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Tex Is Michael Garfild Michael Garfield.
Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan.

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Michael Garfield is here with a high
Tech Texans items to make life easier,

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some new technology. So Michael Garfield
has something you might want. Michael

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Garfield is your high tech Texan,
three decades helping you make magic with your

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

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Michael Garfield. This is it people. You have waited all year for the

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new year to turn and come.
We are just hours away. This is

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the final high Tech Texan show of
twenty twenty three. I don't know unless

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my boss will say, you know
what, on New Year's Eve, we

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may need to do a special ad. Sorry people, because I'm up to

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New Orleans baby, because it is
sugar Bowl time from my Texas Longhorns.

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Maybe we will ring in twenty twenty
four in the correct way. In the

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meantime, Happy New Year, howards, your Christmas. We've got a full

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two hour show. Should you be
listening on KPRC nine fifty am in and

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around Houston and Southeast Texas. We
thank you. I guess if you think

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about it, well, actually I
have thought about it. As the calendar

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turns in, as we do the
show another thirty six hours or so,

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we will start the twenty first year, twenty second year of the high tech

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textan show. Dang people, I
am old, but do I sound like

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it? Nope? Nope. Still
got a little pep of my step and

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I do think all the iced ty
for that. You may be on vacation,

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you may be in this mountains,
you may be on a beach earning

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twenty percent. Wherever you are,
thank you for downloading the iHeartRadio app.

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You could take us wherever you are
most everywhere around the world. World.

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We've got the phone number still working, and we're gonna be trying to do

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a little interactive, nice little show
for you here because it is the post

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Christmas show, which means you got
something for Chris, nah, and you

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really weren't happy with it? Were
you? You want to trade it in?

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How do you get rid of?
What do you do if you don't

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like a gift? Hopefully you did
say thank you to whoever you gave it

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to. Maybe you like the category. Maybe you've got a headphone, maybe

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you've got a TV, maybe you've
got something but maybe that wasn't the brand

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you wanted. Well, this is
what I do. I actually can talk

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to you off the ledge and you
tell me what you got. You could

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say, hey, listen, is
the beats by dre earbuds generally about ninety

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nine dollars in a bright red Is
this something I want? Are they active

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in oil? Was counseling? Maybe
I need something else, Michael. This

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is where you come in phone number
seven one three two one two five,

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nine to five. Oh, don't
be shy, people, you have nothing

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else to do. I know you're
your blood. You're veins right now are

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flowing with either a alcohol or B
cheese, and congratulations that they're flowing with

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both because you probably don't even know
what day it is right now. This

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is the weirdest week generally it is
throughout the year, especially because Christmas,

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New Year's that they're coming to Cayman. They're coming on Mondays. You probably

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got the whole week off. And
I posted on my Facebook last Wednesday a

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few days ago. Obviously I'm a
joker, I have some fun and I

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put public service announcement. Today is
Wednesday. You're welcome. That probably could

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have been my most liked Facebook post
of the entire year. People were laughing,

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but it's true. You did not
know what day it was this past

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week. Because you were traveling,
you probably didn't go to work. And

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just because the way that the holiday
falls. Either way, we are doing

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this on Saturday, and as the
calendar turns on Monday nights, sadly we

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have to go to work again.
Maybe in a day or two. In

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the meantime, Yes, sah,
we'd love to hear from you. How

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do you? I will tell you
this interactive people, I got a question

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for you. What's your best and
worst anything this year? Now? Yes,

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it's called the High Tech Texan Show. Yes, twenty plus years ago.

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I started out talking about computers,
laptops that were incredibly expensive, incredibly

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big. Nowadays they're small. Nowadays, they're like, uh, who cares,

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doesn't matter what actually what kind of
computer I have because there's so many

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Windows operating basis and maybe there's a
Chromebook maybe not. But what was your

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best your worst of anything this year? Technology? Cars, food, drink,

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travel spot, your favorite kid.
I'd love to hear from you at

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it. For some reason, you
are too shot at all. You could

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hit me up on some of my
social media accounts, which is high tech

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texting Hi g h T e h
T e x A N. We'll start

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with this though, how do you
how do you get rid of unwanted Christmas

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gifts? There are several things that
you could do, and let me count

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them down in no particular order.
But there was a survey. Who did

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this survey? It was or some
retail website called we thrift. There was

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a survey that was revealed that sixty
two percent of adults received at least one

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unwanted gift at Christmas time. There's
also a survey in the Garfield Househole that

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at least one adult did not receive
one gift at Christmas time. I'm not

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huh, I'm looking in the mirror, but that's okay. Don't worry about

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me. I'm here for I am
here for your enjoyment and entertainment. You

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don't need to get me anything.
So it doesn't matter if it's if it's

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it's a cocktail, it's an alcohol, it's it's jewelry. You may not

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what do you do with it?
If you dealt well? Number one,

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the best thing you could do with
your unwanted gifts, in my opinion,

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is to donate them to a good
cause, I mean charity shop donations you

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could apply for I don't know,
maybe it could be a tax write off.

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Maybe it's a tax relief. Charity
shops, children's hospitals, bookstore,

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schools, libraries, donate if you
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Now these days, you have a
lot of options, more than just

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eBay back in the day. If
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there's a ton of different websites here. There's Facebook Marketplace, which actually

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has worked for me if I wanted
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decide to sell your unwanted Christmas presents, yeah, maybe some of these platforms.

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It's important that your item description is
as detailed as possible, be clear

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about the condition of the items.
If you're dealing with clothes, put the

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right measurements, photos, photos,
photos, take photos. You can put

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almost as many photos as you as
you want. The more information you give

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about your product, the more likely
it's going to sell. You can also

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recycle, you can you know,
maybe do your built and help save the

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planet with your unwanted gifts. A
lot of retailers they have programs where they'll

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buy back your own want to close, maybe your unwanted shoes. Maybe you

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want to recycle your electronics, your
games, your CDs. Then there's the

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wonderful tradition of regifting. There's another
one. If you think the present would

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be better suited for someone else,
probably should have no shame in regifting an

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item to a friend or maybe a
relative or equaintance. It's gonna give it

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a little better home, kind of
like the Island of misfit toys. Weird

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on the island of miss fit toys. How about a water one it skirts

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jolly or a cowboy that rides an
ostrich listen. Regifting guarantees that the gift

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is not going to go to waste. Try that. Just rewrap the present,

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put it in new wrapping paper,
cute gift back. Make sure you

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take the go in the bag,
and make sure that there's no card that

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says hey, hey, happy holidays, Michael. Yeah, you really don't

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want to regift that, just so
you better hope that that person's name is

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Michael too. There's returning and there's
exchanging, and this would how many have

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you spent this past week returning or
exchanging? I mean, as an age

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old tradition. I think the Three
Wise Men they wanted to return there their

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mrror. They try to go to
Walmart on the twenty six, I think

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it was closed. Listen, it's
really smart and it's probably almost necessary.

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You have to have a proof of
purchase. This is different from years back.

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Years back, you could go into
so many stores and just say,

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hey, this was a gift.
Can I get store credit? I mean

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probably not cash, but I'm file
with store credit. Ooh no, no,

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no no. Nowadays you got to
have a gift receipt. A proof

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of purchase sucks. But there are
some rulers who retailers you don't do that.

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Hopefully you can find one of those. And also one more before we

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take a break. You can repurpose, hold on to the present, turn

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into something news for yourself. You
know, if it's I don't know,

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maybe it's a set of towels or
something. You know, maybe you can

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use them to wipe up, to
dry your car off, or something.

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Number of things that you could do. But listen, if you were lucky

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enough to get a gift from someone
who loves you or cares about you,

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good for you. That's really account. It's the that keeps on giving year

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round. Clark. All right,
when we come back, we will get

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into a number of things, including
how about the technology Fight of the year.

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We're gonna do the end of the
year stuff, the technology Fight of

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the year, how about the tech
promotion of the year. I saw something

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that is gonna come in very handy
this coming New Year's eve. I love

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this idea. There's a business story
of the year, and I will reveal

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my tech product of the year along
with some of my favorite cars of the

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year. Because that's what I do. I test things so you don't have

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to buy them until you get my
thoughts. Michael Garfield, that's the name.

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This is the High Tech Text and
Show. Happy New Year, Happy

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holiday, into the year, best
of, worst of waiting for your phone

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calls. Here's seven one three two
one two five nine five zero, big

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booming voice. Just told you my
name. It is Michael Garfield. This

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is called the High Tech textan Show. Calum reid Man, am I looking

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at you across the window here?
Hey listen, Boddy, appreciate everything you

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do year round. How long we
work together? We got we got three

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four years. How long you've been
here? You pretty much run this station

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KPRC. Don't you you run all
of our am stations. You're the program

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manager. Really, could you put
in a a media credential request for the

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Natty coming up here in Houston in
about a week, especially if my Longhorns

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make it. Thank you for all
you do year round, buddy, he

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answers the phones. If you want
to get in and ask me question,

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tell me your best or worst.
You could try to get in if Callum,

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if you I don't know, you
may be just kind of maybe you

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have a hangover and you don't want
to pick up the phone, but go

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ahead and give them a try.
Seven to one three two one two five

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nine five zero. Number hasn't changed
in well over two decades that we have

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done this show. Hey, speaking
of hangovers, Callum, you're gonna love

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this story. This is this is
my technology promotion of the year, and

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it took almost to the last day
of the year. It's it's from Burger

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King. When is the last time
anybody's been to Burger King. I used

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to love King, like when I
was. I mean, I'm going to

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go back while I was thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, I back. You

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know, this is before Hamburgers work
oh they were hamburgers. I mean these

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were fast food. The double cheeseburger, not the whopper, but the double

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cheeseburger at Burger king Man that was
the It still may be great. I

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don't need it. I can't.
I can't tell you the last time I've

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been the Burger King. But if
I was in Brazil over the next few

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days, I actually may want to
go. I would have probably walked into

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a Burger King and tried this,
folks. The technology promotion of the year.

