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On today's show, Pat and Stu talk about what they are thankful for and what they're looking forward to eating on the day before Thanksgiving. They also talk about some movies they are excited about this Thanksgiving, including Creed 2, and a special Thanksgiving edition of Spoons where they sample the most delicious new junk foods from around the country.
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Alright, welcome to the podcast. It's Stu and Pat and also Jeffy.
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So we have, first of all, Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast you can go right now.
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If you are in Florida or around the area, come visit us.
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Tampa and Orlando on November 30th and December 1st, I believe, with the dates.
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Yeah, that's going to be really fun. It's a fun show.
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So today we kind of decided to kind of spend a little time on the day before Thanksgiving
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thinking about things we were actually thankful for.
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Some good news. We have some good news about the prosecution of terrorist networks across the world.
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We have some good news about the world in general.
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People are living longer and they are able to feed themselves like never before.
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The stats on school shootings are worth the whole show, I think, today.
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I'm not surprised you're focusing on that, but yes, that is an important development.
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We have a kind of segment on that if you were looking for a movie this weekend.
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Pat has a couple of recommendations as well we'll get into during the show.
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And we do a special Thanksgiving edition of Spoons, the place that we sample the most delicious
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We may have discovered something magical today.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I feel like pizza at any time is a valuable addition to any particular moment.
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Also, by the way, you can have a field of greens.
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If you're going to eat like I'm going to eat this week, I think field of greens might
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be a good choice for you because you might be skipping the vegetables.
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I was listening to you to talk about the gala the other day.
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And you said the food was really good, so I decided to try the green bean.
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You can just have the good food on your plate with field of greens and have a scoop of
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this and, you know, it's a juice or even some foods.
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It's not some crazy extract or some weird additive or whatever.
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You know, because like Wednesday, it's on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, you're already in that
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I'm just, I'm trying not to eat in that mode today because I feel like.
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And after Thanksgiving, you think, okay, then, then now I'll come to the end of the
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And then there's food everywhere again because you're preparing for Christmas.
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Well, Thanksgiving is a day in which you eat a lot of food.
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Now, over the years, I've expanded that from one day to 365 for me.
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So that's, you beat me to the punch there a little bit, I guess.
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I, but I do feel the expansion happening because I started with one and then you get to four.
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I feel like four is, is the right stew amount in a sensible world, right?
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Like you have, you don't eat really badly until you get to Thanksgiving.
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You have the Thanksgiving and then you live out and you party the weekend, right?
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You're, you're eating like a human being again.
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Now, what always happens there, of course, is Wednesday.
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And then what happens is you come back Monday and you eat okay.
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And then Tuesday happens and you fall off the bandwagon.
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And then you're like, ah, it's basically the week of Thanksgiving.
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So then it goes from the previous Wednesday to not the next Monday, but the Monday after that.
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But then the week between Christmas and New Year's.
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You're going to be back eating on New Year's anyway.
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And then that's when you get the New Year's resolution.
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Now, you're not going to start on the second most of the time.
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Because a lot of times the second isn't a work day yet.
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You're not going to start your diet on a Wednesday.
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Now, the problem here is this is when NFL playoffs kick in.
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So then you're February 6th or 7th in that range.
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So then you're eating up until Valentine's Day.
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So in there I've got to, what am I going to do?
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Well, you've got to have cake for Glenn's birthday.
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Because he's not going to eat it because he's on some weird diet probably.
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You know, where he only eats 80 different things in the world.
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He can only eat 80 things on the face of the earth.
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And six of them are different types of squid, which is a weird, it's a strange diet.
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So for him, on his behalf, we have to have cake.
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And then once you're in February, it's basically July 4th.
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So you've got to ramp it up to get ready for those picnics.
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What, are you not going to eat on the 4th of July?
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What are you, some sort of traitor to this nation?
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If I'm on a diet on the 4th of July, the terrorists win.
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This is only a slight exaggeration, by the way.
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By the way, we do have some terrorism breaking news.
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Today, maybe, Pat, we can come up with things we're thankful for.
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Like where people would do that on the day before Thanksgiving.
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I'm thankful for my family, and I'm thankful for...
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That's stuff that's just boring, and everyone knows you're thankful for it.
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I don't know if they're thankful for me, but, you know, I'm thankful for them.
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It's wonderful to see Barack Hussein Obama back in the limelight.
