Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 399 | Bee Hives 🐝 & Egg Plants 🍆; What Do They Have in Common? | Guest: George Shea

Episode Date: June 22, 2020

The 'Cancel Culture' continues to cancel things here in the U.S. and the latest effort is to cancel Eskimo Pie. “We are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality, and recognize the term is derogatory,” said Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing for its parent Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. YES!, they are coming for your snacks. In the break room George Shea joins Jeffy to talk about Nathan’s Famous will conduct the 2020 Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest in Coney Island on Saturday, July 4, 2020. The annual contest, an American holiday tradition that traditionally has been held on the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues for generations, will take place in a private location with COVID-19 safety measures in place. It is one of the first major [televised] post-COVID competitive events to be held in the United States. The event will feature 10-minute competitions for leading male and female eaters, including Joey Chestnut of San Jose, CA, and Miki Sudo of Torrington, CT. Twelve-time champion Chestnut holds the world record of 74 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. Sudo, whose all-time best is 41 hot dogs and buns, has won the contest six times. The women’s world record is 45 Nathan’s Famous hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.  This Week Sponsor: Get your life back with Relief Factor and its 3-Week Quick Start for only $19.95. If you are in pain, what have you got to lose? Go to https://www.relieffactor.com Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Hello, and welcome to join the fat. How in the world are you? It's good to see you. And no matter what anybody says, you look great. I know you've been, you know, scrambling to get back into your real life. You're getting your hair done, getting your nails done. You're getting your pedicure, starting to feel like you're back to normal again.

I get it. But, you know, you still don't feel like you're back to normal. But you look great. Okay? All right. Now, of course, we have to worry about Aunt Jemima and Uncle bends and cream of wheat and whatever else they're doing but the most important thing that's changing that hurts me and i don't know what they're going to change it to but eskimo pies have to be changed

and the company says you know what we're going to change it because and i and you may ask you think eskimo pies isn't that just a ice cream bar like vanilla ice cream with a chocolate coating on it yes That's correct. That's exactly what it is. And Dyer's Grand Ice Cream, who makes the Eskimo Pie, seems to think that the Eskimo Pie is derogatory. So it has to be changed. It's no longer going to feature the Alaska Native child on its packaging. So you can breathe easier.

Okay. The Eskimo is a member of a group of indigenous peoples of Southwestern northern Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland, and eastern Siberia. And the term, Eskimo, is considered a derogatory term. So, I mean, I know how much of a hater you are when you use the term Eskimo. I don't want to hear it anymore. Okay? All right.

That's what I mean. Because according to this, Eskimo means eater of raw. meat. And you know how horrible you think of people who eat raw meat. And that's exactly what you think when you say, Eskimo. And when you're thinking of the ice cream bar and you say, hey, why don't we just get that box of Eskimo pies? You are a hater. We are in a very, very strange. All right, I have a question that has to be only asked in our quiet voices. Hold on before, before you move on, I'm not going to let you stop there. I am not going to let you stop there.

If we're going to start calling stuff to be renamed, I demand we change the name of Moon Pie. Do we know how the moon feels when we talk about the moon? And talking about eating it. It's a derogatory term. It is. It's to the moon. Now that you bring it up, I'm pissed. Okay.

Have we got it in contact with Whoopi Goldberg? Because there's a Whoopi pie that is called Black Moon or Gob or Black and White or Bob or BFO or Big Fat Oreo. Can we rename? Make sure you you beep yourself there. I will. I will. I will. Can we call how we talk to the gay community?

Have we talked to the gay community how they feel about Twinkies? Because a twink is a skinny gay male. How many times? How many times when you eat a Twinkie do you think? Oh my gosh. I mean to a gay person. And Twinkies shaped like a what? Exactly.

Am I putting a gay person in my mouth? Thank you. And let us not forget the ho-ho's. How we contact the hos out there to know how they feel about us eating them. I want to get back to moon pies though because I mean, now you got me thinking that now I'm just eating a butt. Yeah. And we can't have that. Yeah.

So if we're going to go down the list of what. Oh, don't not get this. And it's racist. It is. The moon pies right. There's chocolate moon. so you're eating a black butt. Yep.

Oh, man. You know, and I know we're going to stop at this one, but snowballs, really? Google it if you don't know what a snowball is. Actually, sadly, I do. And, yeah, no, they definitely need to be canceled. Thank you. If we're going to cancel, let's make sure we do this. And don't get me started on the flutter motor.

Everything needs to change. What about the flutter motor? What about the nutty bars? What about the peeps? Oh, man. Oh, yeah, nutty buddy. Oh. I'm done.

I am done with this racist nation. I'm done. If we're going to do it, let's do it. How we talk to the Swiss? Because we have a Swiss role. Yeah, we do. And what about the, you know, the powdered chocolate mix with a little Swiss miss? Yeah.

Oh, my gosh. I'd be pissed if I were there. By the way, have you started to crave all these snacks? Because I am craving every. I guess if I had a box of moon pies in front of me. I'd be down on those bad boys right now. Who was the last time you had a moon pie? It's been a while for me.

