Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Not Concerning… | 4/24/25

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

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Coming in at number 10, Mexico. Number nine, Luxembourg. Number eight, Israel. Number seven, Norway. Number six, Costa Rica. Number five, the Netherlands. Number four, Sweden. Number three, Iceland.

Number two, Denmark. And the number one happiest country in the world, Finland. So, congratulations to the time. top 10 happiest countries in the world. Those of you listening in the United States of America, you're only 24th on the list. So, yeah, I know. Maybe you need to try to be happier

because according to this, there are 23 other countries happier than you that are living in the United States. UK, Germany, United Air, at Emirates, Chechia, Slovenia, Canada, Austria, Lithuania, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Australia.

And then, of course, the top ten that I read at the beginning are all happier than the humans listening in the United States of America. So, try harder. Welcome to a show that originates in the 24th happiest country in the world.

Chewing the facts. that. I don't think I mentioned this here on chewing. I remember talking about it on Saturday morning live, the show I do with Brad Stags every Saturday, which you can listen live. It's why it's called Saturday morning live on my ex account at Jeffey JFR 9 a.m. Central for that show to be live. I talked about the seven corpses that have been found across three New England states, prompting, you know, the rumors, which continue because of me, that there's a serial killer on the loose. Since March, seven decaying female bodies have been found near the coast in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Police claim there's no evidence at this time

that the deaths are connected, however, forensic scientist, this Peter Valentin says the crimes are making him curious. The women were between the ages of 35 and 60. Page Fanon, 35, was found deceased on March 6th in the Norwalk River. A human skull was found on the same day in the woods

in Plymouth, Boston. Two weeks later, remains of a female were found near a cemetery in Groton, and then a couple of days later, missing mother Denise Leary, 59, was found deceased in New Haven, and 56-year-old Michelle Romano,

was later found deceased on March 26th in a wooded area in Foster. So we, you know, are just fueling the fires of a possibility of a serial killer. And of course, like the police say, there's no evidence at this time that the deaths are connected. Well, now we have an eighth body. So a woman was found off a bike path in the Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield Police Department said that we responded to reports of an unresponsive person near the bike path. Officers discovered the woman who was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. So now we have a investigation ongoing with another female death in Massachusetts.

Huh. That is weird, isn't it? Now, authorities still say there's no connection between the eight victims. Oh, okay. So sure, there's no connection. And I'm sure, you know, they don't want people to get all wound up, the possibility of a serial killer out there. But if you're in the Northeast, I would be extra careful with where you are going, especially if you are a female between the ages of 35 and 60.

Do not take any chances, that's for sure. And maybe, you know, maybe that's a rule of thumb that, you know, you should be careful at all times. But I know that, you know, now we have an eighth body, and that seems to, you know, the bodies are piling up. And it is, it's not good. You can quote me on that. The bodies are piling up, and that is not good. Now, apparently, there's a Facebook group called New England Serial Killer, which has since changed its name due to Facebook rules and regulations.

Wait, what? Why couldn't you talk about a serial killer on? your Facebook group that I thought, have they shut down Facebook yet? I mean, I know Zuckerberg is on trial for his antitrust lawsuit going on. If they're blocking people

for talking about the deaths of these people in the Northeast, that's, come on now. That's just agonizing to me. But I would be extra careful. That is for sure. So, you know, be careful in the North. Well, you should be careful

at all times, no matter where you're at. But in the Northeast, you know, I realize, that there are, you know, right now, no evidence that these deaths are connected. But... And speaking of the Northeast, in New York, the Bronx, we have vigilantes that beat up a male accused of trying to rape an elderly woman. I know, it's not funny, it's not good, we don't need vigilantes out there.

It's darn near wrong. But the NYPD released a video of the man in question who's seen wearing no pants just after he allegedly attempted to rape a 70-year-old woman near Creston Avenue and 184th Street around 12 p.m. Friday night. Police told the reporters that the vigilantes found the suspect less than 24 hours later, as word of the attack against the woman quickly spread through the New York City borough. Law enforcement sources also told the station that an anonymous caller told police, yeah, while the residents detained the suspect and delivered a vigilante beat down against him. and then you can find them in the hospital if you want.