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And it's a promotion and it worked. It got an idiot like me

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to give it, probably give Burger
King two or three minutes worth of airtime

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here in Brazil, the Brazilian part
part of Burger Gig. They just announced

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a surveillance technology marketing stunt and it's
a stunt. It's this week. It's

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called you in for This. I
love this. It's called the it's called

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the Hangover Whopper, the Hangover Whopper, and it celebrates this week, which

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is between Christmas and New Year's with
facial recognition. Now, if you think

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this is scary, hold on,
this is what you have to do.

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You walk into a Burger King and
all you have to do is hold your

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bleary eyed gaze up to a camera. Burger King says, it's face scanning

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software. We'll judge how hungover you
look, and they will give you a

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goopod for a whopper. Welcome to
the future. People that you thought this

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was nightmarish technology, Now it's a
cute little promotional tool. I love it.

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Ever ever at the end of there, every year, man, this

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is hangover week. It kicks in
walk in, but it's facial recognition.

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I have no clue, but they
go facial rection. I don't know.

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Maybe you don't shait guys, Maybe
you don't shave for two or three days.

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You your hair's messed up. A
technology is going to scan your hangover

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level and offer a discount. You
know how. It runs through January.

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Second, Brazil. If you're listening
online, if you are listening to your

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favorite alto techna Trano, I take
Texan. Do they speak Spanish and Brazil?

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I don't even know. I apologize
for that. If you're listening in

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Brazil and you've tried this, you've
got somebody Scott to give me a report.

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How many of you have woken up
in a post Christmas haze after one

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too many glasses of a little veno. I mean, I'd be pissed if

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I walk I'd be pissed if I
walk into Burger King, whether I was

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drunk or not. And I'm ready
for a coupon. Oh boy, by

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the way, the coupon. It's
sixty two cents off in American dollars.

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How much is a double whopper?
Jr? Kid? Someone, here's what

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they should do, little lislie cute
promotion. I'm a marketing guy. I'm

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gonna massage this number one depending on
your level of hung overness. And I

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just gave up with that word.
Maybe you a breathalyzer test. Maybe the

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the higher you blow that breathalyze your
test, the more discount you get.

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What's what's the uh the breathalyze?
What's what's the max? You can drive?

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Here? A point eight point one? I don't even know. Don't

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try drunk, don't even try it. The more you blow you get it,

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you get a free whopper? All
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like a point oh one, maybe
a point five? Yeah, okay,

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there's your sixty two cents off.
How mad would I be? Where I

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really am hungover? It's like I
was on a binge a last night with

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some good brown water, and I
walk into Burger Gane. I'm expecting a

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coupon and this technology doesn't work.
It's like, man, Garf, you

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are totally sober man. I would
just I do nuts. People ask me

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why I covered this industry. I
don't. I really don't do gardening,

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and I did. I don't do
a lot of No. No, I

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do technology, among many other things. Oh, by the way, here's

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the thing about facial recognition. This
is my little asterisk. It doesn't work

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that well. It's a It does
a passable job. It is not one

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hundred percent accurate with faces of certain
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different colors, of races, or
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when it's trying to measure your emotions
or your political affiliations, or finding you

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a date. It is probably no
good for detecting hangovers. Congratulations, Burger

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King. I've now given you three
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tech texting Show. What else we
got? Seven? One, three,

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two, one five. I do
actually like this. Did anybody get an

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Apple Watch? The new Apple Watch? Nine? I'm trying to eat.

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If you haven't heard the news.
I updated you this last week. Apple

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watched the latest version of the Apple
Watch nine. It was banned through a

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lawsuit with the International Trade Commission.
This was the latest one because there's a

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technology on the Apple Watch series nine
of the blood oxygen measurements that a company

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who actually came up with that didn't
give Apple, or Apple didn't pay them

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enough money. And I'm really trying
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sales I think December twenty fourth,
and this was known for about two weeks,

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so there was a rush. Oh
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and pull it off the shelves.
We've got to go buy one of these

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things. Well, guess what it
is back on sale. There was a

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temporary court ruling. It's now giving
the International Trade Commission until January tenth to

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respond to Apple's motion for a longer
term pause in the ban. While all

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this is appealing, give me a
break, man. This could have been

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the best promotion of the year.
Apple biggest company in the world. They

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saying listen, we're going to stop
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fourth, which I really think it
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gotta rush, we gotta get this
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all of a sudden, we're gonna
give it another few more weeks. Don't

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laugh. Does Apple need more business
from its watch business? Well as a

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business, yes. You know how
much Apple business generates from the watch side

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of the company, About seventeen billion
dollars a year. That's, according to

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Bloomberg, seventeen billion just for the
watches man who actually, okay, who

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got watches, who got fitness watches, who got any type of watches.

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As you know, if you long
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I'm not gonna say I'm not an
Apple fan. I do not have

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one product that's Apple. I'm an
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the majority of the world uses those
us, those operating systems, and I

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do want to talk to the majority
of my people out there. However,

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when other fellow non Apple people find
each other, it's like the world unite.

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I am at a store two nights
ago and I'm returning something shocking and

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I did not have a receipt and
it worked and I got my I got

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credit in the store, and there
was this girl. I don't know how

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she wish. She was probably young
to mid twenties, and we were waiting

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for a manager to come over to
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And I'm wearing my Samsung Watch.
I have a Samsung Watch six Classic.

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I've had love Samsung watches. They
work very well. She has the exact

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same watch. I'm the exact same
color, the exact same model. She

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gets so excited because you don't see
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And she holds up her watch.
She goes, hey, look at

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you, and I'm like, what
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to watch. I'm like and I
actually was shocked because I don't see a

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lot of them, Like, hey, pretty cool. We're holding We're holding

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up our watches together like we're the
freaking Wonder twins like form of a mountain,

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shape of an icicle, Wonder Twin
Bower Activate. We both got Samsung

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watches. If you got to watch, talk to me here as we take

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a break. Seven one three,
two one two five nine five. Oh,

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do you want to switch it?
Do you want to switch it?

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Do you want to go from Apple
to Android? Do you want to go

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from Andred? There's a fit bit
thing there's the garment. Garment makes great

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ones. If you're a runner,
some have worked better for you. You

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tell me what you got, I'll
tell you. If it's good, I'll

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give you the thumbs up. Or
you know what, you maybe want to

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consider this one seven one three five
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hour number one. Halfway through the
first hour of the last show of

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twenty twenty three. Michael Darkfield high
Tech textan shizette going through the best in

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the worst of pretty much anything that
you want here on the year end wrap

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up of the High Tech Textan show. A happy twenty twenty three being over

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a good year, bad year for
you people? This was let's say,

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how about did you do? God? Do you rank years? Was it

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a happy year? Was it a
sad year? Was it a prosperous year

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financially? Was it a crap year? Financially? Did something big happen?

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You got married, you got engaged, you had a kid, you had

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grand kids, you travel someplace that
you wanted to go. Talk to me

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here with love to hear Yes.
Seven one three, two, one two,

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five nine five oh. Doesn't have
to be technology whatsoever. This is

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how this show works. Your favorite
tech. Your favorite car would you drive?

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And actually, I'm going to rank
some of my favorite, if not

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the favorite cars that I've driven.
One of the things that I do,

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should you listen. I am a
member of the Texas Auto Writers Association for

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many, many, many years.
I get to drive brand new cars directly

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from the manufacturer. I don't deal
with dealerships. There's like, I don't

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recommend dealerships. I'm not These aren't
paid. I just get to drive a

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car from pickup trucks to evs,
to SUV's, tow cuvs to sports cars

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to all the stuff, the good, the bad, the nasty, the

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slow stuff, the fast stuff,
the sexy stuff, and the big gas

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hog stuff. I would give you
some of my favorites in each of these

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categories. If you have some love
to hear from you. What are your

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favorite travel spots? What are your
favorite drinks? Your food? What's the

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favorite restaurant? Best restaurants that you've
been to? Doesn't have to be in

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the Houston area, could be around
Texas, Dallas, Austin, anywhere in

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the world. Who's your favorite kid? I've got three. All depends what

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day of the week, what they've
done, or what they haven't done to

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me. You know, you're allowed
to re rank everything, including your kids.

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I really think they're and I can
do it all I want to,

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because my kids don't listen to my
show. My kids are smarter than I.

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Then. One of my favorite things
is I've learned to drink rum more.

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And that's just because I've found a
very good rum. If you listen

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to the show. I've been talking
about it a lot. It's called Papa's

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PLR p A p A Papa as
in Papa Ernest Hemmingway, which is actually

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his the Hemmingweight. That's his family. This is their rum made in Key

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West. It's called Papa's PLR key
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a number of different bars, restaurants, and liquor stores this past week.

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Is what else is there to do? And they are all over the shelf.

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This is not just your Hey,
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I probably wouldn't recommend this rum of
putting some cocaine there. This is

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really I'm not going to call it
high end, but it's certainly higher end

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and phenomenal. Big you know what
it is? Higher end. They've got

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a blonde rum. It's not a
white run. It's called a blonde rum

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that's actually good sipping. Then they've
got a sherry cask this oak oh phenomenal,

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great price. I was at whereas
that they serve it at Capitol Grill.

