 This is Stink Tech, Hawaii. Community Matters here. Oh, ha! How you doing? Merry Christmas! Gordo Lintex are here with my good old buddy. Hello, ha, brother. Happy holidays, everybody. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. You see that hat, man? See my hat, man? Yeah. We can... Oh, yeah. Did you know this was coming? It's the holidays. You guys better have some fun. We're going to have some fun here today. Welcome to another... Exciting and thrilling episode of Hibachi Talk. Grab yourself a libation. Pull up a chair. Sit down. There we go. There you go. We're Christmas everywhere. That's right, man. It's all holidays here. We're in the spirit and the spirit is in us. Yes, it is. In more ways than one. We're going to have a few things today, I think, that'll show them. High-tech Christmas. We're going to talk about high-tech Christmas. High-tech Christmas and how it's changed. How it's changed over the decades. It's been really quite a change for me. But tell me a little bit about what was Christmas like when you were growing up? You were growing up in Kentucky, right? In Kentucky, we had a... I'm trying to remember... I think we had like a Rambler. I think General Motors. Was it Dodge or General Motors? Dodge. They made a Rambler. I think it was a Dodge Rambler. I think it was like turquoise. Yeah. And so... You had a car. Oh, yeah. We didn't have a car. No? Well, how did you... Did you go to Grandpa's? Oh, my grandpa wasn't around. He had long past. I never saw my grandpa. When you were a kid. Oh, wow. We were pretty darn poor. So what did you do for Christmas? How did you get there? Not much. We were talking about transportation. Technology. We didn't do all that much. I mean, our parents tried. Yeah. But we had the stocking with fruit in it. Nice. So that was nice. That kept you from getting scurvy in the winter. Yeah, it was scurvy in the winter. That's important. Yeah, so... I'm trying to think of technology. Like... Tangerine. We had... We would go to my grandparents. And they would always have a tree with lights and everything. A live tree? Or a dead cut down tree? Well, there was two. Oh, and a fake tree, too? My grandmother, I think, would put the fake, like, flocked one up. And it was rope. You weren't allowed to touch it. She had the things on the... Covers on the furniture. You didn't go in the living room. Oh, the plastic covers on the furniture. Oh, you didn't go up there. Not the kids. No one watching this show is going to remember that. Oh, yeah. They would get new furniture and then cover it up. I don't know who sat on it, but it was never the kids. And then they put the covers on the lamps, and the lamps never went on it. I don't remember that they could have. But I remember that white tree. And it would have lights. I think it had, like, a thing that had four colors that would spin around so it would change... Because it was flocked white, so it would change, like, a green... Yeah, like the primary color. Well... That was technology back then. It was like a light wheel. Wow. It wasn't very exciting. ours was not even close to being that exciting. That was Kentucky technology in 1965 or whatever. I don't even know where my folks got the tree. They'd end up getting a tree. I know that. And then it would show up, and then we'd decorate it with leftover stuff. And then my mom would decorate the house. She'd put all this paper stuff up in the ceilings. Rings? Did you make him rings? Did you make him rings when you were a kid, a little card, you know, color paper, like chains? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. With paste? Yeah, with pasting. You stuck those things together. Yeah, we had that around the house, remember that? We did, though. I forgot all about that. That was like forced labor, isn't it? Yeah, we'd sit there and... You make one like this long, and you're tired, and your mom's like, no, it's got to stretch across the room. You're like, so it takes all day. And you'd wrap it around the tree, right? Just instantly. Yeah, and then we did that. Yeah, paper, highly combustible paper around the tree. I didn't think of that. With those lights, you know, when one light would go out, all the rest would go out, and you'd spend all day trying to... Trying to find the bad one. Find the bad one. Find the bad one. Find the bad one for an hour. Yeah. So it's... So that was... It was a low-tech Christmas. Yeah. I mean, our house, I mean, our house was different than my grandparents' house. Yeah, well, you know, we just did... I remember one of the things that my father was a beer truck driver, and every year they put a Christmas party on for all the beer truck drivers and families. Okay. And we'd go to this event, and everybody would get a Christmas gift. But my parents would take it away from