The best/worst streaming sticks on the market today

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• The best/worst streaming sticks on the market today
• Amazon Prime Big Deal Days products already on sale ahead of Oct. 7
• Review: 2025 Nissan Murano Platinum

Episode Transcript

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Is Michael Garfi of Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in
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Michael Garfield has something you might like. Michael Garfield is
your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping you make magic
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You're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

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The Final Step Timber edition to the high Tech Texans Show,
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twenty three freaking years ago. This is what I do.
I mean, I'd like to say it's half my life,
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can call three four six twenty nine texts in three
four six, two nine eight three nine two six, a
number of different things to get through before we we
excitedly welcome the what we call O n D. October, November, December,
the final three months of the year. Personally my favorite

(01:51):
three months of the year, because at some point it's
it's it's going to cool down in Texas. At some
point I'm actually gonna enjoy running outside versus fitzing like
I have been doing for the past six or seven months.
It is the holiday shopping season coming up. I'm already
gathering some of my favorite things. If you are in
the Austin area and you watch my weekly hit on

(02:12):
Fox seven every Monday mornings in Austin, I've already started
to easing a few things in terms of categories of
smart homes and cars and you know other fun devices
you know we'll be doing, you know, listen to phones
and TVs and clothing. It is called the High Tech
Texan Show. It really is, but I do so much

(02:35):
more than tech. It really consumer lifestyle, and which is
why I will soon talk about cars too. Some of
the things that we are yapping about today. I have
the dollar figure. We're going to play the over undergame.
I have the dollar figure according to I don't even
know who came up with this number, but it's legit,
how much the average person is going to spend this

(02:55):
holiday season on tech devices, on devices. I'll let you
think about that before I blow the lead. US adults
are expected to spend blank on devices this holiday season.
This is a c NET a c NET survey. Now
this is smartphones, laptops, TVs. They're at the top of

(03:17):
the wish list. Hey, so I'll let you think of
the number hi, and I'll tell you by the end
of the segment. It's called the tease people. Also, we
will tell you why which streaming service? Oh my god,
is getting another price hike. I'd love to do the
rhetorical what is this gonna stop? And I gotta stop.

(03:38):
It is absolutely not gonna stop. We got another price
hike coming over here. Major League Baseball ending the season,
winding down the season in preparation for next season, where
we're going to talk about them that continue to to
use the world of technology. Major League Baseball is going
to be using a ball and strike robot next season?

(03:58):
Is this good or bad for you? Baseball purist? If
you're a baseball purist, I think I know your answer,
but I will I'm gonna argue the fact why I
think it's it's a good thing. I really, really am.
I happen to be based in Houston. NASA for some
extent is based in Houston. It certainly was. And there
are something over here NASA sending astronauts back up next

(04:19):
year to circle the moon. Is this something that is
necessary not gonna land on the moon? I got the
whole story for you over there. Plus also another Amazon
Prime Day, and it ain't called Prime Day people, there's
a new name for it. It's gonna be called Amazon
Prime Big Deal Days. And that is coming up and

(04:40):
about a week and a half. I've already found some
things that are on sale, things that you may want
to start, you know, putting in your shopping cart to
save you a little bit of money. And you can
you can guess some of the low hanging fruit which
you're gonna be there. But those that's what we're gonna
yap about. Plus also test Drive. I'm gonna give you
my thoughts on one one of the nicer vehicles that

(05:02):
I have driven this year, and every week for fifteen years,
I get a brand new vehicle or two to drive
and test. This past week I was in a Nissan
Murano Platinum and don't sleep on that thing. This was
one of the nicer SUVs that I have driven in
a long time. So I will give you my thoughts

(05:23):
on that. Listen, you know the phone number, that's the lineup.
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(05:44):
lot of people who don't even remember or realize there
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All right, how much do you think? Callum my producer
and will there o we're here on the other side
the glass. Okay, you you tell me, my ear, what
do you think US adults are expected to spend how
much US dollars on devices this holiday season? This is
a c net. It's a reliable source that that I
know a lot of writers and I use and I

(06:26):
you know, kind of check out the headlines they put
it out. Despite the fact that holidays still a few
months away, you probably should start shopping now. If you
want a smartphone a new laptop, you should probably ask
me my advice. We got Black Friday, we got Cyber
Monday still to come. But they're fifty nine percent of
US adults are interested in purchasing tech devices this holiday season.

(06:49):
That's low to me, doesn't everybody doesn't one hundred percent?
People shouldn't they be interested? You know? One hundred percent
of my audience is interested in purchasing a tech device.
That's why you listen to me. Twenty six percent smartphones,
twenty three percent laptops are at the top of the
shoppers list. Here we go. The average US shopper plans

(07:09):
to spend anyone, anyone, nine hundred and thirty one dollars
on tech devices this holiday season. Boom nine hundred and
thirty one dollars. That's the average US shopper they plan
to spend. Man, I'm putting this in perspective, nine hundred

(07:35):
and thirty one dollars with what's going on in the economy.
Marks you like that, I mean nothing to sneeze at
nine hundred and thirty one dollars. Within again, if you
want a smartphone, boom, there you go, nine hundred and
thirty one dollars on one device. Yes, there are many,
many more inexpensive smartphones. More than happy to tell you

(07:59):
the inexpensive smartphones. But if you want one of these
newer ones, if you want one of the newest iPhones,
if you want a high end one, good process or
a good camera, oh you're spinning nine hundred and thirty
one bones. You're spending more than that. So yeah, I
guess it falls in line if you think about it
that way. If you think about it that way, smartphone
models coming out. It's not just the iPhone seventeen, Google

(08:22):
Pixel ten that's being released over here too. Before we
take a break and actually break one's coming up. If
you here, who got the iPhone seventeen? I don't have
the iPhone seventeen. I'm not an iPhone guy. I'm an
Android guy. Don't hang out on me. Don't hate me,
you love me because you listen to me. If you
got an iPhone seventeen, I want to make you part
of this show. I want you to call me. I
want you to call me on your iPhone seventeen. I

(08:45):
hope it's a clear signal, in clear line. Give me
your thoughts. I don't care if you're an Apple fanboy,
a fangirl, I don't care. If you're a hater, I
don't know. But there was four versions ah, the iPhone seventeen,
the iPhone Air one of an incredibly thin phone for
what I'm looking at, Tell me your thoughts three four six,

(09:06):
two nine eight three nine two six. If you get
a busyest signal, if you get a voice recording, just
just record your three or four minute review and we
will we will air it. That's how we do it.
All right, it is Michael Garfield coming back. Yes we
have things to give away. Yes, I will tell you
which streaming service is getting another freaking price hike right here.

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celebrating the Jewish New Year of fifty seven eighty six.

