that.

100% you are 100% right there George I didn't say that I feel misunderstood but yeah I mean you know there are spectacular things of course everywhere you go of course of course there is beautiful journeys is amazing but I love I love traveling in Indonesia I love Bali in particular we don't include Bali here you do you got Vietnam though though right oh yeah we absolutely have Vietnam yeah um because we were focusing on in this book on adventurous things. When I go to Bali, for instance, I like to go and duck into the festivals. Who doesn't?

Don't talk down to me, George, like, we don't know what you're talking about. When you go to Bali for the festivals and stuff, I mean, that's what you go there. I mean, I just like, I hop in that jet. I just, you know, I snap my fingers. It pops on over. That's the Natchio jet. It's like all of us have that power here. It's very special.

That's a good gig. I know. I got you. It's a good gig. Yeah, but there are a lot of things I wouldn't do anyway. Like one thing in the book is written by my friend Carrie Miller, and she went face to face with a great white shark swimming in a shark cage. And, you know, I don't know.

It sounds fun. It sounds kind of like it would be fun. It does. I mean, but you would want to have a lot of faith in that cage, I think. Yeah, you would have to believe that it would be a fat guy cage for me. No question. to worry that it would contain me. I don't know. I mean,

buoyancy could probably be your friend. I don't know. There you. Yeah, there you go. I get attacked first. You're kidding me? They look up and say, hey, seal, dead.

Well, we're talking to National Geographic. We're not talking to the animal planet. Oh, yeah, okay. Sorry. So, yeah. So, yeah, so. Nat Geo is trying to help you out. That's an animal planet question.

I apologize, George. I apologize. Thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate. Did it. Yeah. It's a big dividing line because, yeah, it's a wild world out there.

It sure is. It sure is. So your favorite thing in the book? Your favorite thing? Favorite. Your favorite. Your favorite. George Stone.

Traveler editor-in-chief. I'm going to tell you what it is. My friend Peter Gwyn is a National Geographic writer loves Arabian horses. And so we sent him. Oh, my God. And I'm in such a rich history, too. So we sent him to the Arabian Peninsula to Oman to learn about these horses, to ride the, to ride the horses, to get a sense of the culture. And the pictures and his text are just remarkable because, honestly, I probably won't get to Oman.

And so this is one of those situations where, you know, where it really is for armchair travelers. It's for people who are curious. They, you know, they want to know. and they want to know from a person who's just great with words. And Peter's such a terrific writer, and he's a great adventure. He also does a Nat Geo podcast, overheard at Nat Geo. So he's got a good voice. But you know what?

It's hard to get him to stop talking. Let me ask you a question, George. What do you have against Oman? What's the problem? I understand. I think you're positioning that in a slightly severe way. I'm just asking. We have listeners in Oman.

We do. And they're really pissed at you right now. Oh, all two of them. All both of them. All both of them. They're like, Oh man, oh man,

I don't know. I have nothing against it. I just, it's just there's so many different places to go. And I don't know if I'll be able to get to them all. Well, look, you just gas up the old Nat Geo jet and go where you want.

George, like you always do. It's fine. Yeah, it's got a yellow border on it. You look up in the sky. You can see me flying by. So,

I thought that was Spirit Airlines. We got enough spirit, but, you know, they do charge us for every damn thing on the Nat Geo plane. What? That, no, no, that's not true. I mean, they might charge the other writers, but not the editor-in-chief.

Are you kidding me? Yes, no, no, not me. Okay, thank you. Very special jumps in. Okay. Now, it talks about, you know, a lot of these places, especially for, you know, places that you have to travel out of country. If you're listening to this program here in the United States of America, where it originates from, you're going to need a passport to go to. You know, you don't need a passport to go to Denver.

yet, but you do need a passport to go to Oman. And so what, you as a special, how many stamps you got on your passport? And what's the easiest, what's the easiest way I can get a passport if I don't have one? Really? I mean, could I get one like tomorrow? And well, you can get one. I know you're not a passport and export, but. Okay, but no, but I mean, so, but it's a good point.

You know, I think roughly 40% of Americans have a passport. of that percentage, most people are going to Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. After that, they're going to Europe. Right. After you count all that up, it is a tiny percentage. It's like 15% of people with passports are then going beyond those countries. That's pretty big. That gives you a sense of where America.

But you're right. I mean, the number is significant because it's, what, 350 million people or something like that. How many stamps you got? Where are you? How many stamps you got? How many passports you've been through? How many books? How many books you've been through?

I think I've got about 70. Wow. But I don't think it's outrageous. But, you know, I did try to have some sort of like real experience everywhere I went. There are people who are passport junkies, stamp junkies, and they've gone to like 190-plus countries. Well, I'm just going to give you a million-dollar idea right here, Georgia. Just between you and me, nobody else. You know, nobody else.

