Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Don’t Do It!... | 11/26/25

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

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Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. A new study details how the immune and central nervous systems implement sickness behavior. It makes perfect sense that when we're battling infection, we lose our desire to be around others. That protects them from getting sick and lets us get much needed rest. What hasn't been clear is how this behavior change happens. So in our research published in Cell, scientists at the Pickauer Institute for Learning and Memory of MIT and Collaborators used multiple methods to demonstrate casually that when the immune system cytokine interleukin dash one beta, you know it as 1L1B or IL-1B or IL-1B. researches the

reaches the IL1 receptor the 1 IL1R1 on neurons in a brain region called the dorsal raf nucleus that activates connections with the intermediate lateral septum to shut down social behavior

Duh according to the studies authors their findings show that social isolation following immune challenge is self-imposed and driven by an active neural process rather than a secondary consequence of physiological symptoms of sickness such as, you know, legathy, legarthlyth, I can't even say the word, such as legathy and the study co-s senior author, Gloria Choi, associate professor at the Pickauer Institute of MIT's Department of Brain

and Cognitive Sciences, along with Jun Howe, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of immunology, the paper's co-senior author. And of course the lead author is Lou Yang, a research scientist at Joy's Lab. So it happens because your body

makes it that way. You're not sick and then you feel like no, since I'm sick, I probably shouldn't go out. Your body is telling you, you're sick, don't go out. Okay, sure. Welcome.

Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Fat 5 Plus. So four more people have been arrested in the investigation into last month's theft's theft. at the Louvre in Paris of the, you know, the imperial jewels. Paris prosecutor, whose office is heading the investigation, described the suspects as two men, age 38 and 39, and two women, age 31 and 40, from the Paris region. Of course, her statement didn't say what role they're suspected of having played, but police can hold them for 96 hours. She was originally the one that said we shouldn't have let out so much information in the beginning as it was. Yeah, I know. So it's really interesting to me.

The police Dragnet apparently has caught another suspected members of the four-person team thought to have carried out the daring robbery. Okay. The highest unfolded when the Louvre. Yeah, we all know that. It took place in broad daylight. Gang took seven minutes to steal the jewels before fleeing on scooters. They parked the moving truck with a ladder below the museum's Apollo Gallery that housed the jewels and then they, you know, they ended up taking one of the men already charged in the heist, a 37-year-old, was in a relationship with the woman

and they have children. Okay, the couple were arrested after their DNA was found in the basket lift used during the robbery. And the man's criminal record contained 11 previous convictions, most of them for theft. First, two men arrested, also known to police for having committed thefts, both lived in Northeastern Parish.

a suburb. Last week, the Louvre Director revealed some new details about the security breach saying the power tools used by the robbers to cut through the display cases were meant for concrete. So, it's a method that had not been imagined at all when the display cases in the Apollo Gallery were replaced in 2019. He said that lawmakers at the new surveillance cameras and anti-intrusin systems will soon be installed installed at the Lou and at the time

they had been designated primarily to counter an attack from inside the museum with weapons. Yeah, that's why they did it the way they did it. The footage from the museum cameras show that during

the robbery, the display cases, they held up great. And they didn't break apart. The video shows how difficult it was for the thieves. Right. Took them seven whole minutes to take what they

wanted. Holy cow. So the Louvre is, you know, this is pretty incredible though. I did not know this. Okay. So it was inaugurated in 1989. And it was, they figured that it would welcome about four million visitors a year. It's already had more than eight million people visiting this year. Wow. They need to, they definitely need to upgrade everything to that place for sure. But you can feel safer. because they've arrested four more people. Have they found the jewels yet? No, they have not. You know, speaking of thefts and crimes,

the Democratic member of the House of Representatives from Florida is under federal criminal indictment. The Justice Department announced that Representative Sheila Shirfliallis McCormick of Florida and three co-defendants have been charged with stealing federal COVID funds and using the money to enrich themselves to finance a political campaign and to buy, among other things, a 3.14-carat diamond ring. It's really strange because they, when you read about what actually happened,

so they started this company, this Trinity Healthcare Services, and entered into agreement with this FDEM to provide nurses, clerical staff and canvassers for the FDEM and FEMA vaccination states. Under the agreement, Trinity was to be paid by FDEM with federal funds provided by FEMA for work Trinity did pursuant to the agreement. Okay, because this happened with her and her brother. They ran Miramar, Florida company called Trinity Healthcare Services. It was wholly owned by two of their family members who are not named in the indictment.

