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Speaker 1: Well, can I officially welcome you to August finally? People, August,
Speaker 1: my man, my women, marquid. So have you guys figured
Speaker 1: out your fantasy football name yet? Hey, listen, it's still high.
Speaker 1: But by the end of this month, football season is
Speaker 1: gonna be back, and for that we should all be thankful,
Speaker 1: you know, believe it or not. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you guys been doing. I've actually been watching a little
Speaker 1: of the Olympics. Didn't think I was gonna watch it, Tom,
Speaker 1: But listen, this is a draft of sports just because
Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest baseball fan, so it's actually been entertaining. Peacock.
Speaker 1: If you subscribe to Peacock, part of the Infinity and
Speaker 1: Comcast family, they've actually been chilling it. They've got dozens
Speaker 1: of channels. I've been watching the Gold Zone, which is
Speaker 1: pretty fun. Gotta big a big shout out. Congrats to
Speaker 1: the USA women's gymnastics team, Simone Biles, Katie Leddeccy, two
Speaker 1: names that we love, but we ain't gonna be hearing
Speaker 1: for another four years, if not ever. In the regular
Speaker 1: Olympic rotation, you got the rugby team, volleyball teams doing well.
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg man who has won the Olympics so far,
Speaker 1: I mean just the overall went Snoop Dogg. He's pretty strong,
Speaker 1: he's been he's been having a lot of fun. So
Speaker 1: if you've been watching, if you want to share your thoughts,
Speaker 1: if you're just bored, if if you're happy the freaking
Speaker 1: sun is out, even though it's nasty hot, Why don't
Speaker 1: you share your love with me? Why don't you share
Speaker 1: what's up? Seven one three two one two five nine
Speaker 1: five oh twenty three years been doing this yere on
Speaker 1: the radio, KPRC nine fifty. That number, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: has not changed. Believe it or not, that piece of
Speaker 1: technology has never changed. We still actually do have phone calls.
Speaker 1: Some of the things that's changed. Is we now had email?
Speaker 1: I don't think when I started two plus decades ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I did have email, but no, we didn't
Speaker 1: use it too much. People snail mail things. Snail mail
Speaker 1: is still around the price of a snail mail forever.
Speaker 1: Stamp went up about two weeks ago. I told you
Speaker 1: what is like seventy eight cents, But the seven digits
Speaker 1: have not changed. Seven one three, two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five. Oh Callum Reid, were you born twenty three?
Speaker 1: Three years ago I started this show. He's answering the phone,
Speaker 1: he's pushing the buttons. We love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Do have some interesting fun takes for you, not all technology.
Speaker 1: We've got this start of Houston Restaurant Weeks for the
Speaker 1: next month. Some of your favorite restaurants I believe four
Speaker 1: hundred plus have set some prefix a set the word
Speaker 1: prefix a prefix menus where you can go try them.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a lit chat later. This is it
Speaker 1: this our next hour. We'll do it this hour with
Speaker 1: Katie Stone. Katie is the executive director of Houston Restaurant Weeks,
Speaker 1: who took over for her her late mother. A good
Speaker 1: friend of mine, cleverly Stone. She'll talk about some of
Speaker 1: the reasons why she continued it and what are some
Speaker 1: of the restaurants that are out there. They got some
Speaker 1: new ones and some of your faves, and it's also
Speaker 1: really to help the restaurant industry. August is August is
Speaker 1: never the greatest month, and he is never the greatest month.
Speaker 1: He's never the greatest month in Houston. Restaurants they probably,
Speaker 1: you know, have a little slow down. It's hot, people
Speaker 1: are out of town, they're prepping for back to school.
Speaker 1: But it is a little way to get back into restaurants.
Speaker 1: So we will yap about that. Product reviews, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have some chats with a kind of a tied end
Speaker 1: to a back to school. Been playing with a new
Speaker 1: laptop that I got about about what is about two
Speaker 1: weeks ago and from a company called ass as Us.
Speaker 1: I could not be more really more impressed with the
Speaker 1: list laptop. It's really nice, light, it is thinning is
Speaker 1: back to school. I'm gonna have a conversation with someone
Speaker 1: on the design team who came up with that. And
Speaker 1: also a SEUs has come up with the latest version
Speaker 1: of a handheld gaming system. So for for all you
Speaker 1: people and it's not just for kids anymore. It's for parents.
Speaker 1: It's for all you gamers out there. It's an interesting
Speaker 1: hand held video gaming system, a big upgrade from the
Speaker 1: one they released about a year a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago. I will talk to one of the people
Speaker 1: who had a lot to do with designing it and
Speaker 1: actually came up with the name the rog the Republic
Speaker 1: of Gamers, the ally X. We have got that, and
Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna talk about. This is probably
Speaker 1: one of the two biggest topics in the past month
Speaker 1: since Hurricane Barrel came barreling through. We're gonna talk about roofs.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about roofing, but we're also going to
Speaker 1: talk about the technology now that companies are using to
Speaker 1: check to see if there was damage to your roof.
Speaker 1: Companies now they may not need to excuse me a
Speaker 1: while the whip out this long ladder to get on
Speaker 1: your roof, which obviously can be a safety hazard. They
Speaker 1: are using drones drone technology to flying drones right above
Speaker 1: your roof and really zoom in and get close for
Speaker 1: an initial inspection. We'll talk to a company to see
Speaker 1: how they have used it. Alex changed their business model,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, there's a little spin with technology, and
Speaker 1: also I need to prep a little bit more on it.
Speaker 1: The second hottest topic this month has been generators. You
Speaker 1: got a new generator? What's the weight for a generator?
Speaker 1: What branded generator? I need to do a little bit
Speaker 1: more studying. This coming Tuesday, I will make one of
Speaker 1: my regular appearances on Great Day use to Channel eleven CBS,
Speaker 1: and I am specifically gonna talk about generators because there
Speaker 1: are a number of different types of generators. If I
Speaker 1: say the word generator, you may think of these whole
Speaker 1: home generators. These are the relatively expensive ones that you
Speaker 1: need to call companies from Kohler to Generat to what
Speaker 1: have you, and they've got to come out install it outside.
Speaker 1: It's about the size of a small air conditioning unit,
Speaker 1: and they put a little cement pad out there for
Speaker 1: it to sit on, and then they've got to have
Speaker 1: a natural gas line, and then you gotta have an
Speaker 1: annual upkeep plan and everything. I mean as generator one
Speaker 1: and those automatically kick in when your power goes off.
Speaker 1: But there's also generators that go inside your home. They
Speaker 1: do not use any form of liquid gas or propane
Speaker 1: or natural gas. Obviously you don't want that inside your home.
Speaker 1: They're relative, they're certainly less expensive than those and they
Speaker 1: can run a number of different things. They could run
Speaker 1: your refrigerator or some fans, a lot of things. And
Speaker 1: so I do have some show and tell for next
Speaker 1: Tuesday's Great Day Houston. But tell me, tell me what
Speaker 1: your favorite brand is. Did it work for you? Did
Speaker 1: it fail for you? Anecdotally I heard some stories of
Speaker 1: people with generators that were supposed to automatically flip on
Speaker 1: our everything in their home, air conditioning, lights, washer dryer,
Speaker 1: but it didn't work. Maybe you forgot to oil it,
Speaker 1: or you know, check your natural gas line or have
Speaker 1: it service to a regular basis. There have been some
Speaker 1: some scary stories out there, and if you're going to
Speaker 1: spend that much money and that much time investing in researching,
Speaker 1: you really would hope it works. I really do it.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you do have a generator and
Speaker 1: it does work and power goes off in my house,
Speaker 1: please send me your email your address, because Big Daddy
Speaker 1: Garfa definitely needs some Maraic edition. Listen, we got that
Speaker 1: and a number of fun different stories. I will answer
Speaker 1: your back to school questions if you've got a high schooler,
Speaker 1: if you've got a college student going back to school
Speaker 1: in the next month or so, you need to figure
Speaker 1: out a laptop. You need to want to know should
Speaker 1: I get a new phone? What else do does he
Speaker 1: or she need? I probably can help you answer that.
Speaker 1: You know the phone number. You can go to all
Speaker 1: of these socials, high tech texts and h I T
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Speaker 1: X A N tell the High Tech Taxi Show, Michael Golfa,
Speaker 1: We're going to be right back. I hope everybody is
Speaker 1: doing well. Are you Are you at the pool? I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what you know. I started off the summer
Speaker 1: in the sun in the pool, kicking ten. Actually hopped
Speaker 1: out to southern California, visited my son. Man. I was
Speaker 1: coming back looking man it would movies stop?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: It was tan and did July dre It's out to
Speaker 1: be one of the race. Any is freaking months on
Speaker 1: calendar here in Houston. Plus I was gone for about
Speaker 1: a week. The sun's out now. I don't know how
Speaker 1: long it's gonna stay out. But if you're listening here
Speaker 1: on the first Saturday of August twenty twenty four, I
Speaker 1: hope you'll hope you're listening via your little EarPods, your
Speaker 1: ear pods or whatever brand you're using some waterproof flotation
Speaker 1: to MP three's and I hope you're having a coldie
Speaker 1: while you're listening to the high tech text and it
Speaker 1: is Michael Garfield got some phone numbers, fun stuff for
Speaker 1: you here. Later this hour, we're gonna actually next second,
Speaker 1: I think we're going to talk about a new laptop,
Speaker 1: a little back to school laptop. I mean, I'm really
Speaker 1: having fun with this laptop. It's thin, it's light, and
Speaker 1: I will be talking to the designer and the engineer
Speaker 1: from the company who did that, and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: a little Houston restaurant weeks so you may be laying
Speaker 1: by your pool getting tanned to get out putt stuff
Speaker 1: to go out to h to summit tell a restaurant
Speaker 1: you've never been to with a prefixed menu that some
Speaker 1: of the money goes to the Houston Food Bank, which
Speaker 1: is nice. That's what Houston Euston Restaurant we says. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I had. I had this guy,
Speaker 1: I made it. Not I wanted to talk about this,
Speaker 1: not a conversation with the buddy of mine about cell phones,
Speaker 1: because I have cell phones all the time, and I
Speaker 1: didn't give it well. I mean, I tried not to
Speaker 1: carry more than one because you know, they they can
Speaker 1: weigh you down, and you know they look weird in
Speaker 1: your pockets or something. But I didn't given time. I
Speaker 1: probably got eight or nine cell phones right now I'm
Speaker 1: testing that are new. Some of them are lit up
Speaker 1: with the with the SIM card that have self service.
Speaker 1: Some of them I have to flip the SIM card
Speaker 1: here and there. But but I think he was asking
Speaker 1: me about what type of cells? Who was my cell
Speaker 1: phone provider? Because he's sick and tired of paying all
Speaker 1: this money for him and his kids and his three
Speaker 1: or four lines or something like this, and we had
Speaker 1: to I got into discussion, a discussion about alternatives than
Speaker 1: the big three Verizon, AT and T and T Mobile.
Speaker 1: There are many other cell phone providers and they are smaller.
Speaker 1: I mean if you look at them, you know, logistically
Speaker 1: in terms of the number of subscribers. But they are
Speaker 1: called it's it's it's an acronym. Follow me here. This
Speaker 1: is an interesting discussion. I hope you're going to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But it's called m v N oh. It stands for
Speaker 1: Mobile virtual network operator, and what it means is it's
Speaker 1: a company that doesn't own a mobile spectrum license, but
Speaker 1: it sells mobile services under its brand name using the
Speaker 1: network of an actual license mobile operator. For example, under Verizon,
Speaker 1: where Verizon has spent billions of dollars on its infrastructure
Speaker 1: for setting up turs you know, they're engineers their network
Speaker 1: and what have you. And Verizon sells its own service.
