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<v Speaker 1>Is Michael Garfild Michael Garfield.

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Garfield's joining us.

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<v Speaker 1>In the high Tech Texan.

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items

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<v Speaker 2>to make life easier new technology. So Michael Garfield has

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<v Speaker 2>something you might wanta.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan three decades helping

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<v Speaker 1>you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the

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<v Speaker 1>iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield.

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<v Speaker 2>It is June of my Friends, which means one thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm ready for my Father's BA and I'm sure you

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<v Speaker 2>are too if you are a father coming up. What

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<v Speaker 2>do we gotta We got about two weeks. People, take

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<v Speaker 2>care of your dad's I hope my dad is not

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<v Speaker 2>listening in Dallas right now because we were going to

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<v Speaker 2>go through at some point. I love this show, taking

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<v Speaker 2>your questions in your calls of the technology or non

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<v Speaker 2>technology Father's Day gifts, and oh, by the way, if

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<v Speaker 2>you're a graduate, I've got some stuff for you too.

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<v Speaker 2>Michael is the name if you haven't figured that out

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<v Speaker 2>the long running High Deck Textan show. Yes, we do

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<v Speaker 2>talk and answer your questions and give you some recommendations

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<v Speaker 2>on products that go beep and buzz and they need

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<v Speaker 2>charging in batteries. But I also talk about and review cars.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, I was in a big, old, unbelievable expensive Mama.

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<v Speaker 2>If you are interested in getting dad, or you're graduate

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<v Speaker 2>a one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty thousand

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<v Speaker 2>dollars big ol'd mama electric suv, I've got the thing

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<v Speaker 2>for you. I was in the Cadillac Escalade IQ Luxury

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<v Speaker 2>Too version. By the way, yes it is not cheap,

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<v Speaker 2>but pound for pound every week, I as you probably know,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're a longtime listener, I do test drive a

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<v Speaker 2>brand new vehicle from random manufacting. Not random, but dozens

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<v Speaker 2>of different manufacturers. It's not up to me to choose.

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<v Speaker 2>They actually send it to me. I don't get paid.

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<v Speaker 2>It's my two cents. Done it. For fifteen years, I

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<v Speaker 2>have done about a thousand and I'm not kidding. If

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<v Speaker 2>you multipled out a thousand different vehicle reviews, evs, SUV,

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<v Speaker 2>sports cars, many evans, it goes on and on or not.

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<v Speaker 2>This year twenty twenty, we're almost halfway through twenty twenty five.

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<v Speaker 2>This probably my top three or four vehicle that I've

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<v Speaker 2>driven in terms of luxury man, they have some features

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<v Speaker 2>in this thing that that even blew me away. I

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<v Speaker 2>will give you that full review of my thoughts. Why

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<v Speaker 2>maybe you need to start saving some shekels to uh

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<v Speaker 2>and then maybe maybe just I know, sell two or

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<v Speaker 2>three of your kids, morgage your entire home. This this

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<v Speaker 2>vehicle is so big you probably could live in here

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<v Speaker 2>if you live alone. We will talk about that. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>let me give you the phone number to start everything off.

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<v Speaker 2>Callum read on the other side of that glass. He

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<v Speaker 2>may answer your phone calls. If he doesn't, and if

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<v Speaker 2>it rolls over to voicemail, leave a voicemail. We have

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<v Speaker 2>a right to play your voice and I can then

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<v Speaker 2>answer your questions. We don't want to keep you holding

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<v Speaker 2>too much. Three four six two nine eight three nine,

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<v Speaker 2>which is three four six twenty nine texts in Just

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<v Speaker 2>call say hi, ask me some questions. If you want

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<v Speaker 2>to wish Dad an early happy Father's Day, leave a

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<v Speaker 2>message to talk to me. I will give Dad a

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<v Speaker 2>shout out like You can also reach me on social media,

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<v Speaker 2>which I try to have corded the market, which not really,

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<v Speaker 2>but I do have a nice following thanks to you.

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<v Speaker 2>I am on x follow me high tech texts and

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<v Speaker 2>Hi g h T E C h T e x

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<v Speaker 2>A N Facebook unless I have walked you more than

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<v Speaker 2>happy to hear from you some of the things that

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<v Speaker 2>we are going to talk about. Last last week I

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<v Speaker 2>talked semi extensively about in Austin what cotwall this state

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<v Speaker 2>legislature was going on. There was a bill that would

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<v Speaker 2>have banned social media from miners under eighteen years old.

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<v Speaker 2>That bill did not pass Earlier this week. I will

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<v Speaker 2>tell you why, what could it have meant? Also tell

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<v Speaker 2>you why now maybe the time to buy a phone.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right, despite all the tariffs and all the threat

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<v Speaker 2>of tariffs coming in from other countries, including China. I

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<v Speaker 2>got I'm reading some reports and I'm sipping through the

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the reading inside the tea leaves. If you want,

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<v Speaker 2>this may be the good time to get your butt

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<v Speaker 2>out and buy the phone. Maybe a late Mother's Day gift.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe you don't want to get that graduate Hey, you know, listen,

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<v Speaker 2>I had to go all through high school with this

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<v Speaker 2>crappy hand me down phone, you know, mom, dad, grandmother

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<v Speaker 2>or something. Don't you think it's time for me to

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<v Speaker 2>get a phone. I will tell you about that. I

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<v Speaker 2>got some cool apps to help your life, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>be a little bit more seamlessly. And also, don't forget

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<v Speaker 2>this is a big time of the year now that

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<v Speaker 2>it's summer for people to move, buying new homes, renting

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<v Speaker 2>new homes. I get this question pretty often, certainly this

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<v Speaker 2>time of year more than others. When you move out

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<v Speaker 2>of a home, what do you do with the smart

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<v Speaker 2>home technology? Do you move it with you? Do you

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<v Speaker 2>leave it for the next homeowner? If you own the

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<v Speaker 2>house and then you sell it, can you take some

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<v Speaker 2>of it? How tough is it to remove thermostats, smart

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<v Speaker 2>light bulbs, change your pass world passwords? What's the process

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<v Speaker 2>of teaching the new owner how to use this stuff?

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<v Speaker 2>Are you? Are you obligated to give them lessons on well,

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<v Speaker 2>how to use this, how to use that? Very good questions.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll talk about some of the things in your home

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<v Speaker 2>that you may forget that's smart. You may have even

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<v Speaker 2>forgot that there, You may even forgot how to use

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<v Speaker 2>them yourself. And so we will get through that sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>between now and in the NBA's show, which is about

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<v Speaker 2>two hours from right now. So whether you're listening in Houston,

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<v Speaker 2>San Antonio, Dallas, terrestrially sometime this weekend, or if you're

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<v Speaker 2>listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can download that free app.

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<v Speaker 2>There's an app that's going to change your life. You

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<v Speaker 2>can also listen to the podcast once we finish this

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<v Speaker 2>two hour show. My man Callum he puts it up

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<v Speaker 2>not on the burg but he puts it somewhere on

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<v Speaker 2>a server that you can download and listen and send

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<v Speaker 2>it to your friends over and over again. We do

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<v Speaker 2>have one or two gift cards to give away. We

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<v Speaker 2>love restaurants now that school is out, now that the

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<v Speaker 2>cost of living and the cost of meals continue to escalate.

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<v Speaker 2>I bang on doors of my good friends who own restaurants, going, hey, man,

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<v Speaker 2>can we give some stuff away? Yes, we do. We

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<v Speaker 2>do have some gift cards from Cobo Bob's. Oh, just

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<v Speaker 2>one of my favorites. I love Cobo Bob certainly. Four

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<v Speaker 2>locations in Houston, eight or nine in Austin. We've got

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<v Speaker 2>some in San Antonio, none in Dallas, so you can

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<v Speaker 2>travel should you end it up there. Bred Zeppelin too,

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<v Speaker 2>if you've never been to Bread Zeppelin. Oh that's phenomenal salads,

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<v Speaker 2>bread fresh break. We've got that for you too. I

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<v Speaker 2>will take your calls. Looks like we've got a few

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<v Speaker 2>on the line, but you do have to hold on

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<v Speaker 2>to the second segment, so don't go anywhere again. Michael

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<v Speaker 2>Garfield is the name Garf. If we are tight three

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<v Speaker 2>four six twenty nine Texan. When we come back, I

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<v Speaker 2>will tell you where to see me. This coming Monday morning,

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<v Speaker 2>I do a regular weekly TV actually several TV gigs.

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<v Speaker 2>I will be showing off a good four or five,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe six fun products to give you some Father's Day

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<v Speaker 2>gift ideas. Even though I'll kind of bury the lead

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<v Speaker 2>and tell you what I'm gonna show off and think

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<v Speaker 2>to give you some ideas. Some of them aren't too expensive.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of them Dad may want. Some of them Dad's

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<v Speaker 2>never even heard of. But I'll tell you what. They're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be much better than the typical Father's Day gifts

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<v Speaker 2>that I used to give my father, which were a

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<v Speaker 2>sleeve of golf balls and a coffee mug, which, by

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<v Speaker 2>the way, my kids, if you are of a certain age,

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<v Speaker 2>gave me the same thing too. My kids, I got

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<v Speaker 2>a tie which I don't wear, and a coffee mug

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<v Speaker 2>which I don't drink coffee. We're gonna personalize things for

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<v Speaker 2>you a little bit here on the High Tech Texting Show,

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<v Speaker 2>it is mister Michael Garfield. I do thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>tuning in. Fire up, hang on, we'll be back in

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<v Speaker 2>a be a minute. On the Hiway Saxon Show, I

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<v Speaker 2>want to get things started off quickly. Told you I

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<v Speaker 2>got a few things to give away. Man, Why plots around, man,

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<v Speaker 2>Let's just take it. Put the pedal to the battle. People.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm men. Give you a call, give me your phone number,

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<v Speaker 2>call on number ten. What do you want to give away? First?

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do bread bread Zeppelin. I know locate you if

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<v Speaker 2>you're in Houston. They got one location, at least one

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<v Speaker 2>location that I know of that I go to quite regularly.

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<v Speaker 2>It's on Highway fifty nine Southless Freeway, right inside the Loop,

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<v Speaker 2>right across from the Oasis of Love. Yes, you never know,

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<v Speaker 2>Joel Ostein could walk in there too. They ask for

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<v Speaker 2>some money to actually get one of the sandwiches, but

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<v Speaker 2>you can treat him to lunch with this gift card.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna give you color number ten right now. Talk

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<v Speaker 2>to me seven to one three two one two five

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<v Speaker 2>nine five Oh, color number ten? You got? You got?

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's a is it a fifteen or a

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five dollars gift card? Either way, man, it takes

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<v Speaker 2>care of lunch or dinner. You go in, you get

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<v Speaker 2>one of their wonderful salads. If you want their bread sandwich,

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<v Speaker 2>they think they bake this fresh French bread and then

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<v Speaker 2>they kind of take the the chewy. They hold it

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<v Speaker 2>out if you will, so it's hollow. They shove one

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<v Speaker 2>of fifteen made salads whichever you want, and so when

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<v Speaker 2>you eat it, you're eating like, you know, this awesome

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<v Speaker 2>caesar salad with chicken, but it's wrapped around this bread.

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<v Speaker 2>You can also get a bread bull if you want

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<v Speaker 2>to too. Phone number seven one three two one two

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<v Speaker 2>five nine five. Oh, we have a we have a

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<v Speaker 2>winter throws up yep up. Sorry, hang out people, we

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<v Speaker 2>got a winner. We got a winter. Don't worry. We

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<v Speaker 2>got another gift card to another another wonderful restaurant next hour.

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<v Speaker 2>This is what we do. It's radio people. We want

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<v Speaker 2>to actually promote, you know, kind of. We want to

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<v Speaker 2>dangle a carrot in front of you for your time

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<v Speaker 2>spent listening. We want to reward you for your TSL

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<v Speaker 2>your time spent listening, and we have for the past

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<v Speaker 2>what twenty three years, the longest running radio program locally

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<v Speaker 2>here on the Heritage KPRC nine fifty in Houston, relatively

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<v Speaker 2>new in Dallas, relatively new in San Antonio, WAI. So

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<v Speaker 2>hang over here you'll see how we work. I do

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<v Speaker 2>not geek out. I rarely talk about megabytes and gigabytes.

