How To Save Money On Streaming Services; Car Review: Mazda Miata MX-5; Interview: Founder Of Hat Creek Burger Co.

• How to save money on streaming services

• Car review: Mazda Miata MX-5

• Interview: Founder of Hat Creek Burger Co.

Episode Transcript

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Hi te is Michael Garfield. MichaelGarfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high tech
Texan. Michael Garfiel is here witha high tech Texan items to make life
easier, some new technology. SoMichael Garfield has something you might want.
Hi Texan, Michael Garfield is yourhigh tech Texan. Three decades hoping you

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make magic with your gadgets heard worldwideon the iHeart Radio act. Now your
high tech Texan, Michael Garfield.Should I start with the good news?
Well, is there even any badnews? Listen to me? No,
because it's always sunny here on kpor C nine fifty am across Houston and

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iHeartRadio. Michael Garfield is the nameyou want the good news. August is
almost over. Almost yep. Westill got a few months of an hundred
degree weather. But you know what, at least today, as I do
my show live college football begins andmaybe there's some simulation of there's actually life

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going on right now. Man,we have suffered. If you are in
and around the southeast Texas Houston area, it has just been not on.
Won't even say arguably, I thinkit's factually the hottest, worst, nastiest
summer do I say on record,I've only been on this earth fifty or
so years, you know a littlebit more than that. But as far

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as I can remember as a textin people, it is just it was
nasty, nappy, sweatysh fitzy,humidity and everything else. I'm not here
to complain about the weather, becausehopefully you are inside, you're ac Hopefully
you're sitting and floating in a pool. You maybe got a cocktail in hand.
And by the way, I notthat I forgot about this. It's

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I do my show from eleven inthe morning, eleven am Central Time to
one pm Central Time. The phonenumbers are here. There's my manned Calum.
He's on the other side of theglass. Sometimes I forget that KPRC
just because they love me so muchhere, because I am the longest tenured
local live radio show in the historyof this one hundred year old radio station.

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They rerun my show from eleven pmat night to one am in the
morning, and I and I feelbad because I generally I always refer to
Hey, it's you know, it'shalfway to happy hour. It's lunchtime here,
it's just after twelve o'clock. It'safternoon time. I really need to
stop. Really you and I callit dating. It's not so much time,

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it's time stamping. So I'm lookingfor time stamping. What I am.
It's it's interesting that it it's justruns from eleven to one. I
won't even say am, I won'teven say PM. So if you're listen
to this late at night, maybeyou're coming home late Saturday night from a
binge, which I was kind ofdoing last week, and that's what got
me. I'm driving home last night. It was just after midnight and I'm

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rolling home and I'm test driving acar. I'm in a Mazda Miata,
which I'll get to later later theshow because it's a very small car.
But a lot of the test carsthat I drive, and I drive every
single week, I drive at leastone, if not two, test cars
for a week, they have satelliteradio. Or maybe I bluetoothed my phone.

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This one did not have satellite.So I'm on AM radio. I'm
on AM and FM here in Houston, which is phenomenal, of course,
because here at iHeart we have wellover seven radio stations. Anyway, I
put it on nine fifty. Hey, I'm setting the dial and the car
comes on at twelve O five twelveX, and I'm listening to my voice
and I hate my voice, andI won't be honest with you. It's

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really nice of you guys just tolerateme in my voice. I really don't
listen to me because for the pastthirty years I've been doing this. It's
just I don't even like looking atmyself when I do the TV commercials or
I just don't know. I'm serious. It's just turn me off. Turned
me off anyway. But I'm Ilistened to one of my segments about you

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know, the fifteen minutes segment,and I was kind of I found myself
laughing at myself. Is that rude? Is this? But I guess the
takeaway from this is, oh mygoodness, I forgot I'm on at night.
So for all of you late nighttruckers, you're driving down I ten,
crossing through southeast Texas and you wantto hear some great talk Radiyah,
We do from all of us hereand thank you for listening and keeping on

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U this frequency. If you leavethe Houston DMA and you still want to
listen to us, you download theiHeart Radio app. You go to KPRC
and you can still listen to thehorrible sounds of my voice. But great
content, great content, and soso much for time stamping anything. Right
now, it is roughly about Idon't know what eleven minutes, twelve minutes

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past the hour. That's how I'mgone need to start referring to everything.
So if you if you like theshow so much and you're listening right now
in the morning, give me abouttwelve hours, tune in again and you
can listen to it again. Butalso you can also podcast it because right
after we do the show live,Callum, how are you my man?
Callum immediately puts it on podcasts,which you can find on I Heart Radio,

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Apple and all the other fun stuff. All Right, what do we
got for you? See? Ican't even say to well, I guess
I could say today, I couldsay tonight. Also what we what do
we have for you over these nextone hour and forty five minutes. Well,
we're gonna talk back to school.Are your kids back to school?
If you're in anywhere in the hTown area, odds are your kids are

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back to school? Mozeltov to you. You got your days back. However,
you've got a lot of homework tohelp with your kids. Maybe your
kids are off to college. It'skind of sad. I remember my first
one went off to college. Oh, but that's okay. I had two
more at home, and then thesecond went, and then the third went.
And when you become an empty nester, it's like, man, what's
going on? And I said,can I can I talk to somebody?

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I may have to listen to Garfieldand the radio because there's nothing else to
do. Your kids or off tocollege. And so if your kids are
off to school, they're going backto school. If you go to if
you're shipping them off to one ofthem snobby least coast colleges, they probably
haven't started. That starts after LaborDay, I believe. But if you
do want some last minute back toschool shopping ideas, yes, I have

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reviewed and I know a lot ofstuff. What's going on with the new
desktops, laptops, tablets, watches, phones, headphones and earphones. These
are things that I know I didn'tneed to worry about when I was in
college way back in the day.Headphones and earphones. Do you want the
wireless? I will run down someof the better wireless and wired headphones of

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this year, certainly right now thatare currently out in a few that I
hear. There's a pun right therethat I hear. The headphones are coming
out between now and the holiday season. I'm also going to talk about streaming
services too. How many streaming servicesdo you have? I'll shut up and
I'll let you count. Tick ticktick, all right, keep going.

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Oh, if I ask, individually, anecdotally, individual people, how many
streaming services do you have, I'mgonna give an over under of probably five
and a half, and it maybe low on that thing. Do you
have Disney, Netflix, Hulu,Apple Plus, TV Prime. I mean,

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it goes on and on and on, and they can cost money.
I am going to tell you afterthe break some some how to save some
money on streaming services, because thisreally kind of is getting out of hand.
I'll also tell you about a newways new televisions that are being launched
too. This is a neat TVwatching season. A lot of TVs will

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be purchased because football season, asI said, begins today or it actually
it's already begune earlier today in theafternoon. College football, the college football
that I care about, starts aweek from today when my University of Texas
Longhorns and you're Houston Cougars or yourAggies, they kick off. But it
is TV season. I'll let youknow it. Samsung came out with a

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new type of TV. Amazon actuallyjust launched a new app. If you
have Fire TV, you all ofa sudden just got a ton of new
channels to watch for free. Wedo have some open phone lines if you
want me to keep your company becauseit's late at night. I am here
for you. Seven one three twoone two five nine five. Oh.
The number has not changed and wellover twenty years that I have been doing

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this radio show. Michael Garfield ismy name. If you're tight enough with
me, you can call me Garf. But I'd love to hear from you.
Stand by because I'm gonna keep youawake because you're driving the night away
where everybody is staying away, whetheryou're just waking up in the late morning

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or you are about ready to fallasleep in the late evening, depending on
the time you were listening to myshow to rest your lee on KBRC fifty
am. We thank you so much. Nickname is Garf G A R F.
I thank you for following me notonly here for twenty two years,
and but also on all the socialmedia on high Tech dex and Hi g

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h T E c h T ex A N I posted a funny I
liked. Viral is the word nowwhen you think about all these videos and
viral never used to be a reallygood word growing up. Virus viral.
Nowadays you kind of want to beviral with all these social media videos or

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something. As as my kids say, it's you know, my youngest son,
who is in the business of contentcreating a number of ways. I
mean they inadvertently. I mean,he goes viral, so I'm learning from
him. Anyway. I don't know. I don't think I went massively viral,
but I did receiving some fun commentson a video I posted earlier this
week, one of which has todo with the cars I test drive on