We can't have that. We can't have police take. I mean, we can't have citizens just taking the law into their own hands. Okay. So the police and residents identified the suspect as this 50-year-old Oswald Ramos, a career criminal with 19 previous arrests.

And he's in the hospital now, thanks to the vigilantes. and so okay they talked to one a person who claims to be one of the

vigilantes and he said that he'd repeat the beat out yeah we beat him up you don't do that that's something you don't and if he comes back

I'm gonna rock him again now hopefully he's guilty you know what if he's not the guy now we're just beating up people that we think are rapists as pretty bad but it happened

they did it perfectly because there were no cameras, nobody filmed anything. They just, the guy, they beat down the guy and sent him to the hospital. I don't know if they dropped him off at the hospital. I don't know how he got to the hospital. But don't be committing

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And Harvey's attorney reminded people in the jury that the prosecution's case would fall flat on its face after they heard all of the evidence. They're going to ask you to make sense of things that just don't make sense. So we'll see how that goes. This is, I mean, he's been nothing but on trial. This is the third trial in five years. years. He's accused of sexually abusing a former television production assistant

and an aspiring actress and a model this time. He has pleaded not guilty, so we'll see he's still in prison. Los Angeles in California. He was found guilty. This is a retrial because the courts overturned the ruling of the other trial.

So we'll see how it goes. Is Harvey going to get off? That's funny. He is the face of dirtbaggery. around the world. There's no way he gets off. And then we have the dirtbag of Shannon Sharp.

The guy is a dirtbag. No question. He's been accused multiple times of sexual assault. But this latest case, where he's being sued for 50 million, I really feel like it's a setup. I don't know why.

I just, listening to the voicemails that have been recorded, I just feel like it's a setup. We played you the one yesterday, and another one dropped today. And when you listen to it, I just feel like it's a setup. Well, you're coming to L.A. tomorrow? Yes. Okay.

A lot of dead air. What are we doing? Well, I don't know why you want to go out. Don't worry about it again. Okay. Well, okay. Okay, what? Okay, what?

Yeah. Well, I'm not really interested in. and being choked, so I guess we're going. Okay, so stop. Okay, I'm not interested in getting choked, so I guess we're going. All right, so I feel like they keep throwing this where he talked about choking her. And, you know, I feel like it's the choking of her is more of a sexual thing than it is a violence thing of wanting her dead. I could be wrong.

Absolutely, 100% I could be wrong. I just feel like this is. And this call seems like a huge setup wanting him to say that he will choke her. Right. Okay, so that's... I might talk to you in public. See? See, he's trying to be funny.

They're like, that just can't happen. It's not a good look, Shannon. See? It's a setup. Not a good look at you. Thank you. I don't know. I don't know.

The whole thing just seems like a setup to me. And, again, I could be wrong. I just, you know, it's a terrible. terrible, terrible thing, this whole, this whole debacle. But I just, and I hate to be on Shannon's side because he's, you know, he doesn't seem like he's that nice of a guy. Maybe he is, you know, who knows? Maybe they all of them, all of the accusations are set up.

And he's just put himself in a bad place. And he's not a dirt bag at all, but he's made bad decisions. Okay. All right. Sure. You know, that's what you want to say. Sure, fine, be that way. But this particular case, I just feel like she's setting it up. And why wouldn't she settle for $10 million?

Because she knew she could get $50 million. Okay, well, then, is it blackmail then? And you just, you were okay with blackmail at $10 million, but you're not okay with blackmail at $50 million? And I didn't know Shannon had that kind of money. Because we talked about this yesterday. even for, I mean, there's 50 million is still 50 million. You can't quote me on that.

