Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Not The First Time… | 10/23/25

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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Blaze Radio Network. And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Oh, boy, here we go. Three California residents have been infected with clad one M-pox, which is a more severe strain of the virus, formerly known as Monkeypox, marking the first time this type of M-pox has spread within the U.S. Okay.

So the unrelated cases identified in Long Beach and Los Angeles County involved patients who had not recently traveled abroad. All three were hospitalized and are now recovering. Okay, well, that's good. Mpox is the viral infection that often begins with flu-like symptoms, such as fever, chills, and muscle aches. These are usually followed by a rash that starts as small raised spots that developed into fluid-filled blisters,

which is always fun, before forming scabs. Now, the virus has two main genetic groups or clads. Clad one M-pox has caused widespread disease and deaths in part of Central and East Africa, most acutely in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clad two was the strain behind the 2022 U.S. outbreak, which has circulated at low levels since. So the presence of Clad 1 needs careful evaluation, according to the experts.

So they don't think the historical results we've seen from Africa are directly translatable, but we need to monitor these cases very, very closely. And, I mean, Clad 1 Mpox cases can be severe. and the risk of severe disease and hospitalization are highest for people with weakened immune systems. So it's very important to protect yourself by getting both doses of the M-Pox vaccine. If you or sex partners, plural, maybe risk of M-Pox, because you do not want to get the small-raised spots that then develop into fluid filled blisters and then form scabs. You don't want that.

And you know what? I don't want that for you. Welcome. Welcome to Towing the Fat. Fat 5 Plus. So the big news today is the big FBI, New York City, Homeland Security arrests of NBA players, NBA coaches, former NBA players, coaches, and mafia family members over a gambling ring that was taking place. And apparently the first case involved these six defendants, alleged for being involved in a sports corruption scheme.

And the second involves 31 defendants accused of participating in rigged illegal poker games. And so the arrests are part of this whole illegal gambling and sports rigging operations spanned four years, calls the fraud, the FBI called the fraud mind-boggling. And it's pretty fascinating. I mean, they busted, they made a pretty good show of it and busted them all at the same time around the country. I believe it was nine states involved. And pretty impressive. And there's, you know, specific games that they're talking about that they noticed. strange gambling around those games and then they started to investigate that and so i know that

uh they talked about it being a four year investigation and so okay uh no problem good i'm glad that they're the cheating scandal is going to rock the nba and the mafia for that matter as they got they got hauled into this as well for these illegal poker games but as i'm reading the story and more will come out i don't have i don't have all the the the if they're having a press conference as we speak, but they talked about x-ray tables and special contact lenses for the poker games. And they're getting them for wire fraud

and bank wires and crypto because they laundered this money. And so, okay, I just want all the details. But one of the things that I talked about in the story that I read this morning is that they, over the time, the conspiracy cheated victim, out of $7 million and placed the public at risk so the defendants could cash out.

It was first uncovered four years ago. I involved global reach of financial debt. Okay, so, great, thank you, I appreciate it. But for four years, these guys, these NBA, former NBA players, coaches, and mafia members, I think four of the five families were involved. only made $7 million out of the deal,

that seems like an awful lot of effort for not a lot of money back because I would expect them to make a lot more. But maybe we find out that it was more than that once we get all the details. And once I get all the details, I will absolutely bring them to you. I will say we do have a new name

because the operation was, Operation Royal Flush. So I might have to bring back Cannon. Tonight's episode, Operation Royal Flush. Now, they talk about, I do have a little bit more information. 13 members and associates of the Bonannin Genovese and Gambino crime families, so only three of the crime families. The case involved former and current NBA players.

Got that? Three of the defendants were charged in both cases. Okay. They say that they hustled unwitting victims out of tens of millions of dollars to fund the Italian Crime Families Network. Okay, so this says tens of millions of dollars. And the first report I read was $7 million. So we're going to find out that how much money it actually was.