(10:27):
And if you are still writing fifty seven eighty five
on your checks, you need to make sure that you
update that. Absolutely one of the most ultimate dad Jewish
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a while. The phone number. Let's get back. Let's get
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(10:49):
six two nine eight three nine two six. That is
how you gotta get to meet can leave me a
voicemail email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. We got
another We got another streamer, another streamer going to a
price hike. Streaming is the way to go if you're
cutting the cord, cutting the cable. I have long talked
about this. I go back to recommending when digital TV first,

(11:11):
you know, is mandated by the FCC. That's how long
I've been doing this show. I started doing this radio
show twenty five Who went to twenty twenty four years ago?
It was analog TV, then it became digital TV, DTV.
It's it's it's People think it's like, oh, it's HDTV. No, No,
it's actually called digital TV. It's analog or digital one

(11:31):
of the other. So it's digital TV now within digital
TV to receive digital TV signals. Yes, you do want
a digital TV antenna and high definition TVs. And now
there's four K TVs twenty five years later, there's still
not a lot of networks that were broadcasting in four K.
I don't want to get I'm not I'm not here
to get into that stuff. Then there was cable, then

(11:52):
cable got expensive, then people cut the cord, and then
people started streaming. You still need internet service with ain't
cheap to stream, but there are many many ways to
stream all right, There are streaming services. Netflix the big one,
one of the first ones on the block. They continue
up to raise their prices. They're getting into sports live. Yeah,

(12:13):
I think Netflix is doing I think not one but
two Christmas Day NFL games. Lots of things happening over
there during COVID what five years ago, Disney perfect timing
and seriously of launching an online streaming service during COVID
when we couldn't do anything. Streaming was big five years ago.
Oh we can't go out, man, We're gonna live in

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front of our TV. Disney launches. Disney launched I think
at like four dollars nine to nine cent per month.
It was awesome Disney which also owns ESPN, which you know,
and then now they have Hulu and there that was
four dollars ninety nine cent. Well, guess who's raising their
price yep, Disney Plus raising their price again. Goes into

(12:57):
effect October twenty first standalone plan with advertisements. It's going
up by two bucks. It will be twelve dollars per month.
And if you don't want ads, Disney Plus Premium plan
that's gonna go up three dollars to nineteen dollars per month. Now, listen,

(13:18):
there's various bundles they're getting price increases to and you know,
you go to Disney Plus and do it. But it
this is the way of the world. And I see
this again because I'm also the guy who's your shopper.
I am your consumer shopper. You probably forget how many
streaming devices streaming services that you have right now. Oh

(13:39):
I forgot I have Netflix, So I forgot I have Hulu. Oh,
Apple TV plus, forgot about that thing. Dang man, I
got Disney too. The kids never watched Disney, but I
got that also. It goes on and on. You may
be paying a higher price for bundling your internet service
on a monthly basis, and then you're four, five, six, seven,
eight nine. I don't know how many streaming services you have.

(14:02):
If you don't watch just certain service streaming service, would
you just cancel the thing You're welcome, just cancel it.
I'm not telling you to cancel Disney or Hulu or
Prime or no. I'm just I'm not going after one thing.
I'm just trying to save you money. To me and
the funny thing is, remember how we all used to

(14:24):
share passwords. Some people still do, but a lot of
these services they're really cutting back. Netflix was one of
the first ones. They really kind of found a way around.
You cannot share a username password if you don't live
in the same house. And it was brilliant because Netflix
added hundreds of thousands of users in the first month
that they was like, fine, I'm not going to use

(14:46):
my brother in law's passwords. I'm gonna have to actually
do it myself, so cut this thing out. And also
here's some other tips. Sometimes if you get if you're
a member of maybe I don't know, if it's Costco,
maybe a SAM slot, I don't know, like that, maybe
they're gonna give you a discount. But I think Verizon,
if you're some elite level of Verizon wireless service, you're

(15:08):
gonna get free Disney service, I think it is, you're
gonna get free some sort of services. Look the bundles,
you know some of those things, and don't forget. Also,
there are many people who are Amazon Prime members and
stand by because I'm gona talk about there's another Amazon
Prime Day coming up. If you're an Amazon Prime and
pretty much all you use Amazon Prime for is shop

(15:28):
Shop Shop, Shop Shop, and you get free next day
or free two day delivery and all this stuff. Don't
forget some of the perks of Amazon Prime. For the
one hundred and fifty nine dollars a year or whatever
it costs. You also get Prime Video that is a
streaming service, and they actually that's how you're only gonna
watch Thursday night NFL football on Amazon Prime. It's a

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good service. I actually reverse engineered it. I never I
don't like shopping online. I'm still old school guy where
I like going try on clothes and I want things immediate.
That's my eighty h d nois if you will. I
several years ago got the Amazon Prime member only to
watch Amazon Prime. I wanted to watch the marvelis Missus

(16:13):
masl which is just a hilarious comedy. I think they
had the first four seasons, five seasons. It's not on anymore.
I just wanted to get it. And then, oh, by
the way, I also got Amazon Prime. Uh, you know
where I could shop and I don't shop on it
a lot, but did some neat features. I do get
discounted whole foods too. So Disney is going up and
if you're ticked about it, I Disney not having a

(16:36):
really good week two weeks with the whole Jimmy Kimmel thing, uh,
and then the boycotts and then the censorship and what
have you. And then now Disney you know what, I
don't know if they were trying to bury the lead by,
you know, getting the heat off of the Jimmy Kimmel
censorship thing by saying, oh, let's just raise our prices
for Disney Plus and maybe people will forget about it.

(16:58):
I don't forget about anything. I'm just here telling you
all the inside a good scoop and information. That's what
we do here on the HTT Show. I'll tell you what.
Speaking of streaming, those if you have a smart TV,
your smart TV with the relative should have the apps
because Disney Plus, Hulu, Netflix, those are apps. Yes, you

(17:23):
can watch on your laptop, your tablet, your mobile device,
but also your smart TV should have those apps when
it comes out of the box, or you could download
the apps on your TV that's connected to the internet.
How do you get your TV connected to the internet. Well,
that's a whole different thing. And that's where you can
get streaming. Even if you have an older TV and

(17:44):
they're streaming boxes or streaming sticks. You know, you probably
heard of the fire stick or the Roku stick. Well,
I have been testing out some of these sticks, and
I will tell you when we come back pluses and
minuses of two or the three of the streaming sticks
that I have been reviewing, because that's kind of what
I do. Because my name is well, my moniker is

(18:07):
the high tech dexit it is Michael Garfield doesn't want
to where Stampa a little look at the clock, not
that anybody needs to know what time is. So I'm

(18:28):
just gonna call it the bottom of the hour right
now because this show it airs in different time slots
over the weekend across the state of Texas and obviously
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not even paying attention to me. They got earphones on.

