Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfild.
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Speaker 1: Thank Hod, It's Saturday. See what I did there? My
Speaker 1: friend is Michael. I hope we are still friends and
Speaker 1: you can call me just to make sure we do.
Speaker 1: This is a semi live radio show that we have
Speaker 1: done for Will over twenty years. Some of you are younger,
Speaker 1: younger than the age of this show. Seven one three, two,
Speaker 1: one two, five, nine to five. Oh should you be
Speaker 1: listening live? Which is actually called radio, which is different
Speaker 1: than a podcast. I just don't have enough time to
Speaker 1: explain the difference. But he started out in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands to talk about technology, advise you of what
Speaker 1: products are out there, what to get. Shouldn't you get
Speaker 1: a high definition TV? And if you do want one,
Speaker 1: do you want a plasma or do you want to
Speaker 1: an led we go back a long time. Let me
Speaker 1: explain what Wi Fi is now. It's a consumer lifestyle show.
Speaker 1: I test drive every type of automobile there is. Actually
Speaker 1: just got back from Dallas a week ago at the
Speaker 1: annual Texas Auto Writers Texas Truck Rodeo, where I got
Speaker 1: to drive over thirty different trucks from different manufacturers and
Speaker 1: SUVs up and down mountains and hills through mud. I
Speaker 1: will give my thoughts and answer your phone calls and
Speaker 1: answer your emails or even all of your tweets or
Speaker 1: your comments on Instagram about which automobile could be right
Speaker 1: for you? Is now the time to go ev Should
Speaker 1: you go hybrid?
Speaker 2: As?
Speaker 1: You should go hybrid? Some of the many, many things
Speaker 1: that I do. Topics that were to cover today. What's
Speaker 1: happened this week or two? I was on the road
Speaker 1: again this week to my favorite state into this country, California.
Speaker 1: I was out there for a few days, but a
Speaker 1: last I am back at the great state of Texas. Verizon,
Speaker 1: were you affected by the outage this week? It's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Don't you think technology company data companies, cell
Speaker 1: phone companies would would would really figure out ways to
Speaker 1: make sure that their service is just constantly on. I
Speaker 1: guess not Verizon. Last Monday there was an outage. If
Speaker 1: it affected you, I'll tell you some of the reasons
Speaker 1: why that potentially happened. How to get around it if
Speaker 1: your service goes down. I phone users, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: were able to get around it because there was a
Speaker 1: feature on iPhones. And I know this hurts me to say,
Speaker 1: because I'm an Android guy. iPhone has a satellite SS
Speaker 1: satellite service that I think all phones should have, and
Speaker 1: I do think it's a neat feature. I will tell
Speaker 1: you how to turn that on because it can be important,
Speaker 1: as we have seen this past week week and a
Speaker 1: half from that devastating Hurricane Helen, how it went up
Speaker 1: all the way to the Carolinas in the least coast,
Speaker 1: where so many people were sadly killed and they were
Speaker 1: out of communication because Carolina, they just they were unprepared.
Speaker 1: They just didn't think, hey, we're gonna have a hurricane coming,
Speaker 1: you know, doing a sneak attack from the southwest side
Speaker 1: instead of coming from the east coast. It was bad
Speaker 1: and I just heard so many stories, personal stories. How
Speaker 1: you know, somebody's parents were they have not heard from
Speaker 1: them because there was no cell phone service and there
Speaker 1: was no electricity. There are actually ways to stay in
Speaker 1: contact when your service is down. I will talk about
Speaker 1: that Wi Fi on planes. I've been on a heck
Speaker 1: of a lot of planes, both the best depleted internationally
Speaker 1: for the past two months. It's still kind of an
Speaker 1: interesting state. Yes, I'm happy there is Wi Fi on planes.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's kind of a sad stake. You
Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna get because I've flown different
Speaker 1: airlines and some are better than the worst. But our
Speaker 1: good friend in our Texas resident, Elon Musk may be
Speaker 1: coming to the rescue with a way to not only
Speaker 1: get better, faster Wi Fi on airplanes, but our favorite
Speaker 1: four letter word free. Should Wi Fi service be free? Hell,
Speaker 1: yes it should, and now on planes it may be.
Speaker 1: But I want to start with this. Where were you
Speaker 1: Friday morning about four forty five four fifty am. Were
Speaker 1: you in bed? Did you get a wake up call?
Speaker 1: Because millions of Texans were jolted out of just before
Speaker 1: five am Friday? When Hall County, Texas, anyone anyone Hall
Speaker 1: County by the way, it's somewhere just north of Lubbock,
Speaker 1: with a population of twenty eight one hundred people. Hall
Speaker 1: County issued a blue alert, a blue alert which went
Speaker 1: out on millions of cell phones. Were you awakened? Love
Speaker 1: to hear from you. We have to figure out what
Speaker 1: needs to be done, because at some point these alerts
Speaker 1: are going to be crying wolf. They're going off at
Speaker 1: a more frequent pace of quote unquote emergencies. And I'm
Speaker 1: not going to sit here and defind what an emergency is.
Speaker 1: Because there was a deputy in Hall County that was
Speaker 1: injured by a fleeing suspect. Okay, I'm not taking that
Speaker 1: lightly whatsoever. But at some point we're getting in these alerts,
Speaker 1: We're not going to pay attention to it. It was
Speaker 1: triggered by the Texas Department of Public Safety. It was
Speaker 1: a deputy that was injured. H and is he? Is
Speaker 1: he okay? Hopefully is okay? I don't even know the
Speaker 1: end of this, because this is not the point of
Speaker 1: the story. Did you think when your alarm went off
Speaker 1: at for when you're when your cell phone, when your
Speaker 1: cell phone, your partner cell phone, your kid's cell phone,
Speaker 1: all the stroke just goes nuts. At four fifty four
Speaker 1: in the morning. Was that necessary talk to me here
Speaker 1: at seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: matter where we are. The alert was not an emergency
Speaker 1: for most of the state of Texas. What exactly did
Speaker 1: they expect anyone to do? Run outside, look around for
Speaker 1: the suspect. And I'm reading some of the comments that
Speaker 1: that that were that people were were tweeting, were posting
Speaker 1: on Reddit, you know quote, I thought a plant was
Speaker 1: I thought a plant exploded. I needed to evacuate. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of this this needed to be. I mean,
Speaker 1: some people thought the Germans invaded again it was in
Speaker 1: an alien attack. It was a blue alert for a
Speaker 1: very very small community in the Panhandle of Texas well,
Speaker 1: just north of Lubbock. Why did it need to go
Speaker 1: to millions of people all over the state. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? These things need to be regionalized.
Speaker 1: I remember was it Hawaii was at Honolulu three four
Speaker 1: or five years ago that someone accidentally that were trying
Speaker 1: to test the emergency alert system on cell phones and
Speaker 1: highway signs and it said there was incoming bombs literally
Speaker 1: bombs are being invaded And there was ten minutes before
Speaker 1: I think the state of Hawaii was going to blow up.
Speaker 1: There was something of the of that matter. Go look
Speaker 1: it up and google it. I mean, do you understand
Speaker 1: what kind of frenzy this puts? It? To me? It
Speaker 1: puts it creates more of an emergency. So what do
Speaker 1: you do? I don't know, because I was one of
Speaker 1: the lucky ones. I was one of the smart ones.
Speaker 1: Because I have all my emergency alerts turned off. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you if this is a good thing, and
Speaker 1: I can't tell you if it's a smart thing. But
Speaker 1: damn it, I slept in on Friday because I didn't
Speaker 1: hear the at freaking four fifty three, four fifty four
Speaker 1: in the morning. When something real happens, if there really
Speaker 1: is an emergency, I'm not gonna know about it. Because
Speaker 1: there is a setting in all of our phones, be
Speaker 1: it Android, be at iOS. Go to your settings, go
Speaker 1: to alerts, go to alarms. Look for emergency alerts. Now
Speaker 1: you could set them to silent, well you'll they'll still
Speaker 1: pop up and you won't get an alert to wake
Speaker 1: you up. I turn everything off. There's tornado alerts, there's
Speaker 1: hurricane alerts, there's there's a presidential alert, there's a there's
Speaker 1: an emergency alert. I don't know, they're gone zone for me.
Speaker 1: All I know is if I hear my neighbors running
Speaker 1: or screaming or something outside. That's what I know there's
Speaker 1: an emergency. I just would sleep in. Anybody have a
Speaker 1: solution for this thing, I'm more than happy to call
Speaker 1: the Texas Department of Public Safety and get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of it. I'm calling Greg Abbott, I'm calling Ken Paxon.
Speaker 1: I'm gone. I'm running for governor. There you go. No
Speaker 1: more emergency alerts. Listen your calls. Things to give away.
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Speaker 1: several people. But that's neither here nor there. Talking about
Speaker 1: your early morning wake up call on Friday morning yesterday,
Speaker 1: if you're listening live for the emergency alert that went
Speaker 1: across Texas, millions of people were woken up. What was it?
