Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep. 56 | Is Movie Pass Coming Back? | Guest: Jon Stinson from Operation BBQ Relief

Episode Date: December 7, 2018

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You're listening to Chewing the Fat on Demand. Welcome to it. Happy Friday. Happy Fat Pile Friday. Before we get to the Fat Pile, we've got some headlines to get to for you, just to kind of get you through the weekend, let you know what's going on. Comedian Kevin Hart dropped out as the Oscars host. You know, I offered to be the host yesterday, and then we realized that Kevin Hart had accepted. And so I backed out, and then, of course, he drops out again.

So I'm ready for you. I'm waiting for you to direct message me. I tweeted them. Just waiting for them direct message. I mean, if they're looking for a host, I'm here for you. Nissan hit with another recall. Carmaker announced it would bring back another 150,000 cars in Japan as a result of improper inspections. Now, they are in trouble.

If it's not the airbags, it's improper inspections. This issue, forced so far, has forced the company to recall more than 1 million cars in Japan since last October. Amazing. Amazon Eyes check out free stories at airports, free stores at airports. Okay. Nice. Reuters has reported online retail giant is in talks to bring Amazon Go to several major U.S. transit hubs. The store will allow customers to scan their phones on entry, select items, have their cards billed after they leave.

I mean, that's the way we should be flying right there at the airports. This is kind of, well, it's not scary if you're not a drug dealer. Your vacuum cleaner could be spying on you. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is hiding surveillance cameras in vacuums to assist in some investigations. They've got some paperwork that showed how they had made it okay and got to go ahead to put cameras in vacuum cleaners of some of the drug dealers. Yeah. So not only that, we've got cameras in the cars. We've got cameras in the streetlights.

We've got cameras in the windows. We've got the cameras in the TVs. That's not enough. That's not enough. We need cameras in the vacuum cleaners. Duh. How else are you going to check on it? Amazing.

Coyote Armor. This is a million dollar idea for you. Coyote armor keeps dogs looking fierce. The Mohawk of Spikes could help curb a recent spat in canine casualties caused by coyotes. So coyotes are around the prowl, around the country, as a matter of fact, and dogs are being attacked. So they're building armor that you can put on your dogs so that scares the coyotes. Good luck. China's Journey to the Moon.

We've been there. We've done that. Boring. The launch is going to be Saturday from the satellite launch center. I'm not going to try to pronounce the name. It's the Chi-Ching.

I think it's Chi-Chang. Chi-Chang satellite launch center. They're going to have a 27-day flight for a first-ever attempt to send a lander and rover to the far side of the of the moon. We're going to Mars.

Mark Cuban and his partner sold landmark theaters, the nation's largest cinema chain for independent movies to real estate mogul Charles Cohen. And that's been for sale. So good luck. I thought Amazon and Netflix were in the hunt for that. And I was looking forward to Amazon and Netflix purchasing those. So maybe they could release their own theaters. Remember we talked about them buying theaters?

and releasing their own movies to the theaters. And then you'd be, I mean, it was just a good idea. I don't know why they, Netflix, Amazon. You guys obviously don't know what you're doing. You have no idea what you're doing. You're only making billions of dollars a year. Call me, I'm willing to help. They have a pretty good idea on how to run their businesses.

There's no doubt about that. I just thought it would be a good idea for them. And Facebook, you know, I'm trying to give Facebook the benefit of the doubt, but this story, emails sent between Facebook executives were published by the UK Parliament. They suggested Facebook leveraged access to the data of its users to get other companies to buy ads on its platform. And we know that to be true.

We know that to be true here. Some members of the UK Parliament took a quick time out from arguing about Brexit, which that whole Brexit deal. We might have to talk about that at some point, but I don't really like doing that on chewing the fat because it gets, I don't know, boring. They went through a digital pile of internal Facebook documents from 2012 to 2015, and the story of how Zuck's inbox

ended up in the hands of British lawmakers is a newsletter in and of itself. but Parliament set a sergeant at arms Parliament sent a sergeant at arms to order the founder of the U.S. Software Company to hand over docs while he was in London. Sound familiar? We just arrested, we had Canada arrest the China CEO in Canada

and she's going to be extradited here. Now, Great Britain, United Kingdom is, you know, go ahead and doing things to our people in their countries. It's getting ugly. But I kind of understand it with Facebook. Doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. Email showing Facebook gave some companies Netflix, Lyft and Airbnb special access to personal user data while using limits on access to the same user data to squash potential customers.

