Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 2: Well, the opts of Texas are on the ottum Boat
Speaker 2: today the second Saturday of October. What happens? People, If
Speaker 2: you do not know, well, then just turn off this show. No, no,
Speaker 2: I'm seriously, don't turn off the show. It is the
Speaker 2: greatest rivalry in the history of football sports. College Sports said.
Speaker 2: If you don't agree, you're probably tuning in on iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: somewhere in the I don't know, Midwest North least, and
Speaker 2: you're thinking it's Michigan, Ohio State Texas OLU people, the
Speaker 2: eyes of Texas are upont And for the first time
Speaker 2: in a long time that I've been doing this show
Speaker 2: twenty three years, that kickoff has been simultaneously held at
Speaker 2: the same time that I start this show right now
Speaker 2: at eleven a m. Central Time. Should you be listening
Speaker 2: live on Kate PARC nine to fifty. But alas, thanks
Speaker 2: to Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC and ASABC
Speaker 2: ESPN picking up the TV package, kickoff has been pushed
Speaker 2: back to two thirty Central time. So for the first
Speaker 2: first time in a long time, I am actually not
Speaker 2: in the cotton Bowl. I'm not in Dallas, and that
Speaker 2: is not due really to the late afternoon kickoff time.
Speaker 2: It actually is a holiday that I'm celebrating right now.
Speaker 2: And I'm very hungry, by the way, But I'm a
Speaker 2: toning for the lot of the I didn't it a tone.
Speaker 2: I had a really good past year. But I don't
Speaker 2: have to keep one eye on the television and one
Speaker 2: eye here on my script as we do the high
Speaker 2: tech textan show. Hooke them horns, My dear friends, should
Speaker 2: you be o you sooners? Hey love to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Let's let's talk trash seven to one, three two one
Speaker 2: two five, nine to five. Oh uh? Amazon Prime Day
Speaker 2: once again, it was this past week. If anybody got
Speaker 2: any good deals, you know, because holiday season is almost
Speaker 2: upon us, I'll probably start doing my holiday now. You
Speaker 2: know my guide to holiday gift giving and deals, Black
Speaker 2: Friday deal, Cyber Monday deals, I'll start that here towards
Speaker 2: the end of the month of October. But this was
Speaker 2: the If not, don't freak out, You're not mistaken. This
Speaker 2: was the second Amazon Prime Day or Prime Day is
Speaker 2: this year the big one, and the big one is
Speaker 2: always in July unless it's a COVID year. But this
Speaker 2: is the second one. So it's another tradition. And as
Speaker 2: I've always said, Amazon, and I'm not knocking Amazon. I
Speaker 2: mean I'm an Amazon member. Though I don't buy a
Speaker 2: ton of stuff on Amazon. I do watch Amazon Prime
Speaker 2: though Thursday night football Amazon. I call this the biggest
Speaker 2: garage sale in the world. Amazon puts tons of things
Speaker 2: in their partners and sellers who utilize their service. They
Speaker 2: put tons of things on sale during Amazon Prime Days.
Speaker 2: Prime members get what free two day shipping, you know,
Speaker 2: if you go the perks. But to me, it's in July.
Speaker 2: This is these are the two days that it's a
Speaker 2: fire sale. They're trying to just sell off everything that
Speaker 2: has not sold year round to clear their warehouse as
Speaker 2: an inventory, to make room for the new stuff and
Speaker 2: the new Chotsky's that they're going to sell for the
Speaker 2: incoming of the next holiday season, and now they did.
Speaker 2: It's it's still two days that they did this past week.
Speaker 2: I glanced at some of the products, and believe it
Speaker 2: or not, I actually bought This is breaking people. I
Speaker 2: bought two items on Amazon Prime Day, and this is
Speaker 2: probably the first time I have ever done that. Now,
Speaker 2: I haven't been an Amazon member for a long time.
Speaker 2: Maybe I join four or five years ago and I'll
Speaker 2: use it. I don't do even though I'm the pimp
Speaker 2: of technology. I don't even I don't shop online a ton.
Speaker 2: I'm still og where I like to go into stores
Speaker 2: and try things on and look at colors and whatever.
Speaker 2: So maybe I'll buy five, six seven things from Amazon
Speaker 2: in a given year. But I don't think I've ever
Speaker 2: bought anything on Prime Day because I just I don't
Speaker 2: want to get suckered into something and I really don't
Speaker 2: need a lot of stuff. I mean, and that's an
Speaker 2: honor and privilege to say that. But I did buy
Speaker 2: two things, and I would have bought them anyway, and
Speaker 2: I'm holding out my hand. I totally swear about this.
Speaker 2: I was surfing on when then I get back Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: and I needed one or two things because something of
Speaker 2: that had broke on a recent trip. And another item
Speaker 2: I was using from a company that I was reviewing,
Speaker 2: but I had to send it back to them because
Speaker 2: it was just a review unit, and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: need one of these for real. So I went on
Speaker 2: and I bought it. I would have bought these items
Speaker 2: whether it was Prime Day or not. And I even
Speaker 2: forgot it was Prime Day until I log onto my
Speaker 2: Amazon account. I was like, oh, it's Prime Day, you know,
Speaker 2: six more hours and eighteen minutes, and so I actually
Speaker 2: ended up buying I bought one of which I bought
Speaker 2: a wireless microphone kit system for my cell phone to
Speaker 2: see I shoot a lot of my videos on Instagram
Speaker 2: and TV for great Day, usedon and in whatever on
Speaker 2: my cell phones because I have a great Android cell
Speaker 2: phone Samsung cell phone that shoots very high pixels and
Speaker 2: I want the pictures to look great. But one of
Speaker 2: the most important things, and this is a tip for
Speaker 2: all you vloggers and influencers and whatever you are out there,
Speaker 2: one of the most important things when shooting video, and
Speaker 2: there's two or three of them, and I learned this
Speaker 2: back in the late eighties when I went to college
Speaker 2: and I studied radio, television film. Yes, you need good
Speaker 2: video camera, which we have now on phones. You need
Speaker 2: a good microphone. You want sound. You also want good lighting.
Speaker 2: Those are necessities to really make a good video, especially
Speaker 2: now if you want it to go viral or people
Speaker 2: to click on it. You want to brightly lit at
Speaker 2: least that opening image, and you want good sound. You
Speaker 2: know a lot of people use their built in microphone
Speaker 2: from their phone, which it doesn't work well. That the
Speaker 2: microphone works good when you hold the phone up to
Speaker 2: your ear and talking on the phone, it's great, But
Speaker 2: if you're shooting a video and if someone's holding the
Speaker 2: maybe you're taking a selfie, maybe you're someone shooting you
Speaker 2: on a video, and you're six seven eight nine feet
Speaker 2: or more away, and you're outside and there's other noises,
Speaker 2: you're not going to pick up a lot of that voice.
Speaker 2: You want a microphone system, and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: wireless wire very good wireless microphone systems out there. I
Speaker 2: recently used a Dji Mic two, the second version, second
Speaker 2: generation of their microphone system. They're wireless and what it is,
Speaker 2: and you can get them in a one transmitter or
Speaker 2: two transmitter, so I have two transmitters, and so I
Speaker 2: could be interviewing or talking with another person, and we
Speaker 2: just clipped these owner lapel and I think the range
Speaker 2: the range on this is over seven hundred feet. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean that's a long while. So it's good for
Speaker 2: walking and talking. It's an isolated sound that you're gonna
Speaker 2: get some good quality. Comes in a carrying case with
Speaker 2: a charging case, and it comes with a receiver that
Speaker 2: you can plug into either your Android phone or your
Speaker 2: Apple iPhone. That whole system is two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: to three hundred dollars. Okay, it's that's listen. If you're
Speaker 2: using it on a regular basis and you want quality, yeah,
Speaker 2: Dji Mic two is great. But I also saw some
Speaker 2: similar ones, and I'm gonna try this one out. I literally,
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding out. I think I paid thirty five dollars.
Speaker 2: I think I made thirty five or thirty eight dollars.
Speaker 2: It's got a charging case, it's got two transmitters, it's
Speaker 2: got one receiver. It came yesterday. It came Friday because
Speaker 2: I ordered it on Wednesday Amazon Prime. I haven't played
Speaker 2: with it. Yet, but I will let you know next
Speaker 2: week if it works. The range is only supposed to
Speaker 2: be one hundred and sixty five feet, which is fine.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't shoot anything further the way than that,
Speaker 2: but this is one of the must and so that's
Speaker 2: one of the things I bought. So as we take
Speaker 2: our first break here of the High Tech Texan Show,
Speaker 2: what did you get for Amazon Prime Day? Did you
Speaker 2: get a heck of a deal? You want to share
Speaker 2: it with us? Maybe the deal is still there. And
Speaker 2: this all lays up to the holiday shopping guide and
Speaker 2: tips that I'm going to be talking about when we
Speaker 2: do come back. I am going to talk about something
Speaker 2: that really very scary thing that happened this week. It
Speaker 2: was a hurricane. Hurricane Milton just devastated the Tampa Saint
Speaker 2: Pete central Florida area. I'm going to talk about what
Speaker 2: a product that a Tampa Bay hospital used to stop
Speaker 2: the storm surge. It's a commercial use only thing and
Speaker 2: it worked. The power worked, it stayed on, there was
Speaker 2: no flooding here in this that they and there in
Speaker 2: this company is getting ready to make a consumer version
Speaker 2: two and so for everybody living in the Houston the
Speaker 2: Galveston area. This may be something you want to know.
Speaker 2: Plus also how to stay safe when cell phone towers
Speaker 2: are down, and also how to track people as best
Speaker 2: as we can. Should you have some people in that
Speaker 2: horrific zone that did so much damnas this past week.
