WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:09.839 I Texan is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech 2 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:15.320 Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texan items to make life 3 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:18.839 easier, some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. 4 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:31.879 Texans. Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make 5 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:40.359 magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now you're high 6 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:46.520 Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Well, Happy New Year, lishut up, 7 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.640 do vaugh however you want to say it. People, it is the very 8 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:54.000 first episode of High Tech Texan Show of twenty twenty four. I'll tell you 9 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.880 what happy New Year. New Year's starting off right, twenty twenty four. 10 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:03.320 We're starting off right. My name is not on the Jeffrey Epstein list. 11 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:10.239 But the bad news is I got a note from Epstein's mother. Please excuse 12 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.319 me Gael for being a bit down in melancholy due to his Texas Longhorns not 13 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:23.239 making the National Championship game, signed Epstein's mother. Well, at least I 14 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.040 got that going for me. People. We come to you from Houston, 15 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:33.200 Texas, the site of the college football National Championship. It is this coming 16 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.799 Monday night. I fully expected to be there on the sideline in the stands 17 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:42.480 rooting for my Texas Longhorns, alas my team was one second away from getting 18 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:47.359 in there. I was at the Sugar Bowl last week and it was it 19 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:52.000 was magical. New Orleans such a fun town, it really really says, 20 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.120 especially when there's a big sporting event. And I want to talk about that 21 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.200 about cities that were built for big sporting events. And don't hate me, 22 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:02.920 h down there are better. There are better cities to host big sporting events 23 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.319 in. And I've been to a lot of big sporting events. But if 24 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.080 you are in town, if you're just driving around this massive, fourth largest 25 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:14.120 city in the United States, it is a very very big city, relatively 26 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:19.159 easy to navigate. There's some concentric stir circles. There's the downtown Loop six 27 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.080 ' ten. Then outside you've got something called the Sam Houston Tollway Beltway A. 28 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:27.560 Then outside of that you've got something called the Grand Parkway. It's a 29 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.000 it's a it's a big time. It's a fun town. Weather, it's 30 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.080 decent here. You go play golf almost twelve months a year, So we 31 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:37.439 do welcome you here. Enjoy the barbecue and enjoy the tex mex. If 32 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:40.120 you do need a suggestion, I've got about an hour and forty five minutes. 33 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:46.400 I'm at seven one three, two one two five nine to five to 34 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.240 ZHO. For those of you have never tuned in or just visiting, Michael 35 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.039 is my name. You can call me Garf Garf. It's my nickname, 36 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:57.840 Michael Garfield. I am known as the high tech Texan. The show generally 37 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.159 kind of talks about technology, fun, tech analogy. I'm not going to 38 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:04.840 tell you how to fix your computer. It's really about the bs that I 39 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.360 want to yap about. It's about pop culture, it's about consumer lifestyle. 40 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.800 It's going to be a little about football. If you are a fan of 41 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.800 Go Blue, Michigan, if you were a fan of the Huskies, Washington 42 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.080 Purple my favorite color. I hope you have a fun time and it should 43 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.840 be what I expect to be a very decent game. I'll give you my 44 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:27.080 thoughts and I think my accurate prediction of who is going to win the Natty 45 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:31.240 coming up this Monday. In the meantime, other budsness we got to take 46 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:36.639 care of. I am out of here on Monday. I guess Texas losing 47 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:40.319 made my travel plans a little bit easier because I am off to my twenty 48 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:47.960 second I believe CEES, which used to be called the Consumer Electronics Show, 49 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.599 I will be in Vegas most all of next week, where I once again 50 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.879 will be coming to you live and plausibly live on my social media to give 51 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.759 you the insides, the outsides, the do you need to know or do 52 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.919 you really care about some of the hot new products in the world of technology 53 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:10.759 or the ancillary industries of what's coming in twenty twenty four. Yes, we 54 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.919 do expect more TVs. We expect some I think that the biggest thing to 55 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.839 me that's going to come out of here AI AI, artificial intelligence, AI 56 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.160 everything. It's one of the things that I expect. After the break here, 57 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.439 as soon as we finished setting up the show, I will come back 58 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.639 with some of the things that I do expect and all of the emails. 59 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.040 One of the fun thing, interesting things and actually things that it's really tough 60 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:38.199 because it bugs the hell out of me every year. So I have a 61 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:42.519 media pass. And for those of you don't know what CEES is. CES 62 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:47.399 is an industry trade show and is put on by the Consumer Technology Association. 63 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:53.360 They own and produce the Big trade Show. They expect one hundred and thirty 64 00:04:53.639 --> 00:05:00.240 thousand attendees and more than four thousand exhibitors, bigger than last year. Last 65 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.360 year they had about one hundred and fifteen thousand attendees thirty two hundred plus exhibitors. 66 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:08.079 That is, those numbers, as big as they are, they are 67 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:12.600 below pre pandemic levels. I remember the number going up to about one hundred 68 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.240 and eighty thousand, Very very big, and there's going to be a lot 69 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:20.040 of walking. It is at every ounce of convention convention center space, not 70 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:25.240 only the North, the Central, the West convention Center in Vegas. It 71 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.680 is going to be at the Venetian Expo, It's going to be at hotels. 72 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.600 There's a lot of other events, a lot of other parties, a 73 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.639 lot of other press conferences. I mean, getting back back to it one 74 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:39.319 of the things that I it kind of bugs me because I don't have really 75 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:44.800 time because starting in mid December, as media, you cannot go to this 76 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.399 as the public. The public is not invited. Industry only and the medium. 77 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.319 So if you own a if you work at best Buy, if you're 78 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.000 a buyer, if you're a manufacturer for your seller. Yes you can go 79 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:57.800 and they do. And I got to give a shout out to the CTA 80 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:02.000 Consumer Technology Association and there are pr folks. They do a great job of 81 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.839 working with the media every year and again this coming year. I am going 82 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.279 to have a radio booth built specifically for me right on the show floor, 83 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.480 so I can do a lot of the interviews, a lot of the videos, 84 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.040 put stuff on my social there. They really do make our jobs a 85 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.639 lot easier so we can cover and we can tell you the public, you 86 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:24.680 know, what's all that's going on. And as a media member, as 87 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:28.759 I signed up, my email goes out to the four thousand plus exhibitors, 88 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.519 which includes press releases, which includes please stop by my booth. Stop by 89 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.360 my booth because we're going to have a cocktail. They lure us with food 90 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.680 and drink. They lureus with hey, you know, you can get a 91 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.720 sample of this headphone or this headset. And so I have in my folder, 92 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:46.360 in my inbox folder, because I have to, I push everything to 93 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:50.680 my CES twenty twenty four folder. I have easily over three hundred different emails 94 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.040 about it. Come see this thing, come see that thing. And then 95 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.560 when I get there, I probably forget all those emails because I'm like a 96 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.439 freaking squirrel's like, oh there's something shiny over there. Look at that. 97 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.199 Look at this. This, This looks neat. So I'm gonna be pulled 98 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:06.160 torn in so many different directions. But I work for you. I do 99 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:10.079 work for you people, and it's very nice. But there are a lot 100 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.839 of things to expect. There's gonna be cars. This is kind of a 101 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:19.079 default auto show. So many manufacturers are there, and they have massive booths 102 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:24.120 the size of city blocks, and they're gonna show off their new evs. 103 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.800 They're gonna show off the new tech that's you know where it's you know, 104 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:32.000 you can get AI assisted driving. And I mean there's gonna be drones. 105 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:36.120 There's gonna be it's just everything goes. It's it boggles the mind. And 106 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:41.439 I am jaded, and you should be happy. I am jaded that I 107 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.600 just don't go Google Gaga over look at this, Look at this. Look 108 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.639 at this. Kind of like when the first high definition TVs came out back 109 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.680 in two thousand and one, two thousand and two, two thousand and three. 