Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Not That One... | 10/24/25

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

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Blaze Radio Network. And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Interesting. The fire starter on California, Jonathan Rinderneck, R-I-N-D-E-R-N-E-C-H-T, is in jail for starting the Palisades fire. He is accused, sorry, of igniting the devastating Palisites fire.

Well, he went before a judge the other day, and he started to grill the judge about his detainment. Really funny. Your honor, let's talk about my detainment. He was shackled, and he was dressed at the jail garb, and he interrupted the hearing, started to question the judge. And his attorney was like, dude, pipe down, okay? And it said to the judge, obviously, my client, who's almost 30, is a young man and is confused and frustrated

about being in jail. And so he's been in jail without bail since October 8th, okay, since his arrest in Florida. And there's a great deal of frustration around him. Okay, so his attorney claims that it's really strange and something bad is happening.

happening to his client because what there, he said the federal case against him lacks sufficient evidence. And that's good. You always watch the attorney on your side. They're trying to associate and blame him for a fire that he was possibly associated with on January 1. That's the Lachman fire with a fire that started seven days later, which is the Palisades fire. Why are they blaming him for whatever the fire department didn't do. Okay. It's a good question, if true. That's a good question if true.

So Rinderneck was arrested in Florida, extradited to California. Grand jury indicted him with arson affecting property used in interstate commerce. I mean, they definitely want to find someone to put the blame on. for these fires other than neglect from the Los Angeles city departments. That's for sure. But if that's true, so he's admitting, yeah, yeah, I started that Lockman fire, but I had nothing to do with the Palisades fire. We'll see how that goes.

I feel like that's a good case, but if he's going to act crazy in court, that's not going to bode well for him. welcome welcome to chewing the fat fat five plus so down in florida uh my ex home state uh which i i guess i guess your home state is always your home state right i was born in michigan but i spent a lot of time in florida and i know now i live in texas and i've lived in a few other states as well but florida is near and dear to my heart so the governor ronda santas said yes Yesterday that the removal of the invasive Burmese pythons to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Everglades tripled this year. Now, the state has now partnered with a company that uses the snake's skins for leather.

Oh, okay. So Florida began working with Inversa Leathers last year, and it sped up the removal. So between May and July of this year, 1,022 pythons were removed compared to just 343 the same time in 2024. So in July alone, 748 snakes were removed, which is more than the entire previous year's total. The state has invested $2 million in a program this year, and DeSantis is seeking continued annual funding for it. Well, okay, so now they've made this deal with Inversa. And Inversa, you know, make, they've got, besides their, you know,

array of Python leather products, they also make leathers from skins of silver fins and lionfish. Ha, that's great. What's your wallet made out of? Ah, lion fin. Yeah, no problem. Now, what I find interesting about this project, this partnership between the state and in Versa. That's great. We're getting rid of the Burmese pythons, which is what we, you know, what is the goal is

to get rid of them. And instead of relying on farming and illegal hunting, the company turns the destructive invasive species into, you know, ethical exotics. Okay. That's great. So what does Florida get out of it? Well, I mean, he's still asking for two million dollars to keep up the program going and, you know, continue on with it. So according to this, the deal with Florida,

my understanding is that it's a public-private partnership to remove as many pythons as possible while defraying the taxpayer's burden. Who, without the help of the fashion industry, would front 100% of the cost of removals and

management? Okay, so Inversa pays their people to go get the pythons and then they make their money by selling the products that they make out of the python skin uh but florida doesn't get a cut of that well no they're getting rid of the pythons okay all right but he's asking he's still asking for two million i would be interested to find out what uh you know what it is so the state partnership with inversa boosted the removals enhanced people's wardrobes,

also reduced Florida fish and wildized administrative workload by 89% and increased python hunters pay by about 60% according to the governor's office. Okay, all right. If it's a good deal, it's a good deal.

And you can go to Inversa and get your Burmese python pants and jackets, gloves, anything, boots, you know, all kinds of fashion accessories. Are you wearing Burmese Python? Why, yes. Yes, I am. And I guess good luck to the European

defense companies. They're apparently joining forces to take out Elon Musk in space. Yeah, good luck. Really seriously, good luck with that. So Airbus Leonardo and Thales, I guess it's tails, tails, T-H-A-L-E-S, are combining their space businesses into a single company that could move, they want to create a European alternative to Musk's SpaceX.

Ha, okay, good luck. Airbus will be the majority owner with a 35% stake, and the joint venture will employ 25,000 people across Europe. French-Frenching president, Emmanuel Macron, when he's not concerned about a law, suit that his wife is actually a man, and others have championed the idea of a European satellite competitor that could be a substitute for SpaceX's Starlink system. Okay.

