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Hi Texan is Michael Garfield. Michael
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Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
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some new technology. So Michael Garfield
has something you might like. Hi

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Texan, Michael Garfield is your high
Tech Texan. Three decades hoping you make

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

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Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Another
Saturday. Should this be the last Saturday

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before school starts for all you hiddos
out there? Sucks for you, but

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not your parents or me, because
school it's over for me. But this

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is what I do. I am
here to give the final BTS addition of

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the high tech text and Show.
Now not the BTS, the pop group

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of which I'm very tight with,
Sugar, one of the singers, dancers

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and rappers from Back to from BTS
since I was hanging out with them in

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Korea a few weeks. Got no
BTS. That's back to school. That's

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that's old school. When we say
BTS, folks, it is it's coming

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Monday. For a lot of you, it is back to school. If

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you need help with final laptops,
desktops, alarm clocks, whatever you need

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to buy, or one for yourself, for your kid, for your grandkids,

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for your graduation presence. I am
here for you a proper introduction.

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Michael is the name seven one three
two one two five nine five. Oh.

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I don't bite, I really don't. You can ask people, and

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it's kind of fun to call me
because we just laugh and I just,

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you know, just just kind of
make you smile because that's what I do

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in life. It's it's it's simple
stuff. Callum read hello, Callum,

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how are you? He is on
the other side of the glass. He

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will pick up your phone call and
he will say, hey, man,

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what do you want to talk to
Garf about? Really? Do you want

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to do? You want to check
out a Samsung phones? It's excuse me?

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Is that a phone in your pocket? Are you're just d happy to

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see me? Samsung Phones? By
the way, that the products that I've

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been yapping about for several weeks right
now, the z Flip five, the

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z Fold five. They officially went
on sale yesterday. Should you be listening

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live Friday, August eleventh, They
are in the public. I've had him

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for about two weeks and I've now
made the Flip five my regular everyday phone,

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and it's fun. It's neat getting
some ooh and I'll look at that.

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How cool is that? Can I
hold it? Can I touch it?

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I'm like, how you doing?
My name is Michael. But I

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love the form factor. It is
half the size of a regular phone.

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It folds down like a clam shell
and then you full it up it becomes

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just the size as a regular phone. Does not have the greatest cameras in

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there with the lenses, I will
say that compared to other Samsung phones that

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I have, But for the convenience, I'm pretty pretty impressed. You can

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go back to my podcast you can
hear me talking about the full reviews of

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the Fold five and the Samsung Tablet
great. I like the tablet is thin.

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It is it's a large size by
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a little spin so you can draw
on some things. And also the Samsung

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Watch there's the Watch six and the
Watch six Classic. By the way,

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shout out to Toby dagonheart triangle printing. He just he texts me was it

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today, this morning or yesterday?
Garf, I missed some of your show

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last week, I have the Galaxy
Watch five. Is it worth upgrading to

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the Watch six? I know you
like the bezel, the rotating bezel on

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the new Watch six Classic, but
is that reasoned upgrade? I text at

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him my thoughts and honestly, if
you have a Watch five and you're happy

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with your Watch five, I'm not
sure there's a big, big reason to

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go out and buy another one for
three hundred four hundred dollars or so.

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I love the fact that Samsung brought
the rotating bezel. Bezel is the outside

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rim of watches, and other than
the Watch five, which they took that

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away, they brought it back on
one of the new watches they hear,

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the Watch six Classic, because it
as you rotate it right or left,

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it flips from screen to screen to
screen instead of you know, finger swiping

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finger swiping it is it? So
if you can live with your Watch five,

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you really don't care about the rotating
bezel, Toby, go ahead and

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you keep your Watch five and maybe
the Watch seven. It'll do other things

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and so we'll check about out for
next year. Anyway, what else can

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I set up for the show today? I do have a list of some

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of the better laptops, your best
last laptops, especially for college kids.

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It's not uncommon for high schoolers to
have laptops or tab but college kids,

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it's I don't know it is a
is a laptop must have for college?

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It's it's a question that you,
you folks, can answer for me.

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I listen, my three kids are
done and gone through college. And I

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remember my oldest he wanted a not
only a laptop, but he wanted a

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tablet. I thought that was a
little overkill, but you know, we

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got it for him, and I
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not sure, but it's so funny
how times change. I went through college,

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oh, Sharklin, without a desktop, without a computer. Actually we

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had a computer. It was called
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You know, we sit here,
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and ilk how do we get through
college? And we didn't have cell phones?

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How'd we know? You know?
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meet up on sixth Street and Austin, where were we supposed to? How

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do we do it? I don't
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we did it. I think,
you know, our fraternity were just hey,

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man, we're gonna meet at uh, you know this this place on

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you know Maggie May's on sixth Street. Be there at ten o'clock. And

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if you weren't there, you weren't
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Then, how do we get through
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we did. Very tough to get
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I'm going back to my question from
two and a half minutes ago. Do

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you get through college without a laptop
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could not live on a laptop alone
daily. I have a very large desktop,

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nice to meet you, thirty two
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It's an HP. Actually I have
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about sixty four inches sitting on my
home desktop, just because that's what I

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do. I sit at a computer
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I'm I'm writing, and but also
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not only this much where my video
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from there, and so we can
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I am gonna list you a few
different or best laptops for kids, especially

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if you're going off to college.
Other things I'll talk about. I have

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talked about phones a lot, but
I'm getting a lot of questions recently,

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maybe not on the phone, but
just anecdotally wherever I go. When I

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show off the phone, I'm talking
about mobile plans. Who's the carrier now?

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The new Samsung phones their launched for
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And I remember the day when the
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actually in two thousand and seven,
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and T five years. The only
only where you can the only carrier you

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can work an iPhone on it was
AT and T. I don't think you're

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going to see deals like that anymore
because it actually just doesn't open up the

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market. But I will give you
somebody. I ask people how much are

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you spending on your cell phone service? And they tell me these these numbers

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in their absurd I will tell you
other much more inexpensive ways to get cell

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phone service. There's no reason you
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a line, no matter way.
So anyway, I got that. I

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also got some news about another Prime
day. Amazon has another Prime Day.

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They just announced coming up later to
this year. I thought it was just

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a summer thing. So much to
do, so many things to give away.

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I got gift cards coming up between
now and one o'clock PM Central.

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If you're listening live on KPRC nine
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in here, Michael Garfield and the
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Text and Show. We're gonna be
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different ads and so that's so that's
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It actually costs a little of your
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something productive while you're listening to the
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the voice said, it's called the
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we certainly do the little technology,
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things, like how school starts for
a lot of kids this coming week,

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so be prepared for Facebook with the
parents posting the back to school the first

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day of school pictures. I guess
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my kids high school years or maybe
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was around that I did it.
But I mean, listen, it's cute

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seeing all the first and second gradest. I'm looking at my cousins. I

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have, like second cousins. They're
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second, third, fourth, and
they're really cute. You know, there

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are in other cities, and I
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any teeth, and they've got the
short haircut with the bowl cuts. It's

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it's neat. So I just you
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you know, grin and beart with
with a nice cocktail. By the

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way, bout the mine, h
callum, would you want to give away

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the uh? We got a Johnny
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margharita. You want to do that
in about fifteen twenty minutes. Okay,

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you remind me we got we are
gift cards to give away Great tex mex

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Out on the southwest part of town. Johnny Tamali's standbyer for that school's going

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back. Hope everybody had a good
summer. Anybody see movies? I still

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have yet to see the Barbie movie
or the Oppenheimer movie. Have I even

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seen a movie? I didn't see
Mission Impossible? Man, I suck bro

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listen, I'm just now starting Ted
Lasso. I'm serious. One more person

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over the past three or four years. There you go. If you gotta

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watch Ted Lasso. You know you're
like Ted Lasso, sweet innocent guy sports

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fan, and I love Jason Sadik
is a big fan from his for years

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for Saturday O Live. Literally just
got Apple TV Plus thank you Steph Curry

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with a free two month code,
which I can. I need. I

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need to watch everything in the next
two months. So I did start watching

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Ted Lasso. It's good. It's
that's a good series. It's cute,

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it's a really really I'm only on
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nice I like that. I like
Ted Lastso it's it's it's pretty all right.

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Going back to Barbie, Barbie just
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One billion dollar is the first billion
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a female director, Retta Gerwig.
So let's just say this. Yeah,

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she's the first female director to direct
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dollars. Good for her. It
seems it's a feel good movie. I

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love the song from Dual Leap.
I hear the radio. I heard Will

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Ferrell's in there. I mean,
it can't be that, but I guess

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I'm I guess. I'm waiting till
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a better be on Apple TV within
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I'm not continuing Apple TV Oppadiber it's
a log movie. But I did see

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this open hiner. This is the
stats ever. I love stats Man.

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You could take anything and you could
statusize it and make anything sound sexy.

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Oppenheimer has become the highest grossing film
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history of movies, and it passed
Saving Private Ryan and dun Kirk. I've

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never even heard of dune Kirk,
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I don't think I'm not gonna be
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I don't think it's about war per
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physically said in war right. Yeah, five hundred million dollars plus global box

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office. It's pretty good. What's
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Two? Callum and I'm looking at
you? Are you a warm movie?

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Guy? Dendler's list? That was
World War Two? Wasn't it great?