(18:49):
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do thank you very interactive show three four six twenty

(19:11):
nine Texan three four six two nine eight three nine
two six. That's how you're gonna get me. And I
got a really nice email over here. This is from Sarah.
Sarah is in Austin. Hey, Michael, are you the same?
Are you the same dude who I watch every Monday
morning on Fox seven here in Austin. Your voice sounds
the same, Yes, Sarah, that is me. Thank you very

(19:36):
much for tuning in. I do a lot of the
TV segments where I review a lot of things, and
one of the stations I'm on is in Austin's funny
because this eight, this radio program, inherently over the air,
doesn't air in Austin. But you could pick up the
show from San Antonio and WAI. You could probably pick
it up in Houston on KPRC nine fifty am. This

(19:58):
signal I've picked it up almost a bass drop. But
maybe Sarah listens to me on on iHeartRadio. But that
is me and I, yes, this is my this is
what I really look like, and it's this is my
real hair. I don't color it. It's I think for
my parents, especially my mom, for my hair. This is
my voice and that's what you get. And what did

(20:21):
I talk oh this past week, this past Monday, Sarah,
I guess what you may have been watching. I was
talking about, well with this the iPhone seventy nineteen came out,
and I did not show or really talk about the
iPhone seventeen. I really but new phones. When you get
a new phone, and you will get a new phone,
what accessories do you need? And I talked about the

(20:42):
proper cases to get. I talked about how to battery
extra battery chargers. I talked about little holders that you
could put in your car so you can go hands free.
I talked about a number of different kind of the
accessories for what you know you can get for a phone. So, Sarah,
thank you for watching, Thank you for finding me here

(21:02):
on the iHeartRadio Dollar if you're in Austin, it's Monday
mornings on Fox seven IPAT in Houston. I pop on
Great Day Houston, which is Channel eleven CBS, and this
is now I talk for two hours, and that's what
I do. The last segment we were talking about streaming services.
Disney Plus is having another price hike, so good luck

(21:23):
with that, and I wanted to kind of talk. I
get a lot of questions about streaming sticks or streaming boxes,
you know, for people who are really cutting the court
and cutting the cable. I've been playing with streaming sticks,
and a streaming stick is if number one. If you've
got an older TV, I mean not an analog one

(21:45):
that's got the big you know for you know, the
four x three aspect ratio that we grew up in
with the big you know tube in the back. No,
it's got to be a flat screen but still several
years old. It doesn't have a lot of the apps
built in, or even have a play store or that
you could download, you know, some of the apps. You
can get a streaming stick. And what it is. It
looks like a USB stick, so you know, two three inches,

(22:09):
you know, and what it is. It's not a USB
but it's an HDMI And as long as your TV
is old enough but relatively new enough to have an
HDMI port in most all digital TVs big and small,
have at least one Hdmi port Okay, that's on the

(22:30):
back of the TV, maybe the bottom of the side
of your TV. You go out and you get these things.
Now they could be as cheap as I mean Amazon
Prime Day. Another one's coming up, the Amazon fire Stick.
That is actually one of the that's a stream you're
probably gonna find it. Find it as low as fifteen bucks,
that's my guess. Roku r Oku long been in the

(22:50):
streaming stick or streaming box device. Those are a little
bit more expensive, and you know, get them on Amazon.
I see them with Walmart twenty five bucks. Ors a
lot of come with the remote controls. I would highly
get one with remote controls. So those are streaming sticks
and what it is. But you plug them into the
back of your TV, and you make sure you go

(23:10):
to your source and your TV and don't go over
the air, don't go cable, go to HDMI Port one
or HDMI port two whatever. You plug it into and boom,
there's your input device. And then you set it up
and set up takes minutes, but you do need to
connect it to the internet. And what it is that
stick itself is a Wi Fi receiver, so it will

(23:36):
find your home WiFi and that is what streams and
carries the signal. So make sure you know, you use
your name and your WiFi password and you just kind
of program it on your TV screen and at that
point you're it's going to download, it's going to update.
And what it is, it's an operating system. Roku has

(23:57):
its own operating system. The look if you will, this
is the of the Roku's got a blue background and
you can go to home, or you can go to movies,
you can go to sports or whatever. The firestick has
its own operating system. There's a sell of several of
them that uses the Google TV operating system where it's
it's Google. But you know you can you know, at

(24:18):
that point then you can start down. You know, watch ESPN,
you can watch your CNN, your ABC News, your CBS
News and ABC and so that's what. So there's up.
There's pluses and minuses. A lot of these streaming sticks.
They don't pick up local over the year channels local.
So you're not gonna get you know, in Dallas, what's
up Channel eight w FAAABC, You're not going to pick

(24:40):
up that one just inherently over you know, the streaming
stick at that point, you're going to need to use
a digital antenna. So yes, you're gonna plug something else
into your TV. Digital antennas. It's a one time you
can get these things twenty thirty dollars. It picks up
the over the air TV signals, just like back in

(25:00):
the nineteen seventies where you had those big antennas on
top of roofs now. They're small, they could sit kind
of this. Some of them are really designed pretty sharp,
but you don't even know it's an antenna that can
pick up. Then you've got to switch the input. Then
you've got to go antenna. So if you want to
watch something local news, you have the antenna input. If
you want to watch your streaming services, you go up

(25:21):
to the HDMI input. You got it good, real quickly.
I've been playing with a few of these streaming sticks.
Number one, I got a Roku streaming stick and I
have this one on my outside the TV in my
backyard so I could sit and pool and watch and
things like that. Comes to the remote control, I really
like the operating system, the graphics, easy to use, easy,

(25:44):
you can voice remote control. I could talk whatever I want.
Very simple to set up a lot of built in
apps already on there in terms of Netflix, Hulu, Disney,
easy to go to quote unquote app store for for
and obviously you could download you know, all these other
new apps that if you want and put them in there.

(26:05):
It's it's it's well designed in terms of the user interface.
All right. That's one I found an I wasn't familiar
with them. Listen, we know the direct TV name. When
you think of direct TV, you think of well, there's
a little satellite antenna dish. Well, direct TV now has
its own streaming stick. You don't need an antenna. It's

(26:28):
a it's a streaming stick that you can get. And
this one is is a subscription here and it's the
direct TV stream Gemini Air Gemini Air all right, and
can go to direct TV again. This is not a
commercial for it. I'm just I just I'm testing this
to my actually son has my son in Austin has
this thing. He's let me borrow his uh and you

(26:48):
can get these things. I liked that. I'm very impressed
with direct TV. I never was a direct TV fan
when I came to because I never was a satellite,
you know, dish fan. But you can get these things starting.
You know, I'm on the web storry right here and
right in first month fifty dollars. Then it goes up
from that. But it includes ESPN, the Disney plus with
the Hulu and things. It's got sports. You can get

(27:09):
a sports package, you can get different other packages or whatever.
So I plug it in. And this also has a
really pretty nice operating system in terms of user interface GUI,
the gooey, the graphic user interface, very simple to use.
I like their remote control that it comes in there too,
and that's nice. Also that is it can get kind

(27:31):
of pretty pricey too, because there's one here. If you
get the premiere version which has pretty much one hundred
and eighty five channels plus es been everything, that's about
one hundred and twenty bucks a month. And then oh,
by the way, you also need a net too. Here's
one that I don't love. I went to Walmart and
I bought a really inexpensive one for twelve or fourteen dollars.
It's from Walmart's own brand, I think it's their own

(27:52):
brand called on oh in in and they make a
lot of o in in at Walmart. They make I mean, listen,
they make cable and tech it's it's it's there electronic.
That's Walmart's exclusive electronics. I didn't love the on in
terms of the user interface. It uses the Android opera,
the Google and I'm a Google fan, don't get me wrong.

