Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 2: Let's start the show with the trin questions this week,
Speaker 2: this weekend as we do the show live or losbly
Speaker 2: love the last Saturday of November, particularly this year it
Speaker 2: is Black Friday, it is almost Cyber Monday. Football, football, football, turkey,
Speaker 2: whatever you're eating, you got family, greatest weekend of the year.
Speaker 2: Yes or no, Yes or no. It's an interactive show
Speaker 2: and that's how we're starting off. Three four, six, twenty
Speaker 2: nine texts and that's the phone number, no matter where
Speaker 2: you're listening around the world, because the last I checked, Yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty much, long distance is not a thing. Everything is
Speaker 2: so close you don't have to pay for it, especially
Speaker 2: on weekends. You get free minutes. Right, that's old school stuff.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield. This is what we're doing. It's called the
Speaker 2: High Tech Textan Show. And if you're a new listener,
Speaker 2: especially at our new affiliate in San Antonio, shout out
Speaker 2: to wo AI Big Blowtorch in Central Texas. Glad to
Speaker 2: have you along for the ride. Trust me, we've been
Speaker 2: doing this quite a while. It's Houston specifically for well
Speaker 2: over twenty years. We have some fun. I guarantee not
Speaker 2: to bore you. If you think this is just going
Speaker 2: to be a tech show and I'm going to fix
Speaker 2: your computer, you get give me, give me sixty minutes.
Speaker 2: That's all I want, people, because I will low you
Speaker 2: away going, hey, well, this guy's not boring. He's got
Speaker 2: a little energy. I just woke up for probably what
Speaker 2: is it about a thirty six hour nap after the turkey?
Speaker 2: How did you cook your turkey? I'm sitting here looking
Speaker 2: at Caln. By the way, A name will be hearing
Speaker 2: me say a lot. Callum is his name. Callum is
Speaker 2: the wonderful dude. I'm gonna call you a kid, Callum
Speaker 2: because you're a little generation removed from me. He's the
Speaker 2: gentleman with the very long hair, which I like. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm not making fun of it. Behind the glass, who
Speaker 2: is picking up the phone calls, making sure the voice
Speaker 2: quality sounds well and keeping me on time. Calum, did
Speaker 2: you turkey? Turkey? Okay? I like doing the home stuff
Speaker 2: myself and I for the first time, and you get, folks,
Speaker 2: this is give you a little inside baseball. Some of
Speaker 2: the things that I also play with and test and
Speaker 2: recommend are outdoor grilling, kitchen gadgets and what have you.
Speaker 2: And I have long had a Kamada type of smoker outside.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a I have a kammana Joe. I've had
Speaker 2: the big green egg I've got. I played for the
Speaker 2: first time with a pellet grill. I did a turkey
Speaker 2: on the Pella grill, and I might say I may
Speaker 2: give up this media gig. I may open a restaurant. Man.
Speaker 2: I'd tell you it is one of the easiest things
Speaker 2: to do, is a Pellic grill, because they're incredibly technology enabled.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's an app. I hit a button, I
Speaker 2: try to downloaded the app. It's it's I'm upstairs and
Speaker 2: I'm watching my Cowboys and I'm snacking and I'm drinking
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at my app. Going all right, make
Speaker 2: sure you pull the Turkey off from Team Minud's fifty
Speaker 2: five minutes. Because this is the internal temperature. Man, it's
Speaker 2: it's almost foolproof. And so, by the way, if anybody
Speaker 2: cares the brand Eye not endorsement, but the brand I
Speaker 2: I used. A very nice company wanted me to test
Speaker 2: it out. It's called brisk It love the name risk
Speaker 2: it it two words brisket It and what is it
Speaker 2: about the four or five hundred dollars or so then
Speaker 2: you get the pelic grows really nice for an outdoor,
Speaker 2: cool Texas atmosphere like we have now. So happy Black Friday.
Speaker 2: I hope it is well or was well. Actually, by
Speaker 2: the time you're listening to this, did you survive? Did
Speaker 2: you do you expect? Amazon? It may be already today,
Speaker 2: if not tomorrow or Cyber Monday, you're gonna get a
Speaker 2: lot of Amazon packages. Don't cry because you missed a
Speaker 2: good deal, because I'm gonna let you in on a secret.
Speaker 2: The National Retail Foundation, the NRF, which is the trade
Speaker 2: association for stores, retail stores offline and online too. They're
Speaker 2: not in the mood to let these stores make you
Speaker 2: mad because there will be more sales. There will be
Speaker 2: this Monday of what the National Retail Foundation themselves coined
Speaker 2: twenty years ago, cyber Monday. It was there. I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: you know what, a little trivia later in the show.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you where the term cyber Monday coming comes from,
Speaker 2: when the National Retail Foundation created it. It's actually smart
Speaker 2: what they did, and it's kind of pretty cute how
Speaker 2: they named it cyber Monday. I'll tell you about that.
Speaker 2: Whatever they come up with next. I am not kidding you.
Speaker 2: I heard the term, and somebody google this for me
Speaker 2: to make sure is it right or not? I heard Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It's called travel Tuesday, not because people are traveling. I
Speaker 2: think travel companies may start releasing some of their bigger
Speaker 2: holiday sales on Tuesday. Okay, so it's we got witching
Speaker 2: Wednesday or something. I see where they're going with the
Speaker 2: alliteration on travel Tuesday. But it's a little different than
Speaker 2: Black Friday Cyber Monday. Bottom line is we've got three
Speaker 2: weeks ish or so until Santa comes down the chimney
Speaker 2: until Hanakah Harry, which I believe starts on the same
Speaker 2: night Hannikh is very late this year. At Kwanza. Whatever
Speaker 2: you celebrate, great for you, and I hope if you
Speaker 2: do celebrate with gifts, I hope you get what you
Speaker 2: want and I hope it gives you just the gift
Speaker 2: that keeps on giving year round. Clark that it does,
Speaker 2: Edward that it does. It's whatever you I am. Hopefully
Speaker 2: I will help you. I do have some ideas that
Speaker 2: could give you the ideas of gift to give year round.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm here for. If you're purchased something,
Speaker 2: if you're thinking about purchasing something in the next twenty
Speaker 2: four hours to three weeks, help me a little email
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. We're monitoring that and
Speaker 2: Callum is over here. Hopefully you go do a trip
Speaker 2: to fat on the Turkey Buddy three four six twenty
Speaker 2: nine text and I'll start with this. I'll start with
Speaker 2: the Black Friday Cyber Monday deal that I like. And
Speaker 2: again I'm telling you right now. Nothing I'm about to
Speaker 2: tell you right now is an endorsement. This is things
Speaker 2: that I saw. I don't get paid. I'm a content guy.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought these were kind of cool streaming
Speaker 2: people are streaming. I also am the guy who warns
Speaker 2: you you probably have too many streaming services. Do you
Speaker 2: really need Disney and Netflix and Hulu and Amazon and
Speaker 2: whatever in max is anti ESPN plus whatever you have, take,
Speaker 2: take a stock what you have, save yourself some money.
Speaker 2: If you don't watch it in a regular basis, kill it,
Speaker 2: delete it. However, should you be in the mood to
Speaker 2: get one, should you be in the mood to gifting.
Speaker 2: Don't forget it's kind of cool to gift a streaming
Speaker 2: subscription for people who don't have it. I saw a
Speaker 2: deal from Hulu. Hulu has a deal and you gotta
Speaker 2: hop on it because I think it ends December second,
Speaker 2: So you got shit. Gosh, just a few days ninety
Speaker 2: nine cents a month for an entire year, that's about
Speaker 2: ninety percent per month for a year, savings ninety nine
Speaker 2: cents a month. You're look at it, about twelve bones
Speaker 2: a year. People now, listen, You're gonna get advertisements, which
Speaker 2: is fine. We love ads because that's how radio works,
Speaker 2: and that's how over the year TV works. Ninety nine
Speaker 2: cents a month Hulu. If you're not familiar, it is
Speaker 2: owned a lot by Disney. At ABC. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: ABC TV shows, TV shows, I think NBC TV shows.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get some first run stuff too. I'm a
Speaker 2: big fan of what is it only Murders in the
Speaker 2: building that starts in that Arizon. Hulu too, ninety nine
Speaker 2: cents a month. That's not bad if you want another streamer.
Speaker 2: I also did see a deal on Peacock. Peacock owned
Speaker 2: by Comcast Slash NPC. Peacock is twenty dollars a year,
Speaker 2: I saw, and that's about seventy five percent off which
Speaker 2: you're gonna get. And I'll tell you what. Peacock did
Speaker 2: a great job of doing the Olympics this past year
Speaker 2: because they had so many different sub channels. Peacock also
Speaker 2: last year had an NFL football game. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they have one this year. But Peacock some movies
Speaker 2: and whatever you want. Twenty bucks a year. Tough to
Speaker 2: beat that should you be looking for a streamer now.
Speaker 2: Word of warning, as we get to commercial, there's an
Speaker 2: asterisk there. If you don't unsubscribe the following year, it's
Speaker 2: gonna go up to the regular price. Set a calendar, reminder, whatever,
Speaker 2: and then cancel it if you don't want it. But
Speaker 2: ninety nine cents a month for Hulu, twenty bucks a
Speaker 2: year for peacock. Not that bad, all right, we'll get
Speaker 2: into that. I'm gonna take your phone calls after this
Speaker 2: to see what's going on. Three four six twenty nine
Speaker 2: Texans stand by. We got a lot of fun stuff
Speaker 2: it's going on. If I don't fall asleep. Happy Thanksgiving people,
Speaker 2: We're back to it. Michael Garfield is the name. We
Speaker 2: appreciate you duding in a happy Black Friday cyber Monday weekend.
