Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: "Man, I Wish I Would Have Thought Of That!"

Episode Date: May 21, 2016

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Gadgets, you know, things that we use that you don't think about. Things when you're sitting around thinking, man, I wish I would have thought of that. That guy's worth how much money for creating duct tape? I mean, they've used that. Who doesn't have a roll of duct tape in the house? Or at least when you think, man, I've got to box something up. I've got to tape something. I've got to fix something duct tape is a wonderful invention.

The stapler, another tremendous invention. And I mean, those been around since the 18th century, but we've obviously honed it now. You can have a stapler that has 8 million little staples in it. You can staple anything from here to tomorrow and not run out of staples in those machines we have now. This one I think is one of my favorites in the list. of, you know, gadgets that change the world.

The blender. Oh, come on, who doesn't love a blender? And who doesn't always want a better blender? I mean, you start out with the, you know, the 899 blender from Walmart. And, I mean, you just keep looking at, I want a better one. I want a bigger one. I want a bigger one. I want a better one.

I want a powerful one. Pretty soon you've got the boat engine hooked up blending things. On this list, they have the Zippo lighter. I mean, I guess it's a gadget that changed the world. Sure. I mean, portable fire. They gave them out to soldiers during World War II. Everybody had a World War II Zippo.

And, you know, if you're any kind of any kind of tobacco person or anyone in your family that was a tobacco person over the years, who've always got Zippos. Flash drive? I guess. I guess we can put that on the list. Sure. Why not? I mean,

we all have them. If you have anything to do with computers, you have flash drives. You save your stuff on that flash drive, and you can take it anywhere and hook it into any computer. It's kind of a cool gadget. I guess it should be on the list. Another

a gadget that is made me a huge fan, the toaster. Come on. You know you love your toaster. You know, they're nice. Oh, they're so nice when you get a new toaster, a new four-slice toaster. Crank that baby on. There's nothing like toast.

You can quote me on that. Another one on this list, the Swiss Army Knife. Gadgets that change the world, the Swiss Army enough. I mean, okay. Okay. The can opener? Hello, especially maybe the electric can opener. The safety razor?

Okay. I guess. Maybe. The tape measure. That's a gadget that has revolutionized the world, right? Got the old standard little circle tape measures. My grandfather always carried a little, one of those little circle or square. tape measures with them everywhere he went.

A little pocket knife, tape measure. And because he used to build things. One of the reasons that he used to carry it all the time is he used to build things. You know, little lazy Susan's for the kitchen and all that kind of little handmade stuff that you see around the house. And he had his workshop. So he would go somewhere, we'd be out shopping, and he would see something at a store and go, Ooh, that's kind of nice. And he would take out the measuring tape and just start measuring.

Yeah, okay, I can build that. Go back to the workshop and build it. The zipper. Is the zipper really a gadget? Okay, maybe. I mean, it's a tremendous invention. I'm a fan of it, but is it a gadget? The ballpoint pen?

Yeah, of course, that changed the world, right? The leatherman tool? I mean, that's kind of the Swiss Army knife. right? It's got the can opener, the pliers, the screwdrivers. So it's kind of the work guy's Swiss Army knife. The Sony Walkman, I mean, yes. I mean, the Walkman revolutionized how, I mean, we go everywhere now, right? With headphones and listen to what we want to listen to. That was definitely a guy. The Polaroid camera, yeah. and revolutionized how we went places and remembered things.

The pocket calculator, a gadget that changed the world? Maybe. Maybe. Digital camera? Oh, most definitely. Most definitely. The Wi-Fi router? Okay.

I mean, it's a tremendous thing. It's a wonderful thing to have. have that bad boy in your house and your room and your office or wherever you're at, you can pick up any kind of internet service, cell service. We have a thing now that the cell phone company sends us that boosts our cell signal in the house. I am in love with this little gadget. Plug it in. Set that bad boy by the window.

boosts our cell service in our house a million times. I don't think that's the ad for it. But I'm not sure how much they technically boost the service, but it works. So if you have an opportunity to get that little, forget what it's called, what it's called, but it's just a little cell, you know,

it's your own mini cell tower. And you just put in it, you know, so if you have a large house, house or a long you know a ranch style house and one end is not as you know you find yourself i can't pick you up in the back room i have to go out front that kind of thing get yourself one of these little get your own little household cell tower love it i love it anywhere in your dwelling you're fine it's your own little tower the computer mouse is a gadget that revolution changed the world? Yeah, I guess. Okay, maybe. Laptop computer, no question. We've gone from the laptop to

what's, you know, the number one thing on the list from, we've gone from laptop computer, which changed the world, and then we'll get to number one, which is a direct descendant of that. Handheld GPS, a gadget that changed the world? Yeah, I guess. I guess. The brownie box camera. Remember those little box cameras? You've seen pictures of them where they hang them around. your neck and you look down at the top of the camera. It's a little box and you look down and you take the picture. Those were the first, you know, mobile cameras. Didn't have to have a huge box with legs.