(28:15):
It was just a little shaky. It wasn't as reliable
as as I've seen, and so I may kind of
shy away from that if I was reviewing those things.
They are inexpensive. And if you listen, if you've got
a really old TV and it's you don't use it
a lot, like the reason I got my on TV.
I have a bedroom that I it's the guest bedroom.

(28:36):
I never use. I just moved my Peloton bike up there.
I've got a relatively older high def TV. I don't
use it a ton, and that's why I bought the Listen.
I'll sure, I'll spend fourteen or fifteen dollars in the
on TV, and so I use it. It's okay, But that
is what a streaming stick is. That's my quick review.
What did I miss? I'm gonna take a break. You
tell me you got a fun streaming service, you got

(28:57):
a good streaming stick, You've got other tips. I'm just
a facilitator people. That's how we do it. Michael Garfield.
It's called the High Tech Texting Show. We're gonna come
back to shortthand the first hour of the two hour

(29:21):
long High Tech Texting Program almost up to bear with
me another six seven, eight minutes and we'll get you
to the top of the hour. Break. Michael Garfield is
the name. It is called the High Tech Textan Show.
I talk more about technology than you you could imagine
in terms of I don't use geeky terms. You will
rarely hear me using the terms megabyte and kill a

(29:42):
watt and whatever. I keep it. I keep tech sexy people,
and that's how I've done it for twenty three years.
So thank you for tuning in here. You know what
else is sexy when I give away something, because last
I check is radio. Radio is about promotions and giveaways.
And so if anybody is interested in a let's just say,
a gift card for some food standby, it is Cabo
Bob's time. Man. I am a Cabo Bob's fan. If

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you're not familiar with it, where you bit, well, if
you're not familiar with it, you may be in Dallas
right now. There are no locations in Dallas should you
be listening in Dallas over the air, but certainly in Houston.
There are four locations. Austin we got about what seven
or eight locations. San Antonio you got one. You go
through the line and you tell them what you want
on your burritos, your tacos. If you don't want all

(30:24):
those carbs. There's bowls, there's salads, the absolute and I'm serious.
They don't pay me to say these are the best
tortilla chips ever. I just say it. They are that good.
It's it's a double thick crunch over there. They got
kso it's it's fast casual food. So twenty five dollars
gift card caller number ten. I'm gonna give you the

(30:47):
special number seven to one three two one two five
nine five oh two one two five nine five Oh go.
You're gonna get twenty five dollars and you can go.
We will get you the gift card. You're gonna go
through the line. The first thing they're gonna ask is
what type of tortilla do you want? And then they
will press it fresh right in front of you, and
then you can go down the line. Thanks also, specifically

(31:08):
our good friends who have helped line that up. Arnold
and Lorie Rios, they kind of oversee the Houston market
and the longtime, longtime listeners and friends of the show.
Thank you, Arnold and Lourie and Silas their son. Also
by the way, twenty five Okay, stop, we got a winner.
When I wanna, We've got a burrito dinner. So see,

(31:30):
that's how fun we have. We keep things. You know,
we just entice you. It's it's it's it's it's legal.
It's not like we trick you like alleged like Amazon
allegedly did if you saw the news this week to
potentially entice you to join and become a member. No, no,
I just it's called the radio teas coming up after

(31:51):
the break. That's what we do for those in Houston.
Let's you know, I'm bouncing around the state. What's up? NASA?
I have a lot of listeners who worked or worked
for NASA down on Houston, and really nice because I
actually could say what I talk about is not rocket science,

(32:11):
but what you do is rocket science. I have some
fun with them. NASA, which still exists, believe it or not,
is sending astronauts back up next February, February twenty, twenty
twenty six. They just announced this this week. It's been
more than fifty years since astronauts last went to the moon,

(32:35):
did you know that? And there really hasn't been a
lot of excitement around NASA really since that Apollo program.
But NASA, I don't know. They got something coming schedule
for February. It's the Artemis two mission. They're sending astronauts
up not to land on the Moon, but to circle

(32:56):
the moon or maybe triangle or a square or something.
And if you think about it, that's going to be
the closest that humanity has come to the Moon since
Apollo seventeen in nineteen seventy two. Humanity has not even
come close to the moon. Why did we and other
countries just stop sending humans to the moon. Why did

(33:21):
we even send humans up to the Moon in the
first time? You know why? Because every Yeah, Texas plays
Rice and Texas bates the hell out all right, Waring,
I put a man on the own. That was the worst.
Sorry about that, but I guess it's to set the
stage for another moon landing. I'm not making fun of NASSA.
I really do dig certainly as a guy who understands technology, man,

(33:41):
I think it's neat a lot of potential exploration out there.
It's going to launch almost on my birthday, February fifth
of twenty twenty six. It's going to last up to
eight days. And what are they gonna do up that?
They've already got a commander, a pilot and NASA is
going to use the same systems that did during the

(34:01):
Uncrude there was no crew on Artemis one about three
years ago. It's gonna orbit Earth twice separate from the
Upper State. You don't care about this anyway. Apparently in
twenty twenty seven there'll be a moon landing twenty twenty seven.
I hope, I'm still hope we're still around lad to see.
I hope funding is there. I hope they don't take

(34:23):
it away. I hope they find gold oil whatever they're
trying to get on the Moon, so they're gonna circle,
I do I does anybody if there's someone from NASA
who actually can give some insight, let me give you
my phone number here three four six two nine eight
three nine two six. I actually would love to cover

(34:45):
the launch. You know, as a credential journalist that I am,
and I use air quotes. You can't actually see that,
but I've I've listened. I am of age to rememb
I was really young the Apollo missions. My father, electrical engineer,

(35:07):
really into that stuff, you know that I the TV.
I don't remember the moon landing. I mean I was real, real,
real young for that. But I remember watching the rocket.
You know, it's go up. I don't remember Apollo thirteen
and the whole gym level thing rest in Peace. But
you know, but movies like that, the Apollo, the Apollo
thirteen movie, that alone is you know, something to you know,

(35:32):
kind of get excited about that. This is what we're doing.
Speaking of Apollo thirteen, I was watching Ron Howard is
making the rounds right now. I think this is the
just the thirtieth anniversary of the Apollo thirteen movie that
he directed, and it's just if longtime listeners know this,
and I really it's such a great movie. Tom Hanks

(35:53):
is absolutely the best. Is Jim level in everything. But
Ron Howard continues to tell the story right now again
of how they filmed the weightless scenes, and certainly a
lot of the folks who work in and around Ellington
Field or NASA. They remember the vomit comment. The special airplane,
the KC one five that was outfitted. You know, I

(36:14):
took the seats out, they put padding inside. Takes off
from Ellington Field. It goes over the Gulf of Mexico,
and it does parabolas. It goes up and down and
up and down, and just when it hits the apex
at the peak, and as it goes down, you experienced
like thirty seconds of true weightlessness. I actually got to
go on that vomit commet It was about fifteen sixteen

(36:35):
years ago. I was up there doing some TV stories
and I went to the whole process of going through
the NASA and then the hyperbaric chamber and everything. But
to be able to do exactly and fuel weightlessness truly
as the astronauts themselves trained, and the way Ron Howard
and Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon and they shot that

(36:55):
whole movie. I think that was pretty cool too. So
let's hear it for the boys and girls, the smart
folks of NASA sending an ast am. I too old
to become an astronaut. Listen, I'm gonna take a break
at the top of the hour because somebody Google is
there an age limit? I think there used to be
a height limit you couldn't be over like five six,
five seven, which number one that disqual's disqualifies them right now.