Speaker 2: Should you be listening these last few days of November
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, I'll give you the phone number three
Speaker 2: four six twenty nine textan. It's that simple. Wherever you're
Speaker 2: listening to, whether terrestrially in Houston, San Antonio, we do
Speaker 2: think the New San Antonio listeners, or you get downloaded iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: It's a free app. And when I started this twenty
Speaker 2: three years ago, there was actually there was no such
Speaker 2: thing as an app. The only app there was there
Speaker 2: was an appetizer. Do you want a little salad? You
Speaker 2: maybe a little shrimp cocktail. Apps are a totally different thing.
Speaker 2: Right now, having some fun with some folks, and you
Speaker 2: got questions, and if you've got questions, I'd like to
Speaker 2: think I have some answers or steer you in the
Speaker 2: right direction. So how about this, let's go to the
Speaker 2: phones you've got mail.
Speaker 4: Hi, Michael, my name is Robin, and I have a
Speaker 4: question regarding cellular or five G home Internet. I moved
Speaker 4: to that because it was cheaper, but I have a
Speaker 4: heck of a time with the signal, Like I'm not
Speaker 4: that far from a cell tower, but it goes out
Speaker 4: more than when I used to have table, and I'm wondering,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't need a stronger router to send
Speaker 4: it through the house. I need to strengthen the signal
Speaker 4: that I get from the tower. Is that possible and economically?
Speaker 4: So I really appreciate your opinions.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Yes, Robin the inevitable. How do I improve
Speaker 2: my signal in my house? Man, I'll tell you what
Speaker 2: I did is almost as long as I have been
Speaker 2: doing the show. That is one of the most frequent questions,
Speaker 2: actually the most frequent question I got. It's just for FYI,
Speaker 2: as Michael. Number one is that your real hair. Answer
Speaker 2: is yes, And number two is what do I do
Speaker 2: with my old phone? Should I give it to my kids?
Speaker 2: Should give it to my spouse? Number three is how
Speaker 2: do I improve my signal. You know, I used to
Speaker 2: you know, I used to be cute, maybe a little
Speaker 2: snarky back of the day, because you know, I used
Speaker 2: to say, you know, listen, the only really way to
Speaker 2: improve your cell signal on your home. Move That really
Speaker 2: didn't work. It didn't fly through well with my listeners.
Speaker 2: And so there has been some technology to actually help
Speaker 2: you improve your signal. Now. Robin's specific question was, and
Speaker 2: she I love it, Robin, it was I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You were very great, and in specific, he drilled it down.
Speaker 2: You said, it's not so much of the router and
Speaker 2: throwing the signal around your house. It's getting the cell
Speaker 2: signal to your house. And that is specific because there
Speaker 2: are different answers for that, and you know, number one
Speaker 2: for a lot of people. And I'm going to answer
Speaker 2: the question you really didn't ask is, well, gosh, you know,
Speaker 2: certain parts of my house I get bad Wi Fi.
Speaker 2: I get zero reception, and that really is due to
Speaker 2: what carrier you're on, be it you know, Verizon or
Speaker 2: AT and T or Total Wireless or whatever, and how
Speaker 2: close or how far the antenna is away from where
Speaker 2: you're standing at you know, listen in a lot of
Speaker 2: buildings that are built with concrete and steel. It's tough
Speaker 2: for cell phone signals to get through there. And it's
Speaker 2: the same where cell signals and even Wi Fi signals.
Speaker 2: The more signals have to go through versus thin air,
Speaker 2: you know, if they have to go through walls, if
Speaker 2: they have to go upstairs and downstairs and through concrete
Speaker 2: and through bricks, it degrades the signal. And so you
Speaker 2: want to get as close to the router as possible
Speaker 2: when it comes to Wi Fi. And to answer your question, Robin,
Speaker 2: as we get to you want to get to the
Speaker 2: cell tower as close as you can't in a perfect world,
Speaker 2: but listen to you can only get so close when
Speaker 2: you're if you're housing on wheels, if you're not at
Speaker 2: an RV park, your house ain't going to get closer
Speaker 2: to a cell phone tower. Now, you'd like to think
Speaker 2: that the cell phone come but he may build a
Speaker 2: closer tower to you. But the first thing is you
Speaker 2: potentially want to move that router to another place in
Speaker 2: your house, closer to an outdoor window, closer to the
Speaker 2: side of your home that is facing or nearest the
Speaker 2: cell phone tower. Now to be a question, let me
Speaker 2: explain what Robin was talking about. She has a five
Speaker 2: G home Internet gateway, and so what it is is
Speaker 2: she is providing internet in her home, not through typical
Speaker 2: cable that cost an arm in a leg. She is
Speaker 2: not doing the satellite stuff. She is using a relatively
Speaker 2: new type of service that a number of companies offers,
Speaker 2: and I know specifically Verizon offers it. Actually, I go
Speaker 2: to Total Wireless and I have one in my home.
Speaker 2: I use the Total Wireless five G Home Internet which
Speaker 2: actually uses the Verizon signal. It's a router that you
Speaker 2: purchase and you plug it in for electricity. That's it.
Speaker 2: You do not have to plug in anything else, obviously,
Speaker 2: as there's no cable. What it does it acts like
Speaker 2: its own cell phone and think of think of a
Speaker 2: hot spot. It is pulling down cell signals from a
Speaker 2: cell tower. This router is then throwing that signal out
Speaker 2: as a Wi Fi signal to your home. To Robin's point,
Speaker 2: it is cheaper you can get that router. I think
Speaker 2: you purchase the router for a hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 2: and then you pay just a fraction of the cost
Speaker 2: for cable, and that's it. You are set to go
Speaker 2: and more and more people are doing it obviously to
Speaker 2: cut the cord cut cost. You actually can move that
Speaker 2: almost anywhere you want to. I remember one of my
Speaker 2: relatives lives about five six miles away from me. During
Speaker 2: a flood or something, he lost electricity, and so what
Speaker 2: happened was is I just unplugged mine. I took it
Speaker 2: to his house, plugged it in, waited to boot up
Speaker 2: three minutes. He was using bit the router. It works
Speaker 2: as long as you have electricity to plug it in.
Speaker 2: I mean technically you can use it in your car
Speaker 2: if you plug it in. So it's really smart to
Speaker 2: that fact. Robin. To answer your question, this is a
Speaker 2: long winded answer, and I apologize, but I just want
Speaker 2: to explain how I, you know, can explain to people
Speaker 2: across the board, whether they're asking for this specifically or not,
Speaker 2: there is a way to improve this signal between the
Speaker 2: cell phone tower and that router, because that's what you're asking.
Speaker 2: What you potentially want to look into is an external antenna.
Speaker 2: An external anto This is an antenna that you put
Speaker 2: outside of your home, generally pointing and facing the cell
Speaker 2: phone tower that will then boost the signal or the
Speaker 2: data speed from that cell phone tower to your router.
Speaker 2: And then as you said, it's apparently you have no
Speaker 2: problem your for your router reaching you know, inside your
Speaker 2: home and getting everything now what you want to look for.
Speaker 2: And again I hate using acronyms. And you know, stuff
Speaker 2: that goes beyond not only you know people understanding it,
Speaker 2: but even me understanding it. It's called a memo antenna
Speaker 2: m I m O, MIMO anybody and I should actually
Speaker 2: have a treat trivia question of what a MEMO stands for.
Speaker 2: MEMO stands for a multiple input, multiple output technology and
Speaker 2: what it is in playing terms. It uses signals that
Speaker 2: are traveling along multiple paths simultaneously, and it increases the
Speaker 2: bandwidth and reliability in wireless connections MIMO. And it's it's
Speaker 2: it's the intenna's antenna's ability to handle several data streams
Speaker 2: at once cleanly without much interference, which leads ultimately to
Speaker 2: quicker data speeds, steadier connections. All right, So then you
Speaker 2: want to go potentially look if it's really bad, you
Speaker 2: can go through the whole Michig gossip of looking and
Speaker 2: installing an external memo m I m O antenna outside.
Speaker 2: It's not the I'm not gonna say it's not for
Speaker 2: the faint of heart, not the it's it's not a
Speaker 2: plug and play thing. You know, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: kind of find out, Okay, where is the signal and
Speaker 2: you know how much gain do I have? You may
Speaker 2: want to have a potentially professional to do it. But
Speaker 2: if you are in a bind, if you continually having
Speaker 2: issues where the signal drop signal goes up and down,
Speaker 2: other than maybe moving that route, in my first suggestion,
Speaker 2: move that route, t unplug it, plug it into another
Speaker 2: AC outlet as much as you want to. Maybe you'll
Speaker 2: find a better spot where it's closer to your cell
Speaker 2: phone's tower. If not, you may want to look what
Speaker 2: it's called an m IMO antenna and hopefully that is
Speaker 2: going to reimprove the outside speed to get that data
Speaker 2: signal into your home. At that point, then that wireless
Speaker 2: that takes over. So there you got anybody's interested in this, Listen,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five is coming up and everybody wants to
Speaker 2: find a new way to save money or a new
Speaker 2: process to do something. You know, Listen, I have had
Speaker 2: cable for I used to be a spokesperson for a
Speaker 2: cable company back in the day, and of course they
Speaker 2: moved out of Houston, and there's another one here. It's
Speaker 2: not the cheapest thing, it's really not. I will say
Speaker 2: they are reliable. I think cable is more reliable than
Speaker 2: certainly satellite and maybe some other ways to get there.
