Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - TITLE: What Happens If?…

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

Meat Rain in Kentucky…  Tik Tok psychic guilty fined millions…  Australian psychics defrauded millions…  Horse and buggy a no go at McDonalds drive thru… WBD and Paramount+ plans…  The Ellison Empire…  Top Weekend Movies… AMC A-Lister plan…  Email: [e-mail] www.blazetv.com/jeffy  Save $20 on an annual subscription...  Who Died Today: Neil Sedaka 86 / Annabel Schofield 62 / Cody Siebert 33 / Todd Meadows 25…  MeeMaws bloodline is the joke of the day, maybe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blaze Radio Network 100 and 50 years ago. March 3rd, 1876. It was a beautiful day in Olympia Springs, Kentucky. A resident named Rebecca Crouch was out on her yard making soap when a strange kind of snow began to fall. At least that's how she described it. It was pieces drifting down about the size of snowflakes,

only they weren't white, they weren't red, and they look like meat. It was raining meat in Olympia Springs, Kentucky. We don't know what happened. Apparently, the next day, when they went out and saw particles of meat sticking to the fence and scattered all over the ground, apparently two gentlemen who tasted the meat

expressed the opinion that it was either mutton or venison. I mean, when you have meat sticking on the top of a fence, You have to try it, right? Of course you do. Now, they really don't know what caused it. Some person came a few months later and described it as some witch's butter from a rain, but it wasn't raining. And then another person said, you know, the plausible theory is that it is, well, how can I say this? It is the fact that the birds were puking over the property.

Yeah, that's what they figured. They figured, hey, you know, probably what was going on was, it was projectile vulture vomit, which apparently vultures are common in Kentucky and are known to, you know, throw up through their stomach. So nobody knows what it was. But I just want to celebrate. It was actually March 3rd. If you're listening live today, it is the 4th of March. So we missed the actual anniversary, but it rained meat 150 years ago, 1876.

And boy, we like to remember that day every year, don't we? Well, we do. They have a big cookout every year, a festival featuring a mystery meat chili cookoff. So they celebrate Rating Meat Day in Kentucky. Darn it, did we miss it or is it still happening? Yeah, I think we missed it. I think we missed the 2026 Kentucky Meat Shower Festival. Ah, darn it.

Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Fat 5 Plus. So a federal jury determined a Texas-based TikTok influencer was liable for $10 million in damages over her repeated videos accusing a University of Idaho professor of involvement in the murders. of the four university students in 2022. The jury concluded that Ashley Gulliard, 41, made false statements when she claimed that Rebecca Schofield, the University History Department chairman and an associate professor, orchestrated the murder of four students at the University of Idaho and had an inappropriate

romantic relationship with the student. So you can't just, can't just. inadvertently accused people of crimes? Weird. Her videos drew millions of views and were widely shared online. Schofield Ford filed the suit against Gulliard in December of 2022. Wow, it's been going on that long. Days before Brian Coberger was arrested at his parents' home in Pennsylvania, charged with the murders.

He's pled guilty to avoid the death penalty. And so she began making claims on November and continued to post videos after Schofield sent a scene. and desist letter and filed her lawsuit. She claimed she used tarot cards and other readings to solve crimes online. In the lawsuit,

what are you going to do? You read the tarot cards and that's what the cards say. It's not me. Says that she was in Portland, Oregon with her husband visiting friends at the time of the murders and that none of the four slain students had ever taken a class with her.

She also said she doesn't recall ever meeting any of them. I mean, she didn't have an affair with one of them. The day after she filed the lawsuit, the Moscow Police Department, posted on Facebook that it did not believe the female associate professor and chair of the history department at the University of Idaho, suing a TikTok user for defamation is involved in this crime. In a statement after the jury's verdict, Gofield thanks to the jurors and noted that the judge had already ruled as a matter of law that the statements were false. The $10 million verdict reinforces the judge's decision and sends a clear message that false statements online have consequences in the real world for real people and are unacceptable in our community. I don't know. Is she going to ever get the $10 million?

