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Is Michael garfier of Michael Garfield.
Michael Garfield's joining us in the high Tech

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Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
a high Tech Texans it to make life

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easier some of your technology. So
Michael Garfield has something you might want,

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Texas. Michael Garfield is your high
Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make

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magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide
on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high

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Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. I'm
going to give you some inside baseball here

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being in the media. And by
the way, welcome to summer, which

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officially hit a few days ago.
And then Michael is my name. You

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know, it's the high Tech Texis
show. When summer hits. And I'm

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not just talking when the weather turns
in Houston and it gets hot, which

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was about two months ago. Let's
just talk about summer, which is what

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the summer solcist June twenty or whatever
it is. These are the dog days

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in the media, and I was
I had a conversation just a few days

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ago. I had lunch with my
good buddy here in Houston and Randy Mackaby.

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Randy is the sports director of flick
to Houston Channel two, the NBC

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Italic, and I was talking to
him. I'm like, okay, what

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do you do now for the next
two months. We've got the basketball NBA

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season's over and football season is not
there, even though the mini camps and

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in the Texans raining season will start
soon. The Astros are are not doing

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well. They're traveling this specific specific
week. What do you do for stories?

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And were sitting there laughing at it. He goes, man, I'll

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tell you what you know. Obviously, the Olympics are coming up for NBC,

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so he's trying to find some Houston
area you know, stories, sports

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stories and what have you. But
he said, it's it's it's pretty dry.

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I laughed too, because for me
the stuff that I covered, I

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cover a lot of consumer products obviously, and that's why you tune in and

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ten tech products and whatever. These
are also the dog days this summer there.

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Obviously, it's not the holiday shopping
season that doesn't start for several months.

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It's not even back to school season
that's probably at least another month away.

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Right now, there hasn't been a
lot of technology news, new product

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announcements and launches. Now that we
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something coming up, but there's not
a lot of stuff. This is where

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in Randy and I need a lot
of my other co orts in media.

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We realize that this is where you
earn your money. This is where the

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BS degree that you earned in college
does not stand for Bachelor of Science.

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You've got to fill some time,
and that's what I'm here to do for

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you. Two hours for you,
my friends. I do thank you for

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tuning in if you are listening live
as we do. And I found out

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actually that I know even though we
do the show plausibly live here Saturdays eleven

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am in the wanting till one pm
in the afternoon, two hours, we

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do repeat this show, not once, but also twice. I had a

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a friend of mine shout out to
doctor Allen Pans the Eye Doctors to the

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Stars. He's texting me last Sunday
afternoon he goes, hey, man,

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good show are you live? I'm
like, what are you talking about it?

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So apparently if there's filler time here
on KPRC Radio with the flagship talk

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station in Houston at iHeartMedia, they
rerun two hours of this wonderful content.

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I am here for you, though, it's seven one three, two one

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two five nine five zo. Feel
free to call in and you can ask

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almost ask me anything. Yes,
this is my real hair. I have

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never died it at my age.
I'm gonna flaunt it. I got some

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gray coming in, but I'm very
proud of it. Travel we got caught.

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One of the things that I still
do. I do review vehicles every

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single week. I do a vehicle, not from a dealership. I go

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straight with the manufacturer. They deliver
it to my house. It's a nice

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little I'm not saying perk. It's
a content that I actually get to do.

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And so this week we are in
a fiery fast special edition Ford Mustang

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stick Shift, which is not my
favorite thing to do, but it's a

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sexy it's a looker. So if
you see this big old aloud Ford Musting,

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zoom and buy you. Odds are
that could be me this week.

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For the next few days I will
talk about that. But also if you

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do, if you're in the mood
or in the mode to buy a vehicle,

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a suv, maybe it's a minivan, don't laugh, Maybe if it's

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a sports car. Odds are I
have test droven it and I've got my

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thoughts. You can call me,
you could ask me my thoughts. You

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can also go to the podcast.
You can go to Spotify or Apple or

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iHeartRadio and look for high tech texting. You spell the whole thing out,

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and then you can listen to me
go about. I'm anywhere between eight to

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ten minutes of talking about cars,
the good parts, the bad parts.

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And again that's not a sponsored thing, so I definitely talking about the bad

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parts of what can be improved in
some of these vehicles. So that,

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my friends, is how you can
trust me that we're gonna app about this

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week. We actually do have some
car news. Fisker. You ever heard

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of Fisker anyone? It's it's the
latest EV startup to declare bankruptcy. M

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boy that some of these EV car
companies. Man, they are having a

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tough row ahead. You know my
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of mine, I will give you
the breakdown on that. We will talk

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about it. In Vidia. In
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fights between Microsoft over who is which
one is the most valuable company in the

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world. Over the past three or
four weeks, it's gone back and forth

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in video Microsoft, Apple was kind
of in there. In Vidia overtook the

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number one most valuable position, the
most valuable company in the world earlier this

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week, and then about two days
ago he gave it back to Microsoft because

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the stock dropped a few percentage points. I still hitting myself. I've heard

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of Nvidia years and years ago,
and you know they make those computer chips

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that process the AI, the artificial
intelligence. I have no clue why I

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didn't best anything in that years and
years ago, because I wouldn't be wasting

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I mean, spending my Saturday after
Dudon's here with you. We've got that

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in a few other controversial lot of
things. But I'd love to hear of

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your opinion. If you're just driving
around, you're sitting in the pool.

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I gave you the phone number.
You can hit me on all of the

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platforms of social media, which is
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H T E C H T E
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follow me, saw that I have
been doing some travel. I got a

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few weeks of fun of coming travel
with some announcements, a little vacation here

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and there. I just got back
from a nice long time in my favorite

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spot in the United States of America, so cow. I was out there

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playing with my son who lives out
there, running along the beaches, driving

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around, shopping clothes, shopping.
Man, it's awesome. We're sitting here

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in almost one hundred degree weather and
I'm not getting you. Just a few

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days ago, I am on the
beaches just around LA and I am wearing

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a a light jacket in the middle
of the day and at night, I'm

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putting on a heavier jacket. I
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It is fun. Listen, you
know me. I don't get into

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politics. I'm not talking about red
states blue states. I don't even know

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which what red is and what blue
is. I'm the simple, fun guy,

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okay. And I know the taxes
are just astronomical. I laugh how

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expensive the price of gas is out
there. But dang man, it is

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just beautiful weather, great sites.
One day, one day, I am

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waiting for a game the game show
Network to call MEY said, Garth,

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you're moving out here. You were
going to host something, and we're going

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to give you benefits, unlike any
other radio station around here does. Anyway,

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I came back from California. When
we come back here, California actually

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just passed your governor out there,
Governor Gavin Newsom. He actually wants to

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do something that has to do with
schools, and it's coming from states.

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A lot of states have done this, but I want to get your take

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on this. That's just why I
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do with your kids who go to
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like myself, we never had to
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but nowadays there's things to think about. That's one of the things.

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I'm gonna make you have some fun, make you hang on for the next

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two or three minutes. Why you
listen to some of these great commercials on

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KPRC nine to fifty am, don't
go anywhere because of these high tech text

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in show is gonna come right back. That's right, just like that big

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boy, said mister Michael Garfield.
That's the name seven one three two two

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five nine five. Oh you want
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looking for a product. I am
actually looking for a product myself. People

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just think that I know everything,
well, I kind of do. No,

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no, no, no, no. I know a little about a

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lot of things, which I think
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things. One of the things that
I am looking for and I'm doing some

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research, it's I need a new
wireless microphone. Seah. So many of

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us use our phones to videotape things
like you influencers out there. One of

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the key things to making a very
very good video. Yes, you need

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lighting. And I learned this when
I was in Radio Intellivision Film you know

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this school, be rgiyeh. You
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You absolutely need good audio. And
now I remember studying the different types

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of microphones, like the one I'm
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it is it a cardioid, is
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nowadays we record things on our phone. I do a lot of videotaping either

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for my social media. I do
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on Channel eleven that I shoot on
my phone, which by the way,

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I use a Samsung Galaxy because they
have phenomenal cameras. But you need some

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audio. And I've had a wireless
microphone, but I kind of busted the

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other day, well bust a few
weeks ago, and I need a new

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one. So I'm researching around so
far, there's an expert that I trust,

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probably more than anybody, and it's
my youngest son, who, by

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the way, happy early birthday to
him. He's turning twenty four this week.

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He is one of these young influencers. But he's also in sports marketing

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and he does really really funny videos
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following, got a great job,
and he has a lot of equipment in

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one of which is a wireless lab
of airer Mike. He suggested for me

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to get some Amazon wireless mic for
like twenty nine dollars, and it's tough

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to beat something like that, and
I know it works because he sounds great.

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I then ask another buddy of mine
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do. He's based in Los Angeles. I was with him last week.

