Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 7/29/17 David Slater Interview, Delicious Food, & Fashion Tips

Episode Date: July 29, 2017

- Watercooler headlines to make you smarter at work - Charlie Gard passes away - Menu of the many delicious food items that will be found at the State Fair of Texas - Are hotels really cleaning their sheets? - Interview with "Monkey Selfie" Photographer David Slater - Pintrest talk - Jeffy hosts a cocktail party - Chicago paying insane salaries to city employees and contractors - All 50 states ranked from worst to best, results will shock you - Jeffy is fashion - Stress is terrible, try forest bathing Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRA Like Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadio Follow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Jeff Fisher show. You know, while it has been, and I know it's hot everywhere, I got it, summertime. That's what happens, Jeff. time and it gets warm. But it has been close to the surface of the sun here in northern Texas. That's the way it's supposed to be, Jeff. It's northern Texas. It happens that way every year. Remember the first time you came to Texas and it was in the 100 day stretch of every day, 110 degrees and a drought and people were buying giant ice cubes for their pool just to cool it off for an hour? Remember that? Yes, I do. I do. It's going to say,

way this year okay okay and we've got a cold front coming through today and tomorrow anyway okay it's going to be down to 97 oh it's the summer cold front coming through okay good good it's never a good sign in uh in my in my car in the rules on the mirror it has you know what direction you're going in and it also has the temperature and yesterday i look up and i didn't i usually i look at it just because I'm listening to the radio and it's 67 degrees outside. And I look at my mirror to see if it's exactly what the radio guy said. And I look up yesterday and it's 108. And I'm driving down the highway trying to snap a picture.

By the way, that's never a good thing. And I think it's probably illegal now to be doing that. However, that's what they put guardrails up for. And so I'm driving down the interstate trying to snap a picture of 108. I can't get a good shot. So by the time I finally get to where I can, you know, pull off and I have to be at a red light, it's 106. Fine. I'll take a picture of the 106 instead of the 108.

But, yeah, it's never, just this is a helpful hint for me. It may be a reason why they don't want you texting and driving and doing things with your phone when you're driving. Because if you're going down the interstate, it's afternoon drive, I mean, it's Friday. I had a late meeting, so driving late, I'm smacked that. the middle of afternoon drive. And, you know, there's plenty of traffic and it's speed up, slow down. Then you're trying to snap a picture of the mirror. It, uh, well, that's just not a good thing.

Let's just say that. And I found out that most cars on the interstate have horns. I, you know, I know you think, usually you think, oh, I wonder if most of those cars have, have horns that can honk at you. They do. So, you know, just a good, good, helpful. tip from me not to try to snap pictures

of your mirror when you're driving down the interstate. You're welcome. All right, let's get to some of the break room headlines. There's all kinds of news that has happened this week. I mean, it's been a busy week. It really has. It's pretty amazing how we go through each week and it's like, wow. I mean, it's only been a week.

And we just keep hammering news. And that's basically thanks to the world, spending out of control. Really is what it is. And one of the the big things that happened as the world spun out of control is North Korea. The North Korean leader Kim Jong-ung said Saturday, the second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrated his country can hit the U.S. mainland hours after the launch left. Analysis concluded that a wide swath of the United States, including Los Angeles, Chicago,

is now in range of North Korean weapons. Really? Huh. Really? The Korean Central News Agency, which, I mean, nothing but truth and facts coming out of that, said that Kim expressed great satisfaction. The agency also quoted Kim as saying that the latest launch reaffirmed the reliability of the country's ICBM system and confirmed an ability to launch the missile at random regions and locations at random times, with the entire U.S. mainland, now within range.

Kim said the launch late Friday sent a serious warning to the United States, which has been meaninglessly blowing its trumpet with threats of war and stronger sanctions. It may be time. I do not want to go to war. And I've heard all the stories about how horrific it's going to be and how, you know, we're going to lose, I mean, South Korea, we're going to lose millions of lives and it's going to be ugly. It's not going to be pretty because Kim doesn't care.

and he just wants a war, wants to prove that he's the best. It may be time to turn North Korea into glass. Let's just do it and get it over with. Sorry. Hey, Vlad, we're turning North Korea into glass today. China. Yeah.

Remember the chocolate cake? I fed you down in Florida. Yeah, I'm going to send you another cake from Marlago, but today we're turning North Korea into glass. Hope any of any of there's no shrapnel shoots over to you. country, but you know, if it does, sorry. South Korea, tell your people, be careful, because if we miss one on the first round, Kim's probably going to set it off and kill a few people in Seoul.

Sorry. Sorry, but listen, tomorrow, you don't have to worry about it because North Korea will be glass. And I have a feeling that if we do go into some kind of battle, at least the president, then in charge, we'll let them finish the job. I hope that's the case. Because that's been a big problem over the last few battles we've had around the globe, where our leaders have not let us finish the job.

And I know that's a big deal. We look back now in Iraq. We look back at World War II. We look back in all the battles, Vietnam, even Korea, for that matter. I mean, we're still, hello, this is what we're talking about. We should have finished the job. Instead of, here's a hand slapping, okay, now we'll talk, okay, we'll talk now. Yeah, no.

No, that's not what it's supposed to be about. Sorry. Sorry, it's not. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise discharged from the hospital this past week on Tuesday. He's now going to begin intensive inpatient rehabilitation. Boy, no kidding. It's probably got a long haul. The Louisiana Republican has made excellent progress in his recovery.

from his life-threatening gunshot wound six weeks ago. That's how fast things are moving. That was six weeks ago. It's almost like another lifetime ago, and it certainly isn't another lifetime for Steve. He is in good spirits and is looking forward to his return to work once he completes rehabilitation. He and his family are grateful for the care he received from the trauma team,

as well as the other doctors, nurses, and staff of MedStar Washington Hospital Center. The family also appreciates the outpouring of praise. prayers and support during his time. But we certainly wish him the best. And President Trump awarded two Capitol police officers, the Presidential Medal of Valor, for heroic actions during the Schooly shooting, and Special Agent Crystal Griner,

who is still on crutches as well, accepted the award for bravery and composure, while engaged in an active shooter incident, all tying to the... Scalese shooting. Also, we got news this week. I know we hear from our great president that everything is wonderful in the world is a beautiful thing. But we also, we did get news at the U.S. coal exports.

According to all the data shows that they're through the roof. The coal experts are booming. So good. Good. Good. We also got news from President Trump yesterday. I would like to thank Ryan's previs for the service and dedication to his country. We accomplished a lot together.

I am proud of him. He named John Kelly the new White House chief of staff. Well, they have a revolving door at that White House these days. And we just heard at the top of the hour newscast that Scatamucci, the fine man that he is, and there's some great stories about him this past week and his mouth and his going after people off the record. Yeah, hey, communications director, here's the deal.

You either don't say it or you make sure that you, hey, this is off the record, and then you can say what you want to say. but if you don't say, hey, this is off the record. It's probably going to be on the record. So when you say things about people that you're working with every day, trying to do things to themselves that most people can't do, you know, it's going to be an issue.

Anyway, we heard of the top of the hour news that he's even become an issue for the wife. And she says, I want to look. He's, I want out. It's a great guy. I'm just tired of him, tired of him just being about him. And I'm sure that's, I'm sure that's a,

that feeling is a number of wives in the White House. I'm not saying, oh. I'm just saying from time to time, you may see a wife have that look on their face. Like, Dear God, if I could get out of this marriage, I'd get out of it right now. I can't even stand it to be standing here. I don't even want him to touch me.

I'm not saying who that is. I'm just saying that from time to time you see that on the television screen. And, of course, we had the big health care vote. Yes, Obamacare. Obamacare still intact. And if there was ever any doubt that politicians lie, that D.C. is full of cheaters and liars, the vote not to repeal Obamacare is all the proof you need. The big cancer-driven maverick John McCain, who came back, the legend, the man.

who campaigned on repealing Obamacare, who got back into office on repealing Obamacare, votes to save it. Give me a break, John. Let me a break. And we had President Trump talking to police officers in Brentwood, New York yesterday.

