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Hie is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high Tech Texan.
Michael Garfiel is here with a hightech texting items to make easier technology.
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is your high Tech Texan. Threedecades hoping you make magic with your gadgets.
Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act.Now your high Tech Texan. Michael
Garfield, still basking in last weekend'sfootball games. We begin this week's episode

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of the High Tech Texan Show.You listen, you know, it's so
much more than technology. It's aboutfun, it's about personality, it's about
food, consumer lifestyle. Yes,apparently we are going to mix in a
lot of technology because there was alittle bit of news coming out of Coopertine
or California earlier this week. ButI do want to say hello. For
the next two hours, it's me, it's you, And if you're happy

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to have your TV on, keepyour eyes on those college football games.
If you're listening live and two earsright here to KPRC nine fifty am that
is across Southeast Texas, or howeveryou may be listening including the iHeart radio
app. The name is Michael Miguel, Michael Garf anything but Mike, I

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am fine with that. I'll tellyou what, folks, there's going to
come a day when tech journalists techentertain a list like myself tech bloggers that
we do not feel compelled to bea dutiful extension of Tim Cook's marketing department

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people. That day is not todaybecause Tim Cook and Apple they had an
announcement earlier this week, and Iam actually going to talk about it,
which is a bit rare because ifyou know me for two plus decades,
I don't talk a lot about Apple. Yes I know they're out there,
Yes I know they're ubiquitous. YesI know nine out of ten teenagers has
an iPhone versus other phones. Andthat is actually a stat that I saw

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earlier this week. But I'm proudto be a green bubble guy in Android.
I do get shunned for that,but I'll tell you what more people
use, and I'll tell you againthe Android operating system than iOS. And
so I've got to talk to mymasses. At least that's my excuse.
You know, it was with everyiPhone release, all the tech nerds around

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the world. They're split over whetherthe product evolution is either impressive or is
it superficial. Well, I'm goingto quickly break down and the six or
seven ish products that they announced thatit is not in stores yet, but

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they will be in less been aweek from right now. And by the
way, I'd love to hear fromyou. Have you pre ordered the iPhone
fifteen, any one of the fourmodels you're looking forward to get one or
two of the new watches they talkedabout. I am at seven one three,
two, one two five nine five. Oh, we do give out
that phone number because it's an interactiveradio show. We'd love to talk to

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you. Feel free to disc disguiseyour voice, feel free to disguise your
accent. If you are from othercountries that you don't want to pretend actually
are from the Great United States ofAmerica. We are here for you.
Calum read Hello, sir. Youare going to be picking up the phone
calls and anybody. Well, ifanybody tries to call and wants to know,
what are my thoughts, ma'am?Is it? Should I should I
switch to Android? Should I staywith iPhone? Should I spend the seven

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hundred to twelve hundred dollars on anew iPhone. Well, I'm gonna let
you decide, because a lot ofyou fanboys and fangirls, you've already decided,
you know long. I realized thata long time ago, and it
has been sixteen years since the firstiPhone came out. I've stopped trying,
and I really never have tried toconvince one side of the faction to flipping

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to the other side of the faction. There used to be a lot of
comparison. I used to compare theiPhone to the Android phones. And I'm
not singing out any specific Android phonebecause there are many, from Samsung to
Google to that Nokia LG. Imean way back in the day too one
plus wy Y. I mean there'sa number of them out there, a
lot of Chinese manufacturers, just thatthey're they're out there right now nowadays.

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My ILK who are also covered thetech industry and myself, we don't we
don't really compare well, there's thisiPhone better than this Android or in the
other phone, because I believe infolks, correct me if I'm wrong.
At this point in your life,at this point in your everyday processes,
you're what your lifestyle, your business. You're pretty much setting your ways over

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which operating system you're gonna go to. Are you in the Apple ecosystem?
Okay? If you are, you'repretty much you're gonna go with the iPhone.
Okay, cool? Great, Great, I mean I'm not giving you
crap. Good for you, gofor it. If you're not, there's
many androids to choose from so goneto the days where I'm saying, you
know, I get a call,Hey, Michael, why are you such
an Android fan? You know,don't you like this and blue dot and

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green dot and facetimes all this stuff, and I you know, maybe back
in the day, I'm like,well, because it does this baby dolls.
If you're an iPhone gallery girl,if you're an iPhone hawk, good
for you. You just keep gettingthe iPhone seriously. And if you're an
Android person, and if you likeandroids, you know, do you want
to flip flop either way? It'sit's it's up to you. I'm just

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gonna break down and give you.Are these products decent? Are the new
features on these new devices worth tradingin? Upgrading, giving away year old
phone, buying a new one,setting it up it's up to you,
but I will start with this.Let me let me complete the first segment
here for about two more minutes.News Yes, out of Cupertino, California.

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The September events that Apple does,they've always been a spectacle, big
spectacle. I watched in online andit wasn't so much like when Steve Jobs
used to do it. It waslike live webcast. He's on stage,
he's got his little jeans and hisblack turnleck on and he talks about the
computers and maybe the iPads, andthen it's in one more thing. No,

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this was a slick Hollywood movie productionthat Tim Cook, who now runs
Apple did. It looked pretty muchall prerecorded, and which is funny because
the people covering it, maybe someother tech journalists or nerds or whatever,
who were in the Coupertino, CaliforniaTheater on Apple's campus, all they were
doing and they were sitting in auditoriumand watching this movie the same way we
were watching the movie online on whenit was dreaming what they did get to

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do. They actually did get toplay with a hands on and you know,
see it for even a few minutes. I will let you know this
in about twenty minutes from now.A buddy of mine who does almost exactly
what I do in California in theLos Angeles area, he is going to
come on because he was at thelaunch in California, and he's going to
give us his thoughts and we're gonnakind of compare what we each think.

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So standby for that's in twenty minutes. But really, here's the Delio.
Four new phones released, the ippleiPhone fifteen and the iPhone fifteen plus the
iPhone fifteen Pro in the iPhone fifteenPro Max, so pretty much standard.
Every time Apple comes out with aniPhone, there's about four versions of it,

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two on and I hate to sayit, but let's just let's call
it the standard end, and thentwo on the higher end. With the
Pro maxes. They do start ateight hundred dollars. The highest one goes
up to about twelve hundred dollars.I could sit there and make fun of
the price, but you know whatthat is. What the price is.
Samsung came out with an eighteen hundreddollar phone about two months ago. These

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are full computers and they do alot. The iPhone fifteen to fifty plus
pretty much. They quickly continue thelegacy of pretty much all their predecessors.
Apple calls it power and elegance.There is a new chip in a sixteen
bionic chip. And I could talkabout all the chips I want. That
means nothing to you, Willie.I think you're very happy with the speed
of your phone and whatever. There'smaybe some computational photography coulda capabilities on the

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lower end, but they didn't reallyupgrade the camera lands on the lower end
versions. They do have a ceramicshield front cover kind of a glass back
cover the upper level ones. Yes, there are some upgrades when it comes
to the cameras, even a higherend chip. And again I'm not gonna
go, well, you know howfast this thing is. But at the
end of the day, and I'mgonna leave you with this to think about.

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The headline Bury the lead and Idid a lot of interviews in the
past two or three days. Hey, Michael Richard thoughts in the iPhone.
The lead story is the fact thatthese new iPhones Apple for the first time
in eleven years, they are kissingthe lightning charger bye bye, and they
are flipping to what the rest ofthe world uses, including the androids,

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the USBC and when you know thatthe lead. The big story is,
oh my, the lightning charger isgone, and there's a new way to
charge your phone. When more peopletalk about charging your phone versus the phone
itself, they tell you there's nota lot to see with the new phones.
I'll let you just rest on thattasty tidbit as we come back.
Michael Garfield is right here. Itis the high tech tacting chow, just

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like that big movie boy said,Michael is my name? Feel free to
hit us up. People love totalk to you. Not a big football
game until six o'clock tonight when atyour okay, my Texas Lawhorns take on
Wyoming Cowboys twenty seven and a halfpoint spread. People who you got,
tell you what? This is whathappens man. You have a good game
like we did last week at Alabama. Oh, the world's now on you.

