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Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield.
Michael Garfield's joining US and the high Tech

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

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easier, some new 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 magic

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with your gadgets. I heard worldwide
on the iHeartRadio add now your high tech

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Texan. Michael Garfield will take a
look at your calendar's people because this is

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the last high Tech Texan show before
Black Friday twenty twenty three, which means

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phone calls, emails continue to come
in. Garf I know the Black Friday

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deals? Are you started? What
do you think I got this television?

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I'm trying to side between these two
things. I my friends have been doing

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this for twenty two years. This
is a long time to do it,

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back when Black Fridays actually happen on
Fridays. Now, as we know,

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they seem to happen throughout the month
of November. And I hope your November

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has been well so far. Phone
number if you would like to ask them

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questions. Last minute deals and there
are some that I'm going to start running

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down because I've had my eye on
everything from your earbuds, to your TVs,

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to your phones to actually remote control
of cars. Seven one three,

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two, one two five nine five. Oh there is Calum read Hello,

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Callum, Happy early Thanksgiving to you. Wait for some turkey. Actually,

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I hope I get some turkey.
I do need to buy my turkey because

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it is Thanksgiving next week and we
will get on that, including my annual

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Hey, open phone lines. What's
your favorite Thanksgiving food? And don't you

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dare if I hear that sweet attata
with marshmallows. I'm really I don't think

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I've hung up on anybody in my
twenty two years i've been doing this.

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I may hang up on you if
you come with me with the same with

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the marshmallows and this week potatoes.
Michael is my name, Michael Garfield.

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By the way, goods. You
know what, I've been very busy these

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past few weeks. Lots of events. I dig that, man, I

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do a lot of MC events.
Restaurants for some reason have been opening or

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they've been having their anniversaries, and
so I've I've been out and about quite

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a bit. And it's it's nice
seeing so many listeners. They come up,

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and it's funny because people do recognize
my voice, which I still think

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is bizarre. Either if I'm standing
in line or ordering something at a Chick

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fil a, though, Hey are
you Garfield? Do you high tech Texans?

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But I'm walking around and people actually
recognize me. And maybe that's just

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because I do a lot on television. Still, hey, throw some makeup

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on a pig, people, and
you're probably gonna get recognized. Earlier this

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week, I saw some folks.
Where was I at? Was? How

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do you know where? Oh gosh, I feel like a entertainment tonight dad

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a Garden Gray Steakhouse Downtown fourth anniversary
party. A really nice couple who listens

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to me for a while came up
to me and they actually recognized me.

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Then lady taps me on the on
the back. Are you that guy on

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the radio? I'm like, well, there's a lot of people on the

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radio. Husband's been listening forever.
They came over and they talked, We

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took some pictures and she actually had
a flip foe, Samsung flip foe.

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She's got a Samsung flip I think
it was version three or four. She

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thought it was the latest. Not
so fast. There is a version five

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with a bigger screen. This is
why I exist. This really is why

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I exist. So anyway, I
do thank everybody for coming up and saying

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hi and listening all these years,
two plus decades, and I'm here to

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serve you, including some Black Friday. He does you want to start with

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this, Let's just get it started
right off the bat here where as we

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do this for the next two hours
here on KPRC nine fifty in the Southeast

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Texas area of specifically use if you're
listening on iHeartRadio, we do thank you

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for downloading that app. I was
playing around on and again everything I'm about

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the app. There's not one thing
that has been it's sponsored, it is

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not. I don't endorse it.
They have not paid me to do this.

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I wish these companies would pay me. I wish I would endorse them,

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but I don't. But this is
a it's a labor of love.

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Sometimes it's just a labor that I
go down this list for you play it

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on Amazon. As you know,
I'm not the biggest Amazon guy. I've

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ordered a few things here and there. So again, if I see something

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that comes across my desktop. I'm
gonna I'm gonna jot it down, starting

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with the Amazon Echo Show. This
is the fifth This is the third generation.

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It's the Echo Show five. This
is one of those smart voice things,

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but they also have video too.
It is it's made by Amazon,

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and generally you're gonna see Black Friday
sales or Amazon Prime deals earlier this year

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on Amazon products. Why not.
It's Amazon. They're they're eating their own

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dog food, as they say,
and they put some of this stuff on

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sale. The Amazon Echo Show five, it's the third generation. It's a

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smart display and also listens to you, so you can ask it to show

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you some YouTube recipes if it's in
the kitchen. And I actually I don't

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have an Amazon Echo Show, but
I do have a smart display that can

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play music that could show videos.
I have it in my kitchen. I

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have one of them in my kitchen
ones in my bathroom too. Because they're

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small, they're out of the way. Normally they're about ninety dollars they're taking.

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I saw this fifty dollars off,
so forty bones at Amazon normally ninety

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bucks. That's a pretty pretty good
deal. It's the Amazon Echo Show sho

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w five. All right, now
get it as I do. This show

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is plausibly live on Saturday, the
eighteenth of November. They may not be

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on now, but these are the
things that I saw of this past week.

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Apple AirTags. Now, if you
don't know what an AirTag is,

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they're actually pretty unique for all you
people who lose something, who lose your

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keys, who maybe can't find your
phone, or even your car. Maybe

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your car potentially could get stolen,
which happened not long ago to one of

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my kids. If he had an
Apple air tag in his car, he

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could have tracked where that car was. These they have a four pack,

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and they have a four pack on
sale. They're eighty six dollars and eighty

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eight cents. Oddly enough for some
reason Amazon normally they're about one hundred dollars

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or so, So that you're gonna
save some money. This is a good

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gift. Listen. Samsung makes these
tags. They weren't the first to market.

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There. There's a number of these
other smart tags. I carry one.

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I put one in my backpack when
I travel with my backpack. Sometimes

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maybe somebody can run off with it. I could leave it on an airplane.

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You could go online and you could
track these things. Apple makes these

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air tags. You've heard people putting
them on cars, and actually there are

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cities. I think it was at
New York City there was a brand of

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a car that was getting stolen a
lot, and the police in New York

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they literally it was mayor too.
They recommended putting an Apple AirTag in your

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car to track it. Listen,
get a four pack, get you know

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one for what twenty twenty five dollars. It could save you a lot of

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hassle, especially if you lose things, if you lose your keys. I

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guess you could put it on your
kid kid's belt if you get a little

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kid. You don't want to lose
that kid. I don't know. Sometimes

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you may want to use a kid
lose a kid. What else? We

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have Apple AirPods Pro. I saw
the second generation. They're about twenty percent

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off. They have a holiday discount's
about two hundred dollars. Listen, if

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you want air air earbuds there are
you can get a heck of a deal

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if you don't mind them not having
the word Apple in front of them.

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Everybody seems to want an Apple air
pods, the AirPods Pro. Listen,

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they're fine for two hundred dollars.
You know, active noise canceling. You

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can get earbuds, the little tiny
things that go inside your ears, for

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thirty dollars forty dollars. Not going
to be the biggest name brand, but

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they still work and talk about losing
things, This to me has to be

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one of the biggest things that you
lose. I have a number of different

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earbuds I do not have. I've
never had a pair of Apple once because

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Apple doesn't give me crap. They
don't let me test anything. But Samsung

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and many other companies do. They
fall out of my ear. I don't

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run with them really because I'm a
switzer. But I wear these things sometimes

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on airplanes. How many times has
one of these things fallen out of my

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ear? It falls on the ground
and under a seat. I'm sitting there

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looking for it. I just see
nasty crap under some of these airplane seats.

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I don't actually use earbuds. I'll
tell you what we're up a break.

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I'm going to tell you specific.
I'll give you the brand, or

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one or two brands. I'm play
with the specific type of earbuds headphones that

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I use when I exercise when I
run, and they are guaranteed never and

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I'm talking never to fall off of
your ears, fall out of your ears,

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and fall off your head. We
got that so much more, Michael

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Garfield, I wish you and early
happy Thanksgiving, Happy early Black Friday.

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As we continue the High Tech Text
show, interesting choice of bump music.

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You know, I'm not in control
of the bump music like I used to

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be in control. And I think
that's because of licensing fees. I think

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if I say, you know,
because I'm an eighties guy and I say,

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hey, Callum, uh, let's
bump out with a little little Michael

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Jackson, the little earth Win in
fire, It's correct me. If I'm

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wrong, Callum, is Zach costs
us a bajillion dollars? Is that one

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of the reasons why we're paying generic
tunes? Man radio used to be so

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much fun? Whatever the reason,
thank you Callum Reid on the other side

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of the glass for pushing all the
buttons and making me sound sexy as you

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have for such a long time.
Phone number here. It is a black

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pre Black Friday high Tech Text and
Show seven one three, two, one

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two, five nine five. OI
teased the last segment about some earphones and

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headphones. It's it's it's a it's
a good gift. The ear earbuds that

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sticking to your ears, you lose
them, they get sweaty. The new

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technology comes out, Maybe you want
active noise canceling. Maybe you want all

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our ones, maybe one of different
brand. I will say this, and

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again I actually used to did I
used to endorse these. I don't know.

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I've been using a pair from this
company for years and I absolutely love

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it. They're not paying me to
say this. Again, I am not

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on their pay roll. But again, my job is to review products and

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tell you what is in my opinion, what are some of the better ones,

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and what are some of the ones
to stay for. I run,

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and I run a lot from marathons
and whatever, and so I listen to

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music and so I have to schlap
my phone on me somehow, and I

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usually have like a little running belt
or something, and I bluetooth it to

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some ear ear They're not earbuzz,
They're not in your spirit speakers or headphones.

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What I use is bone conductive headphones, all right, What bone conductive

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headphones is as a category, that's
not the name of the product. They

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slip around. They're not two separate
things. It's one separate thing. Looks

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like a little Do you remember when, if you're old enough maybe now,

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when you have braces and you sleep
at night and you had to use this

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headgear and you have this and I
didn't have braces. I remember my younger

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sister had braceist but a lot of
I see this in movies anyway. There's

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this thing that goes behind your head
and connects. Maybe it's over ears or

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something. That is what these bone
conductive headphones are. They're very thin.

