Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Obsession Or Appendage?

Episode Date: January 23, 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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Call now. Well, a new study titled Hotel Hygiene Exposed. And who hasn't looked for that study in your life? Hotel Hygiene Exposed finds that the average hotel room has more bacteria than a typical home airplane or school. Now, the project manager for travel math, hey, we're not trying to scare anybody. Uh-huh.

They used teams of researchers Arned with cotton swabs and plastic bags To test rooms in nine different hotels They tested three-star, four-star, And even five-star hotels In variety of locations for the study The results came in Four-star and five-star hotels

Actually tended to be dirtier Than the less luxurious three-star hotels Now the team swabbed The same four services in each hotel room. The bathroom counter, the remote control, the desk, and the phone. Now ask yourself, I wonder what was the dirtiest thing in the study? Right?

Because the bathroom counter, pretty nasty. Desks, everybody puts their stuff on there. The phone, right? The remote control. Right? Right. Now, you think was the dirtiest of all? What do you think it was? I guessed it right away.

That's the remote control. Nasty. Now, they talk about you can wipe it down. I mean, you can come in and wipe it down all you want, and wipe the phone down, the desk, the bathroom counter. But nobody thinks, you know, very few. people think about the remote control because you just grab it. It's habit to grab it and start flicking through the channels and turn the TV on.

Nasty. One of the things that they talked about doing in this study that I thought was actually genius. Because I didn't think of it. If I'd have thought of it, then it wouldn't have been genius. Is when you go to the hotel room, you put the remote in a plastic bag, like a zip block bag, and just use the remote in there. Huh? I thought that was pretty smart. Now, you could, I don't know, wipe it off and not use the plastic bag and hoping that you get it all.

I've told you before, I have a friend that talks about going into any hotel room and he rips off the sheets and the blankets and the pillowcases, all of it. A, to check for bedbugs. And B, all that stuff is dirty. you throw it out in the hall, call down the lobby, I want all fresh stuff. They bring up fresh stuff, right? So at least you hope that that's clean stuff. Because they would be bringing your stuff that's been washed and folded and cleaned and ready to go. And not just reuse the same sheets, comforters, pillowcases.

Right? Right. So just remember that. The desk, the phone, bathroom counter. And the most nasty of all, the remote control for that television. Nasty. After seeing the list, that's why I knew it was the remote control. I knew it because everybody thinks it's the phone.

Or you think it's the bathroom counter. But it's a remote control because nobody thinks about cleaning it. They sneeze, they cough, they eat, they gai-fi, all of it. And nobody cleans it. I mean, you might get a quick wash. You might get a quick wash. Maybe. Maybe.

From one of the cleaning people. That's it. So I'm looking through this list of phobias. And I'm thinking, I don't know that I have any of these strange phobias. I've got a lot of issues, a lot of syndromes. There's one new syndrome that I believe I have. But these phobias, I don't know that I, there's a list here of the weird phobias, A to Z. And I don't know that I have any of them.

And they go through, you know, the alphabet, of course, and they give you one for each, each phobia. Arachibutrophobia. Arachibbutrophobia. Iraq. I can't even pronounce it, so I'm just going to stop saying it. It's the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth. This unusual phobia can result in panic and choking. I definitely don't have the phobia of peanut butter sticking to the roof of my mouth, okay?

Definitely. Boogie phobia, the fear of the boogeyman. Come on now. Adults suffer from it despite knowing their terror is irrational. Right. Of course, the Cholarobophobia, the fear of clowns. Yes.

Now, they're saying that the full-blown phobia is relatively rare. I don't know that I believe that. I know a lot of people that are freaked out by clowns. A lot of people. Of course, the, you know, the dentophobia, fear of the dentist. Imminophobia, the fear of vomiting. Fear of vomiting. Okay.

Whatever. it's not widely diagnosed even though it's fairly prevalent according to anxiety UK who doesn't read that it's up 3% of men 7% of women wow the fear of cold things fridophobia stop it

these these are psychiatrists coming up with things just to cover their expenses stop it I believe you have frigophobia I know. I really just don't like taking things out of my refrigerator because it's cold. Do you know what that is? That's fridophobia. Stop it.

Jurassicophobia. No, not the fear of Jurassic Park, but the fear of growing old. People are terrified of their body changing and aging and will often go to drastic measures like surgery to hide it. No one wants to be old. No. That's a huge phobia. Okay. The fear of being touched.

Happy heophobia. Ooh. I don't know. I might have that one. Isolophobia. Fear of solitude or being alone. Nobody likes to be alone, right? So you do have isolophobia.

Djanglophobia. The fear of jelly. Stop it. That is just like frigophobia. The fear of jelly. They watch some horror flick. Jelly. Goad mad.

in the 50s and now they're afraid of jelly? Stop it. The fear of thunder and lightning. Corona phobia. Okay. The fear of loud noises. Ligry phobia. Right?

