Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Uncomfortable… | 4/10/24

Episode Date: April 10, 2024

Stamps goin up… Not as many 24 Hour restaurants… Don’t eat certain things due to Bird Flu… Cicada pee and std’s... T-shirt ideas… [e-mail] Sly in a bit of trouble?... Yellowstone premiere date… Dude Perfect new deal… Who Died Today: Peter Higgs 94… Uptick in Cancer in the young… Semaglutide & reduction of heart failure… Joke of the day…                                                Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Amex Platinum, you have access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide. So your experience before takeoff is a taste of what's to come. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Blaze Radio Network. And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. The U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has previously warned you, the Postmaster. customer to get used to uncomfortable rate hikes as the postal service seeks to become self-sufficient.

Now, no one supports the USPS more than me and more than this show. I've wanted to become Postmaster General for a lot of years until I realized what you needed to be on was on the board of the governors. But either way, I'd like to be a part of the postal service. They're trying to become self-sufficient. Now, he said price increases were overdue after the last 10 years of defective pricing model. So they have signaled plans for a rate increase that includes hiking the cost of a first-class stamp from 68 cents to 73 cents. That's part of an overall 7.8% increase.

That's going to take effect this summer. Well, it's supposed to take effect this summer. The request was made to the postal regulatory. Commission, which must approve the proposed increase that the Postal Service contends. That's what I, you know, you need to be a part of the Postal Regulatory Commission and on the board of governors. So if approved, the 5 cent increase for a forever stamp and the similar increases for postcards, metered letters, and international mail would take effect July 14th.

So there will be no price increase for post office boxers. rentals and postal insurance will be reduced by 10% when items are mailed. So, I mean, it's a give and take kind of thing. Am I right? Welcome. It'll be a dollar soon. It'll just be a dollar for the real stamp soon. And you know what? Get use to uncomfortable. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. The number of anything that is 24 hours now is, well, it's not, certainly, certainly not as much as it was pre-pandemic, and especially restaurants. So according to this, restaurants offering 24-hour service fell 18% from 2020 to 2024. That's according to Yelp data.

New York lost 13% of its 24-hour restaurants. Los Angeles lost 35% of its 24-hour eateries, and Chicago lost 10%. Now, of course, I get it. It's due to the pandemic, cost of goods, cost of employees, the places are concerned or, if not worried about crime. That's all playing a factor.

Some are trying, though. Breakfast-based chains are rebounding somewhat, but around half of the IHOPs, 1,800 locations, are back to being open 24 hours on Friday and Saturday. And Denny's is saying that about 75% of their 1,600 restaurants are open 24 hours again. Now, let me, I want to make sure that's right, because around half of IHOP's 1,800 locations are back. Okay, so 900 locations are open Friday and Saturday, 24.

and at least 75% of Denny's 1600 restaurants are open 24 hours again. Wow, with no restrictions on days. Pretty incredible. You know, I mean, food increases. If you look at food increases from 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which I don't know that I buy their labor statistics, but, you know, this is what's being reported. They say food costs have increased 25%.

since March of 2020. Now, I'm pretty sure I'm paying more than that for food, but I know. What do I know? And, of course, their, you know, wages are more. They've increased, according to the BLS,

by 29%. And they say that there's a million unfilled positions, so no one, they can't find people to do the job. Okay. All right. The good news is, though, and you can, you know, some of you may chuckle. I am not. I want to thank them because at least all of the Waffle houses, that's nearly 2,000 restaurants running 24-7.

Nice. You know, one thing that's not nice is, and I guess we knew it was coming because of all the talk of bird flu and we're killing animals and now the bird flu has jumped to animals, now it's jumped to humans. But now we have experts, experts, telling us, you know, you should stay away from some types of food because there's a slight chance that, you know, you get bird flu.

Wait, what? I thought those risks were low if nothing, no. The FDA, or he's a former FDA, food safety advisor, Dr. Darwin Detweiler, and I'm Doc, I would love to, and I've spent some time with you. He said animal products that are not properly cooked could harbor small fragments of the virus, which is currently tearing through U.S. farms. That means steaks should be cooked well done, and eggs with runny yolk should be avoided.

Even salad dressings like Caesar can be a risk due to being made with raw eggs. The H5N1 bird flu strain has caused outbreaks. Yeah, and over a dozen farms in the U.S. and cattle, chickens, humans. That doesn't say that in this story. Huh. Interesting. But eggs, poultry and beef have to be cooked to a safe internal temperature

because cooking is the kill step. Thank you. So just remember, do not demand. If you go someplace and they say, hey, would you like a steak? and you say, yeah, I would. Thank you. But if it's not well done, don't eat it. I can guarantee you that's not happening with me.

