Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Was it a Hoax?... | 7/11/23

Episode Date: July 11, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:45 Itk. Making their waters unsafe to swim in. This is a report by Environment America. Love them. The group found that 55% of more than 3,000, 100 beaches, it tested last year, had at least one day when fecal contamination reached potentially unsafe levels. Now, we'll say this was last year. Well, I'm sure we've cleaned up in a year. Right? All right. So even more disgusting, American shores are polluted with human and animal
Starting point is 00:01:24 waste, dumped into the ocean from sewage overflows, factory farms, and, and industrial livestock operations. Makes you want to go to the beach, doesn't it? No, no it does not. Texas beaches were among the worst in the nation, with 90% of the 61 beaches tested at unsanitary levels. As a region, the Gulf Coast tested the worst, 84% of the shoreline failing to meet clean standards,
Starting point is 00:01:55 followed by West Coast and the Great Lakes. Louisiana and Pennsylvania with its Lake Erie beaches, a Lake Erie, that's one of the great lakes, were the top state offenders with its beaches at 100% safety failure. Oh, my God. Oregon's beaches are most consistently dirty in the U.S., with six of its beaches at unsafe sanitary levels over 75% of the time. Oh, not.
Starting point is 00:02:29 goodness so feces from sewers private septic tanks used by one in four Americans and animal waste from industrial farms is the reason for the contamination according to this group now don't worry about it because swimming in poop water can cause some respiratory diseases ear and eye infection skin rashes. They claim in this study that there are some 57 million cases of waterborne illnesses reported in the U.S. every year. Now, according to this, sewage infrastructure around the country is inadequate or in poor repair, enabling raw sewage to find its way into our waterways.
Starting point is 00:03:21 Sanitary sewers overflow as many as 75. thousand times each year. And that's in the United States alone. Now, they blame it on urban sprawl and new construction and paving roads and parking lots and paving over wetlands and forests that used to absorb the rainfall. I mean, they want us to go back to caveman days. So we just need to clean it up a little bit. You also, aside from the other things that could go wrong with you, you could have gastrointestinal illnesses, hepatitis and norovirus. After eating shell, fish that were harvested from polluted waters. So now we're eating the fish that are being raised in the polluted waters. Yay! Now, there are beach advisories for all the waterways if you want to
Starting point is 00:04:09 go to the beach. And if you have an open sore, don't go in. I wouldn't even walk along the beach if I were you, if I had an open sewer, but, you know, for sure, don't go in the water. Now, according to this, updating the country's aging sewer system, and is a way to lessen the problem. And Congress has committed $25 billion to sewage and stormwater projects in the last couple of years. Now, the EPA estimates that it would cost about $271 billion to fix wastewater wastewater infrastructure across the country. So we know that's not going to happen until we stop giving money to Ukraine. So just saying,
Starting point is 00:04:53 maybe get a pool maybe you go to a friend's house and swim in the pool you fly over and then look at the beaches and go boy doesn't that look beautiful yes it does you going in nope not touching the old poop water sorry about it oh it's disappointing we're smack dab in the middle of the summer too couldn't they have told us before the 4th of July when everybody goes to the beach
Starting point is 00:05:20 man if you went to the beach over the 4th of July I hope you didn't have any open source welcome welcome to chewing the fat so if you have a field no matter what you're growing in it I would take a closer look at what's in that field a man in Kentucky has just harvested
Starting point is 00:05:47 a fortune in gold coins he stumbled across more than 700 gold coins in his cornfield dating back to the Civil War. Amazing. So the name and location have not been revealed. Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Just amazing. The treasure, which has already been dubbed the Great Kentucky Horde, has not been precisely valued, but just one of the coins that they found was an 1860, $20 gold Liberty coin. In the past, that sold at auction for more than $100,000. The cache includes 18 of those, as well as more than 600 gold dollar coins,
Starting point is 00:06:40 dating from 1854 to 1862. Incredible. Kentucky was a border state in the Civil War, and it declared itself neutral with the hostilities first broke out, and it was a sight of, you know, several battles, no-quil fierce battles, in matter of fact. And its uncertain future led to many wealthy inhabitants, hiding their valuables from one side or the other.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Now, they claim that Daniel Boone and Jesse James and many other people buried their treasure and we don't know, you know, what happened to it. This is it! So it consists, it's obviously union currency, those bastards from the north. So the owner probably, had dealings with the North, and, you know, they wanted to hide from the Confederate Raiders.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Now, the rare coin expert, Jeff Garrett, and who doesn't love rare coin expert, Jeff Garrett, came in to authenticate the claims, and he said, the opportunity to handle the Great Kentucky Horde is one of the highlights of my career. The importance of this discovery cannot be overstated. As $700 gold dollars represents a virtual time-case. capsule of Civil War era coinage. Wow. The find included 1863 double eagles, a gold coin with a face value of $20.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Yeah, but finding one mint condition 1863 double eagle would be important. But they found nearly a role of superb examples. It is just amazing. Now, I'm surprised the government isn't trying to take it over, to be honest with you. But I guess they can't. Good luck with that. I mean, when you say the government can't, then they say, yes, we can.
