Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Simple Joy To Thrill & Pamper 2/6/16

Episode Date: February 6, 2016

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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. And guess where Jeffie is today? not here. Actually, I'll tell you where he is here in just a second or two. It's Brad Staggs in for Jeffie, upholding the high standards of the Jeff Fisher radio program here on the Blaze Radio Network for Saturday.

Good grief. It's already February 6th. Where does time go? It goes by so quickly. I was, I don't know about you. I'm sick of politics. I have been. It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.

The other day when Trump decided he was not going to take part in the latest debate, Glenn walked in the back door and said, here at the studio, he said, so what do you think of Trump dropping out? Do you think he's going to hurt him? I said, no. I don't think he's going to hurt him at all. And, of course, it may or may not have with his loss in, in Iowa, but the thing that gets me the most,

and with Glenn and Pat and Stu and Jeffie, talking about Trump in the way that they have, the one thing I've tried to get across to them is that I think Donald Trump has the same, people like him for the same reasons that they like Glenn and the guys. Neither of them have filters. talking about Glenn and Trump. They both speak unfiltered.

They speak what's on their mind. They say it unapologetic. And they go for it. And I think that's fascinating. That as much as Glenn and the guys cannot stand Donald Trump, I think there's some irony in the fact that they are both popular for some of the same reasons. Not necessarily politically, but from an emotional standpoint, which is, I think, where everybody's coming from on the Trump.

Trump front. But that's as far as I really have gotten into politics. I've successfully avoided watching any of the debates, albeit for the highlights of the debates. They're fascinating in some sense. But to me, until it comes down to the final two or three, it's a giant waste of time. they all say the same thing, you know, give or take. None of them follow through on anything they're going to say or on anything that they're going to do. And after a while, it just becomes such a mishmash of quotes and of, you know, mud slinging and everything else.

It just, it gets very, very old. Even Barbara Bush, who, if you remember, she did not want Jeb to get into the race. said we've even even Barbara Bush was saying we've had enough of we've had enough Bushes in the office her quote I thought was great she says I don't think of Trump much at all and of course I'm I'm behind Jeb a hundred percent my my whole theory on Trump is he doesn't he doesn't really want the job he just wants to win so I'm not sure if he did win the nomination and or the presidential race if you'd really know a what to do with it or B if he would actually accept it which is actually kind of good news

for Cruz, who, by the way, is in the pocket of Goldman Sachs if you listen to Ron Paul. It's a good thing. There's other stuff to watch on television. All right. Where is Jeffie, by the way? And this is a first for the Blaze. The 2016 Super Bowl breakfast is going to air on the Blaze at noon Eastern, 11th Central, tomorrow morning. Right here on the Blaze.

It's before the Super Bowl coverage begins. Before the entire universe. Meets on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. Actually, it's in California. Glenn, Pat, Stu, and Jeffie, they're all attending the breakfast. At the breakfast, the Bart Star Award will be awarded to this year's player, voted on by other NFL players. I don't know if I should tell you this or not. Glenn said, who's Bart Star?

Oh, gosh. As having outstanding character, integrity, and leadership, you'll see a great lineup of speakers, including Tony Dungey, Roger Stobach. It was Roger Stobach, he didn't know who it was. Mike Ditka and recent edition, Steve Young. We'd like to thank the exclusive sponsor of the program, Retirement HQ. It's powered by Advisors Excel.

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Our big 2016 Super Bowl breakfast is pretty cool. It's going to be a very interesting, very interesting event. So I hope that you will be able to watch that. What's big on the Blaze right now? And this really, this was something I thought was quite fascinating. The Oscar bags, and what's in, have you seen this? What's, what's all the attendees at the Oscars are getting? You know, every year, whether or not you win, if you go to the Oscars, if you were nominated for an Oscar,

you are given a giant goodie bag. And they've always been, you know, full of interesting, shall we say it, goodies, for lack of a better word. This year is no different. And as a matter of fact, this year, the bags are worth, wait for it, $200,000. Who says you're not a winner if you just get nominated? All right, so the bags this year, this is just absolutely amazing. $200,000, $200,000. The bag is aimed to be a blend of fabulous, fun, and functional items meant to thrill and pamper those who may have everything money can buy, but still savor the simple joy of a gift.

Boy, there's a line for you. Included in the bag this year, a $55,000 chip to Israel. that'd be fun. A $54,000 trip to Japan. A one-year supply of Audi A4 rentals worth $45,000 and a $6,300 donation of pet food to an animal shelter. That's pretty cool. That's a good one right there.

The bag also was said to contain items of a more risque nature, such as a $250, wearable sex toy designed to provide Hollywood couples of more pleasurable sexual experience. It's a female vibrator described as a device that

not only provided stimulating vibes, but also gentle suction. And there you have it. Another unusual item inside the Oscar bag this year. A vampire breast lift. I don't know if this is for vampires or if it's valued at $1900 according to the vampire breast lift website.

