Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jenner's Journey, Hillary Hopefuls & Preparing for Pacquiao 4/25/15

Episode Date: April 25, 2015

Today on The Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy discusses last night's long awaited interview of Bruce Jenner by Diane Sawyer on ABC. Jeffy also talks about the best and worst gigs of 2015, what Lindsay Lohan h...as been up to and who wants you to vote for Hillary. Plus, an ice-cream update and a funeral parlor crackdown! All that & more on The Jeff Fisher Show!Jeff Fisher is live from 6am to 8am ET, Saturday. Listen for free on The Blaze Radio Network: www.theblaze.com/radio & www.iheart.comFollow Jeff at twitter.com/JeffyMRA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:19 Life signs stable. It's alive. Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Hello. Welcome. To the Blaze Radio Network and the Jeff Fisher show. I am Jeff Fisher.
Starting point is 00:01:46 So nice to have you here. Okay. Wow. Bruce Jenner, The Interview, on ABC with Diane Zoyer last night. Diane, great show. There was some parts of it, part of the episodes that I was happy to see happen because it kind of flabbergasted you. Diane, we'll get to that. Bruce almost, and he probably did say something last night
Starting point is 00:02:17 that probably hurt him as far as people being for him in his struggle to become a woman. I have always, up front, always loved Bruce Jenner. I mean, in 1976, he was the man. And I say that. He was the man. Gold medal, decathlon in Montreal. I mean, he was it. He talked.
Starting point is 00:02:54 He talked about that. It was a wide-ranging interview. ABC has put up a page that says the 12 biggest takeaways. The 12 biggest moments from Bruce Jenner, the interview. And they believe that it's, you know, number one, I'm a woman. Number two, Bruce Jenner says it's not a publicity stunt for the show. Bruce Jenner remembers first time he wore a dress. Who was the first person, Jenner told, which, by the way, when he first wore a dress,
Starting point is 00:03:29 he was a little boy about eight or nine. First person he told was his first wife. All his wives knew. Fascinating. Number five from ABC, I'm not gay. We'll get into that. He first started taking female hormones in the 80s. If you remember, and when they show the photos, you realize, oh, my gosh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:57 And then he talked about during the Kardashian TV series, I mean, he was, during it all, he was thinking that, hey, you know, I have the show. I had the story. ABC says Bruce Jenner was terrified to tell his kids. Brandon Jenner said he was more proud of his father, more proud than ever of his father. Bruce said Kim Kardashian caught me in one time in a dress. I thought it was his other daughter, actually, in the interview. But if they say it was Kim, that's fine. He talked about his daughters thinking that one was one.
Starting point is 00:04:39 was stealing dresses from the other, and Bruce had dressed up one night as a female and went in to look at himself in the only full-length mirror in the house, which was his daughter's bedroom, and the laptop was set to the security mode, so when it was motion, it would kick on because the daughter wanted to catch the other daughter stealing her dresses, and instead she caught dad dressing up. He talked about Kim and Kanye and how Kanye turned Kim around and made her at ease with it. And then his plans on becoming what he called her. He doesn't have a name.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Maybe he does have a name. He wouldn't say it. He didn't want to, he didn't want to say it at all. I was fascinated by this I mean I met Bruce I forget what year it would it would have had to been in the 90s because I was working at a sports station 910 WFNS and it was the Olympics so whenever the one of the Olympics was in the 90s um 94 maybe that'd be about right uh you know he was doing the rounds for the Olympics and uh yeah I'm asking We got him, came in, we get, you know, the usual glad hand, quick interview on the air.
Starting point is 00:06:09 And then, you know, I still have the Olympic coins that he was giving away at the time. But I've always loved him. He was great. And I, you know what? After this, well, we'll get to that. That was the takeaways from ABC. There to a... I took the notes watching this thing last night.
Starting point is 00:06:28 I was fascinated. I mean, I don't think that... I certainly don't like Bruce any less. I still like him. Still a good guy, good girl, whatever. He talked about his struggles to get to the Olympics, which is fascinating. And he talked about earlier this week on Glenn Show,
Starting point is 00:06:58 we talked about the little boy who was their calling transgender at five. and said that he knew it two. And he was saying, you know, his mom then let him, his folks, his folks, her folks, you know, born as a little girl, Mia, as now Jacob at five. And they said, you know, that they did this at four for this little boy. And Bruce said that he knew as, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:30 and he put his hand down as a little kid. I mean, a little kid. So when you think, when we talked about this story, the Jacob story, the Jacob story, we thought, oh my gosh, she's four or five, how does he know? And then to listen to Bruce and to listen to a couple other clips that ABC played during the interview, you know, you know. The problem I had with the Jacob's story is that he talked with his parents about God. And the mom talked about how he would say, why did God make me this way?
Starting point is 00:08:19 Why did God make me wrong? And she was, you know, saying that she didn't have an answer for that. Bruce was great at it because the answer is God, you know, right. I mean, God doesn't make you wrong. I mean, it's just what you believe. If you believe in God, God doesn't make you wrong. Bruce, his explanation for that, was I thought, was I thought really good. He said that he tried to explain it because I've had all my kids in the chair and I've tried to explain it this way.
Starting point is 00:09:02 And Bruce's explanation was God's looking down, making little Bruce. And he says, okay, what are we going to do with this one? We'll make him a smart kid, very determined. And then when he's just finishing, he says, wait a second. Let's give him the soul of a female and see how he deals with that. He can't be perfect. And there you have it. So in his explanation, God didn't make him wrong.
