WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.839 Is Michael garfil of Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining us in the high Tech 2 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:15.000 Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan. It was to 3 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:18.839 make life easier some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want, 4 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:31.679 Texas. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you 5 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:40.079 make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your 6 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:46.039 high tech Texan, Michael Garfield. Needless to say, this has been a 7 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:51.799 pretty rappy few weeks. You know, if it wasn't a hurricane that hit 8 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:58.960 directly in our hometown, some kuk was trying to assassinate a former president and 9 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:06.000 current candidate. We got hundreds of thousands of local residents still without power, 10 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:12.799 and the list of people who passed away just this past week. It stoggering 11 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:22.400 from celebrities like Shelley Duval, doctor Ruth Richard Simmons, Shannon Doherty, and 12 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.519 to a good friend of so many of us here in Houston, the talented, 13 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:33.480 the witty, and the ultimate curmudgeon, Ken Hoffman. You know, 14 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:38.000 Ken was a longtime buddy of mine, known him just over twenty years, 15 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:44.560 and the memories continue to pop up in my mind since his untimely death on 16 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:51.079 this weekend, and I'm grateful to have known him and ironically exchanged some text 17 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:56.000 with him just days before he passed. I'll remember Ken and share some stupid 18 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.280 stories throughout the show, but if you would like to share your thoughts, 19 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:05.640 I am here at seven one three two one two five nine five oh two 20 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:07.719 one two five nine five. Oh. I know it's the middle of the 21 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:10.800 summer. I know maybe you're traveling, and we do. Thank you for 22 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.199 taking us wherever you are not listening to us on the over the year radio 23 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:20.000 which less and less in people, slowly you're doing. But you can take 24 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:23.120 us on iHeartRadio free app no matter if you have an Android, and matter 25 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.280 if you have that other thing I think they call it an iPhone, download 26 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.919 it look for KPRC, and no matter where you are, almost in the 27 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:34.360 world. I don't think China lets us in there, but almost anywhere in 28 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.439 the world you could listen to at this show and many many other radio stations. 29 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.879 Michael Garfield is a name callum reed. He is on the other side 30 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:45.599 of the glass, pushing buttons and potentially callum if you feel like answering a 31 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.479 phone call or two, and if I feel like answering it or talking to 32 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.719 people, maybe I will pick up the phone. I have a few things, 33 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:55.159 a number of things as we get down to business here, and you 34 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.680 know, we kind of fly by the seat of our pants. We This 35 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.960 is not all about technology, elas it is called the High Tech Texan Show, 36 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:06.039 It's really called what in the world does Garf want to talk about? 37 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.919 It? Actually, I should rename it to what I used to call my 38 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:15.560 daily radio show here the world according to Garf Football's I guess you're you're used 39 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:21.159 in Texans there now in training camp and it's I've got the All Star break, 40 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:25.599 just happened. The Olympics coming up. We got the the Open. 41 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.199 I'm sorry, the British Open. I'm that old to remember that. This 42 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.159 weekend, so there are a few other things going around, but there are 43 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.960 some. There are a little technology, a little fun stuff that do you 44 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.039 tune into here? And if you do did tune in last week, you 45 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:46.240 probably heard my initial thoughts of playing with the news. Samsung Galaxy foldable phones 46 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:54.879 breaking news phones are are now foldable again, and they have glass screams and 47 00:03:54.919 --> 00:04:01.919 they fold the glass folds. You well, I now have had both of 48 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:09.120 them for a week, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip six and these Z Fold 49 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.879 six. I've had them for a week, and I'll talk more about my 50 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:17.399 thoughts and possible recommendations way before their release, because they're not even out in 51 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.680 the world for about a week. And so that's one of the things that 52 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:29.040 I'm lucky and I'm honored to have built up contacts and history and a reputation 53 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.279 where a lot of these companies that will send me the inside info, I 54 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:36.920 do have to sign and agree to some embargo before they I'm allowed to talk 55 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:40.720 a lot about them, but I am allowed to talk about them as of 56 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.959 right now. They are interesting, they are unique. There was an AT 57 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:48.399 and T data breach and were you affected. I don't have AT and T, 58 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:54.360 but if you were affected, because pretty much anybody who has AT and 59 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:58.360 T service or has had AT and T service, you were affected, and 60 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:04.879 I will tell you what to do of how to maybe resurrect your how to 61 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:10.399 save your information, how to change your passwords, why you should change your 62 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:14.319 passwords, and everything. Samsung is not the only phone that has just come 63 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.279 out or only technology company that has come out with new gear one plus, 64 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:23.519 which I'm actually a fan of. They have a pretty interesting phone. I 65 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.959 wear their watch on a daily basis. They just came out with a new 66 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:32.079 watch, some earbuds and a pad. And for football fans, if you 67 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:38.639 missed it, it is back after many many years e A Sports Finally and 68 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:42.879 this has been a long time coming. This past week they have released their 69 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:47.240 new video game, College Football twenty five. It is a video game that 70 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:54.639 now players in college they actually get paid for using their name and their their 71 00:05:54.680 --> 00:06:00.160 their facial their their their facial aspects so they can get paid. Oh, 72 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.959 how times have changed. We'll talk about Amazon. What did you get for 73 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:06.079 Prime Day? Because I got absolutely nothing. I don't even know if I 74 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:11.560 logged on Amazon during their annual Prime Days sale this week. But if you 75 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.519 did get some really good deals, I'd love to hear from you. Share 76 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.759 it. We're all community. I'll give you the number one more time, 77 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:23.279 which is seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. You 78 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.360 can find me on all the social media's if you're not blocked. High Tech 79 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.480 Textan spell it out. It's high Tech t e x A n high Tech 80 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.399 Texan. If you go to my website, high Tech Texting dot com. 81 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:41.680 You actually can see a pre Yeah, pretty thorough synopsis of these new Samsung 82 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.000 Galaxy phones. I had the opportunity to be in New York City get a 83 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:51.360 rope last week. Samsung invited me up there to go to the super secret 84 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:55.480 Man. Yeah, it was actually the day before I got to see and 85 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.720 hold and touch the phones before they actually announced them. The next day, 86 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:02.000 I did an extent some video piece. And earlier this week, I was 87 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:08.879 on Great Day Houston Channel eleven CPS along with Defor Duncan, which I'm a 88 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:13.399 correspondent, and uh, we got to replay actually play my three minute to 89 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.199 four minute video and then I brought the k you brought the phones on the 90 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:19.839 show, show you how they fold and give you some ideas. Also if 91 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:24.759 you're still if you're still in the dark, still don't have any power for 92 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:29.480 your hurricane. Talked a little about generators, a little bit about batteries and 93 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:32.279 for some reason, generators. Man, it's been that's the hot topic. 94 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.560 There's been a lot of hot topics, as I said as I led the 95 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:40.160 show off, about this sadly untimely deaths of people, celebrities were still without 96 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:43.360 power, generators, A lot of people said, Man, I'm never gonna 97 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:48.000 I'm never gonna live without one. Should I get one? No, I'm 98 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:54.279 not still convinced that I need a generator. Maybe I'm just sweating by the 99 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.879 seat of my pants. Even though I didn't sweat, my power was okay. 100 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.120 I just don't know. It is a big, big output. It's 101 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.000 a lot of money. It is some annual upkeep, some service. What's 102 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.480 the best brand? I mean, just like there's iPhone versus Android, I 103 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:15.920 mean, there's Generak versus Color. There's going back to the digital TV. 104 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.959 There's LCD versus plasma. It's who do you want and is it worth it? 105 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.639 So we can start that debate, you know what, Just like sports 106 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:24.439 debate, We're gonna have generator debate. Bring it off. In seventy one, 107 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.319 three, two, one, two, five, nine five h we 108 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.600 were going to continue with what we call the High Tech Textan show right after 109 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:39.360 this. Sifting through some of these emails, it's nice of you guys to 110 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:45.159 figure out my email Michael at hi tech Texan dot com. Spellbo whole thing 111 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:50.600 out. Would you please hi G H T C H T E X A 112 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.120 N. Don't you know this? By now twenty two twenty three years of 113 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.000 doing this right now. That's somebody asked me the other day if I'm ready 114 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:03.559 to retire, and I think he kind of like laughed or winked at me. 115 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.120 And you know, I got two responses like that. Number one is 116 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.039 I can't retire, not now. No, I still need to work and 117 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:18.759 never two is I'm kind of already retired. It's kind of I work two 118 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.279 hours a week. Beat my work more than two hours a week, but 119 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:24.559 I kind of work two hours a week, so I'm still here for you. 120 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:30.600 The longest running radio program here KPRC nine to fifty AM. I do 121 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:35.159 think the folks who sit in the carpeted offices down the hall, Eddie Martini, 122 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:41.159 the market manager here. That's Houston. iHeartRadio, Mark Sherman and Brian 123 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.360 Erickson, who kind of program everything. I doubt they listen, but that's 124 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.039 because I really try to watch my tongue. We are. Even though this 125 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:58.279 show is podcasted, I mean it's it's kind of a it's a regurgitated podcast. 