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Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael
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Michael Garfield is here with a high
tech Texan. It was to make life

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easier of new technology. So Michael
Garfield has something you might want, Texas.

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Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic

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

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Texan, Michael Garfield. You know
how I always start the second hour of

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the show, which is pretty much
halfway through the show. You listen to

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me a long time, twenty plus
years. I got my stick? How

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do I start the second hour of
my show? It's halfway to happy Well,

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guess what. This is the time
of the year where I can finally

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say it's halfway through Happy Hour of
twenty twenty four. That's right, people,

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it is finally the first part of
July and we are halfway through this

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year. How's your year been?
Talk to me here? Seven one three,

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two, one two, five,
nine to five. Oh, listen,

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I know it's slow, it's hot, it is nasty, it is

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slow. You have nothing else to
do? Why don't you join me?

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As we do? Kind of a
mid year update of the High Tech Texan

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Show. Not a ton of things
going on in the technology world. We

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are about to hear some announcement officially
of some new Samsung Bubble devices. I

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for one, as a Samsung Android
fan, I'm very excited about that.

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But other than that, it's the
dol drums of summer. I mean,

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sports kind of suck right now overall. I mean football, you know,

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training camp's not even started. Basketball, NBA is Ova. Not a hockey

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fan, but the Stanley Cup is
actually kind of that's done. I mean,

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yeah, We've got the Paris Olympics
coming up at a week or two

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or three, whatever it is,
and I'm not really excited. Yeah,

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Simon Bile's local Houston girl. She
does well, but it's the Olympics.

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I hardly know anybody even participating in
the thing. So what do we do?

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Man? We just sit inside the
air condition, We do a radio

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program, you call me, you
tweet me, you x me, you

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threads me, you Facebook me,
and we or we sit in the pool

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sipping some sides. And throughout these
two hours, I'm probably gonna give you

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an opportunity, an idea or two
of giving you some nice recipes. You

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see. The show is so much
more than technology. It started out as

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the High Tech Texas Show. Actually, officially the name is still the High

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Tech Texan. But if you do
follow me on social media unless you're blocked,

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you will find out I do so
much more than just technology. I

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test drive car. Oh, I've
got a beautiful vehicle that I've been test

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driving this past week. It is
it is. It is luxury. Actually,

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one of the most interior, interior
luxurious vehicles that I have ever been

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in. And I've been testing vehicles
for well over fifteen years. It is

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awesome. Stay tuned, I'll tell
you what that is. We've got if

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you're a gamer, a few interesting
games. How about a streamer, I'm

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nothing but a stream right, anything
good to watch? I guess we've got

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Hard Knocks just started. I don't
know if you care about the New York

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Giants, but I'm finding myself rewatching. This is how bored I am.

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I'm rewatching old shows that have been
on for the fifteen sixteen years. I

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don't know why I'm flipping through Max
and I found one of my favorite shows

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of all time. Actually, I
love this show so much that the opening

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theme song to the show I stole
for about five or six years the opening

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theme song for my show. It
is Entourage. I'm watching that again.

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I mean, that's how bad it
is. Anybody did anybody see the new

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Beverly Hills top not so f just
came out on Netflix, and my buddies

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using a password that I was borrowing, I expired, so I still haven't

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seen ax l F. So somebody
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on that, I'd love to hear
from you. Calum calub Is, my

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man, he is you have nothing
else to do on the first, you

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know, first few weeks of July, My man, you just sit here.

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Yeah, you're right. This is
at least IR pays the er conditioning.

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This is not a this is not
a bad deal. If you're hot

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and you're schmitzy outside, let's just
come inside the iHeart Radio studios and we're

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all good. I do want you
mentioned something that I guess we should say

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happy birthday or happy anniversary too,
because it was almost one year ago exactly.

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Do you remember what happened one year
ago? The first week or two

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of July, there was a new
launch of a new app that out of

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the Blue really set the wor on
fire. Amazing amount of downloads overnight.

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It just appeared on your app store
or your iTunes or whatever you call it,

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and you downloaded. And this was
gonna be the killer. This was

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gonna be the Twitter killer, the
ex killer. Folks. Do you remember

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it was one year ago that we
were introduced to Threads. It's it's from

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Meta, which is the the over
the big corporation, the company that owns

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Facebook and Instagram and what's app.
It's called Meta, and they pushed out

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Threads, the app, and an
attempt to take on the platform that we

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now know as X and at a
time, mister Zuckerberg he said that he

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hoped it would turn into a public
conversations app with over a billion people on

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it. And that was a quote
right there. What was in California?

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And I don't even know why I
thought. I think I got a press

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release. Somebody inside Info gave me
the idea that Michael he got a download

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this thing. Within hours, I
was watching the account of how many millions

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of people signed up, and in
the first day, Threads saw over thirty

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million sign ups. Had to be
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app now one year in has over
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And this is according to Zuckerberg.
Yay, but x mister Elon Musk

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says there's over six hundred million monthly
users on map. And I'm not going

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to go back and board, but
I want to talk about threads. Did

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you sign up for threads? Because
I signed up for threads and I spent

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the next day or two and I
was listen. I'm never on vacation,

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but I was out in Cali on
the left coast, and I was doing

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a lot of interviews. Michael,
is this going to be the Twitter killer?

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It was tough to evaluate, and
I remember my first thoughts were because

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so many people. I mean,
this was the talk for about a week,

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week and a half. I mean, this was the summer dull drums

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work. I mean it was over. I mean it took up a good

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part of July. All people were
talking about was threads. Because then again

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I just told you there's nothing going
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happening. There's no big packt lodges. I believe I kept saying this.

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Finally, because I've seen a number
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dethrone Twitter, and when Elon Musk
took it over man, it was getting

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dog. People were dropping off,
he was ticking off advertisers. There was

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too much politics nor one of that, and Threads was the sweet place,

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the nice place where you didn't have
to read about COVID nineteen. You didn't

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have to read about politics. And
for the first month or two or the

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rate, I didn't see anything quote
unquote bad about it. There was nothing

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controversial. Come to think of it, I'm trying to think what was even

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on there because that earliest version,
the earliest iteration of threads, to me

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now feels a little bit off,
maybe a little bit broke. Okay,

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there wasn't a web version. There
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If indeed it was going up against
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I'm still really not clear what threads
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conversation with somebody about a week ago
too. Do you use threads? I

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downloaded Threads. Threads is on the
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X and my Instagram and my Facebook. How many social media outlests we need?

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Because Hound for pound Dolliver if you
look at it Threads, it really

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is almost exactly to some extent on
the surface, just like Twitter X you're

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right, eat something. It's two
hundred and forty characters or so. You

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put a picture and you wait for
comments. And I remember saying, man,

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we may never use Twitter. People
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X is gone. I'm sorry.
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first apps that I use in the
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to get my new I just kind
of scroll through Twitter. I can't tell

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you the last time I opened Threads. Maybe it's not going to be that

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quote unquote public square for less angry
conversations. How do we fix that.

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I'm gonna take a break right now. If you indeed are on Threads,

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why don't you juicer jump up?
And then maybe I'll start reading it again.

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At High Tech Text and I was
able to grab that same moniker like

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I have across social media. H
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hey, we got a big show,

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fun show. We got a gift
card too, to give way. We

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are going to have a really nice
interview of how to really dress nicely.

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You ever had a custom suit,
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gabin dasher, got a guy who's
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what's so special about having closed made
specifically for you. I'll give you a

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review of an unbelievable vehicle that I've
been driving here with the past week.

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And who knows what I'm gonna talk
about because I have to fill two hours.

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Michael garthon it is called the High
Tech Text Show. I hope you're

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inside over you're to pool as we
are the halfway point of twenty twenty four,

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halfway to half the hour, and
I don't hope everybody had a very

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good July fourth holiday, hope.
I hope everybody's having a good summer as

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we're in the middle of the dol
jums of the summer. You got ready

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for you're ready for football season.
I mean, the NFL is trying to

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jump start the NFL. Really it's
in a cycle of twelve months a year,

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but I would say it's about eleven
months. I ain't not much happened

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in the world of NFL. I
do know that Hard Knocks. What is

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it about a six week program on
max HBO that started I don't care.

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This year it's the New York Giants. Does not matter to me. I

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did see something that's very interested interesting. I guess for the July fourth weekend,

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most people who work, if you
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off, and it was weird.
It was a Thursday this year. I

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know a number of people, just
anecdotally, who had to work that Friday,

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July fifth? Did you have to
work? Did anybody have to work

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that for? So you get off, you get a day off on Thursday,

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and you're laying around, You're putts
around, it's one hundred and five

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degrees in the sun. You're having
a few coldy you're having a lot of

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coldies, some marks and bruskies.
Whatever you're having. Oh man, we're

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gonna have a good day. Oh
I gotta go to work the next day.

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And for those of you who drive
to work, I guess the good

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point is there was not a lot
of people on the road on Friday,

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July fifth. Getting doing it from
your office number one in Houston. There's

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not a lot of people on the
road in the summertime because people get the

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hell out of town as they should. They go to Colorado or something.

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But then you get Saturday and Sunday
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was I should have been a four
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I guess the only thing worse is
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July fourth and I guess New Year's
Eve helped me when am I missing

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over? Here are the only two. They're the two most celebrated holidays where

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Americans for the most part do get
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a specific day of the week.
I guess obviously. I guess Christmas is

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in there at Christmas in there too, but people usually get the whole week

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off for Christmas date tickets the end
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can fall on in New Year's Day
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can fall on Wednesday, and you
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before two days after Thanksgiving, we
know allys is on that Thursday. Generally

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we get the Friday off. Christmas
people usually get that last week off.

