Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: HitchBot's Hiatus

Episode Date: August 8, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. Jay Severin. We could pull out the scoring sheet on Friday and say, okay, there was this, there was this, there was this, there was this. And who did best at those things? That's pre-analysis. That's how you learn and know and practice the business of politics. Jay Severin.

5 p.m. Eastern on the Blaze Radio Network. A week or so ago, whenever the heck I was with you last, we had some technical difficulties, and I wasn't able to talk to the hitchbot people. The hitchpot people are the people that have the robot that, you know, are going to, it's going to, hitchhike across America, all right? And it's hitchhiked, you know, across Canada, and it's done this, and they, it's a project. and I didn't get an operator that just started. They were just starting off in Massachusetts,

and I was excited to talk to them, and we had some kind of phone deal. I don't know what happened, but I didn't get a chance to talk to them. And then, since then, within that time, okay, huge disappointment on Hitchbott. Because I was really looking forward to finding out exactly what they had hoped to accomplish

if they were filming all. All of it, if they were wanted to make a movie, what they were trying to, you know, what their plans were, nothing. Well, we lost them. We lost them. Hitchpot is dead. Gone. It made it to Philadelphia. And then it got the crap beat out of it, broken apart.

smashed all the heck. You can see some footage on one small video screen that talks about an unidentified man wearing a Randall Cunningham Eagles jersey. Boy, why doesn't that surprise me in Philadelphia? And he just kicks this target. And you see as the arms detach on the sidewalk. Beating the crap out of hitchbox. What kind of, what the heck?

So I was hoping to try to hook up with them again today, and they never reached back, and I was a little disappointed. Come on. I wanted to find out what's going on. And so I go to their website and I say, you're bummed. You're overwhelmed with people who want to help. We really appreciate it. And, you know, they've got their press release,

which I'll read a little bit of the press release for you. But, you know, the co-creators told some reporters they've been overreacted. They've been overwhelmed by office. Yeah, you told some reporters, not me, and are considering rebuilding the bot. You should rebuild it. But the U.S. trip of Canada's first hitchhiking robot, hitchbot, came to an end during early morning hours of August 1st in Philadelphia's old city. Its journey, which began on July 17th in Marblehead, Massachusetts, was intended to take it

to the exploratory in San Francisco, California, crossing off bucket list items along the way. according to social media reports Hitchbott spent a night out of Philadelphia and they have people taking snapshots and Instagramming and selfies with it and it's really cool I was hoping that maybe Hitchbock would you know catch a ride to Dallas I would have given the man

the man that's where I'm at Robot is a man I would have given the man you know a ride would have been fun let the kids play with Hitchbott a little bit

and take him out of town That's what you do with wanderers, right? Just pick them up and let them play around for a little while and you put them in the car and get rid of them. Which reminds, you know, I remember, I have 80 to so bad. Because I'm talking about hitchbot, and I'm talking about you pick someone a wanderer. And that brings me back to when I was a little kid back in 1812. And we lived out on a farm.

big, you know, a dead end road. There's a big field between our house and the main road. I mean, it was a farm. But I could remember as a little kid on this farm out in front of our house in the yard, seeing an actual bum, the,

you know, the guy with the stick and the bag and the train hopper. You know, trailers for sailor rent, Rooms around for 50 cents. I know every box card. You know, those kind of guys. I love that. And then my...

I don't even want to go into that story. I was going to know my brother. My brother turned into one. Kind of. Around the country hop and trains. I don't think that there's a train company. There may be one left. That doesn't have his...

My brother's name on it saying, you can't travel on these trains anymore. You can't hop on these trains. you'll go to jail. But he went all over the country on him. Good for him. Trailers for Sailor Rent. But Hitchbock could not make it across the country.

Bastards. So it makes it to Philly and they beat the crap out of him. Very disappointed. According to their press released, we are grateful for the responses we've received from friends and fans around the world, all of which have been overwhelmingly supportive and kind, says Dr. Frook Zeller, assistant professor at Ryerson University and co-creator of Hitchbott.

Hitchpot always relied on the kindness of strangers, and it did receive an astounding amount of help and support. Yeah, except for that one night when he got the crap beat out of him and torn apart, and nobody was there to help him. He was just laying there on the street in Philadelphia. It's like a piece of trash. That's all. It's a big piece of trash on the road, Hitchpot. Nobody cared. Now, Hitchpott's family claims they have no interest.

in pressing charges or in finding the people who vandalized the robot. They wish to remember the good times and encourage Hitchbott's friends and fans to do the same. And they want you to share your mentions of Hitchbott on their little website. That's Joanna Vandermas from Hitchbott. Right now, I'm starting to dwell up, right now, they're rebuilding Hitchbott. They're considering sending it back to Philadelphia. They may be able to introduce them to schools, allowing school children,

devise robot adventures, as it travels from school to school. They're sad. Sad, sad, sad. Okay. Now, according to their press release here, media across, which I am of one,

will not be granted after August 6th. Okay, that's fine, except that, you know, I had, you two have a little text. technical difficulty with your robot and you want everybody to cry for it. I have a little phone issue. We have a little phone issue and you're not going to call me back. Come on, Hitchbot.

Let me down. I really want to talk to you about it. But that's okay. Because I'm really disappointed that somebody would beat the crap out of a robot. Just come on. It's Hitchbot. Why would you? But the good thing about this little science experiment with the old hitchbotter is that this

shows America. Take your chances. Take your chances. Go to the big city. Take your chances.