126 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.279 Callum what he does. Once I finished the two hours, he will 127 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.679 then put it on a podcast. It's not a dedicated podcast because it's actually 128 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:11.960 over the year which means we have to follow FCC rules, meaning we still 129 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.919 can't. I can't say anything bad, which I'm pretty sure I haven't said 130 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:18.440 any bad words in the twenty plus years, which may be one of the 131 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.679 reasons why I'm actually still on. If it was a podcast, we could 132 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.039 just go go. I really should make my own dedicated podcast, not that 133 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.639 I'm a guy who uses a lot of cuss words and really not, but 134 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:33.360 I don't know. It's kind of a it could be different. It could 135 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.519 be the edgier Garf. What say you? I don't know follow me? 136 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.559 Did give me something on X? Give me something on threads? High tech 137 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:46.519 textion dot Com? Should I go at rated Garf? What should the name? 138 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.960 What should the show be called? Garf at Night? It's the Quiet 139 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.000 Storm. This is Michael Garfield telling you where to go for all your pornographic 140 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:01.480 websites. Yeah, you know, it's just not me, man, That 141 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:05.600 is not me who has AT and T or who had AT and T. 142 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.360 These are facts. It's not like I really want to make fun nor I 143 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.279 should make fun of companies who had a massive data breach, because pretty much 144 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.799 the most there's a lot of companies who had data breaches your company. My 145 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:20.519 company may have data breaches soon, so you don't want to make light of 146 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.559 it because it is your personal information. But when it's a company like AT 147 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:30.120 and T, a Texas based company by the way, which I never want 148 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.919 to make fun of a Texas based company, you still have to point it 149 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:35.480 out, especially when it comes to the world of technology, and that's what 150 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:41.600 I am here for. AT and T says nearly all of its sell customers 151 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:52.720 calls and text records were exposed in a massive breach. All text and sells. 152 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.919 Think of what you text, think of who you text, Think of 153 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:03.559 who you call out in the open somewhere, maybe on the dark web. 154 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:09.240 I don't know this was in I think let's see because AT and T said 155 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.879 that they filed something with the SEC that alerted April that customer data was illegally 156 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.799 downloaded from their workspace on a third party cloud platform, and this compromised data 157 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:26.519 files containing AT and T records of calls and texts of nearly every single AT 158 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:33.120 and T sell customers, customers of all of their other other companies who use 159 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:39.320 their network. They're called Mobile virtual network operators like MVNOs that use AT and 160 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:46.639 T wireless networks and AT and T landline customers who interacted with those cell numbers. 161 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:56.080 All this two years ago May through October of twenty twenty two. This 162 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:00.519 is big, This is bad now. AT and T says that while the 163 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:07.399 compromised data also does not include customer names people, there are ways using publicly 164 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.399 available online tools to find the name associated with the specific telephone number. AT 165 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.759 and T is working with law enforcement to arrest those involved in the incident. 166 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.240 Yay, yay, yay. What's that going to do? What does it 167 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.360 mean for you? It's what I'm here for. How can you find out 168 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.000 if you were affected by the AT and T data breach? In What to 169 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:31.080 do next? Listen up, turn up your radio, bookmark this, Get 170 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:35.639 ready to listen to it again and again on the podcast here once we finish 171 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.639 the show on the iHeartRadio app. So, yes, they have it on 172 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:45.840 going investigation. Yes, we know most every AT and T customer data was 173 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:50.559 exposed in terms of the text and the calls. What should you do well? 174 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.320 AT and T said, as a general rule, you should remain cautious 175 00:13:54.360 --> 00:14:00.000 of any phone call or text requesting you for personal account or credit card detail. 176 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:05.120 Now, if you suspect suspicious text activity, do not reply. You 177 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.360 should forward the text to AT and T so they can help you forwarding messages. 178 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.080 By the way, they're free. They won't count towards your text plan. 179 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.720 And as I read that, I'm thinking, who is on a text 180 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.639 plan? Do you not have an unlimited or at least a high gig per 181 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:26.120 month thing? But neither here nor there. And if you're a target of 182 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:31.320 fraud on your AT and T wireless number, AT and T actually has a 183 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:37.320 fraud team, believe it or not. Apparently their data teams probably just as 184 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:41.519 solid as the US Secret Service didn't do too good of a job. You 185 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.759 need to report it to the AT and T fraud team if you're a target 186 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.399 of fraud. So if you suspect fraud on an account, call AT and 187 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:54.519 t's customer service on your bill for help. If your solid security number has 188 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.960 been exposed, now AT and T says as security numbers were not exposed in 189 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.279 the data breach. Whatever you maybe want to look at. Free credit monitoring. 190 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.240 I don't know if AT and T has offered free credit monitoring. One 191 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.440 point, I think years ago, I think they did offer free credit monitoring, 192 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:13.559 free credit reports. Have them check for accounter charges that you don't recognize. 193 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:18.159 All right, then you could place a free credit freeze or a fraud 194 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.639 alert. A credit freeze does make it harder for someone to open an account 195 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.360 in your name. It's going to require a few extra steps to briefly unlock 196 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.000 the freeze. If you apply for something that requires a credit check, there's 197 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.000 a fraudle it now. A fraud alert requires businesses to verify your identity before 198 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:39.399 they issue new credit in your name. All right, so credit reports? 199 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.320 How about your credit card? What to do if your credit card number or 200 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.039 your bank account information is compromised? A right, contact your bank to close 201 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.000 your account or cancel your credit card. Oh I hate that. God I 202 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.799 had to do that once. Oh what a pain in the Younoa. You 203 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.960 have to review your transactions regularly? Does it ever check your bank account? 204 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:06.000 Why don't get a I get an electronic statement each month. I stopped the 205 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:07.559 mailing thing, you know, to save the trees, and you know who 206 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.279 gets their mail anyway? I do a quick review, believe it or not, 207 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.840 actually do a quick review, because I asked myself, why in the 208 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.519 hell is my credit card bills so freaking high? Every month? All right? 209 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:23.240 Well, there's insurance and I one of my kids actually has my credit 210 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.039 card that he doesn't use too much. But then I'll see a charge from 211 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:30.639 Austin. I'm like, uh, what did you do? Just do a 212 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:36.639 quick glance. You'd be surprised how many times you shop at HGV or how 213 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:41.879 many times you go to the gas station or things. You probably don't realize 214 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:48.440 how many recurring subscription charges you have. This is actually, this is for 215 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:51.440 me to you. This is a public service anow's man. You probably forgot 216 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:56.320 that you may have a subscription to Hulu, Disney Roku, Netflix, Max 217 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.159 de Cock. Oh wait a minute, so why am I being charge eight 218 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:03.519 ninety five a month? I need to stop this. It's a good thing 219 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.599 actually to always check your monthly credit card statement Number one. You need to 220 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:11.799 update that payments automatically. Hopefully your data was not effective. But I as 221 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:17.279 we go to break, got a serious question, how, if anything, 222 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.319 does this tarnished AT and T brand name? How does this turns? Have 223 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:30.039 you changed your self service people? Have? I do know that seven one 224 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:32.920 three, two one two five nine five. Oh go ahead and use your 225 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:37.559 AT and T service which was packed to call me Calvin will pick up the 226 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.200 phone and potentially we'll put you on have you changed or will you change your 227 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.440 service? You know that maybe jumping the gun, because who's to say the 228 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.799 new service you haven't hopped onto is also going to be data breaks. People, 229 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.279 We are all at risk. The world is a mess right now. 230 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.039 The only thing solid that you can count on is me. Eagle scout Michael 231 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.680 garthalp halfway through first hour, we're gonna be right back a texting show. 232 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:10.960 Right So we're doing the show on a Saturday. What about two days two 233 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.920 and a half days after Amazon Prime Days, we returned to the High Tech 234 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.000 Text and show. As you heard, Miguel, Michael Garf whatever you want 235 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.720 to call me. You know the phone number, you know the all these 236 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:25.880 social media deeds, high tech text it alright. So if you ordered something 237 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.759 on Amazon Prime Day, obviously you're an Amazon Prime member, so you should 238 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:36.720 have received it yesterday or today? Is it like Christmas in July. I'm 239 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:40.559 not a voyeur, I'm not I'm interested in what you got. Open it 240 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:42.920 up. Talk to me over here, David, send a photo, post 241 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.759 a photo, go to high Tech Text and hey, Garf, this is 242 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:52.319 what I got on Amazon. Stupidest thing that you ever bought online? What 243 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.240 is the stupidest thing you ever bought? I mean, is it a kitchen 244 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:00.920 gadget? I mean it could be stupid, or is it stupid that you 245 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:06.680 bought it online? Hear me out, hear me out. I don't as 246 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.279 techno forward as I am. I don't buy a lot of things online. 247 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:15.319 I don't call me old school, but I like getting in the car, 248 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.960 going to a store, trying some clothes on if it's closed, going to 249 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.039 a grocery store, walking up and down the aisles. I have never once 250 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.680 used a grocery delivery services Number One, I've got time on my hands. 