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Speaker 3: Memorial Day weekend and yet here we are again, twenty
Speaker 3: plus years of me killing, spending my time with you
Speaker 3: on a weekend where you should be traped, sitting out
Speaker 3: of the sun, having some cocktails. You actually may be
Speaker 3: doing all of that right now while you're listening. And
Speaker 3: when we do, thank you for taking your phone, putting
Speaker 3: your headphones on, maybe downloading iHeartRadio specifically listening to me,
Speaker 3: maybe over the air when you're driving. Whether you are
Speaker 3: in Houston or Dallas or San Antonio where my show
Speaker 3: airs terrestrially, don't matter how you listening, but we do
Speaker 3: thank you. We are going to try to entertain you
Speaker 3: for the next two hours while you may be sitting
Speaker 3: at the pool pop on a coldie. I will hold
Speaker 3: off until the end of this show and then pop
Speaker 3: a few coldies myself. By the way, if you do
Speaker 3: want some drink recipes. You never really know what's gonna
Speaker 3: happen on this radio show. It is called the High
Speaker 3: Tech textan show which you think we're going to talk
Speaker 3: about technology. You know, people, if you've just given me
Speaker 3: an opportunity one week, two weeks to listen, you're like,
Speaker 3: what's this do talking about? He's all over the place,
Speaker 3: And I'm fine with that, man, I am actually fine.
Speaker 3: Generally you're not gonna hear me talk about politics. That's
Speaker 3: one thing I'm gonna avoid. Sports. You're gonna hear me
Speaker 3: talk about sports. Not too much sportsy stuff going on.
Speaker 3: I can just applaud from a man Scottie Scheffler from Dallas,
Speaker 3: from the University of Texas, very happy that he won
Speaker 3: the PGA Championship. We've got the NBA Finals, four teams
Speaker 3: I certainly don't care about. No Texas teams are in there.
Speaker 3: You know, it's something to watch. And then when when
Speaker 3: the NBA playoffs are over, when they crown a champion
Speaker 3: here about two weeks, it is gonna be a bad
Speaker 3: two months. I'm just not the biggest baseball fan. It's
Speaker 3: just hot. It's just to count down the football season.
Speaker 3: But you may hear me talk about some drink recipes.
Speaker 3: Actually I tried a new RTD earlier this week, A
Speaker 3: ready to drink it can had gin in it. Not
Speaker 3: a big gin guy, but I must say it was
Speaker 3: a quite refreshing, quite refreshing. So whatever pops up, including
Speaker 3: the phones, and this is where I look to you.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 3: I look to Callum, read hello Callum, and will across
Speaker 3: the way in through the beautiful glass panel, who are
Speaker 3: pushing buttons and doing whatever making me sound sexy? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Can you put a little reverb, Calum, little a little reverb,
Speaker 3: reverb verb, And they were answering the phones. This is
Speaker 3: the last time I checked date. Not a podcast, Well
Speaker 3: it is a podcast because we put my live show
Speaker 3: on the podcast later. But if you do want to
Speaker 3: talk to me, and you think you're listening to me live,
Speaker 3: the phone number three four six twenty nine texts and
Speaker 3: I will say this, uh, Father's Day coming up in
Speaker 3: a few weeks. Don't need to get me anything. My
Speaker 3: three kids they're gonna get me the usual. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Let's see the Mavericks hadn't done anything. They get me
Speaker 3: a sports jerseys. They know I don't need any piece
Speaker 3: of technology gear or any sort of device. They did
Speaker 3: get me. Uh, let's see, I've gotten everything from I
Speaker 3: didn't you know what. I will say this, and I
Speaker 3: am remissed because I don't follow hockey too much. Dallas Stars.
Speaker 3: If the Stars go far, they should finish. My father's dead.
Speaker 3: If the Stars win, my kids will give you a
Speaker 3: Dallas Stars T shirt. Maybe not a sweater or jersey.
Speaker 3: That's a little too expensive and I don't know if
Speaker 3: i'd ever wear it around, but that could be the
Speaker 3: gift if you're looking for dad, If you're looking for
Speaker 3: something in the realm of a TV or a car,
Speaker 3: or a phone, or a gadget or sunglasses or whatever,
Speaker 3: I could be the guy three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: textan more than happy to talk you off the ledge.
Speaker 3: And also, graduates, I will say this, you know, let
Speaker 3: me give you a first graduate tip. I've got the
Speaker 3: graduations coming. Got a friend of the family their son
Speaker 3: graduated from med school. Overachiever, went to his party about
Speaker 3: a week ago, and can you believe this? They actually
Speaker 3: hit well, do graduates do this? Now where they have
Speaker 3: a wish list where they they went online somewhere and registered.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess, I mean, I know you do
Speaker 3: that for weddings and potentially baby showers, but I guess
Speaker 3: graduates have a wish list now. But you know whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I didn't look at the wish list. I got him
Speaker 3: knowing that he probably has some sort of a high
Speaker 3: tech smart watch, Apple Watch, be it whatever. I got
Speaker 3: him a device that sits on the counter, maybe it's
Speaker 3: next to his bed, that will hold and charge a
Speaker 3: wireless watch and your phone and your earbuts cost about
Speaker 3: what was it one hundred and ten hundred twenty dollars.
Speaker 3: You can find these from a number of different companies.
Speaker 3: It was an Apple did Apple even? I don't know
Speaker 3: if it was an Apple brand Moxie. Just just go online.
Speaker 3: It's just it's like a universal charger for your watch.
Speaker 3: But it's like a three in one thing. I thought,
Speaker 3: you know what, that was pretty good. He's going he
Speaker 3: graduated med school. He's got to, you know, be matched
Speaker 3: up with the hospital. He's gonna have to work like
Speaker 3: eighty hours a week. He's gonna need to be woken up.
Speaker 3: He's gonna need a phone charge something. Again, that's a
Speaker 3: low hanging fruit and there if you give me a call,
Speaker 3: hop a note to me on ex Twitter, send me
Speaker 3: an email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. We do
Speaker 3: monitor that. Maybe give me a feel. I'm like Chad GPT.
Speaker 3: Just give me a few descriptors about dad or about
Speaker 3: the graduate you know it's at likes athletics, works out
Speaker 3: in the gym, is a runner you know, likes to travel?
Speaker 3: Or you does somebody that I can actually help hone
Speaker 3: things down. By the way, the GM GPT stands for Garfield,
Speaker 3: it really doesn't. Let me tell you a few things
Speaker 3: that we will touch on all right. Number one, how
Speaker 3: about all that have you been getting text from somebody
Speaker 3: some people about having unpaid tolls? I don't know how
Speaker 3: that became the scam, but Google just announced a solution
Speaker 3: to help those unpaid toll tech scams. Should you use
Speaker 3: an Android phone up, you should be all right? So
Speaker 3: staying out for that Apple, Yes, I'm talking about Apple.
Speaker 3: Apple may owe you money. Did you know that? I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell you how to get it in about ten
Speaker 3: minutes too. Also, sometime during the show the one Smart
Speaker 3: Home gadget that you actually need, not want, but need.
Speaker 3: If your home is not a smartphone smart home yet,
Speaker 3: I will tell you how to make your home a
Speaker 3: smart home. But if you could only choose one gadget,
Speaker 3: one piece of technology in your home to make your
Speaker 3: home smart, I want you to think what it should be,
Speaker 3: what it is, and I will tell you my idea.
Speaker 3: That's how we do it at the High Tech Textan Show.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is the name. If you're traveling, we're gonna
Speaker 3: come back. We'll also going to have a travel story
Speaker 3: record number of flyers this year compared to a year
Speaker 3: over year of Memorial Day weekend. It will give you
Speaker 3: some tips. That's what I do right here on the
Speaker 3: guards High Tech Textan Ship. Appreciate you hanging in there.
Speaker 3: Many things that you could be doing. This Memorial Day
Speaker 3: weekend of twenty twenty five should do me a favorite.
Speaker 3: Don't give me the oh my gosh, I can't believe
Speaker 3: the year is flown by. It's already the end of May,
Speaker 3: it's almost June. Quiet man, just be quiet, all right.
Speaker 3: We see it's been a long year. It's only going
Speaker 3: to get longer because it's only going to be one
Speaker 3: hundred percent of humidity and one hundred degrees. I'm not
Speaker 3: get off my lawne guy, I'm not. I am an optomist.
Speaker 3: I mean I make Annie look like a I'll tell
Speaker 3: you that, but I'm a realist. I don't know how
Speaker 3: the summer did. I mean, summer just kind of smoothly
Speaker 3: drags on. Maybe because I'm just waiting for something that
Speaker 3: But maybe because I'm waiting for cool weather, because I'm
Speaker 3: a runner, like you know, I like doing things outside.
Speaker 3: Maybe because I'm waiting for football season. Maybe because I'm waiting.
Speaker 3: I don't know the travel somewhere that's cool. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but where where you are? Happy early summer and we
Speaker 3: still got what seven months ago in this year, so
Speaker 3: suck it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: That's how we roll. And I also roll with the
Speaker 3: phone number. Uh. Maybe may give away something here on
Speaker 3: the radio show two three four six twenty nine Texan
Speaker 3: three four six two nine to eat x A N.
Speaker 3: For some reason, callum wait god Bro Calm does not
Speaker 3: answer the phone. It may go to voicemail. Gave a voicemail.
Speaker 3: We have a right to play your voice, and then
Speaker 3: you could be heard all over the state of Texas
Speaker 3: and the entire country. The I talk a lot about it,
Speaker 3: and I've talked a lot about smart homes. What makes
Speaker 3: a home smart? Well, what's your IQ? What did you
Speaker 3: get on the SAT? Now? That's not Smart homes are
Speaker 3: homes that have some sort of gadget that assist what
Speaker 3: you do in everyday living. It could be something like
Speaker 3: an Amazon device, a smart speaker, Google device, Google Nest.
