Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - More Potent, Less Addictive 4/30/16

Episode Date: April 30, 2016

Today on The Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy talks about the mass burning of ivory in Kenya and elephants geligible for retirement. Jeffy also makes makes your mouth water with a mondo pizza. Plus, Blaze.com's Faith Editor, Billy Hallowell, joins the show to talk about his new book Armageddon Code. 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 Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRA Like Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the Blaze Radio on demand. The founder of this company 10 years ago was trying to sell his house and went through real estate agent after real estate agent. And they were all talking a great game. And this guy who is selling his house, the founder of this company, he's kind of an important guy and should get the best treatment. And he said to his wife, if this is what it's like for us, how do people who have no clout ever go? get around this. So he started a company and it went into business, I think, three years ago. Their deal is, their word is their bond. And they are just like you. Now, how can I say that? Because I'm the founder of the company. We have a thousand agents across the country and they are

people that listen to the show. And so when you go through real estate agents I trust, it's sent to somebody who already, you already know their sensibilities. They already are cut from exactly the same cloth. There's got to be a better way. There is. Real estate agents, I trust.com. The experiment was a success. Begin life force reboot program. Now. Stand clear. Life signs stable. It's alive. Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. welcome. How are you? That good? Really? I'm glad someone is. Welcome to it. 888-903-3-93 is the phone number. You know, just, I know it's a surprise when I tell you that I just kind of lay out what I'm going to talk about on the show and I have kind of an idea of what we're going to talk about. And then I come in here and I sit down and I start seeing stories.

And new headlines and what's going on around the world and what's happening here, what's happening there. And it just, it almost feels like what I had in mind, it doesn't matter. It almost feels that way. I know to you, eh, eh, it's okay. For instance, I had this in my mind yesterday and I thought, eh, I'm not going to worry about it. But then today it just drives me insane. You know what day drives me crazy?

The take your kids to work day. That drives me insane. Why do we, I should have even looked up when that stupid day started. In fact, we're going to do that right now. Take your kids to work day. Because I see this story about NPR. and they've got a big bunch of kids there, take your kids to work day. And they've got take your sons, take your daughter.

And when did it start? Take your kids to work day. History. History. So NPR, the big story is NPR goes off the air. Right? They bring all these kids into their radio station, into NBR, into their network. and some kid pushes a button which takes them off the air half the country.

You know how many tours I've done at a radio station and let kids stand at the board? Which also drives me insane. The television reporter kept calling it a control panel. While it is a control panel, if you work in radio, which she obviously never has, it's called a board. It's the radio board. It's the control board. It's not the control panel. Let's just clear that up right now for you TV people.

You're going to a radio station. It's not a control panel. Okay. So you bring kids in. You let them stand behind the board. You let them see the lights and you let them slide the faders here and there. And go ahead and do that. Slide that fader up and that happens there.

And you tell them, it's real easy. Don't touch the buttons. And since you're right there, You pretty much could see them if they were to touch a button. So it just kills me that NPR would let something like that happen as a side note. Second, the take your kids to work day drives me insane. It was expanded in 2000. When did it take our sons and daughters to work day?

When did they want this stupid thing to start? because don't parents, if you're a parent, right, created in New York summer of 1992 in the 90s, that's special. And then they expanded it to, oh, take your daughter to work day. And then they expanded it. They couldn't have just that. They had to take your sons and daughters. So let's just take our kids to work day. All right.

as a parent when I was a kid. I went, didn't you ever go to work with your father and your mother? At least even when they were off, you'd go to their place of employment, where they worked, what they did. You knew what they did, right? I mean, I remember when my oldest son was a little baby. I was working for, I wasn't even working for a radio station. Oh, my gosh.

I was working for a grocery chain. I know. Surprise. But I remember having a meeting, and it was on, you know, on my so-called day off. And that's, you know, we're babysitters. I was watching my kid. I brought him the meeting. And I remember people at my work, though, I remember the one pharmacy lady.

She just took them from me. You know, nothing about taking care of a kid. Give them here. And she watched it the whole time I was there. for the meeting. But he always went to work with me. And then I went back into radio. Yes, he went to work with me. Amazing. My two youngest kids grew up in these stupid radio stations. I just find it difficult to believe that we have to have a specific day to take our kids to work. How about you talk to your kids and let them know what you do and what they could do with their life?

and guess what, I do this, but you could do more. Or this is how you do what we do. I just don't understand how difficult it could be to be with your children. I can't figure out why we have to have a specific day, and they make such a big deal about it. Now, it's a big thing, so I'm sure NPR, our national public broads, Broadcasting, radio, whatever the hell their name is, has to make a big deal out of it. And they had a bunch of kids there.

And you let the kid hit the button and take you off the air for more than a minute. Uh, no. Maybe the kid hits the button. And you go, uh, hey, Julie's kid. That button you just hit, hit it again. You just knock the West Coast off the air. Yeah, that's how easy it is, Julie's kid. Now back away from the board or the control panel as the TV reporter likes to call it.

I mean, I just, I really, it just drives me insane. Now, that's where my head is right now. I know there's a lot of stuff to talk about. I know. I know there's stuff all going on all over the world. It's big day. Big stuff happening. And we have a lot of stuff to talk about on this show too.

And you've got all day to listen to Blaze Radio. All day. We've got Michael Pelkin coming up after this broadcast. You've got Chris Salcedo, Mike Slater and Joe Pags this afternoon live. He'll cover everything for you. Right down to the nitty-gritty of this election. And I've got some, you know, we've got political stuff to talk about. Maybe.

