December 19, 2025 • 10 mins
He dives deep into the best tech gadgets to gift or treat yourself. They discuss the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2, highlighting its features and why it tops many wish lists this year. Plus, they spotlight the Mario Kart bundle as a standout choice for gamers of all ages. Whether you’re shopping for friends, family, or yourself, this episode has tech recommendations you won’t want to miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And so good to be with you on this ring Friday.
It's windy, but maya, is it mild out there today?
And the holidays are here, Let's face it, we still
have that one person to shop for who's into tech
stuff that we wish we knew about to buy as
a gift, or maybe we want some cool tech gadgets
to buy for ourselves. Brand and digital strategist Fisher, who
(00:21):
can be found at at Fisher on X and Threads
and at Fisher dot Media. We say Merry Christmas, good morning,
and welcome to the Mark Simone Show.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning, Ken, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ah? Little larynge iis okay?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Otherwise it's gonna say you sounded great.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's my Brenda the Caro impersonation. That's what it is.
So what are some cool tech gadgets that we may
not know about this year for the person who's into
cool tech stuff?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Absolutely? First, I'm going to just mention that if you
have a child or a teenager, Nintendo Switch to Mario
Kart bundle is still on sale at Walmart. You can
get it at Target, so you can still get these gifts, right.
But some cool things, as you mentioned insta three sixty
link two. It's a webcam four K resolution, DSLR quality,
(01:07):
noise canceling, and this is the great part, tracking and framing.
So if you if you're sitting in front of your
computer during doing zoom calls, it's one thing.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And you can have like a fixed camera if you
will right, but.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
This camera, if you have to get up to do presentations,
it will track you, so it'll follow you if you
stand up, it'll zoom out, zoom in if you move
around a whiteboard, things of that sort.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So great, great camera.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's only about one hundred and fifty bucks, which is
pretty reasonable, and you can get it at insta three
sixty dot com. How about a drone anti gravity A
one drone? Get this eight K video on a drone
obstacle avoidance so you don't run into a tree of
building your house your dog. Six mile range comes with
a headset, grip controllers, so you're kind of playing it
(01:51):
like a video game and then you're looking at what
the drone sees in The headset comes with a battery,
a carry case, a carrying case you could get that
at best Buy. And something for the grandparents, maybe your parents.
Ten inch Wi Fi enabled digital photo frame. It's great.
You can update the pictures. You can you know, take
them from your phone and upload them into the photo frame.
That's it best by it's only about fifty nine bucks.
(02:11):
But there's plenty of deals also. Think of things like accessories,
AirPod Pro threes, pixel Buds Pro twos, the Apple Watch
or pixel Watch, or even just something simple like a
tablet or laptop stand, privacy screens, and there's plenty of things.
You can go online, you can order it and then
just go pick it up. You don't have to, you know,
(02:32):
go through the store and you know, sit in the
aisles with everybody else that's looking for last minute gifts.
You can do a lot of it online and then
just pick up on the stores so you're not worried
about the shipping.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That is awesome. Seven to ten wore the Voice of
New York n Risotto went from Mark on a Friday,
smack dab in the middle of the holidays. Right now,
of course, we have a few days left of Hanukah,
Christmas is only six days away, and we're speaking with Fisher,
who can tell you all about everything tech and he
has some great advice here for us. So now you've
(03:02):
also talked about before going out shopping or even doing
shopping online to get credit cards for cash back and
deals before you add to the store. So talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, we talked about this on Black Friday and kind
of got a great response on it. So I'll mentioned
again for anybody who didn't hear that, show your credit
cards if you have one. Basically you have cash back rewards,
you have reward points that you can get. Capital One
has Capital One offers, amex offers, Bankomera deals, even discover
Card has cash bonuses. And the point of mentioning this
(03:31):
is before you go to the store, check the app,
check the website of your credit cards and see if
you go through the link in the app that you
get an extra five percent off or you get an
extra you know, ten thousand membership rewards points. A company
like Capital One there credit card, they actually have an
extension for your browsers, so as you go to websites,
you don't have to keep track of all of it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It will tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It'll say, hey, there's an offer here for five percent
cash back if you use your Capital One card. Rakutin
is a great resource as well, and they have a
browser extension you can use and that's fantastic. And I
also want to mention that if you have a credit
card or anything, really look to burn your perks by
the end of the year. A lot of your credit
(04:13):
cards offer perks like TSCA pre Check Global Entry, Clear Membership.
