Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 320 | Fat Pile Friday - Tesla Handbook EDITION | Guest: Joe Yogerst

Episode Date: March 6, 2020

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And we'll begin today the 6th of March 2020, where we left off yesterday. Duncan Donuts, launching their ultimate snack for all the meat lovers out there, including me, a bag of bacon. Now, it sounds like it might be good. And it's got brown sugar and black pepper seasoning. It's the, they claim that it's smoked with natural cherry wood.

I think that's just a sales bitch. But, I mean, it's like they drive the semi-trailer past cherry wood. is they're delivering it. So if the guy is smoking a cigarette, so it's cherry wood smoked. But we have to try this. We have to do maybe a spoon segment with the Dunkin' Donuts Bacon.

There was another product, too, we were going to do a spoon segment. We've got to start doing, we're going to start doing some spoon segments on the YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat. So be sure to go to Chewing the Fat. Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

Where can I find that? On YouTube. Oh, YouTube is the location. Correct. And I just type in. chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher and what am I supposed to be looking for you look for the YouTube channel

and subscribe but is there like a picture that is recognizable yes oh my gosh it's a picture of me with my hands in front of my mouth blocking Corona I don't want to breathe on you I'm probably the first YouTube channel

Corona free so you're welcome It's all I'm saying. You're welcome. Now, I will say this story does not bode well for the Dunkin' Donuts bacon. And by the way, I don't know if you got the memo. It's Duncan. What did I say?

Duncan Donuts. Okay, that's what it's... So it's just Duncan. It's Duncan. Don't you dare bring donuts. They're not about donuts anymore. Kind of like we can't call Kentucky Fried Chicken, Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore. It's just KFC.

So Duncan is Duncan. And don't you dare bring up the donuts. It says Duncan Donuts. Seriously? That's what it says, though. Do what do you want to do? The headline says Duncan Donuts launches the ultimate snack. Keeps.com.

Are you trying to losing your hair? I am too. That's why I go to keeps.com. So a lot of the reports are not well on the Duncan. Bacon bag. Huh? And that was tough too. You can't say Duncan without donuts.

You just did it. You can't. You can't do it. If I, and I love Duncan. I forget what we were to do it. Donuts. We're still in the intro, aren't we? I was wondering why you pointing at me.

It was like, the bit, what bit? We just finished the bit. What more do you need me to do? This Friday You got me working to the bone That's what it is That's what it is Yeah

Yeah That's me That's me That's me You give and you give But you forget that In order for you to give and give So has to produce that give

I mean I hate people that complain about their jobs man. Maybe we need to do a handbook. You see where Tesla has the Tesla leaked employee handbook? Really cool. And it's called the anti-handbook handbook. And I was going through it and I thought, it's kind of, it reminds me it should be the Blaze Handbook.

It should be the Mercury Blaze Handbook from Glenn Beck. Because I know that I've seen our Producers Handbook. Yeah, I give it to you. But that's more, and according to it's titled, Producers Handbook, which is genius. and it's called Guideline. I'm sorry? What else would you call that? I don't know.

I'm just saying producers handbook is genius. And it's titled Guidelines for packaging, branding, and promoting. Yeah, what does he want? With Blaze Media at the bottom. So, I mean, like I said, it's genius. Now, the Tesla anti-handbook handbook is kind of interesting. And it goes to it. I just feel like it really is, it should be a Glenn Beck and Elon Musk are kind of

are the same kind of thing. And it goes, it starts off, it's like four pages. That's it. It's four pages. Well, if you, if you need to speak more, you did that wrong? Well, it's funny, that's, that's the ending of it is, uh, I've been ready yet. The ending of the handbook. Uh, let's see.

Moral of the story. Uh, the theme of the above standards is simple. Just behave like the sort of person you want as your co-we. worker. Treat everyone like you want to be treated. Tesla must be the kind of company where people look forward to coming to work in the morning. Life is too short for anything else. If, uh, and this is just me saying this, not Tesla. You're reading between the lines. You can't be that person. Get out. By the way, if you go to some of our high standards, I don't like that they blacked out the website. Well, I mean, why not? I want to know. As for

everything else such as information about our pay policy meals. Yeah, it gives everything. They blocked out the website. Website at It feels like Elon just did this himself. Absolutely. Because if it was leaked, you have a great point. You leak it. You leak it. You leak everything. When you leak it, everything. You're leaking.

Yes. You're not redacting, you're just leaking because you want the world to know. I wonder if this is the, although this website, interestingengineering.com, who doesn't go to that website every day? I go every day. I missed yesterday, which is why I missed these

the Tesla employee handbook. Job duties, it's your responsibility to understand what's expected of you. Show up, what do I'm doing? It's your responsibility. I do like the no-call, no-show. The what? No-call-no-show.

Yes. Our assumptions will be that if you don't call and don't show up for work, you're a jerk. You better have a good reason for Nat, let us know why you didn't come in. One time is enough. Or you are out of here. They have a list under stupid stuff.

Yes. So their stupid stuff is stealing or deliberately damaging company property, disclosing confidential information. Oh, you mean like leaking the anti-handbook handbook? And at the end of stupid stuff, it says the list could go on and on. If you think you're the kind of person who might do something that could be on the list of stupid stuff, do us all a favor and leave now. Oh, look at you can't be working for Tesla.

Who? You. Why? Really? How much stupid stuff does this company tolerate it from you? Under fun, make sure you're having fun at work. Meet new friends. Push yourself in new ways.

Try new things. If you aren't having fun at some level, you'll be unhappy. We don't want that. We want you to work hard. Love what you do and have fun. I mean, hello. That's cute. I like it.

Right? I mean, that's outstanding. It does sound like the place you want to work, though. And I really do mean that. It's tardiness. What's your policy on tardiness, Jeffie? My policy? Yeah.

