Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 89 | The Royal Victorian Order, #PoorShaming From Chase?, & Rite Aid Apologizes | Guest: April Grove

Episode Date: May 1, 2019

Before the show Jeffy and Kris Cruz come across "The Royal Victorian Order." Looks like Queen Elizabeth added a new member and when is will Britain get a King? Chase folds and deletes a tweet due to #PoorShaming. Looks like RiteAid gave April a difficult time when getting her pain medication, but then apologized for the issue.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am so bummed that I have to talk about this today with you. I did this story on Pat. On Wednesdays, I do a chewing the fat segment on Pat Unleashed and the bottom of the first hour. And I did this story yesterday on chewing the fat. And it's such a great story. And I even said during the chewing the fat segment on Pat, I didn't say it yesterday on my chewing the fat. But even if it's not real, I love it. well, I did some investigation.

And it appears not to be real. I am so bummed that it's not real. Martha Stewart and Snoop, Doug, I don't think it's real. I don't think it's real. I'm so bummed. When I did some investigation on this, they even had texts and IMs from Martha and Snoop

where Martha was so good the one text was Calvin you fill me so full I've never felt like I was going to explode in so many ways at once the reply from Snoop

SWC you make it so hard baby so I'm in the middle of my investigation in the Snoop Dog Martha Stewart love affair, which, you know, bless her hearts. If you find love, you find love. It doesn't matter where it is. But, and don't forget, SWC means a skinny white chick.

That's what Snoop was calling Martha. Allegedly. Well, it's not allegedly. I don't think it's real. I don't even think it's allegedly anymore. I think it's just made up because inside one of the stories I'm investigating, it says more documents and pictures here with a link. So I click on the link and the link, you know, you've been had.

The link says you've been had. And I was, what? Come on now. I am so bummed. That's funny. I am so bummed. It's funny, really funny. And whoever did it, you know, a great job because you had me.

You got me. You got me. You got me because it's too good a story. Not to pass. You have to talk about it. You have to. And I did. I bought it.

Oakland Sinker. So whoever did it. but screw you. Yeah, but I want it to be real. So once again, I'm looking up with the televisions in front of me here in the Blaze studios as I record to the fact. And I see, you know, there's different shows that are being aired on, you know, different networks, you know, The Blaze and, you know, and Fox and I see that, you know, everybody's

carrying the big William Barr testimony. It's just agonizing. And I'm not going to get political. but because I just want to point out that is it just me or does he really look like Elton John? Right. If you watch the hearing, keep that going. If you watch the hearing without audio and you listen to Elton in the back, that's him. That's him.

He's just mouthing the songs right there, man. Why am I not hearing? Why am I not hearing Elton? And some of our best known songs. That is him. Oh, that's the talk, that's the video thing. That's why I stopped it. Oh, stop.

Shoot. That's why I stopped it. All right. Don't be teasing me. Elton's songs. That's when he was giving away the money on YouTube. I don't think they, I mean, we never heard the winners of that, did we?

No. That was a long time ago. That was like two years ago. Yeah. That was when I started working here. Yeah. Talking about what a great songwriting team they were and they were going to give songwriters. Right.

They were going to give all these awards for money and like 10 grand. Right. They were going to bring people to produce songs. What they did. was they grabbed all those submissions and made the movie out of it. Oh. Because the movie isn't real.

The movie is like, Elton said it's real in the core. Is it, shut up? Mr. I got to retire and I'm 75. I'm going to go on a world tour that takes 10 years to tour the world. I want to be with my family though. I mean it.

I really, man, I want to be with my husband and my kids so bad. I mean, I gave up Vegas and I want, I'm going to retire. but it's for you. It's for the audience. The audience demands that I do a 10-year world tour goodbye in my 70s because I want to be with my family so bad.

He still looks good, though. I love Elton. I mean, right now he's appearing in front of Congress. He's talking to Senator Tom Tillis out of North Carolina. I don't even want to talk about if we want to get political on this podcast, we can because this is agonizing to me. No, I don't. No, stop.

