Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 4/29/17 Jeff Fisher Show Hour 1: Drug Addiction, El Chapo, Trump's First 100 Days

Episode Date: April 29, 2017

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Life signs stable. It's alive. Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to the broadcast. 888-90-3-33-93 is the phone number to the Blaze Radio Network and the Jeff Fisher Show. Today, the number is 100. It's just like Sesame Street.

100. 100. Now, of course, you know, we have 100 days of Trump. We'll get to that. because it's been an exciting 100 days of Trump. First, though, with all the things that we have, luxuries, some of them we don't even consider luxuries anymore, did that make our lives better each day,

I was looking back at what they had and didn't have 100 years ago. And some of them are fascinating. For instance, say, you know, in 1915, cocaine had only been illegal for a year. Marijuana was perfectly legal and available for purchase. Doctors regularly prescribed heroin to patients. You most definitely don't get those days back. In 1950, the word teenager was not in use yet.

The constitutional amendment granting American women the right to vote had not yet passed. You most definitely don't get those days back. In 1910, there were just over 14,000 people incarcerated in the U.S. for first or second-degree murder. The population of Las Vegas? 22. In 1900. I mean, then it started to blast. in 1910, 800.

And by 1920, they had over 2,300 residents in Las Vegas, so, I mean, it was booming. The average life expectancy for an American man in 1900, 48.3. Women, of course, always have outlived men 51 to one. I think you know why. In 1913, the first dedicated gas station in the U.S. opened in Pittsburgh.

Before that, selling gas was a side business. In 1940, now that's not 100 years ago, my friends. Okay. It's only 75. When the census collected information on the plumbing in American homes, almost half lacked the trifects. 75 years ago, not even 100. almost half of American homes did not have hot, cold water,

a tub or a shower, and a flush toilet. Right? So half of the houses, no hot water, no tub, no flushing toilet. I mean, I can, I don't know that. I mean, obviously everybody's gone camping and used outhouses. But I think I can, I mean, I remember pictures of my grandparents. grandparents, right? My grandparents, great-grandparents, and they're home with the outhouse outside. And I still have the nighttime potty that my great-grandparents used.

So you'd have a, you know, you'd set the bowl inside the box, a wooden box. And so it was your nighttime urination bowl. So you'd use that at night. So you'd have to go outside and then you'd get up and take the ball. the bowl outside. Hopefully, you know, you toss it away from the house. In 1901, Connecticut passed a law that included the country's first speed limit. 15 miles an hour, 12 within the city, okay?

City limits is 12. Slow it down. In 1915, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world. And it held that until 1930, right? In 1938, the U.S. said its first minimum wage. 1938, less than 100 years ago. First minimum wage. 25 cents an hour.

In 1910, the average annual per capita income in the U.S., $332. Now, in today's dollars, it's about, you know, $78,000. hundred bucks. Still, though. In 1915, many practicing doctors in the U.S. had been educated haphazardly. Medical schools had become mostly diploma mills, and that slowly began to change when the John Hopkins University School of Medicine decided, you know, we should probably make these people that want to work on other people be educated.

That'd be nice. In 1910, agriculture was the most common industry Americans worked in. 1910, most common industry agriculture. By 1920, manufacturing had passed agriculture. Wow. I mean, that happened fast. In 1915, the three leading causes of death in the U.S. were heart disease, pneumonia. Tuberculosis.

1915 canned beer, modern supermarkets, and Barbie dolls. Of course, had not been invented. Nobody cares about Barbie dolls are supermarkets we care about, but you could always get food, but canned beer.

In 1950, the U.S. did not have an official national anthem. In 1910, 7, almost 8%. 7.7 of Americans said that they couldn't read or write. In 1870, 20% said they couldn't read or write. So 40 years later, only 7.7, we're picking up the pace a little bit. In 1900, only about half of American children between 5 and 19 years old were enrolled in school. Ending formal education for eighth grade was typical.

And they had work to do. At the farm, right? I mean, I have more Americans where it was an agricultural community. Get out there and hold that field. I want to learn how to read and write and multiply and add and subtract. Okay, go count the rows of corn you're going to plant. Today's number 100. Now think where we're going to be in another 100 years.

