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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three one Austin dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's
eighty station one O three point one. All right, thanks
for being with us. My name is Sandy, This is JB. Hello,
Tricia's here too. Hi everybody, and uh, the ACL Festival.
The announcement has come out. Who's playing ACL. We got
that for you in just a sec. But first I
gotta play a talkback for you guys that we got
(00:25):
Tricia was it's dealing with you talking about the girl,
the actress in the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
With Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh yeah, her very first movie, yep, and she gets
to make out with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
All she does in the movie is make out with
Brad the little hippie girl.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, yes, right, and Tricia insanely jealous.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah of this girl.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Of whoever she is, well, one of our listeners knows
who she is, and it might make sense how she
got this job when you hear this, That.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Actress that was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
was actually Andy McDowell's daughter, the actress that was in
Groundhog's Day.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So she it's nepotism. Bye.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
She's one Lucky McDowell.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I haven't heard that name in a minute. Yeah, it's
been a while.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I can't even picture her.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
To be honest with you, you.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Would totally recognize her, Yeah, you definitely would. She had
curly black hair, very tall. You look up a picture
of you'll totally she.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And Andy with an ietually so oh okay, yeah, yeah, yea.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I remember Andy McDowell now, sure sure, well her
daughter got a good gig.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, she did good for her.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I mean if she never did a movie again, I
feel like she'd be like, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right, you guys, use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
Just tap the microphone, send us a message. We love
hearing from you. The headliners for the Austin City Limits
Music Festival have been announced, and the reason that, well
a lot of reasons that I know this, since that
I know this, but our daughter posted it on her
Instagram account, which is her subtle way of saying that
(01:58):
she wants to go to the.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Austin Lemon's Music Festival.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Headliner Sabrina Carpenter, Josier Doja, Cat, Luke Comb's The Strokes,
and I've never heard of John Summit before.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
But he's headlighting, so he must be a big deal.
I don't know. Does anyone know John Summon.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I've never heard of him either, I have it either.
It's at Zilker Park. Of course. October third to fifth
is the first weekend. Then October ten through twelfth is
the second weekend. And I wonder, and but I doubt
that they're going to dial back the number of tickets
that they sell, because that's been the rub on that
is that it's just over sold.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I ever sold, ridiculously crowded. You feel like cattle trying
to get in. Remember when we were. They have the
paths blocked off for you to get to the entrance,
and then it just kind of all piles.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Up at the entrance.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
It narrows down and narrows down. Our daughter for sure
wants to go. She's going to want to go with friends.
She'll be sixteen. Would we possibly let her go alone
to acl sixteen?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Based on her past? Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, I mean she hasn't given a reason not to
trust her.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Is that exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, no, yeah, And it wouldn't be that I would be
afraid she would do something. I'm just saying, do we
throw her into that pit the first time she goes,
you know, to a to a giant concert by herself.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Would ACL be a good one?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah? But I think I think so. And I don't
think she's a jump into the pit.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Kid, No, no, don I just mean the big giant venue,
the park and all the people. And I was worried
when we took her in a friend a couple of
years ago, that I was going to take her friend
home and he's going to be high as a kite,
because you know what I mean, Like, I mean, there's
a lot going on.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
He sounds so nerdy right now, I know I might
have to take him. How many might be as high
as a kite? I mean he couldn't breathe, dawn, I
mean high people don't or not just as easy to
drive as.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's true, you know. So it's funny.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I was chatting with my daughter who's twenty three, about
the list because I saw it and I was like, eh,
which is what tends to happen. She's much more in
the wheelhouse, and she was like, did you see the
ACL festival lineup? It's awesome? So I defer to her
that it is an awesome lineup. Some of the other
names that stood out to me that they were more
(04:24):
in Maya Wheelhouse were Cage the Elephant, Rylo Kaylie, Modest Mouse,
Japanese Breakfast. I'm a fan of that girl. She wrote
a I want to read her biography or whatever it is.
