Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffys Corner: Jeffy Wants A Drone...to Crash!

Episode Date: July 23, 2016

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I trust.com. You're listening. to the Jeff Fisher show. Let's talk a little bit about drones, shall we? We've talked about quite a bit on this program. And everyone, I don't know if you have one yet. I do not, and I want one bad. Although I don't know why I want one, I just do.

I mean, I've got the, you know, how many little helicopters can I crash? Right? Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. I don't know if me a drone that I can crash. I really want one bad. And so.

I'll put it on my list, okay? When you think to yourself, hey, what can I, if you're out there and you're thinking to yourself, what can I get Jeff Fisher as a gift? Because I so appreciate his broadcasts and he just means so much to me. I need to show my appreciation. I'd drone it would be fine. I'm okay with that. I just send it here to the Mercury Studios in care of me.

And, you know, I'll let you see it. And you've got to learn to fly it right. But at one, there's a guy, a couple of people here, one of them used to work here, and he was, he's on the cutting edge, actually, of flying drones and being able to film with him. And he's on the cutting edge of that because he was out of work for a while. And so he got himself a drone and taught himself how to fly it. And he was forever showing me videos that he was taking. And it was just practice videos of, you know, him flying around and going between buildings and stuff. And really cool.

And he ought to just go out to Hollywood and say, hey, I'm here, now your drone cameraman and pay me. There was another guy that came here to film some stuff, and you may have seen it. It was posted. It's posted somewhere. I could find it. He was his company, or he was the company with his drone and a camera. And he would film stuff for, you know, he was a freelance artist of filming with his drone. And so he practiced and he came through the building here.

and they went up over the Mercury Studio sign and came back down, and they were filming Glenn walking through. And so he misjudges the top of the Mercury Studios, and it crashed hard. I mean, it broke the do. He was pissed. And I don't blame him because it's a lot of money. But it's your fault, dude.

You know what? Your fault. But you've got to learn to fly those bad boys. If you're going to be trying to make some money or deliveries, You know, you've got to learn to fly them, which is, you know, why we're at the time of, you know, drone deliveries and why they really haven't happened as fast as we were hoping, or at least as fast as I was hoping, because it takes a little bit more work than you could imagine to deliver packages, to fly around populated areas. This area that we're in, for instance, is a big Amazon area. They've got a huge warehouse not far from here. And this is one of their, it's supposed to be, you know, in the future,

one of their prototype areas where they're going to have drone deliveries. They already have a same-day delivery in this area. And, you know, how great is that? In the morning, you see something you want. order it on Amazon, it's to you, uh, within a couple of hours. I mean, that's, that's world class. But yesterday, there was a big milestone in drone deliveries. 7-Eleven.

7-Eleven made the milestone, which is, you know, fascinating that they would make the milestone. They used a drone to deliver an order to a family in Reno, Nevada. The company partnered with a drone startup, Flirty. So if you want to go to work for a drone company, it's up and coming. Flirty, there's your company. The company said it would be the first time a drone is legally delivered a package to a U.S. resident who placed an order from a retailer. Oh, my gosh. What was?

I had a big crash behind me. I thought somebody was breaking in, and all it is is my briefcase falling over and coffee spilling everywhere. That's not good. It was not a drone, although that's what's going to happen when I start flying my drone around. Things are going to start crashing behind me. How many of those little helicopters you've gone through, just between me and you? How many?

Because I know I probably still have one in the garage that is still in the box that I'm afraid to open because it's one of those, it's really cool. And I like the way it looks. But I don't want to open it because if I open it and start flying around, I'm going to crash it. It's going to be done. I was a mix me a little nervous behind me. Hold on. I'll wait until the break, but I should, you know, pick it up. There's coffee everywhere.

I wish we had a drone cleaner. So it took two drone flights to deliver all the items ordered. Two drone flights for chicken sandwich and slurpees. They were pretty fascinating. Flirty wants to work with 7-Eleven for other drone deliveries in the future. Amazon, Google, Facebook are all practicing with drones. Federal Aviation Administration has drone regulations. They have pushed them.

