Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - No Really, You’re Sick… | 4|03|26

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Erroneous order of bananas, or was it?... Airlines raising prices due to jet fuel prices… New AHA guidelines… Reese’s going back to more chocolate… PETA happy with some changes in animal testing…   Email: [e-mail] www.blazetv,com/jeffy Save $20 on an annual subscription Or www.blazetv.com/pat Limited time offer $45 off annual subscription Masonic Lodge trial in France… Mt Everest rescue scam… Bic heirs want their painting… Museum get treasures back… Art stolen last few years for ransom… Who Died Today:  Bradrick Michael Wells 27… Windsurfer and a whale… Croc filled waters in Northern Territory… Super Mario Galaxy already number one… Ellison claims growth while cutting… Joke(s) of The Day…   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A supermarket in Orkney. That's an archipelago. And I got to say that word right. An archipelago. Is that right? Archipelago. Yeah, that's what I said. Orkney and Arca...

Arcapelago. Yeah, that's what I said. Off the coast of Scotland, you might want to stick around for a little while. You know, I might need you throughout the show. All right. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it very much. Anyway, off the coast of Scotland, erroneously,

according to this story, erroneously, ordered a shipment of 38,000 bananas, nearly twice as many as the number of people who live there. Was it erroneously, though? Because I just saw a story where people were arrested in the UK after nearly $100 million worth of cocaine was found hidden in bananas. The choice to hide cocaine inside a shipment of bananas is not an unusual one, according to authorities around the world. They have said in recent months that the substance has been seized from shipments of fruit, including in Russia, Norway, the Dominican Republic, Greece, and Bulgaria in addition to the UK. Is Scotland part of the UK?

Oh, they're just a constituent country, that's all. Okay. So again, I ask, was the shipment of 38,000 bananas to Orkney, erroneous? Hmm. I don't think so. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Fat 5 Plus.

So according to this, travel plans are cut slim, or, put on limbo. I guess it would be in limbo. As a potential jet fuel shortages are happening, stemming from the Iran War, it's not a war, by the way. Put pressure on airlines to cut flights and raise airfares. Oh yeah, big time. According to Delta, they said jet fuel costs ballooned by 400 million in March. Alaska Air American and United have repeated similar warnings. Yeah, but they all just thought it was a good idea to raise their baggage fees, I'm sure. So you don't have to worry about that. That's more money as well.

Average global airfares jumped 24% to $465 of the week beginning a month ago, compared with the same time last year, according to Airfare Tracker, O-A-G. Love them. Transatlantic flight tickets 20 days out already cost $200 more. on average than they did a month ago. United said it's cutting 5% of its flights in off-peak periods during the next two quarters to offset rising expenses. Okay, so if you're planning international trips over the next few months, that dropped as well.

So you're not alone if you thought, you know what, we're not going to do that. The budget airline spirit, work on thinner margins, I guess. They're at higher risk. Yeah, well, they're going to, they apparently budget said, oh no, Ryanair, a CEO, Michael O'Leary, refused to rule out price increases.

Yeah, of course they're going to raise prices. Duh. And, you know, look, gas is going up all over. It isn't just the airlines that are putting up more gas prices. Have you filled up your tank lately? because I have. And I don't like it. I don't like that $389 a gallon.

Those of you listening in places around the country that are paying $4 and $5 a gallon, bless your hearts. And those of you around the world that are paying, you know, more $6, $7, $8 a liter. I got it. I know, I understand. Man, I do not like it at all. $40 just ain't what it used to be.

You know what I'm saying? I think you do. So the American Heart Association's new nutrition guidance, and you know how important that is that we follow. Of course you do. They released, they have a new nutrition guidance plan that they just released. It emphasizes a dietary pattern, rich in vegetables, fruits and whole grains,

prioritizing plant-based protein over meat. It also suggests limiting the use of sugar, salt, and ultra-processed foods, and replacing full fat dairy with non-fat and low-fat dairy. Huh. I goes against what the Trump administration and Maha said for sure. The new slate of dietary guidelines that recommended Americans eat more protein from both animal and plant sources and encourage the consumption of full fat dairy.

That's what I thought. Okay. The federal government's recommendation of use of beef tallow and consumption of red meat, where the American Heart Association is pushing for plant-based proteins, such as legumes, nuts, and seeds. Man, you can't. You can't give me enough legumes. Choosing low-fat or fat-free dairy.

And when consuming red meat, selecting lean cuts, avoiding processed for, and keeping portions small. So make America healthy again. I know that, you know, Maha is focused on the removal of synthetic dyes and other chemical ingredients, ultra-processed foods, consumption of less sugars and seed oils. Aha, the American Heart Association, also suggests Americans choose sources of unsaturated fats,

avoid ultra-processed foods. Well, yeah, we just said that. The organization recommended Americans to prepare foods with minimal or no salt and limit the intake of alcohol. And children should start following heart-healthy dietary program starting at one-year-old. Okay. So there you go. Do that. Be healthy.

