Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - "Which Hand and How Long Should I Wave It" 4/23/16

Episode Date: April 23, 2016

Today on The Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy talks about the passing of music legend Prince. Jeffy also explains why Amazon same-day delivery is being accused of being racist. Plus, VR bedbugs, icloud controlled relationships and a BIG bathing suit bummer! All that & more on The Jeff Fisher Show!Jeff Fisher is live from 6am to 8am ET, Saturday. Listen for free on The Blaze Radio Network: www.theblaze.com/radio & www.iheart.comFollow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRA Like Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

their word is their bond and they are just like you. Now how can I say that? Because I'm the founder of the company. We have a thousand agents across the country and they are people that listen to the show and so when you go through real estate agents I trust it's sent to somebody who

already, you already know their sensibilities. They already are cut from exactly the same cloth. There's got to be a better way. There is. Real estate agents, I trust.com. The experiment was a success. Begin life force reboot program. Now.

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Hello. Why? Hello. Hello. I mean, I already said hello. Rest in peace. Mr. Nelson. Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7th, 1958, April 21st, 2016. You've been inundated, I know. I've got to get some prints in. I love prints. authorities announced yesterday no reason to believe the singer committed suicide county sheriff said there's too many details that he's not going to discuss no obvious signs of trauma

the results from the autopsy several weeks the body's been released to the family so we'll all be waiting for the monster news of when the funeral is and It will be huge and it will take over the news cycle and it already has. Prince is one of those guys that, you know, when he's there, you think about him and sometimes you don't. And then you realize, my gosh, it's Prince.

I mean, he's always going to be there, right? It's Prince. Prince. No. Everybody has their own, you know, few stories about Prince. I've got a couple. I've met him a couple times. not friends at all, just, you know, backstage concert, shake hands.

Hi, I think you're great. Thank you. Move on. Surrounded by bodyguards. I love some of the quotes from Prince. He was a different kind of human being. Which made him Prince, right? I mean, I was watching some of the old concerts,

especially when he, for the first, yesterday I watched the first appearance on a show that was called the Midnight Special back in 1980. It seems like a hundred years ago. And he was, if you have an opportunity to see it, he was amazing. And just out of the box, strange, which is why we loved him. and he you know one of my favorite quotes is no child is bad from the beginning they just imitate their atmosphere yeah everybody's got a bomb we could all die any day but before i'll let that happen i'll dance my life away looking at some of his numbers i mean amazing iconic over a hundred million albums sold worldwide.

Not to count movies. Not to count other songs. I mean, six big songs. Sheney O'Connor, nothing compares to you. The Bengals. Manic Monday.

Alicia Keys. How come you don't call me? Madonna. Love song. Chuck A Khan, I feel for you. Cindy Lopper, when you were mine, all, all written by Prince. It's sad to hear about his death. The last time we saw him on one of the award shows, he didn't look that great.

He was walking with the cane. Still was, you know, super bad Prince, but he didn't look that good. So I'm sure he was struggling. And look, for years, he was out on stage dancing in high heels and moving around like a snake. You can't do that forever. In his last month, he was still relatively busy for Prince. When he played back-to-back shows in Montreal,

the 21st of March, exactly one month before his death, as part of his piano and microphone tour. I would love to have seen that. And then on the 25th of March, he played back-to-back, sold-out shows. in Toronto, busy, you know, doing his little prince tweets. And then he canceled on April 7th his show in Atlanta, citing the flu. And then he performed in Atlanta. And he apologized for canceling the early shows.

He said, I was a little under the weather. He didn't say flu, though. I was a little under the weather. But here we are now, and I'm going to take the time to thank each and every one of you for coming out and enjoying this time with us. And according to this, he also told some of the audience, wait a few days before you waste any prayers. I'm not sure what that means. On the 15th, he was transported to an area hospital following an emergency plane landing at Quad City International Airport at Illinois. said he was struggling from the flu,

he was flying back from Atlanta, and he wasn't far from his home. So he did, you know, obviously make it back home to Minnesota. There are reports now that he was overdosing and that they saved his life in Illinois and wanted him to stay. And the other report,

where he, for sure he didn't stay. Obviously, he didn't take that advice and stay there. He left. But, I mean, convales in his own home just as well or better than the hospital. But he, one of the reports from the Illinois hospital was that he wanted a private room

and the hospital couldn't provide him one. If that's true, come on now. He's Prince. I mean, Prince doesn't want to be in a room with me recovering from his shoulder surgery. Hey, Chris, what's happening? Mary from Illinois is not going to be in the same room as Prince. Sorry.

I know we're all the same. I got it. But, no. Mary, no. You don't get to be in the same room as Prince. Sorry. Not going to happen. And I find it cute that we get these stories now about,

how he is you know, everybody knew that Prince was a big fan of breakfast and he loved the whole breakfast items and really, who doesn't? I mean, I'm sure that you're along with me that's saying yes to breakfast items as often as possible, please. That would be great, thank you. But he, I guess, was kind of freakish about the whole breakfast items.

and one of his butlers told a story. It's one of the stories on up on the blaze. The butler claiming his tie to Prince hosted some big party. And he said, I have a lot of great memories, but the one that made me laugh was there was one night where I got a call about 3 a.m. in the morning, and he wanted breakfast for 14 people. I was the only butler on duty during the graveyard shift.

