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Episode Date: November 21, 2018

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. All right, welcome to the podcast. It's Stu and Pat and also Jeffie. So we have, first of all, Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast. You can go right now. You can stop this podcast and go subscribe to that one right now. Just search for Pat Gray Unleashed wherever you're listening to this.

You can also, I guess, search for Jeff Fisher or Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. And as long as you're already in the subscribing mood, just subscribe to chewing the fat. Let's be done with it. It seems like a good idea. in some worlds. And then also, the tour is coming to Florida. If you are in Florida or around the area,

come visit us. Tampa and Orlando on November 30th and December 1st, I believe, with the dates, just go to glenbeck.com slash tour. Those are going to be fun. Yeah. That's going to be really fun. It's a fun show.

So today we kind of decided to kind of, it's been a little time the day before Thanksgiving, thinking about things we were actually thankful for, some good news. We have some good news about the prosecution of terrorist networks across the world.

There's some good news about the world in general, the people are living longer and they are able to feed themselves like never before. Violent crime is down. Violent crime is down. Diseases are being cut in half in many cases. Even school shootings, the stats on school shootings are worth the whole show, I think, today.

But most importantly, food is more prevalent. I'm not surprised you're focusing on that, but yes, that is an important development. We also talk about some movies. We have Creed 2. I saw it last night. We have a kind of segment on that. If you were looking for a movie this weekend,

Pat has a couple of recommendations as well. We're going to do it during the show. And we do a special Thanksgiving edition of spoons. The way place that we sample the most delicious new junk foods from around the country, we have a very bizarre Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey and gravy and pumpkin pie potato chips. Capitalism is amazing. It is.

It is. some strange things too. We may have discovered something magical today. No, we kind of did. There's no may have. We did. We did. We did.

We did. Discover something magical. You'll need to know about this. It's coming up on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenbeck program. It's Wednesday, November 21st. I feel like pizza at any time is a valuable addition to any particular moment. Also, by the way, you can have a field of greens.

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Let's go to Brickhouseglen.com. Brickhouseglen.com. Use the promo code Gled to get 15% off your first order. It's brickhouseglen.com. I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. You know, because like Wednesday, it's on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, you're already in that mode. Yes, I'm just, I'm trying not to eat in that mode today because I feel I'm trying to

not to as well. It's hard, man. It's almost impossible. It's almost impossible. There's food everywhere. Everywhere. And after Thanksgiving, you think, okay, then now I'll cut back. And then there's food everywhere again because you're preparing for Christmas. And it's almost impossible. Well, Thanksgiving is a day in which you eat a lot of food. And you kind of don't care. And that's okay. Everyone kind of says, it's all right. You know, you have your one day. Now, over the years, I've expanded that from one day to 365 for me. Yeah, one day becomes every day. Yeah, you beat me to the punch there a little bit, I guess.

I do feel the expansion happening because I started with one and then you get to four. I feel like four is the right stew amount in a sensible world, right? Like you have, you don't eat really badly until you get to Thanksgiving. You have the Thanksgiving. And then you live out and you party the weekend, right? You party the weekend away. You come back Monday. you're eating like a human being again.

Now, what always happens there, of course, is Wednesday. I mean, come on. It's Wednesday. It doesn't matter. You're basically at Thanksgiving. You might as well eat on Wednesday. Right. So then it goes Wednesday to Monday.

And then what happens is you come back Monday and you eat okay. And then Tuesday happens and you fall off the bandwagon. Then you're like, ah, it's basically the week of Thanksgiving. So then it goes from the previous Wednesday to not the next Monday, but the money after that. And then you're all. Almost to Christmas. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. So then... And there's parties. There's parties. You got the church party. You got the work party. Yep. You got friends parties.

And we've got like stuff like the kids. They've got like breakfast with Santa. You've got all the little events. So then you're going through there. You might as well eat up until Christmas. Just until Christmas. And then it's, you know, left over... But then the week between Christmas and New Year's...

It's a waste. You're not even get back to work yet. You're going to be back eating on New Year's anyway. So you might as well eat that week. Right. So then you go New Year's. And then that's when you get the New Year's resolution it kicks in and you're like okay we're going to start now you're not going to start on the

second most of the time because a lot of times the second isn't a workday yet it's too depressing a day it depends some ice cream that day yeah this year it is a work day so you could come back on the second yeah but again it's like a wednesday i think you're not going to start your diet on a wednesday so you go wednesday and we wait for that next monday okay and then you get on the scale that monday and you're 35 pounds heavier than 35 at that point yeah now the problem here is this is when NFL playoffs kick in. So every Sunday and Saturday there's games. You've got to watch them.