Speaker 3: It could be a doorbell, It could be a lighting system.
Speaker 3: It could be a thermostat, it could be it could
Speaker 3: be to some extent, an alarm. There there are alarms now,
Speaker 3: newer alarms that actually could you know, do things and
Speaker 3: detect ai your faces as it approaches and automatically call
Speaker 3: the coppers or something. Smart. These these these gadgets, in
Speaker 3: my opinion, are good. They're great. Now. I know there
Speaker 3: are people out there who have trepidation. Well, I don't
Speaker 3: want big Brother listening to me. I don't want them
Speaker 3: watching me. I don't want you know, I'm fine, you know,
Speaker 3: vacuuming my own you know kitchen. That's why there are
Speaker 3: smart vacuums and smart mops too. Robo Rock makes a
Speaker 3: lot of them. My acts, I'm playing with one or
Speaker 3: two right, now. But if you had to choose one device,
Speaker 3: or for those of you who do not have one
Speaker 3: device that you think is quote unquote smart to make
Speaker 3: I'm smart. I have I have my opinion on what
Speaker 3: I think the one smart home gadget that you need now,
Speaker 3: I could say cameras. If you are obsessed with security,
Speaker 3: if you have kids, and you have a relatively large
Speaker 3: house or two floors or three floors in your home,
Speaker 3: and you want to see what's going on when you
Speaker 3: hear noise upstairs, you can log onto your camera and
Speaker 3: you know, see what's what's up. You can always check
Speaker 3: your backyard, your front yard, what's going on from absolute
Speaker 3: that's good security system's good. Lights automatically turn on when
Speaker 3: someone approaches at night. That's nice. Smart speakers you should
Speaker 3: be if you're home listening to the show via your
Speaker 3: smart speaker, all you need to do is just tell
Speaker 3: your use your wake up word, like hey Amazon, peep,
Speaker 3: I'm just helping you out here, Believe me. Amazon. Listen
Speaker 3: to Talk Radio eleven ninety in Dallas on iHeartRadio. Listen
Speaker 3: to KPRC nine point fifty on iHeartRadio. Listen to WOAI
Speaker 3: twelve hundred on iHeartRadio. You say those words right now
Speaker 3: seriously to your smart speaker. You can hear the dulcet
Speaker 3: tones of my voice all through your home, not just
Speaker 3: through your headphones or on your terrestrial radios or on
Speaker 3: your phone. No, that's pretty smart too. But finally, finally,
Speaker 3: to pay off this long stick, the one smart home
Speaker 3: gadget that I would recommend is one of It may
Speaker 3: not be, it may have been the first gadget that
Speaker 3: I got my home many many many years ago, and
Speaker 3: that is the high tech smart thermostat, especially here in
Speaker 3: our great state of Texas where I am based, because
Speaker 3: I think to me that takes center stage as they
Speaker 3: must have upgrade because in the long run it can
Speaker 3: save you hundreds of dollars. I'm not here to endorse
Speaker 3: one brand of thermostat. I can go on and on
Speaker 3: with nest ecob and Honeywell and blah blah blah, just
Speaker 3: it goes on. That's not the point. They're easy to
Speaker 3: install yourself. And if you don't think you can install
Speaker 3: yourself by ripping out your low tech, old fashion one
Speaker 3: and putting a new one on the wall and connecting
Speaker 3: a few hours, call a company. Ask your kids, Hey, me.
Speaker 3: It can be done, but there's not much to learn.
Speaker 3: If there's an app, whatever it is that you could
Speaker 3: download for free, connect that smart thermostat to your WiFi
Speaker 3: and your home, and at any given time wherever you
Speaker 3: are around the world, and I mean around the world
Speaker 3: you're traveling. I mean I was in wherever I go,
Speaker 3: and I travel quite a bit. I monitor the temperature.
Speaker 3: I set my temperature, but it also learns about my
Speaker 3: processes when I'm home. I generally work from home during
Speaker 3: the week. It knows roughly when I wake up because
Speaker 3: there's motion detectors. It senses what's going on. If I
Speaker 3: leave the house there's no movement, it could automatically turn
Speaker 3: the thermostat up so I can save the energy and
Speaker 3: electricity in the summer. It knows when I come home.
Speaker 3: Maybe I come home at five o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: Right before that, it'll turn it down. It's that's what
Speaker 3: makes it smart. I was reading something online I think
Speaker 3: was c net. C net did a survey twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Energy survey found that about seventy eight percent of US
Speaker 3: adults are concerned about the rising home energy cost. All right,
Speaker 3: I have no clue why one of us adults aren't
Speaker 3: concerned about the rising home energy costs. But that's neither
Speaker 3: here nor there. The keeping the thermostat on a hold or
Speaker 3: trying to remember when to turn it on or off.
Speaker 3: It drains energy and it eats money. I think one
Speaker 3: of the most amazing parts of smart thermostat is the
Speaker 3: ability to keep your home at a comfortable temperature but
Speaker 3: also balance energy uses in some cases. And I kind
Speaker 3: of take a buck. I say this because my electricity
Speaker 3: in my energy contract is about to renew. I get
Speaker 3: a decent rate right now in terms of killo OOP
Speaker 3: per hour. I'm still shopping around. I can be convinced
Speaker 3: I'm not endorsing one of those either. But I looked
Speaker 3: at trends. I went on my bill, and this is
Speaker 3: this is how I research things. I look at the
Speaker 3: my own usage. You can go back to your energy company,
Speaker 3: go online, look at your bill. Obviously, well, at least
Speaker 3: for me, my bill rise. This is greatly in the
Speaker 3: summer because we live need some air cone deshan. The
Speaker 3: cheapest bill I get any year probably in January, December,
Speaker 3: January and February. Yes, there are plans that you can
Speaker 3: get but also by having a good plan with Killowhites,
Speaker 3: but also getting one of these smart thermostats can save
Speaker 3: you twenty bucks, thirty bucks or more off your monthly bill.
Speaker 3: Especially I think at the winter, why you don't need
Speaker 3: to wire these things anymore. A lot of this stuff
Speaker 3: is wireless. I mean, it's just because they can talk
Speaker 3: and it. Let's put this, they can connect to Wi Fi.
Speaker 3: In my mind, a mild mannered smart device, maybe from
Speaker 3: Google Nests, maybe from Amazon, maybe from Eco b maybe
Speaker 3: from Honeywell Home, whatever it is, Google News, it's got
Speaker 3: it has a good ability to address energy issues and
Speaker 3: save you, save us all money. It's worth spending two
Speaker 3: hundred dollars on this day to make your home more efficient.
Speaker 3: So that's what I say. If anybody wants to know
Speaker 3: which ones, I'm not endorsing it. I have three floors
Speaker 3: of my home, so I have three different thermostats, all
Speaker 3: the same brand. Use them for gosh, I've had these
Speaker 3: eight nine years or so. I think they're on the
Speaker 3: fourth version. Pop me an email, send me a DM
Speaker 3: we could be tight eight and I can tell you
Speaker 3: which one I had. It's not here to endorse it.
Speaker 3: I'm just endorsing smart homes could be good for you.
Speaker 3: And this is what I'm here for. I hope so
Speaker 3: this is why you listen to me. Now, who's traveling?
Speaker 3: That's way. If you're traveling, I hope you lowered. I
Speaker 3: hope you wrote using your smart thermostat to figure out
Speaker 3: what the temperature is while you're gone. This weekend, Memorial
Speaker 3: Day weekend, over three million people are expected to fly
Speaker 3: in the United States alone. I like that because that's
Speaker 3: an uptick. When we come back, we will talk to
Speaker 3: someone who's in charge of the entire customer service with
Speaker 3: a very big airline, very big presidence in the state
Speaker 3: of Texas and actually across the country, if not the world.
Speaker 3: Travel tips that they are launching that they are using
Speaker 3: to help travelers go through their system. That's coming up
Speaker 3: on Antech Texas Hip. We are back at it. Happy
Speaker 3: Memorial Day weekend. It is Michael Garfield, the long running
Speaker 3: high tech textan show heard certainly trestly all across Texas
Speaker 3: and all around the world on the iHeartRadio network. We
Speaker 3: got a few phone numbers here. Actually, I'm gonna hold
Speaker 3: off because we have got a very hot topic right now,
Speaker 3: especially if you are traveling. This weekend, which I hope
Speaker 3: you are, and I hope you made it to your
Speaker 3: going safely and having some good time wearing some sunscreen.
Speaker 3: Record number of flyers that I've been seeing that have
Speaker 3: been up and down this weekend, and you'll get it'll
Speaker 3: continue probably at least till Tuesday of Wednesday next week.
Speaker 3: I'm based in Houston, which is also where United Airlines
Speaker 3: has a very big hub, and obviously I want to
Speaker 3: get to the bottom of everything that is everything and
Speaker 3: when it comes to summer travel season and all the
Speaker 3: cool divite ops and technology that companies are using to
Speaker 3: make customer service just so easy and so well. United
Speaker 3: has a lot of that stuff. And so what I
Speaker 3: did is I whipped up my list of contacts and
Speaker 3: I dialed up my good friend Andy Jamison, Andy Managing
Speaker 3: director of Customer Service at United Airlines. Andy, as the
Speaker 3: weekend is here, how crazy has it been so far?
Speaker 3: But how cool and calm has it been thanks to
Speaker 3: United Systems.
Speaker 5: Well, Hey, Michael, good morning, Thanks for having me. You know, yeah,
Speaker 5: you said, we're gearing up for a Memorial week, Memorial
Speaker 5: Week in where we're going to see record demand of customers.
