The Foldable iPhone, Invisible Smart Glasses & Your Old TV

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The High Tech Texan.
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It's Michael Garfield.
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Michael Garfield's joining us.
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We have the High Tech Texan.
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Michael Garfield is here with us. The High Tech Texan.
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Hello.
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Items to make life easier.
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Shows us some new technology.
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So Michael Garfield has something you might like.
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The High Tech Texan.
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The High Tech Texan.
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Michael Garfield is your High Tech Texan.
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The High Tech Texan.
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Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard
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worldwide on the iHeartRadio app. Now, your high-tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
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I know why you're tuning in this week. Well, as
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you should every single week for the past 25 years.
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You want to hear my thoughts on certain topics. And
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certainly when it comes to technology, consumer lifestyle, and everything
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else that I cover.
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Cars.
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Sports, bourbon, fashion, you want to know if there's big news,
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big announcements, before you go out and spend your time
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or spend your hard-earned money, you need to hear it
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from me. And I respect that, and I thank you.
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It has taken a long time for me to earn
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your trust and your respect that before you literally can
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make a decision that has some consequences, that, you know what,
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let's tune into Michael Kors. Michael Garfield has got it
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going on. He was the original influencer. I remember him
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watching it on Channel 2, NBC, and Houston. Hell, I
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remember him on QVC back in the 1980s. Still, 25 years,
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he's got this radio show. This is what we need.
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And at this time of year, at this particular time
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of year, in early September of 2026, where so much
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has happened and occurred and been announced this first full
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week of September, of this year. You found time, despite
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other things to do this weekend, to find me on
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the radio in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, to find me
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on the iHeartRadio app, if you're listening to me on
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the smart speakers, if you're listening to me on your earpods,
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I do thank you. The one thing you tuned in
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for to hear me rant about, recommend, is quite simply...
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Football season has started, people. Let's go. You got the
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Texas Longhorns Saturday night. The big game. Ohio State and Austin.
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I will be there. And then don't sleep on Sunday
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night football. My Dallas Cowboys versus, once again, the New
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York Giants. That's all we need to talk about. Thank
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you so much. Feel free to do whatever you need
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to do for the next hour and 50 minutes. Oh,
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there's more? There was no other announcements in the technology world?
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that yet another foldable smartphone was released? Nah. That's old news.
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Foldable smartphones have been on the market for no less
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than seven years. Before COVID, companies have been commercially producing
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and selling and marketing phones that fold or flip. That's right.
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How can glass actually fold in half? Did a company
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just this week make an announcement that you've never heard
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that a phone can fold in half? I have warned you.
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How many times have I warned you last week? I've
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warned you a year. Every time that a company, and
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there are too many to name here, has released a
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foldable phone, I said this. I said, one day when Apple...
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finally follows the leader, plays catch up and releases its
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own foldable phone, millions, tens of millions of people will
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be in shock. They'll be in awe, their mouths agape,
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thinking to themselves, oh my God, in my lifetime, I
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never thought I would see something like this. How could
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a piece of glass fold in half? and still have
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the computing, just everything inside with their chip and the sound,
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and it can make a phone call, and the screen
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doubles in size. I never knew this existed. Apple continues
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to be the greatest company in the world. Shut up.
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Shut up! You know what you're going to get with me.
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And I'll start with this. I am not a hater.
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I did not get this far in life to be
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a hater. I don't look this... much younger than I
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actually am with my real very little gray hair, relatively
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wrinkles in my skin for my age to be a hater.
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Haters are old. Haters are hateful. It ages you. No, no, no, no.
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I am Annie. I make Annie look like a pessimist
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because the sun is always going to come out tomorrow.
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I learned from my QVC days to take a look
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at every single product being sold. And I will actually
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tell you, Michael Garfield, that's me. I'll tell you how
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this product can change your life. I can sell it all.
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I can market it all. Now, with power comes great responsibility.
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I've had this radio show for 25 years. iHeartRadio, my
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bosses have trusted me that I'm just not going to
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tell you to go out and buy something if I
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don't believe in it. Because my butt has been burned.
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many times when I started my career. Not in my career, man.
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I can make endorsements. You mean all I need to
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do is say this product is great and you're going
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to pay me? Hey, yeah, let's do that. Well, let
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me help you out. I've done that many years ago,
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20 plus years ago, where that product fell apart. That
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product hurt somebody. And guess who my listening and viewing
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audience blamed? They didn't blame the product. They blamed me. Garfield,
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what are you doing? What are you promoting this product for?
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This thing sucks. I just wasted my money. So before
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I recommend something. I have to try it. I have
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to use it. I have to understand it. I need
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to see the good and the bad, the black and
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the white, why this thing can enhance your life. Is
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it worth spending your hard-earned money doing this stuff? That's
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what I do. So as we segue into what is
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going to be a very fun show, as it always
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is here on the High Tech Texan Show, I am
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going to talk a bit and use a word that
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I don't use often here on my radio program. Popple.
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Long-time listeners know, It's not so much I'm not an
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Apple fan. I just am not tight with the Apple
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PR people where they send me or let me temporarily
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utilize or play with their gear, their phones, their little AirPods,
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their MacBooks, their computers, their Apple TV service. No. You see,
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I do depend on having relationships with public relations companies,
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PR companies, comms. to at least allow me, as someone
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who has done this easily longer than the majority of
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any other people of my ilk in the technology, the reviewing,
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and I don't hold back. If I don't like something,
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either A, I'm not going to talk about it, or B,
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I'm going to tell you, decent, you better wait for
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version 2, version 3, or version 4. That's why, for many,
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many years, I could talk about products from Samsung. Samsung
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PR people used to be, I'm using the past tense,
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quite friendly with me for a few years there, where
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they would send me the newest Samsung phone, which I
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get to play with maybe for 30 days, maybe for
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60 days, before I send it back. No money has
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ever been exchanged. That has been a hand to God
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for me. And I'm going to give you my thoughts.
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I'll tell you this right now. I don't know if
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and when I will ever see the new Apple foldable phone,
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the iPhone Duo. really don't have any relationship with Apple.
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So I'm going to have to rely on you people,
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which you're now going to have to wait a month
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and a half before you even get your hands on one.
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That alone causes me like, very interesting. Generally, when Apple
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makes an announcement, that product goes on sale by the
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end of the week. And then within one to two weeks,
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the product hits the markets. No, they did announce it.
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Yet they will go on sale relatively soon, but you
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ain't going to see them in stores until October 23rd. So,
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You stand by because when I come back, I'm going
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to break this down. And I'd love to hear from
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you because this is a radio show, not so much
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a podcast that's turned into, but we are plausibly live.
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My phone number, 346-298-3926. 346-29-TEXAN. If it's a busy signal,
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leave a message. We're going to play it on the air.
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Do you need another phone? Stop fawning over the fact
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that it's a foldable phone. They've been out for seven years.
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I have got a drawer full of foldable phones. I
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like foldable phones. There's one or two issues that are
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holding me back from fully recommending to people. I will
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tell you what those are. And oh, by the way,
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we actually do have actually a full other slate of
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things to talk about too. All right. Believe it or not,
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CD sales. Are you old enough to know what a
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CD is? Guess what? Just like vinyl records, CD sales
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are booming right now. I can answer a lot of
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your questions about Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7. Now that
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it's football season, I need a new TV. But how
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do you safely dispose of your TV? I want a
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digital antenna. How far can a digital signal reach? Boy,
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I have got all your answers because that's what I do.
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I'm your fun guy, your nice guy. That's why you're
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going to hang around here for the next hour and 45.
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My name is Michael Garfield. This is Buckle Up People,
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the High Tech Texan Show. Happy weekend. It is Michael Garfield.
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We call this the High Tech Texan Show. Something tells
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me most people have one ear on me. Keep one
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of the ear pods in and one on college football.
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Big Saturday weekend, especially if you're a University of Texas fan.
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I will be Hanging up the microphone as I do
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the show on Saturday morning and rolling up to the
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University of Texas. This is the third time, I believe,
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that Texas and Ohio State have played, I guess, in
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a semi-semi-recent matter. Texas went to Columbus, Ohio in 2005, September.
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I was there.
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Texas wins. A year later, Ohio State comes to Texas
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after Texas wins the national championship. Ohio State actually beat Texas.
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I was there. And this is the place where college
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game day will be. Actually, it was this morning on Saturday.
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And I will be there right now. Couldn't have sold
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the tickets. And actually, I couldn't have retired. But the
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tickets for Saturday night's game now, they're stupid. I saw
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one for... $ 7, 000, but that may have been in a
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suite in the end zone or something. But down low
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on the lower level, they're easily $ 3, 000 or so. So
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whatever you're doing this weekend, including watching NFL Cowboys on
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Sunday night, thank you so much. Something tells me you
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didn't tune in for my football prowessness. I'm more than
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happy to make some predictions. And I am going to
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make some predictions. Let's go back to the world of
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tech with the other Pretty big news that the world
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was waiting for this week, that it took many, many
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years coming. Apple held its annual guess what we're releasing
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and how much they're going to be because we want
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to part your money and your wallet with some product
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that you probably don't need. I'll give Apple this. And again,
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and I say this again, I make zero apologies. I'm
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not an Apple fanboy. I'm not an Apple hater. But
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I know what I know because my job is to
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answer my door almost every single day or night when
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FedEx or UPS delivers a package. And for 25 years,
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I have received phones and televisions and smart thermostats and
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electric lights and cars. Every single week, I get to
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drive a brand new car. I get microphones. I get
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video cameras. I get ear... I have more headphones and
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earbuds that I could open a Best Buy. They want
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my opinion because I reach a lot of people as
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I have for a quarter of a century. On TV,
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Fox 7 in Austin, Great Day Houston, CBS, IR radio
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here across the world. I research things. And to me,
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Quite simply, if a company, it's a pretty big company,
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and I've been around long enough, I'm very honored, and
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I say this without cockiness, I'm honored to be able
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to reach so many people and built a brand that
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people don't even know my real name, but they, oh,
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they know high-tech tax, cool. But when they don't send
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me a product, I determine that decision as, this company
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really isn't confident with that product to let me review
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it because they know I'm probably not going to recommend it. Okay?
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Over the years I've been doing this, 25 years, if
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I have received one full iPhone to temporarily test out,
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I'm lying. I was in Samsung's good graces with their
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communications and PR team for a good four years. But
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I can go on and on. If Apple, I guarantee
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Apple's not going to send me the brand. We're talking
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about the new announcement of several phones from Apple. They
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announced the iPhone 18, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, and
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they're incredibly expensive. First of its kind, Apple foldable phone.
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That's right. It's called the iPhone Duo. It's a book
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style foldable device. It's got a little bendable display. Certainly
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not new in the consumer market. I ain't going to
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get one of these things. So I'm not a hater.
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I'm not a lover, but I'm going to give you
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the play-by-play. Made an announcement for the first time. New CEO.
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It's not Tim Cook. John Ternus. Is that his name? Ternus.
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Seems like a cool cat. Never met him. Probably never will.