It's been a while. Remember when they brought a bunch of them into the... For Mercury Studios. Yeah, it was Mercury 1 brought us moon pies for that solar eclipse or something like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was my wife. Yeah, it was my wife. She was hanging everybody moon pies.

Yes. And I may have, I don't recall a hundred percent, uh, recollection, but I may have, you know, taking a few home. Oh, well, that's when you do with a moon pie. A moon pie is not, you can't just take one moon pie. You have to take two moon pies. Yeah, or more. And then those two moon pies feel by themselves, so they have to take two on top of

that and you got four moon pies that I feel all lonely, so you have to bring four more to and then it just never ends. It never ends. Right. So pretty soon you might just grab the whole box. But then if you take one box, you have to take another box to make sure that those are not by themselves. It's just a vicious cycle.

It is. It is a vicious cycle. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to derailed you for a couple of minutes. I just want to make sure that it's fair. Look, I understand how frustrating it is. Oh, I'm very frustrated right now. And now you've got me so angry. I know I have.

I just had my bowl. I just had my bowl of cream wheat. So I'm all fired up. I'm all far up. I love cream of weed too. And the person not to be named, and you know who I'm talking about, We'll never get the credit of what I did over the weekend. But just to let you know, I had some Uncle Ben's rice yesterday,

I had some cream of wheat this morning, and for lunch I'm going to have on Jamima's pancakes. Yeah, it's good. You know, my wife, and I know you're not speaking of my wife, but I am, who actually three weeks ago, three and a half weeks ago, came to me and said, But yeah, we need to get, we need to go get those off the shelf. And of course, you know, I'm like, yeah, whatever. I know. I know.

I know because when you even said it to me before all this stuff happened, I was like, okay, dude, shut up. I know. I know. Shut up. Like, okay. So now she's like, I told you. Now, my question to you is I did it last time. Remember when we canceled butter, Land of Lakes butter?

Yeah. Did you go get butter? Yes. But I don't know. I think we used. Fish, you're not supposed to use it. Oh, I'm supposed to save it. You're supposed to save it. Oh.

Well, I think we used it. And then I forgot to save the box. So whatever. This is the point of buying the product. I know, but the butter, you can't just save butter. Yes, you can. You freeze it. Oh, you can't save butter.

It's a law. And it's not like you're going to ever eat it. You just want to be like, hey, grandkids. Oh, you would have grandkids. I know that's why I should have. had the box. Yeah. I should have just saved the box too.

Yes. Which, you know, duh. Did you threw the box away? Because that's not, oh my gosh. You have a garage that you can't even use for a vehicle. You could have just thrown that stupid box in there. And maybe I did that too. I don't know.

I don't remember anymore. But I do have, you know, I mean, I've got, you know, Uncle Benz and Aunt Jimima, you know, Mrs. Butterworth syrup. No, seriously. This is a question. It just seems like, it seems like now, you know, we're, I have. hate to have that stuff at my house and not being able to use it. Yeah, but a serious question, because you probably've gotten this at Chewing the Fat at The Blaze.com

and probably at JFR. When does it stop? I don't. Really, I don't know. I mean, we're at Moon Pies now. We're a Moon Pies. Well, we, no, we created the Moon Pye dilemma. No, I mean, but that's what I'm saying.

They're canceling Moon Pies now, so. We are canceling Moon Pines. This is not the masses. They're doing Eskimo Pyes. They're doing, that's what I'm saying. I didn't even know. By the way. I didn't even know Eskimo Pats were a thing.

Ridiculous. Who's next? Did Klondike bark? Klondike? What do you call that? Like, is that who's next? Oh, what about Coca-Cola next? It's Coca-Cola next from using bears and Santa Claus.

The polar bears. Coca-Cola's being... Everything's got to go. What about Charmin? Charmin. Charmin is next because they're using bears to wept their butt? What about the angel-based? baby one toilet paper.

Bears don't really wipe their butts with toilet paper. It's a commercial. Tell that to the freaking cancel culture out there. I know. I mean, we're taking down a theater Roosevelt, a Teddy Roosevelt statue in front of a museum. When I saw that, that's when I was like, okay,

we're just in front of a museum. Jeffrey doesn't care. Teddy Roosevelt killed Teddy Bears. It's just, you know, Robin Williams is rolling over in his... Oh my gosh. I am so glad that Robin Williams is dead. Well,

I don't want to say that. Because that guy, like, that was Teddy. He played Teddy. At least watch the movie nights. What is the night of the museum? Yeah.

Watch that movie. Yeah. Watch that movie. And then look how Teddy Roosevelt was portrayed in that movie. Perfectly. Amazing. American. A lie.

Oh, wait. I mean. Oh. You know, never mind. But one of the things that I wanted to talk about. though for sure and a quiet voice. Oh yeah, sorry. And you could be involved in this too, but

it has to be a quiet voice because I don't want people to hear it. All right. So Dallas County, all right, has a new full mask order. All right. So it went into effect Saturday, well, you know, Friday at midnight, Saturday morning. So all employees and visitors to any business must wear a face covering while in an area where six feet of separation is not feasible. So, do we have to wear a mask when we're on the air? I know. I know, that's why I don't want to talk about.

