Be on alert for potential cyber-security attacks

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the Little Tech Texan. Version three. We continue with what
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we were doing for twenty three years, and we've got
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a number of things on the docket for you, starting
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with guess what's coming up in about a week a
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week and a half or so, depending on when you're
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listening to this. That is right, friends, It is another
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Amazon Prime Day twenty twenty five summer version. Every year
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they do it, and it's coming.
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It is.
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They've expanded it. It actually used to be a day.
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It used to be a Prime Day sometimes in July
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you know, halfway up the holiday shopping season. Then it
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went to two days. Recently they got cocky with man, Well,
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let's just continue to extract more money out of all
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of our followers and members that we're gonna go three days.
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You know what, We're gonna get to a week someday,
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but we're gonna go to four days, folks. It is
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July eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleven, still a way away.
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But I've already found some pretty decent sales and deals
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right now. I will give you a heads up to
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go ahead and get into the hunt before those days.
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Those days can be a little hairy, the you know,
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the websites, web traffic could slow down, and I know
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they promised to get you there with what free two
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day delivery if you are an Amazon Prime member, which,
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if you break it down, really the purpose of Prime
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Day is well, I have two theories. If you're a
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longtime listen, I've said this number one. It's a garage
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sale because Amazon wants to empty out a lot of
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its warehousing spaces for some items that just haven't sold
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over the past six months since the holiday season. They
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just said, let's put it on sale. Let's get out
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of here. We need some new inventory space for the
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holidays of coming year. That's one. So you do need
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to be wary that a lot of the stuff that's
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on sale it maybe it may just not be a
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good product. It they just weren't. They're putting a price
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tag and they're slashing that's right, crazy Eddy, They're slashing deals.
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So that's one. Number two. Really, the real, honestly reason
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that Amazon started this they want to They wanted to
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sell memberships because in many cases, obviously you do have
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to become a member to shop on Amazon Prime. You
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got to create an account, and you do if you
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want something within two days of shipping, you definitely have
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to be a Prime member. And so a lot of
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people are Prime members. And you know, I asked this
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question because I I am an Amazon member, and I
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only hopped on Amazon maybe three years ago, and some
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relatively new It's because I didn't think I needed it,
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and I and as a consumer, I'm going to give
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you this for food for thought. You may already be
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a member of Costco, which costs you probably fifty to
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sixty bones a year, and you may be a Sam's Club,
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which again another fifty to sixty year more. If you're
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a business member, you know you can buy and immediately
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walk into a warehouse location and bring back a number
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of different items. Absolutely not as vast as Amazon. But
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you're paying memberships and you're paying subscriptions, and I continually
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to remind you that how many subscriptions do you have
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right now on top of your your streaming services or
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you know, maybe you read some online magazines, online newspapers
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and everything. Do you really want something else? And I'm
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not talking to you out of getting an Amazon deal.
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Maybe I say listen, keep Amazon. And oh, by the way,
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if you don't use Costco or Sam's or Walmart or whatever,
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these you don't need that. But just think about it,
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because some of these deals there could be good. And
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I'm going to go for some decent ones that I found.
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But over the next week, week and a half, I
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know I'm going to hear from a lot of you,
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certainly on email, social media you have going, heygarth Man,
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does this does this look right? I'm trying to get
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a new camera, a new action camera, maybe a new
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new TV or or something. That's what I can I
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could talk you down off the off the Cliff Ford
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so I will go over some of those things. I
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want to start out with this, and I'm going to
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tease it right now because we as a it's not
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just a country, we as a world, uh, which is
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just not the easiest place to live right now if
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you were living under a rock, which at some point
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we may have to get under a rock or in
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a bunker. Uh. There's there's there's a potential war, uh, firing,
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cease firing. What's going on, and it's it's unsettling, just
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to say the least. I try to avoid politics, but
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over the past year or two, it's just the the
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the intersection between politics and in technology and what I
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talk about, they do intersect. So I still try to
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weigh in with my opinion for more of the text
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is the political side. But and I'm going to try
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to tempt that right now. You've got you obviously you
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understood and you heard what happened last weekend with the
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attacks that America did, the air strikes on three Iranian
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nuclear facilities, and the Iran officials, Iran officials, they've warned
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of retaliation after the air strikes. Something did happen on
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Monday with what was going on in Qatar or Cutter.
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But there's something that I am continuing to have my
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head on a swivel and keep you updated with, and
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that is the possibility of a cyber attack. And I
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know I'm going to talk here for about sixty seconds
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where before we take a break, and I want you
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to hang on because federal officials and cybersecurity experts they
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have sent out a warning of increased risk here my words,
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increased risk for cyber attacks amid the growing attention to
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what's going on between US and Iran. Right now, there
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are no specific credible threats against the homeland, but the
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Department of Homeland Security they warned up low level cyber
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attacks amid a quote heightened threat environment. So we've got
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public infrastructure, the private sector could be potential targets. Large
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scale cyber attacks probably unlikely based on what Iran is
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attempted before and based on their technology which is in
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my opinion not nearly as advanced to some other countries
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out there which would could which could cyber attack. As
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we take a break, I want you to hang on,
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going to tell you what a retaliation from Iran could
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look like when it comes to cyber attacks, and more importantly,
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how can you the consumer protect yourself from cyber attack?
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not know if Iran right now is letting the iHeartRadio
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app entered their internet space. And I say this because
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I'm continuing what I what I started in the first
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segment about a potential cyber attack that we as consumers
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and we as businesses, we always need to concern ourselves with,
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and especially in light of what happened last week when
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you know the US, you know, it took out allegedly
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three different nuclear sites within Iran. Iran to some degree,
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they you know, sent more missiles over to a US
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air base in Qatar. But there are other ways other
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than physical shooting in bombing, and that's the cyber attack.
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A cyber attack is it's hackers, it's them shutting down
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the Internet. It's the slowing down our internet space, a
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denial of service attack for lack of a better term,
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but that's what it's called in the in the tech world.
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There is a possibility, and there is a warning and oh,
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by the way, be you know, watch out for something
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that US official cyber attask. We are at a risk now.
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And I've long said this. If you I've done this
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show twenty three years, and I've listened. I'm always giving
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tips of how to protect your passwords and how to
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use a VPN and in things like that. And I've
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seen companies beef up and secure their IT department, just
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billions and billions of dollars of IT employees and anti
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phishing software and spyware and making sure that corporations use VPN.
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But guess what last week we had one of, if
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not the world's largest, you know, cyber password hacks that
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stole sixteen wet billion different user names and passwords. We
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are always going to be at risk from having our
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information and connecting online, connecting to our computers, connecting to
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our mobile phones, and so yeah, there at some point
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there is going to be more to come. And getting
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back to my point over here, I have long said
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on this radio show wherever I go, if you really
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want to bring people, consumers and businesses to some extent
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to its knees to a standstill, yes, hardcore military physical
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action with bombs and whatever, we'll do it. But don't
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sleep in the fact that shutting down our communication grid,
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the way that we communicate to get money out of
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our banks and our ATM and our traffic green light
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red light systems on and on and on. They shut
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that down. If that shuts down through a cyber attack,
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I'll tell you what. We're in a standstill we are.
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Can you imagine back in the COVID day when there
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was a worldwide demand that we don't leave our houses,
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we don't do anything. Imagine we're stuck in our houses.
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Imagine we had no TV. Imagine we had no Internet,
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we had no connectivity. Yes, we would be driven crazy mentally,
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but we wouldn't get any information. We wouldn't know the
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all clear sign. We wouldn't be able to you know,
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you know, check on our relatives and our friends to
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see how they're doing. That could be a possibility now.
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To be sure, Iran, they do have the capabilities of
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doing something with cyber attack. I think there was an
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assessment back at twenty twenty four of the Office of
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the Director of National Intelligence the country had launched cyber
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attacks against Israel and a cybersecurity firm here in the NAIs.
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They found that seven hundred percent spike in cyber attacks
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after Israel launched a missile strike targeting Iran's nuclear program
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earlier this month. It would not be the first time
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the US has faced such a threat, and specifically from Iran,
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it was back twenty sixteen they was ties to Islamic
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Revolutionary Guard Core and everything that. There have been potential
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holes and cyber attacks. I'm gonna get to the chase here,
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cut to the chase. How big of a threat is
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this to US Americans? But the threat of disruptive cyber
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attacks has increased. It is important to recognize that Iran
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has had the term is mixed results with disruptive cyber attacks.
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All right, maybe they have done that. And again I'm
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gonna quote here Google Threat Intelligent Group. Their chief analyst's
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name is John Holtquist. He gave a quote. It's Iran
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has frequently fabricated and exaggerated their effects in an effort
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to boost their psychological impact. However, we should be careful
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not to overestimate these instants and inadvertently assist the actors. Again,
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that's from a quote. Okay, smarter people than I. Could
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they do something that has significant effects? Yes, absolutely they could.
