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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What affects you and your world. This is Tech Talk
(00:03):
Tuesday on Wood Radios West Michigan Live. Our good friend Trent.
Can it be a footabll lize store like Michigan Drive.
It's Dandelle is standing by Brand River Tech as well.
You got questions, He'll answer them all for you. Good morning,
my friend. Appreciate you taking the time to be here
with us today.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
How are you doing good? Justin good morning?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, you have some big announcements coming today. Apple has
a big day. They got a new phone coming. It
looks like, at least anyway, we may see a couple
other things on that list too. I want to talk
about a few of those big announcements. But first there's
something that we were just talking about which I thought
(00:44):
was kind of interesting. Obviously, this battery plan. I just
dropped the story in sort of Oh, by the way,
as we were discussing that it's in Ohio. They have
a bill now that's actually Republicans pushing it, which is
kind of that would allow these utility companies to throttle
(01:05):
people's energy. Now, this is in Ohio, that's not far
from us. We can imagine that, you know that if
they can do it the probably might be an effort
to get that done here. All that might I'd say,
most likely come from the Democrat side here in Michigan
when they look at this. But to me, will you
watch these stories? It really is it's it's concerning because again,
(01:30):
all of this is about control. It's about turning power
off for us probably when we need it most. And
the truth is that they've had the ability to do
this for a long time now, we we just didn't
know about it. This bill would make it completely lawful
according to what it looks like they're trying to push.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, justin These programs have been out for ages for
I don't know fifteen years now, as far as back
as I've known about locally here where you could volunteer
to have a little device but on your air conditioner
with consumers you know, energy locally And my first house
is when I heard about this, probably fifteen years ago,
and it was a volunteering program. It was not required,
it was not forced by the government. There was some
(02:14):
education about it. I almost signed up for it at
the time. I thought, Hey, that's that's not a bad idea,
save some money, right, But on the other hand, if
it's ninety five degrees and you need air conditioning and
you don't have the ability to have that unless you
call in you get a certain number exceptions a year.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It was just like this is.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Messy, and then obviously we get here today where it's like, hey,
the power grids are really struggling. They're struggling because of
renewable energies are not hitting the demands and the marks
that they should be hitting because the math has been
how do you want to say this inaccurate? Conveniently, not
used accurately, and so they really have a problem where
(02:56):
if they don't curb peak demand, they're going to have
to either go nuclear or some other methods natural gas
to increase those peak demand hours. They actually had emergency
alerts issued in Ohio during the summer, and that really
scared them to realize that, hey, if we don't put
something together, we're going to have to add more capacity
(03:17):
or push these programs on people in a more forcible way.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
If they want to have a voluntary program, fine, but
when the government forces us, what we can do just
and there's tons of ways that we can help smooth
the peak demand in our energy grid there's buy back
from people that can generate their own stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Back in twenty eighteen, when they consumers energy and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Other utilities revamp the buyback program, they give so little
money for people to pay back solar, wind, natural gas,
other forms of generating electricity to put that back.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Into the grid during peak times that it's not even
worth doing.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
If they were serious about this, they would incentivize buyback
of electricity from customers who do have the means to
generate that during peak time.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So it's it's very political.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Justin there's a lot more going on this than just
turning your thermostat back a few degrees when it's really hot.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Do you remember and you you made this point and
I kind of laughed chuckle thinking about that because you said, yeah,
this was a volunteer thing. I remember making the point.
There were a lot of us who said, look, it's
going to start with hey, if you want a better rate,
you can do this. But eventually they're just going to
tell you this is what you're going to do. And
are a lot of people that actually fought, and you
(04:36):
know they're looked at kind of crazy. They're probably having
the last laugh now for what they smart meters taking
off of their homes or or fighting that because that's
one of the ways that they can they can use
and control down to the very house, what what your
energy flow looks like and how that works. You know
what's interesting to watch this now is it's kind of
(04:59):
it's all coming into uh, into the big picture. People
are starting to really see what it what it all means.
Uh and uh, this is not going anywhere, folks. Your
bill is going up. In fact, there's a story out
of Ottawa County yesterday. I think it's George. I don't
remember which which which township it was, but they've got
(05:22):
their water bill just went up like fifty percent, Like
their water bill went through the roof. And people aren't
going nuts over a water bill. Same thing's going to
happen with your power bill, with your light bill, gas
as well, and how much you're going to be able
to get because all the data center, the AI, all
of that, it's coming. They can't turn it down. I
(05:43):
don't think they're going to have the waveos rancheros to
do that anyway, and they may they may actually be
forced because of the competition that we're in, uh seemingly
anyway with with countries like China. It's it's a new
it's Georgetown township. Tammy said. By the way water the water.