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Ah, what about two by Shava
passover? Young Kipper always falls Dude,

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Young Kipper is on Texas Oklahoma weekend, And what there's a dilemma for me

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now in the world am I gotta
go to the Texas. Oh you go,

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oh you get and not have a
futcher scorny dog. There's my dilemma

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that I'm worrying about three months ahead. I digress people, And the reason

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I bring this up? Where was
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up, it's how many days a
week do you work? Generally? Here

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in America, we work five days
a week. That's what my father did,

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That's what his father did. For
nations. Generally, people are five

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days a week. If even here
at our radio program on Monday through Friday.

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If you have a week day program
like my buddy rod Ryan at our

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sister station here at the Buzz Dana
Tyson here at Sunday ninety nine, we

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go on and on and on.
I used to have a weekday talk show

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also here, Monday through Friday.
You have five days. Well, guess

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what. There's a country who said, screw it, we're doing a six

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day week. Then he guesses,
calub alum, that's you have talked to

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you about. Come on, Helm, did he ask which country introduced just

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introduced a six day work week?
Now? I love this country. I

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visited this country once. It is
parts of it are the most beautiful places

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I've ever been to an earth,
and parts of it are old and ugly,

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so I'm still debating whether I should
move there. Ladies and gentlemen,

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A six day work week has just
been instituted in Greece. Do you know

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why? Because it's the word Greece. If you think about it, They've

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given us some pretty good ideas in
the past. I think they gave us

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democracy. I think they created geometry. I'm kind of hoping this latest invention

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does not catch on. It's a
six day work week, I'm not kidding

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yet. New regulations took affecting Greece
just about a week or two ago.

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It extends the typical forty hour work
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private businesses providing around the clock services. Okay, now let's break that.

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What is a private business providing round
the clock services? Well, I mean

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here in media radio we broadcast twenty
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is private business, is not a
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one. Oh good. So now
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I'm a good to forty eight hours
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their kind rules in the European European
Union, and they're doing this to boost

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the Greek economy, because I still
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in a decade long slump. It's
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new rules really flying the face of
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Because here I think the four day
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getting some momentum. Am I wrong? Almost one third of US businesses are

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considering cutting their work week down.
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by KPMG. This is a few
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questions. This is why I am
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days? I assume you are your
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said this based on a five day
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you know, on the first year, and it goes on and on and

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on. Well, if you're only
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mean, you're going down what twenty
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gonna cut your salary? Twenty percent? Would you be willing to take that

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seven one three, two one two
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get down to the hot topics,
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I also do travel. I said, Greece has is one of the most

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beautiful spots I've ever been to.
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that I did not like. Hey, listen, my job is to throw

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up my opinion. I give a
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I believe, yeah, two thousand
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cruise. I wanted a uh it
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was a family cruise. Kids were
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We went to like twelve countries.
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been eight countries in twelve days.
Twelve countries and eight days. I forgot

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what it was. We go to
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We went to Santorini and Miconos.
Absolutely two of the most gorgeous spots

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I have ever been to, Like
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hill, but in Micanos it was
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greeklike stuff. It was awesome.
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is an old, dirty town.
It's like an odt, you know what

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I'm saying, not an ODB.
It's just old and dirty. Of course

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it's old. I'm not freaking.
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We saw the Parthenon, which was
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we saw the Parthenon. You know
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It's just it was just kind of
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I'm not trying to rag on you, because there are some absolutely horrific

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places here in the United States.
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Athens per se. Other than that, Greece it's the word. I love

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to go back, and I love
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seven one three two one two five
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olive oil. I remember the whole
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good. Where am I going?
This is what we do here in the

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middle of summer eight? Well,
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we come back. Count on as
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smart Amazon used to have one day
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Day, where pretty much that everything
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a garage sale to clear the garage, to clear their warehouse and get ready

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for the holiday. Zazon now it's
Prime Days, it's two days, and

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it's perfectly situated right here in the
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no more the real sports bej now, so I'm gonna saw some of the

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deals, even though it doesn't start
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give you a deal or two that
that you need to be watching out work

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should you be a Prime member.
Garf is the nickname. It's called the

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High Tech Text and shows name is
Michael Garfield. But you probably know that

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since that big booming voice that just
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that is Calum Reid. He is
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conditioning as we all should have no
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Uh, why don't you make an
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A big shout out right now to
us coins and jewelry. Hey, you

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know what if you don't have a
lot of things to do. How about

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taking up a hobby coin collecting?
Hellum, you know what coin? Do

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you know? The official word of
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it's a new mismatist. Mit no, no, you can still wear clothes.

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No, no, it's a new
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is what I am. That's someone
who collects stamps. Okay, easy does

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it? Easy? Does it?
In US coins and jewelry. It has

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been around for two generations. I
happened to Roll and why I'm on there

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at least once a month, Bobby
once every three weeks. Kenny and Matt

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Duncan. They are the two partners. They're the sons of the owner that

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has been around since nineteen eighty five. I did a video on Instagram and

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I actually it was kind of a
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guys. I just walk it in
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but they're really unbelievable when it comes
to coins. They are some of

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the country's leading new mesmatist in terms
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can look at them and they could
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are. And I was always wondering
how do they do that? I mean,

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is there a machine? But they
they are years and years and years

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and they study it. So I
made a ninety second video. If you

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haven't followed me yet on Instagram high
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C h T e x A N
follow me unless I've already blocked you,

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you can't. I did a video
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and I plopped them on the counter
and I said, I just asked him.

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I said, hey, what are
the first things that you look at

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to value a coin? And you
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I'm gonna blow the lead right here. I'm actually gonna got ruin it for

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you. Even though you should watch
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had a really nice shirt on.
They he looks at the year and if

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it's a silver coin, if it's
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it's a quarter, it's a higher
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before nineteen sixty five, so right
before Generation X there were something. So

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if you have a quarter that was
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being worth a quarter, it's probably
worth almost five dollars. You laugh,

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but you don't know. And I
have a ton of chit. I don't

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know why, but I have one
of those change coin holders in my closet,

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and over the year, every time
I come home, I empty my

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pockets and they go into the little
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I'n't got a ton of quarters.
I swear, I'm holding my hand

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up right now. I come home
from US Coins and Jewelry and I go

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through all my quarters to fought to
see if anything was from ninety. The

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closest I can was nineteen seventy.
I had a nineteen seventy quarter on me.

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But I'll tell you what It's something
if you do have a coin collection,

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if you want to sell your coins
to see what they're worth, they

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go to US Coins and Jewelry dot
com. Go in and say you've heard

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it on the Garfield Show. Because
there's maybe another Michael or two or three

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who actually promotes it. But let
him know that you listen to the garf

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Show. Go look at the rolocks
is, Go look at the Texas memorabilia.

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Go look at the sports cards and
memorabilia. They are great. They're

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on Katie Freeway write at vass the
south side of Austin, and they're just

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awesome. They are not open on
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actually still their business model, but
they are open six days a week,

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and they are listening to me right
now. So I appreciate the nice folks

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at US Coins and Jelry. They
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even though they do give you some
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For Amazon Prime Days, we have
to call it plural, call listing

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plural right now because it is two
days this year, July sixteenth, July

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seventeen. People, if you were
an Amazon Prime Time remember you are going

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to get some discounts and some things. It was about a week or two

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ago. They're already releasing. You
know. There's some sits online that says,

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hey, you know, they get
ready because these are some early deals

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that you can get, and a
lot of the deals that you can get

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are the best deals that you're going
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Amazon products themselves made by Amazon,
including the Amazon Fire stick, the Amazon

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Fire TV, the Amazon Kindle,
the Amazon Echo which is all exa sorry

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to just set off your ale accepp. Those are going to be discounted the

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most. I see a little of
Apple stuff coming down here, which I

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really don't care about. Amazon has
a fire TV down bar. Soundbars are

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good, gives you some great sound. Little, you know, kind of

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a center speaker. Generally one hundred
twenty dollars. One is gonna be on

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sale for one hundred dollars, so
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Here is an Amazon Fire TV forty
three inch four K TV, normally for

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fifty four hundred and fifty bucks.
It's gonna be sliced ninety dollars down to

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three hundred and sixty bucks. You
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They are so inexpensive nowadays. My
first I had a fifty inch I

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love telling this story. My kid
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and three, digital TVs first came
out. In the first some of the

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first flat screen high def TVs came
out. I had a fifty inch Hitachi

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retail twelve thousand dollars. I am
not using hyperbole. Look that word up.

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It was I didn't pay twelve thousand. It was twelve thousand for a

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fifty inch. You're gonna get a
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if it's on sale. So that's
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I saw this. There is a
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read books Kindle. This sax is
a pretty good deal. You know.

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Kindle was the very first e reader. It wasn't really sexy. It's it's

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really there's a nice handheld, small
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ink. It's not color. It's
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it actually very simple to read outside
the sun. People want to listen.

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Hey, if you read books,
Michael, it's the best, you know

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reader. Should I get a tablet
if you want it? Just for books?

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Don't don't laugh, do not sleep
on the Kindle. And there's several

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different versions of the Kindle. But
on Amazon Prime Day on July sixteenth,

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there's a really good offer here.
Prime members you can have three months of

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a free Kindle unlimited subscription. That's
an exclusive deal. It's gonna save you

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thirty six dollars. Thirty six dollars
you get three months of Kindle unlimited for

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us, all the books you could
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Win. I'm gonna be a little
tip if you're deciding on what and this

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is a tip I give we probably
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kindles first came out, and then
the iPad came out. Should I get

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an iPad? Should I get a
Kindle? Should I get a Google tablet

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or something like our Samsung Tap.
Look at the app store, look at

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bookstore, find out what titles they
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to go, because maybe there's a
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or work with Apple. Look at
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the Kindle library they have about four
million book titles. They have access to

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magazines and comic books, and I
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The three months. I think once
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is gonna renew at the usual rate
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tell you what three months is three
months, and so that that's one of

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the things you should look at.
So I give me another week, how

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about this? Because I'm not gonna
I get press releases. Hang on and

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make sure you follow me on threads. May make sure you follow me on

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x high Tech text and I will
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at least in my opinion, Amazon
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and seventeenth. One of the few
subscriptions I have streamers I have, I

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do have Amazon Prime. I rarely
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use Amazon I watch Prime Video.
That's pretty much what I mostly use it

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for, certainly knowing that the NFL
has the Thursday Night games and a few

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Christmas Day games coming up on Amazon
Prime Video. All right, we're gonna

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take a break, final break of
the first hour. Hope you were cool.