Amazing. In 2013, a Facebook employee asked permission to block some data access for Vine. Remember Vine? The short form video service Twitter had just launched. Mark Zuckerberg's email response. Yep, go for it. I mean, amazing. Now, Facebook, of course, said documents are only the part of the story.

presented in a way that's a very misleading without additional context. Really, what's the additional context? That you were charging less for the companies to advertise? I mean, like, say, let's say here in America, we know they did this and probably are still doing it. I have a Facebook account, and I say, I pay them to boost my posts. I pay them money to boost my post so more people who are not, who didn't have it liked my page, but are similar, will see my posts. Okay.

Say, and I would do that safe for chewing the fat. I have not done that, but I could do that. Now, what Facebook would do then would be to limit my access, my reach, and limit the reach that I already have. and make me buy more to boost my reach more. But they're limiting my, it's agonizing. Agonizing. And this story I'm doing just for Chris Cruz.

This is just for Chris Cruz. The latest attempt had a comeback, Movie Pass, 2018. April 2000, here's the history of movie pass. And I know Chris is a big movie pass fan. Do you even use it anymore? Oh no, I got my refund. They gave me a refund for my yearly. Oh, yeah.

Okay. So in April 2018, an auditor for MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Matheson Analytics says there's substantial doubt MoviePass can survive. This is in April of this year. In June, MoviePass hits three million paid subscribers, in which of which you were won, right? In June? Yeah, I was a yearly annual member, yeah. Okay.

In July, a month later, MoviePass weather. there's a service outage, right, and borrows five million to keep the lights on. Remember when they borrowed money, that really hurt them. When that news got out, it made it seem like they didn't have any money to work. Businesses borrow money all the time to make payroll because they know they have money coming in from another deal, but they have to make payroll now and they have to buy more product now. So they borrow money to get this product now because they're waiting on this money to come in. They do it all the time.

But when that news got out for MoviePass, it was like, ooh, they got no money and they're going broke. So in October, they announced plans to spin off Movie Pass after shares fall. They fell 100%. Yeah, shares were like four pennies. And they stopped like trading or buying or something. selling. And so good luck. You know, the change is coming. They think it will work. They think they have a plan to work, but I don't know that they can win the hearts and minds of people again. No, that's dead. They should just let it die and someone should create something new. Like blockbuster, dead, Netflix.

I thought it was, I thought actually it was a good idea. No, it was a great idea, but they started jerking off like people. It didn't work, right? It just, and Glenn even talked to them on air. I remember that interview. It was a great, it was a great idea. But the problem they started making restrictions and people don't like restrictions. And that's when I bailed out when they said. So the rollout was if you are a monthly subscriber, you can only watch three movies, four movies a month. But if you got your yearly pass the year before, you were good grandfather and you could watch as many movies as you want.

Right. That was the cool part of the original deal, right? That was the original deal. You couldn't watch the same movie and over over again, right? You couldn't watch the same movie over and over again. right but you couldn't no the original deal you could watch the same movie 10 times it did not matter

you could go back and watch the same because I watched Avengers by myself then I went back again with Milo then I watched Black Panther by myself and then I went again with Milo so the original deal you could watch anything as you want but it will lock for 24 hours so if I watch a movie today

I could not go back into tomorrow you know 24 hours later but it could be any movie that's fascinating I don't know why I didn't, I'm not sure. Well, I do know why it worked. But one of the things, one of the problems is, is the movie theaters didn't like it.

