Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - A Little Concerning… | 8/27/25

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

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Sightings have been reported in North America, Europe, and New Zealand This is not good This has gotten good news at all The fungus named Jabalula Attenboroughe. They're named after David Attenborough. So they're called Jabalula Attenboroughe. Jabalula Attenboroughe. So they were initially found four years ago,

because I remember talking about them, abandoned in a gunpowder store in Northern Ireland. This fungus manipulates the spider's behavior. causing them to act strangely, such as moving into areas to die, which aids the spread of its spores. Oh, that's always good. Homeowners globally reporting unsettling encounters with these zombie arachnids, finding them in sheds, cellars, and under decks.

So, while reminiscent of the fictional fungi that infect humans, this spider fungus cannot infect people, Uh-huh. Though the research into its mechanisms could offer insights into human brain health and degenerative diseases. Oh, that's special. Because right now, it's fine. Don't even worry about it. Can't, it doesn't infect humans.

Rough, okay? So don't even worry about it. So when you start thinking about being concerned about G-Bel, no, J, J, J, G, G, G, G, G, G, G, G, G. G-I-B-E-L-L-L-A-T-E-N-B-O-R-U-G-H-I-I after David Atten-O-L-L-L-A-T-E-B-E-E-B-E-L-O-U-L-L-E. All you need to know is that there's zombie spiders and they're showing up more and more across the globe. Yeah, I do not like the sounds of that. Welcome!

Welcome to chewing the fat. Man, I hope you're, don't get mad of me, but I just want you to know that I forgot to tell you yesterday was the first day of the pumpkin latte spice returning to Starbucks. So if you went to Starbucks yesterday and you really would have preferred to get a pumpkin spice latte, but you didn't know it was back. Well, it was. So good news for all you pumpkin spice latte fans. It's back at Starbucks. and they are excited, man. They are excited.

Now, that's not the only thing that is back at Starbucks. Okay, they've got a new menu, pumpkin spice latte. They have the pumpkin cream cold brew. They have the iced pumpkin cream chai. They have the pecan oatmeal cortado. They have the pecan crunch oatmeal latte.

They have the pecan cold foam. They have the Italian sausage egg bite. And they have the pumpkin cream cheese muffin. And they have the raccoon cream cheese muffin. Cuckoon cake pop. Man, do I want to go to Starbucks now, huh? I know. That's new on the menu.

Really, all I want is a French vanilla cappuccino. Now, there are other places that make French vanilla cappuccino better than Starbucks. I hate to break it to Starbucks, but I'm okay with the Starbucks. So if you, you know, if you want to be nice and you say, you know, I would like Jeff to have a French vanilla cappuccino. Just send me the money via my PayPal. Jeffie CTF. I think the PayPal, I think the Starbucks,

French vanilla cappuccino is worth $800,000 now. So if you just want to give me the $800,000 to my PayPal. I actually have no idea how much they cost. So, you know, if you wanted to help a brother out, go ahead. But it would be nice. I haven't had one in quite some time. But they're back, baby. And so now you know that when you're out and out running around,

You can pick up your pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks. Okay, so we told you the other day that Burning Man is up and running. You know what event happens today? It's the 80th anniversary of Spain's tomato street fight or tomato street fight. Thousands of people, they just paint the town red with tomato pulp. And that happens today, the 80th anniversary. So it's an hour-long event, brings 120 tons. of overriped tomatoes to the eastern town of Buono,

where tarp-covered buildings flank a crowd of about 22,000 participants awaiting their ammo. A non-local attendees pay 15 euros for a ticket and arrive from countries across the globe or cities a bus ride away. When it's going on, it's just a blur of tomatoes. And apparently they talked to one person who was there in 1999, and it was a bunch of, blast. That would be fun. I would, and I'm not a big, huge fan of tomatoes, I'm okay with tomatoes, but it would be fun for some strange

reason to be a part of this. Do you remember there used to be a guy, and I, and I don't know his name, and I apologize, but at one of the traveling shows, not a circus, it's the, I don't know what

they call it, you know, the medieval times. Maybe it is just medieval time. Now that's an actual special, specific place. But they would show up every year and you'd, you know, they had the giant turkey legs and you'd go around and they'd have the night fights, the K-N-I fights. And you would have people selling their wares and psychics and, you know, the giant turkey legs.

