Speaker 1: Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high
Speaker 1: Tech Texans.
Speaker 2: To make life easier.
Speaker 1: Technology and Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 3: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3: Add now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: It is one shining moment time people, one of the
Speaker 2: greatest weekends of the year, at least in terms of sports.
Speaker 2: It is March Madness people, as we count down the
Speaker 2: world watching our great state of Texas. At about three weeks,
Speaker 2: that's right. Final four will be in sam Antonio, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, you can hear me right now. Well,
Speaker 2: if you're listening in San Antonio WOAI News Radio twelve hundred.
Speaker 2: Does that mean I can get a press pass? You
Speaker 2: think I can get a media credential? Since I am
Speaker 2: broadcasting on iHeartRadio, which is actually the former home and
Speaker 2: in place of Clear Channel, which was iHeart Radio, I
Speaker 2: don't know, somebody. I am more than happy to report courtside.
Speaker 2: I an eagle in case his voice gets a little
Speaker 2: you know, a little dry. I'm more than happy to
Speaker 2: take over, but we will talk a little bit about that. Yes,
Speaker 2: it is a technologically oriented show, more of a consumer lifestyle.
Speaker 2: But if you are a longtime listener twenty three, twenty
Speaker 2: four or so years that I have been doing this,
Speaker 2: it is all sports. I'm massive sports fans, so we
Speaker 2: can talk about that. Five teams from our great state
Speaker 2: of Texas are in arch Madness, including my don't know
Speaker 2: how snuck in earlier this week, the University of Texas Longhards. Yes,
Speaker 2: something tells me that they may not go relatively far,
Speaker 2: but the University of Houston, where I'm also over the
Speaker 2: air on KPRC nine fifty am. Odds are they have
Speaker 2: a pretty good chance of reaching San Antonio, which is
Speaker 2: another opportunity for me to get immedia credential. So we
Speaker 2: will see lots to talk about today, including spring cleaning.
Speaker 2: Last week I talked about what to do with some
Speaker 2: of your old gadgets that are laying around, that are
Speaker 2: gaining dust, that your spouse is yelling at you. Why
Speaker 2: don't you do something about this thing? Don't throw them away.
Speaker 2: You really never should throw away any phone or TV
Speaker 2: or computer. A monitor because there's too much metal. And obviously,
Speaker 2: if you haven't erased your data, absolutely never just throw
Speaker 2: them away. And I gave you some websites which you
Speaker 2: actually could turn old devices into money. If you've missed that,
Speaker 2: shame on you. People. You should be listening to this
Speaker 2: radio show every single week. You can go to our podcast,
Speaker 2: go to iHeartRadio hop download it ryheartradio dot com and
Speaker 2: you can type in my name Michael Garfield, and then
Speaker 2: you can listen to last week's show. And I gave
Speaker 2: you some really interesting websites. One was what declutter and
Speaker 2: a few others that they will pay you relatively good
Speaker 2: money if your devices are a good, good, you know,
Speaker 2: type of condition. But there's other things to do. It
Speaker 2: is spring cleaning, and I'm going to talk about recycling
Speaker 2: old phones and appliances. Too old appliances, treadmills, dishwashers, refrigerators.
Speaker 2: Some places can haul them away from you. So I
Speaker 2: have a whole list of things to do. We've got that.
Speaker 2: I was on Fox seven Austin, but look at me.
Speaker 2: I'm name drop at every city that I'm in. Shout
Speaker 2: out to Austin. I am a tech reporter, the tech
Speaker 2: contribut on Fox seven Austin every Monday morning. I did
Speaker 2: a segment earlier this week on projectors. I like projectors
Speaker 2: right now. Projectors, to some extent are the new televisions
Speaker 2: and TVs. You know, for years and years I get
Speaker 2: asked the question, Hey, Michael, what's the best TV I
Speaker 2: should get? Should I get a Should I get one
Speaker 2: that hangs on the wash? Should I get one that
Speaker 2: just sits on a stand? Do I get a forty
Speaker 2: two inch? Do I get a fifty five inch class?
Speaker 2: Do I get a seventy five inch class? How cheap
Speaker 2: are they? How heavy are they? You know? Does it
Speaker 2: need to be streaming? Does it need to be four K?
Speaker 2: Does it need to be ak? Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: There's other options right now that includes projectors. Projectors nowaday
Speaker 2: are getting so simple to use, and in many cases
Speaker 2: they're cheaper than televisions, but they give you a lot
Speaker 2: of options because they can be portable. You could take these.
Speaker 2: I mean I am playing with some projectors right now
Speaker 2: that are probably certainly less than three pounds that can
Speaker 2: go inside and project things on your wall or a screen,
Speaker 2: but you can also take them outside, and so at
Speaker 2: night you can have your little pool party and you can,
Speaker 2: you know, just watch sports. And this is a perfect
Speaker 2: time of year too, you know, watch games outside with
Speaker 2: all your buddies on a one hundred and fifty inch screen.
Speaker 2: That's right. Some projectors can project that wide four K
Speaker 2: and ten eighty. I did a segment on Fox seven
Speaker 2: and I'll go through some of the better projectors that
Speaker 2: you can get right now. They're relatively easy to set up.
Speaker 2: Along with your questions. That's right. It is a call
Speaker 2: in radio show. I'm going to give you the number
Speaker 2: three four six twenty nine Texan. See's that simple, three
Speaker 2: four six two nine t e X A N. No
Speaker 2: matter where you are listening to this show, because you
Speaker 2: can listen to it terrestrially in Dallas on eleven ninety
Speaker 2: talk radio, as I said, Houston, as I said, San Antonio,
Speaker 2: and you can listen on iHeartRadio wherever you are. If
Speaker 2: you miss it, you can listen it to it on
Speaker 2: the replay, which we all call a podcast. A lot
Speaker 2: of car news and car fun stuff. You know, I
Speaker 2: drive cars and test drive cars every single week. And
Speaker 2: I had I had a smile machine this week I had.
Speaker 2: If you follow me on social I put some photos
Speaker 2: of what I was driving, and listen. I drive sixty
Speaker 2: plus vehicles a year. Every week, at least I get one.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I get two per week from manufacturers. I don't
Speaker 2: deal with dealerships people. These are manufacturers who do not
Speaker 2: pay me. I am just I am an auto journalist,
Speaker 2: and they want my honest thoughts and opinions. And I
Speaker 2: think my audience over the years is really appreciated. I'm
Speaker 2: not paid or influenced by anybody. I could tell you
Speaker 2: when a vehicle is crap, some of the better points
Speaker 2: of a vehicle. Who this one is for? Who you know?
Speaker 2: Why you should not consider this, depending on what type
Speaker 2: of lifestyle you're living right now.
Speaker 1: But a lot of them are.
Speaker 2: You know, they're Sedans and their SUVs and their cuvs.
Speaker 2: And if you've driven one, you've driven another. Enclose your eyes.
Speaker 2: But I was in one that made me smile, that
Speaker 2: was very loud, that had a lot of surprises, and
Speaker 2: it was a head turner wherever I drove it. It
Speaker 2: was a twenty twenty four Dodge Charger Daytona scat pack
Speaker 2: Stage two. That's a lot of words right there. But
Speaker 2: what that means for those of you who are not
Speaker 2: car Nerds. It's a muscle car, the Dodge Chargers, the
Speaker 2: two door vehicle that is zoom zoom, big muscle car.
Speaker 2: But stand by, there's a twist. You know, muscle cars,
Speaker 2: if you think about it, they've been around since what
Speaker 2: the nineteen fifties, nineteen sixties. We're going to go drag
Speaker 2: race and we're going to take it on the track
Speaker 2: and we're going to do grease lightning. And it's got
Speaker 2: a hemi combustible engine that you fill up with gas
Speaker 2: and it's just rumbling and bumbling. Not this one, people,
Speaker 2: This is electric. That's right, electric blue people. It's the
Speaker 2: Dodge Charger Daytona. It is loud, but how can it
Speaker 2: be loud if it doesn't have a combustible engine. It's electric,
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be dirt quiet. Well, there is a
Speaker 2: way to turn on the sound. It's very interesting. I
Speaker 2: love the technology. I spent an entire week on it.
Speaker 2: Did a video. We'll put that on my YouTube here soon,
Speaker 2: which you can find in Michael Garfield. But I will
Speaker 2: talk about that. This is something that you may be
Speaker 2: interested in, should you be in a lifestyle of getting
Speaker 2: a muscle car that is electric, which is the new
Speaker 2: way of doing things, folks. So this is what we
Speaker 2: have in store for you. I'm just not here repairing
Speaker 2: your computer because that is not sexy radio. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's not how we do it on the high tech
Speaker 2: text and show again, follow me all over social media,
Speaker 2: high tech text and hi gh t e h T
Speaker 2: e x A N. I will actually tell you where
Speaker 2: I am right now, where I will be later this weekend.
Speaker 2: I want to meet you one on one. A lot
Speaker 2: of travel and a lot of sports, a lot of
Speaker 2: fun three four six twenty nine texting. Just don't go
Speaker 2: only with people. Too much stuff going on, My good
Speaker 2: buddy's going on up high tech texts in check. A
Speaker 2: few days into the March Madness tournament. Raise your hand.
Speaker 2: How many brackets are busted after the first round of games.
Speaker 2: So Thursday morning, I know my bracket is busted. Maybe
Speaker 2: you have a second chance. How many brackets did you
Speaker 2: fill out for March Madness. I generally fill out four
Speaker 2: or five because I'm in different fools and I change
Speaker 2: them up to I don't know, to give myself a
Speaker 2: chance because nobody's perfect when it comes to these brackets.
Speaker 2: We welcome you back, Michael Garfield. If we're tight, you
Speaker 2: can call me Garf GA RF. You can get into
Speaker 2: the conversation here three four, six, twenty nine. Texan do
Speaker 2: you do you put your team your alma mater and
Speaker 2: make it go all the way? I generally have my
Speaker 2: home of mater, the University of Texas Longhorns, going relatively far.
Speaker 2: Two years ago, I had them winning the entire thing
Speaker 2: and they came there. They were half a game away
Speaker 2: from the Final Four. That would have been if you
Speaker 2: remember two years ago, the Final Four was in Houston
Speaker 2: at NRG Stadium, Texas would have been I mean, it
Speaker 2: would have been a home game. In the semi final
Speaker 2: game they were playing Miami. University of Miami. Texas is
Speaker 2: up at halftime. I mean, me and my boys were
Speaker 2: already calling me asking me, hey, can I stay at
Speaker 2: your place Garf in Houston. Man, this is gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2: Forty minutes later, Miami comes back, they win, Texas's out
Speaker 2: and that was not good. So that's probably the last
Speaker 2: time I put that's definitely the last time I made
Speaker 2: Texas go all the way. I did. In one of
Speaker 2: my polls put uh Houston Cougar's hometown Houston Cougars. I
Speaker 2: live in Houston at the present moment right now. But
Speaker 2: if you, uh, let's say utsa San Antonio, which is
Speaker 2: hosting one of the co the host of the Final four,
Speaker 2: because hits in San Antonio, they're not going all the way.
