Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Can't have 1 without 2... | 10/17/25

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

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uh this man in pakistan uh sold a chicken that he painted green and said it was a parrot and then the person who bought it realized that it was not a parrot but a chicken and uh apparently he went crying wanted his money back yeah could you imagine someone i mean you paid for it So the shoekeeper, I guess, in Karachi had dyed the bird and listed it online. And, of course, the people went crazy about it. Now, is the picture real? I don't know. A lot of people say that it isn't.

I mean, there's a picture of this chicken painted green that's being sold as a parrot, which is hilarious. But it is a good reminder that scams come in all shapes. and sizes. And if something is too good to be true, it probably is. And if you aren't sure, with more and more people buying chickens to, you know, so they can have their own eggs right there at their house, if you're not sure, the difference between a chicken and a parent, you know, ask somebody for help, please. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Fat 5 Plus.

This is an interesting lawsuit. Smuckers is in the middle of a lawsuit with Trader Joe's. Apparently, Trader Joe's is copying Smuckers products. And they're talking about the uncrustable sandwich in particular. So the Smuckers lawsuit accuses Trader Joe's of intentionally confusing customers and risking its brand value by knocking off the look and packaging of uncrustables. Smuckers has a trademark for a round pie-like shape with distinct peripheral undulated crinkling. And I think it's crimping, not crinkling. And for its boxes that show

said sandwich with a bite taken out. Okay. So the company has invested a lot in uncrustables. They claim they spend a billion dollars to develop and market the signature snack over the past 20 years. So Smuckers wants Trader Joe's, which hasn't commented to the news outlets about the suit, to destroy its frozen crustless P.B. and J. Bread Pockets and hand over the money that they have made since launching them this past summer. Interesting. There's other dupes that have been going on, too. I mean, look, these companies, especially Trader Joe's, I mean, and they have, you know, different potato chips and they they all do their own brand, the store brand, which is

similar to the mothership brands, but we'll see. We'll see what happens. I mean, I know that they have plenty of, it seems Walmart and Target. I'm sure they have that their own uncrustable sandwiches. They just can't be in little circles. And the package on the box can't be with the circle. with a little bite taken out, so it can't look like the smuckers on crustables.

I think Target, maybe in Aldi, have the squares. So we'll see what happens if, you know, see if Trader Joe's might say, hey, we're sorry. Yeah, you're right. We'll change it. You're not getting any of our money, though, but we'll change it. And sorry.

Speaking of lawsuits, I see where a federal judge has dismissed Drake's lawsuit against his record company. UMG Universal Music Group over its distribution and promotion of Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, saying the disc track expressed an opinion and was not defamatory. So got that going for Kendrick Lamar on that one. And, you know, I see Lady Gaga, the guest is going to appear in the Devil Wears Prada 2. Because you can't have, I mean, the devil wears Prada. original with Merrill Streep.

And I think what was, was Emily Blunt was in that? Was she in the original? Yeah, she was in the original. And Hathaway, Stanley Tucci. So I guess you can't have a one that was made, I don't know, 20 years ago without making a number two. Can't have one without two. You can quote me on that. So apparently Lady Gaga is going to appear in devil wears me.

Prada 2 joining Merrill Sweep and Emily Blount in the sequel which I guess comes out next year so man if it comes out in May of next year that filming if it if it's going on now I guess they make it in time for May but I'm sure that may already be in the can anyway look forward to devil wears Prada 2 and always remember you can't have one without two I mean as long as we're talking about movies. I might as well stick with this. I'm surprised this hasn't happened already. Mattel is turning Magic

8 ball into a TV series with M. Knight-Shammelan directing and Brad Fulchick writing. It's a supernatural drama. Yeah, I guess Mattel is saying hey, we've got Masters of Universe and Hot Wheels and

they're doing the Barbie was great, wasn't she? Yeah, we need to make more movies that way. Magic 8th ball, though, that is, that's a cool, that could be, that could be a cool series. We'll see if they pull it off. But I love the idea of Magic 8th ball as a TV series, especially, you know, a supernatural. And what happens after you shake it and comes up? I know, I know.

And I see where Netflix, everybody loves game shows. Thanks to my What's the Lie started, I don't know, three, four years ago. Now everybody's on board with game shows. Okay. All right. All right, fine. Netflix is turning the board game Clue into a reality competition series. The show is going to trap contestants in a house with a murderer.