Look, I don't have tardiness. I'm never tardy. Well, I know that. I know that. Seriously, I am never tardy. Yeah. You know why? Because I believe.

personally, my own belief, you have a job to do, and when it's your time to do your job, you should be there to do your job. Period. I like that. Tesla tardiness is your tardy is something kids are told in school. This isn't school. Plan to be here on time, ready to start work when you're scheduled.

Traffic happens, traffic accidents happen. Right. We get them. But they don't happen every Monday doing football season. Right. And look, have I been, have I been, sometimes I'm late when I'm not really, in my mind I'm late and I'm not really late. I'm not really late. I'm not really late.

I'm just late because I like to be here and be prepared to work. That's what attendance is supposed to be. That's what your job is. Because for years, look, in radio, for, you know, worked in radio for a million freaking years. you have a shift, right? And you show up to do your shift. And then when you're done with whatever you're supposed to do, you leave. Those days are kind of gone.

That's old school radio. I get it. But that's what I was raised on. And that's what I believe. You know, like we have a kind of a set time to record the podcast every day, for those of you that don't listen or watch it live. I'm punching in the face. And so, I mean, I'm here.

Just you get here and that's what you do. You're here for your job. Are there times when you're going to be? Absolutely. Are there times when you're sick? Yes. Are there times when you're going to be late? I remember one of the first times I was actually what I, in my head, late here.

I was still doing the radio show every day. and I would you know this is the first time in a long time well ever that I actually lived in a different time zone than the east than eastern so I mean I've lived lived up and down the east coast eastern time zone but I've just visited other time zones so when we moved to Texas we're in a different time zone and I remember waking up one morning and you know the show starts at eight but eight central nine east

Eastern. So I remember waking up and the sun was coming through the windows, which it never is when I wake up. Okay, which means that I woke up late. And I looked at the clock and it was like 6.45. And I was like, holy cow. Okay, good. I got plenty of time. I can still hop in the shower. I could make it by 9 o'clock, no problem. And as I'm just about ready to hop in the shower, I was the only time I ever came to work without taking a shower. Because I was just about ready to walk in the shower and it was, you know, like seven o'clock. And I realized, holy crap, it's not nine o'clock. The show starts at eight. I mean, it's just dressed and out the door, man.

And, you know, I live, you know, in Oklahoma. So it's quite a drive to get to the studios within an hour. But, you know, I made it before the show starts. So I'm on time for the show. I'm on time. I'm not late. But for me, man, that threw. that, I'm still off kilter for that and that happened, you know, eight years ago.

I need a drink. Let's go to the break room. I need an ice cold Coca-Cola zero. One of the things that make America America is get in your vehicle and go. As my stepdad always said, before you even think about seeing the world, see the United States first. And don't even think about seeing other countries until you see the U.S. And that's what makes this book that much better. 100 drives, 5,000 ideas. And Joe Yogers, international journalist, author for the world, that would be considered international, and for

the National Geographic. Yeah, just a global badass is what he is. Joe Yogers has put together a book for the National Geographic 100 drives, 5,000 ideas. And Joe, welcome to chewing the fat. How are you, sir? I'm great. Thanks for having me today, Jeff. Absolutely. Absolutely. Love to. This is one of my favorite things. My wife is going to be as jealous of you already because she wants nothing to do,

but get in the car and go. That's her thing. I feel the same way. There's nothing I like better than getting in the car and just driving. And it's so much. better than flying or boating or training or busing or anything else is just getting in your own car and taking off so i noticed that uh you uh you have it says here on the title even says 5 000 ideas were you the one that went through and actually numbered each idea i mean can we can we

trust you on that we know there's 5 000 of them i don't know if there's exactly 5 000 i can i can tell you there's more than a hundred drives in this book despite the name that's that's beautiful now what was out of the ones before we get into it i know you You have, there's a couple of things that I know in the book you have Hawaii and you have St. John, right, in the Virgin Islands. That's right, yeah. I don't know. You know, Joe, I mean, you can't get there from here.

You know, unless you have a duck boat, that drive is a long drive. You have to fly and rent a car. But that could be true of a lot of the mainland trips, too. If you live in Washington State and you're going to Florida, you may want to fly rather than drive to do your road trip down on the Florida Keys. That's true. I mean, although the point of traveling the U.S. if you're not just, unless, you know, I guess you have to have the time, right?

I mean, how long, if you start and watch. I mean, every place is walkable if you have the time, right? So, I mean, it's same with the car. You can get wherever you want to go if you have the time. So how long? You can do the cannonball run part and drive through in 42 hours by trading off with another driver. That's tough.

That's tough. You don't really get to see a lot while doing that. No, you don't, especially in the dark. So what was your favorite trip out of the ones? Now, I'm guessing, and this is just an idea, you took every trip. Every single stinking trip you took. I have to admit that I didn't. I didn't take all of the Canada trips.

Because these books sell so well in Canada, they wanted a certain amount of Canadian chapters. So we have 14, 14 Canada trips and 86 U.S. trips. And I haven't done all the Canada trips because I only had a year to do this book. And there was no way that I could do all of those trips in the time or with the budget, frankly. And so there's a couple of Canada ones where I had to talk to people on the phone and do a lot of research and map it out. And look, people have taken trips. That's how we hear about trips, right? People take a trip and say, you've got to do this trip.

This is what we did. This is what makes it so great. Yeah, well, like the Trans Labrador trip, which is from Quebec up to the, you know, the Labrador coast on the Atlantic side of Canada, I have not done the trans Labrador trip. I've done the very lower part of it down near the St. Lawrence Valley, but I haven't done it through the backwoods and the tundra. And the key word there would be yet, because I know, you know, that's something that, if you're a road trip guy, yeah. I definitely want to do the drives that I haven't done, not just here, but all around the world. bucket list of drives I want to do. Out of this book, what was your favorite?