Speaker 1: Just before five am? For a blue alert? A blue
Speaker 1: alert which means a police officer, a deputy, a sheriff.
Speaker 1: There was an issue in just outside of Lubbock. Do
Speaker 1: you know how far Lubbock, Texas is from Houston area. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's about honestly three states away, even though it's in
Speaker 1: our same state. We have a big state here. People.
Speaker 1: If you did die to that, how do you are
Speaker 1: these necessary? At some point? These emergency and what they are.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna explain this. It's an fc C thing
Speaker 1: now listen. I am not going to rag on the
Speaker 1: FCC because the FCC is our friend here at iHeartMedia.
Speaker 1: We love we love the Federal Communications Commission because we
Speaker 1: have to adhere to their policies. We can't save four
Speaker 1: letter F bombs. We could do an own podcasts, which
Speaker 1: is this is also podcast, but since I am live
Speaker 1: over the air, we can't say anything back. So we
Speaker 1: love you FCC. But the FCC does a lot of things,
Speaker 1: and they have instigatively years ago they created an entire
Speaker 1: system called the Wireless Emergency Alerts w EA, and it
Speaker 1: really is an essential part of America's emergency preparentness. And
Speaker 1: it's been around since twenty twelve, so we've got twelve
Speaker 1: years into it and it's been and because we are
Speaker 1: fact finders here at the High Tech Text and Show,
Speaker 1: let me give you some stats. It's been used more
Speaker 1: than eighty four thousand times to warn the public about
Speaker 1: dangerous weather, missing children, other critical situations, all through the
Speaker 1: alerts on compatible cell phones and other mobile devices. And
Speaker 1: so wea the Wireless Emergency Alerts. It's public safety system
Speaker 1: and it allows customers who own these mobile devices to
Speaker 1: receive and I love this and now I'm reading this
Speaker 1: from the FCC website right now, and I'm quoting geographically
Speaker 1: targeted text like messages alerting them of imminent threats to
Speaker 1: safety in their area. Now let me stop right here.
Speaker 1: I want the definit I really should call out the FCC.
Speaker 1: What is it geographically targeted? Because we need to get
Speaker 1: this geograph targeted down to a more concise area. Because
Speaker 1: there was no need to wake up millions of Texans,
Speaker 1: some of them six hundred and seven hundred miles away,
Speaker 1: hands in the air right here about something that was
Speaker 1: going on in a small town north of Lubbock of
Speaker 1: twenty eight hundred people. I don't think it was. I'll
Speaker 1: again state this, I'm not diminishing what an emergency is.
Speaker 1: I'm not diminishing missing kids. I'm not or assaulting police
Speaker 1: officers or anything of that nature. We live in We
Speaker 1: live in a hurricane prone zone here in Houston. I
Speaker 1: am from Dallas, and a lot of my listeners right
Speaker 1: now listening in Dallas it's a tornado prone zone. So
Speaker 1: I do appreciate the emergency alerts. We got to target
Speaker 1: this stuff, but better FCC or whoever's doing this. But
Speaker 1: the WEA the wireless emergency alerts, what they do they
Speaker 1: enable government officials to target emergency alerts to specific geographic
Speaker 1: areas and it works. And this is how it works.
Speaker 1: Authorized national, state, or local government authorities they send alerts
Speaker 1: regarding public safety emergencies, severe weather, missing kids, the need
Speaker 1: to evacuate using these wireless emergency alerts, and authorize public
Speaker 1: safety officials. They send these alerts through a system run
Speaker 1: by FEMA. All right. They send it to participating wireless carriers,
Speaker 1: which then push the alerts to compatible mobile devices in
Speaker 1: the affected area. Again, I'm reading this from the FCC
Speaker 1: website because the affected area really was not affected this
Speaker 1: past Friday morning. They're free. If you think it cost
Speaker 1: anything to receive these, don't worry. It's free. Customers don't
Speaker 1: pay to receive these. Wa you know what, they actually
Speaker 1: should pay us to receive them, especially for that early
Speaker 1: morning wake up call. You don't need to sign up
Speaker 1: for the services. And they delivered national alerts that's issued
Speaker 1: by the President or the administrator of FEMA. There's an
Speaker 1: imminent threat alert, which is imminent threats to safety or life.
Speaker 1: There's an amber alert, which is missing children very important.
Speaker 1: And there's public safety messages conveying lanations for saving lives
Speaker 1: and property. Now whatever carrier. You're on participating carriers, they
Speaker 1: may allow subscarbage to block everything or some of them.
Speaker 1: What happens, You get a message, you get a beep,
Speaker 1: you get alert, and these sorts do not track you.
Speaker 1: It is not designed nor does attract the location of
Speaker 1: anyone receiving alert, which is probably why everybody in the
Speaker 1: state of Texas have received it. Will most everybody, I
Speaker 1: probably received it. I'll tell you again, I don't allow
Speaker 1: these alerts, and I'll be honest with you. At some
Speaker 1: point I personally, you may personally may need this alert.
Speaker 1: Elderly people missing, You can't. Mom and dad took the car,
Speaker 1: they're they don't know where they are. Your children, All
Speaker 1: of a sudden he has gone missing, stolen car, there's
Speaker 1: a there's an escape convict near a prisoner. You got it.
Speaker 1: So this is this can be and I use the
Speaker 1: word can't, can be an effective way to will alert
Speaker 1: us because not all of us are watching the TV
Speaker 1: at any given time. Remember back in the old day,
Speaker 1: we're watching TV and all of a sudden, screen goes
Speaker 1: crazy and crackling. Here's this white, you know, slate of
Speaker 1: a TV with like there's a state of emergency, right
Speaker 1: now there's a tornado one, okay, but not all of
Speaker 1: us where everywhere? Moked. All of us carry our cell
Speaker 1: phones almost everywhere we go. We sleep next to them.
Speaker 1: They're they're on our they're on our tabletops, next to
Speaker 1: our beds. That's why we were waking up. And these well,
Speaker 1: we can partially block them. Allegedly, we're not supposed to
Speaker 1: block national alerts, but I think I believe as as
Speaker 1: I checked my cell phone settings, you can change these settings.
Speaker 1: There's last question, and I got about a minute here.
Speaker 1: How geographically precise is are these wireless alerts? And I'm
Speaker 1: reading right now on the FCC website the geographic precision
Speaker 1: is continuously approving, improving. Yeah, I love that. When the
Speaker 1: alert program launched, participating wireless providers were generally required to
Speaker 1: send the alerts to a geographic area no larger than
Speaker 1: the county or counties affected by the emergency. People. That
Speaker 1: was twenty twelve. They just sent this freaking one to
Speaker 1: the entire state of Texas, all right. Then in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: participating wireless providers will required to transmit alerts to geographic
Speaker 1: areas that best approximated the area affected by the emergency,
Speaker 1: even if it was smaller than a county. There are
Speaker 1: a number of different ways to send alerts. There's what
Speaker 1: is it? There is an app called next Door. Anybody
Speaker 1: I use next Door. I sell some of the stuff
Speaker 1: in my garage. If there is a if there's a
Speaker 1: power outage, I go to next door because this is
Speaker 1: a neighborhood specific. These are the types of apps and
Speaker 1: alerts that I think are going to win win WI
Speaker 1: N ultimately to make us believe even more. Anyway, if
Speaker 1: you're ticked, what can we do enough of that? Here's
Speaker 1: an emergency alert. People don't go anywhere we're taking you,
Speaker 1: and we're coming back to the high tech text and
Speaker 1: show pe it is hyphol. You call me Garth, all right,
Speaker 1: if you have my cell phone number, please don't send
Speaker 1: me a wireless emergency alerts. We've just been the first
Speaker 1: half hour of this year talking about what the FCC
Speaker 1: is doing with these wireless emergency alerts and why most
Speaker 1: Texans were awaken at four fifty four am on Friday
Speaker 1: for a and I'm not gonna call it a need
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call it a needless wireless murgency alert,
Speaker 1: but it was something in a little small town north
Speaker 1: of Lubbock, Texas, which is very far away from Houston, Beaumont, Galveston,
Speaker 1: our listening audience here. But congratulations you are awake at
Speaker 1: UH seven one three two one two five nine five oh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, though, let's talk about this Total Wireless.
Speaker 1: I you know, what, if you need a cell phone
Speaker 1: service and you want to save some money. I have
Speaker 1: been using Total Wireless for the past several months. Very
Speaker 1: simple to switch over your phone number. Phone numbers now
Speaker 1: nowadays breaking news. They're called portable, which means you pretty
Speaker 1: much can take your phone number and you can change
Speaker 1: it to any carrier. And I asked people, It's like,
Speaker 1: why are you paying so much money? How much do
Speaker 1: you pay per line? I mean, are you still paying
Speaker 1: seventy five bucks one hundred bucks on hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bucks per line? And then you've got your family plan
Speaker 1: you're paying three four five. I have one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: I am paying a fracture of that. I mean, can
Speaker 1: you can get you know, something you know as low
Speaker 1: as anywhere you know somewhere between twenty five thirty five
Speaker 1: forty five dollars per month, some of it unlimited five
Speaker 1: G service Total Wireless. There's specific it's probably about ten
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen stores here in and around the Houston area
Speaker 1: owned by a company called Victra Victra dot Total Wireless
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what now, caller, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: right now a twenty dollars gift card that you can
Speaker 1: go into a Victra owned Total Wireless store. Use it
Speaker 1: to get though, obviously, whatever you want. If you want
Speaker 1: phone cases, phone cords, phone chargers, you could bring in
Speaker 1: terms of service. You can bring your own phone in.