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Great flick, very important story?
And Gloria's Bastards? I was that a

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comedy? I've never seen in Gloria's
Bastards, I should see. I just

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I get invited all these movie premiers. I just don't go to the movie

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premiers. Generally the conflict with with
too much sports on. But there's been

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no sports this summer. I don't
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I don't know I'm supposed to do. All right, you want to get

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back to this thing? Seven?
Anybody want to feel free to call me

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now seven one three, two,
one two five nine five, Oh with

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your you got thirty seconds. I
want your Barbie or your Oppenheimer reviews,

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or Mission Impossible, or your favorite
movie this summer, favorite movie of the

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summer. I don't want to hear
what you want to watch streaming? Okay,

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because I have some time, I'll
go for the matinees before it hits

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you know, the evening. Should
I go see Barbie Oppenheimer's seven one,

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three, two, one two five
nine five. Oh, Michael Garfield,

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promise I'm gonna talk about some BTS
stuff. Back to school? Congratulations kids,

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if you were back to school,
who needs a who needs a laptop?

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Is it our laptops? Absolutely must
have things for kids in college?

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Right now? Let me ask another
question. Is college the must have or

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must do thing for kids or young
people nowadays? That's a bigger question.

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If you want to spend the next
hour on is college worth it? I'm

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here for you. I come from
a long line. You've educated people.

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My parents, my grandparents went to
college. My three kids went to college.

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Pretty much every single person. We
all graduated write at four years,

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because that's what you're supposed to do, right right unique. My middle son

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he kind of question college during college. I told him, listen, if

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you want to create a multi gazillion
dollar deal just to leave college, maybe

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like Bill Gates, maybe like Michael
Dell. You make you know. I

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want you to create a white paper
and give me the whole business plan.

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I will look at it, and
if I agree, I will let you

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drop out of college at last.
See you did not do that. So

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I have three college edum mcated kids, that's good. Well, anyway,

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they all point is they all had
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whether you're heading to an actual physical
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I'm guessing a laptop. It's you
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your studies. You could debate laptops
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machine for the back to school season, you may want to need it.

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You may need it. These kids
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versus a college laptop. They could
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processor, you need software or apps, be at Microsoft Office or something to

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do a word processor processor or a
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that. Yes, there are Google
spreadsheets and whatever. But laptop shot there

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and there's a ton to choose from. There's Apple mac, there's Apple MacBooks,

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there's Windows Oriented. There's there's good
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should we really get into the best
gaming laptops. Number one, they're so

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expensive they're probably worth It's gonna cost
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is to sending your kid through what
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I'm not sure there's chromebooks, which
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Listen, there's there's Intel powered MacBooks. Do you need these things? Hey?

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Maybe if you're a Mac family,
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of these opera line specs these days, they're gonna cost you eighteen hundred to

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two thousand dollars From most college students, I think a mid range machine to

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use primarily for just writing papers,
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may be enough, depends on what
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go to. I mean you can
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processor, maybe six gigs of RAM. If you need specialized software, should

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you be designing or programming, then
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think to the weight and size,
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to classes in your backpack, you
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want anything too big. Maybe you
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category, the ultra portable. You
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give you a six to eight hundred
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We're about thirty seconds to do.
We take a break. When we

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come back, I'm gonna break it
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into the best budget laptop or laptops. If you want a Chrome book,

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I think Chrome books are really good
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It's a laptop made by HP,
Lenovo and everything. But they use the

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Chrome operating system. They don't use
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there's there's no Microsoft word running on
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I'm gonna give you that. Any
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one three two one two five nine
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everybody, take a guess what my
favorite laptop is. Let's see if

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matches yours. Why don't we come
back after this message? Bottom of the

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hour here on the High Tech Texans
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one. We'll be here until one
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nine fifty am. Been doing this
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you for hanging it. One of
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long. I'm a sweet guy.
Don't yell at you do. I rarely

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talk politics. You see where we're
going over here, and I get things

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away. That's what we do in
radio. What do you what do you

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gotta give? Koozies, T shirts, bumper stickers on, not me,

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not your boy? Over here?
I give away gift cards or I give

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away something very ample. Who's thirsty
right now? Callum read? You're ready

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to give away a little something?
You're ready to check the phone lines.

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How about a fifty dollars that's five
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Cantina, just open a few months
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Missouri Cities on the southwest side of
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f M ten ninety two. So
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just the crossroads of most city.
Great people. There's Reggie O'Neil.

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They're running it fun bar, free
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tell you you don't have to buy
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machine, but there's free ice cream
there. Margarita's. I am there.

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It's not it's not far from my
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week at least I was there.
Last Sunday I went to a shooting range.

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I was out. I went to
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then we hopped over to Johnny Tamalies
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important too. If you're going to
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then drink afterwards. I would absolutely
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around. So afterwards, when we
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margarita ranch water phenomenal, Enchilada's stuffed
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Color number nine, let's get through
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three two one two five nine five
callum me. You're not eligible to win.

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You cannot be a ployee of iHeartRadio. You cannot. You could be

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a friend of mine and I could
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happy hour with tequila partner here soon. Coloring number nine, You're going to

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Johnny Tomo. But check it out. It is Johnny with two ends,

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Johnny Tamali's MC dot com, Missouri
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to the bar, mentioned my name, Oh we love garf. He was

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just sitting there the other day.
Oh you missed him. If he was

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here, he'd buy you a margarita, which I really would if you do

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see me there, belly up because
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you be of age. So thank
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the high Tic Texan show. So
you know the number. We will get

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a winner. And I would say
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should have gotten color number nine.
I see Callum talking to somebody, getting

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somebody's name. I want to go
back to the laptops, back to school

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a little BTS time. What is
my favorite laptop? I have a Samsung

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laptop. I used to for years
have HP laptops. Obviously, I'm a

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Windows guy. I used to work
for Microsoft years ago. And when you

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work for Microsoft back in the day, Bill Gates put a chip in your

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head where you have to use Microsoft. You can't use anything Apple, which

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is maybe why I am wired,
Like I'm kidding like that. No he

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did not, But when you work
for a company, you quote unquote,

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you eat your own dog food.
So obviously I was. I used to

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try out every Windows version upgrade before
it was released. Every piece of software.

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Every game it was an in so
I'm just used to the Windows operating

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system. The Windows operating system is
more prevalent than the iOS around the world,

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which is why I'm more familiar with
that. So I can answer some

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more of your questions. But it
doesn't matter right now. Who manufactures the

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computer does some extent it does.
I would say go with the brand names

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or anybody from HP Lenovo. If
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A z R makes a really really
good one. Dell gotta go with my

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ut guide Dell and Apple. MacBook
Air you got some money, go with

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MacBooks. If you want a powerable
machine for college, it really is hard

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to beat a MacBook Air from Apple. There's a few new models. There's

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a new fifteen inch MacBook Air.
There's last year, I think it was

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a thirteen inch model. There it's
either an M one or an M two.

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This year that the new fifteen inch
M two MacBook Air. How much

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is that? It's about that bad
boys, about twelve hundred bones. It's

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it's actually about thirty to see.
It's it's fifteen inch liquid reatin to display.

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But the thing is, though,
if you don't want to spend that

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much. I always say this,
look at last year's models. Let's just

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last year's the M two laptop.
It's about a thirteen inch and it's it's

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it's a little cheaper. Maybe starts
doting on thousand dollars, So it's listen,

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I'm not gonna you're honestly gonna do
this. I remember years ago.

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Was it a friend of mine who
went to Harvard and when laptops started to

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become a thing, was it?
Was it the Ivy League schools Either a

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they gave you a laptop because it
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they made you specifically get and I
think it was an Apple. So before

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and again, I don't know.
If you're still residencing for college even though

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college a has already started or being
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you need to check with your college. Do they have any type of

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rules that you need a Windows based
computer. You need a computer that it's

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not bigger than twelve inches because the
desktops are small. Do you need an

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Apple computer? That's be'st the number
one thing you can check if you're looking

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for a Windows computer, What price
range do you have Dell HP to me,

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I like HP used to be Compact, which used to be based in

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Houston. Kind of favorite those folks. I still have some friends and the

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pr companies at HP. They do
let me test some of those. Apple

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does not let me test. They
do not send me jack Apple does not

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know exists. So you know how
to say about that. But going back

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to HP, let me give you
a good budget one HP pavilion, the

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pavilion line. I think they have
a new one called the Arrow thirteen a

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er oh, probably around six hundred
dollars. This version maybe a year maybe

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a little long older than that.
But the fact is it's it's still a

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good graphics card. It works well, and it's I think for a lot

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of people it's about price point.
If you're going to college, if certainly

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if somebody, if you're buying somebody
a graduation gift or a parent listen,

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I've been there, done that three
times. College and now college and now

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college in out. There are a
lot of things that you need for college

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that where do we start? The
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Is the kid bringing a car,
I mean, it's just a clothing.

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It goes on and on and it's
where can you save some money but

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still get something that's worthwhile. And
that's what I do. My job is

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to kind of like give you some
ideas of where to save money. I

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think the HP actually works, works
works. Well. What about tablets too?

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As I told you the story man
the first time, my oldest son,

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well over ten years ago, he
goes, oh, yeah, I

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go in to college. I need
a laptop and a tablet. And you

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know, listen, who am I
to Actually I tell exactly who I am

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to say, Well, why do
you really need both of these things?

