Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Do What You Feel Is Right - 7/9/16

Episode Date: July 9, 2016

Today on the Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy talks about the mayhem that has taken place this week in Dallas. Also, he is joined by Robert Atkinson, author of Confessions of Congressman X, and Chuck from Fla joins us, to tell us about the whacky news in Florida, all that and more! Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRA Like Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Hello. Welcome to the broadcast. It was summertime heat in Texas. Thursday evening, July 7th, 2016, downtown Dallas. He expressed killing white people. He expressed killing white officers. He expressed anger for Black Lives Matter.

That was Dallas Police Chief David Brown. Now, what do we really know? We know that it was the deadliest day for U.S. police since 9-11. Think of that. We know that a black U.S. Army reservist who served in Afghan war said he wanted to kill white people. He did. We know the police killed the gunman, identified by a U.S. government source as Mika Xavier Johnson, using a bomb-carrying robot after a standoff. We know, as we just heard from Chief Brown, he said he was upset about the recent police shootings,

said he was upset at white people, said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. Twelve officers shot, five officers killed, seven officers injured, two citizens injured. He did what he came to do. He may have not done as much as he wanted to do, but he did what he came to do. but he did what he came to do. And now we have the aftermath. The aftermath of some wanting to use this to bring us together. Some wanting us to use this to tear us farther apart.

And some saying, you know, I know it was a bad thing. But that evening after it was a little calmer, KDFW TV reporter here in Dallas, asked Chanda Higgins, an organizer with the Dallas Action Coalition, how his heart fell after the shootings. It's tragic, you know, when you talk about the loss of life, but, I mean, it's kind of got an ironic twist to me here in Dallas, particularly because the city of Dallas and the Dallas police department has been really successful about not talking about and not exposing their issues

like the ones we're seeing bubbling up across the country and so for this to happen and for officers to be killed during this is like a wake-up call that something different needs to happen and people want to see justice people want to see reform people want to see police be held accountable when they when they feel like it's murder and you know he's not alone saying that he wants to have police held accountable because he believes they're not held accountable. And then we had Mark Hughes, a man whose face was plastered all over social media

and television because he was carrying his rifle at the protest. Now, I heard them call him a person of interest. They show a picture of Twitter, which I saw but that said this is one of our suspects. please help us find him and then it came to light that he didn't have anything to do with this

and they talked to him after he had talked to police I can't believe it I can't believe it the crazy thing about it is that I was down here I couldn't get to my vehicle because of the roadblock and

in hindsight 2020 I could have easily been shot Where were you when your picture was being plastered all over the country? You didn't even know. I didn't know. We received a phone call that my face was on there as a suspect, and immediately I flagged down a police officer. So while the country was looking for you, you were talking to police.

I was talking to police laughing and joking with police officers. Mark, have you talked to police since your picture was plastered? Have you spoken to them since then? Yeah, I just got a... interrogation room for about 30 minutes. Well, police officers lying, saying they had video of me shooting, which is a lie, saying that they have witnesses saying that I shot a gun, which is a lie. So, I mean, at the end of the day, the system was trying to get me.

The system was trying to give me. Did you get an apology? No. That's something we did. We asked them, we said, you know what, now y'all have my face on national news. Are y'all going to come out and say that this young, man had nothing to do with it. What's your concern now going forward?

I mean, like my brother saying, he'd be getting death threats. I haven't got on my social media. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. All I know at the end of the day is that I was injustice. It was like in just going on. It was, it was persecution on me

unrightly, and I feel that they need to do something about that. I'm not apology, I'm not satisfied with apology, I'm not satisfied. with in the end. Okay. I'm not satisfied with an apology.

What would satisfy you, Mark? What would satisfy you? I'm guessing cash. But does that make it better? I saw, then they were saying they wouldn't take it down. The police, Dallas police wouldn't take it down from their Twitter account, but I looked in it certainly is down now.

And I really don't remember them saying he was a suspect. I remember them saying he was a person of interest. I know it's a fine line. I got it. Because everyone assumes, you know, not necessarily correctly, that when police say that you are a person of interest

or someone is a person of interest, they're saying that to be, you know, to be nice, but really you're a suspect. In this case, it was true. He was a person of interest. I did not see the suspect part,

but if it happened horrible. And again, I got it. Person of interest means suspect. I got it. Now, not everyone reacted with such hate. Nikisha Shannon, a photographer in South Carolina, said she was horrified and wanted to support her local police. It's just a smile story because her oldest son wants to be a police officer.

So she baked them cookies, took them down there. They were a little shocked in South Carolina. They weren't quite sure. how to take it. But she said, look, my five-year-old, ask him what he wants to be, he says he wants to be a police officer. I'm an African-American female, and the only thing I'm worried about is my son's safety. I want to teach my kids to be respectful and honorable in all they do. I don't want my son thinking if he sees a police officer, they're going to shoot him. She told her son, when asked what it means to protect and serve, I told him to think of others before themselves. Stop bullying, and they make

sure people follow the rules. When my son does become a police officer, he'll be one of the good ones. So there is some good that came of it. We heard some fascinating stories of some of the protesters. We saw protesters still protesting the police when the shooting was still going on and live in Dallas. And the police were trying to protect them. And yet they still protested the police. The police are marked now, it appears.

shootings all over the country. This started because of a police shooting. One of the things that happened out of Dallas that was a first, the police used a robot. We talk about robots all the time on this show and how close we are. And there's some more stories we try to get to today. Have a little bit closer we are to having them in our everyday life. Dallas police said we saw no other option.

Dallas mayor said Our option was to use the bomb To replace a device extension To detonate where the suspect was Other options would have exposed our officers In grave danger The mayor also said the suspect was killed by the device And disputed earlier reports that he may have shot himself

Now they used this They've done this before in the Iraq war It's something that hasn't been done here in the U.S. in domestic policing. I'm very surprised that these protests don't have drones flying over

with cameras and maybe even some sort of weapons. Sorry, sorry, shouldn't be there. I'm really surprised that has not happened yet. Because we have fake facts, mayors, governors, senators, spewing out things that aren't

true. The mayor of Atlanta. I'm a black man. I know what it is to be a black man, but that doesn't mean you take your frustrations out on harming other people. Sounds good, right? Right. He's taking lessons from our illustrious leader, Barack Obama.

Throw the bone. Then, light the fire. It does mean it's fine to make a demand for fairness and equal treatment of black citizens who are being disproportionately impacted in a particular manner that relates to the likelihood of a black person dying in an interaction with law enforcement. It's just not true.

It's just not true, Mayor. And you know it. And you know it. When you look at the numbers of violent crimes, if you're a white person and you are a victim of 82, more than over 82% chance of that crime being done by a white person. If you are a black person, you have almost a 41% chance that the violent crime on you is being done by a black man or a black person. I don't want to leave the females out.

If you are Hispanic, you have a 50% chance, almost a 51% chance. No, I'm sorry, a 41% chance that you are going to be a victim of a violent crime from a Hispanic. Those are the numbers. Those are the facts. Nobody wants to hear that. It's all feelings. It's all I feel this. We're being ruled by feelings.

I can't. We're supposed to understand their side. We've got to see their side. We've got to see how those people feel. The gays, the transgenders, the blacks, the Hispanics. It's how they feel. We have to understand their side. I'm tired.

I'm having to say I'm not a racist. I'm not a bigot. Tired of it. It's being real, but I feel, I feel my side. How about feeling my side? I'm tired of having to say, I'm not a racist. You know better. But by saying that, apparently I am.

So when you hear blue lives matter, black lives matter, all lives matter. do they do they this is the jeff fisher show on the blaze radio network in the next 19 seconds you could sell your home okay it's i mean it's not going to sell your home i mean this but you're going to take a big step toward getting it sold go to real estate agents i trust dot com

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We have so much, so much more to get to today. I mean, it seems like forever since we last got together. We had the big 4th of July holiday broadcast. and then we were gone from the main show. And then this was the first weekend back. It seems like, I mean, when we were last together, it was Brexit, right? And, of course, the U.K. has fallen completely into the sea now because they, oh, wait, they haven't? No, everything's fine.