Speaker 1: I mean many of you probably have Verizon cell phone
Speaker 1: service and you probably pay through it, and they have
Speaker 1: a billion different plans and whatever. But Verizon also sells
Speaker 1: or sub licenses some of its capaccity on its network
Speaker 1: to other smaller companies that you may have heard of,
Speaker 1: one of which is called Total Wireless used to be
Speaker 1: called Total by Verizon, smaller company. But what you get
Speaker 1: is a heck of a smaller bill. They don't cost
Speaker 1: you the same thing as the futtal service at and
Speaker 1: T does it, T Mobile does it. There are brand
Speaker 1: names out there, from Boost Mobile to Cricket to Expinity Mobile,
Speaker 1: and it goes on and on. There are probably three
Speaker 1: hundred four hundred is my guess, different MVNO's Mobile virtual
Speaker 1: network operators there and let me help you out without
Speaker 1: naming brands. I've used an MVNO as my main cell
Speaker 1: phone provider for years, my middle side, actually all three
Speaker 1: of my sons. May I just know my meddal soner
Speaker 1: who lives here in Houston, he uses an mv O NBNA.
Speaker 1: Why why pay one hundred and fifty two hundred whatever?
Speaker 1: It is? Bucks a line where sometimes you could pay
Speaker 1: as little as twenty thirty dollars for almost unlimited data.
Speaker 1: Do your research, people, do your research, and so it's
Speaker 1: it's funny. I mentioned Total Wireless because I'm driving down
Speaker 1: Westheimer the other day outside the Belway and I see
Speaker 1: a Total Wireless store and I researched. I walked in.
Speaker 1: I was just seeing what was going on. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at prices and stuff, and I just could not have
Speaker 1: been a nicer staff. And they sell phones, they sell
Speaker 1: cell phones, but you can also BYOD you can bring
Speaker 1: your own device. You don't need to change your cell phone.
Speaker 1: So let's just say your contract is up, but you
Speaker 1: want a new cell service plan, so you bring your
Speaker 1: phone in. You check if your phone is compatible to
Speaker 1: a specific carrier. The reason why a lot of phones
Speaker 1: are still locked they're locked under the initial network carrier.
Speaker 1: So if you bought a phone and it was subsidized
Speaker 1: because Verizon gave you a good deal, it may be
Speaker 1: locked to the Verizon network. But wait a minute, the
Speaker 1: MVNOs they will actually use Verizon. Most often you're able
Speaker 1: to put a SIM or use an e SIM in
Speaker 1: there too, such as the case with Total Total Wireless.
Speaker 1: So I was looking at some of the plant. I
Speaker 1: grant that brochure, whereas this brochure here is a brochure,
Speaker 1: and there are several different plans here. What is it?
Speaker 1: They got a price plan here that have a base
Speaker 1: five it's five g starts at forty bucks a month,
Speaker 1: and it's unlimited data. And think about that. And when
Speaker 1: I people ask me, Michael, well, cut, what plan should
Speaker 1: I get? Well, you have to you have to ask
Speaker 1: yourself and maybe look at you. There's a setting you
Speaker 1: can look in your phone. You can see how much
Speaker 1: data you've used this month, last month, and you can
Speaker 1: go back, or you can actually log onto your account too.
Speaker 1: How much data do you use on a given month?
Speaker 1: If you use under five gigs of data, which means
Speaker 1: you're not talking or you're tech you know you're not
Speaker 1: doing too much. You can get some really really inexpensive
Speaker 1: ones if you start using watching videos. Okay, yeah, now
Speaker 1: you're going to start, you know, using some data, but
Speaker 1: unlimited it's it's a good way to go. Yes, they
Speaker 1: have hot spots. They have it solved some of the
Speaker 1: plans of international talk and text. Uh there, there's here's
Speaker 1: a plan for fifty dollars that actually has ten times
Speaker 1: faster unlimited data never slows down. Here's this I think
Speaker 1: the highest price plan. I think it's just sixty dollars
Speaker 1: a month for five G. And again I'm specifically talking
Speaker 1: about what's this aprochure Total Wireless, Total Wireless dot com.
Speaker 1: They have several stores. Specifically I went to the one
Speaker 1: one two, three zero three West Timer. It's in Shadow
Speaker 1: Briar Plaza. It's part of the Victor Group, and I
Speaker 1: am familiar with the Victor Group. Vic tra great company,
Speaker 1: very reliable too. But they have price guarantees, they have
Speaker 1: a lot of things. And so that's what an MVY is.
Speaker 1: And that was the conversation I have. But I just
Speaker 1: I just sometimes I just go over. I talk about
Speaker 1: it once every two or three months. In vin O's
Speaker 1: it's a good time of year because it's back to school.
Speaker 1: Kids may be getting on their own cell phone plan.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, they could be moving going to college
Speaker 1: where their college dorm, the city they're moving to doesn't
Speaker 1: have as good as cell phone coverage as mom and
Speaker 1: dads are the ones that the kids used to at home.
Speaker 1: Check it out, go see. But also there's there's ways
Speaker 1: to actually save money and still be under self service
Speaker 1: of the plane. You know what. Also, I'm playing with
Speaker 1: two they also I was total wireless, and they have
Speaker 1: wireless internet routers right now. And I can complain in
Speaker 1: bitch as much as I do how much I've been
Speaker 1: paying forever with Comcast fit Exfinity, which is two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy stupid dollars a month, which yes, it does
Speaker 1: get me home internet, and it gets me my cable.
Speaker 1: But you know, people are cutting the cord and cutting
Speaker 1: the cable. Verizon itself as here in Houston, let's talk
Speaker 1: about used it. They have wireless home internet. You buy
Speaker 1: a router five G, you set it up in your home.
Speaker 1: That's it. You can kill Comcasts, you kill anything else,
Speaker 1: nothing else you eat. At that point, You've got your internet.
Speaker 1: At that point. Now you could still use your Netflix
Speaker 1: account on your TV. Just make sure your TV is
Speaker 1: using that wireless internet account and it works throughout your home.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I've been playing with one and I got
Speaker 1: to tell you this anecdotally. I only got about a
Speaker 1: minute before I take a commercial break. I have wireless
Speaker 1: in my house that I've used from Comcasts for years
Speaker 1: and years and years, and I thought, I'm paying extra
Speaker 1: for the super speedy download speeds. I was comparing it
Speaker 1: because I did a speed test. And if you ever
Speaker 1: want to do a speed test, go on your going
Speaker 1: your browser at home, going your browser on your phone
Speaker 1: and just type in speed test and Google and you
Speaker 1: can pops up and you can see the download speeds
Speaker 1: at upload speeds. Obviously the fast is better. My download
Speaker 1: speed at home on my old, well, my old my
Speaker 1: Comcast Xfinity was something like fifty to seventy megabits per
Speaker 1: per per second whatever. Fifty to seventy. I thought that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. I then plug in and I started to
Speaker 1: try this total by Verizon, this five G home Internet.
Speaker 1: I am not lying. I'm putting a hand to God.
Speaker 1: One one hundred and seventy six megs per second. What
Speaker 1: it went from fifty I'm like, are you why am
Speaker 1: I paying what I'm paying for twenty plus years? A
Speaker 1: how Long's comcast has been in used in a long
Speaker 1: time and it's all wireless, very very cool. This is
Speaker 1: what I do on the High Tech Textan show. I
Speaker 1: tell you about products and services. Take my advice. Don't
Speaker 1: take my advice by people. At least I researched some
Speaker 1: stuff for you. We could talk about this if you
Speaker 1: try these MVNO's, you've got a favorite one. Open phone lines.
Speaker 1: Have you ever tried the wireless high speed home internet
Speaker 1: to cut the actual cable? Talk to me seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two five nine five Oh. Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: KPRC nine fifty Am. Part of iHeartRadio. Been doing it
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Speaker 5: We're gonna talk a little bit more about laptops. Also
Speaker 5: hack at it.
Speaker 1: It is Michael Garfield. Do you tech texton long running
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Speaker 1: not the world, you can listen to me and so
Speaker 1: many other radio programs. Me specifically, I do talk about
Speaker 1: technology and lifestyle and fun stuff, give you some interesting
Speaker 1: tips of what to what to stay away from. Middle
Speaker 1: of summer, so we're almost back to school time and
Speaker 1: speaking it back to school, it's time. Can I start
Speaker 1: talking about some back to school or even back to
Speaker 1: work items, including the all important laptops. I've been covering
Speaker 1: these things for well over twenty years. When laptops were
Speaker 1: so big, they used to be called desktops. Now laptops
Speaker 1: are so small, they're so light, they're so convenient that
Speaker 1: many many people have them, And just not long ago,
Speaker 1: I ran into a brand new one from a company
Speaker 1: that I'm familiar with, and I'm very very impressed with it.
Speaker 1: The company is called a sus as Us. I have
Speaker 1: seen them many, many many years. They've been at CEES
Speaker 1: and other technology shows like that. I've talked about many
Speaker 1: of their products. They make phones, they make gaming units,
Speaker 1: and of course they make computers, including laptops. Got to
Speaker 1: go to New York not long ago to see some
Speaker 1: of their new products, new devices that are coming out,
Speaker 1: and one laptop that really really impressed me is their
Speaker 1: brand new zen Book sixteen I just like that name.
Speaker 1: Just think about it, zinbook. It just sounds so nice.
Speaker 1: Everything is zen. It's the zen Book sixteen. The first
Speaker 1: thing I picked it up, I noticed the first of
Speaker 1: several crazy awesome things, one of which is the look
Speaker 1: of this thing. This is not just your typical silver
Speaker 1: or black outside design. It's something very very unique with
Speaker 1: a new word that's now in my vocabulary called sarah aluminum.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. It's incredibly light, it's got nice
Speaker 1: battery power, it's got a decent price. But I want
Speaker 1: to give you more information with that, I have to
Speaker 1: go to an expert, and so it happens to be
Speaker 1: I do have an x directly with the SEUs. His
Speaker 1: name is Philip Shung. He is a product manager. He
Speaker 1: joins me now for a few minutes to talk about
Speaker 1: the zen Book sixteen. Philip, can I just give you
Speaker 1: one hundred percent credit for coming up with the zen Book?
Speaker 1: So congratulations, it's all you, Right.
Speaker 6: It's clearly all me. Yes, you had.
Speaker 1: A massive team that that took years to develop this thing.
Speaker 6: Right, absolutely, We've got you know, five thousand engineers over there,
Speaker 6: you know, doing an R and D over the headquarters,
Speaker 6: and you know, yeah, clearly I'm the one guy who
Speaker 6: gets to take credit for you know, all their work. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: it's a full team wide effort.
Speaker 1: Was really eye opening for me to actually meet them
Speaker 1: more and more of the a SEUs team when I
Speaker 1: was in New York for really interesting in the evening
Speaker 1: because they had different experiences for a lot of journalists
Speaker 1: who covered the tech world, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: like different types of lifestyles. I mean, your company makes
Speaker 1: different devices for different lifestyles. There you know, there was
Speaker 1: the game, you know, there was the business person, there
Speaker 1: was the school person. You know, there was there was
Speaker 1: there was like a professional snow order of you know
Speaker 1: how you know, you know some of your devices you know,
Speaker 1: you know can stand you know, zero degrees fahrenheit and things.
Speaker 1: It was interesting. But the one that really caught my
Speaker 1: eye was this Zen Book sixteen. And it was perfect
Speaker 1: timing for me because I'm putting together my list of
Speaker 1: the best back to school back to work items and
Speaker 1: you know, to me, it's all about form factor. I
Speaker 1: like light things. I don't want something in my backpack
Speaker 1: that that weighs me down. I need something that's very
Speaker 1: snappy and stylish and this zen Book sixteen really checked
Speaker 1: all the boxes for me. So let's specific specifically start
Speaker 1: with this. You kind of designed this version of the
Speaker 1: zen Book from the ground up, and as they said,
Speaker 1: starting from the outside, it looks the physical look of
Speaker 1: this thing is different because you've you're going to be
Speaker 1: creating something something as a design and it's called Serah
Speaker 1: luminum And I pronounced that correctly.
Speaker 6: Right, absolutely got into one.
Speaker 1: What is Cerah luma?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 1: And how'd you come up with this design?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, the spirit of Zen can really be
Speaker 6: summed up in like three principles.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: We emphasize innovation in at the size quality, and we
Speaker 6: emphasize user centric design. When you're holding a zimbook, we
Speaker 6: want everyone to know you're holding a threemium device. Right.
