Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Croquet? Well, Then I'm In!

Episode Date: August 13, 2016

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Get moving at real estate agents. itrust.com. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher show. All right, let's get it out of the way. Because I've got a number of things to get to today. But most importantly, right off the top, what's on your mind? Out of the Olympics, of course. I mean, come on now.

The United States overwhelming the world. We've got 50 medals total, number one, 20 gold, 13 silver, 17 bronze. Okay, we're number one. Let's get that right out of the way. All right. happy to be a part of that. Now, at first, when the Olympics started, a week ago, I thought, I'm not really excited about it.

You know, the opening ceremonies were kind of bougie. And it was just not excited about it. Now that it's been going on. I'm getting into it. Okay, now maybe because of swimming. Maybe because of gymnastics. I think it's just because it's the Olympics. And it's nice to see the United States dominate.

And it's nice to see that despite everything that's said and done about our elitism, we get to have it. We get to have our elitism during the Olympics. And I like it. I like it. Now, then let's move to Michael Phelps. Wow. Tremendous, right? 22 total gold medals for this Olympics.

One silver. Last night he did the silver. He came in second to the kid, the, what's his face, schooling from Singapore, who trains in the United States, I might add. in Texas, I might add. But in the Olympics, he's playing for Singapore. Okay, whatever. But he was a big Phelps fan, idolized him, and then he beat him last night.

And Phelps tied three ways in that race, so they all got a silver. And then everybody, nobody gets the bronze, nobody gets the gold. I mean, they get the one gold, and the three silvers and then we've moved on. That's kind of chinty. I heard O'Pelka talking about this, actually.

So when there's a tie, let's say you get two gold, a tie for gold, which they've had. And then so the second guy gets a silver, but then there's no bronze. What? That's a rip-off. That's a rule the Olympic Committee needs to change. Agreed. Agreed with that. Now I know that Phelps has been tremendous.

He's got one more race, I think tonight, where he can get a gold, but that's not an individual, Mel. That's with a team, it's a relay. So, or a medley, whatever you want to, whenever the heck they want to call it in swimming. So he can still get another gold, probably at least get another medal. and this is his last hurrah said he's not coming back

there were reports that he was going to be coming back since the butterfly last night was the final of his race there was a theory out there that was saying that no he'll be coming back he's going to want to try to dominate

that and win again he Michael Phelps said a no. A no. I'm not coming back in four years. Sorry. You can throw those theories out all you want. But I'm not coming back.

So have a nice day. So that's, I mean, the Phelps run is over. And now let's bring in the, you know, millions of dollars for Michael Phelbs. Like he's not getting that now. It's been exciting. Watching, we had controversy in the soccer games, and, you know, many of you, soccer, oh gosh.

But it's part of the Olympics. And the women's soccer team who was, you know, expected to be the champions all over again, lost. And Hope Solo was, you know, the poor loser. calling the Sweden team cowards, and they didn't play the game, right? They didn't want to play. That was their game, Hope, and they got to you. And it was from the coach that coached them the last couple years or whatever,

so she knows inside and out. And, you know, Hope can be, you know, cry and whine all she wants, but that was their game and they got beat. So let's move on, Hope. Sorry, go home. you're not getting the gold, okay? Yeah, there you go. Now we have other sports coming up.

I did watch, okay, I've watched some rugby. I like rugby. Very little soccer, but I have watched a little. Gymnastics, of course. You know, they've made that pretty big, and our gymnastic team has been tremendous. And Riles has been, you know, on top of the world. And, oh my gosh.

Let's talk. Olympics for just a second. Gymnastics. So, Gabby, Gabby, I don't know that, you know, when you listen to this, I don't know, you might not be listening live, you might be busy. So when you download this later, when you go to the blaze.com slash radio and download it for your flight home, Gabby,

and you want to listen to the Jeff Fisher show. First of all, thank you. Second, remember that despite you being on top of the world and Miss World Elite gymnast and everybody loves you, when you become a bitch, nobody likes it. Okay? When you get your little snoot up in the air,

nobody likes it. And when you stand on the podium to get the medal and you don't put your hand across the heart for the United States National Anthem, nobody likes it. So when you start whining a year from now that nobody's paying attention to me, And I, you know, other people have been getting all these sponsorships and I'm getting nothing.

Remember how you acted in Rio. Remember your little snoot fest when other people are standing up cheering and you just sat there with your little snorkel look on your face. And remember the time upon the podium when you didn't put your hand over your heart. No need to do that smiling if you're if you have your little heart in a snoot. But still Americans remember that crap. Because we're the United States of America. It's one thing the Olympics does do, and especially to me, it does bring back the, we're the United States of America. And nobody can say, we're going to make us great again.

Nobody can say, hey, we're great just as like Poland is great. Just like France thinks there's great and no. We're the United Freakened States of America. There might be much of it. There might be much of us that's dead inside. But this brings back some life. This is pumping a little bit of new blood into the U.S. Let's hope it stays for a while.

I did watch a little bit of fencing. I, I, I'm not sure I get it. I tried to get it. I might have to go back and watch a little bit more because I'm going to have, I got to try to understand what the heck. So I watched the one match of fencing I see. Men's fencing. Men's single fencing.