Speaker 2: Michael Barklay, It is the high tech texting showed that
Speaker 2: is right, just to order that big blooming voice. This
Speaker 2: is U the high tech Texan show. But doing this
Speaker 2: well over two decades. Somehow I still have my voice
Speaker 2: a big hello nice as I monitor my email. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield at ifartmedia dot com. I've got Rich listening. Rich
Speaker 2: is it Riches at work? It looks like Rich works
Speaker 2: in the retail industry. He's got it on on a
Speaker 2: Saturday as he listens to KPRC nine fifty am. And
Speaker 2: this is Jessica. Jessica's listens to why she's driving around.
Speaker 2: She's on the north part of town. And I've been
Speaker 2: listening to you for years and years. Very sweet, Jessica. Jessica,
Speaker 2: you should not be texting, actually or emailing while you're driving.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you were in a parking lot for that, so
Speaker 2: I do thank you. I'll give you the phone number
Speaker 2: here Kilm Marie. Hello, Callum kell how how many years
Speaker 2: we've been doing this together? You've been here what six? Seven,
Speaker 2: eight years? Like you were still in high school or something.
Speaker 2: Young Buck, I don't know. He's Callum is working the
Speaker 2: phone line seven one three, two one two, five, nine
Speaker 2: and five. Oh, Calum, you're ready for the Texas OU
Speaker 2: game today. It's a tradition unlike any other two thirty
Speaker 2: pm Today, ABC, and we also carry it on seven
Speaker 2: ninety right, that is right, seven ninety. Should you be
Speaker 2: in your car you listen to it on I believe
Speaker 2: seven ninety or seven forty. You know, it's such a
Speaker 2: big game every all of our radio stations. She just
Speaker 2: preempted I think at two thirty today, and Callum, you
Speaker 2: do run r AM side of the stations, whether Brian
Speaker 2: Erickson or anybody thinks he does. I give you gretit brother,
Speaker 2: you program it so well. I say, you just preempt
Speaker 2: everything to two thirty today, on nine to fifty JPRC
Speaker 2: right now seven forty news talk talk, and then it's
Speaker 2: seven ninety sports just all Texas all the time. Horn's up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's in Texas. Hor up on you. But you can
Speaker 2: call and Calum may pick up if if if you're
Speaker 2: feeling like it, if he's feeling like it, and you
Speaker 2: could put me through the We who live in the
Speaker 2: Gulf Coast, certainly in the Houston, the Galasteria, all we
Speaker 2: know all too well about hurricanes, don't we. Central Florida
Speaker 2: didn't know a lot about hurricane until a few days
Speaker 2: ago when Milton just man, have you seen the pictures
Speaker 2: of the video just barreled? It was a category five
Speaker 2: at some point. I think it hit land at category three.
Speaker 2: It is just it just devastated. What a dozen people
Speaker 2: lost their lives. It just I don't know how many
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars it's gonna cost to repair things.
Speaker 2: The Tropicana Field where the Tampa Bay Rays play baseball,
Speaker 2: I mean, the roof is gone. I mean, just imagine
Speaker 2: the astrodome with the roof blown off. You know what,
Speaker 2: Come to think of it, that actually probably would be
Speaker 2: the best outcome of a hurricane hitting Houston is for
Speaker 2: it to destroy the astrodom. And oh yes, I did
Speaker 2: say that. And if you're a longtime lister of mine,
Speaker 2: you know I'm not a fan of the astrodom any longer. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's an icewhere that needs to go. I never want
Speaker 2: a hurricane to go anywhere. I never want a hurricane
Speaker 2: to come through Houston. I never want a hurricane to
Speaker 2: come through Houston. That actually is so devastating. It still
Speaker 2: hits fifty five to sixty miles north of Galveston, which
Speaker 2: is roughly where the astrodome is. I don't want it
Speaker 2: to happen, I really don't. But if it does, I
Speaker 2: want that thing flattened. Okay, just get rid of it. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's enough of my little die tribe over here. But
Speaker 2: the Tropicana Field, it just it looks horrible, and they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to rebuild that. If it's I think they
Speaker 2: were the Bays, the Tampa Bay Rays were going to
Speaker 2: either upgrade that or move in a few years. Now's
Speaker 2: the time to do that. Neither here nor there. One
Speaker 2: of the facilities that was still standing was a hospital
Speaker 2: was Tampa General Hospital. No relation to General Hospital TV
Speaker 2: show that I was on thirteen years ago, but it's
Speaker 2: Tampa General Hospital. And what they did is they utilize
Speaker 2: something that I think is it's very cool. I don't
Speaker 2: know the cost of this thing, but it's called an
Speaker 2: aqua fence, an aqua fence, and it's really exactly actly
Speaker 2: what you think it is. It is a temporary fence
Speaker 2: that was put up knowing that this hurricane was going
Speaker 2: to come through and he could stop. It's a barrier
Speaker 2: for water surges. And I believe it's a ten foot
Speaker 2: high fence. And imagine this. Imagine you know sometimes when
Speaker 2: you go to a concert and there's barriers and there's
Speaker 2: this wall that's generally maybe sometimes only four feet tall
Speaker 2: that you know, security guards, you're on the other side,
Speaker 2: and you're on the other side, and the whole thing.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing, but it's bigger, and it's secured,
Speaker 2: very very strong. And they surrounded the hospital with this
Speaker 2: fence and actually have a price for you that cost
Speaker 2: anywhere between three hundred and fifty dollars to one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars per linear foot. So imagine how big a hospital
Speaker 2: grounds are I mean a lot. I mean this is
Speaker 2: an investment. It's a company out of Norway, been around
Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety nine. Says it protects now more than
Speaker 2: thirty billion dollars worth of real estate in the United
Speaker 2: States across twenty four states. They shield hotels, banks a
Speaker 2: number of things. When what it does, these are reusable.
Speaker 2: You think you could put them up and you could
Speaker 2: take it down about sixty different times and it it.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's saved, but it withstood Hurricane Helene
Speaker 2: not long ago, and Hurricane Milton. They just came through.
Speaker 2: It's a one inch thick panel. It secures to the
Speaker 2: ground and with stands high winds while protecting floods building
Speaker 2: from flooding. That's pretty cool. And I'm looking at pictures
Speaker 2: of this thing and I guess, I guess it's aqua fence.
Speaker 2: Just go google aqua FEDS. But it was. That's smart.
Speaker 2: If you're listening in the Galleston area or anywhere along
Speaker 2: the coastline, bow Mi anulus and our signal here. He
Speaker 2: goes all over the area, goes all the way to
Speaker 2: bow Minded Big actually touches into parts of Noir, into Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Is this something that you want to invest in if
Speaker 2: you have a business. Now, I read that at some
Speaker 2: point they are going to develop for consumers for houses.
Speaker 2: They're developing a residential model that would cost around twenty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars per household. And I'm gonna stop there and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave this. I'm gonna let that sit with you,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna let this open for discussion. Seven one three, two,
Speaker 2: one two, five nine five zero. Would you pay twenty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars that have a fence that not guaranteed? I
Speaker 2: don't I believe there's not guaranteed. I don't know if
Speaker 2: the aquafinse guarantees it. But it's been proven to work
Speaker 2: to round your home to stop high waters from washing
Speaker 2: your house away. Now think about this. It doesn't stop
Speaker 2: the winds from taking off of your roof, things flying
Speaker 2: through your windows, freeze down falling on top of your roof.
Speaker 2: But it's just for these storm surges. They think the
Speaker 2: answer is where do you live? How much is your
Speaker 2: house worth? What's the value to you at twenty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars per house? And I want you to think about
Speaker 2: this too, What also can you get for twenty thousand dollars? Well,
Speaker 2: I want you to think about how much you paid
Speaker 2: at a lot of people bought them this year. How
Speaker 2: much did you pay for your whole home generator? You know,
Speaker 2: how much did you pay for a company to come
Speaker 2: out and install generat generator or whatever brand it was,
Speaker 2: Some of these cost over ten thousand dollars. Some of
Speaker 2: them cost over twenty thousand dollars, depending how big your
Speaker 2: house is, how many times a year does that kick in,
Speaker 2: and when you use it when you have a power outage.
Speaker 2: It's nice to have. It's it's it's it's it's like
Speaker 2: an insurance policy that keeps the air condition you refrigerator running.
Speaker 2: Would you spend another twenty thousand dollars for this high
Speaker 2: tech aqua fence to be built around your home? It's
Speaker 2: I don't know. I particularly again, everybody has a different answer.
Speaker 2: I particularly would not. Whatever what hurricane was it, Barrel
Speaker 2: Hurricane Barrel came through. It barreled through last July and
Speaker 2: it went I believe literally the eye went right over
Speaker 2: my house, right over southwest side of Houston, knock Wood.
Speaker 2: It was Category one. I think by then else is
Speaker 2: still standing. No damage to the roof. I was lucky.
Speaker 2: I think a few a few of my neighbors had
Speaker 2: some roof damage. Power was out for maybe forty hours,
Speaker 2: maybe it was a day and a half. And that's
Speaker 2: the longest in the eight years that I've owed my house,
Speaker 2: my power has ever been out. I'm very lucky, so
Speaker 2: I would not. I am not in the market for one.
Speaker 2: But if you're along the coastline, if you're near a lake,
Speaker 2: if you're near a body of water, think about this day.
Speaker 2: So again I'm the guy who makes you think. I
Speaker 2: ask you questions. Now when we come back too, I'm
Speaker 2: going to talk about the technology to keep you around,
Speaker 2: to keep your sanity when it comes to hurricane or
Speaker 2: when it comes to power outages. And I know it's like,
Speaker 2: why is he talking about it? Now? It's mid October?