Starting point is 00:08:26 The cashier has been taken up by the company GovMint, which is selling off the individual coins with a certification label. They come, yes, this is certified Great Kentucky Horde find. Just incredible. I wish I could be digging around a cornfield and find all those coins, man. Good for this guy.
Starting point is 00:08:51 That's pretty amazing. I will say, it just has a side note in this story that I'm reading from the National Post.com. It is called the Great Kentucky Horde. Then at the bottom of this story where it talks about the company, GovMint, which is selling off individual coins with a certification label that came from the Greta, Kentucky Horde. We can't even spell all the words right in the story. It's pretty embarrassing, actually. But, you know, I wouldn't want anybody to, you know, double-check.
Starting point is 00:09:22 anybody's story. You know, look for those spell check issues. No, we can't do that. But the story itself is awesome, just that we could do the whole story without spelling a word wrong. That happens in so many stories now. I wonder why that is. I wonder why there could be wrong words and wrong spelling and stories. No, it can't because they don't have people looking at it at the end. Of course they do. Of course they have editors. What? They don't? Oh, okay, never mind. And I get it. I know why they don't. Just leave me alone. Times are tough and we're trying to make a living.
Starting point is 00:09:58 We've got to find a way to make money online. I got it. I'm just pointing out that it seems to be quite a usual thing when we have wrong spellings and wrong punctuations and wrong words in stories that we see every day. But the man who harvested the fortune in gold coins from his corn, Field, the Great Kentucky Horde. Good for you.
Starting point is 00:10:27 Good for you. And while we may not know the man's name or where he lives, that has not been revealed. We do know what he sounds like because he posted this short video when he first stumbled upon the coins. This is the most insane thing ever. Those are all $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins. and look, I'm still digging them out. There's one.
Starting point is 00:10:54 Two, three, four. Incredible. So he, the story said more than 700. Other stories are reporting more than 800. Anyway, good for him. And if you have any kind of open area or fields, be sure to be on the lookout for gold coins, because it sure would be nice for anyone to stumble across that.
Starting point is 00:11:17 If you do, send me pictures. You can send me pictures on Twitter. Jeffie JFR. You can send me pictures on Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. You can send me pictures email, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can do all that. Let me know if you found this huge hoard of coins wherever you're from. I mean, it's too late to have the Great Kentucky Horde. That's already happened. You can have the Great Kentucky Horde too, but you can't have the first one. Sorry, it's already taken. But wherever, whatever state, whatever country you're in,
Starting point is 00:11:51 you can have your own hoard of coins if you find them and let me know when you do. Please, that would be, that would be wonderful. If you're listening live today, today is the 11th of July, 2023, it's 7-Eleven. It's Slurpee Day. Okay, well, it's free Slurpy Day. I'm going to have to head actually to the local 7-Eleven
Starting point is 00:12:14 and get my free slurpy. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. desperately. So we heard from Madonna yesterday, or at least we heard what we think is Madonna on her Instagram account.
Starting point is 00:12:37 She thanked everyone for their positive energy, prayers, and words of healing and encouragement. I have felt your love. I'm on the road to recovery and incredibly grateful for all the blessings in my life. My first thought when I woke up in the hospital was my children.
Starting point is 00:12:53 My second thought was that I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour. Was it? Was that your second thought? I also didn't want to let down the people who worked tirelessly, tirelessly with me over the last few months to create my show. I hate to disappoint anyone. My focus now is on my health and getting stronger,
Starting point is 00:13:13 and I assure you I'll be back with you as soon as I can. The current plan is to reschedule the North American leg of the tour and to begin in October in Europe. I could be more grateful for your care and love and support. Love M. And then she posted a picture of herself, a selfie of herself. And, uh, well, it's a picture of yourself. It's a selfie almost, right?
