Is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining US and the high Tech Texan.
Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items to make life easier
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is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets.
You heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan, Michael
Garfield. At some point over the next two hours, I may drop a
disk track people, so stand by. I'm going to keep you on your
toes, keep you guessing as I continue to do quinty plus years on the
show. No My Good Friends, Saturday late morning. Should you be listening
Saturday late night if you're listening to the Encore presentation, and hell, it
may not even be Saturday if you're listening to the podcast. Thank you so
much Now the iHeartRadio app. Miguel is the name converted to English. I
believe that is Mihaiel converted to Hebrew goes back to Michael. However you want
to say it, spell it. I'm here for you. If you are
listening plausibly live love to hear from you, because we are counting down to
Mothery Danny as I do this radio show right now on this microphone. We've
got about thirteen hours. It could be less than one hour to Mother's Day,
and again it could be after Mother's Day. What gifts are you getting
Mama? Either way, if you do have a mama and she's still around
and she still kicking, call your mama, Talk to your mama, take
your mama to dinner if she is in the same town as you, and
if you want to get her a gift. Actually you can get a late
last minute when right now ordering things online e gift cards. More than happy
to tell you some of the better gifts, including You may want to stay
away from any household appliances unless unless mom specifically requests she wants an air fryer,
maybe a cool eye robot, little vacuum cleaner. Maybe she says,
Hey, I need a blender for my shakes that I'm gonna make in the
morning. You may want to stay away from household appliances pretty much one of
the reasons I am not married right now, but some some ladies appreciate it.
But all moms in the world, grandmoms, moms to be great grandmothers.
I just enjoy your day and without you, you know, you couldn't
have us. So we do think our moms for that phone number seven one
three, two one two, five nine five zero. I want to start
with this because people have been asking me, Hey, Michael, should I
go out and get this new iPad, which is kind of ironic because you
know, I don't talk a lot, are hardly ever about anything Apple.
I'm not the biggest Apple fan. I do not have one app Apple product.
Yes, I am an Android fan. This is not because of any
endorsement whatsoever. In fact, I continue to be mad that Samsung, Google,
Motoro, lg Asis whoever they don't sponsor, they talk about it because
I make very big pimp. I enjoy Android. More people in the world
have and utilized the Android operating system on their phones, much more so than
iOS. So I got to talk to my masses people. I got to
talk to my peeps. But an Apple has been in the news two days
ago they announced a new iPad because apparently everybody needs a new iPad, right,
we can get into that discussion elsewhere. iPad sales were down twenty five
percent last year compared with the year prior, mainly because Apple did not release
a new iPad in twenty twenty three for the first time since twenty ten.
They just got to skipped the year. They kind of skipped the year,
so they announced new one. It's called the iPad Pro. It's the thinnest
iPad ever. It's a thousand whatever bottle dollars whatever. But I talk about
this, it's because the ir that is going on right now is a commercial
that Apple made to promote the new iPad. This commercial, I don't believe
ever hit television. It's a beautifully shot sixty second commercial which Apple is so
good at I will give them that. And it was online. Tim Cook
posted it on his x account. Within two days, it was viewed fifty
three million times. But it was not accepted quite as well as Apple wanted
it do. In fact, it is being panned. And I'm gonna hear
to tell you, I'm not talking about Apple as a tech company. I'm
not talking about the iPad. Buy one, don't buy one. It's it's
it's it's very expensive for what it is. You probably have a If you
want a tablet, you probably have one. Don't buy the thing. I
don't get buy the thing. I don't even get talked about marketing because I
am a marketing guy. I'm a product of marketing. I created my brand
twenty five years ago of the high tech Texan, starting with TV radio before
social media. Okay, I like it, but there's smart ways to do
it. There's not smart ways to do it. And then there's the reverse
smart way to do it. And here's my theory. Apple is freaking genius.
Well, I am not here to bury Apple. I am here to
praise them because they are a genius. This commercial, it's entitled Crush,
it's called Crush with an explanation point too, and it features, if you
haven't seen it, a hydraulic press, and it is crushing objects that are
used to create things, musical instruments. There's a trumpet, there's a piano,
there's paint cans, there's cameras, there's an old school arcade game,
and it's crushing it. And as the last ten seconds five seconds of the
commercial comes down, everything is crushed. It's all mess, and all of
a sudden, here comes this hydraulic press lifting up and all it's left is
a beautiful thin iPad. Pro really trying to tell you that what the iPad
pro does it replaces and it takes the place of everything that we have used
to actually create music, to create art, to create fund create photos,
which interesting is absolutely opposite of what the soulless Big Brother commercial forty years ago
and the Super Bowl was. It was about big Brother is taking over,
but we're going to rally against Big Brother. No, now they're saying Big
Brother has taken over by killing all of the creative objects. Either here,
they're there this getting panned. Apple says they're not going to run it on
air. Let me help you out the fact that I just gave it three
and a half minutes of publicity, the fact that Morning Shows all yesterday on
Friday, NBC Today's Show and everything, they showed almost the entire sixty second
spot with the story of how bad it is and how sorry that Apple is
to run it. Do you know how much free exposure Baul got I rarely
and twenty plus here is use the word appleless. I'm talking about a piece
of fruit. But guess what this new iPad ad got it? Apple freaking
genius. That's how to market, folks, that is how to market.
You gotta buy one of these. I really don't care seven one, three,
two, one two five nine five. Oh what do we got coubout
up here on this show? After my rant? Well, we got to
do you have some Mother's Day gifts? I'm gonna give you some last minute
stuff to get And also I continue to get asked about phones, and now
I'm gonna clude the iPhone over here, Michael, what is the best felt?
There are some new ones from manufacturers that you didn't even believe or think
made phones. I'm playing with two of them right now. You may have
heard of this computer company. I didn't even I didn't even know they made
phones. They sent me two phones to play withst we'll talk about that.
Lots of things happened in the world of televisions. Is now a good time
to get a TV? Some features that you can actually do on your phone
using artificial intelligence? Oh my? Are we afraid of AI? Hey listen,
I'm here to entertain you, and I'm here to give away a lot
of stuff. I'll tell you some of the gift cards that we're going to
give away between now and to get into the show just on the other side
of this break. So do me a favorite, don't go anywhere. Hey,
if you're a mom, I'd love to hear from you seven one three
two one two five nine five. And if you want to give your mom
a special shout out, maybe we'll get John call that phone number you can
make up. And now I don't know why would you make up a name
because you want your voice. You could be I'm not saying your famous by
being on the radio. Actually it actually kind of ruins your career, ruins
your life by being on the radio, hence my twenty plus years being on
the radio. But if you just do what I wish mama a big shout
out, I would love to hear from you. If you're too shy to
call I did, I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm the fund I'm a
nice guy. I'm a nice Michael. I'm the original Michael ere on radio
here and iHeart media Houston. Uh. But if you're too shot, we
have this thing called social media. You can find me on X high Tech
texting h I G h T E c h T E x A N.