Which one was your favorite drive? Wow, there's so many that I like. Pull one out of the back pocket. Tell me which one it was. The ones that tend to be, the ones that are clearest in my mind are the last ones I did for the book. So I did the Hudson, from New York City, up the Hudson Valley to the Adirondacks, and a big loop around the Adirondacks to Lake Champlain.

And then through the Berkshires over to Boston. So I got three different chapters out of that trip, the Lower Hudson, the Adirondacks, and then the Berkshires. And that was an amazing drive because I'd been through the Lower Hudson before, driving through there, but I'd never been through Western Massachusetts or the Adirondacks. And amazing countryside, because me being from the west, I'm used to there being big national parks and big forest areas out here. But you kind of don't expect it of the east. and the remarkable thing about these parks like Adirondack Park is the fact that 100, 150 years ago, they were deforested to build ships and to fire factories and things.

And now all the trees have grown back. You have these amazing, amazing woodland areas that have come back from the verge of destruction. You know, there's a place that in, called the Pennsylvania Wiles in northern Pennsylvania, that in the Alleghenies that several of these drives go through and that I wrote about in the Parks book before this one. And at one point in time, it was called the Pennsylvania Desert because there were no trees left. And now you drive through it,

and you can't believe there were never, ever any trees here. So it's things like that. It's the surprising things that really, you know, that I did the Florida Keys Drive. It's a very familiar one, the overseas highway, Miami to Key West. Millions of people do it every year. sure do. But I had never done it before.

I had been to Key West by boat, but I had never driven there. And I found that just amazing, especially Key Largo, which is the island that's right in the middle of that drive. That's beautiful. The fact that it's not overrun by, there's great places to stay, there's great food. It has the best coral reef and the best snorkeling anywhere on mainland America. It has a coral reef like I haven't even seen in Hawaii or the Caribbean. It's so pristine. And it's just off the overseas high.

So it's surprises like that that I really liked in putting together this book. Did you do any that were, you know, brought, I don't know, brought, opened up your heart a little bit. I know you have one drive, the Trail of Tears. And did you do any drives where you went, wow, this is, I mean, it's just an incredible idea that this actually happened and I'm going back over this horrific thing that happened. Yeah, that was one I debated, whether I should put it in or not, and I just thought that it really should be there.

It's not an obvious one, and it is a national trail that the National Park Service kind of maintains things with state parks along the way, but it's not kind of a posted route to take as a drive, and I thought it really needs to be in there because it's a big part of America's legacy, and it shouldn't be forgotten,

and not only is it historical, historically important, but there's interesting cities and towns and national parks, like the Great Smoky Mountains along the way. Yeah. And I have a, the book also has a African American heritage drive from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans. And I felt that was important to get in there. And there's a lot, it's also you get emotional at times because, you know, you're driving in the South. It has to deal with the subject of slavery. It also goes through places that were at the heart of the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s.

But it ends up in New Orleans, which is a town with incredible food and music legacy of African Americans, right? And so even though it has these very emotive points along the way, I think it ends on an upbeat note because you get to New Orleans and it's party town. So, yeah, there are things like that. you also think when driving across the Midwest and the West, you know, there's the Oregon Trail and the Lewis and Clark route and Santa Fe Trail and things like that, if you stop and think about it and you look at the old sections of the dirt road that our ancestors traveled, you think to yourself, how did they ever do that? No kidding.

I cannot tell you every time I go into. St. Louis coming from Illinois, I think, you know, I would have stopped here. I was just, you know what, I'm good. I'm good right here. A lot of people did, but a lot of people kept going. And I always wonder, how bad was their life where they were, that they're willing to put it up with months or even years of the weather and the insects. I mean, the overall struggle in itself was just amazing. Yes, it was, and a lot of people didn't make it. You know, there's graves along the way.

And you also, and some of these drives, you know, again, going back to North Dakota, which I've been to a couple times, you wondered, there were people that stopped and lived, and they decided that North Dakota was their paradise. And I really like North Dakota. I really like North Dakota, but they have air conditioning now, and there's heating in the winter, there's central heating. And I was reading a book while I was in North Dakota about a Scandinavian family that settled there in the 1880s, 1890s, and what they had to go through. And I'm thinking, how bad was Norway or Sweden that this is what they decided was better?

Well, I mean, it was part of their, you know, it was the American dream, right? I mean, that was it. That was the beginning of the American dream and where they realized, you know what, this is our American dream. This is our dream. Sure, and it eventually became that because it's a great place to live now. But like I said, now they have air conditioning and central heating. They didn't in the 1880s. I know.

I get it. I can see why people kept going and ended up in California because, you know, along the coast, you don't need central heating or air conditioning. So you didn't even have to think about it. So that's why so many people ended up coming to California because they went through those other places and it's like, I'm not stopping here. I'm going to keep going on the road. Have to, yeah.

Right, I mean, we make the jokes about the people that finally stopped, but it's the people that went, I'm not stopping here. We've made it this far. We're going to continue to go. I'm told it's better over there. But there must have been amazing moments, too, and I had these amazing moments on these drives, doing these drives. When you're driving across the Great Plains,

and you're driving through Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas, and then the eastern part of Wyoming in Colorado, and all of a sudden, off on the horizon is this faint rise of mountains. And you get to the front range in Colorado, and it just goes straight up from the planes. And I remember stopping along the highway and thinking, what did people think that came this way in a covered wagon? And they stopped.