He asked for 14 omelets and 14 omelets. 14 orders of pancakes. I came up with two cards full of food, trying to plate it as fast as I can when Prince stood up from his chair and walked over to my cart, grabbed a plate of pancakes, and started helping me serve. I couldn't help but laugh.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. I mean, it's cute that Prince was, you know, that's kind of a cute inside story, but of course Prince is going to get up and start serving. I mean, they're his party mates. Right? But I love the idea of any time, anytime you want.

I'm just going to call and I want pancakes, please. Thank you. That would be wonderful if you would just send the pancakes over right now. That would be great. Thank you. According to police, Prince was dropped off on April 20th night before he was found dead

at his residence at about 8 o'clock at night. And the medics were dispatched the following morning. They found Prince unresponsive in an elevator on the main floor. Sad. Sad. Iconic figure. You know, I saw him in the controversy tour. And I saw him on a 1999 tour.

I was back. For the controversy tour, that's where we met. I was backstage. And that he was on fire. that show. But the 1999 tour was with Vanity and Morris Day in the time. And that show was fantastic. Vanity was, you know, ready to break. She was already broken as the big superstar hot goddess on stage.

Morris Day, I'm cooler than Santa Claus baby. That was fantastic. And then Prince was on fire. Stage show was great. And, I mean, he'll be missed. I'm sure along with millions of other people around the world yesterday. You were inundated with Prince songs. But it felt good to listen to Prince again.

It brought back a lot of memories. And it was good to listen. You know, Prince is one of those guys where you hear a Prince song, and you go, Oh, that's Prince. I love Prince. And you listen to the song. You move on with your life. But yesterday you listened to the songs and brought back all the memories where you were,

what you were doing, what was happening in your life at the time. And that's what the iconic artists do for you, right? That's why it's so sad when they're gone. So Prince, born June 7, 1958, dead at the age of 57. died the 21st of April, 2016. Prince, hashtag R-I-P. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The founder of this company 10 years ago was trying to sell his house

and went through real estate agent after real estate agent, and they were all talking a great game. And this guy who is selling his house, the founder of this company, he's you know he's kind of an important guy and kind of you know should get the best treatment and he said to his wife if this is what it's like for us how do people who have no clout ever get around this so he started a company and it went into business i think three years ago their deal is their word is their bond and they are just like you now how can i say that because i'm the founder of the company we have a thousand agents across the country and they are people that listen to the show

And so when you go through real estate agents, I trust, it's sent to somebody who already, you already know their sensibilities. They already are cut from exactly the same cloth. There's got to be a better way. There is. Real estate agents, I trust.com. The Jeff Fisher Show. That it is. Welcome to it.

888-903.33 is the phone number. One last aside on Prince. One of my favorite Facebook post yesterday. and I shared it on my Facebook page was a meme with the title, and for this I'm eternally grateful. And the meme was Prince's final gift to us, was getting Donald Trump off everyone's TV for almost a whole day. Amen.

Yesterday was Earth Day. Yay, how did you celebrate? I thought I would give you a couple of excerpts from an article by Alex Epstein. He is amazing. We heard a little bit of him last week testifying in front of the Senate committee. He is a firm believer in fossil fuels and how they've made the earth that much better. And this article, I'll tweet it out. entitled The Planet Has Never Been a Safer Place for Humans to Live.

Here's a couple of excerpts, which I thought were fascinating. Imagine that we transported someone from 300 years ago at the very start of the Industrial Revolution to today's world. What would he think about our environment? Without question, his reaction would be one of disbelief, not that we had destroyed his pristine natural world, but that such a clean, healthy environment was possible. The air is so clean, our time traveler might say.

Where I come from, we're breathing in smoke all day, from the fire we need to burn in our furnaces and stoves. And the water, everywhere I go, the water tastes so fresh, and it's all safe to drink. On my farm we get our water from a brook we share with animals, and my kids are always sick. And then the weather. I mean, the weather isn't that much different,

but you're so much safer in it. You can move a knob and make it cool when it's hot and a warm when it's cold. And what happened to all the disease? In my time, we had insects everywhere giving us disease. My neighbor's son died of malaria, and you don't seem to have any of that here. What's your secret?

Fossil fuels, power machines that allow us to transform our a naturally hazardous environment into a far healthier environment. Most of the natural world is too hot or too cold, has too much rainfall or not enough. Then there's the bacteria-filled water, disease-carrying insects, tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. To master nature, we've drained swamps, reclaimed land, cleared forests, built roads, constructed glass and steel skyscrapers. We've irrigated deserts, developed fertilizers and pesticides, linked oceans, all of it in humanity's incredible, successful effort to create a safer,

cleaner, more habitable world. And we did most of this using machines running on cheap, plentiful, reliable, fossil fuels. I'll tweet that story out. That was a couple of excerpts. But happy Earth Day. Just remember, seriously, the planet has never been a safer place to live. And we have more Earth Day stories to tell you how much people really care about the planet today. because, oh my gosh, the people that are telling us that we have a huge, huge problem with climate change or climate disaster or whatever they want to call it, they live what they preach.