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And I can't say it's good to have him back either.
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But I can say he is kind of back and omnipresent now again.
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And he's doing a lot of speeches because he's making somewhat of a living, you could say, from doing these speeches.
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Every time he shows up for an hour, he makes $400,000.
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Now, $400,000 an hour is kind of a decent wage.
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And then when Michelle shows up at a place, she makes $225,000, which is income inequality, it seems to me.
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She is making $175,000 less per hour than he is.
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Right now, I could take off-the-shelf existing technologies.
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We could reduce carbon emissions by, let's say, 30%.
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It's not like we'd all have to go back to caves and live off fire.
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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.
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I just dislike him with all the intensity of a billion white-hot-burning suns.
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We should also focus on the idea that this is an incredibly bad point.
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First of all, yes, we have the technology to lower emissions by 30%.
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But the reason we don't do it is we're fraught with hate, anger, and mommy issues?
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And it's such an easy explanation for every issue that progressives don't get what they want.
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It's the same explanation he uses all the time.
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...who have a certain reaction to black people bred into them.
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We've made this point back in the day with Glenn.
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You know, racism is a weird thing to throw around.
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You know, the left has no problem doing it all the time.
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When someone on the right says something is racist, it's got...
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But, I mean, the bottom line is he's constantly viewing everything through a racial...
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The man just told you the reason we don't use solar panels is because of racism.
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This is exactly how he looks through about every issue.
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A guy can't go five minutes without calling somebody racist.
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On a holiday weekend tell you to watch Chris Matthews.
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You know, it makes me think, you know, we've been talking a little bit about Michelle Obama
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I don't think they can stay away from this stuff.
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So let's talk about Relief Factor for a moment, if we should, Pat.
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I mean, it's something that's changed Glenn's life for the better.
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For over four years, Relief Factor has been helping people here at The Blaze with pain.
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You know, if you have that kind of consistent nagging sort of pain, a lot of that's caused
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And Relief Factor is a great way to fight against that.
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If you're one of the people who, like, if you've got little kids, you're chasing them
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You've got little grandkids you're chasing around all the time.
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You want to play tennis or golf or whatever, and you keep having pain, Relief Factor is a
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They've got a three-week quick start that makes it really easy.
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So for $19.95, they'll send you three weeks of it.
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This is when you're going to start feeling the difference.
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And if it works for you, you can continue with it.
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70% of people, it's over 70% actually, wind up buying more once they get the three-week
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If you want a drug-free and natural way to ease your pain, go to ReliefFactor.com.
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We've been talking a little bit about the things we're thankful for that are actually
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Certainly, Creed II would be one of those things I'm thankful for.
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And I know you know the answer to this, but I think the second part of it is fascinating.
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A Swedish statistician, public health expert, began asking people the question, has the
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percentage of the world population that lives in extreme poverty, has it almost doubled or
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almost halved or stayed the same over the past 20 years?
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Now, I think you know the answer there, Pat, and I think some people in the audience might
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know the answer, which is it's almost halved in the past 20 years, again, in our lifetime.
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And you got to believe the perception among especially young people, I'm guessing, is that
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And I think the vast majority of people might think that.
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It's one of the greatest achievements in human history.
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The people who are in extreme poverty, cut it by half in two decades?
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And almost every, I don't think it was believed to be possible 20 years ago.
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And here we are 20 years later, it's happened and nobody notices.
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Only 5% of Americans are aware of it, which is fascinating.
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And, you know, his story is about how people are drawn to negative news.
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But, you know, it's kind of the fight or flight thing, I think, at some level.
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They ran tests on, you know, experiments on, psychologists ran them on people in sort of random tests.
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And they would get people who said they wanted good news.
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And then, when they had the opportunity, always gravitated to the negative news.
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And maybe that's, you know, like it's a survival instinct at some level.
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Like, you want to try to survive and so you're worried about whatever threat might be out there.
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So you're looking at negative stories more routinely.
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You got a copy of Addicted to Outrage over there.
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If you have a copy of Addicted to Outrage, you'll see this in the book.
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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.
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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 available.
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Matt Ridley talks about this in his book, The Rational Optimist, which is a book I really like.
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And, you know, King Louie back in the day, what would he do?
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So what he would do is every night when it was time for dinner, he would order his servants.
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You're talking about the orangutan in Jungle Book?
