Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Why Though?... | 11/25/25

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

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Blaze Radio Network And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. This actually surprises me. I didn't know that car companies weren't doing this. According to this, for the first time ever, American car companies will soon be required to test vehicle safety using dummies that are representative of women. I'll let you go ahead and write your own jokes with that line.

But the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, unveiled an advanced female crash test dummy, the Thor-0-05F, that could help close the staggering gap of higher injury rates for women than for men in certain crash scenarios. So this lady Maria Weston Coon, who has launched the nonprofit Drive Action Fund to advocate for better car safety testing for women. women experienced the statistical issue herself when she sustained life-altering injuries in a car crash several years ago. Yeah, horrible. According to this, recent studies have found that women are 73% likelier to be seriously injured in head-on car crashes compared with men in the same crashes. And female drivers and front seat passengers are 17% likelyer to be killed than their male counterparts in the same seats. Wow. Those are incredible numbers. Now, we're so concerned these car companies, they're going to start testing with Thor until, you know, 2027 or

28. What are we doing? It takes that long to get the crash test dummies involved. I realize, you know, it's a state-of-the-art female crash test dummy. It seems like we could just use that right off the bat but no no no we cannot uh the standard crash dust dummy in use a crash test dummy so sorry to say that correctly um known as hybrid three weighs 108 pounds and is four feet 11 inches tall it's created in the 70s and it's based on the smallest 5% of american women okay so thor 05f uh shape and response in a crash are based on female bodies will ultimately enable better assessment of brain, thorax, abdominal, pelvic, and lower leg injury risk for small female occupants. Yeah, I mean, I don't know why they weren't doing this

to begin with. I don't necessarily like the government getting involved, but they're already involved. So, you know, let's just make it work and make it safer for everyone, no matter how they do that. I mean, we've got, we're coming up on the Thanksgiving holiday, we're in it already. Today, if you're listening live, is the 25th of November, 2025, just a couple of days away from Thanksgiving, and 82 million Americans are going to travel over this holiday weekend, and 73 million of those are expected to drive. So be safe out there, and hopefully you will not get it in an accident and have to worry

about whether they used Thor or that other crash test dummy. old bad one hybrid three welcome welcome to chewing the fat fat five plus this is kind of annoying to me i don't know why you would do this i guess because he wants to sell his books. But holy cow, there's a new book coming out called Mercury and Me. And it's from Jim Hutton

who was Freddie Mercury's partner. And you know, it was 34 years ago yesterday, right? November 24th when he passed away making, you know, he died at the age of 45 due to AIDS. And

there's a story about from this book, where Freddie revealed his last words, why would you put this? I mean, that's just kind of embarrassing. I mean, first of all, we all know he was really sick. So it was during, I mean, during his last weeks of his life, he was accompanied daily by his partner, Jim, his personal assistant and friend Peter Freestone,

former boyfriend, Joe Finnelli, and ex-girlfriend Mary Austin. I mean, I think Mary lived in a separate dwelling, but Hutton and Freestone and Finnelli, they were all together with Freddie when he was, you know, sick and going to die. Now, he slipped into a coma, but not before Hutton revealed

what Freddy's final conscious moments were in his book. Yeah, so we're just trying to sell the book. Mercury and me. He wrote Freddie, holy cow. I just... He depicted Freddy's frailty and the distressing sound of a bone cracking. Freddy woke up again at six in the morning and uttered what were to be his last two words. Pee-P. He wanted me to help him to the loo.

He looked terribly weak and I had to carry him. As I lowered him back onto the bed, I heard a deafening crack. It sounded like one of Freddy's bones breaking, cracking like the branch of a tree. According to Hutton, Freddie screamed out in pain, as one would do. And he called for assistance, but eventually the singer calmed down and fell asleep. Yeah, we put him in, we gave him some drugs, told him to calm down. By the next morning, Freddie had lapsed into a coma. And Freddie's personal physician was called, and they administered morphine, and he never regained consciousness.

And there's no public record of Freddie's autopsy report. it's reported that it was signed and it cites bronco pneumonia which is a complication from AIDS induced immune system failure as the cause of death and you know his death is really sad I don't understand I I I why would you put that in a book I know you maybe are hurting for money that bad I mean we all know the struggles that Freddie had and what a great performer and great artist he was and yes he struggled we all do we when we're sick with some disease and we're dying. And you want, you know, years later, we're celebrating, you know,

34 years since you died. And it's the anniversary and it's time to, you know, remember what a great human being you were or what a great performer you were, what a great artist you were. Instead, we're left with, I, his final words were, Pee, he wanted me to help him to the loo. I just, I don't understand. That's just me.

