Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 108 | Radio Stations in Malls? & Nobody is Watching Cable TV

Episode Date: May 23, 2019

Radio stations are setting ups shops in malls and a interesting fact about people watching tv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm kind of excited today. Amazon is selling houses on their website now. That's kind of cool. Pre-fabricated and modular housing, of course. I mean, they're not just selling new builders to come to your home. But, you know, 100 years ago, Sears used to sell it all the time. We do stories all the time about what houses you could buy from the Sears catalog. So Amazon is just everything old is new again.

You can get a 172 square foot. really isn't that big for $7,250 of the prefab cabin, which the manufacturer says can be built in eight hours. We'll see. Most of those have been sold out now. Apparently, they're back online, so you can kind of find them. I haven't looked to see if they're available yet online, because if I look, I may want to buy one just for the heck of it.

You can get the 292 square foot all-wood getaway cabin for 19. thousand dollars you can get the uh now listen the square footage does not include the additional sleeping loft which is large enough to function as a summer house home office or even a standalone retail building but by adding the utility hookups you can be converted into a residence so you can build the place and you know be like have it out back for your little for your kids cabin for you know 20 30 thousand dollars you get the thousand foot eco house Timber Home for $40,000. Still, though, that's not that bad.

We're looking at an execution tonight in Florida. Bobby Joe Long, serial killer, is going to be executed tonight in Florida at Stark. The family, the Brown family, the man who was her childhood sweetheart and father. of their two children. I is getting what he deserves. Yes. So we'll have that to look forward to. If you're in Florida tonight and the lights flicker and things are starting to just know that Bobby Joe Long is being executed.

I was looking at some of the numbers for the death penalty in Florida. Fascinating numbers. You know, it doesn't really mean anything. It's just, you know, stats on death row. In 1924 is when the first inmate executed in the state's electric chair. 2000 law allowed the use of lethal injection. I remember when that happened. The number of prisons were where men on death row are housed, too.

They're the Florida State Prison and the Union Correctional Institution. it goes on and on with all these different stats. The average age of inmates executed 44.9. This is kind of fascinating. 341 is the number of death row inmates as of Monday. It would be 340 after tonight. 202, a number of white males on death row. 127 number of black males on death row.

Nine of male death row inmates classified as other. Oh. Oh, okay. Well, I'm not a... Okay, we're going to... We're going to execute other. Number of white females on death row. One.

Black females on death row? Two. I mean, it's just fascinating. Now, we pay... According to this, we pay $150 to the executioner. That seems like a little... That's a little chinty. They don't do it enough.

If they up the pace a little bit, maybe we pay them a little bit more. but I mean we pay them a little bit less if they up the, you know, up how many they're doing it. But for as little as they do it, I think we need to, maybe we pay them a little bit more. So just, just a thought.

And this guy, Bobby Joe Long, who is being executed tonight is seven life sentences plus death row. He was a bad, bad guy. But you know, we had another bad guy who we thought was a bad. I should say we had another man that we thought was a bad guy that ended up not being a bad guy. Wrongfully convicted man in Michigan.

He spent 46 years in prison, 46 years in prison. I mean, he's not angry. I mean, he's already reached a point he became this artist in prison. And you look at some of his art, he's great. His paintings are really good. And that's what he's doing now. He's an artist. He's selling his artwork.

He's just getting into his artwork. He's happy to be out of prison. But according to a Michigan law, he's supposed to get $50,000 a year for each wrongfully convicted year. And that means that he's supposed to get a $1.5 million. And the state is, you know, dragging their feet, not doing what they said they were going to do. And this happens quite a bit of Michigan. Now, they did the law to make everybody feel good. Oh, yeah, well, if you're wrongly convicted, we'll get you out of there, no problem. Now, listen, we don't have any money in the fund. So, you know,

you're not going to get any money, but good luck, God bless. And, by the way, just because you were wrongly convicted and we let you hit the streets, we still have to make the legislature appropriate the money to you, even though if there's money in the fund, they still have to appropriate to you. But right now, it doesn't matter whether they appropriated it to you because there's no money in the fund. I mean, yep, sorry. I know we said you're guilty, and now you're not. And I know the law says, hey, we're supposed to, you know, pay your money and everything.

But sorry. You know, I mentioned this on Glenn Radio today with Pat and Stu. But I find it fascinating that, you know, everything old is new again, right? I mean, we're selling houses on Amazon, these prefab houses, sort of them. They come right to your house. And now we're putting radio. stations in malls. Well, you know, I mean, they used to have radio stations in downtown, right?