Well, there was a guy that used to come to one of them when I was living in Florida. And you could throw tomatoes at him. He had his face sticking out of this hole in the wall. and he was such a great I mean he would just rip everyone just tear everyone apart and getting them so angry holy cow

he was so fun and it was so much fun to watch people throw the tomatoes and hit him in the face and be so happy about hitting this guy that just would just be raped them it was so much fun and he was great at it and I actually

the first time I saw him I don't know a thousand years ago I thought that's when I'm in when I wouldn't mind doing that that'd be fun because you just berate people

have fun berating people and you get away with it because they get so angry they just want to throw tomatoes at you which is the point of the whole thing and so I remember we used to do events for the radio station

and I did the dunk tank for years and we did with Glenn back for a while we'd have the big Fourth of July events And part of the big deal was me and a dunk tank. And so you just berate people. And they would get so angry.

Sometimes they would just run up and dunk you. That would be so, man. I'd just berate them. I'd be rate police officers who were standing there. And they would just get so angry. They would just walk up and dunk you. It was really, really fun. Well, that leads me into, man, I would like to be at the tomato fight in Spain, at least once.

It would be really cool. So the tradition started back in 1945, or I guess it was inspired by this food fight with local children in 1945. And now it's become a yearly tradition. I guess they banned it in the 50s. I guess a Spanish dictator Francisco Franco banned it. And so the locals were like, no. And so televised media in Spain had their attention in the 80s. and they turned the festival into a national event,

eventually drawing an international crowd. Yeah. So there you go. So in 2002, Spain officially recognized the festival as an international tourism attraction. Yeah, cancel that now. Okay. So, of course, they canceled it during COVID.

Duh. Can't throw tomatoes at one another during COVID. That won't happen. Okay. So the tomatoes thrown aren't from crops treated like those for food. It's because they're grown exclusively for, before the festival. Wow.

If a tamatina didn't exist, these tomatoes wouldn't be cultivated because we wouldn't have the need for them. So this supply hails from Don Benedito, a town over five hours away. There's only one rule. No teams, no points,

no referees. But there is a guideline. To avoid injuries, participants are encouraged to squash the tomatoes before hurling them and, of course, refrain from hurling any else. Yeah, you don't want to hurt anything else, but I'm not squashed in my tomato. Okay, that's the whole point. I want to, I want you to get hit with the tomato and have it squash on

you. And I want tomatoes, and that would be nasty though, but, you know, I want the tomato squashed on me. And many people show up with swimming goggles. Squimming goggles, stop it. No way. It's a real thing, man. We want, we want, we want tomatoes in the eye and tomato seeds up your nose and tomato seeds and tomato goo in your ears. It would just be fun. I know, I know. It's weird of me. And I never did it.

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But I guess what they want to do is to make it available for you to share where you're at with your friends. Okay? That's good. Now, they say that the location sharing is off by default on Instagram map. Uh-huh. And a user's location only updates when they open the app, meaning it doesn't provide real-time location updates.

Uh-huh. SnapMap, on the other hand, allows users to choose whether their location is updated only when they open the app or in real-time. That's the Snapchat app, Snap app. Okay, so Instagram does offer a real-time location sharing in their direct messages. Huh, interesting. Unlike Apple's Find My and Snap app.

map, which let you share your location with others indefinitely, Instagram only lets users to do so for up to an hour, they claim. What was the big deal about this then? Everybody was up in arms about Instagram sharing their map. I'm going to have to go into my Instagram and see exactly if it is off. That's a good idea. I'm going to do that right now. Nah, never mind.

