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Last week, the U.S. charged Yixian Wally Liyah, the co-founder of the co-founder of
ServMaker SuperMicro with illegally routing servers containing NVIDIA's advanced AI chips
to China.
The U.S. restricts chip exports to the country.
They restrict that to give an American AI labs the edge.
Liyah, who resigned from the California super-based super-micro board last week,
was named as a defendant alongside a general manager and a contractor,
though SuperMicro wasn't charged in the case.
The three defendants allegedly orchestrated purchases of the servers by a company in Southeast
Asia, which then repackaged them for shipment to China.
Prosecutors say SuperMicro made $2.5 billion in server sales to this company since 2024.
Last spring alone, $510 million worth of those servers were restricted chips
that were sent to China.
The scheme allegedly involved tricking SuperMicro auditors and the U.S. government inspector
into believing the company had bought the hardware for itself.
Prosecutors said that at one point they were using a hairdryer to transfer the serial number
stickers from real servers to dummy servers to show inspectors.
That's when you know you got a good deal.
When you've got the boss down there using a hairdryer to move the stickers on dummy stickers,
just incredible.
Now, I know that we have the chip smuggling crackdown.
The Trump administration actually loosened export restrictions on some of NVIDIA's advanced
chips involved in the case, really, really strange.
So, but they weren't they weren't to be going to China before president
went ahead and loosened some of those export restrictions.
So, I just love the story only because I got to see the CEO down there with his hairdryer moving
stickers.
If it was worth 2.5 billion, you bet I'm down there using that hairdryer.
Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat fat five plus.
Feels good to have all the funorteners back in order and everything is working as it should.
So, thank you for coming along for the ride today on chewing the fat fat five plus.
The first segment and actually the first story of the first three or four stories are all about
crime that's going on around the world. Swiss food giant Nestle says that 12 tons, 413,793 candy bars,
KitKat candy bars were stolen. I had nothing to do with it. I love KitKat bars, but I had nothing
to do with it. After it was leaving its production site in Italy on its way to Poland.
The company, based in Switzerland, said in a statement, the vehicle and its load are still
nowhere to be found. The shipment of crunchy bars made of waffles covered with chocolate.
Yeah, they just disappeared while they were in route and we don't know what happened to them.
We're still on the hunt. It will not affect sales. It will not affect shortages. They will not
have shortages. The company said, don't worry about it. We're good. We've got plenty to make
sure that everybody has enough KitKat bars. And I'm sure that some stores are going to have extra
KitKat bars because if you were selling those damn hot KitKat bars to make extra money that you
bought on the cheap, they're going to find you. Don't scan them. They said you can scan them and
it will show that these are the ones that are stolen because they've got tracking devices with
the UPC numbers. But I will say that if I'm a store owner and I can buy KitKat bars at half price,
then I'm going to go ahead and just cover up that UPC code. And then when they don't scan,
I'll just charge you the price for them. I'm not telling you what you should do and I'm not
saying that's what's happening. I'm just saying if I were a store owner, I would definitely just
get a hold of KitKat right away and let them know that someone tried to sell me a cheap KitKat bar.
And I would not have it. That's why I'm calling you. So we'll see if we could find out what
happened to the shipment of KitKat bars. Then in the United States of America,
federal agents with US customs and border protection uncovered more than $17 million in suspected
meth andphetamine hidden inside a shipment of blackberries at South Texas border crossing. Yes,
the seizure took place last week at the Far International Bridge cargo facility after a tractor
trailer arriving from a Renausa, Mexico, beautiful this time of year, was selected for a secondary
inspection with advanced imaging equipment. During the inspection, officers located 862 packages
of suspected meth concealed within the produce, totaling of about 1,984 pounds. Authorities estimate
the drug street value at 17.7 million always estimate that stuff higher than it probably is
maybe even lower. So the port director said that this is good stuff. The bus demonstrates CBP's
continued use of technology and resources to stop drug trafficking and safeguard communities.