If it's well done, I'm going to eat it, but I mean, I prefer it not well done. So, Caesar salad, Caesar dressing. It's rare that I have a Caesar salad. I know that comes as a surprise. But, you know, I do like it, I do enjoy it from time to time. If it has a lot of breadcrumbs.

I like those. Maybe it's not the salad I like. Maybe it's the breadcrumbs. Anyway, and eggs, yeah, I mean, we're dipping our toast in eggs. Sorry, that's what happens. So I don't know how, I don't know what the runnyness edition is that gets you to bird flu or non-bird flu, but I'm dipping my toast and my yolk. Okay.

So whatever you got to do to figure out this whole bird flu thing, figure it out. Look, we did, my gosh, if we're already just being, it's just a, you know, we ought to take a look at this. It ought to be careful. It's just a, I'm a former FDA guy. I'm not telling you what to do, but we just need to, you know, you should be careful, make sure, because it's possible little remnants of bird flu could be in that. Well, I mean, that means that it is, right? It means that it is. And my gosh, we have, something has to be done.

You can quote me on that. Something has to be done. But I'm not going to eat cicadas. I'm not going to eat crickets. I mean, if we've got 100 trillion cicadas showing up here soon, Cicada getting. I'm surprised that we're saying, oh, they just come out and mate and they go back underground.

No, we need to catch them so that we can harvest them. That's what's coming. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements. What you win is yours to keep groovy.

Hey, I won! Feel the fun! Boating will begin when passenger fisher is done celebrating. 19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly concerned by your gambling or that if someone close you, call 1866-3-3-1-2-60 or visit comex Ontario.ca. Let's say you don't want to drive around to nurseries and big gardening centers. You just want to, I don't know, have some plants and shrubbery and trees show up at your house. You can do that. You've got a fast-growing trees.

You can order it online and they shipped right to your door in one to two days. Fast-growing trees. The biggest online nursery in the U.S. with more than 10,000 different kinds of plants and over 2 million happy customers in the U.S., of which I am one. They have everything you could possibly want, fruit trees, palm trees, evergreens, houseplants,

so much more. Whatever you're interested in, they have it for you. You can find the perfect fit for your climate and space. You know, wherever you live, there may be a plant or a shrub or a tree, that fast-growing tree experts say, yeah, you know that?

That's going to die where you're at. Maybe you ought to try this. That's what's so cool about it. So it makes it easy to order online. You just order them, and they're shipped directly to your door, one to two days. Along with their 30-day alive and thrive guarantee.

They offer free plant consultation forever, which is really cool. And I will say, I enjoy. and I enjoyed, I ordered some shrubbery. I needed some new and shrubbery because they all died and I said I needed some new stuff. And I went to fast growing trees.com and looked at what's perfect for, you know, my area, my climate.

And, you know, I ordered them and it's, and they are at the front door. It is awesome. I didn't have to go to walk through a nursery. I didn't have to listen to some dingleberry in the big box store. I just have fast-growing trees to deal with, and they are at the house. Now, this spring, they have the best deals online up to half off on select plants and other deals.

So listeners to this show get an additional 15% off their first purchase when using the offer code Jeffie at checkout. It's an additional 15% off at fastgrowing trees.com using the code Jeffey at Checkout. out fast growing trees.com code jeffy the offer of course is valid for a limited time terms and conditions may apply fast growing trees.com code jeffy so I mentioned a cicada getting coming to the to the southeast and the northeast and hopefully it doesn't spread any farther but I was reading of course because of cicada getting and I was reading that they are the strongest urinators in the animal kingdom. I did not know that.

They have flows that put humans and elephants to shame, according to the experts. They have pumps in their heads that pull moisture from the roots of trees. You can write your own jokes. Allowing them to feed for more than a decade underground. And they, I guess they are rescuers to caterpillars as well. So they are being ravaged also by, we did know this. This has been reported on here on chewing the fat. They are being ravaged by a sexually transmitted disease that turns them into zombies, right?

They get an STD, a zombie cicada. And you don't want none of that. You do not want one of that, man. The walking dead cicada. And it's not easy. So they have pumps in their head. I know, I know. So inside trees are sugary, nutrient-heavy saps that flow through tissue called philm?

P-H-L-O-E-M? Flow-in. Yeah, that's what I said. Flow-em. Flow-in. I got it, okay? P-H-L-E-M. O-E-M. Now, most

insects love the sap, but not cicadas. They go for a tissue called X-L-L-E-M. Zy-L-E-M. Yeah, that's what I said. X, Y-L-E-M, which carries mostly water and a bit of nutrients.

