Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - The Robots Are Invading! 7/18/15

Episode Date: July 18, 2015

Today on The Jeff Fisher Show, novelist & mystery writer Brad Meltzer joins the program to talk about his new book. Also, what type of drunk are you? Jeffy will give you the answer that might not shock you. As well as robots invading our world, Caitlyn Jenner & John McCain's daughter. 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 Jeff at twitter.com/JeffyMRA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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. Welcome to it. A busy, busy week of news.

I mean, we've had body parts being sold from, tissue or abortion babies. We had the shootings. Four Marines in Tennessee. No indication, of course, that the Chattanooga shooter was inspired by Islamic State. Uh-huh. Tennessee has put their flags at half-mast. I haven't heard of whether Washington is going to do that or not.

You had the Iran-Nuk deal. You had the exciting news that this lady, Sierra McGrone, uses the alias nocturnous libertus on Facebook, issued a challenge to her supporters. She wanted young African to clean their, she used another word, rear end, with the rag of oppression. What do you think the rag of oppression is? That's right. The United States flag. Such a good look, and she sounds great. You have an opportunity to hear her.

Please do so. There were three deliberate simultaneous explosions at a petrochemical plant in France on Bastille Day. We heard all about that, though, didn't we? Yes, we did. Right now, there's, we just couldn't say if it was due to terrorism or not. Uh-huh. One of my favorite things that happened this week if you follow me on Twitter at Jeff E.MRA.

Rod Stewart, 70 years old. Rod Stewart, 70 years old, was a guest in James Corden's Carpool Karaoke series, which is a great bit, by the way, that James Gordon does with the late show on CBS. And they drive around singing classic songs from Rod Stewart, who's 70. And in this episode, they perform, you know,

all his hits and talks about being a rock star early on and how they didn't get in respect and they just trashed hotel rooms and did nothing but what Rod calls Shaggin and a drinking. Shaggin and a drinking. And of course, he's got his new song in collaboration with ASAP Rocky who appeared in the backseat and they did part of their song, which was a really good bit, actually. So Rod's out hawking his, his 70 looks great. Looks great.

And for those of you that think, know anything about computers. This is nothing. Rod Stewart gets out of the car and says, I'll call Uber. It'll be fine. I'll call Uber. Can I get your ride? Nope, I call Uber.

So you two can be just a little more hip than you think you can be. Now, some of you set your alarms for, to get up and listen to the broadcast. Others still partying. Those of you that set your alarms may have a hangover. you may suffer from what's being termed now as alcohol use disorder. Now, do you haven't? Had times when you ended up drinking more or longer than you intended? More than once wanted to cut down or stop drinking.

Tried to but couldn't. Spent a lot of time drinking or being sick of getting over the after effects. Experienced cravings, a strong need or urge to drink. found that drinking or being sick from drinking often interfered with taking care of your home or family or caused job troubles or school problems. Continued to drink even though it was causing trouble with your family or friends. Giving up or cut back on activities that were important or interesting to you or gave you pleasure in order to drink. More than once gotten into situations while after drinking that increased your chances of getting hurt,

driving, swimming, machinery, walking in a dangerous area, having unsafe sex, any of these, you may suffer from alcohol use disorder. Continue to drink even though it was making you feel depressed or anxious or adding to another health problem or after having had a memory blackout. Had to drink much more than you once did to get the effect you want. or found that your usual number of drinks had much less effect than before. Found that when the effects of alcohol were wearing off, you had withdrawal symptoms. Trouble, sleeping, shakingness, irritability, anxiety, depression, restlessness, nausea, sweating, sense things that were not there. Alcohol use disorder. Now, if you watch, I mean, you watch some of that, I'm amazed, what brought this into my mind.

mind thinking about this was when you watch television shows, if you have an opportunity to catch some of the television shows, some of the big TV shows, we've banned tobacco from TV forever, so nobody smokes, but so many shows revolve around alcohol. It's amazing when you just stop and look, I'm thinking, they're drinking again. So alcohol problems affect almost 33 million adults. And most never sought any treatment. According to a government survey that suggests the rates have increased in recent years. The study, the first national estimate based on the new term alcohol use disorder. And it in the widely used a psychiatric handbook DSM-5, and really seriously who doesn't read the psychiatric handbook DSM-5,

that was updated in 2013, research from the National Institute on Elson, alcohol abuse and alcoholism asked 36,000 adults during that year, 2012 and 2013, about lifetime drinking habits, including current or within the past year. 14% of adults were current or recent problem drinkers, nearly 33 million nationally. 30%, almost 69 million, had some point in their lives, had an issue. Now, the University of Missouri broke down the types of drunks into four distinct categories. And this, of course, was published in the Addiction Research and Theory. And, I mean, who doesn't go over that?

The Addiction Research and Theory Journal. Scientists surveyed 187 pairs of undergraduate drinking buddies. Okay? Now, the findings, you were either a half. Hemingway, Mary Poppins, Nutty Professor, or Mr. Hyde drunk. The largest group, the Hemingway's, which represented about 42% of the subjects, these subjects reported experiencing this smallest decrease in organizational and intellectual skills, and are drinkers who tend not to undergo drastic character changes or experience harms.

So if you're a Mr. Hyde drunk, look out. About 23% could be called Mr. Hyde or Ms. Hyde. Since more than half of the subjects who fell into this category were women, meaning they became particularly less responsible, less intellectual, and more hostile, went under the influence of alcohol. And we've all seen that before, haven't we? One fifth earned the honor of being labeled the Nutty Professor. They were more introverted, more particularly agreeable after drinking.

In other words, happy, sweet drunks. who don't cause any trouble. Wow. Now, I know what you're asking yourself. I wonder what eye color is the worst, or, you know, the best to have. Well, people with blue eyes really run a higher risk of being alcoholics. A new study out of the University of Vermont suggests that the link not only exists, but it appears to be a genetic one.