Speaker 2: But I've been having some very very good luck, very
Speaker 2: good results with my wireless five G home Internet. I
Speaker 2: specifically use total wireless in this case, and go to
Speaker 2: total Wireless, but go look at the other options that
Speaker 2: you have. But apparently that is what Robin has. And
Speaker 2: hopefully Robin is now going to get a bigger, better
Speaker 2: signal so then she can download and stream this radio
Speaker 2: show all she won. So hope that help. If anybody
Speaker 2: else has questions like that, hopefully I can answer just
Speaker 2: as sweet and just as kind and hopefully just as understandable.
Speaker 2: Just call. If we don't pick up, you can leave
Speaker 2: a message. We do have the right to actually put
Speaker 2: it on the air, like Robin three four six twenty nine, Texan.
Speaker 2: That simple three four six twenty nine, Texan. What say
Speaker 2: you stand by? We got more questions, more Black Friday,
Speaker 2: more Cyber Monday, and what's to stay away from? If
Speaker 2: you're looking for purchases right here on the High Tech
Speaker 2: Textan Show bottom of the first hour of The High
Speaker 2: Tech Textan Show as specialist cyber Monday, Black Friday, ELP
Speaker 2: the fan weekend here the last week of Novemba of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Anybody have turkeys leftover? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's be It would be odd for me if everybody
Speaker 2: killed the entire turkey with all no pun intended over
Speaker 2: there on Thanksgiving. I mean, everybody has leftovers, right, everybody's
Speaker 2: left over. And you know, by the way, I thought
Speaker 2: about this because I saw this, Uh you know, there's
Speaker 2: always a video clip, always a sound by the first
Speaker 2: part of this week about the annual White House turkey pardoning.
Speaker 2: When did this start? This? Because it's really odd and
Speaker 2: it is nothing. I guess it's the National Turkey Foundation.
Speaker 2: Is there such a thing? Can someone research that the
Speaker 2: out of the the the n TF the turkey part
Speaker 2: that you generally pardoned to turkeys, which I'm thinking, if
Speaker 2: they keep doing this, why stop a Thanksgiving? And I
Speaker 2: want to I want you to think about this. Why
Speaker 2: if you have to pardon something, why just do it
Speaker 2: at Thanksgiving? Maybe the president should also pardon a Leprechaun
Speaker 2: on Saint Patrick's Day, maybe Darth Vader on Father's Day.
Speaker 2: How about pardoning summer in the city of Uset today.
Speaker 2: I mean, just get rid of that. I mean, just something.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, but my goodness, it's it's nothing but
Speaker 2: a glorified little thirty second thing in which I'm also
Speaker 2: a big TV fan. I remember watching VEEP back in
Speaker 2: the day when she was president Julie Juliet Louis Dreyfus,
Speaker 2: which is one of the funniest shows ever done. It's
Speaker 2: it's off there right now, but if you go back,
Speaker 2: I guess it's on Max to watch it. It was
Speaker 2: a hilarious episode. Speaking of Thanksgiving episodes, you know, Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: episodes kind of get lost in the fray of televisions
Speaker 2: versus Christmas episodes. And then you know, over the years,
Speaker 2: there's Halloween episodes when TV shows, I'm gonna they sitcoms,
Speaker 2: when they film or they tape their shows six months
Speaker 2: in advance or so they plant they know when they're
Speaker 2: gonna air, and so let's have a theme. Let's do
Speaker 2: a Halloween theme, and let's you know, do the Thanksgiving thing.
Speaker 2: Christmas is always you know, they could have two or
Speaker 2: three different Christmas episodes back to back to back. In December.
Speaker 2: Generally there maybe one Thanksgiving best Thanksgiving episode of any
Speaker 2: TV show or the best Thanksgiving special. Talk to me
Speaker 2: over here, interactive show. If you just want to say hi,
Speaker 2: eight three to two twenty nine Textan eight three. I
Speaker 2: keep getting that number three four six twenty nine Texan.
Speaker 2: That's the number three four six two nine t e
Speaker 2: x A N. Michael Garfield, you can you can call
Speaker 2: me pound four pound and again, being in the radio business,
Speaker 2: there's absolutely nothing that will ever beat w KRP in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati the Great Frozen Turkey Drop with Les Nessman. There's
Speaker 2: just absolutely not happening. Somebody beat that. I'll debate you
Speaker 2: the entire two hours of this show. Then I gotta go.
Speaker 2: Charlie Brown, Chris, Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Yeah, you gots to do.
Speaker 2: I did not see Charlie Brown Thanksgiving because I think
Speaker 2: Apple bought the rights to all of the Charlie Brown
Speaker 2: holiday specials, the Christmas Special, which is also classic, and
Speaker 2: I do not have Apple TV. As you know, we
Speaker 2: talked about, I'm going to continue to talk about streaming
Speaker 2: services this you know today of you know which streaming
Speaker 2: services you usually get rid of, and also some Black
Speaker 2: Friday Cyber Monday deals on purchasing or buying streaming services
Speaker 2: for gifts which are pretty cheap cheap. I don't have
Speaker 2: Apple TV, and so I may have over the years.
Speaker 2: I bet I've taped Thanksgiving Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving in Christmas
Speaker 2: specials for their great top two for me Frants had
Speaker 2: a good Thanksgiving special? What am I forgetting here? Three
Speaker 2: four six twenty nine text it as we continue the
Speaker 2: trip to fan If you guys are not sleeping right now,
Speaker 2: holiday we continue the Black Friday Cyber Monday sales. I
Speaker 2: remember back in the day, in two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, two thousand and three, that was
Speaker 2: when digital TVs, high definition high definition TVs httvs, or
Speaker 2: flat screen TVs if you will, whatever you want to
Speaker 2: categorize them, they were the thing. It was the FCC
Speaker 2: who mandated everything go digital. Back in what two thousand
Speaker 2: and two thousand and one, the first flat screen or
Speaker 2: high def TVs were well over ten thousand dollars. And
Speaker 2: I remember in longtime listeners, they know my story the
Speaker 2: very first flat screen TV that I got, and I
Speaker 2: believe it was two thousand and three. It was a
Speaker 2: Hatachi and Hatachi that was one of the companies. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's around anymore. Hatachi was one of the leaders,
Speaker 2: the inventors, the creators of one of the end of
Speaker 2: the plasma and back then it was a plasma TV
Speaker 2: or did you want the what the LCDTV? And you
Speaker 2: know now it's oled. I mean, there's so many variants
Speaker 2: of whatever. You got a fifty inch TV and I'm
Speaker 2: not kidding you my fifty inch TV flat screen that
Speaker 2: hung on the wall fifteen thousand dollars, not kidding, not kidding.
Speaker 2: A fifty inch TV nowadays, not even on sale. You
Speaker 2: can get this thing for like what three hundred and
Speaker 2: four hundred dollars And now you can get eve cheaper
Speaker 2: footback product fifty inch and then TV's went up to
Speaker 2: fifty five, in, sixty five, in seventy five inches, now
Speaker 2: eighty five. I was in Costco the other day is
Speaker 2: an eighty two incher. I mean it goes on and
Speaker 2: on televisions. One of the biggest gifts this holiday season.
Speaker 2: It actually won't fit under the tree or down the
Speaker 2: chimney or technically in some of your homes, because there's
Speaker 2: TVs right now that measure more than ninety seven inches
Speaker 2: and they're actually called xxltvs XXL extra extra Large, and
Speaker 2: they're becoming a pretty big hit because the cost of
Speaker 2: giant screens. The price is going down and viewers now
Speaker 2: they're looking to replace the screens they bought, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe four years ago during the pandemic or whatever. So
Speaker 2: as look at some stats over here, Best Buy they're
Speaker 2: adding xxltvs to the majority of its stores across the
Speaker 2: US because of the demand from the customers. The technology
Speaker 2: has improved that the cheaper prices of components, the manufacturing,
Speaker 2: and prices for ninety eight inch TVs have fallen fifty
Speaker 2: three percent compared to a year ago. Sales have went
Speaker 2: up about eight hundred and seventy seven percent. These ultra
Speaker 2: large TVs now, Listen, they're still not cheap. Not what
Speaker 2: do you define as cheap? What do I define a cheap?
Speaker 2: A lot of the options range in price between let
Speaker 2: me say, seventeen hundred bones to maybe three thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: And then let's say you're big, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of you don't have vehicles that could schlep
Speaker 2: or put a ninety seven ninety eight inch TV in
Speaker 2: your vehicle, and so you know, you can get them
Speaker 2: delivered and in I think best Buy is offering free
Speaker 2: This is not a commercial for the best Buy. They're
Speaker 2: offering free delivery and installation if you buy them. But
Speaker 2: it is how big of a TV do you need?
Speaker 2: And so if you're thinking about getting something like this,
Speaker 2: let me give you my advice to Yes, you could
Speaker 2: go out and you could spend you know, almost three gerr,
Speaker 2: like I said, on a massive XXL TV. But let
Speaker 2: me give you another option that is really hot right now.