Starting point is 00:09:35 That's the way God made him. to make him stronger and to let him have struggles. And he said he struggled with it forever. And in fact, he talked about where that was the drive that led him to the Olympics. He was, he ended up earlier before,
Starting point is 00:10:00 before the 76 Olympics, he ended up like 12th or something. He was way down the list. And he was so mad that, and he had such a strong. struggle within himself that he was able to work for two years, two or three years, and not think about the struggle going on inside himself. He just became this person striving for the Olympics.
Starting point is 00:10:30 And he was married at the time, working with his first wife. And in fact, they showed footage. I remember if you were around at the time in the 70s, you saw the shows and, you know, the build-up to the Olympics and Bruce Jenner. And it was fascinating. More fascinating after because then he's struggling with himself even more. But the notes, I mean, we can go through. I know. I know.
Starting point is 00:10:59 I got it. I got a lot of response from people on Twitter and Facebook when I posted. You know, wow, just got done watching it. And there were some, you know, not very nice comments. Okay, from you haters out there. Not very nice. You're supposed to love, are you? But I've seen it up close in my own life.
Starting point is 00:11:25 I know someone that is transgendered and went through this. And I know them from before. And I know them after. And their lives, and especially this person's life, is, oh my gosh, a million times better, happier. No more drugs, no more struggling, no more crime. It was amazing. It was amazing turnaround. And it's funny when I first met this person.
Starting point is 00:12:02 I knew that. I knew that there was a couple of opportunities that I had to fire this person. And I couldn't bring myself to ever do it. I always let that person hang on and have a job and work because I knew something inside wasn't right. And then when the operations and the drugs and the work came and the struggle for a long time, it's a really expensive process and a long process. This person went from a woman to a man. And the process is unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:12:44 This person is actually gone through all the surgeries and is 100% male now. Wow. It was unbelievable. And being the jerk that I am, I still sometimes... I still sometimes use she instead of he and or her instead of him when I'm talking. And I don't do it on purpose. I just, it's embedded in my head. And that makes him really mad at me.
Starting point is 00:13:30 So I apologize. I'm sorry. It's just embedded in my brain and I can't stop myself sometimes. And he knows that. He knows that level. But I'm sorry because it's just there. And that's what's going to happen to Bruce. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:13:48 These notes are, I can't get enough of this story because it's Bruce Jenner. Now, there's questions that come up in Bruce where, you know, he talks about his sexuality, his desires, his struggles, and we'll get to those. We'll get to those. My favorite part of the entire interview, and the only thing that's not favorite about it is that, of course, Diane Sawyer brings the president Barack Obama in on it.
Starting point is 00:14:20 But Bruce shuts it down, which was beautiful, beautiful. And so I'm going to apologize for, you having to hear a little clip of Barack Obama on this broadcast this morning, or whenever you're listening to it, which you downloaded it on the podcast at the blaze.com slash radio. However, you have to hear this clip because if you read the transcript, it reads pretty dry and makes Diane, you know, seem like, okay, she was just asking a question, but she was like,
Starting point is 00:14:58 If you just listen to this clip You can hear Diane You're a You're not a Go ahead People who are lesbian Gay, bisexual or transgender Did you cheer the president
Starting point is 00:15:12 First president ever to save a word Transcendant He actually was the first one to say the actual word Transgender I will certainly give him credit for that But not to get political I've just never been a big fan of Kind of more on the conservative side
Starting point is 00:15:25 Are you a Republican? Are you a Republican? Republican? Yeah. Is that a bad thing? I believe in the institution. I don't know. Do you think that it will be a maybe unsettling thing for some people in the conservative wing of the Republican Party?
Starting point is 00:15:43 I've thought about that. The generances neither political party has a monopoly on understanding. You're going to go to Mitch McConnell and John Boehner and ask them to help champion this cause. I would. I would do that. Yeah, a heartbeat. Why not? That's where he should have said, which, are you a Republican?
Starting point is 00:16:03 Well, that's, Bruce should have said, uh, no, Diane, I'm a conservative. But I'll give them, I'm okay with. Uh, yeah. Is that a bad thing? This is the Jeff Fisher show on the Blaze Radio Network. Are you looking to save 50, 60, even 70% on your phone bill? Well, here's a tip. Broadvoice.com.
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Starting point is 00:17:55 03393 is the phone number. Welcome to it. I knew it that Bruce, when he... Are you a Republican? I knew it. Bruce Jenner, the interview on ABC last night with Diane Sawyer. So I go to the blaze and I look, Bruce Jenner blasted online Friday evening.
Starting point is 00:18:16 Of course. I just tweeted it at Jeff Emory. Of course. Ew, Bruce Jenner is so gross. He's a freaking Republican. Yeah, he is Oh, Bruce Jenner, I can't believe you'd admit to that way of life. That's disgusting.
Starting point is 00:18:36 I mean, Republican? But not to get political. I've just never been a big fan of kind of more on the conservative side. Are you a Republican? Yeah. Is that a bad thing? Bruce Jenner identifies as a Republican. Barf.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Bruce Jenner comes out as a Republican. Republican. Now that's offensive. This country is going to hell in a handbasket. Is it? And I see here on the Blaze that they have these Twitter handles blocked out. Why? Why do we have these Twitter handles blocked out on the Blaze? Screw that. We should know who these people are. They got they got they put it out there on Twitter. It's public knowledge. I want to know who they are. Blaise, that's wrong. Whoever did this, I won't, who did this story? Oliver Darcy. What, no.
Starting point is 00:19:31 We should have those names out there. By gosh, they're good enough. Oh, we're diverse, all right. We're diverse and believe everything. Everybody should be all, all accepting of everything, unless you don't believe exactly like we believe. That's crap. We should know exactly who these people are.