You know they'll cover the cost if you just sign
up a resi so Rezi is an online restaurant reservation
and American Express offers one hundred dollars a quarter if
credit you got to burn. That sacks fifth avenue credit
on an American Express. Think airline incidental credits too. As
(04:35):
you travel, make sure you bring that credit card that
you're gonna be able to take care of the baggage
fee or the lounge fees, drink tickets in your airline
app if you get those through your credit card, and
think of things that you wouldn't normally think of, meaning
a Clear membership has discounts, So check the Clear app
and you get a discount on Uber one or forty
nine dollars off an or ring. And then also of
(04:55):
course you know your Starbucks points expire at the end
of the month, dunkin Donuts, whatever it is. This is
the end of the year, not just the end of
the month, it's the end of a quarter, it's the
end of the year. So think of those because all
of this will expire by the end of the next week, right,
so two weeks from now actually, And so you want
to burn all these points because you're paying, in some
(05:16):
cases a large annual fee on a credit card.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Make sure you take advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Wow, that is all amazing advice. And I know you
have this all on your website, Fisher dot Media. So
if anybody saying, wait, this all sounds great, but I'm
driving and I can't write it down, don't worry about it.
You can do that. You can check it out there.
Let me ask you, did you get all your holiday
shopping done?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But there are great deals and it's great like I
was thinking about for my mom, and there's such great
deals on televisions now two hundred and three hundred dollars
for seventy five inch TVs at Walmart, Costco, Best Buy,
pick a store. It's easy to walk in and grab
one of those deals. So I feel confident now. If
we talk on Tuesday, I will feel less confident. Right now,
(06:00):
going into the weekend, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
This is this is amazing. So Fisher comes on the
show that we do in New Jersey, and Fisher always
has this great advice and almost inevitably I will ask
did you do this for yourself? And say no. So
Fisher's great at giving advice, but terrible at doing it himself.
He's do as I'd say, don't do as I do.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Except for the password stuff. You're the one with password
one two three four as your passwords?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well thanks for sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I mean you did it on TV. I figured
it was open listen.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I think if if the company gives you the product
with the word password as the password, why should you
bother changing it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I mean they did you make it's fine?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Exactly you know? Or just you know abc D one
two three four. I mean, there's nothing. People people make
fun of me because I still have on my Instagram,
I still have some certain letters that are connected to
a previous employer. Hey, why take the time to change it?
It works.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
There are many other ways that people make fun of you,
but yeah, that's one.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Has nothing to do with the funny hats that I wear.
All right, amazing, So what other advice you have? So
you talked about clear, I just by the way, just
a heads up that when I just renewed my Clear recently,
I wasn't sure which of the credit cards I had
used previously, and I just did a a search engine
were a search and ask which credit cards give you
(07:19):
free Clear or free TSA pre Check, and they're like
ten popped up.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, I had one of those cards. Yeah, And you
could even go into the dashboard.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Usually it's the website because it has more landscape for
you to see, and like American Express tracks, so say
in American Express Platinum cards gives you a streaming credits
per month, you could actually go in and see how
many credits I've used, or how many dollars in that case,
or have I used my saxpith Avenue you know I
used in the first half of the year. I still
had fifty bucks before the end of the year. So
a lot of your credit cards will kind of give
(07:47):
you that heads up. And in addition, say you have
a TSA pre Check or a Clear or a Global Entry,
you know, thing to spend, and they the spend is
usually once every three years on credit cards, like once
you spend it, because you're only going to get a
membership once every three years or five years for pre check.