So officials seized both the narcotics and the vehicle and Homeland Security investigation has
launched a criminal probe into the case. The truck driver, I'm just delivering blackberries is
all I'm doing. I had no idea that that meth was on this truck. Wow. And I was, did I make you wonder
how much is getting through? Doesn't it? That does make one wonder how much is getting through.
Then in Missouri, we have fentanyl found in Barbie dolls at a discount store in Missouri.
Police say fentanyl was discovered inside barber dial packages. All those people should be dead.
According to the experts, all those people should be dead in that store, but they're not. Well,
I don't know why, because it's not true. That's why the whole thing of fentanyl, I touched fentanyl
and I died. No, stop it. So the Barbie dial packages were sold at a discount store in independence
and the independence Missouri department was alerted on police department was alerted this weekend
by cargo, cargo security. Love them after a suspicious powder was found inside one of the dial
packages. Test later confirmed the substance was fentanyl. Authorities worked with the store and
determined that five Barbie dial packages containing the drug had been sold, all of which were
recovered within hours. Were they police emphasized? They do not believe other stores have contaminated
dials and no injuries have been reported in connection with the incident. What makes one wonder
why the Barbie dolls had fentanyl in them? How the fentanyl was in the packages? Who was purchasing
the Barbies that had the fentanyl in it? Did they want? Were they purchasing the Barbies specifically
because those were the ones that had fentanyl or they just didn't know? So there's a question that
probably investigators will ask and we'll see what comes of that. But remember, they say that
one little drop of fentanyl can kill all these people and that's apparently not true because this
was a prime example of five packages or multiple packages of Barbie dolls with fentanyl in them
and they didn't say anything in the story about people dropping over dead. So we'll see what happens
with that. And now they're saying, and we've talked about this before, I think, as we've joked around
about movies and cocaine sharks will be in the next movies. Well, I was reading a story that
talked about cocaine-fueled sharks are on the prowl in the Caribbean. Oh, now scientists aren't
blaming the United States for blowing up drug boats and having cocaine in the ocean. What's
so ever? They're saying that they're blaming partying tourists. Yes, yes, partying tourists.
The calf and the Brazilian scientists discovered traces of the cocaine, caffeine and pain killers
in the sharks swimming in the waters around the Bahamas. These blowfish aren't getting hooked
on purpose. See what they did there? It's the fallout from an uptick in marine pollutants
per a jaw-colliptic study. Wow. So that's called a jaw-colliptic study published in the journal
Environmental Pollution. Love that. Pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are increasingly recognized
as contaminants of emerging concern in marine environments, particularly in areas undergoing
rapid urbanization and tourism-driven development. Okay. So there's too many people doing too many
drugs and the water isn't there being filtered out. It's getting into the ocean and now it's
getting into all the marine life. And the marine life is starting to get hooked on drugs. 28
sharks spanning three species tested positive for drugs, the most common of which was caffeine.
This was followed by a sea to fitibin and Dick Lofanic, Dick Lofanac,
D-I-C-L-O-F-E-N-A-C. Dic Lofanac. That's exactly what I said. Dic Lofanac, right? Dic Lofanac.
Okay. Appreciate you showing up today. Those are just active ingredients in the popular pain killers
Tylenol and Volterin. So okay. Two of the animals tested positive for cocaine, which
reaches or attributed to them, jumping on drug packets that fell into the water. Yes, so these are
the narcos that are throwing drug packets in the water and the sharks are eating them or at least
jumping on them. And they bite things to investigate and end up being exposed. Yes, so we're close
to a cocaine shark movie. That should already be in the works and already happening because yeah,
they found them in Brazil was the original story. So man, there's so much so many pollutants,
so many pollutants in the water that can't help but affect these animals, right? Right. Well,
that's of course why we study and publish things in the journal Environmental Pollution.
Quite a bit of pig news in the news today. I know that's weird. Quite a bit of pig news.
First, we have the world's first lab-grown esophagus, which restores pigs ability to swallow.
Scientists grew the working esophagus using donor tissue and stem cells, then transplanted it
into pigs. The new esophagus worked like the real one. Ta-da! And grew with the pigs, offering hope
for human babies, born with the esophagal effect defects who currently face complex surgeries.
