Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 592 | Fat Pile Friday: Killer Robots, Trees and Bees

Episode Date: April 2, 2021

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Okay, we've got to have some kind of city manager meeting for municipalities all over the world. They need to realize that when you have main thoroughfares that go through different municipalities, they can also be timed up with their lighting system. So, I take a main thoroughfare to work every day. It's a main thoroughfare, but there's plenty of lights throughout this area. But in the middle of the night, let's say, use an example, oh, just off the top of my head, 4 a.m. And there's no other traffic or very little amount of traffic on all the other roads. In fact, on all the roads.

When you're on a main thoroughfare, those lights should be blinking orange. So you're cautious, but you don't have to stop. The side roads should be blinking red. So when you come up to that light, you stop. If there's no traffic, you go. If you're on the main thoroughfare, I should not have to run through a complete cycle of a daytime lighting system.

I shouldn't have to wait for the turn signal on the other direction and then one way, then the other, then wait for the turn signal on my side, and then the other way, and then it finally turns green. No, I'm sorry. I should not have to wait that way with no traffic at 4 a.m. in the morning. And I will say that many times I do something that's illegal. I run the red light.

I come up, I stop, there's no traffic, I go. I know, I know. I'm supposed to just sit there like good little sheep and wait for it to turn green, but I just can't bring my... to do it. I'm sorry. I can't. Now I shouldn't have to break the law. They're making me break the law when I do that because it should be the way I've said. Caution on the main thoroughfares, blinking red on the side streets. It's a very simple, simple thing to do. And you would think that cities around the world, but in particular, let's use a city off the top of my head.

Oh, you know the DFW Metroplex, where it is a metroplex. So I drive through one, two, three, at least three municipalities before I get onto a highway, an interstate. So I have to deal with those lights. It's a struggle. I know it's a struggle that I go through and it's very difficult. Now, I've had to do this in other cities that I've lived in as well. And it is very, very frustrating.

It cannot be as difficult as it appears to me to fix city managers or whoever is in charge of whatever you want to call your little road department that take care of the lights. whatever department is in charge of that, that needs to have a meeting. Those teams need to come together. And then the different municipalities that are all together bunched up, maybe they could communicate with each other. I know. Just communication. You could communicate about construction, about the timing of the lights,

about anything so that it makes everyone's life that much easier. That's what you were elected to do. Some of you weren't even elected. Some of you were hired by the elected officials to do the job. And I'm asking you, please, do your job. Please. Hey, welcome to chewing the fat. Okay, it was a little frustrating.

That's all driving to work this morning. I just had to, you know, it's been on my mind since I was coming in to do Pat's show this morning. which I do, you know, Wednesday and Friday, the Blaze, television, and radio network, Pat Gray on Leash. So, anyway, I just had to get a little, there was a lighting issue this morning was driving me insane. And as I stop, and some lights I don't run because it's a big intersection. But there's no traffic.

I should be able to go, and there were problems with, you know, normally you, there's sensors. Normally you come up and the sensor says, there's a car coming, so then it turns green and you go. You don't have to stop very long. It's just a momentary stop, and then it turns green. So you don't have to break the law. But after I sit at that light for, I don't know, 30 seconds to a minute,

and it still is not even attempting to turn green on my side. It's at 4 o'clock in the morning. I'm going through. That's just the way it is. And, you know, if you want to pull me over, Mr. Police officer, go ahead. Pull me over. but that's the only way I'm stopping is if you pull me over. Anyway, so I see a story today and I'm wondering,

why haven't I been to this place before? I am so disappointed. It's a abandoned resort at Indian Ridge in Branson. It's called the Indian Ridge Resort in Branson. So more than a decade ago, you know, the 2008 housing crisis and everything fell through the bottom. This resort was being built. So there's these million-dollar homes that were being built that are just abandoned. It was a $1.6 billion deal that was supposed to have water parks, golf courses, hotels, conference centers, and, of course, shopping. But the housing

crisis fell through. Five people ended up in federal prison. They had lied to get the loan. They, uh, there was a big problem with the people that were building it. And so it's just abandoned. Have a nice day. Now there was a TikTok user, this Carrie Jernigan one who posted stuff on her TikTok this weekend about this past weekend about the, uh, about the resort, at the abandoned resort. And a lot of people were saying, oh, no. No, it's scary.