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I do, thank you for hanging
in. Guess what company filed for

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bankruptcy. Something tells me you used
this company. You use the services of

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this company, and you still may
walk by this every time you walk into

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a grocery store. It's still there, but it may not be working because

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they are bankrupt. I'll tell you
what that is after the break. Going

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through some emails and some people who
are xing and tweeting and sending me dms

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and what have you, while I
do a radio show. You see I

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can do that. People, It's
amazing what Adhd does. See. I

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don't know, you know, I've
always you know, I've always also wanted

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to be ambidextrous too. You know
what, I'd give my left arm to

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be ambidextrous. Dad jokes here all
the all day, all the time.

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Here on the Michael Garfield Show.
Happy Midsummer. It's our Midsummer high tech

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textan show where not a lot of
things are happening in the world of its

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Actually, well, are a lot
of things happening in the world other than

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the heat and hurricane season. There's
an election coming up, but the sports

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are kind of quiet. But we
are here for you. Gotta give away

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a gift card to Cabo Bob's Cobo
Bob. I haven't been eating a lot

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lately, but when I eat,
man, I'm a Cobo Bob's two three

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times a week. Great. It's
out of Austin for locations here. Tell

408
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:27.480
them what you want on your burritos, your tacos, You take it to

409
00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.640
go, you eat in the wh
there's but oh it's so good. Next

410
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:34.440
down, Raya have a twenty five
dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's thank them

411
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:44.440
for h hokuss up with that?
Uh, let's see Samsung Unpacked is happening.

412
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.839
Well, it's they're they're getting ready
to release some information on their new

413
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:51.759
mobile devices. I kind of got
a sneak peak, which I can't say.

414
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:55.440
I'm under embargo, but I will
be playing with some of their mobile

415
00:29:55.480 --> 00:30:00.839
devices, some that could be regular, maybe they'll full I don't maybe sympletel

416
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.440
time, maybe some of this jewelry. I don't know a lot of rumors

417
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:07.599
out there, so I never really
can't say anything, Like I really can't

418
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.079
say anything but that. Maybe I
could be bribed and someone's got it's got

419
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.359
a nice cold beer for me.
You know where to find me right now?

420
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:18.359
Bad news man. Guess guess who
went bankrupt? Guess who went bankrupt?

421
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.759
Yeah, we talk about I talk
about streaming. I was just talking

422
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.160
about streaming before the break. You
know I have Amazon, which includes Prime

423
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.039
Video. Uh, there's so many
other streamers. You got Disney, Disney

424
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.759
Plush, you got Hulu, you
got Roku, you got Netflix, you

425
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.000
got Max, HbA, you can
get a you got Boo, you got

426
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:44.119
Peacock Olympics. You're coming up before
there was streaming. How would you watch

427
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:48.640
your movies? You probably watched them
on DVDs, which you probably got through

428
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.599
the mail from Netflix. That's how
Netflix started. People think, oh,

429
00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.880
Netflix is the streamer. Well,
Netflix actually started by mailing DVDs and red

430
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.920
envelopes that you had to watch and
return within three days. Remember those old

431
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.119
at Bultman chair. Uncle Garfy's got
some stories for it. That's how it

432
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:08.960
worked. But along with Netflix,
there was another service that you can get

433
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:17.839
immediately by just going to a local
grocery store, convenience store, walking right

434
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.079
up to it, putting a dollar, two dollars, three dollars in,

435
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.559
and boom, it was a vending
machine. It would pop right out.

436
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:29.559
How many times do you still walk
into HB or I don't know, some

437
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:38.240
convenience store and see Fox. Yes, that red vending machine. That was

438
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:41.440
you pick what I said. I
didn't. They were outside of McDonald's,

439
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.279
I think, correct me if I'm
long people, do you remember them being

440
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:49.119
outside of McDonald's, which I think
McDonald's owned a large percentage or a certain

441
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:55.519
percentage of that company, which is
pretty It was smart back then. You

442
00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:57.480
hey, man, hey, honey, kids, you want to go to

443
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:00.440
White what movie you want to watch. Let's go get a DVD. Well,

444
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.880
blockbusters are dead. Let's go to
the vending machine. Oh, there's

445
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.440
one right up here at McDonald's.
Oh let's just go in and get a

446
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.480
few Big Max and some freaking McNuggets
while we're at it. It was like

447
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.880
a lost leader. It was brilliant. I go to a chip, I

448
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:20.160
got one of my agp's that I
go to. I'm not kidding you.

449
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.119
It still has a red box that
I have used. Well, I've walked

450
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.720
PI. It's been there for fifteen
plus years. I'm not twenty years.

451
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:37.920
It's bankrupt. It's bankrupt. Red
Box itself was acquired by another company about

452
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:42.519
a year ago, and now it's
over. They have filed for Chapter eleven

453
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:46.680
bankruptcy protection. They had a net
loss last year of six hundred and thirty

454
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:55.680
six million dollars. Wonder why it's
not a joking matter, because they have

455
00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.559
there's obviously if it's so many people. They laid off a lot of people,

456
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:05.720
They suspended their medical di benefits,
they miss payroll, people didn't get

457
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:10.880
paid, So certainly not a joking
matter. When any company goes belly out

458
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:19.799
some point, it seems companies have
outlived their time. I made a reference

459
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:29.279
to Blockbuster. There are very few
people right now who are over certainly twenty

460
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:31.759
years old. Let's put it this
way, sir, under twenty years old,

461
00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:36.640
who have a clue what the word
blockbuster is. They don't remember Blockbuster.

462
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:42.480
My youngest son's twenty four, just
turned twenty four. He I don't

463
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.640
know. I don't know. I
should ask him. I don't think he

464
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:47.599
remembers Blockbuster. My oldest son,
he'll be thirty coming up soon, and

465
00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:52.720
he'll probably remember going to Blockbuster with
me on a Friday night, like pretty

466
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:58.640
much the whole country did, browsing
through the section in trying to get a

467
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:04.400
VHS that we had to be kind
and rewind to return. They're gone,

468
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:12.480
and it looks like we're doing the
same of DVDs. Who has I mean,

469
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.599
do you still does anybody still have
a DVD player that is not in

470
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:24.039
their garage, that's actually plugged into
their TV set, their audio video system,

471
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:30.920
and you use it on a semi
regular basis. Do you use it

472
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:37.400
three times a year? Man?
I don't know. I'm pretty sure I

473
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:43.119
have a DVD player somewhere in my
garage. Then again, I also have

474
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:47.840
a record player. Somewhere in my
garage. I still have my cassette deck.

475
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:52.880
What we called a jam box back
in the eighties, was it,

476
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.639
man? That was it? If
you didn't have a jambox, a Panasonic

477
00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:59.800
jam box, you popped your cassette
in and you walked around. Man,

478
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:04.639
you were pimp king strutting doing some
breakdancing. I didn't know the break dancing.

479
00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.760
That somewhere still in my garage.
I know. I'm a hoarder.

480
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:15.719
Red Box dats around nine hundred and
seventy million dollars. What am I missing?

481
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.679
We got a really about two more
minutes left in this hour seven one

482
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.559
three two one two five nine five. Oh, if you're too shy to

483
00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.639
call follow me, go to X, go to UH, I guess,

484
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:28.119
just go to X, go to
threads. Maybe I'll open that too.

485
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:31.000
High tech textans bubble whole thing out
h I G H P E H T

486
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:37.960
E X A M. What is
something that you liked, you used,

487
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:43.519
maybe you grew up with for several
years, maybe a generation, maybe a

488
00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:45.199
half a generation. And I'm gonna
call red Box in there too. That

489
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:50.880
is just it's just not there anymore. And why are there still? Right?

490
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:54.239
I mean I'm not chelling you.
I walk into HGB. There's this

491
00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:57.519
one I go to on the southst
side of the HOTWN and there's a red

492
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.159
box. Look at it. Sometimes
I don't stop. I'm like, oh,

493
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:02.800
there's the red box, and I
don't think about it. I've never

494
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:08.119
seen anybody use it. Why is
it still there? I mean, if

495
00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:12.440
you break into the we I mean
listen. I mean I on a hot

496
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.039
day and I don't have it.
I don't I don't have a dollar,

497
00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:16.679
two dollars? How much? It's
like, how much is a sod?

498
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:21.159
How much is a coke? Cost? Now too? But I break into

499
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:24.599
the vending machine if I was thirsty, and break into the red box actually

500
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:30.599
to return all my DBDs. Times
are changing, people, Times aren't changing.

501
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:38.320
Twenty two years though, I'm still
here, not a lot of cracks

502
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:44.119
in my face though. One hour
down or jazz about halfway to half the

503
00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:58.760
hour of the high de Dex and
show I take it is Michael Garfield.

504
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.880
Michael Garfield. Michel our Field's joining
us and the high tech Texan. Michael

505
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:07.280
Garfield is here with a high tech
Texan items to make life easier, your

506
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:17.440
technology. So Michael Garfield has something
you might want. Michael Garfield, is

507
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:24.719
your high tech Texan three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. I

508
00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:34.360
heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act.
Now your high tech Texan, Michael Garfield.

