Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Sorry, The Gorilla Had To Die 6/4/16

Episode Date: June 4, 2016

Today on The Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy is joined by legendary boxing announcer, Mark Beiro, to remember Muhammad Ali. Jeffy also gets fired up about the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla & goes ape over Selena Gomez. Plus, a BIG announcement with Mike Opelka! Jeff Fisher is live from 6am to 8am ET, Saturday. Listen for free on The Blaze Radio Network: www.theblaze.com/radio & www.iheart.comFollow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRA Like Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello. Welcome to a... it. How in the world are you? To have a good Memorial Day weekend. Good. Well, it's good to be back. It seems like a lifetime ago since we've been together. I had so many things, and I still do have so many things to talk to you about. And we've got a big announcement coming up a little bit later on in the broadcast. But we awoke today with sad news of Mohammed Ali. Dying yesterday at the age of 74. We heard brief reports yesterday of him not being very well in a Phoenix hospital.

And you were hoping that it would turn out okay. It did not. It was respiratory problems brought on by a horrible disease, which is Parkinson's. He was one of the faces of that disease for years. and you saw the effects ravaging. But he was still Muhammad Ali. A funeral will be held this Wednesday

in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. There'll be a memorial service on Saturday. He fought three different decades. Finished with the record of 56 and 5, 37 of those knockouts. And he was the first man to win the heavyweight title, three times. When you look at lists of most recognizable, most famous people on the planet, he's on it. Mahamad Ali. In fact, the first one that came up for me today

puts him below, Jesus Christ, Michael Jackson, Muhammad himself, Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Muhammad Ali. Pretty strong list. Now, he was remembered mostly as the greatest of all time. And he wasn't afraid to tell you.

He was very, very good at telling you that. It was his antics, his mouth outside the ring that transformed him. I mean, he was Cassius Clay, but when you came Muhammad Ali, he was putting on a show. I don't care which one. Just play the one with the medicine sick, my favorite one. As a director, I'm the savior of the boxing world.

If it wasn't for me, the game would be dead. That's a fact. I want to hear the medicine one. I have rousal with an alligator. Out on toss it with a whale. Out on handcuffed lightning, throw thunder in jail. That's bad. Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick.

I'm so mean, I make medicine sick. Think about it. Muhammad Ali, dead at 74. Now, many remember him for spurning white America. When he joined the black Muslims, changed his name, defied the draft at the height of the Vietnam War. And, in hindsight, you think so. at least many do. His deal was I ain't got no quarrel with them, Viet Cong.

And he lost three and a half years from the prime of his career. There were plenty times we got to know him with, did we find a good Howard CoSell clip? Okay, let's hear, let's play it. I want to hear some Howard CoSell this morning. For the past year, he's been virtually incarcerated in this country. He's undergone all of this for the obvious reason that he didn't have the courage to fight such as Joe Fraser, Jerry Quarry.

and Jimmy Ellis. Why would you say that? I didn't have the courage to fight Joe Frazier and Jimmy Ellis and Jerry Corey. I mean, why would you say that? I mean, you know, I've never showed no fear of nobody. And why would you, as many times as you have came to my fights, knowing you had money bet on other people, I beat him? I mean, why would you, seriously?

I mean, why would you sit here on television and talk about me being afraid or Jerry Carter or Joe Frazier? I mean, that's wrong. I mean, I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not afraid of no man. In fact, one of the, there's the story about him as a kid, where he talked about born Cassius Clay, January 17th, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He claims that he began his boxing career at age 12 after his new bicycle was stolen, and he vowed to policeman Joe Martin that he would whoop the person who took it. Think about that.

And he won the Olympic gold medal in 1960. 1960. Now he changed to Muhammad Ali in 1964 after he beat Sunny Liston, became a member of the black Muslims, the nation of Islam, rejecting what he called his slave name. And then his refusal to be inducted to the army really made people very unhappy with Muhammad. So that happened April 28, 1967, a month after he knocked out Zorofoli in the 7th, the 7th,000. round at Madison Square Garden, his eighth title defense. He was convicted of draft evasion, stripped of his title, banned from boxing. Then still facing a prison term, he was allowed to resume boxing three years later, came back, stopped Jerry Quarry in three rounds, still facing possible

prison sentence. He fought Frazier for the first time in 71. That fight was the fight of the century. A few months later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction. Eight to zero vote. Ali once calculated he had taken 29,000 punches to the head. So he made $57 million in his pro career, and he was part of the champion of the Boxing Reform Act. And he still had many appearances. I mean, the lighting of the torch in 19.

1996 in Atlanta was, and then we saw him in the London Olympics in 2012. He definitely was a face, a man, a mouth of the world. But he fought that Parkinson's disease, and I don't know if you're familiar with that disease or not. I mean, you see the ravages of it on Muhammad Ali. You see the ravages of it on another star, Michael J. Fox. I had a family member who had the disease, and I watched it. This man traveled the world. I mean, he built, this man built his own home from the ground up.

