Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - The Ever Changing Future Of How We Live 3/12/16

Episode Date: March 12, 2016

Today on The Jeff Fisher Show, Jeffy talks with technology expert and author David Pogue about the new and exciting advancements in artificial intelligence. Jeffy also reveals how less is not more in the hospitality business. Plus, another reason to stop visiting the state of Florida, what happened to Ben Carson and a 4 star review from behind bars! All that & more on The Jeff Fisher Show!Jeff Fisher is live from 6am to 8am ET, Saturday. Listen for free on The Blaze Radio Network: www.theblaze.com/radio & www.iheart.comFollow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRA Like Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Hello. Welcome to the broadcast. It's good to see you. I mean that. You look great. Already today, you look great. I know you feel like you look a little rough, but you're fine. You're fine. Pour yourself another cup of coffee. Sit down and relax. Okay? We'll get through it together. Get through the first couple hours together, okay? Then you can move on to Opelca and Celcedo and Slater and Joe Pags, your whole Saturday thing here on the Blaze Radio Network.

but right now is just you and me. Dricking a little coffee, relaxing. Talking about some of the things that are going on around the world. And I will try for the better part of the show not to delve into politics. I'll try for the better part of the show. So let's get it out of the way, shall we? You all saw, if you didn't, let me tell you that they had the protests in Chicago and the supporters. Fighting, disrespecting each other in Chicago at the Trump rally, at the proposed Trump rally.

That was canceled. Good job, by the way, protesters. I'd be almost willing to bet that you work for Trump because that is. all the news coverage. Donald Trump. Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump. Not anything about what he's going to do for the country. It's just that, you know, there's protests going on for his rally that was canceled.

Good job. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. And I followed the tweets all last night. He's already canceled his next stop in Cincinnati because they weren't able to vet the area. Long enough. Job Secret Service. Be on top of that one.

But they're going to find a place in Cincinnati. But all the protests, all supporters, all on fire last night, especially on social media. And they sound a lot like him. I mean, we heard him in the debate the other night. A couple of my favorite quotes from Donald and during the debate. We have a long time, not a long time in terms of what we're talking about, but we have a long time.

Wait. What was that, Don? And then the other quote that caught my attention with one of my favorites, there were several, but this one, the one, we have a long time, not a long time in terms of what we're talking about, but we have a long time. That was probably my favorite out of the debate. And then there was the way we've been doing it for the past long period of time. Okay.

Give you that one. But then my favorite tweet from the proposed rally demonstration protesting fight, I don't think it was a riot, although some places called it a riot. Last night in Chicago, my favorite tweet was, mounted cops moved further closer. Tensions are high. Wait, mounted cops moved further closer. tensions are high. That almost might be a Donald Trump tweet. It's not.

But it could be. It very well could be. And of course, I mean, Donald Trump didn't have anything to do with creating this environment. No. That would be stupid to think that,

wouldn't it? Yes. Yes, of course it would be. Because, hey, Trump has only said a few things about beating the crap out of people at rallies. Only said, let's see, I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you that. But he certainly doesn't have anything to do with this. And of course, no way did he have anything to do with creating this environment. And in fact, our president, President Barack Obama also said,

I don't blame me for this environment. No, no. Mr. President, you've been one of the most divisive human beings in this country for the last seven years. But this type of action on the streets, so it's not your fault. Oh, wait. This happened in a couple other cities while you're president of the United States. Where else did it happen? Oh, yeah, that's right.

Let's see. There was Missouri, Maryland, Florida. just to name a few. So this had nothing to do with you. Did it? No. No. So don't you worry about taking credit for any of that.

Don't worry about it at all. None of this environment is your fault. Ever. Okay? And of course the Trump campaign, thank you very much for your tenants. Please go in peace, please. I'm just as guilty. is anyone else. I put him at the, you know, the top of the top of the list of what to talk about

because it's right there instead of talking about something else. Instead of talking about, I don't know, maybe the idea that the man that should be president is out, still running. We're still in the race. Do you want Marco Rubio? Maybe after last debate. He looked great. But I don't think he has a chance. Kasich doesn't have a chance. chance. Our man Ben Carson, who now endorsed Donald Trump down in Florida yesterday,

agonizing. I don't know what Mr. Ben Carson thinks that he's going to get out of this, but one of the things he is going to get is lack of respect from thousands of people

who believed he was a good man. and instead endorsed a man like Donald Trump. And if you look at the numbers, it doesn't look like it's, you know, there's no way Rubio or Kasich wins. However, when you see the story of Rubio telling his people to don't vote for me, vote for Kasich in Ohio, I don't know, you know, and of course, you know,

vote for Rubio in Florida. Vote for me in Florida, vote for Kasich in Ohio. So, and then Cruz can go out. out and get the other states. So that actually plays if they work together, you can knock out Trump. Casey gets Ohio. Cruz gets Florida. I mean, Rubio gets Florida.

Cruz picks up one or second place in a couple of those other states. Then Casey and Rubio can get out. And those can go to Ted. Those delegates can go to Ted. It's a good plan. Hope it works. I don't know that it will. On the other side, you've got Hillary Clinton.

Bad. Bad. And, of course, she's just trying to be nice. The Nancy Reagan funeral. And talking about Nancy Reagan. And she did an interview with one of the networks. And was just being nice, talking about, Nancy Reagan

and the Reagan's in their time in office and she said she praised Mrs. Reagan was a force in confronting Alzheimer's and confronting HIV and AIDS was killing alarming numbers of gay men

during the Ronald Reagan's term and people didn't want to talk about it but thanks to them they did whoa whoa whoa the gay community went crazy No, they did not. It wasn't their idea that it penetrated the public conscience. No, no, no, no. Reagan didn't even talk about it for the first four or five years.

