Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffys Corner: RNC Week With Opelka

Episode Date: July 23, 2016

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Get moving at real estate agents. I trust.com. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. You may have noticed that the show prior to this show, Pure O'Pelka, hosted by Mike O'Pelka, was a, well, I mean, they call it a best of, a replay of an earlier broadcast. That was because Mike had some issues yesterday and wasn't able to get into the city to do his show. And I thought, well, heck, I mean, that stinks, right? I mean, he's just coming off the convention. He's been in Cleveland.

And, I mean, we should talk to him a little bit about it and find out, you know, what's going on and what's happening. And if he's going to give us a special maybe recap podcast this week, something. And so, you know, I wanted to get him on the air and say, hi, Mike. Hi, Jeffney. Oh, no. What happened? The machines conspired against us. Oh, no.

I was in the middle of nowhere in Ohio yesterday, and my car suddenly said a message saying, drive train failure, please drive moderately, which, you know, I can't. Yeah. Right. So I had to stop for quite a while, and it prevented me from making it in.

I did learn something. I stopped in the town where they invented the toothbrush. Oh, good for Ohio. At least they did something. Yeah. Had it been anywhere else, they would have called it the teethbrush, but everybody there just had one. Correct.

Thank you. Be here all week. Yes, all week. So, first of all, first of all, I mean, it was your drive train part of a recall that you weren't aware of? What's the deal? Was it a rent-a-car? Was it your car?

My car, brand new car, 2016 model. Yeah, needed a satellite delivered system reset, but it took a while. A satellite delivered system reset. Yeah. You know, like when you call the company, and you say, I can't get the upper-tier challenge. We're going to send a signal. Yeah.

I mean, was the satellite on the other side of the globe? Was it blocked by the moon? We couldn't just make that happen? It doesn't automatically. It has to recycle and go through a series of issues. Well, first you have to call the dealer, and then they try and diagnose the problem, and then they send you to the help center,

and you're told to push the SLS button. You know, it's a whole thing. I'm sitting in the middle of Ohio. Reset the damn car! Eventually, it did, but I'm back on the road again. I'll be in silly, starting, well, starting tomorrow. actually. Well, that's good to hear. I'm glad you're okay. So you left Cleveland. Were you happy? Were you excited? Anything, anything big that you wanted to report from the exciting, and I do mean an

exciting convention. Well, there was a lot going on outside, and we tried to show you much of it, the protests and just the craziness in the streets of Cleveland and the massive police president. Yeah, the security was huge. everywhere. And they were incredible. I have to tell you, Jeffrey, I came prepared with both protection gear and a sidearm just in case. And I required neither because of the massive police presence that controlled everything. And they were, they were amazing. There was one time when a group of protesters, about 150 of them stretched up and down the entrance to the RNC, the main entrance, and these bike cops moved in, and they have actually like synchronized

swimmers, they have routines, and they can move and block a group. Three to four protesters are blocked by each bike, so they move and create a chain, and they effectively cut off anything they're trying to do. It's really something to watch. Was there any, once the security blocked off these protesters, did we have any, I mean, I didn't see any big fights or, you know, security going crazy. We saw a couple of arrests. The cops all had the plastic handcuffs, you know, the ties that they put on you. I saw they grabbed a couple of people who tried to breach the line,

and some people who refused to let credentialed people passed were actually taken away. They would search their bags in front of them, and there weren't too many violent altercations. They're just, I think, a lot of yelling, mostly from the Westboro people who were just, they didn't get the memo that you don't make friends by screaming obscenities of people through a megaphone. Really? Yeah. Some of the most colorful language I've heard outside of the Bronx. Well, I saw one video where your man, Alex Jones, was shouting at people through a megaphone. And so I know he was there.

Did you happen to run into Alex? I witnessed Alex trying to take over the young Turks booth. Yes, I saw the video of that. I saw several videos of that, actually, different angles. It was pretty impressive. That was probably the most violent or physical confrontation that happened. And it happened inside in the media row, which looked more like a Turkish market on a hot day. What is his deal?

I mean, he broke in on the Turk show. He did. He and who's the other jerk with him? Stone, right? Yeah, Roger Stone. They tried to take over the young Turks show and really in a confrontational manner. And I don't fully get it. I don't grasp the whole poetic being of Alex Jones.

So excuse me, but it just seemed too bizarre. And then to keep pushing until there was nearly a physical confrontation, it seems like that was his end. end game to begin with. Right. And then he ended up, you know, just security is here. Okay, well, I'll leave, I'll leave okay then. I don't want to get you. If you, you know, if you stand up to him and call him out, I think he really does back

down. I don't think those Alex Jones vitamins actually work. No, I don't think they do either. Well, first of all, we know the weight control program that he's selling. Certainly is not something I'd be bragging about being on for the last 12 years as he does. I am on that same Alex Jones weight control program, so it's okay. Alex, I'm not giving Alex a hard time over that. I think one of the most interesting things inside the convention was roaming the halls

backstage on the floor because you got to see every media person without the camera and lights. You got to talk to. I saw Donna Brazile and S.E. Cup, two people who are so diametrically opposed to one another politically, talking and I had to ask, what are you talking about? And they were talking about raising a baby because Essie had one. Yeah, not long ago. And Donna Brazils, one of her best friends had a child. She lost her husband and got very sick having the baby.

So Donna ended up raising this child for the first two months of its life. And the two of them were just, it was wonderful to watch. But, you know, your buddy Shepard Smith was there. And Kilmead said some, sent some a greeting. to you guys. And so did Anderson Cooper. Oh, I love Anderson. The delegates were a blast. I went to every delegation and talked to them. Although the New Hampshire delegation, they checked out before the final night.

