Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - What Would You Do? 1/9/16

Episode Date: January 9, 2016

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This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Oh my. Hello. One month. Wow. We've got arms standoffs, drug busts, presidential elections still going on. Christmas, New Year's. Amazing what can happen in a month, isn't it? And of course, you know, I've been living this shoulder surgery. It's just been my life for the last month. I hope everyone had a great month of December in the first part of January. Seriously, it is good to be back. I am happy to see you.

I'm looking through that wormhole right now, just at you. And don't worry about what you're wearing. You look great. But the sling that I'm in is agonizing, and it's two more weeks. Two more weeks of wearing this sling. I'm already at the point where I get to take my arm out. You know, a couple times a day, but agonizing. And it's really, I've had enough.

I've had enough. But we'll start from the beginning, shall we? I've got like eight little holes in my shoulder. I have some sort of 3D printed pig bone, pig bone, or plastic petro technology spike in my shoulder now. that's supposed to help in healing and make it feel better, longer, and last longer. Okay, thank you. It was bad.

They showed me that there was a big flapping muscle and rotator cuff and arthritis, and they did a lot of work. And I can, while it's really sore, I can tell that, you know, the work is going to be worth it. Can't wait. you know that first the first couple days were really really agonizing you know I got

I was told by another person that I work with who had the surgery or who had a similar shoulder surgery you know how bad it was and how horrible it was and the first couple days were for sure I mean it's really bad and you realize

how really sore it is and they they're in this sling first of all. And, you know, I wake up from the operation, and I've got the, you know, I've got the mask on, and I'm trying to rip it off, and I'm tired, I just, I just want to get out. And so then they send you home and you've got, you've got the sling, right? And you've just had surgery, so it's all bundled up, and there's still a couple of unopened, you know, a couple of the holes they leave. And those will ooze for a little while until they heal. Oh, okay, good. And, and, they put a nerve block painkiller needle in your neck and give you a box, a sling box to carry over your other shoulder

that is put on a timer that shoots more pain killer juice into your shoulder for the first couple of days. There is a way to up the dosage, you know, to up the amount that's going into your shoulder. Not that I figured that out. but it makes it go away faster obviously because there's only so much juice in the box so you know you only want to use it as necessary and uh i remember getting home and sitting there and i felt so claustrophobic i've got this thing hanging over my shoulder this box and it's my neck and this thing sling wrapped around my neck and the sling on my side has got this metal brace that keeps your arm out because, you know, they tell you that shoulders are supposed to be stable.

Don't move. Shoulders heal better when they're, when they just sit and heal for the first few weeks. And especially for the first two weeks, nothing, which is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult. And it's very, I mean, I got up and I just started walking around the house just because I felt so I wanted to get out of this stuff. So once the nerve block painkiller thing runs out, and it gives you an agonizing,

beep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, so you want to shut it off and get out of it, get rid of it. And then you, you know, pull the thing out of your neck. that is a huge relief. So you're like, oh, okay, that's gone, but you're still in this lane. And then, you know, it's Christmas. With a couple weeks, we have people coming over. And so it's good to see people, but it's just, you know, you're doing everything with one hand.

And let me rephrase. Just think about this for just a second. Take a sip of your coffee. There you go. Hit the sick. Okay. You're doing everything with one hand. Now, for me, my dominant arm is my right arm. That's the arm that's in the sling. So I'm doing everything with my left hand. Okay. There's a reason why pajamas, sweatpants, slip on shoes are a good thing in life. It's all I'm saying. Okay. Then I have, you know, we have the family over.

it's Christmas. It's, you know, I have my oldest son there with his wife, and they're all happy because they're going to have a baby. And, you know, they're happy. They're apprehensive. They're having fun. You know, my, first, let me say that my wife has been an angel, complete angel. My kids had been little angels.

I mean, they obviously were happy that I was home, you know, for the first couple days. And then it was like, dear God is dead. ever going to go back to work and leave us out of, get out of this house. But for now they were happy. And, you know, they all had their fun with their little dances. My daughter, one day, decided that she was going to start dancing around the house, holding her arm up like it was in a sling singing, do the daddy. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

And so that became the, you know, the hit song and dance. over the holidays. I don't know if there's video of any of that. And then, you know, you're stuck, right? I mean, you can sit up in a bed, but you can't really lay down. And if you lay down, the first time you lay down on your side, the other side that wasn't operated on, it is like heaven, heaven.

Because you've been sitting in your tilt-back setup chair for two, two and a half weeks. And you decide, I'm going to try to just lay down. Well, don't forget you have this metal brace up against your side, keeping your arm in place and the sling in place. So when you lay down, this metal brace digs into your side. So for a brief period of time,

it is overwhelmingly good laying down. So you take the pain of, this metal brace, even though, I mean, it's patted, but it's still this, you still have a, you know, piece of metal or hard plastic in there. And it's just digging into your side. So at some point, after, you know, of a while, the thing digging into your side is worse than how good it is laying down. So you got to get back up. So you're in this chair. And it's just, you know, you're laying there. And I, you know, what are you going to do? I don't know. I don't know. what you're going to do, what I do is I binged on a lot of TV shows.

