Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi.
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Speaker 1: Wherever you are listening, you for spinning an hour or two,
Speaker 1: even if you spend five and a half minutes. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think we want you for fifteen minutes because according
Speaker 1: to our personal people meeting with Nielsen's, I think that's
Speaker 1: how we get counted for ratings. So hang in there
Speaker 1: for a few more minutes. People, we can use all
Speaker 1: the ratings help we can get. It is Michael Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: It's called the High Tech Textan Show. I swear this
Speaker 1: is so much more than just technology. I do not
Speaker 1: geek out. Nope, we make technologies sexy along with so
Speaker 1: many other consumer products. It is an interactive show. It
Speaker 1: is a call in show three four six twenty nine Texan.
Speaker 1: You can give us a call callum read may be happy,
Speaker 1: maybe not be yet. Maybe I don't know you cranky callum,
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Speaker 1: x A N on the Instagram, on x slash, Twitter, Facebook,
Speaker 1: you could even find me and email me man. I
Speaker 1: never thought email would be low tech, but high tech
Speaker 1: Textan dot com Michael at high tech Texan dot com.
Speaker 1: It's one of the as many ways that you can
Speaker 1: reach out. It's kind of the middle. I guess it's
Speaker 1: the end of winter doldrum. We've been through the Consumer
Speaker 1: electronics show in early January. Covered a lot of the products.
Speaker 1: There nothing certainly back to school that doesn't happen until
Speaker 1: late summer early fall. Not a ton of products are
Speaker 1: being released. We did get some news last week about
Speaker 1: the new low cost and I'm using air quotes Apple
Speaker 1: sixteen E. It's not that low cost, but it's the
Speaker 1: lower level version that's coming out. Got some news from Amazon.
Speaker 1: Amazon is upgrading after all these years, they're alexa. I
Speaker 1: will tell you about that in case you still have
Speaker 1: the old school like Echo dot like I still do.
Speaker 1: Finally getting a little Ai Alexa AI having a little merger,
Speaker 1: which is about time too, along with some other goings on.
Speaker 1: It may not be busy in the tech tech world,
Speaker 1: but we're going to entertain you. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff happening in the local regional entertainment world for
Speaker 1: all of those listeners living in and around the Houston
Speaker 1: Dalveston area. We have got the kickoff the opening this
Speaker 1: weekend of the World Championship Barbecue Contest. I go every
Speaker 1: single year. I am I'm actually, I'm honored. Is that
Speaker 1: the word? I want? Honored? To be a judge, I
Speaker 1: judge to judge the best barbecue. And I got on
Speaker 1: this judging circuit, this particular one, eight to ten years ago,
Speaker 1: and this is the one you don't want to get off.
Speaker 1: And I don't even drink, I don't even eat a
Speaker 1: lot of red meat. But this is the one you
Speaker 1: want to be on because people fight tooth and nail
Speaker 1: to get on this thing. And so that will happen
Speaker 1: late Saturday afternoon when we get off doing the show
Speaker 1: live plausibly live. Yesterday I judged some junior steak thirteen
Speaker 1: year old kids. The rodeo was kind enough. They do
Speaker 1: this every year. They give them little tiny Weber grills
Speaker 1: and the kids by themselves, they file ay a piece
Speaker 1: of steak. And I was one of the celebrity judges there.
Speaker 1: And if that's not your cup of tea, Marty Gras
Speaker 1: is going on, and yes, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: New Orleans and Louisiana listeners have fun. I've never been
Speaker 1: to the real the wal Marty Gras parades in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I have been to the ones in Galveston, though, And
Speaker 1: this is the second and final weekend of the Galveston
Speaker 1: Marty Gras. Last night was a parade, and there is
Speaker 1: I think Saturday is the final parade. And it does
Speaker 1: get fit. The weather should be decent. If you've never been,
Speaker 1: go down. It's in the Strand, which is kind of
Speaker 1: the downtown area. You buy a ticket to get to
Speaker 1: the Prairie parade route. You can get up to the
Speaker 1: balconies if you know someone. But that's a blast and
Speaker 1: a ball. We gave away some tickets last week to
Speaker 1: the Marty Gras, so if you didn't win, sucks for you.
Speaker 1: But you can still go down there for Marty Graus. Galveston,
Speaker 1: so lots of things happening in the world of having
Speaker 1: fun as we I guess ring in springtime almost past
Speaker 1: week or two across Texas. It with a little chili.
Speaker 1: Now we're just eating chili and drinking a a lot
Speaker 1: of brown water and a lot of beer, because that's
Speaker 1: what happens this time of year. You know how to
Speaker 1: get a hold of us and we have an other
Speaker 1: Do we have anything to give away? Don't have anything
Speaker 1: to give away? Oh, by the way, what I do
Speaker 1: want to mention this if for some reason today, well Saturday,
Speaker 1: and if you're in Houston, and if you want to
Speaker 1: celebrate Marti Gras and you don't want to hit Marty
Speaker 1: gra Galveston, there is a big Marti Gras part hey,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking big stuff and it is crawfish, potato, sausage, corn,
Speaker 1: perfect for the season in the weather. It's a big
Speaker 1: family affair. It's at Patterson Park. Patterson Park. It is
Speaker 1: a it's an indoor outdoor massive bar, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to call it a sports bar, even though they
Speaker 1: have like forty plus TVs. I hung out there a
Speaker 1: lot in December to watch a lot of the foot
Speaker 1: college football games and the bowls, the UT games, starting
Speaker 1: at twelve o'clock. Spicy crawfish nine dollars a pound. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. And you got you know, as I said, potatoes,
Speaker 1: sausage and corn, big music, Bring the kids. They have
Speaker 1: complimentary face painting from two to four pm in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and you can you know they're gonna paint the character
Speaker 1: favorite Marty GK characters. And there's just a fun atmosphere too.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of traditional New Orleans drinks, the Hurricane,
Speaker 1: the Dakri, the sazaraq Go Celebrate twenty two oh five
Speaker 1: Patterson Avenue. So it's on it ten, not far from
Speaker 1: downtown the Heights area, just near Shepherd if you know
Speaker 1: where that is, it's a Patterson It's just just north
Speaker 1: of By ten. And so Lonnie Schiller and the team
Speaker 1: do a just they do a great job. So happy
Speaker 1: Marty Grass from Patterson Park. But I actually may run
Speaker 1: by there. I won't get there at twelve, but I may.
Speaker 1: I may buy there, but run by there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a two for I may do a drive by
Speaker 1: at Patterson Park Marti Gras party, and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go on site to NRG Center for the World Championship
Speaker 1: Barbecue Cookoff contest. This is just not it's not a
Speaker 1: local week people. It's fun, it's all get out, man,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's just not a low cow week.
Speaker 1: Favorite barbecue restaurants, favorite barbecue recipes. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: I told you this isn't just about a tech show.
Speaker 1: His a lifestyle show. Three four six two nine T
Speaker 1: E X A N. No matter where you are, you
Speaker 1: can get to us. I will say this. I this
Speaker 1: past week has been kind of sad. Some sad news.
Speaker 1: We've I heard that the Pope is not doing well,
Speaker 1: has some some sort of a respiratory respiratory illness. He
Speaker 1: was on a he was you know, helped being you know,
Speaker 1: on a brief breathalyzer breathalyzer, but anyway, it was a
Speaker 1: breathing apparatus. So the Pope, we hope he does well.
Speaker 1: The Pope is kind of down for the count for
Speaker 1: a bit, as so as pop And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Greg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs legendary basketball coach. He's
Speaker 1: not coach for the rest of a season because he's
Speaker 1: not doing well. But the worst of the news that
Speaker 1: I heard Hooters may file for bankruptcy, and folks, I
Speaker 1: am beyond myself. I'm just it's I can't even take it.
Speaker 1: So we've got the Pope, we've got pop, and we've
Speaker 1: got puffers all in the Newspeople. Yeah, I was telling me,
Speaker 1: I listen, I like Hooters easily, some of the better
Speaker 1: wings I've ever had. And I am you know what,
Speaker 1: this is not a dude saying this. I don't care
Speaker 1: if the male general This is not an endorsement. By
Speaker 1: the way, it's that Hooters does not pay me. And
Speaker 1: I have not been to Hooters in a while, but
Speaker 1: back in the day when I used to take my
Speaker 1: three boys there for their birthdays. I am not kidding him.
Speaker 1: I love their wings. I don't care if the male
Speaker 1: general manager, who is a dude, I don't care if
Speaker 1: he served me wings. I didn't need any. But you know,
Speaker 1: females in the short dolphin shorts, this is no sexist thing.
Speaker 1: Whenever they had some dang good wings, they had the
Speaker 1: Bentley wings in fear that that was the hot wings.
Speaker 1: I love this stuff. Man. How was the place to be?
Speaker 1: How are they bankruptcy? I told my kids because they
Speaker 1: all sent me links. Oh my godness, remember we went
Speaker 1: here for our birthdays. They're frolling for bankruptcyes. A bankruptcy
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean they're going to shut down. They can reorganize. Actually,
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of a boot lift, is reorganizing.