Starting point is 00:19:49 They want to know exactly who we are. Fine. If we had come out and said, something like, oh, Bruce Jenner, a woman, we hate him. It'd be all over the place. But when we can't know who they are, no. We should know. Please, Blaze, make us know who they are.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Now I'm sounding angry, and I don't want to sound angry because I've got notes here that I took during the Bruce Jenner, the interview show last night on ABC. I am and was fascinated. I love Bruce. and I can't believe the struggles that he's gone through. And that's what made him. And some of the news that came out in the interview was absolutely fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. First of all, the one that we should know that there's something wrong in the water, first of all.
Starting point is 00:20:46 It might not be Bruce's fault. It might be something in the water. because the first thing that stood out during the Bruce Jenner interview, to me, was where he was from, where he was born, where he first started with the struggles that made him Bruce Jenner. Where you say could have that have been? Well, home to Bruce Jenner is Terrytown, Sleepy Hollow, New York. And you say, but, Jeff, why is that so strange?
Starting point is 00:21:26 Ha! Who else is from Terrytown slash Sleepy Hollow? Stubergear. Yeah. Home of Stubbergear, Terry Town, Sleepy Hollow. Yeah. Anyway, we'll have more of this. I can't let this go.
Starting point is 00:21:46 And I mean it, Blaze. I want to know who these Twitter handle people are. That's, we should know. The Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show is on. 888-903-33 is the phone number. Welcome to it. Last night, Bruce Jenner, the interview on ABC,
Starting point is 00:22:32 said this is the last interview he will do as Bruce. He refers to his true identity as her. When talking about his struggles, it is sad. And you think about the people who are struggling. When you look in the mirror, and they discuss this a little bit on the broadcast last night, and Bruce talked about it, when people look in the mirror, most people, they see themselves, right? Think about it. You look in the mirror, and you see you, the person that you have been forever. You've changed, thin or fatter, older, wiser, whatever, meaner, not.
Starting point is 00:23:18 nicer, but it's you. And people in his predicament sees a lie. Not really, not really he's walking through life as a lie as people are seeing, well, in particular Bruce, as Bruce Jenner, the man. And he always felt like
Starting point is 00:23:43 a woman. He talked about being a little kid. and walking out of the name with his sister's dress and putting a scarf over his head because he had really short hair and walking around as a little kid. Oh my gosh. And he talked about how it brought him, the struggle of that brought him to do the extra work that it took for him to be the Olympic athlete, the gold medal decathlon winner. He always played sports. So he talked to him. He was the top guy in high school, you know, the top athlete.
Starting point is 00:24:24 And that's why, you know, he talked about that's why, because he didn't have to think about the struggles he was going through as feeling like a woman or a girl at that time. He could just do sports and not have to think about it. So after the Olympics, it was even a bigger struggle for him because it was over. And he went through. and then it was thrust in the limelight as superstar. Now, two of his wives, well, I think all three actually, three or four, they drove him to success.
Starting point is 00:25:01 You know, he was struggling, and then they turned, he was struggling after the Olympic push, you know, Wheaties, boxes, the Superman Olympic push, and then he was struggling because he didn't know who he was, he was still struggling with I wanted to be a woman. And then he started doing all the infomercials and became the motivational speaker. He talked about the struggles that he had doing that. But he was a star again.
Starting point is 00:25:34 He was thrust back into the limelight with his kids and his family and his wife. And, you know, that's, you need to make a living. and how when he went out to speak and talk to people about success, how it was a lie and how he felt the whole time that it was a lie. And that he would leave those events and dress up as a woman and go out. My gosh. Think of that. Think of that.
Starting point is 00:26:15 Were you one of the people that said, man, that girl looks like Bruce Jenner? It's possible. It's possible. But he said you would never know. Uh-huh. But, I mean, I'll go through, this is my notes
Starting point is 00:26:30 during Bruce Jenner, the interview last night. Start to finish. The God explanation. Fantastic, I thought. Look at the Olympic picks and sees her. him
Starting point is 00:26:44 me when she Diane showed him the picture said I see her and then I know it's him it's me me
Starting point is 00:26:53 of course we already talked about him growing up in Terrytown slash Sleepy Hollow home of Stubragier as well talked about
Starting point is 00:27:02 being a little kid slipping out in a dress how lonely he was they discussed on the show cross dressing is does not mean all transgendered.
Starting point is 00:27:15 Cross dressers are different than transgendered. Sexual desire has always been with a woman, said Bruce. He considers himself heterosexual, although later in the interview, he said he didn't think about it much, and then he just said, well, let's just go with asexual, because he talked about being 65, and he's not out looking to party
Starting point is 00:27:41 and find love all the time. Although, you know, he didn't sound opposed to it. He just not what he's thinking about now. So he talked about sexual desire. Whom you go to bed with, sexual identity is who you go to bed as. I talked about in the 80s, the hormone surgeries and the electrolysis, how he was on. And he talked about how all his wives knew and then lost his nerve. He said he did it for about five years.
Starting point is 00:28:13 And it just kind of became, you know, he was still Bruce Jenner to the outer world. And he had the family and the kids, and he didn't want to hurt them. So he stopped the hormones. And then we kind of moved into the Kardashian years. They were, you know, little kids when they first, you know, when they first got together. And he had a couple of kids with Chris. He really loved Chris. Obviously, you love all your wives, but you can quote me on that, too.
Starting point is 00:28:46 You do love all your wives. But he really, I think he still loves Chris. He said that if Chris had been good with all of this, and I'm pretty sure he was referring to coming out and just leaving the Bruce Jenner behind, they'd probably still be together. So, I mean, he still loves her. She, on the other hand, you know, I don't know that. She may, just because of the way she acts.