They had no idea. There was no internet. There was no television. There was no movies. They had no idea that this thing was in front. front of them. They just knew that somewhere out there were these mountains and they'd eventually get to them. And it must have blown their mind. Yeah, no kidding. These mountains, which were bigger than anything they had ever seen or imagined, just were looming in front of them.

Joe Yogers, 100 drives, 5,000 ideas is who we're speaking to. And the book, A National Geographic Book, is well worth your time. Who did you do the photography as well, or most of it? No, I wish I did the photography. I did every single word in the book, but I did none of the photos. Photography is, you know, beautiful. And, you know, I'm, you know, I'm hawking for my wife now. You know, if she needs pictures taken, she's there for you, Joe. No problem.

National Geographic, as you know, has a, they have a photo library with millions of images that goes back to 1888 when they first started. So most of these are taken from their photo library on other assignments over the years for the yellow magazine or for other books or things like that. So I have to thank all of the photographers who contributed to this. And also to the photo editor in Washington, D.C., the photos staff there for picking out these books, or these photos for choosing. That's a long way to tell me no for my wife, but that's okay, Joe.

I appreciate it. Hey, they won't even run my photos. I'm a pretty good photographer, so. So what's next on your trip list? What's next? A road trip outside of the United States in Croatia of all places. I've told that's beautiful. All jokes aside, I know the joke would be, I hear it's beautiful this time of year,

but I've told that Croatia is actually beautiful. I haven't been there since it was Yugoslavia, so that tells you how long ago it was. The next book in this series is called 100 Cities. and I'm about 60% As of yesterday I had written 60 of the 100 I still have some trips to do So I'm doing a road trip from Zagreb Which is the capital of Croatia

Down along the Adriatic coast to Dubrovnik So both of those cities are in one chapter in the book And I have been to Dubrovnik But it was 30 years ago And actually more than that now, 31, 32 And I've never been to Zagreb So this gives me a chance to do that. And this is, I'm assuming that it doesn't get canceled because of, you know, what, it's around.

Yeah, yeah, I know. And because I've had another trip. I was supposed to go to Fiji and the Solomon Islands at the end of May. That trip has most definitely been canceled. Really? Because small island countries in the South Pacific are totally shutting down. Interesting. In this case, it was the Solomon Islands.

They said, I couldn't go there, or no one can go there, if you are, are coming from a country where there is an identifiable case of coronavirus. Wow. There are now 70 countries that have cases. Right. So the Solomon Islands has basically cut themselves off from 70 countries. I mean, including most of the major nations of the world. You can't blame them.

Really? No, I can. Right now you can. Yeah, you can't. I mean, it's the easiest way for them to control it. Yes. Is to just shut themselves off. At least for now, until we get a handle on everything.

Yeah, until we get a hand on it. On behalf of my producer, Chris Cruz, I have to ask, what's the deal, man? Why no Puerto Rico? What's going on? Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's in here. I didn't see it. Oh, my gosh.

Puerto Rico circumnavigation. Oh, I apologize then. Then I apologize. I'm so sorry. Oh, my gosh. I'll tell you this. I did not read the book because Jeff, he did not let me read it. He took it home.

It's on page what? 250. It's called Circling Puerto Rico. Oh, my gosh. Fisher. Chris Cruz. We are going, I mean, this is amazing. There it is.

Circling Puerto Rico. 250. I went twice to Puerto Rico. Amazing, you know your own book. You know your own book. Congratulations. I went before Maria and I went after Maria to see that everything I was going to write about was still there. What's it still there?

And was there was there a lot there, a lot missing? What happened? There was more there than I expected. The coolest thing about going back after the hurricane was the fact that none of the traffic lights were working in San Juan. So it was a total game of chicken at every intersection. It's just a roundabout every corner. That's great. I thought it was great.

I mean, it's like, okay, whoever is the boldest, man, you know, whoever's going to drive through that intersection, like they're not going to stop. And so you kind of get used to that, and it becomes this fun little game. And, but, no, there was a lot, you know, it really devastated the rainforest there. I went up to see the rainforest again, and a lot of the trees were blown down or missing leaves. And I know a lot of it has come back now, but it takes years and years and years for something like that to recover. And it's the only tropical rainforest in the whole U.S. national forest system. So it's a very special place in, you know, in the United States. And that was really devastated.

A lot of the coastal areas, the beaches were kind of trash, but they were gradually coming back. Most of the monuments are the places, the historic buildings, because they were built by the Spanish 500 years ago, and they were built to last. You know, El Morrow Fortress did not have any damage. I mean, it's been there for 500 years. Incredible. It's going to be there for another 500. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, it was interesting to see before and after, though.

It was a very rare chance to see the before and the after. Joe Yogers, 100. I would like to. Go ahead. No, I was going to say also, I think that, you know, everyone raves about Cuban food, but Puerto Rican food is out of this world. Absolutely. There you go.

Thank you. There you go. You don't have to suck up to Chris like that, Joe. It's okay. Joe Yogers, National Geographic 100 drives, 5,000 ideas. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. Sure.

It was really enjoyable. Thanks for having me. And on behalf of Chris, thanks for going to Puerto Rico, too. I appreciate it. Okay, sure. Thanks, Joe. I appreciate it.

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is just fuck click on the five stars I just got a pedicure the same day I listened to the Chewing the Fat episode with Macfee awesome episode best podcast ever if you have an opportunity to go back and listen you better go back and listen just know that it is a big guy episode it is a big guy episode

and if you've all been a listener for a while we've had McAfee on the show. And he gives us big guy episodes. Yes. And the first time we censored it. And then the second time we were like, you know what? No. You can't censor McAfee.