But if you're a parent and you're a parent, and you're listening to me right now. You've got a little baby in your hand. You say, oh, such a cute little baby. I love you. And when they start getting a little bit bigger, show them what you do in life. Show them what puts food on the table for them.

Show them that, yeah, when daddy leaves the house, he leaves to go here. So that when I say, see you later, You're thinking about me during the day. I'm here. Or I do this. I drive all around.

I remember as a driving, delivering with my grandfather, worked for standard oil. And we deliver, we deliver heating oil to homes all over. I mean, that's what he did. I drove around with them. I would stay with them all summer. He used to do that part-time after he sold the farm. I mean, did I go with them?

Yes. I loved it. That's what you do. It wasn't. Today is take your kid to work day. Let's go. I'm going to be with all these other kids back there in the break room, eating donuts and pretending to see that this is actually where I work and what I do.

But today we're not doing anything because your kids are here. Let you see where I work, right? Okay. Now get out of here. Go back to your public school. And then we'll... We've got some other stories today that we're going to show you. that what happens when all your kids go to public school and realize that, my God, you're stupid.

But hey, happy Saturday on the Blaze Radio Network. Here we go. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The founder of this company 10 years ago was trying to sell his house and went through real estate agent after real estate agent, and they were all talking a great game. And this guy who was selling his house. house, the founder of this company, he's, you know, he's kind of an important guy and, you know, should get the best treatment. And he said to his wife, if this is what it's like for us, how do

people who have no clout ever get around this? So he started a company and it went into business, I think, three years ago. Their deal is, their word is their bond. And they are just like you. Now, how can I say that? Because I'm the founder of the company. We have a thousand agents across the country and they are people that listen to the show. And so when you go through real estate agents I trust, it's sent to somebody who already, you already know their sensibilities. They already are cut from exactly the same cloth. There's got to be a better way. There is. Real estate agents, I trust.com. The Jeff Fisher Show returns on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to it.

8889-0-033-93 is the phone number. And just as a side note, I looked and this is how exciting take your kid to workday is. I brought my daughter with me today. And she's in a chair behind me by about 10 feet. Sound to sleep. That's how good this show is for her. Sound to sleep. Oh, he's yapping again.

Okay. Good story. Makes you smile. Makes you think, yeah. For a while. A would-be burglar in the hospital after an 11-year-old boy shot him in the leg in Alabama. Now, he said he learned how to shoot from his stepfather. and he shot 12 shots at the burglar.

Hit him once. He would say maybe some training is still necessary. However, he got a shot in and dropped the burglar and got him, right? So, you know, it counts. And you're nervous and you're scared. And you're a little kid. He said that he came into the house and the guy was coming down the stairs with this hamper full of whatever's in the hamper.

and told me he was going to kill me and just walked right past the boy and apparently he thought that the gun was fake and then he started shooting. Now to hear the boy makes you smile and Chris Gathear had this to say about shooting the burglar. I told him I was going to kill him all that with a gun

if you can get out of my house. He continued. When he was coming downstairs and told me he's going to kill me and effie all that. Really? Okay. I shot through a hamper that he was carrying. It was a full metal jacket bullet. I went straight through a bag in him and was like, and he started crying like a little baby.

Is that it? When I pulled the gun out on him, I guess you didn't think it was a real gun because he didn't worry about it. He just kept on walking. Think about it. Yeah. I play zombies for target practice. Oh, isn't that nice?

I hope you learned a lesson for coming to his house trying to steal stuff. Now, the parents apparently claim that this is not the first time that this person or someone has robbed their home. And so good for him. Good for this kid. Now, pretty brave of this kid, actually, 11-year-old. I mean, I get that he's, you know, he's been target practicing

and he plays a, you know, shooting zombies on TV. And he's 11, so I'm sure his folks thinks it's okay for him to watch, you know, The Walking Dead, which, whatever, it's their kid. So he finally shoots him running away, right? The guy's out of the house, he's running away, he's jumping over the fence, finally gets him in the leg, drops him, and it's a good deal. Everybody's happy. He started crying like a little baby.

So good. So good. 11 year old. He's trying to cry like a little baby. And everybody's happy and it's a beautiful thing. Right? Right. Well, then in a related story, man sees a burglar running away from his home. Fired his rifle.

Shot him in the left arm. Now, the man who shot the burglar ended up getting 60 days in jail. Okay? Because the jury found the homeowner guilty of criminal recklessness. His sentence included four months of home detention following his imprisonment. The burglar pleaded guilty to burglary and was placed on three years of electronic home detention. Last week, the burglar filed a lawsuit against the homeowner, claiming that, hey, yeah, I plead guilty to a related burglary last year, but I hadn't entered the garage and never entered the defendant's garage for the purpose of stealing property.

The lawsuit requests a monetary award in an amount sufficient to compensate Bailey for all damages. Uh-huh. Now, what the lawsuit contends is that the burglar was in an alley behind this guy's home, and the guy came out of his home firing his weapon in the air in response to a security alarm that sounded in his garage. Then as the burglar, I'm sorry, the would-be burglar fled off his property, the homeowner continued to fire his weapon and shot him in the alley. One narrowly missed the burglars had the suit claims. And then one struck his arm piercing an artery, resulting in serious and permanent damage.

I'm torn, pled guilty. Yeah, yeah, I tried to rob them. I tried to rob them in the garage. But then really, no, I never did. and also I had not entered the garage, never entered the defendant's garage for the purpose of stealing property. I had not entered the garage and never entered the defendant's garage for the purpose of stealing property. So at one point I may have gone into his garage, but it wasn't to steal anything. I was just hanging out.