And he was all wound up about the MS-13 gangs. That's what he was there for. He had the people who had their lives affected by these thugs, these bums. But then he went on to, and I don't have a problem with him bad-mouthing MS-13. And he don't have a bad-mouthing criminals at all. But then he went on to say... It's essential that Congress fund another 10,000 ICE officers,

and we're asking for that, so that we can eliminate MS-13 and root out the criminal cartels from our country. Now, we're getting them out anyway, but we'd like to get them out a lot faster. And when you see these towns, And when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see him thrown in rough. I said, please don't be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over. He doesn't touch his hair here.

He just puts his hand above his head. Like, don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody. Don't hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay. Uh-huh. And the blues flap. Yay. Yay.

We get to beat the crap out of potential criminals. We mean like we can just like a TV show ever with a bad cop and he's the bad cop and he's the bad cop and he's the good cop that we all love. I mean we want to love him because he's such a good cop and he saves us and stuff. But he gets so angry at the criminals that he just bashes the guy heads headed to the top of the police car when he's getting in. Oh, oh sorry. And we love that police officer, that guy. Yeah, go ahead, Brentwood, New York. You do that too.

Agonizing. No. I won't go any farther. I won't go any farther. Just know that it's agonizing. And yesterday, British baby Charlie Gardt passed away. One week before his first birthday.

He was born on August 4th, 2016, seemingly healthy. Two months into a short life, his parents noticed his health was declining. They took him to London's great Ormond Street Hospital for children in October, where he remained. Everyone at Great Ormond Street Hospital sends their heartfelt condolences to Charlie's parents and loved ones at this very sad time. Do they? He was diagnosed with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a rare inherited condition that causes muscle weakness and loss of motor skills.

He was the 60th person ever to be diagnosed with the disease. Through their own research, Charlie's parents, Chris, Gard, and Connie Yates found a doctor in the United States doing research on an experimental treatment. Then he was willing to treat Charlie. The doctor, Michio Horano of New York's Columbia University Medical Center. The treatment used as part of Horano's research has only been used on a couple of patients with a less severe form of the disorder. At the end of January, Charlie's parents launched a GoFundMe page to raise money to bring Charlie to the United States for that treatment. In three months, they exceeded $1.65 million. But the hospital stepped in and opposed this effort,

stating that it was not in the best interest of their patient. In February, the hospital decided, based on Charlie's status, that treatment was unlikely to benefit Charlie. This is in February. Unable to agree, the hospital went to court to have a judge decide, hoping to be able to remove Charlie from life support. In April, the U.K. High Court ruled that it was in the infant's best interest for his treating clinicians to remove the ventilator, keeping him alive.

That decision was then backed by the European Court of Human Rights in June, which ruled not to intervene in the case. And this was upheld by a British Supreme Court decision that the hospital, could discontinue life support to Charlie and he could be he could not be transferred to the United States or elsewhere. Then the case went to the UK High Court last week after the hospital requested another hearing to consider new evidence relating to potential treatment for his condition. That new evidence came in part from Horano who testified that there was an 11% to 56% chance

Charlie could show clinical, significant improvement if treated. Now, Harano came to London, evaluated Charlie, and spoke with those who had been treating him and other experts. And of course, the world was watching. On Monday, this past Monday, Charlie's parents gave up the fight to take Charlie to the U.S. after new brain and muscle scans revealed their son had deteriorated and was therefore less likely to benefit from the experimental treatment. while his doctors and parents battled in court. Too much time had passed. However, the court battle wasn't over yet.

The hospital and parents found themselves in court once again this week. This time, Charlie's parents argued for the right to bring Charlie home from the hospital to die rather than the hospital or hospice. The hospital argued there were too many obstacles, including the unwillingness of any care provider to accompany, Charlie. you're going to pull the plug. He's going to die. The disagreement focused on whether Charlie's ventilation tube should be withdrawn in the hospital, in the hospice, at home soon after the transfer, or at home after a period of days. On Thursday with the hospital and Charlie's parents still at an impasse,

the judge's order to remove life support and move Charlie to hospice took effect. We just want some peace with our son, no hospital, no lawyer. No courts, no media, just quality time with Charlie away from everything to say goodbye to him in the most loving way. That was the mother after the statement from the judge's order was given. Charlie Gart, less than a year old, and passed away yesterday. 728-17. Rest in peace, Charlie. To Charlie, we say, Mommy and Daddy, we love you so much.

We always have and we always will, and we are so sorry that we couldn't say it. Sleep dreams, baby. Sleep tight, our beautiful little boy. We love you. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show. The last press conference that the parents did for Charlie Gard was so amazing and so heartfelt and so saddening that I just want you to hear the end of it. and realize what it took for them to reach this point.

Rest and peace, Charlie Gard. To Charlie, we say, Mommy and Daddy, we love you so much. We always have, and we always will, and we are so sorry that we couldn't save you. Speak dreams, baby. Sleep tight, our beautiful little boy, we love you. The Jeff Fisher Show, The Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show is on. 33 is the phone number.

You follow me on Twitter at Jeff E.MRA. Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, and Instagram at Jeff EMRA. Now, I know that, you know, over the years, we've discussed how I struggle with being overweight. And, you know, that's just part of my life. But as I'm scrolling through thinking to myself, you know, it's Saturday, you and I want to get together, chat. We don't want to be too serious through the entire broadcast. And I see that in 62 days, one hour, 24 minutes, and zero seconds, as of right then, the Texas State Fair opens. Now, the Texas State Fair, like any fair, any State Fair around the country, is, you know, famous for different foods that they provide during the fair.

In fact, last year during Pat and Stu, we went out there and ate some of the fair food. And I would say that most of the fair food is nasty. Nasty, nasty, nasty. I mean, look, I know that I'm 800 pounds. Today, I'm sorry. Today, I cut back a little bit this week, so today I'm 795, just under 800. So, you know, I'm trying to get my life back. And I know that.

And I know that, you know, for the most part, you know, I'm not a great eater. I, you know, but a lot of the fair food, a lot of that deep fried stuff, like where we made the mistake last year when we went for Pat and Stu, we got there, we're so hungry. That was a mistake. So when they first brought us the powdered red velvet thing I mean it was so good and we couldn't stop eating it

so then we became kind of full. So by the time we got to the other nasty deep fried stuff it was not good at all. And I have a feeling that after a while you know when you start deep frying stuff the fry juice gets dirty so you start getting that nasty fry. juice but this year there's new big tech's choice awards for new foods at the fair and I don't

know that I can do very many of these beer battered beef jerky oh we maybe Cajun fried deviled eggs new thank you crawfish lollipop Ooh. Deep fried bacon wrapped mozzarella with jalapeno ranch. Ooh. I don't know. The deep fried bacon wrapped

mozzarella sounds pretty good, but not with the jalapeno ranch. Deep fried breakfast cupcake. Okay. I mean, I could do that, maybe. Deep fried chicken noodle soup on a stick. I mean, I would try that just because it's, you know, chicken noodle soup on a stick.

deep fried fruit loops, maybe. The problem happens, though, what happens is, and I find this out at the donut shops that put cereal on the top of the donuts. Not that I've had several, but the cereal goes stale, and most places don't care. They just put it on top of the donut anyway.

And no. If you're going to be using the cereal, make sure it's fresh. So hopefully the deep-fried fruit loops will have fresh fruit loops because of a stale fruit lobes going to ruin the whole thing. Deep fried Rubin.

I don't know. Deep fried root beer float with dragons breath. I mean, that doesn't sound bad. I might be able to do that. Dreamy drunken soapapelia cheesecake bar. I don't know. A fat smooth. Is that a bar?

Is it the name of a jazz band? Fat smooth. Tonight. Fried arrows can pull it. No, thank you. Fried cheesecake stuffed apple sundae. That might be good. Fried El Paso.

We're frying an entire city. Fried mango loco. New, thank you. Although, you know, mangoes aren't bad. Fried redneck wedding cake balls. Ooh, I wonder what that is. What redneck wedding cake balls is? if you have to ask you don't want to know

fried sloppy Joe flauntus with nacho fries and it's M-O-T-C-H-O fries fried Texas dirt I mean I'm guessing that it's not real dirt so it might be good

fried Texas sheet cake I mean okay funnel cake bacon casso burger No, thank you. Golf Coast Fish Bowl. Oreo beer.