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And so he would have his big, like, king-like medieval table, right?
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And it would be that, you know, your long rectangular table.
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And people would, he would direct his servants every night to bring him every kind of food available.
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So it was every, they would make all the different kinds of foods.
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They would bring all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables that were available.
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And, you know, he would eat, obviously, he couldn't eat all of the foods.
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And the rest would be, you know, either thrown away or given to the staff or whatever.
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Any person who wants to spend $8 can go to Golden Corral and eat as much as they want.
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Every grocery store you walk into has thousands and thousands more choices than King Louie could have ever had.
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I mean, King Louie didn't have red velvet Oreos.
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But, I mean, seriously, like you have more choices now.
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And it can be afforded by almost everybody in the United States to go eat almost anything you want all the time.
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We have this giant problem now with obesity rather than starvation.
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That is not something that has been common in the world's history.
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It's still not as common in the rest of the world as it is here.
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I mean, go to Bulgaria and see if you have the choices that the United States of America does.
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With the constitution we have and the form of, and the kind of economy we have here.
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It's, all of these things are better here, right?
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But, I mean, even in Bulgaria, you can go to a restaurant in which, quote, unquote, servants will come and, servers instead of servants, but they'll come and they'll bring you food that has been prepared and you get to order anything you want off a menu.
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And you don't have to do the dishes afterwards.
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For all of eternity, man was able to stay alive without a refrigerator, electricity, radio, microwave, or color television.
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It might have been hot, sticky, and a lot less entertaining, but survival was possible.
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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.
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The computer, when Bill Clinton was elected, this is not that long ago.
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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.
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But when Bill Clinton was elected, only 20% of American households had a computer.
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When Barack Obama left office, more than 80% had a computer.
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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.
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Almost everyone had a smartphone far more powerful than any computer even available during the Clinton years.
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The average price 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.
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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.
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Well, now that piece of land is doing 8.6 times as much, which is only positive if you like corn.
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But, I mean, feeding people is pretty freaking important.
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And we're able to do that like we've never been able to do it before.
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The portion of the U.S. population that is homeless and unsheltered, around the world it's 20%.
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The homicide rate in the United States has dropped by about half from the levels of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
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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.
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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?
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It's over 2,200 people murdered in a town of 1.6 million.
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You know what the number is in 8 million resident New York City this year?
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But we definitely shouldn't have a border wall.
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And the strides that we've made in reducing crime like that in this country are unbelievable.
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You don't want 147 people to be murdered in New York or anywhere else.
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But that's an amazing achievement because the number used to be over 2,000 in New York.
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Except more people, so the ratio wasn't as bad.
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It was bad for us back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
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And we've made unbelievable strides since then.
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Perhaps the most surprising, and I know this as a parent of two small kids going to school.
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You know, one of these school shootings happened, and, you know, you can't help but freak out a little bit.
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You can't help but, you know, you just don't want that to happen to your kid.
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And it seems like it's just like this foreign thing that has come out of nowhere.
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And while, obviously, I'm not for the gun restrictions and the kind of silliness that the left suggests for such a thing.
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You're going to ban, let's say you ban AR-15s, right?
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So then people with $1,200 to spend on guns instead buy, what, three or four different guns, you know, with the same amount of money.
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So there's, at the end of the day, more guns on the street.
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This is what happened in the 90s when they tried an assault weapons ban.
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More guns on the street after it than before it.
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And, by the way, the kind of guns that are responsible for most murders in this country.
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It's such a, I mean, like, but it's stupid with a understandable emotional backing.
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But this is, this number, I will say, shocked me more than any number that we had talked
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about as going through and putting this book together.
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The number of school shootings has dropped dramatically.
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The rate of students killed per million in fatal school shootings has dropped by over 75%.
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And hard to believe because you would think it's triple what it used to be.
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But I mean, because have you heard that stat on CNN or even Fox?
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Now, this is, researchers at Northeastern, the ones that put this together, said that this
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means, quote, four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early
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But the point is, I was, when I was in school with absolutely no fear of a school shooting
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I was four times as likely to be killed in a school shooting than the kids are today.
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There, and as they, as they summarize it, quote, there is not an epidemic of school shootings,
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And that is, I mean, that is really, truly amazing.
