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Speaker 2: Today, we're going to talk about a few things that
Speaker 2: I actually don't talk about a lot. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk a little about pull iOS, Apple iOS eighteen. The
Speaker 2: new operating system is here. Do you want it? Have
Speaker 2: you downloaded? Is your iPhone ready for it? And if
Speaker 2: it's not, I'm gonna give you a little checklist to
Speaker 2: make sure you are ready for it? You sick subscriptions?
Speaker 2: How many subscriptions do you have? I don't care if
Speaker 2: you subscribe to electricity. I don't care if you subscribe
Speaker 2: to newsletters, Uh, your cable. It's easy to subscribe, but
Speaker 2: it is it is tough to unsubscribe. Well, there's a
Speaker 2: new law potentially that's soon going to be making it
Speaker 2: a lot easier to cancel your subscriptions. How cool was that?
Speaker 2: And it's been a long time coming. We got a
Speaker 2: few new products, and we got some giveaways.
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Speaker 2: We got giveaways because this is what radio does, unlike podcasts.
Speaker 2: Pretty much, we entice you with nice goodies to give away,
Speaker 2: you know, swags. Sometimes we give away hats and T shirts.
Speaker 2: Is what we've done for radio for twenty plus years.
Speaker 2: But I for you have gift cards. I have people
Speaker 2: that I know who have restaurants and they have stores.
Speaker 2: They say, you know what, Garth, we love your listeners.
Speaker 2: We love your demographics, who listen to you. Why don't
Speaker 2: we give a few things away. So that's the whole
Speaker 2: lineup of what we got over here. So stand by,
Speaker 2: just put things in check, we'll be set to go.
Speaker 2: One of the things I don't talk about at time.
Speaker 2: Maybe I should is AI artificial intelligence or ALAN iverson
Speaker 2: to whichever way you want to look at it, But
Speaker 2: I don't talk about AIL lot. AI moves very quickly.
Speaker 2: It is sometimes difficult to comprehend. Some of you utilize
Speaker 2: it a lot. Some people, I bet a lot of
Speaker 2: people are scared of it. You hear AI, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's got a really good rap because
Speaker 2: it doesn't have a good PR team. You know, AI
Speaker 2: is gonna take over my job, you know it. It's
Speaker 2: taking over my clients. I don't need real people to
Speaker 2: do this, or you know, people are going with artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: Some aspects that can be true, and there's rules and
Speaker 2: there's laws of what can and can't be done. And
Speaker 2: I saw something that I did want to I talk
Speaker 2: about and point out. But this is how how AI
Speaker 2: is changing things and making things a little bit more scary.
Speaker 2: There was a high school senior in Massachusetts. It was
Speaker 2: right now at the center of a legal dispute after
Speaker 2: being disciplined for using AI in a class assignment. And
Speaker 2: for parents out there, if you've got kids who are
Speaker 2: in school right now, no matter what age odds are,
Speaker 2: they've been googling things for many, many years. You if
Speaker 2: you're listening, you're relatively young and you've been in school,
Speaker 2: or you had a white paper that you need to do.
Speaker 2: We want all the assistance that we can. But AI
Speaker 2: is a different beast. Going back to the kid, the
Speaker 2: senior in Massachusetts, his parents have filed a lawsuit against
Speaker 2: a history teacher, a school district, and a local school committee,
Speaker 2: arguing that the disciplinary actions taken against their son were
Speaker 2: unfair and not supported by the school's policies when it
Speaker 2: actually happened. So here's the delio. The student used AI
Speaker 2: to create an outline, allegedly just an outline for a
Speaker 2: history essay on basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabar. Now, according
Speaker 2: to the lawsuit, this use of AI did not violate
Speaker 2: any school rules at the time. Now, despite this, he
Speaker 2: received a failing grade on the assignment. He was given detention.
Speaker 2: They still give detention now days in school, he was
Speaker 2: excluded from the National Honor Society. The law sue claims
Speaker 2: these actions have negatively impacted the kid's academic record and
Speaker 2: his chances of being accepted to a competitive college where
Speaker 2: he intended to apply. Oh, by the way, no matter
Speaker 2: that the kid got a perfect score on his ACT
Speaker 2: straight hey average, he probably could have got into a
Speaker 2: good college. So the students' parents have argued that their
Speaker 2: son did not use AI to cheat, but used AI
Speaker 2: rather to assist in research, really similar to how one
Speaker 2: might use a search engine, and they're seeking to have
Speaker 2: his ap US history grade changed, his Honor Society membership preinstated,
Speaker 2: and the cheating label removed from his record because they
Speaker 2: believe these disciplinary actions pose a significant threat to his
Speaker 2: college prospects. I get it, man, I'm a parent too,
Speaker 2: but I read this and it really kind of ticks
Speaker 2: me off. Can you imagine a teacher telling a student,
Speaker 2: don't learn to use Google. You go to the library
Speaker 2: and do your research using the Dewey decimal system. This
Speaker 2: is the twenty first century. It's absurd. These are the
Speaker 2: tools of this student's generation. In my mind, not only
Speaker 2: should he learn to use AI, but the school should
Speaker 2: be teaching best practices. Don't let your school bully you
Speaker 2: into restricting student use of AI. Listen, we may not
Speaker 2: fully understand the future that's coming, but whatever it looks like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be partnering with AI to build it. Now.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from you parents, students, what are
Speaker 2: your thoughts on this? Have you been busted as your
Speaker 2: kid been? I hate you busted called out on something
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Speaker 2: you're listening to right now is not AI. I'm not
Speaker 2: that scared that AI one day is going to take
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Speaker 2: come back. Is your phone is your iPhone? Did you
Speaker 2: upgrade to iOS eighteen? I'm gonna give you a check
Speaker 2: list to make sure your phone is ready. All great
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Speaker 2: Listen to me a long time. You know, I'm kind
Speaker 2: of an Android guy because more people around the world
Speaker 2: do use Android, much more than Apple iOS. Just the
Speaker 2: way it is. People to suck it up. I don't
Speaker 2: talk about iOS or Apple a lot, but I do
Speaker 2: feel the need to update you and give you the
Speaker 2: real info. iOS eighteen was released this week. A lot
Speaker 2: people are very timid, scared, shy about upgrading their operating system.
Speaker 2: I again, as an Android user, I probably once every
Speaker 2: three months or so. I'll get a little alert that says, hey,
Speaker 2: it's time for an upgrade. And I only get in
Speaker 2: maybe a Sunday morning, and you know, it takes four
Speaker 2: or five minutes and I do it. I don't hesitate.
Speaker 2: I In many cases, an upgrade to an operating system
Speaker 2: it fix security holes, some potential you know, potential hackers
Speaker 2: could get in. They're trying to improve the process. And
Speaker 2: again maybe I'm naive, maybe I don't like what's new
Speaker 2: because I'm so used to the old, But I do it.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. So if you have an iPhone,
Speaker 2: and you probably know, Apple released iOS eighteen, the eighteenth
Speaker 2: version of it, this week, and probably about the backside,
Speaker 2: I need to check online. They probably already have eighteen
Speaker 2: point oh one coming out soon. But it's a major
Speaker 2: iPhone upgrade, and it does add new features. See it
Speaker 2: adds a number of things, text message improvements, Apple map enhancements,
Speaker 2: You can mirror your iPhone from a Mac to a
Speaker 2: Mac os Sequoia. iOS also changes the way you interact
Speaker 2: with things with your home and lock screens and your
Speaker 2: control center, and how passwords are handled. That's a big one,
Speaker 2: all right. So do you want to do it or
Speaker 2: don't you? At some point you are going to need
Speaker 2: to do it. But upgrading to iOS eighteen it could
Speaker 2: be a process, a multi step process, and I want
Speaker 2: to make sure your adoption of this latest version of
Speaker 2: the iPhone system goes smooth and painless as possible. And
Speaker 2: by the way, you can bow out in the likely
Speaker 2: event you need to go back to iOS seventeen, the
Speaker 2: old days. You're ready, everybody ready to make the leap.