Speaker 2: Texas Tech is in there. We got five Texas teams,
Speaker 2: and we talked about brackets. Can you win your bracket?
Speaker 2: How much do you is it bragging rights? You know?
Speaker 2: Do you do? You pay? You know, you send your
Speaker 2: buddy ten bucks and so you can actually, you know,
Speaker 2: potentially win some money. No one, I don't think in
Speaker 2: the history of world has ever gotten a perfect bracket.
Speaker 2: A perfect bracket. Because there are sixty three games total.
Speaker 2: If you go over the three weeks, there is one
Speaker 2: in nine point two quintillion chance of picking a perfect bracket.
Speaker 2: That is one quintillion is one billion billions. Okay, there's
Speaker 2: a little tech there's a little too much technological stuff
Speaker 2: for you, but one in nine point two quintillion and
Speaker 2: eight happening. Which is why companies and people can offer
Speaker 2: prizes that, hey, if you've got a perfect bracket and
Speaker 2: you enter our bracket, you're gonna win this. I remember
Speaker 2: Warren Buffett. I think he used to offer was it
Speaker 2: one million? He may have offered a billion dollars. I
Speaker 2: mean matter, nobody's gonna get it. I saw this one too,
Speaker 2: X and your boy Elon Musk. For all you Austinites
Speaker 2: up there, X has a bracket challenge, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you inted night. It's too late to enter
Speaker 2: right now. You had to do it by Thursday. If
Speaker 2: you pick a perfect bracket, you will win, could win
Speaker 2: a chance to go to space, a trip to Mars
Speaker 2: on SpaceX's starship at a future date. A trip to Mars,
Speaker 2: not trip just up in the atmosphere to space like
Speaker 2: we've seen all these celebrities do, not to the moon. No,
Speaker 2: you can win a trip to Mars on the surface.
Speaker 2: It sounds cool, it sounds sexy, so much so that
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it here about three minutes of time
Speaker 2: on my radio. But I want you to think about this.
Speaker 2: You just kicked a winner that is virtually impossible, if
Speaker 2: not the word literally impossible. One point nine point two quintillion.
Speaker 2: You're probably going to be a superstar. You're doing the
Speaker 2: Good Morning America Today's show. You'll be on my show.
Speaker 2: Oh by the way, you also get a trip to
Speaker 2: freaking Mars. May not be in your lifetime, depending on
Speaker 2: how old you are, because I don't think we've had
Speaker 2: manned spaceflight to Mars right now. But that's not the question.
Speaker 2: My question when I read this and thought about it
Speaker 2: for a minute, do you want to go to Mars?
Speaker 2: I'm serious? Do you really want to go to Mars?
Speaker 2: How long would that take? What are you going to
Speaker 2: do there? And would you ever come back? Just because
Speaker 2: you you did something very cool and picked a winner
Speaker 2: perfect bracket. So I guess the X folks thought about this.
Speaker 2: Because you have your choice. You could go to Mars
Speaker 2: at some future date in your life, or you could
Speaker 2: pick a two hundred and fifty thousand cash prize. Oh
Speaker 2: in a free year of Starlink sir. Oh, you can
Speaker 2: also train like an astronaut for a day. Let me
Speaker 2: help you out, people. I'm just I'm an advice guy,
Speaker 2: I really am. Take the freaking money. Take the freaking
Speaker 2: money quarter million dollars. If you're so good at picking
Speaker 2: basketball brackets, here's what you do next year. Pick your
Speaker 2: bracket and find a pool where you could put two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars on picking your perfect bracket
Speaker 2: because the winning payout of picking sixty three phenomenal games.
Speaker 2: If you put a quarter of a million dollars there,
Speaker 2: or however you want to divide it up, you actually can,
Speaker 2: I don't know, buy out Eli Musk and Warren Buffett
Speaker 2: and make your own way to Mars. All right, quick
Speaker 2: poll here three four six twenty nine Texan, would you
Speaker 2: rather go to Mars or take a quarter million dollars
Speaker 2: three four six two nine to e x A N.
Speaker 2: If we don't pick up the phone to put you
Speaker 2: on the air, leave a voicemail. We do have the
Speaker 2: right to put you on the air. Go to my
Speaker 2: ex account high tech text and spelled the whole thing out.
Speaker 2: Just put Quartermilsky garf or hell yeah, I'm going to Mars.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm jaded because I did have the opportunity years
Speaker 2: ago to actually float in zero gravity. So although I
Speaker 2: haven't been to space, I got to float in zero gravity.
Speaker 2: It's it's cool. I mean, it's all that that's cracked
Speaker 2: up to be. I mean, I have a lot of
Speaker 2: If you don't know what I look like, I have
Speaker 2: a lot of hair. It's all mine. It's and I'm
Speaker 2: proud of it too. At my age, my hair floats
Speaker 2: in space, and actually you float in space if you're
Speaker 2: not buckled into a Seatbill too. I got the opportunity
Speaker 2: to go to NASA and get on what. I don't
Speaker 2: think they do this anymore. It was called the Vomit Comet.
Speaker 2: It was what a Cacy one five military jet that
Speaker 2: had all the seats removed and there was pads everywhere.
Speaker 2: But this is how they train astronauts for weightlessness. They
Speaker 2: take off from Ellington Air Force Space right down there
Speaker 2: near NASA and Clear Lake, and they go over the
Speaker 2: Gulf of Mexico and they fly these parabolas. They go up, up, up, up,
Speaker 2: up up up, and right at the top they go
Speaker 2: down and as it hits the top and goes down,
Speaker 2: you experience weightlessness for like thirty seconds. And they keep
Speaker 2: doing this. I spend the entire afternoon doing this, and
Speaker 2: it was neat the first dozen times, and then it
Speaker 2: got kind of monotonous. But I don't know, maybe neither
Speaker 2: here nor there. I have some video of it. It
Speaker 2: was pretty fun. I could say I did it, but
Speaker 2: maybe I'm jaded. It's like, okay, well, I'm I got
Speaker 2: bored after an hour of going up and down and
Speaker 2: floating the hell of how long would it take to
Speaker 2: get Can someone research this over here? Can someone use
Speaker 2: chat GPT or somebody? How long would a trip from
Speaker 2: Earth to Mars peak? And when I get back? Would
Speaker 2: I be the same age? Would people?
Speaker 1: Would?
Speaker 2: Would my kids be younger than me? It's it's it's
Speaker 2: the whole you know, movie scenario three four six twenty
Speaker 2: nine Texans. Anyway, good luck on your march managics brackets.
Speaker 2: Don't I hope you didn't pick the longhorns to go
Speaker 2: all the way, you know, Gokoog's I gave you the
Speaker 2: phone number right over here. Let me I'll start this
Speaker 2: and I'll carry it over spring cleaning. Last week I
Speaker 2: talked about a number of different websites where you can
Speaker 2: take your old devices, your phones, some laptops, another thing,
Speaker 2: and you could turn them into cash. You could, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you could sell them on eBay. You could, but there
Speaker 2: are other dedicated websites that will take them back, and
Speaker 2: if it's in really good condition, they're going to pay
Speaker 2: you money. Sometimes they'll pay you in gift cards or whatever.
Speaker 2: But how about other types? People email me, well, that's cool, garth.
Speaker 2: How about other types of devices? There's bigger things like
Speaker 2: I have a dishwasher? Am I supposed to get this?
Speaker 2: Or a washing machine or a refrigerator? Can I resell those?
Speaker 2: Well spring is pretty much here And chances are you've
Speaker 2: got a lot of e waste that you've gathered, and
Speaker 2: you've got computers, You've got printers and probably means you
Speaker 2: doesn't you don't need them. But what are you going
Speaker 2: to do? Do you have a gadget graveyard inside your home?
Speaker 2: A lot of people do. In my mind's called the garage.
Speaker 2: So let me give you a few tips before recycling
Speaker 2: your device recycling. There's a number of things you need
Speaker 2: to do people. I mean certainly when it comes to
Speaker 2: a smartphone, it has data. You need to wipe that
Speaker 2: big time before you sell it or before you donate it.
Speaker 2: You need to back up anything you want off the device,
Speaker 2: which means to send the information up to the cloud
Speaker 2: your iCloud, your one Drive, Google Drive, whatever it is, photos,
Speaker 2: your videos, your songs, your contacts. At that point, it's
Speaker 2: relatively easy do a factory reset. Go to settings about
Speaker 2: phone factory reset. I do this on a regular basis
Speaker 2: because companies send me phones to test. I upload all
Speaker 2: my personal stuff. Thirty days or so later, they want
Speaker 2: the phone back. I factory reset it, so all my
Speaker 2: information is gone at that point. Then you decide where
Speaker 2: do you want to recycle your phones and appliances. I
Speaker 2: got all that information, but I'm gonna make you hang on.
Speaker 2: It's called commercial break, It's called the teas. I've been
Speaker 2: doing this twenty plus years. I'd like to think I've
Speaker 2: got the hack on it. It is Michael Guardful, High
Speaker 2: Tech Text and Show. We'll be right back for the
Speaker 2: answer and more information to that topic in the hower.
Speaker 2: I know why you've been hanging on because I tease
Speaker 2: a little something a how to and where to recycle
Speaker 2: your phones and ampliances. By the way, I told you,
Speaker 2: it's a big weekend loights of stuff going on. This
Speaker 2: is if you're a longtime lister of mine, you know
Speaker 2: this is the first weekend of March madness, and you
Speaker 2: probably know where I am. It's unbelievable radio right now
Speaker 2: because you never really know where the host is because
Speaker 2: with technology you could be pretty much anywhere.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: When I started this gig twenty almost twenty five years ago,
Speaker 2: we had to be in a studio, and what started
Speaker 2: out as clear channel radio now iHeart radio in major
Speaker 2: cities is certainly the ones that I'm in right now
Speaker 2: with Houston, San Antonio in Dallas. We have several studios
Speaker 2: that we can go into. We have engineers, and we
Speaker 2: have people who we look across through the plate glass
Speaker 2: and I could look at my man Callum Read and well, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: how you doing. They're the one who's pushing the buttons
Speaker 2: and keeping me right now on the air. Nowadays, you
Speaker 2: really don't need to go into studio. There's good microphones.
