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So Michael Garfield has something you might
like. Hi Texan, Michael Garfield

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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, still basking in last weekend's
football games. We begin this week's episode

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of the High Tech Texan Show.
You listen, you know, it's so

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much more than technology. It's about
fun, it's about personality, it's about

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food, consumer lifestyle. Yes,
apparently we are going to mix in a

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lot of technology because there was a
little bit of news coming out of Coopertine

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or California earlier this week. But
I do want to say hello. For

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the next two hours, it's me, it's you, And if you're happy

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to have your TV on, keep
your eyes on those college football games.

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If you're listening live and two ears
right here to KPRC nine fifty am that

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is across Southeast Texas, or however
you may be listening including the iHeart radio

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app. The name is Michael Miguel, Michael Garf anything but Mike, I

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am fine with that. I'll tell
you what, folks, there's going to

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come a day when tech journalists tech
entertain a list like myself tech bloggers that

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we do not feel compelled to be
a dutiful extension of Tim Cook's marketing department

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people. That day is not today
because Tim Cook and Apple they had an

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announcement earlier this week, and I
am actually going to talk about it,

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which is a bit rare because if
you know me for two plus decades,

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I don't talk a lot about Apple. Yes I know they're out there,

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Yes I know they're ubiquitous. Yes
I know nine out of ten teenagers has

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an iPhone versus other phones. And
that is actually a stat that I saw

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earlier this week. But I'm proud
to be a green bubble guy in Android.

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I do get shunned for that,
but I'll tell you what more people

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use, and I'll tell you again
the Android operating system than iOS. And

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so I've got to talk to my
masses. At least that's my excuse.

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You know, it was with every
iPhone release, all the tech nerds around

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the world. They're split over whether
the product evolution is either impressive or is

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it superficial. Well, I'm going
to quickly break down and the six or

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seven ish products that they announced that
it is not in stores yet, but

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they will be in less been a
week from right now. And by the

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way, I'd love to hear from
you. Have you pre ordered the iPhone

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fifteen, any one of the four
models you're looking forward to get one or

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two of the new watches they talked
about. I am at seven one three,

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two, one two five nine five. Oh, we do give out

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that phone number because it's an interactive
radio show. We'd love to talk to

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you. Feel free to disc disguise
your voice, feel free to disguise your

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accent. If you are from other
countries that you don't want to pretend actually

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are from the Great United States of
America. We are here for you.

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Calum read Hello, sir. You
are going to be picking up the phone

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calls and anybody. Well, if
anybody tries to call and wants to know,

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what are my thoughts, ma'am?
Is it? Should I should I

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switch to Android? Should I stay
with iPhone? Should I spend the seven

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hundred to twelve hundred dollars on a
new iPhone. Well, I'm gonna let

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you decide, because a lot of
you fanboys and fangirls, you've already decided,

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you know long. I realized that
a long time ago, and it

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has been sixteen years since the first
iPhone came out. I've stopped trying,

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and I really never have tried to
convince one side of the faction to flipping

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to the other side of the faction. There used to be a lot of

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comparison. I used to compare the
iPhone to the Android phones. And I'm

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not singing out any specific Android phone
because there are many, from Samsung to

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Google to that Nokia LG. I
mean way back in the day too one

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plus wy Y. I mean there's
a number of them out there, a

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lot of Chinese manufacturers, just that
they're they're out there right now nowadays.

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My ILK who are also covered the
tech industry and myself, we don't we

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don't really compare well, there's this
iPhone better than this Android or in the

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other phone, because I believe in
folks, correct me if I'm wrong.

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At this point in your life,
at this point in your everyday processes,

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you're what your lifestyle, your business. You're pretty much setting your ways over

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which operating system you're gonna go to. Are you in the Apple ecosystem?

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Okay? If you are, you're
pretty much you're gonna go with the iPhone.

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Okay, cool? Great, Great, I mean I'm not giving you

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crap. Good for you, go
for it. If you're not, there's

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many androids to choose from so gone
to the days where I'm saying, you

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know, I get a call,
Hey, Michael, why are you such

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an Android fan? You know,
don't you like this and blue dot and

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green dot and facetimes all this stuff, and I you know, maybe back

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in the day, I'm like,
well, because it does this baby dolls.

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If you're an iPhone gallery girl,
if you're an iPhone hawk, good

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for you. You just keep getting
the iPhone seriously. And if you're an

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Android person, and if you like
androids, you know, do you want

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to flip flop either way? It's
it's it's up to you. I'm just

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gonna break down and give you.
Are these products decent? Are the new

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features on these new devices worth trading
in? Upgrading, giving away year old

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phone, buying a new one,
setting it up it's up to you,

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but I will start with this.
Let me let me complete the first segment

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here for about two more minutes.
News Yes, out of Cupertino, California.

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The September events that Apple does,
they've always been a spectacle, big

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spectacle. I watched in online and
it wasn't so much like when Steve Jobs

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used to do it. It was
like live webcast. He's on stage,

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he's got his little jeans and his
black turnleck on and he talks about the

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computers and maybe the iPads, and
then it's in one more thing. No,

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this was a slick Hollywood movie production
that Tim Cook, who now runs

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Apple did. It looked pretty much
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the people covering it, maybe some
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who were in the Coupertino, California
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doing and they were sitting in auditorium
and watching this movie the same way we

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were watching the movie online on when
it was dreaming what they did get to

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do. They actually did get to
play with a hands on and you know,

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see it for even a few minutes. I will let you know this

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in about twenty minutes from now.
A buddy of mine who does almost exactly

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what I do in California in the
Los Angeles area, he is going to

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come on because he was at the
launch in California, and he's going to

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give us his thoughts and we're gonna
kind of compare what we each think.

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So standby for that's in twenty minutes. But really, here's the Delio.

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Four new phones released, the ipple
iPhone fifteen and the iPhone fifteen plus the

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iPhone fifteen Pro in the iPhone fifteen
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Every time Apple comes out with an
iPhone, there's about four versions of it,

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two on and I hate to say
it, but let's just let's call

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it the standard end, and then
two on the higher end. With the

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Pro maxes. They do start at
eight hundred dollars. The highest one goes

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up to about twelve hundred dollars.
I could sit there and make fun of

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the price, but you know what
that is. What the price is.

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Samsung came out with an eighteen hundred
dollar phone about two months ago. These

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are full computers and they do a
lot. The iPhone fifteen to fifty plus

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pretty much. They quickly continue the
legacy of pretty much all their predecessors.

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Apple calls it power and elegance.
There is a new chip in a sixteen

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bionic chip. And I could talk
about all the chips I want. That

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means nothing to you, Willie.
I think you're very happy with the speed

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of your phone and whatever. There's
maybe some computational photography coulda capabilities on the

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lower end, but they didn't really
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versions. They do have a ceramic
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cover the upper level ones. Yes, there are some upgrades when it comes

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to the cameras, even a higher
end chip. And again I'm not gonna

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go, well, you know how
fast this thing is. But at the

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end of the day, and I'm
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The headline Bury the lead and I
did a lot of interviews in the

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past two or three days. Hey, Michael Richard thoughts in the iPhone.

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The lead story is the fact that
these new iPhones Apple for the first time

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in eleven years, they are kissing
the lightning charger bye bye, and they

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are flipping to what the rest of
the world uses, including the androids,

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the USBC and when you know that
the lead. The big story is,

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oh my, the lightning charger is
gone, and there's a new way to

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charge your phone. When more people
talk about charging your phone versus the phone

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itself, they tell you there's not
a lot to see with the new phones.

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I'll let you just rest on that
tasty tidbit as we come back.

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Michael Garfield is right here. It
is the high tech tacting chow, just

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like that big movie boy said,
Michael is my name? Feel free to

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hit us up. People love to
talk to you. Not a big football

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game until six o'clock tonight when at
your okay, my Texas Lawhorns take on

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Wyoming Cowboys twenty seven and a half
point spread. People who you got,

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tell you what? This is what
happens man. You have a good game

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like we did last week at Alabama. Oh, the world's now on you.

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Twenty seven and a half. I'm
not a gambling guy, but I'm

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kind of a gambling I'll tell you
this. The Horns should win. I

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don't think they're gonna win by twenty
seven and a half, so the Please

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don't take my advice, but don't
laugh at me if I'm wrong. Wyoming

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plus twenty seven and a half closer
to the twenty seven and a half Horns

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will win. There you go.
Don't give me crap if I'm wrong,

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but feel free to give me money
if I am right. Calum, I

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don't know about you. You're at
You're a gambler, Calum. Calum read

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here on the other side of the
death. Now, I am a gambler.

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I go to Las Vegas over under
four and a half times a year.

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See what do you see what I
did there? This is why I

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am a professional talk show host.
Me to personality. I go to Vegas

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to gamble over under four and a
half times for a year. Probably gonna

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hit the under this year. I'm
going on. I'm going to at least

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one more time this year, and
then I'll start off with Cees and Jane

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where anyway, no big deal.
You see what's happening with the world of

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technology with MGM and Caesar's Resorts.
These two casinos were hacked earlier this week

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and they're still not up to full
speed. Some ransomware group claim responsibility for

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this MGM Resorts cyber outage, and
MGM Resorts owns a ton of hotel casinos

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in Vegas, and I've been watching
this on social media. I haven't really

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seen it in mainstream media. I
mean, and I watched the nightly news.

