WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:06.799 Is Michael Garfild. 2 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:07.679 Michael Garfield. 3 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:09.080 Michael Garfield's joining. 4 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:10.320 Us in the high Tech Texan. 5 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:14.880 Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texan. ITMS 6 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:16.960 to make life easier some new technology. 7 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:25.640 So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Texas. Michael 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:31.679 Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you 9 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:38.240 make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. 10 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.399 Now your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield. 11 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:47.439 Thank Hod, It's Saturday. See what I did there? My 12 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.479 friend is Michael. I hope we are still friends and 13 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:54.759 you can call me just to make sure we do. 14 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.079 This is a semi live radio show that we have 15 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:02.119 done for Will over twenty years. Some of you are younger, 16 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:07.280 younger than the age of this show. Seven one three, two, 17 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:09.879 one two, five, nine to five. Oh should you be 18 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.200 listening live? Which is actually called radio, which is different 19 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:15.840 than a podcast. I just don't have enough time to 20 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:20.359 explain the difference. But he started out in the early 21 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.040 two thousands to talk about technology, advise you of what 22 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.400 products are out there, what to get. Shouldn't you get 23 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.040 a high definition TV? And if you do want one, 24 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.760 do you want a plasma or do you want to 25 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.959 an led we go back a long time. Let me 26 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.599 explain what Wi Fi is now. It's a consumer lifestyle show. 27 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:45.879 I test drive every type of automobile there is. Actually 28 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.719 just got back from Dallas a week ago at the 29 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:54.439 annual Texas Auto Writers Texas Truck Rodeo, where I got 30 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:58.599 to drive over thirty different trucks from different manufacturers and 31 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:02.799 SUVs up and down mountains and hills through mud. I 32 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.519 will give my thoughts and answer your phone calls and 33 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:09.159 answer your emails or even all of your tweets or 34 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:12.719 your comments on Instagram about which automobile could be right 35 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:16.080 for you? Is now the time to go ev Should 36 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:16.759 you go hybrid? 37 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:17.080 As? 38 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:19.639 You should go hybrid? Some of the many, many things 39 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.919 that I do. Topics that were to cover today. What's 40 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:24.719 happened this week or two? I was on the road 41 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:28.919 again this week to my favorite state into this country, California. 42 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.400 I was out there for a few days, but a 43 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.080 last I am back at the great state of Texas. Verizon, 44 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.120 were you affected by the outage this week? It's twenty 45 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:40.879 twenty four. Don't you think technology company data companies, cell 46 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.159 phone companies would would would really figure out ways to 47 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.759 make sure that their service is just constantly on. I 48 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:51.039 guess not Verizon. Last Monday there was an outage. If 49 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:52.960 it affected you, I'll tell you some of the reasons 50 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.879 why that potentially happened. How to get around it if 51 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.479 your service goes down. I phone users, believe it or not, 52 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.800 were able to get around it because there was a 53 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.039 feature on iPhones. And I know this hurts me to say, 54 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:11.319 because I'm an Android guy. iPhone has a satellite SS 55 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.120 satellite service that I think all phones should have, and 56 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.080 I do think it's a neat feature. I will tell 57 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.000 you how to turn that on because it can be important, 58 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.479 as we have seen this past week week and a 59 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.560 half from that devastating Hurricane Helen, how it went up 60 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.520 all the way to the Carolinas in the least coast, 61 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:34.639 where so many people were sadly killed and they were 62 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:39.479 out of communication because Carolina, they just they were unprepared. 63 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.919 They just didn't think, hey, we're gonna have a hurricane coming, 64 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:45.400 you know, doing a sneak attack from the southwest side 65 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:48.960 instead of coming from the east coast. It was bad 66 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:51.879 and I just heard so many stories, personal stories. How 67 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.479 you know, somebody's parents were they have not heard from 68 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.000 them because there was no cell phone service and there 69 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:01.800 was no electricity. There are actually ways to stay in 70 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:03.960 contact when your service is down. I will talk about 71 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.560 that Wi Fi on planes. I've been on a heck 72 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.840 of a lot of planes, both the best depleted internationally 73 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.919 for the past two months. It's still kind of an 74 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.839 interesting state. Yes, I'm happy there is Wi Fi on planes. 