I saw people lined up to talk about the water
(06:05):
on Facebook the other day. Gosh, there's so many people
on line to talk about that there because they're just
ticked off. And I don't blame them, but this is
something that I think has taken a lot of people
by surprise and really shouldn't trend.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, justin this summer, these last couple of summer bills
July and August, our home electricity bill was twenty five
percent higher than any of the past summers you know, ever,
And that's because of the increased rates a slightly warmer
summer for sure, but a big part of it's that
peak rate that we've only had the last couple of
years during the middle of the day when you need
(06:41):
it most so. And I don't know all the financials
of the electricity companies and all that works, but it
seems like they're never short on money. Why that gets
passed on to us with all their programs and incentives,
and justin it's even getting in the commercial world too.
New electrical services for commercial have crazy rules with it
have to separate power supplies for lighting from heating and
(07:03):
cooling and other things, which cost a ton of extra
infrastructure costs for electrical panels and wiring. All because they're
planning on more and more control for businesses, not just homes,
but as well as businesses in the future to control
the power.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And right now, like you said before, it's under the
guise of you know, helping with with peak rates. But
once that equipment's all in there, if there's an emergency
and the grid is short on power, you know as
well as I do, they're going to issue an emergency
order and cut people to quote unquote save the grid.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah. I think it's been one of the biggest issues,
and I think you'll continue to see this and to
the the election here next year and beyond. But the
electric bills particularly and how much people are paced, not
just here, in fact, they're having the same issues down
in Indiana, Ohio, some of these other places where we're
gonna it's going to continue to be front and center.
(07:56):
So we're going to follow that for you make sure
we stay on top of it all. Okay, I got
a couple of stories just trying to figure out where
we go next. Shere's not a lot of time to
get through all the stuff we want to get today,
so let me do this. Your average attention span is
now just eight seconds and dropping, so we'll have eight
(08:17):
seconds to spend on this conversation, Trent, make it brief.
But it's social media and everything else. And boy, I
think people are really starting, especially kids, starting to fill
this in school and other places. Your focus just doesn't
last like it used two, does it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Justin our brains are amazing, amazing creations. Really in all
the swiping, all of the quick, the short videos, everything
is a quick attention span right on the internet, the
ads to swiping, the video shorts, everything is just for
a few seconds, and that makes our brain less receptive
to anything longer. And it's really people that do studies
(08:58):
on this show that it's destroying our brain. It's destroying
our ability to think, focus and actually retain core pieces
of information to make critical decisions.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
People are doing it in a moment instead of.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Waiting more than eight seconds to say, hey, should I
response to this message?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Should I cut this guy off? When I'm driving down
the road.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It literally has its tentacles into everything and it's literally
to blame on social media and modern tech is programming
our brains and it's bad.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, Trent, can it be a footal Lize store limas
you can drive and stand down. Another big day today
for Apple and a big announcement's coming out today. A
new iPhone we may be getting, is this right, an
iPhone Air, new watches, heart rate tracking, air pods. I
don't know if you want or I think you might
even need any of those, but Trent, apparently those announcements
(09:47):
are expected to meet made a little bit later today.
What can we look forward to.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, we'll have this information all by late afternoon. But yes,
brand new iPhone seventeen Air, a slim down version of
the iPhone, same screen size as the normal phones, but
a slimmer, lighter version. That's going to be The rumors
are saying it might be a little bit more expensive
than the average phone, which I was surprised to see.
I wish they would have a little bit more affordable
(10:16):
new basic phone. They have new watches, to new watches.
They have an Ultra three, which is their premium watch.
There's a lot of things that are being released, but
the key here is just incremental upgrades. This is about
a twenty five percent upgrade at the very most from
any one feature. So if you're looking for a crazy
(10:36):
powerful camera or twice the battery life, you're not going
to get it this update round. If you want something
more major in the future, they're saying this air phone,
this iPhone seventeen Air may pave the way for an
Apple foldable phone, which Apple hasn't touched, but they're saying
this might be the test model for half of the
foldable phone that they're going to release next year.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Is the rumors.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I don't need a vulnerable phone. I don't know about you,
but it just doesn't seem to be on my radar. Hey,
if you're like me and you're thinking, I don't need
that new phone either, I just need something that works
and gets the job done for me. Trent can help
you out affordable eyestore like mich can drive in Standell
is a great place to check out what they can
do for you. There. That's the Lizzie and I get
(11:20):
our phones and devices as well. They to take care
of you. Such good care of you. And speaking of which,
if you've got an organization or a business and you
need help with the security when it comes to the
cybersecurity or just putting the things together. They've got all
kinds of it solutions for you as well at grant Overtech.
Always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much for
taking the time to be here with us today.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Thanks Justin, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You got a Trent. Can I be at a tech
talk segment that you may want to go back and
listen to over again. There's some really good stuff locked
inside
What affects you and your world. This is Tech Talk
(00:03):
Tuesday on Wood Radios West Michigan Live. Our good friend Trent.