251 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.359 I understand why you can save it. I just I'm a consumer. I 252 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.079 like looking at the packaging. The color is what's new. I'm not a 253 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.119 big impulse buyer, but sometimes I see something, Ah, this looks neat, 254 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.480 Maybe I want to try it. It's just that the tactical feel and 255 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.160 touch, the smell of a store or clothing or whatever. It is. 256 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:56.839 So the craziest, oddest, weirdest, most stupid thing that you've ever bought 257 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.559 online? That gosh, this is something I probably should have bought it in 258 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.599 the store, but I actually bought it online seven one three two one two 259 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:08.519 five nine five zero. I mean it's easy. I'm gonna low hanging fruit. 260 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.799 You probably. I mean it may have been a kitchen gadget. I 261 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:18.000 remember air fryars were huge and one of those not crock pots, but uh, 262 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.799 pressure cookers were big years ago. I mean, you can order TVs 263 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:29.000 obviously online TVs that's something I never wanted to order online because they're very fragile. 264 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:34.039 They're fragile enough coming from the manufacturer, which is generally overseas, crossing 265 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:38.440 the waters into America, to get on a train, to get on an 266 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:42.160 eighteen wheeler, to be transferred to a warehouse, to be transferred to a 267 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:47.240 big box store, then to be transferred in your car to be that's a 268 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:52.720 lot of transferring which is gonna crack. You don't know. Maybe if it's 269 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.839 delivered to your home, maybe that actually does cut out one or do parts 270 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.759 of it. But that's kind of fragile. But I mean, listen, 271 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:04.440 TV's are so inexpensive right now and may be worth the time. Phrases Calamarie, 272 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.920 do you have you did you buy anything on Amazon Prime? No? 273 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:14.039 I just it's they don't need anything you listen if you're a long time listener. 274 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.480 I've got three wonderful boys. They're in their twenties right now. I 275 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:22.559 tell them there's a difference between need and want. We need a few things. 276 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:25.920 You know. We need air in Houston. We need electricity. Oh, 277 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:30.559 look at me preaching, Go preach carf centerpoint you listening. We need 278 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.880 air conditioning, all right, we need water. We need a number of 279 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:38.119 different things. Want is a different thing. You know, do I really 280 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:42.039 need this new you know, pair of pair of slacks? You know, 281 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.720 I like these new, cool, new white tennis shoes that I want to 282 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:51.079 I need. Now, there's a need and want Prime. I haven't got 283 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:55.279 the numbers, but it was in the billions and billions of dollars of business 284 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:59.559 that they sold over two days this past Tuesday and Wednesday on their Amazon Prime 285 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:03.559 Days. And again I have jokingly say that this is their annual garage sale. 286 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:08.319 This is when Amazon and their partner companies clear out their warehouse. Is 287 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:11.680 to make room for the new gear that's coming in for the holiday shopping season. 288 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.480 This is a lot of the stuff that didn't sell over the past year. 289 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.880 What does that tell you? Yeah, some of the better deals were 290 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:23.039 Amazon products. Why not Amazon Fire TVs, Amazon Fire tablets, the Amazon 291 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:26.000 Kndleman that actually was pretty cheap, the e reader. Did anybody get those? 292 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:32.240 So the way Amazon tips, Amazon Days have come and gone? Did 293 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:37.599 anybody there's it a So it's really to attract Amazon Prime members and the good 294 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.799 deals were only for Prime members. Prime membership is what is it about one 295 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:45.559 hundred and thirty nine dollars a year. But they offered you could sign up 296 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:49.559 for a free thirty day trial, and so a number of people all over 297 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:55.000 the world they signed up for a free thirty day Amazon Prime membership. So 298 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:59.759 you now probably have twenty twenty five days now to play with it. Might 299 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:04.440 I suggest taking a look at Prime Video. That's the reason I actually assigned 300 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:07.440 up for Prime years ago because I wanted to watch a TV series, The 301 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.720 Marvelous Missus masl At You, which is great that's now gone, And like 302 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:15.440 an idiot, I still have Amazon Prime, even though I don't buy a 303 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.839 lot of stuff, but I watch. They're an NFL partner. They're gonna 304 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:23.319 have in that they have NFL Thursday night games, they're gonna have a Day 305 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:26.880 after Thanksgiving game, They're gonna have two Christmas Day games, one of which 306 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.759 is going to be you were used in Texans And this is not an Amazon 307 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:36.200 commercial, It's not you don't want it again. I underutilize it and I 308 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:40.160 think I'm not getting ripped off because I can stop it at any time. 309 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:42.880 But I don't use it though. The ROI is not there for me. 310 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:49.839 How many people are going to cancel through thirty day subscriptions? What percentage? 311 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:56.000 It's the retention rate. This is what the subscription, this is what cable 312 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:00.880 man, cable is just I'm not saying it's dying, but cord cutters retention 313 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:04.119 rate. They want to retain you and you as a company. They want 314 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:07.960 a very low retention rate. They don't want churn, man, they don't 315 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.400 want churn. They want you to subscribe and subscribe. It's mailbox money, 316 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.160 it's money coming in. But you have the option a lot of these things 317 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:21.920 just once. Now, why done? They have to provide value? Money 318 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:23.680 is tight for so many people. That's why I say, last segment, 319 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:29.119 look at your credit card statement, look at it, go through it line 320 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:30.200 by line. Oh man, I don't know. I didn't know this. 321 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.680 This subscription is still here. I got to cancel it, right, now 322 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:40.960 go through all of your your your your streaming services. Hi Anni, did 323 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:45.319 you know that we have nine streaming services? Really? All right, that's 324 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.599 it, We're chopping them down to two. You're welcome. I just gave 325 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.319 you a little money over here seven one, three, two, one two, 326 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:55.759 five nine five of If you want to tell me what you got it, 327 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:56.599 what you and if you got if you got to actually, if you 328 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:03.000 got a deal of that steal the century, tell me then I'll be mad 329 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:04.799 that I actually did not hop on it for the Amazon Prime Day. I'm 330 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:07.319 actually gonna be not bad because it's probably gonna be on sale again and in 331 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.440 the next week. If not, it'll be on sale in the next few 332 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:15.160 months before the holiday shopping season comes into play. One thing I did not 333 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.680 get that I know my youngest son got. He had a job, and 334 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.920 I don't think he worked a lot this weekend because I think for about twenty 335 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:26.839 of the twenty four hours of the day he was playing the new EA Sports 336 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:33.240 College Football twenty five video game. If if you're a gamer, and if 337 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:37.680 you're a sports enthusiast, and you're I guess in the demo demographic, this 338 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:45.000 has been long coming. It's been eleven years since a college football video game 339 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.079 has been released, just because EA Sports, you know, got the rights 340 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:52.000 to this and they stopped making a college game now. To be sure, 341 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.920 Madden is an NFL game, Madden twenty five, twenty six, whatever, 342 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:02.000 they're gonna call the whole thing, and it's different. And I and I 343 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:04.279 spend some time. Let's see. So Adam, so my son, I 344 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:08.519 guess it came out Monday and you could download this thing. I think, 345 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:11.480 what is he? He has an Xbox? What is it? No? 346 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.720 No, my oldest has an Xbox. My middle ones got the Nitdendo. 347 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.519 So the youngest one, Adam, he's got the PlayStation. So I guess 348 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:23.599 he downloaded for PlayStation. So he downloaded it and he sent me a shot. 349 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.319 That's all he's been doing. He's been sitting in his Austin apartment and 350 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:32.559 he's been playing the University of Texas Longhorns because obviously that's our favorite team. 351 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.400 That's where he went. And he's did you play arch Manning? He goes, 352 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:38.680 no, No, I'm playing Quinn yours. So so I really actually 353 00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:42.160 should get him on the phone for the for the review. But he said 354 00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:45.839 it's cool. He said it's neat and it and the game is different. 355 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:52.160 The game is different because it's college. The rules are different than the NFL, 356 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:57.240 the players are different, but the settings goes college football atmosphere and what 357 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:02.319 EA Sports has done. And I have not played it, and I probably 358 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:07.200 don't plan on playing it, but I've seen the graphics. College football is 359 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.559 an entire different game than NFL. This scene is crazy, and EA Sports 360 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.359 did a great job of going from over one hundred and to what thirty Division 361 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:22.279 I schools to capture the essence of the craziness and the hype of stadiums of 362 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:27.680 Virginia Tech when they're coming into Metallica, Sandman of Bevo running out. They 363 00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:33.160 actually did the Red River rivalry of Texas versus OU, and they've got the 364 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.119 state bear in the background. Apparently you can almost smell the Fletcher's corny dogs. 365 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.839 He says, it's it's really and then there's nil. Now I know 366 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.000 you can be the in Madden the NFL game. You could play the general 367 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.960 manager and you've got the you got the salary cap. Now you have nil 368 00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:55.599 how to lure and recruit these things. It's it's it's amazing how realistic they 369 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:00.319 is. It is you know what good good for these college students because they 370 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:03.519 are student athletes. We're getting paid, I think getting paid what five or 371 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:07.079 ten thousand dollars to lot to for their like for their name, image and 372 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.559 likeness to be in this video game. So anyway, it is EA Sports 373 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:17.200 College Football twenty five. It came out this week. If you've got thoughts 374 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:21.160 reviews. Standard version of the game seventy dollars. Deluxe is one hundred dollars. 375 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:26.559 No clue what the difference is, but so far the reviews have been 376 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.440 good. It's not a Madden reskin as they call it. There's different plays, 377 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:36.920 dynasty modes, Hall of Fame type of things. I'd like your review. 