75 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.879 It's just it's it's kind of a sad stake. You 76 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.040 never know what you're gonna get because I've flown different 77 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:26.040 airlines and some are better than the worst. But our 78 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:28.759 good friend in our Texas resident, Elon Musk may be 79 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.279 coming to the rescue with a way to not only 80 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:35.279 get better, faster Wi Fi on airplanes, but our favorite 81 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:39.439 four letter word free. Should Wi Fi service be free? Hell, 82 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.199 yes it should, and now on planes it may be. 83 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:45.319 But I want to start with this. Where were you 84 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:51.800 Friday morning about four forty five four fifty am. Were 85 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.160 you in bed? Did you get a wake up call? 86 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:02.040 Because millions of Texans were jolted out of just before 87 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:09.519 five am Friday? When Hall County, Texas, anyone anyone Hall 88 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.120 County by the way, it's somewhere just north of Lubbock, 89 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.560 with a population of twenty eight one hundred people. Hall 90 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:22.720 County issued a blue alert, a blue alert which went 91 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:27.120 out on millions of cell phones. Were you awakened? Love 92 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:32.040 to hear from you. We have to figure out what 93 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:36.199 needs to be done, because at some point these alerts 94 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.480 are going to be crying wolf. They're going off at 95 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.240 a more frequent pace of quote unquote emergencies. And I'm 96 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.480 not going to sit here and defind what an emergency is. 97 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.920 Because there was a deputy in Hall County that was 98 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.639 injured by a fleeing suspect. Okay, I'm not taking that 99 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:00.000 lightly whatsoever. But at some point we're getting in these alerts, 100 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.680 We're not going to pay attention to it. It was 101 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.120 triggered by the Texas Department of Public Safety. It was 102 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:11.240 a deputy that was injured. H and is he? Is 103 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.079 he okay? Hopefully is okay? I don't even know the 104 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:14.399 end of this, because this is not the point of 105 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.920 the story. Did you think when your alarm went off 106 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:19.800 at for when you're when your cell phone, when your 107 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:22.600 cell phone, your partner cell phone, your kid's cell phone, 108 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.800 all the stroke just goes nuts. At four fifty four 109 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:29.240 in the morning. Was that necessary talk to me here 110 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:33.959 at seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, no, 111 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.560 matter where we are. The alert was not an emergency 112 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.199 for most of the state of Texas. What exactly did 113 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:46.399 they expect anyone to do? Run outside, look around for 114 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.040 the suspect. And I'm reading some of the comments that 115 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.319 that that were that people were were tweeting, were posting 116 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:54.560 on Reddit, you know quote, I thought a plant was 117 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.079 I thought a plant exploded. I needed to evacuate. That's 118 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.439 the kind of this this needed to be. I mean, 119 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.600 some people thought the Germans invaded again it was in 120 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.199 an alien attack. It was a blue alert for a 121 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.639 very very small community in the Panhandle of Texas well, 122 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.240 just north of Lubbock. Why did it need to go 123 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:19.040 to millions of people all over the state. I mean, 124 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:22.879 what are we doing here? These things need to be regionalized. 125 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:28.399 I remember was it Hawaii was at Honolulu three four 126 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:33.040 or five years ago that someone accidentally that were trying 127 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.879 to test the emergency alert system on cell phones and 128 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:41.160 highway signs and it said there was incoming bombs literally 129 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.439 bombs are being invaded And there was ten minutes before 130 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:46.959 I think the state of Hawaii was going to blow up. 131 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:48.600 There was something of the of that matter. Go look 132 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.319 it up and google it. I mean, do you understand 133 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:53.600 what kind of frenzy this puts? It? To me? It 134 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:57.879 puts it creates more of an emergency. So what do 135 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:00.560 you do? I don't know, because I was one of 136 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:02.519 the lucky ones. I was one of the smart ones. 137 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:07.800 Because I have all my emergency alerts turned off. I 138 