WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:09.800 Hi Texan is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high tech 2 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:15.320 Texan. Michael Garfiel is here with a high tech texta items to make life 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:25.600 easier technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might like. Texan. Michael 4 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:32.600 Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades hoping you make magic with your 5 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:40.920 gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan. 6 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:46.920 Michael Garfield. Another Saturday, halfway through August, which meets it's halfway through 7 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:52.359 this hot, nasty, nasty month of August. Maybe the hottest July on 8 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.840 record. Let's just screw that, Let's just go for the hottest August on 9 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.840 record. Why not? But it is always cool here on nine fifty eight 10 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.280 KPRC. That's terrestrially here in Houston. No matter where you are, no 11 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:07.359 matter how you are listening, be at Diheart Radio, be at a podcast, 12 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.519 you name it. I am here for the next two hours. We've 13 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.159 got a lot of energy, a lot of a lot of iced tea, 14 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:17.920 and a lot of coke zero flowing through the veins. And so as we 15 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.760 always say, I packed three hours into a two hour show, we do 16 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.400 have a number of things to yap about along with your phone calls, because 17 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.879 this is a talk show. This is a talk station, all Texas, 18 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.879 all talk, all high tech texts in these next two hours. Seven one 19 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:38.319 three two one two five nine five zero. That is the phone number where 20 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:41.920 you can get to callum. Hello, callum sir. Put them through to 21 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:46.719 me and we'll see what's going on, including back to school. A lot 22 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.799 of people. I found out that Euston Hi s d You kids don't go 23 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.079 back to school for another week or so, week and a half or so. 24 00:01:53.840 --> 00:02:00.120 There's a lot of outlying school. Say if we're Bend, or if 25 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.040 you're down near Galveston, Friendswood or whatever like that, I'll tell you what's 26 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:07.120 going on. You're back in school, sucks for you. Should you need 27 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.840 any type of back to school supply, you need laptops, you need watches, 28 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:15.960 you need tablets, you need I potentially could be your guy, because 29 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:20.039 I am going to talk about a number of things. I got another Samsung 30 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.479 review unit this past week. As you know, for the past month it's 31 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:28.319 kind of been Samsung story. As I was in Soul, South Korea late 32 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.840 July for the big Samsung press conference, where I saw the unveiling of the 33 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:36.960 Flip five, the Fold five. I got the Watt one of the watches 34 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.560 and the new tablet. Well, I actually got another watch. I got 35 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:45.800 the Samsung Watch six Classics. So now I have the Classic along with the 36 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.319 regular Watch six. This is brand new. They're nice folks at eight T 37 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.840 and T. Well, we're nice enough to let me try one of the 38 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:58.000 Watch six Classics. I like this being I'm just gonna kind of bury the 39 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:00.680 lead right now. It's because the bezel, the bezel, which is the 40 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:07.800 outside ring on a watch face. The Samsung has has returned the rotating bezel 41 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:12.199 on the Watch six Classic, not the regular Watch six they just released. 42 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.919 But the Classic runs anywhere between three close to three hundred, three hundred and 43 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:21.400 fifty dollars. But I love the rotating bezel, which they had on some 44 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.879 previous versions, because it's an easy way to move between screen to screen, 45 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.439 so you can see your notifications, your messages, your heart rate, and 46 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.240 have you. I'll get to the full review on that later. I will 47 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.080 tell you that if you do have an iPhone and you had an issue with 48 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.879 an iPhone back in the day about slowing down, there is a payout apple 49 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.879 Is has to pay out with a five hundred million dollars iPhone settlement. I'll 50 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:46.400 let you know if you are eligible to get some money. If you've been 51 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:52.039 following what's going on in Maui. Man, it is just a horrific tragedy 52 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.080 with the wildfires going on. And I say this is we were just getting 53 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:00.639 into this really really dangerous part of hurricane season here and in Southeast Texas and 54 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:06.120 along the Gulf Coast. Got some information on how to protect your homes from 55 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:13.080 natural disasters. I'm gonna use technology products because we do smart homes and all 56 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.600 of us do have something in our home that's hopefully smart other than your wife 57 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:20.800 or your kids. I will tell you some things to help your protective and 58 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:24.720 also we'll do the typical car reviews. I was in not one but two 59 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:30.480 vehicles last week. I will give you my unpaid for just thoughts topped to 60 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:36.360 bottom on the new puck Encore cute little buck Encore and the Lexus three fifty 61 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:41.160 nat it is a hybrid. I've been test driving those. That's what I 62 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.680 do because I cover the car industry so much. Other than that, I 63 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:49.560 am here for you. Where do we start? It's got three emails Michael, 64 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.120 I remember that iPhone slowdown? What's the deal man? How do I 65 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.920 actually get some money? All right, let's let's get to this real quick. 66 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:02.519 For the for the break. It was years after a lawsuit that alleged 67 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:09.879 Apple was adding software that slowed down older iPhones. Do you remember this? 68 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:15.040 There was about twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, and Apple now has agreed to pay 69 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:20.519 a settlement of hundreds of millions of dollars. It was December twenty seventeenth through 70 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.839 June eighteenth, about a six seven month period. There were sixty six class 71 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:30.439 action lawsuits that were filed against Apple alleging this issue, including that Apple deliberately 72 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:40.319 slowed down battery performance of older iPhones with the latest iOS updates. So there 73 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:44.240 was a It was a twenty seventeen letter to consumers. Apple apologized for slowing 74 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.040 down the older iPhones. And I guess the point is, as they wanted 75 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:54.519 you to buy a new iPhone, you mean humpany you? So anyway, 76 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:59.199 they said in a letter that the software update from twenty sixteen may have had 77 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:05.439 some users experience longer launch time for apps and other reductions and performance. Unquote 78 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:10.120 all right, here's what's going on. Payments now. They're going to be 79 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:16.079 distributed to people who filed claims before the October twenty twenty deadline. And you 80 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.839 owned somewhere in the range of an iPhone six or a six plus or an 81 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:27.000 iPhone seven or a seven plus. About three million people filed and they were 82 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:31.360 approved, and you're expected remember it's a five hundred million dollars settlement. If 83 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:39.199 you filed, you're expected payments around sixty five bones. Absolutely worth your time 84 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:42.879 to do that, Absolutely worth your time. Can you imagine a company, 85 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:49.160 a technology company, doing something a little twisted to actually control you, control 86 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:54.439 us as people and humans, in order to get you to maybe buy a 87 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.480 new version to something. Ah huh, I can't believe it. Can't believe 88 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:01.079 it went away. That's that is what's going now and happen. I'd like 89 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:05.319 to if you you know what, it's been five years, it's been five 90 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.759 plus years, if you even remember filing, I'd love to hear from you 91 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:13.160 and tell me what you're gonna do with the sixty five dollars. Yeah, 92 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.720 let's go out for some drinks. Let's go for two drinks. Phone number 93 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.160 is seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh, I'm Michael 94 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:23.240 Garfield. This is the whole KPORC High Tech Texting Team. If you're listening 95 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:27.000 on iHeartRadio, thank you so much for downloading it. When we come back, 96 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.879 I am going to talk a little bit back to school. I'll talk 97 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:31.399 to you about these new watches. Should you want a smart watch? Should 98 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:35.199 your kids want a smart watch? Of going back to school? And also 99 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:40.319 how to protect your home in a natural disaster. I do know here the 100 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.040 Gulf Coast that I've been living in for thirty plus years, and I mean 101 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.480 there's so many of my listeners who've been living here a lot longer, for 102 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.600 generations and generations. I know it's hurricane warning. Do you have your water? 103 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.600 Do you have your battery backups? But there are other technological ways to 104 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.879 actually protect yourself. You see, this is what I do. I give 105 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.480 you the inside, fun information easy to understand. When we come back on 106 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:07.600 the High Tech text and show Hello, Hello, No, it is mister 107 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:13.920 Bigale Garth build that not nearly lunch time? Should you be listening live Sinday 108 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.560 just after I don't know about what eleven twenty a m. Central time? 109 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.199 I mean, you know, listen, you're probably just waking up. Maybe 110 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.360 it is lunch time for you. Standby because we do have some giveaways for 111 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.639 you. Because this is what we do on the air. You don't give 112 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.199 nothing away. Ain't nobody going to be listening, even though you should, 113 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.679 because I got some good information for you. Fifty dollars gift card to Johnny 114 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.799 Tamali's canteena the tex mex CANTEENA the specifically out in mos City, Missouri City 115 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.399 southwest side of you. Still I got fifty dollars for you nine now, 116 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.120 not now, I'll tell you when we're gonna give that away. And also 117 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:52.440 Benny Hanna hundred dollars gift card coming up. I just ate at Benny hannam 118 00:08:52.919 --> 00:09:01.559 last earlier this week, my parents were in town celebrating their sixtieth anniversary. 