What are you going to watch them without pizza? Well, no. That's silly. It's stupid. And then obviously, Super Bowl. So then you're in your February 6th or 7th in that range. Well, then it's Valentine's Day, right? I mean, what are you going to? Not eat on Valentine's Day?

Disrespect your own relationship? No. Your own marriage? Better not. You're not going to do that. So then you're eating up until Valentine's Day. And my birthday, by the way, is February. 9th. So in there, I've got to, I've got to, what am I going to do? Not have the cake with my kids. Right. My daughter's birthday is also February 9th. So we have two birthdays on that day. You can't, you can't, we can't read. The next day is Glenn's birthday. Well, you've got to have cake for

Glenn's birthday. Oh, yeah. Because he's not going to eat it because he's on some weird diet, probably. Probably. You know, where he only eats 80 different things in the world. He can only eat 80 things on the face of the earth. And six of them are different types of squid, which is a weird. It's a strange diet. It's a strange diet. So for him, on his behalf, we have to have cake. And so we do. And then once you're in February, it's basically July 4th. So you're going to ramp it up to get ready for those picnics.

What are you not going to eat on the 4th of July? You're not going to celebrate? What are you, some sort of traitor to this nation? Right. I hope not. I hope not. Okay, ISIS. Go ahead.

Go on a diet. If I'm on a diet on the 4th of July, the terrorists win. I won't do it I will not do it This is only a slight exaggeration by the way Only a slight one It's not even an exaggeration for me This is how it happened

This is how it happens Yeah so You try but you fail That's the whole point of that By the way we do have some terrorism Breaking News Today maybe Pat we can come up with things we're thankful for I know it's a very you know

standard thing Right like where people would do that on the day before Thanksgiving but I thought maybe instead of doing like the, I'm thankful for my family and I'm thankful for, you know, that's stuff that's just boring and everyone knows you're thankful for. Of course I'm thankful for my family.

I don't know if they're thankful for me, but, you know, I'm thankful for them. The best of the Glenn Beck program. It's wonderful to see Barack Hussein Obama back in the limelight. Gosh, I have, well, I can't say I've missed him. But, man, And I can't say it's good to have him back either. But I can say he is kind of back and omnipresent now again.

And he's doing a lot of speeches because he's making somewhat of a living, you could say, from doing these speeches. Every time he shows up for an hour, he makes $400,000. Now, $400,000 an hour is kind of a decent wage. I don't know if you're aware of that. Would you call it a living wage? I'd call it a living wage. Yes. Yes, I would.

And then when Michelle shows up at a place, she makes $225,000, which is income inequality, it seems to me. And that's unbelievable. Isn't that unbelievable? She is making 175,000 less per hour than he is. You know what it is, too? Racism. Racism. You know why?

Because he's half white. They're paying the white half more. Yes. Thank you. That's unbelievable. It is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Here's his latest thing.

And this is, I mean, people say he's talking about Trump. He's really talking about all of us here. This isn't just about Trump. Listen to how he phrases this. Right now I could take off the shelf existing technologies. We could reduce carbon emissions by, let's say, 30%. Let's say that. Without any, you know, it's not like we'd all have to go back to caves and, you know, live off, you know, fire.

We could have electricity and smartphones and all that stuff. which would buy us probably another 20, 30 years for that technological breakthrough that's necessary. The reason we don't do it is because... It's because... We are still... Still. Confused, blind. Blind, confused.

Shrouted with... With hate, anger. Anger, I see. Racism. What? Racism. Is stopping green technology? Mommy issues.

Mommy issues. I mean What? What? We are fraught. Frot. Frot. With stuff.

Now, I have to say, I dislike this guy. I don't hate him. I want to make that clear, I don't hate him. I don't hate anybody. I just dislike him with all the intensity of a billion white hot burning suns. Okay. But that's just, it's not hate. It's just extreme

extremely intense dislike. We should also focus on the idea that this is an incredibly bad point. Yes. First of all, yes, we have the technology to lower emissions by 30% at what cost. That's the conversation here and whether it's worth doing at that cost. But the reason we don't do it is we're fraught with hate, anger, and mommy issues? What the hell are you talking about? Are we racist against green?

