WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.400 Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:15.720 Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items to make life easier, 3 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:23.079 new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want, Texas. 4 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:32.479 Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with 5 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:40.640 your gadgets. You heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech 6 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:45.679 Texan. Michael Garfield. Help me out here. Is it a good thing 7 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.039 or a bad thing that it's already jumped? I'm kind of perplexed over here. 8 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:53.399 Yeah. I always have a love hate relation. Actually I have a 9 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:59.640 hate relationship with the weather that we have here in Southeast Texas and Jerry's is 10 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.320 just not the best time of year, man, I'm telling you what. 11 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:06.840 Oh by the way, welcome to our hurricane season. If that's not futted 12 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:11.480 up for you, it's already nasty hot Memorial Day. I hope you had 13 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.519 a nice, safe one last weekend. It was hot, it was hazy, 14 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.719 it was muggy. There was the stuff floating all over the city in 15 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.239 the air. There were fires in Mexico or something, and then these rainstorms 16 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:29.959 came down. It's just dogs and cats living together, total chaos. Just 17 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.599 don't know what to say. Now come the doll days. The doll and 18 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.519 you have to say it like that. It's the dog days. It's not 19 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.519 Africa hot yet, as I like to say. That may happen around August 20 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.519 or so, but it is just nasty. So if you can get out 21 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.400 of town and still listen to this radio program, we do thank you for 22 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:53.560 downloading the iHeartRadio app because wherever you go in the country, in almost the 23 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.519 world, there are some countries who actually ban free speech and free radio. 24 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.000 By kay Heart, you could take us anywhere, so we do thank you 25 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.200 for that. Michael is the name. I'm the nice Michael, the original 26 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:08.439 Michael here at the iHeartMedia iHeart Radio Houston, been doing this for well over 27 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:12.960 two decades. You know the drill. I'll give you the phone number seven 28 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:19.560 one three two one two five nine five oh nine to five oh. Obviously 29 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:27.080 it's a little numerical alliteration aligned with our frequency on the amplitude modulation AM dial. 30 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.439 If you are listening to us that way, a's old school if you're 31 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.039 in your car, So hang in there, people. We do have some 32 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.840 interesting topics. This is what we do. I'm not going to tell you 33 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.360 how to fix your computer. This is not just all technology show. If 34 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.759 you think it is where you've been for two decades, I don't talk about 35 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.400 that. It's whatever Michael feels like, yeap, and about whatever you want 36 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:52.360 to contribute by calling in or even using our beautiful social media accounts high Tech 37 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.080 Texan. If you're too shy to call, too busy to call, you 38 00:02:55.080 --> 00:03:00.280 could just go to h I G H T E H T e X say 39 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.280 an high Tech texts and you can write me something, you can respond to 40 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:06.120 something, you can ask me a question, and we monitored here. We've 41 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.319 got a big staff. BIG's a right, Calum read over here, who 42 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:13.759 has long been pushing the buttons and answering phones here on the other side of 43 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:17.400 the glass. How big is our staff? Callum over under? What half 44 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:21.599 a person? That's all good respect to you, brother, All right, 45 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.280 we got one person, we got two people. We got me. Also, 46 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.759 it's a good thing that there's an ADHD flowing here. Look at me 47 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.080 giving out my hippa and my government things. Do you app about today? 48 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:36.319 If you have an iPhone seven number one, where the hell have you been 49 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.960 gett into the twenty first century, but it actually could mean you can get 50 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:44.319 money. I will tell you there's an iPhone settlement that is happening that you 51 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:46.840 can hop in on. Look at me telling you how to get some money. 52 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:51.840 We go from iPhone sevens to artificial intelligence. Samsung I made an announcement 53 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:58.280 that it will soon add AI on its watches on its Galaxy watches. I 54 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.000 like that news. I do have several galumy he watches. I am a 55 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:05.000 Samsunk fan. If you have a T mobile, your network just got bigger. 56 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:11.680 They have acquired another data online the cellular company will tell you about that, 57 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.560 and also some other anecdotes that we have, including cars. You know, 58 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:20.279 I'm a big car guy. I review cars for actually a living, 59 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.600 probably more so than I talk about technology. I've got some really cool vehicles 60 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:30.279 that I've been riding around and testing in. These are not advertisements for dealerships. 61 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.759 I do not do that, so I can rag on vehicles, as 62 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:39.639 with Charles Barkley rags on his bosses at Turner. So it's up to me 63 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:43.759 to talk about that. But when you want to talk about a new GMC 64 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.319 homer ev that I've been rolling around and that's right over the next week. 65 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:53.000 If you see a massive gmc hummer nice and quite evie, odds are that 66 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.920 could be me. So give me a horns up and flag me down and 67 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.399 maybe I can give you a ride in that. So I will give you 68 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.199 the what to do, what not the buy and oxlough. I got a 69 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:06.480 list, got a list of the most stolen cars in the US. It's 70 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:12.040 not good news the fact that one of my son's cars is at the top 71 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.759 of the list and it was actually broken into not long ago. So it's 72 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.040 the realities of the world. So that's some of the things that we are 73 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:23.480 going to talk about. Callum, Callum, what what phone do you? 74 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:25.759 Are? You? An iPhone dude? You an Android dude like me? 75 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:30.040 iPhone? You have an iPhone seven? When was iPhone? How many generations 76 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.000 were you born? When an iPhone seven and seven plus came out? They 77 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:40.040 they have been in the market for quite a while. In twenty sixteen, 78 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:44.360 twenty sixteen, for some reason, I'm gonna put some money in your pocket. 79 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.959 Air people. For some reason, iPhone seven and iPhone seven plus owners, 80 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:53.279 if you still have you're actually are gonna get paid because Apple has settled 81 00:05:53.279 --> 00:06:00.000 a class action lawsuit regarding audio issues with those phones, and that could result 82 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:06.560 payments of up to three hundred and forty nine bones per person. However, 83 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.879 if you fall into this category, you better hurry up. You have until 84 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.439 June third to file your clim so you've got about forty eight hours to start, 85 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.040 depending on when you're listening to this. Now, let's go back in 86 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:23.439 time. To be eligible, you need to have owned an iPhone seven or 87 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:30.319 seven plus between September of twenty sixteen and January third of last year, and 88 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.480 you've also had to report the audio issue to Apple during that time frame. 89 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.160 It is so the more I talk about this, the less amount of people 90 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.199 actually are going to be able to claim this thing. But this also includes 91 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.319 anyone who paid for or repair for those issues out of their own pocket. 92 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:50.199 So for some reason, this sounds like you this class action website, which 93 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:57.800 is it easy? You can go to smart Phone Audio Settlement dot com. 94 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:02.519 Is that easy to remember? Smart Phone Audio Settlement dot Com. You can 95 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.240 double check your eligibility. You could print out a form and you can. 96 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:14.639 You can, and good luck if you can mail it in the mail arrives 97 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.120 by June third. Veiling in is this what Apple is? It's it's actually 98 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.360 a brilliant employee. I'm giving this story with two days to get to go. 99 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:27.480 You've got to mail this thing in. It's beautiful. Payments are gonna 100 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.120 art from about fifty bucks to three hundred and forty nine dollars three hundred forty 101 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.680 nine dollars. But the lawsuit, by the way, it dates back to 102 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:38.079 twenty eighteen with the release of the version of the iOS eleven point three, 103 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:42.000 because that triggered a hard work bug in both phones, and at the time 104 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:46.279 it seemed like a microphone problem since people were difficult to hear them voice calls 105 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:58.240 kind of sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher, Yes, ma'am. The lawsuit, 106 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.800 however, it was later attributed the issue to a faulty audio chip in there 107 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.199 so an I anything else I can do for you other than give you some 108 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.720 money. And for some reason, if you have an iPhone seven or seven 109 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.560 plus, do you a favorite? Would you call me? I'm taking a 110 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.720 break right down. I want you to I want it done to see how 111 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.839 bad the audio is. The number here is seven one three, two one 112 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.040 two five nine five O. You see people, this is how much fun. 113 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:24.879 We have. We entertain you, not Charles Barkley. For some reason, 114 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:30.040 TNT loses inside the NBA. Inside the NBA is going nowhere. It 115 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:35.519 will go wherever somebody it moves to, whoever has that the licensing rights for 116 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.720 the pregame and postgame show. But if anybody wants a semi white version, 117 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:45.080 cocky version, semi cocky version of Charles Barkley, who's not afraid to talk 118 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:46.559 and have some fun, I am your guy. Talk to my manager, 119 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.000 Michael Garfield. It's the name. It is the long running high tech texting 120 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.960 show. When we come back, I will tell you. For some reason, 121 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.200 you do have a Samsung Galaxy Watch, which I do like, I 122 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.240 do recommend AI. Is that a good thing to have artificial intelligence on your 123 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.879 watch on your wrist? But AI is almost everywhere right now, and I've 124 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:07.519 been playing I've been playing with some AI apps on my on my phone. 125 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:13.240 Don't love them yet, they're not really fully there. And also graduation gifts, 126 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.879 congrats to all the grads of high school and college and post college. 