I mean, it's going to be, you won't be able to imagine it. I mean, the futures, what you're imagining now, you're seeing happening now. 100 years from now is going to seem like doctors were prescribing heroin. A hundred years ago, that's what it's going to seem like 100 years from now. Now, when you saw that the doctors, you know, cocaine had just become illegal in 1950, 1910, 1915, and they were still prescribing heroin. And you know what you can't find? By the way, because my wife has been looking for one.

So if you have one, you can message me on Twitter. You can't find the bear aspirin bottles of heroin. They're out there somewhere. You can get the bear. Aspirants, you can get the bear. There's the other bear that they had here in America, but nobody has the original, or I say nobody, we can't find one of the original bear heroin bottles.

There's remakes, but not an original. If you have an original, I'm willing to give you like five bucks. Let me know. But since 1990, think of this. Now, this is a change, miraculous change in the last few years that's gone on here in the United States. That's fascinating and scary at the same time. Since 1990, the number of Americans who have died every year from drug overdoses has increased 500%. more Americans in 2015 died from drug overdoses than from car accidents and gun homicides combined.

In 2015, more Americans died from drug overdoses than from car accidents. It's the worst drug overdose epidemic in American history. Okay. Spurred, you know, because of the availability of prescription opioids and the influx of potent synthetics. like fentanyl and carfentanyl. Now, when you look at the charts of that, it is amazing. It is amazing how much the drug overdoses has gone up

throughout the years. We just did that chart not too long ago, and you know that it went up because you kept hearing about it so you go up, but you don't go up that far. I mean, it just shoots up the last couple years. I mean 500% since 1990

Amazing I mean young Americans And there's a huge There was a big story about the Age divide Of what's causing the overdoses And what age group you're in So younger Americans are overdosing on heroin

Well the old folks Are just taking pain killers. In 2015, heroin, not only do we have more Americans dying from drug overdoses than from car accidents and gun homicides combined in 2015. We also have, for the first time, in 2015, heroin killing more people than prescription painkillers. Now, obviously, you know, there are still a...

huge amount of people dying from prescription opioids, but heroin in 2015 killed more people than prescription pain killers. Now there are some states, and we've talked about them here, you know, the Northeast is on fire with this problem. But states, and so, you know, so is, you know, West Virginia, Ohio. Ohio is probably, I mean, they're in a full-blown crisis. It's, they have, Ohio has double the heroin overdose rate of any of the surrounding states. I mean, that is scary for the state of Ohio.

And one of the problems that one of the experts is talking about is that a doctor can prescribe you one of the painkillers like hydrocodone. But it can't prescribe you the treatment drugs. like the naloxone. And, you know, there's some states that are letting, are easing up a little bit on the naloxone prescriptions, but it's also the insurance companies, right? The insurance companies are like, you know, that particular drug is really expensive.

So no. But if you'd like to, you know, give them some, go ahead and give them some hydrocodone, that's fine. Don't worry about it. Heck, they can take, you know, the prescription, long as the prescription is good. You're fine. But, you know, if you need it, use it.

I know you can quote me on that. If you need it, use it. I am a bit, look, I've had a bunch of surgeries. I understand. I know about painkillers. And I know what they do and what they won't do and how to use them. But if you need them, use them.

And of course, if you're using them on a regular basis for whatever amount of, whatever, thing is wrong with you, you're going to be addicted. And that's a strong, that's a strange word because it brings up meaning of being addicted. Oh my gosh, he's addicted. Well, yeah, but a lot of the people that are addicted aren't breaking into homes, aren't overdosing because they're using it so that I don't know they can be, productive member of society.

But it doesn't matter in today's world because you still get treated like a criminal. Today's number 100, 100, 100. We'll talk a little bit about our president, Donald Trump's first 100 days. We have an interview with Charlie Worson from a BuzzFeed who covered the Alex Jones trial down in Austin, Texas, the past nine or ten days. and then we have we have news something that is just a new trend

around the world and on Instagram that is some people are going to be horrified I most definitely am not this is the Jeff Fisher show on the Blaze Radio Network

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The Jeff Fisher Show Welcome to the broadcast. 888-90-3-33 is the phone number. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff E-M-R-A. Instagram at Jeff E-M-R-A. Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio. So my Saturday producer, Chris, wasn't here last week because he was in an automobile accident.