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We were hanging. He does,
He's got a show on iHeart. He

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also does some stuff on TV in
Los Angeles. He recommended a microphone from

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Dji Good Company does drones, does
cameras. That's only two hundred and fifty

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dollars. I mean, it's the
disparity between the price is incredible. You

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got twenty nine dollars. You got
two undred and fifty dollars. But interesting

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enough, what's the quality disparity?
See, these are the things that I

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review, and I will let you
know it doesn't matter what countigord. Maybe

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it's a car. You know,
a two seater sports car is not the

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same thing as this two seater sports
car. You know, maybe one is

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you know, one hundred thousand dollars
and more. You know, you can

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buy a two seater sports car for
thirty five forty thousand dollars. Where there's

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a lot of disparity between these two
things. And so going back to the

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microphone, probably gonna order both of
these, and I will give you the

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play by play the p BIP of
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if one of the things that I've
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Deextion brand for you know a lot, I be doing this twenty two plus

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years. I'm here to save you
money. I am here to if I

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can find a product that will enhance
your life and hance your business. But

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it's not gonna cost you no arm
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their name brands are off name brands, and you're gonna save on one,

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go for it it. I realized
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of Sony products. And I'm not
ragging on Sony. Sony's just a phenomenal

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company in so many different categories.
Some hew, they're in video games with

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Sony PlayStation. They've got cameras,
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He goes on and on and on, but always, you know, when

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it comes to cameras, there are
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that I found that are a lot
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they work just as well, and
they're a percentage less than those things.

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And so I started when I just, you know, did this twenty years

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ago, like I need to find
something. I mean, I'm not going

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to sit here and tell everybody out
there to go out and get a you

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know, a car that cost six
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get a TV that's you know,
ten twenty, fifteen thousand dollars or something

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like that. Where you can get
a TV right now that's great for five,

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six, seven hundred dollars. So
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no that that's one of the things
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you've got a question, you got
a product. Be at laptops, be

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at cars, be at bourbon,
be it travel. I like to think

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I have something here for you.
I tech tax and spell the whole thing

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out. If you're too shy a
call, you could put it on X

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formally known as Twitter, which I
think the official title of that entire company

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is X formally known as Twitter,
because that's how so many people and companies

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referred to it. Told you just
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saw this Gavin Newsom, who is
the good looking dude by the way,

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good look at don't know anything about
his politics. I'm sure it's totally opposite

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what we have here in Texas,
but not the point he's put He wants

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to do something in schools. He
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to restrict the use of smartphones in
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to school. So gave a speech
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a passive proposal for the school phone
band, and he said he's gonna work

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with lawmakers to restrict the use of
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teens quote should be focused on their
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Now he mentioned and he agreed with
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had one of those here. I
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or whatever. The Surgeon General said
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display warning labels because they can significantly
harm teenagers' mental health. US Surgeon General

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VIVEK Mercy, I believe is his
name, and he said that requires congressional

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action to regularly remind parents and adolescents
that social media has not been proved safe.

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And again this comes from the US
Surgeon General. What say you do?

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Tech it in again? My kids
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collge day. I did not have
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You know why phones weren't bad,
but because quite simply, phone cords

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were not long enough to stretch from
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I just aged myself. Did not. Now, my kids went through high

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school. They were at an interesting
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don't know, ten, eleven,
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that big of it. But certainly
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My son's going to be thirty later
this summer. He really didn't have

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my cell phone and probably until he
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was no policies. What do you
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this is a technology been the technological
spin because it's smartphones. What do you

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do? How do you even monitor
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Do you do you walk into your
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of now sadly have metal detectors.
Do they detect your phone? Do they

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take it? Do they put it
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office? How do you take it
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able to help me and my listeners
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a smart watch? Are they banned? Well, if you've got a smartphone

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that's bluetooth connected to your smart watch
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relatively low to your smart watch,
you still can get text, You still

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could do a number of things on
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too? These are difficult time.
The LA Board members. They ultimately did

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pass the proposal for a phone ban. I think two members voted against it,

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one of them one person who said
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reason it was because teachers already have
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let's get into the gun discussion.
Lord, Actually let's not. But

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he said the parents need to be
able to contact their children during emergencies like

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school shootings, echoing of the concerns
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past. That is something that we
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school in the seventies, that's something
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do not remembering school shooting, do
you. It's I mean, I'm glad.

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I really am glad. I do
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anymore nowadays. I can't imagine when
my kids they have kids, what are

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they going to face. It's an
interesting rule. Let's say you, let's

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hear from me. We take a
break. Seven one three, use your

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use your smartphone. School is not
in session because it's summer seven one three,

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two one two five ninety five.
Oh, Michael Garfield is today beyond

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the high Tech Texan show. Bottom
of the first hour of the High Tech

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Texting Show. It's Miguel, It's
MITHI l whatever you want to call me.

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Don't call me any for dinner.
Actually tell you what you want.

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You want, why don't you call
me. Here's what we're gonna do.

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This is what radio does. We
give away stuff. It entices you.

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Let's give away some dinner or lunch. Cabo Bob's love it. They are

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so nice. Twenty five dollars gift
card, ninth caller right now seven one

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three, two, one two five
nine five Oh. Cabo Bobs are out

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of Austin, four locations around the
Houston area. If you want fresh sleep,

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I mean, they're tortillas in front
of your face, five different kinds.

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You could just go down the line. You could stuff anything you want

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into it. They've got tacos,
they've got the brito bowls. They've got

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burritos so good. Don't sleep on
their fried fish tacos. Phenom twenty five

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dollars gift guard is for you.
That's how nice these people are. They

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will love me because I used to
go in Austin all the time. My

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son who lives there, he goes
all the time. And so you can

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find me there at least twice,
maybe three times a week. Get it

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to go, good caseo, good
chips, good gualk. It's nice stuff.

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And so ninth caller, which we
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congrat some of the twenty five dollars
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sneak attack man. This is why
you usually listen to me. Never third

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off the Michael Garfield HTT Show here, never do it. Which I go

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back from California, which, by
the way, they actually they have some

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decent California Mexican food. Here's another
debate. Here's an evergreen debate. You

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know, how is a hot dog
or sandwich which I'm not getting into.

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Can it be called tex Mex when
you're not in Texas? Because California has

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got some great taka's g really good
taco giants. And they think, they

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go, oh, it's tex Mex. And I'm thinking, is texts part

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of the word Texas or Texan?
What's it doing in California? I call

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it Calimex. Neither here, neither
there. They cupa bobs is still beattery.

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Whatever it is. They did it
good, have some good food out

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there. Got back in California,
did some great running, a little snack,

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and a lot of shopping. It
was beautiful. Do you know what

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they have in abundance? Let me
tell you what the state of because I

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frequent that great stay, fun to
visit Sun lives there. There's a number

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of things that California has in abundance. Yes, traffic number one, hey,

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number two, great weather, beautiful
weather, high sixty degrees, low

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seventy degree. I mean it's high
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Did some great running up in other
beaches. They got a lot of

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sand at the beach, a lot
of pretty women, a lot of pretty

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men, a lot of pretty people
who don't have their original parts of noses

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and faces and hair. Probably one
of the reasons why I probably wouldn't fit

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out there on a regular basis.
But the thing that caught my continues to

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catch my eye. There are a
lot of electric vehicles out there. There

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are a lot of evs, and
I mean it's not even funny, and

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it's not just your tesla's. They've
got Rythons and they have Fiskers. Even

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though breaking news, Fisker justin nounce
bankruptcy. They've got lucid, and obviously

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they've got a lot of the forward
cars, a lot of the GM manufactured

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cars that are also electric too.
And I'm standing im getting ready across the

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street and across the street and here
comes in a EV car and believe it,

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I was relatively quiet. I think
it was at night, and I

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hear this hum as there as they're
going by, and it was a neat

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topic that I thought. It was
like something that that I don't know if

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a lot of people know, but
evs are required to emit a sound at

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low speeds so they can alert pedestrians. And the one that went buzzing by

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me, and I forget right now
which manufacturer it was, but most of

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the sounds describe you can can describe
them as kind of like a flying saucer

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of hum and what is that thing? And for years and I did some

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study just for you here we got
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sounds that are emitted by their electric
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try to tune them in a way
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not alienating to people who are used
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and it seems that they've settled on
sound that would be between a hum

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and a whirr? Is it a
flying sauce? Is it is? I

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don't know anybody ever heard these things. So there was an online survey.