Speaker 6: So Sarah Aluminum is our new kind of that special
Speaker 6: uh you know finish that we have that makes that
Speaker 6: you know cover of the laptop so incredibly sleek, so
Speaker 6: incredibly beautiful to look at.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: So again, this is what Ace Who's does. So we're
Speaker 6: pushing the envelope constantly to make sure we're delivering the
Speaker 6: latest and greatest product, both from an outside of finished
Speaker 6: and from the internal amazing internal experience to our users,
Speaker 6: so they can have the confidence that, yes, you have
Speaker 6: the latest and greatest you have you know whatever, that
Speaker 6: is the cutting edge technology in your hands.
Speaker 1: Again, it looks like a smart I mean, it's just signs.
Speaker 1: This is the way it's cut. It's very nas you
Speaker 1: talk about the whole zen, the whole you know, way
Speaker 1: you change this thing. And then when I opened up
Speaker 1: the cover and I looked at the screen, this is
Speaker 1: the number two the thing they shot me. This is
Speaker 1: a different type of display you're using ole it and
Speaker 1: my longdown listeners will know what O l ED organic
Speaker 1: light emitting diet OL. It is something different than generally
Speaker 1: a lot of laptops don't use why the choice with
Speaker 1: old and you describe how brilliant this display.
Speaker 6: Is, so a lot of listeners might have first come
Speaker 6: across old when it comes like EVS right, So there's
Speaker 6: that one point where it's like, oh yeah, oh LED
Speaker 6: TVs are a thing, And then we had asus're like, hey,
Speaker 6: that TV experience, that TV display is absolutely amazing. What
Speaker 6: happens if I offered you that proposition on your laptop?
Speaker 6: All right, now, that's a little bit of a game changer. Right.
Speaker 6: So now with the three K one hundred and twenty
Speaker 6: it hurts ace. Who's lumina o lead display that puts
Speaker 6: you know, the ASUS stamp of guarantee of quality when
Speaker 6: we say lumina old lead. You can have this amazing experience.
Speaker 6: It has you know, five hundred nit peak brightness as
Speaker 6: a sixteen x ten aspect ratio. The screen of body
Speaker 6: ratio is over ninety percent. And what makes OLED so
Speaker 6: amazing is that color brightness. It's unparalleled. Once you've seen OLED,
Speaker 6: you're like, how the colors pop out to you, How
Speaker 6: black is so much more dynamic compared to all the
Speaker 6: other colors. And also there's some other additional effects that
Speaker 6: you may not be aware of, right o, let emits
Speaker 6: so much less harmful blue light on the eyes. Right,
Speaker 6: especially this effectually younger children right now, you know, kids
Speaker 6: younger and younger, they have actual technology, access to laptops.
Speaker 6: You know, it's like they're stirring at a screen from
Speaker 6: a super young age, and OLED displays it made less
Speaker 6: blue light. It's less harmful on the eyes. And the
Speaker 6: one last thing that talking about like less harmful, you know,
Speaker 6: like light and so on and so forth. I don't
Speaker 6: know about you. Sometimes when I'm on my computer it's
Speaker 6: late at night, I got the lights off, okay, and
Speaker 6: you know, like the older laptops when you you know,
Speaker 6: when the lights are off, the screen is very dimly lit.
Speaker 6: Don't have that problem with old when it turned on.
Speaker 6: It's nice and bright even when the lights are off.
Speaker 6: So again, the amazing display all around.
Speaker 1: With Philip shawng he is the product manager with a
Speaker 1: sus as US talking specifically right now about the zin
Speaker 1: Book sixteen. It is just out, it is on SEV.
Speaker 1: We will tell you the price, will tell you where
Speaker 1: to get these things. I get tell you as I'm
Speaker 1: actually holding one right now with the little product demo model.
Speaker 1: This screen is just as you said, incredibly bright. It
Speaker 1: takes you know, it's it's like end to end the
Speaker 1: colors to me, I like it. The first time I
Speaker 1: remember seeing high FTV versus going you know, with the
Speaker 1: four y three screen, it's like whoa, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was life changing. We're used to seeing bright screens,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we're used to seeing now screens
Speaker 1: this bright, this vivid on desktops or even laptops, and
Speaker 1: so you know this, I don't know if your company,
Speaker 1: you know, sees is this way, but this do you
Speaker 1: see it as a game changer or all your computers
Speaker 1: or at least that some in this class are going
Speaker 1: to be like this.
Speaker 6: You know, funny you should bring that up. A couple
Speaker 6: of years ago, ACE twos was the one leading the
Speaker 6: charge bringing olead onto the laptop market in the US, right,
Speaker 6: and then I really think that the market and the
Speaker 6: end users have start to respond to it. They're going, hey,
Speaker 6: this is really good. Our competitor taking notice and be like, hey,
Speaker 6: this this is pretty good. ACES is making waves, right,
Speaker 6: and they're also doing their steps too, you know, like
Speaker 6: to emulate. Asus is going to have OLED screens on
Speaker 6: pretty much all of our premium level of devices. So
Speaker 6: all sem books you're gonna have O LED displays. Anything
Speaker 6: that's you know, like no design for that premium sleek
Speaker 6: tist for the professional grade, it's going to come with
Speaker 6: all AT displays because that's how much we believe in
Speaker 6: this technology.
Speaker 1: Going down towards the keyboard and just the touch pad,
Speaker 1: I mean just anecdotally, I'm just looking right over here.
Speaker 1: I like the layout it kind of has, it's got
Speaker 1: more risk room, and does that make sense, get the
Speaker 1: keyboards a little bit more raised, and so now you're
Speaker 1: you're your arrest your risk on the actual laptop instead
Speaker 1: of like keeping on a desk. I think it just
Speaker 1: gives you a better ability to actually, you know, touch
Speaker 1: a lot of these cases, and the touch pad itself
Speaker 1: it's larger, so it's going to give you a lot
Speaker 1: more room to actually be more portable and using anywhere.
Speaker 6: Absolutely. Yeah. So when I said at the beginning of
Speaker 6: the segment, you know, we have teams and teams of
Speaker 6: you know, R and D engineers, and there's definitely teams
Speaker 6: out that there are specifically looking to like detect ergonomation. Now,
Speaker 6: how do we put your hands? How do you how
Speaker 6: your hands are positioned interacting with the touch gud because
Speaker 6: again that's part of the overall experience, right, It's not
Speaker 6: just about looking nice and beautiful, It's about how you
Speaker 6: you know, interface with how do you use device. I
Speaker 6: knew one wants to type on a laptop and then
Speaker 6: ten minutes later been like, man, my wrisk feels a
Speaker 6: little bit funky, right, so we want to make sure
Speaker 6: that again, whether it comes to ACUS laptops, you know,
Speaker 6: zem books and all you know, you have this great
Speaker 6: typeing experience, so you don't feel tired. Your arms are
Speaker 6: nice and your hands are nice rested touchpads. Amazing absolutely
Speaker 6: like and.
Speaker 1: I use that word, you know, going from the outside
Speaker 1: to the inside literally and again. And you can quote
Speaker 1: me on this, actually use it in your marketing campaign.
Speaker 1: Is one of the nicer design laptops I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But looks, let's look at internally light right internally right now,
Speaker 1: let's look at the chip set and things that we
Speaker 1: have to consider interesting. Also, move that you guys made.
Speaker 1: Instead of going snap Dragon hith the chip, you go
Speaker 1: AMD Rising specifically, I think it's the AI nine h
Speaker 1: X three seventy chip or something like that, a MD
Speaker 1: Rising still very very nice chip. Why that versus a
Speaker 1: snap Dragon.
Speaker 6: So we want to make sure that you know, zem books,
Speaker 6: we've got something for everybody, right you know, maybe you
Speaker 6: know for some devices, you know, people are looking for
Speaker 6: that new Qualcom snap Dragon CPU. But we'll also have
Speaker 6: devices to have the new amazing you know, like Rise
Speaker 6: AI nine h x you know CP CPU inside it.
Speaker 6: That is because the latest and greatest am D CPU
Speaker 6: is really pushing the boundaries when it comes to like
Speaker 6: AI computing power, right, It's like, not all CPUs are
Speaker 6: you know, built the same on inside in terms of
Speaker 6: how much computing power they have for AI processes. When
Speaker 6: it comes to the current you know and latest and
Speaker 6: greatest am D CPU, it is far and away the
Speaker 6: best one out there right now, and that's why we
Speaker 6: are basically putting it in the book.
Speaker 1: Sixteen does give you in terms of battery of life,
Speaker 1: how do you compare? Again, there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that eat battery life obviously. I mean, now you've gonna
Speaker 1: now a brighter display is there? Have you rated this
Speaker 1: battery life is gonna get gonna give you a nice,
Speaker 1: you know, long type of longevity to use this thing
Speaker 1: without plugging in.
Speaker 6: In absolutely good question. So this does come with a
Speaker 6: seventy eight watt hour battery and it's for normal use.
Speaker 6: It's probably gonna get you throughout ten hours of battery life.
Speaker 6: But let's you say, you know you are, you know,
Speaker 6: you're putting it through the pass and you dring the
Speaker 6: batter of your life. You can also rest assure that
Speaker 6: if you do have to plug it in, it will
Speaker 6: quickly charge up to sixty percent of the maximum charge
Speaker 6: in forty nine minutes. So if you're on the go,
Speaker 6: you see to plug it in, you know, dance back,
Speaker 6: dance outside, dance right back in, and boom, this thing's
Speaker 6: ready to rock and roll again.
Speaker 1: Shut it off to a buddy or two of mine
Speaker 1: here at the radio station. The first thing I said, oh,
Speaker 1: you got a new MacBook, and then they thought about
Speaker 1: a second. It's like, wait a minute, Michael, you never
Speaker 1: talk about Apple, you'd never have anything Mac. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't. But you look at this thing, and I
Speaker 1: guess you can compare. And I hate using the word compare,
Speaker 1: but I guess you could potentially could compare it in
Speaker 1: terms of looks and everything with like a MacBook maybe
Speaker 1: a sixteen inch. But now we go to the cost.
Speaker 1: This is about one thousand dollars less than what those
Speaker 1: mac books. I mean, you really priced this thing according.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, these n Book sixteen is available as
Speaker 6: sixteen ninety nine. And it's again we want to make
Speaker 6: sure that our customers have the best mix of value
Speaker 6: and price. Right now, just all you're talking about just
Speaker 6: no point in me charge, you know, giving you this
Speaker 6: amazing device and be like ah, yes, you know, get
Speaker 6: ready to Hey, you know, north of two thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: We want to make sure that this is you know,
Speaker 6: the right device for you at the right price. It's
Speaker 6: the right mixed between costs and productivity and also that
Speaker 6: amazing premium delivery.
Speaker 1: This is a Windows based operating system, and obviously Microsoft
Speaker 1: now they're coming out with the Copiloted AI and there's
Speaker 1: even a Copilot AI and sist key right now. And
Speaker 1: we're in the very very you know infancy of AI
Speaker 1: and certainly Microsoft's Copilot AI. But you're really trying to
Speaker 1: make sure that people utilize this by putting a specific key.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is a partnership that you know, Asus and
Speaker 6: Marcrosoft are working together to besally showcase the abilities of
Speaker 6: copil Right, it's definitely very much a program where it
Speaker 6: improves our lives, right, can you know say they help
Speaker 6: us you know, you know, create images, It can summarize emails,
Speaker 6: you know, you know, review lengthy you know, like forum
Speaker 6: posts for you and all sorts of things. But of course,
Speaker 6: obviously even after it does all that thing, make sure
Speaker 6: you give it that that nice unique human touch at
Speaker 6: the end to make sure it is definitely unique to
Speaker 6: you and you can put your own stand of you know, like, hey,
Speaker 6: this is me on it.
Speaker 1: One week of use. I'm actually I found nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with it. I think it's fun. I think it's perfect timing.