And by living what they preach, I mean they don't at all. So if they, it's okay for them not to believe it, but you, the peasant, better believe it. And pay more and live in the dirt like they did 300 years ago. It's absolutely agonizing. And I know Alex believes that the earth may be safe, but bad news for slacker hotels. Bedbugs. Yeah, bedbugs. Maybe developing thicker skin to fight against pesty insecticides that humans use to kill them.

So, Alex, safer than ever. Not from bedbugs, baby. Not from bedbugs. The Jeff Fisher Show. A Blaze Radio Network. That it is. 888-90-33-33 is the phone number. Coming up immediately following this broadcast, Mike O'Pelke with Pioro Pelka on the Blaze Radio Network.

I heard through the grapevine yesterday in honor of the death of Prince, Michael Pelko would be giving away the stunt brain pancake mix. I don't know that to be true. I just know that it's possible it could happen. I don't know what to tell you if he doesn't or if he does, but if he does, good luck. Enjoy them. Be great, wouldn't it? A little pure old palco pancake mix. 888-903-33 is the phone number.

You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA. Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, and Instagram at Jeff EMRA as well. I've got all kinds of stories to get to. I mean, it's like, I don't know, a pile of news stories to get to that we've had. Some of them have been in, you know, I've been stashing in my Saturday pile for a while. And I just can't get to them. And we talk about other stuff. And I just never get to them.

And so I want to try to get to a couple. But then as I say that, then I go back to, you know, the story that's from this week as, you know, the United Nations and the 175 world leaders signed the Paris Agreement. At the United Nations headquarters today, the historic day, said Mr. Ban. Ben Kimun. I had a press conference following the opening of this era of the signing event. This is the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement in a single day. Oh, isn't that wonderful? Yes.

If it only meant something, fossil fuel emissions contributing to man-made climate change that alarmas such as President Obama say is a grave threat to the nation's country's security arising rapidly thanks to the first couple's separate trips to Europe. Wait, what? Possil fuel emissions contributing to man-made climate change that alarmists, such as President Obama say, is a grave threat to the nation. Yeah, but he and the wife are just jetting all over the world. First Lady Michelle Obama did not accompany her husband on the first leg of his trip, opting to fly separately. So they can't even fly together anymore. But hey, that climate change. man, oh man, we have got to do something about the climate change. And I'm sure that Paris Agreement will be huge.

Huge. The penny arcades pulled from branches at the TD Bank. And this is the story I've had in the stack for a while because it's fascinating to me that these machines, and what they're talking about is the machines that they have at the bank where you bring in, you know, your bags or buckets or plastic bottles or whatever of change. Pockets full of change and you pour it in the machine. And the machine sucks up your coins and it comes back with you. That was $1.25.

That was $82. And so apparently those machines were wrong. A test found in one case you put in $300 of coins and got $250. $56.90 back. Huh. So they removed them because, uh, no. They believe that you should be able to get the exact amount for whatever change you put in there. The machine should be right.

Come on now. Aren't they supposed to make a little money from it? That's supposed to be a free service? Now, they said they tested the CoinStar counting machines, which you see in grocery stores and supermarkets and, some area banks, I think, the CoinStar machines, they were perfect. But it brought up an interesting thing in my mind reading this story is that how many times we trust what we're told on things? Just off the cuff, we trust it.

We trust it. Boom. That's right. And I wonder if there's going, you know, there's a time when maybe we shouldn't. Like, I don't know. Do you ever think to yourself when you buy your trash bags for the house? And the box says 50 bags or 300 bags or whatever, you know, you go to the local, you know, bulk store, Sam's or whatever, you get the box of, you know, 8,000 trash bags.

You ever think maybe there isn't 8,000 trash bags in that box? I mean, very few times do you find yourself counting whatever the amount of trash bags are in that box, right? I mean, if it says there's 300, okay. I mean, do you realize that you've count them? That box only gave me 298 trash bags. Those people are thieves. Well, actually, they are. When I worked, and that's worth a lot of money, you think about that.

Two trash bags. Let's just say, for example, there were 295 trash bags in that box and not 300. Five trash bags a box. That's a lot of money. Over a year for that company, huge. Huge amount of money. When I worked, I remember working in, when I worked a Borough of Grooio, store, stocking shelves when I first started.

I remember we'd get pallets of cereal in. And, you know, you'd get a, you know, the store would get a deal on a pallet of frosted flakes. So on the pallet comes 12 cases of frosted flakes. So I remember stocking the shelves and building displays of the frosted flakes. But every sixth box. on that palette. So two of the boxes on that palette,

there was a missing box of frosted flakes. Okay? So every six box, one box missing. Now, as a shelf replenisher, I could give a flying crap about that missing box of frosted flakes. I'm not saying anything. That's one last box I got to put on the shell. That's one last box I've got to use to build, put on the display, right?