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Twenty seven and a half. I'mnot a gambling guy, but I'm
kind of a gambling I'll tell youthis. The Horns should win. I
don't think they're gonna win by twentyseven and a half, so the Please
don't take my advice, but don'tlaugh at me if I'm wrong. Wyoming
plus twenty seven and a half closerto the twenty seven and a half Horns

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will win. There you go.Don't give me crap if I'm wrong,
but feel free to give me moneyif I am right. Calum, I
don't know about you. You're atYou're a gambler, Calum. Calum read
here on the other side of thedeath. Now, I am a gambler.
I go to Las Vegas over underfour and a half times a year.
See what do you see what Idid there? This is why I

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am a professional talk show host.Me to personality. I go to Vegas
to gamble over under four and ahalf times for a year. Probably gonna
hit the under this year. I'mgoing on. I'm going to at least
one more time this year, andthen I'll start off with Cees and Jane
where anyway, no big deal.You see what's happening with the world of
technology with MGM and Caesar's Resorts.These two casinos were hacked earlier this week

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and they're still not up to fullspeed. Some ransomware group claim responsibility for
this MGM Resorts cyber outage, andMGM Resorts owns a ton of hotel casinos
in Vegas, and I've been watchingthis on social media. I haven't really
seen it in mainstream media. Imean, and I watched the nightly news.

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But social media there's there's people whoanecdotally that they're in Vegas and they're
standing in line waiting to check in. The Computer systems are down, the
locks on the doors are down,the slot machines are not working. Man,
I'll tell you what I mean.There's a lot of money. Caesar's

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was also hit earlier this week.Get this. They this team who held
them for ransom. They asked forthirty million dollars Caesar's. Caesar paid half
of that. I think Caesar's PropertiesResorts they paid fifteen million dollars to undo
the malware system. The I meanthe group's claim to use this common social

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engineering tactics, are gaining trust fromemployees to get inside information. I mean,
they're trying to get brandsom money outof that. It's freaking crazy,
man. I mean it's the MGMResorts. I mean, they can shut
down the Las Vegas Strip. MGMsays, uh, you know, we're

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we're back up to operational speeds.I don't know, be careful what you're
doing. I mean, this isa wake up call. Not I mean
this is a casino. I know, Oh what a big deal. It's
a multi multi multibillion dollars deal inthat industry. And then I mean,
think about it. Could I mean, if if they could take down You've
got to think that the systems thatcasinos are incredibly secure IT systems. When

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the government's IT system is hacking goesdown, we are screwed. And understand
how I just raise that I saidwhen I did not use IF. I
mean you talk about warfare. Youknow, I'm not sure if there's gonna
be a World War three per seor anything right now. But I'm telling
you what the next day. Someway to shut down a government is to
go straight for their infrastructure. TheI thing. I'm telling you people,

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it's just s s shore everything up. Now. Hey, now that I
pepped you guys up, we're worried. Oh we were talking about the iPhone.
Anybody gonna get the iPhone fifteen sevenone three two one two five nine
foe five nine five four New iPhoneswere announced. They will be on sale
next Friday, which is the twentysecond. The iPhone fifteen, the iPhone

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fifteen plus then we got the fifteenPro and the fifteen Pro Max. I
will tell you this, I amnot getting any of them. To continue
my track record with not having aniPhone. I think since the iPhone one,
I think since five phone, Idon't even see I see people holding
their iPhone. I see people takingselfies. I can I see people holding

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them up on TV. I cantell within two tents of a second is
that an iPhone or not, justbecause the way that the camera outlie is.
You know what it looks like onthe iPhone. If it's not the
two or three kind of a squarearray, triangle array of a phone,
you know it's not it. Mygirlfriend's got an iPhone. I'm just last
time actually see one of those.I don't even look at the phone itself.
I just know there's there's an iPhone. I know. I'm a green

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dot guy. If you if you, if you have an iPhone, if
you text somebody doesn't have an iPhone, you don't get that little blue dot
going back and forth. You geta green dot. I just like band
different and it's not easy being actuallyit is very easy being green. The
two higher phones, so they're gonnago up to twelve hundred dollars. The
camera is a little bit more improvedI have because I will I will not

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play with one. I won't seeit. I can't. I can't tell
you is this the best camera onthe market. I do know this,
and this is just an anecdotal.When I take pictures with my phones and
they're generally a Samsung phone, thisis not a Samsung commercial. Even the
iphoners say, hey, listen,we get let's get a group shot.

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Michael. We're gonna use your phonebecause you have a better camera. The
cameras are not just phones, arenot just cameras. There's the operating system,
there's the infrastructure that's that's the wayit works with your iMac, your
Mac deskop with everything. So anyway, those are coming out. But the
big news, let me spend aboutthree or four minutes on this. To
me, the big news is theApple's proprietary lightning connector is Gonzo. After

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eleven years, they're switching to USBC the letters C you know what USB?
You know what USB Universal Cereal Bus. That's the way to connect devices,
to charge them and to transfer data. They've been around for many,
many years, but there's many,many different types, and they're very confusing
too. If you look in yourcar, if your car is more than
three, four or five years old, you probably have a USB charger and

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it's got that's it's a larger plug. And you have to when you plug
in something, you have to makesure you're plugging it the right way.
Over fifty percent of the time youknow you're gonna plug it in. It's
like, oh, so I gottaturn it on upside down. That's a
USB a USBC the letter C.It's symmetrical. It's like an oval.
Doesn't matter if you plug it upsidedown, right side up. It works

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for the most part. USBC.It's a faster way to charge, and
it's a much faster way to transferdata. I'm gonna get into this because
not all usbc's or usbc's that tome has been the big news. Is
it big news? We'll listen.Remember this. This is the third type
of court. And I'm gonna usethe word port that Apple has used in

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as iPhones when it first came out. If you remember this, there was
in very long thirty pin connector PAM, really weird looking, and they hey
had that for a good four orfive years. Then it was the iPhone
sex They said, hey, youknow what, we got this lightning and
I like the lightning because it doesn'tmatter which way you plug it, upside

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down, right side up. Butit was Apple and it was proprietary.
And let me help you out howApple works. It is one of this
not the world's most viable company.They want you to use all their products
and everything. They're gonna make aproprietary the lightning, only work with the
connector, only work with the Appleproducts. They wanted you to buy the
chords, they wanted you to buythe special cases. They wanted to do
everything. Apple did not really wantto switch to USBC, but due to

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regulations in Europe, the EU EuropeanUnion, they had to do it.
Last year, the EU said,and they passed the law that by twenty
twenty four all mobile personal devices hasto have USBC. They're doing this to
make it to make waste E wastebetter. They want one standard adapter.

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So every time, why all theseother adapters because this every time you throw
them away, the plastic in theair and everything. So the European Union
said electronic makers they had to supportthe standard thing. And Apple last year
said man, we sell a lotof phones in Europe. Ain't no way
we're gonna come up with two differentiPhones with a lightning screw it. We're
gonna comply with the law. USBChas become universally accepted standard, and that

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was what Apple said earlier this week. We're bringing it to the iPhone,
one of the percenters says, Butthe shift to USB chargers for the iPhone
fifteen, it's gonna mean that Appleusers old lightning cables they ain't gonna work.
No more people, they ain't gonnawork. By the way, Apple,
the shares of Apple, they closeddown more than a one percent after

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the event Tuesday, means nothing stillvaluable. But that to me seem to
be the lead. More people aretalking about, including me. When I
was doing all these interviews, well, the fifteen and they got four phones.
But guess what, Welcome to theworld of USBC. We now have
one universal core, which is actuallygood for me because so many, so
many of my friends iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, and if I'm in their

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car and I need to charge myAndroid, all they had is a lightning
cable. People were all gonna liveunder one happy roof. We are brothers.
We are assistants. We are oneof family. Right now on the
USBC, Praise the Lower, Praisethe European Union, and welcome to the
twenty first century Apple. It isabout freaking time, all right, let

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me come back. I'm gonna dialup a good buddy of mine who does
the same. He's not the hightech Californian I told him to coin that,
but he is a radio and TVtechnology personality like myself on the left
coast. He was actually at theannouncement in Cupertino, California. I'm gonna
get his thoughts and so you canhear about it. Well, what's going
on in the world of Apple alongwith your phone calls. Later in the

