Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 49 | Happy Birthday Chris Ferry Billboard, Hoax or No Hoax?

Episode Date: March 13, 2019

Jeffy just wanted to wish Happy Birthday to Chris Ferry and it turns into... Well you decide. With a surprise call from Art and Ashton from Trilogy Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Chewing the Fat with yours truly Jeff Fisher. Now, Vodcast is Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher, not yours truly. Jeff Fisher just wanted to, you know, clear that up. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff E, JFR, and Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. Oh, my gosh, that's what JFR stands for. Oh, Jeff Fisher Radio. Amazing. So one of the stories I did this morning on Pat Gray I unleashed as I did Chewing the Fat segment,

we talked about a 61-year-old guy in New Jersey. named Chris Ferry. And Chris got a surprise from his two sons who put Wish My Dad Happy Birthday up on a billboard in New Jersey with the phone number. And the story talks about how he's gotten hundreds of messages from all around because his son then posted it on social media and it went viral.

And now it's, of course, you know, all over the Internet wishing, wish my dad a happy birthday. And the story says that his birthday isn't until Saturday. So we should call and wish him happy. We still have time to call and wish him happy birthday before his birthday. And I thought, oh my gosh, let's call Chris and wish him happy birthday. So Chris with a K, I'm saying your name different. Chris, let's call Chris. You see the difference between the K Chris and the C Chris? I mean, you should be able to tell the difference anyway. So yeah, let's call Chris. jumpy just because I haven't told the full story yet to the audience of what happened and we're

going to see if this is actually Chris Ferry. Probably going to voicemail. That's what I said last time. And then I'll tell you what happened. Yeah. Hello, is this? What's going on? What can I do for you? Is this the phone number for Chris Ferry? Okay. I'm having a pretty, pretty good day. Can you just give me a little bit more, I don't know, information? Sure. Happy birthday, Chris. Thank you. What is it? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold it right there. Hold it right there. I got to ask you this one question. Okay, so tell me, um, so tell me... So this is pre-recorded?

Hello? Oh, I thought I lost you there for a second. Could you say something? Yeah, hello? Hello? Hey, what's going on? What can I do for you? Just wondering if this is Chris Ferry. Okay. it's the same thing you're right Chris I'm having a pretty pretty good day

oh my gosh we've been had is what we what happened we've been had so we can air the other thing a little bit more I don't know information yeah sure no problem

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait hold it right there hold it right there I got to ask you this one question okay okay so tell me So tell me Hello

Yeah, yeah, go ahead Oh, I thought I lost you there for a second Could you say something? Yeah, I'm right here, go ahead I'm right here Is this Chris Ferry? Hello? Yeah, is this Chris Ferry?

What can I do for you? The same thing. Okay Okay, thank you. I'm having up. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Okay, so now, I want to tell you what happened before we call this damn phone number again,

because now I'm really pissed because we've been had, because I've already been pissed about the first call that we had. All right. So we call this number that's in this story to wish this Chris Ferry happy birthday, and we get a guy who answers, all right? Now, he's a real, to say the least, to be nice. All right? He is an unhappy man.

However, now that I play it, we're going to play it back now, because I wonder if he repeats himself like this. called it. Okay, so we called this. So we called it back again because I wanted to see if we got, we checked everything. It was the same number. We called the right number. We just, I just wanted to call. What's this guy? Happy birthday? Now, you heard the girl, the lady who kept repeating herself, right? It's a prank. It's a prank call. So she stops when there nobody talks, but when you talk, then the system picks it up and she talks again. But she only goes so far and then she repeats herself, right? So the guy was talking about it. Am I being a

recorded. I didn't consent to be recorded. And was really a dick. I mean, for the lack of a, I mean, I do have different words. Not for the lack of a better word. I have better words. But it's not the John McVey interview. Okay. You didn't get a chance to hear John

yesterday's podcast. You can go back and give it a listen. It is not safe for work and don't play it at the family dinner table. Like, you know, you can play chewing the fat with the family. Not that interview. Keep that interview to yourself. Just lay back and enjoy the John McPhee interview all to yourself. Put the headphones on.

You can listen to the rest of the show. But when I say, oh my gosh, he's on the line. Put the headphones on. Mute the outside speakers and enjoy it for yourself. Now, that having been said, what's the benefit of this being such a prank story going viral and having other people pick it up? I don't know.

So we'll call it back And we'll see if we get what happens now All right, yeah, let's call it again Let's call the number again It's in the story It's in the story The story is for an I-heart story From the Kane show

But they link to a New York Post story Okay, so this is, we dial the number again And the story has the phone number And so does the bed It shows a picture of the billboard With the phone number. Okay See if it's a different person

I don't know what the benefit is, though. I've been had for something, and I don't know what it is. Should have called back from another number. How can I help you? Somebody different. Hello, is this Chris Ferry? It is. It's a fake call, an answer.

