WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:09.880 I is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining US and the high Tech 2 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:15.400 Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items to make life 3 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.839 easier, some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might like. 4 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:32.479 Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan, three decades helping you make magic with 5 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:41.039 your gadgets. I heard worldwide on the iheartaredio add now your high tech Texan, 6 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:47.359 Michael Garfield. Which was the Saturday before Christmas in all across the land. 7 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:50.320 I have no clue how to rhyme this. I should have used chat 8 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:56.240 GPT two more shows before the end of twenty twenty three, our last show 9 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:02.280 before Christmas. If you are listening live KPORC nine a m in h Town 10 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.319 that is Houston, well I'll tell you what you've got. Well, depending 11 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:10.799 if you're listening live here in the late morning on Saturday the twenty third, 12 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:12.200 I guess you got about a day and a half. If you're listening to 13 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:17.719 our encore repeat at eleven pm a night, well you really better hurry up 14 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.439 because you got one more day. Michael is the name, It's called Michael 15 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:25.040 Garfield. Just call me Santi Claus because I will be working on Christmas. 16 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.239 I don't celebrate Christmas, so I am here for you. So if you 17 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.000 get something under your tree you don't want it, it's always fun to let 18 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:37.079 me know. Hey, Michael, I didn't want this fit bit, or 19 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:40.519 I got a bad stationary bike. Here's a TV, here's a phone, 20 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:44.920 here's a headset. Is there anything better? I may exchange it for see, 21 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.159 that's what I've been doing for twenty plus years. Hell, I'll give 22 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.200 you the phone number. I actually have something to give away little gift later 23 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:57.480 this hour or two seven to one three two one two five nine five zero 24 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.599 nine five zero. That is the station number on your AM dial here in 25 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:06.959 Southeast Texas. Merry Christmas to you kind of read and the entire staff here 26 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.360 at Kate Percy actually all of iHeartRadio and everybody for tuning in. If you're 27 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:14.159 not listening in Houston, good for you. Thank you for downloading the iHeartRadio 28 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.879 app. We do have some fun. What do we got last minute Christmas 29 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:21.000 gifts? Yes, you still do not even need to go to a store. 30 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:24.400 There are everything from gift cards to other digital things that you could download 31 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.240 and give people. But you have to be careful. I've been doing a 32 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:34.560 number of different interviews to some of my affiliates earlier this week about gift card 33 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:37.439 scams. I didn't know there was such a thing as gift card scams, 34 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:42.039 but things are getting very technologically advanced. These hackers out there, along with 35 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:46.400 the typical phishing emails and charity scams, and the romance scams and the travel 36 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.599 scams, somebody is trying to get away from Nigeria the whole thing. I 37 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.599 will actually break that down for you. I'll also let you know how to 38 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.719 protect your privacy for these last minute shopping deals and everything you should do to 39 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:04.560 protect yourself. I guess, data wise, before the end of the year 40 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:08.240 and certainly going into twenty twenty four, I've got that I got the best 41 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:13.919 cheap phone I have found this year, the best cheap phote of twenty twenty 42 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.199 three, and some other hot things that I will talk about. But I 43 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.800 also will take all your questions too. You may have some last minute gifts 44 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.919 or may out there be you may be shopping around. You know the phone 45 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.199 number you can hit me up high Tech text and h I G H T 46 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.960 E C H T e X A N these gift cards games. I'm a 47 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:34.159 gift card guy. If you if you know you, dear listeners, I've 48 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.240 been working my you know what off for twenty plus years, almost every single 49 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.840 Saturday, more than happy to accept your gifts. You know, I really 50 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:45.680 don't need a lot a very honored, bless whatever you want to call it. 51 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:50.120 But who doesn't want a gift certificate? A gift card? And this 52 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.159 is this is not a commercial. I mean, it's not an endorsement. 53 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:54.479 But I want you to think about this. It's kind of fun. You 54 00:03:54.479 --> 00:04:00.800 could tell you you can tell a good amount of about someone if you ask 55 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:06.639 someone if you had one gift card to any place you want, where would 56 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:13.360 it be. It's actually a good it's a good question for dating, online 57 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:15.920 dating, or you're meeting someone tells you about that potential person you may go 58 00:04:15.959 --> 00:04:27.319 out with. If they answer Cardier Tiffany's yeah, then I ain't my gift 59 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.040 card. You ain't gonna go that far. And I'm glad you're actually choosing 60 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:38.199 that over food and clothing. Uh So, it's it's kind of a fun 61 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.439 icebreaker. I actually actually create a board game about that. Choose your gift 62 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:46.680 card if somebody wants to give me a gift card. The probably most use 63 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.240 and the most joy I would get out of it would be coming from probably 64 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:55.839 a sporting good store. So let's just say academy here and around the Houston 65 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:00.720 area. I'm a runner. I can everyth three months, four months, 66 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:04.079 I get a new pair of running shoes, running clothes. I'd like tennis 67 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:09.279 shoes. You go fishing. I have guns, we need Ammo, there's 68 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:12.519 ut Longhorn, cowboy gear. I mean, you can always find something that's 69 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.879 pretty good. Stores, sunglasses, batteries, snacks, footballs, baseball's, 70 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:20.319 golf stuff. That's that's me. I'm an active That would, to me 71 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:25.000 would be the ultimate gift card. Restaurants are also nice to money would also 72 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.959 be nice too. Well, let's talk about these gift cards. This is 73 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.680 this gift card scam. You can get gift cards almost anywhere. Go into 74 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.079 a grocery store, go to your HB, go to your Kroger's, go 75 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.000 to a CVS of Walgreens and they have racks and racks of gift cards. 