127 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:22.399 Uh, just fulfillments. You need a guest, I may have some ideas 128 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.480 for you. Don't go anywhere, because we will continue in a editory too. 129 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:39.120 Body successfully used Facebook Marketplace. If you need to sell something and you 130 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.399 want to keep a local you don't want to do the eBay, what's your 131 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.679 what's your? God, I'm serious, what's your go to site? Talk 132 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.039 to me here seven one three two one two five nine five zero. As 133 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.519 we continue with the Michael Garfield program, you can call it the high tech 134 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.879 text and show. I guess we'll kind of use a little technology. What 135 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.000 I grew up as a kid, we used to have these things called garage 136 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.279 sales. And in fact, my parents who still live in the in the 137 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:07.120 in the same house I grew up in Dallas. My mom still holds garage 138 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:13.159 sales. I remember setting things out on a Friday night in our garage and 139 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:18.480 then driving around with my parents hammering up signs I'm not kidding you on local 140 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:22.840 telephone poles and streets. Here's the garage sale at this address. Saturday morning, 141 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.320 eight am, be there. And I remember sitting out helping her sell 142 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.600 some things. We're just kind of watching when randos we just pull up into 143 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.120 our driveway and then walk around and I would sit here and be very melancholy 144 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.600 like because my parents, my mom would actually would sell like my clothes that 145 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.039 I wore growing up at I mean, what do you do? Why are 146 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.080 you selling my tough skins? Do you know how much history you know? 147 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.399 Those purple tough skins and en joy they brought me and you're selling her for 148 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:58.240 fifty cents? Mom? What are you doing? Man? Ah? The 149 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.639 garage sales were at and then eBay comes along and it's like the online garage 150 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:09.360 sale. And I've used eBay before, and eBay is fine for things you 151 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.679 can met mail. I mean all the extra tech product stuff I get that 152 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.360 companies don't want back and they're probably four generations old. I mean, I 153 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.799 gotta mail those things. But what have you got something big? I mean 154 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:26.159 there's a was it angie List or Craigslist or something? Who who's your if? 155 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:31.559 I sold a few things on Facebook Marketplace? The reason why I ask? 156 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:33.039 And actually, I'm really lazy over here, So I'm gonna I'm gonna 157 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.480 try something new. I'm gonna try to sell something on my radio show. 158 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.360 I have a Big Green Egg. Love the Big Green Egg for all you 159 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.480 Texans out there like grilling and smoking. Big Green Egg. It's a Commada 160 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:50.200 style big smoker. It's a it's a large version. I think they have 161 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.080 a small, medium, large, and extra large. It is just a 162 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:58.720 few years old, has not been used to todd It's an excellent quality. 163 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:05.039 It's always been covered. I've got a pizza stone to cook pizza on. 164 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.600 I've got some utensils. It's on wheels. It's got little, you know, 165 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:15.519 side shelves and trays, and it's heavy, and I'm trying to sell 166 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:16.279 them. The reason I'm trying to sell it is because I got a new 167 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.480 Commata Joe, and I don't need two of these things, and so I'm 168 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.720 just lazy man. I just I got to take photos of this thing. 169 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.879 Then I got uploaded to someplace like Facebook Marketplace. And so if anybody's interested 170 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:37.320 at a relatively new owned by the High Tech text which I propably just devalued 171 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:43.480 it by saying that anybody wants a big green egg, perfect time for the 172 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:50.200 summer, contact me here at the station. You can find me online at 173 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.639 Michael at high tech Textan dot com. You know how to find me. 174 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.039 Just then just let me do it. We negotiate a little something, we 175 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.000 do a deal. I'm telling you what, If this works, I'm selling 176 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.600 everything in my house. See yeah, this way, we don't have to 177 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.480 split the commission, and you come pick it up, and you know, 178 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.200 you could see whatever a truck I'm driving this week, it'd be fine, 179 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.279 big green egg for sale right here on the uh, Michael Garsholt specifically, 180 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.399 I will, I will autograph it, and I will pay you extra to 181 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.639 take it. Now, we'll negotiate, will negotiate. See that that's the 182 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.919 easy way to do things. Artificial intelligence. I get asked this a lot, 183 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.120 Garth, do you use it? I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence, 184 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.320 Jesse, Yet it is pretty whack. It's pretty crazy. Uh, Chat 185 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.799 GPT. A lot of my buddies use it. I've tried it. Was 186 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:43.480 it last year on air. I actually had chat GPT right pay Mother's Day 187 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:50.320 message for my mother. It worked well. It was pretty sappy, and 188 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:52.200 I think she heard it. She got for clem. She cried, it 189 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.879 was pretty good. Hey, I's man, it's almost everywhere. Samsung a 190 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.759 little company you've heard of. I'm a Samsung fan. I'm getting a lot 191 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.240 about Samsung. Michael. You're the king of Samsung. I don't do anything. 192 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.720 I don't buy anything. I don't buy any Android, any Samsung without 193 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:07.759 you. I know, you went to South Korea last year. I know 194 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:13.360 you saw those flipping fold phones before anybody else. You reported back that was 195 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:18.519 cool, bought a ton of them. When's the next one coming out? 196 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.000 I got the number five last year, I got that flip five, got 197 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.799 that full five. Or here they're coming out with a six, or here 198 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.000 they're doing something in Paris or something LA. But you going, what's good? 199 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:30.200 Can I get? Actually I could just deny. I don't know really 200 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:33.720 officially anything. I have to assume every year, Samsung said, I have 201 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.519 to assume every year every company is coming out with something. I'm always wanting 202 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.480 to be the first one to tell you the inside info. I've got my 203 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.039 great day used to producers, Michael, can you give us some video? 204 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.279 Can you report firsthand? Gives me? I don't know much. I don't 205 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:52.440 know much. I can't even get. I hope it's coming. I love 206 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.080 the flip phones. I love the fold phones. Form factors are great. 207 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.279 I'm an Android guy. What else can I say? I don't know, 208 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.639 but I can't cont firm this. Samsung dig just on something. They are 209 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:11.320 adding AI to their Galaxy Watch. I probably have three Galaxy Watches. It's 210 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.279 my smart watch. Of choice. I don't use any of that Apple stuff. 211 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:18.600 And there's a lot of watches thit bits and whatever. But Galaxy Samsung 212 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.320 AI is being added later this year. Later at this year's stand By Health 213 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.600 and Fitness features to the Galaxy Watch. They announced this a few days ago. 214 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:31.360 It's going to have personalized health scores, tips, sleep indicators, and 215 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:37.840 suggested workout routines. Something's going to be called the Energy score energy why not 216 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.279 used in the energy capital of the world. And it's going to learn from 217 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:48.159 several of your personal metrics to give you comprehensive health insights. So it's pretty 218 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.639 much. One of the things that I do find interesting on smart watches is 219 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:56.159 they can monitor your sleep, and they can monitor your heart rate and the 220 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.960 variations in between and now along with your physical active when you're awake. So 221 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:07.759 they use all this data and they're gonna, I guess, have a suggestive 222 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:15.200 routine to have fitness goals and make you live longer hopefully. Sleep features. 223 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:21.879 Allegedly they're getting an AI enhanced upgrade. What is an AI enhanced upgrade sleep 224 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:27.480 feature? To me, it's taking a ambient right, No, it's going 225 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:33.240 to give you an extra insight into your nightly habits, algorithms. They're gonna 226 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.279 analyze your sleep, movement, your latency, your heart rate, your respiratory 227 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.759 rate. And the thing is with this, and I've talked about this again, 228 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:42.440 people think they're gonna get smart watches and they're gonna lose weight. It 229 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:48.639 doesn't work that way. I've said this since the advent of smart watches, 230 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:53.240 and I have tried most every smart watch on the market is it will help 231 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:57.080 you monitor your steps, and many people monitor your steps. But I want 232 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.159 you to think about it. All right, good, so you walk six 233 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.599 thousand steps today, Hey, what do you do? Do you celebrate? 234 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.799 Yeah? Yeah, I have gonna have a glass of wine? Right, 235 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.440 You don't do That's not going to help you lose weight. It's about analyzing 236 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.440 your data. So if you walk six thousand steps to day, well you 237 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.440 should have a goal of walking seven thousand steps the next day, and then 238 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.480 more the next day and then the next day. That's how you do it. 239 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.160 I mean, yes, you can use it as a reward or but 240 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.599 have a donut. But if you think you're going to get healthier by having 241 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:34.119 a smart watch, no, it's going to give you a tool or tools 242 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:40.519 to help you reach whatever goal you want it to help you reach. But 243 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:45.759 you gotta read the data with artificial intelligence. Maybe that's gonna help. I'm 244 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.759 a rudder. This Galaxy watch is going to get new aerobic threshold and anaerobic 245 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:55.160 threshold heart rate zone metrics. It's gonna help me stay in my optimal training 246 00:17:55.160 --> 00:18:02.480 window. Okay, good. I cannot give you the actual date, can't 247 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:06.680 give you that it's going to be with the one UI six Watch update leader 248 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:11.519 this year. Maybe I could do test this thing. I do not know 249 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.960 Sam Skun's Samsung's coming out with a new watch. They did also come out 250 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.039 with a new watch last year when I was in South Korea with a lot 251 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.880 of media's journalist. When I gave you the breaking news, it was the 252 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.440 uh was that the Watch six pretty cool stuff. A few different versions variations 253 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.039 of it. I like it cinema. That's what AI does. Anybody scared 254 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:30.160 of AI, Well, I got open phone lines right here. Don't be 255 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.039 scared of me. I'm a nice, friendly guy. I just give you 256 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.640 some information seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, 257 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:42.599 I have Michael Garfield give me a call to each halfway of the first hour 258 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:48.200 of the long running radio program KPRC nine fifty am across Texas and all around 259 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:56.519 the world on iHeartRadio. I know, I know, I promised to talk 260 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:03.759 about graduation gifts, congratulate relations do all the graduates. If you've graduated college. 