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You can get convertible models. There's a

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there's a number of laptops that will
actually convert to a tablet. Whether your

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kids like this or not, but
still it they work well. Uh.

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Microsoft has has has the surface,
Microsoft Surface Pro nine, Microsoft Surface site.

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Isn't that the official tablets of the
NFL that you see all the players

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in the sidelines, you know,
diagramming their plays or you know, trying

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to break and crack over their knees
or something. They're they're two and one

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laptops. Really, they're rotating hinges, their tablets with kickstands, their slim

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and their light. Some of them. I've been testing these things for years.

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You you can unhook or unhinge the
keyboard and it becomes a tablet.

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A lot of them come with the
like Microsoft Surface. These things run.

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I think, let me see if
I can do a quick Amazon search for

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you guys here the about eight just
over eight hundred bucks, eight hundred thirty

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bucks, and there maybe some deals
from back to school deals, what have

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you. But Microsoft has a really
cool cover. It's got a pen,

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spens. You could take notes on
these things unless you're sticking, you know,

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bent on sticking to Apple's ecosystem,
in which case, yes, and

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iPad pro probably would be good.
I think the Surface nine arguably the best

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convertible laptop around. So there you
go. Listen. I want to hear

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your thoughts too. I I have
one laptop, well sometimes I only have

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two laptops, and I don't use
it all that much when I travel,

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Like I when I went to Korea
two weeks ago, I brought my laptop

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thinking that well, actually I had
to bring my laptop because that's actually how

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I do my radio show remotely,
and and that's how I hooked up when

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I did my show from Soul.
But other than that, I thought I

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was going to be using it for
for email and everything. I didn't have

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time. You know, when you're
traveling, it's and again this is this

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was business slash in vacation and playing
around. I'm just not sitting in my

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hotel room all the time, you
know, sitting there surfing. This is

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what phones are for. This is
how things have changed. I can go

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back forty years or so ago when
we know we used to travel to the

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world, we didn't have a laptop, desktop, phone or anything. But

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nowadays we have so so many devices. We're gonna take a break over here.

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We got to one more a segment
in this hour when we can come

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back. I do have some emails
I'm gonna read. I will tell you

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about and I know it's gonna be
too late. Amazon every year has Amazon

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Prime Days, and we know we
just went through it about a month ago

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in July. We'll guess what.
Amazon just announced another Prime Day coming up.

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Apparently, Well you're gonna miss it
because it's after school starts, but

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it's before the holiday season. I'm
wondering why they do this. I'll tell

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you all about that. On the
other side of here on the high tech

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textan show could continue to talk a
little bit about the back of school and

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just gave you some ideas of laptops
and tablets. How about watch I talk

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about that because I'm gonna talk a
few I don't know about a minute here.

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So about US Coins and Jewelry,
I was there. They must be

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sick of me. People. When
people come regularly to US Coins and Jewelry,

406
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they must think I may work there. I'm they're quite often. I

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hang out with Kenny and Matt Duncan. They are. They run it on

408
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a day to day basis. Their
fathers started the Great Premier Gold and Silver

409
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:40.799
Buyer Company in nineteen eighty five and
they buy and sell coins, loose diamonds,

410
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watches, a state jewelry, precious
metal, and they really are the

411
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most prestigious coin dealer in Houston.
It's really kind of fun just kind of

412
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watching people slept sometimes in suitcases,
like they're rolling their suitcases and there's a

413
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little there's a little private you know, cubicles that they have expert coin dealers

414
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and they will go through it meticulously
and they'll give you an idea of how

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much this is worth, and you
know, sometimes, you know, I'd

416
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sit in the background with Kenny and
Madden. It's just amazing watching Kenny,

417
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Like he takes his little loop and
he puts us in his eye. He

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looks at the watch and he could
tell you when it was made, what

419
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brand, and what year was it
gone. He looks at a coin.

420
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I mean, they're just smart guys. Absolutely trustees pisas. So if you

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buy in volume, you've inhered a
coin collection, you want to see the

422
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value. Might I recommend you as
Coins and Jewelry dot Com they're at eighty

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four thirty five Katie Freeway right in
your Voss. So I teared Voss just

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outside of Loop six tim certified US
rolex as other Swiss watches usually have several

425
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hundred watches available. They give you
free written appraisals. There's great security,

426
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there no issues, cameras everywhere,
and you could also buy online. For

427
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all those my people who are outside
of Houston right now, feel free to

428
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:52.759
come up. They tell me stories
on people fly in just to meet with

429
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these guys in person. They also
do a great big business online US Coins

430
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and Jewelry dot Com. This guys
are good. I think Kenny's Kenny Kenny's

431
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:03.960
right now whereth he traveling. He
goes to all these coin shows and he

432
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.559
buys all these coins, he trades
all these coins. He's just he's like

433
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a master numismatist, and which is
actually that's not a bad thing. You

434
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.839
know. He didn't do any harm
to anybody. It's just it's a coin

435
00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.960
collector. That's what it's called.
Oh my goodness. All right, Michael

436
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.160
Garfield here, if you want to
call into the High Tech Text and Show,

437
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got a few minutes before hop of
the hour hour number one seven one

438
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three two one two five nine five
out. Anybody buy anything on Amazon Prime

439
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:37.599
Day last July about a month ago? You callum, did you buy anything?

440
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.799
Now? Amazon? For years and
years and years they've had one Prime

441
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.160
Day per year, and it's Junily
in July, and I call it again.

442
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:48.319
It's like a massive garage sale where
they take their warehouses. They just

443
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.599
want to get rid of everything so
they can bring in new crapola so they

444
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.920
can sell it for the holiday season. Well, apparently Amazon's not done with

445
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:02.799
it with its membership only sales event
for this year. Amazon just announced it's

446
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:14.480
going to hold another Prime Day,
well of sorts, in October this year,

447
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:19.160
they got a new name for it's
gonna be called Prime Big Deal Days.

448
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:22.799
Oh you're a big deal. It's
gonna be an October. I don't

449
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.960
think I could look. I don't. I don't. I can't even tell

450
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:30.880
you when odds are. It's gonna
be two days long. And I think

451
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:35.480
if they're going if and it's generally
only for Prime members, right, but

452
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:39.680
I think they're gonna offer the thirty
day free trial to trial to new Prime

453
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:44.000
subscribers, so if you want to, you can start your free trial ahead

454
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.319
of the event to participate. I
gotta tell you of all the years,

455
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:52.079
and I'm an Amazon I have an
Amazon account. I have an Amazon account

456
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:59.319
because I wanted to watch a series
on Amazon Prime Video, The Marvelous Missus

457
00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:04.599
Mazel, which was just five seasons
of hilarity. But that's that's series ended.

458
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.559
So I still and scratching my head
as I'm serious why I still have

459
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.680
an Amazon account Because I rarely buy
things on Amazon. I just don't.

460
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.640
I just don't. I don't buy
a lot of things online. That's right.

461
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:16.799
I'm the guy who tells you to
use technology. I don't buy a

462
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:21.720
lot of things online. I will
tell you my neighbor. I think they

463
00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:23.400
could you know, the wife,
could you know, should be having an

464
00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:27.839
affair with the Amazon Prime delivery guy
because he's there all the time delivery.

465
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:30.119
I'm kidding, but that just give
you an analogy of how often he's he's

466
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:34.480
actually delivering to their house. Everybody
gets to him, so many people get

467
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:39.519
deliveries. So my guess is you're
gonna get to Echo Amazon Echo speakers,

468
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:46.640
Amazon Kindle E readers, Amazon Fire
TV devices. I'm guessing that Amazon is

469
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:52.200
going to use this Prime Day kind
of as an early Black Friday deal for

470
00:33:52.359 --> 00:34:00.640
Prime subscribers, and you're gonna headphones, Earbud, laptops. I'll keep you

471
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.920
updated as we get closer. I'll
start looking for things that are on sale.

472
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:08.360
But again, I do the research, and I think you should do

473
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:13.280
your research. It's not hard to
do your research. There's there's Amazon price

474
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.440
trackers that you can monitor specific items
on Amazon. It's actually it's I've talked

475
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:21.639
about this for years. It's called
Camel Camel Camel. Seriously, go to

476
00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:25.440
camelcamelcamel dot com and you can monitor. You can put in a specific price

477
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:31.079
on something for Amazon on and you
can get alerts. And emails to let

478
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:34.280
you know, hey, is this
the best price out there? It's just

479
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.119
don't fall for any of that stuff. Hey, speaking of delivery drivers,

480
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:40.920
I saw this. Where was Where
was this? A big shout out now

481
00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:46.880
to my UPS delivery guy, my
UPS to a He's his name is Xavier

482
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:52.119
x x Man is what I call
him. I get a lot. I

483
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.119
do get a lot of UPS deliveries. And this is like when companies send

484
00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:59.039
me products to review, they generally
send them ups, some of FedEx,

485
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:02.800
butmotionally ups. And for years I've
had I've had one, the guy who

486
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:07.119
drives my route. His name is
I've become so friendly with him. I

487
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:08.719
had literally have a cell phone number. And he's cool. Like if I

488
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:12.480
need a signature on something, he'll
say, hey, man, I'm coming,

489
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.000
I need your signature, or this
is what time I'll be here.

