Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Bad Decision | 11/14/25

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

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Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Well, if you have reservations through the Sonder short-term rental and boutique hotel company that has now been calling themselves Sonder by Marriott Bonvoy. Yeah, they're out of business. They're closed down. Take care.

It's over. You may want to find someplace else to stay during your travels. They had a licensing deal with Marriott, and Marriott said, oh, yeah, they broke the licensing deal. So we're shutting them down. And they're done. So one guest said he was three days into a 12-day trip and got a letter under his door that said,

the hotel's closing. You need to be out by 11 a.m. Oh, okay. And there'll be someone at the front desk to answer questions. Nope. Sorry, there won't be because they're gone too. Now, they had managed these short-tum rentals and boutique hotels in 40 cities around the world. And they were on some kind of, you know, meteoric rise over the last five or six years. And they were, I guess, valued at more than a billion dollars.

And we're supposed to be a competitor to Airbnb. Now, Sonder then went public like three years ago, I think. and they never were really profitable, but that's when they signed the licensing deal with Marriott International and started calling themselves Sonder by Marriott Bonvoy. But yeah, the agreement's over now, and you have to leave. It's not funny. I'd be really, really angry.

But if you are traveling soon and have made reservations with Sonder by Marriott, Bonvoy. You may want to think about getting reservations someplace else. Welcome. Welcome to Towing the Fat Fat 5 Plus. Well, according to Amy Chan, who is a dating coach and the author of a book called Breakup Boot Camp, the Science of Rewiring Your Heart. Oh, that's swell. She apparently has letting us know that there's some buzzy new dating terms that have come up. And apparently people are struggling, uh, dating here in the, digital age you know you got to do a swipe right right there you're good to go and so they're

we've got new terms to worry about because it's so complicated we just have to have new words to describe it okay so uh here you go here's some of the new words if you're out there in the dating world or preparing to go out into the dating world again um you're going to need to know these terms okay what is throning throning well uh throning is when you date someone to raise your social status. The goal for throners is to land a partner with clout. So their own image gets a boost by association. So you become a king or a queen because you're dating either a king or a queen.

Okay. So throning. All right. Got to love that. What is Shrekking? I think we all know what Shreking is. Right. You know about Shrek and Princess Fiona and, you know, right?

You got that? Well, if you get Shrek, it means that the person you lowered your standards for still ended up hurting you. Yeah. Gosh, darn it. It involves someone you're not attracted to in the hopes that this person will treat you better in return. Oh, you know, like Princess Fiona did. It was Shrek. So, man, you don't want to be Shrek.

You don't want to be Shrek. You may want to be the one Shrekking, but you don't want to be the one Shrek. What is Banksying? Bankseeing. Now, we all, I guess that derives from the street artist, Banksy. I guess it's Banksy, whatever his name is. You can call it Banski, Banksky, whatever it is. Known for art that seems to pop up out of nowhere.

often comes, you know, with this twist. And so that is a relationship involving slowly withdrawing emotionally from your partner without telling them that's what you're doing. So when the time comes to finally break up, the bank sayer, band scare often feels better having mentally checked out of the relationship long ago, leaving the other partner blindsided and confused. That's just darn near mean. Don't want to do that.

Shoot. Then there's zip coding. What is zip coding? Zip coding can take different forms, but it depends on who you ask. Okay, well, I'm asking you, Amy Chan, dating coach and author of Breakup Boot Camp, the science of rewiring your heart. So again, I ask, what is zip coding? Well, in the most common version, people set such a tight radius on their dating app filters

that they keep themselves from meeting anyone outside their zip code. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, got it. For some, zip coding goes even further. They'll date someone exclusively while that person is in their region, but then consider themselves single when that person's outside their zip code. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm dating you tonight, but we live in different cities right now. Tomorrow is going to be her over there. And then there is a monkey bar, or him, sorry. What is monkey barring? Monkey barring alludes to how in dating partners move from connection to connection, only letting you go to the old one when they've moved on, only letting go of the old one until they've moved on to the next one. Got it.

