Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Bring It!... | 11/21/25

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

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Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. The cost of grocery shopping, you know, buying staples, has risen 29% since before the pandemic. But the big grocery stores are saying, hey, we've got a lot of cheap stuff for the holidays. So why don't you stop in? And so the wholesale price of frozen turkey is coming in at like 173 a pound, because Thanksgiving, is next week, for those of you that are not aware. If you're listing live, today is the 21st of November 2025,

which means we are less than a week away from Thanksgiving. And I will say this, Walmart is selling their turkeys for 97 cents a pound. Ooh, okay, a lost leader. Now, they bundled their first holiday dinner, I don't know, three, four years ago. And now they have their Thanksgiving bundle that it's going to cost you a about $4 a person for a table of 10. They've removed some of the items from the meal, but it's still $4 a person for 10.

Aldi announced a $40 bundle that includes a 14-pound turkey and traditional fixings to feed 10 people. That's about $7 drop from what it offered last year. Okay, saving a little money there. I like that. And our friends at the American Farm Bureau Federation, love them. priced the classic dinner this year at $55.18 for a party of 10 this year, based on wholesale prices. And that's about $5.52 a person, which is down 5% from last year. Love that. Okay. But I hate to bring bad news to the story, but it's still 13% higher than it was in 2019.

So there you have it. Happy Thanksgiving. Good luck. God bless. Thank you for joining us today on Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher, Fat 5 Plus. So if you were thinking, hey, it's the holidays, let's go on a vacation. You know where we should go, Haiti. I don't know that anyone says that anymore.

But if you were actually thinking about that, you may want to think twice. What is happening down in Haiti? We are at war on the streets of Haiti. The U.S. Marines guarding the U.S. embassy in Haiti, dodging bullets, last week because they're fighting in the streets and the Marines are protecting the embassy in Port of Prince. Now, they exchange gunfire with gang members. That's what they said. All right.

Haitian police didn't comment on it, but we know that the Haitian police are out on the streets in force. They have their gang suppression force, which is made up of the Haitian National Police. military, and of course, let's not forget about the security unit, which we've talked about before, that came to the country from Kenya. I mean, I'm surprised this has not been taken care of yet, because when you have the Kenyan security force there, you should feel safer. Anyway, the operations targeted 400 Mawazu and Chen Mijing gangs and their leadership and their bases, and they shut down the nation.

at least they said they were going to shut down their nation if they continued on this battle. Barbecue, the head guy, he's the man. You don't want to mess with barbecue. He posted a video that said, hey, I'm the president and spokesman for Vive Asama, which is a group designated as a terrorist organization by the United States. He urged everyone to, you know what, you need to stay home.

Now, that was the first part of this week. You guys need to stay home. We don't want you to become victims, okay? The battle has now begun, and the members of Viv Ansel will occupy the streets to confront police. Oh, okay. So how about you to stay home? Because we're going to be fighting these people. And, you know, I'm going to care for you.

I don't want you to get hurt. And so how about you just stay home? Oh, okay. Now, they said the Haitian police force, the government, that I guess, we recognize as the government of Haiti. Barbecue does not. They actually, in their arrest of all these people, arrest that found weapons,

and they were, you know, just hunting them down and shutting them down. Uh-huh. So, but I'm up to the group, I mean, they've held municipalities in several locations outside of Port of Prince. And they've been, according to the government, hostage for years.

Uh-huh. They're not hostages. That's their place. Okay. And sure, you can seize a rifle and other weapons and machine guns, but we're still on the streets and we're not letting you. We're in charge, okay? You people are, you people that have been running this country have run it into the ground and we're taken over. We may be running it into the ground, but we're doing it on our terms. So according to this, since 2022, over 16,000 people, have died due to gang violence in Haiti with more than 4,000 homicides occurring in the first half of this year alone. The number of displaced humans by violence and instability in Haiti reached what they call unprecedented levels this year with over 1.4 million forced to flee their homes. That's the highest figure ever ever recorded in the country. Well, yeah, I mean, how many people as Haiti actually have. Anyway, this report was published by the International Organization for Migration.

Love them. So on September 30th, the United Nations Security Council co-sponsored by the United States and Panama. Who doesn't love a resolution approved by the United Nations Security Council? Right?