Speaker 1: You don't need to buy a phone from them. They'll
Speaker 1: just switch over your phone number and they'll light it up.
Speaker 1: They even have five G home wireless Internet. That's right,
Speaker 1: my internet at home over the air the cell phone
Speaker 1: phone towers. They are now producing five G home. I
Speaker 1: have a I have a router. It picks up the
Speaker 1: home wireless internet from over the year and it just
Speaker 1: Wi fi is. It throws that out all over my
Speaker 1: home and it's super super fast. Check it out colored
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Speaker 1: five ozho you win a twenty dollars gift card to
Speaker 1: one of the Victor owned total wireless stores and so
Speaker 1: congratulations to that. The what it's like, Let's let's see
Speaker 1: do I want to Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: blend this in iPhones, which I don't use so often.
Speaker 1: They got the iPhone sixteen. They just they're getting ready
Speaker 1: to lease the AI type of thing iPhones which I
Speaker 1: don't have. They have a feature that other phones don't have.
Speaker 1: It's an emergency s OS satellite messaging feature. And this
Speaker 1: came into the headlines this past week because there was
Speaker 1: a big, big emergency with Hurricane Helene. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: we did not know, no one really knows on the
Speaker 1: on the least coast that it was just just barreling
Speaker 1: through and just decimated so many communities, cities, municipalities, especially
Speaker 1: in Carolina. I hear about Asheville, Carolina, North Carolina. It
Speaker 1: was just there was no cell service, there was no
Speaker 1: there was just just millions and gallons of water was
Speaker 1: just just raining down. But being in an emergency without
Speaker 1: a way to contact your family or nine to one one,
Speaker 1: it's scary. And weather events, which we know all too
Speaker 1: well here in Southeast Texas, hurricanes they can wipe out
Speaker 1: homes and phone lines and power lines, and that makes
Speaker 1: the usual cellular or Wi Fi networks impossible to use. However,
Speaker 1: not so fast, my friends. If you have an iPhone,
Speaker 1: you can connect to a satellite to call for emergency
Speaker 1: services or send to your loved ones. And this is important,
Speaker 1: and I want you to take notes, and I'll actually
Speaker 1: slow down my speech pattern, which hurts me to do,
Speaker 1: so you can explain it to it pretty much all
Speaker 1: of your family members. It may sound complicated, but it's
Speaker 1: not because your phone actually does most of the work.
Speaker 1: I want you to go outside and find a spot
Speaker 1: with a clear view of the sky. Okay, no tall buildings,
Speaker 1: no trees, because that potentially can interfere and prevent the
Speaker 1: phone and satellite from connecting. If you need to send
Speaker 1: an emergency signal, go outside, clear view of the sky.
Speaker 1: Hold your phone is normal, and let your device direct
Speaker 1: you which way to turn so we could find the satellite.
Speaker 1: There are two different satellite communication methods on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: There's an emergency SOS via satellite and there's something on
Speaker 1: messages via satellite, and there's a difference. Emergency SOS via
Speaker 1: satellite it connects you to emergency services while messages via
Speaker 1: satellite allows you to send text to both Apple and
Speaker 1: Android devices. Now your phone tries every possible way to
Speaker 1: connect when you dial nine to one one all right.
Speaker 1: If it's not successful, you're gonna see a message gicon
Speaker 1: with a very small red SOS on it. At that point,
Speaker 1: you could tap that and you can answer the prompts
Speaker 1: that appear. It can help you connect to the right agency. Now,
Speaker 1: when your device connects to emergency SOS, it shares your
Speaker 1: location and medical idea information with first responders. Now, the
Speaker 1: emergency SOS via satellite, it requires an iPhone fourteen or later.
Speaker 1: So you've got to have a relatively new phone now
Speaker 1: knowing that the iPhone sixteen just came out, so about
Speaker 1: two years, two to three years, and it's got to
Speaker 1: be running iOS sixteen point one or later. Again, another
Speaker 1: reason why you should continually to update and upgrade your
Speaker 1: software with all these updates. This just through messages through
Speaker 1: satellite that also requires an iPhone fourteen or later. According
Speaker 1: to Google, and I checked this right now, there's only
Speaker 1: one phone that allows for this, and this is their
Speaker 1: Pixel nine. Google has a phone, but if you did
Speaker 1: not know this, it's an Android it's called Pixel. The
Speaker 1: Pixel nine devices currently the only devices with the ability
Speaker 1: to contact emergency services via satellite, and the device also
Speaker 1: needs to have Google Messages as the default message. You
Speaker 1: gene have, which is good because I use Google Messages.
Speaker 1: Owe's gonna prompt you where you need to stay for
Speaker 1: the satellite and everything right now. I believe the service
Speaker 1: is free for at least the next two years. But
Speaker 1: these are the things. Listen. If we pay all this money,
Speaker 1: and we shouldn't be paying money because I just told you.
Speaker 1: Total Wireless, for example, which uses the price in nutwork,
Speaker 1: it is relatively expensive. But if you think or you're
Speaker 1: paying too much money, everyone switched to Total Wireless. But
Speaker 1: number two it should be included. A friend of mine
Speaker 1: whose parents lived live in and they're fine. They live
Speaker 1: in North Carolina, and she went on Facebook Monday or Tuesday,
Speaker 1: right after Hurricane Helene wiped that and she was desperate.
Speaker 1: Does anybody live in the Ashville, Carolina, North Carolina area
Speaker 1: my parents? I have not heard from my parents. They
Speaker 1: have no cell service, they have no electricity. I'm very
Speaker 1: worried about them. How scary is that, man? How scary
Speaker 1: is that satellites are up there and we need to
Speaker 1: utilize them, which is a good segue for me, for
Speaker 1: me to talk about satellites courtesy of our good friend
Speaker 1: and resident Texan Elon Musk, you know Elon without getting
Speaker 1: into Polo tex without getting into better for words, the
Speaker 1: dudos Tesla. He's he bought Twitter, he's you know, screwing
Speaker 1: that thing up. But he and his company do know
Speaker 1: how to shoot rocket ships into space with SpaceX. And
Speaker 1: he has another company which is called Starlink, and it's
Speaker 1: a network of satellites, of low orbiting satellites. So there
Speaker 1: are ways to communicate. And good old Starlink, slash Elin
Speaker 1: and the boys and girls, they are trying to bless
Speaker 1: us with better ways to communicate where maybe we do
Speaker 1: not at some point rely on cell service, and at
Speaker 1: some point we're not. We are going to have low
Speaker 1: orbiting satellites that we can use not only here on ground,
Speaker 1: but also in the air. Told you that I've been
Speaker 1: flying a lot. I flew two international trips last month
Speaker 1: of August, actually last month of September. Why don't August
Speaker 1: one in September. It was interesting because I was able
Speaker 1: to Wi FI over the Atlantic Ocean. It wasn't great.
Speaker 1: It was relatively slow. But at some point airlines are
Speaker 1: moving away from their current providers of how they deliver
Speaker 1: Wi Fi and they're going to be They're hopping on
Speaker 1: with Starlink. And not only that, it's free. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is a smart business model for
Speaker 1: for airlines, but we like free. But then again, somebody's
Speaker 1: got to make some money off this day. Jet Blue,
Speaker 1: believing that was the first airline to announce free Wi
Speaker 1: Fi in twenty seventeen. Delta came along after that. Now
Speaker 1: United and I fly Southwest all the time. I'm a
Speaker 1: big Southwest Airlines guy with you know, as an A
Speaker 1: plus preferred member. One of the perks I get. I
Speaker 1: get free Wi Fi. Sometimes it doesn't work, Sometimes it's slow.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't get all the messages or emails and
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to, but it's there. But Starlink is trying
Speaker 1: to work with a ton, if not every single airline
Speaker 1: to retrofit their system on all these airlines and communicate better.
Speaker 1: And it's not just for consumers to it's the way
Speaker 1: that actually pilots and the and the av addicts as
Speaker 1: they call it, work too. I dig that it's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. We need smarter companies, we need better connectivity.
Speaker 1: I don't like sitting on a play ley. I just
Speaker 1: I got back. I told you I got back from California.