Pull me back. Pull me back. We're not doing it on this podcast. We're not doing it. When Megan Markle has her kid, she comes back to work. Three months later. Maybe, maybe longer, but they're saying maybe shorter, too. I mean, the queen's not going to have that happen.

What do you mean? The first kid, Kate took all kinds of time off. Yeah, but Kay has given this queen three grandkids. Well, Megan just started. And they're white. And they're all white. We don't, don't say that. Because we don't even, we don't even, we don't even know.

Don't, she's half black. She's half black. So what? So they're not going to come as Kate babies. And Katie's pregnant again with the fourth baby, I think. Oh no, that was the Kardashians. Never mind, Kardashian. I get him more confused.

That was Kardashians. Yeah. The other royal. The United States royal. The U.S. ass royals. That's what Megan is the real royal. Megan's like slamming them hard down. Oh yeah.

You know she's sexing them. Why don't you come to my, why don't you come to my, come to my, Come to my wedding. Yeah. Come to the real royal wedding. Yeah. The only reason why I said for is because the baby shower from yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But they, uh, so anyway, we find out that, uh, there's a, and I didn't know that there was, this was such a thing and I apologize to the, to the royal officinados. But there's a royal Victorian order. Right. So, uh, Queen Elizabeth, Queen just, she doles this out

when she wants. I mean, this is like the thing. All right. You can, you're in the royals. Yeah,

yeah. I let, I let him marry you. I let Harry marry you. I said that was okay. And, uh, you know,

Kate and Billy are over there playing with their kids. That's fine. But until you get the Royal Victorian order. You are not part of the Royals. You're like the, you're in the outer, you're in the outer inner circle. Yep. I mean,

you're in the circle, but, not really. They still, there's still a room they go in without you. Okay? You're in the inner circle, but they still go in,

uh, we'll be later. Boom. Yeah. Coom. The door is closed, man. We've got to get a sound effect of the giant doors closing. Oh.

Boom. Because they close, then you're standing there going, but, but, but mom in law? No, no mom in law.

No, no, no, no. So, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, Prince Charles, and of course,

horse face, Camilla is, is part of the, part of the Royal Victorian order. That's not nice. I got to stop doing that. It's not, I don't,

I feel bad about it every time I call her that because she's such a nice lady. So anyway, Megan's not ever going to get this, right? I don't think so either. I don't think so. I mean, this takes, it took years. Now, Kate, the reason I'm talking about this,

Kate just got it. All right. Congrats. She's been around for eight years. She's giving, she's giving them three kids. Maybe a fourth on the way if she's a Kardashian. We don't know. We don't know that.

And, uh, and her husband is probably going to be king. Right? And so, I mean, it's been eight years. And she finally said, all right, fine. Here's a royal Victorian order for you. Thank you. So. Now her sister, Queen Elizabeth's sister, is like the head of the Royal Victorian Order.

Queen Elizabeth's daughter. No. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. Prince Charles's sister. Prince Charles's sister, yes. Her youngest child, Queen Elizabeth's youngest child is like the head of the Royal Victorian Order. She's in charge.

Now, she is younger. Charles, we said, is 70. Yes. She's a couple years younger than Charles, so she's like 68. But she got this in 2007. So she was what? What is that? I mean, she's in her 50s.

Yeah. When she got that. Right. Yeah, the highest in the royal, you know, on the Quinn Victoria's royal inner outer circle. You're my mom? Yeah. I mean, mom, what do you think? Maybe I could be the Royal Victorian Order, the head?

Yeah, we'll see. You know, well, yeah. And then, you know, you feel bad for her because she would never be queen. Now, hubby. I hope he's got to be pissed. That's why he goes for drives. That's why he just goes out and goes for a drive. But then he hits people.

That's because he drives around getting drunk. He just goes for a drive and drinks. Now he's just got to do it on his property. He used to be able to go all over. Today's world with social media, you can't. But everybody has somebody in their family that used to get in their car and just drive around to go drink. What?

