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Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. So I see this story on my timeline, and I was on one of my social media platforms, and I wanted to believe that it was true. I didn't want to look to see if it actually was true or not. So a Chicago man allegedly bought a used car for about $600, registered in his ex-girlfriend's name, without her knowledge, and then left it parked in a secure employee lot. at O'Hare Airport, because the car was never moved. Three years, it sat there in that parking lot. It accumulated 678 parking tickets that eventually totaled more than $105,000 in fines.

So the woman later learned she was listed as the registered owner and faced the fines, even though she said she never had access to the vehicle. And, you know, you want to kind of smile and say, I mean, I want a, what a dick move by the boyfriend or the ex-boyfriend, but kind of a good one, too, just a way to pay her back. Plus, what is O'Hare Airport? What are you doing after, you let a car park there for three years and you just keep ticketing it?

I mean, what's the line? A year, maybe? A year? And you say to yourself, you know, probably something up with that. But instead, three years, that's another issue in and of itself. But I did go back because I wanted to know if it was. true or not and it was so they worked out a settlement it was the largest uh parking fine i guess in chicago history i don't know if that's even true today because i think this happened back in

2013 or something like that and so uh the lady uh made a deal in civil court and she uh had the final bill of four thousand four hundred and seventy dollars okay So you think to yourself, why should she have to pay it if it's the boyfriend? Okay, so here's the deal. The boyfriend, or the ex-boyfriend, he has to pay the initial down payment of the bill of $1,600. And then she had to pay an additional $78 a month until the fine was paid off. So she still kind of got screwed. She shouldn't have really had to pay a dime since they found out that it was actually

true and he did it. He bought this Chevy Monte Carlo for like 600 bucks and parked it at the airport. Oh yeah, he said it wasn't two days. He parked it there in 2009. So this case was going on in 2013, but it sat there

from 2009 to 2011, 2012. Holy cow. That's another issue. Chicago O'Hare needs to see what is happening with that. What if there was a body in that car? Oh, I would have started smelling then, Jeff. Okay, if you say so.

But three years seems like an awful long time just to continue to tick it the same vehicle. But what do I know? Nothing. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Fat 5 Plus. So, I don't know, a couple weeks ago, week and a half ago, there was the raccoon that went viral because he went on a drunken rampage at a Virginia liquor store. And, you know, apparently now, and the police made a big deal about, you know, getting him, he was passed out.

They took him back, and now he's sobered up at the shelter, and everything is fine. Isn't it cute how the raccoon just broke into the liquor store and got drunk and then passed out? Well, no, you know what? It's not cute. Apparently he's a repeat offender and he's done this multiple times. And so he goes on these liquor-fueled rampages. He sneaks into these liquor stores and he's done it for several times, multiple times. and the police just keep letting him do it again and again.

Where are my friends at PETA saying maybe we get some help for this raccoon? And perhaps would it be a bad thing if maybe we just, you know, gently put it down because do we need another raccoon on the planet, especially one that's breaking into businesses and getting drunk? I know, I know, just humanely, humanely, of course, put him down. I don't know. It's just a thought. But where's Pete at?

This guy's a repeat offender. We're turning a raccoon into an alcoholic raccoon, breaking into buildings, breaking and destroying property just to get a drink. And we just laugh at it and take pictures. Isn't that cute? And now they are, it's helping sell merchandise. There's merchandise being sold from this Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter in Hanover, Virginia, they've raised

almost, probably over $200,000 by now for merchandise that displays the dazed raccoon, spluted beside a spilled bottle of alcohol, and the merchandise has been dubbed trashed panda.

I do believe I want a trashed panda shirt. There are trashed panda shirts, hoodies, and travel mugs to honor a raccoon. Now, this raccoon's been going viral because he's been getting drunk, breaking into buildings and passing out in the bathrooms. So that's a problem. Where are my friends PETA? They, PETA, very kind, sent me some vegan cookies. And I'm guessing they're from West Burdette, who is the, I believe

is a official title at PETA, is press officer media relations for people, for the ethical treatment of animals. Wes, if you're the ones that sent me the vegan cookies, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Merry Christmas to you. Maybe you can get a hold of somebody in Virginia and start helping this raccoon out a little bit. Okay? Just a thought. I just, you know, I'm trying not to be, you know, humans first, I know. But, and I'm okay with humanely putting the raccoon down. But, you know, if you want to save someone's life, like this raccoon, you know, now they're, now they're capitalizing on his struggle. I mean, they've got the trashed panda merchandise that's being sold,

and all that he needs to do is go out and break into businesses and get drunk. Maybe you want to help him out. This is a very strange story, and I'm not sure why it happened, and I want to know, so I'm going to follow it, because the headline is, you know, the woman who was a woman who was abducted when she was three years old, found alive, and more than four days. decades after her disappearance with no knowledge she'd ever been a victim in the first place because I don't know that she was a victim okay so Michelle Marie Newton was first reported missing in