It's called crying Crying in h Mart, crying my eyes
out in h Mart. I think she's of Korean descent
(04:47):
and it's called Japanese Breakfast. But anyhow, she's super talented.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
There were a few others that jumped Passion Pit, Fantagram
jumped out at me, Anderson East. There's a lot of
good stuff in there. But you know what I feel
like it is these mega festivals, or at least at
least a clfest is sort of backing off on the
mega mega mega act, like we got to have Kanye
(05:13):
or Rolling Stone.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, Yeah, there's nothing that I would say is like
so huge that oh I got to go because it's
Paul McCartney, you know what I mean, right right, right right,
which might help. But the wheel is pretty good, you
know that's I think that's done out of superstition because
they've played every year.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they opened it every year, the
first act every single year.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, they they I think they actually played before the
gates open. They just told them gates open at ten
to sleep at the wheel at nine.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I heard a song though the other day that I
really liked, and of course I can't remember the name
of it, but it was Ray Benson and Radney Foster.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And it was good.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I didn't I'm a Radney Foster fan, so I don't
know that tune.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I don't know this song came. I'll find it later.
So Austin cea Limit's Music Festival. I Trisha, if you're
asking me me my vote on whether or not our
sixteen year old can go with a crew of friends.
My vote is yes, just simply based on she's not
given us a reason not to now.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
She could between now and then.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, but you know what it's it's believe me, if
I could do all my parenting over again, I would
I would opt for that. But I think that's a
really good approach to say that. So yeah, I think
we would love for you to go. You don't have
to go with your parents. Have fun, But tell her
what you just said, right, You had never given us
a reason not to trust you. Right, if that changes,
(06:47):
this all changes. Yeah, Like that's good. That's a really
good thing to say. Now, my daughter would have thrown
it all out the window, but I think there's hope.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
With your daughter.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Coming up all the show today, JB was on a
trip to Colorado and was there to do a bike
ride with a buddy and things did not go well
for mister j B.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He's got the bruises to prove.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It, mister JB.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, it might be one of those things where you've
got to go look at our socials just to see
how banged up I am.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
All right, we'll get into that and just a little bit,
probably about seven twenty five ish and up next, Trista's
got the story we love.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
What do you have?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So? Uber has announced that they are launching a pilot
program in Austin for a certain age group of writers.
And I don't think I actually qualify for this pilot,
but I really.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Want in on it. It sounds pretty good, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Details are coming up on Austin's eighty station on three
point one. Uber is testing something new in Austin, and
Tristia's got the details coming up in just a second
the story we love you know. Just a little bit ago,
we were talking about the lineup for the ACL Festival
in October at Zilker Park. I don't know if anyone cares,
but last weekend the Garth Brooks ACL Hall of Fame
(08:02):
episode aired on PBS and I watched part of it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I mean, Garth's Garth and he does know he.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Was going into the ACL Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Fame. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And what was cool is because I remember when that
first came out, we were like, well, what has he
got to do with Austin City Limits.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Well, he actually has a lot to do with that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And they tell the story of how he pitched the
the the ACL people to come play the show, like
he kept coming asking him and asking him and asking
him to come play it, and they finally let him
play this.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So this is twenty something years ago.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
At that time, they were very old music, yes, and
he was way too progressive I'm sure for what they
were doing at that.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Time exactly, And he finally got to play it. And
now ever since then, anytime the director of Austin City
Limits need something, Garth is always like, heck, yeah, heck, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Whatever he needs, whatever he needs, whatever he needs.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And it was cool because he also said something that
made me rethink the artists that play Austin City Limits.