Wow. This in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B, neuropsychiatric genetics. Seriously, I mean, hello. You've read that in depth, haven't you? Yes, of course you have. The researchers find that among European Americans, those with light-colored eyes,

such as green or gray in the center, have higher rates of alcohol dependency. Amazing. Now, New York is taking this head on. No more drunk sex, in college anyway. That's, you know, what they're hoping. Good luck, guys and gals, across New York and soon to be America.

So you have to ask if it's okay to put your hand on another person's butt during foreplay. And each little move after, she had again touching another part of her body. and my gosh, now there's a law that says you have to do this. Good. In New York, there's a new law on college campus. A bill signed July 7th. Both parties are to obtain consent for sex and each nibble and caress that sometimes paves the way. The law applies only on college campus.

Uh-huh. But it may hit the rest of the states soon. It's a simple concept. Instead of no means no, it's yes means yes. It switches the dynamic of consent in what could be an empowering way. Right. The hope is that by changing the power structure of the hookup and making it law, college sexual assaults will decrease.

and we all know that those are just through the roof. Not really so. Legislation proposed by Governor Andrew Como, who's top-notch guy, called Enough is Enough, was passed unanimously by the state legislation. Of course it was passed unanimously. Nobody wants to say they were against this. Changing the conversation around sexual consent among college students

will take more than a year or two, says Angie Delgado, also a student. She gets made fun of when she talks. about the need to talk about the hookup before it happens. No. Not many people ask, can I do this during every step they take? And often, lots of alcohol is involved. That, she said, needs to get more attention. Ah, no more party fooling around for guys or girls.

Okay, you can't plan to yourself. I'm going to go get hammered and mess around. Not going to happen. I can't tell you how many times. Angie Delgado says, I've heard stories of girls waking up in different room next to a guy they don't remember going home with. The point is, people have to come to accept this type of behavior. And what they don't realize is that it can be considered rape. Of course it can.

Yes means yes. Instead of no means no? So, hmm. What do you say? We go have a beer and discuss what we can and can't touch. Huh? Oh, yeah. This is The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.

Is the Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it. Thanks for being here on the Blaze Radio Network. 888-9033-93 is the phone number. Plenty of live programming today for you. I'm the Blaze Radio Network. We're immediately following this broadcast, Michael Pelka with Pure O'Pelka, right into Andrew WK with America WK.

Chris Salcedo, Mike Slater, Joe Paggs, no need to go anywhere else than right here on the Blaze Radio Network. Michael Pelka in Pure O'Pelka, I'm not sure what he's giving away today. I think he's talking to his Wimbledon family member who won the juniors championship. So he may be giving away Pure O'Pelka sunglasses. in honor of Wimbledon and watching tennis out in the open, back and forth, back and forth. So I don't know. It's possible that he could be giving it away. I just, you know, I don't know that.

So we also, this past week, had the tremendous award, the Arthur Ash Courage Award, given to Bruce, I mean, Caitlin Jenner. at the Espe's and the world. Not everyone was happy. I mean, the ex-wife, Chris, was all about it, saying it looked amazing and his cream Versace gown. And the daughters were at the event. And everybody thought it was wonderful. Listen, they got huge numbers.

The SB's record ratings night on Wednesday. Huh. I wonder what could have caused that. Everyone tuning into ABC Chris. We've had fights on television between transgendered people and everybody wants to be so inclusive and so get along. And yet the one Zoe Tour told the little panelist, hey, cut that out now or you'll go home in an ambulance. But we all want to get along. We all want to get along. There's no. No question about that. And Friday Night Lights, Peter Berg, Director of a lone survivor and Friday Night Lights. He wasn't real happy with the Bruce Jenner Award, the Arthur Ask Courage Award at the Aspies. He posted an Instagram that, and he posted it without comment.

He just posted the picture, featured an Army veteran Gregory Gadsden, who played Roland Berg's battleship alongside one of Jenner. And it says the caption on the two pictures side by side, one man traded two legs for freedom. The other traded two, I don't know if I want to call them, dingles or berries, for two berries or dingles. Guess which man made the cover of Vanity Fair

was praised for his courage by President Obama and is to be honored with the Arthur Ash Courage Award by ESPN. Man, they're all wound up at him for that. All wound up at him for that. And in case you were one of the many who said, I don't know if I want to listen to Bruce or not. I mean, Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin. Here's some highlights of the speech,

and just it's enough to warm your heart. Ladies and gentlemen, the courageous, the stunning, Caitlin Jenner. She's from the U.S. soccer. She's a stunning. As a group, as athletes. How you conduct your lives? What you say, what you do, is absorbed and observed by millions of people, especially young people.

I know I'm clear with my responsibility and going forward to tell my story the right way. me to keep learning, to do whatever I can to reshape the landscape of how trans issues are viewed, how trans people are treated, and then more broadly, to promote a very simple idea, accepting people for who they are. Accepting people's differences. But this transition has been harder on me than anything I could imagine. And that's the case for so many others besides me. For that reason alone, trans people deserve something vital.

They deserve your respect. Oh, clap. Yes. If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead. Because the reality is, I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn't have to take it. Thank you so much for this platform.

Thank you so much for this honor bestowed on myself and my family. Thank you. She looked great in the Versace, no question about it. Now, some have said that, they've got great numbers. Now, some have said this was the award.

The award was, you know, thanks for letting us do the interview at ABC for the, you know, the grand interview. And they said that's completely hogwash. And of course, she's got the I Am Kate reality, I'm sorry, the TV docu-series on the E-network that starts up real soon, later this month, I think. So, and if you notice that now in today's world, it's, I don't think, I don't think they're saying transgendered.

If you listen to Bruce and listen to some of the others that have been around, I mean, Caitlin, that have been around for quite a while, it's transgender. It's no longer transgender people. You are now transgender. Think about it. Transgender. Ugh. Agonizing. The Jeff Fisher Show.

The Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show. Welcome to it. An amazing story out of Washington this week. A 16-year-old two nights in the woods after a plane crashed. She's flying from Montana to Washington and crashes into the mountains. She's flying with her grandparents and they don't make it. She does.

She is amazing. When she finally made it to the store where she called 911, Rick DeLuke, Rick LaDuke, owner of the Mazama store, she said she was pretty traumatized when she arrived at a store. Really? He says he knows the terrain in the region quite well and describes it as the most rugged part of the Cascades. One of his employees is a certified EMT and was, able to calm the team down before she went to the hospital.

Now, she was out wandering around, and we'll get to the full story. And she got picked up, finally found a trail, a road, and got picked up, and then sent to, they took her to this store to make the call to 911. Hello? Hi, this is Michael with the Oakland County 911. What is your name? Autumn Beach. Autumn Beach, E, E, C-E-C-H.

V-A-T-C-E-A-T-C-E-E-C-E. And tell me exactly what happened. I was riding from Calaisville, Montana to Bellingham, Washington, and about, well, I don't know where, but we crashed and I was the only one that made it out. Okay, I made it out from the collision or survived? Yeah, the only one that survived. Okay. Are you injured at all? Yeah, I have a lot of burns on my hands, and I'm, like, kind of covered in bruises and scratches and stuff.

Okay. All right, Autumn. How old are you? I'm 16. I'm going to send someone up to come help you there at the Mazama store. Just don't go anywhere, okay? Okay. All right.

Thank you. Thank you. Amazing. Amazing. Frank Rogers from the Okanagan County Sheriff said, I'll tell you this. From all of us here, we're just impressed. Just amazing what she went through,

especially at 16 enough for an adult, but at 16, it's pretty darn impressive. Now, she gave a quick news report to a local news station, King 5. And this was one of the first interviews that she gave once she started to heal. And I was looking forward, and everything was white. Like everything, all the windows, everything was white, and then just suddenly it was just all trees,

and then it was fire. They were both screaming, and I was trying to help them. I also wasn't believing that it was real at first, especially when we crashed. I thought I was streaming. I didn't think it was real, but I still made it out. But I was crying and kind of blaming myself because, you know, grandma and grandpa,

they're amazing people and they didn't deserve to go that way. Nobody deserves that. And I was just blaming myself because the flight was to take me home and it wasn't anything I could do. And, I mean, it took me a long time to realize that they would just be happy that at least I made it out. Now, that's amazing. She sounds pretty darn good.

Pretty darn good. Now, she gave a big interview. to NBC Miguel Al-Migar. And she goes into a little bit more detail of what actually took place. It got a little bit bumpy, and we were only using, like, a little tablet with some GPS on it. Autumn Veach was flying home to Washington State with her grandparents, Sharon and Leland Bowman, when their small plane hit turbulence. It got a little bit more cloudy and harder to see, and you were having to.

to go up and then down and side to side a lot more and having to do some sharp turns around mountains. Autumn sent this text to her boyfriend, joking, if I die, remember I love you. Conditions soon got worse. You couldn't see out of the front at all. Everything was just white. And grandpa, he was kind of just like, wow, this isn't good. I was kind of crouching down because I was really scared, and I figured that they would sort it out because, you know, That's typically how that goes.

But the plane was going down. Everything was white, and then just suddenly it was just all trees, and then it was fire. And so what happened when you went down when you made impact? Took only a couple of seconds for fire to start coming in, and that's how my face got burned. It's beyond me, how I made it out. Autumn's grandparents were trapped. I was trying to help them. I couldn't get to grandma at all.

Grandpa pulled himself halfway out. I was reaching, trying to pull them out. I realized that there was nothing I could do. and that they were gone, my instinct was to just go straight downhill. Frightened with burns on her face and body, Autumn found a small stream. That was something that stuck in my head. Running water always leaves civilization, apparently. But civilization was nowhere in sight, and after a freezing night in wet clothes,

she started losing hope. I was like thinking, well, I'm obviously going to die. Like, why can't I just die fast? She was ready to give up. Then I started thinking about all the things. like so if I die what are all the things that I'm never going to be able to do ever again and I just got this surge of willpower and was like there's no way I can die without hugging somebody again so she fought braving cliffs waterfalls and endless bug bites the forest was really unforgiving

finally on day three the break she desperately needed I saw bridge and I was like that's not real My heart just dropped and I was like, is this real? Am I actually going to make it? Autumn found help. And after being reunited with loved ones, says she also found a new perspective. I have such a new found respect for life now. Every little thing makes me so grateful.

Yeah. Unbelievable. Think of that. Think of that. No idea where you are. She's cold. Wet. She was just sitting there by a tree thinking I'm freezing and it's starting to rain.

I was so cold and I was thinking those survivor shows that I used to watch all the time, what always gets people? It's always dehydration or hypothermia. I was like I'm definitely going to die of hypothermia. It was so cold. I've never been that cold in my life. She fell down a cliff, scaled waterfalls, continued on. Amazing.

Now, she was released from the hospital in Brewster earlier this week, and she's home, and she's recuperating. And they have finally, I believe, located the wreckage of the plane. They can't get to it yet. Think of that. We can't even get to where the plane crashed, and she finally, you know, spent two and a half, three days in the woods wandering around and got the hell out of there. It's unbelievable. Good. I mean, her life matters.

Your life matters. So if there's any doubt that she had, that her life didn't matter, she was, she knows now that she's here for a reason and it matters. You don't come out of that, not thinking that. That's amazing. Now, she spent days wandering around the woods, banged up cold, freezing. She's scaling rocks, falling down waterfalls, falling down hills, feeling like she's going to die. And yet, and she survives. So yesterday, I'm in front of my house, and I turned to go get in the car.