It feels like it's haunted. Well, it can't be haunted. Nobody ever lived there. I mean, I know, realize the houses are crumbling, but I'm not sure that it could be haunted. The reason that places get haunted is that people live there and then left, right? Their death aura is still there.

Those are called ghosts. But I'm really disappointed that I have not been to the Indian Ridge Resort in Branson. Really, really cool looking. It's all these million dollar homes just crumbling. And nobody there. Nobody cares because there was a lie getting it built. And then nobody had any money with the 2008 housing crisis. So it was just, you're going to jail and we're just, you're going to jail.

just leaving the loan. Never mind. Now, it doesn't say here, I've got to kind of look into to see who actually owns the property now, and it might even be just the government since they shut it down and put these people in jail.

But it's just, I would just leave it. Ah, just leave it. Don't worry about it. I mean, somebody's got to come in with a little bit of cash and try to infuse a little something, right? But it's a lot of money. I mean, you're in Missouri,

and you're trying to make it a big deal, tie it in with Branson, and still have your own entity of this resort. So, I mean, I can understand. Look, it's your money, not mine, that I need to have infused in there. But if you're going to, you know,

if you're going to make this place have the water parks and the golf courses and the museum, and, I mean, let's, you know, let's go. Let's make it happen. What, you couldn't do that without going to prison? Oh, okay. Well, that never mind. Speaking of mansions, though,

I see where Kobe's, Kobe Bryant, that is, the deceased, Kobe Bryant, One of his former homes is back on the market for $2.6 million. So it sold six months ago. Kobe's wife sold it, Vanessa, put it on the market after he passed away. And it sold within six months. And she had it on the market for $1.9 million and somebody purchased it for $2 million. So they bought it back in 2013 for $1.3 million.

All right. So now it's 2.6 million trying to make, you know, quick 600 grand. But they've done a bunch of work. He put a couple hundred thousand of renovations in it. But you'd think this is a huge place, right? I mean, it's got a manicured backyard, lush garden, jacuzzi, barbecue and bar. Plenty of entertaining space. Master Suite includes views of the garden and features a custom his and hers vanity shower,

soaking tub and walk-in closet. The owners also whitewashed the beautiful hardwood floors and beamed ceilings. In addition, they traded the chandeliers for a more contemporary piece. Clean marble covers the island in the gourmet kitchen. Now, okay, so you figure, well, it's in Irvine, California, and it's $2.9 million. It's in a gated community, Turtle Ridge in Orange County. 2400 square feet 2400 square feet are you kidding me that's a trailer you're talking about 2400 square feet for a 3 million bucks in california no thank you but hey good luck and it's a beautiful makeover well it is a fat pile Friday here on chewing the fat or at least we're

going to try to get through some of the fat pile there's a whole bunch of fat you know today And so I was looking at what headlines I'm going to share. I'm going to try to get through them. But if you look at one of the emails I get, and I talk about several of the different emails that I receive just with stories and stuff that's going on around the world. But as I look at this one email that I got, I've got one, two, three, four, five quick headlines that, wow,

I mean, just stuff you need to know in the trial. George Floyd's girlfriend yesterday said Floyd was hospitalized for overdose months earlier. The drug dealer was with him during the arrest. Both Floyd and I, our story is a classic story, is how we both get addicted to opioids. Yeah, we got addicted and tried really hard to break that addiction many times, so it's the opioids fault. I know, I know. It's not going to matter. I don't even know why we've talked about it before.

you know, this trial is a look good, feel good kind of trial, but no way he walks. No way the police officer Chauvin walks. I'm sorry, no. Not if you want to save the community. I mean, if he has found innocent, we've talked about it before, but I mean, if he has found innocent and or not guilty, yeah, it's not going to be pretty. And it may not be pretty even if they find him guilty. They may burn part of the city just in celebration.