And I'm sure it had to have been more than $7 million. I mean, you're not going to all this trouble for $7 million. To you and me, $7 million sounds like a lot. Do these guys, former NBA players and coaches and mafia members? No. We're not going to all this trouble for just a peasant amount of $7 million. But that's what's happening, and you're going to be hearing more and more about that everywhere today. And I promise you, I will have all the details on how they did it.

and everyone that was charged as we get that information on Operation Royal Flush. Okay, speaking of Royal Flush, this has come out on Prince Andrew from a book called The Rise and Fall of the House of York. Okay, so this writer Andrew Alone, I don't know, I might have to talk to. him. The disgraced former Duke, who last week was forced up to give up all his titles, yep, against the scandal, urged everyone around him, had urged everyone around him to find women he could date, leading to him sleeping with women. He didn't realize were prostitutes. Ah, well, so what, if they were? I mean, I, okay. So I guess he was sex-obsessed, Prince Andrew, according to this rise and fall of the House of York. And,

begged staff and friends to arrange girls for him with a preference for ballerinas and blondes. Okay, so, so? He would spy out an attractive ballerina at the Royal Ballet and then send his due person to invite her to meet the prince. Other variations included sending aids to invite girls to his table or come to his hotel suite when abroad. again, so if he's not raping them, if it's not some sort of sexual assault, so what? Andrew's staff often requested that attractive women be invited to events with private security specifying. He likes blondes. I'm a diplomat, which one council said, I'm a diplomat, not a pimp.

Okay, okay, so this is not a bombshell to me. I'm sorry. He will see, Andrew resigned as the. the UK special trade envoy back in 2011, following criticism of Ian Epstein. Yeah, we know all that. While traveling the globe, it was rumored that Andrew brought women with him, that he liked to stay in hotels. Okay. The escorts were masquerading as professional women. Okay. He was close to Jeline Maxwell. Well, okay. None of this is alleging that the women that he was with were underage or that he assaulted them.

So the only one was Jafray, right? If you believe her memoir. So, okay. All right. That's what's happening. It's another operation that absolutely could be titled Operation Royal Flush. So on today's Fat Five, one of the stories I did was the Louvre robbery. I broke down the entire timeline and what they stole.

And the timeline is incredible. It took them seven or eight minutes and they were in and out. And they dropped one crown. But you could go back and listen. I do that every day on Pat Gray unleashed Monday through Friday. I was also one of the things I didn't get to, the Fat Five. Hence, we'll get to it here on Fat Five Plus. This happened, these robberies of museums, I mean, the Lou has been robbed before.

The biggest heist was when the most famous painting in the world, you know, Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911. He took the mona of this guy, Vincenzo Perugia, took the Mona Lisa from its frame, and it disappeared for two years until it was. recovered in Florence. Ha! I mean, he just took it. Yeah, that's mine.

So then there was the relatively recent robbery, a Canadian object in 2017, a 100-kilogram solid gold coin known as the Big Maple Leaf was taken from the Berlin Museum. The coin was worth around $6 million.

They don't know what happened to it. It's believed that it was cut up. and pieces sold off. Three men were later convicted of that crime, though. But they never recovered the coin. And then we have the biggest art heist in U.S. history, probably the world, remains unsolved,

and the art is still missing. In 1990, two men disguised as police entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 artworks, including Rembat, Bramette, Rembrandt, a Vermeer, a Degas, and a manet. The investigation was the subject of a documentary called This Is a Robbery. But that's never, never been solved.

Ah, weird. Okay. And, you know, I'm talking to Brad Staggs. You know, we do Saturday morning live together, which you should watch and listen to on Saturday morning. That's what we call it Saturday morning live at 9 a.m. Central. And he reminded me that we haven't still, we haven't solved the Agarter World case either. That happened last Easter.

Remember, I mean, occurred at the warehouse, Easter morning. Thieves broke into the facility and stole as much as $30 million from the vault. And that has not been solved either. So I know that they're complaining about security and security issues.

at the Louvre, and, of course, other places all around. However, robberies are still going on, big robberies are still going on, and the robbery at the Louvre, I mean, I don't know if it was a paid robbery for the actual pieces that were stolen, or if they're just going to break it up, cut it up, and take what they can for it. Because they made a big deal out of saying, well, all these pieces are worth over a hundred million dollars, you know, if it's kept together. But if they break it up, they're not going to be able to do anything. It's probably worth, you know, 90% less. Well, that would be $10 million.