Huh. Huh. And now we've had the big shooting in Dallas, which trumps everything. Ooh, did I say Trump? We've got a little Trump talk. Hillary, FBI running. It's unbelievable what's happened. And yet, it all just seems like it's spinning out of control.

It just may be. It just may be spinning out of control. But we'll be here for you. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher Show. Blaze Radio Network. That it is.

Welcome to it. 888-90-333 is the phone number. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA, Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, and Instagram at JeffeyMRA. As we talked about a little bit before we went away there, we didn't go away. The radio station didn't go away. I went away for a few minutes at the bottom of the hour. I was thinking about how much has happened since we,

we last got together. And, you know, what we're focused on now. I mean, it just seems like, boy, every, all the news stories are just hit and run. Something big happens and then it's move on. Now, the good news, I forgot to tell you, the good news that is taking place this week here in Dallas is that President Obama is coming. He's cutting his European trip short, and he'll be here in Dallas. So that'll be great. I think the family of the murdered victim in Minnesota is coming to Dallas.

So that'll be great. That will be great. Can't wait for that. Now there's a ton of stories, you know, to get to. One of the things since we were, you know, I'm out about, I'm on, you know, I'm on what's called vacation, but it really isn't a vacation. I had a great week with my daughter. It was just her and I, and we had, you know, a great time together.

It was good to spend time with her. Darn the luck. My wife and my son were gone for the week, and boy, did I, whew, man, where they missed. And can't wait for everyone to be home. Anyway, when you're out for me, I see, you know, you see people, it drives me crazy when I see people out and about with their children and they're at a restaurant and everybody's looking at their phone. It drives me crazy. Drives me crazy. I don't know why.

It just does. And I'm guilty of it sometimes. I am. So I try not to be. I work hard at putting the phone away when we're out somewhere where we can communicate. Face to face. Sitting across the table from one another, let's say. We can discuss anything.

I don't care. We can talk about the stupid color of the cars in the parking lot, something other than looking at the phone and the tablet and the iPod and listening. I just can't. Can't take it. So a lot of times when we're out and about, all I do is I will, you know, obviously, you know, someone goes to the bathroom. You look at your phone and you run down, you see headlines. you look at, you know, news websites, you see headlines. And I just email myself the stories so that I can go back and read them later.

All right? So, I mean, I mean, I don't want to miss the stories, but I don't want to spend, I'm not going to spend an hour and a half reading stories while I'm sitting at a table with my family. I'm just not going to do it. I'd, you know, I'll take the time later. Well, I mean, that's what I tell myself, right? You're going to take the time later. And, of course, we have this show to do.

And we have, I have stacks of stuff. to talk stories to tell you about that are fascinating stories of the Philippines guy the new Philippines guy rodrigo doate the new Philippines president if you know any addicts go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful this is after he took a presidential oath in the Philippines hey if you got it he got elected on this if you know any addicts go ahead and kill them yourself getting their parents to do it to be too painful that's the Philippines that's where we're headed

that's where I mean it's unbelievable we have people live tweeting rallies for let's say presidential candidates oh I don't know Donald Trump let's use him for an example and we have this person this Jared Yates section and you know he's you know his biased tweets as well maybe if I were there, it'd be, you know, different tweets. But he live tweets this Greensboro Trump rally.

Anger here is palpable. Trump event like a security state. Just watch the girl get denied for being too alternative. There's an ungodly amount of extremely junk people here. Tailgating and parking lots. Vendors selling Hillary sucks, but not like Monica shirts. Big seller is a shirt that says Trump, that B.I.T. CCH. Everyone is wearing, everyone is being asked to pose for pictures. Big thumbs up, big

grin. Guy wearing socialism sucks shirts and lip syncing the tiny dancer. Nothing makes sense anymore. This is Jared Yates tweeting air guitarist to keep on rocking in the free world, make America great again shirt and hat. Just got told, I don't look right. Everyone discussing Orlando and debating which people in the crowd are protesters and does it seriously, and mentioning Orlando. I mean, tell me that doesn't feel like a hundred years ago already. I mean,

spinning way too fast. And you can go on and on with this, you know, live tweets from the thing. But I'm just telling you so much goes on. So I thought, you know, what I'll do is I'll just go down. Let's go down real quick.

And I'll look at, like I sent it to one main Jeff Fisher account that I have. So I just go back and I see what I've sent my head. And I'll just look at the headlines of what I've sent for stories that, you know, fascinated me while I was out and about. And we'll just start here since the last time we met. And the title, my, the subject is Paul done with music. And it's a story about Paul Simon being done with music. Okay, you know, no problem, Paul. You know, we can be done with you too.

I'll go back and listen to O'S. That's fine. Headline, new federal rule strikes another devastating blow against the coal industry. No kidding. I mean, I haven't read the article, so I'm not sure what exactly this time they're talking about, what in particular they're talking about. But, you know, that's what they're doing. Man at Center of Wildly Popular Serial, S-E-R-I-A podcast, granted new trial.

So the story, they put the serial together about the murder and stuff. Now he gets a new trial. Good for him. Tesla Autopilot Technology under investigation after fatal crash. Again, I don't know all the details of the story, but I do know what happened. You know, and they're making a big deal out of the autopilot, but now the guy was probably on his laptop and it crashed. I mean, we have a ways to go.

We all know that. The autopilot isn't for you to fall asleep yet. I, however, am looking forward to the day. I've talked to you about it before where I can get into whatever ride I have and push home and then go to sleep. I'm a big fan of that. Or I can go along and read these stories I'm talking to you about. and get some things done, instead of having to worry about driving.

Next email. Nancy Grace leaving headline news end of June. So she's gone. Nancy leaves headline news. I mean, that's amazing. She's been there forever. She is headline news. Now, I can't say that I ever really.

No, I better not say that. It's sad to see Nancy go for headline news. That's all I'm going to say. I'll just leave it at that. Okay. Inspector General, fired by Obama, dies. Okay, I just want to know if that's, you know, if that's another, if I have to start making a lift for Obama murders,

like the Clinton murders. Then I see woman bosses. And there's some, it's the creator, and they're talking about the women's CEOs, and they're giving some of their thoughts on being successful founders. And I thought, I'd be interesting. And I'd like to see what they have to say. I absolutely would.

Then the next one, I said to myself, executive order. United States policy on pre and post-strike measures to address civilian casualties in the U.S. Okay. So we have a new executive orders on fighting the enemy and being able to attack the enemy. And I saw other headlines, which I'm sure are linked into the story, so I didn't send them to myself. And I'll find them if I go reading the story. Other headlines of some of our military people who are talking about not how this hurts the military. this new executive order. But, and I don't know that for sure. I just know that's, you know, some of the headlines that I saw outside of that headline.

And then how about the Memphis T. I have an email I sent to myself, Memphis TSA. How about that? The girl going through the TSA of Memphis. They treat her like crap. They beat her up. She's got some kind of, she's disabled. She's got cancer.

I don't know what. I don't even remember the whole thing. What's wrong with her? And the TSA treat her like crap. And they, because she's got some thing. and she's in a wheelchair and a thing. And the whole thing, I do remember, I do remember my favorite part of that story

without, you know, clicking on the story and reading in detail, was that the TSA's first original comeback was, well, you should call ahead and let us know if there's issues. Yeah. Yeah, that'll work. I bet you that'll work 100% of the time, won't it TSA.

That is agonizing. And that's what, I mean, we've given these people so much power and everyone is afraid to say something because they've given these people more power A than they know how to handle because they are you know, I don't know who they are, but many of them don't seem as, I don't know, what's the word I'm looking for? don't seem as bright as, say, other professions. But we've given them the power, man. Say something bad, and they'll pull you off to the side.

You'll miss your flight. You'll screw up the whole thing, and it's all your fault. It's all your fault. And you want to think to yourself twice from now on, this is the scam. I say, call it a scam. But, you know, do you would you like flight insurance from the airline? You say, no, I'm not going to miss my flight. And then what happens if you get mouthy with the TSA and you miss your flight?