I said, oh, man, that's a nice garage. Let's just go in there and, you know, check it out. then I'll leave. Right. I wonder if he cried like a little baby too. What did he do, Chris? He started crying like a little baby. I shot him in the leg.

He was running away. And what happened, Chris? He started crying like a little baby. I bet he did. I bet he did. Thanks, Chris. What happened, Chris? I started crying like a little baby.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to it. 888-90-333 is the phone number. A lot more to get to today. Thank you so much for coming along for the ride. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA.

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I mean, they're good shows and all, but I don't care. I really don't care. So in the break, talking to the people who are the people who are. in New York because I'm out in our Mercury Studios in Dallas, Texas. Dallas is one of those cities where you really don't have to say Texas after it, do you? I mean, it sounds kind of cool. Dallas, Texas. But when you say Dallas, nobody thinks Texas or Illinois?

No, it's Texas. You know that. Oh, is that in Southeast Asia or is that in Texas? No, it's Dallas. I mean, you just say Dallas. So you pretty much know, right? I mean, the big cities in the United States, you don't necessarily need the state that they're in.

It just sounds cool to say it. Right. Okay. So anyway, I'm broadcasting in Dallas, Texas. And the studios that control what you hear are in New York, Manhattan. And I hear, hey, did you hear about the guy in Brooklyn that's making pizza? And then he makes a box out of pizza so you get a pizza in a pizza. Now, first of all, that is completely New York.

We got to go there. We got to order. We can just hop a couple of trains and be there. So I look at the picture, pizza box pizza. Pizza box made entirely of pizza, no waste. 100% pizza, 100% delicious. And it does look good. I will give you that.

It does look good. Vinny's Pizza in Brooklyn. Vinny's Brooklyn. It does look good. Now, I am, they serve it on a, the picture of it is sitting on a tray. So if you, if you're ordering it at Vinnie's, I'm going to eat it at Vinny's,

you don't really necessarily. need a box, right? Do you? So, I mean, it's just for fun. You've got a lot of coverage out of it. And if you're going to take it, you don't want to deliver it for sure. Ooh, thank you. Because then you need a box and a box.

And if you go and get it, it's still going to be tough to carry, right? I mean, you're going to need some kind of box to carry the box and the pizza. So it's more for show and get it at Vinny's. But it does look good. makes me want pizza. Anyway. Anyway. So I'm reading,

tonight, Saturday is a big day to day around the country. I mean, all kinds of stuff going on around the country. We've got, I think the White House correspondents dinner is tonight. That will be good.

Won't it? It sure will. I can't wait for the written jokes for our president to have. And it will be his last. last one, hopefully, and then it will be really funny. I hope, you know what they need to do is just, I hope, if and when Ted Cruz

becomes president, he just gets rid of this stupid thing altogether. And I say Ted Cruz, because you know Donald Trump is, if he becomes president, no way he gets rid of it. Hillary, no way she gets rid of it. the only one that could get rid of it and live with it is Ted Cruz. That's it. He's the only one. And he's the only one out of those three.

See where he was trying to, somebody was trying to be, ha, ha, ha, I'm going to get Ted Cruz. I'm going to get him. So he brought a communist manifesto book and wanted Ted Cruz to sign it at an appearance. And now if someone stuck a. Communist Manifesto book in front of you, what would you do? Would you say no? Would you hope that he just signed it and said, Oh, I got Ted Cruz to sign the Communist Manifesto.

However, Take said, he says, no, no, no, I'll sign it. I'll sign it. And he signs it, millions have suffered because of this, Ted Cruz. did you think Hillary and or Donald Trump would have signed that book that way? They probably would not have signed it, just made him get away, take it away. But no way do they sign it like that. So just saying he's the only one that could get rid of the communist correspondence dinner. Oh, did I call it a communist correspondent dinner?

Oh, I didn't mean that. So sorry. So sorry. So we got that going on. we've got the opera in Fort Worth. Where's the paper? I got it. I thought I brought the paper.

Hold on. At the opera in Fort Worth, Texas. Is that another city? I'm not supposed to say Texas after? JFK's last night. The Fort Worth Opera's Ambitious Commission sheds light on a little known side of the first family. Now the picture on the Fort Worth Weekly is of a, looks like a female body laying down. with the works.

She's holding a needle. Got a couple of empty bottles, a couple of empty medical bottles and a couple of other prescription bottles. Cigarettes, the Bible, pearls, and her rubber, a rubber vein popper.

JFK's last night. And it's an opera. And it opens up, it's already, it's going to open in Canada, after a while, and it's already opening up tonight in Fort Worth, and it's about their last night and Kennedy's last night. Now, I read what it's about it. It shows that President Kennedy was worse off than we thought as far as body pain

and was taking a lot of painkillers. From the article, it doesn't talk about him shooting up anything. an interesting picture they put on the cover of the Fort Worth Weekly. And it talked about there last night and how, you know, he did real well and how ominous it was. And it talks about morning to noon and then noon to the evening. And as much, I mean, I know, listen, I am selling going to see this opera. I know. It's like an ad for this thing.

And I actually do kind of want to see it just because, just because. and, you know, it leaves you with, you know, their last night and their last thing. So, you know, the last words are, you know, I'm sure you'll do great in Dallas, too, because he did a speech that morning in Fort Worth and then came to Dallas for the drive. And that's when he was assassinated. And, I mean, that's the old joke, right? I mean, I did the joke in my one stand-up, in my stand-up routine, in the one stand-up routine that I did, I used to do that joke.

about Fort Worth and Dallas and how you know Dallas and Fort Worth have always had this kind of love-hate relationship it is Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex and DFW and you know Fort Worth has always seemed like

the stepchild and and uh but that's you know their their big deal is is that you know President you know President Kennedy was shot in Dallas and Fort Worth is like hey he was

fine when he left here. So, I believe that's their motto. Hey, he was fine when he left here. Thank you. Be here all week. So one of the things you've got to look forward to in the future is YouTube is soon going to roll out six second ads that you can't skip. Yay!