(37:17):
But I'm in pretty good shape. Would you go into orbit?
Talk to me here when we come back. Three four
six twenty nine Texan. I am Michael Garfield of the
high Tech Texans. Yow is Michael Garfield.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans. I
used to make life easier technology, So Michael Garfield has
something you might want.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
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Speaker 2 (38:22):
Start of hour number two of the two hours of
the High Tech Texan Show, which by my mathematics, which
I'm pretty good at math, we're halfway through the High
Tech Textan Show, which means we are halfway to happy
and it's you know what, No matter where you're listening,
it's yeah, it's five o'clock somewhere. I don't care if

(38:43):
it's five of the morning somewhere people, let's go it's
happy hour. It's we're just days away from the start
of October. Hopefully he's going to get a little cooler
here across our great state of Texas. Wherever you're listening,
I know the leaves are starting to turn if you're
listening up in the northeast coast of the United States.
But I do thank you for tuning in no matter
how you're doing it. Terrestrially in Houston, Hello, KPRC nine

(39:07):
to fifty AM, San Antonio, the Big Stick WOAI and
Dallas eleven ninety AM as terrestrially, and then of course
the I Heart Radio app. I have been doing this
for twenty three years. It's called the High Tech Textan
Show Number one. I am a Texan, all right, long,
fifth sixth generation Texan, so that's no issue there. And

(39:31):
I do like talking about high tech and twenty SOMEI
years ago when I started this, I guess the persona
the moniker, it was exclusively technology. I remember explaining what
Wi Fi was. That's how long I've been doing this.
But now we do more than that. It's more consumer.
I'm the consumer lifestyle Texan. For instance, I review cars,
which let's dive into it. What's Michael driving this week? Calum?

(39:56):
Every time I say that, I look at Callum as
one of the long time they're here users. Who helps
with the show. Why don't we have a little sounder
a little bit? What's garf driving this week? Come help
me out? Man? Can we get it?

Speaker 3 (40:11):
We have?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
I know we got no budget. You know what. I'm good. Hello,
I am gonna go get AI. I'm gonna ask chat
GPT to come up with an unlicensable so our cheap
iHeartRadio doesn't have to pay for anything, and I will
come up with what's Michael driving? Bumpers cool? And then
we could do that. What's Michael driving this week? Well,

(40:33):
this past week I happen to be in a nice suv,
the twenty twenty five Nissan Murano. All right, m U
r a n oh it is uh number one. I've
I'm a I'm a fan of Nissan. I have long
test drove Nissan sports cars. I was at a Nissan

(40:56):
Z the two seater fast car a few weeks ago,
the Z Nizmo. I do their SUVs, I do their
big vehicles. Whatever. This is a really nice size suv.
But I like this one specifically because it rolled up
to my house and I get it for one week,
and it was a Platinum version, and I'm telling you
right now this is it's elegant. I could feel the

(41:18):
energy when I get in there. It was clean, and
not just all the test cars I get are clean,
but just the way it's designed, the layout, the touchscreen,
the buttons, the knobs, yes there actually are knobs, people.
It was just a clean design and it had a
nice little pickup. It's a two liter dual overhead cam.

(41:40):
I hate using terms like that people, but it's a
turbocharged engine about two hundred and forty one horsepower if
you count that stuff. It's an automatic and it drove
really smoothly. I love the wheels. This particular one had
it because it's a platinum. I had twenty one inch
alloy was and twenty one inch wheels. A pretty pretty large,

(42:01):
really nice led headlights in daytime running lamps, big panoramic
moon roof. In terms of the audio and infotainment, good
Nissan doesn't have my favorite infotainment operating system that goes
to a few other organizations, but they've improved it without
a doubt. This is the Nissan Connect. So it's got

(42:23):
the serious, it's got the Android Auto, Apple Car Play,
it's got a nice twelve inch twelve point three inch
touchscreen display which is a good size, good sound in
the bows speakers, and it's got Alexa that's built into
but you know everything from the you know, the second
row doors, sunshades, and the heated rear seats and the

(42:48):
great easy, simple way to do the temperature. Nissan always
top of the line when it comes to safety with
their pro pilot assist, steering assists thing. It overall, I like,
I don't drove it up. I was in. I drove
it to Austin. I drove it for a U two game,
so a UT game, and I took some pictures in
front of the Capitol and I think I posted those
on my Instagram. It's a it's a good looking one.

(43:10):
Is it a head turner? I wouldn't say it's a
head turner, but my son and some of his friends
popped in and they're like, this is a Nissan. It's
kind of like a TV commercial. I'm like, yeah, it
really is. The kids even thought it was very comfy,
too nice cargo space in the back. Who is this for? Ah? Anybody?
If you've got a family young and old, in your

(43:32):
schlepping kids to ballet, baseball, basketball, football practice, you want
to throw stuff in the back. If you do weekend
getaways and you want, I don't know, you have to,
you know, certainly I was. I did a weekend get away.
Of course I just add one little suitcase thing. But
you know, you could pack a tent back there. Certainly
can be a tailgate. It holds a you know, a
cooler or two or three. It was good, and I

(43:55):
like the price. Generally, when you get something that's a
Platinum level or the Premium level, it's going to be
way over the top as is. And I'm in now,
I'm looking at notes over here. This the base price
forty nine thousand dollars, and then the total destination charge.
The version that I drove fifty four thousand dollars. And

(44:18):
I'm telling you, man it for fifty four thousand dollars
pound for pound. You're looking at SUV prices and what
is out on the market. I think that that's a
really good deal. I after one week of reviewing cars,
and on a week I get there's fifty two weeks
in a year. Sometimes I get two cars a week.

