Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Slap Happy & Sling Silly 1/16/15

Episode Date: January 16, 2016

Today on The Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy talks about both noisy and naughty neighbors. Best selling author & TV host, Brad Meltzer also joins Jeffy to talk about his new children's book 'I Am Martin Luther King Jr.'. Plus, Powerball winners, political debate losers, crazy crocheters and more! Jeff Fisher is live from 6am to 8am ET, Saturday. Listen for free on The Blaze Radio Network: www.theblaze.com/radio & www.iheart.com'I Am Martin Luther KingJr.' and more of Brad Maltzer's children’s books are available here: bradmeltzer.com/Follow 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

When our water heater broke down last month, it was a nightmare. It took five hours for the plumber to show up, and he charged us a couple of hundred bucks just to come out. Then it cost another $1,800 to put in the new water heater. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I'd been taken. But what else could I do? The smartest thing you can do is get a home warranty from American Residential Warranty. Their home warranties pay to repair or replace all your major appliances when they break, and they will break. and at the worst possible time.

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How are you? Good to see you. Ah, yes. The broadcast day at the Malaise Radio Network. If you want to participate, 888-90333 is the phone number. No, I am not one of the three people, one from Florida, one from Tennessee, and one from California, who won the $1.6 billion. Good for them.

Congratulations. Today, the Powerball, measly 40 million. It's only like 24 million cash payout. Almost not worth your time. Almost not worth your time. I loved, we talked a lot last week about what you would do with the money. Now there's all kinds of people who are, we've spent all our money. There's even a GoFundMe page for cinnamon.

who said, please help me and my family as we have exhausted all our funds. We spent all our money on lottery tickets, expecting to win the $1.5 billion, and are now in dire need of cash with your small donation of at least a dollar. I'm certain that we'll be able to pick ourselves up from the trenches of this lost, and spend another fortune trying to hit it big again. Please, won't you help my family in need? Now, whether that's real or not, good for her. Good luck.

I wish I would have thought of it. She said, you know, she made like $800. So, I mean, there's some people out there willing to help cinnamon. No problem. I did appreciate the one family that came forward that won from Tennessee. I did find out some other thing. We talked a little bit about how long you had to cash in the ticket, if you could remain anonymous. I thought there was a way that you could cash in the ticket and then you remained anonymous for another amount of time.

But according to the websites of the different states, no. You have 180 days in Florida and Tennessee to cash in your ticket. and in California you have 180 days for all your winnings except for the jackpot which you have a year to cash in if you want but all public so get yourself together unless you're going to go on the today show like the Tennessee family did and say hey we're one of the third good luck god bless the A the robinson's good for them in mumford Tennessee actually good for them And their story is a good story. I mean, they're just working people and they, you know, she didn't feel like stopping to buy the ticket or see something.

Come on, you got to buy it. And she came home. He's tired from the work day. And they woke up and said, we won, we won. We were up all night. So good for them. Now, they claim. They claim.

And I believe maybe I'd say the same thing. Because I first read it and I went, come on. No way. Are you going to, uh, are you going to do that? But you know what? Perhaps. Perhaps that's the good way to say it.

Because they said, you know, we're going to live in the same house. She said she's probably going to continue to work. And that's her job. And I thought, come on. What? You're going to live in the same house? Come on now. And then it got me thinking, you know what?

If I win, that's what you say, right? If you go public, that's what you say. Yes, we won. I will keep my job. I'm not quitting. And we're going to live in the same house. And so if you want to find us, we're still living right there. No problem.

So even if you keep that place, you don't need to be living there. It's time to move on. Okay? Yeah, we still own the place and we stop by once in a while. to, you know, check the mail. And if you called me for anything, leave a message. Okay? Because we're busy.

So good luck. God bless. Have fun. And I would be concerned about theft. Right? People know where you live. They know you've got money. You know that you're not going to have the cash.

you're not going to have the $5333 million just laying around. Yeah. Honey, what did I do with that $100 million? Oh, it's in the bedroom? Oh, okay. But I'm sure the criminals feel like, oh, they've probably got a lot of nice stuff now. Right? So hopefully in Mumford, Tennessee, they're using what California is using.

Yes. the new Beware software. Of course it's for our safety. You know that. Oh, of course. It's always for our safety.

Right? Generation of technology such as Beware, Fresno, California. And it's giving the law enforcement officer's unprecedented power to peer into the lives of citizens, but all for your safety. Such tools can provide critical information that can help uncover terrorists or thwart mass shootings, ensure the safety of officers and the public, find suspects, and crack open cases.

Few departments will discuss how, yeah, I wonder why, or sometimes if they are using these tools. But hey, Fresno police, no problem. Come on again, you want to see our $600,000 nerve center? You got it. No problem. Real-time crime center. tech policing and just so you're, you know, feel a little bit safer because you're thinking, well, I don't live in Fresno.

I mean, how can I feel safe if I don't live in Fresno? Well, New York, Houston, Seattle, for sure has the beware technology. So at least Fresno seems out of place in that list, but they've got it. They're the ones showing it off. New York, Houston, and Seattle? No, we're not going to show it off. They probably don't even admit they have it. Just the company said,

well, we sold it to them. We don't think they're using it or not. And NYPD, you know they're using it. And how are they paying for it? They're paying for it by charging news stations for the body cam video. Nice of them. Yes. Not sure if I agree with that or not.

But I guess the cities have to make. some money for the footage and for the time, right? I mean, the city claims that the cost of processing a copy of the body camera footage based on an estimate of total time footage recording during the time, you know, takes time and money, right? And this news station asked for it and they said, no problem, 36 grand. You want this 190 hours of unedited body camera footage? No problem. 36,000. How did you get to that? Oh, well, you know, 304 hours. The cost of compensating a police officer is $120 an hour.

