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Michael Garfield. Happy Saturday for those of you listening lot on kp R C
nine fifty and Michael is the name. And I'm not going to say why
are you listening? Well, how about this? I hope you are listening
with two ears while maybe having at least one, potentially two of your eyes
on March mad people, one of my favorite times of the year, and
not talking a lot about it. Well, you know what I will talk
about it if you know what I have done for the past thirty five plus
years, this weekend, every weekend, well since I began this show.
You are listening plausibly live from Las Vegas people. Is there a better place
to be than Las Vegas? Number one? Throughout the year? Is there
a better place to watch and be a part of March Madness and potentially lose
money but potentially win money. Then Las Vegas been out here since Wednesday.
Tip Off Round one was Thursday. You got your Houston kooks? Who you
got your brackets? I generally start this show off with I know your brackets
busted, blah blah blah blah. You your bag. Your bracket is always
going to be busted. It's just there're the other people in your pool just
as busted as yours. Listen, I'm more than happy to take your phone
calls about your bracket. Still, God, who's left alive in the tournament?
Seven one three two one two five nine five zero. No matter if
I'm in the studio or not the studio right now, good old Callum Reid
and the boys are back there punching the buttons and making sure that I am
broadcast all over Southeast Texas terrestriallylack I have for twenty two plus years, but
also all over the Internet. Thank you for dyl Ludy, the iHeartRadio app.
I'll be here for the next hour and forty five minutes and then I
guess, let's see UH does not play today on Saturday. My University of
Texas Longhorns who put it up today. So I hope all is what march
madness. The real madness is believing that you actually have a chance of filling
out a perfect bracket. A perfect bracket. The odds of that. But
you may have heard this this week. The odds of a perfect bracket one
in nine point two quinn killion if you were to pick each of the games
through a coin flip. But if you know something about basketball, nice to
meet you. The odds improve to one in one hundred and twenty billion.
All right, So I got that going for me. I got to have
quick breaking news. I did not have another a perfect bracket for the first
probably for the fiftieth consecutive year that I have been doing the brackets for a
long, long, long time. What else you got for listen? Today?
We are going to talk about a number of interesting things, including the
FCC. Do we like you? We actually hear? Because this original originates
as a live radio program, not a podcast, I have to follow some
FCC rules, which means there's a few certain words that I cannot say.
But then when it goes to podcasts, you could say any f up any
you could say anything that you want. FCC actually did this a solid You
don't hear that a lot when it comes to internet speeds. And for all
you streamers out there, streams nothing but a stream Hulu. I actually have
Hulu. I signed up for Hulu last December for ninety nine cents a month,
and you should have two if you use someone else's password, because guess
what happened this week you ain't using that password anymore. Hulu becomes the latest
streamer to crack down on passwords, following Netflix and a few others. And
I will tell you who is up next the summer, and you and your
kids are not gonna be happy about that. You know the phone number,
My email address here Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. And also go to
all the socials high tech text at h I G H T E C h
T E x A N you spell the whole thing else It is high tech
Texan. If you're too shy to pick up the phone call, feel free
to post a little something and maybe I'll give you a shout out. The
madness is indeed arrived, having a fun time here in Las Vegas. This
is my not that said, I guess humble brag or it's like for those
of you who can't stay in Vegas, as you're not gonna like my fourth
straight month in Las Vegas. I'm going this is so far the record.
I've been coming to Vegas for forty this is my fortieth year. I did
come before I could legally gamble, but I can hear forty years in Las
Vegas. The average, I ually get to Vegas three to four times a
year. This is my fourth time in a row. So who knows some
way, it's just it's a blast. I do not go did Michael,
what shows do you go to? I don't go to any shows forty years,
well over one hundred and fifty times, two hundred times to Vegas.
If I've seen five shows, have any kind of my life on lying.
I don't see shows. I sit in front of it. It depends where
this week, me and my say eight guys from our college days, our
thirty fifth, thirty sixth year of gathering together. I love telling that story
because a lot of my people go, oh, that's so cool. I
should have done that. What a neat tradition? Yeah, shut up,
you should have done that. It's a phenomenal tradition. Sadly, I've never
spent an entire spring break with my family when my kids were young, because
it's like, guess what, Daddy is going to Las Vegas for spring break?
And it is a blast. We sit and watch TV pretty much all
days with all the round one, round two games, we hit the craps
table in the afternoon. Between the morning and the afternoon games, we hit
the pool that we do a dice dinner and then we pass out. I
do wake up, I go to the gym, and then we repeat and
rinse, repeat all over again. So no matter how much you were watching
it, how much time have you wasted on Thursday and Friday of already from
your work? I bet your boss is not too happy about you. But
hopefully you'll beat your boss in in the pool. But if you don't watch
college basketball, you probably are have been screaming at your TV simply because an
unpaid nineteen year old missed a free throw. Yes, this is what we
do. It's sorry about that. Check it out the time over here,
we're going to take a quick break. That's how we start the show.
We don't really get into too much technology. It's a pop lifestyle. What
is going on show. Last week we talked a little about what was happening
with Kate Middleton. Has she been seen? She's like the elusive Bigfoot right
now because somebody posted a photo on Twitter of her and Prince William maybe walking
out of a grocery store holding some bags. Let me help you out,
people, I really don't care about the story. I mean, whatever the
damn monarchy does. You don't believe it. They are worthless there whatever,
but let me help you out. I will tell you this. They are
massively, massively rich. They could do any damn thing they want in that
country, England. The hell if Prince William and Princess Kate are walking to
and from a grocery store with grocery bags, HGB. I am deploring right
now open up a store somewhere in England. So at least they have curbside
pickup. That is all I ask for this week of March. All right,
coming back, it is the High Tech Decks It Show. It's Michael
Garpo's dead by my brands. I've been answering some emails if you want to
know what we do during the commercial breaks over here. I am always online.
I got at least one eye up on the TV watching a little match,
madness. I got one mouth in front of the microphone. I got
two earphones so I can hear Callum talk to me. What are you whispering?
Callum? Really? You got uh going all the way. I mean,
I'll tell you what, march madness. I have like five brackets,
five six brackets you know online where someboddies like that man I got I got
UH going all the way. I've got Yukon just they're just they're so,
they're so tough. I'm not high on UT this year. Last year I
had UT going to the final four. I mean it was made for UT.
Last year. It was in Houston and they were doing great, and
both Houston and Texas where they were one game half a game away from going
to the final four. So it's in Phoenix, Arizona in three weeks.
I have no clue. Who is going tell you what? Don't sleep.
I got some sleepers. James Madison one of my sleepers. I can tell
you this now because I've already submitted my pool brackets and the and so of
you, so we shall see it is garf. Also some emails over here.
What I'm doing? Somebody said, hey, Michael, I saw you
on Great Day Houston, Shadow eleven. I had no clue that's what you
look like. Why are you wasting your time on radio? Is that calumb
Is that a compliment? I maybe I don't know. I do radio two.
