Chilly Tech Tales: South Texas Freeze, Amazon Echo Live TV, and Florida Podcast Adventures Ahead

As we huddled together under the surprise blanket of frost in South Texas, our conversation naturally drifted towards our frosty predicament, complete with freezing rain and the scramble to insulate our pipes. The cold may have thrown Ronnie's tech for a loop, but we're still here, albeit with a snugger episode up our sleeves. While we navigate these icy times, we've got our sights set on warmer horizons, specifically a podcast convention in sunny Florida. We're gearing up for an on-the-road recording that promises to be an adventure filled with roadside chats and the warm buzz of anticipation for the chance to spread the word about Five Acre Tech. And let's not forget the everyday heroes in times like these—like my trusty foot warmers, steadfastly dispensing 10 hours of toasty bliss.

Switching from thermal to technological comfort, we unpack the marvels of live TV on the Amazon Echo. My personal fave, YouTube TV, makes an appearance as we reflect on how tech seamlessly integrates into our routines. As we champion the creators behind our entertainment, remember that a simple click to like or subscribe goes a long way, just as it does for us at Five Acre Tech. By the way, my wife's venture, Five Mermaid Mamas, is also making waves—worth a peek for sure. And because what's life without a little fun, we embrace our on-air blunders, sharing them with you to add a dash of humor and humanity to our tech talks.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Well, we're doing the show a little remote. Today. It's quite cold outside. Ronnie's at home trying to stay warm and we're gonna make it. When you say cold it's like South Texas.

Speaker 2: 0:16

So a lot of times we complain that it's cold. It's like 60 degrees out and the rest of the country is snowing. Is it really cold outside?

Speaker 1: 0:25

We're gonna tell you about it right after this. What happened, Ronnie? Where are you here? I am, oh, thank you, sir. I have no idea. We just kind of like threw us out into space. I think we're. I felt like we're on Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket getting range. We shot out there with all the other satellites, the Starlink satellites.

Speaker 2: 1:13

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:15

Maybe I don't know. So the question is how cold is it? That's what I wanna know, and we can ask the right person to give us the current information At this moment, on Monday December 15th, let's see if we can do this Ziggy. What's the weather like today?

Speaker 2: 1:39

The current weather is 26 degrees Fahrenheit with cloudy skies.

Speaker 1: 1:43

Today you can expect cold weather and freezing rain, with a high of 34 degrees and a low of 26 degrees. Well, it's 26 degrees.

Speaker 2: 1:53

That's cold, that's real cold, that's not very cold.

Speaker 1: 1:57

All I can do is find that on you.

Speaker 2: 1:59

Why is that? I wanna know why, it's simple.

Speaker 1: 2:02

You told us the other day hey, we're in South Texas. We did that short video at the end of the year. We told everybody how warm it was, but you who came from Washington.

Speaker 2: 2:16

I brought them a cold.

Speaker 1: 2:17

I'll let you down. Thanks, Ronald.

Speaker 2: 2:20

I jinxed it.

Speaker 1: 2:21

Yeah, you jinxed it Sorry. Even though we don't believe you.

Speaker 2: 2:25

You know I don't believe in jinxing, but I actually had to wrap the pipes out. I had some of the pipes even were already starting to freeze up. I had to unthaw them and wrap them up and it's crazy.

Speaker 1: 2:39

Yeah, it can get real crazy and just kind of like go ahead say it.

Speaker 1: 2:47

Just like Ronnie's camera. Right now I've got real crazy and locked up, but that's probably because it's really cold internet. We're doing this from his home and my home and to tell you about that, we're gonna kind of do this very short. Today we got a lot of things to do. Ronnie's got to fix pipes. I'm gonna have to wait till it warms up. This came in actually a day earlier than they expected and we both followed it and all of a sudden in the middle of the night it got cold. It kind of reminds me of the freeze we got a few years ago, which was horrible and that lasted about four or five days and it was awful. But this is not awful. But it came in about a day early and we're gonna just save up our time to do a pretty good podcast on the road In our vehicle while we're driving to Florida to a podcast convention. I think it's gonna be pretty awesome and I don't know if I showed you this.

Speaker 2: 3:48

Go ahead. I just had a podcast in a car.

Speaker 1: 3:51

Podcasts on the car. Never done it. Oh, that'll be our new segment podcasts in a car. Maybe, maybe it will work. Maybe, maybe, this is the right thing to do, and when we get to Florida, this is what we're gonna hand out to all the peeps.

Speaker 2: 4:07

Nice our new cards.

Speaker 1: 4:08

I make our tech card to get them to the podcast website or Other side whoops To get them to go to the YouTube website. Yeah, and don't forget Subscribing line. Yeah, so we actually we're gonna do a video outside. We did it earlier and, for some reason, transferring it over to the Windows computer, it did not work correctly and the wind was so bad we it just didn't sound like it was gonna be a problem, even though what it was the noise, wind noise was off. We didn't prep for that, but hey, we tried it's and it was cold. I don't want to go outside anymore. I'm staying here. I've got. I've got these things. Talking about tech, this is tech, ronnie. You need. You need some of these. We're gonna work outside at all. These are incredible. So they're in my shoe right now. It's like a hand warmer for your feet.

