Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Could Not Be Timelier?... | 4/30/25

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

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more than 70 facilities as it drastically reduces the amount of Amazon shipments it handles. Oh, wow. The package delivery company said that it anticipates making the job cuts this year. It anticipates closing 73 least and owned buildings by the end of June. It said that we're still reviewing our network and we may identify more buildings that need to be shuttered. Wow. Okay.

So according to the CEO, the actions that they're taking to reconfigure the network and reduce costs across our business could not be timelier. The macro environment may be uncertain, but with our actions, we will emerge as an even stronger, more nimble UPS. Wow. So the deal that they were talking about with Amazon, they reached this deal where they're going to lower the volume. Amazon, biggest customer to UPS. They're going to lower the volume by more than 50% by the second half of 2026. So, okay, I guess that might be good news for the UPS as well if the UPS is going to cut down that. Well, I mean, the company employs 490,000 workers.

That's not good for many of those employees. Okay. They said that it's expected revenue this year is approximately $89 billion. But they're going to go ahead and cut that workload down and slash about 20,000 jobs and close more than 70 facilities. All right. Good luck. God bless. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. There is some good news, though. We know that Starbucks is serving their coffee. a lot faster now. I know. So Starbucks shaved two minutes off in-store wait times with the help of a new proprietary algorithm. Oh, okay. So in the past, baristas addressed orders on a first-come, first-serve basis, but the algorithm sequences orders based on whatever makes the process go by faster. Okay. So the algorithm, which notably, according to them, is not AI, was piloted at a handful of U.S. locations and would now expand to hundreds of more cafes.

It's part of the new CEO, Brian Nicole's strategy to boost waning sales by making the in-store experience more chill for both baristas and customers. So there you go. You can go into Starbucks and you don't have to wait as long. We're shaving at least two minutes off your weight. Didn't say anything about the drive-thru, though. This is just the stand-up. So drive-through is first-come, first-serve, and depending on who orders what in front of you,

will depend on how long you're waiting in that drive-thru lane. Another good piece of information is that just when you thought something was dead, it's brought back to life. Big Lots, back from the brink. Variety wholesalers plans to breathe a new life into the once-dying brand. I mean, I don't know about dying brand. I thought it was dead. But they're adding 132 big lots locations this month.

Well, next month. Today, if you're listening live, is the 30th of April 2025. So tomorrow is May, May 2025 already. The customer response to the newly expanded assortment of fresh inventory and great deals has been overwhelmingly positive. That's what the CEO of variety wholesalers had to say. The Big Lott stores opening in May show our continued commitment to providing the best value to our customers and apparel for the family everyday needs for the home, kitchen, and pantry, plus a huge selection of famous brands. So, Big Lott's, back from the dead. So they opened nine stores last month or this month in April, and that was across six states.

and then they're going to open another 132 stores across 14 states. No Texas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia. So if you're not in any of those states, Big Lots is still dead. You know, speaking of Amazon and making a deal with UPS, I see where, you know, they're a little, well, they got called out by the Trump administration about their terror. markings, they were going to list on their website how much more the product costs because of tariffs. And the Trump administration was, well, unhappy about that. To say the least, they were not happy about it at all. They made a comment at the White House press junket every day that Caroline Levitt does. And then apparently Donald Trump called Jeff Bezos.

and said, hey, I'm unhappy. I don't know what you think you're doing, but let's not do that. And right away, they were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, we, we didn't, we were just kicking that idea around. We weren't really going to do that. And we've, I don't know who let that information out, but it was never approved and it's not going to happen. Oh, okay, great, because other companies are doing that. I mean, TEMU is adding import surcharges, ranging from 130 to 150% to items sold to U.S. customers, and they're showing it on the website for sure. So there's plenty of other companies that are showing that as well.

and, you know, I think there's a, the intimacy product store, Dame that sells, you know, sex toys, business toys. They are showing that you get a $5 Trump tariff surcharge on any of their products. Jolie's skin company, which sells filter water showerheads. I love them. He's building a dedicated software to tack a Trump liberation tariff fee onto his checkout totals. Electronics manufacturer Creston will charge customers a 12% fee to offset tariff costs, a level of pricing transparency that allows the company to adjust the fee if the administration introduces further tariff charges. Oh, that's nice.