That's the same handle I have on Instagram. If you're not blocked Facebook,
you could find me. Should we be friends. You also have my website
high Tech Texting dot Com. Some fun videos, relatively new ones I've posted
for some reviews of cars and trucks you will find on the high Tech textan
dot com. But I'm here for you. Radio is about uh it.
Radio is about a lot of the giveaways, engaging with people, talking to
them, and uh pretty much. It's you know, we are shills for
for time spent listening. So if you want to hang on between now and
the end of the year, show got a few things. I'm all about
food too, since we do the show plausely live at lunchtime on Saturdays,
dots and gift cards for you. We'll come up with the contest. Actually,
you know what, here's a really simple and cheap way to get mom
a Mother's Day gift. Hey Mom, guess what I won an on Garfield
Show. Cabo Bob's my new go to place for burritos. Four locations in
and around the Houston area, several in Austin. Buddy of mine up in
Dallas is desperately wanting Cobo Bob's to open up in Dallas, So sucks for
you, Big Deed's not there yet. Cabo Bob's phenomenal burritos, tacos bowls.
They're so good. I have a it's just a twenty five or fifty
dollars gift car. It's a gift card. It's I think it's a twenty
five dollars gift card. Dan buy, We'll give that away. Fifty dollars
gift card to Red River Cantina. Big shout out that Shane Swope. What's
up, Shane. I was hanging out at Cinco de Mayo, which was
last weekend, kind of in the rank. They had a patio party,
but boy, the party was totally inside two locations. I was out at
the one on the west side. It's on Grand Parkway. It's near Kati.
Technically it's a Richmond, Texas man. It's a big They open this
up, Shane win, you open it sometimes last year. I like the
food, but they I mean I was. I was just posting up by
myself at the bar Mayd. The margaritas were going down nice and cold,
they were going down saucy and sexy. They were good Red River Cantina.
Shane said, hey, hey, you know, listen, love having you
and your listeners here. Let's give away some gift cards and so we'll come
up with a contest. And if you have nowhere to take Mom for Mother's
Day, red River, Cantina, you cannot take mom Cobbo Bob's. Cobbo
Bob's has closed on Sundays. Imagine that if not the my good boys at
the and girls at the Capitol Grill, Capitol Grill, both locations, but
specifically my hood. I was hanging out there Friday, Capitol Grill, Westheimer
at Sage right in the Galleria area. Hello to Steve Jost and his crew.
They've got nice Mother's Day Brinshi highlight recommend Why don't go ahead make a
reservation right now. We're just giving some ideas that would see. I'm an
idea guy, That's what I do. I'm here to give you some ideas,
give you some ideas about Mother's Day gifts. Is see, my mother
is listening right now. Maybe she is listening. She my parents are up
in Dallas and they listen the iHeart Radio. So a happy early Mother's Day.
I will call you to mother tomorrow, as I usually do. And
so I'm not gonna say what I got her, but I always make it.
I always make fun of what not to get moms, or not to
get seeing nails, not to get your wives, not to get your girlfriends.
Because I've been through this before, and I think I try to be
cute because I am a very listen if you know me, I'm a practical
dude. Sure you know diamonds, jewelry, you don't need that stuff.
Come on, man, they can get lost, they can get stolen.
But damn, we need a new kitchen trash can. I mean, we
have just destroyed this, you know, the kids that we bang into it,
and it's just let me get mom a new trash can. But it's
gonna be nice. It's gonna be one of these aluminum, big silver things
and you could like wave your hand over on the top of it and then
aught about it. Lailman's up. Yeah, that one overwhelmed. As I
celebrate eleven years of my divorce right now. So you need to understand what
mom and what females want, but really what they don't want. I didn't
understand it because I don't be honest with you. I'm gonna give you some
of my government over here. We needed a new trash can. What am
I just supposed to randomly come home on a Wednesday with the new trash can.
Why not celebrated something new. It's clean, it's gonna smell nice.
I guess I did not read room. I did not alas, But if
mom does want an airfyer, airfryers are strong, I have. Okay,
here's an idea. There's a lot of stuff that's on in the kitchen.
Let's talk about kitchen gadgets right now, because I love me some kitchen.
I like cooking. I like grilling, single dude do it all the time.
But I also like a clean house. I don't like a lot of
chopskis. I don't like a lot of the gadgets on to clutter up the
back of my kitchen. I've got a very nice, massively open kitchen clean
it's white and nice backdrop. So I mean, I don't need an air
fryer. I don't need a blender. I don't need a toaster. I
don't need a convection of it. I don't need that stuff, some of
it toaster. I can take it physically off, put it underneath the cabinet,
but then again, it is a pain to bring it out every time
I need to use it. So I have a lot of all in one
gadgets. I have only two gadgets on my countertop, and technically I only
need one. I don't even know why every other two, one of which
is an all in one convection toaster broiler type of oven. Who makes it?
I think it's kosari is at, it's cusaar. I'm not sure that
thing. It's nice, big toasts, bagels, I can make pizza,
makes some matsa pizza during the passover. That was nice. If I wanted
to roast a little chicken, it takes a while. I think it's got
a rotissereething that you can put in there. It takes a little while they
set up. It's not the smallest thing. It's kind of a larger size,
about the size of a microwave oven, a standalone, smaller microwave of
it. And so I don't that's out there. I don't use it a
ton because I haven't rated all in one device and I've been using this thing
for over a year, and I like this a lot. So here's here's
here's tip number one. It is from a company called dre O d R
EO d R e O, and it's an all in one cooking device.
And it's called the chef Maker. I've got this about a year ago.
The company sent it to me and play with it. But I have with
some of my buddies who have been over it and seeing these things, it's
like damn. I probably sold several of them just for just I've talked about
it. I gave it a review last year. I'll hit it again.
But it's called the chef Maker. About three hundred and fifty bones wherever you're
gonna get a d R EO. But it's a combination. It's called the
Combe Friar, like a combination of fire, smaller than this convection. It's
a little bit more upright than it is wide, and it has got everything
from bake, royal, defrost, hold on, I'm not done yet.
Air air Fryer's built in here too, and it's got like eight different settings
where you can just conventionally just say, hey, listen, I want to
bake something for three to fifty degrees at eight, at eighteen minutes whatever.
Very nice digital readout comes with an app that you can actually control it,
start it and stop it from your app. So if you're cooking something in
the kitchen, you're in another room. It's going to give you the countdown.
It's got preset little recipes. It's okay, I need to make this
beautiful chicken. I want a roast beef with potatoes on the side. It'll
it'll, it'll let you do the whole thing too. One of the things
I like about it it has a little receptacle on top that you can put
water in. It's a water atomizer, and what it does the water keeps
the moisture when you're cooking. So it's tough to actually dry things out.
And that happens to me sometimes. I want to make sure things are cooked
through and through, and then I overcook things a little too much. It
becomes a little dry. Uh. You put a little water in this machine
and it motimizes it throughout the cooking. That's needy too. Also comes with
the little probe, a little metal probe, and so you now you can
have the internal temperature. So when the internal temperature of chicken, which should
be about one hundred and sixty degrees, it's just right, it stops.