Speaker 2: You can have a home studio. You could do it
Speaker 2: from your laptop. Technically, you could do it from your
Speaker 2: phone if you've got a good quality microphone and everything.
Speaker 2: Right now, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening live from
Speaker 2: you know it, Las Vegas. Thirty six year I have
Speaker 2: been here, and there's a tradition unlike any other. Thirty
Speaker 2: six or so years ago, me and a number of
Speaker 2: college buddies, eight other college buddies, by the way, we
Speaker 2: got together and we decided, hey man, we're just out
Speaker 2: of school, and you know, we don't have a ton
Speaker 2: of money. Let's all eight of us are nine of us.
Speaker 2: We stay in one room in Vegas and go watch
Speaker 2: all the basketball games and bet two bucks on them. Well,
Speaker 2: that tradition has now carried on well over three decades,
Speaker 2: and it's something special. It's something I share about. It's
Speaker 2: something I tell a lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 2: my other buddies, and they're like, oh, man, I wish
Speaker 2: I would have started something like that. That's cool. Well,
Speaker 2: there's no reason you can't start it right now. But
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're ever going to get well
Speaker 2: over thirty years, forty years or whatever. But it is fine.
Speaker 2: So we always come out this very first weekend of
Speaker 2: March Madness. Been out here for a few days and
Speaker 2: pretty much we have just kind of posted up in
Speaker 2: front of TV screens or betting cages, even though now
Speaker 2: you can bet on your phone wherever you are in
Speaker 2: the state of Nevada. Had a few beer skis, and
Speaker 2: we're just telling old stories. Hey, do you remember when
Speaker 2: we didn't have kids? Do you remember when we weren't married.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when life was so simple?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: Yes, those were the days. Yesterday Friday shout out, we
Speaker 2: were at Happy Camper, Happy Camp right on the Las
Speaker 2: Vegas Strip's that's a good place. Ryan Richardson, he kind
Speaker 2: of oversees all of the let us Entertain You restaurants,
Speaker 2: which is like Mona, Mika Beee, and so many others.
Speaker 2: A Happy Camper, great pizza place, Tons of Fun Cocktails,
Speaker 2: is kind of an indoor outdoor place. Every year we
Speaker 2: just kind of find a new place to post up.
Speaker 2: And so if you're some reason listening right now you're
Speaker 2: in Vegas, you know, come by Happy Camper. We're one
Speaker 2: more time we're here before we fly out, because I
Speaker 2: have to fly out because Sunday, well, I'll say this
Speaker 2: as I do the show live tomorrow on Sunday in Houston.
Speaker 2: I'd love to see you. Should. I even have clothes
Speaker 2: in my back still in money left. I am going
Speaker 2: to be at the Syfair Home and Outdoor Show. That's
Speaker 2: right sy Chris, Texas. It's just the northwest heart of Houston.
Speaker 2: It is the Syfair Home and Outdoor Show there. It's
Speaker 2: going on Saturday, so you don't need to wait. But
Speaker 2: Sunday I will be there. I will be in a
Speaker 2: big booth. I will be doing my podcast and so
Speaker 2: you can see how sexy it is to talk into
Speaker 2: a microphone, but come up and see me and say hi.
Speaker 2: I will also be showing off some neat smart home
Speaker 2: gadgets in my booth, specifically robotic vacuum cleaners. That's right,
Speaker 2: roboock has partnered with me, and I will be there
Speaker 2: with no less than three or four different types of
Speaker 2: vacuum and mop. We're calling vacuum mop. We're gonna call
Speaker 2: it wet and dry vacuums. They'll do the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's an all in one. We're gonna throw some dirt
Speaker 2: and some ketchup and some milk and some oatmeal on
Speaker 2: the floor, and we're gonna give you a chance to
Speaker 2: see how easy it is to vacuum and then mop
Speaker 2: this stuff up. That is this coming Sunday, eleven in
Speaker 2: the morning to five in the afternoon. Again, if you're
Speaker 2: listening all around the state of Texas, hey feel free
Speaker 2: to drive in, but certainly Ustonians sci Fair Home and
Speaker 2: Outdoor Show. It's at eighty eight seventy seven Barker Cypress Road.
Speaker 2: It's in Cypress, Texas at the Barry br R Why Center.
Speaker 2: Free admittance to get in and free parking. So this
Speaker 2: is where you can go in and you can look
Speaker 2: at spas and saunas and hot tubs and roofing and
Speaker 2: get some snacks and see people like slicing and dicing
Speaker 2: with knives and whatever. But I will be there with
Speaker 2: the robo rock vacuums and come say hi. I take
Speaker 2: some pictures and we can have some fun with you.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt you're gonna you'll probably buy something, probably
Speaker 2: see something that's gonna make your home smart. It's perfect
Speaker 2: time of year because it's spring cleaning. So go online.
Speaker 2: It's x Wood Shows t E x wood shows dot com.
Speaker 2: You can just get more information. But free admitting, free
Speaker 2: parking on a Sunday afternoon. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: What else you gonna do? People? Come say hi to
Speaker 2: me and help me mop and vacuum some things side
Speaker 2: far Home and Garden show Berry Center. We will see
Speaker 2: you there. I will give you my phone number. Nah,
Speaker 2: hold on, I don't want to confuse anything. Let me
Speaker 2: let me, let me continue talking. I've already made you
Speaker 2: wait five minutes. I was on the subject of recycling
Speaker 2: your phones, appliants and gadgets. You got a lot of
Speaker 2: old stuff. You're doing some spring cleaning right now. Number one,
Speaker 2: if you're ever going to recycle or sell a phone
Speaker 2: or a laptop, would you do me a favor Just
Speaker 2: wipe your device, clear it, factory reset it. If for
Speaker 2: some reason you just want to donate it and you're
Speaker 2: not sure, don't laugh. I've seen this happen. Take your
Speaker 2: laptop or take your phone and go find someone if
Speaker 2: you don't have the gear and get an actual drill,
Speaker 2: get a drill bit and drill through the hard drive
Speaker 2: of that laptop or so, because that will disable it too.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll recommend it. That's probably step two or
Speaker 2: step three that I would say. But there's a way
Speaker 2: to factory reset everything. Certainly in your phone is very easy.
Speaker 2: But at that point, what do you do? There are
Speaker 2: places that will recycle and repurpose and potentially gives the
Speaker 2: new life to your old technology. There's stores that you
Speaker 2: can walk into best Buy and Staples. I think best
Speaker 2: Buy takes a wide range of tech products, and you
Speaker 2: know they will. I think they offer a whole away
Speaker 2: option for even larger appliances. So if you have a dishwasher,
Speaker 2: a freezer, a big TV, maybe a treadmill or exercise bike.
Speaker 2: I believe they do. I don't think it's free. I
Speaker 2: think it may and I'm just researching over here. It
Speaker 2: may cost two hundred dollars or so. I know. I
Speaker 2: know that's a lot. But what you can recycle best
Speaker 2: Buy does take TVs and cables and chargers, projectors, laptops,
Speaker 2: hard drives, and I'm reading right now, headsets, vacuums, speaker systems,
Speaker 2: alarm clocks if you still have an alarm clock. Staples,
Speaker 2: let's move to the Staple actually has free recycling options
Speaker 2: for old technology. I think they do have haul away
Speaker 2: options that may cost but Staples accept up to seven
Speaker 2: items per customer per day. I don't know why they
Speaker 2: put a limit of this thing. But you could take
Speaker 2: in digital cameras, mobile phones, cordless own computers, tablets, webcams,
Speaker 2: home depot. I'm on their website right now. They'll show
Speaker 2: you how to dispose of like batteries and old paint man.
Speaker 2: I have some old pay man. I need to read that.
Speaker 2: Let's see US Environmental Protection Agency. They don't handle recycling
Speaker 2: or drops off drop offs. Go figure you know why,
Speaker 2: because I don't know the government has probably fired everybody
Speaker 2: who works for the EPA. Oh look at me getting political. Uh,
Speaker 2: But they're smart. There's smart. Let's see. Here's a website
Speaker 2: smartphone recycling. You can print a free FedEx shipping label,
Speaker 2: a request a recycling kit. Okay, that's pretty cool. Recycling
Speaker 2: for charities is that a website? That is a website?
Speaker 2: Go to Recycling for Charities dot com. They accept tech
Speaker 2: donation and they give a percentage of the device's value
Speaker 2: to the charity of your choice. I guess you can
Speaker 2: write that thing off too. Here's one called call to
Speaker 2: recycle with a number two Call to Recycle? What am
Speaker 2: I missing? Give me a shout? Three four six twenty
Speaker 2: nine Texan. What what do you have hanging around just
Speaker 2: top of mind? What do you have hanging around your
Speaker 2: house that is just ready to go? I know my
Speaker 2: parents right now, who probably are not listening. They are
Speaker 2: in Dallas. They sometimes do listen, but they have a
Speaker 2: refrigerator that has been dead for five months, and they
Speaker 2: have been trying to work with Best Buy, who has
Speaker 2: been screwing them around. They are living, they have lived
Speaker 2: for five months. I gave them a plug in schooler
Speaker 2: slash freezer, and it's just it's it's like one of
Speaker 2: those portable things you take to a soccer game. That
Speaker 2: is where because best buys jack them around some muchs.
Speaker 2: They couldn't replace it. All these warranties. They have a
Speaker 2: warranty too. Somebody put a haul off this refrigerator my parents.
Speaker 2: But you have something like this. Listen, it's spring twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Do something, man, do something. I mean, wash
Speaker 2: your dryers, treadmills, the least of which wipe it clean.
Speaker 2: Put it on sell it like you've got an old treadmill.
Speaker 2: You've got an old exercise bike. Put it on Facebook marketplace,
Speaker 2: for example. You know something that you don't, someone locally
Speaker 2: could pick it up. Don't laugh. It was about a
Speaker 2: one year ago this week. It was the end of
Speaker 2: March last year. I wanted a Peloton bike and the
Speaker 2: hell if I'm going to spend what fifteen eighteen hundred
Speaker 2: dollars in those things. I went to Facebook Marketplace. Somebody
Speaker 2: was selling their Peloton bike that they used for no
Speaker 2: list than I think five times, and I got it
Speaker 2: at a fraction of the cost. And they were about
Speaker 2: five miles away from me. It's amazing. Which you can
Speaker 2: make some money people, And by the way, if you
Speaker 2: do make some money, consider me your source of you
Speaker 2: know information, feel free to drop me a commission. I'm
Speaker 2: more than happy to give you my VENMO Michael Garf.