Built three or four homes on property that he owned. It was his compound that he built. He used to go around the world building military towers. And then when he was done with the military, he built fast food chain buildings around the country. And he was a builder out there doing things, the man. And then he got Parkinson's. And you saw it struggle, him struggle so much. Even just to eat, to sit at a table and try to bring a spoon or a fork to your mouth.

And your hand starts shaking. And you'd get so frustrated and so angry. and he told the military, obviously I said he traveled the world putting up a military tower, so he was in the military. He told the VA in the military, look, I want to be your guinea pig. Find the cure to this. And they did for years try. He traveled the country to different hospitals, to different test sites, to different studies,

and used him as a guinea pig until the last, I don't know, five or ten years of his life, they wouldn't do anymore because he'd done so many tests and so many studies that they wouldn't know what worked. And nothing worked. Some would work for a little bit. Some would work for, you know, he'd take, he'd do the medicine and it would get better.

And he would be flying high from this new study of whatever it was. And then pretty soon that would not work anymore. And we saw the ravages of it on Muhammad Ali, how in the end he could barely speak loud. It was a whisper and the shaking. But being a face of the world and a face, a public face, all his life. It didn't stop him from being that face still. So even when you saw Muhammad Ali shaking from Parkinson's,

lighting the torch in Atlanta, you knew in his mind, he was always telling you, I am the greatest. Muhammad Ali, dead at the age of 74. He died yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona. Funnel will be Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky, his hometown. Muhammad Ali.

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Okay, so we have an official death of Prince. Hey, it's the half hour of death of Jeff Fisher show. We have an official death of Prince. We have soldiers from Fort Hood drowning in rescue attempts, horrible as their vehicle overturned. I mean, it's seriously been raining. a lot. You can quote me on that too. That's my meteorological degree.

It's been raining a lot here in Texas. There's plenty of, I mean, Houston area has been devastated. Where I live here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, there's been places that have, you know, flooded and houses are flooding and there's, you know, there's flash flood warnings all over now until, you know, I don't know, through this morning still. It's been, but I'm tired of it raining. Now, when the drought hits this summer and it's 150 degrees and there's no rain, why isn't there rain?

So, just let it rain. But, I mean, there's a serious problem. And the flash flooding, we see the footage of the cars and people trying to drive through roads that are underwater and they get swept away. So stupid. So stupid. That deliver the pizza. They don't need to go out and get it. Horrible plane crashed, the Blue Angel.

Jet crashed and killed the pilot. Thursday. Tragic accident. That particular plane and pilot. We saw here in Dallas at the in the Metroplex out in Fort Worth at the Alliance Air Show. In fact, my wife has specific pictures of that plane and that pilot from earlier this year. I saw one of the local newscasters, and I'm true all over the country, that's what they do. But one of the local newscasters did a report with that particular pilot in that particular plane

of the last time they were here in Alliance. Sad, sad news. And a Thunderbird pilot crashed. The plane crashed, he survived. What the heck is going on? I'm sure they're in the process of investigating both crashes, and I know that they're investigating the vehicle, turning over, submerging, and losing soldiers,

and drowning in Fort Hood. Prince, we know now, died of an overdose of fentanyl. And you saw, I mean, all the reports were just fentanyl crazy. more powerful than morphine is. It comes in a patch, but you can get it in a pill, and did you get it illegally, and did you get it legally? And TMZ has a picture of Prince with his death close the night before, as he made his frantic run to a Walgreens pharmacy.

Now, we know fentanyl is so strong, and it's a lot of, you know, I mean, a lot of times it is a death drug, because when you're close to death and in a lot of pain, whatever you have wrong with you, they prescribe fentanyl. And it does come in a patch, usually. I know the drug people who get it illegally like to heat the patches up. I'm going to give you a little inside drug talk. You know, you heat the patches up and then you get the goo from the patch itself.

gives you the actual buzz from the drug quicker and faster. But hey, that's what I'm told. I wouldn't know anything like that for sure. I've just told that from fentanyl. Man, and we talked a little bit about, you know, it's sad. Look, Prince, we knew Prince was going to be something like that with him. He was in such, you know, pain. A man was dancing in high heels.

Men was dancing in high heels on a stage for years. No wonder his hips and knees and back were all screwed up. So, you know, he obviously was on painkillers and was, you know, got obviously carried away. And the man who found him was showing up to help him and try to get him through this addiction. And he got there obviously too late. sad news. But I think we still need to remember about dependence, physical dependence and addiction. Still really kind of two different things.

But we got into that before, and I don't want to get too deep into that again. But just remember, physical dependence and addiction are really two different things. When you hear these dinkleberries on TV, hawking there, drugs are bad, painkillers are bad. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Fisher. Welcome to it. 888-90-333 is the phone number on the Blaze Radio Network.

So much programming for you on the Blaze Radio Network. Coming up immediately following this broadcast is Mike O'Pelka and Pure O'Pelka. And Mike's going to be joining us a little bit later on in the broadcast. We've got a big announcement of an announcement. This is what this is right here is an announcement of an announcement. Coming up on this broadcast, we were giving the opportunity to do something, and we're going to do it live on the air. We're going to do it live on the air just for you.