And make that happen in your life. I mean, we're finally getting better Reese's, right? Hershey said it's going to go back to recipes that use more chocolate for Reese's products after the peanut butter cup inventor's grandson, Brad Reese. Yeah, he publicly complained about the cost-cutting changes. Proof, yeah, that that works. He complained, and it worked. They're changing it. Holy cow.

And, you know, he was saying, at least my understanding of the first complaint on that, was that the Reese's peanut butter cups were not what he was talking. He was talking about the Reese's little design candies, the Christmas trees, and the, you know, all their little designs that they have, that that was being ultra-processed kind of fake chocolate and cream. But the Reese's peanut buttercups actually changed a few years back. And so now they're all going to go back to using more chocolate and more real products. Good. Well, we've talked about aha. The American Heart Association.

Oh, yeah, that's aha. And we might as well talk about the Food and Drug Administration as well. FDA. Well, apparently they are making friends with people that they normally don't make friends with. Animal rights and welfare groups have been trying to build a bridge to lawmakers. and they praised the FDA's new commissioner for publishing along a way to draft guidance last week on moving away from animal testing and toward a new approach mythologies for drug development. While animal toxicity studies have been critical in the past,

uh-huh, finding ways to improve human relevance while reducing the use of animals by developing reliable NAMS, new approach, uh, new approach mythology. further is an important center for drug evaluation and research. They priority to move away from reliance on animal testing and draft studies. Yeah, I mean, so we're happy that we're going to move away from animal studies. But animals have been a pretty big help with creating drugs.

And so while I'm glad that we're finding ways to, move away from animal testing, or at least slow it down. We need to remember, and even my friends at PETA, need to remember, humans first. So I know that you don't want to reduce the animal testing in the pre-clinical safety studies in favor of nams, such as organ-on-a-chip systems, computational modeling, and advanced vitro essays. We get all that. But, But if we need animals to test drugs to help end up helping humans, that's what we need to do. And sorry about it. I know those poor little animals, but humans first.

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No, at real Bradstags is his actual ex-account. I think he posts the Saturday morning live show there as well. But really, all you need to do is listen to up my ex-account Saturday morning. Okay, yeah, we'll see you then. I can't wait to get into the nitty-gritty of the French Masonic Lodge that's at the center of this murder trial. people are being charged and face a jury over murder and a bunch of other serious crimes as well. So prosecutors in France allege the lodge served as a hub for a tightly organized network that carried out violent acts ranging from assaults to contract killings.

Thirteen of the 22 defendants face life imprisonment. The group has been accused of murdering a racing driver, the attempted murder of a business coach and a trade unionist aggravated assault criminal conspiracy. Most of the accused are aged between 30 and 73 have no previous criminal records. Yeah, they're in the mafia. They haven't been arrested. Several members of the Freemasons Lodge located in the Parisian suburb of Puitill have appeared in the dock. Oh, yeah.

For military personnel from France's foreign intelligence service. two police officers, a retired domestic intelligence officer, a security guard, a doctor, an engineer, two business executives make up the group of defendants. The alleged ringleaders have been identified as Freemasons, Anthonar Freemasons, and I have convicted they face life in prison. I can't wait to get into the nitty-gritty of this group. but this Masonic Lodge, this mafia Masonic Lodge in France, has been at the hub of a criminal enterprise.

And by gosh, we're going to put it to an end. And then another big crime that people are starting to pay for their crimes now. Mount Everest guides allegedly poisoned climbers as part of a sinister $20 million scam. They were secretly lacing tourists. I'm not laughing at a, at a, I'm just, it's chuckling how, how sick this is. They were secretly lacing tourist food to trigger costly helicopter rescues

as part of this $20 million insurance scam. Quite sure how that worked. Police in Nepal have charged 32 individuals with organized crime and fraud charges related to the plot. It involves a trekking company owners, helicopter operators, and hospital executives. as according to the KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK K K K Kegh Kegovsky. Okay. Um, guides with the trekking agencies

poisoned tourists by putting baking soda in their food, which was triggering severe gas or intestinal distress that mimicked altitude sickness or food poisoning, okay? And then once ill, the visitors were allegedly pressured into agreeing to costly emergency helicopter evacuations with operators using forged medical and flight documents to bill international travel insurers for the cost. Huh.

Those ill-gotten gains were then allegedly split among the guides, helicopter companies, tracking agencies, and the hospitals where the tourists were taken for fake treatments. The investigation began back in January when six executives from three prominent mountain rescue firms were arrested. the groups allegedly fraudulently obtained at least $19.69 million in insurance payouts, according to police. One company is accused of faking 171 of its 1,248 claimed rescues,

leading to more than $10 million in illegitimate payouts. Man, that is a good scam. I mean, terrible. Terrible that they're doing that. I mean, they're still rescuing people, right? One company fabricated 75 out of 471, you know, so I mean, 171 out of almost 1,300. It seems low, but it's an awful lot of money. And what a great scam that was happening.

