Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Fireworks + Stupid People = Blast Off

Episode Date: July 11, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. You probably have this in the back of your mind as well, even if you're somebody who believes in a secure border. If you don't buy into all this media stuff, there is probably a part of you that could at least recite the talking points. That's successful propaganda when it exists in your brain without you even knowing it. And you say, well, this is immigrant, illegal immigrant, illegal alien, actually. See, I just did it. I was not even intending to do that. to 2DM Eastern on the Blaze Radio Network. Listen, we've had some people that are really, I don't want to call them stupid, but they're stupid.

Over this, you know, the past weekend was July 4th. I hope you all had a great fourth. Enjoyed the fireworks. Had all kinds of fun. I mean, I understand how firework accidents can happen. I've been a part of, you know, a little small accident. A couple times with fireworks. It happens.

You're playing with fire and explosives. Even the light ones. You know, even the little, you know, the little volcano shoots off and all that kind of stuff. And the little small rockets, you know, they mess up. And sometimes things happen. I mean, I remember once I thought, what the heck is wrong with this thing? And I leaned over the top of it. And that's when it went off.

And I mean, it just, I felt it go by. right by my eyebrow and hair. And that's how fast it happens. Boom. One minute you're looking out of two eyes. The next minute you've got one with a fireworks sticking out of the other. You can quote me on that too, but that's exactly what happens. But it's not the fireworks fault.

Okay? Not the fireworks fault. So the mom of the guy who killed himself because he lit the fireworks. work off on his head? Mom says he thought it was a dud. What? And, yeah, they were just

Rush had been drinking. He was goofing off. Uh-huh. But what do you think there? What do you think there? He said, hey, our son was doing something really really kind of dumb and he was being smart and he was under the influence, and, man, we miss our son. We love him so much. He was a great kid.

We love him. And we just wish he hadn't done that stupid thing. You didn't know. She's going to reach out to lawmakers about the possibility of tighter controls over fireworks. She says the state should consider requiring safety training courses before allowing someone to use them. Really? Because I haven't had safety training on fireworks, but I pretty much know that I'm not going to put something that explodes on the top of my head. I call me, I guess I'm just extra smart. I guess I'm just extra smart.

Because I learned a long time ago when you put fire and explosives close to your body, things happen like ouch like burns and like skin coming off yeah weird how that happens I know I know

and you know the whole thing about you put the firework in your hand you close your fist you blow your hand off right with the fingers off but you put the firework on the on the palm of your hand and leave your hand open

and it just you know burns your hand okay when you start playing with fireworks as a young child and a parent is with you, you should learn these things. And it doesn't take much to learn that the explosive is going to hurt you. But hey, we need stricter government controls.

She compared fireworks with other regulated items such as cars and guns. Actually, they are. They are. The ones that you get, you know, at the store, at the 7-Eleven, at the little stores and stuff, Those are, you know, they're kid stuff. And I can't remember if those are the threes or the ones, but they rank them and they rate them. And so the ones that you're getting, I got news for you.

My daughter running around the road with their sparklers is the same kind of fireworks that you're seeing going over the park in downtown. Okay. Those are different. And those are all under strict government controls. And bad things happen to those people who puts out of those off too because mistakes happen. But I would almost bet you a lot of money that the guy shooting them off at your downtown park never set one off from his head. But we need stricter controls because your son decided to set a firework off on the top of his head? No. No.

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