The procedure uses your own blood to rejuvenate the breasts. I'm assuming this is for the women and not for the men, although there are some men out there, I guess who could use it. The result of this vampire breastlift is a younger appearing skin, an increased volume of fatty tithel. issue. That's what it all promised. The 88th Annual Academy Awards will take place this year on February, February 28th. That's just, wow. Who knew that so much fun could be stuffed into a $200,000 bag? Unbelievable. Unbelievable. So one of the highlights of the past, well, I guess the past three weeks, for me has been the X-Files. And I don't know if you've been watching the X-Files or not,

but they've rebooted, essentially, they've rebooted the series. It started back in, what, 93? And if you ask me, the X-Files has not missed a beat. I think they were absolutely brilliant in everything that they've done, right down to the fact that they... brought back the original open, even the original open with the original pictures of the Duccovney and Jillian Anderson and Mitch Pellegey or Pellegey, or however you say his name, Skinner, Walter Skinner. I just thought that was genius because it tells you you're going to get exactly, you know, what you were used to back in its heyday. And the really good news is that the ratings for the rebooted X-Files,

have been stellar. I guess they've been just as good as the show was during its heyday, which is pretty cool. And I think you actually will see the show come back with more than just six episodes. You know, this is a, they're half done now. They've done the first three of the six episodes special event, as they call it. I think this was just them dipping their toe in the water to see if people would watch. And in fact, people are watching.

watching if you combine it not only with the day of air but also the people who record it you know it all boils down to money of course as does everything but I think you'll see that this this will return in some form Decovney has said he does not of course want who to go back to a 20 20 episode season that would be pretty grueling I think that's part of the problem with with episodic television is that they just beat you to death with it. And especially as an actor, yeah, I know they make a lot of money. But still to do 20, 21 episodes a season, that's not only hard work, but if you think about

just the writers having to come up with the different plot lines, I mean, eventually you just start pulling things out of your rear end because you've got to come up with 21 episodes, whereas things on cable, the Red Road, perfect example. I mean, they only do, what, eight, ten episodes a season, and therefore the stories are just, I mean, they are right on it. And I think that's going to be the key with the X-Files. So far, they've captured not only the overarching theme of the show, which was UFOs in the government conspiracy, and they've updated it brilliantly. Joel McHale in the first episode was just, he was great. The connection to Glenn, I thought was fascinating.

And if you haven't seen this yet, if you watched the first episode, it was called My Struggle. The Tad O'Malley Show was the character played by Joel McHale. And if you, I think it was called The Truth Squad, was the name of his show in The X-Files. And if you look at his logo and then you compare it with Glenn's older logo, I think you will see the comparison. And I think you will see the, I think you'll see the tie-in. I think he was based quite a bit, quite a bit on Glenn.

There were some Easter eggs in the latest episode of the X-Files, the Ware Monster episode. And this, I have to tell you, Darren Morgan, who wrote and directed this episode, which was on last Monday, I love Darren Morgan. he is he's responsible

for some of the best X-Files episodes of the original series and he wrote and directed this one and some of the things that they snuck in why they didn't even really sneak them into the episode but the the things that they put into

the episode that were from the original series for example the two paint huffing stoners at the very beginning of the teaser scene they had appeared in two of the previous X-Files episodes from season three, the War of the Cop Professors Zibis, which I never can say, but it's the one about the cockroaches with Bambi, she was in it,

and Quagmire. Do you ever think life is so amazing, one of them asks, that maybe we shouldn't waste it by getting high all the time? They haven't changed at all. Mulder and pencils They brought that back He's throwing them at the ceiling But this time he's throwing them at the poster

On the wall that says I want to believe I thought this one was clever too They worked in how he dies Or how Mulder dies But if you think back to the episode of Clyde Buckman's final repose He said that the agent's life Would end as a result of autoerotic asphyxiation

and that's well it's kind of what they alluded to in this episode and then Scully if you again if you really follow it closely enough Scully because of the alien DNA

she's theoretically immortal which she of course says in this episode all I'm saying is you've really got it oh there's a couple more I'll get to those in just a minute but if you were waiting

to watch the X-Files, don't wait any longer. Go to Hulu or the Fox website and watch these. I mean, they have done a first-rate job of really bringing back the essence of the show. A couple more of them. I will bring to you here in just a second. It's about 20 past the hour. This is the Jeff Fisher radio program. I am Brad Stags filling in for Jeffie this morning on the Blaze Radio Network.

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

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That's 1-800-6-8-6-39-10. Again, 1-800-6-6-6-36-39. 9-10. Call now. The Jeff Fisher Show returns on the Blaze Radio Network. Yeah, and Jeff, he's not here this week. He is out in San Francisco. I'll tell you more about that. And the 2016 Super Bowl breakfast coming up, we've been talking about the X-Files. I'm Brad Staggs, a huge X-Files fan filling Jeffie's shoes today and his chair,

which doesn't seem to work very well. Got to get him a new one. So the X-Files, you know, it's midway. through their six episode quote unquote event, which I think is going to turn into the series returning if you're as excited about it as I am and I am true X-Files, diehard fan. We were talking about the Easter eggs that they spread through the episode, Easter eggs being those little things that kind of inside jokes that the writers put into into the script. He's in this latest episode, The Wear Monster.

at one point the motel owner's peeping into his and if you haven't seen the episode yet by the way I'm not going to spoil anything for you but these are things you will see Moller in his red speedo that takes us all the way back to the Dwayne Berry episode from was it season two you know I'm starting to sell like a Star Trek geek remember when they beamed down to the planet

in the fourth episode of the second season and they had the monster and they look it's okay the episodes or the X-Files truly worth it. The graveyard scene, when the Mulder and Guy Man walk up, they stand by two headstones. One of them is Kim Manor's on the headstone. Kim Manners was an absolutely fabulous director.