Speaker 2: I want you to follow along. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: some steps to make sure your iPhone is ready for
Speaker 2: an upgrade. Okay, and again if you missed it, I'll
Speaker 2: talk this. I'm gonna talk as slow as I can,
Speaker 2: which does hurt callum. We'll put this thing on the
Speaker 2: old podcast and you can listen to it on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: First things first, you need to make sure your iPhone
Speaker 2: is compatible with the new iOS eighteen and pretty much
Speaker 2: it goes back a while. If you have the new
Speaker 2: iPhone fifteen FRO, the Plus, the Promat, Let's go to
Speaker 2: the iPhone fourteens, you're cool. Let's go to the iPhone thirteen's,
Speaker 2: they're twelves, the elevens, you're fine. You can go back
Speaker 2: one step earlier, iPhone XS or the xsmax or even
Speaker 2: the XR. So on all you got about fifteen different
Speaker 2: phones going back a good four years, four to five
Speaker 2: years that you're okay on phone sixteen. Obviously it's cool too,
Speaker 2: that's the new one. But the first thing you should do, everybody,
Speaker 2: you need to back up your phone. Make an archive
Speaker 2: in case listen, I'm an eagle scout. Be prepared. Those
Speaker 2: are the two words that I grew up with and
Speaker 2: I still tell people. No matter what it is, you're
Speaker 2: probably accustomed to using iCloud backup. All good fall back
Speaker 2: for your data. It's neat works in the background. It
Speaker 2: involves the least amount of backup friction. Just make sure
Speaker 2: you have a lot of iCloud disc space available. But
Speaker 2: when it comes to moving a full release version of iOS,
Speaker 2: say again from the jump from iOS seventeen to iOS eighteen,
Speaker 2: IKE cloud backup kind of has little issue because after
Speaker 2: updating to iOS eighteen and letting it perform an ICOP backup,
Speaker 2: if you then decide to let's go back in time.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to iOS seventeen, you cannot
Speaker 2: restore it from that iOS eighteen backup. You can't. Right,
Speaker 2: So updating to iOS and I'm totally from what I've heard,
Speaker 2: I haven't done it because I don't have an Apple.
Speaker 2: It hadn't been a problem but there's a possibil that
Speaker 2: something can go wrong, all right. That's why you need
Speaker 2: to archive a backup on your computer. On your computer,
Speaker 2: use the right cable. The new iPhone fifteen's, well, the
Speaker 2: relatively newer iPhone fifteens, it includes USBC or instead of
Speaker 2: that old nasty, ugly, disgusting that lightning port. And the
Speaker 2: pro models they can initially support USB three that's the
Speaker 2: latest one. That's high speed data too. You're going to
Speaker 2: be backing up a lot of information. Point is, try
Speaker 2: to get all cables are not cables, is what I'm
Speaker 2: trying to tell you. The cable that came in the
Speaker 2: iPhone box, it's really meant for charging, and it's got
Speaker 2: a relatively slow speed. It's USB two point zero. You
Speaker 2: may want to go to the store, go online, get
Speaker 2: a USB c cable that's rated for USB three point
Speaker 2: one or even USB four a little look more expensive,
Speaker 2: but it's speedier. All right. Then you create a little
Speaker 2: local iPhone archive on your Mac, on your Mac hopefully
Speaker 2: you have a Mac because you're an iPhone user and
Speaker 2: that's why you use it. You want to keep within
Speaker 2: the whole atmosphere, and don't you write make call it
Speaker 2: the eye phone. Call it you know, Jennifer, Jessica John's iPhone,
Speaker 2: backup whatever it is. You can actually do it on
Speaker 2: Windows too. You can create a local iPhone archive on
Speaker 2: Windows if you want to. Then you want to make
Speaker 2: sure your iPhone is otherwise up to date, so before
Speaker 2: updating to iOS eighteen, you make sure your device is
Speaker 2: running on the latest version of seventeen. Check for an update.
Speaker 2: Go to your settings, hit general and hit software Update
Speaker 2: and I think it's iOS seventeen point seven. That's the latest.
Speaker 2: Then you're gonna go to eighteen. Always keep your phone
Speaker 2: up today. That's what you need to do. And at
Speaker 2: that point hit the button download. It's gonna take a while.
Speaker 2: Cross your fingers, cross your heart, crosh your chest, go
Speaker 2: to church, talk to your rabbi, whatever it is, and
Speaker 2: you're set to go. But again, that's what you need
Speaker 2: to know before you update. A lot of people skip
Speaker 2: a few things. A lot of people skip, Oh, I
Speaker 2: don't need to back up. I haven't really lost anything
Speaker 2: over the years that I've actually had to back up anything.
Speaker 2: But when I get a new I test laptops all
Speaker 2: the time. I mean, I swear I love a sus
Speaker 2: as US computer company. I mean, I have like a
Speaker 2: relationship with my ups guy. I think I've gotten three
Speaker 2: new Asus aces laptops over the past week or so,
Speaker 2: and I test them all. They're really cool. But what
Speaker 2: I do, I kind of I set them up and
Speaker 2: I use my you know, account information Google account and
Speaker 2: whatever I use with at Microsoft account. But then I
Speaker 2: back them up and everything. It's good because sometimes there
Speaker 2: are little, you know, hiccups in the giddy up, if
Speaker 2: you will, So you got to back, back, back, back up,
Speaker 2: always back up things. You know, if you don't have
Speaker 2: your think about it. How many photos and videos do
Speaker 2: you have right now on your phone and they're sitting there?
Speaker 2: What happens if you lose it and you've got pictures
Speaker 2: of your kids, your spouse, your vacation. Just pick them
Speaker 2: up to the cloud. At least I don't just back
Speaker 2: mine up to the cloud. I back my phones up
Speaker 2: on a relatively regular basis to my actual hard drive
Speaker 2: my computer at home. So I have two places. I
Speaker 2: got them in the clown, but I also got them
Speaker 2: on my hard drove and I've gone back for years.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I use Samsung's a lot, but I
Speaker 2: see my Samsung four folder. And I don't even know
Speaker 2: if my youngest son twenty whatever years ago was born
Speaker 2: when the Samsung four wasn't around. I kid you a bit,
Speaker 2: but that's how long I go back. I tried to
Speaker 2: do it every several months, especially when I come back
Speaker 2: from trips. I had a lot of travel this summer,
Speaker 2: international trips, and I don't want to lose that stuff,
Speaker 2: and so I back back, back it up, and it's
Speaker 2: just just a little reminder of what you need to do.
Speaker 2: So anyway, questions, I am here for you seven one three,
Speaker 2: two one two five nine five up. Here's another thing.
Speaker 2: I don't talk a lot about drones. Who's got drones?
Speaker 2: I haven't. I remember when drones were like really big
Speaker 2: coming out. I remember at CES Consumer Electronics Show there
Speaker 2: was one or two or three drone companies back about
Speaker 2: twelve years ago. It's about twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. There
Speaker 2: is now an entire hall within the Las Vegas Convention
Speaker 2: Center every January at the Consumer Electronics Show, whereas nothing
Speaker 2: but drones, and drones do more than just here's a
Speaker 2: little drone, you know, let me just send it up
Speaker 2: and see what the top of my house looks like
Speaker 2: in the industrial use of drones is very big. Police departments,
Speaker 2: fire departments use drones. They actually can have heat sensing,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, radar and light r on them
Speaker 2: to see if there's people inside burning houses. Police departments
Speaker 2: use them to actually chase people on foot so they
Speaker 2: can you know, easily find out where somebody is in
Speaker 2: a hot pursuit of something. There's a lot of things
Speaker 2: going on with drones. There is a an act that
Speaker 2: is that is trying to be a law, a government
Speaker 2: US government law that is trying to put the cabash
Speaker 2: on one particular manufacturer of drones because it is a
Speaker 2: foreign may drone and they think there's you know, US
Speaker 2: intelligence secrets out there. I'm going to talk to someone
Speaker 2: within the company and I'm gonna let them explain why
Speaker 2: they think it's upoo and popa and I'll let you decide.
Speaker 2: Clot drone talk coming up on the High Tech Jackson Show. Indeed,
Speaker 2: our back Michael Garfield is the name. It is called
Speaker 2: the High Tech Textan Show. Whether you're listening to us
Speaker 2: truly all across the state of Texas or southwest around
Speaker 2: the world, and I are radio, we do thank you
Speaker 2: for tuning in. It is my job for two plus decades.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's to answer all your questions, give
Speaker 2: you my opinions on some of the great phenomenal consumer
Speaker 2: lifestyle products. Obviously leaning a little bit towards tech and
Speaker 2: some of the things to stay away from. But I
Speaker 2: am here phone number seven one three, two, one two
Speaker 2: five nine to five ozho not too far from the
Speaker 2: holiday gift giving seasons, cees is around the court always
Speaker 2: let my favorite time of the year, especially because you know,
Speaker 2: so many new products are coming out. You see a
Speaker 2: lot of deals and sales, you know, be it Black Friday,
Speaker 2: Cyber Mondays, and then that flows into CEES which I
Speaker 2: get to see all the cool stuff and it including
Speaker 2: I brought this topic. It's come up recently, including the drones.
Speaker 2: You know, drones are fun, but drones they're not only fun,
Speaker 2: they're they're some industries that are actually life saving. Seriously,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of great uses that drones can do.
Speaker 2: I'm not a drone expert. I continue to need to
Speaker 2: fly and perfect my drone skills. But you know, one
Speaker 2: of the leading, if not the leading company around the
Speaker 2: world when it comes to drones and other technology for
Speaker 2: that matter, it's d J. I you've probably familiar with them,
Speaker 2: and I was. I found out not too long ago.