261 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.240 College graduates, they need gifts. They may need new clothes for a 262 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.319 new job. Oh, that's right, everybody's worked from home. College graduates 263 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.799 may need some new pajamas. I suggest, Ralph Lauren, it's a purple 264 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.759 shade or something. I think that's a good one. High school graduates, 265 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.839 absolutely, if you do plan to go to if they do plan to go 266 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.920 to college, it made you new laptops. Got a few laptops. I 267 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.119 have been playing with a Sharp laptop. No, no, not a laptop 268 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:34.519 that's Sharp. Sharp is actual a tech company, and whether you know it 269 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:40.519 or not, they actually have laptops. And a friend of mine works for 270 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:42.440 Sharp, and she gave me a few weeks ago a laptop to play with. 271 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:48.119 I'm currently testing that. Not bad so far, very light, Windows 272 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:49.720 based, and I'll give you the full review here in the next week or 273 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:55.440 so. The Sharp laptops are good tablets. Potentially, you do need to 274 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.200 check with colleges to see if anything's mandatory too. I remember back in the 275 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:03.200 day when laptops were really coming out. I'm talking what late eighties, early 276 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:07.799 nineties. Some college is mandated what type of laptops you had to have. 277 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:11.960 I think Harvard they mandated you had to have an Apple, you had to 278 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.079 have maclap lap book. I actually would have said, screw it. I'm 279 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:17.599 just going to go to a better college, the University of Texas. If 280 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:22.440 anybody mandated me to get an apple, so check on that. God alarm 281 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:27.960 clocks, microwave ovens, all in one devices for small dormitories. That's good. 282 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:32.960 If you are debating between a gift that you should get your college grad 283 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:37.279 you can give me a shites out. There's a helum calum. You've graduated 284 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:40.839 college, right, What did you get for college? What did you when 285 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:44.839 you graduated college not long ago? What did you get? You got money? 286 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.079 Money's good, Money's always good. Money's good. I graduate. Let 287 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.240 me try to think. Let's go back to the wayback machine. I graduated 288 00:20:52.279 --> 00:21:00.880 from college. I mostly got money, wasn't a ton and I pulled the 289 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.720 money together and I got the highest tech piece of equipment that I've always wanted. 290 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:10.839 And again this is late eighties. I got an entire new home audio 291 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:15.839 system, a high five, yes high fi audio system. I got a 292 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:22.319 it was a Yamaha receiver. I guess it was mostly yama. I got 293 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:30.359 a cassette to cassette where I could record a little cassette track to cassette track 294 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.359 and make copies of it. I got a an LP record player. I 295 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.119 did not have an eight track tape. And I got some kick ass set 296 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:41.839 of speakers. I mean these speakers. These speakers alone were like seven hundred 297 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.759 dollars. And these speakers back then, I'm my kidding. These speakers they 298 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:48.319 probably gost seven hundred dollars to ship from New York. They were massive. 299 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:51.519 I think ADS was the name of these speakers. They were phenomenal. They 300 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:55.119 were phenomenal. It was big that I had to get a cabinet and it's 301 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:57.279 like a four foot tall a cabinet with a glass door. Oh my god, 302 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:00.799 you guys, you know, if you're over like four or fifty, 303 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:03.440 you know what I'm talking about. Man, it was nice. I got 304 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.599 a CD player because CDs were all the rage back in the ladies, and 305 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.119 now that I started my CD collection, that is how I do it. 306 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:15.079 And you know what, I still have that unassembled set. It is gaining 307 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.440 dust in my garage. I should sell my LP player because LPs are coming 308 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:23.799 back. And that's about that, Debbie. This is how quickly technology changed 309 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:26.400 it. But that's what I did for my college graduation. So if anybody 310 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.119 wants to re up and get me some new gear, you know how to 311 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:34.839 get me here at the iHeartRadio station here in Houston. I saw this. 312 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:40.720 Also, I'm a speaking the eighties, big eighties guy. I mean, 313 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:42.000 I live in the eighties. My bump music is the eighties. I dress 314 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.480 like the eighties, my hair's in the eighties. It's the greatest decade for 315 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:49.119 me. It's just as simple as that. Movies were big. You remember 316 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:53.160 Home Alone? Of course, you remember Home Alone? Home Alone? Actually 317 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:56.200 was that in the ninety I may have come out the nineties. Deadn't matter 318 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:00.359 Home Alone? Sorry for that segue. The house that Home Alone was shot 319 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:06.559 at in suburban Chicago is now for sale. Is now for sale. Did 320 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:10.519 you see the price of this? Let me give you the price this, 321 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:17.039 Who's Got Money? Five point twenty five million dollars five point twenty five million 322 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:21.359 dollars. It is nine thousand square feet. It was last sold twenty twelve 323 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:27.480 for one and a half million dollars and I saw it on Zillo five plus 324 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:33.079 million dollars. Is built in nineteen twenty one, five bedroom, six baths. 325 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.160 The film was in nineteen ninety, but they shot in the eighties. 326 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:41.240 There you go. Kevin McAllister ruined that does it even have a basement? 327 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:53.079 I've e would you pay a premium on a movie house? It was upgraded 328 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:56.720 in twenty eighteen, by the way, and looking at pictures over here, 329 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.400 it does not look like the house that was in. I don't see buzzes 330 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:02.000 roam, I see the spider marks on the wall. I don't see any 331 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.759 of that other stuff. It does look nice from the outside. Five and 332 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.160 a half million bones. Well, I'm gonna ask you a better question. 333 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:17.440 If you could have any fictional house, where would you like to live? 334 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:21.440 Honestly, it's good. I think this is a good It's called an evergreen 335 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:23.160 topic question here on the radio seven one three, two, one two, 336 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:27.279 five nine five. Any fictional ass that you've seen in TV or movies? 337 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:32.799 Where would it be? I mean, I can go back to black and 338 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:37.799 white days, the monsters. That's this crazy man, I freaking drag in 339 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:45.759 in the basement. I remember vaguely Three Men in a Baby, remember that 340 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:49.559 movie, and they lived in an apartment maybe in New York something that was 341 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.720 a phenomenal apartment. That was the eighties Deathlay. I'm like, oh, 342 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:59.880 ow cool man was that? Steve Guttenberg, Tom Selleck, I know there. 343 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:02.880 I think Leonard Nimoy directed them. Three Minute Baby. It was cool 344 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:11.880 apartment. If I could pick any fictional house, it actually may be from 345 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.480 a show that I've never seen, Beverly Hills nine o two one. Oh. 346 00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:19.240 I've never seen an episode of Beverly Hills nine O two one. Oh, 347 00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:29.039 But there is a Beverly Hills nine o two one house in southern California, 348 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:34.319 and it is in between Hermosa Beach in Manhattan Beach, right on the 349 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:37.000 water, right on the beach, right on the strand is what they call 350 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.599 it. Now. My son lives in Hermosa Beach, so I go to. 351 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:45.279 I visit several times a year and I run. It's my favorite and 352 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:48.400 as a runner at my favorite run in the country the United States is running 353 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.920 from Hermosa maybe Rodondo Beach all the way up to Manhattan beach, Baby dough 354 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:57.200 elsa gundo on the water. It's nice and cool. Man. You see 355 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:00.680 beautiful people, you see multi million dollar houses. Ohy way, there's a 356 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:07.519 house right on the border of Hormosa and Manhattan Beach, and every time I 357 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:08.799 passed, it's known as the Beverly Hills nine, a two to one to 358 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:14.720 oh house. I don't know if it was the main house where the characters 359 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:18.359 lived. Maybe it was one of the was there even a divorced parent. 360 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.279 I don't even know. It is just the location is spectacular. It's got 361 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.680 a nice size lawn. People stop and take pictures of it. It's kind 362 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:32.920 of a cool blue painted beach vibe. I just like that area. I 363 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:34.279 would I would pick the Beverly Hills, not a two one o house. 364 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:40.519 What do you got? I would not get the home alone house. What's 365 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:45.960 it? What's the mortgage rate? Now? Hey? Nine percent? Five 366 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:48.480 point two five million. That's a lot of scratch, people, It's a 367 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:52.039 lot of scratch. There is your real estate news for today. Real estate 368 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:57.240 brought to you by nobody. My real Estate's report each week is unsullied by 369 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:03.759 sponsorship. Since I started the show in two thousand and one. Michael Garfield. 370 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.519 It is the high Tech Texan show. What else do I want to 371 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:14.119 talk about? I was speaking of homes my neighbor across the street two days 372 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:15.279 ago. I saw there's a lot of commotion. There was a lot of 373 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:18.160 rock us in the Taka's happening there. There was trucks out in front. 