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Shout out to Steve jos j o
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your parents are in town. If
they're listening right now, a happy

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New Year to them. They're at
west On West Timber near the Gallery in

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Houston. Walk in and ask for
some Papa's PLR rum. I think I

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actually put a bottle in my winelocker, which is not wine, but Papa's

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PLR rum. It's a great gift
for New Year's if you're going to somebody's

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house to watch the Horns game or
something today Saturday, if you're listening live

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pretty much the last day of the
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which, by the way, here's
a public service announcement. Because we're in

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Texas, you cannot go liquor stores
are closed on Sunday, which we could

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talk about at another day and time. Because that blue law is never going

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to change. You better get it
today because they're also not over to Monday.

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Because it's January first, So you
got two days of being shut down.

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This is the bad thing about New
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It's two days of them being closed. What are you gonna do?

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Actually, your car dealerships they also
close on Sundays. Now they also get

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a mondayut. Maybe I should have
been in the car business because nothing stops

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media. I am still here even
though it is a holiday weekend. So

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papas pla rum. Actually go check
that out. The wrap up of things

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happening around the world. How about
this so the biggest technology fight of the

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year, because there's always fights.
I just talked about how the Apple Watched

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nine was getting sued by a company, and then the government is stepping it.

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I think the biggest fight that we
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resolved. It comes down to Apple
and Android, but specifically Apples. I

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message, now, we're gonna smile
this thing because I'm gonna raise my hand

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and I'm gonna say people, I'm
a green bubbler, I'm a green bubble

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baby. I'm Android guy. Okay, I'm proud of it. I really

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don't care. I don't care.
But there was a number of things this

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year that pointed to the fact that
will iPhone and Android ever come together to

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bring texting and chatting as simple as
one I think there's good news and bad

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news. Apple is probably never going
to bring eye message to Android, but

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it may not actually need to listen. I No one can speak in absolute

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terms of Apple's plans in the future. Apple may not even know. Everything's

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a rumor. But what Apple has
done over the years, their products,

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their strategy, their attention to privacy, and the fact that I think I

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Message is probably one of the big
reasons that some Android owners say screw it,

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I'm dumping Android and I'm switching to
the iPhone. I think the chances

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of Apple expanding I Message to its
main competitor are slim to numb. Now

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there is some hope of some sort
of a white flag truce when it comes

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to a few things, one of
which is next year will in the next

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day and a half, it's going
to be this year. In twenty twenty

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four, Apple has confirmed that it's
going to support something called Rich Communication Standard

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for Texting RCS Rich Communication Standard,
and that means some of the biggest issues

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with cross platform texting or they're going
to improve. So number one inches the

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videos. Is anybody ever texted I
don't know. There's a lot of people

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who have iPhones out there. If
someone on an Android text an iPhone or

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a video, does it seem grainy
and small? It does. On the

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way back. A lot of people, including my kids, they text me

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their little iPhone videos to my Android. It's like, what is it?

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I can I hardly see it.
That's going to go away. This rich

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communication standard that means the videos will
not be distorted. I like that a

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lot. There was an app that
came out less than a month ago that

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I talked about here. It's called
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deeper app, but there's a Deeper
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was a workaround that you could install
on your Android phones to make it seem

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like you actually have an iPhone with
my message and begin getting blue tech blue

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bubbles or whatever you do. Back
and forth, Apple cracked down on it.

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Apple said nope, and they went
back and forth and they changed everything.

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It was going to take these things
to me showed this inbred fighting.

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Is it the war in the Middle
East, which obviously is that that's probably

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the worst news of the year horrible
still going on? So am I bitching

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or gry? Think about? No? You know we can't text between an

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iPhone and Android. No, and
this scheme of things is not a big

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deal. But again, this is
the stuff that I cover. It's an

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understatement to say chatting with an Android
user through the iPhone's default messaging app it's

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kind of a bad experience. I
get crap all the time. I am.

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You know, I have a nine
person eight I think it's an eight

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person chat group for my high school
buddies. I'm the only Android you know

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here. It comes once every month
or so. Hey, gorf man,

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you're screwing up everything. I'm trying
to send a video to you guys,

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and it's not working. I mean, it's just it's it's it's like the

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scarlet letter. We should actually call
the scarlet color of green with these bubbles.

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It's twenty twenty three. These features
should be universal. Rather, the

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position is platform specific, don't you
think? So? What could you do?

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Well? You could turn to third
party chat apps. You can go

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to What's App, you can go
to Google Chat, you go to Facebook.

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We have chats. But I message, which I've really never used,

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is supposed to be phenomenal. Apple
has. They've opened up their little walled

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garden in recent years. It actually
brought FaceTime to Android with iOS fifteen.

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So let's go back about three years
ago. Almost you could get FaceTime to

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Android, which allows non iPhone users
to join a video call. But yet

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the iphoners have to send that person
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But apparently as I read it's what
twelve years ago, that's when I

407
00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:40.240
Message was launched. It's more than
a messaging can app. It's like a

408
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:44.720
miniature operating system because I think you
could send cash to other iPhone users.

409
00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:52.279
Right, there's location sharing tools,
there's a number of other things. I

410
00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.960
mean, they do give iPhone personality, they give it some flare. So

411
00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:00.799
if I was Apple, why should
Apple bring that to Android rcs. I'm

412
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.960
looking forward to that. Don't know
when it's gonna happen at twenty twenty four,

413
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.160
but for all you Android users,
it's going to be a little user

414
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:10.599
to communicate with you iphoners. There
you go. I'll tell you what.

415
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:14.640
That's my tech fight of the year, something that we're going to keep our

416
00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:18.960
finger on. The pulse on as
twenty twenty four comes around final break for

417
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:19.680
this hour, don't go anywhere.
I'd love to talk to you. I

418
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:23.759
do see some people holding on calls. Apparently some people do do have some

419
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.240
questions over Hey, they got a
gift, Should I return it? Or

420
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.039
is there a better product like this? In the category. A lot of

421
00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:33.079
people are getting headphones and earbuds,
thinking do I want a headphone? Do

422
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.160
I switch it to any earbud active
noise canceling vice versa. Let's see if

423
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.880
we could take care of that when
we come back after the break. About

424
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:44.519
ten more minutes to go until the
top of the hour. Tell you what,

425
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:48.400
people just to count down a way
not close to very close to twenty

426
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:51.240
twenty four. I do thank you
for tuning in this year and every year

427
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.079
since. We have been doing this
for well over two decades here on kp

428
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:57.960
RC nine fifty a M thank you
so much. If you're on hold and

429
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:00.680
stand by, Do have some stuff
I want to get through before I maybe

430
00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:04.480
pick up Callum's what's the temperature of
the colors? Are they nice? They're

431
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:08.359
being sweet? Are they oh?
They are so okay? What questions do

432
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.079
they have returning gifts? Act?
A lot of them want to know about

433
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:18.319
active noise canceling on your ear buds
act a n C active noise canceling the

434
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.440
uh if you really want to wear
find something for your to listen to music

435
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:29.279
but also cancel out crying babies on
airplanes or whatever. Yes, you want

436
00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:33.039
something with a n C active noise
canceling and if you really want to make

437
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.519
sure that it works, I would
get the over the ear headphones versus the

438
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:42.440
ear buds. The ear buds they
do have active noise canceling. They drain

439
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.279
a little bit more of the battery
that obviously have to charge you a little

440
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.720
bit more. But you know,
to really drown out something, you want

441
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.720
something it's fully over your ears,
kind of like we have here in radio

442
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:59.400
studios, as we call them cans. That's the name of these big in

443
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:04.240
ear studio. It's tough to actually
have, and I think it's almost impossible.

444
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.200
Well it's not impossible, you can
do it. I would love to

445
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:14.480
have right now in the studio.
I've got headphones on the cover my ears,

446
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.759
not that they need to because I
actually have I can use wired earbuds

447
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:25.519
using a Bluetooth earbud in studio and
I tried this. Man I tried this

448
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.160
ten twelve to fifteen years ago,
Bluetooth was coming out. I'm like,

449
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.039
oh, this is cool. I
can use these as my monitor. And

450
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:37.279
the reason we wear headphones here in
studio, it's because I can hear Callum

451
00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:41.720
here on the other side. If
he wants to talk to me, I

452
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:42.960
have to get it. And Plus
when I pick up the phone calls.

453
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:48.799
Should I pick up a phone call, I have to hear you. And

454
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.799
if I didn't have a headphone and
I picked up a phone call, there

455
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.559
would be a reverberation. You would
hear yourself back and forth and back and

456
00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:59.000
forth, and you can't do that. So that's why we wear headphones over

457
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.559
here. Bluetoth doesn't work because Bluetooth
is generally a delay. It's a very

458
00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:08.519
very short delay. And so the
first time I try to wear a Bluetooth

459
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.279
and it's funny because we have to
plug our studios. You know, it's

460
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.599
still old school. We have to
plug these things in. We've got these

461
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:20.240
you know, three quarterjack or exl
R plugs or whatever. So I had

462
00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:25.119
to find a Bluetooth device that would
number one have a separate receiver and transmitter,

463
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:30.000
so we'd plug the transmitter here into
the console at the radio underneath,

464
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.960
you know, in our radio studio
here at radio booth, that would transmit

465
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:37.119
it to my Bluetooth ears. But
there was like a half a second delay.

466
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:42.160
Do you know how frustrating it is
to hear yourself a half a second

467
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:44.559
delay, to hear colors half a
second delay. It's very tough. So

468
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:50.119
the point is, we wear wired
headphones for the most part, and I

469
00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:52.039
use them over the years, so
nobody else can hear anything that's going on.

