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Texans Show. Happy to read twenty four March madness. A number of things
going on. How about this sports weekend in the city of Houston. If
you are listening from age down right now? Gorgeous weather. We've got the
Texas Children's used to open the University of Cougars and the Elite eight. We
have got the Astros that just kicked off the rockets are doing well. Can
there any it? Can anything else go wrong? Actually? Better? Well,
one thing may not be the greatest week. And I'm gonna give you
a little behind the scenes baseball, a little baseball. If for some reason
I sound a little different, Is this okay? And I need to check
callum, is okay if I give my hip out, if I talk about
my health, is this okay? I'm gonna sound a little weird, and
I probably do. And as a guy with a sexy radio voice and of
course a sexy TV face, awso yeah whatever. Probably not the best I've
ever sounded in the twenty two years I've been here on the radio. Earlier
this week, I went through a procedure. That's it's I don't know,
it's semi common. Many of you may have gone through it. But I
had deviated septum surgery is it? Is it surgery or is it a procedure?
I don't know. The surgery is a very strong word, and I,
in my fifty plus years of life, have never had surgery, and
so I'm very cautious to use the word surgery so I can keep my streak
going. But I was put out. I was sleeping for the first time
of my life, you know, really put out with like this IV and
I woke up, I don't know, an hour and a half two hours
later, and uh, this is what I saund like. I have got
stints in my nose and it's not a sexy thing. It is not as
as any. But maybe you guys could talk with you know, for twenty
two years, I have talked to you through issues. I've answered questions for
you. I've I've given you know, almost half my life for you people.
Somebody freaking help me out? Is this gonna get better? Am I
gotta smell better? Am I gonna breathe better? Because you know my self,
which is my nose. It was just not straight. This is not
a nose job, I swear. But I tell you what, if this
is even anywhere near what a nose job feels like, I am never getting
another piece of my body worked on. It was. The procedure was okay,
I guess, But it's been three days, I guess since I'm trying
to get through this thing and it's it's a little pressure. I need to
get these stints out of my nose. It's tough to breathe. I've got
a kind of a headache. But other than that, hey man, I
am here for you. I'm not one to complain. I am actually one
to complain. Who the hell am I talking about? Seven one three,
two one two five nine five. Oh. They told me when I started
radio that some of the factors of people turning away, turning off the radio.
The number one factor of people turning off your radio is bad reception.
If you're listening over the ear, and it happens a lot on AM radio
too, and if you hear a lot of static, people just turn the
radio. I have to assume if you don't like your the person's voice,
or maybe you don't like the content or the topic, that's going to do
it too. Hopefully you guys can suck it up with me. You could
still tell it as me. It is Michael Garfield, and I'm gonna see
if I can make it through these next two hours. I cannot. You
know, the killer for me is I cannot exercise for two weeks. That
to me, when they told me this is like I had a debate the
ROI over here. I mean, is it worth getting this done so I
don't get a sinus infection anymore and I can breathe these here? And what
I man? I can't two weeks? I mean I could walk, but
walking does not exercise for me. I mean no running, no biking,
no just it's it's it's tough. I can't get my heart rate up now
going to the gym. That that is going to be a tough one.
And so that's that's the craziest thing for me. It's weird, but we
do continue. I will give you the phone number. I mean, you
can give me your war stories of what is the craziest surgery you've ever been
through? And hopefully you you give me some uh uh some some great outlooks
and out then takes on the bright side. How maybe one day it's gonna
be better. Seven one three two one two, five nine five. I'm
looking at these guys. It's it's my It's me. It's just the voice
is a little bit weird, folks. We do have a number of things
to talk about. There is a new Android update for all you older Android
phone You're gonna get AI finally on your Android phones. Uh, we've got
a little Apple lawsuit. I'll tell you what that is. And uh are
you I want to talk about the solar eclipse. Are you gonna go outside
and watch the solar clips? There's there's there's it's not hard to go see
it. It's coming up and about it's on uh Monday, April eighth,
all across well, it's gonna be I have a swath across the United States,
but it's gonna be very, very heavily concentrated in Texas. In the
Houston area, we're gonna get a partial of it. But if for all
my listeners up in Dallas, my parents, you're gonna get almost day a
full eclipse. Is anybody driving anywhere that Monday early afternoon so they can get
four and a half minutes of darkness, which generally we get about what eight
nine to ten hours of darkness every single night. So I don't know.
I will give you some apps actually to help you track that. I will
take your phone calls, you know the phone number. I have a review
of the latest vehicle. I was driving latest vehicle I was because I do
reviews for cars and trucks. I was at a beautiful beast. I was
in a brand new twenty twenty four land Rover Defender Outbound. It was the
outbound version. It's a matted gray Man. This thing was big. It
is so big. It had a retractable ladder accessory on its side. So
if I wanted to climb up to the top of it and put some stuff
on the roof luggage tract, it had a ladder on there. That's how
big it was. I will tell you if that's worth it is it worth
the cost? And if you are looking for any type of vehicle, no
matter what it is. So this is what I've done for fifty years.
I have previewed almost a car or a vehicle every single week. That is
a lot of that stuff. I have not paid for this, So I
do not give you a dealership. I just give you my thoughts on the
manufacturers as they let me drive these things for one week at a time.
That and other fun stuff. We will get to a little sports for a
u Astros fan. Rangers fans, they started off well for your world champion.
By the way, there is a world champion Major League Baseball team here
in the state of Texas. It is up in Arlington. Do have a
lot of listeners up there, so I do thank you for that. April
comes around, and by the way, real quickly, Happy Early Easter Friday.
Yesterday was good Friday? Was it a good Friday? If you are
off of work. I still don't really understand the whole good Friday Easter thing.
It's just because I don't really celebrate it. All I know is Monday
one of my favorite days of the year. When Easter candy is on sale,
and we will go through some of the best and worst Easter candy,
which I do every single year. Michael is the name, Michael Garfield.