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But here is the summary. Here is my AI summary
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of the Apple event in Once again, I'll tell you,
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you can't spell Michael without AI. Here it is. Apple
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may finally be folding its iPhone, but at an average
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price of $ 2, 500, the only thing folding faster may be
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your wallet. Ladies and gentlemen, if you missed it, it's
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finally here. Last Wednesday, Apple unveiled its very first foldable
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It's called the Duo. It will start at $ 2, 000 in
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the U.S. Pre-orders actually begin well over a month from now,
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on October 16th, and then it comes out a week later.
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You can physically get it on October 23rd. The Duo
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is compact, and it's in the shape of a passport. Now,
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follow me here. There generally have been two types of
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foldable phones over the past seven, eight years that companies
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have been releasing them. There's a book style, which means
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you hold a book, you open the cover. From right,
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you fold it over to the left. It then becomes
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two screens. Problem is, it's pretty thick. And it's still long.
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I have several of those. Love that one. The other
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one is a flip phone. This is one that mimics
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the old Motorola, you know, the Razr and StarTAC. The
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one that you probably had before the iPhone came out
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all those years ago in 2007. It's a phone that
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flips up. Clamshell. I like those.
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Okay?
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Apple does say that this is their thinnest iPhone ever,
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but let's go back. This one is the size of
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a passport. It still folds left to right. And I
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can appreciate the size. This is not the first one
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because Samsung, less than a month ago, they released their
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own passport size phone. When I was in China last June,
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I went into the Huawei store. I like Huawei. Huawei's phones,
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because they're based in China, cannot be sold here in
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the United States. Guess what I saw and held in
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touch with? A passport size. I actually personally like that
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form factor. I do. Now, this one. Apple says this
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is the thinnest iPhone ever when it is opened. 7.6-inch
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display on the inside, 5.25-inch on the outside display.
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Okay?
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It's going to be compatible with something called the Apple Pencil.
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You can unlock it with Touch ID instead of your
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face this time. It's going to come in two colors.
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I'm just going through the blah, blah, blahs. They are
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powering this thing with something called the A20 Pro Chip. Yes,
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I know. It's the fastest chip known to man. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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It's going to have a you know, decent main camera, okay,
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ultra-wide camera, it's going to have 4K video, okay, it's
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a phone. I'm going to say they're going to give
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you up to 31 hours of video playback on the inside,
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all right? Battery life is very big, and that's been
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a problem with me when it comes to the flippables
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and foldables, and I'll tell you about that here real quickly.
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But Welcome to the competition, because with this iPhone Duo,
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Apple now enters an increasingly competitive foldable phone market. You
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got players like Samsung, Google, Motorola. You got Chinese brands, Huawei, Oppo, Honor.
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Now it's Apple's turn to further shape this space, maybe
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nudge it forward. Because right now, the foldable phone category,
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even though it's been around seven years, is minuscule compared
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to other phones, non-foldable phones out there. It's a niche
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smartphone category. Now, allegedly, and there's a company called IDC.
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They make a lot of forecasts. They say that the
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global foldable shipment, it's going to grow by about 12%
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this year. And I'm telling you right now, yes, it's
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because of Apple's new entry. Because when Apple puts something
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on sale, so many people go out and rush and
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buy it. Sim it down, people. Sim it down. You
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may not need this. And when we come back, I'm
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going to tell you why. But it's not just rag
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on Apple. I'm very tepid to make my everyday phone
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a foldable phone. I'll explain when we get back. This
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is the High Tech Texan Show. Bottom of the hour,
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hour number one of what we call the High Tech
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Texan Show. Michael is my name. You can call me Garf, G-A-R-F,
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first four letters of Garfield. Sadly, not related to the cat.
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if i was related to that cat i'd be retired
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right now uh it is just garf uh phone number
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here if you want to uh chime in on your
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maybe your current iphone wondering you know should i spend
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almost three thousand dollars on the new foldable iphone which
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is exactly what we're talking about right now Love to
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hear from you. 346-29-TEXAN. 346-298-3926. Certainly you can follow me
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on all the socials. If you're not blocked, High Tech Texan. H-I-G-H-T-E-C-H-T-E-X-A-N. Hightechtexan.com. Which,
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by the way, we are just about to flip my
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newly redesigned website. I've been working with the folks, the
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very smarter than I folks, at astounds.com. A-S-T-O-U-N-D-Z, should you
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need a new redesign when it comes to your website,
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search engine optimization, and all these optimal things. They are Houston-based.
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You don't need to be in Houston, but they work
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with a number, lots of companies around the country to
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help optimize what you're doing. So anyway, we've been working
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on it for several months here, get some kind of
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a refocus on my brand, if you will. So we'll
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let you know when that is live. Later in the show,
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we're going to talk about how CD sales are booming.
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All you audiophiles out You still listen to CDs? Remember
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those CDs? Oh, my gosh. All the CDs that I had.
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All the tapes. All the vinyl records. Resurgence coming back,
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by the way. A number of questions also. Still people,
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now that we have football season. Notice a little pep
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in my voice. You know why? It ain't because of
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the freaking Apple iPhone. It's football season, people.
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Football.
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It's back. A lot of people wonder about new TVs.
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I definitely have TVs. Don't sleep on projection TVs. I've
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been a fan of projection TVs for several years. Projection
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TVs are not what they used to be. It's not
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your father's projection TV. It's not your mother's projection TV.
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It's your kid's projection TV. That's how up-to-date these things are.
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But a big question, I appreciate this, some of my listeners.
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I got about two or three of these same emails
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this past week. How to safely dispose of your TV.
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What do you do with your old TV? I mean,
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maybe you put it in another room, guest room or something,
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but please do not just Go to your trash can
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and dispose of that. I will let you know. In
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the meantime, let me just kind of finish up my
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thoughts on the Apple iPhone Duo that came out. It's
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a big category, probably bigger than you think, because the
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foldable category of smartphones is minuscule compared to the regular
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category of phones. But like I predicted many, many years ago,
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When I saw my, and played with my very first
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foldable phone, it was from Samsung. It was 1999. So
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they've been out seven years or so. Yes, before COVID.
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I have the first version of the flip phone, the
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fold phone. I got versions two and three and four.
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Then we've got other companies. See, Apple lately is not
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really the first company to come out with something innovative.
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Back in the day, they did. And I will tell
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you this, and I'll give Apple credit. In my lifetime,
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five decades, if I had to list the top three
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most innovative pieces of technology or things that was a
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paradigm shift that changed the consumer market, Apple iPhone 2007,
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without a doubt. Beyond that, companies caught up. Let me
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give you a quick list. I'm going to give you
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a quick list. Callum, do we have a list? Do
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we have a list? I guess we don't. Callum Reed,
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thank you for hanging in here and pushing all the
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buttons and the phones here. Leading foldable phone manufacturers. Just
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letting you know I say this is because Apple ain't
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the first one. Samsung, really the historical market leader. They
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have a Galaxy Z Fold series. It's kind of the
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book style. Then they have the Galaxy Z Flip. That's
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the clamshell one.
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Google.
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Google. They have book style foldables. It's smart because since
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Google owns Android and the Android operating system, there you go.
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Motorola.
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Ah, yes. Clamshell. Remember the Motorola Razr? They're the Razr Ultra.
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Outer screens, inner screens. Huawei. By the way, if you
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have no clue what Huawei is, it's H-U-A-W-E-I. It's the
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largest foldable vendor in China. And they are known for
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pushing the advanced hardware engineering in all these multifolding designs,
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trifold too. I went to several Huawei stores when I
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was in China in June. I'm not going to compare it.
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This is a bad comparison. I'm not going to say
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Huawei is the Apple of China. But in terms of
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the store design, you walk in. It's clean. You know
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what an Apple store looks like, right? Some of the
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Huawei stores I went in were just like that. They
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had cars in there too.
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It was crazy.
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Xiaomi, another Chinese manufacturer. X-I-A-O-M-I. It's a big manufacturer in
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the premium flagship foldable phones. Honor. Yes, there's a company
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called Honor. They got a big market share in Asia
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and Europe. There are companies out there who do it.
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Apple is not the first. And I know everybody who's
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an Apple fanboy or fangirl going, yeah, we're not the first, but,
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you know, we wait to everybody for launches and we
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make it better. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. How
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about the price? They're going to start the Apple Duo,
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the iPhone Duo, $ 2, 000 for the 256 gig, which I
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would get. You don't need that much more memory because
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everything can go in the cloud or whatever. $ 2, 000. If
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you want the big dog, the big daddy, if you
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want two haribites, haribites of storage, it will cost you $ 3, 100
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for a phone. $ 3, 100. Or, I don't know, you could,
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I don't know, maybe syndicate college, you know, pay a
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few monthly mortgages for yourself. It's just, it's a phone, people.
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Just a phone. The only thing I can be happy
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about right now that... I don't want to call them idiots,
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but you remember back in the day when people used
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to line up outside the Apple store because they wanted
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to be first in line to get that phone like
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the damn phone was going to sell out?
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Come on, man.
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Come on. Here's why I, and I test phones, and cars,
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and running shoes, and bourbons, and a lot of stuff,
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This is what you're doing to me. I've got a
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drawer full of foldable and flippable phones. I am not
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ready to make that my daily driver. I'm not ready
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in quite simply of one reason, and it's not because
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of the form factor. I love the form factor. Form factor,
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I want something small so I could just put it
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in my front pocket. I don't want that big old Well,
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old to my front pocket, how you doing? My name
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is Michael Garfield. Nice to meet you. No, I don't
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want that. You know, you're wearing tight jeans.
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You know what?
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I'm known to wear skinny jeans. I'm fashionista, boy. You
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put a regular-sized phone in their front jean pocket, you're
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walking around with this big rectangle going there. How you doing?
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Yeah.
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Okay. No, no, no. Smaller the better. Well, when it
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comes to phones. But if it can fold out, man,
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there's a lot of Sexual connotations here. Everything I'm talking about.
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And I apologize just to the kids listening. But if
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it folds out to a regular-sized phone, I dig it. So, yes,
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I love the form factor. Loved it. That's why I
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like flip phones better than foldable phones back in the day.
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I like the size of this new passport-sized phone that
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everybody's now releasing. The reason why, two reasons. Number one,
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I need battery life. But I need the highest in battery.
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camera and video camera than I can have at any
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given time. And that's more important to me. Now, asterisk,
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this is what I do for a living. My job
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is to shoot a lot of video for television, the
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TV segments that I do all over the place, for
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my social media, where I'm reviewing things. And I need
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it now. And I need it in my pocket. Yes,
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I do have a very nice video camera that actually
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shoots very good 4K high res stuff. It's not as
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big as a typical television news station TV camera, but
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I'm not schlepping that round. Long time listeners knows this. Great.
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I love this trivia question because people ask me all
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the time, Michael, what's the best camera? Camera, camera, camera.
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What's the best camera? This is like when DS, DLSRs
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and everything out there. What's the best camera? The answer
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was quite easy. Best camera. is the camera that you
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have on you when you need to take a photo.
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That's the answer. And so a lot of the foldable
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phones that have come out, I remember the Samsung Galaxy 1, 2, 3, 4,
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and all this, the flip-flop, they did not have the
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highest quality, the highest pixels of cameras. I'm shooting video
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that needs to be shown on broadcast television. I need something.