Yeah, if you are born or have something wrong with your esophagus, I was said the word fine,
and then I got into a esophagal and a esophageal that's born with esophageal defects who currently
face complex surgeries. Yeah, so I mean, it's something with the esophagus.
But you grow, you can grow one, and we can just take it from the pig, and then we're fine.
No problem. Then we have eye drops derived in part from pig semen that killed cancer cells
and slow tumor growth in mice with retinoblastoma. Okay, I mean, I don't care what kind of retinoblastoma
you have, which apparently this is a rare childhood cancer, typically develops in humans before
the age of five. All you have to do is drop some eye drops into your eye, made with pig semen,
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they want you to wash your boots before entering a pig pen. I'll repeat that. They want you to
wash your boots before entering a pig pen. Apparently, that's one of many bio security measures
to reduce the risk of deadly diseases like African swine fever. Single slip can make a life
or death difference to the herd. Now, this is ASF Action Week. Oh, it is the African swine fever
Action Week. So we get to stay up today with all the latest guidelines. We will. My gosh,
I didn't realize that it was the Action Week. So we have to get on that. This is dated.
Oh, we missed it. This is dated March 16. So it was like last week. That was
African swine fever Action Week. Can we still take action? Can we still take action?
I'm guessing you probably can't just remember that you need to wash your boots before you enter
the pig pen. That's all you need to remember. Okay. So let me get this straight. The company that
just inked a deal with Disney, Epic Games, they wanted to create games entertainment universe
with the company's brands, including Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Disney invested 1.5 million in
Epic Games for a minority stake in the company. So the newly minted Disney chief executive,
Josh D. Amaro, managed the collaboration with Epic Games in his previous role as Park's chief
to create a Disney world within the popular Fortnite game. Now, Fortnite just laid off,
attacked 1,000 people and said that they needed to cut costs by $500 million.
Chief executive Tim Sweeney announced the cuts and said, it's not nothing to do with AI.
He pointed, he says, the lack of Fortnite engagement last year. Oh, okay. It's sure we're one of
the most popular games in the world. We've had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic
with every season. Oh, okay. So you're going to cut costs by $500 million and you're going to lay
off 1,000 people by lay off, I mean, fire. And yet, who got all the money for the Disney investment?
I'm just asking that's all. I'm not accusing anybody of anything at all and I don't have any idea,
you know, what I'm talking about. I just wondered what happened to all the money. That's all.
I just wondered what happened to all the money. And I know we have, you know, speaking of games,
I see where PS5 they are raising their prices. That's special, isn't it? Yeah, so many thank you.
Yeah, I know, I know you have pressures in the global economic landscape,
but I just know that as of April 2nd, today is the 30th. So you've got a couple of days
to before this before the second to get your PS5s because they're going to go up in price.
So the disk edition is going to go up 100. The digital edition is going to go up 100.
And the PS5 Pro is going to go up $150 on April 2nd. So good luck.
And look, everybody's raising their prices. I know no problem. I saw a thing. What did I do with it?
I must have thrown away. There's a list of the price hikes from Netflix since they first began.
And they, all the price hikes are under inflation. So okay, they're below the inflation.
I got adjusted for inflation price. Still a lot of money coming out of my pocket. In fact,
this weekend I was watching something on Netflix, not dinosaurs, but you should listen to our podcast,
the Pat Groundleash podcast. If you're a blaze TV subscriber, we cover the dinosaurs episodes on
Netflix. But my wife, we were watching some of Netflix and my wife said, if Netflix, if we cancel
Netflix, well, then we can get rid of the commercials on prime. And I thought, okay. So she's now
considering Netflix getting too pricey. And I love Netflix. So I don't want to see it go.