110 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:54.920 There are more. I walked up and down aisles at the Vegas Convention 111 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.680 Center. Way back then. It was one of my first CES shows, 112 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:03.439 and I really thought I was gonna get sunburn from all of the glare and 113 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.360 the shine and the bright lights coming off of every single high definition TV. 114 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.199 Yes, there's gonna be new TVs, New monitors are coming out that are 115 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.720 gonna be bigger, faster refresh rates. And I guess we'll end it with 116 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.680 this end of the segment. Do you need any of this stuff? Do 117 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.839 you need any of this stuff? And my answer is this because I'll get 118 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.360 answer because I'm providing a lot of commentary to my TV and radio stations across 119 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.839 the country next week. From there, The answer is there is a big 120 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.120 difference. And I tell this to my kids, and if you're a parent, 121 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.320 I hope you take the same advice. Tell these people there's a difference 122 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:41.440 between needing and wanting. We're gonna want a good amount of things that will 123 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:46.120 be annolystiir released next week. Do we need them? Ah? A, 124 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.960 maybe be not all right. We're gonna discuss all that stuff, including some 125 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.080 new technology to help you stick to your New Year's resolution. I'd love to 126 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.639 hear what some of you resolved to do in twenty twenty four. In the 127 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.879 meantime, I'm gonna resolve to take a break so we could pay some of 128 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.039 the bills. This show always free thanks to some of our wonderful, wonderful 129 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:13.960 partners who advertise right about now, Michael is a dame. As you just 130 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.120 throw that what it is called the High Tech Texan Show. Do not turn 131 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.919 this off, don't. We're not talking all about tech. We're talking about 132 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:26.480 football. We're talking about the Washington Huskies, the Michigan Wolverines. Got a 133 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:31.559 wolverine in, a husky wolverine and a husky man. It's just it's gonna 134 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:33.799 be a dogfight. You see what I did there. By the way, 135 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:35.559 if a little trivia for you, because this is what I do, kind 136 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:41.000 of a football and you know pretty much certainly trivia expert and a buff all 137 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:46.720 this other's things. If Washington wins, this will be the first time since 138 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:54.120 two thousand and seven that the champion college in Division one basketball and the FBS 139 00:09:54.159 --> 00:10:03.480 and football will have the same mascott Washington Huskies Huskies the University of Connecticut Yukon 140 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.200 Huskies, which, by the way, they won that title in the same 141 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.360 venue that the game is being played at Monday night. Both titles will come 142 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:16.720 in n RG Stadium here in Htown. Anything else I could do for you, 143 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:18.919 anything else? If you want to to talk to me, tell me 144 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.600 your New Year's resolutions? Have you already broken them less than a weekend? 145 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.600 Seven? One three, two, one two five nine five. Oh, 146 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.120 Callum, good to see a happy New year. Callum and I have worked 147 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.440 the other for several years, still nursing the hangover. Brother. You see 148 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.799 you see the Longhorn game? Did you see me on the sign line? 149 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:39.159 No, you should have followed social media. It's down on the side side 150 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:46.360 at immedia credential because I do cover the sports world for other other outlets that 151 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.320 actually would approve me of a media credential. Matthew McConaughey. I wore a 152 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:54.159 Matthew Did you see the photo of Matthew cocnaughy. I have almost I have 153 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.679 almost the same leather sport coach jacket. I love this. I've had it 154 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.919 for years. I busted out out very rarely, but I wore it on 155 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.679 the sidelines, knowing he'd be there and meet be Twinkies kind of gave me 156 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.600 a thumbs up because you know, he talked about Salesforce and all this AI 157 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:11.919 stuff. You know, because you know we're tight. We're both both graduated 158 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:16.720 from the greatest college in the world. He's got a one of us has 159 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.559 an oscar, one of us has run ten marathons, and so you know, 160 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.759 we a little differentiating brothers from another. Mother if you actually will, 161 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:30.399 Governor Abbott was there, Vince yoxel v Y stand next to him. Kitty 162 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.200 Maine, former ESPN We talked for really funny guy. I love. Kenny 163 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:37.240 Maye talked to him three four, five minutes beforehand. It's kind of fun 164 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:41.240 being on the sidelines to get to that perspective. And then the worst part 165 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.440 is you have to go sit up in the rafters of the super Dome to 166 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:48.519 watch the actual game. Ed. You can't cheer in a press box. 167 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.679 There is no cheering in a press box. You will get kicked out. 168 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.519 I'm used to it now because I've done this for years. But it's just 169 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.759 man. Sometimes times I meant it's especially when you have so much investigats. 170 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.799 It is one of your teams, and a lot of the reporters in the 171 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.960 people covering the game, they do cover the team on a regular basis, 172 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:13.559 so they have a rooting interest. I mean, it's let's talk about the 173 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:18.080 sugar ball. They had people from Washington, the reporters, they Texas Longhorn 174 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.960 reporters from each of the individual cities and newspapers with everything. Of course, 175 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.360 they want their team to win, but we have a job to do. 176 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.440 People. We are journalists. Well I'm I'm kind of an entertainalist. And 177 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.840 so I was there and at least we hit there's something called Bourbon Street to 178 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:37.799 draw in your sorrows, at least for Texas Longhorn fans, which, by 179 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:45.080 the way, there were so many Longhorn fans in New Orleans New Year's Eve, 180 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.159 New Year's Day for the game. It was a Texas takeover. My 181 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:54.519 just anecdotal looking at the crowd colors, it was easily seventy five percent eighty 182 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.879 percent Texas Longhorn fans. I actually thought I was going to be more, 183 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.960 but Washington and Huskies, you guys traveled, you know, well pretty well, 184 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.320 pretty well. But there was so many Texas fans and it was ye 185 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:07.559 Pado pad O'Brien's. I went to I went to the pregame. There I 186 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:13.240 met a lot of my fraternity brothers ex fraternity brothers and some just it was 187 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.440 just crazy, man. And the coolest part is, OK, I will 188 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:20.960 maybe I'll get back the regular program here, seck. I got to you 189 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.840 know, like these inside stories. Pad O'Brien's very special to me. I 190 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:30.480 was. I was in a fraternity at the University of Texas that literally every 191 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:37.080 November recreates the famous Paddo O'Brien's New Orleans outdoor patio and bar. We literally 192 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:41.200 build a replica of it. And if you know it, fraterny I'm talking 193 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.120 about, Yes, that was me my fraternity. My son was in that 194 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.120 fraternity, My dad, my grandfather was that fraternity. So pad O'Brien's very 195 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.519 special to me. So all of us in the same fraternity, we're all 196 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:54.360 out there were drinking hurricanes. Hurricanes is the famous should I say infamous drink 197 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.759 that a pot O'Brien serves. It is a rum based it's red, your 198 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:03.399 tongue in mouth turned red. And if you have too much, when things 199 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.879 come up, they're red also. And I see a lot of buddies. 200 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.120 It's crowded by the outdoor fountains. I see this guy wearing a sport coat 201 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:18.879 odd number one at a bar on Bourbon Street and he's got this star, 202 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.519 a Texas Star lapel pen, very large lapel pins. It wasn't a short 203 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.039 sheriff looking thing, really, and I'm like, that's odd. And then 204 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.039 I'm looking a few more seconds and I'm like, that looks like somebody's security. 205 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.480 And I bet I noticed who it was. I look over ten twenty 206 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.279 feet away. Sure enough, it was the president of the unionized the University 207 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:43.080 of Texas, Jay Hartzel. Great dude, he has what he has done 208 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.840 in his tenure as the president of the University of Texas system over the past 209 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.759 four or five six years. And he's a relatively young guys, probably young 210 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:56.879 fifties. And sure enough, there he was. I look at him. 211 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.559 He's talking to one of my pledge by, one of my pledge for Tonado 212 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.360 Brothers. Well, I'm not shy. I go wat up to him. 213 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.679 I said, Jay, And he's met me one or two times before, 214 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.159 but he's so good with names. And obviously I had a media badge on 215 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.759 it showed my name, Michael. What's going on? How you doing? 216 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.320 Kid? You not he is holding a hurricane. I'm holding a hurricane. 217 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.799 I am talking to the president of ut UT we're just chatting away and we're 218 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.919 just slamming hurricanes. That was the security guard right there, just a friendly 219 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.679 friendly I'll get out god. I like just it was so nice. Talked 220 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:33.000 about football, graduation rate, the endowment and how come not I'm not on 221 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.039 the ute border regions. It was just a really, really neat conversation. 