Speaker 2: There's actually some there's things going on with the government,
Speaker 2: the US government as it pertains to drones and specifically DJI,
Speaker 2: And you know, I know I'm going to get pestry
Speaker 2: for questions, and so I figured get it. Let me
Speaker 2: research a little bit more. And the easiest way for
Speaker 2: me to research, because I'm a lazy guy, is actually
Speaker 2: go to the source, and so I contacted the folks
Speaker 2: at DJI and I found Wayne Baker. Wayne Baker ironically
Speaker 2: is based in the great state of Texas. He joins me, Wayne,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you joining me, and what I want to
Speaker 2: talk about is something called the Countering ccp Drone Act
Speaker 2: and how it affects everything. But I do welcome you
Speaker 2: to the High Tech Texting Show.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you, thank you for having me on. It's
Speaker 4: always great to talk to a fellow Texan. Just a
Speaker 4: little bit about my background for your listeners. I actually
Speaker 4: started out I was a firefighter here in the North
Speaker 4: Texas area. You know, I started looking at drones, as
Speaker 4: you mentioned, as a life saving tool for the community
Speaker 4: we served as well as my firefighters, and it grew
Speaker 4: from there, you know, initially just we wanted that view
Speaker 4: from above, and then it grew to where we were
Speaker 4: dropping life jackets to people and water rescues. We began
Speaker 4: working with DJI on thermal imaging cameras and pushed them
Speaker 4: to uh you know, initially they were just drones you
Speaker 4: could buy a Best buy and we were taking them
Speaker 4: and these these off the shelf drones and adapting to
Speaker 4: our purpose and we're we're in the police and fire
Speaker 4: service were the ones that really pushed ej I to
Speaker 4: start creating these drones, uh, the industrial strength drones for
Speaker 4: what we needed. So you know, we've and we've seen
Speaker 4: countless successes with saving lives all around the world, but
Speaker 4: most recently your listeners would would have heard about uh,
Speaker 4: North Carolina where drones were not only finding uh you know,
Speaker 4: hurricane flood victims, but then later on uh into it
Speaker 4: so they were located. They were using some of our
Speaker 4: bigger drones, actually our agricultural drones that normally do spraying
Speaker 4: of crops. They were using them to carry and deliver food, water,
Speaker 4: and medicine. Be getting to your question, I apologize, but
Speaker 4: the counting CCP Drones Act is really threatening the freedom
Speaker 4: of choice of people in various industries, from the life
Speaker 4: saving tools it is for public safety, to even just
Speaker 4: people that want to have this as a hobby, because
Speaker 4: it's looking to restrict the market by removing certain products,
Speaker 4: specifically DJI products from the market. All with you know,
Speaker 4: it originally started with this narrative that was proven not
Speaker 4: to be true that DJI is stealing data and sending
Speaker 4: it back. And we've had numerous studies that have own
Speaker 4: that to not be true. Most recently we had a
Speaker 4: group FTI that did an audit just a few weeks
Speaker 4: ago came out with it saying there was no data
Speaker 4: security risk of DJI. But you know, this has changed,
Speaker 4: this narrative against the you know, our products has changed
Speaker 4: from that then too. Well, we need American manufacturers to
Speaker 4: be able to compete against DJI, and and you know,
Speaker 4: we understand that American manufacturers. You know, we DJI have
Speaker 4: been selling our products on the market since around twenty twelve,
Speaker 4: so we we had a really good start into the
Speaker 4: market and US manufacturers are you know, several years behind.
Speaker 4: But we just don't feel like the way to provide
Speaker 4: competition is to remove competition. That's that's counterintuitive. In our opinion,
Speaker 4: it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Wayne Baker joining me, he is with DJI specifically talking
Speaker 2: about piece of legislation is called the Countering ccp Drone Act,
Speaker 2: and you know it to make sure that we all
Speaker 2: know DJI parent company, it is based in China. And
Speaker 2: I firstly and probably many of my listeners and viewers
Speaker 2: out there, I mean they you know, we've seen this
Speaker 2: in other industries, the cell phone, the smartphone industry that
Speaker 2: it goes back where you know a lot of the
Speaker 2: cell phones that were manufactured Chinese, you know their band
Speaker 2: Do you see this more as you know from the
Speaker 2: US government standpoint you are they are they trying to
Speaker 2: protect the safety of Americans and security or could it
Speaker 2: be more of a business decision? You know, we just
Speaker 2: want the US to kind of catch up and sell
Speaker 2: more domestically.
Speaker 4: Made well that you actually point out how the goalpost
Speaker 4: keeps moving UH on the target towards uh dj I
Speaker 4: and some others. Is that you know, get it. It
Speaker 4: did started out with when we're were we need to
Speaker 4: protect Americans from data security and that's a that's a
Speaker 4: justifiable concern, absolutely except for the fact that again, as
Speaker 4: I mentioned, we have been vetted on numerous occasions, UH
Speaker 4: to not be a security risk. And then when when
Speaker 4: that when that uh you know line was now proven
Speaker 4: not to be true, then it became well, now we
Speaker 4: need as you mentioned, we need to protect our market
Speaker 4: and allow American UH to you know, manufacturers to step
Speaker 4: up and compete. And I and I look back to
Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember back when this during the
Speaker 4: seventies eighties was what we did with Japanese auto manufacturers
Speaker 4: and other you know, Japanese products, and protectionism then didn't work,
Speaker 4: and it's not good now, it's not good for the market.
Speaker 4: And we're talking drones are still a very new product
Speaker 4: out there and still being adopted into a lot of
Speaker 4: industries and bringing a lot of safety to those industries
Speaker 4: and as well as a lot of efficiency to those industries,
Speaker 4: you know, everything from oil and gas pipeline and being
Speaker 4: able to catch pipeline leaks in North Texas before you
Speaker 4: know they get to where they create an environmental hazard
Speaker 4: is one way drones are being used. So you know
Speaker 4: again that protectionism can cause adverse effects. You know, it's shortsightedness,
Speaker 4: whereas long term. I mean absolutely, we want to see
Speaker 4: and I would love to work for a US manufacturer.
Speaker 4: Not that I don't like working for or DJI, it's
Speaker 4: a great company, but obviously I would want to work
Speaker 4: for US manufacturer. Unfortunately, we don't have one that is
Speaker 4: able to provide the products that we're seeing now at
Speaker 4: a good cost, with exceptional capabilities from our zoom cameras
Speaker 4: to our thermal image and cameras, and it just right now,
Speaker 4: this is the company that's able to help me continue
Speaker 4: that life saving mission that I've had my whole life.
Speaker 2: Essentially, I can't concur I've seen some of the newer
Speaker 2: models that the DJI just has come out with from
Speaker 2: the consumer level, I mean, they're relatively inexpensive and they're
Speaker 2: getting continued to getting smart. As we continue with Wayne Baker,
Speaker 2: he's with DJI. What's current status right now on Capitol
Speaker 2: Hill with this Act?
Speaker 4: Well, it has passed the House of Representatives, although as
Speaker 4: we know from those of us that were younger and
Speaker 4: saw the cartoon in school about how a bill is
Speaker 4: becomes a law, so it has moved on to the
Speaker 4: Senate and sits at the Senate right now. Uh, and
Speaker 4: that's where we're we're trying to really you know, people
Speaker 4: ask a lot of times what do we do at
Speaker 4: this point? And its education. A lot of it is legislators,
Speaker 4: you know, are are hearing one side of the story
Speaker 4: and don't always understand the technology and the capabilities or
Speaker 4: the limitations of the drones. And so we're really trying
Speaker 4: to engage on a lot of different fronts to educate
Speaker 4: legislators on the technology but also the impact that this
Speaker 4: would have.
Speaker 2: You readed a new jingle I'm just a drone as
Speaker 2: I'm only a drone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it goes through my head every time we take exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, going back to the school house rock days, I
Speaker 2: do remember that quite, you know, very very well. But
Speaker 2: it was about how to engage with your local representatives
Speaker 2: to you know, to start bills and laws. And in
Speaker 2: our conversation with that, how how can people stay aware
Speaker 2: of developments with the countering CCP Drone Act and engage
Speaker 2: with their local reps.
Speaker 4: And that is a great question and I appreciate the
Speaker 4: opportunity to mention. There's there's two big groups that have formed. Uh.
Speaker 4: One is the Drone Advocacy Alliance, and this is a
Speaker 4: lot of industry partners and and what we call our ecosystem,
Speaker 4: so not just you know, the drones, but the businesses
Speaker 4: that have created products to go with the drones, the
Speaker 4: software to you know, enhance the capabilities of the drones.
Speaker 4: So Drone Advocacy Alliance is really engaged with Congress to
Speaker 4: explain the impact it would have on their businesses. You know,
Speaker 4: there's there's other groups for those that fly drones just
Speaker 4: as a hobby. They're Facebook groups that are out there
Speaker 4: that you can become a part of that help share knowledge.
