Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 7/29/17 Hour 1

Episode Date: July 29, 2017

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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 usually i look at it just because I'm listening to the radio and 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 know, I know you think, usually you think, oh, I wonder if most of those cars 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, premier, 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 to last.

And I have a feeling that if we do go into some kind of battle, at least the president, been 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 at 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. It'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 progress. 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 by yesterday. I would like to thank Reince Previce 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 has, 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 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 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 them 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'll just put his hand about his head. 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. And the blues clap, yay! Yay! We get to beat the crap out of potential criminals. We mean like, we can, it's like a TV show. Everyone's a 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, and head into the top of the police car when he's getting in. 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 Gard passed away. One week before his first birthday. Then he's 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 done. diagnosed with the disease.

Through their own research, Charlie's parents, Chris, Garde, 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.

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 not be transferred to the United States or elsewhere. Then the case went to the U.K. 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 Herano, 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 tubes 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 lawyers, 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 Gardt, less than a year old, passed away yesterday. 728. 7. 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,

do you. Speak 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 say, 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. 3033.93 is the phone number. You follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA. Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, and Instagram at JeffEMRA. Now, I know that, you know, over the years, we've discussed how my 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 opened. 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 ever. 800 pounds. Today, I'm sorry. Today, I cut back a little bit this week. So today I'm 795, just under 800. And 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, no, it was not good at all. And I have a feeling that after a while, you know, when you start deep frying stuff, the,

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? Oof. I mean, 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. or you'll make sure it's fresh. So hopefully the deep-fried fruit loops will have fresh fruit loops. Because of a stale fruit loops is going to ruin the whole thing. Deep-fried Rubin. Oh, 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 the name of a jazz band? Fat smooth. Tonight. Fried arrows can pull it. No, thank you. Fried cheesecake stuffed apple sunda. 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. fried redneck wedding cake balls. I wonder what that is. I wonder what redneck wedding cake balls is. If you have to ask, you don't want to know.

Fried sloppy Joe flaut us 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. Texas sheet cake. I mean, okay. Funnel cake, bacon, casso burger.

No, thank you. Gulf Coast fish bowl. Oreo beer. Oh, no, thank you. Pinot popcorn. No. Pinia new air popcorn. No, thank you.

I don't care how you say it. You have not eaten. it. Raymond grasshopper cookie. Pino 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? Pinot Noir. What is it? Pinot noir popcorn.

Is that right? Is that what it is? What is it? Turn your mic on. Tell me what's Ellen. it is. It's a peanut noir. That's right.

That's what I said. Southern fried chicken Monte Cristo. No, thank you. Surfing, turfin, Teter boat. Texas fajita fries. Maybe. Texas fried cowboy fritters.

Maybe. The tamalee donut. No. Tipsy, topsy catfish on a stick. These are the semi-finalists. No, thank you. I don't even want the pinot nor popcorn. Never like that pinot-out nor stuff. That's nasty. That's some nasty stuff right there. I think we're sticking, you know, just the,

no, let's 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 could, it'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 bacon-wrapped mozzarella without the jalapina, no.

I feel like, 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? and they better they better locked down those rides at the fair this year you know I heard the story about the fair in Ohio

right the carnival in Ohio and horrific and you always think about 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 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. Yeah, that one looks good. I mean, I hope not. I hope not.

And now that definitely not for a while, right? I mean, they're going to be inspecting every nut and bolt of the old 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 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 it was no chlorine, but you did use just a chlorine pellet 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, well, we'll 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. Just okay. Okay, I got it. It's a non-chlorine pool system. You 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. If they don't, you'd kind of think maybe it was 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 on 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 him. yourself because there's bed, I mean, 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 anytime 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, 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.

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