And did you know that if you don't lift your foot high enough up over the driveway because the concrete's up above the grass a little bit? you fall, you trip. And amazingly, if you can't get your other foot underneath you in time, all that time gravity is pulling you faster toward Earth. Now, Caitlin knows this. Caitlin knows that gravity pulls you toward Earth, pulls you down mountains, pulls you down streams. I, too, know this.

I know that gravity pulls you toward concrete. I haven't fallen like that along. Man, I'm telling you, concrete hurts. Quote me on that. Concrete hurts. And I've been raised to get, when you fall, you get up. Just get up. You don't lay on the ground.

I fell. So, I mean, I hit the ground and, you know, glasses, phone, everything, hat, flying everywhere. And, I mean, I'm right back up. And I'm picking up my phone and my glasses. And we were going. My daughter was in the car. And she didn't even see me crash. She saw me picking up.

She thought, she was chuckling, thinking, Daddy dropped his phone again. Yeah, I dropped my phone after I tripped and hit the concrete. So I get in the car, I sit in the car for a second and you're kind of like, okay, well, I just slammed into the concrete. Okay. Where do we go from here? Let's see. Knee, wrist, forehead.

Huh. So this is just a little helpful hint from me that if and when you fall, try your darnness not to fall on concrete. because concrete is a lot worse than some sort of grass and dirt because it's really, really hard and it hurts a lot. And after you fall like that and you can't lift one of your arms, is that a problem? Here we go. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher Show.

Welcome to it. 888-90-33-33-9. is the phone number coming up right after this broadcast, Mike Opelka with Pure Opelka. And a whole lot more live programming all weekend long for you on the Blaze Radio Network. And then weekdays, of course, you've got Doc and Skip, Glenn, who is still resting his voice, by the way. He'll be back at the end of the month. So it's Pat Stu and myself filling in. And then we're going to hit up a vacation.

And then we'll be back. So then we'll be all geared up heading into A28 for Birmingham. So relax, have a good July, take it easy. We'll be plenty of live programming, plenty of stuff to take grab on to here at the Blaze Radio Network. We'll be here for you. Don't forget about Buck and Jay, Bat and Stu. And so we're all here. Relax.

Take a breath. It's all good. Don't look so sad. It's all good. Okay? All right, baby. Now, coming up a little bit later on in this broadcast, Brad Meltzer is going to join us. And he wants to talk about his new book, of course.

But I'm asking him, I'm going to ask it. I got some personal questions. I got to ask Brad. I want some answers. I want some answers to do a couple of things. And if you have some questions for Brad, go ahead and tweet me at Jeffie MRA. You know, hashtag question for Brad or whatever. And, you know, I'll ask him for you.

No problem. I love Brad. and he'll be, I'm sure he'll be talking to us from his South Florida retreat, which will be a, you know, a wonderful thing. So why is it that all the futuristic stuff has to be small? You know, like I look at the, there's a new thing called the eco-capsule. and it's a mini apartment, all the conventional luxuries you would expect,

but generates its own clean energy and can be situated anywhere from city to tundra. And they show this egg thing in the middle of nowhere with its windmill popped up in the air. And you're supposed to, and this is where you're supposed to live? I mean, it's, it really is a room. I mean, it's like something, they ought to put them in airports,

so that's where you would sleep. You could rent them in airports instead of getting a hotel. And actually, that's a million-dollar idea. Their eco-capsule. Make your own little eco-capsul sleeping area around airports. People would just use those. Huh? You're welcome.

I know. But, of course, if there's anything that makes you think to yourself, what could possibly be wrong with eco-capsules? A tweet from Susan Sarandon, happy to really excited about the eco-capsule. can I talk to on your end? DM me. Really?

Are you, Susan? Because I know the EcoCapsule is right up there with your, you know, brand new $2 million penthouse in New York. I'm not sure how much your place out on the West Coast costs. But I know you got a couple. I know you only spent, you got a good deal on that $2 million penthouse in New York. So I'm sure you got a little extra to foot on EcoCapsule. right where this is what you're going to use it for what the kids and then they have a 3D printer

who says 3D printer can print emergency housing in just 30 minutes and I'm thinking hey kind of cool but the emergency housing looks like a dog house it's just a big dog house or it could be a coffin if they don't put the dog house thing in it's just a coffin I want something a little bit better can we maybe just something a little bit better than a dog house and an egg-shaped room for the future. That's all I'm asking. You know, that's all I'm asking. A little bit better than an egg-shaped room and a coffin for the future.

That's all I'm asking. That's it. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Hey, it's Glenn, and I want to remind you, peace of mind is tough to come by these days unless you have a Liberty Safe. With a Liberty Safe, you won't worry when you leave the house, because you'll know your valuables are protected. And right now you can get free delivery to your home on any LibertySafe.

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This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Hello. You know, there is some good things to look forward to in the future. Like robot-staffed hotels. First one in Japan. I'll tweet it out at Jeffie MRA, but you've got Porter robots. Once you check in, you just slide your card and you set your luggage on it and it takes you to your room. kind of cool. I'm okay with that. And then there's the staff robot that gives you hot towels

and tells you information. That's kind of cool. They claim that that's not 100% ready yet. But they do have a separate one that you just kind of walks around the hotel and you can stop and it gives you information about local area events, what's going on. You know, I got to love that. Just stop and listen. And it's got the little computer screen. on the front, so you just tap what information you want to know if it's rambling about something you don't want to know. I mean, that's kind of cool. Right?

You have a little information computers. And then at the front desk, you have the one robot that looks almost human, which is, remember what we've talked about in the past, that robots that look almost human are the creepiest ones. We don't like those because we know that they're trying to be human, but they aren't. But they look like a robot, we're fine because we know, eh, they're not human. They're a robot. All right.