Speaker 2: Projectors projectures projection TVs that you can plug or stream
Speaker 2: from your phone into a very bright projector a small projector. Now,
Speaker 2: if you've got inside your home a blank wall where
Speaker 2: you think or you thought or you want your TV
Speaker 2: to hang, why not go get a projector either mounted
Speaker 2: on your ceiling. But you don't have to because you
Speaker 2: can keep these things on your floor maybe ten feet
Speaker 2: you know, you know, in front of the TV, between
Speaker 2: your two you know, couches or chairs because the screens
Speaker 2: now they could be four K and they're brighter lumens
Speaker 2: and the and the best thing about this I want
Speaker 2: you to think about that. You can adjust the picture
Speaker 2: quality because you can move that projector closer to the
Speaker 2: wall to make it a smaller picture. You can move
Speaker 2: it farther away from the wall to make it a
Speaker 2: bigger screen, maybe one hundred and twenty inches. You know,
Speaker 2: you may have seen these projectors. A lot of families
Speaker 2: get these projectors because they're portable. They put them outside,
Speaker 2: like in the summertime, they could put them by the
Speaker 2: pool and kids, you know, the kids could sit in
Speaker 2: the pool and have a pool watching party with the movies.
Speaker 2: But nowadays, I went, ah, where was I? I went
Speaker 2: to New York last earlier this year and there was
Speaker 2: a debut of a Chinese company came out with a projector.
Speaker 2: Of course, I forget it right now, but give me
Speaker 2: a few minutes, I'll come out with it. They are
Speaker 2: so light and so small, and they're actually a portable
Speaker 2: and a lot of them are battery powered. And right
Speaker 2: now now they have an HDMI input, so you can
Speaker 2: bring a laptop out there. If you have a cable connection,
Speaker 2: you can put it there. But the other thing is
Speaker 2: that you could hook them connect wirelessly via Bluetooth for
Speaker 2: your Wi Fi from your phone, let's say, and obviously
Speaker 2: you then you could stream it or mirror lack of
Speaker 2: a better drum directly to that projector, and you're set
Speaker 2: to go. Just an idea here, as we get to
Speaker 2: the end of this segment, if you're looking for TVs,
Speaker 2: maybe a TV, the actual TV, the television a hardware
Speaker 2: set is not what you want, not what you need,
Speaker 2: and there's better options. Take a look at your home,
Speaker 2: take a look at your apartment. What are you going
Speaker 2: to do if you go camping, if you move, think
Speaker 2: about getting a relatively hortible, relatively inexpensive, certainly cheaper than
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars projector. Let me take them. Let me
Speaker 2: take a few minutes over here to break. Let me
Speaker 2: go find a brand or two. I'll come back. I'll
Speaker 2: take your phone calls, I will take your emails. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield at on artmedia dot com. We do continue the
Speaker 2: high tech text and show playing around on my ex Twitter, Facebook,
Speaker 2: Blue Sky, Instagram. As we come back to the high
Speaker 2: tech text and show, I'm one of these platforms. I
Speaker 2: forgot which one I was doing that I threw on
Speaker 2: a pull best side dish for Thanksgiving. As we continue
Speaker 2: to celebrate Thanksgiving weekend, and odds are you still have
Speaker 2: some leftovers. As you're plopped on the couch, you're listening
Speaker 2: to me via your earphones, your ear pods or whatever, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, if you want some ear pods, headphones, whatever,
Speaker 2: I am your guy who can kind of steer you
Speaker 2: the right way. It's steer you away from some of
Speaker 2: the crap, little cheap products because probably on a regular base,
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding, you have all the test products, review
Speaker 2: products that I get that are mailed to me on
Speaker 2: a giving you and I get a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean I get phones, TVs, projectors, cars and stuff.
Speaker 2: I probably get more headphones or ear pods all across
Speaker 2: the gamut from companies you haven't heard of, and some
Speaker 2: of them are very good. So if you're looking for advice,
Speaker 2: talk to me here three four six twenty nine TEXTA.
Speaker 2: That's the how you got to get to me. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield is the name Callum Reid, staying away from his
Speaker 2: trip to fed Rose earlier this week, he hopefully will
Speaker 2: answer the phones when you called, I would I want
Speaker 2: to pay off what I was talking about about projectors
Speaker 2: and we're talking about TVs. TVs had long been twenty years.
Speaker 2: Let's just stay the thing to get on Black Friday.
Speaker 2: I remember, you know Black Friday deals. You would line
Speaker 2: up at Target, best Buy and I'm going back to
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, two thousand and three, four and five.
Speaker 2: You would get there and I'm not kidney. You would
Speaker 2: get there at midnight, maybe three in the morning. Certainly
Speaker 2: by six in the morning. They didn't have a lot.
Speaker 2: It was a loss leader, meaning you know, okay, we're
Speaker 2: we're only gonna have a few of these, but so
Speaker 2: the first ten people in line are going to get
Speaker 2: really inexpensive deal on a on a TV. That was
Speaker 2: the thing. But then at some point high definite. So
Speaker 2: many of us had these high definition TVs and then
Speaker 2: we maybe got a second one. You know, nowadays they
Speaker 2: may not be the thing, the hottest thing we line
Speaker 2: up for, because now it's I don't know, air fryers
Speaker 2: or something, but TVs are still there. I had just
Speaker 2: talked about a few minutes ago that TVs are getting
Speaker 2: larger because they're getting cheaper. It sounds like an airplane
Speaker 2: and things are getting larger. Le's getting have you xxltvs
Speaker 2: ninety eight inch screen size? But I said, wait, a minute,
Speaker 2: you could get one of those. But I think if
Speaker 2: I had to see a trend this year in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four of technology, I think this was the year
Speaker 2: of projectors. Now, projectors have been around for a long time.
Speaker 2: They have gotten much higher tech, much brighter, much more portable,
Speaker 2: much more affordable. And there's some reasons why you may
Speaker 2: want to look at having a projector at home instead
Speaker 2: of a TV beyond what a basic TV can give. Now,
Speaker 2: hear me out Number one, it's that custom of the
Speaker 2: customizable screen size. Because projectors it gives you the size variation.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you buy a fifty inch TV, that's
Speaker 2: all you're getting. You're getting a fifty inch TV, but
Speaker 2: you can vary the projecting to suit your room size.
Speaker 2: You move the projector closer to the wall, make sure
Speaker 2: become smaller, you move it back. You've got a real
Speaker 2: cinema experience. They're huge images. It makes you feel like
Speaker 2: you're a part of the event. Imagine watching your football
Speaker 2: games with all your family, you know, this weekend, and
Speaker 2: you've got this projector and it's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: inches wide. It's like, dang man, that's pretty strong. There's
Speaker 2: also eye comfort if you look at it. Projectors reflect light.
Speaker 2: I want you to think about this. They reflect light
Speaker 2: rather than transmit it straight in front of your eye,
Speaker 2: so it's more comfortable for your eyes than standard screens.
Speaker 2: A lot of the projectors, they're very small. They fit
Speaker 2: on shelves, they can mount easily. You can put them
Speaker 2: on a ceiling, and you can move it too. I
Speaker 2: had said that earlier this year that I went to
Speaker 2: New York because it was a debut of this Chinese
Speaker 2: company who makes projectors, and they wanted to really show
Speaker 2: it off. The name of the company is X Jimmy,
Speaker 2: I'm a spell this it's X G I M I.
Speaker 2: And they announced the whole line of projectors, and it
Speaker 2: really kind of blew me away because they didn't look
Speaker 2: like these traditional projectors that I know I had growing
Speaker 2: up in high school in college that looked like you know,
Speaker 2: a slide you know, show. They weren't heavy, they weren't
Speaker 2: ric danglar. These things are around their portable. You know.
Speaker 2: One of them is so light. It comes with a
Speaker 2: little strap that you can just put it in a
Speaker 2: little case and just kind of swing it on your
Speaker 2: wrist and you know, take it to grandma's house or something. Uh.
Speaker 2: The one I particularly have right now now that I
Speaker 2: play with, it's called the It's from a company called
Speaker 2: x G. I am I. I have the Mogo three
Speaker 2: pro mogo as an MgO Actually, if I thought about
Speaker 2: mg Michael Grifield, how come they I'm not endorsing these things.
Speaker 2: Mogo three pro it right now, let me tell, let
Speaker 2: me just pull this up. How much is this thing?
Speaker 2: Came out about a retail for about four hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty bucks. I'm singing it on the website now, I
Speaker 2: guess that guess could be a Black Friday seal three
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy nine dollars. Okay, this is a projector
Speaker 2: now that has ten ADP. It's it's pretty bright. Bright.
Speaker 2: Brightness is measured in lumens. This has four hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty lumens. It's got a built in Speaker's got a
Speaker 2: five watt harmon card and speaker. So you just and
Speaker 2: all you do is just connect a source. You connect
Speaker 2: connect your phone because it's got an HDMI input. You
Speaker 2: could stream it from your phone. But you take this
Speaker 2: thing anyway. You can put it outside, you can put
Speaker 2: it inside. That may be the thing to do. So
Speaker 2: that's again just an idea. You may want to look
Speaker 2: at the projectors because I really think not only on
Speaker 2: top of portability, I think the value projectors give a
Speaker 2: bigger screen size at a fraction of the cost as
Speaker 2: these big high ftvs, So which is better value. It's
Speaker 2: a good cinematic experience, and so that's that's really what
Speaker 2: you want for. But last point of this thing what
Speaker 2: to look for if you want to buy some of
Speaker 2: these things, look for projectors with high resolution. You want
Speaker 2: at least ten EIGHTP. If you want to go a
Speaker 2: little better four K. Not that you're really going to
Speaker 2: project anything at four K, but four K is ideal
Speaker 2: for the best clarity. You want to look for brightness,
Speaker 2: as I said, lumens, lu M, E and S. That's
Speaker 2: the word lumits. The higher the number the better. You
Speaker 2: also want to look for a high contrast ratio for
Speaker 2: those vivid colors and those deep blackings. High contrast ratio.