Adidas said tariffs will cause higher prices in all of its U.S. products, including Sambas and other popular sneakers. Okay. So other companies are doing it, although many of those companies are not. based here in the United States of America. The ones that are, I'm sure, will be getting a call from Donald Trump. You can bet on that. So if you're looking to, you know, move so you don't have to pay tariffs when you move. Or if you're working for UPS and you may be out of a job and you're looking to move,

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So I don't know. I don't know what he sold it for, but it was listed for $14.5 million. So if you can get this place for $5 million, $5.5 million? Okay. It sits on $5.9.5.5. 5.95 acres, nine beds, 11 bathrooms, a grand foyer with a floating double staircase, marble floors, Florida ceiling windows. Okay. When you look at some of the pictures, it looks really nice inside. It's got an entertainment wing in the manner that features a home theater

with red walls, an indoor pool, two-lane bowling alley, sauna, steam shower, barbershop, recreation room with a bar, fitness center, an indoor basketball court which features one of his most current slogans you got to believe. The eight acre pond that it's on gives you a private dock,

swimming pool, obviously a kitchen with ample entertainment space outside, and it includes a 14 bay garage with two oversized bays. So for five and a half million, that's a good deal. At least in my,

eyes. If I had five and a half million, I may consider, I may consider buying that. Maybe I'd get a hold of real estate agents I trust.com first and I get somebody working on my side. Maybe we could get it cheaper. But you have a shot. You have a shot at getting this place. And I got to tell you, five and a half million, you know, you offer them, I don't know, four point nine cash. Four point nine cash, you probably end. Oh, you know, I got an email. Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com from Mark, who was reminding me about the Kentucky Derby. The beginning of the Triple Crown season starts this Saturday with the Kentucky Derby. Always fun.

And his email from Mark chewing the fat at the blaze.com said, as you know, this is Kentucky Derby Week. Duh. Hello. Big races at Churchill Downs in the lead up. And in today's entries, this email was sent yesterday, there was a horse-nobie-year-old. there was a horse named Bougy is a word. I love it.

And in the second race, and Mark believed that the owner, Hannah Schling, is a Chewing the Fat listener and fan. Well, Hannah, I'd like to say, thank you for listening to Chewing the Fat. I appreciate it. I wish you to let me know

that you named your horse, boogie is a word because we would have been rooting for it. Now, apparently, boozy is a word not that good. finished well behind the winner in the race that Bougy as a word ran so that's

kind of disappointing but I'm really happy that Hannah Schlenk the owner of Bougy as a word as a listener to Chewing the Fat as I'm happy that you're a listener as well thank you I appreciate it you can reach out always at chewing the fat at the blaze.com as the email address for

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Nicole Shanahan, type it all in. Just search for her on the search engine. Welcome to Blaze TV, Nicole. We're excited to have you. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately. So Beyonce is on tour now, a big 32 date tour, and we're darn excited about it. Now, it started in L.A. a couple days ago. And, you know, we heard this morning, Pat, as I was doing Pat Unleashed, and Pat and I have been filling in for Glen Beck Radio.

Pat was saying that tickets were not selling as well as she had hoped. But I was reading this review from Variety and Variety, of course, I mean, they are a suck-up world from Variety. They talked about how good it was. What if Beyonce had put her two latest releases, Renaissance and Cowboy Carter, out as a single project? It seems impossible on the face of it,

given how there are no two albums quite so distinct from one another in anyone's catalog. Well, by gosh, that's what she did. With her show that opened Monday night in L.A.'s Sophie State, the world gets to enjoy an extended what-if moment in which both projects really are conjoined as part of the same era it's a two-hour forty-five minute mashup of hardcore dance

music and country Americana leanings in which neither primary genre has to say don't fence me in it's delirously great blurry boundary-busting fun oh that's great so if you want to You know, catch Beyonce. She's got a few other nights scheduled. Well, 32 of them and 31 now. There's a few more coming up in L.A. May 1st, 4th, 7th, and 9th, all in L.A. at Sofi. And then she goes to Chicago for three performances, May 9th, 15th, and 17th.

And then she goes to New Jersey at MetLife Stadium for one, two, three, four, five shows. May 22nd, 24th, 25th, 28th. 29th. And then she goes to London at the Tottenham Hotspur for one, two, three, four, five, six performances in June, the 7th, the 10th, the 12th, the 14th, and the 16th. Then she goes to Paris for three shows, the 19th, the 21st, and 22nd of June. Then a couple nights in her hometown of Houston, Texas, June 28th, June 29th. DC for a couple of performances, July 4th, and 7th. Ooh, big July 4th performance at Northwest Stadium.