I just don't understand. I get the actions of what was going on. I don't understand sharing them to the world. And that's, you know, maybe that's just me. But I just, I mean, we share everything. We share a lot of things together here on this show. But just know that I don't want, you know, my last words, peepee. Just think to yourself, you know, yeah, that's probably his last words.

but my last words are how about no so i learned something else today as well so we learned freddie mercury's last words and we also learned that apparently rams you know the sheep there are gay rams okay according to this One in 12 rams are gay. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, that is awesome. So we missed an event at the Altman building in Chelsea, sponsored by Grindr. And it was aptly titled, I will survive.

Get it? See what they did there? The show was a collaboration with designer Michael Schmidt and rainbow wool, a German non-profit that rescues gay sheep. I mean, all queer communities in this climate, yeah, they need protecting. So what unfolded was part woolen fantasy fever dream and part queer political statement. Oh, okay. So he dressed icons like Lady Gaga and Beyonce showed 36 looks made entirely from

wool of rams who opt for ram-on-ram romance animals that according to rainbow wool founder michael stuckey are often cast off or slaughtered in the agricultural industry rainbow wool rescues these animals spins their wool into yarn and now through this collaboration with grinder turns that yarn into wearable queer iconography. Oh, see, wow. I did not know that one in 12 Rams are in fact gay. And I don't know if you knew it, good for you. But thanks to Rainbow Wool for protecting

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BlazTV.com slash Jeffie gets you $20 off an annual subscription right now. So it is that time of year again, and we're going to find out who hosts all these great big shows, so we found out ABC's New Year's Rockete Eve, hosted by Ryan Seagrest. and Rita Orr is going to be there and Rob Grondkowski's going to be there and Chance the rapper and Julianne Howe are going to co-host alongside Ryan, Rita and Rob

so man, I look forward to New Year's Rocking Eve on ABC with that. You know what I'm saying? And we find out that Chelsea Handler Chelsea Handler is going to return, thankfully. I believe this is her fourth year.

year in a row, hosting the Critics Choice Awards. Now, it's the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards. Not only is Chelsea doing it for the fourth time, but they're adding four new categories to the roster. That's awesome. So she is going to be hosting it. The comedian, this is how they describe Chelsea Handler, comedian television host seven-time New York Times best-selling author,

Chelsea Handler will return as host, making her fourth time in that role. Yeah, that was the second year on E. The show is kicking off the ceremony's phase of the season and air across USA Network on Sunday, January 4th of 2026, 7 to 10 p.m. So, man, I cannot wait for that. It's going to happen live from Barker,

her hangar in Santa Monica and it will be what's the word on it'll be great it'll be great and just so you're aware the four new categories are best variety series among the TV categories best stunt design best casting ensemble and best sound on the movie side so that's fantastic got to add some categories and add some winners to the Critics' Choice Awards. I don't know that this is going to last, but AMC Networks has launched a new streaming service centered on unscripted reality content. The streaming service, titled All Reality, brings together reality franchises from Wii TV and other AMC Networks brands, including Love After Lockup.

That's my favorite. The Braxton's Mama June and a new iteration of Bridezilla's narrated by Tamar Braxton, which will serve as the platform's first original series. The reality content, which will total over 2,500 hours of programming, will also extend through docu soaps, late-night talk shows, and true crime series. So it's $4.99 a month. All reality is available with the subscription on Prime Video. and will soon be available on additional platforms.

So if I have AMC Plus, I can't get this or I just have to get it through Prime because we've found out that in the past, which makes me very unhappy, that there are some things available, and it's on AMC Plus, but there are some things available on other platforms as well. The one show, I think, was Showtime. that really pissed me up. But anyway, it should be available on Paramount Plus. And what show was it?

I was watching a movie. Anyway, it should be, it says it's available on Paramount Plus. Aha. It's available on Paramount Plus if you subscribed through Prime. If I just have a separate Paramount Plus app that I'm paying for, I can't get it. I can't get that content. That makes me angry. And it did make me angry at the time.

And you know what? I thought I was over it. And now I know I'm not. So now, so if I get the AMC, the reality, all reality content through Prime, that means I can't get it through AMC plus yet anyway, right? It said it soon will be available on additional platforms. But for now, it can only get, I can only get it by going through Prime to, subscribe to it.