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a very regular basis. I getto this week, I was in a
Mazda Miata. Now I'm a sixfoot tall dude, and Mazdamiata is one
of the smallest vehicles on the road. It is a it's a it's a
roadster. It's a two seater.This is the twenty twenty four, So

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no, it's the twenty twenty threeMazda Miata MX five. It is a
convertible where it's a hard top whereyou just hit the button and the top
goes down. The only way prettymuch I could fit in this car was
with the top retracted, and thenmy hair blows. But anyway, I
was, I was, I wasplaying around. It's how comparing, how

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bit actually how small this car was. And I took a pizza, and
I took a gigantic pizza box fromFat Boy's Pizza which is out in Richmond,
Texas out west, and it isa ginormous pizza The pizza boxes thirty
inches square, thirty freaking almost threefeet. It is a massive that holds
eight slices, feeds a family offour. Anyway, the point is the

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pizza box could not even fit intoMiata. And I put together like a
ninety second little fun little video andme trying to get take a pizza and
put it in the car. Wereit went viral or out, but I
did get a lot of comments,and yes, people, this if you
don't know me, might this reallyis what I look like? I mean,
it's I don't It's not that sexa or anything. But that's that's

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in. It's my real hair.That's at my age. I'm gonna flaunt
it if I got it. It'sgetting a little longer, I think,
but that's it. I want peopleto focus on the pizza in the car,
but they're commenting on me. Wasthat a body double? Now it's
it's it's just me, just uglyold me shoving a big old pizza into
my maths. To Miata, thankyou for following tech techs and Instagram threads

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and Twitter wherever you want to follow. I will give you a little bit
more in depth in my thoughts onthe maths to be out of other than
the fact that it's a small car. It's got a great power to wait
ratio just because it's so late.And this is a stick shift. This
is a manual which I'm not afan of manual vehicles driving around the city

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of Euston, just because the trafficand manual stick shift cars, which maybe
of the Let's see, I drivea brand new vehicle every week and then
sometimes I double up. I willget a minimum of sixty different vehicles to
drive for at least a week everysingle year. Of sixty vehicles. If

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I get two maybe three a yearbetter stick shift that are manual, i'mline
that that's about it. They're funbecause you can really if you really know
how to drive it. I mean, you can read these things and you
can zoom zoom zoom, go fast. But you know, you get you're
in traffic. It's like you're ridingthat clutch and so it's you know,

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it's a neat second car. Uhsticker price, it's you know, when
it was about thirty five thousand dollars. You don't get you don't not get
a lot of trunk space. People, you get about four point three cubic
feet of trunk space, which,by the way, cannot hold a giant
pizza from Fat Boy's Pizza. I'mjust just just let you know that,
letting you know it fun without adoubt. My son, my youngest son,

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was in town for a few dayslast week and I drove him around.
He gets in. I need tohave my my kids help me with
my car reviews because they see itfrom a totally different introspect and perspective than
I do. Because I'm reviewing carsfor fifteen plush years. I look for
things that consumers want. They lookfor things that and listen, they're all

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in there at twenties there, theyare all out of college, they have
money to buy cars. They arelooking for things that they want, and
so I'd love their perspective. Somy son gets into this, and he's
about an inch short of than me. He's pretty tall as he's about five
eleven. He makes his way intothe passenger seat. First word out of
his mouth impractical, very nice,Adam, good call. For some of

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it is impractical, for some ofit is fun. It's all in perspective.
I'll get to that. If youdo want to ask me any questions
of back to school products or anycar questions, if you're a car buyer,
it's one of the things that Ido do. I am not paid
by any back to school manufacturer.I'm not. I am not paid by
any car manufacturer or dealership. Theseare all my thoughts and opinions. And
I can rag on any car andany dealership as much as I want to.

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But I'm at seven one three,two, one two five nine five
oh. One of the I'm gonnatalk about streaming in this kind of reverse
back to my kids right now,my kids, we all share passwords even
though we're not supposed to Netflix.Earlier this summer they started cracking down on
passwords sh and Netflix actually quarter overquarter, I think they just added six

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point two million new accounts this pastquarter only because in early summer they stopped
the password sharing if you're not livingin the same house, which forced a
lot of Netflix describe to say,ah, screw it, man, It's
about time that I just suck itup and start paying for my damn Netflix
thing. But yeah, between friendsand what have you. You know,

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you know, I get a littleNetflix, a little Max, you know,
some Prime Video and what have you. So. But anyway, it
was one of my kids who said, many, how come you haven't watched
ted Lasso yet? It's because,I say, well, because you have
not given me your freaking Apple TVpassword. Anyway, I found it.
There was a two month free trialfor Apple TV, and I'm just almost
I'm on, like the last fourepisodes of ted Lasso. Where the hell

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have I been? Why? Imean, I knew it was around.
What a awesome show. I mean, I've always been a fan Jason Sudeikas
from S and Al and some ofIt's funny movies. But damn man,
it is just a it's you know, it's just a sweet show and we
need to be sweeter nowadays. Andthat's Apple TV. How many streaming services

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do you have? Do you have? Apple TV? Netflix, Disney Plus,
Hulu, Prime Max. It goeson and on and on. You
want to bend some of this stuff. But you can blame some growing economic
pressure on the streaming industry because manyof them they have tens of billions of

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dollars in losses and they're trying tofigure out how to get more. I
just told you Netflix limited password sharing, which was great for them because they
just added six million subscribers. ButNetflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Peacock,
they've all announced price increases in recentmonths. And I saw there was

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something in the Wall Street Journal theyestimated the average cost of watching a major
add free street service is going togo up and about about twenty five percent
and about a year they're gonna goup. So between the hikes and inflation,
it's it's tough, man. Sowhat do you do? How do
you save money? Well, numberone, you've got to subscribe to fewer
streaming services, duh. More thanhalf of American households say they subscribe to

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four or more streaming services. Nearlya quarter of households subscribe to eight or
more. Nearly half of us haveforgotten all about a streaming subscription that we
pay for but no longer watch man. The other thing you need to do
is you need to start trying cheaperstreaming plans with commercials. If you don't

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mind commercials. The advertiser support ofplans, they're always cheaper. So instead
of paying fifteen and a half bucksto watch Netflix without commercials per month,
you could pay seven dollars a monthand you sit through some ads. You
got a problem with ads? Iknow you don't, because you're listening to
me right now, because in abouta minute and a half, I'm gonna

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take a break for ads, andyou know what, it keeps this radio
show for free. Put that perspective. Hulu is the same thing. Hulu
is gonna go from fifteen bucks toeighteen bucks in October, but for eight
bucks you can watch Hulu with somecommercials. You also need a hunt for
some deals too. You may beeligible for some free or discounted streaming subscriptions

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that are bundled with your other services. There's a lot of mobile carriers that
give you discounts and streaming services,or maybe they give them away with some
plans. I think American Express Platinum. If you got one of those cards,
I think you get free Walmart Plussubscriptions, which means you get paramount
plus a new extra charge. There'sa lot of those things. Come again,

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I found a two month free ApplePlus TV subscription. I'm bening as
much as I can for that thinggoes away. Then there's free streaming options
too, free, and I'm gonnatake a break, and when we come
back, I'm gonna tell you whatabout free And it's a whole new lingo
fast, free ad supported television.They're out there. You may have heard

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it. Pluto two b t Ubuy and there's more. I'll tell exactly
what. Amazon just launched two.So there's free streaming options and we like
that four letter word f r ee. Good luck finding new trials. I
told you I found out with Apple. They're few and far between what they're
up there. And by the way, if you're really old school, raise

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your hand if you're an og,which means an old garf out there.
If you're looking a shrink or streamingbill, get an indoor TV antenna and
suck it up on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, EBS, Telemendo.
Here in Houston, there are aton of digital sub channels. Also,

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be warned if you look for somethinglike YouTube TV or Hulu Live TV,
as prices are going up. Also, I am also your streaming guy,
Michael Garth will lose the name bottomof the hour, whether you're late
afternoon or a late late night,I am you're guy here on KPRC nine
fifty am. We're gonna be rightback. So no matter if you're listening