I don't know. Is this TikToker worth over $10 million? I don't know. So you just can't inadvertently accuse people online of crimes. Huh, weird. Weird that's worth 10 million bucks, though. I mean, that's a pretty good payout. Then I read, speaking of psychics, where they're in Australia,

they're talking about how psychics have defrauded victims of like $70 million. And they're talking about, now is the time to crack down on psychics? Okay. So apparently there's all kinds of people in Australia that take, the advice of psychics who can see the future, mediums who claim they can speak to the dead, and people apparently believe in all of that, and they give them tons of money. They talk about one CEO that, you know, his stockbroking firm gone history because she was, she had a psychic telling him what to do, what to invest in, who to hire, who to fire.

It did not work out well. And that's all for money, millions of dollars. So if you're a psychic and you're telling people you can see the future, that's great. But if you're telling people, hey, I can see the future and you are going to come in and do a whole lot of money. But first, you need to take out a loan. And I'll take a cut of that loan because you don't have to worry about paying off the loan because you're going to be coming into a whole lot of money from a business. billionaire. I see it. I see your future. Just always remember as well, when you go see, say, a palm reader, and the first thing the

palm reader does is go, ooh, then just stop it. You don't want to know anymore after that. Seriously, you don't. You know, a story that I've had in the fat pile for a while, and it's bugged me for quite some time, and I really don't know why it's bugged me, but it just keeps bugging me every time I see it. So we're going to talk about it a little bit. This happened in Wyoming, the northern part of Wyoming, way up there,

beautiful this time of year, and Powell. And the story is about Alan Hatch and his two new draft horses that he's been training for several months. And he said, what a better way to motivate them? He was going to go into town.

He needed some feed. And he figured he'd stop off at McDonald's and get a cheeseburger and fries. Well, he's up there, as long as he's getting, picking up their feed at the Ace Hardware. And the horses need some mile. We're going to go through the drive-thru at the McDonald's and get a cheeseburger and fries, too.

And apparently, the McDonald's people were, you know, happy to see him in the drive-thru with the horses. And they were going to get his food. But apparently the manager was not happy about it. And she said, hey, the horses are not allowed in the drive-thru. Okay? Unless they're already butchered. Kind of funny. That's actually what she said.

But, you know, coming through the drive-thru window, we got it, manager of McDonald's. There's a company policy precluding having livestock in the drive-thru for purposes of liability. Really? Okay. All right. If you say so. And the one thing she did say was that what happens if the horses, you know, take a dump in my drive-thru? There's no one here to clean it up.

Well, here's the thing, manager. It's my draft houses and my wagon. If they do, if they take care of business, that kind of business, in your drive-thru, I'll clean it up. What he should do, the next time he comes into town is just park out in the parking lot and make sure that they do take a dump in the parking lot and then ride off. See if you've got somebody to clean it up then. I mean, I can't believe that in Wyoming and McDonald's a small town,

you can't pull your wagon and a horse through the drive-thru. just ticks me off for some reason. You should be able to do that. Now, the manager, of course, was not available for comment at the publication of this article. And McDonald's corporate offices were not immediately return it on Thursday. Huh, that's interesting.

Because you'd think that the CEO who's out in front of everybody's face now promoting his new big arch available when you can get it, and he eats at McDonald's three or four times a week. Uh-huh. Nobody believes that, but that's what he said. You'd think that he would watch.

customers and say, look, it was just our manager in Wyoming was misinformed. And of course, customers can go through the drive-thru in their horse and buggy. But I'm guessing that's probably not the case. You can't walk through a drive-thru. I've been told that before. The long line inside. I'm just going to, I'm already out of my car. I'll just walk up to the window in order.

No, we can't do that. Oh, okay. I'll just wait in line inside then, okay? I mean, I just, it's weird. It's because of insurance purposes. Okay. Thank you. Would you like something else, though, while you wait in line?

Ugh. Well, I see, Paramount has revealed new details about their merger with Warner Brothers. So HBO Max and Paramount Plus will be combined into one service. Interesting. Look, all those platforms want you to stay there. So they're going to be combining everything onto a main platform. And they're just going to go there and they want to. you to stay there. Go inside that platform and watch all your stuff so you're staying on that one

platform. So that's coming to everyone. But apparently HBO Max and Paramount Plus will be combined into one service. And I'm sure there's going to be other services combined with that as time moves on. 15 films per studio with 45 day theatrical windows for each film. That's good. They should drop that down to 30. Let's get things back to streaming. And I'm okay with, you know, the 45. I get it. That isn't even my whole plan for it to save the theaters, but that's for another day. Merged company will have approximately $75, $79 million, sorry, $79 million. $79 million. What kind of old school are you? $79 billion in debt, $6 billion in cost cutting, including consolidating on tech infrastructure, real estate, corporate overheads, and more.