And we know the police officers all make $120 an hour. So no problem. Right? And they have to have someone, of course, redact the footage and go through and collate everything because you can't just give all the footage up. No way. Right? because you might see something you're not supposed to see. Oh, yes. We don't want that. Now, of course, you know, the television station believes that that's an unreasonable bar to public access. And they believe that the fee undercuts the purpose and scope of the foster transparency and trust between government and citizenry. Now, one thing I found interesting is that according to New York's freedom of information law, if a record's request takes longer than two hours to fulfill an agency can charge to cover the employee's time.

So, under that law, if you agree to the 36,000, right, to pay, then if the police don't give you the how many hours you request, of the footage in the two hours time frame, I mean, you just charge them back the $36 grand, right? Yep, yep, that's my time. My employee's time is worth whatever you're charging me for this footage. So you might want to get it to me in two hours. And I don't know that, you know, good luck. God bless that.

They'll obviously cover their own butts. But it brings up an interesting question about the, about the cam, footage. What is available? What can you get? What do we get to see? I mean, we all expect to see everything, all of it, all the time, right? I mean, it's a YouTube world. We want to see the footage. We want to see the footage from your cell phone. We want to see the footage from Bill's camera. And we want to see the footage. The reason that we want the police officers to wear the body cams is so that we can see the footage of what they do and what goes on so that we know that the bad

guys, we're the bad guys. and, you know, we've seen footage from police officers that are not good guys. And thankfully, we're weeding through the bad guys because of the videos. So now they're going to start covering it up. Oh, of course we're going to get body cams for everybody. Of course. You are not going to be able to see it, though. No, that's not going to happen.

Okay? Not going to happen. We have got we, me, you and I. You and I today hanging out. I've got just a bunch of stories. Some of them are maddening. Some of them are hilarious. And we'll be talking to Brad Meltzer a little bit later on his new book.

I am Martin Luther King. It is the MLK weekend, right? So we'll enjoy that book. And I actually read it again last night. It's fascinating. And we'll see what Brad has to say about it today sometime during the broadcast. I don't even know when the heck he's going to be on. On the Blaze Radio Network.

Here we go. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. When our water heater broke down last month, it was a nightmare. It took five hours for the plumber to show up, and he charged us a couple of hundred bucks just to come out. Then it cost another $1,800 to put in the new water heater. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I'd been taken. But what else could I do?

The smartest thing you can do is get a home warranty from American residential warranty. Their home warranties pay to repair or replace all your major appliances when they break, and they will break. And at the worst possible time, call American Residential Warranty right now. For free information on home warranties starting at just pennies a day. Don't wait for your refrigerator to stop running or your ceiling fans to stop turning. Call American Residential Warranty right now. Ask how you can save up to $5.

50% on washer and dryer coverage. Just call 1-800-6-86-39-10. That's 1-800-6-8-6-8-3-9-10. Again, 1-800-6-8-6-8-3-39-10. Call now. The Jeff Fisher Show returns on the Blaze Radio Network. 888-98-9033 is the phone number. Pure O'Pelka, coming up immediately following this broadcast, Mike O'Pelka, on the Blaze Radio Network. Then you get to enjoy a little bit of Best of Jay Severin for a couple hours. And then Chris Salsato, Mike Slater, and Joe Peggs, all live on the Blaze Radio Network today. No need to go anywhere else. And what the heck? If you're living in most of the country, it's going to be cold and rainy and snowing.

Might even be pushing a little cold front down. Might be a little snow here in North Texas today. Yay. Can't wait. It's what I moved. That's why I love living in the South is so we get snow. too. Yay. Agonizing. So,

you have kids? You do? You let them play outside. Why? This story out of Texas. And I got to tell you, I'm getting tired of, I can't tell you, the last since we've moved to Texas. And, you know, we've heard prior to moving to Texas, hey, it's Texas. And you hear all the time, Texas, Standard, America.

Since we moved here, I keep hearing, and this happens in Texas. This is happening in Texas. Yeah. It's because it's happening everywhere now. And if they can win over Texas, the rest of the country will follow. And this story is not alone. Attacking a homeschooling family in Plano, Texas. I mean, that's part of the DFW Metroplex.

I may have to talk to these people next week and find out exactly what the heck the outcome is going to be or what if the outcome has already happened by next week because family chose to homeschool their children. During their time at home, the children will frequently go out and go outside and play when the weather is nice. Now, I will say, oh, my gosh, that's my house as well. Okay. Family's neighbor claims the children being home during the day is a nuisance and that is disturbing their right to a peaceful home. Therefore, the neighbors are suing the family for the noise created by their children playing outside.

Oh my gosh. The lawsuit filed in Collins County, Texas. over the noisy children, their tranquil quality of life had been destroyed by the children, and that the playhouse in the family's backyard causes visibility issues for them and their pets. Now, the family claims that they have tried numerous times to discuss the issues with the neighbors. They refuse to answer the door or slam it in my face. She only learned of the ward's issues with the children when they began blaring loud, obscene, music from their windows each time her children would come outside.

That's good. How was that tranquil quality of life happening with that happening? But, well, I digress. Just prior to the rap music overload, the only problem voiced by the wards was the family playhouse, which was approved by the HOA and the city of Plano. The playhouse allegedly causing visibility issues. An HOA inspector came to the property to take a look. noted that the only visibility that was obstructed was the visibility from the bedroom to the living room.

So if the playhouse wasn't there, they'd be able to see the living room of the neighbors. Huh. The inspector agreed and told the family to remove a porch roof from the structure. Of course, you don't expect an HOA and a city inspector to come out and say, oh, everything's fine. Move on. Nothing to see here. No, they've got to find something. That's what they do.