Speaker 1: It was like three hour flight. I was on Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: I got some stuff done. Can you imagine? Listen, I
Speaker 1: was on a nine hour flight from Houston to Berlin,
Speaker 1: an eight hour flight from Houston to London just a
Speaker 1: month and month and month and a half ago. Big
Speaker 1: Daddy Garth just does not sit still. I need to
Speaker 1: be productive. We do need better Wi Fi connectivity. Something
Speaker 1: is being done about this, and this is something I
Speaker 1: am going to continue to keep up on. If you've
Speaker 1: got some more insight of information, he's what I'm here for.
Speaker 1: Come share it with me. Seven one three, two one
Speaker 1: two five, nine to five. Oh, we do have a
Speaker 1: winner for the total wireless twenty dollars gift card. Next
Speaker 1: next hour, have a gift card. If you're hungry, it's
Speaker 1: all must lunchtime. By the way, you're on a high
Speaker 1: tech textant show. Stay by gone to come right back?
Speaker 1: Job one more sentiment to go in this first hour
Speaker 1: of the high Day Texans Show. Happy College Football Saturday,
Speaker 1: college football kind of quiet this weekend, at least for
Speaker 1: me mine Texas Longhorns being number one ranked Longhorns. Depending
Speaker 1: on what the pull you're looking at. There's a bye week,
Speaker 1: prep Pigton for the greatest rivalry in college football next week.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear from all you Midwestern
Speaker 1: honks about Ohio State Michigan. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: any of that now. No, it is Texas. Oh you
Speaker 1: somebody asked me, no, no one are my buddies texted
Speaker 1: to be two days ago because I started, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about the Texas OU game. Whether way back in
Speaker 1: the day. I guess when I was a kid, when
Speaker 1: I was at school. Let's put it this way, when
Speaker 1: I went to the University of Texas back in the eighties,
Speaker 1: was Texas a and m or Oklahoma considered to be
Speaker 1: more of a rival. And I may have a different
Speaker 1: take than this, but just just hear me out over here,
Speaker 1: because I know there's so many aggy listeners uh in this.
Speaker 1: You know, DMA in the Houston area, got respect for
Speaker 1: you people. Some of my best friends are Aggie's. It's fun,
Speaker 1: you know, giving each other the business back and forth.
Speaker 1: But whatever, I mean, I'm sorry, but growing up to
Speaker 1: me acts longhorns in football, the bigger rivalry was Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: The open phone lines right now, this could take a
Speaker 1: day seven one three, two, one two, five nine five.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I know A and M is mentioned. It's
Speaker 1: name checked in the University of Texas fight song. I know,
Speaker 1: Saul Law. You know longhorns bevos horns off or whatever
Speaker 1: it's in the Aggies fight song. Okay, love it, but
Speaker 1: to me as a kid kid growing up in Dallas, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the key thing. The Texas OU game every year,
Speaker 1: every year for over one hundred years has been played
Speaker 1: in Dallas, hop and Bo State Fair of Texas. The
Speaker 1: second Saturday in October. It was a it was a
Speaker 1: national holiday vacation. Obviously, I'm a fan, have a longtime
Speaker 1: family lineage at the University of Texas. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're a listener, ain't nobody who believes more burn orange
Speaker 1: than me. But it was Oklahoma. I remember my dad
Speaker 1: taking me to the game when I was incredibly young.
Speaker 1: I have been in my lifetime. I've been to over
Speaker 1: thirty five or forty Texas OU football games. It is
Speaker 1: it is unmatched because it's the State Fair because of
Speaker 1: the Fletcher's corny dog smell. Because it's almost exactly between
Speaker 1: Austin and Norman, Oklahoma. But it's also state the state
Speaker 1: versus state. This is where I actually could stand on
Speaker 1: my you know, my soapbox. There's Austin versus college station.
Speaker 1: But this is the state of Texas versus the state
Speaker 1: of I'm Oklahoma, and I know, and I'm losing my
Speaker 1: Oklahoma listeners right now, but I did. It's Texas Ou
Speaker 1: in my mind, much bigger rivalry than Texas versus Texas
Speaker 1: A and M. And I know we're listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start talking trash and you're gonna start talking trash in
Speaker 1: about a month now, month and a half. And right
Speaker 1: now we're finally at the Aggi's and the Horns. They're
Speaker 1: gonna play again the day after thanksget think great? Did
Speaker 1: the rivalry is coming back? But it's it's it's Texas Ou.
Speaker 1: Any any other questions? Seven one, three, two point two, five,
Speaker 1: nine to five? Oh, as we continue the high tech
Speaker 1: Texan Uh, speaking of Oklahoma, there is apparently a toilet
Speaker 1: paper shortage in the United States. See what I did there, folks,
Speaker 1: That is talent to go segue like that. I was
Speaker 1: traveling this week, and you know, when you're traveling, you
Speaker 1: don't hear a lot of you don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of news. I get back and I see a meme
Speaker 1: or I see something about toilet paper, like, did I
Speaker 1: miss something? Is it COVID it again? Are we hoarding
Speaker 1: toilet paper? But toilet paper shortages in stores across our
Speaker 1: great country. Apparently they're giving folks nightmarish reminders of the
Speaker 1: pandemic era because apparently there is a major fort strike
Speaker 1: that is happening or happened and again you make guys
Speaker 1: in gals listening, you may want to fill me in
Speaker 1: on the details. But a port strike meaning a lot
Speaker 1: of things products that are shipped into the United States
Speaker 1: which go into ports. Galveston support got a big port
Speaker 1: here on the you know, the east end of Houston.
Speaker 1: They're they're they're going to be held up. There's more
Speaker 1: taxes or something like that. So apparently someone had a
Speaker 1: big idea that we need to go clean out all
Speaker 1: the toilet paper Walmart. I mean, this is a toilet
Speaker 1: paper hoarding two point zero. But let me help you out.
Speaker 1: Can I just stop? If you haven't figured it out
Speaker 1: right now, all the rumors. Let me just spell these rumors.
Speaker 1: These strikes at the ports from Texas all the way
Speaker 1: up I believe, to Maine on the East Coast. They
Speaker 1: will have zero impact on the supply of toilet paper
Speaker 1: because the overwhelming majority of US toilet paper it comes
Speaker 1: from here in the United States, domestic factories. You got it?
Speaker 1: Stop stop it. Maybe because I didn't go I don't
Speaker 1: even know how much toilet paper I have in my house.
Speaker 1: Stop it, people. If this keeps up, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go get one of these high tech you know,
Speaker 1: bidet toilet systems that I see at Consumer Electronics Show
Speaker 1: every single year. What is the deal man? People? Just
Speaker 1: you just freak out? And why do it? What else?
Speaker 1: I want to know something that actually is going to
Speaker 1: be hurt by the supply chain with the major for
Speaker 1: it strike, I mean computer? A lot of computers are made.
Speaker 1: Are clothing? Every most every piece of clothing that I
Speaker 1: wear nowadays it was made in Vietnam or China because
Speaker 1: I wear all this athletic wear the leisure where that
Speaker 1: may start going up. But then again, don't buy clothes
Speaker 1: every single day or go through clothes like everybody goes
Speaker 1: through toilet paper, just just funny in a crazy world.
Speaker 1: How come we didn't get a wireless emergency alert at
Speaker 1: four fifty four in the morning saying, wake up Texans,
Speaker 1: go forward toilet paper. You see, that's the type of
Speaker 1: emergency alert. That's kind of a callback if you're just
Speaker 1: tuning in. I started off the show for the first
Speaker 1: fifteen or thirty minutes talking about the unnecessary, widespread emergency
Speaker 1: alert that most Texans received on Friday morning, waking them
Speaker 1: up from a small city just north of Lubbock, Texas.
Speaker 1: But they I had to send it out to every
Speaker 1: single person's cell phone in Texas to wake them up
Speaker 1: early in the morning. Didn't need that. You wanted a
Speaker 1: real emergency alert. You tell me when real toilet pairper
Speaker 1: hoarding is going to come into effect? My goodness, what
Speaker 1: is up with that? I will give you a little
Speaker 1: play by playbooks coming up next hour. I spent about
Speaker 1: a day and a half. Actually, I was at the
Speaker 1: State Fair of Texas. Was it media preview day last
Speaker 1: waiting for it opened. The State Fair of Texas is underway,
Speaker 1: which is the greatest and biggest state fair in all
Speaker 1: of these United States. You got big text, got the
Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl, and you've got the freaking Fletcher's Corny Dogs.
Speaker 1: If you die before you have a Fletcher's Corny Dog,
Speaker 1: you have never lived. It's a de facto auto show.
Speaker 1: It is one of the country's largest auto shows. Two
Speaker 1: million plus visitors over what three three and a half
Speaker 1: weeks that go through and you see cars and trucks.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons I was up there,
Speaker 1: because I do review trucks and cars. The next day
Speaker 1: I got to go up in to Decatur, Texas. I
Speaker 1: should probably give a gift to anybody, a gift card
Speaker 1: away to anybody who could tell me where exactly is
Speaker 1: Decatur without looking at it on Google. I was in
Speaker 1: Decatur for an entire day at the Texas Auto Writers
Speaker 1: Truck Rodeo Roundup. Got to drive in over three dozen
Speaker 1: brand new SUVs, pickup trucks, mid size, the big full
Speaker 1: sized trucks. I will give you my thoughts on my
Speaker 1: favorite ones that I drove that are on the market
Speaker 1: right now. That's also some automobile news. Should you buy
Speaker 1: an EV, should you buy an electric vehicle? Or should
Speaker 1: you just not buy anything? Right now? You tell me
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two five nine five do
Speaker 1: We'll be back on the other side. So, Hi Texan
Speaker 1: is Michael Garfield?