us. Wow. They said, I had to go back to Santa, and we wouldn't get it until Christmas Day that would show up underneath the tree. And they'd say, hey, look what Santa wrote to us. Oh, it was like re-gifted. It was re-gifted. From a couple of days earlier. Yeah, you got your gift. Wow. That's all right. They had to be created. Oh, man. I tell you, everybody else got to take theirs home. I see. We had the week. That night, you'd have three weeks. Well, three weeks. Wow. I remember one time, though, I got a mechanical set, and it was from the beer thing. That one I never got that year. They must have liked it. Maybe they got it. It went somewhere else. I don't know where that one ended up, but I never got that one. I never came back in. Well, it's like, it's like there's, there's, now you don't have them. I don't remember like every year. You know, I think I remember some Christmases being better than others. Yeah. It's like that as a kid. Well, I don't remember much. All I'll know is that it would try to figure out what time the parents would get so blasted they could hardly talk. Did you have a bunch of people? No. No. They just stayed home and maybe my brothers and maybe some people would come over. Yeah, family, friends. Maybe, maybe not. We had like, no, we had like seven aunts and uncles. Yeah. You know what I mean? So they all had kids. Yeah. So it would be like. Yeah, no. We didn't have any of that kind of stuff when we were going out. I remember, I told you, we moved a lot too. So, you know, we never really set down roots. Okay. So, but it was. That was in Louisville, Kentucky when we had, it was like, we would try to, I remember like trying to steal, first we would try to steal the, the eggnog, because it would have bourbon. Okay. I never had eggnog until I was in my 20s. I don't think our parents, I don't think they mined it. Necessarily thought that was a bad, but then we got caught. We always get caught. Right. Because we get drunk, the kids get drunk and I'm stupid. And then we, we would try to get the, like make a drink. Right. We would steal the eggnog, but not the, but not the other stuff. Don't make like a seven and seven or whatever. I don't remember what we did. Yeah. My parents would buy hard liquor for Christmas for them, obviously not for us. And you know, by Christmas dinner time, they were pretty over subscribed. And then you could steal a little. Yeah. Yeah. We could do whatever we wanted. We had, I remember when we were little, when we were, you know, in Kentucky, they give babies like bourbon if your teeth are sore. I think. Yeah. It's a problem. Whisky. Whisky. I'm sure it's, I don't even know how it's legal today to do that. It's probably child abuse, but you know, in this day and age, you can't do anything. But speaking of, but speaking of kind of like, you know, we're talking about high tech gifts and so on. Yeah. I got a couple of pictures of some things I found that are kind of neat. These are from before or now? Oh, this is now. It's definitely not now. Migration. Migration. So, but you know, you and I do like a beer. We'll get ready to throw up the pictures there of our, what's this one called? It's called a Sonic beer foamer. So like you just poured it all the time. It just stays there. And it keeps the head on the beer all the way through while you're drinking it. So the head on the beer never goes away. Oh, how cool is that? Well, that'd be nice to have. Yeah. I know I'm throwing out the big hints right now. Yeah. Those of you that are watching, Gordon needs a Sonic beer foamer. And we'll put it right here. Maybe some of our watchers will send one of them. I know. We'll test it right on there. If you send it, we'll send it. And we'll thank you for it too. A Sonic foamer? So what is it? Sound waves, I guess. Sound waves. It goes up there and keeps the bubbles. Yeah. Interesting. I wonder if you could just foam over if you just leave it on there. I don't know. It gets warm. We have to take it off, I guess. And then sit it back on. How long do you think that beer would sit there with that glass that full with you and I sitting there? Well, not very. Not very. Not as our track record. Yeah. So anyway, Moving on. Sonic beer foamer. Anyway, so let's think about what technology has done to Christmas now. Yeah. So, and I think I got to thinking about a couple things. How about Amazon? Right? Yeah. Just the whole purchasing programs of how you buy. UPS, FedEx. Yeah. I don't have to go to the store, but like briefly. Yeah. I know. You don't. I'm going to go tonight because I always put myself through the pain of doing shopping on one day. Briefly. So that's this afternoon after the gym. And then I'll be there and be ready to go do my shopping. Gift cards. Gift cards. Here you go. I mean, I wonder how it's still a craze. Like