They didn't want to know it existed. So right away, man, she apologizes. Oh, man, I am so sorry. While the Reagan's were strong advocates for stem cell research and finding a cure for Alzheimer's, I misspoke on their record on HIV and AIDS. I'm sorry. Yeah, I misspoke.

I was just trying to be nice. At least she was trying to be nice, right? Our president, I'm not going to go to the funeral. Who cares? It's an embarrassment. He doesn't go to that funeral. He speaks at South by Southwest. Yeah, he wants to speak at South by Southwest so he can tell us all.

Oh, yeah. Remember, don't forget, smartphones should be accessible to law enforcement. And there's no reason why the government shouldn't have access to all of that. Wait, you couldn't go to the funeral because you wanted to tell the South by Southwest audience that, yeah. Of course the government should have access to your smartphones. Okay. No problem, Mr. President.

No problem. Appreciate it. And you've got Bernie Sanders running the socialist, right? And you've got people, I don't know, people from socialist countries who are reminding, hopefully America, that socialism in the 21st century was a luxury paid for by the successes of capitalism in the 20th. And that while inequality is a huge problem, the best way to increase. increase everyone's share of the pie is to make the pie bigger, not to dismantle the bakery. That from former Soviet Union chess grandmaster Gary Gaspar.

You know, one of the things that Gary, I would say the only thing I disagree with a little bit on that, although I agree with it, make the pie bigger. Why even worry about making the pie bigger? I'll make another pie. There isn't just one pie, although, you know, if you use his analogy, there's one pie, we just make the pie bigger. Okay. But why make the pie bigger when you can just make another pie? I mean, either way.

Either way, there's not just one pie. And if I never understood the thought of, if that person has more than me, how does it hurt me? I never understood that because that person has more than me, it hurts me. I don't know. I don't know. I just don't understand it. And then trending all over the internet was this television commercial from the 1960s. Now, it was brought to my attention, is this real?

Well, I looked at it and I thought, well, of course it's real. And then when I get asked the question, is this real? I think, oh my gosh, it might not be. Either way. Either way, real or not. The information in it, if you replace some names, he talks about Nixon, he talks about Johnson, he talks about, well, we'll play the ad. But I just want you to replace the names with the names that are in the presidential

run now. And the one thing that makes me think it's real is the guy smokes in the commercial. Only in the 60s do you let people smoke in a commercial. Here's what he had to say. I certainly don't feel guilty about being a Republican. I've always been a Republican. My father is, his father was, the whole family is a Republican family. I voted for Dwight Eisenhower the first time I ever voted.

I voted for Nixon the last time. But when we come to Senator Goldwater, Now it seems to me we're up against a very different kind of a man This man scares me Now maybe I'm wrong A friend of mine is said to me Listen just because a man Sounds a little irresponsible during a campaign doesn't mean he's going to act irresponsibly

You know that theory that the White House makes the man I don't buy that What? Sometimes I I wish I'd been at that convention in San Francisco. I mean, I wish I'd been a delegate. I really do, because I would have fought, you know?

And I wouldn't have worried so much about party unity because if you unite behind a man you don't believe in, it's a lie. Huh. I mean, when the head of the Ku Klux Klan, when all these weird groups come out in favor of the candidate of my party, either they're not Republicans or I'm not,

or I'm not. Think about it. I've thought about just not voting in this election, just staying home. But you can't do that because that's saying you don't care who wins. And I do care. I think my party made a bad mistake in San Francisco. And I'm going to have to vote against that mistake on the 3rd of November. Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd.

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Good news. Coming to a city near you soon. in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio Signed an executive order earlier this week Taking all gender restrictions off of the city-owned bathrooms Yay! Anyone Male or female can enter any bathroom

For male or female at city playgrounds, pools, or offices Without worry or hesitation and will never have to show an ID to prove your identity. What could possibly go wrong? On Facebook, the Blasio posted a message proclaiming an end to discrimination. Yay! Now, remember, public schools are exempt from the law, but no worries.

No worries. Because they're only exempt from the new law. Because it's already a policy at New York City schools to allow the use of locker rooms and bathrooms no matter a person's gender identity. So, so the bill doesn't require, this isn't more good news because you're not going to want to spend, you know, a bunch of money on new bathrooms. What are you stupid? Doesn't require agencies to build new single-stall restroom or locker-room facilities. Instead, enforces that all individuals, including those who are transgender, gender non-conforming, or free to use single-sex facilities, consistent with their gender identity.

good. Access to bathrooms and other single-sex facilities is a fundamental human right, and that should not be restricted or denied to any individual. Every New Yorker, according to the mayor, every New Yorker should feel safe in our city, and this starts with our city buildings. Yeah, let's see. You got about 25,000 gender nonconformists in New York. Population of what?

Eight million? Oh, yeah. Everyone should be happy. Everyone should be happy. What could possibly go wrong? But hey, doesn't matter. No ID. Pick a bathroom.