Are you not wearing one? Because I've been wearing one since day one. Well, we're in the studio. No, can you not hear my voice? Like, I'm literally wearing them right now as we speak. Like, I do not want to catch coronavirus. our virus via Skype. Do you not know that

Fosci said that yesterday? And our feed actually goes through Dallas County at one point or another. Exactly. Well, not mine. Mine goes through Italy because I have a VPN. So, I'm going through, like, major... You've rerouted it through Italy? I'm rerouted it through Italy.

That's one of the worst countries. Oh, do I need to, like, rewrite it? Don't reroute it through Brazil or you're dead. Oh, not Brazil? Oh, I was going to pick Brazil. Is there any other countries? you, I can go through. Yeah, don't. Just say with where you're at.

Can I go through like New York? And then, oh, shh. Okay. And don't broadcast through California. Oh my gosh. We do. I mean,

I just find it, it's incredible that we, we don't know and everything changes from day to day. Fisher. Fisher. Fisher. We're on the air. We're on television.

Broadcast television. When is, I don't know. I bet you everybody's like, are we going to really, really be like China now and wear masks 24-7? I've made fun of Chinese people when I saw them in their stupid TikTok videos

wearing masks at all times outside. Now, is that who we're going to become a communist wearing mask country? But obviously, you know, we're headed in that direction. Oh, this is pissing me off. And then you got, I'm sorry. You know, this is why I can't be a politician because like now you got Governor Abbott saying, okay, cities and counties, you could enforce. I know.

How the hell can you co-sign them? Now, I get it. I get it. Each country, I mean, each state, each county, each town that could govern themselves however they want. Yeah, it's wants to know that you're raising your voice and I really wanted this in the inside. voice. It's just really annoying because I don't understand why you're forcing me to wear a mask. Just that's so loud. I don't want everybody to hear. This is pissing me off Fisher. How can I wear a mask? I have to go to the dentist and they say you have to wear a mask. How the hell are

you going to look at my teeth when I'm wearing a mask? Well, you're going to wear a face guard, a clear face guard so they can reach up underneath. I bet so that's what they're going to make you do. All I know is I have a letter from the United States Air Force saying that I don't have to wear a mask because of PTSD. So come at me, bro. My wife needs that too. I mean, just because, I mean, she puts what on it and she goes into, you know, she goes into an attack. Yeah, panic attack.

And that and an asthma attack. Both. He just starts a hand attacking people. Well, maybe you should have her with a mask. But not that kind of a mask. She had it with those masks that bite other dogs. The Hannibal mask. Oh, that's what we need to start wearing.

Yes. Yeah, the Hannibal mask. No, no, no, no. The muzzle? No, the funnel. Oh, the funnel. Oh, absolutely. The funnel mask.

I will definitely wear a cone, yes. Yeah, the cone. Yes. Yes. We'll be cone heads. Upside down, cone heads. It's just sad. It's sad.

All right. Let's go to the break through. I mean, I need to have something that's of regular in my life, and that's a Coca-Cola zero, right? I mean, they're not going to cancel Coca-Cola. Right. How dare you drink polar bears? How dare you?

You know what? Even if I apologize, it's not going to be enough. So, subscribe to chewing the fat, no matter what. Whether I'm drinking polar bear liquid or not, subscribe to chewing the fat, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, pick a platform. You know, like one off the top of my head would be spot. and subscribe to Chewing the Fat podcast.

You can use, you know, look, sure if you've got an iPhone, you're going to use, you know, okay, go ahead, fine, subscribe on iTunes. But go ahead and subscribe on Spotify too. Oh, you're not here? iTunes is no longer available. What? Sad news. Effective today at the time of this recording.

I receive maybe or maybe not some email saying, iTunes is down to the foreseeable future. Oh, God. Please go download Spotify, the best platform user-friendly out there and subscribe to Chune Defi. It happens when you try to subscribe to Chune Defa. As soon as you hit subscribe, it just crashes. It's just amazing how in 2020 we still not able to smooth the corners of a podcast platform. It's just unbelievable.

It's almost like that was a press release from the stockholders and shit. shareholders of Spotify. What? No. That's what it sounded like to me. No, no. And don't come out here and ask me what is the ticker symbol for Spotify? Because that's not something I know from the top of my head, okay? Yeah, could you look it up fast? Yeah, SPLT. You know, it's not that one. No, no. So just subscribe, really, is what you need to do, clearly, to chewing the fact.

You know, one other thing to us, I was thinking this weekend. you know for a long time I always said subscribe to chewing the fat with yours truly and then I would have to you know reframe it of yours truly it is yours truly it's Fisher so and now I realize that

when I talking on Friday was either Friday or the Saturday podcast yeah you forgot the VIP girl yep you forgot to credit the person that says yours truly which is OJ. Simpson. But OJ stole it from me. We don't know that. Yes, we do. I said it for

at least months, if not years before OJ Simpson, Mr. Hey, yours truly here. OJ. Simpson. By the way, by the way, did you see that Dana? Dana listens to Chew and the Fat? Thank you. She had to reissue it.