And what he said is that he goes with Austin
City Limits limits, it's not a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
And he's like, trust me, I've used them all with
the smoking, smoke and mirrors. And he goes and I'll
(09:18):
tell you what was told me by other musicians that
have played Austin City Limits, and he said, other musicians
have told me that when you play Austin City Limits,
you're the real deal.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You're like, you're the you're legit.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, if you play Austin City Limits, you know, which
is a great way to really sum that show up
and what it's all about, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I think his wife played a concert too last week
and as well so on the episode.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't know if it's on the episode, but I
know she played in Austin.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, Okay, I'm sorry, Jimmy, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
No, I just it's it's like a little bit of immortality,
I think is how they look at it, like you're legit,
like playing Grand old Opry's probably wanted.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, exactly, very much like that. So anyway, ah, yeah
it aired over the weekend. I'm sure you know they
re air that stuff all the time.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Sillyes you like our ai jingles JB.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Wow, you know it's a little much in it.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It sounds like a like a Nickelodeon show. It does
like I should come be bopping out to be my story.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
It's catchy.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It is catchy.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So, according to a press release, Uber is rolling out
a pilot program for seniors. It's a Senior's Account program.
It's uh rolling out in Austin. First that it's an
an option on the app that's designed to make getting
around easier, more in two and more accessible for older adults.
(11:03):
Some of the features of the Senior app larger text,
fewer steps, and optional support from loved ones.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I was like, I think I would like that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Meaning if somebody, if an older adult books a ride
and they start getting confused, it notifies somebody on their
account as an emergency contact that can help them figure
it out, can help them speak with the driver. Perhaps
the key features for the Senior account simplified booking. Sometimes
(11:33):
it gets confusing booking them if you're not used to
doing it. Saved places, meaning if you go to a
doctor's appointment all the time or to this one location
all the time, that is going to show up in
your account for the driver to help get you there.
Flexible payment options so you can use your card, you
can use a family member's card on file flex cards
(11:53):
for medical trips, so different payment options. Live tracking so
loved ones can keep track of there you are and
help when needed. Again, family organizers who are on your
account can be contacted if there's any kind of an issue.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Is there anything in there about voice recognition? Like my
mom has lost sight in one eye and she's struggling
with trying to keep the other eye and right not
real good, So I'm just wondering if she could say,
you know, Uber, I need a ride or something to
you know, just voice, just use your voice instead of right.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
No, I don't see anything mentioned about voice recognition, but
they're just simply they apparently did some sort of a
survey and overwhelmingly it was too confusing. So they're saying
they're trying to make the technology helpful not overwhelming for
the older generation, which I think I'm on the cusp
of being in that older generation, and I'm like, can I.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Get the larger text in this simplified bookings? So I
think that's very very cool. They did something like this
for teen accounts. A couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
They did a pilot for teen writers that apparently was
pretty successful.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I think it's a great idea because your parents get
older and at some point, like my dad is eight
almost eighty five and probably should not be driving, right,
but he still does. And just to make it easier
for senior citizens to get around, I mean, they got
a lot of doctor's appointments, right, they really do. And
they still have regular errands and grocery stores and all that.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
And if you want to go out, especially in a
town like this, you want to go out to Ego downtown.
It's not like the old days where you just park
and went in. Yeah, take an uber, don't deal with
a car.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I think they probably need to screen that have certain
drivers for that too, like people that are up for
doing the extra that a senior citizen would need.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, Like, I bet you do have the option to
sign up to be in that program or not.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Right, So the first question.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
If you want to be one of those drivers, do
you like where there's candy.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I would have him in my car if I was
a driver, I would have them already.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I think they should always be in the car, no
matter how old you are, because they're delicious.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I've always been impressed with the Uber driver that's got
like a bottle of water in the car for you,
especially in the summertime. That's nice, right, a little extra
touch for it. So, Jamie, have you gotten a Weaimo yet?
I know you're waiting. I have not.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You know you can't. They are in partnership with Uber
in Austin. You cannot just request a Weeimo. The autonomous,
the jag the white jaguare cars with Weimo.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's random, it's luck of the draw. And they're all
over my neighborhood. I've been wanting to try one, but
I have not.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I was behind one recently downtown off of like tenth
in Congress, right behind it at stop, like right in
front of the Stephen F.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Austin Hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, and I was mesmerized by it.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I was downtown Saturday and I probably saw five of
them within a two mile radius of all over everywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's crazy. Yeah, it's the future, though, for sure. Definitely
that is the story we loved
Three one Austin dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's
eighty station one O three point one. All right, thanks
for being with us. My name is Sandy, This is JB. Hello,
Tricia's here too. Hi everybody, and uh, the ACL Festival.
