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H Texan is Michael Garfield. Michael
Garfield, Michael Garfields joining the tech Texan.

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Michael Garfield is here with a high
tech texting items to make easier some

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new technology. So Michael Garfield has
something you might like. Texan. Michael

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Garfield is your high tech Texan three
decades hoping you make magic with your gadgets.

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Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act.
Now your high tech Texan, Michael

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Garfield. That is right. You
heard that big booming voice say Michael Garfield.

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By the way, I am Michael
Garfield. But can we be so

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sure? Since the blue check mark
is gone? I could be an impersonator,

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this could be an artificial intelligence voice. Is it really me? We

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shall see. And that's actually one
of the big topics that we're going to

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talk about this week. People,
if you were had a verified blue check

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mark, it is pretty much OVA
unless you are paying for man for some

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reason that has got the world up
in arms. People, it's just Twitter.

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I calm down, summit down,
what you're gonna do. Good Saturday

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afternoon, actually good Saturday late morning
if you're listening live on KPORC nine fifty.

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Michael Garfield is the name Garfield.
This is I believe close to nineteen.

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I forgot it was this week.
I believe it was my very first

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show nineteen years ago. I've been
here with the iHeart team for twenty two

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years. But for some reason,
these there's there's some dude who green led

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a show for me almost two decades
ago, and it started this week.

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And back back then it was more
of a technological show. I was telling

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you about laptops and desktops and there
was no high definition TV. Really it

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was admitted to come out. There
was a Wi Fi, which I had

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to explain and oh my goodness,
we have come so far. I talk

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a little about technology. It really
is a consumer lifestyle show. It's it's

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like, hey, what's Michael b
s And about this weekend? It's fun,

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it's personality. I love hearing from
you. I love reading all of

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your emails. If you have my
text, be kind while I'm on air.

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But also now, there was no
Instagram. Back twenty years ago,

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there was no Facebook, Twitter or
anything. And that's how you can reach

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me. High tech text and Hi
g h T E c h T e

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x A and I do talk much
more, but just about tech stuff.

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Maybe I'll touch on gardening since I
learned a little bit about gardening earlier this

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year. But some of the things
that I am gonna yap about are,

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Yeah, the blue check mark.
I think I found a way around that

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thing. By the way, if
you do follow me on Twitter, go

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to high Tech Text and Hi g
h T E c h T e x

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A N. Take a look at
my new my new profile photo if you

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will. I got a way I
got around. I never had a blue

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check mark. Actually, apparently I'm
not that special. I'm just riff raff.

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I'm a yo all you other.
It's not a big deal, but

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I am me. But I think
I got away around the blue check mark.

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So you can see what's what's up
at the high Tech Texan Go check

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that out. Other things we are
gonna yap about. I do cover the

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car and automobile industry, and it's
always fun to let you know what's Michael

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driving this week. I've been doing
this for fifteen years, and I've been

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doing around last week or two lasts
of the past fifteen years and some really

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cool stuff. But this this week
I got a I got the Ford Bronco

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Everglades version. It's South the Ford
Bronco, which you know kind of came

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at the new four Bronco came out
about what two years ago, several different

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flavors, very neat stuff. This
is the Everglades version. And I put

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a photo on I put a photo
on my Twitter account. It's also my

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Instagram. You could take a look
at this thing. By the way,

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if anybody who's listening right now in
and around the southeast Texas area, if

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you happen to be stuck in a
ditch or something like that, I've got

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you covered because this thing has a
winch in the front of it, so

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I can tow up to ten thousand
pounds. So I thought that was pretty

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nat. So no, I'm gonna
give you the play by play about that.

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Along with what is I'll tell you
what. I Am going to give

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you a secret of how to make
some money. If you are a Facebook

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user or we're a Facebook user.
Facebook or their parent company Meta they are

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paying people thanks to a lawsuit about
seven hundred and fifty million dollars they've got

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to pay restitution for something. I
will tell you how you can claim or

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leak put in a claim to get
some money back for the God awful things

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that Meta or Facebook allegedly did back
in the day. So standby because you,

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my friends, probably could get a
share of seven hundred and fifty million

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dollars worldwide, which probably equates to
maybe a cup of coffee when the check

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if the check actually comes. The
phone number here Callum read hello, Calum,

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my friend, how are you?
He's on the other side of the

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glass. Seven one three two one
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nine five out That number has not
changed. And the twenty or almost twenty,

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as we lose count years that I
have been doing this. Let's um,

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I'm gonna I'm gonna start with checkopolis, checkopolis. If you're a Twitter

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user, if you don't understand what
I'm talking about, bear with me,

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because this really is big news.
Elon Musk, who, by the way,

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has not had a really good week. He's getting just absolutely vilified for

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a Twitter which he bought for forty
four billion dollars that they removed a blue

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check mark but by your name,
which kind of verifies who you are if

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you're an athlete or celebrity or whatever. That's gone and now you have to

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pay for it. And oh,
by the way, he launched a rocket

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on Thursday morning from our great state
of Texas. It went well for the

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first four minutes until it didn't.
But then again, listen, there's anybody

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can see a bright side in anything. The fact is that actually lifted off

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and had a four minute flight.
It was a successful failure. As we

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said, Elon Musk and Twitter,
they began removing these blue check marks from

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legacy verified accounts, and that was
a long stated plan from from Twitter when

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when Musk bought this thing. And
historically, the aim of this verification system

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really was to ensure that accounts from
notable individuals and organizations who posted a lot

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were actually being run by those individuals
and organizations instead of you know, perpetrators

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or people you know who are creating
it. Somebody could have created account that's

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in Michael Garfield. Well it's not
me, Michael Garfield, but but who

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knows, But you get verified.
Elon Musk has long been vocal about his

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dislike for the legacy verification system.
He called it corrupt and lords and peasants

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and whatever. He initially said April
first of this year, they're going to

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remove that blue check mark. Didn't
happen. Was an April fool's joke.

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But apparently he waited to four twenty
Thursday, April twenty and they started to

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disappear, and it was really funny. Watch a lot of the it's really

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stupid. Honestly, some of the
celebrities are people who have these accounts verified

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and melting down. Well, they
took my blue check park away. I'm

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leaving. Shut up people you have
there's people who have hundreds of thousands,

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if not millions of followers. You
just don't not do it. I don't

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understand this thing. This blue checkmark
system really started over a decade ago and

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it was it was a good or
bat who knows, but this was a

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massive meltdown people. Now you can
become a blue checkmark holder by paying eight

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dollars a month, and even the
richest of richest people said, screw it,

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I don't need to do this.
The point is this, if Elon

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Musk is trying to monetize, and
the dude, dude does need to recoup

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his forty four billion dollars and try
to figure out how Twitter is gonna make

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some money, which it never has. If you're gonna take something away from

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users and then ask them to pay
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Make sure it is i would say, a necessity or very important to

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those users. And guess what,
people, all this is is a blue

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check mark, a little tiny graphic
on the screen that says I am who.

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It ain't that important in the scheme
of life. So if you're ticked

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out there similar listens who are blue
check marked? Sorry about that? Why

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don't you go actually talk to a
real friend, your neighbor, your family,

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your loved one instead of actually freaking
out over some erroneous not a big

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deal Twitter graphic and icon you see
even the high tech Texan as two feet

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in the ground impact of reality.
By the way, keep your feet in

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the ground and keep reaching for the
stars. With that, we are going

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to come back. I'm gonna give
you some big news about Netflix. Netflix.

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It may be something notable, but
something again. It looks like that

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passwords sharing is about to begin,
which means you're gonna have to start paying

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for that too. What is this
world coming to? It's the high tech

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text and show back at it,
Michael Carr Bield hopo, both everybody,

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It is the high tech text and
show. Got some ideas, got some

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questions, so he need some advice
on something than life and love. But

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I think I may be your guy. Seven one three two one two five

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nine five. Oh would you guys
do last night? Friday Night? Friday

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Night? Netflix Prime. I'm actually
excited the new season, the last season

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of The Marvelous of Missus Mazel on
Prime Video where it came out about a

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week ago. This is the last
season. And I think the reason I

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actually got Amazon Prime about three or
four years ago literally was to stream the

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Marvelous Missus Mazel And now that's ending. I I'm not kidding you. I

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actually may give it up. I
don't. I'm not the biggest Amazon user.

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I'm really not. And remember with
Amazon Prime, which is it has

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a monthly fee, I don't know, it's roughly why one hundred and twenty

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to one hundred and fifty or so
dollars per year. Yes, it gets

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you free two day shipping. But
it also gets you a streaming service Amazon

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Prime. It gets you a music
service, gets you some you know,

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streaming music, which I still think
I heart radio is better company man,

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Well not really. But the reason
it's called content, and maybe your content

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is shopping. The reason you go
to Amazon dot com Maybe that's it.

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Content is also my wonderful show.
Why are you listening to KPORC nine fifty

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right now? Why are you listening
to a podcast or I Heart radio.

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It's the wonderful content that I curate
each week and kill two hours of your

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time. It's content. Netflix started
it all. Netflix is the big daddy,

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big daddy kine of everything. And
Netflix continues to change. Do you

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remember how Netflix began though storytelling with
Uncle Garfy. They started selling or not

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even selling, renting DVDs. So
this is after the Blockbuster VHS chains of

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the world, and I know,
I probably just lost easily a quarter of

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my audience right there with the Blockbuster
change. You have no clue what I'm

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talking about. You would walk into
a corner store. You would go in

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Juliana Friday night, and you would
rent for wet three four bucks, five

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bucks, I don't know. You
would rent a VHS tape Oh my god,

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I'm continue to lose my audience VHS
and you would have to rewind,

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be kind, rewind, and then
return it I think one to two days

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later. And that's how you watch
movies. Netflix said, no, let's

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stop it. The DVDs are here, we're gonna mail these things to you.