76 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:46.120 Restaurants online, Amazon, doort ash, movies, you name it and you 77 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.720 pull up, you pull it off the shelf. Physical it's a physical gift 78 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:53.120 card and you take it up to the register and then they they activated, 79 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:55.199 they scan it. You know, let me put twenty five bucks, fifty 80 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:59.759 bucks, one hundred bucks whatever on the Well, there's gift card hackers. 81 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.800 What they do. They could go into those grocery stores before you do, 82 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:10.240 and they could start. They can actually scan or pre scan the UPC or 83 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:14.959 the bar code on there, because sometimes it's actually shown through those little cardboard 84 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.720 holders. Now they're not activated yet. What they'll do is they'll wait, 85 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:23.720 wait a week, wait to two weeks, wait three weeks, hoping that 86 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:28.839 somebody is going to go in, pull that card off, go activate it 87 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.920 and gift to somebody. So they'll check it on a regular basis. Once 88 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.639 they see that it's activated, boom, they have those digits. They actually 89 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:38.680 can duplicate it by buying things online. Gift card scam. So what do 90 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.720 you do? Number one, If you're buying a gift card, make sure 91 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.879 you inspect that gift card because they usually pretty much come coming. You know, 92 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:51.519 they tape or glued onto a cardboard back or if you know, if 93 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:55.040 you get a Visa master card, they actually concealed. Make sure it's not 94 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:57.959 tampered with. That's number one. The other thing that I would do also 95 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:02.560 is this pull grab the one in the back. All right, So they're 96 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.519 hanging on the bettle hangar, and let's say here's a gift card to Chili's. 97 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.600 There's twenty or thirty of them stacked up, stackstack, sack sack, 98 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.160 Pull all of them out and grab that last one. My guess is these 99 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:20.720 scammers, they're only going to scan probably the first or second card that's hanging 100 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:24.079 out there, knowing that that's the first or second one to be picked. 101 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.959 Pull the last one out. They probably really don't care about twenty gift cards 102 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:31.040 deep into a Chili's restaurant. That's one. Always keep your receipt too. 103 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:35.439 When you go buy a gift card, take it up to the checker who 104 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.319 scan it, they'll activate it. They'll give you a receipt that you paid 105 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:42.680 fifty bucks whatever to put on the card. Keep that receipt because if for 106 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:46.639 some reason it doesn't work or somebody stole it, you could actually even go 107 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.319 up all the way up to the FTC. Man. I'm telling you what 108 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.839 I thought. I've heard of every single scam. That's a pretty interesting and 109 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:55.240 tricky, tricky one. But when we come back I've got more, including 110 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:59.240 what do you do to protect yourself in twenty twenty four? How do you 111 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.439 lock it down? Up and down before things? You know, you find 112 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.480 a stage five soccer, you just you've got to clamp it down, keep 113 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.920 your head at a swivel. I've got that and some giveaways, at least 114 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:15.959 one giveaway here. I'm a high tech Texan show Mary Christmas last minute shopping 115 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.480 ideas. Should you be in and around the Houston area. I know it's 116 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:22.120 open today Saturday, the Silvery twenty third last Saturday before they before Christmas US 117 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:28.720 coins and jewelry. I ten Katie Freeway just outside you know Felt the uh 118 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:35.519 the Loop six ten right at vas Voss they are there. They are selling 119 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.159 gold silver. If you need extra money, like real quickly, why don't 120 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.360 you sell your gold or silver. They have pre owned rolexes, they have 121 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:46.679 sporting cars. You could they buy them from you, you could sell them. 122 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.960 It's just it's fun stuff. Kenny and Matt Duncan, they've been doing 123 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.240 it, second generation. Their their dad started. He works there. But 124 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.360 it's fun. You hear a lot of people here at our radio station talk 125 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.240 about it. But I'm there once every two three weeks. There are good 126 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.200 dudes, There are dudes and there. You certainly work online too, so 127 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.879 if you're not in Houston, you can check it out. You as coins 128 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.639 and Jewelry dot com. They say happy holidays to you all, and go 129 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.320 check those things out. I am talking about scams. By the way, 130 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.159 I just gave you the gift card scam. If you missed it, you're 131 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.960 gonna have to go listen to this on podcasts right after the show. Phishing 132 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.440 is always scare fishing. That's phi I NG. It's called phishing. It's 133 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:28.759 when you get an email and it looks like it's coming from a legitimate company, 134 