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Who did this, serve a cloud
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a some adults in the nis US. They found the top rated sound was

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a non tonal sound, something closely
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the inorganic sounds that are omitted by
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what sound would if you could create
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be? Open phone lines here two
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three two one two five nine five. Oh. I think it was a

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Mercedes that I had. It was
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and I was test driving this thing
and it's interesting when you unlock it,

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there's this music that comes up.
I'm not kidding you. There was this

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mute, yusical tone and it,
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three second four a sec of tone. And I'm thinking, why can't the

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whole thing, damn thing play a
song when you're rolling by How is it

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different than you going down the road
and you've got a car. How many

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times has this happen to you?
You've got a dude who just wants to

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just blast his his base out and
it's just loud, and it's like turning

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that thing down and you can hear
it for you know, twenty yards behind

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you, in twenty yards. You
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you know, maybe you know,
maybe it could be something by ya,

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maybe a little Barry Manilow song or
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if a vehicle had speakers outside and
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It would play outside, not at
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let pedestrians know. I thought they
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it? Do you look at this? BMW hired famed film composer at Hans

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Zimmer to formulate soundscapes I love that
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and Mercedes. They just teamed up
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the Black Eyed Peas to create an
interactive musical experience. Maybe that was what

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he will I Am created. What
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literal classical music at low speeds.
I remember it was it Dodge. Dodge

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branded its own fake engine noises as
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about it. Dodge is known for
muscle cars, and if you use a

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muscle car, I mean, if
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a challenge, you want that,
you buy a muscle car for that hemmie

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engineer. But now they're coming out
with evs. What are you to be

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putts on along at street and you're
gonna get no noise? So they created

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I think it was a speaker that
goes outside to create a fret sonic chambered

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exhaust system. I mean, you
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you when you walk into you walk
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If you used to this and you
smelled leather ever everywhere, well you think

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you smelled leather because they sell leather. Oh they got leather coats, jackets,

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purses and everything. But in reality, many of those stores they pumped

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in leather smell. You can pump
in smell. You ever go to a

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casino's casino smell beautiful Oh, it's
like flowers and stuff. You ever go

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to a cookie store. I'm out. I'm out in Orange County, California

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last week with my son and my
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there was a line I am not
kidding you, in front of a cookie

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store that must have been fifty people
deep in the middle of the afternoon,

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and I'm thinking, well, are
there drugs are legal? Like, while

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some drugs are legal in California,
what are they put drugs in these cookies?

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Well, we walked by real closely
and there was a smell of cookies

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that you just wanted to just start
licking the cement. I mean, it

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was phenomenal. And my son's smart
enough to know he goes. You know

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what they do, They pump out
the smell of their ovens. So point

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is, you never know. It's
really you never know it's it's not so

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if for some reason, you have
an ev or you're a pedestrian getting ready

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to cross the street by an ed
and you don't hear anything you hear,

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or you hear some humming or worrying
or maybe a will I am toune odds?

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Are that's it? Anybody got any
suggestions for these things that would be

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fun to actually pump your own music. But again that is all. It

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is a requirement because it is very
dangerous if you're impaired vision, you don't

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know anything's coming. Like a typical
engine, you do need some of that

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stuff. Seven one, three,
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play a little bit music right now, or we take one final break for

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our first hour here on the Michael
Garfield Show. Final later nine minutes of

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the first hour of the High Tech
Texan Show. It's Garth. We had

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a winner for the Cabo Bob's a
gift card. Uh so, uh,

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congratulations to uh whoever won that.
We do those each week and you never

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know. Companies call me, hey, Michael Man, you want to give

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us something away. I'm like,
yeah, maybe I gotta I gotta taste

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it first, then we can give
some of that stuff away. So I

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don't know. We got another hour
in eight minutes or so, so we

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may give away a little something something. But you would like to give a

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big shout out to us coins and
jewelry. Love those guys over there.

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I ten Katie Freeway at Voss just
on the south side. Kenny Duncan Matt

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Duncan, the entire family. It's
been there for Jenner with this is the

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second generation and that they're doing.
Yes, if you're a coin collector,

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no better time to actually start the
start kids, get kids collected. Be

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a neumsmatist. I'm a philatalist,
which actually is not that bad a thing.

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I've been a stamp collector. That's
a philtal list of my grandparents actually

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got it, got me into that
when I was a little kid. And

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if you want to get your kids
into a coin collecting, which really it's

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a very interesting hobby, no better
place to start than US coins and jewelry.

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Always see people schlepping. There are
tons, hundreds of pounds of coins.

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They bring them in wagons to get
them appraised. You could buy coins,

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but it's also jewelry too, beautiful
Rolex watches and tennis bracelets, Texas

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memorababilia, sports memorabilia. Two could
not be nicer folks. And for some

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reason, you're listening on iHeartRadio and
you're not in Houston. Well, you

408
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can do everything online US Coins and
Jewelry dot com. I know you're gonna

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tell them, tell them Garf Center. There's a lot of Michaels, who

410
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speak for I'm but tell them garf
cent you they're too cool. So and

411
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I know they're open Saturday right now, so they're listening to me. They're

412
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:04.640
listening to the show. Open six
days a week. Apparently they take the

413
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Chick fil A route. They are
closed on Sundays, so good for them.

414
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As we continue, we were last
segment, we were talking about ed

415
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cars, electric vehicles, and when
I was in California last week, man,

416
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:22.079
they were just dime a dozen.
This one is indeed different companies that

417
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.319
I saw one or tude that wasn't
even I've never even heard of heard of.

418
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:32.160
However, I did see one or
two of a company that and when

419
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:36.160
I got back two days ago,
realized they're not in good position because they

420
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:41.599
just went bankrupt. Fisker anyone ever
heard of Fisker. Fisker just bit the

421
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:48.440
dust. They declared bankruptcy Chapter eleven
protection, trying to restructure its debt and

422
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:57.759
sell its assets. And Fisker has
been around quite a while. They made

423
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:03.720
I'm using the past ends right,
They made sexy cars. One was called

424
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:14.200
the Alaska EV. One was called
the Ocean Suv. They actually they released

425
00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:17.759
some numbers over here. Where is
the number? Oh? Here we go.

426
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:25.680
They revealed that they had produced ten
thousand units of its one EV that

427
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:30.480
was available. They produced it,
They produced ten thousand, they only delivered

428
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:37.759
forty nine hundred. That's that's not
a good. That's not good. That's

429
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.480
it's like a fifty percent adding average
or shooting average. And the others are

430
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:47.400
just sitting there. What was it? It was an interesting sexy car.

431
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:55.119
My guess it's just eds. You
know. I have a source who runs

432
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:59.599
and owns a car dealership here in
Houston, several of them and some of

433
00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:04.079
which sell evs. And again I'm
gonna call him an unknown resource and source

434
00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:10.960
that he sends me texted like what's
happening in the industry, And it's not

435
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.839
great. There's a lot of EV's
just sitting around for one reason of the

436
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.359
other. And you know my reason
why, I personally, and this is

437
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.640
me, I'm personally, I am
not I don't have the lifestyle that I

438
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:29.359
want an EV. Any given point, I'm gonna pop in the car and

439
00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:30.519
I'm gonna go to Austin, I'm
gonna go to I'm gonna go to Dallas

440
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:36.359
to see my parents. And it
it as someone who has has ADHD and

441
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:40.480
has anxiety or range anxiety of how
far the range is. I really don't

442
00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:42.960
want to sit there and try to
find a charger halfway up by forty five

443
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:47.759
and sit there for anywhere between thirty
minutes to an hour and a half charge

444
00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:49.799
of a damn car. Don't want
to do that. That's not me.

445
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.359
I think they're great. I think
a lot of evs are phenomenal cars.

446
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:59.240
They are a familest man. They're
they're quiet, They obviously they Electricity does

447
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:00.920
cost money too when you charge it, but it's sometimes it's a lot cheaper

448
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:06.720
than gas. But until our charging
infrastructure here in the United States changes,

449
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:09.720
I personally don't want one. Going
back to the Fisker thing, the decision

450
00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:15.279
to file for Chapter eleven protection,
Fisker can just it adds itself to the

451
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:20.559
ranks of other EV startups that have
filed for bankruptcy also in the last year

452
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:23.680
or two. One is called Volta, it's a truck Volta. There's another

453
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:29.599
one which I'm not even familiar with. It's called Lordstown Motors. Lordstown Motors.

454
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:37.200
They're gone bankrupt, man. And
I can understand when you have got

455
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:45.000
a major brand of an auto manufacturer
that has generations of experience, like a

456
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:51.079
General Motors like Ford, like a
Stilantis, which obviously owns that they have

457
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.720
Jeep, they have Dodge, they
have Ram, they know how to make

458
00:32:54.079 --> 00:33:00.319
vehicles. Then you've got these companies
who are probably created and led by a

459
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:06.440
former executive from some of these traditional
companies, and they think they can make

460
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:08.799
it on the wrong. It's not
easy man to go through the production of

461
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:14.519
a vehicle, to make the process, and make the warranties and the guarantee

462
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:17.079
and just and then have the dealership
infrastructure to do with this stuff. And

463
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:22.240
I know the dealership into infrastructure for
eeds, it's a lot of it is

464
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.119
long gone. Tesla Now you don't
go through a dealership. He goes straight

465
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:30.799
through Tesla. You go through a
lot of these Elucid also, But it

466
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.319
is not an easy thing to start
the fact that and again I'm not trying

467
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.960
to rag on Tesla. I know
it's a Texas based company, whether your

468
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:42.759
friend, your fans or not.
Of Elon Musk. It was a company

469
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:45.839
that never produced any vehicles before.
Now they produced, but they were first

470
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.039
to market and he kept them over. They kept the price relatively low.