Okay. I found several that are worth binging on. And, you know, I even went back and binge through Walking Dead again, this first half of this last season. Just to, you know, just because. Just because, okay? I was happy because my eldest son hadn't seen. He's without cable, by the way. He's one of the millennials that don't believe in cable.

television. So he was happy that I had the series backed up. So I got to binge that with them. And we'll get into a little bit more of my cable experience as the broadcast continues. So now I can take it out of the sling a couple times a day. I can shower. Oh, my gosh. The first shower after two weeks was tremendous. Okay. I just might want to. go on record as saying tremendous. And I can take it out of the sling a couple times a day. I have minor exercises I'm supposed to do with their little stretching band that you hook onto the door, which I'm sure they charged me $8,000 for this giant rubber band.

I'm sure they charge the insurance company $8,000. My fee was a little cheaper. And I can, you know, you're supposed to, you pull it across your body, you know, sets of three, and then you pull it the other way away from your body. But when you stand with your arms, put your arms in front of you like you're holding ski pulls, okay? And then you push your hand forward, okay? Oh my gosh, does that hurt? Wow.

that's a motion that hurts a lot. Then they want you to stand and face the wall and you put your hand up, just take your arm and you put it up like you're giving someone a low five. It's up above even with your head, right? Your hand is up above you. And you take your fingers and you crawl up a wall. You want to walk your hand up this wall.

Ow? Is an operative word? Ow! Now they tell you, Why, you should do that in a shower because it's the hot water that makes it feel? No. No. See, the idea of taking a shower is to be, feel good.

I don't want to do things in the shower that cause pain. The shower is for goodness, cleanliness, happiness, not pain. Okay. Back to work. First week back. Strange. Strange for sure. The weird thing is, well, weird.

The thing that really, really stinks is I can't drive. They don't want you to drive. And so I have my wife and one of my coworkers driving me, you know, to and from work and wherever we go and whatever we do. Again, she's been, you know, an angel. I guess I could, you know, if I had your money, I'd Uber it back and forth every day. But, you know, I don't have your money yet. So, you know, my wife drives me back and forth. one of my coworkers also, Keith, has been tremendous.

And I appreciate it more than they know. But it really stinks not to be able to have that independence to drive. And I, you know, you understand how the people who are a hundred years old, well, I'm sorry, you understand the people that are like me that are 100 years old, but can't drive, have had that taken away from them, how bad that sucks. because it is a freeing thing. You may just drive back and forth to work every day and you don't think about it as being able to

a freeing experience, but it is because you're able to go without worry of other humans. I should, I thought about just driving, this driving. But a few times, and I really haven't told my wife this, so hopefully she is not listening. A couple of times when I have it off, the sling off at the house, you know, you do things, you eat.

I mean, we'll talk a little bit about that. I have lost some weight, apparently one-handed eating and, you know, makes you lose weight. But the one thing that happened that made me think I'm not going to drive, not going to attempt it, was you're getting something out of the freezer. Let's just, for the sake of argument, let's say ice cream. I mean, okay, just for the sake of argument. Let's say you're going to the freezer to get some ice cream and dish yourself up a one-handed bowl of ice cream,

just for the sake of argument. And when you go to put the half gallon of ice cream back into the freezer, it slips out of your left hand and starts to drop down. Now, your reflex reaction is to grab it with your other hand, right? Well, post shoulder surgery, your arm does not want to hang down. It hurts a lot. In fact, hanging it down is a big deal. Dangling it down on your side is a big deal.

in the shower bending over hanging down is a big deal it feels good but not for long in fact when they first took it off at the doctor's office and she talked about you can take it out and take a shower and all that stuff and i was like oh i can dangle it too and she had this look on her face like and i put my arm down pretty fast too fast before the nurse said you don't want to do that and i got about three quarters of the way down, and it really hurts a lot. And you bring it back up, and then it still hurts for quite a while after that. So you don't want to dangle it down. So about halfway through that reflex reaction of going to grab that ice cream, I realized you need to stop that movement now before it gets any worse.

Because it was already hurting. you just need to go ahead and let the ice cream fall. So that made me think, you know, driving probably isn't a good idea because something will happen. Like, you know, you just, you think of driving back and forth to work and nothing happens and it's a routine thing and, you know, you get over and whatever. But there are little things that happen during every drive that you don't, that are just different every day.

You swerve, you stop, you, whatever. And I just know that if I'm driving, something is going to happen where I have to slam and slam into the steering wheel or bend far to the right, something. Something is going to happen that's going to make me very unhappy pain-wise. And I don't want to screw up this shoulder because I don't want to have to go through this again. I do not want to have to go through this again. So two more weeks, two more weeks of this sling, two more weeks.