Speaker 1: We've got a school coming up, and I know so
Speaker 1: many you know kids or students, certainly college kids. You know,
Speaker 1: they do need something light to put in their backpacks.
Speaker 1: They do need something that processes very fast. I know
Speaker 1: I personally could recommend this using my scale and my
Speaker 1: ruler over here. It's about just it's about three point
Speaker 1: three pounds. That's that's really really light point four to
Speaker 1: three inches, very super thin. And I think you designed
Speaker 1: this a great You've talked about a price sixteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine or so, and I know if you go to
Speaker 1: the website as US A SEUs you have it. You
Speaker 1: got a great story, backstory. I know you all over
Speaker 1: the world certainly, I know, as I've learned in South America,
Speaker 1: you guys are huge, but you continue to put out
Speaker 1: some great stuff. Any final words on the this is
Speaker 1: in book sixteen that I've missed.
Speaker 6: Now, Man, Michael, you did a great job on it.
Speaker 6: Buddy is again you know this is our least and greatest,
Speaker 6: you know issues offering that when it comes to you know,
Speaker 6: you know, for the premium bill, when it comes to
Speaker 6: the leadst know AMPTI technology. So we are confident that
Speaker 6: you know this will meet every need that you have,
Speaker 6: both from a school, from a work, from every day life.
Speaker 1: There you go, Asus, it's the Zen Book. I believe
Speaker 1: it's the S sixteen. Check it out. I have one
Speaker 1: right now. If you see me, ask me what's in
Speaker 1: my back rat backpack. Yes, I'm happy to see you,
Speaker 1: and yes I'm happy to actually show off this beautiful laptop.
Speaker 1: His name is Philip Shung. He's a product manager with Aces.
Speaker 1: My man, congrats, I think you hit an home run
Speaker 1: right over here. And so let's see how many people
Speaker 1: we can sell for you, because I certainly like it
Speaker 1: and I appreciate.
Speaker 6: You, Tom, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Right, you got it? Anything else you guys need good
Speaker 1: back to school discussion? I am here for you seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two five nine five. Oh that's
Speaker 1: how you're gonna get me. Michael Garfield, it is the
Speaker 1: name all over the world on I Art Radio. We're
Speaker 1: going to contint me show R after this and is
Speaker 1: right it is Michael Garfie. It will be very long
Speaker 1: running high Tech textan show here on KPRC nine point fifty.
Speaker 1: We've been doing this for twenty three years, and I
Speaker 1: do appreciate everybody tuning in, not just over the year interrestrially,
Speaker 1: but also by downloading that app, the iHeartRadio app. You know,
Speaker 1: as for as long as I've been doing this show,
Speaker 1: there's also been something that has been going on. Actually
Speaker 1: I'm the longer that I've been doing this here in Houston,
Speaker 1: and it happens to coincide with this hot, disgusting, nasty
Speaker 1: month of August. But there's always a bright side. Well
Speaker 1: there's two bright things that are happening. Football season is
Speaker 1: not far away, and it is the start of the
Speaker 1: annual Houston Restaurant Weeks. Always a fun time for me,
Speaker 1: just because it's an opportunity for me. Do you get
Speaker 1: to go out and try some of them, some new
Speaker 1: restaurants I've never been to, some of my favorites with
Speaker 1: that with a really interesting neat you know, fixed price.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, a money raise
Speaker 1: goes to a really good cause. For so many years,
Speaker 1: a dear friend of mine, Clever Stone, she founded the organization.
Speaker 1: She came on my radio show simonthaneously why she was
Speaker 1: on her radio show on another station and we would
Speaker 1: talk about it. But the point is to promote it
Speaker 1: and let everybody out there know what's going on. Uh.
Speaker 1: The organization now is in just as good as hands
Speaker 1: with Cleverly's daughter Katie, Katie Stone, and this is a
Speaker 1: very busy month for her, but she is so sweet.
Speaker 1: She has taken a few minutes to hop on to
Speaker 1: talk about it. To join me, Katie joins me, and Katie,
Speaker 1: I'll start with this, How excited are you the greatest
Speaker 1: month of the year.
Speaker 2: Yes, it definitely is, Thanks so much, Michael. It's definitely
Speaker 2: my favorite day of the year. And also just to
Speaker 2: kick off Q, I think the tastiest season of the year.
Speaker 1: It's hasty And I remember Mom and Cleve as I
Speaker 1: called her back in the day, it was used to
Speaker 1: restaurant week. It was it was not too long. But
Speaker 1: the way I look at my calendar, it's for about
Speaker 1: thirty three days. Now there is some special price multichorus prefix,
Speaker 1: a menu whose brunch, lunch, and dinner. And you have
Speaker 1: gathered a lot. I mean, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a record number, but there are a lot of restaurants
Speaker 1: participating this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is probably a record number because
Speaker 2: we are nicely over four hundred this year, and I
Speaker 2: think last year we had just at four hundred, which
Speaker 2: is really nice. And yeah, it's definitely a good opportunity
Speaker 2: to dine out and do good. As you remember my
Speaker 2: mother would always say, because you know, everybody wins. The
Speaker 2: restaurants win because they are seeing new faces, new diners.
Speaker 2: The diners win because they're getting a great deal, they're
Speaker 2: getting a chance to try multiple dishes for one prefix cost.
Speaker 2: And then the food bank obviously makes out because they
Speaker 2: get their biggest check of the year. And so it's
Speaker 2: really just an incredible way to support the community in
Speaker 2: multiple ways and have fun while doing.
Speaker 1: It and actually eat well. And then you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of carbs to be eating, a lot of calories,
Speaker 1: but you know what, who cares? You know, we could
Speaker 1: run it off in what have you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're also affectionately known as stretchy pants season Michael,
Speaker 2: in case you didn't know, So you can join the
Speaker 2: stretchy Pant crowd. We're going to start a group on
Speaker 2: Facebook pretty soon.
Speaker 1: I call it the Extra Peloton Peloton Time Month for me,
Speaker 1: that's how I look at it. So I did, so
Speaker 1: I actually can work it off. Katie Stone joins me.
Speaker 1: She's with Houston rest Restaurant Weeks.
Speaker 8: For those unfamiliar, maybe some visitors, maybe some newbies, what's
Speaker 8: the process when they go to one of the four
Speaker 8: hundred plus participating restaurants, be it lunch or dinner or brunch.
Speaker 1: What is the pricing structure and how does it work
Speaker 1: once you get to the restaurant.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, there's a lot of new folks to Houston,
Speaker 2: so welcome to Houston. And it's a good time to
Speaker 2: be here because August is the time to dine out
Speaker 2: and do good. So diners just go to Houston Restaurant
Speaker 2: weeks dot com. We're all over social too, but that
Speaker 2: is where you'll find a comprehensive list of all the participants.
Speaker 2: The participants are able to participate in either brunch, lunch, dinner.
Speaker 2: The one requirement is that everyone participates in dinner, and
Speaker 2: then lunch and brunch are optional. And the really great
Speaker 2: thing is is that that the fixed costs, so twenty
Speaker 2: five dollars over your two or three course brunch or lunch,
Speaker 2: and then there's two dinner price points. There's a thirty
Speaker 2: nine dinner price point, which is three or four courses,
Speaker 2: and then there's also a fifty five dollars price point,
Speaker 2: which again is three or four courses. Now they're corresponding donations, Michael,
Speaker 2: that are built in to each one of the price points,
Speaker 2: so diners are never solicited for the donations. The restaurants
Speaker 2: make the donations totally depending on the number of HRW
Speaker 2: meals that they sell, and it turns out to be
Speaker 2: a happy number at the end of the month.
Speaker 1: Talk about a happy number, you know. One of the
Speaker 1: things that brings a really big spile to me on
Speaker 1: an annual basis. I love seeing the photo opportunity where
Speaker 1: you're standing there with the oversized fake check, with that
Speaker 1: massive number that goes to the food bank. I mean
Speaker 1: over the past. You know what, what's the largest donation
Speaker 1: that the organization is seen over the past every years.
Speaker 2: So over the last twenty one years, we're right at
Speaker 2: over twenty one million dollars, and so that equates to
Speaker 2: over sixty three million meals for food and secure Houstonians
Speaker 2: right here in our community. And the really nice thing
Speaker 2: about that twenty one million million dollars Michael, that it
Speaker 2: days here, doesn't go anywhere else, doesn't fly away, doesn't
Speaker 2: take a train, it actually goes right down the street
Speaker 2: to Houstonians. Same thing in Montgomery County and Galveston County.
Speaker 2: Those restaurants that participate in Houston Restaurant Weeks actually supports
Speaker 2: their respective food banks because you know, the Houston Food
Speaker 2: Bank is actually the largest in the country, it's the
Speaker 2: largest in the world. And because they're so big, they
Speaker 2: can support other smaller food banks in the area, just
Speaker 2: like Montgomery County and Galveston County, and so the restaurants
Speaker 2: in those respective counties they're helping their local food banks
Speaker 2: as well. And so it's just a really nice way
Speaker 2: for restaurants to not only connect with new diners and
Speaker 2: introducing folks all around to their types of cuisine because
Speaker 2: you know, we got a lot of different types of
Speaker 2: cuisine here in Texas, Michael. You know, we make them
Speaker 2: up every day. But it's just a really great way
Speaker 2: for them to be able to give back. You know,
Speaker 2: these restaurant tours and these chefs, they're dealing with food
Speaker 2: every single day. They're feeding people every day. But when
Speaker 2: you offer them the ability to feed people who really
Speaker 2: really need it. It just takes on a different mission.
Speaker 2: It just takes on a different meaning. And you know,
Speaker 2: my mother was you were right there with her too,
Speaker 2: you know, for twenty years, you know, helping people to
Speaker 2: understand why this was so helpful to our community. And
Speaker 2: it's fun. You know, we may gain account at the
Speaker 2: end of the month, but we have enough time to
Speaker 2: lose it before Thanksgiving. You know, that's my plan at
Speaker 2: least if know this, it's a great plan.
Speaker 1: We joke about the calories, but I really I had
Speaker 1: a nice conversation with the head of the Houston Food
Speaker 1: last Monday at your kickoff, which I appreciate the invitation.
Speaker 1: It's always fun meeting some of the restaurant tours who
Speaker 1: are participating. But he was very sincere and thankful of
Speaker 1: what would you your mom, what she created do for
Speaker 1: the Houston restaurant weeks because the money rais this that
Speaker 1: this that this is their biggest the biggest check that
Speaker 1: they received on an annual basis, and that's all thanks
Speaker 1: to the word that you get out the Stevens group.
Speaker 1: You know, big males like me, but that we do
Speaker 1: it because it's a good calluse it really is good.
Speaker 1: I'll let you go on this one question. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to ask you a name all four on your
Speaker 1: plus restaurants because you could find them on the websites.
Speaker 1: But some of the ones that stick out, maybe some
Speaker 1: one or two of the newer venues that maybe people
Speaker 1: haven't tried. What what are some of the ones that
Speaker 1: that you know, you personally want to spotlight?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah, we had a really nice list of editions
Speaker 2: the there, Michael, some of the ones that we had
Speaker 2: been hoping to get for a while and they finally
Speaker 2: signed on, which is awesome because it's exposing and introducing
Speaker 2: diner to all types of cuisines. So Les Jardignier is
Speaker 2: one that is at the top of the list that
Speaker 2: diners are super excited for. Blue Dorn is another very
Speaker 2: popular restaurant that's kind of helped get Houston a little
Speaker 2: bit more on the national food scene map Navy Blue again,
Speaker 2: that's another one of the same restaurant group with the
Speaker 2: Blue Dorn. Also b DN Taste in Tradition. That's another
Speaker 2: really amazing one that came on board this year. Annabelle
Speaker 2: Brasserie are the Burgh Hospitality Group. It's a new beautiful
Speaker 2: restaurant that's the one that has all the flowers on
Speaker 2: the ceiling. And then Federal American Girl Downtown, which recently
Speaker 2: opened and we were really excited to welcome them back
Speaker 2: into the program as well. So lots of great choices.