It's a new option to help advertisers get their message to consumers. Now, first of all, this little five, six second ads is not new. Um, the great radio chain Clear Channel started doing this a long time ago. Okay, the quick five second bumps, man, and they are ads. Information. That's it. And Clear Channel started selling those a long time ago. So YouTube, you can pretend that this is a new deal for you, but it isn't.

I mean, it's video, so you'll add some video, but that's about it. Okay. Uh, good luck. And you can't skip through them. And they're still going to, so they're designed to be a better companion to the shorter video clips that millions of YouTube users are watching on smartphones. Oh, so we're still going to get the big ads on the bigger videos. Yay! Yay!

I noticed more and more websites are producing videos and putting ads on those videos. That you can't skip. And I would just like to say that I watch about maybe 40% of those. Maybe. I mean, if it's something I need to watch, I'll sit through the ad. And I, you know, I'm a commercial guy. Well, commercials pay the bills. I got it.

I understand it. It's just annoying. It's all. It's just annoying. I know it is. It's just annoying. You watch regular television now and you have to sit through commercials, agonizing.

And I love commercials. I love them. I mean, I don't mind deviaring shows and then fast forwarding through commercials and being able to just kind of see them. So if I see something that jumps out at me during the fast forward, I can stop and go back and look at that ad. I don't mind that. But to have to actually sit through them,

Oh, so tedious. I mean, I watch a lot of shows. I mean, first of all, I watch very little on live television now. And since I don't have the cable box to DVR the shows, I mean, I'm watching most of these shows on, you know, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon. So, you know, no commercials. Okay. No commercials.

Which I'm a huge fan of. but again, I'm okay with that. But I'm guessing that sooner or later YouTube is going to have to go to the, like the six-second ads, they're just breaking you in to not being able to skip through the ads. We'll break them in. We'll give them the six-second quick hits. We won't be able to fast-forward through them, and then they'll get to the video, and then sometime in about six months from now, all ads you will not be able to skip through.

and they'll just do a quick press release. All ads are now going to be on YouTube that you can't skip through. Press release done. And so you're going to hit play and that ad's going to start and you're going to think it's the six-second ad. And 30 to 60 seconds later, you're still into the commercial world. I will say, though, one of the things that will have, Help the websites with their commercials.

When they have commercials that you can't skip through, I will sit through them more. I find myself sitting through them more and watching them more when there's a countdown on the screen telling me how long before the video. But hey, what do I know? The Jeff Fisher Show On the Blaze Radio Network This is the Jeff Fisher Show

Welcome to it 88890-033-93 is the phone number So much more to get to today New details in Prince's death And I think you'll find that it really isn't Going to feel new It's just going to feel like Yeah

Of course What did you think? but we'll get to it. This is the Jeff Fisher Show Only on the Blaze Radio Network. It was a success. Begin Life Force reboot program. Now.

Stand clear signs stable. It's alive. Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher show on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to it. How in the world are you? I'm sorry, I was just looking at my smartphone to see what time it is in Nairobi.

It's 206 p.m. in Nairobi right now. And something to look forward to today is the big ivory burn in Nairobi, Kenria going on today. And it says the ceremonial burning in Nairobi National Park at noon will be a So it's either already happening, already burning, and it started burning a couple hours ago, or it's noon eastern. Because all the East Coast stations in New York are still running the story, which would make it, which I find hard to believe, because then it would be what, six hours from now, so 8 o'clock at night in Kenya? Well, that'd be kind of cool to see the burning.

at night in Kenya. So maybe that's when it is. So you can look forward to looking for that throughout the day today, sometime today, the big ivory burn. Tusks from more than 6,000 illegally killed elephants will be burned in Kenya today. And you see the photos and the videos of them stacking them up. It's fascinating to see them. It's millions of dollars. And it's millions of worth of of ivory. And I just says it's not worth anything to us. 105 tons of elephant ivory. 1.35 tons of rhino horn, exotic animal skins,

and other products such as sandalwood and medicinal bark. The destruction of illicit wildlife goods dwarfs anything similar that has been done before. Wow. Tusses from about 8,000 elephants, rhino horns, and the monkey skins. Going up and smoke, baby.

Up and smoke today. So look forward to the video. That'll be a fascinating video to watch if you're a, you know, if you're a pyro freak. I mean, I'm not. I'll be watching for, you know, because it's news.

It's not that I just love watching things burned. Wow. Okay. All right. Thanks for that. It'll be fun. It'll be fun to watch the ivory burn, no doubt about that. It may, you know, it might be even live on the Kenyan Facebook page. You never know. I know they're a little busy in Kenya. I mean, the president's going to be there to light the torch, but they've got the building that they're rescuing people underneath that just fell down. It rained a little bit. Oh, we'll build the building will fall. So there's any argument for government regulations.

That might be one. I know. I know. I'm not big on it. But it just might be, you know, maybe we need some regulations from the buildings. Because you don't see a lot of that, I don't know, here in the U.S. On the other hand, maybe the next time they build the building, it'll be a little bit better because no one really wants the building to fall. And in other elephant news, and other elephant news, Ringling Brothers,

and we've talked about it on this broadcast before, giving up their elephants, and today is the last day of the Ringling Brother in Barnum and Bailey Circus Elephants. They'll perform today, and that's it. They're done. and performing in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. I said today, tomorrow. Oh, my gosh. You can still see them today.