509
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:39.480
Just like it's halfway through the year
of twenty twenty four, halfway through

510
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:44.639
the halfway to happy hour on the
show. Also what is up? Thank

511
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:50.159
you for tuning in the middle of
the summer. It's our summer special brought

512
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.719
to you by actually nobody. We
need to find a sponsor for that,

513
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.679
colum so let's let's work on that. Seven one three two point two five

514
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.840
nine five zero. Michael Garfield,
thanks for you. In the first hour,

515
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.400
had a lot of fun, talked
a little about the upcoming Amazon Prime

516
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.840
Days just in case you want to
spend some of your hard earned money on

517
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:13.519
really just maybe a deal or two, but a lot of crap. As

518
00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:17.760
I say, the Amazon Prime Days
is something that's Amazon's done almost every single

519
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:22.480
year, right in the dead middle
of summer as a garage sale. They

520
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:24.920
got they got to move this stuff
out of the warehouses that just doesn't sell

521
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:29.239
year round, so they can make
more room for other crap that we don't

522
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.360
need. During this upcoming oh A
Day season. I know, I'm marsh

523
00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:38.920
some things we actually do need and
I get asked so often and in so

524
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:45.840
many places, by so many different
people in so many different ways. Technology

525
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:50.159
advice, Yes, it's it all
started here. It actually started on TV

526
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:54.559
where people used to write letters into
the tvst I was on channel too,

527
00:38:54.639 --> 00:39:00.760
KPRC, the NBC affiliate here when
I started the illustrious media career of mine

528
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:06.480
in the year two thousand. That
email was certainly around. I didn't get

529
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:07.920
a ton of it, but people
used to write emails to the station.

530
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:10.559
Hey, Michael, what do you
think about this? Can you further explain

531
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:15.760
what Wi fi actually is? Then
I moved over to radio clear Channel Radio,

532
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:20.519
which is now iHeart Radio, and
I was on all eight of our

533
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:25.920
local stations, including KPRC Radio,
which is no affiliation currently with kp r

534
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.360
C TV. It's a long story. Emails started to come in, even

535
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.159
though I did get some hate mail, emails started to come out. And

536
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:37.079
then when I'm out and about,
I do a lot of things in and

537
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:42.400
around not only the city of Houston, but across the country. I speak,

538
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:46.360
I had motivational sales speeches, whatever, and Obviously it's based on technology.

539
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:49.920
So I get a lot of tech
questions, and I kind of liken

540
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.320
myself to a doctor. You know, you're at a party. You go

541
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:54.239
up and you meet a doctor.
Oh you're a doctor, Hey, doc,

542
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:57.639
let me ask you a question.
You know, I've got this kind

543
00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.239
of pain in my arm. It's
the same thing high tech texting. Hey

544
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.639
man, what kind of phone you
have? Hey, I'm trying to get

545
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:06.079
a computer. You know, what
what should I get? Listen. I

546
00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:08.400
don't lie whatsoever. I this is
what I want to do. I'm more

547
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:12.639
than happy to help if I can't. And I say this, it's because

548
00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:17.559
I got asked about a laptop computer. And I don't get that question too

549
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:24.199
often either. People they're keeping their
laptops longer. Laptops are relatively inexpensive.

550
00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:30.199
They don't need my assistance or whatever. But this one came from my cousin.

551
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:34.119
My cousin, she lives here in
Houston, and well, absolutely,

552
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.360
she's my I guess she's my second
cousin. She's my mom's first cousin.

553
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:43.920
So she's she's in her late sixties. I believe she could be early.

554
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:45.599
Said no, no, no,
no, no, she's late sixties,

555
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:49.800
I guess, and she texted me, and you know, she's so cute,

556
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.000
funny, she seems to him,
Michael, this is your cousin.

557
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.960
I'm like, I know this,
got a question. I need a laptop,

558
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.440
and I need something really simple.
I really just kind of want to

559
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:06.519
go online and do a few things
and whatever, and then what can you

560
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:10.639
do to help me? So obviously
I'm the guy who's trying to I always

561
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:14.639
show the answer where I give you
some products, I don't want to give

562
00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:17.280
you the most expensive thing out there, because there's there's so many opportunities to

563
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:21.840
save money for this product. For
the product. So I set there in

564
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:23.280
thought for a minute or two,
I'm thinking, well, she may be

565
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:28.719
she may want a chromebook. Now, if you don't know what a chromebook

566
00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:32.400
is, a chromebook, it's a
form factor of a laptop. But a

567
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:39.480
chromebook uses the Google operating system.
It's not Microsoft operating system, and it's

568
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:46.400
not an Apple operating system. So
it's cheaper, it's more affordable. It's

569
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:52.639
an affordable laptop. They are lightweight. They're made by several manufacturers. Google

570
00:41:53.239 --> 00:42:00.679
HP makes one, Lenovo makes one, Acer makes one, Dell makes one,

571
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:06.639
Asis makes one, there's there's a
number of different ones, and they're

572
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:08.440
just not They don't come with a
lot of blokeware. They don't come with

573
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:15.199
all the other software that that Microsoft
Windows may be packed with. But when

574
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:19.440
you're using you know, generally you
think there's two types of laptop computers.

575
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:24.880
There's Microsoft Windows and there's there's Apple
with the Mac MacBooks. Those have specific

576
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:30.000
software which obviously you have to license
what have you. Well, if you

577
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:35.800
don't have you have to need those
licenses, the software licenses, they become

578
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:39.280
cheaper. In fact, I'm just
playing around on a search right now.

579
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:45.559
I see this cannot be right.
I see a del phone book. I'm

580
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.320
clicking on this just to make sure
because I don't want to give out bad

581
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:53.039
information. This, this honestly can't
be true. Here is a Dell laptop

582
00:42:54.480 --> 00:43:02.679
from Walmart dot com for fifty three
dollars. This is used though this is

583
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:06.559
okay. I knew that was going
on, So that's used. Here is

584
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:12.159
here's an HP Chromebuck for sixty dollars. All right, there may be used

585
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.039
at the point. At the point
is you can get brand new ones for

586
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:19.159
easily one hundred and fifty dollars.
One hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars

587
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:22.079
where to eat the day day cheap
on those things. So no, I

588
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:23.280
text her back. I said,
hey, hey, what do you think

589
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:27.079
about this? Here's a growbuck.
Apparently she knew what a chromebuok goes,

590
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.760
and she says, well, I'm
actually may want to use a little Microsoft

591
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:35.159
Excel and some Microsoft word. Oh
okay, cock dog, no, now

592
00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:37.239
you tell me. So at that
point we have to go up in price,

593
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:42.519
and so I did some research and
it's then you get to go to

594
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.679
you know, you got a price
point of still not too bad. You

595
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:51.880
can get a Windows based where I
am not said, she's not getting an

596
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:53.719
Apple that nobody needs an Apple,
No one needs to pay that much and

597
00:43:54.239 --> 00:44:00.639
they're more confusing. So obviously I'm
sticking to Microsoft Windows. It's something for

598
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.079
two fifty three fifty. If you
really want something, you can get a

599
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:06.000
three thousand and five thousand dollars laptop. She doesn't want that because she's not

600
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:07.679
a gamer. At least I didn't
ask her if she's a gamer. So

601
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:13.039
no, I don't know what she
ended up getting, but there are there

602
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:16.199
are a ton of different opportunities when
it comes to different products and I have

603
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:19.360
to, you know, figure out, you know, what's right and what's

604
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:21.960
not right for people. And I
have to, you know, I have

605
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.239
to qualify that question. But asking
more questions. She also says she wants

606
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:29.360
a printer too. Printers gets in
a whole nother gang. And the first

607
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:34.079
question is I answer, or even
I ask myself, is how much do

608
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:37.360
you want to print? I have
a wireless printer at home. I've got

609
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:42.880
a really neat total compack small.
I don't even sometimes I lose it on

610
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:45.199
my shelf. It's an HP Tango. If you could take a look at

611
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:53.280
it, it's not expensive whatever.
If I print a ten pages a month,

612
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:57.719
maybe a lie, I don't print
that that much at all. If

613
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.199
you have an office, if you
have a smaller business that you meant to

614
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:01.679
print, you need to sign things. Yeah, you're gonna need you know

615
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:05.719
something that you're not going to be
drinking the ink. Had another question.

616
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:07.440
I was talking to a good buddy
of mine, the eye doctor to the

617
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:13.400
Stars, doctor Alan Panzer, Uh
doctor P calls me earlier this week,

618
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.320
and he was talking about printing.
He actually uses these tanks, these printing

619
00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:21.280
tanks, and he was having an
issue that they weren't working, and I

620
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:24.519
told him I have actually never used
those printer tanks because I don't print that

621
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:30.519
much. I generally stick with the
printing cartriges that come with it. I

622
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:32.480
have an HP because I don't use
a lot of ink. I have a

623
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:37.519
I have the black ink cartridge,
and I have the coloring cartridge. I've

624
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.880
seen those printer you know ink.
They're containers. I think what Shaquille O'Neil

625
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:44.719
I think was what I did the
EPs and commercials or something. But they're

626
00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:50.800
big tanks. Has anybody actually had
luck with those printer tanks. They're larger

627
00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:55.559
bottles of different colors that you can
hook up to your printer, and they

628
00:45:55.559 --> 00:46:02.199
don't cost nearly as much. Because
printer ink or printer cartridges are akin to

629
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:08.159
razor blades, buy the razors,
actually give away the razors and sell the

630
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:13.519
blades. That's a phenomenal business.
BALL usually give away printers HP. Every

631
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:15.840
episode should give away the printers,
just to make sure you're gonna write the

632
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:20.880
printer inc the same thing. So
anyway, that's how kind of I determine

633
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.280
what type of advice and if you
have any advice on printer even printers,

634
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:27.559
I'd actually like to hear from you. You see what you think? We're

635
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.760
gonna take break number one a hour
number two. Mister Michael Garfield coming back

636
00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:37.159
and has promised I got to get
rid of one of these gift cards ers.

637
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.280
So who wants to win something?
Calum You ready for the phones to

638
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:46.320
light up? Owl about a twenty
five dollars gift card Totabo Bob's. What

639
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:52.440
a fun, great restaurant. Some
of the best freshly made steak or chicken,

640
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:57.800
tacos, fajitas you we can call
it. It's a quick service restaurant.