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Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining us. Yeah, the high tech Texan Michael
Speaker 1: garmil is here with a high tech Texans well items
Speaker 1: to make life.
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Speaker 1: Quite a happy hour, my friends. Actually Saturday, it's college
Speaker 1: football first Saturday in October. October my favorite month of
Speaker 1: the year. Dare I say so? It should be all happier.
Speaker 1: But we are halfway through the show, which I have
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Speaker 1: we love our partners. We give him some shout outs,
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Speaker 1: content about everything we talked about, including wireless emergency alerts.
Speaker 1: I bet some people, even though it's after noon welve
Speaker 1: noon Central time here on a Saturday, you're just waking
Speaker 1: up because you were woken You were awaken up real
Speaker 1: early Friday morning by a wireless emergency alert which most
Speaker 1: possibly had zero pertaining to you. Millions of Texans were
Speaker 1: awakened by their wireless emergency alerts for something that happened
Speaker 1: just near Lubbock, Texas. How do you stop those? You
Speaker 1: can turn those emergency alerts off. I went through the
Speaker 1: whole reason. While the wireless emergency alert system was created
Speaker 1: by the FCC, and FEMA and the whole spiel, and
Speaker 1: I asked the question, why can't it be more geographically
Speaker 1: centered than sending it out to pretty much everybody who
Speaker 1: has a cell phone around the state of Texas. That
Speaker 1: is some of the things that you can hear on
Speaker 1: the beautiful podcast that you could put your ear plugs
Speaker 1: in and wherever you are, you can listen to it.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, I am here for you alive. Should
Speaker 1: you be listening to the biggest talk radio station in
Speaker 1: Texas which is over one hundred years old seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two five nine five O KPRC Radio.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is the name not only here in Houston,
Speaker 1: but you can hear me everywhere because of this thing
Speaker 1: called streaming. And I have a lot of listeners all
Speaker 1: across this great state of Texas, including my hometown, my
Speaker 1: home city of Big d Dallas, which I was in
Speaker 1: about a week and a half ago for the media
Speaker 1: day for the State Fair of Texas which is going
Speaker 1: on right now, and also the Texas Truck Rodeo. Next
Speaker 1: segment or two, I'm gonna go over a list of
Speaker 1: the thirty plus trucks and SUVs that I got to
Speaker 1: drive from all different kinds of manufacturers and give you
Speaker 1: my thoughts on some are really cool ones, the neat features,
Speaker 1: some of the ones you may want to stay away from,
Speaker 1: because it's not just technology, you know, direct technology. People think, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna talk about computers, he's gonna fix your computer. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna fix your computer. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: which kind of laptop or computer to buy. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell you how to fix your computer. But I
Speaker 1: also talk cars and automobiles. I am a longtime member
Speaker 1: of the Texas Auto Writers Association, and I was up
Speaker 1: in big doubt, and I'm going to Dallas again this
Speaker 1: coming week for a day to test drive a the
Speaker 1: new What am I doing? Is it the new Chevy Suburban?
Speaker 1: And is it the Cadillac Escalade. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I do get the opportunity to test drive this stuff
Speaker 1: before you do. And yeah, I'm calling you guys out
Speaker 1: for that. You know, I've built a brand that's over
Speaker 1: twenty years where I'm lucky and honored enough to know
Speaker 1: manufacturers for so many products that they let me play
Speaker 1: with them, test them. They want my opinion, so then
Speaker 1: I can give you my opinion. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: to buy what to stay away from. Speaking of Dallas,
Speaker 1: if you happen to see a lot of drones or
Speaker 1: robot delivery services rolling up and down the streets of
Speaker 1: Big d it's coming to you because there's a test
Speaker 1: program that's getting ready to start in Dallas only, and
Speaker 1: I'm interested in your thoughts on this about drone delivery
Speaker 1: and robotic delivery. It's a company called Serve Robotics and
Speaker 1: a company called Wing and they are hoping that flying
Speaker 1: drones in sidewalk delivery robots can improve delivery times for
Speaker 1: food and little things like that. So joint venture and
Speaker 1: they're doing a test run and they're gonna be doing
Speaker 1: it in Big d and within the next coming months,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna include in a select number of customer
Speaker 1: orders being delivered by a combination of flying drones and
Speaker 1: robots that roll up and down sidewalks. We know what
Speaker 1: drones are, and you probably have heard or seen video
Speaker 1: or the rumors that oh so many deliveries now are
Speaker 1: going to be delivered through drones that are going to
Speaker 1: land in your backyard and drop off your your packages
Speaker 1: and your ice cream that will melt in the Texas
Speaker 1: Sun before you know you're able to get it inside
Speaker 1: your freezer. They're gonna continue to do. These two companies
Speaker 1: will continue to, you know, perfect this system. To me,
Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't. It's gonna take a long
Speaker 1: while to perfect a system like this from cured delivery,
Speaker 1: anti theft drones dropping things off, leaving it in your
Speaker 1: front yard, backyard, people taking it before you do. What
Speaker 1: are the biggest challenges for drone delivery? It's coverage because
Speaker 1: flying drones can only travel a certain distance away from
Speaker 1: its headquarters. Sidewalk drones sometimes can find it hard to
Speaker 1: navigate through populated areas and rocky terrains. If you don't
Speaker 1: know what a sidewalk drone is, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they have them at Austin may have it, because Austin
Speaker 1: seems like a city that actually would have dress Well.
Speaker 1: I know La has them because I saw one in
Speaker 1: several actually in La and it's a weird looking thing.
Speaker 1: The first time you see it, it looks like a
Speaker 1: very very small baby carriage or a shopping cart. But
Speaker 1: it's like it's like an ice chest. You can't see
Speaker 1: it through. It's an ice chest, and it's locked, and
Speaker 1: it's got four wheels and it's automated, controlled with cameras.
Speaker 1: Then it goes up and down a sidewalk. The cameras
Speaker 1: see where the crosswalks are. Is it a green light?
Speaker 1: Is it a red light? Our cars coming, our people nearby?
Speaker 1: And it is programmed to go from point A to
Speaker 1: point B. Point A is where the food company maybe
Speaker 1: whether you order something, loads the food in these little
Speaker 1: robotic baby carriages. That's what I'm gonna call it. With
Speaker 1: a code and a lock and they'll punch in an address, GPS,
Speaker 1: cameras and everything, and it's gonna go maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: half a mile mile whatever it is. And just the
Speaker 1: first time I saw this thing a year ago. I'm
Speaker 1: just watched this thing and it was amazing. I'm walking
Speaker 1: up and down a sidewalk and here comes this thing
Speaker 1: being just rolling by itself. Stops it that stops at
Speaker 1: a red light. Then it goes when it's a green light,
Speaker 1: it gets to its destination. You use an app, it'll
Speaker 1: let you know when it's there. You go downstairs, or
Speaker 1: we'll open your door. You punch in a code which
Speaker 1: is on the little igloo cod the the ice chest
Speaker 1: cooler baby carriage. The lid opens up and you take
Speaker 1: out whatever you do, and then it goes back and
Speaker 1: it's on its way. That's a rope that that's, in
Speaker 1: a very rudimentary term, what a robotic delivery system is
Speaker 1: on the ground, the sidewalk delivery system. And I don't
Speaker 1: know who's gonna be part of this test. Maybe my
Speaker 1: parents will be. I love them for my parents who
Speaker 1: live up Adelas to be part of the test. I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see if it works. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: if their age group category and pretty with it would
Speaker 1: actually utilize something like this. And I bet been. I'm
Speaker 1: interested in your thoughts as we take a break here
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two five nine five zero.
Speaker 1: My question is I'm gonna tease you with this. Here's
Speaker 1: a question. How lazy are we? How lazy are we
Speaker 1: as a society that we can't get up off our
Speaker 1: off the couch to do a taco bell run or
Speaker 1: you know, to to drop pick off our cleaning. I
Speaker 1: know we are a busy society, Like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: is this something we need? Is this something that's gonna
Speaker 1: be prevcted? Is this something that you think big brother
Speaker 1: is gonna watch and they know and they put my
Speaker 1: foot chips in. It's a crazy category that I have
Speaker 1: my eyes and my wheels on. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: this midside. I'm a high tech texting show. Look at
Speaker 1: the clock right now and it's just after noon as
Speaker 1: we are doing the show Plausibly Live and KPRC nine
Speaker 1: fifty am on this first Saturday of October, which means
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Speaker 1: Let's do that. Call it number ten. It's coming to
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Speaker 1: you better hurry up. Not talking about the toilet paper
Speaker 1: shortage as I talk about the wonderful Cobo Bobs and
Speaker 1: there is no toilet paper shortage. If you go back
Speaker 1: and listen to the podcast, I will talk about that.