(44:38):
I mean I literally, and I'm not in the lying.
I'm honored to do this. But I drive sixty to
sixty five different brand new vehicles every single year, not
from dealerships. This is not a commercial. These are directly
from the manufacturers. I have the wherewithal to actually rag
on them, hate them, love them, tell you what's good,
who's made for? Who's a nod made for? But then
to myself before I say, my final takeaway is would

(45:02):
I buy this for myself? I probably wouldn't buy a
full size pickup truck. I love pickup truck They're fun.
I am not a pickup guy. I don't haul things.
I don't go to a ranch in a regular basis.
I live in a big city and I just, you know,
I just I'm not a bad I potentially would get
a mid sized truck. I would get a sports car

(45:23):
because my kids are old and I don't have to
take little kids around anymore. And I'm, you know, I
have hair that could flop fly in the wind. I
like that stuff. Would I would actually purchase a Nissan
Murano in the Platinum version. I could see myself rolling
around on a daily basis in this thing, and I
think to me, that is actually that's my compliment. That

(45:43):
is twenty three miles per gallon decent, not great. You
get twenty one in the city, twenty seven in the highway.
I was, it's not electric. It is not hybrid. I
know I love hybrids. If I was to go get
a vehicle, I probably would get a hybrid, But if
I had to get a gas power one, I'm giving
a lot of dap. Good job, Nissan. It's the twenty

(46:03):
twenty five Nissan Murano Platinum. If you want specific questions,
feel free to call give me your thoughts. Maybe you've
got Muranos and maybe you want to you're thinking about
getting one, or you know, just go test drive one.
I'm not gonna give you a Nissan dealership because I
don't know need as Nissan dealerships. I'm just just to
prove this is not an advertisement, it's not a commercial.
This is just Michael Garfield tone the country for fifteen

(46:25):
plus years. I've test drive cars, and I can tell
you the good ones the bad ones. I like this one.
This is very good. Phone number three four six. I'm
going to drive into this commercial break. When we come back,
I'm gonna tell you about sports. Major League Baseball coming
to an end. Rangers doesn't look like they're gonna be
in an astros hanging on, but I will tell you

(46:45):
a big technological change that is coming to the game
next season. Right here, I'm a high Tech Textan show.

(47:17):
Michael is the name if you have. If you get
it out by continuing listening right here to the High
Tech Texan Show as you have for well over twenty
three years, my voice has gotten a little crack here
is maybe it's just try right now. I mean, after
twenty three years of spending time with you on the
radio and TV, it's you know, at least it's it's
got to be fading. But it's the moneymaker people, So

(47:38):
I gotta keep hie traded phone number here three four
six twenty nine Textans. How we do it on radio
versus a podcast, people, that's where you actually can call.
You can actually hear your voice on the radio. We'll
make you famous. Three four six two nine eight three
nine two six. Lots of emails Michael at high Tech
Textan dot com. A lot of people are asking about

(48:00):
the past two or three weeks kind of talking about
webcams and smart home devices, and you know, it's it's
funny because smart homes I've been talking about almost twenty
plus years. It's I've actually been doing this high tech
textion show. And there are a lot of devices that
are really easy to install yourself. And I remember, I
think the first device that I was recommending, just generally

(48:23):
was your your thermostat. I mean, it's very simple to
replace your thermostat, and there's so many brands of thermostats
out there. And then there's webcams. I mean, if your
home or even apartment doesn't have a webcam either inside
and or outside, I mean I highly suggest you know,
getting at least one two or Kennedy's things. They could

(48:44):
be monitored, they can record, you know, nowadays they a
lot of them don't have to be wired. They could
be wireless too. So I did get a few emails
over here Michael with your you know, any any good deals.
Remember I'm deal guy. Remember I'm your deal guy over here.
So actually I did see if you. I'm a big
fan of Real Link r E O L I n K.

(49:08):
I first found out about them. I guess it was
cees a few years ago, and I have a number
of different models they've they're coming out. I think they
just came out with some new ones over here and
I saw some news. I like this. They just partnered
with best Buy. With best Buy and so if you
walk into some of the select Best Buys in my
listening audience all across Texas, you can go in you

(49:30):
can get a few of their models, one of which
is a a Wi Fi powered one. It's called the
altis Real Link a l t as altests B six
thirty and it's like it's like a little they call
them bullet cams just because they're kind of shaped, tubular
and small, very small. You plug it. It's got a

(49:52):
very strong Wi Fi battery. And I haven't it's been out,
so it's so new that I haven't fully tested it.
But they say it can get five hundred and forty
days of battery life. So it's a rechargeable twenty thousand
milli ANT battery. That's a big battery. I test webcams

(50:13):
up a lot over the years, but to have a
twenty thousand milli AMT battery that's two to three times
the capacity of most of the Wi Fi cameras five
hundred and forty days. What is that? Is that almost
a year and a half, not quite two years over
this so obviously I haven't tested it that long, but
I certainly trust what they say. What are the other
features that I like that not a lot of cameras has,
but I know specifically the real link altis D six thirty.

(50:36):
All right, Remember that you can have the option of
capturing footage before the camera actually triggers recording it. It's
called pre recording, and you can set it anywhere between
two to ten seconds. So when pre recording is enabled,
this camera will save the buffered footage and that allows
it to capture the moments leading up to the event.

(50:58):
So you know, someone trespasses in your long on your
backyard or break something. Generally you know cameras can turn on,
you know, at sound or movement, but that this can
actually prerecord, it's a nice feature to have. This also
has two way audio. It's got a microphone built in
along with a siren and a spotlight. So and this

(51:18):
is not maybe you've seen stories like this. You can
you know if you've got an app obviously, and if
someone is trespassing on your property. You can get on
your app and talk to your app and it comes
out of the speaker in the camera. Get out of
my lawn, get off my property, so you could communicate
when they approach your camera. But again, I mean even

(51:39):
on the good stuff. You know, maybe it's your kid
coming home. Obviously. I like jacking with my kids and
my son sometimes, so I could see them coming home
on camera when they're a little late. Uh excuse me,
young sir. Wasn't your curfew at eleven pm? You're busted?
I mean you could have some fun. But listen, there's
sirens and there's also a It really just it snaps

(52:01):
into your Wi Fi network. This one specifically for those
asking it's the real link. Check it out. But go
do this. Go into a best Buy and specifically for
all of you people in the listening audience, for example,
San Antonio, shout out san Antonio. All right, my listener
is a WOAI. Go into a best Buy there, go

(52:21):
into the webcam section and look for REO link and
you can hold the package up. You can see how
small it is. Also specifically available Lubbock, Texas for all
you Texas tech red raiders. Beaumont birthplace of my father
of course, and actually our listening audience in Houston. You
may be listening in Beaumont too, and then Midland, Texas,
and so there select Best Buy locations specifically those cities

(52:45):
I listed, go check those out in terms of getting
a camera. And it's one heck of a deal one
hundred This Real Link altus B six thirty right now
on nine dollars one undred twenty and you could pick
it up when you walk into the one of those
exclusive Best Buys that I had told you about. So

(53:05):
I again, if I my job is to review these
things Real Link. That's one of several cameras. I mean,
they have a solar cam, just a number of things
out there, but it's great quality, you know, two K
vision memory cards and they work indoor, they work out
door color night vision. They got a good field of
views about one hundred and ten degrees that you could

(53:26):
see everything that's going on. And so they have new
partnership with the Best Buy, so you can walk in
and you don't need to wait, you know, one day,
two day, three day for whoever you order your stuff
online for. So I'll walk in that we do continue
with the long running Michael Garfield high Tech text and
show you know the phone number over here. We've got
emails if you want to email me Michael at high
Tech Texts and that's m I c h A E

(53:48):
l at h I g h t E c h
t e x A N I spelled the whole thing out.
Don't spam me over here. It's I just got an email. Hey, hey,
gar thanks for the tip on the the real link.
Thank you about getting webcams so I appreciate and I
usually do follow all your advice. Is this is this

(54:11):
is from a long time listener. Is this something that
would be a good holiday gift for my wife? I
love it. I love it. It's a long running joke of
would I suggest Birthday gifts, Mother's Day gifts, holiday gifts? Generally?
I have found out the hard way that moms or

(54:31):
wives they kind of like jewelry, maybe a little chocolate,
maybe a little shopping spree, maybe address, maybe some shoes.
They appreciate technology. I don't know if that would be
the perfect gift at that time. It could be. Oh,
by the way, Han, I got you a Cardier love bracelet.