Like is that the case? It's green technology? Weird. That's so, so strange. And it's such an easy explanation for every issue that progressives don't get what they want. It's racism. It's hate. It's mommy issues.

It's, you know, it's the, that's the, plinging to God and guns. It's the same explanation he uses all the time. Typical white people. Typical white people who have a certain reaction to black people bred into them. Yeah. You talk about racist issues. This guy's got them. to like the 10th power.

Yes. He's got him. He does. I mean, look, it's constant focus on race. We've made this point back of the day with Glenn. Like, it's not, you know, racism is a weird thing to throw around. And I, you know, the left has no problem doing it all the time. When someone on the right says something is racist, it's got, it's the biggest controversy on earth.

But, I mean, the bottom line is he's constantly viewing everything through a racial person. The man just told you the reason we don't use solar panels is because of racism. How can you deny this? That's unreal. This is exactly how he looks through about every issue. And it's it's completely all over the left. You know, you look at it through, watch a Chris Matthews show. Guy can't go five minutes while calling somebody racist.

It's just the way these things happen. And I don't mean to, on a holiday weekend, tell you to watch Chris Matthews. That's not a good idea. I take that back. I take that back. That's a bad one, though. That's a bad one. Oh, that's agonizing.

You know, it makes me think, you know, we've been talking a little bit about Michelle Obama on a potential run. I don't know. I don't think they can stay away from this stuff. Oh, they can't. They can't. They can't avoid it. I don't know if that would work. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. Like listening to this podcast? If you're not a subscriber, become one now on iTunes. And while you're there, do us a favor and rate the show. So let's talk about Relief Factor for a moment, if we should, Pat.

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Relieffactor.com. We've been talking a little bit about the things we're thankful for that are actually some positive news in the world. We've pointed out a few of them already. Certainly Creed 2 would be one of those things I'm thankful for. But let me give you this. This is from the Wall Street Journal. Matt Ridley wrote this.

This is an amazing thing. And I know you know the answer to this, but I think the second part of it is fascinating. A Swedish statistician, public health expert and began asking people the question has the percentage of the world population

that lives in extreme poverty has it almost doubled or almost halved or stayed the same over the past 20 years? Now I think you know the answer there Pat and I think some people in the audience

that might know the answer which is it's almost halved in the past 20 years again in our lifetime and you got to believe the perception among especially young people I'm guessing

is that it's doubled right poverty is double it's doubled and I I think the vast majority of people might think that, but the percentage is amazing. Only 5% got the answer right. Wow. Five percent. Wow.

Now, think of the achievement that this is. It's one of the greatest achievements in human history. Okay, you've taken the people who are in extreme poverty cut it by half in two decades. That's insane. That should not be possible. And almost every, I don't think it was believed to be possible 20 years ago. And here we are 20 years later. it's happened and nobody notices.

Only 5% of Americans are aware of it, which is fascinating. And, you know, his story is about how people are drawn to negative news. People are drawn to think the worst. But, you know, it's kind of the fight or flight thing. I think at some level, like you're concerned about something. They ran tests on, you know, experiments on psychologists ran them on people in sort of random tests. And they would get people who said they wanted good. news. They wanted the good news. And then when they had the opportunity, always gravitated to the

negative news. And maybe that's, you know, like it's a survival instinct at some level. Like you want to, you want to try to survive and so you're worried about whatever threat might be out there. So you're looking at negative stories more, more routinely. But it is strange that we are like that. It's hard to enjoy life when you're like that. And you look at the numbers. that go through and if you have a copy of you got a copy of addicted to outrage over there if you have a copy of addicted to outrage you'll see this in the book the stats in here are quite amazing this is a to see how far we've come to see how far the globe has come but also the united states is really amazing people who are considered poor in the united states

the number is i mean we're talking about major major things that weren't even a very Matt Ridley talks about this in his book, The Rational Optimist, which is a book I really like. And he talks about King Louis. And, you know, King Louis back in the day, what would he do? He could have anything he wanted. So what he would do is every night when it was time for dinner, he would order his servants. You're talking about the orangutang in Jungle Book? Yes.