Starting point is 00:29:22 Because they commented, they took comments from the wives last night, and they were all sent their supportive statements, and Chris was like, hey, no comment. Yeah, no comment. So, you know, she's still mad. But the Kardashian years, think of this, 425 shows is what he said. I don't know that that to be exact, but probably pretty close.
Starting point is 00:29:46 Eight years, about eight years, 425 episodes of the Kardashians. Amazing. Which got him back on some footing financially. Because, you know, obviously this is, you know, not cheap. The hormones and the surgeries. When asked about what the fakenness of dressing like a woman, he said, I'm not dressing up like a woman. I spent years dressing up as a man.
Starting point is 00:30:17 The children, they were all really trying. One said, wow, it all makes sense now. And one son talked about how he ran out of class as in a teenager. They were talking about sexuality or something in the class, and he ran out of the class scared at the time because he was thinking that he was going to lose his dad to a woman, to becoming a woman. So they knew.
Starting point is 00:30:46 I mean, obviously, you know, he wasn't hiding it to the family, at least as well as he thought he was to the kids. This is a fascinating percentage they showed on the show last night. 87% know someone who is gay. 87% of the people know someone who is gay. 8% know someone who is transgender. That's a small amount. They also showed the first known. a big transgender, that Christine Jorgensen, who I guess I knew, but I didn't remember the World War II, went away as a soldier, got the surgery in Sweden and came back to America as a woman.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Fascinating. I will read more about that story. And then that was the time when, are you a Republican? And I knew at the time he may have lost support from those. and sure enough, the Blaze story that we talked about earlier, with the people on social media bashing him. And please, I hope that today I'm going to do some research. We're going to find out who these Twitter people are. That we should be able to react to them.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Just like they react to us. We need to know who they are. You can, you know, they're brave enough to say it in public on social media. They can be brave enough to take whatever heat they get, let alone the heat that we would get, if we started spewing hate online. He said one of the things that he wanted, I just want to blend in.
Starting point is 00:32:22 Uh-huh. Okay, Bruce Jenner. I get that. I mean, I know that's a, that's a nice, famous person's line. I just want to blend in. I don't like to be, I don't like the fame. Ah, okay, Bruce Jenner.
Starting point is 00:32:41 Got it. So, I mean, he does more good for the cause and for the struggle not blending in and always has. So that ain't happening. That's a pipe dream that's just been said over the years by people who are famous. And if he just wanted to blend in, you wouldn't be seeing him on TV. Okay. You wouldn't have TMZ following him around. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:33:08 I don't buy it. But it's okay because that's just the, that's his, uh, a throwaway line that a lot of famous people use. I just want to blend in. Okay. Sexual reassignment surgery, down the line. So he still is half a man. Whole man?
Starting point is 00:33:32 Because with the hormone therapy, you know, you do get breasts and he's had, he talked about getting the Adams apple scraped. And he's got, you know, he's got the long hair and the looks, the hormones. And he's done a lot of plastic. surgery. So, but he still has the man unit. You know, what's left of it after hormone surgery, I don't know. But he's still a man.
Starting point is 00:34:01 He still, I mean, he still prefers women to, for any sexual relationship that he may or may not have. He wanted to say, he wanted to be saying goodbye to people's perception of me. Wanted people to say goodbye to their perception of me. Wanted people to have an open mind and an open heart. And Diane said that Bruce believes everyone should have a one-sentence mission statement. He said that in one of his books that he wrote. I'm sure he probably wrote the book back when he was in motivational speaker world,
Starting point is 00:34:42 when he could sell some books and make some money on being a success. But when asked if he had one, he said to provide understanding and tolerance towards people. That's his one-sentence mission statement. To provide understanding and tolerance towards people. Bruce Jenner, the interview last night. It does bring up a couple of questions. A couple of minor questions. But overall, it just brings up.
Starting point is 00:35:18 one question. Are you a Republican? Here we go. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher. 9-033-93 is the phone number. Welcome to it. Thanks so much for being here today.
Starting point is 00:35:56 I appreciate it. Michael Pelka and Pure O'Pelker coming up immediately after this broadcast on the Blaze Radio Network. If you listen, I'm not sure. I didn't check the giveaway list. I don't know if we're what Mike is giving. away for you to listen today. You might have an opportunity to win, I don't know, the Piro Pelka hubcaps. And you can see the stunt brain hubcaps circling on your car tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:36:23 Boy, would that be exciting. Okay, Bruce did enter the interview. I know I spent way too much time on it, but it just fascinates me. And the whole thing, I still love Bruce. Always a fan. Always. Always a fan. and it makes me more of a fan now that I know how much you were struggling during the whole thing.
Starting point is 00:36:45 When they talked to the Russian guy that he beat in 76, who was, I guess, a favored guy to win the decathlon, the last thing from Diane Sawyer was they talked to him, and he said, oh, I still, like, happen if I lost to a woman? Well, no, you didn't lose to a woman there. Mr. Russian. You lost to Bruce Jenner, who was a male who believed he was a woman, who looked at himself as a woman. But he was still a male, and he still kicked your ass.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Okay? Mr. Russian? And another favorite part was where Bruce talked about how he met. I can't remember the Dingleberry's name from Russia. Anyway, he met him. And he said that I met him a couple years ago, and he was so overweight and looked so old. old and I thought, I won that battle too. All right, so much more to get to.
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Starting point is 00:42:24 So you haven't been swayed to vote for you. You think you might. You know, you know, I could vote for Hillary. I kind of like what I'm seeing, but I'm not sure. Well, this may change your mind. Hookers for Hillary. Hi, I'm Shelby Star, and I have some breaking news for you today on my naked news.