Do you have the insurance? No. Okay. Well, good luck. God bless. It's the way it goes. All right. Next email.

Tinder info on you. I see the headline where, you know, the app Tinder. And I'm sure, I didn't read the story yet, but I'm sure that it's talking about their app and they get all this information on you. Every app you plug into your phone. You know, you're giving them the right to go into your phone forever. The only thing that bugs me about, the only thing that I say no to on these apps now, I won't use them. If they want to, they say, oh, we won't do it without your knowledge.

Uh-huh. But they do say there's one app that I really want to use bad. and I keep going back to it because I want to use it, but one of the questions that they have to say yes to is them being able to say yes and giving me new followers on Twitter and they're able to just give me followers and they're able to tweet for me

and we won't do it without your knowledge. Uh-huh. How about you don't do it at all? How about you just let me use your product? but I can't say yes to that. I always click out of that. It just drives me crazy because I want to use their product bad. That's one of the things on the apps that, you know, I'll give them that shadow care.

You can come into my phone. You can turn out my camera. You can look at what's going on. I don't care. But no, you can't tweet for me, okay? I mean, I don't know. You got to draw the line somewhere, right? I mean, I do anyway.

You have to draw the line somewhere. And you keep going. Roger Ailes and Gretchen Carlson. Oh, my gosh. Gretchen, Sue and Fox and Roger and saying, you know, is a, ah, that whole thing is just unbelievable. Right? And digital trends in streaming. We'll get to that.

I've got that. That's a good story, actually. Walmart Mobile, you know, they're their own bank now. They've been their own bank for a while, but now you get their app, you can plug it. They'll be going to plug into your account and just, you can go into Walmart, get what you want. And you're out. I'm telling you, at Walmart, just open up your own bank. Let me put some money into my Walmart account and just take it from there.

Boop. Coming soon. And then the Walmart brawl. And then there's another big story about Jorge Ramos. And another big story on critical thinking. The FCC, I want to tell the digital age, FCC trying to be relevant. Oh my gosh, we will get in a little bit of that. Are they even relevant anymore?

I doubt it. they sure want to be they sure want to be and there's plenty more there's plenty more I mean Bill Cosby loses his bid to get the criminal case dismissed he's still ongoing they're never going to let that guy go it's too bad he didn't

too bad he didn't work for this too bad he didn't work for the State Department like Hillary Clinton Bill would have been off quite a while ago oh wouldn't he come on you know Hillary didn't intend to do anything bad.

You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio Network is the Jeff Fisher Show. So Trump goes groveling to Cruz and asks him to speak at the convention. Senator Cruz and Donald Trump had a good meeting. No discussion of any endorsement. Yeah, no kidding. Because that ain't coming, Don. Mr. Trump asked Senator Cruz to speak at the Republican Convention.

Senator Cruz said he would be happy to do so. Mr. Trump also asked Senator Cruz for his counsel on future judicial nominations, and Cruz responded, we'll continue to do everything he can to help and share principled constitutionalists on the courts. Did you now, Don, you want his counsel on future judicial nominations. Okay, well, you sitting down with... Ted ain't an endorsement. I find...

Ted, I almost wish you would have said, take a hike, Don. Take a hike. But, okay, you'd be Mr. Nice Guy. It could be Mr. Nice guy, but... That's got to be hard to do. This is the Jeff Fisher show.

Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Broke through with a book called Confessions of Congressman X. And Robert joins us here on the broadcast today. And Robert, we kind of broke down a little bit of the book a few weeks ago and found it, I find it fascinating. When you were putting this together, do you have the impression that X is in the majority?

Oh, absolutely. You mean as far as the comments he makes in the book? Yes. Yes, very much so. And what he says crosses both party lines. for both Republicans and Democrats. He's a Democrat, as you know, although he admits he's a closet moderate, but he won't dare admit it for fear the liberals in Congress would drum them out.

How many times did you hear some of these before you took to writing them down for history? Well, first of all, you should know that back, way back in the 1970s, I was on Capitol Hill for 10 years as the chief of staff and also the press secretary to two members of Congress. They were Democrats from Maryland, but they were the blue dogs of their day. Back then they called them Bull Weebles, and they switched to the blue dogs, but they were conservative Democrats. And so I got an inside feel of Congress for that period of time, and I can tell you, it was totally different than it is today. I still stay in touch with one of those members. One has died.

The other is still alive. I've been up to Capitol Hill with her on many occasions, and it's just totally changing the stories you hear from members. It kind of curls your toes a little bit. It's very disturbing. There are a lot of unhappy people up there, but they're not doing anything to change the system. Well, we've been told, just as a side note, you know, outside of this broadcast, I work on the Glenn Beck radio program as well. And we were talking to a number of people.

I should say, we have talked to a number of people that are inside the Beltway. And they claim that you don't know what it's like here. You don't know what is like? I mean, it's bad. Yes, it is. And that's a shame to hear. It's almost kind of frightening to hear. It is.

As a matter of fact, as you know, in the book, Congressman X even says he feels disconnected from reality. I mean, he said it's just like, you know, the Wizard of Oz pulled back the curtain, and there's Congress. Right. Not much really there. What do you hope people get out of this? We'll go through the book a little bit.

I found it, I mean, it's a quick read. It's fascinating, and it brought so many of the chapters as I was going through them. I'm like, yeah? Right. Yeah. And? You know, his goal, and I'm talking about X, his goal was really to call attention to all the corruptive practices that are occurring up on Capitol Hill. And he hopes that people would use it as a starting point to start talking about it and then kind of forcing their members of Congress to start making some changes.

although later in the book he admits that it's and it's really kind of sad to say this but he he almost feels that it's too late that there'd be no road out of this well i mean the title of the last chapter i'm not hopeful about the future kind of gives you that idea but he does give some some plans that uh would uh seem to at least uh put the put the boat in the right direction yes he does uh and and that is kind of it's It's very interesting. There's a book. You can see a lot of arrogance and hubris and brashness and so forth. But at the same time, I kind of got the feeling that he was embarrassed by it all himself,

and he was kind of seeking forgiveness. And this was the way we're going to do it is write this book and say, okay, I admit it. We do all these things. But here is what's wrong and here's what you can do about it. And obviously the key one was doing something about this dialing for dollars madness that all members go through. they spend one-half to two-thirds of their time doing nothing but shaking the tree for money rather than doing the job they were elected to do.

So that's the first thing he's talking about is how do we go about that? How do we stop lobbyists from raising money for those they lobby? That should be completely against the law. Yes, no question. And he's talking about publicly financed elections. I know that, you know, courts show that out, but the fact that, is he said there's got to be some way to control the money here because if you you know it's so obvious that special interests are controlling the votes in Congress,

agenda in Congress, and the guy, you know, the average guy in the street has no impact at all. Well, and again, I mean, if you turn that around a little bit and look at some of the, for lack of a better term, rage in the country right now and even around the world. You know, people seem to be maybe getting a little tired of that, but I don't know that they know exactly what they want to make it better. No, I agree with you. And the other problem is, as he points out, he blames a lot of this on the electorate. He's saying that they are pretty ignorant about what goes on in Washington,

what Congress is all about, with the congressman, with the role of their member of Congress is, and so forth. And he said, because people are so into themselves today that they're kind of ignoring, they've kind of thrown up their hands, as it were, saying we can't do anything, so we'll just let them do what they do and we'll do, well, it's just getting worse and worse as a result of that. Yeah, sooner or later something has to give. No question about that.

while you were going through confessions of Congressman X what's your favorite part is there a favorite part well no my favorite's not quite the word I mean I always tell people when I give them a copy of the book I say you know

I don't want to say enjoy this because it's very depressing and I think when you finish the whole book, because I've seen it with people around here, you finish the book, he'd say, what the hell can I do? How can I change? This is terrible.

And there's suddenly an interest of one kind or another. I kind of like the idea that the Congressman X had. I really think it probably is the only solution. He is saying that there should be insurrection

at the polls. And what he's saying is primarily that during primaries, most people aren't going to change their party because they're afraid of what the other guy's going to do. So he's saying to start at the primary level, find someone to run against the incumbent that's already in there that has some solutions to the problems in Washington. And this way you can kick out the incumbent and still stay with your own party. Right.