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What they have is they have these
little tiny speakers that do not go in

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your ears. They do not go
on your ears. They rest right in

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front of your ears, like right
on your sideburns. All right, are

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you with me? And what happens
is they bluetooth to whatever and they've got

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a microphone and speaker for phones,
calls, what have you. There is

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a cheekbone that they're resting on and
the sound waves go through your skin.

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It's a dumb serious into that cheekbone, into your ears, and it sounds

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great. I'll put an asterisk for
you audio files who want the most elegant

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and eloquent sound with the highest amount
of decibels and active noise canceling. No,

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these aren't that. These are for
active people, if you're walking,

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if you're at a gym, if
you're running, and just generally out and

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about. Generally they are waterproof.
Let me put it this way. Water

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resistant. There's actually one there's another
one from I got from a company that

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was waterproof, and I'm testing this
out right now. The company that I've

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been using the buying and recommending these
for it, it's called shocks sho k

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Z and I guess at shocks dot
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shocks. I saw that at Consumer
Electronic Show. I'm gonna go back eight

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years, eight nine years, and
I have been using them since. These

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cannot fall off your head because they
are it's like a round headgear type of

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thing, and they have hooks,
little rubber hooks that that come over your

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ears. You cannot shake these things
off. So that's number one. You

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can't lose these things. The sound
is good. But here's why I think

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it's important, especially if you are
outdoors, you're walking, in you're running,

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you need to be aware of your
environment. And I remember when I

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ran marathons, there was always a
rule you couldn't run with earphones or earbuds

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or music back in day and again, my first marathon was as I look

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here at my studio nineteen ninety.
I ran in the nineteen ninety six Houston

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Tenneco Marathon, and I ran ten
consecutive marathons. So I ran from nineteen

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ninety six to I guess what two
thousand and five as marathons. And back

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then, I mean technology was such. I mean cell phones were, I

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mean they were massive. There were
bag phones in nineteen ninety six on most

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But you couldn't run simply because the
race officials wanted you to be aware and

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hear any announcements if a firetruck,
if an ambulance, if somebody said there's

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a road closure, or what they
needed you to hear. This actually takes

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scare the situation because your ear is
open, there's nothing covering your ear,

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there's nothing in your ear. You
can hear somebody talking to you if you're

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walking next to them. Oh,
by the way, if you have an

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ADHD wired brain like me, you
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on a phone call. Why you're
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headphones. So it's an open ear
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that is a neat device. Now
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Actually, you know what, let
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for you because there's several different versions
of it shocks. I guess at shocks

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dot com, shokz dot com.
Yeh, that's it. Shop. What

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do we got. We've got open
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gonna look at that one open run. Well, there's an over that's one

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hundred and eighty dollars, but that's
a pro. Let me go see if

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we're gonna give you the cheaper,
cheapest wonder and then this is direct from

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them. They Amazon may have cheap
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dollars, all right, and let's
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that. Should see open move up
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Eighty dollars. There you go,
eighty dollars. Again, this is shocks

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by a company called H two oh
Audio H two oh Audio, and these

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are a little more plastic key versus
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rubber flex is more the plastic.
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same thing. It goes over your
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this one is one hundred percent waterproof, and this is really good if

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you're a swimmer. You actually can
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well, how can the Bluetooth connect, Well, Bluetooth sometimes Bluetooth works

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within about thirty feet, so maybe
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your pool's edge, which I don't
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also have a built in storage so
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h two oh audios. Now you
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These are let's see, this looks
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but I think I don't know,
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something. But anyway, the point
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and everybody has their favorite earbud and
ear pod and thing. I like the

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over the ear bone conductive ones,
and only because I'm just active. They're

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easy to carry. They're relatively easy
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things have lasted so far for years. The shocks one and I do like

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it, so no, there you
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two, one two five nine five. Oh, you can tell me your

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favorite pair or I don't know,
give me your give me your best deal,

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give me your what's your favorite earphone
or headphone? Do you like the

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over the ear ones? The cans
that when I started in radio, that's

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what we used to have. Those
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get over the year ones, which
I think are great for traveling. If

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you're in an airplane, you want
something that's active noise canceling because you don't

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want to hear the kid behind you
yap and are throwing up, and it

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also it just pumps in noise.
Now, these things that they do need

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charge and they do need batteries.
I mean you get those from Bows,

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you can get them from Sony.
But again they have to cover your ear

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to be active noise canceling, which
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And it's a switch that you'd go
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any of those favorites, let me
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two, five, nine five.
Oh coming up, as we say,

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are Apple and Android about to get
married. Oh my goodness, people,

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the color of your text bubbles may
no longer divide friends in family. So

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I action finally win some of my
friends back who have ostracized me all those

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years for having green text bubbles.
Yikes, lack coming up next to the

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high tech text and show bottom of
the hour on the show before thanksgipping.

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Everybody taking a diet. Everybody diet
and so far, I don't know what

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do you got cooking? And I
know what you got in your cocktail drawer,

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cocktail cabinet. If not, you
better go get it. Some Papas

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Pilar rum. I've become a rum
fan. I've always liked rum along with

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other spirits, but rum really is
very versatile, especially when you get into

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the higher end RUMs. Like Papas
Pillar Ernest Hemingway family. They have given

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the ok and they actually distill this
in beautiful Key West, I mean exactly

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where Papa Hemingway used to hang out. Saw this on the shelves of specs

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Total wine. Also, they have
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right now. A blonde Rum,
which is interesting. You don't see a

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blonde. It's called blonde. You
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It's a blonde rum. And listen, blondes do have more fun and

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they do actually taste good when you
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Bottle is shaped like a canteen.
Just you know, he was in the

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war pop hemingway. But some of
these have been sitting in casks, some

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rye flavored, it's just really neat
sipping. And some also some good cocktails.

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I'm gonna post more and more of
these fun cocktail rum making things on

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my Instagram. You can go to
high Tech Texan. But in the meantime,

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why not give a great bottle.
It's a beautiful package for a holiday

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gift giving and bringing over to somebody's
house for Thanksgiving. And if somebody does

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invite me over for Thanksgiving, I
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so we can mix up some cocktails
as we watch the Cowboy Game, which

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is an annual Thanksgiving Day tradition for
the Garnfield family. Papa's pr p I

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l a R Papa's PILR Rum.
Go get it, go sample it and

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you will thank me. I'm actually
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I have been ostracized by so many
of my friends because I am an

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android guy, and it's still it
still amazes people. As recently as two

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days ago, I was at an
event Thursday night that the high tech textion

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doesn't use an iPhone. I do
not use an iPhone. I actually bought

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purchase the very first iPhone in the
city of Houston when they came out June

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twenty eight, two thousand and six, two thousand and seven. I was

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there six pm the Big AT and
T store, right across from the Oasis

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of Love. Six hundred dollars I
bought I wanted. They didn't give it

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to me. Apple gives me nothing. Apple doesn't. When I say Apple

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does not give me the time of
day, I am not kidding you.

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I do not know what time it
is right now. I am a technology

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entertainalist, journalist, reviewer twenty plus
years. I do TV, I do

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radio. I got a lot of
friends in the industry where they get invited

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to the Apple things. I'm not
ill towards Apple. I think they are

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gorgeous products. I think they are
pricey, but I've never been a shield

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for Apple, and people think,
oh my gosh, how come the high

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tech Texan I talk about iPhones.
Well, I'm not going to go out

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and buy a new iPhone because I
have to test. I probably get four

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or five, six seven new phones
per year from other manufacturers that I am

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constantly testing. If I go get
another iPhone, that's one that I'm going

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to have to purchase. And again, the ones I test generally, I

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signed a thirty day review and I
and I send it back to the company.

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So I am never going to be
the guy, nor do I want

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to be the guy who's going to
try to switch you from one operating system

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to the next. Yes, I
am, and I love Android. I

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love everything about Google again unpaid,
they don't pay me to say this.

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I just it works well everything together. I have a Microsoft Windows desktop because

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I used to work at Microsoft,
and back then I think Bill Gates planted

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a chip on our brains that We're
always going to be Windows operating system.

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Not that it has anything to do
with Google, but they work together.

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It sinks the calendars and everything,
and so I'm just not Apple guy.

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I think androids for midi aspects.
They have much better features. There's every

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foldable phones, flippable phones. Most
every manufacturer in the world makes one,

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except Apple. It's their prerogative.
A ton of money and a lot of

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people use the Apple iPhone. I
will say this. One of the reasons

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I do talk about Android is because
more people in the world and this is

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a massive fact than you could jack
fact check me not false news. More

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people in the world use the Android
operating system three to one, almost more

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than iPhone iOS. Seventy percent,
maybe seventy five percent of the market worldwide,

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okay worldwide. I mean I went
when I went to South Korea last

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July on behalf of Samsung. This
is a this is an Android dog Samsung.

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I don't think they let iPhones in
the country. I may be joking

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about that, but I went to
the Samsung manufacturer factory. I mean there

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is just there's no iPhones to be
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you go down Coupertino, you're not
going to see any Android phones over there.

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But I'm talking around the world because
it's free. The Android op sitting

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is free, and they give it
to other manufacturers LG. Motorola, Google,

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Pixel, which is its own Samsung
OnePlus those are androids. Okay,

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think about that. There's only one
manufacturer that uses Apple iOS, the Apple

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iPhone. So by sheer numbers,
that's why Android is used by more people,

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is more popular. I didn't say
that. It's a fact that is

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used by more people around the world. And I do want to talk to

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more people around the world, and
I want to text with more people around

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the world. And people know when
you are texting or chatting with someone who

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is not on an Apple iPhone,
because the Apple iPhone famously goes through your

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eye message and all of the messages
pop up those little cute little bubbles with

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the color blue blue collum. That's
a cue for you to play blue by

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a famous country. And then again, we'd have to pay a bazillion dollars

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for the licensing for the storry about
that big news, because what happens is

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when someone from an iPhone and they
chat with me, my little bubble shows

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up as green. Oh you're a
green bubble. I mean you talk about

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ostracizing. I mean this goes beyond
religion sometimes or your beliefs, the color

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of your skin. If you're a
democrat, if you're a republic you're a

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green bubble. I mean people,
you phone snob, get out of my

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face and then we land they laugh
it off. I might just leave me

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A long point is And that was
a big build up people. In a

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very surprising move, a few days
ago, Apple, probably through gritted teeth,

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they sit out a press release and
they announced that it will adopt the

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RCS messaging standard, which is Rich
Communication Services. It's a feature should launch

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next year on iPhones with a software
update later next year, twenty twenty four,

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and it's going to bring a good
range of new eye message style features

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to messaging between iPhone and Android.
There you go, Hey, Bunny and

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WOI live together in perfect hu money. I just dated myself because no one

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remembers that song. If you're young
enough to have an iPhone, it's about

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time. Apple did not want to
do it. Apple is very closed knit.