Now, off the air, we will get to Harambe as this show progresses. I promise. because I about lost my mind over this whole gorilla thing. That's unbelievable to me. But we'll get to it. Because I'm about ready to break into it right now, but I still am a little miffed at, you know, the death of Muhammad Ali, the age of 74.

We're still beating up prints for overdosing. We've got Blue Angels crashing, Thunderbirds crashing, military rescue vehicles turning over and military soldiers military soldiers drowning. So, you know, I'd just like to, you know, maybe we'll ease into something else.

I'm, my daughter just turned nine, my youngest child, just turned nine this past week. Unbelievable. And my granddaughter

that's hard to say I don't know if I'm able to say it twice I was born earlier this week or last week and she if you follow on Facebook you know she's still in the hospital she's just tiny

they got to get her fed and she'll be home so I may may or may not be here next Saturday as I may be in the great state of Florida There's no way they don't have radio in Florida, do they? So there's no way I could possibly broadcast. This is what I'm saying.

I'll have a broadcast. You know we'll have a show for a. I'm just teasing. But I will say that my daughter or my granddaughter, I said it twice now. That means it's getting easier for me to say, that's a little frightening. If either one of them turn into Rose McGowan,

I will disown them. I will completely disown them. I can't, I can't take it. She, uh, she's back in the news again, uh, trying to make herself relevant. Every so often she says comes out in, uh, she looks great with the shaved head and the, and the lipstick and it looks good.

Looks good on your nose. I'm sure she's just doing some part. But she, uh, criticized the advertisements for, X-Men Apocalypse. Now, if you've seen the Billboard, the ad, it shows Jennifer Lawrence's character in a chokehold. Now, they're upset, and I say there, people like Rose McGowan are upset because trivializing the issue of violence against women. The promotional photo used on some posters and billboards for the film shows Apocalypse

The villain played by Oscar Isaac choking mystique played by Jennifer Lawrence And the tagline is only the strong will survive And doggone it, that's just I can't take it There is a major problem when the men and women at 20th century Fox think casual violence against women is the way to market a film. Oh, there is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled.

The fact that no one flagged this is offensive and frankly stupid. There is, I don't know, context to the ad. The context is, it's a movie, and it's a movie about the X-Men. So guess what happens? let's see what happens in X-Men movies people get hurt people die they have superpowers and they use superpowers against other villains and good guys who have superpowers

and also people who don't have superpowers that's the context and the billboard only the strong will survive X-Men apocalypse Now, maybe I'm, I don't know. Well, I know that I'm weird and frankly, I got that. But I look at the billboard and I did not even cross my mind about it being anything to do with casual violence against women. I really, I do not. I didn't see it.

I still don't. The only reason I see it at all is because of people like Rose McGowan. I get, you know, Twitter people all got, you know, so, of course, I mean, that's what Twitter does, right? I mean, that's what the beautiful thing about Twitter is you get to just rip things. That's what makes it fun. And you find little things that bug you and you tweet. about it. I mean, that's Twitter. That's what you're supposed to do. Right? I think so.

But Rose, and then she posted on her Facebook post, F-this, Rose. First of all, let's take a look at it. I wonder what Rose. Rose certainly couldn't have done anything. Oh, wait, there's covers of movies of her wearing weapons. Oh, yeah, but that's casual violence against men. I guess that's okay. She really has not had, I don't know if she's got these video shorts that she's putting out. I'm looking at her IMDB page now. She's been in a couple of minor TV series.

And, of course, she was in nip-tuck. Well, I talk about a show that was full of male chauvinist and women getting plastic surgery and having illicit sex around the clock with, you know, there are a few shows that didn't have that, but Rose was part of that. And charmed witches. I know they were good witches. I got it. So,

Rose, please. And she's part of the call of duty. She's got some video game money coming in as she voices some stuff on call of duty. That's a good gig. Now, listen, I was looking at the Arnold Schwarzenegger television commercial, and it's a television commercial. for the game, a game. And it's produced like a movie trailer.

I mean, hello, if you want to fire Rose McGowan and hire me, that's fine. That would be fun being part of that. So I'll give Rose a little, I'll give her half credit, not even half credit. Just a little minor credit for doing that, because that works probably fun. But good luck to the United States. States. Because coming to, you're all wound up about Facebook, you know, the, they're taking things down and it's, it's not free speech anymore, and it's cracked down. And they're not free, Facebook is bad and Twitter is bad, because they're not letting us say everything we want to say. And they're already mad at the

European Union because Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and Microsoft who got a code of conduct with the European Union and illegal hate speech, we can't have it and we're going to take it away. Huh. What? Free speech, code of conduct. I wonder how that could happen. Oh, I don't know.

Maybe people getting upset over a movie billboard. I mean, these companies are private companies. They can do whatever they want. Right? I mean, they've got to try to stay in business and they've got to try to keep people. happy, but now working with governments seems to start pushing the, I don't know. It just doesn't sit right. They can do what they want.

I got it. It's okay for their private companies. They can do what they want. But it just doesn't sit right. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know what I mean. You're listening to the Jeff.

Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it. 888-90-333. We will get into Harambe. A little bit later on in the broadcast. We must talk about Harambe.

Must. Must. It's a noun. Gender. It's a noun. The state of being male or female typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. Miriam Webster says gender.

A subclass within a grammatical class is noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb of a language that is partially arbitrary, but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex. And that determines agreement with selection of other words or grammatical forms, membership of a word or grammatical form, such as a subclass, an infectious form showing membership. in such a subclass. 2A. the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits

typically associated with one's sex. Gender. By the fall of 2017, Washington State Public Schools will begin teaching gender expression to kindergartners. You heard me.

By the fall of 2017, Let's see, when is that? When is 2007? Oh, I know. Next year. Washington State. And this is coming to a school near you soon. We'll begin teaching gender expression to kindergartners under a newly approved health education learning standards that designate sexual health a core idea.

It's a core idea of public K through 12. education. While some aspects of sexual health aren't taught K through 12, HIV prevention begins in fourth grade. One component of sexual health titled self-identity begins in kindergarten, where students will be expected to understand there are many ways to express gender. We, seriously, seriously, we are out of stick in control. out of control. The state's health education glossary defines gender as a social construct based on emotional, behavioral, or cultural characteristics attached to a person's assigned biological sex. Gender expression, meanwhile, is defined as the way someone outwardly expresses their gender.

These definitions differ from the state's definition of biological sex based on chromosomes, hormones, and internal and external anatomy. Really? No kidding. This is out of control. And how many groups now have canceled North Carolina because of their LGBT? anti-laws, the HB2. We are not going to North Carolina. That's it. You know, I will say, Selena Gomez actually worked smarter, not harder, over this.

Because you go down the list, I mean, it's just to quick, the first page of Google, 13 group drops plans of Charlotte events, more could come. Blue Man Group joins others, canceling North Carolina dates. A list of concerts events canceled. Blue Man Group, Pearl Jam cancels, Boston canceled. B-Corp companies cancel $1 million event.

Cirque de Saleh, the latest group to cancel shows in North Carolina. 13 conventions have canceled or decided against North Carolina. Selina Gomez said she racked her brain about what to do with North Carolina. Carolina. And she's going to donate concert proceeds to the LGBT group. Huh. So she's still going to perform and put on her art, if you want to call Selena Gomez art, and then donate money to the cause instead of just, we're not going to do anything there. Huh. I must say, Selena, that's a pretty good job. I'm all about that for Selena Gomez.

Much better than I'm not going to play there at all. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. It was a success. Begin Life Force reboot program now. Stand clear. Signs stable. It's alive.

Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. That it is. Welcome to it. 888-90-33 is the phone number. Nice to have you along for the ride in the Blaze Radio Network. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA. Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, and Instagram at Jeff EMRA. Sad news out of Phoenix yesterday.

Muhammad Ali dead at the age of 74. We talked a little bit earlier about Muhammad and how, you know, one of the most recognized men on the planet and a little bit of his history. The funeral will be Wednesday in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Never ashamed to call himself the greatest. Joining me now, an old friend, a boxing luminary himself. ring announcer extraordinaire, Mark Biro. Mark from Tampa, Florida, USA.

How in the world are you? Real good, Jeff. Thank you. Very sad day. It's very sad. So, have you, I'm assuming that you had a few times of crossing paths with Muhammad? Oh, yes, very much. So, the first time I ever met him,

was in, believe it or not, of all places, Tulsa, Oklahoma. And there was a charity event for children that both of us had volunteered to be a part of, and Joe Frazier as well. And the first time I saw him, he was in the lobby of the hotel that we were staying at. and he was entertaining children. He was a big, he was a big magic fan. You know, he, I don't mean Orlando magic. Right, I got you.

Magicians. Yes, a magician. And these children that were in the lobby were, just happened to be, they had no connection to the event that we were involved in. they were just sons and daughters of people that were either checking in or checking out of the hotel. And he was there in the lobby, dazzling them, and I have to say me too, with a lot of magic tricks. It was great. I remember he told me the first time he talked to me after I was sitting with the kids watching him do all this,

and he said in that soft voice that he had, and he said, I wish I could get, I wish I could make you disappear, Mr. Announcer. Well, I can guarantee that he's not the first one to think that. Boy, you took it right out of my mouth, Jeff, thanks a lot. But that's the kind of guy he was. He was, you know, as boisterous as he was in the show business of boxing as a person, and he was a very quiet guy. And in fact, anything you read about him in his early years,

he was very much a very shy guy. You know, you just couldn't believe the way he transformed himself. Well, he transformed himself really after. I was just saying he transformed himself really after the first bout, right? When he stopped being Cassius Clay, when he became. Khamma, I mean, that was the big transformation for him. Yes, but he also, as Cassius Clay, when he was starting out in the 50s, and he modeled himself after the professional wrestler, Gorgeous George.

Nice. He really couldn't believe when he saw Gorgeous George on TV promoting his wrestling matches, he actually went and bought a ticket and went to the arena to see all. all the people that just hated gorgeous George and wanted to see him get beat. And he said, wow, that's a good way to sell tickets. Right. All right. Just look how pretty I am.