Speaker 5: We estimate that between May twenty second and May twenty
Speaker 5: eight that throughout our entire network throughout the world that
Speaker 5: will welcome over three and a half million customers to
Speaker 5: the skies of United Airlines. In Houston alone, we anticipate Friday,
Speaker 5: May twenty third be in our busiest day, the launch
Speaker 5: of a new flight schedule, our summer flight schedule in Houston.
Speaker 5: We'll have over five hundred daily departures and over sixty
Speaker 5: thousand seats out of Houston. We're excited about it.
Speaker 3: You said about three million travelers this week. I think again,
Speaker 3: I'm crunching numbers. It seems to be about maybe about
Speaker 3: a ten percent increase in compared to last year's I
Speaker 3: love it. It's great. It's great for so many industries
Speaker 3: and economies. I mean, can you specifically attribute to that
Speaker 3: anything or you're just happy to get people from here
Speaker 3: to there?
Speaker 5: Well, obviously doing it safely is our number one priority.
Speaker 5: But we're excited about the growth and capacity, growth and
Speaker 5: fight schedules, larger airplanes and because of our I had
Speaker 5: a next plan and it continues to work.
Speaker 6: This year.
Speaker 5: Compared to last year, we're anticipating to fly over five
Speaker 5: percent more customers than we did last year.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, I love it. I recently, as my listeners know,
Speaker 3: I just got back from and you know too, I
Speaker 3: was on a long, long journey to the Far East.
Speaker 3: I was in that Hong Kong flight. I got there safely,
Speaker 3: my friends. I appreciated about that. But some of the
Speaker 3: tools that I use when I checked in, I get
Speaker 3: it to the bush, intercott and the airport. I love
Speaker 3: the fabs that I have the United App, but there's
Speaker 3: some neat features that United continues to add to make
Speaker 3: travel safe in terms of checking the weather and tracking
Speaker 3: your bags. One of which is that bag tracker. You know,
Speaker 3: you're now incorporating the Apple Tracker with the fine my stuff.
Speaker 3: How does that work?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you could use it through the United App,
Speaker 5: or if you don't have the United App, you don't
Speaker 5: have to. You know, we get about ninety nine percent
Speaker 5: of our bags for their final destinations, either before the
Speaker 5: customer reaches there or at the same time. And so,
Speaker 5: but there's a few customers that don't reach their destination
Speaker 5: with their luggage and when that happens. If it happens,
Speaker 5: we'll reach out to you and say, hey, we're working
Speaker 5: on it, but if you like to share if you
Speaker 5: have an eyeball air tag, if you'd like to share
Speaker 5: the information with this, it.
Speaker 6: May help us quick quickly reunite you.
Speaker 7: With your bag you use.
Speaker 3: It seems a lot of digital resources, which which is great.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many industries I find. I mean
Speaker 3: even the cars that I test. I mean you can
Speaker 3: remotely start and find them from the app and things.
Speaker 3: But I mean the digital resource that your teams continue
Speaker 3: to put out to help travelers have that smooth journey,
Speaker 3: journey as light years ahead. When I started flying many many,
Speaker 3: many years ago. What are some of the other features
Speaker 3: that you have from that app or those digital resources.
Speaker 6: Well, you said it.
Speaker 5: I've been in the industry a long time and it's
Speaker 5: been really fun to see it evolve over the years.
Speaker 5: But the recent enhancements have been the most exciting. Are
Speaker 5: United App. If you're flying, you need the United Airlines App.
Speaker 5: It's award winning everything from booking your flights to your
Speaker 5: entertainment platform if you're on an airplane, to navigating our airports,
Speaker 5: checking in verifying travel documents if you're going international, or
Speaker 5: if you just have a question, you could connect with
Speaker 5: the United Airlines Agent twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3: I've actually tried that just to pop it up. The
Speaker 3: live activities on the phones is good. By the way,
Speaker 3: it works for Samsung too. I'm an Android guy, so
Speaker 3: good job for integrating both of those plays, which is good.
Speaker 3: Andy jamis enjoining me for a few minutes. He's the
Speaker 3: managing director of Customer Service at United Airlines. Going into
Speaker 3: a weekend like this, and you've been in this industry
Speaker 3: a while, there's I mean, listen, there's there's so many
Speaker 3: things out of your hands you can't you know, touch,
Speaker 3: I mean, is the weather and whatever like that. I mean,
Speaker 3: what's your Is there an anxiety level? Is there an
Speaker 3: excitement level? What you're feeling right now?
Speaker 5: All the above, Michael that the thing that comforts us
Speaker 5: leaders is that we have strong teams. We have professionals
Speaker 5: that United Airlines in Houston, we have over fourteen thousand
Speaker 5: United Airlines employees that make the inner workings of our
Speaker 5: huge operation just come together, whether it's navigating challenges with
Speaker 5: weather or things that just come out throughout the day.
Speaker 5: The teams collaborate and work together things that the flying
Speaker 5: public wouldn't even know that We make that your your
Speaker 5: journey as seamless as it possibly can. That's all attributed
Speaker 5: to the hard working and professionalism of our employees.
Speaker 3: I mentioned the weather delays coming up, and actually I
Speaker 3: saw a feature that you also have to that you're
Speaker 3: I believe you could text live radar maps, use AI
Speaker 3: to the people so they can keep informed with what's
Speaker 3: going on. Is am I close to that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, if we have issues with that weather or routings
Speaker 5: or whatever the case may be, our teams remotely are
Speaker 5: connecting with customers as they travel to include weather maps
Speaker 5: or you can interactively look at the weather within the
Speaker 5: United app, because sometimes you can be looking out the
Speaker 5: window and there's nothing here. The sun is shining and
Speaker 5: everything is wonderful, but it could be around the airfield
Speaker 5: or in between us and where you're going to. And
Speaker 5: so just helped bring a little bit ease to customers
Speaker 5: to know that there are issues that we're navigating through
Speaker 5: them to get them there safely.
Speaker 3: How far in the future can you honestly say that
Speaker 3: you will be able to control the weather.
Speaker 6: I don't have an answer for that, Mike.
Speaker 5: But the good thing about weather, as we continue to
Speaker 5: evolve our operations, we continue to get better and forecasting
Speaker 5: and being able to see what's coming and have plans.
Speaker 6: To work around it.
Speaker 3: What did the Obviously I got a few press releases
Speaker 3: from you guys, and really exciting to and especially I
Speaker 3: can relate to this. I just got back, as we
Speaker 3: talked about, from a literally a worldwide trip. I mean literally,
Speaker 3: my nickname on the strip was Magellan. As I went
Speaker 3: from Houston to Hong Kong on your flight and then
Speaker 3: continuing all the way back around here to Houston, I had,
Speaker 3: you know, very you know, it was a nice ride.
Speaker 3: It's a very very long ride. It gets better and
Speaker 3: you're starting to come up with new you know, how
Speaker 3: can can can pascity just remain more comfortable? I just
Speaker 3: saw you made an announcement that you're even making an up, up,
Speaker 3: upgraded level of service. It's uh, it's like the Polaris
Speaker 3: studio suite. It's like a flying apartment. You gotta explain
Speaker 3: this thing with caviar. What's going on here here?
Speaker 5: You're right, Yeah, we just had a big release last
Speaker 5: week in Brooklyn. It's scheduled to launch later this year
Speaker 5: on our new seven eight seven fleet type. But yeah,
Speaker 5: you said it, it's like a small flying studio apartment.
Speaker 5: Lie down seats with the the ability to if you're
Speaker 5: traveling with the companion, you can you can raise or
Speaker 5: lower a sidewall and and interact with that person. There's
Speaker 5: an ottomen in there, huge TV screens, more lang room.
Speaker 6: It's it's really really exciting.
Speaker 3: Set it again at some point. It's certainly as and
Speaker 3: we'll talk about this in a seconds, as the Wi
Speaker 3: Fi and the connectivity service continue to get faster with Starlink.
Speaker 3: Now that you've got the studio suite, I mean literally,
Speaker 3: you're building a TV in a radio studio for me
Speaker 3: in the air, Andy, So you're prep for me to
Speaker 3: actually broadcast live from a plane. You cool with that?
Speaker 6: Let's do it? Yeah, Yeah, Starlink it's super exciting.
Speaker 5: You mentioned I know you're excited about it given what
Speaker 5: you broadcast on. We're just getting off the ground with it.
Speaker 5: We're starting with our regional fleet. We anticipate that to
Speaker 5: be mostly complete by the end of the year. In
Speaker 5: our main line. The larger airplanes will begin next year.
Speaker 5: But talk about taking your couch to the air. As
Speaker 5: far as connectivity, it'll be like you're in your living
Speaker 5: room and it's free.
Speaker 6: It'll be free for our customers and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw there was a test you guys did
Speaker 3: not too long ago. But listen, Wi Fi being connected
Speaker 3: nowadays is something that we all want to do.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Listen. You know, kids still need to you know, want
Speaker 3: to play their games and whatever. And obviously there's business flights. Listen.
Speaker 3: I was on a plane that was fifteen to sixteen hours.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a lot of downtime, but I made
Speaker 3: it uptime because I still had Wi Fi connectedy connectivity.
Speaker 3: It was okay, the fastest thing in the world. Again,
Speaker 3: because right now, you know, no air line has got
Speaker 3: like super super speedy, but it seems like the Starlink
Speaker 3: that you're working with is going to be very, very
Speaker 3: super speedy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, if you imagine flying from Houston to
Speaker 5: Chicago and you want to use Wi Fi in today's infrastructure,
Speaker 5: you might have to connect over seven satellites in just
Speaker 5: that short fight. And in doing that, obviously there's transmission
Speaker 5: times and things that are delayed, which delays the what
Speaker 5: customers experience. Starlink allows one single source of connectivity at
Speaker 5: speeds higher than anybody can ever imagine. While you're sitting
Speaker 5: in a metal tube of an airplane, find it almost
Speaker 5: a speed of sound.