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They want proprietary everything. But that
green bubble Blue bubble divide is gonna

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get smaller pretty soon. Again.
This is reported by an online gossip rumery

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type thing. It's called nine to
five Mac nine two five Mac, and

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I'm gonna quote them, but they're
reporting that Apple has confirmed it will support

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this RCS messaging standard that it long
did not want to do. Now that's

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not to say the messages from Android
devices will no longer appear green on Apple's

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Messages app, but it does mean
that text from iPhones to non I you

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know, iPhone operating system devices will
support the newer rich communication services. And

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it works like this. If you
ever trying to send a video, if

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you're an iphoner, you ever trying
to send a video via taxs to someone

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on an Android on the Android receiving
end, and the mayword vice versa,

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it's if rainy, it's choppy.
This should fix that. It's a standard,

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it's an industry standard, so it's
going to work along with I Message

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Listen. Google is long taking some
potshots at Apple for not supporting RCS,

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and they're saying that the texting listen, the texting experience really between iPhones and

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not iPhones. It's so outdated.
Might as well have pagers or smoke signals.

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Google said it was happy to see
Apple support RCS. I mean,

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just can't we all get along.
We're on an iPhone fifteen right now.

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iPhone fifteen. They finally went the
way of Android because it comes with a

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USBC charger. Nope, that's right. See Apple can change. They were

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actually forced to put a USBC in
by the Europeanian Union. There's no more

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lightning charger devices on the new iPhone
fifteen and going forward. Now. I

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don't know where this is brought by
EU regulations or other motivations, but it's

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nice that Apple is opening up parts
of its walled garden to play nice with

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out of the devices. And so
now you're not gonna have to buy your

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mom an iPhone so that can be
a blue bubble person. Come on,

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peep, listen, I got this. If you don't want to go blue

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or green, let me go back
to when I was in second or third

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grade ARC class. If you mix
blue and green, doesn't it give you

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red? Or is it purple?
I'm not even sure. This is what

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an idiot I am. Make that
the new color. If you mix blue

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and green, maybe it's like a
teal or something. Makes that the new

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color. So we can live in
a harmony like Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

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All right, we're back out of
here. Happy early Thanksgiving on the

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High Tech Textan Show. If you
know my phone number, you feel free

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to text me and if you have
an iPhone, you're going to get a

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green bubble because we're just talking about
that. But next year, people,

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I don't know, we may be
the same color. I don't know.

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One world, people, one world. As we bring you back to the

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we need a new white December.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

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January comes. I'll be in Las
Vegas the second week for the annual CES

406
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Consumer Electronics Show, where I actually
I find a lot of neat early adopter

407
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.279
type of gadgets. We could talk
about phone number here if you want to

408
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.480
say Hi, seven one, two, nine five Oho. If you are

409
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.920
shopping for things I do, I'm
a very good shopper. I compare.

410
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.400
I give you some good, good
products, better products, best products,

411
00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:53.240
products to stay away from. So
I'm more than happy to answer that for

412
00:28:53.279 --> 00:29:00.480
you. I had another conversation earlier
this week about TikTok. Was it with

413
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.200
Deborah? No? Yeah, I
was out with Deborah Duncan because I do

414
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.039
a lot of stuff on Great Day
Houston, and we were reapping about apps.

415
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.440
Deborah also an Android user. That's
why we get a lot and the

416
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:17.279
one app we're all on social media. Again, we are of age where

417
00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:19.039
we're above fifty, where we don't
have a lot of the apps that you

418
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:23.200
young whipper snappers out there have.
And you know you're a whipper snapper when

419
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.400
you don't know what the word whipper
snapper means. That is the definition of

420
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:32.319
whipper snapper. And the one that
deb and I particularly are not on is

421
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:37.839
TikTok. For some everybody has the
reasons TikTok. Maybe because it started out

422
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.759
as just really really young teenagers they're
doing this. Maybe we're not great enough

423
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.599
to do the dances. Maybe because
it's owned by a Chinese company called Byte

424
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:51.839
Dance that allegedly gets every bit of
information from your phone. We don't know,

425
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:59.599
but I saw this was interesting.
More and more people are getting their

426
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:06.759
new news on TikTok, and this
is in contrast with other social media sites

427
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.319
because consumption has either declined they stayed
about the same in recent years. But

428
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:18.319
roughly one third of adults under thirty
under the age of thirty regularly scroll TikTok

429
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:23.680
for news. That is, according
to Pew Research Center, a two hundred

430
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:30.960
and fifty five percent increase since twenty
twenty COVID. This is not just younger

431
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.599
Americans too, this is across all
these demographics. Facebook, by the way,

432
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:38.039
still the most popular social media platform
for news consumption. About one third

433
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:41.240
of US adults get their news from
the site. Twenty five percent of people

434
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:47.279
get their news from YouTube, along
with Instagram, TikTok, and x they're

435
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:49.640
following that popularity. But I thought
it was interesting TikTok because I just I

436
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:53.240
my kids, all three of my
boys, they're their twenties. They use

437
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:59.240
TikTok for business. Also, they're
very very good at it. I just

438
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:03.480
think again this is me. I
just think TikTok is for showing off how

439
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.960
to do some kitchen recipes and dance
videos or something. So I don't know

440
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.640
what kind of news they're getting.
Hopefully it's not fake news because I'm sick

441
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.240
of all the fake news on X
and actually Threads, man, I've been

442
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:21.359
using threads. That's the Twitter killer. I'm using air quotes right there.

443
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:26.440
That launched in July, that started
up with unbelievable response. I mean,

444
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:30.799
millions and millions of downloads. Works
the same thing as X slash Twitter,

445
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.160
and they were very nice. There
was they were just getting launched. There

446
00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:40.039
was was. There was no you
know, fake news, bad rhetoric like

447
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:41.559
that. It's I don't know what
Threads is getting a little bit nasty right

448
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:47.839
now. And again it's hard to
you know, monitor all that stuff.

449
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:51.400
Elon must doesn't want it. Whether
you like Elon or not, who is

450
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.079
it? I guess officially a textan, so we should like him, I'm

451
00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:57.119
not sure. Seven one five oh, but do this. You can get

452
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:02.759
your news from me, get your
use from nay oh on Black Friday.

453
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:06.319
A lot of people, so many
people that we use. We don't even

454
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:12.920
shop in regular stores. We go
online. This show is so twenty two

455
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:14.880
years. I've been doing this to
think about this, so two thousand and

456
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:16.359
one, two thousand, yeah,
one is two thousand and two hours.

457
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:22.240
I started the show and was Amazon
Amazon was around, but Amazon was stelling

458
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:27.519
books. Every Black Friday or every
Monday after or Cyber Monday, they would

459
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:31.960
release how many millions or tens of
millions of dollars were sold online. And

460
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:37.240
I used to every year it was
twelve million dollars were sold over the Thanksgiving

461
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:42.279
Day weekend online, and then it
would go to fifteen. They were going

462
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.319
to twenty five, and they would
be impressive that I would give interviews like,

463
00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:46.359
hey, Michael, you cover technology. You know it's just going to

464
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.160
be the new norm. I don't
even know what the number is going to

465
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.160
be this year. It'll certainly be
in the billions of dollars. But the

466
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.200
point is you shop online, which
means they have to mail these things to

467
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:58.240
you. And when they mail it
one of the big issues about this.

468
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:02.960
I have a few issues about this. I like immediate returns. Oh I

469
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.839
want that return on investment, but
I want if I buy something again.

470
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.000
I grew up where I went to
a store, I paid for something,

471
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:13.680
they would give it to me right
then and there you walk out of it,

472
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.920
just like you do a grocery store. Well, for the most part,

473
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:19.160
people may not even go to grocery
stores. Right now, I don't

474
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:21.759
like waiting. Okay, yes,
with Amazon now you can get it the

475
00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:24.160
same day. Maybe Prime you're going
to get one to two days. But

476
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:30.119
the point is your packages are delivered
to your door and sometimes after the ups

477
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:35.440
Amazon, whoever deliver it, your
package wherever you order from, it ain't

478
00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:39.039
there because it's stolen. And we
know what we call these people, bad

479
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:45.319
people, porch pirates, porch pirates, And nearly a third of people will

480
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:50.640
track their package delivery online, which
is good. I'm going to give you

481
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.640
we got to buy what two or
three minutes some quick ways to protect your

482
00:33:53.640 --> 00:34:00.440
purchases and stay away, and hopefully
porch pirates will stay away. Seventy four

483
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:05.279
piers of staff seventy four billion dollars
in e commerce items are expected to arrive

484
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:10.719
on doorsteps this holiday season seventy four
billion, but only sixty eight percent of

485
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:15.199
shoppers have preventive actions planned to deal
with the risk of theft. Those porch

486
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:20.840
pirates forty four million package staffs in
the US last year, forty four million.

487
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:24.880
This is a security dot org.
How do you do it? Because

488
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:29.639
online shopping is bigger, how do
you discourage package theft? Well? Number

489
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:35.000
one, don't deliver to your house. Send them to a UPS store,

490
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:37.440
a FedEx store, an Amazon locker. I live near all Whole Foods.

491
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:42.119
I walk in, I see an
Amazon locker's Amazon lockers a lot of places.