374 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.920 I've lived across the street from my neighbor for seven years. Nice couple, 375 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:27.279 older couple, and we're in the Southwest suburb of Houston. They got a 376 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:33.920 whole home generator installed. They've lived here, they've probably lived in their house 377 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:37.920 nine years. Why now it kind of I haven't talked to them yet, 378 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.400 but it scared me. Do they know something I don't know? I mean, 379 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:45.839 today starts hurricane season June first. Is there going to be a large 380 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:53.079 number of hurricanes that we're going to lose power? I need to ask them 381 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:57.720 how, because I really thought whole home generator and a whole home generator is 382 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:00.599 you got to have a compoy come install it. He goes on the side 383 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:03.200 of your home, and then you got to have a line with gas. 384 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.160 There could be a you know, a gasoline or oil generator. But if 385 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:12.240 anytime your power goes out, which has happened quite frequently here in the Texas 386 00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:17.079 area the past few weeks. With storms, the whole home generator kicks in. 387 00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:21.119 I have three or four other neighbors who have whole home generators, and 388 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:29.559 I am very lucky Knuckwood that my area, my subdivision where I live Howard, 389 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:32.119 does not go down a lot. It does not go down a lot, 390 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:33.839 but once in a blue moon when it does, I hear these generators 391 00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.640 automatically kick in, and they're the only homes with lights on, and they're 392 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.119 the only homes with the air conditioning. I will tell you this as we 393 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:45.440 go to break. There are a few things in life that you don't want 394 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:49.440 to own because you don't want to purchase and you don't want to upkeep them. 395 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:55.400 You want friends who own them. Number one, you never want to 396 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.359 own a boat. You want a friend with a boat. Number two, 397 00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:00.839 you don't want want to own a private jit. You don't want to own 398 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:04.839 an airplane. You want a friend with a private airplane. I have to 399 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:11.279 put a whole home generator in there. I don't want to go to the 400 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.680 expense of the upkeep of a whole home generator, but man, it's good 401 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.640 to know some of my neighbors have them because if my power goes down, 402 00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.559 you know I'm coming knocking within about forty five seconds, I will stop there. 403 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.599 We'll come back. If I'm thinking of other if I get think of 404 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:29.680 any other products, if you get think of any other products that you don't 405 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.279 want to own, but it's nice to know someone who owns them. Talk 406 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.079 to me here at the radio program. It is called the High Tech Text 407 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:47.319 and Megal that's my name. Emails. Thank you people. Apparently you know 408 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:48.759 you don't like Colin. I'm not going to hurt you. People. Feel 409 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:53.000 free to call the radio. If not Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia. You can 410 00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:57.680 find me on social media. Should you not be blocked? High Tech Text 411 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.200 and spell the whole thing out? Tay cha I G H T E C 412 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.400 H T E x A N. It's eleven in the morning till one of 413 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:11.720 the afternoon Encore presentation eleven PM Saturday nights to one am Sunday. Should you 414 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.160 be listening, We've been doing it for well over two decades. Our home 415 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:21.799 base kp r C nine to fifty am. Should interview. It is still 416 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:26.839 on your radio dial and so if you're traveling through iten east to west, 417 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.039 up and down I forty five north south. If you're in the area, 418 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.440 thank you for listening old school. If not, you can download the iHeartRadio 419 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.039 app. In the podcast, Our good friend Callum Reid on the other side 420 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.039 always does a great job of taking my two hours, quicklying it, putting 421 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.200 it up right when it ends on the iHeartRadio podcast, so you can listen 422 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:49.960 to your heart's content over and over again. Bit shout out to some of 423 00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:53.480 my good friends and partners at US Coins and Jewelry. You hear me talk 424 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:56.920 about it for a while. It's a great jewelry store. By the way, 425 00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:03.279 Dads and grads, meter rolex Us Vintage Coins. He needs some gold 426 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:08.880 and silver bullion, Texas memorabilia, sports memorabilia. Got it all. Huge 427 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:15.039 facility eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway eighty four thirty five KT Freeway. It's 428 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.160 the Katie Freeway right at Vas on the south side. They are open every 429 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.640 day except Sundays, so they should be listening right now. Big news. 430 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:27.039 You know Kenny and Matthew Duncan brothers. They kind of are running on a 431 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:32.400 day to day basis that their father started it in nineteen eighty five. Richard 432 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:37.039 Kenneth Kenny Duncan Senior. So, Kenny Senior, you can see him working. 433 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:41.000 It still works. Check this dude out. The owner and founder, 434 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:48.599 Kenny Duncan. He has been named this big the new mismatist of this centuryyate 435 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:56.960 by coinage coinage? What is coinage? Is it a magazine? I don't 436 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:01.400 know. I trust coinage. Freaking new missmetists of this. By the way, 437 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:05.839 we are allowed to say the word new mismatist. It is. You 438 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:07.279 can look it up if you could spell it. A new mismetist is quite 439 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:13.799 simply someone who collects and is an expert in coins, versus a philatalist, 440 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:15.119 which, by the way, also is legal to say. A filtal list 441 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:20.359 is someone who actually collects stamps. Byway, Kenny Duncan, Senior, new 442 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:24.519 mismatist of the freaking century right here in Houston, tireless work, expertise and 443 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:30.359 his dedication to the world of new mismetics. The dude is great. Pass 444 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.599 that trait onto his kids. Kenny Junior, good buddy of am I that 445 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:37.319 dude. You can look at a coin, you can tell you everything about 446 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.599 it, it's value and it's worth. But if you do need to buy 447 00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:44.079 anything. We're selling anything to They are here for you US coins and Joey 448 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:45.440 dot com. You don't even need to be in the city of Houston because 449 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:49.799 our website is solid and you can trust these folks. They have been around 450 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:54.160 for forty years. So congratulations, congratulates. I have anything of the century 451 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.920 is pretty cool. The new Missmatist of the Century's I want to see that 452 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.839 his business cards, So we congratulate them as we continue the HTT we call 453 00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:09.039 it the High Tech Texan Show. Got a see a few open phone lines, 454 00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:10.799 Maybe I'll get to them, Maybe not. If you want to ask 455 00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:16.559 about college grad gifts or I'm here to update you anything in the world of 456 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:22.880 technology and streaming and consumer lifestyle. I am an Amazon Prime member, and 457 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:28.200 sometimes I still question why I am an Amazon Prime member. I don't order 458 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:32.200 a lot of things through Amazon. And is that the only streamings that's the 459 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:37.160 only streaming service. Well, it is a streaming service because one of the 460 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:43.759 membership beneforts of Amazon Prime is you am Amazon Prime, is you get Prime. 461 00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:46.799 It's called it's a streaming service, and I got it. I got 462 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:52.200 Amazon Prime. So wait to actually watch a streaming show. Years ago the 463 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.759 marvelous missus masl which is off. It's a repeats right now, but that's 464 00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:59.359 why I got it. And I still pay sixteen stupid dollars a month for 465 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:02.200 something that I use. There's another perk, and the reason I talked about 466 00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:05.839 is another perk coming because I got that. And if you're an Amazon primember, 467 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.159 you probably know this because I think they just email you Amazon Prime. 468 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:19.000 If you remember, you now get free delivery on your grub Hub plus eligible 469 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:22.400 orders over twelve dollars if you order food. And this is not a big 470 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.519 deal to me, well, you know, I listen. I know I'm 471 00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.320 old man yelling at the clouds, even though I'm not. I am not 472 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:36.719 an order delivery restaurant guy, because how lazy do you have to be? 473 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:44.320 It just when I for my life. The only thing that you order traditionally 474 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:47.880 is a pizza. If you want a pizza, you would call pizza Hut, 475 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.320 you would call pizza in. You got Dominoes, Now you go whoever. 476 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.400 That's the traditional We're going to order it and they're gonna deliver it. 477 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.480 Other than that, man, if I want a burger, if I want 478 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:04.760 something for restaurant, I get my butt in the car. Maybe I call 479 00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.400 it in to pick it up. Maybe I order it and wait. And 480 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:10.480 nowadays it's like even my kids. I got three kids, the three boys 481 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:14.719 during their twenties. Hey, you know, I'm gonna door dash it. 482 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:19.599 I'm gonna rub it and then they add on this exorbited fee and then it 483 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:24.280 takes forever. Chase in point. Last weekend, Mammy, okay, weekend. 484 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:30.079 I'm at some friend's house and it's kind of at night, and it 485 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:35.159 was a long day, little in the sun, little cocktails, and someone 486 00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:40.599 was hungry and they wanted Popeyes Fried Chicken and they were too lazy to go 487 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:45.920 get Popeyes Fried Chicken. And so I see the dude on his phone. 488 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:49.599 He's punching some buttons. I said, what did you do? I just 489 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:54.320 ordered Popeyes Fried Chicken and old fashioned me. I'm like, oh, I 490 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:59.679 didn't know Popeyes takes orders and they can deliver it to you or are you 491 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:01.119 gonna pick it up? But the dude looks at me like I'm from freaking 492 00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:05.400 outer space, aren't you the high tech top? I said, yeah, 493 00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:08.559 he goes I it was door dash. I said, you ordered Popeyes on 494 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:13.360 door to Oh yeah, man, it's gonna be here soon. I said, 495 00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:19.559 okay, we'll give you a time fry. Dude ordered it at eight 496 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:25.320 ten pm. Not using hyperbole here, and I guess you can monitor where 497 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:30.360 your food is from an app or something. Everybody's kind of getting a little 498 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:34.599 hungry. Everybody starts talking about the Popeye's biscuits, A little two piece little 499 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:39.119 honey on there, fries price beans, eight thirty rolls around, eight forty 500 00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:44.559 rolls. Run it's gonna be here ten minutes. Man ten minutes, nine 501 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:51.000 o'clock rolls around, says it's going to be ten minutes. Car rolls up 502 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:59.039 at nine to fifteen, over one hour after he orders it on door dash. 503 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:02.679 I think it's gonna be ice cold here. There were there was nine 504 00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:07.199 people, I think, and I'm thinking, man, he ordered boxes. 