Now, those of you that have followed my driving career know that there's been a number of automobile accidents that I've been involved in. So I'm fascinated to hear how other people get into car accidents. Because usually, I mean, there's only been a few accidents that have been kind of my fault, marginally my fault. Mostly it's the other people. So Chris. Yes.

First of all, you okay? Yeah, I'm all right. I mean, I see you've got, you came in with the big wrap around your foot and your leg and you're hobbling around here like you were actually injured. Well, you know, I got to do that for the insurance. Sure. You're a scam. Thank you.

So what happened? I was... That you couldn't work. Well, I was waiting to turn into the parking garage and some guy decided he just wasn't going to stop and rear-ended me. Did you see it coming? No. No. All I heard was the breaking glass and then what just happened.

Wow. Yeah. So were there any automobiles in front of you waiting to turn in? No. Luckily, that was clear as well. You're very lucky. So for your insurance scam, what happened? So my foot got a nice gash in it from the seat, and they had to patch that up.

Also you had your foot just the one leg back up against the seat. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you hit, the seat goes forward, you don't. Yes. Owl. Yeah. That kind of hurts. A little bit, a little bit.

And that's the only thing? I mean, you didn't hurt your back. You didn't hurt your head? No. Airbag deploy? No, the airbags did not go off. However, it did knock the covers off the airbag. So that was interesting.

Knock the covers off the airbags, but they didn't deploy. Yeah. You might have a lawsuit there. I know. Right? Found my, the sunglasses I was wearing in the back seat. That was fun. They flew off my head.

Okay. I mean, where are they your favorite pair? I mean, did your mom give them to you or something? You had to have that pair? Well, their prescription. I mean, you could purchase sunglasses, is pretty much anywhere in America. Well, yeah, yeah.

I mean, usually they don't fly off your head, though. It's been my experience. So. So is the car totaled? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it wasn't worth much anyway. But, yeah, it's bent. Oh, that hurts.

Yeah, it's gone. Oh, no. So are you like Ubering now, or did you actually get to purchase a new automobile? Well, they got around to give me a rental car on Monday. So I was out of vehicle last weekend. What? Oh, yeah. Okay.

And, uh, but now I've got wheels and I'm hobbling around. So they're giving you a rental car? Yes. And because they haven't given you written you a check for the other car yet or what? Not yet, no. And did the person who hit you? I mean, is this an insurance person? He had insurance. He didn't speak English, but he had insurance.

Nice. This is the Jeff Fisher show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. What? 8889033.33 is the phone number. Welcome to the broadcast. That could turn into the word of the day, actually.

What? Instead of 100, but we'll stick with 100 for now. So today, congratulations. Congratulations to President Donald and J. Trump for surviving the first 100 days. Today is the tremendous anniversary. The wonderful anniversary. He said earlier this week in an interview

that he, I didn't think being president would be so darn hard, you know. Look, he was busy before with his previous life. But now that he's president, he just, oh, man, it's a tough job. He didn't, he didn't plan on it being so hard. But during a little one-on-one interview on Fox News, He reminded us of this. I think we're doing tremendously well.

I don't think anybody has ever done this much in 100 days. So President Trump started off as aggressive as any president. U.S. stock markets record high. Million Americans are benefited in their retirement savings account. He had 66 executive orders, memoranda, proclamations. He's going to sign another one today that is the same as, these they all

just issue for more work we'll do more studies so all of them pretty much are costing us money the executive order 66 of them notifying Congress of a strike on Syria after it was reported that the country used the eyes on his citizens and he

once he saw the video of the little babies he had to do something I mean you could see it in his face disbandling Obama's climate change initiatives. Let's hope that actually holds true and they continue to do that. Enforcing regulatory reform, protecting law enforcement, mandating for every new regulation to eliminate two. Yeah, how's that coming?

I'd like to just come back and take a look at that. Reducing regulations on manufacturers, placing a hiring freeze, and, you know, okay, these are all great. But what do we really want? You and me. What do we really want? Right? We want health care.

We want to repeal. We can get to replacing, but let's get Obamacare off the books. I heard an interview this week on a local radio station with a congressman. For a life of me, I cannot remember his stupid name. Congressman. Anyway, it's not important. He's just a silly little congressman, United States representative. He said, well, look, I've been saying it all along to repeal or dilute.