Speaker 2: I think we added about eighty new restaurants this year
Speaker 2: and so we're very excited. A lot of the places, though,
Speaker 2: Michael are telling me that they are already getting booked.
Speaker 2: So I would highly recommend any diner who is in
Speaker 2: if you've got your eye on a menu this year, y'all,
Speaker 2: go go ahead and make those reservations on open table
Speaker 2: dot com. You can actually make them directly from the
Speaker 2: Houston Restaurant Week's website, but definitely get in there, and
Speaker 2: if you've got to lift, go ahead and grab your
Speaker 2: spots because they are getting booked, which is a good
Speaker 2: thing because people are dining out and doing good.
Speaker 1: Great thing. And you gave me some ideas. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you just named about six of the restaurants. I've
Speaker 1: only been too two of them, and so you know,
Speaker 1: so I've got a long way to go. Look out, calories.
Speaker 1: He just don't matter, because it's a wonderful opportunity for
Speaker 1: the Houston Food Bank and also so many residents have
Speaker 1: been around the Houston area and obviously other counties. As
Speaker 1: you said, Katie, that that participate this year Houston Restaurant Weeks.
Speaker 1: It runs through Septimber.
Speaker 2: Help me out here, Labor Day September second. Yeah, every
Speaker 2: year it's August first through Labor Day which is September second,
Speaker 2: and a reminder about Labor Day weekend. All the hours
Speaker 2: for the participants are on the website, but it's always
Speaker 2: a good idea just to check their Labor Day hour
Speaker 2: because sometimes they can be open for half the weekend
Speaker 2: and sometimes they're closed, and so just in case because
Speaker 2: it is the last you know, when it comes around,
Speaker 2: it'll be the last weekend and we don't want anybody
Speaker 2: to miss out on anything this year.
Speaker 1: So the Houston Restaurant Queen herself, her name is Katie Stone.
Speaker 1: It's called the Houston Restaurant Weeks. I want to congratulate you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you work year round on this
Speaker 1: and now this is the key thirty three days or so,
Speaker 1: so best of luck. I know I'll be out there
Speaker 1: with my credit card participating and I just want to
Speaker 1: wish you the best of luck. I appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: I know this is very busy time for you, so thanks,
Speaker 1: thank you for a few minutes you shared.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mike Weel, It's always good to see you. And
Speaker 2: I'll help you with your your credit card usage out there.
Speaker 2: We'll get out there, we'll feed some people.
Speaker 1: We'll look at that babel exactly. You know what, if
Speaker 1: I don't get out there enough, I'll go straight to
Speaker 1: the food bank. We just wanted to Katie. Congratulations. All right,
Speaker 1: Cable there you go, tell me where you want to eat.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll help. You're making some recommendations too, but do
Speaker 1: check out the website as we take a break over
Speaker 1: here at the top of the hour. It is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: It is the long running High Tech Texan show. We're
Speaker 1: going to be right back.
Speaker 4: I is Michael Garfi.
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Speaker 1: Go, one hour down. Not a mathematician, but I think
Speaker 1: we are right a halfway through the show. Wait half
Speaker 1: the hour on the very first Saturday in August of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, should you be listening live instead of
Speaker 1: a podcast or repeat? It is sunny in most parts
Speaker 1: of Houston, believe it or not, after the one of
Speaker 1: the wetter or the wettest Julyes that we've had in
Speaker 1: a long time. And speaking of wet Julys, and if
Speaker 1: you have roof problems, give me about ten minutes. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a discussion with the roofing company who use
Speaker 1: this technology technology that's right, people to initially check out
Speaker 1: roofs to see if there are any damages. They use
Speaker 1: drunes to fly right over your roof and take a
Speaker 1: quick look at them really really close and before they
Speaker 1: get on the roof, which is I think it's a
Speaker 1: much better safety opportunity for them, and how it's changed
Speaker 1: their company and what have you. And I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people out there have probably gotten new pieces
Speaker 1: or full roofs after hurricing, barrel king, barreling through. That's
Speaker 1: one of the things that we will be talking about.
Speaker 1: Thank you again to miss Katie Stellem. Katie is the
Speaker 1: director executive director of Houston Restaurant Weeks, which is now
Speaker 1: officially kicked off. Four hundred restaurants are waiting for you
Speaker 1: all across the area and if you want to go
Speaker 1: dine and have some fun while also having a portion
Speaker 1: of the proceeds for some of your fixed meals go
Speaker 1: directly to the Eastern Food Bank. It's a neat opportunity.
Speaker 1: I was looking look it through like like miny to
Speaker 1: you do. You're probably sometimes play around on Houston Restaurant
Speaker 1: Weeks websites. You find some of your standby restaurants, you
Speaker 1: find some ones you haven't been to. You start making
Speaker 1: a list. You check with your friends. Hey, guys, let's
Speaker 1: go try this out. Because it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a pretty good deal. It's a it's you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a nice it's it's nice way to
Speaker 1: get to some charity too. Uh. I usually start with
Speaker 1: my little standbys. I'm taking a look and once again
Speaker 1: there's my guys and girls at the Capitol Groyle and
Speaker 1: I'll give you example, so they have a price fixed menu,
Speaker 1: a three course meal, three course meal, your choice of
Speaker 1: you can start with a wedge of blue cheese with
Speaker 1: smoked bacon, a field green salad or New England clam chadda,
Speaker 1: there's number one. Then you get your entree choice. You
Speaker 1: get an eight ounce filet or chicken breast or seared
Speaker 1: citrus glaize salmon. Then you get your choice to dessert,
Speaker 1: a flowerless chocolate espresso cake or the famous Capitol grilled cheesecake.
Speaker 1: And for that I believe it's I believe it's thirty
Speaker 1: five or forty five dollars that is fixed for all
Speaker 1: three of those. And at that point, the Capitol Grill
Speaker 1: or in this case the Capitol Grill, they are the
Speaker 1: ones who make a donation to the Houston Food Bank.
Speaker 1: You don't have to pay anything that they don't ask
Speaker 1: it to donate anything else on top of that, and
Speaker 1: then it all adds up at the end of the
Speaker 1: month and Euston Restaurant Weeks gets it did the food
Speaker 1: and gets millions and millions of dollars. So take a
Speaker 1: look at the Houston Restaurant Week's website and go eat people,
Speaker 1: and then maybe I don't know if if you need
Speaker 1: a if you need a fourth, if you need a
Speaker 1: second person. Uh, you know how you know how to
Speaker 1: get me hit Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh,
Speaker 1: I got it as I see a few open phone
Speaker 1: lines if you want to chat and have some fun
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two five nine five zero talk.
Speaker 1: I'm still playing with some some cameras. Still enjoying the
Speaker 1: Samsung Flip camera and the fold camera, the new version,
Speaker 1: the version six that I received two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I liked those. No new iPhones yet, they're not coming
Speaker 1: out un till the other two months or so, and
Speaker 1: they're not gonna have any flip or foldable phones this year,
Speaker 1: at least the rumors, though they're potentially coming in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. I did see something I thought was interesting
Speaker 1: that there are some police forces that are aila teat
Speaker 1: they're testing out Samsung Galaxy Z flip phones as police
Speaker 1: body cams body cams. There are about twenty five metro
Speaker 1: police departments across five states. I don't think it's Texas yet,
Speaker 1: but I'm reading this on in Gadget and I thought
Speaker 1: it was pretty interesting, and I'm taking a look at
Speaker 1: these things there are police officers, and for police officers
Speaker 1: out there, we'd love you. We appreciate everything that you do,
Speaker 1: you put in your lives on the line, and thank
Speaker 1: you so much for everything that you continue to do.
Speaker 1: And I know, generally it may be mandated that you
Speaker 1: have a body cam, which is a camera, small camera
Speaker 1: that they police officers they keep somewhere on their front
Speaker 1: part of their body, maybe on their vests, in the
Speaker 1: center of their shirts or something. So they're constantly filming
Speaker 1: for a number of different reasons. I legal reasons too that.
Speaker 1: But there's now there's some police departments that are testing
Speaker 1: out a Galaxy Z flip series and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it right now, and sure enough, there is a Galaxy
Speaker 1: Zee flip camera. It looks like it's a little modified
Speaker 1: and it's in a case and it's clipped to a
Speaker 1: police officer's vest pointing outwards. They get you know, they
Speaker 1: could do that because a flip phone, it's the form
Speaker 1: factor of a flip phone is relatively small. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's smaller than your typical six and a half inch
Speaker 1: diagonal chocolate bar sized phone. It flips in half, and
Speaker 1: so I thought that was pretty interesting. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's going to be a full time thing, but
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty cool. But if you think about it,
Speaker 1: Samsung in this case, they're not the only tech company
Speaker 1: that has got involved with making his products part of
Speaker 1: law enforcement. I mean, if you go back Ring, which
Speaker 1: is the smart doorbell company, which is owned by Amazon,
Speaker 1: they share at least they reversed its policies, but they
Speaker 1: used to give footage of what was on Ring cameras
Speaker 1: with police officers too. And there are law enforcement off
Speaker 1: they're they're law enforcement agencies. They're using drones to to
Speaker 1: to to you know, sort of to do surveillance. You know,
Speaker 1: they got somebody on foot and they're chasing, you know, somebody,
Speaker 1: They're going through houses and stuff, and you know, why
Speaker 1: not throw up a drone out of a trunk and
Speaker 1: follow somebody. They use facial recognition systems, they use a
Speaker 1: lot of things. And so I think, you know, this
Speaker 1: is what we're here for. Technology. It's here to stay.
Speaker 1: We hope it's for the best. But I like the
Speaker 1: fact that are wonderful men and women in blue who
Speaker 1: do so much. Maybe maybe technology can make their their
Speaker 1: lives and their jobs a bit easier. For lack of
Speaker 1: a better term, but also safer because it's safer for
Speaker 1: initially firefighters to send into drone to test the heat.
Speaker 1: Or maybe there are I've seen firefighting drones that can
Speaker 1: that are so big that they can lift a fire
Speaker 1: hose up two three four five stories to throw water
Speaker 1: on it and instead of having the actual fire fighters
Speaker 1: up there doing it's it's nice stuff. I dig stories
Speaker 1: like that. Speaking of stories, I'm gonna come back and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to the stories about how drones can
Speaker 1: actually help roofing companies. They maybe help you determine if
Speaker 1: you need a new roof via drones. Coming up here
Speaker 1: right on the High Tech Texans Show. Back at it,
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield. It is the long running High Tech Texan show.
Speaker 1: Open phone lines seven one three, two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five. Oh finally the sun seems out, which is good.
Speaker 1: Anybody still have any leaks in their roof? Tell you what,
Speaker 1: just a few weeks removed from Beryl and this this
Speaker 1: entire Southeast Texas, it's going crazy. I drive around. I
Speaker 1: see roofing companies, I see ladders, I see nails and
Speaker 1: everything on the ground. So please be careful which brings
Speaker 1: me to the point that I want to talk about this.
Speaker 1: People ask me, you know, is a company reputable? And
Speaker 1: you know, when I put my name on a company,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I research them too.
Speaker 1: But I also want to know what's their processes. When
Speaker 1: it comes to roofing companies we've known forever. You know,
Speaker 1: you put a ladder up there, and you've got to
Speaker 1: be careful. And the roofing people who are certified and
Speaker 1: they know exactly what they're doing. But you know, you
Speaker 1: get I live in a three story home. The hell
Speaker 1: if I'm getting on a ladder up there. I want
Speaker 1: to leave it to the professionals. But better than that,
Speaker 1: companies now they're using technology. They're using drones to fly
Speaker 1: over rus to take close up shots before they even
Speaker 1: take their roofs up there. And I want to talk
Speaker 1: about that. And with so, I want to bring in
Speaker 1: a very reputable company that's been around about ten years.
Speaker 1: It's called Alpha Elite Roofing. I see their trucks all
Speaker 1: over the place, and they do a great job. Andrew
Speaker 1: Hernandez is the owner, he's the CEO. He's going to
Speaker 1: join me for a few minutes. The fact is that
Speaker 1: you're still alive and you haven't fallen off a roof.