The little stuff up, A little deviated septum a surgery. Hopefully we will
heal and I will sound myself at some point soon. You can find me
at high tech tex dot com and we will be back after this. Don't
go anywhere. Just like that big boy said, it is called the High
Tech textan show. Oh, we do so much more than talk about technology.
We talk about life, fund consumer lifestyle, we talk about sports,
We talk about surgeries. I do excuse the way my voice is coming out.
I had a little procedure on the O the nose. It is not
a nose job. And if there's any indication of this is what surgery feels
like, because this is I guess, deviated septum surgery. Is it a
surgery or such a procedure? What's the difference? Could someone do a quick
Google search, calum could somebody can? We want to have one of our
crack staff. The difference between a procedure or surgery or is a surgery a
subset of a procedure. Technically, I guess it is because this is the
first in my life surgery I have, which is I guess it's a good
thing for some guy in his fifties. This first time I've really ever been
out under anesthesia for a while, and it, uh, it was.
It was a good sleep, but a little pain and the and the schnas
right now and hopefully that will be gone. All right, enough of my
hip, But you really don't need to do that. Happy Easter to those
I know there's a it's it's it's Easter is about It's about food. I
guess right, you got an Easter Easter brunch tomorrow. And uh, I
can't taste a lot right now because I've got well again. I have to
talk about my nose, and I apologize for this. I have these stints.
They're like straws up my up my nose to keep my passageways open of
my septum or my and they're in there till like Tuesday, and so I'm
stuffed up and then you can't really taste. So all the yummy stuff that
eat on Easter brunch morning you can't taste. And is what is a traditional
Easter brunch, I ham, which I don't eat eggs. I assume I
love eggs mombosas. That's great. By the way, tomorrow you do not
have any plans. I know sadly where I will not be because it's not
I don't really since I can't eat tasted, what what am I doing?
But I would be at the Capitol Grill. Shout out to Steve Jost,
a good friend. He is a managing partner partner of the Capitol Grill in
the Gallery area West Timor and Sage. Every year, they just they just
pack it in. They just pack it in and they've got the ham,
the eggs, Benedict, they got stuff for kids too. You do have
to make reservations and so you do have a time for that. And by
the way, he eats something for me, eat something for me. This
is actually a great way to diet for me. If it's kind of like
to have COVID. When I had COVID, what time or twice I couldn't
taste and I couldn't smell. And if you've ever had that since, or
a sensationless of not tasting or not smelling, it is, without a doubt,
the greatest diet you can go on wagovy ozimpic, whatever these drugs are
called. They have nothing on losing your taste, your sense of smelling,
your sense of taste, because quite simply, if you cannot taste anything that
goes in your mouth, anything, why in the world are you wasting on
our calories. There's no reason to eat a Reese's peanut butter cup. There's
no reason to have a steak. There's no reason to having it bourbon or
anything none, because the only thing that goes in your mouth it better be
fuel, it better be protein. It just keeps you going. It's phenomenal.
If I was a doctor and if I wanted to weight loss drug,
I would remove somebody's sense of smell and sense of taste. That is the
ultimate way to actually lose weight. That is what's going on with me right
now. So I don't know, maybe it's actually it is a blessing.
In discs seven one, three, two, one, two, five,
nine five, we will talk about Easter candy and I'm having a little poll
over here. If you want to find me high tech Texan on Twitter,
Yes, Twitter threads. If I want to find me on e I G
H I g H T e c h T e x a N. There
is no dispute. You know people will have these. You could tell me
your favorite candy because they are going to go on sale on Monday fifty percent
off. Generally I wait till later in the week when they go to ninety
percent off. There is no dispute, and I don't want people calling it
the greatest candy. Note of man is races. It's as simple as that.
Now, listen, I know there's about twenty eight different races. Is
from Easter eggs to whatever. Reeses is number one, and Peeps is the
dead awful last. Where where do you seed jelly beans? Is that?
Is that? Like? Are they at three or four seed? All they
are is flavored? Sure, so this will be on sale Monday, and
for some reason you do see one a hell of deal on Reese's that you
could make sure that you pop me a note or I'll post it at high
tech texts And Hi g h T E c h T e x a N.
Should we talk about something android people? Which is me? This just
so the latest and greatest Android foam The Samsung Galaxy S twenty four, the
S twenty four plus the S twenty four Ultra. They came out earlier this
year, and one of their features it's called Galaxy AI. Of course it's
AI because those are the two sexiest letters in the freaking world right now,
Artificial induligence, whatever. And there are some neat features that I am that
I have used on the Galaxy S twenty four AI, but it was only
for the Galaxy S twenty four. A lot of you people didn't upgrade to
the S twenty four. A lot of you people out there may have the
Galaxy S twenty three. They have the Galaxy Z Full five, the Z
Flip five. You could use some of the AI features. Guess what,
True to its promise, Sam Suck started rolling out the upgrade, so those
older phones do get the new software with Galaxy AI. The new upgrade it
is the update. It's called the one UI six point one. Not that
you need to know, but if you see an upgrade to your older phone,
you may want to download it. Pretty good features, one of which
I love is called Circle to search anything on your phone. If there is
a photo on your phone, if there is a word on your phone,
you swipe up and it kind of freezes your phone, freezes whatever's on the
screen. You take your finger and you circle it and you'll see a circle
just kind of come up. It will search on the web whatever it is.
It'll look for the photo, it'll research. It's pretty good. Little
use of artificial intelligence. They've got Live Translate. There's an interpreter thing in
the there's a chat assist inside samsud messages. You can transcribe and translate your
voice recorder. A lot of stuff that now is available for the S twenty
three lineup, the Galaxy Z Fold five and the Z Flip five. Also
has some security patches for the older Samsung flaship phones. So I thought that's
pretty cool. That is neat. Nope, not talking about iPhone at this
moment. When we come back and the other side, Apple has a little
interesting lawsuit going on, has nothing to do with the phone, has something
to do with an air tag. I get a lot of questions about that
air tag. That's a little device that you can find your keys or attach
it to your briefcase or if you happen to lose a kid or you know,
put it on their collar or something. There is a lawsuit and there's
Sapples being sued over the air tag's privacy. I'll give you every single thing
that you need to know about that. If not, I will give you
a phone number if you've got to have questions, If you have a remedy
for my I am on painkillers for my my nose issue over here, seven
one three two five ozh tramadol. I'm just telling you everything about me right
there. I don't like any type of drug or any type of medication.