And what they did for that work to get $10 million seems to be worth it. I'm not saying people should do it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't get me wrong. Crime is wrong. But I'm just saying if you did what they did at the Lou. I mean, $100 million is pretty sweet. $40 or $50 million, if you were taking it and delivering it to someone in particular, which I don't think because they dropped the crown, and they left the one crown, they lost the one crown.

If they were taking all the pieces, those particular pieces to an already approved buyer, they would not have, they would have, they would have went back and got the ground. Because that's, I mean, that's not fulfilling your job. As a criminal. I mean, what are you doing? So, J.P. Morgan Chase. You know them, you love them.

Or you, you know, they unveiled their new $3 billion 60-story global headquarters in Midtown Manhattan this week, underscoring its over 225-year presence in New York City and commitment to in-person work post-pandemic. Now, the sixth tallest building in Manhattan will house about 10,000 of J.P. Morgan's 24,000 New York-based employees. Executives considered scaling the project back mid the rise of remote work, but Jamie Diamond, the CEO, said, no. We are required rerouting part of the subway system. Okay, so they rerouted part of the subway system to fit him. Wow. The 2.5 million square foot building features 19 restaurants and lighting calibrated. Yeah, we talked about that. So that's incredible because they also talked about the security getting into the building, right?

They're buying, actually, they're setting up an entire neighborhood. they're buying a whole all the nearby properties and renovating it making it into this neighborhood of J.P. Morganish people. I mean, and plus,

if he's rerouted the subway system to come to his building, that's world class. So one thing I always forget is that the J.P. Morgan Bank was started by Aaron Burr in 1799? Huh.

It's now the world's largest bank by market capitalization. All right. Well, congratulations. But if you want to work there, you need to have your biometric data

being able to access, being accessed by the company. It was voluntary. Yeah, no longer. You need to have, it's required. It's going to be required to get into the skyscraper.

It's going to be required to get the whole complex. So instead of scanning badges, employees will have to have either offer up their palms or fingerprints. Ocular scans are also possible. Okay. So that's great. I mean, if you want to work there, come into the building and stay in the complex, no problem. Just you have you scan your eyeball and you'll be good to go because the palm print and the fingerprint will work for a little while. but we're going to go ahead and need to have that ocular scan as well.

There's going to be 19 restaurant food courts, an Irish pub, an art collection. They mentioned they love the lighting that matches the workers' circadian rhythms. It's its own signature. Oh, okay, yeah. And they also apparently have their own J.B. Morgan scent that they blast through the building. Oh, that's great. so maybe we'll get that in the entire multi-block area. The whole J.P. Morgan.

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Cristiano Ronaldo, he's, I don't know, the highest paid athlete in the, the world. I mean, Ronaldo is the man. I know I'm sure Lionel Messi would have something to say about that, but ask Cristiano and he will tell you that he's the man. Now, he just signed

reportedly. He has signed a love contract. Who doesn't want one of those? Man, I'm willing to, I'm willing to sign a love contract with Ronaldo. Okay, we can do that right now. Ronaldo,

I'm just letting you know. I'm really to sign a love contract with you. He signed, according to this, he signed a love contract with his fiancee, Giordino Rodriguez. Under the agreement, Georgino would receive $120,000 a month, full ownership of their $6 million Madrid mansion, and an additional $2 million annual lifestyle allowance if they were to ever separate. Now, Ronaldo said, I'd lose my way. I'd lose my way. And I'd lose more than that if I lost her. We've been together since 2016. And we have five children.

We're living in Saudi Arabia now. I just know that, well, I love Georgina, and I don't want a loser. So that means nothing to me. $120,000 a month. The $6 million dump mansion in Madrid that don't even go to barely anymore. And a 2 million annual lifestyle allowance. if they were to separate. So, man, I'm willing to sign that love contract.

Just so we're clear. All right. I will. I will not. I might think about it. Would you sign this love contract with me? Let me think about it. Okay.

So good for Georgina. And, you know, you can't put a price tag on love. And obviously, Cristiano Ronaldo knows that. All right. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's start with Jeff Cheen. Jeff Cheen, longtime music executive.

