Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Another Reason?... | 1/5/26

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

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Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Well, it is the new year, 2026. Yes, we made it through the holidays and on to the new year. If you're listening live, today is the 5th of January, 2026. However, it is not the new year in China yet. We still are in the year of the snake, which started on January 29th, 2020. but the new years Chinese day the year of the horse doesn't start until February 17th so you still have a

little bit of time to live in the year of the snake if you're you know celebrating the Chinese years oh we still a little bit of time before we get to the year of the horse welcome welcome to chewing the fat fat five plus Plenty of crime happened over the holidays. I think one of my favorite thefts was a theft of a semi-trailer full of lobsters that were to go to Costco. locations in Illinois, Minnesota. And so if you had lobster on your mind over the holidays in Illinois and Minnesota,

you probably were a little bummed that the Costco's didn't have your lobsters. The FBI apparently has launched an investigation into the heist, which that happened, I don't know, over a week ago, and we still have no, no arrests. So I'm sure they're on it, though, no problem. So the shipment, which originated in Taunton, Massachusetts, I think that's how you pronounce the city, T-A-U-N-T-O-N-N-Massachusetts, was destined for those Costco locations. And apparently, the cargo fell victim to a crime known as strategic cargo theft. That's what they call it. It isn't just, hey, someone stole the lobsters in the back of the semi-tractor.

it's strategic cargo theft so it's not a hijacking crime it's a digital one so dylan rexing the CEO of rexing companies the logistics firm handling the transport confirmed that the thieves impersonated a legitimate trucking carrier Dylan rexing is like we didn't have anything to do with it we were fooled just like everyone else apparently they used spoofed emails and burner phones and which tricked the shipping depot into releasing the freight to them. Now, not only is it called strategic cargo theft, it's called fictitious pickup. Okay, so we have a strategic cargo theft,

also known as a fictitious pickup. They knew exactly what they were looking for, and this wasn't an opportunistic grab. It was targeted by an organized ring. so the imposter truck which arrived at the depot appearing to be the scheduled carrier loaded the high value perishable goods and drove off they didn't even realize it until the original carrier showed up and said hey we're here to pick up the lobsters and they were like we already sent those off why did you do that we're the ones that are supposed to be picking it up well we thought we thought they were the people and so now the theft is ongoing or the, you know, the investigation is ongoing. So is the theft, actually. And we have not made any arrests. And I'm sure that somewhere in the Northeast, people are eating lobsters at a little bit cheaper price than normal. And maybe not. Maybe the people are paying regular price.

And it's the restaurants and the distributors that are paying a cheaper price and making a little bit more money on the back end because they were sold cheaper lobsters from the thieves. So be on the lookout. I mean, you could be dining on lobster and it could be stolen. Then we have this story that I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Okay, so this happened a little, a few days before Christmas. And a trucker returned to find his trailer loaded with cocaine worth millions of dollars after stopping at an Indiana truck stop.

So if you're living somewhere and you were a... looking forward to having some cocaine over the holidays, and your dealer said, now, we're out. This is why. So according to this, authorities in Indiana are still searching for the suspects. They have no idea who the suspects are there, you know, after this large amount of cocaine was discovered, at this pilot travel center in Whiteland, Indiana.

Law enforcement said they responded to the pilot travel center, approximately 5 p.m. after receiving a report of suspicious activity, Weird. Okay, so when speaking with the officers, the trucker said he was performing a pre-trip inspection when he noticed that the seal of his trailer had been tampered with. Officers investigated, and after opening the trailer, reportedly discovered 10 boxes that were not part of the driver's original load. Cocaine was seized, believed to be an estimated value of $16 million. They noted that the quantity of cocaine created a security concern because there wasn't enough space to store it in their evidence

room. So they believe that it was one of the biggest, largest cocaine confiscations in Indiana history. Again, no suspects have been taken into custody and they have also destroyed the cocaine because they didn't have any place to put it. I just find it a little strange. So the truck driver, while doing his pre-trip inspection, sees that the tags are messed up and so he thinks there's a problem and calls the police i don't know i just i find that a little strange like maybe he got worried that he was going to have to go through uh some inspection that he would be found out about and just decided that he wasn't going to haul the cocaine anymore and called police i mean i don't know does does it happen often in this country

that $16 million worth of cocaine is secretly put in the back of a semi in the middle of the country and then hauled somewhere else? I don't know. It just seems a little weird that they would put that much cocaine. Someone would put that much cocaine

in the back of a semi-trailer and then hope that it gets where they're going. The whole thing is really strange. But, you know, it happens. So good luck. to the law enforcement for catching the criminals. Now, this story, very annoying to me. They, it was posted, and it just, it hurts me.