Oh, no, thank you. Pinot popcorn. No. Pinoa popcorn. No, thank you. I don't care how you say it. You have not eaten it. Raymond grasshopper cookie.

Pino noir. Pinot Noir. Oh, yeah. I don't care how you say it. I'm not eating it. Okay? I don't care. You can tell me how to say it all you want.

I'm not eating it. Southern Fried Chicken Monte Cristo. What is it? Pino noir. What pisses me off? What is it? Pino noir popcorn. Is that right?

Is that what it is? What is it? Turn your mic on. Tell me what the hell it is. It's a Pinot Noir. That's right. That's what I said. Southern fried chicken Monte Cristo.

No, thank you. you. Surfing, turfin Tater boat. Zez. Texas fajita fries. Maybe.

Texas Fried Cowboy Fritters. Maybe. The tamale donut. No. Tipsy topsy catfish

on a stick. These are the semifinalists? No, thank you. I don't even want to pinot nor popcorn. I never liked that pitot nor stuff. That's nasty.

That's some nasty stuff right there. I think we're sticking, you know, just the... No, just give me some red velvet funnel cake with some sugar sprayed on it, okay? I'm good with that. I mean, what's on this list that's actually edible? Beer battered beef jerky, I mean, you might be able to try it. Nasty Cajun-fried deviled eggs, no, thank you.

If they would make the deep-fried beef, bacon-wrapped mozzarella without the jalapina, no. I feel like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. With jalapeno ranch, no, you get rid of the jalapeno ranch. Ugh, nasty. I can't even say it. Some of the stuff is just, why would you eat it? I mean, I get the whole, I'm going to make something different for the fair.

Are you? Are you? Yeah, they better, they better lock down those rides at the fair this year. Yeah. You know, I heard the story. about the ferry in Ohio, right? The carnival in Ohio, and horrific. And you always think about that.

I mean, I love those rides. And I love them. And it's been a while because most of them don't have fat guy seating. So, you know, they look at you like, nope. I put the kids up there. You ain't getting done this thing. So, you know, I haven't ridden them in quite some time. However, I love them.

And I love them all. And, you know, it was a horrific story in Ohio about them. the ride breaking and flying off. But I hadn't seen the footage until yesterday morning. I was in the makeup room getting ready for the radio show. And they actually, you know, they showed the footage. And I kind of avoided the footage, which is unlike me. I was in the middle of doing some other work

and I didn't want to be distracted by footage of people flying through the air dying. And I was, wow. I mean, horrific. Horific. And you know, I know they're showing all the paperwork and it was, oh, it was signed off on, it was inspected, was it? I mean, I hope it was for everyone's safety,

but I got to believe it. Yep, that one looks good. Go on, set it up. Check it off. 50 bucks. Yep, that one looks good. I mean, I hope not. I hope not.

And now that definitely not. a while, right? I mean, they're going to be inspecting every nut and bolt of the whole damn thing. As well, they should. As well, they should. But are you going on those rides now this year? Are you going to say, you know what? Maybe we'll go over and have some of that pin out in there popcorn.

Go ahead. This is the Blaze Radio Network. Get me out of here. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher Don't do it But you should do it I'm talking to you right now

look in the mirror Look at yourself and think Do it So there was a story from Inside Edition And I haven't watched Inside Edition in quite some time In fact I was on Inside Edition At one point in my life They snuck around and had to me

I was one of the few people that bought the pool filter that was non what's the stuff you put in your pool? Yeah, this was a non-chlorine filter that the company was selling and I thought it was a cool thing, so I bought it. But actually they lied to me when they sold it to me and it never really worked.

And they lied to me saying that it was all part of it. Disney was using it. It was at the Disney hotels. And so Inside Edition came and filmed. There's footage out there. there somewhere. There you go. You can go look for this. There's footage out there somewhere. I've forgotten all about this. Of me cleaning my pool and showing them the little one piece of chlorine that you with no chlorine, but this is chlorine inside edition. And the guy, I mean, he was relentless

inside edition. He called my, he called my, I don't know how he got my information. He called him. Next thing I know, we're pulling into the driveway from going out to dinner and here's the van. I mean, they're relentless, man. They were getting this footage no matter what. It was really, really funny. And it wasn't funny for me because I bought an inferior product, okay? But I actually, you know, at the time when I think if I, I think it was working at the time when they showed up.

It's been so long. I think it actually was working. But he was pissed that they were saying that was no chlorine, but you did use just a chlorine. in the skimmer trying to remember how the system worked. So like it was no chlorine, but there really was a little chlorine. So it was like, and it promises no chlorine. And he dips his hand down in my skimmer and pulls out the pellet.

But this is chlorine. You know, this is the big inside edition scandal. It's pretty funny. Anyway, that was a thousand years ago, man. I just remembered that. And I'm serious about being really, this guy. And he called us like, nah, hey, don't worry about it. We're not going to be home.

Well, what are you going to be home? I don't know. At that time, we still had, you know, you still had the hard line. So he's calling the house. And, man, when we came back from dinner, seriously, it was almost like, I would just pull in the driveway back from dinner. There's the van. TV cameras are out of the van.

Guys are hauling the shoulder cams out. He's got his microphone out. Jets. Okay. Okay. I got it. It's a non-chloride pool system. You've got to get the segment in.

Okay, I got it. So, anyway, inside edition, fine institution of television broadcasting, decided that they were going to check and see if hotel rooms actually clean their sheets like they say. Now, I would venture to say that it doesn't take Inside Edition to say that, you know, I would say most do, right? If they don't, you'd kind of think maybe it was the worker. Right. So inside addition, are we seriously at the top of the hour?

I've got some great hotel stories. We'll get to this next hour then. I can't believe this hour is over already. Seriously, I can't believe this hour is over. And we have a get. I must be stoned down the peanut noir. Peanut, what is it, peanut? Peanut no or popcorn.

because we've got a guest coming up at the top of next hour. My man David Slater, the monkey selfie guy, who I'm fascinated to talk to. I don't want to find out how he's doing, see if he's still taking pictures again, or if PETA, those bastards, have shut him down and pretty much made his family homeless. We're going to talk to him. We've got to get back to the hotel cleaning, though, because I've got to tell you about some of my experiences and what you need to do to save yourself, because there's bedbugs are everywhere. fire stations in South Carolina.

I've got bedbugs. There's bedbugs everywhere. And there's ways that you can help yourself to not have this issue, especially in the summertime, when you're traveling. But any time that you are using hotel rooms, but in the summertime, you know, when it's hot,

and bedbugs are thriving, especially in South Carolina. I mean, I don't know, I had a roach crawl across me in South Carolina. You want to talk about being awake? You're going to talk about being awake. You're half asleep in Columbia, South Carolina, and the cockroach crawls across you? I don't know what time it is. You are awake.

Seriously, we'll talk about the bedbugs. Because you'll never guess what Inside Edition found out inside these hotel rooms. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. The experiment was a success. begin life force reboot program now stand clear life signs stable it's alive set it loose this is the jeff fisher show on the blaze radio network 888 900 33 93 is the phone number you can follow me on twitter at jeff dmr facebook jeff fisher radio and um

That's another one? Oh, yeah, Instagram. There's a Snapchat out there too somewhere. I never can remember my Snapchat. So just, you know, look for it. Snap funny pictures of yourself and send them to me. So at the end of last hour, I got tied up and I lost track of time. And I was talking about the story Inside Edition did on the hotels.

Now, Inside Edition went into these hotels and they booked a room and then they marked the sheets. All right, and then they checked in the next night under different names to see if the sheets had been changed. Now, at each hotel with the first inside edition investigator checked into the room, they laid the large stencil on the bed sheets and sprayed the stencil. Now, they sprayed it with what they're calling the harmless, washable fluorescent paint with the words, I slept here that you could only see in the UV light. Now, of course, they came back and three of the nine, that is nine different hotels.

Now, three of the nine, three of the nine didn't change the sheets. And of course, the managers all responded with, oh, we expect them to change every day. That's our policy. Get Mary down here. Get the head of housekeeping down here. Okay.