Speaker 4: And what's great about those is it's not just legislative,
Speaker 4: it's you know, hey, how do I do this with
Speaker 4: my drone? Or or is there a better way to
Speaker 4: you know, get my images to look nicer? Things like that.
Speaker 4: They share a lot of information, so you know, those
Speaker 4: are two of the biggest ways. And then reaching out
Speaker 4: to your local elected officials, your state senators even uh
Speaker 4: you know, your your local you know, county elected officials
Speaker 4: to explain to them why why it would impact them,
Speaker 4: because everybody's voice gets heard, and the education even down
Speaker 4: to that level is so much better for you know,
Speaker 4: keeping this from becoming real.
Speaker 2: That is great information and great resources. Wayne Baker with
Speaker 2: DJI talking about the countering ccp drone Act. Do me
Speaker 2: a favor of the next time you come on, We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about adjectives and adverbs. You can explain
Speaker 2: that it works. Also the school health Rock Day. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 2: congrats your success, great information, and good luck with all
Speaker 2: of your endeavors with what you're doing with DJI.
Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate it and thank you again.
Speaker 2: You got it all right, folks. Questions open phone lines
Speaker 2: right now. It is seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: five nine five.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield be long running high tech texting show. Don't
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Speaker 2: Drone Talk seven one three two one two five nine
Speaker 2: five Oh. Thanks to Wayne Baker for his time. He
Speaker 2: is with DJI. DJI big company and they make more
Speaker 2: than drones. They are a leader, if not the leader,
Speaker 2: worldwide one it comes to drones. But they also make
Speaker 2: a number of different things. They make some really good
Speaker 2: wireless microphones, some gimbals for all you vloggers influencers out there,
Speaker 2: We want to put your phone on these little handeld
Speaker 2: little gimble devices for smooth shots. I tested out the
Speaker 2: DJI Mike to their second version of their wireless mics.
Speaker 2: It's pretty strong. It's pretty strong. Two hundred fifty ish
Speaker 2: dollars or so. Two wireless mikes, a receiver that plugs
Speaker 2: into your phone, be it the iPhone or the Android,
Speaker 2: and the range is you got a several hundred feet
Speaker 2: of a way because it's lighting in audio. A little
Speaker 2: tip for me to you. Lighting and audio are absolutely
Speaker 2: key when you're shooting video.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: This is something I learned forty years ago when I
Speaker 2: was a radio TV film major at college. Some people
Speaker 2: nowadays they forget it. I mean, it's just so funny
Speaker 2: when I see some people do videos and they're standing
Speaker 2: I don't they have somebody shoot it for him, and
Speaker 2: they're ten feet away from the camera. I just can't
Speaker 2: hear them. So audio is very good. So and again
Speaker 2: this is not an endorsement. I wish it was, do
Speaker 2: I wish dj I sponsored my show. On many levels,
Speaker 2: it's just one of the better wireless microphones out there. Yes,
Speaker 2: there are a number of other wireless microphones. You could
Speaker 2: find no name ones on Amazon for thirty forty fifty
Speaker 2: sixty dollars, but the ones I tested out specifically from
Speaker 2: dji if you tuned in a few weeks ago, are
Speaker 2: very good. But you know, drones, I don't know. On
Speaker 2: one hand, I see why the US government wants to
Speaker 2: make this a law that they don't want a Chinese
Speaker 2: own company controlling the drone airwaves. They think they're gonna
Speaker 2: map and data everything. I get it is that the reason,
Speaker 2: or as I pointed out the interview, is it because
Speaker 2: the US is trying to protect our and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: use the word our market share more. US companies need
Speaker 2: to you know, produce products and we should purchase them
Speaker 2: before we purchase foreign things. And this is not just
Speaker 2: in technology gadgets, it is it is smartphones. There's a
Speaker 2: smartphone manufacturer out of China called Huawei h u a
Speaker 2: h Ei or something like that. Years ago. It was
Speaker 2: then President Trump. He said no, no, no, they're not
Speaker 2: going to be sold at all because the Chinese has
Speaker 2: all the data that we don't want them smartphones over here.
Speaker 2: Look look at what Biden's doing with cars with evs.
Speaker 2: There are Chinese made evs that are superior and much
Speaker 2: less expensive than the evs we have here. I mean
Speaker 2: minuscule in terms of the costs. But the US government
Speaker 2: wants to put a tariff sometimes what fifty to one
Speaker 2: hundred percent extra tariff or a charge to ship these
Speaker 2: things here the yes, which at at that point it
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. I mean, listen, politics is above my
Speaker 2: pay grade. Politics is something I don't carry. Politics is
Speaker 2: one of the reasons I don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: gray hair. I don't worry about it too much because
Speaker 2: can't we just all get along?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: I mean, did you have a problem when Sony and
Speaker 2: I know this Japanese years ago came out and just
Speaker 2: owned like the home audio, the portable audio market, the
Speaker 2: TVs back then. I just thought everybody's up in arms.
Speaker 2: And again I'm a naive boy. What do you expect
Speaker 2: that's what you're gonna do? But again, this is why
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Speaker 2: thinking about getting one to put on my kids because
Speaker 2: he's a young kid. Put it in his school backpack
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Speaker 2: place the air tags? That's from Jonathan. Jonathan is in Pairland. Funny.
Speaker 2: It's good question. Apple air tags and Samsung has them too,
Speaker 2: and a number of other companies say to actually make
Speaker 2: these things. Tile is another one. T I L E Chippotlo.
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Speaker 2: Actually that's one of the ones I'm using right now.
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Speaker 2: jacket when you head out. It's easy to do, could
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Speaker 2: or wherever it is. Sometimes around the world, speaking around
Speaker 2: the world. When I traveled outside of the country earlier
Speaker 2: this year, twice I put a few of these air
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's tough. You don't know where your luggage ends up.
Speaker 2: Times it waits thirty minutes for your bag to roll
Speaker 2: off the conveyor belt. Sometimes they get lost, so put
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Speaker 1: To make life easier some new technology. So Michael Garfield
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Speaker 2: Halfway through the show, we call this halfway to half
Speaker 2: the hour. Very happy day. College game Day just finished
Speaker 2: about an hour ago from the great city of Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2: Austin text by you talk about it, this sports capital
Speaker 2: of the world this weekend. My mom born and raised
Speaker 2: in Austin. My grandparents were in Austin. Austin used to
Speaker 2: be very sleepy town one hundred years ago. My grandfather
Speaker 2: was born, very sleepy town. I remember going to visit
Speaker 2: my grandparents the nineteen seventies. I mean there was no
Speaker 2: mo Pack, there was no Dell, there was no traffic
Speaker 2: or anything. Even in the eighties when I was in college,
Speaker 2: it was a relatively kind of sweet, cool town. Nowadays,
Speaker 2: it's overcrowded, it is packed is it's expensive. I still go.
Speaker 2: My youngest son lives there, my ma Ma mat is there.
Speaker 2: I go as many games as I can. It's it's
Speaker 2: tough to go to. So not only is the biggest
Speaker 2: college football game of the year so far there tonight
Speaker 2: Texas versus Georgia, it's also F one weekend. F one
Speaker 2: is a racing series, and there's only three F one
Speaker 2: races in the United States in a given year. It's
Speaker 2: a worldwide circle, but there's only three in the United States.
Speaker 2: Ones in Miami, ones in Austin, and ones in Vegas.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, some smart dude put it
Speaker 2: on the same weekend as Texas versus Georgia. Oh and
Speaker 2: by the way, I think Eminem has his win and
Speaker 2: only concert of the year. Oh, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 2: I don't know, just just watch it on TV. So
Speaker 2: we are I don't know about what five and a
Speaker 2: half hours, six and six and a half hours from kickoff?
Speaker 2: So horns up. You know, I bleed orange and that's
Speaker 2: how it works. But should you be an aggie? Should
Speaker 2: you be a sooner? Sucks for you? I know, I'm
Speaker 2: not kidding about that. I do appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker 2: I will still answer your questions and talk to you
Speaker 2: at seven one three two one two five nine five.
Speaker 2: Great weather this pass week? Do you agree? Very rarely
Speaker 2: do you hear me say great outstanding weather in Euston
Speaker 2: because I cannot stand the weather in Houston. I just
Speaker 2: it's it's, you know, April, May, June, July, August, September,
Speaker 2: sometimes to October. I don't know what happened, man, They
Speaker 2: just flipped the switch a few days ago, and it
Speaker 2: is spectacular. It is fall, my favorite holiday of the year, uh,
Speaker 2: including religious holidays. Alla, Wayne, don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: I actually I do know what it is. I mean,
Speaker 2: where else, what other time? What other night of the
Speaker 2: year can you just go up and knock on a
Speaker 2: perfect stranger's house and say, gimmerishim candy gimmerishim candy and
Speaker 2: they just give you some freaking candy. The weather's cooling,
Speaker 2: it's just it's it's football season. It's awesome part of
Speaker 2: the tradition, you know, I always say, what's your favorite candy?