I don't know if they have team fencing. and so they stand. They get their swords with the stop, and then they go. And the one guy gets a point. The one guy gets a point. He's player number one gets a point. They go back to the line.

They set up, go. Ching, ching, ching. Player number one gets a point. They stop. They go back to the line. Ching, ching, ching. Player number two score some kind of point, and he's the winner. Have a nice day.

Okay. So I don't know how much I missed. I don't know what the deal was. All I know is that what? And they're taking their, you know, they're taking their mask off and they're hugging each other and off they go. Okay, I got to understand fencing. I've got to learn the rules of fencing. It's just like water polo.

The other day I'm watching some water polo and I'm trying to figure out what the heck's going. So, you know, I got to go find the rules, reading the rules. And I find out that in some of the rules, they don't, it's tough to find some of the rules. I mean, they give you the layout of the rules. but then there's some rules where they just throw in there like they're in the middle of another rule and they say and because you can't touch the bottom okay well where's that rule where does what happens

if you touch the bottom stuff like that just little things about the games that really kind of you know you got to know to watch the game right you got to know the inside out to the rules that's how you play watch a little ping pong saw a guy fall down I mean ping pong

you want to talk about damaging dangerous sport I mean they called the medicant and everything playing pink-plong, come on. Well, track and field's going on. I caught a little bit of that last night. A couple of the women, you know, sprints, some of the fastest women in the world.

They do some moving. No question about that. You can quote me on that. They do some moving. And these were just, you know, trials last night. So we've got some track and field going on. But, and of course, volleyball. I mean, the athleticism.

of women's volleyball is tremendous. But then there's badminton. Now, I haven't seen any of the badminton performances yet because it just started. And I've kind of going to have to go to the on-demand to try to see what's going on. Because Malaysia has a guy that's been to three or four Olympics and hasn't won a gold. And now this is his year. Lee Chong-wee. This is his year.

He said he's in better shape than he's ever been, and he's playing better than he's ever played. Now, I've played badminton before in the backyard, and it's not like these guys play. But I'm all for it. You know, it's a fun little backyard game. I just wonder when the Olympics will have, you know, croquet. Because when they have croquet, I'm in.

I can still, you know, despite being 152 years, years old, I can still do some croqueton now. And Olympic croquian? Come on. Have you especially Olympic made mallet? Oh yeah. Come on. That's good stuff. Good stuff.

And then I heard Michael Pelka, which airs before this broadcast, discussing the delayed broadcast of the medal ceremony for Simone Manuel, the first African-American to win a single individual swimming event, you know, female to boot. Don't forget, Mike, that we were told because they delayed the opening ceremonies because

the producers and commentators wanted time to put it into context for Americans. So I'm sure that's what they were doing there as well. And then I saw an interview with NBC sport executives. Chairman Mark Lazarath, and he pretty much is saying the same thing. Now, the ratings have been pretty good. They're winning their slots. The opening ceremonies were down, like 35, the opening ceremonies were down huge. It doesn't mean the numbers aren't big.

They're just down, you know, they were down 35% from 2012. That's a, man, that's a lot. Now, he's still saying that they've, they're making money hand over fist. It's the most profitable Olympics. They've made an extra $30 million since the games have started, is what he was saying. And they've got more places because every event is streamed, live, tape, delay, prime time broadcasters of showcases. Such a star-studded women gymnastics lose some of their luster. Uh-huh.

You aren't kidding. But he strongly defended the decision to create our storytelling and our narrative and to show around the competition. by using the pre-packaged form. Things like gymnastics are difficult and sluggish to show live. So the producers and commentators want time to put it into context for Americans. Because we're just too dumb. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Thanks, Mr. Lazarus. We appreciate it very much. but it's been worth watching. It's been fun. And Michael Phelps been great. I mean, come on. We've got one more event with him tonight. He's leading.

I mean, he's ahead of countries. A head of countries. I mean, it's amazing. He's got 22 gold medals to his name. 22 gold medals. It places him 39th on the all-time list among Olympic nations. And if he gets to the 23rd gold, come on now. I mean, that is tremendous, right?

Because you're looking at he's won more gold medals than 108 countries. First Olympic race came in the 2000 Olympics when he was 15. Finished on the podium in more than 93% of his Olympic events. if he was a country tied for 38th all time at Olympic gold medals. He's won more than double the number of Olympic gold medals as the second most decorated Olympian of all time. Larissa Latinina. Larissa Latina. He has set 39 world records, most all time, broke his first world record in 2001 when he was 15.

Come on now. in 2004 Phelps has never Since starting in 2004 Phelps has never lost an individual medley 200 meter race in the Olympics 27 different swimmers have gone up against him lost

His 21 Olympic medal streak between 2004 and 2012 longest of all time I mean those are just a few things Michael Phelps I mean tremendous Thanks for the enjoyment Michael And go USA

and don't forget when you're on the podium, Gabby, despite your little snit, put your hand over your heart. We won't forget. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. On the Blaze Radio Network. In the next 19 seconds, you could sell your home. Okay, 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.

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