119 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.919 Muzzle toop raise your hand out there. If you could tell me you've done 120 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:13.519 anything for sixty years, much less stay married. Don't even ask me how 121 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.840 my parents have done that point. As my parents were in town, some 122 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.120 kids in town too, relatives, and we had a little surprise going on 123 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:26.600 over at Benny Hannah and it's it's it's dang man. The food is good. 124 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.440 I forgot how fun it is, and they still do the little volcano 125 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.840 choo choo choo choo choo, the fake catchup. But man to shrimp the 126 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:35.720 lobster to beat by day. Anyway, I just I took everybody out and 127 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.879 surprised him. My parents over there. So anyway, they offered to give 128 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:43.039 me a hundred dollars gift card to give away. So you know what I'm 129 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.919 gonna do it. I will tell you when to call in, But not 130 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.639 yet. I do have some more important information other than giving away free things 131 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:56.960 all least, I think it's you get has anybody even following the wildfires out 132 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:03.120 in Maui? It's just disaster and they these believe it or not, these 133 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:09.840 these wildfires that could be the deadliest in modern US history. Not the natural 134 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.159 not not the biggest natural disaster, but the wildfires itself. Natural disasters are 135 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:22.480 aren't an uncommon incurrents. If you follow what I'm saying over here, the 136 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:30.159 number and cost of weather and climate disasters, it continues to rise. And 137 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:35.799 that's according to Noah, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It's due to 138 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:41.679 climate change and in our population growth. It's it's a simple zet fact for 139 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.919 here's some facts that's ideal. In facts Facts twenty twenty two, eighteen natural 140 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:54.720 disasters in the US cause more than one billion dollars in damages each. It 141 00:10:54.919 --> 00:11:00.960 was three hurricanes, two tornadoes, some extreme storms, some wildfires, and 142 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.080 some drought. Who that's a lot of money, man, is this is 143 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:07.960 where our insurance is rising? I mean, we may feel hopeless. What 144 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:13.240 are we supposed to do? So I am here to tell you your home 145 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.279 you're smart home can actually help protect you. Now you're probably wondering, garth, 146 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.840 how do I make sure my house is safe from fire in fuego? 147 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.120 Well? Number one, As a homeowner, you need to conduct a home 148 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:33.840 assessment to see what changes could make a big diff in reducing your home's risk 149 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.120 from wildfire. And there's websites and there's apps with checklists that can help. 150 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:43.159 Feel free to google it. But general fire prevention tips and I'm gonna go 151 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:48.600 back to my boy scout days. Seriously, you know, regularly clean your 152 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:56.720 roof surfaces, your gutters, make sure your chimney is inspected annually. Look 153 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:01.679 at your vegetation around the house, say make sure it's non combustible. Keep 154 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.159 them several feet from your home, keep any power lines near your home clear 155 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.519 of tree limbs, you know, things like that. It's yes, ideal 156 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.960 in common sense. But you talk about tech stuff. Let's talk about some 157 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.440 technology for fire prevention in the home. Yes, they're smoke alarms. They're 158 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.879 getting more advanced. Some of the new ones. They can give you notice 159 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:31.639 of fire, smoke, carbon bnoxide poisoning. You got storm related outages that 160 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.240 they can increase the odds of a house fire or even carbon monoxide poisoning. 161 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.440 Because there's generators, there's a number of people who have these whole home generators 162 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.600 die. I have at least two to three neighbors right around me who've got 163 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.679 whole home generators. And you know one honestly, one of the best things 164 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.120 is if your neighbors have a whole home generator and you don't, because you're 165 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.240 gonna, say, have a lot of money, and if your power goes 166 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.120 out, hopefully your neighbors are gonna let you inside their air conditioning. Battery 167 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:03.480 based generators probably are a safer bet compared to gas based ones because a lot 168 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.960 of these new generators, maybe the generac ones, and again I don't want 169 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:11.519 to you know, call singular brand out. You know, they're they're based 170 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:13.279 on you know gas that you you know, you just have to run a 171 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.639 gas line, you know, you know to the home. So, but 172 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.440 the batteries obviously are a little bit more safer. Hurricane is big here. 173 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.279 How do you protect your house from flooding during a hurricane. Well, there's 174 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.879 a number of different steps. And if you're in the Houston, or if 175 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.360 you're in the Gulf Coast, and I have listeners all across the Gulf Coast, 176 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.360 you better listen up. Here's your goal. You know what the goal 177 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.840 is. The goal is to keep water from entering your home. So this 178 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:43.320 isn't a technological thing. But secure your roof, shingles, your check your 179 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.440 gutters, your down spouts, for your proper drainage. You want to seal 180 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.320 all the openings and your cracks and your holes. And when you're building, 181 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.639 would you use water Please use water resistant building materials. If you're renovating, 182 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.879 use water resistant building materials, especially below ground on level. For for for 183 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.320 all of you with no basements, and there's probably hardly a basement here in 184 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.679 my list, my terrestrial listening audience, this is tough to have a basement 185 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:11.480 in the state of taxes. And by the way, everybody living up and 186 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.840 down you know by the brais by you the braswood. I'm talking to you. 187 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.480 Make sure there's weather production seedlans around, you know, the lower floor, 188 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:24.759 ground windows. But technology wise, there are a few products that can 189 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:28.759 help warn you, and I'm gonna say warn you a flood damage. Little 190 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:33.559 tiny sensors you could place around your home that detects moisture and it notifies you 191 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.559 through an app or announcing a problem on a smart speaker. And I have 192 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.559 I actually have a few of these, and I'm not listen. I'm yes, 193 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:46.000 everybody should be worried about damage water, hurricane coming in, but also 194 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.519 what happens if you're sink or foster or toilet starts leaking overflowing. This is 195 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.759 where I put my sensors. D Link makes a d Link it's big company 196 00:14:54.799 --> 00:15:01.159 too. They make a water sensor about eighty bucks kid kit k DDE kitty. 197 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.279 They make a water in leak freeze to detector. I have one, 198 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:09.840 and what it does is it wildly sinks to your WiFi at home and I 199 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:11.919 actually get an alert every time my WiFi goes down, I get an alert 200 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:15.919 that it's actually good because it lets me know that my WiFi is down and 201 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:20.320 they'll say water sensor is offline or water sensor has detected a leak. So 202 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:22.519 sometimes they're not true, but at least I know, like, oh, 203 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.960 I better check what's going on. And if I'm out of town. And 204 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.679 because I do have cameras in my home on each of my floors, if 205 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:33.120 I do get one of these alerts, it's like, oh, something's wrong 206 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.360 with my water sensor. I immediately log onto my camera and I zoom in. 207 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.639 I'm like, oh my gosh, goodness, do I see water on 208 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:43.039 the ground? And luckily I have not yet. But I'm gonna tell you 209 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:46.960 again, the Wi Fi connected sensors, they can't stop the water from causing 210 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:52.039 bad, costly problems in your home, but they can quickly notify you to 211 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:56.080 the issue, which could mitigate the damage. So again, a few tech 212 00:15:56.120 --> 00:16:00.879 tips that we need to do in terms of disasters or natural disasters. I 213 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.080 mean, yes, every what is it? What may first? Actually June 214 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.000 first, when hurricane season starts, and I'll do my typical I go on 215 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:11.039 TV and I'll do my radio stuff. Make sure you always have bottle water 216 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:14.919 and your can. Oh, your manual, can openers, make sure you 217 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.399 have battery backups, make sure you have you know a number of different apps, 218 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:25.240 and your your cansa tuna, and anything else you need. But there 219 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.960 are tech you know tech things too. And when I'm away also, I 220 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:30.799 do know that I'm you know, if my WiFi goes down, that means 221 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.480 I can't get my cameras, and I check those. I mean, I 222 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.399 know that, hey, Houston's having some bad weather, so I will I 223 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.080 will gradually log in to make sure that the power is stilling on my home 224 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.559 because if my cameras, I can't access my cameras, I know my WiFi 225 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:48.759 is down, the electricities probably down. Then I'll call a neighbor and go 226 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:52.759 check it. So a few tips, certainly not a laughing matter. And 227 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.440 when it comes to what's going on in Maui or anywhere else, it's just 228 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.000 again, I'm an eagle Scout. Be prepared. That is the motto of 229 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.399 the Boy Scouts, and that's what I try to do, folks, Be 230 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.240 prepared. I got ninety more minutes of yapping over here. Michael Garfield. 231 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:15.160 It is the High Tech Text, and show bottom of this first hour of 232 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.640 the High Tech Text and show hopebo as well. We're about what but twenty 233 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.039 minutes away? What do you say? Callum? We'll give away one of 234 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:26.440 the beautiful restaurant gift cards, the Johnny Tomali's out of Missouri City, maybe 235 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.720 to one of the Benny Hannas. We'll do it as we get closer to 236 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:33.599 lunch time. Should you be listening live right now on KPRC nine fifty am, 237 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:38.960 or if you're at iHeart Radio the US back to school stuff if you 238 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:41.960 have it, I'm getting some emails over here. By the way, if 239 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.119 you want to email me because you're too shy to call, suck it up, 240 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.359 people, I'm a nice guy. I'm not gonna hurt you, and 241 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:48.960 I don't I don't yell at you. No, no, no, you 242 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:53.440 can email me. Go Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. You can check 243 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:57.640 me out at high Tech Text and on a lot of the social media platforms. 244 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:02.079 Some back to school stuff, especially for kids going back to back to 245 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.920 college. If you're going back to college, or if your kids go back 246 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:10.759 to college, what did you They should be probably almost there and moved in. 247 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:12.839 By the way, I say a lot of my friends on Facebook and 248 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:18.200 they're getting for clam because they already shipped their kids off to school and their 249 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.119 picture of their dorm rooms in there in the sorority and they've got the matching 250 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:30.480 comforters and everything. What other pieces of technology did you get them? I 251 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.319 remember I did I have it? We did? Maybe we had a TV. 252 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.319 They certainly weren't high definition. In my dorm room. When I went 253 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.200 to ut in Austin, I had an alarm clock. It literally was a 254 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.839 clock radio, which, by the way, I still have the same thing. 255 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:48.640 My oldest piece of technology is my clock radio that I've now had for 256 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.599 forty oh it's coming up on forty years. Coming up on forty years. 257 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.640 I probably this week, my good just four decades. Should have a birthday 258 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.599 party for that thing. What I always like asking this, it's the oldest 259 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.519 piece of technology you have in your house. Think about it. I'd love 260 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:07.000 you to go go zeep me or go thread me at high tech tech and 261 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.640 oldest piece of technology you may still have. Listen if your mind listen. 262 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:17.160 Generations now they don't have alarm clocks. They have phones. They set the 263 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:18.480 alarms in the phones. But a lot of people still have alarm clocks. 