So they became involved with this program, this federal emergency management agency, female, they gave grant to the state agencies. I mean, they were dumping money into every state for these COVID programs. Okay?

Everything's on the up and up so far. So then she submitted the company and her brother submitted an invoice to FDM for payment of $50,578.50 for work done in Jacksonville. on the 21st of July that's a long time because this says on this they submitted for payment in May and they didn't get a they didn't get a deposit in their account until July wow a whole month a month and a half before you before they sent you money okay now the FDM paid the bills

but instead of depositing the 50,000 I'm just rounding off They deposited $5,5,000, $5,570,850. Okay. So in what the indictment called a clerical error. But they just removed the decimal point, a couple of spaces, added two zeros, and bingo, they have $5 million. So that's when her and her brother. decided that oh man we probably shouldn't say anything and that's where the trouble begins because they should have gone to FDEM and said hey it's like you made a big mistake here and the indictment

says they did no such thing and so then they had the overpayment they did nothing with the money for a month looks like for a month and then they decided oh yeah we're going to take a screenshot of the bank accounts activity, and I texted it to Edwin, and it appears the two did nothing for a month. Yeah, then according to the indictment, they did a lot. They moved to $2 million.

They moved half of it to another bank account, and it goes on and on how they moved the money around, and then they sent money to themselves and the company, and they sent money to friends who then donated the money to her campaign, the maximum amount that they could. And that's when they bought things that they shouldn't have. So it all stemmed from them not owning up to the mistake payment from the government. That's why you talked about, you know, what would happen if, let's say, you woke up and you got $5 million in your bank account, what do you do?

You know it's not yours. People have happened before and they spend it just like this Sheila Sheriff Litts McCormick, the congresswoman from Florida and her brother and a couple other co-defendants. and they decided to keep it and move it around and hide it and move on and nobody will ever notice wrong so really the plan the thing that you should do if you're not going to contact them and let them know that you screwed up which you know you should put it in another bank account just let it sit there don't spend it you can't use it just sit in another bank account and let it earn interest so that when they come for it you can say yeah heck i didn't know where it came from i just i just moved it out of the way so i didn't have it now they technically i think they

could take it all even the interest that was made but usually you could make the deal like oh here you go you can have it back i'm just going to keep the interest you sent it to me i've been using the money and i want uh i'll make a little bit of money you probably can work that deal out um and if not then you know you're you're really out nothing but you just out what you thought you had which is a lot to take but it'd be tough though all of a sudden you got five million in your account woof and you're supposed to say hey um i think that you're you sent me five million dollars instead of 50,000 and uh what would you like me to do with it i mean that's what you're supposed to do that's what she should have done that's not

what they did. Big night tonight if you're a Stranger Things fan. If you're listening live, today is the 26th of November, 2025, the day before Thanksgiving, 2025. And the long-awaited final season of Stranger. things drops tonight on Netflix. It's marking the end of an era that began in

2016. If you are willing to wait nearly four years for the conclusion, then you're willing to endure Netflix plan for releasing the final episodes. Remember four come out tonight, then three will be

released on Christmas, and the finale arrives on New Year's Eve. So they're milking the next month with Stranger Things to say goodbye, the final episodes of Stranger Things. But you got the first four tonight, so enjoy. And then, you know, you're into Thanksgiving broadcasting, right? You have the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

I believe it's the 99th time. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will wind its way through the streets of Manhattan. So you get the floats, the bands, and Santa Claus, of course, at the end. Hello. all the balloons and so it'll be awesome we get uh there's a see i think there's new characters this year too uh five new characters among a ray of 34 balloons okay so you get the classic video icons pac man and mario joined buzz light year from the toy story franchise a derpy tiger from netflix k-pop demon hunters and the onion carriage with eight characters from dream

where it's Shrek movies. Yay. So you get those. It'd be cool to have Buzz Lightyear, though. Looking forward to seeing that. And Pac-Man's kind of cool, too. Let's see. How big is Pac-Man?

Pac-Man is 40 feet in length, 38 feet, almost the same size and width, 37 feet high. Buzz Lightyear is 58 feet in length, with 39 feet width, and 45.5 feet wide. Yeah. Okay, it'd be kind of cool.