No. So there's two episodes out there. One censored, one uncensored. If you want to put on big boy pants this weekend, because I don't think we're doing a Saturday podcast because I'm not coming in. I know, but I was thinking about it. No, no. Just go back and listen to, you know,

McAfee Saturday episode with Jeff Fisher, uncensored Raw, I think we call it. And you'd be all set. And we have a Vicky B, Jeffrey and Chris are so fun to listen to while I'm cooking dinner and cleaning the house. By the way.

Perfect podcast. I want to know what you're cooking. I want to know what's on the menu. She's cooking dinner. Yeah. Oh, she's making dinner. What is she making? Spaghettis.

Maybe, maybe one night, maybe. Every night is different dinner. I don't know. Chewing the fat. At the place.com. I want to know. What's for the weekend? What's the weekend schedule for eating?

On top of listening to the podcast. And by the way, the cleaning, that better be like white glove cleaning. I want to see myself on that silverware. And I'm not, don't miss the stairway. Oh, no. I do not miss the stairway. Or the railway to go. No, don't miss that.

That needs to be dusted. Absolutely. Some cobwebs in the, in the, In the corners. Yeah. I do not like that. Get in there. I do not like that.

And by the way, there is a other side of the fan. Not the fan that everybody sees. There's another side to the fan. Thank you. The top side? When you walk upstairs and you look down? If you see the dust bunnies up there. Yes.

If you need a hand getting the ladder out of the garage, I'll get you a longer pole. Anyway. You'll get you the extension, dust. You'll get you the extension. Yes. But there's two sides to the fan. by the way.

I do like, now some people are playing along with the stew thing. It's great, whatever. I don't know who that is. I guess he does a podcast here on this network. And he does the same thing that you do, tell him what to write. I guess so, you know, whatever. We can't be original? But there is someone that is original.

Oh, okay. Who reviewed it, Thad Ever. I kind of like that. I like that. I like that. Because it breaks away from the other Pete Diggleberries. Yeah. I like it.

I like it. CTF rules. No, bro. No, bro. I love it. Oh, he spelled the BRO. It's BROH. They're playing along.

Get it right, bro. 20 stars, best podcast ever. I love it. Underrated, it's okay. See, that's a review. It's not best podcast ever, but it's somebody you don't play it along.

It's okay. Don't be. What? That's all you got? It's okay. You wrote underrated, but for the actual review. It's okay.

It's okay. Don't get you hope. up. Amazing podcast. Give it a 18. Funny. And then there's one here. I don't even know, Cajun Conservative.

And it's titled Kingmaker. Oh, because we're lords. Can't make it. Chewing the fat has reached its stretch marks. I can't. Love the show. That's, I mean, thank you so much for the reviews. I appreciate it.

You miss more than that because that was on Tuesday. Cajun Conservative. title of the review is Kingmaker Chris Cruz just creates stars and he's done it again chewing the fat has reached his stretch marks

because of Chris love the show Jeff is okay too which might have printed out oh it did print it out I would have been happy to read it out I just want to say Cajun Conservatives K-R-U-Z

not K-R-U-Z You and Glenn are in the same vibe That's because they're dico berries You and Glenn are on the same vibe You just give me that double K and that Cruz that I'm sorry But who is spelled under Cruz like that Now on the side you get like Tom Cruise

And get it confused like that But I'm Ted Cruz Got yourself a conservative You don't know how to spell Cruz So you're Ted now? I am Ted No, I'm cousin Ted I'm cousin Chris

All right Don't forget also I haven't mentioned This weekend It's been horrific The tornadoes in Nashville Mercury 1 is on the ground And they are

assisting people And trying to figure out where I mean they're still missing people Going through the debris And so if you would like to help And you can go to mercury1.org And donate They have

Operation Blessing, Operation Barbecue, gleanings for the world, somebody cares, Team Rubicon, they're all deploying in Nashville helping the families that need help. And you saw the damage. If you haven't seen any of the pictures from Nashville, you don't even need to look. Just know that the damage from those tornadoes was horrific.

And there's plenty of people that need your help. So just go to mercury1.org slash donate. And 100% of the money goes directly to helping the victims. Corona. We have not covered Corona in the last couple of days. So let's

let's dig into a little bit of Corona. I've got we can do that on the podcast. I know we're wrapping up the Blaze Radio Network show that we're doing. So just we'll begin with my wife

noticed that what popped up on Netflix may not last long thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. Oh yeah, that was released. That was released the same day coronavirus happened. I know. So I don't know how long that's going to last on Netflix,

but if you're a fan of the movie Outbreak, get to it and watch it. And remember that she texts me the beginning, the opening scene in Outbreak. The single biggest threat to man's confused, oh, I'm sorry, I got to read this correctly. Don't worry about it. Don't embarrass.

No, I'm going to read it correctly now. Yeah, don't embarrass you. Just cut that out. It's a podcast. The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. D-da-da-da! What is the virus? Just know that it's going to get worse before it gets better.

You... Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. All right, it's Fat Pile Friday, and we can wrap up with the pile of Corona. things that I have. I've got, well, we'll get back to this one. We've got U.S.

health officials. We've got dues and don'ts from the U.S. health officials. And we're gonna, we'll get back to the dues and don'ts as coronavirus starts to,

starts to become more part of our lives. I think right now we're at the point of, it's just part of our life. I don't think we need to panic. I feel like the panic is overrated. Yeah, overrated. There's no need to panic. I mean, I went out.

I went out. Holy God, my wife took a picture of just the anti-bacterial shelf empty. Hand sanitizers. I stopped in, yesterday I stopped into Sam's Club in our neighborhood. No way. So I got gas and I get gas at Sam's. It was cheap, by the way. It's not bad.

Super cheap. And so I thought, oh, I'm here. I'll just run in and grab. Get a pack of cigarettes. Get a pack of smokes. Well, they only sell cartons. And let's get a carton. and, you know, while I'm here, I'll just see what they have.