I think he died back in 2009. He directed more X-Files episodes than any other, 52 in total. And one of his favorite phrases was, let's kick it in the ass. So that was the epitaph on the headstone there in this episode. But right next to him, there was another name I wasn't even familiar with. Jack Hardy was the other name on the tombstone. And that apparently was an assistant director for Chris Carter on both Millennium and the lone gunman. and the second X-Files movie,

which should be burned and buried, called I Wanna Believe. And also on the, I guess on one of the Blu-rays. But everybody loved Jack Hardy, apparently. He was a really, really nice guy, really good member of the crew.

And then finally, Dagu, the dog, that the, well, the Ware Monster actually was a lizard who turns into a guy, as opposed to a guy who turns into, to a lizard, but Daegu was this little dog that he gets and picks him up from the pound.

And this goes all the way back to all of the Moby Dick references that Darren Morgan, again, the writer of this episode, I think is absolutely brilliant. Daegu was one of the harpooners on Captain Ahab's ship. But lots of incredible Easter eggs. And if you're an X-Files fan, don't wait any longer. watch this episode. It's available online and keep our fingers crossed.

The X-5 will come back as a series. More coming up in just a second. This is the Jeff Fisher Radio Show. The Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. And it's Brad Staggs in for Jeffie this morning.

He's out in San Francisco for the 20th 16 Super Bowl breakfast that will air tomorrow at noon eastern, 11 central on The Blaze. And by the way, if you missed it, another programming note, the Thursday night episode on the Blaze of the Nazareen Fund update. It is now available for download on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. It'll also be the must-see update on the Christian refugees will also be available at the blaze now.com. It's the episode called Home is Where Jesus is.

And hopefully we will have, how do I say this? Hopefully we will have the next chapter in that story very, very soon. Let me just say that plans are underway to get things rolling. That's about all I can say. All I've been authorized to say. So if you have given to the Nazarene Fund, thank you. Your money is being treated with respect and spent

on a very worthwhile cause, as you know, and you will see more updates very, very soon. A lot of strange stuff in the news, especially, these stories are on the blaze right now. This is a very weird one. This actor was declared clinically dead after an onstage hanging scene went horribly wrong. That's the headline.

I used a little background. I used to build magic props, stage props for magicians. And one of those that I built for a show in Nashville at Opry Land was a gallows, helped design this thing and help build it. And basically the actor goes up. They put the robe over him, the hood over the neck. neck and put the noose around the neck and then the floor drops out and in this case the one that I built the actor disappears and appears somewhere else in Italy though this is a really weird story Italian actor Rafael Schumacher was pronounced clinically dead following a staged hanging scene that went tragically awry last week a spokesperson at Cicinello hospital in Pisa said Friday a 27 year old Schumacher had been in a coma last Saturday night following his performance in an experimental theater production in Pisa's

Teatro Lux Courtyard in Italy, according to the BBC. The production involved actors and actresses performing in different parts of the theater with spectators moving around to view the different scenes. So it's kind of one of those immersion plays. The script originally called for Schumacher's character to die from a gunshot wound, but he changed it, allegedly, changed the script last minute to include a hanging instead. The trouble reportedly began when one member of the audience noticed that the rope around Schumacher's neck was far too tight, according to CNN. Although his head was covered at the time, the woman who was allegedly also a medical

student, rushed over to loosen the noose and lower him to the ground after she saw the actor trembling. Schumacher was rushed to the hospital immediately afterward. after being in a coma for several days, Schumacher's condition continued to worsen his doctors predicted that he had suffered severe and irreversible brain damage, according to the BBC. Schumacher did not respond to his treatments and following an intensive six-hour procedure. The doctors declared him to be brain dead at the hospital. They issued a statement.

The family and prosecutor's office have been authorized that his organs be donated, but they're removable will be subject to a medical assessment to be performed in the course of the night. The theater where the stunt malfunction occurred is currently undergoing an investigation into whether or not it included appropriate safety precautions and procedures. Four people allegedly are under investigation for possible manslaughter in Schumacher's death. We are shocked, said Gabrielle DeLuca, the art director at Teatro Lux. According to the Daily Mail, no one, not even us, understands how this happened, and it will be up to the police to shed light on it. That is a very strange story. But even that, pales in comparison to this one.

Very popular right now on The Blaze. Number two story, as a matter of fact, her husband pays to have her killed. But boy, is he fooled when the visitation is held. And I'll be able to understand why I'm laughing about this. I'll just, I'm going to read to you as it is written on the Blaze because there's just no other way to put this. She just sat in a car and waited. Noella Rekundo was biting her time,

watching as mourners trickled from the house that she had shared with her husband in Melbourne, Australia. You see, Rekundo was supposed to be dead. At least that's what her husband, Belenga Kalala, assumed. He had no reason to suspect otherwise, having hired hitmen to kill his wife during her trip to Africa and believing the job was complete.

Colala told members of the African community in Melbourne that Rekundo died in an accident. And on that day, bereaved folk, many of whom gave money to the shattered spouse, were paying their respects. But very much alive, Rekundo waited until the last of the mourners left and then lowered the boom. When I got out of the car, he saw me straight away, she told BBC. He put his hands on his head and said, is it my eyes? Is it a ghost? he was scared. He didn't believe it, she added. Then he starts walking toward me, slowly, like he was walking on broken glass.