I don't know. I don't know. The good news is a city like Portland is a lot safer. Wait, it isn't? No, Portland's North Precinct has seen a year-to-date increase in shooting incidents, nearly 104%. Oh, wow. 25 homicides would put the city at nearly half of its 2020 homicide total, which was 55 in 2020. So they're on pace for that. It's good, man.

We need to stop the police. that the police are bad. Okay, the police actually stop violence. Wow, what a crazy, crazy thought. And this, you know me, I am a life in the train age, baby. I'm all for trains. This headline, this, they have an Amtrak train map that talks about the passenger railroad service

saying that they have a 2035 vision. It's an optimistic proposal for what is great for the rail network in 15 years if, if they get the proper funding. Oh, oh, okay. So, man, we're going to expand and we're going to get bigger and the rail service is going to be great. If, if they get the proper funding. Oh, oh, okay. Is that how it works?

Is that how it works? No, not really. It's not supposed to be how it works, but it will be how it works. And you know with our new transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, he's going to be a big fan of it, I guarantee you. So maybe one of the packages, stimulus packages is going to revitalize America, a plan that we can't do without. Sure, sure, it's going to address racial inequities. but if we can do more for the infrastructure and more for travel, like, I don't know, investing in Amtrak

and getting the proper funding so that they'll be able to reach their 20, 35 vision, that'll be great. Because I wouldn't want companies to be able to succeed or not succeed on the basis of merit. Oh, man, I'm sorry for even thinking that way. That would be wrong. And I apologize for thinking that way.

So it was opening day of Major League Baseball yesterday, and people were headed to the stadium. I know Texas Rangers had 100% capacity at the ballpark, and even the Rangers executives said, no, you know, that's not going to be for all year. We're just still being nice, and it probably is not going to be that. Oh.

Oh, okay. No problem. I know that the crowds seem to be pretty good. good around the country with the footage that I saw and then I see a new study out

I'm sorry a survey from the Washington Post that it was a you know this new poll 42% of Americans feel comfortable attending a ticketed event 42% what if the event is held outdoors

like a baseball game 66% feel okay about attending. The number drops to 32% if the event is held indoors. So what if the stadium capacity is limited? Just 50% of the people are comfortable in stadiums that are at 50% capacity. If the capacity is limited to 20%, then 69% are okay with attending. The most revealing part of the survey was that Americans apparently trust masks about as much as they do the vaccine, and they put more faith in those masks

than they do negative test results. Wow. When asked if they would be comfortable attending a sporting event if masks were required, 64% of respondents said yes, well, they're all required. But when asked about whether they would attend the game if all attendees received a vaccine, only 69% of Americans were cool with that idea.

I mean, that's what the, that's what the head of the CDC was talking about, right? I can get back to a normal life if everyone gets vaccinated, then everything could be fine. And you don't even carry the COVID-19 after you been vaccinated. Not so bad. That's so fast. They had to walk that back a little bit. Because we've already got people who have gotten the vaccine and test positive for COVID-19. after they received the vaccine.

So that's really not true. There is at CDC, but I know you feel, you feel like there's impending doom. Yeah, I know, I know, baby. It's okay. It's just incredible to me that we're still, you know, I get it. I do. I get the feeling that we all, you know,

kind of question being in crowds now. But we're moving on, and it's time to get there. We're getting there. Sure, there's going to have to still be some social distancing, and they're still going to force the masks on you, and they're still ramming the vaccine down our throats, not literally yet. But when we have an administration that is continually telling us that it's the dark of winter, and we're still in the bad place of COVID-19, and they're still impending. doom and we shouldn't gather and you shouldn't see other human beings. The American people are moving on. And so while that survey, you know, they try to say that, you know, we are afraid to gather.

Well, not really. You know, you're talking about if the baseball game was held outdoors, 66% they feel okay about attending. Yeah. Okay. So, A, every game is not sold out anyway, ever. You know, I mean, every game is not sold out. And I know Major League Baseball and the NFL and the NBA and college basketball with the, you know, they all, you know, wish that it was always sold out 100%. But it's not.