Speaker 2: Garfield is the last name. Bottom of Actually, what we
Speaker 2: got about with ten more minutes left to go in
Speaker 2: this top what do we want to talk about? You
Speaker 2: want to talk about these projectors? Hey, if you're giving
Speaker 2: away a TV, do you buy a new TV? Well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you an option. You may not ever
Speaker 2: need to buy a TV. Projectors may be the way
Speaker 2: to go. I talked about this two months ago when
Speaker 2: I came back from CEES because I see these new projectors.
Speaker 2: Just earlier this week I was on Fox seven and
Speaker 2: Austin I did my segment on how to pick a projector?
Speaker 2: What are some of the best projectors out there? Because
Speaker 2: they are relatively inexpensive and they are portable. You can
Speaker 2: go inside, you can go outside. All you need is
Speaker 2: just a big Blend Walt projector.
Speaker 4: Off We talked about that. On the other side, I
Speaker 4: TechEd out some show.
Speaker 2: Final a few minutes of our first hour of what
Speaker 2: we call the High Tech Texting Show. But as you know,
Speaker 2: if you listen for the first fifty minutes or so
Speaker 2: of this hour, I think we've talked about technology at
Speaker 2: ten percent of the time, we've talked March Badness. A
Speaker 2: next hour to talk about recipes. What have you been doing?
Speaker 2: Are you sitting on your couch right now, one ear
Speaker 2: listening to the show, but two eyes watching March Madness
Speaker 2: basketball in the second and third rounds? Actually what the
Speaker 2: third and fourth rounds?
Speaker 1: Give me?
Speaker 2: If you have time to call talk to me people,
Speaker 2: it's an interactive show three four to six twenty nine Texan.
Speaker 2: Or send me a photo of what you're looking at
Speaker 2: right now, or your favorite snack. Next actually the start
Speaker 2: of the next step when we hit halfway to happy
Speaker 2: hour at about ten twelve minutes, I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about your favorite snack for March Madness and how so
Speaker 2: many people are hopping on the bandwagon of using a
Speaker 2: pun of sports and basketball this time of year. Brackets,
Speaker 2: undefeated dip recipes, shoot for a winning menu. Okay, we
Speaker 2: get it, we get it. But speaking of undefeated dip recipes,
Speaker 2: I mean literally buffalo chicken dip. I mean, is there
Speaker 2: any other standby? We'll get to that. I talked about
Speaker 2: projectors right now. If you're watching on a TV, how
Speaker 2: big is your TV? Right now. You got buddies over,
Speaker 2: you got some friends, you get your family. You really
Speaker 2: don't want to gather around to forty two inch maybe
Speaker 2: a fifty five inch TV. If that's all you got,
Speaker 2: that's all you can afford. Cool. I appreciate that nowadays
Speaker 2: flat screen TVs seventy five inches, eighty five inches, Yes,
Speaker 2: they're flat screen TVs that are over one hundred I
Speaker 2: thinky are about one hundred and ten hundred and twenty inches.
Speaker 2: Saw those a few months ago at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Speaker 2: Very expensive, pretty heavy, But I have a dang big
Speaker 2: space to hang that thing, probably about four people to
Speaker 2: hang it and hope it doesn't fall off the wall. Well,
Speaker 2: there's another option. And I talk about this every few months,
Speaker 2: but it reminded me because last Monday, if you're listening,
Speaker 2: if you happen to be in Austin, if you're listening,
Speaker 2: I was on Fox seven in Austin seven to forty
Speaker 2: five in the morning. That's where I do my segment
Speaker 2: as the Tech contributor. I showed out some projectors. They're
Speaker 2: projectors because home projectors it's an inexpensive way to get
Speaker 2: a massive image that's potentially bigger than any TV and
Speaker 2: these projectors they can create a bright, colorful image. And
Speaker 2: nowadays most of them have built in streaming services Netflex,
Speaker 2: something like that Prime. You can watch movies, you can
Speaker 2: watch TV shows pretty much anywhere your living room, or
Speaker 2: you can move it outside, backyard, movie night with friends
Speaker 2: and families. Most of these models they have speakers inside.
Speaker 2: I mean, can they get easier to set up? I
Speaker 2: don't think so. Remember, I mean I had a projector
Speaker 2: once had to have a company come mounted on the ceiling,
Speaker 2: and a lot of home theaters do this too. If
Speaker 2: you have a theater in your home and you want
Speaker 2: to watch movies, there's one that you can mount on
Speaker 2: the ceiling and then you have to wire speakers to
Speaker 2: it and it throws out about what one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty inch hundred and fifty inch which is what twelve
Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen fifteen foot screen. That's pretty cool. They're expensive too,
Speaker 2: you have to have professional installation. No more people. I
Speaker 2: have two or three right now that I continue to
Speaker 2: play with, and I'm like, I should actually hire myself
Speaker 2: out to go to people's houses and throw indoor outdoor
Speaker 2: sports watching parties or movie night with the kids. First
Speaker 2: time I ever did this. When my kids were young,
Speaker 2: we had it. We had a pool previous house and
Speaker 2: the garage, our white garage outdoor wall was right next
Speaker 2: to where our pool was. And at nights I would
Speaker 2: set up a old school projector and they were pretty big,
Speaker 2: pretty bulky, and then I have to get another speaker,
Speaker 2: and then I would set up on a DVD to it,
Speaker 2: and then I would you sit there and we would
Speaker 2: watch Disney movies for the kids. But it was pretty
Speaker 2: cool because the kids were in the pool and they
Speaker 2: were watching the movie. It's fun. It's a great family outings.
Speaker 2: But you don't need to slip all that gear nowadays.
Speaker 2: Nowadays you just need a projector. So point is. I
Speaker 2: showed off a few on Fox seven, two of which, well,
Speaker 2: I'll give you some. I'll give you some brand new
Speaker 2: right now. Specifically, not that I recommend one over the other,
Speaker 2: but I'll just throw them out there. When was a
Speaker 2: company called the Yabe or why ABR. I picked this
Speaker 2: one up a few months ago. Actually they let me
Speaker 2: play with it about two months ago. This thing, I
Speaker 2: think is three hundred dollars, that is it. It is Boom
Speaker 2: ten eighty T speaker built in all you need to
Speaker 2: do is just give it a source. Now, if you
Speaker 2: have YouTube TV, because these things are Wi Fi and able,
Speaker 2: you could plug a HDMI, Google TV or a fire
Speaker 2: stick in there. You're set to go. It receives it.
Speaker 2: It throws out a really really good picture. And depending
Speaker 2: on how close or how far you place that projector
Speaker 2: to the wall or to the screen, it makes the
Speaker 2: projection larger or smaller. And some of these, now, if
Speaker 2: you get it to the perfection was I mean, you
Speaker 2: can get these things till one hundred and twenty one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty inches again, that's fifteen feet. That's how
Speaker 2: you celebrate and watch march madness. Am I right? Am?
Speaker 2: I right? People, one shining moment. That's what you need
Speaker 2: to do. Now, there's a lot of them out there.
Speaker 2: There are LCD projectors, there's d LP, there's HD there's
Speaker 2: four K. There's a lot of them out there. Another
Speaker 2: one that I've been testing it is from a company
Speaker 2: called x Genie and I'm gonna spell it. It's x Gimi.
Speaker 2: Now I've had this one for several months and I
Speaker 2: like this one because this is incredibly portable. It looks
Speaker 2: like a can of pringles, a little larger and fatter
Speaker 2: than a can of pringles. But it's got a carrying
Speaker 2: case in there. It's got a remote control. All you
Speaker 2: do is plug it in, but it pops up and
Speaker 2: and again. Go to Austin Fox seven. Actually I put
Speaker 2: it on my here you go, go to my website
Speaker 2: Hi tech Texin dot com Hi g h T e
Speaker 2: h T e x a M scroll down to the video.
Speaker 2: The latest video I uploaded was my Fox seven segment
Speaker 2: this past week where I showed off these projectors and
Speaker 2: you can see it. You just kind of twisted open.
Speaker 2: It's a bright light. It's really it shines well. It
Speaker 2: weighs less than three pounds. It's got a speaker inside,
Speaker 2: and you're set to go. Number you can there's a
Speaker 2: number of them you can choose from. What do you
Speaker 2: look for? Do you want ten ADP? I would suggest
Speaker 2: ten EIGHTYP at least now ten ADP is not four K.
Speaker 2: There's a difference, all right. You want to look for
Speaker 2: something that has you know, good color accuracy, lend shifting.
Speaker 2: You may want one that has what's called a very
Speaker 2: short throw and these are pretty cool. These are more expensive.
Speaker 2: If you plan to use a projector that you do.
Speaker 2: You don't want to move it. You want to make
Speaker 2: it in your home theater. Let's just say you want
Speaker 2: to make it as your main TV screen, or if
Speaker 2: you will, but I'm not gonna call it a TV.
Speaker 2: Or if you have a very small room. If you
Speaker 2: have a small room and you can't move a projector
Speaker 2: ten fifteen feet back, you want to get what's called
Speaker 2: a short throw, meaning you place this projector incredibly close
Speaker 2: to the wall you're projecting it of. Some of them
Speaker 2: can get as close as eight to nine inches away.
Speaker 2: But what it does, It throws the foe. It throws
Speaker 2: the video almost straight up, and and it just it
Speaker 2: so it doesn't look skewered in anything to make it
Speaker 2: look like a real video. It's phenomenal. Now these things
Speaker 2: run more. These things maybe eight hundred. You can get
Speaker 2: one for fifteen hundred dollars or so. They've got good speakers.
Speaker 2: There's one another. There's another company called ben Q be
Speaker 2: in the letter Q. They have one called the X
Speaker 2: five hundred. I that's not cheap. But these are short
Speaker 2: throws and the s and it looks great. Last point,
Speaker 2: the darker the room, the better, without a doubt, because
Speaker 2: obviously all this is is light projecting on a wall.
Speaker 2: So yes, if you can get away from windows, if
Speaker 2: you can have curtain darkening curtains, things like that. If
Speaker 2: you want to do something out at night by the pool,
Speaker 2: do that. I may a little tough to show it
Speaker 2: in the plight of days seeking outside with the boys
Speaker 2: watching it from bears. But a number of things to
Speaker 2: choose from. So check out my website, my tech text
Speaker 2: in dot com. Look at my latest video. Give me
Speaker 2: some tips and you can see at least two of
Speaker 2: them that I have at on set Box seven hospitting
Speaker 2: the settle is what I can look like. That is
Speaker 2: mind actu. Our number one is over when we come back.