Remember those old stand just sees him movies? The old cameras that were, you know, had to have a wagon to carry them around in. Not with the brownie box. This is the top ten on this guy's list of gadgets that changed the world. and I guess I agree with most of them. The light bulb, yeah, but with, you know, electricity, heating, and air conditioning, you probably didn't need the light bulb. But the light bulb definitely changed the world. Changed the world.

We went from counting on the sun, right? We've talked about it before with our sleep patterns and our work patterns and our life patterns. The light bulb changed the world and how we live. The alarm clock, there's a gadget I wish, would just go away. but we wouldn't need the alarm clock if we didn't have the light bulbs. The phonograph. Yeah, I mean, maybe, yeah, I guess. We were able to listen to music from anywhere in our own dwelling.

We didn't have to go someplace live to hear the performance. We could bring it to ourselves. Which is great. And a lot of people miss that. I watched an interview the other day with a guy, a musician that talked about he misses, you know, having the album and, you know, and being able to hold it while you listen to the music. But he was also saying that he misses that, but he also realizes that today he can listen to more music, different kinds of music at any time, anywhere, because of the internet, that it's, you know, bypassed being able to hold it in your hands. While you miss it, you still have access to so much more. On demand. When you want it. Right now, I feel like listening to that jazz song that they

recorded 100 years ago. An hour from now, I want to hear the new brand new song that was just released by the new Dingleberry Star. I mean, it's fascinating. The rotary phone? Yeah. I mean, that revolutionized our communications with everyone. That's for sure. The portable air conditioner. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I mean the little window air conditions you just put it in the room. Those stupid things.

Although I remember where we were, but they had one, you know, in the bedroom. But I'm telling you, like the bad thing is, is what was good about the entire home AC unit is that, you know, it keeps the entire dwelling. a comfortable temperature. Whereas, you know, you have the window one in one room, and one room is negative 52. And you open the door and you walk onto another room of the house and it's 102 degrees.

You're immediately back into that negative 55 room, man. Personal computers, yeah, personal computers, laptops. That was on the list. Really we talked about gadgets that revolutionized. change the world. And they talk about the hyperdermic syringe, you know, I guess. I guess for, you know, safety and health reasons, absolutely change the world. Television and radio, I mean, come on, of course.

Revolutionized how we got our, how we got our information, how we got our entertainment. And number one goes back to, you know, the laptop computer, the rotary phone. the personal computers is the smartphone. Just yesterday, I went out and forgot my phone for the first time in a long time. And I was, I had an appointment, had my daughter with me, who's, you know, going to be nine. Nine in a couple weeks. And I was, if I had turned around to go get it, which I strongly considered. we would have been late for the appointment that we had.

So I was like, I can live without it. Wow. Can I live without it? It was a long four hours. It was a long four hours without that bad boy. And I missed, you know, I missed several calls. I missed some other communications that I needed to set some times for. I met, you know, you just, I felt like I was empty.

without that thing with me. But that, I mean, you can, there's an example of being able to have information and communication on demand when you want it, when you need it right now. Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, anywhere in the world. Amazing gadget that changed the world. But, I mean, I was,

got led me to think about how fast that has happened. So I was talking to my daughter and I was like, you know, within the last, I can be, I'll be all right without it. I'll be fine. and I was thinking of trying to think how long it's been really since the actual must take the phone with you has happened really in the last 10 years right? I mean maybe the last seven or eight for sure but about the last 10 to 12 years you you know about about the last 10 to 12 years you almost feel like you are out of touch without having that handheld computer smartphone with you to stay in communication with the world.

It was really strange. And it brought back times when, you know, I mean, when we, obviously, when you didn't have one, and you used to go and wait until you reached your destination. And if you wanted to communicate with someone, you use the, you know, the hardline phone there or the pay phones. How many of those you see anymore? the standalone pay phones, not very darn many. Not very darn many.

So I had a strange, lonely four or five hours yesterday where I just had to talk to my daughter without my smartphone, without information. Although we still did listen to the radio. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio, work. The experts at web.com want to bill your business a successful website for free.

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