Speaker 1: We've got to keep this show clean, very clean. People.
Speaker 1: You know the number. When we come back, I'm got
Speaker 1: to tell you. I saw I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: about the new Alexa update. If you do have an
Speaker 1: Alexa and you use it, and I'm just probably setting
Speaker 1: off every single one of your Alexa machines in your
Speaker 1: house right now, I apologize. If you do have that
Speaker 1: virtual assistant, I will tell you what Amazon to just
Speaker 1: update it. There is a cost, but there is a
Speaker 1: free way to get these upgrades. But there's also some
Speaker 1: whole devices that are not going to get this upgrade.
Speaker 1: Plus the NFL getting ready to get into my technology world.
Speaker 1: The NFL just announce they're using some new tech next season.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to tell you about that. And I just
Speaker 1: hope it helps the cowboys. That's all I really care about.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield, Welcome to the High Tech Text and Show.
Speaker 1: If you were watching the Oscars this Sunday night, I've
Speaker 1: long watched the Oscars, not nearly as much as I
Speaker 1: did when I used to go to the movies when
Speaker 1: I was growing up so much. I mean, I've watched
Speaker 1: it because the problem is, I of all the Oscar
Speaker 1: movies that are nominated for Best Pick, they may not
Speaker 1: have seen one of them. I don't think I didn't
Speaker 1: see a wicked I didn't see any of this stuff. Nope,
Speaker 1: I haven't done all.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: I had Sunday Night Conan O'Brien, pretty funny. It's hosting
Speaker 1: the Oscars, and listen, I love him saying and hosting.
Speaker 1: I do that. It's a big part of what I do.
Speaker 1: Good business model for me. I travel the country, give
Speaker 1: me a microphone, put me on camera, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: My job is to fire people up, keep things on time,
Speaker 1: stretch when I need to stretch. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I do the Oscars, because that's like a no win situation.
Speaker 1: I mean, other than the fact that maybe in our life,
Speaker 1: in my life, well it's my life's I'm Billy Crystal Long.
Speaker 1: I mean, he killed it back in the day and
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, I don't want to do
Speaker 1: it anymore. Bob Hope, I believe is the longest. He's
Speaker 1: done it more than anybody else. Billy Crystal did it well,
Speaker 1: but they keep rotating. I mean, I like Jimmy Kimmel,
Speaker 1: but I mean I'm a Conan fan, so I'll probably
Speaker 1: tune in for at least a monologue to see what's up.
Speaker 1: But I guess what I'll, you know, go online on
Speaker 1: my Instagram and I'll see the highlights later. Which is
Speaker 1: how more and more that we are consuming. I saw
Speaker 1: this list every Oscar Best Picture winner ranked. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna spend a minute of this. There have been ninety
Speaker 1: six Oscar Best Picture winners. Obviously this is I guess
Speaker 1: this is the ninety seventh Oscar, right ninety seven. I'm
Speaker 1: perusing this list, and I'm gonna give you the top ten,
Speaker 1: and I want to see how many of the top
Speaker 1: ten of the I don't even know voter. The best
Speaker 1: overall Best Picture winner is number ten. One Flew Over
Speaker 1: the Cuckoo's Nest, Never seen it? Number nine Godfather Part Two,
Speaker 1: Never seen it. Eight Silence of the Lambs. I actually
Speaker 1: did see Silence of Lambs, don't remember it too much.
Speaker 1: Seven French Connection. Interestingly enough, Rest in peace, Gene Hackman Popeye,
Speaker 1: Doe passed away this week, horrible story, French Connection. Number seven.
Speaker 1: Number six rock Me Amadaeis. Never saw that was nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four. I was in high school then I didn't.
Speaker 1: Actually I was in college. I didn't understand it, didn't
Speaker 1: want to see it. Number five a nineteen fifty movie
Speaker 1: All about Eve. Nope, don't dig Black and White. Number
Speaker 1: four on the water Front, also nineteen fifty four. Marlon Brando, Nope,
Speaker 1: never seen it. Three Here we Go, Shindler's List saw it.
Speaker 1: Sad Spielberg won the Oscar Good Friend two Casablanca. I
Speaker 1: saw it because I had to when I was studying radio,
Speaker 1: TV and film in my communications graduate program at the
Speaker 1: University of Texas. Had to see it. And number one,
Speaker 1: the number one most the best ever of all ninety
Speaker 1: six previous Best Picture winners, The Godfather and Folks. If
Speaker 1: you're a longtime listener, I've never seen it. Do not call,
Speaker 1: do not yell, Do not at me. I've just never
Speaker 1: seen The Godfather. I just I've never was a a mafia, gangster,
Speaker 1: shoot them up type of dude. Never seen it. All right,
Speaker 1: I just lost some listeners. We move on to the
Speaker 1: high tech textan show I am going to ask my
Speaker 1: Amazon Echo to count down. I can't c is it
Speaker 1: a her? I guess Alex is or her her favorite
Speaker 1: top ten movies this year? Because Alexa has a new update.
Speaker 1: I don't talk about Amazon a lot, and I don't
Speaker 1: talk about Amazon Alexa. What is your favorite virtually assistant?
Speaker 1: Because there's Apple has SERI, Samsung has big Speed. You
Speaker 1: know Google's got Google Mast And I just set off
Speaker 1: my Google by saying that Amazon's got Alexa. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just goes on and on it does. Alexa was
Speaker 1: one of the if not even the the big, the big,
Speaker 1: first to market once and Alexa has been around. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what Amazon They finally rolled out and upgrade is
Speaker 1: a new generation. They had a big event which Amazon
Speaker 1: did not invite me to. It's a next generation of
Speaker 1: the assistants and it's powered by guess what, generative AI,
Speaker 1: and the company's promising a smarter, more conversational, and approachable
Speaker 1: virtual assistant. I don't know how a virtual assistant could
Speaker 1: be approachable. I don't know. It's the new generation. It's
Speaker 1: called Alexa Plus. And and again I'm reading this in
Speaker 1: a press release since I haven't I didn't go into
Speaker 1: the New York press conference. Apparently you can book dinner reservations,
Speaker 1: you could say, reminders on your calendar. You can order
Speaker 1: and send gifts to people. You can learn your routine
Speaker 1: likes and dislikes over time to better serve you and
Speaker 1: everybody else in your household. Makes sense? I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess it's an upgrade because everybody needs to hop on
Speaker 1: the AI bandwagon. But hasn't. Hasn't this Alexa help set
Speaker 1: reminders on your calendar? I mean maybe they haven't done
Speaker 1: dinner reservations. They can have, you know, nearby restaurants, So
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess there's an upgrade. I haven't tried
Speaker 1: it yet, but apparently can also control your smart home.
Speaker 1: It could monitor your security cams. It could dim your lights,
Speaker 1: turn them on and turn it off again. I'm reading
Speaker 1: from a press release. Haven't tried it, so I cannot
Speaker 1: review it, and I can't promote it, and I can't
Speaker 1: pimp it. But Alexa plus. Oh, by the way, everybody
Speaker 1: wants to make some money twenty dollars a month? Would
Speaker 1: you pay for this upgrade? Twenty bucks a month to
Speaker 1: do that? But breaking news if you're a prime Amazon
Speaker 1: prime member, and I'm taking a guess you are. It's free.
Speaker 1: It's gonna start to roll out next month. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is it doesn't it doesn't work with older devices.
Speaker 1: I have one two. I think I have two Amazon devices.
Speaker 1: I have a very relatively old and I say relatively
Speaker 1: it's not very old. I mean it hasn't been out
Speaker 1: that long, a relatively old Amazon Echo Dot. It's the
Speaker 1: size of hockey puck. Thing was like twenty five bones.
Speaker 1: That was the thing to do. Thing to get it was.
Speaker 1: It was relative, it was very and it's inexpensive back
Speaker 1: in the day, and I think that was my first
Speaker 1: virtual assistant. It's sitting in my living room and I
Speaker 1: just don't use it because I also have a Google
Speaker 1: Nest sitting on my kitchen counter and I use that
Speaker 1: not only daily, several times a day. I mean I
Speaker 1: use it as a clock. I play music, and I
Speaker 1: get my recipes and everything with it. But it but
Speaker 1: it's not going to work with the first generation Echo
Speaker 1: Echo Dot at Go Plus at Go Tap, Echo Spot
Speaker 1: or the Echo Show. Oh guess what. The second generation
Speaker 1: Echo Show won't support it either. Now there still are
Speaker 1: many Echo devices that apparently are going to work with
Speaker 1: this new exo. Plus there's something new called the echo flex.
Speaker 1: No clue what that is. But if you got this
Speaker 1: stuff at some point, start looking for this thing. And
Speaker 1: if you do use it, I'd love to hear from
Speaker 1: you because it is. Yes, I host this radio show,
Speaker 1: and I do my TV segments, and I write columns,
Speaker 1: and you know, I recommend products and services that are
Speaker 1: supposed to help our lives. Does AI help your lives?