Because you keep taking her credit. And she had to show the world and her millions of followers, who's the boss? Okay, well, first of all, it's not millions. It's millions. A million. Her Twitter is maybe a million. Maybe. Is it a million?

You're talking about a syndicated radio host that has millions of followers? I'm talking about her Twitter account. Her Twitter is, okay, for sure it's 1.2 million. So millions. I saw. Hey, before I've got, we're going to be talking to George Shea,

Nathan's hot dog eating contest founder and an MLE founder in just a couple of minutes. I know he's standing by. But I wanted to tell you that tonight, tonight, for those of you listening live to Chewing the Fat, my wife and I are having the Zoom meet and greet. So just go to my platforms. Jeffrey JFR on

Facebook and Instagram and at Jeffrey JFR on Twitter. And it's Jeff Fisher Radio. I know it's not JFR. I got you on Facebook and Instagram, but it's JFR on Twitter. And the link is there. So we look forward to seeing you there, 630 Central on Zoom tonight,

answering any and all questions. truthfully, it'll be up for you to decide. So things are getting canceled all over America. And we talked about it, you know, at nauseam, about if you are planning on an event that you were used to going to and used to loving, plan on not going because it's been canceled. Well, we've been proven wrong because the hot dog eating contest, extraordinary of July 4th and Nathan's hot dog eating contest,

I believe is ongoing in 2020, despite the canceled culture of events. And George Shea, the man who is the inventor of the Nathan's hot dog eating contest, the man who is the inventor of it all, MLE, all of it, joins us here on Chewing the Fat. Welcome, sir. How are you? I'm doing very well, and thank you for having me. Absolutely. So the event is happening?

We are going to conduct the Nathan's famous 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest at high noon in Coney Island, as it has been for generations and generations. You can cancel Thanksgiving. You can cancel anything, but you cannot cancel the 4th of July. That is awesome. So it is in Coney Island.

Now, I thought I read where it is at some secret bunker location. It is going to be in a secret bunker location. undisclosed location because we are concerned and specifically the city is very concerned that a crowd will form to see Joey enter the arena as it were and so we have to be we have to be secret so and it's being uh and it's being broadcast uh on ESPN correct yeah it'd be live on ESPN I'm not sure if it's ESPN proper ESPN 2 but yeah it'll be on ESPN and it'll rear that day. Well, I'm almost willing to bet that it will be on the major ESPN because they are dying for content. So I'm willing to bet that, although, you know, like you say, it's possible

that it could be on one of the other ESPN entities. So let me ask you, the first question I have for you is, how are the hot dog eating contestants going to eat their hot dogs with a mascot, George? They are not. They are going to be separated six feet from each other. And I believe we're going to have plexiglass dividers on top of that. Wow. And they are going to eat mask-free. There is a question, of course, how am I going to yell and scream and call down the heavens?

Right. With a mask on. And that has yet to be determined. Frankly, I don't want to wear a mask. I wonder if I have to. So I have to check that out. I don't, I mean, if you're, the rules, usually, if it's the, you know, special mask mandate

from most of the, for most of the, for most of the cities and counties, if you have to wear a mask, if there isn't a six-foot divide between you and other humans. So I think you'll be good. Yeah, I'm going to stand back seven feet and go big. There you go.

You'll be good. So, George, let me tell you. I mean, I am a fan of you and your ideas and your genius plan of bringing this together. How many years ago now? So the first one I ever went to was in 1988, when it was really a very, very small event. And I took over in 91.

So, you know, 30 plus years. Wow, that's incredible. And, you know, while I've said for years and years and years, you know, I'm a fan of the speed eating contest, I'm more of a Kenya eater, a distance eater. You know, the speed eating, you know, I can't really keep up. But the distance eating, I'm good. I've been good with that my entire life.

Day in, day out. overweight. Yes, absolutely. So when you started all this, did you ever really imagine how huge it was going to become? Absolutely not. And you know, it's funny. There was never a time when there was like a business plan and a plan of action. There really wasn't. We always just did what we thought was funny, you know, and if something struck me, you know, we'd just do it. And, you know, my brother joined me in 97 and my partner, Dave Bear, both of whom are really really. very funny, very smart guys and really much better businessmen than I am. But it was always driven by like what's funny.

And so, you know, every time that it has increased in stature and importance, it kind of just, it blows me away because I'm sort of still back when, you know, we were developing the rivalry with Japan. You know, my mind goes all the way back to that. But, you know, the one thing that I have accepted, and that I certainly rely on is this massive crowd on the 4th of July, which we're not going to have this year. That's going to be a big difference to the eaters as well.

No doubt. No doubt because I believe that this is the current thinking, that the area will be temperature control. So there will be AC and that it will probably be cooler, probably. So I don't know. But it is anticipated that it will be cool. cooler than outside. And the hot dogs may be in a slightly better condition because they're not out in the hot sun,

right? The buns and stuff. But I wonder, I don't believe those sort of more favorable environmental circumstances would offset the loss of the crowd. I think they're going to be, it's going to be. And I will be screaming. I guarantee it.