Then he touched his wife on her shoulder and jumped. He touched her again, and again he jumped. Rekunda told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that her husband asked, Are you still alive? Which at that point, that was a stupid question. She told the American Broadcasting Corporation, ABC, I just looked at him and said, surprise. Hello, I'm still alive.

Imagine his shock. Colala started screaming that he was sorry for everything, she told the BBC, but as you can probably imagine, it was a bit too late. His life as he knew it was over, but Rekundos, which had almost ended just days before, was about to begin anew. I felt like somebody who had risen again, she told the BBC. See, less than a week before her confrontation with her husband last February, Rekundo had flown to her native Republic of Burundi in Africa to attend her beloved stepmother's funeral.

I had lost the last person who I call mother, she told the BBC. It was very painful. I was very stressed. And then one evening while she was resting in her hotel room, her husband called her. He said that he'd been trying to reach her the entire day. he said that she told him that I was going to bed he told me well to bed why are you going why are you sleeping so early

she said I'm not feeling too happy he says well how's the weather is it very very hot and apparently he tells her you know go go outside go outside get some fresh air so she gets up she goes outside and it was about that time she is confronted by another man pointing a gun at her

He just told me, don't scream. If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They're going to catch me, but you, you will already be dead. She stayed quiet. She was told to walk to a waiting car, and when she got in, she was sitting between two armed men. One had a small gun. One had a long gun, she told the BBC, and the men said to the driver, passes a scarf. They covered her face. Drove her for about 40 minutes on the road. She said the car stopped. She was pushed into a building and tied to a chair. And they asked me, what did you do to this man?

Why is this man asked us to kill you? And I told them which man, because I didn't have any problem with anybody. She said, your husband. I said, my husband, he can't kill me. You're lying. And then they slapped me. She said, one of the perps called the boss, issued Rokundo some harsh words. You are very stupid.

You are a fool. Let me call who has paid us to kill you. So they called this guy on the phone. They put the phone on speaker, and Rokundo heard her voice and her husband's voice say, Killer. Unbelievable. She says, I heard his voice. I heard him.

It felt like my head was going to blow up. Then they described for him where they were going to stash the body after they had killed her. She says that at that point. That's when she passed out. When she came to, she said she figured she was already dead, but the man that she identified as the boss instead gave her the best news she'd heard all day. We're not going to kill you, she recalled him saying we don't kill women or children. The hitman held Rekundo for two days while they demanded more money from Kalala to finish her off,

and then they set her free. This would be the double double, the old double cross. Rukundo recounted to the BBC, there are words to her, we give you 80 hours to leave the country. Your husband is serious. Maybe we can spare your life, but other people, they're not going to do the same thing. If God helps you, you'll get to Australia. Then they let her off on the roadside and with a parting gift, a memory card with recorded phone conversations

between them and Kalala about their hit along with Western Union money transfer receipt. Wow. We just want you to go back to tell other stupid women like you what happened, she recalled to the BBC, the hit men telling her, you must learn something. You people get a chance to go overseas for a better life, but the money you are earning, the money the government gives you, you use it for killing each other. Wow. You never saw that one coming, did you? The return, she said as soon as she was on the phone with her Melbourne pastor, and she asked for his help.

It was in the middle of the night, she told the BBC, adding that she told her pastor to not tell anyone she was still alive. He said, Noella, I don't believe it. Belanga can't kill someone and I said, Pastor, please believe me. While her husband and many others figured Rekundo was dead, she showed up February 22nd last year at her Melbourne house after mourners had given, after they had left and given Kalala the shock of his life. At that point, she called police who ordered Kalala off their property and got a court order against him. Then even more good news, Rekundo called Kalala and their conversation was captured on tape during which he confirmed. to ordering her murder. So why did he do it?

That's the question everyone asks, right? He says he wanted to kill me because he was jealous, adding that he figured she wanted to leave him for another man, which she said wasn't true. My, my, my. Despite acknowledging that she knew Kalala was violent, she told the BBC that she loved him. I gave him beautiful, handsome two boys and one girl,

so I don't know why he chose to kill me. as trial in December, Kalala said, sometimes the devil can come into someone to do something, but after they do it, they start thinking, why did I do that thing? Really? The devil made me do it.

That's his defense. After pleading guilty to incitement to murder, Kalala was sentenced to nine years in prison. Nine years. That's where it always gets me. Nine years in prison. for trying to kill somebody. I have a friend, this total aside,

I have a friend who is in prison right now. I've known this guy since fifth grade. Good guy. He's in prison for 18 years for bankruptcy fraud. 18 years for bankruptcy fraud. This guy gets nine years for attempted murder. There's just, I don't know. Where's the skis?

Dale. He's eligible for parole after six years. Here's the thing. The woman says his voice always comes in the night. Kill her. Killer Rekundo told the BBC of her regular nightmares. Every night, I see what was happening in those two days with the kidnappers. Every night. She will never get over this, obviously. But still, she won't judge her husband. He's a human being from my heart. I forget. him, she told ABC. Let God judge him. Man, she's a better man than I am in that sense. And believe it or not, Rekundo said that many in her own African community in Melbourne are angry that she went to police over her husband's misdeeds. She's received threatening messages. Her house was even vandalized.

I come and the back door is broken open. The front doors are broken. I don't know exactly who's behind it or what they want for me. She's not just tasked with taking care of the three children she had with Colala, but also five other children she had from a previous relationship. I will stand up like a strong woman, she told the BBC, my situation, my past life, that is gone. I'm starting a new life now. You can read the entire story on the Blaze. Unbelievable what people will do to each other, isn't it?