So they said out of the porch roof of the structure. You know what? It's inches too close to the house. Oh my gosh, do I hate HOAs? Anyway, that is another story. So they took it down. They removed the roof of the playhouse. They thought it was over.

Wrong. We're homeschooling our children and we let them play outside. While most children are in regular schools. No, they're not going to regular school, those bastards. Do children have the right to play outside, just as homeowners feel they have a right to peace and quiet? In the lawsuit, children play outside during daylight hours and occasionally during the evening. What? No.

No. The horror. Now, should homeowners expect this peace and quiet? Come on now. Come on now. There is ambient noise in every neighborhood, no matter what you do during the day. In fact, for the past six months in my neighborhood, my neighbor has had his foundation work done. They were out there every day early. And since they fixed the foundation, then they had to come back and fix the concrete slab in the back and the driveway.

And they show up at, oh, I don't know, 8 o'clock in the morning. Now I'm already gone. It makes no difference to me whatsoever. However, I get a little note from my wife that says, they're Jack Cameron. It's 8 o'clock in the morning. I can't take it. Now, of course, I,

shed a tear for my wife and children at the house listening to the jackhammer because it's sad that they actually have to get up because somebody's running a jackhammer. Now I've been gone for three and a half, four hours so really it's hard for me to shed a tear on that. But I do. I do. I shed a huge tear for them. So there's all kinds of noise ruining that peace and tranquil neighborhood. So good luck with this. We're going to find out exactly what's going on in Collins County, Texas with this lawsuit and find out if children playing outside really do ruin the tranquil quality of life.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. It is that. Welcome to it. So with the last story. And the neighbors complaining about the kids playing in the yard, I was reminded, before I get to, I was, I was reading about these creepy kids. And some of the stories are fascinating.

We're going to, we have to talk about these creepy kids. But I was reminded about a story that I read about a neighbor who was upset with her neighbor because they were having very loud sex. Now, that's apartment living, right? And if you live in an apartment building, you have to, maybe once in a while, perhaps you think about moving into a building with thicker walls, right? But she tweeted out and welcome to the age of social media. So at 1119, she tweets out, Who wants to hear my terrible neighbor having extremely loud sex?

And she has audio recorded. And then 20 minutes later, she tweets out, so this is still happening. Now, the second, the first audio is okay. I mean, you can kind of, you know, you hear what's happening. And you would think, well, you know, maybe it's okay. Then 20 minutes later under the, so this is still happening tweet. She sends this piece of audio out. So if you didn't have the first piece of audio, you may almost think that someone is being harmed.

Now, that is an issue. I may have a problem with making, you know, with that much noise in the neighborhood. but the homeschooling kids in the backyard in the neighborhood? No, I don't have a problem with that at all. That is great. So this is still going on. I don't know what I would do. It's pretty strange because I've lived in a lot of apartments.

But I never lived in an apartment where something, the neighbors were right on the other side. of the wall. I guess. I'm trying to think of the smallest apartment I lived in. The bedroom was on the far side away. Oh my gosh, the apartments were constructed correctly.

Do you mean that the bedrooms were on the opposite side of the next apartment so that you were asleep? You were the farthest away you could be in that room away from the next apartment. Huh. Amazing how that happens.

So I don't know that I would, what would actually do. But if your kid's a creepy kid, this is what the people in Texas should be worried about. If you have kids that are the creepy kids. My daughter has imaginary friends. Yes, are you saying your daughter is one of the creepy kids? No, not yet. Because she just plays with them and they're friends.

and I haven't heard anything like these. One of the stories and the creepy kid stories is my son, from the age of three, always tells me about the creeper man who lives in my mom and dad's bedroom. He brings it up after he visits them, so that's his grandparents. I made the mistake once of asking what he looks like, and my son said, oh, he doesn't have a face.

Oh, okay, great. Great, no problem. A parent of one of my students told us in a meeting that she was concerned because her son, seven years old, talked about an invisible ghost who would talk to him and play with him in his room. He said the ghost was called the captain and was an old white guy with a beard. The kid would tell his mom that the captain told him, when he grows up, his job will be to kill people, and that the captain would tell him who needed to be killed. The kid would cry and say he doesn't want to kill when he grows up,

but the captain tells him he doesn't have a choice and he'll get used to killing after a while. You may want to take your child to some sort of therapist if you're hearing that. It's just me. Maybe get some help and I would make sure that perhaps you have some child locks on the knife drawers. When my daughter was three, she had an imaginary friend named Kelly who lived in her closet. Kelly sat in a little rocking chair while she slept, played with her, typical imaginary friend. Then, two years later, the wife and I are watching the new Amityville horror. Our daughter walks out right when the dead girl goes all black-eyed.

Far from being disturbed, she said, that looks like Kelly. Kelly, who? You know, the dead girl that lived in my closet? Oh, okay, no problem. My little brother's imaginary friend Roger lived under our coffee table. Roger had a wife and nine kids. Roger and his family lived peacefully alongside us for three years. One day, my little brother announced that Roger wouldn't be around anymore since he shot and killed him in his whole family. You bet. Okay, creepy kid.

Creepy kid. Time to maybe, you know, get some hell. Maybe. And I was 16. No, I don't want to do that one, never mind. This one was talking about how one of the kids always spoke of a man in an Easter bunny costume. Uh, no. So that was just a frightening because the kid just yelled, he's in here, he's in here, but he never was.