Speaker 1: That's actually good news. Andrew, Yeah, that's true. Talk about
Speaker 1: the new technology that you do use, and when did
Speaker 1: you kind of change over from the I'm going to
Speaker 1: call it old school, you know, put the ladders up there,
Speaker 1: to using drones.
Speaker 7: It's been a few years that we started using drones
Speaker 7: to kind of inspect these homes. It does a few
Speaker 7: things for us, Michael. It keeps us off of the
Speaker 7: roof at first, so we send the drone up in
Speaker 7: the air, do a three sixty overview. If we see
Speaker 7: anything out of the ordinary, then we'll zoom in or
Speaker 7: get close with the drone. If it's something that catches
Speaker 7: our attention and we need to get up there and
Speaker 7: assess it with our hands and actually touch it and
Speaker 7: feel it, like something like rotten decking or missing shingles,
Speaker 7: things like that, then we will put the ladder on
Speaker 7: the roof, put on our safety shoes, and get up
Speaker 7: on the roof and take a look at it for you.
Speaker 7: But the main thing about the drones is that it
Speaker 7: saves us time, it keeps us safe, and we're able
Speaker 7: to get especially something like Beryl, you know that has
Speaker 7: a whole city wide effect. You know, on these roofs,
Speaker 7: we're able to get to clients faster.
Speaker 1: How has it changed your business or actually, let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question, how has it changed your business model?
Speaker 1: I can assume I fly a drone, no problem, Let's
Speaker 1: move on to the next company, which actually means you
Speaker 1: can work with more clients.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So in our business with our project managers, some people
Speaker 7: are afraid of walking on roofs. Things are too steep,
Speaker 7: you know, it could be a safety concern as well.
Speaker 7: Anyone can fly a drone and anyone can see the damage.
Speaker 7: What we do as project managers is we'll go and
Speaker 7: assess the damage and then will help assist homeowners and
Speaker 7: filing their claims with their insurance company and holding their
Speaker 7: hand and walking them step by step through that process,
Speaker 7: which could be an enduring process so they don't have
Speaker 7: to actually, you know, get on the roof a lot
Speaker 7: of the times if the damage is you know, bad enough.
Speaker 1: You talk about a lot of people can fly drones.
Speaker 1: They can. I mean, there's a lot of kids right
Speaker 1: now who have drones. Thing is, though, there's a difference
Speaker 1: between hey, let's fly a drone and let's fly it
Speaker 1: over roof, but also having the eye to see what
Speaker 1: is going on. I mean, I can look at a
Speaker 1: shingle and I couldn't tell you if it's good or bad.
Speaker 1: And I was watching you not long ago, you know,
Speaker 1: go through the process too, and you were specifically pointing
Speaker 1: out a piece of hail hit here, and so you
Speaker 1: do have to have a trained eye. So it's much
Speaker 1: more than that you talk about a project manager. I
Speaker 1: want to flip over to one of your project manager's.
Speaker 1: His name is Kevin Bam Bam Bainbridge. He's been in
Speaker 1: the business quite quite a while. You are can I
Speaker 1: call you drone certified and drone proficient. I actually saw
Speaker 1: you flying it around. What is the process once you
Speaker 1: get that drone off the ground, And I was standing
Speaker 1: next to you, you know, kind of watching it, and you were,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the three sixty fly around. What is
Speaker 1: specifically things that you're looking for?
Speaker 9: Just the overall integrity of the roof Number one, looking
Speaker 9: for missing shingles, any obvious damage. Take an overall basic
Speaker 9: view of the roof. If we see missing shingles, take
Speaker 9: pictures of it, take video of it, and then we
Speaker 9: can kind of zoom in closer into specific areas, whether
Speaker 9: it's in the valleys or on the ridges, or you know,
Speaker 9: it might be a pipe jack that you know looks
Speaker 9: kind of out of the ordinary or bent. So we
Speaker 9: try to do a basic overview of everything and then
Speaker 9: take detailed areas and pictures of each individual area.
Speaker 1: One of the things I appreciated though, so you're taking
Speaker 1: all this video taking pictures you then you send them,
Speaker 1: you email them all to the client, timestamped and everything,
Speaker 1: so they have it actually a really good record of
Speaker 1: what they can do, whether maybe nothing's wrong, but they
Speaker 1: can keep it in their files. But also next point
Speaker 1: they may have to go straight to the insurance company.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I mean it's it saves us time and the
Speaker 9: homeowner time. Most of the insurance companies now, you know,
Speaker 9: they want you to file a claim using their app.
Speaker 9: You've got the photos right there that you can attach
Speaker 9: to the app and to the claim to get that
Speaker 9: process started. So we try to make everything as easier
Speaker 9: as easy for the homeowner as possible and help them
Speaker 9: along the way.
Speaker 1: You know, with with.
Speaker 9: Technology now and then you know, being able to download
Speaker 9: a video or download photos directly from the drone and
Speaker 9: then immediately email it to that customer with in literally
Speaker 9: two minutes.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's unheard of. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: back to Andrew Hernanis. Andrew. He is the owner of
Speaker 1: Alpha Elite Roofing. The interest talk about insurance processes. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you do find an issue, you kind of hold
Speaker 1: that customer's hand, you do, you know, start the process
Speaker 1: with the insurance. How are insurance companies anecdotally and you
Speaker 1: can feel free to go nuts, you can feel free
Speaker 1: to give him some love. How are insurance companies now
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four? Are they easy? Are they difficult?
Speaker 1: Are you finding now with Hurricane Barrel as it came through,
Speaker 1: are they receptive to actually, you know, if there are issues,
Speaker 1: are are they Are they paying up? Yes and no.
Speaker 7: That's a great question, Michael. They are moving a little
Speaker 7: bit differently in twenty twenty four than they have in
Speaker 7: the past. You're starting to see them, you know, by
Speaker 7: percentages of roofs rather than the full replacement. I feel
Speaker 7: like over the years, with all the damages that we've
Speaker 7: had in Texas alone, that they're starting to kind of
Speaker 7: move out of especially these hurricane zones, because they're feel
Speaker 7: like they're using That's my honest opinion. There are a
Speaker 7: lot of great insurance companies out there that if the
Speaker 7: client does have damage, they reimburse them for it right
Speaker 7: they come out, we meet with them, we go over
Speaker 7: the damages, and then we write an estimate together getting
Speaker 7: the insurance company to pay their fair share and their portion.
Speaker 7: The owner's responsibility is their deductible. So that's one of
Speaker 7: the things that we talked to a homeowner about before
Speaker 7: they even file an insurance claim is we look at
Speaker 7: their policy and say, hey, Michael, if you were the homeowner,
Speaker 7: you're deductibles eight thousand dollars. Are you prepared to pay
Speaker 7: eight thousand dollars for your deductible? You're going to get
Speaker 7: X from the insurance company, but they're going to want
Speaker 7: to see that you pay your deductible and that's something
Speaker 7: that we have to prove before we recover their depreciation.
Speaker 7: So it's a whole process, but we have to have
Speaker 7: proof like bank statements and everything.
Speaker 1: Customer service and it's best. That's why you've been around
Speaker 1: ten years. Alpha Elite Roofing. We've got Andrew Hernanuz, We've
Speaker 1: got Kevin Bambridge, John wann To congratuate, congratulate you on
Speaker 1: your success. I know, uh, the fact is I was
Speaker 1: able to pin you down just less than three weeks.
Speaker 1: I know, uh, you're getting calls left and right. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, if everybody does want to use the services,
Speaker 1: how do they get ahold? How about you phone umber?
Speaker 1: How about your website?
Speaker 7: Our phone number is eight three two nine to nine
Speaker 7: to two roof seven six sixty three, or you can
Speaker 7: go to our website at www. Alpha Elite ROOFINGTX dot com.
Speaker 1: Alpha Elite roofingtx dot com. Use my name. You know
Speaker 1: what I don't know if you're gonna get this discount,
Speaker 1: as you're gonna get better customer service, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a big smile from the boys because they are good. Listen.
Speaker 1: I appreciate both of your time, and I know you're very,
Speaker 1: very busy. This is not the greatest time to be
Speaker 1: outside here in August in Houston. So good luck to
Speaker 1: you and continued success.
Speaker 7: Pleasure. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1: No, all right, it's Michael the High Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 1: We got a few open phone lines if you want
Speaker 1: to talk about roofs. If you got a horror story,
Speaker 1: you got a good story. I'm here for you for
Speaker 1: the next several minutes. Uh seven one, three, two point two,
Speaker 1: five nine five. Oh, it is the High Tech Texan Show,
Speaker 1: so welcome you back. Michael is the name at the
Speaker 1: long running High Tech Dexon show Midsummer, which means not
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff for going on in the tech world,
Speaker 1: but we are counting down to back to school, maybe
Speaker 1: still some travel seasons out there. So whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a good summer. And it's still
Speaker 1: my job. Somebody's got to work and actually review all
Speaker 1: these products that they keep mailing me, and so I'm
Speaker 1: here for you. So I'm sucking it up. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I was in New York and I went to a
Speaker 1: really really eye opening event for me from Asus, And
Speaker 1: you know, I talk about a sus some my often.
Speaker 1: I see them at CDs every year, and that makes
Speaker 1: them really good products. Obviously I've talked about their one
Speaker 1: of their newest laptops that just was released, the Z
Speaker 1: Book sixteen, which is I love. It's a great back
Speaker 1: to school, back to work opportunity to But for all
Speaker 1: you gamers out there, get your ears per top and
Speaker 1: you listen, you'd be told if you're a long time listener,
Speaker 1: I've done this for two decades. I may not be
Speaker 1: the biggest gamer, but that's why I gave birth to
Speaker 1: three sons, all right, And so they're the ones who
Speaker 1: review this stuff. But they're very familiar with the asis
Speaker 1: Is line of handheld gaming unit, and they just came
Speaker 1: out with their second version of what they call the
Speaker 1: roog ally. This is the ally X, and I just
Speaker 1: happen to have one here, and now I've got three
Speaker 1: kids fighting over which one's gonna play with it. But actually,
Speaker 1: you teach me how to use it. ROG stands a
Speaker 1: Republic of gamers, and I want to give you the
Speaker 1: inside info. So I actually had to go to the
Speaker 1: head of content marketing for the ROG line with an Asis.
Speaker 1: His name Witson Gordon. I'm gonna spend a few minutes
Speaker 1: with him right now, he joins me. Can I just
Speaker 1: give you credit? This was your idea, You created it all.
Speaker 1: It's just it's on you, Is that right, Woodson?
Speaker 4: I wish I could take credit for building this thing
Speaker 4: out of nothing, but we we have an amazing engineering
Speaker 4: and research and development team that put all this together.
Speaker 4: I can take credit for the name I'll take a
Speaker 4: little bit of credit for that.
Speaker 1: That's pretty strong because listen, I'm a marketing guy, and
Speaker 1: you actually are a head of content marketing. I mean
Speaker 1: before a product is launched, your release, I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got it to surveys, you've got to understand where it's
Speaker 1: gonna lay in the market. And the name of something
Speaker 1: is very big too. How did you come up with
Speaker 1: the name?
Speaker 4: Well, me and my team came up with like forty
Speaker 4: different names and then argued with a bunch of people
Speaker 4: about it for a while. That's that's how we did it.
Speaker 4: It was hard because you know, it's the longer we
Speaker 4: get into the you know, I've been around since the
Speaker 4: early days of a lot of these gaming tech and
Speaker 4: the longer you get into the lifespan of this field,
Speaker 4: the more names get taken by other people. And so
Speaker 4: you come up with this great name and then find
Speaker 4: out there was some obscure gaming handheld that was named
Speaker 4: that back in the nineties, and it's well, we can't
Speaker 4: use that now, we got to come up with something else.
Speaker 4: It gets harder and harder every year.
Speaker 1: So apparently Nintendo came in second, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, we don't wanted to call it the game Boy,
Speaker 4: but you know it was taken.