Everybody didn't? Anyway, the, you know, like your Uncle Buck that would just get in his car and drive around. I'll be back. There goes, you see the dirt, the dust coming of the back of the road down the country roads. And there goes, Uncle Buck. Huck, Whom. And Bug is just throwing beer cans out along the end of the dish. Anyway, no, he doesn't.

No, no, no, no. I had that, uncle. Drink, drive, and instead shooting. Yeah. Is that a dinner? Ah. Good. I had dinner.

And I got to bring that home to the life of kids. All right. So, Philip the hubby. That's why. he was just made, just made part of that. Like a couple years ago. Yeah, 2017. I mean, he's like, hey, can I get something?

What are you doing? A little something over here for me, you know. It was like under 70. I've been following you around for how many years now. 70 years now. So she found out, all right, guys get shut up. Here you go. You're part of the order, all right?

It's only when you say the full thing. It's only when you say the whole thing, the Royal Victorian. order. When you say the whole thing, then you got to get that. If it's just the order, you're fine. It's protocol. So the talk is that Megan is no way. I don't think so. I was also thinking about this.

All right. So we were talking about, I was joking around yesterday about the emperor of Japan stepping down and his son's taken over and his son's, you know, 58 or 59, whatever. Which is a good age to take rain. Look at Kim Yangon. He took, you know, that dictatorship at 21, I think it was. Look what a great job he's done. That's what I'm saying.

This is 50. He's doing good. So, and so I was joking around that Charles has, you know, got the news on with mom in here. Watch this. What's going on? Look at what's going on in Japan. Wow. Can you believe that?

That the old guy is stepping down. You can invite him when it to do? What do you think? You ever seen anything like that before, Mom? But I was thinking, okay, so here's a deal. Charles wants to be king, right? He's never going to be king. We've already got that clear.

Well, even the British, I read you the poll that they don't want him. Yeah, look. They don't want him. And he knows it. He's never going to be king. All right. They barely put up with him. All right.

They barely put up with him. And I know that he's all in love with Camilla. Don't, don't. That's not nice. It's not nice. I didn't even say it this time. Camilla, it was right? And, you know, you find, like I said, with Snoop and Martha, you find love, you got to take it.

And, you know, there's, you know, still pissed at him though in the United Kingdom for the Diana and he was still you know hop on the fence with Camilla when Diana was still alive so I mean he's been in love with Camilla for a long time anyway so the United Kingdom has got they want nothing to do with Charles yeah yeah yeah he's a prince but move on and the mom is that's why the mom hasn't stepped down she's like no oh no no so I think I think what he needs to do is he needs to just go and And what he needs to do is just maybe just go and talk to mom. Maybe just, you know, he goes into the palace, you know, down the wing that he usually doesn't go down.

He's not supposed to go down that wing because that's mom's wing. And, you know, just... Hello? Mom? Oh, no, no mom here. It's Charlie. Who? Who?

It's Charlie. No, no, Charlie here. No, no. I got a good idea. No, no, no. Talk to the camera now. I see the camera. But just let me hear it.

I want to talk. Just talk to me through the camera and look at the camera when you talk to me. Oh, okay. Well, just let me tell you this, Mom. You know, I know you don't want me to be king, but I really want to be king. And I want, I deserve to be king. But, okay, I won't be. So if you ever get sick or get a coma or something, you know, somebody tries to poison you, not me.

Somebody tries to poison you and you want to step down. Then what I'll do is I'll say I won't take the crown and you can give it to Billy. you can give it to my son, my oldest son, he can be king, and then you can step down and you can take care of yourself because I love you. Be like, Billy is a good kid.

Can I come here, mom? No, no, no, mom here. No, no, no. Mom, it's Charlie. No, I just want to talk to my mom. I'm just talking to my mom. Okay, so I think that's what, you know, I think that's a good deal.

I think he does that. I think that's a good deal too. And I believe we read an article off the air from January of this year where the people, The British people are okay with that. Yeah. They're okay with Prince saying, hey, I'm too old.

Because he retired in 2017 from public appearances. So he's done. So he hasn't done anything. So do you really think he's just hanging out? He's just hanging out. Yeah. He's hanging out with Camilla. It's not nice when you do that.

