Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - That’s What Happened!... | 11/24/25

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Something is up with raccoons, and I don't know that I particularly like it. According to scientists who have done a study, the raccoons are becoming more domesticated. Biologists from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, love them, studied thousands of images of North American raccoons. Sure they had study money to do that, that were captured in the U.S. between 2000 and 2024. Using computer software, they analyzed the skull and snout size of the animals, comparing those living in cities to those in rural settings. I wanted

to know if living in a city environment would kickstart domestication process in animals that are currently not domesticated, said Dr. Raffia Lesh. She's the least. study author and an assistant professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Would raccoons be on the pathway to domestication just by hanging out in close proximity to humans? Their work revealed that the urban-dwelling raccoons had a 3.56% reduction in snout length, suggesting they were experiencing a phenomenon known as domestication syndrome. Domestication syndrome is a collection of traits that emerge when animals adapt to living closely with humans. Decreased aggression is a prime feature.

Raccoons can be mean, man. But it also includes attributes like floppier ears, more varied fur patterns, smaller teeth, smaller brains, and shorter muzzles. Yeah, so you start hanging out with around more humans and you get smaller brains? Ha, I think we've seen proof of that, haven't we? The most obvious example can be seen in the differences between dogs and their wild canine cousins like wolves and foxes. But domestication syndrome is also evident in cats, horses, cattle pigs, and other animals that have a tight relationship with humans. So domestication is often seen as unnatural. I don't know why that's often seen as unnatural.

That's what would happen, right? But it can emerge without the active efforts of people. yeah that's because they're close to humans and you know the raccoons are eating our trash and so as long as they're not mean we let them eat our trash but the ones that are mean we get rid of I mean I've had raccoons stand up on their hind legs man

and look at you like uh what are you going to do fat man bring it I'm ready about to I'm about to get into your ass and throw as they're smoking a cigarette outside my trash can those particular raccoons have not been a part of the domestication syndrome process but apparently some are so there you go that's great who doesn't want a pet raccoon huh i know i know welcome welcome to chewing the fat fat five plus Sometimes you just want to go back to prison.

You know what I'm saying? A Fort Worth man once convicted of robbing a local bank arrested again. This time for trying to rob the very same. location. Fort Worth Police, a 43-year-old man arrested after attempting to rob a Wells Fargo bank. The same branch he targeted nearly a decade ago. Now, he says he spent time in prison. It doesn't say for how long. But according to investigators, the man walked into the bank and presented a note demanding money and that he was armed. Police say the suspect had been to prison for trying to rob the same bank years earlier. And he was arrested and charged with

aggravated robbery. Well, I mean, he just wanted to go back to prison. I mean, he has been institutionalized. And the picture, and I'm not sure it's his mugshot, but it is a picture that was provided, looks like he is struggling. And he's a struggling human being. And perhaps prison is the best thing for him. So good luck. God bless. And I would say that he'd get him the help that he needs. You know, I would do want to talk about prison reform. though. And I heard an interview, this takes me off of the stories that I have for you, but I heard an interview, the Tucker Carlson interview with George Santos. And George Santos with, you know, he has had a fascinating life and he was a fascinating interview. But the main

point that he was trying to make and, you know, his time in prison and Trump pardoned him and got him out of there, he wants to, you know, he wants to really work, focus on prison reform. And I want to talk to George Santos about prison reform. So I'm going to try to get a hold of George Santos. And I don't know if I'm going to talk to him here on chewing the fat or if I'll talk to him on maybe Blaze TV under the Pat Unleashed program because I've got some ideas on how to do some interviews there. Maybe I'll do, you know, maybe I'll do the interview on YouTube.