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:31.960 looks like it's coming from your bank. Oh, here's a logo this 135 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.080 as well as fargo. You click this link because you're overdrawing. You need 136 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.679 to do something and let me help you out. Banks do not contact you 137 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.440 that way. They'll probably tell you to log on to the website in the 138 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:48.919 secure manner where you put your username and password on their website. People, 139 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.000 it's really simple if you're it works certainly on your mobile phone. But if 140 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.200 you're on a desktop or laptop, and if you get a link, you 141 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.879 see a link, www, what whatever? Take your mouse, put it 142 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.600 on top of the link, don't click it, hover, hover over it, 143 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.519 and what should happen If it's a legit website, A little little box 144 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:13.799 is gonna pop up somewhere, maybe a little small it'll show where that link 145 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.399 is gonna take it. So if it says this is a link that's gonna 146 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.759 take you to Chase dot com, Wellsfargo dot com, and watch the spelling 147 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.720 before you click it, read where that link is gonna take you? Is 148 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.480 it really taking you to where that the words on that link say. It's 149 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.360 very simple to create a link saying hey, this is totally safe. We're 150 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.279 taking you to a very safe place, and then put a link that leads 151 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.919 to a porn side or there's something that can steal your information. Read that. 152 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.960 Fishing is very good. Charity is another thing too. This is sad. 153 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.360 People are people's guards are down during the holiday season. Oh, I 154 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.679 wanted to donate to a charity. A lot of emails going around out there. 155 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.360 Hey, this is our last minute push before the new year. We're 156 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.360 trying to raise money for the kids, or send somebody you know off to 157 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.679 a foreign country to meet their long lost relatives or ancestry or going to school. 158 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:05.320 A lot of these are legit, A lot of them are not legit. 159 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.799 If you get an email like this, you know what you should do. 160 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.320 Don't even click a link. Just look who sends it. Go to 161 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:15.639 that with Just go to open a browser and just start typing it in. 162 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:22.279 Type www, dot whatever it is. Look for donations, go directly through 163 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:24.480 your browser and type it in. Don't fall for this stuff. Don't fall 164 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.600 for anybody saying, hello, my friend, I have followed you forever. 165 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.879 I am in Nigeria and I am a prince. All I need is about 166 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:33.600 fifteen hundred dollars to get me out of here, but I will gladly pay 167 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:37.879 you tuesday for a hamburger today. Now, do not fall for that either. 168 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.279 Times used to be easy. I remember back in the seventies. I 169 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.840 was a kid, little kid, man, I just you know, we 170 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.039 never told our parents where we were, you know, late at night, 171 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.759 afternoon, we were just hooping it up, you know, son went down. 172 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.600 We would ride our bikes, drop them on the lawn walk in. 173 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:58.600 Parents didn't care. Parents don't understand nowadays. Man, it's this is really 174 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:03.720 special important rules for kids too, certainly is some of the things actually uh 175 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:09.399 let's see to protect your data, lock down your browser too. See, 176 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.399 advertising not only collects tons of information about you, but it's a big source 177 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:18.000 of malicious links and scams. You can use an ad blocker. There's such 178 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.320 thing as advertising blockers web. Some browsers actually have those auto exactly built in. 179 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.799 You can shut those things down switching to a private browsing or maybe an 180 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:33.320 incognito mode will block tracking cookies too. You actually could just just go Google 181 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.519 Search incognito mode browsing. You get download a browser. No one's gonna know 182 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.360 who you are. I actually don't use that because listen, I go to 183 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.399 websites a lot. I do want them to cash that information cash chach because 184 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.720 they know who I am. I mean, I have my spot. Like 185 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.720 if I go to ESPN dot com, which I go to probably twenty times 186 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:54.840 today, well, they know that they're gonna give you the Longhorn Scores, 187 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.240 the Cowboys scores, some of my favorite teams because they know it's me, 188 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.600 they are seeing me instead of going to an incognito But if you're doing your 189 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:05.159 you know, banking or something, and maybe you want to switch to an 190 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:11.480 incognito mode or incognito browser, you can also get another privacy tip for last 191 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.360 minute shopping. You separate log ins. It's very tempting to use your Facebook 192 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.960 or Google account to sign in on a multiple on an online account. I 193 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.759 see it all the time. Hey click here, let's sign in. Use 194 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.080 your Facebook or Google. Don't. I never do that. I don't want 195 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.279 these third party companies legit as they may be. I don't want them to 196 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.600 know by Facebook use your name and certainly my information to let them send me 197 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:37.759 Facebook ads, and I do potentially still my password. I use an email 198 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.960 and I have several different emails. It's very simple and very free to create 199 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:46.720 a Gmail account, a Yahoo email account. I have tons of I probably 200 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:48.600 have fifteen different email accounts. I put a lot of junk mail spam every 201 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.519 time I go in here. I have to remember the passwords though secure everything 202 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:58.120 to You may not think that a you know you need a long and unique 203 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:03.440 password. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you want two factor authentication if it's available. 204 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.559 Two factor authentication very simple. You log into a website, Wait a 205 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.480 minute, They're going to text you a code, a little four or five 206 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:13.799 six digit code. I always have my phone on me. Well, within 207 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:20.440 seconds I'll get a text I'll then enter that code on a website that's pres 208 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.480 It's called two factor authentication t FA. More and more websites, more and 209 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.080 more companies should be doing this thing. A lot of things you should be 210 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.879 doing taking care of all that stuff, including your health. We'll talk about 211 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.720 health in a second. One more thing, Everything you should do to protect 212 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.960 yourself in this coming year twenty twenty four. Maybe your parents, maybe your 213 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.679 kids, need to do this too. Update all your apps and and your 214 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.480 devices. You need the most current patches, You need the most current options. 215 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.480 Start the security checkout by updating all your devices. Look on your phone, 216 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:52.720 Go to your setting, Go to your phone, check for updates. 217 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:58.120 See the companies behind these technologies. They've done a lot of work to keep 218 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:00.720 you safe. It is your job to make sure you're taking full advantage of 219 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:05.360 all these updates. Look at your operating system. About thirty minutes, I'll 220 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.919 tell you about Apple. They just came out with another another update to their 221 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:15.679 iOS seventeen point two point one. They're trying to help you, they really 222 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:20.440 are. Maybe you want to get a password manager. Download a password manager 223 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.200 that stores all your passwords. Strong passwords. That's the first line of defense 224 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:26.759 to keep your account safe, but it's very tough to memorize and keep track 225 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.440 of them. Download a password manager. They store all this information for you, 226 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:37.200 this stuff. Change passwords maybe every sixty every ninety days. Do that. 227 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.159 You may want to consider a VPN, a virtual private network, a 228 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:46.039 strong VPN that'll they'll keep your web browsing private. There's a few free ones, 229 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.879 there's some paid ones. But if you use a VPN, a lot 230 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.000 of you. If you have an office and if you like here at iHeart 231 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.840 inter Media, we have a VPN that we have to log into to get 232 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.559 into our email when we're outside of the office. Your company potential and hopefully 233 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:04.919 has one of those, tell brokers to also you get to also companies to 234 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:11.720 stop selling your data. Stop selling because you're gonna have to really dig down. 235 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.559 You're gonna have to read all the user's license agreement. You're gonna have 236 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.720 to check a lot of boxes. But you know what, you don't want 237 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:21.759 your information shared every time you sign up for something, subscription, service, 238 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:26.559 site, whatever. Try to delete all this information. Backing up information all 239 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.240 is important. I've talked about this for twentty plus years. Go get an 240 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.519 external hard drive, connect to a cloud, keep all your data backed up. 241 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.080 Hurricane comes in, a fire comes through your house, it's gonzo if 242 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:38.960 you just have everything back this stuff up. Obviously, Yes, if you 243 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:41.840 have a hard drive next to your computer, it's it's going to do you 244 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.120 no good. It's also why it's very smart to go to a cloud. 245 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.240 Go to cloud to it just install all that stuff. Those little few tips 246 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:52.399 people just it's you're at home, maybe you have a week to kill this 247 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:53.960 next week or so, just just don't puts around, go actually try to 248 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.559 do some of the stuff to keep you really keep you updated, uh, 249 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.360 to keep your health updated. You know, I talk about health a lot 250 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.840 because I am not getting younger and a lot of us are not either. 251 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.440 Here's what I want you to do. Stand by. I Am going to 252 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.960 have a conversation coming up with a cardiologist. And this is a good time 253 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:15.319 of year to check many potential to check many things in your life and your 254 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.680 loved one's life, but also plan for twenty twenty four. We're going to 255 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.200 talk about things with cardiology. Yes, the new technology actually ways to help 256 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.279 track and better help you should you have any issues. But I found a 257 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.799 really interesting and very very smart cardiologist. We'll talk to him coming back up, 258 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:30.920 and then when we come back, I promise we're going to give away 259 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.680 something if you have a PS five, a PlayStation five gave around people because 260 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:38.799 I'm giving away a PlayStation five game. This is what I do. Santi 261 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:42.920 Claus hanaka Harry Michael Garfield right here on your C nine to fifty am. 262 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:48.480 It is the high Tech Textan show. We are back at it. It 263 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.279 is Michael Garfield, PEPRC nine to fifty am. Well over twenty years I 264 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.119 have been hosting this program, and you know what it is, my friends. 