But I think they lose something without that crowd. Yeah. Oh, they definitely will. I would say that, you know, what's the record? 74? 74.

For males? I'm sorry, I don't want to, I hate to distinguish between men and women, but they are different. So the males are 74. I mean, that's the record. I would almost make a bet that you're not going to hit that this year, right? You know, it's so hard for me to tell. I'm guessing you're right. If I had the handicap it, it would be lower.

But I really just don't know. You know, I just truly don't know. And Joey Chestnut is such a champion that it's just, It's hard to ever, and that's who we're thinking, honestly, would be in that number. It's hard to ever really count him out or say, you know, I just don't know. Well, now, George, let's be honest. Even without a crowd there, you're going to have, you know, I don't want to get you in trouble with any of the municipalities or your, you know, your special bunker eating contestant building. but I mean there's going to be maybe a few people sneak in, you know, up in the rafters,

obviously a social distance away from the contestants, maybe doing a little yelling. And then, you know, you mentioned that you, of course, will be doing your usual George Shea yelling. In fact, perhaps even just for chewing the fat, you know, just you and me hanging out. You know, you give us an idea of perhaps what you're going to be yelling. Okay, listen, this is, this is highly secret. One sec. I just have to, I'm literally, you'd be, you would be ashamed at how late I am on getting this done. But, but I've had so much to do and it's been so, you know, the stressful, but I was working yesterday on a few intros. And I'm not going to do it full voice, but I will tell you, if that's, if that, That's what you're asking. Absolutely. Yes, I am.

Yes, I am asking that, George. So this is raw. You can't hold me to this. But this is what I'm going to do, something like this for Mickey Sudo, who is the female champion of the world, 41 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. Yeah. And it would be something like this. In nature, dominance is beauty. Sympathy is corruption that spills from the fallen to darken the sun.

soil with disgrace. A warrior's love is on yielding control in the cause of triumph, to negate every achievement of her rival, to erase their legacy, to rip hope from their torso until they are sterile and barren of purpose, et cetera. That's awesome. That's awesome. Now I'm guessing. I haven't really figured out Joey. You know, the whole thing with Joey is, he's He's such a, you know, like in a sense, he is a, he is the vessel of America. He is the, he's a mirror of America. So in today's environment, I almost feel, and what I've been working on is that, you know, we are, you know, and me, you're right, me in particular and everybody, I really have taken a beating, you know, and it's not just being inside for three months. it's it's economic it's like you know it's like looking toward the future i'm 55

these were my big earning years i took a dent i'm gonna take a dent this year right up beating and then you know i will be back everybody will be back but right now it's like you feel beaten and so that's where i'm going is with joey is yes you know you are you have taken a pipe a beating with a pipe, but you are going to come back, I will come back. There is only one way, and it's Joey, and it's forward, and it's onward. Like, that's where I'm going with Joey, but I haven't got it figured out yet. So, and this is just a, you know, thought off the top of my head. I'm guessing that it'll be a little bit louder.

I'm going to go. When I go, it will be full voice, but I just don't, I'm in my backyard, and I worry my neighbors will think I've lost my mind if I go big. Oh, heck with them. Let them call the cops on you. So normally, now, I mean, you had to have, I mean, you almost, we should have had you do it at Mercury Studios in Irving, Texas, because we got, you know, a 10,000 square feet studio you could use. I mean, with you, with, how many contestants are going to be there? Because normally there's quite a few to, to be a part of the contest.

Have you whittled it down a little bit? Yeah, in fact, we have. You know, it's funny. It's five and five, but what's funny is we. we thought there was a moment when New York City just wouldn't let us do it even if we did it in private. I bet. Even if we adhered to all the sort of as of right rules, we worried and we thought of going to Texas. You know, and because we thought Texas or Florida would let us do it.

Heck, yeah. It would be the perfect place to go. So literally, that was in our thinking. But what we were going to do because of the reduced size and, and, you know, the restrictions, we're going to have five women and probably five or six men. They'll come up separately, right? The women will come up first, then they will leave, and, you know, then we'll do the men. There will be media, but I don't know how many.

We may only have 20 or 25 total individuals allowed into the space, in which case I probably have 15 all in, you know, me, Nathan's, the Eaters, etc. So we would have to have only 10 members of the media. Usually we have 50 to 60. How do I do that? So these are all things that we have to figure out. And frankly, it's like everything in these times, as I was saying, it's so much uncertainty. It's really hard to get a hard and fast answer on anything.

Well, I would love to sit down and talk to you in private about some ideas I have about that. But I'll save that for another time. I'm really looking forward to the event, that's for sure, as always. And I hope that it still has that feel. I know that's what you're attempting to do, but I really hope that it still has that feel. And if nothing else, right, you've got the, you know, you'll have the COVID-19 hot dog eating contest year to look back on, right?

There's no doubt. I will say this. For me, there is no difference. I love that crowd, right? I love that stage. For me, there is no difference. If there are four people in the food court of a mall somewhere, I'm going 100%.