Starting point is 00:13:37 They all are. Anyway, uh, she looks great. Uh, she looks really like she's really gaunt and really tired and bent through a battle. I guess she's still under doctor's care. It looks like she's kind of, you know, she's obviously been sick. So she's, uh, you know, laid off the fillers. And we heard talk of that. was happening anyway prior to the tour, right?
Starting point is 00:13:58 So it was supposed to start, I don't know, a couple of days, the American tour. So we're going to start in Europe in October, the Queen of Pop. It's going to be back performing in the United States sometime in the near future. So good, good for her. And I'm glad she's okay. But Donna, I thought, you know, while she looks tired and like She's been through the ringer. She looks pretty good compared to what she was looking like.
Starting point is 00:14:30 So this has been a good thing for her, you know, aside from the whole bacterial infection thing. And I want to apologize. I didn't recognize the new Miss Netherlands champion who was crowned this past weekend. I didn't recognize this person yesterday. So I wanted to apologize and get it out of the way. Miss Netherlands just crowned a trans woman as its representative for this year's Miss Universe competition. Now, this has been, if you think this is just a fluke, it's not, okay.
Starting point is 00:15:07 Don't forget that last year, the trans business mogul, who goes by Anne Jakaratototip, J-A-K-R-A-J-U-T-A-T-I-P, it's just that simple. I thought her first name was like Anne Jejajajat-Tip. But anyway, she purchased all of that, having been said. Jakarata
Starting point is 00:15:36 Jadutip purchased Miss Universe organization. That is a trans businesswoman. And so if you don't think that that agenda is going to be pushed directly from the ownership, you are barking of the
Starting point is 00:15:52 wrong trans tree. So we had the Spain Miss USA or Miss Universe competition had a trans winner. We had Miss USA in Nevada last
Starting point is 00:16:08 year. So it's definitely coming from the top. So anyway, congratulations to Miss Netherlands as being crowned trans woman as a representative for this year's Miss Universe competition. More good news coming from the Miss Universe competition.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Thanks to Ann. Jajajat Jokai Ratsat. You know, I just realized that Blacklist is coming to an end. Incredible. James Spader, Blacklist. It's been 10 seasons of the Blacklist. He's been in two, there's 218 episodes of Blacklist. Really incredible.
Starting point is 00:16:49 That's a great piece of work. Raymond Red to Reddington from Blacklist. Been 10 seasons. Pretty incredible. The first couple seasons were just fantastic. And then I got kind of weighted down. I almost, I don't know, I saw it up on Netflix and I almost went back to it. And I guess I'll have to now since it's over.
Starting point is 00:17:11 It's going to end this week with a two-hour finale. And I guess they weren't going to do it because of the writer's strike. but Spader as the executive producer worked with everyone and got the last two episodes out. Pretty incredible that they're entering it. He claimed that he's ending it on his own way. They're ending it right.
Starting point is 00:17:35 I mean, awesome. James Spader, I love him. Great work in the blacklist. Ten seasons coming to an end. Pretty incredible. And then he was in Boston legal for a hundred or so episodes. He was in the office for only 25 episodes. A loser.
Starting point is 00:17:51 And The Practice. That was 22 episodes. That was a fascinating show at the time. The Practice. I think my favorite, and he was in Seinfeld and Fraser too for an episode, so he pulled off a show in the big shows at the time, just to be part of it. My favorite movie, I think, from James Bader
Starting point is 00:18:12 is Two Days in the Valley. What a hilarious fun movie that is. I love that freaking movie. Two days in the Valley. Terry Hatcher is in it, and she is primetime Terry Hatcher in that movie. Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron, who is primetime as well in this movie.
Starting point is 00:18:37 Danny IAlo is in it. It's really funny. If you have a chance to catch it, if you haven't seen. Keith Caradine is in it. If you haven't seen, Louise Fletcher. This is going back. extolts. I was looking at all these people that are in the movie. Really good, really funny. My wife hates it because my son and I watched this movie multiple times,
Starting point is 00:19:01 because there's so many good lines in the stupid movie. Anyway, James Spader, Blacklist, coming to an end. Really sad, but, you know, 10 seasons. Enough is enough. Let's move on. Okay, so that's this week. And then we have, justified city primeval starting next week with Timelae Oathland. We did mention that. Then we can head to the movies. We have Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part 1. That hits theaters tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:19:33 For those of you listening live, today is, of course, 7-Eleven, which we mentioned earlier, so it's a free slurpy day. But Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 1, hits the theaters tomorrow. We'll see how big a weekend they have. and then next week we have Barbie and Oppenheimer being released on the same weekend so the theaters are pretty happy they're going to have some big movies at the theater
Starting point is 00:19:58 you're going to have next I mean so this weekend you've got Mission Impossible that's going to be the number one movie it's going to blow away everybody else and we're just going to move on but they're hoping for you know 300 million and its North American debut that would not surprise me and then the next weekend you have Barbie
Starting point is 00:20:16 and Oppenheimer and they claim AMC said that they've staggered showtimes so moviegoers can attend both more easily. So which would you're choosing? Atomic bomb Barbie World. I think we covered this already. Didn't we? I think we did. I think we decided Newk Barbie.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Newk Margo Robbie. Newk Margo Robbie. I think I know which one I'm choosing first, but maybe it's just me. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. What? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements.