Should look kind of a smart cooking experience. I like it. It's silver,
has about six quarts. I use this thing if all the time if
I want, If I have frozen wings, I need air fib and eat
them up, put them in there. I don't even really use that that
convention of it type of thing. Matter of fact, I should probably put
that on an eBay. If there's anybody out there who wants to give their
mom a convention of it, I'm a beer guy. Let me know.
Seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, there you
go. There's a kitchen gadget coming up. Maybe we'll talk about some other
things. Does mom need a TV? Oh, I got TV. If
mom needs a phone, I am your guy. Hang on. Coming up,
It's Michael bar Film, High Tick Dex and show. Still not giving
away, and yet before the end of this segment, we may have a
little contest to win one of your some gift cards that you can use for
mother's steak gifts. There's the Cheap Way out stand by Red River Cantina.
Two locations, one on the west side of town in Richmond, Texas,
one down south and in League City. Oh that was fine, that was
good, hanging out Sink of the Maya and then Cabo Bob's. Oh,
it's great lunch and dinner place. Actually they have breakfast tacos too. I
can have it. You know what, next week we may get into a
two hour discussion of breakfast tacos too. I'm gonna put Combo Bobs in there.
Got a gift card from one of the four locations in Houston of Cabo
Bobs. It's good stuff, didn't I say? Can we do? You
have a shout at callum? Are we allowed to sing or play music without
getting bomby? That's not fine with it? Without paying a royalty fee because
you know the buk go. You know, listen, I really appreciate what
you do to help you. You're wonderful of putting the show together. Everything
but back of the day and I you know, twenty two years ago when
I started the show Man, we were playing bunk music and eighties bump music.
I can we even play real license music right now because we're so cheap
that we actually can't maybe the licenses. So if I see, can I
sing happy birthday? Is half correct? For me? I'm wrong? Happy
birthday isn't in that in the public domain right now that we don't have have
to pay anything a baby birthday junior? Guess whose birthday it is? It
is not mine, callum, it is not yours. I don't think it's
anybody out here in the back of the room. Happy massive almost one year
way, Happy birthday to this radio station, kp RC nine fifty AM Amplitude
Module Jon Houston, Galveston, DMA. Two days ago, this station,
the oldest station, that commercial station I think maybe in the state of Texas,
turned ninety nine years old. Ninety freaking nine years old. Will it
make one hundred? Will we make one hundred? I think it was like
May eight, May ninth, ninety nine years ago, so ninete was it
was at nineteen twenty five this station went on the air KPRC, which is
Port Rail Center. I think it was KPRE Obviously we have to use the
Kegs or West of the Mississippi. Ninety years How are we celebrating? Are
we going to do a party? You think anybody of all of our iHeart
media stations here like that. We're kind of like the step we are just
let you. Yeah, we'll forget. It's been that way since I've been
here every twenty five years. But thanks for the money, actually thanks for
the no money. But hell I am I talking about who wants a hundred?
You know what. I'm gonna get Cabo Ba'm I'm gonna get Red River
Cantina. I'm gonna get Capital Grill, I'm gonna get all my parties and
spot. I'm gonna throw a big old freaking one hundred birthday party count ninety
nine. Freaking what do you get someone who's ninety nine. My grandmother lived
a one oh five and she passed away two years ago. A one hundred
and five. Nan. I was like, oh my beer k per City.
But that's that's BET's breads. Something to celebrate. Congratulations to everybody here
continued to be involved. Robert Reese, who I call the Keeper of the
Flame, who is a senior account executive over here who pretty much is maybe
the only person trying to keep Kparc alive behind the scenes. He's a good
dude. Hit everybody else. I digress. You know how to get me.
It's Michael. We were talking about it's called the High Tech Texting Show,
not that I talked specifically about technology. I do have cars to talk
about a lot of car news. I was one thing. Did I post
this? It's on my YouTube channel. Oh, by the way, I
have a YouTube channel. Go search It's I think it's Michael Garfield. Htt
ony. Don't you go to YouTube just the re search high tech Texan the
technology of automobiles automobiles, it's pretty strong. I shot a video of how
do you use a certain technology called super cruise in just these here's a quick
pee by peek super Cruise. It's the specific it's the name brand name that
General Motors uses for its vehicles such as Chevy, gmc Bwick and whatever.
Few vehicles design. It's like cruise control, which we pretty much know what
cruise control is, but it's cruise control on steroids and it adds a little
artificial intelligence. Watch up, so super cruise and you should see the video
is like it's like four minute video, but it's very simple to use.
Now, wow, other manufact let me just explain what it is for supercreuse
because supercrews. They were nice enough to actually put me in a Chevy Silverado
heavy duty high country truck. It had supercrews and they let me toe.
This was not really smart of Chevy. They let me toe. This probably
was at three thousand pound trailer on the highways and byways of Fort Worth,
Texes not long ago using super Creuse where I'm driving down the freeways with no
hands in the wheel. Well, that's what supercruse is. Super Cruse is
a technology that allows you to not only take your foot off the pedal,
which is like cruise control, but it lets you take your hands off the
wheel while the car itself continues to keep itself inside the lane. And oh,
by the way, changes lanes automatically without you doing nothing. You'll see
in the video. And I should, I really should go ahead put it
on my high tech texts in dot com website to make it simple what it
is. It's There are about six hundred thousand miles of United States freeways,
highways and byways that are currently mapped out. Third party company has done this.
I ten, I forty five Southwest Freeway US fifty nine, just a
dam a few in the Houston area. And you so they know where the
lanes are. Is it a two lane, is it a five lane?
Is it a twelve lane? KD freeway? They now using the GPS on
your car, using on Star from GM in this specific case, using cameras
that now are built in on cars that are front facing right in the hood
lot of cars and drugs at them using light R L I D A R,
which is different than radar, but it's light R. All this stuff
comes together and they know exactly to probably the millimeter, where your vehicle is
traveling. Are you inside this lane of this specific section of this Pacific Highway?
So they know the speed limit? But they also because they're using the
light. Are they're using the cameras there? Look, they're they're monitoring the
traffic around you. Is there a vehicle in front of you? Is there
one on your left side, your right side behind you? What's going on?
Once it knows all of this stuff, you hit a button on your
steering wheel like cruise control, and the vehicle specifically takes over not only your
speed set speed, but you could take your hands off the wheel. Why
would you want this? Well, for all you truckers out there, Hello
dump truck Dan and all my boys and girls out there who drive a ton
and we're a driving this Texas, We drive a lot. Houston is awesome
because you're probably listening to me. You may be a trucker right now.
You're just rolling through I ten. You know, you're eighteen wheeler rolling up
and down I forty five, just passing through your listening to me, wouldn't
it be cool to take your freaking hands off the wheel? But you're saying,
Garth, how is this safe? How is this possible? I don't
think GM and other manufacturer are going to put themselves out and not be safe.
Several safety features, one of which the main one is there's a tiny
little camera that is built. Obviously, this is you cannot retro fit these.
This upgrade of Supercrews on GMS has to be in a newer model.