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:09.759 can't tell you if this is a good thing, and 139 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:11.920 I can't tell you if it's a smart thing. But 140 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.800 damn it, I slept in on Friday because I didn't 141 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:19.879 hear the at freaking four fifty three, four fifty four 142 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.600 in the morning. When something real happens, if there really 143 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.279 is an emergency, I'm not gonna know about it. Because 144 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.519 there is a setting in all of our phones, be 145 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:32.720 it Android, be at iOS. Go to your settings, go 146 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:35.960 to alerts, go to alarms. Look for emergency alerts. Now 147 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.600 you could set them to silent, well you'll they'll still 148 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.759 pop up and you won't get an alert to wake 149 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:46.279 you up. I turn everything off. There's tornado alerts, there's 150 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:51.080 hurricane alerts, there's there's a presidential alert, there's a there's 151 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:53.320 an emergency alert. I don't know, they're gone zone for me. 152 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.279 All I know is if I hear my neighbors running 153 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.480 or screaming or something outside. That's what I know there's 154 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.679 an emergency. I just would sleep in. Anybody have a 155 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.279 solution for this thing, I'm more than happy to call 156 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:07.399 the Texas Department of Public Safety and get to the 157 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.600 bottom of it. I'm calling Greg Abbott, I'm calling Ken Paxon. 158 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.360 I'm gone. I'm running for governor. There you go. No 159 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.519 more emergency alerts. Listen your calls. Things to give away. 160 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:20.480 We're gonna have some fun as the first Saturday as 161 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.080 I do this show live in October, wake me up 162 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:27.120 when September rans Michael Garfield is a day. This is 163 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:35.200 the high Tech textan show all the indeed the high 164 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.799 tech text and shoe, A little less of the tech 165 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.240 and a lot on personality and a lot on what's 166 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:43.039 going on. I don't know what your life in my life? 167 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.679 You are you ready to purchase something? Give me about 168 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:49.000 three two to three weeks towards the end of October, 169 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:52.759 we'll start doing the holiday gift guide. Man, I really 170 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:55.879 I'm starting to get a lot of products for you know, 171 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.240 the Black Friday Shopping, the Cyber Monday shopping testing, some 172 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.720 a few things, not only here on my radio show, 173 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:06.240 but also as I pop up on Great Day Houston, 174 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:09.559 a lovely TV show you can see Monday through Friday, 175 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:14.399 channel eleven CBS k JOU with the host Deborah Duncan, 176 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.840 longtime friend of mine. I pop on and I'll contribute. 177 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.879 I'll do some tech and my stick, but I will 178 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.399 have some some product reviews there show off some of 179 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.440 the good best bets. If you specifically looking for something 180 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.720 right now, maybe it's a car, maybe it's a truck. 181 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.240 I am here for you. I'm going to give you 182 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:36.639 this ten digits phone number which is seven one three 183 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:40.279 two one two five nine five. Oh, that number has 184 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:44.000 not changed since I started this show twenty two years ago. 185 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:47.080 And Callum twenty two years of Calum reed over here, 186 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:53.120 the wonderful, smart, talented gentlemen who who callum you run. 187 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:54.919 I'm just gonna say you were the king of all 188 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.039 of our am stations here, not just nine fifty but 189 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.399 also seven seven ninety. Sports leader, the newsleader, the talk 190 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.559 leader calling you do a great job. Were you twenty 191 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.679 two years ago? Were you born? Okay, you were a 192 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.399 little kid, all right. Anyway, The point is Callum's answering 193 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:13.159 the phone calls. If we feel like putting you through, 194 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.600 then we will talk to me. If not, I am 195 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.159 on most all most all social media other than TikTok 196 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.440 at high tech, text at high tech te x a 197 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.000 n unless I've blocked you, which I actually have blocked 198 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.559 several people. But that's neither here nor there. Talking about 199 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.960 your early morning wake up call on Friday morning yesterday, 200 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.759 if you're listening live for the emergency alert that went 201 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.240 across Texas, millions of people were woken up. What was it? 202 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:48.720 Just before five am? For a blue alert? A blue 203 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:53.519 alert which means a police officer, a deputy, a sheriff. 