I doubt I'm not addicted to it. It's just if I could suck it
up and go without it. And I did have to take a tramadol once
every twelve hours. It makes me tired. I don't like it. Man.
I guess I could sell. Can I sell these things in the black
market? If if, if I don't use it? No, I'm just
kidding. I really am kidding. Well caught them not kidding, but I
am kidding. I'm gonna go eBay that thing. You know the phone number.
The name is Michael Garfield and this is called the High Tech Textan Show.
When we come back, I will tell you about those Apple air tags,
everything you need to know about that lawsuit and your privacy, and we'll
talk about that solar eclipse people. I have some apps for you to use
so you can track it. Is it worth your time? Are you gonna
stay in the Houston area, You're gonna travel a little bit more in Central
Texas to get the whole experience of being in the dark. I will keep
you on the dark until we come back and to the side. Getting a
few emails over here. Hey, Michael, did you end up going to
Las Vegas for the first week of March Madness like you've done for twenty five
years? Well, yes and no. You got to get the number right.
This was my thirty fourth or thirty fifth year of me and the same
nine guys going of college, guys going to March Madness. The very first
weekend we were in Vegas. If you happen to rune into me, I
saw a number of people from Houston coming up to me. I'm standing at
the Crabs tablee listen. I love talking to people. I love if you
listen to me. It's an honor for you to even realize who I am
and come up and you know, thank me for you know, my advice,
or ask me what phone I'm wearing or what I'm driving this week.
It's really, really cool, but people, God love you. Man.
If I'm standing at the crabs table holding the dice, can you just give
me a minute? You just give me, man, man, because you
don't want to you don't want to ice me. Man, that happened.
I'm at the Where am I'm at the Venetian and and the table minimums are
horrible now, man, minimum twenty five dollars. I have no clue what's
happened to Vegas? So obviously I'm concentrating on this thing. And you know,
I got some greenies out there on the past line and somebody comes up,
is that the high tech taxan? And hey, how you doing?
Can you give me a minute? Oh my gosh, no, no,
let me introduce my wife over here. I'm like, and I'm holding the
dice and I've got you know, there's I got a table full of people
waiting for me to throw the dice. There's a lot of money out there,
and they're asked me a questions, say hey, you just did a
police hold those They were nice enough and they held on And it turns out
I seven right after they talked to me, So thank you not for doing
that. But I did have fun in Las Vegas probably some of the best
weather. Weather in March in Vegas is always wonderful. Good food, good
drink. Had some new restaurants Pete where we we watched one of the games.
One't what so Thursdays and Fridays mornings because it's it's two hours earlier.
We just sit there and we generally go to a sports bar for probably six
straight hours and we just sit there and have some beer. We bet on
the games, and you could bet on the apps right now we have you
have an app like like Caesars and MGM of apps. You don't even need
to go to a betting window, so we could just bet end game if
we wanted to. Found a great place called Happy Camper Keiza. It's in
Fashion Show Mall, part of the Lettuce entertain You group and it's phenomenal,
great dvs. Good vibe. It's got a retractable roof so on a great
the roof was attracted because the weather was phenomenal and we were there probably six
hours. Good apps, the pizza was awesome. They had tavern style little
Chicago style and that was fun. But I have you know, recommend going
there if you want to have a little fun when to go to Vegas.
I go. That was my that was my fourth month in a row of
Vegas. I really should do a a guide to Las Vegas. I've done
my show out there from so many times. But if you happen to be
going out there, you need some tips. I am your guy seven one
three two one two five nine five. Oh uh. You don't need to
track me because I generally tell you most everywhere I go. But when it
comes to tracking and tracking people, privacy concerns are everywhere, and one of
which is this Apple air tag. You know what These things are, the
little tiny things about the size of a quarter, and it's a digital tracker
and at listen. To be fair, Apple's not the only one who has
these. I mean they did, They weren't even the first one to come
out with it. The first one I think I remember was a company called
file t il e Uh. Samsung has one and they work on a very
kind of a it's a bluetooth frequency And if I guess generally, the point
is you could put these on your keychain, you could put them on your
backpack, and you put them on your suitcase, and if you happen to
lose it, or want to track anything like that, you can pull up
an app and you can find it. People. However, they have been
tracking other things. They have been tracking cars, they have been tracking people,
they have been tracking a number of other things. And now there is
a class action lawsuit against Apple alleging that Apple didn't sufficiently resolve privacy issues raised
by these air Tag trackers, which led to unwanted stalking and abuse. That
was filed last year and it was given CORN approval to proceed earlier this month.
And it's saying that plaintive Suster suffered substantial injuries from people who abused this
Bluetooth tracker, which cost all of twenty nine dollars in the ways the company
didn't sufficiently work to address and Apples defended its work on air Tag since it
came out twenty twenty one, and however it's not enough, I mean Apple
expected security concerns. There's no doubt remember in twenty twenty one when they announced
Apples to the tracker, it features like unwanted tag detection and audible alerts,
so about alert people when unexpected air tag was nearby. And then shortly after
they were released, Apple Apple kind of upped its privacy measures by making the
air tags unwanted Tag Detection alert occur at random times, so it started beeping
and stuff. Yeah, the air tags are good. Listen, They're good
and bad. They're a blessing and a curse. People use them to find
bikes and luggage and laptop bags. Some people even put them on their pets
and the little kids. Apple does not recommend that, though. The larger
question is we face is whether we're comfortable with these trackers hanging off all sorts
of odds and ends in our lives. What does this mean for you?