1983 her mother Deborah Newton allegedly moved the pair from Louisville Kentucky to Georgia to begin a new job and prepare a new home for the family but she left her husband Michelle's father in the dust. And so, you know, why she left is important to me. Because I guess the child was not any wiser, you know, for 42 years. And just incredibly, they just hit her identity. So now Michelle 46 was raised under a different name. Her mother now 66 started going by Sharon, according to the sheriff's department.

After Deborah allegedly absconded with her child. See, that's the thing. Joseph Newton tried to track them down. He last spoke to his wife sometime between 84 and 85 before she vanished entirely. So I guess he kind of found her and then she disappeared. So there's something else happening, but they're not saying it. Then the search for Deborah and Michelle pressed on until the year 2000. At that point, the case was dismissed because prosecutors couldn't reach Joseph, couldn't find the father.

Five years later, Michelle was removed from the nationwide missing children. in databases. The sheriff's office said by then she would have been around 25 years old. The case was reopened in 2016 at the request of a family member, but there still weren't any meaningful developments until police received a bullseye crime stoppers tip in 2025 sometime this year. And that tip led them to Deborah's home in the villages in Florida. She'd been living in the retirement community as,

Sharon Neely and had a new bow at her side. The body camera footage shows the police rolling up to her driveway, and you hear the friend go, they're coming for you, Sharon, and she laughs it off. But one of the deputies plainly states, yeah, we are, in fact, here for you, man. So after cuffing Deborah, who once held the spot on FBI's top eight most wanted parental kidnapping fugitives, okay, so she was in the top eight most wanted parental kidnapping fugitives. Police went to Michelle's doorstep and they had to tell her.

And you're not who you think you are. You're a missing person. Wait, what? Yeah, you're really Michelle Marie Newton. So from there, Michelle phoned the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and planned a long awaited reunion with her father. So he's still around. I don't know what kind of shape he's in.

But she's always been in our hearts. I can't explain that moment of walking in and getting to put my arms back around my daughter. I bet you can't. I'm really interesting. I'm really interested in to find out why she left altogether, because now she's being arraigned and charged with the felony of custodial interference. Okay, you know, it's been 40 years. She's been on the run. She did no harm to the child, and they would say that the harm was done by taking her away from her father, right? Well, maybe that was a good thing. I mean, I really am fascinated by this story. I want to know why she left. And maybe she's out of her mind. Maybe she's whacked out of her mind. And Joseph was like,

no, I got to get my daughter back because she's whacked out of her mind. And thankfully, nothing happened to the daughter. And the daughter is now, you know, a decent functioning adult human being, by all accounts. But I just find it interesting that she actually, you know, took the kid and disappeared. Now, I know you're thinking what I'm thinking, oh, you used to beat her. He beat her, he beat the kid. That's why she doesn't remember. And that's a possibility. And so, I mean, we've all seen those stories.

We've seen those movies. So it sounds like this could be one of those instances as well. So we'll have to wait and see what happens on the trial on this one. If there ever is a trial. Coming to a social media feed near you. Amazingly, Instagram wants a spot on your TV menu. Meta launched an Instagram Reels app for connected TVs. Starting with Amazon Fire, the app includes curated channels around specific

shows, interest, and creators, all designed for lean back viewing with friends and family. The motivation here is clear. I mean, connected TV ads pay significantly more than mobile ones, and YouTube is dominating that space with 12.9% of all TV viewing time as of November, leading all streamers. Wow. Reelers already generate 50 billion in annual ad revenue more than Warner Brothers Discovery, Paramount, and NBC Universal combined. And that was without any TV presence.

at all. Now Instagram is officially coming to your living room. So be ready because all the other platforms are going to be doing this for sure. Set it up to make it happen. It's worth too much money. Plus, did you see also where Warner Brothers took over TikTok? So Supergirl, the new, the next chapter, They just released a trailer for the James Guns, D.C. Universe Supergirl. And they took over TikTok, okay, this past weekend. So the trailer was served as the first video for every user across 13 territories, including the U.S., UK, and South Korea, meeting anyone who opened the app saw it before anything else.