222 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.360 So now there is that. I did tell him I was a radio teleision 223 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:45.840 film major from Moody College of Communications. He liked that. He congratulated me 224 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:50.639 on doing something in the field of study that I actually graduated from, obviously 225 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.519 radio TV. And of course I made film actor, just like Matthew McConaughey. 226 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:58.200 So we yeah, yapped about that. But he's a good dude. 227 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.639 And he went on and he was on the field beforehand, and we lost 228 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.000 the game. And there's where we are. Where am I tell them? 229 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.759 Get me back on track over here? You want to go to Vegas with 230 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:12.480 me next week? Calm I've I need a producer to come to Vegas, 231 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.799 because what I do when I do the show, I'm going to pre record 232 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.519 some of this stuff and then will air it next week. It's part of 233 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:22.279 one show. But I need somebody to help me out calum but where your 234 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.200 walking shoes, where you're running shoes over under the number of steps per day 235 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.240 easily twenty thousand, not even not even in a question. I always take 236 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.519 a snapshot of how many steps I walk per day, and generally he's been 237 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.480 over twenty thousand today. Because there's so much to see over there, things 238 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.120 that I expect, things that I expect at CEES twenty twenty four, AI 239 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:47.399 everywhere announcements and everything. You know, every year, I say, oh, 240 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.720 you know this is good. Something's going to just change us. You 241 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:56.360 know, last year, I think we saw a focus on accessibility. You 242 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.600 know, it's maybe some health stuff, and there's going to bed. There's 243 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.440 gonna be a really good amount of devices designed to help with hearing impairments and 244 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.079 mobility restrictions again this year. But there's gonna be new trends. Some of 245 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.160 the trends that I think I'm seeing based on some of the press releases and 246 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:17.119 pre announcements. I think CEES twenty twenty four gonna be full of clean energy 247 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:22.400 technology, but they're going to package it in the form of consumer hardware. 248 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.519 Solar panels for example, I mean solar panels. They've traditionally been the you 249 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:33.279 know, with professional people, professional contractors, you know, but standalone setups 250 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.480 they're gaining in popularity. Pop up panels, foldable panels, maybe some inverters, 251 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:42.880 some batteries that maybe look like air conditioning units. It used to be 252 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.279 kind of a niche audience, but there are people now looking to get off 253 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:52.799 the electricity grid and the cost of energy in certain places inside and outside the 254 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:59.559 US, they've spike dramatically, and here in Texas we have seen our power 255 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:06.400 grid fail or at least come very close to failing, with devastating consequences. 256 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:11.319 I think the clean energy technology, maybe the solar world, it's going to 257 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.720 be a very big market in the next few years. I think Wi Fi 258 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:19.480 Wi Fi not sexy. Wi Fi is not the most exciting or new development, 259 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.559 but I think I'm expecting to see a number of new devices with support 260 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:30.119 for the new Wi Fi seven, laptops, TVs, everything in between. 261 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.799 It's still a work in progress, but Wi Fi seven, the speck itself, 262 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:38.720 they're gonna finalize this spec you know, the specs if you will, 263 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.279 probably in a month or two or three. But gadget makers they're going to 264 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:45.079 be ready to jump I'm gonna see the words Wi Fi seven out there, 265 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:52.640 higher faster transferred speeds, multi link operations, which means it's going to allow 266 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.000 a Wi Fi seven device to use not one, but two bands at the 267 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.960 same time, really essentially turning a single wireless connection kind of into a two 268 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.960 lane highway. So for people with bigger homes, this should have improved the 269 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:11.240 performance of mesh networks by letting the devices switch bands without losing speeds or connections. 270 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:12.640 So that's so, that's one of the other things they say, I'll 271 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.799 continue with this what I expect to see as we take a break, you 272 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:18.799 let me know. Have you been seeing some headlines that you want me to 273 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.400 go check out something, get a little sneak inside preview for you. Of 274 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.119 course I'm happy to do it. Michael Garfield, It's The High Tech Texan 275 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:33.799 Show. Seven one three two point two five nine five ozos bottom of hour 276 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.680 number one of a one hour and forty five minute show today, the high 277 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.200 Tech Texting Show. You see it here at KPRC nine to fifty am, 278 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:48.119 where we terrestrially broadcast and actually stream on iHeartRadio. We are broadcasting a University 279 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:52.319 of Houston Cougar basketball game. Yes, football season is still here, but 280 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.640 basketball season is ramping up. Your undefeated Houston Cougar's. They will be on 281 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:02.880 at twelve forty five Central Time time, which means that cuts fifteen minutes off 282 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:04.799 my show. Okay, I'm not going to put up a fit. That's 283 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.480 it's a give and takes situation over here with the big boys, and so 284 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:12.000 you got better hurry up. Just over an hour to listen to this show. 285 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:17.279 Seven one three two one two five nine five. We welcome a lot 286 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:21.440 of new people who are in town, be it Michigan fans or Washington Husky 287 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:26.319 fans, a lot of places to eat, best to just got a phone 288 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.039 call over here, callum and said, somebody is from the Midwest. I 289 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.920 obviously is probably made a Michigan fan. I'm guessing best tex mex And where 290 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:37.799 should I go for barbecue? People, I just told you I only have 291 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.640 an hour and like five minutes to do this show. You think I'm going 292 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.400 to tell you the one place to eat the best barbecue, or the one 293 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:47.480 place to beat the text mes? People, this is freaking age town. 294 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:52.200 This is this is Texas. There's more than just one place to eat great 295 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:59.640 text mes in great barbecue, and there's there's great Asian food here, there's 296 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:04.359 there's look everything. It's very electic, eclectic city, a lot of good 297 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.799 cocktails. Calum, what do you think if you tell if you had to 298 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.680 recommend one or two barbecue text make places, what do you tell the people 299 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:17.680 over here? Uh, the Papa's chain is good. Uh, Papa's barbecue, 300 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:22.680 but Papa sit does man great Memphis, Memphis is. Memphis is good. 301 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:25.599 It's not what it used to be from when Nympho was actually living around. 302 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:30.279 L Tempo always a fae. I go L Tempo and I go Papasitos. 303 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.079 But stand by people, Uh, this stuff ain't cheap. This is 304 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:38.960 not your taco bell. L Tempo Papasitos. They're both text mes phenomenal. 305 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:44.519 Many locations around the city. They're very proud of their prices. I will 306 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:48.000 say that, but but it's worth it. In many cases. We've got 307 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.799 barbecue. Man, I don't even get into the barbecue. Just just I 308 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:57.839 mean, just there's barbecue. Just I don't know. Just Yahoo google the 309 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:00.559 thing. Because again I to talk about what I'm supposed to talk. I 310 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:03.279 do. Lend me some food. Oh, by the way, I'll get 311 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:08.839 segue. I'm a professional here talking about CES Consumer Electronics Show, which I 312 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:11.319 will be at all next week, and so I do hope you follow me 313 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.119 if you really want to see some really cool stuff. If you don't already, 314 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.960 follow me on social media high Tech Texan HI gh TE C h T 315 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.240 e x A N spell the whole thing out, follow it certainly on Instagram. 316 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:27.640 I will be shooting video, posting some stand ups, a lot of 317 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:30.799 things so you could see all the cool gadgets and all the fun stuff going 318 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:34.720 on of what to expect in terms of products and services in twenty twenty four 319 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:38.799 before anybody else shows them. I am your insight info. One of the 320 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:42.720 things I am very interested to check out. Speaking of barbecue, here comes 321 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:48.759 to the segue. There is going to be is it ge ge They bring 322 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:53.440 good things to life ge Profile, which is the division that has all their 323 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:59.480 kitchen gadgets or cooking gadgets. They are introducing a very first of its kind 324 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:06.839 indoor countertop meat smoker or a smoker. Let's just put it that way. 325 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:15.119 It's a counter top cooker where you put I believe wood pellets in there and 326 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:17.880 you can do this inside and it's not going to set your smoke alarm off. 327 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:22.599 Ge Profile. It's a smart indoor smoker. Let me see over air, 328 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:30.440 No significant amount of smoke escapes the chamber of ge Profile's new appliance. 