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What do you do? How can you my lists and
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the consumers out there? How do you protect yourself from
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a cyber attack? Well, number one, you need to listen
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to people well speaking, you know, talking mouths like me.
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Listen to what the government says. US government works closely
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with all sectors to keep them informed because cyber criminals
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often go after end users consumers. So you're gonna go
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just go on with your lives. But your device on
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its own, they could be exploited and they could be leveraged.
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Lots of worries out there. So a few things to
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protect yourself. Here we go. Number one, be careful of
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fake emails or text You're not gonna get an email
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from an Iranian threat person saying hey, click on this link.
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It may look like it's gonna come from the US
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Social Security Department. It may look like it comes from
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the IRS. It may look like it's coming from the
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toll road. It might look like it's coming from your
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bank or credit card. They want you to click on
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a link. It could affect your computer with malware. Still
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use your names and passwords. I get these things on
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a semi regular basis. Right there before clicking on a
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text on an email or a text, who is it from?
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Do you know the person is from? Generally other than
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you know two factor authentication. Banks don't send you text
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pick up the old fashioned phone, get in your car,
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go to a bank, talk to them before clicking on
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that link. Also, be careful of telephone calls that appear
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to be from an authority figure. There's often the cyber
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criminals are going to try to tell you that you've
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done something wrong. You're gonna be arrested. Make sure the
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real number for your bank or make whatever your financestitution.
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It's in your phone. And if you've see any suspicious
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activity or unsolicited email or text or calls. Just because
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I get a call that says White House on my phone,
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I'm guessing it's probably not the White House. They can
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actually do that too. Don't pick up a lot of
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these phone calls less you one hundred percent know it's
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from Watch your social media accounts too. Hackers may try
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to take over your social media accounts. They're going to
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get you to click on malicious links. Okay, don't take
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the Oh, let's take a quiz on ten steps of
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how do we can get a better tan this summer.
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You can go living your life without doing those things.
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This word manager programs. I get asked about this all
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the time. Use a password manager program. Don't use the
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same password for multiple accounts. Change it. I don't care
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if you change one letter of everyone. Change it. You
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can use a password manager. It helps you keep track
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of your password safely. Just Google password managers. There's a
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lot of reputable ones out there. And also, like I
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just said, the term two factor authentication. I use it
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for most everything. Yes, it's a pain, slows me down,
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and maybe I got it. I've got it today. Where
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between five to eight seconds right now it asks for
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a second type of approval. Often it's going to send
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you a text message with a four five six digit code.
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Maybe it's an authenticator app. Microsoft has one. I use
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that to get into my iHeartMedia email account. They do
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offer more protection than clicking two factor authentication. Even Google
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Gmail offers it. Other than that, I will keep you
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updated here on my X account. High Tech Text and
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high T e C h T E X A N
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about cyber and potential cyber attacks. Just be vigilant, download
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as much stuff as you can, keep it on your
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hard drive, and cross our fingers if anybody has been
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you know, manipulated, or if you've actually fallen for some
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of the stuff, tell you what we're gonna take a break.
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I'd love to hear from you. If you want to
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call three four six two nine eight three nine two six,
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that's how you get to meet Michael Garfield right here
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on the High Tech Textan show. When we come up,
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I am going to play something for you that is
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generated by AI artificial intelligence. You don't think AI right
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now is scary. You are not gonna believe this. I
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do a radio show.
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That's right.
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It is a radio show which then recorded to a podcast. Uh,
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it's lunchtime here on the weekend, last weekend of June
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of twenty twenty five. I am a little hungry alas
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I do have to finish work, and so does everybody
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here I'm looking at in the radio studio. When I
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am done, I will swing by Cabo Bob's. I do
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thank them for the potnaship. We love Cabo Bobs in
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the Euston area four locations. Check it out cabobobs dot com.
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And you make your own hacos. You make your own, well,
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they make it for you. Tell them you want on
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your burrito. It's not like anything you ever had because
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the meat alone, they are smoked on what's called the
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Kamata joe. It's big green eggish if you will. It's
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like a ceramic cooker. That's why the meats are great.
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You have your choice of one, two, three, four, five
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different freshly made tortillas right in front of you. Oh
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my goodness, I love it. Like the smoky chili, and
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they got the ancho, and they got the corn, they
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got the buttermilk flour, and the chips. I say this
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again every time someone tas comes over. I always have chips,
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squawking kesa that I bring in at least twice a
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week from Cobo Bob's. That's right, I do because I'm
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a host that I'm an entertainer. They're like, where did
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you get these chips? The double thick crunch phenomenal zero
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locations in Dallas for of you up there, but Austin
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location eight or no, I know them. I thinking Austin,
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San Antonio. You got one two lunchtime, dinner time. They
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are closed on Sunday. Suck it up, people, you're gonna
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go hungry that day. But Cabo Bob's love those folks.
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That's good. Now I'm hungry. Now I gotta keep on rolling. AI.
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To the best of my knowledge, AI does not come
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into big play at Cabo Bob's, or they still have
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actually real great employees, which they do take care of employees.
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They're back there, they're they're pressing and top, they're pressing
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the tortillas, and they're rolling the big old Mama burritos,
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and they're making the chips and everything. But AI has
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infiltrated many, many other things. And sometimes I've given warnings.
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Sometimes I say it's inevitable. It is just like that
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Texas rainstorm. Baby, it is just inevitable. It is gonna come.
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I don't use a ton of AI a lot. It
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doesn't infiltrate my life. But there's been a lot of
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talk when it comes to entertainment in Hollywood. That's why
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there was the actors strike a few years ago. The
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what the Screen Actors Guild. They couldn't come to an
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agreement with, you know, the AI use or the repeat
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use of actors and their voices and their faces before they,
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you know, finally came to an agreement at some point.
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You know, we hear even on the radios in the
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radio side, you know your favorite this Jockies, how you
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doing coming up? We're gonna play the forty songs. You know,
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there are ways to actually recreate their voices. You know,
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we at some point I'm facing it people. Luckily, I
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guess I'm on the backside of my career. They can
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be replaced. Nice talk about this, because there was this
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app that I was playing with that I just downloaded
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and it what it is? It replic It has a
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it generates a standalone it's let me put it this way,
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it's a standaloade voice generation app. It's a voice AI
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company called eleven Labs, and I'll give you the u
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RL if you really want it. You have to spell
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out the word eleven Labs. And it's a free downloadable
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app too. They released a mobile app. It's yes, it's
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for Android, Yes, it's for iOS, and it generates voice
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clips from anything including things that you sit there and
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type and text listen. Until now, if you had to
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generate samples using you know, AI poors, AI powered voice libraries,
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you kind of had to rely on the web everything. Oh,
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now there is a mobile app that generates clips on
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the go. You may have used something like this. That
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may be freaky deeky, but I tried it and I
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wanted to see how it work. And this it turned
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my head. It really really did. So what I did
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is let me let me pull this thing up. It's
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called let's see eleven. And you know they want you
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to subscribe. Blah blah blah blah blah. They don't we Anyway,
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I want to sit here and I want to use
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this voice. And what they already do, you can actually
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tell it to. You can have a male voice who's
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a teenager and authoritative, you know, voiceover you know female.
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You can have you know, kids, people sounding like kids
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or whatever. But then there's a few celebrities and I
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found one I wanted to try. If anybody in this
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is a generational actor who's no longer with this, but
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Bert Reynolds, anybody, you have to be of age.
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Burt Reynolds. He was just a great iconic actor. He
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was like in the seventies and eighties music movies with
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Smoking the Bandit and Boogie Knights and everything. He was phenomenal.
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It's a deep, authoritative voice. It's great for narration and whatever.
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So anyway, I wanted to try this, so I wrote
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a promo for my high tech textion show. I typed
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it three sentences into this app and I said, hey,
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I want Burt Reynolds, which, by the way, it is
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trademarked and he and his estate and his family gets
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paid for this, so this one's legit. All right, I'm
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going to play this and if you know Bert Reynolds's voice,
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I want you to close your eyes and listen. If
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you don't know, Burt renlds, this is this is this
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is about as Burt Reynolds, as Burt Nolts. This could
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get take a Listen to a promo as voiced by
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Burt Reynolds.
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Welcome to the High Tech Texan Show with Michael Garfield,
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the only place you need to turn to for expert reviews, commendations,
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and bs to get you through life. Also, he may
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be the only dude with more body hair than me.