Speaker 6: It's it's pretty cool to think about it.
Speaker 3: I can't wait till you you launch it, and again
Speaker 3: I want to be the first one who tests that.
Speaker 3: His name is Andy Jamison, Customer Service at night. You're like, listen,
Speaker 3: good luck this weekend, my man. I'll tell you what
Speaker 3: you know. You may you may lose little hair. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, punt Into.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 3: And he's a buddy. He's got he's got a very
Speaker 3: nice dome. But he is one of the nicest and smartest,
Speaker 3: and he leads a great team. United Airlines always get
Speaker 3: folks there safely, and we appreciate their time. So fly
Speaker 3: the friendly skies, my man, and I do appreciate you
Speaker 3: joining the high Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 6: Hey, Michael, appreciate it. Thanks for having us.
Speaker 3: You got it. That is uh Andy Jamison. Folks, if
Speaker 3: you guys are if anybody is traveling this weekend, like
Speaker 3: right now, I'd love to hear from you. You know
Speaker 3: the phone number seven one three two one two five
Speaker 3: nine five. Oh, Michael Garfield is the high Tech Texan
Speaker 3: Show when we come back. That's right. It is still
Speaker 3: a father's day coming up, Graduation day coming up. I
Speaker 3: got a ton of recommition, recommendations of what dubai and
Speaker 3: also where to go for your gifts. I am here
Speaker 3: for you high tech texting dot com. Thank all right?
Speaker 3: Who has left on a jet playing? I actually play that.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, we would actually play leaving on
Speaker 3: a jet plane, you know, kind of just a little segue.
Speaker 3: We just talked to United Airlines folks, travel season No, no,
Speaker 3: can't do it. Our wonderful company doesn't want to pay
Speaker 3: the licensing for anything. I wonder, callum, if I ask
Speaker 3: this before, if I sing a song, you think the
Speaker 3: AI police would pick up my horrible singing to realize
Speaker 3: I'm actually singing a commercialized song and get away to that.
Speaker 3: And again, I'm not trying to take away money from
Speaker 3: the artist. They deserve it and break any rules really
Speaker 3: percent But we used to play I mean, any song
Speaker 3: known to man or woman was fair game for the
Speaker 3: first what eighteen years of my show. Now I'm here,
Speaker 3: I'm in year twenty three or something like that. The
Speaker 3: music is just some you know, elevator music that has
Speaker 3: been free to license. It's just a you know what,
Speaker 3: this is the state of radio and podcast. But this
Speaker 3: is my voice. It's not AI yet as we continue
Speaker 3: the I take texting show, Happy Memorial Day weekend to you.
Speaker 3: Coming up next hour. Apple may owe you money, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you how to get it. There was
Speaker 3: a lawsuit that just came down ninety plus million dollars
Speaker 3: and if you were affected by this little issue on Apple,
Speaker 3: you may get some mona could be a little, could
Speaker 3: be a lot. But that's gonna hopefully tease you to
Speaker 3: stay around another ten, twelve, thirteen minutes for that. I
Speaker 3: will tell you this tip here. How would you like
Speaker 3: to get some money back every time you order something online?
Speaker 3: Specifically Amazon? Specifically Amazon? I thought, I thought this was
Speaker 3: a pretty good There's there's this shopping Assistant's browser extension,
Speaker 3: all right. It's a browser extension, which means whatever browser
Speaker 3: you have, So if you have the Microsoft Edge Browser
Speaker 3: or something like that, you can look for these extensions,
Speaker 3: which means this is these little tiny bots pieces of
Speaker 3: software code that are added to your browser that do
Speaker 3: certain things. I mean that you know, they know where
Speaker 3: you live and this is how the weather affects it,
Speaker 3: and they you know, they serve up some ads. But
Speaker 3: this is a browser extension that you actually have to
Speaker 3: download and it's called shop back Baby, got Back, shop
Speaker 3: back b a ck. It just launched here in this country,
Speaker 3: already popular and a few other countries around around the world.
Speaker 3: Here's what you do. You install it and the extension
Speaker 3: automatically activates when you go to a website that supports
Speaker 3: it and shows you what kind of reward you can earn. Now,
Speaker 3: this is everything from door Dash to Expedia, to Macy's
Speaker 3: to Walmart to Best Buy, and there's a lot more.
Speaker 3: And to entice you right now, they're offering the shop back.
Speaker 3: This is not an atom just I haven't used it yet,
Speaker 3: but I've verified it by two or three different sources.
Speaker 3: They're giving you one dollar one dollar cash back on
Speaker 3: every Amazon order. About that. I'll take a book back
Speaker 3: maybe got buck back. So they have bonus offers. There's
Speaker 3: load of time promotion promos that reward you for you know,
Speaker 3: doing a number of different shopping milestones. Uh, it's listen.
Speaker 3: This is a tool that it really, at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, encourages you to shop more. That's the
Speaker 3: trade off. It looks for promotions and it encourages you
Speaker 3: to spend. But if you're already planning to make a purchase,
Speaker 3: why not earn a little something something back. Apparently in
Speaker 3: cash out works pretty well. Heypal think you have to
Speaker 3: have five hour minimums to withdraw. Allegedly, it doesn't track
Speaker 3: your browsing history or every site you visit. It just
Speaker 3: collects data from the supported sites whatever you go to. Again,
Speaker 3: I mentioned some Best Buy, Walmart, whatever it is, so
Speaker 3: go ahead and try it. If it works for you,
Speaker 3: let me know and then I can tell you to
Speaker 3: shop for something for me and buy it for my
Speaker 3: Father's Day president so you can get some cash back.
Speaker 3: Do you see? This is what a professional radio host does. People.
Speaker 3: That's how you roll. That's how you roll. Oh, speaking
Speaker 3: of sales, An got an email. I got a question
Speaker 3: over here. Somebody wrote to Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot
Speaker 3: com and this is what I do. If you're too
Speaker 3: shy to call me open phone lines though, three four
Speaker 3: six twenty nine, Texan, you can also send me that
Speaker 3: email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. You can also
Speaker 3: post something on my Twitter x account high tech Textan
Speaker 3: spelled the whole thing up, Garf. Been listening to your
Speaker 3: show for a long time. Appreciate all the tips you've
Speaker 3: given me. Over the years, I've bought cameras, if I
Speaker 3: got phones. I even bought a car once over the
Speaker 3: years listening to you, so I really appreciate it. I
Speaker 3: have an older TV that's upstairs my home that I
Speaker 3: really use, doesn't have an HDMI, but I'm thinking about
Speaker 3: trying to upgrade it instead of buying a new TV
Speaker 3: and getting one of them upgraded fire sticks type of thing.
Speaker 3: Are there? How much are they and do they work?
Speaker 3: All right? This is from Rodney. Rodney is here and
Speaker 3: where's it? Rodney is in the Woodlands, which is just
Speaker 3: north of Houston. Wherever you are listening around the world country,
Speaker 3: that's that's where it is. Appreciate that. Thank you for
Speaker 3: taking my advice. The issue here it's you don't have
Speaker 3: an HDMI or how old is your TV? Rodney? How old?
Speaker 3: I mean? I want you to look again. Just because
Speaker 3: sometimes older TVs have USB sticks, they can also have
Speaker 3: HDMI sticks to HDMI. Those are the imports. HDMI has
Speaker 3: been around for quite a while and that's how you
Speaker 3: get the high definition cord from your cable to your TV.
Speaker 3: HDMI stands for high Definition multi Media Interface, all right,
Speaker 3: and right now, that's the standard plug for transmitting the
Speaker 3: digital video and audio from a source, So from that
Speaker 3: TV cable box or a computer or to a TV
Speaker 3: or a projector, and most every new monitor type of
Speaker 3: thing they have that right now. So you need to
Speaker 3: check to see if it's got to your fate. Now,
Speaker 3: let's just assume if you have a USB and new HDMI,
Speaker 3: get a freaking new get a new TV. Just there's
Speaker 3: my advice. You're welcome. But if you do have an HDMI, yes,
Speaker 3: get a fire stick. Get a I say firestick. That's
Speaker 3: Amazon's brand, all right, Roku has a stick. There's a number.
Speaker 3: But I just speaking of Amazon. Amazon. Now when is it?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: I just pulled this up. Memorial Memorial weekend, all right?
Speaker 3: I guess it goes through Memorial Day week, Memorial Day,
Speaker 3: Monday or something. Amazon's firestick HD normally thirty five dollars.
Speaker 3: This week it is on sale for twenty dollars. What
Speaker 3: is that. That's about a forty forty five percent discount.
Speaker 3: That's not bad. I guess that is Amazon. I have
Speaker 3: I'm a Memorial Day sale. Otn't know. It's one of
Speaker 3: the best streaming devices that I know out there. I
Speaker 3: have a rocous stick. It works well. Some of these
Speaker 3: sticks come. What you do is you put plug it
Speaker 3: into your HDMI and what it is it's it's it's
Speaker 3: about the size of your thumb. You plug it into
Speaker 3: your HDMI which is in the back of your TV,
Speaker 3: so gently it's not gonna stick out. There's a Wi Fi.