I am a double threat. I'm a triple threat. I am a
radio TV social media personality. Take that, people, That was me on
Great Day Houston. I am a regular contributor and I was doing a which
seems like my annual segment on outdoor grilling gadgets and accessories every every spring,
yeah, early to late spring. The folks great. They uston debraa knunkin
CBS Channel eleven. They have me specifically co On and hey Michael man,
everybody loves cooking and grilling. The weather's getting warm, and what do you
got? I actually played with and my eye as well. Give you a
review right now. I brought in a few outdoor gadgets, but my newest
and I like cooking. I am a man. I like cooking and grilling.
Don't need a lot of red meat though I'm a fish chicken guy,
but all my buddies come over and they like the meat. I have a
new I have another Oh yeah, yeah, I need a bigger house.
I have another grill smoker device. I have had fired desk of ice like
the fire Disc, which is neither a grill or a smoker. It's just
an outdoor cooker runs on propane. I've had a Big Green Egg and by
the way, I still have a Big Green Egg, which I am selling
right now. I have not put down on Facebook marketplace if anybody is interested.
And the high Tech Texans personally autographed, which I devalued Big Green Egg
with all the accessories. It's only like two or three years old. Great
shape. Let me know. Pop me a note because I have replaced my
Big Green Egg with another Kamada Comado style ceramic smoker. It is the Kamato
Joe. Wait a minute, it's just not the red, not the green,
but the red Comado style cooker from Kamada Joe. It is the technologically
advanced Connected Joe. That's a KA Connected Joe. So I saw this at
CEES Consumer Electronics Show last January, and I did. I went to a
reception in I was blown away. It's relatively new and it is to some
aspects. The accessories are different than the Big Green and I don't want to
sit here and go you know, compare the two really, but some of
the things I really like about the Connected Egg. It's okay, bear with
me over, Yes, I'm gonna go back. It's the relatively, I
have a large size, so it's the same size as my Big Green Egg.
It works in the same principle. It is a Commodo style. It's
a dome that seals, which keeps all the heat in, which keeps all
the smoke in if you're smoking something. But the difference is almost in there.
This comes with a lot of accessories. Big Green Egg does not come
with a lot of accessories. Big Green Egg wants you to purchase the accessories.
So in terms of pound for pound, deal for the deal, I
like commoda Joe. But this is called the Connected ko in it it's a
K because that's the way they brand it. But it's connected because it is
technologically advanced. Now you plug this one in and you plug it in.
You don't have to plug it in, but you want to plug it in
to electric electric OL it because it has a digital readout screen panel on the
front where it is telling you the digital readouts, including the temperature, of
the inside of the Kammanda Joe. Also, it has not one, not
two, but three different plugs for probes food probes that you can plug in.
It comes with one probe already and it's got a digital readout so you
can see the inside temperature of your meat. It's got a fan built in
and so you don't have to solely rely on air, you know, like
you do with the big grain egg and cooking on these commandostylegios. It's a
it's a science and I'm not saying I perfected it, but I've had one
of these for three years or so. And so you know, you turn
the heat to turn that to make the heat go up, and the heat
in the in the connected Commanda Joe up to seven hundred degrees. I'm talking
you could put a pizza in there. So you have to open the bottom.
And you know air affects fire, more air, more wind fire.
That's where you blow on fire to you know, not to really put it
out, but to make it grow. This has a controlled fan that will
monitor it knows how open or how closed the upper air intake and outtake vent
is all together. It comes with an app free app that you can monitor
and change things remotely. You can set the temperature. You can actually dial
things. Hey listen, I'm cooking pork, I'm cooking poultry, I'm cooking
beef, I'm cooking a reb by, I'm cooking a steak. It'll beep
when the temperature gets it gets up there. Very very convenient. So that's
one of and so I like it. If you want to check it out,
you can go to a Commado joke. It's k O kam a d
O Comado Joe and there's there's a there's a number of them. Now.
I specifically have the connected Joe and they run. You're going to find them
for about seventeen hundred dollars. I think Home Depot, Academy Sports and Outdoors
has it, and there's other ones. You know, they Kamada Joe makes
a big Joe to make a classic Joe, but this is connected, so
it's a little bit more high tech. And I found it, you know,
pretty very easy to use, and things came out really simple, you
know, I get I played it with it one time and then I used
it on my segment on Great Day Houston, and it was pretty cool.
So anyway, if you're looking for something for outdoor a grilling of gadgets.
I was playing with an electric fire starter that was pretty cool. You can
find it. Tell you what I think. I put the video on high
Tech Texting dot Com from my channel eleven hit last Wednesday. So at H
I G h T E c h T E x A. And actually my
buddy Darryl Darryl Kunda, Darryl Kunda used to actually work here with us at
the iHeartRadio. Great dude, big griller, big dude. He knows how
to grill and everything. So he won. He probably he probed over this.
This brought a source looking bone. I'm talking it was like this was
from Flenstones or something. It was a huge piece of like red meat.
It looked great. He seasoned it perfectly. He brought over some chicken.
We put that on there and they came out perfect. It was quite tasty.
And so whatever you want to cook, it's pretty good. I'm next.
You can when I say pizza, you can cook pizza on these things.
And so outdoor grilling is it's pretty cool. So there you go.
It's the Connected Joe. There is the high Tech Texan Review. Definitely I
enjoyed it. You will too. And by the way, seriously, I
really I need to sell my big great egg which comes with a number of
different accessories, a big cover, it's on wheels and everything. Talk to
me, people, email me Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com or bought me
a note on my socials at High Tech Texan. When we come back,
we are going to talk about what the FCC did. Actually pretty cool.
You don't hear that a lot? Federal Communications Commission. I love you guys,
you know why because technically you tell me what I can and what I
can't say. And also Hulu just kind of threw down the gauntlet so you
no longer can actually share your passwords. I will tell you the next streaming
service to do so coming up this summer. All here on the ht T
shizzow that means High Tech Texan bell you what, after all this talk of
food and motto Joe open and smoking, how about going on a diet?
Not that I well, I'm always trying to keep fit, but if you
were one who are looking to shit a few pounds and you're thinking about getting
all these high falutin new drugs that help you lose weight or curb your appetite.
I know they're expensive. Sometimes your insurance does not pay for them.
May I suggest Campbell's compounding Pharmacy. Spell it Campbell's Compounding dot Com. Two
locations, one near the mediciner, one out in sugar Land, Exis where
I can nearly reside by. And I've known Lance Campbell for fifteen years now,
if not even more than that. And I remember my kids were young.
They didn't like stomaching, nasty tasting medicine or something like that. But
one of the many things that Campbell's compound like pharmacy, they can do.
They can make any drug pill syrup taste like anything they want. You want
bubblegum kids could bring it. I always joke that man Lands, how come
you can't make something taste like bourbon? You probably could if you wanted to.
But anyway, they're convenient, they're fast. Have your doctor prescribe something
and pick it up Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy Iamcampbell's Coompounding dot Com. Tell them you
heard it on this wonderful radio show talk about stream You're streaming is the new
technological way to watch television. As you know, all you need is an
Internet connection. We'll talk about this first before we talk what the FCC is
doing or done with your internet connection. Hulu is is it it's owned or
cohened by Disney, Right, yeah, Hulu. I didn't have Hulu until
this Sumber and I saw this special. And sometimes things are so good.