470
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:58.880
So if you do want to have
active noise canceling that really really work,

471
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.759
gets something that's over the ear.
Beats by Dre Sony makes a good

472
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:06.440
one. You don't even have to
have a name brand. Some company sent

473
00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:09.160
me some. Again, if I'm
wearing on a plane, these are good

474
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:13.640
for Bluetooth. I'm not not recommending
Bluetooth. I'm only saying Bluetooth really doesn't

475
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:19.000
work if you're hosting a radio show, Bluetooth headphones are great. Make sure

476
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.759
that they, you know, have
a decent enough battery, so you maybe

477
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:24.279
want to look for review. You
can also can call me and run the

478
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:28.480
name or the brand by me.
I've got several of them over here,

479
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.359
but the active noise canceling they do
drain a little bit of batteries and so

480
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.000
if that is important to you,
return what you got and go get some

481
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:37.920
with a n C. Those are
going to be a little bit more costly,

482
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:44.440
but that's what's out there too.
When you were delivered or when your

483
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:50.000
parents or whoever, if you're delivering
something and Ups or Amazon FedEx, whoever

484
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:53.200
it is, left it on your
porch, how confident do you feel that

485
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:58.119
that package is not going to be
stolen? Because we talk about porch pirates

486
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.240
all the time. Porch pirates,
this is this is these are bad,

487
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:07.279
bad navarious people. They will steal
packages that are sitting on your front door

488
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:13.679
and you'll never see them again.
Yes, we have these new ring video

489
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.119
cameras that will help do it,
but it's a it's a multi multi million

490
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:21.239
dollar, you know, sad opportunity
that we're losing a lot of packages.

491
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:28.239
I say this is because there is
now a new theft for us to worry

492
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:32.800
about, similar or a kin to
porch pirates. Are you ready for this?

493
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:38.159
And this is especially in Texas.
If you have a pickup truck with

494
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:47.519
an open cargo bed, people,
there's it is cargo. It's cargo theft.

495
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.480
Has this ever happened to you?
There are listen my job. One

496
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.639
of my jobs is I test drive
cars and trucks. There are more trucks

497
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.119
one about every six trucks in the
United States, I believe. I think

498
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.719
that's the status sold in the state
of Texas. Of our trucks. We

499
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:04.400
have pickup trucks and a lot of
it. Yes you can, you can

500
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:06.920
get covers, but a lot of
them have open. Has anything ever been

501
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:10.519
stolen out of your pickup truck?
I could see hands being raised everywhere across

502
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:15.039
the listening audience. Call me if
you've if something's ever been stolen out of

503
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:21.440
your pickup truck? Seven one,
three, all right, Well guess what.

504
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:28.480
There's a new method to prevent cargo
theft. Ford has worked with security

505
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:35.000
company A d T and they have
invested in something called the Canopy pickup Cam.

506
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:37.800
Folks, this may be the last
minute, late holiday gift for you.

507
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:43.840
Canopy pickup Cams a device that has
two main parts. One it's a

508
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:50.400
high def camera and it mounts to
your rear window and it keeps watch over

509
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:54.880
your truck bed. And there's a
hub unit that tucks under the rear seat

510
00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:00.719
to power it up. Very simple
to use, right out of the box.

511
00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:07.239
And the camera uses a combination of
get this artificial intelligence, radar,

512
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:15.559
accelerometers and cameras to monitor and record
record anything sneaky deep going on, like

513
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.440
someone reaching into your truck to steal
tools or something. If it happens,

514
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:30.280
it sends you an alert through an
app on your smartphone. But it doesn't

515
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.719
bug you if people are walking right
outside of your truck, next door next

516
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:36.920
to it, maybe if you're in
a parking lot. See that's the magic

517
00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:42.559
of artificial television or AI in itself. Now, the hub powers up and

518
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:46.360
it keeps itself charged through your car, your pickup trucks OBD two port and

519
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:51.800
that's the little port that's under your
Every vehicle has it. It's underneath your

520
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.480
steering wheels, or it's underneath the
dashboard. You pair it up your smartphone.

521
00:36:54.519 --> 00:37:00.320
It sends alerts and footage to you
over in a cloud. So if

522
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:02.719
you've got your car broken into,
especially if you have pickup trucks, what

523
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:06.079
do you do. Hey, I'm
gonna park something, I'm gonna have to

524
00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:07.639
schlep all, I'm gonna have to
take my golf clubs out, I'm gonna

525
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:10.119
have to put them in the back
seat and lock it up. I still

526
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:13.320
might be would would do it,
But the fact is, maybe you get

527
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:20.239
a little sense of peace with this
CA Cannoby pickup cam. It's two hundred

528
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:27.239
ninety nine dollars and then there's a
fifteen dollars a month subscription. Cargo theft

529
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:35.079
is relatively common. I've seen some
stats over here that unlessen the more places

530
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.559
that you have pickup trucks, Like
you're Texans, You're your stories like this.

531
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:40.920
It's like a dash cam too.
Who has dash cam? Dash cams

532
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:44.639
are very popular. I get a
lot of people, Michael, to use

533
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:46.760
a dash can. Well, I
mean I switched cars every week. I'm

534
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:51.960
test driving one, so I don't
use a dash cam. But these are

535
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:53.320
little cameras. I mean, you
can get these things for fifty seventy five,

536
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:57.480
maybe one hundred and fifty dollars,
depending on what how you want to

537
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:01.360
use them. You put them in
and maybe your front window, and it

538
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.480
records everything as you're driving, and
some of them have a two way wood.

539
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.000
Not only does it record as you're
driving, it records what's going on

540
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.199
inside the cabin. You see a
lot of these in ubers too. I

541
00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:15.400
mean you can catch everything from rainbows
to tornadoes touching down to drivers, but

542
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:21.079
some plate in some points for insurance
purposes. It actually works well. Car

543
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:22.880
technology right now, hey, listen
as we in the first hour, next

544
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.400
hour, we're going to go over
some of my favorite cars and trucks that

545
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:29.519
I've driven this year, maybe the
best one of the year. Your phone

546
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:31.079
calls and other news as we wind
up the year. In the High Tech

547
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:50.960
Texan Show is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining us and the high

548
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:55.559
Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here
with a high Tech Texans its to make

549
00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:59.719
life easier. Those are some new
technology. So Michael Garfield has something you

550
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:13.119
might why. Michael Garfield is your
high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you

551
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:21.760
make magic with your gadgets. Occurred
worldwide on the iHeartRadio after now You're high

552
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.760
Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Halfway
there, people, we are halfway through

553
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:31.360
the final High Tech Textan Show of
twenty twenty three. I hope your Christmas

554
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:35.679
was fun. I see all the
phone calls here this past hour. Maybe

555
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:38.679
I'll pick what up you love your
present, because I'm asking for your best

556
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:43.280
and your worst. We are halfway
to happy hour, as we say,

557
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:46.440
half the hour brought to you by
Papa's p lar Rum. Do you like

558
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:50.480
rum? Don't sleep on rum?
People. There's a many many things.

559
00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:52.920
Did you ever try to rum?
Old fashioned? Actually? Go try one?

560
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:55.760
Are the four vertells. Papa's pla
rum. You can get that everywhere

561
00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.000
from Total Wine Specs, Goody Goodie
and some of your free great restaurants too.

562
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.840
I was over at the Capitol,
grew up Blue Lagoon restaurant down in

563
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.239
Texas City, Big Lagoon down there, they got Papa's peel out rum.

564
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:10.719
So wherever they serve this fine rum, more than happy to actually let you

565
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:15.199
know where it is so you can
try it. I'll give you the phone

566
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:17.440
number. Callum. You've been answering
the phones, my buddy. I appreciate

567
00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.400
it. It's seven one three two
one two five nine to five. Oho

568
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:27.039
number has not changed in the twenty
one twenty two as the calendar changes.

569
00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:30.679
Here the next day or two,
we're getting into another year that we have

570
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:32.480
been doing this. I've been doing
it well, not half my life,

571
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:36.119
but I don't want to give away
my too much of my government and my

572
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.280
age. But I do thank you
for spending all this time I was at

573
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:42.360
it. It was really nice.
I was in a cademy. I love

574
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.440
the guy. I said this before
I was an Academy. This is not

575
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:46.599
a commercial for Academy. I love
Academy. If somebody would give me a

576
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:51.320
gift card to anywhere, I would
just generically, let me just say a

577
00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:53.760
sporting good store. And I'm not
a Dick sporting goods fan, so I

578
00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:58.960
guess we got Academy as the de
facto Texas based supported it. I've at

579
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.199
Academy after a few days ago because
they were having their after Christmas sales,

580
00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:07.119
picked up some new running gear and
stuff. It's really nice. I'm standing

581
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.159
in line and I guess it was
a father and his son son. I

582
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:13.239
don't know, maybe he was ten
twelve years old. And he's looking at

583
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.840
it, and I'm looking like a
schlep pound man. I have shaved.

584
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.039
I have it shaved three days and
I'm just like, you know whatever,

585
00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.239
it's minding my own business. And
he says, are you Michael, are

586
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:24.360
you? Are you hey? High
tech texting? Is that you? And

587
00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:28.960
I'm very very nice. He's been
listening for a long time. I think

588
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:32.000
his name was Greg introduced me to
his son and it's it's neat. I'm

589
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:36.079
like, okay, it's amazing how
people know what you look like on radio.

590
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.679
Hey Michael, look you sound fatter
on radio. Well, thank you.