Well, I mean, they've talked a number of, you know, for several years anyway, is the way to the way to get that back is at the, you know, the primary level, you know, just to get that out. But then you also have to have people realize that, look, that's what it's supposed to be about, right? You're supposed to have, hey, this person feels the way I do. So I'm going to, you know, put this, I'm going, I want this person in office. Right. And then you get like-minded people around that person and get them into office. That's the whole point of the system.

Well, I think most people vote, you know, they don't know much about who they don't like to. at all. That's very basic. You know, who's the governor, who's my delegate, who's my senator, and people generally vote for that letter after the name, you know, the R or the D. Right, because it's easy. It's easy, and they know, well, generally, those people, you know, that they share my kind of thinking.

And you drive around your, drive around your city, and, you know, the one with the most signs that are ramming it in your head every day. Right. When you go there, oh, yeah, Wilson. Yeah, I remember that guy. I remember that sign a thousand times in my head. He must be good. Yeah, that's a she.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. It's a she. I mean, it's so unbelievable. All right, so after all the years, all the tears, what's left for you? Are you hoping that maybe we create that fishbowl, Washington, D.C., that we so would like to have? That's a hope, of course, because I think it was kind of interesting.

his last three words, God help us. Because, as you may recall, that last chapter, he makes all these suggestions. And then he suddenly says, I don't know why I'm bringing this up or talking about it, because he said, it's just not going to happen. Congress is too polarized to have it happen. And the electric is too polarized.

So he honestly thinks that, you know, as he said, he's not hopeful about the future and people taking an interest in trying to change feelings people have kind of given up. Although I agree with you, isn't it interesting that this particular election cycle, a presidential cycle, election, that you're seeing people like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and Brexit and all that kind of. There is this momentum that's building up, you know, and it is.

You're actually right. It's anger. There's a complete disintegration of confidence in government these days. and everyone agrees that as he said, it is presumptuous, it's wasteful. It's hard. It's, you know, and look, it's frustrating for everyone to look and say,

you know, that's just not right. I mean, it's just, you know, the, at one of the chapters he talks about just because something is technically legal doesn't mean that it's morally right. Well, guess what? You know, that's true.

But, you know, how many times have we heard, well, that's the law, and that's the way it is, and that's what's so frustrating. And that's why I think, as you know, you just mentioned, people are frustrated and mad and angry, but they really don't know what to do. Well, it's kind of sad when you hear, excuse me, when you hear people say, you know, a politician will tell a lie here and a lie there and so they go. And the standard response is, well, you know, politicians lie. just the way they are. Right.

And all that kind of nonsense, well, isn't that cute? That's just the charm of those people, you know. It goes on and all. Of course, of course. It's the primaries. Of course they lie. Of course we're going to hear their lies. They all say that. Yes, they do. Oh my gosh. It's absolutely agonizing. Absolutely. Okay, so Congressman X, we're going to, we'll set aside the confessions of Congressman X a little bit and we'll go to Robert Adkinson, a political pundit. I don't know about that. Oh, come on now.

Former Chief of Staff, Press Secretary for a couple members of Congress, traveled the world. What do you see happening in this presidential election happening here in the United States of America right now? I think it's going to be very, very close. I think there's a feeling right now that assuming that Donald Trump remains Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton remains the Democrat nominee. And I can't be sure both because, you know, the whole email thing might come up in Biter at the very end.

But let's presume it says too. That unlike what the polls are currently showing, I think it's just going to be neck and neck. And I think I don't think you're really going to know until early in the morning. on election night next day. I think it's that close. I think ironically, this book,

it was totally unintentional because I have to admit to him because a few reporters brought it up and they say, well, isn't this really

what this book's all about you know, Donald Trump, you know, how he feels? And he said, my God, that wasn't my purpose

of doing it at all. But I think the book has unintentionally kind of captured the whole populist message that's been out there, this campaign here for not only Trump, but for Sanders. Oh, sure. And because it kind of shows that how pathetic Washington is, you know, how little gets done,

and the government is terribly wasteful. And we know all these things, again, I get back to nobody's doing anything about it. I mean, you see papers like the Washington Post. You know, they're so happy with a column on giving Pinocchio, nobody cares. They all know. All they don't know. Oh, they know. So what's the big deal?

I find it fascinating. I don't know if you have watched House of Cards or not on Netflix with Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. But so many times throughout the book, I could actually, I mean, I could envision it. One of the cool things about the show, if those of you listening aren't familiar with it, a lot of times, Spacey as Frank Underwood will, right in the middle of whatever is going on, we'll stop and just look at the camera and talk to you, which, first of all, is a great idea and what sets that show apart in the beginning. But so many times, like, for example, one part in your book, it says, nobody here gives

a rat's ass about the future and who's going to pay for all this stuff we vote for. That's the next generation's problem. It's all about immediate publicity, getting credit now, looking good for the upcoming election. Isn't that true? And I can, I mean, I could just, so many times, I, I, I see Frank Underwood staring at the camera telling people that on Netflix, and I'm thinking, but that's not real, it's not real. That's just a story, right?

It's not real. Oh, this is real. I know. And as a matter of fact, one of the things when I had, in the forward, I kind of lay out how this was based on a series of conversations over many years, but a little over 15 years. And then I had taken notes and never told them about it, but I thought one day he might want to do a tell-all.

And then when I finally mentioned to him that I had these notes, who's obviously very upset. And I said, don't worry. I said, I've told a soul, I never will. And I gave him the notes and said, take a look at these. And I didn't hear from them for a good part of a year. And then he contacted me. We met again.

And he said, he'd go on over the notes. And he said, you know, he said everything you say is true, but he said, it sounds so harsh. Can we get rid of the X? You know, the curse words and everything. And I said, hell no. X, look around. That's the way it is.

That's what you said, and that's why the book is so powerful. Yeah. Is that it just you're sitting down and you're just spilling all this out. As you said, like looking at the camera and saying, it's really the way it is. Yeah. I'll tell you one cute story. Because it reminds you who knew that it was actually going on in the 1970s behind the scenes. very little like today.

But there's a TV studio on the House side and the Senate side where members can go and do a weekly program for, you know, maybe a local station in their district. And I was down there with a congresswoman one time. We were waiting and this fellow, and I won't say we was, but he's from Pennsylvania. But he was in the studio and he wasn't running for re-election. And this was, I think, the last program he had. And he was, so this is you're looking at the camera. Right behind it, what is it, it's set up as a desk, and right behind it, there's this window, and there's the Capitol Dome, like everyone looks out of the Capitol Dome.

And so he gets up and he goes, this place, he said, is a giant farce. Look at this, and he turned around him, and he puts his fist through the Capitol Dome, and it's just, oh, the whole back shop just travel. And I thought to myself, well, that's kind of what this book's about here. Yeah, that's exactly what the book is about. The whole thing is just a facade. Okay, so before I let you go, and before you want to make, you know, big news here on the Jeff Fisher show

on the Blaze Radio Network and tell people how they can get the book? They can get the book, obviously through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. All the usual places. What's that? All the usual places. All the usual places, and all you have to do is go to something like Amazon and type in either Congressman X or Confessions of Congressman X. It'll take you there,

reviews in the book and and i don't want to and i'll tell you a little secret is that it's uh uh if you uh if you have the free kindle app you can get a pretty pretty good price on the right too very good that's what i paid the good price for it online and i know i'd already i'd already bought it already started reading it and i saw and i will thank you for the copy so i let you send me a download thank you very much but i had already i'd already spent my hard-earned money for you robert act i appreciate that okay so i'm going to give you your i'm going to give you your chance here to set yourself free and make big news right here on the Jeff Fisher show on the Blaze Radio Network. Who is Congressman X?

Ah, that we will never know because that is the only reason I was selected to write the book is because I used to have a profession where I had to maintain anonymity. That's just you and me, though. Come on. I will never reveal it. I will tell you that he's a Democrat. We know that. He may still be in Congress or he may have retired or a lawyer. The election. How's that for a prediction? Just between you and me, though.