You're at the grocery store and you're in a checkout lane and you're just sitting
there looking, oh, man, I want a piece of gum, I
need a resis or something like this, kind of a last minute purchase.
It is what happened with Hulu. I think my dad sent me this length.
He said, hey, Hulu is having this sale for the holidays ninety
nine cents a month. Last year, I think they had it for a
dollar ninety nine a month. They said, screw it up for one year.
And by the way, this could come to Simber if I'm still around,
guys still remind me to cancel by Hulu subscription. I'm like, come
on, twelve bucks a year? Are you kidding me? Twelve? I
am an actual Hulu subscriber, And it was worth it back then because I
actually found a great streaming show. I was watching Only Murders in the Building
that I've got into those three seasons. I did it, and I watched
it on Hulu, which I thought was pretty cool. I actually like that.
Hulu got an issue here. Hulu subscriber beware, because the password sharing
crackdown is officially here. That's right, just like Netflix. The new policy
went into effect earlier this week. It's barring people who don't live in the
same household from piggybacking on subscriptions. Yep, oh vap. Now they send
an email in January notifying their subscribers it's gonna ban sharing accounts with people outside
of their homes in March. Check your calendar. It is now March.
Now. It's the change to the Hulu subscriber agreement. It's similar to an
update to the Disney Plus subscriber agreement late last year. Now, Hulu defines
a household as a collection of device is associated with your primary personal residence that
are used by the individuals who reside therein oh, that is a freaking lawyer
speaker eh breaking new Disney Plus is also plenty to crack down on passwords sharing
this summer. Uh oh, all you little kids who have to watch Frozen
and you're sharing your grandmother's account nope, tying to pony up people work for
Netflix. Netflix started this. They saw a big boost in subscriber growth after
it began cracking down on password sharing. It was last May been around almost
a year max, which was formerly HBO Max. They're also the latest to
restrict passwords sharing. Streaming services looking to hook new subscribers used to allow.
They even encouraged people to share accounts. Remember those days. But they're losing
so much money now, rising pressure to stem their financial losses, they've it's
changed the rules. Streaming plans not typically allow multiple devices within a household to
access content on a single subscription, but allowing friends and family members to move
off those subscribers. Nope, it is for boten. Oh why as we
say and al still predicting the passwords sharing crackdown is gonna spread to all streaming
services eventually, it will. Do you remember what hell it's open phone lines
now? Seven one, three, two five? What have you shared?
Do I say, illegally? Your WiFi? Your Internet account? How many
people are glombing off their neighbors wi Fi right now? I mean is a
tour question. I mean you're not gonna have to call in and you can
tell me. Feel free to call in, feel free to send me.
You could change your name. I want to identify you. Hell, I
would do it too, but you know what I'm I mean, I'm kind
of close to my neighbors. I ain't that diet with my neighbors. You
know what I'd like? I listen. I'm a consumer, I'm flesh and
blood. We all want deals. I give you deals. I tell you
prices on competing products from top to bottom. I'm gonna give you the best
price, but also make sure it's the best product out there. I told
you last week that I joined the Cold Time an official, a Pelotonian.
So I bought a Pelotonka. By the way, here's your deal. I
bought it used off Facebook marketplace, so anyway, it's got a pretty good
deal. I needed shoes. I needed biking shoes, so I researched for
two and a half days a pair of biking shoes that I got for all
of twenty four bones on online. Pretty cool, and I still have yet
to subscribe to see here's the thing you need to subscribe to Peloton forty four
freaking bones a month. Listen for all you Pelotonians out there, I have
open phone lines? Is this really worth it? Can I use this Peloton
that I'm that that is sitting in my office at home, ready to go,
plugged in shoes next to it, cleaned up, It's it's beautiful,
it's perfect. Can I just ride it? Or that's not the point.
And I don't think it's the point because if I just wanted a bicycle,
a stationary bicycle, I'm gonna go at Academy and I think I can probably
why I went for one hundred and twenty five dollars hundred and fifty bucks.
It just sits there and has a tension wheel and then you're set to go.
So I'm looking, I'm researching. I'm like, there's a Peloton app,
there's a Peloton app plus? Does that work? Because those are cheaper?
And then forty four dollars a month you're getting this thing. But then
I find out a few of my buddies have it. They said you actually
can share your Peloton account with five people. Okay, now I'm thinking.
So my Mike buddy of mine, one of my best friends, he's in
Atlanta. He goes, Hey, Verify, It's okay, I'll just give
you my username and password. I'm thinking, good, I'll pay you half
of it. I'll go have these with you. Aparently you can only log
on one Peloton at a time or something, so if you have a household
of five people, you can have one Peloton and in five people. Because
it's a different serial number, I don't know, it's screwed up. So
away if anybody has a way around for me for getting a Peloton subscription,
uh seven point three two one two five nine five up this it's a business.
It's an amazing business model, the subscription based model. And that's what
you want because it's mailbox money people. I mean, it's Peloton. I've
said it before. It's Amazon should have given away a little tiny Alexa device
free to every single person in this country free. It's a trojan horse.
Jeff Bezos when he owned it back in the day, would have a trojan
horse inside every single home and it would it would make everybody use the Amazon
ecosystem. They would have to do. They don't have to pay for Prime,
but if they want to order anything or all the answers, that's it.
They have so much data on you. Give away the razors and sell
the blades. Give it away so Gillette, just give away the stupid give
it, give away the razor because they know they got you on those freaking
blades. It's what a subscription based model is. And they're in it for
money. And that's why going back to the streamers, they're cracking down and
they're gonna start charging. All right, one more segment this hour. When
we come back, I will tell you what are good friends at the Federal
Communication Commission, the people who let us know that we cannot say this four
letter word or two. We love them right now, from about the news
to something they've changed for the first time in ten years. I'll tell you
what that is. On the other side, I'd like to thank good boys
and US coins and jewelry. I say boys specifically Kenny and Matt. Duncan
knows, the two brothers who run that thing day to day. Their father
started it and I know they're listening right now because they are open on Saturday
as we do this radio show. They do take the Chick fil A model
and they close on Sunday, so you better get there. A little spring
break present, little Easter gifts. And I say gifts, it's called US
coins and jewelry. Every time I go in there. I don't know why,
man so I got my rolex from there. And they'd love buying Rolexes
and then reselling them and trading them in and flipping it. And I did
that most recently, about a month ago. Women. They've got tennis bracelets
and beautiful earrings. They've got great Texas memorabilia. I'll tell you what if
you're looking for, you know, old timey original state flags of Texas.
They got great sports cards you get, they'll buy your sports cards. They've
got autographed baseballs. It's it's it's it's really just an interesting place. It
could not be nicer folks. And obviously they're dealing coins. New mismatist is
the official term for that. And if you have a ton of coins that
you've been keeping and thinking there were something buff Nichols or whatever it is,
take it to them for at least a quote doesn't cost anything. Schlep it
in there. They got phenomenal security, really really tight, great cameras and
so don't be worried. And it's just it's always a fun packplace. You
never know who you're going to see in there. Iten Kenny Freeway just outside
of Loop six' ten right, voss us Coins and Jewelry dot Com.