King Louis, that one? Yeah. And so he would have his big, like, king-like medieval table, right? And it would be that, you know, you're a long rectangular table. And people would, he would direct his servants every night to bring him every kind of food available. So it was every, they would make all the different kinds of foods. They would bring all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables that were available. All the foods that he could possibly want.

And he was the king. He could do whatever he wanted. And so he brought everything. And, you know, he would eat, obviously, he couldn't eat all of the foods. he would eat a little bit of it and the rest would be either thrown away or given to the staff or whatever, but he got to choose whatever he wanted first because he was the freaking king.

We now have that at Golden Corral. Any person who wants to spend $8 can go to Golden Corral and eat as much as they want. Every grocery store you walk into has thousands and thousands more choices than King Louis could have ever had. Oh my gosh. And not to mention the quality of it.

Yeah, right. You know? I mean, King Louis didn't have red velvet Oreos. Really? Are you sure? No wonder all those people died. Oh my gosh. Was it the plague or was it suicide? I don't know.

You were just like, ah, screw it. We're the Oreos. But I mean, seriously, like you have more choices now, and it can be afforded by almost everybody in the United States to go eat almost anything you want all the time. We have this giant problem now with obesity rather than starvation. That is not something has been common in the world's history. Yeah.

you know what, it's still not as common in the rest of the world as it is here. No. I mean, go to Bulgaria and see if you have the choices that the United States of America does. No. With the constitution we have in the form of and the kind of economy we have here. Yeah. With capitalism, with the free market. That's true.

It's all of these things are better here, right? Yes. But even in Bulgaria, you can go to a restaurant in which, quote, unquote, servants will come and serveers instead of servants, but they'll come and they'll bring you food. that has been prepared and you have to order anything you want off a menu. And you don't have to do the dishes afterwards. Right. I mean, yes, you have pretty good deal. But that's a pretty good deal.

This is from Addictory to Outrage. For all of eternity, man was able to stay alive without a refrigerator, electricity, radio, microwave, or color television. It might have been hot, sticky and a lot less entertaining, but survival was possible. Today, each of these self-evident luxury items, when measured against all of human history, are owned by between 96.3 and 99.3% of all households. I mean, these are, that's amazing. The computer, when Bill Clinton was elected, this is not that long ago.

I mean, it is, it's a while. I mean, if you watch the Lewinsky thing, you realize it, I mean, just by the quality of the video back then, before HD, you realize how it feels a lot longer ago than it was. But when Bill Clinton was elected, only 20% of American households had a computer. 20% when Barack Obama left office

more than 80% had a computer and the 20% that didn't have one it wasn't largely because well they couldn't afford a computer or the computers weren't available enough it was because more than half had a tablet Oh yeah Almost everyone had a smartphone

far more powerful than any computer even available during the Clinton years You think King Louis had computers? No no he didn't But this is just back in the Clinton years people didn't have them The average piece of land that produces, or excuse me, the average piece of land that produces corn now yields 8.6 times as much corn as it did during World War II. 8.6 times as much.

Wow. To think about all the people we had to feed. Think about all the environmentalists who've warned us over the years that massive people were going to starve because we wouldn't be able to produce as much food. Well, now that piece of land is doing 8.6 times as much, which is only positive if you like corn. I understand that. You might not like it. I mean, feeding people is pretty freaking important. And we're able to do that like we've never been able to do it before.

The portion of the U.S. population that is homeless and unsheltered. Around the world, it's 20%. In the U.S., 0.1%. That is a stunning statistic. 200 times worse around the world. Wow. And we question capitalism? We question the free market.

It's 200 times worse. That's amazing. Amazing. That's amazing. The homicide rate in the United States has dropped by about half from the levels of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. While the media constantly warns of the epidemic of rape culture, the rate of forcible rape has dropped by over 30% since the 90s, even in Hollywood, apparently. As we talk about the caravan that's in Tijuana now, you know what the murder rate in, you know what the murder number in Tijuana? So far this year is, it's over 2,200 people murdered in a town of 1.6 million.

2200 you know what the number is in 8 million resident New York City this year no 147 147 compared to over 2200 in Tijuana but we definitely shouldn't have a border wall I want to make sure that's clear we don't keep that separate from us I mean it's incredible and the strides that we've made in reducing crime like that in this country are unbelievable and it's yes it's still too high you don't want 147 people to be murdered in New York or anywhere else. Of course. But that's an amazing achievement because the number used to be over 2000 in New York. It was basically Tijuana.