I know you, you know, you're, I hope you don't have to go through it. But if you do, good luck and God bless. And there's a few things that you have to be concerned about. You'll find yourself, really, I was surprised at how, well, how well you can do things with one hand. It's pretty, you know, it gets not easy, but. it's, you know, you learn to do things. Like, for instance, I'll give you an example of one of the things that I do every day that you don't think of.

You open your laptop and control alt delete. Boom, boom, boom, right? Control out delete, boom, then starts up. When your right hand doesn't move forward, you, my hand, I have a pretty good size hand, but I can't reach the control alt delete with one hand. So I have a pencil now. unsharpened that I put in my mouth and I lean forward and it hits the delete button for me. So just an example of things that you do to ease your life with shoulder surgery.

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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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Just keep it right there, no problem. Okay. So, armed standoffs in the U.S. We've got the big one in Oregon going on right now. Right? One that everybody knows about. I was actually, I've talked about this at length with so many people, and so many people just don't understand it. And it's so convoluted with the Bureau of Land Management.

I'll give you that. It's not, you know, it isn't, it isn't sex talk, that's for sure. But it is kind of for the farmers. And, you know, I understand that they're, you know, upset about the, you know, government, you know, taking up so much land, and then they have to, you know, get okayed. and, you know, they think the land is theirs, the government says it's theirs, and it's, you know, it's a, it's a longstanding battle. No, no question.

And that's what's going on here in Texas, right? I mean, the main standoff with the BLM is that they keep changing the property lines. And the farmers say, look, my property line is the river. Okay, so the river changes. That's fine. the river moves three feet to the left, then so does my property line. And the BLM says, uh, no, that's our land. And so if they do that, then I don't have any water for my property.

And that's a real problem for the farmers, and I get it. And they should fight that. That's ridiculous. Because in the long run, they lose and gain property over the years. It's not the point of having the property as collateral. the point of I need water for my livestock and my fields. But, okay, and my crops, but, I know. But armed standoffs, and I may,

I was looking at some of the history of the arm standoffs in the U.S. And, 1973, Wounded Knee, there was a big standoff. Do you remember that? Did you know that? Did you know what actually happened? Of course, many of you don't remember it because it was 1973. But occupation of wounded knee. 71 days.

It was seized by members of the American Indian movement. And it resulted, when it happened, it resulted in, you know, three or four hundred people dying. There was gunfire in 1973. Two American Indians were killed, a U.S. Marshal and an FBI agent were injured. On 1985, the move standoff in Philadelphia. I mean, they dropped bombs. Okay?

Well, I'm sorry. The police dropped a bomb that started a fire that burned the entire block in Philadelphia and killed 11 people. Amazing. Ruby Ridge, 1992. That's a famous one everybody talks about. There was a gun battle that began that. U.S. Marshall died.

And I think one of the man's sons died on that. They won that battle, though. Waco, 1993. So therefore, 1-2-92-93, Ruby Ridge, Waco. Man, things did not look good for that. And then in 1996, Freeman standoff. And then, of course, we remember 2014 with Clive and Bundy. And now we've got, you know, in Oregon with Bundy's kids, but it's a different standoff.

And that story is so strange that, you know, they went back to it. But if you read some of the trial transcript and, oh my gosh, it's such great reading. I mean, if you've got nothing better to do, read the trials, transcripts from the Hammond trial. But they talk about the things, and the reason that they're not really fighting the going back to prison is that they really were guilty. They were guilty of the crime. But what they weren't guilty of was the terrorists' stamp on their crimes. And that's what the original judge said.

This is stupid. I don't know that he actually said stupid. That, you know, they aren't terrorists. They're guilty of the crime. I'm going to give them time. But the mandatory sentencing is ridiculous. And so now the fight for them is they've come back. Another judge came back and said,

you know what, it's mandatory and they should have gotten the mandatory time. We're sending them back to prison. That's the problem. That's not what the Bundys are taking over for in Oregon at the birdhouse or whatever the heck it is up in Oregon. They're pissed at the BLM and the big takeover of all the land and the BLM overreaching their authority and doing that. That's a different fight. The Hammond aren't fighting the verdict because they really were guilty of what they were doing.

And that was the outcome of the trial. Right? That's the outcome of the trial. Now, we find out this weekend the longest standoff. in American history. Longest standoff in American history. Fifteen years. Fifteen years. A pretty amazing story. The man, it's his name of course, it's here in Texas. No, of course, of course. Along the Trinity River. John Joe Gray is his name. Joe Gray. John Joe Gray. John Joe. Joe. Gray. John Joe, John Joe.

And what's fascinating about this case, and we'll tell you a little bit about the actual case itself, is that the district attorney just dropped the charges against him last year. In the end of 2014, he just dropped the charges and threw it in the drawer. It's over. We're done. And didn't tell anybody. And so when asked about it this year, they found out, no, that's over. We dropped that. I just put an end to that.