And then Atlanta for four shows, the 7th, 10th, 11th, and 13th, and 14th. No, the 10th, 11th, 13th, and 14th of July in Atlanta. And then she ends this great tour in Las Vegas, Nevada at Allegiance Stadium, July 25th, and 26th. So those are your opportunities to see Beyonce and her new world tour that sounds, well, how did, Variety put it. Deliriously great, blurry, boundary-busting fun. I mean, it seems like she just ended a tour. That, uh, her Renaissance tour, I feel like just ended. But it actually ended in, uh, the end of 2023, according to this.

Boy, it feels like it was later than that. Okay, sure. If you, if you say so, I mean, that tour brought in according to this, $579.8 million and started May 10th, 2023 and ended October 1st, 2023 with 56 shows. 2.78 million in attendance.

Okay. I just feel like it was more than that, but that's what Wikipedia says, so that's what we'll go with. But I feel like that was, that was bigger than that. But anyway, I mean, she just had the Renaissance tour

A little over a year ago And a year and a half ago So calm down with your tours, okay? So I looked at a breakdown of the Yellowstone spin-offs Because I mean, hello, we've got 1883 done 1923 done So there's still got to be some spin-offs going on, right? Well, yes, there are five Yellowstone spin-offs

in various stages of development. Oh, okay. We've got the Beth and Rip spin-off coming. Okay, I guess they are going to buy a 27,000-acre stretch of land that will allow them to make living as ranchers moving forward. So that's going to be their show. And then 1944, with looks to mark the Dutton family's next investment, through the 20th century.

And they haven't talked much about this story, but I guess the backdrop will be World War II. I don't know if Spencer Dutton will be a part of that. I guess he has to be, right? As long as it's 1944. And Spencer is Our John's grandfather. Okay, I guess that's the timeline. And apparently he loses a leg, so we've got that to look forward to.

And then we have The Madison, which is another spin-off story. which is the McIntosh family as they are another Montana family moved from New York and that's going to be set in the present day. So I guess they're, I don't know how they're connected to the Dutton's if they are at all, but it'll be today's timeline as well.

And that's called the Madison. And then you have the Casey Dutton spinoff. So Casey gets in as a spin-off. his character the show I don't know that it has a title for the show

but it's looking for a procedural that explores the character's Navy Seal background okay I like that I don't know

if they're just going to call it Casey or Casey Dutton I'm not really sure when that's going to happen and then we have

the four sixes as of this writing Taylor Sheridan's agenda has been delayed. This show, the four sixes, is about his ranch. And that's a working ranch. So he's saying, hey, take it easy. We're trying to work it out and make everything work out. Okay. So remember, he was in Yellowstone at the end, and he was at the four of sixes, and he had bought another ranch

in Weatherford that they were shooting at. So we'll see. I mean, his character, I guess this show, the four or sixes are supposed to be the adventures of Jimmy Hudstrom, which is, you know, Jimmy from Yellowstone and the four of sixes. So we'll see that one might be fun. I like his character a lot. I don't know that I care so much about, you know, having Travis Wheatley, Taylor Sheridan's character involved. But if it's going to be his ranch, he's going to be involved.

So it's going to be his ranch and he'll be in it. Weird how that happens. But those are some upcoming Yellowstone shows that we have to look forward. two. Let's get to it. I don't know what Taylor Sheridan is doing. I know he's got some other shows that he's taken care of now, but let's get to these too, because we want to see them. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ, built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence. While Peloton

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It's documentaries. No, it's not documentaries. It's documentaries. Documentaries. Yeah, I know. I got it. That's what I said. But you can say it another way if you want, can't you?

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Blaze TV, unfiltered, on Afraid, and Undefraud. demand. I guess, you know, congratulations kind of are in order. Vietnam is marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon today, commemorating the end of the Vietnam War. The military parade in Ho Chi Minh City, the former South Vietnamese capital of Saigon is expected to draw more than 13,000 people. That doesn't seem like that many people, including delegations from several countries. U.S. officials are not on the guest list. Oh boy. Mutual diplomatic decision despite improved relations in recent decades. Yeah, mutual diplomatic decision. Yeah, we don't want you here.