I'm not sure yet. I'm going to start doing some interviews of some fascinating people that fascinate me. And one of those people is George Santos. So, I mean, he's talking about prison reform. And I've heard, you know, I've been reading a lot on the prison system here in the U.S. as of late. And I don't know that I do agree with George Santos that prison reform needs to happen. I'm not quite sure what that is yet. They have not come to me and said,

Jeff, why don't you think about it and come up with some ideas? And we'll try to implement your thoughts. to make a better prison system. They have not done that yet. But I'm going to do it anyway. So just something to look forward to. So then we have this story, two men from the DFW area. Again, here in DFW,

they were arrested for allegedly planning an invasion on an Haitian island named G-O-N-A-V-E. my girl has the Thanksgiving Day holiday off so let's just say that it's uh uh gone gave no it's not going to be that it's not going to be gone gnav it's going to be gonav go nav go nav geo and a vee go nav pretty sure that's it with the intent of killing all men on the island with firearms and taking the women as sex slaves worked at it. They had a plan. The 21-year-old Gavin Weisenberg from Allen, Texas, and 20-year-old Tanner Thomas from Argyle, Texas, that's in D.F.W., that's the Metroplex, planned on going about an invasion by recruiting homeless people from Washington, D.C. to join their expeditionary force, then sailing down to the island to complete their mission. Weisenberg previously enrolled into the Rockwall Fire Academy to learn command and control protocol,

but failed out shortly after. He then traveled to Thailand to learn how to sail. Thomas enrolled into the Air Force to gain military training and was initially stationed in Germany, but later restationed in Maryland to better position himself to recruit homeless people for their plan. Both men learned the Haitian Creole language to help them integrate while navigating through the island. they had a plan to take over this island and sure you can't take over an island without the loss of life so they were going to kill all the men and take what women they could for sex slaves both men were arrested as a result of investigations by the fbi i u.s air force uh u.s air force office of

special investigations and by the selina police department a federal jury has now indicted the two men on a conspiracy to murder, maim, or kidnap in a foreign country. I don't know that I agree with that. That's a crime. These guys can't just get together and decide they're going to try to do that. Now, they haven't done it. They're just talking about doing it, and they're taking steps to do it, but they haven't done it yet.

And they also were convicted on child pornography production charges. And that's an issue right in and of itself. So that means that they were doing other bad things. too so this is just tacked on yeah the child porn stuff that's an issue so if convicted both men can face life in prison wow i mean i think i'm okay with life in prison for the child pornography but not for the conspiracy uh to murder maim or kidnap in a foreign country so why can't they do that uh just wondered that's all just wondering.

And then I was reading about this couple. Wolfgang Beltrachi didn't just copy paintings. He invented new ones. He passed them off as forgotten masterpieces and fooled the top gallery collectors and even expert authenticators. His wife, Helene, posed as the heir to a secret art stash hidden from Nazis. Together they forged Providence. documents, aged the paintings with dirt and sunlight, and even convinced an estate to approve one

of their fakes. They were finally caught, though, when a single pigment invented decades after the paintings supposed date gave them away. Oh, man. Now, they're out of prison now because this happened. They were both sentenced in 2011. Wolfgang got six years in prison. Helene got four. they served most of it under open conditions in Germany. It doesn't say anything about them having to pay any money back, if they were any fines, anything like that. So for years, they just created fake masterpieces and sold them off for millions. Wow.

Thankfully, thankfully, thankfully, these evil people were taken from amongst us and sent to prison in Germany, and now they're out, because that happened in 2011, so they are out among us again. Be careful out there. So I've been trying to get to the story for a couple of days, and I just haven't gotten to it, and I'm sorry for that. But the headline is Kevin Space. Casey is homeless after, you know, living in hotels seven years after the sexual assault

scandal. And I'm reading the story and I'm thinking he's not homeless. He's living in hotels and living in Airbnb's, but he's going where the work is. He said he was going to work in the story. And I literally have no home. That's what I'm attempting to explain. Now, I know that he had to get rid of his place in Baltimore. because of some bankruptcy issues,