Speaker 2: So those are the things to look at if you
Speaker 2: really want to see if they have an HDMI input
Speaker 2: port or USB. Can they be capables wireless streaming? Those
Speaker 2: are little things, but the more more these projectors are
Speaker 2: going to come out. They actually do have all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So there you go, there's another idea for it. So
Speaker 2: any anything else I got to help you with when
Speaker 2: it comes to TV's I wish I could help with programming.
Speaker 2: Oh by the way, if anybody at least in the
Speaker 2: Houston area wants some good programming, highly recommend turning on
Speaker 2: your projector. On weekday mornings, nine am, Channel eleven CBS,
Speaker 2: there's a show called Great Day Houston. It is hosted
Speaker 2: by my longtime friend Debora Duncan with your contributing reporter Moah,
Speaker 2: which I have. This has been busy. I've been doing
Speaker 2: two or three segments each week. Why don't you test
Speaker 2: it out and see what see what my hair looks
Speaker 2: look like and which is real hair and high definition
Speaker 2: on Great Day Houston. I got a few segments coming
Speaker 2: up on what to do this holiday season. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of Christmas lights or you know, walking in very
Speaker 2: instagrammable fun things. I was just at the Houston Botanic
Speaker 2: Garden not far from Hobby Airport, about a mile and
Speaker 2: a half long trail you go at night when the
Speaker 2: sun goes down, and it's just unbelievable, just really really
Speaker 2: cool things and so I took a photographer out there
Speaker 2: and shut that for Channel eleven and a number of
Speaker 2: other things. And so again just a little programming just
Speaker 2: to let you know that this is a gig economy.
Speaker 2: Not only do a radio you have to slap some
Speaker 2: makeup on me and put some lights up, and maybe
Speaker 2: I could be TV radio. I'll let you guys decide
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Speaker 2: Halfway through the show and a very special Black Friday
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday trip to fan weekend. That means we are
Speaker 2: a halfway and a happy hour people, you know what,
Speaker 2: this is a weekend long if you think about it.
Speaker 2: I hope you're enjoining the fam. I hope you're not sick.
Speaker 2: You're a family. Actually by this point, my name is Michael,
Speaker 2: Miguel whatever you want to call me. Just don't call
Speaker 2: me late for dinner, and actually call me late for
Speaker 2: dinner because I think I've had enough food this weekend.
Speaker 2: But we are in the bed stuff going over what
Speaker 2: did you get for Black Friday? There's still are maybe
Speaker 2: a few Black Friday sales, but now they call them
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday sales, and so get prepped for that. If
Speaker 2: you want to get in and ask questions or just
Speaker 2: you know, say what's up and what your favorite side
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Speaker 2: don't have to call. You can also send an email.
Speaker 2: Speaking of emails, look what we have here.
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Speaker 2: We do have mail, and we thank you. This is
Speaker 2: from Jennifer. Jennifer is in Paarland, Texas. Paarland, JA, south
Speaker 2: of Houston. She writes, in Hey Michael, there's so many
Speaker 2: apps out there, and I was thinking about it this
Speaker 2: weekend while I was making Thanksgiving. I have a ton
Speaker 2: of recipes. My mother and my grandmother both passed down
Speaker 2: recipes to me. And I'd have no clue where to
Speaker 2: keep them. Is there a specific app that would help
Speaker 2: other than a spreadsheet or something? Appreciate it listening to
Speaker 2: you a long time, Thank you so much. Okay, yes,
Speaker 2: actually there are. There are a number of apps to
Speaker 2: organize and save all those recipes. I should probably I
Speaker 2: like cooking. I'm a big cooker and a griller and
Speaker 2: a smoker and not a tooker. But you know, not
Speaker 2: that I need to pass recipes down to my three boys.
Speaker 2: But there's a number of things that I probably should
Speaker 2: start using. But let me get let me go through
Speaker 2: with some of them. There is one I saw this
Speaker 2: over here. There's one. It's free, I believe it's for
Speaker 2: This is for a few if you have a Mac
Speaker 2: and a Mac or an iOS only if you have
Speaker 2: an Apple. It's called Mela e La And I took
Speaker 2: a quick look at this, and this app keeps things
Speaker 2: really clean, really simple. And if you use it on
Speaker 2: your desktop, there's an in app browser, so you can
Speaker 2: find a recipe and save the details to your collection.
Speaker 2: And if you're you know, kind of surfing, you find
Speaker 2: something and it's got a nice does a nice job
Speaker 2: of keeping things organized. I think the first ten recipes
Speaker 2: are free, or you could pay more, and I don't
Speaker 2: think you could pay more than five dollars. There's another
Speaker 2: one that has been around for a while, and this
Speaker 2: works in all the platforms, doesn't matter if you have
Speaker 2: a Mac or Microsoft Android whatever. This is called recipe Keeper.
Speaker 2: Well there's a creative name, but recipe Keeper, if you
Speaker 2: think about it's probably this is probably the og of
Speaker 2: recipe saving apps. And you can save up to twenty
Speaker 2: recipes for free. You could scan them in from a photo,
Speaker 2: maybe a PDF. Maybe your grandmother wrote it down way
Speaker 2: back in the day you want to keep your handwriting
Speaker 2: or something, or you can import it from a website
Speaker 2: and it lets you This is nice because there's some
Speaker 2: of these apps, including this one. They'll let you adjust
Speaker 2: serving sizes right on the flo. Okay, so I have
Speaker 2: six people coming to dn I have ten people coming
Speaker 2: to dent and it will adjust the ingredients. I think
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. There's another one here. You on me
Speaker 2: pull this one up, just the recipe dot Com. It's
Speaker 2: a website and it's an iOS and an Android app.
Speaker 2: I think this cost a little, maybe like thirteen bucks
Speaker 2: a year. It's called just the recipe dot com. This
Speaker 2: looks pretty good because it transforms a cluttered recipe page
Speaker 2: and into something that looks really simple and really clean,
Speaker 2: really clean. And uh, that's that's another one to you
Speaker 2: try that. I hope I'm helping you out over here.
Speaker 2: Here's one called crouton. This is for Apple devices only, Jennifer,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have an Apple device, don't
Speaker 2: like that, but it's got a really nice design. It's
Speaker 2: a clean design, and you can import things from a
Speaker 2: camera or an image, and you could say ten recipes
Speaker 2: for free too. And there's one more called oh Mommy,
Speaker 2: ooh Mommy, who Mamma's eat that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: This is you m A m I iOS and Android
Speaker 2: and it works on both of those. But it's got
Speaker 2: an extension for your web browser, so if you're online,
Speaker 2: you can import recipes right on your computer too. And
Speaker 2: it's also kind of specific import options for inputting a
Speaker 2: TikTok or Instagram URL. And this may be this may
Speaker 2: be good because I'm telling you right now, and I
Speaker 2: don't use TikTok, my kids do? You probably do? Tiktoking
Speaker 2: Instagram are like the places to go for recipes so
Speaker 2: much so my youngest son, twenty four, came in so
Speaker 2: he's with me this weekend with his brothers too, and
Speaker 2: he wanted mac and cheese. And the first thing he said,
Speaker 2: he goes, I don't want no craft. He goes, I
Speaker 2: don't want real mac and cheese. And I saw something
Speaker 2: on Instagram. He goes, there's a TikTok recipe. It's this
Speaker 2: famous TikTok mac and cheese recipe. Does anybody know about this?
Speaker 2: So anyway, I'm like, well, this is a perfect excuse
Speaker 2: for daddy. I don't have I don't have a TikTok.
Speaker 2: Can't do it. He goes, I'll do the mac and cheese.
Speaker 2: Look at the kid, bacon, look at the kid. Make it?
Speaker 2: Sure enough, man goes, TikTok is the so many recipes.
Speaker 2: He made some mac and cheese and it was freaking killer.
Speaker 2: And I am sure I gained five pounds just from
Speaker 2: a few bites of this stuff. So TikTok and Instagram
Speaker 2: since the place. But you may want to look for
Speaker 2: a recipe keeper that can import those links too. And
Speaker 2: I know, mom me, you am a am I that
Speaker 2: does that. They go, Jennifer, hope you help. This is
Speaker 2: what I am I am your answer man if you
Speaker 2: tuned in last hour. Talked a little a little about TVs.
Speaker 2: TVs have long been a staple of Black Friday sales
Speaker 2: and what have you. You know, what's good deal, what's
Speaker 2: not a good deal. I didn't give any specific Black
Speaker 2: Friday deals for TVs, but I did talk about another option,
Speaker 2: which is projector's projectors. To me, it was a very
Speaker 2: hot category in twenty twenty four. I do see that
Speaker 2: category growing because projectors are getting less expensive, they're getting
Speaker 2: more portable. You could take them inside outside, but you know,
Speaker 2: you could, you know, you could project them on the
Speaker 2: side of the outside of your house, have a watching party,
Speaker 2: do whatever. You can make the screen size smaller by
Speaker 2: putting the projector closer to the wall, bigger, larger. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could have one hundred and twenty inch screen if
Speaker 2: you really wanted to. By putting it back, you could.
Speaker 2: They have HDMI inputs, they have built in speakers, they've
Speaker 2: got good battery life, and that made it be the
Speaker 2: thing to go. And you know, the one one I
Speaker 2: have right now is three hundred and seventy nine dollars.
Speaker 2: I got one from a company called x G I
Speaker 2: M I x Jimmy Chinese company, and it works well.