So you open the box and go, huh, one missing, gone, break down the box, move on to the next box. Next box, they're all there. You don't worry about the last box. You know, five more boxes. Huh, there's another one missing. Weird. Now maybe I ought to say something. I've got to get this stuff built.

I've got to get this on the job. That happens all over the country. In the course of a year, that's a lot of money. I'm not saying that the companies do it on purpose, and I'm not saying that they wouldn't own up to it because they might say, oh, my gosh, we had a machine malfunction and we didn't catch it in time. So, you know, 800 boxes were minus a box of frosted flakes or, you know, this particular number, code number of trash bags were minus five bags a box. So come in and we'll give you a free trash bags or call this number and we'll send you trash bags or whatever. They'll make good about it. And if you were to call as just a single person, they would say, oh my gosh, you know, they would probably believe you whether you were telling them the truth or not and send you a free box of trash bags.

Because in the long run, unless it's some kind of big huge class action lawsuit, sending a few people a box of trash bags is a heck of a lot cheaper and worth less money than the money. money they're making on pulling out less trash bags in the box. And I'm not picking on trash bag companies because I'm sure that they're going to, you know, wave count our bags if those boxes are 100% correct. I got it. Okay. And your serial companies, I'm sure it was a mistake that those cases on the palettes that I happened to run across every six boxes were empty.

I've had one box missing. I'm sure it was just a mistake. I mean, I'm sure it's not possible at all that every sixth box on your chain of filling boxes of frosted flakes would miss a box. No way that could happen. Right? Right. Right. How many cases of cereal that is in a year?

I mean, it's just unbelievable. And who, no one, I mean, who is going to complain about that? The guy that complains is the guy that buys the one case of cereal. Not the pallets. You know, just the one case. And he opens up the box and expects 24 boxes of whatever product is in that case. He opens it up and there's 23. He's pissed.

So he complains. And he either gets another case. They send him another box. He gets credit for the box. Whatever. You know, they work it out. Still, cheaper in the long run, though. So it just is amazing to me when things, and it just say, and I know that's regular, you know,

the government makes sure that we're all safe, I got it. But when you buy, you know, just anything, you know, Tylenol. And it says they've got, you know, 200 pills in there. Do you count them? I mean, I don't. When it says, you know, you buy shampoo and it says, you know, worth 800 shampoos, is it? I mean, did I use too much?

Did I use not enough? Am I getting 900 or am I getting 600? I mean, do I have to spoon it out into a little cup every morning and make sure that I get 8,000 shampoos out of this big bottle of shampoo? I don't know. I'm just saying, who tests it? How do I know? So we just believe.

We just believe. So when you're putting your pennies in the machine and you pour it in, you just believe that your $300 is really $250. 690. The penny machine owner, oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did we short you $3.10?

Oh, my gosh. We are so sorry. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it. 888-903.33. And you know, I'm reminded of something

that the companies like to do, and they've been doing it for a long time. And it's just a, it's making, there's not lying to you. They're not lying to you. But they're making you, making it appear that it's something that it's not. You know, and people are so used to it now, it's like, yeah, that's what they do. But remember when you go to the, let's say, for an example, I don't know, the ice cream freezers. And there were actually half gallons of ice cream.

Oh, no. Remember when they first started making them a little bit smaller? Now they're all that way, except for the great bluebell here in Texas. But now they're all that way. They're not a half gallons. They're not half gallons. They look the same. They look a little bit smaller.

They look up, but they're not half gallons. And now we've just become, oh, that's right. We're paying the same. It's just less product. Potato chips. Bag of potato chips. You pick up the bag. There's so much air in those bags.

Why? Because they. Why are you to believe that there's still 800 ounces in that bag? But really, there's only 500 ounces. And it says so on the bag. They're not lying to you. The bag says 500 ounces of potato chips. That's what you're getting in this bag.

It just looks like there's more. Why is the bag made for 10,000 potato chips? Because we want you to think it's more in there. And you do. Thank you. and then we have Coca-Cola products. Coke Zero is going to be renamed. I am a big fan of Coke Zero.

I love Coke Zero. I drink a lot of it. However, now they're changing their name. And I think Coca-Cola is going to start adding their big red signature, Coca-Cola signature, on all their soda cans because they want to be, you know, compliant and want to make sure that people know that those are Coca-Cola. products. But Coke Zero. It's going to be renamed.

Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Why? When it's already got no sugar. It says so right on the can. The bottom of the can. Real Coca-Cola taste and zero calories, zero sugar. Oh, look.

It says so right on the can. But now. Because of a survey. Coca-Cola zero. Oh, so good. Some days, a cold Coke zero is probably the best thing you could drink. And if Coca-Cola would like to pay me to say that even better, I will. But they don't have to right now.