The anniversary marks the day North Vietnamese forces captured the city, ending nearly two decades of war and unifying the country under communist rule. American combat troops withdrew in 1973, but we still had plenty of personnel remaining until 75. Remember on April 30th, 1975, the U.S. launched the largest helicopter evacuation in history, airlifting about 7,000 Americans and the South Vietnamese civilians. The operation began with a coded broadcast of Bing Crosby's White Christmas over Armed Forces Radio, and the war's end also prompted a large migration. So today, more than 1.3 million Vietnamese immigrants live in the U.S.

I don't know if they're celebrating the fall of Saigon. or not today. But I will say, you know, have fun celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and enjoy that. 13,000 people, though. That doesn't seem like that many people.

We had 100,000 at the celebration up in Vancouver this weekend for Filipinos. So they had 100,000 people at the Lapu-Lapu Festival for the Filipinos, and they're only getting 13,000. in Ho Chi Minh City? Okay, all right, sure.

Have fun. Have fun. All right. Who died today? Who died today? All right, well, we begin with Mike Peters. Mike Peters, the lead singer of the Welsh rock band, The Alarm, died at the age of 66. Now, this was following a decade's long battle with cancer.

And you remember, Mike. because he was the author of the 80s Alt Rock Anthems, Blaze of Glory, Spirit of 76, 68 guns, the stand. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Mike Peters, rest in peace, dead at the age of 76.

Oh, no, 66. Holy cow, I didn't need to age him any more than he already was. He passed away. Rest in peace at the age of 66. Then we have David Briggs. David Briggs. This guy was a legend.

He died at the age of 82. Rest in peace. But, I mean, he's a legendary session musician. Known for his keyboard contributions across country, R&B, rock, pop. I mean, he recorded with everybody. You name someone that has a big name in music. He recorded with him. Elvis, Willie, Dolly, Reba, so much more.

he was the co-founder of quadraphronic studio in Nashville and he also that was he partnered with one of the co-founders of Muscle Shoals and they're a fellow musician from Muscle Shoals studios just incredible musician and he I didn't even mention Seeger or Orbison or Bee King I mean the guy is just a legend he had luck cancer. Very sad. So rest in peace to David Briggs. David Briggs, dead at the age of 82.

Then we have Priscilla Pointer. Now, Priscilla played the mother of Carrie. Remember the movie Carrie? She also appeared in Dallas. She was 100 years of age. It does not give a cause of death for Priscilla Pointer. I know. I'm just saying it does.

I realized that she was 100. So rest in peace. She played Carrie with her daughter and six other movies. She also portrayed other mothers. She was Diane Keaton's mother. She was Kyle McLaughlin's mother in Blue Velvet. Sean Penn's in the Falcon and the Snowman. And she was also the mother of Victoria Principal in Dallas.

So, I mean, she did some, she had some chops playing everybody's mom. Love that. Rest in peace to Priscilla Pointer. dead at the age of 100. And then we have Andrew Carpin, Andrew Carpin, founder and CEO of Bleaker Street. Yeah, I know. I mean, Bleaker Street, hello.

And so it's an independent film industry for much of the 21st century. I mean, yeah. So he has passed away at the age of 59. It says here after an extended battle with glioblastoma. I don't wish that on anyone. It's a form of brain cancer. I think that's how you pronounce it. Glioblastoma.

Yeah, it was pretty close. That's pretty close. I'm sorry. What did I say? Glioblastoma. And it's... Glioblastoma. Okay, so I was almost there.

I don't want that to be wished upon anyone. So I don't want anyone to have brain cancer. Very sad. Rest and peace to Andrew Carpin dead at the age of 59. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea.

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Hmm, I wonder about that. So according to this, data from credit card issuers shows that wealthy U.S. consumers are still spending big. But lower income shoppers are pulling back. Hmm. Hmm. And we have a story here that says now might be a good time to book a getaway to Vegas, Miami. Maybe they say, mention Albany. I'm not sure why you would go to Albany for a getaway.

But okay. Flights within the U.S. are getting cheaper as economic uncertainty. certain these spooks would be travelers from planning trips. All right. As I said, last month, fares fell 5.3% from the year before, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some of that may have to do with the Easter travel season

falling in April rather than in March. Ticket prices were also down 4% in February. Were they, though? I've booked a couple of tickets for a few people, and I feel like they weren't down. Anyway, several makes. Major airlines recently pulled their optimistic forecast for the years, travelers think twice before booking tickets.