264 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:26.440 I still like turning over and looking to see what time it is. That's 265 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:30.319 old school stuff. I know, what's your what's your oldest piece of technology 266 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:36.480 or maybe electronic that you have in your house. Talk to me here going 267 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.440 back to TVs. And I say this because I saw what Samsung announced this 268 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.599 little pet. I wish this was around when I was in school. Samsung 269 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:51.200 to earlier this week they announced a pre order for what's called the Freestyle GIN 270 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.519 two, as in Generation two with a gaming hubb. It's what it is. 271 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:59.759 It's a next generation projector, so it's affordable. You could take it 272 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.200 a anywhere. It's a little projector and what you could do. It projects 273 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:10.079 things on your wall, your ceiling, almost any surface up to a one 274 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:15.400 hundred inches. I mean that's pretty cool. I mean these things are getting 275 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.200 and then and there. It's gonna be you coul pre order for about eight 276 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:22.359 hundred dollars. You can pre order now to the end of August on Samsung 277 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.759 dot com. You also get a free water and dust resistant case, by 278 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:29.599 the way, which is a sixty dollars value. But the thing is this 279 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:34.759 new model. It gives you quick access to streaming entertainment platforms, but it 280 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:41.279 also features the Samsung Gaming Hub, so you can play games from Xbox and 281 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.079 some of their other streaming partners with no console. That's pretty cool. So 282 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.279 you don't need an Xbox console. So now you could take your your shows 283 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.720 and movies and on the g I've used project I've played with projectors before. 284 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.839 I actually need I'd love to get one of these things. And I always 285 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.400 project them on the wall. Like I remember when the kids were young, 286 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.440 and I would have I would take a projector and there, and the projectors 287 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:04.400 when the kids were young, I mean they were they were pretty big. 288 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.079 I mean there, you know, it's like a big briefcase and we would 289 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:10.759 have pool parties and I would set it up and i'd actually i'd hook up 290 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:14.920 a computer a monitor and then I would project it and we would project against 291 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.799 the wall of my garage. I've never projected on my ceiling. Dude, 292 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.680 how trippy is that? I mean, let's just have let's have a movie 293 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.960 watching party or street let's watch ted Lasso. But here we're gonna we're gonna 294 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:30.279 lay on the ground on my carpet and we're gonna asking popcorn. But we're 295 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.559 gonna look up. That's funky, man. I a should try that. 296 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:41.480 So, uh, it's it's it's a Samsung Gaming Hub. Three thousand games 297 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.440 from Xbox and Video g Force now I Amazon, Luna and a lot of 298 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:49.960 other cool stuff. So go check it out. Samsung dot com eight hundred 299 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:55.519 dollars. If you pre order, you would have the most popular dorm room 300 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:59.000 anywhere. I actually you'd have the most popular house. I see. I 301 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:02.759 always wanted a house. You know, I had three boys, and I 302 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:07.319 wanted a house that was the house where all my all my kids and my 303 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:11.359 and their friends would just kind of like hang out because you know, yeah, 304 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:15.440 I was that dad because I just wanted to hang out with them. 305 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.200 But you know, I was the one who had the old school Gallagha machine, 306 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.640 Missus pack, miss pac Man machine. There's the actual stand up versions. 307 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:29.720 We had three projection TV screens. Now I lied, I lied. 308 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:33.920 We had one projection TV screen. So I had a ceiling mounted projector, 309 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.599 which again was massive. It was it was you know the size of a 310 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:40.519 big briefcase and it had had one hundred and twenty inch throw one hundred and 311 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:42.000 twins so it was like massive. What was it? What is that six 312 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:45.160 feet or something? And actually more than six It was like twelve feet. 313 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:49.559 It was flanked by two fifty inch flat screens, and we had it because 314 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:52.119 three kids. We had an Xbox, we had a PlayStation, and we 315 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.720 had a Nintendo, so each each kid had their own platform, so they 316 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.920 all three simultaneously could play it at once. I mean I lived in an 317 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.640 arcade. I created an arcade at home, and we had a pool and 318 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:06.799 the whole stuff, and so this is what I was doing quite well, 319 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:08.680 all right, yeah, now I do not have any of that stuff. 320 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:12.960 I do have a lot of flat screen TV's, but that's the kind of 321 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:15.440 a house that I wanted. And it was fun because all the kids used 322 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.000 to and other friends like, hey, let's go over to the Garfield's house. 323 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.759 Oh, you know him, his daddy gets all the the the Xbox. 324 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:23.640 Every day FedEx comes up and he's got this new Xbox game. Oh 325 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.880 really, Tiger Woods, you know, two thousand and six or something had 326 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:32.039 come on over. Let's go play with it. It's so it's so cheaper 327 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:33.880 to do it right now. My projector back in the day, how much 328 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:37.880 was that projector? I mean it was thousands of dollars. Then I had 329 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:42.440 to come get it installer to do the whole thing. These projectors nowadays, 330 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:45.799 they're they're portable. You could pick them up a movement anywhere. So this 331 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:52.000 eight hundred dollars Samsung portable projector, I mean you can, you could take 332 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:55.880 it anywhere. There's a lot of them like that right now. And so 333 00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:57.240 why not take it to your dorm room. I mean, you you're gonna 334 00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:00.640 be you're you're gonna be a big man campus or a big woman on campus. 335 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:03.400 So it'd be nice if I actually get through, I try out one 336 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.720 of those or some of those other TVs. Phone number here on the old 337 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:11.039 HTT High Tech Textion show seven one three two one two five nine five zero 338 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.079 Calum, don't know. Don't give away any gift guard yet. We'll do 339 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.960 that here in about five or ten minutes. We got that coming. We 340 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:25.279 will do that. The somebody asked me about QR scanners. Remember when COVID 341 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:27.079 came around, and you would go to restaurants and you would have a mask 342 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.960 on, and they stopped printing menus because you didn't want to touch it. 343 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:36.039 And you would see this square, black and white crazy thing, and you 344 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:38.680 would take your phone and you would use your camera, and then all of 345 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:42.039 a sudden it would connect to a website and would be the menu. It's 346 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:48.400 called a QR code, and they really haven't. It is a need a 347 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.200 vengeon and it worked much more on menus. You can do a number of 348 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:55.079 different things with it. But it's no secret that scanning a QR code can 349 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:59.440 be pretty annoying. It's just it's just a process. I did see this, 350 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:06.759 and Android, Android itself operating it is trying to make it easier by 351 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:11.359 doing something. They're adding a feature that's accessible with your quick setting shortcuts and 352 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:18.559 they're scanning built into your camera. So Google has updated something. It's a 353 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:22.960 little barcode. And I don't know if you if you've got if you've got 354 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.160 a Google phone, if you got an Android phone, Yes, it's one's 355 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:30.880 a Samsung and there's several others too. There is a distinction between a Google 356 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:36.279 code scanner and other barcode scanning things. And again I don't want to get 357 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:40.880 too technical, but it is kind of an issue. So third party apps 358 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:44.720 are soon going to be able to zoom in on it. And I'm gonna 359 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:47.839 give you a good let me quickly tell you example. So if you were 360 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:51.920 trying to stream something from your television and you have an account for Netflix, 361 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:53.279 and you have account for Amazon, and you have an account for Max. 362 00:25:55.640 --> 00:26:03.000 Instead of using your remote control in your television two type in and you've got 363 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:04.319 to use your you know, your up and down, the left and back 364 00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:07.160 button to type in all your email and information. That is a pain. 365 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:11.480 And then you know what nowadays, what you can do. It's they will 366 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.599 throw up one of these QR codes on screen and they'll say, use your 367 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:21.200 phone, take a picture of the TV screen and automatically then it'll let you 368 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:23.799 sign it. The problem is sometimes you're pretty far away from your television, 369 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:27.359 you're laying in bed, you get your television. What these new features that 370 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:32.839 Android is doing, It's automatically going to zoom in. It's going to notice 371 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:37.160 and recognize these QR codes and it'll let you zoom in. So these it's 372 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:40.480 gonna be used on a regular Android camera. All these things are gonna be 373 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:45.000 updated in the latest versions of the Android operating system. But it's it's gonna 374 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:48.920 I don't mind these QR things. I see them more and more places. 375 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:52.640 Business cards. You actually can put them on a business card and just have 376 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.160 people. And I actually have one. I've got one of these electronic business 377 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.000 cards. It's from a company called Hello. Is it Hello Hello dot me, 378 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.200 dot mme and I create it's free and I created a code and it's 379 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.119 on my phone. Someone says, hey man, you got if you've got 380 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:07.839 a business card? And I'm like, yeah, I do, but tell 381 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.000 you what here And I pull up my app. A QR code comes on 382 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.839 my screen and I will have them take a picture of it. That's one 383 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:18.039 easy way to do it, and automatically they can import that directly into their 384 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:19.839 phone. These QR codes, I don't mind them, and they just need 385 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:22.559 to get simpler to use. And I think by now most people know how 386 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.240 to use them. I remember a number of people you know during COVID it's 387 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:29.480 like, how do you do it? Do I need to download a QR 388 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:33.319 reader? Now phones, Now we'll actually take a picture and automatically take it 389 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:37.480 to that website. But again tech that is making things easier and improving on 390 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:40.599 things. I will be come back. I promised to give away one of 391 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:41.960 these gift cards. At least I will take your phone calls and I will 392 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:47.160 talk to you about what Amazon is doing. Amazon continues to get into the 393 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:51.200 doctor business. Would you trust a doctor on Amazon. I don't know. 394 00:27:51.599 --> 00:28:03.960 Doctor Garf is here to give you all the information you need. Last seg 395 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:10.200 Remember when we get to twelve o'clock, a local live time on KPRCY nine 396 00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:14.720 fifty am. Should you be listening in Southeast Texas? Say what because it's 397 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:18.759 almost a lunch time. Why don't we give away some gift cards. Let's 398 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:23.279 give away one of the gift cards. How about Johnny Tamali's in Missouri City, 399 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:29.240 southwest side of town opened up about six months ago. Just some great 400 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:32.960 tex Mex food and they got cold drinks. Let me help you out on 401 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.359 a hot day, like right now, We're gonna get some cold drinks. 