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Did I not tell you? Is that freaky deaky? That
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is how far one instance in one use of AI
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has come. That's crazy, man, I mean it's listen. I
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know you can have GPS with the voice of Darth
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Vader and you can have your fame it. There's Comedia,
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is there's Kevin Hart. I mean, it goes on and on,
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but now you could tell it and type anything. I mean,
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if I really wanted to, like I want you to
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think about this. If I had a sore throat, I
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could type in my entire radio show like I'm doing
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right now, and I can have Burt Reynolds host my
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radio show, which at the end of the day, it's
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much sexier than listening to me. But this do you
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and I'm gonna throw this out to you. Do you
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find this scary? Do you find this neat? Do you
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find it cool? Do you not even know how to
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categorize it? Or is it a little of both? This
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is a consumer facing app that is that is no cost.
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This is how quickly we have become and how machine
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learning is out there. And I this is when people
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pass on. I mean the most famous listen I want.
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I think about this the reason my idol, the reason
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I got into radio, and this entire thing. I grew
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up listening to a very very famous disc jockey, Casey Caseum.
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Casey Caseum based out of Los Angeles. He was a
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disc jockey who every week did a syndicated show called
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American Top forty. All right. I listened to that American
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Top forty every single weekend through middle school and high school.
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I wrote down the Top forty. I got his speech
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pattern I used to imitate him. I actually utilize his
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voice in some parodies for commercial ads. Technically people say
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I actually look like him, which is neither here, nowhere there.
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But he's gone. He passed away ten eleven years ago,
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but his voice still lives on in cartoons. He was
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the voice of Shaggy and Scooby doo Zucks like Scoopy,
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what is Scooby? The thing is, though I at some point,
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I'm sure there's a Casey Caseen voice impersonator AI app
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right now. If not, I need to create one. I
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would love to actually do. My entire show is the
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voice of Casey case even though it kind of sounds
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like Casey. But he's gone. And so the longevity of people,
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and the funny thing is, this is what machine learning
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can do. You don't need You could have been dead
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for generations, but still your work on movies and voice.
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I mean, think of James Cagney or Jemmy Jemmy start
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you know, Jimmy Stuart died what I don't know, twenty
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twenty five years ago, potentially. I mean, all you need
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to do is just run all of his movies and
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you know it's the Christmas movie and everything, and you
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could generate his voice. And I think the question is
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in these cases of celebrities, they need to get these
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companies need to go to the proper channels and compensate
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their estates and their families. But for fun purposes like this,
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I mean, luckily this Burt Reynolds, this app that I
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use specifically from eleven Labs, hopefully Burt Reynolds family. It's
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not gonna be pissed at me because this they're probably
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getting paid I don't know two tenths of one cent
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or something for me using that, but I wanted to
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illustrate it. As more of this comes along, I will
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do it too. There's video things that actually can take
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pictures of me and probably morph me into these even
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my TV segments. I mean, it could be a fake
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Michael Garfield. I hope they get the hair right. That's all.
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That's all I care about. But a little AI trick
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em or trickery for you. By the way I'll put this,
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if you want to play an experiment with this thing,
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because there probably could be some really good uses, Like
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for some reason, you do get out a laryngitis and
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your voice sharts. They just pump something out. This particular
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one is from a company called eleven Labs e L
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e V e N Labs eleven Labs. You can download
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it right now for absolutely free and you can go
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check it out yourself, which, by the way, I probably
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should do. Callo. We should actually create a contest here
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who can create a promo for the High Tech Texan Show,
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kind of like what I just did. You're listening to
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the High Tech Texan Show. That's right, counting down the
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top forty hits, the number one number technology expert that
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you need to listen to. We need to have people
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come up who can create the best promo, you know
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at a ten second rejoiner or something, and then I
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should give away out an maybe a Cowbo Bob gift card.
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So feel free to come up with something like that.
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All right, When we come back, Michael Garfield, I'll go
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through a few of the early Prime day Amazon Prime
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Day deals that I saw, and also some information on
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that massive, massive password hack. We're sixteen what billion passwords
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were stole? Does this affect you jumping up? I'll tell
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you the information. In the meantime, you see you go
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out and keep reaching Fay.
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Stars No Burt Reynolds.
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This segment just lill o me. Michael Gartfield is the name.
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I host this long running two decades plus. It's called
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the High Tech textan show. I promised not to really
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go all tech and not use megabytes and gigabytes. If
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you're a long time listening you know that I'm going
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to talk about food, drink, travel, fashion, cars, a lot
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of car reviews to and other interesting features like an
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AI voice generator that you could type something into an
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app and have Burt Reynold's voice push it out. If
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you dis missed that, go back and listen to the
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show on podcast. That is the scary stuff that AI does.
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Phote number here if you have a question or you
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want to tell me how freaky that was. Three four
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six two nine eight three nine two six, I just
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say yo, callum man. Let's see if you could put
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you on Michael's show. If you just get a voicemail,
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just record something, and we do have the right to
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play your real voice, not AI generated, on this radio show,
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so feel free to do that. Amazon Prime Day talked
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about that a few segments ago. Countdownazon people, why don't
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they change the name to Amazon Prime Days? Actually, I
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know what because at some point soon it's going to
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be Amazon Prime Week, and then it will be Amazon
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Prime Month pretty much the month of July. It is
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now four days long. It's not a Prime Day. It's
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four days July eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh. I've already
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been looking for some interesting things that I saw. You
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are generally going to get relatively good deals on Amazon
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branded products. Shocking right. The Amazon Echoes, the Echo Dots,
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the Amazon Firestick, the Fire TV stick, the Amazon Fire
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TVs themselves, those are going to be the easy, low
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hanging fruits that Amazon to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we
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want to push our own branded stuff on there. It
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makes sense I do the same thing too. Speaking of
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fire sticks, I did see this already. If you want
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to sale Amazon's fire tv stick. Fire tv stick four
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K four K is very nice. It is already on
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sale for twenty four to ninety nine, which is half
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off normally the Amazon Fire tv Stick four K fifty dollars.
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Now it's twenty five bones far as I could tell,
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it's the lowest price of the year. If you don't
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know what a firestick is, it is a very good
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and smart device streaming TV shows and movies from Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu,
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a HBO Max, Paramount plus, blah blah blah, the whole thing.
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And it actually can do more than just stream audio
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and video. It's it's integrated with the Alexa and the
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Amazon and other service. And this one it comes with
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a remote control. Some of them don't come with remote control.
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You probably want to buy a stick that does have
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a remote control. But this one has the Alexa Voice
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remote control. It triggers the voice Assist assistant. What you
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do is you plug this into your TV in the
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back of your HDMI and what it is, it receives
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a Wi Fi signal and then you know, you just
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kind of turn your TV into the source HDMI one
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or whatever it is, and then now you can use
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it to use the remote to go and download all
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these other apps. Obviously, the Amazon Prime Prime is probably
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gonna Prime Video, which is probably already gonna be downloaded,
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but you can, you know, download the HBO Max of
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the Hulu, the Netflix and all these other things too.
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So if you have a lower, if you have a
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TV that is not connected to the internet or Wi Fi,
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or it's old enough it doesn't even have a Wi
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Fi connection, maybe you have one that's outside, and you
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know that's the easiest thing to do. That's one of
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the reasons you should get some sort of a streaming
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stick that listen. There's other manufacturers. Roku makes a very
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nice one r Okau, but I happen to see one.
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It's about a year and a half old. This is
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the twenty twenty three version of the Amazon Fire TV
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Stick four K, but still for twenty five bucks. It's
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actually not a bad delio whatsoever. I saw one more
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thing a lot of people. It may be time. I'm
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always I don't remind people enough that if your Wi
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Fi in your house over the years, it starts slowing down.
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Number one. Obviously it's there's many reasons, but it may
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be an older system because there are newer versions of
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Wi Fi. There's Wi Fi six, there's Wi Fi seven,
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There's all these other you know, categories and definitions. But
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if you have a Wi Fi system that is I
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mean listen, Wi Fi as I know it, I think
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it was kind of invented in two thousand and two
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thousand and one, that was when I first started the
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High Tech Texts and TV program. In the segments, I
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remember explaining what Wi Fi was explaining with it now
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it's ubiquitous everywhere. But if you don't have a mesh
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router system for your Wi Fi, you may need to upgrade.
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You may want to upgrade need in one or two things.
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You may want to upgrade to a Wi Fi mesh
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router system. And this is a system that will can
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replace your current Wi Fi system with. If your Wi
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Fi system only has one router, so you connect your
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cable if you will your cable box, your cable box
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itself actually could have if you have Xfinity, it could
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come with a Wi Fi router. But if you have
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your own and you want a larger, a stronger signal
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that goes out farther to more areas of your home,
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even on the outside backyard, you may want to upgrade
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to what's called a Wi Fi mesh system. This comes
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with sometimes three different little repeater stations. You connect one
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where your old WiFi router was right off the where
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your internet cable comes in. Then throughout your home you
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place these others small in there. Sometimes you can't even
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notice the little repeater systems across your home and what
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it does it creates just kind of close your eyes
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and imagine this kind of mesh network system that hits
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every corner, every inch of your home inside and out,
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and throws that signal to make it just as strong
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as it was when it comes right out of the
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pipeline of the Internet. A lot of these are user friendly,
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they work well with this, and there's a number of them.