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And I still have yet to find a foldable, flippable
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phone that can be sold in the United States. There's
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probably some Chinese phones that do have that quality that
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I can use on a day-to-day basis. But that's me.
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And if you don't need that, and if you really
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don't care too much about the quality, and I'm not
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saying the quality of the photos currently or the videos
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on some of these foldable phones are bad, I expect more.
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I expect more. I use, in terms of which app
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I personally use on a smartphone more than anybody else,
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I use text. I use the camera. And then I
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use the phone. And the phone, that phone icon is
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actually an app. They're called smartphones, but they're actually smart devices. Oh,
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by the way, it can make phone calls. If you
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look at them that way, then you realize this is
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a computer. And maybe you can justify the $ 3, 000 plus
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for the high-end iPhone Duo. I have given Apple so
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much love. I don't know if I've talked you in
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or out, and that's not my job. I'm giving you facts.
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I've got to change the subject. Well, unless you have
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calls over here. I'm going to take a break right now.
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Phone number, if you want to talk to me, 346-298-3926.
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When I come back, I will actually tell you why
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people may not be rushing out and buying not this phone,
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but any phones. Because I saw some stats where people
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are buying refurbished phones, and they're keeping their current phones longer.
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Makes sense. Economy ain't near what it used to be.
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Coming up on the High Tech Texas Show.
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See you.
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As we continue what we call the long-running high-tech Texan show.
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Stand by. This is so much more than technology. Even
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though there is some interesting technology news that was released
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this week. And yes, we are continuing to yap about
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the iPhone Duo that no one is going to personally
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have in their possession until I think October 23rd is
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at the date that Apple is finally letting people have it.
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There are other things to talk about. Michael Garfield is
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the name. Happy second Saturday in September. By the way,
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Callum Reed, my producer, runs the show over there. See,
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that was the perfect time where you could drop Earth,
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Wind & Fire tunes back in the day. Yeah, that's
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back when iHeart actually had money for licensing rights. But
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I'm going to... You're going to have to pretend Maurice
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White is singing September right now. Because... Old-time listeners, long-time
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listeners of my show, for almost 25 years, you knew
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what my bump song was probably every single commercial break
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in the month of September. Nope, can't do it now.
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Sorry about that. Phone number here, 346-29-TEXAN. What else can
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we talk about other than the iPhone Duo? I saw this.
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This is just kind of a throwaway. TSA seems to
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be softening up in... And no joke over here, I
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don't know if it's the timing. It's not ironic. They
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had to be planning this. But on the 25-year anniversary
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of 9-11, which will always, always be embedded in our minds,
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if you were around, if you remember where you were,
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of how the world did change 25 years ago on
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this weekend. 25 years. If you didn't think that changed
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the world, oh my. But it changed the way we fly,
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first off. And we had to initially take our shoes off,
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which actually we were just allowed to wear our shoes
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back through TSA. I saw TSA is now letting some
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people walk through the TSA gates all the way to
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the gate without a plane ticket. And this is a
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concept that is foreign to an entire generation. I have
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three boys, 32, 29, 26. It has been 25 plus years.
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They have no concept of going to the airport when
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your grandparents flying in, walking to the gate and being excited,
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holding up a sign going, welcome home, grandma, grandpa. Hi.
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And give them a hug.
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Nope.
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Because unless you had a plane ticket for the past
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25 years, you can't get through that gate. Apparently, GSA said,
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you know, Maybe loosen this thing up. Initially in 13 airports,
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one of which, DFW Airport, one of my hometown stations
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right now. Shout out. You could walk to someone again.
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I'd like it. To me, this is something, because this
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has been going on for a quarter of a century
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where you were not allowed to do it, but I
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have lived another half of my life where I was
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allowed to do it. I can tell you, I literally
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forgot about it. It has become a norm that I
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just know you ain't going to the gate unless you
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don't have a plane ticket. And it's not life-changing. It's
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something that is accepted. Well, I understand for the safety.
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It makes sense. Whatever. But TSA is trying to bring
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it back. I'll tell you right now, TSA at some point,
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and I hope this never happens, there's going to be
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one incident. And there it goes. This is why we
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can't have nice things. So if anybody is listening, if
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you happen to go through the gate, you don't have
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a ticket, don't jack it up for the rest of us.
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Be nice. Be friendly. Go buy your $ 18 hamburgers and
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your $ 9 sodas, and that's it. If you think about it,
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airports and airport vendors are going to get more revenue. Hey, kids,
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dad's coming home from the airport. Let's go meet him.
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All right, let's leave two hours beforehand. We'll go in,
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go to the airport, and we can watch the planes land.
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And let's spend more money than Dad actually played for
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his one-way ticket to come back home and have a snack.
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Things are done for financial reasons. Maybe one of them.
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I'm not sure. No clue whatsoever. I thought that was neat.
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What else is... And we could play this game here
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for the next hour. What's something else that was taken
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away from us? And then we just don't miss. And
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maybe it was brought back. Or if they never brought
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it back, we really probably wouldn't care. And in this case,
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that could be it. That's called a segue, people. Because
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guess what is coming back? Guess what's booming right now? People,
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do you ever know what a compact disc is? Kids,
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pull up a chair. Uncle Garf needs to tell you
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a little story. You see, back before streaming, there was
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this medium that music was recorded on. And it was
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a physical thing that you generally would... pay a penny
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and get 11 albums. You'd walk into a store and
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you would browse the aisles and you would see one
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of your favorite musical artists and you would spend anywhere
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between 10, 12, 15, $ 20 maybe. And you'd get a record,
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you'd get a cassette tape, or you get a CD,
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a compact disc. CDs, they really, really took off and
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hit the market in 1985, 86. I was almost graduating college.
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I remember I spent all my graduation money and I
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had to go get the coolest receiver. I had to
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go get a coolest cassette tape player because they were
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still there. I got a CD player. Oh, they were hemp, baby.
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They were huge. And then you would go up and
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my very first CD was Michael Jackson's Bad, the Bad album,
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his follow-up to Thriller. So that tells you there, you
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could date stamp me right there. Well, guess what, people?
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streaming came along, iHeartRadio came along, we don't need to
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buy this stuff, what would you want? Well, guess what's back?
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According to the Recording Industry Association of America, CD sales exploded,
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and I'm using that word in their own terms, in
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the first half of this year, 2026. 17.5 million CDs
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were sold in the first month of the year, versus
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12 million during the same period of last year.
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It's a 45% jump.
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Why?
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And that's a rhetorical question. I don't know. Why? I
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have a CD player. I may have two. They're in
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my garage. They have been gaining dust probably since I
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packed them up and moved into the current house that
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I've been in now for almost 10 years. Does it
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sound better? For audiophiles out there, and I know we're
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up against the break. We're getting ready to take a
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break and then come back next hour. I love to
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hear from you audiophiles going, well, the sound of CD
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and the sound of vinyl are so much better just
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acoustically because if you sit in a room that's actually dead,
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that doesn't have bouncy walls, that's probably a reason why.
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I'm not going to argue against someone who understands the
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audio and then say, no, no, Playing a vinyl record
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that can scratch doesn't sound better than something you could
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download and stream because at the end of the day,
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I can't argue that vinyl sounds pretty damn good. CDs,
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depends how they were originally mastered and recorded. Some of
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them are done all digital. Some of them are actually
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analog and then flipped to digital without getting too technical.
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But guess what? CDs are coming back. So what you
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need to do is you need to go in the
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garage and you need to take a vacuum cleaner, or
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a dustpan, and you can dust off all your CDs.
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And I still have every single one of mine. Like
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an idiot, I have no clue why. And then you're
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00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:32.860
going to sit there, and we're going to have an
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80s game all over again, and you're going to invite me,
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DJ Jazzy Garf, and I'm going to be spinning the
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tunes because CDs are back, baby. All right, next hour,
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what do we got? Should you buy a smart ring
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or a smart watch? Also, I'm going to have an
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interview with the CEO of a company who just launched
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a unique new type of smart glasses. That's right. Glasses.
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They're different. They don't have a camera or a video
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camera built in, unlike the meta glasses of the world.
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Why should you buy it? Well, I'll let him make
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the case. All this coming up on the very long running,
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your favorite radio show on the weekend. It's called The
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High Tech Texan Show. I'm Michael Garfield.
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The High Tech Texan.
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It's Michael Garfield.
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To Michael Garfield.
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Michael Garfield's joining us.
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We have the High Tech Texan.
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Michael Garfield is here with us.
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The High Tech Texan.
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Hello.
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Items to make life easier.
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Shows us some new technology.
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So Michael Garfield has something you might like.
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The High Tech Texan.
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The High Tech Texan.
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Michael Garfield is your high-tech Texan. Three decades helping you
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make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio app. Now,
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your high-tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
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We are halfway through the high-tech Texan show, which means
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we are halfway to happy hour. However, it is Saturday,
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and for those of you getting juiced up for the
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Texas Longhorns, Ohio State Buckeye game on Saturday night. Go
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ahead and get juiced up. You know what? It is
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happy hour. Just make sure you don't drive and you
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listen responsibly and you drive and you drink responsibly. See,
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there's my PSA of the day. Michael is the name.
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Michael Garfield. Been doing this for 25 years and 25
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years ago. What kind of cell phone did you have
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25 years ago?
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2001.
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I had probably a BlackBerry. BlackBerry Love BlackBerry. Very unique,
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first of its kind, to not only just be a phone,
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but oh my God, it's got a keyboard. I can
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actually read emails on this phone. How cool is it?
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BlackBerry was the first thing to get you out of
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your office. That really is what made us truly mobile
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in my mind. And I've been covering this for many, many, many,
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many years, well before 2002. It was 2007 when iPhone
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changed everything. The first iPhone came out. Apple said, you
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know what? We're going to do this thing. Steve Jobs,
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it was phenomenal. I remember going to the launch the
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very first day. I think it was June 27th, 2007.
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I remember going to the AT & T store, the
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big one in Houston, because AT & T exclusively was
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the only exclusive carrier that sold it for the first
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five years. I got to hold it. It was a
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six o'clock launch, six o'clock. It was the rolling time.
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So on the East Coast, six o'clock doors opened. And
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then it was 6 o'clock in the Central Time. It
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was 6 o'clock in Pacific Time. I remember it like
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it was yesterday. I did my radio show from there
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that morning inside the AT & T store. They were
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so careful to keep that first iPhone under wraps. I mean,
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I was tight with the regional director of AT & T.
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I did a deal where they let me broadcast from
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that store all day. And it was a morning show
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that I did. And I was just screwing around, watching
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people line up. So I was able to watch them
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come in and I'm thinking, are you going to let
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me see this freaking phone? I know you have them
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stocked up over. They weren't on the shelves. They were
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upstairs in the AT & T store. It was a
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two-story AT & T store locked in a safe. I
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am not making this up. So they let some other
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media in. They let a lot of some, some TV
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stations in and about five 30, 30 minutes. I've been
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there all day, 30 minutes before the doors open. You
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00:43:34.260 --> 00:43:37.750
can see it. They took us upstairs. They opened doors.