And the district attorney said he, and we'll get to that as part of the story, the district attorney, which has me worried for John Joe Gray. I mean, it could get ugly because the reason that they didn't go out there and get him is because he said he would kill people. Because, okay, in 1999,

Gray, a carpenter, and according to this story on the Blaze, he was linked to various anti-government militia groups. Okay. Whatever. Gee, he didn't like the government. I wonder what militia group he belongs to. I don't know. Most of America. He was charged with assaulting a police officer during a traffic stop. According to the report, the officer took issue with the fact that Gray, who is now 66 years old, was carrying a pistol without a concealed carry permit. Gray said he had a God-given right to carry his wife. weapon, okay, and then scuffled with the officer and bit the officer during the scuffle. He was jailed, charged with assault of the state trooper, and he was released on bond in 2000. And he was ordered to appear in court.

He did not go to court. He said, I'm staying on my land. It's private property. I am armed, ready to patrol the barbed wire fences surrounding my property. and if they came after us, bring extra body bags. He said in an interview once, those who live by the sword die by the sword. We've never shot no one yet,

but they know if they come on us, they'll be surprised what's going to happen to them. Now, okay, his land, 47 acres. So it isn't like he's staying on his eighth of an acre home with the backyard. a swimming pool or no pool in just a backyard and a tree. Okay. Now the sheriff wanted to go get him a number of times,

but he didn't want to get anybody killed, didn't want him to shot, so they left him alone and just kind of kept an eye on him from a distance. So if he left the property, they would arrest him and take him in. No problem. So come to find out, the district attorney finally dismissed the charge. charges. And didn't tell anyone. He just dismissed the charges until someone asked about it.

The district attorney said, I didn't do that to concede victory to the guy. I'd been going on for 15 years and somebody had to just make a decision that it was time to say it's over. He said, the district attorney, well, and the sheriff also stated that, hey, adding that going out to get gray wasn't worth it because he'd been in prison out there himself for 14 years. Yeah, that's probably true. You know, he's been in prison and you know how hard it is to be cooped up on 47 acres. You know, someday, you just can't. Now, I find it strange that they didn't let him know that it was over. That could have been a problem. Right? So if it was over, he didn't let the sheriff know.

If he left the land, that could have been an issue, right? Because the deputies and or the sheriff himself would have tried to arrest him for the warrant to heed the warrant. And then could have had a standoff over, you know, a shootout over something that wasn't good. anymore. So I was kind of strange that they didn't let him know. And, well, I mean, we didn't, I don't know if I'm sure on somewhere on the 47 acres, he has a phone. I'm almost positive.

Most property in America. Somewhere has, I don't know, a mailbox that gets things delivered from the post office. So, you know, he might. I don't know if he has the internet. So, I mean, I just find it strange that we didn't let anyone know about that. But that's the longest standoff in American history right there. A little bit different. However, but technically, the longest standoff in American history has ended.

John Joe Gray was imprisoned himself on his 47 acres for 14 years. And with what happened in Oregon, I wouldn't be surprised if a federal judge came along and said, the district attorney can't do that. He needs to go to prison. Then, then the fun will start. This is the Jeff Fisher show on the Blaze Radio Network. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show.

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You'll have to turn in and find out. Another standoff, quick standoff story, again, out of Texas. Son, they call brain dead, right? Ex-wife and stepson say, let's pull the plug. Dad goes out, gets drunk, comes back to the hospital with a gun, tells everybody, I will shoot anybody that comes in this room and tries to pull the plug of my son. Closes the door. They call the police.

They come and get him. His stepson gets the gun from him, but he's not letting anybody into the hospital room. It's over. He's saying, no, you're not coming in. They're not pulling the plug of my son. It's not going to happen. During that time, the son who was considered brain dead responds. to the dad by squeezing his hand on demand two or three times.

So the medical people who are there, along with the SWAT team, come in and arrest the father, but do not pull the plug on the son. Dad goes to jail for 10 months, gets out of jail, son alive, and gets to spend Christmas with dad. Christmas 2015 with dad. So, us armed standoff, yes. Ten months in jail? Yes. Worth it to him?

Absolutely worth it to him. What would you do? How far would you go? I think about that almost every day when I read these stories. It's a pretty big step to have an arm standoff. and have a good outcome with it. God bless you. More to come, and we're going to find out exactly what would you do with $800 million.

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Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to it. How are you? Good. Good. So, the question is, what would you do with $800 million? That's the powerball drawing tonight, January 9th, 2016, $800 million.

It may go up to $900. Everyone assumed that it would be up to a billion, but it hasn't quite grown like they, you know, like it doubles faster the smaller. and now that it seems that the numbers are changing a little bit as it gets bigger, so it doesn't grow as fast as it does when it's low. It's a strange thing. I don't want to get into Jeffie math with you, but it's a strange thing. Still, $800 million. Cash pay out?