It breaks my heart to see stories like this. So these guys are out fishing, and they found what they claim is $500,000 in the ocean. Well, it was drugs worth $500,000. They found this package containing kilos of, of cocaine, I guess, some sort of drug. And they, of course, turned it in. That's how we know about it.

So, I mean, I'm hoping that they found more and that they called in to the Coast Guard and said, hey, look what we found. And then they turned over this one bail and kept, you know, another bail that they found. I'm hoping that's the case. it's a little bit different with the drugs than the cash because if you find that much cash my gosh why would you say anything at all you just put that in the hull of the boat and go back

home and put the money in your house i mean we've talked about it a thousand times now you could say maybe they should you know do what uh what we've talked about before is turn some of it in and then keep the rest. But if it's cash, if it's cash, you know, the people who have belonged to knows how much cash was out there.

So you don't want to promote the idea that you found this cash and then turned it in because they say, well, I turned in 500,000. And the people are like, yeah, but we had two million dollars out there. So a million and a half is still missing

and they're going to come to, you know, knocking on your door, looking for the rest of their money. Same with the drugs. But I just find, find it difficult to believe. I mean, while it's harder to get rid of the drugs that you have found, it is possible. As long as you keep your mouth shut, don't report.

The only reason we know about this is that they posted a video of them turning it in after they found it. Unbelievable. Be sure to follow me on my social media at Jeffrey JFR on X, Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and Instagram, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher on YouTube. You can order a cameo from me at any time. on the Cameo app at Jeffey JFR on the Cameo app. I believe it's Jeff Fisher on the Cameo web page. But if you go through the app, it's at Jeffie JFR. And you can also email the show anytime.

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You can catch all the shows and all the behind-the-scenes stuff and all the extra shows that the hosts and shows do at BlazTV.com. Now's the time to get $20 off an annual subscription. If you just go to blazTV.com slash jeffy, J-E-F-F-F-Y, Blaz-T-V-V-Y. You'll get yourself $20 off an annual subscription. to blaze tv and while you're subscribing to blaze tv you may want to remember that uh the passwords for all your other platforms uh probably need to be changed i was looking at a list of the top 10 most common passwords from 2025 and uh they seem like maybe we could do better maybe we could do a little bit better uh it says here that the most common passwords of 2025 the uh 10th most common password was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.0. The 9th was 1-2-3. The 8th was password. The 7th was 1, 2, 3, 4. The 6th was capital A, little A, 1, 2, 3, 46. The 5th most common password of 2025 was 1, 2, 3, 4, which I find

a little strange because most companies, most websites that have password, words tell you that you can use, you have to use letters and numbers, and they tell you whether most of them anyway, at least the ones that I'm using, will say, ooh, why don't you try a different password? Because that one is too easy. But according to this, people are still using these. The fourth one is admin. The third one is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Now, the second one is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And the number one, most common password of 2025. One, two, three, four, five, six. So if you are using those passwords on any of your platforms, any of your social medias, whatever that you use passwords for, any of your emails, any of

your computer systems, you may want to think about changing it because it seems to me that if I was a hacker, and I'm not, I'm not even close to being a hacker, but if I was, you might want to run through those first 10 before you even take a shot at anything else. Just start out with 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, or maybe just start out with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and build from there. And then try the word password or admin. Now, the one thing that's not on this list is the word, but I'm sure that that's on the list somewhere in the top 25. But those are your top 10. So just know that You're not alone, but you probably should be. And those of you that were flying over the holidays probably already aware of this,

but American Airlines just told travelers that, yeah, we're no longer going to let the A Advantage loyalty, the AA Advantage or the AA Devantage loyalty members, earn miles or status earning loyalty points when flying its no frills tickets. Wait, what? Yeah, you can fly on the no frills, but we're not giving you anything extra for it. Wait, what?

Yeah, sorry. We just can't do that anymore. They're spelled out on the website, so you need to take advantage of that. Just look at that when you make your bookings. Oh, you mean, before this, when I was flying your no frills seating arrangements, I was doing that to save money

and add to my advantage loyalty points. Now I can't do it. do that yeah that's correct so those two miles and loyalty points per dollar spent um they don't they don't count anymore well no not if you fly the no frills uh sorry about that wow okay well thanks american we really appreciate you about as much as you appreciate us okay and uh more news about ozempic for those of you that are thinking you know what i need to go on ozempic i need to lose some wait well you know it was created for people with diabetes and so now we've we've talked about people with ozempic butt people are having ozempic face now apparently we're having ozempic blindness

yeah so apparently ozempic blindness there's lawsuits going up against the novo noradisk they failed to warn users of the risk of severe eye damage, including macular complications and permanent loss of sight. Plaintiffs argue that they were never told Osampic could be linked to conditions that damage the optic nerve or the retina, and that if they had known, they might have refused the drug or demanded closer monitoring. Right. I mean, that's the thing. If the doctor knows, and it gives you the out cue hey it really could cause eye damage we need to keep a really close look on it but according to this that didn't happen so okay ozempic blindness uh just another reason to kind of think twice about ozempic because hey boy it sounds good it sounds good for every person that's

overweight and i am one and i've wanted to go on it a couple of times and my wife has shot it down and I'm thankful now that she has shot it down because if they would have said, oh, you could get Ozambic butter, you could go blind. I'm like, yeah, I don't care. I just want to lose weight. And so, you know, I'm not a 600-pounder.