378 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.440 Feel free open phone lines as we have one more semi coming up this 379 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:44.000 hour in the High Tech Textan show. We've got more information and we're going 380 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:45.559 to be back with some reviews of phones and other fun stuff. Right here, 381 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:53.880 Michael garfielders the Neat got about eight or nine more minutes left in the 382 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:59.119 first hour of the show. Have no fear, We've got all our next 383 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:00.920 man, we're going to talk talk about a lot of stuff I've been really 384 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:07.000 enjoying and playing and reviewing a number of different vehicles. I had not one, 385 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:12.519 not two, but three different test vehicles this week, including a Bronco 386 00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:17.480 Sport, the Ford Broncos Sport. That's the small version. I'll let you 387 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.359 know how that compares to the lig Bronco. I had a Kia, a 388 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:26.200 hybrid Kia, very nice, great gas knowledge and surprisingly when is a mas 389 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.200 de fan, I'm really not a Mazda fan. MAZD c X seventy. 390 00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:37.960 Very impressed with this over previous mas That's a nice CUV, kind of a 391 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.039 large, it's a wider body. I'll give you my thoughts next hour because 392 00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:44.240 it's one of the things that I covered. I do reviews of cars. 393 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:47.640 None of this is a commercial. I get paid for none of it, 394 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:49.759 sadly, so that means I can diss the you know what out of it 395 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:52.079 or I can praise the you know out of it. So that's how we 396 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:56.759 roll here on the high tech text and show. I want to spend a 397 00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.880 minute or two over here, as I said at the top of the hour, 398 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:04.079 remembering a good friend of mine, but also a really good friend of 399 00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:12.359 all of Houston. Ken Hoffman a long time humorist, writer, colonist in 400 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:18.440 the Houston Chronicle going back to the Houston Post more recently of culture map Online. 401 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:25.640 Unexpectedly passed away last Sunday, and it was a shock. I got 402 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:33.640 the call from another close friend of Kin's just a few hours after it happened. 403 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:38.599 And I won't get into the details of what happened out of respect for 404 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:47.279 the family, but it was a shocker. Ken Hoffman. The tributes online 405 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:53.839 from Eustonians who read him, who thought, who seemed like they knew kid, 406 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:02.200 We're amazing and heartfelt. You can't say anything bad about him. You 407 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:08.039 could kid with him because if you read his columns and understood his humor and 408 00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:12.319 I called it his shtick, listen, there are so many people who have 409 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:19.240 stick. His stick was to be a curmudget. His stick was to call 410 00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:26.000 people or companies out unfittingly. So his final column ever, that he wrote 411 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.640 and published just two days before he passed, was on Center Point and guess 412 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:37.640 what he called that company out? That was Ken's Today I went to a 413 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:48.480 private memorial gathering comedy power with a lot of his friends, most of him, 414 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.920 many of them in the media, and his family and there were just 415 00:31:55.039 --> 00:32:00.359 laughs because Ken Hoffman was crazy. I go back yesterday I was in another 416 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:07.279 local radio show and we were joking because they twenty years. You find out 417 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.839 a lot about people, especially when you actually spend time with him, and 418 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:14.319 I spent I spent a good amount of time with Ken. He gave me 419 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:15.960 business. He gave me which I can't say the word. He gave me 420 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.319 a lot of the bleep, but it was good. And I credit Ken 421 00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.839 with helping me and helping my career. He followed the media. He loved 422 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:28.519 media. He loved most of the media. He loved writing, but he 423 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:31.000 loved radio. Ken actually came to Houston and he was part of the Q 424 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:35.359 Morning Zoo, and that was before I got to Houston. I guess this 425 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:38.160 was the late eighties or early nineties, and he played characters and he was 426 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:43.039 a writer. He wrote for radio. This is when you actually wrote for 427 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:46.759 radio. No one writes my radio stick, but sometimes did you have bits? 428 00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:51.920 And Ken wrote for radio. And then he appeared on radio. He 429 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.920 appeared on I had a daily radio show here on nine fifty am for several 430 00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:00.359 years and Ken appeared on a weekly basis, and he would come on and 431 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.920 he would talk about nothing. I don't like what I talk about. We 432 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.400 would shoot the breeze and we would play trivia games because he was like me, 433 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:15.359 astute with the most meaningless facts that you would ever know. And we 434 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.720 would try to stump each other. And we all have our sweet spots. 435 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:24.160 If you read Ken's column in the papers over the years, he talked about 436 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:30.079 his loves, just like I talk about what I enjoy. Love of my 437 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:34.559 life. Let me talk about my kids. You know where I'm from. 438 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.119 You know I'm from Dallas. You know why I went to the University of 439 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.880 Texas. You know my favorite football teams. You've listened to me talk about 440 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:45.400 how my three boys have grown up and what they do. You know I'm 441 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.759 a runner. You know my favorite coach. I may have learned that from 442 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:54.799 Ken. He was the biggest Beatles fan. He loved playing and watching tennis, 443 00:33:55.480 --> 00:34:01.880 loved living in West u love literally because of his son. Andrew bloated 444 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:08.599 on his son. Andrew loved eating. His stick was about eating. He 445 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.360 had a part of his column was the Fast Food Gourmet. It was syndicated 446 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:19.559 all over the country. He didn't care about anything pretentious. He would cuss 447 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:22.840 out anything pretentious. Yeah, I'll tell you a story here at a second 448 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.480 or two. But for him, it was Chick fil A, it was 449 00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:30.159 Hooters. We have spent so many times at Chick fil A and Hooters because 450 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:36.400 we liked the wings at Hooters. Seriously, he helped my career because when 451 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.320 I started story number one and again, I'll have about another minute or two 452 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:44.960 or three in this segment. I first started my career, my media career 453 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:52.679 here in Houston in two thousand. I was on Channel two and I was 454 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:57.679 in the early morning and I was doing a segment right before the Today Show 455 00:34:57.679 --> 00:34:59.880 came on, about three minutes and it was about technology. And this is 456 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.159 two thousand, this is when technology was just it was the dot com era. 457 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:07.840 It was crazy and someone needed to explain technology in a really easy to 458 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:12.159 understand since so I was on and I came up with the moniker the high 459 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:15.960 Tech Texts, and I trademarked it. And then at that point A time 460 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:20.480 Warner AOL Time Warner had just released road Runner, remember their high speed internet 461 00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.800 service, and they used me as their spokesperson and they created TV commercials. 462 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:28.840 I was on TV commercials. I was on radio spots on all radio stations. 463 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:31.039 It wasn't just Clear Channel back in the day. I was on billboards. 464 00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:34.880 I mean, this is me out of nowhere. I created this brand 465 00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:38.679 and I came out of nowhere. So as I knew who ken Hoffman was, 466 00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:42.400 he he would write about media and it was like, oh my god, 467 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.519 how cool it would be to be mentioned in a ken Hoffman or a 468 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:49.599 Maxim messenger. Call him back into the society. Call. So one day, 469 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:51.960 about a year or two into my career, two thousand and one, 470 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:57.400 two thousand and two, I get a phone call voicemail. Hey, Garfield, 471 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.440 this is Jenn Hoffman from the Houston Chronicle. I don't know about you, 472 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.840 but I'm getting emails and I'm getting letters left and right asking who the 473 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:07.599 hell are you? Call me back? Here's my number. I was at 474 00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:12.480 all. Ken Hoffman's calling me. He wants to interview me. Called it 475 00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:15.320 back and we probably had an hour long conversation telling him who I was and 476 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:21.239 what I did. But we hit it off. I don't know, just 477 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:25.079 because that we're both we don't take ourselves seriously. We probably didn't imagine either 478 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:31.960 of us being in a very large market to be able to spout our views 479 00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:37.440 or talk or smile in front of a massive amount of people, and so 480 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:42.599 we got along. He wrote about me in a column and he didn't give 481 00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:45.280 me too much crap. He was very respectful. Here's a guy who actually 482 00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.400 kind of came up with an I Dan. He ran with it in over 483 00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:51.480 the years and years and years. He would mention me and he would always 484 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:54.000 praise my radio show, probably because he was on my radio show here and 485 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:59.280 there, and people would write in with letters. And I have every single 486 00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:02.280 one of his column where he wrote about me, and because it was big, 487 00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:07.360 it was me. I was pinging myself. I'm an a Canna Hoffman 488 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:09.320 column and he would, you know, talk about you know, Garf. 489 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:13.960 He's so funny, he's got the best hair in the business. He dresses 490 00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:15.559 well, it's why is he looking so good? And he has so good 491 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.360 hair and he's not on TV. He's in the radio. We would go 492 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.559 to go to lunch and you would talk about our lunches of Oh my god, 493 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:25.079 I can't believe I got stumped on this music trivia from the eighties. 494 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:30.079 He was he was just a funny, funny soul. And to pass away 495 00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:37.400 so suddenly and unexpectedly, it's a shock for not just me, for not 496 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:42.599 just the people that knew him, for so many people here at iHeartRadio, 497 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:47.119 Matt Thomas, our good buddy here on our sister station seven ninety Sports Sports 498 00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:53.159 Radio, very good friends with him too. It's it sucks, and it's 499 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:58.039 a tragedy, and just it's another crappy thing that is going on in this 500 00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:04.159 world. So for all of you who Redkin and you enjoyed him, continue 501 00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:09.800 to think about him. His columns live on Google him and just think and 502 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:14.840 remember of his son Andrew, his wife Aaron, and may his memory be 503 00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:19.000 a blessing indeed, and we will get thinking. On the other side of 504 00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:32.960 the high Tech text Show, I is Michael Garfield, of Michael Garfield. 