Look how pretty I am. That's right. And, you know, the truth is when he was an Olympic hero, he never drank. He didn't smoke. He didn't run around. He always stayed within his own community. And he had a great mind. for knowing who the great people in boxing that he admired.

And one of the first people he went and reached out to was Angelo Dundee. And Dundee always said. A great Angelo Dundee. The great Angela Dundee. And Angelo, he and I would talk over dinner many times, and he'd tell me, you know, if people knew what kind of a guy this man was, they, you know, they would love him all the more because he is that genuine and he's a good kid. He always called him that.

He's a good kid. Well, anytime you met Angela Dundee, you were always a kid anyway. That's right. That's right. That's right. He asked me, I remember Muhammad asked me one day, he said, Mark, did you ever box? And I told him, no, I just looked this way now. naturally.

Very funny. Yes. But he was really good guy. It was a shame. You know, I was reading as you go back and you read a little bit of the history today, just trying to remember a little bit of his life that maybe you had forgotten because, I mean, he was Muhammad Ali.

I mean, who doesn't know Muhammad Ali, right? But, I mean, for years, he was, aside from all being the, you know, the hated boxer, the look how pretty. I am. I can't stand that guy. I want him to beat. When he decided to be an observer and not go to the war, man, he grew a lot of hate for a lot of people. In hindsight, I think now we all go, pooh, man, good for him. Well, that, you know, as hated as he was for that stance, I could tell you, Jeff, personally, I was in high. school and that affected me because I made a decision not to go myself if I was ever called and I was just very lucky that I was never called but I have to tell you to me he was an inspiration in that endeavor but the thing that really stands out about his refusal to serve

was that the government offered him all kinds of of cushy guarantees. He wouldn't even have to carry a rifle or even be near a confrontational zone. He was almost guaranteed all of that, and he still wouldn't do it on the principle that he had based it on. Right, and knowing that, look, the whole point was him not going. If he just sits at a desk for a couple of years, they still use him as some sort of promotional tool, and that's ridiculous. That's correct. That's correct. And Joe Lewis did the same thing in World War II. He put on many benefits and raised a lot of money for the folks on the

home front, milk fund and all of that. Ali would have done the same thing. And the other thing, he would have been able to hold on to the heavyweight championship. And he would have done legitimate benefits and also personal monetary endeavors. But he gave all that up. And let me tell you, one of the things that isn't well known is that during his illegal exile after he was stripped of the title, the person who helped him financially on many occasions was Joe Frazier. And they, you know, Joe Frazier and, you know, Joe Frazier and.

And he both dreamed of the day that they would finally reconcile the championship after Ali was stripped and Joe Frazier won tournaments to make him the champion. Frazier gave him a lot of his purse of money to keep Ali afloat. Ali was in bad straits. The ironic thing about that is the Supreme Court, when it ruled on Ali's case, ruled eight to nothing in his favor. Yeah, that was great. And the one abstention was Chief Justice Rehnquist who recused himself from the case because he had been involved in a lower case decision, and he recused himself. Otherwise, it would have been nine to nothing. Wow.

Think of that. Yeah. All right. So Mark Beiro, joining us now, talk a little bit about Muhammad Ali and his run-ins with Mohammed. Muhammad Ali, obviously, sad news passing away yesterday in Phoenix at the age of 74, struggling from Parkinson's and having respiratory issues that he couldn't overcome yesterday. Very sad news. We saw him, we watched him to prove what a great, you know, icon he was, even when struggling with such a horrible disease, he took it out in front of the people and said,

hey, here I am, and this is what I'm struggling with. And I'm still, Muhammad Ali, I am the greatest. I mean, it was tremendous. Well, in many Las Vegas cards that I was involved in, in which he was a guest, these arenas that would hold, you know, six, eight thousand people. And in the outdoor parking lots, even more than that, 20,000, when he would come into the arena, and he had this Parkinson's, and you could see him just moving, he had this slight smile on his face.

He was never, you know, he wasn't boisterous at that point. Right. As soon as he walked into the arena. Still, Mohammed. Yes. The whole place stood up, and, you know, from the time at the outermost part of the arena to sitting at ringside, the entire arena would give him a standing O. You know, I mean, it was, you see the respect of people,

including those who never took a liking to him. They all loved him and respected and admired what he really stood for. So one final story of a run-in with Muhammad. Well. Time for one more. Okay. When Leila Ali was fighting for the women's championship, I happened to be the ring announcer for that event. And we had gone out to eat together at one of the casino restaurants.

And while we were sitting there, Ali was across the table from me. And he said, I just got me a dog. And I said, oh, you do? You got a pet? a dog? And he said, yeah, guess what kind it is? And I said, I don't know, Mohammed. What is it? A boxer. The whole place just cracked up and, you know, everything. That's kind of, he never stopped, you know. Mark Beiro, boxing announcer extraordinaire and a good friend. Thank you, Mark. I appreciate it. And you can go on.