641
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.320
It's out of Austin. If you're
familiar with the four or five locations

642
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:02.880
at Austin, I think there's one
in San Antonio. There are now at

643
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:06.880
least four here in the Houston area. I am there at least twice a

644
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:09.599
week. If you follow me on
Instagram, you can see how I go

645
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:13.440
through the line. I tell them
I want the chicken, maybe I want

646
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:16.800
a little of the fried fish.
But the neat thing is five different types

647
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:22.679
of tortillas that they press and heat
right in front of you. Oh my,

648
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:27.280
the tomatillo. They have a smoky
cheddar. It's it is so good.

649
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:31.840
Twenty five dollars gift card Cobo Bob's
seven one three two one two five

650
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:35.599
nine five. Oh, calling Humber
nine, how about that calem give that

651
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:38.119
thing away? Two one two five
nine five Oh you are the next winner

652
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:42.000
of a Cobo Bob's gift card.
I do thank you to their Uh they're

653
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:44.599
I'm not gonna say it's a partnership
there. We're just kind enough. They

654
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:46.880
know I'm a big fan. So
they said, Michael, we're not going

655
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:50.760
to feed you because you're not eating
a lot, you're losing a little white.

656
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:52.400
You're looking great. And once you
just give this way, make somebody

657
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.119
else, uh you know, give
them some protein, happy to do it,

658
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:59.960
happy to do it, so we'll
get a winner on that thing.

659
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:04.960
Time to talk about cars and trucks
right now. You know. One of

660
00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:09.079
the things that I do is I
get to test drive some really brand new

661
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:14.639
sometimes never seen sometimes not even on
the market yet really need cars. I'm

662
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:19.559
in trucks. I'm a member of
the Texas Auto Writers Association, which means

663
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.800
I deal with manufacturers. I mean
the you know the previous segment I was

664
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:25.119
telling you about. My job is
to give advice of telling you what to

665
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:30.000
buy and sometimes where to buy it. When it comes to cars and automobiles,

666
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:35.119
this is and it's it's totally it's
my opinion. It's unpaid endorsement,

667
00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:38.159
which I really don't like dealing.
But alas, I don't deal in dealerships.

668
00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:42.280
Okay, if you like what I
said that no dealing in dealerships.

669
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.599
I can review vehicles. They come
straight from the manufacturers, which means I

670
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:50.679
use, I can dis on them, I could love on them, but

671
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:53.199
I'm not going to recommend a dealership. I don't endorse a dealership. I

672
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:57.320
don't have deals with dealerships, and
so it's totally up to me. So

673
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.800
if you like something I hear about, go figure out where dealership is.

674
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.079
And so I'm gonna give you the
true ups and downs of the things that

675
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.280
I did, the things that I
like and that I don't like. This

676
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:13.519
past week or so, I've been
riding around one of the most luxurious vehicles

677
00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:15.920
I have been in in a long
time, Mediavior. Certainly on the inside.

678
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:22.199
I have been riding around at a
twenty twenty four Lincoln. Let's write

679
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:27.519
a Lincoln Nautilus. Now, if
you haven't seen a Lincoln Nautilus, it's

680
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.559
an suv. It's a two row
suv. Several different levels of Lincoln.

681
00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:34.079
You can you can start yourself with
a Lincoln, you know, get these

682
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:37.280
things for around fifty to fifty five
thousand dollars, and then at some point

683
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:42.320
you start getting the upscale, upgraded
versions, the different badges, if you

684
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.000
will. Well, I happen to
be in the Lincoln Nautilus black label.

685
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:49.320
They caught a bla it sounds like
a Scotch, doesn't. No, it's

686
00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:52.679
not. It's not a Scotch,
but it is a black label rolls up

687
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:54.320
in front of my house because it's
delivered each each Thursday, I get a

688
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:57.800
car that rolls up, a vehicle
that rolls up in front of my house,

689
00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.440
and they give me the keys,
and I get to have it for

690
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.079
a week. And I'm looking at
it and it's it's kind of a it's

691
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:08.159
a monotone color, kind of a
dark grayish type of thing. Well,

692
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:13.400
I love the grill, the twenty
two inch wheels. They're very big,

693
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:19.440
kind of nondescript. And maybe it's
just because it's just one monochrome to me,

694
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:24.440
dullish color. All right, anyway, get inside, man, I

695
00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:32.159
stepped inside a freaking rocket ship to
the future. This is I can't say

696
00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:38.960
I'm looking into the future because the
future is now. The display on how

697
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:45.719
everything is laid out on the dashboard
it's crazy. And I took some video

698
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:52.320
and I posted it on my Instagram
high tech text and h I G h

699
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.280
T E C H T E T
E x A N. This looks like

700
00:50:55.360 --> 00:51:00.800
it could be an electric vehicle,
because electric vehicles they do kind of go

701
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.360
all out on how they're laid out
internally. Then you know, they got

702
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.800
a big twelve inch touchscreen, which
now we're kind of used to seeing.

703
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:14.280
This is totally different. This does
have a center infotainment touchscreen. I believe

704
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.360
it's ten to twelve inches, but
that's not what's crazy. It has.

705
00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.760
Now I'm gonna try to give you
the play by play, but this is

706
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.199
what we professionals do. We're to
explain it on the radio. Imagine you're

707
00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:27.199
sitting in the driver's that you're sitting
in the passtreet and you're looking out of

708
00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:30.480
the windshield. All right, Well, you have a dashboard, and the

709
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.840
dashboard generally it's it's a little curvature, just the way the cars are built,

710
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:38.519
and it's kind of flat. Most
of them are flat. Right on

711
00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:44.000
top of the dashboards, you could
see right out the window. Well right

712
00:51:44.119 --> 00:51:51.480
on the dashboard left to right,
there is an elongated, very horizontal,

713
00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:58.559
if you will, forty eight inch
screen that goes from the left side of

714
00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:04.159
the vehicle, right where the the
state inspectrum goes, all the way to

715
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:09.960
the right side the right a pillar
where the passenger seats sits. It's maybe

716
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:19.400
only five inches high, but it
is forty eight inches long. People,

717
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:24.800
it is a four foot long display, and it is gorgeous. It is

718
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:29.719
bright, and you can make this
thing do anything you want. So right

719
00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:31.000
in front of you, Yes,
you've got the odometer, you've got the

720
00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:36.159
speed dometer, you've got got all
the info that you need. A little

721
00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.599
right of that, you've got your
map, your navigation map, and the

722
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:44.320
navigation map. Now it's a little
bit more on the on your eye level,

723
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:49.639
because it's right on. It's on
the lower part of the windshield.

724
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.559
Now correg me, this is not
projected onto the windshield. It's actual a

725
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.039
video screen that is built into the
car. So technically you can call it

726
00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:00.119
part of the dashboard because right above
that there is the windshield. Then after

727
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:05.920
that you could configure anything you want. You could put the weather, you

728
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:07.920
could put the time, you could
put a clock up there. You've got

729
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:12.880
the radio, you've got the trip
monitor, maybe the trip one oh domeinter

730
00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:16.719
the trip too O dometer. But
it is right displayed in front of you

731
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:22.400
like you're as you see in movies
that you're in an airplane or a rocket

732
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:25.880
ship, and it just blew me
away. At that point, you can

733
00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:30.960
set the color scheme. Now this
isn't new, and you getn't get the

734
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:35.079
higher end cars with the ant.
It's called ambient lighting, and you're mostly

735
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:37.679
gonna see this at night when it's
dark, but you could set the ambient

736
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:39.840
lighting to kind of a more purple
hue. Maybe it's an orange, maybe

737
00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:45.320
it's a yellow, maybe it's a
great It changes everything. It's it's unlike

738
00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:51.920
anything I've seen. So I gotta
give some props to Lincoln on their Nautilus

739
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:57.239
for having this just really incredible display. And to me, it's like this

740
00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:00.440
is it's very futuristic. We're gonna
see the things on more and more vehicles,

741
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:05.599
and Lincoln just did one heck of
a job. The steering wheel is

742
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:09.440
interesting. It's not a round steering
wheel, and it's not a racing steering

743
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:15.360
wheel. A racing steering wheel.
Generally, the the top art is round,

744
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:19.039
but the bottom is flat. Gives
you a better grip, it doesn't,

745
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:20.960
You know, when you turn it
you can get your hands around that,

746
00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:22.440
you know, a little easier,
you know, when you're turning corners.

747
00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:27.320
This is kind of a it's almost
a bow tie shape, if that

748
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:30.599
makes sense. It's a little bit
more rounder than a boat, more rounded.

749
00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:34.400
It's more round than a bow tie. But it's kind of an elongated

750
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:39.719
horizontal of handlebar. Point is there's
a theme that goes inside. I think

751
00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:44.559
I have a redwood theme. It's
a calming presence that makes you think just

752
00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:47.000
because it's a dark it's not a
dark, it's it's kind of an off

753
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:54.199
red maroon pattern on the seats.
It is interesting some of the crazy features

754
00:54:54.239 --> 00:55:00.199
it has built in, Like I'm
not gonna call it perfume, but since

755
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:07.880
not dollars and cents but sc nts. It's got three different scent cartridges that

756
00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:14.280
you can interchange, and it'll make
your cabin smell like a forest. It'll

757
00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:16.920
smell like fresh linen, it'll smell
like clouds. If you don't clouds,

758
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:22.599
I mean this thing is pimp pimp. This is the black label. We'll

759
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:25.480
tell you it runs about seventy eight
thousand dollars eighty thousand dollars. But it's

760
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:29.840
a very nice, luxurious vehicle.
Is it worth it? Not sure?

761
00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:34.119
It rides very well, it's got
very good pickup, it's got a nice

762
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:38.079
engine. But it is two rows. It's almost large enough if you look

763
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:42.760
at it from the outside that it
could have a small third row seat.