They have a little camera that is mounted on the steering wheel column looking at
you. It's looking at you, it's looking at your face, and while
Supercreuse is engaged, it is making sure that you and your eyes are still
forward facing facing the road, and your eyes are on the road. If
for some reason you're looking to your right side in the passenger seat, it
disengages. If for some reason you're looking down at your phone, it knows
you're doing that. Don't tell me, big brother ain't watching inside your inside
the vehicle. But it's a safety feature. But one of the cooler,
most freaky deeky things is you could take your hands off the wheel and you're
like, you, I really want to do this and I got this in
my video too, and it knows what to slow down. It speeds up
and it's kind of steering and you'll see there's this big green light with me
in blue lights that are on the in red lights actually that are on the
steering wheel, on the top of the steering wheel to let you know,
yep, it's safe to use it. No, it's disengaging, what have
you. But the freakiest thing is when it changes lanes automatically. This past
week, I was in a Chevy Silverado high Country for the past week,
which is a monster, a mama awesome, really nice, great high end
pickup truck which I could review a little later. But it had supercrews.
So I'm leaving Fort Benn County and I'm heading into the Gallery Are and I'm
on fifty nine and it's afternoon, it's not too much traffic, and I
put the super crews on and I'm cruising probably sixty five sixty eight miles an
hour. Get my hands off the wheel, but it is great. I
start creeping up behind this person who's driving in like the second lane from the
left. All of a sudden, I've I didn't tell the vehicle to do
anything. My hands are off. The wheel turns the left blanker on and
slowly you see you on the dashboard it says, changing lanes blank blank,
blinkly but surely and stop calling me. Surely. It changed to the left
hand lane, situated itself inside the lane. Blinker went off and you're set
to go. Boom. What he did? He knew there was no traffic
behind me on the left hand side. It was okay, set to go.
That is super greased in this story. That's the technology that I cover.
I think it's neat. Is it necessary? Is it worth a twenty
five hundred dollar or so upgrade? Depends how often or how little you drive?
Now, to be fair, more vehicles and more manufacturers and OEMs other
than GM make these things. Ford has went. I think Ford calls there's
Blue crewse. What they do is they utilize the same mapping system from this
third party company. LIT roads are already maps. Six hundred thousand miles plus
a US roads are already mapped. It's just which software package and which manufactured
package are utilizing this. I particularly have used several its actually that the only
time I've really used it has been on GM cars. I've used it on
GMC trucks and they've used it on Silver Chevy Silverado trucks. It's worked really
neat. It's it freaks the people out in you're passing your seat in your
back seat if you're driving, what's going on? But again, it's not
self driving technology. You are behind the wheel. You need to keep your
eyes on the road. But it's neat. There you go thoughts on that
is this? Is this a slippery slope? Oh, we can go the
slippery slope that big brother is taking over things. Seven one three two one
two five nine five. Oh, out of line. Before we get out
of here, I just gave you the phone number, caller number nine.
You got a Cobo Bob's gift car twenty five hours to the great Cobo Bob's
four locations. Unbelievable burritos and tacos. Great stuff. They're out of Austin.
Seven one three, two one two five nine five zero color number nine.
We will give that the way. We'll be back with so much more
of the high tech texts on a later nine minutes of this hour before we
close out in the morning, well or actually close out the day, depending
on what time you're listening to the the radio program. It is Miguel Garfield.
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high tech. That what a great Mom's Day gift. Hey Mom, guess
what I got you? Really exactly. I just heard it on Garfield Show.
You're not gonna get it until midsummer, but it's I got you twelve
thousand entries to this thing. That's that's good mother's Mother's Day gifts, other
Mother's Days gift. You're looking to get something, I am here for you.
How about a watch? People ask me, uh, hey, by
Gail, I need a smart watch for mom. And I know you're not
the biggest Apple if one, but Mom doesn't even have an Apple. She's
got an Android fan even breathing better tons of them on the market. There's
I listen, I'm not an officially paid Android pimp or Samsung pimp, even
though I should be, but they do have I think Samsung did have some
last minute Mother's Day stuff going on in one of which was the Galaxy Watch
six. It's one of the latest ones. It's on sale three hundred and
forty dollars and it's just good. Now you have to ask mom, really
should want one of these things? Do you give a gift like this to
mothers? Because they're going to think it's well, you think I need an
exercise. It's more than just exercise. These smart watches nowadays, you could
read your emails, read your text, you can listen, you can talk
on the phone like Dick Tracy. I do like Galaxy Galaxy watches. I
have several versions of them. But this is the Galaxy Galaxy Watch six.
It is on sale. Hurry up, you can order it online. Got
to Samsung dot com. I believe. Uh, so you can mom contract
her physical activity, insight, sleeping, habits, health heard, health detection.
We like that too. Uh. There's also while I'm at a Galaxy
as a Samsung has Galaxy Buds to the pro version of the buds to pro
mom need moms and dads. But moms. They need to shut out some
outside noise. They need they background noise. You know they sometimes you got
screaming kids, sometimes they got screaming husbands. It's all love, though,
without a doubt, maybe they need to tune things out helps their mental wellbeing.
Galaxy Buds to Pro on sale one hundred and seventy dollars one hundred and
seventy dollars. Where do you get these things? Let me just make sure
we're right. You go to you go to Samsung dot com and you can
find this stuff. Have you Mother's Day mom? Television? Is it?
Somebody me about TVs? Where do you get the TV? Said? A
lot of TV TVs? Is this the best time to get televisions? It's
listen if there's a sale, if there's something special going on, sure,
without a doubt, you know, go get a TV. You see a
lot of TVs on sale round super Bowl talk. Okay, that's pretty cool
too, so but uh, you know, televisions do go on sale.
I always had a list of some of these. Also, was this the
EVS or a really nice gift from mama to it? You know what,
here's another something like I'm gonna make this the Samsung segment. Sadly not a
paid endorsement, even though I love that freaking company. Samsung just came out
with some new TVs. It's an intrig level O LED organic light emitting diode
if you are keeping track of them, an entry level TV series. It's
the S eighty five D, S eighty five D forty two, forty eight
inch and eighty three inch. I mean, listen, if you're gonna go
to get a TV, which just go big or go home pe Samsung,
I do know this. It's the fastest growing OLED O lead TV brand.
And let's check some prices over here. The S eighty five D. Here
we go. Here's some correct dimentius fifty five inch seventeen hundred dollars and they
go up to seventy five inches too. They've got some new n Q four
AI Gen two processors. They're four Kai upscaling capabilities. It's nice this OLED
lineup. I remember TV's used to have to deal with plasma or with LED.
Man now you got organic LED. It goes on or not. They've
also the S ninety D for Samsung the expanded sizes. They have a forty
two inch forty eight inch seventy seven inch and eighty three inch is Mama gamer.