and he was really bummed about that. But he talks in this article about still saving everything in his storage units, which saved him, by the way, in Europe and here in the U.S. for these cases because he saves everything, you know, for documentation. And he said, in weird ways, I feel I'm back to where I first started, which is I just went to where the work was. Okay, so everything is in storage and I hope at some point if things continue to improve, I'll be able to decide where I want to settle down again because he had this beautiful place

in Baltimore overlooking the harbor. He was so, I mean, that was a really cool place. And he had to sell that. I forget what, it was part of a bankruptcy thing, I think. But anyway, as I'm reading this, I'm like, this article was in the telegraph. And the telegraph headlined it, you know, Kevin's, Spacey homeless and I'm thinking he's not homeless he's he's making some money he's living in hotels and Airbnb's just saying he doesn't have an actual home to go to but the telegraph decided to

you know make it seem like he was homeless well la di da so yesterday uh Kevin Spacey posts something on X and what did Kevin have to say? Hi, everyone. I don't usually make it my business to correct the media. If I did, I wouldn't have time for much else. But in light of the recent articles claiming I am homeless, I feel the need to respond. Okay.

Not to the press, but to the thousands of people who have reached out over the past few days, offering me a place to stay. or have just asked Oh, that was awful. That was kind of them. And to all of you, let me first say that I am truly touched by your generosity in full stop. Full stop.

But I feel it would be disingenuous of me to allow you to believe that I am indeed homeless in a colloquial sense. Thank you. In my conversation with McBrown, the wonderful journalist

who wrote the story that was in the telegraph where this rumor first began. I said I was basically living in hotels and Airbnb's and going where the work is, just as I did when I first started out in this business. I've been working nearly non-stop this entire year, and for that I have so much to be grateful for.

Awesome, my love is work. And there are many people, as we all know, who are indeed actually living on the streets or on their cars or in terrible financial situations, and my heart goes out. to them. But it is clear from the article itself that I am not one of them. Right.

Nor was I attempting to say that I was. Thank you. Which is why it was a shame that the Telegraph chose to undermine the work of their own journalist by selling him out with a knowingly

misleading headline to the sake of clicks. Yeah, that's what they do. But I will now let you go Back to your lives. Thank you for just paying attention for a few minutes. You're welcome, Kevin. You're welcome.

And I'm here for you, you know, for a couple of minutes on social media. But my point is he's not homeless. Congratulations are in order to Universal's Wicked for Good movie. They tallied an estimated $150 million domestically for the first three days this past weekend, opening weekend with international ticket sales is set to surpass $226 million globally. So that makes it the second highest opening weekend for a film released this year, just behind, yeah, it's a Minecraft movie, you got it. They got $163 million back in April.

It also outpaces the debut of the original Wicked, which tallied $112.5 million in the U.S. and Canada. And they're going to roll on through this weekend. I mean, it's Thanksgiving weekend. Holy cow. They're going to roll on to make a whole bunch of money. I can't bring myself. I just can't do it.

I can't bring myself to do it. I know it's so great and Cynthia Aririo and Aririana Grande. And I just can't. And I know that Wicked, I think, is up on one of the platforms, maybe Disney or wherever the hell they released to that. And I just, I cannot bring myself to watch it. I just can't. I want to, maybe if wicked for good,

once that hits streaming, maybe I watch them back to back. I don't know. I just, I cannot, for some reason, those two drive me insane. And I'm going to have to get past that. I know. It's me.

That's me. It's not you. But I just can't get past those two. They just drive me insane. And then now you see me. Now You Don't was number two. Wow, second week. That only got nine million.

I mean, everybody was going to see Wicked for good. Then Predator Badlands. That's in his third week. Running Man's in his second week. Ooh, that's not good. Running Man was in fourth place behind the Predator Badlands. They did $5.8 million. Wow.