Happy Saturday. It's Brad Stuyzen for Jeffrey this morning. And more coming up next on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. And I'm Brad Steak sitting in for Jeffrey this morning. He's out in San Francisco for the 2016 Super Bowl breakfast. It will be on the air tomorrow at noon eastern 11 Central just before Super Bowl coverage begins.

It's all brought to you by Retirement H.Q Power. powered by advisors Excel. It's a great company, one of the largest financial planning organizations in the country, located in Topeka, Kansas. I wanted to get into these strange manias and obsessions that you may or may not know people who are obsessed with these things. We'll get into a couple of them here before the top of the hour.

Dora mania, this is the obsession for giving gifts. The problem is if, you know, people who are obsessed with Dora mania, They may not have the money or the wherewithal to be giving these gifts, but that's doromania. And all of these sound like they should be said with the Romanian accents. Abutam, abulomania, pathological indecisiveness. We've all experienced situations where it's difficult to make up our minds, but imagine not being able to make up your mind over the simplest things. Abulomania.

Abutomania. The mania for washing oneself. whether or not they've touched a toilet or a book on a shelf. They have to watch themselves. Turicotilomania. The craving to pull out one's own hair. There's more. We'll get into those after the top of the hour right here on the Jeff Fisher radio program.

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Hey, it's Brad Staggs in for Jeffrey this morning. He's out in San Francisco with the guys they are going to be doing a breakfast, the Super Bowl breakfast with this year's Super Bowl. It will be on the Blaze tomorrow at noon eastern, 11 Central. A lot of you talking this morning about on the Blaze, the story about the guy who had tried to have his wife killed, and it didn't go so well. She showed up, as a matter of fact.

It's a great story. Read it on the Blaze. Another big one going on right now, the $200,000 gift bag that all of the Oscar contenders receive whether they win the Oscar or not, they get this bag. $200,000 worth of stuff. And another big story on the blaze is one of the Super Bowl ads. And the fact that more than 140 million people, or I guess 140 million times, the ads

have already been watched, which this is kind of strange. What do they say? It's 200 years worth of viewing already by people across the world. First of all, companies are paying $4.5 million for a 30-second ad. And I didn't realize this until just now. I was reading about the last year, remember the nationwide insurance ad, They called it the dead kid ad, the little boy who talked about all of the things that he would not be able to experience in life because he'd been hit and killed by a drunk driver.

Want-waw. That one did not go over so well. I did not realize this, but Nationwide's chief marketing officer left his job soon after that. So there are some inherent risks in being on the cutting edge, as it were, of Super Bowl ads. But here's the thing that I'm curious about, and you can see the top 10 ads that are being watched already online on the Blaze story.

There's one with Pepsi. There's one with Pokemon. Hyundai has one. Does that mean that, I mean, the $4.5 million, it used to be, it was an event. You would, you know, you'd watch the Super Bowl at a party and you wait to see these commercials. Now there's nothing special about them being on the Super Bowl because you can already see them all online. Now, does that mean that it's still worth the $4.5 million that these companies are paying because, in fact, they are getting the added benefit of this added exposure prior to the Super Bowl?

or does it mean that those spots are less effective because they're already out there. There's no incentive to wait for the event, as it were. It's kind of the chicken and the egg thing. I just find it strange that, and we talk about this all the time, how media is changing, how television and obviously radio are changing all the time.

Radio is not what it used to be. I mean, the Blaze Radio Network, is an obvious an obvious example of that. It's, we don't view and we don't listen. We don't consume the same way we did. Even a year ago.

Five years ago, 10 years ago. Good grief. Go back 15 years. Think about how much has changed 15 years ago. And that was what? 2001. Is that right? Good grief.

That was 15 years ago. 2001. It just does not seem possible. But if you want to see these commercials, they are on the, they're on the blaze right now, and you can watch them all. And it just makes me wonder, is that, in fact, making the $4.5 million price tag less or more affordable

than it was before, or more or less effective than it was before? Before the top of the hour, we're talking about different manias that people are affected with. We left off with trichotillomania. Everything should be said with a Romanian accent, because it sounds that it should be that way. Number six, inocomania.

That's constantly believing that one has sinned. Haven't we all done that? I mean, I guess it does become a bit of an obsession when some of the symptoms include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeats, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread, which can actually happen if you watch certain TV shows. Dimonomania.

Believing that you're inhabited by an evil spirit. Let's just leave that one right where it is. Glynomania. Clinomomania. The excessive desire to stay in bed. I had that just yesterday. In fact, I stayed in bed. Hours and hours.

Nothing wrong. wanting to have a long, particularly on a cold wintry day, to stay in bed. But for Clinomaniacs, the desire to stay in bed is overwhelming and irresistible, could persist for days on end, particularly when it is raining or snowing. See, I don't think that's weird. I think that's just normal. I mean, who hasn't when it, when it's cold and rainy outside and it's gray? Who doesn't want to just lay there and pull the covers back up?

over your head and just sleep. Onomatto mania. That is the irresistible desire to repeat certain words. That's a weird one. This is one of my favorites. Gammaania. Gammaania. The obsession with issuing marriage proposals.