If you want to identify unwanted air tags, you can use something called the
apples find My app on your iPhone. Android app has one too, to
detect if an unexpected air tag has been traveling with you recently. And you
laugh about this. One of my very good friends found out that there was
a nearby air tag in his car. Does not know where it went.
I don't even know how he found it. He's got an Android. He
turned on his Bluetooth and he'd hit fine my shirt off found a freaking Apple
AirTag in his car. Listen, if you believe your safety is at risk,
Apple advises you to contact the local law enforcement agency, which can work
with Apple. You gotta be careful with some of this stuff. This is
the good and bad about technology. I love technology. I cover technology right
and when this comes out, it's like, Okay, I see the point.
I lose things all the time, Verger's my keys. But some times
things like this can be used for different purposes than they were intended to.
If anybody has any issues like this, I'd love you. Feel free to
open phone lines to give me a shout seven to one three two one two
five nine five oh two point two five nine five oh. And you can
tell me if if you've been tracked, if you've tracked somebody, feel free
to disguise your voice like I am right now, just because I sound a
little lied. But I have one of these. I don't have any I
have a Samsung one and I'm pretty sure how it works. It's sitting.
I have one, and I have it in my backpack. I don't take
my backpack a lot of places. However, when I travel, I will
take my backwhack and backpack, and god forbid, I guess if I lose
it, I will go to my Samsung phone and use the find my thing
and find where it is. The batteries work for a quite a long time,
and if you are prone to lose things, it's a it's a neat
device. And again a number of different ones, Tile, Samsung, Apple,
AirTag, they're out there too. You can get them on Amazon,
and they're relatively inexpensive. Let's just hope you use them and people use them
for what they're supposed to be used for of just you know, finding things
and so you don't get caught up in a Lossit like that. But anyway,
you got something to yap about, I'd love to hear your stories about
that. Two point two five nine to five V one more little segment this
hour before a time it uh, this is you're gonna love this, I
think for all you. Uh, if you think phones aren't expensive enough,
there are third party companies who actually take phones and they upgrade them. It's
kind of like you know, you don't pep my ride. There's there's companies
out there who pep my phones. And one of them just came out with
a phone that costs upwards of ten thousand dollars. I'll tell you this story.
They only made ninety nine of these things. But they made it in
a shape of something very very interesting that I think is relatively ugly. Would
you pay for this? Uh? Again, some of the things that you
know, I think I have fun with and to keep you updated what's going
on in the world of consumer lifestyle. Michael Garfield is the name. Long
running show here KPRC nine to fifty am. We gonna be right back.
Got about ten more minutes in the first hour of the HTT show. Michael
is my name. Feel free to call me Garf that has plum read over
there seven one three two one two five nine five zero for you're headed out
to Memorial Park. Watch a little Houston opened. Good for you Rockets doing
well. We've got the astro baseball started. Uh, it's it could be
a very interesting It's a great sports weekend here, especially because it's pretty I
however, I'm stuck in a studio where I can I get exercise for a
while since I had a little procedure don which is causing me to be a
little stuffed up. And I apologize for that. Still X voice. Maybe
we should start a poll, start a pull on X or something. Uh,
this is what if you follow me on on extra Twitter take a look
at this. I posted this earlier this week. It's a high tech text
at h I g h T E c h T e x A N.
I talk a lot about phones, test phones all the time, and I'm
an Android fan without a doubt. That's what I carry on a regular basis.
There are there are third party companies who are out there that take phones
and they hemp them out, they blame them out for lack of a better
word, they put diamonds on they they go nuts and they up charge.
It's just just it's it just it makes it look neat right versus you know,
go out and getting a nineteen dollars you know, cover for the whole
thing. Oh no, no, company called Caviar. Caviar. They just
came out with a very special addition of a Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra,
which is a great phone. It's a phone that I uh, it's
probably my favorite photo of the year so far. Came out a few months
ago. It's got a stylist phenomenal camera and everything, and they pimped it
out. It is a luxury brand called Caviar, And I put a photo
in a link on my ex Twitter site. Earlier this week. I hope
you have some money for this thing. They outdid themselves and this is actually
a pretty thing. They took a Samsung at Galaxy S twenty four Ultra and
they made it look like a Tesla cyber truck. I am not kidding you.
They made only ninety nine units of these, and at the low end
it cost eighty eight hundred dollars. I'm looking at this right now and it
is just I'm not gonna say why. Listen, dead matter companies do this
thing to ten thousand dollars for the higher end, depending on if you have
a terabyte. It looks like a little flat cyber truck, which I think
are actually not sexy. There is no significant difference between this ten thousand dollars
phone and a normal Galaxy S twenty four, which you can probably get for
eighteen hundred dollars. The software are the features, it's all the same.
You go to Caviar's website, it thoughts on this thing. Has anybody ever
done this? I mean, this is the this is over the top luxury.
Listen. I know people who have you know, they've got their little
Cardier love bracelets. You know, they've got their beautiful cars. They they've
got jets, they've got things, but an eighty eight eighty eight hundred to
a ten thousand dollars phone. And the funny thing is, because this thing
is kind of like three D because it looks like a cyber truck. I
don't think you can put it in a in a cover, which means if
you drop it is gonzo. That's it's a little that's a little too luxury
for me. A seven time markup. Oh my goodness. Let's see what
else we got over here. We got a few more mess and we'll talk
about this. We are we are techno. We're about a week away.
Who is gonna go see this solar eclipse? We don't need to go far
because all we need to do is really look up once it's I'm not to
say it's once in a lifetime because there's another one coming in Alaska. I
don't know a few years from right now. So feel free to uh to
go. But the big news it is Monday, April eighth, and uh
there's some guidelines over here because Texas is right smack in the path. For
those of my listeners who are outside of Houston, who may be in Dallas,
Austin, San Antonio. You were gonna get what a hell of a
view. It is gonna be late morning, early afternoon, and for about
if you're in the path of totality, you got about four minutes, just
a little over four minutes where it's gonna be dark. And it's an I
said, it's a novelty. It is just to just to say you've been
through one of these things. But I mean, come on, people,
listen, every single night the sun goes down, and that's what it looks
like. There's some apps out there I will put I'll put a few of
these links on my website high tech textan. There are a few apps out
there which we'll track it and give you some sights of it's some ideas of
how to look at it, to precaution your eyes and everything. One is
called total solar eclipse. One is called Eclipse twenty twenty four. There's another
one called one eclipse. Here's one from NASA. It's got images of news
and whatever. I'm afraid to download. But just like anything, I gotta
tell you this, you know, make sure. I mean, hopefully the
weather forecast is going to be good, but you need to get some solar
eclipse glasses and they're gonna be on sale everywhere. Make sure they're ISO certified
so your eyes don't get fried. And these things can cost about two dollars.