505 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.239 Michael Garfield's joining us in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with 506 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:43.199 a high Tech Texans. It was to make life easier some new technology. 507 00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:52.360 So Michael Garfield has something you might like. Michael Garfield is your high tech 508 00:38:52.440 --> 00:39:02.440 Texan three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the 509 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:09.760 iheartwadio after now You're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Iwer number two is 510 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.400 just beginning. Take a look at the clock. I'm her way through my 511 00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:17.000 work week, since I allegedly only work two hours a week, which means 512 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:22.119 we are a halfway to happy hour. And wherever you are, if you're 513 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:25.400 in the hot, you mid nasty Houston sign and I you know, listen, 514 00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:28.920 odds are if you don't have power man, odds are you are schmit 515 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:31.920 singing. I wish I could apologize, and I feel for you, I 516 00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:36.400 really do. If you're your center part, a center point, and you're 517 00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:39.360 one of the linemen or line women, listen, we empathize with you. 518 00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:43.639 I know it's hot, I know it's nasty. It's not your fault. 519 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:47.760 Just just hang in there. The worst comes source you just need to move. 520 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.920 It's as symbol as that. I saw some poll somebody posted on Facebook, 521 00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:58.280 which means you can take it at not even face worth. That somebody 522 00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:01.559 pulled somebody Eustonians and they I said, three out of ten Eustonians would consider 523 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:06.840 moving or leaving just because of the way the power grid and the system goes 524 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:10.360 down. I'm actually think it's pretty low. But where else are you gonna 525 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:15.519 go? I mean, you know me, I'd go to California mostly because 526 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:20.400 of the gorgeous weather and job opportunities in media. My son lives out there. 527 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:25.599 But you know, the price of living, and it's just we are 528 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.400 just not having a very good time in our lives right now. As I 529 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:36.039 started to show an hour ago, it's been a pretty crappy few weeks. 530 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.960 If it wasn't a hurricane that hit directly in our hometown, there was a 531 00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:46.880 kuk who tried to assassinate a former president and current candidate one hundreds of thousands 532 00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:52.639 of residents right here still without power. And the list of people who passed 533 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:59.880 away just this past week, it's staggering. Shelley Duval, doctor Ruth Richardson, 534 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:05.280 and Shannon Dougherty, Bob NewART, and of course our good friend of 535 00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:07.880 mine and our good friends of so many people here and used to the talented, 536 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:15.519 the witty and the big ultimately curmudgeon Ken Hoffman, longtime writer the Euston 537 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:20.840 Chronicle, the Houston Post. Just an untimely death last weekend, and I 538 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:22.960 am just I remember him. I am so grateful to have known him. 539 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:27.480 I went to his memorial, very private memorial service yesterday that his family held, 540 00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:31.119 and I exchanged some text with him just a few days before he passed. 541 00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:37.159 I did the last segment before you know, we we took a break. 542 00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:40.440 I shared how we met when he first interviewed me for one of his 543 00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:45.639 columns, and he just do in chronicle, and I'll share a quick, 544 00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:50.840 funny story. The very last time I communicated him, it was it was 545 00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:53.960 just over a week a week and a half ago, and I was traveling. 546 00:41:54.000 --> 00:42:02.199 I was in New York and Ken famously Wright wrote about food, fast 547 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:08.039 food, burgers, pizza, fries. He had a column the what was 548 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:14.679 it, the drive through Gourmet, and he would just just he would just 549 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:20.280 choose fast food over anything that's nice. I don't know if the guy's ever 550 00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:23.000 eaten in a nice restaurant in his adult life. That was his stick, 551 00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:29.800 that was his thing. But he had one place, his favorite pizza in 552 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:34.920 the world, and it's in New York that he would write about. He 553 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.039 wrote about since I've been reading him for thirty years, Yeah, gotta got 554 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:44.320 her to this one pizza place. And people would write into him because when 555 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.679 Sundays in the User Chronicle, he used to publish some emails and letters that 556 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.920 he would get and inevitably once a month, once every two months, somebody 557 00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:53.199 would hey, Ken, I'm going to New York. What's your favorite pizza 558 00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:57.719 place? And he would always he was always write about it again and again 559 00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:04.679 for what it's worth. It's Lombardes and it's in Little Italy. So I 560 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.360 happen to be staying in Soho, which is just a few blocks from Little 561 00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:12.280 Italy, and I knew it was Lombard's and I went there for dinner. 562 00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.559 So I walk over there by and I'm by myself, walk in and there's 563 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:19.000 pictures in the wall, famous pictures, and it's on the corner and it's 564 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.840 Little Italy is it's it's a fun place. If you've never been highly recommended, 565 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:25.760 just walking up and down and so going into Lombards and again I have 566 00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:31.440 I haven't talked, texted ten in a while. It has been a while. 567 00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:35.119 So I go in and I sit down at the bar by myself, 568 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:38.039 and I order a beizza bye, and I order a whatever. It's a 569 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:43.199 cheese, it's it's mushroom, spinach, whatever, had a beer. Took 570 00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.519 some pictures of it, and then I go outside when I'm done, and 571 00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:47.920 I take a picture, I selfie of me standing in front of Lombard's. 572 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.960 So I texted to Ken week and a half ago and I said, in 573 00:43:54.119 --> 00:44:02.239 New York, honoring you eating at your favorite pizza place ever sitt in the 574 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:10.119 picture here. He responded, Oh, that place is now a bleephole. 575 00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:15.920 The original owners sold it to somebody else a few weeks A few years ago. 576 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:20.880 I wasn't bear going there again. Oh my goodness. I mean, 577 00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:23.159 I make a track to little Italy. I go there. I sit at 578 00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:27.000 the order to think, thinking, kid is gonna be so impressed. He's 579 00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:30.039 like, no, it's a beepeepepepepe peep. Don't go there again. And 580 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:34.320 so I laughed, how you doing? What's going on? He told me 581 00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:38.599 that this was this was a day after the hurricane hit and he uh met 582 00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:45.119 a lake house in Lake Conroe and he was up there and he was fixed. 583 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:47.480 He just said, yeah, you know that the water was churned up 584 00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.559 in the dock. It was just messed up and whatever. And I go, 585 00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:54.760 okay, you know, I hope it's hope you've been well stuff like 586 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.719 that in New York visiting. I get back and let's let's get together. 587 00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:01.280 And always in that way with so many people, it's like, okay, 588 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:07.719 we'll get together and get back. And that was the last time I ever 589 00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.719 texted, the last time I ever communicated him. Sunday morning, he had 590 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:17.039 an untimely, just an accident, and Kin is gone. But I will 591 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:21.400 always share us all the stupid things that is stupid thing. We didn't do 592 00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:24.320 too many stupid things that were you know, he loved Hooters, he loved 593 00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:29.840 Chick fil A, he loved fast food burgers, and he would just we 594 00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.480 would just go and talk about the media and just whatever. Played tennis a 595 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:37.800 few times. He loved tennis. So I'm sitting Shiva, I am thinking 596 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.199 of him, and you should too, for his wife Aaron, his son 597 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:45.239 Andrew, the great kN Hoffmann, and may his memory be a blessing, 598 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:47.719 and it is going to be a blessing for so so many people here in 599 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:52.519 Houston because he was such a fixture now from New Jersey, but he made 600 00:45:52.519 --> 00:46:00.599 Houston his adoptive hometown. And whoever one day writes the official history of Houston, 601 00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:07.639 ironically, they have to include Ken, who is a writer who probably 602 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:13.519 should have written his own history of Houston. Ken Hoffman, we love you, 603 00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:15.400 man, We love you. All right, we are going to continue 604 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:17.400 the high Tech Textan show. Last hour, we talked about the AT and 605 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:21.000 T data breach. We talked about some of the Amazon Prime deals. Of 606 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:22.840 what you missed out on and actually was it even worth it to have some 607 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.440 open phone lines? Seven one three, two one two five nine five. 608 00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:31.639 Oh, coming back, do we need another chatbot? There's another one? 609 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:36.400 And he guesses of what the crazy name this one's called? Oh no, 610 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:39.559 no, it's not Siri. Nope, it's we got a new one over 611 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:43.400 here. Let's see if you like it, plus your calls and emails right 612 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:52.280 here on Michael Garfield. It's called the high Tech Texting shown. Where were 613 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:57.679 you fifty five years ago? Today? And I say today, if you're 614 00:46:57.719 --> 00:47:02.239 listening live seconder day, it is Jill twentieth. It was nineteen sixty nine, 615 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:07.559 ring a bell, July twentieth, nineteen sixteen, Noah in the chap 616 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:13.760 Aquatic Kennedy incident, that that was the day before. Where were you when 617 00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:23.360 man first sent foot on the Moon? Happy anniversary NASA and everybody involved with 618 00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:34.000 freaking landing a man a vessel on the Moon. I was a very young 619 00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:39.679 kiddo, so I don't remember it. But as a historian, as a 620 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:46.119 kid who grew up in the seventies, man alstronauts were it. I had 621 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:52.760 the metal lunch box with the astronauts on it. Yep, the glass, 622 00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:58.719 thermous astronauts and everything. Yep, had to have that one if you grew 623 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:02.400 up in that era. And I guess I speak as a man, I 624 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:07.079 speak as a male, and maybe he was males moves than females who didn't 625 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:12.480 want to be an astronaut. Not there Apollo eleven and then well we're not 626 00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.480 gonna kind of follow thirteen, which obviously everybody came back safely. Thank you 627 00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:22.559 Tom Hanks. It was just the coolest thing ever. My radiotellision film classes 628 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:29.480 that I took at the University of Texas, we dissected historic TV broadcast and 629 00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:35.960 the Walter Cronkite live reaction when he teared up, took his glasses off when 630 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:42.559 he first saw the Apollo Elevan rover just just land in the moon. And 631 00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.440 then Neil Armstrong step out with his famous words one small step from man Win, 632 00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:52.639 giantly from man Coin and then buzz was playing around. That was a 633 00:48:53.760 --> 00:49:04.159 you talk about a siminal moment in history, not even American history. It's 634 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.920 just time. I mean, we can go back to dinosaurs, caveman tire, 635 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:15.800 the wheel fire launching and landing on the moon. Listen, for those 636 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.239 of you people who think it didn't happen for the conspiracy theory, I don't 637 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.039 know. Maybe you think it was Lee Harvey Oswald actually was filming that doubt. 