But you know, the camel is, the back is getting quite heavy on the camel. And a lot of these
platforms are like, well, do we really, really need it? And the answer for me is yes, we do. I mean,
they're like, I mean, we get the Apple TV. I get that through their phone carrier for free,
for free. I just have to pay, you know, $8 million a month for my phones. That's all. And then I get
Apple TV cycle, the new friends and neighbors season begins this week, which I'm looking forward to
with John Ham. So, you know, that's on Apple TV. I watched Alex cross on prime with commercials,
by the way, it drives me insane. But you know, I, that's the line I'm not crossing. I'm not going to pay,
I'm not going to do it. No, I will not going to pay for no commercials on prime before something else
happens. I'm not going to do it. No. And then, you know, there's, there's other shows, some that I'm
watching. It's that, there's many shows have gotten canceled. They've reupped many shows. We can
get to that at some point this week. The new shows and they've got the new, the new Netflix roast
coming up, which I found fascinating. So I guess what they're going to do is Kevin Hart is going
to take the hot seat. So they're going to have a live roast for Kevin Hart hosted by Shane Gillis.
It's going to air Sunday, May 10th, closing out the Netflix is a joke fest. And like the Tom Brady
event back in 2024, the roast will be filmed at the key of forums forum in Los Angeles. So we
prepared for that. And we should have some fun with the Kevin Hart roast on Netflix in May.
That might actually, that might actually be worth a watch to watch it. Now if you can't catch it
live, obviously it's Netflix. You'll be able to catch it later. But you'll be able to catch it
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appreciate you all follow me on that. Now, this is something that is not dead, but it looks like
it's moving pretty good. The Connecticut Sun is moving. Yeah. So the Mohican Sun has sold the
Connecticut Sun for $300 million dollars. And the franchise, the WNBA franchise is moving
to Houston or out of here. Okay. Well, I don't know for 300 million for the Connecticut Sun,
that seems like an awful lot of money for that. So after the 2026 season this season,
they're moving to Houston. So I don't know if they're going to be the Houston Sun or not,
but they are getting the heck out of there. And I know that I remember reading some stories where,
you know, they were looking to get some money from people in Boston. I can't believe this is
surprising to me that Boston. I mean, they got the Celtics, you know, the man's league. But I'm
surprised that no one in Boston wants to keep the Connecticut Sun, you know, there. Keep it up
there. Massachusetts and Connecticut. It just seems like that would be the thing that they would
do. But I guess not. Nope. And I mean, Connecticut's hurting, right? Because the New York Islanders
just announced that they're a HL team. The Bridgeport Islanders love them relocating to Canada.
So the people in Connecticut are feeling a little bit hurt, a little bit hurt. No WNBA, no
minor league hockey. What will they do? Okay, who died today? Who died today? Man, so many people
have died since last week spoke. We'll get to as many as we can today. And then we'll get to a
few, few more as the week progresses. Key Charlie Kirkment or Jeff Webb dies. He died from a
freak pickleball accident. He was a dear friend to Charlie. He died at the age of 76, two weeks
after suffering a serious head injury while he fell playing pickleball. So I mean, I guess he was
also the father of modern cheerleading. So congratulations. I guess he went into, he was on life
support for two weeks after hitting his head during a pickleball game. And he was the mentor of the
Charlie Kirk. Are we, when, when we realized, when do we say that, uh, uh, this was Erica's fault?
When do we say that? When do we say that? Do we say that at all? No. Okay. I was just wondering
if she's trying to, you know, knock off all the Charlie's people. But, uh, so Reston peace to
Texas business man, Jeff Webb, uh, dead at the age of 76. Then we have Robert Muller, Robert Muller,
dead former FBI director at the age of 81. And Trump blasted him. We talked about this on Pat
Graham. Least you, of course, and can catch me every day on Pat Graham. Least Monday through
Friday, uh, where I do a fat five, uh, every day on Pat Graham. Least you can, uh, become a
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up Pat Graham. Least that program. Uh, you can watch Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.
Central every day, rest in peace to, uh, farmers. I got the Trump just crushed, uh, Robert Mueller
in his post saying he was happy that he was dead. Uh, you know, come on. Uh, I, I know, you know,
we can say that we don't like people, but, uh, we don't necessarily have to be, uh, you know,
we don't have to be mean about it. Robert Mueller died and, uh, Trump said, good. I'm glad he's dead.