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show, it's Garth the high TechTips back at it. It is the
long running high Tech tech and show. Michael Garfield open phone lines here seven
one three, two one two fivenine five. Oh, that number has
not changed in two decades that Ihave been doing this show. Do you

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know what's changed in two decades?It's what type of phone you have called
me on here in the studio.You remember the rotary phone days. Okay,
we're not going to talk about that, but it seems every single month
there's a new phone that has beenlaunched and released, and obviously, since
the start of the show this morning, we have been talking about the news
that little company in Cupertino, California, has just announced its new lineup of

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phones. I apparently was very busythis week, or my invitation got lost
the mail. I was not inCupertino, so I have to live micariously
through press releases and also some ofmy ilk who attended the Cupertino, California
press launch, one of which isa good buddy of mine. His name
is rich DeMuro. He is inLos Angeles. He is on KTLA channel

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five. He by the way,he's the high Tech California I've mentioned this
before. He's on KFI, whichis their talk radio station in Los Angeles.
On iHeartRadio. He covers technology.He joins me, right now,
Richie, Rich, how are you, my friend? I'm doing fantastic and
the high Tech Californian by way ofNew Jersey because I'm actually from New Jersey.

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So wait a minute, I'm livingin California. If you trademark both
of those, because I've got thetechs and think over, are you better
hurry out? No? Well,we've got the almost the whole country,
right, Yeah, we actually actuallythe ones that colt. Let's put it
that way, Rich, Listen,There's gonna come a day when tech journalist
tech bloggers don't feel compelled to bean extension of Kim Cook's marketing department.

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But today, my friend, isnot that day. As with every iPhone
release, tech nerdum if you will, it's split over whether the evolution is
either impressive or superficial. I havetalked about it. You have seen the
IFO fifteen quick thoughts. Impressive,superficial? Is it evolved? Look?
I think this is evolutionary, notrevolutionary. The iPhone itself was revolutionary,

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of course what you can do onit. It's still an amazing platform.
And the changes that Apple makes tothis device are very helpful for iPhone user.
So, for instance, you've gotUSBC. You've been talking about it.
That is a big change. It'ssomething that Android users have come to
know and love. But now thatwe have one cable and one type of
connection for everything, it makes lifea lot easier in so many different ways.

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The accessories you purchase, the cablesyou purchase, the different devices that
you're trying to plug into you aska friend for a cable, you're no
longer shunned. If you need aniPhone cable or an Android cable, it's
all going to be the same.So that in itself is a big deal.
Of course, we know Apple wasreally forced to do this by way
of the EU. It's not somethingthey necessarily wanted to do on their own,
even though they've had Lightning for tenyears. But the other changes,

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things like improved camera. You know, the action button on the side of
the iPhone fifteen Pro is actually prettycool. They did the improved zoom on
the iPhone fifteen Pro Max. Sowhat you're seeing here is a lot of
different choices, a lot of smallthings, but they add up to kind
of meaningful changes if you're an iPhoneuser that wants to upgrade eventually. I

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want to break this down, Richie, and I'm gonna take it the way
you explained it, all right.That was a great you know, top
to bottom, you know, twoand a half minute summary which which covered
everything. But the interesting thing is, my man, you lad with the
USBC. It's the USBC without adoubt. It is revolutionary. Or actually
it's big news because Apple finally says, hey, listen, we're not doing
proprietary. We're going to do somethingthat the world has so many Android it's

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not just Android. I mean there'sheadsets, there's there's air, there's you
know, headphones. So many thingswork on USBC. I cover the car
industry. You're seeing USBC ports beingbuilt into those cars. The fact is
that you led with that. Iled with that. This was the story
and not so much of my goodness. There's four new phones, there's two
new watches, it seems to me. And again I'm trying to lead you

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over here. Let's look at thosephones, the iPhone fifteen and then in
the pro the two. On thepro side, you gave a few of
those little pay There's so many thingswith the buttons of like death. But
again, anything all and inspire youto tell people like your iPhone fourteens,
I gotta run out and get thefifteen. No, and I actually don't
really ever recommend that people upgrade unlessthere is a reason why they want to

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upgrade. Now, if you're atech person like myself, there's a whole
bunch of tech enthusiasts out there thathave to have the latest and the greatest
there's people that are really into photographywho if there's an iPhone that has a
better camera than what they have,they need to get that. But for
the rest of the masses, ifyou have a phone, you're pretty much
going into the Apple Store once everythree years and you're saying, hey,

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what's new, and they show youthe iPhone fifteen Pro Max and you say,
oh, that's too expensive, whatelse do you have? And then
they kind of go down the line. So these little features that pop up
in the new phones are nice.So, for instance, if you're getting
the iPhone fifteen or the fifteen plus, those are the base model. They
get that new dynamic island, whichis taking advantage of the kind of the
notch in the phone, so they'vemade the best of that, and you're

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getting a new improved forty eight megapixelcamera, which is good. You're going
to take pictures that are going tolook better, they're going to have more
information in the pictures. Then you'realso getting a better zoom lens on there
as well. So again, smallchanges, but they're meaningful. If you
come from a different phone, yousay, oh, my photos look better.
I've got this fun little dynamic islandI'm still angry that Apple did not

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upgrade the screen on the base modeliPhone. It's still got a slower refresh
rate than almost any budget Android phoneout there, and it also does not
have the new always on display whichthey introduced last year with the pro models.
The Rich Buro he is in theLos Angeles area. That's where he's
based right now. Rich on techradio show KFI AM and also TV Boys

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So Pretty, also KTLA Channel five. It's over the years. In recent
years, I think Apple really hasexpanded its global market share over its smartphone
rivals. I mean, you lookat Samsung and wah, why despite Apple's
prices, you know, everything isrising. I saw a stat ration almost
nine and ten US teenagers are iPhoneusers. And is it because they've convinced

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themselves that green text bubbles are uncool? I mean, it's Apple's marketing.
It's in people's DNA. I know, from my standpoint, I have stopped
trying to advance iPhone users to flipto Android and vice versa. We do
stay in our lanes right now.What does it take for somebody to really
switch operating systems and go from oneto the other. At this point,

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it's nearly impossible, and I thinkthat it is something that I don't even
you know. I used to doa lot of comparisons iPhone androids. Should
you switch, should you get this? Should you change to this new phone?
The problem is people, and Apple'sdone an amazing job at this building
that ecosystem. So if you havean air tag, you have AirPods,
you have an Apple Watch, youhave an iPad, you have a Mac

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computer. They call it the haloeffect of the iPhone. You start with
the iPhone and slowly but surely youbuild on these other products. Once you
get in deep with that, thereis no switching. Now. The kids,
I call them kids, the teenagersthat, like you mentioned, they
have to have the blue bubbles.That's where it starts. And Apple knows

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that. That's the reason why Applehas not made I Message for Android.
They could have the top messaging appin the US overnight. By the way,
no other country in the world caresabout blue bubbles. They do not.
It's not even a consideration. They'reusing WhatsApp, they're using line over
in Japan, they're using wee chatin China. They do not care about

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blue bubbles. This is a USproblem. It's a US thing. But
like you said, once people getinto that world, they can't really get
out. You know what, I'lltell you again as an ant, long
time Android guy, it's not easybeing green Richie's not easy being green baby.
I know I get young dull thetime, but screw it, man,
I'd like what I like last question. Listen, we spent some time

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earlier the summer. We were inSouth Korea. We were for the there
for the Samsung launch and that wasa really really big deal. I mean
it was worldwide media. They launchedthe fifth version of their fold and their
flip phones. We know Google andtheir Pixel. They've got a really nice
fold foldables and flips right now.Something we have not seen from Apple during
your time up in the Cooper tinor campus earlier this week. Any rumor

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just between you know, the journalistor just kind of rumors at any point
are they going to do anything withflippables of foldables. You know, it's
a big question. It's a questionthat a lot of people want the answer
to. And we all think thatApple will do a foldable at some point
when the technology is right. Weknow rivals like Samsung and in China there

