Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: "Shut Up Emmys!"

Episode Date: September 26, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. America WK with your host, Andrew WK. Always questioning yourself the most. Then question others. But if people make you question yourself, then we can be thankful for them. Even if they do it in ways that are unpleasant. It's been said before, and I'll say it again, it is the speech that we most disagree with,

that we have to fight most passionately to protect. America WK, Saturday's 10 a.m. to noon on the Blaze Radio Network. All right, let's talk a little TV. All right, let's talk a little TV, of which I'm a huge fan. Okay. I love, you know, look, radio's my life. I love radio. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else than with you right here on the radio.

You and me together. Love it. Okay? But I do enjoy television and movies and, and actors and actresses, and films and ideas. And then last week we had the Emmys, and I didn't go over them because they kind of ticked me off.

You know, I could have gone over them last Saturday and just kind of talked a little bit about them, but it kind of ticked me off. So then I watched, I said, well, the Emmys are on, you know, okay, we'll give them a little love. So I watched the open of the Emmys. Horrible. Just bad.

I went away after that. I couldn't take it. Emmys, you could do so much better, really. It was just give the mantle. to the late hosts, the late night show hosts. Okay. Corden or Fallon, let them do the, let them host it, let them do the open. They'll do it so that it actually, oh, I don't know, is worthy.

How about that? Or maybe you give it to our man, Chris Hardwick. He does the talking, talking dead right after Walking Dead. He's got his podcast, the nerdist. He's got his new show, Comedy Central, which is really great. I love his talk about it at midnight. I think it's at midnight that it's called. His idea was that, you know, it's about people.

And it's about coming together. Huh. Man. where have I heard that before and figure it out where have I heard that before huh must be

um what I know the blaze yeah same kind of thing it's about the movement it's about people being together it's about interacting

so they could let you know Chris Gordon Fallon somebody open it up but they can't let Chris it though because he's affiliated with Walking Dead. And since Walking Dead did not win an Emmy

was not really nominated for any and then you're going to say you people who are the hardcore they were nominated for an Emmy what are you talking about? You don't know what you're talking about. They were nominated for an Emmy. Okay. All right.

Were they? Were they? Okay. Here's what they were nominated for. Okay? Outstanding sound editing for a series. Outstanding special visual effects for a series. Outstanding stunt coordination for a drama series, limited series or movie.

Outstanding prosthetic makeup for a series. Stop it. Shut up, Emmys. Outstanding prosthetic makeup. Shut up. Those should just be given to them. Here you go. They don't get any of the actors or actresses.

Nothing? Shows, best show? Nothing? Come on. Come on. Let's see who they picked, shall we? Let's take a look who the outstanding lead actor in a limited series or a movie in 2015. Winner, Richard Jenkins as Henry Kitteridge.

Yeah. Boy, that's better than Walking Dead. Let's see Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a movie. Let's see who won. Francis McDormand, Olive Kidderidge. Yeah. Boy, you hear people talking about that... Kidderidge on the streets every day, don't you?

Oh, wait. No, no, you don't. And, of course, we had to give the... Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Jeffrey Tambor is transparent for Amazon. Of course, everybody loves him. Outstanding lead actor in a drama series. Oh, could that be possibly an award that someone from Walking Dead could win?

We're going to give it to John Hamm. They finally gave it to John Hamm after a thousand years. You know, Mad Men. Mad Men is over now. Oh, we've got to give it to John now. The show is over. We've got to pay our respects to Mad Men. another AMC classic television series.

So at least AMC got that. Did they get an actress? Let's see, drama series, actress. Who won the actress? Viola Davis. And Elise Keating, how to get away with murder. Hmm. Yeah.

Come on. Come on, Emmys. At least they had, you know, House of Cards, Kevin Spacey nominated for the best actor, one of the best actors, at least they threw Netflix a bone. And they gave Bloodline a Bone, too, with Kyle Chandler as John Rayburn, which is, actually, that was a great show on Netflix. And their second season is, I believe, coming up soon. It's called Bloodline, Netflix original.

Fantastic. So, you know, and Better Call Saul was in there, another AMC. Maybe they just thought, hey, you know what, we've given AMC just a little bit too much. We can't do that. Can we? No, we can't. And then, of course, we gave Maggie Jillon Hall. She was nominated for some piece of garbage show.

And then there's a big story on her, too. Maggie Jillenhall signs on for The Deuce, HBO's porn industry-focused drama pilot. Why do people like her? I can't take her. I mean, okay. Maggie, if you're listening, I love you. but your work agonizing. Okay.

Sorry, but your work is just agonizing. Okay. Let's see. Fall TV ratings down. Huh. I wonder why that could be. I wonder why that could be. I don't know.

Maybe Netflix, HBO. Maybe all the other channels that are producing good programming. Are up against the great NBC ABC CBS. Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. And, of course, the ratings for fear the Walking Dead. They keep going down, down, down. And if you've been watching it,

if you've stuck with it this long, you're like me. You're a Walking Dead fan, and you just, you watch it for the Walking Dead promos. I'm at the point now in this show. I mean, I could walk, I could walk away. I won't, but I could. Because the Walking Dead original series, new season, October 11. And you'll hear the podcast with myself and Aaron Hernandez,

one of my producers in New York, joins me on the Talking Walking Dead podcast each week. And, you know, we discuss the happenings and looked for the future of the Walking Dead. It's called Talking Walking Dead, and you, of course, can get that at, you know, The Blaze.com slash radio. It's the, you know, the Jeff Fisher Show podcast. It's a separate podcast. Just download it.