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in the late morning or late lateat night here at came near Swoo nineteen
fifty eight m across southeast Texas,it's the bottom of the hour. We're
gonna keep it that way. So, whether you're live or listening to the
encore performance. As we approach midnight, Michael is still my name, Miguel,
Missiel, whatever you want to callme. Phone numbers, odds are

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they're gonna be working. I'd liketo think so at least they are right
now live seven one three, two, one two, five nine five out.
Not giving it away anything right now. We do have some stuff to
give away. We like you doingthings like that in radio. Got some
gift cards for you, and theyhave to They evolve around food, because
you know what. You may notlike technology, you may not like cars,

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you may not like travel, cocktails, spirits, things that I talk
about. But darn it, you'regood enough and you're hungry enough. Everybody
has to eat right you do.So anyway, I have a gift card
for Benny Hannah. Love me someBenny Hannah really good stuff, and also
Johnny Tamali's Good Good tex mex Cantinalocated in Missouri City, Texas on the

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southwest side of town. So shoutout to Fort Ben. You guys have
been scrambling for those Johnny Tamali's giftcards, so that we'll give those away.
I don't know between now and thenext will at least in the next
hour and fifteen minutes or so.I'll give you that number when we're ready
if you do have questions. Itis an interactive radio show. Callum Reid.
How are you callum? You?Can you call them? You're excited
for football season? Yeah, metoo, Saturday college football season either depending

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on what you're listening to, thisradio program on Saturday the twenty sixth of
August is what we're doing it nowwith football season is kicking off very shortly,
or he kicked off earlier today.Notre Dame UH Navy. That was.
That's the big one that was circledon my calendar today. Next week
we've got Texas v. Rice.Who you got in that one? You're

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gonna watch it on TVs. NewTVs are being launched. I saw Samsung
and I talk. I talked aboutSamsung a lot this summer. I was
in I was in Soul, SouthKorea earlier this summer to learn about their
new flip unfoldable phones. And itwas neat to be able to go to
Samsung's world headquarters on campus and onthe north part of Soul, Korea,

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about twenty five miles from the DMZ. And they've got tons of employees,
just tens and tens of thousands ofemployees over there. Well, I was
there learning about their their phones.But Samsung is so prevalent in that country
of South Korea, just all around, so I'm gonna listen. They are
refrigerators, watches, and televisions everywhere. If you didn't know Samsung makes TV's,

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they do, and they just cameout. You ever heard I've talked
about this once in a while.I don't have I've never had one.
But it's called the Frame. Samsunghas a television called the Frame. And
what it is they they have afifty five inch I think a sixty five
it is seventy five inch. Butwhat the Frame is it is a piece

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of art. It's a flat screenTV that you put on your wall and
when it's off, it turns intoan art show, artwork and it's like
a digital gallery, showcasing things thatyou could download from stuff in the the

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louver and what have ye. Anyway, I say this is because they just
did a collab with Disney. Disney'sI guess Disney just turned one hundred years
old, Disney one hundred, sothey collab with Disney Art. So it's
the Frame Disney one hundred addition,and they're on sale now starting at about
seventeen hundred dollars. It's a conversationpiece. I have seen these at cees

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and when it's turned off, Imean, you just it's just it's nice.
You just watch art flipped by andthen you turn it on and then
you got your your favorite TV.But which we are talking about TV,
by the way, and how doyou watch TV? Told you about the
streaming apps. They're getting very expensive, so I can't. I kind of
ran down some ways to save youmoney on some streaming apps. The average

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person, the average consumer in theUS, what did I say, has
at least four streaming apps. Twentyfive percent of people who were pulled have
eight or more. That's a lot. I remember pull up a chair because
Uncle Garf, he's going out toold school now. Growing up in the
seventies, and I do remember wehad color I do remember black and white

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TV, but mostly color TV.We didn't I was actually the remote control
where my parents would say, hey, go flip the channel eight. And
you know Dallas, where I wasgoing up, there were I could count
on certainly two hands, a numberof over the year TV channels and that's
all we had. There was nocable, there was no satellite. It
was ABC, CBS, NBC,and oh my goodness if there was PBS.

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And he guess those are the daysof Sesame Street Electric Company, the
New Zoo Review. When I wasa kid, I got it, but
that that was it. People havemore streaming services a day than there were
over the air TV channels in theseventies, and let's just kind of keep

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out of that that that's just howfar we've come. Now you've got too
many options and now it's expensive andboth Oh, by the way, television
was freeback There is still free TV. Now. You get an indoor antenna
and they'll your local affiliates. IfI'm talking Euston channel thirteen, ABC eleven,
CBS, NBC two, PBS,Fox twenty six, you can get

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those for free over the year.Other than and you get a lot.
There's a lot of Spanish speaking stations, there's and whatever. If you've got
a digital channel, there's sub channelsthat goes on. Right there's free ways.
But everything was free because that wasit in the seventies early eighties,
before cable and MTV came around.Man, it was it's all free.
It gets expensive right now. Butthere are other ways to watch free TV.

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And there's something called Pluto TV.There's something called two B t Ubi
two BTV. These are free adsupported TV channels, fast free ad supported
TV channels. Yes, there's ABCNews, CBS Sports, Fox, Sports,

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MLB, Martha Stewart and you canget that stuff. You can get
these on Pluto. You can getthese on two B just search form,
download them and what have you.However, if you're an Amazon fan and
if you have Amazons branded TVs whichare called fire TVs, they just announced

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this week a fire TV channels.It's an app. It's called fire TV
Channels and it gives Fire TV customersaccess to over four hundred free ads supported
TV channels. I'll repeat it again, Free Variety, Rolling Stone, The

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Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Looper,Funnier, it goes on and on.
Now Fire TG channels. That wasI think the Amazon introduced them in May
on the actual fire TV branded smartTVs and streaming devices. But this is
now an app and it gives givesyou kind of a single destination for you

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to quickly access thousands of live demandtitles on sports, news, entertainment,
cooking, and gaming and stuff.So if you're a customer, you can
find Fire TV Channels on the YourApps and Channels section and there's a free
icon in the navigation bar labeled firstOfferings. They're seeing a big surge in

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popularity, certainly among the cord cutterslooking for some alternative to paid streaming and
Appazon it looks like they answered itright now with they're they're expanding into this
space. There's another one called freev You ever heard of that one?
F R E E v ee.Amazon actually owns that. That's a free
streaming service and that goes along withthe Roku has something that's free. Chronicle

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has something that's free. So ifthis is what I do, Listen,
when I started this high tech textand schizo years and years ago, I
was talking about expensive things, newcomputers, new computers, new desktok computers.
There's twenty five hundred bucks. Newtelevisions came out when I was when

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you know it was new digital TVsand high definitive edition high definition TVs.
You got that when they first rolledout, they literally were fifteen thousand dollars.
So if I can find ways tosave you some money, people,
I'm here for speaking of ways ofsaving money. I got a trivia question
and now hit this when we comeback. I do a lot of research
and a lot of test driving inthe car and automobile industry. I probably

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cover cars, trucks, automobiles morethan I cover technology. As as you
as you think technology, technology iscomputers, laptops, tablets, watches,
and and and smartphones. I getfact as I test drive cars. I
give you my thought on cars.I write articles, I do videos on
cars, and it's neat to beable to do that. Cars are getting

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expensive. Trivia question right now,I want you to think about this.
There is and somebody can fact checkme. There is only one new car
on the market could be had undertwenty thousand dollars. Our buying wisdom coming

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up after the break, I'll getI'm gonna give when we come back.
I'll tell you what the middle ofthe road new car costs the average I'll
tell you what an average huge car. But there is one, no googling,
and only one brand new car,a model that you can find that
is under twenty thousand dollars. That'sso much for the state of the industry

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that we're a This is what wedo. What we're here. We have
some fun, we give you someinformation, we keep you entertained, and
hopefully we keep you awake on MichaelGarfield's high deck decks and show. I'll
tell you what I'm gonna do,because am I can think I'm a nice
guy, Calum, You're a gooddude. We work with we only hang

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out with good people's. That's theattitude that I actually think I've got from
Ted Lasso, but I kind oflived in my entire life. Let's give
away something, man, You've perseveredme for twenty two years and you're listening
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that. As we continued the oldMichael Garfield shoe gonna turn a little to
cars, I was at what's Michaeldriving? This week? I was in