The bunny man. When my mom was younger, she had an imaginary friend named Shaggy. When she was finished with Shaggy, she topped him up and put him in the fridge. See, if your kid If my daughter came to me and said One of her Purple Gang Um

No, we're one less Purple Gang, Dad, because I chopped one up and put them in the fridge. I might have a chat. I might have to have a chat. But that's just me. That's just me. When my brother was literally, he acted like he had

angels talking to him every second. One day my mom overheard him say, I can't kill him. He's my only dad. You might need some help. You might need some help. My daughter used to tell me about a man who came into her room every night and put the sign of the cross on her forehead. I thought it was just a dream. Then my mother-in-law sent over some family photos.

My daughter looked right at the picture of my husband's father, who had been dead for 16 years. That's the man who comes into my room at night. Wow. Think about it. Now, the father told the mom that his dad would always do the side of the cross on his forehead when he was young. Aw, Grandpa visiting the granddaughter from beyond? My wife and I overheard my two-year-old daughter on the baby monitor, wake up one Saturday morning and say, what? Okay, I'll tell her. Then she got up, came into our bedroom, and told my wife, Mary says you're doing a good job.

Mary was the mother she had just passed away coming back to visit the family isn't that special yes it is getting visited from beyond from the old family members

it's important in high school one of my best friends had a little sister who was five or six years old one day we stopped by his place Now, this may add to why the girl may be a little weird. In the story, he talks about completely high. We stopped by his place, completely high, because he needed to get his magic cards. Right.

While waiting for him to come downstairs, his sister came up to me and said, Icey told me to ask if you know when you're going to die. I laughed her imaginary friend. I even helped her draw a picture of him once, so I played along and said, no, of course not. No one knows that. Hopefully when I'm very old.

The girl shook her head and said, no, ice he wants me to tell you, it'll be tonight and walked away. So you go to your friend's house completely high. Maybe this little sister is, I don't know, messing with you a little bit. I was 17 and babysitting a friend of the family's six-year-old boy.

He'd been in the bed a couple of hours, and I just peeked into check on him. He wasn't in the bed. And when I opened the door, I saw he was standing in the corner facing the wall. I asked him, what are you doing? All he did was turn around, smile, and put his finger to his lips. Shh, what are you doing? Leave us. It's the punishment.

Okay. Mom, Dad, your boys up in your room, standing in the corner. Okay? It's freaking me out a little bit. It's getting punished from the dead people. And my favorite creepy kid story is, a kid I used to babysit had imaginary friends. They were dead.

One had no head. One was an old lady. They were both bloody. The one with no head had inside. sticking out of his neck. I didn't ask him questions about them because, F that. I didn't ask the kid questions about it because F that.

I don't want to know. So I guess that's the answer if the kid says, hey, no, I've got two friends. They're both dead. One's an old lady and one's bloody. And the one has the inside sticking out of his neck. You don't need to ask any questions. Just, okay, time for bed.

This is Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. On the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Okay, well, we talked a little bit about creepy kids, and now there's creepy parents. I mean, we all have creepy parents, right? Not like this. This lady.

A self-proclaimed textiles enthusiast. You know, in Amsterdam, of course. Mother of two sons. Her son reaching puberty. We used to cuddle all the time, but those days are becoming scarce. This was the impetus behind my project. My project was to knit a life-size version of my son. Uh-huh.

Because I used to cuddle him and hug him. And now that he's going through him, he doesn't want to do that anymore. So I knitted a life-sized version of my son so I could just cuddle with it. Okay. Thanks, Mom. Love you too. maybe we ought to, I don't know, have mom checked out a little bit.

I don't know, that's a little weird. Just a little weird. I'm pretty sure you could, I don't know, knit a pillow. You could even, now that I'm talking about it out loud, right? I mean, there's robot dolls, there's blow-up dolls, there's real dolls. What the hell?

She's knitting a life-size thing. The only problem is that it's, It's of her son, right? If it was somebody else, it wouldn't be that so weird. So, I mean, it's a little freaky that it's the sun. But other than that, not the hell. And we have sad news, breaking news about the circus. Did you know that the elephants are going to be retired from the Ringling Brothers Circus?

The Ringling Circus, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus ending its Elephant X. And they're ending it early. They had decided that they were going to end it a couple years from now, and yet now they've pulled the plug. Are you kidding me? How do you have, I mean, what are they just, they're just going to be like the Ringling Brothers in Barnum and Bailey,

Cirque de Soleil? Right? No, elephants. Come on. And I didn't realize this, but there's, cities are passing anti-circass and anti-elephant ordinances. Wow. Amazing. So you get to go see them, though. They're going to be in their 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation. And that's, you know, in between Tampa and Orlando in Florida.

Out there in Lakeland somewhere, the Elephant Conservation Center. Feld Entertainment. It's where all the elephants are going. They just open up a zoo, an elephant zoo, and you get to the to go see them there. But a circus without elephants. I don't know. I don't know. Doesn't sound like a circus. Plus, they used to go into the cities and give away all the elephant dung for fertilizer. Plants will die. Plants are going to die because elephants are not coming to your city. It's a sad day in America. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. 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. 888-903 is the phone number.

You don't forget you can always join me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA. Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, Instagram, Jeff EMRA. And you can join in the fun on that social media site anytime you'd like, okay? At Jeff EMRA, Jeff Fisher Radio, Jeffie MRA on Instagram. And I've had just about enough.

I want you to know, I'm going to give just a quick update because it's starting to, I've bugging me right now a lot, is this arm sling I'm in because of my shoulder surgery. Yes, it's still. going on. Okay, don't look at me like that. Now, I have an appointment

Friday morning. This coming up Friday morning, the 22nd of January 2016. On that very appointment, it's supposed to be the end of this sling. I'm going to go on record right now and tell you that it is the end of this sling.