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Call 800-215-0465. That's 800-215-465. The Jeff Fisher Show. It rolls on 888-90-3033-93. Saturday Radio on the Blaze Radio Network, immediately following this broadcast, Mike O'Pelka and Pure Opelca, live. Then Chris Selsato at noon, Mike Slater, Joe Pags, all live on the Blaze Radio Network. Now, there is a little downtime between Opelca and Chris Celcedo with a little Best of Jay Severe. on our Saturday lineup, so you can kick back, enjoy that. Maybe, maybe, you know, I don't know, plant some flowers Saturday morning, do something outside,

get some fresh air while Jay's on, then come back in and sit down and have a little lunch and join the rest of the Saturday lineup on the Blaze Radio Network. I don't know what Mike's giving away today. I mean, he's giving away. He's got books to give away. Oh, great books, boy, that'd be great. Maybe he'll sign them. Maybe no matter whose book they are, you'll be able to get an autographed Michael Pelka book, no matter what book it is.

So it's possible you get that today. Good luck. Good luck to you for that. I mean that. I mean that. Okay. So I see this story about hotels changing. And I'm like, what?

So the hotels now. They're talking about going for a new minimalist look. No desks, closets, just beds and a little place here. Young travelers, hotels know, just want to clean an efficient space to stay. They spend less time in rooms and like to socialize and work in vibrant lobbies with a sense of community. So carpets are being replaced by easy-to-clean laminated floors. Tubbs are being ripped out in favor of glass showers, and instead of working at a desk, gas are increasingly expected to use glorified window-sills or oversized TV trays.

If those flexible workplaces aren't conducive to creativity, hotels are hoping to nudge gas to bring their laptops to the lobby, where they might buy a glass of wine while typing away. Shut up. If I wanted to do that, I'd go camping with my wife and my son. I go camping. No. Okay.

That is not even a one star. Anything below two star, that's camping. So right there, what I just said to you, that's camping. I'm sorry. Stop it. Now, I do remember being on a trip and needing internet across the U.S. We were driving, we were driving from. I don't remember.

But I know I had, you know, obviously, I mean, I use, you know, the internet every day of my life. And I had work to do. So the rooms, I got news for you. A lot of hotels across the country that's claimed to have Wi-Fi don't. Oh, yeah, that's your Wi-Fi. You should be able to get the Wi-Fi. We're going to put you in the back building in room 832.

Good luck connecting to the Wi-Fi, but you have it. So I went to the, I went to lobbies of all these. where we were driving across the country. Middle of the night. I didn't go down to be with, enjoy the company of a bunch of people and drink wine and surf the internet. I wanted to work. So I went down in the middle of the night. Well, there's just, I mean, nobody is down there.

But the Wi-Fi works great in the front lobby by the front desks. Huh. Surprise. The Wi-Fi works great by where all the workers are. So I just, I sat there and worked, you know, all these, all these hotels in the lobby, just working. I would have much rather been in my room in a comfortable chair, not at a TV tray or on a windowsill. Okay. So you hotels, maybe you're owned by the new airlines that want seats to be smaller, or maybe we use just bar stool,

seats on airlines because they want to jam pack us in. So maybe your hotel rooms, oh, you know what we can do. We can make the hotel rooms half the size and get more guests. Huh, that's genius. Now, to do that, we're going to have to say that people want it. So we'll call it minimalists. Yeah, people want minimalists. They want nothing in the rooms.

They just want to spend time in the lobby. Yeah, that's what we'll do. We'll do that. They don't have to stay in the lobby, but since there's nothing in the closet where they're staying, they'll have to come to the lobby. Dear hotels. No. Please. I do not want that.

But it reminded me of a story that just broke the other day of a British man posting on Facebook. his story in staying at the local jailhouse. He was locked up at the police station and while inside his cell he took photos using that electronic device that was not confiscated from him, by the way. So, you know, the police said, well, we're investigating that. It's your fault he had it. You let him in there. It's his fault?

No. He's supposed to say, oh, by the way, hey, you forgot to take my iPad. here it is. No. But he rated his jail cell. I've given this place four stars. The room was nice, adding that the minimalistic idea was a nice touch. So then I go to the hotel story that talks about the minimalistic rooms they want us to be in jail cells.

They want us to be in jail cells. The police are still a little pissed at Christian for having his, having his iPad in there. But, hey, he said it's the all-day breakfast that lets it down. Apart from the staff is pleasant, had my own sweet, room and Butler who could come with tea in newspapers. Room was nice. The minimalistic idea was a nice touch.

It was secure and safe. Quadruple glazing and security door. Ideal place for winding down after a hard day. I definitely come back. Very funny. Very funny. Now, is it funny? Of course it is. The police don't like it to be funny, but it is. You know it is. Let's look at some headlines, let you know. We talked a little bit about NASA and my man Scott Kelly coming back after his year long in space. He is going to retire now. He's saying, you know what? that year in space did me in. You got to do your tests on me, but I'm done. And why not?

I mean, really, he's, I mean, A, he can, you know, travel the world talking about his year in space and having 500 some days in space for the rest of his life. He's got, and I don't know how much is owned. I'm sure all the pictures are owned by NASA, but the stories in Scott's Head are all his. It'll be a great book. Well, we'll try to talk to him on this show as well because it will be fascinating. I would love to interview Scott and find out some inside stories of his year in space. It'd be fun to talk to him.

We have the new NASA study, speaking of NASA, that undercuts the EPA, finds fracking not to blame for increased methane emissions. Huh. Big surprise at Marco Rubio hit it out of the park on the climate change at the debate the other night. Good for him. Good for him. Okay. You've got Peru. Yes, we are marching.