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But social media there's there's people who
anecdotally that they're in Vegas and they're

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standing in line waiting to check in. The Computer systems are down, the

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locks on the doors are down,
the slot machines are not working. Man,

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I'll tell you what I mean.
There's a lot of money. Caesar's

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was also hit earlier this week.
Get this. They this team who held

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them for ransom. They asked for
thirty million dollars Caesar's. Caesar paid half

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of that. I think Caesar's Properties
Resorts they paid fifteen million dollars to undo

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the malware system. The I mean
the group's claim to use this common social

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engineering tactics, are gaining trust from
employees to get inside information. I mean,

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they're trying to get brandsom money out
of that. It's freaking crazy,

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man. I mean it's the MGM
Resorts. I mean, they can shut

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down the Las Vegas Strip. MGM
says, uh, you know, we're

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we're back up to operational speeds.
I don't know, be careful what you're

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doing. I mean, this is
a wake up call. Not I mean

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this is a casino. I know, Oh what a big deal. It's

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a multi multi multibillion dollars deal in
that industry. And then I mean,

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think about it. Could I mean, if if they could take down You've

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got to think that the systems that
casinos are incredibly secure IT systems. When

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the government's IT system is hacking goes
down, we are screwed. And understand

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how I just raise that I said
when I did not use IF. I

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mean you talk about warfare. You
know, I'm not sure if there's gonna

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be a World War three per se
or anything right now. But I'm telling

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you what the next day. Some
way to shut down a government is to

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go straight for their infrastructure. The
I thing. I'm telling you people,

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it's just s s shore everything up. Now. Hey, now that I

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pepped you guys up, we're worried. Oh we were talking about the iPhone.

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Anybody gonna get the iPhone fifteen seven
one three two one two five nine

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foe five nine five four New iPhones
were announced. They will be on sale

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next Friday, which is the twenty
second. The iPhone fifteen, the iPhone

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fifteen plus then we got the fifteen
Pro and the fifteen Pro Max. I

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will tell you this, I am
not getting any of them. To continue

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my track record with not having an
iPhone. I think since the iPhone one,

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I think since five phone, I
don't even see I see people holding

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their iPhone. I see people taking
selfies. I can I see people holding

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them up on TV. I can
tell within two tents of a second is

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that an iPhone or not, just
because the way that the camera outlie is.

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You know what it looks like on
the iPhone. If it's not the

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two or three kind of a square
array, triangle array of a phone,

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you know it's not it. My
girlfriend's got an iPhone. I'm just last

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time actually see one of those.
I don't even look at the phone itself.

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I just know there's there's an iPhone. I know. I'm a green

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dot guy. If you if you, if you have an iPhone, if

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you text somebody doesn't have an iPhone, you don't get that little blue dot

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going back and forth. You get
a green dot. I just like band

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different and it's not easy being actually
it is very easy being green. The

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two higher phones, so they're gonna
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camera is a little bit more improved
I have because I will I will not

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play with one. I won't see
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you is this the best camera on
the market. I do know this,

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and this is just an anecdotal.
When I take pictures with my phones and

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they're generally a Samsung phone, this
is not a Samsung commercial. Even the

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iphoners say, hey, listen,
we get let's get a group shot.

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Michael. We're gonna use your phone
because you have a better camera. The

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cameras are not just phones, are
not just cameras. There's the operating system,

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there's the infrastructure that's that's the way
it works with your iMac, your

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Mac deskop with everything. So anyway, those are coming out. But the

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big news, let me spend about
three or four minutes on this. To

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me, the big news is the
Apple's proprietary lightning connector is Gonzo. After

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eleven years, they're switching to USB
C the letters C you know what USB?

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You know what USB Universal Cereal Bus. That's the way to connect devices,

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to charge them and to transfer data. They've been around for many,

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many years, but there's many,
many different types, and they're very confusing

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too. If you look in your
car, if your car is more than

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three, four or five years old, you probably have a USB charger and

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it's got that's it's a larger plug. And you have to when you plug

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in something, you have to make
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Over fifty percent of the time you
know you're gonna plug it in. It's

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like, oh, so I gotta
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USB a USBC the letter C.
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Doesn't matter if you plug it upside
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for the most part. USBC.
It's a faster way to charge, and

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it's a much faster way to transfer
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not all usbc's or usbc's that to
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it big news? We'll listen.
Remember this. This is the third type

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of court. And I'm gonna use
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as iPhones when it first came out. If you remember this, there was

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in very long thirty pin connector PAM, really weird looking, and they hey

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had that for a good four or
five years. Then it was the iPhone

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sex They said, hey, you
know what, we got this lightning and

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I like the lightning because it doesn't
matter which way you plug it, upside

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down, right side up. But
it was Apple and it was proprietary.

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And let me help you out how
Apple works. It is one of this

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not the world's most viable company.
They want you to use all their products

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and everything. They're gonna make a
proprietary the lightning, only work with the

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connector, only work with the Apple
products. They wanted you to buy the

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chords, they wanted you to buy
the special cases. They wanted to do

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everything. Apple did not really want
to switch to USBC, but due to

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regulations in Europe, the EU European
Union, they had to do it.

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Last year, the EU said,
and they passed the law that by twenty

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twenty four all mobile personal devices has
to have USBC. They're doing this to

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make it to make waste E waste
better. They want one standard adapter.

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So every time, why all these
other adapters because this every time you throw

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them away, the plastic in the
air and everything. So the European Union

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said electronic makers they had to support
the standard thing. And Apple last year

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said man, we sell a lot
of phones in Europe. Ain't no way

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we're gonna come up with two different
iPhones with a lightning screw it. We're

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gonna comply with the law. USBC
has become universally accepted standard, and that

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was what Apple said earlier this week. We're bringing it to the iPhone,

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one of the percenters says, But
the shift to USB chargers for the iPhone

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fifteen, it's gonna mean that Apple
users old lightning cables they ain't gonna work.

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No more people, they ain't gonna
work. By the way, Apple,

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the shares of Apple, they closed
down more than a one percent after

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the event Tuesday, means nothing still
valuable. But that to me seem to

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be the lead. More people are
talking about, including me. When I

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was doing all these interviews, well, the fifteen and they got four phones.

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But guess what, Welcome to the
world of USBC. We now have

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one universal core, which is actually
good for me because so many, so

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many of my friends iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, and if I'm in their

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car and I need to charge my
Android, all they had is a lightning

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cable. People were all gonna live
under one happy roof. We are brothers.

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We are assistants. We are one
of family. Right now on the

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USBC, Praise the Lower, Praise
the European Union, and welcome to the

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twenty first century Apple. It is
about freaking time, all right, let

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me come back. I'm gonna dial
up a good buddy of mine who does

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the same. He's not the high
tech Californian I told him to coin that,

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but he is a radio and TV
technology personality like myself on the left

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coast. He was actually at the
announcement in Cupertino, California. I'm gonna

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get his thoughts and so you can
hear about it. Well, what's going

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on in the world of Apple along
with your phone calls. Later in the

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show, it's Garth the high Tech
Tips back at it. It is the

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long running high Tech tech and show. Michael Garfield open phone lines here seven

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one three, two one two five
nine five. Oh, that number has

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not changed in two decades that I
have been doing this show. Do you

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know what's changed in two decades?
It's what type of phone you have called

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me on here in the studio.
You remember the rotary phone days. Okay,

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we're not going to talk about that, but it seems every single month

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there's a new phone that has been
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the start of the show this morning, we have been talking about the news

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that little company in Cupertino, California, has just announced its new lineup of

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phones. I apparently was very busy
this week, or my invitation got lost

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the mail. I was not in
Cupertino, so I have to live micariously

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through press releases and also some of
my ilk who attended the Cupertino, California

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press launch, one of which is
a good buddy of mine. His name

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is rich DeMuro. He is in
Los Angeles. He is on KTLA channel

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five. He by the way,
he's the high Tech California I've mentioned this

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before. He's on KFI, which
is their talk radio station in Los Angeles.

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On iHeartRadio. He covers technology.
He joins me, right now,

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Richie, Rich, how are you, my friend? I'm doing fantastic and

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the high Tech Californian by way of
New Jersey because I'm actually from New Jersey.

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So wait a minute, I'm living
in California. If you trademark both

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of those, because I've got the
techs and think over, are you better

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hurry out? No? Well,
we've got the almost the whole country,

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right, Yeah, we actually actually
the ones that colt. Let's put it

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that way, Rich, Listen,
There's gonna come a day when tech journalist

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tech bloggers don't feel compelled to be
an extension of Kim Cook's marketing department.

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But today, my friend, is
not that day. As with every iPhone

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release, tech nerdum if you will, it's split over whether the evolution is

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either impressive or superficial. I have
talked about it. You have seen the

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IFO fifteen quick thoughts. Impressive,
superficial? Is it evolved? Look?

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I think this is evolutionary, not
revolutionary. The iPhone itself was revolutionary,

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of course what you can do on
it. It's still an amazing platform.

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And the changes that Apple makes to
this device are very helpful for iPhone user.

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So, for instance, you've got
USBC. You've been talking about it.

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That is a big change. It's
something that Android users have come to

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know and love. But now that
we have one cable and one type of

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connection for everything, it makes life
a lot easier in so many different ways.

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The accessories you purchase, the cables
you purchase, the different devices that

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you're trying to plug into you ask
a friend for a cable, you're no

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longer shunned. If you need an
iPhone cable or an Android cable, it's

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all going to be the same.
So that in itself is a big deal.