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<v Speaker 2>We make, we make tech, we make technology sexy. It's

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's tech yology for the high tech Texan. I

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<v Speaker 2>actually should trademark up. We should put that on a

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<v Speaker 2>T shirt tech Yology. Of course, I don't have AI.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think I have a Texas accent. Does anybody

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<v Speaker 2>think I have a Texas accent? I know my mother's

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<v Speaker 2>got a Texas actor. She's from Austin. Talks a letter

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<v Speaker 2>with that Texas trying very cute. I grew up on TV.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm surprised I don't have a Cuban accent because I

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<v Speaker 2>grew up watching I love Lucy Now. But it's tech

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<v Speaker 2>yaw ledge here on the High Tech Textan show. Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>Last week I talked quite a bit about this. I

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<v Speaker 2>try not to delve into politics, and I'm serious about that.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's very you know, if I talk politics,

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<v Speaker 2>know much about politics. But there are some political things

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<v Speaker 2>that obviously revolve around technology products, gadgets, and you know

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<v Speaker 2>how you know the government oversees them. You know, the

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<v Speaker 2>TikTok ban. Obviously there is there going to be a

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<v Speaker 2>bann or not. That's a government. That's a pop political

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<v Speaker 2>thing too. Right, Well, there was a bill last week

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<v Speaker 2>have banned social media for minors for kids under eighteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Exis was poised to pass into law what would have

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<v Speaker 2>media rules for miners, pretty much making it illegal for

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<v Speaker 2>those under eighteen to be on social media. But breaking news,

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<v Speaker 2>it failed, actually failed on a technicality when the legislature

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<v Speaker 2>ended its session just ahead of a key vote. You see,

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<v Speaker 2>All this stuff is rigged, isn't it. House Bill one

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<v Speaker 2>eighty six. It would have prohibited miners from creating new

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<v Speaker 2>social media accounts on things like TikTok and Instagram and

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<v Speaker 2>x see. The legislation also would have required age verification

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<v Speaker 2>for everyone else creating a new account, I don't care

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<v Speaker 2>if you're forty or fifty or sixty, you would have

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<v Speaker 2>had to verify your age. But under this legislation, parents

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<v Speaker 2>could ask for a miner's social media account to be

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<v Speaker 2>deleted and a platform would be required to remove it

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<v Speaker 2>within ten days. The lawmakers who supported the bills that

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<v Speaker 2>it would hound through the mental health harm that social

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<v Speaker 2>media hoses to team. The bill did pass in the

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<v Speaker 2>House of Representatives, needed to pass the Texas Senate and

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<v Speaker 2>get a signature from Governor Greg Abbott. Now, there was

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<v Speaker 2>a similar law that passed in Utah last year, but

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<v Speaker 2>it was blocked a few months later. It did not pass.

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<v Speaker 2>Would have gone to defect September first, and let me

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<v Speaker 2>stop here and if you want a weigh in, feel

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<v Speaker 2>free hit me on social media because I'm over eighteen.

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<v Speaker 2>See what I did there? Three four, six, twenty nine

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<v Speaker 2>texted let's let's look at this two ways. Imagine this

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<v Speaker 2>thing would have passed. And your if your a parent

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<v Speaker 2>listening to one now, or your grandparents and in someone

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<v Speaker 2>in your family under eighteen lives and breathe on social media,

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<v Speaker 2>which they probably do. They didn't take their phone off,

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<v Speaker 2>the fun away from their face. They're always looking down

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<v Speaker 2>their thumbs and all kind of hurt, and they're and

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<v Speaker 2>slings up because all they do is they're they're tiktoking

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<v Speaker 2>away and their Instagram away to everything. Imagine if they've

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<v Speaker 2>been on there two, three, four, five years but they're

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<v Speaker 2>still under eighteen years old. Imagining them after you delete

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<v Speaker 2>legally their social media account. If this had passed, Take

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<v Speaker 2>the temperature in your house, how heated of a battle

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<v Speaker 2>would it have been between mom and dad and the

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<v Speaker 2>teenage son or daughter. And then you do it. You

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<v Speaker 2>got two or three kids who you have wiped out

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<v Speaker 2>and deleted the history of their TikTok, Instagram and X.

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<v Speaker 2>That alone scares me. Talk about mental health harm, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>talking physical health harm. If our parents, man, I put

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<v Speaker 2>my running shoes on it, just get ready to roll, baby.

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<v Speaker 2>That's number one. But then let's say leok's look at

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<v Speaker 2>at least one social media account. I have a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of them. I don't have TikTok. For example, I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>on TikTok. Let's say all of a sudden one day that, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>the final, final, final social media account that I never have.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna get TikTok. Well, gosh, I'm gonna have to

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<v Speaker 2>get on that. I'm gonna have to bear. What am

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<v Speaker 2>I supposed to do? I don't know the age verification process?

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<v Speaker 2>Am I gonna have to now take a photo of

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<v Speaker 2>my driver's license and upload it to TikTok, which I

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<v Speaker 2>know is currently owned by a Chinese company. Oh? I

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<v Speaker 2>want to do that? I'm not sure. That's a tough one.

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<v Speaker 2>Those are the effects in my mind. And that's just

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<v Speaker 2>I'm dead. That's just top of the heap that's coming

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<v Speaker 2>to mind right now. I mean, this law, it's been

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<v Speaker 2>challenged in courts and provisions, and not only here Texas,

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<v Speaker 2>as I said in Utah. So I don't know who

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<v Speaker 2>started it, what what have I made? But at the

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<v Speaker 2>end of the day, I guess do we take a

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<v Speaker 2>breather or do and as we get the break over here,

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<v Speaker 2>do you fight the fight again September when legislation starts again,

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<v Speaker 2>are you like, well, let's get it on because I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want my kid on there legally, you know what.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's my final thought about this. And my kids

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<v Speaker 2>thirty one this year. I didn't have to live through

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<v Speaker 2>this is social media when they were young wasn't merely

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<v Speaker 2>as big to all my three boys. I don't have

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<v Speaker 2>any girls. I have three boys, so I didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>I I never had to worry, you know. My concern was,

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<v Speaker 2>at what age do they get a cell phone? At

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<v Speaker 2>what age do they get their own computered? Are they

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<v Speaker 2>allowed to take their own computer lap up in their

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<v Speaker 2>room without mom and dad looking over their shoulder? Do

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<v Speaker 2>we want to get driver's license? Things like that. It

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<v Speaker 2>is so tough being a parent today. It's it's I

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<v Speaker 2>can't even imagine. I have empathy for you parents right

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<v Speaker 2>now who have teenage kids, of the mental potential harm

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<v Speaker 2>that they see by going on social media. It stressed.

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<v Speaker 2>It does stress me out. I use it a lot

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<v Speaker 2>for my business. I there are so many other people

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<v Speaker 2>who do similar things to what I do. They review

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<v Speaker 2>technology and they write blogs, they do with other step

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<v Speaker 2>and to me, it's like how do they beat me

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<v Speaker 2>to the punch? How do they get this press release?

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<v Speaker 2>And I didn't get this press release. I had this review,

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<v Speaker 2>but I was not supposed to publish it until this

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<v Speaker 2>time because I was under an embargo. It stresses me

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<v Speaker 2>out just for that. I'm not even I'm not even

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<v Speaker 2>in high school where things get even more heated. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know how this person looks at me over here

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<v Speaker 2>and I have too much makeup on ever hair, and

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<v Speaker 2>my hair is done of it. It's very, very tough.

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<v Speaker 2>God bless your parents. You have a tough battle. Did

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<v Speaker 2>this failure of house build one eighty six, which would

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<v Speaker 2>have prohibit and made it illegal for those under eighteen

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<v Speaker 2>to be in social media? Did it help or hurt

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<v Speaker 2>you raising your kids? Phone number three four six twenty

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<v Speaker 2>nine texts. As we continue a wonderful show hanging there,

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<v Speaker 2>don't move family time on the high tech textan show.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll explain Michael Garfield, I hope for having a good weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're listening on the weekend, not only across Texas

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<v Speaker 2>but around the world, thank you for tuning in or

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<v Speaker 2>downloading the radio show. It's actually a radio show that's

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<v Speaker 2>been recorded which then is on a podcast, So it's

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<v Speaker 2>actually a radio show. Kids, if you don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>radio is, it's like a podcast, but it's live or

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<v Speaker 2>plausibly live that is broadcasted over the airwaves. That's what

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<v Speaker 2>a radio is. But then it's recorded and then you

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<v Speaker 2>get downloaded via iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple or wherever. Award winning

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<v Speaker 2>podcast or heard these kids that are And it's sad

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<v Speaker 2>when the next generation they don't even know it radio is.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually got into the side note over here this

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<v Speaker 2>rapidly the world of technology and gadgets and laws and

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<v Speaker 2>rules and and just everything works, there's there is a

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<v Speaker 2>generation there. There are my parents who are are in

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<v Speaker 2>their eighties and who are very very smart. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>I learned most everything that I got from my dad,

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<v Speaker 2>who's an electrical engineer, and I mean he built, you know, televisions,

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<v Speaker 2>he did he's kicked back of the day. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>he's very well tuned to what's going on. And then

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<v Speaker 2>we've got my generation Gen X, Generation X if you will, okay, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so we you know it was we he did not

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<v Speaker 2>go to college with cell phones. We had him after college.

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<v Speaker 2>To this generation, millennials will do whatever. I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>Jim ABC, whatever you call these kids nowadays, I mean

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<v Speaker 2>you know they're subscribe to it. So I want to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about TV. I was watching with a buddy of

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<v Speaker 2>mine who who was He's also in radio. He was

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<v Speaker 2>in TV with me. Actually, my very first job in

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<v Speaker 2>local TV was on Channel two in Houston, the NBC affiliate,

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<v Speaker 2>back in two thousand. I was on the morning show

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<v Speaker 2>where I created the high tech text and my friend

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<v Speaker 2>Don was the was a morning anchor, and we continued

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<v Speaker 2>this day to be good friends. He was over at

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<v Speaker 2>my house earlier this week and he's he's older than me.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a good he's a good fifteen years older than me.

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<v Speaker 2>Doesn't know. He does not look like it and he

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<v Speaker 2>certainly doesn't act like it. And we were watching the

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<v Speaker 2>Nightly News at five thirty Central time here on NBC,

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<v Speaker 2>which as of last Friday was called NBC Nightly News

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<v Speaker 2>with Lester Holt I've long watched five thirty news. It's

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<v Speaker 2>the national news. I go back to the heater Jennings

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<v Speaker 2>Dan rather those times, those were journalists, man, that was

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<v Speaker 2>the time, without a doubt. And then recently, obviously we've

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<v Speaker 2>got David you were on ABC. But the Lester Holt,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a big Leicester Holt fan. Lester Holt, if you

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<v Speaker 2>didn't know, retired from the NBC Nightly News, not from NBC,

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<v Speaker 2>but he as of last Friday, he is not no

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<v Speaker 2>longer the anchor and managing editor. Tom Yamas is the

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<v Speaker 2>new nightly news anchor and managing editor as the last Monday.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you look in the your online guide at

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<v Speaker 2>five point thirty on NBC, you're gonna see NBC Nightly

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<v Speaker 2>News with Tom Yamas. I like Tommy Yamas. He's been

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<v Speaker 2>a good reporter. I've seen him do it and so

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<v Speaker 2>I've watched him in the first few days of this week.

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<v Speaker 2>So my buddy and that we were done and I

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<v Speaker 2>watches the nightly news. I don't want you to think

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<v Speaker 2>about this, And if you want to weigh in people

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<v Speaker 2>you know, feel free you can email me. Michael Garfield

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<v Speaker 2>at iHeartMedia dot com. You can call in right now

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<v Speaker 2>three four six two nine eight three nine six, or

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<v Speaker 2>watches it? I watch it. My buddy Don watches it.

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<v Speaker 2>Because we're fifty and older and we're kind of talking

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<v Speaker 2>about do kids don't even know? I don't think nightly

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<v Speaker 2>news exists. My three boys, maybe my oldest is thirty,

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<v Speaker 2>he's aware of it. But generation, the new generation, they

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<v Speaker 2>don't consume news like that. They may not even have

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<v Speaker 2>a TV. They get their news TikTok, scrolling Instagram, listening

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<v Speaker 2>to a podcast, rumor at the coffee shop, even though

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<v Speaker 2>you shouldn't be drinking coffee if you're under freaking eighteen

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<v Speaker 2>at least. But that's just old school me. But that's

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<v Speaker 2>what they do do. They watch the nightly news and

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<v Speaker 2>sit down. And then we're watching the nightly news and

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<v Speaker 2>we talked about how much it's changed, you know, let's

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<v Speaker 2>go back. I go back to Peter Jennings, who was

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<v Speaker 2>Dan rather CBS, uh, and it's it's those were the

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<v Speaker 2>times in the days where there was nightly news and yes,

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<v Speaker 2>there was death and there was destruction and whatever. Now

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<v Speaker 2>NBC always ends it with and the good news tonight,

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<v Speaker 2>which okay, I can see what they're trying to do.