And it's not easy to get into the... Zileum. Okay, all right, I said it correct. I don't know why you keep wanting to come in and butt in. The cicada can get the fluid because its outsized head has a pump. Okay, there you go. So just hope that they don't get STDs and turn into a zombie cicada.

And this is what's happening around Mother Nature every day and is part of cicada getting. when you are in the middle of cicada getting and you see you see liquid flowing down a tree yeah that's a cicada pea they have they have a muscle that pushes the waist through a tiny hole like a jet

and the locals call it a weeping tree because liquid was flowing down like the plant was crying. Well, it was crying. I was crying with cicada pee. So just know.

During a cicada getting, when you run across a tree that's covered in some kind of wetness, yeah, ooh, that's not sap. That is cicada pee. So maybe you don't, I don't know. Put your hand on. it maybe you don't rub your finger across it and lick it i don't know maybe you just leave it be

actually that you can quote me on that maybe you just let it be that could be a t-shirt too you know maybe just let it be you know i saw i said yesterday we could have made a fortune if i would actually been thinking we could have sold t-shirts i survived the solar eclipse 2024 and we had them out there already we should could have made a fortune too late now i mean it's over. Done. Everybody's done it. Somebody's made a fortune from it. So I mean, I guess you could sell a couple, make a couple of bucks.

I'd see where a shop in New York, and I bet you this shop actually had, I survived the Solar Eclipse 2024, because they sold T-shirts immediately after the earthquake, then said, I survived the earthquake.

I survived the earthquake, 2024, and they made a fortune. Well, actually didn't make a fortune. but they made thousands of dollars for this t-shirt. What a great idea. I survived the NYC earthquake with the skyline and the date and a couple of epicenter circles. Great idea. And they sold, you know, a thousand earthquake shirts in less than a day.

And they said that the revenue was like $9,800. So they weren't even selling them for $10 a pop? Okay. If you say so. Anyway, you know, you could maybe just let it be. That's my new t-shirt. And I survived the solar eclipse 24. Those t-shirts have already been sold.

So go. Use my million-dollar ideas. You're welcome. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats.

But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no, but chicken tenders, yes. Because those are groceries, and we deliver those too, along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly.

Product availability varies by region. See out for details. You know, if you're someone who made a fortune using my idea for t-shirts, you may think to yourself, you know what, I've made so much money, I need to move. Well, if you need to move, then you're going to try to buy a home and you're going to try to sell the old one, you're going to discover that you've got a major undertaking on your hands. And almost nothing about getting a house ready to put on the market is easy.

but you need to do it so you need to do it the right way and negotiating a sale when you're wanting to buy it's not as straightforward as it sounds and plus you're trying to come up with T-shirt ideas at the same time you're going to want to see the best real estate

agent you can and that's where real estate agents I trust come in. It's a company founded by Glenn and he started it because you know he was trying to sell his house in Connecticut and the story is fascinating and you know it's just he tried to sell his house he had multiple real estate agents tell him yeah we get this thing sold and uh it never sold uh they couldn't sell

it it ended up selling for i don't know under 40 dollars it was just incredible it was a really bad deal a really bad deal for everyone and he had such a struggle finding a real estate agent worth of their salt he said man this this can't be real right i mean if i'm having this problem. Everyone must be having this problem, which is why he came up with real estate agents, I trust. They pair you with the top sellers in your area, the people who really know the ropes of the business, because they do it full time and they care about getting it right. So real estate agents, I trust.com. All the hassle that comes with trying to buy and sell homes, they've got you covered. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Remember to

follow me on my social media accounts at Jeffrey JFR on X, Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. You can always email the show 24 7. That's how the internet works.

Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Did you see where a Sylvester Stallone? That guy. That bastard. Sylvester Stallone. is a little bit of a trouble I know apparently

he's saying some bad things on the set I know apparently he is fostering a toxic environment oh no oh no so they're filming the new Tulsa King

in Atlanta now the original one I don't know if you know this it's in Tulsa Oklahoma and that's where they filmed the first season but it's TV and you don't really have to.

It's pretend. So you can film and say you're someplace when you're really not. That's the way it works. So anyway, they're filming in Atlanta. And Sly is 77 now. And apparently he was, he made some offensive and abusive remarks. Now, let's be clear about something. He's Sylvester Stallone.