490
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:17.480
If I know I'm not going to
be there for that night for a delivery

491
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:21.480
or out of town, I will
I will call or text him and I

492
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:23.280
will go find him earlier in the
day on his route and he'll meet me

493
00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:25.679
and I can sign for my package. I mean, he's cool. Point

494
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.199
is shout out to X Man and
everybody works for UPS. There was a

495
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:36.400
potential strike with the delivery drivers.
Recently Teamsters will obviously not unionized here in

496
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:43.039
Texas, but they're apparently everybody wants
to wear brown now, the Teamsters negotiated

497
00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:50.320
a new contract that will pay full
time UPS drivers about a hundred and seventy

498
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:55.159
girl a year. What the hell
am I doing wasting my time on the

499
00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:00.079
radio? I asked myself this sometimes
at work. Sometimes I'm serious, Holy

500
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:05.679
crapol Up. I mean, who
wouldn't want to drive one of those big

501
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.239
Mama trucks? You know you got
to do. You could do roll with

502
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.239
the windows and the doors open.
You can make them clothes. You get

503
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:17.599
to meet people every day, and
you earn one hundred and seventy and bottom

504
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.639
line, man, have you ever
seen an overweight delivery driver? It's certainly

505
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:27.159
in Texas. You shitz so much
water weight out every day. I mean,

506
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.480
dude, my man is a good
shape. It's like a workout every

507
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:31.360
single day. I'm not making fun
of any of this day. Man,

508
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:38.559
this is good for UPS. Negotiator
Teamster one hundred and seventy thousand a year

509
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:45.960
to dry They'll and this is what's
going I mean between Amazon FedEx ups.

510
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:51.280
Everything's about delivery nowadays. I totally
get it. So I don't know.

511
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.800
Can I can I do that Monday
through Friday and still do this on Saturday.

512
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.599
If I can get Saturday's off and
still do this gig, It's not

513
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.440
gonna be a two big big of
a deal out of a deal for me.

514
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:02.320
All Right, We're gonna take a
break because it is our number one

515
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.320
is coming to an m I am
going into I will tell you this when

516
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:14.639
zoom, who hasn't zoom come on
in? Zoom Zoom ZOOMA zoom Boston mass

517
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:21.039
oh two one three four, no
Zoom. The video conferencing thing it had

518
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:25.599
its heyday in COVID. I'm gonna
tell you why zoom Actually maybe OVA that

519
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:29.599
may not be good for you.
Also, it is car time, you

520
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:31.239
know, I drive card lots of
stuff. I will give you the play

521
00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:38.039
by play of my test review car
this week, the Alpha Romeo Tonale.

522
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:44.119
GM just launched a new Cadillac electric
car. I will tell you the range.

523
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.400
GM is going balls to the wall. I'll tell you the range,

524
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:51.519
how far you can get on their
new battery powder electric vehicle, and anything

525
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:53.199
else you need. My name is
Michael Garfield. It is the high Tech

526
00:37:53.199 --> 00:38:00.280
text and hang on Jazz a few
minutes and we'll be right back. Yeah.

527
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:13.559
Hi, tex is Michael Garfiel.
Michael Garfiel. Michael Garfield's joining in

528
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:19.320
the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield
is here with a high tech texta items

529
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.039
to make life easier, new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might

530
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:35.480
like. Hi Texan, Michael Garfield
is your high tech Texan. Three decades

531
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:42.639
hoping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeart Radio Act.

532
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:49.519
Now your high Tech Texan, Michael
Garfield. We are halfway to half

533
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:52.480
the hour, halfway thill the high
Tech Texting Show. Happy Saturday to you.

534
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:58.960
Hopefully you are listening right now,
just after your twelve black news time

535
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:04.119
on a hot August day, the
most here in Texas. The school starts

536
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:06.639
later this week. Sucks for you, guys, but I am giving you

537
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:10.480
some BTS information. That's right,
sugar, back to school. Last hour,

538
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:17.039
I covered laptops and tablets and cars
and new phones. I am here

539
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:22.079
to answer your questions if you need
any last minute advice. If you get

540
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:27.320
a busy signal that means calum you're
sleeping on the job over there. Feel

541
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:30.800
free to put them through if you
would like. I'm at seven one three

542
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:36.800
two one two five nine five zero
nine five zero meeting nine to fifty am

543
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:42.000
terrestrially. That is KPORC Radio here
in and around Southeast Texas. Been doing

544
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.719
this twenty two years now here on
the radio. Technologies has changed and the

545
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:52.599
show has changed too. When I
talked about laptops and desktops the last hours,

546
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:55.599
I don't often talk about that.
I think we have as a society

547
00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:02.559
generally, we have already several computers, desktops, laptops, tablets in our

548
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.679
homes right now. And I don't
talk a lot about the TVs. You

549
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:13.000
know, I remember the advent of
flat screen TVs and digital television high definition

550
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:16.280
television that took up a lot of
my time and on the airwaves fifteen years

551
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:21.199
ago. I think a lot of
our homes are saturated with flat screen TVs

552
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.360
right now. Nowadays it is phones. Phones come out. Everybody wants a

553
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:28.400
new phone because they could do so
many things, so much phones or even

554
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:34.559
replacing what laptops and tablets can do. For those of you who went out

555
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:42.519
yesterday and bought or they received your
new Samsung Galaxy Z fold phone or z

556
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.280
flip phone that I've been talking about
and reviewing for the past two weeks.

557
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:47.960
Good for you. You gotta tell
me if you like it. It does

558
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.199
take some getting used to give me
an email already, give you a phone,

559
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:58.920
email me, tweet me, zeet
me, thread me, whatever,

560
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.159
social media. You may like these
things. So that's those are some of

561
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:06.400
the things. Ever, I also
do cars. Next I'll tell you what

562
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:09.400
next segment, I will tell you
give you my review. Every week I

563
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:14.559
talk about cars in a segment because
I am a member of the Texas Auto

564
00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:17.880
Writers Association for about fifteen years,
and so I get to test drive cars.

565
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:22.199
I do not deal with dealerships.
Sadly, I don't even endorse a

566
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:27.039
dealership. I would, but apparently
my sales team downstairs here at iHeart is

567
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:30.559
sleeping. But I do get to
test it directly from the manufacturers, which

568
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:32.639
means this is just my opinion.
I can rag on them, I can

569
00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:36.719
love them, I can leave them, and I could do whatever I want

570
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.559
yap about them. But this past
week I was in an Alpha Romeo Tonally

571
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:49.039
t O n A l E.
It's kind of a compact utility vehicle four

572
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:52.159
door CUV. But every time I, you know, I get to play

573
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:59.039
in Alpha Romeo's relatively often. But
why do it? Because it's an Italian

574
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:02.519
made brand, Italian Alpha Romeo.
I just don't say Tonally. You gotta

575
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.199
say Donale, Donali. I'm gonna
go get some Bosta. I need to

576
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:10.639
drive the Tonally after Olive Garden and
then game would absolutely on. I'll tell

577
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:14.719
you about that that next one.
I will do a little bit more car

578
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.559
talk that that next hour and stuff. I want to tell you about the

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00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:23.920
Zoom stuff. Anybody still zoom?
Zoom took over from Skype. Was it

580
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:34.079
Skype? Would you say was really
the first consumer popular it's popular consumer video

581
00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:36.880
conferencing and now so many people do
it on their phone, FaceTime and what

582
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:40.320
have you. But Skype was good, but Microsoft bought Skype and then COVID

583
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:44.880
comes around and Zoom just zoomed up. Now, Zoom, to be sure,

584
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.920
was created before Covid. There it
was a popular app that you could

585
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:52.800
use before Covid. But when everything
was you know, work from home and

586
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:54.559
nobody left, I mean, Zoom
was like, you know, that was

587
00:42:54.599 --> 00:43:00.480
it, man. Everybody was all
over, especially when we did remote work.

588
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:02.280
Well, if you haven't been filling
the headlines, companies really don't want

589
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.440
you working remotely anymore. If there
was a tombstone, I would put r

590
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:15.880
ip fully remote work twenty twenty through
twenty twenty three. Yes, remote work.