It's tomorrow. I apologize. The elephant tusk burn is today. The last day for the elephants for the Ringling Brother and Barnum and Bailey Circus is tomorrow. Sorry. Okay? Sorry.

Now, I guess they're going to, you know, you'll be able to see it live on their Facebook. page. Their last final show, so you can go there and check that out of the final show. I might actually do that. It might be worth a watch. And then off to Florida they go. Now, I find it interesting that Florida has drought conditions, has had drought conditions for years. And they are always crying poor for water. They're pushing for the desal plant to work and be cranking out more. But yeah, that's what we can't have that because of the environment.

We've got the desal plant cooking out the salt. And we've got their digging, building like crazy. And that's because the sinkholes and the water holes and things are dropping down. And we need water, water, water, drought, drought, drought. And yet, water-loving elements use 80 gallons of water a day, drinking and bathing. So they're bringing in more elephants to Central Florida that use 80 gallons of water a day. It would just seem, I don't know, a little strange. Crying for drought, nobody why don't want the elephants to die a thirst?

It just seems strange as all. But I guess really what's strange is that on that property that the elephants are on, if they could build hotels housing, you know, 8 billion people that use a heck of a lot more than 80 gallons of water a day, they would. So on the other hand, it's good that the elephants are there. But they're retiring. It's going to be strange without the Ringling Brother Martin Bailey without the elephants. I mean, the elephants is the iconic part of the circus, right? No, Jeff.

It's the clowns and the other. axe. Uh-huh. No, it is. It's the lions and the tigers. Uh-huh. When they stand up on the horses and ride around in circles, that's what they're there for. Uh-huh. When the elephants come out, it's really no big deal, although it's the biggest deal of the circus. That's correct. But it really isn't important, and it's more safe to have the elephants, you know, back at the farm in Florida, than touring and making money for this company. Oh, okay. Good luck to Ringling Brother and Barnum and Bailey Circus. without the elephants. Good luck. Now, quick on the Prince update. Of course, you knew it was

going to happen. They're all over the Prince story with his drug addiction and the opioids. And was there an special doctor involved? And did he have? Was he getting prescriptions? And was he going? Did he have illegal drugs or prescribed drugs? And he had an opioid. I am so sick and tired of it. hearing about the issue of opioid addiction. I cannot tell you. If you are in pain and you're taking opioids, yes, you are going to be addicted. There's a line.

Of course you're going to be addicted. It's stupid to think that your body isn't going to need it. Do I think that if you don't need it, you should have it? No. If you don't need it, you're not going to get it. I just don't know. We have medication that will help you not have pain. I get there's abuses.

There's abuses to everything. I got it. We have a medication that relieves the pain in the human body. Now, when you take that medication, your body will become addicted to it. But it will help you be out of pain. So we want you to be out of pain, but not really because your body might become addicted to it. So we don't want you to become addicted to it. you can't take the medications, it'll make you feel better.

Now, there's a new drug on the street. Speaking of that, what heck is it called? W-18. W-18, it's a new synthetic painkiller drug developed in Canada. Then the Chinese started making it, so it's making its way back into this hemisphere from China through Canada. It's supposed to be more potent than morphine, than morphine, than the other opioids is synthetic.

And it's not illegal because it hasn't been tested by anyone. So if it's in the states, the problem is that they're finding it here in the states cut with heroin and cocaine, which, of course, is illegal. But the W-18 is not. So if you could just get a hold of the W-18, you'd be okay, at least for a while. and it's supposed to be more potent, a bunch of thousands of times more potent than the morphine. I mean, it's really, it's really strange on how potent it's supposed to be. And they're saying that it's less addictive.

It was, you know, Canada, 84, then they didn't make it that's put on the shelf. And, you know, I'm sure they got scared. and so then the Chinese chemist found it, started developing it, and it's 10,000 times stronger than morphine, according to the story, whether that's true or not. I mean, don't know that. But they found two and a half pounds in Florida. I miss Florida.

Now see where he got into trouble with. They found this W-18 with this Florida guy, but he goes to prison because he was smuggling. fentanyl and probably other things. But what he went to prison for was was for smuggling fentanyl from China. So if you had just kept the W-18, it'd have been fine because it's not legal and it wouldn't have been smuggling. But now they're concerned because there's a new drug of W-18. So just beware, okay? Just beware. It's all I'm saying. Just beware. So a couple of million-dollar ideas came out this week. And I found it fascinating. One,

million dollar idea was from our very own Glenn Beck. He came up with an idea that I thought was great. And within that idea, he came up, he gave another prediction, which brought out another idea in my head that I thought, okay, I like that. That's another million dollar idea. His idea was the bathroom store, right? We're having such a big deal about the bathrooms.

And how about that, huh? I hope we have time to get to that because that whole bathroom thing is driving me crazy. But, you know, be sure, boycott whoever you want to boycott. Don't go wherever you want to go. Do business with who you want to do business with. Okay. Just know that who you're dealing with. That's all I ask. Important. Know who you're dealing with. And if you go into a place that allows anyone to use any bathroom and I'm at that establishment, I will be in the restroom with. my children, specifically my daughter, and I will be standing there identifying as a female in the female bathroom as my daughter uses the restroom.