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are many many foldables to choose fromhere in the US. You really have
Google, You've got Motorola, andyou've got Samsung and one plus is going
to come out with a foldable aswell. But the reality is it's not
a perfect science. It's not aperfect screen technology, and Apple, I
think, is waiting to perfect thattechnology before they introduce it. They're usually

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several years behind when it comes tocoming out with something that is super,
super cutting edge like that. AndI think they've seen the progress with foldables.
I don't think they're convinced just yetthat people have a reason to get
these. In fact, myself,I feel the same way. I've been
testing all of these foldables. They'refun, they're different. Do I need
it? Not necessarily? And Ithink Apple knows that, And they've still

(29:26):
got a pretty good runway with theiPhone. People are still lining up to
get those phones, not so muchlike they did before. Now they're buying
them online, but they're still buying, you know, fifty five million of
these phones every quarter. That's asizeable number, you know as well as
I do. It's a good supermarketing. The second that Apple releases their first
foldable phone, the world is gonnasay, Oh my goodness, I didn't

(29:47):
know you can make foldable phones.I gotta get these things. It's unbelievable.
How you know Apple knows how torun a market and make things popular.
So you know, I'm gonna listenhow many times I had a tablet
years before the I pad came out. No one knew what a tablet.
It was, Oh my god,here's an iPad, and and there goes
crazy. That is for Apple.His name is Rich Jamuro. He is
in Los Angeles. You can findhim rich on Tech. I follow him
a great Instagram follow in many ofthe things KTLA and Channel five plus our

(30:11):
Hi heart sister station k F.I am my man, great seeing you.
I appreciate the coverage and I knowyou need to hop on your radio
show right now. It's I'll becomeSaturday Morning. It is great talking to
you. Thanks Mike, thanks forhaving me on. Appreciate it. Green
Bubbles forever, That's what I say. That's Rich. He's a good dude.
Good dude, had a lot offun time in Korea. All right,
we're gonna take a break right now. Michael is the name High Tech

(30:32):
Texan show. Hi g H te C H T e x A n
all Oh up social media and don'tgive me some crap because I got green.
People. It is easy being green. I've lived like this for a
long time. I gotta thank brother, my buddy Rich Demureau rich On Eck

(30:59):
told him he used to come upwith the heat. He should do the
high tech California. He's based inLos Angeles. You ever had anybody ever
be envious or of a position andopportunity a job that you would want.
You know, you can do anywhereelse across the country, especially if it's
in the same line of work whereyou're doing. Do Rich has got it.

(31:22):
Rich does technology talk show on KFIAM, which is relatively close to
KPORC nine fifty am here in Houston. He's on daily on KTLA, which
is a kind of an independent TVstation in the morning, does tech reviews,
and he lives in La. HelloHurler, Please the dudes like ten

(31:48):
years young and younger than me.Rich retire, Rich goes somewhere else in
the country. Rich, I willbequeath you the high tech Texan conglomerate.
I will be the high tech California. Rich has got hit. No,
he's a good dude. We hungout in a Soul, Korea earlier this
summer at the Samsung event. Verynice, so he had a very nice

(32:08):
take. He was in Gupertino,California, earlier this week for the Apple
iPhone announcement. We're talking about AppleI phone. There are other things in
the world to talk about. Aswe come up to lunchtime, as we
did the show live. If youwere listening to the Encore broadcast here on
nine fifty am k p r C, it is almost midnight, the show

(32:28):
comes on. You know what,it's twice as nice. Apparently everybody out
there wants to hear me once inthe afternoon and once late at night,
or apparently we have no other programming. Can't figure out which. But if
you're up at night, late atnight, have some caffeine, keep talking,
keep driving. Love to hear fromyou, High tech Techs and high
ec ht e x A n dotcom, I Tech Texan dot Com.

(32:52):
Almost lunchtime here, by the way, perfect time to remind you that Johnny
Tamalis is rocking right now because itis lunchtime as that we're talking about this,
and they have the TV's rolling forthe college football games right now.
It is in the wonderful community ofMissouri City, southwest side of the Houston
area twenty seven twenty f M.Ten ninety two, also called Murphy Road,

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right near Highway six, right nearthe border of Sugarland in Missouri City.
I go probably about once and ahalf a week. Oh, by
the way, I'm a I'm abear of breaking news. Have you ever
been to a tex max restaurant thatserves halal meat? Welcome to Johnny Tamali's
in Missouri City, just this pastweek. Actually, I think this was

(33:36):
a bigger announcement this week than theiPhone halal meat get. People been asking
for, man and it is goodshead length there yesterday with a new buddy
in a client and I phenomenal stuff. Yes, they also have everything on
the men that you can't think of. Phenomenal lynch a Latta's, free ice
cream for the kids, of beefbeef, the chicken fajitas, the ramp

(34:00):
and not just but that the drinksare ice cold. Uh and it's very
I love the vibe, especially rightnow. I may actually pop what am
I doing now? I may actuallypop over there afterwards to celebrate the New
year with some halal meat. SoI may see you over there, So
go check that is Johnny Tamali's inthe sea as a Missouri City dot com

(34:22):
halal meat. Seriously, I loveto hear your reviews in this thing.
Halal menu. I mean everything's fahitasalads, chicken cobb salads, and the
beefahita is it's it's halal. Youhad me at halal. Where are we
in the world of technology? Ohwell, we'll do a little bit more

(34:42):
Apple next hour. Who here stillhas a DVD player? Put your hands
down, you're driving. If youdidn't notice that we talked about earlier this
year. Later this month, we'rejust about two weeks away. Netflix is
winding down the rentable and mailable DVDsthat started that company many many years ago.

(35:07):
Remember the little red, little envelopes, mail you the DVD, you
watch it, you return it threedays later. Whatever it is. It's
ova September twenty nine. Netflix nolonger renting DVDs by mail. And it's
done. But a lot of peoplebelieve it or not rent DVD still.
And there is a service that wasbeautifully just launched. Knowing that the Netflix

(35:32):
DVD mail service has gone, thereis an independent video store chain here in
the United States. I'm not familiarwith it. It's called Scarecrow anyone any
calum anyway. I don't even knowis it? Are they in Houston,
Dead Matt They launched its own rentby mail service that's going to send DVDs
and Blu Ray disc right to yourdoor. They started piloting this thing about

(35:57):
four years ago. Actually was prettygood during it, and now that Netflix
has done zo, they're beefing itup. This is not a commercial for
it. I have a DVD player. It is in my garage gaining dust
somewhere. But apparently you have tobe approved for some reason. You sign
up for account, you have tobe verified improved by a staff member.

(36:21):
I don't know why. But youput DVDs into your online shopping cart.
They're priced individually. Shipping is gonnacost you twelve dollars for up to six
discs, and you rent it fortwo weeks and then you can renew my
phone or you play your late fees. Apparently they have about one hundred and
forty thousand titles in its collection,which it's interesting because Netflix, at the

(36:45):
end of it here they only hadfive thousand dollars in its catalog. Oh,
here has a DVD player? Isanybody going to use this? I'm
done talking about the scar Crow service. But you know, we talk about
I talk about it technology. Thatis it es all the time. It's
we go from medium to medium tomedium. I'm gonna listen. I remember
I was a kid. Eight tracktapes were a big thing, and then

(37:08):
it was cassette tapes. Yes,I still had some LPs, you know,
the records if you will. Butwhen cassette tapes came in, and
I had a car and I wassixteen seventeen, and every car had a
cassette tape player, and then that, oh, by the way, that's
gone. Then there was there wasthe CD player in the car. Right
then you had the optical disk theCD player, and then slowly I don't

(37:29):
I don't even know it. AndI remember I review cars. I don't
know of one brand new car manufactureror car model maker model that has CD
players anymore. Now we've got theUSBA, the USBC, and we've got
Bluetooth. We stream things right now, Yes, we've got set, We've
got iHeart can be streamed, andI a lot of you are listening to
me in your car via the iHeartRadioapp. Thank you so much for doing

(37:51):
that. We change and we hangon. And I have hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of the cassettes. Ihave hundreds and hun of LP albums.
I think I have a few eighttrack tapes somewhere and they're just sitting there
gaining desk. Actually they're not.Actually, I was very creative. I
don't know if I posted this year'syet. I took all of my I
took a lot of my CDs,and I made a piece of art out

(38:16):
of it in my house. It'slike an eleven foot tall sculpture. I
physically made it seriously, hand toGod. And all my CDs are pretty
much from the eighties, and itreminds me of the eighties. I just
I needed a piece of art thatwas very, very tall in my stairwell,
and I took just the CD thejewel boxes what it are, what

(38:37):
they're what they're called, and Ikind of glued them on the on these
woodpieces. And every time I walkedby it, I don't know, eight
times a day, up and downthe stairs. And it's a piece of
my life style. It's a pieceto my memories, all the eighties music,
and you know, if you listento me, you know music plays
a lot of it. But thepoint is that medium is done. It's
over, but apparently there's they werestill hanging on by a thread. We're

(38:59):
gonna take a break. If youstill have a DVD player and you're still
using Netflix, at least the nexttwo weeks, I'd love to hear from
you. Pick up your rotary phoneand call seven one three two one two
five nine five out. If youdon't have a rotary phone, you can
put a stamp and mail it hereto iHeart. And if not, you
actually could send up a smoke signal. If you still have a DVD player.