The volume will be 100. That's where I'm going this year. I'll be there. And I think Joey will too. Your questions, like so, but what will happen anyway? What are the circumstantial changes that will happen? I don't know. But the energy will be there.

That's awesome. So how is everything, I mean, you talk about taking a huge. hit. I mean, MLE, Major League Eating, has been, I mean, you aren't really doing any contests, are you? No, I mean, this is what I'm saying. I don't say in a, you know, woe is me way or in a downbeat way, but I really think that nationally, you know, it's very interesting. There are folks whose environment has not been changed, right? So they had to be home for three months and, you know, you can't go to a restaurant. But they're still full salary. They never missed a beat or they're in a situation where it's just not an issue. And for those people,

I think what they're in look at this is like, holy cow, this is some crazy year, right? But that is not the case. If you lost your job, you worked at a restaurant, you haven't worked in three months, you're on unemployment, you have a small business, whatever it is, then you're kind of going like, this is catastrophic. This is not a phenomenon. This is a catastrophe, right? And that's really, that's what I was trying to say is that, like, I think that a lot of, of people don't understand that. And I think there are many, many people who, you know, are in going through a difficult period. And certainly, MLE, we will be fine. But MLE went from 55 events to one, right? That's that. That's that, you know. And we will be back next year. We've had,

by the way, a ton of inquiries. Really funny. Like people calling up going, I want to do an event. I'm going this year and they go, well, no, next year. But this year, you know, I think you could only honestly do it like in Florida, Texas. But, but, um, and, uh, but no, we've had a lot of inquiries. A lot of people saw that we're doing the contest. They're like, rock on. I'm going to do that. We're going to do it.

So there's like, you know, next year, 21 is going to be thing. But, you know, I enjoy being out there on the road. Yeah. These events getting ready. And I just don't have that. You know, it's there's, there is, there's a business element to it. But there's also a personal element. Like it's the, the, the, the, the process of it is very fun. And it's just, I got to tell you.

I mean, I mean, I, One of the reasons that I'm looking forward to is that, you know, it does make it seem like it's starting to get back to some kind of normal, right? All these events have been canceled. And really for you guys, there are mirrored events around the country, right? That, you know, our hot dog eating contest from, you know, Bill's hot dog stand in Montana or wherever it is. And those contests are, you know, few and far between. I'd be interested to see if any of those take place. So, I mean, it really does matter that this is taking place.

I know that sounds weird and it's a hot dog eating contest and it's Major League eating. I got it. But it does make you feel like we're starting to get back to even the new normal. And I love it, George. Thank you. Yeah. No, and you know what?

The absurdity of this contest is unavoidable, right? You know one would ever say anything different. But there is an element to it where people really, do enjoy it as silly as it is and it's part of people's tradition. So that's why we never intended to quit, but I will tell you it took a long time to figure it out. I bet. So screw your neighbors, give me one holler and then we're out. Okay, I'm gonna do, I will do, I will do joys from last year or the year before, all right? But if I get arrested, that's all me. I got it. I got to cover it. All right, so into the red

here. In a world of nothing, of better. In the barren hills and cracked earth, and once proud oceans drain to sand, there will still be a monument to our existence. Bleached by the sun, perhaps, and blunted by time, but everlasting. For this man represents all that is eternal in the human spirit, the courage to go on when all others fail or turn away, the strength to recognize the value of freedom and pay the cost no matter how great. Through the curtain. One sec. I forgot it.

Through the curtain of the aurora, a comet blazes to herald his arrival, and his victories shall be transcribed into every language known to history, including Klingar. Okay, that was 50%. That wasn't 100%. Well, the honor of the old gods and the new gods, George, thank you very much, George Jay from Nathan's hot dog eating contest. 2020. Thank you so much, man.

appreciate it. Thank you. Good luck. Okay. So in today's world, we all get Amazon packages delivered to our house at nauseam. Right. I mean, whatever we've been using Amazon for the past, well, for quite longer than the pandemic months, but for sure during the pandemic months, I mean, packages have been delivered left and right. How this hasn't happened to me, I am, I don't know, but I guarantee you, this is another example of, of if it were to happen to me, you would not know about it. So a California woman receives a package from Amazon at her front porch. She goes out.

She brings the box into the house. She opens it up. In the box, there's bottles of oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine. In the box. Now, she opens it up and says, Oh, my. This isn't for me. It can't be.

I'll have to call someone like, I don't know, Amazon and the DEA. Uh, no. Hundreds of these pills are in this box. I promise you that if a box of oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine, getting delivered to this house? Of course I call the DA and Amazon and complain and wonder, what is going on? Why have these been delivered to my house?