And I don't know that it was, I don't know that the, the payment plan worked. No, it didn't work either. No, it was more like a socialist mentality where they, they just wanted everybody's money and then certain people will get it, blah, blah, blah. Well, what they were hoping for

was almost like a pyramid scheme. Yes, yes. They took your money and they were hoping that you would say you would go to see one movie this month instead of 10. And the other guy would go see four instead of 10. And that would make up for the guy that saw 10. Well, and then by the way, when I was using it, they were losing money with me. Because I kid you not, every weekend I was going watching a movie on Friday and a movie on Sunday. Absolutely.

And sometimes when I was, sorry, Glenn. but when I was bored at work, I just went to watch a movie and then came back later because I didn't want to be here. So I was watching a minimum of three to four movies. I'll be sorry for that. And I know this is not allowed to,

but I don't have a plan with them and I don't expect going back to them, but I let other people use my card. See, that's a problem. That's a problem. Is it? Yes. Yes, it is.

That's a problem. I know, I know. They should have, no. If you were, look, it's not a crime if you get away with it, right? Okay, good. But if they should not have allowed that. Absolutely.

That should not have been allowed. And it wasn't allowed. So the way they were supposed to work was whenever you go to a movie theater, the attendant was supposed to check ID to the card, but they never did. So people were just, you know, here, go watch a movie. I don't want to watch it, go right ahead. Or I already watched it like I did, you can use my movie pass. It's fine.

Because they said it in the game. card and the card it said you must verify you hear you complain about the fall of movie pass again not one time do i want to hear you come turn your mic off i am sick of hearing you talk about the veil of movie pass and how mad you are at them when you were part of the problem oh we are not one not one word from you about movie pass again news coming from McDonald's. They are now going to have cheesy bacon fries. I don't know that.

Pictures look good, but you know how pictures look good, and then the actual product isn't? I think we might be there. You never know, though. They're rolling out the cheesy bacon fries next year. So you have something to look forward to coming from McDonald's, right? Yesterday we talked about Golden Globes being announced, the nominations. Also, the Grammy's nominations were out today. If you'd like to know what's wrong with the Grammys?

I went to look to see, I wanted to see the nominations of the Grammys. And the nominations for the 61st Grammy Awards, find out who's been nominated in each of the 84 categories below. Wow. I mean, why don't we just say every musician that's made some music wins? And I want to thank those of you who have helped in subscribing and rating and reviewing the podcast. I have given you an easy way to save you time. You can subscribe and then, of course, you rate and review, and I know you're busy, so I like to, you know, I've just helped you out.

All you have to do is just rate it 20 stars and review it best podcast ever, and you're good, and we're done. And it helps us, you know, other people notice that we're out there into the podcast world. So this particular, Ruger 461 did his best or her best. So great, 20 stars, best podcast ever. In parentheses, sorry, rest of the blaze crew. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. That means an awful lot.

Lili Mamay, Shia, or he. eh, it's all right. I mean, I can't win them all, I guess. But, you know, thanks for going out of your way to at least, you know, at least, at least review it. Appreciate it. It means a lot to me. Eh, it's all right.

Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right, let's get to the fat pile. All right, top of the fat pile today, a New Jersey radio talk show host. is that people all wound up because she did an op-ed-ed-called NJ's move-over law, Dead cop make bad laws, which takes issue with the legislation requiring motorists to move into lanes not adjacent to emergency vehicles on road shoulders or to slow down.

Judy Franco wrote it's a silly law Duh, no one is going to deliberately run over someone on the side of the road If you can move over safely, you probably will But it's not always safe to do The problem is, Judy, that's not true Okay

Police officers get hit all the time And there are plenty of laws Even on the books that are, I realize That even with the law it still is a problem. I got it. But in Texas, you're supposed to slow down to 20 miles per hour below the speed limit. So, you know, example, if the speed limit is 10 miles an hour, you're supposed to be going negative 10.

Just that simple. But you're supposed to move away from the lane that they have cars pulled over. Now, they also extended that here in Texas to text out workers. I'm not slowing down for them. Get out of my way. Of course you're slowing down for them. I remember when I got pulled over. The last time I got pulled over by the police officer,

it was about a year ago now. Remember because I had the Santa, I had the Santa Claus suit in the front seat and he was not giving me a ticket for the Santa Claus suit. Are you going to play Santa Claus? Yeah, okay, go ahead. But he was talking to me, and cars were not slowing down.