Yeah? Yeah. Well, I'm sorry. You just caught me in a really, really bedtime. I can talk. Yeah. But you caught me in a bedtime. Okay.

I'm a little bit frustrating. I'm a, I'm not. I work at daycare and the person who's supposed to be with me tonight. Right. And he didn't show up. So I have to take care of like 30 people. Right. Just have to keep my cool down and, you know, taking care of the kids.

That's what I, you know. Right. Right. So what are you saying? I was just looking for Chris Farrier. Wish him a happy birthday, you know, from chewing the fat podcast. Oh, me too. Who's going to clean that?

Because if you're recording this and going to play this back on your YouTube channel, This is Chewing the Fat podcast. Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. That's what this is. That's what this is. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's a nightmare, isn't it? It's Friday.

Same, I know. Same here, too. Yeah, same here too. It's Friday on Wednesday. Same here. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, happy birthday, Chris.

That's what it is. We have to play them what we just happen. That's what it is. That's exactly what it is. had from another YouTube channel, another podcast, another show that are going to play the people calling the number. These brothers scammed everybody because there's the news report that we played, that we're listening to off the air from this story that has the brothers and the dad talking about

how this was so cool. Oh my gosh. We've got to play that. that. Chris, do you have that? A lot of billboards may be easy to pass by, but this one, Wish My Dad Happy Birthday. It even gives the phone number. We just wanted to have a special birthday. That's it. Okay, that's the one guy that answered the phone.

Mike, they both live in Palm Beach County. Their dad also Chris just left Palm Beach to move back to New Jersey. That's where the billboard went up a week before Dad's 60-second birthday. I called my brother, Ray West. Why don't we put a billboard right out of Atlantic City saying, wish my dad happy birthday. You know, And he said he loved it. He started dying, laughing. So that's what we did. It went up Thursday morning. Within minutes, dad got the first text saying, happy birthday. He texted back saying, who are you? The response, my name is Nick. And I said, well, how do you know it's my birthday coming up? And he said, well, I saw it on a billboard.

Since then, the texts, the calls have been nonstop. I think I've had about 15,000 calls, texts, and Facebook hits in the last three days. The whole thing is a ruse. We've been had. You've been had. When we put it on social media, that's when it really started going crazy. I've received texts from all over the world. Wow.

Philippines, Kenya, Luxembourg, it's been crazy. Some people sing happy birthday. All alive. All alive. But the birthday wishes just keep. Wow. Okay. That, I don't know whether to say good job or be angry.

Did we just break news? I think we did, actually. We just broke news. I mean, this story is pretty big from yesterday. I don't see it anywhere online. Other people saying, you know, you've been had, right? Because they're scared to after the first call. Right?

They won. 561. 307. 4879. Because this guy throws everybody off for a curve. Let's see if it's real. It'd be great if he answered. We've got to listen to the way he answers, though.

See if it goes back because I was so angry. See if it's real. Hello. Hello, is this Chris Ferry? Who's calling? This is Jeff Fisher calling from Chewing the Fat podcast. And I just wanted to call and wish you happy birthday because your son's... I'm sorry?

Is he hanging up on me? That's exactly what it's all recorded. Oh, hey, Chris. How'd you get my number? I read a story about your son putting your number up to wish you happy. Happy birthday. And so I wanted to call on... I'm sorry?

It was called being recorded. Okay, so I expect to record it. I do not consent to be recorded. Okay. And you do not tell me that. That's a big no-no. We're not live, so it's okay. You just made a big mistake.

I did. What's your address and where you located? We're in Texas. I'm really angry right here. You can just call people up and record them without telling them that you're recording them? Your son, Your son, Mr. Ferry, put your phone number of

I'm trying to be really nice here because I am like... Listen, is there a supervisor I can speak to because this is a very serious matter and I'm recording you, by the way. Okay, that's fine. So there they let us know they're recording us. Put your phone number on a billboard. This call still being recorded.

Which is then put on the internet. Getting kind of angry here. We were to call and wish you happy birthday. They're telling me that it's being recorded still. We wanted to call and wish you happy birthday. They're setting us up, letting us know that they're recording us. Those bastard. No, man.

I mean, I'm mad again. It's on the record, then. So happy, it is. It is. It is. Happy birthday.

I appreciate it. Wow, this is serious. This is serious. So, yeah, I'll tell you what, I can wait for that supervisor then. Okay. I just wanted to wish you,

happy birthday. And you take care, sir. I don't know whether to be mad or just pat somebody on the back now. That's pretty good. I don't know what somebody's YouTube channel, right? It sounds like the two that we talked to similar to the two guys that we interviewed not long ago, the YouTube guys that scammers. The scammers.

Yeah, the scammers that scam. And it sounds like those two guys. You remember Art and Ashton from a trilogy media. It's similar to that. Now they take the phone people that call them, right? Which is what we were doing, right? This is an elaborate hoax This is an elaborate hoax.