What? $400? $400? $400, $375, something like that? That's not bad. That's not bad. You can't play if you you can't win if you don't play, right?

I mean, that's the, that's the, that's the moniker of the lotto. Odds that you win the 800 million? One in 292,000 200,000.

Now they changed those odds in October. They lowered the odds of winning from one in 175 million to the one in 292 million roughly. 292 million, 200,000. They wanted to up the jackpots. It worked. Odds of being struck by lightning in the U.S., one in 700,000. odds of

dying in an assault by a firearm I won in 358 you have a pretty good chance of that odds of giving birth to identical quadruplets one in three million

wow odds of being arrested if you're drinking if you're driving drunk one in 200 So what would you do with $800 million? That's a different tax bracket for sure. And you almost don't want to play, right?

Because you just don't want to go into that tax bracket. But you can't win if you don't play. And you have to take a shot, right? I mean, you could take the 30-year annuity of 800,000. million, right? So you get a check every, every year, every month for the next 30 years. Or you take the cash payout. According to this story, I said, you know, $375, $400 million. This story claims that at $800 million, your cash payout is just under $500 million. Amazing. Amazing. You got to take the cash payout, right? Have to.

because you know, I don't care what they say. You know in 15 years, the lottery is going to come back and say, we don't have your money. Sorry, you are gambling when you want it. We don't have to pay you. You have a nice day. You know that's going to happen. Feel it.

Oh, no, Jeff. They put that money into accounts that they can't touch. And it's just strictly your money. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So you want to get what you can get. You can quote me on that. You want to get what you can get.

And $400 million ain't bad. And you can quote me on that too. Now, if you had the conversation with your family, what would you do? Really? I mean, that's a lot of money. And most of us, and myself included, although I think I have a pretty good idea. that's a lot of money $400 million

I mean you can quote me on that too that's a lot of money that's more money than most people have any idea what to do it you can pretty much get and do whatever you want it's half a billion dollars

so charities trusts for your children right property homes and you're going to want to be able to, you know, take care of, you know, take care of everything. When you start talking about paying off bills and cars and stuff, it's $400 million.

Of course you're going to do that. That's without question. Of course, that's, that's nothing. Of course you're going to do that. What's going to be the problem is being able, you're going to be able to get and do what you want for a long, long time. So you're going to have to manage that money. That's work.

I know it's a job that many of you want. I'd be happy to take that job as well, but it is work to manage the money and to manage, make sure that it's doing what you want it to do. Now, for many people, their idea of winning money. is just having fun. So I see a report earlier in the week when the loto, the power ball was only 500 million then. Peanuts.

I didn't even play. That's not true. And so, of course, you know, local news stations all across the country where the states that have the Powerball are doing their news reports. I mean, radio stations, maybe Mike Opelka is give it away, powerball tickets on his show today. I'd probably not. But most morning shows in radio stations,

I mean, that's an easy, good bit to do. You know, TV news has got to do stories on it. Obviously asking people on the street, well would you go down? There doesn't know a lot of money. How come you don't play? How much money do you spend?

Do you play? Radio stations of the mornings. Hey, we're going to give you a chance at $800 million. you could win a lotto ticket and you go out and you buy, you know, 50 quick picks and you give them away on the radio. And, you know, it's a good bit. It's well worth, you know, it's fun. It's fun.

So one report in Prim Nevada went out and did their live reporting, Fox 5, went out and did their live shot on the news about what people. would do with, you know, if they won the lotto. And this is perhaps the best answer ever in America.

Go ahead. We're here at the line where people are doing it the old-fashioned way. They're just filling out bubbles here. I want to turn some of these people around and ask you guys, sir, can I ask you what your lucky numbers are? I'm going to pick 14, 24, 2, 7 to 15. Those are your lucky numbers. Can I tell you what? Do you know your

chances of winning. Slim to none. Slim to none, you're right. Let me tell you, it's one out of 292 million. What do you think about that? I knew it. Your numbers are lucky, though, am I right? Can I ask you, if you want all the money, what would you do with it? Bunch of hookers and cocaine. Oh, okay, that's not good. Yes, it is. We're looking for a different answer. That's probably not the answer that we're looking for. All right. $500 million can make a huge difference in someone's life. Ophelia, thank you. It's a live TV grand. And the news reporters, 500 million.

Huge difference in some people's live. That's live news reporting. Ah, that's really not the news answer we were looking for. That's what you get. I mean, that's the, I heard it out of the news. That's ridiculous, man. So when you do a lot, see, most people, most people, you know, they see. the cameras and the microphones.

I don't know if this guy was for real or not. I want to believe that he was just because it was tremendous. That's a tremendous clip. And we'll tweet it out. I'll tweet it out at Jeffrey MRA. But most people, they kind of get, you know, backed off and, you know, little shy, you know, news cameras on. The numbers. What would you do?