So the $6 billion in cost cutting, that's going to be interesting. I'll be consolidating on tech infrastructure, real estate, corporate overheads, and I wonder what Ed Moore is. That's you and me. No plans to sell off, spin off any of their cable assets, flexibility to put sports like UFC on any cable network. Yeah, they're going to want to be able to provide content across all their platforms. We'll continue to license movies and TV shows to other studios and platforms.

Make as much money as possible. After we're done with them, then you can have them. AI will be a tool for artists, but never a replacement. That's cute. AI will be a tool for artists, but never a replacement for storytellers. Yeah, that is cute, isn't it? It sure is. Yep, I'm loving that.

So I love that now that we have the big merger, and I know it's not 100% done, but it kind of is. when you look at what they've done to the HBO and HBO Max, I was looking at a post talking about the history of the logo since 2022. It was HBO Max with Max underneath, and then it was just Max. And then it was Max with the HBO circle in the middle of the A, and then that was blue.

And then it was Max with the HBO circle in the A black with white lettering. And then it was HBO Max in black. And now the 2026 logo appears. Apparently is going to be HBO Max, but the Max A is the Paramount Plus Mountain. It's going to be Paramount, and then underneath Max will be Paramount Plus. Kind of a cool looking logo, actually.

I like it. HBO Max with Paramount Plus, I kind of like that a lot. But you're looking at the Ellison family's potential business empire? I mean, they have so many platforms. All these, all these, let's see. I just want to see if I just want to see if I can. if I can read all these on these regular platforms here.

Skydance, TikTok, Pandango, Rotten Tomatoes, DC Studios, Oracle, HBO, CNN, CBS, Showtime, TBS, Comedy Central, TNT, Paramount Plus, TLC, HDTV, Nickelodeon, BNR, what is the, C, comedy network, Animal Planet, CBS Sports, Adult Swim, HBO Max. Cinemax, cooking, Pluto, discovery, food, science, CW, travel, BET, MTV, VH1. Yes, MTV, it still exists.

I thought they would, I mean, they might as well make the relive the MTV. They should, you do my idea. Maybe they will. And they've got some major franchises, too, underneath the new empire. So it's going to be, that's going to be huge. So it's pretty much a done deal. I think we can count on that for sure. Did you happen to see, speaking of CBS and Paramount Plus,

did you happen to see the new Marshalls show, which is a spinoff from Yellowstone? Man, that was, it was pretty good. It was pretty good. They had their, premiered with 9.5 million viewers on CBS. I don't know if that counts. See, Per Nielsen, the first episode,

reached an average of 9.9 billion viewers. Yeah, I watched it the next day. So I don't know that we have those next day. numbers on that. But it's really good. It's a Yellowstone spinoff. It's with Casey. It's after we've passed the end of Yellowstone. And his wife has died. Oh, I probably shouldn't say anything. I already do. It's too late. His wife has died. So it's he and his son. And I don't know if they couldn't pay her or if she wasn't available for the show. But, well, we can't pay you? Okay. Well, you died of cancer. Move on. And we'll just add that. That's a whole different.

the side of the world that we can worry about is his wife dying of cancer and she's still buried on Indian land and all the good good things that come from that but it was really fun and it was nice to have a little bit of Yellowstone back in our lives for sure so Marshall's first episode aired and that was aired on uh CBS so that's part of the new paramount plus CBS Empire and I see where uh scream seven scream seven scream 7 was the number one movie at the movie theaters this weekend. They did almost 100 million global. Scream 7. They did 64.1 million here in the U.S. domestic total.

Incredible. Scream 7. Goat in week 3 was number 2 with 12 million. They've done 130 million global. Cost them 80 million. Okay. We're getting there. Wuthering Heights is still hanging in there, but they're number three. at the 6. I mean, not even 7 million.