Ligryorophobia. I can't even pronounce these stupid phobias. I just love the fear of loud noses. I love what the phobias say they do because they're not true. They're not true. You can't tell me someone has a frigidophobia. I want to meet the person. If you have frigidophobia, 888-90-3-3-93.

I want to talk to you. I want to know how it was diagnosed. I want to know why you have it, how long you've had it. I'd like to sit you down on the sofa and we'll talk. Okay? You and I. Frigophobia. Okay.

Mysophobia, the fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs. That wasn't a lot of people. I mean, that's... I don't know that I have the fear of being contaminated, but I don't want to mess with the dirt and the germs thing. I'm over that in my life. Okay. But it's a good thing.

I mean, if you're a kid, you're supposed to get dirty. You're supposed to go and let them outside and play. Okay? They're supposed to get dirty so that they get some germs in them and you feel better, right? I mean, that's supposed to. Nobody does it anymore, but that's what they're supposed to do. Radiophobia, the fear of x-rays or radiation. Okay.

Fear of choking or being smothered. Ignophobia. Obesophobia. The fear of gaining weight. I most definitely don't. have that. Obesophobia. I'm closer to frigidophobia than obesity.

I'll tell you that. The fear of gaining weight. No, I have no fear of gaining weight because it's all I do. Radiophobia. The fear of x-rays radiation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got that. The fear of sleep. Somniophobia.

The fear of sleep. Freaking out. I don't. Do we have somebody with frigidophobia on the line yet? I want to find out if that's, actually, that cannot be a real thing. No one will ever call on that, ever, because it's not real. The fear of being buried alive. I mean, we all kind of have that fear, right?

Nobody wants to be buried alive. Taphyphobia. Nobody wants to be buried alive, okay? Europhobia, the fear of urinating, stop it. You have the fear of urination? Maybe if you're a little kid. And it's usually not urination. it's number two.

That's not a phobia. That's a little kid thinking they're losing part of their body. Once they get over that part, you're good. It's not a phobia. Vaccinophobia. Self-explanatory. Wicophobia. Yes, fear of witches.

Oh, yes, fear of witches. We can't have that. Xenophobia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all know what that is. Fear of foreigners and strangers. We all have that today. We don't want, if you don't want refugees coming to this country,

you have xenophobia. And zealophobia, the fear of jealousy. Stop it. Stop it. Come on now. I still am going back. We have frigophobia, F right, the fear of cold things. Sufferers often bundle up in heavy clothes and blankets regardless of temperature.

It nearly always stems from a negative experience in the past. I was walking on a pond. And it broke through the ice in the winter. and I got really cold and my dad pulled me out and I went in and they put me in a cold shower and then warmed me up

so I wouldn't get frostbite and now I have Fridgophobia Come on now and the fear of jelly jangulophobia Fear of jelly No way that's

This bizarre phobia is extremely rare And normally discovered in childhood That's because it's not real It's made up. Come on now. But this is something I think I have. It's the Phantom Vibration Syndrome. I think I have this.

And the story reads, is that your cell phone or just ringing in your ear? Do you ever think your phone is vibrating or ringing when it's not? Researchers have come up with a name for that. It's called Phantom Vibration Syndrome. A study done at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that 90% of students, feel phantom phone sensations. We're so in touch with our cell phones now. We're cyborgs, cyborgs practically.

They're parts of us. A woman eating lunch in Metropolitan State University at Denver said that we feel like they're part of us now. New media and messages are exciting and rewarding. For some, they're an obsession. She's suggested students take media fasts. but they typically report back they couldn't even go without their phones for an hour. Phantom vibration syndrome.

It isn't physically painful, but some believe it's a warning that technology is taking away from human interaction. Do you think? Technology is taken away from human interaction. Ride the train someday. Take a look. Okay? Mass transit. Ride the buses someday.

Take a look. Look around your home. see what's going on. Okay, let's see. Let's take a look around. Your kid's on a tablet, on the sofa, right? Okay. Headphones on or down real low.

Own world on the tablet. That's the youngest one. The oldest one, upstairs, watching a movie. Streaming a movie, by the way. I'm downstairs. working on a laptop. And my wife is in the office either, well, we'll say she's working, whatever, going through pictures she took. And so, you know, going through pictures.

So she's working. So technology is taking away from human interaction. Yes, it is. But there are times when you have the power to say, okay, all right, let's sit down and be a family. talk, play games. You know, do you know that you can learn more about your children by just playing a game? Oh my God. Am I turning into some sort of parental advice show?

Stop it. 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 1,8006-38639-10. That's 1-800-6-8-6-39-10. Again, 1-800-6-8-6-39-10. Call now.