Speaker 1: Have you used it before? I'm slowly using it a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I mean I've had some fun with it.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, can you know you give me an
Speaker 1: image of Darth Vader holding a hanukah menora. I mean,
Speaker 1: just you know, crazy stuff like that. I don't really
Speaker 1: use it of writing presentations or you know, doing calendar
Speaker 1: invites or things. But give me a shout here three
Speaker 1: four six two nine Texan t X and Michael Garfield's
Speaker 1: a name, Calum Reid. May pick up the phone, may
Speaker 1: not if he doesn't leave a voicemail. We do have
Speaker 1: the right to play your voicemail if you do leave
Speaker 1: a voicemail to answer your questions. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of these and uh, personally and again not a paid endorsement.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a Google guy, a big Android fan,
Speaker 1: as you know, and I have one too. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got the doorbell, I've got the Google Nest doorbell.
Speaker 1: I've got the Google list of my kitchen. I've got
Speaker 1: the Google little play speaker next to my bed. I
Speaker 1: just I've got a little tiny hockey puck type of
Speaker 1: Google whatever they think call it in my office. I
Speaker 1: just that's what I use more often. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm brand loyal, but you use what you want
Speaker 1: to use. I'm just telling you what is out there
Speaker 1: and what is an upgrade, because that's what I do
Speaker 1: here on the H T T Show. All right, good
Speaker 1: do that now when we come back. Who missus football season? Man?
Speaker 1: These these six months, man, like mid February till like
Speaker 1: mid to late August. This is not my wheelhouse. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just it's it's kind of like you know winter.
Speaker 1: Everbody gets depressed sometimes when there is no football college professional,
Speaker 1: and you know, listen, yay XFL USFL whatever it's called.
Speaker 1: It's you know, I'm not there yet, nothing's happening, so
Speaker 1: the countdown is on. But yeah, I know, we've got
Speaker 1: the combine and we've got the draft coming up. But
Speaker 1: the NFL just launched some news that actually they should
Speaker 1: had me up with Roger Goodell to roll it out
Speaker 1: because the NFL is using some new technology next season.
Speaker 1: Watch a lot of you when you hear a Ye're
Speaker 1: gonna go finally, it's just opray help us. My Dallas
Speaker 1: commedis that Texan show bought up the hour.
Speaker 4: Couple that.
Speaker 1: And now I already said earlier this show that this
Speaker 1: is a not a lo cow week, at least for me.
Speaker 1: This past Sunday, I was at the kickoff for Rodeo Houston.
Speaker 1: Probably what my nineteenth twentieth year. I was one of
Speaker 1: the media celebrity judges in the Rodeo uncorked Best Bites.
Speaker 1: That's a big one people. There were six thousand people.
Speaker 1: It wasn't It wasn't a cheap ticket, but if they're
Speaker 1: going to invite me to judge, I'm taking it. One
Speaker 1: hundred local Houston restaurants and about four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: or five hundred different wines award winning wines. I don't
Speaker 1: drink wine, so that wasn't a big deal, but it
Speaker 1: was it was nice snacking on about I probably sampled
Speaker 1: thirty five different appetizers andres and desserts. Really cool winners.
Speaker 1: That was fun. Yesterday, Friday of this week, I was
Speaker 1: a judge at the Rodeo Houston Junior cook Off, a
Speaker 1: little you know, twelve thirteen year old kids. They were
Speaker 1: cooking filets and steaks. Today after the show, I will
Speaker 1: be judging the official barbecue as I got. But on
Speaker 1: top of that, I'm still going to talk about food.
Speaker 1: If you are hungry, my friends, I will tell you
Speaker 1: where I eat easily over under two and a half
Speaker 1: times per week, per week. Cabo Bob's Easy and Easy Out.
Speaker 1: Four locations in Houston, mini in Austin, one in San Antonio, Dallas.
Speaker 1: I know you're listening in Dallas on eleven ninety talk radio.
Speaker 1: Sucks for you because you don't have any yet, But
Speaker 1: it's great. Arnold Lori I know them. They run the
Speaker 1: entire division here in Houston. They are so good. You
Speaker 1: go through the line and you can tell them what
Speaker 1: you want to make your own tacos, burrito bowls, casadillas.
Speaker 1: I had a can of chicken casadea I've made. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're so good. Thing I love about is they're tortillas.
Speaker 1: It's not like you know you go to these restaurants. Oh,
Speaker 1: here's one flavor of tortilla. You got five choices, everything
Speaker 1: from the tomatillo to the buttermilk flour. Tell them what
Speaker 1: you want and you will watch them press the tortilla
Speaker 1: and heat the tortilla and you just load it up.
Speaker 1: Uh checked that out. And by the way, why don't
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Call it number ten right now
Speaker 1: seven one three, two one two five nine five Oho
Speaker 1: caller ten. I'm gonna give you a twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: gift card. You are welcome people, and if you don't win,
Speaker 1: sucks for you. Go buy your own because it is good.
Speaker 1: It's not that expensive either. Lunchtime, man, they get crowded.
Speaker 1: I've been to all for the locations here in the
Speaker 1: Houston area. They are just it is just smoking awesome,
Speaker 1: good Cobo Bob's twenty five dollars gift card. Eat is
Speaker 1: up for you right up. Guess what app stop calling
Speaker 1: we gotta winner? When I went, I lunch dinner, chicken dinner,
Speaker 1: whatever you want, so good, just just and the staff
Speaker 1: is so nice and they just they know how to
Speaker 1: do it. Well. Man, there's a lot of food talk
Speaker 1: this week. We gotta we gotta keep going because it
Speaker 1: is time to talk about one of my favorite subjects,
Speaker 1: the NFL. Love football, Miss football. Can't wait till August.
Speaker 1: Just not into baseball yet, only in the playoffs, which
Speaker 1: is actually during football season. NBA again when he gets
Speaker 1: to kind of the playoffs hockey. No clue about hockey
Speaker 1: because I'm a Texas boy. Even though I did watch
Speaker 1: the USA Canada final match in that four Nations tournament.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. Sadly Canada beat the United States,
Speaker 1: but that was a big deal. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: the NFL. NFIL has been criticized a long time for
Speaker 1: not really utilizing a lot of technology, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to first downs, because it's long been used the
Speaker 1: low tech, old fashioned away where two umpires are easily
Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five yards away holding sticks and an
Speaker 1: actual metal chain that is ten yards and generally the
Speaker 1: referees used their eyesight. Where do they think the ball
Speaker 1: made its forward progress? Stop? It's just not there. Well
Speaker 1: guess what. Goodbye chain gang, Hello high tech Texan and
Speaker 1: FL technology. They are finally making a twenty first century
Speaker 1: approach to this new first down measurement system starting next year.
Speaker 1: All right, they are going with the technology tracking system
Speaker 1: and it starts this coming season two. It's going to
Speaker 1: be called the Hawk Eye Virtual measurement and that is
Speaker 1: going to determine the line to gain and it's going
Speaker 1: to be the primary method for measurements now that the
Speaker 1: chain gang, those dudes who hold the chain, they're still
Speaker 1: going to be there as of now, they're the backup. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, secondary method determined distance. So instead of
Speaker 1: bringing out the change, this league is going to go
Speaker 1: with a virtual measurement and it's a system. It's going
Speaker 1: to work with cameras that are inside the stadium, the
Speaker 1: track players and the officials and the ball they dig it.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, there are going to
Speaker 1: be issues now. They have tested this the Hawkeye system.
Speaker 1: They did a lot of testing of this that you
Speaker 1: didn't know about this past season. I hope it improves
Speaker 1: the game. I hope it makes it more efficient. Is
Speaker 1: it going to slow it down? Technically? It should speed
Speaker 1: it up a smidch because every time there's a very
Speaker 1: close down, you don't have to have the Chang gang
Speaker 1: run twenty yards, stretch the chain out, have the ref
Speaker 1: sitting there and look, oh he made it by half
Speaker 1: an inch. Changgang runs off if it worked seamlessly and
Speaker 1: quickly Boom called it first down and line up again,
Speaker 1: play the ball. NFL fans want this, and it's the
Speaker 1: twenty first century. It is about time. There has been
Speaker 1: some major controversial calls over the years, and including a
Speaker 1: few months ago in the playoffs. In the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four playoffs, it was an AFC championship game. It was
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills. They remember this.
Speaker 1: It was a fourth quarter. Bills were up twenty two
Speaker 1: to twenty one. They decided to go for it. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen quarterback snake. He attempted it. It looks like he made.
Speaker 1: It looks like he made it wasn't definitive and they
Speaker 1: did refereece it. Nah, Nope, Kansas City got the ball,
Speaker 1: Kansas City went down, scored a touchdown, Kansas City won
Speaker 1: the game, Kansas City went to the super Bowl. I'm
Speaker 1: happy about this. Now we can look at it and again,
Speaker 1: I'm a sports guy, and I gotta talk about this
Speaker 1: all day. We've got virtual umpires. Also, I know the
Speaker 1: minor leagues has tested the virtual umpires. Is it going
Speaker 1: to happen in Major League Baseball. I'm not one for
Speaker 1: people losing their jobs without a doubt. I don't want umpires.