Speaker 2: I don't even play that game anymore. Oh, here's the
Speaker 2: worst of the top candies. Shut up. It's a Reese's
Speaker 2: peanut butter cups into stories. So I'm not doing that game.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this though. Another tradition of Halloween,
Speaker 2: it's watching some Halloween specials. And there is only one
Speaker 2: and only Halloween special, certainly of my age, it is.
Speaker 2: It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. I grew up in
Speaker 2: a time late seventies, early eighties kid, and all of
Speaker 2: the Charlie Brown specials they were on CBS. They were
Speaker 2: sponsored by Dolly Madison. I can see the start of
Speaker 2: it where it goes. It was a CBS special with
Speaker 2: a little circular cartoonish graphic and every commercial is Dolly Madison.
Speaker 2: It was just awesome. You know, my childhoods are so
Speaker 2: much different today than they were back in the day,
Speaker 2: and I really have good memories nowadays. I don't even
Speaker 2: know where a lot of these Charlie Brown specials are.
Speaker 2: But I am here for you because I have the answers,
Speaker 2: and this is the weekend. People, get your pen and
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Speaker 2: your outlook whatever it is this weekend real quickly. I'm
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Speaker 2: Pumpkin Charlie Brown for absolutely no cost. That's right, no
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Speaker 2: because it's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. We'll stream on
Speaker 2: Apple TV Plus in night October nineteenth, Saturday, and tomorrow
Speaker 2: Sunday the twentieth. Wait a minute, you say Apple TV Plus.
Speaker 2: I don't subscribe to that. It's a subscription service. You
Speaker 2: are correct, sir, You are correct, ma'am, but not this weekend.
Speaker 2: If you're a subscriber to Apple TV Plus, you don't
Speaker 2: need to do anything the specials right now. You can
Speaker 2: stream it right now. But if you're a peanut fan
Speaker 2: and you don't have Apple TV Plus. Mark your calendar
Speaker 2: to night Saturday, the nineteenth of October tomorrow under the
Speaker 2: October twentieth. It is absolutely free. They're open it up, baby,
Speaker 2: open an Apple is open it up for the pumpkin.
Speaker 2: How cool is that it's still on Apple for about
Speaker 2: four years right now. Not just a pumpkin, it's the
Speaker 2: Charlie Brown Christmas, which is such a class I don't
Speaker 2: even celebrate Christmas, but I've got to watch Charlie Brown Christmas,
Speaker 2: all the Charles Schultz peunut specials. So good for you,
Speaker 2: Apple TV. There you go, gather the kids. What's the
Speaker 2: hottest Halloween costume this year? I look at calam Reid Collens.
Speaker 2: My guy, you're young guy. What's the hottest costume? I
Speaker 2: heard it could be that weird chick who was in
Speaker 2: the Olympics from Australia who was doing break dancing. That
Speaker 2: could be one. I mean, I think we're past the
Speaker 2: Taylor Swist Travis Kelcey thing. I think that was kind
Speaker 2: of last year. You know you're gonna see it this
Speaker 2: year too. It's an election year. Generally election you're gonna
Speaker 2: get the two major candidates, so you're gonna get Trump
Speaker 2: and you're gonna get a come out. Who else help
Speaker 2: me out over here? I'll open up for a few minutes.
Speaker 2: What are you going as? What are your kids going as? Seven?
Speaker 2: One three, two one two five nine five zero. Additionally,
Speaker 2: you got ghosts, you got goblins, you got pumpkins. I
Speaker 2: need to actually borrow somebody's little kid. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you why, and I tell you how much I love Halloween.
Speaker 2: And when I was a kid, I have fond memories
Speaker 2: of going out with my buddies on Halloween and we
Speaker 2: would stay out school night or not. We would stay
Speaker 2: out till like eleven o'clock. I mean the fort lights
Speaker 2: would be off and we're knocking on doors. And again,
Speaker 2: this is in the late seventies, and this is when
Speaker 2: times were safer. We didn't have cell phones. We didn't
Speaker 2: need to report inn call mom or dad. There were
Speaker 2: no trackers on us. We just did it and they
Speaker 2: trusted us. School be damn the next day, man and
Speaker 2: I would come back with pounds and pounds and pounds
Speaker 2: of candy. Fast forward, I had kids, and I love
Speaker 2: my boys. My boys are my life. My boys are
Speaker 2: now thirty, twenty seven and twenty four. They're too old
Speaker 2: technically to trick or treat. I tell people that I
Speaker 2: had kids for one reason, so I could use them,
Speaker 2: so I could trick or treat when I was in
Speaker 2: my thirties, when I had these kids. My son, my
Speaker 2: oldest son, was born in August. He's thirty years old.
Speaker 2: Three months later, two months later, when it was Halloween time,
Speaker 2: I dressed this kid up as a pumpkin. He was
Speaker 2: sleeping the entire night. What was he August Obteber two
Speaker 2: months old? He was two and a half months old.
Speaker 2: He was sleeping. I don't care. He was in my arms,
Speaker 2: my butt was knocking on doors, saying trick or treat,
Speaker 2: holding up a bag, asking for candy for my little son,
Speaker 2: and they still gave it to me. Now, my kids
Speaker 2: are too old. They don't live here in the city
Speaker 2: for the most part. Need a borrow kid seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two five five. I'll go through a check.
Speaker 2: I'm fine. Actually, parents, you can even come with me.
Speaker 2: Get on my segue. We can make up twice the
Speaker 2: amount of time. It's all good. Happy Halloway. And by
Speaker 2: the way, if you want to thank me for all
Speaker 2: I've done for you for twenty two years, Reese's peanut
Speaker 2: butter cups, and I will take the Reese's pumpkin shaped
Speaker 2: peanut butter cups because sometimes those are even better. I digress.
Speaker 2: When we come back, there is more high Tech text
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Speaker 2: talking about straight technology and gadgets and Wi Fi and
Speaker 2: high def TVs and computers. We have now grown to
Speaker 2: really consumer lifestyle stuff where I do have the good
Speaker 2: fortune of playing with a lot of neat things, including
Speaker 2: cars and trucks and fashion, and I get to drink
Speaker 2: cool things bourbons and Vodkas and tequilas at company's and
Speaker 2: Mecause I don't know, I tell it like it is.
Speaker 2: I don't hold back. But when I really do find
Speaker 2: something that I enjoy, I love that I think you like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be all the way behind it. If something
Speaker 2: is a little too expensive, or I find something that
Speaker 2: I think there's a better option, I'm more than happy
Speaker 2: to tell you too, so uh trust me. That is
Speaker 2: what I'm here for. If you want to talk, say
Speaker 2: hi seven one three two one two five nine five oho.
Speaker 2: If you too shy to talk, you can find me
Speaker 2: on a lot of the social media at high Tech
Speaker 2: Text and h I G H T E C H
Speaker 2: T E x A N. Unless you're blocked, feel free
Speaker 2: to make a comment or ask me a question. Look
Speaker 2: at through some emails here Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2: I'll get to some of that stuff actually two things.
Speaker 2: I got to pay these things off. I've been teasing
Speaker 2: some of these things. First of all, about these subscriptions too.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get the cars here in a sec. Probably
Speaker 2: gonna be subscriptions. How many subscriptions do you have across
Speaker 2: the board? And when I say subscriptions, I mean yes,
Speaker 2: I mean you'd subscribe to Cable book Club magazines. You
Speaker 2: still may be in the CBS CD club where you
Speaker 2: get eleven CDs for one benny and they're steal emailing
Speaker 2: you or mailing them to you. You can sign up
Speaker 2: for newsletters a number of things. It's easy to sign up,
Speaker 2: so it's sometimes it's one click and you're gone. Here
Speaker 2: I try to unsubscribe. That's a pain in that, you
Speaker 2: know what, and there needs to be something done about it. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what something I believe is going to be done
Speaker 2: about it. And this is pretty big news. I actually
Speaker 2: saw this on the national news the other day. But
Speaker 2: what do you kind of go through with this? And
Speaker 2: if this happens, man, I hope it happens, and I
Speaker 2: hope it follows through and maybe life will get easier.
Speaker 2: You ever try to cancel a gym membership? Forget about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you might as well just cross Middle Earth.
Speaker 2: It's done. Bring in the FTC, the freaking FTC, the
Speaker 2: Federal Trade Commission. They finalized a new rule this week
Speaker 2: where they want to make it easier for subscription based
Speaker 2: services as simple to cancel as they are to sign
Speaker 2: up for. Okay, I'll believe it when I see it,
Speaker 2: but I like where we're going so far. It's a rule.