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I even forget I haven't upgradeed my mesh system and
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gosh a good seven years or so, I've forgot the
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name of my manufacturer. Point is, there's a lot of
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these that I'm seeing right now. Pop it up on
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Prime Day. There's one right now. There's a company called
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TP Link, tp dash Link, l i Ink. They they're
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really good when it makes a lot of routers. They
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have got one now two hundred. It's a three pack
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which comes with three repeaters two hundred and fifty dollars,
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which is one hundred bucks off right now. This is
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the Tepee Link Deco Dco Wi Fi Mesh router system.
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That's just one of them. But again, if you're looking
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for something to get, because there's deals you just can't
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pass up. Man crazy any deals, you may want to
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upgrade your Wi Fi system, especially if you're finding that
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you know you have more access points. Don't forget. Your
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WiFi now is in use more than ever because your
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doorbell is connected to Wi Fi many cases, all of
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the wireless cameras inside and out they're on Wi Fi.
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All of your little smart speakers are connected to Wi Fi.
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Your kids are on Wi Fi, your neighbors are on
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Wi Fi. I have probably over fifty some odd devices
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that are using my Wi Fi that I didn't even
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know about. You can go look into your router and
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actually see that. So again, just some ideas for you
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to think of, particularly five five you want something specific brand,
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I'm here for you our first what hour break? We're
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halfway through the show. I am at three four six
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two nine eight three nine two six. If the voicemail
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try to get through Michael Barker was the names the
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high Tech section show, would we come back? I'm gonna
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tell you about that massive password hack that went down
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last week. Sixteen billions passwords were hacked. I can actually
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tell you specifically if your information has been stolen, how
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really pack a new safe browser for you to use?
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Because browser's now we're under it back? And also how
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about this? Are you ready to go see the f
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one movie. Are you an iPhone user? Well, if you
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saw something pop up for an ad on your iPhone
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that you had no clue how it got there, I
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will tell you how to get rid of it. All
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that and so much more.
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High Tech Texan Show.
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Is Michael Garfield.
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Michael Garfield.
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Michael Garfield's joining us the high Tech Texan.
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Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
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To make life easier.
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Technology and Michael Garfield has something you might want.
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Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
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you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
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iHeartRadio Act. Now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
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Halfway through the show and almost we're just shy halfway
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through the year of twenty twenty five, which means it
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is halfway to happy hour in.
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More ways than one. Michael Garfield is the name, as
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you heard that big booming voice the long running High
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Tech Texan Show. Bear with me, it is not all
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about tech. We're gonna have a lot of fun. I
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don't know, may have a cocktail recipe for you. I'm
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really into gin for some reason. Gin is very tough
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to make. If you're trying to make a cocktail. I
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think I found a few secrets since again, just let
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you know some of the things that we do talk about.
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Very interactive show, which means you can call, you can
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give me your opinion, your thoughts, you're anything that you
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want to lap about. Hey, Prime days coming up, all
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four days of it. As we've been talking about the
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first hour, Michael, I need to get this. What's your
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opinion on this Wi Fi route? Or what's your opinion
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on this fire stick? What's your opinion on whatever? TVs clothing?
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I am your guy. Three four six two nine textan
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three four six two nine eight three nine six That's
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how you get me. You can find me online, high tech,
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text in on most most all the socials h I
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G H T E C H T E X A N.
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That's how you do it. How about this massive password
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reach last week? Did you did you hear about this thing?
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I spent a few hours last week with some of
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my radio and TV affiliates. Hey, Michael, what's your opinion?
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You know, sixteen billion passwords were exposed and what was
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the biggest data breach? Ever? Well, what actually matters is
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this There is a debate over what information was given
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out and whether it's new information is it recycled data.
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Hackers reportedly allegedly they got a lot of it by
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installing malware on user computers that logs in what you type. Listen.
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I don't care if it's false. I don't care if
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it's new. I don't care if it's old. It doesn't matter.
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You just need to keep your information safe. I went
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over at last hour for another reason that there could
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be there is a threat, a very low level threat
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of a cyber attack from Iran or maybe another country,
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after the retaliation of what the US did to you know,
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blowing up their you know nuclear you know, fortificated data,
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you know, plutonium plants, there could be some sort of
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retaliation with cyber attacks. And as I said, last last hour,
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and I'll do it again to protect Number one. Never
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reuse your passwords. I understand why you reuse your password,
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so you remember it every time. Don't use a week password.
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Don't use the word password as a password. Don't use
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password one, two, three, four, five, six, or any combination.
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Now never use it across the same site. If one
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gets compromised, guess what that actor is using it to
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get into your bank account, your school records, everything that's there.
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Here's what I do. If you don't use a password manager,
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which I'll tell you about a SAC, at least utilize
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some sort of a code system that only you know.
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And and this is this is I'm not going to
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say I do it. This is this is something easy.
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If you I'm gonna forget my password, I want you
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to use one base string of letters in text, just
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something you're always gonna remember. Use a combination maybe of
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your first name, your last name. Change a letter instead
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of the using you know there's a letter E. Use
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a three because it looks the same instead of using
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an L. Use the number one whatever. Used maybe the
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first eight or nine or ten characters, it's the same thing.
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Then change the last few characters into whatever website you're
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trying to log into. If you're trying to log into
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a Wells Fargo bank account, use your same ten digit
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let's just say master beginning of your security code, and
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then use the letter's WF Wells Fargo. And then if
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you're trying to log into your University of Houston school records,
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use those same ten letters again, and just change those
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last two letters to uh, University of Houston. At least
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it's a different password for everything. At least you're never
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going to forget that solid first portion of your code.
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Then whatever website you're on, you're going to like, oh yeah,
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I'm on Wells Fargo, so it's got to be WF.
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That's one way to do it. You can also use
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a password manager, and these are apps, and these generate
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in store very long passwords, very unique passwords. I'm talking
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sixteen plus characters for every single account. Yes, you need
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to protect your password manager with a strong master password.
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And there's a number of them out there too. And
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what I do is now I'm using more and where
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I'm using two factor authentication two. And you may see
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it written as the letter too, the letter F the
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letter a two factor authentication. But going back to Google Gmail,
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if you use that, it uses it. If I wanted
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to log on to the VPN for my email here
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at iHeartMedia, they make us use an authenticator app or
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two factor authentication. What happens is you log online first,
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maybe to your bank account, and you put in your
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tend did you you put in your password? It ain't
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gonna let you in the website yet, they are going
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to text you, so have your phone nearby. Sometimes it's
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an email of this one time used password, pass code, patents,
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a set of numbers. It's only gonna be around for
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five minutes, ten minutes, or whatever. You're gonna have to
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use that and then enter it. That's your second level.
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That's called two factor authentication. Just listen it is it
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a pain in the butt, yeah, Midge, But I got
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it down somewhere between six seven eight seconds. I have
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my phone with me. I know what texts coming through.
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What are those sick digits? Put put a minute, worre
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set to go. You don't need to panic, You don't
788
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need a freak. You don't need to change all your
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passwords for everything from Apple to Google to Facebook, dif anything.
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But make sure your social media accounts certainly do they
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have strong, unique passwords. Maybe two factor authentication able. I
792
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get stories all the time. You hear hacker, this, hacker this,
793
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It's a lot of them were tricked into entering their
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log in information on a fake site to steal them.
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Now that summer is here, you got some extra time
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in the hands. Maybe this is a good time to
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change to be your passwords, just to kind of maybe
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download a password manager. Browsers too. I saw something that
799
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there's a lot of browsers now that are being taken
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over or encrypted or having malicious links or software. And
801
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I mean I use I have long used. I don't
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use Microsoft Edge, I don't use anything I actually I
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don't use Chrome. Well that's my secondary one. I use
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a password. I use a browser called Brave Rave free
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to download because I'm thinking because it, you know, allegedly
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blocks a lot of you know, third party cookies and everything.
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I was read somewhere that even Brave failed some sort
808
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of a test scam blockers and anything. So I'm reading
809
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where did I read this? Well, it doesn't even matter
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where I read it. Some news site online. If you're
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worried about malicious links and anythings. Safari you use that
812
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a lot. When it comes to Apple, it's decent, but
813
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it was able to download in some bad thing. I'm
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not saying these are bad. I'm not saying a roun
815
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but these are just instances that there was this test
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done for the scam blocker. Already. Chrome is actually good
817
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and Duck Duck go, Duck Duck go. I see commercials
818
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that I've never done it, but it's a browser. But
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those two browsers apparently are flagged sites as dangerous or
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they have blocked access to things that we're trying to
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fish sin malware or common scams. Again, I talked about this.