Speaker 1: It's you know, I don't want, you know, the chain
Speaker 1: gang to lose their job. Umpires will always be there
Speaker 1: because if it's not to call balls and strikes, it's
Speaker 1: to keep peace on that ball field, it's to keep
Speaker 1: peace on the diamond because there have been fights, there's whatever,
Speaker 1: and there's there's other things that umpires do not even
Speaker 1: the the homeplay umpire. You got the first, second or
Speaker 1: third base umpire, They're going to be there. They're like
Speaker 1: the on field. I mean, they control things right in
Speaker 1: the referees on football, they've got to wind the clock down.
Speaker 1: But if you have to look at one sport that
Speaker 1: has utilized and kept up with technology better than others
Speaker 1: and people feel correct me if I'm wrong. First thing
Speaker 1: that comes to mind is tennis, because tennis has used
Speaker 1: the Hawkeye system. And if you ever watch tennis, and
Speaker 1: really the only time you're watching tennis, probably are the
Speaker 1: only four major tennis tournaments, and then probably you don't
Speaker 1: watch a lot of the Australian tennis tournament because it's
Speaker 1: usually in January that you forget that it's tennis season.
Speaker 1: It's in Australia, so the time zone is just horrific
Speaker 1: here in the United States, and it's also in the
Speaker 1: middle of football season. But come US Open, come Wimbledon,
Speaker 1: and come to French Open and some extent if you
Speaker 1: like that stuff. You will see if one of the
Speaker 1: tennis players challenges a call, and in a lot of
Speaker 1: the times it's on the serve, but you know also
Speaker 1: the baseline too, they will quickly on the big scoreboard
Speaker 1: for everyone to see the umpire who sits right there
Speaker 1: at the net, the players and all of the fans
Speaker 1: in the stadium. They will show an animated cartoonish slow
Speaker 1: motion replay of where that tennis ball bounces, and it
Speaker 1: bounces and they put a spot shadow and if it
Speaker 1: touches the line, if it's beyond the line, boom and
Speaker 1: it's accepted. Now I'm not sure if the players that
Speaker 1: can then get ticked off and recall that again, but
Speaker 1: the hawkeye technology seems to work in tennis one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of the time now. But with cameras with trackability,
Speaker 1: there's no reason that sports, which is a multi multi
Speaker 1: billion dollar industry that literally drives EV revenues, ratings and
Speaker 1: how much sadly we have to pay all of our
Speaker 1: cable bills or whatever like that because those those rights
Speaker 1: continue to go up. They have to get these calls right.
Speaker 1: So yes, let's go back as we end this segment
Speaker 1: over here, NFL good luck. I hope it does work.
Speaker 1: I hope it speeds it up because the Cowboys haven't
Speaker 1: been in three decades to a Super Bowl. Maybe did
Speaker 1: they need some luck. Maybe it is tech because the
Speaker 1: lass when the Cowboys first won their Super Bowl super
Speaker 1: Bowl six, it was a Gil Brandt. He utilized he
Speaker 1: utilized technology in your computer as they for drafting players.
Speaker 1: So maybe the Cowboys do like technology. This is me,
Speaker 1: mister Cowboy fan. What am I going to do? One
Speaker 1: more segment this hour? Don't go anywhere if you want
Speaker 1: to chime in. I'm at three four, six fifty nine
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Speaker 1: a full sentence right March fourth March. First you go, period,
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Speaker 1: actually sentences. That's me not knowing a lot of grammar.
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Speaker 1: continue to do the show as long as we can.
Speaker 1: Unless an asteroid out of the blue hits Mother Earth.
Speaker 1: I joke because I've watched the movie Armageddon dozens and
Speaker 1: dozens of times. Yes, this is the same guy who
Speaker 1: earlier in the show talked about the oscars, which will
Speaker 1: be this Sunday night. And I just listed the top
Speaker 1: ten best picture movies in the history of the ninety
Speaker 1: six years. Somebody ranked them, and I've seen two of them.
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of movies, but dang, if
Speaker 1: Armageddon done, come on and there's Bruce Willison, Ben Affleck
Speaker 1: and Billy Bob Thornton, and this asteroid is getting ready
Speaker 1: to hit Earth. And then they have to launch not one,
Speaker 1: but two space shuttles and the land on an asteroid
Speaker 1: to you know, implant the bomb eight hundred feet depth
Speaker 1: down so it explodes and shatters into two and then
Speaker 1: the asteroid barely misses the Earth. Yes, this is It's
Speaker 1: a Michael Bay movie. Without a doubt. This actually potentially
Speaker 1: could have or may still happen in real life. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard this story, but for the
Speaker 1: past month or two, NASA and I think the European
Speaker 1: Space Agency they've been tracking an asteroid that they say
Speaker 1: could do just that they could hit Earth in twenty
Speaker 1: thirty two. Twenty thirty two, so stand by seven years
Speaker 1: from now. But they gave it the odds of about
Speaker 1: three percent, the highest odds three percent. Well, apparently I
Speaker 1: don't know this people in NASA. They were off by
Speaker 1: a lot. NASA now has lowered the odds to point
Speaker 1: zero zero one, meaning this asteroid probably is gonna safely
Speaker 1: pass the Earth in twenty thirty two and there's no
Speaker 1: threat of impact for the next century. That's no fun, man,
Speaker 1: That's not a plot of a movie. Now. There needs
Speaker 1: to be a threat. There needs to be a good
Speaker 1: love song thing with and a hot chick like Livdiler.
Speaker 1: This is an asteroid missing Earth is just that's not sexy. Man.
Speaker 1: Give us something to look forward to, something for NASA,
Speaker 1: so we can start funding NASA a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Hey man, we need some oil drillers. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: you know, get out there. It's just that that Nope,
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. Oh, by the way, there is
Speaker 1: a one point seven percent chance that asteroid could hit
Speaker 1: the Moon. I mean it's better than heading Earth. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the moon do? I mean? I know it affects
Speaker 1: that our water and our tides and stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: you look up there and it looks like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's some cheese or something, but whatever. No, So we're
Speaker 1: going to be tracking this thing. You know, it will
Speaker 1: be cool because I'm talking about percentages over here. How
Speaker 1: I'm going to Vegas in two and a half, two
Speaker 1: weeks from now. It's my annual March Madness trip. I
Speaker 1: go every single year every year in the first weekend
Speaker 1: of March Madness. And I you know, I can bet
Speaker 1: future odds. I mean, I can bet, you know, who's
Speaker 1: gonna win the Super Bowl, who's gonna win the World Series,
Speaker 1: the NBA, you know, a year from now. Whatever. Do
Speaker 1: you think a sports book can actually have will and
Speaker 1: asteroid hit Earth? Because if it's a high percentage, and
Speaker 1: if it hits Earth, odds are we're all gonna be
Speaker 1: dead and no one's gonna collect the money. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, it's pretty smart. Like I play,
Speaker 1: I have, I have the app. This is I have
Speaker 1: an app Friese Picks. You ever tried it? Because it's
Speaker 1: I mean, you could. In Texas, gambling or betting. Some
Speaker 1: betting is not legal. Legal. Prize Picks is legal. I
Speaker 1: need to go they should have Will an asteroid hit
Speaker 1: in the payoffice seven years from right now? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I need to talk to the prize picks people, some
Speaker 1: of Mike. That's your science and technology update as this
Speaker 1: show is heard across Houston and Galveston, which does include
Speaker 1: the Clear Lake area down south of Houston, which is
Speaker 1: the headquarters of NASA and everything. If some of you
Speaker 1: rocket scientists have want a way in love to hear
Speaker 1: from you, appreciate all you you know, smart women and
Speaker 1: men do of triangulating and trifixating and whatever. Now had
Speaker 1: figured out that there's a point zero zero zero one
Speaker 1: seven percent chance of that asteroid hitting us, good for you?
Speaker 1: Why why did you start at three percent went down
Speaker 1: to one percent? Did all of a sudden about a
Speaker 1: month and a half, did the asteroid get that more
Speaker 1: close to Earth so you could actually lower the odds?
Speaker 1: Talk to me NASA three four six twenty nine Texan.
Speaker 1: And by the way, why did you discontinued the vomit comment?