Let me just tell you, I don't have that one. I've been married twice and never asked anyone to marry. marry me. When you and I are in the same room together, I'll explain it. Quite a fascinating story. Gammonia can be described as a bizarre obsession with asking people to marry or issuing outrageous proposals to different people at the same time, which in many cases results in polygamy. Go figure. And the number one strange mania is Cartagococethus. Cartagococetis. The uncontrollable compulsion to see maps everywhere.

I may have a little bit of that. I don't know. It's like seeing shapes. The human brain is wired to recognize faces everywhere, but it turns out there's also a strange mania called cartho-quaitis. The uncontrollable compulsion to see maps everywhere even in food. I wonder if that even...

Remember with the... What was it? The cinnamon bun with Mother Teresa? I don't guess that'd be the same. I guess that'd be some other mania of wanting to see faces, but that's where, again, we're wired to see faces. But if you see maps everywhere, don't worry. It is just something that happens to people everywhere. Very strange manias, indeed. Oh, you know what I want to do? I want to do this, this was a big day in history.

And this was fascinating to me. This February 6th, 2016, obviously. Back in 1911, the self-proclaimed Errol Flynn of B-movies, Ronald Reagan. He was born on this day in Tempico, Illinois. This is one I'd forgotten, too. 1993, Arthur Ash, big tennis star, Arthur Ash died of AIDS. I'd forgotten that. Good grief, that is, what, 23 years ago? Time flies, and you're having fun, doesn't it?

and on this day in 1998, a bus in the Dominican Republic struck a rental car, killed its occupant. The driver of the rental car was Johann Holzel. As a child, Johann had been given a baby grand piano. He could keep the beat to songs in the radio when he was just a toddler. For his fifth birthday, he was given a record player. His favorite songs were by Elvis Presley, the Beatles,

Cliff Richard. That same year, he auditioned for the Vienna Music Academy. It was confirmed that he, in fact, had perfect pitch. After he attended a number of private and trade schools, Johan left school altogether due to absenteeism. The boy just did not like school. His mother insisted that he began an apprenticeship with the Austrian Employee Pension Insurance Institute.

Wow, that lasted only a short while. No one was surprised. When he turned 17, Johann volunteered for military service in the Austrian army. That lasted only eight months. Then in 1977, he entered the Vienna Music Conservatory, but decided to leave after only a single semester. He wanted to become a real musician, so he soon joined a jazz rock band in Berlin. He began touring the club scene. Soon after, he returned to Vienna and adopted the name of an East German ski jumper.

Spinning Wheel and Hallucination Company were two of the bands that he began playing with under his new name. By 1978, he was playing bass with a punk rock band named Duwold. Boy is a tough one. Drado Walburl. It was a German name. It was one of their concerts that he was discovered by an Austrian producer who offered him his first record contract. His first album under his new name was called Eisenhoft. and after his first hits record brought rap to the,

this is fascinating too, it brought rap to the top of the charts around the world. This guy, yeah, I bet you didn't know about this guy. The song was called Der Kamaasar. In 1986, his biggest hit was released and went to number one in the United States. Yep. Most of us will recall Rock Me Amadeus, as it stayed planted in the number one spot for three,

weeks in this country. Yohan Holesl, or Falco, as he called himself, was only 40 years old when he died on this day in 1998. He's been dead for 18 years. That always just blows me away how fast time goes by. And what a talent struck by a bus while on vacation in the Dominican Republic. I've driven in the Dominican Republic. believe me, it is not a fun place to drive.

All right, about 17 past the hour. Don't forget tomorrow on The Blaze, the 2016 Super Bowl breakfast will be airing at noon, Eastern, 11th Central. That's where Jeffrey is this morning. That's where Glenn, Pat, and Stu all are. It's just before Super Bowl coverage begins and our exclusive sponsor this year. Retirement HQ, this is a big deal for the Blaze. And it's a...

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by doing business with great honor and faith. It's coming up tomorrow morning, tomorrow actually at noon, Eastern, 11 a.m. Central on the Blaze. We'll be back with more of the Jeff Fisher radio program, Brad Stakes, filling in right. here on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network, the Jeff Fisher Show.

And Brad staggs in for Jeffie this morning here on the Blaze Radio Network. We debuted the White House, the Oval Office set on Glenn's radio program this week. And let me just tell you that it's been tremendous reception. A lot of people have been tweeting and asking about it and asking what it looks like in person. And Jeff Noble is a local guy here who owns a set company, kind of the background on the Oval Office that you see on the Blaze. The side that you see with Glenn behind it with the windows was actually constructed.

That half of the Oval was constructed for the movie JFK that was shot here at what were then the studios. at Las Calinas, now Mercury Studios here in Irving, Texas. And it is an exact duplicate of the Oval Office. It was used for Dinesh D'Souza's upcoming movie. And I don't have the title of that right in front of me, but it has to do with Hillary. They actually borrowed the set from us.

They set it up about, I don't know, five, six miles from the studio in another warehouse. house and they completed it. They completed not only the other half of the Oval office, but also a hallway outside the Oval. And it is an exact duplicate. It is, it's remarkable what Jeff and his crew were able to do. Glenn then came in and kind of gave it his own personal touch with the decoration. You will not find a lot of those added artifacts in the real White House. But I thought it would be kind of fun to do some research into the history of the actual of the White House. It's got quite a storied history, by the way.