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And what we've seen, I think, and part of what explains that, is we've seen a rise in
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the large number of, like, the mass incident event, right, where someone goes in and shoots
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And a lot of it was more spread out, but in a way, that's more dangerous, right?
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Like, if you happen to be the incredibly unlucky person who happens to be at a school where
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a mass school shooting goes out, I mean, it's, I mean, the odds against it are incredible.
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Mass shootings are, I, this is, I don't have the stats in here.
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But the smaller shootings in more places are way, way, way down.
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And so you are probably, you know, you're going to be more likely for your school to be involved
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Now, mass shootings overall, the peak was actually in the late 20s when you talk about mass shootings
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But, you know, there are different varieties of this statistic and you can find it.
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But again, they're down since the 90s, all of them.
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And, you know, because we've had a great amount of improvement.
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If you're of a certain age, you may remember being terrified of polio, right?
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1952, there were 57,879 cases of polio in the United States.
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And that's because of the vaccine that you took as a sugar cube when I was a kid.
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Among men in the United States, if you're a dude, you're going to be happy about some of this.
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Death rates from colon cancer have dropped by 30%.
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Oh, that's another thing I would think was way up.
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You hear about having to get checked every six, you know, minutes, apparently.
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Prostate cancer, again, another one of those that you'd think was up, has dropped by 45%.
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We wear a lot of pink socks on the football field.
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You got pink socks and pink pants, and that's going on, and that's great.
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You know, I don't like the pink uniforms in football.
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Among women, the death rate from breast cancer has dropped by 35%.
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That's all really, really freaking good news that we never, ever contemplate anymore.
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And I think part of that, though, is the 24-hour news cycle.
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I think part of that is there's so much news that's disseminated, and you hear about it all the time.
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And everything that happens, you hear about it nonstop.
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Home title lock is, if you're going to have Thanksgiving dinner, you're probably going to have it at home.
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And we've talked a lot about all the different ways to prepare, whether it's food storage or a security system in your home.
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And once they get them, they can do quick transfers and make it so they can borrow money against your equity.
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No bank, identity theft program, or insurance is going to protect you against this.
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You've got to do what I did and sign up for HomeTitleLock.com.
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Pennies a day, Home Title Lock will put a barrier around your home's title and mortgage.
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And the instant something happens, they are there to fix it.
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You can join me, Pat Gray, for Pat Gray Unleashed every weekday, immediately preceding this show, 6 to 8 Central.
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It's 7 to 9 Eastern, and then you can check it out on the podcast at your leisure any time of the day.
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And if you have a significant mental issue, you can join Jeff Fisher on Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.
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Hard to believe you'd want to, but, you know, there's no accounting for taste.
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Not only do people want to, I mean, they really want to purchase the Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher coffee mug.
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They have a big Black Friday sale going on, too.
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Now, if you're not a long-term fan of the program or the network, you might not know Spoons,
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but Spoons was a segment we did and gained about 50 pounds doing during the Pat and Stu show.
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We've all lost weight since we stopped doing Spoons.
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It started as, you know, we should try some strange different foods just for, you know,
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And then it went from, you know, let's just eat every day.
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And it was named Spoons because it was the only word Jeffy could say.
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Should we start there, Jeffy, before we get to your stories of the day?
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So, we have a full Thanksgiving dinner in potato chip form.
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We start with turkey and gravy-flavored potato chips.
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I can only get this for the Thanksgiving season.
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The face of Pat does not look particularly pleased with these potato chips.
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I mean, it's not bad, but I'm not really getting turkey and gravy from it.
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I mean, it's certainly not screaming turkey and gravy.
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They had a sausage and peppers chip for a while at 7-Eleven.
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They're becoming like food laboratories over there.
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They're just constantly coming out with new crazy flavors of chips and stuff.
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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.
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It almost just tastes like a normal potato chip to me.
00:33:33.840
And then for dessert, we have pumpkin pie flavored potato chips.
00:33:39.580
Sweet potato chips are not something you dive into that often, but I'm kind of excited about them.
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I mean, look, am I diving into this bag, you know, twice a week with lunch?
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If I were to have, like, a Thanksgiving party, and you put out a bowl of these things, I think
00:34:35.740
We have a couple more things here before we get to the Jeffy stories of the day.
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Now, this is much different than an Arizona Raspberry Soda.
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They do have raspberry in the machines where you can have all the crazy flavors, the freestyle
00:34:55.020
There's a raspberry variety, but I've never seen it in a bottle of water.