638 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.119 I mean, every conspiracy is a conspiracy. I take it. It's 639 00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:30.159 face value landed on the Moon. How we want to go back? I 640 00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:34.400 don't know why, but we do. So Happy anniversary because you know what, 641 00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:40.239 it did take rocket scientists all their knowledge to do that, and it's 642 00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:45.400 pretty pretty cool. I bet there's some people listening right now who were involved 643 00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:51.559 in the in the Apollo in the mission. I mean at some point, 644 00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:55.159 if not, maybe your parents were part of your family. A lot of 645 00:49:55.239 --> 00:49:59.400 listeners down in the Clear Lake area, So shout out to NASA, So 646 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:05.239 happy aniversary with that. Michael Garfield is the name. It doesn't take a 647 00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:13.239 rocket scientist now to create apps and websites and new business models. When it 648 00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:16.960 comes to the world of technology, I wonder how smart people are what It 649 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.920 takes a lot of marketers though, to create something to get people to use 650 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:28.920 it. Let's go with Amazon. Amazon was another similar point in the Internet 651 00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:32.199 of a paradigm shift. Was a paradigm shift. That's how we bought books. 652 00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:36.159 Original point mean you could buy a book online, Amazon's whols largest bookstore. 653 00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:40.039 Amazon is sell almost anything you want right now? Did it take? 654 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:45.920 Is Jeff Bezos a rocket scientist? Now pretty smart, good businessman? All 655 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:52.280 right? But Amazon pretty cool? I talked about Amazon ex Amazon just came 656 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:55.440 out with something and they probably had some semi smart people do it. They 657 00:50:55.719 --> 00:51:00.960 just came out with an artificial intelligent chatbot. That's right, there's another a 658 00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:08.280 I chat bot bringing on the Air's always room for a chatbot. Now we've 659 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:15.400 got everything from Alexa, We've got Siri, we have got Bixby for Samsung, 660 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:22.239 we got an hour things Amazon AI chatbot. The new name, any 661 00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:23.559 guess is Calum. I'm looking at you. Calum is a punch of butts 662 00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:27.400 by in the class. You don't even guess. It's just I don't know 663 00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:31.760 where they came It's it's a it's one word, it's one name. It's 664 00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:36.199 a it's a guy's name. I would assume nowadays it didn't matter. You 665 00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:37.679 can go, get go, but it's a generally you guys, dad uh. 666 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:44.039 He was also the name of a pretty famous musical artist who sing with 667 00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:49.079 Cha Ka Khan. Chaka Khan. You don't know what Shaka Khan is all 668 00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:57.280 right, Hey, I chatbot the new name rufous. Hey, rufus, 669 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:00.519 help me find a new name. That actually the first question I would ask 670 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:04.920 it it is. It's actually live right now for all US customers. It's 671 00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:08.000 in a beta version, but they started testing this thing back in February. 672 00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:15.239 Right now, rufous looks to be tied directly to Amazon's if you have the 673 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.679 shopping app, not the web version. So if you're on the web version, 674 00:52:19.719 --> 00:52:23.840 and you probably were on Amazon Prime Days earlier this week, you potentially 675 00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:29.679 can play with rufus. Let me tell you what it does. It helps 676 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:34.679 you with shopping. I wonder why. Because it's an Amazon chatpot. You 677 00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:39.000 can ask it for a list of recommended products and ask what specific products do 678 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:45.559 and stuff like that. Wait a minute, shouldn't have been have been called 679 00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:51.679 the high Tech Texan because that's what I do. I recommend products, I 680 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:55.880 tell you what products do, and stuff like that. To play with the 681 00:52:55.920 --> 00:53:00.559 little To me, it's kind of boring, which is not like the high 682 00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:02.800 Tech text. And that's why they probably couldn't call it the high Tech Texan. 683 00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:07.000 But if Amazon chemic on and they wanted de license the name the high 684 00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:10.559 tech Texan. I'm more than abby to belly up to the bar and talk 685 00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:19.840 with them. So do we need something like this I Amazon says it's been 686 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:24.719 trained on product on the product catalog, customer reviews, community questions and answers, 687 00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:30.360 public information found through the web. Try it out. You have to 688 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.599 update. Go to the Amazon app, but update to the latest version of 689 00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:36.199 the app, and you look for this little colorful icon at the bottom right. 690 00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:40.119 I don't know it's I just don't know if we need anything like that. 691 00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:45.320 I don't even use I have one. I don't use Amazon Election. 692 00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:47.679 I don't because I only have one of those. I actually have two of 693 00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:52.280 them, White House. I do use the Google app. I do use 694 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:55.760 that weight orb because I have a lot of Google enabled devices in my home 695 00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:05.440 in I have used Samsung for years, decades. I have never once used 696 00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:12.280 Bixby. That's the name of their AI helper. Chat by person is Bixby 697 00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:15.079 a girls name or guy guys? I think of the incredible Hulk Bill Bixby. 698 00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:19.559 That's what I think of when I think of Bixby. You know, 699 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.119 if anybody wants to try that. It is now called rufus In Shaka Khan 700 00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:25.880 Sadly, because of licensing rules, we cannot play a Rufous and Shatka Cohn? 701 00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:30.960 Can I can I sing this callum? You know the rules over here. 702 00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:32.199 I mean, we don't want to get ie hard in trouble. I 703 00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:35.400 don't want them. I don't want my bosses coming to me and saying I 704 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:38.440 owe eighteen point three cents because we played on Rufous? Can I sing chuck 705 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:43.199 a callin? Everybody? Can I Did I just break some rule I don't 706 00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:45.719 even know? I go ahead and try that. When we come back. 707 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:50.840 I'm gonna take a break. There are other companies other than Samsung and other 708 00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:58.800 than Apple who make decent earbuds and decent watches and pads and everything. I'm 709 00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:01.119 gonna come back, and I got a another company who I'm actually find I 710 00:55:01.239 --> 00:55:07.039 wear their watch daily. This is my fitness in tracking watch daily. My 711 00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:10.800 favorite one. Not made by Samsug, not made by Apple. I'll tell 712 00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:13.679 you what that is. But they just came out with some upgrades. I 713 00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:22.639 will tell you that along with your calls here on the Depiction Show, all 714 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:24.719 right, trivia question for you about them? They are trivia question. As 715 00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:29.440 we approached about that thirty minutes to left to go in the show, how 716 00:55:29.559 --> 00:55:37.840 much is the price of a first class postage stamp? Anyone? Anyone didn't 717 00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:42.599 think so? Well, it's about the change. If you thought you knew 718 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.840 what it is. Tomorrow Sunday, the price of a first class posted stamp 719 00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:52.519 is going up for the second time this year. I remember it took years 720 00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:57.559 for first class post to stamps to go up in price second time this year. 721 00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:00.119 Keep thinking about it. Why just tell a little story too. I 722 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:02.280 want to know the percentage of my audience right now. Win's the last time 723 00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:09.920 you've used a postage stamp? Win? How many things do you actually snail 724 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:15.440 mail? Other than maybe you have to send packages or at the holiday season 725 00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:19.519 you sell something on eBay? You gotta do you print these things out? 726 00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:23.599 I am of age where we grew up with postage stamps. Postage stamps were 727 00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:28.480 I rente. I should check. Hey, there were out of dope sixteen 728 00:56:28.519 --> 00:56:30.679 seventeen, eighteen cents, they were a quartered, they were forty cents, 729 00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:32.480 they were fifty cent. Now you get these things. What are they called 730 00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:37.360 the forever stamps? It's I guess it's a smart thing. But what you 731 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:43.760 if you plan to send snail mail. Years ago, you should have brought 732 00:56:44.639 --> 00:56:46.880 rolls and rolls and rolls of forever stamps at forty or fifty cents whatever it 733 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:52.639 is, because the price of a stamp tomorrow goes up five cents to seventy 734 00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:57.400 three cents, seventy three cents to to send a what a one ounce two 735 00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:01.400 ounce piece of mail Somewhere, kids, pull up a chair. Let me 736 00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:04.679 tell you what the post office is. Let me tell you what a mailing 737 00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:09.960 of a letter or a card is. I was talking to my mom a 738 00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:15.559 month or two ago about this about something, and she did I send her 739 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:16.920 I guess it was a Mother's Day card. Maybe she's up there up now. 740 00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:22.000 And we got to talk about stamps. No, no, no, 741 00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:22.920 no, no, no. Yeah. She told me about a month ago 742 00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:25.800 that, oh, if you run out of if you're running out of stamps 743 00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:29.880 or any more stamps, go buy some stamps right now because the price is 744 00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:37.880 going up in July. And I I'm like stamps. I said, do 745 00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:42.760 you know how many times a year I actually mail something? And I can 746 00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:45.599 easily count it on two hands, if not one hand, because I do 747 00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.639 mail. I mail her Mother's Day card, I mail her birthday card, 748 00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:54.679 I mail a Father's Day card, I mail his birthday card. I am 749 00:57:54.840 --> 00:58:00.360 trying to think if I mail anything else. He all my bills online. 