329 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:37.039 It's sized enough to sit on your countertop. Wood pellets smoke is filtered through 330 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:42.400 an advanced catalyst converter, allowing heat and smoke flavored hot air to cook and 331 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:45.960 add flavor to the food inside. There are no filters to clean or a 332 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:56.640 place. Huh over under how much this thing's gonna cost? Anyway? It's 333 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.200 fueled by little wood pellets kind of I guess like Tregger, pumps altered smoke 334 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:06.000 into a tightly sealed chamber, cooks the food, puts smoky flavor to meats, 335 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:07.240 the vegetables, the fishes, and whatever else you can put in there. 336 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.440 And I would put an old fashion drake. I love smoked old fashions. 337 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:15.440 Five adjustable smoke levels. That's pretty cool for a pitmaster man playing around. 338 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:23.480 There's a smart app recipes, control it, monitor it remotely. They're 339 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.119 going to be on sale at best Buy, Williams, Sonoma, and select 340 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:32.880 national retailers, Folks Retailing and he guesses and he guesses three two one. 341 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.000 It's yours for a clean one girl, one thousand dollars. So I really 342 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.519 hope to do well at the craps table next week in Vegas so I can 343 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:42.519 afford one of these things. Indoor smoker. That's one of the things. 344 00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:48.599 I'm going to see a lot of kitchen appliances. Anybody think about what's in 345 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:52.079 your kitchen. We have a microwave, we're refrigerator, we have a stove, 346 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:57.240 we have an oven, anything else. I actually have a robotic bartender. 347 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:03.160 Seen these things bar siss or bartsia. I have one from Black and 348 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:10.079 Decker. Actually is it is a electronic bar system. You hook up six 349 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.799 different bottles of liquor. So you put a tequila, you put a bourbon, 350 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:19.160 of vodka, gin rum, and they come with little cartridges like carrig 351 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:25.799 they're carrig like cartridges. You put it in there. There's a bar code 352 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.079 on each of the car So, say you want to make an old fashion 353 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.599 maybe you want to make a margarita, maybe you want to make a Long 354 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:34.759 Island iced tea. You buy these pre mix and they're very concentrated, non 355 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:44.039 alcoholic in many cases, little Carrig like devices. You put it into this 356 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.920 robotic bar tinder. It reads the bar code, it says, okay, 357 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:53.200 I need a Long Island iced t which is like a combination of every liquor 358 00:25:53.279 --> 00:26:00.960 known to man, and it squirts the concentrated juice into a glass that you 359 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:03.640 put under there, and then it's draw. It sucks up some rum, 360 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.359 it sucks up some vocke, it sucks up some burb and it sucks up 361 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.559 everything in there, and it puts it in there. It's pretty cool. 362 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:15.960 The ROI is not there because number one, I like making drinks myself, 363 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:22.759 because I find myself to be a decent bartender. The machines cost anywhere around 364 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:27.359 two hundred to three hundred and three hundred fifty dollars. But the expense is 365 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:30.440 you got to buy these little carried little devices, and each of these things 366 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:36.799 are probably hell what five to ten to fifty maybe up to twelve dollars a 367 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:38.960 pop. Well, at that point, then you put liquor in there and 368 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.200 you might as well go to a New York bar or something like that. 369 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:48.279 I just I like the concept. It's fund this is fully explained. Cees 370 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.480 what a cool device. People come over to the crib, I think it 371 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.519 lights up. They see all the licker bottles. Oh, it's a party 372 00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:57.960 in a box garf. What's going on here? Well, you could push 373 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:03.759 this button and you can make your own cocktail, and then they proceed to 374 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.400 take my expensive cocktail thing and make their own drink. And it's tasty. 375 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:11.440 It's pretty tasty. But do I need it? Do I need versus one? 376 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.920 That's how I led this show. I it's it's it's very expensive to 377 00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:19.359 make these things where you can easily make some and taste sometimes it taste a 378 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:25.039 lot better and a lot more inexpensive then using something like this. That is 379 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:26.319 what csays, Hey, this is cool? Is that going to change your 380 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.440 life? So I want to go spend one hundred thousand dollars in this big 381 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.640 TV this self driving a car? Uh maybe not. That's where I come 382 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.200 in. That's where I say, is this good or bad? So that's 383 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:40.839 some of the things that I'm going to say. Phone number here seven one, 384 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:42.759 three, two, one two five nine five. Oh saw a few 385 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:45.759 phone calls they're holding. I also could see some of the topics you guys 386 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.759 want. It just kind of speeds things up if I just don't pick up 387 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.519 the phone, but sometimes I will when callum tells me there's a chick on 388 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.880 length line two. She's got a sexy voice, sounds like to me more 389 00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:00.000 or something like that. That's when I actually may actually pick up a phone. 390 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:03.559 So I do look forward to the cees, the indoor smoker from ge. 391 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:08.279 What else do I expect to see here? I told you about Wi 392 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:11.759 fi is going to be everywhere. I think that in terms of PCs, 393 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.720 does does anybody care about PCs anymore? Computers? I think a big buzzy 394 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:22.640 term we're really going to hear this year is ai PC, the AI PC, 395 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:29.640 the artificial intelligence personal computer ai PC. It's a phrase that Intel and 396 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:33.160 A M D, two big chip makers, they're using to describe computers equipped 397 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:41.440 with chips featuring these neural processing units. It's similar to the way that you 398 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:47.279 know, graphic processing units speed up graphics processing for gaming. This neural processing 399 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:52.720 unit kind of offloads artificial intelligent task to handle them more efficiently. So I 400 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.440 we're going to see a lot of this stuff. But does I don't know? 401 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:00.480 I mean, listen, PCs, desktops, desktop, PCs, laptops, 402 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:06.559 they were everywhere. HP Dell they had massive booths at CS twenty years 403 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:11.640 ago, and they don't have massive booths anymore. Microsoft used to have a 404 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:14.759 massive I don't even think Microsoft has a booth there anymore. Microsoft's gonna be 405 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:15.559 out there in some way, shape or form, but they don't have a 406 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:22.279 massive booth out there anymore. Truly wireless TV. Last year I saw some 407 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.519 quote unquote truly wireless TV. You can mount these anywhere. You could suction 408 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:33.640 cup these things to a window. They're gonna be around this year. There's 409 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:40.799 a company called Displaced ds P Lace Displays. They're coming out with two sizes 410 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:45.200 of TVs, a twenty seven and a fifty five inch TV, and they're 411 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.680 gonna be truly wireless. They're gonna have batteries installed in them, so they're 412 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.440 gonna have you don't even need a plug them in battery life the last a 413 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.359 month. If you watch six hours of content per day according to the company, 414 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:02.240 well it's gonna last me about three days the entire month. No pricing 415 00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:10.400 so far. There will be some laptops and Microsoft they just announced something very 416 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:12.400 interesting that I'll tell you here after the break that they're gonna have. So 417 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:17.119 Microsoft is gonna have a present. Microsoft is doing something new for the first 418 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:22.759 time in three decades. Microsoft is doing something new that's transforming a piece of 419 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.920 hardware that we all use every single day that it's going to add this year. 420 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.799 I'll tell you what that is. On the other side on the High 421 00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:37.880 Tech Texan Show. How's your New Year's resolutions? People? Anything good other 422 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:42.480 than losing weight, making more money, trying to get healthier longhorns, winning 423 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:47.319 the Natty. Some of them will not come true. I will tell you 424 00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:51.920 that right now, and I hope you stick with him. I hope it's 425 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:53.599 that. Michael is the name Michael Garfield. There is Callum Reed. He's 426 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:56.119 on the other side of the glass over there is pushing the buttons as her 427 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.119 phone calls of the High Tech Texan Show. I don't know. About eight 428 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.119 or nine minutes before we hit the top of the hour, we welcome new 429 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:08.000 listeners who are driving around and navigating this massive city who are either Michigan or 430 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:14.799 Washington Husky fans. Gona be a good game? Should Calum should? I 431 00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:19.640 tell him my prediction right now? I don't know. I do not personally 432 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:22.759 think I know anybody who graduated from U dub do. I do not. 433 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.880 I love the state of Washington. I almost moved up there from Microsoft years 434 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:33.359 and years ago. I know a number of people who graduated from UM Michigan 435 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.319 tough to handle people, but then again, so were everybody from Alabama, 436 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.400 and arguably people would say, you're from the Texas Longhorns. Hi, how 437 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:47.960 you doing? I study? I follow all sports, all football, NFL 438 00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:55.559 college I correctly predicted the outcome, sadly of the Sugar Bowl. If I 439 00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:59.359 was a betting man, I absolutely and I just say this is absolutely noted 440 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:02.759 document. I totally would have taken Washington plus four and the over, hoping 441 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:07.359 that Texas would win. But I would take Washington plus fware and that absolutely 442 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:19.359 came true. I my prediction Washington Huskies will beat Michigan solely based on the 443 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.799 play of Michael PENNOCKX junior dude saw him in person last week at Sugar Bowl. 444 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:28.640 Heisman runner up my butt. He should have won the Heisman. 