591
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:43.920
I appreciate that. I guess that's
a compliment because I'm not as fat

592
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:45.320
as I sound on radio. Why
am I talking about this? I'm not

593
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:52.400
sure. Uh. Streaming very big
news, very big stories. In twenty

594
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:57.119
twenty three, how many stream services
do you have? You have too many?

595
00:41:57.199 --> 00:42:00.320
I know you have too many.
You really need to think about how

596
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:06.199
do we save money? HBO HBO
Max renamed itself to Max. That was

597
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:09.280
a big one. Prices went up
across the board, a lot of them.

598
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:14.199
And I see this. This is
another PSA for you. Amazon Prime

599
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:16.239
Video. I actually do have that
one, but I may not have it

600
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:21.480
for long. I don't use Amazon
that much. I really don't. I

601
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:27.599
actually I got Amazon Prime the service
years ago because I wanted to watch one

602
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:30.639
TV show. I wanted to watch
The Marvelous Missus Masel which actually was worth

603
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:35.880
it. That went off the air. They stopped making I think after season

604
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:38.199
five it was and I've kept it, and I mean, if I buy

605
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:40.360
a few things a year, that's
about it. I just I don't go

606
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:45.320
nuts. But anyway, but with
Prime Amazon Prime, which is what maybe

607
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:47.800
one hundred and what does it come
out to one hundred and forty hundred and

608
00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:51.840
fifty bucks or more per year?
You do get Prime Video, you get

609
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Prime Music, you get some other
crap. What do I Starting on January

610
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twenty ninth, just about a month
from right now, guess what's gonna happen.

611
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If you're watching Prime Video, You're
gonna start to see some ads.

612
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:10.199
Amazon They're they're going to incorporate advertising
into movies, in TV shows on the

613
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Prime Video service. And it is
January twenty ninth, and I'm going to

614
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give you a quote from Amazon.
Quote, this will allow us to continue

615
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investing in compelling content and keep increasing
that investment over a long period of time.

616
00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:30.079
Unquote. If you don't like ads, guess what? Feel free to

617
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.840
pay an additional three dollars per month
to avoid the advertisement. You may have

618
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.599
got an email. I actually got
an email a few days ago. Amazon

619
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Prime currently costs what about fifteen bucks
a month? One hundred and thirty nine

620
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dollars annually. All right, now
you can do Prime Video alone for nine

621
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bucks a month. But there's new
charge for ad free streaming. It's gonna

622
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bring Prime to about eighteen bucks a
month, and then we push the standalone

623
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Prime Video to about twelve bucks a
month. They're doing this because competing streaming

624
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:07.239
services, they continue to raise subscription
rates across the board, and they're pushing

625
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.920
ads on customers do with their cheapest
monthly pants Disney Plus, Hulu Max,

626
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.400
Netflix Paramount Plus, they include ads
on there. I guess the most affordable

627
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I mean that were the most affordable
tears. Now, the monthly cost of

628
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Amazon Prime is not changing, but
you may want to decide whether you want

629
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to have ads or not. By
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You see what I did, Folks, listen for that forty five seconds?

639
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I just read you an ad.
You know what it did? It

640
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kept this radio show free for you. What's the trade off there? Are

641
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you cool with looking ads or listening
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642
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membership or any of these other ones? You see, that's what you have

643
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you us. Quaintine Jewelry. Ah. You know what's happening now with movies.

645
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:30.239
Movies now are getting released in theaters
and within one to two weeks they're

646
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:36.800
coming to streaming services. Does this
spell the in for movie theaters? I

647
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:40.320
don't think so. Did anybody go
driving on Christmas Day? Did you just

648
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.679
drive? Did anybody drive by a
theater, a cinema? The parking lots

649
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:52.039
were packed. I love saying that, I really do. And it's a

650
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:55.239
tradition unlike any other other than Chinese
food on Christmas Day, going to a

651
00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:02.719
movie on Christmas Day, I don't
think movie theaters are really going anywhere.

652
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:13.199
It looked like it during COVID Tom
Cruise Maverick brought everybody back. But it's

653
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:17.840
good to know that at least that
industry is still kicking because experiences. Listen,

654
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:22.559
we love the ease of going to
Netflix or a Prime or any of

655
00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:23.599
this stuff. It's so great just
to dial it up your land in bed,

656
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:25.960
just sit in front of your fire
at home. You canna have twenty

657
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.159
people watching. You can watch it
alone. But unless you have a home

658
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:37.039
theater with a massive screen, Dolby
surround sound, hap to feedback chairs and

659
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.559
fattening nasty popcorn that people love,
it's an experience. There are so many

660
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:44.199
experiences. And again I'm an old
guy. I get off my lunch.

661
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:47.000
There are so many experiences now that
at some point probably will be lost.

662
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:51.960
And I don't know when and if
the movie theater experience is gonna be lost.

663
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:55.559
But the more that these companies,
of these streaming companies are trying to

664
00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:01.599
get you to subscribe, really do
have some quote unquote compelling content unquote.

665
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:13.639
As Amazon said, we may actually
see that the demise of things like theaters,

666
00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:17.079
which I miss. Sneaking into a
doubleheader also forty five more minutes coming

667
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:20.480
back. We're going to talk about
some of the favorite cars that I've driven,

668
00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:23.000
some of my and anything with uh
that you want to ask seven one

669
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:27.679
three two one two five nine five
oh. Including I'm going to give you

670
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:31.320
my technology product of the year.
What was your favorite tech product of the

671
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:36.280
year. I'll give you hint.
It's a it's a product, but it's

672
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:38.960
also a service and it came out
right around July fourth, and it came

673
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:45.360
out like gang Busters, totally free. Do you use it? All?

674
00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:51.239
That? Coming up next to the
high tech text and Joe, I'll give

675
00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:53.480
out the phone number depending on if
I'm an answer not seven one three two

676
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:58.519
one two five nine five. Oh. Happy New Year people, Baby new

677
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:01.079
Year about to come and about a
day and a half here as we do

678
00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:06.639
the show last Saturday here of twenty
twenty three, but doing it for twenty

679
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:08.519
plus years. I do thank you
for everybody listening come up and saying,

680
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.880
hey man, you give me some
good advice. I'm trying to give you

681
00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:14.320
some good advice. Would you get
for Christmas? You want to return it?

682
00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:16.039
I am or exchange it. I'm
here for you. Let me know

683
00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:21.480
you can go to all my social
media sites, high tech texts and high

684
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:24.880
te c ht e x A N. I drive a lot of cars for

685
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:30.480
a living. You listen, and
for fifteen years, I will tell you

686
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:35.840
what's kind of a game, what's
Michael driving this week? And that pretty

687
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:39.159
much is well, well, it's
because I'm a member of the Texas Auto

688
00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:45.039
Writers Association and I happen to be
one of how many maybe there's twenty thirty,

689
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:51.760
maybe there's thirty of us forty in
the state where we review cars and

690
00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:53.639
I've done it for a while.
We get these directly from the manufacturer.

691
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:59.159
There's two car services in state of
Texas and they're kind of holding companies and

692
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:02.760
it is out a dealership. We
go straight from tier one. So the

693
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:07.920
dealerships the manufacturers, they will ship
these vehicles kind of into a holding place

694
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.960
here in Texas. And every week
I get a car that is delivered to

695
00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:14.320
my house and I get to drive
it. It is brand new, and

696
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:15.599
they want my thoughts, good or
bad. It is not paid for.

697
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.800
There's no endorsements. So I can
tell you some crappy ones. I can

698
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:23.679
tell you some gorgeous ones. I
have driven in twenty twenty three, probably

699
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:29.519
fifty two weeks a year sometimes ago. I have probably driven seventy to seventy

700
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:37.119
five different new vehicles, from pickup
trucks to sedan's to sports cars to fast

701
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:43.000
cars smart. So it's they are
and I started doing this because they are

702
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.840
based on technology. I realized many
years ago that cars that they're all they

703
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:52.719
are, it's technology on four wheels. They are getting smarter, they are

704
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:54.760
getting cool, they're getting more electric
fied. And you know my thoughts on

705
00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:59.800
electricity, which we can get to. I will give you one of the

706
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.480
one of her two of my favorite
electric cars. Not that I recommend electric

707
00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:07.039
cars to people, but I will
give you my thoughts. And so I

708
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:09.199
don't know where to where do I
even start. I've got a kind of

709
00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:15.760
a list of all the cars that
were really, really impressive, one of

710
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:21.239
which is I think my brand of
the year, if you will, it

711
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:27.000
may be Genesis, and again not
an endorsement. I've driven three or four

712
00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:31.320
different Genesis vehicles and I am very, very impressed of how far they have

713
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:36.760
come. One of the better,
one of the I guess top of mind

714
00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:42.400
ones that I drove is the Genesis
Electrified G eighty. That's what it's called.

715
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:47.760
The electrified G eighty. It's a
sedan, and you don't see a

716
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:53.320
lot of sedans now because now it's
the CUV, the SUV, maybe it's

717
00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:57.360
it's whatever, but it's this.
It's the typical thing. It's a four

718
00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:01.599
door, low to the ground.
It's not a pickup truck. You know,

719
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:05.920
generally fits two people in the front, three people in the back,

720
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.599
and you go from there. But
what Genesis has done with the inside and

721
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:15.840
certainly outside, the smooth ride,
it's pretty good. It is an incredibly

722
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:21.079
smooth ride. I love the interior. There is an electrified GV. There's

723
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:24.280
actually, let me give you a
few there's an electrified GV seventy, but

724
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:29.679
there's also the electrified as what they
call it, G eighty. It's got

725
00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:36.320
a cool interior. It's really stylish. I love the grill and it kind

726
00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.840
of won me over. It's a
smooth ride. It's fun to sit in,

727
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:45.239
and very rarely do I sit in
something other than the driver's seat.