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Of course, we know Apple was
really forced to do this by way

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of the EU. It's not something
they necessarily wanted to do on their own,

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even though they've had Lightning for ten
years. But the other changes,

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things like improved camera. You know, the action button on the side of

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the iPhone fifteen Pro is actually pretty
cool. They did the improved zoom on

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the iPhone fifteen Pro Max. So
what you're seeing here is a lot of

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different choices, a lot of small
things, but they add up to kind

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of meaningful changes if you're an iPhone
user that wants to upgrade eventually. I

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want to break this down, Richie, and I'm gonna take it the way

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you explained it, all right.
That was a great you know, top

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to bottom, you know, two
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everything. But the interesting thing is, my man, you lad with the

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USBC. It's the USBC without a
doubt. It is revolutionary. Or actually

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it's big news because Apple finally says, hey, listen, we're not doing

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proprietary. We're going to do something
that the world has so many Android it's

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not just Android. I mean there's
headsets, there's there's air, there's you

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know, headphones. So many things
work on USBC. I cover the car

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industry. You're seeing USBC ports being
built into those cars. The fact is

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that you led with that. I
led with that. This was the story

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and not so much of my goodness. There's four new phones, there's two

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new watches, it seems to me. And again I'm trying to lead you

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over here. Let's look at those
phones, the iPhone fifteen and then in

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the pro the two. On the
pro side, you gave a few of

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those little pay There's so many things
with the buttons of like death. But

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again, anything all and inspire you
to tell people like your iPhone fourteens,

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I gotta run out and get the
fifteen. No, and I actually don't

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really ever recommend that people upgrade unless
there is a reason why they want to

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upgrade. Now, if you're a
tech person like myself, there's a whole

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bunch of tech enthusiasts out there that
have to have the latest and the greatest

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there's people that are really into photography
who if there's an iPhone that has a

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better camera than what they have,
they need to get that. But for

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the rest of the masses, if
you have a phone, you're pretty much

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going into the Apple Store once every
three years and you're saying, hey,

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what's new, and they show you
the iPhone fifteen Pro Max and you say,

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oh, that's too expensive, what
else do you have? And then

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they kind of go down the line. So these little features that pop up

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in the new phones are nice.
So, for instance, if you're getting

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the iPhone fifteen or the fifteen plus, those are the base model. They

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get that new dynamic island, which
is taking advantage of the kind of the

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notch in the phone, so they've
made the best of that, and you're

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getting a new improved forty eight megapixel
camera, which is good. You're going

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to take pictures that are going to
look better, they're going to have more

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information in the pictures. Then you're
also getting a better zoom lens on there

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as well. So again, small
changes, but they're meaningful. If you

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come from a different phone, you
say, oh, my photos look better.

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I've got this fun little dynamic island
I'm still angry that Apple did not

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upgrade the screen on the base model
iPhone. It's still got a slower refresh

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rate than almost any budget Android phone
out there, and it also does not

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have the new always on display which
they introduced last year with the pro models.

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The Rich Buro he is in the
Los Angeles area. That's where he's

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based right now. Rich on tech
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So Pretty, also KTLA Channel five. It's over the years. In recent

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years, I think Apple really has
expanded its global market share over its smartphone

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rivals. I mean, you look
at Samsung and wah, why despite Apple's

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prices, you know, everything is
rising. I saw a stat ration almost

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nine and ten US teenagers are iPhone
users. And is it because they've convinced

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themselves that green text bubbles are uncool? I mean, it's Apple's marketing.

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It's in people's DNA. I know, from my standpoint, I have stopped

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trying to advance iPhone users to flip
to Android and vice versa. We do

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stay in our lanes right now.
What does it take for somebody to really

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switch operating systems and go from one
to the other. At this point,

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it's nearly impossible, and I think
that it is something that I don't even

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you know. I used to do
a lot of comparisons iPhone androids. Should

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you switch, should you get this? Should you change to this new phone?

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The problem is people, and Apple's
done an amazing job at this building

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that ecosystem. So if you have
an air tag, you have AirPods,

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you have an Apple Watch, you
have an iPad, you have a Mac

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computer. They call it the halo
effect of the iPhone. You start with

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the iPhone and slowly but surely you
build on these other products. Once you

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get in deep with that, there
is no switching. Now. The kids,

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I call them kids, the teenagers
that, like you mentioned, they

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have to have the blue bubbles.
That's where it starts. And Apple knows

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that. That's the reason why Apple
has not made I Message for Android.

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They could have the top messaging app
in the US overnight. By the way,

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no other country in the world cares
about blue bubbles. They do not.

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It's not even a consideration. They're
using WhatsApp, they're using line over

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in Japan, they're using wee chat
in China. They do not care about

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blue bubbles. This is a US
problem. It's a US thing. But

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like you said, once people get
into that world, they can't really get

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out. You know what, I'll
tell you again as an ant, long

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time Android guy, it's not easy
being green Richie's not easy being green baby.

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I know I get young dull the
time, but screw it, man,

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I'd like what I like last question. Listen, we spent some time

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earlier the summer. We were in
South Korea. We were for the there

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for the Samsung launch and that was
a really really big deal. I mean

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it was worldwide media. They launched
the fifth version of their fold and their

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flip phones. We know Google and
their Pixel. They've got a really nice

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fold foldables and flips right now.
Something we have not seen from Apple during

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your time up in the Cooper tin
or campus earlier this week. Any rumor

407
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just between you know, the journalist
or just kind of rumors at any point

408
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:29.119
are they going to do anything with
flippables of foldables. You know, it's

409
00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:30.920
a big question. It's a question
that a lot of people want the answer

410
00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:37.480
to. And we all think that
Apple will do a foldable at some point

411
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:41.759
when the technology is right. We
know rivals like Samsung and in China there

412
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:45.279
are many many foldables to choose from
here in the US. You really have

413
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.039
Google, You've got Motorola, and
you've got Samsung and one plus is going

414
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to come out with a foldable as
well. But the reality is it's not

415
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.920
a perfect science. It's not a
perfect screen technology, and Apple, I

416
00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:02.720
think, is waiting to perfect that
technology before they introduce it. They're usually

417
00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.559
several years behind when it comes to
coming out with something that is super,

418
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.240
super cutting edge like that. And
I think they've seen the progress with foldables.

419
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.640
I don't think they're convinced just yet
that people have a reason to get

420
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.359
these. In fact, myself,
I feel the same way. I've been

421
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.839
testing all of these foldables. They're
fun, they're different. Do I need

422
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.359
it? Not necessarily? And I
think Apple knows that, And they've still

423
00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:30.519
got a pretty good runway with the
iPhone. People are still lining up to

424
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.839
get those phones, not so much
like they did before. Now they're buying

425
00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:36.759
them online, but they're still buying, you know, fifty five million of

426
00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:40.960
these phones every quarter. That's a
sizeable number, you know as well as

427
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.000
I do. It's a good supermarketing. The second that Apple releases their first

428
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:47.880
foldable phone, the world is gonna
say, Oh my goodness, I didn't

429
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:51.279
know you can make foldable phones.
I gotta get these things. It's unbelievable.

430
00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:53.880
How you know Apple knows how to
run a market and make things popular.

431
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:56.200
So you know, I'm gonna listen
how many times I had a tablet

432
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.000
years before the I pad came out. No one knew what a tablet.

433
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.799
It was, Oh my god,
here's an iPad, and and there goes

434
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:04.759
crazy. That is for Apple.
His name is Rich Jamuro. He is

435
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:07.480
in Los Angeles. You can find
him rich on Tech. I follow him

436
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:11.400
a great Instagram follow in many of
the things KTLA and Channel five plus our

437
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.680
Hi heart sister station k F.
I am my man, great seeing you.

438
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.119
I appreciate the coverage and I know
you need to hop on your radio

439
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.200
show right now. It's I'll become
Saturday Morning. It is great talking to

440
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.559
you. Thanks Mike, thanks for
having me on. Appreciate it. Green

441
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:27.079
Bubbles forever, That's what I say. That's Rich. He's a good dude.

442
00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:29.880
Good dude, had a lot of
fun time in Korea. All right,

443
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.480
we're gonna take a break right now. Michael is the name High Tech

444
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:34.519
Texan show. Hi g H t
e C H T e x A n

445
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.160
all Oh up social media and don't
give me some crap because I got green.

446
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.000
People. It is easy being green. I've lived like this for a

447
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:57.039
long time. I gotta thank brother, my buddy Rich Demureau rich On Eck

448
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.359
told him he used to come up
with the heat. He should do the

449
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:06.759
high tech California. He's based in
Los Angeles. You ever had anybody ever

450
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:14.319
be envious or of a position and
opportunity a job that you would want.

451
00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:18.680
You know, you can do anywhere
else across the country, especially if it's

452
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.720
in the same line of work where
you're doing. Do Rich has got it.

453
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:29.599
Rich does technology talk show on KFI
AM, which is relatively close to

454
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:34.359
KPORC nine fifty am here in Houston. He's on daily on KTLA, which

455
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.880
is a kind of an independent TV
station in the morning, does tech reviews,

456
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:48.359
and he lives in La. Hello
Hurler, Please the dudes like ten

457
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.839
years young and younger than me.
Rich retire, Rich goes somewhere else in

458
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:57.759
the country. Rich, I will
bequeath you the high tech Texan conglomerate.

459
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.559
I will be the high tech California. Rich has got hit. No,

460
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:06.359
he's a good dude. We hung
out in a Soul, Korea earlier this

461
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.759
summer at the Samsung event. Very
nice, so he had a very nice

462
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:13.559
take. He was in Gupertino,
California, earlier this week for the Apple

463
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.720
iPhone announcement. We're talking about Apple
I phone. There are other things in

464
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.039
the world to talk about. As
we come up to lunchtime, as we

465
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:23.160
did the show live. If you
were listening to the Encore broadcast here on

466
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:28.960
nine fifty am k p r C, it is almost midnight, the show

467
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:32.279
comes on. You know what,
it's twice as nice. Apparently everybody out

468
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:35.680
there wants to hear me once in
the afternoon and once late at night,

469
00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:40.119
or apparently we have no other programming. Can't figure out which. But if

470
00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:43.960
you're up at night, late at
night, have some caffeine, keep talking,

471
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:46.319
keep driving. Love to hear from
you, High tech Techs and high

472
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:51.880
ec ht e x A n dot
com, I Tech Texan dot Com.

473
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:54.359
Almost lunchtime here, by the way, perfect time to remind you that Johnny

474
00:32:54.400 --> 00:33:00.079
Tamalis is rocking right now because it
is lunchtime as that we're talking about this,

475
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.799
and they have the TV's rolling for
the college football games right now.

476
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:09.480
It is in the wonderful community of
Missouri City, southwest side of the Houston

477
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:15.799
area twenty seven twenty f M.
Ten ninety two, also called Murphy Road,

478
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:20.400
right near Highway six, right near
the border of Sugarland in Missouri City.