Speaker 2: Underrated snacks for March Madness watching. Also unexpected uses for
Speaker 2: your home smart speaker. If you got a smart speaker,
Speaker 2: all the Amazon echoes, all the Google nests or things
Speaker 2: like that, what are you using for? You give these
Speaker 2: ideas of what to use im for. What's gonna row
Speaker 2: your mind? If you have no cluel in making news?
Speaker 1: This is what you expect.
Speaker 2: No, that'sen to my show Michael Garfield, my tech text
Speaker 2: and show We're gonna be back after the break.
Speaker 1: Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan. Michael garfil is here with a high
Speaker 1: Tech Texas.
Speaker 2: Its to make life easier.
Speaker 1: New technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 3: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio Act. Now you're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Our number two of the show begins right now. Say
Speaker 2: it with me.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 2: We are halfway to Happio or technically Happy Hour started
Speaker 2: earlier this week, Big week there week Saint Patrick's Day
Speaker 2: on Monday. People, Still you're still recovering from that, right
Speaker 2: March madness tipped off a few a few days ago.
Speaker 2: We're in the first full weekend. You're probably watching the
Speaker 2: game right now. Why you're listening to me. I appreciate
Speaker 2: that I also have ADHD. You could do that too.
Speaker 2: Hopefully your bracket is not busted yet. We talked about
Speaker 2: that in the first hour. A few things coming up.
Speaker 2: Amazon getting ready to make some changes. If you have
Speaker 2: an Echo device, one of those smart speakers, you got
Speaker 2: about a week and a half or so before your
Speaker 2: information everything that you think Amazon may be listening to, Well,
Speaker 2: they change things and it ain't for the best because
Speaker 2: they're going to take all the stuff that has listened to.
Speaker 2: They're gonna put it up in the Amazon cloud. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you how to prepare and what's up with that?
Speaker 2: Leave you this hour. I can't wait for this interview
Speaker 2: in Houston, actually Houston and San Antonio. Over the next
Speaker 2: few weeks, there is a big national whiskey festival coming
Speaker 2: to town. And you know I'm a brownwater guy people
Speaker 2: without a doubt. I'll tell you how to get tickets
Speaker 2: into how many over under? What do you think guys
Speaker 2: over under? Number of different wiss that they're going to
Speaker 2: be tasting. They send me a press release. I glanced
Speaker 2: at it. I think it's in the three digits. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of whiskey to be tasted, so we'll give
Speaker 2: you information about that. Speaking of cocktails, and speaking of
Speaker 2: watching March Madness, what are you snacking on right now?
Speaker 2: What are you snacking on? I'm getting all these recipes
Speaker 2: and these ads are popping up, and everybody's using the
Speaker 2: huns euphemisms of March madness or basketball. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: a few right now. Shoot for a winning menu. Ballin' Bites.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you. It's it's called ballin Do you Kroger,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at you. Do you really need a headline?
Speaker 2: This says score full court Press flavor with snacks and
Speaker 2: SIPs for your party. Try these Ballin' bites, big taste
Speaker 2: for turning times and then I'm looking. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: this one. Undefeated dip recipes, just like Martin Geort's character
Speaker 2: on Only Murders in the Building. I like dips. I
Speaker 2: love dips, big into dips. I make my own hummus,
Speaker 2: and I just like saying hummus. No, I make it's
Speaker 2: It's actually very easy to make hummus. Just go google
Speaker 2: a recipe you I need some chickpeas and spice it
Speaker 2: up and whatever. Where do you rank these? Okay, let's
Speaker 2: real quickly callum reading. Well, you know the guys help
Speaker 2: them out behind the glass of the show over here.
Speaker 2: We can't we can't put it. Could we put an
Speaker 2: online X poll together? Or should we just let's just
Speaker 2: do it on air real quickly? Where does this rank
Speaker 2: in your bracket? You could talk in my ears bracket?
Speaker 2: Best dips, baked spinach and artichoke, buffalo chicken dip, quacom
Speaker 2: only it's dip, Hummus dip, buffalo wing dip, mushrooms, Swiss dip,
Speaker 2: aving corn dip, jalapinia popper dip, beer cheese dip, pmento
Speaker 2: cheese dip, loaded potato dip, hey so, artichoke and spinach
Speaker 2: black beans. All right, oh of those? Okay, talk to
Speaker 2: me in my ear. All right, hands listen. We live
Speaker 2: in Texas. KSO always always top notch, speaking of KSO
Speaker 2: best KSO in town, Chips in town. Shout out Cabo Bobs.
Speaker 2: I'm in Vegas as we speak this moment. Returning later tonight.
Speaker 2: Cobo Bob is not open on Sunday. I will be
Speaker 2: having Cobo Bob's Dip for the remainder of the March Madness.
Speaker 2: Phenomenal stuff. Four locations in Houston, There's one in San Antonio,
Speaker 2: seven in Austin. Go to Cabo Bob's. Actually, that is
Speaker 2: the perfect game day snack. Go get massive burritos, Go
Speaker 2: get nachos, Go get the casadillas. It can't be Babo
Speaker 2: Bobs Cobo Bob's, but the best chips in the world
Speaker 2: in phenomenal Depp. Okay, so is that the all time
Speaker 2: hearty dip? It's easy to make. You go get a
Speaker 2: block of cheese, you put a little halopenias, put a
Speaker 2: little pecante in there. Okay, Yeah, we're not going for
Speaker 2: I'm not giving style points for how easy or simple
Speaker 2: it is. Just what's the best dip? Because for me
Speaker 2: and I don't have this all too often, and I
Speaker 2: made it a few times. I love buffalo chicken dip,
Speaker 2: absolutely love bluff. Do you guys know what that is?
Speaker 2: Buffalo chicken dip? I'm talking to the guys here behind
Speaker 2: the screen. It's it's cream cheese, and it's shredded chicken,
Speaker 2: and it's regular cheese like uh, you know, it's cheddar
Speaker 2: or something like that. And you put some halopenias in
Speaker 2: there if you really wanted, and you sit there. It
Speaker 2: takes like fifteen minutes. What else am I missing?
Speaker 1: Up? You?
Speaker 2: He Coby, you take Kobe block cheese, and I got
Speaker 2: recipes coming in over here Michael at high tech tex
Speaker 2: dot com, and people are it's very simple to make.
Speaker 2: My trick not a secret. Someone thought to tell you.
Speaker 2: I have a outdoor smoker barbecue grill. But it's a
Speaker 2: smoker smoked buffalo chicken dip. Forget about it, drop the
Speaker 2: mic game over smoked buffalo chicken dip recipe. You know what,
Speaker 2: let's see. I can't do it this weekend, so I'm
Speaker 2: hopping a plane a little later today coming back from Vegas. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: I wanted to be at the Scifair Home and Outdoor Show.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you more about that, and I hope you
Speaker 2: do come see me. By the way, someone wants to
Speaker 2: see me tomorrow at the Scyfair Home an Outdoor Show
Speaker 2: and you want to bring me a taste of your
Speaker 2: favorite dip. I'm not going to be mad. I am
Speaker 2: not going to be mad whatsoever. But anyway, next weekend,
Speaker 2: maybe I'll hold a little Sweet sixteen watch party. I
Speaker 2: got it. Smoked buffalo chicken dep recipe. That's easily top
Speaker 2: of my bracket, top of my bracket. Guys, what else
Speaker 2: you got.
Speaker 1: You like?
Speaker 2: Oh? Crab dep okay, Callum likes crab dip and we'll
Speaker 2: spinach and our show dep Okay, okay, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with that. Nothing wrong with that too. We haven't gotten
Speaker 2: to wings too, But what is the what is the
Speaker 2: best food for watching? We've already we've already I think
Speaker 2: with Thursday. I don't know how many wings we killed.
Speaker 2: I don't even know where we ate at Vegas for
Speaker 2: the late after the late morning early afternoon games on Thursday,
Speaker 2: but we we we killed us some wings. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can get sliders. I'm not a big Hamburger meeting.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big red meat guy. Sliders to pizza,
Speaker 2: you know, Okay them, come, I get get more. We're
Speaker 2: creative people. Three four six nine Texan best food snack
Speaker 2: to watch sporting events overall. You gotta have dips, gotta
Speaker 2: have some sort of a chip. Wings are always up there.
Speaker 2: Pizza easy to do. Oh look what's coming in? Strong people?
Speaker 2: Got the charcuterie board very I'll give you bonus points
Speaker 2: for actually spelling it correctly. Got the cheeseboard. Other things
Speaker 2: get crazy. So I say this because we're hungry. I
Speaker 2: say this. I just this is what we do on
Speaker 2: the show. Yes, I am going to give you some
Speaker 2: hard hitting stuff as we take a break over here.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I am going to talk about
Speaker 2: home smart speakers. Two things. Number one, if you have
Speaker 2: an Amazon Echo recorder, you got about two weeks before
Speaker 2: something big time is going to change and you may
Speaker 2: not like it. That's one and what all you can
Speaker 2: do with your home smart speaker. You should be listening
Speaker 2: to this radio show right now over your home smart speaker.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you how to do that, but there's a
Speaker 2: number of different other things that you can do. I
Speaker 2: am here to open your eyes and your ears when
Speaker 2: it comes to technology, dips, wings, brown water, and I
Speaker 2: don't know anything else I can kill time to get
Speaker 2: to the top of the hour. It is Michael Karkiel
Speaker 2: on the High Tech Text Show. All right, I'm sure
Speaker 2: I got some few people hungry as we just finished
Speaker 2: a kind of little tutorial, a little over the air
Speaker 2: question and answer poll. The brack of course, this time
Speaker 2: of the year, we have a bracket. What dip or
Speaker 2: snack is at the top of your bracket for watching
Speaker 2: any sports, especially right now we have around rounds three
Speaker 2: and four of the March Madness. Whoever you got, hope,
Speaker 2: your hope, your team wins, Hope your bracket wins. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield is the name and talk about smart speakers right now.
