Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 941 | It’s Just That Easy…

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

Memory Shock… Droughts mean amazing finds on the planet… Seal breaks into NZ house… Kangaroos attacking in Australia… Black Bear goes down in Colorado… Houston Pineapples and cow intes...tines… Chipotle has a new candle… McDonalds is in the Chicken sandwich war… Cockroach in the ear… Burning Man request… Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy / Promo code jeffy… Email Chewingthefat@theblaze.com Movie Pass is back… House of the Dragon numbers and thoughts…  Guilty in Whitmer case… NASA / chance to name Exoplanetary Systems… What are they probing?... Latest numbers on the Pox… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:36 So a new study has revealed that sending weak electrical currents to the brain can improve older adults' memories. Research is in the early stages, but results showed the boost lasted about a month, and there's no serious side effects. Uh-huh. Now scientists hope that the tech could one day have. help people at risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. So they put a cap embedded with electrodes that deliver small electric zaps. With that, I guess you're supposed to remember things better.
Starting point is 00:01:18 According to a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who was not involved in the research, said the findings are quite remarkable. People begin to live longer. the approach would become important for the tool to protect or even enhance memory in older adults. Now, according to this study, they found that the memory performance improved by approximately 50 to 65% in participants who received the four-day intervention. I mean, I don't know if you have to spend, you know, the entire four days, getting zapped or if they break it up
Starting point is 00:02:08 I'm not sure they oh here we go okay so it's only done for 20 minutes so that's no problem using the CAPTA researchers delivered a weak electrical current
Starting point is 00:02:20 to participants' brains while asking them to recall five lists of 20 words that's I mean I don't know that I could do that now maybe you should get zapped Jeff oh okay I'm better
Starting point is 00:02:34 the process is done for 20 minutes on four consecutive days 40 people in the study received a placebo treatment they wore the cap but didn't receive the electrical stimulation i mean didn't you realize i'm not really feeling anything uh what's going on here so i you know 20 minutes for four days in a row trying to uh recall Five lists of 20 words. I'm not sure what the list was. 20 words, though. Welcome to chewing the fat.
Starting point is 00:03:32 I mean, I realize that's only five and that's one at a time. But it's a start. We are finding some amazing things on this planet that we didn't know existed before because we believe that everything, uh, everything, uh, as it is now, is the way it was wrong. The earth changes. It's a secular thing. Amazing.
Starting point is 00:04:01 So I know that the UN blames the droughts on climate change and land degradation. But, and I, that according to the UN, droughts globally have jumped 29% since the year 2000. But, man, we have a lot
Starting point is 00:04:19 of rivers that are drying up. And the many watershed areas have disrupted cargo flows in Europe, Tesla and other manufacturers, suspending production in China. American farmers are told to cut back on water use, and we've had some amazing things turn up because of the drought and the shrinking water level.
Starting point is 00:04:46 So the hunger stones etched along the banks of Central Europe's rivers with encryption that date back, centuries and generally offer the same message to future generations. If the water is low enough for you to read this, prepare for pain, which is not really good. More than 20 Nazi warships laden with the explosives were uncovered in Serbia as the Danube Danube River fell to its lowest level in nearly 100 years. Across Italy's shrinking river system, ruins of ancient civilization. have been discovered, including a bridge that may have been built by the Roman Emperor Nero.
Starting point is 00:05:29 In the parched Yenksh River in China, three Buddha statues believed to be 600 years old were found. We know that we have five sets of human remains that have been found and other items in Lake Mead as it dries up in the southwest U.S. And I mean, it's amazing. So I know that these are amazing finds and actually kind of scary. because the earth has gone through it before, and humans survived. So that's the good news.
Starting point is 00:05:59 We will survive. Maybe not all of us, but we will survive. Now, it may take some of us doing some things we don't like to do. Like I've been talking forever, what seems like forever, for the past couple years since the pandemic and the 15 days to flatten the curve, I've told you that animals are going to start attacking.