Starting point is 00:42:50 Dennis Hoff and the ladies of the Bunny Ranch family have officially announced the endorsement for Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America. Prostitutes at Dennis Hoff's world-famous Moonlight Bunny Ranch, Legal Brothel, and Carson City, Nevada are banding together to announce their support of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Following Clinton's formal announcement,
Starting point is 00:43:15 the sex workers launched their hookers for Hillary. Hillary Initiative, drafting a four-point platform to explain their endorsement. Four-point platform? Oh, my gosh. I wonder what the first one could be. Protecting health care reform. Hillary Clinton, as part of her husband's administration, envisioned health care reform. In the 1990s, long before President Obama was able to sign it into law. The Affordable Health Care Act made health insurance affordable for the first. time ever to the 500 independent contractors employed
Starting point is 00:43:52 by Dennis Hawth. With any Republican nominee likely to work for its repeal, the bunnies want to protect the quality health coverage that they now enjoy. I bet they do. Hookers for Hillary, wait, there's it was a four point plan, right? That was the
Starting point is 00:44:10 first point. Number two. Foreign policy experience. Oh, yeah. A secretary of state, Hillary Clinton gained invaluable experience negotiating with foreign leaders. And the bunnies can definitely relate to negotiating through a language barrier. The Bunny Ranch entertains customers from all around the globe and the girls have a great respect for any woman who can take powerful men from oppressive cultures and make them
Starting point is 00:44:36 bend to her will. With her eye on the international landscape, the bunnies are confident that President Hillary Clinton would also avoid a repeat of the Secret Services, Columbia. prostitution scandal by making sure that her detail buys American. Yes, by making them bend to her will. We can understand that. But wait, wait, that was, we heard health care reform. We heard foreign policy, but there were four points.
Starting point is 00:45:13 What could number three be? Support for agencies that protect the public health. Nevada's mandatory testing of legal prostitutes for sexually transmitted diseases is a successful example of effective government regulation. While Republican candidates have questioned the need for agencies like health and human services and the Food and Drug Administration, the bunny's applaud Hillary's recognition of the fact that responsible government oversight is a key to protecting the public's health from widespread disease. The responsible government oversight. The hookers for Hillary killing me. Responsible government oversight.
Starting point is 00:45:59 Have you all seen that? Wait, that was the third point. We've had health care reform, a foreign policy experience. We've had support for agencies that protect the public's health. But there was a four-point plan that Hookers for Hillary had. Prevention of a return to supply-side economics. Bill Clinton presided over the most prosperous time in Bunny Ranch history, which coincided with the tax increase on the wealthiest Americans like brothel owner Dennis Hawth.
Starting point is 00:46:29 The bunnies recognized that thriving economics are built from the bottom up where the vast majority of their clients originate. A return to relying on the disproven theory of trickle-down economics would only serve to exclude the vast majority of hardworking bunny wrench clients from having the discretionary income to enjoy their favorite bunny. Well, there's the four-point plan from Hookers for Hillary. Hookers for Hillary. Is there more? For more information on our official endorsement, you can follow us at bunny wrench.com or follow Dennis on Twitter at at Dennis Hoff. Bye everyone and God bless America.
Starting point is 00:47:19 Bye everyone and God bless America. Best thing she said the whole thing. God bless America. Hookers for Hillary. So if you were, you know, if you're confused and you thought, boy, I don't know. I don't know if I can know to vote for Hillary or not. I hope that swayed you because it certainly swayed me. to knowing who I was going to vote for.
Starting point is 00:47:50 Hookers for Hillary. Yay. Now, if you say to yourself, who would want to become a hooker? Oh, horrible. Well, fortune has given us the worst jobs of 2015 and the best jobs of 2015. Now, I'm looking at the 10 worst jobs of 2015, and hooker is not one of them.
Starting point is 00:48:19 and the best of 2015 doesn't have Hooker either. So, got to be somewhere in the middle, right? The worst job of 2015, take a guess. Take a guess what's number one. And then I'll start, I'll count you down, gotten down from number 10. Mail carrier is the number 10 of the worst of 2015.
Starting point is 00:48:47 Firefighter. Really? Taxi driver. Corrections officer. The worst job of 2015, mail carrier, firefighter, taxi driver, corrections officer. Coming in at number six. Photo journalist.
Starting point is 00:49:07 Yeah. Horrible job. Number five. Broadcaster. Yeah. Yeah. That's a horrible gig. Actually.
Starting point is 00:49:21 Number four is a cook. Number three on the worst jobs of 2015. Enlisted military personnel. Yeah, that should tell you something. Number two, on the list of worst jobs of 2015, Lumberjack. And the number one, coming in at number one, on the worst jobs of 2015. Did you guess it? Newspaper reporter.
Starting point is 00:49:56 You did? Amazing. I didn't. I didn't guess newspaper reporter. Now the best. The best of 2015. What do you think is number one? Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:50:09 I'll let you think about it a little bit because it's, you know, I kind of, you kind of can guess a couple of them probably pretty easily. Number 10. We're counting down from number 10. the best of 2015 from Fortune. Computer Systems Analyst. That's what I would have guessed was closer to one. Occupational therapist. That's a pretty good gig in today's world.
Starting point is 00:50:40 Software engineer. There you go. Number eight, I would have guessed that number one, probably. Dental hygienist. Really? Dental hygienist? Number seven is the best job. in America?
Starting point is 00:50:54 Okay. Data scientist. All of this. Computer systems analyst, software engineer, data scientist, biomedical engineer. Statistician. Yeah, you need statisticians taking all the numbers that come in. That's probably true.