You'd go and you'd be able to see them at the storefront of the radio stations. And they still have that in Universal Studios in Orlando. They have their big radio station that we used to broadcast from there at least once a year, usually twice a year. And, you know, they've got the big storefront window and there's the studios and people, you know, walk by and see you broadcasting. It's, you know, it's kind of fun. I don't know how fun it would be every single day.

but there's a mall, Gurney Mills Mall in Illinois. It's the Illinois-Wisconsin corridor there that has decided to let this radio station. They want four radio stations moving into their mall to create traffic. I mean, malls are dying, right? They're trying to save themselves. It's not a bad idea. So they paid a bunch of money. They're going to cost a bunch of money to revamp the storefronts that they're going to use for the radio stations.

In fact, they said the incentive change. because the initial estimate didn't take into account the unique renovations needed to accommodate a radio operation. Yeah, you think it's a little bit of expensive to run. Now, the renovations are expected to cost a total of $847,000. In addition to the $200,000 the village is paying, Simon Property owns the mall, and the company that owns the Gurney Mills Mall, and they're going to pay $600,000, and Alphamedia is going to cover the rest. That's not a bad deal.

That's not a bad deal. Now, as part of the agreement, Alpha Media, you know, they're moving there four radio stations in. So I don't know if you're going to be able to just if there's going to be four storefronts with each radio station, which this should be. It would be really cool. So you'd see each radio station and you'd be able to walk by. And you'd be able to make fun. And you've got to have to make it. I mean, it's so soundproof.

And it'll it'll be fun for a little while. And then, you know, you know. Having that traffic come by all the time would get a little annoying, but you get used to it, and it would be fun to see the fans all the time. But as part of the agreement, they're going to host 32 events at the mall each year. That's kind of cool. I mean, at 32 events, you're going to be able to go to the mall. It's going to drive traffic, got four stations, so, you know, cuts a little bit of the event time up, so each one radio station isn't having 32 events.

but I'm pretty fascinated that they're going to break it up like that and they hope to create sales. I always said that these malls are dying and what they should do is have drone racing there. These malls instead of tearing them down, hell they just tore down a mall here in the DFW area. I just tore it down.

It's gone. History. Ghost. Leave them up and let them be drone racing. Let them be drone racing tracks. I mean, the drone racing league, was a big part of ESPN for the last few years. It just moved.

And I didn't realize this until last night. The DRL Alliance World Championship season is going to air on NBC and going to be live streamed on Twitter Sunday, August 11th at 2 p.m. Eastern. And more than 44 hours of DRL coverage will follow on NBC. NBC and NBCSN.

That's pretty amazing. Why they don't have it live streamed at, you know, Gurney Mills Mall. Whatever mall, you know, this race is going to be coming at you. Just like NASCAR, you go to different malls around the country and have your drone racing at whatever track it is. I think that would be fascinating. Yeah, we like this mall. It's got three stories. We can come up down.

When you come around that final turn, we have to drop down to the first story from the third floor. one of the hardest turns we've ever had in drone racing. It'd be kind of cool. All right, let's go to the break room. I need a drink anyway. Seriously, man. For some reason, I don't know what it is. I believe that Coca-Cola Zero Sugar has some sort of addictive.

I can't get enough of it. It's just that simple. So did you see Boy George get all wound up? Did you know Boy George was still around? Yeah, no, I didn't either. I see it once in a while. You see the pictures of Boy George. once in a while at airports.

You see him traveling and you go, hey there's Boy George to the airport. The last one I saw he had, he had his boy George hat on. He was at the airport and he had his cart full of luggage. Well, apparently he was going to Australia because he's part of the Australian voice or voice Australia. And he was asking,

he got a little press for the show. I got to think that that's good news for them. Got him a little press, got him a little press. He was upset when he asked one, of the contestants a question and the contestant, you know, answered him kind of flippantly. And the other host kind of blew it off. He got pissed. And he storms.

He just takes off. And he gets pissed. And then he came back and called him back. But I find it fascinating that they made such a big deal. It's great press. It was a good move. It was a good move on Boy George's part. Whether he meant to do it or not, I don't know.

But it was a good move. I am so disappointed in myself. Last night, I get home and I want to watch the, you know, TV. I've got DVR and NCIS, the season finale, and I've read some of the reports. And I want to watch the final episode of NCIS. It's a show that I watch with my wife. We DVR it. And, you know, I like it.