He worked with Lenin and Rick James and Pink Floyd and Deep Purple, promoted concerts all around the world. And he helped bring reggae and American pop and jazz to China. Has died at the age of 80. Now, I got the thinking, okay, so he was after, cause of death was a long battle. with cancer. Okay. And I got to thinking, wow, this guy set up all these guys and he's been working and set up concerts for these artists to go to China. What gave him that idea? Because

that was genius. I mean, back then, the guy was 80. So back then, that wasn't necessarily a, you know, it wasn't a thought. But he worked for, you know, tetagrammaton and Mercury Capital and Fire Out Music. And he expanded into the Asian market. And the first Pacific Rib Festival, in L.A. I mean, he was doing that. I wouldn't make him think of that. And then his wife is quoted in the story, and her name is Chen Hung. Well, they got married in 2015. Okay, so, and they do have a couple of kids and grandchildren.

So I don't, I think they were together, but they weren't married because he lived in Beijing and Hong Kong for 13 years before returning to the U.S. and so I feel like they were been together for quite some time and that's what gave him anyway congratulations it was a smart move and probably made him a lot of money and brought music to

the world and you know rest in peace to Jeff Sheen a long time music executive husband of Chun Hung dead at the age of 80 so I guess that they were still alive

but they were barely they were on life support. According to this, now MTV is signing off. I know. I, okay, sure. After 44 years on the air, MTV, once the heartbeat of pop culture, is officially signing off. And I think they're signing off at the end of this year. I don't think they've already signed off. They launched an 81 with a video killed the radio start.

And then they, I mean, that's how we consumed music for years. In recent years, MTV shifted away from music videos toward reality TV and reruns. No kidding. Losing the cultural dominance that once defined a generation. Now parent company Paramount Global has confirmed the network will be phased out in 2025, transitioning fully to digital content under the Paramount brand. So are we? We still kind of on life support and we're just slowly fading away until we are gone.

I guess so. I guess that's what we're doing. So I guess rest in peace to MTV. We'll give MTV last rights at the age of 44. And then we have Misty Cope. Now, she's not dead. Misty Copeland. Well, you don't know who Misty Copeland is?

She's the performer of American Ballet Theater. She's taken a five-year hiatus. How soon we forget. She became the elite company's first black principal dancer, Misty Copeland. Well, she did one final show. She took one last spin on the El Point Shoes at the American Ballet Theater. And she's had a trailblazing career, but I just want you to know she's done.

Okay. She started a, she was the first black female principal dancer in the company's 75 year history. And was, I mean, there was a star started gala at the event.

And so we, she performed and they had a big event. And I was pretty much put on by her. And she's got, as I'm reading this story, it's like she put it on so that she could say goodbye. Because the night was also, the 805th anniversary of the ballet theater.

And so there were speeches and film clips of her and roses and glittery confetti. And she was there too. They were performing. And they were also hawking her new book, Bunheads. I guess it's a series. And then she has the Misty Copeland Foundation.

And then she has Be Bold, program, which is an after-school program designed for young children of color. So Misty Copeland is no longer going to be dancing and doing ballet. So rest in peace to Misty's ballet. She's still involved, though, with the ballet world and her charities and her series of books. So good for Misty Copeland. All right, let's get out of here. Let's end the day, chewing the fat, Fat 5 Plus with the joke.

of the day. There's two of them that were sent to me yesterday, and I'm going to do one today and one tomorrow. I want to do them both for you today, but they both made me laugh, and there's no telling that another joke will come in in time to make me laugh. So we're just going to do the one that I think made me laugh the most.

No, the one I do tomorrow was, I'll do both of them for you, okay? I'll do both. I'll just get it over with. A special Thursday edition of Joke of the Day with two jokes. Joke number one. Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? I don't know.

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? If it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan. So stupid. Okay, this one made me actually laugh even. more than that one. Archaeologists now believe they know how long dinosaurs lived. Really? That's interesting. Yeah.

It's about the same amount of time as the short ones. So what he's saying is is that they had, now you got it. Stream and subscribe to more. more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.