Oh, okay. I mean, isn't that what Prime is doing with Mr. Beast? Mr. Beast is just doing all kinds of games shows for people to make money. Although I do kind of, I like the idea of trapped inside a house with a murderer. Is it really going to happen? Is there actually going to be something really bad? It's just a game show, Jeff. It's not going to be real.

Oh, okay. All right, fine. I don't think there's any really big super movies coming out this weekend. Black Phone 2. Okay, probably, that may be number one, although we'll see if it can beat Tron Eres, who was number one last week on its opening weekend. And then after the hunt, okay, all right, we'll see.

There's two big movies, and good fortune are coming out this weekend. We'll see if they can do it. I mean, last week it was, what, a $70 million weekend at the box office, which was down from the week before, which was not that good. Taylor Swift has saved him a couple of weeks. weeks ago and Tron Errors came along. Let's see what was the other one. Roofman, roofman, roofman. Okay, with the, oh, about the true story about the thief hiding and toys or us. All right. I didn't let a $19 million budget. Only made $8 million at the box office. That is not

that good. And what about the rock, the smashing machine? Boy, he must be devastated. The smashing machine, second week, eighth in the top 10, 1.8 million at the box office. Holy cow. A 69% drop from the opening week, which was only 11.3 million. So he's only made 12, 13 million on a $50 million on a $50 million dollar budget.

This is the rocks, you know, R-rated. Okay. Wow. the smashing machine. Now, I haven't seen it. So it might be his World Record Academy Award winning movie.

And maybe if he gets nominated for an Oscar from this movie, that will make people want to see it. And then they can bring it back around and will actually make some money. That's what he has to hope for. So he's probably got to be lobbying

for an Oscar nomination. I'm not saying Rock's going to win one. But he could get nominated for an Oscar and then that would bring that movie back around and it would be able to make some money. So he's got to be lobbying for that. Desperately. And I like the rock.

I want the rock to do well. I mean, shoot, he's done great all these years. But he wanted to try to get away from his action movies, right? And be this actor. I want to make movies. I don't want to make action movies. Okay, but people pay a lot of money to see the action movies. And they pay a lot of money to see you in the action movies.

So I know you're tired of doing. doing them, but people don't want to see the Smasy Machine and have you be your Oscar-worthy acting. They want the rock, fighting wolves that fly, and, you know, rescuing people doing giant earthquakes on the West Coast. That's what we want. But go ahead. Make your Oscar-worthy film, but I'm sure that's what's happening behind the scenes, and we'll find out in a week or two that he is busy, busy desperately lobbying for an Oscar nomination,

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And so I took it, kind of. But, you know, the reason I don't do the full chewing that show now is because I'm on Pat Gray every day. I do Pat Gray on Leashed Monday through Friday on Blaze TV and Blaze Radio and wherever else you get your podcast. You can listen to that show.

And in fact, today, if you're listening live, is the 17th of October, 2025 Friday. Pat was off, so it was, you know, it was myself and Keith on the show. And it was, you know, it was. a lot of fun. We talked to J.P. Decker from Mercury One. They're having their big gala. You can go to Mercury1.org and check out. You can try their raffle, win a new Ford Ranger. You don't have to be there to win. There's also a silent auction going on on the website.

You can check it out or you can donate. Mercury1.org. They're having the big gala tomorrow here in DFW. I don't know that there are tickets available still to go, but the reason that they have the gala is so that it pays their bills for every year. And then the money you donate to help with whatever disaster or tragedy they're helping other humans get through, 100% of that money goes to that event. And that's the way they do it. They pay their bills by this event every year. And all the money that you donate throughout the year to help whatever situation other people are in that they need help in 100% of that money goes there. So mercury 1.org.