So if you're monkey barring, you're just moving on. connection to connection and you don't uh you hang on to that old one for a little bit but then you got the new one so we're moving on yeah that's uh i don't know some people call that dating but uh no no that's not dating if it's a relationship okay all right so there's just a few of the new terms uh that you need to know be aware about if you're headed out into the dating world and boy does that sound fun doesn't it another thing that would be good news and happy news would be winning the lotto this weekend, would it? Yes.

I mean, as of me winning the lotto. I mean, it would be wonderful. It would be wonderful for you to win too. And boy, would I be happy if you won. No, I mean it. So we've got the mega millions tonight, which is Friday the 14th. If you're listening live, that's today. The 14th of November 2025.

that's worth $965 million for the jackpot, $445.3 million cash payout. And then there's the Powerball. That drawing is tomorrow night, Saturday, the 15th of November, 2025. That is just a paltry $546 million jackpot with a $255.055.0 million cash payouts. So I'd wish you good luck, but, you know, I hope I win. So, I mean, I'm hoping for, I'm rooting for you. Man, am I rooting for you?

Yeah, I am. You know, hey, congratulations. I guess congratulations are in order. The Major League Baseball had their awards given out, and they gave Shohei Otani, was named the National League MVP, capturing all 30 first place votes. by the Baseball Writers Association of America and well deserved.

And then congratulations, I guess, to the American League MVP, the American League Major League Baseball MVP, Aaron Judge, who was chosen over Cal Raleigh from the Seattle Mariners. That is terrible, a terrible choice. Cal Raleigh should be the American League

MVP. They gave the National League MVP. Congratulations to Shohei O'Tani. No big surprise. Unanimous decision. Duh. I mean, I think that's the fourth MVP in five years for Shohei. I mean, it's well deserved. He's the guy. Which is why Cal

Raleigh should have won it for the American League. Cal was awesome. He played up to the World Series. He didn't get in the World Series, but he was close. and he had 60 plus home runs and batted both ways he caught

he went way farther than the New York Yankees in the playoffs. Did the Yankees actually make the playoffs? I just don't recall. And so, I mean, that's embarrassing that Aaron Judge got the MVP. But, you know, hey, congratulations. And I get it.

It's the first time in history of the award that both MVP's from one season repeated to the next. I got it. And is Aaron Judge worthy? of the MVP award, yes. Should he have gotten it this year? No.

just the news, announced that it's going to acquire the news brand's humid events and the post-millennial as it launches a major expansion into a news, entertainment, and technology network. Hmm, sounds familiar.

Humid events, one of the country's oldest conservative publications dating to the 1940s, will be ending daily publication this month and will be reimagined into a large virtual and live events platform with ticket, music, and movie sales, and Daily Event Programming for Politics, News, Sports, and Entertainment.

Okay. Jeff Webb, prior owner of Human Events and the Post-Mellonial, will join the group as a key strategy advisor. We believe there is a substantial opportunity to build a competitor to live nations and ticket masters of the world that showcases the talent and values of Middle America rather than the disconnected elitism of Hollywood. Amen. Good luck.

Good luck. I see where a prime video. said that their ad tier now reaches more than 315 million monthly viewers. That's just under what I'm getting here on chewing the fat, Fat 5 Plus. Yeah, I mean, we're neck and neck. You never can't really tell the difference. So that thing, I mean, that's up from 200 million, which is what they said in 2024.