Good luck. Again, I say good luck. I don't see. I mean, you're going to ask Elon to take your satellites up into space to compete against him? That's cute. That is cute. Oh, shoot.

Did that rocket ship blow up? Gosh, darn it. Well, it's all about the data. Speaking of data, I see where Tinder, I know you're going to have to, you might want to sit down for this. Tinder is going to require U.S. users to verify their identity with a facial scan.

And they're doing that to root out bots and fake accounts. So you'll know. It's a human sending you that thumbs up message. Hey, I liked you. So be prepared. Those of you swiping Tinder, that you're going to have to

verify your identity with a facial scan. I know. And it's all for your safety, of course. Oh, and speaking to Tinder made me think of, I saw some numbers on OnlyFans the other day. Where the heck did I see those numbers?

here we go. So Kelly Blair, the CEO of OnlyFans, okay, she told Bloomberg that the company has paid out $25 billion to its creators since its founding in 2016. So as of last year, the platform had 4.6 million creators, 377.5 million users. Only fans takes a 20% cut of all subscriptions and content sold. Now, it's been apparently exploring a sale at an $8 billion valuation. Wow. Now, they say that they're not only, it's not just, you know, it's just not porn on Only Fans. We're expanding on OnlyFans into comedy, sports, cooking. And even the CEO said that OnlyFans is not simply,

adult content, but rather, in a critical distinction, content for adults. Think about it. So, only fans, remember that, is not simply adult content. It's content for adults. I mean, they're paying out an awful lot of money. That is for sure. Be sure to follow me on my social media at Jeffrey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio on Instagram and Facebook. Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher is my YouTube channel. You can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

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Don't do it. I'm working on it. That's the only answer you're going to get right now. All right, here's a story that makes me go, huh. Just one of those, huh. So Donald Trump, our president of the United States of America, has granted, clemency to Shangpeng Zhao.

He is the Binance founder CZ. Changpang Zao. The Chinese-born billionaire crypto founder was convicted in 2023 of money laundering violations. Okay. Huh. So he served four months in prison last year after admitting that Binance allowed

terrorist groups including ISIS and Al-Qaeda and child sex abusers to move money on the crypto exchange. After being released from prison, CZ hired lawyers and lobbyists close to Trump to seek a pardon. Okay, so Binance has been a major supporter of the Trump's family world liberty financial crypto enterprise, which has driven a huge leap in the president's personal wealth. The pardon would allow Binance to return to the U.S. with CZ as the CEO. So he only got four months, I guess.

I'm not sure what the entire sentence was. In fact, let's find out, shall we? Okay, so he had a plea deal, which was part of a $4.3 billion settlement that Binance reached with the Department of Justice in 2023. Zau's plea was part of a deal where Binance agreed to pay the $4 billion in fines and forfeiture, while Zau agreed to pay $50 million in fines. Then the agreement with Binance was described as a coordinated action between the Treasury,

the CFTC, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The DOJ's attorney, Merrick Garland, stated that Binance became the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, in part because of crimes it committed. and is now paying one of the largest corporate penalties in U.S. history. And that was it, four months. He was sentenced to four months in prison. So, man, that is damaging. Now, Binance has been a major supporter of the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

Crypto Enterprise, as I told you. Just find it interesting, isn't it? And I also, I'm not sure, I guess, that he pardoned him. But the story originally said that he offered him clemency. So the clemency refers to a reduction of punishment. And the pardon means that it's a specific type of clemency that completely forgives a crime. So I guess that's, I guess that's where we're at. Because I know that Trump said, oh, a lot of people said he wasn't guilty.

He pled guilty, though. And it worked out a deal with the government to pay a bunch of money. So good for CZ. And I'm sure he'll be happy to help the Trump's out on their crypto as well. And if you're not, you know, like CZ, worried about paying your $50 million fine and your billion dollar fines from the company, then you're probably concerned that according to a new lending tree study, pumpkin flavored products now cost around 8.4% more on average

than their non-pumpkin counterparts. So you're paying a lot more for your pumpkin products and that's because doggone it. Everyone wanted their pumpkin products. So that's called, I don't know, what's the term I'm thinking? Oh, capitalism. And since people were so psyched up and they want, they've got to have their pumpkins.

I've got to have their pumpkin spice. You know, I could probably charge more and they'd pay it. Duh. I mean, according to this, 70% of Americans say they're not at least a little excited for pumpkin spice products. Uh-huh. Meanwhile, 67% at least somewhat enjoy the flavor. And 69% say it's a seasonal must have. So let me get this straight.