Speaker 2: Guess what hurricane season the last through November thirtieth. We've
Speaker 2: got a month and a half to go. And if
Speaker 2: you already know, guess what happened less than forty eight
Speaker 2: to seventy two hours ago. We already had a massive
Speaker 2: hurricane just destroyed central Florida. I am here to give
Speaker 2: your tips, just like a oil I am Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Before we continue, was just fun hi tech textan show
Speaker 2: and a big college football Saturday just because it's the
Speaker 2: Texas ou Gang, which is not starting it normally. It
Speaker 2: kicks off at eleven am right now. Actually what thirty
Speaker 2: minutes ago? Nope to thirty today, So standby a big
Speaker 2: shout out to my boys over at US Coins and Jewelry.
Speaker 2: I was there Thursday. Yeah, I popped over there Thursday,
Speaker 2: saw Matthew Duncan. I made a little I made a
Speaker 2: little Instagram video. These guys are so good and it
Speaker 2: was I don't want to it's bad analogy because I'm
Speaker 2: talking about hurricanes. It was the call before the storm.
Speaker 2: Got there, right before lunchtime, and I walk in. It
Speaker 2: was relatively quiet. Relatively quiet because when they usually walk
Speaker 2: in there. Man, I love it because it's hustle and bustle,
Speaker 2: and there there's Will behind the desk and he's looking
Speaker 2: at all these coins people are bringing in and offering
Speaker 2: money for him because they buy and sell coins, obviously,
Speaker 2: but relatively what. Matthew and I had time to chat
Speaker 2: and I flipped a one of my watches. They sell
Speaker 2: Rolex watches. They got a great selection there too, and
Speaker 2: boy they've got some hard to find ones. I ended
Speaker 2: up getting a Batman. There's a bat do you know
Speaker 2: there was a Batman Rolex. There's a Hulk, There's a Pepsi.
Speaker 2: There's they got there. They come up with these crazy names.
Speaker 2: There's a sprite, so no way one of the things
Speaker 2: that I did, and I did some videos. So if
Speaker 2: you follow me on high Tech Texan h I g
Speaker 2: h t e c h t e x a n
Speaker 2: on Instagram one of the several videos that I posted
Speaker 2: this week, and you go in if you uh, Holliday season,
Speaker 2: they're just going to be crazy busy, sportsparmabilia, coins, jewelry,
Speaker 2: women's jewelry, ear rings, tennis bracelets. But it's if you
Speaker 2: want to start really getting into coin collecting, you want
Speaker 2: to start, your kids or your grandkids, great place to start.
Speaker 2: There's just there're new mismatists on steroids. I am allowed
Speaker 2: to say that new mismatist. That's someone who collects coins, right,
Speaker 2: versus a philatalist, which I out also can say on
Speaker 2: the radio. I am. I'm not a philatalist, but I
Speaker 2: used to be easy does it? People do not arrest me? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's a person who collects stamps and my grandparents started
Speaker 2: that damn collection for me. But us coins and jewelry.
Speaker 2: They're on Katie Freeway, just outside Loop six ' ten
Speaker 2: at Voss Voss Rokay. They are open today. They're probably listening.
Speaker 2: They have not KPRC nine to fifty two and in,
Speaker 2: Hey guys, girls us coins and Julie. So if you
Speaker 2: go in, tellt me you heard it on the Michael
Speaker 2: Gartfield High Tech Textan show. These guys are great. Speaking
Speaker 2: of hurricanes, we still have a month and a half
Speaker 2: in hurricane season. It goes to November thirtieth, believe it
Speaker 2: or not. And you know, for my over the air
Speaker 2: listening audience in the Houston galveson DMA, you know how
Speaker 2: devastating a hurricane can be. Hurricane Barrel came barreling through
Speaker 2: the Houston area in early July. Power is out for
Speaker 2: a quite a while. For most number of my listeners
Speaker 2: out there, you don't dy how would you use it?
Speaker 2: How do you be prepared? And and I've talked about
Speaker 2: this for twenty years that I've done on the radio,
Speaker 2: Things and things pop up because of the technology. There
Speaker 2: are apps, there are gadget devices that can help you.
Speaker 2: We'll go over it again. Yes, you always want to
Speaker 2: make sure how how can your phone help during the hurricane.
Speaker 2: It could be a lifeline if you think about it.
Speaker 2: Many smart many smartphones right now they're waterproof, or at
Speaker 2: least they're water resistance. And if your current smartphone is
Speaker 2: not waterproof, Why don't you run out, like right now
Speaker 2: and get a waterproof case for it, sealable or reusable.
Speaker 2: I mean you've seen these pouches. I actually have one
Speaker 2: of these if and when I ever go on a boat.
Speaker 2: It's like a very high end baggy that kind of
Speaker 2: it's like a ziplock that that zips that you could
Speaker 2: put a lot of your your things that you don't
Speaker 2: want ruin. Put your passport, put your your money in there,
Speaker 2: and certainly put your phone in there. But as a lasts,
Speaker 2: if you have some thick zip lock bags, maybe an
Speaker 2: emergency kit, put your phone in there too. Put your
Speaker 2: phone in there. When you're shopping for a gadget, maybe
Speaker 2: it's a new phone. You want to consider the if
Speaker 2: it's water resistant, and there's a rating called the IP.
Speaker 2: And then I'll follow by a number that you should
Speaker 2: look at and consider, especially if you are if you're
Speaker 2: a boater, if you travel, if you're prone to drop
Speaker 2: in your phone and around your bathroom or your tub,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, it's the IP. Right P stands in
Speaker 2: this case, it stands for ingress protection I n gr
Speaker 2: eess ingress protection, meaning that it could be submerged in
Speaker 2: fresh water for up to x number of fee for
Speaker 2: up the x number of minutes. I suggest you get
Speaker 2: something that's at least IP sixty eight rated. And if
Speaker 2: you've got an IP sixty eight or higher, you can
Speaker 2: be in water up to five feet for up to
Speaker 2: thirty minutes without doing any any harm, any bad harm.
Speaker 2: And then there's backup power too. What's your backup power solution?
Speaker 2: Backup power is essential in whether related emergencies. You know,
Speaker 2: if you have cell service in your area, you may
Speaker 2: not have power. You may be able to access to
Speaker 2: working power outlet, but without power, your smartphone is useless.
Speaker 2: It it's like a box that it came in. It's
Speaker 2: not a big deal. Get a little power bank. Get
Speaker 2: these little power banks that started ten to fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2: You could juice up a smartphone at least once. Get
Speaker 2: one with a higher milla amp. That's that thing is
Speaker 2: the m ah. The more milli amps, the more times
Speaker 2: it can charge up a phone or another device.
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 2: I have ad with batteries. The maximum milliamp battery you
Speaker 2: can carry on a plane I believe is twenty thousand
Speaker 2: or twenty three thousand milli amps. That's it's a heavy.
Speaker 2: That thing probably weighs a good two to three pounds.
Speaker 2: I took it when I was traveling. I traveled at
Speaker 2: a national a few times this summer. I took that
Speaker 2: thing because I knew if I needed to charge my
Speaker 2: lap thought it was going to last a long, long time.
Speaker 2: But think about this. I mean, you have someone in
Speaker 2: your family, may have a seatpap machine when they sleep.
Speaker 2: You need that. Medical equipment, small appliances. Yes, you got laptops,
Speaker 2: you got lights, you know, go get some. You could
Speaker 2: get some portable power generators that can run. I had
Speaker 2: a neighbor of mine I was with was at an
Speaker 2: event when so Wednesday night, I saw a neighbor and
Speaker 2: we were talking and my neighbor and we don't lose
Speaker 2: power a lot, as I had said, in the six
Speaker 2: seven eight years I've lived in my house, I mean
Speaker 2: I've lost power. I can count out one hand if
Speaker 2: it hadn't been for more than maybe a day and
Speaker 2: a half. In the day and a half it was
Speaker 2: with Hurricane Barrel, this pass Shula, and luckily I was
Speaker 2: out of town, and I asked, we talked about did
Speaker 2: you get us one of these home whole home generators?
Speaker 2: And they didn't want us to spend the money. They
Speaker 2: didn't want to spend twelve thirteen, fifteen thousand dollars. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm down with you, baby, because we're lucky.
Speaker 2: We our houses. Our homes are relatively new and we
Speaker 2: live in it that hasn't been hit. But they wanted
Speaker 2: to go out and they wanted to buy a portable
Speaker 2: power generator. These things are much cheaper. These things are
Speaker 2: I can go get four hundred, five hundred, and if
Speaker 2: you really want to spend one thousand dollars, you could
Speaker 2: do that. But what they are there, they're very large batteries.
Speaker 2: They're very large and very heavy. I have two of
Speaker 2: them that I've been playing with. One of them maybe
Speaker 2: is maybe about twenty five pounds, and I've got another
Speaker 2: weighs about thirty five pounds. I charge them up by
Speaker 2: plugging them them and I check it every few months,
Speaker 2: especially during especially during hurricane season. It's I'm always in
Speaker 2: ninety nine to one. What it is. If my and
Speaker 2: I used it twice in my house, if my power
Speaker 2: goes off, I go to my garage and I pick
Speaker 2: up this battery, and luckily I'm strong, and I take
Speaker 2: it to my kitchen because I want my refrigerator running.
Speaker 2: The model I have it will power a refrigerator because
Speaker 2: it's got the typical AC and DC inlets. Mine has
Speaker 2: six different outlets that you could plug in. So I
Speaker 2: can plug in a fan, I can plug in two fans.
Speaker 2: I can plug in a charger for my phone. I
Speaker 2: can plug in my refrigerator, I can plug in a light.