Starting point is 00:51:15 Mathematician, right up there with statistician, taking all the numbers that come in because we've got so much information being gathered that you've got to have someone kick it out. Number two, audiologist. That's what I do. I'm an audiologist. No, Jeff, you're a broadcaster. That's number five on the worst job.
Starting point is 00:51:31 Oh, okay. And coming in at number one. The number one job, according to Fortune. The best of 2015. Do you guess it? After you knew that computer system analyst, occupational therapist, forget that one. We'll just give you the ones that match up to number one.
Starting point is 00:51:54 Computer systems analyst number 10. Software engineer number eight. Data scientist number six. Biomedical engineer number five. Statistician, mathematician. Number one? Actuary. All numbers.
Starting point is 00:52:12 All numbers, baby. So according to fortune, those are the best and worst of 2015. Wow. The best gig for 2015 would be an actuary. someone who specializes in financial risk. Look around. We all know about financial risk. This is the Jeff Fisher Show.
Starting point is 00:52:40 On the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it. 888-90-33-33 is the phone number. Mike Opelka coming up right after this broadcast with Pure Opelka on the Blaze Radio Network. And then we do a little bit of Glenn Beck Rewind, let you know what happened during the radio broadcast. during the week. A little best-of sections there. Chris Salcedo live, Mike Slater, Joe Paggs, all live later today on the Blaze Radio Network.
Starting point is 00:53:27 And then no need to go anywhere else. My gosh, you've got the, you've got Sundays with David Barton, Bill Handel, Hollywood 360, Jackie D, Gun Talk, all on the Blaze Radio Network Sundays. And then we're back live on Monday with the Monday through Friday broadcast. Doc and Skip, Glenn Beck, Buck Sexton, Jay Severin, Pat and Stu. Why do you even go anywhere else? Don't let me catch you going anywhere else. I'll tell you that right now. Okay. Not one part of you should go anywhere else. Do you hear me?
Starting point is 00:54:03 You listening to me? Okay. What if is the question? What if? What if? What if? No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about what if everybody would.
Starting point is 00:54:20 jump. What would happen if everyone on Earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped and everyone landing on the ground at the same time? What if? This particular scenario has worked out and let's see what happens. At the start of the scenario, the entire Earth's population has been magically transported into one place. This crowd takes up the area the size of Rhode Island, but there's no reason to use the vague phrase an area the size of Rhode Island. This is our scenario. We can be specific. They're actually in Rhode Island.
Starting point is 00:55:04 Okay, so all the people have gone to Rhode Island, right? You with me? At the stroke of noon, everyone jumps. As we discussed elsewhere, it doesn't really affect the planet. Earth outweighs us by a factor of over $10 trillion. On average, we humans can vertically jump maybe half a meter on a good day. Even if the Earth were rigid and responded instantly, it would be pushed down by less than an atom's width. Next, everyone falls back to the ground.
Starting point is 00:55:42 Technically, this delivers a lot of energy into the Earth, but it's spread out over a large enough area that it doesn't do much more than leave footprints in a lot of gardens. slight pulse of pressure spreads through North America. Continental crust dissipates with little effect. The sound of all those feet hitting the ground creates a loud, drawn-out roar, which lasts many seconds. Eventually, the air grows quiet. Seconds pass. Everyone looks around. There's a lot of uncomfortable glances.
Starting point is 00:56:07 Someone coughs. A cell phone comes out of a pocket. Within seconds, the rest of the world's five billion phones follow. All of them, even those compatible with the Regents' towers, are displaying some version of no single. of no signal. The cell networks have all collapsed under the unprecedented load. Outside Rhode Island, abandoned machinery begins grinding to a halt. The TF Green Airport at Warwick, Rhode Island, handles a few thousand passengers a day. Assuming they got things organized, including sending out scouting missions to retrieve fuel, they can run at 500 percent capacity for years without
Starting point is 00:56:38 making a dent in the crowd. In addition, all the nearby airports doesn't change the equation and much. Nor does the region's light rail system. Crowds climb on board container ships in the deep water port of Providence, but stocking sufficient food and water for the long sea voyage proves a challenge. Rhode Island's half a million cars are commandeered. Moments later, I-95, I-195,
Starting point is 00:57:00 I-2-95, become the sights of largest traffic jam in the history of the planet. Most of the cars are engulfed by the crowds, but lucky few get out and begin wandering the abandoned road network. Some make it past New York or Boston before running out of fuel. Since the electricity is probably not on at this point. Rather than find a working gas pump, it's easier just to abandon the car and
Starting point is 00:57:19 steal a new one. Who can stop you? All the cops are in Rhode Island. The edge of the crowd spreads toward the end of the southern Massachusetts and Connecticut. Any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common and almost nobody knows the area. The state becomes a patchwork of chaos and coalescing and collapsing social hierarchies. Violence is common. Within weeks, Rhode Island is a graveyard of billions. The survivors spread out across the face of the world and struggle to build a new civilization atop the pristine ruins of the old. Our species staggers on, but our population has been
Starting point is 00:57:51 greatly reduced. Earth's orbit is completely unaffected. It spins along exactly as it did before our species all got together and jumped at the same time. But at least now, we know.
Starting point is 00:58:10 What if everyone got together? and jumped at the same time. So much more on the Blaze Radio Network just around the corner. And another reason. Another reason why you should love Lindsay Lohen. Yeah, I know. I know. You thought you couldn't love her anymore?
Starting point is 00:58:33 Well, you can't. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher Show returns on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to it. How in the world are you? 888-90-3-33 is the phone number. You don't have to answer that. I just, just a, you know, just a hypo.
Starting point is 00:59:17 Just a question. This is a statement more than anything. You know, like when you go through the checkout line. And the girl says, hi, how are you? She doesn't want to hear how you are. He doesn't want to hear how you are. What they want is for you to say, fine, thank you, and keep going. If you feel like telling them how you argue you to go right.