Jeff, give me a call on your own. I enjoyed it, brother. I will. I love you. We'll talk to you later. Mark Beiro from Tampa, Florida, boxing announcer extraordinary, talking a little Muhammad Ali, and the sad news that Mohammed passed away yesterday at the age of 74. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show returns on the Blaze Radio Network. That it does. 888-903.33 is the phone number. Immediately following this broadcast, Pure O'Pelka, Michael Pellke. He's coming up as a guest momentarily on the Blaze Radio Network and the Jeff Fisher show. We've got an announcement. And this is an announcement of an announcement that we're going to be announcing some.

He and I have to do something live on the air and figure out what's going to happen schedule-wise here on the Blaze Radio Network. And we've got to do this the right way. And I'll explain it to you after the bottom of the hour. in about, you know, 10 minutes from right now. Then after Mike, we do a little Jay Sebrun replay, and then Chris Salcedo, Mike Slater, Joe Pags, all live on Saturday and the Blaze Radio Network. Then Sunday, you got a little David Barton, Bill Handel,

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that don't make it to the main radio broadcast, but are very, very good. And just scroll down and enjoy the podcast. Take us with you. Just slide the Blaze Radio Network right in your pocket and just know that whenever you're feeling a little shaky, a little down, pat your pocket, know that we're right there. We were right there.

Before Harambe was killed, before the outrage erupted, Harambe was a young gorilla on his way to meet some ladies. In September 2014, the Silverback gorilla, 15 years old at the time traveled from Brownsville, Texas, to the Cincinnati Zoo to meet the female western lowland gorillas, Chewy, and Mara. Last week, zookeepers shot and killed Harambe because they feared he might hurt a four-year-old boy who slipped into the guerrillas enclosure. As the internet outrage machine spews and sputters, Harambe's death clearly means different

things to different people. For zookeepers, this sad. unexpected death means a kink in the gorilla species survival plan. Bummer, I can't take it. I know we were off, and I know there was outrage and jokes and everything else surrounding Harambe. But if you think, first of all, we need to rethink our plans here at the zoo. they're being sued and I know they're being sued because they feel like they

were against, what was the, what was the, they're being sued because they were, the Animal Welfare Act and Animal Welfare Regulations by the USDA. They're being sued and they're saying that they were

against some of their rules and regulations of the Animal Welfare Act. The Animal Welfare Act was signed into law in 1966. It's the only federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. Other laws, policies, and guidelines may include additional species coverage for specifications for animals' care and use, but all refer to the Animal Welfare Act as the minimum acceptable standard. The Act is enforced by the USDA, the APHIS, and animal care.

And they give a big list of what they, of what they, what rule they have. had broken in the Animal Welfare Act, and you can go and read it if you want. I mean, there's PDF file of the rules and regulations. It's just another government agency full of rules and regulations. And, you know, I get it. That's good. Okay, okay, I got it. All you animal lovers, I got it.

Okay. I want animals to be taken care of too. I don't want people harming animals. But if my kid were to fall into a garage. gorilla cage. I want him to bring the gorilla down. Save the kid. Why? I've seen the movie. It doesn't end well when you don't kill the ape. Okay. Second, new protocols. A human falls into a gorilla cage or any animal cage. All the other screaming, agonizing moms around the cages, back away. so that you shut up.

All I could do when I'm watching that video of the kid with Harambe is trying to tell the parents, Shut up! Shut up! Can't take it. Okay? I'm sorry. The gorilla had to die. The Jeff Fisher Show, a Blaze Radio Network.

The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to it. 888-903-33 is the phone number. As promoted. Joining me, Mike Opelka. Mike, welcome to the broadcast. Good morning, Jeffrey. What a pleasure.

I have not been on your show in forever. I used to call in and bother you, and then you stopped taking my calls. No, I didn't stop taking your calls. I just told them, put you on hold in that way. I didn't stop taking your call, though. So I actually showed up, and you just. You can't avoid me. I will not be ignored.

Find a bunny boiling on your soap today. Thank you. So I know that, you know, we've got a lot of stuff to talk about, and we do have an announcement to make, and we're going to figure out how to make this announcement in a little bit. But talk a little bit about, I mean, are you, did you have any run-ins with Muhammad at all? I did. I did. I spent a day with Muhammad Ali back in 1986.

I believe it was. And doing a charity event in Houston. And we, I actually have a photo with me, Ali, and the then mayor of Houston, Texas, Kathy Whitmire. I love Kathy Whitmire. She was the wardrobe inspiration for Dustin Hoffman's character in Tootsie. On every level. Hair, makeup, clothing. That's great.

So I did spend a day with Ali. I'm going to share. some of the insights on that. A remarkable experience. I can't even begin to tell you how fortunate I was to get a lot of time with him that day. And your buddy, the ring announcer? Yeah, Mark Biro, my good phrase, tremendous. The stories he was telling about charity and Ali's commitment to charity and various charities is so accurate that people don't understand how much this guy gave back to not only his community, but communities he had no idea. or no experience with.