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They were red envelopes, the iconic
red DVD envelope. You would go

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online and you would have a queue
and you would rent these DVDs and you

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hit click and they would mail you
one, two, three, whatever at

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a time. You open your mailbox, you watch it, and then you

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would put it back in the envelope
and you mail it back. That's how

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Netflix started. It wasn't just it
wasn't a streaming service. Well guess what

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I didn't know this, but the
red envelope renting the DVD. It's still

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been going on. Breaking news.
Netflix is finally about to shut down the

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DVD by mail rental service that really
set the stage for trailblazing the video streaming

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service. People, it's an end
of an era started about a quarter century

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ago. It was it was a
revolutionary concept. Do you folks remember this.

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They planned to mail its final discs
later this year, on September twenty

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ninth, and people, it will
be ovah ova. Netflix ended March with

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two hundred and thirty two million worldwide
subscribers to its video streaming service Netflix.

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But it stopped telling, it stopped
disclosing how many people still pay for the

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DVD by mail delivery several years ago
because that part of the business shrank.

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The DVD service generated about one hundred
and forty five million dollars in revenue last

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year, So the guess is they
probably had around a million subscribers still doing

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this. If anyone listening right now
still subscribes to the DVD in the mail

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red envelope Netflix service, I'd love
to hear from you right now. Seven

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one three two one two five nine
five vot hey, luddite, why are

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you still doing this? But the
growth, as we know, and I

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talked about this because I do cover
the streaming industry, the growth of Netflix's

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video streaming service, it's kind of
been slowing down of the past year and

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they need to figure out how to
boost profits. And the focus could have

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contributed to the decision to close that
operation that was becoming a financial drain,

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which is and was the DVD service, which was it was Netflix's biggest moneymaker.

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Listen, I'm sure they have diehard
fans who continue to subscribe to that

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DVD stuff because maybe there's more movies, there's more obscure movies that aren't widely

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available in video streaming. Okay,
that's total legit. But I think a

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lot of people and I'm gonna liken
this to the newspaper industry whoever still subscribes

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to newspaper And I'm sure my parents
are listening right now in Dallas VI iHeartRadio.

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They do. Subscribers wax nostalgic about
opening their mailbox and seeing that familiar

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red envelope awaiting them instead of all
the junk mail and all the build just

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it's just it's a it's a time
going. This is another thing that goes

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by the wayside. Am I am
I sad about it? No, because

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I'm gonna be honest with you.
I've never subscribed to that Netflix DVD thing.

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Of course we knew about it was
very famous. But I saw some

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of these stats. It's just about
five months of life or manny, the

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DVD services ship more than five billion
discs across the US. Five billion.

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It could they be the was that
the sole blame of bringing down the Blockbuster

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video rental stores. May not be
the sole blame, but it sure was

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the nail on the coffin. Netflix. By the way, they rebranded the

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service a few years ago called dvd
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still out there. I'll say this
one say I'm sitting Shiva for that.

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Not really, but what we got
about two minutes left in the segment,

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and I'm gonna throw this out here. Seven one three, two one two

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five nine five. What medium do
you miss the most? And I say

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medium? Is it the DVD player? Is it a cassette tape? Is

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it? Eight track tapes? And
cars? I don't think anybody can miss

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the vhs. The b kind rewind
that was just too long to come to,

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too large. I don't even have
a DVD player. I have tons

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of DVDs sitting there. But when
I set up my system in the house

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I moved into about five or six
years ago, I've got the I got

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my receiver, my AMP. I've
got a number of different things sitting there.

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I guess I've got a PlayStation,
I don't know whatever. My kids

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have PlayStation five right now. And
I've got an Apple TV, the physical

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thing, and I've got my Wi
Fi. UM. I still have an

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LP record player if you will,
it's it's it's in my garage somewhere,

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and I have a I still have
a cast tape. I didn't put that

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up. That's in the grind somewhere
too, and I guess my DVD players

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somewhere in my garage. We don't
need it at this time. So I'll

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say it again. Either tweet me
high tech texting, or give me call

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seven one two one two five nine
five. Actually, if you call me

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on your wired telephone with a little
pigtail cord, you probably still subscribe to

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the Netflix DVD in the mail.
What is the medium that you missed the

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most, and I'll throw it out
here. I think the medium that most

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it's it's the medium is the the
delivery system. That's what it is.

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Reel to real tapes, eight track
tapes, DVD players, CDs, you

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know, when it comes to audio
entertainment. That's what the medium is to

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me. I grew up in the
medium where I knew it. We had

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a reel to reel reel the real
is a heath kit, a real the

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real kit that I grew up with
that I really didn't play with her,

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understand. My parents had that.
And then there was albums, the thirty

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three and a third and then the
seventy eight RPMs, and I was kind

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of into albums too. I remember
the eight track eight tracks where I got

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my first Barry Manlow cassette back in
the late nineteen seventies. Captain Tinelle I

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had that too, But to me, it's the cassette. It was the

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Maxel, it was the TDK,
it was the cassettes. And so as

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you know, I'm a I'm a
kid of the I grew up in the

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eighties. I'm all about eighties music. And when you were there in the

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early nineteen eighties, and every single
car came with a cassette tape, and

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you just kind of had a case
that was probably sitting underneath your front seat

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or maybe the passenger seat, and
you would go on road trips and you

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would whip out everything from Journey to
John Cougar Mill and Camp to even you

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know, the Michael Jackson thriller.
It's what I had back into the day.

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Those To me, the cassette tape
will always be very dear, dear

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near, and dear to my heart. Then there were CDs and then now

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looked we got MP three. Some
of the things that we're gonna aap about.

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That's what I do. I go
back when we come back on the

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other side. War net Flix more
Netflix. Hey, if you share a

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password with someone you know to watch
Love Is Blind? WHI Joe? By

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the way, did work out too
well last weekend? Did it? I've

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been warning you about this for six
months. It's coming your better pony up?

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Are you ankle baby's able to share
that password? I got that in

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anything? Anything else you want?
Michael Garfield, it is the high Tech

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Texan Show. The bottom of the
hour thirty more menu is left in the

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morning Central time zone. It is
the High Tech Texan Show. Michael,

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what is going on? You know? Big shout out to local businesses over

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here and anything I can do to
help the local businesses, That's what we

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need to do here and around the
Houston area. Actually, wherever you are,

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you really should support local. And
by the way, if anybody happens

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gonna tell you right now, they're
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not gonna perform the projects for you. See, I'm gonna do it yourself

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who doesn't need a new toilet Toto
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the toilet here because I give you
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We've been doing this for like two
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I was talking about Netflix. Um
sorry, it's time it's time to talk

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about thing. Netflix is finally about
the crackdown on the password account sharing here

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in the United States. Apparently they
have a broad rollout of its paid sharing

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plan coming in a few months.
This has already happened in other countries.

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And I've been telling you this about
for six months, and so it seems

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by the end of spring early summer
this year, you are not gonna be

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able to share the account password of
your ex wife, which is bad news

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for may. In the past,
Netflix is estimated that more than a one

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hundred million non paying households have access
to its service through free account sharing,

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and they say the practice limits it's
availability to invest new content. Listen,

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you're paying nine, ten eleven,
up to twenty bucks a month. You

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multiply that times one hundred million households. If that's what true. Yeah,

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they're losing there, They're losing a
lot of money. I totally get it.

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They say that a Netflix account is
meant to be shared in one household.

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In one household only, people who
are not in your household will need

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to sign up for their own account
to watch Netflix. It's common man.

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It was a one year ago that
Netflix dropped the bombshell that it had lost

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subscribers for the first time in ten
years. It in one day, like,

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they lost about thirty five percent stock
value, and now fast forward to

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right now and it's it's still pretty
shaky. Now. They launched a new

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seven dollars advertising supported tier to attract
more users. Seven bucks a month,

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you're gonna see ads, and they
did add about one point seven five million

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net subscribers, but that was short, probably about half a million of their

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expectations. And soon they're going to
roll out it's highly anticipated, according to

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them, program to limit password sharing. Netflix is still the dominant streaming service,

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but there's so many out there,
but they're having hiccups and issues.

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I don't watch this show and I've
never even heard of this show, Love

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is Blind. Apparently there was a
live reunion about a week ago or so,

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and it was going to be stream
live across the country and everything,

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but apparently it didn't work. And
it's funny because as I was on Twitter

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it, Twitter seemed to melt down
with what is happening? Look, I

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don't even know what this show is, but the fact that so many people

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were ticked a Netflix for not figuring
out how to do live streams, it

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didn't make sense. I mean,
Amazon knows how to live streaming I mean

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Amazon broadcasted last year NFL football on
Thursday nights, which they will continue to

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do so for many years and soon. As I told you a last segment,

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it's not even gonna have its own
DVD rental service to fall back on.

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But I think the passwords sharing crackdown. When it happens, it's gonna

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give Netflix that much needed boost in
new subscribers. As I said, company

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believes that one hundred million plus people
are households, are watching on an account

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they don't pay for it. So
I'll throw this out there. This is

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amnesty hour. Do you borrow disguise
your voice? Seven one two one two

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five nine five? Do you borrow
somebody's account? Make up a name park

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like Kermit d Frog. I ain't
gonna bust you. And are you gonna

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pay for it? How many streaming
services do you have already? Because right

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now you may not realize this,
but you may be paying more than you

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did when you just had cable.
Everybody wants to cut the chord, right,

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Oh well, well, you certainly
need internet account unless you're barring that

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from your friend with their Wi Fi. Passwords sharing. Good for you if

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you are more power to you but
you are going to need Internet, and

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that's gonna cost you anywhere between thirty
forty fifty sixty dollars depending on the speed

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or whatever. Then you're gonna have
Netflix for ten bucks. ESPN Plus,

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Disney Plus, gotta have that.
You gotta have Amazon Prime. You gotta

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start this starts adding up Man,
HBO, Max Max. At some point

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you're you're at the point where you're
gonna start over again. You know what,

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why don't you just fall back on
absolutely free advertising supported radio. This

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message brought to you by KPRC nine
and fifty, where you have been listening

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to advertising free supported radio, at
least my show for two decades. Right

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now, I see what I did
there. That's it seven one three two

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one two five nine five out.
I told you I have Prime Video that

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I actually I don't know why.
I think I pay about nine bucks for

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it. I don't know if I
have a student accounts. I don't even

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know how. I maybe's relatively cheap. I don't know. And I did

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it solely I think years ago to
watch Marvelous Missus Masel, which, by

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the way, the first three episodes
of the final season just dropped last week.