So but yes, almost every credit card at this point
offers a TSA pre check credit. And again, if you're
(08:11):
a member of a Delta, sky Miles et cetera American
Airlines advantage, you also probably get a discount unclear or
pre check, so check those as well. It's a great
way to also get memberships for your entire family by
using different credit cards.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, and also you get on those credit cards from
the airlines like I have United and Jet Blue. Can
you get certain discounts on drinks and food and whatnot
on those planes by using their credit card on the
plane to make a purchase.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So, but a lot of that you get a lit Yeah,
and check flight credits that you might have if you
got bumped from a flight or you cancel the flight.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
May it expire?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Expired?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I've had that before and I saw four hundred bucks
from a Delta sky Miles account go away. So I
definitely check that, and it makes it, you know, sit
rend on your phone. I started doing that because of
all the different perks that you have to burn by
the end of a month or a quarter year. So
I started making reminders on my phone that I just
as I use the twenty five dollars resume credit on
my Delta reserve card, I mark it off and that
(09:13):
it resets for the next month. And you should get
in the habit of that because for the amount of
money you're paying for your credit cards, in some cases,
you need to make sure that you're using all.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Of the perks to benefit the annual fee.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, that's one of the reasons you pay for that.
You are paying for it, you might as well take
advantage of the bennies you'll leave brand table No, absolutely not.
Brandon digital strategist Fisher who can be found that at
Fisher on X and Threads and at Fisher dot media
if you want all those tips and those wonderful ideas
Fisher dot Media. Thanks for coming on this morning, sir Mary.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Chris, Merry Christmas again.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Thank you. Some morning rain, even some thunder. It'll be
very windy all day, becoming partly cloudy later. Highs in
the mid fifties again, very very windy wind. Advice for
you in effect, Ken Risotto and from Mark on your Friday.
One eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. One
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten will squeeze
in a call or two. Next seven ten wr we
(10:10):
are coming right back.
And so good to be with you on this ring Friday.
It's windy, but maya, is it mild out there today?
And the holidays are here, Let's face it, we still
have that one person to shop for who's into tech
stuff that we wish we knew about to buy as
a gift, or maybe we want some cool tech gadgets
to buy for ourselves. Brand and digital strategist Fisher, who
(00:21):
can be found at at Fisher on X and Threads
and at Fisher dot Media. We say Merry Christmas, good morning,
and welcome to the Mark Simone Show.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning, Ken, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ah? Little larynge iis okay?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Otherwise it's gonna say you sounded great.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's my Brenda the Caro impersonation. That's what it is.
So what are some cool tech gadgets that we may
not know about this year for the person who's into
cool tech stuff?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Absolutely? First, I'm going to just mention that if you
have a child or a teenager, Nintendo Switch to Mario
Kart bundle is still on sale at Walmart. You can
get it at Target, so you can still get these gifts, right.
But some cool things, as you mentioned insta three sixty
link two. It's a webcam four K resolution, DSLR quality,
(01:07):
noise canceling, and this is the great part, tracking and framing.
So if you if you're sitting in front of your
computer during doing zoom calls, it's one thing.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And you can have like a fixed camera if you
will right, but.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
This camera, if you have to get up to do presentations,
it will track you, so it'll follow you if you
stand up, it'll zoom out, zoom in if you move
around a whiteboard, things of that sort.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So great, great camera.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's only about one hundred and fifty bucks, which is
pretty reasonable, and you can get it at insta three
sixty dot com. How about a drone anti gravity A
one drone? Get this eight K video on a drone
obstacle avoidance so you don't run into a tree of
building your house your dog. Six mile range comes with
a headset, grip controllers, so you're kind of playing it
(01:51):
like a video game and then you're looking at what
the drone sees in The headset comes with a battery,
a carry case, a carrying case you could get that
at best Buy. And something for the grandparents, maybe your parents.