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a mas Demiada. Actually I wasalso in a key as I had two
this week. I was in amas Demiyada, little little tiny, remember
they're so cute mas demiata U.The MX five about thirty five thousand dollars
or so very small, two seater. No, it does not even have
a glove box. You know thata glove box normally sits. It's under

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the dash right in front of thepassenger seat. As we have known to
drive cars and sitting cars, youknow where your glove box is I'm looking
for the glove box. There's nothing. This thing does not have a room
for a glove box. It hasone storage compartment between the driver and the
passenger seat. So if you're drivingand you've got your right elbow that's sitting

(34:28):
on that you know, just rightby the gearshift, right behind your elbow.
I mean, you've got to twistyour body to turn around to open
up this little cubbyhole. The cubbyhole, it will fit maybe a small
paperback book the trunk space. Noway in the world would it fit a
set of golf clubs. Much letsone golf club. Maybe it'll fit a

(34:53):
child size putter. But listen,I'm telling you what you get. I'm
not ragging on it. This iswhat it is. They build these cars
and people buy these cars. It'sjust a sportster fast. I had a
manual stick shift, six speed stickshift. It was fun. This was
a convertible. You hit the buttonand the top goes up and down about
seventeen seconds or so. My locks, my lettuce was flowing and they in

(35:15):
the hot, nasty, humid wind. There's not a lot of wind here
at Houston. But if I'm drivingrelatively fast that creates a win. So
that's what I was rolling around roundit thirty five thousand dollars saw stat and
feel free to actually shoot me downon this one, but I believe my
source. Do you ever try tobuy a new car? Apparently there is

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only one new car under twenty thousanddollars on the market period, brand new.
You want to save money, stickwith public transit. Sadly, here
at Houston there's not a lot ofpublic transit. But if the bus isn't

(36:00):
your style and you're looking for abudget shattering car, there was one vehicle.
Now I'm gonna, I'm gonna.I'm gonna set a president by saying
this. I've been around a longtime. Yes, I'm in my fifties.
I remember watching The Prices Right?Who's with me here? I love

(36:23):
pretending I was sick from school andwatching The Price Is Right Bob Barker at
Janice the Hot Model, And whenit was an hour long show, there
were three there were three condestants ineach half hour, three condescens. And
then you did you spun the wheelto get to the showcase show down the

(36:44):
next half hour there was three condescens. You get in the next half showcase,
and then you go to the showcaseshow down, and if if your
guess is within one hundred dollars withoutgoing over the actual retail price, you
win both showcases. I'm on down. On each half hour, there were
three condestins and you would have toguess the price of band aids or tang

(37:08):
or Scotch tape or whatever it is. But in one of those three each
hour a brand new car and youhad to guess the price of the car.
That was a long introduction of whereI'm going. I remember when the
price of the car was four digits, and I remember when the first digit

(37:30):
in the price of the new carstarted with the three. I am not
kidding you. I could get Iwas one of the reasons I am.
I'm an ultimate consumer is I'd liketo thank the price is right. I
could tell you, man, Iyou know I need ten I need ten
bottles of Hinz ketchup because it's exactlyit's gonna get me to my budget of

(37:52):
nine dollars and eighty six cents.So I got it all. But I
remember watching the new cars and ifthere were four digits and you had rearrange
the numbers. It was. Itstarted with a three car, started a
three thousand dollars. Folks, thereis now one car on the market that
sells for under twenty thousand dollars.Here comes the payoff drum road prize.

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It is the Mitsubisi Mirage, theonly new model going for less than twenty
thousand dollars. This is as oflast month, nineteen thousand, two hundred
and five dollars at the average sellingprize in July. Of the Mitsubisi Mirage,
any other vehicle with four wheels inthe United States that's classified as an

(38:42):
automobile, you're paying over twenty thousanddollars. Crazy, sad, I don't
know. A middle of the roadnew car costs over forty eight thousand dollars.
That is up thirty percent since twentynineteen and four years it has gone
up a third. The middle ofthe road new car. I don't know

(39:02):
how they defind middle forty eight thousanddollars use cars. The average July price
was twenty seven thousand dollars for aused car, thirty percent hike from twenty
nineteen. This is the world we'reliving in. Seventeen point one percent of

(39:23):
new car owners had a monthly paymentabove a thousand dollars. Me. I
don't find, I don't leave.I do buy cars. I've bought less
than five cars in my life.I buy cars and I wear cars out.
I buy cars, I don't leasecars. I'm not a liser.
I'm a lover, not a fighter. I'm a buyer, not a liaser.
We're gonna come up to the topof the hour. All right,
But America's obsession with supersize rides,it really is partially to blame for these

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high prices since carmakers they've ditched allthese affordable compact vehicles. You also want
to know something that's gone up theprices, smartphone, something I'll talk about
next hour. People, I keepyou tuned in and I keep you tied
to the leash. Stand By,we got about we got at the top
of the hour. We got somecommercial breaks. We're going to give you
some ads. You know why,because we keep this radio show f r

(40:07):
EE. That's how we do it. Stand By, we got one more
hour of fun. I'm a hightech Texans. Yeah, hi tech Texan

(40:29):
is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield.Michael Garfield's joining the high tech Texan.
Michael Garfield is here with a hightech Texan. It was to make life
easier new technology. So Michael Garfieldhas something you might like. Hi,
tex Michael Garfield is your high techTexan three decades hoping you make magic with

(40:54):
your gadgets. Heard worldwide on theiHeartRadio Act. Now you're high tech Texts
and Michael Garfield. Halfway from theshow people, And normally I do say
it's halfway to half the hour.I'm going to carry over when I started
about an hour ago that I sometimesforget. But I realized last week late

(41:17):
at night that not only do Ido the show plausibly live eleven in the
morning to one in the afternoon,and this is right now as I do
it live. It's just right aftertwelve O eight twelve o nine pm,
So we're halfway through the show,halfway to half hour. So if you're
out by the pool, feel freeto be drinking. However, I did

(41:37):
forget that the show was so popularhere after twenty two years that we do
a repeat encore broadcast at night fromeleven pm to one am. So should
you be listening right now on Sundaymorning Central Time at twelve o nine am

(41:59):
Sunday. Unless you're at home,feel free to imbibe. But if you
were driving home or if you're gettingready to get in your car, let's
just keep it on the DL anddrink your water. People. So however
you are celebrating happy hour, weare halfway through the show. Michael Garfield
is the name. Nickname is GarfG A. R F. It's called

(42:21):
The High Tech Decent Show. Wetalked so much more about technology. We
do talk about cocktails a lot aboutcars. I'm gonna finish my conversation that
i had about ten minutes ago oncars. If you missed that there was
one. There is only one randnew car in the United States currently that

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sells for under twenty thousand dollars.That's how expensive. The price of automobiles
have risen thirty percent more than twentynineteen. Within four years, they've gone
up a third. Maybe it wassupplied supply chain for COVID, you blame
it on whatever. But there isone specific model of an automobile that is

(43:05):
under twenty grand. That is theMitsubishi Mirage. And by the way,
if you have a Mitsubisi Mirage,take a picture and send it to me.
Because I have not actually seen oneof those in quite a while.
I like Mitsubishi. No, no, actually, my son, my son,
my oldest son's first car thirteen yearsago was a Mitsubishi. Was a
Lance or wasn't it? Is thatright, and so it's it's sad.

(43:30):
I remember, my I remember wherecars cost three thousand dollars on the prices
right back in the seventies. That'swhat I was reminiscing. Anyway, this
hour, we're going to give awaya gift card to Benny Hanna. So
if you are listening and plausibly live, you have a chance to win that
there is anybody. I'm gonna makeeverybody hungry right now. I'm not the

(43:51):
biggest burger guy. I'm not abig red meat man. I'm just not
I like them. If I have, I easily easily can count the number
of burgers I have in a givenyear on one hand. I just don't
eat a lot of hamburgers. However, there's I have eaten this hamburg I'm
I am going to uh. I'mgonna talk with the founder and president of

(44:14):
a burger joint founded in Austin thatis now has several locations here in Houston,
and if you're listening up in theDallas area, there's a lot of
them up there. It's called HatCreek Burger Company. Anybody'd been to Hat
Creek really neat, family oriented place. They're all over Austin, and that's
where I discovered him. There's afew of them here. I'm gonna have
him on. It's just a greatstory. And that's what I do.