But that's not a good thing. thing. Okay. Now, I was told a long time ago, and at the end of the story here on the Inside Edition story, the news story, they try to tell you, hey, when you first check in, ask Maid Service to bring you an extra set of sheets, then change the mystery ones to the fresh ones. And this might sound crazy, but many people do it. Bring your own sheets from home. You know, I'm not bringing my own cheese from home. The point of going to the hotel is so that they provide that. However, I was told a long time ago from a, from our bug man in Tampa floor. that bug and plant man

Florida gardening host that when he goes when he travels goes and checks into the hotel goes up into the hotel room rips all the sheets off the bed so that he can check for bed bugs and all the pillowcases off

everything rips them all off and tosses them out in the hallway calls housekeeping and says he wants a brand new set of sheets and comforters and pillowcases for the beds brought up. So if he finds the bed bugs, he checks out. And if there's no bed bugs, then he has clean sheets and pillowcases. I mean, that's the thing to do, right? That is the thing to do.

And I know that, you know, people, now they're trying to, if you're, I guess if you're there, I don't mind it so much if I've checked into the place and I know they're clean. And it's been, you know, you're there for two or three days. you don't really, I don't necessarily like housekeeping in and out of the hotel room all the time. That's what they're there for. But I like them there when I'm there. So if they can do their duties when I'm there.

So if you don't change them for a couple of days when they're clean to begin with, you know, I'm okay with that. And the whole use the towels again. Like you use a towel at the house for a couple of times and then you wash it. you know that's the whole point to go into the hotel you want glass fresh clean towels what's the hotel experience and so here's a little Jeff Fisher uh tidbit for you what you can do is you just kind of keep an eye when housekeeping is cleaning and so you know that way if if you think they're going to charge you for extra towels or whatever when they go in the room

and they're in the bathroom cleaning you just go by the go by the roller and deep pocket two or three extra towels for your room. Head down to your room. And then you've got some extra towels for the room. And you can ask for them. I don't know a problem with that. I mean, if you want to call housekeeping and say bring me some extra towels, no problem.

But sometimes the hotels are now that, you're going to use fresh towels extra. We provide four. If you're going to use extra, we're going to charge you for that. So if they're going to charge you for it, I mean, you might as well borrow some from the, The cleaning crew is cart, right?

Right? In this story, though, it tells you this. Numerous studies reveal that homeowners should be washing their sheets once a week or so. And throw in that or so. That or so means every three days or a week and a half two weeks. Homeowners should be washing their seats once a week or so. Microbiologists and pathologist at New York University School of Medicine outlines what's hiding in your bedsheets.

You have spores of fungi, bacteria, animal dander, pollen, soil, lint, finishing agents, or whatever the sheets are made from coloring material, all sort of, excrements from the body including sweat. I'll tell you what. Stores across America and especially here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. You can be counting on seeing me sometime today. I'll be purchased some of the new sheets. It's some new blankets because all of mine are gone.

Have a nice day. They'll be washed, clean. I want new sheets. I want new blankets. I want new pillow. I want it all. I want it all because I usually don't think about it, so it's okay. You know, I know we've been sick in the house,

so we've been washing the sheets and washing the pillowcases. We've had the plague running through the house for the past couple of weeks. And so, you know, you're wiping down doorknobs and you're washing all the sheets and pillows and all that kind of stuff. But when you start thinking about the fungi, bacteria, pollen, soil, lint, coloring material and

excrement from the body? I mean, it's time for new sheets. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. And I know that started with the bedbugs in South Carolina, but I mean, South Carolina,

who, that place, I stayed in, I stayed in Columbia. We were there for a conference, It's an Amber Alert conference at the University of South Carolina. And I was there with, you know, all these news people. And so we were staying at some hotel that they lined up for us. And I'm not kidding you, man. Like at 2 o'clock in the morning, I'm laying there half asleep. And I feel something crawl across my chest.

Bro, I am awake. Oh, wake. up. What the hell was that? And I moved the night table, the chair, the stool, turned down the lights. I hunted that son of a gun down. Okay? And I'm telling you, he was pretty good size,

but he wasn't bigger than my size 13. I still couldn't get back to sleep. Still couldn't get back to sleep. All right, so a couple weeks ago, I told you about a story out of the UK and here in the United States as well as it reached across the pond about the monkey selfie case. And PETA issuing their press release

and how the photographer, David Slater, has been struggling since the case took place. Now, in 2015, people for the ethical treatment of animals who I'm beginning to have, PETA is becoming some of my worst people in my life, filed a suit against Mr. Slater on behalf of the monkey.

It determined that it identified as, it identified the six-year-old male claiming the animal was the rightful owner of David's picture. David Slater, photographer of monkey selfie, his picture joins us on the Jeff Fisher broadcast. Hello, David.

How are you, sir? Hello, I'm very fine. Thank you. I appreciate you coming on today. So, David, this has been going on now for two, three years. You took the picture in, what, 14, 2013, 2014? Well, I mean... It's longer ago than that.

It hit the news in 2011. Wow. It went viral that long ago. Wow. Now, before we get anywhere with finding out where the story is at and what's happened and what's happened, I just want to get your OK right off the bat that I can use that for my Twitter profile. Of course you can. So, David, walk us through a little bit of what happened and what's been happening just over a picture that you had set up so that the monkeys could take pictures of themselves.

Well, yeah, like you say, it was in 2015, almost two years ago now. I'd been battling, since 2011, actually, I've been battling for four years to try and get Wikipedia to take this image down off their website. I'd send them take down requests, etc. Because once it's on Wikipedia, it's free for all the world to use as ever they wish. And the reason that they were given that they decided amongst themselves that they were going to put this picture up there for free for everyone was because the monkey pressed the button. And because monkeys can't owe copyright, it would be free for everybody. As far as I could, I could not get them to take it down. That's amazing.

And obviously, sometime in this period, an animal rights group, and you say Peta, obviously churning this over in the head and saying, well, actually, if the monkey pressed the button, surely the monkey can have copyright. It's his copyright. It says copyright. And maybe we can get to get older this monkey. We'll go out to the rainforest where I thought of this monkey. where I photograph this monkey, identify the monkey from the photograph, which they did with

the aid of a primatologist. Did they identify the correct monkey? Well, that's another twist of this story. I insist not. So, you know, it's bizarre to begin with. They get this monkey, they get a big law firm that represents Petter. They're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on this case. just to get me in court on a bigger agenda that they've always had,

and that's to grant animals the same rights as humans. Amazing. All right, so now, let's jump forward to not too long ago. We moved across to, because Peter issued their statement talking about is pleased with the robust discussion of this historic case, in which it's calling it is undisputed. And the proceeds, they're saying, of course, the proceeds from the use of these photos

should go to protect Nerudo and his family. But because of all this coverage, even with just the selfie picture, the people had really cut back on using the meat from the monkeys, had they not? I think they're certainly stubborn themselves and I can do in the monkey population over there. They're a great disservice at the moment. Right.

Right. And I'm sure that, I mean, in the end, I'm sure that's all Peter cares about. So you, David, you've become, what, multi-millionaire over this picture? No, I feel as well I own multi-millionth to attorneys and the help that I've had and registrations trying to protect his copyrights. it's taken a lot of stress and time just bringing over this so no I'm the opposite of a millionaire wow and so no one in opposite of millionaire means that you're you're struggling over this one photograph thanks to uh well I don't want to say PETA and Wikipedia now because they Wikipedia was the one who started the well yeah they're they the people are really um

point the gun at the moment they started all right they started all right and this, they still won't back down. They're forever updating the page on the monkey selfie page on Wikipedia, never getting around facts, constantly trying to make people that the monkeys took my unattended camera, ran off with it and took this picture all by itself, which is patently untrue. So how did you get that? Everybody seems to think realized now, from the media when people actually talk to me, which is something Wikipedia haven't done, that I set the camera up on a tripod, you know, I set all the dials. I got the monkey to do was press the button.

But Wikipedia won't have any of it. How long were you out there? I mean, was this the goal to get these monkeys to start taking pictures of themselves and the family and that kind of thing? Yeah, you know, after 15 years or so, I've been dedicating my photography career towards conservation, so it was a trip that I took for a month long. It was funded by myself. Nobody's employing me.