So people, you know, might not be there anyway. But the NFL has said, you know, he hopes to have 100% capacity. And they open it up and let's go. I mean, if you can be able to go to these games, and I talked about it the other day, while the, you know, the viewing is down. And that, you know, obviously has a lot more to do with, you know, the social activism of whatever sport you're watching. And they're all, you know, playing that game and trying to walk that line. But I really do think that as a fan watching the games last year, it was really strange watching football. without a crowd and attendance at the stadiums.

It was just, you know, I don't know, I just didn't feel right. It was weird watching it. So a lot of times, you know, I might not, you know, the decision to watch a game, well, always opted on the side of the game, actually, now that I think about it. But I can understand that a peripheral fan would say, Yeah. Nobody's there enjoying it. Why should I? And that's a problem.

And the other thing is, is that with the administration telling us that we're still in the dark of winter, yeah, these events, people are going to be questioning going to these events. But most of, you know, states are opening up. And states are realizing that the states that, you know, know that they're going to lose the power that they had this last year, They are deciding that we need to open back up and make Americans able to be, I don't know, Americans again. It's just insane to me. Just insane to me. So when I see these surveys, it's hard to take sometimes.

It's hard to take. Anyway, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. I'm sure you do as well. Oh my gosh. That is so good. Well, Hulu is in the news. Yes, they are.

Hulu is making quite the news these days. They have set up a, and it says here they had landed the first project. Oh, no. I mean, I'm sure they really had to fight for it. I thought the 1619 project was really discredited now. So we're going to have that ram down our throats again. Hulu is setting the 1619 project docu series.

Oh, they're going to call it a docu series, so it makes it sound true. They have landed the first project out of the Oprah Wimfrey and Lionsgate deal. Ah, it's great. That's great. I hope Nicole Hannah-Jones made a bunch of money from that. man is that good spreading the disinformation i thought we were against the misinformation oh it's only misinformation you don't like i got you okay i'm sorry and uh hulu also uh starting today for those of you listening live on the second of april 2021 the we work documentary actually that might be

good to see because they we work was um you know moving along quite well a pre COVID and then it and I think that they're on their way back that'd be interesting to see how that played out that might be that might be worth a watch another thing that might be fun to watch is a stage production is it yes I like plays a stage production don't look at me like that don't look at me like that I like plays I enjoy them okay if they're you know it's they're fun so

a new stage production is in the early stages of development. Game of Thrones. I know. That'd be fun to why it. George R.R. Martin is working along some of the other writers and producers to adapt it to a play. I mean, he released the following statement. The seeds of war are often planted in times of peace.

Few in Westeros knew the carnage to come when highborn and small folk alike gathered at Heronall to watch the finest nights of the realm compete in the great tourney during the year of the false spring. It is a tourney oft referred during HBO's Game of Thrones and in my novels, a song of ice and fire. And now, at last, we can tell the whole story on stage. So, I mean, are we going to have like an eight-hour play? I mean, I mentioned it's going to be a long one,

but it'd be fun to watch. You know, I'm in the middle of watching games. of Thrones again. I know. I know. I know. I know. I'm just, I started watching it again with, uh, with my sister-in-law. She hadn't seen it. And we've been after, you know, we've been talking and joking around about it. I can't believe you haven't seen it. So I started watching it again with her. And it's so much fun watching this, uh, series with someone who hasn't seen it. right i mean because i've watched it well more than once and the first time i watched it i binged it myself uh then i watched it with my wife and i missed that you know with my wife i watched a lot of

a lot of the episodes some of the episodes i said uh yeah no i'll catch up though i waited for the good episodes you know there's there are some that are the filler episodes that build up and you need them in your in your repertoire to get to the you know the the good episodes but you don't if you've already seen it I don't need it I just want to see the good episodes so uh you know I would bypass some of the filler episodes then now I'm watching everyone again and you know building it up and it's so much fun why knowing what's coming up and having someone watch it for the first time that doesn't know what's coming up it's so cool that's so cool anyway Anyway, he goes on, he yaps on in his little release for a while longer, and he says,