265 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.319 It is my job to give you good information, maybe answer some of 266 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:03.480 your questions comes to products or services, but also keep you updated of keeping 267 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:07.920 you healthy too, especially this time of year December, we're almost into a 268 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:14.200 whole new year and really kind of touching on some subjects to maybe give you 269 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.039 some incentive to give yourself a little check up, making sure that the years 270 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.000 about as healthy as can be, one of which is your heart. And 271 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.640 it did something near and dear to my heart because I try to keep a 272 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:26.960 really good beat on what's going on in my heart. And not too long 273 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:33.039 ago, had a really interesting conversation with a cardiologist here in the Houston area. 274 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.279 Has been here for quite some time, and it brought up a few 275 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:40.160 things that I wanted to share with the audience over here. So I'm going 276 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:44.119 to spend a few minutes here talking to doctor Katalin log In. He is 277 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:48.079 a board certified cardiologist and professor at a government medical school at the University of 278 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.559 Texas Health Science Center at Houston UTA Health. I thank you so much for 279 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.119 a few minutes of your time. Doctor. Let me start with this. 280 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:02.759 What are some lifestyle changes that people can make to improve their heart health? 281 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.079 Well, thank you so much for having me. First of all, as 282 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:10.720 far as life changes go, the advice is the classical one. You once 283 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:15.480 should lead in moderations. Should try to avoid animal fat and go more for 284 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.200 vegetable fat. Should try to exercise, nothing really intense, but constantly, 285 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.680 something that keeps you moving, and in the same time address the risk factors 286 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:29.960 that may be present, from smoking to hypertension, from high cholesterol to diabetes, 287 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:37.200 from some extra weight to physical conditioning. Other than that, really nothing 288 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:41.559 much else, nothing much else of that. You probably scared half the audience 289 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:44.759 right now, going, oh goodness, I'm really going to need to get 290 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:48.599 on a diet and Exercise program for twenty twenty four. But really that's the 291 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.720 reason I wanted to have you on this show, to remind people it's very 292 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:57.240 important. Speaking of exercise, how important is regular exercise for your heart? 293 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:03.359 I think it's very important because it provides several benefits, some of them which 294 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.640 are less known and not necessarily seen. Amongst other things, they provide something 295 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:14.000 called myocardial conditioning, which makes the heart muscle less prone to injury during a 296 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:18.839 heart attack, leading to better outcomes should a heart attack happen. Exercise leads 297 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:23.200 to creation of small new blood vessels which are now seen, but they work 298 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:29.400 very well in providing oxygen. In addition to that, it also increases overall 299 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:34.960 physical capacity in muscle conditioning and muscle tone and everything else. But for the 300 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:40.440 heart, that's the major benefit, growing new blood vessels. Yeah, So 301 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:42.960 would you say either a I should keep running or do some different types of 302 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:48.279 things, maybe swimming or biking right, Well, in general, the recommendation 303 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.160 is for aerobic exercise, which is anything that keeps you in motion, ideally 304 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:57.759 which is non impact running. Jogging is an impact form of exercise. Again, 305 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:02.400 doesn't have to be very into and somewhere in the range of thirty minutes. 306 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:07.359 At least five days a week would be sufficient. One very good example 307 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.359 would be walking at normal pace for five ten minutes, then walking briskly for 308 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.839 five ten minutes, then go back to normal walk, and then again risk. 309 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.240 So it doesn't have to be intense, it doesn't have to be painful, 310 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.960 doesn't have to be at the gym. Everybody can do it. So 311 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:26.599 hopefully that's just taking some of the scare away from what needs to be done 312 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.680 to keep heart healthy. Yes, yes, scaring you straight my listeners with 313 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:34.440 doctor Catalin log In, he is a cardiologist here at Houston. You talk 314 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:38.839 about diet. Also, what role does diet play and preventing heart disease? 315 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.640 I think the role is extremely important, very very important. Probably next after 316 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:52.720 the genetic makeup that we only inherit which we cannot modify. The dietet is 317 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.480 typically recommended, this so called Mediterranean diet, which is essentially putting an emphasis 318 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:03.920 on a vegetable fatra that animal fat, and on basically fresh fruits and vegetables, 319 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:11.880 very little red meat, very little fried food and so on, very 320 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.359 little fried foods. That's maybe a tough one here for all the Texans listening 321 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.960 right now. But I do hope they take your words of advice. You 322 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.440 know you talked about, you know, heart attack, and it obviously it 323 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:26.880 starts with heart conditions. Give us if you could maybe some common heart conditions 324 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:33.519 that people should be aware of. I think the one that's mostly ignored is 325 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:40.480 hypertension. There's a reason why arpertension is called the silent killer because it can 326 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:44.519 evolve for many, many years. Many people not having any symptoms, don't 327 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.680 even consider a disease, don't even consider it as a risk factor. Yet 328 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:55.240 it does lead to significant cardiac conditions and risks, and primarily primarily would be 329 00:22:55.559 --> 00:23:00.920 heart attack and