He's the star of the show. He is in Hollywood icon, okay? So get over it. But apparently, the casting supervisor, Rose Locke, she is unhappy. She posted to a private Facebook group for background actors, which someone captured a screenshot and shared it. and it was shared it was shared by star trek prodigy writer julie benson and i love her and she is well known on the charleston south carolina background actors crew page yeah i mean

she's huge on the charleston south carolina background actors crew page so he and the director proceeded to call certain people terrible names and laughed at them. Now, is this true? I don't know. Apparently he called somebody Tubbalard, a fat guy with a cane. I'm going to be clear, I've been called all these on this very network. And he was making fun of their weight and handicaps.

Read one such screenshot, noting that Locke resigned as a result. of the alleged mistreatment. Now, she wasn't mistreated. It was her background people that she hired that apparently felt mistreated because the director

and executive producer Craig Zisk and Sly were on the set and he's apparently upset about the background actors on the

the show. Now, Locke confirmed, reportedly, she confirmed, that she resigned because it was clear toxic environment. I was not comfortable putting myself or my background artists in. Oh. Okay. He said the scene in question called for background actors aged 25 to 35, but significantly older extras were brought in. Now, they were polite and did their jobs, but they need to submit some headshots going forward. And we need to up your game a little bit because we are unhappy with the background actors. So that's the kind of toxic environment that's going on on the set of Tulsa King. And just to be clear, Zisk said, yeah, that didn't happen. All right.

Sorry about that. And Stallone was his representative. Have's not commented on this because it's silly. And so if you are not giving the set, if you're not giving the show the background people they're asking for, you shouldn't have quit. You should have been fired. That's the toxic environment.

But I digress. We talk about Taylor Sheridan because that's a Tulsa King show. well, I mean, I wasn't talking about Taylor Sheridan, but the Tulsa King is a Taylor Sheridan show. Have we talked about the actual date of Yellowstone coming back? So apparently November 10th, 2024, we get the fifth seasons part two. I started beginning November 10th, 2024.

The last show. Let's see, Yellowstone season part five. Season 5 part 1 premiered November 14th, 2022. So it's been a long, long time. Too long. And John Dutton is not going to be there. So I asked the question, does anybody care? And then I think to myself, well, I'll watch it.

I mean, I do want to see how Taylor wraps it all up. but I'm bummed that Kevin Costner, I'm sorry, John Dutton is not going to be there. I am bummed about that, but yes, I will watch it. Congratulations are in order as well to Dude Perfect. If you do not know who Dude Perfect is our were, they are creating content on YouTube and they just were given $100 million to make more

and build more core programming. So they're going to be pursuing bold new opportunities and products. Yeah, no kidding. Beyond traditional channels. Yeah, you think for $100 million, you can create some content. and good for them. Congratulations to them. I guess this company,

High Mount Capital, High Mount Capital. Dear High Mount Capital, my name is Jeff Fisher. This show is Chewing the Fat. I, too, would like to have a significant expansion on my programming.

And I'd love to expand. and the core programming of this show. So if you want to, I don't know, drop in 100 million? No, 50 million? No, 25 million? Okay, we'll settle on 25 million. I'm here for you. I'm here for you.

But congratulations to Dude Perfect in their new $100 million deal. You know, speaking to making a lot of money. Have you ever wondered exactly how it is that our politicians enter into public service making moderate salaries and then end up walking away with an astonishing amount of money. It is interesting how that happens. Isn't it? Where all these tens of millions of dollars are coming from? Huh. And while they're busy earning all that money, who's doing the job we sent them there to do in the first place? That's funny. That is funny. You know, we all learned from an early age that the best way to get rich in America

was to get a degree, start a business, maybe take a job in Wall Street, work hard and save even harder so that we could make a better life for ourselves and for our children. Turns out it's way easier than that. All you have to do is get elected to Congress. Join us tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern

for a live pre-show event hosted by Glenn Beck and James Poulos, followed by a live premiere of bought and paid for how politicians get filthy rich streaming live on YouTube and Blaze TV you can head over to YouTube.com slash at Blaze TV to watch the live event.

Subscribers can just watch it on Blaze TV. And if you're not a subscriber to Blaze TV, sure, you can watch it on the whole YouTube.com slash at Blaze TV. thing. Well, why don't you go to blaisTV.com slash jeffy and subscribe to Blaze TV and use the promo

code Jeffie and knock some money off that year's subscription and become a member of Blaze TV. That's one way that helps keep this podcast free. BlazTV.com slash Jeffie promo code Jeffie. However, tonight, if you want to watch Baud and Paid for, and to the

live pre-show, hosted by Glenn and James, uh, you can go to YouTube.com slash at Blase TV. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ,

built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence. While Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift. flow and go.