728
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:46.760
I don't sit in the passenger seat
a lot, and I certainly really don't

729
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:50.400
sit in the back seat a lot
other than just to get in and out

730
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:55.559
to see is it comfortable enough.
The electrified G eighty is something that I

731
00:51:55.599 --> 00:52:00.719
would love to be chauffeured round in. It reminds me and it probably is.

732
00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:07.440
This is a type of car where
you can be chauffe did if you've

733
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:14.559
got the means to be driven around
by somebody. You don't need to step

734
00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:17.599
in into an suv. Sitting in
the back seat of an electrified G eighty

735
00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:22.840
is unbelievable. The back seats reclined. They have a console in between the

736
00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:27.679
two seats that you can control so
many things, the massage chairs in the

737
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.480
back, and the shades that go
up in the back, and the air

738
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:36.199
conditioning. It's good, very high
quality to the touch. I think you

739
00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:39.119
can compare these two Cadillac Lexus of
all a really really high end stuff.

740
00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:46.079
Congratulations, Genesis did a very very
good job. The electric cars. I've

741
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:51.079
been in a number of different I've
probably had ten electric cars this year.

742
00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:52.440
Electric cars are a pain in the
butt. They're a pain in my butt.

743
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:58.519
I don't have a charger at home, so when I go or approach

744
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:02.960
the mileage ran, I have what's
called range anxiety. I already have anxiety,

745
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.119
and so I don't want range anxiety, meaning uh oh, I'm down

746
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:10.159
to fifty miles, forty miles,
thirty miles. I better find me a

747
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:15.000
charger to plug this thing in.
Generally, I just want to snap my

748
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:16.800
figures and say, hey, listen, I need to drive to Austin.

749
00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:19.920
I'm gonna go up to a UT
game. I'm gonna go see my son

750
00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:22.280
who lives in Austin. But well, that's Austin's what, two hundred plus

751
00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:27.239
miles away from Houston, and in
many cases I'd have to plan out.

752
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.039
Okay, if I take an electric
car from my house on the southwest side,

753
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:34.079
I'm probably gonna make it three quarters
of the way to bas Drop.

754
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:37.159
Let's find out where a bas drop. I mean, it's like triple a

755
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:40.079
trip tick, which if you're not
over forty to forty five years old,

756
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:43.079
you have no clue what I'm doing. I don't want to have to plan

757
00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:46.199
my trip. Electric cars are good
for a secondary car. Electric cars are

758
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:52.599
good for someone who doesn't drive more
than thirty forty to fifty miles commute on

759
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:54.280
a daily basis. Maybe you just
want to take your kids to school,

760
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:58.280
take them to soccer, and you
do have a charger at home, and

761
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:01.679
you do have one at work,
So that's my thought of electric cars because

762
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:05.480
charging in America right now, you
know, my thoughts not the greatest.

763
00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:08.559
But in terms of cars, very
impressed with the Kiya Kiva. Kia has

764
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:14.039
something called the EV nine. Always
been impressed with this. I've driven two

765
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:16.320
or three different versions of these things. The Kia EV nine one of the

766
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:21.400
nice ones. It's an suv.
It is it's the twenty twenty four to

767
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:23.760
one. It's got three rows,
it's got two hundred and forty ish miles

768
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:28.480
of range, It's a relatively decent
price for an EV of this size,

769
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.719
and it was one of the I
guess neater if there's a ward of cars

770
00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:37.360
that I drove this year. It's
got a lot of interior space, relatively

771
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:43.840
attractive, neat little dashboard and key
has been kind of on a roll Kia.

772
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:45.639
And again funny I mentioned Kiya in
Genesis, so we've got, you

773
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:50.039
know, you know, things from
what South Korea are something they're really doing

774
00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:53.039
a good job in terms of an
electric car. I certainly like that too.

775
00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:58.920
So take a look at the EV
six or actually the EV nine awesome.

776
00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:00.840
I don't know if I said EVC, but it's the EV nine,

777
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:05.039
it's the new one. I didn't
have not driven a Rivian. I have

778
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:07.480
driven the pickup truck. I have
driven and electrified a Ford F one to

779
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:12.559
fifty lightning. It's good. I
look forward to Chevy Blazer has an electric

780
00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:15.760
vehicle coming out soon. I'm gonna
try. In terms of trucks, there's

781
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:19.920
mid size and there's full size.
I like mid size trucks because I don't

782
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.840
need to schlep a lot of things. I don't need a bales of hay

783
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.239
or anything. But here in Texas, it's fun look at a mid size.

784
00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:29.559
One. One of my favorite mid
sized vehicles I d driven this year.

785
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:34.320
Driven this year the Chevy Colorado.
The Chevy Colorado, or if you

786
00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:37.119
want a little upgrade, we took
a look at the Sisters company, the

787
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:43.440
GMC Canyon. Actually, I think
the Colorado took the It won't a lot

788
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:45.719
of awards. It was a Motor
Trains twenty twenty four Truck of the Year

789
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:52.119
award. But it's it's it's a
quiet, it's easy to park. You

790
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:57.800
don't have to have a half ton
F one fifty dodd you know Ram fifteen

791
00:55:57.880 --> 00:56:00.119
hundred. You don't have that stop. It's got good suspension. It is

792
00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:05.079
a mid size so you can still
haul things in back if you really want

793
00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:07.199
to upgrade it. I know the
Chevy. I think I had the z

794
00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:10.280
R two model, which is kind
of the outdoor off road type of thing.

795
00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:13.599
Not that I do a lot of
off roads, but take a look.

796
00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:16.360
It's a relatively good price point too, versus some of those bigger trucks.

797
00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:21.400
And I think overall, I have
to have my favorite car of the

798
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:23.639
year. And if you're a longtime
lister of my show, you know my

799
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:28.920
favorite car ever made is a Corvette, and it was last October I got

800
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:34.760
to ride in the brand new seventy
fifth anniversary edition of the Corvette. It

801
00:56:34.920 --> 00:56:37.480
was the C eight version, which
is the mid engine, and it was

802
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:43.280
that Stingray version in it was the
sexiest car I've driven this year, and

803
00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:46.639
it is probably the sexiest car on
the road. It is a head turner

804
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:51.039
if you look at it, just
from them Maroni and if you get fined

805
00:56:51.079 --> 00:56:52.760
one on the shelves, it's it's
a fine one of the dealership. Yet

806
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:58.000
it only lists somewhere between seventy to
eighty thousand dollars. Good luck finding it

807
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.480
at that price of it. I'm
a sports car guy. I'm in the

808
00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:05.440
stage of my life where I do
not need an SUV. I'm not dropping

809
00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:07.400
off my little kids at the soccer
you know, we're the basketball games.

810
00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:12.320
You could take one button touch of
the automatic roof goes up and down about

811
00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:15.239
what twelve to nineteen seconds. It
is fast, it is loud, and

812
00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:19.239
it is a head turner, and
it is sex a y. It is

813
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:23.320
called sex a. My car of
the Year Corvette taking a break out of

814
00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:27.039
the hour, What was your favorite
thing that you drove? Did you buy

815
00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:30.400
a new car? They're getting easy
to find during COVID, A lot of

816
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:34.199
issues with supply chain. Let's go
find your new car. Let's plan for

817
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:37.000
one in twenty twenty four. One
of the things that I'm here for thirty

818
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:39.079
more minutes ago. Final show this
year twenty twenty three at the High Tech

819
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:49.599
Textan show, Michael carb what's everybody's
travel plans for this year? Got anything

820
00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:54.400
planned already for twenty twenty four?
I am off I will beat in starting

821
00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:58.679
the new year off right. Going
to New Orleans this coming Monday. And

822
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:02.599
a little football game that's happening.
Betrayed your University of Texas Longhorns and should

823
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:07.480
that happen? They will be here
in Houston for the NATTY National Championship,

824
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.679
and then after that I am off
for Vegas. Longtime listeners, you know

825
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:14.039
what I do. The first week
or two of Vegas, I go for

826
00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:17.920
the Consumer Electronics Show actually used to
be called Consumer Electronics Show now that it's

827
00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:27.880
called CEES CeX is. It kind
of functioned as of a highly reliable crystal

828
00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:31.559
ball. So if you're wondering what's
going to empower consumers in twelve months,

829
00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:36.079
you can look at this year's technology
offerings. If you want to know what

830
00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:38.159
consumers are going to be buying in
eighteen months, you know, I pay

831
00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:43.039
attention to the products that are going
to ship in the third quarter of next

832
00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.840
year. If you want to know
what's in the horizon, you spend time

833
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:50.800
with big manufacturers to see what's on
their drawing boards. And if you wand

834
00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:52.199
you know, hey, man,
if you're wondering about potential investments or business

835
00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:58.280
opportunities, to me, CES is
a great place to formulate tester technology based

836
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:01.239
ideas. It's I'm not gonna call
it a secret weapon, but it actually

837
00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:07.400
it's pretty fun. Twenty at least
the twentieth year I've done this, and

838
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:09.559
I will be out there. I
will be back. See it's not on

839
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:15.679
a Saturday, it's Tuesday through Thursday
or Friday. So on Saturday, January

840
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:21.239
thirteenth, I will do my follow
up what did I see at CES?

841
00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:24.719
Better than that, it's what did
Michael bring back from CES? A lot

842
00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:29.159
of companies they give me toys and
fun stuff to give away on the show.