our dream is to bring Westeros to Broadway, to the West End, to Australia, and eventually to a stage year new, near you. It ought to be spectacular, George R.R. Martin. So it's going to be worth, it's going to be fun. And if you can't see it in New York, you might be able to see it, you know, in a city near you. when when we're done with the dark of winter COVID-19 and we can assemble again and feel safe about assembling again in a theater I mean a deep dark theater like that for plays

good luck New York Broadway is going to be the neon lights of Broadway aren't going to be the George Benson neon lights of Broadway for quite a while thank you COVID-19 One of the things that makes this program chewing the fat so much better than going to one of those nasty plays is that you can do it in the comfort and the relaxation of your own home. The surroundings that you feel safe in. You can turn on chewing the fat and just feel better about your life. But you need to be a subscriber. So choose a platform.

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So go ahead and subscribe to this show and turn your life around. Turn that frown upside down, okay? All right. Then you might as well follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. And you've got Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. Parlor's there too. If they ever, you know, fight back. I know they were saying the other day that they helped.

We talked about it a little bit. And I heard the head of parlor on, you know, the guy that does the radio show. nationally what's his name Glenn something Glenn something the head of parlor was on his radio show and said that they had helped the

FBI with the violent rhetoric that was on there which was very little and they were you know they had reached out they they were the ones who reached out so why he took that from Facebook and all without saying

that from the very beginning I don't know he claimed that he had to do that because he wanted to make sure all their ducks are in a row. That's almost too late now. Ducks are no ducks. Man, the damage has been done. You're not, I just, I hope they, you know, they went back, but they were on such a surge, which is amazing that they were taken down from Facebook and Twitter.

Huh, really weird how that happened. Amazon, Google, they all decided that they didn't like parlor. Weird. Anyway, so you can follow me. me there too at Jeff Fisher Radio. Sorry. And you can email me at the bled, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Yes, that's the email address, chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

And I try to get to all your emails. Thank you so much. Okay. All right. Goody, goody. And you might as well follow me on YouTube too. I update new programming on that channel as often as I can, which is chewing the fat at the blaze.com as well.

No. What is the YouTube channel? I can't even think today. What is wrong with me? It's chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. That's the YouTube channel. Wow. I can't even. I need something cold to drink again.

I've already been to the break room. All right, but I'm taking another drink now and probably need another. Okay. No, really. I'm better now. Let's talk about billionaires for a little bit, shall we? They did a popularity poll by Vox, and they examined the popularity of billionaires in the U.S.

Now, they have the top four here, and it's pretty telling, and it's also kind of agonizing. So the top four, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, In that order. Bill Gates, popularity. 24% were very favorable and somewhat favorable, 31% of, to Bill Gates.

Wow. So he has, you know, 55% favorable. Elon Musk, 18% very favorable. 32% somewhat favorable. So he's got a bigger, somewhat favorable, but less very favorable. And he hits that, you know, 51%. Wow.

Jeff Bezos, 11% very favorable. 29% somewhat favorable. Mark Zuckerberg, 10% very favorable. favorable and I don't know where you get that from 21% somewhat favorable. Those people must be stockholders in Facebook. But he has a 31%. 31% very unfavorable.

Wow. That doesn't surprise me though because he's not one of those guys that you see on the screen and you think to yourself Wow, that's a good guy. I like him. He means a lot to me.

I like him a lot. You really don't think that with Mark Zuckerberg. He's kind of the guy that you look at and go, man, I do not like him. I do not like him at all. And Bezos is, you know, he's, you know, I think he would get a better of more favorable ranking

had he not gotten a divorce. the last, what has it been a year and a half now, two years. I think if he hadn't gone through that, he'd be more favorable. For some reason, I feel like that took him down a little bit. Plus, all these guys, except for Elon, have been really, really, they made it in America, and now they want to close the door behind them. And Elon has not done that, which is good for him. although he's milking the government for millions.