So, wow, that represents an unduplicated average monthly active ad-supported audience. Wait a second. Okay, so let's see. That represents an unduplicated average monthly active ad-supported audience across original and licensed series and films, live sports and events and free ad-supported live channels on Prime Video. It is based on internal data over 12 months, which with some low. specific time frame variations based on launch dates and it's just that simple because i see where at netflix i mean i'm not sure i mean they're making the numbers look the way they want them to look so netflix is now going to measure advertisers or measure for advertisers uh they're going to

change how they tabulate how they're 190 million monthly active viewers on its ad supported tier see a specific commercial. Okay, so Netflix defines monthly active viewers as members who have watched at least one minute of ads on Netflix per month multiplied by the estimated average number of people within a household, a figure derived from Netflix's own research.

Okay, so it's going to be just that simple. They're going to, you know, everybody's trying to say that we get the most eyes and we want the most money and that's what you're going to have to pay. Okay. All right. I will say I do not have the Netflix ad tier. I do not have, I do have the prime ad tier program because I don't know. I just, I drew the line with Amazon Prime and we've talked about it before. But I mean, I could spend, I guess, you know, I think it's three bucks a month more for to go commercial free. And sometimes I'm willing to do that when I'm, you know, click on it and I have to watch the commercials. But I'm not going to. That's my line in the sand. Plus every app wants. wants more money from me. So, you know, I'm drawing the line there.

It's just the way that's drawing the line, okay? Plus, you got to think that Netflix and Prime, you know, this is something that I've noticed, and we've talked about it before the diversity thing with these networks, and Netflix and Prime are probably the worst. I mean, they're pretty bad. Everything has got to be,

they've got the diversity box checked, and you've got to have that. Now, there are a lot of shows where I let it slide. And I just, you know, it's okay. And I realize that it's not, you know, it's just a show I got it. But I saw a post from someone called Stuttering Craig on Acts. And Stuttering Craig says that I was watching Netflix new series Death by Lightning. It's set in Chicago, 1880.

And this establishing scene pop scene. up. And he has the picture of the establishing scene and it's just a street in Chicago in 1880. In the foreground, an Asian woman, two black men, and a one-legged man all walking together downtown. Now, here's the thing. The show still may be good. You know, you just have to get past like, okay, well, that's, you know, they're checking all the boxes. According to Stodding Craig, though, it immediately stuck out to me. So I looked up the actual demographics for Chicago. in 1880. Here's what the numbers say.

Chicago's population about 503,000. Black population, 6,500. Chinese population, 172. Chinese women, about 3% of that, meaning roughly 5 total in the entire city. Disabled one-legged men from the Civil War era, plausible, maybe 0.1

to 0.2% of the population. So if you can, if you ran the math on the odds of seeing all of that, an Asian woman, two black men, and an amputee, in one random 50, person crowd downtown, it comes out to about 0.00016% or roughly 1 in 640,000. In other words, Netflix made a scene that's about a statistically likely of spotting a UFO on your morning commute.

He goes on to say, but hey, at least the diversity box got checked. Yeah. And it might be, you know, part of the, I don't know, I haven't seen this show yet, but it maybe just works into the show. with all of these people together, who knows? I mean, maybe they were there with the traveling circus at the time. I don't know. I haven't seen the show.

But it is very noticeable when you see it, and it jumps out at you, and you're like, okay. And then you have to get past it, right? You just have to get past it. And I know, I know. It's sometimes hard. Like I saw a post from PAS 49 on EAS, 49, on X

and Paz went on to say I was rather enjoying the new Robin Hood series on Amazon and I actually my wife was wanting to see this because I think this is on the MGM Plus

but you can get it through Amazon and we do not have that yet and she's like we don't have it and we know it's another app that we're going to pay for it no we are not

they also they're producing some pretty good content and so I wouldn't be surprised if I get that soon I was rather enjoying the new Paz 49 I was rather enjoying the new Robin Hood series on Amazon. It all looked as authentic as the story should be.

Then episode three happened, and we were introduced to Little John. And that's the end of that. Okay, so he has a picture of Robin Hood with Little John, or who I think is Robin Hood, and Little John is a black man. Okay, so I get it. I get it. It probably is statistically impossible. But it's still a show and it's still cool and it's fine.