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The Natty played not too far from here at NRG 473 00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:23.679 Stadium. This is coming on Monday night. Microsoft tease this too. Microsoft 474 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:31.599 is ruling out something that has not been changed in over thirty years. It 475 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:37.679 is something that we all use every single day in one in one former shape, 476 00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:45.039 coming soon to a Windows eleven PC near you. Microsoft is coming out 477 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:52.880 with a new keyboard key You know we all use keyboards. Look at your 478 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:59.960 laptop, look at your desktop asdf gh JKL. You know the home button, 479 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:02.840 there's a control button, there's a function button. If you're a Windows 480 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:06.840 person, there's a little button that looks like Windows You push the Windows button. 481 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:12.599 It open some Windows. Microsoft is adding the first significant change to the 482 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:16.360 Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades. They're launching it next week. They 483 00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:23.519 already announced it, but at CES twenty twenty four they're launching a Copilot AI 484 00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:29.679 button. Of course, there's gonna be an artificial intelligence button. They're gonna 485 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:31.559 put it right next to the alt key of the space bar. I believe 486 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:38.960 Copilot is the name. See. Microsoft has been pushing AI over the past 487 00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:45.159 year, and they are saying that this Copilot key is another transformative moment in 488 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:51.400 our journey with Windows or Copilot will be entry point into the world of AI 489 00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:53.719 on the PC unquote. That's for Microsoft. Okay, I'm gonna go with 490 00:35:53.760 --> 00:36:00.159 that. Whatever they say. New PC is coming out the spring. Microsoft 491 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.360 at a keyboard and I'll have more information about this when I see it and 492 00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.280 play with it next week at CES and probably the surface Microsoft Surface devices. 493 00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:16.000 I think symbolically the key is just another sign of the Microsoft thinks of co 494 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:19.880 pilot. That's a product that they have. It's just an essential element of 495 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.519 Windows future. Remember the start menu. Remember the start button was so big 496 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:30.119 with was that Windows ninety five or something like that so big when they launched 497 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:32.719 it, they licensed start me Up by the Rolling Stones. Remember that ad 498 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.519 campaign. Start menu is everything to the company, and they're really trying to 499 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:43.280 make this co pilot a very, very large part of where it's going on. 500 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:46.239 So anyway, there is your new Microsoft News. Elon Musk, by 501 00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:52.239 the way, a Texas resident where his company and several companies are based here 502 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:55.440 right in the great state of Texas, including Tesla just outside of Austin, 503 00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:59.880 Texas, where the University of Texas is based. Who is not playing in 504 00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:06.039 the then national championship This coming Monday, Elton did a relatively pretty cool thing 505 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:12.880 his company SpaceX. That it's his satellite rocket company thingy thing. They actually 506 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:17.760 launch rockets from the state of Texas a few hours from here. SpaceX. 507 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:23.239 Just a few days ago they launched I do like this. This is pretty 508 00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.639 cool whether you think of Musk, let's just go with the company space X. 509 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:35.119 They launched a direct to smartphone satellite, several satellites low orbiting satellites. 510 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:45.639 They launched six Starlink satellites designed to provide lt mobile phones with network signals even 511 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:51.639 when you're out in the boonies. Satellite service but directly to your phone. 512 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:58.239 It's called the direct to Sell CEL satellites. So it's like a cell phone 513 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.559 tower in space. I'm gonna break it. This is what I break things 514 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:02.559 down. It's a cell phone tower in space, and it's meant to plug 515 00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:07.480 connectivity holes in remote areas where it's generally impossible right now to get a single 516 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:13.719 bar on your phone. So they're going to provide satellite coverage and partnership with 517 00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:19.599 Team Mobile in the US and six other carriers around the world. Now, 518 00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.599 initially when they like this thing up, it's going to be texting at first, 519 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:23.760 but then voice and data are going to follow in the coming years. 520 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:31.280 This is from T Mobile. There are other companies competing in this extraterrestrial cell 521 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:36.320 service too, AT and T Texas Space Company based in Dallas. By the 522 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:40.519 way, they completed the first voice call on a regular phone using the satellite 523 00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:45.119 connection last year. Amazon says it's going to begin beta testing its own satellite 524 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:50.159 service, So the next space race is going to be about connectivity. Tell 525 00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:52.679 you what much more coming up at least forty five more minutes. If you 526 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:55.239 hang on hour number two of the High Tech text in Show, don't go 527 00:38:55.440 --> 00:39:10.800 anywhere. We are officially over halfway through this episode of the High Tech Texting 528 00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:14.480 Show. Because it's a little short and a little short version today, we'll 529 00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:17.039 be here for about forty forty five more minutes because we are going to make 530 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:22.239 way for the University of Houston Cougars to play right here on our station, 531 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:25.960 KPRC nine fifty a m. And also on the stream. Should you be 532 00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:30.880 listening to me on iHeartRadio, Michael Garfield is name. We're over halfway. 533 00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:36.039 Generally we call this halfway to happy hour. Drink him if you want them. 534 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:39.840 Halfway to happy hour, brought to you by Papa's Plar Rum papas peeler 535 00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:44.239 Man. I'm telling you what, if you've got a resolution and you you're 536 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:46.719 really just not a rum person, why don't you resolve to at least try 537 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:52.159 it? And there's one rum to try, Papa's PLR. Papa as an 538 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:57.400 Ernest Hemingway. It is actually a Ernest Hemingway, his the Hemingways founded Hemingway 539 00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:00.800 family. It is their rum. It is made in key Way, Florida, 540 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:06.320 and there's at least four beautiful different veri ho tels. And we don't 541 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:08.760 call it a light rum or a white rum. It's a blonde rum and 542 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:13.360 that is some good stuff. Maybe you want to mix it with something you 543 00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:17.079 get up to, some dark cask strength, maybe some that has been finished 544 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.679 in a cheery casks. That's the stuff you want to sip. And they're 545 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:28.920 available today Saturday. If you're listening live at almost any liquor store. We 546 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.039 have liquor stores for those of you out of town visiting for the Natty Specs, 547 00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:38.719 Goody Goody, Total Wine, Ralston, some of the smaller package stores. 548 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:43.000 Go check it out. It is Papa's PLR. I know specifically if 549 00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.559 you want to hop over to the Capitol Grill in the Galleria area just outside 550 00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:52.199 the Galleria Steve jos my man, he stocks a bottle there. But as 551 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:54.880 for Papa's PLR, you will thank me and then you will go stock it 552 00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:59.480 up. It's love it and if you're a Key West actually go check that 553 00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:01.960 out. Big shout out to the people who are visiting this week right now 554 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.280 listening who are rooting for Michigan or Washington in the National Championship. That is 555 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:13.360 a game that my Texas Longhorns will not be participating in. Big Game in 556 00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:16.559 NRG Stadium. The National Champion will be crowned, just like it was in 557 00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:25.519 basketball last April at the exact same venue. How about that hetown he Town, 558 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:32.199 Houston, Texas seven one, three, two nine five. Oh for 559 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:35.719 those of you actually visiting from out of toown right now who are listening, 560 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:37.519 driving around looking for things to do, where to go, where to eat, 561 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:44.840 and you've been to other big sporting events super Bowl, Natty March Madness, 562 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:51.880 something like that, how does Houston rank in cities other cities? Now? 563 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.360 I live here in Age Down. I have lived here for thirty years. 564 00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:58.800 Okay, so I'm supposed to be the h town pimp. Hey did 565 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.599 the convention visit? They do not pay me. And the reason they don't 566 00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:07.239 pay me because I'm more than happy to. If this city needs ragged on, 567 00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:13.119 I'm gonna rag on him too. I have been to other cities that 568 00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:17.360 are a little bit more convenient to get around in an essential business district, 569 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:21.320 if you will, where you don't really have to drive around to have just 570 00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:23.360 a blast when it comes to actually watching the sporting event, namely, I 571 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:29.000 was there last week in New Orleans. New Orleans has said blast because the 572 00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:36.679 Superdome is massive, it is the most cavernous indoor stadium I have seen puts 573 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.360 the Astrodome into shame. Yes, I'm embarrassed to say the Astrodome here in 574 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.599 Houston is still standing up. Don't even get me started. Superdome is phenomenal, 575 00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:46.360 great place to watch it. Walking distance back to the French quarter, 576 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.559 back to your hotels, by the casino, up and down Canal Street, 577 00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:57.280 walkable, walkable, walkle. Indianapolis hosted a Super Bowl Final four or so. 578 00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:04.880 Downtown walkable, fun, Lucas oil Field Stadium, cool stuff, very 579 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.679 simple to get around too. You got a city like Houston. You got 580 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.920 a city like Arlington, man which is which is a much better stateum than 581 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:16.199 NRG. Not much around there in the actual stadium. You got Miami. 