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<v Speaker 2>They're trying to position or what will. But nowadays it

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<v Speaker 2>was look at the opening. Do you if you listen

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<v Speaker 2>to the top of my show thirty minutes ago when

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<v Speaker 2>I opened it up, did you hear when ie how

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<v Speaker 2>I opened the show? And what we do in media,

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<v Speaker 2>we learn you have to tease. It's called the tea's

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<v Speaker 2>You have to give people a little idea of what

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<v Speaker 2>you're gonna hear and what you're gonna watch. And my

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<v Speaker 2>teas was it's Father's Day, it's graduate, it's graduates. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna talk about some of the things to review, and

427
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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna talk about Oh, by the way, now maybe

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<v Speaker 2>the time to buy a phone, and I'll tell you why.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the way, do you have a smart home?

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<v Speaker 2>If you're getting ready to move, do you take the

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<v Speaker 2>smart features out of your home and move them with

432
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<v Speaker 2>you or you leave it? That was a tease and

433
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<v Speaker 2>I will pay them off between now in the next

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<v Speaker 2>hour and twenty minutes, I'll talk about it the nightly

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<v Speaker 2>news on NBC go. I'd love them. It's only thirty minutes.

436
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<v Speaker 2>There was a solid two minutes, if not two and

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<v Speaker 2>a half minutes of the tease donning a dun dun

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<v Speaker 2>donner a dun dun d day, Good evening, I'm Tom

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<v Speaker 2>Yamas tonight on the NBC. And even five seconds here boom,

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<v Speaker 2>tornadoes sweeping across a scrunchy boom, the fire bomber in Colorado. Boom,

441
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<v Speaker 2>Trump did this, boom, Elon must did this. But and

442
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<v Speaker 2>it kept going on. I'm like, are you gonna start

443
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<v Speaker 2>the freaking news? Then they do about four I tell you,

444
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<v Speaker 2>I three stories. The second story is alive reporter somewhere

445
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<v Speaker 2>where they do a talk back. Tommy almost ask them

446
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<v Speaker 2>a question. Then there's the commercials. Let's talk about commercials. Listen.

447
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<v Speaker 2>I love commercials. Commercials are the reason we exist on radio.

448
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<v Speaker 2>By the way, we're gonna take a commercial break, probably

449
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<v Speaker 2>in about another five minutes, and we do appreciate you

450
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<v Speaker 2>shopping and taking our advice of whatever you hear. By

451
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<v Speaker 2>the way, this horse of my show, we're brought to

452
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<v Speaker 2>you by US Coins and Jewelry, Houston, Texas, right on

453
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<v Speaker 2>the Kadie Freeway Father's Day. If you're looking for a rolex,

454
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<v Speaker 2>that's where you need to go. You see, sweet simple,

455
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<v Speaker 2>we get in and out. Now I go back to content.

456
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<v Speaker 2>That's why commercials exist. You know what type of commercials

457
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<v Speaker 2>almost solely or on the nightly news. Think about it.

458
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<v Speaker 2>Pharmaceutical ads. Pharmaceutical ads. This person's got indigestion, this person's

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<v Speaker 2>got a prostate issue. This person can't conceive this person

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<v Speaker 2>getting whatever it is. Why it's because the demographic of

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<v Speaker 2>who watches the freaking nightly news. Anybody who's of age

462
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<v Speaker 2>forty fifty sixties and you keep on going. They're on

463
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<v Speaker 2>some sort of a mitigation. Why not reach where you're

464
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<v Speaker 2>going to exactly? I dig it. I don't mind. It's

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<v Speaker 2>other than you know, it's it's free. I don't pay

466
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<v Speaker 2>a subscription specifically for NBC, ABC and CBS to watch

467
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<v Speaker 2>the MIV news. Yes, I play a subscription for my cable.

468
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<v Speaker 2>I can get it for free over the air. It's

469
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<v Speaker 2>what you get. You are not paying for this radio

470
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<v Speaker 2>station right now. It is free. Our gift to you,

471
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<v Speaker 2>thank you Marconi for creating radio. It is free. All

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<v Speaker 2>we ask is that you take a few minutes of

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<v Speaker 2>time each hour and just listen to our commercials and

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<v Speaker 2>then we get back into content. Anyway, maybe this is

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<v Speaker 2>a rant. It's just times have changed. And I guess

476
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<v Speaker 2>the what Don and I and these two curmudgety old

477
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<v Speaker 2>got Well I'm not old. But anyway, we came to

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<v Speaker 2>surmise that at what point does national TV news and

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<v Speaker 2>for that point, maybe local TV news just not exist?

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<v Speaker 2>And I'll open it up as we get to a

481
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<v Speaker 2>commercial break coming up here. At what point are is

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<v Speaker 2>the technology that you use on a regular basis doesn't exist?

483
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<v Speaker 2>Cars and vehicles or technology. That's why I review them,

484
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<v Speaker 2>and I have reviewed them for fifteen years. If you

485
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<v Speaker 2>have a new car that's certainly fifteen years old and

486
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<v Speaker 2>with one hundred percent, well certainly ten years old and

487
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<v Speaker 2>no more the bells, the whistles, the cameras, the sensors,

488
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<v Speaker 2>it is technology on top of technology. It helps us

489
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<v Speaker 2>to drive, It helps us try to avoid res and

490
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<v Speaker 2>accidents and incidents with the safety features what have you.

491
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<v Speaker 2>But when will it become obsolete that we don't dip

492
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<v Speaker 2>behind the driver's wheel. When aren't we in that driver's seat?

493
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<v Speaker 2>And that's where the self driving veles come in, folks.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a segue because when we come back, we're going

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about self draw self driving vehicles, specifically ride

496
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<v Speaker 2>sharing vehicles. Ride sharing because the state of Texas, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not saying, was one of the last to adopt it.

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<v Speaker 2>But if you are in the major cities of Houston,

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<v Speaker 2>in Dallas, and absolutely Austin, and Austin is the key

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<v Speaker 2>out of ground because driverless ride sharing companies are all

501
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<v Speaker 2>over the place. And that's right if you haven't seen

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<v Speaker 2>them around Houston. Way Moo is one of them, just

503
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<v Speaker 2>launched in Houston, in Dallas too, But we're gonna talk

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<v Speaker 2>specifically about Austin and a few more cities. Would you

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<v Speaker 2>trust that would you get behind a car? And in

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<v Speaker 2>your lifetime would you ever buy a vehicle that doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>even have a steering wheell it just lets AI and

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<v Speaker 2>robots and really the hand in trust of God to

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<v Speaker 2>get you from point A to point B. That's some

510
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<v Speaker 2>of the things where we happen about it right here.

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Garfield is the name. It is Deep high Tech

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<v Speaker 2>Texan Shoo money. How I go down one path, I

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<v Speaker 2>start talking and then I go just got a zig zag.

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Garthur. We're back the final segment, this first hour

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<v Speaker 2>of the High Tech Texting Show. Happy first full week

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<v Speaker 2>of June, two weeks to Father's Day. And I don't

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<v Speaker 2>even know if I'd even recommended one Father's Day get

518
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<v Speaker 2>yet I'm getting on your emails, what phone, what TV?

519
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<v Speaker 2>What car? Oh? I got it? I got one about

520
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<v Speaker 2>someone wants to car wants me to Okay, there are

521
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<v Speaker 2>suggestion there about the BUYO more than I could answer.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the standby. I was talking about kids and families

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<v Speaker 2>and generations. How technology skips this generation, how the generation

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<v Speaker 2>or two before is they don't know what a newspaper

525
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<v Speaker 2>you know? It goes on and on. I was getting

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<v Speaker 2>with this. I saw this. I have three of my

527
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<v Speaker 2>longtime very good friends, their neighbors. I grew up with them,

528
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<v Speaker 2>all of our kids pretty much the same age. There

529
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<v Speaker 2>was like four families that hung out together, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was one of the families, and these three other families

531
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<v Speaker 2>that those three of the four families now have one

532
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<v Speaker 2>of the kids who are engaged to be married. And

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<v Speaker 2>it all happened within about a month and a half

534
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<v Speaker 2>of each other. Recently, I am the only one. None

535
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<v Speaker 2>of my kids have got engaged and I'm cool with that.

536
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<v Speaker 2>There's no rush whatsoever. So we got weddings next year.

537
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<v Speaker 2>Got boom, boom boom. We got three weddings next year. Simpoint,

538
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<v Speaker 2>who are the same age as my kids? Which is fine.

539
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<v Speaker 2>I mean they're they're in their upper twenties and they're

540
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<v Speaker 2>all working, and then that's fine, that's great. They should

541
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<v Speaker 2>be started family. Great. Byway, we're going to you know,

542
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<v Speaker 2>I got I gotta start. It's so sad going the

543
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<v Speaker 2>wedding alone. Anybody want to go to a wedding with

544
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<v Speaker 2>me next year? Stand by? Say look, this is my

545
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<v Speaker 2>on air dating app instead of online dating app. Hey,

546
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<v Speaker 2>that's actually a good idea. Tell them right dead down

547
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<v Speaker 2>what I'm gonna start a segment. I'm gonna I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>start the first on air. Does anybody ever do an

549
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<v Speaker 2>on air dating app? I don't know. We'll talk about

550
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<v Speaker 2>that anyway, got three weddings next year, And what do

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<v Speaker 2>you what do you get for presents? Something that I

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<v Speaker 2>certainly know of because my job is to suggest gift giving.

553
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<v Speaker 2>But I saw this, I guess you've been out of

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<v Speaker 2>the loop. I don't go to a lot of weddings.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's the headline I'm gonna I'm gonna give credit

556
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<v Speaker 2>to the USA today. Forget the registry. Belples want wedding

557
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<v Speaker 2>guests to help with their home down payment. Number one,

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<v Speaker 2>the average wedding cost. Anyone, any guesses, and he guesses

559
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<v Speaker 2>over under the average cost? Think about it? Yeah, five seconds.

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<v Speaker 2>What's the cost average wedding? Thirty six thousand dollars? Average

561
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<v Speaker 2>home down payment? Buy a home? What's the average home

562
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<v Speaker 2>down payment? Anyone hint? It's more than a wedding anyone?

563
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<v Speaker 2>Fifty five thousand dollars. This is according to real estate data. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>rising interest cost inflation? All right, can you have? Can

565
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<v Speaker 2>you have a wedding averaging thirty six dollars? Then you

566
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<v Speaker 2>want to buy a home? Fifty five thousand dollars? Just

567
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<v Speaker 2>put down payment. So apparently there's a rising number of

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<v Speaker 2>engaged couples who want cash for a house from their

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<v Speaker 2>wedding guest. Hey, forget about the air fryers. Hey, you

570
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<v Speaker 2>know that fancy gravy bowl that we want registered to,

571
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<v Speaker 2>you know, for over there at at the store. Nope,

572
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<v Speaker 2>don't worry about it. I need a blender. Oh, I

573
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<v Speaker 2>want a blender in some kitchen towels. Ah, I want

574
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<v Speaker 2>some cold, hard cash because we want to put a

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<v Speaker 2>house for sale. Here's a survey. Six thousand couples were registered.

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<v Speaker 2>Eighty seven percent are asking for cash, forty one percent

577
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<v Speaker 2>specifically requesting it for a home down payment. Man, times

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<v Speaker 2>have changed. I guess now instead of recommending which type

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<v Speaker 2>of air fryer or blender, or which I can do,

580
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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say, well, here's a good mortgage rate. Why

581
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<v Speaker 2>don't you go with this bank, And I'm gonna go

582
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<v Speaker 2>ahead and deposit something for you. It's just it's just cold,

583
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<v Speaker 2>you know what, people I I I love gift cards.