Yeah, no, wait, they do. But why are they changing it? because five in ten people have no idea it's sugar-free. Five and ten people have no idea it's sugar-free. The other five do. I don't care. Co-Cola's private company. They can rename their things all they want.

But if they mess, if they mess with how they make it, Start messing with the flavor. Messing with the way they make it. And their little Coca-Cola mines coming up with some kind of new Coke Zero plan. That's it. Done with them. Done. This is the Jeff Fisher Show.

Only on the Blaze Radio Network. It was a success. Begin Life Force reboot program. Now. Stand clear. Life signs stable. It's alive. Set it loose.

This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Welcome to it. How are you? Good to see you. 888-9033 is the phone number. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA, Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, Instagram, at JeffEMRA. Mike Opelka, Pure Opelca, coming up, immediately following this broadcast. And then we do a little Jay Severin rewind right into Chris Salcedo, Mike Slater and Joe Pags,

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Shh, don't tell anybody. So, and then, of course, you know to the, I mean, you know this already. I'm only telling you because I just want to remind you. I know you know it. Don't look at me like you think I think you're stupid. I don't. But you can just, you know, go to the same page, you know, the blaze. com slash radio, and you can scroll down.

just download this show. Oh, sure, you can download other shows. And we've got other, you know, other podcasts that you can download that don't air on the network. Sure, you can download those. But who cares about those? I'm telling you to download this particular show and take me with you wherever you go. I mean, it's all I care about. I don't care about anyone else.

I mean, why would I? Wow. Okay. Okay. I'm supposed to care about other people. More than 1,400 new terms and phrases and more than 700 new senses of existing terms were also added to the Miriam Webster unabridged version. They've revised, updated, and enhanced hundreds of entries and added thousands of example sentences to provide contextual information. A kind of a snapshot of how exactly our language expands.

It doesn't happen quickly. We monitor many of these words for years before they meet our criteria for entry. Thank you. Thank you, Miriam. Among the 2,000-od entries are the likes of FOMO. Oh, good. I wouldn't want people not to know what FOMO meant. They see it on Twitter, fear of missing out.

Or Mix, MX, period. which is the new gender, neutral honorific instead of Mr. or Mrs. Mix. Ugh. Ugh. Come on now.

As with every dictionary update, the words that are at it are signs of the times reflecting what we're talking about and how we're talking about it. I see why am I as a reminder that our overrun, distracted lives have led us to embrace a breeze. giving us a need to flag things that get lost in the deluge. Wacking tobacco reflects one of the hottest political issues of recent years,

legalizing marijuana. And words like docs, a slang verb that means to publicly identify or publish private information about someone, especially as a form of punishment, reflect our preoccupations with privacy and internet shaming. Um, and I doesn't say so here, but just, I know, you know, I know you know, but I'm just letting you know what the, you needed to,

you need to know. No. Now, you know what? You don't need to know. How about that? I was going to let you know something. I was going to teach you something. No, I'm just teasing. I see why am I in case you missed it? You couldn't think of that, could you? Okay. Okay.

Some of the sampling of the new words that went into the, just so you know they're there. I mean, you can, of course, get it. The Miriam Webster Dictionary. You know, I still have. We have to find. I've got a couple of old, maybe more than two, actually. I don't know what I think about it.

I've got boxes of books in the garage that need to just... Hello. If you'd like to purchase books in the garage. I'm going to call it books in the garage. I'm just going to take a picture, and you're going to have to buy. you're going to be agonizing. But I've got an old dictionary's, nobody, no one looks at those forever.

I mean, they're cute to have. I can put them on a bookshelf and go, yeah, that's a Miriam Webster's College Dictionary from 1812. That's a Miriam College Dictionary from 1956. Fascinating, huh? Yep. I can go online and get these new words, too. because the old ones don't have athleisure.

That's casual clothing designed to be worn both for exercising and for general use. Bitcoin, cognitive map, a representation formed in the mind of one spatial environment. Cold case has not been in there, an unsolved criminal investigation, and a TV show.

Cold turkey, compassion fatigue. That's what I have. have compassion fatigue apathy or indifference toward the suffering of others as a result of overexposure to traffic tragic news stories and images of subsequent appeals for assistance that's what I think I have I think I'm suffering from that compassion fatigue farm share a portion of a farms output available for sale through community supportive agriculture systems farm share a commune gastric band

You know what that is. Meat slash cute. What? A cute, charming, or amusing first encounter between romantic partners as in a movie. They've got the micros. Microbead, microcredit, micro lending, microloan. NAF. NAF.

Adjective. Mostly British. lacking in style or good taste, vulgar and unfashionable. That's what I am, nap. A nomophobia. Noamophobia. Fear of being without access to a working cell phone. Come on now.

Revenge porn. A new movie brought to you by. It means sexually explicit images of a person posted online without the person's consent, especially as a form of revenge. revenge or harassment, and also revenge porn. Tonight at 9 a.m. Tonight at 9 a.m.? No, 9 p.m.