You don't even need to be in Houston to work with them because they could
do it though remotely online. So, Kenny and Matt, I know you're
listening right now. And as I hold up my rolex, what time is
it? That's a running joke at it's actually just a few minutes before the
top of the hour. Hour number one will soon be over, but not
before I give you some good news, good news from the Federal Communications Commission,
the f c C, same organization that every year that we here at
this radio station, all radio stations publicly over the air, that we have
to get certified that we know what we're doing. We have the power of
broadcasting because it's live. We have rules of what we cannot say. We
don't have rules of what we can say, but we have rules of what
we cannot say. And so far, I've got a pretty good track record
of twenty two years right now. So the FC she should love me and
I actually appreciate them specifically for what they just did. For the first time
in almost ten years, the FCC has raised the speeds required to describe what
Internet broad band means that's right. The every year they go through. It's
the Internet Assessment, and the FCC concluded that one hundred megabits download, one
hundred megs per second download, and twenty megs upload will be the new standard.
That news probably is going to irk your ISP your ISPs who would love
to keep pointing to the fact that twenty five megs down and three megs up,
which has been the previous standards, and convincing people they're getting high speed
broadband. No, listen, remember the days of dial up internet access?
Yes, I do too. Kids, You have no clue what your parents
went through. It's like a fax machine. Then we had internet first big
ISP here in the Houston area two thousand and two. Roadrunner from Comcast remember
that, I'm sorry. Roadrunner from Time Warner was Time Warner's Roadrunner. How
do I know? Because I you're illustrious radio host was the spokesperson. Yes,
that was me over twenty years ago, being chased by people in parks,
golf courses, standing in coffee shops, and schools of people lining up
to ask me questions about technology and the inner Yes, I have some of
my career to thank for Time Warner Roadrunner to help put me and my brand
on the map. I don't even think it was. It got us out
of dial up, man. And actually, it's funny to a quick story.
So I'm shooting these It's true. I was. If you've been her,
listen, if if you guys remember when I was the spokesperson TV radio
and billboards. Dude, I was more ubiquitous than freaking Mattress Mac. It
was crazy, man, this two thousand and two, two thousand and three,
they we had there was a massive of public relations or advertising the agency.
We shot these commercials and we shot them int Austin and they aired here,
they aired in the Dallas area, they heard in Rio Grand Valley.
It was, it was, it was, it was really neat something.
It's you know, I made it. I did. Look So it was
it was a transition of a paradigm shift, going from dial up internet access
AOL or whatever ev one to much higher speeds through your cable system. That
was roadrunner maybe. And so I remember the director of the commercial. Every
time I said I was trying to compare, somebody would ask me a question,
Hey, you're Michael Garfield, aren't you the high tech textan? What's
the difference between you know, our dial up in uh in high speed broadband.
So I would say, well, dial up is a very it's the
low tech, old fashion away. But the director wanted me to put my
put some stank on the word dial up. So every time if you go
back out of there, it's on YouTube somewhere. It wasn't just dial up.
It was dial up dial up, Like, what the hell dial up?
Man? It was I'm not getting it time I say dial up,
I still stank it up. By the way, back to the story over
here that by the way, gosh, I wish time water Road. I
think I I forgot it was so long ago because remember Time Warner left the
Houston area and switched some markets, and now Comcast has it, and Comcast
does not know who in the world I am. They charged me out the
Yahoo for freaking cable speech, which I cannot stand, and I'm gonna cut
the cable, so screw you guys. Well, anyway, the FCC did
this report and it broke down in a lot of areas where the country's online
infrastructure falls short, and they concluded that broadband really isn't being deployed quickly enough
to serve Americans, and more specifically, they said they, you know,
fixed terrestrial broadband service. This is not satellite. It's yet to be deployed
to about twenty four million Americans. I don't know where these people live,
but I'm down with this. And the funny thing is, give it another
few years and we're gonna laugh at the current of what they just changed.
Okay, it went from twenty five megabits per second download now the minimum standard
is one hundred megabitz download. And we're gonna laugh this thing because sometimes as
soon it's gonna be a thousand megabits, which is a terrem whatever. I
don't even know, it should be one hundred megabits. Listen, the FCC
can't police isp IS to force them to boost their speed. But I think
this type of move it's it's about as good as they can get what it
can do to prevent them from marketing their services broadband internet if they don't need
the thresholds, So are they gonna have to come up with another buzzword to
sell customers on the super fast glacial internet speed or the outdated inter speed.
I don't know. You can't call twenty five megabits, which is just getting
ready to go away. You can't call a dial up because you're not dialing
up and you're still getting it through the Internet. Maybe they should just call
it internet speed versus broad band. You got to use that broadband. There
you go, shout out, what up? F freaking CC. Good for
you, Federal Communitas Commission. Make those ISPs, crank it up, But
please don't let up charge war because that ain't happening. It's not. We're
going back to smoke signals. Our number one officially stand by. Much more
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You're high Tech Texas and Michael Garfield. Halfway through this show, it's halfway
to halfy hour, people say with me, happy Saturday, March Madness Saturday,
mister Michael Garfield from Las Vegas, because you know what it is,
March madness, and this is where everybody should be. Is there a better
place to watch all these games than a sportsbook? Would you? I mean
I should start a poll. Would you watch because there's so many simultaneous games
going on sportsbook your living room? Or would you actually rather be at the
game? Now, I'm a live, live sports event guy without a doubt,
but and I've been to I mean, I've been to so many final
fours. But when you go to Final four, that's the only game being
played. But if you go to one of the first rounds, there's simultaneous
games. I mean, I'd be in a sportsbook if you've never been to
a sportsbook to watch a live sports event, and you don't have to have
money on it, but it's better if you do it. Is it is
wild? I mean every play there is something happening, and then you know,
somebody has a buzzer beater at the end of the game and they cover
this spread. You're a hugging this dude who's standing next to you. You
have no clue who he is, but you're won some money. It's it
is a blast, So we do thank you for tuning in and got to
keep it quiet over there, even though the game's just tipped off here on
the Pacific Coast time and also the Central time wherever you are listening to Happy
Hour brought to you by Papa's p Lar. There's a lot of happy hour
here in Las Vegas. There is a lot of happy hour going on,
and I'm really starting to drink a lot more rum courtesy of Papa's p LR.
P I L A R. Every time I go to the Capitol Grill
back in Houston in the gallerya area bottle or two back there. There's one
in my private wine locker which actually does not have any wine in there.
Downtown Guarding Grace, phenomenal steakhouse in Houston. They serve it back there,
different variety tales. You know, you could sip it. And this isn't
just your typical oh bourbon. This is in Key West, Ernest Hemingway family.
They have given their seal of approval that it's a gorgeous bottle with looks
like a canteen from World War two and uh, it's a several different versions
blonde, one a cask rye whiskey, one Spanish rye. Also, so
it's it's it's good stuff. And so here I am out Vegas and I
find a little out here. Go go to SPEC's Total Wine and where you
are on a Saturday, because in Texas the liquor stores sadly are not open
on Sundays. We need to fix that people. So papas PILARI it is.