Right? I mean, they let you know they're recording, though, because that first call said, you know, I'm recording you too, by the way. So they let you know that they're recording. You didn't tell them, that's a big no-no. You didn't tell you.

I was just being recorded. So if you were calling to wish him happy birthday, just not a show. Not a show. What would you do if you heard that? guy. You just hang up, right? No, I'm not recording you. What are you talking about?

Click. Right? You'd probably just hang up. So the only people that stay on long enough to get that part are the people like us that are doing it for their own show. We get paid for that. Right. Right. Not much, by the way.

But I, oh man. That's a chewing the fat, breaking a world hoax story today. You called from a cell phone to that number and no one is picking up. All right, now I've got a call from my phone. So if it recognizes, it's just a cell number doesn't pick up. What kind of hoax did we get into?

What are these people doing? Wow. Now my question is, do we call back from this line again? So if we call from a cell phone, it goes to voicemail like that. Yes, we're calling back from this line again. You're damn right we are. I'm trying to make out what the heck is going on. It's not like we have to record a show or anything.

Wait, what? The show can wait. We're doing this. Oh my, this could probably be the show. Hello. Hello, looking for Chris Ferry. Yeah? What is going on?

Yeah, can you hear me okay? Yeah, I can hear you, Chris, because it's a recording and it's me, Jeff Fisher, from Chewing the Fat. Wait for a second. We're just out of casino, but as long as you're, you can hear me. Yeah, gotcha, Chris. Happy birthday. What is, what are they doing? How are we being hosed with this? How are we being hosed? And why does it only work with a landline? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, this sounds familiar. Um, because I haven't really said anything except happy birthday. Yeah, are you? Okay. Yeah, no, it's cool. Um, I wasn't actually expecting a call

this late in the day. What time is it? Yeah, it's late. Yeah, it's late on a Friday, you know. here chilling with my friend. He's never been to one. Right. You're hanging out. Right. I think he went to go to pizza or something. Anyway, yeah.

No, it's cool. If you can tell me what you were saying... Yeah, I was just wishing you have your birthday recording. You know, from Chewing the Fat podcast. You know, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher on Blaze Media, Blaze Podcast Network? You remember what it is. Yeah. Getting pizza at the casino?

Really? With your friend who's never been. to a casino? Yeah, no, I'm not going to be mad. So don't worry about you just won ten bucks. See, that sounds like homeboy. This sounds like the two guys we had on. Would you like me to reach out to them?

Yes. Yes, this sounds like them. Yeah, it's just me. I was just hanging out because I called you to wish you happy birthday. Remember I was calling Chris Ferry? What are they? What's the, outcome of this.

So we've called four times, four different answers. Right? No cell phone went to AT&T voicemail. And they wouldn't even really go to a voicemail. It just says, hey, won't take your call. Yeah, okay. Okay. Hey, yeah, no, I'm still here.

Yeah, that's all right. I'm still here. I just called Wish Chris. Very happy birthday. You know, from chewing the Fat podcast, Blaze Media. Blaze Podcast Network. Yeah. He's like in his 30s and he's never been into a casino.

Amazing. You just got a pizza, too. They don't do that. Right? He's a little overwhelmed by all the lights. Yeah. Yeah. I hope he doesn't have a... It's always cold as a mother,

because they just don't want you getting tired. Right. I know. I know. I like it like that. Honestly, but, you know, I think 500 is probably his max. Oh, yeah. Don't play with more than you can lose.

There's no way he's going to spend all that. I eat. He just won. Is this? Right, right. Did I call you, did I talk to you guys last week? Were you the one I spoke to? Yeah, no, because the story hadn't broke yet, and we didn't, we didn't know the number.

Or did I speak to some, I can't, I spoke to somebody. Yeah. I'm sure you did, but it wasn't us because we didn't have the number and it wasn't part of the story. That we- It's, what is loaded. It's loaded. I know, I know I'm going to, right now. Sorry, hang on one second.

So, do you have any cash in you? I just lost for I run it out. You just lost your $500? Oh, no. Oh, no. I mean, I'm going 45 seconds. How long is this? This is a long one.

This is a whole detailed story. Can I borrow a like something? I'm still here, though. Jeff Fisher for joining the fat podcast. When I'm playing now, I've been playing on the same $5 for like an hour. And I'm playing the silent. If I'm not at 20, I'm going to leave all million. I bought it enough to be honest with you.

but I want to see what it is. Yeah, just get rid of me. Let me cut me off. Get rid of me. This is them. That's what Vegas will do to you. Okay, sorry. Anyway.

That's okay. It's all right. Tell me what you were saying a minute ago. I was just what called and wish a happy birthday. You know, from the Billboard story and the phone number. You remember. It sounds like Art and Ashton are pulling some kind of prank. I don't know what it is.