402 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.799 Go check it out if you want to go to your If you don't win, 403 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:45.240 ninth callers seven one three two one two five nine five out two one 404 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:51.359 two one seven one three two one two five nine five ozho if you don't 405 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:53.079 win, suck it up, baby, because you can just go there and 406 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:57.279 buy some things yourself. They got just a great happy hour Monday through Friday 407 00:28:57.279 --> 00:29:03.319 from two to six pm. Unbelievable menu in Cholata's. They've got some ribs. 408 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:07.319 Actually I haven't tried the ribs because I'm not a porkman. But man, 409 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.160 I mean it seems like once every one out of every four tables here 410 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:14.480 getting some of these ribs. They look so good. Definitely check out some 411 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:18.920 of the Diablo, which is the sizzling vehitas along with the shrimp del mar. 412 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.039 He goes on and on and on. Address it's right on Murphy Road 413 00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:26.519 near Highway six Murphy Road, so it's FM ten ninety two. If you 414 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:30.240 really want to lock it in, it's twenty seven twenty FM ten ninety two. 415 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.839 It's in most City, right on the edge of Missouri City in sugar 416 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.759 Land. Go on out there. They open right now for launch next week. 417 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:40.160 I need to bring some here into the studio because it is good and 418 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.759 actually I need a cocktail right now. We already look at that calling number 419 00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:47.039 nine. Already got it. I got a thumbs up from Calum in the 420 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.359 window, so feel free to stop trying. Next week we will have another 421 00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:55.480 Johnny Tamali's and later this later this show, we've got some Benny Hanna gift 422 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:59.400 card coming to you. So congratulations. There is a fifty dollars Johnny Tamali's 423 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.720 Zuri City card. This is what you get by listening to my show. 424 00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:06.720 This is what you you don't I give away free information. I try to 425 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.400 make you laugh and entertain try to give you something to think about and talk 426 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:15.440 about it. And and now I'm giving away some gift cards. I mean, 427 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:17.799 I don't know what else I can do for you. Let's see what 428 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.680 else I can do for you. What story? I had a story? 429 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:23.240 So now I had a better story. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 430 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:29.160 yeah, we're talking about last segment. We were talking about the smart homes 431 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:33.799 and everything from smoke alarms to help you and water sensors. Should you know 432 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:40.839 hurricane season? Right now, I have a my front door. I have 433 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:48.559 a smart front door lock that is fingerprint activated. And these were these are 434 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:49.839 relatively new. Let's go back five, six, seven, eight years ago. 435 00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:53.440 But now now you know, you've got big manufacturers like Yale Locks and 436 00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:56.839 what have you. They are making these things and you can go to your 437 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.880 home depots or your lows. You can get them on an Amazon. And 438 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:04.440 I don't think it's hard to install a new doorlock. I've done it so 439 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:07.000 many times because I test out so many new locks. I mean I could 440 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:11.920 probably change lock ten fifteen minutes and it's really not that hard. But some 441 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.039 of them are neat because you could punch in a code, maybe a four 442 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.720 or five, six, seven, eight digit code. You can give every 443 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.240 member of your family their own code. You can give your mad to code. 444 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:25.559 You can give a special one time activated code for your neighbor if they 445 00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:27.319 need to get it. But nowadays you can actually could put your fingerprint on 446 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:30.720 there. And I've been using a fingerprint I D here for about two years 447 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:37.119 or so. It's it's good, it's I have a percentage of luck on 448 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.039 the first time I put my finger on it there, it's it's about seventy 449 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.119 percent of the time. If my finger is a little sweaty, there is 450 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.799 direct sunlight that hits that fingerprint sensor, so sometimes it doesn't have to sit 451 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:51.400 there and try it again. If not, I do have a backup system 452 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:57.039 of punching in a code on there too. But I saw this somebody's I 453 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.440 saw what some people are doing. It was this week there was a big 454 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.839 security conference, I think it was in Vegas. It's called def Con that 455 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:14.079 people are now putting implants in their skin, these little r F I D 456 00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:17.480 chips in their scanner and their fingerprints. Now stand by, let me tell 457 00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:22.119 you what these r f radio frequency identification. These little r f I D 458 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.279 chips. These can be found in your toll tags. For example, every 459 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:29.000 time you have a toll tag and you go through a toll booth, if 460 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:31.720 you're in Houston and you go on the Sam Houston Tollway or the Westpark Tollway, 461 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:35.599 you know you have that little toll tag that you have on your window. 462 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:38.599 Well, if you really crack it open, there's a little tiny chip 463 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:42.720 in there, and it's an r f I D chip. And what it 464 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:45.720 is, it's it's always sitting on a signal and every time it passes through 465 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:50.039 a sensor of any sort of kind it register is that hey, all right, 466 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.279 well this RFI D chip is registered to this car, which is registered 467 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:57.000 to this credit card, and that's how you get the toll tag. RFI 468 00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.240 D chips or many places. They're in grocery stores right now. I think 469 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.799 Walmart, I think is one big example. They use RFID chips on a 470 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.000 lot of their products. So every time a product is bought and leaves the 471 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:12.720 store, some stores have a chip reader so they know, okay, well 472 00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.759 I just know that a case of Coca cola left, or here's some produce 473 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:21.880 or here's some clothing, Well it knows that it was purchased, so then 474 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:25.200 it could goes to the ordering department they need a restock and reorders. It's 475 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:29.000 not like they could. It's a tracking thing. It's yes, it's a 476 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:31.759 tracking thing if you really think about it, but it's for inventory and use 477 00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:37.400 in whatever. But people are putting these things in there in their wrist in 478 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:42.680 their fingers. For one example, is exactly what I just said. Well, 479 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.079 I have a lock on my front door and it's got a fingerprint sensor. 480 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.720 Well, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work. If I had 481 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:53.519 a fingerprint sensor, if I had a sensor, a little tiny chip that's 482 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.880 implanted in my skin, all I need to do is just approach my door, 483 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.640 my car door, my garage door, my office. It automatically opens 484 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.200 up. And I guess, I'm here's the point I'm getting. Would you 485 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:08.800 do this? Let's say it's actually safe and it's not gonna hurt your blood, 486 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:15.719 it's not gonna do anything. I guess I am betting less than five 487 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:17.559 percent of my listener, five percent of America who would want to do this 488 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:22.280 because they're so afraid of the government tracking you. I'll go back to one 489 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:27.079 of my favorite movies, Tom Cruise Minority Report. If you remember the Minority 490 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:31.639 Report, they tracked everybody through their eyes. There was I iris sensors. 491 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:36.920 You would go Tom Cruise was walking through them all and they would know it's 492 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.400 him by scanning the eyes, and they would know what he buys and shops. 493 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.559 Hey, welcome to the gap. You're you're a large and you're a 494 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:47.679 size you know, thirty four jeans. That's that's tracking. I'm not saying 495 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.119 r F I D is like this, and who knows, the world may 496 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:57.639 be like that one day. But people are putting these things, call them 497 00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:05.559 pass keys, poem thing in in their body. I don't know you can 498 00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:07.719 I mean, listen. Advantage is well, you can leave your keys at 499 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:15.360 home. It's a cool party trick. I don't know the downsides. I 500 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.159 don't know if there's any doctors out there. I mean, could these things 501 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.679 I mean, I listen, I know there's silicon and maybe there's a metal 502 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.519 in these chips. Could what happens if you stay in the pool too long 503 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:28.760 or the shower too long? Do they rust inside your body? I don't 504 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:30.039 know, but this is something to ponder as we get to the top of 505 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.760 the twelve o'clock hour. We have about six seven minutes for you to think 506 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:37.320 about it, and you can call and weigh in on should would you put 507 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.800 these little tiny chip and plants under your skin so you could leave your keys 508 00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:44.079 at home? A lot of more and more people are doing it. I 509 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:46.239 don't know, I'm I don't know if I'm there yet. I'll give you 510 00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:51.639 that number seven one three two one two five nine five zero. Coming back, 511 00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:55.599 I will talk about the latest smart watch out there. I am playing 512 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.920 with the newest Samsung Watch six Classic. Not only was it announced, it 513 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.239 has been on sale for about a week right now. I got to play 514 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.639 with that thanks to my friends at AT and T. Also, there's a 515 00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:09.880 lot of alert Did you get an alert on your cell phone one of these 516 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.920 kids were kidnapped? Or there was a silver alert or an amber alert. 517 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.199 I'm gonna tell you how to if you're sick of those things. There's a 518 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:21.480 way to turn those things off. Do you want to turn them off? 519 00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:23.800 Because some of these are national emergencies. I'm gonna tell you how about some 520 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:30.400 emergency settings on your phone that you could set several different alerts that will let 521 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:32.719 you know what's going on in including bad weather wherever you are again, fun 522 00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:36.079 stuff that I'm gonna talk about that's gonna keep you hanging on for one more 523 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:37.880 hour. Mister Michael Garfield. It's called the high Tech Taxing Show, and 524 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:57.440 I do thank you for tuning in standby. Hi is Michael Garfield. Michael 525 00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:01.159 Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfiel is here with 526 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:07.559 a high tech Texan. It was to make life easier technology. So Michael 527 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:20.719 Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield's your high Tech Texan. Three 528 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:28.880 decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. 