(39:21):
This is what I do. Ihave fun and I talk trash,
but I give you some good advice. One more hour of great advice coming
up after this. Yeah, sohigh tex is Michael Garfiel. Michael Garfield.

(39:43):
Michael Garfield's joining the high tech textand Michael Garfiel is here with a
high tech texted items to make lifeeasier. Technology. So Michael Garfield has
something you might want. Michael Garfieldis your high tech Texan three decades helping

(40:06):
you make magic with your gadgets heardworldwide on the iHeart Radio Act. Now
you're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. That's it. Say when did you
know where we are? We arehalfway through the high Tech Texan Show.
We're a halfway at a happy hour. It is. You're listening in the

(40:29):
just after twelve p m. Inthe afternoon on Saturday, when we're doing
the show clauseby Live. Probably ahappy hour if you're watching some college football
games. If you're listening to theEncore broadcast on KPRC nine fifty am in
the Houston Galveston area, it isjust after twelve midnight. It's actually Sunday,
by the way, So since it'sSunday, you can quickly tell me

(40:51):
who won the Longhorn Wyoming game soI can play some bets on it.
You see, that's how the thetime continuum factor works. I think we
are powered by the flex capacitor hereon the Michael Garfield Show. Actually we
are I empower at some time byCoke zero. I love Coke's here.
I don't drink coffee, breaking news, I love iced tea. I do

(41:15):
like Coke diet coke, and Ilove I really like Coke zero and I
say this is because there's a brand. I don't want to scare you,
so hang in here. There's abrand new coke. This is not a
joke. It's not April fourth,there is. I'm not kidding You'll explained
Hooke just launched a new flavor thatwas co created by artificial intelligence. No,

(41:38):
not artificial sweeteners AI people. AIis everywhere. I did not expect
it to be used as a salvoin the color Wars. Nope, I'm
not kidding you. It is calledhere's the name. It's called Why three
thousand, the letter Why three thousand. I actually would call it why why

(42:04):
three thousand? That they created aflavor out of the future. By the
way, should we take a calum? Should we take a pull? What
does the future taste like? Iknow the future is bright. We have
to wear shades. What does thefuture taste like? I am not kidding
you. It is a limited editionflavor, Taste of the Future, co

(42:25):
created with AI people. This iswhy I exist and do a technology oriented
consumer lifestyle show. I just lovetalking about this. Not really, I
mean this is out of Terminator orSkynet. I do not know how it
tastes. I do not know whereyou can buy it yet, but apparently
a few testers describe it as resemblinga raspberry slushy. Raspberry Slushy. Here's

(42:52):
the process started with researchers collecting flavorprefaces from consumers and they try to find
trends to understand what the what thefuture case like. The data was fed
into an AI system and it createdthe flavor profile, and before you know
it, a new baby soda wasborn. Most they also had AI design

(43:17):
the artwork on the can. It'sone of those slim cans and I don't
know if it's a twelve ouncer.Maybe it's a daydouncer. It's like a
Beechy Neon purple can vibe. Whoasked for this? It's a limit,
it's a limited edition. They're notreplacing new cocon old coke like back in
the Color Wars. Is this likeDippin' dots? Remember Crystal Pepsi? I'm

(43:44):
dating myself right now, who remembersCrystal Pepsi? Crystal Pepsi was hilarious.
Pepsi, as we know, isa dark colored soda like coke. Pepsi
thought it was a really interesting dealthat they lie a frystal clear color white
color soda. Oh, I'm sorry, isn't that called sprite or seven up

(44:07):
or maybe a mountain dewish thing?There was? There was? How did
they pull the wool over eyes onthat one? If somebody gives me a
camp Coca Coca like I go toCees and cees a Cocus actually launched a
flavor or two at ces which isin January the Consumer Electronic Show. I
mean, somebody, let me,let's me taste it. I will.

(44:28):
I don't really think I'm rushing outto buy an artificial intelligence? Is there
anything more the definition of what itis than a soda that was designed by
artificial intelligence? Since if most everythinginside of a soda is artificial, look
at me ragging on my daily caffeineintake. Anyway, that's there's your consumer

(44:50):
Livestyle right now. We'll give youthe phone number in case you do want
to talk about iPhones if you justtune in, we spent most of the
first hour talking about Apple's announcement.By the way, how come Coke didn't
come out with an Apple flavored tocoincide with the iPhone? This is why
I'm a marketing genius. This iswhy I'm giving away this information for free.
Somebody better steals. Apple that announcedfour new iPhones, two new watches,

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and the biggest thing is the dongle. It is it's the charging system.
It's the USBC, and USBC isvery confusing. And I'll touch on
this right now. This is thefirst time Apple has ever used USBC.
They're doing they're killing the Lightning chordfrom now on. They're doing this is
because not because they want to.It's the European Union mandates that all the

(45:37):
handheld mobile gadgets starting next year supportone universal standard, and they went with
USBC, which has been around onAndroid phones and many of the things for
for several years. Right now,generally the USBC is quicker than the lightning
However, not all USBC means USBCOn the iPhone fifteen and fifteen plus.

(46:02):
There will be when it comes uplater this week Friday, September twenty second,
there will be a new USBC cordand it is going to be the
slowest USB transfer speed. It's calledUSB two point zero. And I don't
want to get into the megabex.It's it's gonna confuse you. But it's

(46:23):
the same transfer speed data transfers betweenyour computer and the phone. It's the
same transfer speed as you're gonna getwith the lightning connector. So there's really
no positive. There's no plus onthe two lower end brand new iPhones,
the iPhone fifteen the iPhone fifteen Plus, however, not so fast. The

(46:45):
two higher end brand new iPhones,the iPhone fifteen Pro and the iPhone fifteen
Pro Max, they're going to supportUSB three point zero speeds about twenty times
fast. That's a big difference.And I don't know, I don't know
why Apple limited the upper new iPhonesto do this versus the lower Maybe it's

(47:07):
price, whatever, But there's anumber of different positives why faster transfer speeds
and data speeds work. If youlove shooting video, if you are very
high end photographer and you use avery high end pixels or even shooting the
raw mode, you know it couldtake up a lot of storage on your

(47:30):
phones. The fact is you've gotthe new iPhone fifteen Pro the Pro Max.
You actually can plug your usbcnto thephone. You can plug the other
phone the other end into a oneterabyte data storage or something, and you
could shoot and transfer immediately and quicklyall that data so it doesn't clog off

(47:53):
your phone. That's one of themany, many reasons. I'll get it.
Tell you more the order of thespecs after the break. Would love
to hear from you seven one threetwo one two five nine five. Oh,
that's how you're gonna get to ushere KPRC Radio nine fifty am and
used in and all over the world. As we continue, V High Tech
Text and Show, and I'm thirsty? Is somebody gotta why? Three thousand?
Why? Why? Lunch time?If you're listening live, including afternoon

