Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Stop Bugging Me!

Episode Date: February 13, 2016

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. When our water heater broke down last month, it was a nightmare. It took five hours for the plumber to show up, and he charged us a couple of hundred bucks just to come out. Then it cost another $1,800 to put in the new water heater. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I'd been taken. But what else could I do? The smartest thing you can do is get a home warranty from American residential warranty.

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That's 1-800-6-39-10. Again, 1-800-6-6. 686, 3910. Call now. Now, search and rescue missions are some of the most horrible things and some of the best things. We have dogs that smell for life. You walk through rubble of buildings and crashes trying to find humans. Right?

And listen for people screaming or using infrared scanners trying to find. find some sort of body and rubble. Well, now, a University of California and Berkeley team found that cockroaches are the thing to do that with. A horde of robot cockroaches. Pretty, I mean, that's pretty slick. Developing a mechanical version of a cockroach so that they construct it and off it goes.

Off it goes with their little computer chip inside. being their little cockroach finding people in rebel search and rescue missions. We need low-cost robots as first responders, and we feel this is really the best model. It has an origami-like exosal skeleton. It can go into tiny spaces and keep moving. A swarm of these cockroach robots could locate people buried under debris. Animals that are soft, such as worms and slugs, are masters of shape-changing, whereas Anthropods, such as spiders and insects,

take advantage of their rigid exoskeletons to run and jump. But cockroaches can go anywhere. They can slip through cracks and crevices. The cockroach robot will be outfitted with sensors before it's deployed into the field. There's commercial interest in the idea. I bet. I bet there's commercial interest in the idea.

I mean, why not use the computer cockroaches to check foundations of buildings, right? Or spy on people. But I know it's kind of creepy because cockroaches kind of creep people out, you know, the palmetto bug. And, I mean, when I first moved to Florida, I really wasn't familiar with cockroaches or palmetto bugs. They call them in Florida because they're the big black ones. and some of them in Florida actually fly. Big moan, they're tough to kill. But the regular palmetto bug cockroach,

not the up north roaches. The roaches that they have up north are a little bit different. They're not the palmetto buckroaches. Yes, there's different types of roaches. I first moved to Florida. Those damn roaches freaked me out. And then, in there, they're everywhere. I mean, you keep them at bay.

And the best you can do in the state of Florida or the South is to keep them in bay, right? You want to create a barrier around where you live so they stay out of that area. You're not going to kill them all, but you want them to stay out of the area that you are living in. So we first moved into the very first time we bought a house in Florida, man, it was infested because nobody had lived there for a while. and you know you open up the cabinet and you turn on the light and so you go on a mission of getting rid of that you do not there is I don't know there's only a couple of things maybe I can think of that are creepier than opening a cabinet and cockroaches swarming everywhere and so I mean you just keep them at bay ants all that kind of stuff in

Florida, anywhere in the South, you're not going to kill them all. Get over it. You're just not. But there are ways to just keep them out of where you live. And that's the best we can ask for, right? We want cockroaches and bugs to be out of where we live. We don't mind. You can be out there, be over there on the other side of that brick wall, but not inside the brick wall. And speaking of South Carolina, oh my gosh. Columbia, South Carolina. The home of the University of South Carolina, the Gamecocks, SEC Nation. I'm at the university for a class. It was on Amber Alerts. They were holding a special thing for radio people and news people on Amber Alerts.

So we go to South Carolina for this big, you know, Amber Alert classes that they're having for a couple of days. And we're staying in the hotel, we're staying fine. So we're staying at a hotel. And I mean in the middle of the night, it's about 1.32 o'clock in the morning. I feel this thing crawling across my chest. And I mean, it's just a, you know what I mean? I can't explain.

And I mean, I jumped out of bed. I freaked. First of all, it's 2 o'clock in the morning. I am wide awake. Wide awake. And there is not going to be a cockroach alive in this room that I'm staying at before I lay back down. Okay. And I hunted him down.

I finally found that bastard. Sorry. I finally found him back at a corner. The curtains. The little table the phone was on. Hunting him down. until he couldn't go anywhere. Then

I destroyed him. Okay, I was on the hunt for the cockroach that dared crawl over me in the middle of the night. But then, you know, once he was dead, I mean, I couldn't go back to sleep anyway because you start thinking about

that feeling of that cockroach crawling over your body. So, Boy, it makes you want to move to South Carolina, doesn't it? This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. When our water heater broke down last month, it was a nightmare. It took five hours for the plumber to show up, and he charged us a couple of hundred bucks just to come out.

Then it cost another $1,800 to put in the new water heater. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I'd been taken. But what else could I do? The smartest thing you can do is get a home warranty from a American Residential Warranty. Their home warranties pay to repair or replace all your major appliances when they break, and they will break. And at the worst possible time, call American Residential Warranty right now.

For free information on home warranties starting at just pennies a day, don't wait for your refrigerator to stop running or your ceiling fans to stop turning. Call American Residential Warranty right now. Ask how you can save up to 50% on washer and dryer coverage. Just call 1,800, 686, 39. 10. That's 1,800, 686, 39, 10. Again, 1,80063910. Call now.