George Washington was the person who selected the site for the White House back in 1791. The cornerstone was laid in 1792. And they had a competition design. And the winner was an Irish-born architect by the name of James Hoban. It took eight years to construct. President John Adams and his wife Abigail moved into the White House. It was actually unfinished at that point in 1800 and wasn't called the White House either. During the War of 1812, the British actually set fire to the president's house in 1814.

James Hoban, the original designer, was appointed to rebuild the house. And then President Monroe moved into the building in 1817. During Monroe's administration, the South Portico was constructed in 1824. Andrew Jackson oversaw the addition of the North Portico in 1829. And then during the late 19th century, various proposals were made to significantly expand the president's house or to build an entirely new house for the president, but those plans were never realized.

1902, President Theodore Roosevelt began a major renovation of the White House. And there are pictures of this online, actually from a British website. I think it might be the Daily Mail. But the pictures of this renovation are unbelievable. It's the entire White House gutted. There's more actually, it's a, I believe, a six-level building, but four of the levels are underground. They relocated the president's offices from the second floor of the residence

to the newly constructed executive office building. Roosevelt, his renovation was planned, and carried out by the famous New York architectural firm, McKin, Mead, and White, Roosevelt's successor, Taft. I dated his great-great-granddaughter back in high school, just a slight aside, had the Oval Office constructed within an enlarged office wing. This is some of the trivia involving the White House. There are 132 rooms in the White House, 35 bathrooms, six levels in the residents. there are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators.

At various times in history, the White House has been known as the President's Palace, the President's House, the Executive Mansion. It was Theodore Roosevelt who officially gave the White House its current name in 1901. Presidential first while in office, President James Polk was the first president to have his photo. taken. President Theodore Roosevelt was not only the first president to ride in an automobile, but also the first president to travel outside the country when he visited Panama. President Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an airplane. The White House kitchen is able to serve dinner to as many as 140 guests and hors d'oeuvres to more than a thousand people. The White House requires, if they're going to paint the outside

surface, 500 gallons of paint to cover the outside surface of the White House. Just a little bit of, a little bit of trivia for the White House, for the White House trivia as we debuted the Oval Office set this week. And turning to Twitter, Donna, I love this, Donna, you're right. First of all, she calls Jeffrey a slacker, and can you believe it? we all fell for Stu's plan to expense the Super Bowl. Boy, is that the truth? As he was walking out the other day, he says,

you know, I'm going, I'm not very happy about having to work on the Super Bowl, but I'll take it. Well, there you go. Enjoy San Francisco. We will return with more of the Jeff Fisher Radio Show right after this on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show, the Blaze Radio Network. is the Jeff Fisher Show.

And I'm Brad Stagg, sitting in for Jeffrey this morning. Programming note for you. If you missed Thursday, not on The Blaze. We have the Nazareen Fund update available for download now on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. It must-see update on the Christian refugees. It will also be available at theblaznow.com. Theblaznow.com, the episode,

you must see, as entitled, Home is where Jesus is. And this was our, as we're, we tracked through the Middle East the stories of these Christian refugees. We got to talk with them, got to witness their relocation from Iraq to Slovakia. Truly an amazing, an amazing journey, an amazing story. And thanks to you for donating to the Nazarene Fund. obviously we could not have done it without you and we will have updates on the latest the latest I guess we'll say episode I'm having to choose my words carefully because I can only

say so much about what's coming up but let me just put it this way you will be pleasantly you'll be very happy with what what is being done with your with your donations that that is how I will phrase it the work continues we have not stopped things behind the scenes and the the Lord's work is being done

let me leave it at that and please if you have not seen this episode please take a look at it other tidbits and morsels from the blaze Twitter has suspended more than 125,000 accounts linked to terrorism think about that

125,000. They stepped up their fight against the Islamic State and violent extremism yesterday when they put terrorism-linked accounts in its cross-air suspending more than 125,000 accounts. According to Twitter's policy account, the effort began in September of last year. It's the first time the social network has revealed the scope of terrorism-related activity on its site, though. According to a report last year from the Brooking Institute, there were at least 46,000 Twitter accounts used by Islamic State supporters and members. But Twitter's new figures reveal that the terror group has either grown exponentially in its

presence on the platform or Twitter has become more effective in identifying terror-linked accounts. The report from Twitter also said the company has increased the size of the teams responsible for reviewing reports of terror activity on the social network. In addition, they have sought to cut down on the time it takes to respond. to those reports. I'm telling you, ISIS, they are there not stupid. It's frightening how smart this enemy really is. We've already seen results, they say,

including an increase in account suspensions and this type of activity shifting off of Twitter. Sure it has. We'll see what happens, and we'll keep you posted as, as that continues. We lost Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. He died the age of 85, one day before the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing.

This from the Associated Press, Apollo 14 astronauts, Edgar Mitchell, became a sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's successful failure. earlier, quote unquote, later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics, and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens. 85 years old, but he died in Florida, died Thursday night at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, his daughter, Kimberly Mitchell. Mitchell's passing coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission from January 31st to February 9th in 1971. He was one of only 12 humans to set foot on the moon.