(48:28):
on a Saturday, we're midnight snacktime. Should you be listening to the
encore broadcast of the wonderful show?It's wonderful because you were listening. I
thank you for that. It's calledThe High Tech Text. And Michael is
my name? Uh? Speaking offood? What about fifteen minutes we are
going to talk meat and I listen. I told you this show is so
much more about the technology. It'sa consumer lifestyle show. Restaurants, cooking

(48:53):
tips, a lot of food,a lot of rum. We'll talk about
popas pillar rum, which is abig partner of mine. I know about
fifteen minutes we're gonna have Anthony Thomascome on again. I interviewed him about
three weeks ago and it just wentover like gangbusters. It really did.
To do this from Australia and he'sa cowboy. He's like a real cowboy.
I think later this weekend he's goingto Albuquerque to to be a you

(49:15):
know, do ropes and cattle something. But he is based here in the
Houston area and he has his ownmeat company, meat processing company. You
can buy meat by the side ofbeef, half a side of beef,
the quarter side of beef, andit is the best organic, free just
the whole thing. And I meaneven me, the not so heavily red
meat eater. Guy got a quarterof pounds of beef. It's nice to

(49:37):
have in your in your freezer.Dudes come over, people come over,
they want meat. We watching footballgames. To go out and just get
a beautiful filet marbled or some groundbeef. It's great. So we'll talk
to him about you know, tentwelve, fifteen minutes to get you hungry.
It's called Thomas Cattle and Catering.And so we got that. Are

(49:59):
we done? Talk about the newiPhone? I have now spent more on
this one show talking about using theword iPhone or Apple that I pretty much
have on almost any given year,and it generally happens each time this each
each September, that's when Apple holdsits new conference. And so I think
we've covered everything. Four new phones, two new watches, a partridge in

(50:21):
a peatree, and a new chargingsystem Lightning is gone, and the next
week the new USB C charger.And the fact is, I'll say it
again, if that's the lead storythat Apple is switching to USBC, and
we're not talking as much about Ohlook at this new phone. It fold,
it flips, it's powerful, it'sgot the greatest camera in the world,

(50:42):
it's inexpensive. No, none ofthat stuff we're talking about. So
that I should tell you about thenews right there. You know, a
lot a lot of times people askme about my career. You know how
I started, And you know,do I tend you you're a podcast host?
Well, I mean yes, Ithis a radio show host for well

(51:04):
over twenty years here on iHeart Radioin KPRC nine fifty. They take my
show and they'll put it on apodcast and so you can listen to it
later. But it's it's I'm stillI'm barely holding on to the radio hostport
part, so I'm lucky for that. But I started out most. I
started out in television and I wasa radio TV RTF major at small college

(51:30):
in Austin, d the University ofTexas, and it's a It's something I've
always wanted to do, either bebehind the mic, in front of the
camera or doing something. And I'mbelieving or not. At my age,
I'm still freaking doing it as hardas ziz right now. But the first
job that I got, real,real, real job, paying job,

(51:50):
I was on QVC. I was, yes, that's right, the home
shopping network. And I was oneof the first times with my obviously,
I moved outside of Texas for thefirst time of my adult life. And
I'm like, I don't know,and so I'm living outside of Philadelphia.
This is I think QVC is stillmaybe headquartered there in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
And I was right before I gotmarried. I lived alone and I was

(52:14):
the new kid. I was theyoungest show host ever hired. I was
like twenty two maybe twenty three,right out of college, and I had
to work. It was a twentyfour hour shopping news channel, shopping channel.
So they put the young guy inthe middle of the night. So
my shift was like two, three, four, five in the morning,
you know, East coast or Centraltime, and obviously maybe it was you
know late people were still up onthe on the West coast. But it

(52:36):
was fun and I learned a lotabout you know, live TV and selling
products which we did not have ascript for. And this is why I
get even more into gadgets and products. I was able to look at something
and try within three or four orfive six minutes tell you why this product
is gonna change your life. Youneed this phone, well, there were

(52:58):
no smartphones really in nineteen eighty nineteenninety. There you need, you need,
you need this kitchen gear, youneed the black and decker electric drill.
You need diamonique, the second hardestknown substance demand. That's right.
But one of the things I learnedabout about media itself and how to do
it. And this is where I'mgoing with the story from watching people on

(53:21):
TV two on the radio is oneof the things that I do. And
if you're a long time listener,you know this. I talked very fast,
and that is that's my nature,and it's really odd from a dude
from Texas whose parents are from Texaswith little accents, and it's just I'm
just I like, I enjoyed life. I'm excited, I really am.

(53:43):
This is really my personality. I'mjust like this kid and I talk fast.
I'll be very excited. So thefirst device that I got, the
biggest device that I got, whichI still after thirty pleasure years, haven't
done, is from TV producers andeven radio people. It's slow down,
just just freaking slow down. WhatI used to do is a trick I'm
as I'm looking at they have TVcameras on the set of VC. And

(54:06):
when I did to remind myself,I traced my hand, you know,
like you know when you're a littlekid and you do drugs for Thanksgiving and
you make a turkey with your handand your fingers. So I trace my
hand and I wrote the words slowdown, like you know, my hand
is like stop, slow down,and I would tape I printed it out.
I taped those underneath the camera sowhen I'm looking at the camera,

(54:28):
I would remind myself to slow down. The point as it didn't work,
it still doesn't work, but youlove me for who I am and as
the simple as that I also usedto say, and I still sometimes do
it. People get into these traps. And when I talked to kids who
are in communications, they said,what do you do well? The word
and your hems and your haws.They are things that you try to,
you know, forget. Sometimes Istill say the word when I'm thinking of

(54:52):
things, but I try to cutit. And this was a very long
story to get here, But Iwish I was growing up and starting my
media career now because there is software, there's artificial intelligence when you're recording things
to automatically cut out the hums.Adobe Premiere Pro, which is a very

(55:14):
powerful and relatively easy to use editingtool, Premiere Pro that dead records,
audio, records video. They seeit, but I did see. They
just started a feature that has automaticremoval of background noise or accidental ms.

(55:35):
They get muttered. Calum. AsI look at Calum other side of the
glass, he's running the board.Is it possible to do this thing live?
We should actually test this. Ifnot, I should record the show
that will automatically takes up my moms. But anyway, Adobe Premiere Pro,
apparently I haven't tried it yet.It should get rid of your ums and
hums with a recent update to thesoftware. It's called filler word Detection,

(56:00):
because that's what it is. It'sa filler because hey, what's going on?
Okay, Jason and Parland, thanksfor calling. What can I do
for you today? So you tryto do it? Try to stop it.
The fact is now I don't evenneed a practice. Thirty years they
still can't do it. Now Ican edit things by using I really should

(56:22):
try this, says it's them.Let's see these new features they're launching.
Also in another package, it's calledcommercial. It's Adobe's Firefly for enterprise with
generative AI artificial intelligence. So youshould try this. So anyway that this
segment I talked about, Okay,this is what we need to do.

(56:43):
If you were looking, if you'reyoung, if you're old, if you're
looking to get into media, oryou're doing a podcast and you have filler
words like M and hum and whatever, maybe you want to try Adobe Premiere
Pro. These are the things thatmake our job a little easier. What
else can I tell you? AllRight, I tell you to stand by
because after this we're gonna talk meatwe're gonna talk how to grill some great

(57:05):
meat the filets and give you someideas. I never went to eat healthier.
And if you're looking for just topnotch befred meat that goes straightly to
from that farm to your table,you gotta talk to You gotta listen to
Anthony Thomas cut up. But ThomasCattle and Karen Comfrey don't go anywhere.
Thirty more minutes left in the show. There's like that big good voice set.