Oh, I would, you know, help my kids. I got a new car. Buy a house. get some property, you know, give it to my favorite charity, give it to my charity, whatever. That's what the news is hoping for. I would help my sick parents get a place where they can live out the rest of their life in peace and security and safety. Yeah, yeah.

We all would do that, okay? We got it. No. What we want to know is what would you do if you want $800 million. Bunch of hookers and cocaine. Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

That has got to be the best answer ever. Bunch of hookers and cocaine. I got that the guy probably wasn't for real. The video is pretty convincing, though. And when you get your shot at live news, you got to take it, right? So from now on, I want you to remember that when asked, ever, ever, when asked, if you're out and about buying a lot of tickets, they throw the news camera, live news camera on you, what would you do if you won the money? I want your answer to be a bunch of hookers and cocaine. Fantastic.

Fantastic. I want people across America. to answer, hey, what would you do if you won? A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Thank you. That's what I would do. Guaranteed. That is great.

So have fun. Winning $800 million. I am, that's, man. You and I, you and I would get together one last time. When I win tonight, when I win tonight. Cross my heart. Cross my heart. Hope to die.

We'll get together one last time. Before I go spend my 800 million on. Bunch of hookers and cocaine. This is the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. On the Blaze Radio Network. Bunch of Hookers and Cocaine. The Jeff Fisher Show is on.

God bless America. God bless America. Right? Right. Of course. Course. Now, you do see in the video, I just tweeted it out, Jeff E.M.R.A. And I'll put it up on Jeff Fisher Radio as well.

You can see that the guy that answers, the guy who says answers this way to what he would do with 500 million. A bunch of hookers and cocaine. He turns around and then he turns back. around and to look at the reporter and he's got a big smile on his face. So it, uh, he was answering it as a joke as a take that, uh, news people for your, uh, reporting. Answer me a question on Lotto and, uh, this is what you get. Okay.

That's what you get. So I just remember, don't forget, I'm telling you, when someone asks you, uh, hey, the power ball is $800 million. What would you do with it? And they have a camera and a microphone. Your answer should be, A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Thank you.

Don't be gutless on me. Don't be gutless. You can do it. Okay. Now, I was just sent the story about tips from other winners. Sign the back. of the ticket. Stay anonymous if you can.

I don't think you can. I think you can only say anonymous for so long, like 90 days. You can wait. At least I remember in Florida when they set up the lotto in Florida. I was living there at the time. And that was their, you know, big push. You can't win if you don't play. And their deal was you could stay.

You didn't have to pick it up for 90 days. And then they, so you're the winner. and you can, you know, you're the winner. So you can get everything set up and, you know, get your financial plan in order. Go to Tallahassee and pick up your winnings. Then the state doesn't can't, you can say, I don't want people to know that I won until, you know, it's legally they have to.

And so the lotto has so long before they have to release who won. I mean, you have to know. that this human being actually won the lotto, right? So you can stay anonymous for a while, and then everyone knows. And it says here, yes, you assemble a money management team, yeah. Once you win, don't spend. Uh-huh. Okay.

That's because they all, you know, so we hear the stories of so many going broke after they just spend the money and spend the money. I got news for you. okay with 500 million dollars there's only so much of this bunch of hookers and cocaine you can do there's only so much of that you can do all right so you're a either dead or you just are in some sort of complete haze so get it all set up before you go okay get all your financial plans in order and ready to go. And then once you have everything all in order,

then you can go have your bunch of hookers and cocaine. Thank you. No problem. Now, they all say do the quick picks and, you know, everything. There's a, there's a couple in Florida. I should have talked to them today. I just, just thought of them. There's a couple in Florida that have a plan of winning the lot of.

And they've won a bunch, but not necessarily the best. big jackpot, but they've got some system that they use that wins, you know, the three to five numbers a lot. And they've won a bunch. So good luck. Good luck. God bless. Okay. That's all I'm saying. Good luck. God bless. No need for you to play because I'm going to win. But if you want to win and you're out. I got to have it actually. Just, all right. One last time, I promise this is it.

One last time. Just let me hear the entire news report of from Prim Nevada of the Powerball earlier this week. We're here at the line where people are doing it the old-fashioned way. They're just filling out bubbles here.

I want to turn some of these people around and ask you guys, sir. Can I ask you what your lucky numbers are? I'm going to pick 14, 25. 24-2-7-15. Those are your lucky numbers. Can I tell you what, do you know your chances of winning? Slim to none.

Slim to none, you're right. Let me tell you, it's one out of 292 million. What do you think about that? I knew it. You knew it. Your numbers are lucky, though, am I right? Can I ask you if you want all the money, what would you do with it? A bunch of hookers and cocaine.