They all are. But it's just surprising that Bill Gates, Bill Gates, and he had 24% very favorable, 31% somewhat favorable. Wow, just bad. Now, Elon actually had the least amount very unfavorable, which is pretty good for him. I mean, unless people, you know, don't like him very much. He was only at like 9% of very unfavorable.

That probably came from Zuckerberg, Musk, and Gates. Did you see where San Diego Comic Con is saying that they're going to have the convention over Thanksgiving weekend? What? What are you thinking? And I know that, you know, I mean, the headline is facing harsh back. from fans, talent, and press? Uh, yeah. Uh, on top of which that it's the, you know, Thanksgiving after COVID when we couldn't

see anybody. But, uh, although, uh, we actually did have some family. Anyway, don't tell anybody. But most people, you know, we're in lockdown and, you know, they couldn't have Thanksgiving in 2020. So, uh, they've decided to have Comic Con at, you know, this is going to be the big weekend. Thanksgiving. are going to be able to gather again.

You know, if this administration and Joe Biden believes that we're out of the dark of winter by then, he was, you know, hoping we'll be able to get together with a couple of people on the 4th of July. But they really are, they're saying that they need to have the event and it's their organization

decided that it needed to be, you know, obviously in-person convention. And they had to cancel all these previous events. So they've taken a financial hit. Well, duh. No kidding. Any event that normally happens, either at the same place or different places around the country the last year and a half,

have paid a huge price. No question about that. Everyone has taken a financial hit. Believe me. But maybe it was the only weekend they could get in San Diego, although I doubt it because those places are all literally begging for events to happen. Look, come here. We can open.

We'll have limited attendance and everybody has to wear a mask and you'll have to make sure that you have a vaccine. We'll make sure that happens if you want. But have your event here. I mean, that's what's happening. But to have the Comic Con, I mean, that's a huge event, the San Diego Comic Con, I can't believe that the stars and the press, I'm sorry, the talent and the press are going to let this happen. This might, I mean, San Diego Comic-Con either is going to have to, you know, reschedule or they're going to die on the vine, right? Nobody's going to cover it.

They'll just say, yeah, you know, let us know what happens. Run an online stream and we'll watch it that way. I mean, that may be what happens. So we'll see, but I don't know that that's really a smart move on their part. And as long as we're out in California, a very sad story. And I actually mean it. It's a sad story that is almost unbelievable. So a California mom and dad of five, they have five kids.

So they're driving along and 160. 75 foot redwood tree crashes on the car and crushes them. So, and I'm quoting the California Highway Patrol here. It's very unusual. Really?

No kidding. I mean, just amazing. So they're taking their annual trip to celebrate her 45th birthday, the wife, Jessica Woodroof. and they're in their 2016 Honda

tree falls crushes them I don't even know why I don't know why just it's over as a picture of the family they're gorgeous and hey we don't know look we don't know what's been going on

I've been in the department for 19 years I've been in this area for 12 to 13 years we've had trees fall down and cars make contact but not this kind of incident. It's very unusual. Really? I bet it was caused from high winds. Everything is caused by high winds today. But according to this person, nope, it was no wind. It was a nice day. We don't know what made the tree fall. Oh, I mean, it was a very forested area. We have trees everywhere. It's in the middle of the redwoods. Thank you. Wow. I mean, according to the National

Weather Service, there were gustier winds on the coast, but where they were, it should have been fine. And it wasn't clear if the children were in the vehicle when the tree fell. But they're, I mean, they've got a fundraiser for these kids, too. And, I mean, just amazing that a redwood tree,

you'd be in your car and you think that's the way to go, have a redwood tree fall on you? In your automobile and just fall? Come on now. Come on. There's got to be more to this, right? Those redwood trees, I mean, do they just fall? I'm not a redwood tree expert.

