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No! No! No! No! No! No! There we go. Three, two, one. Boom! And welcome to the Big Hawk of Podcast. Did you know? Brought to you by Cedar Rundy Cois. Check out Corey in them at CedarRundyCoi.com. I'm Jeff Stanfield with the world famous Andy Schaver. Keep telling you the holidays are coming up quicker than you think. Get on board that storyteller, Dekor that Corey's got. Before we get into this, also we got a couple of giveaways. You can go be a member of the
Looking Glass Podcast. Looking Class Duck. I can't even speak today. The Looking Class podcast. They have a giveaway. It's three days here. Eight people. I got to be a member of the Patreon there. Then we've got a couple of giveaways we're doing with the Shin Hunt. November 30th, December 1st and December 2nd. I got to just go to one of the new YouTube videos and make a comment underneath it and you'll be interested or you'll be involved and we're giving that away. October 3rd. Okay, October 3rd. And make it easier on me. I'll be able to figure out on some of them. Comment, do hashtag shin on there also. Just that way I know if you're leaving a comment for that or if you're just leaving a comment for regular, but either way. Please do that for me. Here we go. We're going to talk about airlines today. First chance to win $20 today. Andy, are you ready? I am. You never give me a chance to win so many. I will today. Okay. Oh, that means it was a breath one. Can you tell me the name of the world's oldest airline that's still operating today for $20? No, sir, I cannot. Really sure, honest. It's got to be a
pan-am descendant. So who bought out pan-am United. Caleb Royal Dutch Airlines. Okay, never mind. I wasn't even close. Pan-am was the first airline to offer a round the world ticket in 1947. I don't think ride flying around the world in 1947 would have been very fun. No, probably not. Okay. Do you know the busiest airport in the world at Lanna? How many people do you think go through there in a year? Oh, there's no talent. Take a guess. Take a stab. I'll tell you what, if you can get within five million, I'll give you that $20 bill. Oh, it's that much, huh? Mm-hmm. Holy mackerel. 13 million. 106 million people a year go through Atlanta. You know what the second largest is? No, I wouldn't know. Dubai. Okay. 95 million. Tokyo's third at 91 million. Dallas Fort Worth 85 million. And then
some place called Budong Shanghai 84 million. Wow. The next biggest one in America is Ohio at 84. And then Denver 82 million L.A. X 73 million. And the next American one is JFK 62 million. So it was interesting. The busiest airports. Do you know which airline carries the most people? American. How many do you think they got? I'll tell you what, I'll give you know the $20 bill if you can get within three million of this. 70 million. 215 million. Delta 200 United 180. There's a lot of people flying. Yep. Now the most expensive ticket. The United Arab world. We're going to start. We're going to go to the bottom though. Virgin Atlantic. London to New York. First class ticket is 6,000. It's a hot airways. I'm assuming it's one of the Muslim carriers.
Abu Dhabi to New York is $7,000. British airways. London to Hong Kong. 7,000. Quater Q suite. Doha to Sydney's $8,000. Loot often's first class from Frankfurt to Buenos Aires is 8,000 a seat. Emirates business class is 9,000. Alonn upon airways Tokyo to L.A. is 7,000 to 9,500. Cafe Pacific first class is 9,500. Singapore is 10,000. Singapore to Paris. It comes with its private suite in the sky. It has a full-size bed. It has meals recreated by some of the world's top shifts and the wildest rivals out of a fine dining restaurant. You also have access to a private lounge so you can unwind before your flight even begins. This was one of the most interesting ones though. The Emirates, I'm sure I'm saying that wrong. Is it Emirates business class? Has redefined business class and flying with it. Dim feels more like first class than anything else.
One of the standout features on the A380 aircraft is the onboard lounge. A bar at 35,000 feet where you can sip cocktails and socialize. Each seat is like a private cocoon with a fully flat bed, personal mini bar, touch cream controls for everything from your seat position to the lighting. With a multi-course gourmet meal served on fine china, it's no wonder people rave about Emirates. And we did mention the chauffeur service and spa like showers at the lounge. So before you get onto it, they have a chauffeur that comes and picks you up and they give you a spa for $9,000. It's a bargain. Yep. Emirates first class. 10, 5, well, if you're already spending nine, spend 10, taking first place at the taking first place at the most expensive airline ticket in the world as Emirates first class to their A380. You get a private suite with floor to ceiling sliding doors, a zero gravity seat and a personal mini bar. Oh, and do we mention the in-flight shower spa? Yes, you can literally shower while flying at 40,000 feet. I would. Using Bulgari toiletries, whatever bulgur here. They're the nicest. What are they? There's well explained everyone what they are.