It's the risk that photographers take. Right. Hopefully you can do the conservation bit, and I like the plight of various animals. and there's plenty of them in Sulawesi. And hopefully you'll generate an income that keeps you going. Right. It keeps me in the job. Yeah.

It was amazing how that works. But it only works if Wikipedia and Peter leave you alone. Yeah. As soon as Wikipedia stole this, and they actually made a big song and danced about it. They gave press releases to the world's press over the two years mainly. There's an old network of websites that support this agenda of diminishing. in copyright and making all content on the internet free,

they were using my image, completely ruining my income. So I was actually sort of getting very desperate about my career because of Wikipedia, getting all the law team together, which wasn't easy in the UK, nothing's cheap. And then on 2015 I get this extra bird and have a monkey coming along and suing me. So I'm already fighting one massive battle and then get landed on by this most bizarre battle. you can probably have a thing of. Okay, so now, the judges have pretty much ruled, right? There's no way for the monkey to acquire or hold money.

There's no loss of reputation. So, I mean, is it over? I don't think so. You've got to remember, people need to understand that in 2016, the monkey went to a federal court in San Francisco, and the judge threw it out, saying that monkeys can't sue.

Right. The monkey appealed. he didn't like that decision and went to the appeals court and the there was three judges on the panel um not this Wednesday gone the week Wednesday before and they didn't give a verdict they're resting on it they're they're I don't know when they'll they'll decide whether the monkey gets the copyright or I do they're resting on it interesting deliberating yeah and and do they do they give you no time on when their deliberation may be done no my attorney's as clueless as everybody else. He just tells me

it probably be the month at the soonest, but maybe three or four months away still. He doesn't know. Isn't that special? Isn't that special? So now what? David, what are you doing? I mean, I know you said you're struggling. Are you still working? You're still trying to set up,

do some jobs and make some money, or you left taking the government for some cash? Well, I sort of, it's been really exhaust. in just trying to keep my motivation to do photography anymore. And with the diminishing fees that you get from the images that I already have, many are libraries across the world. Yeah, I think photographers like me are having to look for the ways to earn a living.

And one of the ways I'm looking at now is becoming a tennis coach. And as it's been reported in some of the media in the UK, I am actually considering doing dog walking as well. simply just to get my camera in my hand again and get out into the countryside. Right. I mean, why not? My interest again, yeah. Right.

Why not? Instead of just, you know, sitting around crying about the monkey. So when we get news on what happens with the monkey, I'd love to talk to you, David, because I'm sure everybody will get to know. I'm sure it will be in the media. My gosh. They do. And please tell me by it. I'm so on your side.

It's unbelievable. These people are disgusting, fighting over. monkeys right like this. So where, I mean, how much are the attorneys just holding all this for you, hoping that Pete is going to end up having to pay the deal? And you're just, you're just hoping that that happens? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's two lots of attorneys involved. There's my personal attorney, Andrew Dewey. So yes, he's fairly confident that he'll get his fees paid via Petter. Good. But there's no guarantee of that, apparently. No guarantee. It's down to the judge's discretion.

And there's another law firm as well. That's the book publisher that I did a book called Wildlife personalities. And they got them up in court for reproducing the photograph that Naruto claims it took. That is almost unbelievable. I hope that your attorneys and you milk pita for every dime that joint has.

It is a shame because obviously there are some things that me and Petter could have agreed on had they have talked to me in the first place. Yeah, you were doing it for the conservation. of the animals. I was. I know. That's the massive irony of all of this.

And yeah, this is why I think they really have to stand themselves in the foot. And I just hope they learn not to pull any of these stunts anymore. David Slater from the UK. Thank you very much, David. I appreciate your time. And I'd love to talk to you again

when this all gets resolved one way or the other. I'd love to too, too. Thank you very much. Thanks, David. I appreciate it. Right. Jeff Fisher Show, Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show

on the Blaze Radio Network. I just said that. to help and try to provide information and try to provide let people know a warning shot that these monkeys needed to be taken care of and that they we needed to help them and yet no it wasn't enough for pita we're going to bring down we're going to bring down the man because the monkey needs to have the right for the pictures absolutely agonizing agonizing so I'm looking to through, I'm looking through my Pinterest page. Yes, my Pinterest page. And I see that there are a big list of conversation starters. And I think, do we need conversation starters? And so then I start looking through what they're telling me to stay for conversation

starters. And I think, well, there's got to be, you know, better lines than that, right? Or maybe they're not lines. They're just things to say, hello. What if you're at a cocktail party? You're wandering around and you've got to find ways to start conversations with people. Oh, yeah.

We'll be doing that in the next half hour because I'm here to help. That's what the show is. The show is, I mean, if anything, you think of the Jeff Fisher Radio Show on the Blaze Radio Network, you think, man, that show helps me. I know, I know, you're welcome.

And I'm going to continue that as the show progresses today. This is the Jeff Fisher show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show returns on the Blaze Radio Network. I was going to do the conversation starters, but I can't find the conversation starters, so now I've just got to sit in the corner and sip wine. Wait, oh, maybe that's it. Hold on. Yes. Okay.

It was on my Pinterest page. Underneath, I got to see if you notice, you notice this was, I have some, I have my boards that you can pin on in your Pinterest. I don't know if you're, you know, if you have a Pinterest page. But what you do is you create boards and then you pin the stories you like in whatever board it represents for you. And I have, you know, I've got, you know, the house, funny stuff. I only have one in my under funny. And it shows.

it shows two birds and it was underneath the cartoon, the drawing, it says, overeating, snacking, craving, or feeling too much hunger. And it shows two birds. It's got one light bird on the, on a limb, closest to the tree, and it says, how's your diet doing?

And on the outer limb is a bird, and the limb is bent way down because the bird is really fat. And the caption is F you. That's funny stuff. I don't care who you are. Anyway, the, then there's, you know,

I have house, then I have health, and then I have, you know, then I have help, and I have shots, and I have great ideas, sport,

and I have behind closed doors, which is a private. Oh, yeah. You can't see behind closed doors. Oh, yeah. Okay?

That's one of my favorite pins. And, Of course, that's where my 34 conversation starters were. But I also have, now these conversation starters are supposed to be, you know, if you're trying to be out, you know, let's say you're out with your wife or your girlfriend or, you know, someone that you have a relationship with already. All right. And then there's also the conversation starters that are for when you're trying to, you know,

take care of a little business at night. Either one, though, I mean, when you're out at the, when you're out, you know, you're at a little party. I mean, if we're going to be at a party, don't we need some kind of music for the party? I mean, I've got to have, let me some, I don't know, some kind of cocktail drinking handy snack parties. Pigs in a blanket are a table.

number three. That's the kind of, that's got a cocktail party of that. Beer in the ice tubs in the back. Hey, where do you want to live when we retire? Oh, hey, come on. Yes, I'd like a little cracker with some of that nasty Pinawa. Okay, that's what I want. Where do you see yourself in five years, babe?

Hey, you know, describe me in three words. these are all the conversation started you know for the party what are two things on your bucket list these are actually sad what do you think the greatest strength of our relationship is I love one of those the shrimps are dark you know what's your favorite family tradition

you describe your worst hairouts you're standing here trying to start a conversation all right these are these are just for couples though but see I'm here to help now these those particular conversation starts

are for you and the wife and now you're out and you haven't talked in a while the kids have always bugged you you finally got some clean sheets at the house and you're talking to the wife hey you know I was wondering what are the two things on your bucket list baby

I'm wondering what your favorite childhood memory. All right, that's enough of the relationship stuff. I want to talk about picking up. I want to be, you're out and about. And you're having, you're at the cocktail party. Let's start it again. Let's start it again. We're at the party.

And you're not, this is, this is for those of you that aren't, you know, in a relationship. But you're looking for a little. Now I'm going to be singing this. Tell them all. What am I going to sing? I know the words. all of me? Why not take all of me?

Classic. You're kidding me? This is a standard. Anyway, yes, I'll take some more of those pigs in the blanket over here, okay? I'm here single tonight. Playing all of me. Hi, I really like your energy, so I had to come over. Conversation starters, you know, for the romance.