471
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.279
However, yes, a lot of
them are having some issues and recalls.

472
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:57.119
They're laying off some people. It's
an industry that is very, very tough.

473
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:01.039
And so I say this is because
as a consumer host reporter of everything

474
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:06.079
that does cover the auto industry.
I am on the Texas Auto Writers Association

475
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.519
board. I drive, I test
drive vehicles for fifteen plus years. I

476
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:13.960
know I've had the plevage of meeting
the industry executives, the marketers, the

477
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.360
designers for many, many years.
It is a tough row to hoe.

478
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.920
It was very tough during the COVID
years. The supply chain, the lack

479
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:29.239
of cars and dealership plots. Now
there's almost too many young dealership plots.

480
00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:34.159
It's a It's an interesting segment.
And I say this, be careful,

481
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:37.960
do your research before you buy.
Maybe you're going to get a zero percent

482
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.000
financing. Hey, that's a hell
of a deal. But is it a

483
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:45.239
vehicle that you really really want?
How long is the warranty? Okay?

484
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:49.119
But what about Fisker? Wait,
maybe you just bought one. It's got

485
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:52.119
a great warranty. What happens when
the company goes out of business too?

486
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:58.360
Sometimes it's very good to stick to
brand names. And I said this many

487
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.360
many times, like, yeah,
he used to be with laptops and televisions.

488
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:05.440
You know, uh, you know, Sony, Tshiba, Samsung.

489
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:08.039
You know you're gonna buy these TVs
And I'm gonna go back fifteen plus years

490
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:14.280
ago versus some of these smaller ones
that that probably were produced in the same

491
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.719
you know, Taiwanese factories as you
know, the big name ones. But

492
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:23.760
you did they have the same parts
inside, did they have the same warranty?

493
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:25.920
And at that point, I said, you know what, it's probably

494
00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:30.039
better to stick with those brand names. I think when it comes to cars,

495
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.079
do you really want a track record? You really want to follow it?

496
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.519
So my advice to you there you
go, here's some more advice.

497
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:37.920
We're gonna take a break. It's
gonna you know, we're gonna cross over

498
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.920
the the middle hour here locally,
live here in the Houston area. It

499
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:45.280
is gonna be new. And if
you're listening to this at some other day

500
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:49.000
park, you got one more hour
to go hang with us another five,

501
00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:52.719
six, seven minutes. We're gonna
have our number two of the high Textans

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00:35:52.719 --> 00:36:07.440
show. The name is Garth.
What's going on is Michael Garfier of Michael

503
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:12.880
Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining US and
the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is

504
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:16.559
here with a high Tech Texans.
It was to make life easier some new

505
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:27.840
technology. So Michael Garfield has something
you might want. Michael Garfield is your

506
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:37.079
high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets occurred worldwide

507
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:44.679
on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your
high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Check

508
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:49.239
the time, my friends. Halfway
through this show. We call this halfway

509
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.760
and a halfy hour of the high
Tech Texan Show. It is officially summer

510
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.800
June twentieth five. I did so. It's a summer solstice. Actually,

511
00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:00.599
I call them a summer sweats or
the summer fitziness people, because it is

512
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:05.719
already nasty here around the state of
Texas. If you are listening from other

513
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:08.360
cooler parts of the country via iHeart
Radio, such as California, where I

514
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:12.800
just came from, why did I
come back? Why did I come back?

515
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:15.960
It is so nice and cool out
there, but where you are,

516
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:19.000
I do thank you for tuning in. Had a fun first hour. Gave

517
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:22.119
away gift car to Cabo Bob's.
I did miss that one. I was

518
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:27.800
traveling though. Great burritos, great
tacos. Check out Cabo Bob's out of

519
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.239
Austin for locations here in and around
the H Town area. I don't know.

520
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:32.880
Maybe we'll give another gift card away. I don't know. We should

521
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.519
check calum check on that we may
have some in the goodie bag. I

522
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.719
did answer a few questions about cars
and vehicles to talk to, had a

523
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:45.280
segment or two about EV's and again
one of the things that I also review

524
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:49.000
and rate, recommend or not recommend, I used the electric vehicles mention that

525
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.880
Fisker has filed for bankruptcy. Fisker
came out with one electric vehicle. That

526
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:58.800
whole car company went nowhere. Because
one of the things that I do to

527
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:02.119
do, along with computer and phones
and watches and things, man, I

528
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:06.800
travel. I could rate my bourbon
in your tequila, and I could do

529
00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:10.559
the union. I'm a big car
guy, vehicle guy. I'm a member

530
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:15.320
of the Texas Auto Riders Association,
which means that I could do test drive

531
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:22.679
a vehicle every single week of the
year, at least one and actually this

532
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.599
week luckily, so sorry, I
hate using it. I do not have

533
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:30.760
an EV I have the opposite of
an ev I think I can consider this

534
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:37.480
a muscle car. For some reason, you hear a very loud sound five

535
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:45.880
Leader v A V eight zooming around
town and you see a Ford Mustang,

536
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.320
but it looks a little different.
Odds are that's me this past this current

537
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.880
week, I have been tooling around
in a twenty twenty four Ford Mustang.

538
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:58.199
Wait a minute, Oh, it's
not just a Ford Mustang for all you

539
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:01.679
big himmy, I'd actually hit me
because that's a dodgeby for all you big,

540
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.119
supercharged, big old, you know, loud car guys and girls.

541
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:14.440
I'm in a twenty twenty four Ford
Mustang dark Horse. That's right. It

542
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:16.440
is a special edition Ford bus that
called the dark Horse. It is a

543
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:22.119
coop, it's a two door four
seedar car, and it is loud.

544
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:28.840
It is a five Leader V eight
engine hop speed one hundred and sixty six

545
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.239
miles an hour. Five one ski
is it? I just make sure I

546
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.280
think it's five hund sky horsepower.
It's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty

547
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:42.559
sick. If you've never seen one, got to go to the Ford website.

548
00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:44.880
And again, this is not an
endorsement. This is me because there's

549
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:46.079
some things I like this. Some
things I don't like about it. It's

550
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:50.880
it's kind of a relatively small front
seat, especially for a six foot tall

551
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:54.360
guy. From the outside, it
looks very racy. It's got that kind

552
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:59.920
of the racing stripe on the front
hood. It's got a really cool spoiler

553
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:06.239
back, got some unbelievable great tires. It's got some brimbo break calipers,

554
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.679
big exhaust, four and a half
inch tips exhaust, moony projection lamps,

555
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:19.280
and got some neat tail lamp LEDs. Yeah, if you if you like

556
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.960
fast, if you like speedy,
pretty cool. It's the dark Horse.

557
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.639
I don't know. Did they have
to licenses from Katy Perry. Yeah.

558
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.960
I wasn't familiar with it until it
turned up. But it's it's louder.

559
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:35.400
Generally mustangs aren't this loud. They
don't have that five liter V eight And

560
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:38.440
uh, this is if you want
power, this is it. Uh,

561
00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:42.559
sitting in it, you sit down, you turn it on. It's got

562
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.639
a red launch start button, actually
the red star button you turn it on.

563
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:50.119
This one was a manual. Now
there's big coming manual. They come

564
00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:52.920
in automatic manuals are a little bit
less expensive than this. I'm not the

565
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:57.199
biggest fan of manual and I and
I had this discussion about two or three

566
00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:00.039
weeks ago, didn't I It was, I don't know why manual transmissions are

567
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:05.800
still made nowadays. Sitting in traffic
with a manual transmission, you hit the

568
00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:08.280
clutch. It is a pain in
the You know what, most all cars

569
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:12.199
now that produce they're automatic. You
put it in drive and you're set to

570
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:16.920
go. This one is it's that
was listen. I'm not holding your back.

571
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:21.400
Visit to some people who do like
the main a car like this,

572
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:28.199
a big muscle car, odds are
it potentially should be manual transmissions, But

573
00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.800
you also want to open this thing
up. And then if you're sitting slipping

574
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:31.599
around, you know, Loop six
ten, you're going down you know,

575
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:35.519
Highway fifty nine or up and down
I forty five at rush hour, you're

576
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.800
not gonna be able to open up
this bad boy that much. But it

577
00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:40.760
is a it's nice, it's good. You know. Listen, it's a

578
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.280
board Mustang, relatively small trunk.
The back seat good luck if you get

579
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:46.880
into it, because again it's a
two door, four seater, so I

580
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:50.840
think they've put those two seats in
the back. Really maybe just for insurance

581
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.760
purposes, going oh yeah, it's
a four seater. It's not really a

582
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:57.320
quot unquote supports car price. Not
the cheapest thing, but if you want

583
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:02.239
one, they are roughly fifty eight
thousand to sixty thousand dollars. The manual

584
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:06.960
is gonna cost about fifty eight fifty
nine thousand dollars. The automatics done cost

585
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.679
about sixty one thousand dollars. They
are for sale. They are limited.