You can no longer hurt innocent people. So I guess resident peace to Robert Mueller, dead at the age
of 81. The problem with radio is we can't show you our new box packed with a KFC snack or five
nuggets fries in a drink for just $7. So you'll just have to trust us when we say the crispy golden
fried breading will make your mouth water. You'll have to trust us when we say this is a ridiculous
amount of chicken for such a small price. And you'll have to really trust us when we insist that,
yes, it really is only $7. $7 box feast from KFC. Trust us. It's finger lick and good.
Prices in participation may be very tax tips and fees extra. Then we have Valerie Perrine. I know
Valerie Perrine, Oscar nominee, Superman actress, dead at the age of 82. Apparently she was struggling
with Parkinson's disease. I, that's one of the worst diseases on the planet. I mean, I guess any
disease that we talk about here on this show is terrible. But Parkinson's, I've seen the struggles
of people with Parkinson's up close and personal. And it is no fun. And I don't, I personally don't
recommend it for anyone. So if you can avoid getting Parkinson's, I would rest in peace to Valerie
Perrine, uh, dead at the age of 82. Then, uh, we have James Tolkien. James Tolkien. Here's the
now. Here's, oh, yeah, that guy. When you see him, uh, he's an actor. He played him back to the
future top gun. He's been in a bunch of movies. He is definitely, oh, yeah, that guy, uh, James
Tolkien, dead at the age of 94. Then the infamous, uh, abortion doctor, uh, the serial killer,
uh, Kermit Gosnell, dead in prison. That's right. He is finally dead at the age of 85 Kermit
Gosnell, uh, abortion doctor. I mean, it's guy killed thousands of people. If anybody deserved a
good, I'm glad he's dead. Uh, he could no longer hurt innocent people post from Donald Trump.
Kermit Marin Gosnell was the guy, uh, dead, uh, and from, he was in prison. Uh, good place for him to be,
uh, has passed away at the age of 85. Mr. Only fans himself, uh,
Leonid Redovinsky. Uh, he's the billionaire, uh, that, uh, from Only fans. He's, uh, you know,
the platform that sells, uh, you can do anything. They keep calling it an erotic thing,
but you could do that. You could do many things. Uh, on Only fans, you don't have to just do porn,
although many people do. Uh, anyway, uh, Lena has, uh, died at the age of 43. I believe that's
how he pronounced his name, Leonid, uh, Leo and ID, uh, Redovinsky. Uh, apparently he had
cancer and, uh, was suffering really bad, very sad, uh, passed away at the age of 43. I mean,
the guy was, you know, a genius, uh, after running, uh, online porn ventures ever since he was a
teenager, uh, Redovinsky in 2018, but a majority stake in the British site, Only fans. And that's
when I became one of the UK top startups and it became, uh, the Only fans that it is today.
So that's because of him, but he is now, uh, left this planet. Uh, Leonardo Redovinsky,
dead at the age of 43. All right, let's get out of here. Uh, I'll do a little with the joke of
the day. In fact, I got my kids gave me a calendar of dead jokes for Christmas. And I haven't even
gone through it yet. Every day is a dead joke in this calendar. Pretty cool. I mean, we've got all
of January, which I didn't do. Got darn near all of March when, uh, with February. Didn't do any
of February and darn near all of March is almost over. Today is, uh, the 30th of March. So let's take a
look at the 30th of March, dead joke and my dad joke calendar. I was going to try an all almond
diet, but that's just nuts. Yesterday is the 29th March 29th. Ooh, rest in peace to my brother
as well, uh, who passed away last year. Uh, March 29th is his birthday. So every time I think of
him, of course, every March 29th. So happy birthday to my brother who has, we shouldn't be in who died
today. Um, but he died a year ago. So he can't be in who died today. Uh, uh, yesterday, uh, the owner
of a Tuxedo store kept hovering over me when I was browsing. So I asked him to leave me alone. He said,
fine, suit yourself. Just think I've got a whole year of these, a whole year of these on Saturday.
My doctor told me I'm going deaf. The news was hard for me to hear.
All right, that's a, that's enough of that.
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