You're so beautiful. Oh, that one just so you know. How do you describe my scent? Take some more of that Benet-Ben-I-W drink there. I can tell that he crossed. It's the most romantic thing a man has done for you. I was so worried I wasn't going to have fun tonight. You had to hear you, uh, hi.

Do you think there's a difference between romance, love, sex, things? I would soar the sky up high, just, He's existing in the world. It looks so dull. Aren't you the same guy that asked me? How's my scent? That's what they're saying to you for that stuff, okay? I was wondering, what is your definition of intimacy?

Go nowhere with that one. I'll guarantee you that. My definition of intimacy is you getting that hell away from you. You know, when I look at you, I can't see the world, but just you. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.

So how's your income doing? Making any cash? Everybody happy with what they're making for their salary? You think to yourself, you know what? I'm so tired of going to the bank every day and saying, hey, listen, is there a way that I can stop the money coming from my into my account because I just I'm tired of counting it I'm tired of trying to remember what's in there just if you could stop putting money into my account today that'd be great any of you

out there saying that raise your hand if you are nobody raising their hand well you should move to Chicago and move to the state great state of Illinois Rahm Emanuel Chicago now pays out more six figure incomes than the state government truck drive tree trimmers, street light repair workers earned six figures. The city paid out $283 million in overtime to a thousand employees pocketing more than 40 grand apiece. You should move to Chicago. But then there's, you know, the entire state as well.

Illinois, 8,640 state of Illinois employees. One particular contractual worker at the newly created Department of Innovation and Technology makes $258,000. I'm sorry, $258,070. There are the barber and the teacher of barbering. Those are at the state prisons. They make more than $100 grand each. Loretta Coleman, a nurse at the Department of Corrections, made $254,000.

I'm sorry, $254,781. 8,817 small-town city and village employees, including 84 municipal managers. Outearning the governor. The governor makes $180,000 at the great state of Illinois. Lawrence Hillman, city manager for Glenview, makes $297,98, city manager for Grayslake, 264,000. $486. Lake Forest, $255,247.

Libertyville, $254,428. Northbrook, $250,000,248. Now, don't worry yourself, because Illinois is in great shape. Oh, wait, weren't we just doing the story about Illinois being broke and not being able to pay their bills? and then there were some lottery winners that weren't getting their money. Because, let's see, why are they not able to pay their bills? Some Illinois K through 12 schools are spiking salaries and padding pensions. 30,000 teachers and administrators earned $100,000 plus incomes.

However, just 20,295 of those educators are currently employed. The other 9,305 are retired. That's a good gig. That's a really, really good gig. I'm happy to be retired and pay me $100 grand a year. And I might be able to survive. I might be able to get by.

There's some great jobs. And when you stop this, when it's mostly overtime, and you say, hey, we've got to cut all this overtime, and we're not going to be able to do this. You're working for a salary. That's it. It looks like we're going to be able to change those light bulbs in the city this week. Going to be awful dark.

Not going to be able to get to those in my 40-hour work. Boy, wish we could, though. Hey, be careful with no lights on here. You'll hit the potholes. I mean, do. This is the just. Fisher Show, only on the Blaze Radio Network. The experiment was a success.

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I was singing that stupid song. And now I find, I remember an old album, yes, an album by Chuck A Khan. She's doing these standards. And that's one of them that she does. Now, of course, the YouTube has an alternative take. It's not from the album. The first one that I find, but it's still all of me, Chucka Khan. That could be your earworm of the day from Jeff Fisher Radio program.

You're welcome. last week was that stupid song I don't want to say it because if it gets in my head again what was it again I was my Chris my board operator slash

I want to be producer he was he's hollering at me that it was in his head all week seriously I cannot even remember the song now so that's a good thing because it was in my head all week long till about Wednesday until about Wednesday then it went away

and then at Wednesday on Wednesday it was it was it was it was queen from Scaramucci because all I could think of

was Scaramuts Scaramuts! Can you do it have a Fentango Henderbolted lightning very very frightening it was just the whole the whole queen thing now he mentioned in my ear

the title of the stupid song and I'm trying to and let it go because of you bastard. Seriously. I got, I wish I had some power around here because he would be gone. He would be gone. But I got no power, so it doesn't matter.

So I'm looking at this website. No, another one. And it's got the rankings of all 50 states. And I think, you know, those always fascinate me. And I see that it's not clickbait. It's actually I log on to the story and it's got the list of the states, which perhaps the website should learn something

and put each state as a, as a, hey, click on this and you get 50 more clicks. But it's not click page. It's just a story. And they're ranking all the states. And these two guys talk about ranking the states based on everything. Contributions to America, inventions, food drink, famous people, unique physical beauty. And that'll be fascinating. Take a look.

I mean, I've lived in a few states in America. I don't know how many I've lived in now one Florida Michigan New Jersey Pennsylvania Texas I guess that's it that's all I've lived in

been to a bunch more I haven't been to all of them yet but I've been to pretty close to all of them but those right those are the five that I've actually I've actually had a roof over my head whether it be a cardboard box or not right Michigan, Florida, Jersey, which was a tremendous, and Weehawk in New Jersey, right there at the beginning of the Lincoln Tunnel, looking across the river to Manhattan.

It was actually kind of a cool apartment. And Pennsylvania, Texas. Yeah, that's right. Lived in five of them. So then, I'll check it out. Let's see what the ranking is. We'll take a look. We'll see what it is.

And we open it up. The 50, the worst state, Florida. I could not disagree more. Florida is not the worst state in the union. It is not. Even though I've lived there, it is not the worst state of the union. I apologize. And then it goes to Delaware.

Now, Delaware, you know, they, there are explanations for each state, which, you know, obviously I'm not going to give you an explanation for each state because I don't agree with them. But Delaware dogfish head is one of the most enduring. jokes from Wayne's world and that about covers it. Even people from Delaware don't really fight back. When you make fun of Delaware, they really don't fight back.

Now, I've been to Delaware a couple of times and isn't that where Opelcal lives? I think Opelco lives in Delaware. Sad. Anyway, I mean, I've been through the state of Delaware. And I mean, it's a blink of an eye. It's about as big as, I don't know, the city I live in now in Texas. Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is about the size of

Delaware. I mean, the airport. Right? I mean, DFW International is as big as Manhattan. And Delaware can't be much bigger than that. So seriously, Delaware is probably about as big as the metroplex that I'm living in now. And it's, you know, I remember the first time I drove through Delaware thinking, oh, this is Delaware. And then I was out of the state. So, I mean, there's that.

Now, 48, this state, and I could be biased because I was raised to, hate this state from Michigan, which is the first state I lived in. Because I was born there, stupid. Ohio, 48. Now, that should be the last state. That should be number 50. There should be no question. Ohio.

Don't get me wrong. I mean, I know, you know, there's a lot of people from Ohio that listen to the network and listen to this show, and I love you. Thank you very much. But it's still Ohio. 47, Arizona. The inevitable answer to any question that starts with, where do those nice retired people meet on that river cruise live?

Arizona, also the home to golf pro is playing the web.com tour. College students whose parents don't seem to find mind paying down the credit card balance on tribal tattoos. Though the unmitigated beauty of its canyons and deserts is well known, the northern part of the state actually holds the largest number of ponderosa pine trees in the world. I didn't know that. The northern part of Arizona actually holds the largest number of ponderosa pine trees in the world. But that doesn't help the ranking because they're completely useless as Christmas trees.

They're still 47. Okay, so we've only disagreed on a couple there. Ohio should be last. Florida should not be 50, and it should not be in the back 10. I'm sorry, just shouldn't. Utah. I like that. Utah. I spent some time in Utah

a few years ago. It's beautiful. I fell in love with the state. I really did. It was beautiful. You know another state I fell in love with? Well, and I don't know where it is on the ranking. We'll get to it as Idaho. And whenever I think of Utah, I think of Idaho too. Idaho is gorgeous. And Boise was a great town. I fell in love with Boise

when we were there. But according to them, Utah is 46 because to this day, Utah is still amazed it managed to host the Olympics. Ah, pretty funny. Forty-five Mississippi. I drove, I've driven through Mississippi a couple times.

It's pretty. I mean, still Mississippi, though, I guess. Connecticut? Yeah. North Dakota. North Dakota is the lesser of the Dakotas. Yeah, yes, it is. 42 is Missouri.