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I don't want to see that,
go I may give up my Amazon

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Prime after that, Which if you
had to drop one or two of your

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streaming services, what would you drop? Listen? It's a personal preference.

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It's kind of like back in the
day where I listened when e readers electronic

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readers were a big thing. There
was the obviously there was the Amazon Fire

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tablet, you know that. That's
that was a way which exclusively you got

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to download books or purchase books or
rent books from Amazon. And then there

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was there was another competitor, Barnes
and Noble had and still have one.

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It's called the Nook. And oh
okay, well, at that point you

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we download books from Barnes and Noble, and both of the e readers were

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convenient. There were you know,
electronic ink. They were kind of a

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black and white, you know ink
things, so you can read them out

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in the sun. They were light, you can recharge them, and that's

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about which in there relatively inexpensive.
And people ask me which is better?

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Should I get the Noo or should
you get the Amazon And the quite simple

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answer was, what's the content that
you want? If you wanted a massive

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catalog of books and magazines, and
you already had an Amazon account. Yes,

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get the Amazon Fire. You don't
need to change everything. But if

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you were old school, you used
to go to Barnes and Noble, and

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you just you just want some books
in fiction and nonfiction, books that are

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relatively new or whatever. You Yeah, get get the nook. It's about

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the content. So what's the content? I don't know. It's kind of

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tough to figure it out. Now
there's listen. I have Peacock Netflix from

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an account that I'm sharing I got, I pay Amazon. I think they'll

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have somebody's HBO Max account at Disney
Plus account, and I really don't watch

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those too much. But it's tough
to find out who makes better content.

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It's it's up to you who's got
the better the catalog. Shockingly enough,

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I'm actually pretty surprised at at at
Peacock, I have about a minute minute

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a half. Togo might about guess
what I watched. I had nothing to

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said in my life. I don't
know. I had about an hour and

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a half to our scale for I
go to bed late at night. About

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two or three days ago I saw
I saw streaming only on Peacock. It

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was a movie that was released earlier
this year that had the absolute one of

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the most the most stupid, worst
titles ever. But a buddy of mine,

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I think it was text me months
ago. He goes, I cannot

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believe I saw this movie, and
he and then we started laughing about the

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whole thing. Folks. I watched
and here's my quick review on Peacock streaming

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only right now. Cocaine Bear.
I'm leaving at that. Cocaine Bear is

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the name of this movie. It
was in theaters I don't know, a

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month or two or three ago.
It is now streaming. You can only

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get the damn thing on Peacock.
I'm sorry. I wasted an hour and

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forty minutes of my life. It
was directed by Elizabeth Banks, who is

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a really cool actress, hot actress, and I just I just did not

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like anything about this. It was
It's about a bear. It's based on

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true facts. It was about a
bear who ingested cocaine that was dropped from

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a plane somewhere in the in the
in the mountains of Tennessee. And in

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the real true story that I don't
think anybody was actually killed romuld. But

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this was one of the goryest,
campiest movies I have ever seen. It

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was actually stupid, It was disgusting, but damn it, I continued to

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watch it, folks. It's called
content. I don't pay specifically for Peacock

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because I have Expenity, which is
owned. It's the NBC Universal and they

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have the whole Peacock. It comes
with it. But damn I watched Cocaine

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Free Bear. People. Don't waste
ninety one hundred minutes of your life.

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Don't do it. Anybody want to
tell me a better something to watch,

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or if you disagree and you love
Cocaine Bear, I am here for you.

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Seven one three two one two five
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is what we talk about on a
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second of this first hour or the
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Is the name Garf if we are
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which is not blue checkmark very five. But then again, if you never

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had in the first place, it
doesn't matter that everybody's blue checkmark was wiped

406
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out. My other account, Garf
g a r f where you can find

407
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:44.400
out all the late breaking sports news, which is pretty much the major thing

408
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:48.039
that I care about in life right
now. The phone number is seven one

409
00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:51.759
three, two, one, two, five nine five. Hello Calum,

410
00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:53.359
read here. He's on the other
side. He will answer your phone calls.

411
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.079
Calum, are you a McDonald's fan? I saw this news. This

412
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is not a commercial. Believe me, this is zero commercial from McDonald's.

413
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.440
I'm gonna have to give him about
two and a half minutes of on air

414
00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:08.559
publicity right over here. Do you
you ever eating McDonald's. No. I

415
00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:11.960
have three boys there in their twenties
right now. I can't when they were

416
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:17.160
really, really young. I remember
taking him to McDonald's. I think,

417
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:21.160
I'm not getting you solely to go
play in that little gym inside. This

418
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.119
is before my local Chick fil a
had a gym. You know. They

419
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.039
did get in the little ball pit, and I remember my oldest son,

420
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:30.359
so he's now twenty eight. I
remember he was really little and he actually

421
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:34.839
got caught. He got stuck way
up where maybe he was scared. He

422
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.559
crawled all the way up to the
top of these mcdonald' ballpit things and the

423
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:42.079
little slides, and he started crying. He was really young, and he

424
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:45.599
couldn't come down and couldn't get out. So Dad, being the hero that

425
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:51.319
I am, had to go on
a reconnaissance mission, literally climbing through a

426
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:56.640
ball pit, up and down,
over the grimace and through hoops to go

427
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:00.480
all the way to the top of
this McDonald's ball pit and them down.

428
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:06.839
I do not remember buying a quarter
pounder with cheese or even fries. I

429
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.480
just we just had about I just
I don't do fast food other than maybe

430
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:15.480
chick or Chaco's or something that I
actually care about that can be relatively healthy.

431
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:17.759
And I bring this up. It's
because I saw a story about McDonald's

432
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:24.279
is trying to reinvent itself these new
big macs. McDonald's is improving it's hamburger,

433
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:29.480
It's cheeseburger, the double cheeseburger,
the mcdoubleburger in Big Mac. The

434
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:35.000
company announced earlier this week the improved
how do you are? They are they

435
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:40.200
admitting that their food was not that
good because the improvements include softer buns.

436
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.440
Nice to meet you. My name
is Michael, which boby there? I

437
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:52.200
think they have sesameseeds right? According
to the jingle, they perfectly melted cheese

438
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:59.359
in a juicier caramelized flavor from adding
white onions to the patties. While they're

439
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:05.319
still on the real McDonald's has been
rounding for generations, and now they're just

440
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:09.519
perfecting that in realizing the white onions
while they're on the grill is a good

441
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:17.200
thing. You listen go the small
changes in the twigs, maybe they're gonna

442
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:22.640
be hotier, hotter, meltier cheese
and men their grill settings. Good,

443
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:29.519
good for you. But the bigger
news is something that actually did excite me

444
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:37.599
because it took them all these years. McDonald's. I am actually very excited

445
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:45.519
to say this. They are bringing
back the Hamburglar. I am stoked.

446
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:52.680
The freaking Hamburglar and parents who are
over forty years old, certainly certainly over

447
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:58.599
fifty, you know, the Hamburglar. There were these characters that McDonald's had,

448
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:01.400
and I'm gonna data back to obviously
the seventies or something. I remember

449
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:05.160
why he was young. I was
watching early Saturday morning cartoons and they had

450
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:13.679
these characters. The Hamburglar, who
was this cartoonish thug who apparently escaped from

451
00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:20.159
jail because he and I'm assuming it's
a he is wearing black and white jail

452
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:25.159
uniforms with a mask on it.
And the Hamburglar apparently even though he was

453
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:31.639
paid by McDonald's as a spokes character
was not allowed to eat hamburgers, so

454
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:38.199
the fool had to steal freaking hamburgers
from Mary mccheese. This is HR puff

455
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.719
and stuff. It's so appropriate.
This happened on the week that April twentieth

456
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:47.599
twenty actually came out. Point is
the Hambururgler. They dropped the hamburglar even

457
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.079
I think they even dropped Ron McDonald
and some of this stuff Hamburgers coming back.

458
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:58.639
There's a new commercial. I'm a
Mary mccheese guy. By the way,

459
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.519
have you ever seen Mary mc go
Google right now when you're not driving?

460
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:07.000
Mayor mccheese. Dude? Literally,
whoever created the hr puffin stuff?

461
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:15.280
Nineteen seventies live action weird drug addicted
comedy created this McDonald, This maryor mccheese

462
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:19.000
character. Dude is dressed up in
I guess a suit like a mayor,

463
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.760
but his entire freaking head is a
big mac. I mean, there's no

464
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:27.880
way this guy could walk through a
door. And then there's the Grimace.

465
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:34.760
What the hell is Grimace? Who
it McDonald's or was it McCann Erickson or

466
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.800
who was the advertising the agency out
of Chicago? I actually I'm not kidding

467
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:42.960
you. When I studied advertising and
when I was in college, and it

468
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.880
was a very when advertising agencies were
advertising agencies. There was either New York

469
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:50.760
Chicago rail lay, but it was
a Chicago based because McDonald's is based right

470
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.119
outside of Chicago. It was it
was it was it J Walter Thompson or

471
00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:57.719
they created these characters that that the
happy Meal and all this other stuff.

472
00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:04.119
Who who thought a purple blob of
nothing called Grimace would be a good character.