Wasn't your typical straight-laced astronaut either. In later years, he said aliens had visited the Earth, and faith healers were legitimate. He attempted to communicate telepathically with friends at home during his Apollo mission. If you think about this, I'm assuming that they had psychological profiling back then. Maybe they weren't that sophisticated in the early 70s,

late 60s. I would have thought that they would have had psychological profiling prior to putting two or three guys into a, you know, something the size of a Volkswagen and sending them that far from the planet. Just because they would want to know how

these guys would react. But the fact that he was trying to communicate telepathically, and maybe this was sanctioned by NASA. I don't know. It just seems out of character for that agency to allow something like this to happen. He says, what I experienced during the three-day trip home

was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness. He wrote this in his 1996 autobiography. It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me. In an emailed statement, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden called Mitchell, one of the pioneers in space exploration on whose shoulders we now stand.

His passion for exploration led him to become an astronaut. He joined NASA in 1966. He helped design and test the lunar modules that first reached the moon in 1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Shepard was the first American in space in 1961, picked Mitchell to be on Apollo 13's three-person crew. but they were bumped to the next mission so that Shepard would have to, would have more time to train him.

You may probably remember Apollo 13's astronauts. They were nearly killed, but an oxygen tank exploded. They were, as they neared the moon in 1970. But, Edgar Mitchell, quite a guy. And, you know, on the UFO front, I used to live in Lancaster, California, which is a stone's throw from Palmdale, California, which is where they built the space shuttle and a lot of the top secret aircraft

that were flown out of Edwards Air Force Base to this day. Actually, you could look out at the back door of my mom and dad's house and see things like Lockheed and Rockwell, Northrop Grummond, all of those. I watched one of the first space shuttle landings occur. at Edwards Air Force Base. And my friend's dad used to work for Northrop. Or I guess it was Lockheed he worked for.

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

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

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

Turning to less weighty topics, this is, again, on the blaze. If you didn't hear it earlier, this is pretty fascinating. The Oscars, of course, coming up, and what's inside the Oscar goodie bags? $200,000, $200,000 worth of gifts. Some large, some small. everybody wins, as they say. That was what the group responsible for putting together the contents of this year's Oscar bags promised. And they did not disappoint.

You might agree with all of this. The nominees, every nominee for an Academy Award walks away with one of these goodie bags. So whether or not they win the award or not, they still win. This year, as I said, it's worth $200,000. I love this. This is in quotes. The bag is aimed to be a, quote, blend of fabulous, fun, and functional items meant to thrill and pamper those who may have everything that money can buy, but still savor the simple joy of a gift. The simple joy of a gift.

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

Is an A4 cost more than $45,000? I don't know, maybe it does. I haven't kept up with inflation on that one. They also get a $6,300 donation of pet food to an animal shelter, so I like that. That's a good one there. The bag is also said to contain some, oh, shall we say, slightly more risky items,

risque items such as a $250 wearable sex toy designed to provide Hollywood couples a more pleasurable sexual experience. The female vibrator was described as a device that not only provided stimulating vibes, but also gentle suction. That made my headphones fall off. Another unusual item. This is a great one. A vampire breast lift.

I don't think you need to be a vampire with breast to get it. I think that's the title of it. The vampire breastlift is valued at $1,900. And according to the vampire breast lift website, oh, come on. Who hasn't been to that website a hundred times a day? Right? The procedure uses your own blood to rejuvenate the breasts.

Wow, I'll take three. Or maybe just two. The result, of course, is a younger appearing skin an increased volume of fatty tissue. That is what the vampire breastlift promises. And it's all part of the big goodie bag that all of the nominees at the 88th Academy Awards will get.

They take place on February 28th this year. I wonder if they'll have that on the... They should get the stars to comment on the contents of their gift bag. Maybe you can show a few things. I doubt that will happen. We'll have more of the Jeff Fisher radio program coming up here in just a minute on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.

The Jeff Fisher Show. And Brad staggs in for Jeffie this morning, and thank you, Doc Thompson. The Doc Thompson show just tweeted, please follow at the Blaze Brad. He's in for Jeffrey MRA and he's a good man. Well, they were half right. I try. I really do. Huge, huge X-Files fan, so I'm going to blather on a little bit more about them because this, if you have not been watching,

they are in the middle of a six-episode, quote-unquote, special event of the X-Files. If you've been hiding under a rock somewhere, that's news. Otherwise, you are as excited as I am that they have brought the series back, even for a limited run. And I think it's going to turn into something bigger than that. I think that we'll probably see more seasons of it. Probably not 20 episode seasons,

but because let's face it, they're not getting any younger. And you do have to suspend your disbelief just a smidge on it. But I think they're doing a fabulous job on recreating the old magic. So some of the, some interesting factoids about the series. If you go back to their badges, Apparently, it is illegal, even if you're making it as a TV prop to have a badge display Federal Bureau of Investigation. So instead it says Department of Investigation on their badges, if you look very closely during the opening monologue or the opening credits there. William B. Davis, the cigarette smoking man, was originally Lucy Lawless acting coach.

She was, of course, right after I think the show kind of jumped the shark in the first, you know, nine seasons when they get into super soldiers and all that, but he was her acting coach prior to all of this. Another interesting factoid, Gillian Anderson was supposed to play Clarice Starling. She was in the running for Clarice Starling in the Hannibal movie, Silence of the Lambs. But they didn't want her to do it. So they actually put it in her contract that she couldn't do it. Plenty of other trivia facts and figures on The X-Files can be found online.

You will find Jeffie and the guys tomorrow here on the Blaze, as a matter of fact, at the Super Bowl breakfast. Make sure you watch it noon Eastern on the Blaze. Thank you for listening. I'll see you next time on the Jeff Fisher Radio Show. The Blaze Radio Network, love you mean it. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network.