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These are the time of years that maybe some of
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you have a little bit more time in your hands
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just how to protect yourself because now with what's going on,
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with the positibility of a low level cyber attack, you
826
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need to make sure that everything is tight, tight, tight, tight,
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all right? Coming back, who wants to see the F
828
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one movie. If you have an Apple wallet, odds are
829
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you may have gotten an ad where you could save
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some money and you're thinking, why in the world did
831
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I just get an advertisement in a coupon on my
832
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Apple iPhone? Well, I'll tell you why. Coming back. I'm
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a high tech textan show. Almost halfway through summer, we'll
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well past the halfway point of the high Tech textan show.
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Michael Garfield is my name. It is me. You can
836
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call me Garth G A R F. If we are tight,
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you know the phone number. It's in an directive radio
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show three four six nine eight three nine two six
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Find Everything High Tech text and Spell the whole thing
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out Hi Tech textan dot com. See some of my
841
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:04.719
TV segments that I've done. Did a Father's Day gift
842
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:07.039
guide few weeks ago, did a graduate gift guide a
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few weeks ago. I'm probably gonna do a little with
844
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some Amazon Prime Day tips here in the next day
845
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or two. If you're in Austin, Austin Fox seven TV
846
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show on Monday mornings that I'm on, also Great Day
847
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Houston Channel eleven CBS, I pop on there some my often.
848
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.039
And if you have a radio, if you have a
849
00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:25.760
TV station that you want me to contribute to, feel
850
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.599
free to call me. We're then happy to work out
851
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a deal with you. Who's traveling this summer? Actually have
852
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I even done trial? I don't think I've done a
853
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segment on travel technology, gears and apps. Actually I probably
854
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should do that. There's a lot of neat stuff out there.
855
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I went to about a month ago where always I
856
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went to California to see one of the kids. I'm
857
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:48.000
doing a little traveling. I'll be hopping on an airplane
858
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here soon. TSA always gets bogged down, and I do
859
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:54.920
have TSA. I pay extra to get through the TSA,
860
00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:57.440
which those lines slowly but surely seem to be getting
861
00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:00.840
just as long as the non TSA. But they solve
862
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.719
this that more and more people are getting stopped at
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00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:09.400
TSA for some of their food and snacks that they're
864
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:14.280
bringing on planes. I mean, listen, you need your photo ID,
865
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:15.920
you need your boarding pass, and you kind of need
866
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some airplane snacks. Am I wrong? People? Am I not?
867
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I mean, do I speak to truth people and travelers?
868
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:24.119
You could bring a lot of food on the plane.
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I mean I sit next to people and then they listen.
870
00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:30.599
They mostly buy it at the airport. Back when Papasitos
871
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:33.159
was at Hobby Airport in Houston, man, I would sit
872
00:49:33.199 --> 00:49:35.639
next to somebody with some breakfast tacos and some enchiladas.
873
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:38.800
I'm like, really, some people bring containers of Chinese foods.
874
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:41.599
Some people bring I've see people like bring harboiled eggs.
875
00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:43.760
I mean whatever, I mean, if you want to share
876
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with your seat mate or your rowmate, man, let's roll
877
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went away. You know there's a liquid limit, right, It's
878
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:52.480
like what three point four ounces or one hundred middle
879
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.679
liters that you can't you know, bring with liquid or
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jail gel or aerosol or cream or something. Foods that
881
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are also liquid or jail or aerosol have to comply.
882
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So it was a USA. Today. I was reading something
883
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that there are snacks that are subject to TSA Liquid rules.
884
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You what ever, this creamy cheeses, hummus, peanut butter, yogurt,
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00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:21.480
jam and jelly, and creamy dips and spreads, those actually
886
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:25.840
count as TSA Liquid rules. And this sucks because I'm
887
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gonna tell you why I travel with peanut butter. Now.
888
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I don't bring a jar of peanut butter. I don't,
889
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and I think I'm under the three point four ounces,
890
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:37.760
but I travel with the little kind of prepackaged What
891
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is it like, justin is that the name of the brand,
892
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like almond butter, peanut butter? Sometimes I have little jiff
893
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little cups that you can kind of like open the
894
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.000
top and spread. I live peanut butter, the greatest food
895
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:48.119
known to man. Love love love. It's tough for me
896
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to go in without peanut butter. I don't know do
897
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:55.400
I need the TSA now, like pulling my carry on
898
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out and giving me like just reming me going, I'm sorry, Garfield.
899
00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:03.280
You you know you actually brought the You and Laura Scudder,
900
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:06.840
she is not your companion on Southwest Airlines. Man, come on,
901
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:08.800
I love Laura Scudder baby. You know you stirred up
902
00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:14.559
and it's a fresh Nope. Has anybody been called out
903
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:18.440
by the TSA for food? I want to hear from you.
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Three four six, two nine eight three died in two six.
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I promise not to last. Actually, I sympathy. I have
906
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sympathy for you on the same thing. Did you see
907
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:30.800
the story that was going around? I certainly I hit
908
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:37.079
it in Houston last week. Somebody at TSA was trying
909
00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:40.159
to and I gonna call it smuggle. They were carrying
910
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.159
something like one hundred packs of fresh h EB tortillas.
911
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:48.159
And I had to laugh at this story. And I'm
912
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gonna tell you why, because pretty much all my listening
913
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audience in Texas you know what HGB is, right, it's
914
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it's it's the I didn't. It's the greatest grocery store ever.
915
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.880
It's phenomenal. If you've never had freshly made HB tortilla,
916
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:04.199
you were missing out on a very good portion of
917
00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:07.920
your life. They are fresh. I like I like the
918
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uh the butter ones. Oh unbelievable. They make them fresh.
919
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:14.920
They sell them for whatever. Two and a half three
920
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:17.360
four bucks. You get ten of them, maybe twenty of them.
921
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They're warm, and you take them home and you just
922
00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:23.599
shove them in your pile. There's a buddy of mine, Brian,
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who used to live in Houston. He now lives in Atlanta.
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When he comes here to visit his parents in Houston,
925
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I kid you not, he goes to AGB and he
926
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buys things that he that AGB is not in Atlanta.
927
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He buys things, including tortillas. When I visit him, I
928
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bring him hib tortillas. So I've smuggled in. I use
929
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the word smuggling. It's funny. I've brought him on the
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00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:49.960
plane two or three packages of tortillas. Somebody had a suitcase,
931
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a carry on suitcase, I believe of one hundred packs
932
00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:55.920
of tortillas. I want to know where this person is,
933
00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:57.440
and I want to sit with them next time because
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I'm gonna whip out my peanut butter, because you've never
935
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tried anything if you haven't had peanut butter on a
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fresh door. Tia, phenomenal, Love that story, Love that story.
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Good for you, Hib. I don't know if that was Agy.
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They may have. Hib. Better find that person, reach out
939
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and give them a gift card. Phenomenal publicity. HB should
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give me a gift card because I'm talking about it
941
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right now. Who's planning to see this F one movie?
942
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Callum Calum, read over here? Will you guys got to
943
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:23.840
see this F one movie with Brad Pitt at the
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end of the day at some point, I probably will
945
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see it because I'd like cars. I like fast cars.
946
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I like the suspense. I know what it is. It's
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Brad Pitt exploring the world of Formula one. I can
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00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:43.599
even write the script right now. Let me guess he's
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00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:48.119
a washed up, tired, old ornery race car driver. Some
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00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:50.559
rich owner is gonna have to give him a second
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00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:53.119
chance and teach some young buck of how to drive.
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00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:56.000
So they hired him, and it's just gonna escalate and
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00:53:56.079 --> 00:53:58.920
blah blah blah. I mean, there's probably a love interest.
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00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:04.440
There's fast moving cameras and fast sound and fast songs. Folks.
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I probably just say, get ten, fifteen, twenty bucks on
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00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:08.679
a movie ticket. That's what it is right now. Directed
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00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:12.559
by the same guy who did Top Gun Maverick. I
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think it's written by one of the guys who did
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Top Gun Mavericks. Pretty much what it is. It is
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Brad Pitt in a car substituting for Tom Top Gun Maverick,
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Tom Cruise and you know F sixteens fatans. Nope, that's
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00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:28.639
what it is. It's produced for the very first time
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00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:33.159
by Apple. Apple is taking it shot at producing a
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movie that is released in theaters, not just on Apple Plus.
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And from what I heard, this is a two and
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a half hour, two hours, fifteen minute Apple commercial. Apple airbuds,
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00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:52.079
Macintosh computers, iPhones, they're just product placement everywhere you go.
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They don't have an Apple. You know that. I'm an
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00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:59.679
Android guy, but apparently and I need verification on this.