Who is he? Robert. He's married to Y. Robert Atkinson. Confessions of Congressman X. Thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate it. Well, thank you for having me.

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on the Blaze Radio Network. I'm not sure what he gave away today. He was teasing something at the end of the show that you could listen to the podcast and try to win a failed Michael Pelka giveaway. I mean, I didn't think there were any failed Opelka giveaways. I mean, there may be some that we haven't used yet. There would be some that, you know, maybe have questionable ideas, you know,

like the Opelka stunt brain grill set or something like that. But, I mean, there's, I mean, okay, I'm ready for the, you know, the stunt brain posted notes, something, you know, but, you know, listen to the podcast, to see if you can, you know, win your special little stunt brain gift that he's, you know, the failed gift he's calling it failed. Boy, do I disagree with that. So anyway, during the break, I'm scanning theblaze.com.

And I scroll down, and I saw it last night, too, and it threw me a little bit. And so there it is again. And it's a little picture on the left-hand side. And the story is, Clinton says Americans must not vilify police officers in the wake of deadly Dallas ambush. And, okay, you know, great.

And I've heard a clip from it, and she still sounds like Hillary. And she's trying, she's at the point of really, she's trying her damnedest not to squeal. I mean, she wants to get into that, Hillary. And we have a right. She wants it to agree with this manifestation. And she is, she wants too bad. But she doesn't. They've got her tethered, man.

But now I look at this picture and I'm thinking, is that Hillary? I mean, that looks, she looks great. That can't be Hillary. And so I click on it, and it is her. I mean, they've got her, they've got the hair looking a little different. They've got lightened up a little bit, the new cut. They've got the outfit is a little bit younger looking with the open jacket and the loose hanging blouse with the pants. It's still a pantsuit, but it's not the, it's not the Mousse Tong look.

And, you know, so they've got her looking good. Looking good. I thought, wow, that can't be Hillary. And it is. And she looks great. Now, I will grant you that it's a faraway shot. It's not the up close. And you don't see the, you know, it's not, it's the, it's the, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I don't know.

But she looks great. And then I pointed out, A, New York wanted to know if I had been drinking, uh, which, you know, obviously, I mean, hello, it's Saturday. And, uh, B, uh, isn't it interesting, uh, as pointed out from New York, and they are 100% right. Uh, my man, John is 100% right. right. Isn't it interesting that we're talking about how she looks?

We're not talking about the intent of her emails and every other god-awful thing that she's involved with. But then we have, you know, she's up against the great Donald Trump who, you know, everybody now, you think that he's not, you think that he's not a

chameleon. I mean, tell me if you think this is Donald Trump. I see a thing talking about the tweets from Donald Trump saying the press isn't reporting on these tweets from Donald Trump and their basic political tweets. Prayers and condolences to all the families who are thoroughly devastated by the horrors

we're all watching take place in our country. Due to the horrific events taking place in our country, I've decided to postpone my speech on economic opportunity today in Miami. I mean, and it goes on and on. Yeah. You tell me that's Donald Trump. writing that. Not a chance. Not a chance. And if that's the direction he's going, trying to be Mr. political, Mr. Nice Guy, what got him here ain't going to get him to the White House. Maybe that's

what he wants. Maybe that's what he wants. But you got Hillary getting the new cut and the lighter do in the younger pantsuits and the FBI saying that I have to look at. She didn't intend anything bad. Move on. She's on a fast lane to the White House. Sad. Now,

the state of Texas has a lot of weirdos, but the state I lived in for many, many years, the state of the great state of Florida. I was told by many people when I live there, what happens in Florida is the weird of the USA.

It's where everyone goes. It's where the weirdos go. It's where things happen. It's where you look and go, oh, my gosh, it's got to be Florida. And yes, it is. So my man, Chuck in Florida, is covering that weird of Florida for the Jeff Fisher show

of the Blaze Radio Network. How are you, Chuck? Jeffie, I'm doing marvelous. How are you, sir? Oh, oh, so good. If I could just get my hands on a new pantsuit. Yeah, no, you have to be drinking. I saw the picture of Hillary.

That is not good. Tell me, oh, come on. She looks great there. Somebody finally put lipstick on her, okay? But that's not covering up everything else. I don't know. She looks good there telling you. You see that picture there, you see what?

She absolutely looks better than she did. Yeah. I mean, you see that picture? You think, well, you know, maybe that's what Bill saw a few years ago. Anyway. And it's okay. Of course I'm drinking. So Florida.

Yes, Florida. So the weird of the country, so goes Florida. And I know that you cover some of that, Chuck in Florida. As my man Chuck in Florida. And so what do you have for us? I mean, is there weird happening in Florida? That's a dumb question. I should say, what weird has happened in Florida?

The sun rose today in Florida. There's weird happening in Florida. Thank you. Thank you. I think I wanted to lead out with something that wasn't quite as funny, only so we can get it out of the way because this does qualify as top weird of the week, I think. Tatania Allen of Daytona Beach, Florida was out celebrating the 4th of July festivities on the beach, and she had her baby with her and her boyfriend. And I don't know if it's the baby daddy. I'm just spitballing here.

but the the story goes that she got into a fight or an argument with her boyfriend on the beach and apparently punched him in the face a couple of times which I don't know if he fought back or not

but apparently it wasn't enough for her she had to use her baby as a weapon this woman actually slung her baby her two I think it was an infant like a one year old baby slung him at her boyfriend

and using him to beat the boyfriend. I was so satisfied if I had to check it. And sure enough, the story checks out. There were 26 witnesses to this that stepped forward and said, yeah, we saw the whole thing, which in of itself is a miracle. But apparently she got angry, flung the baby, and then dropped it in the sand while she continued to beat on the boyfriend. And wow, wow. It's not funny.

It's not funny. No, it's not. I'm sorry, I'm laughing, too, but I'm trying to visualize this in my head, and all I can picture is this woman's hair. I've got the picture on the website, and this, I don't know, it kind of looks like carrot top with some real kink to it, but it went straight up. You know, it's got awful.

The hair is horrible, but the story's much worse. No, they let anybody have children. It's bad. No, no, you're right. There's got to be something we could do about that. You have a license to drive a car, but anybody can procreate, you know? There's got to be something we can do about that. Oh, wait.

Not ever mind. No, well, the judge did take the baby away from her and denied bail and kept her in jail, which I think is a good thing because she had no prior. She had never been arrested before, but nonetheless, somebody saw the, you know, heinousness of this crime and gave the baby to family and kept this one locked up, which I think is a good end of the story. Well, that's good. Well, that's good, yeah. So what's next? Okay.

That is kind of funny, actually. I mean, you don't want to laugh at it, but you kind of have to. Well, I think a baby has a weapon before. I mean, how does that work? You know, I don't want to picture it, but it's there. So what do you do? Hey, the kids in your hand, what are you going to do? Not fight?

You know, you had to set the paper down to punch the guy in the face, right? Now, you've got the other hand and there's the baby. I guess that's the only other thing you can do. There's just no time to set the kid down. Anyway, no, stop, I'll stop. I'll stop. Please. I just can't.

All right. So the mayor of Sanford. You remember Sanford, right? Yeah, I love Sanford, Florida. Of course. It's the home of the now infamous story with Trayvon Martin shooting by George Zimmerman and blah, blah, blah, you know. Correct. The thing about this interesting story is that the mayor was actually carjacked in Sanford.

Three men approached his car late one evening as he was leaving a friend's house and put a gun in his face. In fact, they actually put the gun in his mouth and made him get out of his car. Wow. Boy, things are looking up in Sanford. Yes. Well, I mean, you know, he had to call his department to come out, and they stole his Mercedes from him, and the cops showed up in, you know, record time, of course. It's their boss.

So you kind of want to go to the boss at three of the morning when he calls you for carjacking, I guess, you know. Well, I mean, okay, so we're going to be. mad at the police for showing up fast at the mayor's carjacking? No. He actually praised them. He said, what a great job the local police department did. And I'm thinking, well, yeah, you kind of have to say that. They work for you.