They were flying by. and I asked him, aren't they supposed to slow down and get over? And he said, yes, but they rarely do. And he told me that he had been hit twice, twice. So I got news for you, Judy Franco in New Jersey for WKXW FM. And it's not a silly law. If I realize that people probably, you know, a large percentage won't follow the law, but at least if there's a law, many people will.

And maybe we'll save some lives as we move on to the fat pile. Canada, budding cannabis industry has seen rapid growth this past year. I mean, they are growing, they made it legal. The industry is just huge on fire in Canada. why they're asking they need workers, they need all kinds of help. Why don't we just let the caravan from Central America just keep right out of going up into Canada.

Just build them the old highway, the old lost highway. The old caravan highway will rename. We'll rename highways that take you direct from the Mexico, Texas border, right to Canada. The old cannabis, I mean, caravan highway. And let's just take them right on up there and they can work in Canada.

I like it. I like it a lot. And it creates jobs here in America because while they're traveling along the old cannabis caravan highway from Texas to Canada, we can, you know, have places where they can stop, get food, get drink. Not for free. No way. We're doing that for free, my friends.

No way. Okay. In Syracuse, you know how they have trouble collecting taxes and cities and they get so, you know, they get so angry and people haven't been paying property tax and they don't know what to do. Well, Syracuse has found a way to motivate residents to pay their back taxes. The city officials handwritten. notes. It's so special.

The idea stem from an experiment on late tax payments in which the city of Syracuse partnered with researchers at Syracuse University and they wrote and signed thousands of notes by hand rather than sending the standard hey, pay us money or go to

jail letters. The result was the city collecting nearly $1.5 million more than it predicted. That's pretty amazing. People actually open. opened the letter up and thought, oh, does the mayor want me to pay? All right. Okay, I'll pay.

No problem. These two stories kind of go hand in hand. You know, the Chinese government has postponed plans to loosen its ban on the trade of tiger bones and rhino horn. Following an outcry from all the conservationists, the government said it would allow animal parts to be used for scientific medical and cultural purposes. We talked about it here on chewing the fat when they first did that. But now they're saying, ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. We won't do that.

That's fine. No problem. We'll just let it be, okay? We'll just postpone. We'll do some more studies. We'll be good. Now, the FDA warns men dangerous rhinos. sexual enhancement product caused prolonged erections and chest pains.

I guess due to a spike in people suffering health problems. They want people to be warned about this. But just know that part of what you're taking the rhino sexual enhancement for is the prolonged time spent erecting. The agency said in a statement that it noted a rise and reported health issues associated with the so-called

male enhancement products sold under variations of the name rhino. Products are generally sold in single servings, carry titles such as platinum rhino 25,000, crazy rhino

25,000, and gold rhino 25,000. The platinum is what you want. Gold and crazy. That's just those are, that's just silly. The platinum is what you want. So just be careful out there. Okay, if you've got some kind of health issue and you're thinking to

yourself, I got I got to do some platinum rhino 25,000 or some crazy rhino 25,000 or some gold rhino 25,000. Beware. It may cost some chest pains, or it may cause prolonged erectile issues.

Maybe that's what you want when you take the platinum rhino 25,000, but just know the FDA is warning that it could be prolonged because of the platinum rhino 25,000. All right, the most powerful women in the world. The most powerful women in the world. Forbes, you know, this is the time of year for the list of who makes the most money, who's the most powerful, who's most influential. So, of course, Forbes has their world's 100 most powerful women 2018 list. Now, coming in at number 24, Ivanka Trump. Just one spot behind the old queen herself at number 23, Queen Elizabeth.

where is Melania on this list you ask Melania Trump let's keep going Melania Trump is nowhere the first lady of the United States of America nowhere on that list stop it I know that you're pretending that you think that Ivanka is the you know is the is the first lady

she pretends to be the first lady stop it she's not Now, at number 79, Serena Williams. Number 68, Taylor Swift. Number 50, on the most powerful women list, Beyonce. I would say that's pretty low for Beyonce. She has a lot of weight, man. She pulls a lot of weight.