Right. They okayed deployment of the gang elimination force. The gang. Elimination Force, the GSF, to the Caribbean country, or Caribbean country, following the poor results of the multinational security support mission. Wait, what? The multinational security support mission with Kenya there didn't work?

Huh, go figure. So the new GSF, backed by the Haitian government, yeah, I bet, is going to consist of a maximum of 5,500 police. military personnel assisted by 50 civilians and will have an initial mandate of 12 months. It doesn't say when this starts, but I'm sure it starts ASAP, maybe 2026. I'm not sure. But it will start very, very soon. So good luck.

God bless to Haiti. Good luck. God bless to barbecue. And I would say if you were thinking about visiting Haiti, you may want to rethink that for quite some time. I don't even know. I know that at one time cruise ships would stop in Haiti

at a couple different places at Port of Prince and there was another big city that was a port city for the cruise ships. I'm thinking they bypass Haiti these days because if I'm on a cruise ship

I were pulling into Haiti and you'd be able to disembark the ship and go out and do some shopping. No thanks. I'm good. Matter of fact, I don't want you to stop.

I don't want barbecue to board. this ship and take it over. Okay? Let's not do that. Let's go ahead and bypass Haiti, shall we? In fact, I don't want to be close enough to wave. I want you to go ahead and just give a wide berth to Haiti.

Yeah, you can go ahead and say, if you get the binoculars out and look to the port side of this carnival cruise line, you can see Haiti and the rubble and the remnants left of the city, but this is as close as we're going to get. Thank you for cruising. on Carnival Cruise Lines.

Yeah, I'm good with that. And we'll be happy. We've got to talk about the cruise lines, too. Oh, my gosh. I might do that tomorrow on Saturday morning live. There has been a plethora of deaths on cruise ships. And I will say that the advertising campaign for cruise ships, I better do a little better job because there's more and more stories about people who are losing their life on the old cruise ships.

But, you know, we'll get to that. I'll do that tomorrow on Saturday morning live. There's also a new guy that I found on Instagram. And he is awesome. When I say I found, my son was playing me videos last night from this guy. And it is hilarious. Again, I was watching it on Instagram,

but I'm sure he puts him up on all the platforms. And the bit is really, really funny. And am I going to tell you what that bit is right here? I think not. I think you're going to have to listen to Saturday morning live tomorrow. Yeah. I think you're going to have to listen to Saturday morning live, which we do on my ex account at Jeffie JFR.

I do that along with Brad Staggs from the Daily Mojo, and we do that every Saturday at 9 a.m. Central, live. That's what we call it Saturday morning live. Anyway, I will play some of his videos tomorrow on Saturday. morning live and he is very very funny at least to me i thought it was a good bit and uh he's getting uh thousands of views so i guess i'm uh i'm late to the party but uh i'm still here i'm at the party it's late i know but i'm still here at the party Oh, boy.

the road, Amazon's Zooks, spelled Z-O-O-O-X, began offering Robotaxi rides to the public in San Francisco this past week. And I guess they're challenging Waymo's dominance in the area. So these two rivals are now going to duke it out

on the streets. Ha! I know we talked about this before. Zooks. So weird. What a weird name. Anyway, they've been in Vegas for a little while and they give free rides, right?

It was the box. autonomous vehicle and they're given free rides because they don't have regulatory approval and they can't charge i mean waymo charges in san francisco i think they charge in los angeles and phoenix and maybe even dallas but they expanded their routes we've talked about that but uh zooks or zooks uh whatever however they pronounce it zoo z o x it's z x you know what i'm calling them Zuex. That's not how you say it. Okay. I mean, it was founded by an Australian designer and the son of Apple's chairman. Huh. And then Amazon bought it for $1.3 billion in 2020. And it has the, you know, yeah, it's the boxy ones. The all-electric steering wheel-free vehicles. And so there's roughly

50 Zooks ZUX vehicles operating between San Francisco and Las Vegas. So I guess Waymo installs

the technology into cars from manufacturers. Right. And the Zooks is its own vehicle. So apparently Zooks

purchased a factory, a former bus factory. So they now have a Zooks Zuex plant. And they

They are projecting 10,000 robo-taxies annually. Ha, okay, all right. So get ready. Get ready for the autonomous vehicle wars. Waymo versus Zooks. Or Zooks or ZUX. However they want to call it. The fight will be on.