Can it be a footabll lize store like Michigan Drive.
It's Dandelle is standing by Brand River Tech as well.
You got questions, He'll answer them all for you. Good morning,
my friend. Appreciate you taking the time to be here
with us today.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
How are you doing good? Justin good morning?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, you have some big announcements coming today. Apple has
a big day. They got a new phone coming. It
looks like, at least anyway, we may see a couple
other things on that list too. I want to talk
about a few of those big announcements. But first there's
something that we were just talking about which I thought
(00:44):
was kind of interesting. Obviously, this battery plan. I just
dropped the story in sort of Oh, by the way,
as we were discussing that it's in Ohio. They have
a bill now that's actually Republicans pushing it, which is
kind of that would allow these utility companies to throttle
(01:05):
people's energy. Now, this is in Ohio, that's not far
from us. We can imagine that, you know that if
they can do it the probably might be an effort
to get that done here. All that might I'd say,
most likely come from the Democrat side here in Michigan
when they look at this. But to me, will you
watch these stories? It really is it's it's concerning because again,
(01:30):
all of this is about control. It's about turning power
off for us probably when we need it most. And
the truth is that they've had the ability to do
this for a long time now, we we just didn't
know about it. This bill would make it completely lawful
according to what it looks like they're trying to push.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, justin These programs have been out for ages for
I don't know fifteen years now, as far as back
as I've known about locally here where you could volunteer
to have a little device but on your air conditioner
with consumers you know, energy locally And my first house
is when I heard about this, probably fifteen years ago,
and it was a volunteering program. It was not required,
it was not forced by the government. There was some
(02:14):
education about it. I almost signed up for it at
the time. I thought, Hey, that's that's not a bad idea,
save some money, right, But on the other hand, if
it's ninety five degrees and you need air conditioning and
you don't have the ability to have that unless you
call in you get a certain number exceptions a year.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It was just like this is.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Messy, and then obviously we get here today where it's like, hey,
the power grids are really struggling. They're struggling because of
renewable energies are not hitting the demands and the marks
that they should be hitting because the math has been
how do you want to say this inaccurate? Conveniently, not
used accurately, and so they really have a problem where
(02:56):
if they don't curb peak demand, they're going to have
to either go nuclear or some other methods natural gas
to increase those peak demand hours. They actually had emergency
alerts issued in Ohio during the summer, and that really
scared them to realize that, hey, if we don't put
something together, we're going to have to add more capacity
(03:17):
or push these programs on people in a more forcible way.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
If they want to have a voluntary program, fine, but
when the government forces us, what we can do just
and there's tons of ways that we can help smooth
the peak demand in our energy grid there's buy back
from people that can generate their own stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Back in twenty eighteen, when they consumers energy and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Other utilities revamp the buyback program, they give so little
money for people to pay back solar, wind, natural gas,
other forms of generating electricity to put that back.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Into the grid during peak times that it's not even
worth doing.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
If they were serious about this, they would incentivize buyback
of electricity from customers who do have the means to
generate that during peak time.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So it's it's very political.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Justin there's a lot more going on this than just
turning your thermostat back a few degrees when it's really hot.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Do you remember and you you made this point and
I kind of laughed chuckle thinking about that because you said, yeah,
this was a volunteer thing. I remember making the point.
There were a lot of us who said, look, it's
going to start with hey, if you want a better rate,
you can do this. But eventually they're just going to
tell you this is what you're going to do. And
are a lot of people that actually fought, and you
(04:36):
know they're looked at kind of crazy. They're probably having
the last laugh now for what they smart meters taking
off of their homes or or fighting that because that's
one of the ways that they can they can use
and control down to the very house, what what your
energy flow looks like and how that works. You know
what's interesting to watch this now is it's kind of
(04:59):
it's all coming into uh, into the big picture. People
are starting to really see what it what it all means.
Uh and uh, this is not going anywhere, folks. Your
bill is going up. In fact, there's a story out
of Ottawa County yesterday. I think it's George. I don't
remember which which which township it was, but they've got
(05:22):
their water bill just went up like fifty percent, Like
their water bill went through the roof. And people aren't
going nuts over a water bill. Same thing's going to
happen with your power bill, with your light bill, gas
as well, and how much you're going to be able
to get because all the data center, the AI, all
of that, it's coming. They can't turn it down. I
(05:43):
don't think they're going to have the waveos rancheros to
do that anyway, and they may they may actually be
forced because of the competition that we're in, uh seemingly
anyway with with countries like China. It's it's a new
it's Georgetown township. Tammy said. By the way water the water.