It was. It was more people. So the ratio wasn't as bad. But still, it was the same amount of murder. For us back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. And we've made unbelievable strides since then. Incredible. Perhaps the most surprising.

And I know this as a parent of two small. kids going to school. You know, one of these school shootings happen and, you know, you can't help but freak out a little bit. You can't help, you know, you just don't want that to happen to your kid. And it seems like it's just like this foreign thing that has come out of nowhere. And while obviously I'm not for the gun restrictions and the kind of silliness that the left suggests for such a thing.

I mean, how ridiculous is this? You're going to ban, let's say you ban AR-15s, right? So then people with $1,200 to spend on guns instead by what, three or four different guns, you know, with the same. amount of money. Yes. So there's, at the end of the day, more guns on the street. This is what happened in the 90s when they tried an assault weapons ban.

More guns on the street after it than before it. And by the way, the kind of guns that are responsible for most murders in this country. Yeah. Most murders are from handguns. Overwhelmingly. They're not from rifles. Right. Which is, it's just so, it's so stupid. It's such a, I mean, it like, but it's stupid with a understandable emotional backing.

Yeah. Right? Like, I get it. When I see these things, I. feel the same way. I have kids. I want this to stop. It's heart-wrenching. It's terrible. But this number, I will say, shocked me more than any a number that we had talked about as going through and putting this book together. The number of school shootings has dropped dramatically. Has dropped dramatically. The rate of students killed per million in fatal school shootings has dropped by over 75%. that's really something.

That is shocking to me. And hard to believe because you would think it's triple what it used to be. Yeah. The way the media handles the stories. Yeah. And we start buying into it. You do. It's hard not to.

You get beat over the head by it all the time. Yeah. And the emotion is certainly there. But I mean, because have you heard that stat on CNN or even Fox? No, no. I haven't. You don't. Now this is, researchers at Northeastern and ones put this together said that this means, quote,

times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 90s as today. Wow. Four times. And this is what was fascinating to me. I was in high school in the 90s. That's when I was there. When I was in school, yeah, you too. Me too.

When we were in school. Late 90s though, you know, because I think you were. Oh, I was early 90s. Yeah. Okay. But the point is, I was, when I was in school with absolutely no fear of a school shooting ever. Oh, I know. Ever.

I was four times. as likely to be killed in a school shooting than kids are today. Absolutely amazing. That is incredible. It's an amazing statistic. That's something to be thankful for. Yes. That's an incredible improvement.

As they summarize it, quote, there is not an epidemic of school shootings, end quote. This is not a conservative. This is Northeastern University. Yeah, that's not done by the Republican Party. No, not at all. And that is, I mean, that is truly amazing. And what we've seen, I think, and part of what explains that,

is we've seen a rise in the large number of, like, the mass incident event, right, where someone goes in and shoots 10 people. And a lot of it was more spread out, but in a way, that's more dangerous, right? Like, if you happen to be the incredibly unlucky person who happens to be at a school where a mass school shooting goes out, I mean, it's, I mean, the odds against it are incredible. So the mass shootings are up? Mass shootings are, I, this is, I don't have the stats in here. But the smaller shootings in more places are way, way, way, way down.

Way, way, way, way down. And so you are probably, you know, you're going to be more likely for your school to be involved in a death back then by a ton of times. Now, mass shootings overall, the peak was actually in the late 20s when you talk about mass shootings in general. But, you know, there are different varieties of the statistic and you can find it. But again, they're down since they're. the 90s, all of them. And, you know, because we've got had a great amount of improvement. How about this?

If you're, if you're of a certain age, you may remember being terrified of polio, right? Yeah. 1952, there were 57,879 cases of polio in the United States. In 2017, there were zero. It's amazing. Zero. Completely wiped out in this country. And that's because of the vaccine that you took as a sugar cube when I was a kid.

That's amazing. Yeah. Among men in the United States. If you're a dude, you're going to be happy about some of this. Death rates from colon cancer have dropped by 30%. Oh, that's another thing I would think was way up. Yeah, right? Because now all you hear, you hear about having to get checked every six, you know, minutes apparently.

