McRobots, McAfee and McElections - What a Week

The Schloss-Blog is sending up a flare - the McRobots are coming, the McRobots are coming! Now what?

Yes, the one place where you thought automation would not displace humans - the hospitality industry - is where it's happening. Fast-food restaurants are experimenting with robots to take, prepare and serve up your drive-thru order.

The Jetsons' Rosie is upon us. Bet you can't wait to meet her. When you hear a mechanical, Brooklyn accent at the drive-thru menu, you'll know.

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If you're expecting the Schloss-Blog to blather about the elections, fuhgedaboudit. Democrats did better than expected because, IMHO, Americans woke up on Election Day, or whenever they filled in their mail-in and absentee ballots, and realized that long after inflation is under control - and it always gets under control - democracy will be erased for an even longer time if election-deniers and Trump sycophants are elected.

Now, Trump is a media darling again, just not the kind he wanted to be - just ask Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which skewered him with a Humpty-Dumpty parody.

A well-deserved one.

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Pat McAfee is a clown who ESPN hired to be on its College Game day Saturday show for some reason.

Maybe it's because they're grooming someone to be the class clown of the show as aging Lee Corso's health has him fading. Unfortunately, McAfee is a poor man's Bozo to Corso's classy and knowledgeable P.T. Barnum.

McAfee is a disaster. He rudely upstages guest pickers at the show's climactic conclusion. He exalts at and can't wait for the opportunity to mention or pick the North Carolina Wolfpack so he can howl at the moon.

Maybe ESPN brought him on because he has an open highway to Aaron Rodgers, who talks to him openly on his YouTube show (Sirius/XM dropped him without even making an offer or negotiating to continue his show on its platform).

McAfee gladly and patronizingly pantomimes what Rodgers says and has him because he's about the only "reporter" (reporter?) who didn't challenge him when Rodgers told the world he was "immunized" from COVID when he wasn't. He and Rodgers share fandom for hydroxychloroquine, or at least claim to.

McAfee makes inappropriate comments on the show, as he has done to at least two coaches the Game Day panel was interviewing. You can only imagine that Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and Rece Davis cringe after the show over McAfee's on-air behavior and antics, although they quickly cut him off and cover for, humor and tolerate him on the air.

They would likely deny that publicly, but you can see the creases on their faces when McAfee speaks out of school.

ESPN had to be betting that McAfee would be an avenue to exclusives with Rodgers.

Hey, @JimmyPitaro, not happening.

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Hello Silicon Valley.

While the employment picture is rosy around the United States (3.7% unemployment rate), at Meta (Facebook) and Twitter (Musk's swamp) thousands have been laid off. 

Meta is transforming to a metaverse world and Twitter is now highly leveraged after Musk's acquisition.

Where will those who were laid off find jobs? Mastodon? Tik Tok? Amazon?

Sure, when the NFL starts up Tuesday Nigh Football.

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Hey SCOTUS, you took away women's rights to make their own decisions. Michigan, Montana, even Kentucky and Kansas have responded.

You geniuses got it wrong and for the wrong reasons and America is telling you so.

Now, how will you rule when Donald Trump appeals being indicted, let along convicted?

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Gretchen Whitmer and Kathy Hochul.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.