479
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.599
I go probably about once and a
half a week. Oh, by

480
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.039
the way, I'm a I'm a
bear of breaking news. Have you ever

481
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:32.039
been to a tex max restaurant that
serves halal meat? Welcome to Johnny Tamali's

482
00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.880
in Missouri City, just this past
week. Actually, I think this was

483
00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:43.759
a bigger announcement this week than the
iPhone halal meat get. People been asking

484
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:47.039
for, man and it is goods
head length there yesterday with a new buddy

485
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:52.279
in a client and I phenomenal stuff. Yes, they also have everything on

486
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.119
the men that you can't think of. Phenomenal lynch a Latta's, free ice

487
00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:00.240
cream for the kids, of beef
beef, the chicken fajitas, the ramp

488
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:04.359
and not just but that the drinks
are ice cold. Uh and it's very

489
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.920
I love the vibe, especially right
now. I may actually pop what am

490
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:14.159
I doing now? I may actually
pop over there afterwards to celebrate the New

491
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.679
year with some halal meat. So
I may see you over there, So

492
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:22.159
go check that is Johnny Tamali's in
the sea as a Missouri City dot com

493
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:24.079
halal meat. Seriously, I love
to hear your reviews in this thing.

494
00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:32.360
Halal menu. I mean everything's fahita
salads, chicken cobb salads, and the

495
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:38.239
beefahita is it's it's halal. You
had me at halal. Where are we

496
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:42.480
in the world of technology? Oh
well, we'll do a little bit more

497
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:50.159
Apple next hour. Who here still
has a DVD player? Put your hands

498
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.719
down, you're driving. If you
didn't notice that we talked about earlier this

499
00:34:53.840 --> 00:35:00.360
year. Later this month, we're
just about two weeks away. Netflix is

500
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:07.000
winding down the rentable and mailable DVDs
that started that company many many years ago.

501
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:12.039
Remember the little red, little envelopes, mail you the DVD, you

502
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:14.000
watch it, you return it three
days later. Whatever it is. It's

503
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:19.280
ova September twenty nine. Netflix no
longer renting DVDs by mail. And it's

504
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:25.480
done. But a lot of people
believe it or not rent DVD still.

505
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:32.599
And there is a service that was
beautifully just launched. Knowing that the Netflix

506
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:39.159
DVD mail service has gone, there
is an independent video store chain here in

507
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:44.239
the United States. I'm not familiar
with it. It's called Scarecrow anyone any

508
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:46.000
calum anyway. I don't even know
is it? Are they in Houston,

509
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:51.960
Dead Matt They launched its own rent
by mail service that's going to send DVDs

510
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:57.639
and Blu Ray disc right to your
door. They started piloting this thing about

511
00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:04.119
four years ago. Actually was pretty
good during it, and now that Netflix

512
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.440
has done zo, they're beefing it
up. This is not a commercial for

513
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.440
it. I have a DVD player. It is in my garage gaining dust

514
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:16.920
somewhere. But apparently you have to
be approved for some reason. You sign

515
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.159
up for account, you have to
be verified improved by a staff member.

516
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:25.000
I don't know why. But you
put DVDs into your online shopping cart.

517
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:30.679
They're priced individually. Shipping is gonna
cost you twelve dollars for up to six

518
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:37.280
discs, and you rent it for
two weeks and then you can renew my

519
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.280
phone or you play your late fees. Apparently they have about one hundred and

520
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:45.440
forty thousand titles in its collection,
which it's interesting because Netflix, at the

521
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.400
end of it here they only had
five thousand dollars in its catalog. Oh,

522
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.039
here has a DVD player? Is
anybody going to use this? I'm

523
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:57.599
done talking about the scar Crow service. But you know, we talk about

524
00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:01.400
I talk about it technology. That
is it es all the time. It's

525
00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:05.480
we go from medium to medium to
medium. I'm gonna listen. I remember

526
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.719
I was a kid. Eight track
tapes were a big thing, and then

527
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:12.880
it was cassette tapes. Yes,
I still had some LPs, you know,

528
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:15.039
the records if you will. But
when cassette tapes came in, and

529
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:19.039
I had a car and I was
sixteen seventeen, and every car had a

530
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:22.039
cassette tape player, and then that, oh, by the way, that's

531
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:23.719
gone. Then there was there was
the CD player in the car. Right

532
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:28.760
then you had the optical disk the
CD player, and then slowly I don't

533
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.159
I don't even know it. And
I remember I review cars. I don't

534
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:37.159
know of one brand new car manufacturer
or car model maker model that has CD

535
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:42.719
players anymore. Now we've got the
USBA, the USBC, and we've got

536
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.519
Bluetooth. We stream things right now, Yes, we've got set, We've

537
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:47.280
got iHeart can be streamed, and
I a lot of you are listening to

538
00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:51.440
me in your car via the iHeartRadio
app. Thank you so much for doing

539
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:57.920
that. We change and we hang
on. And I have hundreds and hundreds

540
00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.639
and hundreds of the cassettes. I
have hundreds and hun of LP albums.

541
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:06.119
I think I have a few eight
track tapes somewhere and they're just sitting there

542
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:07.559
gaining desk. Actually they're not.
Actually, I was very creative. I

543
00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.679
don't know if I posted this year's
yet. I took all of my I

544
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:16.320
took a lot of my CDs,
and I made a piece of art out

545
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:22.119
of it in my house. It's
like an eleven foot tall sculpture. I

546
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.639
physically made it seriously, hand to
God. And all my CDs are pretty

547
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:29.079
much from the eighties, and it
reminds me of the eighties. I just

548
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:31.880
I needed a piece of art that
was very, very tall in my stairwell,

549
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:37.360
and I took just the CD the
jewel boxes what it are, what

550
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:39.840
they're what they're called, and I
kind of glued them on the on these

551
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:44.039
woodpieces. And every time I walked
by it, I don't know, eight

552
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:45.559
times a day, up and down
the stairs. And it's a piece of

553
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:49.880
my life style. It's a piece
to my memories, all the eighties music,

554
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:51.639
and you know, if you listen
to me, you know music plays

555
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:53.079
a lot of it. But the
point is that medium is done. It's

556
00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:59.679
over, but apparently there's they were
still hanging on by a thread. We're

557
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:02.320
gonna take a break. If you
still have a DVD player and you're still

558
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:05.719
using Netflix, at least the next
two weeks, I'd love to hear from

559
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:08.880
you. Pick up your rotary phone
and call seven one three two one two

560
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.960
five nine five out. If you
don't have a rotary phone, you can

561
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:16.679
put a stamp and mail it here
to iHeart. And if not, you

562
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:21.039
actually could send up a smoke signal. If you still have a DVD player.

563
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:22.960
This is what I do. I
have fun and I talk trash,

564
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.840
but I give you some good advice. One more hour of great advice coming

565
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:43.000
up after this. Yeah, so
high tex is Michael Garfiel. Michael Garfield.

566
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.400
Michael Garfield's joining the high tech text
and Michael Garfiel is here with a

567
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:52.239
high tech texted items to make life
easier. Technology. So Michael Garfield has

568
00:39:52.280 --> 00:40:06.880
something you might want. Michael Garfield
is your high tech Texan three decades helping

569
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:15.000
you make magic with your gadgets heard
worldwide on the iHeart Radio Act. Now

570
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:20.840
you're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. That's it. Say when did you

571
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:22.800
know where we are? We are
halfway through the high Tech Texan Show.

572
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:28.880
We're a halfway at a happy hour. It is. You're listening in the

573
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:32.360
just after twelve p m. In
the afternoon on Saturday, when we're doing

574
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.519
the show clauseby Live. Probably a
happy hour if you're watching some college football

575
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:43.840
games. If you're listening to the
Encore broadcast on KPRC nine fifty am in

576
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:47.440
the Houston Galveston area, it is
just after twelve midnight. It's actually Sunday,

577
00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:51.039
by the way, So since it's
Sunday, you can quickly tell me

578
00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:53.880
who won the Longhorn Wyoming game so
I can play some bets on it.

579
00:40:53.960 --> 00:41:00.360
You see, that's how the the
time continuum factor works. I think we

580
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:05.079
are powered by the flex capacitor here
on the Michael Garfield Show. Actually we

581
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:08.559
are I empower at some time by
Coke zero. I love Coke's here.

582
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:15.239
I don't drink coffee, breaking news, I love iced tea. I do

583
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.519
like Coke diet coke, and I
love I really like Coke zero and I

584
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.800
say this is because there's a brand. I don't want to scare you,

585
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:25.039
so hang in here. There's a
brand new coke. This is not a

586
00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:28.840
joke. It's not April fourth,
there is. I'm not kidding You'll explained

587
00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:38.400
Hooke just launched a new flavor that
was co created by artificial intelligence. No,

588
00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:46.000
not artificial sweeteners AI people. AI
is everywhere. I did not expect

589
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:52.760
it to be used as a salvo
in the color Wars. Nope, I'm

590
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.800
not kidding you. It is called
here's the name. It's called Why three

591
00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:02.800
thousand, the letter Why three thousand. I actually would call it why why

592
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:10.519
three thousand? That they created a
flavor out of the future. By the

593
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:14.239
way, should we take a calum? Should we take a pull? What

594
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:17.079
does the future taste like? I
know the future is bright. We have

595
00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:21.320
to wear shades. What does the
future taste like? I am not kidding

596
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.119
you. It is a limited edition
flavor, Taste of the Future, co

597
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:31.320
created with AI people. This is
why I exist and do a technology oriented

598
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:37.039
consumer lifestyle show. I just love
talking about this. Not really, I

599
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:40.960
mean this is out of Terminator or
Skynet. I do not know how it

600
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:44.639
tastes. I do not know where
you can buy it yet, but apparently

601
00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:52.679
a few testers describe it as resembling
a raspberry slushy. Raspberry Slushy. Here's

602
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:58.800
the process started with researchers collecting flavor
prefaces from consumers and they try to find

603
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:04.599
trends to understand what the what the
future case like. The data was fed

604
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:08.840
into an AI system and it created
the flavor profile, and before you know

605
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:17.519
it, a new baby soda was
born. Most they also had AI design

606
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.239
the artwork on the can. It's
one of those slim cans and I don't

607
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.280
know if it's a twelve ouncer.
Maybe it's a daydouncer. It's like a

608
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:32.119
Beechy Neon purple can vibe. Who
asked for this? It's a limit,

609
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:36.840
it's a limited edition. They're not
replacing new cocon old coke like back in

610
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:44.719
the Color Wars. Is this like
Dippin' dots? Remember Crystal Pepsi? I'm

611
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:49.679
dating myself right now, who remembers
Crystal Pepsi? Crystal Pepsi was hilarious.