I don't need to be searching around Instagram while I'm talking to you. Just know that it's there. And they've made some other changes. to how you can leave messages on the map app. So, I mean, if you're an Instagram lover, you probably already know it, because I didn't get a chance to talk about this for a while, but I just wanted to let other people know that, yes,

they have a new friends tab under Reels. It's once in the United States earlier this year. You can do that. They're doing some kind of cool things, although the map thing kind of irked me a little. I don't like that because, I mean, look, Are we saying that they weren't following us in the first place? Yes, Jeff, that's what we were saying.

Okay, all right, never mind. Good, good. So enjoy Instagram, and you can actually follow me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. Wow, and they just announced YouTube pulled in more viewership than any streaming service during the month of July, according to the Nielsen's monthly gauge report. This is the sixth month in a row that the free video. sharing site has come out on top of the Nielsen Rakey's. I think if you go back and listen to the first month that YouTube broke the barrier and became number one, I said they were, that was it.

They were just going to look over their shoulders from that point on. And they have, holy cow. So they are at 13.4% of all TV viewing is used. YouTube. Wow. That's a lot. So, I mean, you've got all kinds, I mean, they've got, they get audience from mobile devices. So I don't know, you know, Netflix and Disney is a proportion of streaming viewership. We'll see. But I mean, when you look at the report, number two after YouTube was Disney, across two streamers, Hulu and Disney Plus, which will be combined into one app next year, which is really something that's concerning me. That may

affect my pocketbook and I don't like that at all. And then there's a, let's see what we've got going on for the rest of the gauge. Netflix held a spot in the top three, this time 8.8%. Okay. Which, let's see, the largest monthly gain number of viewers jumping from his June total. So good. Number nine, Roku channel. Nice.

All right, we got that. I like that. All right. So, I mean, there you go. YouTube's still number one, though. And now when you look at that, when you look at that gauge report, which is just incredible. So let's see, AMC Networks is at the bottom, 0.8%. Then A&E, wow, 1.0%.

Hallmark, 1.1. That'll go up as we get into the holidays, probably. We go 1.4. Scripts 2.2. Roku Channel 2.8. Amazon 3.9. Warner Brothers Discovery, 6.1. Fox, 6.5%. Paramount 7%.

NBC Universal, 7.6%. Netflix is 8.8%. I told you that. Yeah, and Disney is 9.4. YouTube, Topsemil at 13.4. Wow. So what's interesting to me is that NBC is still hanging in there in fourth place at 7.6%.

How are they doing that? That's interesting. Is there a number to call? Because it would seem that Amazon should be moving up more than they are. And that's a little, if I, I'm Amazon, I'm a little concerned about that. But hey, that's just me.

And I'm sure Jeff Betos doesn't need to need me to tell him about what he needs to worry about. Although I'm willing, Jeff. Just, you know, just call me. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. All right, so I was looking at the mega millions drawing that happened last night. And no one won the jackpot on the mega millions. So there's a drawing on Friday that's 277 million with $124.6 million cash payout.

But I was looking at the list of all the winners. And there were two people on the mega millions, one, one two million and one, one three million dollars. And that could be me. I'm pretty sure I had a mega ticket. And I haven't checked them yet. So I could have won that. And then when you look at the Powerball, there wasn't a winner. So that drawing is tonight, there's a new drawing for the Powerball tonight, $850 million, $383.7 million.

And one of the $1 million winners from the last drawing was from Texas. And I haven't looked yet. So it's possible that it was me. But I don't want to look yet. Let's just pretend it was me. Okay? Okay, good. Okay, so we found out yesterday, or maybe even the day before,

but we found out this week, we'll say that, that Kerrig, Dr. Pepper, is going to acquire Pete's coffee owner, J-D-E-Pets, P-E-E-T-S, for $18 billion. And then they're going to break up its soft-drinking coffee businesses into separate entities in 2026 next year. So, I mean, they just merged. Carrig and Dr. Pepper just merged. And they placed all their drinks under one umbrella.