505 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:12.840 There's gonna be boxes of chickens. Man, there's gonna be some mashed potat 506 00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.960 trees, rice and beans, but it's gonna be some biscuits. I mean, 507 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:19.960 it's gonna be like two three bags carried it. Guy goes to the 508 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.519 door, comes back in the living room. He has got one bag. 509 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:28.079 I could see inside the sea through bag. It's a box of chicken, 510 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:32.599 A bigger box of chicken and like two containers on top. I'm like, 511 00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.400 bro, how much did you order? How little did you order? He 512 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.840 goes, Oh, I got like a twelve piece. It took an hour 513 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:51.000 for all that, all that little to come. I asked how much it 514 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:53.559 was. I don't even know, with or without debt. He tells me 515 00:37:53.599 --> 00:38:00.239 eighty dollars. He paid eighty dollars for a I'm guessing to twelve piece box, 516 00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:04.760 a chicken, a container of rice and beans, and a container of 517 00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.559 mashed potatoes and some biscuits which I guess maybe was included or something. Eighty 518 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:12.239 freaking bucks. Half of that had to go to the delivery service. And 519 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:16.199 I say, this is why you do that? I digress. Grub up 520 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:22.119 plus is a partner with Prime. If you live in the US and you 521 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.800 pay your full Prime subscription for one hundred and thirty nine dollars, you're gonna 522 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:31.639 pay no fee for eligible grubbub of orders over twelve dollars. Woo awesome. 523 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:37.320 Who's gonna do it? People? Stop being so frickin lazy. Restaurants don't 524 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:42.480 make nearly as amount of much as money support Mama Shop, Pump Mama pop. 525 00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:44.960 Restaurants just go pick it up, man, go send your kid to 526 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.119 pick it up. You can get it hot and you can actually out it. 527 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:51.039 Maybe I'll throw in an extra back of Chips. I Digress coming up 528 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:53.800 one more hour, almost halfway to half hour. On the other side, 529 00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:59.760 T Mobile is they're gonna give you a better worse service because they acquired a 530 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.079 other big cell company. I'll tell you what that is, and we bid 531 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:07.280 I do. One of the very first messaging chat systems on the Internet is 532 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.000 shutting down. Do you still have an account to stand by? I'll tell 533 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:27.000 you what Dad is. On the High Tech Taxi Show is Michael Garfield of 534 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.559 Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining US and the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield 535 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:36.199 is here with a high Tech Texans. It was to make life easier some 536 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:45.559 new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might like. Michael Garfield is 537 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:55.199 your high Tech Texan three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard 538 00:39:55.280 --> 00:40:02.480 worldwide on the iheartwaredio add now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. Our 539 00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:07.440 two begin those. We're halfway through the Michael Garfield Show. We call it 540 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.719 the high Tech Text and we call it anything you want we just have fun, 541 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:15.719 good early afternoon. If you're listening live Happy Early Sunbeck, if you're 542 00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:21.639 listening on the repeat broadcast on KPRC nine to fifty am, and if you're 543 00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:24.760 listening on the app, the iHeartRadio app podcasting it, well, I have 544 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:28.800 no clue when you're listening, so we do thank you, but we are 545 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:32.159 halfway through the show, which means we are half way to Happy Hour. 546 00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:37.880 Happy Hour always brought to you by Papa's PLR Rum. Listen. I talked 547 00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:44.239 about Papas Peeler, a phenomenal rum Ernest Timmingway's family distilled in Key West. 548 00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:47.159 But now that it is June and summer is here, man, it is 549 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:52.760 rom and you could make a ton of awesome pool side resort style drinks with 550 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:58.239 RAM. But you need to start with some good stuff. Papa's PLR p 551 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.840 I L A R. You're gonna lo the bottle. It's shaped just like 552 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:07.440 a beautiful glass canteen. Obviously Papa was in one of the world wars and 553 00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.519 it is just tasty. Several different varieties. You can go with the blonde 554 00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:15.440 that's good for piniccoladas. When you think so you want some sipping, wrong 555 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:22.119 sitting outside watching a little TV NBA Finals in the pool hot tub with the 556 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:29.400 cigar. Gotta go with the cherry cask finished rum. But anyway, check 557 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:31.440 it out. If you're listening Saturday, you'd better hurry up and get it 558 00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:37.360 today because we know Sundays our liquor stores aren't open in this state. Several 559 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:43.960 restaurants servant Capitol Grill in the Gallery Area, guard in Grace, Big Great 560 00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:49.920 State Place, Downtown Houston, Blue Lagoon Restaurant which is in Lago mar Texas 561 00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:53.039 City right by the Big Lagoon Fest. More and more places are serving it. 562 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:55.119 But check it out you will. I'm telling you, man, you're 563 00:41:55.119 --> 00:42:00.239 gonna thank me. We do like ourselves and Papa's pilar rum and rum season, 564 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.199 rum season and it's uh, it's always fun season. After twenty two 565 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:08.760 years, we continue to do the show. I'll give you the number seven 566 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:13.960 one three two one two five nine five oh. Number has not changed in 567 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:16.519 all these years, twenty plus years we've been doing it. High tech texting, 568 00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:22.719 dot com, high tech text in at all of our mostly all not 569 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:24.679 on TikTok. But if you went to the Instagram, should you not be 570 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:29.800 blocked? Twitter and Facebook, you can find me answer, you know, 571 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:31.440 ask me some questions, and we were just talking about some fun stuff. 572 00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:36.039 Last hour. We hit a few things. If you have an iPhone seven, 573 00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:38.840 uh, first of all, get into the twenty first century people, 574 00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:45.719 but you may actually be ELI eligibles for some money. There was a lawsuit 575 00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.320 for the iPhone seven and you can get up to three hundred and fifty or 576 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.440 so dollars. Go back and listen to my first hour on the podcast, 577 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:57.920 which is coming up soon. Uh, here's something new. Also, how 578 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.679 much do you how much do you pay for your cell service or data service? 579 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:07.960 If you have a service from the Big three or the Big four At 580 00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:13.760 and T, Verizon, T Mobile, it may not be that cheap. 581 00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:19.400 There are cheaper ways, relatively inexpensive ways to get sell service. But we 582 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.960 got a little buy out over here. Got some news that could drive up 583 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:28.079 the prices because the Big four maybe the Big three right now. The news 584 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:36.480 is T Mobile has acquired US Cellular for about four and a half billion dollars, 585 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:40.079 and that means T Mobile is going to own all of US cellular stores, 586 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:45.840 some of its spectrum assets, and a lot of its customers. And 587 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.199 that's pretty big now. US Cellular, they may not have a mass that 588 00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.159 presence here in the Texas area, but you know, you may not have 589 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:55.039 come from Texas. And then really at some points places it doesn't matter where 590 00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:58.880 you live. If you find a good deal, get a good deal. 591 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.559 The whole deal' is supposed to be done by mid twenty twenty five, the 592 00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:07.480 whole regulatory approval thing. But it's pretty big. I mean, I obviously 593 00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:13.159 I study the industry. Team Mobile is gonna walk away with HASH about thirty 594 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:19.440 percent of US Cellular's wireless spectrum, which they hope to use to improve coverage 595 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.880 in rural areas because you know T Mobile for a long time. For me, 596 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.760 it's you start traveling out and obviously Texas is so big and you're on 597 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:32.400 these little two lane highways. It's you may not have service US Cellular. 598 00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:37.320 They may have better service out there. It's just if you look at a 599 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:43.400 map, where are the quote unquote dead spots that cellular companies have. Well, 600 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:46.559 in many cases it makes sense to hell just buy out or merge with 601 00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:54.119 a company where they have sell spots versus creating, launching, building and installing 602 00:44:54.199 --> 00:45:00.639 new cell towers of your own. So current customers of your US you're gonna 603 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:01.760 be able to keep your plans. You're going to switch to a similar T 604 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:07.079 Mobile contract. But this is just the latest consolidation moved by T Mobile. 605 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:14.760 Last year they acquired Mint Mobile, and I know very well Mint I in 606 00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:17.039 T Mobile because that's the cell service that I use. And this is not 607 00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:22.320 an endorsement for it, but I understand, I understand, and I try 608 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:28.199 to help you save money for a product that is in the ether. You 609 00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:30.599 don't see it, you explore once it listen. You know, we could 610 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:35.519 talk about Apple, we could talk about Android. Those are physical products that 611 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:38.960 people are so accustomed to. There's Apple fanboys, there's and Android people and 612 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:43.599 whatever. Those are physical products that you buy and you use. But when 613 00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:45.719 it comes to the data plan the cell service pan, a lot of people 614 00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:50.039 say, doesn't matter. I just want something relative expensive. Does it have 615 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:53.280 a family pan? How many gigs do you get a month? Why look 616 00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:59.519 at that? And about two years ago I started looking at m v n 617 00:45:59.719 --> 00:46:06.119 O. They're what it is, it's a mobile virtual network operator. These 618 00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:07.639 are marketing companies And I want you to think about it this. If you 619 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:14.960 understand in Texas, when you choose a energy company, odds, well, 620 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:17.599 you're not using center Point. But if you're in the Houston area, you're 621 00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:22.679 using Centerpoint. Centerpoint is the provider who's just going to be pumping that electricity, 622 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:29.079 but you're really not contracting through them. You're getting one of many, 623 00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:34.239 many, many, many companies from NRG to whatever and their mom and pops. 624 00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:38.760 What they're doing is they're just buying energy per minute kill Watson, and 625 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:44.239 they're reselling it and marketing to you. How much can you say that's the 626 00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:52.079 same thing of what MVNOs do. Multiple mobile virtual network operators Mint Mobile has 627 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:57.480 long bought time on T mobiles network. But mint Mobile, which actually used 628 00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.400 to be owned or thinks backed by Ryan Reynolds, the act or ee, 629 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:02.760 is hilarious. He does a lot of the marketing. They had a service 630 00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:07.800 fifteen dollars a month, and I'm sorry, that's a hell of a lot 631 00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:09.559 more. That's all a lot cheaper than T mobile or anything else is gonna 632 00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:14.400 give you. So I said screw it, and I had no issue for 633 00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:17.400 two years. I pay at this moment fifteen dollars a month. T Mobile 634 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:20.960 says, screw it. There are so many people using mint Mobile and they're 635 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.199 using a network, we'll just buy it. You go back T Mobile merge 636 00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:30.199 with Split in twenty twenty twenty. I mean it's they're like pag man, 637 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:34.280 they're just eating up the dots and small, small carriers. So just a 638 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:37.280 little update for some reason you want to talk about this. There are a 639 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.119 ton of MVNO's. If you like the Verizon network, there are several like 640 00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:44.320 Boost Wireless. I mean it's you know Virgin. I mean, look at 641 00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.880 Exfinity. Don't think they have an Exfinity mobile. They're not in the business 642 00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:52.519 of setting up towers. They're they're purchasing and reselling and remarketing. That is 643 00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:57.280 what an mv NO is. There you do, I do your research. 