Absolutely, the new balloons. The Shrek one is awesome. That'll be great to see. So, I mean, I love the, I like the parade, and it's fun to watch it, and fun to see the stupid people performing in front of the, in front of Macy's, and you've got Lany Wilson will be there, and you'll have plenty of superstars performing at Macy's, and you may or may not see them depending on which network you're watching. watching the broadcast on.

And, you know, parades are fun because you have to be so nice. And all the parade is is just reading ads for the particular company that sponsors whatever float, whatever play, whatever musical is being danced to, whatever band is singing on the float, whatever it is, that's the sponsor and that's what you're talking about. I mean, that's why we started the stupid parade, the Gasparilla Parade broadcast in Tampa years ago with Glenn and Stu and myself is just because they're so terrible and we just wanted to be even more terrible and we were and that's what made it fun and apparently people liked it so

we had to keep doing it but the parade broadcaster agonizing then we have the dog show of course i got to watch the dog show love i'm a big fan of the dog show i love uh love sitting around trying to pick uh who the judges are going to pick uh i'm pretty good i'm not bad i'm not bad i'm picking And I always, I love, I love watching the walkers. I love to be, would love to have been a walker, you know, just walking those stupid dogs up and down. It's so much fun watching them because it's just, they're just terrible. Anyway, it's fun to watch that. And then we're looking at football, right?

I mean, holy God, we've got football on Friday, football on Saturday, football on Sunday. That's going to be a football weekend. And I am looking forward to that. Plus, it's rivalry weekend. I'm actually really looking forward to that. Missouri plays Arkansas. We should win that game, but it wouldn't surprise me if we freaking lost the way we've been playing,

but we should win that game. And we're already going to a bowl game, but there's no way that we're in the playoffs for sure is not going to happen. And then BYU plays UCF. They should win that game. They should be 11 and 1 after this weekend. And are they going to make it to the play? playoffs doubtful the way they've been treated unless somebody loses they have a better record than

three other teams in front of them but you know who cares it doesn't matter right it's b yu and then uh Nebraska plays iowa on friday night and then you got ohio state michigan on saturday all eyes will be on that game because ohio state is undefeated and uh ryan day has had a tough time uh tough time uh beating michigan in the last four years guys won the national championship but he can't beat michigan that's what it sounds like i mean he did win uh he did beat michigan i think it's first year and then he hasn't won since but he's won a national championship still can't beat michigan so we'll see how that game goes that'll be it'll be fun to watch be sure to follow me on my social media at geoffie jfr on x jeffisher radio on facebook and instagram uh you can

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But I'd like for you to get the discount. So blazTV.com slash jeffy get you $20 off, the annual subscription. I see Apple is on track to overtake Samsung. Yeah, right. As the world's top smartphone maker for the first time in more than a decade, thanks to the popular iPhone 17. Now, that's, you know, being reported, but I don't know that that's happened yet, and I don't think it will.

But they're saying that it might, so we shall see. Dick's sporting goods, you know, they are all encompassing now. They are planning to close several foot locker stores as part of a restructuring next year. So don't get too familiar and too lovey-dovey with that foot locker with that foot locker that's right around the corner from your house. because, man, you don't want to get too used to that because, well, it's going away. So you'll be bummed. Also, I see where Spotify has claimed they're going to raise their U.S. prices next year. You know, all these platforms, I'm telling you what, I'm really getting frustrated.

They all think they're worth so much. Spotify is going to raise its U.S. subscription prices in the first quarter of next year. The Swedish streaming giants said that it would raise price. to 1382 a month from from see what that's what they put it in euros i don't know that per month from 10.99 euros in markets uh okay so i don't quite understand it so uh they're going to raise its prices to 1199 euros which is 1382 per month from 1099 euros okay so it's going up two bucks got it got it 1090 no one dollar 1099 to 119 so all right so um next year's hike is going to be the first price increase in the united states since well since june of 2024 you know we haven't raised our

prices in a little over a year how can we survive i don't know the answer to that question but uh they certainly know the answer that it's been since june of 2024 and that's too long Who died today? today well we'll start with this 22 year old man who we don't know his name uh for some reason when you decide that you're going to swallow an entire hamburger in one bite at a restaurant in athens greece and then uh you look and you start choking and rushing outside and you couldn't get any oxygen for over three minutes and people were trying to help you and hymlic you and tried to give authorities were called apparently uh they

They don't want to give you, they don't want to tell people your name. So rest in peace, because he didn't make it. He didn't make it. Now, he was trying to, you know, swallow this hamburger hole. Now, they said originally that this was some internet craze, you know, a viral video craze. But no, authorities confirmed it wasn't a social media challenge. It was just a split-second decision that ended in tragedy. Yeah, you think?