(54:54):
You know what I also got for us? I got
me a real link altis WiFi. Can I am to
see that's the way to sneak it in. And I
talked to this because obviously it's holiday season getting I'm
gonna do a ton of uh my whole media tours
across the country of you know, what to get things.
I certainly will have probably i'll have this real link

(55:14):
a few of them on my what to get, you know,
for potential holiday season. But maybe you should get it
for yourself. They can and then maybe you want to
get mama. Ah, it's something. And I know this as
we take a break. I know this for a fact
because I got years ago. This is this is a
bad story. I mean you know this story. You know
I like you know, I like smart no products, the

(55:36):
robotic vacuums and things. And so for Mother's Day, I
got my ex wife. I don't even want to finish
the story. I think I just summed up the story
why I haven't ex wife good friend of mine. Still
she's very nice, she's school, but I probably would have
may not have been the smartest thing I ended up getting.

(55:58):
Hey we have I don't know who got it and
when we split. I know I have several different robotic
vacuums right now. She may still have that one something
dating advice something probably not to take from me the
high tech text and to take my technology advice. You
just listening to the high tech text and she had
Doug go anywhere. We'll be right back. Michael is the

(56:41):
name Michael Garfield. You can find me at high Tech
textan dot com. H I G h T E c
h T e x A n holiday season almost upon
his bit's almost October. Come on, cool weather and I'll
be talking a lot of recommendations of pretty much hitty
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(58:30):
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As we continue the High Tech Texan Show, I am
a sports nut. My favorite time of year now is
number one. It's cooler weather at least we hope in
the end of the year. But it's football season, and
you know, I have to sit through five months nasty, hot,

(58:52):
humid weather in Houston with there's no football. Football is
here not the biggest baseball guy up in Dallas. The
Texas Rangers were they were crap. Just really, to put
it bluntly, I mean, you know, they were founded. They were.
They came from Washington, d c. To Arlington, Texas nineteen seventy.

(59:12):
I believe ted Williams Trivia, very first manager of the
Texas Rangers. I used to go with my little league,
you know, team and have a glove and sit in
little tiny, minor league Arlington Stadium in the hot, mosquito
weathers and the I mean listen everything from Jim's Sumburg
to Fergie Jenkins, Toby Hara and that that was my era.

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And they were just they were horrible. Okay, Finally the
Rangers they went a World Series, you know, two years ago,
which is great. I live in Houston right now. Astros
are a really good team. I used to live dex
door to James Mouton years ago, a great good friend
of mine and I get to go to a lot
of games. You can hear the Astros on our sister
station in Houston, so weird the Bria on seven ninety

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Sports Radio. So I do follow the Astros to Anyway,
the point is about baseball. Maybe not be the biggest fan,
but there is a change coming next season. If you
don't know about it, I don't think it's controversy, but
purest of baseball fans probably aren't gonna like it. And
you know what I say to you, I say, suck it.

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Suck it up, because the technology that we have nowadays
was not around when Abner Doubleday invented the freaking game.
If there were a high speed, high definition cameras with
slow mo pitches and a strike zone, and yes, Abner
double Day would have said absolutely, man, let's just put
this thing in there. But we have it now, and
next season Major League Baseball are going to start using

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so called robot umpires at home plate. They just announced
it this week. They've been testing this system in minor
league games in spring training, and if you watch the
All Star Game this past July, they even tested it
there and it went fine. It's called the ABS the
automatic ball strike system, and they're saying it's a more

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accurate way to call when a pitch is a ball
or a strike, which currently is done by you guessed it,
an actual human umpire standing behind home plate, standing behind
the catcher, and a pitch obviously it's a ball when
it's thrown outside the strike zone and a strike when
it's within the zone. And home plate umpires they're human,

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they make mistakes. Now Here is the caveat that we
have to say, and Major this is the spin the
Major League Baseball is saying. This system is not totally
going to replace human umpires. There's still going to be
a human umpire back there, but it's only called the
robot is only going to be called in when a
player challenges an umpires called. It's going to work like this.

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Each team gets two challenges a game, and the only
players who can request this review are the pitcher, the catcher,
and the batter. That's it. The team does not lose
a challenge if a player requests one and the call
is indeed overturned. Now it's just gonna is this gonna
slow down the game Because a few years ago they

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added a pitch clock, which really did speed up the game.
And that's the problem to me with Major League Baseball.
And you know, kids the younger generation like me and
I even know I'm not young, we don't have the
attention span for this stuff. I'm not sitting through a
freaking three eight and a half four hour game and
blah blah blah, So let's speed it up. They did
a great job. Major League Baseball says, this process takes

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fifteen seconds. That's it. And it's gonna work like this.
It's gonna use twelve cameras placed around the field and
it's gonna be connected to a private five G network
to track pitches. And it's very similar to the one
used in other sports like tennis. If you ever watch tennis,
and you probably only watched tennis, it's the US Open

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of Wimbledon, or the Australian or the French Open. That's it,
the major ones. But it is a really neat looks
like a cartoon immediate replay of did the tennis ball
land inside the lines? Did it hit the line or
was it out the line? Each player can challenge it.