Speaker 2: You know I do a lot of smart home talk
Speaker 2: and smart speakers. That's an easy gateway. It's a nice
Speaker 2: simple entry way into making your home relatively smart. You
Speaker 2: can go buy one of these things. They some of
Speaker 2: them cost as little as twenty five dollars. Some of them,
Speaker 2: you know, have video screens that you can place in
Speaker 2: your kitchen, dishto it to watch TV, where you talk
Speaker 2: to it, it answers it back. And there's there's everything
Speaker 2: from and I hate using these keywords, and I hope
Speaker 2: I really don't set off a lot of your smart speakers,
Speaker 2: but everything from Google to Alexa, to Siri to it whatever,
Speaker 2: there's there's a number of them. And this is where
Speaker 2: they had that wake up word. And Amazon was the
Speaker 2: pretty much the first to market with those in the
Speaker 2: home category, and they had the Amazon Echo devices where
Speaker 2: they said Alexa, what time is it, what's the weather
Speaker 2: or whatever? And a lot of people you probably forgot
Speaker 2: about it. Maybe you ask it for some recipes, maybe
Speaker 2: you ask it to play games. There's there's a number
Speaker 2: of different things, just almost too many to count. But
Speaker 2: I was going through a list and cause somebody asked me,
Speaker 2: you know what do I use my smarts? I have
Speaker 2: several different smart speakers. I have some from Amazon. I
Speaker 2: have several from Google because I in I have. They're
Speaker 2: on different levels of my home, in different rooms, and
Speaker 2: so I can I can test, I can compare, so
Speaker 2: I know some of the features that are better than others,
Speaker 2: and so I can review and give the nice information
Speaker 2: to you. But there are some things that Number one,
Speaker 2: let me suggest that you could do. I mean, you
Speaker 2: could say timers, you just talk to it. These are
Speaker 2: voice controlled. You could tell it to play your favorite podcast.
Speaker 2: And by the way, right now, right now, here's something
Speaker 2: you should do. You should tell your smart speaker to
Speaker 2: listen to me right now over your smart speaker, because
Speaker 2: right now you may be listening through your phone through
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app, which is which is great. We love that.
Speaker 2: But how about this. Try this go to in and
Speaker 2: I don't want to use the wake up boards, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use hey blank, which could mean the A
Speaker 2: word for Amazon or the G word for that other
Speaker 2: big company like that. Okay, so I want you to say,
Speaker 2: hey blank. Listen to KPRC nine radio on iHeartRadio. That's
Speaker 2: in Houston. If you're in San Antonio, hey blank. Listen
Speaker 2: to news radio twelve hundred WOAI on iHeartRadio. If you're
Speaker 2: in Dallas, listen to talk Radio eleven ninety on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Do it right now. It will start streaming. This way,
Speaker 2: you can blast it all over your house, all over
Speaker 2: your room. That's one of the things. They try it
Speaker 2: right now again, Hey blank, listen to whatever local station
Speaker 2: you're on on iHeartRadio and it'll start playing. That's that's cool.
Speaker 2: Here's another thing you could do. You know, you can
Speaker 2: find your phone. If you can't find where you're placed
Speaker 2: your phone, you can ask it. Try try the one
Speaker 2: with Google. Hey blank, starts with the g find my
Speaker 2: phone and what it's gonna do. It's gonna cause your
Speaker 2: device to ring for about thirty seconds. And if you
Speaker 2: have several devices lengked, you do need to specify which
Speaker 2: one you want to locate. So this does work with iPhones, androids, tablets,
Speaker 2: and some accessories too. Pretty cool. You could use it
Speaker 2: as an intercom. I like this one. See I have
Speaker 2: three I have three floors in my home, and if
Speaker 2: I'm on the top floor, and I guess I haven't
Speaker 2: used this in a while until you know, one of
Speaker 2: my kids moved out. But if I was on the
Speaker 2: bottom floor of my office or the off one, and
Speaker 2: I have several different devices all over the house to
Speaker 2: relay a message, and instead of yelling like you know,
Speaker 2: my parents dead, Hey Mike, oh dead, n you don't
Speaker 2: need to do that anymore, so you say, hey blank,
Speaker 2: announce it's time to leave right now. You can also
Speaker 2: even even if it's the A word, I actually did this,
Speaker 2: if someone can give you permission to do this to
Speaker 2: another one. Like my parents are in Dallas and I'm
Speaker 2: in Houston, and we each have the Amazon Echo device,
Speaker 2: which starts with the A word. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: you actually can. It's called drop in, So I can say,
Speaker 2: hey blank, drop in on parents, and that's why I
Speaker 2: call it, and I then all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: in their house. Their speaker goes boop, so they can
Speaker 2: know someone's listening in, and then I can start talking.
Speaker 2: You don't even need a phone, So these speakers actually
Speaker 2: were speakers work well. Also, they can help you go
Speaker 2: to sleep if you like a sound machine or a
Speaker 2: wave machine, which is interesting because you can buy those individually.
Speaker 2: If you have one in your in your bedroom or
Speaker 2: wherever you're gonna go take a nap or something, you
Speaker 2: can say, hey blank, play white noise, play sounds of rain.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a number of different things that you
Speaker 2: could do. All right, So that's Oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: a little fun tip from Michael. We got some not
Speaker 2: so good news. Let's go back to Amazon. Amazon just
Speaker 2: announced this. They're getting ready to launch and Alexa Plus service. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's what it's called. And before we do that, Amazon
Speaker 2: is requiring owners to send all of their voice data
Speaker 2: to Amazon and put it up in the Amazon Cloud. Okay,
Speaker 2: now there's an issue with that in my opinion. Here
Speaker 2: we go. It starts on March twenty eighth, and if
Speaker 2: you own an Echo smart speaker or some of those
Speaker 2: Echoes show smart displays, you will no longer have the
Speaker 2: option to block voice command recordings from being sent to
Speaker 2: Amazon now keeping voice recordings local, which means right on
Speaker 2: your machine. To me, it's an important privacy feature for
Speaker 2: any voice assistant. I'm not sure what Amazon's doing by
Speaker 2: removing it. See removing it to me raises serious questions
Speaker 2: about what Amazon is listening to. I'm not accusing Amazon anything.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to use this as more of a news
Speaker 2: thing than throwing my own thoughts in over here. But
Speaker 2: take it for what it's worth. If you didn't even
Speaker 2: know about these privacy settings before. You've probably been a
Speaker 2: little worried about voice assistant privacy overall. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of the majority amount of people have privacy concerns adding
Speaker 2: all of these more AI features to these home voice assistants.
Speaker 2: So what do all these Alexa voice recording settings do?
Speaker 2: Amazon's new concern this news concerns two specific privacy options
Speaker 2: for its Echoes and Echo shows there is a feature
Speaker 2: here called do not send voice recordings, and there's another
Speaker 2: one do not save voice recordings. They can be found,
Speaker 2: but it's not easy to be found. Go deep inside
Speaker 2: the settings of your Alexa app or Echo device settings.
Speaker 2: They're there for now, but on March twenty eighth they're gonzo.
Speaker 2: Amazon's going to be removing they do not send voice
Speaker 2: recordings option, which means all recorded voice commands are automatically
Speaker 2: going to be sent to Amazon for processing and analysis.
Speaker 2: So Amazon, is it going to be able to listen
Speaker 2: to whatever that you tell Alexa? Everything Alexa records when
Speaker 2: it or is it's weight word, Yes, it's automatically sent
Speaker 2: to Amazon Cloud for processing. And Amazon's messaging to all
Speaker 2: these owners now you know, says that it's going to
Speaker 2: use this data to train to train Alexa Plus. It's
Speaker 2: new service, so it can hold better conversations, understand why
Speaker 2: people you know do things you know, and give them
Speaker 2: more accurate, you know, answers as of March twenty eight
Speaker 2: day and giving people a choice. Nope, some we just
Speaker 2: tied email. Our other Alexa privacy setting is going to
Speaker 2: be effective well right now only they do not send
Speaker 2: voice recordings and they do not say voice recordings option
Speaker 2: appears to change on March twenty eighth. Other Alexa privacy settings,
Speaker 2: like their skill permissions. I didn't read anything about that,
Speaker 2: so they should be intact after this deadline. And why
Speaker 2: are they doing it? Really, it's mostly about Alexa Plus.
Speaker 2: They're launching this new AI up grade which is going
Speaker 2: to be twenty dollars per month, or if you're an
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime it's free. Man, that's brilliant. Amazon really really
Speaker 2: needs Alexa Plus to bring in more revenue hopefully more customers,
Speaker 2: and so they're pulling out all the stops to prepare
Speaker 2: for this big release that's coming out soon. In one
Speaker 2: of those stops I believe was the were the privacy
Speaker 2: settings They need it to learn quickly and be and
Speaker 2: do well. Amazon says that encrypts voice data in transit
Speaker 2: between your local machine and the cloud. We hope it is.
Speaker 2: So what do you do? I don't know. Can you
Speaker 2: stop your echo from saving voice recordings? Well, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have access to your privacy settings. However, Amazon made it
Speaker 2: clear that it's turning this setting on means voice ID
Speaker 2: settings will not work. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: is their workaround? I can't think of it. The only
Speaker 2: workaround I can think of is getting rid of Alexa
Speaker 2: going to Google. Now do I know that Google doesn't
Speaker 2: do the same thing or will they do the same thing?
Speaker 2: I do not know. This is an issue that we
Speaker 2: have that I grapple with. But I tell you to
Speaker 2: see if we could talk through this. But again, I'll
Speaker 2: say it, some of the tech, a lot of the
Speaker 2: technology we use it is great. It helps everything. People
Speaker 2: don't like giving away their GPS, their information on their phone.
Speaker 2: Well guess what if you don't turn on some settings
Speaker 2: of your phone, your phone is nothing but a brick.
Speaker 2: It does nothing. I use my map feature all the
Speaker 2: time just to check out traffic, so I have to
Speaker 2: let my phone know where I am. Am. I worried
Speaker 2: that somebody from Google or maybe Zuckerberg is gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: creep up behind me. It's some traffic light on you
Speaker 2: know Loop six' ten Your West timor road In. Houston,
Speaker 2: no there's too many people who do who do, That
Speaker 2: but you have to give some information to get back
Speaker 2: information that you. Want that's the way of the, world
Speaker 2: that's the way we live right. Now you suck it,
Speaker 2: up people now speak it of suck it. Up we're
Speaker 2: getting rented sucked down some really good stuff Because i'm
Speaker 2: gonna have an interview with somebody involved with an event
Speaker 2: coming To houston And San antonio real soon when it
Speaker 2: comes To. Whiskey and so if you're a, fan ah,
Speaker 2: yeah don't go.
Speaker 1: Anywhere we are back at.
Speaker 2: It just under thirty minutes to go in The Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield High Tech Texan. Show and as you, know we
Speaker 2: usually start the second hour WHERE i say it's halfway
Speaker 2: through the. Show it's halfway to happy, hour. Folks if
Speaker 2: it ain't happy, hour Then i'm telling you right now
Speaker 2: it is happy hour because we're going to spend a
Speaker 2: few minutes talking about my favorite liquor and, spirits which
Speaker 2: is Brown. Water a big event coming up at the
Speaker 2: end of this month Of, march certainly In, houston SOMETHING
Speaker 2: i attended last year AND i will be there this
Speaker 2: year because if you are You're spirits, fan a whiskey,
Speaker 2: fan brown water, fan you gotta go to. This this
Speaker 2: is the the Annual National Whiskey, festival and it is
Speaker 2: a fest and there is a lot to drink and
Speaker 2: see AND i want to give you the inside, info
Speaker 2: tell you what's gonna be, there and also how to get.