people I think, dude, there's a consumerism thing that's, you know, change. I don't remember that. I remember more the spirit of giving and all that. And of course, when you're kids, you're getting what you love. But then as you get older, you give, but then it's turned, I think, I mean, I'm sure people like to give, but giving is like a click now. Yeah. Send some stuff. It's not like going and getting something thoughtfully. And maybe it's still thoughtful. I'm not going to question the thoughtfulness of the giving, but it's easier. So one of my friends, this is what he did and he lives here, but all his family's on the mainland. He goes and buys everything on Amazon, the gifts and the wrapping paper to his family and tells them to wrap the gifts. Well, wrap your own. Wrap your own. I said, Amazon will wrap the gift for you, but he doesn't want to deal with all of that. Well, won't they just unwrap it? And I wouldn't, I mean, as soon as it came, I have to be honest, I wouldn't wrap it in weight. Obviously, obviously a bachelor, an uncle. He's just saying, Oh, he's okay. Well, that's cool. We ate, you know, kind of thing. Everybody has their own style, but technology's made it. I mean, it's better. Like, it sure is easy to give stuff to people. It sure is easy. It sure is easy. Well, I mean, I was being, so I got another, got another gift, another high-tech gift, the hidden mitten flask. Oh. Now, this is again, another good stocking stuffer. Is that a, so you can sneak it past like the guards at the football game? Yeah. In your mittens. Oh, yeah. It's the hidden mitten flask. I wonder what happens if you get caught. Well, you know, I'm a security guy, so I think like that. I'm not going to say with a hidden mitten flask. No, that's a metal. I'm thinking, I'm thinking they're like, could you take your gloves off? As a matter of fact, I think even in pre-check, you're not allowed to wear gloves. Oh, okay. You can leave your jacket on. Oh, okay. You can, you can or cannot? You can. No. TSA pre-check. Oh, yeah. I want TSA pre-check. But I don't know about mittens. I can try the metal. My mittens, it was empty maybe. But, you know, I think, I think interestingly, a lot of that technology you better do it, get it this year and use it. Yeah, get it this year. Playoffs or something because, you know, they're going to be beefing up security around those stadiums. Well, you know, how crazy it's got now, you can't take anything to the beach anymore. No smoking at the beach, no drinking at the beach, no beaching at the beach. You know, there's almost like No swimming? No swimming at the beach. I've taken everything away. Wow. But, you know, the next gift is for the perfect beach goer. Okay. And it's very thematic on this show. All right. It's the solo cup beer coosie. I mean, you'll have to be hunting somebody down. Yeah, for that one, they could put a diet Pepsi in there. And that goes with that theme of our show because we have a, you know, we have a solo cup theme here. We have a solo cup theme here. I should order a couple of those and get those brought in there. That could be like for the, if a guest does particularly well, they get a solo cup. They get a cup coosie. Coosie. Or every 50th episode. I don't mind. Budget can handle it, though. I know. Well, we're not very well funded on this show. Yeah. We have fun. Anyway, regardless of our low-tech Christmas. So here's another thing that gets to me is, you know, people say, you know, Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Okay. I'm not a big Happy Holidays fan. Okay. It's Christmas. It's Merry Christmas. So you say Merry Christmas. And then after Christmas, it's Happy New Year. Okay. Yeah. So be direct. So people don't say at Easter time, they don't go Happy Holidays. They say Happy Easter. Oh yeah. I say Happy Easter. Yeah. Or Happy Easter. That's what I say. But here's another one. Someone walks down the street and they go, Happy Holidays. And the other one says same to you. Because you know they got it. They don't even say Merry Christmas or Happy New Year or whatever. It just goes same to you. Wow. How would that be? Does that make them think about it? Do you find them to be more thoughtful about what they're going to say? I'm an old soul. And I kind of like Merry Christmas. So that's changed. And a Merry Christmas to you also. That's changed. I say Happy Holidays. Yeah. When I write it, I put D-A-Z-E, like Happy Holidays. Okay. Well, you're trying to be a little... Well, a lot of people, I saw I sent my son something. And because I didn't say Happy Holidays. D-A-Z-E. Mm-hmm. He didn't know who it was from. Oh. Because I guess I didn't sign it. It was like a table thing. Oh. You know, like flowers or something. Oh, okay. And then... But he didn't know who it was from. So he asked