Speaker 1: Ease up. People stop porting toilet paper. Stop porting. You
Speaker 1: don't need toilet paper of TP domestically made here. It
Speaker 1: doesn't come through the ports in and around the country,
Speaker 1: so there's not a shortage. One thing that there was
Speaker 1: a shortage of years ago was cars. Remember during COVID
Speaker 1: that buying a new car all that so many of
Speaker 1: the dealership plots there you just couldn't find it, and
Speaker 1: car dealer shorts were trying to buy use cars. The
Speaker 1: ecosystem of car buying has kind of equaled out, and
Speaker 1: maybe almost too much. Reports I read there are almost
Speaker 1: too many unsold cars on lots right now. Depending on
Speaker 1: which manufacture you have and you put, potentially could get
Speaker 1: a good deal. But this time of year is always
Speaker 1: fun for me because this is the time of year
Speaker 1: where I get to test drive a ton of trucks.
Speaker 1: I am am a longtime member of the Texas Auto
Speaker 1: Writers Association, and every October there is at least one
Speaker 1: one and a half two day long big meeting conglomeration
Speaker 1: of manufacturers in people of my ilk who write, report,
Speaker 1: do videos, and review vehicles. We get together somewhere in
Speaker 1: the state of Texas to drive brand spanking new trucks, SUVs,
Speaker 1: and a number of other rugged vehicles like this, so
Speaker 1: we can do things head to head. We can get notes,
Speaker 1: we can get information. So you, my dear listeners, after
Speaker 1: twenty plus years listening to the high tech textan show,
Speaker 1: can ask me, Hey, Michael, I need a full sized
Speaker 1: truck with some of your faves. How about a mid
Speaker 1: sized truck. Got an SUV for me, something big, something
Speaker 1: to hold up to eight people. That's what I did
Speaker 1: about a week ago in Decatur, Texas Eagles Canyon Raceway.
Speaker 1: We met up there probably a sixty or so people
Speaker 1: who were members of the Texas Auto Writers Association, and
Speaker 1: there was about thirty thirty five thirty six different vehicles.
Speaker 1: And I have a list of some of the things
Speaker 1: that I got to drive, and this is everything from
Speaker 1: let me look at the manufacturers over here, Ram twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five RAM. I got to drive the RAM fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred in different variants. I drove the Limited, the Rebel,
Speaker 1: the Tungsten. I got to drive a RAM twenty five hundred.
Speaker 1: Toyota was there big time. Toyota brought out a number
Speaker 1: of different thing two different versions of their land Cruiser,
Speaker 1: two different versions of their Sequoias, some Tacomas, the big Tundra,
Speaker 1: the TRD pro. Kiyo was there with their Kiya EV
Speaker 1: nine EV. They had a Kia Sorrento. Lexus was there,
Speaker 1: had the GX five fifty and their t X five
Speaker 1: point fifty eight, which is a hybrid. Honda was there,
Speaker 1: Honda Pilot, Honda Prologue, the Ridgeline, Hondai, Santa Fe, Hyundai
Speaker 1: Santa Cruz. If you're familiar with Ineos I n Eos,
Speaker 1: it's a French automaker that actually are just starting to
Speaker 1: produce cars and sell cars here in the United States.
Speaker 1: The Ineos Grenadier and the Ineos Quartermaster. Those were pretty cool,
Speaker 1: very different, certainly head turners to see. Genesis, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite manufacturers. They were there. Interesting enough, it's not
Speaker 1: so much a pickup truck. They brought their GV eighty
Speaker 1: and GV eighty coop so Jeep had the Wrangler Rubicon
Speaker 1: and it goes on and on and on a bit more,
Speaker 1: but well over thirty different vehicles. And you know, don't
Speaker 1: cry for me, Argentina, but it's not. It's not all
Speaker 1: fun and games and simple test driving cars. In one
Speaker 1: day I tried, we had about eight out seven eight hours,
Speaker 1: and I've got to getting in and out a vehicle
Speaker 1: and keeping mental notes and trying to shoot video real
Speaker 1: quickly and talking to some of the manufacturers and remembering
Speaker 1: what are some of the accessories on this vehicle in
Speaker 1: this vehicle. Weather was nice, uh Sonny. Obviously, it was
Speaker 1: a lot of dirt and hills, and so it's you know,
Speaker 1: I I sacrifice my body and my time for you,
Speaker 1: my dear listeners. So if you are listening and you're
Speaker 1: interested in purchasing, test driving some sort of vehicles, certainly
Speaker 1: some of the ones that I mentioned, I am here
Speaker 1: for you at seven one three two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five VH. A lot of my reports are on
Speaker 1: my Instagram, my website, high tech texts, and you can
Speaker 1: follow that. I will say one of my favorite trucks
Speaker 1: that I drove surprised me. It was it's I don't
Speaker 1: get to test drive a lot of Toyotas. For some reason.
Speaker 1: I test drive a lot of rams, you know, Jeeps
Speaker 1: and GMCs and Chevyes. I do get Toyotas here and there,
Speaker 1: the Toyota Tacoma. I was in the Toyota to Limited.
Speaker 1: Now it's a mid sized truck, not a full sized truck.
Speaker 1: Now again, I'm giving you my personal opinion. I don't
Speaker 1: I personally don't need a full size truck. I don't
Speaker 1: need a fifteen hundred. I don't need anything. No, I
Speaker 1: don't because I don't slep a lot of things. I
Speaker 1: don't have a ranch. I don't need to tow a boat.
Speaker 1: I don't need to toss a bed in there to
Speaker 1: move everything, so they can give you my opinion if
Speaker 1: you want more, without a doubt, mid size trucks I
Speaker 1: like better personally. They're easier to park because they're smaller.
Speaker 1: They're still a bit five foot potentially a six foot
Speaker 1: bed if you want to schlep some things too. But
Speaker 1: I was very impressed with the Toyota Tacoma Limited. It's
Speaker 1: been out a little while. I like it because it
Speaker 1: was low to the ground, easy to get in get out.
Speaker 1: But the hiccup this bad boy had because of the
Speaker 1: engine was spectacular. And you want the word pick up
Speaker 1: to me, two things, Well, you can pick up junk
Speaker 1: like Sanford and Son and put in the back of
Speaker 1: a pickup, or you push down that gas pedal and
Speaker 1: put the pedal to the metal. This bad boy better
Speaker 1: have some pick up. No, the torque, the pound, the
Speaker 1: weigh ratio, everything, and the engine that was inside the
Speaker 1: Tacoma Limited was hallin'. It was halling a baby and
Speaker 1: very very impressive, and that one stood out. I like
Speaker 1: the full size. The rams were really good. I obviously
Speaker 1: I like all the accessories and incouterments because I do
Speaker 1: like the inside of vehicles because breaking news, we actually
Speaker 1: spend a lot of the times. We spend all of
Speaker 1: our time inside a vehicle. We want comfort, we want
Speaker 1: air conditioned seats, We want big touch screens. RAM has
Speaker 1: long done a great job with their big touch screens,
Speaker 1: so the RAM Limited phenomenal. The fifteen hundred Rebel, the
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred Limited were good. Twelve inch touch screens, the
Speaker 1: sound speakers that you can act. I will tell you
Speaker 1: what Stillantis does with their you Connect in Potama system
Speaker 1: my favorite across all manufacturers, without a doubt. I think
Speaker 1: that you connect systems, certainly in the RAM. If you've
Speaker 1: got the dashboard space to be able to put a
Speaker 1: big touch screen, put it in there. This is a
Speaker 1: vertical one. Ford has a horizontal one. GMC I believe
Speaker 1: as a Horizona one. Tesla's got the vertical one. It's
Speaker 1: just so simple and easy to use. I liked it
Speaker 1: a lot. In terms of a non pickup truck. What
Speaker 1: are the better ones? But if not my favorite to drug,
Speaker 1: I love Genesis. Genesis doesn't do wrong. Nowadays, Genesis has
Speaker 1: turned into a strong brand, and the GV eighty Loop
Speaker 1: three point five Turbo with an E Supercharge inside it
Speaker 1: is so luxurious. It's classified as an SUV, which is
Speaker 1: why it was at the Texas Truck Rodeo. It was great.
Speaker 1: If I was shopping personally for a car I would
Speaker 1: look for, I would look at Genesis, and again, this
Speaker 1: is non paid. I'm not gonna tell you a dealership.
Speaker 1: I don't know a Genesis dealership here. I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of these are manufacturers. Everything that I speak
Speaker 1: about when it comes to automobiles, this is Michael Garfield's
Speaker 1: personal opinion, do not get paid. This is just just wrap.