You know what to do. You know, to take me with you. I know. I know you know what to do. Now, Aaron, I know we're not doing a podcast for fear. Yeah. Thank God. Thank God.

Because the ratings have been slipping down, down, down. We're at, what, episode four now or something? Yep, number four. This last week, I could have walked away. I could have walked away. Very disappointing. The reason why the ratings are slipping is because it kind of sucks. I can quote you on that?

You could quote me on. I do like that a lot. I have faith. And we've already, I'm very, I'm very, they've got to be struggling right now behind the scenes of Fear of the Walking Dead because prior to even it's starting to air, they reupped it for 20 episodes. Yeah. It hadn't even aired yet and they reupped it for 20 episodes. And if it's like this, pull the plug. That's a gutsy move on their end.

It sure is. Because that's a value spot. That's a very valuable spot. And it's, you know, they're living off, they're living off, while give them that they're, you know, right now, they're living off just Walking Dead. Walking Dead's not on. People are just, you know, it's by default.

And, you know, the ratings are slipping because even by default, people are like, I can't take it. Yeah. I mean, AMC, I mean, they're a great network, but, I mean, what else are they producing right now that's really drawing the numbers that the original Walking Dead is? Well, you know, Saul did. Saul did great. The Mad Men had some numbers for them.

So, I mean, they're producing. a little content that is true but madman's over and really all they have is uh it's uh you know better call sol and the walking dead you know they're down two really popular shows breaking bad and madman so they got to do something quick with this series they got to make the characters interesting because the lead one of the leads is a wimp and you're just like oh where's this going the only interesting characters are being killed off and it's kind of running in circles so i mean You know, and I'm an L.A. native. I was born in Los Angeles and grew up there. And quite frankly, I want to see some zombie cholo's pretty soon or else this isn't going to work out for me.

Okay, but the characters, none of them, well, I shouldn't say no other because one of them actually, the one, the old guy. Yeah. He is someone that, you know, I'm willing to put my arms around. Totally. Um, the, none of, none of the other characters have done anything to make me actually like them. Maybe the mom, mom has started to maybe come around a little bit, but still not much. Yeah, they're all a bunch of momos. I hope, I literally hope they all get eaten and then the show is just off the lot of the dude.

Yeah, the end. Just the end. Let's, come on. Let's start it up a new. This thing has so much potential and, uh, it's going on the way. I know. I don't understand. And obviously it's too late now because these six were already done.

These six are in the can. So there's no time to go back and redo what you've already done. So that's why I'm kind of sticking with it. I'm hoping that I'll ride these six out for until we get to the, you know, thank God the promos, at least for the real Walking Dead run during this show. That's what saves this show for me. And they ought to just put two new promos for the October 11th premiere during the Fear of, Walking Dead, I'll stay with them forever.

The promos look better than most of the episode, for sure. Thank you. For sure. So, what, I mean, we've already got these six in the can. So, I mean, you really have to, they have got to be, they've got to be hitting the bricks. Now, are they shooting already for the, for the next 20 episodes? I really don't know that. Because if they're not, they got to hit, they got to go to their writers and be like, yo.

It doesn't matter, even if they are, even if they are filming already. So what? Yeah. I mean, somebody needs to walk in and slam the books on the table and say, this needs to end. Yeah, I don't know what Robert Kirkman, who's the creator of this show, I know he has a big role in this new series. I don't know what he's thinking, man. I really don't. I mean, because he has, I mean, it's such a good story going back to the comic books and going to the show for the original Walking Dead.

And he's a very creative and talented writer. I just don't know where, you know, his vision is for this new show. Joe. Well, his vision, I kind of get the vision. I do get that. You know, the vision of creating some characters, and you see it from the very beginning, and you get an idea of what happened, you know, in this big area, and it's at the very beginning. Yeah. And people aren't quite sure yet, but they want to believe that everything's going to get better, but, you know, you start to see that it's not. And you have a couple people that have lived

through a couple of not end of time plagues, but takeovers coups from coups from communist dictators. So they kind of see how the military and they've lived through that and they know

that it's not going to get better. We need to fight our way out and get out of here. But the problem, Robert, is that your character suck. They stink.

Why do I care about a junkie? Why do I care about the dad who doesn't even want his kid to look at a gun? I know I got it. He's an L.A. teacher. I got it. Get over it. You know, I just, I just, please, Robert, please.

I'll tell you this. Robert Kirkman. You and I, you and me, buddy. I know you're here. I know you're listening to me. You and me. You got nothing else to do but listen to me. I'm going to stick with you for these six, okay? And then we're going to be October 11th. I'm going to stick with you with these six.

Then you and I are going to talk, and we're going to get the next 20 for fear working. Okay? Oh, you're welcome. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. On the Blaze Radio Network, Jay Severin. Good luck with your new lobbying firm,

because that's what Boehner was always going to do. He was not going to leave Washington. If he were 89 years old, he wasn't going to leave Washington. He was just going to leave political office. He was going to leave a salary of $200,000 a year and make $20 million in his first year as a lobbyist. Jay Severin, weekdays, 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern on the Blaze Radio Network.