Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Birmingham; #NeverAgainIsNow

Episode Date: August 1, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. My name is Brad Stags, and normally I do commercials on the TV radio program, which technology has made things really, really confusing because now we do radio on television. And we do television on radio. And so if you watch Glenn's program on the Blaze or on the Blaze app on your phone, which, by the way, is getting better every day. I hear the frustration. Sometimes it crashes a few things here and there, but changes are underway. Let's put it that way. Things are getting better.

So I do the commercials, and Jeffrey asked me if I would fill in for him today, and I am proud and honored to do just that. If you do watch the radio program, we do trivia on it every morning and just kind of a fun thing, just kind of a fun throwback to the way radio used to be, you know what I'm saying? And just before the break, the trivia question, which is actually going to be one on Monday. So you're going to get a jump on the game. On Monday in 1996, this song and dance began. It's domination of pop radio.

If you said the macarena, you are correct. You get 10 extra points. And this bonus story from me from, good career, what is that, 15 years ago? I think I was on vacation in Mexico. what is the little island off the coast of Mexico anyway one of those little Mexican towns where you you know tourists go and drink and you know basically like fools

Carl Malone the mailman who played for the Utah Jazz he was there I danced the macarena with Carl Malone that is my claim to fame past that basketball can't stand it never could make a shot and then my 14-year-old last night said, I hate basketball, I can't do it. And I said, do you come by that honestly, quite frankly?

I do want to, and I just tweeted out this picture, my friend from fifth grade, his name is Dodd Talbot. He lives in Whitefish, Montana. And this was on his daughter's Facebook page when I saw it this morning. What an honor. my dad was voted best car salesman of the Flathead Valley. I'm saying, and I will say that. Dodd, first of all, he has an odd name, D-O-D-D.

He was named after Bobby Darren's son, Dodd-D-D-D. But I've known Dodd since fifth grade. I've got a small cluster of friends that we still get together every couple of years from fifth grade, which was about 110 years ago. But he's a great salesman. And the fact that he is now the best car salesman of the Flathead Valley, when you have done that, what else is there? I mean, he's reached the pinnacle. But, Dodd, I love you.

And congratulations. I'm being the king of Flathead Valley. I want to talk to you a little bit about Birmingham. If you have not signed up to participate in Birmingham coming up later this month on the 28th and 29th. please do so. Mercury1.org is the website and never again is now is the movement. I've been fortunate enough to be behind the scenes on this one.

A woman very close to me, her name is Beth. She is coordinating the walk and the event and doing an amazing job, by the way. I get to see all of these things behind the scenes. I get to see how all of these things that you get to see in a finished form come together from behind the curtain, which again is one of the most fascinating things. I tell you, it is such an honor to do.

But this Birmingham event has grown incredibly. It has grown. I believe this is going to be an event of historic proportions. And I'm not getting paid to go. I work for Glenn. I work for the blaze. but I'm not getting paid to go to this thing. I'm going, I bought my own plane ticket to get there

because I thought how many times will I ever have the opportunity in my life to be behind the ropes on an event that's going to go down in history? If you went back in time to Martin Luther King's marches in Birmingham and in Washington, and you could get, like I say, behind the ropes, inner circle, would you do it?

Would you do it and be able to tell that story to your kids, grandkids, to see history unfolding? This is going to be a very intimate event. It is going to be, like I said, I think this will make history. If you go to mercury1.org, the front page is where the movement, and they have just have these shirts printed up. Some of them have the logo on it. One of them has the injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere, not to act, is to act. And you can be a part of something that I think has the potential to change the course of things in this country.

We have to become more united. We have, for crying out loud, it's in our name. It is in our name. The United States of America is almost, it's almost laughable to call us that now. Because we are so un-united. And when Glenn puts things like this together, and I see all the moving parts of this, you know, slowly becoming cohesive and all falling into place, how can you not want to be there at that event?

if you, by any stretch of the imagination, can take the time and I know it costs money to get there. I get that. If you can, by any stretch of the imagination, afford it, bring your kids. This is going to be something, and that's what I told my son. He's coming as well.

He, I said, you won't get the opportunity to see this many times in your lifetime. I hope this is the first step in, in bringing us together again, in becoming united again. There is so much discontent, is that the word, in this country? There are so much, so many of us, we're all in splinter groups. Technology was supposed to bring us together, and I swear technology has been at the core of what has divided us. you take little bitty things that wouldn't I mean

from a racial standpoint you take little things here and there that wouldn't have otherwise grown into big problems had it not been for things like social media and technology and information traveling at the speed of light but now this is an opportunity to actually use technology to our advantage and bring us back together go to mercury1.org and participate donate if you can click on the Birmingham details

and you will see exactly what the movement is all about. I really do believe it is going to be a part. It's going to be more than a footnote in history. And if you can be behind it, I would highly recommend it. By the way, I think this is, and again, my ADD on fire. I can go at 18 directions. I'll pick one every now and then and flutter down it for a bit. but that's why I think Donald Trump

and if Stu is listening right now his head will explode he can't stand Donald Trump I don't know that I'd vote for the guy but I can tell you that's why a lot of us like him that's why he's still ahead in the polls it's true

he doesn't have a filter he says things he replies to questions as Mark Cuban said he doesn't speak in politically correct sound bites. He tells you what's on his mind. How many politicians do we have today that will do that?

You can count them on one hand. I think Mike Huckabee is learning to do that. And good grief. How many other people, candidates in the Republican Party now? I mean, like, are we up to 100 yet? I mean, this is just getting stupid. But when you have someone like Donald Trump

who says whatever it is that's on his mind without a filter and he's number one in the polls you think that would throw a clue to the rest of these Yahoo's running for office. When I say Yahoo's, I do not include Ted Cruz in that. I like him. But I, again, whether or not you agree with Donald Trump's politics,

the guy says it like it is. And I think most of us really, really, really like that. For a change, we are not, we're not being lied to, which is every day a government spokesperson steps forward, you know, that's what we're getting. Their nose gets longer. We never get the truth. Donald Trump gives us the truth, at least from his standpoint,

and people are clamoring to him. I am Brad Staggs in for Jeffrey this morning And I want to tell you the story of how I got here How I actually Came to be sitting in this chair It's a God moment It is, I think, proof That prayer works

And I get goosebumps Every time I was telling the story to somebody yesterday I get goosebumps I will tell you here after we take a short break To pay some bills as they say. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. I'm Brad Staggs on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.