Oh by the way, sorry about you kids. Graduation season here in
May too. Perfect for gamers. Got this motion accelerator turbo plus one hundred
and forty four hertz. There will be no when you're playing video games or
watching football games like it. I don't think I saw these at cees that
this just came out. Sadly, I have no Samsung TVs in my home
of the six TV's, if not more than I have. I need to
try one of these things. I'm just giving you examples of what's out there,
and this also next time, I'm going to talk a little bit more
about the AI of what you with Galaxy features you could do on your right
because I have a Galaxy what I have at S twenty three right now,
which is a great it's the ultrophone, very nice. Some of these AI
features in which are now if you have just maybe a little older versions of
your phones, you can get AI features on there. Live Translate that gets
you a real time voice and X translations during your phone calls, multi lingual
conversations. It's got CHATISIPS assist, it's got transcript assist. My favorite.
I love this Circle to search with Google. This is actually funny. Anybody
comes up to me and sees me because I'm a walking, freaking Samsung Android
model. It's again, I don't even have the latest Samsung phone to carry
around, but I've got at least a generation removed. It's on there.
So anything that you see on your phone, take a picture. You don't
know what this product is, or hey, here's a car, what kind
of car is that? Whatever it is, you take a picture, you
take your finger and you circle the photo on your phone. You hit a
button, boom, it tells you, shows you where to buy it,
what it is. It's sweet. That is neat. They have access so
going back to the Galaxy S twenty one series, even the Z flip threes,
the Z bral threes, all the way back. Now you can actually
download and upgrade stuff to the Circle deschroche with Google. It's good stuff.
One to one six point one update that came out last month, that's on
the S twenty three. I downloaded that. It's pretty good. So anyway,
a mom hids Father's Day coming up? What you need, I got
you covered. There is your update. Samsung News sponsored by Nobody I can
not confirm her to I whin the latest information of Samsung's newest phones will be
revealed and released. Something tells me they may be around July with a major
international sporting event. Stand by because they usually do announce things in the summer.
Last summer, I got the opportunity in the South Bread. It's cool
to check out the new folds and the flip phones. All right, Michael
garfil we have one more hour worse stuff to give away. Don't go anywhere.
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you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Half way through the show, if
you've been listening to the entire time, thank you so much. Only one
more hour ago, one hour down. Halfway through the show, which means
we're half way at a happy hour. People, You know what. It's
Saturday. That's what I do the show live. It's always happy hour.
And I hope you're I hope you're either a inside in your air conditioning or
you're already by your pool. People, if you're not listening in Texas and
you're listening somewhere around the world on iHeart Radio or listening to the podcast,
it gets hot quickly, and it gets human nasty quickly. You're in the
Houston area specifically, and you pretty much want to stay away from this city
for the next four or five months, and I wish I could too.
Hey, you're probably in your pool if you're in Houston, I hope so.
I hope you have a cocktail. I hope you're not drinking and driving.
But whatever you drink, I open. It's a nice rum including Papa's
p LR. Thank you very much for partnering with my show. Spit to
actually spend a whole day with the executives from Florida, Miami, Key West,
Florida. That is where the distillery for Papa's plarr. It's Ernest Hemingway's
family, by the way, that has put together this wonderful brand and it's
nice. Went to a few restaurants. Big shout out to Blue Lagoon Restaurant,
which is part of Iago mar down in Texas City. I was down
there for lunch on Wednesday. If if you heard about it, this is
like a way a twelve million gallon crystal blue water, lots of stuff going
on. Got a great restaurant, and I'm saying it is they had really
they brought a pizza oven over from Italy. They do not skimp. It's
good stuff. Walk in, there's a bar. There's i think all four
varieties of Papa's plr rump. We bought around for some of the folks who
were sitting at the bar. Dinner that night was Downtown and Grace, which
is just if you've never been to Garden Grace. It is chef Troy Guard.
He's out of Denver. This is his location in Houston. It is
two stories. It is a massive space. A man, Elliott Wood is
the general manager. He was down there and so we were buying a few
shots of Papa's plr rum at the bar. They actually have one of their
specials for the summer. It's a Papa's plr rum based drink. It's peach
and I'm gonna peach guy. Man, they shook this thing up good.
It was peak. They should have called it peachy keen. It's it was
great stuff. So more and more restaurants are serving papas plr and it's nice
to see people drink it, have a shot of it straight, maybe put
one little rock, one little cube in there. But it's like, wow,
this is rum. It's it's because there's different flavors. There's a blode,
there's a white rum. They don't call it white, it's blonde blonde.
They do have more fun and they did this blonde rum tastes great.
They have some that are sitting in uh that is cask strength that has been
finished in a sherry pass which is a mouthful and it is a mouthful and
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when I was eighteen years old my first beer because it was eighteen years old
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plar is one of the things that are on sale up to sixty percent off.
But last week I was at another location for the sixty percent off and
I got a basketball of stuff. You can't beat that. So they've been
around sixty years, barely older than me. But it's nice to hear people
and companies that are older than me. I certainly appreciate that we do continue
Mother's Day countdown. Mother's Day, you need flowers, some gonna just say,
garf where you get flowers? My mom is in Dallas, so I
guess I could order her flowers from a local Dallas place. But sometimes when
I drive to see her, which I'm not actually driving tomorrow, I stop
here at river Oaks plant House, where I was also earlier this week for
another purpose. My buddy Ben Schmoody, and Ben has long run river Oaks
plant House. They're in the Rice Village. They're at Rice Boulevard at Kirby.
You've probably passed this thing for years and years and years and not thought
about it as like plants topiary outside go in because they were just even on
Wednesday, Man, they started the rosies there, so they were they were
coming. They are open today and they're open tomorrow Byther's Day too. River
Oaks Planhouse telling me you heard it on my show also Dad's. I'm gonna
I'm gonna tell you the reason I was not in there to get to flowers.
I went in there to get cigars. Ben is a massive cigar guy.
He has his own line of cigars that he kind of helps make out
in Dominican Republic. Got a big display of cigars. Don't laugh. Walk
into a flower shop and you've got a great cigars. I bought a several
dozen. Got some buddies having birthday parties. I'm gonna give them to them.
Father's days coming up. Cigars, cigars and flowers. This is river
Oaks. You walk in and it keeps peace in the family if you think
about it. Guys, dad's kids, they get moms some flowers. Mom,
girlfriend's kids get Dad a little stogy. It's good stuff. This is
what I do. Beep all. I just give give you ideas of what
to do and what to buy. Last hour, we gave away gift cards
to congratulations to Sonya, Sonya I believes in Parland. She want to give
card to Cabo Bob's, which, by the way, I know as I
do this show just early afternoon on a Saturday. They are open right now
for lunch. They are not open on Sundays. Four locations. There is
one in near the gallery area fountain View at San Felipe, one in Steppenford
or the meadows southwest side of town. There is one and two of them
kind of one in Cyprus and one kind of an Itin and Mason Road area.
Craipe plus Austin make tacos, fish tacos. They actually they have these.
You walk in and you're thinking, how do they make and get this
beautiful meat? Red meat? They got stay, then they've got chicken,
then they got fish too. How do they make these things? They don't
They don't fry am ornething. Well, they don't fry the steak in the
chicken. They have Kamada Joe's. You know what Kamada joe is. It's
a It's one of those Kamada ceramic Japanese type of They smoke these, they
cook and grill them on their phenomenal. It is so good, by the
way, So congratulations, sonya. You want to Kablo Bob's give car this
hour. We have one for Red River, Cantina, where I spent last
sinko to Maya. It seems like all I ever do is eat, test,
drive cars, play with phones, televisions, video games, and then
just travel. I have majored in high Tech Texan. I'm a professional,
and please be careful should you try to attempt what I do for a living.