And so now they're going to add peats and then they're going to break that up again. Okay, sure. Let's go ahead and do that. So while Dr. Pepper was the second most popular soda in the U.S. behind Coca-Cola last year, and Carrick Dr. Pepper reported that U.S. beverage non-coffee sales grew 11% year-over-year in quarter two. Coffee sales were down 0.2%. So that comes as the coffee

industry has slowed in recent years. Now prices are expected to rise due to President Trump's 50% tariffs on Brazil, the world's biggest coffee producer. They're going to come to the table, and we'll fix that soon. Companies have done the bean counting and expect this deal to create $400 million in savings over three years. Okay. All right. So, I mean, they're, I guess, and then they say they're going through a breakup, but they're doing it on purpose. I mean, Kellogg split off the company, Kellenova, from its underwhelming cereal branch.

And then Kelle Nova, Mars bought Kelle Nova for $36 billion. There's a lot of billions of dollars of flying around. I'll tell you that. Kraft Hines is reported planning a similar separation that would effectively undo the 2015 merger that created. Wow. So there you go. I mean, the products are still out there,

but who's ever making all the money will change. And I don't know what that means for Pete's coffee lovers, the J.D.E. Peets. But he's getting, they're getting $18 billion. That's a pretty good deal. They did not say it was going to be all cash, though. So it's kind of a shame there. And then we have a lawsuit that I don't know if it goes anywhere or not,

but it certainly makes news. Elon Musk XAI has sued Apple and Open AI for billions of dollars, alleging their partnership is preventing grocking from becoming a common verb. The lawsuit alleges that the two monopolists teaming up last year to embed to chat GPT into iPhones led them to corner the AI market and throttle musk's companies. All right. So the legal complaint claims that Apple is preventing XAI's GROC chat box from growing by making

chat GPT the only AI tool automatically integrated into its devices. The suit also asserts that Apple is artificially suppressing GROC's App Store ranking and delaying its app updates. Yeah, well, of course they are. I mean, goodly got to prove it. But of course they're doing it. Ex-AIs lawyers argue that undermining GROC hurts X. Well, yeah, which draws on GROC's functionalities in its quest to become an everything app.

Okay. Now, X users are, you know, of course, they're going to point out that OpenAI rivals deep seek and perplexity reached the app store's number one slot after Apple partners with chat, GPT. Huh, how that worked. And OpenAI said the lawsuit is consistent with Mr. Musk's ongoing pattern of harassment. Yeah, well, he's just pointing out what you guys are doing. He just, you know, he will end up probably proving it. Does it mean anything?

No. By the end, you know, Chad DBT will, everyone will be comfortable in using it. And he's going to have to try to make Grock, you know, comfortable for everyone, which I guess everyone on X will be. We'll see. You know, look, Apple's done it before. They did it with, uh, Fortnite Maker. Epic Games. They did it with Epic Games.

And so it's not a surprise that they would do this. That's what they do. That's their, you know, that's their operandi, their motis upper endi. But you got to actually prove that they were out to hurt XAI. And, you know, good luck with that. Good luck.

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Well, let's begin with Michael Toons, Antunes. I'm not sure if it's Antunes or Antones, but it's Michael Toons, A-N-T-U-N-E-S. And if you're a John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown band fan, then you're going to say it's Antone's or Antunes. but he is dead at the age of 85. Michael, I'm sorry, tunes, was a powerful saxophone player since the early 70s, and that's when he, along with the John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown band,

had the big hit, the one smash it on the dark side. So they, and he did, I think, I think they did the Eddie and the Cruisers, right? Anyway, he, that, I remember hearing about, the John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown band. And so Tunes passed away at the age of 85. It does not say what the cause of death was. But rest in peace.