473
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.039
I don't. I don't know.
I don't know where I'm going this

474
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:07.920
thing real quickly, by the way, to see, this is what we

475
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:09.679
talk about. This is hard hitting
stuff that I'm trying to entertain. You

476
00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:14.119
give me right now and callum you
could you could, you could chime in

477
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:17.239
seven one three two one two five
nine. What are some of the greatest

478
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:23.599
food mascots? Give me the food
brand mascot. Let's rank the food brand

479
00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:28.159
mascots right now. Seven one three, two one two five nine five up.

480
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.239
We have to start an end with
Tony the Tiger. Am I wrong?

481
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.119
Because they're great? I mean,
this dude, he was the king

482
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:43.079
of encouragement when it came to young
sports players. I mean, I don't

483
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:47.199
eat Cereal really anymore? But if
I'm walking down the aisle of HB and

484
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:51.639
there's freaking tone to the Tiger,
and I can hear the voice, who,

485
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.239
by the way, the same voice
as the Grinch from When the Green

486
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:58.360
Shiel Christmas Throw Ravenscroft. Great voice
there, boy, I wish I had

487
00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:02.840
a voice like that. Do They're
more than good? They're great? Why

488
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:08.559
is it with Cereal? It's really
there's these mascots really who just appealed to

489
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:15.239
kids the Lucky Charms leprechn what's up? Kids? Kids would chase this dude?

490
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:19.800
Why are they chasing this dude?
Kids? Tell your parents to just

491
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.960
go to the damn store and buy
you some Lucky Charms? How about that

492
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.800
owl? Remember mister Alan the Tutsie
Pop commercial? How many looks does it

493
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.400
take to get to the center of
a Tutsie Pop freaking woodsye? Ow is

494
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:37.159
it? The one or two or
three? Crunch? Love me some Pillsbury

495
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:42.440
dough boy? The that dude was
the cutest brand mask out of all time.

496
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:50.320
Poke is a little tummy. We
got Ron McDonald freaking tricks Rabbit Silly

497
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:53.800
Rabbit tricks for kids. There's another
thing that takes me off. This is

498
00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:59.920
called the tricks. This was his
cereal. And they wouldn't let tricks rabbit

499
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:05.679
have tricks because he's a silly rabbited
tricks for kids. The rabbit had to

500
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:09.159
go steal the freaking cereal from kids. I still remember the step Keebler Elves.

501
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:15.159
Thank you. I'm getting tweets right
now. Love the keeper up Ernie,

502
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:17.480
the freaking alf Man burger king.
Yep, he's in there too.

503
00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:22.519
Mister Peanutt and his monocle. Yep, he looked good. Oh love the

504
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:28.079
kool at Man. Oh yeah,
dude came busting through the wall again.

505
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.079
Everything is marketing to kids to can
freaking Sam, to can Sam. He

506
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:37.639
was fruit loops. Who else are
we missing? Twitter? Come in and

507
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:43.559
jolly green giant dude. Who wouldn't
want to buy freaking package vegetables from a

508
00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.320
big old dude wearing freaking leaves all
over his chest? Love that guy,

509
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:52.760
Captain Crunch. Was he really a
captain? Was he kind of like a

510
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:58.840
first mate? I'm not sure.
Maybe kind of a commander instead. People,

511
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:05.199
I just nine minutes with you,
giving you some some iconic brand memories.

512
00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:09.079
Welcome back, Hamburglar. I'm a
Mary mccheese guy. But you know

513
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:13.559
what, I'm sorry, man,
I don't care what character you bring back.

514
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:16.679
I'm just not going to McDonald's.
It's non brand loyalty to me.

515
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:20.880
By the way, if any of
our sales people here at the I Heart

516
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:25.519
Radio is pitching McDonald's for an endorsement, I'm gonna pass it at But I'm

517
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:29.599
your Chick fil a guy. It
is lunch time, by the way,

518
00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:30.480
and I'm getting hungry. We have
one more hour to go. Don't go

519
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.679
anywhere. The phone number here is
seven one three two one two five nine

520
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.480
five. Oh. When we come
back, it's Earth Today's Earth Day.

521
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.920
By the way. I'm gonna tell
you about some sustainability programs and maybe some

522
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.960
products or ways that you actually can
help save our earth and make it more

523
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:49.360
green. And that does include electric
vehicle cars. And I am going to

524
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:53.320
talk a lot about cars. There's
there's a new car that was just released

525
00:39:53.360 --> 00:40:00.599
and it's coming out that has no
rear window. Are we are we taking

526
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:04.119
one step forward but two steps backs
in life? I don't know so much

527
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:06.880
more to talk to one hour ago
here on the High Tech Texting Show.

528
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:23.480
Yeah, Hi Tech Texan is Michael
Garfiel Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining the

529
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:30.639
high tech texting. Michael Garfield is
here with a high tech texted items make

530
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:37.119
easier some new technology. So Michael
Garfield has something you might like. Hi,

531
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:46.320
Texan, Michael Garfield is your high
tech Texan three decades helping you make

532
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:54.840
magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide
on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high

533
00:40:54.880 --> 00:41:00.000
tech texting Michael Garfield. Who's hungry? Man? I just got through giving

534
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:05.320
a ten minute spiel on McDonald's and
the favorite fast food characters. People.

535
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:09.320
This is the compelling information that you
miss by missing our number one, which

536
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:14.000
will be podcasted thanks to my man
Callum read here in just about an hour.

537
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:16.760
Because we are only halfway through this
show. Say it with me.

538
00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:22.400
We're a halfway at a happy hour
people on a nice Saturday here in and

539
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.920
around Southeast Texas. Michael Garfield,
that's right. Last night, check guy,

540
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:29.800
I did need to take a peek
up my driver's license to prove I

541
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:34.960
actually am Michael Garfield since everybody's blue
check mark went away. To verify who

542
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:38.440
we actually are again, another topic
that you can go back on the podcast

543
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:43.159
and figure out. Listen to there
was a Twitter reference. I'll give you

544
00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.719
the phone number here, mister callum. Read's over here answering calls. Maybe

545
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:47.880
I'm an answer them. Depends what
kind of mood I am, callum Am,

546
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:51.280
I had a good mood maybe yeah, yeah, okay, now generally

547
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:54.320
in a good mood. Seven one
three two one two five nine five ozho.

548
00:41:54.559 --> 00:42:00.480
By the way, Happy earth Day? Earth Day? What is Earth

549
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:05.920
Day? Shouldn't every day be Earth
Day? It's kind of like Mother's Day

550
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.559
and Father's Day. Shouldn't every day
be Mother's Day and Father's Day? To

551
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:15.320
love one another and get gifts?
What do you give somebody on Earth Day?

552
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:19.039
An electric vehicle? I will be
talking about that later this hour too.

553
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:25.239
Are you are we supposed to be
more aware of everything sustainable? A

554
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:30.159
lot of companies are. It's funny
they're they're rolling around Earth Day. But

555
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.480
then again, two days ago they
were rallying around four twenty also, which

556
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.119
I didn't you know what side note
I didn't even know it for twenty was.

557
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:43.840
I don't until a few years ago. And I think it's just absolutely

558
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:45.679
stupid, and I don't even know
the origin of it. I don't want

559
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.639
to hear it. But it's funny
how there's some companies who marketed the hell

560
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:53.559
of that whole thing. But now
it's Earth Day, right now, sustainable

561
00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:55.760
stuff. I will tell you about
some sustainable things. By the way,

562
00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:00.599
got some information from my buddies at
Samsung. Again, sadly not a paid

563
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:04.199
endorsement, but I do like Samsung. It's just one of many companies who

564
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:09.360
actually are coming out with eco conscience
initiatives. TV recycling, by the way,

565
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:13.679
you got about two more days,
a few more days, Samsung is

566
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:19.480
offering to haul away your old TV
and recycle it responsibly. When you buy

567
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.000
a few select TVs on Samsung dot
com or from best Buy, you're gonna

568
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.679
get a one hundred dollars instant rebate
to use towards the purchase of a new

569
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:31.480
Samsung TV. I've said this for
twenty plus years that I've been on the

570
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:35.679
radio. I remember doing this for
computers and desktops when you when you do

571
00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:39.159
not ever throw a monitor away,
do not ever throw away a desktop or

572
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:44.280
a laptop because some of those parts
are not recyclable. And it's number one.

573
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:50.159
It's in terms of secure personal security
data stupid. I mean, you

574
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:57.360
better wipe that hard drive claim and
to do that. So sometimes I physically

575
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:01.159
recommend to people you better take a
power drill and drill through that hard disk

576
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:07.360
to make sure nothing is stilling,
have the thing recycled, wipe your drive,

577
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.800
and maybe donate it to some nonprofit
or some family who you know who

578
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:14.760
who can't afford it. That's one, But I also want televisions too,

579
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:17.440
just to just if your television blows, man, just don't put it in

580
00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:22.039
the freaking trash, find someplace to
recycle it. And I know a lot

581
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:27.119
of the places charge you for recycling, which I mean, I guess I

582
00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:31.760
kind of understand these recycling business models, but still it's sometimes it doesn't make

583
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:35.480
sense. Hey, I'm trying to
save the world. Can I just recycle

584
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:37.199
this without paying for it? In
some places let you do and don't so

585
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.559
anyway, so I see if Samsung
is trying to do. They're nice little

586
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.320
upsell there there. They'll come and
haul away your old TV recycling and install

587
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:51.840
the new TV. They also have
some refurbished phones for less uh sam sig

588
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:58.039
Samsung certified renewed devices, and they're
a lot most all of these when when

589
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:04.119
is when it is certified renewed Advice
or maybe the certified renew car. It's

590
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:08.400
kind of like a light new experience, Like I know, the Samsung stuff,

591
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:14.159
they have a guaranteed warranty and it
saves your money, reduces waste and

592
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:16.920
what have you. So they have
some refurbished phones out there, and there's

593
00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:22.280
some of these newer devices that they're
coming out with UM that have recycled ocean

594
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:27.000
bound plastics from discarded fishing nets and
what that doesn't help to minimize UM,

595
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.039
you know, economic footprints. So
you know, again that's one of many

596
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:34.840
things that so many companies are out
there doing, and so you know,

597
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.039
it's good for them. And I'm
more than happy to point this stuff out.