So listen, what I think I want to do. Now they've sworn twice, too. They're gonna take a man They're not John McAfee They were telling me with this promotion And I said if I could call What? I'm

I promise you It's loaded It's just Yeah it's loaded with all my money It's not enough It's like I just met a guy He told me

You have to put certain amount of money And they're gonna give you back Twice as long Who is he the employee? Please give me 40 Because I just met a guy I'm not gonna give you 40 I know we should stop

But I don't want to $300 already. Hang on one second. Yeah, no, I'm still here just hanging out. You know. It's waiting to wish Chris very happy birthday. That's all what I'm here for. You know, that's not how sloppish.

The more they talk, the more I think is them too. It sounds so much like the Art and Ashton guys. Of course he wants you to win. He wants you to spend your money so he can win his money back. Who cares? We're still going to be in profit. This is the last time. Okay.

But what is the out? It's got to be just recording us, right? On their end, they're muted, so they're just recording what people are saying. Oh, it's in 500 of his own. This is stupid. Shouldn't even be here. I need to go to Rome. Yeah.

Let me just hang up. Get rid of me, right? Oh, this is so rude. I'm really, I'm trying to listen to you. Go ahead. It's a gigantic casino and he insists on playing three machines over. Yes, so there's like three, three swear words, too. They're making me angry now.

So, to read all these money, you need five bars. I got full. So it's clearly it's loaded. Clearly. It's clearly loaded. I got full bars. Okay, I'm not... I can't give you more cash.

I've already given you a chunk of the cash I was supposed to have for tomorrow. Can I need your debit card? No. My debit card? I can't believe... I just... Why do you need my debit card? I'm going to go get a little bit more cash.

I just... With my debit card. Yeah. You took my debit card yesterday last night. And you and you bought all this stuff that you want. I bought a pack of gum and I gave you half of it. How much are you going to take out? What is the point of this, though?

Really, what's the point of it? They're doing a whole skit here of being on the other end of a phone call. Because if you're just recording me, I mean, I'm okay. You can have here, take it. Are you having fun at least? No, not really. called was Chris Ferry. Happy birthday from New Jersey.

I'm not see any more cash from you. Okay. That's the last one. I did really give permission to record me earlier on. Earlier on. The first message. Because I'm trying to take care of. This person's been trying to talk to me for a while now. I've been rude. I'm sorry. I'm almost done.

Are you sure? Are you sure? 60 more plus an ATM fee. You owe me like 120. Yeah. You're still rude, though, because you're still ignoring me. Is really what's happening. $40.

Glad I know what I mean to you. It's great. I don't want to see your face again. Except when you give me my card back. I'm so sorry about that. My God. You know, no problem. No problem.

I'm just here. All right. Yeah. It's kind of, it's, you know, we're in the middle of the week here. Yeah, I know. But the person I was talking to last week told me that I could call back next week and speak to that same person. Right. Because they knew my situation.

But I called you. I don't know. know i don't know i don't remember that person's name it started with an r i don't know i think yeah you um if you're saying that you can give me the same offer that they were talking about then i guess we can keep talking otherwise if you want i can always call back next week what do you think yeah okay you did not win you two thousand dollars did you really wait a thousand dollars you should have oh my god that's odd so i get half what is yours you're gonna I swear.

You make $200, brother, because I love you. I'm going to give $300, okay? Because you have believed in me. Okay. Now, listen to me very carefully. What? This is the best advice I could give you in the situation. You need to take this money and get out of here.

Do not do anything else. Do not play anything. This is when they hooked you. Yeah. He's right there. Get you to stay longer. I'm going to give us free room. Get out of here and go home and take the wedding.

Hey, ask me for AD. I didn't have American driver license. So I'm not able to catch this money, but if I don't take this, so you got to get a cashier now and give me your ID. Yeah, but I don't have American ID. Where's your ID? You could use the international ID. Are you sure about that?

Yeah, but you still have to sell out of a tax form. Okay, listen. I know how it works. You remember a movie about the Rounders? Yeah. Yeah. So you remember what he did? Some profit.

And he went to roulette. I know roulette is the way. Everybody's got to swear. Hey, you told me you want a red carvette? I promise you I'm going to buy you a red carvette. Just to let you know, we're having contact with Art and Ashton, so we might get an answer during this podcast. I cannot watch you throw the... Okay, so what is the worst scenario?

We've lost $600. Come on, brother. Please stay. Gotta be them. I don't know what the outcome of this is, we have to talk to them. I want to know what I've... I will not be had for long. I will not be had for long.

And this has gone awful to me now. I'm so bored with this. I can't believe it. So on and on and on. He just won 50 grand. I stopped listening. I know.

I mean, I was just going back and forth and he's kind of busy. He's been so rude to me because I'm still on the line. Remember, I called them. This is amazing that it's just ongoing. I don't know how long it goes.