582 00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:21.599 A lot of games are played in Miami Hard Rock Stadium. It's that that 583 00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:23.920 n an Miami Beach. People. You gotta drive, You gotta drive somewhere. 584 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:29.000 And I say this is just because map some things out. You're gonna 585 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.039 say, oh my goodness, this is a big city. May be inconvenient 586 00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:35.760 because I just would walk to a bar right after the game to celebrate or 587 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:37.880 drown my sorrows. Not gonna be able to do that. Really too much 588 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:42.480 at NRG Stadium. But we do welcome and we do thank you for paying 589 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:45.920 your tax for helping with the taxes. Everything you're eating in, all the 590 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:50.000 hotel rooms, and all the other rental cars that you're doing, you're gonna 591 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.599 love in RG Stadium. I think it's very loud, very vertically built. 592 00:43:53.840 --> 00:44:00.119 Because the ice or astrodome is literally sitting next to her. That is that 593 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:04.159 thinks is listen. That thing has got to go. Do not call into 594 00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:08.199 me and say, what's with your city? We've got it dilapidated, fifty 595 00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:14.559 nine years old this year. It's the fifty nine years old stadium that has 596 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:19.440 not been an operation in over a decade, that nobody can get in because 597 00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.079 there's rats. But no, no, no, this city still doesn't want 598 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:28.119 to blow it up because it's sentimental because so many championships of the oilers not 599 00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:31.079 were won there. Oh good gracious, all right, I continue. What 600 00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:34.920 are we talking about here? Technology? My friends? Next week I will 601 00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:37.239 be in Las Vegas. There's a fun city super Bowl will be held in 602 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:43.480 Las Vegas this year, just over a month from right now. The I 603 00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:49.159 would not say Allegiance Stadium is walkable to the strip just because it's on the 604 00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:53.400 other side of the freeway. I would recommend it, but everything is going 605 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:58.119 to be within one square one to one and a half two miles square radius 606 00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:00.280 of that stadium in the Las Vegas. That place is going to be crazy. 607 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:04.519 And I will be in Las Vegas for that maybe my Dallas Cowboys, 608 00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:07.920 which I have to turn to NFL after the college football game is over. 609 00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:10.800 So I will be in Vegas next week for Consumer Electronic Show, which is 610 00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:15.320 called CEES. Last hour, I ran through some of the new technology, 611 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:17.880 the new things that I expect to be announced or whatever what of which, 612 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:23.320 Actually here's something that is going to be announced. I have rumors it's not 613 00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:29.639 Apple, but it's Samsung. Samsung will have a presence at CEES. I'm 614 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:34.239 actually going to a media event at the Sphere. You know you're a big 615 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.639 company when you went out the brand new Sphere in Las Vegas, and I 616 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:42.880 can't wait to go check that out. I will see some of the new 617 00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:49.039 and I'm under embargo the new things that Samsung is releasing, releasing and announcing, 618 00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.559 including their new phones. They're getting ready to come out with their Galaxy 619 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:57.280 S twenty four Series S twenty four, S twenty four plus S twenty four 620 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.960 Ultra. That's probably the only thing I can say that as still under embargo, 621 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:06.199 but it's out in mainstream media there. They are going to announce it 622 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:15.280 some of the things that I expect. It's Galaxy AI shocking two letters that 623 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:19.440 are going to be omnipresent next week at ces AI. I don't know exactly 624 00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.119 what that means. I will tell you when I get back next week, 625 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:28.119 but it is a comprehensive mobile AI experience and a universal intelligence on your phone, 626 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:32.400 unquote from Samsung. Maybe it's going to help with productivity and creativity. 627 00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:37.920 I do not know. Galaxy AI, it's going to up here and a 628 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:42.920 lot of future phones that Samsung is coming out. AI actually is not new 629 00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:46.559 to Samsung phones. AI has powered a lot of smartphone features for years, 630 00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:51.800 voice assistants, language translations, apps, photography. So I don't know. 631 00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:55.440 I hope it actually is something sexy, something we need. But AI is 632 00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:59.760 going to be the two letters that are going to be coming out of CEES. 633 00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:02.800 Maybe an AI centric processor for the Galaxy S twenty fours, I do 634 00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.360 not know, but I will have some of the first ones to tell you 635 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:08.880 what the play by play looks like. We're gonna take a break. Coming 636 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:10.800 up. We got about thirty more minutes here. If you want to say 637 00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.000 hi, ask questions, tell me what to go check out at CEES. 638 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:17.880 Give me your predictions for the National Championship that's coming Monday. I'm at seven 639 00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:22.800 one three two one two five nine five. Oh. We welcome take to 640 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.239 h down and we welcome you to twenty twenty four. Michael Garfield is the 641 00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:32.800 name that is right. We are continuing the fun show good afternoon or good 642 00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:38.519 late night after midnight right now. If you're listening to the repeat encore performance 643 00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:43.400 of this wonderful program, it's called The High Tech Textan Show. I am 644 00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:47.039 Michael Michael Garfield. You can find me high Tech Textan dot com. Can 645 00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:51.079 spell that whole thing out hi, g H T C H. You know, 646 00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:57.320 also on social media, I lot of people very proud of my Instagram 647 00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:00.239 high Tech Textan. But if I see a lot of people logging on and 648 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:02.920 actually following me today knowing that I'm going to have some inside, super sexy, 649 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:07.559 behind the scenes stuff from CEES next week in Las Vegas, I'd been 650 00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:12.000 kind of going over some of the things that I expect and some of the 651 00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:15.039 things that you're going to go, oh, that's pretty cool, and the 652 00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:17.719 hell if I'm paying that much money for it, which I think is really 653 00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:22.199 what CES is all about. The twenty plus years I have been going here, 654 00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:27.639 what a go old school? I don't. I'm kind of an og 655 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.199 guy. You remember Tetris. We used to play Tetris, Calum, you 656 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:36.639 weren't even born when Tetris. I remember playing Tetris in when was I living. 657 00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:43.039 Let's see, Tetris was on a Nintendo handheld game, the Nintendo Game 658 00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:47.880 Boy. I remember had a little cartage for Tetris Night. I'm not kidding. 659 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:52.840 It was nineteen ninety nineteen ninety one, nineteen ninety two. That is 660 00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.519 how you, Calum. You weren't even around, Calum. He's behind the 661 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:01.960 class over here on the other side. Could you ever win the game? 662 00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:07.039 It was all about points because at some point you got these falling shapes that 663 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:08.719 you've got to quickly turn and twist. It was some Russian guy I vented 664 00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:13.840 it or something. I don't think there was an end game, like I 665 00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:20.079 remember saving the Princess in level eight of the first Super Mario game or Mario 666 00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:23.119 Brothers. I actually got and I saved the Princess from the Big Bowser Dragon. 667 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:27.239 Guy, I actually did that Tetris. I just it's just he who 668 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:34.039 could do get those points. Old school video game forty years ago, folks, 669 00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:38.079 a thirteen year old kid from Oklahoma just pulled off a new trick. 670 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:45.280 He became the first player to actually beat the game. Beat the game, 671 00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:50.480 he won it. This kid's manipulated waves of falling shapes for more than thirty 672 00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:55.719 eight minutes until the game crashed and it reached something called the kill screen or 673 00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:02.079 something never been done by a human before. I did not even think it 674 00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:07.199 was even possible, didn't even think it possible. It actually Tetris. It 675 00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:10.440 was a video game. I think it was a PC game, but then 676 00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:15.639 like around eighty nine or ninety it was on the NES Nintendo Entertainment System but 677 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:22.119 also on the Nintendo Game Boy. Man, that was addictive. I'm not 678 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:23.559 addicted to anything. I do not, believe it or not. I have 679 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:27.360 a type a personality. I do not have an addicted to personality. I 680 00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:32.639 am not addicted to any I'm addicted to love me and Robert Palmer. I'm 681 00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:37.599 not addicted anything. I may have been addicted to Tetris for a few months 682 00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:40.239 right there. I mean, I remember bringing this thing to work. I 683 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:44.199 just entered the workforce, and I think I would go to lunch. I 684 00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:45.800 would sit in my car and actually play this game. I'm such a loser. 