Speaker 3: There's Wi Fi built in this thing. You connect it
Speaker 3: to your Wi Fi of your home and now you
Speaker 3: can cut the cord. You could stream Netflix. You can
Speaker 3: see it for for an older TV. That's one of
Speaker 3: the reasons that you can get it. So this one,
Speaker 3: specifically the fire Stick HD this and does have ten
Speaker 3: eightyp streaming. It does have a remote that can control
Speaker 3: the power and volume on the actual TV. Firestick Light
Speaker 3: does not do that. It has Alexa sorry for saying that,
Speaker 3: for voice control, and it does have an automatic interface
Speaker 3: for Netflix, HBO, Max, Hulu and some of the other things.
Speaker 3: It cannot stream things in four ten. Absolutely not a
Speaker 3: big deal because not a lot of things are shot.
Speaker 7: Or streaming in fourteen.
Speaker 3: Don't hold off of that. It is a streaming stick
Speaker 3: for HD kids a high definition. It's good price, good price.
Speaker 3: It definitely would recommend this thing for twenty bucks for
Speaker 3: some reason you do want a four K max stick
Speaker 3: that's doubled it for forty bucks. But that's fine. I
Speaker 3: didn't know it is remotely a big shopping sales is
Speaker 3: like President's Day week. Here, we're gonna go by mattresses
Speaker 3: July fourth, mattress sales. Your memorial is such a big sale,
Speaker 3: dective it is. Let me take as we get to
Speaker 3: the top of the hour, let me do sure to
Speaker 3: see if I can find you some more. But when
Speaker 3: we come back, I am going to talk about Apple
Speaker 3: r o you money, and I'm gonna tell you out
Speaker 3: to theater. Right here, I'm a high tech.
Speaker 1: Dextre is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining you
Speaker 1: in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
Speaker 1: a high tech textis its to make life easier technology?
Speaker 1: So Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard world one on
Speaker 2: the ihardware. You'll ask right now you're high tech texts
Speaker 2: in Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: Our number two starts right now on the high Tech
Speaker 3: Textan Show. Second hour of our two hour show which
Speaker 3: means we're halfway, which means we are halfway to a
Speaker 3: happy hour on a Memorial Day weekend, which means if
Speaker 3: you don't have a nice cocktail in hand, something say,
Speaker 3: something's wrong with you, because you can have a mocktail. Also,
Speaker 3: if you don't have something to drink or sip, come on,
Speaker 3: people have some fun. That's all we do on this show.
Speaker 3: We have fun. So let's let's do it that way.
Speaker 3: So seven actually, let me give you the phone number
Speaker 3: over here. It's eight three to two. No, it's not
Speaker 3: it coming back up. It's my mind's still in like
Speaker 3: the twentieth century when I started the show three four
Speaker 3: six twenty nine text and three four six two nine
Speaker 3: t e x A N is how you're gonna get me?
Speaker 3: A big shout out to KPRC nine fifty am and
Speaker 3: Houston Talk Radio eleven ninety in Dallas and News Radio
Speaker 3: twelve hundred WOAI. That is right. That are you you
Speaker 3: listen to restrially at some point during the weekend. If
Speaker 3: you're listening on a repeat, it's called the podcast, which
Speaker 3: you could download the iHeartRadio app, and we do thank
Speaker 3: you for doing that. If you do want to hear
Speaker 3: what we missed in hour number one, I told you
Speaker 3: the one smart home gadget that you need, not want,
Speaker 3: that you need. If you're going to have only one
Speaker 3: smart home gadget, go back. Once we're done, callum, you're
Speaker 3: gonna put up this on the podcast. Listen, goo to
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio dot com search high Tech Texan go back. I
Speaker 3: think it was in the second segment I told you
Speaker 3: the one smart home gadget that you can need. You
Speaker 3: could throw out everything else. No, I really don't want
Speaker 3: you to do that. But if you do have to
Speaker 3: have one and trying to make your home smart, I
Speaker 3: told you what that is awesome. We talked about a
Speaker 3: new streaming stick I just talked about that was on
Speaker 3: sale and a way to say one dollar cash back
Speaker 3: on a lot of shopping sites, including Amazon, on every
Speaker 3: single order, or just by downloading this an extension for
Speaker 3: your browser. It's very very simple. This hour we are
Speaker 3: going to actually if you and your kids are looking
Speaker 3: to get certified in something or go to school, look
Speaker 3: for a job. There is it's the IT industry to
Speaker 3: some extent, but there is a local community college here
Speaker 3: in Texas that is offering some classes and certification on
Speaker 3: things that it's a trend and they are. There are
Speaker 3: a lot of jobs that you'll hear, so well, we'll
Speaker 3: talk about that at the bottom of the hour. You
Speaker 3: know the phone number over here. But now I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you how to possibly get some money Apple.
Speaker 3: If you ever ever have done a double take after
Speaker 3: an AD came up on your Apple device, it's like, what,
Speaker 3: how's this? Just listen to me, What's what's going on?
Speaker 3: You may be qualified to have some money. Apple has
Speaker 3: agreed to a ninety five million dollars settlement. It's a
Speaker 3: class action lawsuit that accused Apple of recording users' private
Speaker 3: conversations without their consent after they unintentionally activated Siri. All right, now,
Speaker 3: this goes back four years. It was a case that
Speaker 3: is called Lopez v. Apple Lopez versus Apple four years ago,
Speaker 3: and it claims that confidential or private communications were allegedly
Speaker 3: obtained by Apple and or shared with third parties as
Speaker 3: a result of an undetended Serri activation. So, if you
Speaker 3: own or bought certain Seriri enabled devices in the ten
Speaker 3: year span ranging from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: you're eligible for a payout as part of the settlement.
Speaker 3: How about that. So if your phone is over, if
Speaker 3: your Apple of iPhone, for example, is over two years old,
Speaker 3: smell that, smell that and money, Danny. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it's cool. I hope they didn't
Speaker 3: distial of your words. All right, So ninety five million
Speaker 3: dollars class action lawsuit. Who qualifies for a settlement? So
Speaker 3: if you've owned or purchased a syrianenable device twenty fourteenth
Speaker 3: to twenty twenty four you're eligible to make a claim.
Speaker 3: I can give you the long website, but if you
Speaker 3: really want to do it, well, you know what here
Speaker 3: it is. It's Lopez Voice Assistant Settlement dot Com. I'll
Speaker 3: say it once. That's it. I'm gonna make you go
Speaker 3: to my high Tech Texan X account. H I G
Speaker 3: h T E C h T E x A N
Speaker 3: got a high tech Texan. You will see it on
Speaker 3: x Twitter. You will see a link to how you
Speaker 3: can submit a claim to potentially get some money. Now,
Speaker 3: I'll say this, I've done these before. Whether it's a
Speaker 3: printer who conned me out of ink, whether it's a
Speaker 3: phone company, whatever it is, millions of dollars to be had,
Speaker 3: split by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people
Speaker 3: at the end of the day. I may have been
Speaker 3: part of that payout two three, four times if I
Speaker 3: can remember, but it's been so minimal the payoff. I
Speaker 3: forgot about it. Sometimes I don't know. I may have
Speaker 3: gotten a check fronder ten bones. I don't even know.
Speaker 3: So it is providing ninety five million dollar funds for
Speaker 3: payments to settlement class members who are individual, current or
Speaker 3: former owners or purchasers of a serie device. I mean, listen,
Speaker 3: it's worth a shot, right high tech Texan dot com
Speaker 3: look for Lopez v. Apple lawsuit and you can get
Speaker 3: money back. Now. Is that? Is it called restitution? Is
Speaker 3: that what? It's ten fifteen to twenty dollars? If you
Speaker 3: got five hundred dollars, is that enough not to make
Speaker 3: you mad? Like? What do you mean? They were legally
Speaker 3: listening to me when I was talking to Siri. What's
Speaker 3: up with that? Man? This is the price that we
Speaker 3: pay nowadays to utilize our devices. It's it was not
Speaker 3: right of Apple to do that if indeed they were guilty,
Speaker 3: but apparently they admitted some sort of guilt because they're
Speaker 3: paying ninety five mili out. But if you don't want
Speaker 3: anybody listening to you if I'm I'm not maybe I'm
Speaker 3: not trying to scare you. But if you read between
Speaker 3: the lines and interpret like, oh my goodness, I'm getting
Speaker 3: rid of my phones, I'm getting rid of my service
Speaker 3: because I don't want, you know, this to happen again,
Speaker 3: and people are listening to me. It's not exactly what
Speaker 3: I'm trying to say. But there's a trade off. We
Speaker 3: have the convenience of utilizing devices like our phones, which
Speaker 3: I think in our generation, two generations, our lifetimes here
Speaker 3: is one of the greatest single devices that we ever
Speaker 3: can have. What we hold in our hand on that
Speaker 3: phone are so much more powerful then the actual physical
Speaker 3: computers that we had ten years ago, certainly fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: And the trade off is why is it so cool?
Speaker 3: Why is it because we do allow these apps to
Speaker 3: get our information, We do allow these data and cell
Speaker 3: phone companies to have our location. But you know what,
Speaker 3: if it didn't have our location, if I didn't give
Speaker 3: up my location to Google, I would not be able
Speaker 3: to use Google Maps. And I use Google Maps on
Speaker 3: a daily basis not that I don't know where I'm going.
Speaker 3: I want to know the traffic situation, I want to
Speaker 3: know the best route just because of rex or whatever.
Speaker 3: And that's just one. I want to know my weather. Well,
Speaker 3: how do ASN know where I am? Because it uses
Speaker 3: a tracking thing. Yes, I can turn things on and off,
Speaker 3: but it is a tradeoff. Sadly, a lot of these companies,
Speaker 3: either directly or inevertly, maybe by a third party company,
Speaker 3: and I'm not defending them. They use these for potential,
Speaker 3: potential malicious things. In this case, somebody slapped the hand
Speaker 3: of Apple, whoever mister missus Lopez was back in the day.