There is no way. I'm going to hear anything other than it's time to take the sling off, Jeff, and you don't need to wear it anymore. I'm not going to hear it. I don't want to hear or maybe you need to just wear it at night for a lot. No. I don't want to hear, well, you can put it on, you know, if it's sore and stuff.

No. I've had just about enough of this thing. Okay? Just about enough. Now, I will say that there are some, you know, my movement is still restricted outside of the sling with the, you know, minor little rehab stuff they have me doing. and there are a few things, movements that are very difficult to do. However, tough.

Okay, I've had enough of the sling. Just let you know, I've had enough of it. Okay, so what? That it's really difficult to put socks on. Okay? So what? It's really hard to put a shirt on. Okay?

So, so what? It's really hard to tie your shoes. So? So what? You can't hardly pick it up over your arm up over your head. So tough. I'm not wearing the sling anymore, okay? I've had enough of it.

Okay? I'm just saying I had enough of it. I don't mind people driving me around. It's nice being able to be driven around. However, I also, I enjoy driving. I enjoy my time in my automobile. Okay? If I didn't have this sling on in the back of the cars, then I would be able to maybe, I don't know, you could work.

You'd look on the phone. You can have your tablet. You could, you know, read some stories. But this way, I've got to, you know, you still got to sit just right. You've got one hand with the phone. And it's just, I've had enough. I've had enough. So just saying Friday, it's over.

Me and the dock, we'll break it up. Okay. This whole little office crowd. Everybody, we're breaking up. I'll do the little rehab that they want me to do. I'll go to the rehab center. I'll do the work. But me and the surgeon and his little people were done.

You know, until the next surgery. So, much shall we talk about? My gosh, you know, I don't. We've got Brad Meltzer. coming up. We're going to be talking to Brad about his new, his latest book and another book on the bestseller list for him. And we'll see what else is going on in Brad's life. And we've got the presidential race happening. We had the big debate on Thursday night. I don't know. I've had just, I've had enough of hearing these guys fight each other out for the Republicans. There's no

fight in the Democratic Party. Either Hillary goes to jail or she's going to be the nominee for the Democratic Party. Right? They're not going to, I know. Bernie Sanders is great. And the reason he does well is because a lot of young, you know, a lot of young people, you know,

want to want to make sure that everything is, you know, okay and everybody should be nice and we need to be serious about renewable energy. And we watch out for guns. Everybody should.

should get money from the government and be able to get school free and everything should be free because of the government. You know, Bernie Sanders is, you know, a good socialist. It's a wonderful thing. And because we've had eight years, I'm sorry, it hasn't been a full eight years yet, of this president. And the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket very fast. Every day, something new is happening that's horrific in some country around the world. hostages being taken, terrorists being shot, responsible, just public being killed,

walking to the coffee shop, oh, we just blew them up. Oh, okay, great. Why'd you do that? Because I wanted to be the head of the terrorist party in my country. Oh, okay, great. So do we want and the leader, you know, the big swing, of our wannabe president. One of them is Donald Trump.

And I get it. Do I hate Donald Trump? No, I do not. I understand why people like him. I really do. I get it. Because you want somebody that's going to come in and be the loudmouth, right?

You want somebody to come in and be the loud mouth. you do want someone to come in and know what's going on. We had our sailors held captive by Iran. They were set free. But a few hours later, Donald Trump posted that we want our hostages back now. His tweet was Iran Toys with U.S. days before we pay them ridiculously, billions of dollars. Don't release money. We want our hostages back now.

well that's great Don but you know a few hours before you tweeted that they had already been set free so so what do you think Don maybe not

and if you think I don't know if you heard what he sounded like in Pensacola Florida the other day this was before the debate Tuesday I think early this past week

before a Thursday night. He went off because the microphone wasn't to his liking. And this is what you're going to get if he's the president, because this is what you get now. And he's not going to change. Don? 505 billion. And by the way, I don't like this mic.

Whoever the hell brought this mic system, don't put the son of a bitch to put it in. I'll tell you. Oh. These people. No, this mic is terrible. Stupid Mike keeps popping. You hear that, George?

Don't pay him. Don't pay him. That's right. You don't believe in paying. But when somebody does a bad job, like this stupid mic, you shouldn't pay the best, sir. Terrible. Terrible. It's true.

It's true. And you've got to be tough with your people because they'll pay. Listen to this. They'll pay. So we're not going to pay. I guarantee you I'm not paying for this mic. and you've got to be tough with your people because they'll pay.

They don't care. Right. I am the only one that cares. I have to watch over everything. I can make those decisions. But you've got to pay the bastard. Don't pay them. I guarantee I'm not going to pay them.

Crowd clapping. Oh my gosh. I wish I would have loved to have the mic just be unplugged right then. Not paying? No problem. shut it down. Go ahead and holler for a while, Don. Let's hear what you have to say.

No problem. Okay. Hey, you know, I've had enough. I've had enough. But this is what you're going to get and you've got a whole bunch of time left. Whole bunch of time left. And you know you've got, you know,

you're going to feel great about mob rule, but there's only going to be a few who benefit. So when you get past that mob rule part and Don is saying stuff that is against you, not the people that you don't like, we'll see how much you're clapping for that. Okay? Fanning those flames right now because he's talking bad about the things that you don't like. When he starts talking bad about the things that you like because he's decided he doesn't like it anymore? Okay.

Have fun. I guarantee I'm not going to pay them. I mean, you got to pay. I don't want to pay it. You got to watch your people. Your people, that's you. Because they'll pay, they don't care. I guarantee I'm not going to pay them.

Oh, my gosh. Just a bad guy. Now, we could talk maybe Bill Cosby, right? Bill's in trouble? Big court case? Could be over soon. It is true. It could be over soon. Why would it be over soon? Because former district attorney Bruce Castor sent an email saying, you know what? I want Bill to testify in a civil assault case. So anything he says, I won't use to put criminal charges on him. Really? Well, that's exactly what they did.