They're not. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, if I've got to explain it to you, you are obviously not the correct tax bracket. The dining experience is top notch with all a cart mean used as I'm by Michelin Starship. If you're looking for the ultimate flying experience, there is no other way fly high. Yeah. Do you know when they first come out with the car? I'm having sex on that fly too. So just letting you know, if you get the, if you get the little cocoon after me, I hope they use chlorox. So might have to have sex with myself, but it's happening. So if you're flying solo, then it's either yourself or the skirt is so. Do you know how long it took to get from London to LA when they are London to New York City when the Concorde started flying in 1976? It's already a six hour flight, right? Yep. A day under three hours. What? And on the Concorde. Just because it was fast. It was the Concorde. It was supersonic jet. Yeah. But in 1976, I remember when the Concorde come out of it, talked about it less than three hours to get from LA to New York. I think you're flying a thousand miles an hour or
something. Don't give me line. I don't know nothing about airlines. Anyways, well, I tried to, that's why we did. Did you do it? All right. You're up. Okay. I got two really good ones. I feel like, I don't know if it's any good, but it interests me. So to hell with it, I'm going to send it. Okay. For $20, Jeff, if you can tell me how much cheese the government has stored in Missouri, if you get within a million pounds, I'll give you your $20. This will be the salt caves there. No, that salt culture in Kansas. It's a limestone one's great. It is. I'm going to. It is 36 degrees in these. I'm going to guess 27 million pounds. I keep my $20. 1.4 billion pounds of cheese. Do you know how all this started? Piter in World War two. No, it was actually during the 70s. The dairy industry was taking a downturn and to and to protect the dairy industry, you know, got to protect the American farmer. The government bailed them out. So they started buying up excess milk. How long
does cheese last? Well, that's why they started convert. So they bought all this dairy from the they bought the surplus dairy. There was no, it milks got a shit shelf life. So they started making cheese. And then they just kept making they just kept making cheese. During the 80s, there was 500 million pounds of cheese. And Ronald Reagan came in and he said, we got to figure out something to do with all this cheese. So that's how you got government cheese. It was good. They started giving it to military. They started giving it to poor people. And then that is how you got government. And that was in the 80s? 70s and 80s. Yeah. I figured it was in the 70s. I remember government cheese comes in big old blocks. Yeah. And it was good stuff. It's like a velvita. So in response, I'll tell the story in response to the dairy shortage and the 30% inflation on dairy products. The government intervened resulting in prices falling dramatically. So in 77, Carter decided to pour money into the dairy industry to motivate production and alleviate the crisis. The government said a new policy to
subsidize dairy, providing $2 billion to the industry over the next four years. While the plan was very much welcomed by the dairy industry who was struggling, it was also primed for overproduction, which is what you see today. So some facts about cheese. Flash forward to 2019, the government, 1.4 billion pounds of cheese. So this is also another interesting thing. Do you remember the Got Mill commercials? You don't remember the Got Mill commercials? They'd have celebrities and they'd have a lot of them. Yes. Yes. Yes. I do. That was all propaganda to get people to start buying more dairy products. It didn't work. I still don't drink milk. So that's actually the interesting part. Let me see. Hold on. I do want to say this. The dairy industry received $43 billion and $36 billion in 2016 and 2017 respectively from the federal government in 2018. 42% of the