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If you have an Apple and this happened to you,
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I want you to text me and text me if yea,
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00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:04.760
if you have my text deal, free to text me,
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00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.960
but email Michael at high Tech textan dot com call
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in three four six twenty nine, text and use your
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iPhone if you want to Apple. Hey, you have an
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00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:20.039
Apple wallet, you guys, use that there's so much cross
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00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:24.599
promotion here that Apple Wallet in the app. People have
978
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:30.840
been reporting of getting a push notification that they're complaining
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that Fandango, which I guess is a movie ticking app,
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00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:37.760
is offering a ten dollars discount for anyone buying two
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or more tickets to the film. They're pushing this onto
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your Apple wallet. Listen, we are barraged every ten seconds
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of the day somewhere with ads. Okay, in about a
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00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:52.519
minute a half, you're gonna hear some ads on this
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00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:54.960
radio show. You're driving around a guarantee, you're looking at
986
00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:57.719
a billboard right now, you're watching TV, you're on IT,
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00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:00.599
you're somewhere online, and Google is listening to You're gonna
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00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:04.760
get served up an act. I really don't want an
989
00:56:04.760 --> 00:56:08.920
ad popping up in my wallet, my Apple wallet, or
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00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:11.679
wherever it pops up, because I know that's my credit
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00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:14.519
cards in there? Are they just going to say this
992
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:17.800
is kind of the same. It's not nearly as bad
993
00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:22.880
as a feedback. Remember when YouTube famously launched one of
994
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:28.159
their albums years ago to every single single iPhone user
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00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:32.800
as it download, and they didn't ask for it. Actually,
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00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:35.400
it was it was it was it a song, It
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00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:38.280
was a it was twenty fourteen. It was their album
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00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:42.639
called Songs of Innocence. If you had an Itune account
999
00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:46.719
and you had an iPhone, it was an audimatic download
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00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:51.400
and it was met with big backlash. Users didn't want it,
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00:56:51.719 --> 00:56:54.639
infringement on the privacy. I'm not saying this is the
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00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:58.119
same thing, but that's a tie in right now, So
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I thought that was it. For some reason, you're getting it.
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00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:03.000
Let me know. There is a way to stop that
1005
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:06.880
if you don't want these, If you don't want these
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00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:09.679
advertisements here, you do have to go. Let me see
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00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:11.159
if I can find it for you, because you do
1008
00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:14.280
have to go into your settings, all right. This is
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00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:16.400
if you have iOS twenty six beta, which is a
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00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:20.519
new option to you go to offers, you go Apple Wallet,
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00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:24.880
there's a tab or something called Offers and Promotions. This
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00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:27.519
is for their only their new operating system iOS twenty
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00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:30.440
six Offers and Promotions, and you turn it off, you
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00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.119
disable it, so I see what they're doing. This is
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00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.559
only in the iOS twenty six. Someone tells me that
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00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:39.320
Apple is planning to do this on a regular basis,
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00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:42.039
which is why on their brand new operating system they
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00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:44.960
offer a way to disable it. But that's the way
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00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.239
to do it. Anybody mad about that or not? Now,
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00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:49.519
if they gave a free and absolute free ticket to
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00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:53.360
F one, maybe I wouldn't be so ticked, all right,
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00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:56.599
there you go, coming up Austin. I'm looking at you.
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00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:59.920
Did you have you seen the super secret new Tesla
1024
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:04.440
ROBOTAXI rolling around? It's Invader right now. I'll tell you
1025
00:58:04.599 --> 00:58:07.880
when it's going to your task going the back field
1026
00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:08.440
high Tech.
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00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:33.360
Tex Just two more segments to go, about thirty.
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Minutes of your time before we are out of here
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00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:37.599
this weekend for the High Tech Texan Show. Thank you
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00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:39.679
for hanging in there, having some fun with me through
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00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:41.679
out by the pool, having a cocktail. Send one to me.
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00:58:41.800 --> 00:58:45.199
Michael's the name, Michael Garfield. We're having some fun. We
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00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:49.719
talk about consumer lifestyle products. Amazon Prime's coming up July
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00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:51.880
eighth to eleventh. I told you about that, gave you
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00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:54.559
some sales that are already going on. When it comes
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00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:57.320
to a few things, I talked about the New f
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00:58:57.440 --> 00:58:59.280
one movie, whether you want to see it or whether
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00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:03.280
a Apple is pushing a coupon to your phone, still
1039
00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:04.800
waiting for people to tell him about that. So we
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00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:06.760
just kind of run the gamut and let you know
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00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:10.280
about some things. Big shout out. It's funny because I
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00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:13.800
you know, it's summer. We want the bathing suit, the swimsuit,
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00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:19.199
the bikini, the speedo, I do not wear speedo the swimsuits.
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00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:20.920
You know, you want to get that the good summer bought.
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00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:23.239
It's not helping that I'm getting invited to a lot
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00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:27.239
of these new restaurant openings and tastings. It was it
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00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:31.559
was it a smart thing for me to invite Dairy
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00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:35.360
Queen into our radio studio earlier this week so I
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00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:38.559
could test out one of their five new Summer Blizzard favors.
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00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:42.679
The time, I thought it was smart while I was
1051
00:59:42.760 --> 00:59:46.119
eating it. Probably the greatest dessert in the history of
1052
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:47.960
the world, in my opinion, the Dairy Queen Blizzard. It
1053
00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:53.480
was a great idea. Okay, now I don't know, I'm
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00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:55.360
running a next two or three extra miles on top
1055
00:59:55.400 --> 00:59:56.920
of the already miles that I'm running in this hot
1056
00:59:56.960 --> 00:59:58.920
weather and then hopping on my peloton even Moore. Probably
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00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:03.559
not the smartest thing. And not only that. Tried pizza
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01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:06.320
high Tap an about here for putt that Dallas. You
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01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:08.920
know this pie tap there's like what six seven eight locations.
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01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:12.639
Houston got its first pie Tap location not too far
1061
01:00:12.679 --> 01:00:17.079
from Central Market Sam Felipe near Wesleyan. That is some
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01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:21.840
good food that these these It's called pie tap because
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01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:23.880
it's pizza pies and also a lot of beer on tap.
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01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:29.280
They have probably one of the most killer appetizers I
1065
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.079
have tried, and I kind of keep account of it,
1066
01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:35.320
like best apps out there. It's this garlic bread dough
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01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:41.119
with this special garlic butter that just melts on contact.
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01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:46.440
It is stupid awesome, all right, mushroom pizza yaukey? They
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01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:48.440
got burgers go check out PI tap by the way,
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01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:50.760
so they brought more food into the station earlier this week.
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01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:53.639
This is not good. And if that wasn't enough, My
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01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:57.960
good friends over at Gringos, tex mex Hello, Jonathan Kim, Russell, Lebarro,
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01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:01.119
Heather McCann and everybody else been associated with these folks
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01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:03.519
for twenty years. I got to do a little friends
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01:01:03.559 --> 01:01:06.039
and family, which means I can order any dang thing
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01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:09.239
I wanted while they tested out and checked out how
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01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:11.360
the food service and help with their servers or anything.
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01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:14.719
This is past week. Was up in Tomball, Texas. Shout
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01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:17.679
out Tomball Way Way on the north side of Houston,
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01:01:18.440 --> 01:01:23.079
corner of Rand Parkway ninety nine and Highway two forty nine.
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01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:26.039
It's up there. It's a hike, but I get you know,
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01:01:26.199 --> 01:01:28.960
I did it for the sake of feedback, and several
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01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:33.079
Margharita's and you know Poyo Marisco and everything. I talk
1084
01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:35.639
about this because there is a little technology bent over here.
1085
01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:39.039
Joey Farina, he's the head of their IT department's been
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01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:41.159
with them forever. Sub Joey, I know he listens to
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01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:44.599
the show. He was telling me. You walk into the state,
1088
01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:48.800
it's gorgeous. And I have been to probably ten friends
1089
01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:50.920
and family openings of Gringos in the past twenty years.
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01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:53.039
It's great. I'm on there last. I'm very excited to
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01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:55.800
be able to get to know these people. They're wonderful people,
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01:01:56.039 --> 01:01:59.039
great food, great family restaurant, free ice cream. If I've
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01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:03.039
been to ten of them, every new restaurant is gorgeous.
1094
01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:04.639
It's bigger, it's prettier than the other one. This one
1095
01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:06.920
is no exception. You walk in, there's this massive bar,
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01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:09.599
a lot of TVs. They got watch six eight TVs
1097
01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:11.400
there in the bar loans you can watch your sports.