Speaker 1: I got the go oh in the vomit commet the
Speaker 1: weightless zero gravity airplane that was retrofitted from what was
Speaker 1: at a CAC one thirty five years and years ago
Speaker 1: as a I'm not gonna call myself a journalist, but
Speaker 1: as a media personality, I was up there doing a story.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I went through training and zero gravity and
Speaker 1: the hyperlic Barrick Chamber and all that. I actually got
Speaker 1: to float in zero gravity. And yes, my hair actually
Speaker 1: does float in gravity. It's pretty fun. So anyway, big
Speaker 1: fan of NASA. Big if you're visiting, you can go
Speaker 1: see Space Center. Pretty cool stuff. Always wanted to be
Speaker 1: a I don't know where I'm going with this, but
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, kids sit back. I got
Speaker 1: about a minute. Let me just go ahead and kill
Speaker 1: the rest of this segment. I used to take my
Speaker 1: lunches to school. My mother, who's listening right now, probably nah,
Speaker 1: she ain't listening. She's sleeping. She's in Dallas. She used
Speaker 1: to pack my lunches. And back then we had lunchboxes,
Speaker 1: not brown bags like I put my kids lunches in. No,
Speaker 1: we had lunchbox and they were metal lunch boxes and
Speaker 1: they had everything wrapped on them. There were Saturday Morning
Speaker 1: cartoons and my favorite one was I ten eleven years old,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, I had a NASA astronaut themed lunch kit.
Speaker 1: Raise your hand. If you're with me, give me a call.
Speaker 1: Let's reminisce it. And inside there was how smart we're
Speaker 1: lunchbox companies of putting blass lined thermaces in there, so
Speaker 1: she would put I don't know, hang kool aid or something.
Speaker 1: She would chill it. And it was glass because that's
Speaker 1: what kept it cold before. I guess. Yet he created
Speaker 1: this thing years and years later with it with the metal.
Speaker 1: That's really smart. Let's shout out the glass over there.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I had this who didn't want if you
Speaker 1: were born like in the seventies or something, right when
Speaker 1: you'd be a hollow you know, missions were here and
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just I'm speaking for boys and males
Speaker 1: because I don't know if they want female astronauts back then,
Speaker 1: if there should have been I know there where they
Speaker 1: are now? Yeah yah yeah serious something. And we just
Speaker 1: wanted to be an astronaut. I mean, how cool? How
Speaker 1: cool is that? Man? And I just now we can
Speaker 1: because it's all private, cize right now, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Uh? This is this is what we do.
Speaker 1: I have one more hour of just having some fun
Speaker 1: and playing. When we've come back, I'm actually gonna give
Speaker 1: you more partner than news if you're ready to cut
Speaker 1: the cord. More streaming opportunities and packages are coming out.
Speaker 1: Ices are being raised, but I found some that are
Speaker 1: actually a little cheaper than others. And plus, good news
Speaker 1: for Houston. Apple is coming to the city to open
Speaker 1: a big factory here. It's actually good news bad news.
Speaker 1: I'm not we'll figure that out. Michael Garfield, it's the
Speaker 1: high Tech Taxi Show. Is Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 1: Our number two halfway through the show, which means we
Speaker 1: are a halfway to happy Hour. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you're anywhere near in Southeast Texas, Houston, Galveston Happy
Speaker 1: Hour has been under way for a while. This is
Speaker 1: the final Saturday, the final day of the World Championship
Speaker 1: Barbecue Contest. Just right around the entire NRG Stadium in
Speaker 1: RG Center areas. Houston Rodeo kicks off for early next week,
Speaker 1: and it's if you drive by that area of town,
Speaker 1: there's this wath of smoke, of barbecue smoke, because teams
Speaker 1: from all over the world hence the World's Championship Barbecue Contest,
Speaker 1: have been out there by their pits smoking that beautiful
Speaker 1: meat chicken and ribs for the past week or so
Speaker 1: the contest. I actually will be one of the celebrity
Speaker 1: judges in the contest later Saturday, so I'm actually excited
Speaker 1: about that. That is pretty cool. But anyway, that the
Speaker 1: point is the barbecue contest. There's a lot of cocktails
Speaker 1: going on. People have probably I mean, no one ever
Speaker 1: should drink and drive it, and I'm not saying they do,
Speaker 1: but they took breathalyzers that they may blow a little
Speaker 1: bit more than a point zero zero zero zero. So
Speaker 1: happy hours in full effect. And also a little further
Speaker 1: down south in Galveuston, this is I think the last
Speaker 1: day of the Marty Gras Festival Marty Gras Parades and think, oh,
Speaker 1: actually maybe one more week. No, I think this is it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big Marti Gras Festival and parade that is happening on
Speaker 1: Saturday too, and Marti Gras is anonymous with beads and
Speaker 1: maybe some cocktails, maybe some cocktails. I have been down there.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, Big Martin, I know where there are
Speaker 1: some cocktails, and I know where there's a big party Saturday.
Speaker 1: And as we do, the show live plasitively live right now.
Speaker 1: If you're in and around the h Town area in Houston,
Speaker 1: check out Patterson Park. Patterson Park. It's a great sports bar.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, I call it a sports bar. They
Speaker 1: have TV's there, but it's this massive wood inside outside.
Speaker 1: Yes they got air condition Yes they got TVs. What this, Matt.
Speaker 1: I love the bars like an inside outside bar. You're
Speaker 1: having a Marti Gras party starting right now, twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1: They've got spicy crawfish nine bucks a pound. I think
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good deal. And it's got the corn,
Speaker 1: the sausage, potatoes. It's great weather, and bring the kids too.
Speaker 1: From two to four there is face painting, so you
Speaker 1: can I guess, I guess Marty Grass like porn, right,
Speaker 1: you know you can select. You know, they could make
Speaker 1: it just up like Hayman or something. A lot of
Speaker 1: fun atmosphere and they got cocktails too. By the way,
Speaker 1: sazaraq dak Or Hurricanes. It's at twenty two five Patterson Avenue,
Speaker 1: which is about itenan Shepherd area not too far from
Speaker 1: downtown right, So between the gallery area and downtown you
Speaker 1: can go check out a Patterson Park patio bar. So
Speaker 1: say I do a Kyla and Lannie and everybody else.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm gonna hang up the microphone
Speaker 1: here and in fifteen minutes or so, and baby, I'll
Speaker 1: just roll over there before I roll down to Energy
Speaker 1: Bark and have some barbecue. We have talked a lot
Speaker 1: about food, and I guess we probably should get in
Speaker 1: a little technology, a little consumer lifestyle things. What's Michael
Speaker 1: driving this week? You know I do get to test
Speaker 1: drive one to two cars every single week, and vehicles
Speaker 1: I was people, I know, do I know you're jealous?
Speaker 1: I was in a sexy minivan this week? People, That's right,
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Kia Carnival Carnival. Nothing cooler than
Speaker 1: a minivan. And at least twenty years ago when I
Speaker 1: had three younger kids. Now they're older, and now they
Speaker 1: are asking me why I'm driving a minivan because I
Speaker 1: do this for a living. It is my job to
Speaker 1: talk about, review, recommend or dis vehicles and it's not
Speaker 1: sponsored Keith Carnival. That's one I was. I Also I
Speaker 1: had another one. I was in a Masda c X seventy.
Speaker 1: Mazda c X seventy. I haven't been the biggest fan
Speaker 1: of Mazda over the years, but this wasn't good. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a suv. It's you know, it's got two rows,
Speaker 1: the seats full down, and it's pretty good drive. It's
Speaker 1: a lot, very roomy. I will tell you that. I'm
Speaker 1: just not a big fan of the way Mazda does
Speaker 1: it's infotainment system. But again, I'm picky, but I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be picky. I'm supposed to be picky. Phone number
Speaker 1: here if you want to get in it is three
Speaker 1: four six twenty nine Texan three four six two nine
Speaker 1: g E X A N and UH. I mentioned the
Speaker 1: Houston area. Big news in Houston, it's big news. I
Speaker 1: rarely talk about Apple. I'm not an Apple fanboy. I
Speaker 1: do not have an iPhone. I'm an Android guy. However,
Speaker 1: not that I'm going to change or baby, but Apple
Speaker 1: is building a big ol' mama two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand square foot AI server manufacturing facility in h Town.
Speaker 1: It's gonna open in twenty twenty six. Maybe you don't
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do, depending on what's happening with
Speaker 1: the economy. And it's part of a five hundred billion
Speaker 1: dollar investment in the US half a trillion. I guess
Speaker 1: it does half five hundred billion dollars in the US
Speaker 1: over the next four years. And apparently in addition to
Speaker 1: this new texta facility, Apples said it's going to plan
Speaker 1: to hire around twenty thousand employees across the US over
Speaker 1: that period. We'll see, we'll see, hope. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm really personally sick and tired of this company laying
Speaker 1: people off, and then the government and laying people off
Speaker 1: and firing into it. It's great to hear somebody, some
Speaker 1: company at least send out a press release to say
Speaker 1: they're going to hire people now freaking do it. Then
Speaker 1: maybe I'll talk about Apple some more. Not that Apple
Speaker 1: has gone back on its word before. I'm just saying good,
Speaker 1: welcome to Houston. In twenty twenty six, two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: thousand square foot So they're going to manufacture servers, manufacturer
Speaker 1: service for the Apple, intelligence for the iPhone, the iPad,
Speaker 1: the Mac computers. So okay, So there's gonna be new
Speaker 1: jobs and whatever in Texas. So okay, I can dig that.
Speaker 1: I just thought that that was worth mentioning because we
Speaker 1: need some good news what's going on with the economy.