Speaker 1: Some of the ones that I thought were the Hyundai
Speaker 1: Santa Cruz, odd looking vehicle. It's a kind of a
Speaker 1: cross betray a truck and a car. The Honda Ridgeline,
Speaker 1: same things. Okay, it's just they're just The rides were okay.
Speaker 1: The price decent, without a doubt, but just not as
Speaker 1: comfortable and as cushy as they were, Like have to
Speaker 1: go wrong with a Jeep Wrangler. Rumicon had the three
Speaker 1: ninety two Final Edition, which was a four x four.
Speaker 1: Not the cheapest thing on the market by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. But if you want something that's hold
Speaker 1: its value, if you want something that goes up and downhills.
Speaker 1: Jeeps are strong. The Jeep Wrangler Rubicon was fun, Lexus,
Speaker 1: very legit, jurious. Those were on the suv side. The
Speaker 1: g X five fifty, the Luxury Plus really cool. Love
Speaker 1: the fact that they don't do the UH, the little
Speaker 1: the touch pad anymore, so it's much more safe now.
Speaker 1: It was really good. And also I'd be remiss if
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about one more mid size vehicle. Was
Speaker 1: the Nissan Frontier. I liked it. It was the Pro
Speaker 1: four X version. If I'm gonna get a Nissan Frontier,
Speaker 1: I got to drive that. But it was the Pro
Speaker 1: four X. Great tires, you know, it's got what it's
Speaker 1: needed to be Inside, it's not the most luxurious, but
Speaker 1: if you do want a mid size, easy to park, tough,
Speaker 1: mid size truck, take a look at the Nissan Frontier.
Speaker 1: It's also priced pretty accurately too. So that's some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that I arrived throughout the show. I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit more, but I do have
Speaker 1: some open phone lines if you want to ask me
Speaker 1: questions specifically about UH. You may be interested in what
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Speaker 1: Orc some of someone they didn't know. I was standing there,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, hello, nice to meet you. It's it's
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Speaker 1: and they are a wonderful dad. Don't forget holiday season's
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Speaker 1: if they want to do some coin collecting. You never
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Speaker 1: or if you're looking to you know, some State of
Speaker 1: Texas memorabilia. But they're awesome. So I just want to
Speaker 1: give them a little thank you. And now I hope
Speaker 1: to see you if I happen to be in there
Speaker 1: one day soon. As we continue the Michael Garfield Show,
Speaker 1: sometimes we call it the High Tech Texan, I will
Speaker 1: talk a little tech. I want to talk about apps
Speaker 1: right now. I used to have I have Callum before
Speaker 1: Callum read over here, how are you doing you wake? Callum?
Speaker 1: Callum was on the other side of the glass. He's
Speaker 1: answering the phones here. Years ago, Callum, when I would,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back. Well, my show has been going
Speaker 1: on twenty two years or so, so about ten, twelve,
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago I did. I did a weekly segment
Speaker 1: and it was called kiss My App. I well, I
Speaker 1: know the SEC's listening. It's app app. Okay, kiss my app? Calum. See,
Speaker 1: we have a sounder for that thing we had. It
Speaker 1: was really nicely produced. It was these sound effects and
Speaker 1: it was like jish more app what I used to
Speaker 1: roove you an app? It was sponsored by somebody. I
Speaker 1: guess we stopped it because it was not sponsored. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we run across some apps that makes sense that'll change
Speaker 1: your life that are really cool. I found one the
Speaker 1: other day that I just have to share, and it
Speaker 1: is this. You know what This should have been a tease.
Speaker 1: I was gonna tease it before that the commercial break.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, coming up, I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 1: an app that's gonna change your life in one specific
Speaker 1: room of your house. Now, if I said that what
Speaker 1: goes through your mind? I don't know. Actually, I don't
Speaker 1: even want to know what goes through your mind. So
Speaker 1: I found this out that will change the way I
Speaker 1: operate in one specific room of my house. Hello, the kitchen.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. So I like cooking. I live alone, enjoy cooking.
Speaker 1: Got a big kitchen, big counter space, everything. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: look at recipes, like, for example, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a great example. I make my own hummus hummus. I've
Speaker 1: made it long enough that I should memorize the recipe,
Speaker 1: but I don't, and I forget. So I have a
Speaker 1: Google Nest, a little tiny video Google Nest older version
Speaker 1: that I can just get to pull up any recipe.
Speaker 1: And you may do this too, if you have a
Speaker 1: recipe that you use from your kitchen. Sometimes it'll pull
Speaker 1: up on your Alexa or whatever it is, and it'll
Speaker 1: show it'll go to this recipe website. Now, do you
Speaker 1: ever have this problem when you go to a recipe website?
Speaker 1: Do you have to filter through all this bs of
Speaker 1: whoever put the recipe on there, about their life story,
Speaker 1: all the pop up ads and all this other crap.
Speaker 1: Just give me the ingredients in what are the directions? One, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five all I want to know? Okay, always had that problem.
Speaker 1: I've gotta scroll up. My hands have freaking chickpeas on them,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, gim it, people, I've found your answer.
Speaker 1: It is an app, and it's also a website too.
Speaker 1: It's called Just the reci Boom. It's the kiss my
Speaker 1: app app the week, brought to you by nobody. Go
Speaker 1: to just therecipe dot com, or you get downloaded on
Speaker 1: your Apple or you get downloaded on your Android. It
Speaker 1: is just the Recipe. It's phenomenal. Bottom line, Find any
Speaker 1: recipe you want on any website, no matter how much
Speaker 1: crappo a hat is on it. Cut and paste the url. Okay,
Speaker 1: copy the copy of the url. Okay, go to the
Speaker 1: just the recipe dot com paste it. Just paste the
Speaker 1: url and click the button. Boom. I don't know what
Speaker 1: magic there is. It extracts only the only the ingredients
Speaker 1: and only the directions. Boom. You're welcome. Any question. Seven one.
Speaker 1: It's free. There is a premium paid version where it
Speaker 1: stores like twenty recipes. You don't need that stuff, just
Speaker 1: use the free version. It's it's pretty cool because listen,
Speaker 1: I understand why these people who post these recipes. They
Speaker 1: want to tell you life story. You know what, when
Speaker 1: I grew up, my grandmother made the greatest buttermilk cookies
Speaker 1: and the US forever, and I would wake up and
Speaker 1: they're warm, and then I would snuggle with my dog
Speaker 1: in bed and blah blah blah blah blah blah. Because
Speaker 1: there's more words. The longer you're gonna be on their website,
Speaker 1: the more eyeballs they get, the more ads they can sell.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Would you just give me the recipe? Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the ADHD version of the recipe, and that's how
Speaker 1: I roll. Just the recipe. That's the name of the app,
Speaker 1: that's the name of the website. There you go. Anybody
Speaker 1: else got favorite websites? Like favorite apps? I probably should
Speaker 1: need to do this, but I need to bring we
Speaker 1: call of Callum. We need to bring back this kiss
Speaker 1: my app. I need I need to come up with
Speaker 1: my favorite app of the week. So anybody who has
Speaker 1: the suggestions pop them to me. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
Speaker 1: dot com. Find me on ex, Twitter and Facebook and
Speaker 1: bid Instagram. If you're not block High Tech Texan h
Speaker 1: I G H t c H t X An talked
Speaker 1: about some trucks. I did get some emails over here, Michael.
Speaker 1: I am in the mode at some point soon of
Speaker 1: getting a smaller SUV, nothing big. I don't want a
Speaker 1: gas guzzler. Do I want something that's electric? Do I
Speaker 1: want something that's hybrid? Good question. I appreciate you. That
Speaker 1: was from Sam Sam's in Parland, Texas. I'm going to
Speaker 1: answer the question with a question because I have to
Speaker 1: do it. Is this just for you? Sam? I assume
Speaker 1: Sam's a guy. Sam. Are you married? Sam? Do you
Speaker 1: have any kids? Sam? Are your kids old enough or
Speaker 1: the age where they go to school where you or
Speaker 1: your spouse or your partner you have to schlep themto school?
Speaker 1: Do they have soccer? Do they have dance? Do they
Speaker 1: have jim? Do they have swim practice? Is this your
Speaker 1: first car or will be your second car? These are
Speaker 1: questions I asked. When it comes to evs lit nick EV's,
Speaker 1: I think they are fast. I think they are designed
Speaker 1: very very nice and sharp. There's some there's some great
Speaker 1: ones like the Kia EV nine, which is a larger one,
Speaker 1: which I think is great. I actually just test drove
Speaker 1: that again last week at the Texas Troke Rodeo. They're smaller,
Speaker 1: faster evs. Yes, I can tell you to go get
Speaker 1: a BMW Mercedes, a poorche shop all these other evs.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, though, and I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: my personal opinion personally, meet where I am in my
Speaker 1: lifetime right now. I don't want an EV okay, because
Speaker 1: I'm a one person dude. All my kids are grown
Speaker 1: up there, they're out of the house. I'm not married.
Speaker 1: I don't need to schlep anybody to just to soccer practice.