591
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:20.880
You lived a beautiful life that left
an imprint on couches everywhere. Plausive

592
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:27.400
death. Well, I think it's
Zoom. Zoom as a company just told

593
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:34.760
its employees within a fifty mile radius
of one of its offices around the world

594
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:39.519
that they must come into the office
at least two days a week. So

595
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:46.760
you've got Zoom, the poster child
for remote work during the pandemic, which

596
00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:52.320
emerged from kind of obscurity to be
the go to video platform for meetings and

597
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:58.400
virtual happy hours and everything you want. Symbolism of a here of telligence employees

598
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:06.320
to return to the office. Oh
my goodness, there's a lot of hostility

599
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.559
now towards these work from homes,
from the executives. It hadn't been good

600
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:15.880
for the Zoom stock. A Zoom
stock sword about six times its price during

601
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.840
the pandemic. Zoom has now lost
more than one hundred billion dollars in market

602
00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:25.280
value just in market value since its
peak and check this one out. You

603
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:30.920
talk about a company is trying to
lure its workers back Google up in Silicon

604
00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:38.519
Valley. They're offering employees it seems
like a sweet sweetheart of a deal to

605
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:44.679
check out its own hotel. Apparently, Google owns a hotel on its Mountain

606
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:52.760
View, California campus, and it's
offering its employees ninety nine bucks a night

607
00:44:52.760 --> 00:45:00.599
to stay, hoping that Googlers won't
need to freak out with our long commute,

608
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:05.639
because sometimes you have to commute so
far up in the northern California area,

609
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:07.760
they might as well just stay on
campus. It's a summer special,

610
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:13.559
and it apparently does not fall under
approved business travel, so you have to

611
00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:16.199
pay it. But ninety nine I
extrapolated this for you. This is what

612
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:22.079
I do. Ninety nine bucks and
night comes out to about three thousand dollars

613
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:27.159
a month. Let me help you
out. There is nowhere, maybe in

614
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:30.519
the state of California or the left
coast, where you can rent three thousand

615
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:37.239
bucks a month where someone makes your
bed and it's cleaned every day. That's

616
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.440
a heck of a deal, man. But I guess you have to be

617
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:45.519
a Google employee to take this.
I just can't go visit out there at

618
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:46.440
the end of the day. Now
we're gonna take a break away. What

619
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:50.880
are your thoughts on work proposed?
Just anecdotal it. Feel free to call

620
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:55.599
me here at the end. On
the other side, are you I have

621
00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:00.440
for twenty years almost work from home. Yes, I come into the studio,

622
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:01.639
do it. But I don't like
to have to sit here Monday through

623
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:05.920
Friday. Do it. I'm gonna
work from home. It takes a certain

624
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:09.119
type of person. Listen, I'm
not perfecting it. I'm not patting myself

625
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:13.679
at the back. Sometimes it's incredibly
frustrating, especially if you're a people person

626
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:17.719
like me. I think offices are
are wonderful thing. Do you like slepping

627
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:21.679
and sitting in traffic and all the
you know, the the you know the

628
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:23.719
water cooler talk no. Seven one
three, two, one, two,

629
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:27.920
five, nine five. Do you
work from home? Do you work from

630
00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:30.440
the office, or which would you
rather do? Are you ready to get

631
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:32.159
back into the world and actually meet
people? Talk to me here. It

632
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:45.519
is Michael Garfield. Ye hope everybody's
having to be out here. It is

633
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:50.119
Miguel Garfield, the Michael Bitsak,
whatever you want to call me because don't

634
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.039
call me Mike. You can call
me seven one three, two one two

635
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:57.039
five, nine to five. Oh. I do a lot of car testing,

636
00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:00.599
automobile. I've been doing it for
a long time. I actually cover

637
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.639
the automobile industry just as much,
if not more, than the technology industry

638
00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:09.360
on a weekly basis. I am
test driving some sort of vehicle directly through

639
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:13.760
the manufacturers. There's people want to
know how this happens. I'll give you

640
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:19.639
some inside baseball. So I'm a
member of the Texas Auto Writers Association for

641
00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:23.800
about fifteen years. And generally this
was started years ago. Tim Spell,

642
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:30.360
great dude who did all the auto
reviews in the Houston Chronicle. Remember that,

643
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:34.639
kids, it's a newspaper. I
don't I don't have time to explain.

644
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.920
And every Sunday you would wake up
and you get the big Sunday morning

645
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.159
paper and you would go to the
automobile section and on the front page there

646
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:44.639
there would be a review. Generally
for years and years. And he's certainly

647
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.880
in the nineties, early two thousands
and or eighties. Tim Spell, he's

648
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:51.159
since retired. He still lives in
the air. He actually may listen to

649
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:53.039
my show, and he's actually a
good friend of mine at one of the

650
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:57.000
nicest men in the world. Oh, I swear he is awesome. Taught

651
00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.719
me a lot about the industry.
I used to travel to him him several

652
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:06.480
times to car shows or vehicle launches, and it just it's driving in a

653
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.079
car with a car expert. It's
like eating dinner with a food expert or

654
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:13.440
food critic. You just learn a
lot. So he got me involved in

655
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:19.320
the Texas Auto Writers Association, and
since then, obviously that since the almost

656
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:23.559
non existed newspaper world, it's become
electronic and so. On my radio show

657
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:27.920
for many, many years, well
over a dozen, I've been reviewing and

658
00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:31.599
testing cars and giving my thoughts.
And how it works is it takes years

659
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:37.079
to build up the trust with manufacturers
directly, and most of them are in

660
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:39.960
Michigan, as you know, it
will except Nissan's that's coming out of Tennessee.

661
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:46.199
But the manufacturers, knowing that you
have a good audience in your trusted

662
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:51.440
resource I'm getting for Climped, they
will let you on a weekly basis.

663
00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:54.559
There's a there's a third party company
they contract with and it's actually out of

664
00:48:54.639 --> 00:49:02.440
Dallas. So every Thursday, this
company will have a driver. He comes

665
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:09.760
down, drives down to my house
with a brand spanking new vehicle gassed up

666
00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:15.639
ready in a roll. He switches
out the vehicle that I was in this

667
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.280
the previous week. And they do
this every Thursday. This is my Thursdays

668
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:22.719
for the for the past fifteen years. I know, don't cry for me,

669
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:25.000
Argentina. This isn't a perk.
This is actually part of my job.

670
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:29.760
It's it's it's a gig, but
it's neat. And I will tell

671
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:31.119
you this. Oh Michael, you're
the lookie's coolest thing in the world.

672
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:34.639
I gotta drive a lot of turkeys
before I get to a lot of the

673
00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:37.559
drive a lot of the chariots.
Back in the day, I used to

674
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:38.599
laugh, you know, I gotta
drive a lot of the Kios to get

675
00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:45.400
to the Mercedes and the BMWs.
Hell there's Keyas and hund in Genesis that

676
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:49.320
are better than the Mercedes and the
BMWs. Right now, I've seen the

677
00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:52.760
evolution of vehicles and I do thank
you all my listeners for trusting me on

678
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:55.480
this stuff. And so that's kind
of how the system works. I take

679
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:59.880
notes, usually take some videos.
I will post it on my social media.

680
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:04.400
This is when i'm driving, and
also take your request, Michael Man,

681
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.000
I'm looking for a pickup. Have
you drive in this new pickup.

682
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:10.639
I will contact that specific manufacturer,
whatever it is, and I'll say,

683
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:13.639
hey, listen, can I drive
in this one for a week and then

684
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:16.000
I'll give you my thoughts. Well, anyway, that's how the system works.

685
00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:20.079
And this past week or two I
was driving in a new one,

686
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:29.400
the twenty twenty four Alpha Romeo Tonale
Tonale. The Tonale it's a plug in

687
00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:35.559
hybrid small suv plug in hybrid.
We call that a p have if you

688
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:39.719
ever see the initials p h ev, it's pronounced key have. But it's

689
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:50.440
a plug in hybrid electric vehicle.
Well, Alpha is getting ready to transition

690
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:54.400
away from gas powered car so slowly
but surely. This is a little foot

691
00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:59.760
in the door or foot on the
on the gas pedal they're having. It's

692
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.760
a domination, so you could it
as a gas engine, but also you

693
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:07.639
could plug it in to get a
few miles. I say a few.

694
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:08.760
We'll get to that. So anyway, I drove this for a week.

695
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.360
It's a plug in hybrid. I
think it does make sense to some ekesense

696
00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:16.880
ALFA Romeo is very known for its
very good performance and good handling. It's

697
00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:22.000
got a it's got some nice luxury
features, it's got some good technology in

698
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:25.599
there. There are a few things. It's not the cheapest compact sub in

699
00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:29.440
the market. It doesn't have a
ton of cargo space, so I don't

700
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:30.719
think the backseat is is about as
big as it could be. It as

701
00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:36.719
a four door, holds about five
people. So that's my quick quick overall,

702
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:39.039
let's take a look at it.
It is has a one point three

703
00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:45.400
leader turbo charged I four an in
line four one point three leader. There's

704
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:47.079
a lot of one point three leaders
out there, and it's generally when I

705
00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:51.599
hear one point three leader. Physically, it's not a big car. It's

706
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:52.920
just not that you're not going to
find a pickup truck. You're not going

707
00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:57.880
to find a big old suv with
a one point three leader because it's relatively

708
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:01.920
small. But it's a relatively small
but it's a relatively powerful vehicle. If

709
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:07.079
the weight of the vehicle is not
that heavy, we call that again.

710
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.840
Tim Spell taught me this your power
to weight ratio. Well, this isn't

711
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:14.719
a very heavy car, so it's
not bad. As we continue to talk

712
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:20.199
about the twenty twenty four Alpha Romeo
Tenali has one hundred and eighty horse power

713
00:52:21.119 --> 00:52:24.559
good not a ton, But it
also has a one hundred and twenty one

714
00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:30.679
horsepower electric motor and it's on that
rear axle. Now you combine these things

715
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:35.440
with the one hundred eighty horsepower gas
twenty one horsepower electric motor, and now

716
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:37.039
you're going to get roughly about two
hundred eighty two hundred and eighty five or

717
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:42.480
horsepower overall. Can Now we're talking. It's an automatic. It does have

718
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.320
paddle shifters, which I don't use
a lot of the paddle shifters a lot,

719
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:49.159
but it's a six feet automatic.
The batteries in there, it's a

720
00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:53.840
fifteen and a half ot kiloop battery. And this is where people scratch their

721
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:59.079
heads. Remember it's gas and electric
and you have to plug it. In

722
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:05.840
the original hybrid cars, it was
regenerative breaking, meaning every time you're driving

723
00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:08.920
around the city and you break,
it would charge the battery. I like

724
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:15.599
that, but nowadays you get the
opportunity, the wonderful convenience and I'm using

725
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:19.400
air quotes in a lot of you
know, sarcasm. Here to go find

726
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:23.559
a battery charger, plug it in, wait thirty minutes until somebody finishes charging

727
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:28.360
their vehicle, and then you wait
thirty forty five minutes to charge your vehicle.