529 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:35.559 Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Halfway through the show on 530 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:39.079 a high August day is halfway to a happier hour. You know what I 531 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:44.719 was. We just gave away a gift card to Johnny Tamali's Text Mix Cantina, 532 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:50.079 Missouri City, and they got some nice cold Margarita's and Alando's luck old 533 00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:52.280 Beer. I think happier is actually starting. I don't know. I'm here 534 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:54.880 in studio. You know we do have a refrigerator. Do you guys mind 535 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:58.519 if I pop O top. Okay, well we'll talk about that. It's 536 00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:00.559 coming up this hour. You have another gift card for you. You got 537 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:05.440 to tune in one hundred dollars gift card to Binny Hannah. Several of them 538 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:07.519 located here in the Houston area. There's about seventy of them around the country. 539 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:13.000 You are eligible to win anywhere in the country you are. You can 540 00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:16.519 just go check them out if you are a calor number whatever. We pick 541 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.800 sometime between now and the end of the hour. Michael Garfield does my name? 542 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:22.559 Hello, Callum? How are you Calum? I got some bad news 543 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:27.760 for you? Or is it actually a good news? Fall in winter or 544 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:31.559 my absolute favorite times of the year. I do not like heat. I 545 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:35.679 cannot stand heat. I'm an outdoor person. When it comes to I'm a 546 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:38.599 runner, and I don't not like It's very tough to run in the summer. 547 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:42.480 It's very difficult to run in the heat that we've had over here for 548 00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.679 the past two or three months. It's just been disgusting. I like, 549 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.519 I am one of the few people in the world who like when the time 550 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:54.000 switches to daylight saving time. I guess what it is when it gets darker 551 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:59.119 earlier, because which to me, it means it gets cooler earlier, which 552 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:02.519 means I could run earlier and then get home and still go out and do 553 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:06.400 things at night. I'm just a weirdo about this thing. But the point 554 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:12.119 is, how do you know when fall is here, folks? When you 555 00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:19.159 start seeing pumpkin spice everywhere at every single grocery store, in restaurant. Welcome 556 00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:27.880 Fall, Welcome Fall, Dorrius fuck Dorus ready not people, Fall flavor is 557 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:35.320 here, saw it Duncan. Duncan already launched its fall menu earlier than ever. 558 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.840 They're pouring pumpkin spice, signature lattes and pumpkin coffee. Suck it up. 559 00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:45.840 I don't want to see these Facebook posts or can't believe you're already starting 560 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.119 to pour pumpkin. Shut up, you know what. I know it's one 561 00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.320 hundred nine degrees right now, But if I see and smell pumpkin, it 562 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.760 at least gets me thinking about fall, puts me in a better mood. 563 00:39:54.800 --> 00:40:01.440 Okay, seven eleven's got it's that's pumpkin spice, lattam pumpkin coffee too. 564 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:06.079 There are seven elevens now in age down. There is a god. August 565 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.280 first, that's starting. It's nicer than to break out the pumpkin a little 566 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:16.079 bit earlier. What's wrong with it? Why can't pumpkin be year round? 567 00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:21.119 Okay, you know what, maybe not, but at least it gives me 568 00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:22.280 the sense that fallows freaking here. And I'll tell you what. I love 569 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:29.079 me some pumpkin beer, low pumpkin beer, and I usually miss pumpkin beer's 570 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.079 out. Now go to a grocery store and you got there's so many different 571 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:39.039 kinds of pumpkin spice beer. I love it. That is fault October Fast. 572 00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:45.320 It's it's it's a comfort flavor. It's why are the phones letting up? 573 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:49.880 People? Are people calling to complain and yell at me, shut up 574 00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:52.400 about the pumpkin. No, I'm not shutting up up pumpin. I saw 575 00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:59.119 pumpkin pop darts. There's pumpkin cereal. I haven't been to Trader Joe. 576 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:01.400 I love Trader Joe. Trader Joe's is like the king of pumpkin. Everything. 577 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:07.280 Well, I know it's fall when Trader Joe's whip side because you can't 578 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.960 walk three feet into a Trader Joe's and you can see everything pumpkin, pumpkin 579 00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:14.960 ice cream. And it's not that I love the pumpkin flavor, because really, 580 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:16.440 what does pumpkin taste like? Is it kind of an orangey type of 581 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:21.719 thing. And don't get me wrong, I don't drink coffee, so I 582 00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:25.199 don't care if dunkin and seven eleven they're whipping out your pumpkin spicelot day. 583 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:29.880 It doesn't bother me because I do not walk into a Starbucks because big Daddy 584 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:34.880 Garf has never had a sip of coffee in my life, and even pumpkin 585 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:39.960 is not going to get me to sip coffee. Do you know? According 586 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:45.079 to Nielsen, spending in all retail outlets including supermarkets, restaurants, and more 587 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:52.320 during a week over week since last dogs we as America have spent eight hundred 588 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.559 and two million dollars on pumpkin products. Don't tell me it doesn't work. 589 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:02.480 I have pumpkin house spray. You know how you can like spray a little 590 00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.239 effervescent like you make things, you know, glade or whatever this stuff is, 591 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:09.840 you know, for breeze, and it makes your house smell good. 592 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:15.000 I love the smell of pumpkin. I'll get pumpkin. I don't like the 593 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:19.000 really really sweet, sweet smell and stuff of pumpkin. But it just it 594 00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:24.840 just it just it puts me in in the mood. Goldfish now, goldfish 595 00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:30.440 dunkin pumpkin spice grams. Where is there there is a dunk There's a dunkin 596 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.239 at Hobby Airport. I think there's one out by me. Chris. There's 597 00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:36.679 no more Krispy Kreams in Houston. I saw that's a bet. So the 598 00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.719 last Krispy Creme I think is Gonzo I think goes out on West Timer in 599 00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:43.079 your Beltway eight. I think it's gonna correct me if I'm wrong people, 600 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:46.360 But if you go somewhere and I'll dig this, I mean, listen, 601 00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:52.440 I think donuts phenomenal. If I have one donut a year, I'm lying, 602 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:54.199 And I think donuts are one of the best foods ever, I just 603 00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:58.280 can't or won't eat a donut just because of all the fat and take. 604 00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:04.360 They have four different kinds of pumpkin donuts, Pumpkin spiced cheesecakes, World donut. 605 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:06.360 Okay, that's it, Okay, I'm going to find it done. 606 00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:09.639 I'm going to find a Krispy Creame now for that pumpkin spice maple pecan donut 607 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.840 the original and cake pumpkin spice. Done it. I'm going to find a 608 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.599 pumpkin spice cheesecakes world done it. If anybody is near the galleria where we 609 00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:23.639 are broadcasting from, feel free to roll by a Crispy Creme, which I 610 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:27.320 know we don't have any year in Houston, but feel free to defind me 611 00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:32.920 one what's the big problem with this? I don't care. Well. I 612 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:37.920 can't wait till Eyehop rolls out on August twenty eight. They're pumpkin spice pancakes. 613 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:43.400 I don't need a lot of piantcakes. Man. But oh, sure's 614 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:44.920 good. I'm sorry, I just, I just, I just. I'm 615 00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:47.840 just dreaming about the fall where I can stop wearing shorts. No, I 616 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:52.360 wear shorts year round two, which, by the way, more people are 617 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:55.719 going back to the office right now. What do you think about wearing shorts 618 00:43:55.719 --> 00:43:59.840 in the office? Is that? Is that a problem? I mean, 619 00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:04.000 did the tyranny of long pants? If your bosses want you to go into 620 00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:07.840 work, shouldn't you have the wherewithal to say, you know what, boss, 621 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:10.400 the sucks. I'm gonna wear my flippy flops and I'm gonna wear some 622 00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:16.000 cargo shorts. There's a big question. I mean, who cares if I'm 623 00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:21.039 flashing a little leg in the office. I know you boomers out there, 624 00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:23.800 I don't care. I wear shorts quite often. I got some pretty sexy 625 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:28.519 legs. They're hair right, man, But I'll do it. Listen, 626 00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.519 it ain't nineteen twenty one people. There's a reason people wear pants nowadays, 627 00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:37.199 wear shorts. I went to a big family event this past weekend that traditionally 628 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:42.239 you wear a suit and tie to let me help you out. I do 629 00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:44.880 not remember the last time I wore a tie. I don't even know where 630 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.280 my ties are. Generally I wear a sport coat to one of these events. 631 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:51.719 Didn't wear a sport coat. I just I wore a button down shirt 632 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:55.719 and I always fits into that thing. Don't do it not me? There 633 00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:59.039 you go. See this is these are the interesting things that I talked about 634 00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:01.960 when it comes to consumer light. Stop people, Pumpkin weather is here. 635 00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:04.840 You got a problem with that. You talk to me, or you actually 636 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.719 tweet me or zeet me or thread me at high tech text and all right, 637 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.440 coming back, we're gonna talk a little Amazon. Amazon is opening some 638 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:15.239 clinics. Would you go to an Amazon clinic or a virtual clinic for a 639 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:19.039 doctor. And also I'll tell you what what I've been driving, give you 640 00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:21.519 some of my reviews of cars. So how we do it? Just have 641 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:31.360 too much fun here on the high Tech text and show quick taking the clock. 642 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:36.920 We've got about eighteen nineteen minutes after the hour, and I look at 643 00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:39.119 that because I'm looking at my watch, which I recently got from the US 644 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:44.599 Coins and Jewelry. I know Kenny and Matt Duncan they're working right now six 645 00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:46.800 days a week. People. That's they work on shobas. That's right, 646 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:51.000 but they're closed on Sunday, just like Chick fil A. Go check them 647 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:52.679 out US Coins and jewel You hear a lot about them here on not only 648 00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.679 this radio station, but also our sister radio station seven forty K TIERRASI just 649 00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:00.719 because there are a lot of US we shop there. Man. It's been 650 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:04.639 around since nineteen eighty five. Euston's premier in gold silver buyers. And they've 651 00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:09.480 got unbelievable watch collection, use Rolexes, other Swiss watches. They have several 652 00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:14.039 hundred available at any given time. And I'm telling you right now, I've 653 00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:16.440 learned a lot about watches. And specifically rolexes. Do you know if you 654 00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:20.119 don't wear a rolex and you just kind of let it sit on your on 655 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.159 your deskary in your jewelry box for a while, you don't wear it, 656 00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:27.400 it's it stops just because you need to keep the thing moving. Guess what 657 00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:32.320 I got. It's an automatical winding machine that I got also at US Coins 658 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:36.320 and Jewelry. And I put my rollie in there and I put it right 659 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:39.239 and it next to my bed and it slowly, just kind of very quietly 660 00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:44.280 just rotates and rotates, so it's always on time. Just a little something 661 00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:46.400 I learned from Kenny and Matt Duncan, who run US Coins and Jewelry. 