Missouri is a nice state. It's okay. I mean, my son went to school there, the University of Missouri, Columbia. Got used to knowing about the state. Plus, I don't know if you've seen the new Netflix. show Ozark, streaming now on Netflix,

really good. And that is, I guess this is why Missouri is ranked 42nd because the show Ozark on Netflix is all about being in Missouri,

up in the Ozarks and the great, you know, the great lake of the Ozarks. That's filmed in Georgia. So, they got that going for them. But the show itself, if you haven't seen it, well worth the watch. It's a big guy show, though. So if you are against watching big guy shows, you know, you shouldn't watch it.

Nevada, 41. If a guy tells you he's from Vegas, he's either mediocre street magician or a budding baseball phenom. If a guy tells you, he goes to Vegas all the time, probably think twice before trusting him. And if a guy tells you, he goes to Reno all the time, you're either about to be murdered or giving a hard sell. on discounted irrigation equipment. Great buffet values, though. That's Nevada. Nebraska is 40th.

Nebraska, I mean, my dad grew up in Nebraska, far western end. That's all I ever heard about was the far western end of Nebraska. Broken Bow. Yeah, they had nothing. So that's one pair of shoes a year. Far western end.

You look north, you can't see any. You can drive for days. They were running down another person. Far western end. Nobody out there. And so I remember when my son was being recruited to play college football in Nebraska was one of the teams. So he went out there for one of their camps.

And my dad went to the University of Nebraska. And so my son Elvis calls me and he flew in and then they drive to Lincoln. And he's driving to Lincoln. And he calls me and he goes, Grandpa was right. There's nothing out here, man. Pretty much sealed the fate of the University of Nebraska for Elvis. South Carolina, 39th. I mean, any place where you lay down in a hotel and a road scrawls across you,

I mean, they're lucky to make it to the top. I mean, they should be in the 40s, maybe. Rhode Island, Idaho, there's Idaho, 37th. I mean, Boise was beautiful. I really fell in love with Idaho. Idaho's gorgeous. And it should be maybe a little higher than 37th, although still Idaho. West Virginia.

Yeah. Kansas. Oh, yeah, I don't care about Kansas. Georgia 34th. I love Georgia. I've been to Georgia a bunch of times. Spent time there, vacation there.

I mean, you go to northern Georgia. You're in the foothills of the smokies. Gorgeous. But, I mean, live in Georgia. Not after years of Florida. Hello? That just my message came through. Hello?

I should probably put that on. Silent. I was just listening to, all of me with Chuck a con. And the volume turned up. South Dakota, 33rd. I mean, it's better than North Dakota, but still, it's one of the Dakotas, right?

Oklahoma, 32nd. You know, when my son started going to the University of Missouri, obviously Oklahoma was the, you know, one of the state teams that you hated. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. So you just didn't like Oklahoma. Although when I first went to Oklahoma and actually spent some time in it, it's pretty. It's a nice state.

But if you're from Texas, holy crap, do you hate Oklahoma? Oklahoma is like Ohio is to Michigan people. I got a buddy that lives, I got a friend of mine that lives here in the Metroplex, who was born in, he was born out there in western Texas, out there in Big Spring. and he tells me he doesn't even like living this close to Oklahoma here because you can smell it. Then you got Virginia 31, Massachusetts 30. These are all, yeah, middle ground states, right? Alabama is a pretty state too.

I've been there a few times, spent a little time driving through there. It's gorgeous, although, still Alabama. Indiana, I mean, all that you're known for is Indiana wants me. him you hear it. Who wants to hear that stupid song? Illinois, when we just talked about Illinois, how horrible is that broke? I mean, Illinois should probably be,

if they're not 50th in place of Florida, they should be maybe 49th, because Ohio should be either 50th or 49th. Wyoming, 26. I'd never been to Wyoming. I always wanted to go to Wyoming. I need to spend some time there. Iowa, New Hampshire,

You know, the Slate State. I mean, New Hampshire is pretty, but you drive through New Hampshire and get to Vermont, right? You don't spend the time in New Hampshire. New Mexico, North Carolina. Spent some time in North Carolina. North Carolina is pretty. You know, you get up into the Smoky Mountains. It's gorgeous.

Asheville, Boone, up in there, up in the high, the high towns of the mountains. Beautiful. I mean, I could live up there. I remember, and there's a couple really old radio stations up there in the mountains that are still the old ones where it's just the same building. You know, the radio stations used to be in the same building that the transmitter and the tower was on. So you pull in, I wish I knew what radio station it was. I pulled in to talk to him about a job once a hundred years ago when we were on a trip. And you drive down this dirt road and you come up on the station and it's this big brick building and the tower is there.

and you walk inside and behind the square glass wall, you know, the glass bricks is the transmitter. It's so cool. I would love to have worked there. They weren't hot of hiring me for some reason. I mean, their loss, right? New Jersey, I mean, New Jersey's 21. Come on.

I mean, New Jersey, I've lived in New Jersey. It ain't that good. Okay, I mean, it's New Jersey. I know there's some, you know, there's some nice places, but I lived in New Jersey because I had to. All right, but really, the only reason I lived so close to New Jersey in Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia, is so that I, because I had to travel into New Jersey, into Trenton every day to hop the train to go into New York. I mean, I shouldn't be ranked that high. Maryland, Maryland is 20th.

one of the first times that I was when I was moving to New York we I moved from Florida to New York to be part of this stupid network and uh I mean this fine institution of the Blaze and the Glenn Beck program and uh I left my family in Florida not on purpose that time and I was go we had an apartment rented and I was going up to get into the

apartment in Pennsylvania then you know in the New York and stuff about my wife and kids were coming up in a little while she still had to move her folks into our house over here in Florida and what was that Jeff? Oh nothing and I remember in the minute I'm driving through Maryland it's raining

and stormed I get pulled over by a state trooper you know why I get pulled over by a state trooper because I got Florida tags on and I got my car is full of stuff I just pulled you over going from Florida to Pennsylvania is any of your damn business state trooper of Maryland? What do you want?

It's raining out. He was pissed too because at that time my Chevy Impala, the driver's side window wouldn't roll down. So I had to roll down the back window, back window to talk to him. And in storements, so he thinks I won't roll it down because it's raining out. He's going to go into my car and I was like,

I open the door a little bit. The window ain't going to roll down. I've only opened the door a little bit, okay? Got the back window down. If you want to see my stuff, I'll open the side door. I mean, I told him about it. I didn't just open the side door because that's the way you get shot in Maryland. He opened the side door, had to bring him down.

So he was pissed right off the bat at that. And then I wouldn't open the door anymore because it was really raining. So I stuck my license and stuff through the back window. He didn't give me a ticket, though. He just brought it back. Drive safely. Would you pull me over for a dick? Arkansas number 19

I kind of liked Arkansas I spent a little time there We used to know a guy that was a professor At the University of Arkansas So we spent a little time there You don't realize there's like He was a big archaeologist So there was a lot of caves and stuff in Arizona

Or I mean Arkansas And he had all kinds of You know the Indian heads And the dinosaur Fossil Fossil Files And Arkansas was pretty It was pretty We used to have

When I was a little kid My mom had a friend in Michigan who had a vacation home in Arkansas. I never could figure that out. I was like, you live in the great late state. Everybody I know has cottages on some lake up north. You have a place in Arkansas. I never did to understand what that was about. Vermont.

Number 18 is Montana. I've never been to Montana. I would like to see Montana as well. I know that they have the mean streets there that Pat Gray is. from and you're lucky to get out of there alive by the skinning your teeth. Vermont, spent a little time in Vermont. It's beautiful. Bennington, I mean, I spent a bunch of time in Bennington, Vermont.

Love that. Hemings Motor News, the home of Hemings Motors News. Alaska, Oregon, Tennessee, New York 13th, Pennsylvania, 12th, number 11, the great state of Texas. Texas should be in the, I mean, not according to my wife, but it should be in the top 10. the great state of Texas Colorado, California number nine, Washington number eight.

I spent, you know what, I mean, California is beautiful. All the times I've spent in California, gorgeous. I don't want to live there, but it was gorgeous to be there. Washington, Minnesota, Hawaii, Louisiana. I've spent some time in Louisiana. I've even dealt with some Louisiana, New Orleans police officers. It should be ranked lower. Wisconsin, Kentucky.