(57:35):
Michael Guard Guild is the name ofeverybody is having a wonderful day.
I feel in the air, baby, get you know there's a chill in
the air. The football season isback and the kids are back in school.
Holiday seasons not too far away.I'll be giving my countdown of my
reviews, my recommendations for the holidayseason. I'll give you a review and
recommendation right now, certainly because I'vebeen starting having some guys over for football

(58:00):
season. Man, you better startgrilling. And this is grilling season.
You're not outside sweat too much,but you gotta start with some phenomenal food.
And if you're a meat eater,certainly here we are in Texas.
Man, you've got to had thefinest meat around. And I've found the
place so much so that I actuallyeven get to talk to the man,
the rancher himself, to actually figureout how my filets and how my cuts

(58:21):
are coming. I've talked about itis called Thomas Cattle and Catering. It's
called that because that's the last nameof the gentleman himself, Anthony Thomas.
We had him on the show abouttwo or three weeks ago, and I've
gotten a lot of questions about sothis is a true Texas business and you
know, what's the process and ofyou know, getting from you know,
these steers all the way to yourtable, and you know what. I

(58:44):
could talk about it all I want, but I like bringing in the man
himself number one of which because he'sgot the coolest Australian accident ever, even
though he's a Texan. Right now, Anthony Thomas joins me again. Happy
follow my man. I hope you'redoing well. Yeah, good night,
Thanks thanks Marchael, thanks for havingme today. I emxcited to be here
again. Well, I'm excited totalk about this because you know, I'd

(59:05):
like to think that I'm gonna Iset my expert on everything though I'm not
traditionally a big red meat eater.If I'm gonna eat some red meat,
my man, I'm gonna eat it. It is pure, it is Texas
And this is exactly what you andyou offer. Again, you came up
with this company how long ago herewhen COVID started. Just figure this is
a smart way to do it,because instead of going to the grocery store

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and I don't even want us talkingat today, we could talk for hours
and hours about the difference between grocerystore bought meat and whatever the processing issues
going there versus the pure stuff.And I obviously you've had a lot of
success here in the past few years. Yeah. So I'm actually a professional
rodeo athlete. I was competing inthe Houston Rodeo and shortly after I progressed

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to the finals at Rodeo Houston,the pandemic hit and they shot Rodeo Houston
down and our whole tour beyond.And so I actually honestly had an epiphany
from God that I needed to usemy skills a cowboy to start this fond
to table beef business. You know, coming from Australia, coming from a

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country where health and food and whatthey allow you to eat and what they
allow to put in your food isvery important in Australia. Moving to this
country and seeing how how skewed thefood system was over here, I've found
myself with an opportunity to educate consumersand Texans on a better way to get

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their beef and the Actually, thisis not only a better without a doubt,
it's better because I've tried it andI've talked to you. I mean,
I look at the pictures and I'mposting picture on Instagram and they just
look they look phenomenal, they tasteand I know they are incredibly healthier for
you. We could talk about that, but it's also the it's the process
of buying buying beef and buying asteer because you're a little different. I

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mean, listen, they're there area number of companies out there where you
can buy a few, you know, shrink wrap frozen steaks and filets and
hamburgers, and they'll send them toyou. You, my freend, you
offer the opportunity to purchase a steer, or at least a share of the
steer. And I've already heard forsomeone about listen, the past wet three
or four weeks. I've been talkingabout you my listeners that they've bought half
a steer, quarters steer, familygoes in together and by the whole steer.

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It's the concept of buying in bulkwhat we're talking about here, Anthony.
Filling your freezer. Many people havenot done that, but I gotta
tell you, the convenience is incredible, especially the next three or four months.
You've got family coming in for theholidays. That's a big selling point
and an opportunity that you're offering.Yeah. No, you know, people
procrastinating wait till the last minute whenthey're entertaining and having family other you know,

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no better time than Thanksgiving and Christmascoming up. You got football season,
you're having buddies over, and youneed to grill. Buying in bulk
and getting the fraser. There's somany benefits in doing things this way,
other than the fact that you knowexactly where your food's coming from here in
Texas, and so all of ourbeef once it's once we get the cattle

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processed, it's old vacuum sealed,so it never it never goes bad in
your fraser. And just the luxuryof not having to scramble to the grocery
store and hoping that you're gonna getgood beef. It's one hundred percent strike
right every time when you're having peopleover, because all you have to do
is reach in your phraser and youknow what it's going to be. Every
time. The Anthony Thomas, heruns Thomas Cattle and Catering. I know,

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stand by, folks, We're gonnamake sure I give you his phone
number and it's Thomas Cattle and Catering. Died Cob. I talked about your
phone number. And the interesting thingabout you because you owe this. You
are the man himself and you really, Anthony, you are the single only
person other than you and your butcherwho take care of literally that steer from
when it is bat when it's inthat pasture, all the way till it

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gets to your house because you manytimes you actually deliver it. But your
phone number. I'm gonna get offthe phone number. And you want people
to call you because you want toask them questions about you know, how
do they like there? I mean, how do you like the marbling?
And how thick do you want yourfilets? I mean that's like old butcher
you know, from like the BradyButcher, from the Sam's Butcher. I
mean that's top notch, quite aquality service. Yeah, So wisdom is

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everything. A lot of my businessand what I do is not only you
know, raising the highest quality beefthat money can buy, but education.
So educating my customers on becoming abeef connisseure, actually knowing where their beef
comes from, how it's raised,and how it's butchered. We dry age
out beef and there's nothing better thanhaving the knowledge of what you're cooking and

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what you're feeding your family. Andthat's something I really take joy in.
Give me one or two of youryour favorite let's put this way, the
most popular beef fights that people request, how it's marbled and thing. You
know, what are your top sellingYeah, so that's funny. So you
know, the typically consumers in thecity, they go to the grocery store
and they know your mainstream cuts likeyour Ribby's filets and York strips, Sloan's

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briskets, whatever. But we takepride in Thomas Cattle and catering. My
butcher actually takes the time and effortto carve a lot of these specialty cuts
that most people don't know about,such as flat Irons and Delmonico's and Denver
Steaks, just to mention a few, and these really surprised people because,

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you know, typically you're either aribbi or a filet guy or a New
York strip guy. But these extracuts that we have, like the Denver
steaks and the Chalk Eye steaks,the del Monico steaks and the flat irons,
they're very They're surprisingly, very tenderand marbled. And people love to
have that element of surprise when theytry some different steaks and they figure,

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well, this is just as good, if not better than the ribbi that
I'm used to going for or thefilet that I'm used to going for every
time. Okay, thank you.I know it's lunchtime right now, but
thanks now. My mouth is wateringdel Monico and the Dever. Listen,
people think they know, okay,they go to a menu, I know
the word in New York, Iknow the ribbi, you got filet mignon.
But the fact is, I mean, you've got a butcher and you've

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got you over there. I mean, you literally can make these custom cuts.
And a lot of people, probablyincluding me, until a few weeks
ago. Anthony didn't even know there'ssuch thing as a custom cut. I
mean, this thing is yours.It is a I'm not saying it's a
new concept, but is it aphenomenal concept. And at the end of
the day, I think it's economicalwhen you're stocking your freezer too, none
of the last minute of stuff.And it's so much healthier. And again
we're running out of time. Wegot about a minute over here. We're

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gonna have you back here in afew more weeks. But the Omega threes
and everything I mean is it isincredibly healthier, which is so important to
us. Anthony, Yeah, no, absolutely, So essentially, what you're
doing is you're buying a home raisedfat and steer from us. In that
posture, a ranch is an alfrom Houston, and we're going to dry
edge that steer for you, andyou get to customize exactly the way that

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you want the steer cut up.So any cut known demand, it's it's
yours, and you're going to getto customize the way that you want that.
So the thickness of your steaks,whether you want more robes or less
ribs, or more steaks bone inor boneless cuts, you get to actually
have your beef exactly the way youwant it. And there's one person that

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ever touches your meat instead of fiftyor one hundred people across different countries that
are touching your beef in a factory. So we truly believe that we are
providing the highest quality beef local toHouston. You know you were live in
Texas. We live in a cowboysstate, So why shouldn't you be able
to get your beef straight from aranch of straight from the source. It

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is gentlemen, Anthony Thomas, you'reprivate and personal butcher who himself delivers it
to your door. Anthony, I'vegot about four four emails in the last
minute. Half shut up and askhis phone numbers. Theyn't call you.
How do we get in touch withyou? Yeah, my phone numbers two
eight, one six, four,five nine two three seven, And I'm
ready available any day during business hoursto walk you through the process of getting

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a farm raised steer from us andeverything that that entails. Give me that
one more time to eight one toa one six, four five nine three
seven. Wait one six, four, five nine two three seven. Folks,
he is getting ready to hang up, so you can call them now.
I repeated that my accent is notas cool as yours. Mister Australian

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who now lives here in the Houstonarea. Hey, listen, well I'll
say it again. Your success amazing. I love how you created this concept
and this is unique. And Ilove the fact that a lot of my
listeners are starting to call you.I call you and start ordering their sides
to beef. This is a perfecttime of year. It's Thomas Cattle and
Catering dot Com. Two eight onesix four five nine two three seven.