Oh, I know what I wanted to talk about. So earlier this week on Pat Grand Leashed, I did a story. about the Francis Scott Key Bridge. And so you remember what the Dolly ship ran into it, March 29th, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. And sadly, I mean, six people lost their lives. And prior to this, I mean, prior to the crash and the entire bridge went down, we've all seen the footage and watched the ship.

You know, 35,000 cars and trucks used that damn bridge. I mean, it was huge. It was a vital artery for traffic heading into the port of Baltimore, major hub. I mean, it's sad that it's gone. And the reason I did the story on my fat five on Pat Gray-on-leased, which I do Monday through Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. Central on Blaze TV and Blaze Radio, is that they had originally said,

yeah, we're going to build a new bridge, and it's expected to cost, I don't know, $1.7, $1.9 billion. And we're not going to have this bad boy open by 2028. Oh, you silly you. The governor, a Wes Moore of Maryland, and said earlier this week, yeah, you know what? The project time estimates were made less than a couple of weeks

after the initial crash and before any engineering or design duties were conducted. Since then, national economic conditions have deteriorated, material costs have increased. At the same time, elevated costs have resulted from federal design and resilient standards. Ha, not discretionary state choices. I had nothing to do with.

it. It's those damn feds. But now they're saying, you know, maybe we get it done by 2030 and that $1.9 billion. Don't be silly. We're looking at $4.3 to $5.2 billion. Good luck having that ready by 2030. I mean, the cost overruns are going to be incredible. And, you know, I would venture to say at least 2032 and probably $10 billion. I mean, it would not surprise me at all. I don't even get me started on what they're going to name it because there's no way in today's world they name the bridge the new Francis Scott Key Bridge.

No way. They maybe give Francis Scott Key a little concrete embutment there as a memory of the old bridge but that's it. Anyway, after that, after I did that, a story came out about the NTSB investigation as to what caused

the ship to run into the bridge. And I guess it had experienced two blackouts. We do that. We did know that, that we saw the footage of it experiencing two blackouts. It lost power. And then, well, we were looking into actually what caused that National Transportation Safety Board. Have you investigated that at all? Oh, you have?

Okay. What was it? Well, you know what? That was an improperly installed wire. wait what this ship this dolly ship that's a singaporean vessel struck one of the peers on the key bridge and the whole thing collapsed killing six construction workers who were on the bridge filling potholes on the span and it should never have happened yet no kidding it shouldn't have happened and it happened because yeah it was an improperly installed wire yeah what do you go i mean what are you going to do

do it's a ship uh an improperly installed wire crashes a ship okay now they also put in uh down at the bottom well there were safety issues uh you know to the machinery and electrical systems well yeah because of the improperly installed wire is that what the safety issues were on the machinery and the electrical systems yeah the original blackout and then it couldn't uh you know fully recover and that darn improperly installed wire caused it to, you know, hit the bridge and then the whole thing came down. Oh, all right. Well, good then. Do you have anything else to add about the investigation? Yeah, you know what? The label identifying what the wire powered, because that wire, you know, loosened over time. And it was an unstable connection and it disconnected. Yeah. And the whole thing went.

dead and he crashed into the bridge. There was a label that identified what the wire powered. But that label on the wire prevented it from being fully inserted into the breaker. Okay. Okay. So

the whole thing happened because I guess one of the workers from the Singaporean vessel, the Dolly, tried to put the wire back into the breaker where it belonged and they couldn't put it fully into the breaker because of the label and I guess they're not smart enough to go

I guess I'll pull the label off and stick the wire farther in if that's the case that's an even bigger problem but what do I know I'm not the NTSB I'm just a guy doing a podcast the podcast the podcast is Chewing the Fat thank you for subscribing to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher I do call it chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher Fat 5 plus now because I do a daily fat 5 as I mentioned previously on Pat Gray Unleashed every day on Blaze TV

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the fat with Jeff Fisher, fat five plus. No, that's not number one. It's the Joe Rogan experience, of course. Number two is the daily. Number three is the Mel Robbins podcast. Number four is crime junkie.