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Starting point is 00:21:44 And one of the reasons that it's free is because we have members and subscriberships to Blaze TV. And you can go to blaisTV.com slash Jeffie and use the promo code Jeffie and get a discount. I think if you were to use BlazTV.com slash Jeffey promo code freedom. It gives you more off. At least I don't know for how much longer that is, but you can go ahead and give it a shot. And I thank you for doing that. We know that we have Tucker Carlson
Starting point is 00:22:15 is going to host the first presidential forum of the 2024 GOP primary season and Blaze Media and family leader are teaming up and Tucker is going to be a part of that. He will be interviewed. viewing or questioning Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramoswamy,
Starting point is 00:22:34 Tim Scott, Mike Pence. And the live stream starts on Friday, 10 a.m. Eastern on Blaze TV or Blaze TV YouTube channel. It's funny. I was just thinking that just as behind the scenes a little bit,
Starting point is 00:22:50 Pat and I are filling in for Glenn on Glenn Beck Radio on Friday. And this is going not at the same time. Son of a guns. So, you know, go ahead and be a part of the family leadership summit. And, you know, with Tucker.
Starting point is 00:23:09 And then Glenn is going to interview Tucker afterward, which will be, you know, kind of interesting. It'll be an interesting interview for sure. But, you know, Pat and I will be doing, you know, Glenn Beck Radio on Friday. So listen to that then go to this. Okay? All right, then.
Starting point is 00:23:25 That worked out. So who? died today who died today james lewis dead at the age of 76 he uh was found dead in his apartment outside boston he had served 12 years in prison and you're wondering wait james lewis who is that guy you know he was the only suspect in the 1982 tylonal murders although that case still remains open uh he was never charged with that murder he did serve 12 years in prison for extortion charges related to the incident, but he was never charged with murder.
Starting point is 00:24:05 Seven people died in the Chicago area, and after taking over-the-counter extra strength Tylenol, many of you may not even remember that. Maybe you weren't even alive when that took place. But it did scare the nation, and it ultimately led to the tamper-proof packaging. I hope he got a cut for that. Oh, yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 00:24:26 You got 12 years in prison for that. He wrote a letter to Tylenol maker Johnson and Johnson demanding a million dollars in payment to stop the killings. And then that was the biggest search manhunt in U.S. history. He denied involvement in the murders claiming the letter was a hoax on his wife's ex-boss. Huh. Okay. So that's why he was never charged. And they could never prove it. They could never prove it was him.