Speaker 1: We just it's some good and so as for Houston
Speaker 1: Base and I used it has long been my flagship station,
Speaker 1: KPRC nine to fifty AM, and iHeartRadio, so good. If
Speaker 1: I hear of anything, any job openings, I will let
Speaker 1: you know. And maybe I don't know, maybe they're hiring.
Speaker 1: Maybe I could do something from Monday through Friday instead
Speaker 1: of just working on the weekends. Oh one other thing,
Speaker 1: you know what, Okay, I'll get my Apple one bad Apple,
Speaker 1: don't spoil the whole arm. I'll get my Apple information
Speaker 1: out of here. Apple AirTag, I don't have any of
Speaker 1: those either. I have other trackers, Bluetooth trackers. But American
Speaker 1: Airlines just improved its bag tracking system if you fly
Speaker 1: American because they're working with Apple air Tag. They've been
Speaker 1: ound support for Apples. It's called Share Item Location feature
Speaker 1: and it's going to make things easier for passengers to
Speaker 1: I guess find reunite with their lost luggage that you
Speaker 1: track with an air tag. Last year, American Discamp be right,
Speaker 1: the airline. Okay, the airline transported two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six million passengers. There was the busiest, one of the
Speaker 1: largest carriers here in the US. I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: if they could tell me how many bags were lost.
Speaker 1: Of course they didn't put that in the information over here.
Speaker 1: By anyway, there's this share item location. It actually was
Speaker 1: introduced in the Apple AirTags last December with its latest
Speaker 1: iOS update eighteen point two. So if you're an AirTag user,
Speaker 1: you're able to generate a shareable link within Apple's find
Speaker 1: My app if you have an iPhone, an iPad, or
Speaker 1: some max and that's going to allow others to access
Speaker 1: and interactive mapp showing the location or at least the
Speaker 1: last known location of a missing item. So I did that, okay. Now,
Speaker 1: United Delta Air Canada, I think they've also integrated this too.
Speaker 1: American Texas Space Carrier, which I like to also LFTANSA.
Speaker 1: I think I've done it. Virgin. I think they now
Speaker 1: they're good to support it too. Come on Southwest, you
Speaker 1: know I'm a Southwest guy. You need to make sure
Speaker 1: your WiFi is faster. I appreciate the two drinks as
Speaker 1: an a list preferred. Let's go, man, find my luggage
Speaker 1: deck because you know what, not one but two bags
Speaker 1: fly free. By the way, there's your technology news of
Speaker 1: the day when it comes to airlines. When we come back,
Speaker 1: did you cut the cord? Did you cut the cord?
Speaker 1: Who wants streaming TV? All right, I'll tell you about
Speaker 1: some packages. There were just a launch that some prices
Speaker 1: are raised, some actually were lowered. I like this. And
Speaker 1: also CBS, look at them. They're getting customer friendly. They're
Speaker 1: doing something that I always thought was a head scratcher
Speaker 1: back in the day.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what that is.
Speaker 3: Coming up to do right now on the high Den
Speaker 3: text show'd a weekend.
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Speaker 1: and then Dallas. What's up Big d eleven ninety, the
Speaker 1: Mighty Mighty eleven ninety. My parents may be listening be
Speaker 1: eleven ninety. I mean they should be awake by now.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, people, they know, I mean they
Speaker 1: sleep late, but not this late. Michael is the name
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield. If you happen to be in the Houston area,
Speaker 1: I've been kind of telling you what's been going on.
Speaker 1: We've got the World Championship barbecue contests coming to an
Speaker 1: end on Saturday. That's been going on for three days
Speaker 1: I think to Saturday's also the last day for Big
Speaker 1: Marty Grock Galvison going on in Galveston. If you got
Speaker 1: if there's some big things going on in San Antonio
Speaker 1: and Dallas, don't hesitate, pop me a note. Michael at
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan dot com. Also, I know on the
Speaker 1: north side. Actually, I'll tell you what. Hey, Dallas, South Dallas,
Speaker 1: I mean way South Dallas in Montgomery County up near
Speaker 1: the Woodlands. That's a stretch I know north North Houston
Speaker 1: will both. It's the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living
Speaker 1: show that's happening all this weekend. It's at the Lone
Speaker 1: Stark Convention and Expo Center. It's actually in Conroad, not
Speaker 1: too far off of I forty five going there, and
Speaker 1: you could see I used to broadcast my show from
Speaker 1: a lot of those home and garden shows and outdoor shows.
Speaker 1: Those are fun. I mean, you got gardening, you've got
Speaker 1: home improvements and kitchens and closets and windows and roofs
Speaker 1: and bathrooms and outdoor living. Go check it out. You
Speaker 1: can just google it. Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living
Speaker 1: Show seventh year. It is that the loan just it's
Speaker 1: the lone Star Convention and Expo Center, open to six
Speaker 1: o'clock on Saturday, March first, and then Sunday goes to
Speaker 1: five pm March second. And oh, by the way, it's
Speaker 1: free admission, free admission. We like fre so again just
Speaker 1: giving you. I'm giving you things to do, so you
Speaker 1: could twiddle your thumbs and countdown to the Oscars on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, which I don't know how many people are watching.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll tune in for the Conern O'Brien
Speaker 1: factor and that that may be about it. If you
Speaker 1: watch the Oscars, there are several ways to watch it.
Speaker 1: You probably pay an arm and a leg for cable,
Speaker 1: but because it's on ABC, you can watch it free
Speaker 1: because I I long told you no matter where you are,
Speaker 1: there is free over the air networks. That just like
Speaker 1: I don't know when a lot of us grew up
Speaker 1: in the seventies or whatever, there was no cable.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 1: He just put an antenna on top of your roof
Speaker 1: and you got ABC, CBS, NBC, GBS and some UHF channels.
Speaker 1: There was no Fox back then. Yeah, man, I really
Speaker 1: date myself with that. But nowadays there if you have
Speaker 1: a digital antenna, which you can get most anywhere, not
Speaker 1: expect twenty bucks whatever and they're not big, you can
Speaker 1: put it by your window. You can just just kind
Speaker 1: of I would put it by a window and kind
Speaker 1: of point it towards where the broadcast tower is in
Speaker 1: your city, in which you can find out like an
Speaker 1: antenna dot Colm, I think it is antenna dot gov
Speaker 1: one of those. What do I uh that that's free too. However,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about streaming right now. More and more
Speaker 1: people they're cutting the cord. More and more people they're
Speaker 1: figure they're realizing why did I cut the cord and
Speaker 1: why are my prices of cable so high. My Comcast
Speaker 1: bill is it's it's it's almost the same as my mortgage.
Speaker 1: It's it's horrific, all right. But if you're thinking about
Speaker 1: getting streaming TV, I go through this probably once every
Speaker 1: two to three weeks. I go through, What do you got?
Speaker 1: You got YouTube TV, you got Hulu plus live TV,
Speaker 1: there's Swing, there's direct TV, Steam, Steam, there's Fubo, there's Filo,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff. Again, that's for the live stuff. Now,
Speaker 1: there are other ways to watch TV, like I during
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, I was all Fox was all over it.
Speaker 1: There's two B t Ubi in most cases two B.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get live TV. You're gonna get a
Speaker 1: ton of channels that have reruns of movies, sitcoms, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. But alas it's TV and that you can
Speaker 1: get that for free. You can get it for streaming.
Speaker 1: But if you want that live TV means you want
Speaker 1: to watch the new you want to watch a sporting event,
Speaker 1: you want to watch something of that nature ESPN. That's
Speaker 1: where youre gonna have to start getting. You know these
Speaker 1: these streaming services too, and they're not cheap. YouTube tv
Speaker 1: just raised their prices a month ago. Eighty three or
Speaker 1: so bones a month. I mean, I remember when they
Speaker 1: launched it was thirty five bucks. Oh my, this is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: But that's the welcome to the world that we live in.
Speaker 1: Everything has to go up, and the rights fees for
Speaker 1: these streamers who pay for mostly sports mostly The NFL
Speaker 1: NBA signed a multi billion dollar package also with a
Speaker 1: lot of it's streaming partners too. These networks have to
Speaker 1: pass on these these fees to somebody and it goes
Speaker 1: all the way down to us, the little tiny consumers.
Speaker 1: So I'll say it. The recommendation is this, go to
Speaker 1: these websites of these streamers, go to YouTube TD go
Speaker 1: to Hulu plus Live TV and Sling and Direct TV.
Speaker 1: Look at the channels they offer, and look at the
Speaker 1: different packages they offer because they bundle them together. If
Speaker 1: you see a lot of channels that you don't watch,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to get that package. If you never
Speaker 1: watch sports, you're gonna set yourself a lot of money
Speaker 1: because it's sports and the sports rights that costs so
Speaker 1: much money. If all you do is you watch your
Speaker 1: local news, maybe you don't want you Maybe you want
Speaker 1: news channels. Maybe you want to watch your in business
Speaker 1: and me see your your your Fox News, You're you're
Speaker 1: seeing in whatever it is, Uh, you're AMC or a
Speaker 1: few movie channels, go find the package. That's that, there's
Speaker 1: no reason to get the entire package. And that's always that,
Speaker 1: that's always be fuddled the cable industry. I probably get.