Number five is Dateline NBC. Number six, is smartless. Number seven is Call Her Daddy. Wow, that's number seven. This American Life is number eight. The Huberman Lab is number nine and the Ezra Klein show is number 10. Those are the top 10 Apple Podcasts. Chewing the Fat must be 11th. It only gives me the top 10. And then there's the top new shows. Good

hang with Amy Poehler. Oh yeah, there's been some great stuff coming from her. Not gonna lie with Kylie Kelsey. Boy, she is shot to the top. Deadly Mirage, number three. Blink, Jake Houndale's story. Murder in the moonlight. Number six, devil in the desert. Number seven, what happened to Holly Bobo?

Number eight, cold-blooded mystery in Alaska. Number nine, you can probably see that on Netflix next year. Number nine, Unicorn Girl. And number 10, the best people with Nicole Wallace. you want to talk that's number that's on the top 10 of apple podcast she is well she's great i don't i don't want to smirch uh Nicole Wallace because she is great isn't she yeah yeah of course she is the top series uh for apple podcasts uh the telepathy tapes is number one the binge cases number two deadly mirage three blink the jake hallandale story wait a minute that was

up here, too. The Jake Callendale story. What the heck? That's a new show, and it's also a top series. Okay. Number five, Dateline originals. Number six, murder in the moonlight. Number seven, serial. Number eight, three. I don't know what that is. Number nine, devil in the desert.

Yeah, because we had that. That's also up here as one of the top news shows. It's also one of the top series. Number 10, counter clock. So wait, devil in the desert is number nine of top series, but it is number six in the top new shows. Okay, I'm not sure what the algorithm is telling you there. Top episode, top episodes for Apple this year, okay?

Top episodes. All right, number 10, murder in the moonlight in cold blood. Yeah, that's on all of them. Number nine, Good Hang with Amy Poehler. Tina Faye. Okay, these are episodes, right. So Murder in the Moonlight, in Cold Blood, episode was 10th. Good hang with Amy Polar, Tina Faye.

Smartless, Amy Polar. That's good that they're all talking to each other. Number seven, deadly mirage, death in the high desert episode, number seven. Blink, the Jake Hallandale story, blink. I mean, okay, I guess that was the top episode. So, I mean, that's been the three of them. That's good for him. The Daily, Trump again.

The Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk, was fourth. New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelsey, the Taylor Swift episode. That wasn't number one. Holy cow. Taylor's slipping man. Only number three. On number two,

crime junkie murdered the Feeney family. That's number two on top episodes. And the number one Apple episode this year, the telepathy tapes, unveiling the hidden world of telepathic communication in a silenced community.

Yeah, I get that, the telepathie tapes. Those are some of the top the top episodes on Apple. I'm really surprised at chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher Fat 5 Plus is not in the top 10. In fact, I'm just appointed

and I'm not going to tell you any more of the list because they don't have chewing the fat on it and I feel like I'm being robbed. But thank you. I know that I'm in the top 10 in your heart if you're listening to this right now, so thank you.

Oh, did you see that Vine has come? coming back. Remember the six-second looping video platform Vine? That's coming back. And apparently Jack Dorsey is co-founding and he's got, he doesn't know what to do with his money, so he's going to invest in Vine. And it's called Divine. Small-case D, small-case I, capital V-I-N-E, Divine. It should be up and running now. So it's going to give you access to more than 100,000 archive divine videos restored from an older backup that was created before Vine's shutdown.

And the app won't just exist as a walk-down memory lane. That's what they say. It will also allow users to create profiles and upload their own Vine videos. However, unlike traditional social media where AI content is often, I guess, haphazardly labeled, divine will flag suspected generative AI content and prevent it from being posted. Oh, so they're going to try to keep it. keep AI off of the platform. Okay, good luck.

Good luck that happening. And all you people that thought your Vine videos were gone? Sorry, they've brought them back to life. Who died today? Yeah, here's some people that have not been brought back to life. Who died today? Well, let's begin with the Kessler twins, the Kessler twins, Alice and Ellen Kessler, dead at the age of 89.