Don't watch tonight at 9 a.m. You'll miss it. TMI. Come on now. Urban fantasy. What waggle dance? What's a waggle dance? A series of figure eight movements performed by a B

to indicate the direction and abundance of a distant food source. Waggle dance. Yeah, that's what I have. I am a fan of waggle dancing. But we did find out that, you know, I do have, I do suffer. What was it I suffer from again? Compassion fatigue. That's what I have.

I'm suffering from compassion fatigue. Apathy or indifference toward the suffering of others as a result of overexposure to tragic news stories and images on the subsequent appeals for assistance. Compassion fatigue. Well, at least I know what I'm suffering from. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show is on.

That it is. Welcome to it. 888-9033-93 is the phone number. I was actually just strolling through the Blaze here, looking at some headlines and you know what I just I can't I can't anymore I just can't I have what am I suffering from compassion fatigue horrific news out of Ohio eight family members dead and execution style killings they're still looking for the person or persons who did it five people dead in Georgia which I believe is a murder suicide Chicago Chicago sees soaring increase in shootings.

We're arguing about transgender's going to bathrooms. It's unbelievable to me. And, of course, our president, President Obama, I should overturn that law. That's just after our British travel advisory calls for the state bathroom laws to be overturned. Well, it's a state law, so bite me, Mr. President. And another thing, they're a British travel advisory. How about you warn people about going to Dubai in the Middle East?

Don't do that, though, do you tell people to abide by the customs and the laws? So why don't you do that in the United States? And just one headline that I'll remind you of, Trump walks back pledged to eliminate $19 trillion national debt just weeks after he made the promise. So he's taking back something he said, but I thought he never does that. Hey, what do I know? Okay, I can't, I can't take it.

I've got a stack of stories in front of me, and all I want to do is talk about the creepiest things train conductors have seen. Now, those of you that follow me on Twitter know that I am a fan of trains. Life in the train age. Love them. Always have. Which is why when I lived in Pennsylvania and, you know, rode the train back and forth, trains back and forth from Pennsylvania into New York every day, you know, as much of a pain as it is.

I didn't mind it. I love trains. Always have. Well, you know, I really wouldn't have minded working for the railroad. would have been a good gig. So if you work for the railroad, bless you. That's a good gig. Now where I live here in Texas, I mean, trains are a big part of life here in Texas.

They move some product here in Texas. And they do, obviously, across the country. But there are, you know, stronger areas than others. And I love them. And, well, you know, A friend of mine had an actual train horn underneath his truck. And those things are big. So, I mean, you had to put it underneath his truck.

You can't put it up on top because they're heavy. Had it put underneath the truck. Those things are so freaking loud. And you think about it. Think about it. Think about what you hear on the train horn when you're at the intersection and the train goes by, blowing that horn, how loud that is, and how far you hear it. And to hear it say, in your neighborhood is loud.

We used to watch, he would make a U-turn, say you'd be at a light and somebody would be across a street at a bus stop on the other side. So you'd make a U-turn, so you'd make that wide turn, and the truck would end up going in front of that bus stop and he'd blow that horn. Oh, my gosh. I mean, people are jumping out of their skin. And I scared the heck out of my family doing it. We were in front of my in-laws house, just in the street.

I didn't think, and I wasn't thinking. I just, you know, I wanted to blow the horn. Hey, you know, look, I got Diggleberry's truck, and he's got the train horn. Give a listen. And I push that button, and they're all standing in the driveway. I didn't go over well. I didn't go over well at all. Those things are loud.

They do some damage to your hearing. when you're, you know, I don't know, 30, within 30 feet of them. Anyway, I love trains. And I'm going down this story about the train conductors describe the creepiest things they have seen. I have the first one, they talk about a train hits a deer, which I'm sure, you know, they hit animals all the time.

But a man and camo shows up to butcher it. There you go, baby. Now, these are kind of weird. Dog's head mounted on crucifix pops up next to the tracks. Conductor sees mysterious manner. in a trench coat and you think to yourself, yeah, well, that's not weird. Well, you know, people, they see people all the time. What happens, the worst thing that happens about trains is suicides, right?

And let me, before we move on to more stories about suicides and weird trains, weird things that conductors have seen, in the Northeast corridor, for example, let's say, oh, I don't know, between Manhattan and, oh, I don't know, Trent and New Jersey, for example, just as an example. Yeah, the Northeast Quarter for New Jersey Transit. and Amtrak, for those of you living in the tri-state area. When someone jumps in front of a train and commits suicide, yes, we are very sad. Yes, we don't ever want it to happen. But do we need to really, I mean, delay the trains for more than an hour?

I think that should be a mandate. no more than an hour. You need to investigate the crime. The person jumped from here into the front of the tracks, got killed. Bummer. Boy, does that stink. That's what happened.

And I mean that. I don't want it to ever happen. I think people should, you know, you... Hear me out. Hear me out. Don't walk, run, or jump in front of a train, an oncoming train. I know. Crazy. The train wins. The train wins.