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This safe and the entire allotment of iPhones were there
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and they're all cute little boxes. And the general manager,
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he held it in his hands and we got to
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see it. 30 minutes, we didn't have any time to
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really play with it or touch it. And that was
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the end of that. So that's how they work back
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in the days. Nowadays, they have big, you know, hullabaloo's
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and now it's, they just announced it. We talked about that.
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If you really want to, I'm not going to touch
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much anymore. But if you want to go back and
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listen to the podcast, which will be up in about
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an hour from now on iHeartRadio. Thank you very much,
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Callum Reid. We're recording this. We turn this radio show
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into a podcast. And I spend easily the first three
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segments talking about the iPhone Duo. And believe me, if
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you know me, if you listen to the show, I
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did not praise it. And I can't because I haven't
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touched it. Very few people have actually touched it or
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seen it in person. It will be on sale soon.
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I think it's October 16th. It will be available for
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you to actually receive it on October 23rd, which is
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00:44:42.309 --> 00:44:47.059
interesting because normally when Apple announces a phone, they'll do
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it in mid-September. It will go on sale later that week.
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It will be in stores a week later. The fact
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is they announced it now in early to mid-September, but
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it won't be on sale for another month. And it
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won't be available for a month and a week, a
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month and a half or so.
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It's interesting.
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I don't know. I guess they're still producing them. Who
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knows about that? But anyway, go back and listen to
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our first hour because I talked about the entire foldable
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phone market. Don't freak out because this is the first
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00:45:22.929 --> 00:45:26.320
time you've ever heard that glass can fold in half. Okay?
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00:45:26.739 --> 00:45:31.400
They've been out for seven plus years from 15 different manufacturers.
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That's a fact. Foldable phones have been out there. Yes,
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I know. Apple will sell. Here's the stat that's going
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to happen by the end of October. I'm telling you
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00:45:46.869 --> 00:45:51.840
right now. Freezing cold takes can absolutely record me. Apple
758
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:56.940
will announce that more of their foldable iPhone Duo phones
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will be sold than every other foldable phone combined In
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00:46:05.929 --> 00:46:10.929
seven years from every manufacturer will be sold. Mark my words.
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They know how to market. You break me down a
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00:46:17.969 --> 00:46:24.219
million ways. Marketer. I learned it that way. I was
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on QVC. I was the youngest show host on QVC.
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We were taught. And I was happy about it. Because
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I have a very happy disposition on life. I can
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sell anything. I can tell you why this product is
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going to change your life. I learned how to do
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00:46:37.460 --> 00:46:39.480
that from QVC. I learned how to do that from
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every other commercial. And I believe it. I really do.
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Because before I actually now put my name on something,
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I'm going to go test with it. I'm going to
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play with it. I'm going to try to break it.
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I know the owner of the companies. I'm going to
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tell you why this can change your life. I get it.
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00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:55.889
Some of these influencers, God love them. I know my
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00:46:55.909 --> 00:46:57.010
son's a big one too when it comes to the
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00:46:57.030 --> 00:47:01.480
world of sports. They're taking the money and run. They
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00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:02.940
don't know. They don't care that I use the product,
779
00:47:02.980 --> 00:47:05.280
but thanks for the money. I'm still an old school guy,
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00:47:06.579 --> 00:47:08.260
which is why I'm very tepid to say, go out
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and spend $ 3, 000 on the high-end iPhone Duo flip phone,
782
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:17.340
foldable phone. Nope, I'm not going to do that yet.
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00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:19.679
Probably not going to touch it. Apple, they just don't care.
784
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They're not going to send me one. Maybe they're embarrassed.
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00:47:22.449 --> 00:47:25.750
So we talk about that. You can go ahead and
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listen to the first hour of the podcast. Just look
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00:47:28.949 --> 00:47:30.909
for High Tech Texan. I will tell you about a
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00:47:30.909 --> 00:47:34.449
category that I care about. I'm very excited about the
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wearable category. Wearable, things that you wear. Starting with the
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old wearable watch. Oh, by the way, Apple did announce it.
791
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I think they announced a new watch. That kind of
792
00:47:44.820 --> 00:47:46.719
was lost in the fray. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I've never had an Apple watch, and so I don't
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care either. I have a ton, ton of other wearable
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watches from every other manufacturer. And I wear a watch
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most all the time. A wearable watch. I do. I
797
00:47:57.360 --> 00:47:59.179
also have a Rolex, thank you very much, to U.S.
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Coins & Jewelry, which, by the way, I do believe
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in and I do trust because I do know the owners,
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Kenny and Matthew Duncan, that have been around for two
801
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:09.159
generations here on the I-10 Kitty Freeway, just outside of
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00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:14.219
Loop 610. Check it out, uscoinsandjewelry.com. Unbelievable amount of new
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00:48:14.260 --> 00:48:18.260
Rolexes coming in, along with beautiful women's jewelry. Holiday shopping
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00:48:18.280 --> 00:48:20.659
season time. You tell them Michael Garfield said what up.
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00:48:22.929 --> 00:48:26.130
By the way, you young influencers, that's how you do
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00:48:26.150 --> 00:48:31.300
an endorsement. But I digress. I like wearables. I like readouts.
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I like something that can read my heart rate, my pulse,
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00:48:33.500 --> 00:48:35.579
what time it is. Actually, I can use it as
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00:48:35.619 --> 00:48:37.599
a phone if I really wanted to. Rolexes can't do
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that yet. But I also like wearables. There's wearable rings.
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There's smart rings that can monitor your heart rate and everything.
812
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And then the category that's hot right now, at least
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controversial potentially, smart glasses. And I know right now Facebook's
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meta glasses, they're the industry leader. one of the very
815
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first to market they've done a big job of marketing
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00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:02.539
them spending money on super bowl ads i've got two
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00:49:02.579 --> 00:49:05.980
pair i don't wear them a ton but there are
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other smart glasses some that don't have cameras because that's
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the controversy people now don't like their potential privacy taken
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away are you videotaping me with your glasses you dog
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you well coming up i'm going to interview the CEO
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of a Chinese company all the way from China. What
823
00:49:23.989 --> 00:49:25.909
time is it in China right now? We're going to
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00:49:25.929 --> 00:49:27.280
talk about a new pair of glasses. Check it out.
825
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It's called Even Realities. I will let you research it
826
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because in about 15 minutes, I'm going to be talking
827
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to Will Wang, the CEO and founder of Even Realities,
828
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about his new pair of smart glasses. second version they've
829
00:49:39.940 --> 00:49:42.320
come out with, that I'm actually wearing right now that
830
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do not have a camera on it. I'll let him
831
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convince you why this may be the smart glasses for you.
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00:49:48.460 --> 00:49:54.920
Coming up on the High Tech Texan Show. We continue
833
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.260
the second hour of what we call the High Tech
834
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Texan Show. Thank you so much. Happy early to mid-September.
835
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It is nice and hot outside still, but I am
836
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here in an air conditioning studio waiting for your call.
837
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Speaking of which, I'm taking a look at the phones.
838
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I'm going to Go to our first caller today. I
839
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want to say hello to Alan. Alan is calling from Houston.
840
00:50:11.659 --> 00:50:13.949
What is going on, sir? I do thank you for
841
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your call. What's up?
842
00:50:15.869 --> 00:50:17.789
Well, it's me, Dr.
843
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Panzer, your favorite optometrist.
844
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This is Alan. Okay, my producer didn't tell me. He
845
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should have put on my call screen, the eye doctor
846
00:50:26.679 --> 00:50:29.639
to the stars, because Dr. Alan Panzer, that is what
847
00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:31.179
you are. I haven't talked to you in a while.
848
00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:31.840
How have you been?
849
00:50:31.860 --> 00:50:35.000
I'm doing great. Just still going strong.
850
00:50:35.340 --> 00:50:38.090
Well, you always are. And for long-time listeners, you know
851
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:42.349
Alan Panzer, Dry Eye Clinic of Houston over on Beach
852
00:50:42.409 --> 00:50:45.570
Net in the Bel Air area. One of the things I...
853
00:50:45.929 --> 00:50:47.250
I'm going to take a guess. Can I take a
854
00:50:47.269 --> 00:50:49.570
guess while you're calling? You got another new machine. You
855
00:50:49.590 --> 00:50:51.929
just got another technological piece of wonderment. Am I close?
856
00:50:52.750 --> 00:50:55.880
Yes. I just keep buying stuff. I feel like that
857
00:50:55.989 --> 00:51:00.239
Brother P-Touch commercial where the guy says, I don't understand it, doctor.
858
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:02.019
I can't quit making these tapes. And he looks over
859
00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:04.000
at the doctor. He's got little tapes hanging off all
860
00:51:04.300 --> 00:51:06.800
over his face. And I'm that guy.
861
00:51:06.820 --> 00:51:09.030
I love it. All right.
862
00:51:09.090 --> 00:51:10.050
Quit buying things.
863
00:51:10.150 --> 00:51:12.389
What'd you get? Tell us, what'd you get? Because you
864
00:51:12.429 --> 00:51:14.769
are the most technologically advanced eye doctor in the city,
865
00:51:14.809 --> 00:51:15.710
if not the state. What'd you get?
866
00:51:16.610 --> 00:51:20.469
Well, my latest is called OptiLift. And to be truth
867
00:51:20.510 --> 00:51:23.449
with you, when I first saw it, I thought, this
868
00:51:23.489 --> 00:51:26.889
can't work because they demonstrated it for only two minutes.
869
00:51:27.510 --> 00:51:31.929
And it's a 15-minute procedure. What it does is it
870
00:51:32.130 --> 00:51:35.650
heats up the glands and then it stimulates them And
871
00:51:35.690 --> 00:51:39.449
what that does is to cause them to secrete oil.
872
00:51:39.929 --> 00:51:43.340
And since tears are oil, water, or mucus, the oil
873
00:51:43.389 --> 00:51:47.579
is what keeps the water from evaporating. So I looked
874
00:51:47.619 --> 00:51:51.239
at this and said, can it really work? And so
875
00:51:52.219 --> 00:51:55.340
I had it done on myself. And although I don't
876
00:51:55.380 --> 00:51:59.719
have dry eye, I have wrinkles, and my wrinkles went away. Now,
877
00:51:59.780 --> 00:52:01.840
it's not guaranteed to get rid of wrinkles, but it
878
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:07.019
is pretty much assured that it will cause the glands
879
00:52:07.099 --> 00:52:10.340
to secrete oil that keeps the water from evaporating.
880
00:52:10.989 --> 00:52:15.449
So this is like Botox and an eye treatment? It is.
881
00:52:15.510 --> 00:52:18.449
You've seen the pictures. I take pictures of myself. I
882
00:52:18.489 --> 00:52:21.550
posted it on Facebook, my wrinkled up eyelids versus my
883
00:52:21.590 --> 00:52:24.510
nice smooth ones. And I've had it since April. It
884
00:52:24.570 --> 00:52:28.260
is now August and the wrinkles are still gone. Now, again,
885
00:52:28.699 --> 00:52:34.579
Nobody can promise that, kind of under-promise and over-deliver. But again,
886
00:52:34.900 --> 00:52:39.369
the premise of getting the glands to secrete without doing
887
00:52:39.409 --> 00:52:42.690
what other people do, which is called expression. Now, when
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00:52:42.730 --> 00:52:45.849
they do expression, they squeeze them really hard. I tell
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00:52:45.889 --> 00:52:48.340
my patients, you're not a cow, and we're not supposed
890
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:52.400
to be squeezing your udders. So this uses a micropulse
891
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:56.280
stimulation to squeeze the gland without damaging it.