the risk of stroke because it promotes athos carosis, the the 330 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.559 heartening of the blood vessels. Many people come in and say, oh, 331 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.440 my blood pressure is one fifty one sixty. That's my blood pressure. It's 332 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:10.480 always been like this. It's okay, I don't feel anything. Why telling 333 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:14.559 me you need to treat that well to avoid the complications that will surely appear 334 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:18.480 after years and years of evolution like that. The other condition which is also 335 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:25.200 potentially ignored and leads to cindact disease is diabetes or even pre diabetes, a 336 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:30.480 metabolical disturbance which is associated will increase the risk. And let alone smoking, 337 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:36.240 which everybody knows about and we all these insist on quitting that. I think 338 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:41.079 these would be the three main factors risk factors that can be modified by everybody. 339 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.039 Essentially, it makes sense hypertension obviously, high blood pressure, diabetes and 340 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.519 smoking is certainly these are things that I remember learning growing up and take some 341 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:53.400 of my health health classes. How can individuals doctor, how can they recognize 342 00:23:53.440 --> 00:24:03.039 the warning signs of a heart problem? Unfortunately they are not always any warning 343 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:06.799 signs. This is why I hear that somebody dies suddenly, and you know, 344 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:08.680 you wonder why and all that. More than likely there was underlying a 345 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:12.880 disease and it had been there for years. So it can be from no 346 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.640 signs whatsoever, the very mild signs. Maybe a little bit short saw breath 347 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:22.640 which is out of proportion to whatever exercise one has just dead has just done. 348 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:26.559 Maybe it's just a little bit of a pressure or in the script feeling 349 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.759 of uneasiness in the middle of the chest. Maybe it's something that goes into 350 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:34.640 the jaw, into the teeth, into the neck, into both shoulders, 351 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:40.440 something that's fleeting lasting only a few minutes three five minutes and goes away once 352 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:47.559 you rest. Typically all of this is in this buy exercise and doesn't appear 353 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:51.960 at rest. Not that many people have the classical engine out the crushing pain 354 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:56.599 in the middle of the chest radiating to the neck and to the jaw and 355 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:02.000 responded to niri ricarin. This is just very few people. Most have no 356 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:07.000 symptom, or they have the symptoms very mild like I described. Other times 357 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.640 they perceive palpitations and irregular heart ridden pauses, heart beats very fast written. 358 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:21.119 Others do not perceive any of these at all, again, which makes it 359 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:26.400 sometimes difficult to detect early, which would be the goal early detection of heart 360 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.319 disease. Early detection, which is one of the things I mean, you 361 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:33.920 can's That's what I'm trying to do obviously, chatting with you doctor Catlin log 362 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.799 and a cardiologist here. Early detection is just at least knowing what's going on, 363 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.000 which we appreciate your time. A few more questions, if you don't 364 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:42.559 mind, you said the word genetic genetic factors things that we can't change. 365 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:47.200 Sadly, are there genetic factors that can contribute to heart disease in what are 366 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:52.839 they yes, the typically the way to sess that is looking for what they 367 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:59.920 call premature atheroscuroses. That means people who have a heart attack or the equivalent 368 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:04.759 of a hundred attack caused stroke early in life, typically sixty years of age, 369 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.519 a little bit earlier for men, a little bit later for women, 370 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:14.079 but around that age. Beyond that age, if something happens in the family, 371 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:15.960 you know, in the seventies, in the eighties and nineties, that 372 00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:22.440 doesn't count as much, but early athros herosis and first degree family members or 373 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:26.039 other family members counts a whole lot. In evaluating the risk, we use 374 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:32.079 certain tools and certain risk factors, many of them are online, and they 375 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:37.240 calculate what they call the risk of Carriavacii events. And the importance that the 376 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:44.480 genetic component is given in this risk calculation is quite high. It makes sense 377 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:48.079 there. I'm going to use the word technology obviously, I'm this is what 378 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.240 this radio program is mostly about. Talk about technology. How has it improved 379 00:26:52.240 --> 00:27:00.319 maybe the diagnosis and possibly the treatment of our conditions compared to some decades ago, 380 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:06.519 two three decades ago. On the emphasis was on international approach, meaning 381 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:11.839 karrea characterization stands and all that the trend, and I shouldn't state trend. 382 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:18.559 What you're moving onto is the non invasive early diagnosis of Karya disease. Non 383 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:23.279 invasive means essentially two if not three methods. One of them would be simple 384 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:29.319 AULTO sound called an eco caateagram, and the other one would be based on 385 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:33.559 a cats CAN exam, which nowadays can be performed very quickly, very safely, 386 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:38.119 with a very very small amount of radiation, maybe with contrast substance, 387 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:44.480 maybe without the contrast substance called die popularly, depending on the risk of every 388 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:49.880 patient. These tools, and in particular the CATSCAN now has been approved everywhere. 389 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:55.160 It's in the American College of Cardiology guidelines, it's all over the world. 