But he did a lot for his community, for boxing, for black folks in America, and he was a tireless, tireless worker in that arena. And, you know, that's what made him so, I mean, that's one of the things that made him Muhammad Ali in such an icon. Too bad. And through the Parkinson's where you talked, I heard you talking about Parkinson's earlier. I think there are probably everybody has a relationship. unfortunate relationship in their family with Parkinson's, and unless you've seen what it does to

a person and the family, you don't fully understand it. Horrible. It is. But the Michael J. Fox thing, you know, I go back to the work he's done still and still pushing. He reminds me of Ali in his relentless pursuit to try and keep a life and then do good with what he's been saddled with. That's what you're supposed to do, I guess, right? Yep.

No kidding. All right. So we were told a while ago that on the 18th of this month, June of 2016, there were going to be some schedule changes to the Blaze Radio Network. And that was going to affect you and me. Yeah. And the schedule changes, one was going to be, there was going to be a show airing from six in the morning,

6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and one show from 9 a.m. to 12. 12 noon. Right. And they said, hey, do you want to do a mud wrestling event? Do you want to, maybe we do a boxing event? I mean, we should have thought of that. That would have been actually something to do.

That would have been good. We'd be in different weight classes, though. That's funny. That's funny. I mean, it would just be for charity. Okay, okay. I'm sorry. I'm getting too technical.

We wouldn't have to have, you know, the fat guy size just for charity, do we? I could bulk up a little bit. I could raging bullet. I could Jake Lamont in. I mean, I could, too. You know, if I had to. If I had to. I think creamed corn, a creamed corn wrestling match, which I know you've witnessed more than one.

Don't lie to me. I know you've had a bachelor party. You can't prove that. You cannot prove that. But, of course, I mean, who hasn't? Seriously. Come on, a cream corn wrestling match. Who hasn't?

Studio B in Dallas, cream corn, and with Dana Lash, Dana's the referee, and Tommy's the ring announcer. Oh, never mind. Okay. Sorry. So we could have done any number of things. But, you know, being the dullards that we are. And we are. No question about that.

I thought, you know, we should flip a coin for it. Wait a minute. And I have in my hand. Hold on a second. I thought I was just starting my show at nine. I thought I got another hour of sleep and I start at nine and go to noon. Now we're flipping a coin for the schedule. You're just not going to go six to nine?

I have. I have. Why would I do that when we have a choice? I didn't understand it was a choice. I have it my hand. I think this is the only one. Oh, what is it? I may have, I don't know if I could.

I probably can't take a picture of it because it's illegal. but I have a stunt brain pure Opelka challenge coin. I don't know if you're going to give it away on the show or not, but... Well, it was. You haven't. I hear it. Yeah. That is a...

It's a one-ounce coin made of tritium. I don't know if you're aware of that. You know what the head looks like. I do. But those of you that come in... The tail is really interesting. I can't photo that. I don't want to take a picture.

That can't happen. NSFW is the correct abbreviation. If you want to give these away later on the show, you can go ahead. But this one's going to stay bright. Well, you know, you have the only one. And I was in Dallas, what, two weeks ago? And I didn't even check because I carry it with me in my computer bag. It's in a little pocket in the front, which makes me wonder.

It used to be. I showed it to you. I tried to get it back to you before you left. And, poof, I guess I missed you. So, okay, so we're going to flip. So the heads, the head you're using is, obviously, the logo. The pure Opelka logo picture, but the tail. Of course.

The tail is the, there's another logo. Yeah. It's another Opelca logo. I'll tell you that. All right. So do I, are you going to flip it? Are you going to spin it and I get to call it or you call, who's calling this? Yeah, I'll tell you what, since we, since I'll spin it.

like this. Oh, that's a good spin. I should have used that one. Okay. So I'll spin it and you can call it. Of course I'll give you, you can call it. Mike, this is your deal. I just realized something.

How in the world do you think that I would, I mean, where you're spinning? I'm going to, you're going to tell you what it is. 900 miles away from me. I'll tell you what it is. Whatever you pick, oh, come on. Are you insinuating, I'm going to lie? Could, we should periscope this. Yeah, go ahead.

Oh, darn. Has my phone charged? Let's see. I can't find my phone right now. You know, trust is just a name on a bank. All right, I have to trust you. I have no choice. Correct.

So this is Fritt. A winner gets pick of time slot. Where winner gets picks. 6 a.m. or 9 a.m. Start time. Okay. Okay. It's one spin.

We're not two out of three. I just want to clarify because when you lose, I don't want you whining. Oh, that's right. Wait a minute. Maybe we better. It's only. Now one spin. Okay. Now one spin. Maybe three. Wait a minute. I got to think about this for a second.

Now, one spin. Okay, one spin. I'm all for one and done. Let's go. I'm supposed to just let that one go? Yeah. Okay. Here we go. People at home figured it out. All right, there you go. Call it.

Tails. Tales never fails. Tails never fails. Who's your buddy? Who's your pal? Here it goes. You've already seen it now that's settling. So what did you call? Tails.

No. Oh, no. Oh, no. Heads, it is. So I guess you want the six to nine. Darn the luck. You want the morning drive slot, six to nine, right? That would, you'd think that'd be my first choice.