892
00:52:56.869 --> 00:52:58.769
So at the end of the day, this is the creep,
893
00:52:59.309 --> 00:53:01.130
dry eyes, which a lot of people have, which they
894
00:53:01.150 --> 00:53:01.949
don't realize. Is that right?
895
00:53:02.769 --> 00:53:06.730
Absolutely. And our biggest problem is people who think they
896
00:53:06.769 --> 00:53:08.550
have dry eye and don't truly.
897
00:53:10.010 --> 00:53:12.320
Actually, how does one find out or determine if they
898
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:13.440
have dry eye?
899
00:53:14.500 --> 00:53:16.920
Well, most people come in and tell you they have
900
00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:19.539
dry eye. They come in and say, I've been to
901
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:23.739
four doctors and they've given me four different drugs and
902
00:53:23.780 --> 00:53:27.119
I'm still not any better. And so what we do
903
00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:31.630
is we test the tears for the salt content. Tears
904
00:53:31.670 --> 00:53:35.550
are two components, salt and water. And most doctors will
905
00:53:35.590 --> 00:53:38.150
test the water component by putting a little strip of
906
00:53:38.190 --> 00:53:41.590
paper on your eyelid and see if it fills up. Well,
907
00:53:41.610 --> 00:53:45.039
that strip of paper is only valid if no tears
908
00:53:45.980 --> 00:53:48.269
appear on it. But if tears appear on it, that
909
00:53:48.289 --> 00:53:50.230
could be just because some person put a piece of
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00:53:50.289 --> 00:53:53.630
paper in your eye. So the two things you can
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00:53:53.650 --> 00:53:56.469
test are the water or the salt. So we have
912
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a device which tests the salt. In doing so, we
913
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can filter out those who truly have dry eye versus
914
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those who truly have eye pain. And so we see
915
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many people, most of the people who come in and
916
00:54:14.230 --> 00:54:17.750
say they have dry eye, and that they've been tested
917
00:54:17.769 --> 00:54:21.650
and treated by everybody else, in many cases, don't have
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dry eye.
919
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I've always wondered, when people go to the eye doctor,
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which they should on a very regular basis, certainly the
921
00:54:27.860 --> 00:54:31.119
kids before school and the whole thing, do their regular
922
00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:32.880
eye doctors, which, by the way, nobody should go to
923
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:35.360
any other eye doctor more than you, but anyway, do
924
00:54:35.380 --> 00:54:38.139
their regular eye doctors just test for that, or does
925
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:40.099
the patient have to say, You know, my eyes are
926
00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:42.269
a little dry. It's not a regular test, is it?
927
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Or am I wrong?
928
00:54:43.059 --> 00:54:46.679
So almost every patient that walks in your door says,
929
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my eyes are dry, expects you to give them an
930
00:54:49.670 --> 00:54:53.230
artificial tear or something they've seen on TV. Just give
931
00:54:53.250 --> 00:54:55.190
me that stuff and I'll go on about my way.
932
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And what I've learned is that the device is most
933
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valuable for determining who doesn't have dry eye versus who does.
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Interesting.
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Pretty simple to say you have it. It's a little
936
00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:12.340
tougher to say you don't. I once had a lady
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who came all the way from Australia to see me,
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and she was visiting Texas. But she came in, and
939
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I tested her tears, and I said, ma'am, your tears
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are perfect. And she goes, no, I went to nine
941
00:55:24.309 --> 00:55:26.750
doctors in Australia, and every one of them said I
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00:55:26.769 --> 00:55:28.610
had dry eyes. I said, I'm really sorry, you don't
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00:55:28.650 --> 00:55:31.269
have dry eyes. And she said, well, what do I have?
944
00:55:31.349 --> 00:55:33.849
And I said, you have pain. Now, many of these
945
00:55:33.909 --> 00:55:37.550
people have pain from having had LASIKs. And they'll say
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00:55:37.590 --> 00:55:40.210
to me, oh, but I had that 20 years ago.
947
00:55:40.230 --> 00:55:44.829
How could it be 20 years ago? And I say,
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00:55:45.349 --> 00:55:49.530
Lasix never heals. I suppose it does in some people,
949
00:55:49.570 --> 00:55:51.929
but in most people, you have a paper cut and
950
00:55:51.989 --> 00:55:55.320
it never heals. So as we age and as our
951
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:59.059
tears become saltier, the salt sort of is like salt
952
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:01.699
in a wound and it sort of hurts. And now
953
00:56:01.739 --> 00:56:03.900
they come in and say, oh, my eyes are hurting
954
00:56:03.940 --> 00:56:08.690
so bad. I must have dry eye. And Nobody else, well,
955
00:56:08.710 --> 00:56:10.949
I won't say nobody else. I'll say very few other
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00:56:11.050 --> 00:56:15.860
offices have the Osmolarity tester. And the reason is that
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00:56:15.900 --> 00:56:18.300
they don't get a lot of money for it. And
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00:56:18.340 --> 00:56:20.480
the minute they tell a person that they don't have
959
00:56:20.500 --> 00:56:24.059
dry eyes, the person says, you're an idiot. I'm going
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00:56:24.099 --> 00:56:27.440
someplace else. I know I have dry eyes. But the
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00:56:27.500 --> 00:56:30.659
device actually measures the amount of salt in the tears.
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00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:34.829
That amount of salt is over a certain amount. Then
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00:56:34.869 --> 00:56:38.130
they have dry eyes. And that means they didn't produce
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00:56:38.210 --> 00:56:42.710
enough liquid. But more importantly than producing enough liquid is
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00:56:42.789 --> 00:56:46.329
producing enough oil to coat the liquid so it didn't evaporate.
966
00:56:47.650 --> 00:56:50.969
So that's why you see the TV commercials for certain
967
00:56:51.030 --> 00:56:54.469
drops that coat the eye. They do a fine job,
968
00:56:54.489 --> 00:56:56.980
but you just have to keep putting them in. I
969
00:56:57.119 --> 00:57:00.440
try to dig down to what the actual problem is
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so that I can actually treat that problem.
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00:57:04.170 --> 00:57:07.800
The most technologically advanced eye doctor in the city of Houston.
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00:57:07.820 --> 00:57:07.960
Good.
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00:57:07.980 --> 00:57:09.380
Anything else going on or you just wanted to say
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00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:11.030
hi as you were driving around the city listening to me?
975
00:57:11.039 --> 00:57:12.880
I just wanted to say hi. You know, when I
976
00:57:12.900 --> 00:57:16.579
see you're on the air, I'm invariably going shopping somewhere
977
00:57:16.659 --> 00:57:19.429
and pick up the phone and call Michael and tell
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00:57:19.469 --> 00:57:21.349
him about my latest contraption.
979
00:57:21.469 --> 00:57:24.090
You're a good man. You're a great storyteller, but you're
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00:57:24.110 --> 00:57:25.329
a good doctor. By the way, listen, I got to
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00:57:25.349 --> 00:57:26.889
give you a little love and I appreciate you calling in.
982
00:57:27.250 --> 00:57:28.710
Anybody wants to get in contact with you?
983
00:57:28.769 --> 00:57:29.070
How about it?
984
00:57:29.090 --> 00:57:30.510
What's the website? What's the phone number?
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00:57:31.409 --> 00:57:40.010
HoustonDryEyeClinic.com, phone number 713-664-4760. That's my address, 4760 Beachside.
986
00:57:40.269 --> 00:57:45.030
HoustonDryEyeClinic.com, the doctor, Thai doctor to the stars. Good to
987
00:57:45.070 --> 00:57:46.630
hear from you, Dr. Alan Panzer.
988
00:57:46.929 --> 00:57:47.710
You're a good man, and.
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00:57:47.650 --> 00:57:48.429
Just keep up the good work.
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00:57:49.190 --> 00:57:51.650
Thank you so much for talking to me.
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00:57:51.690 --> 00:57:53.650
Are you kidding me? Anytime, you keep me company. All right,
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00:57:54.050 --> 00:57:56.150
we're going to take a break, and coming back up, oh,
993
00:57:56.230 --> 00:57:58.510
guess what we're talking about. Speaking of eyes, who wants
994
00:57:58.590 --> 00:58:02.579
smart glasses? Got the CEO... From China, talking about a
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00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:05.880
unique new pair of smart glasses, my friends. Don't go anywhere.
996
00:58:05.949 --> 00:58:09.210
This is Michael Garfield on the High Tech Texan Show.
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00:58:12.030 --> 00:58:15.170
We do continue the very long-running Michael Garfield Show. Thank
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00:58:15.190 --> 00:58:17.550
you so much. High Tech Texan, we are heard all
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00:58:17.590 --> 00:58:19.960
across the country. Technically, we're heard all across the world
1000
00:58:20.019 --> 00:58:23.820
if you download the iHeartRadio app. We've been doing this
1001
00:58:23.820 --> 00:58:25.949
25 years. And I'll tell you, 25 years ago, I
1002
00:58:26.010 --> 00:58:29.469
had zero clue imagination of where technology was going to go.
1003
00:58:29.530 --> 00:58:33.190
I was very happy with my father's Sony Trinitron television.
1004
00:58:33.769 --> 00:58:36.690
But oh, how far we've come, including wearables. You know,
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00:58:36.710 --> 00:58:39.070
I'm a big wearable fan from the things that you
1006
00:58:39.090 --> 00:58:41.590
slap on your wrist or on your fingers when it
1007
00:58:41.630 --> 00:58:44.650
comes to rings or heart rate monitors or what have you.
1008
00:58:44.690 --> 00:58:47.880
But now we are wearing computers. And if you are
1009
00:58:47.929 --> 00:58:50.219
actually watching here on YouTube or some of my TV stuff,
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00:58:50.260 --> 00:58:54.119
I am actually wearing computers. A relatively brand new model
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00:58:54.260 --> 00:58:56.579
of smart glasses. And yes, there is such a thing
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00:58:56.619 --> 00:59:00.440
called smart glasses. Many companies have them. Some of them
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00:59:00.699 --> 00:59:03.949
do very different things. And for some reason, obviously, as
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00:59:03.989 --> 00:59:06.030
you can imagine, some smart glasses are getting a lot
1015
00:59:06.050 --> 00:59:08.590
of backlash right now. So we're going to see how
1016
00:59:08.670 --> 00:59:10.719
smart these smart glasses are. because we're going to spend
1017
00:59:10.739 --> 00:59:13.519
a few minutes talking to the founder and the CEO
1018
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:17.300
of a company called Even Realities. It is based in China.
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00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:21.159
His name is Will Wang. It was all his idea.
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00:59:21.179 --> 00:59:24.360
Now it is a worldwide company. Will, like you, we
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are both wearing these smart glasses. So I don't feel
1022
00:59:27.219 --> 00:59:29.150
as dumb as I usually do. Thank you so much for.