204 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:56.720 There was an issue in just outside of Lubbock. Do 205 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.240 you know how far Lubbock, Texas is from Houston area. Yeah, 206 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.679 it's about honestly three states away, even though it's in 207 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.240 our same state. We have a big state here. People. 208 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:08.200 If you did die to that, how do you are 209 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:13.159 these necessary? At some point? These emergency and what they are. 210 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.759 And I'm gonna explain this. It's an fc C thing 211 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:18.799 now listen. I am not going to rag on the 212 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:23.480 FCC because the FCC is our friend here at iHeartMedia. 213 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:28.080 We love we love the Federal Communications Commission because we 214 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.399 have to adhere to their policies. We can't save four 215 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.240 letter F bombs. We could do an own podcasts, which 216 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.559 is this is also podcast, but since I am live 217 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:40.039 over the air, we can't say anything back. So we 218 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.919 love you FCC. But the FCC does a lot of things, 219 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:47.320 and they have instigatively years ago they created an entire 220 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:52.279 system called the Wireless Emergency Alerts w EA, and it 221 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:57.039 really is an essential part of America's emergency preparentness. And 222 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.960 it's been around since twenty twelve, so we've got twelve 223 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:04.080 years into it and it's been and because we are 224 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.519 fact finders here at the High Tech Text and Show, 225 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.240 let me give you some stats. It's been used more 226 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.679 than eighty four thousand times to warn the public about 227 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:18.639 dangerous weather, missing children, other critical situations, all through the 228 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:23.639 alerts on compatible cell phones and other mobile devices. And 229 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:28.720 so wea the Wireless Emergency Alerts. It's public safety system 230 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:32.759 and it allows customers who own these mobile devices to 231 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:35.840 receive and I love this and now I'm reading this 232 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:40.519 from the FCC website right now, and I'm quoting geographically 233 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:46.960 targeted text like messages alerting them of imminent threats to 234 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.159 safety in their area. Now let me stop right here. 235 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.159 I want the definit I really should call out the FCC. 236 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:59.200 What is it geographically targeted? Because we need to get 237 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:03.639 this geograph targeted down to a more concise area. Because 238 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:08.480 there was no need to wake up millions of Texans, 239 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:14.039 some of them six hundred and seven hundred miles away, 240 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:18.120 hands in the air right here about something that was 241 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.440 going on in a small town north of Lubbock of 242 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:25.559 twenty eight hundred people. I don't think it was. I'll 243 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:30.480 again state this, I'm not diminishing what an emergency is. 244 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:34.240 I'm not diminishing missing kids. I'm not or assaulting police 245 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:39.320 officers or anything of that nature. We live in We 246 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:42.279 live in a hurricane prone zone here in Houston. I 247 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.399 am from Dallas, and a lot of my listeners right 248 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:48.440 now listening in Dallas it's a tornado prone zone. So 249 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:51.279 I do appreciate the emergency alerts. We got to target 250 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:56.440 this stuff, but better FCC or whoever's doing this. But 251 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.279 the WEA the wireless emergency alerts, what they do they 252 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:04.320 enable government officials to target emergency alerts to specific geographic 253 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:08.399 areas and it works. And this is how it works. 254 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:15.399 Authorized national, state, or local government authorities they send alerts 255 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:20.000 regarding public safety emergencies, severe weather, missing kids, the need 256 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:25.200 to evacuate using these wireless emergency alerts, and authorize public 257 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:29.919 safety officials. They send these alerts through a system run 258 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:35.360 by FEMA. All right. They send it to participating wireless carriers, 259 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.919 which then push the alerts to compatible mobile devices in 260 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.159 the affected area. Again, I'm reading this from the FCC 261 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.000 website because the affected area really was not affected this 262 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:51.799 past Friday morning. They're free. If you think it cost 263 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.919 anything to receive these, don't worry. It's free. Customers don't 264 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:57.519 pay to receive these. Wa you know what, they actually 265 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:00.679 should pay us to receive them, especially for that early 266 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.679 morning wake up call. You don't need to sign up 267 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:07.080 for the services. And they delivered national alerts that's issued 268 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.519 by the President or the administrator of FEMA. There's an 269 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:14.559 imminent threat alert, which is imminent threats to safety or life. 270 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.360 There's an amber alert, which is missing children very important. 