You do not need to pay anything more than that. Then go out
and look up. That's it, and there's gonna be more coverage on here.
I've got press releases from small bed and breakfasts in the Hill country of
Texas. Hey, we're selling you know, you know, you know once
you come out, spend the weekend. Well, you got to spend another
day because it's on a Monday for all of four and a half minutes.
Is anybody ever heard is there a good fun tie in with those things?
I mean, I know it's like Monday, early afternoon. I mean it's
it's lunchtime. Any cocktails. Is every radio station gonna be playing a Bonnie
Tyler song? Write at about one pm? If you're earn of a good
tie in, gonna take a break here at the top of the hour.
But seven, one, three, two point two, five, nine five
to oho? Any bars having a uh an exclipse watch party? Oh?
You can drink for four and a half minutes. I mean something, it's
gonna be something sexy because it doesn't happen too often. Coming up next our
something turns twenty years old in the world of technology, doesn't seem it and
actually changed it. Really, it's something you probably use right now. It's
twenty years old, and it really did help to change the Internet and how
we communicate. I thought that's pretty interesting. More thoughts on Easter candy and
a review of the twenty twenty four land Rover Decender Outbound. This thing is
sexy, really really sexy. I like this a lot. And also for
all you foodies out there, krispy Kreme and the news, is there even
a krispy Kreme here in the Houston area? If not, I could tell
you a worry to get these Chris Krispy k Cream is pretty pretty soon.
I'm here with the Galleries, even though I'm night eat it is Michael Garfield.
Now our number one is in the books. We're gonna be right back
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We aren't half way a half the hour gorgeous that today. Should you be
listening live kp RC nine to fifty am. Appreciate you hanging in there?
Is my voice gotten better? I haven't talked a lot this weekend? Do
I really want to get through the hip again? I told you what was
going on the first hour. I had a little had a little procedure which
has caused my nose to be stuffed up out a bits. It even hurt
Stephen. Talk about it again. So if you want to hear that.
In about an hour from right now, our good friend Callum will be putting
this two hour program on our podcast, which you can find at I Heart
Radio. Everybody should have that apps. You can listen to all of our
shows, all of us anywhere in the world, and you can hear what
is going on with with my health. This portion of the show A Happy
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I guess I guess I was speaking of food. The world's largest fast
food chain is making it easier to construct your own donut burger. Not that
you should, though, so McDonald's is trying to boost its breakfast and snack
sales sales sells. They will soon sell Krispy Kream donuts all day at restaurants
across the United States. Arcolate isis sprinkles chocolate iced with cream filling and the
original glais. I don't there used to be a Krispy Cream several of them
in Houston. I don't know if there's one standalone anymore. There's really only
one Krispy crem Masks, the glazed, and that's the end of that.
Right. They're going to be sold at the Golden Arches thirteen five hundred US
locations. It's probably gonna left McDonald's coffee business if you think about it.
Se Cream stock soared nearly forty percent when they announced it earlier this week.
Wow, this is like the hot thing right now, isn't it. Wendy's
I think recently partner with cinnabond. What a sugary morning menu item on there?
Acco Bell, Burger King. They're spoocing up to breakst it was sprucing
up the breakfast offerings. I'm not a big breakfast fan, Caliver, are
you a breakfast fan? I mean, I have a little protein in the
morning, but the sugar stuff was the last ToIP you. Listen, I'm
I don't ragging on McDonald's. Yeah. For McDonald's, it's last time you've
ever walked into McDonald's. It may have been decades since I've walked into McDonald's
because my kids were young. I guess they tried up. But now you
know, I just don't go to McDonald's. I don't think and Christi Kreme
is not going to drive me into ed McDonald's. I love donuts. The
last thing in the world I need is a donut, and I do I
listen. I have limitations. I no one to say no. If I'm
gonna spoil myself, I'm putting freaking' reeses in my mouth. Which, by
the way, we are about forty eight hours from the Monday after Easter where
all the candy goes on sale. Add berry eggs, Reese's and the Riese's
eggs. Why are Reese's eggs better than Reese's. It is a different I
could do two hours in this thing. It's the best candy know to man.
It's the best two flavors knowing a man. Peanut butter and chocolate.
You got peanut butter and chocolate. You got chocolate in my peanut butter.
Old advertising with nineteen seventies. You kids don't understand phenomenal. I'll wait.
I generally did fifty percent off, probably on a Monday. I'll wait to
you know, maybe I'll wait to Friday, you know, a week later,
and then I get it ninety percent off. If anybody's got a good
deal, talk to me over here. High tech texts and hi g h
T E c h T e x A N. Anybody gonna go to McDonald's
now that Crispy Kreme will be sold? And earlier this, earlier that last
night I was talking about what GOVI and o zepec still the best weight loss
and I'm telling you right now is to lose your taste buds, your your
smell, and you're taste. If you have COVID, you lost them,
you probably lost weight what's what I'm going with. I don't have COVID right
now, but I cannot smell it. I cannot taste right now. It's
phenomenal dry. It's phenomenal diet. All right, when we come back,
guy, Actually there's I'll tell you what we're doing. I'm gonna I'm gonna
talk to a really nice lady, a nonprofit organization here in town. They
got a big event coming up here in about a week. If you are
shopper, if you want to get some million of neat spring items, We've
got a pop up store with a ton of local vendors happening next week.