492
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:44.880
I live right around the corner from
a FedEx store. There's a UPS

493
00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:46.719
store not along with me. If
you know you're not going to be home,

494
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:50.840
send it there at that point after
work, you go over there,

495
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:53.039
you show your ID, then you
pick it up. That's that to me,

496
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:57.320
is the easiest. Is it the
most convenient because it's not at your

497
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:04.119
door. No, But if you
have something you absolutely positively want delivered overnight

498
00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:07.519
but also notte send it to one
of those stores. Amazon has something called

499
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:14.239
in garage delivery. You can give
your Amazon delivery driver a key that will

500
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:17.559
open your garage and they will slide
it under the garage door. I don't

501
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:20.800
know if you want to do that
yet, but that's pretty cool because Amazon

502
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:23.760
is trying to help this. You
know, porch pirates. A lot of

503
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.840
people now have these video doorbells,
and that's a big, big opportunity to

504
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:32.000
see that package and see and catch
somebody if they're stealing it. You know,

505
00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.880
it doesn't have to be ring there
are so many more on the market.

506
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.239
Home security cameras and those doorbell cameras
are really good. I highly recommend

507
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:43.679
getting some of those. Is that
going to stop that security, because no,

508
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:45.920
you're not going to be home,
but maybe you can catch these thieves,

509
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:53.320
deliver it to your office address,
maybe pick it up in a store.

510
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:55.960
But wait, think about this,
because I don't want you to be

511
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.599
victim of all the great items that
I am telling you to potentially get.

512
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:02.559
His gifts, ask for a gift, forgive a gift to be stolen.

513
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.440
Because it is a big, big
business. As as I said, seventy

514
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.920
eight billion, seventy four billion dollars
in e commerce items are expected to be

515
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.199
delivered. If you want to send
something to me, right here, iHeartMedia

516
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:16.920
and Houston right here on the Loop
six to ten, you're the Galery.

517
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:20.800
Put it in care of Michael Garfield. I do thank you in advance for

518
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:25.719
that hour Number one is Oba Next
Hour got some other ideas including if you

519
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:29.079
want to buy a car, it
is going to be so simple to buy

520
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.960
a car next year for at least
one manufacturer. I love this announcement that

521
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:37.000
ties my love of cars and my
love of online shopping. And everything technology.

522
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:40.639
You're going to like that. And
also kid parents, if your kids

523
00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:45.599
are Taylor Swift fans, I got
some news for you. Oh if that's

524
00:36:45.599 --> 00:37:04.320
not a tease, I do not
know what is is? Michael Garfier Michael

525
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.920
Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the
high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here

526
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:14.000
with a high tech Texans who items
to make life easier some new technology.

527
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:23.000
So Michael Garfield has something you might
like about. Michael Garfield is your high

528
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:32.960
Tech Texan? Three decades helping you
make magic with your gadgets, occurred worldwide

529
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:38.440
on the Iheartware. Do you ad
now your high Tech Texan? Michael Garfield

530
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:44.719
halfway through the High Tech Texan Show, and it is a pre Black Friday,

531
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.960
halfway to half hour. You know
what a lot of people aren't working

532
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:52.000
this coming way right? You get? Does everybody get you should get Thursday

533
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:53.800
off? Hopefully maybe Friday. Some
people are taking the whole week off.

534
00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:57.400
Happy Hour starts right now. Don't
worry about it, even tho we're halfway

535
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:00.480
to half hour on my show.
You guys go ahead and start your hope.

536
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.800
You're drinking papas p laur rum good
rum mix it in there. I

537
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.039
hope everybody had a good first hour
and we are entertaining you still taking calls

538
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:14.199
fave Thanksgiving food. I'm getting a
lot of stuffing. I love stuffing and

539
00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:19.480
I'm a weirdo, but just give
me the stove top box stuffing. I

540
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.840
want to make it simple. And
I like cooking. I'm not like the

541
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:23.159
Okay, I'm a bachelor and Okoyd, I don't want to go No,

542
00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:28.800
I'm more than happy to cook.
I also like mash I do like mashed

543
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:32.559
potatoes a lot of carbs. It's
very simple to get the box mashed potatoes

544
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:37.039
where you put water in there.
I like those, but it's just that

545
00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:39.079
they're they're kind of creamy. Sometimes
you want the lumps in there. That's

546
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:43.360
the one that actually divides people when
I tell people, like I love just

547
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:46.920
make me a stove top stuffing.
Just open a box, you put the

548
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:51.679
stick of butter in there, and
it's just so good. And then I'll

549
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.679
say, for you know, I'll
settle for box mashed potatoes. What I

550
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:58.920
can't believe you eat box mashed potatoes. You don't buy real mashed potatoes and

551
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:01.000
mash them up? My new I
don't. I'm too busy outside smoking my

552
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:06.559
turkey and getting ready for the Cowboy
game on Thanksgiving? So what is your

553
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:12.679
What is your pumpkin pie? I
don't need a lot of pie. I

554
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:15.000
yeah, I pumpkin's okay. I
will eat a little slice of pumpkin pie

555
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:21.960
just to just say I have pump
pie seven three two five zero best turkey

556
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.559
recipe. Feel free, more than
happy to uh have you on the the

557
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.559
or if you if you buy you're
uh if you, I guess we could

558
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:31.519
talk about ham if you're really done
too. I don't need ham, but

559
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:35.039
the ham turkey. I'm here for
you people. I need some good recipes

560
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.639
too, because I'm giving I'm giving
you good information. Do I do?

561
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.639
I talk about the Taylor Swift thing
now. I tease the fact that I

562
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:45.599
have some Taylor Swift news, and
so I've got now every kid probably in

563
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:50.000
the country whose parents listen to me, I'm you're twenty years old, they're

564
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.760
tuning in right now. Hey kid, how you doing? Uncle garfy here?

565
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:57.360
Who saw the Taylor Swift eras tour? I did not see it.

566
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:01.199
I did not see the movie.
I like Taylor Swift. I don't know

567
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:07.159
Taylor Swift. I think she is
in her team and her team are absolutely

568
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:15.480
brilliant. Her marketing, prowessness,
the ubiquity of what she does and where

569
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:22.920
she is is unmatched. I think, right now, is it I don't

570
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:28.199
really, wasn't born? Is it
beatlesque? Where she is sweeping the country

571
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:30.280
and sweeping the world, well wherever
she goes in these erators, I think

572
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:37.519
show. I think she's doing a
phenomenal plus marketing by dating or allegedly dating

573
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.679
Travis Kelsey. So she's getting the
NFL kind of fans, and in the

574
00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:47.079
NFL is absolutely loving it because now
they're picking up new young fans that they've

575
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:52.679
never seen before. Neither here nor
there. Congrats to Taylor Swift. There's

576
00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:59.480
a tech spin here standby when Taylor
goes to concerts, and she came in

577
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:04.000
Houston to NRG. She came to
Arlington, I think for several stops for

578
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:09.920
AT and T stadium, but anyway. AT and T data network measures how

579
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:16.639
much data traffic can be shared or
moves through stadiums for football stadiums, concerts

580
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:21.719
and whatever, and they measure it
generally in terabytes a terabyte of data.

581
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:29.559
A terabyte of data represents about two
hundred thousand photos. Keep that in mind.

582
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:36.159
One terabyte of data two hundred thousand
photos or four hundred hours of video

583
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:42.199
moving across this network one terriblet.
Okay, two thousand photos. A general

584
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:51.639
football game, A football game could
have anywhere between four terabytes five terabytes of

585
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:55.719
data. Dallas Cowboys they push about
twenty one terabytes of data. Number one,

586
00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:59.239
because the Cowboys is the greatest.
Number Two, it's at and T

587
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:05.719
Stadium. Three. It's a big
stadium, and people call I say this

588
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.800
now leading up to Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift went to stadium. It's actually

589
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:13.119
stadium, but we're going to call
it stadiums. And they measured how much

590
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:20.920
terabytes of data during her concerts she
has used. Fans of hers have used

591
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:25.719
record amounts of data. During the
aerostur in North America, a staggering twenty

592
00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:34.599
nine terabytes of data glittery data moved
through AT and t's network when she was

593
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:38.880
in Arlington, Texas. That's the
Arlington went on twenty nine terriblet. As

594
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:44.119
I said, one terabyte is two
hundred thousand photos. You do the math.

595
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:50.360
That's the most data AT and T
network has moved at any stadium for

596
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:57.800
any event this year again average Cowboys
game twenty one terabytes of data. So

597
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:04.760
yes, I guess Swifty is above
or better than the Cowboys. Maybe she

598
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:08.159
did twenty three terabytes of data in
Nissan Stadium in Nashville, twelve terabytes in

599
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:15.199
Atlanta, eight point six terabytes in
Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, four gigabytes

600
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:21.280
in Foxboro Stadium in Gillette. What
is this? Does this I'm trying to

601
00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:28.840
look at this data and good?
What is this show that bigger markets,

602
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:32.239
bigger fan bases, because it's tough
to be a bigger stadium and a big

603
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:36.519
market between Dallas and Fort Worth.
And number two is Nissan Stadium Nissan,

604
00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:40.360
which is in obviously Nashville. Is
does she live there? Big country,

605
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:45.519
not to u'st country, big music
fans, absolutely, some music century city.

606
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:50.480
That's the top two. NRG was
number three. NRG was twenty gig

607
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:54.159
twenty terabytes of data. Sofi Stadium
though, was twelve. So far that's

608
00:43:54.159 --> 00:44:02.239
the huge one in Los Angeles?
Does anybody have any problem going to stadiums

609
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:08.880
nowadays? In getting a connections connectivity
it used to be a bear, I

610
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:15.800
mean because there was only in the
cell system. Maybe there's one or two

611
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:21.400
cell phone towers outside of stadium right
now, nowadays it's different. Verizon I

612
00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:27.199
believe has wired NRG Stadium in Houston. I know this because I think I

613
00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:30.760
got a press release earlier this year
where there are antennas all over this stadium

614
00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:36.320
and there may be in there's Wi
Fi. I know AT and T did

615
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:39.000
it for the past several years.
AT and T is a big partner with

616
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:44.760
the Final Four, the March Madness
dan caa tournament when they play the Final

617
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.599
Four in these big, big stadiums. They put a a basketball court on

618
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:52.920
the floor on the field and it's
a raised stadium. Underneath that raiy stadium

619
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:57.960
is just an array of antennas,
so the potential eighty thousand, ninety thousand

620
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.000
people can actually get better reception out
there. It's getting easier and better.