They used the deposition to bring criminal charges against Bill. But now they have the district attorney saying they would do that a few years ago. Good luck. God bless. So if you think you're going to, I mean, we all know that Bill is not as good a guy as we thought he was. No question. No question. We went through it all.

If you listened to the year in your ear on the Blaze Radio Network over the holidays, it ran a few hundred thousand times. That was a segment that I did in that show during that show, and Bill was part of it, and we did a huge timeline of Bill. And, you know, it was sad. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. Falling from Grace.

Bill Cosby. but you're not going to bring him down with something that you've already agreed you weren't going to use to bring him down and everybody wants to nail him because he's Bill Cosby and we thought he was a good guy so we're mad at ourselves for thinking he was a good guy when he's really not.

We're going to find a way to get him. But the guy's like 80 years old now. I know it doesn't make it right, but just leave him alone. Let him go. Have a nice day. Get out of here. Okay, get out of here. Now, we could talk maybe, I don't know.

The Oscars have been, the nominations are out. Duck Oscars. We could talk about Walmart closing a bunch of stores. I know, I know, 269 stores. Trying to focus on e-commerce, which I believe they just went into a big deal with, a Silicon Valley firm, so they are going to be focusing more on that. But 269 stores.

Now, of course, in the story that I read here, mostly urban and rural areas where the company couldn't open the sprawling super centers, they're going to be closing the Walmart Express. I actually have never seen a Walmart Express, but we do have a couple of neighborhood markets in our neck of the woods and one of those neighborhood markets is closing. Now, they were claiming that it's, you know, they're closing some of the stores that were not doing well. But I got to tell you, the store that the neighborhood market that they're closing in my neck of the woods, I know I stopped there.

and I never saw a time that it was not, didn't have customers. Now, in the area, there's all kinds of, right now at this specific time, there's all kinds of construction on the corner of where they're at. So it's difficult to get in and out. And in fact, to the same corner, a McDonald's, a McDonald's, hear me, closed. Now, this McDonald's, actually, they moved down the road. They moved up around the corner and up the road.

I don't know, two miles. I don't even know it was two miles, maybe a mile. And when they did it, I thought, well, that was, I can't believe it. Why would they move? And then they shut down this huge corner with all this construction. And I was thinking, he was the smartest one in the group. He got out before the construction started. Because across the road on the other side of the corner, a Wendy's.

A Wendy's has closed. Now think of that. Amazing. And then shut it down. Nobody can get in and out of it. without difficulty. It's not easy like it was before. I mean, it's amazing.

But anyway, they're closing 269 stores. Walmart. Think of that. 269 stores. Walmart Express, Supercenters, 12. Well, Supercenters are going to close. And four Sam's Clubs. Four Sam's Clubs.

Wow. 16,000 associates. Okay, 16,000. Bye-bye. How's that minimum wage coming for you there? Walmart. Remember you said you were, you cave to all the public pressure and we're going to give everybody a big raise and minimum wage was going to go up? Right.

Remember? And other people were talking about, well, you know, what's, going to fall because if you do that, you've got to raise prices, right? Or you've got to, what would it be? What would it be? Oh, I know. Close stores. And that's exactly what they're doing.

Now, Walmart, to their credit, look, we're going to place those other associates in nearby Walmarts as best we can. Best we can. but look when it's not possible we're going to we're going to try to provide our laid off associates with 60 days worth of pay

and we're also going to help them with resume and interview skills training so here's a DVD on how to fill out your resume and how to give a good interview and oh you're part time no you don't get any you're not getting any 60 days worth of pay

good luck god bless if we can hire you down the road we will, but we're not giving any more money and have a nice day. So how's that minimum wage working out for you? Huh? Working out good, isn't it? Yes. Yes, it is. Times are looking good. Looking good. Keep fighting for that $15 an hour. Keep fighting for

all these, all these franchises, paying people unreasonable minimum wage. Keep praying for that. is what happens? Oh, I know. If it's a big chain, like, oh, I don't know, Walmart, they close stores. If it's not a big chain, they close stores too. Only they go out of business. This is the Blaze Radio Network. You're listening to The Jeff Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show.

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Okay, this weekend. Martin Luther King weekend, right? Yesterday we celebrated and remembered his birthday. Monday, we celebrate the national holiday of Martin Luther King. A quote, the time is always right to do right from Martin Luther King, Jr. Joining me right now on the broadcast, the man himself, you know, Brad Meltzer. I mean, world-class author has his own clothing line, which I, it's only children's clothes, right? No, you get close to yourself.

Really? Yeah. Do you have fat guy sizes too? Listen, we love everybody. I'm actually now you've lost the opportunity to lie to me and say, oh, you wear the clothes too. I know. Actually, my children love your clothes. I was just joking.

Listen, I love your children for that. I also love your wife for making me the best cookies of all times. She makes the best cookies for many people, and only you. get the special blend, which is, you're welcome. You're welcome for everyone. Now, you get the special blend, right? You know that. That's right. Special. You know that. You know you do. Okay. So before we get the second tour of your office, I want to talk about your latest book, I am Martin Luther King Jr. I appreciate it. The latest edition in the series, how many children's books do you have now?

So, you know, what happened was a couple years ago, I was just tired of my own kids looking at reality TV show stars and loudmouth athletes and thinking that that's a hero. And, you know, we're friends a long time. I was just, I was like, listen, that's being famous. And being famous is different than being a hero. Let me give them better heroes. And because of the History Channel TV show, because of the thrillers I write, like the President's Shadow, which is, you know, stock with history, I got better heroes.