Speaker 1: Who knew manned those trademarks?
Speaker 7: We ate it.
Speaker 1: But it is the R O G li X And
Speaker 1: this is a this is a handheld gaming unit. Now listen,
Speaker 1: it's so many listeners out there. Most everybody knows gaming
Speaker 1: is big. Gaming is massive. I mean you talk about
Speaker 1: revenue is bigger than the Hollywood's bigger than movies without
Speaker 1: a God. And we and we know gaming systems. We
Speaker 1: know Microsoft Xbox, and we know Sony PlayStation, and we
Speaker 1: know Nintendo gaming Station too, But those are you gital
Speaker 1: You connect them to your televisions and then you really
Speaker 1: can't take those anywhere. And then there's the handheld device.
Speaker 1: And again I'm gonna throw out competitors, and with all
Speaker 1: due respect, I mean they're Steam Deck and there's the
Speaker 1: game Boys that we can continue to go on and
Speaker 1: now Asis for the second generation. Now now it's the
Speaker 1: ally A L L y X, And you really hit
Speaker 1: a home run. How big is the hand held gaming
Speaker 1: industry and how important is this device? Two aces?
Speaker 4: Well, look, I mean you mentioned you alluded to this already.
Speaker 4: The handheld gaming industry has been enormous for many, many years.
Speaker 4: We're talking decades. Right, handhelds were huge in the eighties
Speaker 4: and nineties. What's unique about the ALLY is that it
Speaker 4: steps up handheld gaming to a whole new level. When
Speaker 4: you look back at the older days of handhelds, right,
Speaker 4: it was really cool that you could take your games
Speaker 4: on the go, but you were taking smaller, cut down
Speaker 4: versions of games.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: It wasn't necessarily the same games you were playing on
Speaker 4: your TV at home. It was a smaller maybe black
Speaker 4: and white or maybe you know, lower graphical fidelity, less
Speaker 4: you know, the games were shorter, all this stuff you
Speaker 4: had to do to kind of get it to fit
Speaker 4: on a handheld. Now we're at the point where we
Speaker 4: have something like the rog Ally that runs Windows. It's
Speaker 4: just like your gaming laptop or gaming PC, and you
Speaker 4: can play all of the same games that you're playing
Speaker 4: on your PC or on your ex box in the
Speaker 4: palm of your hand with great performance. And then you
Speaker 4: can even pick up your games where you left off.
Speaker 4: So I can start playing a game on my TV
Speaker 4: back here, right, my save will synk to the cloud.
Speaker 4: I'll pick up the game right where I left off
Speaker 4: on my ALLY. When I'm playing in bed or playing
Speaker 4: it on an airplane with incredible graphics and performance stuff
Speaker 4: that I couldn't have even imagined in a handheld format
Speaker 4: or factor just a few years ago. So this is
Speaker 4: this is a whole new breed of handhelds that we're
Speaker 4: seeing starting to pop up, and we're really happy to
Speaker 4: kind of be at. As part of the forefront of that.
Speaker 1: Mentioned that it's it's a Windows operating system, and that's
Speaker 1: interesting to me. So when I got the original ally,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it was you know, six seven
Speaker 1: eight months ago. Love the form factor, it was light.
Speaker 1: It's hand held. I mean, you know, there's the X
Speaker 1: and the Y, and the and the buttons and and
Speaker 1: all these all these little things. And then the Windows
Speaker 1: screen pop up, and I'm thought, and again I'm a
Speaker 1: Windows guy. I don't do Mac stuff like that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, this is an actually, you know, real
Speaker 1: computer over here. Inherently you look at pre or other
Speaker 1: hand AELD gaming systems, they're not Windows operating systems, right,
Speaker 1: Steam Deck is not, and Nintendo just it starts up
Speaker 1: the decision to go with Windows. Where are we standing
Speaker 1: with this? What's the feedback?
Speaker 4: Well, look, I mean one is that we've worked with
Speaker 4: Microsoft for many years. Right, We have a great relationship
Speaker 4: with them. But the big driving force behind using Windows
Speaker 4: on the ALLY was compatibility.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: The kind of the tagline for this is play all
Speaker 4: your games. We want it to have the widest compatibility
Speaker 4: possible with the game library that if you're a PC gamer,
Speaker 4: you already have a ton of games, not just on Steam,
Speaker 4: but on Epic and geog, maybe the Xbox Store. If
Speaker 4: you have Xbox Game Pass, you're paying that monthly subscription
Speaker 4: for hundreds of games. The ally that you play all
Speaker 4: of those games on this system, even going back to
Speaker 4: some older Windows, retro games that you might have, or
Speaker 4: stuff like that, indie games that you download from the web,
Speaker 4: it all plays on the rog ally and that's something
Speaker 4: that a lot of other handheld devices or our game
Speaker 4: consoles can't say, which is really really.
Speaker 1: Cool seeing Gordon joining me. He's the head of content
Speaker 1: marketing for Asus, specifically the R O g U line
Speaker 1: of fund products, and we're talking specifically about the ally X,
Speaker 1: which was literally just released with it what was it
Speaker 1: a week ago, two days ago?
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been out a couple of weeks. General Consensus Online,
Speaker 1: which you know, I do a lot of fun research
Speaker 1: and look at chatboards. I mean thumbs up, I mean
Speaker 1: very happy because a lot of people were playing it,
Speaker 1: are comparing it to the older version, and I think
Speaker 1: what you probably did it I want to take I
Speaker 1: guess and let you kind of extrapolate on it is
Speaker 1: you took a lot of feedback, You took a lot
Speaker 1: of research from from from the people who use the ally,
Speaker 1: going what can be improved, and just anedotally on looking
Speaker 1: at this. I think you literally doubled the battery life,
Speaker 1: you doubled the storage type and seating. I mean, how
Speaker 1: big was the customer feedback before you before you went
Speaker 1: nuts on this one.
Speaker 4: So something really interesting because this is kind of a
Speaker 4: new space, right Windows based handhelds. You know, well, like
Speaker 4: I said, we've had hands ups for a long time,
Speaker 4: but this is a new breed. And so when we
Speaker 4: came out with the rog Ally, kind of up popped
Speaker 4: this huge, really fervid community of early adopters that were
Speaker 4: really really excited about the device and had a ton
Speaker 4: of feedback for us. And so, you know, after the
Speaker 4: first few months, it was kind of like, Okay, well,
Speaker 4: we can keep riding the rog Ally train for a
Speaker 4: couple of years, or we can kind of take it
Speaker 4: back to the drawing board and fine tune literally everything
Speaker 4: that the people are giving us and trying to make
Speaker 4: a better version of it. So yeah, we doubled the
Speaker 4: size of the battery without making it too much heavier.
Speaker 4: We doubled the storage, We added more rams so that
Speaker 4: that's not a bottleneck. And performance, We improved all the ergonomics.
Speaker 4: That was, honestly kind of my favorite part was that
Speaker 4: it fits in my hand so much more comfortably than
Speaker 4: even the first model did. We made the sticks a
Speaker 4: little bit tighter and more durable, We made the buttons
Speaker 4: a little bit clickier. Everything down to the smallest details
Speaker 4: that people gave us feedback on, we went in and
Speaker 4: replaced it, made it better, and it really shows in
Speaker 4: the final product.
Speaker 1: I'm looking just going into some of the specs over here.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is certainly handheld. You talk about the weight,
Speaker 1: it's only about a pound and a half, if not
Speaker 1: a little less, about eleven inches across. I think the
Speaker 1: screen it was about seven inch display seven inch screen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and talk about that a different display. This seems a
Speaker 1: little brighter and the refresh rate looks great.
Speaker 4: So it is the same display as we had in
Speaker 4: the first model. It's a seven inch display, but it
Speaker 4: is plenty bright. Like you said, we wanted something that
Speaker 4: because it's a handheld, you're taking it everywhere, right, you
Speaker 4: might be playing it in bright environment like outside, so
Speaker 4: we wanted to make sure that it had that brightness
Speaker 4: to take on those scenarios. And what also makes this
Speaker 4: display really special is that it has a feature called
Speaker 4: variable refresh rate, which you're seeing on a lot of
Speaker 4: new TVs and gaming monitors lately, and basically it allows
Speaker 4: the display and the graphics processor to communicate and make
Speaker 4: sure that they're in sync, which makes motion much much
Speaker 4: smoother and less kind of stuttery, which is really important
Speaker 4: on some of these handhelds because they are such a
Speaker 4: limited power envelope to work with.
Speaker 1: Gordon, he's with a shoes talking about the rog Alix.
Speaker 1: It's a handel gamer. Just say this is made.
Speaker 4: For Okay, so this is actually a really funny strike me.
Speaker 4: We made it for everyone, right, anyone who has a
Speaker 4: gaming PC at home, or you have an Xbox, or
Speaker 4: maybe you don't have a game system that you're spending
Speaker 4: a lot of time with and you want something that
Speaker 4: because it goes with you everywhere, you can kind of
Speaker 4: squeeze in time here or there. And what we found
Speaker 4: was that it ended up being really really popular with
Speaker 4: you know, parents, you know old gamers who have been
Speaker 4: around the block a little bit longer, maybe in their
Speaker 4: thirties or forties, and they have jobs, they have kids,
Speaker 4: they have marriages, but they still want to try and
Speaker 4: squeeze in some game time. And we're finding that a
Speaker 4: lot of those people who, by the way, that's one
Speaker 4: hundred percent of me. I fit exactly into that category.
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, I could have told you
Speaker 4: guys this, that's why I love it so much. I
Speaker 4: can play it in bed and still pretend like I'm
Speaker 4: spending quality time with my wife, or I can play
Speaker 4: it while I'm waiting for my kids to finish up
Speaker 4: their swim lessons or soccer practice or whatever. Squeeze in
Speaker 4: a twenty minute game session. You know, it's for everyone,
Speaker 4: but we're finding that that category of people has really
Speaker 4: really latched onto it in a way that's exciting bringing
Speaker 4: them back into the gaming sphere.
Speaker 1: You did a great job of describing who it was
Speaker 1: for without using the word gaining nerds. Very nice.
Speaker 4: As a self described gaming nerd, yeah, it's it's for
Speaker 4: us too.
Speaker 1: My question is, I mean, does it have Pong? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, help me out.
Speaker 4: Has everything?
Speaker 1: That's the beauty.
Speaker 4: If you can find a version of Pong that runs
Speaker 4: on Windows, I'll run on this thing that I was
Speaker 4: playing Asteroids on it a couple nights ago. No joke.
Speaker 4: There was an Asteroids Asteroids recharged like a modern version
Speaker 4: of Day and I was having a blast.
Speaker 1: Hey, I mean listen, I'm I'm a child of the eighties.
Speaker 1: Obviously you have no clue what that is. It was
Speaker 1: a way back of the day. But we used to
Speaker 1: put quarters on these stand up machines. It's asteroids and
Speaker 1: I was there miss bag man. We did everything. Man,
Speaker 1: it was. It was awesome. But I like the fact
Speaker 1: that it is portable. It does fit in my hands.
Speaker 1: It just this seems a little thicker, which is which
Speaker 1: is nice. One I'm holding is not heavier, but thicker,
Speaker 1: and so the gaming hads on the on the front
Speaker 1: and the back. It actually works. I love the sound
Speaker 1: that works well. I did mention it was Windows. Can
Speaker 1: this be used as an actual Windows computer? Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 4: We Actually I've seen people in the community literally come home,
Speaker 4: put this on their desk, plug it into a monitor, keyboard,
Speaker 4: and mouse, and it's their main computer when they're at
Speaker 4: home for you know, online shopping or whatever other stuff
Speaker 4: they're doing on the web. You could totally do that
Speaker 4: if that was how you wanted to set it up,
Speaker 4: and then you have one system that kind of goes
Speaker 4: everywhere with you. We've definitely seen people do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and last question you know went up before I
Speaker 1: get you out of here. Let's just say there's a
Speaker 1: lot of parents who want it. They're gonna get it
Speaker 1: for their kids, maybe like dad, but the parent, but
Speaker 1: you know, Dad's gonna grab a going, hey.