621
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:04.719
So anyway, there is your Taylor
Swift update, which is probably the first

622
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:07.039
time I've ever done it on this
show, and I'd say it's the last.

623
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.440
Are we gonna play any Taylor Swift
pump out music? We'd have to

624
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:15.440
play up bajillion dollars all right?
Coming up after this, how would you

625
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:22.519
like to buy a car online?
Oh? My, the world is converging

626
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:29.719
next year coming up on the High
Tech X Show. I hope everybody is

627
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:34.280
having got one the whole day.
If you are listening live here on Saturday

628
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:37.719
afternoon as we do it on kp
RC Radio nine fifty, if we also

629
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:45.079
have a encore broadcast that repeaks at
eleven PM and goes into one am.

630
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:49.519
So right now, if you're listening
driving your life away, it's actually on

631
00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:52.760
Sunday, Sunday morning, so you
actually should know what the outcome of the

632
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:55.400
football game. So, speaking of
football games, I will be hanging up

633
00:45:55.440 --> 00:46:00.239
as I do the show right now
on Saturday, actually early afternoon, I

634
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:05.639
will be hanging up the earphones and
the microphone and jaunting off to the aero

635
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:10.800
because I am added to Ames Iowa. Anyone, anyone Aimes Iowa. I

636
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:15.519
will be going to the university.
I have Texas Longhorns versus Iowa State game

637
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:19.559
tonight. Anyone when I join,
no going out with a few buds of

638
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:22.679
mine. I went there about four
years ago. It's cold. It's going

639
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.000
to be thirty one degrees tonight at
some point, so I am wrapped up

640
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:30.079
in my burn orange. I am
a traveling long horn honk and could not

641
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:32.559
be more excited. Hopefully the Longhorns
on the right track for the Big twelve.

642
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:37.320
And by the way, the Natty
the National Championship will be held right

643
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:43.639
here in your home city of Houston, Texas, January eighth. Could it

644
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:45.639
be the Texas Longhorns that ain't gonna
be the Aggies. I'll tell you that

645
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.159
right now, So Horns. And
also I need to stop and get some

646
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:54.320
I need to bring some food on
the plane with some of my buds.

647
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:58.000
And I want to prove we're going
to Iowa, and I want to show

648
00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.719
Iowa's and I like, I got
a good buddy of mine who and Iowa

649
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.599
need to show them what real Texas
barbecue is. Like, I'm gonna stop

650
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.480
by jbar M, jbar M.
If you haven't been to this barbecue joint.

651
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:12.679
It's on the east side of downtown, relatively new. It is massive.

652
00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:16.880
It's such a great neat place to
first of all, eat food.

653
00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.159
They're more than happy to take you
through the pit room with the smokers out

654
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.679
there. Oh it's great. Hawfy
is my man. Haffey is the general

655
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:30.400
manager. And this dude is just
so freaking cool, just from his looks

656
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:32.360
to the way he talks and just
to the way he just runs a great

657
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.039
organization. Some of the best slices
of brisket, they got chicken, they

658
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:39.519
got turkey, big bars, they
got a stage outdoor stage for entertainers.

659
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:43.480
Out there, you can watch all
the games. It's cool. Definitely a

660
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.920
place that you can take visitors to. Hey, man, I want some

661
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:50.360
Texas barbecue by anyway. I placed
in order and I'm gonna go pick it

662
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:54.440
up after the show here from J
bar M and we're gonna be snacking all

663
00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:59.239
the way up to Iowa on that. So very excited. I think they

664
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.760
make a turkey too. I may
just blow off making my Thanksgiving turkey and

665
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:06.880
go get it. I like smoke
turkey, man. I walk back in

666
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.480
the jbar Ms smoking pit room back
there, they I forgot his name.

667
00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:14.960
Who is our pitmaster? What a
cool dude, man. He like lives

668
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:17.199
out there for twelve to fifteen hours
a day and night. Puts those things

669
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:20.639
on what at five six in the
morning, and they're just smoking. They

670
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:22.840
look so good, they look so
tender. So for some reason, you

671
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:28.119
got no Thanksgiving plans, I'm guessing, and I'm probably sure that you can

672
00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:30.760
get to go orders j barr M. The M stands for Michael. It

673
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.880
really doesn't, but I'm just gonna
go with that. As we continue the

674
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.360
high Tech Texting Show Kate Percy nine
to fifty am, Hook them Horns.

675
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:43.320
We covered the Taylor Swift thing.
Oh, we're gonna tell you how to

676
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:47.920
buy a car. I cover cars
a lot. I test drive cars every

677
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:51.960
single week, not from a dealership, but straight from the manufacturer. I

678
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:53.960
will not recommend a dealership. You
just going. I will tell you what

679
00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:58.800
cars, what vehicles, with minivans, with sports cars, with electric cars

680
00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:01.960
are good, decent, not good, what they need to improve, et

681
00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:07.000
cetera. But generally it's up to
you. At that point, you're gonna

682
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:07.880
go, oh, garf man,
let me go test drive these things all

683
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:09.960
right, now, let me go
find a dealership, all right, let

684
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:15.599
me go negotiate with a dealer.
Well, those days could be coming to

685
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.719
an end. You may be saying, hey, Alexa, buy me a

686
00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:30.360
Hyundai, because earlier this week Amazon
announced they are gonna sell cars online for

687
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:37.000
the first time, starting with Hyundai. Starting next year, people, you're

688
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:42.400
gonna be able to go on Amazon
and get all your toiletries, your groceries,

689
00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:44.880
your headphones and oh, by the
way, I'll think I'll get a

690
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:50.679
car. They announced the deal Amazon
Hyunday announced the deal that they're going to

691
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.800
allow dealerships to sell cars through the
site. And just because there's the whole

692
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:57.559
law of dealers, you have to
go through a dealer, but dealers now

693
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.559
will be able to list cars on
Amazon to make it, I guess easier

694
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:07.239
for people to find now. Previously
you could browse car showrooms compare prices on

695
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:12.800
Amazon, you couldn't actually buy a
car. All gotta change. Next year,

696
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:16.440
several Hyundai dealers start to list models
for sales on the site, so

697
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:22.039
you can browse cars, make a
purchase using your preferred payment method. Then

698
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.039
you could choose to pick up the
car at a nearby dealership, or you

699
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:30.679
could have it delivered to your home
at your convenience. But remember this importantly,

700
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:35.920
the in seller of the vehicle,
it's still going to be the dealer.

701
00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.320
Amazon's simply a platform between the middleman
between the customer and the dealership.

702
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.239
I'm not sure if Amazon's talking to
anybody else, but Hyundai first to market

703
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.400
about this thing and at least getting
headlines, and it's got me to talk

704
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:52.119
about it. For two or three
minutes. Amazon has been slowly moving into

705
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:54.800
the car space. I mean they
were offering virtual showrooms for some brands,

706
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:59.159
price comparison tools, and you can
buy I mean you can buy car parts

707
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:04.320
and accessories site. But as part
of this deal, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant.

708
00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:08.039
Oh, by the way, it's
going to be available in Hyundai vehicles

709
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:15.159
starting in twenty twenty five, and
Hyundai is going to use AWS Amazon Web

710
00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:19.599
Services for cloud services. Nice deal
back and forth. Is this going to

711
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:24.000
help your car shopping or better?
I mean, it's pretty smart on Amazon

712
00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:30.480
because it really nicely sidesteps the issue
by ensuring that dealers remain a very crucial

713
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.360
part of the process. Most dealers
allow customers to browse and buy a car

714
00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:39.079
through their own websites, but having
Amazon as an additional platform, I mean,

715
00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:42.639
think about Amazon has millions of daily
customers. I mean, it's going

716
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:46.400
to it. My guess is make
the process even better. I've got like

717
00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:52.239
four ways of payment on my Amazon
and I've got my credit card. I

718
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:57.360
think I have a fifty dollars gift
card. I've got VIM, I think

719
00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.039
I have Vemo or PayPal. Can
you just so I could just buy a

720
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:06.800
car? Is it one click check
out? Could I just want? Oh?

721
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:08.079
I like this. Here's an day
Kona, which is actually a very

722
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:12.480
nice vehicle I tested a few months
ago. Let me just get a day

723
00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:15.360
Kona A right way twenty nine thousand
dollars one click out of here? Can

724
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:17.719
I put this on my fifty dollars
Amazon gift car? Oh? You need

725
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:23.599
another method of payment? I like
it. This is the convergence of technology

726
00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:28.840
and automobiles coming together. I absolutely
like that a lot. I absolutely do.

727
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.519
He speaking of cloud storage, and
I also was talking about Taylor Swift

728
00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:38.760
last segment breaking all the data records
and eras tour all her fans would share

729
00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:43.760
so much terabytes of data more so
than any other event concert football stadium.

730
00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:46.000
That was cool. And then there's
cloud Then I just talked about Amazon Web

731
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:52.199
Services in cloud storage. Verizon is
actually getting in the game. Somebody these

732
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:58.679
companies have cloud storage options, and
you have to understand the pricing and how

733
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:05.199
much is there a limit? Not
e limit? Verizon just they announced that

734
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:14.760
they have cloud storage options for unlimited. I'll repeat unlimited for thirteen dollars and

735
00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:17.320
ninety nine cents per month. Just
new it's coming out, so pretty much

736
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:22.079
Verizon wants to back up your entire
life for fourteen bones per month. So

737
00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:25.800
it's a new plan, unlimited space, so you can put your photos,

738
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:31.840
your videos, your documents and everything. That's actually kind of unusual. A

739
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:37.599
lot of other cloud services come with
data caps. Here's it's just x amount

740
00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:42.559
and then that's it. But this
is a wireless carrier, so I mean

741
00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:46.360
they want you to use their signals, carriers and their system to actually upload

742
00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:52.679
everything. I actually was wondering about
the word unlimited, because there's a lot

743
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:59.880
of different carriers, including Verizon,
that have funny definitions of unlimited, and

744
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:05.360
there are some limited. There's a
few limitations, so individual files can ex

745
00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:09.519
see ten gigabytes, you can only
upload fifty gigs per day. Those are

746
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:13.559
pretty high ceilings, though I don't
think a lot of people can hit that.