So that's kind of cool. And she meets you. And, you know, it looks almost like a human, but it's not. So at the hotel, it will greet you and, you know, get your information, put it in the system. But it's not quite human enough. So you still might be okay with it. It looks, I don't know, dollish, kind of like a little doll. And then they have this giant dinosaur, wears a hat and a bowtie,

and he's one of the receptionists, one of the people that take your information. And bingo, he looks like a dinosaur. So a dinosaur, we'll probably love that. We'll eat that up. It's Jurassic Parkic. So we'll love that. But that's coming to hotels in America soon. You bet on that.

And then they have the little robot in the room. room, which I don't know if I'm so big on that, but because we had the story last week. I don't know if I ever got to it, but we had the story last week where the hotel in Southeast Asia was filming people for their porn sites. So you would check into their room and they would film you and then they would upload it to their porn sites. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, we know our rooms are cheap. That's why.

So then they've got the little computer dial in your room giving you information, give you the wake-up calls, let you know what's going on tomorrow. And, you know, kind of a little weird. Just a little. But it'd be fun to have. It'd be fun to go to once in a while, won't you think? And you say that. And you say, and then you go back to what we were thinking about, you know, if, well, if they look like robots, they're fine.

But if they start looking like people and we can't tell the difference or if they look like people and they're really close to looking like people, but they don't quite have that human action that we know to be human, we get all kind of freaked out. But then we had the robot that looks like a robot. but they're starting to pass self-awareness tests. So they're starting to learn. Yay! What could possibly go wrong? Nothing. And the coolest thing, I hope I see it.

Tremendous idea. I wish I was a part of it. There's a robot that's going to hitchhike coast to coast across the U.S. I will talk to these people on this show. I want to talk to these people. I want to talk. I want to, the robot is really cool. It started yesterday in Massachusetts.

I wish I would, I saw this story last night or I would have tried to get a hold of these people for today. I will talk to these people soon. I want to know how the hitchbot works out. I want to see the hitchbot. Now, I just wants to go with the humanoid robot named Hitchbott, already caught rides across Canada and Europe, relying on the kindness of strangers. Would you pick up Hitchbott? I absolutely would pick up Hitchbop, but I don't know if you would.

It's going to go to Times Square, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon. That's a big trip. That's more gris-crossing the U.S. Wow. I don't know what I would. If we're picking it up, maybe strap it to the outside of the car, just put it inside. Pictures of HitchBot along the roads. I have to see this.

I hope he comes. HitchBot, you got to come to Texas. I want these. I will talk to these people. And if you get, if you, I want HitchBot sightings on my Twitter feed. Instagram them, Twitter feed them, Facebook them. got to have hitchbot sightings. I want to see this.

So far, they say there are no signs of anything nefarious done to the robot. Now, come on, people. Leave the robot B. It's just a hitchbot. And they say that at least there's no proof that nothing nefarious has happened. They don't look for that. Okay. And apparently the robot is designed to be a talking travel companion and toss out

fact toys, and it carries on limited conversation. So it knows a little bit about where it's at, and that's what's programmed. It's a low-tech look, something we dubbed the Yard Sale aesthetic. The other creator from McMaster University in Ontario, the head is actually an acrylic cake saver. It has a bucket for a body and a bendy foam limbs capped by yellow. gardening hoses and matching rubber boots. They want to make it approachable and detour potential in thieves.

Now, we want to see what people will do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them. So they don't want to mess with it. It's an art project in the wild. So Hitchbott is an art project in the wild. I don't know what they're trying to achieve from Hitchbought other than just

hey look, we made it all the way we have to talk to these people and I want pictures of Hitchbott this is I, we might have to get Hitchbock into the Los Gilles studios on his way out west I'll give him a ride

what the hell I'll find a way for him to get and after all that then you get, Oh no. Artificial intelligence has the potential to be as dangerous to mankind as nuclear weapons. A leading pioneer of the technology has claimed, Professor Stuart Russell. He's led the research on artificial intelligence, fears humanity might be driving off a cliff with the rapid development of AI. He fears the technology could be too easily exploited for use by the military and well.

weapons, putting them under the control of AI systems. Yeah, we've seen the movie, there, Professor. We know what can happen. In fact, there's more than one movie. Yeah. Yeah, there sure is. There's more than one movie. And it's when all the robots learn and they go crazy.

So hopefully we're learning. And we've got other guys. We did the story on, uh, uh, uh, that we're at, People are investing in keeping AI safe. I don't know how that will work. You know, who's the gatekeeper? But I know that, you know, we've got plenty of people trying to keep us AI safe. And I know all the experts, you know, want their, they want to ensure the safeguards

that has a positive impact on mankind. Well, anything that has a positive, impact on mankind is going to have a negative impact somewhere along the road. And one of the professors quotes in an interview with the journal Science

for the special edition artificial intelligence. From the beginning, the primary interest in nuclear technology was the inexhaustible supply of energy. The possibility of weapons was also obvious. I think there is a reasonable analogy analogy. There's a reasonable analogy between unlimited amounts of energy and

unlimited amounts of intelligence. You think. You think. So we just have to hope and pray that it's for the best. And hopefully, if we get a robot that's just too much, that's possessing. we now have someone to call because in San Francisco, Reverend Joey Talley, a wicked witch can solve supernatural issues for techies. We've been saved. We've been saved. Talley is one of his mystics from Marion County, witch boasting three master's degrees and over 40 years of experience. Now, tech problems are not the only one she tackles, but she's routinely called upon to debug people's tech woes with spiritual energy.

Now, I am really, really, really sad with myself right now because whenever I have a problem with my phone, I never thought to call a witch, and I should have. I know one of the I know I'm going to have to call her now maybe we'll talk to her on the air I know one of the top witches in the southeast and yeah they're ranked she's one of the top ones and she's a good witch though

she doesn't do anything bad and she gets rid of see if she can get rid of you know mysterious bugs that keep causing apstic and phones keep shutting off for no reason. Yeah, we've got the Wic and Witch, the Reverend Joey Talley. Now, she claims that she recounts one particular tale when a startup's office alarm would blare at all hours of the day,

and no one knew why. And after multiple electricians completely failed to solve the problem, the company called in Talley. I got the spirit out. Think about it. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show. 890333 is the phone number.