(44:35):
This is not promotional, it's notan endorsement or anything, but it's it's
it's a Texas based business. Dudejust has an idea, like you know,
and I'm starting a food truck inAustin and I'm gonna make some burgers.
And I'm just I'm the only personwho's the cashier, the bottle washer,
the cook there. And now he'sgot thirty forty locations all around the
state of Texas and growing. It'sjust you. I love hearing about success

(44:58):
stories and oh, by the way, if they happen, have some good
food. And the burgers are justthey're these double meat burgers. Of the
five I have in a given year, I will I will eat a Hat
Creek burgers anyway. That's that's comingup. Anything else I can do for
you phone calls seven one three,two one two five nine five. Oh,
I'm looking at you, callum readthrough that glass window. Thank you

(45:20):
for punching all the buttons and keepingus on the air and podcasting and and
playing the Encore the Encore presentation lateat night here on KPRC nine fifty am.
I wanted to continue the the carstory. Where was I about our
Oh yeah, so I was reviewingcars. I'm in amster to me out
of this past week. Very smallcar. You can go back and listen

(45:43):
to the podcast if you want tohear my thoughts on the very small car.
So there's one car right now thatis under twenty thousand submits of Bishi
Mirage. You ever rent was thelast time you rented a car? I
rent? I don't. I don'tin a ton of cars. I used
to rent a good amount of cars. But now when I go places,

(46:05):
if I go, if I goto California, if I got a SoCal,
my oldest lives out there, sohe sleeps me around. Uh.
When I d obviously I drive betweenDallas, Austin, h see families whatever.
If I go someplace where I knowwhere there's there's there's public transit.
You know, I got to Chicago, go to New York or something.
I try. I don't rent alot of cars, but I saw this,

(46:28):
and I don't rent a lot fromHurts. But Hurts is now making
a push for more electric cars,more electric cars, and it's good?
That is it good or not?I need you to help me decide,

(46:51):
because if you rent a car,do you want to rent an electric car?
And this is I'm just I'm openingI'm opening the phone lines. If
you want to eat me or zeatme, or or or thread me hi
G h T E C H TE X A N hop along, would
you rent an electric vehicle? AndI and I say this, it's because

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Hurts is getting ready to They alreadyhave GM cars, they have Tesla,
they have Pollstar, Kia, Hyundai. They're partnering with GM to even have
even more they I think they're They'redoing the new Chevy Silverado pickup. They're
doing the Kadiac Lyric suv later laterthis year. Hurtz is going to purchase
one hundred and seventy five thousand electricvehicles from GM over the next five years

(47:34):
because they really want to support thenext generation of automotive technology. Yeah,
good, would you rent an electriccar? I would not rent an electric
car. I would not. AndI remember says because one of my buddies,
I think once or twice he wasbragging the fact that he rented a
Tesla in Socow last year. Hey, man, guess what, I rented
a Tesla because there's a lot ofTeslas in California. Okay, good for

(47:57):
you. He then months later bitchedabout it because at some point, when
you reach the mileage range at twohundred, two hundred and fifteen miles an
hour, he doesn't know where heis because he's in a different city.
Now, yes, they have amap that shows you where you're these charging
stations are, and he's on vacation. Well, if you're on vacation,
you've got a limited amount of time. You need to go to the beach,

(48:19):
you need to go to the Broadwayplays, you need to go visit
relatives. You're sitting in traffic,you're making wrong turns because you don't know
where you are. You got dinnerappointments that you're running late too, because
man, what the hell are youtry to Now you're gonna waste another hour
looking and then charging your car notfor me. You see, I think
things through. Am I wrong?You tell me seven one three, two

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one two five nine five out.You know my thoughts and electric cars,
I like them a lot. They'refast, they're sexy. Yes, they
can help the greenness of America byhaving any exhaust. I'm not going to
talk about what happens in ten fifteenyears when they to figure out how to
dispose of the batteries inside. ButI do not like the current infrastructure of

(49:04):
America, of the public charging system. They're few, they're far between,
and it takes too long. Ido not huts around. If I'm driving
from Houston to Dallas, I ain'tstopping halfway through, and you know,
or anywhere near madison Ville or Centerville, crossing my fingers that I'm gonna find
an open charger and then jack aroundfor forty five minutes on people. I

(49:27):
want to go go, go gogo. They're good as secondary cars,
they're good inside cities. But I'mnot doing it, and I would definitely
not rent one like that hurts anda lot of these other players are offering
just my thoughts. Feel free.Maybe this radio show will go viral like
the videos that I'm trying to doon Instagram will go viral. We're gonna
take a break coming up. I'mhungry, I'm not gonna eat yet.
We got some burger talk and anythingelse you want to yep about. We

(49:51):
already hit the streaming. And whenwe come back. Who's going to the
moon, I'll tell you which countryjust now is only the fourth country ever
to land on the moon. Ifyou didn't hear that story, my name
is Garth. We're gonna be rightback. I'm as a people, I

(50:15):
get asked out a lot, especiallywhen I'm out about wearing this beautiful watch
that I've been temping that I gotfrom US Coins and Jewelry. And listen,
I'm not one of them braggarts.I'm really not. But it's a
Rolex. But is that really bragging? Well, you should be proud of
a watch. US Coins and Jewelrypurveyors of gold and silver. They've been
buying and selling it since nineteen eightyfive, well before I moved to Houston.

(50:38):
They buy and sell man loose diamonds, coins without a doubt, watches
a state jewelry and you and Iwalk in and there's Kenny and Matt Duncan
and they're like, hey, man, are you ready to upgrade or sell
us back and buy another? Really, I'm like, what are you got?
And I've learned a lot about them. I really listen. It's jewelry

(50:59):
is jewelry. Sorry, I couldtell a watch on my phone, but
there's something about wearing something really niceon your wrist. And I've learned from
them a lot about the watch industry, especially the Rolex. There's another Swiss
Watches too. They usually have severalhundred watches available and I do know this,
there's a shortage of Rolexes and oddsare they have them. I have
sent so many of my friends justfrom people coming up saying, hey man,

(51:21):
look at you big daddy, pimpand garf. Where'd you get that
US coins and jewelry? Can youhook me up? I'm like, yep.
Literally all text Kenny, I said, hey man, my buddy's coming
in, or he's coming in,or she's coming in. What can you
do for him? It's it's sosimple. They are on Katie Freeway right
your Voss, not too far outsideof Loop six ten, not too far
from the ike, across the acrossthe highway eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway

(51:45):
near Voss. They are open Mondaythrough Saturday. They are closed on Sundays.
Obviously Chick fil A stole the ideafrom Kenny and Matt Duncan, but
you can also listen if you're outof the using area. You can buy
online. Buying online and it's sosimple. You as coins and Jewelry dot
Com. The customer views are absolutelyglowing. I love rolling in there.

(52:07):
I feel probably the safest place inHouston. They have got on site security.
They've got cameras every ten feet,off duty police officers. So if
you're bringing in some coins or watchus to sell, no issue whatsoever,
they will absolutely take care of youwith their privacy boots and everything. So
I know they're generally listening right nowin the background at the store. So

(52:28):
hey man, what's going on?Kenny, Matt Nan just the great staff
seven one, three, five,nine, seven sixty three sixty seven.
It is US coins and jewey dotcom. So that is what time it
is right now. It's also timeto continue the long running Hi Tech Texan
show KPRC nine fifty locally terrestially aswe say, but also on iHeartRadio or
wherever you are listening. What Ihave been able to pull iHeartRadio from many

(52:54):
countries around the world. Last month, I was in South Korea. I
was listening on iHeart Radio. Ihave done my show from several points in
Mexico. Mexico, I listened tomyself and other programs on iHeart Radio.
One place that I'm not sure ifyou can get it yet is the moon.
And I mentioned the moon because forsome reason, the moon is hot

(53:15):
again. Now. I grew upin the I was young buck in the
seventies, and I who didn't wantto be an astronaut if you were a
young kid in the seventies, Yes, I had the metal lunchbox with the
glass thermis. And I didn't evengrow up in Houston. I could imagine
growing up in h town in theclear lake. Here are you you know,

(53:37):
you know astronauts or they would comeand speak to schools and my buddies
who went to high school and middleschool there, Oh yeah, we did.
They'll be deal was just you know, here's Neil Armstrong walking in.
There's buzz what up? Ain't nothing? Yeah? Basically so and then
the moon. Okay, we wentto the moon, right now, what
all right? Now we got thespace shoal. The Moon for some reason
is like hot again, and somuch so that India shout out to India.