Anyway, so I decided, look, I'm going to give you a chewing the fat, you know, a bonus, fat five. I do a fat five every day. Well, I didn't do one today because, well, the whole show was a fat five. But when Pat and Keith and I are doing the show Monday through Friday, I do a fat five every day. And so I decided that I would just do a Fat 5 plus on here. And that would just be stories that I don't do on Pat Gray unleashed. So that's why the plus comes in. There may be a story that I did here that makes it to Pat, but it's going to be rare unless I love the story so much. Like there's

one person that I did mention on the show today that will get a mention during this broadcast. But when we get into who died today, but that's because, you know, they're big name. And so, you know, it's possible that it could happen, but it's going to be rare. And you can follow me on my social media at Jeffrey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio is Instagram and Facebook. Well, the YouTube thing that I do. I can remember what the heck was called. YouTube, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

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Chewing the fat at theblaze.com. I do see them all. I may not respond to them all, but I do see them. You can send your little jokes. You can send your little stories. you can send you little snarky comments or you can send you nice comments I do you know I enjoy the nice ones

but you know thank you to those of you that even send the snarky ones Chewing the fat at the blaze.com you know we talked about this I think we talked about this on this program within the last couple years that I talked to a doctor I bet it was two or three

years ago and he said that this was coming and here it is Amazon is putting prescriptive drugs into vending machines at its one medical clinics. And that's where it's starting in L.A. So patients can pick up their medicine on the way out of the appointments with the doctors. The doc I talked to said they were going to do that.

Now, he's not working for Amazon. He works for another group. But they were in talks to make this happen so that you would go to see your doc and you would get your prescription and whatever you needed. And then if that was something that was available through their pharmacy, the the company's on pharmacy, then you would be able to pick it up right there, a one-stop shop.

And that's what's happening. You know, Amazon is already doing it. And so that will be happening in multiple places. Now, will that, I mean, that's going to put a dent in the mega-pharmacies, right? So the mega-pharmacyses are going to have to buy in to this, and they're going to have to make it so that, you know, Walgreens is also your one-stop shop.

see a physician, and also get your prescriptions. They should have already been doing that. That's a huge mistake on their part. I don't know why. It's funny that they have not done that. But what do I know? Nothing. So just when you think you have it bad,

you know, last week I saw this story from Dallas, downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. This apartment complex apparently had a flood. and all they had some I don't know they flooded multiple floors because this water pipe bursts okay and it's in this historic they call it historic mercantile bank building in downtown Dallas not a bank building it's called mercantile building okay it's historic no matter what it is so anyway on the 20th floor they had this water pipe burst and it reached the election electrical room on the 11th floor.

There was smoke damage and all the power in the building went out. In fact, I believe power went out around the area for quite some time. So 175 of the occupied apartments inside, there was no electricity, running water. Property management a week ago said

we're not, we don't know when we're going to, we're getting to it. We're getting we're planning, we're getting to it. Oh, okay. So people were still trying to live there. There's no power. There's no electricity.

Things were starting to smell. Yeah, it's 100 degrees out every day. So people are climbing stairs. And I guess other people were helping some of the elderly residents climb stairs because, you know, there's no elevators. And so now they're saying, you know, we're trying to get you into some other nearby communities. Oh, that was special. That was nice. I should have done that.

immediately. And so, and that one guy in the neighborhood said, well, the plan may look like it's not going right, but God has a plan for you and it's all meant to be. Okay, well, you know what? I don't necessarily disagree with that. That doesn't make it any easier at the time. Well, now the company, who owns the joint, said get out. Have a nice day. Get your stuff. Get out. The building is uninhabitable right now, and we don't have a timeline that when things are going to be fixed. they claimed that the October rent is going to be refunded. All right. So if you paid your October rent, you know, the first part of the month, that's going to be

refunded. And they claimed that if you lived in a one-bedroom apartment, you would get $3,700. And if you lived in a two-bedroom apartment, you would get $4,800. And so I'm guessing, it didn't say this, but I'm guessing that the $4,800 for the two-bedroom and the $3,700 for the one-bedroom is on. top of your monthly rent that's being refunded. And so that's nice of them. And they just want to help people out and, you know,

that are struggling and get out of this building. So go get out. Oh, okay. Well, that's nice. Man, that is a pain. And I feel, I feel sorry for those people. But man, they're in this building that's supposed to be so good. And nope, a pipe burst.

And nobody, nobody fixed it. And went all the way down to the electrical room. and sorry about it. There's no electricity. There's no power. There's no water. And you got to get out. We don't care where you go, but you can't stay here.

Wow. Okay. Who died today? Who died today? Well, we should begin with, I guess, Ace freely, right? He's the one we have to begin with. I was going to begin with someone else, and then I got to thinking, wait a minute, no.

We've got to mention Ace Freely. Now, Ace, I did mention on Bed Groundless this morning. Sorry. So this is a story that I did on the show, I know. But the legendary Kiss co-founder and rock star Ace Freely is passed away at the age of 74. Very sad. Apparently, he fell at his home studio a month or so ago.