Starting point is 00:59:36 head but as you know in my my early years in the grocery business I didn't care less okay it's just a common courtesy how you doing and you're supposed to have the common courtesy of just saying fine thank you how are you or fine thank you and stop because you you never want to have that question at the end because you might get it back If the cashier says, Hi, how are you doing? And you say, fine, thank you. How are you?
Starting point is 01:00:12 Oh, I've had a rough day. And then go on to the story. You don't want to hear it either. So don't ask the question at the end. Just answer, fine, thank you. And then the transaction can take place and you're good. Just move on with everybody's lives. But don't ask that question at the end if you're not willing to get the answer.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Because it does happen from time to tell you. time. And at that point, you either have to listen and say, oh, yeah, boy, I could see that. Or you have to just kind of say, yeah, I know I said that, but I really don't care. And then that hurts everybody's feelings. And do you want to do that? Do you want to hurt everybody's feeling? No? Okay, good. I didn't think you did. All right, Lindsay Lowe, I got all kinds of stuff to get to that we're going to miss. We've, it's just the way it is. It's just the way the broadcast is.
Starting point is 01:01:13 There's just not enough time in this broadcast. Only two hours to give it to you. Okay? Sorry, there's not. So you're just going to get the best of what I think at the time. Like Lindsay Lohen. I love Lindsay Llewen. Always have.
Starting point is 01:01:28 I know, I know. Don't look. Don't look at me like that. I know. I got it. It doesn't change the fact that Lindsay, you and I should party. You know, when I was back partying. Not now, of course.
Starting point is 01:01:49 But, you know, a long time ago when I was partying, you and I should be partying. But Lindsay, come on, baby. I love you. But maybe you need to go back into rehab because you're starting to do things that are, you know, I know, I know everybody makes mistakes. I know, I know, baby. But your little Instagram post there where you thought that, you know, you know, You're beautiful in Arabic. And you want to try to get along with everybody.
Starting point is 01:02:18 Ha, ha. And we all want to love ISIS. We all want to love the Middle East. And we all want to get along. Ah, so you're beautiful in Arabic. But we need to make sure that that's actually what it says. Okay. And you could work for the State Department, in fact, doing what you just did.
Starting point is 01:02:33 Because your little Arabic sign meant you're a donkey. Hillary Clinton is not in the State Department anymore. although John What's his face? Kerry, horse face is in there and so you can still work for him. You keep posting like that.
Starting point is 01:02:53 You work for the State Department. Then you and I can talk, huh? Yeah, that'll be fun. Now let's move on to Charles Schumer. We all love Charles Schumer. Charles Chuck Schumer. In the Pat and Stu, Duce Hall of Fame, congratulations to Chuck.
Starting point is 01:03:06 We love you for that. He was on a flight. Cell phone. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. We all get along. It's a wonderful thing. It's the government, and I'm Senator Schumer. Don't you know who I am?
Starting point is 01:03:22 And he's on the phone. And the flight attendant says, you didn't turn those cell phones off. Passengers told him off. And he ignored the order. Kept talking. And the flight attendant said, uh, federal aviation administration rules.
Starting point is 01:03:41 Uh, let's go. And Schumer asked if he could finish the call. The attendant said, no, because the plane was waiting for him to finish so it could take off. All right. First, I want to stop for just a second on this. Claiming, now Schumer said the, said, hey, I can still continue my chat until the cabin door is closed. Which I've, you know, they're not waiting for him to take off if the cabin door is still open. So flight attendant, a little missy, uh, really.
Starting point is 01:04:12 This whole cell phone thing is really agonizing to me as well. So Chuck, kind of with you there, baby. Kind of with you there. However, those are the rules. So when they ask you to turn them off, turn him off. And if you really want to fool them, don't turn it off. Leave it on and see if they can tell because they can't. Okay?
Starting point is 01:04:37 It's just for your safety, according to them. because I was on a flight once where they said, we just got a message out there. There's four cell phones still left on in this flight. Make, turn them off, please. And I'm like, okay. And I look at the lady sitting next to me, and we both look at each other and just shake our heads.
Starting point is 01:05:00 And there's, you know, okay, you four, shut them off for sure. You're trying to fool us, but we know who you are. Yeah, I know you don't. But then Chuck turns to the flying mate, calls the flight attendant a bitch. Chuck, you know better. You know better. So he has apologized. And the senator was upset.
Starting point is 01:05:30 And she accepted the apology. The attendant accepted the apology. And off the cuff comment under his breath. And shouldn't have made it. He regrets. She has to apologize for it. You know better, Chuck. And you know that you wouldn't love very many people off the hook doing something like that.
Starting point is 01:05:50 But that tells you exactly who this guy is. Exactly who this guy is. Yeah. And then there's Arnold Schwarzenegger. I read the story and I thought, now there is the Arnold Schwarzenegger we love. I know. I get the whole Arnold Schwarzenegger thing. what kind of guy is he, and he's horrible, and he cheated on his wife, and he wasn't really a
Starting point is 01:06:18 Republican, he was a progressive, and he did all this bad stuff, I got it. But you know you used to like him, you know, you still kind of like him, you know, you watch the movies, and you think, man, that's when Arnold was good. And you love him, and then you try to remember, well, you know, I did used to like him, but look at him now. I mean, he just, you know, he's an adulterer, he cheated on. his wives, he had a kid, everything. I got it.