(54:00):
Just this week they landed. There'snobody, but they landed a mission
to the Moon. They I believeare just the fourth Is this right?
Just the fourth country ever to landon the Moon, which is what obviously
America, Russia, Japan did theydo it too. Russia tried again earlier

(54:25):
this week and it failed. Sorryabout that, Russia. The reason it's
not so much the Moon, it'sthe south side of the Moon. Isn't
that a Pink Floyd album? Cansomebody check that? But India is so
smart. India spent less money toland a spacecraft on the Moon than Warner

(54:50):
Brothers Pictures spent to make the movieGravity, which is a good movie,
by the way. They had abudget of just seventy five million dollars.
India spacecrafts successfully landed on the Moon'ssouth hoole a few days ago, and
it makes any of the very firstcountry to reach that unexplored part, that

(55:12):
unexplored terrain of the Moon. Andwhat it's gonna do. There's a rover
and it's gonna rove in hopes oflocating a water supply that's easily accessible,
which is a necessity for more advancedand long term missions to space. Now,
if anybody is listening right now inthe clear Lake area, well,
let's put it this way. Whoworks for NASA and affiliated? Why don't

(55:35):
you give me a show. Let'stalk about this because space expiration is pretty
cool. And it was. Iknow, it's long been as significant part
of the economy and literally the publicityof Houston for many many decades. I'm
at seven one three two one twofive nine five zero and the landing and
I watched it on YouTube. Thelanding was. It's just really a big

(55:58):
source of national pride for India andit really signifies India's prowess in launching high
quality moon visions with pretty low witha low price tag, a low low
price tag. The let's say theIndian Space Research Organization, what is that
isro which launched this mission. Theyhad a budget of less than one and

(56:20):
a half billion dollars last fiscal year. Let me compare this to NASA's current
thirty four billion dollars in budgetary resources. That's pretty cool. Now you ask
why go to the dark side ofthe Moon, Pink Floyd. Why do
you know why? I will tellyou why, because this is what I

(56:43):
do. I'm a researcher and I'ma factual guy to give to give you
something, to things to make yougo. Because there's ice, ice,
ice baby. And by the way, that's two songs and or albums that
I worked in facetiously in sixty seconds. How about that. You're welcome,
ice baby. Because when ice melts, it turns into water, which is

(57:06):
very pivotal for at least two reasons. Number One, it's necessary for supporting
human settlements in space, and that'ssomething NASA has been trying to do with
its Artemis missions for the past tenyears or so. Two is, water
could also be used to make rocketfuel, which could make Moon a literal
launching pad for missions to deeper partsof the Solar System. So you want

(57:29):
to go to Mars. See ifman mankind, if man if we as
mankind and womankind too, if weused the Moon's natural resources to sustain let's
just say human colonies and dial upfuture launches. I mean, that's very
key to unlocking the next generation ofspace expiration. I mean, how about

(57:51):
that delivery fee for uber eats though, but then again you have to consider
the expense and time required to shipmaterials from Earth to the Moon, which
is about a quarter of a millionmiles. Math Bezos has that company.
It's called Blue Origins. That right, They were just awarded thirty five million
dollar contract from NASA to develop solarcells which out of crushed up rock material

(58:16):
that covers the entire looter surface.I'm in the wrong business. You have
to first of all, you haveto be a billionaire to have a space
company, allow Bezos and you know, Virgin and Elon and what have you.
But well, I mean thirty fivemillion dollar contract. By the way,
this reminds me one of the coolestthings I've ever ever got to do

(58:37):
in my entire life. Much obviously, let's just narrow it down to my
career. Here, I got tofloat in zero gravity. And I'm gonna
go back fifteen years ago. MaybeNASA used to have I don't want to.
I think they're retired. It was. It was a Case one thirty
five plane and it was nicknamed thevomit comet. And you've probably heard of

(58:58):
the vomit commet. It takes offfrom It took off from Ellington Field and
it goes out of the Gulf ofMexico and it flies parapol as it goes
up, up, up, upup up at an incredibly steep angle,
and it reaches the apex and thenit just dives down. And as it
reaches the apex and it dives down, there is like thirty seconds of true

(59:19):
zero gravity weightlessness. And that's howNASA trained it's astronauts how to live,
maintain, or float in zero gravity. And famously that's how some movies,
including Apollo thirteen, Time Cruise KevinBacon, they shot. They filmed a
lot of the the weightlessness scenes inthose things. I got to do it
as a media member because every summerNASA had a program for college students to

(59:45):
do experiments in zero gravity and youhad to, you know, you create
a paper and explain why you wantto do this project. They and then
you trained. And I actually gotthe train with like a two days training
and you know, got to sitin these compression decompression chambers and but sure
not. It was a retro fittedcasey one three five with a lot of
pads. I took off and forI spent in our entire afternoon floating in

(01:00:07):
zero gravity. And by the way, what I learned from that about zero
gravity, my hair does rise,my hair floats in zero gravity. It
was pretty pretty cool. So shoutout to everybody, the smart people the
rocket science who are listening right now. You know it's also rocket science creating
a business and sustaining it nowadays.Coming up, we're gonna talk burgers.
We're gonna talk an entrepreneur out ofAustin Hat Creek Burger just open three locations

(01:00:30):
here in Houston. We're gonna seehow he got started and how he maintains
his success. This is what wedo on the High Tech Text and Show.
You're back at it. Hope everybody'saving a wonderful early afternoon. Michael
gargild As you know the long time, a long running radio show here based

(01:00:53):
in Houston, but heard all overthe world. Thank you so much for
downloading that. I heart radio app. My job, as always is to
research, review and if I likeit, I'm all pimpett I'm gonna promote
it and I'm gonna give you somerecommendations and you guys can do the same.
Open bone lines right now, sevenone three two, one two five
nine five. Oh, that's howwe do. And I tell you one

(01:01:14):
of the neat things I always talkabout this is my show is it's early
afternoon, it's lunchtime, and soit's I'm very food centric and drink centric,
and so it's neat to be ableto meet restaurant tours and try all
the food and sample and snack herein studio. And one of the things
that I recently snacked on I had, you know, hamburgers. It's just
an unbelievable topic. Who makes thebest burger and who's got great fries?

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What have been some of the bigsides. There is a there is a
it's an Austin based chain that nottoo long ago expand it to Houston,
where I am. It's been upin Dallas two And if you're not familiar
with the company called Hat Creek atCreek Man, You've got to understand about
especially for you folks here, there'sI think there's three locations in Htown,
the two on the west side andone up north. But it's a Hat

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Creek Burger company. It's a greatstory and I love stories, and so
I'm gonna spend a few minutes givingyou this story describing some of these phenomenal
burgers. And you know, whenI do stories, I gotta go to
the source and the resource. Andthis one is the founder who fifteen years
ago had some crazy idea after hegraduated from the greatest university in the history
of the world. He created afood truck and is now a massive,

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massive chain around the state. Hisname is Drew Gressett. He is the
president and founder of Hat Greek.Drew joins me, what kind of burger
is in your hand right now atlunch time? Drew, what are you
snacking on? God, what agreat question. It's a big Hat Lane
with American cheese and ketchup and it'sfreaking great. Is that when you started
the entire thing on? Because youjust love for burgers, and I mean,

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you have so many great varieties inthe menu. That's that's that's that's
that's kind of a classic. You'renot very venturing off into the crazy stuff.
Ah, you're right. I juststay right down the fairway. Ever
since I was, you know,four years old, same order, same
burger, and it's it's my gotoo. And now I've got three little
kids and it's their go to aswell. So it's kind of a generational

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thing. Oh they don't. Theydon't straight far. But if I could
throw something in the Southwest and thepretzel jack to me, who's the top
two, probably in this day wewould we could talk about the menu a
little bit more. I want tostart with the orige over. First of
all, congratulations, you were gettingready next month in September to celebrate your
fifteenth birthday. Fifteen years at hackCreek Burger has been around, founded of