Speaker 1: I don't know several hundred cable channels. I watch literally
Speaker 1: no more than six channels, and number one, I watch
Speaker 1: ESPN ninety two percent of what I'm watching. That's it.
Speaker 1: I'll flip through maybe AMC, do I see an Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler movie? And but that that's all I get. Why
Speaker 1: am I paying so much? It makes no sense? So
Speaker 1: you want these bundles? Do you want the bundles? The
Speaker 1: loves of it? So that's that's it. So watch the
Speaker 1: price you pay. HBO's you know they're getting ready to
Speaker 1: start charging, you know, ten dollars extra per month because
Speaker 1: you know VR Sports, you know it's in barstool Sports.
Speaker 1: They're getting ready to come on. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of them up there. So a quick glance. YouTube TV's
Speaker 1: about eighty three bucks, Fubo TV eighty five dollars, Hulu
Speaker 1: plus Live TV eighty three dollars. You see there's a
Speaker 1: trend here. Direct TV stream seventy dollars and up and
Speaker 1: up depending but they have no contract. Though no contract.
Speaker 1: I like that. Sling has Sling TV. You can customize
Speaker 1: live TV and that starts at forty six dollars up
Speaker 1: about forty six dollars up. Let's see, then we get
Speaker 1: the free stuff. Two be is free, but you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of live TV plexus free. There
Speaker 1: is a Sling but not Sling TV. Sling is free.
Speaker 1: And don't forget, by the way, before we get ready
Speaker 1: to take a break here, so many of you have
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime right because you want things in two days?
Speaker 1: Do you realize that not only are you a member
Speaker 1: of Amazon Prime so you can shop and you know
Speaker 1: you get the two day free shipping and everything you
Speaker 1: get Amazon It's act I'm sorry, it's called Prime Video,
Speaker 1: which does give you Thursday night NFL football during football season.
Speaker 1: It does give you. I think they also stream some
Speaker 1: playoff NFL playoff games. They're getting more into sports, and
Speaker 1: they have relatively new first run movies or at least
Speaker 1: second run movies that comes with Amazon Prime. Don't forget
Speaker 1: about that. And also not that I want you to
Speaker 1: listen to the music. They also have Amazon Music, but
Speaker 1: you should be listening to iHeart music, iHeartRadio app for free.
Speaker 1: I'm a company man, so I gotta say that think
Speaker 1: before you purchase. And if you purchase and you think
Speaker 1: about it and you don't run a contract, cancel the
Speaker 1: durn thing, my lips, your ears, do it, people, because
Speaker 1: that's what I want you to do. Hey, I mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier this hour Apple is moving actually building a warehouse
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thouand square foot warehouse in Houston
Speaker 1: to build an AI server factory in about two years. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what there was a I'd like the fact that
Speaker 1: more corporate headquarters are moving to our great state. There
Speaker 1: is another announcement that a electric vehicle company just announce
Speaker 1: its head is moving to Houston. I know there's a
Speaker 1: Tesla on the consumer level, there's a Tesla headquarters in
Speaker 1: the Austin area. Houston is getting a new headquarters when
Speaker 1: it comes to electric vehicles. I will have a one
Speaker 1: arm link interview with the president of the company when
Speaker 1: we come back on my tech dot show. We are
Speaker 1: back at it. It is Michael Guardfield. We wish you
Speaker 1: a great weekend no matter where you are listening here Houston, Dallas, Sannatotio,
Speaker 1: terrestrially or across the world. And iHeartRadio. We do thank
Speaker 1: you for tuning in twenty three years. And it is
Speaker 1: my job, Yes, I actually have a job. People, is
Speaker 1: to talk inform you, answer your questions, and answer is
Speaker 1: about some of the great products of what to buy
Speaker 1: with the purchase sometimes what the stay away from, but
Speaker 1: also news in the world of tech, automobiles, consumer lifestyle
Speaker 1: that is exactly some of the things that I do.
Speaker 1: And got some actually good news I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: certainly where I am based in Houston. Houston continues to
Speaker 1: be one of the largest cities in the country and
Speaker 1: it's a hotbed for companies that are moving to town.
Speaker 1: And just about what one two weeks ago, we heard
Speaker 1: about another company moving to Houston. It's always nice to
Speaker 1: steal other companies away from other states. And the company
Speaker 1: is called enviro Tech, and I am familiar with this
Speaker 1: company and also the CEO because it is an EV company,
Speaker 1: but standby ites not so much as a lot of
Speaker 1: the evs that I talk about from the consumer level.
Speaker 1: It's more of the business stuff and you know when
Speaker 1: we talk about you know, the delivery trucks. You know
Speaker 1: you see Amazon rolling around and you know they've got
Speaker 1: the EV's that is an incredibly big segment. Their headquarters
Speaker 1: are going to be here, and so I wanted to
Speaker 1: give you a little play by playbook is happening. So
Speaker 1: joining me right now for a few minutes. He is
Speaker 1: the president of enviro Tech Vehicles. His name is Jason Maddox.
Speaker 1: He joins me. Let me start with welcome to he town, brother.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Thank you, Michael. This is fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, Arkansas to Texas. I know you're you've been around
Speaker 1: for a while. Welcome Why Texas? Why now?
Speaker 6: Well, Arkansas has been good to us. It's a big
Speaker 6: we have a big footprint there. But we are looking
Speaker 6: for a major metropolitan city to move our headquarters too,
Speaker 6: so that we can get some you know, top tier
Speaker 6: talent in a big urban city. And it seems like
Speaker 6: to me that Houston is becoming that city for transitioning
Speaker 6: their energy sector into more of a environmentally clean energy
Speaker 6: and the logistics hub of America it's becoming. So we're
Speaker 6: in the logistics commercial market. It's also we operate with
Speaker 6: the gig economy and all this new tech stuff. So
Speaker 6: we love Houston. We think it's a great spot.
Speaker 1: Sucks for you Arkansas, right, Oh, I said that you did.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it because Texas is the place to
Speaker 1: be in Virotech. You in your company, you're going to
Speaker 1: be selling electric delivery vans and electric buses and electric trucks.
Speaker 1: Talk about the product line that you're gonna start with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so our product line starts with the heavy duty
Speaker 6: commercial vans. So heavy duty is more of your you know,
Speaker 6: not your regular van size. That would be the heavier
Speaker 6: lift ones over ten fifteen pounds, so it's just bigger
Speaker 6: dual axles on the back and can carry a little
Speaker 6: bit more cargo. So that's going to be where we
Speaker 6: have our focus. They don't also have passenger conversion vans
Speaker 6: as well. But also the bus. So we're launching our
Speaker 6: school bus to a bunch of Texas schools actually under
Speaker 6: EPA grant, so that's super exciting. It's under the EPA
Speaker 6: Clean Air grant for students in urban cities to have
Speaker 6: clean air. And then we're gonna be launching our urban
Speaker 6: transit bus as well. And then we're going to look
Speaker 6: into the future the near future, hopefully on smaller urban
Speaker 6: type vehicles that are for cities. So everything that has
Speaker 6: to do with logistics and moving businesses forward and the
Speaker 6: gig economy, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I like it. You know, there is a massive marketplace.
Speaker 1: I mean there's the I mean the whole d m
Speaker 1: A here, seven plus million people. There's so many companies
Speaker 1: that are headquartered here. Do you see Houston as a
Speaker 1: market where you're actually going to sell the vehicles? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you vision opening a physical showroom maybe the distributorship
Speaker 1: here in Houston for Environtech.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. That's why one of the big reasons
Speaker 6: have pulled us here is we think there's a huge
Speaker 6: customer base in the Houston area between all the new
Speaker 6: energy Corridor building with lots of employees coming in and
Speaker 6: needing transportation solutions to work on these new refineries and
Speaker 6: different things like that, as well as the growth in
Speaker 6: the city. We're working on in the future on autonomous
Speaker 6: drive systems and different types of tech to be able
Speaker 6: to move through the city and make deliveries. So we
Speaker 6: think that Houston's probably one of our biggest customer bases,
Speaker 6: you know, aside from Los Angeles. New Jersey. There's some
Speaker 6: large incentives for this type of stuff, but Texas also
Speaker 6: has incentives, and we're excited about the Houston clientele. We're
Speaker 6: probably going to be rolling out dealerships and looking for
Speaker 6: new types of dealers that can help promote and service
Speaker 6: our product locally, So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: Jason Maddox joining me is a president of in Virotech Vehicles,
Speaker 1: a company that is just moving its headquarters to Houston.
Speaker 1: You were talking about the buses. I'm familiar with these buses.
