Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Don’t Look at Me… | 4|10|26

Episode Date: April 10, 2026

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According to this, Japan is home to more than 21,000 7-Eleven stores. Wait, what? I don't know that that's true. But if it is, wow. So I always kind of wanted to, you know, maybe visit Japan. But now, I mean, I guess I want to go there just to get a slurpy every time I turn the corner. 21,711s in Japan. So, according to this, Japan has so many 7-Eleven stores, 21,770 to be exact, that if you visited one every single day, it would take you 60 years to see them all. I don't want to spend 60 years in Japan. But, you know, I would like to go and maybe get a slurpy wherever you're at in Japan, and you can make that happen if this is true. So when you go to Japan, be ready because the only place to shop apparently is 7-Eleven. Welcome.

Welcome to Towing the Fat. Fat 5 Plus. This is amazing to me. So every school day, we've all had to stop for the yellow school buses. I mean, the red flashing lights and the stop arm swings out. And, you know, you have to wait for the. kids to get off the school bus and whether they cut in front of the school bus or they go right off. I mean, I think most of the time they try to let the kids get off on the same side, but not always.

And according to this, approximately 39 million times a year. That's the national estimate for illegal school bus stop-arm violations. Wow. Every school, according to, if that's true, every school bus in the country gets illegally passed roughly once every three days. That's according to Buses for Sale.com. And of course, they wouldn't lie to us. So apparently, you know, no one knows that this is actually happening, or at least most parents don't. So I guess now, according to the governor's highway safety association,

love them, and bus patrol, they released the first ever comprehensive 50 state national action plan for eliminated illegal school bus passings. Now, the report informed nearly 500 safety experts, law enforcement officials, federal regulators, and child safety advocates at the inaugural National School Bus Safety Summit in December of last year. Boy, I bet you that was fun.

But they wanted to put the numbers to a problem that most Americans sense, but few fully grasp. I mean, I've seen it happen before. I don't know that I have actually ever done it. If I, you know, if I've done it, I've done it by accident. I have been, I haven't been pulled over, but there is an area close to my house that, you know, is a school area. So you've got to slow down for the school area. And I was coming off a red light and I was accelerating and there's a cop sitting there and he flashed his lights at me.

And I was like, oh, crap, that's right. the school area and I slowed down. Could he given me a ticket? Sure. But he didn't. He just flashed his lights like, yo, hey, be smart, dummy. And I was. So, I mean, I'm very good about it. I am. I passed by one school area often in my neighborhood.

And it's as agonizing as it is. Like, ah, I got to go up it down to 20 miles an hour. I do it. I know, I know. And so, I mean, you have to do it. It's for the kids. I know. I get it. So beyond fatalities, more than 13,000 injuries occur annually.

And then there's the category that almost never gets counted, the near misses. Children who watched a car blow pass at full speed while they stood, you know, two feet from the road. Kids who, as one bus patrol official told school transportation news, will forever associate getting on and off the bus with the moment they thought they might be killed. Yeah, think of those kids earlier this week. week that had the school bus driver not stop at the railroad tracks and you see her past the railroad tracks and the train comes by and just misses the bus. I mean, they claim, I guess, that the train did scrape the bus. You can't tell in the video. I mean, it's close. But no one was hurt and no one

was injured and the driver, you know, obviously, it's got no business driving a bus because you hear the video. And no, there's the railroad stop. Stop me. Um, yes. supposed to. You're a school bus driver. In fact, you're supposed to stop, which I kind of, you know, I understand, but it just drives me crazy. You're supposed to stop at every railroad track, open your door and stop completely and make sure there's no train coming, then you can start up again. That is just agonizing, but it's for the kid's safety. I know. I get it. I get it. So drivers who illegally pass a school bus don't expect to be caught. Well, I mean, they, I'm guessing most of them, I know not all of them, but most of them do it on accident, right?