584
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<v Speaker 2>If somebody wants to get me a gift, I love

585
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<v Speaker 2>a gift card because I can use it for whatever

586
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<v Speaker 2>I want. But a lot of people think it's just

587
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<v Speaker 2>so impersonal. I want to give something that they will

588
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<v Speaker 2>that you really want. Really, I don't want to look

589
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:35.240
<v Speaker 2>a gift horse in the mouth. But I had a

590
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<v Speaker 2>had a birthday earlier this year, and and I am

591
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<v Speaker 2>not kidding it. I got a nice little amount of gifts.

592
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<v Speaker 2>I probably got a dozen gifts or so. I didn't

593
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<v Speaker 2>ask for these gifts. Whatever, We've really good friends. Every

594
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<v Speaker 2>single gift was a bottle of bourbon? Why? Because they

595
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<v Speaker 2>know I love bourbon. I'm a bourbon kind of sewer.

596
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:08.400
<v Speaker 2>I collect bourbon, I display bourbon, I teach bourbon cool.

597
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<v Speaker 2>And most all of them were small brands I have

598
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<v Speaker 2>yet never heard of, and I've wanted to try. It's

599
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<v Speaker 2>just awesome. And I sat there the next day counting

600
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<v Speaker 2>my blessings just to have friends like that in the thoughtfulness.

601
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<v Speaker 2>But I'm thinking, man, how much more bourbon do I need?

602
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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I got more bourbon that I could actually

603
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<v Speaker 2>host a wedding or do it by myself. Maybe you know,

604
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<v Speaker 2>I would have liked some running shoes from my cabin.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, maybe there is something, I mean, gift car

606
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<v Speaker 2>would be nice. Gosh. I hope nobody who gave me

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<v Speaker 2>a bottle of bourbon is listening right now, because I

608
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<v Speaker 2>love you, and I thank you, and come over and

609
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<v Speaker 2>have a drink with me. The point is it's just

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<v Speaker 2>mortgage down payment for mortgages. Yes, it's cold, but the

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<v Speaker 2>point is I can appreciate these kids who actually wanting

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<v Speaker 2>to move move into a home and trying to do

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<v Speaker 2>things that will help them. It is not cheap. There

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<v Speaker 2>is nothing really that is inexpensive in the world, and

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<v Speaker 2>certainly what is going down in the United States of

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<v Speaker 2>our great America. Why not how many times there is not?

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<v Speaker 2>It may be again, I haven't had a kid who

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<v Speaker 2>got married yet or got engaged yet, but all three

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<v Speaker 2>of my buddies who has kids getting who just got

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<v Speaker 2>they got engaged, every single one, and easily with the

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<v Speaker 2>past ten fifteen years. When I have other friends who've

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<v Speaker 2>gotten their kids are getting engaged. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>the joke or not, but they always say I offered

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<v Speaker 2>him money instead of a wedding. They could have a

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<v Speaker 2>money or they could have a wedding, and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's kind of a joke. It's like wedding like that.

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<v Speaker 2>But apparently, at least the friends I hang out with,

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<v Speaker 2>they all want a wedding. They want the bride to

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<v Speaker 2>be wearing wine, they want to walk down the AIP

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't need to be fans, he doesn't need to be extravagant.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe they want to have only fifteen to twenty people.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of them they want four hundred people whatever. Nope,

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<v Speaker 2>they want it. And there's the parents shaking their heads.

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<v Speaker 2>I told them I'd give I'd write them a check instead.

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<v Speaker 2>Of the wedding. Nope, you know kicks. Uncle Gurphy's got

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<v Speaker 2>the little news for you. Over here you found your

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<v Speaker 2>love of your life. Hopefully take the freaking money. Mom

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<v Speaker 2>and Dad want to help out. Parents want to help out,

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<v Speaker 2>and you think you want a wedding that averages what

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<v Speaker 2>did I just say? Thirty six thousand dollars? Even if

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<v Speaker 2>mom and Dad offer you half in cash, Hey, you

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<v Speaker 2>could up with thirty six dollars the wedding or just

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<v Speaker 2>you know, screw it. Was just I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>go through the rigg road. Just here, take take eighteen thousand,

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<v Speaker 2>Take three, take the cash, take the cat, have some

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<v Speaker 2>friend and then come out to my house and celebrate

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<v Speaker 2>with bourbon. Once again. Michael Garfield to freaking rescue, figuring

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<v Speaker 2>out your life for you. What else I can do?

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<v Speaker 2>I hope you had the good first hour. Next hour,

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<v Speaker 2>I promise to get down to the nitty gritty. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna tell you some ideas for Dad's day. I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to tell you why now may indeed be the time

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<v Speaker 2>to buy a phone, despite the fact that tariffs may

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<v Speaker 2>be here. And then I'll give you some phones together.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a TV somebody wants to know about a car.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll give the car this dude who wrote me an email.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll actually read the email. I'll suppress the name though.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to hang out with this dude. He hadn't

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<v Speaker 2>bought a car in eighteen years. I'll tell you how

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<v Speaker 2>much you getting ready to spend on the car. All

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<v Speaker 2>back I'll give away, and your questions coming up an

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<v Speaker 2>hour two A deep Ideas.

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<v Speaker 1>It's Michael Garfield, Michael Garfield, Garfields joining us and the

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<v Speaker 1>high Tech Texan.

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texans. It

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<v Speaker 2>was to make life.

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<v Speaker 1>Easier some new technology.

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<v Speaker 2>So Michael Garfield has something you might want.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping

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<v Speaker 1>you make magic with your gadgets, occurred worldwide on the

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<v Speaker 1>iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield halfway through.

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<v Speaker 2>The high Tech Texts and people. One hour down, one

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<v Speaker 2>hour ago, which means we are half wait happy hour.

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<v Speaker 2>What are you talking about the first week of June? People,

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<v Speaker 2>it's happy hour all day, open up by the fool, listening,

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<v Speaker 2>having a cocktail, not driving as you should. I talked

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<v Speaker 2>about bourbon this last segment, but I love bourbon. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a bourbon. I'm a bourbon snob. I'm happy to say it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the only thing I'm snobbish about. Really. I collect bourbon.

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<v Speaker 2>I drink bourbon. Bourbon is not a it's not a

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<v Speaker 2>drink to drink at the pool. It's just to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Try to avoid bourbon in any brown water during the day.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just not you don't want to mix that with sun,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's just you don't want to do that. And

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<v Speaker 2>actually you probably never want to drink bourbon. It is

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<v Speaker 2>so people think it's a quiet taste, it's a sipping

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<v Speaker 2>thing and it'll get you jacked up. And that's not

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<v Speaker 2>a pun because Jack Daniels is not a bourbon. And

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<v Speaker 2>if you know anything about anything, you know that is

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<v Speaker 2>a true fact. Michael with a name, Michael Garfield. Let

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<v Speaker 2>me give you a phone number to say hi, ask questions.

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<v Speaker 2>Father's Day is coming up, by the way. If Dad

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<v Speaker 2>likes bourbon brown water, why don't you love to hear

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<v Speaker 2>from you? More than happy to give you a few

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<v Speaker 2>brown a few brand suggestions. I just don't do tech.

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<v Speaker 2>I do bourbon. I do spirits three four six twenty nine,

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<v Speaker 2>Texan three four six two nine eight three, nine two six,

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<v Speaker 2>Hello to Houston, San Antonio in Dallas. If you're listening

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<v Speaker 2>terrestrially over the era radio on iHeartRadio. If nine you

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<v Speaker 2>can download the iHeartRadio app, which you may already have,

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<v Speaker 2>and you're listening to me somewhere around the world. It

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<v Speaker 2>is a worldwide show speaking of spirits, found a new

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<v Speaker 2>spirit to drink. It is a It's a rum. I

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<v Speaker 2>like rum, very very sugary, obviously, because by nature it's

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<v Speaker 2>either you know, it's either molasses, believe it or not.

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<v Speaker 2>Most all rooms are made up from molasses. Some you're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna find pure sugar. Can uh. This is not an

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<v Speaker 2>endorsement over there, but CARDI happens to make this and

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<v Speaker 2>I do not. There may be other brands that make it.

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<v Speaker 2>It is called it's a dragonberry flavor. I'm not getting you,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think I don't even know is dragonberry an

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<v Speaker 2>actual fruit? Somebody googled that for me. I think my

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<v Speaker 2>vegan son likes dragon bearer. I'm not sure. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>even know, but I don't know what dragon bear is.

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<v Speaker 2>It's it's dairy, fake flavored. It's very sweet because it's rum. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>it's good it's good. Put a little lemonade in there.

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<v Speaker 2>Put a little diet grape soda. Oh, it's good. That's

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<v Speaker 2>that is. That's a pool time drink. Don't drink brown

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<v Speaker 2>water during the day. Drink something like that. Something sweet,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Pi nikolata is whatever like that. I like

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<v Speaker 2>this dragonberry type of thing. Just a little something from

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<v Speaker 2>me to you. Three four six twenty nine. Texan Father's

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<v Speaker 2>Days coming up this coming Monday, if you were in Austin,

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<v Speaker 2>I will be on Fox seven as I am every

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<v Speaker 2>Monday morning with my little high Tech Texan Report segment.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to be showing off a number of different

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<v Speaker 2>Father's Day gift ideas. Some of them are not too expensive.

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<v Speaker 2>Nothing's really really too I mean, I'm not showing off

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<v Speaker 2>a car. Nothing's too expensive. One of which is a

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<v Speaker 2>brand new tablet and is not an iPad because I

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<v Speaker 2>really don't do Apple things. And I'm allowed to say

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<v Speaker 2>it right now because I was under embargo. I couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>say or even mention it until last Thursday of June fifth,

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<v Speaker 2>But now I had I've had it for at least

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<v Speaker 2>a week and a half, but I couldn't talk about it.

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<v Speaker 2>I can now I'll be showing off. It's a company

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<v Speaker 2>called one plus, which I'm very familiar with. I like

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<v Speaker 2>one plus O N E P l U S. It

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<v Speaker 2>is a company out of China. I have at least

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<v Speaker 2>the last two iterations of their smart watch, which I

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<v Speaker 2>really like. I also have passed two or three of

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<v Speaker 2>their phones. I think they're on the one plus thirteen

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<v Speaker 2>great Android phone, like not. They just came out with

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<v Speaker 2>their third version of their tablet. It is called the

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<v Speaker 2>one plus Pad three brilliant Android based tablet, great bright screen,

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<v Speaker 2>easy to use. I've got a little an e pen,

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<v Speaker 2>a little electric pencil that I could sit there, and

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<v Speaker 2>I don't use those things a lot. I think that's

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<v Speaker 2>an oh. By the way, you don't need to spend

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<v Speaker 2>extra on that. I also got a little uh detachable keyboard,

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<v Speaker 2>which is nice. I particularly don't use tablets for typing

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<v Speaker 2>massive things. I usually I use tablets mostly when I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna I always take it on a plane because that's it.

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<v Speaker 2>I got a twelve inch high colored bright screen touchscreen

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<v Speaker 2>to watch movies, live TV and everything when I'm on

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<v Speaker 2>my Southwest Airlines. Uh. Really good battery of life for this,

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<v Speaker 2>and very durable and in certainly when you look at

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<v Speaker 2>the price, you know, compared to you know, the iPads, these,

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<v Speaker 2>I think these these, I think it run's about I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's six hundred dollars chick out. It's one plus

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<v Speaker 2>dot com one plus three. That's what it is now.

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<v Speaker 2>They're always gonna have some specials in deal too. That's

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<v Speaker 2>one of the things I'm gonna talk about. Get that

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<v Speaker 2>a tablet don't have the new fangles setting up computers

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<v Speaker 2>or laptops side, but they also have lap Do you

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<v Speaker 2>want a laptop and all on one computers? I got

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<v Speaker 2>that too. What else am I bringing? I am bringing

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<v Speaker 2>some headphones. Dad may want some headphones. Dad may not like.

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<v Speaker 2>But these are also for graduates too. Dads and grads.

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<v Speaker 2>They may not want earbuds, they want headphones full have us.

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<v Speaker 2>You do not need to spend an arm in a

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<v Speaker 2>leg for headphones. Oh yeah, you gotta have the Beat.

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<v Speaker 2>Gotta have the Beat headphones Apple all they know you

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<v Speaker 2>really don't. No, So I got a pair that I've

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<v Speaker 2>been using that are very comfortable. They are full cans

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<v Speaker 2>as we say, which means they go over your ears.