But I mean, he's hanging out with her. Yeah. And then like, what are you going to do? And then now you have a cheating? You know, one of the princesses cheating on the girl? Oh, well, that's Bill. That's Billy. That's what I'm saying.

But she was pregnant. I mean, that's, that's, that's, what? I'm sorry? That's explainable. I'm sorry? Look, anybody that's been married and has a wife that's pregnant knows that, you know. No, I don't. Please keep talking.

I mean, you know, that's the time. The time to do what? You know, you take care of your wife. Oh, right. Yeah. Take care of your wife. Absolutely. And your future kid that is coming.

Absolutely. Take care of the wife. The future kid. No, I don't feel like you're talking about that. You smirk. It's not. No, I'm just saying that that's the time when possibly other women start showing up.

Yeah, to congratulate you for being a father. Hey, yes, that's what happens. It's going to be, you know, good, yeah. All right. That's what happens. Right. So, anyway, so, you know, I tell you what, though, what's going to happen? All right.

So Charles is never going to do that. He's never going to do that because he wants to be king. If you're in his shoes, will you do that? No. I want to be king. I've been waiting all this time. I get the crown. I've been winning this.

since I'm 18 years old. Maybe. Maybe he, you know what his out is? Maybe he goes, maybe he rethinks his thought and he takes a walk down the other wing the next day goes to see, you know, he goes to the other wing that he's not allowed. And, you know, he goes. Yes? Mom?

No, no mom here. It's Charlie again. Oh, Charlie, leave me alone. I got another idea. Can I come in? No, just talk to the camera. I know when I talked to the camera yesterday. Just talk to the camera.

I'd like to see you. Fine. nobody's out here, mom. I'll just talk to the camera then. So I think this is what he does. All right, he goes to mom and he says, look, I know you don't want me to be king. I know the, you know,

they know the polls are showing, you know, that nobody wants me to be king. And I get it, I get it. So, you know, I'm 70 now. I understand. I retire. And, you know, and we got to get William in line

because he's busy making his wife pregnant so he could go screw his girlfriend. Anyway, so he needs to be king. But I want to be king. So here's what I do. Here's what I do. And I'm just talking to you, mom, now. Just you and me.

Just you and me in the camera. I'm just talking. So what I want to do is when you step down as queen or, you know, have a stroke or somebody tries to poison you, not me. Then I'll, I'm the king. But I'll only be the king for a day. And then I'll give it to William. All right. I promise I'll give it to William.

That's the deal. I promise I won't just say, oh, I'm the king now. Who are you? I'll give it to William. We'll tell William what's going to happen so that he's prepared. But I want to be able to at least be in the line of the United Kingdom royalty, Queen Elizabeth, King Charles, you know, into King William.

Even if it was just for Queen Elizabeth 110 years, King Charles one day. No, 24 hours looks better. 24 hours. Put the minutes up. Put the minutes up. Oh, minutes, yes. And then Prince William. So maybe he does that, right?

I mean, maybe. That's smart. But then there could be something in the bylaws where that's not allowed. The bylaws. She's the queen. What do you talk about bylaws? She makes the bylaws. All right.

So you know, I'm a fan of, uh, Executions. And I believe if you've been found guilty and you're on death row, we should go through with it, clearly. Texas prison officials now say that last written words of condemned inmates will no longer be shared publicly. What? So now we've got, they're not going to share the last written words, marking another, you know, procedures for the death penalty. they want to halt They've already halted

The death row inmates choosing their final meals All right So now they were They got they got hollered at Because they read the James Bird Jr's Last words His statement last week

So What became of that? Nothing we just found out how that he was The deuce that he was Now we're just going to hide that too the agency will only publicly relay verbal statements made in the execution chamber. And they also stopped the clergy being in the death. I mean, what's going on?

You can't even have your preacher man there. Because most of the time, if you're in death row, you find God. That's where God hangs out. It's death row. I don't know if you know that, let you know. But now we don't get to know what they said. The written words, come on now. Why are you looking at me?