Moments away from the great Brad Meltzer joining the broadcast. We'll find out a little bit more about Brad. Of course, we'll be talking, you know, his new books and what he's doing for that. But I've got a couple of personal questions I need to ask Brad. So if you have a question that you'd like to ask Brad, You can go ahead and tweet me at Jeffie MRA. And I'll ask him, no matter what it is, I will ask him what it is. Now, we've got a couple of stories to get to before we wrap it up with Brad,

stories that I wanted to touch on. Good news, for those of you that didn't know, the great Senator John McCain, you know if you've listened to this network for a while, that he has a daughter, Megan. And good news about Megan. Okay, the author, blogger, TV host is going to begin contributing to Fox News. Yes. A spokesman for the network confirmed the hire.

McCain is expected to contribute to the network's prime time and daytime programming. While some deride her as a rich man snooky and a bit of anti-intellectual lightweight, Variety says the Columbia University graduate will be a good addition to Fox News as it heads into the 2016 presidential coverage. I could not agree more. She will bring us some really good entertainment for the 2016 presidential coverage. Did you know that she starred in a reality television series and a news show for Pivot TV? I did not know that either. Surprisingly, they both have been canceled.

So she's got that going for. No problem. Actor John Hurt, knighthood. The biggest part of this story that I didn't realize. Okay, John Hurt. And if you don't remember who he is, I mean, he's, you know, he's won Oscar nominations for the Elephant Man and Midnight Express, which was a thousand years ago.

But he was in the Doctor Who special, but you know him from the, the Harry Potter roles, the Harry Potter films. But he was given knighthood by Queen Elizabeth. But he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer recently. And he said that his only regret was that his parents were not alive to watch him collect the honor at Windsor Castle. He said it does make one inordinately proud. So he was very happy to get that.

But I didn't know he was so sick. Sad to see him. He's 75. Sad to see. I always enjoyed his work. He was a good actor. 40 years, man, he's been acting. Amazing.

Good news from McDonald's. You know, McDonald's is a huge fan. I am of McDonald's. They need to wish they'd follow some of my ideas. Maybe they would help them along. But they now have Gouda. Yes. Yes, the cheese is Gouda.

and the burger is customized. Yes, this is the all-new McDonald's. Can't wait. Let's just keep pushing that, McDonald's. And you know what's going to happen? They're going to keep saying, we can't figure out why our numbers are going down. We're losing customers.

I wonder why. Let's get some more Gouda. No, McDonald's, that's not the problem. So I was at the grocery store. Speaking of food. I was at the grocery store the other day, and I know this is going to come to as a surprise to you, but I was going down the ice cream aisle, and just to look, of course, please. And I notice when you think, we've talked about it a couple times on the show,

Bluebell Ice Cream has been off the shelves for quite a while now. I mean, in a long time. And they filled in the, of course, I mean, I wouldn't expect the grocery stores to have empty shelves. they've got to try to move something. And I'm sure as soon as Bluebell was pulled, you know, the other ice cream companies were fighting in the back parking lot for space. So, and you can see that a lot of the stores have made their brand a bigger section and given the others just a little bit to keep them happy. But Bluebell is trying to fight back. And they have a Fort Worth businessman and Sid Bass has just invested in.

to Bluebell and they're trying to come back and trying to fight come back. Now, they hope that they can start production soon, but they don't know. And the amazing thing about Bluebell is that, you know, how long they've been off the shelves. I mean, it's going to be a big fight to get their space back, to get their production back. They've lost a lot of money. And I hope they do because I'm a big, big fan of Bluebell ice cream and plenty of their flavors, too, by the way. Almost, would you say every flavor, Jeff? I would.

I would say almost every flavor of Bluebell. I could handle myself. And one more from the food bin. The Navy has banned fried food. So that's good that our naval officers will no longer have fried food. They can have baked, but no more fries. None of that fried stuff. Listen, we want to thank you for service.

and for protecting America, but no, you can't have French fries. Okay, pal, get that through your head. You can't have French fries. The great Brad Meltzer coming up. Just the other side of this coming commercial break. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network. Jeff Fisher Show is on.

It is welcome to it. A whole bunch more live programming coming at you on the Blaze Radio Network today. Michael Pelka, Puro Pelka, coming up right after this broadcast. And then Andrew WK with America WK, Chris Salsato, Mike Slater, Joe Pags, all live, all right here on the Blaze Radio Network. Joining me now on the Blaze Radio Network is the great Brad Meltzer. Brad Meltzer, though, some many call the greatest criminal. mind of our time. And no, they're not talking about me.

They're talking about the great Brad Meltzer. Brad, welcome to the broadcast. I was going to say, I thought they were talking about you. No, no, no. No, no. You, sir, are the greatest criminal mind of all time. And yet, you know that. And yet, the greatest criminal mind of our time is doing children's books.

Well, you know, that's what I said. I said, you know, here I am. I just finished writing a thriller. I, you know, come on Glenn's show to talk about the president's shadow. We talk about, you know, this thriller where the first lady finds a severed arm in the White House Rose Garden. So what goes better with severed arms than children's books? Absolutely. Kids have to know about that. But you know, listen, you know why I do these books. You know me a long time. I was tired of my own kids looking at reality TV show stars and loudmouth

athletes and thinking that that's a hero. And I tell my kids all the time, that is being famous. And being famous is very different than being a hero. So, because of this show I do on the history channel, because of the thrillers that I do, I said, I have so many better heroes for them. So we started doing a children's biography series. And these children's books, we started with I'm Amelia Earhart, and I am Abraham Lincoln. And then we did, I am Rosa Parks. I am Albert Einstein. I'm Jackie Robinson.