1023
00:59:29.510 --> 00:59:31.039
Yeah, thanks for having me, Michael.
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00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:34.760
And I guess we'll start with this. You know, your company,
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00:59:35.219 --> 00:59:38.880
obviously you specialize in these smart glasses. What's your overall
1026
00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:42.440
take on the entire category currently and then what's the
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00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:43.280
growth opportunities?
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00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:47.530
Yeah, we believe that smart glasses is going to be
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00:59:47.929 --> 00:59:52.070
the next most important interface for humankind. Because if you
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00:59:52.090 --> 00:59:54.980
look back in the history of It's all about how
1031
00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:59.400
to take personal compute into a more mobile and more
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00:59:59.460 --> 01:00:04.130
convenient form factor, right? Coming from PC to laptop and
1033
01:00:04.230 --> 01:00:09.489
to now smart glasses. But the dilemma people had before
1034
01:00:09.630 --> 01:00:13.130
is when you want to make your personal compute more mobile,
1035
01:00:13.510 --> 01:00:17.190
you also lose functionality, right? The screen gets smaller. it
1036
01:00:17.269 --> 01:00:20.610
gets less functionality. So you have to live with that.
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01:00:20.949 --> 01:00:23.760
So that's why people ended up with a full spectrum
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01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:26.619
of different devices, right? You want your phone, you want
1039
01:00:26.639 --> 01:00:29.260
your laptop, and then in the middle, you probably also
1040
01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:32.679
want your iPad, right? So that you have like all
1041
01:00:32.719 --> 01:00:36.119
the sizes. But like smart glasses is the only chance
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01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:41.050
where we can have the personal compute even more convenient
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01:00:41.090 --> 01:00:44.349
than your phone. But then you have the content, have
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01:00:44.389 --> 01:00:47.539
the display even bigger than your phone. So that's where
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01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:52.019
we see this opportunity, where we get personal compute more
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01:00:52.059 --> 01:00:56.380
mobile and more functional. Also, very importantly, if you want
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01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:58.840
to make this product work, you need to look nice.
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01:00:58.860 --> 01:01:01.590
You need to feel nice. You need to look handsome
1049
01:01:01.650 --> 01:01:04.590
on your face, Michael, and also on mine. So that's
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01:01:04.650 --> 01:01:06.909
also a big part where we feel like, okay, we
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01:01:06.949 --> 01:01:09.670
are focusing on display. We're focusing on making the glasses
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01:01:09.750 --> 01:01:12.380
look good. Then some of the other stuff needs to
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01:01:12.409 --> 01:01:15.780
go away. So we don't have camera. We don't have speakers.
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01:01:16.409 --> 01:01:19.730
And especially for camera, we have a very strong opinion
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01:01:19.769 --> 01:01:23.409
about where when you're talking about how this category is shaping,
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01:01:24.139 --> 01:01:28.360
there's also another route of building the camera process.
1057
01:01:28.699 --> 01:01:31.079
Speaking with Will Wang, the founder and CEO of a
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01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:34.599
company called Even Realities. And I want to specifically address this. Well,
1059
01:01:34.619 --> 01:01:36.739
we talk about no cameras or no speakers. Listen, I mean,
1060
01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:40.929
there's several major brands across the world, certainly here in
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01:01:40.949 --> 01:01:42.820
the United States. And I'm more than happy to name
1062
01:01:42.860 --> 01:01:45.119
check them from, you know, MedEd and it continues to
1063
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:47.300
go down. And those are the ones that have the
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01:01:47.340 --> 01:01:50.630
tiny little camera, have the tiny little video camera also
1065
01:01:50.670 --> 01:01:53.469
that you can have your speakers and hear your Bluetooth.
1066
01:01:53.489 --> 01:01:56.530
And over the past several months, and just anecdotally here,
1067
01:01:56.570 --> 01:01:58.739
but this is the industry that I cover, there's been
1068
01:01:58.780 --> 01:02:01.099
a lot of public pushback. It's like, you know, we
1069
01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:03.739
don't want you to wear these over here. There's legal rights.
1070
01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:06.760
I mean, you can't live stream football games, you know, with,
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01:02:06.780 --> 01:02:08.659
I mean, we can go on and on. Can you
1072
01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:12.190
wear these here in a locker room? And so the
1073
01:02:12.210 --> 01:02:16.110
pushback is smart glasses, not good. We look at your glass.
1074
01:02:16.150 --> 01:02:18.690
We look at the G2 specifically, the new ones from
1075
01:02:18.730 --> 01:02:21.449
Even Realities. And as you just said, there are no cameras.
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01:02:21.969 --> 01:02:24.570
So they don't capture video. They don't capture broadcast audio.
1077
01:02:24.889 --> 01:02:28.670
And so what you're saying is they're socially acceptable in
1078
01:02:28.769 --> 01:02:34.019
public and private. At some point, what is the balance
1079
01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:37.860
that we are going to be able to utilize the functionality?
1080
01:02:38.280 --> 01:02:40.570
of having the Bluetooth, of having the speaker, of having
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01:02:40.590 --> 01:02:44.329
the cameras, is there, the public accepts it? Is it
1082
01:02:44.349 --> 01:02:47.230
a generation away? What's that paradigm shift?
1083
01:02:48.150 --> 01:02:52.309
Yeah, we think, because a lot of people are talking
1084
01:02:52.329 --> 01:02:55.329
about having a camera on a pair of glasses is
1085
01:02:55.409 --> 01:02:57.829
nothing different than having a camera on your phone or
1086
01:02:57.889 --> 01:03:01.030
like just carrying a action camera with you. But we
1087
01:03:01.070 --> 01:03:04.909
think it's totally different, right? It's like all the other
1088
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:09.659
devices are, gives away the intention when you are filming.
1089
01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:14.800
And the smart glasses don't. That's the most important difference, right?
1090
01:03:14.940 --> 01:03:18.340
When you are wearing them, looking at people, you're already
1091
01:03:18.579 --> 01:03:22.079
pointing a camera at people. And it's really no way
1092
01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:24.260
for them to tell whether you're shooting or not. So
1093
01:03:24.300 --> 01:03:26.800
we feel like this is a whole new level of
1094
01:03:26.900 --> 01:03:30.320
intrusion on privacy. What we're seeing a lot of time is,
1095
01:03:30.980 --> 01:03:35.659
especially with the form factor with glasses, that's not what's happening.
1096
01:03:35.989 --> 01:03:36.110
Right.
1097
01:03:36.130 --> 01:03:38.570
People are just wearing them every day and people are
1098
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:43.639
just shooting them, filming videos whenever they want. And occasionally
1099
01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:47.539
for some cases, they actually want people to not find
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01:03:47.619 --> 01:03:48.099
out about it.
1101
01:03:48.380 --> 01:03:48.559
Right.
1102
01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:51.960
They wanted to actually just shooting stealth. And that's actually
1103
01:03:51.980 --> 01:03:53.760
what's been happening more and more and more.
1104
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:54.420
Yeah.
1105
01:03:54.460 --> 01:03:57.179
So that's where we feel like if this is going
1106
01:03:57.199 --> 01:04:01.469
to really fly, there needs to be public awareness. There
1107
01:04:01.489 --> 01:04:05.369
needs to be legislation, regulation in different places. There needs
1108
01:04:05.389 --> 01:04:07.860
to be law about it, right? Before that, it can't
1109
01:04:07.929 --> 01:04:09.099
be socially acceptable.
1110
01:04:09.380 --> 01:04:11.960
Makes sense. Call your congressman, call your senators as you're
1111
01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:14.920
listening to Will Wang. Will is the founder. He's the
1112
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:19.480
CEO of Even Realities. It is, among many things, smart glasses,
1113
01:04:19.500 --> 01:04:22.119
what we're specifically talking about. Let's start honing in on
1114
01:04:22.159 --> 01:04:24.510
these glasses, specifically the ones that I'm wearing. And first
1115
01:04:24.530 --> 01:04:27.630
of all, I think congratulations are in order, I believe.
1116
01:04:28.010 --> 01:04:31.760
Your company just won some awards at IFA in Berlin,
1117
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:36.420
Best Design, Communications, and Connectivity. So congratulations on that. I
1118
01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:40.219
think it's phenomenal. The G2 glasses, I've been wearing them
1119
01:04:40.260 --> 01:04:43.119
here for about a month, and they're very light. They're
1120
01:04:43.139 --> 01:04:45.739
very comfortable. They are, without a doubt, different than the
1121
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:48.829
probably eight other pairs that I'm playing and testing right now,
1122
01:04:48.889 --> 01:04:51.409
not just because it doesn't have that camera, doesn't have
1123
01:04:51.449 --> 01:04:53.360
the speaker. But some of the things that it can
1124
01:04:53.650 --> 01:04:56.750
do itself, it comes with a companion app. I believe
1125
01:04:56.769 --> 01:04:59.170
it's called the EvenHub. And some of the things that
1126
01:04:59.389 --> 01:05:02.090
I particularly like being a TV guy, it's actually got
1127
01:05:02.110 --> 01:05:05.730
a teleprompter that's built in that I can load my scripts.
1128
01:05:06.289 --> 01:05:08.250
I can be speaking to a group of thousands of
1129
01:05:08.309 --> 01:05:10.170
people and I can be looking around. Nobody knows I'm
1130
01:05:10.210 --> 01:05:12.250
actually looking at a teleprompter. And one of which I
1131
01:05:12.289 --> 01:05:13.610
think that's ingenious.
1132
01:05:14.170 --> 01:05:14.769
Right, right, right.
1133
01:05:14.809 --> 01:05:15.050
Yeah.
1134
01:05:15.090 --> 01:05:19.719
So like we said, we focus on capabilities that empower people.
1135
01:05:20.420 --> 01:05:23.880
the users, right? Instead of like disrespect the people around them.
1136
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:29.380
So imagine you have this invisible display that you can
1137
01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:32.159
pull up whenever you want, right? So essentially a lot
1138
01:05:32.179 --> 01:05:35.639
of people really just use them for real life cases
1139
01:05:36.219 --> 01:05:39.880
where they cannot use any other digital help. Like you said,
1140
01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:43.360
like when I'm going on, I'm out at a public,
1141
01:05:43.380 --> 01:05:45.860
I'm giving out a speech. I cannot really put up
1142
01:05:45.889 --> 01:05:48.010
my phone, right? I cannot have my laptop with me.
1143
01:05:48.429 --> 01:05:51.769
And this becomes the perfect prompter for you to have
1144
01:05:51.809 --> 01:05:55.469
your scripts, to have your bullet points. And that's actually
1145
01:05:55.690 --> 01:06:00.119
a big reason why a lot of CEOs or top
1146
01:06:00.139 --> 01:06:01.619
executives are getting our glasses.
1147
01:06:02.159 --> 01:06:06.059
One more unique, very unique, because I have been traveling abroad.
1148
01:06:06.079 --> 01:06:08.860
I went to China earlier this summer, along with Mexico.