Starting point is 00:06:24 and taking back their land. And they have started. And the difference between America and other countries is that we don't put up with it. So we have the story of the seal who broke into a house in New Zealand. So the cat ran away and the seal gets in the house
Starting point is 00:06:42 and just lounges on the couch? Uh, no. Now, apparently the family was not home at the time when the seal crawled through the cat flap and squeezed his big, big ass seal ass through the cat flap and then just hung out at the house and they've had all kinds of problems now in this area in new zealand because it's apparently seal business time and uh they're all out wandering around and they had a lot of calls about seals you know in people's uh in their yards
Starting point is 00:07:15 and around their homes but this is the only one where the seal broke into the house and broken is a tough word I know. He crawley squeezed his big ass seal body through the cat flap. Unless they had a big cat flap. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just saying it came through the cat flap. And so they showed up and re-homed this seal. Isn't that special? Now we have kangaroos in Australia that are attacking people. Uh, yeah, they're attacking people. Kangaroos are attacking people. Maybe, maybe you
Starting point is 00:07:49 put them down. I just, maybe it's just me, maybe you just put them down, but nobody in Australia has a gun. Or it's a, you know, it's highly unlikely that someone in Australia has a gun since they took them all away. So according to the neighborhood in one area is that they've gotten a lot of rain. And, huh, they've gotten a lot of rain in Australia, but it's droughts and some other parts of the country. It's almost like it's a secular thing. Huh, secular, secular, secular, secular, secular. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Starting point is 00:08:19 And so this guy is saying, hey, cut. your lawn, don't let it grow, because the kangaroos show up and want to eat the grass. And so otherwise, the herds are going to come to your yards. So apparently they're getting, the kangaroos are attacking people. Oh, okay. I mean, one lady had a broken leg from an attack. They have a road sign that says recent kangaroo attacks in this particular neighborhood. I mean, people are afraid to go outside.
Starting point is 00:08:51 Yeah, no. That's not happening here in America. We're going to put you down. We have the monkeys attacking people around the country. So they're saying the problem is twofold. One is that the residents are feeding some of the kangaroos. So the kangaroos are busy showing up. And they have no fear of humans.
Starting point is 00:09:11 They're getting, they like it. So they show up. Now the other one is completely opposite. They're saying that people are using, gel blasters, because they don't have guns, gel blasters to, you know, discourage the kangaroos from hanging out in your yard. So they're shooting at them with these gel blasters, which they claim makes them more aggressive towards humans.
Starting point is 00:09:41 According to the Department of Environment and Science in Australia, there are no plans to cull the kangaroos. well, maybe there should be. Here in America, we put you down. Humans first. We have a story of a man. Remember, we had one story, and not all people put the bears down. I know.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Remember, we've had multiple stories where the bear has broken into a house, and then the police come, and they try to shoe it out, and they bang on the walls, and they get the bear to leave through the back door, the front door, the way it came in, and they don't shoot it. Well, that is a huge mistake. my view. However, this man in Colorado woke up to the wife screaming saying,
Starting point is 00:10:29 saying, there's a bear in the house. The kids are sleeping. The kids are sleeping downstairs. Mom and dad are upstairs, and the bear is rummaging through the house. So hubby grabs his gun and goes down. The couple's dog was barking. The wife is screaming. She's saying there's a big black male 400 pounds in the kitchen. And so, hello. No, that is not going to happen in my man, Ken Maldon's house. He grabbed the 40 caliber pistol, took the wife's place at the door, and shot at the bear. Then the bear turned and said, wait, you're shooting at me.
Starting point is 00:11:15 I'm going to charge you. And that's when Ken opened. fire. I'm sure he used more than that because he emptied the gun and the bear got about five feet away from him before he finally dropped down
Starting point is 00:11:31 and was still, you know, he was dying in the hallway and then he calls his kids, he calls 911 on his phone and he calls his kids in the bedroom tells them stay where they're at. And the bear obviously died right there. And they used
Starting point is 00:11:47 a wench to drag him out of of the house and get rid of the big old bear the photos of it man it's a big old bear it's scary if that thing is in your house now apparently uh the family because they've bears in the area uh they say they hardly ever attack humans uh but when they get into your homes all bets are off yeah no kidding but apparently uh the family forgot to lock the front door and i guess the bear walked up and went hey it's unlocked i'm coming in that was a mistake. I'm sure he realized after he was in, digging through the dog food and crashing through the kitchen,
Starting point is 00:12:28 yeah, I probably shouldn't have done that. And by that time, it was too late. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Oh, man. So I don't know what's happening in Houston, but in the last couple of weeks, they've had some big spills of nastiness. Uh, last week, and I don't think we talked about it, although I had it in my show prep was the crash of the pineapple truck.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Two semi-trucks crashed, left 40,000 pounds of pineapples across Interstate 45. And, uh, you know, I guess it had a blow out and ripped one truck from his trailer. And then the trailer cut across the trailer of another truck slash the cargo area. Pineapples everywhere. They've gotten it cleaned up, but the smell was a little overwhelming at the time. But the, that kind of went away. But now we have a intersection in Houston where a truck, they're assuming, because it just spilled on the road, was a load of cow intestines.