It is cocktail time out here for March madness got some you know,
every year when the Super Bowl comes around, March Madness rolls around. I
generally go through the Let me tell you how you can watch or stream or
remotely watch all these sporting events, because there's there's there's a number of different
ways that you can watch it out of your house. You know. I
grew up in an era where number one, well I was born with black
white tea was around. But then there was color TV with no remote control.
There was only over the year broadcast channels, and that was the only
time you're watching TV as simple as that. Nowadays, we watch TV on
our phone, we stream TV. We don't even have our traditional TV,
and so what do you do. This is where I come in. March
Madness is great used to be. There's an NCAA March Madness app that I
believe you could download. And even though I'm I go to Vegas every single
year for thirty five years this weekend to watch all the games on a big
screen. Sometimes when I'm walking around the casino or from you know, we're
in dinner or something, and I still want to watch the games, I
whip out the app and you could watch it. Now nowadays you don't need
all these different apps. You don't even though you need to be logged into
a few different services. It hasn't always been easy watching March Madness, despite
the fact there are tons of games, because they're on four networks. They're
on CBS, T and T TVs and True TV, and you often would
have to pay for a cable, a satellite, a streaming t package if
you really wanted to catch all the action. This year a little easier.
So if you do want and I know the game, they're already in the
kind of the second round. But if you need, all you need is
one of two streaming services for March Madness, and if you want both of
them, they are less than thirty dollars total for a month and then you
can cancel it. One is Max, the you know, the old HBO
Max and Paramount Plus together the two of them are gonna run you about twenty
two bucks for the month of the tournament. And that includes that included the
playing games earlier this week, the rest of the tournament on all four networks,
and eventually the final four. The championship game is gonna be on April
eighth. The Championship game, there's there's gonna be some different looks and sounds.
Championship game is gonna be on TBS. It will not be on CBS
because every year they alternate, and even years it is on TBS in for
the first time in thirty some odd years. Goodbye friends. Jim Nantz will
not be doing the P by P. Jim Nantz will hopefully be in the
audience for his alma mater, the University of Houston, watching the game in
Phoenix where it's going to be played. No, it is going to be
called by the new CBS lead March Madness basketball commentator Iron Eagle, who is
a group broadcaster. He is good. Oh excuse me, see I'm alread
getting choked up for this thing. So Max with advertisements ten bucks a month,
live sports from T and T, TBS, thrue TV paramount plus with
Showtime it's twelve bucks a month, and you've got the live CVS speeds.
They don't have contracts, so if you want to cancel once the tournament's over
easyps, you could easily do so. So for if you're if you're considering
getting Max, the cheaper annual rate they they're offering a new deal through April
ninth, takes over forty percent off the regular price if you were willing to
prepay for an entire year. Generally, I'm not a prepayer. I mean
I told your at last hour I signed up for Hulu for an entire year
in December. Well that's because it was for ninety nine cents a month.
I'm down with paying twelve bones a year. I'm fine with that forty So
no, I generally paid month to month for Max with the ads option,
that would bring the price down to like seventy bucks for the first year.
That's about five dollars and eighty three cents per months. So at twenty two
bucks total, it's gonna be a big diff discount from last year, when
the cheapest option was a combination of Paramount plus premium for the CBS games and
then the Sling TV Blue for the TNT type of games. So this year
is gonna be cheaper, and but you're still going to have to pay.
There's it's just very tough to find anything free on TV, not at all,
even when I'm watching the games. Ain't nothing free in Vegas anymore.
Ain't nothing older. I got comped, Yeah, you got to. You
gotta put some money down on the table to actually be comped. But that's
why we're out here. We are having fun. When we come back,
I've got some Q and A. You guys are a little shy to call,
but somebody wanted to know, Hey, Michael, what is what is
the best one of the best video doorbells out there? Uh, this gentleman
cannot decide on what your doorbell and there are a lot of doorbells. I
went through the same predicament about a year ago, because I've probably had every
two years, I get a new video doorbell to test, starting with the
Ring video doorbell, then kept upgrading it, and you know, I've gone
through some It's not hard to install it because most of them are wireless.
I will kind of give you my thoughts on what I'm using currently right now
is the video doorbell, which I really do like. And I will give
you a few others to choose from. And if you are too shy to
call seven one three two one nine five oz, you can do what this
dude did and he can email me Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot top. With
that, we're gonna be right back with the High Tech Text and show checking
emails here. As we come back to the HTT show, it stands for
high Tech Text and it is Miguel and Michael garth Field. How are you
middle of March? Got two weeks to Easter? What are you guys doing
for Easter brunch? Somebody needs to help me and I'm not being physicious.
Uh. Easter is when we say he is risen? Is that right?
Callum help me out? He is risen, which grammatically I don't think really
make the sense. He has risen like the Pillsbury doable right? And then
the is it the Friday before that? That is good Friday? Does that
mean you have to eat fish on Fridays or not meat or something I'm very
confused. Saturday is in Saturday is something. Saturday is my radio show,
and it's it's exactly. That's the weekend of the Houston Open, the Texas
Children's Hospital Houston Open, so that it is going to be a very big
weekend. And I guess, so I guess the final of the Houston Open
is going to be on Easter Sunday. Okay, is that a lot of
what happens on Eastern You go to church and you have brunch by the way,
Actually I know, Actually I tell you I'm probably gonna I don't celebrate
Easter, but I may have to have Easter brunch the Capitol Grill. I
was over there picking up something the other day. I got this massive Easter
brunch. I mean they got like, uh, well, first of all,
everything is at the Capitol Grill is just like awesome. But I was
talking to Steve Jost, my mother over there, who is the managing partner.
He said, you need to come by for Easter brunch at the Capitol
Grill. And I'm like, you know, I mean I don't eat a
lot. He goes, no, no, you don't have to, love
but I mean the food is huge. So it is. Uh, let
me give you the calum will make you hungry? Okay, calum, what
are you doing for? You? Do you hunt for Easter eggs? When
does that stop? These are serious? I'm not making fun of anything.
No, no, my hunt for you know the Afha coma from Matza.
That's what I grew up by, you know, not big Sure what's going
on? So? Uh? Fourteen ounce bony dry age New York strip and
eggs. Who I love how you see brunch? So I guess you could
take a New York piece of meat strip, you throw eggs on it,
it becomes brunch. It's smart, lobster free, no relation to Tillman lobster
free, Tata truffle, Holliday sauce, white cheddar, hash browns. Okay,
that's in the lead for me right now. Crabcake benedict not bad in
a eight ounce center cut filet mignon. We've also got oh kids, We've
got chicken fingers, mac and cheese, miniature cheeseburgers, classic style French toast,
scrambled eggs with dessert. And there's ice cream. Oh my goodness.