And let's please question me on that, please. It's okay, because at the time that I'm in the bathroom with my daughter and she's going to the restroom, I'm identifying as a female at that time. So leave me alone, that having been said. Glenn's idea was a bathroom store. So the store itself is just a bathroom store where you use, you go in and you have private bathrooms and you pay to use the private bathrooms. A million dollar idea, right? A million dollar idea.

And that goes to Stu's plan of one bathroom, one person, one bathroom, his plan, which, you know, I don't disagree with it all. One person, one bathroom, you're fine. but the million dollar idea of the bathroom store I love. Now they do have the traveling bathrooms and not the porta-potties, but they actually do have a bend in where they bring in the, it's like a trailer that has really nice bathrooms.

They park the trailer, hook it up, and they, you know, it's a port-a-potty, all-inclusive trailer, but they're really nice. And I'm sure those only cost, $18 billion a day to wheel them in, but I have seen them. I've used them, and they're really nice. So those are available as well to use for events. Within his little talk of bathroom store inside malls, his idea was that malls will be dead

in 10 years, no more malls, because people are buying things online or separate stores or what have you. But that brought out an interesting idea. Where we talked last week about ESPN broadcasting drone racing, right? And how they were going to have the big events here in the U.S. and they were going to be broadcasting it, the drone races. What else could you use the malls for? What else could you use the malls for?

Oh, I know. Dron racing. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show, The Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it. 88890333 is the phone number. Billy Hollowell coming up after the bottom of the hour break

and to talk about his new book coming out. Armageddon. What is the title of his new book? Since, you know, I didn't get a copy. Hey, Jeff, can you talk, you know, maybe we can talk about my new book on your show? Sure, Billy, no problem. Just let me know when it's coming out.

It'll be out on May 3rd, so I'd really like to talk about it a little while. Okay, no problem. I don't know. I don't know how many books Billy has written. We'll ask them. But I know most authors, I don't know, they send a book out to the people that want to talk to them about their books. So you could read it and say, hey, Billy, I just got done reading your book, Armageddon Code. I'd like to ask you a few questions.

But no, that's not the way it is. How we're going to do it is we're going to say, hey, Billy, I didn't read the book since I didn't get a copy. Tell us about your book. And the only reason I'm going to give him a hard time is because he's Billy Hollowell. I like him. I miss seeing him. I used to see him every day when I was working at Manhattan and I don't see him anymore. When I was working in Manhattan at the studios, Mercury Studios in Manhattan, I'd get there early and you'd hang out.

And Billy was one of the first ones always there. So, you know, we got a chance to see each other early in the morning almost every day. It was, you know, at least three or four times a week. So it was good to see him. It's a good guy. And so, you know, it would be interested. It would be nice to talk to him again. Where are we at?

You know, we talked a little bit about the bathrooms. And I'm seriously, I'm not kidding about going into the bathroom with my daughter. Because she's old enough now. I was just thinking about this not long ago before all this gender equality happened. And, you know, I said, okay, well, she gets old enough. She gets going to the girls' bathroom. I'll wait right here. I wait right outside the door.

And I hear her always yapping with other women in there. And ha, ha, ha, ha. And is that your daughter? She's so cute. Yeah. And so, you know, if anything happened, I'll be right there. But I'm telling you, if we're at a place that there's no telling what could go in and out of those bathrooms, I am definitely no questions.

asked to me, I am definitely a female at that time. And going in with no quid. You can go into style. I'll be right out here. But I am identifying as a female right now. And we're supposed to be all-inclusive. And then there's the story of the group that black women and non-gender conforming people were all got together.

We're supposed to be getting together. But they couldn't get together because it was protested because it wasn't all black women. I mean, we're supposed to be all-inclusive and yet not inclusive at all. We're supposed to empower but marginalize. I mean, it's absolutely... Oh, my gosh. It's close to Armageddon. The name of Billy Hollowell's book, The Armageddon Code.

It's right on target. The Jeff Fisher Show, a blaze radio network. is the Jeff Fisher Show. That it is. 888-90-303-33 is the phone number. Pure Opelka. Mike O'Pelke coming up immediately following this broadcast. Not sure what Mike is giving away today. Could be just the Opelka paper clips.

Not sure. I didn't hear anything in the break room this week, so I'm just guessing it could be the Opelca paper clips. But you can listen in and see what he's giving away. And then a little bit of Jay Severin Rewind. And then Chris Salsato, Mike Slater, Joe Paggs, all live on the Blaze Radio Network. That is your Saturday. No need to go anywhere else than right here on the Blaze Radio Network. William Harris Hollowell the third. You know him as Billy

Hollowell. Hi, Billy. There's a couple of things here. I cannot get over the idea of what a Michael Pelka paperclip would look like. So I have to start there. I mean, it's just possible that he's giving it away. I don't know that. I'm just guessing. Oh, I love it. I love that you went with my full name. That's great. You're welcome. You're welcome. No problem. I wait with your full name, Billy, because I'm a little ticked. You have an IMDB page and I don't. Okay? So I'm just saying that I'm angry at you right off the bat for having that IMDB page. But on that it says your full name, born William Harris,

Hallowell, the Third. And that's a strong name, powerful name. I love it. It's kind of a crazy name. But, yeah, it's good. It's good stuff. Is that the name you used on the Armageddon Code? No, no. I use Billy Hollowell. All right. So the new book, Armageddon Code.

End of times, the world is over. Do you predict a day when we're all dead in the book? No, I don't. And I think this is one of those topics, right, you know, Armageddon, the end times, that people kind of, like, they either become completely obsessed with it or they kind of laugh it off. And so it's a tough topic to kind of write on. But this book, The Armageddon Code, it basically goes through about 20 experts who have spent their lives studying this issue, looking at the Bible, and it allows them to tell us what they think. And, of course, none of them agree with one another on almost anything.