So apparently, there's a pharmacy in New York was disposing of drugs through a Texas pharmaceutical company that needs to be approved by the government, which is why the DAA form was in the box. So somebody put a wrong sticker on it, And it ends up going, it's a third party, Amazon's like, it's not our fault, it's not our fault, it's not our fault. And it's a third party shipper that went wrong, something happened, something happened. And so it ends up going to this lady's house. And whatever she was supposed to get, whatever blow dryer or makeup she was supposed to get,

went to the Texas pharmaceutical company instead. So, good, I guess, is the word I was looking for? Good. good that this was taken care of because we would not want anyone to receive unordered

unprescribed drugs to their home at any time. That would just be wrong. And if it happens to you, I mean, you should report it as well. If it happens to me,

you're not going to hear about it. I'll tell you that. Download and subscribe to more content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Okay, another story that you would not hear if I was involved. Swiss police are looking for what they're calling a forgetful individual who left something on a train. It was a package full of gold bars worth $191,000. I promise you.

Again, this is just me. You know, I'm not telling you what to do. I obviously, you know, you should turn it in and you'd be hearing about this story. But if I found a bag with gold bars in it, it would now be mine. I would say, oh, look what I found. It's a bag of gold bars. Anybody lose their bag of gold bars? if you are traveling with a bag of $190,000 worth of gold bars

and you forget it on a train, that's your fault, not mine, okay? And how do you forget a container with a $190,000 worth of gold bars? I don't know. Now, they're looking, they claim they've done extensive investigations to find the owner of this high value package

and they have not been able to track it down. So now they're making it public and their quest to find the mysterious owner. I'm guessing that this was part of some sort of the illegal deal that took place so no one is coming forward, which means that if I just happened to walk off the train with my $190,000 worth of gold bars

and just let them sit in my safe you know for a period of time you'd be okay you would be fine just a thought I mean just is incredible to me and I know I've seen some people on social media

say that you know comment that they've learned from this podcast how to handle such a thing and I want to say you're welcome thank you for listening Thank you for subscribing to chewing the fat Thank you even more

If you've subscribed on Spotify And I appreciate it very much So You know continue And the lessons will The lessons will continue Here on chewing the fat No problem

We've got a couple of crime stories I've got so much to get to today We had a great interview with George Shea If you're you know If you caught that he's great I can't wait to talk to him again I'm really going to try to talk to him him, you know, after the hot dog eating contest because I want to hear more, obviously, about how

the contest went and, you know, the events surrounding it. But I also want to talk to him a little bit about he's living his American dream. Man, he started, you know, Major League eating. And, you know, that's something that's really, you know, close to my heart. It's Major League eating. So I'd be, he's a fascinating guy and I really want to talk to him again. So I hope you enjoyed the interview with George. Did you see where, even Twitter, this is, no one is safe from the mob. No one is safe. We told you last week about Twitter rolling out their answer to, what's the stupid place where your voice, their answer to parlor, the social media company that, you know, you record your voice.

Your social media post is your voice recording. And Twitter had announced that they are doing their, you know, you can record your voice as your Twitter post. And now they are taking heat because no one is safe from the mob. Apparently, several members, according to this story, several members of the deaf and heart of hearing community. pointed out the features in accessibility. Oh, okay. Well, that's what you get, Twitter. Wait, how did the mute hear us?

Well, that was the problem. They... Who the hell told them? Who the hell went out there and told them? They were scrolling through and they realized, hey, I can't hear them. Well, guess what, you mute person. There's stuff that I can do,

but you don't hear me bitch about it. No, seriously. We do. Seriously, when did we come the nation of bitches? It's incredible. But no one's safe. That's my point.

Welcome to it, Twitter. Welcome, freaking to it. I'm so over it. No, no. You know what, Twitter? You freaking double down and then now make everything audio. Why is everybody bitching?

And then, oh my gosh. I wish. Everyone, if I'm a deaf or if I'm a person that can't hear, I'm a hearing impaired person. And I go to Twitter. I want to be issued my own hand interpreter for every tweet that gets sent to me. Every tweet that I send out, I get my own hand interpreter.

You got to be kidding me. We've become... Actually, that's a million dollar idea. A separate app that you can download that would give you a computer. hand person. What about if you're blind? Are you going to bitch about blind to? Yes.

Yes. Oh, this is just, I really want to put... If I'm blind and I want to tweet and be on Twitter, I guess I could download a separate app that makes everything braille. Well,

another million. I'm just given two, I've given two million dollars ideas in less than three minutes. You're welcome. Only one because there's already a It's called Be My Eyes and blind people get connected with privileged eyesight people and they get to help them on tasks and stuff. Oh, well, I mean, that's not the same as what I'm doing.

No, it's exactly the same. It's exactly the same. It's called Be My Eyes. And if you're blind, download the app. If you're blindly, they don't have a Be My Eyes person, then you're screwed. Figure it out. It out until you hear Be My Eyes. Let me ask you a question.

I go give you a story now and I want you to tell me if you think it's real. Okay. All right. We should do this more often. I don't believe that it's real. We should do this more often because right now I read Babylon B and I read CNN and I don't know who's who. I know. Sometimes it's difficult sometimes.

I like this. So go for it. Tell me. So. Fake. Lawrence Thomas, 14 year old Florida teenager. Okay. is critical condition.

Okay. Now, this is according to the story. Okay. After he was stung by more than, he was stung more than 600 times by bees. All right. So so far you think, yeah, all right. Okay.