Speaker 2: I can plug in a number of different things. Also
Speaker 2: has some of usbc's in USB courts for USBA and
Speaker 2: USBC runs. Maybe I think this one was about four
Speaker 2: hundred and five hundred and six hundred dollars. Let me
Speaker 2: help you out. It's a heck of a lot cheaper
Speaker 2: than having a whole home generator installed with the natural gas.
Speaker 2: You don't have to wait to your city comes to
Speaker 2: approve it. With permits. Now no get you may want
Speaker 2: to go get in one of those. It let you
Speaker 2: plug in some of them let you plug in up
Speaker 2: to ten appliances. So that was a really interesting conversation
Speaker 2: that my neighbor had. She went out, I believe, the
Speaker 2: next day and bought one. The way. Did you know
Speaker 2: you still can call nine one one from your mobile
Speaker 2: phone even if you do not have an active cell
Speaker 2: phone plan. You do not need to pay for cell
Speaker 2: service to call nine one one. Bottom line out of
Speaker 2: bad idea to keep it old. The activated phone in
Speaker 2: your emergency kit, maybe your glove compartment. Make sure it's charge.
Speaker 2: Make sure it's charged. You can call, you can, did
Speaker 2: you know? You can also text nine to one one
Speaker 2: if you can't talk. If you need to be silent,
Speaker 2: you need to be registered for the night for that
Speaker 2: nine to one one service with your wirelest provider. You
Speaker 2: could do that too. Other ways thing it. If you
Speaker 2: have bad service, you find something with Wi Fi. If
Speaker 2: you have no cell but WiFi, use WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger,
Speaker 2: use FaceTime, red Cross. They offer a number of different things, folks.
Speaker 2: It may you think it's oh, hurricane season's over. It's
Speaker 2: too late. It's not gonna happen to me. It could.
Speaker 2: There's tornadoes, there's floods. Life not certain. I am an
Speaker 2: Eagle Scout, one of the youngest ones in the history
Speaker 2: of Boy Scouts. I was an Eagle Scout when I
Speaker 2: was thirteen, and I continue to practice and be prepared.
Speaker 2: I want you to be prepared. That's why you listen
Speaker 2: to my show right all right, one more, one more
Speaker 2: segment this hour before we continue all the way to
Speaker 2: one pm. It's to our radio show.
Speaker 4: So much to talk about, maybe a few things to
Speaker 4: give away, so don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it past a few minutes until the top of
Speaker 2: the twelve noon out. If you're listening live the old school,
Speaker 2: there's still the cool way, the cool kids listening to
Speaker 2: us on nine to fifty am radio. This is a
Speaker 2: radio show. The best way to describe it to you
Speaker 2: young kids out there, millennials, Generation A, whatever you call yourselves.
Speaker 2: It's like a podcast, but it's better because you know,
Speaker 2: my voice right now is beam you know, over five
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Speaker 2: Huh beat that on a podcast. Well, it probably could.
Speaker 2: It's different though, But as soon as the one o'clock
Speaker 2: hour hits, calib is going to zip this two hour
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Speaker 2: you can download iHeartRadio and listen to me live through
Speaker 2: the app, not even on the radio. Oh, by the way,
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Speaker 2: our radio station on a smart device. More people are
Speaker 2: doing that. If you're around home and you've got your
Speaker 2: your Amazon Alexis and your googly things and whatever, you
Speaker 2: know what you can do just talk to it and
Speaker 2: just say hey, Siri or IXA, whatever you want to say.
Speaker 2: Listen to KPRC nine fifty am on iHeart Radio. You
Speaker 2: can walk around your house, put on your marts speakers
Speaker 2: and everything. It's it's pretty pretty cool, don't die. I
Speaker 2: thought so too. A phone number here and what I call,
Speaker 2: which generally you can't do on podcasts because podcasted podcasts
Speaker 2: generally aren't live, they're recorded. But here this is what
Speaker 2: radio is people seven one three, two one two five
Speaker 2: nine five O. You know, speaking of which generations? Where
Speaker 2: did I see this? I saw a story over here
Speaker 2: of the different generation names and years because we we
Speaker 2: we know Baby boomers, we know Gen X I'm a
Speaker 2: Gen x er, we know millennials, and it was it
Speaker 2: was really interesting read. But it was also about how
Speaker 2: times and things have changed, what each generation has gone through, why,
Speaker 2: why it's it's just different. And let me see if
Speaker 2: I can find this real quickly. Oh here it is
Speaker 2: no where is that thing? So there's a gen x
Speaker 2: I'm a gen xer. Then there's millennials, and then there's
Speaker 2: gen Z gen Z. There we go gen Z. If
Speaker 2: you were born between nineteen ninety seven, twenty twelve, year
Speaker 2: gen Z and then here here's the new one. If
Speaker 2: you were born between twenty thirteen and today. You know
Speaker 2: what it's called. Anyone anyone you are gin Alpha, That is,
Speaker 2: according to USA today, gin Alpha, then Alpha. Who came
Speaker 2: up with that man? Anything sexier than that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Die? There's a map of where most of them live.
Speaker 2: But it got into a discussion of a generational uchdone.
Speaker 2: One of the ways is they talked about music. How
Speaker 2: do we consume music? What did we listen to music
Speaker 2: when we were born, when we grew up? It will
Speaker 2: define your generation. I mean from the early days of
Speaker 2: vinyl records, to radio, to cassettes, to CDs, to streaming
Speaker 2: services now social media platforms. I mean music listening formats.
Speaker 2: They're baked into each generation's formative years. When I grew
Speaker 2: up a I mean, think about it. I was a
Speaker 2: very early as I'm aging myself, a very early gin exer.
Speaker 2: I was born in the very early early cust of
Speaker 2: gen X if you want to go research that. I
Speaker 2: remember my dad had a real to reel tape. Not
Speaker 2: a lot of homes consumers use real to reel listen.
Speaker 2: I learned how to splice that interring my radio intelligsion
Speaker 2: and film classes in the eighties when I came to radio.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of my radio that some of the
Speaker 2: ILK that I work with over here, who are my age,
Speaker 2: are a little older still in radio. Believe it or not.
Speaker 2: I know they're laughing and listening right now, going good.
Speaker 2: Remember taking the razor blade and taking the tape and
Speaker 2: splicing together, and think, yeah, that's how we used to
Speaker 2: edit that stuff. I remember real the real But then
Speaker 2: I remember I had a record player, and then we
Speaker 2: had a thirty three and a third and we had
Speaker 2: the forty five records of the singles, and we had
Speaker 2: the albums, and then it was the cassette and I
Speaker 2: did jump over the eight track tape. I had an
Speaker 2: eight track tape, not that that was semi popular, but
Speaker 2: the cassette tape was awesome. It was so small, and
Speaker 2: you had a cassette tape in your car. You get
Speaker 2: your first car in the late seventies and the eighties,
Speaker 2: and you got a cassette player and you just pop
Speaker 2: in little you know, I had, you know, the thriller,
Speaker 2: you know, Michael Jackson, John Googar, Melon Cap, Holloo, It's
Speaker 2: a journey Man. My first cassette I ever got, ever
Speaker 2: got nineteen eighty one, it was journey Escape. Played that.
Speaker 2: By the time I graduated college, CDs had hit the market.
Speaker 2: Had to go and take all my money I got
Speaker 2: from graduation. I bought me a pimp stereo system. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right, man. I got me a cassette player, got
Speaker 2: the hamp of Fire, got everything. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Apple comes along, and then Apple starts they offering iTunes,
Speaker 2: and then it was uh, you could buy and download
Speaker 2: these songs for ninety nine cents, and then streaming came along.
Speaker 2: Then on our radio comes along. Generations are so different,
Speaker 2: you know. TV always has been there in some way,
Speaker 2: shape or form. TVs to me, there was really only
Speaker 2: three hops, three different versions of TV, one of which,
Speaker 2: let's just call it was I'm gonna call it black
Speaker 2: and white TV. Black and white TV was the only
Speaker 2: thing you got, which how do I even describe black
Speaker 2: and white TV to you, I'll though, Jennilfahs, it was
Speaker 2: TV you're watching, you know, with all the vivid colors.
Speaker 2: But it was black and white. That that's it. There
Speaker 2: was white and there was just start stuff. That's it.
Speaker 2: The mid nineteen sixties that's when it changed and TV
Speaker 2: shows were starting to be able to They shot them
Speaker 2: in color with Technicolor, with color cameras. That was dividing
Speaker 2: point one to two. It was color TV. After that,
Speaker 2: everybody had to get a color TV. Evs weren't nice
Speaker 2: and thin that hung on the wall. They were big,
Speaker 2: old think heavy mamas. They were built into consoles like
Speaker 2: my grandparents. Man, my grandparents had such a cool one.
Speaker 2: They had a big old TV on one side and
Speaker 2: they had a record player on the other side, all
Speaker 2: built into this beautiful wood console. Waited as much as
Speaker 2: a car. And then it was the early two thousands
Speaker 2: that was the next dividing line. And to me, that's
Speaker 2: where we are right now, and that's where digital, the
Speaker 2: standard of broadcasting was mandatory that everything go digital. High
Speaker 2: definition came in. TV's got thin very expensive. Now they're
Speaker 2: relatively inexpensive. I guess we could say there's a dividing
Speaker 2: line right now, maybe there's a three point five right now,
Speaker 2: third and a half dite where we're now consuming videos
Speaker 2: on our mobile devices. But they're mobile devices, they're not televisions.
Speaker 2: It's the difference between all of these generations, which are you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We gotta take a break right now.