Speaker 2: Just when you look, you know, look for high lumens,
Speaker 2: which is a high brightness. Look for something at least
Speaker 2: ten eighty p if not four K, and you should
Speaker 2: be set to go. So again, this is some of
Speaker 2: the advice that I'm gonna give throughout the show, as
Speaker 2: we have done for twenty plus years. Should you just
Speaker 2: be tuning in. Coming back between now and the end
Speaker 2: of the show, I'm gonna talk about cars, because I
Speaker 2: do do cars and trucks. Oh guess what I had, people,
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. I had another EV, had another electric vehicle.
Speaker 2: And you know how I love electric vehicles. I actually
Speaker 2: do it like electric vehicles. You know how I love
Speaker 2: charging those batteries. That's facetious right there. I had a Chevy,
Speaker 2: the Chevy Equinox. Chevy Equinox not bad, relatively inexpensive compared
Speaker 2: to other evs, kind of sizey. I'll give you my
Speaker 2: thoughts on that. And if you have a specific vehicle
Speaker 2: you want me to test drive, let me know because
Speaker 2: in any given year, I probably drive about sixty different vehicles,
Speaker 2: from trucks to yes, evs, sports cars, minivans, sid Dan's
Speaker 2: as a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association. I
Speaker 2: happen to know a lot of the manufacturers. I do
Speaker 2: not deal with dealerships. I can't get you a deal.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you to walk into a dealership and
Speaker 2: mention my name or asked for a guy. No, this
Speaker 2: is non biased, non paid. I can tell you if
Speaker 2: they're crap, or I can tell you if they're good.
Speaker 2: That's why you listen to me, right, all right, keep
Speaker 2: listening to this crappy I keep listening to this wonderful
Speaker 2: radio program for the next forty five minutes or so.
Speaker 2: It's my cocarfield. We'll be right back. Anybody get a
Speaker 2: new phone for Black Friday, pre Cyber Monday. Tell you what,
Speaker 2: let's let's test it out. Give me a shout. We'll
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Speaker 2: know we're probably stopped with all the turkey and the
Speaker 2: dressing and all the size, and you're laying on the
Speaker 2: couch and you're, you know, watching all the football games.
Speaker 2: We got calle age, we got the NFL. It's a
Speaker 2: fun weekend, it really is. Maybe you're sick of your family.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're listening with your brand new headphones, your ear pods,
Speaker 2: listening to me, Well, listen if you think, if you
Speaker 2: think you got schnooker and you don't want a better pair,
Speaker 2: that's what you called me for. You could say, Michael,
Speaker 2: did I get a good pair? Should I return them?
Speaker 2: Should I ask for whoever gave them to me to
Speaker 2: give the receipt back so I can go get them.
Speaker 2: I study what's going on in the world of consumer products. Yes,
Speaker 2: certainly technology, but also cars and trucks too. I get
Speaker 2: to drive a lot of them, and so I'm more
Speaker 2: than happy to steer you. You see what I did there.
Speaker 2: You see, after two decades of doing this, I actually
Speaker 2: can segue semi cute. I could steer you in the
Speaker 2: right direction in the wrong direction. Been driving actually some
Speaker 2: electric vehicles as of late. I don't mind, and I'm
Speaker 2: like into the whole should you get electric vehicle? Should
Speaker 2: you not? It's up to you. I think electric vehicles
Speaker 2: are nice, they're sexy, they're fast, they're designed quite well.
Speaker 2: I'm just not one hundred percent sold on the battery
Speaker 2: charging infrastructure that we currently have in our great United
Speaker 2: States right now. But some of the ones that I
Speaker 2: have driven over the past few weeks, actually recently a
Speaker 2: Chevy Equinox, believe it or not. It's a kind of
Speaker 2: a CUV, a compact utility vehicle. It is electric, about
Speaker 2: three hundred mile range, it's relatively roomy. If you're looking
Speaker 2: for something that is domestic like that with Chevy, but
Speaker 2: also electric, Chevy also has something I think very similar,
Speaker 2: because about a month ago I was in a Chevy Equinox,
Speaker 2: which is a little larger than now I'm sorry, the
Speaker 2: Chevy Blazer. See I'm getting confused. I was in a
Speaker 2: Chevy Blazer a little larger than the Equinox a little,
Speaker 2: but also three hundred plus miles range, and I didn't
Speaker 2: mind them. They were nice, they had the good room.
Speaker 2: It's just every time I drive at EV, my eyes
Speaker 2: not only focus on the road, but my eyes focus
Speaker 2: on how little range I get, how little range it
Speaker 2: keeps going down and down and down. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I'm at fifty, I'm at forty. And then I start schmitzing,
Speaker 2: and then I'm thinking, oh my god, I'm gonna run
Speaker 2: out of batteries. That's my problem. That's my problem with
Speaker 2: having it in EV. I think they're great second cars.
Speaker 2: If you don't drive a ton. If you have a
Speaker 2: charger at home and you have one at work, that's phenomenal.
Speaker 2: So I could steer you in the right way and
Speaker 2: the wrong way. Oh. Actually, speaking of which, I do
Speaker 2: have questions about any type of vehicles. I am here
Speaker 2: for you. Why don't we pick up that phone and
Speaker 2: see what's going on. You've got mail.
Speaker 5: This is doctor Joe Agris the crazy Text. My wife
Speaker 5: wants a new car for the holidays. She's looking at
Speaker 5: the Lincoln or the christ for the big SUV. Their expensive.
Speaker 5: Tell me what you think about them. You said you
Speaker 5: drove twenty nine cars. I want to know if you
Speaker 5: drove one of these and whether I should buy it.
Speaker 5: Doctor Joe the Crazy Texan.
Speaker 2: Okay, First of all, we got a lot of things
Speaker 2: going on here, Doctor Joe. Appreciate the phone call, love
Speaker 2: it absolutely, and I'm going to answer it. Three four
Speaker 2: six twenty nine Texan. All right, number one. Have you
Speaker 2: trademarked the Crazy Texan? Because you really should. I got
Speaker 2: the high tech Texan. Stay away from that, but the
Speaker 2: Crazy Textan, that's when I have not touched I like it.
Speaker 2: It's good. What a wonderful gentleman. You want to buy
Speaker 2: your wife a car for the holidays? Does this occur
Speaker 2: every single holiday? I've actually got questions to specifically answer it.
Speaker 2: It's this is a relatively simple one. You said that.
Speaker 2: First of all, I've driven much more than twenty nine cars.
Speaker 2: I genuinely drive one. I have vehicles brand new per week,
Speaker 2: so I drive well over sixty plus vehicles any given year.
Speaker 2: Not from a dealership. I have the privilege of knowing
Speaker 2: the manufacturers. My job. I do not get paid. Nothing
Speaker 2: is endorsed. What I'm about to tell you, these are
Speaker 2: just my personal thoughts, and so I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people can and do respect that. You talk specifically
Speaker 2: about Chrysler SUVs, and you talked also about Lincoln Is
Speaker 2: SUVs Let's start with Chrysler. Chrysler does not make SUVs,
Speaker 2: and so that's going to be a simple answer. Chrysler really,
Speaker 2: right now, as great as a brand it is, it's changed.
Speaker 2: Chrysler really only makes about four different vehicles, three of
Speaker 2: which are minivans. Now, if you're looking for a minivan,
Speaker 2: hands down, Chrysler Pacifica my favorite out there. You want
Speaker 2: to get a minivan from Mama, bring it on. So
Speaker 2: it's about forty thousand dollars Chrysler Pacifica, all right. I
Speaker 2: also have a Chrysler Voyager two. The only other non
Speaker 2: type of minivan they make. It's a Sizdan. It's a
Speaker 2: Chrysler three hundred, all right. And that's about it. So
Speaker 2: there's no SUVs if you will from Chrysler right now.
Speaker 2: Now other Stilantis own brands, they do make them. Stalantis
Speaker 2: owns Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Fiat. But you didn't ask that. Okay,
Speaker 2: Let's go to Lincoln. I like Lincoln. Lincoln is a
Speaker 2: strong brand. I do get the test drive. So Lincoln
Speaker 2: has four SUVs starting at the top in terms of
Speaker 2: cost and size. The Lincoln Navigator Big Boy seats eight people.
Speaker 2: If you want it then we can take a little
Speaker 2: step down the Lincoln Aviator. See it's about seven people.
Speaker 2: If you want a five seater, they've got a Lincoln
Speaker 2: Nautilus and a Lincoln Corsair. I think Lincoln does a
Speaker 2: really really nice job. It is a smooth ride, and
Speaker 2: they're not maybe not they you know, most inexpensive things
Speaker 2: are out there, but the newer ones, if you really
Speaker 2: want to go on the higher level, you can get
Speaker 2: the Lincoln Black label. That's you know, a little bit
Speaker 2: more elegant and higher services inside, a little bit more leather,
Speaker 2: a little bit more would. But I will tell you this,
Speaker 2: pound for pound internally, if I had to get a
Speaker 2: new car and I've wanted something a little larger, maybe
Speaker 2: an suv, I absolutely love And to have not been
Speaker 2: more impressive almost with anything else in the auto industry
Speaker 2: this year than what Lincoln has done with their internal
Speaker 2: cabin on their new twenty twenty fives. It is the
Speaker 2: most technologically advanced dashboard than I have ever seen. I
Speaker 2: was a Lincoln Nautilus for probably about four months ago,
Speaker 2: and what they have done is the future of cars.
Speaker 2: And you can talk about evs all you want to.
Speaker 2: It is amazing. They you know, most infotainment screens and
Speaker 2: dashboards and whatever. You know, there's a screen in the middle.