You know God hangs out in the death row. That's where he lives, right? I've heard that. Let's go to the break group. Let that one hang right there. Oh my gosh. So good. Okay, so yesterday, one of the dumbest things, this is the world we live in.

And it drives me insane. So Chase Bank has their motivational tweets that they send out. And it's called Monday Motivation. And they tweeted out, you, why is my balance so low? Bank account, make coffee at home. Bank account, eat the food that's already in the fridge. You, I guess we'll never know. Bank account, seriously?

With a question mark, hashtag Monday Motivation. That's kind of cute. right i mean and i don't want to call it cute but it's a tweet it's a tweet and it's telling you hey here's an idea of how to save a little money we're a bank this is an idea of how to save a little money

make your coffee at home don't buy coffee out every day don't you know eat the food that's in the fridge don't eat out every day you don't whatever it's just silly silly so they deleted that

because a customer was a little upset with Chase Bank some thought it came across as poor shaming I'm sorry some thought it came across as poor shaming

well if you're poor yes you're going to be shamed they need to be and they deleted it and said we're pledging to be more sensitive on social media in the future. Delete your account. Stop tweeting altogether. Delete your account.

There's no point of having it. Delete your account. That account has nothing to talk about poor. It's about managing your money better. And it's a bank. Yes. And you think they're poor shaming? Chase Bank.

That's one of the top banks? It is unbelievable. Because I also saw our, Good friend. I hate her so much. Ooh, easy. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. She tweeted.

Are we really going to talk about AOC? We are because she posted a picture of that tweet. An AOC. You know me. And that was AOC. And you know me. Yeah, she was talking about this stupid thing. And she goes,

Oh my gosh. This is, because I thought that's where you're going to go. Because she took a screenshot, of course. No, I could go a flying crap about her. Plus, I try not to get political on the spot. This is not political. This is not political. But if you're down with AOC, it is.

And you know me, it's not, it's not political. But it is. But it's not. You. Yes, it is. Why is my balance so low? Economist. Because working Americans having gotten a race in 30 years, despite unprecedented growth and living costs of it have exploded.

Chase. Maybe if you skip that Dunkin Donuts on April 22nd, you'll be able to afford your right aid med right that's how that works right see not political i mean she is agonizing she is absolutely agonizing and then you got representative of katie perter saying hey chase try paying your workers more i don't think they were talking about their own monday motivation it was just a tweet to try to have people realize how they're wasting money sometimes so um maybe maybe two days a week you don't get the coffee at Starbucks and you put that money into your savings account.

By the way, this one... Maybe you don't take the cab. Maybe you don't have the donut. So what are you kidding? Are you kidding me? Representative Katie Porter also outlined that a single a single mother who works at a

Chase Bank teller does not make as much money as JP Morgan's CEO, Jamie Diamond. And she shouldn't. by the way, she's not making decisions that affect thousands of

employees. Her decision affects whether she's going to take a cab, whether she's going to buy the extra coffee, whether she's going to buy the breakfast at the restaurant. It's absolutely... But she says that... Why are we going political? But hold on, hold on. Representative Katie Porter says,

Chase, this isn't motivation on Monday unless this condescension reflects Mr. Diamonds or Demons, whatever his name is, view of his customers, all suggest an apology. Wait a minute, wait a minute. And if this tweet does not reflect Mr. Diamond's view, an apology will not cut it. Might be a hashtag time to retire Thursday. We're doomed.

We're doomed. And in other news, though, doctors find a new form of dementia that mimics Alzheimer's symptoms, but lacks the disease's signature plaque buildup in the brain. Good news there. Yeah, so it looks like you have Alzheimer's. Oh, no, it's something else. But it just looks, it just mimics Alzheimer's. Oh, that's good news.

And the more good news. ESPN, the magazine. The what? ESPN, the magazine. I don't know what magazine. Yeah, you know, it's a big magazine you see at doctor's offices. It says, ESPN, the magazine. See, I know what those words mean separately.