But there's never people on the planet where 50 million is like, here's 50 million. You know, we're good. I know Shannon is signing new deals, maybe not anymore, with ESPN and a podcast deal that are probably going to be worth, you know, $100 plus million dollars. But, okay, let's say that's true. Let's say that's true. You're getting ready to sign a hundred million dollar podcast deal. Now you've got to pay $50 million. million, half of that out

to some female that's suing you? Wow, that's not good. That's not good at all. Then we have a new dirt bag in our dirt bags of the day. A guy by the name of Mark Measures. Mark Measures, a longtime talent agent, he

was arraigned on charges of bilking 160 actors out of $1.8 million. Measures, who is 60 out of Los Angeles, is accused of stealing 26,000 from six employees of his agency. Wow, that's on top of bilking the actors out of 1.8 million. He was indicted in Manhattan on 40 counts, including grand larceny, petite larceny, and scheming to defraud. The Manhattan DA's office alleged that measures

diverted clients funds to pay his personal and business expenses and that during the scheme, he bought items at crypto.com arena and clothing. from luxury brands. You mean he used the money to buy things for himself? I won't hear of it. According to the DA's office, measures stole residuals and holding fees

from commercial actors, voiceover actors, and actors on shows like Law & Order. He offered a range of excuses for non-payment, including bank issues, earthquakes, and power outages, according to the DA. He would personally reassure clients that,

they would get their money, though he ultimately ceased all communications with them. Oh, really, we'll get you your money. But you're not going to be able to reach me from this point on. So we'll see how all that goes. I mean, that's a lot of, he diverted employee money that was supposed to go to 401K retirement accounts. The guy is the latest dirtbag, Mark Measures, stealing actors' money. And the American Express sued him saying that he owed them 97,000 and unpaid

balances. That might be an issue there. American Express is one of the leading credit card companies that make people feel like crap. Anyway, if he owed him the money, I get it. But Mark measures, the new dirt bag on our radar. He was arraigned yesterday on those charges, 40 counts. Grand Larsonie, Petit Larsonie, scheming to defraud. Good luck. Oh, and one more former dirtbag. Kevin Spacey is back in the news. And I say former, because he's all clean now.

It's all good, right? Kevin is all fine. He has a new gig that he's going to be a part of, which I say, okay, good. He's going to be back working. He and DJ Qualls, who doesn't love DJ Qualls, is going to star in 1780, a Revolutionary War thriller, set in Pennsylvania Wilderness

and directed by Dustin Fairbanks. So good, Kevin's going to be back to acting in a show that is titled, as of now, 1780, along with DJ Qualls. So, how much do you love Revolutionary War thrillers? I know, me too. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately.

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That will save you 20 bucks right now off our annual plan. Blaze TV, unfiltered, unafraid, on demand. BlazTV.com slash Jeffy. Okay, so we have the American Music Awards, the nominations

have been announced. Kendrick Lamar leads the 2025 AMA's nominations, followed by Post Malone, Billy Ilish, Chapel Rhone, and Shibuzi. Kendrick Lamar earned the most with 10, followed by Post Malone and 8 with Billy

Elish and Chappelle Rhone and Shibuzi with seven each. So it airs the 26th of May at 8 p.m. Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, on CBS, and it will stream on Paramount Plus. So here we go.

It's a Dick Clark Productions. It's interesting, if Kendrick were to win all 10, that puts him in a category that will tie Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston with the most awards in a single year. Pretty incredible. And we also have nominees first-timers that have been nominated. Benson Boone. I love that one song by him.

What the heck is the name of it? I hear it on TV shows all the time now. Oh, beautiful things. Yeah, I love that stupid song. And then Gracie Abrams. Jelly Roll, love Jelly Roll. I mean, I listen to Get By a lot. I love that stupid song.

Lola Young. Teddy Swims, Timmy Richmond, Tyler, Sabrina Carpenter, Zach Bryan. So it'll be fun to see what happens. Fans can vote for the artist they want to take home trophies on voteamAs.com. And the award shows Instagram profile, voting, closes May 15th at 11.59 p.m. for most categories, except collaboration of the year and social song of the year, which will remain open through the first 30 minutes of the ceremony. So, okay, you got that going for you. You can vote on everything up to the 15th, but you get to vote on the

collaboration of the year and social song of the year through the first 30 minutes of the ceremony. So that's exciting news, huh? And they announced the Screen Actors Guild Awards have officially been set for Sunday, March 1st, 2026. That's going to take place in Los Angeles, I believe. And it will be on Netflix. So that's kind of cool, the 32nd annual ceremony. Did this say exactly where it's going to be at? It does not.