Speaker 2: You're lucky if they're ten inches, Yes, you're gonna go
Speaker 2: up to twelve twelve and a half inches. And then
Speaker 2: you've got the vehicle information display, which is right in
Speaker 2: between your right through your steering wheel. What Lincoln has
Speaker 2: done with their new vehicles they have taken about I
Speaker 2: want you to imagine we'll sitting in your driver's seat.
Speaker 2: Look out that front windshield. All right, your front windshield.
Speaker 2: I don't know what is it Maybe you know. It
Speaker 2: could be about three feet long top to bottom at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the windshield. I want you to imagine
Speaker 2: from the left side of that windshield to the right.
Speaker 2: All right, we're talking five feet whatever it is. They
Speaker 2: have an infotainment display across the entire thing. It is crazy.
Speaker 2: It's jetsnian if you will, it's easy to navigate. You
Speaker 2: can see exactly how fast you're going, where you're going,
Speaker 2: what radio station you're you're on. But it is it's
Speaker 2: a whole new look. And there's not one person who
Speaker 2: got into this vehicle when I was driving it just
Speaker 2: to kind of play around that didn't blow their mind.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Wine is good for Lincoln. I think
Speaker 2: it's a very strong brand. I mean, I remember my
Speaker 2: I mean you talk about my my grandparents going up.
Speaker 2: Got to have a Lincoln Continental. You gotta have whatever.
Speaker 2: But in terms of SUVs that you which you asked for,
Speaker 2: Jojo Navigate, Aviator, Nautilus, Courssair, that's what you're gonna get.
Speaker 2: I like the Nautilus. It seats five, very comfortable, starts
Speaker 2: around fifty thousand, and it is absolutely going to go
Speaker 2: up from there. Not the cheapest thing, but it seems
Speaker 2: like Daddy Warbucks over here is a great listener of mine.
Speaker 2: Doctor Joe, the crazy Texan. But he couldn't sounds like
Speaker 2: a sweetheart because he's buying his wife a holiday present.
Speaker 2: You know, A. I don't have a wife at the
Speaker 2: current moment. B. I probably would get her a crockpot.
Speaker 2: Tense the reason I'm not married, Big Daddy Joe, get
Speaker 2: mama a vehicle. This is the type of listening show.
Speaker 2: All right, three four, six, two nine, Texan, You got questions?
Speaker 2: Hopefully I have answer A standby more high tech Texan
Speaker 2: show coming up. Michael Garfield is called the High Tech
Speaker 2: Texan show hope everybody is having a great date. No
Speaker 2: matter where you are, you'd thank you for tuning in
Speaker 2: for two plus decades. I am your guy who's gonna
Speaker 2: give you all the fun information and steer you in
Speaker 2: the right direction when it comes to yes, technology gear,
Speaker 2: but I just everything. When the consumer lifestyle products, this
Speaker 2: is my job is to test them and play with
Speaker 2: them and tell you where to go, maybe what to
Speaker 2: run away from. Tell you what I'm not running away from.
Speaker 2: And none of us can run away from. It is
Speaker 2: it's our cell phones, it's our cell service, it's our
Speaker 2: data service. I mean I whether you look at whether
Speaker 2: you believe it or not, good or bad, it is
Speaker 2: here to stay and it's a necessity. Are operating lives
Speaker 2: the way we do our personal lives or business lives.
Speaker 2: We need our service. We need something reliable for palt
Speaker 2: How long have I been a member of Total Wireless.
Speaker 2: I've been using Total Wireless gosh now what four or
Speaker 2: five six months? Very happy with it, and I've told
Speaker 2: you folks that it's a great way to save money.
Speaker 2: These you know MVNOs, the mobile virtual network operators. They
Speaker 2: utilize major networks like Verizon or something, and in this case,
Speaker 2: I use Total Wireless many stories around the Houston area
Speaker 2: actually obviously all over the country, and you can get
Speaker 2: your cell service, you can buy your phones, and they've
Speaker 2: got home Internet five G service right now. And I
Speaker 2: just noticed on my I'm getting text from him and
Speaker 2: I'm getting my my bill. See this thing called Total Rewards.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, oh, it's like, uh that Caesars Caesars Palaces.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Dad, It's like, oh good, I'm not dampling.
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to Vegas like that guy said,
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, let me delve into this a little
Speaker 2: bit more. It's a rewards kind of incentive type back
Speaker 2: for members of Total Wireless. I needed to learn more
Speaker 2: because I like me some rewards, and so we're gonna
Speaker 2: find out more right now with Stephen Perez. He's the
Speaker 2: district manager of Total Wireless here in and around Houston.
Speaker 2: He joins me, happy holiday is my friend, And I
Speaker 2: know you're using Total Wireless right now, so you're sounding good.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I'm actually on our Total Wireless home Internet
Speaker 3: at the moment. So we are live in a fake.
Speaker 2: Quickly the home Internet. People don't people you know, don't
Speaker 2: realize I don't think unless they've been listening to my show.
Speaker 2: You know. Uh, back in the day before you were born,
Speaker 2: there was this thing called dial up. But I'm not
Speaker 2: going to get into that, Steve. Okay. So nowadays, obviously
Speaker 2: we use can we get cable, you can get it
Speaker 2: through phone companies, but now it's it's wireless and using
Speaker 2: the cell towers out there. Cell towers are pumping out
Speaker 2: five G. I utilize the Total Wireless, you know, five
Speaker 2: G home Internet and all I have it's a router.
Speaker 2: It's just that I plug it into the wall and
Speaker 2: that is it. It's pulling down cell signals, but then tossing
Speaker 2: out a Wi Fi signal that's five g's That is
Speaker 2: that the easiest way to explain.
Speaker 3: It, Absolutely, Michael, That's exactly how to describe that.
Speaker 2: Yes, third it. It's just one of the many things
Speaker 2: that the Total Wireless offers. I love what going in
Speaker 2: and playing and you know one of the stores, you've
Speaker 2: got some brand new phones. You've got, yes, you've got
Speaker 2: the iPhones, and you know, I'm an Android guys, Dave
Speaker 2: but tons of Android phones. But I'm looked at this thing.
Speaker 2: You have to explain me. I'm a kind of exciting
Speaker 2: now because I'm you know, I spend you know, not
Speaker 2: a lot per month, because you don't charge a lot
Speaker 2: per month. But what is this Total Rewards program?
Speaker 3: So one thing about a Total Rewards is that it's
Speaker 3: a free program from which are total waters can get
Speaker 3: exclusive access to instance savings benefits including local offers, doting, entertainment, travel,
Speaker 3: but also being able to get points for every time
Speaker 3: they redeem and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Like that, it's points. I'm in a lot of these
Speaker 2: affinity clubs. Listen, I'm a member, you know, Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 2: I love the points. I love racking up the points,
Speaker 2: and so I see what you're doing over there. It's
Speaker 2: a great way to retain customers. I like it. How
Speaker 2: how does it for me? Also? How does it work?
Speaker 2: How do I earn my points?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So every time you make your payment for the month,
Speaker 3: you get points, but not only just earning points off
Speaker 3: of payments, but also referring friends and if you decided
Speaker 3: to set up your account on auto pay, you also
Speaker 3: get points for that. And then they also have a
Speaker 3: thing on the app where you can actually spend the
Speaker 3: wheel daily and you can also earn points just by
Speaker 3: spending the wheel. So we have a couple of different
Speaker 3: things on it where you can actually earn points.
Speaker 2: Sound like a game show? Can I can? I toss
Speaker 2: my hat in the ring. I would make a great
Speaker 2: game show host. I would. I mean, you see me
Speaker 2: as a game show host. All right, I had to talk.
Speaker 2: I need to talk to the victor Total Wireless. Hello, folks,
Speaker 2: good morning it is I just spin the wheel Total Wireless.
Speaker 2: I'm Michael Garfield. See, I'm your boy Stephen Perez. He's
Speaker 2: the district manager of Total Wireless. Big shopping season as
Speaker 2: we know right now, it's a holiday season too. But
Speaker 2: let's go back to the Total Rewards. You know, are
Speaker 2: there any special tactics for shoppers maybe to make the
Speaker 2: most of this Total Rewards program?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think the biggest thing for Total Rewards
Speaker 3: program is you want to definitely do the refer to frame.
Speaker 3: So kind of what that works is on the app,
Speaker 3: there's a unique code that you get and on that
Speaker 3: app every time you refer a frame. So whenever they
Speaker 3: download the Total Wireless app and they send up their account,
Speaker 3: if they're a new customer, they send up third account,
Speaker 3: they use their their reference code on there. Not only
Speaker 3: do you get fifty dollars worth the reward points, but
Speaker 3: also they get fifty dollars worth the as well.
Speaker 2: Listen. I have a good amount of friends, have a
Speaker 2: lot more listeners. I think I'm referring everybody out there.
Speaker 2: Use my name. People, come on, I want me some
Speaker 2: free service.
Speaker 3: Hey, we can able to give them that referra code
Speaker 3: so they can get it in there and get you
Speaker 3: them points for sure.
Speaker 2: Come up with a high tech text and referral code.
Speaker 2: What are their benefits are there? As part of the total.
Speaker 3: Rewards Besides the referral program, you can also redeem those points.
Speaker 3: So one thing that's pretty cool that they just launch
Speaker 3: is that you can also get gift cards for like Target,
Speaker 3: Home depot, just different type of businesses where you can
Speaker 3: actually redeem it. Duck and Donuts as one of them
Speaker 3: as well, where you can use it at different type
Speaker 3: of businesses. So kind of like cash, but it's just
Speaker 3: kind of like in a gift card at standpoint, but
Speaker 3: also like I said, redeem it for free service and
Speaker 3: then you can also use it for like at different
Speaker 3: add alls and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That's what Yeah, me like gift cards too, which is great.