I about, I about, I about, had swerved into the wall. That's the first time I've ever heard anyone say, dilute, Obamacare. Shut up. Whoever said that before ever. You all got elected because you told us you were going to get rid of it. And you got up there and decided, you know, This is a lot of work. We really haven't been planning.

It's only been eight years since, you know, seven or eight years. We really didn't have time to work on anything. It's pretty much agonizing. Right? I mean, we want that gone. You know, his big claim to fame, the wall. I'm going to build a wall. He even said it again yesterday at the NRA.

He likes saying it. Will it ever get done? Doubtful. Do we really need it? Well, you know, we probably should have it. Yeah. It certainly hasn't heard. And the rhetoric that has slowed down illegal immigration will only work for some, you know, a little while longer.

And then they're going to decide, hey, you know what? Nobody's doing anything. We could probably just continue to go. And then they'll come back. So let's get the thing. I know Ted Cruz issued, you know, he wants to use El Chapo's money to start building. the wall, which I'm okay with. What's El Chapo doing with it? Nothing.

Right? Nothing. We've got a few countries in the first hundred days that the Donald has, I'm sorry, President Trump has, you know, created a little issue with, just a few. I mean, he's a great negotiator and he's a, you know, he's a great person, everybody likes him. So, you know, you find it hard to believe that we've already got a, you know, a little beef with Canada. Of course, we still have the beef with Mexico with the wall.

You know, of course. I mean, that's going to go on forever. You know that. Of course, we've got the beef going on in North Korea with a little Kimmy. Now, Kimmy fired another rocket yesterday just trying to, look. China needs to get little Kimmy under control. Gene needs to go over there. maybe, you know, order a cake from Marlago, big piece of chocolate cake, and bring it over

to a little Kimmy. Sit down with them, have a big, beautiful, thick piece of chocolate cake, and say, look, a little Kimmy. Here's the deal. Have a little buddy of your chocolate cake. There you go. If you want to continue to eat really good chocolate cake like that, you'll stop firing your little missiles.

Otherwise, we're going to kill you. and then he can go about his business keeping his people in the dark literally because it seems as though our people especially President Trump I mean a time for they want to use military might and it's going to be ugly when that happens because little Kimmy won't care little Kimmy will not care and so there's going to be a lot of people in a soul that are going to pay the price, right? Because Seoul itself, Seoul City Limits, I think, has, you know, 10 million,

and then the metroplex of Seoul has about 20 million. This is a lot of people, man. Australia, a little beef with Australia, but he's, you don't worry about it. He's friendly. He knows he's a good negotiator. He's the best. In fact, he told us himself how good it's been. I think we're doing tremendously well.

I don't think anybody has ever done this much in 100 days. And, of course, we've got the little beef with Iran. You know, that's going on. Don't worry about it, though. They've taken an aggressive position in the Gulf State. We've got Germany. A little issue with Germany going on. Don't worry about it.

Don't forget about him being such a douche to Angela Merkel while she was here. I'm going to shake her hands. So bad. And of course, he's friends with Putin. He's such a great guy, but, you know, really they're not. And he's not. And we've got a little beef with Russia going on now, too. And so that's it right now.

I mean, and really, we still kind of have the beef with China, except that, you know, they went down to Mar-Laugro and kissed and made up a little bit with over-choccalic cake. And so everything's okay, you know. And the head guy, you know, China, President Xi, said something nice about him. so Donald likes them now. I think we're doing tremendously well. I don't think anybody has ever done this much in a hundred days. Congratulations.

First hundred days. First hundred days to our president, Donald J. Trump. And look, if you don't know, and he's been busy, right? I mean, he actually has been busy. Has he been busy to the point where he's accomplishing something? That isn't another question, right? But he's been busy.

There's been reports that they got to keep him busy because he, you know, he gets bored. He goes down to Florida. When he goes to Mar-a-Lago, then he's on his own, right? He's out there golfing. He's able to tweet. He talks to friends of his, and then he gets an idea, gets a hair up his butt, and then it's all over.

So they've got to keep him, you know, keep him focused, keep him busy in Washington's sea. He brought, he bust in all the senators for their little North. Korea chat. All of them came out of there going, huh? Because there was nothing new.