612
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:55.760
Pepsi, as we know, is
a dark colored soda like coke. Pepsi

613
00:43:55.840 --> 00:44:02.599
thought it was a really interesting deal
that they lie a frystal clear color white

614
00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:07.719
color soda. Oh, I'm sorry, isn't that called sprite or seven up

615
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.880
or maybe a mountain dewish thing?
There was? There was? How did

616
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.320
they pull the wool over eyes on
that one? If somebody gives me a

617
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:21.400
camp Coca Coca like I go to
Cees and cees a Cocus actually launched a

618
00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:24.320
flavor or two at ces which is
in January the Consumer Electronic Show. I

619
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:27.440
mean, somebody, let me,
let's me taste it. I will.

620
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:31.400
I don't really think I'm rushing out
to buy an artificial intelligence? Is there

621
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:40.800
anything more the definition of what it
is than a soda that was designed by

622
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:45.039
artificial intelligence? Since if most everything
inside of a soda is artificial, look

623
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:50.480
at me ragging on my daily caffeine
intake. Anyway, that's there's your consumer

624
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.800
Livestyle right now. We'll give you
the phone number in case you do want

625
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:55.840
to talk about iPhones if you just
tune in, we spent most of the

626
00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:00.360
first hour talking about Apple's announcement.
By the way, how come Coke didn't

627
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.440
come out with an Apple flavored to
coincide with the iPhone? This is why

628
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.159
I'm a marketing genius. This is
why I'm giving away this information for free.

629
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:13.599
Somebody better steals. Apple that announced
four new iPhones, two new watches,

630
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:20.800
and the biggest thing is the dongle. It is it's the charging system.

631
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:25.400
It's the USBC, and USBC is
very confusing. And I'll touch on

632
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:29.719
this right now. This is the
first time Apple has ever used USBC.

633
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.440
They're doing they're killing the Lightning chord
from now on. They're doing this is

634
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:37.559
because not because they want to.
It's the European Union mandates that all the

635
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:44.559
handheld mobile gadgets starting next year support
one universal standard, and they went with

636
00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:47.639
USBC, which has been around on
Android phones and many of the things for

637
00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:54.800
for several years. Right now,
generally the USBC is quicker than the lightning

638
00:45:55.920 --> 00:46:01.719
However, not all USBC means USBC
On the iPhone fifteen and fifteen plus.

639
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:07.519
There will be when it comes up
later this week Friday, September twenty second,

640
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:14.719
there will be a new USBC cord
and it is going to be the

641
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:20.800
slowest USB transfer speed. It's called
USB two point zero. And I don't

642
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:23.400
want to get into the megabex.
It's it's gonna confuse you. But it's

643
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:29.360
the same transfer speed data transfers between
your computer and the phone. It's the

644
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.960
same transfer speed as you're gonna get
with the lightning connector. So there's really

645
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.760
no positive. There's no plus on
the two lower end brand new iPhones,

646
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:45.440
the iPhone fifteen the iPhone fifteen Plus, however, not so fast. The

647
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:50.840
two higher end brand new iPhones,
the iPhone fifteen Pro and the iPhone fifteen

648
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:59.519
Pro Max, they're going to support
USB three point zero speeds about twenty times

649
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:01.280
fast. That's a big difference.
And I don't know, I don't know

650
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:07.960
why Apple limited the upper new iPhones
to do this versus the lower Maybe it's

651
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:16.119
price, whatever, But there's a
number of different positives why faster transfer speeds

652
00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:22.440
and data speeds work. If you
love shooting video, if you are very

653
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:27.599
high end photographer and you use a
very high end pixels or even shooting the

654
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.239
raw mode, you know it could
take up a lot of storage on your

655
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:35.800
phones. The fact is you've got
the new iPhone fifteen Pro the Pro Max.

656
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:40.840
You actually can plug your usbcnto the
phone. You can plug the other

657
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:46.880
phone the other end into a one
terabyte data storage or something, and you

658
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:53.239
could shoot and transfer immediately and quickly
all that data so it doesn't clog off

659
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:57.039
your phone. That's one of the
many, many reasons. I'll get it.

660
00:47:57.079 --> 00:47:59.880
Tell you more the order of the
specs after the break. Would love

661
00:47:59.880 --> 00:48:02.639
to hear from you seven one three
two one two five nine five. Oh,

662
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:07.119
that's how you're gonna get to us
here KPRC Radio nine fifty am and

663
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:08.679
used in and all over the world. As we continue, V High Tech

664
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:12.559
Text and Show, and I'm thirsty? Is somebody gotta why? Three thousand?

665
00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:28.239
Why? Why? Lunch time?
If you're listening live, including afternoon

666
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:31.400
on a Saturday, we're midnight snack
time. Should you be listening to the

667
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.559
encore broadcast of the wonderful show?
It's wonderful because you were listening. I

668
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:38.480
thank you for that. It's called
The High Tech Text. And Michael is

669
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:44.400
my name? Uh? Speaking of
food? What about fifteen minutes we are

670
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:47.320
going to talk meat and I listen. I told you this show is so

671
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:53.599
much more about the technology. It's
a consumer lifestyle show. Restaurants, cooking

672
00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:58.440
tips, a lot of food,
a lot of rum. We'll talk about

673
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:01.079
popas pillar rum, which is a
big partner of mine. I know about

674
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:06.000
fifteen minutes we're gonna have Anthony Thomas
come on again. I interviewed him about

675
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:08.000
three weeks ago and it just went
over like gangbusters. It really did.

676
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:13.199
To do this from Australia and he's
a cowboy. He's like a real cowboy.

677
00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:15.920
I think later this weekend he's going
to Albuquerque to to be a you

678
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.119
know, do ropes and cattle something. But he is based here in the

679
00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:22.840
Houston area and he has his own
meat company, meat processing company. You

680
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:25.920
can buy meat by the side of
beef, half a side of beef,

681
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.480
the quarter side of beef, and
it is the best organic, free just

682
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:35.280
the whole thing. And I mean
even me, the not so heavily red

683
00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:37.760
meat eater. Guy got a quarter
of pounds of beef. It's nice to

684
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:43.199
have in your in your freezer.
Dudes come over, people come over,

685
00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:45.880
they want meat. We watching football
games. To go out and just get

686
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:50.960
a beautiful filet marbled or some ground
beef. It's great. So we'll talk

687
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.159
to him about you know, ten
twelve, fifteen minutes to get you hungry.

688
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:59.360
It's called Thomas Cattle and Catering.
And so we got that. Are

689
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:04.599
we done? Talk about the new
iPhone? I have now spent more on

690
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:07.559
this one show talking about using the
word iPhone or Apple that I pretty much

691
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:13.360
have on almost any given year,
and it generally happens each time this each

692
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.639
each September, that's when Apple holds
its new conference. And so I think

693
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:21.079
we've covered everything. Four new phones, two new watches, a partridge in

694
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:24.960
a peatree, and a new charging
system Lightning is gone, and the next

695
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:30.559
week the new USB C charger.
And the fact is, I'll say it

696
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:36.159
again, if that's the lead story
that Apple is switching to USBC, and

697
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:38.719
we're not talking as much about Oh
look at this new phone. It fold,

698
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.400
it flips, it's powerful, it's
got the greatest camera in the world,

699
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:45.119
it's inexpensive. No, none of
that stuff we're talking about. So

700
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:50.000
that I should tell you about the
news right there. You know, a

701
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:53.719
lot a lot of times people ask
me about my career. You know how

702
00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:59.719
I started, And you know,
do I tend you you're a podcast host?

703
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:04.360
Well, I mean yes, I
this a radio show host for well

704
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.880
over twenty years here on iHeart Radio
in KPRC nine fifty. They take my

705
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.760
show and they'll put it on a
podcast and so you can listen to it

706
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:17.280
later. But it's it's I'm still
I'm barely holding on to the radio hostport

707
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:22.360
part, so I'm lucky for that. But I started out most. I

708
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:30.039
started out in television and I was
a radio TV RTF major at small college

709
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:35.000
in Austin, d the University of
Texas, and it's a It's something I've

710
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:37.280
always wanted to do, either be
behind the mic, in front of the

711
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:42.159
camera or doing something. And I'm
believing or not. At my age,

712
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:45.760
I'm still freaking doing it as hard
as ziz right now. But the first

713
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:50.280
job that I got, real,
real, real job, paying job,

714
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:52.800
I was on QVC. I was, yes, that's right, the home

715
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:57.679
shopping network. And I was one
of the first times with my obviously,

716
00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.599
I moved outside of Texas for the
first time of my adult life. And

717
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:04.280
I'm like, I don't know,
and so I'm living outside of Philadelphia.

718
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:09.159
This is I think QVC is still
maybe headquartered there in Westchester, Pennsylvania.

719
00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:14.199
And I was right before I got
married. I lived alone and I was

720
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:15.679
the new kid. I was the
youngest show host ever hired. I was

721
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:21.440
like twenty two maybe twenty three,
right out of college, and I had

722
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:23.719
to work. It was a twenty
four hour shopping news channel, shopping channel.