We've got the Middle East all on fire. Seriously, the Middle East is big time on fire. We're used, this is how now they're selling this as a good thing. But I take it another way. I know it's a surprise. I saw the headline of our military going back to using Vietnam. Air planes to fight ISIS. And they're selling that as a good thing because, you know,

it's a good way for them to be more direct hits. Perhaps, I don't know, we use some of the modern equipment we have. And I don't know. Not bring out a retirement. The Vietnam War planes. Come on. Stop it. Stop it.

but not only are we protesting in the Middle East, we're protesting in Europe with the immigration problems. Angela Merkel is probably on her way out. She's doomed. I don't know how she can stay in office, but she may find a way. We are protesting here in the U.S. Yay! Yay! Yay!

And now, you know, we've talked about South America. So great. Peru is marching. They're marching in Brazil. They're pissed. Ecuador has been close to on fire for a while. I'd like to know how Brazil is going to make it to the Olympics. We may have to delve into the Olympics next week and see exactly how they're doing on that. because I, if you were planning on going to Brazil for the Olympics, you may think, you know what, let's go somewhere else and maybe watch the Olympics on TV.

And we'll just let NBC show me all that's going on there. And I'll stay here. We'll let them worry about that. Right? Yeah. of course. And Venezuela, I mean, they're out of food and protesting in Venezuela. So good. Yes. So we don't want to, you know, don't feel special that we're protesting here in the U.S. because other socialist countries, I mean other countries are protesting as well. So that's good.

That's really good. And of course, you have the Breitbart spokesman and more Trump in the news just because of this Breitbart spokesman who was grabbed and bruised from the the manager of Trump Lewandowski, and now she's, you know, she's filed a police report. And Breitbart is trying to back up Trump. And then they get caught in a lie and there are people who quit or get fired. And it's all a mess. It's all a mess. This is what you get. Oh, this is what you get.

This is what you get when you first try to deceive, right? Oh, what a wicked web we weave when first we try to. to deceive. Yes. That's what you get there, Trump, Bart. Live with it. Live with it. That's what happens. And of course yesterday, the 70s band Emerson Lake and Palmer,

Keith Emerson died. We had reports that Keith died on Friday. Rest in peace, Keith. But we're getting reports today that he may have killed himself. So another torporal. Orchard rock musician can't live anymore on earth and has to kill themselves. Sad.

Very sad. And the guy, you'd think, had everything, right? I mean, he toured the world. He was creating music. Not only was he creating things from his old band. He was creating new stuff. He was creating symphonies. He was doing film.

and yet it wasn't enough, he couldn't, he struggled through it all. I wish that people who were struggling like that would get help. There's no need for them to end their life when they had so much to give. And don't forget, 2 a.m., 2 a.m. tonight or tomorrow morning, technically tomorrow morning. You have to stay up until then because it's time change weekend. It's spring. So you spring ahead. So at 2 a.m., move everything to 3 a.m.

And you can't do it before. It's a law. And so you may have the time police come to your house if you do it earlier. If they come to your house and find out that you've set the clocks ahead before 2 a.m. Oh, my gosh, do I feel sorry for you? This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the police radio network. Jeff Fisher Show Welcome to an 8889000-3393 is the phone number.

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since Twitter is my favorite I make no bones about it. Twitter is my favorite. Before I leave you this hour, I want to let you know that coming up next hour we have an interview with David Pogue a tech guru and a life hack genius. You'll see what I mean when we talk to him next hour. And I'll leave you this hour with the Romanian wife who ripped off her husband's testicle

because he didn't get her flowers on International Women's Day. So the next time the wife asks her flowers, you may want to think about getting them, okay? Just saying. This is the Jeff Fisher Show, only on the Blaze Radio Network. The experiment was a success. Begin Life Force reboot program. Now. Stand clear.

Life signs stable. It's alive. Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher show on the Blaze Radio Network. David Poe. Awesome. Live events be. Columnist, podcaster, television show host, technology expert. Well, you really are. You're the most interesting man in the world. I'm sure just listening to you.

I mean, maybe that's why the Dosecchi's beer guy is retiring. Their most interesting man. I mean, he's been proven a fraud. That's you. I've heard a couple of interviews from you. I thought, thank you for coming on the broadcast. I find you fascinating. And, you know, I'll get to know you a little bit since I know one of your life spaces is a tech expert. And, you know, I try to keep my audience abreast of some of the future stuff that's coming down the pike, especially if it's, you know, for our own safety and for our livelihoods. In your travels, top one or two tech items that are going to change the way we live.

Hmm, yeah, that is pretty much my beat. I'd say there's two huge, huge ways of technology they're going to change everything in the next couple of years. One is artificial intelligence and robotics. We've been hearing about that for decades. Yes, we have. Finally turning into real products, you know, self-driving cars are a huge example. People think that self-driving cars are interesting and cool and provocative,

but that's only the first half of the revolution. The other half is self-driving cars meets Uber. That is, you will not own a car. You will summon one every time you need a ride somewhere on your app. You'll just say, pick me up, and this robotic car will come and pick you up. And this is not just fantasy. General Motors first invested half a billion dollars in Lyft, and then just today they bought a robotic car car car.

company. They are actively working on this, and Uber itself just bought the entire Carnegie Melon Robotics Department to work on the same idea. I mean, there really is no reason for a wife. Thank you. Wow. I know. I know. Yeah, but you know what there won't be any need for is driver's ed, driver's license, speed limit, road rails, garages, drunk driving, you know, get as drunk as you want. You can sleep. It won't matter anymore. Yeah, I mean, anyone who's lived in any, you know, up and down the East Coast, the Northeast for sure, has, you know, has lived their

life without an automobile for any, you know, length of time for sure. Right. And so, I mean, you get an idea of how it would, how life is like without an automobile. The driverless taxi idea will be biggest in metropolitan areas. And I would say that because driverless cars have a safety record that's thousands of times better than humans, I would say it is not the problem of introducing driverless cars. The problem is going to be the humans still on the road. Right, exactly. That's what I mean.