Speaker 2: Is there a cost to be a part of the
Speaker 2: Total Awards.
Speaker 3: Program, so it's totally free. All the customer has to
Speaker 3: do is sign up for Total Rewards. They can do
Speaker 3: it on the app, or if they sign up for
Speaker 3: a new service, they can do and what the represented
Speaker 3: that's in the store and they can help them while
Speaker 3: to get it off to the form square away.
Speaker 2: Oh I love this. So we're talking specifically about Total Wireless.
Speaker 2: You see a lot of these national commercials. You see
Speaker 2: the billboards around town and I drive. You have a
Speaker 2: ton of stores all over I mean, first of all
Speaker 2: over the country, but here in Houston. How many and
Speaker 2: I know specifically the Total Wireless stores that you're the
Speaker 2: district manager of. I think they're they're owned by a
Speaker 2: company called Victra v ic Tra. If you go to
Speaker 2: Victor dot com you can find the locations. But you've
Speaker 2: got fifteen sixteen stores around Houston? Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's roughly around that, you know, fifteen sixteen, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: It's very very easy, very convenient. What I also like
Speaker 2: is your service because I think I actually you kind
Speaker 2: of hang out at the West Timer store just outside
Speaker 2: the Beltway, Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one of more locations is that they're the
Speaker 3: one off the west Timber.
Speaker 2: And listen, I'm gonna try to get your employees some
Speaker 2: raises right now. That's okay because your customer service. I
Speaker 2: came in, they could not have been nicer. And I'm
Speaker 2: not just saying this man just to blow sunshine anyway,
Speaker 2: because you know, I, you know, I walk in what
Speaker 2: I think you were there? And I walked in with
Speaker 2: what four or five phones because that's what I do
Speaker 2: because I I get to play and test with phones,
Speaker 2: and I brought my own phone. You don't need to
Speaker 2: buy a phone from you. And I was on a
Speaker 2: total different carrier. It took me a matter of minutes
Speaker 2: and they just walked me through, handheld me. They you know,
Speaker 2: they got the special code how to switch my service.
Speaker 2: Total Total Wireless could not have been nicer, explained everything
Speaker 2: and it was good. So would you get give your
Speaker 2: staff arraise? In my name? Would you please do that?
Speaker 2: I got you.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 2: Steven Perez is the district manager Total Wireless. People walk
Speaker 2: in and I like this fact, the fact that you
Speaker 2: got something that gives back to yourself to Total awards.
Speaker 2: Every month, you a crew points and you gift cards
Speaker 2: and everything else. All right, let's work on the the
Speaker 2: high tech textan code or something like baby so I
Speaker 2: can get me some points.
Speaker 3: Deal, Yes, sir, I got you. Man, I'll work with
Speaker 3: the tea departments so we can get to take take
Speaker 3: some code.
Speaker 2: I like it. Okay, well we'll get back to everybody
Speaker 2: with that thing. Steve Listener, Happy holidays, appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: some time here. And uh, I'll let you know. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna text you monthly basis. Let you know my but
Speaker 2: the points I have on my account.
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, sir, we got you, We got Michael, thank you?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, well, good luck. I know they're
Speaker 2: gonna be busy this holiday season. It is total wireless,
Speaker 2: so you can go to specifically Victor v ict r
Speaker 2: a dot com. Victor dot com. By the way, I
Speaker 2: also saw they just opened another store to Missouri City,
Speaker 2: southwest side of h Town. Actually it's not far from me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to hit that Missouri City, Texas. Uh,
Speaker 2: they're gonna have like one hundred stores here my next year,
Speaker 2: so we need to go check that out. All right,
Speaker 2: we continue Black Friday, Cyber Monday. What's going on for
Speaker 2: the next month? I am the guy who's got all
Speaker 2: the deals for you. Michael Garkold. It is the long
Speaker 2: running high Tech Texas Show. We made it, Soras Berry, Manilosas.
Speaker 2: Looks like we've made it. Final segment of the Big
Speaker 2: Black Friday Cyber Monday Trip to Fan show at the
Speaker 2: high Tech Textan Show. We do appreciate it. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much. By the way, I have, I have, we
Speaker 2: have gifts for you. We haven't done a giveaway yet.
Speaker 2: It's listen, this is it's the it's the gift. It's
Speaker 2: the season of gift giving. And every week we you know,
Speaker 2: generally give away a gift card or two or something.
Speaker 2: You know. One of my big favorite places to eat
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Speaker 2: You can't call if you want to ask any questions,
Speaker 2: even though I don't know if we're going to get
Speaker 2: to your phone calls here three four, six, two nine
Speaker 2: t e x A M Between now and the next
Speaker 2: what have we got about seven minutes or so? Uh?
Speaker 2: How are we by the way, it's uh? Are we tight?
Speaker 2: How are we doing with Russia? Is the US and Russia?
Speaker 2: Are we doing well? Okay, I'm Russia potentially could get
Speaker 2: a lot of money from the US. Uh And I
Speaker 2: saw this a few weeks ago and I've been meaning
Speaker 2: to talk about it. A Russian court is not happy
Speaker 2: with Google. A Russian court is demanding that Google pay
Speaker 2: an amount after a few of the Russia's TV channels
Speaker 2: and media outlets were blocked from YouTube. Which is such
Speaker 2: a wonderful reason, too fine a big company like that.
Speaker 2: This mine is hilarious because I can ask an over
Speaker 2: under and I guarantee you're gonna be wrong. Well, if
Speaker 2: you guess, you could guess correctly. A million dollars, two million,
Speaker 2: ten million dollars. Uh uh. I really think Russia made
Speaker 2: up this number, and the story is this number. A
Speaker 2: Russian court orders Google to pay this number for blocking
Speaker 2: media on YouTube. Not making this up, I had no
Speaker 2: First of all, Google itself is a number which is
Speaker 2: actually spelled g O O g O L. Google is
Speaker 2: like a one with one hundred zeros behind it. That's Google, right,
Speaker 2: But I've never heard of this one. Google is being
Speaker 2: asked to pay Russia twenty bacillion American dollars D E
Speaker 2: C I L L I. I listen. I'm an edumacated person.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty good at math. I even know the metric system.
Speaker 2: I am not familiar with decillion. It is twenty decillion dollars.
Speaker 2: It is a twenty with thirty three zeros behind it.
Speaker 2: It is a thirty seven digit figure. That's what Google
Speaker 2: was asked to pay Russia because seventeen of Russia's TV
Speaker 2: channels and media platforms were blocked from YouTube, which Google owns.
Speaker 2: Who comes up with a number like this? Who why
Speaker 2: not just go for a Google? Are they gonna pay it?
Speaker 2: And how are they gonna pay it? I mean, technically,
Speaker 2: twenty decillion dollars could be a out fourteen bitcoin right now,
Speaker 2: Bitcoin going through the roof people anyway. This began back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, the case against Google because Google block
Speaker 2: channels belonging to some dude, some Olive Ark, who were
Speaker 2: strong supporters of Putin. This is according to NBC News.
Speaker 2: The case expanded and the find increased and kept increasing,
Speaker 2: and so they came up with decillion. My boss was
Speaker 2: listening because when I get to my next contract negotiation,
Speaker 2: I may use the decillion and the negotiating tactics. That
Speaker 2: would be pretty cool with it, I thought, so anyway,
Speaker 2: if anybody wants, I'll take one decillion dollars. People, it
Speaker 2: doesn't even matter. We do think a lot of our sponsors,
Speaker 2: and you know one of the reasons why we don't
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Speaker 2: You can also listen free on the podcast which you
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Speaker 2: we got, Callum, that almost may be it. I'm going
Speaker 2: to go see if my electric car starts. The Chevy Equinox.
Speaker 2: By the way, I didn't get a ton of time
Speaker 2: to talk about that, but the Chevy Equinox it's starts
Speaker 2: about forty two thousand dollars. I was in a Chevy
Speaker 2: Blaser EV very similar to the Chevy Equinox EV. But
Speaker 2: they're out there. They are more and more evs I prefer.
Speaker 2: And again we could talk about this later dates because
Speaker 2: I certainly drive so many vehicles. Hybrids to me right
Speaker 2: now are the way to go. Hybrids are the way
Speaker 2: to go either, mostly the regenerative breaking. I'm still not
Speaker 2: a fan of the plug in hybrids because the plug
Speaker 2: in hybrids. It's going to give you a little extra juice.
Speaker 2: It's really not going to carry you far. But if
Speaker 2: you're looking for me to specifically test drive something, I
Speaker 2: may have. I also have another podcast, if you look
Speaker 2: at The high Tech Texan, which is also on iHeart,
Speaker 2: it's on Spotify, it's on Apple. That one specifically for
Speaker 2: me talking about vehicles. So between Michael Garfield The High
Speaker 2: Tech Texan, I don't know. If you're bored this weekend,
Speaker 2: you're sick of your family, put your earpod, your earbuds
Speaker 2: on in Nnakota Town. Other than that, the next time
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you it will be December of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. Thank you so much for tuning in. I
Speaker 2: hope everybody had a wonderful holiday weekend, the first of
Speaker 2: a few holiday weekends coming up. Next time we talk,
Speaker 2: we'll kind of go through the post Cyber Monday, and
Speaker 2: after that, odds are there's still gonna be some good
Speaker 2: deals out there, and I'm your deal guy. Michael Garfield
Speaker 2: is the name. Thank you to Callum Reed, Brian Erickson,
Speaker 2: and everybody else involved in this show. Until then, my
Speaker 2: show is over.