They just is like, ah, I was going to rob the bus, and they, you know, it's too late. Although, maybe they do do it on purpose, because they don't care. Anyway, so right now, bus drivers are trying to monitor the road, manage students, operate the vehicle, aren't equipped to capture plate numbers. Without a plate number, most citations go nowhere, and without citations, the behavior repeats, right? So research consistently shows that what changes driver behavior is the perceived likelihood of being caught. Yeah, well, I mean, that's the speed limits and that's what everyone, that's the perceived likelihood of being caught, pretty much hinders a lot of crime.

So according to the GHSA, the 50 state roadmap includes 69 specific recommendations spread across every level of the system that the state highway safety offices, law enforcement school district bus drivers. So key recommendations include deploying automated stop-arm camera systems on school buses to capture violations without relying on driver reports. At least 30 states have already passed laws enabling camera-based enforcement. I really guess I don't have a problem with that. Put a camera on there and let's catch the bad guys. We've got cameras everywhere else.

Why not have cameras there? But I just find it amazing. And you should always watch it. out for the buses at all times. And you should be passing them when they have their arms out and their lights flashing. But it happens 39 million times a year. That's incredible. We definitely need to do something about that for sure.

I know. Normally I would be, you know, against something like this, but, you know, it's for the kids. And as it says, everyone has a bus story, right? These kids saying, they're near with a near misses. Well, what about the bus driver? that shortstopped me when I was a little kid, almost poked my eye out. I may have told that story before. I still have the little scar up here on my left eye. The bus driver had told me, look, we lived on a dead end road. Okay. So when he would drop me off at the dead end road,

some days, if it was, you know, bad weather or whatever, he would drop me off at the end of the at the end of the road. That's where he picked me up. I had to walk all the way down to the end of the dead end road, which is our driveway to get the bus. Now, and then he would, if it was a good day during the summer or, you know, during the spring and fall, he would drive me down to the end and circle around, drop me off. But he got mad at me when I would stand up early. We are on my road, bro, I'm going to stand up and drive it down. And he was like, now you got to sit down.

You got to sit down. And so he short stops me. I'm pulling into the driveway and I fall down and I smash my. eye, my head along this little metal piece, and I was bleeding, and damn near, damn near put my eye out. And in today's world, I would have owned that. I would own the school. I would own the school bus system. I would have owned the school bus driver.

But then I just get off the bus and my mom's there, and what happened? And he stood up. He shouldn't have stood up early. I told him not to stand up. And my mom's like, yeah, you shouldn't have stand up. Let's go. And in the house, we go. and, you know, she doctors me up and off we go.

That's how bad times have changed. I mean, how good times have changed. As long as we're talking about safety on the roads, just remember, I mentioned it the other day on the Fat Five that I do on Pat Gray unleashed. Heads up from the Texas Department of Public Safety, I mean, a reminder. Now through the 13th. So if you're listening live, today is the 10th of April, 2026. now through the 13th, they have increased patrols.

This was a directive from Texas. I'm sure this happens all over the country. So just be on the lookout. It's the annual distracted driving campaign. Troopers are going to be on the lookout for drivers who are texting, not moving over, or slowing down, or committing other violations. Isn't that what they do? Anyway, I guess they're going to be looking at it more than they normally do.

So put down the phone, stay alert, move on. over, slow down. Together we'll save lives. Yeah, okay. I mean, sometimes I saw a couple years ago, they were renting buses, leasing buses, and they were just driving the highways looking down into cars to see if people were, you know, texting on their phone, talking on their phones, and then they would have the police officers in separate vehicles up the road pulling them over. I don't like that one little bit. There's a smart move on their part. I just doesn't mean I have to like it. Where are my gloves?

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and his wife, Beth, were hit with a lawsuit filed by their former assistant who claimed she was fired from a hostile work environment. So the couple has been named in the lawsuit filed in New York court by a woman named Leslie Cohn, who claims she worked as the Stern's executive assistant and was booked busy by Beth after being asked to move into their 20,000 square foot Southampton mansion. Wow, okay. Coon said she was axed by the Howard Stern show host and his wife,

less than two years after relocating to live in their home, alleging her firing came as a result of the hostile work environment and enablement of that hostile work environment, immense pressures on the household, created by irresponsible and untenable animal rescue and fostering operations occurring on-site, and massively disorganized and questionable business operations and accounting practices. Upon being fired, Coom claimed she was presented with the ironclad NDA by Howard's production company, 112, insisting the document was made to look like it was signed years prior when she first began working for the Stearns. Coon said that the papers were signed before she participated in any interviews and believes her signature is nothing more that her typewritten name in the same font style and size used to identify the party's names in the recital of the agreement. So they lied about her signing this NDA, according to her, of course.