Speaker 2: Tickets but to do, That i'm gonna have to go
Speaker 2: to the. Expert i'm going to bring In. Alexi. Oh,
Speaker 2: sure she's the director of operations With Whiskey, riot that
Speaker 2: is the event company that puts this. ON, lexi please
Speaker 2: tell me you are not yet, schnoggered because you've got
Speaker 2: to be sober and put this thing. On, okay naw,
Speaker 2: yet one more.
Speaker 5: Week but Thanks, michael thanks for having. ME i appreciate
Speaker 5: it AND i look forward to having you next. Weekend
Speaker 5: And Whiskey.
Speaker 2: Riot, WELL i was this is the third year In,
Speaker 2: Houston is that, Correct?
Speaker 5: Lexi, yeah, yes this will be our.
Speaker 2: Thirty this may be three for three for. Me and,
Speaker 2: LISTEN i attend a lot of these events where they're
Speaker 2: sampling for all sorts of. Liquor i'm not the biggest wine,
Speaker 2: guy BUT i go to tequila. Events but this and
Speaker 2: again this is an unpaid endorsement AND LEXI i do you,
Speaker 2: KNOW i do a lot of. These this is one
Speaker 2: of not my favorite because there are so many people
Speaker 2: and there are so many things to try for those
Speaker 2: unfamiliar with. It which happens next Week, Saturday march twenty,
Speaker 2: ninth and H down give us the play by. Play
Speaker 2: what's the event?
Speaker 5: About, sure, So Whiskey. Riot it's an awesome, event as
Speaker 5: you have experienced. Yourself attendees will get to immerse themselves
Speaker 5: in the world Of Whiskey riot right here In. Houston
Speaker 5: whether you're a whiskey enthusiast or just trying to find
Speaker 5: your you, know what's you're interested, in or starting, out
Speaker 5: it's an incredible opportunity to discover cool new, brands try
Speaker 5: some of those spirits that maybe you've been on, it
Speaker 5: you've been looking at and it's on your tasting. List
Speaker 5: maybe they're a little out of, budget or you just
Speaker 5: aren't sure if you want to buy the full, bottle
Speaker 5: this is the perfect event for. You you'll be able
Speaker 5: to connect with brands and try tons of, whiskeys Both
Speaker 5: american and.
Speaker 2: International you, know one of the reasons THAT i love
Speaker 2: this is BECAUSE i ACTUALLY i collect. BOURBON i collect,
Speaker 2: whiskey and my longtime listeners know. THIS i have a bourbon,
Speaker 2: bar a specifically bourbon. Bar now it's. It i've made
Speaker 2: my own barrels and. Sing i'm a. GEEKY i, KNOW i,
Speaker 2: KNOW i know it's going, on BUT i don't know
Speaker 2: every time one is, released because they're releasing them on
Speaker 2: a daily. Basis and that's the fun part for. Me
Speaker 2: it's the, hunt and it's the discussion have you tried
Speaker 2: this and? This AND i don't want to go buy
Speaker 2: a bottle BEFORE i taste the whole. Thing and this
Speaker 2: is WHAT i love BECAUSE i can go up and
Speaker 2: down all of your bruce and try, things especially ones
Speaker 2: That i've never heard.
Speaker 5: Of, yeah we love. THAT i, mean not only when
Speaker 5: you come to our events do you get like a
Speaker 5: couple Of texas. Brands you might be familiar with the
Speaker 5: eighteen forty five Distilling Mylemon, green but not Only texas.
Speaker 5: Brands you get national Brands, Penelope, Widow Jane, bardstown and
Speaker 5: then international BRANDS i mean a lot of people haven't
Speaker 5: tried or are unsure of Like canadian whiskey Or. Scotch
Speaker 5: they know they they know they like their, bourbon but
Speaker 5: they're starting to branch. Out this is perfect lot forty
Speaker 5: From canada is going to be, There Glen, Fiddick, belvaney Both.
Speaker 5: Scotches we've got a bunch For virush brands as. Well
Speaker 5: so it's a really incredible opportunity because very, rarely like you,
Speaker 5: said do you get access to two hundred plus whiskeys
Speaker 5: all under one, roof not to mention the opportunity to
Speaker 5: connect to the people behind the brands for essentially the
Speaker 5: same cost it would it would be if you were
Speaker 5: to buy one bottle at the liquor.
Speaker 2: Store you're talking AND i think you answered you you
Speaker 2: kind of knew WHAT i was going to ask, you
Speaker 2: what's the value of this? Ticket because what's? Included you
Speaker 2: JUST i mean two hundred bottles and the fact that,
Speaker 2: LISTEN i Don't i'm Not i'm not A scotch, guy
Speaker 2: and that's just. ME i mean there's a, Yeah i've
Speaker 2: a bember brown water. Guy but as you, said this is,
Speaker 2: whiskey and, again not all, whiskeys bourbon Or bourbon's. Whiskey you,
Speaker 2: know we had a whole thing of. It but you
Speaker 2: do have scotch, coming you do have the bourbon, Coming
Speaker 2: so it's a wide. Variety so no matter what your taste,
Speaker 2: ARE i think you're going to be very surprised and. Happy.
Speaker 5: YEAH i, Mean i'm not A i don't like scotches,
Speaker 5: either But i've had a, couple especially at our, events
Speaker 5: that it's it's a no. Brainer i'm, There i've been,
Speaker 5: INTERESTED i want to try. It maybe my tastes of,
Speaker 5: change who. Knows so it's it's a perfect opportunity to
Speaker 5: see and just you, know test the. Waters but, yeah
Speaker 5: so for ninety, dollars you get an awesome whiskey rye
Speaker 5: glass to taste during the, event and then you get
Speaker 5: to take that home with. You it's three hours to,
Speaker 5: try LIKE i, said two hundred, whiskies as well as
Speaker 5: access to unique whiskey cocktails from some specific, brands and
Speaker 5: then you, know it's the perfect weekend date. Idea my
Speaker 5: husband AND i like to go to these, ourselves but
Speaker 5: if you've got a group of, friends you can also
Speaker 5: snag four packs online for seventy five dollars a.
Speaker 2: Ticket that's a great idea of speaking With. Lexi she
Speaker 2: is With Whiskey. Riot they are coming To uston people
Speaker 2: one week from. Today it is A, Saturday march twenty,
Speaker 2: ninth and it's going to be At Post Houston, downtown
Speaker 2: which is the old post office BUT i think that's
Speaker 2: where you have held it the past few. Years that's
Speaker 2: a great, venue lex you get you picked that really
Speaker 2: great with very open white space and. Everything, yeah it's.
Speaker 5: Perfect you can come and get lunch beforehand and then
Speaker 5: head right on. Up it's a cool.
Speaker 2: Venue definitely give us give me a little inside. Information
Speaker 2: i'm gonna call, this you, know once in a blue.
Speaker 2: Mood what are you going to have there THAT i
Speaker 2: maybe have never going to have the chance to try
Speaker 2: again Or i've never tried.
Speaker 5: Yet, Sure so we've got A Starlight, distillery which is
Speaker 5: a new brand this year for Us, pinhook which you
Speaker 5: know they actually haven't been to a lot of, events
Speaker 5: SO i know a lot of people have Tasted, pinhook you,
Speaker 5: know maybe at, home but that's a newer brand people
Speaker 5: are really getting. Behind wider has some really cool products
Speaker 5: coming as, well just a couple to name to name
Speaker 5: some really more unique brands that have not been there
Speaker 5: in the. Past but we've got actually thirty thirty new
Speaker 5: brands this year coming To Houston Whiskey, Riots so you'll
Speaker 5: have a very large lineup that will not look like
Speaker 5: last year's event.
Speaker 2: Either you, KNOW i am a very hard hitting journalist
Speaker 2: AND i think people can see you WHEN i said
Speaker 2: that over. Here so we got two hundred, Whiskeys, yes
Speaker 2: and it's three, hours AND i want to ask you,
Speaker 2: This it's going to be on the record just. Generally
Speaker 2: has Anybody has anybody ever drink a sample of all
Speaker 2: two hundred whiskeys in three?
Speaker 5: Hours, no that's that's not. Possible you know WHAT i
Speaker 5: always like to say, is, uh this is my two.
Speaker 5: Cents go, around take a peek at what what brands are,
Speaker 5: there take a peek at which bottles you might want to,
Speaker 5: try and then pick a bunch that you know you
Speaker 5: one you have to try. Them go right to those.
Speaker 5: Tables then later on in the, event go back and
Speaker 5: maybe pick a handful that you really really, liked and
Speaker 5: talk to those brands and get some more. Information try
Speaker 5: try that product, again because you, know as you, know
Speaker 5: the first stip is always, uh you, know a nice warm,
Speaker 5: hug the second, sip the third, sip they taste a little.
Speaker 5: Different SO i always recommend finding the ones that you
Speaker 5: are really interested in and hitting those those tables.
Speaker 2: Up in, particular Since i've been so many years AND
Speaker 2: i am a, PRO i would recommend rides. Here that's
Speaker 2: All i'm.
Speaker 5: Saying, yes, yes one hundred percent uber. Lift you, know
Speaker 5: do not drink and.
Speaker 2: Drive last question BEFORE i let you go. Up looking
Speaker 2: all the website here which is whiskeyriot dot, com AND
Speaker 2: i know you can get tickets over. There there's also
Speaker 2: there's a there's A vip. Experience what's opportunity is that
Speaker 2: going to give?
Speaker 5: Us SO vip is pretty much sold. Out it's probably
Speaker 5: going to be selling out within the next. Hour but
Speaker 5: it includes put on your list for next year because
Speaker 5: these ones sell out. Fast it includes a buffe from
Speaker 5: two guys one. Pit it's a barbecue restaurant here In,
Speaker 5: houston full, buffet and then early access you get an
Speaker 5: additional hour and you actually get to taste a little
Speaker 5: bit more high end premium whiskeys as. Well so definitely add.
Speaker 5: It add yourself to the list for notifications next year
Speaker 5: because you'll want to get on. That they sell out.
Speaker 2: Fast OH i ROLL, VIP i know again the details
Speaker 2: one week from, Today March, Saturday march twenty. Ninth it
Speaker 2: starts four O'CLOCK i think is the regular when the door's.
Speaker 2: Open is that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Yep four o'clock to seven. O'clock tickets definitely sell out,
Speaker 5: beforehand SO i recommend not. Waiting and like you, said
Speaker 5: whiskeyriote dot com is where you can buy.