Together, I do not know what they mean. Yeah, well, it's final. September is going to be the last print digit. It's it. We're done. We're going to, yes. Apparently, unlike almost every other magazine in America that's gone digital, ESPN thought they could write it out for a little while. I know. They can write it out until September. Apparently that's when the contract is up with a printer. With a prints. The contract is up with the printers and the toners and the writers and the building. We're going digital. When's the soon as we can go digital? Well, the contract ends in September. That's when we're going to digital.

Done. Study says the moon was formed when a large object slammed into an ocean of hot magma that previously covered the Earth's service. This is before or after the Earth was flat. Now, Thea, the Mars-sized object scientists think hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago. It happened before. It will happen again. Facebook rolls out a revamped app interface. Yay!

Did you see it? Yay! New social features. No. Oh, it's disgusting. Oh, it's so stupid. Really? Yeah.

I mean, I saw the picture of it, but mine didn't update it. So I didn't update it, and then this morning I woke up and it was all brand new. So if I restart my phone, it's gonna be.

Yes, and it's horrible. I don't like it. It's horrible. And then the little... Hold on. Let me look to my app. And the little bubbles where it has like the like

and stuff like that is they're 3D now. So the, like, the face is an actual circle and it moves and it's super 3D. But I don't. Yeah, no, I used to mind. I still like it. And it's all white and I can't get to my pages. They moved everything around.

I just don't know. I can't, can we, what happened to it ain't broke? Well, Zuckerberg doesn't believe in that. That's clear. I mean, in Zuckerberg's mind, it is broke, right? And he needs to fix it. And we need to be more socially conscious. So anyway, speaking of being socially conscious

And speaking of Chase bowing down to people online It happens, right? It happens And I ran across a video yesterday From April Grove Who posted a video on her Twitter account That talked about how her pharmacy, a right-aid pharmacy Had been giving her a hard time to fill her pain meds and how what a ridiculous thing it was and that she has cancer and she

couldn't believe that this was happening and then uh well here's here's a little bit of the video and if you're watching on uh if you're watching on blaze tv this is april grove from her twitter account uh those of you listening on chewing the fat here's the audio i'm just leaving my pharmacy I'm not I'm not I'm frustrated and that's why I'm crying no kidding I don't blame you I get pain pills

every maybe every two three months okay I can make one monthly prescription of pain pills by the way she shouldn't have to she should not have to that is I mean she's doing that because because she doesn't like

how the pain pills make her feel and I get I get it So she's trying to ride it out and only takes them when she absolutely... You know what? What? I want to talk to her. You want me to... I want to talk to April Grove.

I don't know her. I don't know. I don't know. It's called a direct message. So you want me to right now to stop what I'm doing? What are you doing? By the way, this is good question. What are you doing?

Oh, yeah. You go ahead and stop doing that. Yeah. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. Difficult that is for you to push a button. So go ahead and stop that. And while you're, while you're,

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That's it. And you can, you know, once you do that, once you do that, you can follow me on Twitter. Twitter at Jeffie MRA. No, it isn't Jeffie MRA anymore. Jesus, I can't. That is so ingrained in my head. By the way, speaking to that, that's why it's in my head.

Because I was just looking at it. Back up for just a second. My Twitter account is Jeffie JFR. Stands for Jeff Fisher Radio, right? Which Jeff Fisher Radio is my Facebook and my Instagram account. Now, when I changed to Jeffy JFR, my, verified Twitter account first and foremost was Jeffie MRA. It was Jeffie MRA for a long time, all right?

Because the douche Jeffie wouldn't give it to me at Jeffie up in the Northeast who has about two followers who hates us and blocked all of us. If you're not blocked by Jeffie, go ahead, just tweet him and tell him give up the Jeffie, okay? that having been said. And I'm just joking about the whole douche thing, Jeffie. That'll make it, I'll win him over. He'll be on my side 100% after that. So I got rid of Jeff EMRA and went to Jeffrey JFR. Because I just wanted to stick with the Jeff Fisher Radio.