723
00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:27.639
So they put the young guy in
the middle of the night. So

724
00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.440
my shift was like two, three, four, five in the morning,

725
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:32.760
you know, East coast or Central
time, and obviously maybe it was you

726
00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:36.840
know late people were still up on
the on the West coast. But it

727
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:42.440
was fun and I learned a lot
about you know, live TV and selling

728
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:45.440
products which we did not have a
script for. And this is why I

729
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:49.840
get even more into gadgets and products. I was able to look at something

730
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.239
and try within three or four or
five six minutes tell you why this product

731
00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:58.440
is gonna change your life. You
need this phone, well, there were

732
00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:01.480
no smartphones really in nineteen eighty nineteen
ninety. There you need, you need,

733
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.679
you need this kitchen gear, you
need the black and decker electric drill.

734
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:12.400
You need diamonique, the second hardest
known substance demand. That's right.

735
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:15.760
But one of the things I learned
about about media itself and how to do

736
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:21.000
it. And this is where I'm
going with the story from watching people on

737
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:22.960
TV two on the radio is one
of the things that I do. And

738
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:27.360
if you're a long time listener,
you know this. I talked very fast,

739
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:31.960
and that is that's my nature,
and it's really odd from a dude

740
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:39.239
from Texas whose parents are from Texas
with little accents, and it's just I'm

741
00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:43.440
just I like, I enjoyed life. I'm excited, I really am.

742
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:46.679
This is really my personality. I'm
just like this kid and I talk fast.

743
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:51.480
I'll be very excited. So the
first device that I got, the

744
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.599
biggest device that I got, which
I still after thirty pleasure years, haven't

745
00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:59.000
done, is from TV producers and
even radio people. It's slow down,

746
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:01.960
just just freaking slow down. What
I used to do is a trick I'm

747
00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:06.920
as I'm looking at they have TV
cameras on the set of VC. And

748
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:10.880
when I did to remind myself,
I traced my hand, you know,

749
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:14.840
like you know when you're a little
kid and you do drugs for Thanksgiving and

750
00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:16.800
you make a turkey with your hand
and your fingers. So I trace my

751
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:22.000
hand and I wrote the words slow
down, like you know, my hand

752
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:24.360
is like stop, slow down,
and I would tape I printed it out.

753
00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:28.559
I taped those underneath the camera so
when I'm looking at the camera,

754
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:30.239
I would remind myself to slow down. The point as it didn't work,

755
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:32.320
it still doesn't work, but you
love me for who I am and as

756
00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:36.800
the simple as that I also used
to say, and I still sometimes do

757
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:38.480
it. People get into these traps. And when I talked to kids who

758
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:42.280
are in communications, they said,
what do you do well? The word

759
00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:47.000
and your hems and your haws.
They are things that you try to,

760
00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:52.679
you know, forget. Sometimes I
still say the word when I'm thinking of

761
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:55.599
things, but I try to cut
it. And this was a very long

762
00:54:55.639 --> 00:54:59.679
story to get here, But I
wish I was growing up and starting my

763
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:06.400
media career now because there is software, there's artificial intelligence when you're recording things

764
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:14.039
to automatically cut out the hums.
Adobe Premiere Pro, which is a very

765
00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:20.079
powerful and relatively easy to use editing
tool, Premiere Pro that dead records,

766
00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:23.599
audio, records video. They see
it, but I did see. They

767
00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:35.440
just started a feature that has automatic
removal of background noise or accidental ms.

768
00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:38.679
They get muttered. Calum. As
I look at Calum other side of the

769
00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:43.480
glass, he's running the board.
Is it possible to do this thing live?

770
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:45.800
We should actually test this. If
not, I should record the show

771
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:51.679
that will automatically takes up my moms. But anyway, Adobe Premiere Pro,

772
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:54.000
apparently I haven't tried it yet.
It should get rid of your ums and

773
00:55:54.360 --> 00:56:00.760
hums with a recent update to the
software. It's called filler word Detection,

774
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:06.679
because that's what it is. It's
a filler because hey, what's going on?

775
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:10.079
Okay, Jason and Parland, thanks
for calling. What can I do

776
00:56:10.119 --> 00:56:14.079
for you today? So you try
to do it? Try to stop it.

777
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:17.480
The fact is now I don't even
need a practice. Thirty years they

778
00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:22.960
still can't do it. Now I
can edit things by using I really should

779
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:27.559
try this, says it's them.
Let's see these new features they're launching.

780
00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:34.280
Also in another package, it's called
commercial. It's Adobe's Firefly for enterprise with

781
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:40.480
generative AI artificial intelligence. So you
should try this. So anyway that this

782
00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:43.519
segment I talked about, Okay,
this is what we need to do.

783
00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:45.239
If you were looking, if you're
young, if you're old, if you're

784
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:50.119
looking to get into media, or
you're doing a podcast and you have filler

785
00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:53.519
words like M and hum and whatever, maybe you want to try Adobe Premiere

786
00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:58.719
Pro. These are the things that
make our job a little easier. What

787
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:00.920
else can I tell you? All
Right, I tell you to stand by

788
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:05.519
because after this we're gonna talk meat
we're gonna talk how to grill some great

789
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:08.639
meat the filets and give you some
ideas. I never went to eat healthier.

790
00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:14.559
And if you're looking for just top
notch befred meat that goes straightly to

791
00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:17.239
from that farm to your table,
you gotta talk to You gotta listen to

792
00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:21.960
Anthony Thomas cut up. But Thomas
Cattle and Karen Comfrey don't go anywhere.

793
00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:35.840
Thirty more minutes left in the show. There's like that big good voice set.

794
00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:39.119
Michael Guard Guild is the name of
everybody is having a wonderful day.

795
00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:42.760
I feel in the air, baby, get you know there's a chill in

796
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:45.440
the air. The football season is
back and the kids are back in school.

797
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:51.199
Holiday seasons not too far away.
I'll be giving my countdown of my

798
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:54.440
reviews, my recommendations for the holiday
season. I'll give you a review and

799
00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:59.880
recommendation right now, certainly because I've
been starting having some guys over for football

800
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.039
season. Man, you better start
grilling. And this is grilling season.

801
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.519
You're not outside sweat too much,
but you gotta start with some phenomenal food.

802
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:10.440
And if you're a meat eater,
certainly here we are in Texas.

803
00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:14.679
Man, you've got to had the
finest meat around. And I've found the

804
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.239
place so much so that I actually
even get to talk to the man,

805
00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:21.920
the rancher himself, to actually figure
out how my filets and how my cuts

806
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:25.280
are coming. I've talked about it
is called Thomas Cattle and Catering. It's

807
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:30.159
called that because that's the last name
of the gentleman himself, Anthony Thomas.

808
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:31.960
We had him on the show about
two or three weeks ago, and I've

809
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:37.119
gotten a lot of questions about so
this is a true Texas business and you

810
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:40.519
know, what's the process and of
you know, getting from you know,

811
00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:44.880
these steers all the way to your
table, and you know what. I

812
00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:46.440
could talk about it all I want, but I like bringing in the man

813
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:52.039
himself number one of which because he's
got the coolest Australian accident ever, even

814
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.320
though he's a Texan. Right now, Anthony Thomas joins me again. Happy

815
00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:59.480
follow my man. I hope you're
doing well. Yeah, good night,

816
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:01.239
Thanks thanks Marchael, thanks for having
me today. I emxcited to be here

817
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:05.599
again. Well, I'm excited to
talk about this because you know, I'd

818
00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.239
like to think that I'm gonna I
set my expert on everything though I'm not

819
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:12.079
traditionally a big red meat eater.
If I'm gonna eat some red meat,

820
00:59:12.079 --> 00:59:14.559
my man, I'm gonna eat it. It is pure, it is Texas

821
00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:17.519
And this is exactly what you and
you offer. Again, you came up

822
00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:22.800
with this company how long ago here
when COVID started. Just figure this is

823
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.800
a smart way to do it,
because instead of going to the grocery store

824
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:29.239
and I don't even want us talking
at today, we could talk for hours

825
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:34.960
and hours about the difference between grocery
store bought meat and whatever the processing issues

826
00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:37.280
going there versus the pure stuff.
And I obviously you've had a lot of

827
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:43.000
success here in the past few years. Yeah. So I'm actually a professional

828
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:47.320
rodeo athlete. I was competing in
the Houston Rodeo and shortly after I progressed

829
00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:52.119
to the finals at Rodeo Houston,
the pandemic hit and they shot Rodeo Houston

830
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:58.400
down and our whole tour beyond.
And so I actually honestly had an epiphany

831
00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:04.800
from God that I needed to use
my skills a cowboy to start this fond

832
01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.679
to table beef business. You know, coming from Australia, coming from a

833
01:00:07.719 --> 01:00:13.800
country where health and food and what
they allow you to eat and what they

834
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:16.119
allow to put in your food is
very important in Australia. Moving to this

835
01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:22.960
country and seeing how how skewed the
food system was over here, I've found

836
01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:30.079
myself with an opportunity to educate consumers
and Texans on a better way to get

837
01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:35.320
their beef and the Actually, this
is not only a better without a doubt,

838
01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:37.719
it's better because I've tried it and
I've talked to you. I mean,

839
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:39.599
I look at the pictures and I'm
posting picture on Instagram and they just

840
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:45.480
look they look phenomenal, they taste
and I know they are incredibly healthier for

841
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:47.920
you. We could talk about that, but it's also the it's the process

842
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:52.800
of buying buying beef and buying a
steer because you're a little different. I

843
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:53.880
mean, listen, they're there are
a number of companies out there where you

844
01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:58.920
can buy a few, you know, shrink wrap frozen steaks and filets and

845
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:01.199
hamburgers, and they'll send them to
you. You, my freend, you

846
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:05.960
offer the opportunity to purchase a steer, or at least a share of the

847
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:08.039
steer. And I've already heard for
someone about listen, the past wet three

848
01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:10.840
or four weeks. I've been talking
about you my listeners that they've bought half

849
01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:15.239
a steer, quarters steer, family
goes in together and by the whole steer.

850
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.559
It's the concept of buying in bulk
what we're talking about here, Anthony.