685 00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:51.880 I don't know how this Oklahoma kid did this, something about new types 686 00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:59.000 of way that he hits buttons called hyper tapping. But did he this kid? 687 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:00.320 Even was it a contest? What does it win? Other than the 688 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:06.760 fact that I'm talking about him here on my radio show, nothing congratulates, 689 00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:09.280 is anybody ever actually? Well? Other than sports, you know that there's 690 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:12.840 an in game. If you play mad, you have four quarters, maybe 691 00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:16.599 having an overtime, you win a game. Can you can you win Frogger? 692 00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:20.719 Like I used to have a Gala Guy. I had to stand up 693 00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.280 real machines. I had misspacked Man in Gallica and you get to levels. 694 00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:28.400 I mean I think I got to level twenty two or something like that on 695 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:30.079 Tech on Galla Guy, I love it. The little space Guy's coming to 696 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:34.119 I don't think you can win the game. The only thing that you you 697 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:38.800 The end game for us was getting our three initials on that top score. 698 00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.400 I wanted to put htt high tech text. I wanted to put it up 699 00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:50.679 there. This kid there's something that has never been done in forty years that 700 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:53.360 people thought was possible. And he actually got mentioned on the High Tech Text 701 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:57.119 and soci Show. Congratulations. What's this kid's name? Let me give him 702 00:51:57.159 --> 00:52:00.599 just in case he's listening right now on He's thirteen. In case listening right 703 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:05.119 now on iHeartRadio, Willis Gibson, Stillwater, Oklahoma. E' up Willis. 704 00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:09.679 But you talk about Willis? You actually won Tetris thirteen years old. I 705 00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:13.800 hope my three kids who are in their twenties listening right now. What have 706 00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:20.079 you done? Boys? This kid's thirteen. You actually beat freaking Tetris. 707 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.440 So much for that. Two one two nine five up. New Year's resolution. 708 00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:28.360 Actually, my New year's resolution is to beat Tetris now, so thanks 709 00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:34.360 to that. There Actually there's some technology now that actually can help help you 710 00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:38.039 stick to your new year's resolutions. Would you like that? What did you? 711 00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:42.760 What was your new Okay? You want to get more physically in shape, 712 00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:45.400 you want to start running, you want to lose weight, Well, 713 00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:50.679 there are fitness trackers, watches. Yeah, I mean you got all your 714 00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:54.920 fitbits, You've got your your Apple watches, You've got your Samsung Galaxy where 715 00:52:55.960 --> 00:53:00.760 But if you're attempting to turn over this new healthier leaf, so many people 716 00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:05.000 are with you. There's fitness trackers and they're all their apps something you could 717 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:08.159 do. They're relatively affordable. You can get about one hundred dollars or so. 718 00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:10.519 I mean you track your steps, your calories, your heart rate, 719 00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:17.719 your sleep. Okay, that's pretty cool too. There's workout classes that you 720 00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.920 can do online. I mean, if you, uh, the Peloton Digital. 721 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:25.199 Apple has something called Apple Fitness Plus there, but that's about ten bucks 722 00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:30.480 a month, right there. Finding exercise classes that you actually enjoy. I 723 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:34.400 mean, it makes working out feel less of a chore, right you know. 724 00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:37.000 I mean you go to your local gym, but maybe you want to 725 00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:40.360 do in your house on demand fitness classes. Peloton makes one, as I 726 00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:46.559 said, here's one called Alo Alo Alo's Edit Alo Moves. If you want 727 00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:51.960 to do yoga, pilates. Something called fitness Blender. It's a free website. 728 00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:54.920 You can watch hundreds of workout videos, set a schedule for yourself. 729 00:53:54.920 --> 00:54:00.360 That'd be pretty cool. There are or how about this, Maybe it's not 730 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:05.760 healthy it Maybe it's like you tend to putts around a lot things coming to 731 00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:08.960 you don't do them, You just kind of like lax. How about some 732 00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:15.000 to do list apps? Get back on track organized organizing yours organization tools. 733 00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:20.360 There is I kind of over the years, I've kind of played with this 734 00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:24.199 thing called to doist t O d O to do is t to do list. 735 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:29.800 There's actually one for there's one for the iOS in mac os only. 736 00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:37.239 It's called things Pretty Detailed. Microsoft's actually the two do is as a Microsoft 737 00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:39.320 thing. They have a free tier, but other than that you can pay 738 00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:43.840 a little bit more. Password managers are two. Maybe you want to do 739 00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:47.079 this, Maybe you want to get your computing in your technology processes together. 740 00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:52.360 Oh, I always forget my passwords. Tons of password managers. There's something 741 00:54:52.400 --> 00:55:01.000 called one password, the number one password Bitwarden Nord pass lane. So after 742 00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:05.239 saving all of your passwords for all of your accounts, you just need to 743 00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:08.840 remember one, hence the name one password to log into your one password account 744 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:15.199 and you can access every all the others. Password generator type of things. 745 00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:19.760 You can get organization, get yourself organized. Who wants who would you don't 746 00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:25.000 want organization? You work from home, you work from office. Maybe your 747 00:55:25.039 --> 00:55:29.559 office is now looks like crap. You rummage around your backpack. Oh my 748 00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:31.840 goodness, if you forgot your charging cable, you forgot your mouse, get 749 00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:38.159 a new backpack, a little organizer, little desk caddy or something you can 750 00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:43.599 do that. Computer docking stations do a lot of things on computer docking stations. 751 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:45.320 So you could take your laptop, you could dock it and then you 752 00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:49.599 can take it from home, or you take it from your office and you 753 00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:52.800 could dock it into a big old monitor. So that's pretty cool. Those 754 00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:54.440 things run around, you know, little docking things anywhere one hundred and fifty 755 00:55:54.440 --> 00:56:00.199 two hundred dollars or so there. Maybe you want to cook, you want 756 00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:05.039 to there's a lot of these one touch one devices in instant pots. How 757 00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:09.719 about that. I have something called a DREO dre EO. It is a 758 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:17.679 combination toaster. It bakes, it air fries, it broils, it does 759 00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:22.960 everything. It's LASA dices dre EO. They'll actually be at CES next week. 760 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:29.639 So there's there's tons of other things that you can do. There's reading 761 00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:30.599 apps. If you want to start reading more, you can go out and 762 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:37.159 get a kindle. There's e readers utilize and as we take our last break, 763 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.679 here for the show. Utilize these services, these products, these things 764 00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:45.440 to maybe give yourself a little umph, a little kick or something. Sometimes 765 00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:46.960 you hire a trainer. Maybe I'm not trying to be your trainer, but 766 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:51.039 I'm letting you know. There are products and services out there that some are 767 00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:52.719 free. Some of you may have to spend ten bucks a month or whatever 768 00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:57.280 it is to kind of get your button gear get going in twenty twenty four. 769 00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.639 I need a few of these myself. I'm absolutely not perfect. The 770 00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:02.320 only thing I really don't need I don't need a hair dryer, any styling 771 00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:05.599 tips. I got that covered for you too. Which, by the way, 772 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:09.119 there, I'm going to be some if I find an AI hair dryer, 773 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:13.599 an Artifuntion hair dryer. If I don't have an endorsement deal by the 774 00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:15.960 end of February, something is wrong with my agent. Okay, I'm going 775 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:19.960 to get that person. On that final fifteen minutes over here, we are 776 00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:21.840 going to get out of here a little early. We have a University of 777 00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:27.320 Houston Cougar basketball game at twelve forty five pm Central time. The final segment 778 00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:29.679 of the High Tech Text and Show is coming up. Michael Garfield is my 779 00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:36.800 name for those of you tuning in and you don't know, it's a little 780 00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:39.920 shortened version, a special edition of the High Tech Texting Show Today. Normally 781 00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:46.360 we go about another thirty minutes until one o'clock PM and one o'clock am for 782 00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:50.400 our repeat performance. We're going to get out of here a little early because 783 00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:55.000 we have to make way for the University of Houston Cougar basketball undefeated University Cougar's 784 00:57:55.159 --> 00:58:00.559 University of Houston Cup guys. That will start at twelve forty five Central time 785 00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:02.239 or so. But I do thank everybody for tuning in. Got a lot 786 00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:06.639 of new listeners and a lot of visitors from out of town here in h 787 00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:14.639 Town. This week, big National Championship football game, Washington Huskies Michigan Wolverines. 788 00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:19.440 They are playing just down the road at NRG Stadium. Some mancillary events. 