To Michael Toons Antonese. I like the way that sounds actually. So I'm hoping that's the way he pronounced it. Michael Tunes Antonase dead. At the age of 80s. Okay, now we have to talk about this. I talked about this lady yesterday. Okay, she was under the not dead yet pile, right?

She was stranded at the 22,000 foot mountain, Natalia, Natasha Nagavitsina. She's been trapped up there on this victory peak. And she was injured and her partner went down the mountain to get help. drone footage showed her still moving. I don't know if there's an updated, a story about Natalia, Natasha Nagavistina. However, the Italian climber Lusa Siganalia, L-U-C-A-S-I-G-L-A-G-L-A-N-I-A-49,

reached her and delivered supplies, but they couldn't bring her down. We talked about her yesterday. Well, she has passed away. She died after she. She died after she. She was trying to rescue Natalia, and she reached Natalia, bringing her supplies, but then could not bring her down. And then, on the way down, they were caught in a severe blizzard, and that's when she became ill, and she suffered cerebral edema, hypothermia, frostbite, and she passed away. Holy cow. And they just left the body there in a cave. So, okay.

All right. So rest in peace to Luca Sinagagalia. I may have inadvertently called Luca a female, and I apologize for that because Luca is a male. I think if I remember back to what I just spewed out of my mouth. I may have called Luca as she, but I apologize. Luca Senegalia, S-I-N-I-N-I. by G-A-G-L-I-A, dead at the age of 49.

That's why he, why is he climbing up there? He's trying to rescue his friend. Then he dies trying to rescue his friend. And I honestly, we're going to have to look at see if Natalia and Natasha Nagovicina is still trapped. Okay, so she's still alive. All right, she's still alive. She apparently, and I've tried to figure out how long ago this happened. So she fell, broke.

her leg, right? She refused to leave, at one point, uh, in her, oh, this is in 2021. Okay. In 2021, uh, the same woman who fell and broke her leg this time. Uh, what's her face? Uh, Natalia Nagavistina, Natasha, uh, she fell and broke her leg. In 2021, she stayed on the mountain. They were hiking with her and her husband. Her husband suffered a stroke. And, uh, she fell and she broke her leg. at similar altitude, and she defied the orders to abandon the peak during this blizzard because she wasn't going to abandon her husband. She was caring for her husband. And then he passed away there, too.

Oh, my gosh. So she's still there. She's still alive. And this other Luca brought her stuff. They brought her a tent, a sleeping bag. He brought her all kinds of stuff, and then he died trying to get out of there because he couldn't bring her back down. Holy cow. And they've got drone footage of her.

She's still kind of moving around. So she's, I mean, this woman has killed two people up on these mountains. What the hell is going on? And we're just letting her climb around aimlessly? Well, we're not. She broke her leg. We know where she's at. Okay.

All right. Fine. Wow. And then sadly, we had a school shooting in Minneapolis this morning. If you're listening live today is the 27th of August 2025. And there was a school shooting. It was a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Some weirdo, more information will come out about who this guy was,

but he was dressed in black and he started shooting up the school. The kids were in prayer at the church at the time. There were some younger kids that were below the prayer. service. Anyway, really, really sad and two children lost their lives. Fourteen were injured. Three adults were injured. And the shooter, it was reported, took his own life. Why didn't he just take his own life? I don't want people to lose there. I don't want people to commit suicide. I don't. I talk about it all the time. If you think that the world is better without you, you're wrong and there's help out there for you seriously.

The world is not better without you in it. And so if you need help, dial 988 24-7. That's the lifeline. But if you are going to do it, let's just throw, let's say you tried 988. It didn't work. And you tried everything that you could and it still didn't work and you want to kill yourself. Go ahead. But don't take other people with you.

I don't understand. I honestly, I don't understand. I, you know, it's absolutely so sad. And I mean, this school full of kids, it's a Catholic school. I mean, I've sent my kids to Catholic school before. I understand the process and they're in their uniforms and they go to, they go to Mass. And, you know, I get it. So it could have been, and if he had a, it was reported that he had a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol.