390 00:27:55.200 --> 00:28:00.319 It's perceived as a first line of screening people or the presence of quantatory 391 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:07.240 disease, even if they don't have symptoms. So this is a major change 392 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.279 that has happened in the way we approach Like I said, early diagnosis of 393 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.519 heart disease compared to only just a few years ago, that, yeah, 394 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.839 certainly makes sense. In the last question, I'm going to get you out 395 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.279 on this one, doctor, how often should people have heart checkops And what 396 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:27.720 does a typical checkup involve. I don't think there is a set schedule. 397 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:33.839 Care nowadays is personalized. Every patient gets his own regimen, if you would, 398 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:37.559 both in terms of diagnostic test used and in terms of medications and so 399 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:42.680 on. And it's all based on the perceived or calculated risk of carriovacid disease. 400 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:45.880 In other words, somebody who has a low cardio at risk is going 401 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.759 to get maybe an auto sound. Somebody has a high krdiac risk is going 402 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:53.319 to get quite a few more than that. When should you do it? 403 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:59.440 There's no set rule, but I think it's fair and safe to say that 404 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:03.640 beyond the age of fifty, also depending on the genetic makeup. Again, 405 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:07.400 beyond the age of fifty, a regular checkup, which would consist of a 406 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:12.400 physically exam, an electro cardiogram, maybe an echo cardiagram, maybe a form 407 00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:17.920 of cat scan, again depending on risk, would be beneficial and would allow 408 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:22.319 us to detect early conditions which otherwise could be fatal. There is people, 409 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.599 It is a gift not only from me to you, but from doctor Ketalin 410 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.720 log In. He's a cardiologist here in Houston. Obviously, our city very 411 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.640 very proud that you know both some of the greatest and smartest doctors in hospitals 412 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.960 here in and around the the world. Doctor listen, thank you so much 413 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.160 for your time, and I know hopefully you've changed gave a lot of people 414 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.720 some ideas really what to do to improve their lives, stay healthy and live 415 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.920 longer so they can listen to my radio show longer. Thank you so much 416 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.839 for having me. I hope it is useful, absolutely absolutely a great great 417 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:55.039 advice. My friends, tell you what, don't go anywhere. The high 418 00:29:55.079 --> 00:30:03.200 tech text and show continues right after this KPRC nine to fifty am, Well, 419 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:06.720 thank you to a doctor log in. I hope you guys took that 420 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.200 to heart. You see what I did over there, listen, you really 421 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:14.279 should check your health. I continue to do that, mister hypochondriac Michael Carfield, 422 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:17.519 almost all of this year. And uh, well, if the heart's 423 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:22.039 taken, I don't know if it's a good thing about I think the way 424 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.079 the world is this crazy. But I hope you do keep living because you're 425 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:29.799 all listeners of mine and that's very special to me. Seven one three, 426 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.160 two, one two, five nine five oh few days before Christmas here on 427 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:36.799 the high tech textit and show. I'll tell you what's actually getting a lot 428 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:41.319 of publicity lately. It's the second version of a product that I have seen, 429 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.440 and I actually had the first version. It was okay, actually I 430 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:49.880 believe I gave it to my son and uh, I've seen the second version 431 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:52.680 and it's pretty cool. But the publicity in terms of well there, I 432 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.680 guess the company's doing a lot of advertising, but the buzz is out there. 433 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:03.319 It's these Meta glasses, the ray band Meta Meta Obviously it's the owner 434 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:10.200 of Facebook glasses there. They're ray band sunglasses, but they you know, 435 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.440 they actually can change different lenses too, to make them you know, kind 436 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.319 of not in the sun. They go in the sun, they turn out, 437 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:21.680 but they look almost identical to a normal pair of ray bands, aside 438 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:29.599 from two little small cameras in the upper corners of the frames that flash when 439 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:34.279 taking a high quality photo or they pulse when they're recording video. And you 440 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.279 put these glasses on and they respond to voice commands to text someone, to 441 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:45.440 call someone. But the company Meta Zuckerberg, if you will, if they're 442 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.799 banking on them to do much more in the future. They announced last week 443 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:53.160 that the eyeglasses that they're soon going to be able to use AI artificial intelligence 444 00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:57.359 to translate languages in real time for people who wear them, come up with 445 00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:02.880 funny photo captions, help pick out your clothes. Pretty interesting now. If 446 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:10.799 they work as intended, I think these features they may finally push wearable AR 447 00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:17.240 and VR virtual reality technology into the mainstream, because there has been years and 448 00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:21.160 years of failed attempts. I mean, let's go back to Google Glass. 449 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:25.359 Remember when Google came out with these glasses. Was that eight nine years ago 450 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.400 or something? I tried on a pair of Google Glass and I there were 451 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.319 pieces of wire with you know, frames, you know, with glass in 452 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:38.160 them. Google is not an eyewear maker, but I understand what they did, 453 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:43.359 and they actually were pretty relatively interesting technology many many years ago, but 454 00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.279 I don't think the consumers accepted them. Consumers are like, man, what 455 00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:49.599 do you mean? Are you videotaping me? Are you taking pictures of me? 456 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:53.200 Where you know that? I don't know? And that happens with a 457 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:59.039 lot of products. Sometimes products are pretty pretty cool, but the consumers aren't 458 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:00.160 ready for them. And I know I'm going to go off on a tangent 459 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:07.039 here, but let's look at self driving cars. The technology for most extent 460 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:12.359 is there for cars to be self driving. But if you've ever driven or 461 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.759 seen a car driven by with no one driving it, it freaked you out. 462 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:19.960 Plus there's a lot of questions insurance, and you know, it's still 463 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.839 safety issues the consumers have not accepted yet. Let's go back to the glasses. 