She can move the crowd in a direction she wants it to go. which is more than you can say for Oprah these days and Oprah is at 20 I think we need to switch those around Oprah and Beyonce should be switched so you have Ivanka 24 Queen Elizabeth is 23 so to Meyer

RG Stop it They just have the Supreme Court all under 19 They just have Supreme Court all under one number Is that what they did? Chris? Is that what they did?

They just put the Supreme Court under one number? Yeah, they just put the Supreme Court under one. It was so funny. That's what I thought. Yeah, they got Sotomayor and you have RG3 and what's your face? Sotomayor? No, the other one. RGB?

The other one. Paul BART? Who? She looks like Paul Blar. I don't know her real name, but I call it Paul Barth. It doesn't look like Plart. You can't be calling Supreme Court Justice Paul Blart. Yes, I can.

Her name is Paul Blart, Sotomay. Sotomayor and RGB. Done. Move on from this story. Oh, I'm not going to. I can't remember her name, but we're going to find out who it is. I'll tell you that.

Paul Blart. You can turn your mic off now. Elena Kagan. Elena Kagan. At number one, or number two, you have Theresa May from the United Kingdom

and number one, coming in. At number one, you've got Angela Merkel from Germany. And those two are, she's on her way out, and May is on her way out, with this Brexit deal, she's throwing the United Kingdom right under the bus.

Good luck her being around much longer. For sure, Oprah and Beyonce need to turn it around. And no Bologna on this list. I mean, Forbes. Perhaps you need to reissue your list for 2018. That'd be nice. So we get off news and why it matters. And John Stinson from Operation Barbecue Relief,

who I was joking around with last week when he was here for Mercury 1, saying that, yo, where's my sausage? Brings by sausage and pulled pork today from Operation Barbecue Relief. And it is delicious.

Thank you, John. Absolutely. It is so good. Now, for some reason, Bat Gray stuck around. I just haven't said enough today. You know?

There's two trays here. I mean, I'm willing to share, I guess. Have a little. Well, whether you're willing to share or not, kind of isn't the point since you are sharing currently because I'm just taking it.

It is so good. Now listen, we've talked to you guys about the work that you do with Mercury 1 and with yourselves helping people who are in damage areas, whether it be hurricane, floods, whatever the storm is. How many of, where do you guys do? Where are you at now? I mean, how many people have you actually served and helped with Operation Barclays? barbecue relief. The last published number that I have seen is just under 3 million. It's 2.9 million mills. Wow. June, pardon me, May of 2011. That is fantastic. Now, what I really want to know is how to cook this stuff at home like you. How to cook it at home. Is it possible to make this at home? I mean,

How do you make the pork ready to be pulled off and eaten as good as this is? It's not a very hard process. You find a good rub, generally one that has the right points for a pork. You want the right amount of savory, the right amount of sweet, and whatever other ingredients you want to put in the rub, the dry rub for it. Which is a matter of taste. Exactly. I generally try to stay more towards the keep it simple method.

Let the meat speak, let the smoke, let the time you put into it really bring out the flavor. But establish your base fire, your coals, add your wood as you need for flavor. But maintaining the right temperature is probably the most crucial aspect of cooking. So when you cook for, how many, you have, How many cooks do you have for Operation of Barbecue Relief? Because last time you were here, you were telling me that you've got award-winning barbecue guys. Absolutely. And so you're doing Operation Barbecue Relief out of the goodness of your heart.

So when do you have the opportunity to take your show on the road? There are different competitions that we do go and try. My biggest competition annually is the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. that is the world champion cookoff, world championship cookoff, that they host as the kickoff event to the Houston Stock Show and Rodeo. Right. That is one of the top prestigious cookoffs in the U.S. It ranks up there with Memphis and May or the Jack, the American Royal type events.

I mean, it's bigger than the Jack, because normally I show up for the Jack. Don't you compete in the jack? Yeah, usually. But if Houston's bigger, I mean, I used to perform in the Steve and then I went to the Bob for a while, but the Jack. The Jack is the one. Yeah, that's the one. It's not bigger than the Jack, but it's on par.