It's the only reason I'm hanging on. It's like, you know, it's like something where you go, let's got to end soon. right? It's like the four-hour movie that you want it over in an hour and a half and you're wondering it's got to end soon, right? It never does. You could put the voucher. Now they're worried about vouchery and tax money and tax money.

He doesn't have a, he doesn't have a USID. I swear today is a day. God knows that today is a day. Okay. It's my birthday. Oh, no. See, now he bet the 50 grand again. He's going to lose it.

And it's going to be over. And, uh, see, I told you that you needed to walk away. tried to tell you. He tried to tell you. Oh, no. Another swear word. But he lost, that meant that swear word meant that he lost it, of course. You should have bet greens.

You told him not to bet anything. Yeah. I mean, I just want to keep this, I want to keep this as the podcast. But we have to talk to Art and Ashton. I want to know what the deal is. I want to know what the, I will not be hoaxed by these two. So according to his people, they're in New York right now.

We're going to work it out. Just go to your room. And we'll play a clip so they can hear themselves. They know it's them. They know it's them. I know what they did. It's where I've got to go deal with this. Okay.

We're finally going to end. Can we talk this week? Yeah, well, you know, maybe. I was just going to call him to wish happy birthday. Remember? Remember I called you? Yes. It's restarted.

There we end. We're at the end. There it is. Okay, we're done with that call. Thank you, Jesus. So that was a long time. 13 minutes. That was a long one before it reset.

Wow. All right, I want to know why we've been hoaxed by this. This is absolutely amazing. Because this is a good hoax. I mean, this story is viral. I mean, thanks for listening. to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher here on the Blaze Media,

the Blade podcast podcast network. And, you know, subscribe, rate and review. Thank you so much. But we are going to find out what the heck the deal is with this hoax. And it all started with the story posted by the Kane show. I know Kane. And it all started with, you know,

and then the New York Post ran it. But it all started to wish this guy, happy birthday from a billboard that his two sons put up with his phone number on it. We called the number and that's where we're at now. And it doesn't work with cell phones. And we called by two different cell phones does not accept calls. All right?

We called, we called... It is them. Wait a minute. It is them. How do we prove that it's them? When you get a scam call, where are they calling from? A landline. Oh, yeah, it's landline and toll freeze.

And what are we? Landline toll freeze. got to be them right got to be it sounds like them but how do you get the story that's what I want I want to know how this all started from this stupid birthday story so is the dad in it so are they in it

I guess I don't know so is that fake call is those text messages between the dad because on the news report there was a conversation on the screen between the birthday boy and a person named Nick and they were going back and forth and then there was a phone call by the dad saying

Oh my God, this is so cool. Right. The whole thing's a hoax. Where are we? Like, what is going on? I don't know. That's what I'm asking. The whole thing's a hoax. Only here, Jeffie. Only here. The whole thing is fake news.

Did I just use a political term? Sorry. The whole thing is, it's just a hoax. I shut this thing down, man. I need a drink. I should go to the break room, but I want to hear from Art Nashdon. I want to find out what the heck the deal is. Okay, what is going on? I want to see if there's anybody else's had this happen.

I mean, like I'm living in the twilight zone. We're doing a podcast in the twilight zone. So I Google, happy birthday billboard. That's what I Google. I Google happy birthday billboard. Actually, this was Bing. I binged, happy birthday billboard. All right?

Thank you. Top stories. The sign has Ferry's phone number, is photographed the words. Wish my dad, happy birthday. Sons by Billboard asking for wishes for father's birthday. Wish my dad, happy birthday, billboard goes viral. That was 21 hours ago. The second one was five hours ago.

This one one day ago from MSN, happy birthday Billboard gets dead 15,000 calls and texts with his picture in the story. One day ago, YouTube has the billboard. hours ago, the story that I'm talking about from the Post just copied into the Houston Chronicle. I mean, come on. What is going on? Are we... All right, now I've got to Google it.

Hold on. I'm going to Google. Happy, whatever, happy birthday. 20 hours ago, 22 hours ago. 51 minutes ago, dad receives over 15,000. The Fox is just running the MSN story. from a day ago. Fox 29, that is, a local Fox 29. What do you mean?

Check the numbers, see if it matches. Yeah, it's the same number. It's the same guy billboard. It's the same stupid billboard. Same stupid billboard. Different picture of the dad. Different picture of the dad, but the billboard's behind him. Amazing.