Hold on. 70% of Americans say they're, at least a little excited for pumpkin spice products. Okay. Out of that 70%, 69% say it's a seasonal must have. Yeah, that's for sure. And, you know, 50% I believe pumpkin spice products are over-marketed. Yeah, but you're still buying them.

And the reason that they're over-marketed is so that you will buy them. That's the way that works. And until you stop buying them, there's no reason for them to stop marketing the product. again. Duh. So we started with what the Magic 8 Ball is going to be made

into a TV series which I kind of like. I like the premise of that. And then we found out that there's going to be we had the Barbie stuff, right? You know, from toys. And then I think there's a clue

game show coming to television. And now we find out that the board game Catan is coming to Netflix. Now Catan, I think, finally made it to the Toy Hall of Fame. Not positive if Catan actually made it. I know they were nominated.

But that's the, you know, where you develop a land. So that Catan is coming to Netflix. It's a live action and animated projects around the game, as well as a scripted and unscripted TV. Oh, okay. I don't know that that sounds fun, but sure. Let's get that into production. and I see where they're talking about now doing something called micro drama streaming.

Wasn't that Quibi that went away so fast? Now Quibi, I will say I enjoyed Quibi, but they got a lot of money. They spent it wrong. They spent a lot of it wrong. And it also launched right at the beginning of COVID, which was terrible because their whole marketing plan was to, you know, people out and about, then we're supposed to be able to, you know, enjoy it. We've been over that before. So now, former Miramax CEO, Bill Block, launched the GammaTime, which is a microdrama streaming platform.

I like that, like that gamma time. Backed by 14 million from investors. The app features 20 plus bite size originals from creators, like CSI creator Anthony Eizukier, It also uses predictive AI to test how audience responds to story concepts before greenlighting full production. Block joins a growing crowd chasing a market projected to hit $8 billion globally. Fox just invested in a Ukrainian Verticals studio, Holy Water. Televisia Univision is producing 40 microdramas for its VIX platform. And in China, microdrama revenues hit $7 billion in 2024,

exceeding the country's traditional box office. I mean, why not partner with one of the other platforms that's already creating and do that within that platform? Kind of, I don't know, good luck. Good luck to Gamma Time, the microdrama streaming platform. I was looking at the list of this week's top streamed originals, none of them on the gamma yet. So this week's

top streamed originals. The diplomat on Netflix, they just dropped season three. I have not gotten to that yet. I'm going to try to get to it, though, because I really enjoyed the first couple seasons of the diplomat. The pit is still going strong on HBO Max, which is

really surprising. That's been out of a while. Netflix has got the perfect nail. Okay, those are TV. Marvel Zombies on Disney Plus, Prime Video, Tulsa Kagan Paramount Plus, Murdaugh, Death and the Family. I'm tired of that story.

Apple TV, The Morning Show, and Peacock, devil in disguise, the John Wayne Gasey. Yeah, I think it was this one that my wife liked. She was watching a couple of them, and she said one of them was not good, and the other one was okay.

I can't remember which one she told me. I'm going to have to listen more intently when she's talking to me. me because she was talking to me about the John Wayne Gacy show, which I think she liked. But there was another one that she was watching that I think she liked that one too, but the other one wasn't as good. Maybe it was the John Gacy on Becock that wasn't good. Gosh, darn it.

I don't remember. No, because the one on Netflix that she enjoyed was about the lady who killed the kids in the yard because they were playing. See, I remember a little bit of what she was saying. and uh shoot i don't remember which i remember which one it was let's move on shall we uh the perfect neighbor uh netflix fires film salem's lot hbo max hocus pocus do on disney plus play dirty prime video vicious on paramount plus hand the rocks the cradle on hulu the lost bus apple tv uh praise this on peacock the lost bus i've told was pretty good with matty mccaneh and about the fires in california

the one fire in California. This was pre-Palessades, I believe, whatever fire that was. And I see where George Clooney was interviewed, and they were talking to him about Oceans 14, which we talked about the other day, and I told you what I thought it would be. But apparently he said the script is done,

and they're just locking up schedules now. He also was saying that he loved the crime at the Louvre. And so, I mean, he was kind of, he was joking. He was saying it was terrible, but he really appreciated what the criminals did at the Lou. There's a video of that. I'll play that tomorrow on Saturday morning live.

There's also a video of, it's titled Inside India's Poop Throwing Festival. I'll layer that tomorrow on chewing the, it's not chewing the fat. Tomorrow is Saturday morning live, duh, with Brad Staggs on my ex account at Jeffrey JFR 9 a.m. Central. So we'll definitely air the video inside India's poop-throwing festival. And then, of course, George Clooney and Ocean 14. He said the script is already done. So maybe they've already done, they had a chance a couple days ago when I said, you know, they need to rob the retirement cruise line and then use jet skis to get away.