So the humans are, you know, you're not going to be able to put them together. I get that the driverless cars are going to have, you know, are having an idea between sooner or later being able to talk to themselves and not causing accidents and that kind of thing, but it's going to be the humans that are screwing it up. So the only way to, you're not going to want them together. Well, I mean, right now Google's prototypes have driven 1.8 million miles on regular public roads intermixing with regular cars, and they've only been in a single accident that a two-mile-an-hour vendor with a bus just last week. Right.

That's pretty good. So I don't think that's the idea. I don't think it will need to be segregated. I think that the more people switch to self-driving cars, the fewer the accidents there will be, period. So I think it'll. But the artificial intelligence thing is just, I mean, that's just one example. You know, the drones coming out this year, for example,

can now, you know, sense and avoid objects. They can't crash, basically. You can fly it directly toward a tree and it won't go. It'll refuse. Like trying to run. ride a horse into a telephone pole. You know, you just can't do it. Nope.

No, I'm not going to hit that. That's right. That's great. And robot robots, like regular two-footed walking robots are suddenly appearing as useful, capable machines. And I went to a really cool event sponsored by DARPA, our government's coolest department, the Defense Advanced Research Project Administration. And they tried to, they had a contest.

and a half million dollars of prizes to whoever could come up with a robot that could have gone into the Fukushima nuclear power plant and shut off the water valves and saved the day. And they had entries from 25 countries and they had to drive a car and open doors and climb over rubble and unplugged power cords. It was just absolutely amazing. It didn't exist four years ago. Didn't they have worth that? I mean, there were reports that they were using actually some robots to go into the

the nuke plant in Fukushima. And I don't know that they actually were able to come in and out of there. Is that? Yeah, you're right. You're right. They sent in what was then the state of the art, which is little camera bots, you know, with treads. But they weren't able to do anything about the problem.

They could peek at it, but they couldn't actually shut off the water. They couldn't, you know, cut a piece of sheetrock open to let a traps person out. They couldn't do anything. These robots can. And it was breathtaking to see. So that's one giant way, I'd say. Where are we at with, you know, so many of the studies have shown that, you know, we as humans are, we love the robots as long as we know they're robots. But we don't love robots if we, you know, if they look too much like us and we think they either looks like us and something's off or they look like us and they're nothing is off.

And we're like, no, that's too freaky. Yeah. Uncanny Valley, they call it. when a robot looks so much like a person that your brain is actually fooled for a minute, very disorienting. I mean, there's a lot of people, there are a lot of people saying, let's put on the brakes with AI stuff. You know, we don't want the robot turning on us.

Right. Well, look, first, I mean, I think that we're, I think we will be able at least for, you know, a few years to make sure that they won't turn on us. and we can use them to advance us, right? I mean, that's what they're for. Yeah, exactly. When I saw the – I got to interview the DARPA guy who ran that robotics competition, their robot competition, and he said, I look at these, and there's no doubt in my mind that when we're 90,

these things will be in our homes taking care of us. And I have to say, absolutely. I mean, they're coming along so fast. I'm actually all for that. I'm good with it. No problem. But what we have, so we're good with the robots. So where are we at with the human chipping, you know, the body chips?

Yeah, I haven't seen anything leaping forward there. Even putting things on your face, like Google Glass is kind of a bomb. I think people are missing the instinctive human distaste for that kind of thing. I think most people would rather not have circuitry inside the body. You know, that's why I thought, you know, we have the, well, we saw in, you know, there's television shows, obviously, that aren't real. I know they're not real, Dave, it's okay. But we have, you know, say like the show Continuum, she has the eye computer. You know, so it's her microchip in her eye, and then she has the chip that she uploads and downloads so that her eye is the computer.

screen inside her eye is the computer screen. So what about if we have, you know, everybody's putting on the glasses and everybody, no, everybody doesn't want to look, you know, goofy with the virtual reality glasses. And now we've got, you know, the Samsung sevens are, you know, you get the, they slide on for the virtual reality glasses. What about just wearing, just making, so the, our, we have a helmet. I mean, so the, you know, we just have the helmet. The helmet can have the, I mean, it's almost like a space helmet, right?

I mean, you have the microphone to make the calls, you have the screen to see, and you can go back and forth from real life. Yeah, I guess I'm not sold. I just, I don't see the screaming need for it. I mean, Google Glass bombed, 3D television bombed. Right. I mean, if you're going to scrap something onto your face, it better be, you know, life-changing. And considering what you give up, you know, social interactions, awareness of your surroundings. I'm sure it's such an easy cell.

Yeah, that's a really good point. Okay, so now we move on. You know, anything else that is going to change my life, going to make my life better? Oh, yeah. The second big thing I was going to say is that's really coming along nicely is wearable fitness monitors, giving you insight into, you know, the status of your health that you've never had before. It's been invisible your whole life. And, you know, not just the fit bits that count your steps, but now they're,

They give you a graph of your sleep and they track your exposure to light and to sound. They warn you when you're going to get a sunburn. They let you know when you're slouching. It's really turning into interesting stuff. And Google, yeah, speaking of wearables that you really have a do, you really do have a reason to put on. Google is working on a contact lens for diabetics. There you go.