Yeah, because this one has dad reacts to son's birthday billboard prank that was his phone ringing off the hook. What is happening? How I seriously we're living in some kind of alternate universe or something and this I remember this all started an hour ago because I wanted to call this guy and just wish him happy birthday because the stupid story. I wanted to leave chewing the fat on his voicemail. Hey, this is Jeff Fisher from Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Happy Birthday

Chris Perry and I get this amazing amazing and the first guy made me so angry the first thing made me so angry that I sat here

not wanting to air it because he told me you know we were recording here in big trouble and then we get we call back again so I want to talk to him again I want to talk I want to say dude you know this is what's going on

we get the second the lady and she's repeating herself that was a short one but that's when we realized that it was a recorded call right so then we go back to we call again we get another guy right repeating himself he's at the daycare right right and then we play the guy back the first guy who were that set us up that said that uh are you recording this you that was a big no no i want you to know i'm recording this too So they did the disclaimer that they're recording you. Right? They gave you that disclaimer in there that we know, don't forget, we're recording you too.

Did that. And then I want to talk to your supervisor. Recording. Recording, not actually responding to what we're saying. And we call again and we get the two dingleberries at the casino, which I believe are Art and Ashton. Yeah, alleged dingleberries. No, they are. But I know that that's Art and Ashton, the two guys we had on for the, the, uh,

their YouTube channel that the trilogy media dot org or trilogy media trilogy media. On YouTube, trilogy media, yeah. And these two guys

take the scammers and they were trying to help the one scammer if they were scamming us. If they were scamming. But they wanted to help the scammers, right? They were helping the scammers. They helped us scammers.

Yeah. They got the one guy. They got the one guy. And yeah, they waste the scammers time and they do YouTube channel. of them messing with the scammers. And which is a little funny. It was pretty funny.

But we talked to them and they were trying to help this one scammer, the one guy that was calling them to, you know, steal from him have a real life without scamming. That was the point of talking to them about it. Well, what's the point of this? I don't, I mean, this story is everywhere. The story is a viral story. Right here, this is the point.

They're wasting your time. now to trying to figure it out. But why? Who, what, why, where, how? The five questions of journalism. Okay? So, we know who.

Kind of. We figuring it that we know who. I want to know why. What's the end game of this? I got to have a Coke zero. Let me step outside, aren't you? All right. Just hold on.

So this is another one? This is what, five? Move, give me a six. I'm making me go through all these obstacles. Do you have any seats and popcorn? Yeah, I just wanted to call. Wish happy birthday to Chris is all doing. From Chewing the Fat podcast.

Hold on. I'm not going to go, I'm going to go more towards like the lobby. Yeah, that'd be great, thanks. I don't want people to pass by me and think, I don't know. I know. I appreciate it. Give me two more seconds. Thanks. I appreciate it. What movie were you seeing?

Okay. All right. I'm at the lobby. What is it you need? No, I just wanted to call it was happy birthday to Chris. I hated to drag you out of a movie for that. Silly. Like, how is this going to benefit me? Okay, wait, wait, sorry. Start over, start over. What were you saying? What is this?

Oh, my God. Wait, just hold on. Oh, no. No, you got somebody could call another call coming in? Oh, no. She's in a theater. She's saying I'm missing a really important part.

Are you getting a friend text to you for the movie theater? Yeah, I know. I pay $19. $99 a month to see these movies at AMC. And I didn't get to see a lot. Oh, no. Sorry. She's trying to get my money's worth right now.

That's good thing you didn't have movie pass. I'll tell you that. Because I'm missing one of the most important part, according to her. Go ahead, really quick. You'll be able to see it on Netflix in a year. Don't worry about it. You're fine. I really just need the best 30 seconds that you have because I'm missing one of the most important parts.

What are you, my first wife? Try not to be reduced to just really just give me the best 30 seconds right now. Yeah, you already got it. You already got it. And by the way, the best 30 seconds for me is about 10. Oh, no, she's calling you again. You're missing another great part? I'm reading it.

Oh, no. I'm able to read. You're reading a messages? from a phone call? Huh, weird. Oh, no. It's just like an action movie. It's also a little gory. My favorite type of like thriller type of down. Why did you walk out and answer the phone then if this was your favorite kind of movie?

Missing the guy. The car literally just did like 20 flips. And apparently when they made the film, it took like 40 takes to do this. And I literally just missed it. Oh, yeah. Wow. I'm reading all her messages. Oh, my God.

All right. Really, really. this needs to speed up. Like, this is getting really ridiculous, but, like, again, I really don't want to be rude. Well, me either. That's why I just wanted to call and wish Chris Happy Birthday is all is what we're doing this from the Billboard story. I'm already, like, missing parts of it. So, like, there's really no point in me just, like, going in right now because I already missed some of the best parts.

Yeah. So, like, you might as well just keep going with this, but, like, I still want it to be quick. So please just make it quick. Yeah, this is as quick as you got. I was just one of them. Oh, no. Oh, no. People are getting mad at her because she's texting.

She's just trying to do me a favor. Oh, my God. Oh, I know. You shouldn't have walked out and taken my call. There's no way. Right. Not see this whole thing and miss the good parts. I got it.