the people, 1-800-FLOWERS, well, who's this from? Well, here's some technology. Okay. They wouldn't reveal my information. Oh, there you go. But they called me. They called me. Because they knew my... From the word said, we have a request from your deliverer person, whatever you call him. Recipient. Dude, they want to know who this came from. And since I didn't answer the phone call, I didn't know who it was from. But they said, can you at least call them and let them know who it was from or call us back and we'll let them know. Oh. And I was like, pretty secure for 1-800-FLOWERS. Not bad. Not bad. Holy cow. Okay. Well, speaking of secure, we're going to take a break. You're going to come back with the security minute. I got a little tip. A little tip. And I've got... Angus has something. Awesome. He's getting in trouble because of his Christmas late. Always. Always. We're going to take a break. And we'll be back in about a minute. Merry Christmas. This is Stink Tech, Hawaii, raising public awareness. Hey, hello, everybody. Welcome back to Stink Tech, Hawaii. This is Ivachi Talk. And I got a... I'm Andrew, the security guy. I got a quick tip for you. Something you may not come across, but when you're buying gift cards because I know a lot of you like to give gift cards to people, make sure you check that little code cover, the thing you scratch off, that it's not been tampered with. There's some scans. It's been going on a while, but this year it seems to be more of it. Where guys actually get that code, they scratch that off, they get the code, and then they replace that cover. And when you pay your 50 bucks and activate that card, they're monitoring that account already and they go spend that money for your person gets a chance to spend on their gift. So make sure you keep an eye on that. Anyway, Angus is here for Christmas. What's up, brother? Good. Merry Christmas there. All right. Good to see you. I got myself... You're looking sharp. I love you. Yeah, I got that there. The last season, I was like, I know you weren't worried what I thought. You weren't worried about that. I know. But I'm already there. You must be a little horny for the holiday. Yeah, I lied. That's what it is. Good hat. So, you know, I put my Christmas lights up this year and the neighbors are a wee bit, you know, upset because everybody's driving by my house. At the estate. I didn't care. I didn't care what they're all excited about. Oh, it looks like they're all out enjoying themselves on your mind. Yeah, they're having a great time in the palm trees. They look really great to me. Yeah, I can see. I think you're going to have a popular lawn. Very popular. I know the lawn is, you know, lots of traffic. That's for sure. Yeah, did you get any help with those? Oh, yeah, lots of help. Get it on myself. Anyway, you'll be careful when you're putting your lights on your palm trees. You might make a little bit of an error. You never know what they look like when you turn them on. Okay, that's true. Anyway, you know, it's Christmas time. I wish everybody a Merry Christmas. Put your hat on, brother. Your hat's falling off. My hat's holding on. It's windy in here. I know. What a Merry Christmas, anyway, everybody. Yeah. A Happy New Year. Oh, like you say, Happy Hogman Day. And like you say all the time, you're winning game three. Where are you being? Hello. Angus, you know, if you get a chance to go over Angus' neighborhood, go over and check out his lights. Get a few pictures, you know, it's maybe symbolic for him. It's hard to say. We're a pretty good-looking lawn set. Symbolic for Angus. So we're back. What's up? We're back. So we were just talking about, you know, high-tech Christmas and how technology's changed. Technology's changed. I'm giving cryptocurrencies this year. Dude, that's as tech as it gets. Yeah. So this year, can you wrap those? No. But what's interesting is I print off their key. I fold it up in a piece of paper and I put it in a Christmas card. Oh, because then they take their wallet and they read the code. And they get scanned. Well, that's cool. And they load it all up in there. If any of your family doesn't know what that is, just tell them to fold it on to me. Yeah. And I'll accumulate in my wallet. I know how to read those. You'll read how to read those. I haven't learned how to give any away. I've only been a receiver so far. This year, I've asked, do you want cash or crypto? Crypto. And now I'm getting crypto. Nice. So not too bad. You're going to be draining your crypto wallet. Yeah, which is, I go like, you know, I gave you this and now look, I'm like, you know, a lot of those guys gave away, and now that today, it would have been a million dollars or whatever. So be careful. And Bitcoin's trading at a little over $16,000 today. It was almost $20,000 on