662 00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:51.880 It's at eighty four thirty five Katie Freeways. It's I ten your Voss not 663 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:55.039 too far out of Loop six ten. They are open right now Monday through 664 00:46:55.079 --> 00:47:00.199 Saturday. If you want to call them or go online at US Coins and 665 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.800 Jewelry dot com. Tell him you arder from me. Seven one three, 666 00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:07.639 five nine seven sixty three sixty seven. I wore my relex to this family 667 00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:10.639 event that I had last week. No less than three of my family members 668 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:15.320 like damn, damn htt you make it a big I'm like, well, 669 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:19.199 my kids are off my payroll right now. Yeah, I'm gonna actually spoiler 670 00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.719 to myself and act one lives up. Cousin of mine lives in Florida. 671 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.599 He absolutely loved it what I did. Let I'm not kidding you. I 672 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:29.079 was in. I went to US Coins and Jelry. I was walking around 673 00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:31.639 with Kenny. I was at the jewelry counter. I was live video chatting, 674 00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:34.840 not FaceTime because I do not have an Apple, but I was live 675 00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:37.480 video chatting showing off the watches to my cousin so he could get one remotely. 676 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:42.719 It's what they do, free written appraisals on almost everything. They want 677 00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.639 to buy your watches, They want to buy your coins. At least go 678 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:46.320 in and check them out. It is fun. They got a lot of 679 00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:51.559 neat stuff you as coins and jewely dot Com. Thank you guys. Fun 680 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:53.159 same makes you look good, makes you feel good walking around. What time 681 00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:55.800 is it? Really? I don't know. Let Mary check on. My 682 00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:00.599 watch was at a Rolex nas you know it's just yes, it's arilics. 683 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:05.039 Yes, it's a relics seven one three, two, one two five nine 684 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:07.760 five out not giving away any gift cards. Yeah, we gave it one 685 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.920 last last hour. We got one more to give away. I wanted to 686 00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:17.000 talk about I do a lot of car reviews, and I don't like when 687 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.679 you get into your car now and it's one hundred hundred and ten degrees it's 688 00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:24.920 just nasty hot? Did I did I mention this last week? It was 689 00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:29.599 I saw this from early August that a man in Arizona was trapped in his 690 00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:34.239 tesla on a one hundred degree day. Let me give you the headlines. 691 00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:39.320 This is from USA Today. Arizona man was trapped in his tesla on a 692 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:46.639 one hundred degree day. Okay, what was the most shocking thing you got 693 00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:52.360 from that headline? Here's the most shocking thing. Why is it only one 694 00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:58.920 hundred degrees in Arizona? That's I'm a factual, duke had to be much 695 00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:04.119 much more than that. The point is, it's these electric cars, and 696 00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:09.639 sometimes the little there actually is, even though there's a lithium ion battery in 697 00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:14.880 the car and your car has a letter range, little tiny things within your 698 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:19.519 car. Maybe it's the door opener. Sometimes they're running a small battery, 699 00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.199 maybe a little twelve volte battery. Apparently that twelve volte battery inside dude's car 700 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:28.039 in Arizona was dead and he couldn't get out. Stand By, if you're 701 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.960 a Tesla or any of these other electric cars, there's there's generally a manual 702 00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:37.199 door release that you can use in emergencies. Win or if you ever buy 703 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:42.320 an electric vehicle, could you do yourself a favor? Could you I'm not 704 00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:47.079 a big reader of manuals, but could you literally take a lot of time 705 00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:53.360 and look at every little detail of how to run your car and what happens 706 00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:59.440 in case your battery dies, where the rip chord is, where the eject 707 00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:04.159 button is to override to escape the vehicle if your battery dies. By the 708 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:09.559 way, the emergency latch is found underneath the windows switches of the front seat 709 00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:14.719 if you have the Tesla model. Why but he was trapped in there for 710 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.719 a while. He got out, Okay, But it's it's little things like 711 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:20.800 this, and I hate reading manuals, Like if I have to if I 712 00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:23.039 have to read a manual, house something works, Odds are you're gonna have 713 00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:25.000 to read the manual two or three times And I'm not smarter than you. 714 00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:30.840 That's not it. But my mind, if a product is designed well, 715 00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:35.320 I'm going to look at it and I can quickly decipher how to use it. 716 00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:38.800 I get into a brand new vehicle every single week. I test drive 717 00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:43.599 a new vehicle every week. Sometimes I get two a week. This past 718 00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.039 week I was into a week. It rolls up in front of my house 719 00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:51.000 from a service. I get the keys, I get in. I don't 720 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:53.639 look at the manual. I have to quickly assimilate, and this is how 721 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:59.519 I review vehicles. Is it easy to find the on off the start button? 722 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.119 You laugh at me. It took me a good forty seconds to find 723 00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:06.400 the on off start switch on the Alpha Romeo that I had last week. 724 00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.119 It's on the left side, bottom of the steering wheel. That's where the 725 00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:15.159 on off switch is. Sometimes I'm porches there on the left side of the 726 00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:22.119 column when you physically have to put a key in. How the most difficult 727 00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:25.119 thing for me and I rate this, it's because how easy is the infottament 728 00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:30.320 system? Is it easy to nay? Is it easy to switch radio stations? 729 00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.840 Can you quickly lock in nine fifty a m KPRC see what I did 730 00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:38.079 there? Is it easy to switch from the navigation system? How hard is 731 00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:42.840 it to plant to program your Bluetooth, your kids Bluetooth in there. If 732 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:44.719 you have to go through two, three, four or five, six or 733 00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:46.719 more screens, screw it, man, that's tough. And I'm telling you 734 00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:51.880 right now, I've just I have not ever been a fan of Mazda. 735 00:51:51.920 --> 00:52:00.559 The Masta's infottament screens have historically been very difficult to sift through. I will 736 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:02.920 tell you this last March, when I got to drive the new Mazda c 737 00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:09.440 X ninety, it seems they have eased up and made it simpler to use 738 00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:13.920 though infottament system. So they're finally getting it. And I say this is 739 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:20.880 because this week I'm tooling around in a Mazda Miata. Yes, a six 740 00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:23.639 foot told dude like me is able to fit in a Mazda Miata. It's 741 00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:27.760 also nice that this new one is the RF. It's it's got a button 742 00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:31.679 that makes it a heart. It's a hard top, but it's automatic convertible, 743 00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:35.039 so I don't need to take anything off. It's a hard top convertible. 744 00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:42.199 But this Mazda had a little difficulty the new one of programming things on 745 00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:44.559 the infotainment system. Where am I going with all this stuff? But the 746 00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:47.280 point is. I review cars. I'm not afraid to tell you, man, 747 00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:51.079 this thing needs to be improved. I don't have a sponsor. I 748 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:54.559 do not work with dealerships. I work directly from the manufacturers. I'm remember 749 00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:58.840 the Texas Auto Writers Association, And I'm gonna give you the play by play. 750 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.800 And I have to drive through Kia's BMW's Mercedes. Oh I know, 751 00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.400 woe is me? I drive minivans. I drive two seater, little tiny 752 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:14.840 cars, just like the Demiata. I drive big MoMA SUVs, eight seater, 753 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:17.000 big things, the quarter of a million dollars cars or cars that'll cost 754 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:21.320 eighteen thousand dollars. I'm gonna give you the play by play. I was 755 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.039 in a really cute well, there's two of them. Let me go start 756 00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:29.280 with Alexa. I was at Alexis three fifty n X. It's a hybrid. 757 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:31.920 I don't get a lot of lexus Is if you will, because there's 758 00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:36.360 several differ companies who delivered in these cars. I don't mind Lexus. Lexus 759 00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:38.960 got better. Alexis used to have the touch had where you would actually have 760 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:43.239 to take your finger and change all the infotainment system. They got rid of 761 00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:45.639 that stuff in their newer vehicles. Now there's knobs, and there's buttons, 762 00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:49.400 and then there's other things like that. But Alexus three fifty n X, 763 00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:52.280 you are not bad approaches about forty five thousand dollars. I like the hybrid. 764 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.360 My neighbors said, I pull out. My neighbors says, is that 765 00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:58.079 electric? And I said, no, it's a hybrid. And this is 766 00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:00.800 a regenerative breaking. You don't need to plug this hybrid in, so it's 767 00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:02.719 not a plug in hybrid electric vehicle. This is just a typical hybrid. 768 00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:07.519 Every time you hit the brakes it it kind of regenerates. And I gave 769 00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:09.800 him about a thirty second dissertation. He asked me, do you like electric? 770 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:13.400 Do you like hybrid? And I actually like hybrids right now because I 771 00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:21.559 still don't love the public, our current America public system of charging our phones. 772 00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:24.159 I don't want to have to sit there wait thirty or forty five minutes 773 00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:28.519 and cross fingers that there's going to be an open electricity and it's at full 774 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:31.400 charge. If I'm driving from here to Dallas, I want to be able 775 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:35.760 to just quote unquote gas up in ten minutes. I really don't feel like 776 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.039 putzing around for forty five minutes or so. I'm just not there yet. 777 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:42.719 I think it's great. Electric cars are great as a second car if you 778 00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.079 have to do some driving within the cities. But this is a hybrid. 779 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:47.239 Hybrids are fine and you can get better gas mileage. When we come back, 780 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:50.280 I will tell you the other car I was driving, it's a little 781 00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:53.280 one, is relatively inexpensive. And if you want me to test drive something, 782 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:58.360 all you need to do is send me an email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia 783 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:00.440 dot com and I will try to get on my list of what to drive. 784 00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:14.480 Coming back here on the high Tech text and show less than thirty minutes 785 00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:16.400 to go stand by. Before the end of the segment, we will give 786 00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:22.159 away a one hundred dollars gift card to Benny Hanna a little Teppanyakisa Benny A. 787 00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:25.840 Hanna, several locations four or five locations in the area. By the 788 00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:30.599 way, brand new and Conro shout out to Conro our signal nine fifty am 789 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:37.119 terrestrially goes up to Conro, goes down to Galveston, and you could take 790 00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:39.000 us anywhere if you listen to the iHeart Radio app. So go check out 791 00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:42.719 Benny Hannah when I would tell you when it cala, remind me before the 792 00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:46.320 segments over to give out the number and we'll figure out what the color number 793 00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:51.679 will actually win. That it is Michael Garfield, High Tech Text and Show. 794 00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:53.760 We talked to oh so much about technology. I already went through. 