598
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.480
If I'm missing anything, feel free
to let me know at seven one

599
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:45.199
three two one two five nine five
if you heard of something that's actually the

600
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:51.599
certified renewed phone. Starting today,
it's on Earth Day. The They have

601
00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:57.360
a Galaxy S twenty two series,
which I think I haven't I haven't asked

602
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.480
twenty two. I think I haven't
asked twenty two. They have a Certified

603
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:05.519
Renewed S twenty two. It's available
starting today six hundred nineteen dollars. I

604
00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:08.639
believe it starts with and also comes
with a new green color option. Oh,

605
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:10.719
I'm looking at you, Samsung.
I'm seeing what you're doing. A

606
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:15.519
green color option for the S twenty
two, and they actually even have a

607
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:20.480
S twenty one. It's coming for
a new low price and that starts May

608
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.719
first, and that really lowers the
cost of all the models, including that

609
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:27.760
S twenty one Ultra, by at
least one hundred dollars. And listen,

610
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:32.280
Sam Sung, Listen, there's a
lot of companies who refurbished their phone.

611
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:37.239
They certify them, and they're gonna
make them like new. It's gonna be

612
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:38.639
a like new experience. In this
case, maybe it's a phone. They're

613
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:43.239
gonna come up with warranty companies this
big. They're not in the business of

614
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.079
selling you something that's gonna fall apart. Again, I absolutely trust something like

615
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:52.400
this, So anyway, in that
case, check it out at Samsung dot

616
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:55.960
com. There are so many other
guys. I saw Southwest Airline is letting

617
00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:01.519
you purchase some carbon flight credit.
So Happy Earth Day to all those who

618
00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:05.639
are celebrating. And tell me how
you are celebrating Earth Day. Are you

619
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:09.159
eating leftover food in those plastic containers? Don't do that. That was a

620
00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:14.239
famous Murphy Brown episode. I remember
that phone number here on the Michael Garfield

621
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:17.639
program is seven one three two one
two five nine five oz again real quickly.

622
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:23.920
Last hour, we talked about the
checkopolis where Twitter has removed most I

623
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:29.599
say most, all the blue check
mark legacy and but feel free to go

624
00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:31.920
pay eight dollars a month if you
want your check mark, which kind of

625
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:35.119
makes you kind of a laughing stock. It's like, why why are you

626
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:37.440
doing that? Talked a lot about
Netflix. Netflix has been in the news

627
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.800
big time. They are getting They've
announced that they're gonna stop selling the DVD

628
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:45.239
in the mail service, which to
many surprises of people's like I had no

629
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.000
clue they're still doing it, but
yes, by the end of September this

630
00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:52.320
year, it's all streaming all the
time for Netflix. They're a big business

631
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:55.760
model that they used to rely on. How they started no more DVDs and

632
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:00.480
those red envelopes. That'll be uh. You can hear that on the podcasting

633
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:01.880
about an hour from right now.
That was the hour number one, And

634
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:06.760
very soon they will be announcing of
how they're going to stop password and show

635
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:09.639
sharing. So if you share a
password of Netflix, you are screwed.

636
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:15.039
My friends, you better start saving
up your money to pay for it because

637
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:19.559
you are not going to be able
to share that password. And so about

638
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:23.679
one hundred million people allegedly around the
world share a passwords one hundred and Netflix

639
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:28.480
is gonna recue some of their money. So there you go, more sustainable.

640
00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:30.719
So go get a new TV from
Samsung. See you can watch your

641
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:36.039
Netflix all right. Coming back,
Who's hungry? Brand new? Another one

642
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:38.960
of these hot food halls, these
food markets is opening up today. It's

643
00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:42.800
downtown. I'll tell you more about
that coming back here on the High Tech

644
00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:53.679
text and showy Welcome back. It
is Michael Garfield. Of course, it

645
00:48:53.800 --> 00:49:00.000
is the long running high Tech dex
and show kprcam or radio here across Southeast

646
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.719
Texas. If you're listening here somewhere
online, thank you so much. You

647
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:06.519
may not be in Houston, but
you should get here just as soon as

648
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:08.639
you can. And then again,
watch out, it's gonna get nice and

649
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:12.440
toasty and hot. But there's a
lot of air conditioning here in this city.

650
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.840
And there's a lot of great food
and great things to do. Speaking

651
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:19.119
of which, there is something.
There's a big grand opening happening today downtown

652
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:23.599
that you should be really excited.
It's it's another opportunity to really number one,

653
00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:27.480
get some air conditioning. But also
there's an outdoor part of it too,

654
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.760
and there's a lot of great food. A few months ago, there's

655
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a place downtown called Lyric Market.
It was a it's a neat food hall.

656
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:38.079
If you've ever been and in food
halls or neat man you can just

657
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:42.119
go in and just you know,
sample this, sample this, and there's

658
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:45.880
a bar. It's just a it's
a really fresh venue. And today is

659
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:51.440
the official grand opening festivities with a
few more restaurants they just opened up.

660
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.199
And I want to go live down
there to kind of get the vibe.

661
00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:58.760
I'm gonna bring in Andy Charlton.
Andy is the manager down at Lyric Market.

662
00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:00.480
Andy, how are you? How
crazy is it right now? If

663
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.639
all the fun and food and drinks? Hey, I'm great. How's it

664
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.559
going, sir? I am fine. I am fine. So you've been

665
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:10.960
there since October. Everything's been open
since October. But today you finally wait,

666
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:15.159
you waited five months to really just
tell the world, right. There

667
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:16.239
was a little bit of baseball going
on, and then we rolled into the

668
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:20.719
holiday, so we wasted just a
little bit to get to get everything up

669
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and ready for the ground opening.
First of all, help people exactly where

670
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:28.000
it is. What's the as dress, what's the address? So the address

671
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is four left in Smith Street.
We're right in the very heart of the

672
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theater district. We're across from the
Worthen Theater. We're right behind the Alley

673
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:37.719
and right next source to Houston Ballet
as well, just off Smith Streets as

674
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you fall off its head into downtown. For those who've never been into a

675
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:44.079
food hall, and I don't know
when the term of food hall. I

676
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:47.000
grew up going to a shopping mall
that had a food court. There's no

677
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:50.960
shopping mall per se. But food
halls are fun because you know, you

678
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:53.440
go with a group of people.
Somebody feels like barbecue, somebody feels like

679
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:58.360
just a coffee drink, and it's
all right there. But it's just a

680
00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:01.199
neat one of the it's it's a
new vibe that this that the generation of

681
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:06.199
my kids like going to and they
like dragging dad down there. And you've

682
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:08.960
got a gorgeous place. And so
when for those explain what the food hall

683
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:14.559
concept, specifically what Lyric market is
too. So we've got nine different vendors

684
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:20.800
UM. They're all under operated.
We've got everything from barbecue to Cajun to

685
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:27.440
sushi, to Indian to Mexican cuisines. We've even got a great vegan vegan

686
00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:30.960
food stall. And if you're if
you're out on the days, or if

687
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:32.920
you say as you say, if
you if you want some friends, a

688
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.320
group of friends that everyone wants to
eat the same thing. It's a great

689
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:39.639
way to kind of mix, mix
and match cuisines with a group of friends.

690
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:45.000
We've got a fantastic bar in the
center of the food hall with some

691
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:49.239
some great drinks and some great spirits
as well, and it's just a really

692
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:52.400
nice kind of vibe to meet up
with with groups and and head our homes

693
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:57.840
to sound the space itself. Obviously
when you open in October, you know

694
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:00.480
it's it was pretty much self contained
in you know, in right over there.

695
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:02.679
But you also kind of debuting something
today with kind of a patio,

696
00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:07.320
so that's one of the reasons you're
celebrating. Yeah, we've got a beautiful

697
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:12.760
patio upstairs looking straight down Smith Streets. We're gonna have some vendors up there.

698
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.360
We're gonna have UM nineteen twenty nine, our Cajun Spot is doing some

699
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:20.599
fantastic crawlfish. We're also gonna have
some kids crossed up there. We've got

700
00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:24.639
a three entred sixty green photo booth, kick pops for the adults, some

701
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.480
kids crossed to keep the little ones
happy. I think you had me a

702
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:31.239
crawfish right there. This is crawfish
season, so it's perfect. And I

703
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:35.400
know you've also got as I'm looking
at some of the list over here,

704
00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:37.679
you've got that big Rhapsody Bar,
and you've got a sushi place, you've

705
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:40.960
got a caddy Rollwalla, you've got
Maxology, a little Mexican going on there.

706
00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:44.519
But you also I think there's there's
there's three or four new ones that

707
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:46.679
are opening, one of which is
a little barbecue action going on. What's

708
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.320
it called, Yeah, it's called
Mama's Mama's Texas Smokehouse. It's really really,

709
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:57.880
really good barbecue. I love I
love the raps. It sounds weird

710
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:02.280
thing to go for, but they
do a great brisket and sausage wrap,

711
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:07.039
which is just fantastic. Talking with
Andy Charlton, he is the manager at

712
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:13.000
Lyric Market Downtown. They're celebrating the
grand opening today and it's it's I think

713
00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:15.199
it goes on to is it three
o'clock today, it goes onto the big

714
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:17.360
grand opening, Yeah, twelve,
so three the Lyric Market. It's also

715
00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:21.199
opened seven days a week, which
obviously makes sense because you're in the heart

716
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:23.440
of downtown and you've got so many
workers. You've got people who live downtown.