750 00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:05.960 All the communication is there. I don't even really get a lot of things 751 00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:08.199 in the mail for my bills because I said, no, no, no, 752 00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:10.800 save the paper, just you know, send me the email or whatever 753 00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:14.480 it is. And again I see it on an email, but anyway, 754 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:20.880 it's She was very adamant about me going to stock up on first last post 755 00:58:20.920 --> 00:58:23.639 of stamps, forever stamps, so I could save five cents on each if 756 00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:28.639 I mail five, six, seven eight pieces of mail a year. How 757 00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:35.239 about you? Does anybody do mail? Like handwritten notes? And it's a 758 00:58:35.400 --> 00:58:42.440 lost art for them? And occasionally if I meet somebody that I it has 759 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.159 got to be old school. I have got to meet somebody who's older than 760 00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:46.599 me and I actually know what I liked. I did this earlier this year. 761 00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:52.199 I ran into a gentleman, a businessman here. He was probably in 762 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:57.159 his upper sixties, young lower seventies. I was someone with him and I 763 00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:00.960 overheard him talking about handwriting thank you notes, your handwriting letters and mailing him 764 00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:02.679 and I walked up to him and I said, you know what. That's 765 00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:06.639 a lost art. I don't do it a lot, but I have done 766 00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:08.320 it before, and we really hit it off. We had lunch and he 767 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:10.599 turns out he's an eagle scout. I'm an eagle scout. We go back 768 00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:15.000 and forth, and I got his business guard and guess what I did. 769 00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:17.960 I actually got a piece of stationary, which I still have it. I 770 00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:22.760 still think my stationary is my thank youness for my bar Mitzvah forty plus years 771 00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:25.840 ago. I'm not kidding him. I wrote him a nice to meet you. 772 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:30.880 Little things like that go a long way, and if you want to 773 00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:32.360 do it, it's gonna cost you seventy three cents. We continue. I 774 00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:35.679 have no clue how I got on that, because this is just how times 775 00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:39.119 I'm a paradigm shift guy. I am a paradigm shift God's exactly what I 776 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:45.000 am. You know what's also old school? Remember your first computer. Let's 777 00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:50.119 go back to nineteen wow, well, if you you know, listen, 778 00:59:50.159 --> 00:59:52.800 we go back to personal computers. You know, massively. If you had 779 00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:55.199 one of the first Apples in nineteen eighty four, maybef you got your first 780 00:59:55.280 --> 01:00:00.400 PC. I may have got my first big, semi powerful PC back in 781 01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:04.480 the late eighties, early nineties or whatever it was. It was a Microsoft 782 01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:07.599 was I've always had a Microsoft operating system. You remember, they used to 783 01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:12.840 come loaded with a few games and they were the worst, most rudimentary games 784 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:15.920 you've ever seen. Do you remember Wait for Your Loves? Do you remember 785 01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:22.920 Mine Sweeper, y agnor mind Sweeper? How many hours did we just kill 786 01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:31.199 a lot our office desks playing mind Sweeper? It was kind of a strategy 787 01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:36.119 slash guest game. Whatever, you don't think. I don't even know is 788 01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:38.519 Mine Sweeper still on? I'm looking at a Microsoft operating system, Ida, 789 01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:40.920 I don't even know if I have a mind Sweeper. But guess what, 790 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:46.440 Mine Sweeper is back. Just like flip phones, Mine Sweeper is back, 791 01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:53.559 baby, because you can now play Mine Sweeper on Netflix's app. Netflix. 792 01:00:55.280 --> 01:01:04.320 They have reimagined this TC puzzle game with an international setting, and it takes 793 01:01:04.360 --> 01:01:08.840 a player literally looking for underwater mines by by overlaying interfaces of numbers and flags 794 01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:15.639 and pictures of waterways from all over the world. Pretty cool. I guess 795 01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:22.199 it's it's free, there's a there's an it's it's an advertiser supported, or 796 01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:25.880 you could purchase it without ad free, I wouldn't purchase the thing. It's 797 01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:31.239 it's retro people mine Sweeper. It's an interesting retro addition to really what Netflix 798 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:36.039 is trying to do. They have they have a wide range of game titles. 799 01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:37.559 You think Netflix is just oh, let's just watch some movies and some 800 01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:43.719 TV shows. Now, no, they've got games. There's Hearts, they 801 01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:49.119 have Solitaire, and they they have they have the Grand Theft Auto series. 802 01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:54.159 They're really casting a wide net with his endeavor. Mine sweet, what am 803 01:01:54.159 --> 01:01:58.360 I missing? Seven one three, two one two five nine five? What 804 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:05.119 other Solitaire? Yes it was Solitaire, mind sweeper? What else can where? 805 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.719 They'll see only two games on like the original windows. Need some help 806 01:02:07.760 --> 01:02:12.079 here, go go to high tech textan on my on my x account or 807 01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:17.920 my threads. What games were? What games did you play? I mean 808 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.360 I remember playing was Tetris? Was Tetris was on the Game Boy system first? 809 01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:28.519 But anyway, listen, this is I called Now, this is the 810 01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:32.360 the doulgrums of the summer. Football is not happening yet. Basketball is over 811 01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.159 hockey if anybody cares about that's not happening baseball. If you're a baseball finan, 812 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:42.400 that's what you got Olympics are coming out. You may have watched everything 813 01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:45.199 on all your streamers. You don't know what to do. Why not play 814 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:47.760 games? And if you subscribe to Netflix, they really do have a pretty 815 01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:52.639 solid collection. Again, this is not I don't have Netflix, so this 816 01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:55.679 is not an endorsement. I'm just telling you Netflix is really doing an interesting 817 01:02:55.800 --> 01:03:00.039 job for games. Now. Obviously, you may have your own Xbox, 818 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:05.440 you may have your PlayStation, you may have your Nintendo. All three of 819 01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:08.159 my boys have all each of them has their own system. But if you 820 01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:12.039 have a Netflix and soo many people have Netflix, there you go. You 821 01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:15.840 actually can watch that. I'm gonna play with that. Got an email over 822 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:20.039 here, Michael, I hear you talking about new phones. I want to 823 01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:22.239 know how the camera is. It's interesting that the new flip phone finally upgraded 824 01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:25.960 to fifty megapixels. It sounds like you're excited with it. So let us 825 01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:29.440 know, please how it is, because if so, I do like the 826 01:03:29.519 --> 01:03:31.639 form factor of the Flip and full phones, and so I may actually get 827 01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:36.199 one of those things. But also what about camera tips? I know AI 828 01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:39.599 is is still the email. The AI looks like it's al but the AI 829 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:45.360 can take over. So many functions to make photos better. Any specific camera 830 01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:47.199 tips that you use, because I follow you on Instagram at high Tech text 831 01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:51.599 and you take some really nice videos and photos. That is from Who's that 832 01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:55.119 from? Janet? Janet? Is apparently a good question, Janet. Cameras 833 01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:01.480 on phones, they're getting so much better. As I told you, I'm 834 01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:05.199 playing right now with the new Samsung flip phone, the Flip six, the 835 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:10.760 fold phone, the Full six. The Flip phone went from a twelve megapixel 836 01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:15.480 camera, which was yeah, to a fifty megapixel which is very good. 837 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:19.320 It's not great, there are greater ones out there, but it's a big 838 01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:26.360 step upward. But when it comes to taking videos and taking photos, there 839 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:30.480 are a lot of things that you can do where you stand versus this sign 840 01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:34.159 is there is there backlight on some of these things. And so yeah, 841 01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:40.079 there are some rent you know, interesting things that that that you can do 842 01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:43.639 for for some tips and so you know, let me see maybe I could 843 01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:48.880 you know, play around with you know, giving you a a tip or 844 01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:53.559 two of some of these things. Again, watch where you're standing in the 845 01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:57.760 sun sun. You never want to put it directly behind somebody because it's going 846 01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:00.480 to be backlited and even if there's AI could fix it, it's very tough 847 01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:04.960 to do. Another thing, don't forget that your phone, your camera has 848 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:09.159 a timer on it. It's got built in photo timer, no matter what 849 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:13.079 phones do you use it and if you use a timer yet generally, sometimes 850 01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:16.400 don't have to ask some rando stranger to take a photo, because sometimes you 851 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:20.559 hear stories that could lead to bad news. Somebody you can hand your your 852 01:05:20.599 --> 01:05:24.320 traveling You hand a phone to some stranger and guess what, they can run 853 01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:28.239 away with the phone. And then there's the selfies are good, but how 854 01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:30.519 your arm is only what three three feet long, and you're not gonna get 855 01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:34.000 the whole scope with there. Set your camera down on something you know, 856 01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:38.519 make sure it's steady, a rock or a wall, or prop it up. 857 01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:42.639 Set a timer. My timer I think has a two second, a 858 01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:45.519 five second, and a ten second, which gives you ample enough time. 859 01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:49.000 I actually have my Samsung cameras, my lett A Samsung cameras. I can 860 01:05:49.079 --> 01:05:51.880 set up a phone for SELFI mode, and I can stand back. I 861 01:05:51.960 --> 01:05:56.840 can hold my hand up, hold five fingers up to a phone. It 862 01:05:57.039 --> 01:06:00.880 recognizes that and it'll take a snap. It'll take a photo. Some some 863 01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:05.199 of them. You actually you could you can say photo cheese snap use that. 864 01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:08.800 That's another little tip to actually help it out. You could do that 865 01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:13.480 in your settings over here. Make sure it's stable. Get a selfie stick, 866 01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:15.960 Get a tripod. They are tripods that are very small and very light. 867 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:24.079 You can actually do that too and clean them up. You don't even 868 01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:28.039 need sometime to actually download apps like face tune or photoshop or any of this 869 01:06:28.119 --> 01:06:31.199 stuff. I know specifically my Android operating system, the when I use on 870 01:06:31.239 --> 01:06:36.239 Samsung right now, they have really nice ways to to what I if you 871 01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:39.400 know me, you know what I call it. I call it sexing it 872 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:41.599 up. Hey, nice photo. I'm not gonna send you it, yeah, 873 01:06:41.599 --> 01:06:44.000 because I gotta sex it up. Sit up to me is I'm gonna 874 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.159 I'm gonna make sure it's bright. I'm gonna make sure everybody faces faces can 875 01:06:46.239 --> 01:06:49.039 be seen. Put a little bit more color, maybe put a little more 876 01:06:49.119 --> 01:06:55.360 saturation. But now there's AI, specifically with Samsung, there's Galaxy AI because 877 01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:58.800 I know that because I use it. What it does. It fixes things 878 01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:02.239 automatically. And the other thing is one of the neat things that I've been 879 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:05.239 doing. When I was in New York, so I'm taking pictures of the 880 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:09.400 New York landscape or shea cut and I was in Chicago too, and I'm 881 01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:11.800 taking a picture of the bean for example, you know the famous bean, 882 01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:14.719 and I'm taking a picture of the selfie of the beam, and there's so 883 01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:17.400 many people around the bean. You could see me, but there's all these 884 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:21.199 people around me. You can digitally remove these people. Now, yes, 885 01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:25.039 you could always have done that if you know what you're doing. A photoshop. 