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course in Austin. Tell me aboutthe origin of hack Creek and how it
all started. I think back froma food truck. Yeah, it's hard
to believe fifteen years. I meanI think back fall of o eight.
We started in a food truck andyou know, spend so much time over
that spring and summer down in NewBronze Fools where the where the company was

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at the time that built the foodtruck, so back and forth all summer
long, and finally, you know, was able to drive that thing up
to Austin, parked it behind uhStarbar on West sixth Street, and you
know, got it open. Andyou know, back then I was the
opener, the closer, the cook, the cashier and and it was it
was a whirlwind, and you know, in so many ways, I was,

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I've got one guy that's been withme for fourteen years, fourteen of
the fifteen, and we were justlaughing within the last couple of weeks,
going, oh my gosh, canyou believe some of the some of the
old trailer days where you know,now we take things like running water and
uh, you know, plumbing forgranted, but back then we didn't have
all that. We had to getour gas brought in by a gas company

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two or three times a week.And anyways, it was a journey and
I'm thankful we're fifteen years old,and it's hard to believe in a lot
of ways. Why why burgers?Why food? I mean, listen,
I don't know what you studied inschool, and I know you're from the
Austin area. You stayed there,you went to ut and you could have
been anything, babe, including aradio host, which I would recommend staying

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away from. But you decided toget into a food I mean, was
that was it a lifelong dream?Yeah? You know, the burger thing.
Not that it's original, but forsome reason it was. I was
always just you know, like alot of people just loved, like you
talked about in your open like Ijust love cheeseburgers and hamburgers, and was
like, man, this would beawesome to have a brand that UH can

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sell cheeseburgers, fries and milkshakes.And of course now we've evolved a little
bit to have another menu items andplaygrounds and you know, beer and milkshakes
and whatever. But for some reason, early on, you know, sometime
middle school, high school, thatbecame something I got fixated on, and
ultimately, you know, just decidedif I didn't do it, i'd kind

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of always regret it. And I'mnot sure anyways, So here I am
fifteen years later, and we're stillwe're still kicking it. Drew Gresset He
is the president of Hat Creek Burger. They're celebrating their fifteenth year. They
got several here in us. We'llgive out the locations here in a sec.
You talk about standing out from otherconcepts of the burger concepts in the

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family, and I was on websiteand there's a really just a sweet video
of you in your three just adorablelittle daughters, and you know, you
filmed it outside and in one ofyour playscapes over here. But one of
the things that I took away waskind of the concept and that what to
me, what stands out is Ilove yours kind of your your theme is
fellowship and fresh Cheeseburgers. That's thetwo that's that's your two pillars you're standing
on. I mean, how didyou come to that pillar? Yeah?

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I mean when you think about it, it's it's it's uh, They're just
each of those words carry a lotof meaning for our brand. And you
know, when you think about fellowship, you just think about you know,
coming together with friends and family andcommunity and putting your phone down and you
know, conversation and pouring into eachother and and and you know, learning

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about each other and off the screensman and and so you know, obviously
back in Oa when we got started, it was fellowship and fresh Cheeseburgers.
But you know, the word fellowshiphas continued to evolve for our brand.
And so that's really the relationship sideof our business and the guests service and
the things we try to do.That's what fellowship is. And then fresh
Cheeseburgers really to us is just integritybehind the product and integrity behind the food,

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and we've tried to stay true tothat, you know, ever since
we got started. I mean,like you talked about, I've got three,
three little girls. They're a littleolder now than they are in that
video. But man, we eatat Hat Creek, and of course we're
biased and we're the biggest fans,but I feed my kids that and myself
that I don't know, three timesa week, and so we want quality

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ingredients and stuff that that's you know, that every family can enjoy. And
so that's sort of what the whatthe fresh cheeseburger side of our brand is.
And so those two pillars really it'skind of crazy, but those have
been kind of with us since thebeginning. Can you make a hamburger?
Can you make a cheeseburger without cheese? Who does that? Though? The
row? My wife Actually she don't, she doesn't need cheese. But yeah,

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other than that, I'm not sure. I'm not sure who does that
or why you would. I'll tellyou what a reason is that Because you're
an Austin boy. And when Iwas in school, I was in Uti
and I'm going back to the mideighties when I was in Uti and I
lived Adobe right there on Guadaloupe innineteenth and there was a very fan for
the for people of my age andilk you remember this. There was a
very i think locally famous burger place. It was called GM Steakhouse. GM

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Steakhouse. You can look the subdrows and it was run by this ornery
dude. He was like the burgerNazi, right, And you would go
in and the only thing if youwanted a hamburger, you literally would have
to order a cheeseburger with no cheese. That's the dude. That's how we
believed in cheeseburger so much. True. All my all, my Longhorn fellows

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and the ladies, they're gonna callin and I remember that that way.
It was good. We're talking toDrew Gress that he is the president of
hat Creek Burger Cumpany. You're celebratingfifty years next month, fifteen years,
so mozeltough on that, how areyou celebrating? What's the what are you
doing for the big milestone? Yeah, you know, we're making the rounds
to our stores, you know,recognizing a lot of our employees, a
lot of our long tenured guys.We don't have anyone that's been here all

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fifteen years at this point, butwe do have a fourteen year and you
know, lots of people in thefive to ten categories, so we're trying
to celebrate with our people. Andthen you know, we've got some commemorative
cups, just plastic cups, youknow, nothing, no china or anything,
but we've got those kind of goingout to drive through and dine in
all month and fall, just tosort of you know, celebrate, say

(01:09:27):
thank you, and and you know, commemorate some you know hat Creek.
Really we're just and then we've gota birthday cake shake that we're doing some
stuff later in September around so,you know, trying to keep it simple,
but trying to reflect and just havea good time with it. Without
a doubt, it is a goodtime. I have one suggestion, looking
one of my also favorites of themenu. You've got one called the Cowboy.

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You got double meat, double meat, shredded cheddar, you got some
onions, pickles, barbecue sauce.I say, for the month of September,
we celebrate we renamed the Cowboy tothe High Texan, which is my
moniker, and so maybe we celebratethe Houston wines that were just I'm throwing
it out there. I'm a marketingI'm a market I can get I could
get on board with that. Ilike last question before we get you out

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of here. Listen, you spentfifteen years. It started out as a
you know, as the from it'sfrom a food truck. And look where
you are right now. You havegot Dallas area, You've got Austin area,
You've got Houston, and I knowyou're gonna go. Where do you
see the company fifteen years from now? Kadle, you know, I mean,
it'll be wild to see. Idon't know that I expected to see
us here fifteen years ago, butyou know I loved at some point the

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future get you know, have storesall over Texas and maybe even another states,
and gosh, if we could growto seventy five or one hundred restaurants,
something went right. And so Ithink that, you know, we're
just trying to continue to grow andand get better, and hopefully in fifteen
years we'll be able to tell awhole a whole new story, a whole
new chapter of the story that wethat we started. So those are some

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of my thoughts there. I thinkcontinue to serve in some just damn good
food and great size. And youknow your locations. I know they win
in Westlake At that's in Austin area. That's your flagship, if you will.
The playgrounds for the kids, veryfamily orientated. Neat real quickly,
there's you have three current locations inHouston, is that right? Yeah,
that's right, Katie Kleine and fullSure, and that's exactly right. Three

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in Houston and then some in otherspots and areas around Texas. But yeah,
we're definitely in Houston. Love Houstonand yeah, good to be there.
All right. They expansion plans forhtown as I'm sure people are gonna
ask me when we hang up.Yeah, we are always looking, you
know, we love feeling those emailsfrom from gas Hey open here, open
there. But now there's obviously,I mean, gosh, Houston is such

(01:11:46):
a great city, big city,a lot of people and families, and
there's a plenty of communities for usto go, and so we're always looking,
and so I expect that we willbe for sure building more Houston stores
soon for Avalanche, Gland, Sugarlands. Last three yeh things on the stadio,
Okay, I said, listen,yeah, Drew, he's The president
of Hat Creek Burger Company's name isDrew Gressi. He said, what what

(01:12:08):
a what a great just opportunity,you great story. Congrats on your success
you know, and I'll just youknow, homegrown Texas guy just had an
unbelievable idea with some unbelievable foods.So I appreciate your you coming on making
some great food for us, keepingsome you know, some weight on me.
Thank you, Drew, and Iwish you another great fifteen years.