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<v Speaker 2>They're padded, they are yes, they're wireless and they are

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<v Speaker 2>active noise canceling, and right now they're no more than

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<v Speaker 2>about eighty eight dollars. And as I go to this website,

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<v Speaker 2>I think there's even a code you can use. It

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<v Speaker 2>is from a company called the onemore dot com. The

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<v Speaker 2>number one mo O r E. It's the one more

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<v Speaker 2>so no flow pros n s O n O f

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<v Speaker 2>l O w SO no flu pro wireless active noise canceling.

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<v Speaker 2>They sound great, they fold up. They come in a

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<v Speaker 2>case USPC chargeable, eighty eight bones, really good sound ratio,

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<v Speaker 2>ultra wide frequency, good response, high performance headphones, immersive sound,

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<v Speaker 2>active noise canceling, which means a baby crying on the

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<v Speaker 2>plane and you rarely can hear the thing. Eighty eight bucks.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not cheaper. Okay, that's what I do. I trying

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<v Speaker 2>to save your money. Over here. I had, Oh here's

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm not gonna bring. I ran that this was

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<v Speaker 2>this ran last week and I can't bring these here

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<v Speaker 2>because they're in my backyard. Dad is a barbecue griller.

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<v Speaker 2>Right real quickly, I reviewed not one, but two high

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<v Speaker 2>tech barbecue grills. High tech I played with a Hamada Joe,

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<v Speaker 2>but specifically the newest version called the Connected Joe. That's

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<v Speaker 2>a with a k Ao n N. It's the whole

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<v Speaker 2>Connected Joe. It's got this little brain. It's got a

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<v Speaker 2>little digital readout, it's got the probes. It sets the temperature.

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<v Speaker 2>It's got an app that uses AI. You can pull

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<v Speaker 2>up a menu going I want barbecue, chicken, skewers, whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>and you put it on the app. It automatically sends

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<v Speaker 2>it to the grill. It knows when to put it on.

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<v Speaker 2>It beeps and tells you when it's ready. Not cheap.

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<v Speaker 2>It's about two thousand dollars. It's very heavy Connected Joe,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's a Commodo style cooker. You can cook, you

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<v Speaker 2>can cook desserts, you can actually make it a real grill.

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<v Speaker 2>Very nice, not cheap. The other one from a company

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<v Speaker 2>called brisk It, very cute. Right, two words b r

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<v Speaker 2>I sk brisk It Okay, brisk it grills. You go

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<v Speaker 2>to brisk you know, brisket grill. So it's a brisket

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<v Speaker 2>grills dot Com I reviewed that one five hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>fifty dollars or so. This is a pellet grill, just

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<v Speaker 2>like your trigger, but this also has a little smart

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<v Speaker 2>AI artificial intelligence app tell it what you want. That's

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<v Speaker 2>my first time I've ever used a pellet grill, and

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<v Speaker 2>I've had this thing for a few months and I

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<v Speaker 2>did a side by psych comparison, did about a four

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<v Speaker 2>and a half five minute TV segment. If you want

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<v Speaker 2>to see it, go to my website high tech Texan

822
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<v Speaker 2>dot com. H I G H T E C H

823
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<v Speaker 2>T E x A N. Also, I believe it or not,

824
00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:30.119
<v Speaker 2>I actually have a YouTube channel too. Look for Michael

825
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:32.760
<v Speaker 2>Garth to look for high Tech Texan AKA. You could

826
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:35.360
<v Speaker 2>see it and it shows you the difference between the two.

827
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.480
<v Speaker 2>They're very simple to use, obviously, be brisket pellet much cheaper,

828
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:44.159
<v Speaker 2>five hundred and fifty versus the two thousand. But these

829
00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:49.840
<v Speaker 2>things then now it's almost two it's almost too tough

830
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.519
<v Speaker 2>to jack it up. To screw it up. You really

831
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:58.440
<v Speaker 2>have to be an absolute horrific person in the kitchen

832
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:01.000
<v Speaker 2>or in the outdoor grill who apps has no attention span,

833
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:04.199
<v Speaker 2>because when the app buzzes andes says get that piece

834
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:07.599
<v Speaker 2>of meat off the grill, you disregard. No, no, just listen

835
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:10.960
<v Speaker 2>to it. Effortless. Actually, I think that's one of the slogans.

836
00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:13.639
<v Speaker 2>It's an effortless would pellet grill to brisket? So do

837
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:18.599
<v Speaker 2>I something to get dad? And the meat thing is snap.

838
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:21.400
<v Speaker 2>Remember when charcoal grills, you're still like, take forever to

839
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:23.840
<v Speaker 2>fire up. Nope, these things far up in just an instant.

840
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:26.239
<v Speaker 2>Check that out when we come back, your calls, your questions,

841
00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:28.760
<v Speaker 2>and a review of the vehicle of the week that

842
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:36.280
<v Speaker 2>I was driving. I'm a high take text show, just

843
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.639
<v Speaker 2>like that booming voice. Sit it is me is Michael Garfield.

844
00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:42.639
<v Speaker 2>We're tight. Feel free to use my nickname Garth baby

845
00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:46.280
<v Speaker 2>g A r F. Also call and say hi, leave

846
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:48.800
<v Speaker 2>a voicemail. We could Eric and I answer your questions

847
00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:52.840
<v Speaker 2>if we're busy. Three four six two nine eight three

848
00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:56.519
<v Speaker 2>nine two six. That's three four six twenty nine texts

849
00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:58.840
<v Speaker 2>and you see what I did there, All across the

850
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:03.000
<v Speaker 2>iHeartRadio network, across that app around the world, and also

851
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:07.159
<v Speaker 2>KPRC nine to fifty, Houston News Radio twelve hundred, WAI

852
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.960
<v Speaker 2>and Talk Radio eleven ninety in Dallas three most populous

853
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:14.400
<v Speaker 2>city in Texas. We are here for you. We've got

854
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.039
<v Speaker 2>Callum read here on the other side of the glass,

855
00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:19.199
<v Speaker 2>punching buttons and trying to keep us on the air.

856
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:21.760
<v Speaker 2>And also trying to answer your questions, and so we

857
00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:25.159
<v Speaker 2>do thank you for that. I do drive cars and vehicles,

858
00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:28.119
<v Speaker 2>and I test drive them every single week. I do

859
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:29.880
<v Speaker 2>not get paid for this, and so I can rag

860
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.639
<v Speaker 2>on them or love them whatever you want. Looking for

861
00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:39.199
<v Speaker 2>a dad's a grads a gift present? Well, who's got money?

862
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:41.880
<v Speaker 2>How much money would you be willing to spend on

863
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:47.480
<v Speaker 2>your dad? Probably not as much as if dads or

864
00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:52.760
<v Speaker 2>moms spend on graduation gifts, because I've seen I've seen

865
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.079
<v Speaker 2>some parents give give graduations some cars. How much do

866
00:49:57.079 --> 00:49:58.639
<v Speaker 2>you want to you want to spend one hundred and

867
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.599
<v Speaker 2>thirty hundred, forty hundred fifty doll Well, if not, ere Muffett,

868
00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:04.800
<v Speaker 2>because we got about two or three minute conversation. Because

869
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:09.320
<v Speaker 2>I last week was driving around the twenty twenty five

870
00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:17.599
<v Speaker 2>had a lac Escalade. IQ heard of that one. You've

871
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.719
<v Speaker 2>heard of the Cadillac Escalade. This is the Escalade, which

872
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:25.280
<v Speaker 2>is a big Mama three to row seven passenger suv. Oh,

873
00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:30.159
<v Speaker 2>by the way, the IQ means it's all electric, that's right.

874
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.360
<v Speaker 2>I was in an electric massive suv four hundred and

875
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:42.119
<v Speaker 2>sixty mile range between charges, seven hundred and fifty horse

876
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:48.400
<v Speaker 2>power with that two hundred and five kilowatt battery. First

877
00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:51.000
<v Speaker 2>thing I noticed was how big this is. And by

878
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:53.880
<v Speaker 2>the way, I pulled up to the galleria this week

879
00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:58.679
<v Speaker 2>and some couple walking to the car literally stopped look

880
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:03.519
<v Speaker 2>at me and they yelled, hey, hey, I love your car,

881
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:08.519
<v Speaker 2>And of course I said, huh thanks. Little do they

882
00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:10.280
<v Speaker 2>know that I had to turn it in two days

883
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.280
<v Speaker 2>later because I get these things only for one week.

884
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:16.039
<v Speaker 2>Point is it's a head turner. You look around the

885
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:20.639
<v Speaker 2>outside and it is big. These wheels sixty one psi

886
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:24.840
<v Speaker 2>they hold I think like forty four inch wheels. They're huge,

887
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:28.960
<v Speaker 2>tons of rome. But it had some features in there

888
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:33.039
<v Speaker 2>would blew me away, one of which I sit in.

889
00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:36.679
<v Speaker 2>And you know how those infotainment screens, you know, you know,

890
00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:38.159
<v Speaker 2>you could touch you can see it's in the gently

891
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:40.480
<v Speaker 2>in the middle, so it's the driver and the passenger

892
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.960
<v Speaker 2>can reach and touch it, and you could radio, and

893
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:46.719
<v Speaker 2>you've got the air conditioning and the seats and everything

894
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:50.400
<v Speaker 2>like that. Yes, this has the center touch screen, but

895
00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:55.719
<v Speaker 2>across the entire dashboard right above it, from the left

896
00:51:55.760 --> 00:51:59.239
<v Speaker 2>side to the right side, the left pillar to the

897
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:04.719
<v Speaker 2>right pillar, there is an entire curved fifty five inch

898
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:08.719
<v Speaker 2>diagon to display. It goes all the way from left

899
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:12.239
<v Speaker 2>to right, anything that you need to know. It's got

900
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:14.360
<v Speaker 2>the heads up display for the driver. He shows how

901
00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.440
<v Speaker 2>fast you're going, It shows your RPM, it shows you

902
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:20.119
<v Speaker 2>whatever you're listening to on the radio. Everything on the

903
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:24.360
<v Speaker 2>right side the passenger, right above the glove box. You

904
00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:28.880
<v Speaker 2>know what exactly, there's a TV. There's a TV screen.

905
00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:32.440
<v Speaker 2>There's a monitor where the passenger can plug in his

906
00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:35.920
<v Speaker 2>or her phone via HDMI or stream something to the

907
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:39.639
<v Speaker 2>phone and watch TV. Uh you're thinking of gosh, isn't

908
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:41.519
<v Speaker 2>it illegal to have a TV or a monitor in

909
00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:46.440
<v Speaker 2>the front seat. Yes, but thanks to a very unique screen,

910
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:49.360
<v Speaker 2>the driver cannot see what's on the passenger scene because

911
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:51.880
<v Speaker 2>it's you know, kind of got a little coating over there.

912
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:56.360
<v Speaker 2>So now the passenger has their unscreen. The two seats

913
00:52:56.360 --> 00:52:59.599
<v Speaker 2>in back, which are facing the back seats of the

914
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:02.519
<v Speaker 2>front driver and passenger, they have their own screens about

915
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:04.639
<v Speaker 2>what twenty inches wide, so they can watch it and

916
00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:08.480
<v Speaker 2>generally kids sit back there. Yes, there's Wi Fi. Yes,

917
00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:11.119
<v Speaker 2>there's Bluetooth. There's so many controls. Oh wait a minute,

918
00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:12.599
<v Speaker 2>I'm not even done out of the front seat. Let's

919
00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:16.440
<v Speaker 2>get back in the front seat. It's so big and heavy.

920
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:23.039
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes these doors are massively, very tough to either open

921
00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:25.760
<v Speaker 2>or close, so in way the first two times I

922
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:28.840
<v Speaker 2>get in it, I sit there and I've got long arms,

923
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:31.880
<v Speaker 2>and I reach it. I'm pulling. The door closed a

924
00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:34.280
<v Speaker 2>little heavy, and it gets almost to close. It kind

925
00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:36.400
<v Speaker 2>of stops itself, and then the last inch or two

926
00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:39.440
<v Speaker 2>kind of closes itself. I'm like, oh wow, this is

927
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:41.760
<v Speaker 2>nice because I don't need to slam this thing. It

928
00:53:42.159 --> 00:53:45.440
<v Speaker 2>closes and locks it by myself. What I found out

929
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:47.800
<v Speaker 2>it does better than that. All you need to do

930
00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:50.159
<v Speaker 2>is reach out and just touch the freaking door. The

931
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:53.960
<v Speaker 2>entire door closes. You don't even need to start it.