I love him. And finally this week, I appreciate it. And listen, I love you for support. And I know your family supports each and everyone. And I'd be remiss. And first of all, I would get killed if I didn't mention your amazing wife who lost those great, not just the greatest cookie gipper, but the greatest photographer of all time. Well, she's, she's on her way.

She's on her way today. Thank you. But, you know, you're talking about. And then this week we come out with I Am Lucia Poyne is a brand new one that just came out this week. It's fantastic, by the way. I was just, in fact, I was just reading it with my daughter last night. And her favorite, though, is still Amelia. You know, my eight-year-old daughter loves Amelia.

And I was taught, her favor was, I asked her, well, how come you like that one the best? Because she can do anything, and so can any girl. And, right, I mean, that's the thing is that book. touches people in a way. In fact, the number one email we got for Halloween and letter we got for Halloween was people who wrote to me and said, dear Brad, for the first year, my daughter wasn't a Christmas, for Halloween this year wasn't a princess. Thanks to your book, she went as Amelia Earhart.

That's great, isn't it? That's when you're just like, oh, my gosh, like this is just beyond whatever I could have expected to happen here. Now, I just want to go on record as saying, I still don't have a problem with princesses, okay? Oh, no, listen, please. No one, I live in Florida, no one has given more money to support the princess phenomenon than my family. Like, we ate in the castle, we did the breakfast, we raised the Antsuan, we did it all.

But eventually, you want to give your kids something also that they can find them real life and give them real heroes. Yes, and listen. Look around to the country. We're starving for heroes. We need great heroes. Oh, my gosh. Think about how many of our so-called heroes have fallen from grace and so fast. Of course.

Of course. And I say, you know, when I want, I want military heroes. You know, there are military heroes we can see every day. My work with the U.S.O. You know, that's the number one thing I learned. But I also think we have to give our kids historical heroes. And, you know, people say, well, why would you do Lucille Ball or so many others? And I said, you know what, I want my daughter.

I want my daughter to have a female entertainment hero who isn't just famous for being thin and pretty. And I want, you know, Lucy doesn't just stand for the idea that it's okay to be different. She stands for the idea. It's fantastic to be different. Yeah. And she really was. And her and Ricky were. I mean, they were.

Both of them are. No question. He's still known for the, you know, so many, he created so many things for television we still use today. I mean, it's amazing. Not only that, but, you know, they became and she became, and she became, thanks to his work and their work together, the first woman to run her own Hollywood series.

Right. And Desi Lou Productions, they together produced these little shows called Star Trek and Mission Impossible. You know how much nerd goodness. that gleezy? I gave you a lot of their business. I wasn't forever just for that. You know, one of my favorite stories, too, is I have become a little friend to Noel Blank,

Mel Blank's son. And he grew up with all these people. I mean, they used to have ping pong night at Lucy's house every, you know, once a week. And some of his stories are unbelievable over the years. let's talk about that. I mean, that's the key thing, right? We all know these characters, we call them characters, but we all know these heroes as famous people. So we know stories of how Lucy became famous. We know how she made her way. But what the kids' books do, and I think it's the most important thing they do, is they show you also when these heroes were little kids

themselves. Yes. So you see Lucy when she's a little girl, and the acting teachers say to her, you're not going to make it, you're terrible at this, you have a bad Midwestern accent, why can't you be more like your classmate, a little girl named Betty Davis. Right. And then you see the dance studio reject her. You see another acting studio reject her. They all reject her,

but she keeps going and going and going, because she has this principal in high school who says to her Lucy, you have talent, but you got to make hard work, work for that talent. And that's a lesson she takes with her forever, and I want my daughter to have that lesson. Yes. Oh, my gosh.

And then you see this amazing, my favorite story in there is you see her grandmother, When Lucy was a little girl, she lived with this grandmother who was just really rough to live with. And the grandmother used to cover all the mirrors except for the one in the bathroom. So Lucy, you know, wouldn't lead to vanity. And Lucy used to make funny faces in her reflection in trolley car windows. And I love that. I know.

There's always a way. Right. When you're facing a hardship, your humor can be a shield for you. Your humor can take on anything. And again, I need my daughter to learn that when she's facing that hard moment, moment to use her sense of humor. And when you're rejected for, no matter what it is, you know, maybe if you believe in it and are darn good at it, you just keep right on going instead of giving up.

I mean, you're a prime example of that yourself. I was going to say, right? I got my first novel that I wrote, got 24 rejection letters. Jeffrey, there were only 20 publishers at the time. I got 24 rejection letters. That means there were some people writing me twice to make sure I got the point. But I said, if they don't like that book, I'll write another. And if they don't like that, I'll write another.

And the goal with these kids' books, it's never about just the Lucy book or the Amelia Earhart book or the Abraham Lincoln book. Our real goal, and you know this, is to help you build a library of real heroes for your kids and your grandkids and your nieces and your nephews. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so now we're done. I have some personal questions for you. Yeah. I know you're hawking your kid's book and you got your little president's shadow books and all that.

I know you got all that stuff going on. But I see you Instagrammed a picture of yourself, you know, holding up the copy of Lucille Ball and you're wearing your t-shirt, promoting the book, which I'm sure you can get your t-shirt at bradmeltzer.com, you know, at your store, the Brad Meltzer store where you get all your stuff. I got it. It's all good. But you're in your, you know, I'm guessing you're in your den, your workplace,

because there's a big bookshelf full of stuff behind you, books and little knick-knacks. Is that? And I'm guessing maybe that's where you're sitting. right now. Is that where I am right now? Okay. So I want to know. Turn around.

Tell me what's your favorite thing on those shelves. Okay, so let me look right now. I'm going to look. Oh, I can tell you right now, I know what my favorite thing in there is. So if you look to the top right, I don't know if it's in the picture.