So the book sort of documents, here's the battle. Here's what these people believe is going to happen at the end of days. And so it really, it's kind of a crazy eye-opening experience writing the book, and I think I'm hoping people will feel the same after they read it. When you got done talking to your experts, and you said most of them don't agree with what they believe, you know, they have different outcomes. What's the running theme that they all believe? Yeah, I think that that's the really interesting thing here, right? And all of these people obviously believe that, you know, they look back to the Old Testament, and they believe that there's a lot in there about Jesus, you know, prophesying Jesus coming.

But what they all believe is that there's a lot of mystery here. Now, some of them are a little bit more dogmatic. Like, they will map out exactly timelines, not when they think, you know, in terms of a date it will happen, but they will map out certain events in sort of an order of events. But the one thing a lot of them agreed on was that there's mystery and that some of this is intentionally mysterious. And it is really fascinating. If you go back to the Old Testament and you look at all the different tidbits and pieces throughout the Old Testament talking about this Messiah who will come, you know, Jesus satisfies all of those things, but they're all over the place and they're kind of mixed together.

And these experts view the end times in the same way that there are a lot of pieces that are mixed together throughout the Old and the New Testament talking about the end. But they also, a lot of them, and not all of them, because some don't believe. there actually is a group of people who believe that Jesus sort of already returned, and that happened in AD 70, that he, you know, with his death and the destruction of Rome. So they don't all agree on that, but a lot of them see the end times approaching, whether or not they think we're there yet. They feel like we're marching towards that. And you?

And me. Well, that's, you know, this is, a lot of people have asked me this, and I don't give, I don't tell people what to think in this, in this book. But the thing that I find, No, you have to tell me what to think, Billy. You want me to guide you. I have to tell you. Israel is such a strange dynamic, right?

Like modern day Israel. I feel like if you look at Ezekiel, the book of Ezekiel, which is written like 2,500 years ago, Israel is talked about in the book of Ezekiel, this notion of people, you know, being dispersed and then gathered back together in Israel. And it talks, and this is the part that kind of blows my mind, right? So if I were an atheist, I would look at this. and I would say, huh, this is at least odd. You may not believe in God.

You may not believe the Bible, but this is odd. It actually lists out this coalition of nations who will go against Israel once Israel comes back together. And as we know, Israel was a nation again in 1948. But the first nation in this coalition is Persia, right? And as we know, Persia is Iran. And so to me, how strange is it that somebody wrote a book 2,500 years ago, talking about Israel coming back together that happened in 1940. and then talking about one of its main enemies being Persia.

It's just that's almost an impossibility for somebody to predict out. Now, a lot of the experts I interviewed don't believe, they don't believe that that's a prophecy that will be fulfilled. I think it already happened. But it leaves me at least scratching my head. Right. Is it prophecy, or are we just willing it to happen because it's written down? Yeah, and that's a great question.

A lot of people will say that, right? But think, I guess, and this is where you get into very bizarre territory, but what sort of led to Israel coming back? And you think about the Holocaust and all these horrific things that sort of have happened to Jewish people over time. And you look at what's happening now with the Islamic State. People are sort of flooding back to Israel. And that was something that a lot of these experts were talking about. But yeah, I think that's an important question too. And looking at all of this, which parts are vague in the Bible?

And a lot of it's vague, you know, wars, rumors of wars, all these things that will happen in the end. I mean, Matthew 24, you know, Jesus talks about a lot of these things. Well, you know, we've always kind of had wars and rumors of wars. I do think that people are feeling that something is off right now, though, and that there's sort of this – think about the culture. I mean, everything seems to just be detaching a little bit. Now, that doesn't mean that the end times are here, but I do think for a lot of these experts, they believe we're marching towards that. Well, I mean, yes, we hear that all the time, right?

I mean, we feel that. You know, something just isn't right. Right, exactly. It seems like the earth is spinning so fast. I'm going to fly right off. It's wrong. What's wrong with the world? Now, we've felt that way for many, many years, for a long time.

Right. Are there, is it because we have more people on earth that it seems like we have more people believing that it's closer to the end of times? I don't know that. I'm just speculating. Yeah, I know. I think these are all, look, this is a, it's a tough topic, right? And that's why when you go to 20 different experts, and some of them agree with one

another, but a lot of them have very different views. And you can get into the very specifics of this, this notion of an antichrist rising eventually. A lot of them believed that. Some did not. They believed that that was something that happened in the past or that it was meant to be something that should not be taken literally. right? And all of this, all of this requires looking back at a lot of different parts of the Bible and piecing them together. And that's a complicated thing to do. So you could, 10 different people can look at that and come away. But the point of the Armageddon Code is to really get people thinking about these things. It's not, you know, you kind of want to walk away and say, this is what people believe and I have a better understanding of it now. And then you could start to think about, okay, well, what do I believe? And how can I solidify that? And I think, even if you're an atheist and you read this book, it will give you a good idea of why people believe what they believe,

because all of this impacts how you view Israel, how you view current events, how you view almost everything. It would feel like to me that if you're an atheist, you would almost want to, I don't know, hedge your bet and figure, you know, because if it's not real, you're good, right? If there is no heaven, there is no God, you're good. Yeah, I knew it all along. But if there is, I don't know if there is.

you want to hedge your bed a little I'm going to say you know what I did believe I did believe I did believe really I did In my heart somewhere I did I did I did I know I did One of the things that just strikes me How much did you know much about the rapture This notion that Christians before the end of times