Speaker 2: It's called click to cancel, and what it's going to do.
Speaker 2: It's going to crack down on subscription tricks in traps
Speaker 2: that take advantage of all of our free trial forgetful
Speaker 2: diss and all of our impatience with lengthy customer service calls.
Speaker 2: So under the rule and follow me over here. Online
Speaker 2: memberships should take the same number of clicks to cancel
Speaker 2: as they do to initiate it. Okay, okay, good, good.
Speaker 2: You need to be able to cancel through the same
Speaker 2: methods that you use for sign up, all right, I
Speaker 2: dig that too. When it comes to free trials, companies
Speaker 2: need to be clearer about their auto renewal policies, and
Speaker 2: they can't charge customers without quote unquote informed consent quote,
Speaker 2: which might just look like another box to check the
Speaker 2: sign up. Now, guess what this protection Supposedly it's going
Speaker 2: to kick in in about six months. For right now,
Speaker 2: I like this. I don't know who doesn't like this.
Speaker 2: This may be one of the rules and laws or
Speaker 2: something that it may be one hundred percent across the
Speaker 2: board unanimous that it's actually a good idea. I hope
Speaker 2: it works. I mean, there's no one should be a
Speaker 2: get well. And I may want to walk that back
Speaker 2: because the companies themselves, they may not like it because
Speaker 2: that's how they make a lot of revenue. How many times,
Speaker 2: think to yourself, this is just an individual poll question
Speaker 2: over hear how many times have you forgotten to cancel something?
Speaker 2: How many times have you tried to cancel something and
Speaker 2: it takes forever. I've seen funny videos the social media
Speaker 2: videos where people were trying to cancel their their I
Speaker 2: believe it was their cable service, and they would be
Speaker 2: on hold for twenty five thirty forty minute an hour
Speaker 2: and they're pulling their hair out because you have to
Speaker 2: punch this button on the phone you talk to somebody.
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, hold on, We're gonna put you
Speaker 2: to our retention services. Don't go yet, we'll give you
Speaker 2: fifty percent off. We'll give you some No, I just
Speaker 2: want to freaking cancel it. Can you just stop it?
Speaker 2: Oh sir, you know how would you like it free
Speaker 2: for the next month? Shut up and freaking cancel it.
Speaker 2: The rules should make it easier for regulators to sue
Speaker 2: companies with slippery subscriptions. You know, the gems or those
Speaker 2: little I'm gonna mail food to you so you can
Speaker 2: make it. Those are the most often mentioned and complaints
Speaker 2: that are filed with the FTC. Now, I hope it happens.
Speaker 2: It's good contracts, memberships, they're good and bad. They could
Speaker 2: lock you into a decent price, but sometimes they handcuff you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw I'm gonna air my personal information out
Speaker 2: right now. I have been trying to get out of
Speaker 2: a contract that it's ironclad. It's stupid, and no one's
Speaker 2: gonna listen to me. I have Cullagan. I installed the
Speaker 2: Culagan system in my house. It's a water treatment thing,
Speaker 2: which I love. Die. I would not move into ouse
Speaker 2: without a water ro reverse osmosis water treatment cleaning system.
Speaker 2: I'm just had it for years and then bought it
Speaker 2: out about a year ago or something. I think I
Speaker 2: had to change my filters, which were cost an arm
Speaker 2: and a leg. And the sales guy came over here
Speaker 2: and he says, you know, you should get on our
Speaker 2: monthly service plan. And I'm like, man, I asked questions,
Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, well, you know, it's only ninety
Speaker 2: dollars a month. But what it's gonna do. It's gonna
Speaker 2: get you the free you know, salt to put into
Speaker 2: your generators and everything, and then if there's a problem.
Speaker 2: It is the most wasted doll I have called Culigan
Speaker 2: to try to get out of it. Oh no, sir,
Speaker 2: you're signing to go on drug. It's twelve months, twelve month.
Speaker 2: It is just a wasteful amount of money. If anybody
Speaker 2: from Culigan is listening, not have with you call again.
Speaker 2: That's just me good company, love the product, this whole
Speaker 2: sign up. Man, you should be able to get out
Speaker 2: of it. Not that this new FTC thing is gonna
Speaker 2: help you do that. They just have to wait my
Speaker 2: time out anyway, Okay, bitch time over here on the
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield Show seven one three, two one two five
Speaker 2: nine five ozho what else do you need to have?
Speaker 2: I'm here for you coming up bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: Search engine optimization. I still get this a lot. Every
Speaker 2: few months I have I talk about search engine optimization. Listen,
Speaker 2: we love radio. Advertising on radio forever has been the
Speaker 2: way to go. Love my radio people, But there's also
Speaker 2: a mixture of other ways. Actually to advertise. TV is
Speaker 2: one of them, Trent used to be one. I would
Speaker 2: not recommend print anymore. We here at I Art, we
Speaker 2: have opportunity, not me, but our sales folks. They have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to do sign you up for banners and
Speaker 2: ads and online stuff. But search engine optimization also very key.
Speaker 2: We will get to the bottom of that with a
Speaker 2: look company here whose specialist specialize in it. So if
Speaker 2: you're interested, you don't need to go anywhere. And then
Speaker 2: how much do I have? I only got about another
Speaker 2: minute or so I don't have to, okay, I promise
Speaker 2: when I come back after that interview, before the end
Speaker 2: of the show. For all you people looking for cars,
Speaker 2: and you know I am a member of the Texas
Speaker 2: Auto Writers Association, which means I don't get paid by dealerships.
Speaker 2: It is my thoughts to tell you the good, the bad,
Speaker 2: the ugly, the great parts, the crappy parts, of cars,
Speaker 2: I get the test draw fifteen years, I have test
Speaker 2: driven a brand new vehicle directly from the manufacturer, which
Speaker 2: means I'm not gonna tell you where did shop for it.
Speaker 2: And I did just have the opportunity to go up
Speaker 2: to Fort Worth where Chevy launched only for the media.
Speaker 2: They got to let us see it and drive at
Speaker 2: their brand new twenty twenty five new Chevy Tahoe and
Speaker 2: Chevy suburbans. And so we like our big vehicles here
Speaker 2: in Texas, down't way, down't Way. There are some upgrades
Speaker 2: and I will give you my thoughts, my two cents.
Speaker 2: Some of them pretty good, some of them I think
Speaker 2: they could have done better in areas of how the
Speaker 2: new Chevy Tahoe and Chevy Suburban roll end. And also
Speaker 2: another vehicle that I've been testing with. And so it's
Speaker 2: car time coming up here on the High Tech Texting Show.
Speaker 2: What else you got from me? I'm gonna take a break,
Speaker 2: we'll talk a little search engine optimization, and then we'll
Speaker 2: wind up the show and then countdown to the on
Speaker 2: worn football game tonight. Michael Barker ideots the High Tech
Speaker 2: Texting Show k PERC nine to fifty AM and iHeart Radio.
Speaker 2: Of course it's Michael Gardfield. I do think everybody once
Speaker 2: again for tuning in no matter where you are, thank
Speaker 2: you for taking us not only on your car radio trustfully,
Speaker 2: but also that app iHeart Radio app heard not only
Speaker 2: your crust usedon across Texas around the world. That didn't
Speaker 2: happen when I started this twenty plus years ago. You know,
Speaker 2: also which wasn't around twenty years ago. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of websites and a lot of technology and also you know,
Speaker 2: ways to actually get your message across when it comes
Speaker 2: to I guess advertising or for lack of a better term, listen.
Speaker 2: We love our advertising and our partners here in radio,
Speaker 2: but there's other options. Certainly listen, you watch TV. There
Speaker 2: used to be this thing called newspapers, which I won't
Speaker 2: get into it. Yeah, but nowadays listen, man, it is
Speaker 2: it's people do so much research all online, and when
Speaker 2: they're online, they're hit with so many things. Is it
Speaker 2: a banner ad or is it email? Or when you search,
Speaker 2: I mean do things pop up? And you know, and
Speaker 2: that's something that I kind of want to continue to
Speaker 2: harp on and talk about because the technological ways can
Speaker 2: make your business and it really can help it grow
Speaker 2: SEO for example, search engine optimization. And you hear those
Speaker 2: three letters. I think of one company and one person, Astounds,
Speaker 2: based here in Houston as t O, U, N d
Speaker 2: Z Sounder. And the leader of that company is Steve Winter,
Speaker 2: a longtime friend of mine, so I can talk the
Speaker 2: inside dirty stuff. He's also a long horn, so I
Speaker 2: know he's happy. Right now. What's going on? I want
Speaker 2: to bring him in for a few minutes. How about
Speaker 2: our horns? First off, Steve, how about those horns?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're looking good, you know. And then and now
Speaker 5: we even have depth of quarterback, which is great to see,
Speaker 5: you know, But I'll tell you it's our defense that
Speaker 5: I think that's really good. Is what's set in the town?