764
00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:46.199
It doesn't, but it does allow
for a very large cargo space. It's

765
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:51.920
got the automatic tailgate that lifts up
when you put that. Even when you

766
00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:54.119
put the second row down, you
could fit a lot of cargo space in

767
00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:58.199
there. But overall, it's been
a while since I've been in a Lincoln,

768
00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:00.960
which is part of the Ford family, the Lincoln Nautilus black label.

769
00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:07.280
It's neat. If you ever happen
to drive by a Lincoln dealership, go

770
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:09.599
inside and just take a look at
the Nautilus and order take a look at

771
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:15.440
some of the stuff that I'm putting
on my social media because it's actually very

772
00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:19.519
interesting. Good job, Lincoln Nautilist. I applaud you. Speaking of luxury

773
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:22.400
coming up, you ever thought about
getting anything custom a custom made suit,

774
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:27.400
a custom made coat. They're not
as expensive as you would think. And

775
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.519
I'll tell you what the quality and
the way that actually you could design your

776
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:37.159
colors, the lapels and things are
very interesting to actually make it look like

777
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:39.719
you no need to buy anything else
off the rack. I found a great

778
00:56:39.719 --> 00:56:43.480
habitashery over here. We're gonna go
through the process of how he makes his

779
00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:46.000
clothes and what makes me look so
good when I'm walking around. I'm pimping

780
00:56:46.039 --> 00:56:57.199
on stage coming up here on the
High Tech TEXTI show, we are back

781
00:56:57.239 --> 00:57:00.440
at it. Michael Garkiels is the
name Summer or whatever day you may be

782
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:04.639
listening to it. Should you be
live, happy Saturday, if you're listening

783
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:07.199
to this on iHeartRadio or podcast,
don't matter when you're listening to it,

784
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:13.320
but that's from listening. That's what
counts. I have so many followers and

785
00:57:13.400 --> 00:57:15.519
which I'm grateful for. Thank you
for everybody out there following me at High

786
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:19.639
Tech Text and on Instagram and Facebook. And I get a lot of comments

787
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:23.159
over the years about my clothes,
and I you know, it's not that

788
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:27.400
I'm a clothes horse, but I
want to make sure I have always worn

789
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:30.519
really nice clothes. And one of
the reasons why is because I talk a

790
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.239
lot about technology, and you think
about it, you know, you think

791
00:57:34.280 --> 00:57:37.239
I would dress like a geek,
right, Well, I do so much

792
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:38.559
TV. I get on you know, on stage and stuff. It's the

793
00:57:38.599 --> 00:57:40.800
last thing I want to do is
you know, look like a geek.

794
00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:45.880
And so I you know, I
put a lot of effort and time and

795
00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:50.480
money and style, you know,
information into what I wear, including some

796
00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:52.239
of these sport codes. And over
the past few months, I've been collecting

797
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:55.440
some really need sport codes that have
been custom made for me. And I

798
00:57:55.440 --> 00:57:59.360
never in my life but I actually
would have anything custom made for me.

799
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:04.000
But at the end of the day, it sits unbelievably, they're not nearly

800
00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:07.559
as expensive as I thought, you
know, custom suits or coach would wear.

801
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:13.559
And I get him right here by
a gentleman who is mister Houston,

802
00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:16.719
and he's so mister Houston, and
he's so mister habitat Serie. I love

803
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:20.519
the moniker, I love his website. I love the name of this company.

804
00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:24.639
It quite simply is Houston Suit Guy
aka Steve Springer, who I've known

805
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:28.039
for quite a while. I want
to bring him in and we're going to

806
00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:30.079
talk a little fashion here in the
middle of summer. Steve something telling me

807
00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:34.679
right now, you're wearing a sport
coat, correct or not? You know,

808
00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:38.679
it's it's the job. You've got
to always have a sport code.

809
00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:42.519
I can't go I can't go to
the grocery store and not have a sport

810
00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:45.599
coat because you never know who you're
going to run into, and you want

811
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:51.280
that best first impression every time matter
which it is by the way, here

812
00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:54.000
in July of twenty twenty four,
it's very hot. But how often do

813
00:58:55.039 --> 00:58:59.519
you get stopped by people going,
hey, nice coke? Because I know

814
00:58:59.599 --> 00:59:02.480
it's happened to me a lot lately, you know it does. It happens

815
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:07.199
a lot. And it's not because
necessarily that the jackets that I make or

816
00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:13.920
wear are flashy or in any way
crazy. It's just that when somebody is

817
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:17.840
wearing something that looks nice, is
put together well, people notice, and

818
00:59:17.880 --> 00:59:24.519
so I think that's important. Biggest
compliments I think I continue to receive.

819
00:59:24.639 --> 00:59:29.480
And this is years and years and
years. It's nice when I wear I

820
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:31.880
love really cool, fashionable shirts,
lots of buttons, and you see how

821
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:36.039
I dress, and then I may
not wear a ton of sport coades.

822
00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:39.000
Even though I'm doing it now,
I really find it a compliment when not

823
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:44.239
women come up and tell me that
the suit or the shirt looks good.

824
00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:47.880
It's when dudes come up and seriously
say, hey, where'd you get that?

825
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.440
Because I know for a lot of
men, a lot of them don't

826
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:57.079
care, especially here in Houston,
they wear T shirts and it's just kind

827
00:59:57.079 --> 00:59:59.400
of a town where you wear blue
jeans. Ever, But when they sincerely

828
00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:01.360
say, at a sharp board,
did you get it? Do you find

829
01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:06.079
more in your business? Is it
the men? Do they not care as

830
01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:07.800
much? Do they care as much
as the women? But I think it's

831
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:10.360
odd that it's I find it more
flattering when the guys say, hey,

832
01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:14.679
man, nice stuff. Absolutely,
you know, I think, like you

833
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:17.760
said the Moniker Houston suit guy on
Instagram, I actually get more comments,

834
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:22.360
more questions from guys all the time, because quite honestly, when a guy

835
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:24.920
walks in the store, if you've
ever thought about it, you go clothes

836
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:29.920
shopping, what do you do?
You see things on mannequins and you say,

837
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:35.320
wow, that looks really good.
I want that. For most guys,

838
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:38.480
it's hard to go and find things, put things together kind of sort

839
01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:42.159
it out in a way that makes
sense. And a lot of guys we're

840
01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:45.519
really busy. So when you go
into your closet, you want to know

841
01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:49.480
that the first thing that you grab
is going to look really, really good,

842
01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:53.000
no matter what it is. Most
of us have three or four outfits,

843
01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:57.360
maybe even just two or three.
That is kind of our go too,

844
01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:00.719
And it doesn't matter where we're going, what we're doing. Why do

845
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:05.760
we grab those two or three outfits
over and over. It's because that's what

846
01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:08.559
we feel good in. We feel
confident when we wear it. And so

847
01:01:08.920 --> 01:01:12.760
I always ask people when that they, you know, kind of start the

848
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:16.119
consultation process with me and learning about
custom clothing. I said, what would

849
01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:20.360
it be like for you? Would
it be mind blowing? Would it be

850
01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:28.440
life changing if that every item in
your closet you had that same confidence and

851
01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:31.159
feel about every time you grabbed it
out of there, no matter what it

852
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:37.079
was, And it would open up
your world to a much larger wardrobe.

853
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:40.400
And you know, it's it's kind
of that Dion Sanders thing. You'll look

854
01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:44.000
good, you feel good, you
feel good, you play good, you

855
01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:46.880
play good, they pay good.
That's kind of that's kind of that whole

856
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:53.119
world of having that first impression and
being confident when you meet somebody. It

857
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:58.079
doesn't matter if it's in business,
doesn't matter if it's just in person,

858
01:01:58.559 --> 01:02:01.719
talking to new people, meeting new
people, relationships, whatever it is.

859
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:06.159
When you when you look good and
feel good, you're more confident and it

860
01:02:06.199 --> 01:02:09.960
shows is proving time. Steve Springer
is his name, Houston Suit Guy.

861
01:02:10.079 --> 01:02:14.639
You can google it and social media
everywhere you'll find and we'll get more than

862
01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:17.880
that. How'd you get started in
this business? So for years I actually

863
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.760
spent time in kind of the kind
of the menswear world, big box stores,

864
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:28.239
you know, and I got a
little bit of a little bit of

865
01:02:29.079 --> 01:02:36.559
taste of what custom men'swear was like
at some level, and I realized that

866
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:42.519
custom menswear is where that you get
to actually build relationships. I get to

867
01:02:42.599 --> 01:02:47.079
sip with someone like yourself like we
did, and understand about you, how

868
01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:51.440
you wear clothes, what you do
when you put a sport code on.

869
01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:54.199
Is it just date night? Is
it that I'm in front of a camera,

870
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:59.320
Is it that I'm you know,
I just want to elevate my game.

871
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:02.119
I would just want to better feel
better. So all of those things

872
01:03:02.119 --> 01:03:07.559
are very important. You know,
somebody might come in and say, you

873
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:10.760
know, hey, I'm I sell
BMW's, you know, for instance,

874
01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:14.920
and I have to be in a
suit every day, and I want the

875
01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:19.039
best looking suit out there, and
so they picked these really expensive, beautiful

876
01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:22.800
fabrics and I'll tell them, look, you know, that might not actually

877
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:24.360
be the right fabric for you.
And the reason is you're in and out

878
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:29.599
of cars all day. I'm going
to make you a suit that's really beautiful,

879
01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:32.480
that's going to show you off in
your best light, but it's not

880
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:36.599
going to be maybe quite as expensive
because we need something that's a little bit

881
01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:42.039
more bulletproof for what you do.
So it's all about the personal experience and

882
01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:46.480
being able to understand what you want, what your goals are in developing a

883
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:51.280
wardrobe. And so you know,
for me, like I said, it's

884
01:03:51.320 --> 01:03:54.880
transitioning from those those big box stores
and really stepping out on my own.

885
01:03:55.400 --> 01:04:00.880
You know, COVID was was really
that that factor that made it all happen.