Sunday. Well, and, and correct me if I'm wrong, but you could go online shopping with Bitcoin and like it, you could buy some gifts and just send them with Bitcoin as well. Right. Exactly. So GYFT, the website where you buy all the gift cards and so on, they accept, they're one of the first to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. Right. And then, you know, they're going to have a Christmas for online, for buying, I could buy an Amazon card using Bitcoin. See, so that, there's a tech change, right? So we went from, like just Amazon packages to crypto purchased items. You know, cryptocurrency as well as crypto. And send you an electronic gift card, not the one that you do this. So all those crypto millionaires that made their million in the last month, they're going to have a Christmas giving away a bunch of stuff. That's their earnings. They can just take it off the top. I mean, they might have made that much this week, depending on how much they give away. Depending on what they did. I saw a beautiful Christmas story. A guy made a hundred, this was about a week old now. He made a hundred. He was at 172 million in crypto earnings. He was wealthy prior, invested early, because he thought it was amazing. And he said, I have way more money than I ever need. He gave 86 million to eight different charities. Oh, that's nice. So about 10 million each. Yeah. He had transferred the crypto currency to them. Oh, that's awesome. What a story. Here's someone with that kind of wealth that was totally unexpected, I think for a lot of these people that that. If I was there with that kind of level of... Yeah. Can you imagine? Well, you're going to give away to family. That's a good thing. Everybody gives to whoever they can give to. They could donate to think tech. It'd be nice to send a little to Jay. Keep the studio going forever. Keep that in mind until next Christmas. Who to donate to, because it is a 501c3. Do we accept Bitcoin and think tech? No, but I talked to Jay about setting that up. It's not that difficult. Gordo transferred, he'll give it over. Send it to me. Just go right ahead. That's a major thing. That's a major thing. I'm trying to decide if it's anti-consumerism or, I mean, what? It's anti-retail for sure. Yeah. It's anti-banking. Well, I mean, I used to give cash. Yeah, yeah. Right? I go to the bank, get cash, put it in the envelope. Now I give a key. They make cards for that. Yes. I wonder if they made any special crypto cards. Apparently, some guy was selling Bitcoins on the street some city. Oh, in New York. I saw that. There was actually Chuck E. Cheese coin. Chuck E. Cheese coin. Dude, he made money. Like, people didn't know. Yeah, people didn't know. They were buying. I mean, well, there's one born every minute. So, another great high-tech gift and something that I need, and I have one here, it's my very special cone. It's a beard cone. A what? It's made in Sweden. I do have a little brush. I don't have a cone, though. See? What is this? My Swedish beard cone. Baxter of California. Yeah, how's that? Wow. Nice. Special for beard. You know, if you're going to wear a long beard, you know, men should be groomed. I know. I don't know when I'm going to train this. Is that one of those? Is that a... It's a knock-off. A knock-off. Angus has the good one. Yeah. I took it from the Pacific Club. Oh. I better bring it back. Wow. Oh, that's from the... Okay. Very well. Anyway, so the beard comb is kind of, you'll understand. Beard comb is a good idea. You know, if you're... That's affordable? One of your family members has a beard and it's kind of messy. Maybe there's maybe a little message implied there, but you know, get them a beard comb so we'll help them out. Probably an electric trimmer. So anyway, so we talked about, so you've got all the different ways you can do it. eBay, Amazon, electronic gift cards. But think about industries like FedEx, which on the delivery stuff. Amazon, next year you're probably going to get your stuff delivered in as a drone and get that dropped off. That'd be awesome. You know, drone delivery. Well, I was, you know, I'm thinking back to now when we were kids and like we would have the pal presence for everybody. Yeah. Like him, because we had my mom's Christmas. We didn't have that. Then we had my dad. I mean, I had all these cousins so they all get him some. We didn't have a vehicle, so we... We had like a Volkswagen. No, you gotta remember. Well, we had a Volkswagen after that. Oh. Because it was a front loader. Oh. And the stuff would have to fit. Oh, fit in that little beetle thing. You wrap it, yeah. Yeah. You know, and so we'd do that. But that's funny. I mean, you don't have to do that anymore. And trudging around the snow and your glosses and all that kind of stuff. Oh, yeah. Kentucky could