We will come back forty five more minutes of the show. Your calls,
more Mother's Day info, and also hidden cameras in rental homes. It's
in the news again. They were in Airbnb's and you're just afraid there's some
camera somewhere. I'll tell you how to spot or try to spot hidden cameras,
even though it's against the law. You never know it's out there people.
It's the High Tech Texting Show Mother's Day Weekend Special. It's a special
edition of the High Tech Textan Show, kind of like it's a special edition
of Punky Brewster. That's right. It is a pre Mother's Day. May
kicks off a big month for a Mother's Day. We got graduations, I
gotta get gifts, got to do dinner somewhere where you gonna go? Mothers
take mom to Capital Grill tomorrow. They still have a view. I think
they have a few reservations. I just texted my man, Steve jos over
at the Capitol Grille in the galleria here on West Tiber and say they get
up every year this big Mother's Day price show that they do is it's so
nice, So make your reservation today call them. Tell Stephen, Maggie and
Jonathan behind the bar and everybody, I said, Hi, Happy Mother's Day
while celebrating this portion of our show. Thank you to US Coins and Jewelry.
Oh mom may need a little something something from US coins and Jewelry.
Done. She They are not open tomorrow. See you better get there.
They uh I close what at six or seven o'clock tonight. They are conveniently
located right there on it Katie Freeway at Voss on the south side. You
walk in and you're thinking, coins, Mmm, do I need to buy
coins? Newmsthmatists is the actual term for coin collectors. They had probably one
of the best in the country. What Kenny Duncan does that dead dude can
look at a coin. You could tell you exactly what it's worth. How
much they will buy your coins, you could sell it. They will sell
you coins. But they have some jewelry. They got an entire rows and
rows of rowlexes. Mama, Mama and Mama need a rowlex. I bet
she does. Saw some tennis bracelets, ear rings, sports memorabilia. They
have it all. Walk in and you tell them you heard it on the
Garth Show. Kenny Duncan Matt Duncan do a great podcast. They're they're growing
that industry. They got a lot of buildings over there. That's that's gonna
It's a big conglomerate all over the country. And you can go to us
inning some Jewelry dot Com. You don't need to be in Houston to actually
deal with them and buy some stuff. But they are good and I know
they have some other Bobby busy right now for the last second Rush show of
you what what is mom? For Mother's Day? My phone number here if
you want to uh nah, should I give this to Okay, my phone
number if you want to talk. I'm not giving away anything right now.
Seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. That number that
callum who we used to research. How long have has KPRC had that number
to call in? Seven one three two one two five nine five Oh?
It's it's numerical alliteration because on the AM dial we are nine to five.
Oh. Say what I did there? You didn't know that. I have
been a part of this radio station for twenty two to twenty three years since
I started this show, which is the longest running local radio program in the
history of this radio program. That has been the call in number. So
it's been around for almost a quarter century. Is there a way that we
could find out how long that number has been around? When did Alexander Graham?
Don't laugh because KPRC this week celebrated its ninety ninth birthday. One of
it's not the oldest radio station in the state of Texas. Happy birthday to
my flagship radio station here based in Houston. From my art Media, ninety
nine years. A quarter century has been almost course, it has been my
show. I'm gonna quick talk amongst yourself. Thank you so much for keeping
me on your dial. That's right, I'm still here. I have no
clue. Why can I make it through one hundred years next year? I
don't know. I'm a betman man. I don't know. If i'd go
on, I may take the under I'm not sure about that. But if
there is our phone number as we celebrate the ninety nine years, if we
don't have a one hundred year blowout, I'm gonna be a little pissed.
Rddy Martini runs it. Can we could be out between me, me and
Robert Raizwell, we'll find sponsors. Man. We got to have a blowout
party one hundred years, baby, hundred years. You know, we get
to be at five for fighting to come in sing a song or something.
It should be pretty good. They I better pay this off because I teased
it at the before the break. This is a travel season. You're going
to be traveled to hotels, rental homes. Big air be being b guying,
but you can you know homes are for rent. You ever worry about
if there's if the house is bugged or there's cameras around to spy on you.
Airbnb I think made it illegal. I maybe the government did that.
You actually can't to protect your privacy, you can't have ameras. Are even
hidden cameras because cameras are so easy to head out right now, I mean
I've got cameras all inside and outside my home for security wireless, I have
an app. I can log on. I can see who's there. They'll
alert me if there's movement. I actually can talk through it. I can
hear things through it. It's they're very and they're so small. You could
you could put these things anywhere. You could put these things anywhere, but
peeping toms and tech uh, it's it's it's not a good thing. You
don't want to do that. So there's actually ways, there's somebody. Here's
what you just put it this way, when you rent an Airbnb, rent
one of these homes, even though you're they're legally not allowed to have it.
I'm just put your make your sure your head's on a swivel. Any
public place, actually, if you think about it, if you're on if
you're in a grocery stor if you're on vacation, any public place is fair
fair game for a creep. Beware of your surroundings, whatever, fitting rooms,
whatever. But rental homes, you need to check in there too.
You need to look now. Airbnb banned indoor cameras not actually wasn't too long
ago. It's it's shocking you took this long. Large cameras are relatively easy
to spot, but anyone could easily hide smaller cameras, and I mean think
about behind the furniture. You could put them inside vents, you can put
them in decorations. You've got a little Chotski's they're hanging somewhere like that.
Just put a little camera and said, you know, you've seen some of
these. They've got spy cams inside teddy bears, you know that, you
know, and chill for babysitters and stuff. A simple way to spot most
types of cameras is quite simply. You look for the lens reflection for an
awful lights and you slowly scan the room with a flashlight. Turn on on
your flashlight on your phone. If anybody's got a laser pointer, scan around
and look for something that reflects back and then do a little research. Odds
are it could be a camera, and look for it. Look for multiple
spots that gui missic camera pointed a certain places. Look up in the vents,
see me whole, see any gaps on the walls or ceilings. Now,
if you really want to get all shames bond FBI, you can get
something called an RS detector r F as in radio frequency And it's interesting because
this gadget can pick up wireless cameras that you may not see. Now.
On the downside, RF detectors they're not great for wired cameras or cameras that
record only, so you go on ahead, go go ahead, stick with
the lens reflection method. There's also something there's a I think it's a free
program. It's called the Wireless Network Watcher. If you can connect to the
Rentals wireless networks with odds are you're gonna get on the Rentals wireless network,
you may want to run this thing. It's called the Wireless Network Watcher,
and it shows what gadgets are connected, and you may be able to spot
connected cameras that way. You really should do this in every rental you stay
in, just a double check. I mean, this is something you can
do in your house too. If you're to Wi Fi network and you can
get on the wis side network, and whether you're administrator or not, you
could see all the wireless all the Wi Fi things that are connected. And
you'd be surprised how many things wirelessly connect to your house. Oh, I'm
sorry, I forgot that. I have a ring door bell. Yeah,
that's generally wirelessly connected to your network. All the phones, all the laptops,
your kids, oh they have lap that, they have tablets, your
Nate. You may find your neighbor on there that's neither here nor Eve.