So I got to write the Justice League of America, right? DC Comics hires me to put the team together of Batman, Superman, whoever I want. That's like a nerd dream come true, right? So the one thing they give me, they surprise me with when I'm, when I finally done with the task, is in the top right corner, they gave me a certificate. And it says this hereby inducts Brad Meltzer into the Justice League of America.

Nice. And they little gave me my own induction certificate, like is the one that they used to, you know, in the comic book, you used to see Superman get one and Batman would get one. Yeah. And I have one. And that is just, that's as badass as anything. I think I don't. Absolutely it is.

You know what else is on there? There's actually like a, you'll see some old Freemason books that when people, people's relatives have died, they'll send me these kind of ancient books that they got from the Freemason. My grandpa had this in his basement. Yeah, you got to have those, no problem. Yeah. Okay, so what's next for you? You've got the TV show. You've got the books.

How many, how many, first of all, we'll go down the list. How many books are you working on right now? And what TV shows next? I'm working on 17 books. I don't even write them anymore. These kids in Malaysia write them for me. No, no. Listen, I love it.

People think I pump them out. Like, I can't, I do a book every two years on the thrill. Yeah, I know that. But how many, but, okay, so you do one every couple years. I got that. But I'm guessing, and I, you know, I could be wrong. But I'm guessing that, you know, you come up with, say, three or four ideas and maybe you're working on three or four at a time.

They might not come out until four to five years from now. But the idea is there. Yeah, no, that's right. So I'm working on. So right now, the next book that comes out is I am Helen. Keller comes out in September. And I will say there's something really special about that book. You know, on the pages when she goes blind, the pages go black. And they just say, this is how I see the world. And then on the pages where she learns how to read, we actually had real braille put

into the book. So your kids can type of braille and it says, you know, this is my name. My name's Helen. Can you find your name? And then they get the whole braille alphabet. That'll be great. They can really understand even more. Which really understand it. So then I'm working on the new thriller after that. And even actually now developing the thriller after that because you just have to, you know, these ideas, they take a while and they, you know, they take a long time. And I wish I could just pump them out and overnight. But it takes me years to work on each one. So I kind of bust my rear end on that. There you go. I think what's on the bookshelf that's cool, too, that you'd like this character.

Now you're going to make you open the door. Let's go through my, let's go through my closet because I never do this with anyone, but you all do it. Oh, you know, I got awesome stuff here. Okay, so here's the other thing that's cool I'm looking at. So there's the convention, comic book guy from The Simpsons is there. But here's the thing that's so awesome. I never tell anyone the story, but I can only do it with you. If you look at the top shelf there, there is an action figure. The action figure, when I work for DC Comics, and I got to invent my own supervillain.

And they actually made an action figure of that supervillain. And let me tell you some, Jeff, if you make your own supervillain and you get your own action figure, I think you get your own superpowers, right? I mean, I sleep with this. I sleep with my character. action figure. I'll leave. I won't ask any more about that.

It's okay. And then what else is on the shelf? You know what else is on this shelf when I was in college? I published a friend's book. My buddy was the cartoonist for the Daily Newspaper in the University of Michigan. And he didn't have anyone to publish this book. So I became the publisher and I literally keep stacks of that book in there. It's the first book I ever worked on.

I mean, is that book available or you just have it around so you can look? I'm looking right now, I have two, four, six, eight. I have ten copies. As far as I'm concerned, besides his, I think they're the only ten copies that exist. So the University of Michigan, the great Ann Arbor, Michigan. Yep. And I noticed that leads me into one question that I had for you, that I never hear anybody ask you. Yeah.

I noticed in some of those pictures from the great city of Ann Arbor, which I have spent quite a bit of time in, you had hair. When was the decision? When was the decision and what prompted you to, as my oldest son calls it, rock the bald? Yeah, here's the thing. So this is where I'm going to help every bald man out there. And this is what I wish someone said to me. This is why I love you, by the way, because I can't do. Usually I do on the interview that make me hawk the books and then I'm done.

With you, I can have actual fun. So here's, let's have some fun. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to change bald people. We're going to change men's lives. Let me say it like this first. everyone is heading my way. Everybody.

There you go. I know. I know. I wanted to do that for a long time. And I didn't just have hair. I had like a lion's mane. Right. I had like awesome hair, which is, which I love and miss every day.

But I will say this is once you start losing it and you think you can like comb it forward to cover it and no one notices, they notice. You're lying to yourself. Yeah. And the moment you start losing it, I'm going to tell you, you don't have to shave it all ball because you got to see what the shape of your head is. But trust me, go to the barber, have them buzz it like you're in the military, and you will thank me for it. Because that's when you stop looking like you're hiding something.

And when I did that, I remember going to the barber and they buzzed it like the military. And I remember looking at him. And then I said, you know what? I like this. Let's go one shorter. And he shaved it like bald, bald. And then I looked at him and he took the sheet off that's wrapped around my, you know, like the barber. Yeah.

They put on you. So no hair gets there. And he says, nice seeing you. Do me a favor and just come in. Because the guy becomes my friend. I always talk to the barber, and he says, just give me a favor. Come in every couple months so I can know how you're doing. And I'm like, what?

And I realize that he's like, oh, I don't need you anymore. That's right. You need me anymore. And I'm like, wow, you just put yourself out of business. There you got. But not really, because you can still use them. You can still use them. Yeah, you can still use them.

Yeah, you can still use it. All right, Brad Meltzer. I'm up against the clock. Thank you so much. You got it. Keep you on forever. But I can't since somehow there's commercials and things have to happen on a radio network that go figure.

Brad Meltzer. Brad Meltzer.com. I am Lucille Ball is the latest. Helen Keller up next. Thank you so much, my friend. We'll talk to you soon. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio Network.

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