Oh, okay, that's not good. We were hoping for a different answer. That's probably not the answer that we're looking for. All right. million dollars can make a huge difference in someone's life. Ophelia, thank you. It's a live TV, Grand. Outstanding. All right. Back to reality. Back to reality in mere moments on the Blaze Radio Network. Hookers and Blow, baby. Hookers and Blow.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Fisher. 93 is the phone number. Pure O'Pelke. Michael Pelker coming up immediately following this broadcast. Then you're going to be blessed with a little best of Jay Severin. And then Chris Salsato, Mike Slater, and Joe Pags are live this afternoon on the Blaze Radio Network. And then you've got Sundays, David Barton, Bill Handel, Jackie D. With some energy talk. And then Monday through Friday, of course, Doc and Skip, Glenn Beck, Buck Sexton, Jay Severin, Pat and

do. It's a lineup just for you. And of course we got, you know, presidential debates and we've got, so much is happening this year on the Blaze Radio Network and the Blaze Television that it's going to be pretty awesome, pretty awesome. That's my, that's my review of what's going to be happening this year on the Blaze Radio Network and the Blaze TV. Pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah. That's right.

Pretty awesome. So anyway, I'm home the last month, and, you know, we cut the cable, and we sent the boxes back. Of course, we sent the boxes back, and we, before we sent the boxes back, we said, hey, we're cutting the cord, right? So they say, okay, we're going to send you boxes, and you send the boxes back to us, the cable boxes. and the boxes never came so of course it's not their fault the boxes never came so we can see you haven't been using the boxes but we still have to charge you some sort of rental fee on those boxes that's just the way it is that's not our fault our record shows that the boxes were sent could they have been stolen or are you just lying to us because you wanted to keep the boxes in your house no i wanted

to keep your stupid boxes in my house for a month send the boxes again So then we send the boxes. They send the boxes. We mail them back. We actually got the boxes this time. It's funny how when we made a big deal about the boxes coming, they arrived. But anyway, the boxes came. We put them in the box. We bail them back. We drop them off. Next bill comes. They bill us the same fee. Oh, yeah, it shows that the boxes were sent, and here's the tracking number, and they were delivered to this particular building. No one put it in the system that they were actually returned. Huh. So we'll give you credit for that.

No problem. And, you know, I don't know what the deal is. I'm going to call over there and find out what the problem is with those people. They should have already put it in the system. Yeah, those are probably the same people that said they sent the boxes the first time where you'd... I don't want to say stole. But let's just say added an extra bonus charge on my bill. Okay.

So now, you know, of course, We've got, you know, Netflix. We have Amazon. What I did was I took the Amazon Prime free month pass. Then I purchased Walking Dead from Amazon Prime for the season. I didn't pay for the year of Amazon Prime, but I still get Walking Dead because I paid for it on Amazon Prime. So it saved me a little bit of money.

I will get the Amazon Prime, though, because I like what they offer. Because I also want to find out we have Hulu. Okay? We said, okay, well, we'll do Hulu. It's like $10 or $12 a month or whatever. Still, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu a lot cheaper than the entire cable.

The only hard part about not having the cable boxes is the live sports. I miss that. Not a lot, though. But I miss it. The live sports. With internet, and I can keep up with a lot of things, but actually watching it is, you know,

something I kind of miss at home. But we still have, I mean, we still have the very basic, basic cable from the cable company because I wanted the internet, right? We're going to pull the plug on cable, but we'll just keep your internet. It's cheaper to keep the very basic cable and the internet than just the internet.

Okay, we'll keep the very basic cable then. And the internet. I mean, I don't. Anyway, whatever. Whatever you want. So, Hulu. Love it. All right?

We got it. It's got a lot of cool stuff. It's got movies, TV shows. Nice. I like it. Started watching some stuff. Found some stuff that I hadn't seen before. Really good stuff.

And, you know, but the kids are watching something in the bedroom, and I'm watching some on the living room. Okay, fine. Well, one day, my wife was watching something in the living room, and I go in and sit in my tilt-back chair in the bedroom in my arm's sling, decide to watch one of those shows I found on Hulu, and it won't come up. Hulu, apparently, only lets you stream on one device in your home at a time.

Hulu, you have got to address this issue. So I thought, well, you know, that can be right. We've got to be able to, are we paying for extra devices like we do on Netflix? I mean, on Netflix charges me to be able to, I can watch Netflix on three or four different devices at the same time. What I pay for. That's what I want. I want to be able to use Netflix when I want, okay? If my kids are watching something upstairs, I want to be able to watch something I want to watch downstairs.

It's an amazing thing in this world. So my wife goes to the Hulu Facebook page and she's going to find out what the deal is and maybe try to talk to them and call them or whatever. And on their Facebook page, they say, we only allow streaming on one device. However, sometimes our system doesn't catch you using another device. So you may be using more than one device at times. And then we catch it the next. time and you can't. Well, that's really good, Hulu.