The announcement has come out. Who's playing ACL. We got
that for you in just a sec. But first I
gotta play a talkback for you guys that we got
(00:25):
Tricia was it's dealing with you talking about the girl,
the actress in the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
With Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh yeah, her very first movie, yep, and she gets
to make out with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
All she does in the movie is make out with
Brad the little hippie girl.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, yes, right, and Tricia insanely jealous.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah of this girl.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Of whoever she is, well, one of our listeners knows
who she is, and it might make sense how she
got this job when you hear this, That.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Actress that was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
was actually Andy McDowell's daughter, the actress that was in
Groundhog's Day.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So she it's nepotism. Bye.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
She's one Lucky McDowell.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I haven't heard that name in a minute. Yeah, it's
been a while.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I can't even picture her.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
To be honest with you, you.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Would totally recognize her, Yeah, you definitely would. She had
curly black hair, very tall. You look up a picture
of you'll totally she.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And Andy with an ietually so oh okay, yeah, yeah, yea.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I remember Andy McDowell now, sure sure, well her
daughter got a good gig.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, she did good for her.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I mean if she never did a movie again, I
feel like she'd be like, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right, you guys, use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
Just tap the microphone, send us a message. We love
hearing from you. The headliners for the Austin City Limits
Music Festival have been announced, and the reason that, well
a lot of reasons that I know this, since that
I know this, but our daughter posted it on her
Instagram account, which is her subtle way of saying that
(01:58):
she wants to go to the.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Austin Lemon's Music Festival.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Headliner Sabrina Carpenter, Josier Doja, Cat, Luke Comb's The Strokes,
and I've never heard of John Summit before.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
But he's headlighting, so he must be a big deal.
I don't know. Does anyone know John Summon.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I've never heard of him either, I have it either.
It's at Zilker Park. Of course. October third to fifth
is the first weekend. Then October ten through twelfth is
the second weekend. And I wonder, and but I doubt
that they're going to dial back the number of tickets
that they sell, because that's been the rub on that
is that it's just over sold.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I ever sold, ridiculously crowded. You feel like cattle trying
to get in. Remember when we were. They have the
paths blocked off for you to get to the entrance,
and then it just kind of all piles.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Up at the entrance.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
It narrows down and narrows down. Our daughter for sure
wants to go. She's going to want to go with friends.
She'll be sixteen. Would we possibly let her go alone
to acl sixteen?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Based on her past? Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, I mean she hasn't given a reason not to
trust her.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Is that exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, no, yeah, And it wouldn't be that I would be
afraid she would do something. I'm just saying, do we
throw her into that pit the first time she goes,
you know, to a to a giant concert by herself.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Would ACL be a good one?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah? But I think I think so. And I don't
think she's a jump into the pit.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Kid, No, no, don I just mean the big giant venue,
the park and all the people. And I was worried
when we took her in a friend a couple of
years ago, that I was going to take her friend
home and he's going to be high as a kite,
because you know what I mean, Like, I mean, there's
a lot going on.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
He sounds so nerdy right now, I know I might
have to take him. How many might be as high
as a kite? I mean he couldn't breathe, dawn, I
mean high people don't or not just as easy to
drive as.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's true, you know. So it's funny.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I was chatting with my daughter who's twenty three, about
the list because I saw it and I was like, eh,
which is what tends to happen. She's much more in
the wheelhouse, and she was like, did you see the
ACL festival lineup? It's awesome? So I defer to her
that it is an awesome lineup. Some of the other
names that stood out to me that they were more
(04:24):
in Maya Wheelhouse were Cage the Elephant, Rylo Kaylie, Modest Mouse,
Japanese Breakfast. I'm a fan of that girl. She wrote
a I want to read her biography or whatever it is.