It does not say where it's going to be held at. It says the date is the 32nd annual. they're happy with the date. I mean, it's going to be at 8 p.m. Eastern on Netflix. It talks about that they're going to honor SAG after as more than 122,000 voting members. Largest voting body of any major awards organization. The timing is before the 97th Oscars.

But it doesn't say where it's going to, where they're going to have the event. So good luck. They release the dates for voting. If you're one of the voting members listening to Chewing the Fat, you might want to go to the website and check it out because there's a new timeline for voting and submissions

but it doesn't know it doesn't say where we're going to be celebrating the fantastic SAG after awards so just drive around just drive around the country and you know you'll find it

and just when you think it's over it's not JLo and Ben are at it again they're getting a little wound up because they can't sell the $68 million dump that they bought in Beverly Hills when they were, you know, in love. And there it sits, just to collect the dust. I would like to say that if Ben or J-Lo need somebody to, you know, live in the place, you know, just to make so it's

livable, I'm willing to do that. I know it's only a 38,000 square foot house. I get that, but I'll be able to, if I'll stay there and make sure that it's okay. All right. It's got 12 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms. You bought it for 60.85 million. And now they can't sell it. But before they were divorced, Ben bought this $20 million place in Pacific Palisades. I guess it didn't burn down or we would have heard about it. And then she, after the divorce, moved into another house in Los Angeles. That was only $18 million. But they still. still can't get rid of the 68 million. Well, they want 68 million.

They're not going to get it. He paid 60. They both paid 60 million for it. And they had somebody on the line at one time that was going to pay 64 million for it. And they backed out. So now it's just sitting there empty. And they can't sell it in they're fighting about how much they're going to charge for it. She never liked it.

It was too big. Ben, you know, it wasn't crazy. At that time, he had enough of her. I mean, he hadn't even, they weren't even divorced, and he bought the other dump for 20 million in Pacific Palisades. So, I mean, she at least waited until the divorce was over to buy the other place in L.A. And so now you have this 38,000 square foot monstrosity

with 12 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms, this beautiful. It looks beautiful. I'm willing to stay there for them. I mean, it looks tremendous. And the upkeep, got to be a fortune. So, but I'm willing. I'm willing to stay there and make sure that, you know, the, the do people are busy trimming the hedges at all times.

If you guys don't have the time, just reach out to me. You can, you know, email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can, you know, you can DM me on X at Jeffrey JFR. I know, JLo, you're, you know, big on Instagram. So, you know, you can reach out to me. You can message me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio, or Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, if that makes you happy. And you can reach out.

No problem. You know, we'll work something out. I'll fly out and keep an eye on the place. You're welcome. You're welcome, by the way. So just email me chewing the fat of the blaze.com. Sadly, I guess technically, if I accept and go out there and keep an eye on the place, that makes me one of their due people, doesn't it?

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Well, we'll begin with Roy Thomas Baker. Roy Thomas Baker. You, of course, know him. He's the producer who collaborated with Queen on Bohemium Rhapsody. Duh. He has passed away at the age of 78. There was no cause of death provided. But very sad that he worked with artist Ozzy, David Bowie, the Stones.

He worked with many of them. And he also collaborated with Queen on. Bohemian Rhapsody, that's how you know him, is dead at the age of 78. Rest in peace. Then yesterday, we had this Steve McMichael, Pro Football Hall of Famer, passed away at the age of 67.

What made, it's not funny, but what's fascinating to me is that I saw the story yesterday afternoon. Pro Football Hall of Famer, Steve McMichael, transferred to hospice care. And so, you know, he's transferred to hospice care. I think, okay, well,

usually you've got, you know, a brief period of time. You're supposed to have, I think, 30 days might be longer. I don't remember the exact timeline, but you're supposed to be on the way to death when you join hospice. And then a little bit later out of the afternoon, like three or four hours later, oh, he's dead. So, wow, I mean, it didn't take long for hospice to get rid of him. It's not funny. It's not funny at all.

he had ALS and he fought very hard with that. That's so terrible. I don't wish that on anyone. And so a very sad, rest in peace to NFL Hall of Famer, Steve McMichael, played with the Chicago Bears, dead at the age of 67. Then I want to give you a quick update on some of them that we mentioned died yesterday, the young actress, the 24-year-old, Sophie.