Yeah, no kidding. You're the mayor. The mayor was carjacked. We'll get to it in a minute. No. That does not going to happen. But it is kind of stunning. It's like to wait 30 minutes for the cops to show up.

I just feel that they're going to be there first, you know? What is going on in Orlando and San. I mean, Sanford is technically, you know, Orlando. What the heck is going on? Man, that place is falling apart bad. Bad. Well, you know, when you get the expansion of all the major theme parks and all the riff-raft that it brings in from out of state. And I'm sorry, the great tourists that visit, you know, when they come to Orlando. You're the reason Florida doesn't have state income tax, pal. Okay. Thanks very much. Thank you. Keep coming to Florida. We love you.

On top of which, you know, I wouldn't be surprised to see this. I was thinking a couple weeks ago about, I think that it's probably going to happen, and it sets a bad precedent. It's going to look bad when it happens. So they've got to do it right. But it wouldn't surprise me to have Disney start having their own police force. And I don't mean, like, security. I mean Disney police force. And I'm not talking about, you know, I'm sure they, I know they have their security and everything, but I'm talking about, you know, Disney SWAT, man.

That's coming. That's coming. Really want to design that uniform. That would be so funny. I'm telling you, it's coming because, you know, you think about it. You can go fly it. Like, we were thinking about taking the kids to Disney. We haven't been there in a while.

It's been quite some time. So I was thinking about maybe my, you know, next vacation or something. Fly in. You don't even have to rent a car. You fly in, you hop on the Disney tram. You take it into Disney. You stay in Disney. You use all their stuff.

At the end of the vacation, you hop on the Disney tram. They take you back to the airport. report, you fly out. So why wouldn't Disney have their own security to make those people be safe? I mean, it's a win-win. If you talk to the Disney people, they believe their security is like a town police force. I believe that it is already, but I'm just saying, but you don't see it as a Disney swat, you know? Well, I mean, it very well could be because they seem to be better at it than the FBI. Did you hear the story that the guy who shot up in Orlando Nightclub, he actually,

cased out the downtown Disney area before he decided to go the other direction because security was too tight. Yeah, he and his girlfriend both. Yeah, they were out there checking things out, and police were notified, and they said that, you know, the diligence of the Disney store owners pointed out this guy's case in the joint, you know, and they ended up. I'm sure I'm going to be told that Disney already has their security. What are you talking about?

Well, I'm just saying I would, I don't, I don't see the Disney SWAT team, and maybe it, maybe they keep them underground for special cases, I don't know. I'm sure they have great. You can't have the Disney SWAT roaming around in their tactical gear above ground, you know, scaring all the four-year-olds trying to get Mickey's autograph. Right, right. All right. All right.

So I know we got sidetracked a little bit. So you've got like 30 seconds for one last quick story for Chuck in Florida. And you can check them all out at chuckinflora.com. But the last weirdest story of the week from Florida is... I've got to go with the... the alligator lizards in the air. This is the Ventura Highway song from America back in the day. You remember that line about alligator lizards?

Well, we have a gentleman who took a picture of a five-foot alligator that actually climbed into the branches of a tree. And I've never seen this before. I hear it's not uncommon. There's a woman from Cape Coral. I've never seen an alligator climb a tree. I've not seen this, but there's a small picture on the website. It wasn't very good, but that's what they gave me. And I had to laugh because I've seen a lot of gators, a lot of places and golf courses and ponds, never in a tree.

And I'm thinking, we finally have something to brag about in Florida, the first airborne alligator air force. I think if we could train these gators to take care of the drug problem, the tourists, the people casing out downtown Disney. This would be the way to go. Chuck in Florida. Who's going to have with airborne lizards? Chuckin Florida.com. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show.

That it is. Welcome to it. 88-90-33 is the phone number. Thank you so much for coming along for the ride today. Plenty more to get to today. I've got a kind of fed up with the movie industry. I went to see a movie this past week. and it had nothing to do with the movie, which we'll talk a little bit about.

But I've had just about enough of them shoving movie theaters down my throat. And they better fix it quick. I better fix it quick. We're going to talk about that next hour for sure. And also we'll talk a little bit about the big winning lottery ticket was one winner. One winner. Man, I got to check my tickets. The experiment was a success.

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Well, yes, I'm fine. The storm is in the Gulf of Mexico. We're getting a few waves, some wind and some rain. Maybe some tropical storm winds. That's it. once the storm goes by it's the most beautiful weather of all and that's

absolutely true once the storm goes through the weather is gorgeous because it sucks all the humidity out it sucks everything out and you've got nothing but blue skies and it's gorgeous my point being is that I am here in Dallas

we're here in the Dallas Metroplex where the Mercury Studios are in Irving. And it's about 10, 15 minutes from downtown Dallas. And then I live another, you know, 30 minutes out from here. So I'm about 45 minutes from downtown Dallas. But of course, you have all this stuff going on in downtown Dallas. The world knows, oh, my God, you live in Dallas. Are you okay? Yes, I'm fine. Thank you. I'm fine. And, you know, and I got to thinking, We talked about it in the first hour, and I was going to stop talking about it.

I just, you're going to hear so much about it, and you already have heard so much about the shooting. You know, I mean, it's horrific. There's no question of horrific. You know, if you don't know what to do, say prayers and send good thoughts and think good thoughts. Whatever it is you do, do it. Whatever it is you do to make good things happen, do it. pray, meditate, think good thoughts, throw mud in the air, dance around a fire, whatever it is. I mean, we had 12 officers shot, five officers killed, seven officers injured, two citizens injured.

Okay, it was bad. It was bad. And you saw the video and heard the audio and people were scared and it's frightening. But we also played audio of people that are thinking that, hey, it's a good thing. And whenever we have this, Ferguson, Minnesota, Baltimore, South Carolina's with South Carolina, Atlanta, New Orleans, Mississippi, wherever you go, Dallas, California, Phoenix, wherever you go, around the country. And you have the Black Lives Matter group.

And they were quick on Thursday night to start distancing. themselves, at least the press. We're quick to the pundits. We're quick to start distancing Black Lives Matter from this. Oh, this isn't what they want. This isn't what they do. No, but this is what happens when you start screaming for justice. What is justice?

It's a good question. What is justice? Because for the most part, justice is, is when we see it on television now with the Black Lives Matter group and any other group, and our main reverend spewing his normal hate, justice is retribution, revenge, get mine. We've been downtrodden all our lives. We want justice. And then I'm reminded of, and you think to yourself, well, we're ruled by feelings, which really we are.

I mean, we're ruled by feelings, which is agonizing. It's not the way it's supposed to be. Feelings are just that. Feelings. But we're supposed to live within a framework of laws. And inside that framework, you can have feelings. But still, you have the framework of law. That framework is going away fast.

And when that meltdown of the framework goes, you're going to have leaders like our friend down in the, down south of us saying kill the drug addicts go ahead be tough on their parents and that's right I reminded my ear don't call them leaders we have to stop calling them leaders oh have to they're representatives they're supposed to represent us they're not leaders oh my god thank you Thank you. Falling into my own trap. But then I was thinking a couple weeks ago, a few weeks ago,

before we were gone and all this happened, Glenn, you'd led back that guy, you know. He was talking about a story how your memories, strong memories, whatever they are, are encased into your DNA. So if something bad happened to someone in your family, it's with you, right? You still feel it. Like you have that moment of feeling. And he's talking about, you know, people who have great things happen or, you know,

families that are saying that it's in the genes. Well, it is in the genes, according to this. And so I go back and I start looking a little bit. And I see that this study has been going on for quite some time. And there's been believers of this for quite some time. And now they're really starting to find that, you know, the truth of validity to it. And I think, well, when we say, when we hear Black Lives Matter groups and other, you know, black leaders, black representatives, tell us that, you know, about slavery and how bad it was. And we say, well, we don't have slaves.