Lung cancer has dropped by 40%. Prostate cancer, again, another one of those that you'd think was up, has dropped by 45%. Wow. Death from stomach cancer has dropped by 50%. All since 1990. How about breast cancer? We wear a lot of pink socks. on the football field.

You have pink socks and pink pants and that's going on and that's great. I don't like the pink. I don't like the pink uniforms in football. But I mean, the donations are great. Among women, the death rate from breast cancer has dropped by 35%. Wow. Wow. That's all really, really freaking good news that we never, ever contemplate anymore.

Definitely stuff to be thankful for. And you would never guess it. And I think part of that, though, is the 24-hour news cycle. I think part of that is there's so much news that's disseminated. And you hear about it all the time. Everything that happens, you hear about it nonstop. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Home Title Lock is, if you're going to have Thanksgiving dinner,

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Check it out. Jeffie, we have a special edition of Spoons. Now, if you're not a long-term fan of the program or the network, but Spoon's was a segment we did. and gained about 50 pounds doing during the Pat and Stu show. We've all lost weight since we stopped doing spoons. It's weird. It's amazing.

It's weird. Oddly surprising. It started us, you know, we should try some strange different foods just for, you know, a cute little segment. And then it went from, you know, well, let's just eat every day. And it was named spoons because it was the only word, Jeffrey, could say. At the time. Spoons. Yes.

So, we named it that. We did. So we have a Thanksgiving-themed spoons. Should we start there, Jeffrey? before we get to your stories of the day. Okay. All right. So we have a full Thanksgiving dinner in potato chip form.

Wow. We start with turkey and gravy flavored potato chips. Nice. Limited time only at 7-Eleven. Oh, that's disappointing. I can only get this for the Thanksgiving season. What about Christmas? This one that I'm not going to partake.

Oh, you're not? No, this is not going to go down my... Why not? It's just flavored. It's not actual meat. Yeah. You know. Okay, so this is Thanksgiving.

and gravy. Yes. So this is your main meal. And potato. I would say mashed potatoes in there. Turkey is great. Because, you know, it's potato. How's that,

the face of Pat does not look particularly pleased with these potato chips. I mean, it's not bad, but I'm not really getting turkey and gravy. What are you getting? Can you describe? Potato chip salty and... Kind of blech.

Yeah, it doesn't... I mean, it's certainly not screaming turkey and gravy. Is it to you, Jeffrey? No. No. They had a sausage and peppers chip for a while at 7-11. 7-11 is like they're becoming like food laboratories over there. They're just constantly coming out with new crazy flavors of chips and stuff.

So if you're near one, it's worth stopping by every once in a while just to check what crazy thing they've come up with. Turkey and gravy, eh? What do you think? It almost just tastes like a normal potato chip to me. I'm not getting it. I don't get turkey and gravy. Okay. So what's your, you have a, our scale was 1 to 18.

What is your scale? Look at nine. Nine. Nine. And then for dessert, we have pumpkin pie flavored potato chips. I love this. Okay. I kind of want this to be good, too.

Sweet potato chips are not something you dive into that often, but I'm kind of excited about them. Mm. I'm definitely getting pumpkin from this. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's pretty good. That is pumpkin flavored potato chip. Are you a pumpkin-by guy, Jeffrey?

Are you like pumpkin pie? I've had a couple slices over the years. Have you? Yeah. Just a couple. a while over the holidays, you know. Yeah. I mean, look, am I diving into this bag, you know, twice a week with lunch?

No. No. But at one time, like, if I were to have like a Thanksgiving party and you put out a bowl of these things, I think it would work pretty well. I actually like them. I don't know. That's good. And it is pumpkin pie, much more so than the turkey and gravy thing.

Oh, yeah. So, yeah, I, you know. This I would eat. Yeah, I give this a 14 at a scale of 1 to 18. Yeah, I'll give it about it. 14 sounds about right We have a couple more things here Before we get to the Jeffie stories of the day

Brand new soda from Coca-Cola Coca-Cola California Raspberry Okay Now this is much different than an Arizona Raspberry soda They do have raspberry in the machines where you can have all the crazy flavors

The freestyle machines There's a raspberry variety But it's not California Raspberry Right it's like Arizona Raspberry or something Or Nevada Raspberry Which doesn't even count As far as I don't know Too soon to make a

No, I won't make the California joke Oh right California raspberry Yeah please don't Okay here we go Oh yeah Definitely a high Raspberry taste

Yeah it's an absolute Raspberry feel to it A penetrating raspberry flavor That's good That's pretty good It's pretty good It's yeah It's very sweet

Again it's regular Coke And I don't I'm a big an artificial sweetener fan if you don't know that. This is definitely not code zero. Very sweet, very sweet. But the flavor is pretty good.