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01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:14.360
And I was talking to Joey, who's the IT He's
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01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:16.840
very proud of the server room and pulling all the
1100
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:20.119
cable and all the cameras. They have more security cameras,
1101
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:22.840
literally than four docs. I am not kidding you. If
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01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:26.320
I wanted to steal a tistato chip from whoever I'm
1103
01:02:26.360 --> 01:02:29.039
eating with, I guarantee this camera has me I can
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01:02:29.079 --> 01:02:31.960
get busted. And it was just not a good relationship thing.
1105
01:02:32.199 --> 01:02:35.840
They got cameras everywhere. But anyway, Joy was telling me
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01:02:36.519 --> 01:02:40.239
at Gringos for the first time, instead of using typical
1107
01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:46.679
fiber or internet company or cable, they installed Starlink. They're
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01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:50.000
using starlink and that's Elon Musk's service, relatively new that
1109
01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:53.400
you're gonna be finding on airplanes to make Internet go faster.
1110
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:56.840
He loves it. They installed it in the roof, he said,
1111
01:02:56.880 --> 01:02:59.519
I don't know. It's maybe about one foot by one foot.
1112
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:02.320
Dish automatically finds the point in the sky in the
1113
01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:06.199
southern atmosphere. You know whatever. Starlink, he says, is fasted
1114
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:09.559
I needed. I haven't tried starlink. I'm waiting for United
1115
01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:12.639
Airlines to to put Starlink on their flight so I
1116
01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:15.679
can test it and everything. But I thought it was cool.
1117
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:18.840
It's available now, and one of the reasons I think
1118
01:03:18.840 --> 01:03:21.559
you use it is because they are built this restaurant
1119
01:03:21.639 --> 01:03:24.679
Tomball is so remote and it's such a new area
1120
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:26.239
that they're building in right at the corner of these
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01:03:26.239 --> 01:03:29.199
two highway intersections. I don't think even fiber could have
1122
01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:30.559
been run out there is he's not run out to
1123
01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:32.440
the Yes, they said, screw it, let's try this starlink
1124
01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:35.039
and he said it's working well. And I saw how
1125
01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:39.280
it works. So congratulations to the new Gringos, tex mex
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01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:42.880
Tomball restaurant. When you go in, asked, I don't know,
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01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:44.400
try I don't know if they have Wi Fi, but
1128
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:46.760
ask them to change a TV channel or something like text.
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01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:50.079
It's very fast, very internet. I thought that was pretty good.
1130
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:54.280
What else do we got? Few things? I wanted to mention, Yes,
1131
01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:57.519
I've been through the tortilla TSA. We've been to the
1132
01:03:57.559 --> 01:04:02.079
tortilla type of thing. Uh uh subscribe. I mentioned this too,
1133
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:04.159
that I am also here to help you out with
1134
01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:06.760
canceling your subscriptions. Time of the year right now it
1135
01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:11.000
is summer, sneaky subscriptions continue to ruin your budget. This
1136
01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:13.000
is the time of year to maybe go over everything
1137
01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:17.360
that you have subscribed to. Like I said, Amazon Prime's
1138
01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:21.320
coming up. The reason Amazon Prime Day was coming up, specifically,
1139
01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:25.599
Amazon wanted to sell memberships subscription which is one hundred
1140
01:04:25.639 --> 01:04:29.800
and twenty five hundred and fifty bucks a year. That's
1141
01:04:29.840 --> 01:04:31.480
what a subscription is. Oh wait a minute, you have
1142
01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:33.199
a Sam's Club. Oh wait a minute, you have a Costco.
1143
01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:34.880
Oh wait a minute, you and then you've got all
1144
01:04:34.920 --> 01:04:38.960
your streamers. How many subscriptions do you need? Americans spend
1145
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:43.400
more than one thousand dollars a year on subscription services.
1146
01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:47.840
I think people, here's a stat throwing away, well over
1147
01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:53.239
two hundred dollars a year that you're not using that
1148
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:55.679
time statbot. Four to five US adults have paid for
1149
01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:59.639
one or more subscriptions in the past year. Average total
1150
01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:02.639
amounts spent the past year for prescriptions ninety hours a month.
1151
01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:07.079
That's o're a thousand bucks a year. Sixty one percent
1152
01:05:07.119 --> 01:05:10.719
of subscribers are rethinking they're paid subscriptions because of the economy.
1153
01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:19.000
You about it, streaming video, music services, retailers, gaming subscriptions,
1154
01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:22.960
news and media services, health and fitness services, meal kit
1155
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:27.559
food delivery services, security apps kind of need that, software management,
1156
01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:32.559
financial apps, a lot of things that you're spending on saying.
1157
01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:34.440
I'm giving you ideas right now. You're like, hey, Dan,
1158
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:36.800
I wonder if my wife canceled the of the Hulu
1159
01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:40.159
like I told you to or whatever. This is a
1160
01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:44.760
good time to go check out to see how do
1161
01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:46.320
you do it? How do you find and how do
1162
01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:50.920
you cancel subscriptions you don't want anymore. There's actually a
1163
01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:54.800
budgeting app, believe it or not, that helps you where
1164
01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:57.840
your money is going, so you could scale down spending
1165
01:05:57.840 --> 01:06:01.400
in all these categories. Actually just some budgeting apps. They
1166
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.760
can help you identify all your subscriptions and they can
1167
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:05.920
cancel them for you. I know this because I saw commercial.
1168
01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:07.559
What's the commercial I see on the NBA? Is it
1169
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.440
for Rocket Money? Is that what it is? Right? Something
1170
01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:13.760
like that? I'm not sure. It helps people flag all
1171
01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:15.920
your accounts and I guess I don't know. I haven't
1172
01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:17.360
use it, but one click it gets rid of your
1173
01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:22.679
own new subscriptions. There's one way to do it, I know.
1174
01:06:22.880 --> 01:06:26.280
I mean, I think hopefully is Rocket Money free? I
1175
01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:30.039
don't even know that. Maybe another subscription. Also, here's another
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way auto your bank account. Look at your credit card bill.
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Odds are you're going to pay via your credit card?
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Go through your credit card and if you see something recurring,
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like I see an Amazon bill every single month or whatever,
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is it I don't know, ten dollars twelve fifteen bucks
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a month, like yeah, I know, I know, like that,
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01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:46.360
but that's really the only streamer service that I subscribe to.
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I continue to steal my other's friends pass words. Just kidding,
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01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:53.360
not really, But go through your credit card statements and
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if you see something come up over and over again,
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you're thinking, man, when's the last time I actually went
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into costco or if you when was the last time
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I actually watched it? Subscription service? Cancel the dang thing, man, cancel.
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So this is the time to do it. Look for
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some of these apps if you want to, you know,
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get better deals. Look for bundle subscriptions. For example, I
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01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:20.679
think Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus. You can all three
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01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:23.320
get those in one three bundle, something like seventeen bucks
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01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:26.119
a month. If you use something like Apple Music, they
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offer you know, maybe you know, maybe Apple Music, you
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get free with some unlimited calling plan. I think Total Wireless,
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01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:37.440
like Total Wireless. I think at the high end plan,
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they gave me a full year of Disney Plus. I
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use Total Wireless. That's great, by the way, use it
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that way. But again, downtime, middle of the summer, it's hot,
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as you know what, cancel some of your subscriptions. Don't
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cancel this show. One more segment to now hang in.
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You could do it people. It is the High Tech
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Dection Show with me Michael Garfield.
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We made it.
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Final few minutes of the High Tech Textan Show, the
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last show of the weekend of the last weekend in June,
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which means we are, I guess coming up in a
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few days. We are halfway through Happy Hour of twenty
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twenty five. Where did a year go? It flew by
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so fat? No I didn't. This time is moving slower
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and slower. The world is just so jacked up, and
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I am the only voice of reason. Michael Garfield. That
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is my voice. Thank you for listening. Thank you also
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to Callum and Will for keeping the show on the air.
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Brian Erickson, iHeartRadio program chief across the state of Texas.
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Thank you for Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Terrest. Really listening
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to this show. If you're in Austin, I do have
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an Austin presence. If you watch every Monday morning on
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Fox seven, that is me. That's what I look like.
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I do it technology segments. I need to what are
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you doing this coming? We Oh, that's right. This coming Monday,
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if you're in Austin. I taped a piece of a
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robot lawnmower. It'll run this Monday, I think seven forty
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five am on Fox seven in Austin. I will then
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put it on my high tech texting dot com and
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YouTube channels. But I tested out a lawnmower where you
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don't have to do a dang thing except download the
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app and charge it up and it goes. I'll say
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01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:48.840
it again, where was this when I was a kid? Man?
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I had to grow up. When I grew up, ma'am,
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my parents maybe mow the lawn bag then didn't know, No,
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don't need to do that all. Is it worth the
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twenty five one hundred dollars the version I tested, I
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will will tell you that. So that's my Austin tip.