And he had a brain bleed and was suffering after the fall. And I guess he's been in the hospital for quite a while, or, you know, within the last month or so. And I never fully recovered from the brain bleed. Huh. Weird how that happens. And then he has since passed away. So A's freely, I mean, rock star legend, dead at the age of 74. You know, and that got me thinking, who's next?

and I probably should. We're not supposed to think like that, Jeff. Okay, all right, you got it. We're not supposed to think like that. But I do, and I did. And, I mean, there's, we're losing some big names now. And I know, you know, Ace was, look, it was only 74. I mean, he was, you know, in today's world, only 74 is true.

But we've got a lot of rock star legends, a lot of musicians that are a little bit older than 74. You know, they're in the late 70s, mid-A, 80s pushing that 90 mark, some are over 90, and there's going to be some legends fall. And I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to say who it's going to be. I don't, because I don't want it to be any of them. But it is something that I was thinking about earlier this morning,

thinking about A's freely dying, and got me thinking about, holy cow, who's next on who dies? today because wow there's going to be there's some legends out there that are that are close so rest and peace day is really dead at the age of 74 uh well then we have gina rollins jena rollins dead at the age of 94 now she's been suffering from alzheimer's for i don't know five or six years i don't wish that on anyone i'm very sorry that the family had to uh deal with her battle with alzheimer's She was married to John Cassavetes, who was, I mean, this Hollywood director legend guy,

an American independent film movement forefront. She was really, she is figured one of the greatest actors to have ever practiced the craft. Okay. So what do you think about Gina Rolla is now? She was the wife and muse of John Cassavetes, as I said, appearing in his groundbreaking films, faces a woman under the influence, opening night, and Gloria,

and they worked outside the traditional studio system, and they created these works of art shaping the landscape of American cinema, which Cassavetes did, and so did Gina Rollins. So if she had that girl, she, oh yeah, that girl, yeah, kind of. You may recognize her. If you start, you go, oh, yeah, that girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember her.

and I guess there are Hollywood Hills now house is up for sale Oh, I'm not supposed to mention that All right, never mind I know her son is a writer, Nick, writer and director Nick Cassavetes

And he, his company spokesperson, WME was the one who announced her death But she died in Indian Wells, California And Indian Wells, I think that's probably where the Alzheimer's home was because the Hollywood Hills home I don't think that's counted as Indian Wells.

I could be wrong though. So rest in peace to Gina Rollins, dead at the age of 94. All right, let's get out of here for a Friday. Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher, Fat 5 Plus. What do we leave? Do we do a joke of the day? Do we do a joke of the day today? I guess.

I mean, it's kind of the law, right? It is. Oh, and don't forget to, if you're listening on the 17th, of October 2025, which is today. Tomorrow is the 18th and also Saturday. So you can listen to Saturday morning live with myself and Brad Staggs on my ex-account at Jeffrey JFR. Now, I know Brad puts it up on his ex-account as well.

So if you wanted to go there, real Brad Staggs on X, you can go ahead and do that too. But, you know, really, it's just at Jeffrey J-FR. It's my ex-account that's most important. And you can listen to him on the Daily Mojo as well, if you wanted to. But just saying, we'll see you tomorrow morning on Saturday morning live. And then we're back on Pat Gray Unleashed Monday morning, 6 a.m. Central, 6 a.m. CDT. And I'll be on, I'll be doing Pat Gray Unleashed. And then next week, at some point, one of these days will be the finale of Talking Walking Dead.

We have three episodes that we have not done. Jason Betrill, Maximus Fisher, and myself. We've got the last three episodes of the Daryl Dixon show. And the previous episodes have been, were so good. And we've got to do a wrap up on that sometime next week, talking Walking Dead to recap the season of Daryl Dixon. So that will happen. I don't look at me like that.

I don't know exactly when it's going to happen. But it is going to happen. so be ready for that as well. All right, let's do the joke of the day and get out of here. This joke of the day from Chuck who emailed chewing the fat at the blaze.com and at the end of his email,

he said, I know you laughed. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. My response to that is, do you? All right, so here you go. This is his joke. Why didn't the toilet paper crossed the road?

I don't know. Why did the toilet paper cross the road? It got stuck in a crack. Yeah, I laughed. Okay, leave me alone.