747
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:21.440
Before fourteen nine and Night Listen,
Dropbox they just eliminated as a unlimited

748
00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:28.880
plan for business customers. There's Google
One, There's back Blaze, there's all

749
00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:31.000
of these cloud storagees. If you
don't, I would absolutely because I use

750
00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:37.760
a few cloud services. I obviously
also have in my next to my computer

751
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:43.639
several hard drives that back up everything. As again, I'm an eagle scout.

752
00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:45.719
I mean I want to be be
prepared, back back, back,

753
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:51.440
back protected. For some reason,
the cloud servers go bye bye whatever.

754
00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:53.320
At least I have a hard copy
here on my desk. For some reason,

755
00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:58.480
something happens to my home, theft, fire, flood, I've got

756
00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:01.480
the copy in the cloud. I
mean, I've got the pictures when I

757
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:05.159
was a kid, and I got
my baby, the kid's baby pictures.

758
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:07.400
Just a lot of documents. Something
you should always always do. You should

759
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:10.800
always back it up. You should
absolutely do that, Toway. That's one

760
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:15.480
option. I just noticed the Hoverzon. It's unlimited, which is is pretty

761
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:17.639
cool, but fourteen bucks per month. There are a lot of cheaper options

762
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:20.760
off there, but I don't know
if you're going to get unlimited. That's

763
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:22.280
what I do. Just give you
some ideas and opportunities. Hey, speaking

764
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:27.360
of ideas, do it yourselfers If
for some reason you have issue, you

765
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:30.960
want a plumber, and you want
TVs hung or you have anything that a

766
00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:35.960
handyman can or can't do. There
is a company here in Houston, been

767
00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.840
around for a while that I actually
use their services recently, all through an

768
00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:45.159
app where you could schedule almost anything, anyone to come help you do something

769
00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:47.079
around your home. It's like a
handyman on steroids. I will talk to

770
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:55.039
this company on the other side.
We are back at it. Michael garfieldy

771
00:55:55.199 --> 00:56:00.599
long long, almost too long,
running high tech text in show kPr nine

772
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:04.320
fifty am. If you're in and
around the south East Texas area, and

773
00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:07.639
thank you also for downloading that iHeartRadio
app. You could be listening all over

774
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.199
the world. My next guest,
I kind of got some bad news.

775
00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:14.440
If you're all over the world,
it may not matter to you unless you

776
00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:19.079
have an idea of actually kind of
creating what this pretty smart service organization and

777
00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:22.360
app does, because they do service
the Houston area and a lot of areas

778
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:27.719
around that. And I want to
start with this for long time listeners.

779
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:30.800
You know, I'm an eagle scout, so my job is to do things

780
00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:34.400
myself. Do it yourself. I
can figure things out as much as I

781
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.159
can. I can I remember how
to do it. I got the life

782
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:38.599
saving Merit badge. I think I
need a refresher, but that's neither here

783
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:44.639
nor there. But when it comes
to replacing disposa you know, garbage disposals

784
00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:49.039
and hanging TVs and I could do
it. Problem is do I have the

785
00:56:49.079 --> 00:56:51.880
time to do it? And this
is where it gets tricky. There's a

786
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:54.360
local company here that's been around for
quite a bit, but I love it

787
00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:58.719
because of their tech based app that
I just used not long ago, and

788
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.360
I wanted to kind of talk and
find out their history and share the info

789
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:06.639
with It is called good Smith.
It's called good Smith Home Repair. Eric

790
00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:08.440
Klein is one of the co founders, and he joins me right there,

791
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:13.400
I'll start with this, Eric,
were you a boy scout. I was

792
00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:16.199
a cub Scout. I did not
go too far into it, but I

793
00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:20.960
certainly, just like you, was
always brought up that you need to be

794
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.280
able to fix your own things in
your house. So well, see now

795
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.679
I let my kids do it.
Hey, you know what, something wrong

796
00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:30.079
with my computer? That's what you
have kids for. Oltimately like that,

797
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:32.760
But when it comes to tricky stuff, when it comes to plumbing and just

798
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:37.079
get other kind of a handyman type
of project. You saw a niche over

799
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:39.159
there. So for the people I
unfamiliar, they may see your trucks driving

800
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:43.519
around Houston area. Good Smith Home
Repair give us the overview of the company.

801
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:50.239
We are a tech enabled turnkey home
service and repair company. What does

802
00:57:50.239 --> 00:57:53.920
that mean? We, through our
app and through our technology, we make

803
00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:59.920
it as easy as possible for our
clients to get on their phone type in

804
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:04.199
couple words, say that their light
is broken, their toilets clogged, and

805
00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:08.800
before they know it, they can
have a goodsmith truck with a vetted professional

806
00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:13.880
heading their way to take care of
all of their issues that they might have

807
00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:17.840
in their home. So what we
created this because I was a homebuilder for

808
00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:22.199
twenty years. I'd built somebody's house
and three years later they'd be calling me

809
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:24.320
up and go, hey, Eric, I've got twenty things in my house

810
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:28.440
I need to get done. I've
got all the guys and the skills to

811
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:31.639
get that done. But homebuilders and
contractors aren't set up to come fix the

812
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:37.159
hole that the door knob punched in
the sheet rock, are coming out to

813
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.679
fix three shingles on your roof.
So what we do is we do everything

814
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:45.079
that large contractors are capable of doing, but just aren't set up to do.

815
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:52.559
I immediately got it when I saw
the website, and then I also

816
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.280
downloaded the app, which is obviously
it's very simple to do. I like

817
00:58:55.360 --> 00:59:00.440
how you say it's a tech enabled
maintenance and repair company, because you are

818
00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:02.599
the can I call you this?
It's you're a virtual superintendent. You're the

819
00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:07.800
superman. I mean you're like Schneider
okay, reference reference from back in the

820
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:12.039
day, or or bookman if you
go back to good times that instead of

821
00:59:12.079 --> 00:59:15.199
just calling the number. And obviously
I have my own home too, It

822
00:59:15.239 --> 00:59:17.559
doesn't matter what it is because you
can hndle everything from that the handyman stuff

823
00:59:17.559 --> 00:59:22.599
to the maintenance, to the appliances
into everything. The list of things that

824
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:25.000
you do it continues to grow.
Give us again, I just gave some

825
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:29.519
generalizations over there, but what do
what? What services do you offer?

826
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:34.480
So we from the most simple things, we have maintenance programs that will come

827
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.360
out quarterly or bi anally. If
you like to change your light bulbs,

828
00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:42.480
change your air filters, plush your
water heaters, clean your dryer vent,

829
00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:46.079
do chemical drain cleaning on your drain
to keep the sinks running. You know,

830
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:51.039
those are kind of the oil changes, entire rotations that we all do

831
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.360
for our for our cars. We
forget to do those for our houses.

832
00:59:53.719 --> 00:59:57.719
And so we do have programs that
will take care of that we have.

833
00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:01.559
We are a master plumber, We're
a master electrician. We've got expert painters,

834
01:00:01.679 --> 01:00:08.119
carpenters, sheet rockers, everything to
also just our generalists aka handyman to

835
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:13.599
come out there hang some pictures for
you. We also have in house an

836
01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:16.559
exterier cleaning company that will wash your
exyr windows, power wash, clean your

837
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:22.320
gutters. Ninety percent of what needs
that can be done in your home,

838
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:25.760
we have someone in house that can
do it that other ten percent that we

839
01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:30.159
don't have in house. We've got
service partners that will manage that whole,

840
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:32.440
that process all the way through.
The biggest glaring part of that is,

841
01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:37.480
as of right now, we don't
have an HVAC service in house, which

842
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:42.960
we're working on doing that, but
we have multiple, multiple partners that we

843
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:45.360
trust to come out to your home
and take care of those take care of

844
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:50.920
any issues that we do not have
in house. It's got an email.

845
01:00:51.079 --> 01:00:53.239
I just got an email here from
an Amy and she says, love this

846
01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:58.000
interview. I think they need to
redaim the company to the ultimate husband.

847
01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:02.519
I'd like you ever heard of that
one? That's a good one we have.

848
01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:06.000
Yeah, we joke around here that
you know, we've been saving marriages

849
01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:09.840
in Houston for the past four years. So yeah, we started this right

850
01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:15.199
before, right before COVID started off. And you know, my partner and

851
01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:21.519
I we were looking at each other
and the beginning of twenty twenty going well,

852
01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:22.880
you know, that was a good
four months. You know, COVID

853
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:25.440
just killed us a little, did
we know. A month and a half

854
01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:30.639
two months later, our phones are
ringing off the hooks because everyone was at

855
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:34.280
home. Everyone was breaking things.
You had the one spouse to the other's

856
01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:37.360
spouse was going, hey, how
long is that that cabinet being crooked?

857
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:39.760
And the other spouse is going,
well, about seventeen years, and so

858
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:45.519
it's it's amazing at what we are
able to do to really get things around

859
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:50.840
the household, sort it out.
Eric Kleine, he is the co founder

860
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.199
of good Smith. We'll make sure
we give you the the web dress and

861
01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:58.079
also how to download that app.
This is when I first downloaded one of

862
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.840
the first things that I saw and
I got because I understand how customer service

863
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:05.679
works. It's a membership plan and
then you have several maintenance plan and I

864
01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:08.880
and I understand that, and I'll
probably let you kind of explain it this

865
01:02:08.920 --> 01:02:13.199
way, but the fact is you
know I joke about the superintendent. I

866
01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:15.320
mean everybody has them on you know, speed doff. You're living in a

867
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:16.920
high rise or an apartment like that, but you have a relationship. I

868
01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:21.960
mean, the superintendent of your building
knows everything that was built, when it

869
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:23.920
was built. What's wrong when you're
maintenance scheduled and I my guess is that's

870
01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:31.239
you want that relationship with the customer. Absolutely, it's being being a membership

871
01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:36.719
and having that relationship. When you
put a request in on the app that

872
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:39.880
your upstairs air conditioner isn't working,
we know the model, we know the

873
01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:44.280
serial number, we can we can
send the guy out there and he is

874
01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:47.719
ready to work on the house.
We're not having to redo work time after

875
01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:52.719
time after time when we come into
your home. That that relationship allows us

876
01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:58.039
to have that intricate knowledge of the
home. So that makes saves you time

877
01:02:58.119 --> 01:03:00.840
and saves us time when we're service
a service sing your home. It's a

878
01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:05.119
real win win situation because just like
most everything's, a lot of our services

879
01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:07.440
are charged by the hour, and
if we can come in there and do

880
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:09.880
it at half an hour and you
only get charged for a half an hour,

881
01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:13.679
that's a win win because I can
get onto the next job and you

882
01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:17.239
can get on with your life.
What process? Tell me about the process.