Starting point is 00:13:53 I mean, I could almost, I could almost hurl thinking about it. so I thought I'd bring you along for the ride okay so I guess there was a whole huge the picture of it is nastiness and so they've cleaned it up but it was on the this during I mean it's 100 degrees out it's on the pavement and it's just all these cow intestines oh nastiness so they've cleaned it up but it's not enough It is not enough. So the smell is just overwhelming. Now, one lady says that she drove through the spoiled bowels on her way to pick up her daughter. Here's the first hint.
Starting point is 00:14:41 I mean, when you see a skunk in the road or you see that, whatever that is, the spoiled bowels in the road, don't drive through it. What in the world are you doing? Go around. Don't. She said she had in the car. Flies were following her all over the undercarriage of the car. Yeah, sometimes you can't get rid of that smell.
Starting point is 00:15:04 I mean, I don't know if you've ever run over a skunk that has been hit before. Not that I have. And, man, it takes a long time to get that smell off the tires, off your car. It's a lingering nastiness. And I'm sure that her car has now a lingering nastiness from the spoiled bowels on the road. So they've cleaned it up, but it's still, you know, the smell still permeates the air at the old intersection in Houston. So if you could go around the intersection of Hardy Street and cavalcade there in Houston, do so for a while, at least, you know, for a month or so because, ooh, woof, nastiness. And I personally, I can't do it.
Starting point is 00:16:00 I would be barfing. They were talking about people in the neighborhood walking and, you know, throwing up or at least being overwhelmed and gagging as they're walking around. So, I mean, I understand that completely, man. I cannot be around that kind of stuff. And, you know, after a while, I guess you get used to it. I mean, I was raised out in the Michigan farm, like dairy country. and you smell the in the summertime,
Starting point is 00:16:29 that smell of dairy farms and gauzes, it permeates the air, and it's just, that's the smell. But, man, you get me in some place where they have spoiled intestines, I am not going to do well. I'm just not going to do well. And the good thing is, is that the driver was responsible?
Starting point is 00:16:49 Yeah, we don't know who it was. So was it an accident? Or was it a guy that got paid to pick up the, remains and then just said you know what I don't want to pay to take it to the spoiled remains dump I'm just going to dump it here in downtown Houston I don't know we don't know but I'm sure we'll find out and speaking of smells I see you can get a new water cup lemonade smelling candle from Chipotle apparently it's a limited edition water cup candle that is available.
Starting point is 00:17:29 You can pick it up. Apparently, they're saying they're making fun of people getting the water cup at Chipotle and not actually getting water, getting the lemonade from their drink stand. So they're, you know, selling you a water cup, smelling like lemonade,
Starting point is 00:17:48 and they're giving you a coupon for a lemonade at the store. Kind of cute. I don't know. Do you want a candle that smells like lemonade? Eh. I mean, it's better than cow intestines. And then I see where McDonald's has now got the chicken Big Mac.
Starting point is 00:18:06 Did anyone ask for the chicken Big Mac? It doesn't matter. You're going to get it anyway. Okay? The sandwich is going to include two tempura chicken patties, pickles, shredded lettuce, and American cheese. A combination the company said was a huge success when it was rolled out to customers in the U. I mean, we've got chicken sandwich wars going on Between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A and Burger King and Wendy's
Starting point is 00:18:34 There's a chicken war going on And people are struggling to get chicken I mean, there's you've got chicken wing companies Prices are going through the roof Well, prices are going through the roof on everything So the chicken wars, I'm sorry, the chicken sandwich wars It is the chicken wars altogether too There are the war is still ongoing
Starting point is 00:18:55 So get a more. while they last. And we have another story of a lady in Israel who came to the emergency room with a little bit of an issue. If you are suffering from a loud noise along with severe itching, tickling and tingling sensation in your ear, you may have a cockroach in there. I know. Hey, don't look at me. I'm just telling you it's possible, all right, if you're suffering from that.