Wow. The studio also tested a new ad format letting the trailer interact with the trailer. TikTok's logo. So I think that, you know, that way you're able to share it and use the TikTok's logo. TikTok is the only place that Gen Z reliably encounters marketing at scale. So rather than hoping for organic buzz, Warner Brothers made engagement mandatory with the film still seven months out. It's an unusual early blitz, but for an untested superhero properties. Yeah, so they got it cheaper because it.

so early, I'm sure, and they were testing this out. So that's a good move on their part to test it out and see work out the kinks and for a cheaper price with TikTok. Wow, that's kind of, I mean, holy cow, you thought your algorithm was showing you ads. Now you have that, plus you're going to have ads that are for everyone. I've been saying it for quite some time here on this very show that the Oscars, the Academy Awards,

while they could still use the networks for whatever they need, I know they had a deal with ABC, I think through 2029, that they needed a social media presence. And they needed to do it on social media. Just be done with it. Well, this is kind of moving in that direction if you're still considering YouTube social media. So they just made a new deal with YouTube,

beginning in 2029. the Oscars, the Academy Awards will broadcast exclusively on YouTube for free globally and on YouTube TV in the United States. Pretty huge. YouTube's coverage will include the red carpet behind-the-scenes content, the Governor's Ball Access. The deal runs through 233, according to an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Press release. Okay, so ABC continues to do it through their 100th edition, which is in 28. so incredible i mean it needed to happen a long time ago and i will i mean they it just makes sense and good i'm glad to see that they finally listened to something that i was saying and actually

actually took heed and did it so thank you i'm thanking the the academy thank you very much you don't have to send me an award or anything i don't need an Oscar just uh you and i both know okay we know. I see where they actually revealed their short list in 12 categories yesterday. The animated short, casting, cinematography, documentary feature, documentary short, international feature, live action short,

makeup, hairstyling, original score, original song, sound, and visual effects. Okay, so the frontrunners, I guess, are sinners and Wicked for Good, dominating seven categories each, both landed two songs on the original song shortlist. Frankenstein popped up in six categories. One,

battle after another and Sarat each grabbed five. This marks the first ever shortlist for best casting category which was just added last year and the first time cinematography used the short list process. So Avatar, Fire and Asch,

which starts this weekend, by the way, if you are listening live, today is the 18th of December, 2025. December 18th. That's my first wife's birthday. Happy birthday. That's my oldest son's mother.

Happy birthday. Holy cow. December 18th. Happy birthday. Okay, so. And rest in peace. So you get that too. She did not die today.

So she does not make it to who died today. No. Sorry about that. Anyway, happy birthday to my oldest son's mother. Rest in peace. So the nomination voting runs January 12th through the 16th With the official norms dropping January 2nd Conan O'Brien is hosting the ceremony March 15th

Conan O'Brien in the news as of late Because that's where the Christmas party was That the Rainers went to Nick was making everybody feel uncomfortable And they had to leave and then he killed them So I mean allegedly I mean he's been arrested for it sure He doesn't know you can't get out of bail

and he's had drugging criminal problems for many, many years, but he's allegedly is the one who stabbed and murdered them. That's all, though. Just allegedly. It's really sad. The whole thing is really sad. The whole life thing. The rich kid with everything, I mean, just everything at his feet,

still struggling to be who he is. It's always about them. It's never about me. I'm sure that's what he thinks, what he thought forever, which is why it started. I was listening to an interview It started when he was 15.

And, you know, they've been struggling with this. He's 32 now. They've been struggling with this for all this time, 17 years. I mean, they've probably spent millions of dollars. He was in and out of rehab 18 times. Just incredible. And, you know, you don't know what happened behind the scenes. Obviously, you don't know if it was, we do know that they said that they asked if they

could bring him to Conan's Christmas party because they were concerned about him. Okay. we also heard an interview with someone who was there, stayed at the Reiner's house a week or so ago, and said that Nick was fine. He was there. He was helping around the house. He was in good spirits. So did he

go back? Was he back off the wagon? You know, who knows? I don't know. Was he back smoking the crack in the guest house? It's possible? I don't know. It's very sad. The whole thing is really, really sad. But I digress.