I know this may come as a surprise, but I'm not a redwood tree expert. And here's something that you can't quote me on. They're pretty big. They're kind of big. So do they just fall? I mean, I've never had a tree, a lot of trees, you know, live my homes, you know, trees around the house and big, big, live oak and living oak trees when I was in Florida. They're monster trees. And they don't just fall. I mean, there has to be something going on, right? I mean, you've got to have, is there a redwood bug?

Was it the killer hornets trying to build a nest? Something. Something. Right? I mean, you've got to have, you. You're not just sitting in your Honda, and the next thing you know, you're crushed from a Redwood. Well, obviously, that's wrong, because these people, that's exactly what happened. One minute they're in their 2016, Honda, and then Redwood Tree. So I'm reading a story about the global race to build killer robot armies,

and they're on the way. They are on the way. So there's a report that came out. the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence completed its two-year inquiry and had a 750-page report. The members unanimously concluded that the United States has a moral imperative to pursue the use lethal autonomous weapons. Wow.

Otherwise, we risk bringing a rusty knife to a superhuman gunfight. Duh. Remember when Eric Schmidt urged President Biden to reject the proposed international ban on AI controlled weapons? He suspects our major rivals won't abide by such a treaty, warning U.S. leaders, this is a tough reality we must face. If other superpowers are going to unleash demonic drone swarms on the world, the logic goes the United States should be the first to open the world. Gates of Hell. Nice. I'm, you know, no, not nice, but that's good to hear from Eric Smith, although, you know,

it's probably his company making the drones from hell. It's just amazing. I mean, it's been two decades since we started using the drones after 9-11, right? And so we've got a huge market on attack drones, and we've got new attack drones. and we've got new attack drones coming out. There's drone specialists and lethal drone swarms for, it's just amazing that we, I believe that we already are, right? Now, Joe Biden might end that because that would be something that Donald Trump would do.

And heaven forbid that you mentioned the previous administration, you can't hear from him. We don't want you to hear his voice, nothing. Okay. All right. so it's just incredible that you know we're back to talking about that for killer robots but when you think about it robots are all part of our lives now Boston Dynamics you know the robot dog they have just unveiled a new robot called stretch and stretch

yes that's right it's a new robot and it's a new robot and it's a new robot and it's moves boxes and warehouses. So it's a little bit different than the robots that you see that Amazon has. But it is a warehouse robot that will move boxes. Well, what about humans? Well, humans will have to oversee and make sure that it's moving the right boxes and where they go for now. But I was reading a story called Rise of the Retail Robles. robots from Peter Diamandis.

And he tells us about the robots are coming on our sidewalks, our skies, and in our store. Over the next 10 years, robots will be mainstream in retail. I mean, think about that. The numbers, in the last eight years, global retail robotics market is projected to grow by an order of magnitude. from 4.78 billion in 2018 to 41.67 billion in 20206. And we're smack dab in the middle of that right now. So we've got robots that are stocking shelves, serving customers, deliver products to our doorstep.

It's amazing what's already out there. Right? I mean, Domino's Pizza introduced the Domino's robotic. unit Drew, DRU, first home delivery pizza robot. It looks across between R2D2 and an oversized microwave. It's got the, you know, it's got the LIDAR and GPS sensors to help it navigate. I mean, there are a dozen or so different delivery bots that are entering the market now. There's a Starship technologies that are building an all-purpose

delivery robot that has cameras and GPS sensors, microphones, speakers. Pretty incredible, right? You've got Neuro who helped develop the Google's self-driving car. You've got Select Kroger stores using the toaster designed robot to carry cargo, which, you know, originally it was about 12 bags of groceries, and now it's moving, it's moving bigger, bigger size selections in those stores. You've got them partnering with CVS and Walmart.

Then you have Amazon announcing Prime Air, which is drone delivery in 30 minutes or less. Good luck. 7-Eleven at Walmart, Google, Alibaba, already part of that bandwagon and delivering having drone deliveries. The FAA is granted approval. We've talked about that before. Delivery bots are starting to spare us trips to the store.