Nywide. Yeah, I want to give you an update. on her. We talked about her yesterday. She's dead at the age of 24. Nileide. Yes. But I heard you the first time. But there was no cause of death given yesterday when we talked about it. We talked about how they said that she was a kind and trusting girl. Well, then it goes on. It's kind of their obituary I was reading after I left doing the show. It talked about how they were heartbroken and how she's self-medicated to deal with all the trauma. And they believe that that resulted in her death.

She repeatedly said she would handle it on her own and was compelled to reject the treatment that might possibly save her life. Okay. So we're guessing that she OD'd. Was it accidental or was it not accidental? Who knows? But she was with some other people.

And I didn't realize this until this morning that she was from Bennington, Vermont. One of my favorite cities in the country. I love Bennington. I don't know that I could actually live there, but I do love Bennington, Vermont. I've been there, and I'm a huge fan of Hemmings Motor News,

and that's their home base in Bennington, Vermont. Anyway, she, I heard Brad said this morning, I did my usual Mojo 5-0 morning show hit with Brad and Ron, and I heard Brad say that she was pregnant, and I can't find that anywhere. So, I mean, maybe Brad Staggs is throwing around information that, you know, it's horrible information. This young girl is dead now,

and so is the baby that was inside her. He's just throwing that around higgly-pigley, like, okay, he knows. But I did not see that anywhere. So if she was pregnant, really, really sad. Sadder than just her dying. But I didn't see that anywhere. So, I mean, sure, is Brad right?

I didn't see it anywhere. So misinformation from him. And we got information about Carlos Santana. Wow, every so often we hear about Carlos just passing out on stage. So apparently he experienced another medical emergency prior to a performance in Texas this week. Apparently, he was getting ready to do the show in San Antonio, and they had to postpone it because they thought it was dehydration, which it was. But then they took them to the hospital and they said,

oh, hey, by the way, you've got COVID-19. and so oh okay you sure yeah but you'll be fine that's what he believes anyway so okay he's on the bed and we'll see if carlos gets back into the saddle again which i'm sure he will and i'm a huge fan of carlos and i don't want anything bad to happen to him so get better fast carlos want anything bad to happen to you about the dyes in our food and I know we talked about how the FDNC blue number one and two and the FDNC green number three and the FDNC red number 40 and the FDNC yellow number five and six and then of course we're worried about orange B and citrus red number two we need to get them canceled and out of our foods okay then we need to have you know natural color additives yes that's what we need to do and we need to be healthier well then I see a story today most of of 51 brands of toothpaste, tested for lead, contained dangerous heavy metal of lead, including those for children, and those marketed as green. Okay, so the testing was conducted by lead-safe mama.

I love lead-safe mama. Also found concerning levels of highly toxic arsenic, mercury, and cadmium in many brands. Come on, it's just toothpaste. We've got to worry about toothpaste. now? About 90% of the toothpaste contained lead. 65% contained arsenic, just under half contained mercury, and one third had cadmium. Many brands contain a number of other toxins. Oh, okay.

So the highest levels detected violated the state of Washington's limits, but no federal limits. The thresholds have been roundly criticized by public health advocates for not being protective. No level of exposure to lead is safe. So it's unconscionable, especially in 2025, said Tamara Rubin, lead safe mama's founder. What's really interesting to me is that no one thought this was a concern. So lead can cause cognitive damage in children, harm and kidneys the cause of heart disease, among other issues. Lead, mercury, cadmine, and arsenic are all carcinogens. This is Tamara Rubin, the lead safe mama's founder speaking. Last year, she detected high levels in some toothpaste using XRF lead detection tool.