We'll stop recording, not really. is that your next National Geographic, or when you're sitting, when you're on the tarmac waiting to take off at Peterborough, and you want to, you know, you're ready to take off. And you're thinking to yourself, man, I've got to come up with an idea for the boss. I mean, I know I'm travel editor-in-chief, but, you know, everybody has a boss,

and I got to come up with a new idea. And I need something easy that I can just stay home and bide my time and drink my whiskey. You can, your next book can be passports, stories from around the world, and you just take pictures of each page of your passports, and for each page you tell a little story of one of the stamps. Done.

That is a charming idea. I love that. You're welcome. You're welcome. You know, yeah. And in fact, I think we should hire you to do that book. George. You know, we pay very little.

That's what they say. It does not matter. You get monkeys to work for you, but that's okay. Wait. We'll do it. Wait, I don't know that I took that as a cop. Anyway, yes. No, no.

That's our highest praise at that day. Oh, okay, okay. There you go. Thank you. That's wonderful. We have a very unique way of speaking here, and that's an important, high compliment. Thank you very much. I mean, they can call, listen, tell them, give me a call 888-903-33.

And call any time. I'm here for them. Yeah. Okay, good. That's perfect. Or an email. Or an email, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. We're fine.

Just going to email me, call me, call me. We'll make it happen. We'll make it happen. I actually. I'm on it. I'm on it. Actually, I think the idea is a great idea. I know.

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I appreciate it. It was pleasure. It was pleasure. All right. Thanks, guys. Peace. We can stick with getting busy with more headlines. Like we've got the Instagram getting rid of its plastic, sugary filters. Stop it.

Instagram, stop. I have a story behind that one. I was listening to the local Christian station. Yeah. And that's where I got that story. No, for sure. Why are you judging me? You know, I hate this.

Now that I started going to church, getting involved at the local church, trying to grow spiritually. You keep making fun of me. No, I don't like that. That's not true. I do not like that. I do not like that at all. I'm hurt.

Are you? Yes. Are you? Anyways, this story bothered me because it was the leading story for the Christian radio station. I was listening to here in the FW area. And they were talking about, oh, this is so good because now kids don't have to start doing plastic surgery at a young age. I'm sorry. So one of the reasons that Instagram is getting rid of this is because kids are having dysphoria, whatever that word is.

Right, right, right, right. Because they don't think that they look good enough and I should look like the filter. Calm down. Boy, no kidding. I mean, the fun, look, I got news for you, all right? Take it. Take it. Thank you.

Of using these filters on, say, Snapchat and Instagram is to have those sugary filters and see yourself looking. a little different. Uh-huh. I can't, it might not even be better. It would just be different. Different. Okay?

Yes. And so that's okay. You can be different. If you all, the entire internet, the entire Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter world,

is a world that makes people feel inadequate. Yes. Because you're looking at stories of people that are telling you, hey, look how great I am. And that's only a, snippet of their life. Not even that. Just a

of their life. The rest of their life sucks just like yours. Thank you. Thank you. I got so mad because we cannot babysit every damn thing. No. And when I saw that and that's exactly. I mean over it look we have more and more reports of and I will just to back up a little bit and be less upset. I know that there's a problem with deprecogn. and I know that the problem seems to be growing and there is no explanation except that maybe it could be social media or that things are so good that you haven't suffered truly

and I was going to head down that road as well we have talked about that is that things are so good that they were finding things to be mad about and be sad about and be mad and be upset about because we haven't, you know, I was talking, I was talking to my father-in-law just last night about, he was talking about his grandfather, all right, his grandfather, who worked on the railroad, and they used to keep, they had electricity when he was a little kid, but they'd never used it. They used the pop belly stove they had in the kitchen to heat the house, and he would say it was always so hot in there. We had to go into the other room, and they always kept it so hot. and I was reminded of a story of my father

who talked about when he was growing up taking a bath in the kitchen in front of the pop belly stove in the water tub and how they would wash. They would wash facing this way and then hurry up and turn around when your back started getting cold

you'd turn around the other way so your back would get warm and you'd wash as fast as you can or face that way so until your front got cold and I was laughing because I was thinking my kids have no idea. Right.

No idea what that is. I mean, my kids realized that I didn't want to take a shower upstairs. I wanted to take a shower downstairs. I like that shower better. They have no idea about getting into a water tub in front of a pop belly stove with the fire cooking. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying that it's different.

Their lives are completely different. Perspective, too. Yes. It's a different perspective. And these children who are being upset, we've just let them be upset. We haven't told them. about the past stories, about people struggling. That life sucks.

Right. And it's okay if life sucks. Yes. It's okay. Life is supposed to be sucky. No, yes, I'll be there to drive you five blocks to your class instead of I can't. I'm sorry, walk. Jeffrey, I mean.

I understand. How many times did you walk to something you wanted to do? Always. What was it? Was it you not talking about prom or something that you had to get like money from your dad or something like that? No, I was, I did not. I don't have a prom story. I didn't go to the prom.

I was the guy that never went. Okay. Girls didn't. Girls didn't like me. Oh, no. Did you, were you depressed? Yeah. Did you delete all your social media and then?

Funny we didn't have social media. Oh, you didn't have social media. No, what I did is I went, I just go out and find a empty lot and smoke an old stale cigarette that I found out there around. Because I remember, like, we walked everywhere. I walk, I remember walking to, I remember. I remember walking to one of my favorite stories in elementary school. Our elementary school went to sixth grade, okay?