Speaker 3: Thank you. This maybe is going to keep Apple and
Speaker 3: other companies, many other companies clean for just a little while.
Speaker 3: All right, coming back, what do you got? There is
Speaker 3: a crazy TikTok challenge that I didn't know about because
Speaker 3: I don't use TikTok. That is, I don't like it.
Speaker 3: Your kids may be doing it, especially if they are
Speaker 3: in school, especially if they're in grade school, and can
Speaker 3: be very very dangerous, dangerous.
Speaker 4: I will tell you if any on the other side.
Speaker 3: Generally, at some point during the radio show, we try
Speaker 3: to give things away because this is radio, and radio
Speaker 3: is about promotions, and radio is about giving things away.
Speaker 3: And you know what, back in the day, if we
Speaker 3: didn't give out hats and T shirts and coozies, man,
Speaker 3: we weren't worth our weight in salt. Nowadays we're not
Speaker 3: worth our weighting salt. As a radio station, it's up
Speaker 3: to me to go out and find partners in clients. Hey, man,
Speaker 3: could I Bob'm gonna beg you you want to give
Speaker 3: something away. I don't give things away just any fly
Speaker 3: by night companies or parties. I actually have to use
Speaker 3: the product. I want to love the product. If it's
Speaker 3: a restaurant, I eat there. In this case, I do.
Speaker 3: Who wants to win a twenty five dollars gift card
Speaker 3: to the great Cabo Bobs. That's right, go in, build
Speaker 3: your own burrito, your bowl, and your salad. Four locations
Speaker 3: in Houston, eight locations in Austin if you're listening up there.
Speaker 3: One in San Antonio, Dallas sucks for you right now
Speaker 3: because they don't have any caller number ten seven to
Speaker 3: one three two one two five nine five zero collor
Speaker 3: ten you were a winner seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two five nine five Oh just if you if
Speaker 3: you last longer than the next forty five seconds, hang
Speaker 3: out because you're not gonna win because the phones are
Speaker 3: lighting up. Cabo Bob's absolutely phenomenal. I was there Tuesday,
Speaker 3: I was there, was I there last Saturday. I was
Speaker 3: there last Saturday. I was there on Tuesday. I will
Speaker 3: prop I'm not gonna be their Sunday because they're closed
Speaker 3: on Sunday. Generally, get a salad or a bowl, get
Speaker 3: a little brown rise, get the chicken smoke perfectly on
Speaker 3: a come out of Joe, get the pico, and I
Speaker 3: get the tortill at chips. Now, I will tell you
Speaker 3: this when I hang up this phone, because I do
Speaker 3: the show on Saturday Live. I will go. Because they're
Speaker 3: closed on Sunday. They may be closed on Monday, Memorial Day.
Speaker 3: You have to use Go to Google if you have
Speaker 3: lit up your phone with data plan, find out if
Speaker 3: they're open on Monday. Not the point. It's Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3: Could have some people coming over hanging. I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: at least two bags of chips, a big thing a
Speaker 3: case on, a big thing of guacamole. Always something that
Speaker 3: I have. I do not I'm serious. I do not
Speaker 3: go to a grocery store and buy a bag of
Speaker 3: chips anymore. Used to all the time because I'm not
Speaker 3: addicted to anything in life. The closest thing I'm addicted
Speaker 3: to ESPN and Caeso and chips. I go to Kabo
Speaker 3: Bob's to get their Their chips are freshly baked, fried
Speaker 3: double thickness. Crunch crunch, crunch, crunch crunch. All Right, we
Speaker 3: got a winner. We have a winner. Stop calling. We
Speaker 3: do have a winter And thank you so much. Every
Speaker 3: week I do give it and a big shout out
Speaker 3: to Arnold and Lorie Rios, the entire staff at all
Speaker 3: their locations across the state of Texas where they are
Speaker 3: and they're they're they're just so good. See, we give that.
Speaker 3: That's what radio does. We give things away. If you
Speaker 3: have a kid who has recently taken part of the
Speaker 3: Chromebook challenge, no Kabo Bobs for you. They do not
Speaker 3: get it. You you've heard of these challenges, TikTok challenges
Speaker 3: whatever you remember how sometimes that what was it called
Speaker 3: the ice challenge that you I nominate, I nominate you
Speaker 3: callum read my producer here who puts the show together.
Speaker 3: I want you to dump a big old ice bucket
Speaker 3: of water on your head because we're gonna make donate
Speaker 3: to this charity, challenges, challenges and all this other fun stuff.
Speaker 3: You know exactly what it is. Right, So there's another challenge.
Speaker 3: This one is not good. This one is not good. Apparently.
Speaker 3: It began just a few weeks ago, and it is
Speaker 3: called and I'm telling you, parents because I want you
Speaker 3: to watch it. It's called the Chromebook challenge. And what
Speaker 3: it does. It encourages students. It gets you so stupid.
Speaker 3: It encourages students to stick small items like paper clips
Speaker 3: or pencils inside of their school assigned Google Chrome books,
Speaker 3: USB ports what all in hopes for a small cloud
Speaker 3: of smoke or a spark to ignite. Listen. I was
Speaker 3: a kid, it was semi stupid. When I was fifteen
Speaker 3: years old, there were no such things as a laptop,
Speaker 3: absolutely nothing even in the realm of mankind as a
Speaker 3: cell phone. We had a big TV with a big
Speaker 3: back on it. It was called a tube TV. I mean,
Speaker 3: the only idiot thing that we could do was take
Speaker 3: a paper clip and put it inside an electricity socket.
Speaker 3: I did not mean to say that. Kids, if you're listening,
Speaker 3: do not listen to what I just said, and don't
Speaker 3: ever do that. Do not ever do that some fifteen
Speaker 3: year old high school kid in New Jersey was arrested
Speaker 3: in charge with third degree arson and criminal mischief for
Speaker 3: intentionally manipulating his chromebook as part of this thing. You
Speaker 3: see kids go to jail. Who comes up with this?
Speaker 3: Number one? Who comes up with this? Number two who
Speaker 3: video tapes this? Number three who uploads it to TikTok
Speaker 3: or whatever platform? And number four who looks at this
Speaker 3: and says to themselves, ha, look at that. Man just
Speaker 3: ruined a three hundred dollars or so chromebook laptop, almost
Speaker 3: electrocuted himself for herself, and oh, by the way, got
Speaker 3: arrested by the coppers, and who copies that? Come on, man,
Speaker 3: it's dangerous placing items like paper clips inside any USB
Speaker 3: port anything like that. It can cause the laptop to
Speaker 3: short circuit. It heats, it sparks, it smokes. We as
Speaker 3: teenagers actually moste everything in life, no matter howld you are,
Speaker 3: we need to stay away from things that heat and
Speaker 3: spark and smoke, including cigarettes. Kids don't do SIGs. Do
Speaker 3: not put paper clips inside USB ports because what happens
Speaker 3: The paper clip becomes a pathway for electricity to travel
Speaker 3: outside if it's intended circuit path. You see, that's the
Speaker 3: easiest way for me to break it down. Ruins everything.
Speaker 3: Laptops so, by the way, contain lithium ion batteries. When
Speaker 3: those batteries are heated too much, toxic gas generation, fire,
Speaker 3: potential explosions. Awesome, awesome. Make sure you get that on
Speaker 3: videotape too. School dishes right now, even though school's about
Speaker 3: to close or shut down for the summer, they're sitting
Speaker 3: letters to parents using social media to educate these things
Speaker 3: about the chromebook challenge. All right. By the way, why
Speaker 3: just a chromebook because they're the most inexpensive of laptops,
Speaker 3: which generally they are. You don't want to blow up
Speaker 3: a two thousand dollars Apple smart Come on, man, did
Speaker 3: TikTok take the stuff down? Who is even running TikTok?
Speaker 3: Remember TikTok were supposed to be take it down?
Speaker 4: Oop?
Speaker 3: I'll get in a politics all right. As we end this, sing,
Speaker 3: what is the stupidest thing that you did as a kid?
Speaker 3: I could say, as it pertains to that, did you,
Speaker 3: I don't know, sit in a bathtub with an alarm
Speaker 3: clock or something? Kids don't do that either. Stupidest thing
Speaker 3: you did as a kid three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: t E x A N three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: textans do calum do me favor? I want you to
Speaker 3: screen these calls. Is I'm not I am absolutely not
Speaker 3: trying to promote things like this or whatever stupid things
Speaker 3: you did as a kid. But if they're kind of
Speaker 3: funny and they and maybe they can't be replicated today,
Speaker 3: I don't know because the technology is too sophisticated. I
Speaker 3: do want to hear three four six twenty nine textants
Speaker 3: stupidest thing that you did as a kid that did
Speaker 3: not get you arrested and did not calm you, harm
Speaker 3: you bodily, function internally or externally. When we come back, parents,
Speaker 3: here's some good news. You want to tell your kids
Speaker 3: how to get a job, find a profession that actually
Speaker 3: is hiring, that actually can pay quite well. Welp, stand by.
Speaker 3: I got an interview with a community college that is
Speaker 3: offering a very unique course. Yes, it has something to
Speaker 3: do with technology. That's coming up right here.
Speaker 8: Just after the break of the High Tech Tension Show.
Speaker 8: Continuing the long running High Tech Texting Show.
Speaker 3: Michael is the name Michael Garfield. You can hit me
Speaker 3: online Michael at High tech, texting, dot com, and every
Speaker 3: other means of social media that you can think of.
Speaker 3: If you know me, you know my cell phone text me.
Speaker 3: If not, I ain't giving you my text number, So
Speaker 3: just suck it up. People, there's other ways to reach me.