Yeah, that will eliminate the need to stick themselves multiple times a day to check their insulin levels. This will just detect it from your tears, send it to your phone to look at the levels, and it really works. That is amazing. So amazing. That is great.

And then the next step is there's research on collecting all the data, these terabytes of data that we're spewing out from our health monitors and our phones for the purposes of medical research. We could harvest all this data. Just for our safety and our health. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you can find these amazing patterns of, oh, look, when this person goes to bed early, he's less likely to have an asthma attack the next day.

I mean, you can draw these conclusions based on massive amounts of data that you can't do now. Still pretty frightening. You know, you're lucky if you get 50 people signed up in a year. Right. Well, it's still pretty frightening. I mean, people are still, you know, I mean, I got it. It's great. It's a good thing.

And yes, if you are already diagnosed with diabetes, do I want you to have, do I want you to stick yourself 80 times a day? No. I'd rather have you, you know, just have it sent to your phone. Yeah, it's time for your insulin. But, I mean, there's just massive amounts of information that is time for you to sit down, Jeff. It just seems, you know, we're getting, all right, I don't care. I'm ready for the body chip anyway. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter to me. I don't want to have to bring out my wallet. I don't want to have to bring out. I just boop, I'm done. I want to go through the crowd and be done with it. It's fine. The old school of cash and everything else is, I mean, we're pretty close to cash lists now.

We're getting there. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more than it has, you know, paying by phone. It really is kind of nice. But it's just, I know there's competing standards and the retail shops and restaurants need to upgrade. They're cash-registered things, which costs money, which they don't want to do. So that revolution is really sort of stalled as well.

That's too bad. Okay, so, author, Pogue's Basics to Life. I know you've got like a hundred and, well, how many books do you have now? 80? Yeah, 40. Yeah. But, you know, some of my favorite reading is the basics, Pogue Basics, Life. And just your basics and tips that, you know, get you,

through everyday life. And I love the whole idea of it. And I know that before we get to the basics of life, you're in the middle of doing a new book now, right? I am. That's great. You're looking for tips? Yeah, that's right.

So the first Pogue's basics book was all tech tips. You know, how to, you know, little tips about your phones and computers that you think everybody knows, but they don't because there's really no like driver's ed for technology. So that was a few years ago. And then this last Christmas, there was a sequel, Pogs Basics Life. And then now I'm working on a third one to come out this Christmas, which is Pogs Basics money.

And I'm extremely excited about that. There's just so many loopholes in life, little finance hacks that let you save and make money that people are just walking right over, walking right by and not realizing it. It's kind of amazing. What's one of the things that's going to be in your new book that you didn't know? Well, how about this? That when you go away on vacation, you can call your cable and internet companies and tell them you're going away and stop paying. Why should you pay for cable for an empty house? I love that.

You know, and it's so funny you say that. You think about, I remember my folks and my grandparents would, you know, pause the newspapers. Yeah. Who gets a newspaper anymore? or certainly not myself. Same idea, yeah. But it's the same idea, right? They would just, they would pause it, and there's no reason.

I'll call you when I get back, you can start delivering it again. And I love this one. Of course, we know that there are credit cards that let you, that give you cash back on everything. Right. So they're like six per five percent back or six percent back. So there's some of these amazing hacks that people sent in where you use one of those credit cards to go into Costco and buy a gift card for yourself or Amazon or, you know, Best Buy, or wherever you do shopping.

And because Costco themselves marks down the gift cards, you're using your 6% discount on your credit card to buy a gift card that itself is marked down. You can basically do this credit card arbitrage and save massive amounts of money. And speaking of... It better be worth it. You still have to pay for the cost. Costco card. That's right. But this I didn't realize. There are websites like gift card granny where you can sell gift cards that people gave you that you don't want. You trade them in

for cash. You get 92% of their value. That's not bad. And similarly, if you are going to some store, you can buy one of those cards for yourself at a discount. You know, you pay 92%. So if I want I'm going to use an iTunes card. I can go to one of these sites and buy it for, buy $100 worth of iTunes stuff for $90, instantly 10% off everything. And if I buy that card with my 6% refunds, $16.

Now I'm getting 16% off of everything in the world. That is great. Well, all right, so that's coming this Christmas, right? Yeah, that's right. I'll definitely have to talk to you about that. So we'll go back to your basics in life. What are you, a couple of your favorite life, before I have to let you go today.

Well, some of them are these things where designers did things for us, and the word just never got out. Like on the fuel gauge of every car, there's a tiny picture of a gas tank, an arrow pointing either to the right or the left. That's to tell you which side of the car has the gas tank. That's, I actually, I heard you say that in another interview, and I went, oh, my gosh. So when you're in a rental car, you know, you're spared that dance of driving around the gas pump.

No kidding. Or this one's a life changer. You should leave the butter out. Don't refrigerate your butter. Butter doesn't spoil those many weeks. And by leaving it out at room temperature, it's soft and spreadable. Yeah, it's so much easier to spread. Yeah, my wife's been doing that.

She's had that argument forever. That's how they do it in Europe. Yeah, she's had that argument forever. I'm leaving the butter out. Leave me alone. Yeah, exactly. And I think my favorite one, I don't know how old you are, Jeff, but sooner or later you will get to be... 155.