Conan's going to host the Oscars. and good for him. Okay, so I see this story about Angelina Jolie. And I always have been a, you know, a fan of Angelina Jolie. And, uh, somewhat. You know, I mean, I enjoy some of her work. And the story is, that she opens up about showing her

mastectomy scars. And she says, I share these scars with many women I love. Okay. So, she underwent a double mastectomy in 2013. Okay, but she underwent this mastectomy by choice.

She didn't have cancer. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. So this, to her, oh, my mom had breast cancer, I'll cut my breasts off. And so now she is saying that, you know, I share these scars with many women I love. I'm always moved when I see other women share theirs. I wanted to join them knowing that Time, France, which is where she apparently is showing off her scars,

would be sharing information about breast health prevention and knowledge about breast cancer. So she still is, you know, passing along information and, you know, cancer has touched all of our lives. And speaking of breast cancer, I mean, my first wife, that's what she died from, you know, touches everyone's life. It was horrible. And I don't wish that on anyone. But just kind of ticks me off a little. It just a little irks me just a little. Just a little.

Because she, you know, her double mastectomy. was because of her. It wasn't because she had cancer. It was because she was concerned she might have breast cancer. And that's, I don't know, it's a little agonizing. I know I need to let it go. I'm sorry.

If she has done anything to help you get through your breast cancer, good. And I'm sorry that I'm beating her up. I appreciate it. I mean, I'm glad that she's helped you. But, if she hasn't,

that I'm still going to be a little anger, because I don't like it. I don't like her pretending, pretending that she's doing this out of, well, I could have got cancer. So I just cut my breasts off. Oh, okay. Well, I could have got a bruise on my toe, too, but I didn't cut that off. I just don't understand that thinking. You know, it's just strange to me. It's just me?

Okay, well, then never mind. Be sure to you follow me on. X at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on YouTube, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I see them all.

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It's my first wife's. The 18th. I can't stop thinking about it. But now that I remembered it was her birthday, I can't stop thinking about it. I know. I know, I got it. I got it.

It's just like I just need to move on with my life. This was a long time ago. Anyway, cameo. That's where I was at. Now until Christmas. Today is the 18th through the 24th. All right. till the first of the year.

Till the first of the year. At Jeffrey JFR on the Cameo app. Whatever you want, you got. Whatever you want, you got. Right up to the first year. You want something bad and mean. I'll do it. You want something nice.

Of course, I'll do it. And we'll do that up to, you know, New Year's Eve. All right, New Year's Day. New Year's Day. We'll do that to the New Year's Day. So from now until New Year's... Well, you know, we'll come back from our holiday break on the 5th. So we'll go right up to that

Well then we'll have to have the Valentine's Day special But up until the 5th, up until the 4th, January 4th, 2026 You ask for it You got it At Jeffrey JFR on the Cameo app Oh, and I see Season 2 of the Pit Just drop their new trailer for season 2 I'll play that for you on Saturday

On Saturday morning live That's a show we do with I do with Brad Stags Over there at the Daily Mojo He and I do Saturday morning live on Saturday 9 a.m. Central, live. So we call it Saturday morning live. And Brad and I do that show. And this will be the final Saturday morning live of 2025 this Saturday.

The final Saturday morning live of 2025 with Brad and myself this Saturday. So you don't want to miss it. Just to catch it on my ex account. I know Brad puts it on his and I think he puts it up on some other platforms. but really most importantly you can just catch it on my ex account at jeffy jfr who died today who died today all right let's get started with anthony geary anthony geary you know him as luke spencer from general hospital legend dead uh at the age of 78 that's right luke and laura of course you know about anthony geary uh dead at the age of 78 uh I mean he's

was on uh all the general hospital forever how long was he on that stupid show yeah he left in 2015 and the luke and laura wedding which was i don't know forever ago on one of the biggest show tv shows in history i was like 30 years ago so holy cow he was on that show for a very very long time now apparently they say that he he died following complications from an operation that is never good so I mean everybody signs off on the surgery oh you know you could die yeah I'll sign it's fine

it's a 2% chance but you don't want to be the 2% I'm just saying you don't want to be the 2% anyway rest in peace to Anthony Gary former Luke Spencer from General Hospital dead at the age of

78. Then we have Carl Carlton, renowned R&B singer, dead at the age of 72. Now, apparently he had suffered a series of strokes in the last half a dozen years or so. And so he's, according to family members and friends, he has courageously battled to both live and thrive. I feel like maybe that's not true. But so he's been struggling for the last. six years after these series of strokes. So his career started in the early 60s, a little Carl Carlton, Detroit native,

that's why I know him, because his big hit, I mean, I know he signed with backbeat records in Houston, a long time ago, and then he hit the Billboard best-selling soul singers chart with I can feel it, but then his first

major success was in 1974. peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 with Carl Carlton An Everlasting Lowe I mean this gets played on all kinds of Yeah I'm sorry I didn't need to cut you off Carl I'm supposed to hit the post

Right Come on now I'll wait till the post and we're done I'm not going to do the whole thing So Oh, she's built and she's a bad mamma jama. Do you remember that? That was Carl Carl's often.