So she in the lawsuit is asking the judge to declare the NDA unenforceable and order her to, in order her to, in order. for her to legally disclose details of her employment and openly discuss accusations that the Stearns may use against her. So we'll see. So first of all, we've got to have the judge say, yeah, the NDA was a lie. Once that happens, then we're going to get more information about what really goes on inside that Stern house. I can't wait. We need to start having some kids. The U.S. fertility rate hit another record low in 2025. calling from 53.8 to 53.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. This is according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data that was released yesterday.

The decline extends a nearly two decades slide and reflects a broader shift toward later childbearing and smaller families. Yeah. I mean, people still have a lot of business. They just don't want to have babies. Now, the provisional data shows 3,606,400 total births last year, down 1% from 2024. Teen fertility dropped 7% to 11.7 births per 1,000 females, age 15 to 19, while births to that group fell 8% to 125,933. Rates for younger teens, 15 to 17, and older teens, 18 to 19, also reached record lows. While the rate of women ages 30 to 34 rose 3%. Okay, that's good. Since 2007, the overall

birth rate has fallen 23%. Wow. The news follows a global trend of declining fertility, with most nations falling short of the roughly 2.1 children per women needed for stable populations. Yeah, we need to be having some kids. You can still take care of a little bit, but you need to be having kids. 2.1 children's per family. And you need to make that happen. It's interesting that they're talking about the teen births, 15 to 19.

I thought we were supposed to be against all that. But no, if we want to have some babies and we want to keep our country strong, we need to have young women having babies. Right? Right. Right.

And then once you have the babies, you can take them to the Candy Hall of Fame. Yes, the Candy Hall of Fame. Now that is in Chicago now. They're going to move it to Chicago. They were selected over New York City and Orlando. It's going to host the Candy Hall of Fame Experience. The attraction will span 60,000 square feet along the magnificent mile. It's expected to open the summer of 2027. So have those babies. And then as they get older, you can run them down to the Candy Hall of Fame experience there in Chicago on Michigan Avenue. and it looks like it's going to be great.

It's going to focus on the history of the confectionary industry. Boy, I bet you that's fun. It actually probably is interesting. Highlighting iconic brands and the innovators behind them. Plus, if they're going to run away free candy, let's go. Organizers say the experience will be immersive and interactive. Yeah, we get candy. Designed to engage visitors of all ages.

Yeah. Chicago's influence on the candy world dates back generations, including its connections. to the 1893 World's Fair, where every chocolate-making techniques helped inspire future industry leaders. Did it? Didn't really, though?

The city's been home to some of the country's most recognizable candy companies, including Ferrara, Mars, Brock's, Tootsie, and Wrigley. The legacy helped Chicago secure the spot to host the exhibition. So, let's just wait, it's just an exhibition? It's not the actual... It's not where it's going to stay?

organizers will host the exhibition, I guess. So I guess it's going to be there forever. The project is currently slated open summer of 2027. Additional details will be announced as the project progresses. So I guess it's going to be there forever. But this makes it seem like it might not be. I don't know. But have kids and go to the Candy Hall of Fame experience, would you?

Make that happen. baseball season is just getting underway and we've talked about some of the new foods that the stadiums show off and they always do every year they show off something new trying to bring the fans in and have them excited about the new opening day

and the new season and what the new season can bring and we want new foods but really we want the classics and that's all we care about because I was looking at the Toronto Blue Jays these fans ate over 90,000 hot dogs on dollar hot dog night. That's all we want.