Really? Yeah, they had better places to be, somebody told me. I mean, was it a hunting season starting? I'm not quite sure, but there were like two people left in the New Hampshire delegation. I said, what's going on here? Everybody figured they'd get out now. Wow. But the merchandise on the street was interesting.

Did you see the picture of the two cereal boxes I posted? I did. I did. I liked it very much. The story on that is fantastic, Jeff, because here's a kid from New Jersey, a college kid, who decided he was going to try and make money. He created a thousand of these cereal boxes. Oh, wow.

Out of his own pocket, he made a Hillary box. and they were little crunch and Trump flakes. It was great. And it cost him 25 bucks a box to make these custom printed boxes. That's a good hit for a box. He put up $25,000 to get this done. He went out on the street and on the first day he sold 600 boxes at 40 bucks a box. Good for him.

He's walking away from this convention. with a $15,000 profit. Good for him. It makes me so happy. Yes, it does. That's capitalism right there on the street. That's a perfect example of it. Don't worry, he'll get to keep about $2,000 of that.

So he's good. I'm just saying there was a lot of cash transaction. I don't know how many records are actually available. But there were a lot of shirts and buttons that we can't actually describe. here. There were people that weren't happy with Trump. And there were a lot of people who weren't happy with Clinton. So they

all had merchandise mocking them. And I'm sure there was some people not happy with Cruz too. So it's all kinds of fun. I didn't see too much of that. There was not a whole lot of that outside of the moment after Ted's

mentioning Vote Your Conscience. There really didn't seem to focus on that. And there wasn't any Cruz merch out there, really. I love the fact that so Ted Cruz says, vote your conscience, vote who you believe will, you know,

follow the Constitution, and everybody knows he's not talking about Trump. I mean, come on. Hello. He never even mentioned it. Well, and did you watch Hillary last night saying, I have to agree with Ted Cruz? I mean, everybody

knows. It's unbelievable. It was Fantastic. But here's the weird part about that. Ted Cruz says, vote your conscience and gets booed. Ivanka Trump says, I'm not really a Republican, and she gets the... Yay! Yay! You just sit there and go, hold on a second. Bizarro world. It certainly is. And before we get... We'll do a quick hit on Hillary. I know I'm up against the clock, but I wondered if you, when did you get to the convention? Because the day before the convention started, the big-time photographer...

Spencer Tunick showed up with his 100 nude women photograph outside the center in Cleveland. And I just wondered, you know, if you happen to catch any of that. Because I was looking at some of them. You think I'd exactly admit to that here on this giant Gannick show? Yes. No, I unfortunately missed that. I'm thinking it's never the ones you want to see now. naked. Well, for the most part, that's true. I mean, are you going to look? Yes.

Of course. I might even photograph. Just for strictly research purposes. Strictly research purposes. Yeah, no, I'm not getting anything out. Give me a break. So we had Hillary last night and you've got Tim Kane. Well, first, whoa, wait a second. because I want to make sure that I saw your picture of the Univision bag. Oh, yeah. The swag bag from Univision.

Did you grab like one or two to give away on the show for a little, you know, a little giveaway? Well, inside the little Univision swag bag is one of those portable batteries. I love those. I've got like three or four of those bad books. Those are great. And they're perfect when you're out on the street like we were. Yes, they are. Those are great.

This was, Jeffrey, the interesting thing about this inside the Republican Governor's Lounge. is where this was. Don't ask how I got in. Just know I was there for about three hours because the food and the drink were fantastic. But on every table, there were these giant glass jars filled with Univision bags

with a mini battery charger so you could not run out of juice on the floor. But on the label, it says, trying to win without Univision, good luck with that, Amigo. Think about it. Well, passive aggressive there? Univision.

And that leads into having Tim Cain picked for Hillary Clinton, right? Mr. I can speak Spanish. He can go up against Univision any time. He will be speaking Spanish to Jorge Ramos, I'm certain, in one of their planned interviews. But no, I'm not giving away the Univision swag, because those are very very bad. But there is a bag of R&C different swag up for grabs, including some of some of. of the credentials from each day because, as you know,

those are real collector's items. Those are real collector's items. I mean, that's something to look forward to. There's only 30, 40, 50,000 of those running around. Okay, so I know I'm up against the clock, but you didn't have an opportunity to go over a lot of the convention and recap it, and I appreciate you coming on today. But are you going to do some kind of special podcast for, you know,

the Pure O'Pelke, stunt brain fan? to listen to and get a recap? Absolutely. I'll go from Monday with Melania's speech and the Donald's daily appearances, including his big brother-like appearance on Tuesday, which still kind of creeps me out, to my adventures with convention hats,

and Newt giving me the stink eye in an elevator on Thursday. Nice. That's great. So that's how we look forward to at the blaze.com slash radio, Bureau Pelka. You can download that last. late Monday, early Tuesday, maybe? Maybe even late Sunday.

Oh, nice. And if you actually click on Follow, you know, oh my gosh, you'll know when he's finished because he'll send you an update. Thanks, Mike. That's right. Doc and Skip will probably make a guest appearance as they are bunking in with me for the Philly Adventure.

Oh, we're going to be in Philadelphia, too. Oh, my gosh. That would be fun. That will be fun. I'm kind of looking forward to that, actually. Buckle in, people. Oh, this one's going to be a rough ride. You aren't lying.

I hope security is even better there. Oof. I don't know how you can beat what Cleveland did, Jeffrey. They had 2,500 cops from all over the country. I hope the DNC is smart enough to pick up on that trend. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, that's hope with capital letters, too, because you don't know that that's actually true.

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