586
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.599
But it was fun. It's still
as fun rolling around in this thing.

587
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:21.360
Six speed manual. And they have
a dark Horse and they have dark Horse

588
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:25.440
Premium, and you feel free to
go check this stuff out. Yes,

589
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.280
there there are some things that I
could approve. I mean the Ford Sync

590
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:35.280
system. It's a nice touch screen
that it's about. It's about a it's

591
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.559
good, almost a twelve inch horizontal, it's about it. They got a

592
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:43.039
great cluster, but it's anywhere between
a ten or twelve inch touchscreen good.

593
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:45.719
For some reason, I don't think
I turned up the brightness, but to

594
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:49.559
me it needs to be a little
brighter. You can hear it when you

595
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:54.519
when you roll up. I think
it's a head turner. The you just

596
00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:01.639
have to this is something consider if
you want an American Maid muscle car before

597
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:07.159
they all are converted to hybrids or
evs, this is still out there.

598
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.440
It's a nice price to pay.
There are some Ford dealerships over here.

599
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:14.800
If you're familiar with this car,
go test drive one of these things.

600
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.360
But I love that V eight engine. You don't see these things a lot

601
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:20.599
because it has a VA because it's
relatively a light car. Lightweight car.

602
00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:22.000
Uh the way, you know,
if you if you've actually waived the thing,

603
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.519
it is going to zoom. It
zooms quickly, so that there's my

604
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.840
thing. I actually prefer this over
those evs because you know, why will

605
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.880
you run out of gas or getting
low on gas? There is a gas

606
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.480
station or two or three or four
on almost every corner, and you really

607
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:40.480
don't need a wait to fill it
up versus those evs. Man, Good

608
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:43.760
luck finding one winner on the road. We can have this debate. Oh

609
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:47.079
you want seven to one three two
one two five nine five O sept Ford

610
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:52.760
Mustang dark Horse anywhere fifty eight sixty
one thousand dollars. Good, go get

611
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:53.760
one. If you got one,
let's rate if you can get into If

612
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:55.960
you have one, now let me
not. We'll go racing. Find me

613
00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:59.559
a track. I'll get out there
and have some fun with you, all

614
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:02.320
right, Coming after this break,
we're going to talk about the world's number

615
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:07.519
one or is the number two most
valuable company? Ah, there is a

616
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:09.880
race. It's a fight and it's
not going to be finished anytime soon.

617
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:13.880
But damn man, mindy, I
buy stock in this company. I'll tell

618
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:22.440
you what that is after the break, just after lunchtime here in the h

619
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:27.360
down at Houston every year on hot
Saturday. Michael is my name? What

620
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:31.679
are you guys eating for lunch or
snacks? Hey? But anybody a Krispy

621
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:36.199
Kream fan? Chris Kie kreamans?
I don't believe it. There's not anywhere

622
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:40.239
Krispy Kreams left in Houston. I
remember they came into the market ten years

623
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:44.400
ago and I lived kind of near
one. Man, those are good,

624
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:46.280
and I don't eat donuts, you
know me. Listen, you listen to

625
00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:50.280
me. You know I try to
be about as healthy as possible. And

626
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.840
if you want to cheat meal a
donut, man, it's tough to be.

627
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.559
I think donuts are one of the
most awesome foods in the world.

628
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.360
If I eat one donut a year, line over unders one and a half

629
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:02.639
done. It's eighty year. It's
just because I did not need that fat.

630
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.880
Krispy Kremes were good. Krispy Kreme
is angering people here in the US.

631
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:12.239
I saw this story and I don't
even know why I'm talking about this,

632
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.400
because I think it It could be
a brilliant, brilliant marketing move on

633
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.760
krispy Kreme, because krispy Kreme has
locations all across the cunt, all across

634
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:24.000
the world, not just here in
the US. So krispy Kreme just came

635
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:31.719
out with four new donut flavors to
celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Friends, the

636
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:37.599
TV show Friends the Big, the
iconic nineties sitcom. It's celebrating his thirtieth

637
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:42.800
anniversary. For some reason I don't
know, krispy Kreme came out with donuts

638
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:45.760
that are decorated like Friends. It's
got the logo, It's got the central

639
00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:47.159
perk, you know, that little
place they hung out. I mean,

640
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:52.039
it's got the little picture frame that
was hanging on the inside of their apartment,

641
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:55.280
you know, and the people pretty
cute. But get this, krispy

642
00:45:55.360 --> 00:46:01.199
Kreme is only offering these in the
UK. They are not offering them in

643
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:06.800
the Great United States of America.
Now, chris Greek Kream is based in

644
00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:09.119
North Carolina. Last I checked,
that's America. They're not saying why they're

645
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:14.920
not available over here. Kind of
confusing decision making process. Friends was a

646
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:17.079
huge show here in the US.
Yes, it was international too, without

647
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:25.679
a doubt, off break the Chrispy
So Krispy Kreen fans are angered to me,

648
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:30.119
I don't know. It's a phenomenal
marketing scheme because they got an idiot

649
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:32.559
like me to give Krispy Krem and
Friends about a minute a half, two

650
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:36.880
minutes worth of time here on my
radio show. Odds are at some point

651
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.719
they're gonna say, Okay, we're
going to release in the United States and

652
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:43.119
then you're gonna have to go find
for Krispy Kreme, which you're gonna have

653
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:50.079
to get on an airplane for right
now. Also donuts ever, Voodoo donuts?

654
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.199
You like Voodoo donuts, callum calum
ry here on the other side of

655
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:55.559
the glass. You like vo Voo
Doo donuts are good, aren't they from

656
00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:01.039
Oregon? And I've had a few
voodoo done and not a ton over the

657
00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:04.159
years, so I know there's one
in Austin I think that was the first

658
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.800
one I had a few years ago. I think there's at least one.

659
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:09.880
Is there two locations here? These
donuts are so over the top. And

660
00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:14.239
again this is not a commercial form. It's not an endorsement because there's so

661
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:17.639
much fat in them. It's not
even funny. They're over the top.

662
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:23.039
It's like a personalized cake. The
decorations, the things that are inside the

663
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:25.519
cookies, of the cream, the
chocolate, peanut butter. They look great.

664
00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:30.480
I know they taste great. I
don't need it. And all these

665
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:35.119
cookie stores that are popping up to
Crumble. Who's been to Crumble. I

666
00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:38.559
got a friend of mine, she
and her husband love Crumble, and there

667
00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:44.320
was only one Crumble out in for
Bend County where I am, and she

668
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:47.000
used to drive twenty minutes from home
to get these Crumble cookies. Now there's

669
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:52.840
one, particularly like five minutes from
us. They live nearby. I've had

670
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:55.480
two bites of a Crumble cookie.
And they sell these things. They pack

671
00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:59.599
their like gold, and I think
their price is God know, igned to

672
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:01.639
call Kenny Dunking at the US going
to enjoy what's the price of gold right

673
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:05.440
now? Twenty five hundred and ounce
stuff like that. I say, crumble

674
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:10.119
cookies are just expensive as that they're
good, though. What's the best dessert

675
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:14.039
out there? What is the best
dessert line? And I'll tell you.

676
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:15.960
Let me give you my opinion right
here if you hit me up a high

677
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:20.039
tech text and h I G h
T e h T e x A M.

678
00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:27.400
I'm for bound best dessert And right
now, Dairy Queen Blizzard not an

679
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.880
endorsement. Dairy Queen does not exist
because I get a press release. The

680
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.239
Dairy Queen people send me a press
release not about once a month with the

681
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.519
flavor of the month. And I
don't talk about it a lot because I

682
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:40.599
was just getting ticked to myself,
going, oh, it's the peanut butter

683
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:44.400
shorklid Blizzard. I need one,
So I don't. I just kind of

684
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:46.320
like delete it, and I think
and callum, I know you're gonna hate

685
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:52.440
me and everybody back here in the
studio. I think they've offered to bring

686
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:55.719
blizzards in studio and I have not
said yes. Don't hate me. Don't

687
00:48:55.719 --> 00:49:00.039
hate me, baby, don't hate
me for being healthy. I know I

688
00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:01.400
can have him bring him in and
then they could and you guys could eat

689
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:06.960
him too. But I mean,
there is just something. But and again,

690
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:09.000
over a undred number of blizzards that
I have in a given year,

691
00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:14.559
I'll go two and a half,
maybe two and a half. I could

692
00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:20.159
eat him twice a day, but
it again, I would also by boys

693
00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:22.360
size. Would you don't even hear
that number? Nope, can't do it.