Apparently, the sisters no longer wanted to live, and they had chosen to end their lives together. So they died in their home in Munich, Germany. So I guess, rest in peace? To Alice and Ellen Kessler. Now, you know, they got their start. They were born in Nazi. Germany. Incredible. They had a great

life. They really did. But they fled West Germany, for West Germany in 1952. And then they started performing and then they ended up on TV in Germany. And then they came across to the Ed Sullivan show

which then the Dean Martin show and Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire and Elvis Presley and Harry Belifante. I mean, they did all these, the Kessler twins were the amazing dancing entertainment couple. And so I guess at 89, they said enough is enough. And I mean, okay, I guess.

I didn't realize, well, it's more today. It is up to us. But that's supposed to be up to you. It just isn't supposed to be up to you. But they got together with an advocacy organization, the German Society for Humane Dying. Man, do I love them? DGHS. Now the DGHS, the German Society for Humane Dying, provides people with access to lawyers and doctors and other tools.

The organization said, hey, the twins contacted us over a year ago and became members. And the decisive factor is likely to have been the desire to die together on a specific date. And so, okay. And we don't know what method they used. So that's great. So I guess we lost them and rest in peace to Alice and Ellen Kessler. The Kessler twins dead at the age of 89. Then we have Mrs. Glick.

Yes, Mrs. Glick, you knew her from The Simpsons as the organ player in church. Mrs. Glick dead. She was born in 1991 because that's 34 years. ago. So she looked a lot older than that. But apparently this latest episode shows, opens up in the church and the Reverend Lovejoy is giving a sermon and then the organist and Glick collapses. And everyone gasps and she's shown lying dead on the organ. I know. So it's a spoiler alert for this latest episode. The Sashes to Sashes episode. And when confronted about it and asked, hey, how come we killed off Mrs. Glick? He didn't really answer why. He just said, yeah, she's dead. And in a sense, Alice, the organist will live forever through the beautiful music she made.

But in another more important sense, yep, she's dead as a doorknail. Now to the Simpsons, aficionados, she died. earlier in another episode as well. But she, I don't know, she was, I don't know, she died from some robot seal or something. But she was, her first appearance, I think was in season two. So this is season 37 seasons of the Simpsons. So anyway, I know that Cloris Leachman voiced her to begin with. And then, what's her face was, what's her face, Tress McNeil.

Later took it over. Yeah, yeah, what's her face? Did her, do it her. But she has died. You know what? Here's the thing. It's a cartoon. I'm sorry.

It's an animated series. And people can die and come back to life. Very easy. And so, or I guess rest in peace for now. Alice Glick, dead at the age of, you know, 34. You looked more like a hundred. but if you really were an Alice Glick fan on The Simpsons, sorry to break it to you if you haven't seen the latest episode,

but she's dead. All right, let's get out of here. Have a great weekend. If you're listening on Friday, the 21st of November 2025, I'm going to try to knock out a couple of these shows next week as well as we, because Pat Gray Unleashed is live. Pat and I are going to be there. I guess everybody else goes on vacation.

We decided we're going to continue to work. Yeah, that's what we're going to do. So I'm probably going to try to knock out a couple of Fat 5 Pluses. I apologize. Here's the thing. I don't want to give you the excuses of why, but I apologize that it hasn't been every day. And I know we talked about this on Saturday morning live last week as well.

And it's just there's been so much happening around and end my life that, you know, by the time I'm done with Pat, Unleashed and then the overtime for Pat Unleashed and then everything else I've got going on just doesn't leave time for this and that doesn't reflect on how much I love you. It means I still love

you a lot but it just there hasn't been time and I know look it's it's me it's not you it's me okay just always know that always know that it's not you it's me. All right let's get out of here with the joke of the day

a man comes This is actually an old joke, but it was sent to me from John, and I thought, you know what, that makes me laugh. So, hey, if it makes me laugh, then I know you'll laugh. All right, this is kind of a big guy joke, in between a big guy joke and an all-out family joke. So, you know, middle of the road, adult-themed, adult-themed joke. Man comes home with a big bouquet of flowers for his wife.

Oh, she says. I suppose now I'm supposed to spread my legs. And the man just looks at her and says, Why? Don't you have a vase? See, because what do you? I know, you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.