Ten inch Wi Fi enabled digital photo frame. It's great.
You can update the pictures. You can you know, take
them from your phone and upload them into the photo frame.
That's it best by it's only about fifty nine bucks.
(02:11):
But there's plenty of deals also. Think of things like accessories,
AirPod Pro threes, pixel Buds Pro twos, the Apple Watch
or pixel Watch, or even just something simple like a
tablet or laptop stand, privacy screens, and there's plenty of things.
You can go online, you can order it and then
just go pick it up. You don't have to, you know,
(02:32):
go through the store and you know, sit in the
aisles with everybody else that's looking for last minute gifts.
You can do a lot of it online and then
just pick up on the stores so you're not worried
about the shipping.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That is awesome. Seven to ten wore the Voice of
New York n Risotto went from Mark on a Friday,
smack dab in the middle of the holidays. Right now,
of course, we have a few days left of Hanukah,
Christmas is only six days away, and we're speaking with Fisher,
who can tell you all about everything tech and he
has some great advice here for us. So now you've
(03:02):
also talked about before going out shopping or even doing
shopping online to get credit cards for cash back and
deals before you add to the store. So talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, we talked about this on Black Friday and kind
of got a great response on it. So I'll mentioned
again for anybody who didn't hear that, show your credit
cards if you have one. Basically you have cash back rewards,
you have reward points that you can get. Capital One
has Capital One offers, amex offers, Bankomera deals, even discover
Card has cash bonuses. And the point of mentioning this
(03:31):
is before you go to the store, check the app,
check the website of your credit cards and see if
you go through the link in the app that you
get an extra five percent off or you get an
extra you know, ten thousand membership rewards points. A company
like Capital One there credit card, they actually have an
extension for your browsers, so as you go to websites,
you don't have to keep track of all of it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It will tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It'll say, hey, there's an offer here for five percent
cash back if you use your Capital One card. Rakutin
is a great resource as well, and they have a
browser extension you can use and that's fantastic. And I
also want to mention that if you have a credit
card or anything, really look to burn your perks by
the end of the year. A lot of your credit
(04:13):
cards offer perks like TSCA pre Check Global Entry, Clear Membership.
You know they'll cover the cost if you just sign
up a resi so Rezi is an online restaurant reservation
and American Express offers one hundred dollars a quarter if
credit you got to burn. That sacks fifth avenue credit
on an American Express. Think airline incidental credits too. As
(04:35):
you travel, make sure you bring that credit card that
you're gonna be able to take care of the baggage
fee or the lounge fees, drink tickets in your airline
app if you get those through your credit card, and
think of things that you wouldn't normally think of, meaning
a Clear membership has discounts, So check the Clear app
and you get a discount on Uber one or forty
nine dollars off an or ring. And then also of
(04:55):
course you know your Starbucks points expire at the end
of the month, dunkin Donuts, whatever it is. This is
the end of the year, not just the end of
the month, it's the end of a quarter, it's the
end of the year. So think of those because all
of this will expire by the end of the next week, right,
so two weeks from now actually, And so you want
to burn all these points because you're paying, in some
(05:16):
cases a large annual fee on a credit card.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Make sure you take advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Wow, that is all amazing advice. And I know you
have this all on your website, Fisher dot Media. So
if anybody saying, wait, this all sounds great, but I'm
driving and I can't write it down, don't worry about it.
You can do that. You can check it out there.