728
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:34.159
And in this specific vehicle, it's
going to give you a reported thirty

729
00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:37.920
three miles of electric only range.
And so people say, man, what's

730
00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:43.039
what's the point that's it. I'm
only gonna get thirty three miles of electric

731
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.840
only range. Jeeps have these two
and I will tell you why I just

732
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:50.320
mentioned the word geep here in the
same sentence. That's what they do.

733
00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:54.440
It's going to give you a combined
EPA rating of about twenty nine miles per

734
00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:59.679
gallon. If you want to fully
charge your battery, it's gonna take about

735
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:01.599
two hours two and a half hours
using a Level two charger, which is

736
00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:07.159
the mid range charger. I mentioned
the word Jeep because Alfa Romeo, the

737
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:14.760
brand is now owned by the holding
company who owns Jeep, Dodge Ram and

738
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:19.199
now Alfa Romeo. The company is
called Stilantis. It's good company, but

739
00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:25.039
they're bringing Alfa Romeo into the fold
here, and so Alfa Romeos are going

740
00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:30.920
to be Stilantis's stilanticized. Is that
a word they haven't been fully stilanticized yet,

741
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:34.199
in one of which is because a
lot of the reviews that I do,

742
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:37.880
it's inside the car. Listen,
we here in Texas, we sit

743
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:40.280
in our cars, we sit in
traffic. Is it comfy? Does the

744
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.039
is it a big touch screen?
How do you interact with the with the

745
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:51.760
infotament system? Stillantis generally, Dodge, Jeep and Ram has the best infottament

746
00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.800
system in my mind. It's called
you Connect the letter you Connect. Love

747
00:54:54.840 --> 00:55:01.360
it Big Mama screens great on the
steering wheel, behind the steering wheel.

748
00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:05.519
On the left side, there's your
volume right side. You change the station.

749
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:09.159
It works. Alpha Romeo has yet
is the only one of the brands

750
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:13.679
that stillance zones to adopt the U
Connect system. They need to do that.

751
00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:16.800
The system here, it's it's a
nice touch screen. It's good,

752
00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:22.760
but it's still it's just not there
yet. Now it's really interesting and I'm

753
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:25.639
mompst up against the break here.
About three or four weeks ago, I

754
00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:30.519
got to test drize a new model, a new Brandon new badge from Dodge,

755
00:55:31.519 --> 00:55:37.400
the Dodge Hornet, the Dodge a
Hornet pound for pound. The Alpha

756
00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:45.440
Romeo Tonali is the new Dodge Hornet
americanized. It's the same thing. And

757
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:49.559
if you want an Alpha romeoish type
of thing, you can go get a

758
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:55.000
Dodge Hornet. You're gonna save some
money. Is this a good car for

759
00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:58.920
you? Yes? Is it an
expensive car for what it is pound for

760
00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:01.880
pound? Yes, it rides well. It is a little cramped in the

761
00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:06.679
back seat. I think what you're
getting here is the Alpha Romeo brand.

762
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:08.639
You're gonna get that nice logo on
the front, which I love it,

763
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:15.039
with the snake and the Italy and
everything. I think that's Nate but the

764
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:20.639
latest between the technology and there and
the paddle shifters. It's cool. It's

765
00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:23.639
decent. I'm six foot tall.
I fit in the front seat quite well.

766
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:27.360
I have a little problem getting in
the back. But other than that,

767
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:30.199
what are you gonna do? The
cons doesn't have a lot of storage

768
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:32.320
space in the back. It does
have a little cubbyhole that you if you

769
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:36.199
have a piece of ply wetter or
some skis, you can put that down

770
00:56:36.239 --> 00:56:38.599
on the back while still sitting two
people in the back too. The verdict

771
00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:43.840
here it starts at about forty nine
thousand dollars. My test model is about

772
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:47.159
fifty seven thousand dollars after you had
the premium interior and sound, and all

773
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:52.400
the packages and the wheels and the
power roof and the paint. Everything kind

774
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:57.559
of expensive for its class. I
think the competitors are looking at maybe the

775
00:56:57.559 --> 00:57:01.159
BMW X one, maybe the Mercedes
GLA, the Volvo x C forty.

776
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:06.559
They're not plug in hybrid. This
is gonna save you a little gas mallage.

777
00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:08.840
Should you continue to charge this thing
up? I had it a week,

778
00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:13.800
I did run out of electricity power. I didn't bother charging it up

779
00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:15.920
again. I just don't know if
me and my lifestyle right now would be

780
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:22.199
ready to charge these things on an
electric charger. When we come back,

781
00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:24.679
though, I love your thoughts.
I will tell you about full electric cars.

782
00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:30.800
GM just announced a vehicle that has
an amazing range you're gonna be surprised

783
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:34.239
at. And guess what it is
so powerful, it's soon gonna let you

784
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:37.960
charge your home. Should you're a
home lose power, which sometimes happened here

785
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:40.599
in Texas. Hope you enjoyed that
This is what we do here on the

786
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:54.000
High Tech Texan Show. A lot
of the hour means about thirty more minutes

787
00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:59.320
to go with you're listening to me
the iHeart laying out at your pool.

788
00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.719
Have a cold for me, people, I will be joining you maybe about

789
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:06.519
thirty minutes. That's right. I
do have to keep a lot as sober

790
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:08.639
as I can, as hot as
it is. Good luck with kids going

791
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:12.719
back to school. I am here
for you on the High Tech Text and

792
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:16.320
Show. Just continuing to review some
cars. I just told you I was

793
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:22.239
in an Alpha Romeo Tanali, which
is goods a little overpriced for what it

794
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:27.079
is. It's a plug in hybrid, A plug in a hybrid, a

795
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:30.960
p have. I think the biggest
question that I get nowadays in terms of

796
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:35.599
any consumer lifestyle review, and it
used to be, Michael, what kind

797
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:37.039
of phone do you have? That's
what I'm gonna get? Should I get

798
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:43.119
an LCD high definition TV? Or
should I get a plasma? Remember that

799
00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:46.840
stuff, the LEDs, the LCDs, the plasma was what's what your favorite

800
00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:52.639
laptop? Nowadays, I think a
lot of the questions I get are about

801
00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:55.079
electric vehicles. Which is the best
EV or should I get an EV?

802
00:58:57.239 --> 00:59:00.800
Long time listeners know where I'm going
with. I love EV's. I think

803
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:07.440
they're very powerful, I think they
are fast. I think they are sexy

804
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:13.760
the way that is their designed personally
for me at my age group. Where

805
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:19.480
I am, where I commute,
where how often I drive, whether I

806
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:24.599
go on the road for road trips
and ev is not for me. Houston

807
00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:30.920
is a very big city. We
drive far. I have ADHD number one,

808
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:36.880
which is built in a little anxiety. There is something called range anxiety

809
00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:40.559
when you have an electric vehicle,
because they don't have there's no gas tank.

810
00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:45.519
Brother, you better be prepared to
pull off the road, hunt and

811
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:50.800
pack and find a battery charger.
Pray that the battery, the public battery

812
00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:57.360
charging system is working a full operation. Hope there's no other cars or vehicles

813
00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:00.639
being charged. You have to wait
to get a spot. Then when you

814
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:02.599
finally plug it in, you're gonna
have to wait thirty minutes to an hour.

815
01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:07.559
Let me help you out. Big
Daddy Garf does not do that.

816
01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:10.159
I do not like waiting. There's
no putton around when it comes to me.

817
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:15.119
That's why I can't have an electric
vehicle. I think the infrastructure of

818
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:21.840
our battery charging system in the United
States is not nearly adequate of what it

819
01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:27.880
should be. On the on the
reverse side, let's say you have an

820
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:30.599
electric vehicle. And what people do. They install their own battery system at

821
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:34.000
home. It's like a Tesla battery. You don't eat a test. Tesla

822
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.320
makes batteries also, not just cars. So you plug it into your charge

823
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:42.400
it overnight. Let's say you're commute
to work is ten miles, fifteen miles,

824
01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:45.119
maybe twenty miles. Maybe your office
when you get there also has a

825
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:52.719
battery charger. Phenomenal, plug it
in. Maybe you just drive around the

826
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:54.880
neighborhood and that's your community. You
take the kids to school, you go

827
01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:59.280
to the grocery, you go to
the gym, and your back, you

828
01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:04.039
come back home, plug it in, phenomenal, mozel top, go get

829
01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:07.440
an ev. But if me,
who wants to hop in the car and

830
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.280
go see my son in Austin,
that's that's you know, that's two hundred

831
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:13.840
plus miles. Now I'm thinking,
man, if I don't have a full

832
01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:15.320
charge, I better stop stup.
I better be looking at Bass Dropp or

833
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:17.800
somewhere just inside of Austin, man
and charge that thing up. And when

834
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:21.000
I get there, I just can't
scoop him up. Hey man, let's

835
01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:23.800
go to dinner. Doop got to
charge the car. That's gonna slow it

836
01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:29.599
down. Is it a good second
second vehicle? Absolutely, there's my thoughts

837
01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:34.519
of electric vehicles now. Having said
that, as range, the range battery

838
01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:37.760
range starts escalating, starts going up. Okay, now we're getting somewhere.