revenue of the dairy producers came from some sort of government support. Okay. Now, according to the health and human service, they conducted a study. Do you know what percentage of Americans are like to $1 billion? 15%. 36% are lactose and tolerant. This is significantly higher among minority groups. 75% of African Americans are lactose and tolerant. 51% of Latinos are lactose and tolerant. 80% of Asian Americans. I don't know. No, just what degree of lactose and tolerance? I don't know. If you have a sip of milk, you're shitting your guts out. I don't know. But just there's some irritation. I can't tell you what to what degree and only 21% of Caucasians are lactose intolerant. Does that affect them drinking milk or just any dairy product? If you eat cottage cheese and eat cheese, I believe it's any dairy product. To my knowledge,
I'm not lactose intolerant. So I can't, I can't call it often. You drink milk. Not very often, but anytime I do, I've never had an issue. Ice cream cheese. I love cheese, milk. Ice cream bothers me. Okay. But cheese and cottage cheese because I ate a lot of cheese. I love especially that smoke good that we get or whatever it was from the hair show. They should love. I ate it all the time. We eat a lot of cheese in our house. Lots. But we don't, and cottage cheese. Me and mom both like cottage cheese. But we don't drink milk is in cereal. I love cereal. Yeah. I mean, as soon as I zoom as long as you don't have any, I don't know. Like I said, there might be degrees to lactose intolerance. I can't tell you. But if I eat a little bit of ice cream, it bothers me. Right. Maybe there's something in it that is an 80% of black people or 70% that's crazy. I thought it was 50. I can go back to it. But still regardless, that's still a bunch. One of them was 81 was 71 was 50. No, the 20 nose. Oh no, you're 75% of African Americans are lactose intolerant. Asian Americans are 80,
51% of Latinos and 21% of Caucasians. See, genetically, we're different people. Yes. And that shows right there that. Yes. Well, so I can't remember where I heard this, but you've always like kind of heard the stereotype. Don't give Indians liquor whiskey. Turns them into a different person. Very violent. Native Americans. Yeah. That is also found in Asian people. So the theory is when the land bridge was there, the people that crossed the land bridge to have our Native Americans here were people from Asia. Because like if you go with alcohol affecting them differently, whatever it is that breaks down alcohol that makes you be able to tolerate it and not lose your mind is also found in the Asian community. So if you. That's why I was scared so bad with it then. Right. If you keep going forward Alaska and the Native American group that we see in America, well, it's like sickle cell anemia. Yeah. I mean, we all black people only
want to get sickle cell. Well, we all kind of came up in this world and evolved in different climates and different regions. And so we all have different quirks about us. So all right, I got one more for you. Have you ever heard of exercise tiger a World War two exercise? Have you ever heard of this? I've never heard of this. No, but remind me talk to you about Jordan Peterson's daughter in a minute. Go ahead. Okay. So exercise tiger. I mentioned last week that I watched that movie pressure about Eisenhower and yesterday. Eisenhower was very gun shy about D. Day. He wanted to have all the facts before he sent his guys in. And that is because of exercise tiger. So in April, we're about six week late April. We're about six weeks away from D. Day. He wanted the American troops to have an active dress rehearsal on what D. Day is going to be like. So they landed on a beach. And I'm going to find what that place is right now.
I think it was in France. It would only make sense. We can't find it now. Anyway, it doesn't matter. But so he wanted he wanted a dress rehearsal. Told him they're going to come at a certain time. And he wanted he wanted the people on the beach to fire over the heads of the troop landing on the beach. He wanted bombs going off. He wanted the guys to get the full. This is what D. Day is going to be. It's going to be a full dress rehearsal. The problem was is that he had said they're they're going to delay it by an hour. So he told everybody on the beach. Instead of seven o'clock in the morning, we're going to come at eight o'clock in the morning. Don't do nothing until eight o'clock. Then they reversed it again. We're going to go at seven o'clock in that communication. The people on the beach thought that they were going to that people are coming at seven o'clock. That's not our guys. They're coming at eight. So they start mowing down the troops our own guys. We shot our own guys about sir. It's kind of hard to get a number on it.