Speaker 1: And the reason I say soccer practice baseball practice in schools.
Speaker 1: If all you do is drive in a ten to
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty mile radius of taking the kids to soccer,
Speaker 1: taking them to school, going to the grocery store, and
Speaker 1: you work from home, you know what, Yeah, consider an EV.
Speaker 1: Consider getting an EV because odds are you're going to
Speaker 1: get a power supply that you can install inside your
Speaker 1: garage that you can continually charge it. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: go more than the normal range and range the you
Speaker 1: have to buy evs based on what's the battery range nowadays.
Speaker 1: I remember the first battery range was one hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour. One hundred miles. Now I wouldn't don't even
Speaker 1: consider it. Range that's less than two hundred and fifty miles.
Speaker 1: If you get a bigger vehicle, some of these ranges
Speaker 1: can get up to four hundred to four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty mile range. Okay, decent, But for me, in a snap,
Speaker 1: I go to Austin, I go to see football games,
Speaker 1: I go to see one of my sons living in Austin. Okay,
Speaker 1: I do not want to stop in bass Drop. Find
Speaker 1: an electric charging station. Pray that it's entirely juiced up
Speaker 1: to its full KILLO wattage, Pray that nobody's already there
Speaker 1: using it. Then plug my vehicle in and wait another
Speaker 1: freaking forty minutes to charge my vehicle. Ah, I ain't
Speaker 1: doing that people. Nope, no, sir, same thing. I go
Speaker 1: to Dallas to see my parents. Know. But if I'm
Speaker 1: driving in around town, if my home has a charger,
Speaker 1: if I drive it to work, maybe downtown Houston or
Speaker 1: on a suburb, and my work has charging a place
Speaker 1: that I can plug it in, coolioh That's how I determine.
Speaker 1: But if you ask me, the way to go is
Speaker 1: hybrid manufacturers right now that you're having a lot. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of evs on the market. Tesla, for example,
Speaker 1: they stop selling its cheapest version of its Tesla's model.
Speaker 1: Tesla sales are picking up a little bit, but they
Speaker 1: said they're escalating in price. Hybrids. To me, where you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get fifty sixty, seventy or eighty
Speaker 1: miles per gallant equivalent equivalent because it's an engine and gas.
Speaker 1: That's the way I would go, Sam, I hope, I
Speaker 1: am your question. We got one more segment. People feel
Speaker 1: free to get in before we get out of here.
Speaker 1: Then I'll let you go watch college football and you're
Speaker 1: on the ICEAD Texan Show. Just about nine more minutes
Speaker 1: of your time. That's all I ask. We will end
Speaker 1: the show, we'll wrap it up, we'll put it on
Speaker 1: our podcast at a short radio. Just make sure you
Speaker 1: download that free app, which by the way, is always
Speaker 1: the app of the week. Should you want to download
Speaker 1: a specific app and you can listen to it over
Speaker 1: and over again. Should you miss some of the Sexy show,
Speaker 1: you can listen to that all you want. First Saturday
Speaker 1: and October, Weather's slowly slowly at Texas trying to get
Speaker 1: better it's gonna get cooler. But we're in the midst
Speaker 1: of football season. Halloween is here, not doing the Halloween
Speaker 1: candy countdown yet, but you know Reesis is always the winner.
Speaker 1: But we do thank you for tuning in live every
Speaker 1: Saturday eleven a to one p and I incount do
Speaker 1: we still do a best of repeat from eleven PM
Speaker 1: at night till one am in the morning for all
Speaker 1: you late night truckers rolling through Houston listening on your
Speaker 1: big rigs. So you get twice two times garf on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: How fun is that? Or how boring is that? I'll
Speaker 1: give out the phone number one more time. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: sneak in a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: five nine five. Oh, I debunked the myth that there's
Speaker 1: a toilet paper shortage. Most toilet paper it's made manufactured
Speaker 1: here in the United States, So stop hoarding people, stop
Speaker 1: hoarding it. No, we don't need to do that. I
Speaker 1: did just go through a whole list of trucks and
Speaker 1: SUVs that I got to test drive as I do
Speaker 1: at my annual October Texas Auto Writers Texas Truck Rodeo.
Speaker 1: More than happy to personally answer your some of your
Speaker 1: emails Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com if you're looking
Speaker 1: for advice when it comes to big SUVs, cuvs, which
Speaker 1: is kind of a crossover utility vehicle, something smallish pickup trucks,
Speaker 1: mid size, full size. I just test your about thirty
Speaker 1: of those things, and I've got my thoughts which I
Speaker 1: kind of ran down. Eeds versus hybrids. Sam from Parland, Texas,
Speaker 1: just send me an email. Hybrid is the way to go.
Speaker 1: Hey Garf, if you were to buy a car today,
Speaker 1: what would you get? I personally would not get an
Speaker 1: EV Now again, I personally where But listen to my
Speaker 1: words a lot. Personally a dude in his fifties whose
Speaker 1: kids are moved out of the house, who lives alone,
Speaker 1: who sometimes just wants to hop in the car and
Speaker 1: drive to Dallas, drive to Austin. Hey, I don't want
Speaker 1: to stop and cards a vehicle and try to find
Speaker 1: a place to charge vehicle. I want to gas up
Speaker 1: and go. That's me somebody else. That's why when I
Speaker 1: you asked me a question, I generally skew a question
Speaker 1: several questions to get where you are in your life,
Speaker 1: so then I can provides you with the a good
Speaker 1: suggestion and for you some people evs, maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: way to go without a doubt. I told you Tesla.
Speaker 1: The Texas made Tesla's by the war. They stopped selling
Speaker 1: its cheapest version recently and there are number of different
Speaker 1: Teslas on the road. The Model three, the new unsubsidized
Speaker 1: minimum price for a Model three went up from thirty
Speaker 1: nine thousand to forty two thousand to five hundred. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Model three lined. It was it was refreshed. They
Speaker 1: refreshed the Model three line in the United States this
Speaker 1: past January. I did see the numbers for the third
Speaker 1: quarter today. They delivered four hundred and sixty two thousand
Speaker 1: vehicles between July and September, which which is an uptick
Speaker 1: in overall Tesla's. Tesla has been struggling with recalls this year,
Speaker 1: and most of those issues they were fixed with updates
Speaker 1: that were delivered over the air, which is pretty cool,
Speaker 1: you know, just just downloaded. But now it's gonna cost
Speaker 1: you a little bit more the cheap. I think there
Speaker 1: is one vehicle, one or two vehicles brand new on
Speaker 1: the market across the board in the United States that
Speaker 1: is under twenty thousand dollars. I think there's a Mitsubishi Lancer,
Speaker 1: and I maybe one or two others because obviously this
Speaker 1: is what I covered. But I remember when vehicles were
Speaker 1: so cheap and inexpensive because I grew up watching the
Speaker 1: prices right, and the price is right, always a new
Speaker 1: car if you guessed the price. I am so og
Speaker 1: that I remember when the price of a car and
Speaker 1: they didn't show you the digits, but it only had
Speaker 1: four digits, which means it was under ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I remember the price of a car where the first
Speaker 1: digit started with a three. I am not kidding he again,
Speaker 1: I'm going back into the mid to late seventies when
Speaker 1: I was a little kid standing out from school, pretending
Speaker 1: I was sick because I wanted to watch the prices right.
Speaker 1: But it was three thousand something for a new car.
Speaker 1: Times of change, people, Times have changed. I now drive,
Speaker 1: I have driven cars that are quarter of a million
Speaker 1: dollars and I'm looking at the Monroney, you know, the
Speaker 1: sticker to review this costs more than not only my house,
Speaker 1: but my parents' house and probably three of my relatives' houses. Cambut,
Speaker 1: this is this is a vehicle. It's crazy. But I
Speaker 1: also saw that the baby Boomer generation, which I am
Speaker 1: not a baby boomer. I missed the baby Boomer generation
Speaker 1: by thirty four days. If you want to figure out
Speaker 1: how exact old I am. The baby generate is the
Speaker 1: wealthiest generation in the history of man, that wealthiest generation.
Speaker 1: I'm a gen xer, and I know you know these
Speaker 1: millennials now are the giny that gin he's adding what
Speaker 1: they call these They're making money so fast because all
Speaker 1: these influencers. But you got money. You got a quarter
Speaker 1: of a million dollars to spend on a car. I don't,
Speaker 1: which is why I like test driving them. Every single
Speaker 1: week I get a brand new Grard at desk drive,
Speaker 1: and then I got to give it up, which is
Speaker 1: good for you because well over sixty plus times a year,
Speaker 1: because sometimes I get more than one per week. I
Speaker 1: get to tell you what's going on. But that's the
Speaker 1: way I work. I do get computers, I do get laptops.
Speaker 1: I do get cell phones. I do get high definition TVs, clothing,
Speaker 1: bourbon travel. I am your consumer guy. Anything else, I'm
Speaker 1: here for you. We're gonna start winding up this thing.
Speaker 1: As we look at the clock, calum read, I do
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