839
01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:40.320
I don't have to worry about it
as much. And I talk about this

840
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:47.320
as a segue because General Motors just
announced a new type of battery that is

841
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:53.320
going to have a longer range,
but also it's going to let you charge

842
01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:58.039
your home. It will power your
home. These things aren't gonna be out

843
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.760
for a few years, but GM
just says it's coming out. Was called

844
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:09.280
V two H Vehicle to home bi
directional charging on all of its electric vehicles

845
01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:15.320
with this new old tim battery technology
by the model year twenty twenty six,

846
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:21.679
and the first that's going to support
this tech this year. It's the Chevy

847
01:02:21.719 --> 01:02:28.280
Silverado EV, the GMC Sierra EV, Denali, the Chevy Blazer, and

848
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:35.559
the just announced Hadillac Escalade IQ.
I'll tell you about that in a sec

849
01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:39.000
There are a number of different automakers
that are adopting this vehicle to home.

850
01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:44.719
It let's owners power their homes in
a pinch using their electric vehicles. Why

851
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:49.079
is this important. If you live
in Htown. Do you remember the horrible

852
01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:57.199
freeze February of twenty twenty two.
I guess it was so many people lost

853
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.840
power in their homes. Well,
guess what if you had a vehicle,

854
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:06.159
and I think Ford had a pickup
truck the only one at the time that

855
01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:08.960
would let you bi directly charge.
You can just charge up your home through

856
01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:14.280
your car. Pretty cool. Hum, It's an option. There's a lot

857
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:17.480
of black listen between hurricane blackouts,
weather blackouts, and it's not just here,

858
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:21.599
all across the country. I mean
they were rolling blackouts because of the

859
01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:28.320
heat across the country. You could
charge your home. Not bad. Old

860
01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:32.079
tim evs Old Tim is is what
GM is gonna is talking about. I

861
01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:38.000
thought that was I thought that was
pretty interesting. Speaking of something new GM

862
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:47.719
Cadillac, they just denounced the new
Escalade IQ. Pretty impressed at least with

863
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:57.039
the specs. So it's gonna debut
with a four hundred and fifty mile range

864
01:03:57.079 --> 01:04:02.119
in the battery. That's big considering
right now the most Tesca can get is

865
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:09.159
what three hundred and three fifty Excuse
me, that's what Tesla says. Maybe

866
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:14.159
not the real world. If you're
Following that news, Escalade IQ is gonna

867
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:19.000
roll off the assembly line next year, only gonna cost one hundred and thirty

868
01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:26.239
thousand dollars if you can find one. I'm looking at it. I'm looking

869
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:31.039
at the photos. It doesn't as
peer as tall as other Escalade. It's

870
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:35.480
kind of a sloping cabin. It's
got a little angular d pillar kind of

871
01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:41.320
by the rear hatch, that rear
hatch thing, but it's pretty imposing.

872
01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:44.719
I am a Cadillac fan, I'm
a GM fan, and I do like

873
01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:46.280
the Escalades too. It's got it. Allegedly, it's gonna have some neat

874
01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:48.960
tech innovations. And again, all
I did is watch the press conference.

875
01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:58.159
Full dash length, curved led screen
fifty five inches diagonally. If you listen

876
01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:00.800
to my show, and you know, one of my biggest pet peeves is

877
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:03.119
what's I call it's called the real
estate right there on the dash, it's

878
01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:06.159
the dash real estate. If you've
got a dashboard just sitting there and it's

879
01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:12.039
just a plastic or whatever dash and
you've got a small little screen, people,

880
01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:15.599
you need to maximize it. That's
why I like trucks. Trucks were

881
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:17.639
the first ones. They came up
with these twelve inch screens. Yes,

882
01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:20.719
Tesla and a lot of these evs
have really cool screens. The bigger the

883
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:26.480
screen, the easy ears for me. Nowadays, there are these curved screens

884
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:31.199
that have the information display where you
look in with your gas range or speedometer

885
01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:36.159
or odomin. This is gonna have
a full a full linked dashboard fifty five

886
01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:42.760
inches. It's awesome. It's gonna
have super Crews, which is their self

887
01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:46.400
driving tech. It's gonna have a
two hundred kilowat old tim power train which

888
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:49.000
is gonna be four hundred fifty miles. And you're asking about I just got

889
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:51.239
an email at Michael. That's good. But with the horsepower, well,

890
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:57.800
according to the company, seven hundred
and fifty horsepower. Nice, seven hundred

891
01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:00.679
and fifty. Now the Catiac,
they've already an ounce what they have,

892
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:02.719
their lyric, the L y R
i Q, the lyric. There's a

893
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:08.320
lot of ques in here. It's
their compact suv and it's an electric vehicle

894
01:06:08.360 --> 01:06:12.800
that's on sale now. But Cadillac
is going to become all electric. Man,

895
01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:16.679
Cadillac is becoming a true electric brand. It's pretty saucy. Again,

896
01:06:16.679 --> 01:06:19.679
this is not coming out for a
while. I certainly hope to have it

897
01:06:20.920 --> 01:06:26.360
to drive it for you. And
every time I get something crazy like I

898
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:29.639
like, I need to start offering
like test drives. Who wants to take

899
01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:30.639
me to lunch? And I'll pick
you up in one of these things that

900
01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:33.639
happened. I had the Ford F
one fifty Lightning. I was one of

901
01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:39.599
the first Ford electric trucks, which
actually just lowered its price by ten thousand

902
01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:41.920
dollars. By the way, those
things are fun, They're cool, They're

903
01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:45.559
need to look at. I facetiously
said. I said, Hey, listen,

904
01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:47.360
man, I get this thing for
a week. Who want to take

905
01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:49.559
me to lunch? And I just, hey, tell you what, It's

906
01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:53.159
a nice way to meet people.
How you know my name is Michael?

907
01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:56.199
Is that electric vehic? Or you're
just happy to pick me up? Yes?

908
01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:59.400
I am. Maybe we'll do some
contest with that. Hey, speaking

909
01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:03.360
of contest right now? Color number
nine seven one three two one two five

910
01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:08.679
nine five. Oh, how about
a gift card to Benny Hannah. Love

911
01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:11.480
Benny Hanna. I've been talking about
this for a while, Benny Hannah.

912
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:15.000
They got four or five locations downtown
West Timer or the West Side sugar Land

913
01:07:15.079 --> 01:07:18.440
at brand New winn at Conro.
You forget about Benny Hannah. Let's go

914
01:07:18.519 --> 01:07:21.639
chop it up. Great tepin Yaki. It is good stuff. One hundred

915
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:26.639
dollars gift card just for listening to
me. Colum. We'll take care of

916
01:07:26.639 --> 01:07:31.159
you at Color number nine seven one
three two one two five nine five oh.

917
01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:35.280
Coming back the final segment of this
week's show on the High Tech Texas

918
01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:49.559
Show. The congratulations that was Niya
Corneos. Miya is in Baytown. She

919
01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:54.760
won d Denny Hannah gift card.
You're gonna have to come in a little

920
01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:57.760
westbound to use that Benny Hannah.
But this is what we do. Thank

921
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:00.840
the folks at Benny Hannah several locations
through about the Houston area. Man,

922
01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:06.079
it's good. Got the little chew
chew volcano onion thing, it's good.

923
01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:10.079
Yeah. I went to the new
Conro opening about it was about a month

924
01:08:10.119 --> 01:08:13.239
month and a half ago. I
met the president of Benny Hanna. I'm

925
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.119
Benny Hanna by the way, based
in Florida. I think about seventy locations

926
01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:19.600
worldwide. Good food. But it
was nice. One hundred dollars gift card

927
01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:24.600
done also Johnny Tamali's first hour.
We gave that away. This is what

928
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:27.239
we do. You know what,
I can't feed you personally, so I

929
01:08:28.119 --> 01:08:32.800
reward you longtime listeners with some and
neat stuff. Final segments over here Michael

930
01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:36.479
Garfield, actually the final segment.
I hope you have a good Saturday.

931
01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:41.479
Following up from my Automobile, I
was just I did a whole segment on

932
01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:44.800
electric vehicles. If you just if
you missed, it sucks for you.