I'm going to have to see it again. What is this about? Amazing. Just the amazingness. I'm missing. No one called this number? None of these stories. This story goes viral.

Nobody calls the number. Okay, we're going back in the theater. Yeah, go ahead, baby. We come with me. I'm going right now. All right. See you later. Oh, you keep, that's right, you're going to take me with you.

Okay. Why would you do that? Why would you just hang up? She's not going to mind. She's already used to it by now. Okay. What? Give you a little bit more information now.

Moving to the same time, it'll make me feel better. It'll make me care more about what you're saying. That's Mission Impossible. You're going to have to start speaking up a little bit because now... Yeah, Tom Cruise is doing a flip for you. It's a little loud in here. Like, I have to be quiet because people around me, but you have to speak up for like in here. If this is going on in a theater that I was in, I'd grab that phone down and throw it.

I totally shut that hell up. Not really. Just like, could you please tip that off? Yeah, be a little bit more quiet. Don't care. I'm sorry. You got to see this movie. What?

Relax. I have to take this. I really have to take this. And I paid so much money for this movie. Just. What you did. See, I called you. It was the thing. I know.

Be freaking people, man. I know. I really don't care what you are. Do you want to be the sole purpose that you ruin this movie for everyone here? This the guy from the first call. Excuse me, sir, madame, or whatever you, whatever you are. I'm going to pull it. This can't happen.

I'm literally one of the only things I get to work. Wrap it up. I can't hear you. Yeah, I just called Wish Chris Happy Birthday is really all I call for. Yeah, probably should just hang up the phone. Really. I'm probably leaving the theater. I'm going out in the lobby.

That's why you should probably just hang up the phone. Why would you? What was it you were saying? Hello? Okay, that's it. All right, that's where it went through. We went through the whole back of the theater. And for those who keeping her home, that was seven minutes.

Amazing. and it was seven minutes and that was the fifth or six, right? Fifth or six, right. I mean... Okay, so I have to do more research on this. So according to this, Chris Ferry is the father, correct? Yes. The son's name is Christopher Ferry.

Okay. No junior? Right. Then I got their address, because I'm that good of a investigative reporter, and their address is a registered business out of Bocca Raton. Right. Well, they mentioned that, right? The dad just moved back to Jersey or whatever.

In that news report, it talked about Boca Raton, and then it talked about moving back to Jersey. Yeah, so here it says that the voice, so when they're playing the video that says, this is the voice of Christopher Ferry, father. Right. When they're interviewing the son, This is Christopher Ferry, son.

I mean, this whole thing is a hoax. This whole thing top to bottom is a hoax. But what is the outcome? This is the first time. This is the very first time I wish chewing the fat was live on some sort of broadcast medium so that we could get input right now from other people who obviously are smarter than,

me and can figure it out. Because I'm at a loss for this hoax. I really am. So I'm going to go get a drink. Again? And hope that I'm thirsty, parched.

And I had some peanuts. They were salty. I shouldn't have eaten the peanuts. And they were heart healthy. Okay. And I'm going to go get a drink. And hopefully we hear from Art and Trilogy Media.

Art, Ashton. How's going? Hi. Hi. Hey, guys. How are you? Thank you for calling, and getting in touch with us

because I believe I've found, I found your hoax on us, is what I've done. I found you guys how you're, I want to know what the out, the end game is. But first of all, when we called this number of,

the story is that two sons bought a billboard to wish their father happy birthday and they put his phone number up on there and it said wish our, you know, wish my dad a happy birthday. Their wish, wish my dad happy birthday and they can put the phone number up.

And that's the billboard. That's the story. It's gone viral. News stations are running it. There's a news story about it all over. Now, and you know that, of course, since you set it up. Because I called the number to wish happy birthday to this Chris Ferry. It was just going to be a fun little bit on chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

Just a fun little, hey, happy birthday, Chris. that, you know, boy, your sons, you know, love you, something, whatever, silly like that. Although that's not what happens. You get a recorded phone bit from people. And one of the bits sounds like you two. Sounds like you two guys. And you put this, this is a, this is some kind of, some kind of funny deal that you guys put together for your YouTube channel to make us all feel stupid or something, right? we have absolutely no idea what you're talking.

Typical response. That's exactly how I would answer if I were you. Okay, so. Someone's pranking us or maybe we're in, maybe at the Robo Killer app or something with our voice. I have no idea what's going on. We've been asleep because we just freaking got. Oh, no, well, I'm not saying that you're doing it right.

I mean, this is all pre-recorded stuff. You guys already set this up. You can still, don't give me we been this. I've been taking a nap. Yeah, okay. Thanks. I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. All right.

We just learned about a few minutes ago. Yeah, just fine. You stick with that until we play this for you, okay? Here you go. Now, this is the two guys that I think are, that I, not think, I know, are you. Anyway, yeah, no, it's cool. If you can tell me what you were saying. See, now this is what you get.