Okay. And then now you look great, though. You can't see yourself or anyone else or anything else, but you look great. That's not good at all. Not good at all. sudden vision loss, retinal damage, irreversible blindness, symptoms ignored or downplayed. Wow.

So right now, according to this, there's several stories that talk about multiple cases trying to be linked together now. This story that I read over the holidays says that 1,800 people have claimed they were left permanently blind. Holy cow. And they're talking about Novo Nordisk facing like a 2 billion. lawsuit, that seems like cheap. Very cheap. 1,800 people

claim that they were left permanently blind from OZEPIC and it's only $2 billion lawsuit. Man, I think we need to up the numbers on that bad boy because if that's true, wow, that's worth a lot more than $2 billion.

And there's going to be more than 1,800 people as well. So maybe you ought to think twice about taking Ozempic. if this is true. Of course, consult your physician for more details. For those of you that believe this is your year, 2026, don't forget, tonight is the Powerball drawing worth $86 million with a 386 million. $1.8 million cash payout.

And then tomorrow, the 6th of January, 2026, the Mega Millions drawing is for $180 million jackpot with $81.9 million cash payout. So you never know. And you can't win if you don't play. Yeah, I know. I understand that as well. But it just nibbles away at the hope every time you don't win. Believe me, I know.

Okay. Who died today? Who died today? We're going to have to break this up because there's a long list in my show email of all these people that died over the holidays. So we'll start with Bridget Bardot. Bridget Bardot, dead at the age of 91. We know she was hospitalized the last month. They did not give a cause of death. She was an interesting character, to say the least. I mean, she was a. sex symbol from the 60s on and she was from her 1956 movie and God created woman I mean holy cow the scandal with scenes of long-legged beauty dancing on tables naked yeah she was definitely a sex symbol then she turned into an animal rights activist and she was all about animal rights man she went to the Arctic she wanted to blow the

whistle on the killing of baby seals. She condemned the use of animals and laboratory experiments and what got her into big trouble. She opposed Muslim slaughter rituals. Yeah, she got into big trouble about that. She said that once was quoted as saying, man is an insatiable predator. Yep, you're right, Bridget. We are. Some of us are just okay with it. Anyway, she was convicted and fined five times by French courts for inciting racial hatred in incidents inspired by her opposition to Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep during annual religious holidays. Then her fourth marriage to Bernard or O'Malley, one-time advisor to the Jean-Marie LaPen, the national front leader, contributed to what they claim was her political shift.

and she, you know, and so she supported the presidential bid of Le Pen. And so she made, you know, made enemies from the Muslims and all the immigrants that came into France. Plus, in 2018, at the height of the Me Too movement, she was like, ah, most actors protesting sexual harassment in the film industry, ah, they're hypocritical. Many played the teases with producers to land to parts. Amen, Bridget. She said that she never had been a victim of sexual harassment,

but found it charming to be told that I was beautiful or that I had a nice little ass. So rest in peace to Bridget Bardot, a sex symbol and hatred of Muslim animal slaughter dead at the age of 91. Yeah, she didn't like people killing animals. at all. Then we have Peter Arnett. Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who spent, I don't know, decades reporting from war zones. I first started during the Vietnam War, and then he became really famous during the Iraq War, is dead at the age of 91. He was an AP correspondent during the Vietnam War, and then he was a chief correspondent to the United Nations,

and then he started working for CNN during the Iraq War and the first Gulf War. So he was covering that as well. Peter Arnett, I mean, he was the guy. He was the reporter, no question. I mean, he was one of the last ones standing as far as American reporters in Baghdad because missiles were flying

and he was giving everyone a live account from his hotel room, man. Anyone that was around then remembers that for sure. And that's when CNN was actually, you know, this is CNN. Peter Arnett, dead at the age of

91. Rest in peace. Then we have James Ranson. James Ranson dead at the age of 46. He died by suicide. It's so... Suicide is so bad.

But James Ranson is one of those, oh yeah, that guy. He was in a lot of stuff. You may remember him from the wire. He was in the wire for, I don't know, a season, I think. He was on Bosch for a season. He was in It 2. And he showed up on, you know, a couple episodes of Law & Order. He was in Black Phone.