So we've done now, we started with I'm Amelia Earhart and I'm Abraham Lincoln, and we've now done eight books that have run through. We've done Rosa Parks. I'm Albert Einstein. I'm Jackie Robinson. We've done Lucille Ball, Helen Keller, and now we're doing I am Martin Luther King, Jr. My daughter loves these things so much.

I brought I Am Martin Luther King Jr. home, and before we get to actually sit down and read it, she's excited to start turning the pages and find out where you are in it. I know. Where's Waldo of Brad Nelson? The artist hides me in every book. We've got to find Brad.

We have to find Brad. I said, but he's turned me into like this bald where's Waldo. It's exactly what it is. It's fantastic. And I actually, I did laugh out loud when I brought this home because that was the first thing. We've got to find bread. We're like obsessive. In the next book that we're doing, because you know we're doing, I am George Washington next, which I've been waiting to do for it.

Oh, that'll be great. And in the next book, kids became so obsessed with finding me in all the biographies that they actually have an author photo of me in the back as a cartoon of me. you can actually see me and then know what to look for in case you know. Oh, there you go. Yeah, that's great. All right. So we're going through the I am Martin Luther King. And I am Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't forget the junior, I know. And the story is fascinating. And the way you told it makes, I don't know, my kids wanted to go back and learn more about Martin Luther King, Jr. Even with all the information they got from your book, it's like, we have to know more about this man. And it really does create. that. That's the goal of the books, right? If I tell my kids, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech, my kids are not impressed. They don't care. They have no point of reference for the March on

Washington or anything about the Civil Rights Movement. When I tell them that, and there's a true story, when Martin Luther King Jr. was six years old, just six years old, his best friend was a little white, this little boy who was white, right? It's an amazing story. This is what a book opens with. And we always open all the books. I am Abraham Lincoln, everything else. We opened with stories from when they're little. So you see when he's six years old, Martin Luther King, Jr's best friend is a little boy who's white. And they play together, they have fun together, and then one day the boy's father comes to him and says, my dad said, I can't play with you anymore. And young Dr. King is like, why? I don't understand. We're friends, aren't we? And the kid

walks away. And Dr. King is confused. He doesn't understand why they can't play together. And then he asks his parents, and his parents tell a six-year-old Dr. King, it's because you're black and he's white. and he's so mad at that. He's like, I want to hate the father. I want to hate that boy. I want to hate the whole family. And his parents give him this amazing message. They tell him, listen, don't have more hate in the world, have more love in the world.

Amazing. And his mother tells him, again, other lessons, don't let anyone make you feel less than you are. And those lessons stick with him forever. Forever. Six years old when he learns it. Obviously, we have six-year-olds who read these books. Those lessons stick with your kids forever. And once you tell your kid that story, every kid, and every adult, including myself, you, everyone, knows what it's like to be rejected by someone from someone who doesn't want to play with you anymore.

And once that happens, now your kids can relate to him, and Dr. King is just like them. And now that's the goal of the book, Jeff. He is like, these aren't the stories of famous people. This is what we all experience every day. This is what we're all capable of on our very best days. And now you can go forward and your kids are attached to him. And then you obviously see the civil rights movement begin, and it goes from there. And it's almost, I mean, my daughter, and she's, you know, obviously like you said,

she's like your kids have heard the stories and it, you know, glosses right over until she gets inside the kids' book. I Am Martin Luther King Jr. and realizes that this, now she believes it actually happened and starts paying attention. It's difficult to believe that something like this could happen in America. and having just unbelievable. And to have someone to grab onto Martin Luther King Jr., man, it is important. We definitely need another Martin Luther King Jr. I don't know today, but that's an story. Listen, the amazing part is when you read this book, every parent that's read it,

you know, I have a friend who read I am Rosa Parks with his daughter. They're a mixed race family, so they adopt a little girl. She's black, he's white. And they get to the last page. The last pages of the book always show the real pictures of the person. And she said to him, she said, wait, this happened? This really happened. She couldn't believe it happened.

Right. Every adult that reads the book is like, we need someone like this today. We are starving for people like this today. And, you know, to me the fun of I Am Martin Luther King Jr. is that as a book, it's not only the stories when he's little, because, again, you see other stories when he's little and you relate to him. But when you start getting into the civil rights movement with your kids, kids. You actually see the children's crusade. And now you hear the story of kids marching. These aren't just adults marching and changing the world. But your kids see that kids had a hand in the

civil rights movement that 1,000 kids showed up to March 900 were arrested. And then your kids go, oh, man, nobody's going to come the next day. The next day, instead of a thousand kids, 2,500 kids show up. And now it goes on national television. And everyone starts going, hey, man, that's not fair. You can't arrest kids. You can't put a video. What are you doing to these kids? They're putting hoses on kids and dogs. And now your kids are going, wait, this isn't the action of just some adults. I'm capable of this. I can take a stand.

I have that power. And to me, when you teach your kid that, just like Dr. King, when he's six years old, those lessons stay with them forever. You arm your kids with these lessons forever. And those moral, you know, these books, you know me a long time, and we've sat in Dallas together. Like, I always say what these books do is they're, they're. there to give these, it's not just a history lesson, it's a moral lesson. It's a moral, like when I did these books, all of our IAM books, it's a moral lesson of what you can teach your kids.

And this isn't about like what date the March on Washington is. It's about if you stand together, nothing can stop our dream. That's what it says in the back of the book. Just like on the back of I am Abraham Lincoln, it says, I will always speak up for others. Or in the back of Amelia Earhart, it says, I know no bounds. And those are the lessons I want my kids to have. I want my daughter to have. I want my sons to have.