Yeah, I'd give it a, you know, 12. Yeah, I'll go 12. I'll go 11. 11 on 11. You know, raspberry is good. I used to get up in the morning and have raspberries and milk with my grandma,

and that's where I like raspberries. What did you do? You got up in the morning and had raspberries. It's just raspberries and milk. And I don't really like it. First of all, you've drank almost the entire bottle. You seem to like it. I'm trying to wash away the turkey and gravy chips.

Raspberrys and, is that a normal thing? Raspberrys and milk? I have never heard of it, but that's not surprising when it involves Jeffie. It's so good. We also have several flavors of M&Ms. You can get these as well at your local convenience stores. Okay. Some of them are not.

We're going to start with kind of a pallet cleanser here. The crispy M&M. Here. Crispy Eminems, if you don't know. Kind of an Eminem. I've never had Krisp. It's almost like a, almost like a malted milk ball. Almost in the middle.

It's not quite, it's that same consistency, like of a whopper in the middle. Oh, yeah. I like them. They're good. They're light. Oh, that's good. They're crunchy. They're pretty delicious.

We use that as mainly, because those have been around for a while. We use that as a setup here for the winning flavor for M&Ms. Really good. The crunchy mint. 16? 16? Mm-hmm. We like them.

Crunchy mint Eminem. Ooh, these might be really good. Now, I'm a big fan of the mint products. Me too. And as we're about to gorge herself for a day, we've got to give you some new options. Mint M&Ms, they used to have these. These are the mint crunchies.

You know, they're kind of like a peppermint patty, but only crunchy. Yes. Yeah, very similar. But the taste is really similar. Same kind of chocolate, same kind of minty flavor. Good, though. But good, yeah.

I like it. I'm a fan. These are like 14. Yeah, I'll give it a... I'll get those a 15. I like those. But notice we're not getting any numbers from Jeffrey because he really...

We say that the highest number he knows is 18, but he really can't count all the numbers in between. So he doesn't really know. I mean, good, not good? That's good enough, right? No. It's actually not, but... And these are what? Final flavor is strawberry nut M&Ms.

Oh, well, I don't like nuts, so... You're not a peanut Eminem guy? No. Ooh. Trying these out here? Have you had the carmels? I don't know where... I'm jumping ahead to Eminems, but Eminem.

I like the strawberry flavor. It tastes like an ice cream Sunday. I'd rather have it without the peanut in it, but it's pretty good. Mm-hmm. Very good. These are all good. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. I mean, Eminem's. I'll give that a 15. Yeah. I'll give it a 13. Is there a bad Eminem? Well, I don't like pretzels. A lot of people like the pretzel Eminems.

I do not. I hate pretzels. It's amazing how many flavors of Eminem's there now are. I would agree. You don't have to look hard to find a bunch of crazy flavors of M&Ms. The carmoles are great. Yeah, they are. Those are so addictive.

So good. Those are dangerous. Those are dangerous to have around you. Now, so overall, I would say I like the pumpkin pie ones. Absolutely. And I like the... I recommend all the flavors of the M&Ms. The crunchy mid ones, I think might have been my favorite out of those.

For sure, the crunchy were my favorite. And then the California raspberry Coke was not bad. Decent. Yeah. Decent. See, this is the sort of information you're getting from this program. Powerful. Yeah.

Powerful information. Don't let your money on this. No, the turkey and gravy is not worth it. I mean, think about this is Jeffrey saying don't eat a potato chip. That's amazing. I mean, it's in front of you. You have to eat it. I open the bag.

I'm going to finish it. None of these are rules. You don't have to finish them. You don't have to eat them when you're in front. This might be part of the issue with you. You put it on your plate. You eat it. That's the rule.