be, we had, you know, sometimes it could be... Did you get snow? It could be mild, but it could also be like miserable, like, you know, 10 below and icy and crazy. Yeah. Well, we were in Canada. We were... You were miserable. Mostly you had that three days of summer up there. Yeah. We turned, I should turn the heat up for Christmas. Didn't see. Yeah. So that was a little gift there. Yeah. Yeah. You only had to wear one pair of socks instead of three. Yeah. So yeah, we did that. I know, I kind of miss it and it changed. Times have changed. I like visiting cold weather in the winter. So here's the question. Do you have a Christmas tree up this year at your house? No. I have a wreath. Okay. I do not have a Christmas tree up this year, but we have this auction we were at for one of the fundraisers and they had this toy Christmas tree, all decoration, kind of fun stuff. The toys. With all stuff already on it. So we put that up this year. Awesome. Yeah. Did you buy it for charity this year and then put it in your house? And then put it in your house? And then made it as our Christmas tree. I don't know. I don't know why we don't. We just don't. Well, you don't have kids right here with you. No. Things like that. No. And so next year my granddad is coming. I'll probably we'll get a tree just because she's going to be there. Because she I think would be used to. I wonder how many people don't do trees anymore now that. Yeah. And I don't know if it's in, I think in Hawaii it just seems, I don't know. To me it's also a little bit of a fire hazard and stuff. But you know, there's a, you know, I think about it. All right. I know that I think this one is going to be pretty popular. And I wish I'd found it earlier. How about the Star Wars Star Wars toaster? Just in time. Just in time. Where do you get that at? Well, you have to go online just do. Star Wars toaster. Star Wars toaster. And you can find that puppy. I wonder how much it was. I'm surprised Angus didn't get one of them already. It's less than a hundred bucks. You got the hiccups. A hundred bucks. Less than a hundred dollars. To make toast. Oh, Lord. Now. Times have changed. To make toast. I didn't know a toaster cost a hundred dollars. It was the last time you made toast. Good Lord. I don't know. I got a toaster oven. I don't have a toaster. Yeah. But you know, back days, your Star Wars. Star Wars. We might get toasted, but we don't have toasters. Like I don't even know what that's about. Toasted. That's, that's it for sure. And then the last one, I got one last gift. And then we'll, let's see. How about the basket case? That looks like something I'd had. The headband hoop game. Yeah. I don't think I had that when I was a kid, but that looks like some rather old packaging. Now, wouldn't that be fun? That one, I think I'm going to try and find. We could play it on the, on the show. We have our guests. We couldn't miss them much though. Yeah. We could, could have our guests. We could put it on Angus. Oh, great. That'd be awesome. So that, I thought that was another gift. That was a nice, well-rounded offerings. There's a plenty of stuff out there. If you find, I'd like to, I'd like to know where you found that. I found that puppy as well. That's pretty good. So anyway, so Christmas is coming. Your shopping is all done. There's, there's one person. Okay. So I've, I have not started yet. So, this is the record. This is the 20th. I start today and I will probably finish tomorrow. So that's kind of how rapid fire happens here. You gave me my Christmas gift already and I'm remiss and I haven't given you yours yet, but it'll be, it'll be, it'll be, it's about giving. That's all I know. It's about giving. I'll give you the empty bottle back. Next year. Next year. We'll pass it. I'll make a candle holder out of it. There you go. Very well. Yeah. We can do that with it. Anyway, so we want to just wish everybody a Merry Christmas. Yeah. You know, enjoy yourself, enjoy your family, enjoy the beach, man. You're in Hawaii for the holidays. Your friends, you know, give everybody an extra hug. We got our tax break gift and we're going to try to think about some gratitude. Yeah. You know, be great, be thankful for the things you have. You know, it's easy to get caught up in the, especially the commercial. I see a commercial for people getting cars and stuff. All that kind of stuff. Now let's give, you know, give. Have some gratitude. Give. Go there and give. Give and be grateful and be thankful for what you have. All right. So we're going to wrap it up here and we're going to wrap it up with our song that we're gonna play and put it on for us. M kisses than Felice's song. So. You know, it's my first time playing this Christmas thing in Hawaii. So. Yes, he had had a big Shuq. He went off the table, show. Christmas