Starting point is 01:06:48 Okay. But when they asked him on the OPE with Jim Norton radio show, asked him if he wished he'd been born in Austria, he's born in Austria, and wanted to know if he was bummed, if they could change the laws so that he could become president, which he couldn't do because he was not born in this country. And Arnie said,
Starting point is 01:07:14 everything that I have accomplished in my career is because of America. Every single thing, my bodybuilding career, my movie career, my political career, my family, everything, the millions and millions of dollars that I have made in my life, and everything, all of those opportunities are because of America. So I'm not going to complain about the only job that I can't do. I think much more about the great things that I could do only in America. You could have a career like that.
Starting point is 01:07:54 He joked he came to America was nothing more than a sheister from Austria, but was able to go on to a legendary career. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, some would say that, Arnie, a number of the things that you did as part of the ruling class really at least you helped your help pushing that door closed to those of us that still want to succeed in America
Starting point is 01:08:24 the things in America that you were able to do you you know it's nice to say but you kind of think to yourself well do I want do I want other people to do it but what about the stuff that you
Starting point is 01:08:44 Made into law. Well, that's different. That's different. But anyway, that's why we love Arnold Schwarzenegger because of that. No question. Then I see a story about, I don't know the story in front of me because I couldn't find it real fast, but I just, these two stories go together and it drives me insane. Okay? We get one story talking about Wanda Sykes, the comedian.
Starting point is 01:09:06 Okay? Big story on the blaze. She talks about, she saw something that wasn't right in her hotel room and she saw something totally creepy. I don't want people to think I'm crazy. She's on Ellen. She's a comedian. She tells Ellen, hey, I saw a ghost. I know it was a black lady ghost, probably a slave ghost.
Starting point is 01:09:24 I'm pretty sure she was a slave because don't nobody want to wear stuff like that anymore, she said. And she didn't feel like the ghost would hurt her. She was surprised than anything else to see me inside such a nice hotel room. And she joked that I told the ghost, hey, things turned out pretty good. Yeah. And I know you're probably just blown away to see me, the black woman in this big hotel room. But then she said, hey, maybe why don't you go scare white people? That's what I would do if I were you.
Starting point is 01:10:01 Oh, that's so funny. It was so funny. I know. I'm not offended. It's a joke. I get it. I like it. It's funny.
Starting point is 01:10:09 However, turn it around. Would everybody be? Ha ha ha ha ha. It's a joke? No. No, they wouldn't. It'd be horrific. And I'm sick of it.
Starting point is 01:10:20 Sick of the double standard. And then you get the Adam Sandler story. He's making a spoof movie on Cowboy and Indians. Spoof movie. I don't have it in front of me, so I don't remember the stupid name of the movie. But he's making a spoof movie. And the Indians that he's cast in this movie, real life Indians, are pissed because of the stereotypes they're having to play. That is the point of the movie.
Starting point is 01:10:53 Dear Indians, if you remember back in the old cowboy and Indian days, Indians weren't cast to play Indians. We had Mexicans, we had Spanish people, we had black people. We had all kinds, we had Italian people playing Indians. And they were bad. So it was a spoof on how you should ask. act as an Indian in these old cowboy movies. So some of these Indians walked off because they didn't like what they were having to portray.
Starting point is 01:11:29 Oh my gosh. How pissed are they going to be now when the Italian guy is doing the spoof on what the Indians were played like? I can't take it. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show, the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network I will talk a little bit about it next Saturday but you got the Mayweather and Paco fight next Saturday oh my gosh
Starting point is 01:12:20 I was just reading stories on how much money it's making and fascinating these guys are just raking it in and it's going to be that's going to be interesting to watch it, the pay-per-view I don't know that I'm willing to spend the money on the pay-per-view.
Starting point is 01:12:38 But, you know, I don't know. Lindsay, if you're getting the pay-per-view, you need somebody to come by and watch it. Give me a call. I'm willing to do that. Or I wonder if you can, if anybody's going to periscope it. Oh. No, we can't do that.
Starting point is 01:12:56 That would be wrong. So a periscoper could periscope to fight and charge, say, 20 bucks ahead to. to follow them on whatever Periscope name there is. And then you could watch the fight for 20 bucks instead of, what is it, a hundred bucks to watch the fight. You could watch it for 20 on Periscope. Just a thought.
Starting point is 01:13:20 That's all I'm saying. Just a thought. For you people, I'm a thinker. All right? I'm trying to think a ways to help people out. Some may think, but Jeff, that's a crime. Yeah. Is it?
Starting point is 01:13:33 Is it? News about the FDA warns, makers of diet supplements are containing speed-like ingredients. What? Say it isn't so. A diet supplement with speed-like ingredients? Dear FDA, that's why people take them. Thank you. I am looking so forward to Bluebell Ice Cream coming back on the shelves.
Starting point is 01:13:59 Of course, they were entirely pulled. It was sad news here in Texas. I mean, they have like 52% of the, I didn't even get to the Bluebell Ice Cream story. We've got to talk about that next week, too, because we've got to find, I think I'm trying to make it so that, I don't want to say that out loud. Never mind. Just know that the Bluebell ice cream is something to look forward to on the Blaze Network. Okay, that's all I'm going to say. I don't want to say anymore.
Starting point is 01:14:30 I don't want people to know what's going on behind the scenes. We are turning it into. an ice cream factory. Oh, I told you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. And sad news in Beijing, as they crack down on exotic dancers brought in, brought in to the funerals to bring people into the funeral ceremonies. They bring in strippers, so more people will come to the funeral ceremonies. And Beijing is cracking down on that. Why? Why must I ask? You're going to go to a funeral. Can't we have strippers? That's all I'm asking. Just that
Starting point is 01:15:07 simple question. Anybody told you that you look good today? No? Well, you do. You look darn good. You look fantastic. Except you're not going to wear that all day. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network.

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