Speaker 1: O Kelly.
Speaker 2: Okay if I am six forty yes later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2: We're live on YouTube, Instagram, and the iHeartRadio app. It's
Speaker 2: now time for tech Thursday with Marsha Collier who joins
Speaker 2: us in studio.
Speaker 1: Marsha is always great to see you. How are you
Speaker 1: this evening?
Speaker 3: Oh great? You were talking water yes, room temperature.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: You need to school these young ones out there. It
Speaker 2: stole the virtues of water.
Speaker 4: No, really, water is great, you know, it's even greater.
Speaker 4: What's that a vinyl album?
Speaker 1: I can't disagree with that. Go ahead with that?
Speaker 4: Well, what was interesting? Vinyl sales are trending up. In
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, four point three million records were sold
Speaker 4: in the US versus thirty seven million CDs.
Speaker 2: I wonder, though, what place CDs have in today's society.
Speaker 2: In other words, I understand why people want vinyl.
Speaker 1: They still have utility.
Speaker 2: DJs will still use them, collectors will still buy them.
Speaker 2: I don't know where CDs fall into this category of
Speaker 2: why people would buy them.
Speaker 3: They're slipping between the seats right now. They really are
Speaker 3: people who are paying for downloads.
Speaker 4: They only accounted for four hundred and thirty four million,
Speaker 4: which is less than a third of the sales of
Speaker 4: Vinyl records.
Speaker 1: I get it, it makes sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, why am I going to pay for a
Speaker 2: download when I can listen to it on Spotify, I
Speaker 2: can find it on YouTube. For someone who's under the
Speaker 2: age of thirty, they don't know Marcia the importance for
Speaker 2: us and liner notes or you know who played the
Speaker 2: instrument on this song or who wrote the track, all
Speaker 2: that other information that we would find on liner notes.
Speaker 1: I don't think young people care about that.
Speaker 3: Well, let's break this down people.
Speaker 4: First of all, we can always argue sound because sound
Speaker 4: on a CD is encoded digitally and compressed rest and it's.
Speaker 3: Not what you play one Vinyl next to a CD.
Speaker 2: For those who don't know, if you have the opportunity
Speaker 2: to listen to a Vinyl album single in headphones, you
Speaker 2: get to hear this dynamic range. The highs are high,
Speaker 2: the lows or lows. There is a mid range. You
Speaker 2: get to hear the fullness of the sound and the recording.
Speaker 2: Whereas on an MP three or a wave file is
Speaker 2: compressed and it's all pushed together.
Speaker 1: In headphones you can really hear the difference.
Speaker 4: In a John Williams movie theme, it will sound totally
Speaker 4: different because great music needs vinyl. But then again, Moe
Speaker 4: kind of mentioned about liner notes and you may not
Speaker 4: know what liner notes are. So when we get albums
Speaker 4: and they still do this today, if you are a
Speaker 4: person who gets a vinyl album, on the other side.
Speaker 3: You have a beautiful piece of artwork.
Speaker 4: Normally, I have a wall at my house where I
Speaker 4: have a genis job when I have the first Beatles
Speaker 4: album of like eight albums Jimmy Hendrix, and they're all.
Speaker 1: Just showing off.
Speaker 3: Now I'll send you the picture.
Speaker 4: And I love them, but the records are in there
Speaker 4: so I can't play them. But at least they're not warping.
Speaker 4: But the thing is on the other side, when you're
Speaker 4: sitting there with friends and you say I want to
Speaker 4: hear some Jimmy Hendrix, you pull it out and then
Speaker 4: you find look, my third cousin was playing trumpet on
Speaker 4: that tune. Because everybody was credited, you learned about all
Speaker 4: the people.
Speaker 2: But then again, I know the response is, well, I
Speaker 2: have Wikipedia. I can just type in who is the songwriter,
Speaker 2: who is the guitarist.
Speaker 1: I'm quite sure that would be the response to it.
Speaker 2: But there is something to be said for the tactile
Speaker 2: availability of a physical liner note to as you're listening
Speaker 2: to something, to read about it and also learn something
Speaker 2: about it beyond what is google a bowl on the internet.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, but there's also something else. For as
Speaker 2: much as we may say that vinyl is eclipsing CDs
Speaker 2: as far as sales, I understand why people would still
Speaker 2: prefer the MP three or the Spotify or YouTube because
Speaker 2: that audio, even though compressed, doesn't degrade.
Speaker 3: But sometimes people want to support the artists.
Speaker 1: Well, Spotify is not supporting the artists. What was it?
Speaker 3: Weird?
Speaker 4: Al once said that eighty million streams could earn him
Speaker 4: twelve dollars.
Speaker 1: No exaggeration, no exaggeration.
Speaker 3: And that's ridiculous. So I mean you support an artist.
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift made seven up to seven percent of all
Speaker 4: vinyl albums in twenty three, so think of that.
Speaker 3: Swifties want to support her. She isn't making it on
Speaker 3: the downloads.
Speaker 1: Where do you.
Speaker 2: Think, from your knowledge of tech, where might this go?