And they made a lot of money from it. And, you know, it's good. It's good that they've finally been caught, daggone. a couple other crimes that I find fascinating. So the heirs of the Bick Penn fortune, and man, when you think of fortune, you think of Bick Penn. So they are fighting to regain possession of a 15th century Fra Angelico masterpiece

they claim was stolen two decades ago by the family chauffeur. The 500-year-old painting was the, then funneled into the art market through a series of illegal and reckless transactions, I might add, and eventually auctioned off for $5.4 million to a South American billionaire, who has since refused to return it. Why would he return it? I mean, he paid for it. So, um, Charles and the Julian Bick, B-I-C-H, uh, whose aristocrat grandfather, Barron, Marcel BIC, B-I-C-H, founded the ballpoint pen,

Razor and Disposable Lighter Empire. Oh my gosh. I mean, just a fortune. And an abbreviated version of the family name, yeah. At the center of the saga is the Saint Sixthus, a tempera panel piece circa 1454, that's believed to be among the last works of Fra Angelou created. Wow.

So good luck getting it. back. I guess they probably have proof that it was theirs to begin with, but now that it was sold and gone through so many hands, I don't know that they're getting it back. And is it just because it's a family thing, or does this part of the family get none of the fortune? Because they're the heirs to the fortune, that doesn't mean that they get everything, right? They've got to be worth just an unbelievable amount of money. Well, when I say unbelievable, it really isn't that much. As of March, as a March of this year, BIC has a market capitalization of $2.46 billion, making it the 427th, no, the 4,278 most valuable company globally.

Wow, so, I mean, it's only worth a couple billion. Holy cow, you'd think it'd be worth more than that. Yeah, they need their painting back. Then we had a 2,500-year-old golden helmet considered to be one of Romania's greatest treasures has now been recovered more than a year after it was stolen during a raid on a Dutch museum. It and the two golden bracelets dating back to about 450 BC

were unveiled as having been returned. to the museum. Oh, and now it's secured behind glass case with two-armed police guarding them, and the third bracelet has not been found yet. Yeah, somebody's wearing that somewhere. So the theft of the helmet and bracelets by an armed gang who broke into the Drenz Museum in Assan caused outrage in Romania and raised questions about security for priceless artifacts on loan to other countries. It's long awaited the result, Romanian prosecutors said, We're happy. We are now witnessing here the recovery of Romanian artifacts.

Yeah, well, I know that they were on loan from Romania's National History Museum when they were stolen. So they got insurance money. They were paid about, I guess the insurance covered $6 million, $6.5 million. So are they, does the insurance company get the money back now? Does Romania say, oh, yeah. Yeah, here's six and a half million. I mean, they kind of have to, right? Good luck.

I mean, museums are a place to attack, right? Now, they did arrest a couple of people. That's how they got the treasures back. But, I mean, museums have been a big deal as of late. And for quite some time now, a couple years ago, the works of, two works of Andy Warhol were stolen from a gallery in the southern Netherlands. six years ago. The two laughing boys painting was stolen

from a small museum in central town of Lear Dam. And one of the things that I love so much about this, about the art being stolen, and this is just me. I know, weirdo. But I love the fact that everybody makes such a big deal.

They stole art. Who could it be for? They must have a buyer. Hopefully they could sell it. It's worth this. You know what they're doing is We talked about this before. They're ransoming it back to the museums. That's a genius call. That's a genius call.

And now you've got to, you know, avoid being arrested. But good luck. Well, this isn't really a who died today because it's a couple weeks old. But Bradrick Michael Wells, 27, was the one who was shot and killed. in the story is about Dayton James Weber, 27 as well. The quadruple amputee, the professional cornhole player, he can do anything. And he was apparently shot his buddy.

He's driving his Tesla SUV during some late-night joyride in Maryland. And he got into a heated argument with the front passenger, who was Bradrick Michael Wells. and according to the story, that's when he pulled out a gun and shot him. The two people in the back were horrified, and they scrambled out of the car when Weber pulled over. Weber asked him, hey, help me drag Wells out of the car. I shot him. We need to get him out of the car.

They did not want any part of that. And so he said, fine. Talk to you later, and he left them on the side of the road. Well, then they found Wells Bali. sometime later, a couple hours later, a person reported, hey, there's a body in my yard. And so the police went there and they found him dead, very sad. So then they tracked down Weber, Tesla,

and they tracked that down in Charlottesville, Virginia, more than 100 miles away. And he was found at a nearby hospital seeking treatment for a medical issue. Maybe he burned himself when he fired the weapon, I don't know. But he was arrested there and the next state over. And so now he's being treated as a fugitive from justice and is awaiting extradition to Maryland, where he will face additional charges for first and second degree murder. I mean, the guy, as it was a star, he's the cornhole professional cornhole player.