886 01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:30.159 Ah with Galaxy, there's like one tap, one tap, you tap 887 01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:32.320 on something you want to I could I could have removed the bean itself. 888 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:35.519 I could have tapped on a picture of the bean. Hoof it's gone. 889 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:39.960 And what it does it uses artificial intelligence to fill in what would have been 890 01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:43.199 there. But what I use it for is I can erase things. It's 891 01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:46.280 like back to the future. Remember the famous photo of Marty and his brother 892 01:07:46.519 --> 01:07:50.800 and his sister and it was his body was slowly erasing. That's it. 893 01:07:51.239 --> 01:07:57.239 It actually works right now. So appreciate the email. Do that you play 894 01:07:57.320 --> 01:08:00.960 with your phone, upgrade your camera on your phone, and sometimes there's updates 895 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:04.440 those things, and you'd be surprised how much better pictures that you can get 896 01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:06.960 all right. That's about it for that thing. We've got. Team one 897 01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:11.360 has one more segment left before we end this show here in the middle of 898 01:08:11.440 --> 01:08:14.119 July. It is Michael Garfield the High Tech Techna and we're gonna be right 899 01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:23.560 back. We are finally at the point of the final segment Good or Bad, 900 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:27.239 which means my work week is about ova and about nine or ten minutes, 901 01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:29.439 I do thank you for hanging in. Michael is the name. It's 902 01:08:29.479 --> 01:08:32.680 Michael Garfield, the original Michael. Maybe a few other Michaels here at iHeart 903 01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:36.000 Houston, but I've been here a while, and I do thank you for 904 01:08:36.119 --> 01:08:41.479 hanging in. It is called the High Tech Texting Show, and we talked 905 01:08:41.479 --> 01:08:45.079 a lot more than the technology here. Certainly with the untimely passing of our 906 01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:49.520 good friend in Houston, Ken Hoffman, longtime writer of the Houston Chronicle, 907 01:08:51.359 --> 01:08:56.000 it's very, very tragic, on top of so many other deaths this past 908 01:08:56.079 --> 01:09:01.279 week. He recently is Bob Newhart and Doherty, doctor Ruth, the Richard 909 01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:03.960 Simmons. It's I don't know where we are in this world. Oh. 910 01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:09.560 On top of that, I really haven't hit it. This past Friday yesterday, 911 01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:14.159 the world almost it seemed like it came to its knees with what happened 912 01:09:14.199 --> 01:09:19.000 with the Microsoft Windows enterprise shutdown. We didn't really talk about that too much, 913 01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:23.279 but if you woke up yesterday morning and you saw computers all over the 914 01:09:23.319 --> 01:09:27.199 world, or you were trying to get on an airplane, it may have 915 01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:32.960 been disrupted at hospitals. Apparently a CrowdStrike, which is a US cybersecurity firm, 916 01:09:33.720 --> 01:09:40.359 they had a glance they were updating something which then enturred affected Microsoft Windows 917 01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:44.880 operating systems, mostly on the enterprise system, not so much your home, 918 01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:48.399 but your businesses and big corporations. It brought it to a standstill. I 919 01:09:48.439 --> 01:09:55.479 mean American Delta Airlines, hospitals, there were a lot of media companies early 920 01:09:55.560 --> 01:09:58.600 in the morning on Friday who had trouble getting on air, and so they 921 01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:03.079 slowly try to fix it. It's not Microsoft per se, but it did 922 01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:08.720 affect a Microsoft Windows operating system. And I've said before, and I did 923 01:10:08.760 --> 01:10:12.920 a lot of I spent a number of hours yesterday morning doing some radio hits 924 01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:15.720 and some TV. They wanted you know my thoughts. You know, Michael, 925 01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:20.159 can you break this down? I long said before that the next big 926 01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:24.399 threat that I think the world is going to see in terms of a war, 927 01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:28.359 and I hate using that term war. It's a cyber war. And 928 01:10:28.720 --> 01:10:32.920 to we were brought to our knees. Companies were brought towards you. Businesses 929 01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:38.439 could not open and shut down. I mean having a full groundstop for airlines 930 01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:45.439 and hospitals. It's we've got to protect your data. Companies like you know, 931 01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:50.399 cyber strike. They've really got to you know, nil things down because 932 01:10:50.399 --> 01:10:55.560 the world can't operate this like this. This was not around twenty thirty forty 933 01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:58.479 years ago, certainly one hundred years ago. But everything we do, everything 934 01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:01.159 from what you're hearing of how my voice gets over the ear and through the 935 01:11:01.239 --> 01:11:04.039 app to your ears right now, it is all technology. And that's why 936 01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:09.479 technology is so important. I didn't want to pay off a tease I did 937 01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:11.600 about it. I don't know what. Thirty minutes ago, you know, 938 01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:14.960 we talk about Apple, We talked about Samsung, which I have with some 939 01:11:15.079 --> 01:11:18.600 of their new flip in fold models. There are other manufacturers who make phones, 940 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:23.640 who make earbuds, who make smart watches. Company called one Plus, 941 01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:28.319 which I'm familiar with. They held a press event earlier this week and they 942 01:11:28.359 --> 01:11:32.319 announced a slew of new gadgets. They have an upgraded tablet. They came 943 01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:36.399 out with some new earbuds, the Buds three Pro and again I have to 944 01:11:38.039 --> 01:11:42.159 see it in that order, not the Buds Pro three, and also a 945 01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:46.640 upgraded smart watch, the Watch two are it's kind of a refresh of these. 946 01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:50.199 These are kind of the pad and the watch are kind of refreshes from 947 01:11:50.239 --> 01:11:55.119 last year's model. But I will tell you if you're unfamiliar with these, 948 01:11:55.560 --> 01:12:00.640 I am familiar because I have one of the latest one plus phone. It 949 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:03.640 was their fold phone. Last October, I got to go to a press 950 01:12:03.640 --> 01:12:06.960 conference in New York where I learned a lot about one Plus. It's a 951 01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:11.359 fold out phone with a wonderful camera. It's a Hassle blog camera. If 952 01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:15.000 you know anything about cameras, Hassleblot is a great name. And also the 953 01:12:15.159 --> 01:12:19.359 watch, it's my daily wear. It's you know I have. I think 954 01:12:19.399 --> 01:12:24.600 I had the past three different versions of Samsung's Watch on my daily on my 955 01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:30.359 wrist. If I want to monitor my beats, permitted, my my oxygen 956 01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:35.479 level, my steps. I wear one Plus Watch too works wonderful with my 957 01:12:36.399 --> 01:12:41.439 Android system, my operating system. And this new two are much I just 958 01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:44.560 received. I haven't whipped it out yet and played with it, but I 959 01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:46.199 will try that. But again, the point is, there are so many 960 01:12:46.279 --> 01:12:49.800 options for you to try to buy. That's what I do. I'll give 961 01:12:49.840 --> 01:12:54.720 you in my opinions. None of this, sadly are paid for. So 962 01:12:54.800 --> 01:12:57.920 I will tell you what is crap, what is good, what is decent, 963 01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:00.239 what is worth your money? And so of options, more than just 964 01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:06.079 that big company in Coopertino that is named after a fruit, which I rarely 965 01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:10.800 talk about because I don't know. I'm an Android guy and Apple do just 966 01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:14.039 have no really doesn't know who my name is. And so what screwing people, 967 01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:17.159 I'm going to tell you to buy and shop somewhere else. Kind Of 968 01:13:17.159 --> 01:13:21.680 winding down a few other things that we did not get to, and again 969 01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:26.600 I did just mention what happened yesterday in the world of crazy Microsoft stuff. 970 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:30.840 That was I hope it didn't infect or slow down your business, but in 971 01:13:30.920 --> 01:13:38.359 many cases the world that it probably did. I did see Netflix, boy. 972 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:41.239 I'll tell you what you know. I did talk about streamers, certainly 973 01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:44.720 when it came to Amazon. You know, Amazon Prime just didn't. As 974 01:13:44.760 --> 01:13:49.840 we've talked about Amazon Prime members you get included Amazon Prime, which is a 975 01:13:49.960 --> 01:13:54.720 video or Prime Video is what they call it. But you may have Netflix 976 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.359 too. They are the world's leader. They are the leader when I go. 977 01:13:57.520 --> 01:14:01.479 They were first to market. They just announced they're Wall Street subscriber and 978 01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:05.880 revenue. They had another huge quarter. They corn know how they did this. 979 01:14:06.199 --> 01:14:13.479 They added another eight million global subscribers. I thought every person in the 980 01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:16.920 world already had it, but apparently not. Eight million, almost doubled what 981 01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:24.960 Wall Street predicted. They said memberships to its new advertisers supported tier that grew 982 01:14:25.119 --> 01:14:30.359 thirty four percent. It's now it's good news are bad news. I just 983 01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:32.800 hope they don't raise the price on some of this stuff. But that's a 984 01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:36.920 big one too. And it's this is the neat stuff that I get to 985 01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:40.479 cover. It is cars, it is trucks. That is the world news, 986 01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:43.399 and it is also the sad news. As we almost wind this down, 987 01:14:43.439 --> 01:14:45.319 and I'll tell you one more time, we do remember the people we 988 01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:49.560 lost, and it's just it's you kind of are scared of waking up and 989 01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:53.079 like, oh my goodness, who did we lose today? Who did we 990 01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:59.800 lose this morning? As we continue to me you know, memorialize so many 991 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.279 people that we adored watching on TV, watching their movies, listening to their 992 01:15:04.319 --> 01:15:09.760 comedy albums, Bob Newhart, but also waking up locally and reading their columns 993 01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:14.840 in the newspaper in that case, which was ken Hoffman, a good friend 994 01:15:14.880 --> 01:15:17.279 of mine. So many anadhotos stories that it would take more than two hours 995 01:15:17.319 --> 01:15:23.279 of my radio show here. But when and if the history of Houston is 996 01:15:23.359 --> 01:15:28.399 written about, there are some icons here from you know, maybe there's some 997 01:15:28.479 --> 01:15:30.840 politicians, and there's a lot of sports stars, but everybody from in the 998 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:35.600 media. Maybe it's Maxim Messenger used to do a society column in the Houston 999 01:15:35.720 --> 01:15:42.680 Chronicle. Certainly there's ken Hoffman. There are business icons from Mattress Mac and 1000 01:15:43.600 --> 01:15:45.319 it could go on and on. But to ken Hoffin certainly should have been 1001 01:15:45.359 --> 01:15:50.199 the one who wrote the history of Houston, because you know what, I 1002 01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:54.840 would have read it because it wouldn't have been long, and it wouldn't have 1003 01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:59.319 been born, and it would have been a little zinger here and there, 1004 01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:02.359 and it just really would have captured the essence of this great city like ken 1005 01:16:02.439 --> 01:16:05.800 has done so long. So at that I am going to slowly wand myself 1006 01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:09.279 and my show down Callum Reid, who is on the other side of the 1007 01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:12.920 glass who's pushing the buttons. Thank you as always for keeping us on the 1008 01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:15.560 ear. He will in about what five minutes, my brother, he is 1009 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:18.680 going to put this entire two hour show on our podcast. So if you 1010 01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:23.039 missed it you want to hear it again, you can go to iHeartRadio. 1011 01:16:23.960 --> 01:16:29.159 Download it's an app. Download the podcast, look for KPRC, look for 1012 01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:31.680 Michael Garfield, and you can hear it at your pleasure wherever you are around 1013 01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:35.520 the world. But on behalf of all our good friends and our listeners who 1014 01:16:35.560 --> 01:16:39.159 have done this with me here for twenty two plus years. I do thank 1015 01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:42.039 you people. It is hot, it is nasty. I hope you get 1016 01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:45.439 your power back. You stay cool, and we will see you next week. 1017 01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:47.039 It is the High Tech textan show. My name is Garfin. Right 1018 01:16:47.079 --> 01:16:49.319 now, this show is over.