Starting point is 00:19:33 So the lady goes to the emergency room and says, hey, I've got this something happened in my head. I got this tingling. I got itching and is driving me insane. And can you find, take a look in there? Sure, we can take a look. Oh, yeah, it's a cockroach in there. And so, all right, I'm going to give you, I'm going to pour some anesthesia down your ear drum. We're going to kill that thing
Starting point is 00:19:57 and then we're going to knock you out and get that thing out of there. No, can't do that. I have a thing with anesthesia that can't happen. So without anesthesia, they put a little camera down there and caught the cockroach moving around
Starting point is 00:20:10 and then grabbed him as he was fighting to stay in there and go deeper. And pulled him out. First try. That's according to this story. First try. Got him out of there.
Starting point is 00:20:20 Awesome. Good for the doc. He said, I don't know how she remained so calm. I don't know that I've been able to do that, but if she hadn't remained so calm, I would have had to use anesthesia, no problem. And so just remember that the dangers of an insect entering the ear, apart from, you know, severe suffering, are infection, hearing loss, and my favorite, more.
Starting point is 00:20:45 According to the doc, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I'm happy I was able to pull the bug out of her ear, and I wish her good health. he claims it happens ever so often I know once every few years I get a call in the middle of the night you know with a complaint and terrifying screams
Starting point is 00:21:03 from patients that have got an insect insect in their ear you know they think they're having a psychotic attack I gotta pull it out of them I will say I do not want that to happen I don't know that I wish that on anyone
Starting point is 00:21:21 We've seen films where they use that to torture people, putting bugs inside you like that. Man, I, that is, I'll tell you what you want to know. I, no problem. We're going to put you down and put bugs all over you. Now, you know what? I'll tell you what you want to know. What do you need to know?
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Starting point is 00:23:01 If you can just email Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com, or you can tag me on social media at Jeffey JFR Twitter, or you can tag me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio, or Facebook Jeff Fisher Radio. That would be great. I want to experience it through you. Let me and the audience, the rest of the audience of Chewing the Fat,
Starting point is 00:23:28 experience Burning Man through you. So make that happen. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. So remember Movie Pass? Yeah, it's coming back. Movie Pass is back.
Starting point is 00:23:40 When they first started, it was a big deal. And it took, you know, it took the movie experience by storm and really pissed off AMC and Regal and Alamo. So they all started their own. And Movie Pass shut down. Went bankrupt. Well, it's back. So you go to their website, MoviePass.com, and it has the big. countdown for you to sign up with the countdown. Yay! And the clock is ticking, and the new
Starting point is 00:24:08 movie pass beta app will be accessible by invite only. When the timer reaches zero-zero, the wait list will be open for five days. All who join the wait list will receive priority access to the service and 10 friend invites. Space is limited. Is it? Once the wait list is closed, the only way to join will be through an invite from a friend. So beginning Thursday, which would be, what, the 25th of August, 2022, you can sign up and get a second chance at Movie Pass. It promises it's changed for real.
Starting point is 00:24:49 All right. Let's see. According to this, it's going to have three different tiers that you can use for monthly credits that you receive toward movies. And the three tiers are $10, $20, and $30 a month. The card is going to be black instead of red. That's kind of a good look. It probably should have been black anyway to begin with.
Starting point is 00:25:13 And it doesn't say anywhere about what you're going to get for each tier. It just says, information is coming about that. Wait, what? Yeah, the prices are going to vary depending on each market, but the general prices will be $10, $20, and $30. Each level will get a certain amount of credits to be able to use toward movies each month. More details to come.