It's called crying Crying in h Mart, crying my eyes
out in h Mart. I think she's of Korean descent
(04:47):
and it's called Japanese Breakfast. But anyhow, she's super talented.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
There were a few others that jumped Passion Pit, Fantagram
jumped out at me, Anderson East. There's a lot of
good stuff in there. But you know what I feel
like it is these mega festivals, or at least at
least a clfest is sort of backing off on the
mega mega mega act, like we got to have Kanye
(05:13):
or Rolling Stone.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, Yeah, there's nothing that I would say is like
so huge that oh I got to go because it's
Paul McCartney, you know what I mean, right right, right right,
which might help. But the wheel is pretty good, you
know that's I think that's done out of superstition because
they've played every year.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they opened it every year, the
first act every single year.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, they they I think they actually played before the
gates open. They just told them gates open at ten
to sleep at the wheel at nine.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I heard a song though the other day that I
really liked, and of course I can't remember the name
of it, but it was Ray Benson and Radney Foster.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And it was good.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I didn't I'm a Radney Foster fan, so I don't
know that tune.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I don't know this song came. I'll find it later.
So Austin cea Limit's Music Festival. I Trisha, if you're
asking me me my vote on whether or not our
sixteen year old can go with a crew of friends.
My vote is yes, just simply based on she's not
given us a reason not to now.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
She could between now and then.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, but you know what it's it's believe me, if
I could do all my parenting over again, I would
I would opt for that. But I think that's a
really good approach to say that. So yeah, I think
we would love for you to go. You don't have
to go with your parents. Have fun, But tell her
what you just said, right, You had never given us
a reason not to trust you. Right, if that changes,
(06:47):
this all changes. Yeah, Like that's good. That's a really
good thing to say. Now, my daughter would have thrown
it all out the window, but I think there's hope.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
With your daughter.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Coming up all the show today, JB was on a
trip to Colorado and was there to do a bike
ride with a buddy and things did not go well
for mister j B.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He's got the bruises to prove.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It, mister JB.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, it might be one of those things where you've
got to go look at our socials just to see
how banged up I am.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
All right, we'll get into that and just a little bit,
probably about seven twenty five ish and up next, Trista's
got the story we love.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
What do you have?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So? Uber has announced that they are launching a pilot
program in Austin for a certain age group of writers.
And I don't think I actually qualify for this pilot,
but I really.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Want in on it. It sounds pretty good, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Details are coming up on Austin's eighty station on three
point one. Uber is testing something new in Austin, and
Tristia's got the details coming up in just a second
the story we love you know. Just a little bit ago,
we were talking about the lineup for the ACL Festival
in October at Zilker Park. I don't know if anyone cares,
but last weekend the Garth Brooks ACL Hall of Fame
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episode aired on PBS and I watched part of it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I mean, Garth's Garth and he does know he.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Was going into the ACL Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Fame. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And what was cool is because I remember when that
first came out, we were like, well, what has he
got to do with Austin City Limits.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Well, he actually has a lot to do with that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And they tell the story of how he pitched the
the the ACL people to come play the show, like
he kept coming asking him and asking him and asking
him to come play it, and they finally let him
play this.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So this is twenty something years ago.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
At that time, they were very old music, yes, and
he was way too progressive I'm sure for what they
were doing at that.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Time exactly, And he finally got to play it. And
now ever since then, anytime the director of Austin City
Limits need something, Garth is always like, heck, yeah, heck, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Whatever he needs, whatever he needs, whatever he needs.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And it was cool because he also said something that
made me rethink the artists that play Austin City Limits.