They're way down another 50% this week. So they've totaled 192 million global with an $80 million budget. Yeah. So even if it's as bad as some people have reported, people have still made quite a bit of money. 21 pilots more than ever, more than we ever imagined. That was a brand new. It was per screen numbers on the concert film with some IMAX

screens in the mix. Okay, so they did 3.7 million. My man Elvis, Elvis Presley in concert, Epic, Week 2. Week 2, I feel like this was week three, but they say week two. Okay. They did three and a half million. They've got 7.8 million domestic and 14.3 million global, and they added some theaters. Yeah, that's, it's getting an A plus. Everybody loves it. Epic. Elvis Presley in concert. And I apologize for not having seen that yet. Very disappointed in myself. because they had all kinds of footage that had never before been released of the king. So I got to get there.

I got to get there to see that. Crime 101. Week 3. Wow, that movie must be not good. You can quote me on that. 3.4 million this weekend, week three. So that was 9th. They have made 30 million domestically and 57 million, a little over 57 million.

Globally, they had a 90 million. million dollar budget crime 101 oh uh that's not good at all i can only imagine two was 10th in their second week uh they have had 18 million uh globally well that had a budget of 18 million they've only made 13 million global domestic so and they'll make their money that's good that's good so good for them sent help uh was in there so wait where are we at here scream was one two, three, four, five, Elvis was five, crime of the amount runs six, I can only imagine was seven, sound help was eight, how to make a killing was nine,

Zootopia is in the top ten, still hanging in there. They've almost cleared two billion, one point eight six billion globally, four hundred and twenty five million domestic, and they cranked in another one point four million this past weekend, week four-four million, number ten. So this is where we're at, week 14, right? They should have been streaming already.

Maybe they are. I just haven't seen it. But right now, I mean, after 10 weeks, come on mind, you've made your money. All right, after 10 weeks, let's bring it to stream. Let's go. Okay, and this is what I'm talking about with the movie theaters. Okay, so AMC apparently is what they're,

there's going to what they're calling airline mode. The chain announced that it will reserve the best seats in the house exclusively for its top-tier loyalty members. A-list and Stubbs premiere at no extra charge. The program is expected to launch later this year. It's a rebrand of AMC tried charging more for prime seats through its Sightline program a few years ago, and that didn't go well. And so now they're flipping the script and framing seat access as a perk. Instead of a fee.

A tenant's dropped a 10% last quarter. Yeah. Okay, so here's what we need. Instead of having your little loyalty alist club. And if the law of that seat is available for loyalty members only, sir, you can't sit there. Okay, so what if it's empty? Do I get to sit in and then? No, that's still reserved for our loyalty members.

All right. So here's an idea, AMC. While doing that, why not? I've already, I've done this so many times. I've talked about this. I'm blue in the face right now. If you could see me, for those of you watching and listening live,

you can see my face is blue. I'm blue in the face from talking about this. You need to drop your prices at the concession stand, and you need to also have some deals at the concession stand for, I don't know, Tuesdays, Thursdays have better deals. And maybe you can throw some stuff in for your A-list Stubbs fans. You know, so people that are sitting in the special reserved seating for the A-listers will have some sort of deal as well. But if you do that, you're going to attendance will go up.

I promise you that. I mean, heck, even baseball is starting to realize, you know what? Maybe if we start a ticket package starting at a regular price, say $29. And we can include bottomless soda, hot dogs, chicken tenders, brought worst, nachos, fries, popcorn, peanuts, chips and ice cream. We can do that. Maybe we'll bring in some extra crowds. Yeah, you will. You'll bring in some kids.

You'll bring in some little leaguers. And at the movie theaters, here you go. Have some nights that are a little bit cheaper so the younger people can come. And even the older people. And even the middle age people. And even the regular age people. Yeah, that's right. You're going to have to drop your price at the concession stand.

But in the long run, it will make you more money. I don't understand what they don't get about that. Be sure to follow me on my social media at Jeffey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and Instagram. You can follow me on my YouTube page, 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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And a whole lot more with that Blaze TV subscription. BlazTV.com slash Jeffie. Okay, who died today? Who died today? Have we even mentioned? the great, the legendary Neil Sedaka passed away? I don't think we did. I don't think we did on this show. Neil Sedaka dead at the age of 86.

Now, a lot of people thought Neil was gay. But he had a family. He had a wife and kids and grandkids. So I don't think he was. At least he wasn't out. You know, as a gay man with a family. He was a family man. Neil Sedaka, I mean, he wrote monster hits, and he was, his life story is amazing. He wrote, uh, and it was younger kids. He was writing with the friends.