Maybe they've already written that into the script. I don't know. All right. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with the former singer of the Welsh rock band Lost Prophets, Ian Watkins, who was in prison because he was serving a sentence for multiple pedophilia-related offenses, including attempting to rape a baby.

He was murdered at His Majesty's Prison in Wakefield, Great Britain, and so he is dead at the age of 48. Now, they have arrested two men, also already in prison, 25-year-old Rashid Goodell, and 43-year-old Samuel Dodsworth, both were charged with murder in connection with Watkins' death. Tough to feel sorry for anyone in that story, and very tough to say,

rest in peace, to Ian Watkins? Sure. Go ahead. Sure. Dead at the age of 48. Then we have a product that, well, it's not dead. It's on life support. That could be a new thing. Who's out life support today?

Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone air production due to low demand. Nobody wants it. The iPhone air could be on its way out. dead before the age of one. He's telling supply partners, Apple is telling them to slash production of the skinny iPhone after it posted weeks sales in the first few weeks on the market.

And so other models of the new iPhone 17 lineup are we selling very well, according to Apple, and they plan to maintain the current production. Estimates the air has been criticized by techies for its relatively low battery life and single camera, though some have applauded lightweight experts say it could serve as the forerunner to the oft-rumored foldable iPhone. Yeah, I'm ready for a foldable phone that works too.

Samsung and I may have to try that because I kind of want to try that. And I could go on. We've got to talk about the betting scandal and a poker scandal and that all the arrest yesterday. We did, I don't know that we learned anything more that we talked about yesterday. We know that it's four of the five families in the mafia. It was a four-year investigation. Some of the things that they talked about that maybe we didn't talk about on this show yesterday. They talked about illegal and rigged gambling activities with special technology,

including contact lenses to read the cards, manipulate shuffles, communicate with each other's. And they were, after they were bringing in big fish to play, and they all were in out of except for that person and they were making money from them. Some of the gamblers, if you owed them money, that's when the mafia came in and said, you need to pay us. And that's amazing.

That's what the mafia does. Huh. And then the NBA players and the coaches were fixing games. Holy cow. I mean, and it was, you know, a day after the opening night of the new 2025 season, it's going to be a long, long season for the NBA. I'll tell you that.

Holy cow. And then at the same time, we get the college athletes saying they're able to bet on other sports, just not college football. Oh, okay. And the NHL licensed to deal with the polymarket that aids in the betting. I mean, the gambling thing, while I appreciate. And as a free market guy, you should be able to do whatever you want. But if you're playing in the, and they are rules in the, you know, the NBA, the NFL,

there should be 100% rules across the board, NBA, NHL, NFL, and the NCAA, if you're participating in that sport, you should not be able to bet on any sports. I mean, I don't understand it. And they could file out of the lawsuit you want. I just feel like the integrity of these games doesn't mean squat anymore. And that's very disappointing. And they say it does. They all say it does.

Oh, of course it does. Of course it does. And they want your loyalty until they don't need it anymore. It's just it's sad. It's sad. But I do love that there was two of them. Yesterday we mentioned the one Operation Royal Flush. But there was also the second operation, which,

was Operation Nothing But Bet. Not as good, but it's still there. Tonight's episode, Operation Royal Flush. I like that a lot. Tonight's episode, Operation Nothing But Bet. Yeah, not as good. But it still works as an episode. No problem.

Those were the investigations going on from the arrest yesterday. And then there's more mafia stories as well. Oh, yeah, the Jack Kerouac story. They found this existence of the Jack Courier story because nobody knew it existed. But because this Paul Castellano, the New York crime boss, the head of the Gambino family, and he was gunned down in front of the steakhouse in 85, I guess he had the book. They don't even know how he got a copy of the book. I think we all know how.

Come on now. You know how Paul Castellano got things. Anyway, apparently they found it when the estate sale was organized at Castellano's former mansion. So we've got that to look forward to. So Mafia in the news. All right, let's get out of here.

A joke of the day. I got out of here with the joke of the day. This was sent from John, who's angry with me. He said, I sent a good joke a few months ago and was kicked to the curb. I don't know if that means I read it and said it was terrible or if I didn't read it and just didn't say anything about it. I don't know.

I appreciate the hard work that you all put in sending me the jokes of the day, those of you that are writing them. I don't know if John wrote this or if it was someone else. who wrote it but you know he said i wanted to i can't let this would go oh okay all right so let's did you hear about the blind hooker oh it's kind of a big guy it's kind of a big guy joke okay so did you hear about the blind hooker yeah you have to hand it to her see we're going jada say it no i think i think we all got it to subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.