Speaker 1: 5:16

So you open up the technology of it is you open it up out of the package. I tear the package open and you could do all these cool things with it.

Speaker 2: 5:29

In the cold walk. You can bike, you can skate, you could ski Snowboard.

Speaker 1: 5:38

So you can do all those things with it, and that's that's what you need to be doing. Well, I'm sitting here watching you. Just do a live camera for me. We'll do face time. I could do face time with an Android phone.

Speaker 2: 5:50

You can.

Speaker 1: 5:52

It was. The technology behind it is actually really cool because you open it up, you pull the warmers out and the oxygen starts to do a reaction with the kind of little beads that are inside there and it becomes very warm pretty quickly. These warmed up pretty quick. Just put them in your shoe and you're done. That will stick on thing and pull it right out once they're done. I think it said let's see how many hours? Oh, 10 hours of warmth, absolutely great. Yeah, that is technology. I kind of like it. But yeah, the technology is, we're going to do this. I was actually thinking at one point but we don't have enough subscribers yet. I think we need a minimum of 50 that we would do it live. Yeah, yeah, we'll be able to. They added that feature. Youtube did, which is up to them, and you have to have 50 subscribers to use your mobile device to stream now.

Speaker 2: 7:04

Gotcha.

Speaker 1: 7:06

Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, If we can get 50 subscribers, we'll do it live on the 18th. Otherwise they'll be on the Monday, whenever we normally have it on that day.

Speaker 1: 7:22

Gotcha and at that moment I got a text and I have an appointment approximately 24 hours. I don't even know what it's for, but yeah, to keep it short, we'll have to just get back with the guy. We're going to do the short today, like we said, just to let you know and we're going to, if we have time this week, we'll put one out, a full one. Otherwise, watch next week it's going to be interesting and the week after it'll be the end of the podcast convention and look out if there's something we can do. Live there, we'll do it.

Speaker 1: 8:00

Yeah, yeah, we'll put out some information you should be able to get if you're subscribing on.

Speaker 1: 8:07

YouTube If you haven't done so and you're listening to us on regular podcast applications such as Apple or Google or wherever you listen, you want to see us live or not live, but video of us doing this podcast. It's a little bit better, I think. Go to YouTube and search for five acre tech, or go to our website, fiveacretechcom, and click on the YouTube logo and you'll go from there. Anything else. Ronnie, I think that's it, unless you want to talk about what? Amazon Fire Stick oh article and it says Amazon Fire Stick.

Speaker 2: 8:43

Owners can unlock TV. I'm like, oh cool, I know you have an at Fire Stick. But then when I opened the article, it was kind of like, well, there's a few apps out there that have TV on them and this, and that I'm like, okay, so you're not really unlocking all of TV, you're just there's a few apps that are it's kind of deceiving, it's kind of frustrating, it's frustrating, and I know that we look up articles on different things, because we're both interested in tech, and that is the thing I don't like about the what happens with these articles.

Speaker 1: 9:31

They try to trick you to read the article and it's really not much of anything, and this has already been out there Basically. I'll show you guys real quickly on what it looks like. I just switched over the Amazon Fire or Amazon Echo Show 15 back there to this. Yeah, this is really cool, so I can hit the home button immediately go back. Whoa, didn't even work correctly. There it goes. So it goes straight back to the Fire TV, the Amazon Echo Show 15, or hit the home button again. I am literally back at the Amazon Echo. Of course, it decided to pick up on us today. That is always fun, but what you can do with it is show. You can watch live TV from it. I don't know if you have one, ronnie, do you?

Speaker 2: 10:29

I don't know.

Speaker 1: 10:31

Yeah, so you can go to the live TV, basically and See what's happening. I don't know if I can find it or not.

Speaker 2: 10:41

On here.

Speaker 1: 10:48

But yeah, I think, I think it's gonna be here. It's real interesting because it does show a lot of life live TV channels, but I subscribe to YouTube TV, so that's the problem. Here's my life.

Speaker 1: 11:07

Hey, so, but check it out, check out the live TV on it. It's, it's pretty cool. I'll take it back to the Amazon echo and then we'll do the last bit of real rough information Such as hey, this is episode of five acre tech will come out on Monday, which is today. Cool and and this is the cool part, we're five acre tech and you can find us at five acre tech dot com. Also. Please like and subscribe on YouTube. We would certainly appreciate it. And last thing, go to Ronnie's wife's website five Mermaid mamas dot. Mermaid mama dot org.

Speaker 1: 11:57

Yeah and that's all we got for this. At that moment I guess we could say see Ronnie stay warm, I guess.

Speaker 2: 12:07

I I.

Speaker 1: 12:28

Move should actually do blooper sometime, but we did that.

Speaker 2: 12:36

I feel like we always put our bloopers in. Yeah, we always put our bloopers in, so goodbye again.