Speaker 2: Is this a fad? Is this a trend? Or is
Speaker 2: this portending that vinyl is going to be coming back
Speaker 2: in a big way for a considerably longer period of time.
Speaker 4: I think, like fine Swiss watches, I think it will
Speaker 4: become an art form even more so. I mean like
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift, think about it, She'll release the same album
Speaker 4: in different colors and sell them to the same people.
Speaker 2: You made a great analogy there, and I don't want
Speaker 2: you to skip by that. You think of a fine
Speaker 2: Swiss watch, it's analogue. It's not digital. It's usually made
Speaker 2: of more valuable materials. It's not plastic, it's not a
Speaker 2: luminum as much more staying power is going to be
Speaker 2: around physically longer than the watches that most people wear today.
Speaker 4: Exactly, and the watches pateec Philipe. I mean you think
Speaker 4: of Rolex, you think of brands like that. They're not
Speaker 4: going away. They thought they would. Oh the Apple Watch
Speaker 4: came out and everybody's going to happen Tag Hoyer, Yeah exactly,
Speaker 4: and people never gave them up this citizen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Remember some great watches, weren't they m hm.
Speaker 4: And they're worth a lot of money today if you
Speaker 4: come across them at garage sales. Movado, Oh I got
Speaker 4: so angry at Movado. I had my Mavada was my
Speaker 4: first fancied watch. Bro mine too, and I that same
Speaker 4: one with the circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the circle top, basic black face yeah.
Speaker 4: And it broke and I called them, oh, we're not
Speaker 4: making that watch anymore.
Speaker 3: We don't have parts for it. I said, how dare you?
Speaker 3: That was my first big investment in to watch.
Speaker 2: They were not cheap that much, I do know, and
Speaker 2: it was a status symbol. But everyone would recognize the
Speaker 2: Movado when you saw Movado looked. When we come back,
Speaker 2: let's talk about American Airlines. They've announced this touchless ID
Speaker 2: program and I'm thinking, why would I want a touchless
Speaker 2: ID if I have a real ID? Is it gonna
Speaker 2: work in concert with that or is it something else.
Speaker 2: I'm quite sure Marshall Carier will be able to separate
Speaker 2: it and explain it to us. On the other side,
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Speaker 2: KFI is a leader with mo Kelly and Marshall Caller.
Speaker 2: We're live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app. Marshall,
Speaker 2: let's get right back into it. American Airlines has announced
Speaker 2: this touchless ID program. What is it, how does it
Speaker 2: work and what does it mean against the backdrop of
Speaker 2: real ID.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, it won't be just American Airlines.
Speaker 4: It's anyone who has tsa pre check can benefit by this.
Speaker 4: That's me and American Airlines is the first to put
Speaker 4: it in action at limited airports right now they have it.
Speaker 3: Let me see it.
Speaker 4: Dulles A Ronald Reagan excuse me, LaGuardia, Hartsfield, Atlanta and
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2: It's interesting, you say, Ronald Reagan National, which is in
Speaker 2: the heart of Washington, DC. It's it's a very difficult
Speaker 2: airport to get a flight into. That matters because most
Speaker 2: of the time when I go to DC, I fly
Speaker 2: in the Dallas because that's about the only time I
Speaker 2: can get flights into DC that are reasonable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I love this will be great. So let
Speaker 4: me explain to everybody. I'm sure everybody's heard of Clear yep, okay.
Speaker 4: Clear is something you pay for and they verify your
Speaker 4: ID before you get on the plane, and they walk
Speaker 4: you over to TSA pre check so that you can
Speaker 4: get ahead of the line. What is TSA pre check.
Speaker 4: You apply for TSA pre check online. It's like a
Speaker 4: six page application, yes it is. Then you get called
Speaker 4: and it asks everything everything you don't want people to know.
Speaker 4: And then you're called in for an interview.
Speaker 3: Yes, they do in person, in person with the security person.
Speaker 4: And I had forgotten that I had been to Canada
Speaker 4: because to me, Canada is the US.
Speaker 2: And because they ask all about your travel, if you
Speaker 2: left the country, where you've been, how long and so forth, because.
Speaker 4: I travel extensively, And yeah, I've got an extra long interview.
Speaker 4: But anyway, what TSA PreCheck allows you to do is
Speaker 4: if when you're going on a plane, you'll see that
Speaker 4: line says TSA PreCheck all your ID.
Speaker 3: Because you've gone through.
Speaker 4: This, you get to go in, you get to get
Speaker 4: on the plane, you don't have to take off your shoes,
Speaker 4: you generally don't have to take your laptop out. Now
Speaker 4: the icing on the cake. TSA PreCheck costs seventy eight
Speaker 4: dollars for five years. Then you get the golden The
Speaker 4: golden pass to me, which is Global Entry. Global entry works.
Speaker 4: If you've ever gone out of this country, yep. When
Speaker 4: you get into the US, there are these lines. It
Speaker 4: looks like Ellis Island on a bad day, if you've
Speaker 4: ever seen the old videos.