1149
01:06:09.460 --> 01:06:13.489
There's built-in live translation. And I tell you what, listen,
1150
01:06:13.510 --> 01:06:15.190
for a guy who grew up in Texas, and I
1151
01:06:15.210 --> 01:06:17.369
had to take four years of Spanish, and I forgot
1152
01:06:17.469 --> 01:06:21.610
everything about it. I feel sorry. I feel actually, where
1153
01:06:21.630 --> 01:06:23.130
was this when I was a kid? I wouldn't have
1154
01:06:23.150 --> 01:06:25.710
to take language classes. These, I believe, have a, I
1155
01:06:25.730 --> 01:06:28.710
think it's called, what's it, Converse 8 2.0 live translation
1156
01:06:28.750 --> 01:06:32.599
because it's got microphones and it'll, just by wearing these glasses,
1157
01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:36.360
it transcribes meetings and real-time subtitles. I can see what
1158
01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:37.460
people are saying. Is that correct?
1159
01:06:37.480 --> 01:06:40.860
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's actually also one of
1160
01:06:40.920 --> 01:06:45.380
the most important use cases where it transcribes and translates, right?
1161
01:06:45.420 --> 01:06:48.550
So we have a lot of people who have hearing
1162
01:06:48.619 --> 01:06:52.469
issue that they use them daily, that it's really their
1163
01:06:52.489 --> 01:06:55.090
daily driver to help them understand the role. There's a
1164
01:06:55.090 --> 01:06:58.210
lot of people in that category and it's still growing.
1165
01:06:58.590 --> 01:07:01.730
And there's also business people like us who travel, who
1166
01:07:01.809 --> 01:07:04.579
talk to foreign partners a lot of times, right? So
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01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:07.599
then this is the best way to actually get a
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01:07:07.659 --> 01:07:12.039
translated conversation handled to you. It almost feels like watching
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01:07:12.059 --> 01:07:16.840
a movie with subtitles. It's lag-free. You understand the other
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01:07:16.860 --> 01:07:19.699
person better. And also, like you said, the conversation is
1171
01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:23.119
not only about transcribing and translating. We went one step
1172
01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:26.960
further where we added an AI agent to help you
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01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:30.159
co-pilot the meeting or the conversation. Meaning that when we're
1174
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:33.670
having a hard conversation, you have your agent analyzing the
1175
01:07:33.710 --> 01:07:36.190
conversation on the spot. So if you ask me a
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01:07:36.230 --> 01:07:39.929
hard question and they actually analyze it, it actually provides
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01:07:39.969 --> 01:07:42.570
me feedback on why I should answer or what the
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01:07:42.610 --> 01:07:43.179
question means.
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01:07:43.739 --> 01:07:45.719
Makes sense because no company can release a tech product
1180
01:07:45.739 --> 01:07:47.780
without having some AI something in it. And so you
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01:07:47.820 --> 01:07:52.639
actually have done it very well. This is also interesting. Simultaneously,
1182
01:07:52.679 --> 01:07:56.349
when you came out with these EVEN G2 glasses, you
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01:07:56.369 --> 01:07:58.889
also released a ring. Now, listen, we know what smart
1184
01:07:59.070 --> 01:08:01.610
rings are right now, that you can measure your heart,
1185
01:08:01.650 --> 01:08:03.809
your health in some of these things. This is an
1186
01:08:03.889 --> 01:08:05.639
interesting one, and I'm going to let you explain it,
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01:08:05.650 --> 01:08:10.030
but it's called the EVEN R1 smart ring. And it's
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01:08:10.090 --> 01:08:12.789
not just that typical smart ring to monitor everything. This
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01:08:12.869 --> 01:08:15.550
is a companion wearable. And this is the first time
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01:08:15.590 --> 01:08:17.810
I've actually seen it. You wear the glasses, but you
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01:08:17.949 --> 01:08:20.569
also wear the ring, and they actually work together. Please explain.
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01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:24.279
Yeah, so this is the R1 ring. So like you said,
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01:08:24.340 --> 01:08:28.729
it's also a health monitoring. It tracks your suspects, right?
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01:08:28.739 --> 01:08:33.310
Your HRV, your heart rate, your steps, calorie burn. But
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01:08:33.329 --> 01:08:36.270
then on top of it, it's the controller of the glasses.
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01:08:36.710 --> 01:08:39.270
Because one thing we talked about is to build this
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01:08:39.390 --> 01:08:42.079
invisible display that's always on, it's always by your side.
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01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:45.939
But then very important thing is if you have this
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display now, what's the most natural and subtle way to
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01:08:49.300 --> 01:08:52.520
control this display, right? Because obviously you don't have the
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01:08:52.539 --> 01:08:55.100
touchscreen now. You don't want to like pointing your fingers
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01:08:55.180 --> 01:08:57.590
in the air all the time. And this becomes the
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01:08:57.630 --> 01:09:01.300
best way where you can just double tap the side
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01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:03.539
of the ring and the screen turns on and then
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01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:06.100
you can scroll you can tab you can navigate and
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01:09:06.140 --> 01:09:08.239
this really becomes the most of the ways a lot
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01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:10.960
of times i can't even have my hand in my
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01:09:11.039 --> 01:09:14.100
pocket and still control the display on my glasses somewhat
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i can.
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01:09:14.399 --> 01:09:16.699
See Simply put, a lot of my listeners, as I
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01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:20.180
break it down, it's a mouse that's wrapped around your finger.
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01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:23.970
It controls the mouse. It's a finger mouse. Will Wang,
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01:09:24.010 --> 01:09:26.789
he's the founder, the CEO of Even Realities. We'll get
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01:09:26.829 --> 01:09:28.970
you out of here on this one because we've talked
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01:09:29.010 --> 01:09:33.010
about this Even G2 glasses. They are on the market
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01:09:33.029 --> 01:09:36.399
right now. Evenrealities.com. That is how we get to it
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01:09:36.439 --> 01:09:38.399
here in the United States. And you can get to that.
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01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:41.479
This is the second version. I remember the first version.
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01:09:42.020 --> 01:09:43.220
You hit a home run with it. You hit a
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01:09:43.260 --> 01:09:47.170
home run with this number two. What's the third? I mean,
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01:09:48.109 --> 01:09:50.109
how far ahead are you looking down of what can
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01:09:50.130 --> 01:09:52.449
the third version even do at some point and when?
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01:09:53.149 --> 01:09:55.699
Yeah, yeah. We're not launching the third one this year,
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01:09:55.859 --> 01:09:58.819
but we're definitely working really hard towards it. I'm not
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01:09:58.840 --> 01:10:02.699
really sure too many details about it, but for sure,
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01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:06.880
we're confident that it's going to be another leap for
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01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:09.729
the company and it's going to help us push this
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01:10:09.770 --> 01:10:10.689
category even further.
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01:10:10.979 --> 01:10:12.899
Well, listen, thank you so much. I want to congratulate
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01:10:12.930 --> 01:10:14.590
you on many, many things. First of all, for the
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01:10:14.649 --> 01:10:17.789
great technology that you continue to put out. Of all
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01:10:17.810 --> 01:10:19.649
the ones, and I say this not because I'm talking
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01:10:19.689 --> 01:10:22.390
to you, I've got an entire table over here just
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01:10:22.409 --> 01:10:25.600
sitting with, here's a different version. I probably wear these
1235
01:10:25.659 --> 01:10:29.119
most often for a few reasons. Number one, yes, the
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01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:32.060
privacy and security, but these are so new and so different,
1237
01:10:32.319 --> 01:10:34.899
and people expect me. Wherever I'm walking, they stop me.
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01:10:35.050 --> 01:10:37.489
What phone are you carrying? What glasses? What's that guy?
1239
01:10:38.390 --> 01:10:40.970
And I let them put this on because this is, it's,
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01:10:41.529 --> 01:10:44.909
and again, in plain terms, it's a heads-up display. You know, America,
1241
01:10:44.949 --> 01:10:47.670
you're driving in the car, you can see, you know,
1242
01:10:47.689 --> 01:10:50.399
your speedometer, it's a heads-up display. So it's very, very unique.
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01:10:50.409 --> 01:10:52.489
So I find myself wearing these and they're very comfortable.
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01:10:52.939 --> 01:10:55.720
So I appreciate your time here talking to us here
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01:10:55.739 --> 01:10:57.840
in the United States and keep up the innovation. And
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01:10:57.880 --> 01:10:58.899
I thank you so much for your time.
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01:10:59.579 --> 01:10:59.920
Thank you.
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01:10:59.960 --> 01:11:01.189
Thank you, Michael. Thank you for having me.
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01:11:01.659 --> 01:11:04.159
Will Wang, if you need him, ladies and gentlemen. Oh,
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01:11:04.220 --> 01:11:06.939
phone lines here. We're going to continue talking about wearables.
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01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:09.479
There's an entire list. Give me about another month and
1252
01:11:09.510 --> 01:11:12.149
a half. We'll do a typical holiday gift guide tour.
1253
01:11:12.170 --> 01:11:14.090
There'll be more things coming out. But this is where
1254
01:11:14.109 --> 01:11:15.989
you're going to get your information as you head out
1255
01:11:16.010 --> 01:11:18.670
for about 25 years. Michael Garfield, who is all across
1256
01:11:18.689 --> 01:11:25.050
the world, to the High Tech Texan Show. The end
1257
01:11:25.130 --> 01:11:28.069
is near before I release you to go watch the
1258
01:11:28.109 --> 01:11:31.659
biggest college football game of the year. If you're listening, hello,
1259
01:11:31.699 --> 01:11:35.140
it's Michael Garfield. It's the High Tech Texan Show. Final
1260
01:11:35.180 --> 01:11:37.680
segment here. And then you can go put your horns
1261
01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:41.819
up and your burnt orange gear on. Texas versus Ohio State.
1262
01:11:42.199 --> 01:11:46.300
NFL full slate starts on Sunday. Sunday night football. You
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01:11:46.319 --> 01:11:49.930
got my cowboys. Life is good. Let me pull that back.
1264
01:11:49.949 --> 01:11:55.159
Life is not good. good until it gets cooler here
1265
01:11:55.220 --> 01:11:57.380
in Texas. And then it gets a little better. Well,
1266
01:11:57.439 --> 01:11:59.850
and then actually my teams have to win. You know what?
1267
01:11:59.869 --> 01:12:02.329
Screw it. Life just ain't good. But I do thank
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01:12:02.369 --> 01:12:04.189
you for tuning in. I'm not going to give out
1269
01:12:04.210 --> 01:12:06.390
the phone number anymore because we're getting ready to wind
1270
01:12:06.430 --> 01:12:09.149
this up. I did want to touch this. Speaking of
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football season, I've been answering a lot of questions the
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01:12:11.579 --> 01:12:17.390
past month about I need a new TV, Michael. What's
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01:12:17.409 --> 01:12:22.189
a good deal? Should I get a projection TV? How
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01:12:22.210 --> 01:12:23.489
do I get a good signal? Should I get a
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01:12:23.569 --> 01:12:26.609
digital TV antenna? All fair questions. These are all questions
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01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:33.939
that I absolutely really enjoy answering. One of the aspects
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01:12:34.060 --> 01:12:37.239
of my answers, though, I always forget to ask these
1278
01:12:37.319 --> 01:12:39.479
when I get asked, because I like asking questions from
1279
01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:43.939
people who ask me questions. As a follow-up, When you
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01:12:43.960 --> 01:12:46.439
buy a new TV, what do you do with your
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01:12:46.479 --> 01:12:49.560
old TV? I've long asked that question when it comes
1282
01:12:49.590 --> 01:12:51.149
to phones. Oh, I need a new phone. What do
1283
01:12:51.170 --> 01:12:52.829
you do with your old phone? Do you just throw
1284
01:12:52.850 --> 01:12:55.010
it in the drawer? You give it to your spouse?