883
01:03:17.559 --> 01:03:21.000
I went through it, but you
probably explain it better than I can.

884
01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:23.400
Starting from choosing the plan to download
in the app to start it to

885
01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:30.599
do list absolutely online at my goodsmith
dot com. There's a quick summary of

886
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:35.280
all of our service plans that are
out there, everything from maintenance which is

887
01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:40.159
paid upfront for throughout the year,
and also describing our three different tiers of

888
01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:45.159
membership that go everywhere from zero dollars
a month to eighty nine dollars a month.

889
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:51.440
Once you decide you want to become
a good Smith member, you can

890
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:54.320
fill that form out online, download
the app, and then from that point

891
01:03:54.360 --> 01:03:59.639
forward once you have the app downloaded, our kind of mantra was if you

892
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:01.360
have something wrong in your house,
you should be able to get a request

893
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.039
in while you're sitting out a red
light. That is how quick and easy

894
01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:10.039
we want that request to go in
so that you can get on with your

895
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:13.719
life. Now, not suggesting you
texted your car, but that's how quick

896
01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:18.320
it needs to be done. Because
we want to be the experts for the

897
01:04:18.360 --> 01:04:23.760
home. So if you tell us
that you're thinking me, jigobobber is leaking,

898
01:04:24.039 --> 01:04:26.239
We'll ask you. We'll ask you, hey, send us a picture

899
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:29.000
of your thing to need jiggerbobber,
and on our end we'll figure out that,

900
01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:31.760
Okay, it's their shower head or
it's something else that's going on.

901
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:35.920
You just need to feed us some
information so that we can send out as

902
01:04:35.960 --> 01:04:42.320
easily and quickly a quick estimate of
how much the work is going to take,

903
01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:45.199
and then we get it on your
schedule so we can get in there

904
01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:47.320
to get it taken care before you. It's all about ease of use.

905
01:04:48.119 --> 01:04:57.000
Craziest job you've ever been asked to
do. Man, a couple of them,

906
01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:00.400
probably I'm not going to share on
air because they are the very personal,

907
01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:06.519
very personal in nature. There's been
some bedroom accessories that have been asked

908
01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:12.039
for. Man just absolutely stumped me
on this one. You know, some

909
01:05:12.079 --> 01:05:15.960
of the most fun things we're doing
going into the holiday season. Once the

910
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:19.039
week before Christmas were putting together everyone's
Christmas lots of Christmas presents for them,

911
01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:24.599
the things of mom and Dad don't
want to take the time to put together,

912
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:28.079
or frankly they get halfway through.
We get to do a lot of

913
01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:30.239
really fun intricate things. You know. I'll tell you you know, one

914
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:34.360
of the silliest jobs. We had
a member that was just down the street

915
01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:39.039
from another member and they saw that
one of our maintenance crews was there and

916
01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:41.760
they had just moved here from New
York and they had no idea how to

917
01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:44.519
take care of anything in their house. And God forbid, there was a

918
01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:47.079
flying cockroach up on the top of
the twenty foot ceiling. She called,

919
01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:49.760
She went into the apps, put
a request in, and our guide just

920
01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:53.840
walked from three or four houses down, came over there, got the ladder

921
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:57.400
up and got rid of the cockroach. For like, that's the level of

922
01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:00.760
service that we want to give to
our customers, that they know that we

923
01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:03.079
are in the community and we're there
to help them out when no matter how

924
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:09.760
small or how big the project is. Hanging Christmas lights and ornaments outside we

925
01:06:09.840 --> 01:06:13.679
do some. We do some.
It's it is something that that it is

926
01:06:13.719 --> 01:06:18.320
a it's expensive to get it right
if you want to intricate process. That's

927
01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:23.199
one thing we really do also pride
ourselves on that if there's a service that

928
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:27.880
we are we can do anything.
There's nothing money in time can't fix,

929
01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:30.039
right, But if we are not
going to be the best value for you.

930
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:33.880
We will certainly let our we let
all of our customers know that upfront,

931
01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:39.440
because there are certain things that those
guys that specialize in that you know,

932
01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:42.440
they're really really good at it and
they're going to do it more efficiently

933
01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:45.039
than we are. And so like, yeah, well i'll tell you what,

934
01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:46.079
just from personally to go to experience. A few weeks ago, I

935
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:49.280
downloaded the app. I needed a
few things done. And what I like

936
01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:55.000
is I like the communication, the
upkeep, the customer service, went back

937
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:58.239
and forth, confirming with time.
I was going to be a confirming with

938
01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:01.639
time, what's your address? And
in everything, so very very upfront and

939
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:04.920
it's a success. And uh,
you know what, maybe you're gonna expand

940
01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:09.159
nationwide. Who knows, but I
know all my Eustonians they don't care because

941
01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:12.159
you're here for them. It's just
which its counts. Eric Lein, the

942
01:07:12.159 --> 01:07:14.360
co founder of good Smith. If
people, I think you already gave the

943
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:16.519
gave out the website, hit it
one more time along with the app.

944
01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:21.679
Yeah, so it's my Goodsmith dot
com. And if you searched good Smith

945
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:25.880
Home Care on either app or Android, you'll be able to find the app

946
01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:30.000
right there, simple enough. Listen. Congratinator success my man. And by

947
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:31.159
the way, if you need an
eagle scout and do some life saving you

948
01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:35.880
can actually add me to your repertoire
perfect. Thank you, Hey, happy

949
01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:39.599
all days, my man. Thank
you so much, and I appreciate your

950
01:07:39.599 --> 01:07:43.599
time. All right, thanks for
having us suck the absolutely eric lyin that's

951
01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:45.039
it really listened. Really is a
good service these I want you to try.

952
01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:47.320
It didn't cost anything to download the
app, and they actually I think

953
01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:50.280
there's a level of membership that's actually
free, along with a few others.

954
01:07:50.320 --> 01:07:54.239
And so sure, I love Houston
based companies. I love talking to Houston

955
01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:58.960
based owners and people who come up
with creative stuff like this and good Smith.

956
01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:01.039
All right, get done right now, Michael Garfield, I'll give you

957
01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:05.320
a open phone number seven one three
two one two five nine five oh as

958
01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:14.039
we continue the long running Hi Tech
Texan Show. Final segment of the pre

959
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:16.920
Black Friday Hi Tech Textan Show.
Michael Garfield, I'm not gonna give out

960
01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:19.319
that phone number because we just got
to have a few other things that we

961
01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:21.439
want to hit. But for some
reason, you want to reach out to

962
01:08:21.439 --> 01:08:26.840
me this week, Michael at high
tech Textan dot com. Go to high

963
01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:30.920
tech Textan dot Com. I'm getting
more and more of these fun gift guide

964
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:33.680
items that I'll be putting on my
Instagram, which is shockingly high tech text

965
01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:36.479
and h I G h T e
c h t e x a n go

966
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:42.159
check that out. Earlier this show, I talked about some Black Friday deals.

967
01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:45.199
If you want to podcast at Callum, the podcast will be up what

968
01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:48.680
about ten minutes fifteen minutes once we
finish the shizzo, go to iHeartRadio and

969
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:54.840
just search for kp RC or high
Tech tex Center Michael Garfield, I think

970
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and you can hear the this show, I talked about some earbuds, some

971
01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:02.439
bone conducting, bone conductive earphones,
headphones. That's what I use because I'm

972
01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:06.600
always out and about. I don't
want these things falling off or sweating out.

973
01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:09.960
These things have lasted a while,
so it'll give you some good ideas

974
01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:12.560
for that. Big shout out to
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975
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976
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These folks busy year round, but
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977
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978
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979
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cash and you're sitting on coins and
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980
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981
01:09:36.239 --> 01:09:41.880
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982
01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:45.199
not the top dealer in the country, Kenny Dunk I love. I've watched

983
01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:47.560
Kenny back in the back row.
He will look. He'll take just a

984
01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:50.399
matter of seconds. He can look
at these coins. He can decide,

985
01:09:50.399 --> 01:09:54.119
Okay, is this of value?
What it is? How much they will

986
01:09:54.119 --> 01:09:57.039
pay you for it. They got
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987
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to worry about slapping all your valuables
in. They've got Rolex watches to protect

988
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phillips. They've got jewelry. I
see a lot of ice, a lot

989
01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:08.560
of tennis bracelets, a lot of
neat stuff for the ladies. Great Texas

990
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memorabilia, I mean real stuff like
flags, you know, and old maps

991
01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:15.119
of Texas before it came a state, and things of that nature. But

992
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do go check them out as you
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993
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actually have a great, solid,
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998
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try during this holiday week, I
really do like that. I do cover

999
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:48.479
cars. As I talked about and
I saw this news, I've been doing

1000
01:10:48.479 --> 01:10:51.920
a lot of I've had a lot
of conversations over the past month or two

1001
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:58.960
about electric cars. I over the
past three weeks have driven testro for each

1002
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:00.439
week I get, I have a
I have a vehicle for over one week.

1003
01:11:01.359 --> 01:11:04.760
And over the past few weeks,
I have been in an electric vehicle,

1004
01:11:05.560 --> 01:11:13.319
one of which it was a Mercedes
EQB two fifty. It's an suv,

1005
01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:18.119
relatively small suv, and it's electric. About forty thousand dollars. Okay,

1006
01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:23.399
that's actually is that right? Hold
on? Nope, sixty thousand dollars

1007
01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:27.319
fifty two thousand dollars to just a
retail price. As I'm looking at the

1008
01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:32.359
AMUNTRONI over here, I was in
a Kia and what you're fine too.