Speaker 3: Phone number here seven one, three, two one two five
Speaker 3: nine five zho. I have given that number out twenty
Speaker 3: three years. I have been doing this almost a quarter
Speaker 3: of a century, and my job is to answer questions
Speaker 3: or give you the answer that I think is best.
Speaker 3: And I know if I categorize a lot of the
Speaker 3: questions that I get over the years, it has been
Speaker 3: a lot of Hey, Michael, I want to get a
Speaker 3: smart home. Where should I start? Who should I start with?
Speaker 3: What's the Is it simple to do it myself putting
Speaker 3: a security system? Or if I want to put a
Speaker 3: camera system in there, how do I do it? I'll
Speaker 3: take you back twenty years. It was not easy before wireless.
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember my why I bought a home
Speaker 3: twenties or so years ago. I hired a company who
Speaker 3: came in with a little league jackhammer and a hammer
Speaker 3: and they popped thirty or forty holes in my wall
Speaker 3: to drag the coaxle cable and the whole thing it was.
Speaker 3: It was a long, long process. Nowadays it is easier
Speaker 3: because there are so many products and yes you can dy,
Speaker 3: you can do it yourself, but at some point you
Speaker 3: do need skilled workers to do the audio video systems.
Speaker 3: Is to set up the smart home and do you
Speaker 3: want one system like a control force system? And that's
Speaker 3: where I make recommendations. But I have another recommendation, why
Speaker 3: don't you go to school and freaking learn how to
Speaker 3: do it yourself? And with that I have an answer
Speaker 3: right here in Houston. HCC Houston Community College, I have learned,
Speaker 3: has a higher program now that teaches students how to
Speaker 3: be in the smart home smart building technology where they
Speaker 3: can do everything from wiring and networking and structuring cable.
Speaker 3: I want to learn more about that, and with so
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to the resource himself. His name
Speaker 3: is Matt Adams. He is a program coordinator for the
Speaker 3: Electrical Technology and Smart Building Facilities over at HCC Houston
Speaker 3: Community College. I bring in Matt right now, where what
Speaker 3: was this class like twenty years ago that I've could
Speaker 3: have taken. Why did it take you so long to
Speaker 3: create this? Mat?
Speaker 9: Hey, Garth, thanks for having me on the show. I
Speaker 9: mean part of it is I've been researching this for
Speaker 9: five years and we just launched August nineteenth. And the
Speaker 9: one they I've learned is all these people that do
Speaker 9: this stuff, they were so busy doing it that they
Speaker 9: didn't bother to lay out an infrastructure. So it's been
Speaker 9: coming out of different aspects of different skills. So everybody
Speaker 9: knows what it networking is, that's great. Well, like what
Speaker 9: they do is not it networking. It's more connecting networking
Speaker 9: for connected devices. So they've taken things that have been
Speaker 9: out there, maybe commercially industrially, and scaled it in a
Speaker 9: different way to use it and do some really impressive
Speaker 9: stuff with it. But they don't exist with the Department
Speaker 9: of Labor, even though they actually do exist.
Speaker 3: It's called your program that you really just launched a
Speaker 3: few months ago in the fall. It's called the Smart
Speaker 3: Building Technology Program and it's at HCC. What I'm gonna
Speaker 3: start with the careers because I get a lot of
Speaker 3: questions also, Hey, Michael, should I you know, should my
Speaker 3: kid go into this career, this career with it? I
Speaker 3: know it's big, but what kind of careers are students
Speaker 3: preparing for in this field of smart building technology.
Speaker 9: Trying to define it on where you can go. It's
Speaker 9: so broad every time you trying to find it, it's
Speaker 9: something more. But to break it down to basic type categories,
Speaker 9: I mean, you can become an infrastructure person where you're
Speaker 9: laying down networking, cable, fiber optics. They don't do as
Speaker 9: much coax anymore, it's kind of dead. You can get
Speaker 9: into networking, but networking not like it, but networking for
Speaker 9: connected devices where you're interconnecting things. Because ultimately you can
Speaker 9: have a light switch and a light bulb, but how
Speaker 9: can I tie that into other devices my TV, my
Speaker 9: thermostat for things like energy management and comfort in your
Speaker 9: house and health and wellness. It gets into lighting and
Speaker 9: light control, which is kind of my favorite. I'm very
Speaker 9: fascinating with what some of the things are doing with
Speaker 9: low voltage lighting. On a next level, it's bizarre audio
Speaker 9: visual everything from just your regular soundbar and TV to
Speaker 9: digital signage, distributed audio and video things like that where
Speaker 9: you're wanting to broadcast a single signal out to multiple locations.
Speaker 9: You've got security and fire both security systems, access control
Speaker 9: camera systems, and it's even though that's that much. It's
Speaker 9: still so much broader than that. It just depends on
Speaker 9: where you want to go and how you want to
Speaker 9: take the knowledge.
Speaker 3: Talking to Matt Adams here, Matt is with the HCC
Speaker 3: preparing students. Let's go back to that because I know
Speaker 3: probably a lot of students graduating right now from high school.
Speaker 3: What do I want to do parents a listening? How
Speaker 3: does the program prepare students for real world work as
Speaker 3: the installers and technicians and the integrators in residential but
Speaker 3: also the commercial settings.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, one of the things we always get
Speaker 9: when you're an academian is everybody we're just theorists that
Speaker 9: are teaching a whole bunch of book knowledge, whether you're
Speaker 9: looking at a professional system on some of the manufacturers
Speaker 9: out there that are high end level to even some
Speaker 9: of the DIY stuff. And of course some of the
Speaker 9: stuff that I try and teach them is not just
Speaker 9: in the class, but how they even work on their
Speaker 9: own homes as part of their teaching environment. So besides
Speaker 9: them just learning in class, they're going and doing at
Speaker 9: their house while playing around with the technology.
Speaker 3: I can honestly say after doing this for so long
Speaker 3: and being in this space where people are asking me
Speaker 3: recommendations or you know what my thoughts are of which
Speaker 3: I should build or a career to go into. How
Speaker 3: important would you say is it to have this workforce
Speaker 3: skilled in things like the structured cablings in the security technology.
Speaker 9: Everybody always asks me are their jobs in this? I
Speaker 9: like jobs. There are jobs everywhere. In fact, my nine
Speaker 9: students keep getting job offers. Every time we go out
Speaker 9: to a field trip, a show and anything. They're like, hey,
Speaker 9: can I hire you people? I only have nine They're
Speaker 9: not done yet, and so I think the funniest one
Speaker 9: was one of my students that just got out of
Speaker 9: the military in the summer and he went to a
Speaker 9: free training on access control, which is like badge entry,
Speaker 9: and all he had was a security license and just
Speaker 9: finished his first semester of starting a second semester, didn't
Speaker 9: know much. He got two job offers. One of them
Speaker 9: was for like eighty something thousand bucks, and he's like,
Speaker 9: I don't know anything. We don't care. We just were
Speaker 9: so desperate for people because one of the bad things
Speaker 9: is with them not existing through the Department of Labor
Speaker 9: as a complete industry, it's hard to get data. So
Speaker 9: when you look up low voltage jobs. It can be
Speaker 9: hard to find these companies, and yet all of them
Speaker 9: are hiring, and all of them are really in need
Speaker 9: of people with skills. And those skills could be everything
Speaker 9: from mechanical skills and learn how to use using tools,
Speaker 9: electrical electronics, networking type skills, sensors, and the list goes
Speaker 9: on and on. But if you've got some good skills,
Speaker 9: it's not hard to get a job.
Speaker 3: I'd love it. Matt Adams here giving me an idea
Speaker 3: for my side gig coming up, where I may enroll
Speaker 3: an ACC so I can get smart.
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, well, it's like one of the things
Speaker 9: that one of my friends turned me onto in the fall.
Speaker 9: I was like, I need something for the students to use,
Speaker 9: and so he Linux. I'm sure you know Linux. Linux
Speaker 9: has a distribution called home Assistant and it's free, and
Speaker 9: so I've had my students get on eBay. I've been
Speaker 9: teaching them about buying use computers off eBay for fifty bucks.
Speaker 9: Take that load up Home Assistant on that and they're
Speaker 9: automating their whole houses and it's building a sandbox at
Speaker 9: their house because it's giving them an infrastructured system at
Speaker 9: their house to learn, make mistakes on things like that,
Speaker 9: and they kind of do weird stuff.
Speaker 3: Weird stuff always happen at HCC. His name is Matt Adams.
Speaker 3: If Matt to wrap this up over here, if a
Speaker 3: listener is thinking about a hands on maybe that tech
Speaker 3: driven career, why should they consider rolling in this program
Speaker 3: at HGC And if so, what information what website can
Speaker 3: you give us?
Speaker 9: Well, one of the things is we've got lots of seats.
Speaker 9: I always like to say at school, empty seats make
Speaker 9: bad students. And we've still got seats available for summer
Speaker 9: and fall. But one of the things that, of course
Speaker 9: higher education is getting a bad rep for these days
Speaker 9: of student loan debts. Great thing about HC is we've
Speaker 9: got inexpensive classes. We've got tons of you can get
Speaker 9: financial aid, but plus, because we're a electrical trade, you
Speaker 9: can apply for tons of scholarship money there. And I've
Speaker 9: got jobs when you graduate. But if you're interested, you
Speaker 9: can go to ACCS dot edu and go on there
Speaker 9: and you can look up smart building technology.
Speaker 3: And I'm very familiar with HCC and I love how
Speaker 3: they keep expanding something like this, and I think, certainly
Speaker 3: from my seat where I've been doing this for a
Speaker 3: quarter of a century over here. Matt. This is something
Speaker 3: that is much needed. Smart home wants steroids. I like
Speaker 3: it all right, Matt. Congrats on this. Very great. Glad
Speaker 3: to hear something like this is starting and rolling too.