932
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:57.360
<v Speaker 2>It starts and finishes the closing the doors. And when

933
00:53:57.360 --> 00:53:59.679
<v Speaker 2>you hit from the outside, you just kind of touch

934
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.719
<v Speaker 2>the thumb little thing and just like instead of pulling,

935
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:05.719
<v Speaker 2>the door opens up itself. Pretty pretty cool. Oh wait

936
00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:09.679
<v Speaker 2>a minute, I'm not done. It's got a massive moonroof sunroof. Moonroof.

937
00:54:11.199 --> 00:54:14.079
<v Speaker 2>Now it doesn't open and slide open. I'm fine with that.

938
00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:19.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't use moon roof too much. Generally moonroofs they

939
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:23.679
<v Speaker 2>have this thing that slides to block the sun. Sometimes

940
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:25.639
<v Speaker 2>they're manually. You have to reach up. You gotta slide

941
00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:28.840
<v Speaker 2>all the way back. Nowadays cars they have front to back,

942
00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:32.079
<v Speaker 2>very long moon roofs and sun roofs, and so there's

943
00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:33.679
<v Speaker 2>no way that you can physically slide it back. If

944
00:54:33.679 --> 00:54:35.360
<v Speaker 2>you're in the driver's seat, it's not gonna reach other back.

945
00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:37.360
<v Speaker 2>So they have little buttons you could do it all right.

946
00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:40.159
<v Speaker 2>This one does not have anything that slides back. So

947
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:41.800
<v Speaker 2>I get in the car and I look up and

948
00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:44.320
<v Speaker 2>I see this massive, long, beautiful moonroof. I mean it

949
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:46.039
<v Speaker 2>goes from the fire. I mean this thing must easily

950
00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:48.000
<v Speaker 2>must be four and a half five feet long of

951
00:54:48.119 --> 00:54:50.039
<v Speaker 2>beautiful plate glass. I'm looking up and I'm seeing the

952
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:51.920
<v Speaker 2>sun and everything, and I'm looking at I'm trying to

953
00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:55.760
<v Speaker 2>figure out it's too sunny, man, How do I slide

954
00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:58.440
<v Speaker 2>this thing to get closed? And looking I still can't

955
00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:02.159
<v Speaker 2>figure it out. I even had to freaking go online

956
00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:04.840
<v Speaker 2>in Google. How do you close the moon roof on

957
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:10.559
<v Speaker 2>a twenty twenty five Cadillac Escalade IQ doesn't come with one. Nope,

958
00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:15.719
<v Speaker 2>It's got a button which is not easy to find

959
00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:20.960
<v Speaker 2>on the infotainment screen. As you touch it, the glass

960
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:27.920
<v Speaker 2>is tinted, it becomes darker itself. Mah, you could say

961
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:30.559
<v Speaker 2>it's like seventy five percent darkness, one hundred percent darkness,

962
00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:36.360
<v Speaker 2>zero percent darkness. Oooh who. It's got supercrews, which means

963
00:55:36.360 --> 00:55:38.840
<v Speaker 2>you could take your hands and your foot off the

964
00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:41.440
<v Speaker 2>wheel when you're driving on certain highways and byways around

965
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:43.760
<v Speaker 2>the country. A lot of GM lot of cars have

966
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:48.280
<v Speaker 2>that too, because it's an electric vehicle. It's got a front,

967
00:55:48.440 --> 00:55:51.119
<v Speaker 2>which means it's got a trunk in the front trunk

968
00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:55.280
<v Speaker 2>which we call a front. It's got a massive well

969
00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:58.679
<v Speaker 2>behind the third row seat. There's decent storage. You put

970
00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.199
<v Speaker 2>the third row seat down, you got really good stories.

971
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:03.400
<v Speaker 2>You put the second and third row streets down. You

972
00:56:03.519 --> 00:56:05.159
<v Speaker 2>got a king sized bed back there. You could fit

973
00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:09.599
<v Speaker 2>not kidding you. I like the long range four hundred

974
00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:13.840
<v Speaker 2>and sixty miles on a single charge, this interior forty

975
00:56:14.199 --> 00:56:17.920
<v Speaker 2>speaker sound system with the fifty five inch touch green

976
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:22.679
<v Speaker 2>which I told you, I mean it's huge. It's got

977
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:24.639
<v Speaker 2>a wheelbase of about one hundred and thirty six inches.

978
00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:27.239
<v Speaker 2>It is very heavy. Weighs ever nine thousand pounds, which

979
00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:30.199
<v Speaker 2>does a lot of that is battery. It can toe,

980
00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:33.880
<v Speaker 2>can toe about eight thousand pounds. But it's fast because

981
00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:37.519
<v Speaker 2>it's electric. Goes from zero sixty and what they say,

982
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:39.920
<v Speaker 2>and I didn't time at four point seven seconds. You

983
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:43.199
<v Speaker 2>imagine a nine thousand pound vehicle going zero sixty and

984
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:47.239
<v Speaker 2>four point seven seconds. The one I particularly had it

985
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:50.880
<v Speaker 2>was called the Luxury two. That's there. That's another model

986
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:56.280
<v Speaker 2>has a little red V, the letter V on the

987
00:56:56.280 --> 00:57:00.880
<v Speaker 2>steering wheel. And I'm looking at this thing. What is it?

988
00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:03.559
<v Speaker 2>What is this the thing? And why is it read?

989
00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:11.000
<v Speaker 2>It's the V mode. It's velocity max. Hit this little

990
00:57:11.079 --> 00:57:13.199
<v Speaker 2>V button, A little V icon is gonna appear on

991
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:17.639
<v Speaker 2>your driver information center. It's gonna give you even more

992
00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:23.639
<v Speaker 2>horsepower and more torque to make it faster. I only

993
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:26.239
<v Speaker 2>tried it once, and I'd made sure I was on

994
00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:28.039
<v Speaker 2>a five lane highway and there was no one around me.

995
00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:33.199
<v Speaker 2>Got speed racer. All this can be yours kids, if

996
00:57:33.239 --> 00:57:36.360
<v Speaker 2>you graduate, you get the doctor gree and someone spends

997
00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:38.840
<v Speaker 2>one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Now again, listen, I

998
00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:41.280
<v Speaker 2>had the one that has packed with absolutely every accouterment

999
00:57:41.320 --> 00:57:45.559
<v Speaker 2>that you can have. But this thing was a monster,

1000
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:47.800
<v Speaker 2>easily one of the top three vehicles I have driven.

1001
00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:51.400
<v Speaker 2>This is not paid. I don't. I'm not gonna tell

1002
00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:52.599
<v Speaker 2>you where to go get it because I don't even

1003
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:54.639
<v Speaker 2>know a Cadillagic dealership. This is what I do. If

1004
00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:58.199
<v Speaker 2>they deliver these cars every week. Next week, I'm gonna

1005
00:57:58.239 --> 00:57:59.880
<v Speaker 2>be in probably a Chevy next week, I'm gonna probably

1006
00:57:59.880 --> 00:58:02.000
<v Speaker 2>be the w the week after that. I'm a number second.

1007
00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:05.639
<v Speaker 2>I drive all this other stuff. But dang man, who

1008
00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:08.719
<v Speaker 2>it was pretty cool? Mom and Pop? What do you

1009
00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:10.519
<v Speaker 2>think you gonna get it? Talk to me over here,

1010
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:13.000
<v Speaker 2>Michael Garfield. We're gonna be back. When we come back,

1011
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:16.360
<v Speaker 2>time to give away something. We're gonna give Dad a

1012
00:58:16.599 --> 00:58:18.519
<v Speaker 2>Cobo Bob gift card. I'll tell you how to win that,

1013
00:58:18.599 --> 00:58:20.840
<v Speaker 2>and also a little bit more cars. If you have

1014
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:24.920
<v Speaker 2>a Ford, uh oh, your car may have just been

1015
00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:26.840
<v Speaker 2>recalled with something you don't know. I will tell you

1016
00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:34.679
<v Speaker 2>top that right here on the High Tech Texans Show. Hey,

1017
00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:36.360
<v Speaker 2>some of you have sat and listened to me for

1018
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:38.239
<v Speaker 2>the last hour and a half. I gotta reward you

1019
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:42.400
<v Speaker 2>all right, who wants something? Hey Dad, Happy Early Father's Day. Graduates.

1020
00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:44.079
<v Speaker 2>You can go get a snack, because I know it

1021
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:46.599
<v Speaker 2>ain't cheap to go get some lunch to dinner. Cabo

1022
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:50.159
<v Speaker 2>Bob's ah Cobo Bob's tech Smacks. They're based out of Austin,

1023
00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:52.840
<v Speaker 2>lots of them all around Austin, four of them here

1024
00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:56.239
<v Speaker 2>in the Houston area, one in San Antonio, Dallas. Hopefully

1025
00:58:56.239 --> 00:58:58.679
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna get one soon. Doesn't matter. You can win

1026
00:58:58.679 --> 00:59:00.719
<v Speaker 2>it as long as you're listening. Your number ten. You

1027
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:06.639
<v Speaker 2>got a twenty five dollars gift card Cabo BaHaB seven one, three, two, one, two,

1028
00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:09.559
<v Speaker 2>five and nine five. Oh, thanks to my good friends

1029
00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:13.760
<v Speaker 2>Lori Arnold Rios. They kind of run the entire Houston sector.

1030
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:15.440
<v Speaker 2>But these cards are good all across the state. If

1031
00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:17.360
<v Speaker 2>you can find the Cabo Bob's, go in you go

1032
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:21.280
<v Speaker 2>get those unbelievable I am addicted. I'm not addicted really

1033
00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.320
<v Speaker 2>to anything in life. I mean I'm not. I love

1034
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:26.440
<v Speaker 2>my bourbon, I'm not addicted to bourbon. I love a ESPN,

1035
00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:28.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm not addicted to it. I'm closed. But I'm addicted

1036
00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:31.880
<v Speaker 2>to their Destata chips. Love. There are tortilla chips that

1037
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:34.320
<v Speaker 2>are just absolutely fried right there. They are so thick.

1038
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:38.320
<v Speaker 2>Get some queso, get some guacamole, Get the freshly made

1039
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:40.639
<v Speaker 2>tortillas right in front of your eyes. Choose from five

1040
00:59:40.679 --> 00:59:43.159
<v Speaker 2>different tortillas, and you could put chicken, which is made

1041
00:59:43.159 --> 00:59:46.519
<v Speaker 2>by the way, on a kamata. Joe told you ten

1042
00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:48.320
<v Speaker 2>minutes ago I was reviewing it. Come out of Joe

1043
00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:50.880
<v Speaker 2>for Father's Day. It's the kamata TOAs the smallest men.

1044
00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:53.519
<v Speaker 2>They got chicken, they got beef, they got barbo CoA,

1045
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:56.679
<v Speaker 2>they've got fish fried fish. Oh, it's phenomenal. We have

1046
00:59:56.719 --> 00:59:59.360
<v Speaker 2>a winner. Stop calling seven one. I'm not gonna give

1047
00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:02.599
<v Speaker 2>you the fun number. Thank you. Each week for a

1048
01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:05.000
<v Speaker 2>while we've given out a Cobo Bob gift card, and

1049
01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:07.440
<v Speaker 2>so odds are you're gonna see me generally you're gonna

1050
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:09.239
<v Speaker 2>see me one on the southwest side of Houston. I

1051
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:14.119
<v Speaker 2>am there way too much with my tortilla chip fresh

1052
01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:16.719
<v Speaker 2>tortilla chip fetish. That's what I was at, a fetish.

1053
01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:19.039
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. It's a problem and I need to

1054
01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:21.400
<v Speaker 2>stop that body by K s O and Chips. That's

1055
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:24.920
<v Speaker 2>actually a T shirt I have here. It is Michael Garfield.

1056
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:27.239
<v Speaker 2>It's called the High Tech Texan Show. I just gave

1057
01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:31.039
<v Speaker 2>you a pretty extensive full review of the Ultimate Father's

1058
01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:34.440
<v Speaker 2>Day Gift or Dad's or graduation Gift. It was the

1059
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:39.199
<v Speaker 2>one hundred and forty thousand dollars plus Cadillac Escalade IQ,

1060
01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:43.719
<v Speaker 2>which is the three row, seven seat electric vehicle. If

1061
01:00:43.719 --> 01:00:46.880
<v Speaker 2>you just missed that, give me about twenty or thirty minutes.

1062
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:50.320
<v Speaker 2>It will be on iHeartRadio app where you can listen

1063
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:53.199
<v Speaker 2>to the repeat podcast of this show. Thank you, Callum Reid.