In this day and age, where morals are thrown out the window so often that we need someone to teach, you know, our kids are going to pick heroes whether we like it or not. You might as well have some say in it. So we can get this, Brad Meltzer.com, Amazon, available everywhere. Yep. Yeah, you can get them in any bookstore. I think they're even a Walmart target and everywhere else. All right.

So now let's move on to Brad Meltzer. Let's move on to Brad Meltzer. All right. We've had people, I've had people tweeting me for a second. We get to have a second look at your office on the broadcast. Yeah, so what do you want to know about my office? I saw that on my Twitter. I was like, wait, what's the second?

What happened? I know we did the first thing. What are we having to do? We did the first. We need, you know, let's open up a drawer. Okay. I don't know. Let's open up a jar.

I don't, I don't, you're sitting at your desk. I'm opening a drawer. Anything we pull out? Anything. I don't care. This is actually fun. Okay. So here, this is great.

So in here. I open my drawer is, um, I'm, I, listen, I, I'm, as someone who hosts lost history and decoded, like I'm obsessed with history, so my drawer has a stack of, of business cards. They look like business cards. I'm going to read through this. You'll find the best ones we have. Okay. So here is, you know, there's obviously things like your airline numbers and your nonsense like that, but this is how crazy I am, Jeffie. So here's my college ID. Now here's, I promise you this is true. I can send you a picture. So here's a Rolodex card. Oh, my gosh.

Most people don't even know what that is anymore. Right, right. If I show my kids this, they'd be like, why is that? Why is there a cut in that card? So it's a Rolodex card. That's the old-fashioned contacts. This is where you used to keep your phone numbers, right? And so it is a phone number.

And what happened was when I was starting out, I was 22 years old, and I was putting out my first book and trying to find an agent. and my boss at the time said you should call this agency. Every New York agency rejected me. They had nothing to do with me. I got 24 rejection letters in my first book. There were only 20 publishers. I got 24 rejection letters, right? And it was a disaster.

But on this card is someone recommended to me an agent named Jill Niram or Lane Zachary. They were both at the same agency, but there were two names. And I took the card, and I looked at the card, and I had to figure out which of these agents should I submit my book to. and I looked at Jill and a woman named Lane. And I was like, man, Jill sounds much nicer than a fake name like Lane. No kidding. No kidding. And that woman that I sent to in that one decision of picking which of these two women,

that's who became my agent and sold my first book. So here's the Rolodex card that I made the decision from. That's how crazy I am. I kept that too. Oh, you can't throw it away. Yeah, no, no. It's a good one. I kept, so let's see what else is in here.

I have baby pictures, of course, from kids. Oh, I have my Legion of Superhero's membership ID card for the Superhero Club. Nice. What number are you? You know, number? I'm always number one. What are you going to be? I know.

Okay. You know, you've got to be the good one. I have my driver's license where I have hair, which is good. I've seen a couple pictures of those. Yeah, they exist. Yeah, stay bald. And then wait, I'm going through this two ponds. In fact, I keep so much as two pilots.

Now the second pilot's what we get. Oh, my first business card ever. Nice. Brad Biltz. And then this is actually a prayer that I keep in here that I always love from college. I love this prayer here. And then let me find. I'm going to end on something funny because it's definitely always funny in here.

I'm going through because no one cares about. My Writers Guild of America card. My mystery writer's card. Here it is. If we have this Superman theme to play, this is crazy that I kept this. This is, you know how we used to get baseball cards? If you were a real nerd, what you got is you said, you know, mom and dad, don't buy me baseball. cards. Buy me Superman the movie cards with Christopher Reeve.

Wow. And I actually have card number 77 conversing with the elders. It's when Superman goes and they put them in the phantom zone. And I kept that card because I loved it so much. That is sweet. So that just shows you how pathetically. Well, now, I mean, today that's great. Then, oh my gosh.

Yeah, then that's a sign for I have no friends. Then it's like, do you think we should get Brad checked? Oh, and then here's one of the thing I found. This is two things. Oh, two things that are awesome in here. One of them is a picture of our friend who passed away, Michelle Haydenberger from 9-11, one of the flight attendants on the Pentagon flight. I always keep her thing on my desk.

But here's the other thing I just found in my desk is, well, my mom passed away. My mom was obsessed. No one knows this. My mom was obsessed with moons. And you'll see sometimes in the books I'll hide references to moons. She used to wear little crescent moon pins. and in my desk right here when my mom passed

and you know you kind of split up jewelry with my family there was no jewelry it was basically like whatever fake stuff my mom bought of course but it's still your mom's stuff it's right

it's my mom right it's worth nothing but it's worth everything right and so here is one of my mom's moons it's the one thing I took I was like I want a mom's moon so that's one of my best

that's fantastic and then here last thing is also right here to my left is a superhero action figure from the Justice League of America, the bad guy, the super villain that I made up and they made an action figure from. And as far as I'm saying, I could be on the, we just found out that I am Martin Luther King Jr. made the bestseller list, right?

That's a big deal in our house. Yeah, that's great. Not as big as having our own action figure. Oh, no way. Everybody wants their own action figure. I mean, right. Your own action figure. You know, I was like, my son comes and he's like, why do you have this out?

I'm like, why do I not? Get your own action figure. Right. You can have minus his mind to play with. Don't touch Daddy's action figures. Then get back to me. I get out of here. All right, so we can catch your little reads on Facebook.

I see you're doing that once or twice a week. You're reading stories to us on Facebook. I love that. And you can find all that out at bradmeltzer.com. Brad, I'll talk to you later. Thank you very much. I love you, you, you know that. All right, peace.

Brad Meltzer. Don't forget, Brad Meltzer. This is the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. On the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show. It is that on the Blaze Radio Network. Thanks so much for being along for the ride today.

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