Speaker 5: Defense is strong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I know. Also, you grew up in Dallas
Speaker 2: like I did. You know who doesn't have depth of
Speaker 2: quarterback The Cowboys. But we're not talking about that. Boy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's another one. Yeah, that's a sad one there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, let's get off. Let's get off the football subject. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's get let's get on this SEO subject. Listen, you
Speaker 2: come on the show quite regularly, you did. Your company
Speaker 2: has so many things. It builds websites. But you know,
Speaker 2: you can have a great website, but if nobody finds
Speaker 2: your website, it just doesn't matter. And there's ways to
Speaker 2: promote it. And you know organic, organic, such a keyword
Speaker 2: of search engine optimization is out there. That's one of
Speaker 2: the major things that your company's downs does. He explains what,
Speaker 2: explain what SEO is and then the word organic how
Speaker 2: it fits into everything.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean SEO as you said, search engine optimization.
Speaker 5: It is nothing more than how you help people by
Speaker 5: putting your website out there for them to find it.
Speaker 5: If you want to sell any type of product or
Speaker 5: service or anything, and you want people to find you,
Speaker 5: and when they go search on Google, you have to
Speaker 5: do things technically and analytically and functionally all with your
Speaker 5: website to get it to rank properly. So you show
Speaker 5: up in Google. That's simple, and you know we're there
Speaker 5: twenty four seven three sixty five because where they're organically
Speaker 5: versus the pay per click where people pay to be
Speaker 5: showing up in the search results, we get you there organically.
Speaker 2: You recommend both only one a combination or is it
Speaker 2: a case by case basis it?
Speaker 5: Well, yes, it's it's case by case. And you know
Speaker 5: it's like if you've got a brand new website, it's
Speaker 5: going to take a while for you to show up organically,
Speaker 5: so we say, let's augment it with paid AdWords until
Speaker 5: we rank well depending on your business. And you know
Speaker 5: a great one right now, a good friend of ours
Speaker 5: happens to be and Aggie has ABC Home and Commercial Services,
Speaker 5: a great company. I use them for my services and
Speaker 5: all that, but they also use me for our SEO work.
Speaker 5: And you know, they spend money on advertising, on on everything,
Speaker 5: a myriad of everything. It's such a competitive business that
Speaker 5: you know, they they do it across the board and
Speaker 5: we help them. But what we really did and was
Speaker 5: a game changer, is we really helped them organically. They
Speaker 5: were getting killed by the big guys, and you know,
Speaker 5: weren't showing up well at all. No, now you look
Speaker 5: up pest control or exterminator here in Houston, go see
Speaker 5: where ABC Home and Commercial shows up. They're going to
Speaker 5: be one, two or three for just about ever. Research
Speaker 5: and they do pool cleaning, they do other services that
Speaker 5: they were not showing up for as well as they
Speaker 5: should have organically. But now they just did an analysis
Speaker 5: across all of their advertising spend and guess what. Guess
Speaker 5: what one of their best absolute best returns was organic
Speaker 5: SEO And you know it's it's it's just a gaining.
Speaker 5: And we were just on with another friend of ours,
Speaker 5: the commercial HVAC company, and you know, you know they're
Speaker 5: a job to them, could be a seventy five thousand
Speaker 5: dollars job. I mean we we are absolutely by far
Speaker 5: the least expensive salesperson they have. And we don't talk back.
Speaker 2: You show up one time, we're there all the time.
Speaker 5: We don't go to sleep, we don't complain about things.
Speaker 5: We just sit there and get your business, you know.
Speaker 5: So you know it's a great time. It's you know,
Speaker 5: you got your new UNAR's resolution that you're going to
Speaker 5: get your website to perform for you next year where
Speaker 5: it makes you money instead of sitting there being an expense.
Speaker 2: Great analogy is to continue to talk to Steve Winter.
Speaker 2: His company is Astouns. Will make sure he gives us
Speaker 2: his phone number here soon. Even though I'm sure you're
Speaker 2: number one on the search engine lest when you look.
Speaker 5: At yeah, organic CEO in Houston, and you know organic
Speaker 5: guessio in general. But yes, if you look up organic
Speaker 5: ges CEO companies in Houston, We're going to show up
Speaker 5: very very high.
Speaker 2: It's twenty again, I talk. I've been to the media now,
Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty three years. I started on TV, still
Speaker 2: do some TV obviously have been radio, you know type
Speaker 2: of thing. And back then newspapers in print, in print
Speaker 2: magazine state that twenty years ago, I mean that that was.
Speaker 5: Yellow Pages, dude, it was yellow Pages good, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 5: spending a lot of money to show up a you
Speaker 5: know you were AAABC commercial or whatever.
Speaker 2: Exact Yeah, and without it. Yeah, to be sure, I'm
Speaker 2: not talking people out of using and keeping the others
Speaker 2: in the mix because you talk about ABC. Roley Jenkins,
Speaker 2: I absolutely know him, but I know he's been a
Speaker 2: big his cup has been a big partner of here
Speaker 2: at iHeart. But I also see his TV commercials he
Speaker 2: spins across the board. But it's an interesting anecdote that
Speaker 2: you said by him using or let me just put
Speaker 2: this mixing in some organic s CEO that really as
Speaker 2: you from the study they showed that really started, you know,
Speaker 2: getting them on the map for for new new features
Speaker 2: that they do. I didn't know they didn't cool Clinting,
Speaker 2: I just killed kill the hands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, they do all types of stuff, you know,
Speaker 5: and so they they now show up for all the
Speaker 5: landscaping landscaping services, they do it all. So Roley owes
Speaker 5: me now for this commercial. But they really are good.
Speaker 5: But but we we were able to really move the
Speaker 5: needle form. So we're now really arguably the foundation of
Speaker 5: all of their advertising marketing. Because the other thing when
Speaker 5: people hear it on the radio or whatever else and
Speaker 5: you go look it up if you can't remember exactly
Speaker 5: what it was, it was like ABC pest or what
Speaker 5: you know. Now, all these different iterations they show up for,
Speaker 5: they show up high, so you know you hear something.
Speaker 5: And that's the other thing we tell our people. It's
Speaker 5: like we're just a great validation for everything you're doing too.
Speaker 5: But but you know, depending on your business, yes we
Speaker 5: we don't. We don't. You know, if you've got the money,
Speaker 5: I mean, you want to show up, we can get
Speaker 5: a client to show up basically about five different ways.
Speaker 5: In a Google search. You got Google Maps, you've got
Speaker 5: Google paid ads, you've got Google guaranteed, you you've got
Speaker 5: uh you know where they the snippets. Uh you know,
Speaker 5: featured snippets, you have their organic results. I mean there's
Speaker 5: a lot of ways, and so the more ways we
Speaker 5: can show up on that first page, the more dominant
Speaker 5: we're going to be. So, you know, money being no object.
Speaker 5: We're going to do everything right, but money being an object.
Speaker 5: Organic SEO is going to be your best investment overall period.
Speaker 4: You go.
Speaker 2: You heard it from M Steve Winter Organic SEO. If
Speaker 2: people do want to learn, they want to talk to you,
Speaker 2: or it's your great staff here in the Houston area.
Speaker 2: What's the phone number? How came they hit you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Seven one thirty nine oh four five thousand and one
Speaker 5: is the phone number. And you said it, it's it's
Speaker 5: a sounds A S T O U N d Z
Speaker 5: dot com. It's all right there. We've got pricing out there.
Speaker 5: We're very transparent. We're month to month. We want to
Speaker 5: with us because we're providing great value for you. You're
Speaker 5: not beholding to us at all.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, we we we like our clients and we
Speaker 5: like to be friends. And I've got a lot of
Speaker 5: friends that are clients, a lot of clients that are friends.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, thanks to you, my organic and my
Speaker 2: SEO top notch. So if you search for a hairy
Speaker 2: consumer lifestyle resource, and Mike Garfield pops up and I
Speaker 2: thank you for absolutely all right, Paul listen, Steve Winner
Speaker 2: Estoles dot com congratulate success and really good chips, and
Speaker 2: so I appreciate it. Tell David rest the staff high
Speaker 2: and I know well we will talking soon here in
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 5: Absolutely thank you and hook them horns.
Speaker 2: There you get. I'll see I like that guy, you know,
Speaker 2: by the way you feel in the Raleigh Jenkins aggie thing.
Speaker 2: You know we love Raleigh, but we didn't, you know,
Speaker 2: skip the aggy stuff off the here. We love you
Speaker 2: guys except Thanksgiving weekend. It is Michael Garfield. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Hook them horns.
Speaker 5: It's a long running high ted tex and show.