I was just watching, happy birthday recording, you know, from Chewing the Fat podcast. I've heard of this before, but. You know, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher on Blazers. media, Blaze Podcast Network? You remember what it is. Yeah. Getting pizza at the casino? Really?

With your friend? That's tough to tell. Casino? Okay, don't be mad. Yeah, no, I'm not going to be maddox. Don't worry about you just won ten bucks. See, that sounds like homeboy... This sounds like the two guys we had on.

Yes, okay, so stop right there. That, that, and you're telling me that. I can tell you what that is. That's Robill Killer. Okay. We make answer bots, we make answerbots for that app. So when people get calls from, you know, strange numbers or telemarketers or scammers, our answer bots waste their time.

But this has nothing to do with a birthday sham or whatever the hell you're talking about. We, millions of people have this app with our voice in it to waste people's time if we're getting a weird phone number call. Somehow this is correlated to a different story. I have no idea what's going on. Amazing. So this is actually, this birthday thing is like a promo for this answering. Either that or the guy has Robillers set up on his phone and isn't aware of it or forgot about it or something. Or maybe the son that set it up for the dad has, you know, didn't realize his dad had AnswerBot set up.

But, yeah, that's essentially what's happening is that whatever phone number this is getting a bunch of phone calls from random numbers. And the app is thinking that it's fraudulent or spammy. And so what it does, it steps in and waste their time for him. in the form of an answer bot. And that's what we do. Rotal Killer is one of our sponsors for our YouTube channel. We create these answer bots for them to use the app.

If you download the app right now, you can hear that exact same reporting. Okay, now we called it from two separate different cell phones, and it didn't pick up. It just went to, you know, an AT&T needs more information or whatever. It didn't go to any kind of voicemail or anything. So how did you get it to begin with? It just called it from our studio phone, which is a landline.

It must think your studio phone is, it's, you know, weird. Right. To text your phone number was either a robo call of some kind or some kind of like that market promotion or something, but if you download the Robo Killer app now, you can hear that exact same recording. Interesting. So all those recordings, I mean, we played, we pulled,

I called back like seven, seven different times and got seven different answer, you know, Robo Killing Axe. One was, yeah. Yeah. Because we've made like 100, we made like 100 of them. So, yeah. I'm going to stop calling. If you want more entertainment, keep calling.

All right, so Art and Ashton from Trilogy Media Inc. Not guilty. Yeah, well. Yeah, I'll kind of let that slide. Guys, thank you very much. I appreciate it. You've been very helpful. Thanks for having.

I appreciate it. Be safe, all right. Take care. All right, thanks. So I don't know what to make of that. I mean, it's the Robo Killer app. Do is it, did we break a story that, it's just, A, is it going to be, is it going to be a story come out and say, this is, this story was fake and everybody called the Robo, had the Robo Killer app and that's what you need for your phone?

Is it going to be a social experiment where they say, we did this news story that wasn't real? And everyone ran with it. Right. But nobody called the number. And nobody actually checked it out to see if it was real. And this was actually just a story by Robo Killer, the Robo Killer app, to prove that these stories like this run all the time. And you need our app. Right?

Or is it a mistake? And in the beginning, it really was a birthday thing. and now the story is so viral that they put Robo app on so that the dad doesn't have to answer all the calls, right? So it's one of those. But why doesn't not work with a cell phone number? Because most of the people that hear this story are going to be using their cell phone, right?

They're going to say, oh, I just call them. Just call them with some happy birthday. And then it doesn't go there, it gets nothing. That's what I'm saying. I don't know. because the story was pushing for texting. Yeah, I mentioned text. And you texted and it went through.

Yeah. Right? But we called and it didn't from the same phone. Okay, I've had enough with this story now because I'm really drained from the story and I don't know what to make of it. I have a headache. I feel like the whole thing is a hoax.

I feel like the whole thing is a hoax. I don't know why. I don't know what purpose this hoax is going to have other than filling a chewing the fat podcast because I still got all kinds of stories to go and we've got hundreds of calls to go all right so I'm not really going to call all hundred I'm not going to call another hundred times to get these robo call answers

from the number for the birthday boy I don't know please just I don't want to hear another robo thing which is that means that the robo app works right I mean, that's what it is. Maybe it's just a promo for the app. I don't know. Smart. This whole story is so viral and everywhere.

I feel like tomorrow we're going to find out that we've all been had, except those of us that listen to chewing the fat and who have subscribed to chewing the fat, know that you weren't hoaxed. Why? Because we weren't hoaxed here on chewing the fat. You can tell your friends, you can tell your neighbors, you can tell your family. Nope, I wasn't part of that hoax. Why?

Because I subscribe to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. And everyone should subscribe to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Then you can, you know, rate and review and share with other people. But really, just rate it 20 stars and hello, best podcast ever. And know that you were not hoaxed. you're welcome