That's smart thinking there, huh? You know, sometimes we don't catch it so you can use more than one device. But if we catch it, you can't. Come on now. Fix the problem because that's a big thing and it's a big blocking

point. If they can't get that fix, I'm going to have. I may have to pull the plug. I may have to pull the plug. And we're paying the extra for the no commercials. So I'll give you another buck. I'll give you another dollar or two a month for, you know, more than one device.

But make it happen. Please. Make it happen. And I looked and it's pretty fascinating when I talk about, you know, my oldest son being here and not having cable. It's a, it's amazing. Now Netflix just went, you know, global into China, so they're, you know, through the roof.

but they 40 million subscribers in the U.S. Huh? Wow. Think of that. That's a company making some serious catch. 69 million globally,

and that just went up. That just went up. I mean, good for them. Good for them. But there's a whole lot of people cutting the cord now. A lot of people cut in the cord. And they've done a survey and I mean, 24% of American adults report they do not have satellite or TV at home. Well, I mean, that's kind of without cable or satellite service. That doesn't mean that you aren't able to

watch some sort of video. And, you know, they're moving more to broadband. I started reading a bunch of stuff about the latest CES get together and all the new tech stuff that's coming out and what's happening. And it's fascinating what they're working on and what's coming. I'm looking forward to a lot of it. No question about that. One thing I'm not looking forward to, though, is in Iowa, the Papa John business building at the University of Iowa has, a new program that scans every face that goes under this camera.

Okay. Now, they have the cameras up there. And they got grant money for this, facial and coding data. And it's called, it's for the Tippy College of Business. It uses automated technology to read emotions by measuring movements of the facial muscles. and it's a big study. It's going to calculate people's moods, collecting readings for joy, frustration,

fear, anger, and sadness. Now, they've nicknamed the program creepy study because we just wanted to be out about it. It's just so everyone's aware. It sounds creepy. Yeah, it sure does. It sure doesn't.

and the experts who I'm sure are in love with this plan, by the way, they are looking forward to the facial encoding for marketing, advertising, political campaigns. Yeah. Yeah. And of course, of course. They specifically said, look, the camera doesn't record video or, images of people it measures.

Right. Perhaps they should have added, you know, the camera doesn't record video images of the people it measures right now, but it's coming. You can guarantee that. Okay. And they've done it so that they can, they've done it so you can see from the first floor camera. They crunch the data to see whether it affects the mood. If the mood affects food sales at the business school snack bar. Oh, good.

And they just keep going and they, the creepy study at the University of Iowa. And don't forget, the camera doesn't record video or images of people it measures. Say it with me. Right. This is the Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it. So if the facial recognition, you know, so they know what kind of mood you're in, there's facial recognition so we know who you are. We're working out mood recognition, so we know exactly, you know, what you're feeling and how what you're feeling about and maybe possibly what you're thinking about. Look. And now we're cloning puppies for people.

Yay! Apparently it only costs about 100 grand right now. But we're cloning puppies. That's good. A couple lost their little puppy. And, oh, they were. so sad and they missed Dylan so much that they harvested DNA from the muscle tissue of their dead dog. And then they sent it to the Biotech Research Foundation in Korea.

And then they got their clone dog. Okay. The website, their website claims that you've got five days to successfully extract and secure live cells. Nice. Nice. So if you are ready to clone your dog, you can do that now. Just bring in that DNA within the first five days. And if you've watched the show Second Chance on Fox, the new show,

they show how this company brings a man back to life after he's dead in, I don't know. I'm going to call it womb juice. A tank of womb juice. I don't know what else to call it. You know how babies are in the womb in their goo. And that's what they bring him back to life as in the womb juice tank. And he's a little bit better. So it's on the way.

It is on the way. And I know we were talking earlier off the air. and I was told by John, one of my producers in New York was talking about, you know, they say that they're talking about the people born, there's people alive right now that are going to live to 150. Oh, good. Good. Good. I'm happy about that. And then he looks down his nose. Now he looks down his nose at me. Oh, I was talking about, you know, a little baby, not you, not the old people. Oh, okay. Okay, I got you. Why can't I live to 150? Huh? Why? I'm already 100. I can't make it another 50 years. Why not? I think I can. Anyway, it's good to be back. We missed a whole... I mean, we have so much, so many stories. I can't believe the show is over already today. It's amazing. Thank you so much for being along for the ride. We'll be here. We'll be here for more of the ride. Michael Pelka, Piero Pelka, coming up right after this broadcast. We have so much stuff. I've got... pages of links and stories that I wanted to talk to you about and got to so very little. You know, it's amazing how the stories just back up and I want to share them and there's just

no time to share them. So we'll get to them. I promise the Jeff Fisher show here on the Blaze Radio Network. Thank you so much for being here. I missed you. I did. I missed you so much while I was off. and it's so good to be back. And I don't know in the entire month that I was gone if anyone told you that you looked good, but you do.

You look fantastic. I mean that. You're not really going to wear that all day, though, are you? Okay, whatever. Looks good on you. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network.