About 450 men were killed down through through friendly fire. That ain't even the bitch of it. So this all happens on April 27th. We mowing guys down April 28th. The Germans are in the waters. They have these e-boats. So we get them a free pass. No. They started attacking. They started attacking the guys on this operation tiger who had just got mowed down by our friendly fire. So now there's a full blown attack in the water. Germans are blowing up boats. All told about 750 people. 750 Americans died. Practice in for a teacher. An exercise tiger. Eisenhower carried that weight with him. That's why he was like, I can't have another operation tiger. I have to know everything about D-Day before we launch our guys. I can't do this. So to not look like a total
failure, the survivors of operation tiger are sworn to secrecy. Nobody can know. That's why nobody ever knows about this because the government that United States, number one, they didn't want to tip off the Germans about D-Day and that we're planning this attack. And also they don't want to diminish. That's bad optics. They don't want to diminish the morale of the troops that are fighting for a three year kid getting killed over some stupid shit like that. Yeah. I mean, it sucks. I understand it's all terrible. But yeah, it was a miscommunication that invoked the friendly fire and then the Germans happened to be in the right place at the right time and intercepted our guys in the water. So 750 Americans died on operation tiger. It's a very interesting. So you're welcome. You're all smarter today because of me. You can pat me on the back. Have you heard of the lion diet? Yes. I have. Jordan Peterson's daughter. And Jordan Peterson did it. A girl, a guy had a exima. 90% of his body was covered in it. And he
done everything in the world to do it. And he went on and he just meet that. And it cleared his whole body up. Correct. And it's called the lion diet. So I guess it's just meat only. Yep. Meat only. Her, Michaela Peterson had a lot of autoimmune issues. She had her ankles replaced at like 17 that she just had a lot of autoimmune issues, skin issues, went to every doctor imaginable. They did everything imaginable. There was no cure for what she had. They couldn't figure out what she had. And through her own research, she stumbled upon the lion diet and reversed everything. That's crazy. And then Peterson also had a lot of those same autoimmune issues. He got on the lion diet, dropped 40 pounds in two months and reversed a lot of his autoimmune issues. Now, I think you know, he's pretty sick now. I don't know if it is. I don't know. But yeah, I mean, it's interesting. You know, it affects people differently. And I guess it was the carbohydrates and the in the bread and pasta that they were eating that triggered this flare up and whatever they had.
But there's someone out there right now says, well, I could do that only. There's no way I could do just meat. I like steak. I like pork chops. I like chicken. But just meat only. Could you do that if my life depended on? Well, you'd have to. But I mean, could you imagine just eating meat on it? Could you imagine waking up every day and having your ankles to the point of having to have an ankle replacement at 18 years old? No, no, no, no. Could you imagine just living in that pain of having 90% of your skin in eczema? I mean, no, no, I don't have to pay in battles. But yes, as a healthy person that can kind of have this diverse diet, that sounds terrible. But I'm also not waking up in pain and agony every single day. But there's someone right now that you you talk about him losing that weight. They're like, who the be a good diet? Steep meat forever. Yeah, you got to you got to if you're going to dive in, I did the carnivore diet for one month, a couple years ago. And I mean, if you're going to go down this rabbit hole, like do your own research, you know, you're going to have to get, I don't know, how you could afford the carnivore diet now. But you got to get fatty cuts of meat because your
body starts burning fat instead of carbohydrates. So you got to you got to have this switch and you can't eat lean meat like you can't you can't eat chicken on this diet. Like it's there's just not enough fat. You got to go with your fatty or cuts of meat, your rib eyes, even phalays aren't going to work. There's not enough fat content on them. You could do a lot of bacon, a lot of cheese, a lot of dairy. You got to have fat. So if you're going to do this, do your own research. There are drawbacks. I know constipation is one. I did not experience that. But somebody that I somebody that I know that does a carnivore diet, they weren't getting enough fiber and led to some hemorrhoids. So make sure you're drinking plenty of water on it. Soften that stool. There you go. They say prune juice. Prune juice. But well, you can't do that either. It's water and water and black coffee. I watched an elimination diet. I watched an old movie the other day with Walter Mathau. And what's his side kick? It was in all the movies with him. Yes. Lemon. Jack lemon. And Jack lemon plays a
video. He's a camera guy at NFL game. And he gets he gets trucked. This is the old movie. And Walter Mathau says brother and lawn. He's an attorney. And so they're trying to scan the NFL, the Cleveland Browns. Right. And they show actual football games from the 50s and Keith Jackson is a young man because he's he was announcing the game. I thought let's keep Jackson. Sure enough, he was there. It was called the lottery winner, the lottery pick or something. But it was a it was an old movie. But I like old movies. But it was Jack lemon and Walter Mathau. And it was a really good movie. Yeah. But he was kind of scam. These insurance companies and stuff. It's just I love watching movies from back in the day. Just the way life was so much simpler in the 50s and 60s. All right, y'all. God bless y'all. Y'all have a great week. Be safe. Hope y'all send us some rain. We got rain chances. We're really starting to look good for next week. I sure hope that don't visit a lot when I see it. They they changed it about four days away. It for the last two weeks. I've been looking at the forecast eight, nine, 10 days out, high in the 80s and 70s. And then we get to about four days from it, hitting and they I have back up to 97 and I haven't seen the 70s
deal. But I've seen a lot of 80s and now I'm seeing 83 and 84th into the week. So next week. All right, God bless. Thank y'all. Peace out. Goodbye. Watch for there.
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