933
01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:48.039
But it doesn't suck because every show
is podcasted, so you can listen to

934
01:08:48.079 --> 01:08:55.359
this beautiful voice to your heart's content
over and over again. Calum Reid Yeoman's

935
01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:57.960
effort here on the other side of
the glass. He will make sure in

936
01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:00.479
about ten minutes once we're done,
he'll put that up on podcast. You

937
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:05.760
get iHeartRadio and you look for KPRC, you look for Michael Garfield, and

938
01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:10.680
you should be able to find and
listen at you Alisia. But following up

939
01:09:10.760 --> 01:09:15.720
the electric vehicles, I'm an electric
vehicle fan. I'm just not a fan

940
01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:21.720
of our charging infrastructure that we have
in the United States. But I did

941
01:09:21.760 --> 01:09:25.520
see this though, and I'm not
trying to scare you. I'm not ragging

942
01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:31.079
on any specific manufacturer, but electric
vehicles relatively new in our lives right paradigm

943
01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:38.479
shift. There was an Arizona man
he told us about a week ago.

944
01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:42.119
A week and a half ago,
Arizona man told a Phoenix TV station that

945
01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:48.520
he was trapped inside his Tesla during
a one hundred degree day and did not

946
01:09:48.680 --> 01:09:53.479
know how to get out. Hold
on, let me read this. Is

947
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.000
you sure? This is not from
college station? Oh? I didn't go

948
01:09:56.039 --> 01:09:59.479
there? Yes I did. Sorry, I love you, aggies. Quote

949
01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:02.960
seventy three year old dude. I
couldn't open the doors, I couldn't lower

950
01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:08.439
the windows. The computer was dead, so I couldn't open the glove box.

951
01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:15.960
I couldn't open anything. Unquote.
Now there was there was plenty of

952
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:21.680
rain still on the vehicle, but
a twelve volt battery inside the vehicle that

953
01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:30.479
powers the items was dead. Listen, I will tell you this, and

954
01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:35.640
this happens to you. Tesla does
have an override to escape the vehicle if

955
01:10:35.640 --> 01:10:41.880
the battery dies or if the doors
won't open. Listen, I know we

956
01:10:42.039 --> 01:10:45.399
most of us over sixteen, we
know how to drive. I've been driving

957
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:49.079
for forty years. My jobs to
get into a new vehicle on a weekly

958
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:54.239
basis, sit there, figure out
everything works. Because if I need to

959
01:10:54.239 --> 01:10:59.520
read a manual. You guys are
screwed. My job is to quickly know

960
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:05.000
it without reading manuals. That's the
high tech Texan's job. But when I'm

961
01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:10.640
getting into the electric vehicles, I'm
finding the fact that maybe I'm gonna open

962
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:14.680
I'm I made Google search of how
this thing works. So, for some

963
01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:16.560
reason, you get a new vehicle
and you pick it up from the delivery

964
01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:19.640
person or you go to the dealership, you probably should kind of get a

965
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:25.479
little play by a playoff what happens
if, because this isn't the first time

966
01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:30.079
I heard something about this. By
the way, the emergency latch is underneath

967
01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:35.159
the window switches in the front seat
of the Tesla model. Why the little

968
01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:44.439
why Here's okay, I guess imagine
being trapped in your car. It's like,

969
01:11:44.680 --> 01:11:45.159
you know, you have this nightmare, like, oh my god,

970
01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:48.159
you're gonna drive off a bridge and
you're gonna go underwater, and you see

971
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:51.239
news new segments of how to escape
it. Okay, I get that.

972
01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:59.439
When you're sitting in a parking lot
alone, it's like, hello, anybody,

973
01:11:59.479 --> 01:12:02.479
can you come smashed my window?
Poor man was in one hundred degree

974
01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:06.039
heat. Oh yeah, yeah,
And This isn't even a joking matter.

975
01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:11.840
Man. This is why you do
not slept hats or dogs and cars in

976
01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:17.640
the summer. Certainly kids too.
Just gotta be careful people. Anyway,

977
01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:20.319
I just did. That was a
little PSA from from me to you.

978
01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:25.560
Too late to give out the phone
number because I think we're done with that.

979
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:29.279
What was I gonna talk about?
Oh? I didn't pay this off,

980
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:30.760
did I? I was, man, I was talking about mobile plans.

981
01:12:31.640 --> 01:12:35.079
I've been reviewing all these Samsung phones, but more and often in the

982
01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:38.000
past two weeks, people wanted to
know, Hey, if I get a

983
01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:40.079
new phone, man, my mobile
plans running out? Why am I paying

984
01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:45.159
so much? Verizon it just announced
that it's having another price hike. They

985
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:47.840
had a price hike in April for
some of their Verizon plans. They're beyond

986
01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:53.279
unlimited and beyond the limited fifty five
and I was at and T recently raised

987
01:12:53.279 --> 01:13:00.119
their rates for some of their plans
too. Apparently Verizon wireless phones plans are

988
01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:05.279
going up also starting in September.
If you're on the unlimited post paid wireless

989
01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:12.000
plan, you're going to be charged
next to three bucks a month. We'll

990
01:13:12.079 --> 01:13:16.840
say it again, I am a
fan of m v NOS. M v

991
01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:24.720
NO a mobile virtual netural mobile virtual
network operator. These are the smaller companies

992
01:13:25.159 --> 01:13:29.720
that you see on commercials or ads
that say, hey, listen, you

993
01:13:29.720 --> 01:13:32.399
can have unlimited for fifteen, twenty
twenty five bucks a month. Why should

994
01:13:32.399 --> 01:13:38.680
we be paying the big wireless things. Famously, there's Mint Mobile. Ryan

995
01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:41.840
Reynolds, the actor, that's that's
the company that he co created and he's

996
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.319
they marketing unlimited calling plan I think
for twenty or twenty five bucks a month.

997
01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:49.960
What they do these companies, and
there's tons of they utilize. They

998
01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:55.920
rent space on the big three's towers. Ay take AT and T, they

999
01:13:55.960 --> 01:14:00.600
take T Mobile, or they take
Verizon. They'll rent time off for them

1000
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:04.479
and they will market them to you. This is very similar an analogous to

1001
01:14:04.680 --> 01:14:12.279
our electric companies here in Texas.
Here in Houston, we all get electricity

1002
01:14:12.279 --> 01:14:19.039
from Centerpoint Energy, but there are
hundreds of companies, hundreds of companies that

1003
01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:25.399
just market the service, the electrical
service that comes from Centerpoint. All they

1004
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:29.720
are is marketing and building companies.
We shop around which kilowatta is going to

1005
01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:31.800
be better, which, but it's
the same thing. And I am fine

1006
01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:38.119
because these are non tangible products.
This is not a car, this is

1007
01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:43.199
not a piece of clothing. This
is quite simply electricity that is delivered.

1008
01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:48.079
You can't see electricity, and you
really can't see phone lines. They utilize

1009
01:14:48.159 --> 01:14:54.000
the same thing. So I'm actually
fine with saving money from mvn as everything

1010
01:14:54.039 --> 01:14:59.000
from boost seller Exfinity, Exfinity that's
an m v And now you think Exfinity

1011
01:14:59.079 --> 01:15:01.680
is in the job critic cell towers, No, all they do is they

1012
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:06.279
resell. I think they're on the
Verizon network. I actually use mint Mobile.

1013
01:15:08.640 --> 01:15:11.199
I've used him for two years,
never had an issue. And I'll

1014
01:15:11.199 --> 01:15:14.199
tell you what the last thing I'm
gonna say. If anybody wants Mintmobile,

1015
01:15:14.560 --> 01:15:16.439
and if you want to email me
or if you want to tweetmail me for

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01:15:16.479 --> 01:15:23.319
a special discount, do you get
like the first month free email me and

1017
01:15:23.359 --> 01:15:25.359
I'll do it. I'm actually a
fan. This is not a commercial.

1018
01:15:25.439 --> 01:15:28.159
I'm just this is what this is
what I do. I saved you some

1019
01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:30.359
of this stuff. I wish mit
Mobile was a sponsor in mine. I

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01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:33.720
just happen to use Mitmobile. Michael
at high tech Texts, go at high

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01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:36.239
tech text and dot com find me
a high tech text and spelled the whole

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01:15:36.239 --> 01:15:40.399
thing. Uh h I g h
T E c h T e x an.

1023
01:15:40.479 --> 01:15:42.399
You could find me on Twitter,
you could find me on Instagram,

1024
01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:45.640
you can find me on threads.
Luckily, you can find me on Facebook

1025
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:47.640
and all other stuff. Hey,
it's worth a try. You're sending kids

1026
01:15:47.680 --> 01:15:51.039
off to school. You don't need
to be paying seventy eight bucks a line

1027
01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:55.000
fifty. You can get a praise
like I think. It's a little five

1028
01:15:55.039 --> 01:15:58.079
to ten dollars a month, man, And plus we're on y five a

1029
01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:00.560
lot of the time. What else
can I do for you? Nothing?

1030
01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:03.399
Callum Reid and everybody behind the scenes, from Eddie Martini to Mark Sherman,

1031
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:08.680
Brian Ericson, Paul Lambert. I
thank you for keeping it me here for

1032
01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:11.920
twenty two plus years. Who knows
how long it'll go. I just hope

1033
01:16:11.960 --> 01:16:15.960
I don't melt away. People.
Happy back to school season, Happy almost

1034
01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:18.199
football season. Enjoy the rest of
your weekend. I will see you next

1035
01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:23.079
week here KPRC nine fifty and I
Heeart Radio go podcasting. My name is

1036
01:16:23.119 --> 01:16:26.600
Michael, and right now my show
is overa