644 00:47:57.360 --> 00:47:59.639 If you have a specific one you want me to talk about, that's what 645 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:04.000 I do. So there's your update for what's going on in the data space. 646 00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:07.960 Sponsored by No One Unsullied. Since we've started this show back in two 647 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.400 thousand and one, Michael's here. We're going to take a break. When 648 00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:15.239 don't we come back? So much more, including one of the original chat 649 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:21.480 messaging services, is about to end. Do you still use chat? Man? 650 00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.000 We're gonna put on our way back machine and go back when the Internet 651 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:28.480 was just starting and who was a long time ago, right here in the 652 00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:35.159 old High Tech text Show. Appenerally, a lot of you people are very 653 00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:38.760 interested in saying what your cell service plan? Always blogg over my mind. 654 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:42.800 How come I do not endorse a cell phone service? I really don't. 655 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:49.639 I will going back. Verizon Wireless was my first title sponsor. I think 656 00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:52.639 title sponsored the show. Gosh, what was that about? Eighteen years ago? 657 00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:57.480 It was the High Tech Texting Show brought to you by Verizon Wireless, 658 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:00.360 and then whatever. But then you know, all these companies started merging and 659 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:06.079 then there was a price war whatever like that. And so obviously I talk 660 00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:08.920 a lot about phones the hardware, but you really can't discount the fact that 661 00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:14.239 phones or bricks, they're nothing unless you have data and you have cell services. 662 00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:16.400 So do your shopping. I do my shopping. And I just I 663 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:21.639 just mentioned T Mobile is acquiring US Cellular. That's really a T Mobile has 664 00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:27.440 really done. They've done a really smart job of acquiring smaller services and merging. 665 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:32.119 Obviously sprinting a few years ago, making their footprint larger. But how 666 00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:36.280 about the cost. And cost is big. So take a look into what 667 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:40.960 I cut. What are called m vno's, which are mobile virtual network operators. 668 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:45.920 These are the small wins like Mint Mobile, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, 669 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:50.440 Exfinity. These are smaller. Sometimes they can save you money, but 670 00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:52.920 you got to look at the plans. But that's what I'm here for. 671 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:58.000 Michael is a name. Got any graduation ideas or opportunities you need me to 672 00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:00.679 throw out some ideas. I am here for you. How far do you 673 00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:05.239 go back with the internet? How far do you remember your first email address? 674 00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:08.000 Do you remember your first ISP? Even before that, do you remember 675 00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:12.320 getting on the internet before there was really email was a big thing, and 676 00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:17.000 it was just a kind of a BBS, a bulleted board service or a 677 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:22.480 chat service. I want you to go back, and I want you to 678 00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:31.000 think late nineties, early two thousands there was a very popular messaging app and 679 00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:38.000 that lasted. It lasted a short period in the nineties, early oughts. 680 00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:44.519 It it was from Russia and it was called, and it still is to 681 00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:52.599 this minute, called I see Q three letters I c Q. Well, 682 00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.280 believe it or not, it's still around. I don't know how many users. 683 00:50:55.679 --> 00:51:00.239 To find out how many there's not a lot of users. Well, 684 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:02.000 we are soon going to be sitting Shiva for this thing, because it is 685 00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:07.320 going to stop working on June twenty sixth. It's going to join the other 686 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:10.280 apps and software of old and the great big farm in the sky. People. 687 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:16.920 It's encouraging users to move to other messaging systems. One is which is 688 00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:25.159 called VK Messenger for casual chats VK Workspace for professional conversations. I'm gonna take 689 00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:29.280 you, uncle, Garfy's going to take you back over here. I see 690 00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:34.000 Q came into the picture at the time when most people were using i RC 691 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:40.679 to chat, and IRC was mostly meant for group conversations. I see Q 692 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:47.360 comes in and it made it easy to communicate one on one, and users 693 00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:53.519 who signed up for account got a signed a number that grew longer as it 694 00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:58.000 went on. Wasn't an email address, it was a number. The longer 695 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:00.079 you use, the later you signed on, the longer than because it was 696 00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:06.400 sequential. I think the shortest numbers had five digits, which means I mean 697 00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:08.079 users who got them were quick. They were there at the very beginning. 698 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:15.320 At some point yearly two thousand, it reached one hundred million registered accounts, 699 00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:23.639 and then guess what comes along aim AOL messenger. Man, I'm throwing I'm 700 00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:31.920 going old school Yahoo Messenger MSN from Microsoft Messenger MSN Messenger and that it just 701 00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:39.079 eclipsed everything in popularity and those are bygone times. And by the way, 702 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:47.039 a little trivia. Anybody know we're the name of the company I se Q 703 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:54.280 derived its name from well, originally was developed an Israeli company, but I 704 00:52:54.599 --> 00:53:01.840 the letters I CEQ derived from the phrase I seek you I S E E 705 00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:08.519 K Why are you? I seek you? It was purchased by AOL then 706 00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:14.199 it was bought by a Russian company. It's now that Russian company still there. 707 00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:16.039 It's called VK, which is why it's pushing its own services. Who 708 00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:20.920 did this? Man? Let's let's I would tell you to send me an 709 00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.519 ICQ message if you still have it, but that is long gone for me, 710 00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:31.679 long gone for me, and I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my thought. 711 00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:38.280 Yet obviously I get asked regularly to extrapolate on the future of technology of 712 00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:44.039 communication. What's going to become of email addresses, what's going to become of 713 00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:49.920 phone numbers? I mean, we know that the way we consume television has 714 00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:55.360 drastically changed from over the year antennas to cable and satellite. Now it's internet 715 00:53:55.400 --> 00:54:01.960 streaming. It's a different beast and I don't know when this is gonna happen, 716 00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:07.039 but this is my take. When it comes to using phones. We 717 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:13.119 now know landline phones are antiquated. I'm not saying they're a thing of the 718 00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:15.360 past. My parents and Dallas still have their landline phone and you laugh. 719 00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:21.000 I still do recommend landline phones. If you live in an area that is 720 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:23.440 prone to flooding, prone to power loss, and I'm looking at you, 721 00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.480 and I'm talking to you right now, Southeast Texas. I'm looking at you 722 00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:31.280 at Galveston. I'm looking at you all the way up the I forty five 723 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:38.039 corridor. For some reason, you were prone to flooding and your power goes 724 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:44.920 down, which in some cases cell phone sites go down. There is maybe 725 00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:50.400 one form of communication still out there. It is an old fashioned pots phone 726 00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:57.639 line pots pots plane old telephone service. It is the copper wire that, 727 00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:00.599 depending on when your house was built, that was built into your own that 728 00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:06.400 you can plug a phone into now to be sure if you still have a 729 00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:08.800 phone line. And for you, I'm absolutely not making fun of you because 730 00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:15.239 you may be my lifelote and your family's lifeline. Do yourself, favorite do 731 00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:20.639 not have a cordless electrical phone that you need a publican to electricity for the 732 00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:24.440 phone to work. I mean, go to Amazon, go to radio shack 733 00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:30.480 or somewhere. Man, get an old Prince's phone, a rotary phone, 734 00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:35.000 plug it in. You need to got a phone that does not need electricity. 735 00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:38.800 I'll tell you what those old copper lines. Thank you. Alexander Graham 736 00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:44.360 freaking bellman. Dude knew what he was doing, and they do stand the 737 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:50.199 test of todd. So many of us have cell phones right now, but 738 00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:52.480 how many of us don't even pick up the phone. How many of us 739 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:57.480 text? Now? Yes, we text because we reach other via those ten 740 00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:00.840 digits we're signed. We don't know ow it. Our cell phone numbers we 741 00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:05.199 do not own. They are actually assigned and own for lack of better termed 742 00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:08.039 Buy your cell or data plan company, Verizon, Mintmobile, d Mobile, 743 00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:12.519 whoever it is. You page month, you get to keep your number. 