But to hold up and delay hundreds if not thousands of people for more than an hour because some dangleberry ended their life in front of a train is insane to me. But hey, that's just me. Woman jumps in front of a train, recovered body looks like a different person. Whoa. Man sees ghost of crash victim walking away from derailment. Train comes in for repairs covered in red mush.

Hobo seeks shelter an empty train car, only to be smothered to death by grains. Oh, that's got to stink. Oh, that's bad luck. Railway engineer finds remnants of suicide during inspection, so they didn't even know they hit the person. That stinks. then they got to go back along the tracks.

A woman attempts suicide by jumping in front of the train with her dog. She lives, trained dog dies. Trailer park, this is one, I love this one because this is what unintended consequences. Trailer park residents tried to derail train, end up in hail of shrapnel. They laid a bunch of landscaping stones and tie plates on top of the tracks. They sat back drinking beers watching the train go over them. The train just crushed them up and shot them out at them. got nailed with shrapnel.

Unintended consequences of life in the train age. The Jeff Fisher Show, the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher. Thank you. Sorry, even though I said goodbye to Prince today, I can't, all I'm doing, I'm in the break singing Nat King Cole. I don't know how I got in my head. But it did.

So that will be my day. And probably I'm guessing by about mid-afternoon, my family will be screaming at me to get out of the house. So it's something to look forward to, for me anyway. All right. Let's talk a little tech, shall we? Let's talk tech by starting with, I'm told that when you go to the blaze.com slash radio. And not only are you supposed to download my show. Okay.

And I mean, there's other shows there you can download too, but like I said before, I don't care about those. You can look at them, though. I mean, all the shows are there. The Monday through Friday shows, the weekend shows. And we have a bunch of other specialty shows that never air on the network that are there for you that are Blaze Radio-specific podcasts that are really great. Did I say they're really great? Oh, my gosh. I mean, there are just other podcasts there.

Yeah, I mean, I don't care about them. You can download those two as well. But what you need to do, as well as downloading them, okay, is you need to subscribe to it. So you get the little update when the new, you know, when the new podcast goes up, and you can comment, which they love. And you know what else?

You know what else you can do? You can do it for free. Because Bloomberg, The news sites are going to start charging readers to comment on articles, which actually I think this is a pretty smart idea. News publishers fraught with relationship with the people who comment on their articles. Many websites have been removing the comment section altogether. But they're going to start charging the people who hang out there. The founder of mp3.com, Michael Robertson from San Diego,

fighting a long legal battle with the record industry, argues that the prospect of new revenue stream will convince a struggling industry to reconsider the value of comments. Comments are valuable. They're also not really valuable, because when you're doing it for free, you get a lot of, let's crawl them, what shall we call them, trolls, which I'm sure is probably in the new Miriam Webster Dictionary,

although I didn't see it there. So you can do that for free at theblaze.com slash radio. All right, where shall we go with tech? Where shall we go in tech? Virtual reality porn. Going to be offered in Las Vegas rooms. Okay. Okay.

The complete package soon be trialled in Las Vegas hotels, 1999 a pop. Ooh, man, I hope they... Remember we talked about the whole virtual reality suit? Ooh. I mean, we need to make sure that they... You talk about bed bugs in hotel rooms. Virtual reality. Porn bugs in hotel rooms?

Could be a little issue. But, you know, I was reading yesterday about... What the heck was I reading it? about how people are reacting to the virtual reality games. And some of them, the game where you walk the tightrope, you can download it now and then you can walk the tight road between buildings and stuff. What the heck is it called? I should have it up the story.

I'm telling you the story, and I don't have it in front of me. But I was reading yesterday, and it was talking about how people start to sweat and their legs are shaking, and they know it's not real. At least they say they know it's not real, but they're so into it. It's almost like reality. It's virtual reality. And they start,

they start shaking, they start sweating, the knees, and it's real. So it feels like the real thing. China unveiled its first interactive robot. Can chat away to humans and even take orders from iCloud.

And it's a robot girlfriend. Nice. When you say hello to the robot, she replies, Yes, my lord, what can I do for you? When asked to please wave your hand, she does just that. What she ought to do is say, which hand should I wave and how long should I wave it? Okay. I mean, if she's going to say, yes, my lord, what can I do?

let's just carry this out to the full line. All right. Wave your hand. Yes, my lord, which hand and how long should I wave? Her developers say she's programmed to match human facial expressions, body and mouth movements. She can even offer services based on cloud technology that can position herself independently. Okay. So we're moving on.

we are moving on. And don't forget Ray Kurzweil, the man, biggest believers in the singularity. You know, humans, the aid of technology, will supposedly live forever. Ray says the year 2045, because according to his calculations, the non-biological intelligence created in that year

will reach a level that's a billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today. Think of that. By 2045, according to Ray Kurzweil, the non-biological intelligence created in that year will reach a level that it's a billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today. Now, before 2045, Kurzweil thinks we could begin the deathless process.