Starting point is 00:24:55 So he probably was telling the truth. he said he was lying about being able to stop the killings. He just wanted a million dollars. Anyway, James Lewis dead at the age of 76. Now, this person already died, Aretha Franklin. She died in 2018, and that family is still fighting over the Queen of Soul and her will. I mean, it's a multi-million dollar estate. so she didn't leave behind a formal typed-out will,
Starting point is 00:25:30 but two hand-written versions were discovered in her home after she died. Now, yesterday, a trial began in Michigan where lawyers for the two of the singer's four sons are arguing that a 2014 handwritten note signed with a smiley face and stuffed in a soda counts as her last will in testament. Another son favors a different notarized document from 2010.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Both documents split Franklin's royalties among her children and require the three competing brothers to support her fourth son who has a disability. But the wills differ in who gets her personal property and who takes charge of the estate. So, Kekaf Franklin and Edward Franklin are vying for the 2014 document, which was stuffed in a soda can
Starting point is 00:26:23 and handwritten out with a smiley face, which names Z. keycalf as executor and leaves him with his mother's house, cars, jewelry, and fur coats. Remember she always had the big fur coats on stage that she would slide off her soldiers,
Starting point is 00:26:37 her third son, Franklin and Ted White two favors the 2010 will that names him as executor and bars KeeKaff and Edward from their inheritance until they get business degrees or
Starting point is 00:26:54 certificates. Now I'm not a part of this? I have no idea who to believe. I haven't even seen them speak on it. But for me, I would say that since there's a notarized 2010 document, and I would go with that one, that would be the one that would be legitimate, other than the handwritten note signed with a smiley face stuffed in a soda can. But again, that's just me. Those of you that are worried about signing up for threads, of which I did and you can follow me, Jeff Fisher Radio on threads, because you're upset that they steal
Starting point is 00:27:32 all your data. And I talked about how, look, all these social media companies have your data, right? I mean, companies have your data. That's how they make their money. Google, Facebook, and Apple. I mean, they make their money because they have all the
Starting point is 00:27:48 data and it's supposed to, and it's safe. It's safe. Don't you, worry about it. It's fine. Oh, did I mention that HCA Health Care said that patient data has been stolen and is for sale by hackers on the dark web? Yeah, don't worry
Starting point is 00:28:10 about it. It's approximately 27 million rows and includes patients, personal information, and certain visit records. You know what? It just affects patients in nearly two dozen states, including patients. at dozens of facilities in Florida and Texas. So you're fine.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Don't worry about it. According to the provider, no clinical information had been disclosed. Right. So the unnamed hacking group provided them with a sample set of data about patients' low-risk lung cancer assessment, which would apparently undercut HCA's assessment
Starting point is 00:28:51 that no material or protected health information was breached. Yeah, so your information is already out there. Okay, I know it doesn't make it any better. It's agonizing to think that, but we may as well just do our best to keep the information as private as possible, but we're at a point now where your information is not private. And even if you're, I mean, can you live off the grid anymore?
Starting point is 00:29:18 Is it possible to actually live off the grid? I guess if you go back to Caveman Days or move out into the woods into a cabin with no internet, no satellite dishes, none of that. And you'd have to, you're not making purchases at stores. You're going to have to kill your own food, grow your own food. You're going to have to build your own stuff. I'm not doing that. Okay. I know. I know. I probably should. I probably should go out in the woods and cut down trees and build my own home and not have the internet and not have the satellite and not have be any contact with the outside world that's the only way you're living off the grid that's the only way and i don't think too many people are doing that
Starting point is 00:30:05 i know some of you probably are but if you are then you're not listening to this show because you're on the grid i guess if you go into some small town and go to the library and you listen to chewing the fat at the library internet, which by the way, thank you and welcome to chewing the fat. You could be off the grid because no one would know it was you. It would just be someone from the library that was listening to Chewing the Fat or other podcasts. You know, and be sure that any time, no matter what you're listening to in your library of your small town, when you're off the grid, if someone comes up and taps you on the shoulder,
Starting point is 00:30:43 hey, excuse me, what are you listening to? Your answer has to be chewing the fat. That's just... Off the grid or not, that has to be your answer. So anyway, don't worry about it. It's just healthcare patient data from HCA. It's just certain visit records, certain personal information. That's all.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Dozens of states, a bunch of facilities in Florida and Texas. So everything is fine, okay? Everything is fine. And what I like at the bottom of this story is, is that, hey, you know, patient data breaches are not uncommon. So they vary in scope and effect. And this apparently didn't include critical medical records. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:31:31 They just claimed and showed emails with health diagnosis. I mean, they claimed, I guess this breach happened at an external storage location, of course, exclusively used to automate the formatting of email messages. So there's that. But again, you're fine. You know, just know that it's not uncommon and your information is out there. So just do the best you can, I guess, because your information is out there. You know that right.
Starting point is 00:32:09 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. did not realize that this actually existed, but it's awesome that it does. It's a GPS artist, and this guy has traveled the world to produce city-sized drawings. Now, this all started way back in 2008 when, well, and then in 2010, he used it to propose to his now wife. All right, so he began planning his route, and then he quit his job and spent six months driving. around and exploring places he'd never been to before. When he was done, he uploaded the data to Google Earth
Starting point is 00:33:05 and saw his message come alive in bright yellow letters along with the heart of the island of Hokakeido, because this is a Japanese man. So he did this for a marriage proposal. So when you downloaded the information on Google Earth, you see it says, marry me with a giant heart and an arrow threw it at the top through Japan. Now people, my first thought
Starting point is 00:33:32 was, wait, he did this in English, but then you look at the Japanese letters and you realize, hey, you know, good for him. That's why he used English letters, okay? He wasn't doing that in Japanese writing. So to this day, it's the largest GPS
Starting point is 00:33:49 drawing done by an individual. It's a record, a world record. It's a Guinness World Record. It is 7,000, 163.67 kilometers, which is, well, you know, 4,451 miles. And was created by Yasushi Takahashi of Japan in June of 2010. Now, that's what got him started to become a GPS artist. Okay?