Got to reserve your table though. So there's your brunch. That's particularly the
cup where else you know, taking phone calls over here if anybody has their
brunch suggestions. But oh, by the way, they have mimosas about like
they also have Papa's p LR rum too, nice little rum drink in the
morning. And then you can go out and watch the final round of the
Houston Open golf tournament. As we continue the high tech texting show, see
I talk about food. Actually a ton of hunger right now, actually right
now as we broadcast the show from Vegas, which I do every year on
first weekend of March Madness. It is just don't know, it's the Way
twenty five or something like that. I don't even have a watch, but
I'm a little hungry. I think it's breakfast. I need to do something
about that. I'm not getting a room service. I I room service is
the funniest thing they may It is so overpriced, and is it even good?
Am I stay at hotels you know, semi quite a bit. I
don't know. Maybe once I have ordered room service, and I think I
was on a freaking account. Luckily I had a company with spongsor the whole
thing. I mean, I don't need a lot of breakfast or in ever
even well, it's not anay breakast, lunch, your dinner. I just
rather just go down and get something to see people, certain certainly here in
Vegas, instead of sitting in there. I don't know what we got on
that, but we will continue. I got an email over here somebody was
saying, hey, high tech Texan, what's the best video doorbell out there?
I'm deciding between two or three. It's confusing. Do I really need
to spend that high expensive one on the Ring? Because everybody's heard of Ring
a video doorbell that is from Justin. Justin is in Parentland. There are
a number of different ones, number of different ones. Ring was the real
first to market that went nuts. And what was it? It was an
Amazon who bought that company for a billion dollars or something. And you know
they could be controversial. I mean, can you can police can actually confiscate
what happened on your you know doorstep. You see all the time, you
know, forged pirates going up in stealing you know packages. You know,
it's really good for safety. I have used five or six of them over
years. Every every year year and a half or so, some company sends
me one to play with and test with. And I'm sticking with this one
right now. But let me get the one I have right now, the
one I actually have. Again, not a commercial. I'm just I'm telling
because I'm gonna give you some other brands. I've been using the Google Nest
the second generation. It's on the second generation. Uh. There's two types.
There's there's one that has battery operated that you can take the battery off
and recharged. There's then there's one that's wired. You know, because most
all doorbells and if you take the doorbell off, there's two little wires in
there. I'm using the battery one and I like that, and I will
and I will tell you why because there it's super simple to set up,
whether you're getting the wired one or not. But there's also live video feeds
again that come with an app. Always pretty much comes with an app.
There's a live video feed, two way audios, so whoever rings, they
could sit there and talk to you and then you could talk back. And
there's alert notifications and again a lot of them do this, but the alert
notifications, I mean every time I see I could set it any time I
see movement within the camera's range. Front, porch, driveway or whatever I
can get it. I get a good pop up alert. I get an
alert when a package has arrived, and an alert will say someone's at your
front door with the package. Then I could say, and then if the
UPS guy happens to move the package or someone steals it, I'll immediately get
it or going your package is removed. Facial recognition and everything runs about one
hundred and fifty dollars or so Walmart maybe a little cheaper, but it's great
performance and the features are pretty free too. And one of the other things
that you need to take account of is does it record things? You have
to have a subscription service, you know, like a cloud type of thing.
Well, this one you've got. I believe it's three hours without a
subscription, so anything over the past three hours, and which is fine because
anytime something happens you can set up a notification. I get it within three
seconds versus three you know, much less three minutes, much less three hours.
It's called the Nest Doorbell. It's the Google and it obviously works well
with Google Assistant. Yes, it's compatible with Alexa too, and also it
has a lot of AI artificial intelligence technology, so you know, as I
said, you get the package, the person, the vehicle notifications. You
do get a nest to wear, a subscription that allows for face identification,
and the warnings are really good. It works in that it works in relatively
cold. It's never dropped below zero here in my house, but for the
past years in the heat, not a big deal. The battery last for
a good at least a month and a half two months if you don't sit
there looking at live video all the time. And I like it. Whenever
you charge it, you pop it off. And then you do, you
charge it with USBC and you're set to go. Other ones on the market.
Boy, there's a ton of them, there is there. Yes,
there's the ring video doorbell. I think we're up to the Pro two version.
Say's two hundred and thirty bucks. That's two hundred and thirty dollars.
It's it's a it's a hot We're gonna call it high end. It's not
the best value, but if you want some features, they're there. It's
got a big, super wide field of view, big one to one aspect
ratio, it's got a high you know resolution, all the basics you want,
you know, with with the you know with the video doorbell. It's
got radar sensing, it's got a bird's eye view and a lot of stuff.
It's got three D motion detection. It's nice. It's just it's just
a little bit, you know, a little bit expensive. And so you
got that going on. We've got ARLW. I like Rlow a r l
O. I have Rlow video wireless video cameras all inside and outside my home.
I've used those for years and I haven't changed them out. Arlow also
makes a video door bell. It's a two K video doorbell. It is
about ninety dollars Best Buy, maybe Amazon, and if you want pound four
pound dollar for dollar, this may be the way to go. It's got
a built in siren to a audio motion detection. As I said, you
know a lot of other stuff, very simple to install. Seven has night
vision two. A lot of them have night vision with this is also but
for ninety bones. And I do like Arlow the it's the app is really
easy to use, certainly for my wireless cameras. And if you already do
have Urlow cameras well, you may want to keep in the family and getting
urlow. So that's another one smaller brand names. If you want a really
really inexpensive one, I'm not going to use the word cheap. There is
which one can I recommend? Over here? There's there's one called Blink b
l I n K Blink. They make a few wireless cameras for indoors.
They have a doorbell for let me pull this one up over here, forty
two bucks. Forty two bucks, decent video quality, you can see the
people packages at your door. They do have cloud storage, which is you
know that does require subscription and it's easy to install. Also, I think
you can get this best buy. It's a smaller, little tiny ones probably
only about what three and a half inches you know, top to bottom,
But for forty two dollars. If you want something, you know, maybe
you're an apartment and it gets wireless, you just need to just kind of
like put a few you know, drill a few holes, and you should
be set to go. What do I justin? I do? Thank you
for the the question. I hope that a lot best video, doorbell cameras,
anything else you got, you tell me coming up? People want to
know what's what I'm driving this week? Every week I get to test drive
a new vehicle. And I will tell you if you're a big old Texan
who likes big old pickup trucks, I'm driving around a lot of fun,
a lot of things that could tow this week. I'll tell you that I
may side want just about thirty more minutes ago in this week's version of the
HTT High Tech Textan Show. Wherever you are listening, you do not have
to be in Las Vegas, where we are broadcasting from right now for March
Madness, Happy March Madness Saturday. You could be listening all over the place
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Download that app and search for Michael Garfield KPRC, and you should be set
to go. I actually flew out here, and just shockingly to so many
of my followers and friends, I did not fly private this trip. No,
I took the company plane southwest. What do you gonna DOA hey,
listen, I may list preferred. I got two free cocktails, and so
you can't complain about that. Did not drive I have, I've never drive.
I got a buddy of mine has a condo in Vegas, so he's
made the drive from Texas to Vegas. It's just it's pretty much I t
in on a lot of it. It's a he it's pretty long to do
that. You want a comfortable car or a big old mama a new truck.