We'll reach a point around. 2029 when a medical technology is will add one additional year for every year to your life expectancy. So whatever age you are at 2029, what your life expectancy is supposed to be now will be added to another year to that and another year on top of that every year after that. I don't mean life expectancy based on your birthday, but rather your remaining life expectancy. Okay. So, I mean, that's fascinating. Fascinating. And in what point does it stop? He doesn't, at least I, he doesn't, in this, what I have in front of me from Ray, he doesn't say that. Well, let's see. A lot will happen over the next 30 years to make that reality.

He predicts that nanomachines capable of taking over for our immune system to fix problems like cancerous cells and clogged arteries and connecting our brains to the cloud will be available by then. Your likings to that change to the next step in our evolution, same way our ancestors developed to use the frontal cortex two million years ago. We'll create more profound forms of communication than we're familiar with today, more profound music and funnier jokes. We'll be funnier. We'll be sexier. We'll be more adept at expressing loving sentiments.

Uh-huh. That sounds good. but he still doesn't say at what point you stop your life expectancy. So by 2029, you can add a year, each year, every year, to your life expectancy. So at 2029, if your life expectancy is 150, it's then 151. And then 2030 would be 100, if your life expectancy is 151, it would be 152. When does it stop? How long do you go before your body says, all right, I'm done?

Because I'm 152 right now, and I got to tell you. I mean, starting to feel wear and tear at 152. I know it's a surprise, but I am. I'm hoping, you know, by the time I get to, you know, 3, 400. Maybe I'll wear down enough to, you know, to stop working, but not until that. Amazon, same-day delivery. Do you know what Amazon, same-day delivery is right now?

Racist. I know. I know. I thought the same thing. Effective same-day delivery is in more white zip codes than black ones. So within the zip codes around the area is because they want to keep it local to the warehouses of Amazon. More white people live than black people. So because of that, the same-day delivery is racist.

That is just amazing to me that people would think that. Now, the Amazon same-day delivery is a really cool feature. We do in this neck of the woods that we live in here in the Dallas Metroplex live in a same-day delivery area. And it's pretty cool that you can get something the same-day same-day. Yes, I want that. Click. It's at your door. And it's not quite that fast as it soon will be, though.

But, I mean, it's like, I want that. Order it. Finish doing whatever you're doing. And pretty soon it's, they're knocking at your door, dropping your product off. Pretty cool. However, it can't be cool anymore because it's racist. Okay.

sorry it can't be cool anymore because it's racist and I'm absolutely positive that that's what Amazon was thinking come on now you think Amazon gives a flying crap who is buying their product

I don't care Amazon doesn't go to the bank and go that's black money those white people money sorry got news for you they don't I go to the bank and say, here's the money we made. It doesn't matter whether it came from white person, yellow person, red person, black person.

If you happen to live next to one of their warehouses or where their same-day delivery is, guess what? You get the delivery. If you don't, you have to wait two days. So making people wait more than same-day delivery is racist. Unbelievable. Although, remember, in today's world, oh my gosh, you're either racist or a bigot or a hater.

That's it. Why the hate? Just ask yourself today, as you're going through the day, why the hate? This is The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Is the Jeff Fisher Show. Thank you. Yes, it is. Thank you for coming along for the ride today.

Thank you to my man, Brad Staggs, who fills in for me from time to time on the Blaze Radio Network. He just walked in and handed me a large French vanilla cappuccino. Oh, I think I just fell in love. I think I just fell in love. It's from 7-Eleven, too. I haven't had one from 7-Eleven in a long, long time. It better be as good as a racetrack.

I don't want to complain, but the racetrack French vanilla cappuccinos are. are really good. Their blend is blended just right. Their blend is almost like in the, they don't have Hess here in Texas, but the Hess French vanilla cappuccinos were really good when I lived in Florida and also in Pennsylvania.

So I'm just saying. We're ready to enjoy my 7-Eleven French vanilla cappuccino here. And thank you, Brad. I appreciate it. he was reminded of the time he met Prince too in Nashville. And he said it was about the same as mine. Just a quick hello.

And Prince and his posse moved on. And that's just kind of, I guess that's how you meet Prince. Hi, I'm Prince. Possie moves on. How was Prince? I just met Prince. All right. So I didn't even get to all the.

You know, all the really cool tech stuff that we could get to. The driverless pods is going to hit Singapore. That's going to be weird to see those moving around. But it'll be kind of cool. You just hop in your little pod and take me to the restaurant. Then hop on your little pod and go back home. Right? I guess it's kind of cool.

And sad, sad, sad news. From Victoria's Secret. I know. I know you say to yourself, Jeff, how could there be sad news from Victoria's Secret? Are they closing their stores? No. Oh, my gosh, that's not that sad news. According to reports, they are set to get rid of their swimwear after this year.

Now, those of you that are saying to yourself, but are they still going to let girls walk around and just bras and panties that are almost mirror swimwear? I say yes, yes, they are. So why are you so sad? I don't know. It just sounds like it should be a sad day when companies get rid of swimwear. That's all I'm saying. That's it.

Have a good week. Take care. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network.