1064
01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:56.400
<v Speaker 2>Just look for high Tech Texan or Michael Garfield. Listen

1065
01:00:56.440 --> 01:01:00.519
<v Speaker 2>to that. But I do cover the tech car industry,

1066
01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:05.119
<v Speaker 2>certainly the car industry too. Ford just issued a major

1067
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:11.639
<v Speaker 2>recall due to a rearview camera glitch. Oh man, I

1068
01:01:11.719 --> 01:01:14.000
<v Speaker 2>thought technology was here to help us. Now they're glitching

1069
01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:18.639
<v Speaker 2>for us. How many does this effect? Oh not too

1070
01:01:18.719 --> 01:01:24.679
<v Speaker 2>many cars? Just one point one million vehicles. They just

1071
01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:29.000
<v Speaker 2>recalled due to a rearview camera gletch. Does your Ford

1072
01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:34.880
<v Speaker 2>have a rearview camera? So apparently Ford models released across

1073
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:38.679
<v Speaker 2>three years here to have an issue affecting the usability

1074
01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:43.119
<v Speaker 2>of the review camera features software era. Apparently they couldn't

1075
01:01:43.159 --> 01:01:45.119
<v Speaker 2>fix this over the air. They couldn't fix this with

1076
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:48.320
<v Speaker 2>a software update. You may have to want to bring

1077
01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:50.800
<v Speaker 2>it in. Yes, some are electric, Yes some are hybrid.

1078
01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:53.880
<v Speaker 2>It was a problem that could result in accidents in

1079
01:01:53.960 --> 01:01:56.639
<v Speaker 2>property damage. As I read this just word for word.

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01:01:56.679 --> 01:02:00.199
<v Speaker 2>I want to make sure I get it right. Was

1081
01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:04.920
<v Speaker 2>released between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five. Were

1082
01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:08.519
<v Speaker 2>named in the recall, which Ford did submit to the

1083
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:15.880
<v Speaker 2>National Highway Transportation and Safety Association. So has it been recalled?

1084
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:18.119
<v Speaker 2>Let me quickly run through these things. Actually it's not

1085
01:02:18.119 --> 01:02:19.400
<v Speaker 2>as many as they thought. Let me just give you

1086
01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:23.480
<v Speaker 2>some brands. If you have a Ford Bronco A F

1087
01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:26.440
<v Speaker 2>one fifty and Ford Edge between twenty twenty one and

1088
01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:31.920
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty four, recalled Ford Escape F two, fifty f three,

1089
01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:34.079
<v Speaker 2>fifty f four to fifty f five to fifty f

1090
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:35.800
<v Speaker 2>six hundred of it. You didn't even know that? Make

1091
01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:39.119
<v Speaker 2>does Released in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,

1092
01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:46.920
<v Speaker 2>recalled Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator twenty twenty two, twenty twenty

1093
01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:54.239
<v Speaker 2>three and twenty twenty four recalled Ford Ranger, Ford Mustang

1094
01:02:55.039 --> 01:03:03.760
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty four recalled in the Ford mock e released

1095
01:03:03.800 --> 01:03:10.679
<v Speaker 2>between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three, recalled sorry

1096
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:12.960
<v Speaker 2>about that. Don't know how long they were just they

1097
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:19.119
<v Speaker 2>were named. They will be updated by a dealer free

1098
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:22.599
<v Speaker 2>of charge. You may have gotten a letter. If not

1099
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.960
<v Speaker 2>think about that. Go to the website. It is the

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01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:34.239
<v Speaker 2>NHTSA dot gov, n h ts A dot g o V.

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01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:37.239
<v Speaker 2>That's where you actually should bom mark that thing. Check

1102
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:38.880
<v Speaker 2>out your vehicle, no matter what it is. But that

1103
01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:41.199
<v Speaker 2>was that was the fourth thing I hate hearing that

1104
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:44.679
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I have I ever, I'm trying

1105
01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:46.960
<v Speaker 2>to think of if I really I have one card

1106
01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:48.559
<v Speaker 2>that I've had for twenty years and I don't remember

1107
01:03:48.639 --> 01:03:53.559
<v Speaker 2>having it recalled. But it's such a pain because back

1108
01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:55.320
<v Speaker 2>in the day you had to take it to a dealer.

1109
01:03:55.960 --> 01:03:57.519
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I mean, you gotta get off work and

1110
01:03:57.519 --> 01:03:59.119
<v Speaker 2>you gotta think and you gotta leave it. Then how

1111
01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:00.159
<v Speaker 2>long is it take bh.

1112
01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:04.679
<v Speaker 3>Blah blah blah blah if it's generally nowadays they can

1113
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:08.440
<v Speaker 3>do software updates over the air, which means if you

1114
01:04:08.519 --> 01:04:11.400
<v Speaker 3>have like on Star or whatever type of service that you.

1115
01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:14.360
<v Speaker 2>Have, you get down it. It's it's like a radio.

1116
01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:16.719
<v Speaker 2>I mean your your your car receives radio signals. Your

1117
01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:19.880
<v Speaker 2>car can receive you know, satellite radio signals. Your car

1118
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:22.719
<v Speaker 2>can receive data. They could be downloaded and upgrading. A

1119
01:04:22.719 --> 01:04:25.000
<v Speaker 2>lot of the other stuff can't. And apparently this one

1120
01:04:25.039 --> 01:04:27.480
<v Speaker 2>may not have it gosh, hey, they to actually say that.

1121
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:30.119
<v Speaker 2>If you do have questions about cars, if you oh

1122
01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:33.280
<v Speaker 2>one more, got an email, got an email from uh,

1123
01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:35.679
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna His name is Kurt. Kurt is in Houston.

1124
01:04:37.559 --> 01:04:41.039
<v Speaker 2>Kurt is in Houston. Let me let me give you

1125
01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:46.159
<v Speaker 2>the I want to say this Barbadim. Kurt responded to Kurt.

1126
01:04:46.239 --> 01:04:50.039
<v Speaker 2>I answered this because I answer almost all these calls.

1127
01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:53.559
<v Speaker 2>Where is Kurt? If you want to email me, you

1128
01:04:53.559 --> 01:04:55.519
<v Speaker 2>can go to actually on my website. Oh here it is,

1129
01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:57.800
<v Speaker 2>go to website high tech Texting dot com and you,

1130
01:04:57.800 --> 01:05:01.679
<v Speaker 2>you know, send an email to Michael. This is from Kurt. No.

1131
01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:03.719
<v Speaker 2>I'm yeah, we're gonna call hi Kurt. Let's just keep

1132
01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:07.639
<v Speaker 2>it at that. Hey, Garth, my wife wants to splurge

1133
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:11.079
<v Speaker 2>on our first new car in eighteen years. What do

1134
01:05:11.119 --> 01:05:19.239
<v Speaker 2>you think about the Mercedes S five eighty. It's only

1135
01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:22.079
<v Speaker 2>about one hundred and ten thousand dollars. I think your

1136
01:05:22.079 --> 01:05:25.800
<v Speaker 2>wife is gonna like that, Kurt. Hell, yeah, man, you

1137
01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:30.480
<v Speaker 2>don't buy a car in eighteen years save up now.

1138
01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:33.079
<v Speaker 2>The S five eighty a very good car, and actually

1139
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:38.000
<v Speaker 2>it's the flagship model of the S Sedan series. It

1140
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:40.239
<v Speaker 2>is a good car. It is comfy. It is very

1141
01:05:40.280 --> 01:05:42.480
<v Speaker 2>powerful for what it is. The only and this is

1142
01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:46.480
<v Speaker 2>what I responded to him, the only thing that sticks

1143
01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:48.639
<v Speaker 2>out to me when I did see it, sit in

1144
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:52.679
<v Speaker 2>it and test drive it quickly. I'm not a fan

1145
01:05:52.920 --> 01:05:55.679
<v Speaker 2>of and I'm not just harping on Mercedes, but Mercedes

1146
01:05:55.679 --> 01:06:00.000
<v Speaker 2>does this more than other manufacturers nowadays because of that beautiful,

1147
01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:05.199
<v Speaker 2>full large color infotainment screen with the touch screens. Right,

1148
01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:11.920
<v Speaker 2>they're removing buttons, physical buttons and knobs. Yes, I'm an

1149
01:06:11.960 --> 01:06:14.800
<v Speaker 2>og I'm the old guy. I like a knob to

1150
01:06:14.840 --> 01:06:17.599
<v Speaker 2>turn up the volume and turn down the volume. I

1151
01:06:17.719 --> 01:06:20.119
<v Speaker 2>like the buttons that push. I don't care if they

1152
01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:22.639
<v Speaker 2>have haptic feedback. I like the program man. Maybe they

1153
01:06:22.639 --> 01:06:26.000
<v Speaker 2>don't program my radio stations, but air conditioning. I want

1154
01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:28.199
<v Speaker 2>to be able to touch all this stuff. You're not

1155
01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:30.760
<v Speaker 2>seeing these on a lot of vehicles. They think they're

1156
01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:33.079
<v Speaker 2>gonna save money by not putting knobs, and they're gonna

1157
01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:37.320
<v Speaker 2>put all the information that the buttons and a menu

1158
01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:40.320
<v Speaker 2>and a sub menu and then in a sub sub

1159
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:43.960
<v Speaker 2>menu on that touch screen. And that Mercedes S by

1160
01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:46.559
<v Speaker 2>eighty is one of those. I mean you have to

1161
01:06:46.719 --> 01:06:50.280
<v Speaker 2>drill down to get to some of the most mundane things,

1162
01:06:50.320 --> 01:06:52.199
<v Speaker 2>like to store radio station, you could probably have to

1163
01:06:52.199 --> 01:06:55.039
<v Speaker 2>push eight buttons, which, by the way, one of the

1164
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:59.280
<v Speaker 2>things I didn't actually tell you, and don't laugh. The

1165
01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:03.639
<v Speaker 2>Cadillac Escalade IQ, the massive suv that I was in

1166
01:07:03.719 --> 01:07:07.519
<v Speaker 2>last week that I reviewed. I tried to open the glovebox.

1167
01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:09.280
<v Speaker 2>And I've seen this on probably once out of every

1168
01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:12.320
<v Speaker 2>fifteen vehicles that really really new ones, high tech ones.

1169
01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:15.360
<v Speaker 2>You know how to open a glovebox. Almost in every

1170
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:18.480
<v Speaker 2>glovebox you've ever been in, there is a latch that

1171
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:22.679
<v Speaker 2>you just gotta pull the glovebox falls open. The Cadillac

1172
01:07:23.679 --> 01:07:26.760
<v Speaker 2>Escalate IQ, the electric vehicle, does not have any latch.

1173
01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:33.320
<v Speaker 2>There is no button. You cannot physically pull, touch, push

1174
01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:35.960
<v Speaker 2>something anywhere near the glovebox. So how in the world

1175
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:38.239
<v Speaker 2>do you open it? It took me a minute or two.

1176
01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:43.400
<v Speaker 2>Guess what. Go to the infotainment screen, find the proper screen,

1177
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:47.679
<v Speaker 2>and then hit menu, sub menu, go down and boom.

1178
01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:49.920
<v Speaker 2>That's right, you have to touch the touch screen to

1179
01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:52.679
<v Speaker 2>open the glovebox. I don't like that. That's a pain.

1180
01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:56.519
<v Speaker 2>Is that going to stop me from buying a car? No?

1181
01:07:57.880 --> 01:08:02.639
<v Speaker 2>But dang it to pain. It really really is but anyway, Kurt,

1182
01:08:02.760 --> 01:08:06.320
<v Speaker 2>for example, thank you so much. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia

1183
01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:08.599
<v Speaker 2>dot com. That's how you're gonna find me. Do you

1184
01:08:08.679 --> 01:08:10.480
<v Speaker 2>want something? I don't care. If it's a car, I

1185
01:08:10.480 --> 01:08:12.320
<v Speaker 2>don't care. If it's a barbecue grill, I don't care.