And we never have had slaves. And we don't understand, you know, why do we, you should understand where we're coming from. And we say, no, I mean, what do you mean to understand where you're coming from? We're coming from a place that look around. It's pretty damn good. The United States of America is a pretty darn good place. You can have, when here in the United States, you can have marches in the streets. And the government isn't shooting you, isn't mowing you down, isn't throwing bombs in the streets.

streets, they're protecting you from that happening to you. And if you burn down that framework of law, there will be no one to protect you. Then we're in trouble. But it got me thinking about, well, if that's true, if the DNA thing is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, and I believe it. We've seen case after case of, you know, examples of it happening good and bad. So I'm thinking, okay, so let's say you're a black person, African American, whatever you want, and you had someone in your past part of the slave trade, and it was horrific, and their life was so horrible,

and now it's encased in your DNA, well, it's still there inside you then, isn't it? So, I mean, we do kind of have to see it a little differently as, as, as white America. I got it. Okay. I get it. Saying that, hey, get over it doesn't make us racist. Saying get over it makes us, well, look, okay, we know that it was bad and it was horrific on your great, great, great grandpa or grandmother or whatever it is, but it's not horrific

for you. you don't get justice for them. It's just, I don't know. I don't know. Just know that because of the horror here in the Dallas Metroplex, just whatever it is you do, whether you pray, you throw chicken wings around, you dance around a fire, you blow smoke in the air, whatever it is you do,

that you believe will make things better, do it. Because we need it. We need it all. We didn't need it all to be better. And we need people to realize that feelings are great, but without some sort of structure, some sort of structure of law, we're in deep trouble. And, you know, I think that a lot of people

in the Black Lives Matter group or they're surrounding them when they hear Constitution go back to the Constitution they don't hear the Constitution now they hear back to the Constitution

when there was slavery well no that's not what we're talking about we're talking about the Constitution as it is now the framework and trust me and that Constitution is barely hanging on by a threat as it is. But we don't, we're not talking about, you know, when we talk about the founders. Yeah, the founders had the idea of the Constitution. And that Constitution also has a way of to change, which it has.

And that's what we're talking about. And I don't think we argue that point good enough. I just don't. So when you go through the weekend, you're going to hear it's going to get beat up more and more and more. And you're going to hear different stats from different people. and you're going to know you're going to know what's true and what's not. I gave you some facts earlier today in the first segment.

Those are true straight down the narrow. Just know that it could. It's not going to take much of a spark to make things really bad. They're not really bad now. They're getting there. They're just bad. But if that spark happens, man, be ready.

I don't know what to tell you to do. I would say, you know, you can have all the food prep and weapons and everything you need. That's still not going to change. We're going to survive. Of course, we survive. We always survive. It's the matter of how we survive that will come to light. When we see, you know, we see history has taught us that we survive.

history has taught us we're going after these people for climate change and the government wants all these people like Alex Epstein Center for Industrial Progress to turn over emails because they might have said something bad about climate change and the global warming

and they're saying that it's not true and we've got to stop that. Are you kidding me? What are you going to stop it too? What are you hoping? to stop you're stopping to want to go back to the middle ages? I've got some, I've got a couple things here from the middle ages. I don't want

to go back to and trust me. When we come back, I'll go down a list of some of the things that actually were going on in the middle ages. No, thank you. No, thank you. Go ahead and burn the coal for me. It's fine

because I don't want to do the rest of that. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show is on. Welcome to it. 888-90333 is the phone number. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA, Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, and Instagram, Jeff EMRA. All right, the Middle Ages, right? I mean, it was a great time.

Great time. And it plagues, wars. Salmon, civil uprising, religious control, persecution, science, and medicine. What? But it almost sounds like we're getting close to that now. I don't want to go back there. I don't want to go back. I'm sorry.

Burn the coal. Burn the coal. I want to be able to walk into my home and turn on a light switch. I don't want to go back to the days when scientists believe that wearing an amulet containing weasel testicles would prevent pregnancy. Now, I will say, if someone was wearing weasel testicles, you might think twice or three times about having some sort of love with them to get pregnant. No question about it.

Oh, the weasel testicles, no thank you. So, I mean, that's not really science. That's more, you know, like, I want to just wear these and nobody will want you. I don't want to go back to the day where white skin was considered. to be the pillar of feminine beauty. And women would apply white powder to their faces that often contained lead. And many of them would have a barber cut their arms and drain their blood until they went pale. Yeah.

Now you're looking good. I can't move and I can only sit in this chair because I don't have any blood in me. But boy, don't I look pale? Yeah, you do. You look hot, be in the all play. Okay. I mean, we had the, of course, the chamber pods. I mean, people would, the chamber pots, you know,

where people would, you know, go to the bathroom, relieve themselves at night and then dump it out the window on the streets. Yeah, good times. Good times. That's where the phrase, of course, you don't have a pot. A two-piston. You don't have that. Got it.

And then the barber pole, did you know this? I don't want to go back to these days. Okay, did you know this? Aside from providing grooming services, barbers also performed minor surgeries and dentistry. So to advertise these additional medical services, barbers would wrap bloody white gauze rags around a pole outside their shops. Ah, that's where the red and white spiral pole comes from now.

Yeah, I don't want to go back to those days. Oh, look, there's dripping red, blood. We can stop there. No, that's okay. Now, how about this? This is great, too. This is one of my favorites, actually. It was considered beautiful for women to have no eyebrows during the reign of Charles I first. So many women shaved their eyebrows off and used oils and compounds so that their hair would grow. Now, when the bald eyebrow lost popularity, and people were saying that's gross you need to have eyebrows eyebrows are hot well women who could no longer grow eyebrows had artificial eyebrows fashioned out of mouse hides yeah now you're talking do you want to talk about somebody looking hot with some mouse hide eyebrows and weasel testicles hanging around their neck now you're talking about birth control right there. There is no question

about birth control right there. Oh, and there's so much more that happened. I don't want to go back to the Middle Ages. No, thank you. No, thank you. Burn coal. Drill for oil, please. I like my air conditioning. Okay. I like my

sewage system. Okay. I like it. I like it all. I like Eric, I like to be able to eat in my home with fire from a line, from a gas line. I don't want to have to build a fire. I don't want to go back. And I most definitely don't want to pretend. Jeff, how come you don't

have any kids? Oh, it's just weasel testicles hanging around my neck. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Fisher. Thank you for coming along

for the ride today. I appreciate it. So, I spent this past week with my daughter and we went to one of the evenings. We went out to see BFG, the new Disney movie, to BFG. And, first of all, they had a great week. My wife and my youngest son were gone out camping somewhere in the woods for a week. And I suppose I'm going to have to shave now.

I was shaving it over a week. You know, the things, it's been a long time since I've grown a beard. And I'm at the point now where it's past. It's the past, I should just let it go, but I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think it's going to happen. There's another person in my house that will be in the home again sometime this weekend. There's a fair frowns upon the beards. Anyway, we would see BFG, right?

Okay, so what's the first thing? Now, look, that's a story in itself, right? I mean, okay, I got it. BFG, big, friendly giant. but that's not what myself or a lot of people thought before seeing the movie right you see BFG you know what you're thinking of right

now I mean you're not thinking about big friendly giant but anyway that's you know whatever it was okay it was all right it was enjoyable you know it was okay my daughter loved it so I mean it was fine she's nine big friendly giant you know she's the one that wants to drop off with the giants

and the movie and the dreams. I got it. I love it. We had a good time. However, however, they are a movie industry, a movie theater industry,

enough is enough. Okay. Enough is enough. Because last week, I took, uh, the kids, what movie did we go see?

Oh, we finally got to, went to see, uh, uh, uh, finding Dengelberry, finding Dengelberry, finding door.

Okay. Because we didn't, we were gone, we were out of town, we had this and this, this, this, and finally said, let's go. Let's wrap it up. Let's see it. So I took them to the movie theater. And we went to the place that, you know, you see you got the relaxing tilt back chairs. They bring you food.

Nice. Okay. It's nice. It's comfortable. It's nice. I went to see BFG at the regular theater. The regular theater. Just the comfort or tilt back.

chairs with no footrest. I could barely sit through it. But anyway, that's nice. It's comfortable. The seats are comfortable. They're big. They're comfortable. It's not bad. Okay. It's time now for the Hollywood and the cable companies to start letting me watch these new movies in my home.