All reality joins AMC Network's roster of targeted streaming services, which includes scripted drama-focused AMC Plus. Crime dramas and mysterious-centric ACORN TV, horror-focused, strutter, and anime-focused. Yeah, it's this whole completely separate thing. And it sounds like I can only get it if I subscribe through Amazon Prime. All right, good luck. Good luck. God bless because, man, there's nothing that I want to watch more than

love after lockup and the new Bridezilla's again so according to this about half of American adults use YouTube and Facebook every single day

okay the endless amount of scrolling this goes on and on growing awareness of the risk doesn't seem to be deterring too many Americans just yet yeah I don't think we care about that yet few research center published an update

to their survey and social media used finding that roughly half of Americans in 2025 use Facebook and YouTube every single day, 52% and 48% respectively. Okay, so there were also only two sites that were used by a majority across all age groups. Young people were far more likely to be used the video sharing platform, only 68% of the 18-29-year-olds reporting using Facebook compared to 95% who used YouTube, which retained its crown as the most used social media overall. Yeah, you know, Facebook and meta, been trying to solve the youth problem

by bringing back old features like pokes and it made more headway. Good luck. And, you know, Facebook dating and marketplace. Yeah, I don't know if you're going to get that back. We'll see. You know, TikTok, that's probably the biggest competitor to Facebook and Instagram, which would be meta,

has expanded its American use. but you know it doesn't it's not doing great i mean we still have i was looking at a chart of where it is at this time uh this time frame in our life i mean youtube by far and away 84% a facebook 71% uh instagram 50% x is at about between 24 and 21% then we get in here with TikTok. Ticktok's up to 37%. Then Reddit is 26%. You got Snapchat, 25%. And you get down here to WhatsApp, 32%.

And then Threads is down way below 8%. Nobody uses threads. I'm sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. I know you have 8 billion technical subscribers to threads, but no one is using it. And they didn't put truth social on this chart either. So I'm not sure Donald Trump may be far and away the best social media app and the most used, you know, if you ask him. All right, well, this is kind of cool.

It's a gene therapy breakthrough, a G-E-N-E, not a J-E-A-N-Therapy Therapy Breakthrough. A three-year-old boy appears to have fully recovered after receiving the first ever gene therapy to treat Hunter syndrome happened earlier this year. I don't know that I ever heard of. Hunter Syndrome. It's a rare inherited disease affects roughly 2,000 people worldwide, with boys having a higher risk of carrying the disease. Children born with Hunter Syndrome have a faulty gene, G-E-N-E, that prevents them from producing the enzyme needed to break down complex sugar molecules.

Without treatment, the molecules accumulate in their tissues and organs, leading to physical and mental decline in a process resemblance. Dementia. Life expectancy is between 10 and 20 years. Standard treatment is a three-hour-per-week enzyme replacement therapy costing nearly $500,000 a year. While it can reduce organ problems, the therapy cannot slow mental decline. The last treatment for the three-year-old boy, however, involved removing his stem cells and replacing the gene before. for re-injecting the cells. So unlike prior treatments, the latest intervention can reach the brain

preventing mental decline. Wow, if that works, that's cool. And now there is no mention how much that costs. So I'm guessing, you know, but it looks out, you know, if you're spending $500,000 a year on the enzyme replacement therapy, You're probably spending at least that much on removing stem cells and replacing the gene before re-injecting the cells.

But if it's cured him and it works where you don't have to keep doing it, then it works out better for the insurance companies, right? Right. Of course it does. does all right who died today who died today well let's begin with uh legend uh reggae legend jimmy cliff uh i mean he was a reggae pioneer uh dead at the age of 81 um you may have seen him in the movie the harder they come that's way back in nineteen 72 and he that's the soundtrack that brought jamaican music to the world um he was on the forefront of all of uh reggae music for sure um he even said and i'm and that's why i posted if you follow me on

x you say i guess uh haven't needed to uh have a little reggae music in it because he had said and i mean he's done uh he did a remake of cat stevens the wild world you might remember that i you know i know dillon loved him and uh he did a lot he did a lot of really cool stuff and i'm i'm a fan of Jimmy Cliff and was forced to like him over the years. It's because a lot of people in my life loved Jimmy Cliff. But I guess haven't needed to have some reggae in it because he said my role has always been a shepherd of reggae music. When they wanted to bring reggae to America, they sent Jimmy Cliff.

When they wanted to bring reggae to England, they sent Jimmy Cliff. When they wanted to bring reggae to Africa, they sent Jimmy Cliff. So I guess they wanted to, you know, bring reggae music to heaven. So they sent Jimmy Cliff rest in peace, dead, the age of 81. What did he die of, Jeff? Okay, I know, I'm sorry I wasn't going to let that go. But he had a seizure and a battle with pneumonia. So that's the cause of death as of right now.