Stand by because I will tell you what is up, and if you want
to get with me before the end of the show, I will talk about
I swear I now. I've been teasing a lot the twenty twenty four land
Rover Descender Outbound. It's a monster of an suv. I'll tell you the
cost, is it worth it? And some of the neat features including a
ladder. This thing is so tall. This has an excite. I was
test driving one of this print past week. It has a ladder that folds
down so I can climb on top of it. See this is the need
stuff that I get to do. I wish I felt better. Michael Garfeld
k p RC nine fifty Am. It is all talk, all Texas,
all the time. It is all Garth. So stand by. We're gonna
be right back. I hope everybody is having a wonderful Saturday afternoon. It
is Michael Garfield k PRC nine fifty A. M nice weather thing's going.
We've got Easter weekend, We've got the Houston Open. Weather's getting better.
I'm sure you're out there having fun. And I hope you're ready to shop
too. A lot of shopping going on, you know, the spring season.
I am a big shopper. I like me some deals. I like
me some discounts, so you know, I like, you know, not
so much going into malls, but you know, sometimes there's a little pop
up type of things. I actually saw something that cut my eye. It's
coming up next weekend for the third time. It's a third annual. It's
a neat It's it's held by a nonprofit organization called the Houston Junior Form.
It's called the City Market. And for all you shoppers out there, we
want a little retail therapy. This might be for you. We I'm gonna
give you a little bit more information and bring in for a few minutes Linda
West. Linda is with the Houston Junior Forum. It is a women organized
nonprofit that is committed to providing charitable service for children and women and senior adults
here in and around the Houston. They are putting on the City Market,
she joins me. Question one, Linda, is there stuff for guys?
Am I gonna be able to defy stuff for me? Oh? Yeah,
you'll find stuff for you there. There's all kinds of great guy things at
the city Market. But the best thing at the city Market is that you
can shop for all your girlfriends and your wives and young owners, and then
you can come by with really unique things for them too. Okay, you
don't know me, but apparently you think I have girlfriends and wise I like
you. Okay, I'm not won't we won't go on the plural just yet.
But I think she means that for the entire set, you can shop
for girlfriends and wives. But I do want to start with this about the
history. This is a wonderful organization. It's tell us about the Houston Junior
Forum. Well, the Houston Junior Forum was founded in nineteen forty six by
a group of really forward thinking women who started doing service in the Hispanic community.
They realized that the Hispanic children could not speak English, and so they
started a preschool program specifically to teach English to that Hispanic population. And that
preschool was so popular over the years that people stood in line overnight like they
were going to a concert to get their children registered at that preschool. And
that was closed in the early two thousands because head Start started became our competition
and it was not necessary anymore. But that's how we started, and over
the years we have developed so many wonderful programs for senior adults, for women,
for children, and today we are doing a college school dealership program and
a community grants program. Uh, and that's what we are using our funds
for. You've been involved in the Houston Junior Forum and and what about what's
your role? Yeah, gosh, right now, I'm the vice president of
financial Resources. I'm previous. I'm a previous past president of the organization.
I've held lots of different offices, but I've been involved in the Houston Junior
Forum for about eighteen years, long long time. I'm looking led to West.
I'm speaking with her talking about the City Market. It is taking place
next weekend, So I'm looking at the dates here. We've got Friday April
fifth, We've got Saturday April sixth. It is at Host Houston. I
love that place and this is the I get leave. This is the third
year. How did this come? How the City Market event come about?
Well, over the years, we've done lots and lots of different kinds of
fundraising projects, but we all thought that having a boutique market would be a
fun event and it would have appealed to a lot of different said months of
the population. So we started it in twenty twenty two. This is our
third year and we are excited not only about the opportunity to raise money,
but also about the opportunity to showcase the Houston Junior Forum to the public.
We would like the public to know more about us and the things that we
do, and so this gives us a great, great venue for showcasing ourselves
to the Houston community. Kind of perusing the list of the vendors and all
the activities. Man, there's a lot going on for these two fun days
downtown at Post Houston for people who may want to pop down there. It's
called the City Market for two days. What do they expect in terms of
the activities and really the atmosphere of the overall event. Yeah, well,
if you just want to come and shop, we have a wide selection of
fashion, jewelry, accessories, gifts, om decor, children's wear, garmet,
food, etc. Men's men's items, and that's complimentary general admission,
so all you have to do is show up. You can get a complimentary
ticket on a bit bright if you want to. But we have three really
fun events that are special ticketed events. We kick off with a morning brunch
on Friday morning, which we'll be serving bubbles in a lovely brunch, and
then on Friday evening we have Sip and Shop. We have wine and spirits,
vendors and shifts, appetizer stations that you can browse through. You can
go have a glass of wine, go back to shopping, Go have an
appetizer, go back to shopping. So that's Friday evening, and then Saturday
morning we have Biscuits and Bubbles, which is on kind of a freepour of
bubbles, drinks like prosecco, and maybe some mimosas. And this cute,
little fun biscuit buffet that you can eat. All the tickets are available on
event bright, and they're all very reasonably priced. I see what you're doing
is think it's like a casino. You get this liquored up and then we
go shop, shop shop. Yeah, that's's pretty smart. That's what we're
happing chat with Linda West. Linda is with the used to Junior Forum,
and we're specifically talking about an event next week. It is Friday the fifth
and April the sixth. It is called the City Market And uh, I
guess if you're getting you want to get involved with the City Market or even
the I guess the Junior Forum, if you maybe you may be looking for
more vendors or certainly attendees. How do we get more information tickets and everything.
Yeah, well, tickets are available on event right and also on our
website wwwdcity mkt dot org. Uh So, go to either of those locations
and you can get tickets if you want to just learn more about what's going
on. We have an Instagram site at the City Market and a Facebook page
the City Market Houston, and we also have all kinds of contact information out
there in flyers and posters and yard signs, so any of those things will
get you to us. Love it. Wait, what a great, great
event, without a doubt, certainly for shoppers, but the overall the Houston
Junior Form. What a wonderful organization, and congrats on the success. I
know eighteen years specifically for you, but doing a woodful job. So let's
hopefully get a lot of people and vendors down there raise some money for you.