But let's go back to the airbnbusus. Be aware that the owner they may
have put cameras on a secondary network. They could be wired cameras. I
mean, nothing is fail safe. Who can you trust? Well, I'm
telling you right now nobody. Who are you gonna call. You can call
ghost measures, they still ain't gonna do nothing for you. Dogs and cats
living together, total chaos. And that's the world we're living in. We
cannot protect ourselves from anything. You got a phone right now, you're on
the internet. It's you may be screwed in some aspects. Are information is
out there? Yes, it's sad if there are cameras out there being hidden.
Do you hear these stories all the times, like oh there was a
camera in ad dressing room of a store or whatever. But when you when
you when you were living and you're sleeping and you're showering some rental home,
man, it's just you're really you're really gonna watch on be careful. So
hopefully that was a little PSA to keep you safe. We'll break it down
coming back another Mother's Day opportunity. Similarly, just said, hey, Michael,
how hard is it to scan and digitize photos for years, my parents
have been saying I need to digitize or you know, put it on for
drive, all these photos. That's that's a great gift if you really think
about it. I'll tell you some ways, easy ways of how to do
it. I did this myself probably Gosh, I been a dozen years or
so. It's neat because all I need to do is send a link or
give a hard drive copy to my kids. I knew how who have pretty
much their entire life history now instead of just these photos that could actually kind
of you know, turned gray and rotten, be lost in floods and what
have you. So bet device is coming up soon. Here on the other
side of the high tech texting shown picking him up his day weekend, thirty
more minutes left of the program. Michael is the name. There's Callum.
Read the entire cast of crazy characters back there, you guys doing a big
job of keeping the phones busy, and you know what you want to You
want to make the phones light up, Calum, you and the guys that
have even sleeping taking a nap back there, let's light up the bones right
now. Collar number nine, you were going to win a fifty dollars fifty
bones gift card to red River Cantina. Great text Max, and I'm serious.
I spent sinko to Micah there last weekend playing at the bar for like
three hours. Great Bargerita's good food, love the vibe. The new one
is on the West Side on Graham Parkway in Richmond, Texas. It's red
River Cantina. There's also the original location down in League City color number nine
seven one three two one two five nine five oh fifty dollars. Thank you,
Shane Swope. Shane Swope was the general manager of one of the West
Side and it's kind of hanging out him. Is it sad that I was
hanging out by myself on Sinco to Maya? But yeah, no is anybody
in mine. Belling up to a bar or just eating in a restaurant alone.
Not my favorite thing to do. But alas, welcome to my life.
Don't feel that. No, don't cry for Argentina, don't cry for
text mex Food. I did have a good die. It's fund sit at
the bar though, So I mean I listening to you. I had sports
all on. I was watching something and that the Marryaji is doing this thing
for Sincra to Mayo and you know, and just just yapping away. It
went all along, watch more sports. By the way, red River Cantena
was a fun place, thanks to Shane Swope for donating some gift cards.
So Colin Nuber and I we already got one there you go, all right,
stop calling people, you already got old. I'd wake you up,
callum say give it. So what radio is about ninety nine years? This
week we were celebrating the birthday of APRC being created ninety nine years ago.
Since nineteen twenty five, what was the first thing that you think we gave
away on the radio? What was hot in nineteen twenty five? Was it?
Was it an antidote to Spanish fluid? That'd be pretty cool to give
away. I don't know. Was it a transistor radio? Is sure the
hell? Wasn't a smartphone? I don't know. Alexander Grew Graham Bell could
if the High Tech Texan Show was what started? The day the kPr ST
started May of nineteen twenty five. I get Alexander Graham Bell on the phone.
Yo, bro, man, it's it's pretty cool. It did works.
Man. You got my belt? You it's named after you to some
extent, elevision wasn't even invented. I mean, what that is? This
social media? Zuckerberg didn didn't come up with that nineteen twenty five. All
right, their model team, Henry Ford. I could have had Henry Ford
to the show. Baby. Oh my goodness. Imagine Happy night and Night
birthday, a pr SA hanging around. Let's see if we could make it
to one hundred years old? Another good mother's day give. Somebody said,
hey, Garth, how hard is it to digitize make digital versions of your
old photos? I love a question. I don't talk about this enough because
there are so many people, especially of my ilk and age, who who
have tons and tons of photos. They're just sitting there. They're gonna get
black and white, they're gonna get all dusty, they're gonna ge rusty,
they're gonna fade. How do you digitize them? And I do it myself.
Is it easier to get a company to do it? How about this
fact five point three billion photos a day are snapped on smartphones? Can you
believe that five point three billion photos a day on smartphones? And they're probably
still sitting on your smartphones? And before that, man, you know,
our our lifetime, the way we preserve it. These images are sitting inside
photo albums, they're in the shoe boxes, they're crammed in a closets and
finding them very pretty cool, you know, maybe what a great gift.
Parents are saying, Hey, I want to digitize this thing so I can
easily get them on my computer, look them on my laptop and whatever,
and share them with the next generation. It's relatively easy to do it.
It's a daunting task because if you've got thousands and thousands of photos like I
have, like my parents started, sad to say, black and white was
still around when I was born. Quick Luckily, my dad was very technologically
creative, so you got a quick polaroid color. So I have most of
my stuff is in color, even as a tiny baby. But it was
close. Convert these things. There's there's a few ways to do it.
Number one, there's companies who will do this for you. And if I
remember, there was a company who did it for me, and I think
it was called hold On. What was called it was called scan my Photos.
I think that was it scan my photos dot com. What they do
is that I think they did get a card I think that may even ship
you cardboard boxes and you gotta trust them, which I did. I popped
all of my photos that I think I've ever owned, wrapped them up several
boxes, and I shipped them and within less than I think two days they
delivered. They delivered all of my photos back and the video files. I
think they got them on a DVD and they put them online in a cloud.
But not have been easier. Not the cheapest thing. It's about thirteen
cents per scan. I mean, they have deals sometimes maybe two hundred and
forty dollars per box. And obviously there's only X number of things that you
go to a box, So maybe one thousand dollars twelve hundred dollars for six
five six boxes. Is that worth it, mom and dad if all the
kids go in and put it. Yeah, that's one way to do it,
and there are several companies who do it. I hope it trustworthy and
I do believe I got mine. I believe it was scam my photos.
This is not an endorsement for him, but it worked. But you can
also digitize old photos with your phone. It's it's tough to do that.
There's actually some apps. One is called I think I just I just looked
this up. It's called photo Mine. I'm gonna have to spell this one
for you people. P h O t O M y n E photo Mine.
It's pretty easy, it's fast, and you can try it for free.
You download the app, put it on either of your androids, your
iPhones. You snap sure of your paper photo so yes, it is gonna
take forever. But you snap a picture of a photo and it's safe.