Speaker 3: If you have Global Entry.
Speaker 1: You bypass it.
Speaker 2: I could be very arrogant when I have my Global
Speaker 2: Entry I kind of like to just wave at the peons.
Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not going to wait in the line.
Speaker 2: You can bypass that. And getting through customs it is wonderful.
Speaker 4: You just walk, just walk right behind the crew. Yes,
Speaker 4: usually and you just ay and the nice man says
Speaker 4: you got anything to declare? Nope, I usually seem a
Speaker 4: de clare.
Speaker 2: No, I have nothing, I bought nothing, I'm doing nothing
Speaker 2: wrong and I'm not on the run.
Speaker 4: And it gets me through always always, and they take
Speaker 4: your picture as you go through because there's a little
Speaker 4: machine you put your passport on, Bingo, it's done. It
Speaker 4: is faster than mobile entry with your passport. If you
Speaker 4: use that app to get into the United States, that
Speaker 4: is very valuable and doesn't cost a penny. So that's
Speaker 4: a TSA app that you can get for no money
Speaker 4: at all. But Global Entry is gold because it helps
Speaker 4: you even when you arrive in another country. So what
Speaker 4: touchless ID is going to do is when you first
Speaker 4: use a touches ID, you get your photo taken as
Speaker 4: you get to the TSA agent because you already have
Speaker 4: TSA pre check, right, so you don't have to put
Speaker 4: out driver's license, passport, that little card with the star,
Speaker 4: none of that nonsense. The system will then compare your
Speaker 4: picture that they just took to the hundreds of thousands
Speaker 4: of pictures they already have of you, and don't kid
Speaker 4: yourself if they have.
Speaker 3: I don't want the government town my pig. I felt
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 4: And then one day I'm standing in London and I'm
Speaker 4: looking at the buildings and the cameras are friggin everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I went to New York.
Speaker 4: Cameras everywhere. How do you think they catch criminals these days?
Speaker 2: Don't go to South Korea. They have more cameras than that.
Speaker 2: They're everywhere.
Speaker 3: When you check.
Speaker 4: When I checked in Shanghai, don't they take all the
Speaker 4: pictures in the retinal skins?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I think it's maybe indicative of Asia. It is a
Speaker 2: camera society everywhere.
Speaker 3: They kind of make the best.
Speaker 2: Well, but I'm just saying, but being in the country,
Speaker 2: citizens are basically conditioned and understand and accept that wherever
Speaker 2: you go there's some level of surveillance.
Speaker 4: And you have given your fingerprints before. They don't change
Speaker 4: as you get older, so they have your fingerprints. They
Speaker 4: have pictures of you in stages of development from when
Speaker 4: you were getting braces, so they can identify you really
Speaker 4: easy with today's technology. And all you do is now
Speaker 4: you just walk right in. They just take your picture
Speaker 4: and you walk right in. Now, if you would like
Speaker 4: to avail yourself of this, and you are on American
Speaker 4: Airlines and you have TSA pre check, go to the
Speaker 4: American Airlines site on a computer mobile device.
Speaker 3: They'll take you a second.
Speaker 4: You log in and go to the information and password section.
Speaker 3: Of your profile. It's easy to find.
Speaker 4: Then click the but next to opt in to TSA
Speaker 4: touchless ID Nick Bingo. You're in and you'll have to
Speaker 4: renew every year. And I'm telling you a lot of
Speaker 4: credit cards do pay the fees for TSA PreCheck and
Speaker 4: for global entry. If this is something you can get
Speaker 4: if you're planning a trip, no matter what global entry,
Speaker 4: like I said, is that's platinum and TSA PreCheck is gold.
Speaker 4: It makes your airport experience a thousand times.
Speaker 1: I co sign.
Speaker 2: I have both, and I would recommend them to anyone
Speaker 2: and everyone.
Speaker 4: And by the way, they do give you a little
Speaker 4: global entry card which you don't need a real ID
Speaker 4: when you have that, and it doesn't have your home
Speaker 4: address on it. Think about that, when you have a
Speaker 4: real ID, you're showing.
Speaker 3: Your address to whoever.
Speaker 4: You're showing your card to real federal government IDs where
Speaker 4: they've checked you out, do not put your home address
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 3: So thes say pre check.
Speaker 4: The mobile passport card, which is also good for ID,
Speaker 4: does not have your home address on it.
Speaker 1: Think about Marsha Cary.
Speaker 2: You always give us great advice, usable advice, very quickly.
Speaker 2: How can people find you to follow up if they
Speaker 2: want more advice?
Speaker 4: I'm on Twitter, my website is Marsha Collier dot com
Speaker 4: and usually once a week somebody tech emails me with
Speaker 4: a tech problem and I help them work through it.
Speaker 4: So I love the emails and I'll find the answers.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: How you're available, you're accessible, your information is relatable, digestible,
Speaker 2: all those things, and why we enjoy having you here
Speaker 2: every single week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Moe.
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Speaker 3: It's really a good book.
Speaker 1: See you next week.
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