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Well, thank you, thank youfor having me. I really appreciate you
invite me on this show. Sowhat a privilege. I have a great
have a great afternoon. Thank you, Thank you so much. Chucking moors
and keep on eating as Drew gressHat Creek Burger Company. Seriously, you
gotta go the menu item. It'sjust unbelievable. You if you go to
the website, it's Hat Creek Burgersdot com. Everybody out there go look
at it. Stuff. The photosof the of the burgers don't even doing

(01:12:51):
justin when you see it's justice inreal life. We you see it.
They're like double meat. They arephenomenal. So go check it out.
Then hopefully we'll have a want againas a continuous expand. Michael's a name,
Michael Gardfoot. It is called TheHigh Tech Text and Show. It
is afternoon. I know you gotyour salivating. It got you hungry right
now, go grab a snack andcome back. As we return to the
show just after this, i'd beballwho's hungry? Who wants one of them

(01:13:23):
burger? And they thank you somuch to Drew with the Hatton Creek Burger
three locations on the west side andkind of the northwest side. It's a
good story. That's what I do. Listen, you know, hey,
Michael along On, you know,I bet you you talk about fixing people's
computers in the High Tech Text andShow. No, I've never done that.
That's Kim Commando, which is extremelyboring radio. I explore depth.

(01:13:47):
I get inside people's head. Iwant to give you my listeners wherewithal to
be an entrepreneur or just figure outhow things work, or give you really
good advice of products to buy orresearch. Even I do the research.
So that is the secret to mylongevity. Let me give you a tip
also what to do. Next weekis Labor Day? Anybody doing it?

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And go anywhere for Labor Day?Anybody Kevin Fowler fan or an Aaron Watson
fan. Little country music September two, Saturday, Next Saturday, September two
of Labor Day. The place tobe is believe it or not, It's
Texas City, which is down southfive forty five, not too far from
Galveston. Before you get there,logomar live dot com. This logo mar

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live that you may have seen it. It's that's the twenty four million gallon
crystal clear blue water that is partof the logomar subdivision. It is open
to the public. You can buytickets and things. But anyway, this
is Aaron Watson and Kevin Fowler onSaturday night. They're going to be doing
a big omama. Could we callit an end of Summer? The end

(01:14:51):
of Summer or welcome to Fall.They have built a floating stage. It's
a massive float. It's a stagethat is floating on the twenty four million
gallons of crystal blue water. Wouldyou can get into the water and swim
up right to the stage, whitebeaches and everything. It is. Go
to logo mar live dot com andthat is a week. I will be

(01:15:12):
there and I'm not giving away gettingIf you know what if you know me
and you're interested of going, textme. Maybe I can get you in
the VIP section. Maybe I can't, But it's something, it's it's a
neat fun thing to do. There'sbeen a music concert series all summer long,
and uh Kevin Fowler, a lotof Kevin Fowler fans and Aaron Watson
fans. They will be out therejust jam and uh start at six pm

(01:15:34):
on September two. But buy yourtickets, get a cabana, get anything
you want on at logo mar livedot com. See another thing that'll do
it? Where did I see this? Oh? Speaking of music, I
am a music not only a fan, I'm a music nut. Music me

(01:15:55):
is incredibly important in my life.I'll say it again. Music is probably
the only thing that can take youback in time, at least in your
mind of where were you when?Yeah? Yeah, okay, I know
it's like, hey, where andI'm in on a regular basis, Okay,
where were you when man landed onthe moon in nineteen sixty And it's

(01:16:18):
just go no, But you flipthe radio dial, you go to the
eighties, you go to the seventieschannels. Oh, I remember I was
in high school it's just music.Music is important. But and I have
a memory too. I am theking of the eighties. I remember pretty
much every single song from the eighties. Who's sang at, what record label,
what number it peaked at? Fromcasey case and days. I got
it. But at some point we'llgo to the nineties two thousand and say,

(01:16:40):
oh, I know this song?What is it? And there's apps
that you can when you're when you'relistening to the radio, like if you
listen to my Bump Music or youknow one of our other iHeart radio stations,
it's like, oh, what isthis song? Well, you can
you can whip out Shazam. Ilike soundhow and SOUNDHOWD is my favorite app
that I have on my home screen. It's like, okay, let's what
it does. It listens to thesong and songs are embedded with little digital

(01:17:04):
identifiers that you can't hear, andall of a sudden, it'll pop up
in your app and it'll show youthe lyrics and all the other fun stuff.
YouTube just came out with it withan experiment on Android devices. That's
right, Android devices, And Ihaven't done it yet because you have to
be like really invited. But maybeif I talk about it, I'll get

(01:17:25):
invited that you can hum a psalmand allegedly YouTube is going to tell you
what's on that is? How doesthat work? I mean, I know
I can't sing well. I cansing to a song and it but you
turn the music off and I suck. But I guess I can hum pretty

(01:17:48):
well. Calum, you want toplay the humming game? What do you
want to? Should I hump something? To see funny? But actually that's
a really good idea. If Ican hump something and the first person who
I didn't defies the song by mehumming can win something out. It's just
humming is tough, man, becauseyou could be off hum key. But

(01:18:13):
leave it to I don't. Idon't know if they use AI or something,
but uh you you Let's see.In twenty twenty, Google launch something
like this that let's users figure outa song by humming or whistling or singing
into a microphone. But back then, uh it, you had to do
it for like ten or fifteen secondsin order to identify it. Now it's
gonna be like three seconds. Whatwhat uses this? I mean, it's

(01:18:38):
it's a great it's a great partyyou're a party. Mm oh, I
got one. Oh, I gotone. Callum right for this. We're
gonna get we're acting, we're gonnatest this. We're not giving anything away.
Okay, I'm gonna guest Calum myproducer here. I'm a hum something
right now, see even get ready. M m mmmmm mmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm. If

(01:19:05):
you guessed I've been working on thewhil road, you are wrong and you
should not be listening to this radioshow anymore. Hook I'm horns people.
We were one week away from myTexas Long Worns kicking off and that was
the Eyes of Texas. Could youtell them? Okay, now that you
know what the song is, I'mgonna hum it again. Let's see if

(01:19:26):
it sounds different. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Wasthere a difference? Now that you know
what it is? I'm going todo if anybody was invited to the android
YouTube experiment of a humming, sendme a note, pop me a note,

(01:19:47):
go to high tech texit dot comor social media DM me here at
any of my high tech Texas letme know if this works. I I
is there a point to that?I don't know? I don't know.
And to end the show, speakingof voices and humming and singing, sitting
shiva for a dude who just retired. Arguably the coolest one of the cooler

(01:20:11):
jobs I've ever heard. Do Iknow how much this dude got paid for
thirty years? In their thirty years, this dude was a voice over artist.
Actually he was the voice of avery famous character. And he's retiring
after thirty years. I don't knowwhy he's retiring, because all the dude

(01:20:32):
needed to do is sit in astudio and say, woa, the voice
of Mario in the Super Mario Nintendogames is stepping down. Dude's name is
Charles Martinet. For thirty years,this dude, he was the original voice

(01:20:55):
actor of the Italian Plumber. Heis no longer going to be recording the
voice of that character. I've beendoing it since the nineties. How do
you get a job like that?Started in nineteen ninety one with Super Mario
sixty four? Remember that on theNintendo sixty four and Mario went he tried

(01:21:16):
to rinch I remember he tried torescue Princess Peach from Bowser Man. I'm
going back in the days over thehere what his catchphrases? Mamma, let's
a go. It's all let mewoo. Why did this dude retire?
It's a pr move because it gotme talking about Mario and Nintendo, which

(01:21:39):
I don't often talk about on thisshow. All I know is where do
I send my resume? I thinkI think Mario needs a Yiddish accent,
maybe a little Texas draw which Ican fake. Also with that I will
in this show. Whoa who,Let's it go because the show is over.
Hey, listen. Thank you forall people who have tuned in,

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whether you're listening in the daytime orthe late nighttime here on KPRC nine fifty
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