And if the actor pulls it off and does a good job being Little John, then what does it matter? Right? Right. Oh, and I see where Idris Elba is returning for a new Luther movie on Netflix. I thought he was done with Luther. But Netflix said, no, why don't we pay you a bunch of money and you can come and do Luther again for Netflix?

okay please yeah i i love it uh i mean the the 2023 luther the fallen sun it was okay it was okay uh it was good to have luther back the series uh the original luther was awesome but uh so we'll see we'll see but apparently netflix paid idris uh some serious money and uh then uh we'll will have luther back and i guess ruth wilson is coming back in the movie as well, along with Dermott Crowley. So it'll be awesome. We'll have a new Luther to look forward to. It doesn't say when that's going to be out.

So timing-wise, we're at the end of 2025. They film maybe sometime next year. We'll get it maybe sometime in 2027. Market. March. Just off the top of my head. No, nothing really is in March. So what do you say?

April. April. April. of 2027, Luther on Netflix. If we can get it before then, let's get it in December of 26, but I don't think that's going to happen.

Who knew that could infect elephant seals? well apparently it can so they are all bummed out all the scientists are all bummed out and freaking out now because they estimate 53,000 females have died on this on south Georgia since 2023 which is apparently going to impact the future of the species what would the earth do without elephant seals I don't know I'm just asking a question don't look I'm trying to be mean so south georgia which is a remote island in the south atlantic ocean you know that is home to the

world's largest southern elephant seal population so as i said they estimate that 53,000 females died in the last couple of years and so the population is now plummeted 47 percent and uh this lead author connor bamford from the british antarctic survey in cambridge uh said i didn't anticipate it to be this high and apparently they were this is not funny all right i'm not laugh last year tourists on cruise ships because who doesn't want to go on the cruise ships in the man down there in the down there in the south atlantic ocean and go see the elephant seals anyway apparently uh this cruise ship uh the ernest shackleton's grave cruise ship uh became inaccessible due to the dead seals blocking the way.

I mean, I'd be pissed. Can't we just move them out of the way? You know, maybe we run the boat between them? What are we doing? So, I don't know. It's not, it's going to be impossible to, you know, discount the direct losses from the bird flu, but it's not good.

It's not good. And so I don't know what's going to happen. the South Atlantic is home to 54% of the global breeding population okay so let's okay so the South Atlantic the island in the South Atlantic is home to 54% of the global breeding population

of elephant seals okay so out of that 54% 50% are gone so we still have 75% of what we had prior to bird flu attacking the South Atlantic elephant seals. So the earth isn't going to be without elephant seals for a while.

And probably, you know, what would happen if the earth were to be without elephant seals? I don't know. I honestly, I don't know. So apparently the H5N1 strain of bird flu was initially detected in Europe before spreading across the Americas. It reached South Georgia in 2023. but it's you know the impact of course took time to calculate because the islands are so remote yeah and this new study is darn they're heartbreaking and the severe impact of the virus is just

I mean it's it's devastating to the ecosystems across the world from bird colonies in the UK to sea lines in South America soon we're going to find out what it means for the Antarctic So that's all I'm saying is what will the earth do Without the South Georgia South Atlantic Ocean Southern Elephant Seal I don't know Be sure to follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR

I'll try to document what will happen to the Southern Elephant Seals On my ex at Jeffey JFR You can follow me on Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow my YouTube page Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can order a cameo from me anytime at Jeffey JFR on the Cameo app.

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I don't think anyone's going to round down. Maybe that's a new name for a store. Round down. Anyway, you can follow me on a cameo at Jeffrey JFR on my cameo app, and you can order a cameo from me there as well and spend a shiny nickel, and you'll get a cameo worth every doggone nickel that you spend. Then you can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com, chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

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watch Saturday morning live which takes place Saturday morning oh I kill me it's Saturday morning live I do that show with Brad Stags he is the host or co-host of the Daily Mojo

over there at the Daily Mojo.com and he also has an ex-account at real Brad Staggs you can follow him there he also the show is posted on my ex-account I think he posted on his ex-account as well.