Speaker 2: You as I looked through the glass right now, as
Speaker 2: he plays the music to gets in the break, callum
Speaker 2: read you by believe are gin Z right? Gin Z
Speaker 2: born between nineteen ninety seven and twenty twelve, right, long hair,
Speaker 2: looking good looking, dapper, unless you're a millennial before that.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We can talk about that, baby boomers, I know who
Speaker 2: you are. I want you to use your landline phone
Speaker 2: and call me. Oh I need go there. I will
Speaker 2: talk about landlines. On the other side of this second hour,
Speaker 2: it's Michael Garfuf. I'm a high tech dexon show. So
Speaker 2: IX is Michael garfild Michael Garfield, Michael Garfields joining us
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 1: High tech texto. Michael Garfield is here with a.
Speaker 2: High tech Texas items to make life easier to some
Speaker 2: new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan three decades helping
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Speaker 1: halfway through the show, halfway to half hour, half well
Speaker 1: two and a half hours to kick off of.
Speaker 2: The greatest football rivalry in college sports, Texas Oklahoma, as
Speaker 2: we do the show second Saturday in October. Always a
Speaker 2: tradition up in Dallas at the moors people, that's always
Speaker 2: by the way, Happy you kapoor for all those celebratings.
Speaker 2: Hope you have an easy fact toning for your sins,
Speaker 2: and I hope the Long Horns a tone for their
Speaker 2: loss last year the Texas OU game, which was unnecessary,
Speaker 2: but we still made it to the one away from
Speaker 2: the national championship. Hopefully this is the year enough football
Speaker 2: we continue with that. Actually we can still talk about
Speaker 2: football whatever you want seven to one, three, two, one
Speaker 2: two five nine five oh one hour down listed in
Speaker 2: one hour in the books. Then I will let you
Speaker 2: be on your way to either fast watch college football
Speaker 2: or whatever you want to do. Big news in the
Speaker 2: world of automobiles yesterday, Tesla did you see this? Tesla
Speaker 2: has announced Elon Musk. Yes, that's right. He was out
Speaker 2: in California, Burbank, actually California. He announced another interesting vehicle
Speaker 2: from his company. It is a self driving taxi. Is
Speaker 2: the robot taxi that's been long awaited. There's a name
Speaker 2: for it. Finally, it is called the cyber Cab. The
Speaker 2: cyber Cab, and I watched the online press conference and
Speaker 2: it took a little deciphering of what the hell is
Speaker 2: this thing. It's a futuristic looking vehicle, but it does
Speaker 2: not have a steering wheel and it does not have pedals,
Speaker 2: but it does come with a promise from the man
Speaker 2: himself that it will arrive sometime in twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: and costs less than thirty thousand dollars. And you can't
Speaker 2: see me here in studio, but I'm using air quotes
Speaker 2: with the promise. I don't know, man, I don't know. Hey,
Speaker 2: is it a tax So it's self driving? Which number
Speaker 2: one is nothing new Tesla in this area. They're playing
Speaker 2: catchup because Waimo Waymo, which is owned by Google's parent
Speaker 2: company called Alphabet, they've had driverless taxis for years. They
Speaker 2: say it provides more than one hundred thousand paid rides
Speaker 2: per week in San Francisco and Phoenix and La where
Speaker 2: they have these things General Motors. They have robot cabs themselves.
Speaker 2: It's called Cruise.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: They had to recently put humans behind the wheel after
Speaker 2: a pedestrian was critically injured. Last year. Amazon Amazon themselves
Speaker 2: they have they're testing a driverless van zookszo X. This
Speaker 2: is nothing really new, but because it's Elon, you know,
Speaker 2: Elon has these press Conferencisco very Steve jobsish like back
Speaker 2: of the day, and so it's going to attract attention
Speaker 2: because Tesla, yes, pretty much first to market when it
Speaker 2: comes to the electric vehicles, and because Elon is just
Speaker 2: Elon man, it's just wherever he goes, he gets coverage.
Speaker 2: It's smart marketing on him off to pump himself up.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about this little Is this something you
Speaker 2: has anybody ever ridden in a driverless car? I have,
Speaker 2: and it's just freaky DK And I think one of
Speaker 2: the reasons why it really hasn't taken off, it's not
Speaker 2: because the technology is not there. It's not because they're unsafe,
Speaker 2: because in many cases they are. They use cameras, they
Speaker 2: use GPS, they use LIEDAR, which is a type of
Speaker 2: another type of similar to radar. It's just it's a
Speaker 2: paradigm shift, and it's ingrained in our brains, going, how
Speaker 2: in the world can I be driving in a vehicle
Speaker 2: or riding in a vehicle? Would nobody driving the car?
Speaker 2: It's scary. The first time I ever saw one of these,
Speaker 2: I flew to San Francisco for something and I was
Speaker 2: was I driving was I may have rented a car
Speaker 2: at San Francisco Airport, driving north to San Francisco, the
Speaker 2: city itself, and I'm on the what is it, the
Speaker 2: I five or whatever it is it up there and
Speaker 2: I'm next to me. All of a sudden, I look
Speaker 2: over and there is a car, no one in there,
Speaker 2: no one, no passengers, but there was no driver, you know,
Speaker 2: and had all these cameras systems on, and it was
Speaker 2: just freaky to look at from the outside. And I
Speaker 2: slowed down because I didn't want to get anywhere near
Speaker 2: this day for fear it would change lanes and crash
Speaker 2: or something. It didn't. There's there's still questions to you know,
Speaker 2: what if it gets in a wreck and you know
Speaker 2: who's responsible, you know, how do you ensure this thing?
Speaker 2: It's whatever this is gonna come to this is something
Speaker 2: you want to do. And the funny thing is about
Speaker 2: the cyber cab. It's a robota. When I hear the
Speaker 2: word taxi, when I hear the word cyber cab, it's okay.
Speaker 2: It's something that I'm going to be driven in. But
Speaker 2: they're also going to sell these to the public, So
Speaker 2: they're gonna sell them to the public. And it doesn't
Speaker 2: have a steering wheel, it doesn't have any pedals. You're
Speaker 2: just going to I mean, you want a paradigm shift.
Speaker 2: Let's say you buy one of these cyber cabs, which
Speaker 2: which is for the first one? It looks pretty cool?
Speaker 2: Is that gonna is what the actual one is gonna
Speaker 2: look like? Looks like a mini mini cyber truck. A
Speaker 2: paradigm shift is okay, you're gonna have this is this
Speaker 2: is gonna be your everyday car. Instead of getting at
Speaker 2: the driver's seat, you're now for the rest of your lifetime,
Speaker 2: you're getting in the passenger seat. Why even have a
Speaker 2: door on the front left hand side because you ain't
Speaker 2: gonna get in there. There's no reason to well, other
Speaker 2: than just to sit. It's it's it's totally autonomous. I'm
Speaker 2: just not sure that the world is ready for this day. Tesla,
Speaker 2: by the way, and this is fact that I'm not
Speaker 2: ragging on testlade love It's a Texas based company, which
Speaker 2: I love me some Texas. It's losing ground to competitors
Speaker 2: in China and even here in the US. Its share
Speaker 2: of the electric car market fell below fifty percent this year.
Speaker 2: It stock is down forty percent from its record high,
Speaker 2: which was back in twenty twenty one. But but Tesla
Speaker 2: and Elon, they have staked the future on self driving
Speaker 2: technology and artificial intelligence. I'll give you a quick good
Speaker 2: and bad before you get out of here. Tesla could
Speaker 2: win because it is able to collect tons of data
Speaker 2: for millions of its cars already on the road. Plus
Speaker 2: the self driving technology that Tesla uses it's it's cheaper
Speaker 2: than those that are used by other companies like Waimow,
Speaker 2: so it could potentially undercut them on the price. Could
Speaker 2: be a big win for Tesla. But Tesla still needs
Speaker 2: regulatory approval to operate its robotaxis on public roads. Still
Speaker 2: hasn't contacted the California Public Utilities Commission as of right
Speaker 2: now about even applying for autonomous permits. This was just
Speaker 2: a press conference. That's it, but again it caused me
Speaker 2: to talk four minutes about Tesla and give it some
Speaker 2: free publicity. So Tesla, congrats one of the winners this week.
Speaker 2: And let's hope the Longhorns ride by on you all right,
Speaker 2: break time right now seven one three, two, one two five,
Speaker 2: nine to five. Though, if you want to call, say hi,
Speaker 2: I asked questions, we could talk cars coming back. I
Speaker 2: do talk about cars and trucks. I will tell you. Actually,
Speaker 2: we could play the game what's Michael driving this week?
Speaker 2: Because every single week I get to test drive a
Speaker 2: new car, not from a dealership but directly from a manufacturer.
Speaker 2: I'll give you my thoughts. It is not paid, not sponsored,
Speaker 2: so I can rag on any car. But I'll tell
Speaker 2: you the truck. It's an SUV I was driving, big name.
Speaker 2: I will tell you if I like it, if I
Speaker 2: don't like it, And uh, how much does bad Boy costs?
Speaker 2: Coming up?
Speaker 4: After this?
Speaker 2: Twelve o'clock you're noon here on a Saturday is the
Speaker 2: Gone show? I'd somewhere tree. I do not tell you
Speaker 2: lightly that you spend two hours on Saturdays for the
Speaker 2: past two plus decades listening to me. I want to
Speaker 2: reward you. I want to reward somebody, at least on
Speaker 2: a regular basis. It's radio and we love giving things
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Speaker 2: Who's hungry? How about a twenty five dollars gift card
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Speaker 2: I love this. It's based out of Austin. There's four
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Speaker 2: that's the last time I'm talking about food because I
Speaker 2: cannot eat until sundown tonight. So folks, good luck to you,
Speaker 2: as we could dig you the high tech techs in
Speaker 2: show told you about the nestless cyber cab or the
Speaker 2: robot taxi that Elon and Tusla unveiled. It's still a
Speaker 2: few years coming, but cars and trucks are still out there.