Gibbs. I mean, it's NCIS. And so I watch it. And we can, you know, talk about whether good or bad episode and all of that. But at the same time that I'm home watching NCIS, I forgot. about the live Jefferson's All in the Family Special on TV. I'm so bummed that I didn't get to watch it. I watched like the, I started looking on Twitter and I saw it starting to trend.

I was like, oh, that's right. Woody Harrelson was Archie Bunker, Marissa Tourmet, was Edith. I mean, Jamie Fox was George Jefferson. it was really, it would have been really, really funny. And even in today's world, what's bad, even in today's world, some of the stuff that they got away with on television, I say got away with, some of the stuff that they entertained us with back then, with all the family and the Jeffersons,

you can't say on TV today. We haven't come forward at all. We've just moved backwards. Maybe we've become more enlightened. I guess that's the way to look at it. We've become more enlightened. These shows were constantly. cutting edge. And now our cutting edge shows are reduced to doing these shows again, only not as good because we can't say the same words.

I mean, okay. But I am disappointed that I wanted to see it. And I hope we get to run it again. And it was a special thing because it was live. And, you know, Kim, always a part of it. And the whole crowd was a part of it. And all these big stars were doing it. And it was, you know, it was cute. It was cute. And I am disappointed that I didn't get an opportunity to watch it. So if you watched it, good for you. And I would have, I would have, after the NCIS episode, I would have rather watched this and then caught the NCIS episode because maybe I would have felt better about that episode than I did before watching the Jefferxes and all the family. But hey, whatever.

You know, that's just me. We also have news from Coles and J.C. Penny and Nord. You talk about the balls. Man, these stores are anchors at some of these malls, right? And they're talking about, I find this headline funny. As they talk about most Americans only entered department stores on their way to the Avengers movie. Yeah, I think that's probably right. Retailers posted big drops in same store stales for the latest quarter.

and they were missing projections. That doesn't mean, now there's chairs fall, and projections are a funny thing. You know, these companies, we project we're going to make $80 billion. Oh, we miss projections. We didn't make $80 billion, but we only made $60 billion. Now, I know that that's a far cry number, and that's not what Coles or J.C. Penny and Nordstrom are attempting to do or make,

but, well, they certainly aren't attempting to make $80 billion. But, you know, it's just the projection thing really, kind of irks me because it's it's them just thinking you know hey we we're going to make this and if we don't make for our projections we suck not really not always that isn't always true but coals and jc penny uh are now crying that possible tariffs could affect their business well business is being affected way before any of these tariffs kick in i'll tell you that now coals made the right deal though, right? They just made the deal with Amazon to serve as a return location for Amazon customers. I think that was a great idea. It saved them. It's going to get them foot

traffic. It's going to get them business. It partners with Amazon. And worst case scenario, Amazon buys them out and just calls it, you know, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, drop off your goods here, stores, whatever. It's going to be, you know, this was going to have. This was going to You know that and Coles is going to be, Coles is going to be happy about it. Should we sell to Amazon? Should we sell to Amazon? Yeah, yeah, we probably should. And we're, you know, as long as we're stuck on Amazon or on entertainment and I, you know, Amazon is part of that entertainment world now too as well.

and, you know, I love the story about streaming and Netflix. Last year, half, half of Americans, 22 to 45 watched zero hours of cable TV. Zero hours of cable TV. 35 million households have quit cable in the past decade. Quit cable, period. Gone. Goodbye. Have a nice day.

more than half of American households subscribe to a streaming service. That's pretty amazing. That's huge. Now, the trend is kind of strange, though. You know, you think to yourself, well, that's Netflix. But, you know, really, according to this, you know, Netflix changed the way we watched TV, right? It didn't really change TV. I mean, you think about it.

I mean, 20 million people tuned in to watch, you know, Game of Thrones, right? And that's a subscription-based movie app channel. Now, Netflix is spending all kinds of money on original content. $12 billion developing original shows, 88% more original programming than they did last year. They're accruing all kinds of debt. right but you're looking at Disney coming on board I mean we are at app fatigue I know I mean everybody wants a piece of the app pie and they're creating content and some of the content

is great and I'm happy about it but I am at app fatigue but we have Disney coming out in about you know what 170 some odd days which is going to I mean that's going to put a dent in Netflix and HBO. We'll see. We'll see. CBS. I mean, Disney, if content is king, Disney is your content master right now, right?