Speaker 9: I did want to make one other thing. This is
Speaker 9: the first two year associate degree in the United States
Speaker 9: in this field. So there are a couple of small
Speaker 9: programs around the country, but this is this is full
Speaker 9: deep dive into.
Speaker 3: This sounds great, Matt. Congrats on the success. It's great
Speaker 3: to hear something like this is being started right here
Speaker 3: in the Texas is certainly HCC at is EIGHTCCS dot
Speaker 3: edu if anybody wants him. Matt Adams getting ready to
Speaker 3: come over and work in my house.
Speaker 9: Cool sounds like a plan, Garth.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Continued success and have a great summer.
Speaker 3: Michael is the name. Questions about this and anything else?
Speaker 3: You know how to get a hold of me. We're
Speaker 3: going to be right back.
Speaker 7: Don't go anywhere, and there you go.
Speaker 3: For those kids or even adults who want to participate
Speaker 3: in a Houston Community College class, for those sort of
Speaker 3: a certification of low vultage of being able to wire
Speaker 3: the doorbells and the security cameras if you want to test,
Speaker 3: if you want to get you picked tests. I may
Speaker 3: have a few things that I could be upgraded. My
Speaker 3: home is pretty well tricked out, but feel free to
Speaker 3: get in touch with me. But again, in most all serious,
Speaker 3: I always could use help. But it's a good vocation,
Speaker 3: and it's it. That's it. That's some bright news, some
Speaker 3: good news, just like Lester Holt says as he ends
Speaker 3: his nightly newscast that you know, maybe there is an
Speaker 3: opportunity to go out and get a new profession or
Speaker 3: you know, teach kids of you know, a really neat trade.
Speaker 3: So I do thank Matt Adams and the folks at
Speaker 3: Mused Community College for coming on spending some time. So
Speaker 3: we do wind up the show. I want to pay
Speaker 3: off a few of the things that we teased. Texting.
Speaker 3: Who has ever received one of those unpaid toll hex scams?
Speaker 3: I don't know when this started, but past year or so.
Speaker 3: It's I'm not getting as much right now, but really,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's what's going Hey, you have an unpaid
Speaker 3: told click this button? Yeah, okay, if you get a
Speaker 3: text from any number that you don't know any number.
Speaker 3: You don't know number one, probably delete it. In a
Speaker 3: worst case scenario, I go, I'd say, go to a
Speaker 3: pay phone, but you kids don't know what a payphone is.
Speaker 3: Go to a phone, a wired phone, your office phone
Speaker 3: or something and call the number. Don't call from your
Speaker 3: cell phone. If you do call from your cell phone,
Speaker 3: you can use the old trick star six' seven to
Speaker 3: hide your number so you don't see who's, calling just
Speaker 3: to see if it's. Real but you just don't do
Speaker 3: any this stuff. Anyway Android, google who's the man makes
Speaker 3: The android. Phone they're actually getting. Smart they are coming
Speaker 3: out with this new. Technology google is updating it's scam detection.
Speaker 3: Technology should you have An android phone to spot hoaxes
Speaker 3: like the unpaid toll text some of the most common
Speaker 3: types of text related. Schemes that's according to The Federal Trade.
Speaker 3: Commission this new scam detection is going to be in
Speaker 3: the new update To Google. Messages AND i Use Google
Speaker 3: messages BECAUSE i have An android and that's the messaging
Speaker 3: app installed on Most android phones by. Default Now i'll
Speaker 3: tell you right, Now Google message does a pretty decent
Speaker 3: job of monitoring text for other types of ploys like
Speaker 3: fake job offers and bogus PACKAGE deff. Alerts still maybe
Speaker 3: once or twice a, WEEK i still get something that's very.
Speaker 3: Suspicious but apparently it's start just starting to roll, out
Speaker 3: AND i do need to go check and What i'm
Speaker 3: going to do as soon AS i get out of
Speaker 3: the radio here in about seven, Minutes i'm gonna go
Speaker 3: to my. Messages i'm gonna go to actually see if
Speaker 3: there's an, update go To Google play see If Google
Speaker 3: messages has. Updated sometimes it does it. Itself sometimes you
Speaker 3: need to kind of jump start it. Here but this
Speaker 3: is all In. Kanjut google had a big developers conference this.
Speaker 3: Week they announced a number of different thing cosmetic changes
Speaker 3: to the a lot of This google SOFTWARE ai And
Speaker 3: Android helper and all this other. Stuff but text scams
Speaker 3: related to phony unpaid, tolls they've been on the. Rise
Speaker 3: AND i got some stats here for, you Stat, boy
Speaker 3: the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint center received about sixty thousand
Speaker 3: complaints related to toll scams just last. Year fake unpaid
Speaker 3: told texts quadrupled Between january and Late. February this is
Speaker 3: according to, McAfee the software maker for security and apparently
Speaker 3: this blows My this blows my. Mind consumers lost four
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy million dollars to text scams in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Four somebody is not listening to my show or watching
Speaker 3: MY tv segments BECAUSE i constantly tell you and try
Speaker 3: to help you avoid. This who loses four hundred and seventy?
Speaker 3: Million who loses four hundred and seventy? Dollars who loses
Speaker 3: forty seven? Cents don't click on these. Things it's a.
Speaker 3: Problem i'm trying to delve Inside google is. Doing but
Speaker 3: it's an anti spam. Technology what it does it analyzes
Speaker 3: a conversation for red. Flags it's kind of like those
Speaker 3: phishing scams that you get on. Emails oh this looks
Speaker 3: legit because it's got a logo Of amazon or some
Speaker 3: company you, know or a. Bank. AH a lot of
Speaker 3: these texts they have poor, grammar they have urgent. Language
Speaker 3: oh you gotta do this, now suspicious, links faked, logos
Speaker 3: blah blah. Blah just don't do. IT i let things
Speaker 3: go to voicemail more than you can. Know IF i
Speaker 3: do not know the, Number i'll listen to my voicemail
Speaker 3: eight out of ten times IT'S i don't know who this.
Speaker 3: Is it's a, fake it's, bot it's a. Scam it's
Speaker 3: really consumer. AWARENESS i have taken to consumer awareness and
Speaker 3: brought in the use of, technology because the technology is
Speaker 3: how we we don't even. Use we don't very few
Speaker 3: people use wired, phones landline. Phones my, parents if you're
Speaker 3: listening In, dallas shout out to. YOU i, know still
Speaker 3: the same phone line THAT i had WHEN i was
Speaker 3: living there many, many many years. Ago but nowadays it
Speaker 3: are these technological devices that can fake who they, are
Speaker 3: and bots who they, are and THEN ai this AND ai.
Speaker 3: That just be freaking. Careful would you please please be.
Speaker 3: Careful it's as simple as. That all, right last thing
Speaker 3: or two that we're missing. HERE i talk about cars a.
Speaker 3: Lot i've been, testing test driving some new. Cars what is? This,
Speaker 3: oh who uses, well speaking of apples And? Android who
Speaker 3: Uses apple Car play Or Android? Auto, right those are
Speaker 3: becoming so prevalent in newer. Cars used to be you
Speaker 3: had to plug your phone in to use. These and
Speaker 3: what it does it mirrors what's on your phone and
Speaker 3: it puts it on the screen on the, right on
Speaker 3: the infotainment, screen so you don't have to take your
Speaker 3: eyes off the. Road, nowadays it's more and More, bluetooth
Speaker 3: so you just wirelessly turn your blue tooth. On you're
Speaker 3: gonna get it To apple Car play is getting a
Speaker 3: very big. UPGRADE i think they've upgraded that thing in
Speaker 3: a long. Time apple Car play right, now it's used
Speaker 3: by hundreds of, thousands millions of people who use that
Speaker 3: phone's app over the built in apps for their. Cars infotamus.
Speaker 3: System something new coming. Out it's called Car Play ultra
Speaker 3: and it's new. Software but it's gonna help iPhones capabilities
Speaker 3: into a vehicle system so you can use your vehicles
Speaker 3: features and use the smartphone. Too, allegedly it's gonna make
Speaker 3: it more user friendly and. Whatever so according To, apple
Speaker 3: this is the next. Generation it's going to be the
Speaker 3: ultimate in in car, experience ultimate in in car. Experience
Speaker 3: so some of the brands that you are going to
Speaker 3: see is going to feature this Car Play, Ultra, Hyundai, Kia,
Speaker 3: Genesis apparently they like playing With South korean made, cars
Speaker 3: and you're gonna see it more and. More This divine so,
Speaker 3: anyway it's going to have multi screen, integration advanced vehicle
Speaker 3: specific features for those, Vehicles enhanced vehicle function, controls some new.
Speaker 3: Widgets when do we expect this? Thing that is a
Speaker 3: very good. Question but right, Now CarPlay ultra works with
Speaker 3: the iPhone twelve or. Later if you're running iOS eighteen point,
Speaker 3: five one of the latest iOS you may want to.
Speaker 3: See the dropperning system is updated so over the Next,
Speaker 3: actually it's launching with The Aston martin. Models, OH i
Speaker 3: have so many of my listeners who have Askedon martin's
Speaker 3: actually don't. HAVE i probably. Do but it's going to
Speaker 3: be available to vehicles all over the world within the
Speaker 3: next twelve. Months, okay good news out Of google with Their,
Speaker 3: android with their anti text news out Of. Apple man
Speaker 3: it is cat and. Mouse what do you? Got you
Speaker 3: got a blue, dot you got a green, dot dead,
Speaker 3: matter it doesn't. Matter use your son. Screen this, weekend
Speaker 3: as we wind up the, SHOW i want to wish
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Speaker 3: those who have made this country free for, us and
Speaker 3: so we thank you so much for. That while you're out,
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