851
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:22.400
Filling your freezer. Many people have
not done that, but I gotta

852
01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:27.320
tell you, the convenience is incredible, especially the next three or four months.

853
01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.480
You've got family coming in for the
holidays. That's a big selling point

854
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:35.159
and an opportunity that you're offering.
Yeah. No, you know, people

855
01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:38.119
procrastinating wait till the last minute when
they're entertaining and having family other you know,

856
01:01:38.199 --> 01:01:43.280
no better time than Thanksgiving and Christmas
coming up. You got football season,

857
01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:46.079
you're having buddies over, and you
need to grill. Buying in bulk

858
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:51.679
and getting the fraser. There's so
many benefits in doing things this way,

859
01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:55.119
other than the fact that you know
exactly where your food's coming from here in

860
01:01:55.159 --> 01:02:00.559
Texas, and so all of our
beef once it's once we get the cattle

861
01:02:00.599 --> 01:02:04.639
processed, it's old vacuum sealed,
so it never it never goes bad in

862
01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:08.320
your fraser. And just the luxury
of not having to scramble to the grocery

863
01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:14.119
store and hoping that you're gonna get
good beef. It's one hundred percent strike

864
01:02:14.199 --> 01:02:15.920
right every time when you're having people
over, because all you have to do

865
01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:17.960
is reach in your phraser and you
know what it's going to be. Every

866
01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:22.840
time. The Anthony Thomas, he
runs Thomas Cattle and Catering. I know,

867
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:24.880
stand by, folks, We're gonna
make sure I give you his phone

868
01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:30.199
number and it's Thomas Cattle and Catering. Died Cob. I talked about your

869
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:32.000
phone number. And the interesting thing
about you because you owe this. You

870
01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:36.519
are the man himself and you really, Anthony, you are the single only

871
01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:40.559
person other than you and your butcher
who take care of literally that steer from

872
01:02:40.599 --> 01:02:44.320
when it is bat when it's in
that pasture, all the way till it

873
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:47.039
gets to your house because you many
times you actually deliver it. But your

874
01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:50.800
phone number. I'm gonna get off
the phone number. And you want people

875
01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:52.800
to call you because you want to
ask them questions about you know, how

876
01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:54.960
do they like there? I mean, how do you like the marbling?

877
01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:59.920
And how thick do you want your
filets? I mean that's like old butcher

878
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:01.480
you know, from like the Brady
Butcher, from the Sam's Butcher. I

879
01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:06.400
mean that's top notch, quite a
quality service. Yeah, So wisdom is

880
01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:10.480
everything. A lot of my business
and what I do is not only you

881
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:15.719
know, raising the highest quality beef
that money can buy, but education.

882
01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:21.639
So educating my customers on becoming a
beef connisseure, actually knowing where their beef

883
01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:24.519
comes from, how it's raised,
and how it's butchered. We dry age

884
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:31.079
out beef and there's nothing better than
having the knowledge of what you're cooking and

885
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:35.920
what you're feeding your family. And
that's something I really take joy in.

886
01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:39.039
Give me one or two of your
your favorite let's put this way, the

887
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:43.719
most popular beef fights that people request, how it's marbled and thing. You

888
01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:45.920
know, what are your top selling
Yeah, so that's funny. So you

889
01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:51.679
know, the typically consumers in the
city, they go to the grocery store

890
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:54.159
and they know your mainstream cuts like
your Ribby's filets and York strips, Sloan's

891
01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:58.840
briskets, whatever. But we take
pride in Thomas Cattle and catering. My

892
01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:04.639
butcher actually takes the time and effort
to carve a lot of these specialty cuts

893
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:10.159
that most people don't know about,
such as flat Irons and Delmonico's and Denver

894
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:15.239
Steaks, just to mention a few, and these really surprised people because,

895
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:18.519
you know, typically you're either a
ribbi or a filet guy or a New

896
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:23.039
York strip guy. But these extra
cuts that we have, like the Denver

897
01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:27.480
steaks and the Chalk Eye steaks,
the del Monico steaks and the flat irons,

898
01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:32.800
they're very They're surprisingly, very tender
and marbled. And people love to

899
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:36.960
have that element of surprise when they
try some different steaks and they figure,

900
01:04:38.039 --> 01:04:41.440
well, this is just as good, if not better than the ribbi that

901
01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:44.519
I'm used to going for or the
filet that I'm used to going for every

902
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:47.239
time. Okay, thank you.
I know it's lunchtime right now, but

903
01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:51.320
thanks now. My mouth is watering
del Monico and the Dever. Listen,

904
01:04:51.400 --> 01:04:54.920
people think they know, okay,
they go to a menu, I know

905
01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:57.800
the word in New York, I
know the ribbi, you got filet mignon.

906
01:04:57.960 --> 01:04:59.719
But the fact is, I mean, you've got a butcher and you've

907
01:04:59.719 --> 01:05:01.360
got you over there. I mean, you literally can make these custom cuts.

908
01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:03.639
And a lot of people, probably
including me, until a few weeks

909
01:05:03.639 --> 01:05:06.519
ago. Anthony didn't even know there's
such thing as a custom cut. I

910
01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:09.920
mean, this thing is yours.
It is a I'm not saying it's a

911
01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:12.559
new concept, but is it a
phenomenal concept. And at the end of

912
01:05:12.599 --> 01:05:15.000
the day, I think it's economical
when you're stocking your freezer too, none

913
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:17.719
of the last minute of stuff.
And it's so much healthier. And again

914
01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:19.880
we're running out of time. We
got about a minute over here. We're

915
01:05:19.880 --> 01:05:23.800
gonna have you back here in a
few more weeks. But the Omega threes

916
01:05:23.880 --> 01:05:27.119
and everything I mean is it is
incredibly healthier, which is so important to

917
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:30.000
us. Anthony, Yeah, no, absolutely, So essentially, what you're

918
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:32.280
doing is you're buying a home raised
fat and steer from us. In that

919
01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:38.599
posture, a ranch is an al
from Houston, and we're going to dry

920
01:05:38.679 --> 01:05:41.840
edge that steer for you, and
you get to customize exactly the way that

921
01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:45.760
you want the steer cut up.
So any cut known demand, it's it's

922
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:48.519
yours, and you're going to get
to customize the way that you want that.

923
01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:53.719
So the thickness of your steaks,
whether you want more robes or less

924
01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:59.679
ribs, or more steaks bone in
or boneless cuts, you get to actually

925
01:05:59.719 --> 01:06:02.679
have your beef exactly the way you
want it. And there's one person that

926
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:08.880
ever touches your meat instead of fifty
or one hundred people across different countries that

927
01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:13.519
are touching your beef in a factory. So we truly believe that we are

928
01:06:13.559 --> 01:06:17.800
providing the highest quality beef local to
Houston. You know you were live in

929
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:20.679
Texas. We live in a cowboys
state, So why shouldn't you be able

930
01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:24.920
to get your beef straight from a
ranch of straight from the source. It

931
01:06:25.159 --> 01:06:30.920
is gentlemen, Anthony Thomas, you're
private and personal butcher who himself delivers it

932
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.039
to your door. Anthony, I've
got about four four emails in the last

933
01:06:33.039 --> 01:06:35.480
minute. Half shut up and ask
his phone numbers. Theyn't call you.

934
01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:39.559
How do we get in touch with
you? Yeah, my phone numbers two

935
01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:45.000
eight, one six, four,
five nine two three seven, And I'm

936
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.119
ready available any day during business hours
to walk you through the process of getting

937
01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:55.880
a farm raised steer from us and
everything that that entails. Give me that

938
01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:00.440
one more time to eight one to
a one six, four five nine three

939
01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:05.199
seven. Wait one six, four, five nine two three seven. Folks,

940
01:07:05.199 --> 01:07:06.840
he is getting ready to hang up, so you can call them now.

941
01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:11.679
I repeated that my accent is not
as cool as yours. Mister Australian

942
01:07:11.719 --> 01:07:14.840
who now lives here in the Houston
area. Hey, listen, well I'll

943
01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:17.400
say it again. Your success amazing. I love how you created this concept

944
01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:19.880
and this is unique. And I
love the fact that a lot of my

945
01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:23.639
listeners are starting to call you.
I call you and start ordering their sides

946
01:07:23.679 --> 01:07:26.760
to beef. This is a perfect
time of year. It's Thomas Cattle and

947
01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:31.800
Catering dot Com. Two eight one
six four five nine two three seven.

948
01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:34.719
Rodeo Cowboy, you are now released. Go eat, go eat some of

949
01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:39.039
your own food, my man,
because you need to strengthen up for all

950
01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:42.239
your rodeos coming up. But I
appreciate your time. Thanks for having me,

951
01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:45.559
Marcael. I look forward to being
the household name would founder table Beef

952
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.159
in Houston, Texas. I think, yeah, you're you're a well on

953
01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:51.599
your way, folks. Give him
McCall Anthony Thomas. All right, there

954
01:07:51.599 --> 01:07:54.360
you go with the phone number.
Well, I'm not gonna give you my

955
01:07:54.360 --> 01:07:56.119
phone or I don't want to mix
it up again. I'll give you his

956
01:07:56.199 --> 01:07:59.320
It's two eight one six four five
nine two three seven you know, one

957
01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:01.800
of the things that I love is
listen. It's reviewing recommendations. My job

958
01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:05.760
is to review, study backgrounds of
every product in every service. It's what

959
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:10.960
I love. Meeting vocal businesses,
local Texas businesses, which I've done for

960
01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:13.840
twenty plus years. I get to
know them. I understand. I'll have

961
01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:16.079
him on the show sometimes I'll put
my name behind him if I believe in

962
01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:18.520
him. I believe in this guy. It's just it. And again I'm

963
01:08:18.520 --> 01:08:23.199
not mister red meat a ton,
but dang man, his stuff he's good.

964
01:08:23.239 --> 01:08:25.800
Once't you give him a shot?
As we continue the High Tech Textion

965
01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:38.960
Show right here KPRC Radio Houston and
around the world on iHeart Radio. And

966
01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:43.319
thanks again man. I'm getting some
emails over here about to Anthony Thomas.