They recorded records. He got a record deal, wrote a bunch of songs, made a bunch of hits. And then he realized that the Beatles and, uh, the rock, Rolling Stones and stuff were coming into the U.S. So he just went away. He stopped singing and just wrote songs for other people. They made monster hits. And then in the 70s, he thought, you know, I could start.

singing again. And he came back and did his other stupid, ooh, are your laughter in the rain? I can't even put that song on my head. Why am I doing that? Neil Sedaka dead at the age of 86. What's weird about that too is I was looking on social

media and I see a post that says, Neil Sedaka, rush to the hospital. I thought, ah, shoot, man. I wonder what's wrong with Neil. And the next thing I see is Neil Sedaka dead. So maybe maybe we give me a little warning. You know, instead of saying, Rush to the hospital.

No, he's dead. Maybe he'd give me a little time in between. Like, rush to the hospital. He's still on life support. They're struggling. He's struggling. Now he's dead. Instead of, Neil Sedaka,

rush to the hospital. Nope, he's dead. So, rest in peace, did Neil Sadaka dead at the age of 86. Then we have Annabel Schofield. Annabelle Schofield, model actress. You remember her?

I think she was on Dallas. And you'd know her if you saw her. You'd go, oh, yeah. That model, that girl. She was 62, and she died of brain cancer. I mean, holy cow, what's happening? Apparently, she was diagnosed like in February. And I said, yeah, February 28th.

And it was just like, okay, you got, you know what? You've got brain cancer. And the next thing you know, you're dead. What is happening? I think we all know. Don't look at me like that. I didn't say it was that. I didn't do it.

But a lot of people thinking that. Then we have a Minnesota cop, apparently dead after a brain disease, that he got, like he had brain infection and it was like he was dead. Another guy, Cody Stieber, dead at the age of 33. I don't know what happened to him, rest in peace. But apparently he was diagnosed with a brain infection that spread from his nose. And he went in and said, hey, I'm not feeling well. Yeah, you got a brain infection. And then next thing, you know, he's dead.

What is happening? I don't know. Rest in peace, Dakota's team are dead at the age of 33. And then we have Todd Meadows, Todd Meadows, dead at the age of 25. He was on deadliest catch.

And he was the latest, you know, the latest rendition of deadliest catch. Man, that show was a monster. I remember meeting all those guys when it first started. They were really, really, really, really fun guys and very, very good. But apparently Todd was a deckhand on the, The Aleutian lady was his boat.

And I guess they were in trouble and it tipped over and he drowned. That's what it made it sound like. It's being filmed. I don't know if we'll ever see it. He's survived by his wife and three children. Very sad. So rest in peace to Todd Meadows dead at the age of 25. Then, you know, I normally would do a joke of the day.

But I'm going to read this to you. And you can decide whether it's a joke or not. Okay, because this is the joke of the day. And it's a story that I found on Facebook. And I can't decide whether it's real or not real. Maybe that should be the segment, real or not real. So I'm going to combine them. We do the real or not real on Saturday morning live,

the show I do with Brad Stags every Saturday. You can watch that on my ex account at Jeffrey JFR. Brad puts it up on his ex too, but you know, whatever. You need to watch it on my ex at Jeffrey JFR. Saturday morning live. Saturday morning's at 9 a.m. Central. I'll just be there. So this, I can't decide whether it's real or not real, or if it's a joke.

Okay, so I'm combining them both. My woman Maggie and me are suspecting a kidlet. Technically, she's my ex-stepdaughter by my wife, Lulu. But before you get mad, I didn't even know she existed until my afterwife passed away. I met Maggie here for the first time at Lulu's funeral. Lulu wasn't fit to be a mom when she'd done. had her, so Maggie was raised mostly by her paw's maw since he passed away early on in her life. At first, I was mad at Lulu.

I figured she had kept that kind of secret from me all these years, but then I realized not knowing about her made it okay for me to be with Maggie, in the biblical sense of things. If it's a girl, we plan on naming her Lulu after her late Mee Ma'am. We're fitting to get married before the birth on account of me wanting to make her an honest type woman out of here. Big Papa Henry loves you, Maggie. And then there's a picture. And in the picture, they're hugging and she's pregnant.

And there's two dogs doing it behind them in the front yard. So I don't know if that's a real or if it's a joke. But if it's real, good luck. God bless. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.