Yeah, thank you, thank you so much for this opportunity, and
we are looking forward to welcoming everybody to the City Market. I'm looking forward
to shopping. So I got I'm looking for a sh medium sized shirt.
I got bubbles in my right hand, a pisco my left hand led out.
Ready well, okay, we're all ready to get you all set up
and have some new shirts and a fun time. Love it. Okay,
thanks again and best of luck. Thank you, Jack. I'd like that
it's a go go check that out that it is called the City Market in
Lenda Gatebell the information. We're going to take a break right now. Michael
Garbold is the name on the very long and running two decades of doing it
every weekend here KPRC radio. iHeartRadio. We're gonna be right back with the
High Tech Texan Show. Yeah, it's about thirty more minutes left of the
radio show. It is et gel the High Tech Texan Show, talking so
much more about Technology'd love to have you join me if you have questions or
revities for a deviated septum to make this the pain go away. Seven one
three two one two five nine five. Oh guess what just turned twenty years
old? It is has to do with technology and it is probably something that
you use or you have. Twenty years ago, Gmail was launched and invented.
Gee, who's still as a GM? I have a Gmail. Gmail
revolutionized email, fast search, a whole gig of storage. It's just been
kind of sitting there ever since. And I remember when it was released because
it was it was cool, but we thought it was a joke because it
was announced on April Fool's Day, thinking it was some kind of a prank.
Oh my goodness, one gig about it. Storage unbelievable and you can
only get it through an invitation. It was a beta test that Gmail mailed
to a select people and then if you had it, you could maybe send
out three or four invitations. It was a slow roll, but it was
it was a phenomenal way to roll it out. It was, oh,
how do I intentation? I want one of these things. It's not just
you could just go download an app, it was it was it was that
was a really neat way to do it, and Google did that for a
number of different things. Became a must have for the technology fan Email revolutionized
email. It really did, if you think about it, reimagined what our
inboxes were capable of. Really became essential part of our our online identities.
The service right now, and I did some research for you because this is
what I do. Estimated one point two billion users. It's about one seventh
of the global population. It's almost a necessity to do anything online. And
it kind of feels like Gmail has always been here and it's going to be
around, but it's still rudimentary. Like I don't go to Gmail dot com
and I don't have the Gmail app per se. I I integrate it into
other things. I have a Gmail account and I forward it to my Microsoft
Outlook, which is my email client. So everything kind of look the same.
So I have my high tech textan email address, I have my Gmail
address, I have my heart media address, but I'll go get into the
same inbox. But Gmail is so easy is listen to someone says, hey,
what's your email address? Well, I could sit here and go Michael
at High Tech Texan HI g A T. Said. Other than that,
it's just like move blah blah blah Gmail dot com. And I got a
pretty easy one because I was one of the first ones to actually get Gmail,
and I, you know, kind of grabbed my first initial, my
last name and there you go. There were a lot of value propositions that
Gmail brought to the table if you wanted to if you do wanted to search
anything for your emails, like you know, hey, I remember writing an
email about this and this. You just put the word in and it was
it was really great. Miss Now you had way too many emails. And
then Google introduce some different themes and whatever. Who uses this still? And
it's fun I use. Here's the thing when it comes to emails, it
is a little tip that I tell people. You need several email addresses,
especially when you sign up and you subscribed newsletters or promotions. You should create
specific email addresses to log in specific promotions whatever. So you just don't use
one massive email address. To me, it's too or to manage. I
use my Gmail. Actually, I gotta be honest with you. I probably
have eight to ten different Gmail addresses and I use them when I sign up
for newsletters. What I sign up for, you know, different promotions,
birthday clubs, whatever. But if you think about it, I'm gonna here's
an analogy. Gmail is like a passport for the Internet because Google is just
so ever present with everything. What is it it is? We get different?
What's your favorite go to? Who has a Yahoo? I still know
a few people who have Aol and it's kind of laughable. But whatever,
they don't want to change it. I understand this, but I will say
this is this is a topic. Is email I'm gonna make I'm gonna give
you two things. Is email and phone numbers. Will they be around for
the long haul? And I can make a case where they will not be
because we now are used to communicating through text, direct messages, and social
media. I want you to think about this. The ten digit number of
our phone numbers that we have, I don't think they're going to be around
for the long long haul. If somebody wants I want Facebook, I'm on
Instagram. I'm on Twitter. If somebody wants to contact me, which they
do, they will DM me. They will direct message me. Sometimes.
I got my parents. My mom she's on Facebook. If she wants to
send me something, she doesn't text on her phone, but she will,
without a doubt, she'll go on Facebook and she'll DM me. Kids will
do that too. And you don't need the phone number even for What's app.
What's app is it's tied to your phone number per se, but you
search for it by name. So I we're in the We're certainly in the
midst, but are we near the end of it? And this is listen,
I'm opening up the phone calls. If you think about this, if
you agree to disagree, or do you like it better or not? Seven
one three two one two five nine five. Oh. Matter of fact,
that phone number which has been a staple here in our KPRC radio station for
well over twenty five years that I've been almost I've been doing this thing.
That number may go away. Hell, go to our website kprcradio dot com.
I are radio dot com. Are there on the app you actually can
leave a voicemail that we we can actually put your voice on the air on
our just through the app. We've changed so much, so quickly. When
I started talking about technology two thousand and one, there was no email,
really there was. We got letters in the mail. You had to put
a stamp. Dear Michael, I listen to your show. You have no
clue what in the world you're talking about. I hate you. You talk
too fast. Your NAIs late. Man. There's nothing like getting hate mail
for the post office nowadays, simply just you know, people just send me
eight mail on text and DM right now, Happy birthday, Happy anniversary,
twenty years Gmail. It's gonna be around for a while, but I think
in the long run there's gonna be new ways, easy ways to communicate.