(01:07:32):
Rodeo Cowboy, you are now released. Go eat, go eat some of
your own food, my man,because you need to strengthen up for all
your rodeos coming up. But Iappreciate your time. Thanks for having me,
Marcael. I look forward to beingthe household name would founder table Beef
in Houston, Texas. I think, yeah, you're you're a well on
your way, folks. Give himMcCall Anthony Thomas. All right, there
you go with the phone number.Well, I'm not gonna give you my

(01:07:54):
phone or I don't want to mixit up again. I'll give you his
It's two eight one six four fivenine two three seven you know, one
of the things that I love islisten. It's reviewing recommendations. My job
is to review, study backgrounds ofevery product in every service. It's what
I love. Meeting vocal businesses,local Texas businesses, which I've done for
twenty plus years. I get toknow them. I understand. I'll have
him on the show sometimes I'll putmy name behind him if I believe in

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him. I believe in this guy. It's just it. And again I'm
not mister red meat a ton,but dang man, his stuff he's good.
Once't you give him a shot?As we continue the High Tech Textion
Show right here KPRC Radio Houston andaround the world on iHeart Radio. And

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thanks again man. I'm getting someemails over here about to Anthony Thomas.
You see this is in the niceemails going geez, Michael, you know
what you actually it is this kindof a fun morning show type of thing.
You don't just talk about geeky stuff. You actually have some really good
interviews. I appreciate what Anthony Thomasjust talked about it. I'm gonna give
him a call to see if Ican get a half a side of me.
Never been able to do that mylife before. Okay, okay,

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that was from Jeremy. Jeremy's inSugarland. Jeremy, that's what I do.
The Yeah, I don't want tomake this boring. I'm not going
to tell you about all these thingsthat go beep and buzz. I'm here
Austo to talk about the consumery neatstuff from cars, two drinks, to
cocktails to food. And that wasAnthony Thomas, by the way, that
is a Thomas Cattle and Catering Companyfour h six six four seven seventy nine

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hundred. Call him now loved ashe loved it day man. If you
liked his accent too, from Australia. He'll tell you all about the beef
stuff and you know how to orderit, and the cuts and filets.
It's it's really good things. It'sall something else about was it beer?
Oh? I saw this story aboutbeer? This is crazy. You know
what surge pricing is. We've heardthe word surge pricing when it comes to

(01:09:48):
obviously, when it comes to uberor maybe left certain parts of the day,
it becomes more scarce or the pricingsurges to meet the supply demand.
And you know it's just from data. I mean listen, airlines do this
too, hey, you know listeningon these holiday seasons, we gotta raise
the price of tickets and surge pricing. There is a there's a pub company

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in Britain. It's the Britain's largestpub company. It's called the stone Gate
Group. They announced they're gonna dosurge pricing at eight hundred of its locations
across the UK. They're gonna withsurge pricing, so they're gonna put up
a sign. It's called polite notice. You know those UK people are so

(01:10:36):
sweet. The polite notice. It'sgonna warn drinkers about the increased costs during
peak times. And the price increaseis up to an additional twenty pence for
a pit of beer. What isit? What is a pence? What
is a pence worth? Calum?Can you tell me that? Because someone

(01:10:56):
google's thing? How much is anot mike pence worth to the American dour?
Is it a few cents? Asof as of twenty twenty one,
tenpence is about fourteen cents in America, So twentypence so you got about a

(01:11:17):
quarter, right, So they're gonnaraise it a quarter. I'm sure what
time is this. It's funny becausewhat time is this gonna happen? Is
it gonna be? I would assumethe peak times would be what we know
is happy hour, and generally happyhour you lower the price. So is

(01:11:42):
this called the unhappy hour? Ihave no clue. I don't know if
I would drink at this place doingthis because there was a twenty eight point
seven million dollars loss for the firsthalf of the year because of the Britain's
cost of living crisis. So Britain'shaving a cost living crisis. So they're
raising the price of beer during certaintimes to actually increase the cost of living

(01:12:04):
crisis. This is unhappy hour,absolutely unhappy hour. I don't I don't
like this, but I'll tell youwhat. These companies, with access to
algorithms and obviously their desire and theirneed to maximize revenue. I mean,
they're going to keep finding price innew ways to add prices to every single
part of life. I mentioned earlierin the show. At least I think

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I did there is. Las Vegascasinos have had a very bad week.
MGM and Caesar's the two I thinkthe two biggest casino resort companies that have
so much presence in Vegas. Theywere hacked and their systems have been down.
The credit card machines, the waythat you can check in, the

(01:12:48):
way you check out, the gamblingaspects, the food ordering, and even
I think the payroll of employees.It has been down most all this week.
I think Caesar's allegedly paid about fifteenmillion dollars in ransom to get their
systems back up. MGM. They'restill fighting for this thing. All I
know is they've lost a lot ofpredact These casinos lost a lot of credibility

(01:13:11):
and they've lost a lot of money. I would talk about surgery pricing,
and I'm gonna say so, I'mgoing after casinos because I go to Vegas
quite often. Casinos, now youknow what it's like to be held ransom.
When we see in line item onour bill that says resort fee,
which is the biggest BS fee thatI could potentially think. I've seen some

(01:13:31):
BS fees, but I cannot senda resort fee twenty five bucks a night
maybe if not more, for aresort fee. Excuse me, what's a
resort fee? Well, it's youget to internet access, okay, which
is everywhere you can get to theGM or the workout facility, and it's
just overall with fee. There's somany of the casinos do this thing.

(01:13:51):
There's resort fee and they're not evenresorts. Some of them aren't even resorts,
folks, casinos, screw you.This is what it's like to behold
hostage by you and hacked for allthese years. See what I did there.
I'm not gonna give out the phonenumber because we're about the two or
three minutes d I did talk abouttwo segments ago before we talked to me
Anthony Thomas. I talked about howI started my career and giving some people

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some advice. And nowadays when Italk to people, it's like how do
I get into the media, AndI'm like, do you really want?
And I'm serious, you really wantto get into the media. However,
sometimes jobs that come along, it'sjust, oh, my goodness, I
want to be in the media.I saw this one. This is a
Gannette Gannette Is. They own newspapersUSA Today and a number of others.

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They're hiring a reporter to cover nothingbut Taylor Swift was this listing on LinkedIn?
Because I should apply for this thing. It's It's not common for an
entertainment reporter to cover only one artist, but USA today they are planning to

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hire not one, but I thinktwo people. Who is a massive Swifty
in a dream job. I'm lookingat this thing, the role. It
requires international travel, and it paysbetween forty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars.
Here, let me help you out. That's a pretty big spread.
I'd like to know which side ofthat I'd beyond. But then again,

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there's people out that we're going Ido it for free, Swifty cruel summer.
Oh my goodness, I understand why, because Taylor Swift is unstoppable right
now. Her tour it took inone point six billion dollars the Erros tour.
Would you like to just, hey, fly anywhere and cover Taylor Swift

(01:15:46):
and get paid? Where's the where'sthe Beyonce beat? Let's hear it for
the Htown girl? I do it? I mean I don't like right.
Of all the things that I do, I do right, and obviously I
do electronic media, I do TV, I do ready to add I would
i'd write, I'm not to makea Swifty fan. I mean Beyonce's okay
too, but it's a heck ofa job. So kids, if you

(01:16:10):
want to get a media better getyour TikTok, resumes and everything else you
need to do to talk about.Oh my god, it's it's Taylor.
Taylor. By the way, Ihad a very big music MTV Music Video
Award winning this session earlier. Thisweek's first time I talked about m TV
on the show probably in about twentyplush years, which means is time to
shut up and get out of here. Listen. We keep this show free

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