Starting point is 00:25:41 Oh, okay, well, at least more details are coming, or so they say. We'll see if it works. You know, the movie industry is really struggling. We know that, what you call it, filed for bankruptcy, the Cineworld Group. So, I mean, the movie theater industry,
Starting point is 00:26:01 still hurting even with a preferable deal from these movie companies to stay away from launching the streaming ahead of sending it to the theaters so we'll see what happens i don't know i don't know that it's worth it um to get it now but it was a great deal when it first went out and that's why the movie companies hated it and then started their own little uh their own little movie pass service Sue get people to use it because man we hate movie pass we hate movie pass yeah we're going to go ahead and do it ourselves because that was a really great idea
Starting point is 00:26:38 and we don't know why we didn't have that to begin with but movie pass sucks movie pass sucks and so we'll see we'll see movie pass dot com they are not a sponsor but perhaps they should be so I see where House of the Dragon brought in almost 10 million viewers
Starting point is 00:26:57 for the first episode of which I was one across linear and HBO Max platforms in the U.S. on Sunday night. It's pretty huge. You know, they were, they're happy about that. No question. I know the last episode of the original Game of Thrones brought in 19.3 million viewers in May of 2019. Huge. And, you know, obviously the world was unhappy with the final season of Game of Thrones.
Starting point is 00:27:24 We were, in fact, we did a show Talking Thrones, I think, for that final season. and with Jason Buttrill and my wife. And I still thought it was okay. I didn't think it was as bad as everyone thought it was. But the world believes that it was terrible, that final season of Game of Thrones. Anyway, House of the Dragon has just taken a beating too by people who are unhappy
Starting point is 00:27:49 and they're calling it a woke scene. I enjoyed the heck out of it. I don't think I, you know, it wasn't, the big scene where the wife, the king's wife, is pregnant and has a breached birth. And the doc says, no, well, he's not a doctor, I know. But the doc at the time says this is where you have to make an impossible decision. You know, one or the other or both. And, you know, she didn't even ask her.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Well, he's the king. Okay. get over it that's the way it works i know i mean most of the show is going to be about the woman who's pissed anyway because she can't be the queen who never was and she's got a husband that's pissed that she was never queen and now you've got the daughter who's going to be queen uh you know given uh you know the the king's nod to be queen and so it's all about women who are you know in charge get over it he's the king he decides not her what happens okay and he wanted a son he wanted an heir to the throne and so in our world today
Starting point is 00:29:05 if that happens most likely you opt for the life of your wife right because you can have another baby uh you can't you know get another wife i mean you can but not the same wife duh and uh you just most people i i mean i'm speaking for myself given the choice between my wife and a baby, I would choose my wife. You would choose your wife. The wife, just the way it is. That's my train of thought. As a king who wanted an heir to the throne, a boy, who he knew and believed in his
Starting point is 00:29:48 heart was a boy, he wanted to have that heir and decided I'm the king. I'm sorry, I love you, but get that kid out of her and save the kid. And it didn't work anyway. They both died. Oh, did I? Is that a spoiler? Oh, gosh, darn it. So, I mean, the whole thing was a bummer for the king.
Starting point is 00:30:12 That's why I believe that's the quote that they used was a bummer for the king. So get over it. Oh, my gosh. I just, it was, I thought the episode was really good and I enjoyed the heck out of it. So again, maybe it's just me, but I enjoyed it as one of the almost 10 million viewers. And I see where Jason Whitlock has written an article for The Blaze talking about House of the Dragon and George R.R. Martin's plan to burn down men in America. It's a show. I know, I know, I know, I get it.
Starting point is 00:30:55 But I know that they're talking about, you know, this show begins with the female narrator, Rana Targaryen, explaining her father's rise to the ruler of the realm and his triumph of sexism over birthright. Yeah, that was the time. I just, I can't. I can't. It's okay. Jason didn't apparently like it. And he doesn't believe that the show is worth watching. so okay that's fine go ahead i disagree but to break it down as a plan to burn down men in america
Starting point is 00:31:33 i don't know i mean i mean this is pre game of thrones so if you believe that game of thrones was not was you know men's hierarchy and sexism at its finest this was after this so you've got to believe that because of this brought us that Just saying. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. We do have some breaking news as we record chewing the fat today.
Starting point is 00:32:28 The Whitmer kidnapping trial verdict came down. This is the second trial. Adam Fox guilty on conspiracy to kidnap guilty on possession of weapon of mass destruction. Barry Croft guilty on conspiracy to kidnap guilty on possession of weapon of mass
Starting point is 00:32:46 destruction guilty on possession of destructive device so the second trial with two men were found guilty. The first trial of course they were all found not guilty really kind of strange how that
Starting point is 00:33:02 worked out and when you get reports of how the judge treated the trial. It's not surprising that the guilty verdict came down. But just if you think the country is divided now, it's going to continue to be divided because of things like this. And we know that the guy that was in charge of the FBI in Detroit during this time, then went to Washington, D.C.