They do a lot of testing overseas because of the FAA. Yeah, I wouldn't want us to test everywhere. Now, let it be overseas. That's a good idea, agonizing. Now, the state of Nevada is one of six FAA drone testing sites. nice of them. Thank you, FAA. We appreciate it. Now, in March, Flirty made the first federally sanctioned anonymous drone delivery in a U.S. urban area to an abandoned home. They also used a drone to deliver medical supplies in rural Virginia last summer.

And that drone actually is being displayed at the Smithsonian. It's kind of cool. But 7-Eleven makes the first drone delivery. When you, you know, you'll get that on, there's your little tidbit of trivia for you. Who was the first company to deliver food to a U.S. home? 7-Eleven. Chicken sandwich and slurpees.

Yay. And then Facebook, of course, is testing their drones for Internet drone. You know, the Internet beaming drones, which are a little bit different than the delivery drones. No question. But they just did Facebook. just tested theirs. It's pretty cool looking.

It's a big thing. I mean, it's a big drone. But they want to, you know, be able to fly these all around and give places without Internet Internet. Now, it's really cool because they want to, first of all, they want to give it away. Facebook doesn't want to own it. Huh? They aim to give away the blueprints for its drones to other Internet devices so that anyone

from local governments to Internet service providers can construct a new way to get Internet signals into hard to reach places. Okay. Dear Facebook. Okay, thank you. We appreciate it very much. But the plan is to power these drones and they're big. What's the size of the Facebook drone?

140 feet, something like that. Really big. They want to power these with the sun so they can stay, you know, a lot for months at a time. And they eventually want to install solar panels that plug into yet unspecified battery technology, check with Tesla in a year, suitable to flights to climb to about 60 to 90,000 feet where the temperatures are, of course. Now, I know Google is working on the same kind of thing with the internet drones and

internet balloons. We're going back to the balloons. The balloon days. Kind of weird. Just a little weird. Now, Amazon had this idea for their drones. That's kind of cool. And it got me thinking about different ways to do this.

But they want to use streetlights and church steeples for. for refueling stations for the drones. The docking stations, and they have the pictures here, it's kind of cool looking. But I originally saw this and I thought, they want to use the church steeples and the light, you know, the street lights for the docking stations because, you know, they can extend the range

by providing recharging and refueling stations. They can include package handling facilities and can act as a final destination for delivery hub. They can include navigational aid to guide the UABs to the docking stations and to provide routing information from central control. They can be incorporated into existing structures such as cell towers, light and power poles, and buildings. Okay, well, that's kind of cool, right? But I got to thinking, how many stories have we heard, or at least I have read anyway, about the post office doing away with all their mailboxes, those blue mailboxes, right? So I got me wondering, I wonder if we could use those for recharging docking stations,

and you could put those anywhere. And it would be owned by Amazon. And you could make it, you know, if you made it generic enough, other companies could use your recharging stations, which you could charge them for. You're welcome, Amazon. This is, you know, this is on me. Okay. On me to you.

I know it's not high up. So I guess we'd have to, you know, kind of, I guess we'd worry about a little bit more about security. And the power lines are already in the streetlights. And now they're not in the church steeples, though. But they would be throughout the neighborhood. So you could. really use them to recharge, and it would be good for them to pick up GPS tones from those, to know where they're at and what they're doing and where they have to deliver.

Anyway, it's just a thought. Perhaps the post office could, I don't know, work on developing that, and I don't know, make a little money instead of losing money. Maybe if you had a good Postmaster General. Oh, I know. I'm willing to be your Postmaster General. Always wanted that title. Perhaps we could work on that and create, instead of just making me drive by the post office

and see 18,000 blue boxes packed in the back getting rusty doing nothing, maybe we could use those and, you know, help move the future forward instead of looking back and losing money. Hey, that's just a thought from me. What do I know? Thanks for listening to the show. You know, if you're in the market for a new mattress, casper.com slash fisher should be the next website you visit.

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