Oh, here we go. Come on, baby. Open up your... Have a lasting love. Neverlast in love. All right, Carl Carlton has passed away and left this planet dead at the age of 72. Oh, and then we have Gil Gerard, Gil Gerard, the actor, best known for playing Buck Rogers. He is dead at the age of 82.

He was the big space hero, Buck Rogers. He was the man, and he is dead now. A very aggressive form of cancer that he lost his life to and his battle with. And so you remember Buck Rogers, right? Yeah, Gilgerard, NASA Captain William, Buck Rogers, hello. Rest of peace to Gilgerard dead at the age of 82. And you know who else might have died? I was reading this story, and this makes a good case,

that Crumbull cookies may be going away. Now, you know that I do a daily show with a guy by the name of Pat Gray. And his family owns Kexie cookies, K-E-K-S-I-Kexe.com, and they're a big-time cookie company. But, I mean, Crumbull is like monstrous all over the country. And so while they're a cookie competitor, They're different because Kexie makes a superior product. And Crumble has a big deal on social media,

but it's really the same cookie with different toppings. If you didn't realize that about Crumbull, now you know. Okay. And so that's what makes them special is the same cookie, just the different frosting on top, the different fixings on top, just so you know. So anyway, I was reading this story about how a football game caused the collapse of Crumbull.

because apparently they're struggling, okay? And I didn't, I don't know that I knew that. I mean, they're pretty big. I mean, they work on small margins. I'm absolutely positive of that. But apparently they've got some stores that are franchises, I should call them. They were turning profits pretty meager. And then they were really, really struggling.

and that's when the Crumbull cookie owner gave a bunch of money to BYU University to keep their head coach, right? I mean, part of that deal was the NIL deal for the players, but really Crumbull came in and offered a bunch of money to keep their head coach because Penn State was come and calling. And there were plenty of coaches across the country. that made a lot of money. And I forget what the number was. I feel like it was, I don't know, it was like $700 million or something. It was a big number that Penn State firing their coach,

James Franklin, made for all these other coaches. Because then all these other teams had to write new contracts for their coaches so they wouldn't go to Penn State because everybody wanted the Penn State job. Because James Franklin, they fired James Franklin. Everybody said, yeah, boy, it's a shame they fired James Crankland. Franklin, I'll go there. You can pay me $80, $90 million.

No problem. I'm there. And so all these universities had to, you know, we've upped ours now, up yours. And that's what they pretty much said. So it made the other coaches a lot of money. And, you know, the BYU head coach, Kalani Sataki,

was named in possibly replacing James Franklin at Penn State, you know, leaving BYU. So this story is making the case that Oregon beating Penn State may have helped cause the collapse of crumble cookies. Because

when Oregon beat Penn State, that caused James Franklin to get fired. And then the downfall began. And so, I mean, they offered, I forget how many millions. I don't know that it was actually announced publicly. How many millions

crumble donated to BYU to keep Kalani and to keep the players and so now they're talking about the crumble franchises struggling and they're not going to have any money to help the franchises out which is what this guy is making the case so he's making the case that had

had not been for Oregon's victory over Penn State perhaps the owner of Crumbull McGowan would be able to step in and help some of his struggling franchises. So while not dead yet, that could possibly be the cause and the case for Crumbull. I doubt it. It's highly unlikely, but it's a cute little case. All right, let's get out of here.

I'll leave you with the joke of the day. At least I think it's a joke. It was sent from an email from Kelly. Kelly sent an email to Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, and he was yapping about something in his email. I've had, you know, who knows? I do read them all and I can go back and find it. But this line at the end of the email, I thought, is that a joke?

He said, I just hate it when I walk down the tool aisle at a hardware store because all the stud finders go off. see i don't know i don't know if that's a joke or if he actually believes something that that actually happens so me too me too kelly i hate it that's why i don't go to the hardware stores anymore because they just had to reset all the stud finders you know what i'm saying Stream and subscribe to more blaze media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.