Let's scroll down here and see if he actually post Saturday morning live on his ex-account. I'm pretty sure he does on Saturdays. Yep, there it is, because last week's show was Palm Trees and Snow Skis. And, in fact, we even had a cannon open for last week. I'll have to play that for you right now. Saturday morning live, a Quinn Martin production. Starring Jeff Fisher from Pat Gray Unleashed and Chewing the Fat. Live, and Brad Staggs from the Daily Mojo.

He's the Mojo Master. Izzy. Saturday morning live was once, possibly, a Quinn Martin production. But probably not. This morning's episode, Palm Trees, and snow skis. Think about it one time. See, that was awesome.

Now, that was last week's episode. And you can go back and watch it on my ex-account at Jeffrey JFR. It's there on Brad's as well. But you can go back and watch it and enjoy the show as well before tomorrow, the 15th of November, which will be another Saturday morning live coming right at you. Okay. Who died today? Who died today?

Well, let's begin with Daniel Owen, 47, and his son, Cooper 15, are both, well, dead. They passed away. They were swarmed and stung by more than 100 times while they were zipliding at an eco-adventure resort near Luang problem in Makong River in Laos because who doesn't want to go to Laos for a vacation?

Yeah, I know. Apparently they were assailed by the insects. I mean, those things grow up to like two inches long. They've got like a quarter inch stinger. Yeah. Doesn't say that the guide, I guess, apparently they were struggling to descend from a tree with their guide.

Did the guide, did the guide get stung and die too or did the guide make it out of there huh um their whole bodies were covered in red spots uh yeah uh so apparently uh they didn't last very long after that and yeah it says in the story it wasn't immediately clear whether their guide was also injured yeah why wasn't the guide the guide injured that's my question so rest in peace to daniel owen 47 and uh His son, Cooper, dead at the ages of 47 and 15. And 19 people, rest in peace, have been killed, unnamed people, have been killed in an airstrike on a suspected rebel camp

in the Colombian province of Guadha, according to the country's military. Huh. So, Colombia is now killing their rebels and their drug. camps there. That seems to me that's what Trump was accusing him of allowing in his country of Columbia. He denied that. But apparently this dissident faction of the FARC rebel group engages in drug trafficking.

Huh. That is interesting. Isn't it? So rest in peace to the 19 unnamed people in the. dissident faction of the FARC rebel group there who engages in drug trafficking in Colombia rest in peace drug dealers and we're busy we're busy bombing narco terrorist boats out there all over the world too well just in our hemisphere I think we're up to 20 now so I mean the war on drugs yeah yeah the war on drugs that's that's what it's all about isn't it yes it is

All right, let's get out of here. I need to get you out of here with the joke of the day, maybe a thought for the day as well. Denny's been busy. Denny has emailed Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, and he's a busy little beaver. And so he's got kind of a joke here. And he's also got a, you know, something to think about.

And so I think I'll do both. I'll give you both today because it's Friday and it's the 14th. And heck, let's go ahead and do it. Okay. So this particular, this is his, joke of the day, okay? Bad news. Last night a man was hit by a violin

and then a clarinet and then a trombone. Police say it appears to be an orchestrated attack. You know, because the answer, yeah, you understand. Okay, and then this is what he wants someone to explain, and I can't explain it.

I mean, I need your help to explain it. Okay, this is just something, you know, something to think about and something that I cannot explain. Because he diddy ask, hey, explain this, Jeffie. I can't. But I'll ask other listeners to the show to maybe they can explain it. The words but, B-U-T-T and booty are synonyms. The words dial and call are also synonyms.

But a but dial and a booty call are very different things. Why is that? I don't know, but it is true. Thank you.