967
01:08:43.319 --> 01:08:45.960
You see this is in the nice
emails going geez, Michael, you know

968
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:48.600
what you actually it is this kind
of a fun morning show type of thing.

969
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.800
You don't just talk about geeky stuff. You actually have some really good

970
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:56.439
interviews. I appreciate what Anthony Thomas
just talked about it. I'm gonna give

971
01:08:56.479 --> 01:08:58.680
him a call to see if I
can get a half a side of me.

972
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:00.279
Never been able to do that my
life before. Okay, okay,

973
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:03.600
that was from Jeremy. Jeremy's in
Sugarland. Jeremy, that's what I do.

974
01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:06.119
The Yeah, I don't want to
make this boring. I'm not going

975
01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:10.399
to tell you about all these things
that go beep and buzz. I'm here

976
01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:15.560
Austo to talk about the consumery neat
stuff from cars, two drinks, to

977
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:19.239
cocktails to food. And that was
Anthony Thomas, by the way, that

978
01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:27.359
is a Thomas Cattle and Catering Company
four h six six four seven seventy nine

979
01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:30.159
hundred. Call him now loved as
he loved it day man. If you

980
01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:33.840
liked his accent too, from Australia. He'll tell you all about the beef

981
01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:36.560
stuff and you know how to order
it, and the cuts and filets.

982
01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:42.079
It's it's really good things. It's
all something else about was it beer?

983
01:09:42.119 --> 01:09:45.560
Oh? I saw this story about
beer? This is crazy. You know

984
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:48.319
what surge pricing is. We've heard
the word surge pricing when it comes to

985
01:09:48.359 --> 01:09:54.359
obviously, when it comes to uber
or maybe left certain parts of the day,

986
01:09:55.600 --> 01:10:00.159
it becomes more scarce or the pricing
surges to meet the supply demand.

987
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:03.800
And you know it's just from data. I mean listen, airlines do this

988
01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:06.760
too, hey, you know listening
on these holiday seasons, we gotta raise

989
01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:12.760
the price of tickets and surge pricing. There is a there's a pub company

990
01:10:12.760 --> 01:10:16.520
in Britain. It's the Britain's largest
pub company. It's called the stone Gate

991
01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:25.239
Group. They announced they're gonna do
surge pricing at eight hundred of its locations

992
01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:31.039
across the UK. They're gonna with
surge pricing, so they're gonna put up

993
01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:36.079
a sign. It's called polite notice. You know those UK people are so

994
01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:42.800
sweet. The polite notice. It's
gonna warn drinkers about the increased costs during

995
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:49.520
peak times. And the price increase
is up to an additional twenty pence for

996
01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:54.239
a pit of beer. What is
it? What is a pence? What

997
01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:56.359
is a pence worth? Calum?
Can you tell me that? Because someone

998
01:10:56.359 --> 01:11:01.800
google's thing? How much is a
not mike pence worth to the American dour?

999
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:08.039
Is it a few cents? As
of as of twenty twenty one,

1000
01:11:08.560 --> 01:11:17.760
tenpence is about fourteen cents in America, So twentypence so you got about a

1001
01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:24.159
quarter, right, So they're gonna
raise it a quarter. I'm sure what

1002
01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:29.600
time is this. It's funny because
what time is this gonna happen? Is

1003
01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:34.680
it gonna be? I would assume
the peak times would be what we know

1004
01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:42.520
is happy hour, and generally happy
hour you lower the price. So is

1005
01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:46.479
this called the unhappy hour? I
have no clue. I don't know if

1006
01:11:46.479 --> 01:11:51.439
I would drink at this place doing
this because there was a twenty eight point

1007
01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:56.640
seven million dollars loss for the first
half of the year because of the Britain's

1008
01:11:56.760 --> 01:12:00.119
cost of living crisis. So Britain's
having a cost living crisis. So they're

1009
01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:04.800
raising the price of beer during certain
times to actually increase the cost of living

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crisis. This is unhappy hour,
absolutely unhappy hour. I don't I don't

1011
01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:13.399
like this, but I'll tell you
what. These companies, with access to

1012
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:18.399
algorithms and obviously their desire and their
need to maximize revenue. I mean,

1013
01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:24.319
they're going to keep finding price in
new ways to add prices to every single

1014
01:12:24.359 --> 01:12:27.319
part of life. I mentioned earlier
in the show. At least I think

1015
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:30.039
I did there is. Las Vegas
casinos have had a very bad week.

1016
01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:36.960
MGM and Caesar's the two I think
the two biggest casino resort companies that have

1017
01:12:38.119 --> 01:12:44.439
so much presence in Vegas. They
were hacked and their systems have been down.

1018
01:12:44.680 --> 01:12:48.039
The credit card machines, the way
that you can check in, the

1019
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:54.439
way you check out, the gambling
aspects, the food ordering, and even

1020
01:12:54.560 --> 01:12:57.760
I think the payroll of employees.
It has been down most all this week.

1021
01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:02.319
I think Caesar's allegedly paid about fifteen
million dollars in ransom to get their

1022
01:13:02.319 --> 01:13:06.079
systems back up. MGM. They're
still fighting for this thing. All I

1023
01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:11.079
know is they've lost a lot of
predact These casinos lost a lot of credibility

1024
01:13:11.079 --> 01:13:14.319
and they've lost a lot of money. I would talk about surgery pricing,

1025
01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:16.880
and I'm gonna say so, I'm
going after casinos because I go to Vegas

1026
01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:21.600
quite often. Casinos, now you
know what it's like to be held ransom.

1027
01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:26.920
When we see in line item on
our bill that says resort fee,

1028
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:31.359
which is the biggest BS fee that
I could potentially think. I've seen some

1029
01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:35.119
BS fees, but I cannot send
a resort fee twenty five bucks a night

1030
01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:39.760
maybe if not more, for a
resort fee. Excuse me, what's a

1031
01:13:39.800 --> 01:13:44.239
resort fee? Well, it's you
get to internet access, okay, which

1032
01:13:44.279 --> 01:13:47.479
is everywhere you can get to the
GM or the workout facility, and it's

1033
01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:51.800
just overall with fee. There's so
many of the casinos do this thing.

1034
01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:55.880
There's resort fee and they're not even
resorts. Some of them aren't even resorts,

1035
01:13:56.199 --> 01:14:00.640
folks, casinos, screw you.
This is what it's like to behold

1036
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:04.199
hostage by you and hacked for all
these years. See what I did there.

1037
01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:08.239
I'm not gonna give out the phone
number because we're about the two or

1038
01:14:08.279 --> 01:14:11.760
three minutes d I did talk about
two segments ago before we talked to me

1039
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:14.640
Anthony Thomas. I talked about how
I started my career and giving some people

1040
01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:16.800
some advice. And nowadays when I
talk to people, it's like how do

1041
01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:19.560
I get into the media, And
I'm like, do you really want?

1042
01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:24.119
And I'm serious, you really want
to get into the media. However,

1043
01:14:24.279 --> 01:14:28.119
sometimes jobs that come along, it's
just, oh, my goodness, I

1044
01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:30.840
want to be in the media.
I saw this one. This is a

1045
01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:36.960
Gannette Gannette Is. They own newspapers
USA Today and a number of others.

1046
01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:48.680
They're hiring a reporter to cover nothing
but Taylor Swift was this listing on LinkedIn?

1047
01:14:48.760 --> 01:14:54.079
Because I should apply for this thing. It's It's not common for an

1048
01:14:54.199 --> 01:15:00.439
entertainment reporter to cover only one artist, but USA today they are planning to

1049
01:15:00.680 --> 01:15:05.399
hire not one, but I think
two people. Who is a massive Swifty

1050
01:15:05.800 --> 01:15:12.680
in a dream job. I'm looking
at this thing, the role. It

1051
01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:17.039
requires international travel, and it pays
between forty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars.

1052
01:15:17.119 --> 01:15:18.840
Here, let me help you out. That's a pretty big spread.

1053
01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:23.960
I'd like to know which side of
that I'd beyond. But then again,

1054
01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:28.399
there's people out that we're going I
do it for free, Swifty cruel summer.

1055
01:15:29.319 --> 01:15:35.279
Oh my goodness, I understand why, because Taylor Swift is unstoppable right

1056
01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:42.520
now. Her tour it took in
one point six billion dollars the Erros tour.

1057
01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:45.920
Would you like to just, hey, fly anywhere and cover Taylor Swift

1058
01:15:46.399 --> 01:15:51.039
and get paid? Where's the where's
the Beyonce beat? Let's hear it for

1059
01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:56.439
the Htown girl? I do it? I mean I don't like right.

1060
01:15:56.520 --> 01:15:59.159
Of all the things that I do, I do right, and obviously I

1061
01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:01.239
do electronic media, I do TV, I do ready to add I would

1062
01:16:02.279 --> 01:16:05.920
i'd write, I'm not to make
a Swifty fan. I mean Beyonce's okay

1063
01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:10.239
too, but it's a heck of
a job. So kids, if you

1064
01:16:10.239 --> 01:16:15.079
want to get a media better get
your TikTok, resumes and everything else you

1065
01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:16.760
need to do to talk about.
Oh my god, it's it's Taylor.

1066
01:16:16.760 --> 01:16:20.439
Taylor. By the way, I
had a very big music MTV Music Video

1067
01:16:20.479 --> 01:16:25.760
Award winning this session earlier. This
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1068
01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:28.720
on the show probably in about twenty
plush years, which means is time to

1069
01:16:28.840 --> 01:16:30.359
shut up and get out of here. Listen. We keep this show free

1070
01:16:30.399 --> 01:16:34.560
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1075
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1076
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Callum, thank you, Callum.
Appreciate it. A man. You are

1081
01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:16.800
off, You go drink, You
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1082
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1086
01:17:31.279 --> 01:17:34.960
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1087
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