Speaker 2: One of the big things that I do drive and
Speaker 2: test and talk about. It's not just computers and TVs
Speaker 2: and cell phones and drones and cameras and all that
Speaker 2: other fun stuff. I am really big into cars and trucks.
Speaker 2: I am a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association,
Speaker 2: and which means well, it means I get to talk
Speaker 2: to the manufacturers, the engineers, the marketers. I do not
Speaker 2: deal with dealerships.
Speaker 5: I do not.
Speaker 2: I am not endorsed by a dealership, sadly, so every
Speaker 2: time I get to review a car, I can tell
Speaker 2: you it is crap. I can tell you it is phenomenon.
Speaker 2: So I feel free to ask me if you are
Speaker 2: in the market for a vehicle, whether it's an suv,
Speaker 2: a pickup truck, a sports car, an EV, hybrid, whatever
Speaker 2: it is, odds are I may have tested it, certainly
Speaker 2: if it's new and if it's come out. What's Michael
Speaker 2: driving this week? We need a theme? We need Callum,
Speaker 2: we need theme. Callum's on the phone getting a winner
Speaker 2: right now for Cabo Bob's We need a theme, want
Speaker 2: a theme song? What's Michael driving this work? Folks? For
Speaker 2: one week I was in a twenty twenty four land
Speaker 2: Rova Defender, nice suv, sporty suv, capable on road, off road,
Speaker 2: sexy head turner without a doubt, great power, three liters
Speaker 2: six cylinder engine.
Speaker 3: All gas.
Speaker 2: So it is not even it is not hybrid. It's
Speaker 2: called old school three hundred and ninety five horsepower. Very rooming.
Speaker 2: Who is this for? Well, if you got a little
Speaker 2: cash or you get a good deal, it's free. It
Speaker 2: potentially could be for you MSRP seventy two thousand dollars
Speaker 2: or so. Now mine had a lot of optional equipment,
Speaker 2: so the way I test Trova was about eighty one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. This one actually had the off road pack,
Speaker 2: air suspension pack and a number of other things. It's
Speaker 2: it was relatively easy to climb into. It's it's jacked up.
Speaker 2: It's a little higher. Great tires, great big tires that
Speaker 2: come with it. It was what eight speed automatic from
Speaker 2: the outside you walk around. I like the design spare tire,
Speaker 2: spare tire. Yes, it does come with a full size
Speaker 2: spare tire. The spare tire is mounted on the back
Speaker 2: kind of jeepish if you will. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't love that. It's a cool, rugged Look. You
Speaker 2: keep this thing on a ranch and you go off
Speaker 2: roading a lot. Sure, who was the last time you
Speaker 2: ever had a flat tire? Now, people are different depending
Speaker 2: on where you drive. You've run over and nail and whatever. Listen,
Speaker 2: it's been a long time since I've had a flat tire.
Speaker 2: It's plus so many people have triple A service or
Speaker 2: whatever service that you got. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: need to mount this thing there, because when you look
Speaker 2: in the rear view mirror in this particular vehicle, the
Speaker 2: land Rover Defender, you see that you see the top
Speaker 2: of the tire. It obstructs your rear view view by
Speaker 2: a bit. And I don't like that this particular tire
Speaker 2: is pretty heavy drug. It also weighs it down with
Speaker 2: that fifth tire. I know, listen, I told you last hour,
Speaker 2: I'm an Eagles scalp. Be prepared. I'm always prepared. You
Speaker 2: do want to spare tire though, it's kind of a
Speaker 2: give and take, and I know I'm going back and
Speaker 2: forth the whole thing, but if again, I'm giving you
Speaker 2: the ups and downs of this thing. A little obstructive
Speaker 2: view in the back. On the inside, very nice, it's
Speaker 2: a clean look. One of the things I always like
Speaker 2: about land Rovers. It's very clean. Nice touchscreen, horizontal touchscreen
Speaker 2: probably it's what.
Speaker 4: Does it do?
Speaker 2: You even have the stats in there? It's probably at
Speaker 2: anywhere between a ten inch to a twelve inch touch screen.
Speaker 2: Sound system is great, whyet ride? Tons of room in
Speaker 2: the two front seats, very nice leg room in the back,
Speaker 2: and you get three people in the back. It's got
Speaker 2: a decent cargo space. And I say decent cargo space.
Speaker 2: It's not a long, big suv like a expedition or
Speaker 2: a suburban, but it's a status car, I think and Rovers.
Speaker 2: You know, if I can define outside of the realm
Speaker 2: of typical car reviews, this one's is a luxury suv
Speaker 2: and it's a status status vehicle along the lines of
Speaker 2: the Mercedes the BMW's. But this is particularly if you
Speaker 2: want the brand, the model number. This was the land
Speaker 2: Rover Defender one ten X Dynamic s if you really
Speaker 2: wanted that thing. So I dig it, I dig it.
Speaker 2: So if you were in the mood for an suv, listen,
Speaker 2: I can give you a ton of other SUVs that
Speaker 2: you may want to tap in. Actually, next week I'm
Speaker 2: getting a Did you know Buick makes an suv. It's
Speaker 2: a relatively new one. Next week, I'm getting a Buick suv.
Speaker 2: About two weeks ago, I just got out of I
Speaker 2: was at the Texas Truck Rodeo up in North Texas
Speaker 2: and I got to drive at about thirty different hiccup
Speaker 2: trucks and some SUVs. If you want to see that,
Speaker 2: I posted the video a little kind of a highlight
Speaker 2: ten minute highlight video of just a ton of them
Speaker 2: on my website high Tech textan h I G H
Speaker 2: T E H T e x A n dot com.
Speaker 2: You can also go to my YouTube channel just YouTube,
Speaker 2: look for high Tech Texts and again hop me an
Speaker 2: email call the show here if you have my text,
Speaker 2: don't text me maybe you know, just don't do it
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night and let me know
Speaker 2: I have Michael, I'm thinking of this vehicle. I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: you know, I need a sportish one I'm having. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe I want a minivan. And believe it or not,
Speaker 2: I had a minivan too, about about three weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Four weeks ago had the Chrysler PACIFICA. I'll be the
Speaker 2: best minivan in the road. Don't laugh, man, I test
Speaker 2: them all for you. That's what I'm here for, to
Speaker 2: give you the good the bat. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: tell you tell you a dealership to go get a
Speaker 2: deal I'm not going to tell you a dealership to go, hey,
Speaker 2: Rinch in my name and get a discount. I do
Speaker 2: not endorse a dealership. I would like to endorse a dealership,
Speaker 2: and I would like our sales folks here at iHeart
Speaker 2: to maybe help me out with that. But I'm very
Speaker 2: picky because I know a lot of dealerships, and I
Speaker 2: know one or two dealerships who are absolutely the top
Speaker 2: notch best that I would only buy a vehicle from
Speaker 2: because they're good. So I'm very picky because I am
Speaker 2: your consumer guy, and I am on your saw and
Speaker 2: I'd fight for you. I'll also give you some good
Speaker 2: information too. Gonna change the tone a little when we
Speaker 2: come back from this break Attention soon to be parents.
Speaker 2: If you've never had a GET and you're expecting a kid,
Speaker 2: I want you to to listen to this. There is
Speaker 2: a non I think it's nonprofit. There's an organization here
Speaker 2: called Motherhood Center. I thought it harkens back to me
Speaker 2: saying where was this thirty years ago when I had
Speaker 2: when we had our first kid. They offered some really
Speaker 2: really neat services that I want you to hear about this.
Speaker 2: As we continue the high tech text and show, Michael
Speaker 2: barbuilds the day Happy Saturday, feel back at it. Michael
Speaker 2: Scark gives this did nay if you see fifty am
Speaker 2: ifverybody's having a great day. I was in a conversation
Speaker 2: with one of my kids the other day and I
Speaker 2: don't know how we got on and about you know,
Speaker 2: when when he was born, you know, well over twenty
Speaker 2: plus years ago. You know, did did you know mom
Speaker 2: and I know anything about changing diapers? And you know
Speaker 2: what do we watch? Because you know we had VHS?
Speaker 2: You know tapes in the middle of the night when
Speaker 2: he was crying, you know, to come down. Times have
Speaker 2: changed now, and you know, so I get into storytelling
Speaker 2: and there are so many resources, so many more resources
Speaker 2: and things to help new you know, mothers and in
Speaker 2: dads and just you know, getting you know, bringing kids
Speaker 2: and assimilating into the home. Really wish this was around
Speaker 2: many years ago, and I, you know, we had the
Speaker 2: three kids. But there is a resource right now. And
Speaker 2: I spotlighted a little because I think this is really important.
Speaker 2: I thought I wanted to bring it to the forefront
Speaker 2: here in Houston.
Speaker 3: It is called.
Speaker 2: Motherhood Center and the founder, her name is Gabriella Gerhardt.
Speaker 2: She just an enormous wealth of information and resources and
Speaker 2: I wanted to chat with her because there are so
Speaker 2: many because I get questions a lot. Hey, Michael, you know,
Speaker 2: is there any you know, technological apps that can help
Speaker 2: put the kid to sleep? And think, I wish I
Speaker 2: knew the answer. So I'm going to go to the
Speaker 2: person who may have the answers and may have some help.
Speaker 2: Gabriella Gerhart, She joins me. For a few minutes, how
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing very good. Thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 5: for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know this.
Speaker 2: I think this is really good information, and I want
Speaker 2: to start with this. I mean, you've been in the
Speaker 2: pregnancy and baby industry for I believe twenty five years
Speaker 2: or more. Tell me if you go, what changes have
Speaker 2: you seen in like in the entire process of how
Speaker 2: things happen?