And? Almost completely out of toilet paper. Almost completely out of water. As sodas were still okay. Sodas were just low. I mean, but I thought, oh, I've got to stock up. I have to get a couple waters. I have to get toilet paper.

paper and a couple of sodas. There's still some there. I'm taking it. Didn't you and Stu bought like the old Coke Zero? Do you still have those? I don't recall. Do you still have those? I don't recall.

Is that your emergency prepared? Yeah, no, they went bad. Oh, it went bad? Yeah. Oh, that sucks. We bought a couple cases. By a couple you mean? A couple cases extra.

By a couple you mean. I don't recall the number of 10 or 12. And what do you do? What do you mean? The 12 packs? and four pack. Sam sells the 38 pack. Oh!

Oh! I think that's what, don't they? So, 380? At the waters. I don't remember how many comes in. 330? I don't remember what comes in the boxes, it sounds. I don't remember.

I don't remember what comes in those. How many they are. Okay. Ballpark between 200 and 300 cans of soda wasted. No, no, no, no, no. No. Oh, you drank them? Only a couple cases at the end.

Oh, you're still drinking? We're in. Only a couple of cases at the end were turning. But did you drink them or did you throw it away? I mean, there may have been some extra zeros left here at Mercury Studios. That is so wrong. I mean, if you had a Coke zero that you thought to yourself, it just doesn't, no wonder they left him out for free.

That was me. You're welcome. It's like a little flash. I can just drink and surfing. But I can think, you know, enough. All right, enough with the panic. Because I bought it just wasn't panic that. I was like, holy cow, I'm going to need some water in the next couple days.

You people are going crazy. You started like normal day-to-day water. You're not stocking up the water. Yeah. I must take this before this idiot, go. Right. That's God. Because you went two days ago or yesterday?

Two days ago. Two days ago. Two days ago. Okay. And that was before we found out that we have 11 death, like yesterday. I know. and in the first one in California. I know, but that's what I'm saying. It's going to, A, we know,

thanks to this podcast and my, those of you looking at the camera right now can see me pointing to my skull and at my brain, because there's no off switch on genius, knowing that it's going to get. There's, no, no, there's, knowing that there's no off switch on genius, you also know that it's going to get worse

before it gets better. And world leaders are saying that now, way after they heard it from me. I believe I heard Glenn say it yesterday. Thank you. And he just not said it. Last couple days. He was not just saying it.

He was reading it from an article. Thank you. So doctors around the world. Already quoting chewing the fat. Chewing the fat or you. Are they quoting you or the show? You know what? The show and to me.

Same thing. I mean, that's like you saying that, I love to pick on this will not let it go would not let it go. So Italy is set to close all schools around the country and I don't think they're going to be alone with that. Good luck if you're even coming close to

flying by Italy. I told you... We heard from our man on 100, we heard from our man on 100 drives earlier in this broadcast Island Nation shutting down. They're saying, no. Look at a time. Why can't we do that?

Racist. nations around the globe closing their borders. And we're going to fight our president for wanting to close our borders. Well, that's why you get for having a racist president. You just want to be racist. It is incredible. I is true, though. That is true, though.

Perhaps it's time we all shut our borders for a little bit. What do you say? And like we talked about yesterday, we don't respond, you know, we don't need to go to court for a number. Yeah, no, no. We set the standard. you know what the standard is? If you have, you know, something like, we're close.

Thank you. We can close up. Guess what? I don't care. Even if you don't have. She needs to get some help. I know. I feel so sorry.

It's so bad for every time I press her. I just poke her. The thing is, is that how do we, we're assuming that's a female. That's a female. That's what I mean. That's a female. We're not assuming. I mean,

we're not assuming. No, no, no, no. We're not assuming here. That is a female. Okay. I think if I'm part of the LGBTQ people, I'm pissed. That's a girl.

I know. I'm a girl. We can't assume that. Says who? We can't, the LGBTQ world. Again, like I said, this is America. We don't bow down to any other countries. So when we say that this is a,

I mean, it's a female. It's a female. It's a female. No country can tell me that's not. not a female anyway should have done that cough now I got it okay well those of you that blink during this broadcast Jeffie coughed in well they could see it on camera okay no but they blinked they blinked and they missed it

my point is you don't have to have coronavirus you could be healthy as a horse the borders are closed no we know come here what are you I think of come. Even though we saw the Royals joking around about having Corona. Yeah. Right. Kate William, future king, joking. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

And real funny. And by the way, did you see the Pope tested negative for the coronavirus? Did he? Yeah. Did he? That's what the Vatican. By the way, it's being reported that the Pope. The Vatican told us that he, we ran the test.

Oh, okay. We ran the test. Oh, okay. He's fine. The Holy Father's fine and healthy as a horse. Can we have a word with him or is he busy? Pope. Hey Pope.

Oh, he's busy right now. Yeah, we can't be with him. Pope, are you okay? Because I thought you were a dude. Yeah. Well, I didn't think he had Corona. I mean, what's going on? Yeah, no, he's busy.

It's just incredible. So we, I mean, I don't care if you're healthy or not. Shut the borders down. We're not. And what about the airline industry? They can fly around the country? Dude, I don't think anybody should be flying. It's a metal tube with recycled air.

Yeah. So. Let me introduce you to your air waitress. Marlene. Let me introduce you to, you know, Juan. You like some pretzel? And this is a pilot. You know, hey, we're going to be flying 30,000.

I'll have the co-pilot, you know, do the rest of it because I can't. Pike, can you take over? We're just going to land. We're turning this thing around. Matter of fact, you know what, we're not even taking off. We're going to wheel this thing back to the terminal and we'll call her a day. Yeah. I know.