Rental Family, Sisu Road to Revenge, Regretting you. Nuremberg is in week three. That only got another million. I mean, holy cow, that movie has done nothing. And I would like to see that movie. I can't wait to see it on streaming. I mean, I'm a huge fan of Russell Crow, and I'm a huge fan of the work that he does

and some of the other performers in that movie. I guess nobody cares about Nuremberg, though. So they've only made $12.1 million globally. Has that even been released globally? I don't think so. Yeah, it looks like most of the places have yet to be. I mean, that makes sense. That's why it's only 12 million so far.

But it's not doing well in the U.S. But at the end, you had a couple of days left. It's going to go to Finland and Greece. And it looks like it already opened up in India. Weird. Okay. Ireland, yeah, just so it's opened up there. Oh, Israel.

It's not doing well. That's a little disappointing. I wonder does it play in Germany at all? Oh, yeah. It plays in Germany, but. We're waiting until 423, 2026. We'll do it in April and we'll just slide it into Germany. That's hilarious.

They have a budget of $7.4 million. While they did not spend a lot of money on this movie, so I guess they end up at $12 million, they've made their money back, and they've got to be happy with that. They've made their money back, and they've made a little extra money. I wonder if, you know, Rami Malick,

And Russell Crow, I wonder if they took a cut from the movie. You know, they get a cut of a piece once the movie makes its money and paid for. I wonder if that's possible. I wonder if that happened. That probably did. But they didn't consult me. And then Black Phone 2 is still hanging in there. I only did a million.

And Sarah's Oil. Sarah's Oil was number 10 this weekend. And that, week three of Sarah's Oil, with $772,000 made domestically, $18 million. budget. And so there's that. But Wicked for Good was far and away, number one. on Facebook and Instagram. Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher on YouTube. You can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com, and you can order a cameo from me at any time. That's not free, though.

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That'll get you $20 off an annual subscription right now, limited time. BlazTV.com slash Jeffie, get you $20 off an annual subscription. I do that show every day, and I do a fat five on that show every day. And that's why I have taken to calling this show. Show Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher, Fat Five Plus. So I try not to do the same stories that I did the Fat Five for Bad Ground Leashed. And I, you know, just try to stir it up a little bit, do a couple extra stories here for you as often as I can. And you should subscribe to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher and then know that that's what it's called.

I am the one who call it Fat Five Plus because I took the plus from Apple when they threw away their Apple. TV Plus. They threw it away. They treated the plus like it was nothing to them. Just tossed in the trash. And I couldn't take it anymore. I thought that was mean and nasty of Apple to just throw that plus off to the

side like it meant nothing to them. Well, it means something to me. That's why I call the show Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Fat 5 Plus now. Okay? The plus means something to me. Yeah, okay. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with Tyson Foods. Tyson's foods, the largest meat. The whole company didn't die. I know, just the Nebraska

beef plant is going to shut down. Tyson is the largest meat producer in North America. They announced that it's going to close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska, on or Around January 20th, I guess we haven't decided. Yeah, you know, when we get her cleaned up and we get everything okay, then the 3,200 people we employ get out. So they are saying the Tyson CEO, Donnie King, told investors that cattle supplies were at record lows and that its beef business would lose $600 million in the current fiscal year. Around the same time, President Trump said that he had instructed the Department of justice to investigate the meat packing companies who are driving up to price of beef through

illicit collusion, price fixing, and price manipulation. So they've got that battle going on. So what that means for beef prices? They will continue to go up. I mean, we had the guy not too long ago, the head of, you know, got the Nebraska, Omaha, the head of Omaha Steaks was saying that beef prices were going to continue to rise

through 2026 and he didn't see any relief soon and I know that we're in the middle of okaying some more beef coming to the U.S. from Brazil and maybe from Mexico, although Mexico is still dealing with the screw worm

which we are dealing with here in the United States as well and we're building a plant in Texas to fight the screw worm which gets, you know, infects the cattle and it's been affecting, you know, beef sales and beef product here in the U.S. And so we'll see, we'll see, but I would not expect beef prices to go down for a little while.