Speaker 4: This is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But then dad's in his fifties or sixties or so,
Speaker 1: and he's like, he can't see a seventy screen hand
Speaker 1: this plug into a television, So now you could see
Speaker 1: it in seventy five inches.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you could totally plug this into a TV, hook
Speaker 4: up a blue Shoeth controller like an Xbox controller or
Speaker 4: one of our controllers to it, and play it on
Speaker 4: the big screen. For sure. And let me tell you
Speaker 4: the real seat. If you're a dad who wants this
Speaker 4: and you're fighting over it with your kids. You get
Speaker 4: the new version, you gave your kids the old version,
Speaker 4: and you just keep that train going as long as
Speaker 4: you want. That's the secret you must have.
Speaker 1: If you don't, you're gonna be a great dad.
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? You were talking earlier in the
Speaker 4: show about how you had kids and they were gonna
Speaker 4: test this for you. The whole reason I had kids
Speaker 4: was so that I had someone to play video games with. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: I got two of them.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what. When I started the he started
Speaker 1: the radio, the dv't everything about about twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: and my kids were so young, I decided, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do the cars, I'll do the computers, I'll do dv's.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to games, literally, we had the
Speaker 1: three gamings. I have three boys, and so one of
Speaker 1: them was a Nintendo expert, one was the PlayStation, and
Speaker 1: one was the Xbox.
Speaker 4: Oh, you've got full coverage. You gotta get him into PCs.
Speaker 1: Now, that's the that's the interactual. Actually, the middle one
Speaker 1: is into PC's and he's and he's always It is
Speaker 1: funny you say this with sad because my middle son,
Speaker 1: he he is the one who has the really hardcore
Speaker 1: game of the three. He's always said EAC games are
Speaker 1: much better, much faster, much more more intense than the
Speaker 1: other platforms that you hook up to a TV. So
Speaker 1: I think he knows what's going on.
Speaker 4: DC platform is the place to be. It's where I've
Speaker 4: been since I was a kid, and I don't plan
Speaker 4: on leaving anytime soon.
Speaker 1: That his name is wits and Gordon. If anybody's interested
Speaker 1: in the rog l i X, it's now available. Where
Speaker 1: what's the easiest? Where a way to get it? And
Speaker 1: how much is it retail?
Speaker 4: It is available at best Buy for seven ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Seven ninety nine, it is available with best Buy and
Speaker 1: and again we've already I think a reason why I
Speaker 1: just talked about the ah Sho's Z in book sixty.
Speaker 1: Company's coming on strong Man. I mean, you've got a
Speaker 1: presence across the world. I know you're big, like in
Speaker 1: South America. But I saw some red, really neat stuff
Speaker 1: about the two weeks ago New York, and I'll look
Speaker 1: forward to seeing you guys again at the IFA that's
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 4: And then Cees, Yeah, you guys are where I'll be
Speaker 4: at CES showing off probably some new things who knows.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned breaking news. I'm not playing any game against
Speaker 1: youbs even more day. Hey listen, I met congratulators success.
Speaker 1: He is the head of content marketing for the ROG line.
Speaker 1: His name is Whitzing Borton for a SUS. I appreciate
Speaker 1: time and congrats. I think this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun big seller. Holiday season's coming up soode and this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a nice one.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to it. Thanks so much, and thanks for
Speaker 4: having me.
Speaker 1: You got it all right. Any questions about gaming, I'll
Speaker 1: go get my kids. Deck at a co host the
Speaker 1: rest of the show. The phone number is seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two five ninety five. Oh, Michael Dardfield
Speaker 1: is my name for it all across the world on
Speaker 1: my heart Radio Don't Go Anywhere. Final segment of this
Speaker 1: fun Field two hours show. We talked a little back
Speaker 1: to school stuff laptop thanks to some folks from a SUS.
Speaker 1: Talked about the Zin book Z What is it? Z sixteen?
Speaker 1: Really nice? I like that back to school. Next week
Speaker 1: or two, I'll definitely be doing some more back to
Speaker 1: the school items. I'll also talk to an Asus product
Speaker 1: manager about their new rog The Republic of Gamers al
Speaker 1: X it would be fun. I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: my kids are a little bit more excited than I am.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to teach me how to play some
Speaker 1: of these games. But it's a handheld gaming system and
Speaker 1: reviews have been very good thanks to the folks at
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Speaker 1: got about what thirty more days for you to go
Speaker 1: out and dine on four hundred plus restaurants here in
Speaker 1: and around Houston to test out some of your fave meals,
Speaker 1: some new places you have have been, but also be
Speaker 1: able to eat some fixed price lunch, lunch dinners, and
Speaker 1: then some of that money that goes directly to the
Speaker 1: Houston Folk Food Bank. So that's kind of what we do,
Speaker 1: certainly much more than technology. We do have some fun
Speaker 1: speaking of food and tech. I saw this one too.
Speaker 1: Taco Bell fans out there. I am not one of
Speaker 1: them whatsoever. I can count the number of times on
Speaker 1: one hand am I the lifetime that I've been to
Speaker 1: a Taco Bell, and I still would have fingers left over.
Speaker 1: They are apparently they're testing AI in their drive throughs,
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence and their drive throughs. And don't be wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, I am a tech pamp, and you know
Speaker 1: I should be saying, hey, AI is the greatest thing
Speaker 1: in the world. But you know, I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of trupidation when it does come to artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: There's some there's bound sides to AI right now, but
Speaker 1: it's AI voice technology when you go through it drive
Speaker 1: through to help better hate your order. And I think
Speaker 1: for you people who are in your cars to maybe
Speaker 1: bel help hear hear better. How many times have you been,
Speaker 1: I mean, over the years, it's almost a running joke.
Speaker 1: You go through these, you know, drive throughs, and there's
Speaker 1: this small speaker that's been sitting out there through the rain,
Speaker 1: the rust, the dust and hurricanes forever, and then you know,
Speaker 1: welcome order and they get it wrong. You can't hear
Speaker 1: what's going on. Bring it on. Use AI technology to
Speaker 1: better understand me on what I'm saying, so they can
Speaker 1: actually maybe I don't even I'm not flying to take
Speaker 1: people's jobs away, but maybe they use the technology so
Speaker 1: that an actual person and they are in it will
Speaker 1: use the software and artificial intelligence to correctly say that
Speaker 1: I actually want a grilled chicken sandwich with extra pickles
Speaker 1: on it on my Chick fil at Not the Chick
Speaker 1: fil A is actually doing this yet, but I hope so.
Speaker 1: But in this case, Taco Bell is listen. I don't
Speaker 1: care who starts the thing. Good for Taco Bell, I
Speaker 1: do not plan to try because I don't plan to
Speaker 1: go into it talking about They're actually not the only
Speaker 1: fast food chain to test having custompers talk to it
Speaker 1: AI drive through. But it will free up employees, you know,
Speaker 1: to spend more time on other tasks, hopefully booth sales.
Speaker 1: I think McDonald's, and I'm actually quoting it this time
Speaker 1: CNN dot com McDonald's was testing this, but I think
Speaker 1: they're they're stopping it because I think some women it
Speaker 1: ordered some sweet teas and she ended up with nine
Speaker 1: Sweet Teas. There's somebody that people were shout out. Listen,
Speaker 1: sometimes this stuff works, sometimes it does it. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many listen don't tell me that somebody in Texas.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a visitor driving through a great state and
Speaker 1: they're going to go through a taco belt. Not everybody
Speaker 1: is going to correctly pronounce the name case Ada correctly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably can figure out what they're trying to say, Howard,
Speaker 1: I'm from New York City longer and I want to
Speaker 1: Can I give me one of them? Hey, Sdilla's you
Speaker 1: know some an actual person who would take that or
Speaker 1: I actually could see them potentially actually purposefully getting that
Speaker 1: thing wrong. So yeah, for AI when it comes to oh,
Speaker 1: helping us in that case, I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give out the vote number anymore
Speaker 1: because we only got about three or four minutes before
Speaker 1: we get out of here. Once we are done, you
Speaker 1: could download or listen to your will on podcasts. That's
Speaker 1: one of the many, many things that helem read here. Callum,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for taking my show. Do we
Speaker 1: use AI Callum to clean up some of the things
Speaker 1: that I never make mistakes? I've been doing this too long,
Speaker 1: my dad. But you know, with clean up and so
Speaker 1: we can make even our podcast actually sound better. I'd
Speaker 1: be reminised if I didn't actually mitch this because it's
Speaker 1: a little clemped. I got a little for clemp talk
Speaker 1: amongst yourselves earlier this week on that was Thursday was
Speaker 1: August first. August first always holds a little special special
Speaker 1: day in my art. Forty three years ago on August first,
Speaker 1: Where were you August first, nineteen eighty one, Well, for
Speaker 1: those of you who live, love and never get out
Speaker 1: of the eighties, it was an incredibly seminal and memorable
Speaker 1: day because forty three years ago, just this past Thursday,
Speaker 1: MTV launched and I posted it on my Facebook and
Speaker 1: I talked about it and what I wanted to do,
Speaker 1: Calum and maybe you could talk to our bosses. I
Speaker 1: wanted to play like the Top eight because we have
Speaker 1: eight breaks. Actually we have in and out from Top
Speaker 1: sixteen for the first sixteen songs ever played on MTV
Speaker 1: all last week. Can't because of licensing's agreements. We don't
Speaker 1: want to pay here at iHeart, we give you top
Speaker 1: notch content like the high tech texting show Put God Forbid.
Speaker 1: We want to pay two cents extra actually a license
Speaker 1: a song, so we weren't able to do that. I
Speaker 1: could say video killed the radios. You know what, Actually
Speaker 1: we may actually have to pay for that too, Video
Speaker 1: killed the radio. Star The Boggles, the very first song
Speaker 1: ever played on MTV. We all know that one too.
Speaker 1: But where were you when MTV was around? And you
Speaker 1: know my kids now, who in their twenties, they don't understand.
Speaker 1: Certainly they weren't even a thought back in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: but they know their dad absolutely adores, loves and still
Speaker 1: lives in the eighties. They are big fans of the
Speaker 1: eighties because every time I'm in the car with them,
Speaker 1: and certainly growing up, that's all I listened to. It
Speaker 1: is eighties on eight and all the a lot of
Speaker 1: artwork that I personally aide in my house, and it's
Speaker 1: my eighties DVDs and my eighties cassettes, my eighties albums.
Speaker 1: But the point is, and I will give a shout
Speaker 1: out to the leader of our company here at iHeartRadio,
Speaker 1: all right. iHeartMedia was one of the early founders, the
Speaker 1: president people who actually gave birth to MTV, Bob Pittman.
Speaker 1: Bob Pittman. He is the chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia,
Speaker 1: and back in the day, Bob Pittman ran MTV. He
Speaker 1: has been in the arena for a long time. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this for Bob Pittman has no freaking
Speaker 1: clue who I am. I'm getting bonuses for that, but
Speaker 1: I just think it's what comes around goes around. But
Speaker 1: as I said before, and as I talked, MTV was
Speaker 1: always much more than oh, it was just another a
Speaker 1: channel on cable. It changed August first, nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: It changed the music industry. It changed the way we
Speaker 1: consumed listening to music and watching music. We never watched
Speaker 1: music per se, we watched music. It changed the fashion industry.
Speaker 1: It changed the editing industry. Videos are edited, you know,
Speaker 1: quick cuts and different angles and things changed. It changed
Speaker 1: Generation X, which I am right smack and actually I
Speaker 1: was the start of Generation X. But it changed many
Speaker 1: generations after that. So take a moment thumbs up. I
Speaker 1: want my MTV and oh how my life could have changed.
Speaker 1: I was a finalist for an MTV DJ I was
Speaker 1: back in the day and a last letker I am
Speaker 1: got a to our radio show here on a Saturday
Speaker 1: on AM station. Life's good, my friends. I hope you're
Speaker 1: enjoying yours. Michael Gartfield does the Dame I do. Thank
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