271 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:24.559 And there's public safety messages conveying lanations for saving lives 272 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:30.200 and property. Now whatever carrier. You're on participating carriers, they 273 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:34.759 may allow subscarbage to block everything or some of them. 274 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.519 What happens, You get a message, you get a beep, 275 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:43.360 you get alert, and these sorts do not track you. 276 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.039 It is not designed nor does attract the location of 277 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:51.519 anyone receiving alert, which is probably why everybody in the 278 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:55.600 state of Texas have received it. Will most everybody, I 279 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.600 probably received it. I'll tell you again, I don't allow 280 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:03.120 these alerts, and I'll be honest with you. At some 281 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.200 point I personally, you may personally may need this alert. 282 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:10.480 Elderly people missing, You can't. Mom and dad took the car, 283 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:12.839 they're they don't know where they are. Your children, All 284 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.480 of a sudden he has gone missing, stolen car, there's 285 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:19.039 a there's an escape convict near a prisoner. You got it. 286 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.960 So this is this can be and I use the 287 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.680 word can't, can be an effective way to will alert 288 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.200 us because not all of us are watching the TV 289 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.039 at any given time. Remember back in the old day, 290 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:36.799 we're watching TV and all of a sudden, screen goes 291 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.920 crazy and crackling. Here's this white, you know, slate of 292 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.079 a TV with like there's a state of emergency, right 293 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:45.119 now there's a tornado one, okay, but not all of 294 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.200 us where everywhere? Moked. All of us carry our cell 295 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.400 phones almost everywhere we go. We sleep next to them. 296 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.960 They're they're on our they're on our tabletops, next to 297 00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:00.680 our beds. That's why we were waking up. And these well, 298 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:05.039 we can partially block them. Allegedly, we're not supposed to 299 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.599 block national alerts, but I think I believe as as 300 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.519 I checked my cell phone settings, you can change these settings. 301 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:15.079 There's last question, and I got about a minute here. 302 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:20.440 How geographically precise is are these wireless alerts? And I'm 303 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:25.119 reading right now on the FCC website the geographic precision 304 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:29.319 is continuously approving, improving. Yeah, I love that. When the 305 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.880 alert program launched, participating wireless providers were generally required to 306 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.359 send the alerts to a geographic area no larger than 307 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:38.640 the county or counties affected by the emergency. People. That 308 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.440 was twenty twelve. They just sent this freaking one to 309 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.960 the entire state of Texas, all right. Then in twenty seventeen, 310 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:49.000 participating wireless providers will required to transmit alerts to geographic 311 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:52.680 areas that best approximated the area affected by the emergency, 312 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:57.160 even if it was smaller than a county. There are 313 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:01.039 a number of different ways to send alerts. There's what 314 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:03.920 is it? There is an app called next Door. Anybody 315 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:06.720 I use next Door. I sell some of the stuff 316 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.480 in my garage. If there is a if there's a 317 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.680 power outage, I go to next door because this is 318 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:17.880 a neighborhood specific. These are the types of apps and 319 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.920 alerts that I think are going to win win WI 320 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.319 N ultimately to make us believe even more. Anyway, if 321 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:29.640 you're ticked, what can we do enough of that? Here's 322 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.319 an emergency alert. People don't go anywhere we're taking you, 323 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:33.920 and we're coming back to the high tech text and 324 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:44.559 show pe it is hyphol. You call me Garth, all right, 325 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:47.480 if you have my cell phone number, please don't send 326 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.000 me a wireless emergency alerts. We've just been the first 327 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:55.079 half hour of this year talking about what the FCC 328 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.000 is doing with these wireless emergency alerts and why most 329 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:02.960 Texans were awaken at four fifty four am on Friday 330 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.440 for a and I'm not gonna call it a need 331 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.480 I'm not gonna call it a needless wireless murgency alert, 332 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:10.920 but it was something in a little small town north 333 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:17.920 of Lubbock, Texas, which is very far away from Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, 334 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:22.160 our listening audience here. But congratulations you are awake at 335 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.160 UH seven one three two one two five nine five oh. 336 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:29.720 Speaking of which, though, let's talk about this Total Wireless. 