Speaker 2: There you go. Who's ready to do a little search
Speaker 2: engine optimizing you? If not, well, I don't know. We
Speaker 2: still have a football game tonight. But I do thank
Speaker 2: you for listening. Final eight minutes or so we'll get
Speaker 2: out of here, make our way for whatever program is next,
Speaker 2: or next podcast you want to listen to, or whatever
Speaker 2: is here on KPRC nine fifty am. Michael is a name.
Speaker 2: If you're tight, you can call me Garth if you
Speaker 2: have my cell phone number, pop me at texts, give
Speaker 2: me a little hook them horns game tonight. Thank you
Speaker 2: for listening. Fun Show, Big Show talked a little about
Speaker 2: iOS eighteen. Still a little have a little trepidation of
Speaker 2: downloading or upgrading it your new iPhone or your older iPhone.
Speaker 2: Go back on podcast this callum, you will put the
Speaker 2: podcast up in what about ten fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 2: You can go to iHeartRadio LAP It's free. Just search
Speaker 2: for KPRC that's our radio station, or look for Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield or high Tech text in and you can listen.
Speaker 2: I think it was segment two. I talked about what
Speaker 2: you need to do to get your iPhone ready. There's
Speaker 2: a checklist to make sure that you're ready to download
Speaker 2: and upgrade to the newest operating system with Apple and
Speaker 2: Diligence or whatever you want to use. Talked a little
Speaker 2: about little air tag and tiny trackers. Are those good
Speaker 2: or are some interesting places that you have put or
Speaker 2: where you have heard people putting their little air tags
Speaker 2: to track told you about subscriptions. Looks like the Federal
Speaker 2: Trade Commission there. Soon I'm going to be able to
Speaker 2: make canceling all your little subscriptions a heck of a
Speaker 2: lot easier, just as easy it is to subscribe. Which
Speaker 2: is about time. I will talk real quickly about vehicles
Speaker 2: and cars. I am a longtime member. It'll be Texas
Speaker 2: Auto Writers Association. That is I'm using air quotes here.
Speaker 2: Journalists like May who actually can get inside, get behind
Speaker 2: a vehicle, a car, a sports car and as you
Speaker 2: via pickup truck and give you his or her honest opinion,
Speaker 2: unpaid true. What is this car good for you? What
Speaker 2: are the improvements that this manufacturer made? I was at
Speaker 2: Big Truck Rally at Truck Rodeo about a month ago,
Speaker 2: and I got to drive back to back to back
Speaker 2: thirty different trucks. And so if you're in the mood
Speaker 2: mode by a pickup truck, pop me a note. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. I can tell you what's
Speaker 2: good and some of the stuff what's to stay away from.
Speaker 2: But then there's also SUVs. We here in Texas where
Speaker 2: I am base, we love our big vehicles and for
Speaker 2: a long time, Chevy Suburban that's probably been the biggest
Speaker 2: land boat there is. That thing is massive. Chevy Tahoe
Speaker 2: is its sister, a little bit smaller version, the brand
Speaker 2: new twenty twenty five versions of Chevy Tahoe Chevy Suburban.
Speaker 2: They were just released to a few select media. I
Speaker 2: was up in Fort Worth about a week and a
Speaker 2: half ago and I had to bite my tongue because
Speaker 2: there was an embargo. However, the embargo has lifted and
Speaker 2: I can give you my thoughts. I'm a big I
Speaker 2: am a Chevy fan, and there's little reason why people
Speaker 2: shouldn't be fans of Chevy. It is an age old.
Speaker 2: It is good. Obviously. It's a solid manufacturer from GM.
Speaker 2: Look in your rear view mirror, you see on the
Speaker 2: grill and you see that Chevy bow tie. You know
Speaker 2: you're going to get a solid vehicle. They make very solid, sturdy,
Speaker 2: hiccup trucks and SUVs, and the new twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: Tahoe suburbans they follow along the line. They are just
Speaker 2: as big. I will notice from walking around each of
Speaker 2: them that they look a little bit more sleek, a
Speaker 2: little bit more unique, a little bit sexier. Dare I say,
Speaker 2: not as boxy than you think they normally would on
Speaker 2: each of the trims. There are trims, I mean each
Speaker 2: of the models. Let's put it this one each of
Speaker 2: the Tahoe and each of the Suburban, there are six
Speaker 2: six new different trims and trims meaning how upgraded or
Speaker 2: how low graded or what are you in the mood for?
Speaker 2: Are you in the move for really going off road?
Speaker 2: Six to choose from, and I'll start with lowest to highest.
Speaker 2: There's the LS LS on the Chevy Tahoe. The LS
Speaker 2: pretty much almost bare bones for lack of a better term,
Speaker 2: starts at about fifty eight five hundred. We then go
Speaker 2: up to an LT. It's got a little bit more
Speaker 2: family functionality, little lifestyle, sixty one thousand, seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Middle of the road, we've got the RST r ST
Speaker 2: versions about sixty six thousand dollars, a little bit more expressive.
Speaker 2: You want urban, so if you want, you know, drive
Speaker 2: around the city, it's still gonna be maneuverable. And they've
Speaker 2: got some nice you know things inside touch screens and
Speaker 2: what have you across the board. If you're looking for
Speaker 2: something a little bit more outdoor, a little bit more rugged,
Speaker 2: a little bit more lifestyle, and a four wheel drive.
Speaker 2: I've always liked the Z seventy one version of the
Speaker 2: Chevy vehicles, the Z seventy one. All right, think you're
Speaker 2: definitely gonna be able to go off road in this
Speaker 2: one starts about sixty eight thousand, five hundred dollars. Two
Speaker 2: more above that, there's the premiere, the Chevy Tahoe Premiere,
Speaker 2: the Chevy Suburban Premiere. You're gonna get even more advanced
Speaker 2: technology in there, a little bit more functionality. You're gonna
Speaker 2: get some nice leather seats. You're still gonna get a
Speaker 2: great touch screen, some safety features. That's about seventy three
Speaker 2: thousand to start. And then if you want the highest level,
Speaker 2: and I say highest, you know, I don't think Chevy
Speaker 2: actually likes that term. But if you want the most luxurious,
Speaker 2: there is nothing else really that you can add. That's
Speaker 2: the Chevy high Country. They make the high country in
Speaker 2: the suburban. They make the high country in the Tahoe.
Speaker 2: That is bold design, queues, inside, very luxurious, pretty much
Speaker 2: everything that you want, safety features, the super crews pretty much,
Speaker 2: and everything starts at about seventy eight thousand. All of
Speaker 2: them are five drove, most all of them. The ride
Speaker 2: is solid. You would think a large vehicle like a
Speaker 2: Tahoe and certainly a suburban. They're kind of bumpy, the
Speaker 2: ride is very smooth. If you want to see and
Speaker 2: actually what I went through, I put together about a
Speaker 2: six minute video. It is on my YouTube channel, which
Speaker 2: you should subscribe to, but also it is on my
Speaker 2: website high Tech Texan, High Tech t e x An,
Speaker 2: high Tech Textan dot com. It's one of the videos
Speaker 2: that I put on there and you could see it.
Speaker 2: Should you be in the mode for a new vehicle.
Speaker 2: October Generally back in the day, that's when all the
Speaker 2: new vehicles came out. Now vehicles come out pretty much
Speaker 2: year round. I do want to thank the Chevy folks
Speaker 2: for giving me the inside info play by play, helping
Speaker 2: me get up to Fort Worth. They did not pay
Speaker 2: for my thoughts. These are all mine. There are things
Speaker 2: to me that, you know, they could have improved. Maybe
Speaker 2: there's a little bit more plastic than I like, maybe
Speaker 2: they could have had a little bit more wood grain.
Speaker 2: But if you want something that seats nine, there is
Speaker 2: a Chevy suburban that holds nine people, three in the back,
Speaker 2: three in the middle, and actually they have three seats
Speaker 2: in front, the two passenger captain chairs, and then there's
Speaker 2: kind of the armrest that folds up to make it
Speaker 2: three in the front as nine people. That's actually on
Speaker 2: their lower end version of the Chevy Chevy suburban. But
Speaker 2: solid company. It's worth fighting a dealership. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to tell you. Don't call me saying hey, GURF, can
Speaker 2: you give me a deal on any car? I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't, I don't have it. I do not endorse dealerships.
Speaker 2: I'd work directly with the manufacturers. And so if you
Speaker 2: want me to review something, I've got an entire podcast
Speaker 2: that go back years and years and years. Go to Spotify,
Speaker 2: iHeart Apple, whatever. Just look for high Tech Texan with
Speaker 2: a dash high dash Tech Texan dot com. And I
Speaker 2: have dozens of dozens and not hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 2: my thoughts on your vehicles that I can give you
Speaker 2: reasons to get it and maybe reasons to look for
Speaker 2: other vehicles. And that's kind of what I do. So
Speaker 2: if I surprised you bym not talking specifically about technology
Speaker 2: and phones in TVs, that's what I do. I didn't
Speaker 2: that talk about bourbon or beer this time, it didn't
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