I love that detection tool. The levels were high enough to raise concern, and she crowdfunded with readers to send popular brands to an independent laboratory for testing. Among those found to contain the toxins were crest, censodine, Tom's of Maine, Dr. Brunner's, David's, Dr. Jen, and of course, the all-important others. So far, none of the companies led Safe Mama checked have said they will work to get out of, get it out of their product. Several, she sent letters to several of them, and they have sent her cease and desist letters, which she said she ignored, and she posted the cease and desist letters on her blog.

So is that the blog that she has on, uh, Lead Safe Mamas website. It is, actually. Oh, it's Tamara Rubin.com, and she's known as Lead Safe Mama. Okay, got it. So I want to make sure I have that correct. All right, so she, the FDA's current limits, fluoride free toothpaste is 10,000 PPP and 20,000 Pb for fluoride toothpaste. None exceeded the FDA limits. The state of Washington recently enacted a law with one thousand pbb limits. Wow, that's way lower than the 10,000. Several exceed, you can quote me on that, several exceeded that and have been reported. Ruben said, but companies have time to get in compliance with the new rules. California's limit on lead in baby food is six ppb, but neither includes toothpaste.

Most toothpastes exceeded those thresholds. Well, yes, six pbbs. Yeah, of course they exceeded that, but they're not exceeding. You already said that they're not exceeding the federal limits. And that doesn't make it good. I'm just saying that the federal limits are not being exceeded. And for the most part, the toothpaste companies are like, hey, why don't you just shut up. So be careful out there.

We don't know what you're brushing your teeth with. And according to Lead Safe Mama, you're getting lead and you're getting arsenic. And you're getting cadminton. We've talked about those before. And those are not good for you. Okay. So, so just be careful.

And they're not good for you at certain levels, right? Are we getting, I don't know how many, what the levels are. I mean, even the companies said that, hey, some trace levels throughout the environment. They're impossible to avoid. And some companies have said, you know, the levels that you have found are not concerning. Okay. So there you go. You either believe lead-safe mama, Tamara Rubin,

or you believe the toothpaste manufacturers. That's up to you. All right, let's get out of here. I'll give you the joke of the day. Oh, before the joke of the day, I will say I want to comment on an email that I received from Braden, who says, I hate to go against you. This was concerning the story we did last Friday

about the guy with the message in a bottle, who I was just agonized with the entire, day because of his answer. He didn't remember. It was just, I just drove me insane. And he was terrible on screen for the news. And Peter, Braden says, hey, Peter was obviously following the CTF guidance whenever a microphone is put in front of your face. You don't have to talk. No, he wasn't. He didn't. They interviewed him. She was there and he was terrible. That's the thing. If she said, we reached out to Peter and he didn't want to speak to us, but he told us he couldn't remember or that kind of thing.

I'm good, okay, fine. Then then he's following the rules. But if you're going to step in front of the camera and speak, do so with some credibility, please, just a little bit. That's all I'm asking, just a little bit. If you're not, if you're going to follow my rule, it's because someone puts a microphone in front of your face, you don't have to speak. Then don't speak.

Don't do it. Don't go in front of the news. Tell the news. No, I'm not interested in doing a story. Let her do her little news story that she found you. all of that but he went through the whole thing talking to the guys who found it the whole thing and he was just

terrible about it now I'm getting pissed again I shouldn't have mentioned it. Thanks for email me Braden. All right the joke of the day comes from well I didn't write it down so I don't know where this is from if it came from you then

thank you I appreciate it and you made it through okay it's a stupid joke If it came from you, just now it's a stupid joke, but I laughed and so that's why I'm sharing it with the audience. What do you get? And people have taken to sending me their jokes of the day, and they tell me the joke, but they also do the whole, I don't know, as they're writing it.

So at least you're attempting, you're doing good work that way. What do you get when you put five ants, A-U-N-T-S in an apartment, and then put another five ants, A-U-N-T-S in an apartment? And then he types out, I don't know. What do you get when you put five ants, A-U-N-T-S in an apartment, and then put another five ants into the apartment? Tenants. See, because you had ants and then there were, you understand.

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