Kentucky's beautiful. Maine. I mean, I've visited there. It's nice. And the number one state, according to this ranking. What state didn't we mention? Yes, the great state of Michigan. So I've lived in the number one state

and the worst state according to this particular poll. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it, 888-90339. 93 is the phone number. Thank you so much for coming along for the ride today. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA, Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, Instagram, at Jeff EMRA.

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Welcome to it. Sorry, I'm just sitting here going through my social media accounts. And had an opportunity. talk to Jeff Rosenblum from, that's at J.R. Questus on Twitter. You know, the author, co-author of Friction One of the books that

Ruler has mandated we read. The Law from on High has come down. And one of the books, and it's actually a really good book. If you have an opportunity to read it, if you see it laying around somewhere, you go to Barnes & Noble. Here's what you do. You go to Barnes & Noble and you read it.

All right, you don't even have to buy it. Don't tell Jeff I said that. But you don't even have to buy it. Just go to Barnes & Noble, sit there and read it. Bring your little, bring your little Yeti cup of cold soda and just sit there in the back and your little plush chair and read friction. You'll get through it. You come back a couple times you're through it.

You're good. You haven't even even spent a dime. I have to drive to a Barnes & Noble, Jeff. There's only one that's open within a 150 mile radius now. Okay, well, then buy it and have it shipped to your home. I mean, if you just go to Amazon and they'll deliver it the next day. Amazon Prime, give it to you next day.

No problem. All right, so as you well know, I am fashion. I mean, there's just no, if you've ever seen me, you know that nothing could be, nothing could be. Some would say further from the truth, I would say nothing could be closer to the truth. I am fashion.

All right. I know they've got this whole, Coco Chanel thing that's, you know, she thinks she said it. I don't know. She may have said it, but I

am fashion. So, a couple things. I am still, I seriously am still working on Moos by Jeffie. My daughter is working on some special Mummoos by Jeffie, special designer editions.

Maya has been, you know, busy drawing and bringing me different creations and I've been, you know, she gets mad when I say no. Hi, Drew, don't you like it? No, no, do me something else.

That's very, you know, you got to be able to say no to your kids. And so I'm working on that. And this is just, this is an example of why I am fashion. So I see this story about people going to Panama for, fashion.

And I'm like, that cannot be. That cannot be. So these people are going to this Panama Vacations destination, this Embara village for their special little trinkets and wares. And no, it may be a good little vacation destination, but it is not fashion. Right. Let's just go.

You're not going to the Panama Embara Village for, Fashion. I'm sorry, you just aren't. However, one of the good things that's happening this year, August, the 16th season of Project Runway, now I'm forced to watch this. I don't like it. I don't like it.

But since I am fashion, I mean, I should be aware of what's happening in the fashion community. And Project One Way is one of those, one of the ways that I keep up with what's happening in the fashion community. community. This is the 16th season of Project Runway. Some of the seasons have been great. There's been some great people on there. And by great, I mean funny, bad, horrible people. But there's some great, I love the, I love the judges. Heidi Klum, I mean, she's, what a racket.

I mean to tell you, you want to talk about somebody that has found a money-making machine. is Heidi Colon. I mean, not only is she a money-making machine, and I mean that in a good way, not in the other way. And, but it's a show. Holy cow. That show, they sponsor everything down to toenail colors and blush, and they're not wearing anything that isn't sponsored.

It is amazing. I mean, they take those designers on, today we're going to be taking Bill's helicopter rides to Joe's Farm. I mean, the world is sponsored. It's beautiful. I love it. I love it. So, my man, Tim, we'll be on there.

I mean, I love them. I love the whole thing. So, I mean, when you are fashion like me, you have to know. However, one of the good things about this particular, and I say good things because I know a lot of people are going to, you have to say that. You have to say it's a good thing. I, on the other hand, don't necessarily think it's a good thing.

Because this particular season, they're going to focus on size-inclusive models. So what does that mean? Size-inclusive models. Yes, they're going to be making fat guy clothes or fat girl clothes. So if you make fat girl clothes and fat-girl clothes, and fat guy close, what do you need to walk down the runway? Fat guys. I mean, okay.

I get the PC world. And Heidi, I love you. I know that, I know you're trying to make everybody happy and the world, and you want the show to be a little different. It's been 16 years. You started to feel like it's in a rut.

You want a little better. You brought what's her face on to do the all stars. And that really, I mean, I guess that's okay. and they watch it because you're not on. Alyssa Milano does the All-Stars. And when they first started the All-Stars, I thought, hey, that's a good idea.

And then Alyssa was on there, and she's pregnant through the whole thing. Come on. Do I want to see Alyssa Milano pregnant? No. No. I got it. She's a mom.

She's pumped out a couple of kids. Great. I don't want to see her pregnant. So that ruined it. That ruined the All-Star. stars for me. So she had you know, there's still all stars going on now and you know Lysse is still there. She's not pregnant.

Okay. So I'll go back and take a look once in a while. But Heidi do we really need to have size inclusive season? Why are you fat-shaming? You bastard. I know. I know.

I know. I got it. I understand. Believe me. But I just can't it's going to be a tough year it's going to be a tough year to get through to get through if I have to

I mean it's bad enough I got to deal with I got to deal with my man Tim Gunn I love him so much he's fantastic but there are a number of people who are

participants in Project Runway who think they should be like Tim Gunn. There's no one like Tim Gunn. That's why he's Tim Gunn. And it's just, I'm going to have to sit through that. Now I've got to sit through size inclusive runways.

Look, I was one of the first ones that wanted to have, you know what, you know what's not out there in the world? You know what's not out there in the world? Okay. There's all kinds of magazines, Playboy, Penhouse, Hustler, a girl next door, club, whatever the magazines are. I've never seen them before in my life. You know, the magazines that are hidden behind the counter.

Is there a fat guy magazine? No, there's fat women, there's thin women. There's no fat guy magazines. I was the one who said that it would be a million-dollar idea. The fat guy bags. Genius, I thought. I was once again, I was so far ahead of my time, I was behind. This is something I've struggled with my entire life.

Right? So I'm just saying. I got nothing against, I get fat-shamed every day of my life. So I've, I got nothing against size inclusivity. But why do I have to watch it come down the runway? Why, Heidi, please don't.

And then we're going to have to hear the judges and everything's going to have to pretend like it's not size-inclusive. Like it looks great. And you look great wearing that. Although if I saw you on the street, I wouldn't think that at all. Stop it. Don't make me say that.

And you're going to have to say, oh, and Tim's going to have to say, oh, you look so beautiful. Why don't we do this? No. No. And even last year, you know what it was? You know what it was? Last season, the last two seasons,

that's why they were doing it. The last two seasons, the models that they were bringing in, the models who were, you know, you know, needed to have a sandwich every now and then and stopped doing all the other stuff that they do weren't that good looking. That's what they were doing. They were already laying the groundwork for size inclusive. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show. That it is. Lawrence Jones standing by to take over and take the helm, grab the steering wheel and drive this thing right in, I mean, take this thing out of the ditch. That's what he does. every Saturday. Grabs takes the helm and takes this network right out of the ditch that I've driven us into. Now, I don't know if you know this or not, but a lot of people struggle with depression and need help.

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There are times when I closed my eyes, well not me, but the guide. And the green looked a lot greener, began to see things I hadn't noticed before. Flutter of the birds, the ripple of the water, the swaying of the trees. It helps you be here and not there. Breathe and be prepared for forest bathing. Now, in the middle of your bathing process, if you feel the need to reach out and hug that tree, feel the energy from that tree, do it.

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So good luck, God bless, and be well. Thanks for coming along for the ride today. Lawrence Jones standing by, ready to take this thing, drive this thing out of the ditch. Then who's next? Mike Slater, then Joe Pags. And thanks to Mike O'Pelka

for being the opening act on Saturday for this broadcast on the Blaze Radio Network. Always remember, one of the things that you need to do, you know, you're so stressed and you've been bathing in the forest. And now you feel relaxed. Feel better. And you notice things more. And you notice, gosh, darn it at this.

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