Starting point is 00:34:17 He now regularly roams cities around the world to produce city-sized drawings. He's a professional GPS artist with, more than 1,400 artworks. He has drawn over more than 100,000 kilometers, about 62,137 miles in 24 countries. I regard GPS art as a tool for experiencing local history and culture. By moving, I draw something, and at the same time, I come into contact with history and culture,
Starting point is 00:34:51 deepening my understanding of the region. That's pretty cool. it's pretty darn cool now i still question uh the writing in english because they show some of his gps drawing tweets and they're in japanese so not quite sure why he would do english writing because the artwork is more you know animals a giant eagle flying over britain area of an island or a country, but he or there's a, there's one that shows, uh, shows a guy smoking a pipe with a hat on, you know, it's fascinating, but it's, it's a GPS drawing and it talks about, uh, and it tells you in his Yasan GPS drawing artist, uh, at Yasan underscore GPS.
Starting point is 00:35:50 And it's, uh, in Japanese. So, I'm still questioning the whole. writing an English thing. But kind of cool, and it's a good idea, and what a way to make a living being a GPS artist. So we have that guy, and then we have,
Starting point is 00:36:06 oh, he has not attempted this, though. I was seeing where there's something called the longest walkable distance on earth, which no one is known to have completed. There's one journey left in the world, which is still waiting for someone to take up the challenge and conquer it.
Starting point is 00:36:23 Come on, what are we doing? It has to happen. I mean, before I had bad knees and all that kind of stuff, I may have actually thought about this. I loved walking. I didn't mind walking. That's because you didn't have a car, Jeff. I know, but I didn't mind it. And I was okay.
Starting point is 00:36:37 I was all prepared to walk unless someone gave me a ride. However, I just, I see it's a long-ass walk. And remember, Stephen Wright told us 100 years ago. Everything is in walking distance if you have the time. So the distance is 22,387 kilometers. walk time is 4,492 hours if you were to do it. Okay. It's the Cape Town to Magadon Walk.
Starting point is 00:37:07 It's the longest continuous walk in the world. Okay. It would take around 187 days if you walked without sleeping. So realistically, it's going to be quite some time, at least a year, probably more. It's filled with diverse land. escapes from scorching deserts to freezing Siberia, and it even passes through what they call here conflict zones. Yeah, good luck passing through those conflict zones,
Starting point is 00:37:36 but you can still do it. Hey, I'm just walking, okay? Leave me alone. While there's no reward other than the amazing experiences along the way, completing the journey would give you an unbeatable story to share. I know, this is why it should be filmed. This is a Netflix thing. Listen, Netflix is an Amazon Prime thing.
Starting point is 00:37:53 this is uh i should i should do this man i wish i wish i was uh i wish i was healthier in my legs i would actually do this you could make some serious money from any streaming platform that uh would pay for you to walk this distance there you go who's ever who's ever up for this make the sale make the deal to a streaming platform to just follow you on your trek of of the 22,387 kilometers I mean, that could just, that could almost be the title of the show. 22,387 kilometers with the map of the walk on the globe. Pretty incredible. That'd be, I mean, who wouldn't watch that?
Starting point is 00:38:38 That'd be awesome, especially when you're walking through conflict zones, right? That'd be awesome. So make it happen. Make it so. I should just produce that myself. All right. And so today is, start begins prime day, too. So big prime day sales going on.
Starting point is 00:38:56 And it's not just a day. It's 48 hours. So, you know, prime day is 48 hours. So go on, get out there and have your deals on Amazon Prime and have them delivered right to your home. Okay? All right. Maybe you can order your walking stuff and your backpacks and everything for the longest walk. And have Amazon Prime, you know, foot the bill and just follow you for the documentary.
Starting point is 00:39:21 That's, you know, you're welcome. You're welcome. me being given an idea to you to go make a lot of money by just walking 22,000 kilometers. That's all you have to do is walk 22,387 kilometers. Probably take you a little bit more than a year, and then you're going to have to edit all the footage, and it will be great. And if you survive, you can, you know, enhance your bank account. If you don't survive, someone will enhance their bank account because it'll be awesome footage.
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