744 00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:15.639 I've had my cell phone number for twenty years. That's only the number that 745 00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:21.599 my kids that a generation now use. They can keep that forever. But 746 00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:24.920 think about it. We are on social media. We are on Instagram, 747 00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:30.880 we are on Facebook, we are on TikTok we're on WhatsApp. We don't 748 00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:36.280 have phone numbers for though we have our names or our user names, and 749 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:43.960 you can use the chat feature, the video chat feature, or even the 750 00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:50.519 audio calling lack of a better term feature on there to contact someone my looking 751 00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:52.719 glass. You can quote me this from the high tech text. At some 752 00:56:52.840 --> 00:57:01.760 point phone numbers will become obsolete. We are going to be using another service, 753 00:57:04.079 --> 00:57:08.079 may not be one. Maybe said well that utilizes and let's this connect 754 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:15.239 just by clicking a button on their name or photo. If you look for 755 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:17.000 me on Instagram, if we're friends, if we're friends on Facebook, it 756 00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:22.239 takes one click to hit the call button or hit the video button to attempt 757 00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:28.039 to call me and then video chat with me. No phone number needed to 758 00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:30.519 me. That's an next iteration. Can't tell you when that's gonna happen, 759 00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:32.440 can't tell you if that's gonna happen. It's gonna be a slow boat, 760 00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:37.800 just like the slow boat for over the air to digital TV, to internet 761 00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:43.280 streaming to whatever. But that's my thought, but very soon. June twenty 762 00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:45.599 sixth Rest in peace, ICQ. And by the way, it's a little 763 00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:50.239 bonus. Here's a bonus contest. Time look at me, listen to look 764 00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:52.440 at me. Do it a little tune for here. If for some reason 765 00:57:53.639 --> 00:58:02.480 you still have an AOL email at aol dot com. The first email that 766 00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:09.320 I get from an AOL dot com email address right now, you're gonna win 767 00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:14.320 a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's Great Burritos, four locations across 768 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:19.559 Houston. We spoke with the older last week Burrito's Tacos. Everything you need 769 00:58:19.599 --> 00:58:24.639 to send the email go do. Go to Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. 770 00:58:24.679 --> 00:58:30.199 Email me, but I'm checking your address. The first at AoE at 771 00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:36.880 AOL to say, man, I still am old school? Do I win 772 00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:40.280 the Cabo Bob's gift card? Something like that? Send it to Michael at 773 00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:45.079 my c H A. E. L. Garfield like the cat at iHeartMedia 774 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:47.639 dot com contest is right there. All right, great day. When we 775 00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:57.960 come back, we're gonnaee my thumb. We can out at him of the 776 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.079 hour. We start that with a big shout out on long time partners Campbell's 777 00:59:01.079 --> 00:59:06.199 compounding pharmacy. I've been reading a lot about compounding pharmacies, especially now that 778 00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:13.320 people trying to get medications that are very expensive maybe you don't have you know, 779 00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:16.239 a certain type of insurance or something. In many cases, it's a 780 00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:22.599 lot cheaper to have it compounded through one of these local compounding pharmacies Campbell's Compounding 781 00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:25.280 Pharmacy. I do know this. I have known Lance Campbell for twenty years, 782 00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:30.760 been using them for most of that time. One location is near the 783 00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:34.360 med Center in Kirby and Wolcome area, and then another is in sugar Land. 784 00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:39.079 But I'll tell you what. If you use these new types of what 785 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:44.599 is it GLP one shared weight loss type of druggies or something like drugs, 786 00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:49.599 and you know you find it's too expensive, it's worth calling Campbell's Compound Pharmacy, 787 00:59:49.800 --> 00:59:54.840 Caumblecampbell's compounding dot com Omar. They're getting Lance Campbell. They are there, 788 00:59:54.920 --> 01:00:00.880 and you'd be surprised how inexpensive it could be. Their third party verified 789 01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:05.639 to make sure that the dosage and everything is right. Your provider can write 790 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:09.320 prescriptions. Go directly there Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy. If you don't like a type 791 01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:12.840 of if your kids are trying to medication, they don't like the taste. 792 01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.239 I used to do this for my They used to make bubblegum flavor medicine, 793 01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:20.000 so it would you know my kids could swallow better back in the day. 794 01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.559 That's a needs compounding pharmacy. So Campbell's c A MP B E L L 795 01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:29.800 S campbell'scompounding dot com. As we continue less than thirty minutes of more of 796 01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:34.519 this show, first show of June twenty twenty four. Ooh, it's hot 797 01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:36.880 man, it's nasty, hut and I hope you're at the pool doing something. 798 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:39.880 By the way, we do have somebody still has an Aol account if 799 01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:45.039 you just tuned in. We had a little fun little contest the first person 800 01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:51.480 who emailed me with an a from an Aol dot com email address. You 801 01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:55.480 guys, you just want a gift card from Cabo Bob's. Cabo Bobs, 802 01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:00.719 Oh beautiful, make your own burritos and tacos case at Diaz. I hit 803 01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:07.079 the one Stafford Texas. There's one near the Galleria. Uh, there's also 804 01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:08.960 one at Cyprus and one on Katie, Texas. They're out of Austin. 805 01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:13.039 They are good and they are big awesome, so we do thank them for 806 01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:15.159 that. But whoever wanted and I'm looking at this email address, listen, 807 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:19.920 I promise not to give you crap. Hey, listen, man, Old 808 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:23.639 habits are hard to die. You don't want to give up your AOL dot 809 01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:29.960 com. If you an a if you get an email. First of all, 810 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:31.280 when you get an email, and you usually have an email client, 811 01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:36.360 maybe it's Microsoft Outlook. Generally the name pops up. If I send you 812 01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:38.159 an email and you have micro so you're gonna see an email from Michael Garfield, 813 01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:43.639 You're really not going to see it's Michael at high Tech textan dot com, 814 01:01:43.639 --> 01:01:49.519 Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Look how many people look at the 815 01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:52.159 actual email address? And a lot of times if it's your business address, 816 01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:57.679 it's ad company dot com. Yes, there's Gmail dot com. I got 817 01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:01.039 one of those. There's Yahoo, there's like hos let's go back. But 818 01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:05.239 so about AOL? I just I take a pause, man, I'm like, 819 01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:09.760 how old is this person? How lazy is this person? How old 820 01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:14.719 school is this person? I don't want to change my email address, get 821 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:16.400 it. People don't want to change their phone numbers. I mean, my 822 01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:21.480 parents and I talked about this last segment. My parents still have a landline. 823 01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:30.519 My parents still have the same phone number since nightteen seventy two or seventy 824 01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:36.360 three. I am not getting you fifty plus years. You need people call 825 01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:38.840 our usual right now. My parents have cell phones, but changing an email 826 01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:43.440 address is tough, so good for you. I'm not making fun of you. 827 01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:46.360 I know still people who have fought that are I used to get people, 828 01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:49.840 said Michael, I's still my flip phone, which is not a bad 829 01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:53.800 thing because flip bones and both bones actually now are coming back. There's many 830 01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:55.840 of them on the market. But oh no, no, no, I 831 01:02:55.880 --> 01:03:01.400 really have the old motor rule of star attack flip phone. I'm not hating 832 01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:05.199 man, I mean, dude, I am og. Maybe I'll go I'll 833 01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:08.440 go back when you know, you know ipe still, I remember the landline. 834 01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:13.639 I remember my the coolest thing ever. If you were a teenager, 835 01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:17.000 you would get your own phone line in your room. That was it. 836 01:03:17.039 --> 01:03:21.719 Baby. Nowadays you know you got kids who were like seven years old, 837 01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:24.000 six years old. Can I go my O cull phone? Dude, if 838 01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:28.079 you know you're lucky, you know you're thirteen fourteen years old, your parents 839 01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:32.079 sprung for a your own number and we didn't have aria goods then. I 840 01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:37.880 remember my seven digit phone in Dallas and it was not eight six seven five 841 01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:39.920 three oh nine. No, no, no, but it was it was 842 01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:45.599 seven digit. I remember my friends seven digit before area goes we had to 843 01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:51.159 man were mandated. Oh those at the time. Maybe if you're under thirty 844 01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:54.239 year scratcher, What is this dude talking about? That's all right, we 845 01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:57.559 still tied. I can still tell you know, if I can go Drake 846 01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:00.000 versus Kendrick right now, you know, I'm up with the times. People 847 01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:03.440 don't worry about it. Seven one three two one two five nine five. 848 01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:06.760 Oh. Notice that's ten digits right now. And it's actually a landline that 849 01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:10.239 you would have to call in and Calum, you'd have to pick up that 850 01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:15.320 landld Callum actually sitting by a phone. We're just connected to the wall and 851 01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:18.280 a switchboard, not a cell phone. So those those still do exist. 852 01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:27.559 By the way, has anybody seen a drone deliver a product? You know, 853 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:31.840 we hear about drone deliveries. Amazon is testing this and companies and just 854 01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:36.239 made me think of it, because Amazon, it does have is experimenting with 855 01:04:36.280 --> 01:04:43.119 drone deliveries and you have to get FAA approval. You've get it. Used 856 01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:46.159 to be the line of sight, I mean your home, your business had 857 01:04:46.199 --> 01:04:49.719 to be within a line of sight of a distributor for Amazon, whereas a 858 01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:55.440 drone, it takes off and it's slowly dowers the package down into your backyard 859 01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:59.519 or parking lot. But it had to be within obviously pretty quick, pretty 860 01:04:59.639 --> 01:05:04.360 close line of sight. And I saw that Amazon is getting FAA approval the 861 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:09.880 fly its drones farther. And yes, Amazon has drones. It it's got 862 01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:14.840 its own division. It's called Prime Air. With all due respect and maybe 863 01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:21.719 a loss from Michael Jordan, Amazon Prime Air drones, and the FAA's granted 864 01:05:21.719 --> 01:05:30.639 Amazon permission to operate package delivery drones beyond the visual line of sight, which 865 01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:32.440 is obviously farther than a human can see. If you want me to spell 866 01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:38.440 it out, it's a pretty big milestone. Amazon has had a long running 867 01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:44.599 ambition to deliver products to customers within thirty minutes, and you could do it. 868 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:50.000 Amazon is set to try this out. And this the reason I talk 869 01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:56.000 about it in College Station, Texas, which I believe you were in our 870 01:05:56.079 --> 01:06:00.199 range of KPRC nine to fifty. Shout out to the college station. Non 871 01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:03.719 Aggie's in college station. Love you guys, listen to me. I am 872 01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:12.440 as serious. Has anyone seen a drone just fly to your next door neighbor, 873 01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:15.400 fly somewhere drop a deliver package. I want you to call me out. 874 01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:19.559 I just I want the experiment. It's like it's like a UFO because 875 01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:24.840 it's so new. I laugh. And you can actually bookmark this show that 876 01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:27.840 I'm doing on the first of June twenty twenty four, because it could be 877 01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.159 a year, it could be ten years right now where this is going to 878 01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:34.679 be a very single minute of the day. We see Amazon trucks all over 879 01:06:34.719 --> 01:06:38.840 the time in the two hours of this show, and I can look outside 880 01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:42.199 of the window here in the studio, I could probably count probably forty or 881 01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:45.199 fifty even on a Saturday Amazon trucks rolling by, and UPS trucks and FedEx 882 01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:50.760 trucks. Look at I don't see a drone out there rolling in with the 883 01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:55.239 package. It could be non stop. It could be ever present years from 884 01:06:55.320 --> 01:07:00.519 right now, but it's rare right now. Seven three, two two five 885 01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:02.119 nine five. Oh, talk to me? Have you seen what? Did 886 01:07:02.119 --> 01:07:09.480 it? Freak you out? I have my issues and qualms about this thing. 