886
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.239
And you know, it's it's interesting. My very first client, very

887
01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:12.519
first client as a with Bluefine Men's
Wear was actually a KPRC Frank Billingsley Rank.

888
01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:17.079
He he you know, had known
him for several years and he called

889
01:04:17.079 --> 01:04:19.480
me and said, hey, it
looks like your stores closed. Man,

890
01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:23.719
I we know what's going on.
And I said, well, they've closed

891
01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:25.760
down all these stores, you know, due to COVID, but just so

892
01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:28.880
happens, you know, in the
background. I've been working on this for

893
01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:32.559
a while now and I've got all
my fabrics from Italy and England. And

894
01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:36.320
he said, well, can you
come over? And so I went over

895
01:04:36.360 --> 01:04:41.480
to his house and he bought a
couple of suits. And that has just

896
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:45.119
absolutely become, you know, kind
of the best ever. Building on those

897
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:51.320
relationships and having clients that have really
really good experiences that have become honestly some

898
01:04:51.400 --> 01:04:55.360
of my best friends. Love Frank. I don't think he's gonna be wearing

899
01:04:55.360 --> 01:05:00.199
a lot of suits anymore. Has
he just retired? Very very lucky guy

900
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:04.719
Steve Springer joining me here for the
next few minutes, known as the Houston

901
01:05:05.039 --> 01:05:10.039
Suit Guy custom made Suits. Talk
about the process. I like the process.

902
01:05:10.079 --> 01:05:14.239
I have never been through a custom
making a sport code or suit process,

903
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:16.280
and I tell you what it was. It was simple. But Steve,

904
01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:19.360
I got to say, it was
kind of fun because I got along

905
01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:24.679
with you to design some stuff.
Obviously you took my measurements, and at

906
01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:29.679
that point it was let's go shopping
through all of these fabrics. And in

907
01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:32.960
your office, I know you just
have swatches and swabs and books and books

908
01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:39.599
and books of different fabrics thick than
the color patterns. I know what colors

909
01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:43.239
I like and which was awesome because
when I go used to go shopping off

910
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.559
rack in stores, it's like I'm
gonna have to buy something they got here.

911
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:49.559
That's it. It may not have
been truly truly garf stop. You

912
01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:53.239
made design. Let's put it this
way. You do you help me design

913
01:05:53.519 --> 01:05:57.400
garf sport codes because I like color. I like things because I'm on stage

914
01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:00.039
and I'm on TV. I need
something that pop. And so whether it

915
01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:03.000
say a purple, which is my
favorite color, a purple sport coder blazer

916
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:08.239
beautiful and uh and then you talked
about, well this one has you know,

917
01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:11.199
a little you know, patch style
of pockets on the whole thing.

918
01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:14.519
It's you actually guide me through the
process. You look at my skin tone,

919
01:06:14.519 --> 01:06:17.920
this is gonna pop. That was
the neat one on win experience.

920
01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:20.960
And that's I think what you profess. You are one on one you custom

921
01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:25.000
make these for everybody. But yes, from the from the way that we

922
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:29.760
started is we we basically say,
like I said, the the consultation piece,

923
01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:32.280
let's figure out what you're looking for. And then once we've kind of

924
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:36.960
got that built out in our mind
what your your goals are, then we

925
01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:42.559
start to select fabrics. And these
are all fabrics that are imported from Italy

926
01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:46.400
and England like Xenia, Laura,
Piana and you know all those really really

927
01:06:46.440 --> 01:06:51.440
great fabric mills, Fox Brothers out
of England, Hudtersfeld, really really great

928
01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:58.239
you know, cloth, top quality, beautiful, beautiful cloth, and so

929
01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:02.199
we start from a quality product and
then and then we start to build out

930
01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:05.159
the design together. Houston Sue guy. I'll tell you what, Steve,

931
01:07:05.159 --> 01:07:08.039
We'll get you out here on this
and we're going to go to the email

932
01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:11.599
over here. So it's funny,
I got it. This is from Jeanette,

933
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:15.400
which is a female. She goes
great topic right now because my husband

934
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.840
dresses like generally, how long does
it take to make a sport code?

935
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:23.440
Which is actually I think it's a
fair question. Sure, typically I want

936
01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:27.119
to have about six weeks. That's
that's you know, So it's a real

937
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:31.199
easy process to set up an appointment
with me. Most the best scenarios to

938
01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:35.320
set up appointment with me and my
design center which is in the Houston Heights,

939
01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:41.639
and that's that's just a really easy
process there. And after we design

940
01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:45.960
it and I start into the production. It takes typically about six weeks.

941
01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:49.079
And then as soon as everything is
I've done the whole QC process on the

942
01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:55.599
finished garments, then I will send
you a message to schedule a final fitting

943
01:07:56.079 --> 01:08:00.239
appointment, which you know ninety nine
percent of the time you want. You

944
01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:03.400
try it on in the dressing room, everything is perfect and you'll leave with

945
01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:08.079
the garment that day. If there's
any tweaks or adjustments that are needed,

946
01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:11.239
typically takes two to three days,
and then you'll have your your suit or

947
01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:15.039
tucks makes sense, and we end
it with this, as we quote Saturday

948
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:16.439
Live, it is better to look
good than to feel good, and I

949
01:08:16.520 --> 01:08:21.279
absolutely look good. You look good
every time we're wearing anything that is made

950
01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:25.319
by you. People want to get
a hold of you. What's the easiest

951
01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:30.439
way. So the easiest way is
to go either to Instagram through Houston suit

952
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:35.640
Guy, or you can go directly
to my website houstonsuit Guy dot com,

953
01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:41.920
or you can go to bluefinemenswear dot
com. Either way works. You'll get

954
01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.439
there. There's a there's a message
button, or you can call me.

955
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:48.279
I'll put my put my phone number
out there, seven one, three,

956
01:08:48.720 --> 01:08:53.720
six five nine ninety twenty eight.
You can call or text that number.

957
01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:58.520
Texting is better obviously just because of
volume. But if you can send me

958
01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:01.199
a text or or just go straight
to the website, there's a way to

959
01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:05.279
contact me right there, or you
can send me a direct message on Instagram.

960
01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:09.119
Houston Suit Guy, Suit Guy,
and for all the people. Every

961
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:12.000
time I happen to wear some of
these sport codes out there, when people

962
01:09:12.039 --> 01:09:14.720
do come up and say where did
you get that? I have a pocketful

963
01:09:14.760 --> 01:09:16.840
of your business starts that I give
him, and you know I do because

964
01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:20.079
I get a lot of comments every
time I'm out in one of your great

965
01:09:20.079 --> 01:09:25.720
sport codes. Steve Springer, Houston
suit Guy. Loved the branding and love

966
01:09:25.880 --> 01:09:28.439
what you do. Congrats and your
success, my man. I can't wait

967
01:09:28.439 --> 01:09:30.439
to order a few more coming up
here. Thank you for your time and

968
01:09:31.079 --> 01:09:35.239
dress well. Mia Migo, you
too. Take care Michael. That is

969
01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:38.359
Steve. What cool is that?
I mean literally, people, I mean

970
01:09:38.359 --> 01:09:42.199
I never thought I'd have anything that
was custom and it was so freaking simple.

971
01:09:42.239 --> 01:09:44.840
And I'm not going to, you
know, give out his government or

972
01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:48.359
information. But he's got some other
than Flank. He's got some pretty famous

973
01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:51.399
clients, some of which I just
want to hang around his shop to just

974
01:09:51.399 --> 01:09:55.520
watch him come in and out.
Steve Springer check it out of Houston suit

975
01:09:55.560 --> 01:09:59.039
Guy. All right, this is
called the High Tech Text Show KPRC Radio

976
01:09:59.119 --> 01:10:01.640
nine fifty am, not only in
Houston but around the world. And iHeartRadio.

977
01:10:01.880 --> 01:10:11.560
Don't go anywhere. We'll be right
back. We made it almost.

978
01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:15.319
We got about eight more minutes of
the show. Oh man, indulgence of

979
01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:17.279
summer. I do thank you for
hanging in there. Hey, also,

980
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:20.880
thanks so much to Houston Suit Guy. If you just turned our chat,

981
01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:26.880
it's it's pretty listen. I talk
so much more about technology. It's it's

982
01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.640
you know, it's the world according
to Garf. It's whatever I want to

983
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:36.079
yap about. And I always like
spotlighting entrepreneurs, local businesses. And you

984
01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:40.359
know, he is a one man
band who just decided to break away from

985
01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:45.640
the big box stores of not Medastrius
Shmata and does a week call it which

986
01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:49.600
is clothing or rags and created is
his own place, Houston Suit Guy,

987
01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:54.520
Houstonsuit guye dot com. And he
tell you what he did. He just

988
01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:56.800
actually just texted me. He goes, Hey, Garth, thank you so

989
01:10:56.880 --> 01:10:59.479
much for the opportunity to speak.
By the way, if anybody mentioned your

990
01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:02.439
name, I'm going to give them
ten percent off anything. How about that?

991
01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:06.359
So, Houston Suit Guy, if
you someone you know wants a custom

992
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:11.359
suit a custom sport code, check
it out. It's absolutely worth getting measured,

993
01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:16.279
picking out all your fabrics and you
could save ten percent twenty plus years

994
01:11:16.319 --> 01:11:19.760
the industry. And this is good. This is the most famous thing that's

995
01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:24.800
ever happened to me. Is I've
become a coupon. My name is cue

996
01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:29.319
pot ten percent. If you mentioned
Michael Garfield, so give him it.

997
01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:32.920
Really good stuff. Not going to
give out the phone number anymore. We

998
01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:38.279
do have a winner for the Cabo
Bob's gift card we gave away two segments

999
01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:41.479
ago. Congratulations to the winner,
whoever that is. That You're going to

1000
01:11:41.479 --> 01:11:45.079
be eating well at one of the
four Houston area Cabo Bob's location. It's

1001
01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:47.600
actually almost lunchtime for me. I
actually may have to run up there.