694
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:27.079
I have self control. Laura Brannigan, Okay, we got a Katie

695
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.440
Brannigan mention a Katy Perry and Laura
Brannigan mentioned here. I do have self

696
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:35.280
self control. Open phone lines over
here seven to one three two one two,

697
00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:38.679
five nine five best dessert and you
know, if you want to go,

698
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:42.719
oh mom, maybe mom makes the
great greatest cheesecake, which, by

699
00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:44.679
the way, I don't know my
parents are listening right now in Dallas.

700
00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.119
My mom does make the greatest cheesecake
that I had going up. She has

701
00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:52.599
not made this cheesecake. And I'm
not kidding fifteen to twenty years great cheesecake.

702
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.679
But if you can go anywhere in
Houston in the country and you just

703
00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:00.480
just I want a dessert, man, and you can give me ice cream

704
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:01.960
flavor, but over a poundful pound
man, just give me a freaking dairy

705
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.280
green blizzard. I'm a simple man. I'm a simple man. Said that.

706
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.480
That's said seven one three, two
one two five, nine to five.

707
00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:13.480
Oh, that is how you're gonna
get me. Uh, how about

708
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:19.559
this. You're gonna need to buy
some stock if you want to buy some

709
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.599
of these Crumble cookies or some of
these Voodoo dots, because they're not expensive.

710
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.920
I've talked about this in the past
few weeks because it's been fun watching

711
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:31.440
Invidia, the chip maker that makes
the chips for computers that go into all

712
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:36.480
the AI power computers in Vidia.
When I said this two or three weeks

713
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:42.360
ago in Vidia, I announced that
in Vidia had to cross number three most

714
00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:46.840
valuable company in the world of Apple. They were at number two, only

715
00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:54.960
behind Microsoft, raking new it earlier
this week, in Vidia crossed over Microsoft

716
00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:00.719
losed it three point three trillion dollars
as the value of the company of the

717
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:10.000
market capitalization surpassed that of Microsoft.
Then you believe that, however, Microsoft's

718
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:19.320
market value slipped in videos also slipped
in Vidia's slid back today or yesterday to

719
00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:22.119
the number two. This is going
to be fun to watch, and actually

720
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:25.480
it's going to be hard to watch
because I have followed in video for many

721
00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:29.519
years. I know they've been a
ship maker. It's not sexy. It's

722
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:30.440
not like I talk to them a
lot. It's not like a product that

723
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.239
you can just go out and buy
for the heck of it. But I

724
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.960
remember seeing them at cees gook hmm. And of course now I'm hitting my

725
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.920
head. Why don't I have any
in Vidia shares? And I don't have

726
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.559
one in Video share. So it's
not like I'm trying to pump up this

727
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:46.400
stock whatsoever. I'm not a big
stock market guy. And you know what,

728
00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:50.559
don't even take my advice in the
stock market. Yes, I should

729
00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:52.840
have bought Apple. I should have
bought Microsoft. I should have bought Video,

730
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:53.760
I should have bought Yeah, I
should have bought a lot of different

731
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:59.719
companies way way back in the day. My goodness, three freaking trillion dollars.

732
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:04.920
If you still don't understand Nvidia,
it's a company that makes servers that

733
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:10.480
are well servers are made, but
they're equipped with Nvidia chips because that lets

734
00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:16.199
them capitalize on the surging demand for
these processors that power virtually every single AI

735
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:20.920
application. Everything is AI AI.
This Apple Justice. They have made a

736
00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:25.960
big announcement last week about AI artificial
intelligence. They make a lot of these

737
00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:30.719
chips. I want to know,
is there any other chips that are made

738
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:37.800
up there? And it's a smaller
stock that I can buy. Here's one

739
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:42.000
someone just emailed me, the Philadelphia
Semiconductor Oh it's an index, the Philadelphia

740
00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:46.239
se Semiconductor Index. The index of
semiconductors has went up thirty four percent.

741
00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:51.400
We need to look at these people
again, not on financial expert. Do

742
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.599
not take any five financial advice from
me, because if so, I would

743
00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:57.199
have put all my money not in
gold, which I should have done that

744
00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:00.360
at my advice of Kinney and matt
Us. Going to enjoy put a I

745
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:05.440
probably put a spend up. Put
all my money in dairy quyn'stock because going

746
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:07.480
back, it's the greatest dessert in
the world. All right, we're gonna

747
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:09.559
take a break here. You know
the phone number Michael Garfield does the name

748
00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:13.039
it is called the High Tech Texting
Show. Wherever you are, I hope

749
00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:17.039
you have some AC running because it
is nasty hot. It is officially officially

750
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:21.159
summer. Right now. When we
come back, I'm gonna tell you,

751
00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:24.880
uh ooh, how about this googlet? Who's got who's got some of these

752
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:31.000
security doorbell cameras. Google makes one. I actually have a Google Nest myself.

753
00:53:31.599 --> 00:53:36.039
They need your permission to do something. This is where big brother comes

754
00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:37.159
in. You need you need to
help me de size. Is this something

755
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:42.440
that you would give permission to on
your video doorbell company? That right after

756
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:51.039
the break my tech Texan. That's
how the social media channels work. H

757
00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:54.840
I G H T C H E
x A N felled the whole thing out

758
00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:59.760
trademark, by the way, twenty
two years ago, and I started this

759
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:06.280
brand this crazy uh date fun actually
uh, the brand and the content that

760
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:10.800
I produce, it has continued to
change. Started out talking about computers and

761
00:54:12.039 --> 00:54:15.239
Wi Fi, and then obviously the
revolution of digital TVs came in, and

762
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:20.559
then the revolution of smartphones come in, and now it's pretty much any consumer

763
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:27.039
advice you need, which is I
just rated my top desserts and if you

764
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:30.440
missed it, my top dessert the
DQ Dairy Kreeen Blizzard. I need.

765
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:34.199
I want one. It's good,
but then I've got to get on the

766
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:37.239
peloton out of the four straight hours
at least for that thing. Seven one,

767
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:39.719
three, five, nine, five. Oh. If you want to

768
00:54:39.719 --> 00:54:45.159
say hi, if you're looking to
decipher or decide between a vehicle. I

769
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:50.639
I've already talked about evs. I've
talked about the Ford Mustang dark Horse,

770
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:53.239
the version that I'm test driving this
week. A lot of ups. It's

771
00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:57.360
one or two little tweaks that I
would have made for. Feel free to

772
00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:59.320
give me a call. Calum is
on the other side. He will put

773
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:01.840
you through to me. Somebody just
emailed me this because I mentioned the US

774
00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:07.800
Surgeon General in a story I did
in the first hour. Vivek Murphy didn't

775
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:12.039
even know that we still have a
US Surgeon General because do people still smoke

776
00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:15.280
SIGs? Actually I think I do
know one people who still smoked cigarettes.

777
00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:22.840
But is he or she's supposed to
wear the Captain Crunch or the Captain Kangaroo

778
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:24.559
out of it? Because this dude
still wears it. He is, I

779
00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:30.280
guess like a general. I mean
if I was nominated as the US Surgeon

780
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:32.280
General. I mean I've got no
background at all other than I look good

781
00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:35.679
in a suit. But I mean, what I have to wear this thing

782
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.679
with applets or something. I don't
neither hear Another somebody said, hey,

783
00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:42.639
Michael, you talked about the surgeon
general. Did you see what he said

784
00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:46.960
about putting warning Ladel's labels on social
media due to what they can do to

785
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:51.679
kids. I saw this, and
let me take a minute talk about this,

786
00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.840
and this is another one of those
parenting things. So Vivic Murphy,

787
00:55:55.599 --> 00:56:00.440
the current US Surgeon General. He
says, so full media should come with

788
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:10.400
warning labels because social media is an
important contributor to the teen mental health crisis.

789
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:16.159
Okay, stop right there. There's
one word that does not need to

790
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:21.840
be in that statement of the sentence, the word teen, because I think

791
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:27.480
social media is an important contributor to
mental health crisis, and not just for

792
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:35.679
teens. Last year, he issued
an advisory making some similar arguments. He

793
00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:39.960
said social media posed a profound risk
to teen mental health. This guy's really

794
00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:44.719
apparently he's going after the teens.
There was an op ed column, I

795
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:46.360
think in the New York Times that
he just recently wrote about this thing.

796
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:52.440
It says there was a study showing
higher social media use was associated with an

797
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:58.039
increased risk of anxiety and depression.
And there was a survey where almost half

798
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:02.320
of teens reported social media makes them
feel worse about their bodies. Again,

799
00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:07.199
ease up on the team. Social
media makes me feel worse about my body.

800
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:10.400
Yes, I already have body dys
morphia at number one. I only

801
00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:14.599
know that I don't need to see
another dude who's relatively my age with a

802
00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:16.840
freaking six pack and looks like he's
ready to model on the cover of GQ.

803
00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:22.639
Oh Man, Really, that has
to be a photoshopped all right,

804
00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:28.719
I better go run another ten miles
instead. Is surgeon in general says that

805
00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:34.239
warning labels alone would make social media
safer. I mean, think about it.