I got the movie theaters. People won't come to us anymore. Yeah. Yeah, they might have to stop coming anyway. They're movie theaters. Okay? So I go see BFG with my daughter. All right.

Two people. I buy the tickets online. I said, hey, let's go see BFG today. Yeah, okay. So I buy them online. And they're like six bucks apiece. You get the cheap tickets. Six dollars apiece.

It's middle of the week. And it's you buying them online. It's only $6. It were like five bucks or something. because you had to pay tax on them. So it was like $12 for the tickets. That's great. Okay, no problem.

However, you don't take a 9-year-old to the movie theater and just say, we're going in, sit down and watch the movie and get out. Bring your bottle of water. That doesn't happen. No, you can't because they've got popcorn cooking, and however the world is beautiful and it's a wonderful thing. So you go easy. You get dinner at home before you go.

You figure, okay, we're going to cut back a little bit. Two people, 24 bucks. 24 bucks plus the 12 bucks you got a great deal on those tickets though didn't you so i go see you know it's 36 bucks right i mean for somebody like you this got a lot of money okay you know i know i know you're not worried about it but you know so but that week before i go see finding digelberry at dory and we go to the theater where they bring you food and they of course you got to eat you can't go you i mean that's stupid what are you stupid you go into a movie theater where you can sit in a tilt back and they deliver food and you're not going to make them deliver food?

I mean, that's just dumb. So you do. Now, one of the things that this theater does, I know it's weird, but they charge for it. You can sit in the tilt back and you can have them deliver the food and everything right to your, you know, right to where you're sitting. and you've reserved the seats because you bought the seats online, and you've reserved them, and you go in and you sit down, and you've got the seats that you wanted, and then they order the food you want,

and they bring it to you, but they charge you for that. And so you're not getting out of that place for under $100. Good luck. Tickets and food? Three people? Good luck. Good luck getting out of that place for $100. bucks. So look, movie industry, cable companies, streaming companies, somebody make a deal.

Please, somebody make a deal. Let's say after the first, okay, just to make the movie theaters happy, and I barely want to do that, barely. And I know we've talked a little bit about this before, but I can't take it. We'll have just about enough. Okay. We'll give you a week. I'll give you opening weekend and opening week. Okay? If you want to see the movie and the only place to see it is at the movie theater, you can go there and see it and pay your hundred bucks or pay your 50 bucks, whatever it is for tickets and food and go in and see the movie and be happy and be

sitting in a crowded theater because it's opening weekend and, you know, it's good to go. However, after that, allow me. the opportunity to purchase a viewing of that brand new movie through my cable provider for a price. Let's say I click on that channel. Yes, I would love to see BFG opening weekend for $40. And I want to watch it on tonight. And I want to be able to watch it within the next five hours.

I don't want to be able to pause it. I don't have to fast forward. I want to be able to rewind it. But I don't have to fast forward, but I get to watch it to the next five hours and then it goes away for $40. How about that? You good with that? I might even raise it to $50. If I wanted to see a movie bad enough, a new release, bad enough.

In my home, $50 is not bad. But I'm, you know, still starting to stretch it. So I'm saying for everyday America, we do $35 or $40. bucks. Right? You're spending at least that at the theater. And the Hollywood gets their money, cable gets their money, and the movie theaters still get their cut at the opening weekend. And they're still there at the theaters. You can still go see them on the big screen if you want. And I got news for you, big screen. While I like it and I love it, the big screen I have in my home, ain't that bad either. Okay? It's not the movie theater screen. And I know some people who have movie theater

screens. Very depressing. But I don't. All right. But it ain't that bad. All right. I don't mind my TV. So it's time. Make it happen, Hollywood. I know you're working on it. And I know you're having a fit for all the movie theaters. Just make it happen. Okay. I'm back to having cable boxes in my home. I told you that my family is okay. the cable company charged the house, broke down the door and installed the cable boxes again. Fortunately, my wife and children are okay. I don't know if I'm going to press charges against the cable company or not. I probably not because no one was hurt. But so I have back to, I have a cable box in my home along with all the streaming devices.

So just make it happen so I can watch the new movies. No, I don't want to wait six months. No, I don't want to wait eight months. I want it within the first two weeks of that movie being released or be able to watch it in my home for a price. Thank you. Make that happen. Thank you. So yesterday, a winning ticket for the mega millions, $540 million was the jackpot.

One ticket in Indiana. Congratulations. The winner in Indiana. Congratulations. You won. So happy for you. So, I mean, that's a lot of money. That's a good piece of cash right there.

All right. I'm not sure what the cash payout would be. Probably, you know, $250, $3 million. It's not bad. So I'm looking at this. I'm thinking, man, that's not bad. I could do that. And then I'm looking at all these people who have won the lottery and are now broke.

They've blown it all. It's just gone. I mean, this couple, the first couple that they talk about won, you know, a little over two million, you know, almost three million. I mean, you can't really, you can't really live on that, I know. but, you know, if you won almost $3 million, I mean, okay, so it bumps you into a different tax bracket. But they bought, you know, a big million dollar house, and they bought a fancy car, and then, you know, six years later, the hubby drives away in the car. If she thinks he's cheating and the marriage is over and everything is gone. And then they have a fire comes and burns their house down, which they probably don't have, I don't know about the insurance,

but now everything is gone. Their life is wrecked because they won two million dollars. Two million bucks? Your life is wrecked? I got news for you. Your life was wrecked before then. Okay, two million bucks doesn't ruin somebody's life. All right?

Now, you had this guy win $16 million in Pennsylvania. All right? Within a year, he's in debt by a million. Come on now. That's just, we're just letting stupid people win. He claims I wish it never would have happened. A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings. His brother arrested for hiring a hitman to kill him because he wanted to inherit some of the winnings.

He gave money to other family members and their businesses. Now he's living on food stamps. He's living on nothing, living on food stamps. And he's, you know, now he says, I'm better off now. No, you're not. I mean, you know what? Maybe he is. Maybe he is better off.

I know I'm not. Okay. Now, this couple claims they didn't even win, and they claimed their life fell apart. This is, this is God awful. This is just, we're just stupid. This is what's wrong with America. Okay, so this couple had a winning ticket for $5 million. Okay.

Now, they claim they lost the ticket. They lost the ticket. We have the ticket. They went back. They proved everything they had. They had the ticket. The lottery officials said, yep, you're right. You had the winning ticket.

Wish we can help you. 30-day time limit. Sorry. Yeah. So now they say, I mean, they were, they're all mad because it says their marriage is on the rocks. And because they thought they won but lost a ticket. And now their marriage is on the rock. I got news for you, marriages on the rocks anyway.

Okay. Now, if my wife, now I better to use this example. I'll use this example. If I lost a lottery ticket that was a winning ticket for anything, let alone millions, and I couldn't find it, there's not a chance in hell I'm telling anybody. This is The Jeff Fisher Show. on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show.

It is. Wow. Today is gone by super fast. Chris Salcedo. Mike Slater, Joe Paggs, all sitting at their helm, waiting to take over here at the Blaze Radio Network, Salcedo, up next right after this broadcast. Now, before I leave, I tweeted that I would talk about a new coffee shop.

And it's in Switzerland. It's got to be coming to America soon, right? I mean, it has to. And I know many of you. you are wondering, well, Jeff, it's a coffee shop. There's coffee shops on every corner in America. Ah, but not Cafe Felacio. This coffee shop, you walk in, you order your coffee, it's going to cost you about $60.

Then using your iPad, you can select whatever human, and they call them prostitutes. I would call them, you know, coffee servers to perform that oral sex. Take the seat at the coffee bar, and everything is taking. care of. Gotta be coming to America, right? Come on. The Cafe Felaccio? You're going to go there? I'm complaining about how much movie theaters are costing, but hey, 60 bucks for a cup of coffee at Cafe Felacio. I'll pay that, no problem. Have a good week. Anybody tell you you look good today? They haven't? Well, doggone it. They should. Does you do? You look great, especially in what you're wearing there because you're not really going to wear that all day, are you?

Okay, whatever. Looks good on you. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network.