Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Got To Be Something Out There

Episode Date: February 6, 2016

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. When our water heater broke down last month, it was a nightmare. It took five hours for the plumber to show up, and he charged us a couple of hundred bucks just to come out. Then it cost another $1,800 to put in the new water heater. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I'd been taken. But what else could I do? The smartest thing you can do is get a home warranty from American residential warranty.

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This from the Associated Press, Apollo 14 astronauts. Edgar Mitchell became a sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13, successful failure, quote unquote, later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics, and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens. 85 years old, but he died in Florida, died Thursday night at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, his daughter Kimberly Mitchell. Mitchell's passing coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission from January 31st through February 9th in 19th.

He was one of only 12 humans to set foot on the moon. Wasn't your typical straight-laced astronaut either. In later years, he said aliens had visited the earth and faith healers were legitimate. He attempted to communicate telepathically with friends at home during his Apollo mission. If you think about this, I'm assuming that they had psychological profiling back then. maybe they weren't that sophisticated in the early 70s, late 60s. I would have thought that they would have had psychological profiling prior to putting two or three guys into something the size of a Volkswagen

and sending them that far from the planet just because they would want to know how these guys would react. But the fact that he was trying to communicate telepathically, and maybe this was sanctioned by NASA. I don't know. It just seems out of character for that agency to allow something like this to happen. He says, what I experienced during the three-day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness. He wrote this in his 1996 autobiography.

It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me. In an emailed statement, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden called Mitchell, one of the pioneers in space exploration on whose shoulders we now stand. His passion for exploration led him to become an astronaut. He joined NASA in 1966. He helped design and test the lunar modules that first reached the moon in 1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

Shepard was the first American in space in 1961, picked Mitchell to be on Apollo 13's three-person crew, but they were bumped to the next mission so that Shepard would have to have more time to train him. You may probably remember Apollo 13's astronauts. They were nearly killed, but an oxygen tank exploded. They were, as they neared the moon in 1970. But, Edgar Mitchell, quite a guy.

and on the UFO front, I used to live in Lancaster, California, which is a stone's throw from Palmdale, California, which is where they built the space shuttle and a lot of the top secret aircraft that were flown out of Edwards Air Force Base to this day. Actually, you could look out at the back door of my mom and dad's house and see, things like Lockheed and Rockwell, Northrop Grummond, all of those. I watched one of the first space shuttle landings occur there at Edwards Air Force Base.

And my friend's dad used to work for Northrop. I guess it was Lockheed he worked for. And so a lot of the test pilots from that era would come over to their house. And they had a pool. They just hang out by the pool, just a bunch of guys. And back in the early 90s, I did a series on UFOs for what was then the Nashville Network. And quite an experience of some of the interviews and some of the things I saw were fascinating. And I've always been fascinated by the possibility of life on other planets and life elsewhere in the galaxy, elsewhere in the universe.

So one of these get-togethers, I asked one of the test pilots from Edward. words what he, you know, if he thought UFOs were real. His response to me was, if I told you what I know about UFOs, we'd both be dead. I'd never forgotten that. And that was back. It was 25 years ago. I remember where I was standing when we were talking. There's got to be something out there.

And that apparently is the same way Edgar Mitchell thought. And that again goes back to my fascination with the X-Files. I think a lot of us want to believe, as Fox Mulder does. I can't remember the exact percentage of people now who believe in extraterrestrial life. But I know there's a huge segment of the population who believes that UFOs are real and that there's life in the universe other than here on planet Earth. So a big loss there in the NASA community and in the space community. Edgar Mitchell, 85 years old when he died on Thursday.

Turning to less weighty topics, this is again on the blaze. If you didn't hear it earlier, this is pretty fascinating. The Oscars, of course, coming up. And what's inside the Oscar goodie bags? 200,000. $200,000 worth of gifts. Some large, some small. Everybody wins, as they say.

That was what the group responsible for putting together the contents of this year's Oscar bags promised. And they did not disappoint. You might agree with all of this. The nominees, every nominee for an Academy Award, walks away with one of these goodie bags. So whether or not they win the award or not, they still win. This year, as I said, it's worth $200,000.

I love this. This is in quotes. The bag is aimed to be a, quote, blend of fabulous, fun, and functional items, meant to thrill and pamper those who may have everything that money can buy, but still savor the simple joy of a gift. The simple joy of a gift that underlined there.

In this year's Oscar bag, this year's Oscar gift bag, they get two trips. One is a $55,000 trip to Israel, which I would love to have that one. They also get a $54,000 trip to Japan, a one-year supply of Audi A4 rentals. I thought it was kind of strange. Wouldn't you just like give them the car? the one-year supply of Audi A4 rentals is worth $45,000. Why don't they just get the car? Is an A-4 costs more than $45,000?

I don't know, maybe it does. I haven't kept up with inflation on that one. They also get a $6,300 donation of pet food to an animal shelter, so I like that. That's a good one there. The bag is also said to contain some, oh, shall we say, slightly more risky items. a risky item such as a $250 wearable sex toy designed to provide Hollywood couples a more pleasurable sexual experience.

The female vibrator was described as a device that not only provided stimulating vibes, but also gentle suction. That made my headphones fall off. Another unusual item. This is a great one, a vampire breast lift. I don't think you need to be a vampire with breast to get it. I think that's the title of it. The vampire breastlift is valued at $1,900. And according to the vampire breast lift website,

oh, come on. Who hasn't been to that website a hundred times a day? Right? The procedure uses your own blood to rejuvenate the breasts. Wow, I'll take three. Or maybe just two. The result, of course, is a younger appearing skin and increased volume of fatty tissue. That is what the vampire breastlift promises.

And it's all part of the big goodie bag that all of the nominees at the 88th Academy Awards will get. They take place on February 28th this year. I wonder if they'll have that on the... They should get the stars to comment on the contents of their gift bag. maybe even show a few things. I doubt that will happen. We'll have more of the Jeff Fisher radio program coming up here in just a minute on the Blaze Radio Network. Here we go.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. When our water heater broke down last month, it was a nightmare. It took five hours for the plumber to show up, and he charged us a couple of hundred bucks just to come out. Then it cost another $1,800 to put in the new water heater. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I'd been taken. But what else could I do? The smartest thing you can do is get a home warranty from American residential warranty. Their home warranties pay to repair or replace all your major appliances when they break,

and they will break. And at the worst possible time, call American Residential Warranty right now. For free information on home warranties starting at just pennies a day. Don't wait for your refrigerator to stop running or your ceiling fans to stop turning. Call American Residential Warranty right now. Ask how you can save up to 50% on washer and dryer coverage. Just call 1,8006-6-8-6-39-10. That's 1-800-6-8-6-39-10. Again, 1-800-6-8-6-39-10. Call now.