806
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:38.079
People still smoke, and there's warning
labels of cigarette packs, but it

807
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:45.679
would help better inform everyone. Now, if this thing is gonna pass somewhere,

808
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:50.199
he's gonna need support from Congress to
make this happen. When cooperation in

809
00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:53.320
US politics, let me help you
out, has not been common this decade.

810
00:57:55.400 --> 00:58:00.599
Now, there's been some recent bipartisan
support that maybe kurtailed tech companies if

811
00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:05.599
you look what's going on with the
whole TikTok saga. But yay or nay?

812
00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:08.599
Does social media need warning labels?
Where is that warning label going to

813
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:12.599
be positioned? Is it going to
be a sticker on your phone, on

814
00:58:12.639 --> 00:58:16.480
your laptop, on your desktop,
on your tablet Every time you open up

815
00:58:16.519 --> 00:58:21.559
your Facebook or your or your Instagram
app does a warning label pop up,

816
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:27.400
kind of like the rating of a
movie before you see it. I mean,

817
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.960
we're gonna be so accustomated, like
attuned to this thing. Who cares

818
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:32.360
if there's a warning label? Okay, thank you for warning the government.

819
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:37.400
I'm just going to keep on doing
what I'm doing. Well. It needs

820
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:42.119
to be more than that. It
needs to It needs to be companies.

821
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:45.559
It needs to admit a parent.
If a certain general is talking about teenagers,

822
00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:49.760
I assume it needs to start with
the parents at home. A lot

823
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:53.599
of parents really don't govern what their
kids do or don't do on social media,

824
00:58:53.639 --> 00:58:59.119
and I think they need to.
That's dad's opening up a can of

825
00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:01.119
worms. So do I? I
thought that was so do again. I

826
00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:05.480
wrote this up because a lester.
They just emailed me this and we have

827
00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:10.320
now mentioned us Sergey gital Vivek Murphy
twice in this show. There's a first

828
00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:15.559
you never know that was going to
happen, never never know. I wanted

829
00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:17.800
to hit this one too. This
was, Oh yeah, who's got a

830
00:59:17.840 --> 00:59:23.440
video doorbell? I have? I've
casted a lot of video doorbells out over

831
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:28.719
the time. Google Nest. That's
the one I have, and there's there's

832
00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:30.719
a number of them out there,
smaller companies. You don't need to pay

833
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:37.920
the whole you know, very very
very expensive stuff. A lot of them.

834
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:43.880
This is about face face ID technology. If somebody comes up to your

835
00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:46.159
doorbell, there are you know a
lot of them have sensors that you can

836
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:51.159
get a text that says someone is
at your doorbell. I have one that

837
00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:53.599
says persons at your doorbell. Uh, there's a delivery at your doorbell because

838
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:59.280
thee a package there too. Using
AI, It's really nice. There's some

839
00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:05.559
out there who use AI to recognize
face. They will tell you who specifically

840
01:00:06.599 --> 01:00:08.599
is at your door if they've been
there before, because they recognize it.

841
01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:15.320
Listen iPhone users, they've been creating
face profiles for Apple for years and now

842
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:19.400
biometric face scans. They can help
us do it. Done of stuff.

843
01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:21.440
They can unlock your phone. You
can look at your phone and you can

844
01:00:21.519 --> 01:00:23.599
unlock it with your face. I
do that on my at home, on

845
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:27.400
my desktop, I have a camera. Instead of putting a password on my

846
01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:30.079
keyboard, I sit there, I
look at my camera. Oh you're looking

847
01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:34.199
good today, Michael Ninichet. But
yes, you're allowed inside here's the access

848
01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:38.840
it's on. But they're security companies
like Google, Next and simply Safe.

849
01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:49.119
They're using face technology face scan technology
that allows users to create a face contact

850
01:00:49.159 --> 01:00:53.559
list for friends and family using pictures
that you already have. And then the

851
01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:59.880
data gets used in video doorbells and
home cameras. Again, here's another camera

852
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:05.480
worms that's opening. Guess who's going
to have that data? Google, Apple,

853
01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:14.840
Microsoft, you name it. The
basics behind familiar face technology it's not

854
01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:19.400
that hard. It creates a library
of recognized names and faces, and there's

855
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:22.760
algorithms in the camera. It's going
to do their best to analyze approaching faces

856
01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:28.840
and if they recognize anyone. Yeah, yes, these have warning labels.

857
01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:30.840
I like no Google nests right now. They remind people to check their local

858
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:36.239
privacy laws and get a permissions,
get a person's permission first before they upload

859
01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:38.960
up. But there's no requirement to
take that step. I have a seat

860
01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:43.400
in the face data. Very big
questions. Two big questions arise. I

861
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:46.519
think when it comes to face ID
technology, can I be stolen? And

862
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:52.199
can law enforcement use it for tracking? Because there are security vulnerabilities and there's

863
01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:55.920
data breaches, and they're not going
anywhere and that's why storing and encrypting face

864
01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:04.800
data on device is very important.
And then there's also the facial recognition and

865
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:07.840
law enforcement. It's kind of an
unstable concoction, man, there's so many

866
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:13.480
heated opinions on both sides. Federal
agencies, local law enforcement. They both

867
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:17.559
use face recognition. I mean,
could comps demand your face library as a

868
01:02:17.559 --> 01:02:21.639
way to track potential suspects or anyone
else they wanted. Man, it's tough.

869
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:25.440
Didn't have to worry about this growing
up, did we? But there

870
01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:29.960
are laws that are catching up the
face recognition. It's unpredictable. I don't

871
01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:31.800
know what to tell you now.
The point of the story. Should you

872
01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:37.239
use she should not use rain video, doorbells, any of these things.

873
01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:40.119
I'm not saying do that whatever,
because nowadays they're very simple to use,

874
01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:45.440
and I do think overall it does
help. I have three flours in my

875
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:49.320
home. When I'm on the third
floor and my doorbell rings, I could

876
01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:52.760
quickly turn on the camera and see
who's there. So, the best of

877
01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:55.599
my knowledge, my Google Nest is
not recording them. I think I've checked

878
01:02:55.599 --> 01:03:00.920
all the boxes. That's just it
keeps everything local and nothing that but I

879
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:04.559
can talk to it. If I'm
not home and someone rings my doorbell,

880
01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:07.559
I can talk through the speaker.
I can see who it is. Many

881
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:10.239
times you've seen the stories. Also, if someone tries to break into a

882
01:03:10.239 --> 01:03:15.519
home, maybe there's a wreck or
a crash in the front of your street.

883
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:20.920
Your ring doorbell was videotapeing this,
Maybe camprove something. Overall, I

884
01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:27.119
don't know. I think it's a
good way to deterk burglars. It's almost

885
01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:30.039
just as better to do for your
home security. You can talk to you

886
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:32.440
on this. We have about fifteen
more minutes still go ahead. But when

887
01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:37.800
you install things like this, make
sure when you check the settings, do

888
01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:42.679
as much as you can if you
want not to upload it, not to

889
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:45.480
do any illegal data sharing whatsoever.
And you need to check this thing on

890
01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:47.920
a regular basis. Matter of fact, if you've got nothing else to do

891
01:03:47.960 --> 01:03:51.639
on a hot summer day, why
don't you log it into a lot of

892
01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:53.599
your apps, including your video doorbell
app. Right now, Why we take

893
01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:57.719
a break when we come back and
check the security settings. That's what I

894
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:00.599
do. Or remind you about some
good stuff, all right? Final seven

895
01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:01.760
eight minutes coming up. Let's finish
a strong one, right, here at

896
01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:10.800
the High Tech Texting Show. Michael
Garfield is the day and you did it.

897
01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:14.320
Can you believe it? The final
sigma? So this weekend's High Tech

898
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:16.800
Texting Show, thank you so much
for hanging in this. You know,

899
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:19.679
listen, we're just a bunch of
idiots over here. We're yapping for two

900
01:04:19.719 --> 01:04:23.440
hours. But I'd like to think
we give you some good information. So

901
01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:26.599
the fact that you've been hanging with
us here for some of you for over

902
01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:30.400
twenty years. Man, there could
be that's maybe over half your lives,

903
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:34.960
not mine. So sadly we'd thank
you. I think Eddie Martini, the

904
01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:42.000
market manager here iHeartRadio in Houston,
thank you Eddie for actually not listening and

905
01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:44.920
remembering that I'm on the radio of
keeping me on here. Brian and Brian

906
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:47.760
Erickson. He's our program director,
Mark Sherman. I heard a love from

907
01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:51.000
Brian. Got some emails from Brian
this week about that. Brian's Brian's very

908
01:04:51.039 --> 01:04:55.920
good. He has long been the
program director here at our AM stations.

909
01:04:56.480 --> 01:04:59.960
That very when it comes to hurricane
season, which by the way, we're

910
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.119
into hurricane season. He keeps us
all internally updated on a hurricane season.