We're using these things. Yes, TEX still is dependent on your phone,
but any but through social media and other ways that we're gonna have these easier
ways to reach out to each other. Coming back, last last section,
it's the last segment I will talk about the Defender Outbound. I'll give you
that review, the top Eastern candies that you have voted on. I'm really
surprised that you got one of these and anything else you have for me seven
one three, two, one two five nine five. Oh, it is
the high Tech Jackson Joe Final. A few minutes of the show, Thank
you for hanging around. Looks like I'm gonna make it. Valabreed, He's
gonna be putting us on the here in about the ten minutes, Team Good,
iHeartRadio, look for Michael Garfield, high Tech text and KPRC. I
think I'm gonna make it. Man, I'm tired. Thank you for all
the remedies and you're sad stories of all your surgeries. I had a little
procedure earlier this week which is causing my nose to be very stuffy because I
have stints inside my nose. It is a deviated septim procedure. I think
I was taking to Paul. Is it a surgery or is it a procedure?
I hate being over dramatic, even though I kind of do like the
dramatic stuff. I really don't want to call it surgery. I've never had
surgery before. Does this break my streak of being over fifty years old and
having my first surgery or or is it a procedure? Surgery technically is a
procedure. I am not sure, but hopefully I will be sounding much better
next week after I got these stints pulled up. Oh I hope they don't
when they yanked these things out of my nose. Oh my goodness, I
need some tranquilizers. People, somebody coup old by a hand. Help me
out. Not going to give you the phone number because I have a few
things in to hit. We covered a number of different things. I did
promise I was going to give you my vehicle review of the week. Every
week for fifteen plus years, I review a car, a truck, what
have you. If you miss it, I have a whole podcast dedicated to
that. From years and years of yapping and driving these things. It is
not I don't get cars through dealerships. I get them directly through the manufacturers.
Every single week, I get to drive them for about seven days.
I do not get paid for it. So it means I can rag on
them. I can love aut them. I can tell you what's you know?
Who's it good for? What type of person or families it's not good
for. I am your guy. So if you're looking for a new vehicle
for you owned vehicle, at least I can help you out with some names,
makes, models, and brands. If you're looking for an suv and
you are a status climber and a little pretentious. Uh oh did I say
that? Yes? I was rolling around this past week in a twenty twenty
four Defender outbound. You know you got the land Rover stuff. This is
the Defender and this is a massive suv, very tall. This will haul
anything. It probably should fit. Does it fit at king sized bed when
you lay everything down all the but it was great for outdoors. It could
rot, It could the whole vehicle with a touch of a button. It
could rise up to get through high water, it could lower down, be
a little bit more aerodynamic. It is so tall. It had a few
accessories, which it took me a while to understand what these two things that
were hanging over the top of it, one of which was a ladder.
And this is the first accessory I've seen a lot of accessories, third party
accessories on vehicles. It was a ladder. You have to have a little
key because it locks, and you know, maybe the the it collapses.
So maybe it was only about two feet tall and you could see it's a
ladder. But then when you take a key which on your keychain and then
you fold down the ladder, it folds out not once but twice, so
now it becomes almost a six foot ladder. So now you can climb up
the ladder to stand on to put things on top, like on the luggage
rack on top of the thing. Really a genius Is it needed? Actually?
I don't know if you if you drive around and do some outdoor stuff,
you need to put some stuff on top of this thing. I thought
that was pretty neat. It rides very nicely. The sound system is great,
very comfortable everything from the leather inside. It has a big three liter
six cylinder gas engine. It's about three hundred and ninety five horse power.
It toes, so it's got about four hundred and five pounds feet of torque.
Very very comfortable, easy to get into the uh that second row and
uh it's it's just one of these rugged look at things. Not the cheapest
thing out there, the uh way. The MSRP just for the base eighty
four thousand dollars, but then I had the optional equipment of a comfort the
convenience package, and the off road package and all the fun stuff, and
so the retail price of the one I drove for a week was just over
one hundred and one thousand dollars. That's right. I love the color.
It was a it's called Carpathian gray. Carpathian wasn't that Ghostbusters too? You
go the Carpathian it was. It was a matted gray, and I'm not
a big fan of matted type of color, you know, which is not
shiny. But it was pretty cool, pretty kind of pretty, kind of
sexy, had ebony interior inside. I don't get to drive a lot of
Defenders or land Rovers or you know, the small little ones the sports or
anything like that. But I liked it a lot. Would I get it,
I don't know. I don't do a lot of outdoor stuff. If
you are a do we still use the word yuppie. If you're a yuppie,
if you like the brand of Defender and you have a family, or
you really want to schlep some things, or you're a realtor and you want
something comfortable where you're gonna have more than one person. Yeah, if you're
a you know, listen is it If you're a single dude, a single
lady, you just want to slep things around? Fine, I don't know
why you need all this space. You're a mom, soccer bel air hoity
toity. Absolutely, I'm I'm kidding, but I'm not kidding. It's it's
a very high end brand, one hundred and one thousand dollars, have got
seventeen overall miles per gallon sixteen of the city, eighteen in the highway.
But it's very tough to get to another Justice comfort ble really classy suv.
Then the twenty twenty four Defender Outbound is the one that I specifically had.
If you want me to your review almost anything else, just pop me a
notes. Actually, I give you my give you Michael at high Tech Textan
dot com, Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. With that, we're gonna
start closing things down thanks to US coins and jewelry. They are going to
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They do a great job, really quick turnaround and with that Happy Easter,
enjoy whatever you do. Fifty percent off Easter candy on Monday. If
you can stock up on Reese's and you want to drop some off here at
the iHeartRadio Studios in the Galleria. You go to be my best friend people
other than that, Hey, callum, thanks for keeping me awake this thing
with my nose. I hope I sound better next week, my friends.
Good luck to your the Rocket's, good luck to the March madness folks,
good luck to everything's happening in the Houston Open This week. It's a great
sports weekend and here comes the hot weather in Texas. For all us who've
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