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I got to Austin at least once a month to
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actually tape these things, and I missed it this month.
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But when I go in a few weeks, I apparently
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am going to see another driverless ride sharing service because Tesla.
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Welcome to the gang. Tesla launched a robo taxi service
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just a few days ago in Austin. There's anybody seen
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01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:33.239
those yet they I've seen some videos of them. They
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01:10:33.319 --> 01:10:35.720
look pretty cool. Not a Tesla fan for safe they
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01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:39.199
look they're testing with a very small number of cars,
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and they're testing them with a human person actually sitting
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01:10:43.840 --> 01:10:46.239
in there in the passenger seat. They're not doing anything
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01:10:46.279 --> 01:10:48.399
other than monitor but maybe they've got a chicken break
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or something that'll help it. I understand the company's caution
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01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:55.159
seems for the best because I think one robo taxi
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01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:57.119
from Tesla attempted to drive on the wrong side of
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01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:04.880
the road already. Has anybody done this? My cousins from
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Atlanta were in town this past week. They got two
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01:11:08.159 --> 01:11:09.560
cute little kids, and they had said they were in
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01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:12.720
San Francisco not long ago, and they took way Moo,
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01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:16.279
the driverless Waymo, everywhere they thought. The kids thought they
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were in Disneyland. They loved it. It is a crazy
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experience when you sit and let a nobody, a robot,
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01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:30.279
a ghost drive you around. But it's also freaky. It's like,
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excuse me, driver, can I get out?
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No?
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Uh, ain't no one there to talk to. So you're
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gonna see more and more of these things. Waymo also
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operates in Austin. I was in Austin. I did see
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there's any one called Zeusk. I think it is is
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that the Amazon went Austin. It's it's it's it's it's
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a betting ground for the state of I mean, they've
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01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:52.199
been in California for a while, but Austin. Maybe it's
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01:11:52.239 --> 01:11:55.000
so progressive that it's like, you know, all these new
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01:11:55.079 --> 01:11:57.560
tech That's why I have a technology segment Austin. There's
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01:11:57.560 --> 01:12:02.479
so many tech oriented things. It works well. But also
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Texas is relatively simple the state of text with it
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is simple to get a license for robotaxis. You just
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need to make sure that the cars actually passed inspection
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and then you're ready to go. You don't have to
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jump through hoops. That's why Tesla, which is Elon Musk,
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which is based in Houston, which is based in Austin area. Anyway,
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01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:22.279
they decided let's just roll it out in Austin. But
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01:12:22.560 --> 01:12:24.439
I thought that was needed. So if anybody is I'm
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01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:25.760
not going to give out the phone number anymore. But
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that's another one that was out there. Speaking of which,
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what's Michael driving? I do get the test drive cars.
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This past week I was in two cars, one of
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which was the Buick Invista. I'll say it again. I
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tried it last year. Buick Invista was my favorite car
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of the entire year. Every year I get to test
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drive cars. I get him for one week. This is
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not sponsored, They're not through a dealership. I get them
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directly for the manufacturer. I am very lucky. I've done
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this for fifteen years. I've tested you Haven over one
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thousand cars. I don't even have my own car because
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I get a new one every week to drive. Buick
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and Vista relatively inexpensive. It's in the thirty thousands. It's
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a kind of a sedan four door, comfy, good tech drives. Well,
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didn't have the biggest sized engine, but it does get
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you from A to B where you want to go.
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I just loved it. This was the Avanir Buick Avanir
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that's kind of the higher end luxurious that has, you know,
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a little bit more things built in with the seats
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and everything. Buick Investor. Man, I know times are tight,
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budgets whatever. If you're thinking of a car, if you're
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01:13:29.239 --> 01:13:30.960
thinking of one that you want a comfy ride and
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01:13:31.039 --> 01:13:33.039
you don't want to spend an armored leg because you know,
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01:13:33.159 --> 01:13:35.000
cars are not cheap nowadays. Take a look at you.
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I think Buick has done over the past three four, five,
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six years with the brand. It's great invest to E
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n V I s TA definitely like that, absolutely like that.
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Also was in a Toyota land Cruiser. I haven't been
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historically a big Toyota guy. A lot of the Toyota
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01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:56.239
in my mind when you sit in it's very plastically
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the land Cruiser. It's big. It's that their biggest vehicle
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yet it is a Mama suv. It holds a ton
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of stuff, especially when you put that third road down.
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01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:09.279
It is actually the second second road down. It is big.
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01:14:10.479 --> 01:14:15.039
Ah handles well still, you know, I'm knocking on the plastic.
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01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:16.359
You know, there's not a lot of wood grain. They
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01:14:16.439 --> 01:14:17.640
keep it down. But it's not the most it's not
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the cheapest thing ever. But if you're a Toyota fan,
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Toyota does hold its value. Toyota is a Texas base
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01:14:24.239 --> 01:14:27.399
now in the United States company and you may want
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to look at that too. So those are the two
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I had from an suv into the more for a
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typical four door Sudan thing. So that's one of the
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things I roll. Finally, last email of the week, here
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01:14:37.119 --> 01:14:38.760
we go. What do I got? Hey, Garth heard you're
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01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:41.439
talking about your blizzard. You said there's five new blizzards.
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01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:43.640
What are the treats? Because I love me some blizzards. Well,
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01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:46.439
all right, that is from Janet. Janet, I love me
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01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:47.279
some blizzards too.
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Here we go.
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They came into the studio last week. They brought at
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01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:55.439
the twenty twenty five summer Blizzard treats. There's five of them,
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01:14:56.039 --> 01:15:02.960
one of which some'mores marshmallow chocolate bars, gram crackers. Good.
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I'm gonna give it on a one to five. I'm
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gonna give that a three. Not a big marshamallow fan.
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01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:10.840
I do like the the grahm crackery type of thing.
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01:15:11.159 --> 01:15:13.920
Not enough chocolate, you have to have chocolate to get
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a five out of five. Number two, they brought in
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01:15:16.279 --> 01:15:22.359
a confetti cake blizzard. Woo, little cake pieces, confetti frosting,
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01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:27.560
little birthday action over there. Good vanilla ish didn't have
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01:15:27.680 --> 01:15:31.279
enough chocolate. We give that three and a half. Dipped
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01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:37.239
strawberry cheesecake blizzard. Cheese cake pieces in there, chunks of
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01:15:37.319 --> 01:15:42.479
chocolate strawberry topping. Give that one a four. Different mixes
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01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:44.199
in a little sweetness, a little fruit. So I got
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01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:49.560
my fruit. Finally. Now there's two more cotton candy. Cotton
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01:15:49.640 --> 01:15:53.960
candy blizzard, cotton candy sprinkles pretty much with their white
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01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:57.560
ice cream two, two and a half. Do you like
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01:15:57.600 --> 01:16:00.479
cotton candy? Get it? Not a big cotton handy guy.
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Last one here it comes five out of five. The
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01:16:07.399 --> 01:16:11.840
mixing bowl mashup Blizzard. What do you say is in
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01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:15.439
the mixing bowl mashup blizzard? Oh it's only a blend
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01:16:15.479 --> 01:16:20.800
of brownie batter and chocolate chip cookie dough for the win.
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01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:26.239
I rate my Blizzards people best dessert in history, ma'am. Sorry,
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01:16:26.319 --> 01:16:28.800
that's the way he goes. Would have got a six
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01:16:28.840 --> 01:16:30.319
on a scale of five and dead peanut butter man
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01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:33.279
deal mixing bowl mash up. There you go. Just it's
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01:16:33.319 --> 01:16:35.279
public service, not paid don a commercial, but able to
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01:16:35.279 --> 01:16:37.359
tice tho DQ people to actually bring it into the
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01:16:37.399 --> 01:16:40.279
studio with that show, is ober? I need to go
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01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:43.159
run another didn't least six to eight miles after everything
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01:16:43.199 --> 01:16:45.880
I've eaten this week? Whatever you do, have a good
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01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:47.720
upcoming July for holiday.
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We will have a.
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01:16:48.520 --> 01:16:50.720
Show next week in too, like we always do. It
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will be halfway through at the end of the year.
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I do want to thank my good friends Calum and
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01:16:54.399 --> 01:16:57.079
Will keeping us on the air making the sound sex eight.
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01:16:57.279 --> 01:16:59.039
This is my real voice. This is not a Burt
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01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:02.159
Reynolds AI and this that reference. Go back and listen
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01:17:02.199 --> 01:17:04.239
to the podcast. People can make theres some scary things
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01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:07.119
out there. People pray for our world. Pray in the
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01:17:07.199 --> 01:17:09.399
second half. There's a lot better than the first half.
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My name is Garth. I go great first weekend and
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01:17:13.359 --> 01:17:16.159
week of July. Fucking next weekend because right now my
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show is oh Lie