795 00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:58.719 It's pumpkin latte spy season. If any of you guys and gals care about 796 00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:00.400 that. I don't drink coffee, but I like the pumpkin flavor and it 797 00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:05.360 makes me feel like fall is here. Don't look at the thermometer, man, 798 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:09.119 but falls technically here. If seven eleven and Duncan and kruspy Kreeme launched 799 00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:14.719 there, they're put their pumpkin stuff. Talking about cars driving, I was 800 00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:19.559 I have a twenty twenty four Lexus three fifty n X I was driving just 801 00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:21.639 this past week. I only get these cars for a week. They do 802 00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:25.079 knowing gives me a car to keep. I have to every week. We 803 00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:29.920 keep flipping and flipping and flipping the NX I had two last week I had. 804 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.559 I like hybrids. I like the old fashion old fashion. There's two 805 00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:39.159 kinds of hybrids. There's a hybrid that has regenerative breaking, which means and 806 00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:42.880 this is like when the Prius, remember the Prey Preus. The hybrid use 807 00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:46.559 Actually, well was the electric cars comes up? It was when you break 808 00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:52.400 it's and if you go back to your sixth, seventh, eighth grade or 809 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:55.400 ninth in your college of how you know energy works and energy. Energy is 810 00:56:55.400 --> 00:57:00.920 stored up. When you break, it regenerates the battery inside and it gives 811 00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:06.679 you more miles to go on. Nowadays, you can plug in hybrid cars, 812 00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:09.760 and you certainly can plug in electric cars. Plug in hybrid cars. 813 00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:15.400 They're called PHEV plug in hybrid electric vehicles. He have is the nickname. 814 00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:20.000 They don't give you a ton of miles like I was in a jeep p 815 00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:24.280 have. Maybe you got twenty miles extra. Some are gonna give you thirty 816 00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:28.360 miles. But a true hybrid cars you can it's gonna give you good miles. 817 00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:31.239 Yes, they still have a gas tank. I'm more of a in 818 00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:35.079 terms of practicality, if you have one car, I am more of a 819 00:57:35.159 --> 00:57:38.119 hybrid fan than I am an electric fan, because I still think for long 820 00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:42.960 trips you need to gas up. I am not putzing around and waiting thirty 821 00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:46.519 forty five minutes or an hour for me to charge my all electric vehicle anyway. 822 00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:50.280 That was my Lexus three fifty X, which I actually do like. 823 00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:54.360 It's good. It's a ROADTI, it's a it's a compact SUV, which 824 00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:58.760 is like a CUV, which is a compact utility vehicle. See, it's 825 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:00.719 you know, four doors, two people in front, up to three people 826 00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:05.400 in back. Nice little tailgate. You can still fit some you know things 827 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:07.400 in there. People in there, well not people in the tailgate. You 828 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:10.119 can fold the back seat down, you can get some good stuff, handles 829 00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:14.400 quite well. It is Alexis and so it's gonna be a little bit price 830 00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:16.079 here. But I also had another vehicle. I was playing, and I 831 00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:23.599 was playing in a new Buick Encore sexy little thing. Little is the word. 832 00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:30.239 This was the actually upgraded Encore GX Auveneer. Auveneer is the high level 833 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:36.400 finish on all of the Buick models. Uh, it's it's it's four doors. 834 00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:39.320 It fit my father in the front seat, and folks, let me 835 00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:43.880 help you out. That says a lot. I'm six foot tall, I'm 836 00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:51.159 driving. He's six three, and he's he's got he's got some growth. 837 00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:54.519 With all due respect, can fit in the front seat. Mom was in 838 00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:59.960 the back and we got did I put two others? I think we had 839 00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:02.719 three people back there total. It was it was a squeeze. It was 840 00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:06.639 a squeeze on this one. It does have some pep and get up and 841 00:59:06.679 --> 00:59:09.679 go. It's got a one point three Leader turbo engine. But because it's 842 00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:15.480 a small ish car, it's also a very small compact CUV or SUV. 843 00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:21.599 The power to weight ratio is still there. One point three Leaders is not 844 00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:24.880 a turbo engine. It's not the biggest engine there. And if you've got 845 00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:28.320 a very heavy vehicle, that ain't gotta get you nowhere. But if it's 846 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.800 a relatively light vehicle, it's got some good you know, get up and 847 00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:36.719 go. BUEX always has some great safety and security features, good connectivity. 848 00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:39.079 I do like the way General Motors GM, which is the parent company of 849 00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:44.400 Buick. They actually work their infotament system if you will. This has a 850 00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:46.920 you know this is but what was it about? An eight inch touch screen 851 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:52.119 information display. It's got all your you know, your USBC plugs, you 852 00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:59.039 know you're wireless charging and whatever price on the Buick, it's standard. The 853 00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:01.800 standard price is about the two thousand dollars. The Auvenir or everything else. 854 01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:06.880 This is about thirty five thousand dollars, is what I was tested. How 855 01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:09.639 much you're willing to spend for vehicles nowadays? I mean, listen, I've 856 01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:13.119 been in a two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars vehicle, if not more. 857 01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.000 For this is thirty five thousand dollars. This I would recommend. It's 858 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:20.679 good for Listen, if you're just out of college. Maybe you're in college 859 01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:22.920 because it's smallish, maybe you're in high school. I think a buddy might 860 01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:27.199 think. My best friend, his daughter has a Buick Encore. She got 861 01:00:27.199 --> 01:00:29.480 it when her senior year in high school, and I believe she has it 862 01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:31.360 in college right now. She's out in California. Hey, listen, it 863 01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:37.239 gets you around. It's nowadays. It's affordable. And I say nowadays it's 864 01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:45.280 affordable and Buick. I like Buick. My parents still in Dallas have a 865 01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:51.840 Buick, and that beast has been running for twenty years. It is. 866 01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:53.079 They've got it now buck bull. Yeah, it's not your father's Buick, 867 01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:57.199 not your father's Oble's Oldsmobile. It's actually not a Nosemobile. Is that a 868 01:00:57.239 --> 01:01:00.440 Buick? Yes, that's a Buick. So there's my two quick reviews. 869 01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:01.920 Go check it out again. I am not going to give you a dealership. 870 01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:07.159 I don't deal withal I would love to recommend a dealership any dealerships out 871 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:09.960 there who want me to come talk to them potentially endorse them, but I 872 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:15.679 got a lot of checklist before I endorse any company specifically dealership. There's you 873 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:20.039 know, I'll tell you what. There is only one automobile dealership. I'm 874 01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:24.320 not mentioning the name that right now because I know them. I grew up 875 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:30.039 with them. They and it's a dealership that has several different brands, so 876 01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:36.840 they do not only one manufacturer. They do. They have obviously they're different 877 01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:40.000 individual dealerships, but they're conglomerate. Their parent company, which is still goes 878 01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:45.639 by the same name, family name. I would endorse them every time I've 879 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:50.480 come. They are the nicest, they are the cleanest bays. They they're 880 01:01:50.599 --> 01:01:52.639 service people. They will hop out, they know you by name. You 881 01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:55.880 go in and you can get some fresh cookies, you can go get some 882 01:01:55.880 --> 01:02:02.559 some soda. They could not be nicer. That's the only one, and 883 01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:07.199 I'm not I'm not gonna get many free love but they're based out of Dallas 884 01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:09.119 and let you see if you can figure that one out. But anyway, 885 01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:13.760 I'm just I deal with the manufacturers. They don't pay me, and I 886 01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:16.559 can tell you how crappy they are actually how good they are. I'll tell 887 01:02:16.559 --> 01:02:20.039 you what you want to give away. Callum is reminding me to give away 888 01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:22.000 some Benny Hannah gift cards. Okay, I'm gonna give away one gift card. 889 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:29.480 Who's hungry right now? Benny Hannah been around celebrating sixty years same anniversary 890 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:34.760 as my parents. What was that? Nineteen sixty three, Rocky Aoky came 891 01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:37.760 up with the concept of Benny Hanna a little teppanyaki thing, several of them 892 01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:45.400 around Houston. Caller number nine hit me up seven one three, two one 893 01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:51.679 two five nine five, Oh, call them. It's up to you. 894 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:54.079 Go ahead and do it. It's up to you calling them A nine. 895 01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:58.719 Who's going to get the steak and lobster? It's good. One hundred dollars 896 01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:00.559 goes a long way over there. They got a great are too. By 897 01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:04.000 the way, got about two minutes before the end of this segment. Did 898 01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:08.800 anybody get any alerts on their phone this week? There was like a Amber 899 01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:15.119 alert or silver alert or something. I was at dinner and all of a 900 01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:19.760 sudden, everybody's phone goes. I yay, okay, it's good to get 901 01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:22.519 these alerts. And I'm not ragging on alerts. They're there for a reason. 902 01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:25.280 When I grew up, there was a torn in Dallas. There was 903 01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:30.440 a tornado siren. They don't have those here in Htown. If there was 904 01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:35.239 a tornado spot in your area, every few miles in Dallas, if there's 905 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.639 a tornado warning, I believe it is not a watch. There's an exciting 906 01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:39.840 of a funnel class. You would get this. Oh my good, this 907 01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:44.679 is the worst sound in my life. I mean, it was like a 908 01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:47.199 freaking air raid. But it served the purpose, like man, keep your 909 01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:51.280 head on this swivel, man duck for cover. Go in a room with 910 01:03:51.320 --> 01:03:54.719 no windows. Don't have those here. Nowadays, everybody has cell phones and 911 01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:59.199 if there is an alert you get, you get these things. They go 912 01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:01.840 off. You could see whether you know this or not. When you could 913 01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:05.239 set alerts, go into your settings and alerts and you could turn them all 914 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:08.920 off. You could turn some one and some up. There's national emergencies, 915 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:13.880 there's weather alerts, there's amber alerts, there's silver alerts. It's actually something 916 01:04:13.960 --> 01:04:21.039 called a rapid s OS and it's a collaboration with emergency responders and what it 917 01:04:21.119 --> 01:04:27.599 is, it's a it's rapids. It's like a connector and uses cloud communication 918 01:04:27.679 --> 01:04:34.480 and data analytics to funnel essential information, including your exact location, from your 919 01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:39.679 device to the nearest nine one one emergency center. So this is a different 920 01:04:39.679 --> 01:04:42.800 type of alert that actually goes the other way. So if an emergency, 921 01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:46.360 say you fall, I'm following it, I can't get up, you can 922 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:53.519 maybe press the side button or an SOS button or even cars, cars have 923 01:04:53.679 --> 01:05:00.599 crash detection now in rapids. It's it's a platfor them. It's free of 924 01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:05.480 charge to nine one one centers, either through cloud based software. It charges 925 01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:10.480 license fees to technology companies and other data providers and it licens it. But 926 01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:14.559 for you it's free. I mean, gadgets can save your life. I 927 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:16.840 mean I talk to a lot of people and they don't have any idea how 928 01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:20.760 many potentially life's having features their honor devices are your watch right now? Look 929 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:26.239 at your smart watches? I was I talk a lot about the Samsung Watch 930 01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:29.920 six Classic that I'm wearing. Your eye felt, your your what is it? 931 01:05:29.960 --> 01:05:34.519 Your Apple Watch it's got if you fall it can actually call somebody. 