So, I mean, he was in multiple episodes of a SEAL team. He's one of those, oh, yeah, that guy actors. uh james ranson uh dead at the age of 46 then we have tech influencer lamar wilson dead at the age of 48 he committed suicide he built a large following across youtube and instagram him is a social media content provider he was a tech focus content and uh i just i don't understand the suicides i mean i do but i don't So, look, if you feel that the world is better off without you in it, you're wrong. Dial 988. That's the suicide and crisis lifeline, 988.

And at least someone will be there to help you through whatever tough time you're going through because the earth is not better without you on it, clearly. So rest and peace, both to James Ranson and Lamar Wilson. both dead way too early. James at the age of 46 and LeVar dead at the age of 48 had both taken their own life. Really sad.

But then we have actress Melanie Watson. Melanie Watson, and you're dead at the age of 57. And you think of yourself actress, Melanie Watson. Is she, oh yeah, that girl? Well, kind of. She played Kathy on the TV show, Different Strokes.

Now, Melanie Watson Bernhardt is her full name now. She was best known for her role on the hit TV show Different Strokes, as I said. But what makes this incredibly, I don't know, I guess sad. She was in four, four episodes of 189 episodes. They were memorable, I guess. You know, she was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, which is a disease where a person's bones fracture easily. And she'd been in the hospital for some time

with some bleeding and some other issues and deteriorated quickly. But, you know, the big show that everyone remembers is when Gary Coleman, the character, his character, Arnold, argued when he tried to convince her to walk without her crutches. And it says here that she retired from acting after different strokes ended. So she was like in four episodes. They had a hundred and, I don't know, 90 episodes, 189 episodes of different strokes. She was in four of them and she retired after that.

Okay, I know, I know. I'm not, I'm not. Okay, I've got to stop laughing. So rest in peace to Melanie, Watson, Barnard. Now, what is kind of cool is that. after she retired from acting uh she reportedly helped found the charity train right rite e to help properly train dogs to work as service animals so that's that's really cool so rest in peace to melanie watson dead at the age of 57 rest in peace and we lost ranger betty

away at the age of 104. Betty Reed Soskin, the National Park Service ranger, who became the oldest active ranger until her retirement four years ago at the age of

100. And so she died away peacefully, they say, Sunday, surrounded by her family. Okay, I guess that's good, but, you know, she retired at 100, and then she's dead a years later. Maybe she shouldn't have retired.

Anyway, rest and peace to Ranger Betty. Thank you for your service, dead at the age of 104. And we have now lost a newspaper officially in one of America's major

cities, the Atlanta Journal Constitution. After 157 years, the Atlanta Journal Constitution has ended its print edition. His last print edition was December 31st, 2025. And that makes Atlanta the only major U.S. City without a daily printed newspaper. That will change shortly. I guarantee you because I don't know how many people are getting a newspaper anymore. But in my world,

those days are long gone. And I appreciate them. And I appreciate them. And I appreciate what they used to be and how we use them. Wow, did we use them. But those days are long gone. My newspaper from around the world is in my laptop, I no longer need a local newspaper. But very sad to the, there's no more newspaper boys. Those jobs are long gone. Or newspaper, old people driving around in station wagons, delivering newspapers at, you know, 4 a.m. in the morning. Atlanta Journal Constitution print edition newspaper dead at the age of 157.

And we did lose MTV finally. Finally, I didn't think it was ever going to go away. So they officially shut down their 24-hour music channel, I guess at the end of 2025, was when they said they were going to shut it down. And so it's over.

Now, there is no more MTV. They really should be, though. I saw someone comment, what a great idea this would have been. They should have just replayed the whole thing. Just made it, we're going to make a big push commercially to, we're going to replay MTV from day one to, you know,

the first four or five years or six years or ten years, whatever. You could add a network full of new commercials with old shows from MTV. It would have been very nostalgic. and cool. It was a pretty good idea. I wish I would have been the one to think of it, and that's a fantastic idea.

But it's not going to happen, or at least it's not going to happen right now because, well, it's dead. All right, let's get out of here. I suppose I should say, rest in peace. Let's get out of here. I'm going to leave you with the joke of the day. This is a big guy joke now.

So just know, it's a big guy joke. It's kind of mean, and I don't know why I'm starting the new year off with it, but I am because it made me laugh. It's from Steve in Davenport, and Steve makes sure that I realize, in parentheses, not Dase. So this is Steve in Davenport, not Dase. This is where he sent me to chewing the fat at blazemedia.com. I pushed a Chinaman down a staircase.

It was Wong on so many levels. See what I mean? I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing because it's just darn right mean. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.