Yeah, and I send you a picture of my sister. She's in Alaska. And do we really need to wear about Alaska? Can the cold surviving Alaska? Oh, a sign. Out of Starbucks. With the Starbucks logo. So this is an official Starbucks.

This official memo. Yeah, this is from... We are temporarily pausing the use of reusable cups in the care of our customers and partners. We are temporarily pausing the use of reusable cups. So all the cups that you charge us $8 billion for at the counter to keep coming back and putting refills in, you're telling us we can't use those now?

Not anymore. Well, for a while. just pausing it. So don't freak out. Let's say. In addition to sanitizing procedures in all our stores, this is one more step we can all take to prevent the spread of coronavirus. And in parentheses COVID-19.

Okay, good. Yeah, no, they did it both. Okay. Our commitment to sustainability remains unchanged, does it? Learn more at Starbucks.com. COVID-19. Oh, what does it say? Let's go to Starbucks.com slash COVID-19. And of course, they ended it with a thank you. It doesn't say thank you. Starbucks management.

It doesn't say, it just says thank you. And it has the Starbucks official logo, so it's official. Hold, it's got something up top here. What's it say? Oh, it's just there a little word. What's that again? Starbucks.com slash COVID-1-19. Oh, okay, okay. Dash 1-9. And that says... We're not using reusable cups.

Have a nice day. It was a two-minute read. Managing through the dynamics of COVID-19. An open letter to all stakeholders. Oh, boy. Oh, this is... As a global company, we've been closely monitoring

the dynamic situation of COVID-19. First and foremost, the health and well-being of our partners and customers remain top of mind. Blah, blah. Our focus remains in two parties caring for the health. and will be on of our partners and customers, forget about the employees.

Although the situation remains fluid, not really. We're taking some stuff. Number one, we're taking guidance from the CDC and local authorities. Good. Number two, we're pausing the use of personal cops. Right. Number three, we have provided a scenario based on procedure information to our stores, teams on how to report anybody that has the virus.

Oh, wait. I don't think that was in there. No, I don't think that was in there. Starbucks is not for guns. Oh, they're not for guns. No. You could be a heroin user and go in the bathroom and shoot up, but heaven forbid you have a gun. And you can be a tranny and they have them pay for your transition.

Thank you. No, but no guns. No guns. Four, we have restricted all business-related air travel, domestic, and international travel through March 31st. A lot of companies are doing that now. And five, we have modified or postponed large meetings across, our offices in the U.S. and Canada. We will continue to stay close to our partners and local health officials, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Warm regard, Roseanne Williams. Oh, okay. Yeah, she's just their. Yeah, this is for the, this is for the shareholders to be like, it's going to be okay. We still have coffee. You know, we have a coffee from Asia coming in pretty soon. Just ignore the delivery. They might have coffee coming in from Asia, right?

I mean, maybe. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, Starbucks might be one of the only companies that still do it because the ships are probably theirs. Yeah. I mean, the coffee places are all still theirs. So, I mean, the ships might not actually be Starbucks ships, but that's where they make their, yeah, I know. You tell me that there's not a sealed of the mermaid lady. It's possible.

Don't kid yourself. I don't know. It's possible. But I'm guessing not. I mean, they bought all the farms. They bought all of that. So, I mean, it wouldn't surprise me that they have their own ships. so if you're looking to

load up coffee on the Starbucks ship and you hear anybody need a job we need a ship we're going to ship this thing into the U.S. I mean it's possible I don't know that I'm just guessing Disney has canceled oh Disney Plus has actually canceled their European media launch

because of this, postpone that and we found out that sad news oh no sad news for sure Sad news. And I want to give you credit because you called this one. This one was called by you.

Oh, I just want to say that I call so many things. You do, you do. Let me remind you. We lost them. Speaking of Disney Plus, we lost them. Well, who did we lose? Sally to report that the coronavirus got baby you. Oh, no.

Oh, no. I knew it. That you were talking. Because I said on Pat Show, when they were talking about they postponed the delivery of baby Yoda. Right? So we had the order. The original order was in December.

Yep. And then we were- That's when you could order them. Right. December 31st. Because I order one. And the release of that wasn't supposed to be until, well, originally I think it was even before that.

Well, yeah, it was like May, right? Or something like that. But the second people that order through Amazon, because, you know, where else you go to order your baby Yoda from Disney. Mine was June 15. Because then it went to June. Yes. And then they did another round of orders, right?

They said we can order, okay, all those sold out, and we're going to do another round of orders that you can get. By Christmas of 2020. 2020. And that's what I said on Friday. Right. I doubt you're going to. People are not going to get those.

But that hadn't been announced yet. That was just me guessing. You were, I believe you were two, three, four, you were five days too early. Thank you. We lost. I freaking do it. No way. No way.

They can't do it because production is so far behind. China is starting to ramp up production again. There's reports that they're opening factories and trying to get some things going. I mean, they have to, right? Their economy revolves about that. Yeah. Kids have not been in school yet. Right.

I told you. Right. Your wife. My wife, they completely changed the entire. She teaches English to Chinese kids. They have completely changed the curriculum to actually making her teach them like normal classes because these kids have not been in class in two months. I mean, it's so bad that Tinder is telling users that coronavirus safety is more important than dating.

Wait, so I can't swipe right? No, they're still going to let you swipe right. Oh, I can swipe right. They're fine. Okay. Swipe, right. They're just saying, you to wrap it up. Be a little careful. So do I bring my N95 when I'm swiping right?

I wouldn't wait until you show up. Hey, so this is not how I look, but I really wanted to, you know, punk-a-donka-don- What I do is I take the selfie without the mask. And then I put it back on. Then put it back on, yeah. And then if you're, you know, if you're going to, if you're going to stop by. Uh-huh. What if I want to.