The regulars, yeah, just bring us in, give us dollar hot dog night. We're going to down some hot dogs, okay? They ate 90,708 hot dogs during the team's first $1 hot dog night of the season. One of the highest single game totals ever recorded at Rogers Center. That's the Blue Jays Stadium. That breaks down to roughly two and a half hot dogs, fan, proving once again the Dollar Dog Nights remained one of baseball's

most popular and chaotic traditions. Yeah, no kidding. All right, so that's, see, the early numbers like this, they're on pace to surpass the season's total of 826,308 hot dogs, potentially topping a million this year. And it doesn't say, it says

the packed crowds, cheap seats, viral fan moments, yeah, dollar hot dog night, and continues to see a must-see event. It doesn't say how many fans were at the stadium for dollar hot dog night. Let's find that out. Okay, so they had 38,871 fans that night. So that's 2.3 hot dogs per person.

And they won over the Colorado Rockies. So good for them. Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays. And also congratulations on a dollar hot dog night. that needs to happen more often around the country. Dollar Hot Dog Night. I used to have a guy I used to work for when I worked for Win Dixie 100 years ago. I was working on Madeira Beach, Madere Beach, Florida.

And he was the manager of the Madeer Beach, Win Dixie. Ray George was his name. I loved that man. He was a good man. And we used to, he used to just buy one of those little beach grills. And you get the charcoal and the sodas and the small bags of chips and the, uh, Winn-Dixie, the Czech drink sodas and hot dogs and buns. And he would sell, you know, a hot dog, a bag of chips and a soda.

I forget for how much. I think like, you know, two or three bucks. Maybe it was more than that. I don't remember. It's a long time ago. But that's a good way to make a few extra bucks right there. Just set it up. Well, you need a permit.

Well, if they come and ask you for a permit, pack it up and go home. But it's a good way to make a couple of bucks. Just get a little grill, set it up, and get the cheap sodas and the cheap bag of chips, the cheap hot dogs, the cheap buns. And you can sell a hot dog, a soda, and a bag of chips in today's world, for five bucks, probably, just a $5 bill. I'll get you a hot dog, a bag of chips and a soda. and get out of here.

And if somebody comes up and says, all I got, man, I only got three bucks. Okay, get out of here. So you make a deal with them. But that's a good way to make a few bucks. No problem. Maybe you undercut it. Maybe you just say you get a hot dog and a soda

or a hot dog and a bag of chips and maybe not a soda for, you know, three bucks or something like that. But it's a good way to make a couple extra bucks. Just, you know, be careful. Because if they ask you for a permit, you just have to either lie or, you know, tell him you don't have it and pack it up.

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Nothing to do with it. Nothing at all. I had nothing to do with Artemis II going up either, but I was excited about it, and it's now coming back. The Orion capsule, Artemis 2, due to re-enter Earth's atmosphere today, the 10th of April.

It's going to make water landing around 8.07 p.m. Eastern in the Pacific Ocean. off the coast of San Diego, California. So that'll be fun to watch. Let's all hope and pray that nothing goes wrong. It's been a pretty good trip around the moon for the Artemis 2 astronauts and the Orion capsule.

So that's good news. Man, that is good news. That means we can keep the ball moving and get the ball moving faster to get the rest of us to the moon, and then onward to Mars. But let's get back to the moon and get our buildings set up and taken over. So everyone knows that the moon is ours. And you can stay over there if you want.

China, yeah, you can stay over there. India, yeah, you can stay over there. Canada, they're never going to get up here. But if they do, they're going to have that spot over there. But the rest of it, yeah, that's all ours. Okay, let's do who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with actor Michael Patrick,

Michael Patrick, dead at the age of 35. Now it says here that Michael Patrick, an Irish actor, known for his work in Game of Thrones and on stage, has died at the age of 35, battling motor neuron disease. Yeah, I don't wish that on anyone, motor neuron disease. He was surrounded by family and friends.

I spent the last days in the hospital, and they're all brokenhearted. So a motor neuron disease encompasses several neurological disorders, including amoeotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, in which the body's motor neurons experience premature degeneration, leading to difficulty with bodily functions, such as breathing, swallowing, talking and walking, pretty much everything you do, and there's currently no cure. Very sad. seriously do not wish that on anyone. Now, let's back up just a little bit.