so if you're sitting at a rest in peace to the 22 year old unnamed boy man who decided I could swallow this burger hole not really you can't and you won't be able to breathe and you'll be deprived of oxygen and we'll take you to the hospital but you're not going to make it so apparently if you're sitting along the Thanksgiving table and you think I think I think this old turkey leg down my throat. Don't do it. Don't do it. While it might be entertaining,

and someone at the table might say, go ahead. Let's see what you got. Don't do it. Don't do it. Just don't even say it out loud. Because as soon as you say it out loud, somebody's going to dare you.

And then you're going to have to, you know, you're going to have to get double dog dared or triple dog dared or something. But sooner or later, if you say it out loud somebody's going to have to try to put a turkey leg down their throat and now you just don't want to do that do you no you don't and i see where croger apparently is closing uh one of the few of their facilities and i don't know if it's good or bad uh they're ambitious

automation bets in american grocery they're closing three high tech fulfillment centers uh effectively you know i guess drawing a line under the 2.6 billion push to reinvent how it fills online orders. So I'm not sure as the company shutters these facilities and pairs back its partnership with Okato. Okay. You know, they're not going to use these automated fulfillment centers is the clearest sign that I guess this Okato powered model didn't deliver the returns that they were promised

or envisioned. So they were trying to automate warehouses and how to handle the e-commerce orders to scale. I don't know. I don't know if this is good or bad. I think it's good. I feel like it's good. I feel like it's good for Kroger

and it's good for customers because they're going to get humans now taking care of their orders. Doesn't that make it better? Of course it does. Of course it does. So any time that we can get rid of the automated robotic systems in favor of humans, that's a good thing for now. That is a good thing.

All right. I guess it's get out of here. It's Thanksgiving. It's time to celebrate Thanksgiving. Don't worry about the extreme weather that's expected to cause traffic delays and flight disruptions. Don't worry about that. And there's going to be winds and blizzard conditions and parts of the music. and rain and fog along the east coast and in the northwest.

So I don't worry about it. It's still going to get the Macy's Day parade. I think New York is supposed to clear up, you know, in time for the parade, but it's supposed to be windy and big, strong gust of wind. So we may see a balloon take off, which would be awesome. I don't want the, I don't necessarily want the balloon handlers to be flying through the air, but it would be awesome. to see, you know,

Buzz Lightyear flying through the air without any handlers because they couldn't hold him down. And the brand new Buzz Lightyear balloon is now flying across the crying across the New York City, the five boroughs, and maybe headed out into the Atlantic,

or maybe back across into the state side. But either way, it would be awesome to see, wouldn't it? Of course it would. I will tell you, I promise that if that happens, I will have video of the gigantic Macy's Day balloon flying through the air alone or with a balloon handler hanging on. I don't want to, I mean, it's not funny. It's not funny to think of someone like, you know, your friend or your daughter or your son.

He's getting to hold onto the ropes of Buzz Light here. And then off it goes and everybody lets go, but him, her, or them, they, it. And we get video footage of him flying through the air. Would not be funny, but I'm looking at the video for sure. All right, let's get out of here with the jokes of the day. You know, I've been giving you, you know, multiple little family-friendly Thanksgiving jokes

the last money and Tuesday during the Fat Fat Five Plus shows So I might as well end it with Let's see, one, two, three, four, five. I've got five jokes here for you. Five more. I've given you, how many have I given you already? I mean, holy cow.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I've given you seven already. I'm giving you five more to get you through Thanksgiving. Okay, this is for your Star Wars freaks. What did Han Solo say to Luke Skywalker? on Thanksgiving you come on now may the forks be with you sad but you can use it if you want what does Dracula call Thanksgiving I don't know what does Dracula call Thanksgiving Thanksgiving so sad when does a loaf of bread rise when you yeast expect it

so stupid okay what is the best megan trainer song to play while making thanksgiving dinner yeah it's all about the baste baby think about it and what did dad say when everyone asked him to stop making thanksgiving jokes and you can use this you start out with all these other jokes and somebody's going to say stop stop with the thanksgiving jokes and then you can say i can't quit cold turkey yeah you can use them all you can use them all couple of vets of me i know i know you're welcome happy thanksgiving Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at Theblaze.com slash podcasts.