Explore the new Peloton cross-training tread plus at onepeloton.ca. Who died today? Who died today? Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at the age of 94. Now it says here that he died following a short illness. I'm sure it wasn't that If it was that they would have said something

Right? Of course It was just a short illness and he's 94 so He died He was a professor at Edinburgh Is known for discovering the Higgs Bossom subatomic particle known quickly as the God particle He's the guy

In 1965 Higgs theorized the existence of an energy field and an accompanying chargeless particle that gives other particles their mass and exists throughout the universe. For decades, physicists relied on the particle's existence to help explain quantum phenomena, but could not detect it, Leedy One Science to call it to goddamn particle. Apparently, in 2012, they actually detected the Higgs bosom for the first time, validating the Higgs theory. So, today, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, which operates the LHC,

continues to probe the foundations of particle theory, including a search for never-before-seen ghost particles. So rest in peace, Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize, winning physicist dead at the age of 94. You know, interesting new research from the American Association for Cancer Research, the AACR. They had their annual meeting in San Diego, which I'm sure was beautiful. They talked about accelerated aging when someone's biological age is greater than their chronological age.

That could increase the risk of cancer tumors. Huh. Huh. The realization that cancer and now aging are becoming significant issues for younger demographics over the past, what they say, decades, was unexpected. Was it though? Was it really unexpected? Or have we, I don't know, seen a significant increase in the last, I don't know, four years? Something like that. I haven't looked at the data specifically. I haven't broken it down. I just seem to think that maybe it isn't just someone's accelerated aging or what's the reason behind someone's accelerated aging.

Could it be that? I'm sure they didn't look. I'm sure it can't be that. Or they would have looked into it. That would have been part of. of the study, right? I mean, they would have looked into that because that's something that would have

accelerated cancer in the young. But no. No, no, no, no. Each person's biological age using nine biomarkers in the blood, and then they compared that to their chronological age. And those with higher biological age had 42% increased risk early onset. Lung cancer, 22% were prone.

to early onset gastrointestinal cancer. Never fun. None of them are actually fun. And 36% higher risk of early onset uterine cancer. Yeah, I don't want that. I do not want that. The researchers also determined that people born after 1965 were 17% more likely to experience accelerated aging

than those born in earlier decades. How can that be? We see photos all the time of people that were born, you know, in the 50s or the 40s or the 30s, and they look ancient. And the people in today's world look years younger, years younger than of the, do you look at pictures of your grandfather and tell me, yeah, he was 20. it looks like he's 50 you kidding me that could not be I do not buy that I don't know now maybe

maybe if we're sitting down and looking at it for real maybe our chronological age is decelerating but our aging process accelerating I don't know it just seems it just seems weird everyone

and I know that it could be the filters on my Instagram account, but I know that everyone looks younger than they did years ago. I am sorry, I don't necessarily believe that. But hey, you keep researching their AACR, and you let me know, and let me know if it's that or if it isn't that that's, you know, increased some of the risk of cancer tumors in the young, okay? Be sure to look at that. I'm sure you will at some point. Plus, we're finding out now that semaglutide is helping with heart disease. I know. I like the way that sounds a lot.

Now, the headline claims that the key ingredient in, well, semaglutide is the key ingredient in Ozzypic and Wiggo. And Wiggovoid, yeah, has been shown to reduce symptoms of and physical limitations in, patients with a common type of heart failure. So all I have to do is take some O-Zempic or Wigaboy or just maybe some generic off-the-street-corner semi-glutide. And that's going to help my heart disease? Why, yes. St. Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute.

And man, I am a fan of St. Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute. They announced results from the Step HF-P-E-F-DM trial showing that compared with placebo, once weekly semaglutide 2.4 milligram produced greater reductions in heart failure related symptoms and physical limitations. Improved exercise function

and led to greater weight loss in adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Duh. H-F-P-E-F and type 2 diabetes. The findings were presented at the American College of Cardiology. I can't even say it. They presented it at some harp thing. I haven't got my American College of Cardiology Scientific Session in yet,

but they presented it there. And as soon I guess it will be up at the New England General of Medicine. And all I know is, you know what, Just give me some ozempic, and I think I'll be good. All right, let's get out of here. I'll leave you with the joke of the day, all right? There's also another, this is awful, like a hint of the day as well, a helpful hint of the day. A joke, helpful hint of the day.

So you're riding a horse full speed, and there's a giraffe next to you and a lion chasing you. What do you do? then you get your drunk ass off the carousel. Think about it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holtrenfrew with gifts that say I know you.

From festive and cozy fashion to Lux beauty and fragrance sets. Our special selection has something for every style and price point. Visit our Holtz holiday shop and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com.