What I didn't do was keep Jeff EMRA set up another account for Jeff EMRA. I mean, you can't do that. And don't, I mean, no one could do that. ever. There's no way possible that you can have another account like that. And so somebody else, one of our listeners, who, what's the, oh, shoot, I see it all the time. Gott is now tweeting under at Jeff E.MRA with their, with their posted name. Alexandria Occational Cortez. Right. Which is funny. It's funny. It made me laugh. However, you think you're funny with your little at Jeffey MRA.

Think you funny. All right. Yeah. You think you're funny. So, and by the way, you are, good job. That's why it was out my head. Let's just looking at that. I'm actually pointing to the camera so you can see me pointing at you. All right, so I know you, doesn't look like you're doing anything over there. I got her number. Are you ready?

Here. Yeah. Okay, here we go. While we're waiting for an answer, I'm going to tweet out the video of April so that you, you know what we're talking about. Follow some of the thread too. It's amazing. So last night I see a video that was sent to me from my producer Chris Cruz about a lady who was frustrated with her pharmacist and pharmacy. April Grove.

And April went on a heartfelt rant. Powerful. About how she had to struggle to get her pain medication from a pharmacist and pharmacy. that she frequented. Now we've talked quite a bit on this podcast about the frustrations of this opioid epidemic. But we have a crisis, Jeffrey. Yeah, I know.

I know we do. So I wanted to talk to April, and we got a hold of April. You can follow her on Twitter at April Grove. And without the eye, okay, I got it. Yeah, it's APR-L Grove, D-R-O-V-E. I got it without the eye. It's April.

But it says April before the at April. Anyway, April, welcome to Chewing the Fat. How in the world are you? I'm doing well. Thank you. Okay, good. How are you? Listen, you got me welled up.

You made me angry. You made me happy. You made me sad all in one video post. You did it. It was great. Well, thank you. I obviously wasn't happy in the moment I made it. but, you know, it definitely seems to have resonated with quite a few people.

So in your video, you talk about how they give you a hard time. And this was just a hard time for filling your pain meds at this pharmacist, at this pharmacy, not any of your other medications? Correct. So I've been living with metastatic breast cancer for the past five years now. And they, and your pharmacy knows this, right? Oh, I mean, you've been filling, if you're going to the same pharmacy, you said that you've been going there for, you know, for 20 years, whether, you know, it doesn't

matter. You've been going there for a long time. And so you've been filling medications for whatever illness you have over the years. They know what the problems are. Oh, absolutely. And all of my prescriptions come from the same oncologist. You know, I basically get all of my medications filled there. And for the most part, they go electronically.

But pay medication, we have to take a paper script in from the doctor. That's actually changed here in the state of Texas now, but it may be changing in some other places around the country. Yeah. Yeah. I'm crossing my fingers. But yeah, so I take my paper script into this pharmacy that has always been my neighborhood pharmacy. And they hassle me every single time to get these pain medications to the point where I've had to go to a pharmacy down the road, which is another major pain pharmacy. And that's the only other medication that I have filled there.

this other pharmacy. The rest of them all electronically go to my regular one. That is. And yeah, I just, I, I would feed up one side and down the other by this pharmacist trying to get this prescription filled. Well, we've talked, we've talked a few times here on my podcast about doctors who have been frustrated with pharmacists who believe that they know more than the doctor and say that, oh, that prescription needs to be different. And apparently your pharmacist either wants to give people a hard time for, the you know their pain medication or he just enjoys giving people a hard time and wants to you know believe that uh you don't need the medication that your doctor has prescribed um so you know it seems

at the time to be that exactly it seemed at the time to be that but the more that i thought about it after the fact it almost felt like he had an agenda because by the time the pharmacist approached me he had already printed out a list of my medications from my medication history and you know wanted to grill me about why I got these other ones still at a different place. And I said, well, you kind of forced my, force my hand to do so. Yeah. You know, so I felt, I felt very victimized, to be honest. And I don't throw that word around lightly.

So you were frustrated and you posted your video. What kind of, you said you got an overwhelming response to your video. Before we talk about any response from the pharmacist and the, you know, pharmacy, let's talk about some of the responses that you got from around the country and possibly around the world. I'm sure that if most people were like me that watched it, you, they were, you had a lot of people on your side. Absolutely.