Okay, all right. So those of you who are over 40 know that your eyesight will start to go, and you will need glasses. Yes. Maybe for reading, maybe for distance. But here's the thing. When you're caught without your glasses, this is the one lasting thing from this book that I use. I can't read that. I don't have my glasses.

Yeah, exactly. You can still read using the pinhole camera effect. What you do is you curl your index finger tightly against your thumb, making a tiny pinhole. Right. You hold your hand right up to your eyeball and look through that pinhole. Suddenly you can read again without the glasses. That is fantastic. So when you're in a restaurant, reading a menu, or you know when it's useful when you're in a shower in the hotel and you can't read the labels on the little bottle,

now you could figure out which one is shampoo by holding your finger up to your eyes. I shouldn't just wash my hair with the skin softener? I shouldn't just do that? Exactly. I've just saved you that shame. Thank you. Thank you so much for that. I appreciate. David Pogue.

All right, so all this information they can get at your website, David Pogue.com, correct? Yep. And are you still giving, I know you were asking for, I mean, tips for your book that's coming out this coming Christmas. Are you still waiting for people to give you more tips? Yeah, I am. I'm looking for more sort of price hacks of that type. And if I use yours, I'll credit you in the book and send you an autographed copy. That's the deal.

So just email me, Pogue at me.com, P-O-G-U-E at me.com. And I'll acknowledge you one way or another. And if I use your tip, I'll send you copy. That's great. David Pogue, thank you so much for joining us today. I appreciate it. My pleasure. Thank you.

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Another very sad day for New York, New York workers. All of you people who work in New York, especially the people who work, I don't know, at this network in NYC. All we're trying to find ways not to have to come into work next week. Oh, I can't get to work. New Jersey Transit is on this strike. I'll have to actually drive my own car.

I'll have to walk. I'll have to ride my bike. I'll have to take a cab. I can't do that. New Jersey Transit's on the strike. No. The deal has been struck. There's going to be no strike.

So no excuses. Back to work in NYC for all you people using New Jersey Transit. Sorry. Deal's done. Okay. No strike. So, sorry. This story fascinates me.

We talked about it when it first happened. The Russian press minister and aide to Vladimir Putin, who was found dead in Washington, D.C. Remember last November? And they're saying, remember they said he died of a heart of the time? and then they said that there were possible ladies of the evening there, and they didn't know what he was doing in Washington, D.C. Nobody knew he was there. And, you know, we found out that he had some homes here in the U.S.

And he was, you know, he was Vlad's right-hand guy there for a long time. And he set up a lot of stuff for the Soviet Union. He was a big player. Mikhail Lessen. Well, He didn't die of a heart attack. Okay. He died of blunt force injuries.

The medical examiner said. He died as a result of blunt, blunt force injuries to his head with other contributing causes listed as a blunt force injury to his neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities. Under the entry for manner of death, the medical examiner wrote, Undetermined. It undetermined because he got his butt kicked. Somebody beat the life out of him, literally beat the life out of him.

So whatever he was into, shouldn't have been into it. Okay? And I sneak in and out of the U.S. There's his little Washington DuPont Circle Hotel. No. Sorry. So they're just waiting for clarification. I was going to be fascinating to see what happens, if anything, happens about this.

If nothing happens, then, you know, it was all inside stuff, and this probably shouldn't have been reported, and they should have just left it as a heart attack. I'm surprised that the medical examiner, well, why would they be, why do they care? I can say anything in today. He goes, yeah, he was beat up. I know. We said he had a heart attack before, but we were wrong.

So we lied. So what are you going to do? Exactly nothing. So it'll be fascinating to see what comes of that, if anything, because I don't know. I don't know. We talked to David Pogue earlier last half hour in this broadcast, and he talked about how he thought the driverless cars were going to be so huge, and the driverless Uber cars were going to be so huge. A, I saw an ad for the new Volvo that can take you.

from driverless to manual looks a really cool. Yes. Oh, I want one, please. And Volvo, if you'd like to deliver one here to the Mercury Studios to me, I'd be happy to be a spokesman for you and let everyone know how great your automobile

and all other Volvo automobiles are just for dropping one off here at the Mercury Studios in Dallas, Texas. It'd be great. But there is news that Uber, A little bit different than the driverless Ubers. I know where you just, you know, you show up with the computer car. But there is news that the Uber drivers are putting down fake vomit and taking pictures and then charging people.

So apparently you don't make any money as an Uber driver, or at least, you know, I know Uber claims you do. But I just got done talking to someone not long ago who said that the money doesn't work out. It doesn't happen. all right the deal isn't quite right on how they work out the payments so the way they make money is if something has to be cleaned right then they charge whoever was made it dirty extra money so uh she he used fake vomit and charged her 200 bucks cleaning fees now they've there's another guy that's been charged $100 fake cleaning fees and a couple people have been charged $200 Now, the one picture is amazing because they claim, and they got their money back, but the picture is of vomit in the Uber car and saying, hey, you know, I've got to get, this is my, this is what we're charging you for, the extra 200 bucks.

That money goes directly to the driver. So some of the drivers have found out, hey, I can just say they needed to fix it and I get that extra money. The picture is the vomit up front, which is And one of the pictures was stolen from another picture. Wasn't even his car. He showed a picture from a couple years ago from a ride sharing website. And then the one vomit was in the front. They said, well, we only ride in the back.