And he was just shooting. And only two children were killed and it's as horrific as it is. I don't wish that on anyone ever. No one wants to send their kid to school and then find out something horrible like this has happened. Ever. It just tears your guts out. But it is pretty fortunate that more people were not injured and or killed from this madman. And I'm very thankful for that.

And I'm not, my heart seriously is torn out of my chest for the families that lost children. Just, and the families who lost adults. I mean, three adults. Don't take someone with you. I don't understand. I really, I don't understand. And, you know, I was, I filled in. Well, I didn't fill in for Glenn.

I was just helping along with the radio show, Stu and I today, because Glenn, was off on the Gled Beck radio show this morning. And, you know, Stu was talking about how, you know, they don't say the names of these shooters. And, you know, I guess the Blaze has a deal where they don't want to say their names. And, you know, I didn't say anything at the time because, you know, it's Glenn Show and Glenn Cannew what he wants. And I may talk to them off the air.

But I will say this. I will say their names because I want you to know who these dirt bags were. I know that we don't want them to be, you know, highlighted and made some sort of, you know, exalted hero for being a mass shooter. But I do want you know who they are and who these dirtbags are because they need to be, we need to know who they were. And we do. We need to know who they were and why they, and we need to figure out why they were such a dirtbag. Because you just don't, I'm sorry, you just don't. You can quote me on that.

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So this exceptionally rare diamond was stolen from a jeweler by thieves, posing as intermediaries for a prospective buyer. Okay. Weighing 21.25 carrots, the large diamond boasts exceptional clarity, symmetry, and polish. It has a unique purity rating, okay? Its rarity made an attractive target for the gang,

which police said had worked more than a year to take the stone. So after tracking the diamond's arrival in Dubai from Europe, the gang devised a sophisticated plan in order to steal it. The thieves passed themselves off as wealthy dealers by renting luxury cars and holding meetings in high-end hotels. Then they even went so far as to hire a diamond expert to authenticate the stone. Eventually, the gang lured the merchant to a villa under the pretext of introducing him to the buyer. Once the diamond was brought out, they nabbed it and fled. Nonetheless, police quickly identified the three suspects, tracked them down, and arrested

them, recovering the diamond before, obviously, it could be smuggled out of Dubai. The jeweler said the response was astonishing. They got it the next morning. Dubai has become a global hub, I guess, for diamond trade because of its minimal tax demands. And I guess it's a, you know, convenient location between the producer countries in Africa and the major sales markets such as India. So these people, this gang, this beautiful gang, they planned for over a year to rob this diamond, this dealer of this diamond. and they finally got to the point where they could get the diamond and they took it. And yet they were able to be found in less than, I don't know, less than 24 hours.

Wow. Dubai needs to up their criminal game. I'll tell you that because, holy cow, you'd think they'd at least be able to make it out of the country. You'd make all that big plan and you can't get out, you can't even get out of the country? Wow, that's disappointing. All right, let's get out of here. I need to get out of here. I've done enough.

I've done Pat Gray Unleashed. I've done Glenn Beck Radio and now I've done chewing the fat. You know what? I give and I give and I work this tongue to the bone for you. And I appreciate you being there. All right, let's do the joke of the day. I told you yesterday, my man Joe Green. And I don't know if it is the Joe Green, but it is the Joe Green.

Right? We just don't know if it's mean Joe Green. But he's been busy. He sent me the joke we heard the other day, and he sent me another one, too. So he said, Joe Green here, working late at the old Wally World, had this joke pop into my head. I think I've heard it before. Just maybe a different way.

Anywho, here goes. So, well, thank you, Joe. I appreciate it. I appreciate you working late at the old Wally World, too. It means a lot to those of us that shop there. And if this is mean Joe Green, the, you know, Hall of Famer from the NFL and the Pittsburgh Steelers and the steel curtain and the four Super Bowl rings from the 70s, you know, I thought you made a little bit more money than that, but I guess not.

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