Let me ask you, did you get all your holiday
shopping done?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But there are great deals and it's great like I
was thinking about for my mom, and there's such great
deals on televisions now two hundred and three hundred dollars
for seventy five inch TVs at Walmart, Costco, Best Buy,
pick a store. It's easy to walk in and grab
one of those deals. So I feel confident now. If
we talk on Tuesday, I will feel less confident. Right now,
(06:00):
going into the weekend, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
This is this is amazing. So Fisher comes on the
show that we do in New Jersey, and Fisher always
has this great advice and almost inevitably I will ask
did you do this for yourself? And say no. So
Fisher's great at giving advice, but terrible at doing it himself.
He's do as I'd say, don't do as I do.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Except for the password stuff. You're the one with password
one two three four as your passwords?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well thanks for sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I mean you did it on TV. I figured
it was open listen.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I think if if the company gives you the product
with the word password as the password, why should you
bother changing it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I mean they did you make it's fine?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Exactly you know? Or just you know abc D one
two three four. I mean, there's nothing. People people make
fun of me because I still have on my Instagram,
I still have some certain letters that are connected to
a previous employer. Hey, why take the time to change it?
It works.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
There are many other ways that people make fun of you,
but yeah, that's one.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Has nothing to do with the funny hats that I wear.
All right, amazing, So what other advice you have? So
you talked about clear, I just by the way, just
a heads up that when I just renewed my Clear recently,
I wasn't sure which of the credit cards I had
used previously, and I just did a a search engine
were a search and ask which credit cards give you
(07:19):
free Clear or free TSA pre Check, and they're like
ten popped up.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, I had one of those cards. Yeah, And you
could even go into the dashboard.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Usually it's the website because it has more landscape for
you to see, and like American Express tracks, so say
in American Express Platinum cards gives you a streaming credits
per month, you could actually go in and see how
many credits I've used, or how many dollars in that case,
or have I used my saxpith Avenue you know I
used in the first half of the year. I still
had fifty bucks before the end of the year. So
a lot of your credit cards will kind of give
(07:47):
you that heads up. And in addition, say you have
a TSA pre Check or a Clear or a Global Entry,
you know, thing to spend, and they the spend is
usually once every three years on credit cards, like once
you spend it, because you're only going to get a
membership once every three years or five years for pre check.
So but yes, almost every credit card at this point
offers a TSA pre check credit. And again, if you're
(08:11):
a member of a Delta, sky Miles et cetera American
Airlines advantage, you also probably get a discount unclear or
pre check, so check those as well. It's a great
way to also get memberships for your entire family by
using different credit cards.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, and also you get on those credit cards from
the airlines like I have United and Jet Blue. Can
you get certain discounts on drinks and food and whatnot
on those planes by using their credit card on the
plane to make a purchase.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So, but a lot of that you get a lit Yeah,
and check flight credits that you might have if you
got bumped from a flight or you cancel the flight.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
May it expire?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Expired?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I've had that before and I saw four hundred bucks
from a Delta sky Miles account go away. So I
definitely check that, and it makes it, you know, sit
rend on your phone. I started doing that because of
all the different perks that you have to burn by
the end of a month or a quarter year. So
I started making reminders on my phone that I just
as I use the twenty five dollars resume credit on
my Delta reserve card, I mark it off and that
(09:13):
it resets for the next month. And you should get
in the habit of that because for the amount of
money you're paying for your credit cards, in some cases,
you need to make sure that you're using all.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Of the perks to benefit the annual fee.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, that's one of the reasons you pay for that.
You are paying for it, you might as well take
advantage of the bennies you'll leave brand table No, absolutely not.
Brandon digital strategist Fisher who can be found that at
Fisher on X and Threads and at Fisher dot media
if you want all those tips and those wonderful ideas
Fisher dot Media. Thanks for coming on this morning, sir Mary.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Chris, Merry Christmas again.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Thank you. Some morning rain, even some thunder. It'll be
very windy all day, becoming partly cloudy later. Highs in
the mid fifties again, very very windy wind. Advice for
you in effect, Ken Risotto and from Mark on your Friday.
One eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. One
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten will squeeze
in a call or two. Next seven ten wr we
(10:10):
are coming right back.
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