932 01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:38.199 There's a if I fall in I can't get you could you could tap to 933 01:05:38.199 --> 01:05:43.119 emergency contacts. There's a health app. It monitors your you could monitor your 934 01:05:43.119 --> 01:05:49.239 blood pressure. There are devices out there. Apple's health app is actually does 935 01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:56.079 a good job. So anyway, always do something like that emergency ss on 936 01:05:56.199 --> 01:05:59.960 know your Apple, watch, your Samsung watch Samsung. When I was at 937 01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:02.360 at sam and Soul, Korea, we actually met, says a doctor who 938 01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:10.079 runs there. Watch division if you will, because they're relying more and more 939 01:06:10.119 --> 01:06:14.559 and health. I mean you could check your you know your pulse and actually 940 01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:15.840 I should check my pulse here during the break because we got only one more 941 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:17.599 segment. I tell you what, I'm gonna take a Break'm gonna check my 942 01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:19.679 pulse. When we come back, we will wind up the show. We 943 01:06:19.719 --> 01:06:23.400 already have a winner for the Benny Hanna. Thank you Benny Hannah for giving 944 01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:25.920 away a one hundred dollars gift card. We'll try one next week too. 945 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:29.480 My name is Michael. Help me out finish, help me cross the finish 946 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:40.679 line. People. We'll be right back. Final segment, Final seven and 947 01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:43.480 a half minutes or so. I Tech Texas show. I do thank you 948 01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:47.320 for tuning in. I congratulate the winners today. I think Benny Hannah man, 949 01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:50.199 I'm a digging Benny Hanna. I went to the grand opening of their 950 01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:56.000 Conro location about a month ago. Forgot how fun that place is. We 951 01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:00.559 were there earlier this week celebrating my parents anniversary at the Whole Machine there. 952 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:03.639 And also thank you to Johnny Tamalies. Took the boys to Johnny Tomalies on 953 01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:10.599 Thursday night at Missouri City. Saw a Man. Reggie and Neil love the 954 01:07:10.639 --> 01:07:13.719 crowd. Man Good Happy Hour two two to six pm Monday through Friday, 955 01:07:14.239 --> 01:07:16.880 FM ten at ninety two. It's Murphy Road right near Highway six. Don't 956 01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:19.679 sleep on a man. That got some great margaritism free ice cream, brief 957 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:23.159 officer. If I didn't have any of that. Kids, actually one of 958 01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:26.920 the kids actually had that. I want to pay this off here meeting. 959 01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:30.840 I'd been teasing this the entire show. Forgot about this. We I just 960 01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:34.920 talked about some technology that actually is can save your life. These are fall 961 01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:41.079 detection you know, sensors on your watches, your Apple Watch, your your 962 01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:47.199 Fitbitch, or your smart watches. The Virtual Health has become prevalates. Certainly 963 01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:50.960 during COVID online you could talk to your doctor. You can look at your 964 01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:55.440 doctor and I guess they could examine you open up and say, ah, 965 01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:58.800 you put your mouth up to the camera on your on your screen or something. 966 01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:03.159 Amazon is getting into this business. Amazon just rolled out a virtual health 967 01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:08.239 clinic across the country and it's been around for a while, but it's expanding 968 01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:11.599 it. They launched at last November kind of as a way for patients to 969 01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:16.920 connect with tele medicine providers so they can receive treatment for comic condition. Maybe, 970 01:08:17.399 --> 01:08:20.600 but Amazon's been trying to break into the healthcare industry, you know, 971 01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:26.159 for years, some mixed success. But they're rolling out a virtual health clinic 972 01:08:26.279 --> 01:08:31.880 service. So they're saying it's a virtual platform for users to connect with healthcare 973 01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:38.439 providers to treat comic conditions like sinus infections I had. I had a terrific 974 01:08:38.520 --> 01:08:41.760 sinus infection in June for the first time my life. I don't know how 975 01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:45.680 they can do this online because the only way my E and T lady figured 976 01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:48.119 out I had a sinus infection, she shoved a microscopic camera up my nose. 977 01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:54.399 I think that's inversion eight coming next year. I'm not sure. So 978 01:08:55.880 --> 01:08:59.920 the thing is that Amazon doesn't provide the tele medicine services itself, but they're 979 01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:04.239 randing it as an Amazon Clinic and their partner going there never different companies, 980 01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:11.560 and so there it's now across all fifty states you can do Amazon Clinic through 981 01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:18.159 video visits. I've actually never I've talked to my doctor when I needed to 982 01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:21.399 look if I was getting on or off medication. I think two or three 983 01:09:21.399 --> 01:09:26.800 times, and I'm really I'm really close with my general practitioner, Buddy Man 984 01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:30.279 a man, so I might as well just talk to him on the phone 985 01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:31.000 cause I see him regularly too. But you know, we did a video 986 01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:33.880 because they've got a document this stuff. Oh did you see your doctor? 987 01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:38.359 I'll tell you what it does say, Tim, you know the worst part 988 01:09:38.359 --> 01:09:43.199 of going to a doctor or clinic or hospital freaking parking, Like I go, 989 01:09:43.279 --> 01:09:47.119 what it? It's just why are these hospitals so crowded? Because me 990 01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:51.119 and know my general practitioner, he's like in a hospital it was he used 991 01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:55.720 to Methodist or something, and I'm like driving around for freaking twenty minutes is 992 01:09:55.720 --> 01:10:00.159 longer than I'm with the doctor. So yeah, the virtual visits are fine. 993 01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:04.600 I just don't listen. I covered thee the technology in the medical industry. 994 01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:09.720 I got some more electronic show. Every single January, there's a whole 995 01:10:09.760 --> 01:10:15.000 another convention, wing center, wing of all the telemedicine thing. I just 996 01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:18.000 I just don't It's tough to do. And I talked to my doctor. 997 01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:20.399 I said, do you like this? He goes, well, yes to 998 01:10:20.439 --> 01:10:25.800 an extent, because they can fit more patients in and the doctor actually can 999 01:10:25.800 --> 01:10:28.840 do it at home at night or whatever, which is good. But the 1000 01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:32.560 point is, how much can you really tell through video conference? I mean 1001 01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:36.039 he can't take my pulse, yes, I mean I can give him my 1002 01:10:36.039 --> 01:10:40.359 pulse based on my smart watch. I don't think smart watches, with all 1003 01:10:40.439 --> 01:10:43.720 due respect to everything, including my Samsung that I'm wearing right now, I 1004 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:46.079 don't know how accurate they were. Actually I did a test. I went 1005 01:10:46.119 --> 01:10:50.479 to my cardiology. I went to eight cardiologists, new cardiologists, and he 1006 01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:58.399 was measuring an old fashion off with the ball. But he was squeezing and 1007 01:10:58.399 --> 01:11:01.840 squeezing and squeezing versus my blood pressure was on my watch. There was a 1008 01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:09.079 discrepancy. I mean, some things are still og old school, but listen, 1009 01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:12.239 this is what I do. I do. I'm not ragging on it 1010 01:11:12.239 --> 01:11:15.920 at all. It's just are we there yet to fully believe that e Doctor's 1011 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:19.960 electronic doctors electronic equipment is there yet. We could talk about that next week. 1012 01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:25.479 Other than that, I am having fun with my Samsung Watch six Classic. 1013 01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:29.479 I have the Watch six which was just when on sale about a week 1014 01:11:29.479 --> 01:11:32.319 ago, and that's the newest version of Samsung's Watch six. But they also 1015 01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:35.399 have a Watch six Classic and I like it at and t thank you so 1016 01:11:35.479 --> 01:11:39.560 much. They let me play with one here for a few weeks, and 1017 01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:44.800 this is the one where they brought back the rotating bezel, don't I was 1018 01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:47.960 so I don't know why Samsung removed the rotating bezel from their watches about two 1019 01:11:48.079 --> 01:11:54.159 versions ago. The bezel is the outer ring on a watch. And listen, 1020 01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:58.039 my Rolex also has a rotating bezel, which really doesn't do anything other 1021 01:11:58.079 --> 01:12:00.640 than you know, put the you know, the twelve o'clock or the timer 1022 01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:04.840 on a little but the rotating bezel on a smartchwatch actually has a very useful 1023 01:12:04.880 --> 01:12:09.000 function because you can rotate it from screen to screen to screen. So I 1024 01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:13.680 can rotate it between my blood pressure. What's my notification? Am I getting 1025 01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:16.279 a text? Am I getting an email? To Watch six? You can 1026 01:12:16.319 --> 01:12:19.159 take your finger and you can kind of rotate it on there. But I 1027 01:12:19.159 --> 01:12:23.119 still haven't got the traction yet. So I do like to Watch six classic. 1028 01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:27.680 That is it worth upgrading from you. Let's just say you have a 1029 01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:31.840 Galaxy Watch five I got. I gotta tell you the Watch six follows the 1030 01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:38.600 Watch five template. Overall, it's got some useful updates. I think the 1031 01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:43.680 battery life, maybe the fitness tools are relatively the same. I think the 1032 01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:47.319 screens are brighter and they're larger. There's two different millimeter versions of each of 1033 01:12:47.319 --> 01:12:50.520 these things. I think I got the forty seven millimeter, which is I 1034 01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:54.560 like, I like close to fifty millimeters. I'm a I've kind of got 1035 01:12:54.560 --> 01:12:58.319 a big risk. I got a big hairy wrist that they charge that. 1036 01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:01.399 I will tell you this that they charge faster. It's got ultra fast charging, 1037 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:09.319 and the GPS tracking and the health sensors seem to work. Well. 1038 01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:11.840 I've only had this for a few days. I'm still playing with a AT 1039 01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:14.720 and T. Thank you, but I said welcome return for the rotating bezel. 1040 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:17.000 When you're gonna if you get one of these things, maybe you haven't 1041 01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:20.439 had one. I'm a big Galaxy watch band. I thought I had every 1042 01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:24.600 versions I think since the second version of the watch, and I'm an Android 1043 01:13:24.640 --> 01:13:29.439 guy. But make sure you really take a look because there's about one hundred 1044 01:13:29.439 --> 01:13:32.079 and hundred fifty dollars difference. The Watch six Classic, which is the bigger 1045 01:13:32.119 --> 01:13:34.760 one with the rotating bezel, that's gonna run your three hundred and three hundred 1046 01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:40.199 and fifty bones. The Watch six little smaller, a little bit more active, 1047 01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:43.439 does not have the rotating bezzl there, you're going to run those babies 1048 01:13:43.439 --> 01:13:45.560 around two hundred I think two hundred and fifty. Don't quote me on those. 1049 01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:50.600 Your mileage may vary based on where you get these things. But they're 1050 01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:55.800 very good watches. They're great Android watches too, and they actually doesn't matter 1051 01:13:55.800 --> 01:13:58.479 if you have an iPhone. Use your iPhone, but then you look down 1052 01:13:58.520 --> 01:14:00.399 at your wrist. Just a watch fan, I'm just a watch fan, 1053 01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:03.920 and I do think of the Aten t folks, and also Samsung and Berlin 1054 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:09.039 Rosen for letting me play with all these watches as I use my Samsung Galaxy 1055 01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:12.680 Z Flip five. If you see me out I've got the newest version of 1056 01:14:12.680 --> 01:14:15.399 that flip phone, and it's actually a pretty pretty cool. Hope, I 1057 01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:16.800 answered a lot of your questions. I gotta get out of here. Thank 1058 01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:20.000 you so much to my man Callum for giving away some things, and everybody 1059 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:24.239 else who hung with me for the past two hours. Happy fall at least 1060 01:14:24.239 --> 01:14:30.479 according to seven eleven, Krispy Kreme and Duncan because they got pumpkin spice lattes 1061 01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:32.000 and all this other pumpkin stuff out there, and I'm actually kind of a 1062 01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:35.319 fan of anything pumpkin. I'm have everybody who's been a part of this one. 1063 01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:39.159 I do thank you for tuning in. Shout out to Eddie Martini, 1064 01:14:39.199 --> 01:14:42.239 to Mark Sherman, Brian Ericson, and all the people who sit in the 1065 01:14:42.239 --> 01:14:45.600 carpeted offices here at iHeart and Houston. My name is Garth. Check me 1066 01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:48.640 out, Hi, tech Tecan dot com. We will see you next week 1067 01:14:48.720 --> 01:14:59.079 right here, but right now, my show is OVA.