Yeah. That means airfare sales are coming as airlines try to get butts in their narrow seats. Yeah. All right. So again, according to this, Americans are still flying abroad and filling up those seats. 6.56 million U.S. citizens flew out of the country, up 1.6% from the year before. up 22% from 2019, according to CNBC.

Wow, that's a big jump since 2019. But okay, so, you know, your ticket prices are going down when you want to go spend a weekend in Albany. And why would you go to Vegas when you could go to Albany? And you also, many of you are still flying out of the country. Okay, well, good. Have fun. Have fun when you're flying out of the country. because that's what you need to do when you fly out of the country is have fun.

Maybe you can travel soon with a T-Rex purse. I know. The future is now here. Creative Powerhouse VML, Genomic Innovators, the organoid company, okay, calm down. And the sustainable biotechnology firm Lab Growing Leather have joined. forces to develop the world's first T-Rex leather made using the extinct creature's DNA.

Wow. Tyrannosaurus rex, or T-Rex, as you know him, you love them, was one of the biggest, the most dangerous predators that ever existed. Yeah, okay. But apparently, they have found a way to create his skin, and they're going to do it by the end of this year. So they claim that they have next-gen material, high-quality, cruelty-free, eco-friendly, alternative to standard leather. Okay, according to them, it's a remarkable example of how we can harness cutting-edge genome and protein engineering to create entirely new materials. By reconstructing and optimizing ancient protein sequences, we can design T-Rex leather, a biomaterial inspired by prehistoric biology, and clone it.

into a custom engineered cell line. Okay. So collagen is a protein present in bones, skin, muscles, and various other bodily tissues. While it was previously believed that dinosaur DNA wouldn't survive for millions of years, perhaps they didn't see the documentary, Jurassic Park. Anyway, recent discoveries have found collagen preserved

in various dinosaur fossils. Yeah, we found it in the bones, including this 80 million-year-old T-Rex. So last year, MIT researchers decoded how the dinosaur collagen survived for so long, and they discovered a specific atomic mechanism that shields collagen from water's damaging effects. Okay. So the T-Rex-based leather material creation differs from plant-based synthetic alternatives by focusing on growing biological structures in a lab.

I mean, how many times have I talked about that? This biofabrication process directly cultivates, like tissue from cells. So they're creating T-Rex leather using fossilized dinosaur collagen as a template. Using this, the team will generate a complete collagen sequence for a T-Rex to cultivate new skin. The collagen sequence will be, I don't know, I shouldn't have to tell you this, the collagen sequence will be translated into DNA and introduced into lab-grown leather cells.

Successful implementation of this process is expected to yield a tightly packed college and structure similar to the dermis layer of animal skin, which remains after tanning. If successful, it would produce a leather-like material derived from the ancient T-Rex DNA. Okay, so you're going to have a T-Rex skin purse. I like it. I'm ready to go. My wife does a lot of leather work and has all kinds of animal skins and leather works for her that she makes all kinds of stuff with. But she does not have T-Rex skin.

So I am all about that. And now that we have, we're creating extinct animals, we'll have actual skin that we can use for purses, which is what we need. I mean, the environmental and ethical implications could be huge if adopted on a huge global scale. Uh-huh. If we start using just the DNA to grow with the collagen of whatever, whatever animal we have, We could just grow skin from them. We wouldn't need the actual skin.

Okay, sure. Whatever. They claim to have, they're going to have this T-Rex leather. We'll be first used for accessories with the flagship item targeted for late 2025, as I said. So that's great. You'll be able to wander around with a T-Rex purse. Believe me, people are going to wander around with a T-Rex purse. I mean, I almost want one.

just to walk around with it. All right, let's get out of here. Let's do a joke of the day. I had this joke of the day sent to me. This joke of the day was texted to me, someone in my text group, and said, hey, joke of the day for you. It's not really a joke.

It's more of a thought. And so we'll just go with it. Do women ever sit back and think, and I feel like I've done this before because this is like a thought for the day, but he's sent it to me as a joke of the day. so that's what we'll call it. Do women ever sit back and think,

my man sure does know a lot? Maybe I should just be quiet and listen to him. I mean, it's just asking a question. It's a legitimate question. I think we all know the answer, don't we? Yeah, we do. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.