You don't have a plate. You're eating it out of a bag. You open the bag. the bag you eat it. That's the rule. That's a law, I think. I'm pretty sure that's a law. This is the sort of insight you get on chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. And it's no surprise that the word fat is in the title when you hear that sort of information. Do you have some stories for us? Just a couple. You know, I'm kind of sad. You know how big I am on, we've got done trying these food. How big I am on salads. Oh, on salads. And I love salads,

and especially for Thanksgiving, especially for Thanksgiving. I mean, nothing says Thanksgiving like a salad. But you know that. But the Centers for Disease Control are telling you, look out, romaine lettuce, all of it. Throw it away. They're making a big recall again. No matter where it comes from. Doesn't matter. No matter where you live.

Doesn't get rid of it. Because we just ate romaine lettuce last night. You did? You're supposed to. Big outbreak of E. coli. I didn't know until after we ate it. And then I saw this story. They're telling people to throw away any romaine lettuce that they already have in their homes.

don't buy it, pull it off the shelves. 32 people in 11 states have been infected. 13 people have been hospitalized. One person developed a type of kidney failure. Now remember, they had the big breakout a few months ago, and that actually killed people. Five people lost their lives a few months ago. I don't think I even heard that.

From romaine lettuce? Yes, for the E. coli breakout before earlier this year. So if, I don't know what they're doing to the romay lettuce is okay. Yes. That's all right. Just Romaine. Just, wow. Now, yeah, this is, the recall is just Romaine.

Now, on the safe side, I would say don't eat any. No salad at all. No salad at all vegetables. That's going to hurt my Thanksgiving dinner. Oh, yeah, me too. Me too. You know, I don't. Now, I say this warning about staying away from vegetables last for the next couple years, right?

So if your wife is asking you to eat vegetables. For me, this is extended to kale because that's also a leafy type of substance. All vegetables, I think are on the table here. Spinach. To remove from your life. Yeah, you can't eat that. Brussels sprouts, broccoli, green beans. Oh, yeah.

That extends to all of it. By the way, there's a survey that came out about the most disproportionately common Thanksgiving sides by region. So what are the sides on Thanksgiving that are regional in nature? Some of the, like, this is a clear case for you might need to move in my opinion. Yeah. You know, I saw this. I don't know that I believe it. Well, there's another this.

The whole western half of the United States, basically is salad. Yeah, that's why I don't believe. What? Salad. Salad. Now, what, that is the most generic salad? The main common side that you relate to Thanksgiving at that point, no. Salad.

I've lived in the West most of my life. That's untrue. It is the most disproportionately common note to that. So, like, everybody might have turkey. Everybody might have mashed potatoes, right? But the most disproportionately common is salad in the West. Now, that just means that people in the East aren't eating any salad, which is I think. one point in the east's favor.

You know, no kidding. So the northeast is squash. Yeah. Oh. Now, I've seen that here or there, but I was not a popular one. And I grew up in the Northeast. No, thank you. No squash.

You don't like that, no, even just like butter, not squash, no, acorn squash? No. You know how you. If it has the word squash after it, I don't eat it, Jeff. You know how you would like acorn squash, though? It's an acorn squash with brown sugar. Nope.

Melted and butter. No. Well, I think because of the romaine issues, I'm going to stay away from squash. Just to be safe. It's a really good safety tip. Thank you, Stu. I'm going to follow your lead.

In the northern sort of central area, Minnesota, 12 or 13 Dakotas, that area is green bean casserole. Which, I, okay. That's so nasty. What? I like green bean be cassas.

So nasty. That's the only way that the crunchy fried onion people make a living. It's true. I don't like onions, and I don't like green beans. You know, not doing it. From Ohio to sort of Michigan, Wisconsin.

There's a reason I eat, you know, the Brickhouse Nutrition Field of Greens. Yes. There's a reason. You don't want to eat actual vegetables. You don't eat actual vegetables. Hide the taste of them. In the Ohio, Michigan,

sort of Wisconsin area is rolls and biscuits. That's pretty good. Yeah. Texas is cornbread in our sort of region around Texas. For Thanksgiving. That's surprising that it's not. farther down south, all the whole south is more than. They're a big fan.

To me, the southeast has this thing one. That's mac and cheese. Oh, wow. Mac and cheese on Thanksgiving is a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving. It is a good addition. I would be. You got to have it. I lived in the South for quite a while, and I don't recall that as being a prominent side.

My friend, I hate to break this to you. You live in the South right now and have for the last several years. And I still don't recall back. The Blaze Radio, Network on demand