Overwhelmingly, it's been very, very positive. A lot of people have reached out just in a staggering number, to be honest with you. A lot of people have reached out saying that they've had similar experiences with their own situations and trying to receive their own medication. And the majority of the feedback I've gotten is it's people with legitimate illnesses that have, you know, a legitimate prescription from their doctors. And it's people like myself that have, you know, metastatic breast cancer or, or cancers in general. I've seen some, a couple of people that said they have problems getting pain medication to treat their MS. And, and I get.

that there is an opiate problem. I'm not disputing that at all. But at this point, people such as myself are really being punished for it. And it's not right. And nobody should be made to feel, you know, like they're doing something wrong, just getting a prescription from a doctor filled. It's just not, it's not right at all. We heard from some of the professionals when the big push on the opioid epidemic was brought before us

that this was going to happen. So instead of realizing that something like this was going to happen and we were going to fix it, it just doesn't matter. And that's very frustrating. So you became the person that posts the video and complains and is upset. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. How did the pharmacist? And we can, I mean, you in the video, you say that it's a right aid pharmacy.

in your town. Did they finally get back to you after your video, after your video, after you complained online, after you brought it to the attention of a few million other people and their product, their company was brought into light.

What happened? Yeah. After all of that, I was contacted through Twitter first. And at the point that I was contacted on Twitter, I had already gone on to their corporate. website and submitted a complaint as well. Should have posted a video on their website too?

Well, I didn't post the video. I just had been to written complaint, but by, I would say probably six hours later within six hours, their regional vice president reached out to me. Oh, that's funny. With a very heartfelt apology. And he actually, I had a really good discussion with him. You know, I kind of was able, you know, I was more composed at that point, thank goodness. So I was able to kind of articulate, you know, what it happened and, you know, just basically how it made it, how it made me feel, how it would make anyone in my situation feel.

And, you know, he was, he was very nice and seemed very understanding. You believed him? And then, I'm sorry? You believed him? You know, he sounded very sincere, but at the same time, I mean, I recognize that it's a giant corporation. Right. And, you know, they, I'm sure that they have, you know, instructions in place on what to do. Sure.

No, I understand. But it's still, you still. Yeah, but he seemed very nice. Yeah, okay. Yeah, he seemed very nice. And then following that, maybe about an hour after that, I received a phone call from the pharmacist himself. Oh, isn't that funny?

How that happens? Isn't that funny? Yeah, somebody's funny. Oh, I just happened to call. Oh, I just happened to reflect upon my behavior and tell bad about it. You know, I... After the guy that can fire me called me. Exactly, yeah.

So that one, you know, while I appreciated that he did it, I mean, I can't really claim to think that that was very heartfelt. You know, I would like to think so, but, you know, unfortunately, you know, I've had this similar experience with the same individual multiple times in the last few years. So it's kind of hard to buy it. Sure. No kidding. That apology should have happened way before this. Yeah, I never should have happened to begin with.

Right. If somebody, you know, I mean, I get that they're in a business. and that pharmacists, you know, to them it's work, every script that they get. But I tried to remind him of the humanity behind it. And just, you know, these are people that are depending on you to just do your job. And, you know, I get that there's a problem out there, but you have to look at each person individually. You can't just lump all of us under one umbrella. That's not fair.

And that's exactly what's happening. So we're talking to April Grove at April Grove without the eye on Twitter. I really appreciate you coming on today So you've been through the process You've seen it happen Are you ready to post another video When you're mad at something? I don't know

I mean this one worked You might as well hit record and go Yeah I mean that's not usually my go-to response But I think I was just so frustrated In the moment that I thought I'm just going to make a video Right Yeah but and I'm honestly

I really am glad that I did I feel like, again, it's really resonated with so many people, and it's kind of nice to be able to bring that to the forefront. And if one less person, if one less person doesn't have to deal with that because of that video, then I'm happy because no one should feel like that. April, thank you very much for coming on today. I really appreciate it. It was great talking to you. I'm glad that at least for now it worked out, and our prayers are always with you. Thank you.

Thank you so much. I don't know