843
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:34.440
It's Christmas in January, so you
want to tune in for that.

844
00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:38.480
My guess is I think AI artificial
intelligence. I think it's going to be

845
00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:45.239
incorporated into almost every technology I'm likely
to see at the show. I think

846
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:52.000
there's going to be innovations in media, financial technology, I think the mobile,

847
00:59:52.039 --> 00:59:55.360
the wireless, and it's definitely the
automotive industry. I think the sports

848
00:59:55.400 --> 01:00:00.679
industry. There's always there's an entire
wing of the convention center. It's about

849
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:06.440
sports technology to sustainability. There's a
lot of stuff going on, so stand

850
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:08.960
by for that. One of my
big first things that will be doing it

851
01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:15.920
is Vegas Paopball party time. I
want to come up with my tech product

852
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.159
of the year. What was your
favorite product of the year. Now,

853
01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:22.440
listen, I'm I told you,
I'm going over the best and worst of

854
01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:28.880
everything in terms of travel, kids, restaurants, drinks. But it is

855
01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:31.599
called the High Tech textan show,
and I'm the tech guy that does not

856
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:36.840
get too techy. Very rarely do
you hear me talk about gigabytes and megabytes

857
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:38.840
and things that blow your mind that
I just you don't need to hear about

858
01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:42.760
it. It's it's a consumer technology
show. But I cover a lot of

859
01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:47.599
stuff. But people ask me,
what was the one product that stood out

860
01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:52.199
this year twenty twenty three? Did
it change your life? No? I

861
01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:57.639
don't think it is. It's tough
to find technology nowadays that actually change lives.

862
01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:00.599
I mean, I'm again for me, I'm very when it comes to

863
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:06.800
technology again. Two decades I've been
going to the Consumer Electronics show. How

864
01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:10.360
many flat screen high definition TVs?
Could I see? How many new phones

865
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:14.440
and new computers? You don't even
see a ton of computers or laptops out

866
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:17.079
there, you know now it is
it's almost a de facto auto show.

867
01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:24.079
Then sports, financial, tech and
media. Just like I said, what

868
01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:29.480
was the one product this year?
Though? That it took note and it

869
01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:32.039
took people around the country, if
not around the world by storm. And

870
01:01:32.159 --> 01:01:37.239
to me, the news came on
July third of twenty twenty three. It

871
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.760
was right before July fourth, wherever
you were. I remember, I was

872
01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:45.079
in Los Angeles. I was in
southern California visiting my son. Out of

873
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:53.079
blue middle of the night, a
new product or service, web based app,

874
01:01:53.159 --> 01:01:55.800
whatever you want to call it,
was released. That to me,

875
01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:09.559
it swept the technology news world media
cycle for weeks. Ladies and gentlemen tech

876
01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:16.800
product of the year, threads.
Do you use Threads? I spent a

877
01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:21.679
lot of time in July and August
talking about threads. Threads was launched by

878
01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:25.840
Meta Mark Zuckerberg. Meta owns Facebook, that owns Instagram, what it owns?

879
01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:30.280
What's thatpp? That owns a lot
of things. But they launched what

880
01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:37.239
they hope would be the Twitter Killer. It may have killed Twitter because not

881
01:02:37.360 --> 01:02:40.840
long after that, Elon Musk,
who owns Twitter, changed the name to

882
01:02:42.239 --> 01:02:45.800
X. Did they do it because
of Threads? I don't think so.

883
01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:51.760
Did it kill Twitter? No,
X, We're gonna call it X from

884
01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:54.320
now on, but X does exist. I still have an X account.

885
01:02:55.079 --> 01:02:59.920
Go to high Tech Texan, go
to x dot com slash high tech Tech.

886
01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:04.000
You'll see my and I hate call
them tweets, but that's what we're

887
01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:12.599
gonna call them. But Threads was
a place that was anti Elon Musk.

888
01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:16.280
Whether you like him or don't like
him. I think a lot of people

889
01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:22.480
realize that back in the day what
it was called Twitter and X was is

890
01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:27.639
it fake news? Eli Musk was
certainly in the news by really ticking off

891
01:03:27.719 --> 01:03:31.239
advertisers by using a four letter F
bomb that I can't say here, but

892
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:37.159
he sure did. Hey, if
you don't want advertise, not a good

893
01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:42.039
way to run a company. It
did lose a lot of market share,

894
01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:45.599
it lost a ton of advertising on
it, and it lost a lot of

895
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:50.480
people. And they decided to go
to Threads. I use Threads. I

896
01:03:50.599 --> 01:03:54.679
use Threads. It is free.
It is almost relatively but relatively similar to

897
01:03:54.920 --> 01:04:01.159
use like X. You could put
characters one hundred twenty two hundred forty characters.

898
01:04:01.920 --> 01:04:04.480
There's links, you could put photos
this, you could put what you

899
01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:08.199
had for lunch, you could put
your thoughts, you could put the external

900
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:12.760
links. You could do whatever.
But when it came out, they didn't

901
01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:17.280
make an announcement. It was just
pop and it was viral. Within a

902
01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:23.079
day, they had one hundred million, I believe or something subscribers. Because

903
01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:29.880
it was simple, the ease factor
of downloading it, using your Instagram account

904
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:32.320
to create your Threads account and populate
everything it needs to know. Didn't need

905
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:34.920
to really sign up. It was
like, hey, Instagram owns. It's

906
01:04:34.920 --> 01:04:41.199
the same company as Threads. Let's
go ahead and use it. It has

907
01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:44.920
progressed in the past six months.
There was things that you could use hashtags

908
01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:48.000
and sort, but now they're certainly
figure that out. Seems like they're going

909
01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:51.599
to improve so much so that I
actually the person I think is what's his

910
01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:57.480
name, Adam of Seri. He
reports I believe in Zuckerberg. He's always

911
01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:00.440
on Threads. I follow him and
then here's the feed very you know,

912
01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:01.920
hey, how can we approve this
thing? What's going on? It seems

913
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:09.960
like a decent guy. It doesn't
seem to me to have the vitriol again

914
01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.880
that X does. Again, I
don't follow politics, I don't follow lot

915
01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:16.199
of the world news. I'm pretty
much a sports guy and I follow maybe

916
01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:21.719
what's going on in the auto world, some friends, some actors, But

917
01:05:21.960 --> 01:05:28.639
Threads to me, it took off
like freaking wildfar and without an advertisement.

918
01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:31.400
There was no marketing. There was
people like me going, hey, you

919
01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:35.000
should try this thing. And then
I spent the next you know, probably

920
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:39.239
a good amount in late July going, you know, doing all my media

921
01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:42.039
rounds on the radio stations and TV
stations I work with. Michael, Is

922
01:05:42.079 --> 01:05:46.000
this the Twitter killer? And dare
I said, I said, you know

923
01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:49.599
what, this is about as close
to anything so far we have seen as

924
01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:54.480
a Twitter killer, because there was
a number of other companies that people were

925
01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:58.119
flocking to for the past year or
two, Blue Sky and all these other

926
01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:00.079
ones that I do when we don't
know of don't even want to use because

927
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:03.000
they were difficult. You had to
log onto a server. You don't want

928
01:06:03.039 --> 01:06:08.079
to do that. You get your
news? People? Wake up? What

929
01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:09.639
do you do? How do you
get your news? A lot of people

930
01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:12.840
they've grabbed their phones and they've looked
at their Twitter account. They look at

931
01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:15.960
their ex account. Right now,
they look at threads account. This is

932
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:18.440
not an endorsement for Threads. I
like it. There are a lot of

933
01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:21.440
people right now who's still to this
minute, after a four minute discussion,

934
01:06:21.440 --> 01:06:24.920
they have no clue what I'm freaking
talking about with Threads. To me,

935
01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:29.519
my tech product, my tech launch
of the year, Threads brought you by

936
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:32.119
Meta. There you go, agree, disagree. There you go. Coming

937
01:06:32.239 --> 01:06:36.400
up the final segment of the year
twenty twenty three, the Business Story of

938
01:06:36.480 --> 01:06:42.960
the Year, Any and all of
your last questions and a fun kissoff farewell

939
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:45.400
of what I will missing this year
and what I'm looking forward to in twenty

940
01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:57.800
twenty fours High Tech Textans Show missed
Mige Garfield shuit all to quinsoms me for

941
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:01.960
good? What is old Auld?
Can someone explain it to me? We

942
01:07:02.039 --> 01:07:05.320
got about eight more minutes left of
the final show of twenty twenty three here

943
01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:08.679
on the High Tech Texting Show.
It is Michael Garfield. Actually, what

944
01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:13.760
is the quintessential New Year's song?
We have so many Christmas songs? Is

945
01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:16.159
there a New Year's song? To
me? There is. There's only one

946
01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:20.039
New Year's song that you want to
hear. It is Barry Manilow. Another

947
01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:28.039
old lang zign. Google it another
old langs It is Auld. I still

948
01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:30.159
don't know what it means. But
again I'm a very Maneloe fan, and

949
01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:35.079
that's the one I don't need to
hear. Bring in you know the old

950
01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:44.360
Actually, uh, Dan Fogelberg,
which is also another I believe that's also

951
01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:47.280
another old lang sign. I like
to Dan remember Dan Fogelberg. Of course,

952
01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:51.000
I mean, I am going so
yacht rock right now. It's not

953
01:07:51.159 --> 01:07:57.920
even it's not even funny. Actually, Dan Fogelberg has one called the same

954
01:07:58.159 --> 01:08:03.840
old lang sign. Barry Manilow has
another old lnsign. Those are the only

955
01:08:03.880 --> 01:08:08.559
songs I'm actually going to listen to
for New Year's Eve, and then I'm

956
01:08:08.719 --> 01:08:11.679
listening to the Ice of Texas for
the rest of the next day. On

957
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:15.480
January first, I'm not going to
give out the phone number because we are

958
01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:18.319
finishing up and we were winding down
the year here of the high tech tection.