He was at a beehive? Absolutely could happen. Yeah, he was at a beehive. I mean, there's, there are plenty of times that this has happened. Now, according to the story, the boy inserted his male part inside a beehive. Absolutely. located under the family house. You haven't asked this question,

which makes me think you've done it already. Who Among Us hasn't stuck their male genitalia into a beehive? Who Among Us? There's no way that's real. Who Among us? Who Among us hasn't done that? You see a hole, you see a penis, and then you'll write through it. Who Among Us hasn't done that?

Fisher? Yeah? No? Maybe. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. I will say that as another, go ahead. I can see maybe next time he properly encourages the beehive and maybe takes her out for a couple drinks, a nightcap, and then goes for it.

But if he just went right to it, dude, you got to warm up the engine before you take it for a ride. According to gynecologist Anne Gibson. of the Naples Community Hospital. And I think I want to talk to Angus. Wait, hold on. I thought you said this is a boy. Why a gynecologist? Well, because we're making, we don't want this boy to feel like he's weird.

So we've got to go to a gynecologist? If this is a true story, we don't want this boy to feel like he's... Hold on. But why do we have to go to a gynecologist? Because the gynecologist reminds us that sexual experimentation is fairly common and healthy for young teenage boys and girls. No, I'm sorry. That does that make me feel better at all?

I don't want to hear from a gynecologist. I want to hear from like a sex therapist or a therapist or a psychiatrist. Can we not get Sue the sex expert on the line? We had to get the gynecologist. No, Sue's was busy. According to Ann Gibson, the gynecologist. Oh, my gosh. Of the Naples Community Hospital.

She gives an example. and I'm guessing that Anne Gibson, the gynecologist of the Naples Community Hospital, is a she. I apologize if that's not true. Claims that she once had a young girl have a large eggplant stuck, and she had to reassure this young girl

that the behavior was perfectly normal. I would just like to say that I disagree with that. Nope, we're done. Beehives. By the way, for most of you, 11-year-old girl with an eggplant that is not normal. By the way, for this, who goes, keeping track out home,

today's show title is Beehives and Eggplants. What do they have in common? Beehives and eggplants. Because now, you know, I was thinking that, then I read this other story about another guy that got busted at an airport. Put a period on that sentence

because I do not want you to talk about little kids with beehives and eggplants and you were thinking that is not a good sentence so please finish that sentence all right well just let me say that i'll say it period thank you now it's a new sentence so the the florida boy who has injured his male genitalia because of this beehive behavior if true beehive behavior what is it is it a syndrome now Yes, it is. Apparently, it's a normal thing. B.HB?

I suffer from BHB. B. H.B. B. hive behavior. B. Fier syndrome. Apparently, this boy, I want to get back to the boy with the beehive behavior. Okay. Apparently, he was told that sex was like putting your man fart in a jar of, of warm honey.

So the closest thing, so the closest thing, well, this is a smart kid. I'm going to give him credit. At least he knows where honey comes from. It doesn't come from the wasps nest under the porch. I'm sorry.

I thought you say he put it in a beehive, not a waf nest. Whatever. Because if you put it in a beehive, then he's right. If that's the case. If that's the case. Yes, if that's the case. Or maybe you go to the stupid pantry and grab that little bear with honey inside.

It's the same thing. And according to this story. Oh, no, here we go. More facts. As well. Uh-huh. Last year. Oh, no.

Oh, no. A similar incident occurred after a man who openly described himself as an insect fetishist. Again, who among us hasn't seen a cockroach and said, damn girl. Look at those legs. Attempted Attempted to assault sexually a queen bee. No, this is not even true.

See, you had me. You had me at the boy with the beehive. Now would, no. No. That's not true. There's no way the story is true. Oh, man, no. See, that's impossible for this story to be true.

But Fisher, it is 2020. We've removed. Jamima, we remove Uncle Ben, we've removed cream of wheat, moon pies, twinkies, don't forget about Eskimo pies, wopies, whoopies, hoes. You tell me that in 2020 we can't find a man that is sexually aroused by a queen bee? I mean, I guess it's, you know, again, if you want to look at, oh my gosh, you got to give them credit, you know, I guess he looked at all the bees and said, ooh, that one must be the queen.

and I mean she's just laying there we've got to end the show dude we just digging but did you know that this stuff can be used against us right again this one hour podcast that we just produced today it could be used against us

and the cancel culture could and probably will come for us and by us I mean you white privileged person in the ivory tower. Not me though. Let me make myself clear that. Okay, there we go. Please clear all out.

Let's throw everything that we talked about. Make everything better again. Please make everything better. Throw a blanket on this. Kisses good night. Period. I'll say it again if you want. Period.

Jeff Fisher. You may have heard of the sex cult nexium and the famous actress who went to prison for her involvement, Allison Mack. She's never told her side of the story until now. People assume that I'm like this pervert. My name is Natalie Robamed, and in my new podcast, I talked to Allison to try to understand how she went from TV actor to cult member. How do you feel about having been involved in bringing sexual trauma at other people? I don't even know how to answer that question.

Allison After Nexium from CBC's Uncover is available now on Spotify.