Speaker 5: Sure, well, yes, twenty five years, it is hard to believe.
Speaker 5: And so the babies I was taking care of back
Speaker 5: then are actually clients of the Motherhood Center, which you know,
Speaker 5: I really feel aged by that, but I'm very excited
Speaker 5: that they actually kind of are going full circle. But
Speaker 5: I mean changes obviously, you know, you have the techie
Speaker 5: channel here, so technology evolved in a big, big way.
Speaker 2: But even just to start with.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, back then, pregnancy definitely was not.
Speaker 2: Trendy or it was not even kind of a thing.
Speaker 5: And so women even back then were wearing you know,
Speaker 5: oversized shirts and just kind of hiding, you know, in
Speaker 5: a way that pregnancy, or they were not encouraged to exercise.
Speaker 5: And of course, now you know, fast forward two decades later,
Speaker 5: very much pregnancy is kind of on a forefront, you know,
Speaker 5: even in politics, right, you know, just kind of everywhere
Speaker 5: you talk about pregnancy in the boardroom and pregnancy and
Speaker 5: not only pregnancy, but uh, you know Dad's paternity leaf
Speaker 5: and uh and matunity leave and all of that. And
Speaker 5: so with with that, the technology evolved in in a
Speaker 5: great way as well.
Speaker 2: Well, you know you talk about the clothing, yes, And
Speaker 2: again for background, I know a lot of my audience
Speaker 2: knows this, but I have three sons thirty years old,
Speaker 2: and then at twenty seven, and then at twenty four,
Speaker 2: So I mean we go way back then, and I
Speaker 2: want to know where all these apps were back, you know,
Speaker 2: because I was the one, you know, back to both
Speaker 2: of us. But I remember when the oldest, my first
Speaker 2: son was born thirty years ago. The first day he
Speaker 2: was born, I changed one of his diapers. And I
Speaker 2: guarantee you that first diaper I changed was absolutely more
Speaker 2: than my father had changed diapers. Because it's a different generation.
Speaker 2: And that's what I want to talk about over here.
Speaker 2: What's the difference between today's new parents and let's say
Speaker 2: parents from two decades ago or three decades ago when
Speaker 2: my son was born, and even let's go back five
Speaker 2: or six decades ago, when you know, my parents were
Speaker 2: for the first had a kid.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean even just to start with, you know,
Speaker 5: pretty much all of our educational classes are attended.
Speaker 2: By the couple.
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, dads are coming to our breastfeeding classes.
Speaker 5: You know, the dads are the ones who make the
Speaker 5: appointments for massages, and so they are definitely very involved
Speaker 5: in the care and they wanted to be part of it,
Speaker 5: just like you said, you know, changing diaper, that's you know,
Speaker 5: in today's world is like, of course the dads are
Speaker 5: changing diaper, you know, and and much more and so
Speaker 5: so definitely, you know, we are very excited. We have
Speaker 5: even like New Dads meet Up, which is which is
Speaker 5: a great group and dads can kind of talk about things,
Speaker 5: you know, they have a beer and you know, and
Speaker 5: have a conversation at the Motherhood Center about you know,
Speaker 5: how they are kind of transitioning, you know, becoming or
Speaker 5: being a dad. And you know, back then, dads were
Speaker 5: not even allowed to be in the delivery room, right right,
Speaker 5: My dad was not.
Speaker 2: I was there, I mean was videotatd but I was
Speaker 2: I wasn't not as much as part as that I
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so yeah, now if you would be like
Speaker 5: if dad's like I think I will take a pass,
Speaker 5: you know, not going to the deliveries, Like, are you
Speaker 5: kidding me? You know, of course you will be there,
Speaker 5: you know, so so yeah, definitely kind of the overall
Speaker 5: mentality and kind of the engagement even grandparents. I mean
Speaker 5: they have grandparents with pressure classes, you know, and grandparents.
Speaker 5: Of course we are not teaching them how to change
Speaker 5: the diaper, but it's really kind of the safety measures
Speaker 5: and even just talking to them about the today's gadgets
Speaker 5: and you know, what's what's out there so they can
Speaker 5: be really more kind of a part of that, the
Speaker 5: you know, new babies life and feeling much more kind
Speaker 5: of comfortable and confident in the in the care and
Speaker 5: just really being more kind of the part of the
Speaker 5: conversation because things have changed so much.
Speaker 2: Different when I become a grandparent. I'm my diaper changing
Speaker 2: days are over. Those three boys. I've got enough of
Speaker 2: that stuff. Chatting with Gabrielle Deerhart. She is the founder
Speaker 2: of Motherhood Center. We'll make sure they give all the
Speaker 2: information here in the Houston area for anybody who wants that.
Speaker 2: You about gadgets, Hey, do you have some favorites maybe
Speaker 2: some interesting products that are really worth mentioning to help
Speaker 2: parents with newborns.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean, there's everything. And it's funny because a
Speaker 5: lot of gadgets are a lot of times kind of
Speaker 5: invented by parents because they might be kind of frustrated
Speaker 5: as like, oh, why there is not something like this,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, you know, they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: let me create that. And so one of the gadgets
Speaker 5: which we actually kind of like is the baby shusher.
Speaker 5: And so of course you probably remember, you know, you
Speaker 5: would be doing shushing noise, you know, all night long,
Speaker 5: and so now there's a gadget you can just turn
Speaker 5: it on. You can have you know, different intensities, and
Speaker 5: so you can just put that in the crib or
Speaker 5: in the car seat, or you know, if you are
Speaker 5: in the restaurant, you just kind of turn that on.
Speaker 5: And so babies are kind of accustomed to the white noise,
Speaker 5: kind of the shushing noise in the womb, so it's
Speaker 5: kind of recreating the womb for that. Another one which
Speaker 5: we do like here at the Motherhood Center is the rocker.
Speaker 5: So it's basically kind of babies like the rocking motion,
Speaker 5: and so you can just basically hooked that up to
Speaker 5: to the stroller and uh and so it has kind
Speaker 5: of like a rocking motion, uh vibrating motion uh to
Speaker 5: the to the rockers, so maybe kind of kind of
Speaker 5: easier full asleep and after that they are a little
Speaker 5: bit more kind of like the intimate uh you know,
Speaker 5: the wearable uh breast breast pumps uh you know, which
Speaker 5: you can uh just kind of walk around the house
Speaker 5: or go shopping and uh and pumping at the same
Speaker 5: time and uh it measures everything. So so sometimes you
Speaker 5: don't even know that the woman is pumping standing next
Speaker 5: to you.
Speaker 3: So uh and of course, you know you talk about rocking,
Speaker 3: I'll go old school, you know, I used to we
Speaker 3: used to put the kids uh in uh in the
Speaker 3: car seat and we would put them on top of
Speaker 3: the washer dryer and we turn it on and that
Speaker 3: that's rock I mean that is old school.
Speaker 2: So you know, times certainly have changed.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, And of course you know all kinds of
Speaker 5: you know, pregnancy wearables where you can have the you know,
Speaker 5: contractions tracking and fetal monitoring and all of that, which
Speaker 5: you know, first some parents can create a lot of
Speaker 5: great comfort and uh and just kind of knowing you know,
Speaker 5: what's what's what's happening, and of course smart crips, and
Speaker 5: I mean there's just uh yeah, just thousands and thousands
Speaker 5: of gadgets now and and apps. You know, we are
Speaker 5: just all so very very, so very connected.
Speaker 2: Now, Okay, I mean it's enticing potentially for me to
Speaker 2: have another baby, but let me help you out, that
Speaker 2: ain't happening now. But it's it's really nice this new
Speaker 2: generation of of of mom's dads or potential you know,
Speaker 2: soon to be moms and dads of having these opportunities.
Speaker 2: Stand on the technology in the gadget line, there's a
Speaker 2: fine line, I would think. I mean, look, let's let's
Speaker 2: think about this. The tech and the gadget. You've got
Speaker 2: the shushing machine and all these other things. Does it
Speaker 2: affect parenting? Does it you know, does it bring the
Speaker 2: parent and the child further apart because you know, you
Speaker 2: have this technology in between versus me as a dad
Speaker 2: changing the diapers, swaddling the kids in saying obviously that
Speaker 2: was very one on one. What's healthy? Balance?
Speaker 5: Sure? I mean balance is the key word, you know,
Speaker 5: I think in general, just in you know, even any
Speaker 5: kind of technology, you know, I mean, there is definitely
Speaker 5: great benefits and something which can kind of help us,
Speaker 5: you know, even just like you can activate ap app
Speaker 5: or you know, device by by voice while you're holding
Speaker 5: your baby, so you don't have to put your baby down,
Speaker 5: you know, and you can activate that. But I think
Speaker 5: just kind of the face to face interaction is critical,
Speaker 5: the physical touch is critical. And I'm always feeling kind
Speaker 5: of like the the quality of the time over quantity.
Speaker 5: And you know, obviously we are all busy and and
Speaker 5: new parents are very busy, but it is it, you know,
Speaker 5: it can be extremely overwhelming and and kind of the
Speaker 5: complete reliance on technology.
Speaker 1: Is just not right.
Speaker 5: I mean you could see that even just during the
Speaker 5: pandemic times, you know, and viewer ways wearing face masks, masks.