So how is it possible that I puked? the front. So just be careful with your little Uber drivers and you may think about remembering exactly when you got off, what you got off. Now those people got their money back, but I don't know if other people how many are down the line for Uber saying, hey, we had to clean the car and it's your

fault and we charged your account. Sorry, the way it goes. And we talked a little bit about robots and how they are going to help us. Are they? Ray Kurzweil. You know, the American inventor who Googles Guy, the futurist. When I talk about computers reaching human levels of intelligence,

I'm not talking about logical intelligence. Okay. It is being funny and expressing a loving sentiment. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence. Wow. We're going to combine with that intelligence. How? Cell-sized nanobots in our brain.

brains, will connect us to the global internet and let us download skills matrix style. We'll also edit genes like computer code to cure diseases. That's what's coming. Wow. Are you ready for that? Are you ready for that? We're going to combine with that intelligence. Okay.

Cell-sized nanobots in your brain. connect to global internet, and you can download all your skills. That is kind of cool. And we also talked with David Pogue about the drones and how the newer drones won't crash. They can fly. And if you try to fly them into a wall or something, they won't. They'll just stop. They're not going to crash.

Well, it's come to our attention now that the Pentagon has been using these drone swarms. They experimented with the new secret prototypes microdrones that launch from the flare dispensers of the F-16s and the F-18 fighter jets. The canisters containing the tiny aircraft descended from the jets that are on parachutes before they break open. And then they allow the wings of each drone to swing out and catch the wind. Inch-wide propellers on the back provided propulsion as they found one another and created a swarm. A swarm of microdrones. It was run by the Strategic Capabilities Office to figure out how best to counter growing strategic threats from China and Russia. Of course, the specifics of what the mini drones can do are classified,

but they could be used to confuse enemy forces and carry out surveillance missions using equipment that costs much less than full-size unmanned aircraft. Yes, and they would never be used. used against American citizens, ever. Team of scientists have demonstrated that a computer can outperform human judges in predicting who will commit a violent crime. Yay! The technology could potentially spare victims from being injured. Oh, oh, good.

Good, good, good. They could potentially spare victims from being injured or even killed. It could also keep the least dangerous. offenders from going to jail unnecessarily. And yet there's something unnerving about using machines to decide what could happen to people. You think? Now, let's talk about that for a second. It could also keep the least dangerous offenders from going to jail unnecessarily.

So we see, oh, you are going to commit a crime. We think you're going to commit a crime. Okay, we're going to put you over here. so you don't commit that crime. That's, no, we're not calling that prison. Oh, if you committed a crime, we'd put you on the other side of the hallway. That would be prison. But since we're trying to stop you from committing a crime so you don't go to that side of the hall,

we're going to keep you over on this side of the hall so you don't commit the crime. That's still prison. They're going another, using vast data sets to identify individuals who are criminally inclined. Yep, that's exactly what they're doing. A system called Beware, for example, is capable. of rating citizens. Oh, good. We're testing it in Fresno, California.

As posing a high, medium, or low level of threat. Good. Press accounts say the system amasses data. We talked about this system, actually, and it's in Fresno, and there's two other cities, I think, in the U.S., right? One of the creators of that system, University of Pennsylvania statistician Richard Burke, he only works with publicly available data.

Of course you do, Richard. We would never think that you would get data that's not public. Oh, we're not stupid, Richard. The system isn't scooping up and crunching data on ordinary citizens. No. But it's making the same forecast that judges or police officers previously had to make when it came to decide whether to detain or release a suspect. That's not really true.

That sounds good, but that can't be true. because the police officers out on the street and sees little Joey looking, walking down the sidewalk, looking like he doesn't know what he's doing or he's looking for some trouble and can stop and say, what are you doing, Joey? Why don't you go home? The computer would see, uh, picks Joey,

Joey could possibly commit a crime. Joe, you're not allowed to go out tonight. You could possibly commit a crime. that's different. And Joy might decide not to commit that crime. He may be leaning, he may be walking down the street thinking, you know, I would really like to rob from that house.

Man, I'm going to rob from that house. The computer would say, stop him, right? Put him over on that side of the hall. We can't put him in prison, of course, because he didn't commit the crime. But we can put him in the could commit a crime cell. But in real life, you may decide, no, you know what, I'm not going to come.

that crime. And he would think that he's not going to commit that crime because he saw, oh, I don't know, the real live police officer parked down the street. Or he got, he looked and he saw the lady walking into the house that he was thinking about robbing and said, oh my gosh, she's a friend of my mom's. I can't do that. Any number of things could have happened. It's amazing.

Amazing. What is coming? And yet, we're still protesting. right we're protesting because the world is on fire this is the jeff fisher show on the blaze radio network is the jeff fisher show that it is welcome to it michael pelka coming up next pure opelka on the blaze radio network a couple things a couple quick things before we leave we talked a little bit about the micro drones swarming by the military that they're practicing but now they're using drones over spring breakers. Yeah.

Why have police officers walking through the crowd and stuff when you can just fly drones over them, right? Fly drones and see if anybody's doing wrong. But I see in this story where it talks about Florida is moving, especially Panama City, where they have a big, big spring break area, moving to ban alcohol consumption on the beaches. Okay. If I can't drink alcohol on the beach in Florida, why would I go to Florida? Of Florida, are you, because, becoming that dumb? And then I remember the story now that they've actually sunsetted their entertainment industry financial program. So it doesn't make it viable for companies to come and film television shows and movies and series in the state of Florida. Just makes them go somewhere

else. Good job, Florida. You are on top of it. I mean that. With every ounce of man, I wish I still live there not in my body. All right. See you later. I guess you look okay today. A little shaky. Have a good week. This is the Jeff Fisher Show.

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