337 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:32.599 I you know, what, if you need a cell phone 338 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:34.680 service and you want to save some money. I have 339 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:39.200 been using Total Wireless for the past several months. Very 340 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:42.279 simple to switch over your phone number. Phone numbers now 341 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.799 nowadays breaking news. They're called portable, which means you pretty 342 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:47.960 much can take your phone number and you can change 343 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:50.680 it to any carrier. And I asked people, It's like, 344 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:52.279 why are you paying so much money? How much do 345 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:54.279 you pay per line? I mean, are you still paying 346 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:56.240 seventy five bucks one hundred bucks on hundred and fifty 347 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.799 bucks per line? And then you've got your family plan 348 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:01.200 you're paying three four five. I have one hundred dollars 349 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.960 I am paying a fracture of that. I mean, can 350 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:06.880 you can get you know, something you know as low 351 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:09.279 as anywhere you know somewhere between twenty five thirty five 352 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.319 forty five dollars per month, some of it unlimited five 353 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:16.680 G service Total Wireless. There's specific it's probably about ten 354 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:20.200 twelve thirteen stores here in and around the Houston area 355 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:25.079 owned by a company called Victra Victra dot Total Wireless 356 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:28.599 dot Com. Go in and I'm gonna entice you right now. 357 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:31.039 I'll tell you what now, caller, I'm gonna give you 358 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:33.839 right now a twenty dollars gift card that you can 359 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:38.359 go into a Victra owned Total Wireless store. Use it 360 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:40.680 to get though, obviously, whatever you want. If you want 361 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.519 phone cases, phone cords, phone chargers, you could bring in 362 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:46.640 terms of service. You can bring your own phone in. 363 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:48.680 You don't need to buy a phone from them. They'll 364 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:51.359 just switch over your phone number and they'll light it up. 365 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:55.839 They even have five G home wireless Internet. That's right, 366 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.559 my internet at home over the air the cell phone 367 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.200 phone towers. They are now producing five G home. I 368 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.920 have a I have a router. It picks up the 369 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.920 home wireless internet from over the year and it just 370 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:12.680 Wi fi is. It throws that out all over my 371 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.240 home and it's super super fast. Check it out colored 372 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.559 number nine seven one three two one two five nine 373 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:21.200 five ozho you win a twenty dollars gift card to 374 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:24.960 one of the Victor owned total wireless stores and so 375 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:32.680 congratulations to that. The what it's like, Let's let's see 376 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:34.119 do I want to Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and 377 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.839 blend this in iPhones, which I don't use so often. 378 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:41.160 They got the iPhone sixteen. They just they're getting ready 379 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:44.720 to lease the AI type of thing iPhones which I 380 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:49.519 don't have. They have a feature that other phones don't have. 381 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:57.039 It's an emergency s OS satellite messaging feature. And this 382 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:01.400 came into the headlines this past week because there was 383 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:04.759 a big, big emergency with Hurricane Helene. You know, obviously 384 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:06.640 we did not know, no one really knows on the 385 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:08.759 on the least coast that it was just just barreling 386 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:14.720 through and just decimated so many communities, cities, municipalities, especially 387 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:19.480 in Carolina. I hear about Asheville, Carolina, North Carolina. It 388 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:22.359 was just there was no cell service, there was no 389 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.319 there was just just millions and gallons of water was 390 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:29.400 just just raining down. But being in an emergency without 391 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.119 a way to contact your family or nine to one one, 392 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:35.960 it's scary. And weather events, which we know all too 393 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:40.279 well here in Southeast Texas, hurricanes they can wipe out 394 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:43.000 homes and phone lines and power lines, and that makes 395 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:48.119 the usual cellular or Wi Fi networks impossible to use. However, 396 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.440 not so fast, my friends. If you have an iPhone, 397 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:57.799 you can connect to a satellite to call for emergency 398 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:01.960 services or send to your loved ones. And this is important, 399 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.680 and I want you to take notes, and I'll actually 400 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:06.160 slow down my speech pattern, which hurts me to do, 401 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:09.160