And what he said is that he goes with Austin
City Limits limits, it's not a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
And he's like, trust me, I've used them all with
the smoking, smoke and mirrors. And he goes and I'll
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tell you what was told me by other musicians that
have played Austin City Limits, and he said, other musicians
have told me that when you play Austin City Limits,
you're the real deal.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You're like, you're the you're legit.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, if you play Austin City Limits, you know, which
is a great way to really sum that show up
and what it's all about, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I think his wife played a concert too last week
and as well so on the episode.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't know if it's on the episode, but I
know she played in Austin.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, Okay, I'm sorry, Jimmy, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
No, I just it's it's like a little bit of immortality,
I think is how they look at it, like you're legit,
like playing Grand old Opry's probably wanted.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, exactly, very much like that. So anyway, ah, yeah
it aired over the weekend. I'm sure you know they
re air that stuff all the time.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Sillyes you like our ai jingles JB.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Wow, you know it's a little much in it.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It sounds like a like a Nickelodeon show. It does
like I should come be bopping out to be my story.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
It's catchy.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It is catchy.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So, according to a press release, Uber is rolling out
a pilot program for seniors. It's a Senior's Account program.
It's uh rolling out in Austin. First that it's an
an option on the app that's designed to make getting
around easier, more in two and more accessible for older adults.
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Some of the features of the Senior app larger text,
fewer steps, and optional support from loved ones.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I was like, I think I would like that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Meaning if somebody, if an older adult books a ride
and they start getting confused, it notifies somebody on their
account as an emergency contact that can help them figure
it out, can help them speak with the driver. Perhaps
the key features for the Senior account simplified booking. Sometimes
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it gets confusing booking them if you're not used to
doing it. Saved places, meaning if you go to a
doctor's appointment all the time or to this one location
all the time, that is going to show up in
your account for the driver to help get you there.
Flexible payment options so you can use your card, you
can use a family member's card on file flex cards
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for medical trips, so different payment options. Live tracking so
loved ones can keep track of there you are and
help when needed. Again, family organizers who are on your
account can be contacted if there's any kind of an issue.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Is there anything in there about voice recognition? Like my
mom has lost sight in one eye and she's struggling
with trying to keep the other eye and right not
real good, So I'm just wondering if she could say,
you know, Uber, I need a ride or something to
you know, just voice, just use your voice instead of right.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
No, I don't see anything mentioned about voice recognition, but
they're just simply they apparently did some sort of a
survey and overwhelmingly it was too confusing. So they're saying
they're trying to make the technology helpful not overwhelming for
the older generation, which I think I'm on the cusp
of being in that older generation, and I'm like, can I.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Get the larger text in this simplified bookings? So I
think that's very very cool. They did something like this
for teen accounts. A couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
They did a pilot for teen writers that apparently was
pretty successful.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I think it's a great idea because your parents get
older and at some point, like my dad is eight
almost eighty five and probably should not be driving, right,
but he still does. And just to make it easier
for senior citizens to get around, I mean, they got
a lot of doctor's appointments, right, they really do. And
they still have regular errands and grocery stores and all that.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
And if you want to go out, especially in a
town like this, you want to go out to Ego downtown.
It's not like the old days where you just park
and went in. Yeah, take an uber, don't deal with
a car.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I think they probably need to screen that have certain
drivers for that too, like people that are up for
doing the extra that a senior citizen would need.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, Like, I bet you do have the option to
sign up to be in that program or not.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Right, So the first question.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
If you want to be one of those drivers, do
you like where there's candy.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I would have him in my car if I was
a driver, I would have them already.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I think they should always be in the car, no
matter how old you are, because they're delicious.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I've always been impressed with the Uber driver that's got
like a bottle of water in the car for you,
especially in the summertime. That's nice, right, a little extra
touch for it. So, Jamie, have you gotten a Weaimo yet?
I know you're waiting. I have not.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You know you can't. They are in partnership with Uber
in Austin. You cannot just request a Weeimo. The autonomous,
the jag the white jaguare cars with Weimo.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's random, it's luck of the draw. And they're all
over my neighborhood. I've been wanting to try one, but
I have not.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I was behind one recently downtown off of like tenth
in Congress, right behind it at stop, like right in
front of the Stephen F.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Austin Hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, and I was mesmerized by it.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I was downtown Saturday and I probably saw five of
them within a two mile radius of all over everywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's crazy. Yeah, it's the future, though, for sure. Definitely
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