That's it. You can enhanced the image, you can put a little color,
you can fade it. There's a lot of stuff that you can do.
Can also capture iverages from old slides and negatives. Kids, Full up
a chair. I'm gonna have uncle garfew story dot. Let me tell you
what a slide or a negative is. That's not even worth it, forget
about it. That's pretty tough. If you know anything about capturing slides,
it's usually done on you have to app au machine bubb up here you can
actually do it with this app. You can also get a photo scanner do
it yourself photo scanner or scanning station. The scanner simple tools and let's see,
here's one called the vivid Picks. Vivid Hicks the software free to try.
Also Hicks as in pix Vivid dash pi X software. You repair photos.
You can quick repair photos. There's something called my Heritage. I did
this war once. My grandfather had a picture of his college fraternity in nineteen
twenty. My grandfather founded my fraternity that I was in ZBT in at University
of Texas. He was in the first nine person pledge class founded it.
And it's an old black and white picture and there, I mean, it
is exactly what you expected to be. They're in old timey suits, all
black and white or cp a tone. But there was a rip in the
photo. My heritage actually edited that rip out. Pretty cool. You could
try that thing for free too, that stated Yeah, I mean listen,
if you really did it, go to O Hood. I don't know Adobe
Photo Show. You could do all that stuff there too. I'm just I'm
the easy dude. I'm gonna give you this short way out. If your
photos are digitized and they're already repaired and you're ready to go, what do
you do well? How do you share it with mom, Dad, mom's
mom's day. Put them in the cloud. Go to Google photos. Google
photos they have but what is it? The fifteen gigs free storage with their
regular Google account, which is free. If you need more. I think
it's one hundred gigs for two bucks a months. Has nothing man print them
to you. You see you can print these things on mugs, t shirts,
you know, free prints. I think that's one of them. Awesome,
just give me some ideas. But again Mother's Day gifts, Dad's Day
gifts, graduation gifts. But this is something for is family's lineage. Do
this. I'm so glad I did this with all my photos nowadays, obviously
meet the kids. We all take everything on our phones and once every few
months I upload what's been on my phone of the kids and I put it
on kind of the family server, and it's something to preserve. Questions about
this. As we get to our final segment here on the High Tech Dextion
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I really swear to it. I swear to you. Final Mother's Day thing.
I kind of teased that I was talking about phones. Phones are a
nice thing to get more. Phones are in a different category than kitchen gadgets,
which I spent a segment earlier in the show about maybe not the smartest
thing to get mommy trash can or vac you for Mother's Day, hence the
reason I'm a single man. But smart boats, there's a number of almost
halfway through the year, half way to happy hour, there are there are
there are some really nice flagship phones out there. They're not the cheapest thing.
What are the things that the big debate is Android or iOS. And
it's so funny when I show off on my andro Android phones, because I
have for years and years and years. I'm a Samsung guy. I've been
playing with some new ones from Asus a s us they actually have phones.
Next week I might have a conversation and we'll hear it here with someone from
Asis about how they came up with their phones, which are very easy to
use but also very fast. They've got a fast micro chip in there,
so if you play games on your phones, really really super speedy. Those
are actually nice. So funny when I show off my Android phones or whatever
it is, it's people who like who iPhone are like, oh, I
know the pictures are better with those, but I just I'm afraid to switch.
And I just get on my soapboxes, like what are you afraid to
switch for? Is it gonna bite you? And I hold up my phone
and hold up they hold up their phone. It's relatively the same size.
And I turned the screen on and I said, hey, show me your
homes green. And they have all these icons. There's a little icon for
a phone. Here's an icon for an email. Here's an icon for text
on an Android on an iPhone and I show my Android phone, I'm like,
hey, look at the irony. Here here's an icon for text,
and here's an icon for a phone call. Here's an icon for email.
Yes, it takes photos. Front facing camera, rear facing camera. Cameras
are generally better than iPhones. And it's like, people, Oh, I'm
in the iphy you Apple has an ecosystem. I have to do FaceTime and
blue dots, greendots, whatever it is. I get you. Apple's freaking
genius. I started the show off. Go listen in about ten minutes.
When Callan puts this up on the podcast, go listen to my opening spiel
where I gave I give Apple props for being geniuses of marketing, especially what
they did this past week through the ipop the their new iPad pro launch with
this controversial sixty second commercial that didn't even hit television, it was online.
People are up at arms going, oh no, this is They're they're hurting
the creativity. They're smashing trumpets and they're they're crushing paint cans. And now
what they're saying is an iPad pro can replace all of these creative tools that
we use. They're getting smashed for it. I think it was. It
was. It was they positioned it exactly what they wanted to do, because
it got me talking about it for five plus minutes. On the show that
did the morning shows yesterday on Friday Morning, Good Morning America, they played
the entire sixty second commercial for free advertising. Now you can go buy the
iPad pro for one thousand dollars. Maybe not, but damn man, it's
got free advertising phenomenal. So I'm not knocking this Android or I said iOS.
If you want to decide on the phone too, you really should look
at cameras. You see your your cell phone pulls double duty as a primary
camera. Well, a brief mobile phone could take really good pictures in bright
light. Listen, there's optical zooms, there's whatever like that. Do you
I mean other features you need to look at. Does it work with your
watch? Do you have a Samsung? Do you have an Apple with your
big watches too? I mean I have a one plus, I have a
one plus phone. It's a name, it's a brand, and I have
a one plus watch. I think the one plus watch that's my watch of
choice. I love what one plus O N E P L A U S
it's an Android watch, but it works great, heartbeat, phone calls and
everything. So there's the new Apple iPhone fifteen Pro. My actually, my
youngest son just got one of those, by the way, this company bought
for him. Up to a terravitas storage, battery life last about two days,
typical screen size of a six point seven inch. You're cheap and it's
pretty good. Google, I think Google. We listen. I really haven't
played with a lot of Googles, but the Google Pixel eight and the Pixel
eight Pro. Because it's Google, it's probably if people say it's the best
Android smartphone in the market, now, I haven't. I'm not claiming that
because I haven't played with a lot of Google Pixels yet with their you know,
same thing six point two inches or so. Storage capacity is nice,
not as much as that iPhone Pro. Battery life decent at twenty plus hours.
But if you want AI tools, good high end tensor G three chips,
right displays. Obviously it inherently uses Android since it's the same company.
Those are out there too. It's about a thousand dollars for the new Google
Pixel eights. You don't need the latest. There's Google Pixel SEVENS seven A
the seven a kind of a mid side. It's five one hundred dollars.
People may not be as fast and super speedy as the as the phones I
just talked about, but they're also very good to Apple iPhone see those are
cheap too. There's a ton of stuff out there. Next week, I
got to review it a little bit more. I'm gonna dig into the Asis
phones that I've been playing with. Coming up soon, Samsung is releasing maybe
some of their foldables, maybe some of their flippies. I'm not sure.
I'm not even under embargo yet, but if so, I hopefully will be
one of the first ones to tell you I do want to end the show.
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