And then you have plenty of robots in the store. I mean, in 2010, you had pepper, the humanoid robot capable of understanding a human emotion, the plastic white body. Now there's over 12,000 peppers. that have been sold, 2,000 companies globally have adopted Pepper as an assistant. She serves ice cream in Japan, greets eaters at a pizza hut in Singapore, interacts with customers at the Palo Alto Electronic Store,

and with the COVID-19 pandemic, Pepper's been used to prepare food, greet customers, ease loneliness. Amazing! Walmart uses self-stocking robots for inventory control. Best Buy uses robo-cashier, allowing select locations to operate 25,000, 4-7. Lowe's home improvement employs the Lod, a giant iPad on wheels to help customers find items they need

while tracking inventory along the way. I mean, we are really there already. It's not as fine-tuned as it will be, but it is there. And we've talked about it before. The robots aren't coming. They're already here. robots are no robots.

What do you do when you come out of the grocery store and you've got about 15,000 honeybees in your car? So a New Mexico man goes into an Albertsons. He said he was in the car for about 10 minutes, comes back out. They're going into the store for about 10 minutes and Albertsons in New Mexico. Comes back out and he starts to drive away

and he notices, hey, what's going on there? and there's all these bees in the back of his car. Now he had borrowed the car, and he didn't know what to do. So he called 911, and they brought, they called the fire department and rescue crew in. And Jesse Johnson, an off-duty firefighter and paramedic, whose hobby is beekeeping, say, I'll take him.

I'll take them, no problem. So, look, I just got done with a family barbecue, and I got the call from the fire department saying, hey, can you remove and relocate these bees? Yes, yes I can. Because I want to quote, Jesse, I'll do anything to keep people from killing bees. Right?

Me too, Jesse. Me too. So he took his time. He said usually it would take about 10 minutes, but he took his time and took him about 20 or 30 minutes. He got all the bees out of the car. I put him in his little beehive and then took him home.

now he's going to have new 15,000 bees with new honey. Says he's real happy. He's got the four hives at his home now. He's had as many as 12. And what's cool is that he's going to have a little bit more honey now. So my question is, so these bees just showed up in this guy's car? Now the guy borrowed the car, so there's no. telling, you know, maybe the owner of the car said,

if I just give this guy my car, I won't notice the bees in the back. But I'm going to tell you this right now, just between you and me, and I know Jesse's going to hate me for this, because I just got done saying that I would do anything to save bees. But that's not really true. Okay, I know I lied.

I'm sorry, Jesse, I lied. And I know that they're normally pretty docile, but, you know, they don't have anything. They didn't have a home to pretty, They were just, you know, stopping by this car, I guess. So I guess they came from a gutter system or a home in a nearby neighborhood. They didn't, you know, didn't have a place to stop. So they said, hey, there's a car window that's open.

So let's shelter in there. Uh-huh. So, again, I just want you to know that, you know, I know Jesse said, I'll do anything to keep people from killing bees. And I said, me too, Jesse, me too. but that was a lie. Because if that was me, that car would be no more.

You borrowed my car today, Jeff? Yes, I did. I did, and it's in the Albertson's parking lot, and it's burned up. What happened? I don't know. I don't know. I was pulling out,

and the next thing I know, there was like 15,000 bees in the back of the car, and then the next thing I know, it's burning up. There's just a fire, and it's your car burning up, because that's what would have happened.

a torch. It would have been a fire blow torch and it would have been Bye Bye Buick and Bye Bye Bees. I'm sorry, Jesse. I'm sorry. Excuse me, sir. Can I borrow your blow torch for a little bit

because I've got a little bit of a Isn't that your buddy's car you're burning right now with that blow torch? Yes. Yes, it is, but Look at that. I have to get rid of these bees. Sorry to bother you.

Goodbye. Take care. No way. Sorry. Not doing that. I'm aware of the car is no more, and hopefully so are the bees no more. Oh, they're honeybees, Jeff. They're honeybees, okay? No, I know. I know. I know. But I've got to get home because this weekend it's Easter, and I was in the Albertsons getting some chocolate bunnies,

and, you know, so I just need a ride home. Thanks. Take care. Sorry about the car. Not sorry about the bees. All right.