And then the middle school was seventh, eighth, and ninth in the city I grew up in. And when the elementary school got out for lunch when I was in sixth grade, I remember this. It was 10 minutes earlier than the middle school. So there was an A&W passed my house, an A&W root beer. And ever so often my mother would give me, you know, give me a couple dollars to go get a basket burger and a root beer from, A&W for lunch because she wasn't going to be able to be home or didn't want to make me lunch, didn't want to see me, had the boyfriend over, I don't know what.

Wow, that's an abusive mother right there. She said go to A&D, right. In 2019, that's an abusive mother. So I go there and I order my basket burger and the guy thinks that I'm coming from, because I'm such, I'm larger than most of the sixth graders in the world. I know. Comes as a surprise. So the guy then says, he thinks I'm from the middle school and the first, they have a deal

that the first middle school kid that shows up for lunch gets a free basketball. And you pocket that money. I mean, I gave it back to my mom. Oh, sorry. Sorry. You get it back to the mom. But I just said we were walking. It wasn't being dropped off.

I didn't have people making me launch. It was just, and I realized, you know, it's a different world. I know it is. And it's okay. I like the different world. I'm a fan of the different world. I'm a fan of the world that we live in now. I am.

But, but a filter off of a social media site isn't saving anyone. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. It just isn't. It's funny you said because I was spending time on my grandpa last week. And we were talking and he was like, Chris, you remember walking from your home to my house? No, Grandpa, you're imagining things. Jeffrey, I was thinking about it.

It was a 30-minute drive. 30-minute drive. And I was walking that. Oh, yeah. And I was like, what can a parent let me, eight-year-old, walk a 30-minute drive? Chris, when we were that age, say when I was, you know, obviously when I was eight years old. I was not even born. Well, okay.

But I mean, we, I rode, I'd get up in the morning in the summertime. Now, I'm going to talk about walking back and forth, the school. school in the winter and the rain, whatever it didn't matter. I'm talking about that. Which we did. Which we did. Yeah. Yeah.

But we walked, you know, I would get up and I would hop on my bike and we'd go to softball practice, which was blocks away. And we maybe come home. And the rule was, seriously, unless someone is bleeding, don't come home. Same with my mom and dad. Absolutely the same one. It is unbelievable. Like, I was saying, I'm like, I tell my mom, like, you,

child abuser. I was eight years old walking a 30 minute drive. That's like... Well, how could you... It's a... It wasn't a 30 minute walk. It was a 30 minute drive. I was walking that. And look at you now. And look at me now. Right. Look at you now.

Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. All right, I know it's Friday and we want to just wrap up the weekend. So... Can we just do headlines? We just... Well, we could... You know what I'll do a couple headlines and just tease and we'll get out of here. I know, I know, We've got a show for you tomorrow too.

I give, and I give, and I give. Tomorrow's going to be good. It's going to be Mr. Rogers. I was on the news and why it matters yesterday. So you can download that podcast. I mean, give, give, give, give. I work this tongue to the bone. Good for you.

Good for you. But we've got stories that we're going to get to on Monday for sure. Like get ready to hear the American teen's new catchphrase. And it's going to be fun. Legendary. fun because I love the catchphrase and I also love what's a word inside the catchphrase and we're going to have fun with it. We've got lawyers taking people to court so elephants can be like people.

We've got what $100 is worth in every state, which will be fun because you'll find out what your state is worth a hundred. Like, for example, if you have $100 in this great state of Texas. Okay, $100. How much is that worth? In the great state of Texas, it is worth $103. I'm up. I'm up $3.

So we're already up. We're up at $3. We're already up. But you have to apparently have $100. Oh, so it's not automatically I have a month of $3. You don't have $100. You don't have $100. Anyway, so then we have a, we have an Iowa man arrested for a fake ID that.

We love the cops, Jeffrey. This show, this show loves. Nobody loves the police more than me. Yes. Nobody loves the police ball with me. This show gives him a lot of air time. Did you? Okay.

Yeah. Because of our love. Yes. You're love. You know, there'll be more love for the police officer with this story as well. Also, not even a headline, but Popeye's is claiming that their hit sandwiches coming back. And they hired a hundred and fifty people. I tend to doubt them at this point.

Not really. I don't know. I mean, I questioned Popeye's. truthfulness with me on their little sandwiches? They're lying. Maybe we got another special where all the people, the chicken is gone? What do you mean it's gone? Yeah, I think maybe there.

We've hired these people, but oh darn. Oh, darn, look at the luck. We can't wish we could. Wish we could find those chicken sandwiches, but where did they go? I don't know. I don't know. That and so much more. Make sure you subscribe to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

on any gosh darn platform we have. I mean, they are wherever. And I saw this on one of Pat Gray's social media sites and it's coming down because it's my line and I won't have it stolen from me wherever free podcasts are sold. Who takes care of that for Pat Gray, by the way? You're going to tell me who takes care of that for that show. Keith Melinek. I knew it.