Speaker 1: They're big, old yellow electric school buses. I think you
Speaker 1: call them the Bumblebee, which which actually like lots of
Speaker 1: school districts in Texas and I think they've already ordered
Speaker 1: a number of them. Tell us about this, this Bumblebee
Speaker 1: buses that you're going to be delivering.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we have a grant to deliver twenty five
Speaker 6: electric school buses. Predominantly they're all going to Texas schools,
Speaker 6: underserved communities. And again it's under the clean air so
Speaker 6: that kids aren't breathing in diesel fumes. And you know,
Speaker 6: very loud buses. These are silent buses. They're very clean,
Speaker 6: very safe. We ground up engineer designed from environ Tech.
Speaker 1: I like it. It's funny and actually, you know, I
Speaker 1: remember my first school bus. I didn't do it a
Speaker 1: lot of school buses, but I was in sixth grade
Speaker 1: growing up. Actually it was in Dallas. I remember the
Speaker 1: school bus and they were just it was loud and
Speaker 1: it was bumpy. But you know, I know, you know,
Speaker 1: these are very high tech, comfy, smooth one. But I
Speaker 1: love the environmental aspect of it because I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: just seeing all the fumes coming out of those old buses.
Speaker 1: And I'm dating myself going back to the seventies and
Speaker 1: eighties right now, So I certainly liked this. I've actually
Speaker 1: never driven a bus. Can I drive one of these?
Speaker 4: One day?
Speaker 1: I totally could see me rolling up to a school
Speaker 1: man the high tech bumblebee bus.
Speaker 6: We drive it all around. It's an amazing bus. And
Speaker 6: I mean the safety features on it. You can you
Speaker 6: can go back and forth along the road to almost
Speaker 6: a twenty degree angle, and it it stays on the
Speaker 6: road in track. So it's a it's an exciting engineering
Speaker 6: feat for us.
Speaker 1: I love it like that. Well, speaking of watch yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean see, I'm I'm a marketing again. I'm a
Speaker 1: brainstorm guy. Okay, I'm here to help you. All right,
Speaker 1: here's an idea. Here, here's an idea. You know, I
Speaker 1: do a radio show, I do podcasts, but I also
Speaker 1: like the ev and the environmental thing. Man, how about
Speaker 1: we create I've always want to do this. I want
Speaker 1: to create a mobile radio or podcasting studio lot. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, you could trick out a van and that's
Speaker 1: the neat thing. Your van's obviously their their environmental. They're
Speaker 1: all electric. What I mean we can put you know,
Speaker 1: damper and pads and microphone and everything like that. How
Speaker 1: about we create a high tech text in podcast van
Speaker 1: and we just go around the whole state doing some things.
Speaker 6: I'm in.
Speaker 1: I love it. I like that thing, which is you're
Speaker 1: my first guest though. All right, I wonder how long
Speaker 1: you know what? Years and years ago, I did a
Speaker 1: promotion with Toyota and when the when the gas prices
Speaker 1: were really high. In this true story, Toyota Prius was
Speaker 1: only one of the first hybrid vehicles. And I actually
Speaker 1: created a hybrid tour of Texas and I went from
Speaker 1: Houston to Corpus to San Antonio to Austin to Dallas
Speaker 1: to Houston on one tank of gas. I did this
Speaker 1: whole type of thing. Now we don't even need gas.
Speaker 1: Let's see how far we can get one of these
Speaker 1: like these. You know, I'm gonna drive it all across
Speaker 1: the state of Texas.
Speaker 6: We could do it. I like it.
Speaker 1: This is fun. We're gonna do this thing. His name
Speaker 1: is Jason Maddox. If people want more information about Envirotech,
Speaker 1: what can they do, potential dealerships, potential employment opportunities, what
Speaker 1: do they do?
Speaker 6: They could go to www dot ev TV USA dot com.
Speaker 6: We're launching a new website in the real near future.
Speaker 6: On that website, you should be able to click on
Speaker 6: our email our links and be able to email us
Speaker 6: through the email site, through the website, and we'll get
Speaker 6: back out to you with our team. And we're gonna
Speaker 6: start rolling out our dealer network. So if you're interested
Speaker 6: in being a dealer, you can connect with us there
Speaker 6: and you could also check our LinkedIn page and we'll
Speaker 6: we'll be in touch and we'll have many updates as
Speaker 6: we build out Houston.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so if companies do want to order some
Speaker 1: of these vehicles, who are listening right now, that's they should.
Speaker 6: Get more takeout orders now. We have lots of vehicles
Speaker 6: on the road. We are building our Houston service centers,
Speaker 6: so you'll have plenty of customer support service and we're
Speaker 6: right here and you can order them and and typically
Speaker 6: we have we're shipping you know, live or within you know,
Speaker 6: ninety days of a custom order. So it depends on
Speaker 6: our batches and how our assembly lines. But we're we're
Speaker 6: keeping up with the demand right now.
Speaker 1: I like it a lot. Another win for the state
Speaker 1: of Texas. And it's a great company. It is in
Speaker 1: Vira Tech. Actually it's a publicly traded company. It's on nasdak.
Speaker 1: It's you want to follow him, it's ev TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually I like those good cool initials of ev
Speaker 1: TV on NASDAK. He is the president, Jason Maddox. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Texas, my man. I look forward to following and
Speaker 1: helping promote and everything because I really love what you
Speaker 1: guys are doing.
Speaker 6: All right, we're excited to be here, Michael, We're excited
Speaker 6: for the future.
Speaker 1: Vira Tuck all the way. All right, you're listening high
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Speaker 1: do we have? I got a question I want? Somebody
Speaker 1: wrote in Michael Love the show. I know you talk
Speaker 1: a lot about cars. I'm thinking about getting EV, but
Speaker 1: before I get an EV, I do want and probably
Speaker 1: need to get a charger. What's the easiest, best way,
Speaker 1: best charger the whole process of putting one inside my home?
Speaker 1: Good question? All right? That comes from Janet Janet actually
Speaker 1: in San Antonio, Janet installing a home EV charger. It's
Speaker 1: not that easy, and I'm using a very high level
Speaker 1: of description there let me, let me give you a
Speaker 1: way or two to easily, you know, get it done.
Speaker 1: You can install it yourself, but it's not as simple
Speaker 1: as you think, because it depends on what type of
Speaker 1: vehicle you have, what kind of charger you want, how
Speaker 1: fast do you want it to charge. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of options. Some of the choices they may be as
Speaker 1: easy as plugging in an appliance, but for faster charging options,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna need a help of an electrician. So
Speaker 1: a few tips that you may need. You need a
Speaker 1: good evy charger itself. Tesla makes one, charge Point makes one,
Speaker 1: United Charger makes one. There's a number of them, okay,
Speaker 1: And you have to look at the price points of whatever.
Speaker 1: For example, you know, I went on to Amazon that
Speaker 1: the Tesla it's I think that's about five hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars the charge Point one. Also, if you look
Speaker 1: that on Amazon, that's going to be about six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: So that's just for the charger itself, all right. Then
Speaker 1: you need to figure out what kind of evy charger
Speaker 1: do you need. There's a level one charger, which is
Speaker 1: a standard plug. It goes into any outlet in your home.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's gonna charge you maybe five miles of
Speaker 1: range every hour that you plug it in, and that
Speaker 1: depends on your charger and your vehicle and other things.
Speaker 1: You can go up to a level two charger, which
Speaker 1: I would recommend. That's much faster, it's got a higher
Speaker 1: charging output, gonna give you about twenty five miles of
Speaker 1: range per hour of charging, and that could probably charge
Speaker 1: your battery from zero to one hundred percent overnight. Now,
Speaker 1: if you drive under twenty miles before you plug it in,
Speaker 1: plug it, probably you're okay with a level one charger.
Speaker 1: Anything above that, definitely go consider a level two charger.
Speaker 1: For a level two charger, you're probably gonna want to charge,
Speaker 1: get a get a professional, get a get a professional electrician.
Speaker 1: Because if you already have a special two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty volt outlet, that's the stuff that you probably see
Speaker 1: where you plug your washer dryer and your dryer in
Speaker 1: your stoves. You could plug your level two charger into that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if you have a level two
Speaker 1: charger in your garage, if you have a hair if
Speaker 1: you have a washer dryer system in your garage, go
Speaker 1: behind there, look at your dry if you've got that
Speaker 1: crazy big round three prong system that's a level two charger.
Speaker 1: You can just plug it into there. You know, probably
Speaker 1: don't need an electrician.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: At that point electricians know what to do. They do
Speaker 1: this more often than not. You're probably gonna pay one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars an hour for labor. It's gonna take about
Speaker 1: three four hours. You're gonna spend four to five one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Now one good thing, But then's a good
Speaker 1: thing when you buy an EV. If you buy EV,
Speaker 1: ODDS are your dealer, they are going to potentially they
Speaker 1: could throw in the charger this themselves, and they could
Speaker 1: throw in the installation. I'm seeing that now be the
Speaker 1: norm more than it hasn't. And so they're gonna find
Speaker 1: a trust with the electrician. They're going to give you
Speaker 1: the whole thing and they'll bring in it. That's the
Speaker 1: easiest way to go. So Janet Hook that answers a question.
Speaker 1: Doesn't even matter what type of EV you're thinking. I mean,
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