It's probably a little bit smaller. I think there are six or 700 entrants into the Houston cookoff. You do that for operation or yourself? You have your own. I do it for both. We do it for a local charity that I'm a pitmaster for. but we also, as that charity, support Operation Barbecue Relief, especially since I am part of Operation Barbecue Relief as well,

being the not just a volunteer. I'm the co-state lead for Texas for Operation Barbecue Relief. Nice. So, John, today we have pulled pork. And for those of you listening on chewing the fat, we are literally chewing the fat today, so you're welcome. You have pulled pork. I've got the regular sausage, and I have some venison sausage.

And you said the venison. sausage has cheese in it? Yes, sir. So do you like, when you feed the deer out in the wild, do they feed them cheese? That's how you get cheese into Venice, or? I've tried. They just, they won't touch it. So, I mean, how do you get the cheese in the sausage?

I cheat. I take it to a processing local processor that will do the different grinds, different stuff. Really good. They do an amazing job, and I pay them for it. it's a lot of trouble to grind and make your own sausage. So when you're, you said the temperature is most important. So, I mean, do you know how many logs it takes to keep on the fire? Are you burning gas?

Are you using wood? What's the most important way to keep the temperature strong? One of the best things to do is not look at your product. If you're opening the lid or the top to your smoke or you're losing a lot of heat and it takes time to recover that. Using a good thermometer to maintain your temperature, to view your temperature inside. Establish a base as you notice your temperature start reducing before it falls off quickly.

That's when you'll add another log or another chunk of wood. I don't like to cook with gas. There's not as much flavor there. I will generally use charcoal, a good lump coal, as a base just to get a good base of coals and then add logs and wood chunk to that to maintain. What kind of wood do you use? Does it matter? It does. My favorite is pecan, followed by hickory, depending on the availability of it. And it does make a difference. Absolutely. It changes the entire flavor profile of the cut of meat. Wow. Now you use coal. Do you have a solar panel cook as well?

because nasty coal, man. We haven't found a way to harness solar energy yet for running a smoker. That's a million-dollar idea for you. The thought came up last week. How can we run the OBR trailers, solar panels? There's not a lot of energy. And the thought was, how can we do it? We can't move on.

Right. So what's up next for Operation Barbecue Relief? Currently, down here in Texas, the IBCA, which is the International Barbecue Cookers Association, has partnered with or is working with OBR, where there will be a trailer going around to different events. It's kind of a fill-the-trailer type of thing. There is a list of items that OBR always needs, consumables. You see here these pans, they can't really see. But these pans, we go through a tremendous amount of these pans as we produce meals.

Oh, yeah. Stairfoam containers for serving dinners. Absolutely. Clam shells, aluminum foil, gloves, things like that, just consumables that were able to go around and people are able to donate these things directly to O.B.R. Other than that, there's... Just hoping there's not a disaster to go to? That, yes, absolutely. There's some new things that will be coming out and announced via Facebook or, you know, or, you know, Twitter from Stan and from the executive team. Right.

Just things that are going on. Okay. John Stinson, Operation Barbecue Relief. Thank you so much, man. I really appreciate it. And look, it was okay. You didn't need to do this, but... I felt bad.

Thank you. Thank you. I mean, I don't want to make you feel bad again, but, you know, you guys also do turkey. And I haven't seen turkey in the last couple times you've been here is all I'm saying. Thanks for coming, John. Yeah, John Stinson from Operation Barbecue Relief. Thank you so much.

I appreciate it. And what a nice man and what a great, great deal they do. It's fantastic. I know, you know, we teased about the turkey. And of course, you know, like I said, we got off, you know, recording the news and why it matters today. And, you know, I had him bring me some food because he felt bad. And, of course, you know, Pat Gray shows up. Whatever.

I couldn't get rid of the man. Have a good weekend. Oh, and be prepared for me. my Saturday podcast this week because we're going to give you a chance and opportunity, a brand chance and a brand new elf on the shelf. See you then.