I do. You'd think that'd be my first choice. If I were making the choice, Jeffie, that's what I would choose. Well, then that's what you get. Congratulations. Mike. I have a two. You get the six to nine slot on the Blaze Radio

Network. I have a two word response. Starting on the 18th. June 18th. I start at 6 a.m. but I get that extra hour. Well, I'm not just giving you a new time. I mean, we are not giving you a new time slot without an extra hour. We're both taking

an extra hour. We're stealing it. Suddenly, this became we I'm giving. I have a two-word response. to all of this, Jeffie. What is that? Well, the second word is you. Huh.

Let's see. Rose McGowan, is that you? That's a callback. I see what you did there. No, thank you. So this is big news. This is big news. I'm actually excited.

Despite losing the coin toss, spin. I don't even get my damn coin back. I'll see. I'll give it to you. I mean, who doesn't carry this with them all the time? I mean, it's the only. I thought I did. I couldn't find you.

I'm sorry. I tried to. Is Mike here? No? Okay. So I just guess. Is this the payback I get for me going to Silicon Valley? I was a little ticked about that.

Aha! Stamp collector. I knew it. A little ticked about that. But hey, what do I? June 18th, brand new schedule on the Blaze Radio Saturday, kicking off with Pure Opelca for three hours at 6 to 9 a.m. Followed by?

Myself, Jeff Fisher. from 9 to noon on the Blaze Radio Network. I'm actually excited. So we've got Opelka, Fisher, Salcedo, Slater, Pags. I mean, we just made your Saturday that much better. It's amazing. Seriously. It's amazing.

So you're coming up today. We're doing a little Mohammed Ali throwback chat. Anything else to look forward to before I let you go? I'm expecting to get Kurt Schillings back on. Oh, that's right. Kurt Schillinger back on the phone. I hate that. No, Kurt Schleaster, that guy owes me money.

He owes me money. chilling on the phone this morning. He called in during my stint on Bucks show. I know. How cool is that? It was very cool. And I was very impressed with how quickly he responds to questions with clarity and intelligence. He's a little bit of a wild animal, so anything could happen. Oh, that would be fun.

But I did remind him the words he learned from George Carlin, we can't use on this network. I mean, you can't if you don't worry about, well, I'm not worried about your job. We're not going to go off the air, but you might. Right. I just got the extra hours. Right. What are they going to do?

Take it away from you? Yes. Oh, yeah, well, never mind. Remind him then. We've worked in radio. But yeah, I've got that. I'm going to share my story of my day with Muhammad Ali. I can't wait to hear that.

And, you know, I don't have a story about, what is his name, Harambe, the, The gorilla? Yeah. But. Oh, my God. There is a temple in Tibet that had 140 tigers in it. And? I'm not going to a temple with 140 tigers.

That's all I got to tell you. But I got a couple of crazy stories. And are you aware, Jeffrey, because I know you always want to talk about the Olympics. Oh. I know. You are Mr. Olympic in the offices. Oh, man. I'm in the office pool.

Are you aware there's a refugee team? A what? There is an entire... No, seriously. Yeah. That's fantastic. I'm going to tell that story. A refugee team?

Yeah, there's a, you know, all there's 21, what, 18, 220 nations competing? Well, the IOC has taken it upon themselves to create a team made solely of refugees. And these refugees are from... Refugia, I guess. No, they're for any of the refugees, predominantly from the Middle East. That freaking country, I hate, man. But they've got a flag and everything. Shut up.

No, I'm going to share it with you. They've got money, and they've got, well, it's money that came from, guess who? Probably America, which means it came from who. You and me. Yeah, no kidding. So, I got a little outrage today. I don't blame you for that. I wish I had known that because that's actually agonizing.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. It'll be there. And, you know, and so much more. And, you know, this week's rejected promotional giveaway, which is it's candy. Why was it rejected? There's just none left. Michael Pelka, coming up immediately following this broadcast on the Blaze Radio Network,

and starting June 18th, a week from next Saturday, we go to the new schedule. 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. with Michael Pelka and Piro Pelka, and 9 to noon, the Jeff Fisher Radio Show. Thanks, Mike. Thank you, sir. God bless. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. All right.

So those of you that think that, hey, guys are the ones that want to have all the sex and the relationships. A new study, men underestimate how much their wives and girlfriends want sex. So take that with you this weekend. men, when you go home and you think to yourselves, hmm, when, when should I see if the wife or the girlfriend would like to fool around? Just know that she's way ahead of you, way ahead of you, because she definitely is ready to go. Okay, just letting you know, you're welcome.

You're welcome on behalf of me. That's all. Plus, I mean, seriously, does anybody really told you you look good today? No? Not yet? Well, you do, doggone it. Seriously, you look great.

No, seriously, you look great. I mean, you're not going to wear that all day, are you? I have rousel with an alligator. Out on tosser with a whale. Out on handcuffed lightning, throw thunder in jail. That's bad. Only last week, I murdered a rock.

injure the stone hospitalize a brick I'm so mean I make medicine sick I am the greatest yes you were Mohammed Ali dead at the age of 74 rest in peace this is the Jeff Fisher show

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