Speaker 5: I mean there's a developmental delays and in children just
Speaker 5: because they were not able to have the interaction with
Speaker 5: other human beings, you know, besides maybe their parents, or
Speaker 5: even just not seeing parents articulating or you know, use
Speaker 5: looking at their their their mouth and and so all
Speaker 5: of that is is putting us behind. So definitely, you know,
Speaker 5: I feel like technology obviously a lot of great benefits,
Speaker 5: but not having the the reliance on the technology, and
Speaker 5: you know, I'm big on trusting your instinct, right, and
Speaker 5: so if you lose that, uh, you know, that's that
Speaker 5: would be very sad for for humanity. So, you know,
Speaker 5: with the gadgets, like I said, I think it's kind
Speaker 5: of the like you said that the balance is critical,
Speaker 5: you know, utilizing it, but uh, but not letting that
Speaker 5: to kind of run your life or or just really
Speaker 5: if you know, if if you feel like there's something wrong,
Speaker 5: you know, don't be looking at the app is like, oh,
Speaker 5: the app is telling me everything is fine, but you
Speaker 5: are feeling something is wrong. Will act on on the instinct.
Speaker 5: And so you know, I think it's critical to kind
Speaker 5: of keep it nurturing that instinct and and if you
Speaker 5: are just surrounded or reliant on on.
Speaker 2: The gadgets, those things instincts will go away. I think
Speaker 2: you said, listen, well, we've we were able to to
Speaker 2: birth and raise you know, three kids without apps and gadgets,
Speaker 2: and before that, it's it's been thousands of thousands of
Speaker 2: years since man I have been around. Well, we were
Speaker 2: able to go through it. But uh, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with a little assistance, well just a little assistance for
Speaker 2: this technology as as as she suggested, it's called the
Speaker 2: Motherhood Center. Should anybody want more information, especially you know,
Speaker 2: new mothers. I know you've got baby doula services and
Speaker 2: nannies services, like how can they get in contact with you?
Speaker 5: Sure, severe are active on of course all the social
Speaker 5: media from Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn, and of course
Speaker 5: our website Motherhoodcenter dot com. And we are just as
Speaker 5: I tell clients, we are just a phone call away,
Speaker 5: and so our phone number is seven to one three
Speaker 5: nine six three eight eight eight zero.
Speaker 2: Borhood center dot com a resource that I wish was
Speaker 2: around thirty years ago. But then again I wish the
Speaker 2: World Wide Web was around three years ago. So much more.
Speaker 2: Gobriella Gerhart, Founder, thank you very much for your time,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate the new parenting information.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take a break. Actually I do
Speaker 2: have some interesting apps. I want to talk about four kids.
Speaker 2: I still get so many questions. People want to know,
Speaker 2: you know, it's the right age to give their kid
Speaker 2: their first cell phone? Or how many hours should they
Speaker 2: spend in front of the TV or their computer. Some
Speaker 2: of the things that we look at the discuss right
Speaker 2: here on I take taxi shows. Michael Garten don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Final eight or nine minutes of the show. I thank
Speaker 2: you for tuning in. We do have a winner of
Speaker 2: the Cobbled Bob's gift card. We give that away once
Speaker 2: a week. Congratulations to the winner. I told you I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about food because i am not eating until sundown,
Speaker 2: because I'm such a center. I'm a toning for all
Speaker 2: my sins this past year. Happy, young Kipper, should you
Speaker 2: be some it's the Young Kipper. You probably shouldn't be
Speaker 2: listening to the show. You probably shouldn't be watching the
Speaker 2: Texas OHU game coming up at about an hour and
Speaker 2: a half right now. But however, you celebrate and reflect
Speaker 2: on this past year. I wish you an easy fast
Speaker 2: and if you have no clue what I'm talking about,
Speaker 2: it's okay, okay. Everybody each to its own. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much to the Motherhood Center. If you like that interview,
Speaker 2: I say to you, know, technology infiltrates so many different
Speaker 2: industries and processes that we do. I think the highest
Speaker 2: tech items that we had thirty years ago when our
Speaker 2: oldest son was born was a VHS and we had
Speaker 2: Barney on VHS, and so when he would wake up
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night, I would get up
Speaker 2: and at three in the morning to comfort him. I
Speaker 2: would sit there and hold them on my lap trying
Speaker 2: to get him to go back to sleep while I
Speaker 2: popped in the Barney video cassette. And that was the
Speaker 2: only thing that to seem to get him to sleep
Speaker 2: or calm down. It sure as heck put me to sleep.
Speaker 2: And the last thing I ever remember going to sleep
Speaker 2: was I love you, you love me. Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Freaking purple dinosaur. Nowadays, man, there's it's not let me help.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. I ain't have no more kids.
Speaker 2: I don't want no more kids. Love. I hope for
Speaker 2: grandkids out but that's it. What a time we live in.
Speaker 2: And then the Motherhood Center does a lot of good.
Speaker 2: If you need help with our assistance with that, you
Speaker 2: can check them out. I'm not gonna give out the
Speaker 2: phone number anymore because we just have a few more minutes.
Speaker 2: Speaking of phone numbers, last hour, I talked a bit,
Speaker 2: talked to segment or two about hurricanes. Hurricane Milton, Hurricane
Speaker 2: Helene just pounded the least coast. Still praying for Kampa.
Speaker 2: Just a heel and rebuild itself. They just got devastated.
Speaker 2: And I know here in the Houston Galveston area we
Speaker 2: constantly live from you know, at May through November with
Speaker 2: hurricane season, and we just you got to be prepared.
Speaker 2: And I get questions all the time, but what technology
Speaker 2: do you have for us to keep in communication? Should
Speaker 2: phone lines go down? And there's all let's go back
Speaker 2: thirty years, let's go back several years ago. Who question?
Speaker 2: This is rhetorical because I don't want you to call me,
Speaker 2: but you could if you have a landline Who still
Speaker 2: owns a landline telephone? Heart be of that question? Who
Speaker 2: knows what a landline telephone is? Okay? I know the
Speaker 2: demographics of my listeners. We do have some relatively young ones.
Speaker 2: All right, baby boomers, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Gen X, you know what I'm talking about. Millennials may
Speaker 2: know what a landline phone is. After that over done
Speaker 2: the gin alphas, no clue. Landline phone. It's attached to
Speaker 2: the wall and you pick it up and you don't
Speaker 2: it doesn't go over cell service. It's it's very interesting.
Speaker 2: See the kids.
Speaker 5: There's used to be.
Speaker 2: Things called phone boosts and rotary down phones, but just
Speaker 2: don't I don't have time to go over that, but
Speaker 2: the notion that many older Americans like landlines, it's no
Speaker 2: surprise to anyone. And I saw stat the other day
Speaker 2: that landlines are still out there and landlines are still
Speaker 2: very useful. California actually was in the news because I
Speaker 2: think the governor of California knew him. He was trying
Speaker 2: to tell what was he was Tree was trying to
Speaker 2: get something past that just just killed all the landlines
Speaker 2: just over. I think it's at and T. They they
Speaker 2: kind of control a lot of that because there's you see, kids,
Speaker 2: when homes were built back of these there's these copper
Speaker 2: lines that that actually go in through the walls of
Speaker 2: your home. That did they carry the signals that Alexander
Speaker 2: Graham Bell invented. Again, don't have time for any of
Speaker 2: this stuff, but it was the two thousands consumers were
Speaker 2: canceling their home telephone service left and left and left
Speaker 2: and right, quick stat and we'll leave it at this.
Speaker 2: Three quarters of Americans live in homes without landlines right now.
Speaker 2: Seventy six percent of adults by the end of last
Speaker 2: year did not have a landline. Go back twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: only five percent of Americans did not have a landline.
Speaker 2: Only five percent twenty years ago relied entirely on cell phones.
Speaker 2: Right now, seventy six percent of people rely solely on cellophones.
Speaker 2: Thing as though in an emergency, these things pretty much
Speaker 2: could be life savers because if self powers go down,
Speaker 2: you're screwed. It's very tough to get out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know there's satellite service. Apples and iPhones got a
Speaker 2: satellite service. Elon's coming out with with satellite service, But
Speaker 2: as of right now, I do recommend it's not that
Speaker 2: expensive and maybe what ten bucks a month from your
Speaker 2: local AT and T or you're your local provider to
Speaker 2: get a landline. But the wired and the wireless it's
Speaker 2: like a it's like a soap opera. Do you want?
Speaker 2: We do not. I would recommend anybody living near the coast.
Speaker 2: If you're listening to me right now, and you live
Speaker 2: along the Gulf coast and you're prone to flooding and
Speaker 2: you're prone to power being down, maybe you're a little
Speaker 2: bit older, giddy freaking land line. The stories I heard
Speaker 2: two weeks ago when Helene houred through was it North
Speaker 2: Carolina ash or something? People were on Facebook going my
Speaker 2: parents live in Ashfield, North Carolina. The cell towers of
Speaker 2: down and there's no way for me to get to
Speaker 2: contact them.
Speaker 4: What do we do?
Speaker 2: Odds are if they had a landline, they probably were
Speaker 2: able to get in touch. Now again, what I recommend is,
Speaker 2: if you do have a landline, don't get a cordless
Speaker 2: phone that you need electricity to plug into the wall. Also,
Speaker 2: because if you've got an electricity, does you know good?
Speaker 2: I tell you to go to a radio shack and
Speaker 2: buy a corded phone, but there are no radio shacks.
Speaker 2: Go to Amazon, go pay ten bucks fifteen dollars for
Speaker 2: a corded telephone that you plug into the wall, but
Speaker 2: that does not need electricity, does not need electricity. There's
Speaker 2: old school and there's new school. There you go. If
Speaker 2: you go back and listen to the show, I think
Speaker 2: I gave you some pretty good tips. And that's what
Speaker 2: I do, Like am oil, I give you tips. People,
Speaker 2: I give you tips Other than that, I think we
Speaker 2: got to get out of here, don't We tell them
Speaker 2: we got to make way for whatever is next. And
Speaker 2: if you do happen to be a long worn fan,
Speaker 2: sorry sooner because I think it could be a long
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