And he's, you know, I'm sure he's getting all kinds of hits on his YouTube. channel because he was, you know, a quadruple amputee. You know, apparently he had some bacterial infection when he was 10, when he's a little baby, 10 months old, and that's how he lost his limbs. And so then he just started wrestling in middle school and learned to walk around on his stumps and learned how to do things, you know, like murder people. So rest in peace to Bradrick Michael Wells, 27. scrolling through, you know, the internet on some one of my social media.

So I probably was Instagram, but I don't remember. I see a video of a windsurfer colliding with a whale. Of course, I mean, I have to stop and we've got to see more of this. So apparently there was a windsurfer in the San Francisco Bay. His girlfriend was filming him or shooting, you know, recording him on her phone. When, you see a large cargo ship going by, and he's windsurfing out there in the bay. And then as he comes around, as he's just wind surfing into the picture, a whale comes up and knocks him over. So I burst.

I mean, all of a sudden there's a whale. And hello, Mr. Wetsuit is in the... the water and nothing. I mean, the whale didn't come after him, and he wasn't mad at the whale. He just goes flying off his board. And the whale, of course, wasn't too troubled by the incident. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. He probably didn't feel the windsurfer, but the windsurfer looked a little dazed and was floating in the water on the board. Yeah, you got hit by a whale? Yeah, you probably are. So according to this, this happened, I think last week at Chrissy Field Beach. Love Chrissy Field Beach. So I guess the gray whales are not uncommon in San Francisco Bay.

In fact, they say that four of them have been found dead in the bay this year. So if they would stop running into windsurfers, maybe they'd stay alive. I mean, are the gray whales or something wrong with them? They got their radar off or something? I don't know. I don't know. I'm just asking questions, that's all. And speaking to animals everywhere, I see where in North Queensland,

actually it's not North Queensland, it's the top end in Queensland. It's the rains to the top end in Queensland in Australia. They're in the northern territory. There's been flooding going on. And apparently, thanks to the flooding, there's crocodiles everywhere. So they're telling people, go ahead and get out. They're, in fact, evacuating everyone. and getting people out of there.

Don't go out. Don't start walking through floodwaters. Don't go out because they're filled with crocodiles. I mean, crocs are pretty prevalent there anyway, but if they're swimming around with all these floodwaters, that's a problem. I mean, and we have so much entertainment news. I have to try to get to that tomorrow on American Idol. Today, if you're listening live, today is the 3rd of April, 2026.

So Saturday morning live on the 4th of April, 26. I may have some entertainment news there. I mean, Super Mario Galaxy movie is going to be the number one movie. It was the number one movie overall. Just in one day. It broke the records. So, I mean, congratulations. I think it pulled in what, let me make sure that I have the right amount of money.

They pulled in. $34 million on opening. day, which sets a new April record, and it surpasses Project Hail Mary by about a million dollars to become the biggest opening of 2026. So congratulations to

Super Mario, and that's number two for the Mario Brothers. And I'm sorry, I want to get it right. It's the Super Mario Galaxy movie. And one more that really made me laugh. David Ellison, insist

Paramount, can cut billions and still grow. If you've ever worked for a company, they got taken over by another company, that's good speak right there. He said Skydance merger savings will blow past the original $3 billion target, $2.5 billion of which will be realized by years and with an additional $6 billion in savings projected from the proposed WB acquisition. pushed back on the idea that efficiency means shrinking,

citing a double film slate, 11 new paramount plus green lights. He said most savings come from non-labor costs like vendor contracts. Yeah, there's no labor with vendor contracts. Tech consolidation. Okay, all right. You got it. Critics point out that thousands of jobs have already been cut since the merger. Oh, no, stop.

and whether $80 billion in combined debt can be managed without deeper cuts, yeah, people are asking those questions, and that'd be the wrong questions to ask. Because David Ellison insists that Paramount could still cut billions and still grow. I mean, all right, he's a billionaire. Maybe he sees things the rest of us don't. Then again, maybe he doesn't. All right, let's get out of here with the jokes of the day or joke. Well, it's supposed to be the joke of the day. But now that I have the king of the dad jokes, 2026, 365, dad jokes calendar,

I mean, may share more than one day with you. Today is the third, as I said, April 3rd, 2026. Why do chicken coops only have two doors? Because if they had four, they would be chicken sedans. Get it? Yeah, pretty sure you do. Yesterday, April 2nd, was a ship carrying red paint and a ship carrying blue paint collide in the middle of the ocean. Both crews were marooned.

See, because the color... Now, you got it.