And with that it's time to talk about what's Garb driving. If you
are a longtime listener, I am a member of the Texas Auto Writers so
Siation. That is association where you have to get certified that you know how
to test drive cars, review rate them, do not get paid, which
I am not getting, never been paid to write about any of these vehicles
that I talk about. It's just it's legit content. And so I've I've
poop pooed on a lot of cars, and I've given praise to a lot
of vehicles too, And so hopefully you can trust me for fifteen years not
from a dealer. I'm not even going to mention one dealer. I just
straight for the manufacturers, and so that's why you could trustmih And this past
week I have been driving around in the twenty twenty four Ram fifteen hundred limited
hickcop truck. It's four by four, it's crew cab, and I must
say it is probably one of, if not the best in class. It's
big. Listen. I don't fancy myself as, Oh, you're a Ram
guy, You're a Ford guy, You're a GM guy, You're a Toyota
guy, you're a Nissan guy. They all make trucks opinions. Some are
better than the other. Some are plastic key than the others. In Toyota,
some are they don't toe as much. Not that I do a lot
of towing, but to me, the way I review cars and trucks,
I'm not your car and driver motor trend head guy where I'm gonna talk about
the torque and what is towing capacity and the power to wait ratio. I
mean, listen, there's plenty of ways that you can find that we live
in our cars. Houston is a driving city. We are in our vehicles
a long time. We sit in traffic and we drive everywhere from the Woodlands
to Galveston to Stay down to Katie And it's just a beltway eight and Loop
six' ten and just it's traffic. It's you want to be comfortable.
Does it ride well? There's a lot of potholes. Does it take care
potholes? Yes, we on weekends we maybe do want to go putting around,
you know, take it off road, take it graveling, take it
on your ranch. Does the air conditioning work? Does it have heated seats?
Is it easy to get a car seat back of these vehicles? What's
the infotainments? You know, system look like? You know, what are
the technology features for safety? Those are the things that I rate and review
And for this thing, it checks off. This is so cliche and I
hate using it, but it checks off a lot of the boxes. It
is incredibly comfy to ride with the suspension because rams ram is continuing to uh
to really upgrade its you know, suspensions and rides everything. Because years ago
ram went with the a coil spring rear suspension that really improved the handling and
the trailering and control and the ride quality. I mean, it rides a
lot smooth than some of its rivals, especially with the if there's nothing back
in the bed. Other manufacturers have done this. I think Toyota Tundra.
They switched to coil springs recently and it but it rides well, yes,
you're sitting up high. It rides like a traditional truck. But this one
here, this is the limited edition and you're going to get in and the
trim level it's it's a trimlet. Listen. They have a long Horn edition
where which I love the Longhorn edition for a number of reasons. I love
that mascot of the Longhorn, But it's about the fanciest you get in and
you're liking a boot shop. It is just it smells phenomenal. This is
the limited and so you know soft leather, special color schemes, you know,
different styling elements. And the first thing that I like that One of
the reasons why I'm kind of been a fan of the RAM trucks in Ram
fifteen hundred is they were the first ones to really take the screen the real
estate on that dashboard and say, you know what, why are we playing
around with an eight inch touch screen or eight inch screen. We have a
lot of room up here, and so they came out with their twelve inch,
massive, gorgeous touch screen, vertically oriented kind of like test Left.
You've ever seen one of those, and it could do so many things.
It is there, you connect system and it's beautiful. You could split the
screen in two. You have the map up top, you can have the
navigation down below, what's playing on the UH and ever it's it's it's just
so nice. The in car technology is just it's cool. It's and there's
there's there's nothing bad. I can even go about it. Yes, it's
got Apple Car Play, Android Auto, it's got the wireless cheat charging,
all the USB ports, the USB seve and the usbas just any any anything
you want and it works well. It is a big baby. It's a
it's a The tailgate, this particular one opens up with kind of a the
two thirds the split design one. You know you can it's a one.
You could open up half of it. Well, three quarters of it goes
to the left side, a quarter of it goes to the right side,
and it's easy to get in and climb into the back if you need to.
The backseat is just tremendously big. Obviously because this is limited. It's
got some features such as the sliding step, the step that pops out so
you can easily climb in. Uh, there's there's just a ton of headroom
and uh it's everything works well. Base price of this is right about seventy
thousand dollars the way it was configured for me in the media when we were
driving around on these things. It's about eighty two thousand dollars. Listen that
I could tell you a lot more expensive trucks. I can tell you some
trucks that cost less than that. But for Ram, which I still think
does a just a top of the line ride, it maybe looking at it
fuel economy. You got eighteen to the city, twenty two in the highway
nineteen combined about typical for a big o'mama truck or something you know of that
nature. But it's not intimidating, you know, it's not like dudes have
to drive this thing. You know, you know, chicky poos chicks go
love this thing too. It's got good horse power. I believe's about three
hundred and five horse power, and I'm gonna say there's two sixty nine pound
feet of torque For you gearheads, if you really care about any of that
stuff that I really don't. Absolutely, it's good toe it's got a really
good cameras everywhere that you know, in the bed around the side. But
I like it. It's not it's not super super big. I mean,
it's parkable, and it begs, you know, to me, is I
don't I understand the reason people want trucks. They shlep a lot of stuff,
they work, they use them for their work. I don't shlept a
lot of things. And in fact, the only time I even had the
need and to use the word need for a pickup truck was about two weeks
ago when I bought a used Peloton And the one week I didn't have a
truck as my test vehicle, I actually fitted into a Kia EV nine electric
vehicle. Sideways. That's neither here nor there. But I don't need a
truck. A truck for me is you know, maybe if I had a
ranch, if I was you know, going out to the you know,
to the hill countries or something on a regular basis. Sure. And also
sometimes they're difficult to park where I'm going with this thing. Sometimes trucks are
very large to park. Sometimes they're too tall that I can't get it.
It's parking garages. It's like, oh am, I seven foot one inch
below, so like you know, I don't hit scrape the top of the
car. This one's easy to park back in because of the cameras. I
like this a lot. So for all you fans out there who are looking
for a big you know, fifteen hundred, HEMI e torque Ram, I've
got the Rambox, an innovative thing. The RAM boxes. On each side
of that bed, probably about four feet long. There are lockable little cabinets,
one on each side that Yes, you could store your tools in there.
If you're a workman, you can store your clothes. But it's always
great for a tailgate party because you can put ice in there and put a
ton of beer and it is just beautiful. I love it. It's a
party truck. Check it out as the Ram fifteen hundred Limited Edition eighty anywhere
between seventy and eighty thousand dollars. Ish, I'm not going to tell you
a dealership to go to. I don't promote dealers. I'm just going to
tell you what I like, what I don't like about these vehicles, as
I've done for fifteen plus years. On that side, So any questions talk
to me here before we take our last break. Seven one three two one
two five nine five oh. Coming up, got a question about keeping your
data private? I can go through that again. And someone wants to know
about what smart watch do I wear? Well, Uh, I get about
five or six smart watches that I'm playing with right now, but I will
tell you my favorite one that really is brand new that I've only found out
about three weeks ago and I've been wearing it non stop, well along as
my Rolex from US coins and jewelry. One more segment to go. Hang
in there. We're having some fun here. Michael Garfield High Tech Text and
Show. Final segment. Final ten minutes show left here. So I'll give
you out the phone number one more time. Maybe callum we'll pick one up.