I saw people lined up to talk about the water
(06:05):
on Facebook the other day. Gosh, there's so many people
on line to talk about that there because they're just
ticked off. And I don't blame them, but this is
something that I think has taken a lot of people
by surprise and really shouldn't trend.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, justin this summer, these last couple of summer bills
July and August, our home electricity bill was twenty five
percent higher than any of the past summers you know, ever,
And that's because of the increased rates a slightly warmer
summer for sure, but a big part of it's that
peak rate that we've only had the last couple of
years during the middle of the day when you need
(06:41):
it most so. And I don't know all the financials
of the electricity companies and all that works, but it
seems like they're never short on money. Why that gets
passed on to us with all their programs and incentives,
and justin it's even getting in the commercial world too.
New electrical services for commercial have crazy rules with it
have to separate power supplies for lighting from heating and
(07:03):
cooling and other things, which cost a ton of extra
infrastructure costs for electrical panels and wiring. All because they're
planning on more and more control for businesses, not just homes,
but as well as businesses in the future to control
the power.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And right now, like you said before, it's under the
guise of you know, helping with with peak rates. But
once that equipment's all in there, if there's an emergency
and the grid is short on power, you know as
well as I do, they're going to issue an emergency
order and cut people to quote unquote save the grid.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah. I think it's been one of the biggest issues,
and I think you'll continue to see this and to
the the election here next year and beyond. But the
electric bills particularly and how much people are paced, not
just here, in fact, they're having the same issues down
in Indiana, Ohio, some of these other places where we're
gonna it's going to continue to be front and center.
(07:56):
So we're going to follow that for you make sure
we stay on top of it all. Okay, I got
a couple of stories just trying to figure out where
we go next. Shere's not a lot of time to
get through all the stuff we want to get today,
so let me do this. Your average attention span is
now just eight seconds and dropping, so we'll have eight
(08:17):
seconds to spend on this conversation, Trent, make it brief.
But it's social media and everything else. And boy, I
think people are really starting, especially kids, starting to fill
this in school and other places. Your focus just doesn't
last like it used two, does it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Justin our brains are amazing, amazing creations. Really in all
the swiping, all of the quick, the short videos, everything
is a quick attention span right on the internet, the
ads to swiping, the video shorts, everything is just for
a few seconds, and that makes our brain less receptive
to anything longer. And it's really people that do studies
(08:58):
on this show that it's destroying our brain. It's destroying
our ability to think, focus and actually retain core pieces
of information to make critical decisions.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
People are doing it in a moment instead of.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Waiting more than eight seconds to say, hey, should I
response to this message?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Should I cut this guy off? When I'm driving down
the road.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It literally has its tentacles into everything and it's literally
to blame on social media and modern tech is programming
our brains and it's bad.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, Trent, can it be a footal Lize store limas
you can drive and stand down. Another big day today
for Apple and a big announcement's coming out today. A
new iPhone we may be getting, is this right, an
iPhone Air, new watches, heart rate tracking, air pods. I
don't know if you want or I think you might
even need any of those, but Trent, apparently those announcements
(09:47):
are expected to meet made a little bit later today.
What can we look forward to.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, we'll have this information all by late afternoon. But yes,
brand new iPhone seventeen Air, a slim down version of
the iPhone, same screen size as the normal phones, but
a slimmer, lighter version. That's going to be The rumors
are saying it might be a little bit more expensive
than the average phone, which I was surprised to see.
I wish they would have a little bit more affordable
(10:16):
new basic phone. They have new watches, to new watches.
They have an Ultra three, which is their premium watch.
There's a lot of things that are being released, but
the key here is just incremental upgrades. This is about
a twenty five percent upgrade at the very most from
any one feature. So if you're looking for a crazy
(10:36):
powerful camera or twice the battery life, you're not going
to get it this update round. If you want something
more major in the future, they're saying this air phone,
this iPhone seventeen Air may pave the way for an
Apple foldable phone, which Apple hasn't touched, but they're saying
this might be the test model for half of the
foldable phone that they're going to release next year.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Is the rumors.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I don't need a vulnerable phone. I don't know about you,
but it just doesn't seem to be on my radar. Hey,
if you're like me and you're thinking, I don't need
that new phone either, I just need something that works
and gets the job done for me. Trent can help
you out affordable eyestore like mich can drive in Standell
is a great place to check out what they can
do for you. There. That's the Lizzie and I get
(11:20):
our phones and devices as well. They to take care
of you. Such good care of you. And speaking of which,
if you've got an organization or a business and you
need help with the security when it comes to the
cybersecurity or just putting the things together. They've got all
kinds of it solutions for you as well at grant Overtech.
Always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much for
taking the time to be here with us today.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Thanks Justin, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You got a Trent. Can I be at a tech
talk segment that you may want to go back and
listen to over again. There's some really good stuff locked
inside
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