And that is very concerning to someone like myself who, you know, I do consume some meat. I know, I know, I know it's hard to believe, but I do. And then we'll go to, you know, you know, actual human who died who died today gary manny moanfield gary manny moanfield don't look at me like you don't know who he is or was the basest of the stone roses yeah now how embarrassed are you has died at the age of 63 uh his brother wrote uh it was it is with the heaviest of hearts that i have to announce the sad passing of my brother r ip our kid uh He later added comments, reunited with his beautiful wife, Amelda.

Amelda died two years ago at the age of 52 after having been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2020. Huh. And they have twins who are 12 years old, and now he has passed away. I guess he collapsed in his home following a seizure, and they called an ambulance, and he couldn't be revived. Wow, that stinks. Like other deaths don't stink, but this one in particular does. So rest in peace to Gary Manny Moonfield dead at the age of 63. Then we have a grizzly bear attack.

I don't think anyone has died yet, but it's very possible. Eleven people are injured, including several children, with two in critical condition. So the grizzly bear attacked a group of fourth and fifth grade students. and their teachers from the Akwazlata School, ACW-S-A-L-C-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-T-A school on a walking trail near Belakula, British Columbia. And a guest-the-bear charged the group as they stopped for lunch,

forcing teachers to use bear spray and bear-banger, while some of them put themselves in harm's way to shield the kids. Wow. you do not hear of teachers doing that kind of stuff anymore. Good for him. One male teacher reportedly took the whole brunt of the attack and had to be airlifted out.

Emergency crews treated multiple victims at the scene and transported the most serious seriously hurt to the hospital. Yeah. The N-U-X-A-L-K nation, I guess that's Newfalk Nation. Is that right? Is it Newfalk? No, it's not Newfalk. Newark, Newark Nation urged residents to stay indoors while conservation officers hunted for the still-at-large bear.

As far as I know, they haven't caught this bad boy yet. They are temporarily, they close the school temporarily, and they're offering counseling as the community grappled with the trauma of the ambush. Yeah, maybe, and just may, this is just me, thinking out loud, maybe when you take the kids out for a train, there just walking around the old bellicula british columbia uh yeah and uh you might run into a grizzly bear maybe just maybe you bring something like a gun instead of bear spray uh you know and uh what else do they have they used uh a bear banger apparently that wasn't enough perhaps if you'd have had a weapon

you know like a gun maybe you could have just saw the bear and given it and then if the bear kept coming that's when you start shooting that thing full force maybe you just give them a quick two and then you know by that time the kids could

maybe get out of the way but that's just me thinking out loud i know it'd be silly for someone in canada to go out with kids out in uh you know on a picnic and a a park walk and be armed am i right of course i am and i hope everyone uh you know survives i don't want anybody to die from this bear attack i hope everyone survives all right let's let's get out of here uh and uh call it a day shall we with the joke of the day i was thinking uh maybe we do Maybe we do jokes around Thanksgiving. It's Thanksgiving, right? So it's Thanksgiving week.

I'm going to be here this week, at least until Wednesday on Pat Gray Unleashed. And then, you know, should I do, will I do a chewing the fat, Fat 5 Plus, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week? I think I will. I think I will. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week,

we'll do a fat, we'll do Pat Grey Unleashed, we'll do Pat overtime, and we'll also do it chewing the fat fat five plus my gosh i'm going to give give and give working this tongue to the bone all right so let's start with uh what did one turkey say to the other outside the bar i don't know what did one turkey say to the other outside the bar let's get basted Can a turkey jump higher than the Empire State Building? Yes, a building can't jump.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So stupid. A shopper looking for a larger turkey. Asked the grocery store worker, hey, do these small frozen turkeys get any bigger? No, they're dead. Ha ha ha ha. That's probably my favorite one.

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