789 00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:21.679 What do we've got. We've got stuff going on at the George R. 790 00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:24.440 Brown Convention Center, Playoffs Central. I think it's free. Everybody can 791 00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:28.760 get in and go look at the trophy and play some interactive games. We've 792 00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:35.760 got a taste of the college football playoffs. If you actually people have been 793 00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:40.320 calling it or emailing and social media in me going Hey Man, fun show, 794 00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:45.000 love the energy. Hey mister Texas, Where do I get barbecue? 795 00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:47.519 Where do I get some good food? Or where do I get some text? 796 00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:51.400 Bax? Well, you can get that actually in one place Sunday night, 797 00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:54.360 five o'clock Minute Made Park or actually Union Station, next to Minim Park 798 00:58:54.559 --> 00:59:00.159 where the Astros play. Downtown walkable right there from almost across the street, 799 00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:06.119 almost from the Convention Center, there is a called Taste of the College Football 800 00:59:06.119 --> 00:59:08.480 Playoffs about thirty different local Houston restaurants, great chefs. They're going to be 801 00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:13.280 sampling all their wares. Tickets, say, think think about a buck fifty, 802 00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:15.360 think about one hundred fifty dollars. But if you want to do something 803 00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:20.239 for a few hours and try some really good Houston based food, it's happening 804 00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:22.719 Sunday night and Monday. If you have a game ticket, you can get 805 00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:27.639 there early, and there's concerts and everything. Oh there's also concerts at right 806 00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:30.719 where the Houston Dynamo play what is it called Shell Energy Stadium, also downtown. 807 00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:36.719 If they just play the actual game downtown, you would never have to 808 00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:42.280 leave downtown. But alas in our g Stadium is a nice ten to fifteen 809 00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.360 minute drive, maybe a little bit more traffic from downtown. Everything else is 810 00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:51.360 pretty concentrated around downtown. What else can we help you with? I told 811 00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.360 you sees Suber Electronics show. I will be there most all of next week. 812 00:59:54.400 --> 01:00:00.320 Please follow me online social media, high tech texts and high e H 813 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:04.880 T e x A N specifically Instagram, Little Tweeter, Little Tweeter or app 814 01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:07.719 sorry acts if you will. I will be showing you in some behind the 815 01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:12.280 scenes information of all of the cool tech products that will be announced that you 816 01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:14.239 do not need and do not want to pay for it because there will be 817 01:00:14.239 --> 01:00:19.880 so expensive when they are released this year. I did ask uh how to 818 01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:22.519 save money when it comes to technology. Somebody asked me, Michael, I 819 01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:25.480 have all these old phones. I know, I'm not supposed to throw them 820 01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:29.280 out, and they're so old I don't even want to give them anybody. 821 01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:31.440 Is there anything I could do with this thing? Actually there is. Here 822 01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:35.960 is your Tip of the Day, Tip of the Day, Tip of the 823 01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:38.679 Day, Bop Bop Tip of the Day, Tip of the Day, Tip 824 01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:45.880 of the Day sponsored by nobody Bye Bye Moile because he just takes tips. 825 01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:52.159 Take an old phone, Android or iPhone sitting there? Did you know you 826 01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:57.719 can turn that into a home security camera. Yep, this is what I 827 01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:01.119 do. People. If you got a new iPhone fifteen, maybe a new 828 01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:06.039 Galaxy flip, maybe a pixelate or something for all days. Yeah you what'd 829 01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:09.800 you do with the old one? What'd you do with the old wom You 830 01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:15.119 actually could turn it into a security camera at home, keep your home safe. 831 01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:22.440 Here's what you need to do. Get a security camera app app for 832 01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:25.960 your phone. There of them out there, a lot of them out there. 833 01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:30.880 One is called Alfred. Seriously, it's called Alfred. It's like Batman. 834 01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:35.000 It's a really good app. Sets up your phone as a security camera. 835 01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:39.320 Works on Android, works an iPhone, totally free. It gives you 836 01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:45.480 a remote view of your live feed, motion detection with alerts, free cloud 837 01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:47.719 storage, two way audio feeds. You can listen to see what's going on, 838 01:01:49.079 --> 01:01:52.639 talk and see what's going on. It uses the front end the rear 839 01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:58.000 cameras. You can monitor pretty much anywhere. Did you set the phone in 840 01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.880 your living room, bedroom, kitchen. You don't actually have to go out 841 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:07.039 and buy one of these really cool new Wi Fi enabled little tiny Some of 842 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:12.320 them are relative expensive cameras. So you download an app and just just go 843 01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:19.199 Google Security Camera app. All right, let's I'll call it Outfred. Here's 844 01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:22.960 what. So you download download the app on both your old phone and your 845 01:02:23.079 --> 01:02:27.960 new phone or any tablet that you want to use to monitor. So you 846 01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:31.719 do it twice on the new phone, new phone or the current phone or 847 01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:37.159 your tablet, hit start next and the whole thing. You sign in with 848 01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:43.800 Google. On the old phone, you do the same thing, and you 849 01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:45.000 set that up one up, but as the camera, you check the box 850 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.960 that says camera not the viewer camera. Sign into the same Google accounts, 851 01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:52.199 and once you're both signed into Alfred, that's pretty much it. People. 852 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:59.800 So you just kind of set up your old phone and you choose a spot. 853 01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:02.920 You know, you may want to focus on the main entry point to 854 01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.559 your home, maybe your backyard. I would not put it outside because it's 855 01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:08.880 your phone. And if it rains or the amidity, oh yes, there 856 01:03:08.920 --> 01:03:14.000 is humidity here in Houston for you new covers to place it pointed at your 857 01:03:14.079 --> 01:03:19.800 valuables, family jewels, the family, anything you eat. You mount it 858 01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:22.719 and then you power it up, put it on a smartphone tripod, maybe 859 01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:27.760 lean it up against something sucks you cup somewhere. Go get a car, 860 01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:35.760 mount and suction cup to your window inside your home and there you go streaming 861 01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:37.960 videos. It's very you do you need to plug it in because it sucks 862 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:40.880 up a lot of power. Phone wants to be on twenty four to seven 863 01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:45.239 and that's it. Pretty cool. There is your tip of that tip of 864 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:47.159 the dirt, tip of the dey, brought to you by Pop Pop Pop 865 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:52.880 nobody. These are the things last tip of the day. How somebody says, 866 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:55.079 Michael, I needed start saving some money. What about all these streaming 867 01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:58.760 services? You talk about it all the time, they get it. Tell 868 01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:01.920 you what? How would you like some free streaming services? Free garf style 869 01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:09.639 my favorite four letter word. If you depending on which data and sell carry 870 01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:14.519 you have T Mobile at and T Verizon. Depending on what level service they 871 01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:21.239 are starting to offer, streaming services are included in your packages. For example, 872 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:29.039 certain T Mobile customers, you can now have Hulu the advertising supported Hulu 873 01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:31.719 tear and no extra costs. That starts in about two weeks January twenty fourth. 874 01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:40.760 T Mobile another plus plan also includes Apple TV Plus. Now I think 875 01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:43.039 it's a one year thing and when you sign up, you're gonna have to 876 01:04:43.039 --> 01:04:45.239 remind yourself to renew your free subscriptions so you don't get paid for it. 877 01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:54.679 Verizon, folks, they have a Netflix in Max discount. Verizon said last 878 01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:57.599 month that they announced that my plan customers they have access to I think a 879 01:04:57.639 --> 01:05:01.440 forty percent discount on the AP advertisers supported Netflix and Max. By the way, 880 01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:08.719 Netflix, they are there, and I think Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime 881 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:12.719 that's going up in dollars and they're gonna start serving ads actually later this month 882 01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:16.480 too. Cricket Wireless say, if I got Cricket, if you use the 883 01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:21.719 sixty dollars per month unlimited plan that includes the ad supported Max which used to 884 01:05:21.719 --> 01:05:27.599 be HBO Max Metro by T Mobile, there's a one year subscription free to 885 01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:31.320 vis Vix Premium. That's a Spanish language streaming service. People. As we 886 01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:33.519 wrap up this show, because we've got to get out here a little early, 887 01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:38.480 look for deals better than that. Listen to me, this is my 888 01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:41.840 twenties. We start what the twenty second or so year the high Tech Texting 889 01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:44.360 show. As we turned the calendar, and I can't thank you enough. 890 01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:48.440 Thanks Eddy Martini who runs iHeart Radio here in the Houston area. Mark Sherman. 891 01:05:48.519 --> 01:05:51.960 We've got Brian Erickson and Callum Reid, thank you for keeping us on 892 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:56.599 the air and pushing all these buttons. Enjoy Houston, folks, if you 893 01:05:56.599 --> 01:05:59.360 were just here for the weekend first time or many times. If you're rooting 894 01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:02.719 for the game again, I believe Washington Huskies are gonna come away with the 895 01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:06.159 big trophy. I'm sorry my Longhorns aren't there. After that, it is 896 01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:10.480 all NFL, and how about them Cowboys. I am not afraid to put 897 01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:12.159 it out there for all of us who have been a part of this show, 898 01:06:12.199 --> 01:06:15.079 I do thank you for tuning in. Be safe and happy New Year, 899 01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:23.880 because right now the first show of twenty twenty four is over.