It was kind of a whirlwind cluster. Originally we heard that it was the turtle that called them all together. Mitch McConnell. And then

to give them a little update and then Donald was like, hey, you know what? Mitch, bring him over here to the White House. Don't worry about that building over there that you've got for a year, people. Bring them over to the White House. Look, I got nothing going on. We'll set them up in the back.

We'll have a meeting. We'll bring everybody. You know what? I'll get the generals over here. I'll get Pence. I'll pull Pence back from North Korea day early. Everybody'll think it's where a war reason. And then, you know, we'll have a little meeting here.

So just set that up. I call my buddy, my buddy Frank's got some buses. He's going to rent to us. The ship is over. Don't worry about it. And one of the things he said, I heard, and I didn't see this. So I've got to find it where he said that he missed driving. You ever see Donald Trump drive?

Now seriously. Now, you've seen pictures of him with cars. But every time you see Donald Trump, he's getting out of some kind of limousine. Right? Now, maybe he, you know, likes to take the, you know, take the speedster out on the weekends. Because there's nothing like, you know, taking the speedster out in Manhattan on the weekends. But I get it. But I can kind of understand that actually. If he actually is a driver, which I barely believe, I can kind of understand that. Because while I really love to be driven

around and it's, you know, it's nice not to have to drive, it's also a pretty nice to drive. That's a pretty freeing experience. Right? I mean, that time is yours. You're in an automobile. It's your automobile. Would you either purchase, rented, whatever, stolen, whatever, however you got the car. But you're in there on your own going where you want to go. You listen to what you want to listen to. You're thinking about what you want to. I mean, that's you. That's your time. Your space.

I mean, that's the American dream, right? The American roads. We had the lady on the Glenn Beck radio program. yesterday telling us that she looks for, she's looking at the automobile industry as a beacon of how the economy and what's going to happen in the future to the country. And her thoughts were that it's the next, you know, it's going to crash soon. And when it does, there's going to be big trouble. Well, the reason that has been propped up for so long is that that's the American dream, right? I mean, freedom, cars, we go where we want. the drive where we want, we do, that's the American deal.

Automobiles, we're based on that. So if that goes away, you might not be hearing our President Donald J. Trump saying this. I think we're doing tremendously well. I don't think anybody has ever done this much in a hundred days. How can you disagree with that? I think we're doing tremendously well. I don't think anybody has ever done this much in a hundred days. Here we go.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show. I love driving cars. You know, to me, a great event is getting into a car and driving someplace. I can't do that anymore. And I haven't been able to do that really since the primary is. Oh, see, see. It's so sad.

So sad. I don't necessarily believe it. But, you know, whatever. I guess I have to. because he said it, so it's the truth, right? Because I, you know, Donald and I don't hang out. I know it's a surprise. But I seriously do not remember.

There's been some pictures. Remember there was a couple of pictures of him with his daughter on his lap, and everybody was figuring that they were all wound up about his daughter being on his lap. But it was they were sitting in the car or on the car or side of the car or whatever. So there's been pictures of him around automobiles. But I never seen him drive. drive a car. Maybe he drive, you know, maybe

he, I mean, he still gets to drive the golf carts, right? So shut up. Just get a souped up golf cart and security will let you drive that thing around, no problem. All right, so we have Charlie Warzel coming up from BuzzFeed who covered

the Alex Jones trial all last week, the last nine or ten days. And he had some fascinating tweets and some fascinating stories about the entire trial. So it'll be, it'll be interesting to talk to Charlie. One of my, I think this could be my new favorite trend on Instagram.

People are now taking pictures of landscape. You know, Instagram, everybody wants to take a picture of where they are and they show their feet and there's the, you know, there's the beach or looking at this, look at this beautiful site and there's their feet. Well, now the trend is they show the landscape, but it also, as your naked butt in the picture. I think that's my new favorite trend. Whenever you're looking at,

you can have somebody snap your shot with your pants pulled down and your butt showing. And there's some examples I'll tweet out here in the story about the new trend on Instagram. And I think we might have to do some new Instagram trending. Maybe we'll do that on Facebook live this afternoon. Practice the new trend. This is the Jeff Fisher Show.

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