00:35:31.340
I'm a big artificial sweetener fan, if you don't know that.
00:35:49.780
I used to get up in the morning and have raspberries in milk with my grandma.
00:35:55.180
And that's where I like raspberries in Coca-Cola.
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You got up in the morning and had raspberries in...
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You got up in the morning and had raspberries in...
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You got up in the morning and had raspberries in milk.
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Well, first of all, you've drank almost the entire bottle.
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I'm trying to wash away the turkey and gravy chips.
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But that's not surprising when it involves Jeffy.
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You can get these as well at your local convenience stores.
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We're going to start with kind of a palate cleanser here.
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Almost like a malted milk ball almost in the middle.
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It's that same consistency, like of a Whopper in the middle.
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We use that as a setup here for the winning flavor for...
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And as we're about to gorge ourself for a day, we've got to give you some new options.
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You know, they're kind of like a peppermint patty.
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But notice we're not getting any numbers from Jeffy because he really...
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We say that the highest number he knows is 18, but he really can't count all the numbers
00:38:09.620
I'd rather have it without the nut peanut in it, but it's pretty good.
00:38:29.520
It's amazing how many flavors of M&M's there now are.
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You don't have to look hard to find a bunch of crazy flavors of M&M's.
00:38:46.140
Now, so overall, I would say I like the pumpkin pie ones.
00:38:55.260
The crunchy mint ones, I think, might have been my favorite out of those.
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And then the California raspberry Coke was not bad.
00:39:04.280
See, this is the sort of information you're getting from this program.
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You don't have to eat them when you're in front.
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This is the sort of insight you get on chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.
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And it's no surprise that the word fat is in the title when you hear that sort of information.
00:39:59.100
I mean, nothing says Thanksgiving like a salad.
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But the Centers for Disease Control are telling you, look out.
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Because we just ate romaine lettuce last night.
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They're telling people to throw away any romaine lettuce that they already have in their homes.
00:40:41.780
Now, remember, they had the big breakout a few months ago.
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Five people lost their lives a few months ago from the romaine lettuce.
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For the E. coli breakout before, earlier this year.
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I don't know what they're doing to the romaine lettuce.
00:41:05.240
Now, on the safe side, I would say don't eat any.
00:41:14.800
Now, I say this warning about staying away from vegetables lasts for the next couple
00:41:20.800
So, if your wife is asking you to eat vegetables.
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For me, this is extended to kale because that's also a leafy type of substance.
00:41:27.700
All vegetables, I think, are on the table here.
00:41:35.600
By the way, there's a survey that came out about the most disproportionately common Thanksgiving
00:41:43.340
So, what are the sides on Thanksgiving that are regional in nature?
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Like, this is a clear case for you might need to move, in my opinion.
00:41:58.540
The whole western half of the United States, basically, is salad.
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The main common side that you relate to Thanksgiving at that point.
00:42:24.140
But the most disproportionately common is salad in the West.
00:42:27.420
Now, that just means that people in the East aren't eating any salad, which is, I think,
00:42:40.840
Now, I've seen that here or there, but that was not a popular one, and I grew up in the
00:42:50.900
If it has the word squash after it, I don't eat it, Jeffy.
00:42:52.520
You know how you would like acorn squash, though?
00:42:58.960
Well, I think because of the romaine issues, I'm going to stay away from squash.
00:43:07.480
In the northern sort of central area, you know, Minnesota, 12 or 13 Dakotas, that area
00:43:21.800
That's the only way that the crunchy fried onion people make a living.
00:43:27.720
I don't like onions, and I don't like green beans.
00:43:31.700
You know, from Ohio to sort of Michigan, Wisconsin...
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There's a reason I eat, you know, the Brickhouse Nutrition Field of Greens.
00:43:46.160
In the Ohio, Michigan, sort of Wisconsin area is rolls and biscuits.
00:43:52.700
Texas is cornbread, and in our sort of region around Texas is cornbread for Thanksgiving.
00:43:58.140
And it's surprising that it's not farther down south.
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All the whole south is cornbread, because they're big fans.
00:44:09.040
Mac and cheese on Thanksgiving is a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving.
00:44:15.140
I lived in the south for quite a while, and I don't recall that as being a prominent side.
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You live in the south right now, and have for the last several years.