That's what we're told. That's what they say. and a battle with pneumonia. Again, Jimmy Cliff, rest in peace, dead at the age of 81. Then we have German actor Udo Kier, Udo Kier. I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce his name. Dead at the age of 81. He is also, oh yeah, that guy.

I mean, he's been hundreds of acting credits to his name. he was in a lot he was in video games and TV shows and he was in films and so I mean when you see him you'd go oh yeah that guy uh who don't care dead at the age of 81 he died at the Eisenhower health in Palm Desert California that's where he lived it's where his friends all lived he was announced that he had died from his photographer and close friend, Michael Childers, and he was, he'll be missed. He was a big, it was always a treat to run into him.

He spoke to everybody. He was a true loss to the community. And he was, he was to a life well lived, according to the caption that his close friend published a picture of a full martini glass at a bar where a picture of care hung on the wall. So rest in peace to, oh yeah, that guy.

Kier, that's not, that's his last name. Udo Kier, dead at the age of 81. Then we have John Eman, John Eman, E.I.M.N., former child star, dead at the age of 76. He was in Leave it to Beaver and Pettico Junction. I mean, he talked about his first screen credit was at the age of six. he appeared on some of the most popular TV series as a little kid, Twilight Zone, Leave It to Beaver. He said that he was at school and outside playing, and this guy who wanted to be his agent saw him playing. He was a friend of his first grade teacher.

And he said, she said, they went to the school and said, hey, you see that kid with the break. red hair and the freckles a really real all-American boy type kid yeah uh i need to contact his parents because i need to represent him and they did and off they went and he became uh you know it worked in all kinds of stuff in hollywood and now he said he talked to the story about he was ready uh he was all ready for this big primetime show that was going to spend a lot of time uh with uh uh award winning academy winning actress and And it never happened. It was all they had everything ready to go.

And the actress backed out. And they just made it into some TV movie with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. So he never went past that, past a young age. So he transitioned into writing and recording and music, moved to Japan, spent a decade teaching English. He worked as a flight attendant for more than two decades. I mean, he had an incredible life. He survived by his wife of 51 years, two adults. sons and he's got a couple of grandkids too so resting peace to former child star and uh you know

former flight attendant and english teacher in japan uh dead at the age of uh 76 john emin john even then one more we just keep going today wow uh we have we've lost darmendra darmendra i know don't look at me like you don't know who darmendra Andrea is the iconic Bollywood star. Yeah, dead at the age of 89. Yeah, he's one of the Indian cinema's most beloved and enduring stars whose career spent more than six decades. He died on Monday at the age of 89.

In recent weeks, he was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai due to respiratory issues and later discharged. Probably shouldn't have discharged him. But he went ahead and went home. That's where he died. So rest in peace to Darmendra, iconic Bollywood star. Do I have to tell you the movies,

Shole and Poul Art Pator? I mean, is it Patur or Patar? Yeah, I don't know. P-H-O-O-L-A-U-R, P-A-R, P-T-T-H-A-R. Yeah, it was a huge star in that. Rest in peace to Darmendra, dead at the age of 89. All right, let's get out of here.

Yesterday I left you with, I think, three or four Thanksgiving jokes. So today we'll do three or four, and then I picked out a few for tomorrow as well. So some of my favorite quick Thanksgiving jokes that you'd be able to share with the family. At the, you know, cities are sitting around the house, sitting around the table, you can bring up the old chewing the fat, fat five plus and just play the jokes of the day for them.

you're welcome or you can just remember them and tell them yourself you know whatever you want to do that's fine with me um so how did the turkey get home for thanksgiving i don't know how did the turkey get home for thanksgiving she took the gravy train what did the turkey say to the hunter on thanksgiving day i don't know what did the turkey say to the hunter on Thanksgiving Day? I don't know. What did the turkey say to the hunter on Thanksgiving Day? Quack, quack.

See, because, no, you got it. Couple more. Where do you find a turkey with no legs? I don't know. Where do you find a turkey with no legs? Exactly where you left it. So stupid. All right, one more.

One more for today. Then we'll wrap it up tomorrow on two and the fat fat five plus. How do you know a turkey, how do you know a turkey likes his dinner? How do you know a turkey likes his dinner? Come on now. He gobbles it up. Duh. Stream and subscribe to more blaze media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.

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