You know where when it all starts to ramp up Christians sort of disappear This is a theory that Pre-Millennialists have That's a group of Christians You sort of look at this stuff and they say yeah, well, we believe that the Bible sort of says that Christians will basically, Jesus comes back, meets the Christians in the air, they're gone,

and that's how you have the whole left behind series and books and movies. And then the world goes through the seven-year tribulation period, this awful period of time. Horrible. And then it comes back to beautiful flowers growing everywhere all over the earth, and it's a wonderful thing. Now, I mean, the rapture is probably, the most controversial piece of all of this. And we were actually able for the book to go out

and ask pastors, about a thousand pastors, what do you believe about the end times? And, you know, we asked them three questions. We asked about the Antichrist. Do they believe it will be a literal person? We asked about the rapture. And we also asked about this millennium kingdom. If you go to Revelation, there's this mention of a thousand-year reign of Jesus on Earth in the future. Is that literal? Is it not literal? What does that mean? And it was really, really fascinating. Like on the rapture, about 36% of pastors believe that it would happen. The Christians would be taken up before the rest of the end times events. But there was a lot of debate.

There was way more debate on all of those issues among pastors than you would have thought there would have been. That is fascinating. Now, okay, so the Armageddon Code, it comes out May 3rd. Is that right? Yes. Yep, on Tuesday, it's coming out. So are you on a worldwide tour, book signing? starting a Tuesday?

It's interesting. Yeah, we're kind of starting up a lot of radio, a lot of interviews, and we're going to kind of take it from there and see where the interest is. This is a different kind of book because I think when people go out and buy and buy these books,

they're looking for somebody to tell them exactly what's going to happen. You know, this is... I would have liked to have actually read it before I talked to you, but I didn't get a copy. So, you know, it's okay. Don't worry about it.

It's all right. I'm sorry, Billy. I didn't mean to cut you off. Go ahead. Listen, you know how it is. You'll probably end up getting a copy on money. It always happens right after you've got to do the interview.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, Bill, I don't need a pity book. I don't need a pity book. I was just saying, I don't have it here. I'm going to make sure you get a copy. I'm going to make sure you get a copy. But I think it's going to, this is not, I'm not a theologian, so I'm not going out there and saying, this is what's going to have it.

But it's going to, I think it will, in my conclusion, I kind of put my thoughts together on what I thought, what struck me the most. And it was just a really cool experience to be able to ask people to use questions. and, you know, unpack a topic that I think really either terrifies people, they laugh at, they don't want to deal with, or, you know, they're confused by. So have you signed a movie deal yet? I have not, but, you know, you mentioned my IMDB page. I actually was a raptured passenger on an airplane in the last Left Behind movie.

I was actually really, yeah. I kind of had a starring role with no one. Yeah, that's why it says uncredited, but it was almost starring. I almost said something, almost. The camera, you can see the back of my head in first class. So there's no movie deal, but let me ask you a question. When you asked all these, and this is just a side note of me thinking out loud, when you asked, when you went around and talked to all these pastors,

did you film them so that you could put together something in the end to make a, you know, bigger picture? Yeah, it's funny. You asked that. We have not done that yet, but that's been a discussion of, of doing a documentary on this because I think, again, you know, the last thing, the last thing you want on these topics is to, and one thing I didn't mention, by the way, which is just a side note is, I don't know if you remember Harold Camping, but the guy who told everybody the end was coming.

He said the end was coming more than once. It didn't happen in May, so he moved the dates October. That didn't happen again. You know, there's a whole chapter in this book, though, about why that is something you're never supposed to do, right? And the Bible says that we don't know that nobody knows the day in the hour. You're not supposed to be doing that. But the danger of that.

And a lot of these experts, all of them had all agreed on that. That was the number one thing they agreed on. Of course they would. I mean, yeah. I mean, and really that makes all, what it does is it, I mean, it sets, first of all, it makes you look bad, right? And your followers or flock or whatever you want to call them look bad. And it also makes the real story a joke.

So why do it? Right. Which is exactly why people don't want to talk about this topic, I think. One of the reasons why it becomes, like you said, it's sort of like a joke. And in the case of Harold Camping, I mean, you had people who sold all their belongings, who got rid of their homes, who gave all their money thinking this is going to happen. And that's a sad thing. But yes, to your broader question, we are hoping to possibly do a documentary on this.

Because I think it's something people care about, even if they don't believe their interest that they want to know. Absolutely. to know. This is why we're obsessed with zombie apocalypses in entertainment. Well, I mean, it could happen, Billy. I mean... You know, it could. And I'm sure Michael Powell could happen.

It could happen. It's very possible. And I know, you know, I know you probably want to promote your little podcast thing you've got going on, whatever that is. What is that again? Oh, yeah. Well, that's the church boys. That's basically making no sense for almost an hour once a week.

And a bunch of interviews. throughout. It seems to be doing okay. So, you know, I mean, I know you're just throwing it together, but it seems to be doing okay. So Armageddon Code, oh, yeah, okay, I'm up against the clock. They're hollering at me in my ear. Thank you. William Hollowell. I appreciate it very much.

Thank you. I appreciate you. The third. The third. Yes. Thanks, Billy. I'll see you later. Thanks a lot. All right. The Armageddon Code. Get it on Tuesday. This is the Jeff Fisher show on the police radio network. All right, so why in God's name,

has this not been breaking news today? In Boston, starting Monday, Duncan Donuts is going to be delivering. This is a testing area for delivery service of Dunkin' Donuts. We should be testing that in Dallas, Texas. Please, please. Dunkin' Donas delivering. Oh, yeah.

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