911
01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:08.039
You know why because if we do
here in the Houston Galliston area get hit

912
01:05:08.079 --> 01:05:13.440
by hurricane season. He calls a
lot of us AM radio host in so

913
01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:15.599
we can work twenty four to seven
today. Thank you, Brian. We

914
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.800
appreciate that. Oh, I'm serious. No, we have a June first

915
01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:26.480
hurricane season. We've got this internal
email long thing about procedures of what happens.

916
01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:30.559
Obviously with our sister station KATRH seven
forty, the go to news station

917
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:35.159
here in h Down, we going
to full hurricane broadcasting mode. Updates in

918
01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:40.679
the water and what have you,
and the power and electricity, and it's

919
01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:45.440
who's on call and my name is
on that list, so like, don't

920
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:47.840
go anywhere. I'm like, what, I'm supposed to stay here the I'm

921
01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:51.280
supposed to I'm not supposed to travel
June first through what October first? What

922
01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:56.000
is hurricane season? Come on,
man, whatever I can do my show

923
01:05:56.000 --> 01:06:00.960
remotely, I could doc gonna give
away the phone number because short on time,

924
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:05.039
about six to seven more minutes of
people are It's really nice hearing for

925
01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:09.719
people not only on social but also
here on the email. Michael Garfield at

926
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:14.280
iHeartMedia dot com that still works,
which is goodness. Michael, I really

927
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:16.400
didn't know. I knew you kind
of reviewed cars. But it's great that

928
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:20.119
you follow the car. The automobile
business, the industry is what companies out

929
01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:25.079
of going bankrupt. What's not Thanks
for the information on Fisker, which is

930
01:06:25.079 --> 01:06:30.480
a company that actually just went bankrupt. Did you hear about one company is

931
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:32.920
coming out with a new technology which
probably is right up you're alley when it

932
01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:36.719
comes to road rage, There is
a road or rage detector. I saw

933
01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:39.599
that in the news. Do you
know anything about it? This is from

934
01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:43.320
h who. This is from Kevin. Kevin is in Pairland, Kevin,

935
01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:45.679
I have heard about this thing.
It was GM, it was General Motors

936
01:06:46.280 --> 01:06:49.599
not long ago. It was the
last month in Mayorsmer. They filed a

937
01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:59.599
patent for a system that aims to
counter road rage by taking control of your

938
01:06:59.719 --> 01:07:10.840
car. Not kidding. It's called
the Vehicle Occupant Mental Well Being Countermeasure Deployment.

939
01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:15.519
Does that even stand what? It's
the acronym of vomb vomit no,

940
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:23.440
vomb No, it means not the
Vehicle Occupant Mental well Being and Countermeasure deployment.

941
01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:26.159
Hey, I'll tell you what that's
a that's a great name. It

942
01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:29.320
totally describes what it is, but
it's let me tell you what it is.

943
01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:32.280
It's a system that focuses. It's
going to have a series of sensors

944
01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:34.920
and modules, which, oh,
by the way, it's already on Pequals.

945
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:42.079
The sensors and modules, modules that
analyze and evaluate what's happening in your

946
01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:45.079
car that is equipped with the system
when it comes out. Now, I

947
01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:49.039
was going through some of the patent
filings. Doesn't explicitly say the system is

948
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:54.760
designed to counter road rage, but
as I'm reading between the lines, there's

949
01:07:54.800 --> 01:08:00.679
some subtle hints in the patent that
suggests that's the case, with saying that

950
01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:06.519
the system aims to prevent an undesirable
situation behind the wheel when the system is

951
01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:11.719
in place. So I think it's
gonna work like this. So if the

952
01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:17.279
system detects that the driver's mental well
being is below a desired level, it

953
01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:24.039
can deploy countermeasures. And this I
read that, and this had me because

954
01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:27.479
I mean, there's a number of
different cars right now that I test driving,

955
01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:31.560
and this may be on your car
that it will give you a warning.

956
01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:35.039
Write it in the digital cluster,
right, you know, if you

957
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:39.640
look through your steering well that you
need to take a coffee break and a

958
01:08:39.640 --> 01:08:42.479
little coffee cup comes up. Has
any of you guys seen this as a

959
01:08:42.520 --> 01:08:45.159
coffee comes up? Okay, you've
been driving and you need to pull over

960
01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:47.399
and take a break, and then
you click a button on your steering on

961
01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:51.119
it goes away. Has anybody actually
pulled off to the side of the road

962
01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:56.239
and actually gone to get coffee when
the coffee alert comes up? And number

963
01:08:56.279 --> 01:08:59.239
one, I don't drink coffee.
I find offense to this. I mean,

964
01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:03.359
why can't coke spongor this like a
can of coke zero pops up?

965
01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:08.159
Tell you what, man, I'd
get thirsty. That's a Pavlovian response.

966
01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:11.960
Man, they should just think about
this anyway. That's that's my marketing form.

967
01:09:12.760 --> 01:09:18.000
But when it comes to this vehicle
occupant mental well being and countermeasured deployment,

968
01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:27.520
they they could include the vehicle speed
gives you an alert and suggest a

969
01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:30.479
break. Apparently the coffee thing comes
up, but the system can also send

970
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:35.640
notification to the driver's mobile device to
encourage actions that improve their mental state.

971
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:41.680
So I'm reading this and I'm thinking, wait a minute, aren't we hold

972
01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:47.920
not to use our mobile devices when
we're driving? Now I know now that

973
01:09:47.960 --> 01:09:51.760
you could bluetooth it and you keep
the mobile device in your purse or the

974
01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:58.399
glove compartment or something. So it's
gonna I'm driving and it's gonna notice me

975
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:01.239
swerving. It's gonna send a text
to my mobile device. Oh this is

976
01:10:01.279 --> 01:10:05.680
perfect. So now while I'm driving, I'm going to whip out my phone.

977
01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:08.760
Excuse me while I whip is out, and then I'm going to look

978
01:10:08.760 --> 01:10:11.560
at my text from GM saying hey, you need to put the phone down.

979
01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:16.800
Not what is up with this?
Now? The words road rage,

980
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:23.359
we're not there. Gene did not
use the word road rage. But if

981
01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:28.000
you're swerving, if you're a tailgating, if you're hussing up a storm,

982
01:10:29.239 --> 01:10:32.119
that's right the censors be. They
can listen to us. The system may

983
01:10:32.159 --> 01:10:38.439
decide your mental state is the best
for driving and implement numerous steps to correct

984
01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:44.960
the situation. I'm going to start
with it alert. You could actually recommend

985
01:10:45.000 --> 01:10:50.399
an exercise like taking a deep breath. Potentially there's a next level that recommends

986
01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:57.760
calling someone, obviously through your hands
free system. What could be an advisor

987
01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:01.880
to calm you down, a talk
you down? I mean, GM does

988
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:05.960
have on star. Are they gonna
start hiring psychiatrist. This is listen.

989
01:11:06.680 --> 01:11:11.439
Like with all Poltins, there's no
guarantee that this idea is ever going to

990
01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:15.760
reach fruition. You can never reach
production. But driver, I'll say this

991
01:11:16.039 --> 01:11:20.000
in the whole show. Driver alerts
and phone calls, they're doable without a

992
01:11:20.039 --> 01:11:25.760
doubt. The larger question is the
fourth activation of drivers systems. It could

993
01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:29.960
be an issue. Bottom line,
folks, as you're listening to me as

994
01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:32.119
we end the show, keep your
cool out there. Otherwise your future vehicle

995
01:11:32.119 --> 01:11:36.119
could put you in a time out
until you regain your senses, and you

996
01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:39.479
don't want that. Guess what I
look at the time. Right now,

997
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:42.560
it is time to end the show. Callum Read and everybody else who is

998
01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:45.600
puts so much work into producing this
and getting us on air on KPRC nine

999
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:49.079
fifty am in Houston. We do
thank you so much. Thanks for putting

1000
01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:55.520
up on the iHeart Radio podcast.
You could download the iHeart Radio app and

1001
01:11:55.560 --> 01:11:59.079
you can just type in KPRC.
You can type in high Tech Textan and

1002
01:11:59.159 --> 01:12:01.359
Michael Garfield. You can listen to
this OVA and OVA again. Tune in

1003
01:12:01.479 --> 01:12:04.239
next week. We will be here. Hopefully we're not gonna melt. Stay

1004
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:08.000
cool, people, because it is
a nasty, nasty time out there.

1005
01:12:08.359 --> 01:12:11.600
And if you do want me to
review something or give you some ideas,

1006
01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:15.520
websites twenty four to seven as well
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1007
01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:17.439
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who have been a part of this show,

1008
01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:20.960
thank you for tuning in. Now
go have some fun, put sunscreen

1009
01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:25.119
on, pop a coldie. Make
sure you're not driving, because you don't

1010
01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:34.600
want road rage. My name is
Gar said right now, my show is Ova.