1009
01:11:33.079 --> 01:11:38.119
I'm not the biggest electric car electric
car fan. Electric cars work for some

1010
01:11:38.279 --> 01:11:43.520
people and they work for others.
If you drive locally and you know you're

1011
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:46.279
going twenty five thirty forty fifty miles, you know your range, You've got

1012
01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:49.359
a charger at work and charge you
at home. Perfect. It's good as

1013
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:54.479
a second car for taking the case
slepting against the soccer practice. But me,

1014
01:11:55.479 --> 01:12:00.279
single guy, kids out of school, living alone, I can hop

1015
01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:01.279
in the car if I need to
go to Austin, which is over two

1016
01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:04.000
hundred miles away, Dallas, which
I go to frequently, well over two

1017
01:12:04.039 --> 01:12:06.880
hundred fetey miles away. I don't
want to have range anxiety. I do

1018
01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:10.399
not want to wait at it the
charger. I do not want to pray

1019
01:12:10.439 --> 01:12:13.479
that the charger actually works. I
do not want to sit there for well

1020
01:12:13.479 --> 01:12:15.000
over an hour. I don't puts
around. I want to get where I'm

1021
01:12:15.000 --> 01:12:19.079
going. And that's it my mind. The way it works, the way

1022
01:12:19.119 --> 01:12:24.920
it's wired, it's just not right
ready for electric vehicles just because of the

1023
01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:28.479
charging time. I think they are
fast, I think they are quite I

1024
01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:31.039
think they are sexy. We don't
know the long long term of what's happening

1025
01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:33.600
or the batteries are so, you
know, biodegradable, what have you.

1026
01:12:34.359 --> 01:12:38.239
They can be expensive x so they
are expensive for what they are versus some

1027
01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:40.319
of their counterparts. So I'm not
going to talk you in. I'm not

1028
01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:43.680
going to talk you out of one. But I just want the battery system

1029
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:48.720
to get better and slowly but surely
it is because I saw this come across

1030
01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:59.560
my inbox. BUCkies. We love
BUCkies. BUCkies just announced a strategic agreement

1031
01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:10.319
with Mercedes Binz to deliver Premium EV
charging at BUCkies locations nationwide. By the

1032
01:13:10.399 --> 01:13:14.600
end of next year. There's gonna
be I think thirty one Bucky travel centers

1033
01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:23.520
and they are gonna have Premium EV
charging stations. I'd stop at BUCkies once

1034
01:13:23.560 --> 01:13:27.319
in a while. They're amazed.
I'm not gonna get into this is not

1035
01:13:27.359 --> 01:13:30.359
a Bucki's commercial, but they have
so many gas pumps, gas bumps.

1036
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:31.680
I mean, they just got it. It seems what seems like acres and

1037
01:13:31.720 --> 01:13:34.920
acres of gas bumps at some of
the larger ones. I don't know if

1038
01:13:34.920 --> 01:13:40.640
they currently have any charging stations because
I just go, I get gas,

1039
01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:42.840
I go in, and I spend
another one hundred and eighty six dollars on

1040
01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:48.760
crap that I don't need. Welcome
to BUCkies. Love them, though charging

1041
01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:57.199
stations at BUCkies are dangerous. Follow
me over here because you already go in

1042
01:13:57.239 --> 01:13:59.920
and kill enough time and kill enough
money while you're waiting for your card.

1043
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:02.159
I fill up in five minutes.
Imagine having nothing to do for an hour

1044
01:14:02.239 --> 01:14:05.960
while your car charges. You literally
may spend as much as the car when

1045
01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:10.800
you walk out of BUCkies. How
many beaver nuggets can fit in the back

1046
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:14.680
of your electric car? And how
much is gonna cost you? I kid

1047
01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:15.880
because I laugh, because it's the
only thing I can do. I'm glad

1048
01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:23.000
that BUCkies there needs to be more
locations of high end, high powered chargers.

1049
01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:26.720
It's as plain and freaking simple as
that. So good for BUCkies of

1050
01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:32.000
actually doing something. So yay,
yay yay. On that same note,

1051
01:14:32.479 --> 01:14:36.640
people ask me about Tesla all the
time because it Tesla. Again, let's

1052
01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:40.560
go first to market at least here
in the United States, and they came

1053
01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:44.880
out strong with all of their Tesla
cars. It's electric chargers, but Tesla's

1054
01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:49.680
charging charging system generally doesn't work with
any other charging system and a GARF is

1055
01:14:49.680 --> 01:14:54.319
there ever going to be a standard
because listen, there's a standard gas laid

1056
01:14:54.439 --> 01:14:58.640
well. Of course you've got different
levels of premium unleaded and super unleaded and

1057
01:14:58.680 --> 01:15:01.840
everything, but it's gas. A
gas station with a typical gasoline powered engine,

1058
01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:03.680
and you're gonna be able to fill
up. But if you go to

1059
01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:12.159
a typical charger, different charging systems
may not work. But evs soon from

1060
01:15:12.239 --> 01:15:16.279
four to GM to Lucid to Pollstar, they're actually slowly announcing that they're going

1061
01:15:16.359 --> 01:15:20.520
to adopt a Tesla's charging standard.
Okay, so this seems like it's a

1062
01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:29.239
win for Texas based Teslap, but
according to who is this? According to

1063
01:15:29.359 --> 01:15:32.760
sales of electric vehicles are expected to
increase by thirty five percent worldwide this year

1064
01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:40.239
and to hit fourteen million sold by
the end of this year. China make

1065
01:15:40.279 --> 01:15:44.239
up sixty percent of all vehicle sales. But I'll just say it again right

1066
01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:45.840
now, one of the biggest concerns
you're deciding whether to buy an electric car

1067
01:15:46.119 --> 01:15:49.840
is how often you're going to have
access to a charger when you need one.

1068
01:15:50.680 --> 01:15:53.680
You do not want to get stuck
in the middle of nowhere with a

1069
01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:59.960
dead battery. But Tesla's really quickly
becoming the dominant force in charging infrastruction.

1070
01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:04.920
Sure, and there's a lot of
global car makers now now reaching agreements with

1071
01:16:05.079 --> 01:16:11.319
Tesla to make their own cars compatible
with the Tesla superchargers that are pretty much

1072
01:16:11.319 --> 01:16:16.079
widely available. Again, good things, and that's good news. Why I

1073
01:16:16.239 --> 01:16:19.760
started this segment going not a big
electric car fan in terms of buying and

1074
01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:23.760
recommending one, because I don't like
the infrastructure, at least here in the

1075
01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:28.920
United States of how to charge your
vehicle. I don't want to wait.

1076
01:16:29.000 --> 01:16:31.600
And there's so many different EV chargers
right now. There's two main ways electric

1077
01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:35.479
cars are charged. One is called
the Combined Charging System, which is a

1078
01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:42.760
CCS, and then there's another North
American charging standard in ACS. Tesla actually

1079
01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:48.760
devised the NACS over ten years ago, and there's there's technical differences. One

1080
01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:53.199
is smaller in the cable's more light, way, easier to plug in,

1081
01:16:53.239 --> 01:16:59.600
blah blah blah blah blah. But
demands are increasing and it seems like there's

1082
01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:02.000
gonna be a S which Ford actually
partnered with Tesla, who's by the way,

1083
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:05.520
if you think about it, it's
a competitor, GM followed now partnering

1084
01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:13.760
with him too. By partnering with
Tesla GM alone. The CEO, Mary

1085
01:17:13.800 --> 01:17:16.159
Bira, She said, Tesla deal
that would save GM up to four hundred

1086
01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:19.680
million dollars from GM going to have
to starting a whole new charges system.

1087
01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:26.680
This i'ma leave you with this as
we're closing out the show. I love

1088
01:17:27.880 --> 01:17:30.720
reviewing so many things. I got
into cars fifteen years ago because I realized

1089
01:17:30.720 --> 01:17:33.680
cars are technology. Technology are cars, and it goes back and forth.

1090
01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:39.239
I am lucky to be able to
know the manufacturers. I'm on a board

1091
01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:43.479
member of the Texas Auto Writers Association. I appreciate you listening to my opinions

1092
01:17:43.479 --> 01:17:45.960
and trusting my drives and my post
whether it's good, whether it's bad.

1093
01:17:46.279 --> 01:17:49.800
They're not endorsed. These are totally
my opinions right here. But I will

1094
01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:54.039
tell you right now, when EV's
coming along and people think EV's maybe the

1095
01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:57.560
greatest thing that they have seen since
Henry Ford and Bit of the Car,

1096
01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:00.720
there's a lot of things that are
blowing down the growth. Number one,

1097
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:03.199
there pricey, but number two,
there's a lot of people who just do

1098
01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:05.520
not want to worry about the charging
system. To me, if there was

1099
01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:10.239
a better charging system across the United
States, I probably would be much more

1100
01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:15.079
easier. Let's just put it's much
easier for me to recommend EV's until now.

1101
01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:16.199
It's a wait and see thing.
Tell you what you're going to wait

1102
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:18.520
and see. I want you to
wait and see of how much you're going

1103
01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:21.319
to eat, how many calories you're
going to eat, and then how much

1104
01:18:21.319 --> 01:18:25.760
you're going to expend when you're going
to run them off. Happy Black Friday.

1105
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.319
Next week Saturday, it is the
big Saturday Thanksgiving show where I'll tell

1106
01:18:29.399 --> 01:18:32.239
you some of the deals that you
missed on Black Friday, and house sales

1107
01:18:32.239 --> 01:18:34.520
are only going to get better.
So if you miss out on that Black

1108
01:18:34.560 --> 01:18:39.399
Friday deals the Saturday next to week
from right now, you're going to probably

1109
01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:41.840
find some even better deals to buy
things for. Everybody who's been a part

1110
01:18:41.880 --> 01:18:44.119
of the show, I do thank
you for tuning in for all these years.

1111
01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:46.279
My name is Michael Garfield. Happy
Thanksgiving, my friends, hook them

1112
01:18:46.279 --> 01:18:50.359
morns. Right now, my show
is over.