717
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:27.199
So what are the general hours you
open for breakfast, lunch, dinner.

718
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:30.280
Breakfast, lunch and dinner through the
week. We're opening at eleven o'clock

719
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:35.239
on Saturday and Sunday. Obviously,
open a little bit later Friday, Saturday,

720
00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:38.440
Thursday, Friday, Sunday nights till
eleven the rest of the week through

721
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:43.440
two, nine o'clock and ten o'clock. So one of the other ones open

722
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:45.880
here is I see Cafe Juju.
We've got a little cold pressed juices so

723
00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:49.159
we can eat healthy. We don't
need to come down and step our pie

724
00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:52.840
holes with all of this barbecue or
anything. We've there's there's there's really nice

725
00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:54.559
options, including you said a vegan
option down there. Yeah. Absolutely,

726
00:53:54.639 --> 00:54:01.480
cafe they're just launching the brand new, completely based menu, so if you're

727
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:06.119
looking to take care of your body
a little bit more, they have some

728
00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:12.760
great juices, and they can also
give you some really really good m salads

729
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:15.320
and sandwiches that are just absolutely fantastic. You really can't tell the difference.

730
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:17.679
I know you spent a lot of
your time down there at that bar.

731
00:54:17.719 --> 00:54:22.519
It's a beautiful bar. Give me
one or two of your favorite concoctions to

732
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:25.519
mix and make. In drink,
I certainly believe we've got one of the

733
00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:32.360
best martinis in town. We have
that on draft. We've got a great

734
00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:37.880
blueberry Mojo. It's a kind of
a more of a tropical rum basil on

735
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:45.400
blueberry drink. And all the all
of the all the drinks are contributed to

736
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:49.320
buy by the bartenders, and we
have a lot of drink pairings as well.

737
00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:52.480
For the for the grand opening again, grand opening is today, goes

738
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:55.840
on from right now as we're talking
here live here on this Saturday, April

739
00:54:55.880 --> 00:54:59.559
twenty second, all the way to
three pm. Don't forget it is open

740
00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:02.000
seven days this week. The obviously. I actually I just got an email

741
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:04.960
every heere from one of the listeners. Hey, Michael, this sounds good

742
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:07.239
downtown though. What's the parking situation. Let's actually where should people park?

743
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:12.320
And how does that work? Park
right above us. We've got eight stories

744
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.800
of parking lot. It's free for
two hours. We've validates. We also

745
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:19.000
have special event parking rates, particularly
if you go into one of the inn

746
00:55:19.119 --> 00:55:24.320
theater or the ballet of the opera. UM it's it's towel hovels for it's

747
00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:29.280
a park for longer term during the
events. Free two hour parking a camp

748
00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:31.400
because I can do some damage within
two hours with a lot of dot.

749
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.199
If not, we're definitely taking it
uber. Last question before you get algy,

750
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:38.840
and we appreciate your time. Andy. People want more information. What's

751
00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:45.039
the website? Website is lyricmarket dot
com. Lyric Market it's l y R

752
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:46.679
I c lyricmarket dot com. It
is and one more time, be I

753
00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:52.320
addressed my friend for eleven Smith Streets, four eleven Sis Smith Streets on the

754
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:55.000
other end of downtown. It sounds
good. Let's see. I'm hanging up

755
00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:58.639
the headphones here. In about an
hour an hour and a half, I

756
00:55:58.719 --> 00:56:00.239
may be able to pop down there
if I see you. How about that

757
00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:02.719
martini? You're gonna have a co
one for me? Oh? Absolutely?

758
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:06.800
Game is on. Andy Charlton,
by the way, I love your acts.

759
00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:10.519
And he's from East Texas. My
friends way East Texas. Listen,

760
00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:15.039
Andy, congrats to you and best
of lucked. Everybody seems like it's gonna

761
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:16.679
be a winner. It's a great
new food hall. It's called Lyric Market.

762
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:20.159
Didn't we wish you the best of
success? Thank you so much.

763
00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:22.800
I love to see this is the
whole thing. If you know, I

764
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:24.639
do this radio show down around lunchtime. Then I get hungry that I'm gonna

765
00:56:24.639 --> 00:56:28.400
pop down there, so he's just
to check out out. Always need to

766
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:31.079
see things like pop pop up like
this in our great city of Htown.

767
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:35.360
Michael Garfield is my name. Open
phone lines right now. You don't go

768
00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:37.840
anywhere, people, because we still
got at least an hour or more of

769
00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:42.159
fun right here on the high tech
text and show kp RC Radio nine fifty

770
00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:52.159
am and iHeart Radio. Thank you
so much to folks done in Lyriing Market.

771
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:54.639
I may actually pop down there after
the show sounds good. I like

772
00:56:54.760 --> 00:56:58.760
these food halls if you just tune
in. Michael Garfield. We just talked

773
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:04.159
to uh, some of the folks
down at the new Lyric Market downtown Houston.

774
00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:08.480
All these food halls so funny.
I mean I remember going to the

775
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:13.480
food court. I mean they're food
courts and all these malls and hanging out

776
00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:16.639
fast times. Ridgemont High grew up
in doubt for all you people grew up

777
00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:22.719
in dallas Man Valley View Mall.
That was my jam North dallas Man.

778
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:29.639
They had a donut shop, a
Taco tex Mex shop. They had a

779
00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:34.480
pizza place. It was not Sabarrow. This is like crap. It was

780
00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:37.440
a It was a I guess the
difference between a food court and a food

781
00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:45.199
halls where in a food court it's
surrounded by a mall or something, and

782
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.360
I guess a food hall there's no
mall around there. I guess they build

783
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:51.960
these things and in office buildings or
whatever. So yeah, I mean I

784
00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:54.079
made just to go see some of
that stuff. Phone number here for about

785
00:57:54.119 --> 00:57:58.880
next thirty minute seven one three,
two, one two five nine five.

786
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:01.000
Oh. Michael gar is the name. We do talk a lot about cars

787
00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:07.360
because that's what I do. Cars
are really built on technology. And about

788
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:10.440
fifteen years ago I realized, man, I mean all these obviously, I'm

789
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:14.800
a high tech tex and I talk
about things that beep and buzz and built

790
00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:20.880
on technology. And then I joined
the Texas Auto Writers Association, and where

791
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:23.519
we get to you know, meet
the manufacturers, the engineers and the marketers

792
00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:28.159
for so many brands of cars,
and you know, I covered on a

793
00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:30.920
weekly basis, and I'm honored,
really I am to be able to get

794
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:36.639
to test drive a brand new vehicle
every single week of the year. I've

795
00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:38.920
been doing this for about fifteen years. It is not a dealership. None

796
00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:44.559
of this is paid. Sadly,
I do not endorse a dealership, sadly,

797
00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:47.639
which I should be endorsing a dealership. But this is pure content of

798
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:51.480
this stuff. I do get to
drive and play with and I've done it

799
00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:55.360
everything from you know, sports cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, family cars,

800
00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:01.000
cuvs, just many of hands,
you name it. And now EV's

801
00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:05.159
electric vehicles and kind of on the
tails of its Earth Day, Happy Earth

802
00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:08.239
Day people electric vehicles. Raise your
hand. If you're driving an electric vehicle

803
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:10.760
right now, I put your hand
back in the wheel you're driving. I

804
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:14.840
want two hands in the wheel.
Are you happy with your electric vehicle?

805
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:17.840
I get this at one of the
bigger questions that I've been asked over the

806
00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:22.559
past. I would say two years, certainly, you know, going back

807
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:27.119
four years, but the past two
years one year ago, Hey, Michael,

808
00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:29.760
is that your real hair? Yes, it is my real hair.

809
00:59:29.800 --> 00:59:30.440
I do not color it, and
I'm very proud of that. Debt.

810
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:34.880
Well, the other question I get
is should I get an EV? Michael

811
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.159
now is now all the time man
Garth? Should I get an EV?

812
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:42.320
And if you're a long time listen
you know my response. I like electric

813
00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:46.800
vehicles. I am then pressed with
almost every single EV that I test drive,

814
00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:52.639
from the Ford Mocke Mustang one of
the first ones I tested a few

815
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:59.840
years ago, to the Kia EV
six, I am incredibly pressed with the

816
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:05.239
the Genesis GV sixty. Oh some
of the technology built in that thing,

817
01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:13.079
it's amazing. They are super fast, the sound system, the touchscreens,

818
01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.199
the automatic driving, you can go
on and on and on. They're great.

819
01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:23.000
But for me, in my lifestyle, my demographic of what I do,

820
01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:28.320
I probably would not buy an electric
vehicle right now. And that is

821
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:36.719
solely based on my driving habits and
my lack of patience. Okay, because

822
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:40.400
you know here it comes to your
listeners. You know me. My hesitation

823
01:00:42.280 --> 01:00:52.159
is the sad current infrastructure of our
electric car charging system right now here in

824
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:54.920
the United States. It's horrible,
it's laughable. In the state of Texas.

825
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:00.239
I think there's probably only twenty five
twenty six hundred public charging dations in

826
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:04.760
the state of Texas. People.
California is probably fifteen sixteen thousand, which

827
01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:08.639
is still not even enough. So
the times that I have at an electric

828
01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:14.320
vehicle to test maybe the range on
those things of that battery, remember these

829
01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:16.960
are not gasoline power. You cannot
roll up into an ex hon or a

830
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:20.599
mobile and you sit there and just
put gas in it. You better find

831
01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:23.559
a charging station. Now. I
do not have a charging outlet or system

832
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:27.960
in my house because I don't own
an electric vehicle. Yes, I live

833
01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:31.880
half a mile from the Whole Foods. It's got one charging bay. Sometimes

834
01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:37.920
it works, sometimes it doesn't work. I don't want to roll up and

835
01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:39.840
this happened. I remember, I'm
in the four at F one fifty lightning.