887 01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:13.280 I mean, they better get their processes correct, and I know GPS 888 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:15.280 helps, and there's something that's not going to be able to do it. 889 01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:23.400 I'd like to order a quart of half gallon of Bluebelt ice cream here in 890 01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:27.480 mid June, and I would like a drone to get that to me within 891 01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:30.239 thirty minutes. Yeah, that's gonna work out well. At that point, 892 01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:36.119 it's going to be a shake, a melted milkshake. And obviously there's so 893 01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:42.679 there's only X many pounds right now that a relatively small or light drone can 894 01:07:42.719 --> 01:07:47.519 carry. What if it rains. I'm more worried about what if it delivers 895 01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:51.440 it to the wrong address. I mean, if it's supposed to land in 896 01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:56.840 my backyard and the GPS just happens to be off and I'm getting something, 897 01:07:58.880 --> 01:08:00.239 you know, got a secret of a special that I you know, the 898 01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:03.519 only reason I'm ordering it. I'm not walking ahead do it atb I'm doing 899 01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:06.079 it onlines, and no one sees what it is. And all of a 900 01:08:06.079 --> 01:08:13.039 sudden, my neighbor gets It's like, hello, don't want that. But 901 01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:17.199 they are testing this primere in it's a city in Arizona, and apparently it's 902 01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:20.720 gonna be somewhere in College Station. So I don't know if we're ready for 903 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:24.800 that technology. But you you talk to me if and when you see one. 904 01:08:24.840 --> 01:08:28.079 Now let me know the final segment coming up, and I'm gonna talk 905 01:08:28.119 --> 01:08:30.680 a little or a lot about cars. You know when I do I get 906 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.319 to drive cars and trucks all the time. It's not a sponsored thing. 907 01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:36.159 I'm gonna rag on a few, I'm gonna love on a few, and 908 01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:40.520 also take a guess. I'm gonna give you about three minutes. What do 909 01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:47.079 you think is the most stolen car in the country, most stolen car? 910 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:50.840 Lock to me, think about it. Coming back. Final segment of the 911 01:08:50.880 --> 01:09:00.479 High pntexon show. Good News, Bad News, Final segment, Final eater. 912 01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:03.199 Nine minutes of this show. I know you had so much fun. 913 01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:05.840 Good show. By the way, Callum, I don't know. You know, 914 01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:10.479 I had a little energy Energy drink beforehand, kind of pepped up you 915 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.520 like a good show. Thank you for hitting all the right buttons and keeping 916 01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:18.359 us on air twenty two years we've been doing this. Thanks also the guys 917 01:09:18.359 --> 01:09:24.079 who's sitting in the carpeted offices here at iHeartMedia Houston, Eddie Martini, Brian 918 01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:28.680 Erickson, Mark Sherman. For some reason, they keep me rolling, they 919 01:09:28.760 --> 01:09:31.319 keep me on. Apparently they can't find anything else to counter program. Don't 920 01:09:31.319 --> 01:09:34.119 get any idea, guys, dump get any ideas and thanks, it's your 921 01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:40.399 listening on iHeartRadio app all over the country. Covered a lot of stuff. 922 01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:44.239 Certainly it's not just technology. At some point I probably should change the show's 923 01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:47.439 name, but it's the high tech text show. It's consumer lifestyle. Gave 924 01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:51.920 you some I think a good few ideas for graduation, a few cocktail recipes. 925 01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:58.199 We're to travel this summer, and what to drive? Actually speaking or 926 01:09:58.239 --> 01:10:01.359 driving. I do get the opportunit to test drive a lot of cars and 927 01:10:01.399 --> 01:10:06.520 trucks. I'm a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association, and for fifteen 928 01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:11.359 years I get to meet the manufacturers. I do not deal with dealerships. 929 01:10:11.359 --> 01:10:15.520 I'm not sponsored or sullied by any sponsorship by dealerships. I can rag on 930 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:18.640 cars, I can love on cars. I get to test drive at least 931 01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:21.960 once, if not two times. It's not sometimes three per given week. 932 01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:27.600 I just got out of a actually it was really nice. It was a 933 01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:30.479 Kia. Well, no, no, what was am I talking about? 934 01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:32.800 It was? Yeah, it was a Sorrente. Kia's Sorrento, which is 935 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:41.920 a very really nice car which handles well. It's a good price, don't 936 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:48.960 sleep. Don't don't sleep on South Korean manufactured cars. I think Genesis does 937 01:10:48.960 --> 01:10:51.920 a great job. By by the way, I just this week getting a 938 01:10:53.000 --> 01:11:00.800 Genesis G seventy. A G seventy not an electric one, but it's pretty 939 01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:03.560 cool and I love it. Saedan, I think Genesis are doing a great 940 01:11:03.640 --> 01:11:09.079 jobs. I wanted to talk about stolen cars though I saw this. I 941 01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:12.479 saw a report. I guess I will give you credit. I'm supposed to 942 01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.840 talk about this. I saw a report of the list of the top ten 943 01:11:15.880 --> 01:11:21.800 most stolen cars in the country, and this is from I'm actually going to 944 01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:26.399 give you this thing most stolen up the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Okay, 945 01:11:26.439 --> 01:11:30.479 I kind of do to trust these guys. Used to be pickup trucks, 946 01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:39.079 full sized pickup trucks used to be the most stolen vehicles. Now it's become 947 01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:44.000 cars a little bit more. Any gases, any guesses. It's funny because 948 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.840 I talk about South Korean cars, which are really good, well made vehicles. 949 01:11:47.319 --> 01:11:51.760 Six out of the top ten spots are made by Hyundai in Kia. 950 01:11:53.079 --> 01:12:02.760 Oops, South Korean cars number one most stolen vehicle in twenty twenty three. 951 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:14.680 The Hyundai Elantra number two, the Hyundai Sonata number three, the Kia Optima, 952 01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:16.720 and for those of you who owned these vehicles, no, I'm not 953 01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:19.279 giving you some really good news and good news. You better get some anti 954 01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:23.760 theft. You better lock these things up in the garage. You better have 955 01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:28.640 something on them. Coumbing it. At number four, we're back to the 956 01:12:28.640 --> 01:12:31.199 pickup trucks, the Chevy Silverado fifteen hundred. A lot of people like stealing 957 01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:38.239 those. We then to go to the Kia Soul at five, the Honda 958 01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:43.880 Accord, the Honda Civic, the Kia Forte, the Ford F one fifty 959 01:12:44.760 --> 01:12:48.319 Hiccup at number nine, and then the Kia Sportage. So pretty much we've 960 01:12:48.359 --> 01:12:59.399 got eight of the top ten are domestic. Everything else is it's a little 961 01:12:59.439 --> 01:13:03.880 foreign. And here's the reason, well, at least for Hyundai and Kia. 962 01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:11.920 The rise in Hyundai and Kia thefts probably stems from a social media trend, 963 01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:14.640 which is it needs to go away and it is kind of fading. 964 01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:19.640 That used to be called something called the Kia Boys Challenge Boyz Kia Boys, 965 01:13:19.880 --> 01:13:25.479 and it showed TikTok users how to steal these vehicles, which is a USB 966 01:13:25.680 --> 01:13:33.159 drive Lunday went in a big anti theft campaign and the ease of stealing older 967 01:13:33.239 --> 01:13:36.920 Hyundais and Kyas it's it's it's going to continue to play owners and auto insurancers 968 01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:43.279 from the insurance from for some time. I understand that. But bottom line, 969 01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:46.439 twenty twenty three saw another record year for car thefts. Over one million 970 01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:53.840 vehicles have been stolen nationwide. I mean the trend may be slowing down, 971 01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:58.199 but Key and Hundai owners, you really want to consider stronger security security measures. 972 01:13:58.239 --> 01:14:04.399 And I speak from experience. Two of my three kids, I don't 973 01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:11.880 know two of the top ten most stolen cars, one of which was broken 974 01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:15.640 into and my son in Austin three or four months ago. It wasn't stolen, 975 01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:21.439 but it was attempting because I think it's he has a Hyundai, and 976 01:14:23.079 --> 01:14:27.000 Hyundai has an upgrade and I think they do this for free too. They 977 01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:30.399 all have an upgrade in the software that does not allow this Key of boys 978 01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:34.920 kicktock thing to do anything with the USB, so they thought it was an 979 01:14:34.920 --> 01:14:39.720 older model, older software. Broke the window, try to hit the steering 980 01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:44.279 mottle conal, try to hijacket or hot wire with the USB, and it 981 01:14:44.359 --> 01:14:48.560 didn't work. Because he did get down Hyundai free software upgrade. I do 982 01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:51.239 recommend you guys doing the same. See this is what you learned here on 983 01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:56.840 the High Tech Texting Show. Also this coming awake. I'm really excited because 984 01:14:56.920 --> 01:15:01.680 I am getting stand by. I mentioned this earlier there. I am getting 985 01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:11.960 a twenty twenty four gmc summer. Ev It is an electric hummer. Do 986 01:15:12.079 --> 01:15:15.960 not know what to expect. Do not know how fast it's going to go, 987 01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:18.560 do not know how far it's going to go on its range. I 988 01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:25.600 am not looking forward to recharging it with hummers. They are big. They 989 01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:29.479 used to be gas guzzlers when they use gas. This one is all EV 990 01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:31.279 tun in next week and I will give you a big update. And if 991 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:34.560 you really want to see what's going on, a great opportunity to follow me 992 01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:41.800 on social media one more time. My x accounts Twitter, High Tech Text 993 01:15:41.880 --> 01:15:45.359 and h I G h T E C h T E x A N. 994 01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:47.840 That's also my same name for my Instagram, and I put a lot of 995 01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:50.960 my videos, a lot of the videos that I do car reviews, truck 996 01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:56.680 reviews, vehicle reviews, fun stuff on the Instagram. If you're now blocked 997 01:15:56.760 --> 01:16:00.600 High Tech Text at h I g h t E c h t an. 998 01:16:00.600 --> 01:16:01.800 This is some of the fun stuff we have. Hey, really good. 999 01:16:02.399 --> 01:16:05.920 Hey you guys, thanks for listening, Thanks for the participation. Gave away 1000 01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:10.880 a little things, had some fun, carried you through two hours of the 1001 01:16:10.920 --> 01:16:14.520 hot, sweaty, muggy day. Now it is time, indeed to crack 1002 01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:17.039 open a papas plr rum, sit by the pool, do whatever you want 1003 01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:20.479 to do, get in the air conditioning on. Behalf of everybody. Callum. 1004 01:16:20.479 --> 01:16:23.920 Thank you very much for keeping us on the air and uploading this to 1005 01:16:23.960 --> 01:16:29.479 the podcast on iHeartRadio. Just search for KPRC Radio or Michael Garfield. You 1006 01:16:29.479 --> 01:16:31.760 should find it and you can listen to it again to follow us who have 1007 01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:34.000 been a part of this show. Thanks man, Stay cool, but the 1008 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:38.520 sun's going on and we will see you next week. Same bad time, 1009 01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:43.720 if same bad channel. Michael Garfield in my show is oh BO