Hello? Hello? Hey, come on in. Come on in. That's crazy. So, I'll see, users have recently discovered that the dating app has included the warning about the dangers of highly contagious, potentially deadly disease. Well, I mean, Tinder always gave you that.

Oh, yeah, you got to. Take care yourself. Yeah, you wrap it before you're tapping. We're not a sex site, but hey. But you are, though. But you are. But your son told us about this. They've done, yes.

Your son told us about this. Look, Tinder is for that. That's what it is. Again, if you want to bring your, find your future spouse, you're not going to Tinder. I'm so sorry, baby.

It's not, it is. And look at the camera while I'm telling you this in quotation marks. It's a dating website. And you go to match.com, single match. com, Christian mingo,

coffee and something. You're not going there, baby. I'm sorry. You're swapping right. Not what it's about. No. It's not what it's about.

And that's fine. I'm sorry. And I'm not judging. It sounded like a little bit. I'm not judging. I'm not judging. But, you know, if you want to have some fun, you're going there. You're not going to somewhere else.

So are you concerned if you're a Tinder user? Do you, I mean, are you concerned about the virus if you're a Tinder user? No, I'm concerned about like HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, something like that. I think I'm really worried about. No. That's the last thing on my mind. Absolutely. I mean, I don't.

No, I don't think I'm worried about. the coronavirus. I'm worried about that HIV gonorrhea all that all those ST I ST. She's not coughing I don't care exactly and then she's coughing and then you're done she felt warm but I didn't know if that was me or the virus and then we have the do that's so good we have the do's and the don'ts yeah doze and don'ts from the U.S. health officials wash your hands of course the wash your hands birthday songs twice and you clean by So it's wash hands with hot water. Wash your hands.

No, hold on. It's not cold water. Don't say, by the way, until, let me see what it says here by the do's and don'ts, okay? Not from Chris Cruz. You're part of you're a doctor with the CDC now all of a sudden. No, I'm just telling you the health, you know. People should wash their hands for at least 20 seconds, several times a day. Wait, all right.

Happy birthday to you. If you're watching on the camera, I'm washing my hands. Hold on, hold on. Let me time you. Let me time you. Here we go. and start Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear Happy birthday Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday Happy birthday to you

15 seconds I gotta sing it three freaking times I feel like you went too quickly This is happy birthday To you Oh I didn't sing it right birthday to you. All right.

Fine. You're welcome. Three times. Health officials recommend using soap and water or a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol. I'm sorry. Good luck finding. I know. Sam's guise that.

Do not. If you believe you have come in contact with the virus, immediately wash your hands. Do not touch your eyes, face, or mouth. Learn the symptoms. Do not wear a mask. Of course. I mean, the mask is for if you get sick. It's not for you.

Wearing a mask is going to help you. Avoid public places. If you're over 60 or have a condition. Wait, what? Rethink your travel plans and have supplies ready. What if you're already sick? It doesn't say the same place sound effect. Wait, there's two emojis here.

What if you're already? You may think about... No, those emojis are not part of the story. Stop it. No, my gosh. So sad. Do not reach for Anabai... It's just sad, though.

Don't reach... Yes. No, is that... Do you really want to be all upset right now when, according to the world we're all going to die? Like, this is the best, but you could just laugh at loud. You know, sorry if you're on the top tier 7080

get your life together just be careful just be careful just be careful stay clean get that wheel updated just stay clean I know okay fine but what if they can't stay clean you get that wheel together you know if you don't have a beneficiary

Chris Cruz Jeff Fisher for number that's a good point 8-900 33 93 address 6301, Riverside Drive, Building 1, Irving, Texas, 753039. Email address, truendo fat the blaze.com. At Jeffrey Jfraffr on Twitter, Jeff Fisher Radio, Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio.

Just direct messages. Hey, you're on our will. We'll take care of you. And we should, let me sure you send to do not recess this day, you know, so you should just go and go. We want the DNR. Yeah. We got to have the DNR. You go and go.

Yeah, I'm not here going to feed you through a tube. The money you left me is for me. Now for me to keep your wake To eat through a tube So make sure you sign that Do not resuscitate And you know what It's going to be a great

Experience You okay Too harsh? I don't know if I'm laughing or crying Both It's the show You do both a lot Let's be careful out there

Okay That's all I'm saying Be careful We'll have a good weekend If you're in Washington State You better leave I should know stay there Thank you.

Oh my gosh. On top of closing the total United States border. Sorry, Colorado. I mean, Washington State. It's tough. I mean, you're not going to be able to quarantine people in the U.S.

I'm sorry. You're just not going to do it. In China, you can say. So we're closing the border. I say close, seriously, and this is no jokes aside, close the border of the United States. Yeah.

All right. Sorry airlines. You could fly around the country all you want under my plan Chris Cruz says just shut them down. But he shot everything down. It's awful dark in that area over there. Yeah, that's where the airport used to be with they shut down all the lights. Speaking of that, did you see the air pollution in China?

Have you seen those pictures? A year ago today. Cloudy, smug, whatever we call that. Today? Oh, wait. Is that a sunshiny day? It's a sun. Unbelievable.

Well, it's unbelievable, but I say get back to the smog. We want the factory's up and running. Turn those machines back on. Turn those machines back on. I don't think. President Winnie the Pooh wants that, though. Because that'd look bad on him. That's kind of true.

But no, but the machine's back on. That doesn't look bad. Oh, not as bad, but he has to kill all those people then. Ooh. Which, by the way, Simpson Season 4 predicted the coronavirus. Before chewing the fat? Yeah. Before chewing the fat.

Season four. The Simpsons. Yeah. Predicted something before chewing the fat. We're done. That pisses me off. Okay, but I mean, I know that they were on, you know, before chewing the fat started, right? So it's kind of a disclaimer.

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