836
01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:44.920
Oh unbelievable, great pickup truck,
it really is. And I needed

837
01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:46.800
to charge this thing. And it's
got a range I think it's what range

838
01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:52.519
had about two hundred fifty miles and
number one I being the ADHD person I

839
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:58.880
am, which I'm not shocked anybody
can figure that out. I have what's

840
01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:01.280
called range anxiety in my mind.
If the range and I'm looking at the

841
01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:04.840
range, not the gas milengs,
but how much range is left? Do

842
01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:07.639
I have fifty miles till empty?
Sixty miles until the battery runs? If

843
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:12.800
I'm under fifty sixty seventy miles,
I start freaking out and I start getting

844
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:15.880
the anxiety. Oh my goodness,
I need to find a charger, because

845
01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:19.599
God forbid that I run out of
battery. All right, I remember doing

846
01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:23.000
it specifically, and about three miles
from my house there's this Walmart, And

847
01:02:23.079 --> 01:02:27.920
in the parking art of Walmart,
there's this really high end I think it's

848
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:30.039
called Electrify America. There's several of
them across the Euston area and across the

849
01:02:30.079 --> 01:02:35.400
country too. That's level three,
the high end quote unquote rapid chargers.

850
01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:38.960
And I think they have four bays, four chargers. All right, Walk

851
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:44.559
drive up to any BUCkies in the
world. How many different gas pump stations

852
01:02:44.599 --> 01:02:47.880
they have, minimum of seventy some
of them probably have one hundred and fifty.

853
01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:53.920
Okay, there's four freaking stations.
So one time I roll up and

854
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:57.800
I'm listen, I'm not ragging on
an ivy. I'm not ragging on Walmart.

855
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:00.559
I'm ragging on the infrastructure of a
system. Here. I roll up

856
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:06.199
and there's all the four. Three
of the bays are taken up. Somebody

857
01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:07.840
sitting in their tesla with the air
conditioning on, playing on the phone,

858
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:12.519
just waiting to be charged up.
Three or four are working. One of

859
01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:15.519
is out of commission. The three
that are working, they're not fully at

860
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:21.719
capacity of the level three charging system. There may be about fifty percent capacity,

861
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:24.559
which makes even slower. So now
I'm sitting here waiting, waiting,

862
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:27.920
waiting, waiting for one of the
bays to open up. Twenty minutes late,

863
01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:30.239
twenty freaking minutes later, somebody pulls
out. Yeah, I back up

864
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:32.639
my f one fifty truck. Ooo. I backed it in the wrong way

865
01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:37.599
because the charging doesn't work that far. I backed in the other way.

866
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:40.280
I finally get in there, I
finally connected. I figure out how to

867
01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:45.800
become a member of the Electrify America
and swipe my credit card. By the

868
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:47.519
way, electricity is not free.
You gotta pay for that too, just

869
01:03:47.719 --> 01:03:52.599
like gas. I plug the truck
in and I'm like, this is going

870
01:03:52.639 --> 01:03:54.320
to take forty five minutes. This
is what it said to top it up

871
01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:58.079
to about eighty percent. Geez,
what am I going to do for forty

872
01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:01.960
five minutes? Of course, I
walk into Walmart. I don't need anything.

873
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:09.480
Of Walmart. Thirty minutes later,
and fifty dollars later of crap I

874
01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:15.280
didn't need. I'll walk out to
the truck. It stopped charging. Turns

875
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:16.840
in either I didn't turn the damn
thing on right or all of a sudden

876
01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:20.360
it shut off five minutes after I
plugged it in. And I'm living at

877
01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:24.519
this point. I got some frozen
food, is milt in the car.

878
01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:28.239
I gotta plug it in again.
People just doesn't work this way. I

879
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:31.079
just it just just very tough.
I sometime I'm listening. I'm based in

880
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:35.079
Houston. I drive to Austin quite
frequently. No my son lives there.

881
01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:39.360
I go to the Ute football games. That's a good two hundred and both

882
01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:43.840
two hundred miles away, two hundred
ten miles away. Maybe on an absolutely

883
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:45.559
full battery charge, I'm gonna make
it between my house in Austin. But

884
01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:48.400
as soon as I get to Austin, man, I better find a charger,

885
01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:51.639
which is gonna kill me another hour, hour and a half, tick

886
01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:56.800
tick tick tic tect. If I'm
lucky, if i go to Dallas.

887
01:04:56.880 --> 01:04:59.480
Now, I'm talking two hundred and
fifty almost three hundred miles between here,

888
01:04:59.519 --> 01:05:01.000
getting out of the city, going
to my parents' house, I'm gonna have

889
01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:03.280
to stop somewhere. I'm gonna have
to stop at Madisonville. I'm gonna have

890
01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:06.599
to stop in Centerfeld. Is there
a charging system? Are there going to

891
01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:11.760
be open and free? Do I
want to wait in this little city for

892
01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:14.639
thirty or forty five minutes or an
hour? No? I want to gas

893
01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:16.360
up my car like I generally do, like we do in six to seven

894
01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:18.840
to eight and nine to ten minutes, and get my hell on the way.

895
01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:24.320
Yes, I'm bitching about this.
That's the problem that we have right

896
01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:28.559
now, and until we can get
that fixed, I'm just it's not for

897
01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:33.239
me now. Conversely, if you
live in a home and you work somewhere

898
01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:35.880
in your office, and you commute
to the grocery store and back, and

899
01:05:35.960 --> 01:05:39.960
you have less than a fifty sixty
mile round trip thing, and you have

900
01:05:40.039 --> 01:05:44.000
a charging system at home and maybe
one at work, two, you're set

901
01:05:44.039 --> 01:05:45.320
to go. Absolutely, you can
go from A to B, A to

902
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:47.800
BT, A to B. But
when you want to take your car on

903
01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:50.760
the road for a road trip people. I hope you have a second gas

904
01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:54.320
powered car. And I say this
because I gotta be. I have to

905
01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:56.679
go. When we come back,
I'm gonna tell you about some of these

906
01:05:56.920 --> 01:06:00.119
new restrictions on tax credits. Hey, you think it's gonna be cool,

907
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.559
I'm gonna get a tax credit because
I'm gonna buy some of the cars.

908
01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:06.239
Well, guess what, there are
new rules out here to incentivize carmakers,

909
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:10.719
you know, to source their raw
materials and batteries from North America or maybe

910
01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:16.119
a US trade partner. But there
are very few cars out there, actually

911
01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:20.519
just ten where you're gonna get the
full seventy five one hundred tax credit.

912
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:24.960
I'm gonna give you the whole list
of this stuff on the other side of

913
01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:28.320
this stuff, and I will tell
you about another new one that is coming

914
01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:31.760
up. It's a great brand.
I love this electric vehicle. You may

915
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:34.079
not have heard of it. This
is probably one of the more quiet d

916
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:39.199
companies, but it does exist,
and it's coming out with its fourth version.

917
01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:44.440
And guess what, it doesn't have
a rear window. What's going on

918
01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:46.960
here? Man? That's safe?
Right? What's the world coming to.

919
01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:51.039
I'm just hanging on and try to
make some sense up at people. Garf

920
01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:55.320
Michael Garfield about ten fifteen more minutes
of the show before we get out of

921
01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:57.639
here. I can let you just
play on your Saturday whatever you want to

922
01:06:57.679 --> 01:07:00.159
do. Last time. I'll give
you the phone number seven one three two

923
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:01.679
one two five nine five O stand
by. We're gonna be right back for

924
01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:15.199
that final second, final ten minutes
or so of this week's high tech textan

925
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:17.159
show. Thanks for people for hanging
with me for nineteen or twenty years that

926
01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:21.679
we've been doing it right here on
KPRC nine fifty and across the world and

927
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:28.800
iHeartRadio wherever you are. Garf is
my name. Good Callum read keeping us

928
01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:30.760
rolling and on time. Thank you
so much, my man. You can

929
01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:34.280
give Calum a call, and if
you want to get into the phone talk

930
01:07:34.280 --> 01:07:38.719
about cars. We're gonna close it
out with my car reviews of the day.

931
01:07:38.760 --> 01:07:44.440
We've covered a lot of stuff including
Netflix gone baby stop. Their Netflix

932
01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:46.800
is going to stop selling DVDs.
The DVD through the mail. Remember those

933
01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:51.679
things had no clue. They're still
selling them. The blue check mark checkopolis

934
01:07:51.800 --> 01:08:00.280
from net from the Twitter that still
goes on the sustainable Today's Happy Earthday be

935
01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:01.480
celebrating Earth Day in some way,
shape or form, good for you,

936
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:04.920
and other fun stuff that we were
talking about. I do follow the car

937
01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:10.159
industry. There is pure contents,
not endorsing anything. And if you just

938
01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:15.119
heard my rant on electric vehicles,
I really do like electric vehicles. I

939
01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:18.439
don't know if I would recommend getting
eight electric vehicle really just because of the

940
01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:25.560
I think inadequate charging situation of charging
these vehicles that we have in the United

941
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:29.159
States. But apparently, you know, the government wants to add more charging

942
01:08:29.199 --> 01:08:30.920
stations, you know, to make
it more ubiquitous in Starbucks here at some

943
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:34.760
point. So I'll hold my breath
of that stuff. But there's new restrictions

944
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:42.600
on which electric vehicles qualify for the
full seventy five hundred dollars tax credit,

945
01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:46.640
and it just went into effect this
past week. And shockingly enough, get

946
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:54.199
this, there are just ten ten
electric and plug in hybrid vehicles that are

947
01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:58.720
eligible for that full amount, just
ten. See the new rules. They're

948
01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:02.800
intended to carmakers, you know,
to get their materials, their batteries from

949
01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:10.600
right here in North America. But
in doing that, the number of eligible

950
01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:15.279
vehicles has been cut by about fifty
percent. Now the list of evs that

951
01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:17.560
qualify for the full seventy five hundred. It's going to grow later this year

952
01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:20.760
as more models hit the market.
But I kind of got a list over

953
01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:24.119
here because you're thinking, oh,
my goodness, someone to get seventy five

954
01:09:24.199 --> 01:09:28.479
hundred dollars. Ah, let me
let me quickly run through some of these

955
01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:32.920
that it's going to give you the
full seventy five hundred dollars federal EV purchase

956
01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:38.680
tax credit. There are, I
believe it right. It's all six of

957
01:09:38.760 --> 01:09:44.359
the General Motors electric vehicle models with
prices that qualified them for the new federal

958
01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:47.319
EV purchase tax credit for the full
seventy five hundred dollars. The Cadillac Lyric,

959
01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:50.840
which I haven't driven yet. I
saw it at the Chicago Auto Show.