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It's gonna work like this. These twelve Hawkeye cameras are
going to be placed there. And it's as simple as that.
We can debate this, and I'm listen, I'm not the
biggest debater. It's going to happen. It's inevitable. It's like
a rainstorm in Texas people, it is, and then it's
gonna be sun in Texas a right two minutes later,

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it's going to happen. The NFL just got into this game.
I haven't seen it being used a lot in games,
but they're trying to incorporate some sort of hawkeye technology
to place specifically where the ball did the ball across
the first down that you know, did the ball across
the goal line, because it's very difficult to see because
there's you know, generally there's there's there's twenty two players

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on a field at the same time. They're piled on
top of each other. And I'll say this, I'm all
about change. If it does doesn't sacrifice, yes, is it
Legit doesn't favor one team with the other, and it
speeds things up and it really helps neutral the field.
I mean, how many times I have seen umpires go

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back and forth and they take five minutes, they take
ten minutes, and they gotta go to commercial break. And
then you know the next day it's like, oh wait
a minute, we messed this up. Because we miss this up.
If the technology is there, U tolize it. I am
cool with this. As I take a break, I'll open
up the phone lines. You purest, and I know who
you are. You're you're the person who's sitting in the

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stands keeping score with the backwards K for strikeouts. I
know you do that. Hit me at three four six
two nine eight three nine two six. But I will
change the subject. I am going to tell you about
an Amazon Prime Day coming up and just about a
week from right now. It's got a new name, and
I'll tell you some of the sales that I'm already
seeing out there in some products. As we continue the

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high Tech text in Hizzeou, I hate to say it, peeps,

(01:05:25):
you're about to be released to your whatever you're doing
this weekend. Last segment of the two hour High Tech
Textan show. Michael is the name, Michael Garfield, bottom of
my heart. Thank you twenty three years, been doing this
for listening, having fun, telling jokes, giving you some advice,
giving things away. We already gave away Cobo Bob's gift
card thank you to Cobo Bobs. I'm actually hungry, by

(01:05:45):
the way, as I do this show right now, it
is any early afternoon, and so between what do we
got going up? Good? Pretty good sports weekend? My Texas
Longhorns are off Cowboys. My Cowboys will get crushed on
Sunday by Green Bay. Sadly, Texans not off to a
good start either. And Ryder Cup Big Ryder Car. I

(01:06:07):
was up real man, I couldn't sleep. I guess Friday morning,
Thursday night, whatever it was. I was up at four
in the morning. You know, the worst thing to do
is is look at your phone. And my phone at
night is right next to my bed because it's charging.
But I turned the phone on the silent. But I'm
a light sleeper and so anytime if it buzzes just vibrates,

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I can generally sometimes hear it. I think it's a
parent thing. It's like, you know, when you have a
when you're a parent, and my mom or my grandparents
used to tell me this, you always sleep with one
ear open. I mean, that's just what you do as
a parent. You know, God forbid something happens. But I
was up at four o'clock, and you know, like, screw it,
I might as well turn on the the the Ryder

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Cup because it started really early Friday morning and the
US did not get off to a great start Friday morning.
But I will be watching the Ryder Cup this weekend too,
So whatever you're doing, the point is enjoy it and
have fun, and then you can start counting down to
the next Amazon Prime Day. I thought there was only

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one Prime Day. There used to be one Prime Day
during the year. It was in July. It was two days,
then it was like a week. Then there was like
one more a little later in the year. And guess what,
pay Paul, there's another one October seventh, all right, so
just over a week away. And it's not called Amazon

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Prime Day. It is now the Prime Big Deal Days.
And if that does not sound like a upcharged meal
at a burger joint, I don't know what it is. Hey,
just don't get the cheezburger. I want you to get
the Prime Big Deal Days. That's exactly what you want.

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I think it's going to go on for two days,
but I've already seen some things that are on. Say
I always the low hanging through things that I say
all the time, things that I'll go on sale batteries,
little tiny chargers for your phone, for your laptop thing
anchor a n K E R. I already saw that
kind of on sale. Also, that's twenty bucks off. You

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don't get these for like forty dollars or so. These
little power banks very important, very important to use these
power banks if you're running out of charges and things
of that nature. Earlier this show, I talked about fire
sticks and streaming sticks. The Amazon Fire TV stick for
k Max, I think is already twenty bucks off. I

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think you could buy it for forty dollars instead of
sixty dollars on Amazon right now, and that's probably near
what it was at the big Prime Day and back
in July. Anything that Amazon has that's branded itself like
fire there's the there's Fire TVs, there's fire sticks. There
obviously is everything that's the Amazon Amazon Echo device with Alexa.

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You know that's going to be on sales, so good time.
You may not be in the holiday shopping mood on
the first few days of October, but you may want
to go a stock up on some of these things.
And again, the reason there is such a thing as
an Amazon Prime Day, Yes, it is to get rid
of merch and everything like that. But Amazon simply does

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it because they want more member subscriptions. Because to take
full advantage of the free shipping for the two days
and the discount deals, you need to be an Amazon member.
Some of the ways around it, and I do believe
you can join if you're not an Amazon member. I
think there's a thirty day free trial. How's the time
to activate your thirty day free trial? Buy everything to

(01:09:48):
your heart's content, set a reminder, cancel it on the
twenty ninth day. I don't even think Amazon cares about that.
So I'm just telling you ways around this whole thing,
and so something actually to look forward to, I guess.
So I also saw that what did I see over here?
I said, the UK Britain is doing something that this

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is going to be controversial to UK just announced plans
for a digital ID card. The Prime Minister here starmers
that I pronounced it. He has announced a new requirement
for all working adults in the country to carry a
digital identification It's called the brit Card. That's right, It's

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called the brit Card. And is this a good thing? There?
It's going to be a state of the art encryption
and authentication technology has digital credentials that will be stored
directly on people's own device. This this opens the whole
can of worms of the These IDs may infringe on

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civil liberties, require citizens to give the government additional personal information. Yes,
it raises concerns about how the administration plans to protect
all those sensitive details. Blah blah blah. This stuff is coming.
I use the word inevitable Major League Baseball, the balls
and strikes, the robotic umpires, that's inevitable. If the UK

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is going to do it and it's going to work.
If something tells me this is going to be over
there and it's fin you know I mentioned this idea,
I'll get ready to sign off with one or two
minutes and so you know it's not the smartest time
to actually talk about this to you know, give me
your thoughts. This is something I want you to moll over.
I will follow to see when this is coming out
and the reason they're saying it's going to help crack
down on a legal immigration and exploited of employment schemes

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in the UK. Yeah, because we don't have that in
the United States. You don't think it's coming here. But
these are the things I do talk about. I rarely
delve directly into politics. This this touch is certainly on
maybe not politics, but certainly government. I'm really not big
into the government looking into my private information because as
a private citizen and as a card as a social

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Security tax paying member of the greatest country in the world,
because all other countries are going to hell. Right, That's
what I heard at the UN last week. I do
want my freedom, and I do want the First Amendment,
and I do think iHeart for giving me that. Never
in my twenty three years of working at iHeart and
doing that. They told me what to say, what not

(01:12:29):
to say. It's kind of just like common sense. You
try to avoid things that you don't want to talk
about that. I stay in my lane. I don't know
my politics a lot I do. I do know my sports,
I do note my technology, I know car I know
a lot of consumer things. That's my lane, and I
do thank you for writing in my plane. Michael is
the name Michael Broadfield. You could find me all the

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TV stuff that I do, all my reviews, high tech
textan dot com hi g h T E c h
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thanks to Callum for doing whatever you're doing on the
other side of the glass. They'll put this on the
podcast in iHeartRadio so you can listen again. Brian ericson
Eddie Martini, all the guys who's sitting in the carpetent
offices down the way for iHeart who puts me all

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over the state on these iHeart stations. Thank you so much.
Enjoy the last weekend of September, and then it's wake
me up because September ends just like this show, which
is right now. Oba