Game of Thrones actor, all right? I don't remember this guy in Game of Thrones. So I'm looking it up. I'm like, I feel bad. Like, I watch Game of Thrones. I've watched it more than once. I should know this guy. Well, I apologize for not knowing him.

He was in one episode in season six. But hey, it's brushed with greatness. If I was in one episode of Game of Thrones, I would be saying, yeah, I'm a Game of Thrones. actor. Me too. Yeah, me too. I was in one episode in season six. Yeah, that's me. He was in television series, Blue Lights,

this town, blast from the past. He was in some plays. So, there you go. Rest in peace to my man, Michael Patrick, dead at the age of 35. Then we have Jim Whitaker, Jim Whitaker dead at the age of 97. Don't look at me like you don't know who Jim Whitaker is.

Jim Whitaker was REI's first full-time employee and manager. This guy was a monster. Now, my wife loves REI. Recreational Equipment Incorporated, okay? It loves REI. It's all the camping stuff. In 63, Tensing, Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first confirmed climbers to reach the top.

of Mount Everest. Well, Whitaker, an R-A-I employee at the time, became the first American to summit Everest. He wasn't having none of those other people doing it. The next year, sales at R-EI reached a million dollars for the first time. Thanks to him. I mean, it was the first one, the first American to reach the summit at Everest, and he was an R-E-I guy. In 75, he attempted to summit K-2, but was forced back due to weather. In 1978, you led a K-2-X-EV. expedition in which he intentionally remained at lower camps to help the first Americans reach the top without him. In 2013, he told the Seattle Times of mountain climbing and uncertain conditions, you always start up because you can always turn around. Those are his wise words.

So those are wise words from Jim Whitaker. You always start up because you can always turn around. Rest in peace to Jim Whitaker. The first full-time employee and manager of REI dead at the age of 97. Another thing that's, you know, not dead yet, but I guess it kind of is a Saturday night live. I haven't watched it in a long time. I guess maybe they're getting better. I don't know. I really don't have any idea.

I see some clips sometimes and they're just okay. But I was, I see the headline. I can't even speak. As I was seeing and looking through headlines, I saw one headline that says, Saturday Night Live reveals Olivia Rodrigo, Matt Damon, and Will Ferrell as hosts for the final episodes of its 51st season, which concludes May 16th.

So its 51st season is over May 16th? I mean, that seems a little, seems like a short season. But hey, whatever, it's just me. You guys keep up to good work, no problem. So Saturday at Live, be over, but we'll be able to enjoy the ACMs

because they take place May 17 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Prime Video once again has exclusive rights to the live airing, which begins at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific,

viewable on the Amazon music channel, Twitch, as well as Amazon music app. Wow. Okay, the ACMs. So, Megan Maroney, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, and Laney Wilson are the leading nominees for the 2026 ACM Awards. Wow, no men. The Academy of Country Music, Dick Clark Productions announced. Moroni leads the pack with nine nods.

Lambert and Langley with eight. Langley and Wilson, oh, I'm sorry, Lambert has eight. Langley and Wilson have seven. The first male artist, yeah, doesn't even show up on the list. Chris Stapleton was six. good, he deserves it. Zach, top has five nominations for this year's ACMs. Riley Green and Cody Johnson are tied with four.

So congratulations to all those nominees for the 2026 ACM Awards. All right, let's get out of here. The two in the fat, fat five plus for the day needs to be over. Thank you for listening. I appreciate it, especially you. I really appreciate you so much. and thank you for listening to Chewing the Fat. Fat 5 Plus. So here's the joke of the day.

I'll get you out of here. A joke sent to Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com from Neil. Neil says, what's the difference between a tax auditor and a Rottweiler? I don't know. What's the difference between a tax auditor and a Rottweiler? A Rottweiler eventually lets go. It's just a joke. Not just a joke.

I don't start looking at me, IRS. Oh, they already are? Okay, never mind.