They're going to charge seven bucks a month. And, I mean, look at all the content they have. They own Marvel, Pixar Animation, Star Wars, ESPN, National Geographic, Modern Family, the Simpsons. Plus, the classics, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. I mean, okay. Okay. And what are the top movies? Disney movies. All they have to do is say, yeah, you could go to the theater and watch it, or you could buy our app for a year and you'll be able to watch these movies anytime you want on our Disney Plus app. Oh, okay. Plus Disney owns 60%.

of Hulu. So I have a feeling that we're going to end up being, you know, you're going to end up being the Disney Plus will be Disney movies, and Hulu ends up being, you know, adult, Disney adult stuff. Disney adult stuff, not Jeffie adult stuff. And it will just, it's fascinating, it's going to be fascinating to watch,

because I know that you, along with me, are at App, App Fat, Fat, Fat, Fat, and I don't know what to do about it, because I want to see it all. So I heard Jason and Sarah on filling in for Pat Unleash this morning on the Blaze Radio and Television Network. Talk about this Mississippi House speaker, Philip Gunn, who, or I mean representative Doug McLeod. Philip Gunn is the guy that's bad-mouthing McLeod. McLeod was arrested Saturday at his home. And the story is horrible.

The story, you know, he punched his wife and bloodied her nose in their bedroom. The police found, you know, blood on the bed and the bedroom floor. And it's because he said it was because, or she said, that the domestic violence was to, because she did not undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex. Now, it's not funny. It's horrible. And, you know, it's a bad joke. It's a punchline to a bad joke.

joke. But the thing that kind of ticked me off about the story, and believe me, it's alleged now, right? We don't even know if this whole story is true. We just know what he said, she said. But in today's world, you've been accused, you're guilty. That's it. No question. You are guilty no matter what. So, you know, he's guilty. But the thing that ticked me off the most about this story, other than him, you know, allegedly, you know, punching his wife in the face, because that can't be. It just can't happen. Is that they made such a big deal about him being drunk in his house and walking in a zigzag

and having to hold the guardrail. Guess what? You get to be drunk at your house. It's your home. You get to do that. Sorry, police officer that doesn't like it tough. I get to be drunk at my house. I mean, that really, that really made me agonized.

We made such a big. Now, again. story is horrible. If true, it's horrible. And, you know, he deserves to be in jail and he deserves to be, everything that he has coming to him should come to him.

Because, you know, the actions are completely unacceptable. It just ticks me off that we're led to believe down the road how horrible it is that this guy was drunk. In his own house. Hey, don't forget to subscribe to Chewing the Fat with yours truly Jeff Fisher. Really important. I appreciate you guys listening every day.

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DeGeneres. Signed another deal. Three more years for her talk show. Amazing. I mean, I don't know how much money. She's, you know, they say she's worth, you know, $450 million now. Just ridiculous. Her show's been on for 16 years. That's pretty amazing that that show's been on for 16 years already. And she's made it into the brand, man, the Ellen DeGeneres. brand apparently you know i mean she's got uh inside she these stories that she does on her show a lot of times where you know that the uh viral stories and the viral people that are in those stories well then her company has gone out and found these viral stories and then her company ends up representing these people i mean it's an ellen brand right and then you know the money

she got for her stand-up deal on netflix we've been over that before on the podcast they paid her too much for that. But still, she opened up a little bit of new audience to the TV show, and she signed a deal for three more years. Congratulations. Good for Ellen. Heaven forbid, by the time she's 61, so by the time she's 63, 64, maybe she can get that net worth up to, I don't know, a billion dollars. And the Ellen brand can go away after 19 or 20 years. Maybe she signs one more deal.

I'll just do one more year. The Ellen wrap-up season, 20 years of Ellen. And that could be her final year. And she can go out on top with the Ellen brand at a billion dollars. That probably will happen. Good news. I'll leave you with good news for you traveling hunters of the world who are listening to chewing the fat. I know that you, for the past couple years, you've been disappointed that you weren't able to go to Botswana and elephant hunt.

Now you can. Now you can. Yes, I know. Dry your eyes. You're so happy you're crying. It's good to go. They've said, look, it's okay. We're going to, we're going to allow you to come back to Baswana and hunt elephants for a while.

No problem. Because we've got a growing conflict between humans and the animals. Yeah, the animals are destroying crops. Sometimes they're destroying villages and cities. They have like 130,000 elephants roaming around. It's the world's largest population for elephants. So, look, they've got the reputation for conservation and tourism, but we need to, I know, look, we sell a lot of diamonds. We have a little diamond mining going on, and we can't have the elephants ruining the diamond mines.

So come on to Botswana and hunting elephants. Yeah. Yeah. doesn't want to go to Botswana and hunt elephants for fun. Yeah. Actually, it probably would be. You big animal hater.