Maybe we won't. Seven to one three two one two five nine five
oh. Number hadn't changed in twenty plus years. I have been doing this
show where I started talking about a lot of computers and desktops and laptops,
all technology geeky stuff. Now it's uh watches and trucks and betting and travel.
It's it's the world, according to Garf, should be a better aptly
named radio show, which actually was the name of my daily non technology show
on KPRC about ten years ago. I don't know, cal, but you
know, you know that maybe should we rebrand the show from high tech text
into the World according to Garf. By the way, you're relative, what
are you? Twenty three, twenty four, twenty five? When I say
the world according to Garf? Do you get the reference ring familiar? Now?
Kind of? Yeah. There was a movie in the eighties that was
start Robin Williams and Glenn cose Close. It was based on a book.
It was called The World according to Garf. Garp the World. It was
good movie. Robin Williams is great, and so I figured, well,
it's a little play on words. We're gonna call it the World according to
Garf. Garfield Grf my first ford, my nickname. Nah, but I
mean this is I talk. I talk about what's going on my world.
Man, That's what I do. Maybe take a poll on that. I
don't know. We'll see. Somebody did ask me about, well, okay,
let's talk about technology again. Someone says, uh, hey, Garf,
So they got that right. People actually call me Garth like Garth Brooks
Garth from Wayne and Garth Wayne's World. No, no, no, it
is Garth with an as feel Garfield first four letters of the word Garfield.
That's my nickname. Call me anything you want, but don't call me late
for dinner. Hey Garth, How do I keep my data private? You
know? With everything from the byte dance, the tiktoks and everything. I'm
really scared to use it. So something I could download other than a VPN,
Well, you're kind of getting things confused. VPN can help you when
you're on the web, but your personal data, like on your phone,
it's it is tough there. I saw something about a month ago. I
haven't actually tried it yet, but it is a it's an app that is
called it's called Permission Slip. What it's actually it love me to put the
way it's a service and what it could do. It could help you tell
companies to stop selling your personal data, because that's really one of the main
issues, because it could be easy to forget that your personal data is scattered
all over the web. Now. Every time you sign up for a new
social media platform, you buy something online, you're given those companies bits and
pieces of your personal data, and the companies you give your data to and
data brokers. They sell your personal data to other companies that use your info
to sell ads that are targeted to you. And if you want to fix
this, it's been complicated, it's been confusing. But there is an app
called Permission Slip and it comes from a very reliable company called Consumer Reports,
and it reaches out the companies on your behalf and it orders them to stop
selling your information nation nation, some states have passed legislation that allows you to
exercise some control over what happens to it, and depending on your state,
you can prohibit data brokers from selling your data or even delete your online data
outright. And so this is kind of where which could where permission Slip comes
in. It does the legwork of collecting the places that might have your data.
So what you do is you sign up for the service Permission Slip.
Just go Google Permission slip or Consumer Reports and sign up with an email address
that you generally use when you're signing up for your rewards programs or creating online
accounts. When you sign up, you're going to be giving up options of
popular companies data brokers that could have your information. And if you think that
company might have your data and you want to do something about it. You
select learn more and take Action. That's actually a tab learn more and take
Action, and then you're going to go to a screen that you know it's
going to show the sort of data the company usually collects and what your options
are. You could delete your account with a specific company, you could just
say stop selling it. What happens then, and this is the key,
permission slip submits their request on your behalf, so you still might have to
confirm the request directly with the company and also is probably going to take a
bit of time to have your request processed. Your information is leaded, So
hang in there, people. But that's one way to do it. It
just called a permission slip. Anybody try out let me know next week.
Uh, well more, somebody contacted me, Michael, I hear you talking
about US coins and jewelry with your beautiful Rolex, which I plan to get
one day, but until then, I'm a smart watch guy. Do they
sell smart wee and which ones can you recommend? No? US coins and
Joey does not sell smart watches. They have beauty, I mean they have
unlimited supplies of gorgeous role Axes, and a few others for men and women.
No, you can get your smart watch it. You can get those
things online, and they're getting cheaper there. There is a lot of confusion
too. I have probably let me think, if I let me imagine my
dressers or one, two, three, four, five, I may have
five right now that I'm testing. Most of them are Samsung. I have
them going back to the Samsung version three four. I've got two Samsung five's
and I got two Samsung sixes. Again, I'm an Android guy. I've
never used an Apple eye watch, so I'll let you guys figure that out.
Probably one of the more expensive one. I will tell you that what
I've been using real quickly over the past three or four weeks. It came
out. It is from a company called one Plus o n e pl Us.
One Plus also makes phones, and I actually I got my dad a
one plus phone, the one Plus twelve a few weeks ago, and he
loves it. It is an Android phone and it's really really good. It's
speedy. They've been making phones for years, and one Plus just came out
with their second version of their watch. It's called the one Plus Watch too.
Very creative about anywhere between two hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars.
And it's larger than normal. When I wear it, some people, you
know, they notice it, which is It's fine. I actually like,
maybe it's because I'm a dude and I got a hairy arms, just like
I want people to notice my watches. They notice when I know I'm wearing
a Rolex from US Goings and Enjoy, and they noticed the smart watch just
like, what is that That doesn't look like an Apple eye watch. I'm
like, no, it's not, because it's own versus the kind of rectangular
square of the Apple eyeway. But it's one point four to three inches across
little sapphire crystal display and it is it. The battery life is so freaking
impressive. Charge last potentially up to one hundred hours if it's in smart mode,
twelve days if you put in power saver mode. And I'm you know,
I don't like putting in a power saving mode, but that's how long
it can you do. It could track your sleep like you know in stress
and your your fitness metrics in two and it's got customizable buttons and you can
download all the the apps and whatever it is, but I just I just
like it. It is different and it is big and it works well.
So that's what I'm wearing. Again. They did not pay me to say
this. I've just been playing with it. I'm going to return it to
them. But that's I test products for thirty days or so, and there
you go. It's nice. It's got Google's where Os four platform, which
is the latest. So there you go. That answers your question. That
is the what's Michael wearing on his wrist right now? Versus what's Michael driving?
Which I told you last segment. What's Michael about to do right now?
I'm about to hang up the microphone and hit with my buddies who are
in the sportsbook watching the first of the next round of games as we wrap
up the show from Las Vegas, fifth thirty six year from Las Vegas on
the very first weekend of March Madness. It is a trans tradition with a
lot of my guys from college, and it is something so fun wherever you
are watching those games, rooting for your favorite team, Go Koogs, Go
Longhorns. Certainly in the ladies bracket, you enjoy yourself. I do thank
you for tuning in, we will see what is up next week. Until
then, if you want me high Tech Texan dot com, h I G
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you can now go rest. You can listen to the podcast which is about
to put up there in about five to ten minutes. My name is Garf
and on behalf of everybody who's been a part of those way Safe travels,
my friends, because right now it is gambling time, it is basketball time,
it is cocktail time, because the show is over.