959
01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:21.279
I do thank you so much.
I don't take you guys for granted.

960
01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:28.119
You Gallas for granted for listening all
these years, and hopefully all my

961
01:08:28.239 --> 01:08:30.920
bosses and the people who actually keep
me on the radio, the people who

962
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:34.920
sit in the carpeted offices down here
at iHeartMedia, Eddie Martini, Mark Sherman,

963
01:08:35.279 --> 01:08:39.880
Ryan Erickson. Yes, I'm looking
at you too, Callum you too.

964
01:08:40.119 --> 01:08:44.560
You kind of run KPRC. Thank
you for keeping the entertainment here.

965
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:49.039
Saturday is eleven to one. Both
AM and PM went through some of my

966
01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:53.239
favorite cars, the year, worst
cars, the year, best food,

967
01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:58.760
best travel spots, my favorite kids, which the ranking always shifts depending on

968
01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:01.960
what mood I'm in, what mood
are in. My technology product of the

969
01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:04.600
Year, I just did that.
You're gonna have to podcast this to hear

970
01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:10.520
it. The business story of the
year, and I thought about this as

971
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:15.800
the business story of the year because
it's also a technology based story, and

972
01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:20.840
that business story is AI, Artificial
Artificial intelligence AI. AI is everywhere.

973
01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:29.800
AI is eating everything every company.
Every person running some sort of a company

974
01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:33.760
probably was wondering in twenty twenty three
about how to use AI to make their

975
01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:40.560
business more efficient. It was a
year ago, almost exactly that chat gpt

976
01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:45.439
was launched. That was big disruptive
tech, but it became a corporate obsession.

977
01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:54.199
There's a lot of people who worry
about AI that could bring about armageddon.

978
01:09:56.079 --> 01:10:00.239
But I think the consistence is that
the new AI defined technological A just

979
01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:05.800
here and big tech technology they're they're
in where they're in a rush right now

980
01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:13.279
to dominate the space to make AI
experts the hot hot the year's hottest hires

981
01:10:13.319 --> 01:10:15.399
for all these industries. But if
you think about it, this is where

982
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:20.319
the money's at. I mean,
the company behind chat gpt it was one

983
01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:25.560
of the most valuable startups with evaluation
of something like eighty six billion dollars.

984
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:30.159
And then you look at what Google's
doing in meta and Amazon they spent the

985
01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:35.560
last year making big sophisticated updates to
their AI models and new AI powered tools,

986
01:10:36.159 --> 01:10:41.279
and they're putting a ton of cash
into startups to help their in house

987
01:10:41.359 --> 01:10:48.119
innovation. I mean it's unavoidable.
I mean companies have been infusing their offerings

988
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:53.119
with AI features left and right.
Can listen. They're gonna help users learn

989
01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:58.760
languages and in type messages and summarize
your meetings. I mean, if you

990
01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:03.439
can think of its someone's you AI
to do it. To me, that

991
01:11:03.640 --> 01:11:08.039
was probably the business story of the
year. I mean, listen, we

992
01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:10.840
can look. We can look at
the Federal you know, the fed is

993
01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:15.560
hiked their interest rates to the twenty
two year high. I don't like to

994
01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:18.039
look at that one. There was
there was everybody went. It was on

995
01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:21.600
strike. Apparently this year this summer, the Hollywood actors, the Hollywood writers,

996
01:11:21.640 --> 01:11:25.760
the Detroit's you know Big three,
I think ups workers they threaten to

997
01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:28.479
walk off the job. There was
a lot of strikes. But to me,

998
01:11:29.279 --> 01:11:31.319
obviously I have to tie it a
little of the little technology, and

999
01:11:31.359 --> 01:11:34.960
I think it's the artificial intelligence,
and to me that was the big stuff

1000
01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:40.319
for you. I don't know.
I'm not going to pick up the photo

1001
01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:43.560
anymore because we're about four minutes away
from ending the last show of the year.

1002
01:11:44.039 --> 01:11:46.239
You could tell me on all of
my social media, including Threads,

1003
01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:49.479
which was my tech product of the
year, you find me at high Tech

1004
01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:53.720
texts and spell the whole thing at
h I g h T E c h

1005
01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:57.399
t e x A N. And
with that, what am I thinking of?

1006
01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:00.239
I mean, I can start wrapping
up the you know, the show

1007
01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:03.800
in the year. Next week we
will certainly know who is in the Natty,

1008
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:06.840
the National Championship, which is going
to be held in Houston, Texas.

1009
01:12:06.920 --> 01:12:12.079
People in ourg Stadium. It is
either gonna be one of four teams.

1010
01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:15.560
For a lot of our sake,
certainly mine, the University of Texas

1011
01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:18.479
Longhorns would be nice if they would
be there. After that becomes CEES and

1012
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who knows what twenty twenty four is
going to bring, hopefully the conflict what's

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01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:27.560
going on in Gaza and Israel.
It's going to be done. It shouldn't

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01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:30.279
have started. It was horrible to
me. That was the worst story of

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01:12:30.359 --> 01:12:34.079
the year. Should never have happened. Not infusing a lot of politics or

1016
01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:39.159
world politics or geopolitics in my shows
ever, but I do know when things

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01:12:39.199 --> 01:12:41.239
are right and things are good,
and when things are bad, and things

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01:12:41.239 --> 01:12:47.199
are very bad health wise. I
hope you were fine. I'd certainly look

1019
01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:51.039
forward to coming back from CES with
a lot more health and wellness apps and

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01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:55.680
things to play with. We're going
to be able to look at our watch

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01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:58.920
not only tell our blood oxygen levels. We're going to talk about our blood

1022
01:12:58.960 --> 01:13:01.239
pleasure monitors, but there you know, be nine to one one calls if

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01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:05.239
we're falling down or going too fast
or in a collision. This is the

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01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:12.920
neat stuff that I do. You
know, it's been one year exactly since

1025
01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:20.359
our good friend Randy Lemon has passed
away. He was the Garden Goober and

1026
01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:26.000
it was an unexpected thing. Died
at sixty one years old and affected me,

1027
01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:29.279
affected our radio station, affected so
many listeners here in the Houston area

1028
01:13:29.359 --> 01:13:32.000
because you know, Randy was on
the radio a few years longer than I

1029
01:13:32.079 --> 01:13:34.960
am currently, well over twenty years. And to give you a lot of

1030
01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:41.800
advice, I say this it's because
life is fragile. Enjoy life, life

1031
01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:44.159
is short, have fun. It's
actually you talk about a motto. I

1032
01:13:44.239 --> 01:13:47.119
literally have a piece of art that
has a number of different sayings of what

1033
01:13:47.239 --> 01:13:51.319
I say, one of which is
ovap, but also it's life is short,

1034
01:13:51.359 --> 01:13:55.720
have fun. I think about him, and I think about every people

1035
01:13:55.800 --> 01:14:00.319
that everybody we've lost this year.
But all the potentially good news. Twenty

1036
01:14:00.359 --> 01:14:03.960
three was it the greatest year for
MOI? It was better than twenty twenty

1037
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:09.439
two. I did not like my
twenty twenty two for various reasons. Had

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01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:12.000
a few little health things here and
there. For twenty twenty three without giving

1039
01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:15.119
you my hippa or too much government. But whatever happened to you, you

1040
01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:18.640
know what, Be energetic, Try
to be positive as much as you can.

1041
01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:24.119
That's what I try to instill.
The stories that I talk about,

1042
01:14:24.239 --> 01:14:28.479
the products that I talk about,
review, I try to have fun my

1043
01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:30.880
social media, my post, the
things I get to do. I'm very

1044
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.439
lucky. I worked hard and I
still work hard of doing it because I

1045
01:14:33.439 --> 01:14:38.079
could turn my job into fun things. And if that's something that that's a

1046
01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:41.720
goal of yours in twenty twenty four, you do that yourself. If you're

1047
01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:45.319
sick of your mundane job, you
have a boss, you have an old

1048
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:47.960
boss who is about to retire.
He or she is mean or is it?

1049
01:14:48.840 --> 01:14:53.439
Get off your button, do something, don't puts around. Maybe that's

1050
01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:58.079
your twenty twenty four motto. Go
for it, because we're not going to

1051
01:14:58.119 --> 01:15:00.359
be here for a long time.
The relative I say long time. If

1052
01:15:00.359 --> 01:15:03.039
you look at the universe and so
freaking enjoy the time. And I do

1053
01:15:03.319 --> 01:15:08.399
enjoy this time, these two hours
every weekend with you Callum Reid. I

1054
01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:11.920
do. Thank you. Happy New
Year to you everybody else here at iHeartMedia.

1055
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:14.479
I talked about my bosses. Thank
you so much. But most importantly,

1056
01:15:14.560 --> 01:15:15.720
if you don't listen to people,
I probably don't have a show.

1057
01:15:15.920 --> 01:15:18.600
Thank you, thank you, thank
you, Happy New Year. Next time

1058
01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:21.680
you hear from me, hopefully well
be twenty twenty four on behalf of everybody

1059
01:15:21.720 --> 01:15:25.760
who's been a part of the High
Tech Texting Show. Thanks for tuning in,

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01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:29.520
See you in twenty twenty four,
because right now the last show of

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01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:32.199
twenty twenty three is over.