960
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:55.640
That looks sexy. I can't wait
drive that. The Chevy Bolt Electric

961
01:09:55.720 --> 01:10:01.840
Vehicle, the Chevy Equinox EV,
the Chevy Blazer EV, and the Chevy

962
01:10:02.119 --> 01:10:10.119
Silverado EV trims. They come in
under the price caps that will get the

963
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:15.039
full amount, but some fall outside
of that price ranks, like the GMC

964
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:17.439
Hummer EV pickup and SUV up.
Not gonna do. You're not gonna get

965
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:26.520
the full thing. We got four
D F one fifty Lightning full full credit.

966
01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:30.279
Good for you. The must Afford
Mustang Maki Drive I've drove, I've

967
01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:35.000
driven both those are very nice.
The Lincoln Navigator Grand Touring, the Chrysler

968
01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:40.840
PACIFICA p HAVE, which is the
plug in hybrid electric vehicle. That's a

969
01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:43.479
great minivan if you do need a
MIT minivan. I do love the Chrysler

970
01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:47.760
Pacifica, the Tesla three Model three
Performance, and all three versions of the

971
01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:51.880
Tesla Model Y. I think that's
about it. That's all you're gonna get

972
01:10:53.159 --> 01:11:00.640
for the full seventy five hundred tax
amount. If not, I think you

973
01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:04.000
can get a max of thirty seven
hundred and fifty dollars credit, so pretty

974
01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:09.920
much about half that. It's available
for your vehicles with North American made battery

975
01:11:09.960 --> 01:11:17.680
packs that don't meet the mineral sourcing
requirements it Rules Thumb. The new rules

976
01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:24.520
set thresholds of fifty five thousand dollars
for cars, eighty thousand for trucks and

977
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:30.000
SUVs. They required the batteries are
assembled in North America with at least forty

978
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:36.119
of their critical and minerals sourced locally
or from US free free trade partners.

979
01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:40.399
There you go. So before you
go out and start buying this stuff,

980
01:11:40.439 --> 01:11:45.000
take my advice, go find a
list. Is this eligible to get these

981
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:47.680
tax credits? Hey? Listen,
seventy five seventy five hundred bucks in that.

982
01:11:47.880 --> 01:11:51.640
That's gonna that's gonna work too.
Speaking away, I haven't driven this

983
01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:55.319
one, but I saw this,
and this is you talk about how cars

984
01:11:55.399 --> 01:12:00.920
changed. There is a EVUH maker
ev carmaker, and I don't know if

985
01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:03.880
you've heard of it, but I've
seen these things and I think it's one

986
01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:12.159
of the sexier designed EV companies that
is called pole Star Anyone Anyone, pole

987
01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:19.239
Star pole Star. It came from
Volvo in terms of electra vehicles, and

988
01:12:19.279 --> 01:12:21.720
I think Volvo spun it off and
it's no longer Volve. It's just it's

989
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:24.960
kind of its own standalond thing.
But it's called p O L E.

990
01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:29.279
S. Tar. I love the
design. I think the poll Star three

991
01:12:29.399 --> 01:12:35.760
is out right now. It's it
massively fast, bigger, obviously it's bigger.

992
01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:40.199
It's a sedan type of thing.
It's got about a three hundred plus

993
01:12:40.319 --> 01:12:44.800
mile range, which is great.
Starts about sixty thousand dollars. That's cool.

994
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:48.319
But there was an auto show.
There was the Shanghai Auto Show earlier

995
01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:56.720
this week and Polstar revealed its first
electric suv and it was a head turner,

996
01:12:57.119 --> 01:13:03.159
very bold design because there's no rear
window. There's zero rear window,

997
01:13:03.840 --> 01:13:10.239
so the driver's view is provided solely
by a camera. That's it. Now,

998
01:13:10.319 --> 01:13:14.159
if you know anything about relatively new
cars and new technology in the cars,

999
01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:17.880
this is the camera in the rear
view mirror is nothing new for the

1000
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:21.800
past few years. There are many
manufacturers, especially in these long SUVs,

1001
01:13:23.319 --> 01:13:27.920
that you have an option. There's
the typical rear view mirror and you look

1002
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:30.600
at a review, you think about
this. You're in a three row suv

1003
01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:33.279
and you've got people or kids and
head rest back there, so you're looking

1004
01:13:33.319 --> 01:13:36.920
in your rear view mirror. You've
got to actually look in the rearview mirror.

1005
01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:42.479
You got to pass eight feet behind
you with head rest and kids popping

1006
01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:45.199
up to look out your rear view
mirror to see what's behind you. But

1007
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newer ones they have a camera.
It's in the back of the car near

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the back rear license plate. You
can flip a button on the rear view

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01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:57.840
mirror and the rearview mirror becomes a
camera, becomes a monitor, and it's

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01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:01.239
really disoriented the first few actually a
lot of the few times you use the

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01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:03.880
thing, and I've kind of gotten
used to it. A lot of the

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01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:09.159
stuff that I have right now have
this rear camera, and objects in the

1013
01:14:09.399 --> 01:14:14.399
mirror do appear closer than they actually
are, so I'm used to doing that.

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01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:17.239
So at some point we may not
even have rear view windows. But

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01:14:17.319 --> 01:14:20.680
the new Pole Star at four it's
got a neat, sleek, sporty design.

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01:14:21.319 --> 01:14:25.239
But it seems, to best my
knowledge, this is gonna be the

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01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:29.119
one of the first vehicles without a
freaking rear view mirror. It's gonna have

1018
01:14:29.159 --> 01:14:31.119
five hundred forty four horse power,
it's gonna go zero to sixty two miles

1019
01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:38.319
in three point eight seconds, great
range, whatever, But did the rear

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01:14:38.399 --> 01:14:41.439
view mirrket Listen, I'm a marketing
guy. You break me down a hundred

1021
01:14:41.479 --> 01:14:44.119
different way. Yeah, it's a
radio personality. I'm a good dad,

1022
01:14:44.560 --> 01:14:46.880
blah, I'm a marketing guy.
So Poster, I'm gonna give you a

1023
01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:49.760
quick idea how to market this thing. What you need to do in your

1024
01:14:49.760 --> 01:14:55.359
commercials. You need to show clips
from that. I think it was like

1025
01:14:55.560 --> 01:15:01.680
nineteen fifty four Alfred Hitchcock movie with
Jimmy Stewart the Rear Window. This time

1026
01:15:02.439 --> 01:15:06.680
he's not in a wheelchair like he
was in the movie. There's an AI

1027
01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:12.119
generated version of Jimmy Sturt. He's
sitting in the passenger seat of a pull

1028
01:15:12.199 --> 01:15:17.119
Star four. He's being driven around
and he's looking to binoculars into people's garages,

1029
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:21.520
making fun of their gas powered cars. Anything else I can do for

1030
01:15:21.640 --> 01:15:25.960
you, I mean, it's why
don't I have my own advertising agency.

1031
01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:30.600
It's unbelievable. By the way,
if you happen to do get DVDs in

1032
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:34.439
the mail, you can go see
if you can rent your final Netflix DVD

1033
01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:40.960
by renting The Rear Window. Alfred
Hitchcock, nineteen fifty four. It's not

1034
01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:45.279
black and white's actually colorized versions.
It's actually it's a really intense movie.

1035
01:15:45.439 --> 01:15:49.079
Alfred Hitchcock. Man, great,
great director, just like the great man

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01:15:49.159 --> 01:15:51.960
that we have pushing the keys over
here behind the glass. Calum Read,

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01:15:53.000 --> 01:15:55.399
thank you very much. We're winding
up the show. Michael Garfield is my

1038
01:15:55.479 --> 01:15:58.479
name. We thank the folks from
their market for calling in and all of

1039
01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:00.880
you twenty nineteen twenty years. We're
gonna figure out exactly how long it is.

1040
01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:04.479
But I'd also like to thank Eddie
Martini, Mark Sherman, Brian Ericson,

1041
01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:08.720
all the people who here are in
the carpentered offices that I Heart Radio

1042
01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:13.079
Houston, that's kept me on the
air here for a long time. Technology

1043
01:16:13.119 --> 01:16:15.840
has changed, consumer livestock continues to
change, and I don't know. Apparently

1044
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:18.560
I still have my voice, I
got my hair, and I at least

1045
01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:23.000
i'd like to think I have my
sense of humor and a little entertaining experience.

1046
01:16:23.239 --> 01:16:24.720
For all of us we've been a
part of this. When we thank

1047
01:16:24.760 --> 01:16:26.840
you for tuned in, we will
do it again next week. In the

1048
01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:29.520
meantime, the podcast will be up
at a few minutes. Check it out.

1049
01:16:29.640 --> 01:16:32.840
High Tech tex and iHeartRadio have a
great, great weekend. My friends,

1050
01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:43.680
stay safe. My name is Michael
and my show is Oh Yeah,