Speaker 2: Those i'm looking at right, now whiskey. Right and for
Speaker 2: those of my listeners In San, antonio you got The
Speaker 2: San antonio one coming up THAT i think A lexi
Speaker 2: That's may, seventeenth, right, Yeah may. Seventeenth where's that going
Speaker 2: to be In San? Antonio Freeman.
Speaker 5: Coliseum it's over by all the arenas to the, east
Speaker 5: just east of the downtown.
Speaker 2: Area gotch, Out San. Antonio i'll see you in two months, too,
Speaker 2: BABY i. Can.
Speaker 5: Yeah i'm just that's a great event. Too that is
Speaker 5: a really popular one for brands and attendees.
Speaker 2: Alike so that is. Great we go congrats and the.
Speaker 2: Success you really do put on a very very unique
Speaker 2: and fun, show especially for people who are whiskey lovers
Speaker 2: or the curious or the enthusiast or the ficionado or
Speaker 2: even just a. ROOKIE i, mean everybody's. Welcome it is Called,
Speaker 2: Whiskeyriot Whiskey riot dot. Com. Folks if you see me out,
Speaker 2: there talk to me early SO i can make sure
Speaker 2: THAT i can smile in photos if you ask for, ONE, Lexi,
Speaker 2: hey continue to SEE i will see you next week AND
Speaker 2: i appreciate your. Time, yeah looking forward to.
Speaker 5: It, Thanks. MICHAEL i have a good, one and, everybody don't.
Speaker 5: Wait tickets will sell out.
Speaker 2: Now, people whiskey ryot dot. Com all, right people don't go.
Speaker 2: Anywhere we got one more segment before it really is
Speaker 2: happy hour right here on The Michael, GARFIELD i take taxis.
Speaker 2: Channel that's pretty, thirsty DIDN'T i good, conversation, man, MAN
Speaker 2: i love. Me i'm going to the least The houston
Speaker 2: show of The National Whiskey festival coming up here at
Speaker 2: the end of the, Month San, Antonio europe. NEXT i
Speaker 2: APPRECIATE lexi for letting us know some of that information
Speaker 2: we got ABOUT i don't, know six seven minutes before
Speaker 2: we hang, up BEFORE i hang up the, microphone BEFORE
Speaker 2: i actually can have a zip some of that good
Speaker 2: whiskey BEFORE i hop on a. PLANE i will be
Speaker 2: back In houston and Then, sunday my, Friends, sunday although
Speaker 2: you'll be listening to this, SHOW i will be at
Speaker 2: the Sy Fair home And Outdoor show on the northwest
Speaker 2: side Of. Houston i'll be there from eleven in the
Speaker 2: morning till about five in the. AFTERNOON i will be
Speaker 2: doing a. Podcast you can see how cool and sexy
Speaker 2: it is for me to talk it through a. Microphone
Speaker 2: but come meet, me say, HI i take pictures and
Speaker 2: answer ask. Questions But i'm also doing it at a
Speaker 2: big booth in a partnership with Robo. Rock if you've
Speaker 2: ever been interested in getting one of them smart vacuum
Speaker 2: cleaners that also, Mop we'll be having at least, three
Speaker 2: if not, four wet and dry. Vacuums we'll be tossing
Speaker 2: ketchup and oatmeal and fun. Stuff we'll let you see
Speaker 2: how light some of these devices. Are we'll show off
Speaker 2: on some of these robotic. Vacuums just give you some
Speaker 2: ideas when you're shopping for home in garden or smart
Speaker 2: home in garden. Things it is at eighty eight seventy
Speaker 2: Seven Barker. Cypress it's in The Big berry enter. Ry
Speaker 2: it's like a convention. Center it's In, Cyprus. Texas check it.
Speaker 2: Out Texts wood shows that is This. Sunday it Is
Speaker 2: march twenty. Third with the robo. Rock you're going to
Speaker 2: be having some fun and be impressed with all these
Speaker 2: robotic vacuum. Cleaners texts t Ex wood Text wood shows
Speaker 2: absolute free, admittance free parking two and you don't see
Speaker 2: a lot of that word a lot. FREE i love.
Speaker 2: It i'm going to get there via one of my
Speaker 2: vehicles That i'm test. Driving let me close out for
Speaker 2: the next few, minutes what is going on in the
Speaker 2: world of cars and, trucks auto movie, heels because that
Speaker 2: is one of the things THAT i test on a
Speaker 2: very very regular, Basis and any given WEEK i am testing,
Speaker 2: one maybe two new, cars and this past WEEK i
Speaker 2: was in a fun. One i'm not the biggest electric vehicle,
Speaker 2: guy not BECAUSE i don't think they're, sexy not BECAUSE
Speaker 2: i don't think they're super fast and very quiet and
Speaker 2: potentially green and. Whatever but the way our the infrastructure
Speaker 2: of charging and battery charging is in The United, states
Speaker 2: it's just not for me WHERE i am in my
Speaker 2: life at this, point BECAUSE i just like get up and.
Speaker 2: GOING i like going To austin To San antonio To
Speaker 2: houston To, dallas back and. FORTH i really don't want
Speaker 2: to stop halfway between those cities and wait for an,
Speaker 2: hour hour and a half or more to charge the car.
Speaker 2: Up but if you do drive on a local basis
Speaker 2: and you've got a charger at, home you've got a
Speaker 2: charger at, work and all you do, is you, know
Speaker 2: schlept the kids to basketball practice or ballerina ballet. Stuff,
Speaker 2: yeah electric cars could be for. You but WHAT i
Speaker 2: was driving in was. Fun it was, fun AND i
Speaker 2: don't say that about a lot of cars THAT i drive.
Speaker 2: IN i was in A Dodge Charger, daytona and those
Speaker 2: generally are muscle. Cars but this the twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: version of The Dodge Charger. Daytona it was, electric that's.
Speaker 2: Right and it was the Scat Pack Track Package stage.
Speaker 2: Two for all you car nerds out, there six hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy horsepower zero to sixty three point three seconds
Speaker 2: does a quarter mile and eleven and a half seconds
Speaker 2: ESTIMATED ev range on this one just about two hundred
Speaker 2: and Forty, good not, great so we'll call it. Decent Dodge,
Speaker 2: actually calls this the next era Of dodge muscle, cars
Speaker 2: and they say it's the world's quickest muscle. Car AND
Speaker 2: i gotta tell. You WHEN i hit that launch, button
Speaker 2: and there is a button that says the word, LAUNCH i.
Speaker 2: WENT i didn't time at zero sixteen three point. Three
Speaker 2: but ALL i know Is i'm on the freeway AND
Speaker 2: i was smushed back into that driver's seat and my
Speaker 2: hair almost was flown back. In the windows weren't even.
Speaker 2: Open that's how fast it. Goes no less than nine
Speaker 2: cameras curb side, everything several different drive. Views the pickup
Speaker 2: is absolutely. Incredible the fact is there's no. Sound it's.
Speaker 2: Electric but What dodge has done they created something very
Speaker 2: unique and it's. Patented it is what's called a frat
Speaker 2: sonic and they made up this word decades. Ago Frat
Speaker 2: sonic chambered. Exhaust so in the bottom the back of
Speaker 2: the car where the exhaust, is there's actually no exhaust
Speaker 2: because it's an electric. Vehicle think about. It there's nothing
Speaker 2: to exhaust, out and there's no airtake that needs to
Speaker 2: come in because it's. Electric but it makes a, sound
Speaker 2: and it makes a rumbling, sound and it makes a
Speaker 2: muscle car, sound and when you're inside it actually rumbles
Speaker 2: and vibrates the vehicle and all of. This It's. Hollywood
Speaker 2: it's not a speaker. System it's an patented. Chamber and
Speaker 2: if you think about, it it's like a pipe organ
Speaker 2: because pipe organ's worked with chambers and so as you
Speaker 2: hit the, accelerator what it does it just makes it
Speaker 2: can create this sound that you can hear from the
Speaker 2: outside and people behind you can my NEIGHBORS i certainly
Speaker 2: woke up one, morning but on the inside they've got
Speaker 2: speakers so you can also. Hear and it, also oh
Speaker 2: rattles the. Car it is a muscle car. Feeling it's
Speaker 2: a muscle car drive if you want it that, way
Speaker 2: because it also drives quiet as a. Bird that's one
Speaker 2: of the neat. Things and that's what it. Is FAT
Speaker 2: i got a lot of head. Turns. Now it's a
Speaker 2: two door. Car so do you want this for? You,
Speaker 2: WELL i don't, Know, ah do you have car seats
Speaker 2: kind of tough to get in the. Back do you
Speaker 2: always carry a lot of, people two or three extra
Speaker 2: people who are maybe more than you, know five and
Speaker 2: a half six feet. Tall it's relatively easy for me
Speaker 2: to get In i'm a six foot tall, guy but
Speaker 2: you know you may not want to, open you, know
Speaker 2: those back doors and crawl. IN i will say the.
Speaker 2: Uh And i'm not going to call it a. Trunk
Speaker 2: it doesn't have a, trunk but it's a. Hatchback but
Speaker 2: it's got that cargo, space which is not bad for
Speaker 2: a two door. Car and when you open up that
Speaker 2: hood and you expect to see that, shiny silvery engine
Speaker 2: and it ain't. There it's an electric. Vehicle it's got
Speaker 2: batteries underneath the. Car so it's got what's called a,
Speaker 2: frunk a front. Trunk it's got a one and a
Speaker 2: half cubic kind of bin that you can ice. Down
Speaker 2: and let's just put it this. Way nice sodas in,
Speaker 2: water or carry maybe like a small briefcaseit. There if
Speaker 2: you really wanted to price base price for the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, dits charge your daytona scat pack at about
Speaker 2: sixty five thousand dollars the WAY i tested, it because
Speaker 2: it had a lot of, upgrades eighty two thousand. Dollars
Speaker 2: it's quite a bit of. Money they don't make a
Speaker 2: lot of. Them do you like? Electric you have to
Speaker 2: ask yourself some, Questions but, DANG i had. Fun you
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Speaker 2: A n one of the more fun. Vehicles WHAT i
Speaker 2: get this probably. Not this is Not LISTEN i look
Speaker 2: at WHERE i am or my Kid my kids are.
Speaker 2: GONE i am a certain. Age AM i having a midlight?
Speaker 2: Crisis this is a fun one to. Drive don't know
Speaker 2: if this would be my everyday, car but it. Is
Speaker 2: it's gonna get you from POINT a to POINT b
Speaker 2: very very, fast just LIKE i did these last two,
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