1002
01:11:48.199 --> 01:11:53.800
And get a little snacky poo if
I need to what other things I want

1003
01:11:53.880 --> 01:11:56.399
to head, I'm gonna go through
some emails. Oh my, a lot

1004
01:11:56.439 --> 01:12:00.359
of it, a lot of traveling
going on. And I got two three

1005
01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:05.000
emails, one of which in the
last hour asking me about international phone plans.

1006
01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:10.239
One of the best phone plans because
they're traveling internationally. It's the third

1007
01:12:10.359 --> 01:12:15.560
question, similarly like that that I've
got this pass week using your phone internationally.

1008
01:12:15.439 --> 01:12:19.319
It's a little it's it's no longer
as simple as just popping in a

1009
01:12:19.399 --> 01:12:23.680
different SIM card. And if you
know what a SIM card, the sim

1010
01:12:23.800 --> 01:12:29.479
card is a little tiny, physical
little card. It's a little electronic card

1011
01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:31.079
that you can pop in and pop
out of your phone. That's something you

1012
01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:33.840
have to use, a little pen, a little almost like a needle that

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01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:39.439
comes with it. That for years
and years phones at that actually is your

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01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:43.600
phone number. So whoever your carrier
is, Verizon, T Mobile, eighteen

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01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:48.920
T whatever it is, they send
you this little tiny card and you pop

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01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:51.319
it in and that's the phone number, and it keeps a lot of your

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01:12:51.399 --> 01:12:54.800
data and things on there. And
so when you get a new phone,

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01:12:54.920 --> 01:12:57.319
quite simply over the years, all
you need to do is pop that little

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01:12:57.359 --> 01:13:00.479
SIM card out which is your phone
number, put it into phone, and

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01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:03.960
you're set to go. Now,
newer phones now have don't have the physical

1021
01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:10.680
card. They have an electronic sim. It's called the E's an e SIM.

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01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:13.520
It's not an E SIM. Car
is just an e SIM. It

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01:13:13.640 --> 01:13:17.039
is kind of confusing. But as
summer travel heats up, you do have

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01:13:17.119 --> 01:13:23.560
some questions on what's the what's the
best phones with international plans. I'll try

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01:13:23.840 --> 01:13:26.119
let me see if I let see
if I can take two or three minutes

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01:13:26.119 --> 01:13:29.600
before we get out of here to
explain this. I'll focus on US carriers,

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01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:31.479
United States carriers, UH, and
a lot of that could be applied

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01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:35.760
to traveling in other countries. I
have this is there. I have no

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01:13:35.880 --> 01:13:40.039
skin in the game. I have
no endorsement with anybody. I'm just looking

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01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:42.920
at rates. I don't care who
you use, all right, you may

1031
01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:46.239
like one, you may not like
one, but just just quickly anecdotal scanning

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01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:55.000
the if you really Globe Trot frequently
take a look at Verizon's unlimited Ultimate Plan.

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01:13:56.399 --> 01:14:00.680
It's their most premium plan. It's
unlimited kind of takes a page from

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01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:06.319
T Mobile's playbook. As international texting
has data and over about two hundred country

1035
01:14:08.199 --> 01:14:14.720
all right, now, it's data
and texting. It does not include voice.

1036
01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:18.600
But here's the thing you can get
around voice because nowadays, really if

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01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:23.439
you ask me, and I haven't
traveled a ton internationally, but I've never

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01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:30.600
done anything. I've never upgraded my
phone because Wi Fi is so over existed,

1039
01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:36.359
it's so ubiquitous in libraries, cafes, restaurants, airports, hotels,

1040
01:14:36.479 --> 01:14:41.560
resorts. If you're on Wi Fi, you can use WhatsApp, you can

1041
01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:45.439
use FaceTime. Other messaging apps has
voice culling features. I used to get

1042
01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:53.199
a Wi Fi calling Verizon has something
called mix and match plans for different lines

1043
01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:55.880
on your account, and that could
be helpful for you. If you're on

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01:14:55.920 --> 01:14:58.560
a family plan. That means if
you have one line on an ultimate for

1045
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:00.760
the month you'll be traveling, you
can keep the other lines on a more

1046
01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:06.880
affordable plan, So that that's one
opportunity too. So to determine where you

1047
01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:12.319
want to go, do a little
Google search, what country you're traveling in.

1048
01:15:12.600 --> 01:15:15.239
Who's your provider? If it's If
it's T Mobile, go to the

1049
01:15:15.279 --> 01:15:17.760
T Mobile website. Does it work? Does it include extra minisc a lot

1050
01:15:17.880 --> 01:15:21.880
if you're going to Mexico or Canada. I believe I don't quote me,

1051
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:27.479
but some of these plans actually include
Mexico in Canada, so you don't even

1052
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:31.119
need to upgrade. There's another good
one for international plans. T Mobile has

1053
01:15:31.159 --> 01:15:36.840
something called the Magenta Max. The
Magenta Max, it has a high speed.

1054
01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:41.720
The other thing is you may if
you get a hot spot. If

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01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:45.399
you know what a hotspot is,
If your phone has a hot spot and

1056
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:50.000
it's included maybe in your unlimited plan, you can actually light up your phone

1057
01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:54.840
to become a hotspot. And your
party who travels with you, maybe at

1058
01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:59.319
your family kids, whoever, they
can actually glomb off of your hot spot.

1059
01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:03.279
Tell them to turn on their Wi
Fi. Get onto your Wi Fi

1060
01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:09.119
because you're broadcasting from your hotspot.
That's another secret too, Latin America.

1061
01:16:09.279 --> 01:16:11.640
If you're going to Latin America,
Number one, take me. I got

1062
01:16:11.680 --> 01:16:16.720
a new passport at and T Unlimited
Premium maybe the best for you. And

1063
01:16:17.319 --> 01:16:24.319
it's and then there's roaming versus local
sim cards. The big reason that I'm

1064
01:16:24.359 --> 01:16:27.439
come to talk a little bit about
roaming is because most common ways US people

1065
01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:31.560
you probout United States consumers still buy
their phones. It's through wireless carriers and

1066
01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:36.800
installment plans, and to keep people
from taking advantage of subsidized phones leaving for

1067
01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:43.520
other providers, the carriers lock their
phones to their networks until you finish your

1068
01:16:43.880 --> 01:16:47.960
two or three year installment plans.
And so sometimes you can go to another

1069
01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:53.000
country if you have a lock phone, and you could go get a SIM

1070
01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:58.760
card to temporarily put in point is
the world is getting smaller when it comes

1071
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:03.760
to communication. Well, last year
I went to South Korea and I didn't

1072
01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:09.239
do a derned stand and I use
mint Mobile. I don't even use one

1073
01:17:09.279 --> 01:17:11.119
of the big three. I use
mint Mobile. By the way, if

1074
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:13.920
you want a discount for mint Mobile, pop me a direct message or send

1075
01:17:13.960 --> 01:17:15.600
me an email, because I have
a discount for you, because it's already

1076
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:19.199
inexpense enough. Now mint Mobile is
now solely owned by T Mobile, but

1077
01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:23.399
mint Mobile, I have a discount
that i'd probably get you. Just happy

1078
01:17:23.439 --> 01:17:26.359
to actually share that with you,
but it's I'm not gonna blast it out

1079
01:17:26.399 --> 01:17:29.720
right now. But I didn't even
upgrade a mint Mobile because I knew on

1080
01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:32.439
the airplane I flew United they had
Wi Fi and that actually got when I

1081
01:17:32.479 --> 01:17:36.359
got on Wi Fi. It lasted
all over the Pacific Ocean until I landed

1082
01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:40.680
in South Korea. South Korea got
to the airport, there was Wi Fi.

1083
01:17:41.159 --> 01:17:43.560
Didn't have Wi Fi and the bus
of the cab, but once I

1084
01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:46.560
got to my hotel resort, I
had Wi Fi. I went to a

1085
01:17:46.600 --> 01:17:49.720
convention center because it was a big
press conference I went to for Samsung.

1086
01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:53.079
They had Wi Fi. I went
to restaurants, they had Wi Fi.

1087
01:17:53.199 --> 01:17:57.239
You just don't need a ton of
that stuff. The world is getting smaller.

1088
01:17:57.239 --> 01:17:59.319
And I'll tell you what, in
the twenty two plus years I have

1089
01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:02.319
been doing this pace, the world
continues to get small. This what used

1090
01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:08.000
to be a local radio station,
a local radio program here in Houston on

1091
01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:12.640
KPRC, the signal. We have
a five thousand watt station. Yes,

1092
01:18:12.760 --> 01:18:15.039
it was barely able to reach north
of the Woodlands. It got halfway to

1093
01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:19.960
Austin. Certainly, it covered Galveston, and it got not to the Louisiana

1094
01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:24.520
border, and that was it.
Nowadays, you download the iHeartRadio app and

1095
01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:28.039
I have a worldwide radio show.
And I do thank you for listening that

1096
01:18:28.279 --> 01:18:30.880
for all these years, twenty two
years and going. I want you to

1097
01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:33.319
continue to have a great summer.
Thank you Callum Read for putting this on

1098
01:18:33.399 --> 01:18:36.640
the podcast. I'm going to take
a few days off. I'm doing some

1099
01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:42.159
traveling. Don't stalk me, people, but follow me on social media because

1100
01:18:42.159 --> 01:18:45.680
I'm doing more and more videos and
tips to that don't keep you happy,

1101
01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:49.199
not just about tech, but cars, travel, bourbon, clothing, fashion,

1102
01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:53.479
or whatever else I actually feel like
doing. Hey, stay fool,

1103
01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:57.640
seriously, drink hydrate. For all
of us who've been a part of the

1104
01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:00.560
show, I do thank you for
tuning in. My name is Garth Garfield,

1105
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:04.680
and she is the High Detection show
Happy Middle of Summer because right now,

1106
01:19:04.840 --> 01:19:08.319
this particular episode is over.