1186
01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:14.599
<v Speaker 2>If it's just any old question. Coming up the final

1187
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:19.199
<v Speaker 2>segment day of the High Tech Texting Show. Do you

1188
01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:24.239
<v Speaker 2>use voice to text yet? Do you use your voice

1189
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:28.359
<v Speaker 2>to text or you still use your thumbs? It's an

1190
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:30.399
<v Speaker 2>app actually that's gonna make voice to text a lot smarter,

1191
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:32.520
<v Speaker 2>even smarter than the app that you have not testing

1192
01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:35.640
<v Speaker 2>your phone, but also your desktop too. Talk about that

1193
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:40.800
<v Speaker 2>final segment coming out pre Father's Day, pregraduation, little segment,

1194
01:08:41.159 --> 01:08:43.720
<v Speaker 2>little show, yeah called the high Tech text It's Michael Garfield.

1195
01:08:48.119 --> 01:08:50.720
<v Speaker 2>Look at this. We made it to the final one,

1196
01:08:50.760 --> 01:08:53.680
<v Speaker 2>final segment of this week's first week of June High

1197
01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:55.800
<v Speaker 2>Tech Texting the Show. Next week we're gonna do the

1198
01:08:55.800 --> 01:08:58.359
<v Speaker 2>same thing one week to go at well, it's actually

1199
01:08:58.359 --> 01:09:00.840
<v Speaker 2>two weeks from Father's Day, and I know a lot

1200
01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:04.119
<v Speaker 2>of graduations are happening, and I do sincerely congratulations tell

1201
01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:08.560
<v Speaker 2>them the people listen. I got a cousin second cousin

1202
01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:12.560
<v Speaker 2>of mine in Florida just graduated fifth grade. Her great

1203
01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:15.319
<v Speaker 2>you know, my uncle and aunt there. You know, her

1204
01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:18.239
<v Speaker 2>grandparents went all the way from Texas to visit the

1205
01:09:18.520 --> 01:09:21.399
<v Speaker 2>fifth grade graduates. I mean, it's whatever, you graduating from

1206
01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:25.039
<v Speaker 2>fifth grade, high school, college, getting ready to get on

1207
01:09:25.039 --> 01:09:30.640
<v Speaker 2>your own. Seriously, congratulations in good luck, I mean, and

1208
01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:32.079
<v Speaker 2>I have to say it. You know it used to

1209
01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:36.560
<v Speaker 2>be good luck. Now it's like good luck. That's sad.

1210
01:09:36.640 --> 01:09:38.680
<v Speaker 2>You have to actually put that stink on him, man,

1211
01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:40.920
<v Speaker 2>because good luck. With what's going on in the world,

1212
01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:42.920
<v Speaker 2>in the economy right now, I'm not gonna give out

1213
01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:44.279
<v Speaker 2>the phone number because I do want to get to

1214
01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:46.560
<v Speaker 2>a few things that I did promise told you right

1215
01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:49.680
<v Speaker 2>now that don't if you're thinking about buying a smartphone,

1216
01:09:50.439 --> 01:09:53.600
<v Speaker 2>tariffs are coming. You know what's gonna happen. Now may

1217
01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:55.920
<v Speaker 2>not be a good time to wait. This actually could

1218
01:09:55.960 --> 01:09:59.079
<v Speaker 2>be a decent time to buy a phone. And I'll

1219
01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:00.680
<v Speaker 2>tell you why. I was looking at some of the

1220
01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:03.199
<v Speaker 2>numbers over here. The US and China.

1221
01:10:03.640 --> 01:10:12.359
<v Speaker 4>They're going to drive smartphone shipment growth despite these tariffs,

1222
01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:15.800
<v Speaker 4>which means China makes these phones, they're mostly going.

1223
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:17.880
<v Speaker 2>To be shipped to the US in China, but there's

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<v Speaker 2>not there the shipman. You know, you generally think, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna make more and more of these phones. We're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna ship them. Oy uah. The growth is only going

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<v Speaker 2>to be point six percent year over year because of

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<v Speaker 2>the economic challenges. It's gonna it make cost more money

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<v Speaker 2>to make these phones. Are people gonna be buying the phones?

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<v Speaker 2>You know? You go back to April second. I think

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<v Speaker 2>when all of a sudden it was the first tariffs

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<v Speaker 2>are coming out here in the United States, there was

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<v Speaker 2>so much uncertainty, and I think there still is more uncertainty.

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<v Speaker 2>So what this means in terms of availability and prices,

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<v Speaker 2>I think less people are buying over the past what

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<v Speaker 2>two months ins April second, they haven't been buying phones.

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<v Speaker 2>And now that a lot of these smartphone manufacturers they

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<v Speaker 2>may not be making a lot anymore. Now maybe the

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<v Speaker 2>time before the price is go up, not even just

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<v Speaker 2>because of tariffs. Now maybe the time to buy it.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna tell you which ones to buy. There's

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<v Speaker 2>a number of them over there. I mean Google Pixel

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01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:09.960
<v Speaker 2>just came out, they had their nine and a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of the iPhone is seventeen coming out later this year,

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<v Speaker 2>that could be obvious. You know, the iPhone seventeen when

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<v Speaker 2>it comes out in October, it could boost shipments and

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<v Speaker 2>sales because last year was the iPhone sixteen was the

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<v Speaker 2>top selling smartphone for that first quarter of twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five globally. My guess is the twenty iPhone seventeen uh grades,

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<v Speaker 2>they're expected to do fairly well. But you can't control

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<v Speaker 2>growth protections, you can't control cell fie prices. Whatever is

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<v Speaker 2>important that you have to do is best for your wallet.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you're thinking you're buying a cell phone, now,

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01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:45.720
<v Speaker 2>maybe the time so graduate you're graduating, graduating college because

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<v Speaker 2>you had the same phone for four years, mom and dad.

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<v Speaker 2>Or if you're buying it you're pulling your money together,

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01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:52.199
<v Speaker 2>now maybe the time to do it. You don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to wait till later, because I still I can't. No

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<v Speaker 2>one's gonna protect what's happening with the tariffs, what's happening

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<v Speaker 2>with the growth. So that's number one I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about. So I talk about this and I don't

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<v Speaker 2>have a lot of time to get into it. I

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<v Speaker 2>really do apologize. I talk about moving. This is the

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01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:09.279
<v Speaker 2>time of the year when people move. What do you

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<v Speaker 2>do if has this happened to you? You're moving? What

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<v Speaker 2>do you do with all of these smart home features

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<v Speaker 2>that you have built in and baked into your house?

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<v Speaker 2>Moving the loan could already be a huge issue, a headache.

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<v Speaker 2>You throw in all the connected gadgets that you have,

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<v Speaker 2>your doorbells, your thermostat, your cameras. Do you need a

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<v Speaker 2>factory reset them? Do you need to uninstall them? Do

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<v Speaker 2>you take them with you? Deciding what to do with

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01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:38.560
<v Speaker 2>your smart home when you move, it just adds a

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<v Speaker 2>whole other layer of complexity to what's already difficult. How

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<v Speaker 2>about that smart lock? Did you put a smart lock

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<v Speaker 2>on your front door? What do you do with the

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01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:47.319
<v Speaker 2>old wine? Are you gonna take your smart luck off

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<v Speaker 2>and take it to your new house? What about all

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<v Speaker 2>the smart lighting? I mean, when I moved to my home,

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<v Speaker 2>I upgraded everything to LED. That's all I have is

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<v Speaker 2>smart lighting. You know I don't need to leave it

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<v Speaker 2>over there, But some of you you self installed it.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you take the dumb lighting put it in your garage?

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<v Speaker 2>Just do it while you put the smart lighting up?

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<v Speaker 2>Are you gonna get reverted back? Is it better to

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<v Speaker 2>replace your thermostat with a non smart one, or you

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<v Speaker 2>know what, Dad, screw it, just leave it, buy a

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<v Speaker 2>newer version for your home, speakers, smoke alarms. The list

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<v Speaker 2>goes on and on and on. Listen. We could talk

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<v Speaker 2>about this and debate about this, but you know, in

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<v Speaker 2>my opinion, if you have to really spend time unscrewing

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<v Speaker 2>things from the ceiling, and if you have all these

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01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:34.119
<v Speaker 2>smart light fixtures and light bulbs, that's a lot of time,

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01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:37.239
<v Speaker 2>that's a lot of pain. They may be in the

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<v Speaker 2>realtor contract going hey, this light fixture is it is

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<v Speaker 2>what it is. You can't replace that after we sold it.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of this stuff is negotiated in that contract too.

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't bought a home. Last time I bought was

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<v Speaker 2>eight years. But nowadays they they may say anything. It

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<v Speaker 2>is a physically attached to the wall, to the front,

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<v Speaker 2>to the outdoors, which means all of your outside cameras,

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<v Speaker 2>it means that video door bell, that smart lock. You're

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<v Speaker 2>stuck with. If the technology and I'll end the conversation

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<v Speaker 2>with this, but if the technology that you have has

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<v Speaker 2>been installed or around your home for a good four

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<v Speaker 2>years and five years for the most part, leave it

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<v Speaker 2>because there are upgraded versions of almost every single product.

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<v Speaker 2>What used to be a wired camera so you can monitor,

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01:14:28.880 --> 01:14:31.560
<v Speaker 2>they're now wireless. If you had a wireless camera from

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<v Speaker 2>five years ago, it may have been two K. Now

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01:14:35.119 --> 01:14:38.760
<v Speaker 2>they're four K, if not even higher than that. There's

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<v Speaker 2>faster in longer range Wi Fi systems. There are better

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<v Speaker 2>speakers that are probably less expensive than the ones that

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<v Speaker 2>you wired or you wirelessly put in your home. Things

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<v Speaker 2>to consider when you're buying it, just because if life

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<v Speaker 2>isn't hard enough, I just thought I did. Was this

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<v Speaker 2>something a buddy of mine because he's getting ready to move,

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<v Speaker 2>and he asked me questions about I take this, and

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<v Speaker 2>then we got into a deep conversation, a really good

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<v Speaker 2>conversation about that. So maybe you know you want to

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<v Speaker 2>think about that. And finally, one other thing. When you're

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<v Speaker 2>on your text, do you use voice text? Your phone

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<v Speaker 2>may inherently use your voice text, like I have an

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<v Speaker 2>Android phone, and I you know, I can actually sit

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01:15:22.039 --> 01:15:25.039
<v Speaker 2>there and use my voice. There's also apps to help

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<v Speaker 2>you with this. Somebody wrote in and they said, hey, listen, Michael,

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<v Speaker 2>should I trust this? There's something called whisper flow, and

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<v Speaker 2>I thought they spelled the word whisper wrong, but it's

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<v Speaker 2>wisp R. I haven't downloaded it, but I did a

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<v Speaker 2>quick review on this thing. What it does it let

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<v Speaker 2>you dictate text on your phone. And according to this

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<v Speaker 2>this gentleman who actually sent me to the email, he said,

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<v Speaker 2>it actually works very well and it's very simple, and

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<v Speaker 2>he only has it for the iPhone. He may not.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's even actually available for the Android yet,

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<v Speaker 2>but again I don't have an iPhone. That's probably one

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<v Speaker 2>of the reasons why I haven't done it. Actually checked

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<v Speaker 2>it out. But the point is, use voice text as

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<v Speaker 2>much as you can, but before you send it, take

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<v Speaker 2>a glance to make sure that it got everything spelled correctly.

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<v Speaker 2>I am extremely anal when it comes to the punctuation periods,

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<v Speaker 2>the explanation points, the commas, and everything else. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>want just typical leaving it to AI because it's a

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<v Speaker 2>bad reflection. Again, it's like I'm not an English major.

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm very very intricate with that thing. So away, well,

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<v Speaker 2>next week we'll get into a little bit more text

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<v Speaker 2>voice to text. Believe me, right now, what you deserve

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<v Speaker 2>at the past, dour was actually my voice where I

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<v Speaker 2>actually talked as we wind the show down. Michael Garfield

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<v Speaker 2>is the name. I thank you for tuning in. Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you to Brian Erickson, who's the big program director across Alive.

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<v Speaker 2>iHeart for the state of Texas for keeping me on

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<v Speaker 2>all of these shows. Next week we've got more Father's Day.

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<v Speaker 2>We have more more dads and grads.

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<v Speaker 1>Gift.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want to email me, like so many of

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<v Speaker 2>you are doing during the week when our show is

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<v Speaker 2>not on. All you need to do hi tech texting

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<v Speaker 2>dot com. Let's see an email. H I G H

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<v Speaker 2>T E C h T E x A N. Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for tuning in, my friends. Be safe out there

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01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:12.640
<v Speaker 2>where your sun's screen. Don't drink brown water during the day.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't take any would nickels. My name is Michael Garfield,

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<v Speaker 2>and right now this show is oh