Starting point is 00:33:34 before January 6th. Huh. So the guy in charge of the FBI in Detroit, who was a part of the entrapment scheme, then went to
Starting point is 00:33:50 D.C. prior to January 6th, almost as if he had some planning to do there as well. But no, that's not true. And it couldn't happen that way. So just shut up.
Starting point is 00:34:06 Don't tell me about the new poll from Rasmussen. I'm sorry, it's a survey, that Americans regarding their attitude toward the FBI, a majority of them now, not happy.
Starting point is 00:34:21 Not happy at all. In fact, they say that the raid on Trump's Florida home made them trust the FBI less. So most Americans believe the FBI is now Biden's Gestapo. Isn't that what Stone said it was?
Starting point is 00:34:37 He called the Stone. Stone called the statement that the FBI was Biden's Gestapo. Seems almost like that's a true statement, doesn't it? But no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop. I don't want to hear it, okay? 46%
Starting point is 00:34:57 now view the FBI unfavorably. 29% who have, a very unfavorable impression of the Bureau. Huh. The real question is why these numbers are still so low. Y'all, that's their comment from PJ Media.
Starting point is 00:35:13 That's not my comment. My comment would be, these people are all wrong, okay? There's no way that you can believe that the FBI is Joe Biden, our president's personal Gestapo. No way. Okay? All right, then. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:33 So news from NASA and the world of our exoplanetary systems, they are asking for help to name the new exoplanetary systems. There's 20, they've got, they're going to give 20 new names. It's called the Name Exo World 2020 competition. It's from the International Astronomical Union, which is in charge of naming Celestrian. objects. So that's why they're launching this name Exo Worlds 2020 competition. They want it to be a collaborative affair. So participants must create a team composed of teachers, students, astronomy enthusiast or professional or amateur astronomers. Once the team selects its favorite names for one exoplanet and its host star, they're required to host a community outreach event that teaches the
Starting point is 00:36:28 public about exoplanets. Only then can the team submit a written and video proposal that includes the names and justifications for their choices. I mean, that's a lot of work for the video. The video, I just want to name it. The video cannot be more than three minutes long. The essay should not exceed 300 words. The team is also required to write a report no longer than 300 words on their public outreach initiative, which could be a talk by a scientist on exoplanet discoveries and
Starting point is 00:36:59 submit photos or video of the event. That's it, though. That's all you have to do. Now, there's also naming guidelines. I mean, you're just not going to be able to name it, you know, Uncle Bill. It's a huge responsibility. Of course it is.
Starting point is 00:37:15 And so there's a list of guidelines. To begin with, names should have a longstanding cultural, geographic, or historical significance. Indigenous names are encouraged. Okay. But any team proposing one must be led by a member of an indigenous community. So, if you want an indigenous name, you better have an indigenous community with you.
Starting point is 00:37:37 Otherwise, no, you're out. I mean, come on. Additionally, the name of the Exoplanet and its host are need to follow the same theme, meaning they must be related in some way. Teams could not submit names of people, pets, or organizations. Any terms related to political, military, or religious activities are also not allowed. You can submit your names through November of 2020, November 11th, actually. National vetting process will take place between the 15th of November and the 15th of December of 2022.
Starting point is 00:38:10 And each country will select one proposal along with two backups. Afterwards, the international community will review the submissions and choose one for each exoplanet between December 16th and March 16th of 2020. The winning names will be announced on March 20th, 2023. So it's just that. Simple. And while we have that going on, we have NASA saying that they have plans
Starting point is 00:38:40 to probe Uranus. I mean, they must not realize the numbers are going up with monkeypox. That's all I'm saying. We have 15,433 total monkeypox cases in the United States alone.
Starting point is 00:39:04 New York has 2,910. I'll give you the top five. New York has 2,910. California has 2,663. Florida has 1,58, Texas has 1,283, and Georgia has 1,190 monkeypox cases.
Starting point is 00:39:30 And yet, what do I hear? Ha! NASA is going to probe but you're rightness. Okay. All right. Sure. No problem. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.
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