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01:12:55.590 --> 01:12:57.649
Give it to your kids? Do you trade it in?
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01:12:58.470 --> 01:13:00.369
Do you sell it? There are companies out there who
1287
01:13:00.430 --> 01:13:04.670
actually will pay you some pretty good cash for buying
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01:13:04.689 --> 01:13:09.520
your phones that are slightly used and not bruised. What
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01:13:09.539 --> 01:13:11.350
do you do with your old TVs, though? Because we
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01:13:11.380 --> 01:13:14.119
don't buy TVs nearly as often as we do phones.
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01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:17.659
Maybe because Tim Cook or Steve Jobs, back in the day,
1292
01:13:17.699 --> 01:13:21.859
they never promoted TVs. Because those people know how to market,
1293
01:13:21.899 --> 01:13:25.600
don't they? Real quick, a TV is not something that
1294
01:13:25.640 --> 01:13:27.439
you can just throw into your trash once you're done
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01:13:27.479 --> 01:13:29.520
with it. They're too big, they're too bulky, they're awkward
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01:13:29.539 --> 01:13:32.119
to transport. They have so many materials in there that
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01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:36.319
should not be in a landfill. So, safely disposing of
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01:13:36.350 --> 01:13:38.770
your TV, it's going to be a little extra work,
1299
01:13:39.329 --> 01:13:42.199
but it is worth it. How do you dispose of it?
1300
01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:48.859
There's a few steps of it. Real quickly, there's a
1301
01:13:48.880 --> 01:13:50.539
little bit of housekeeping you need to go through before
1302
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:52.699
sending your TV off to that big trash heap in
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01:13:52.729 --> 01:13:57.050
the sky, especially if it's a smart TV. Number one,
1304
01:13:57.350 --> 01:13:59.869
does it even work? Does it turn on? All right,
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01:14:00.850 --> 01:14:02.520
give it a test just to be sure. Plug it,
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01:14:02.649 --> 01:14:04.369
unplug it, turn it on, check all the buttons, work
1307
01:14:04.409 --> 01:14:08.029
the remote, whatever. Now, if you've got a streaming stick,
1308
01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:13.720
or a set-top cable box. Plug it in the HDMI port.
1309
01:14:14.619 --> 01:14:16.649
Check that the panel works as it should.
1310
01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:17.510
All right?
1311
01:14:17.729 --> 01:14:21.670
If the picture looks decent, the sound is okay. Sell it.
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01:14:22.449 --> 01:14:26.149
Put it on Facebook Marketplace. Think about giving it away. Then,
1313
01:14:26.529 --> 01:14:30.130
before you do anything, double-check that everything has been cleared.
1314
01:14:30.529 --> 01:14:32.130
All right? This is one of the most common smart
1315
01:14:32.189 --> 01:14:37.640
TV problems. If you signed into apps like Netflix, sign up. Okay?
1316
01:14:38.039 --> 01:14:42.050
The device, by the way, it may remember your Wi-Fi network. Whoops!
1317
01:14:43.350 --> 01:14:45.529
It could have details about your viewing habits because, yes,
1318
01:14:45.810 --> 01:14:48.850
smart TVs are smart and they know what we've watched.
1319
01:14:49.029 --> 01:14:51.930
That's data. That's worth something. How about this? Give it
1320
01:14:51.970 --> 01:14:56.810
a factory reset. Remove your data. Go to settings. If
1321
01:14:56.850 --> 01:14:59.810
you could turn it off. Factory reset the dang thing.
1322
01:15:00.420 --> 01:15:02.039
I always do that when I get rid of my phones, too.
1323
01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:03.420
All right?
1324
01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:05.710
So that's one to one. What do you do with
1325
01:15:05.770 --> 01:15:08.119
a TV if it has some life in it? Donate it.
1326
01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:10.119
Find a home that may need it. Blah, blah, blah.
1327
01:15:10.260 --> 01:15:13.819
But if not, don't just throw it away. Do not
1328
01:15:13.859 --> 01:15:15.979
throw electronics into your trash pan, all right? If it's
1329
01:15:16.020 --> 01:15:18.739
large and dangerous. If you want to dispose of it safely,
1330
01:15:19.220 --> 01:15:21.960
look up the rules in your local area first, all right?
1331
01:15:21.979 --> 01:15:23.579
Because you may be able to drop it off at
1332
01:15:23.619 --> 01:15:26.810
a local waste management facility. There may be companies that'll
1333
01:15:26.850 --> 01:15:34.270
come pick it up. How about that? E-waste responsible, okay? Retailers.
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01:15:35.779 --> 01:15:39.350
Best Buy, I think, they, I believe, accept TVs for
1335
01:15:39.390 --> 01:15:44.069
recycling at some of its stores. There may be location-specific restrictions,
1336
01:15:44.130 --> 01:15:50.149
size limits. Go check. Some manufacturers, they do take backs
1337
01:15:50.649 --> 01:15:53.500
to recycle them. I think LG, they have drop-off for
1338
01:15:53.539 --> 01:15:57.420
its recycling panels. Samsung, I think, in a few states,
1339
01:15:57.500 --> 01:16:04.560
they have options for recycling. Find somebody... who is strong,
1340
01:16:05.039 --> 01:16:06.699
maybe you're going to get it to two people because
1341
01:16:06.739 --> 01:16:09.340
it could be a two-person job to get it off
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01:16:09.420 --> 01:16:12.840
the wall. Great album, by the way, by Michael Jackson.
1343
01:16:13.720 --> 01:16:17.359
And then transported, lying it flat down in the back
1344
01:16:17.390 --> 01:16:20.489
of your car. Don't smash it. You do not want
1345
01:16:20.529 --> 01:16:25.310
to destroy that screen. Older CRT televisions, man, that's a
1346
01:16:25.350 --> 01:16:27.409
whole different matter. If for some reason you have an
1347
01:16:27.569 --> 01:16:31.840
older TV, the four by three aspect ratio, the TV
1348
01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:34.029
that I grew up with, in the 70s and the
1349
01:16:34.369 --> 01:16:36.380
80s and the 90s, that I used to sit there
1350
01:16:36.420 --> 01:16:38.380
with my cereal on Saturday mornings and watch the freaking
1351
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:41.579
Super Friends people. There's people who still have that. They're big,
1352
01:16:41.819 --> 01:16:45.199
they're bulky, and they are filled with hazardous material, right?
1353
01:16:45.539 --> 01:16:49.279
And they don't like being transported either. So think of it.
1354
01:16:49.850 --> 01:16:52.449
What are you going to do? One step ahead. Let's
1355
01:16:52.470 --> 01:16:53.729
just not buy a TV. What do you do with
1356
01:16:53.750 --> 01:16:57.789
the old one? So anyway, that was that. Digital antennas
1357
01:16:57.810 --> 01:17:02.029
versus cable. If you do not want to spend any
1358
01:17:02.069 --> 01:17:05.329
money on a subscription to watch television and you're cool
1359
01:17:05.390 --> 01:17:08.250
just watching your local TV channels pretty much, which, by
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01:17:08.289 --> 01:17:10.250
the way, if you were in a very large city
1361
01:17:10.630 --> 01:17:13.029
like my listening audience of Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio,
1362
01:17:13.750 --> 01:17:17.510
there are easily over 60, 70, 80 different channels over
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01:17:17.550 --> 01:17:20.569
the year broadcasting. Now, many of them may not be
1364
01:17:20.609 --> 01:17:24.810
in English. Some of them are sub-channels. Maybe it's channel 2.1, 2.2.
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01:17:24.789 --> 01:17:27.050
There's a lot of options to watch over the years.
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01:17:29.659 --> 01:17:33.260
they're free, free. You are going to need a digital antenna.
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You could buy these things as inexpensive as $ 20. There's
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01:17:38.199 --> 01:17:42.100
really no reason to spend more than $ 50 or so. Yes,
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01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:46.479
plug it in. You do need to figure out where
1370
01:17:46.539 --> 01:17:49.060
the best reception is, kind of like the old days.
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01:17:49.359 --> 01:17:51.479
There are these antennas, not the big ones that go
1372
01:17:51.520 --> 01:17:53.180
on top of your roof. And these are from my
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01:17:53.239 --> 01:17:55.699
older listeners over there. These are small antennas that are
1374
01:17:55.739 --> 01:17:58.640
maybe the size of a dish or a plate, very thin,
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01:17:59.100 --> 01:18:02.119
that if you put it near a window, it'll capture
1376
01:18:02.140 --> 01:18:05.180
TV signals that are being broadcast over the air. Because
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01:18:05.500 --> 01:18:08.880
despite the fact that there is digital television, it is
1378
01:18:08.899 --> 01:18:12.189
still a mandate by the FCC that every local TV
1379
01:18:12.210 --> 01:18:16.829
station broadcast a signal over the air. And I will
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01:18:16.850 --> 01:18:19.590
tell you right now, if you get a very good
1381
01:18:19.630 --> 01:18:22.520
reception and a very good signal over the air, you
1382
01:18:22.680 --> 01:18:26.930
cannot beat TV. the picture quality. It blows away cable,
1383
01:18:27.449 --> 01:18:31.479
blows away the streaming because it's not compressed and it works.
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01:18:31.569 --> 01:18:34.699
And odds are it's anywhere between 10 seconds to 30
1385
01:18:34.699 --> 01:18:38.720
seconds ahead of what you're watching on cable. So you're
1386
01:18:38.899 --> 01:18:40.680
really going to tick off all your buddies who are
1387
01:18:40.699 --> 01:18:43.470
watching football via cable because you're going to text them
1388
01:18:44.050 --> 01:18:47.109
that your favorite team just scored a touchdown before they
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01:18:47.149 --> 01:18:50.689
even know. Digital TV antennas. Absolutely. we wind up the show,
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01:18:50.710 --> 01:18:52.310
if you've got any questions about any of this stuff,
1391
01:18:52.649 --> 01:18:54.569
you don't need to wait until the weekends because your boy,
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01:18:55.510 --> 01:19:04.899
Michael Garfield, that's me, is online. Hightechtexan, H-I-G-H-T-E-C-H-T-E-X-A-N.com. Should have
1393
01:19:04.909 --> 01:19:08.020
an updated website soon and also on social media. Callum,
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01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:10.760
thank you very much for keeping us on. Go Longhorns.
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Go Cowboys. Just go football season. We are back. And
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we'll be back next week. By the way, for those
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who are celebrating, Happy New Year to you. Do not
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forget to write 5785 on your checks.
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Dang it.
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I always get mixed up. I hope the bank still
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cashes it. My name is Michael. Michael Garfield. It's the
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High Tech Texan Show. Thanks for tuning in, my friends.
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Because right now, my show is over. Yeah, yeah.