464 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:29.240 Back in the day, no one really accepted Google glass. Nowadays, 465 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:31.960 these things are pretty cool. And I talk about the publicity. I'm watching 466 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.799 Jimmy Fallon watching the Tonight Show. Anybody see the Tonight Show? I guess 467 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:43.599 it was Tuesday. A few days ago. Meta sponsored the segment and they 468 00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:45.279 gave every single person into the audience a new pair of these Meta ray Bang 469 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:52.039 glasses. As it was like an Oprah show or something, but then it 470 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:53.839 was it was really good product placement because Jimmy Fallon, he kept him on 471 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:58.279 the desk, and whoever the guest was, I forgot who it was. 472 00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:02.200 But they kept put on the glasses and having fun with each other, and 473 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.799 then they will take a live feed of what they were seeing. Because one 474 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:09.719 of the things that these glasses can do is they can have a live feed, 475 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:14.000 a live stream to Facebook or Instagram. Now, isn't that interesting that 476 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.760 Meta which owns Facebook and Instagram would actually allow it to live stream. There 477 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.159 are a lot of uses for this thing. And I actually saw these in 478 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:27.119 person at the at my eye doctors at my eye doctor earlier this week. 479 00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.000 Doctor Alan Panzer, he's over on Beach Nut at six' ten. He 480 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.840 is the eye doctor to the stars. He sells glasses, and he sells 481 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:36.559 these meta glasses. So for some reason, last minute, you better hurry 482 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.360 over today. I think he's even open right now today Saturday. He's got 483 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:45.000 several pairs of these meta meta glasses that you can get about three three hundred 484 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:49.239 dollars or so three hundred and twenty dollars or something like that. But they're 485 00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:53.360 all over TikTok. People are making these viral videos because you can now record 486 00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:58.400 things without holding your phone or holding up your phone. But they actually do 487 00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:02.920 look like real sunglass rate band sunglasses, and the the videos come out and 488 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:09.079 it's relative's pretty good resolution too. I can see it a practical use for 489 00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:14.239 me, and you know a lot of other people who do these, you 490 00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.679 know obviously in instagrammers. If you will, I open a lot of package, 491 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.199 you know, you have these opening ceremonies. You know, So what 492 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.000 I did, Jim, I need two hands free and it's very tough because 493 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:29.039 from my point of view POV, I have to hold the camera in one 494 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:30.519 hand while I take my other hand and I'm opening a package. It's kind 495 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:35.119 of awkward. But nowadays where you got your you wear glasses like this with 496 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:39.519 cameras built in. It's shooting your point of view, as we say in 497 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:44.119 the halloween industry. So now you're looking down at a package or you're looking 498 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.239 at something, and now you can use both hands to open packages and do 499 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:51.719 things. They actually actually work quite well. So that is neat. One 500 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:55.159 of the neater technology is version two. And again I've always said it's very 501 00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:59.920 tough to you got something pretty cool, don't get version one. You better 502 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:07.320 wait a little better way. I used to work for Microsoft twenty five years 503 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.920 ago, and we got the ability to download all of the software that they 504 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.119 came out before it was in beta testing, before the released. I mean 505 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:19.079 I'm talking to the early versions of Windows and Microsoft Word and the games and 506 00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:22.320 stuff, and there was it was bugs. It was so buggy, and 507 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.239 internally it was like, hey man, Bill Gates doesn't get anything right till 508 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:30.239 thest version three. So I felt sorry for his first two kids that he 509 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:36.880 had. But don't really jump at version one of things because at some point 510 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:39.639 the technology is going to get better, they'll get lighter, they'll get hopefully 511 00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:45.159 cheaper too, depending on what industry is. But I think that's one of 512 00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:47.840 the things that we should be looking at in the future of Hey, you 513 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:55.880 know what's wearable? This is a wearable that is a multi billion dollar you 514 00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:01.760 know, opportunity pivot to the industry. Now, VR headset and AR glasses 515 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:07.000 sales in the US they've dropped like forty percent in the last year. This 516 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.920 is according to Sirkana Data. I saw that on a thing on CNBC, 517 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:15.920 But that's because there's really been new products out, but the buzz in the 518 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.440 marketing put together for this meta glass, which I do not have a pair 519 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.880 yet, I may go get one, deucing to be pretty cool. So 520 00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:25.239 I kind of like that. So anyway, thoughts on that, we could 521 00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:28.840 talk more about that next hours. We're coming to the top of hour number 522 00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:30.199 one. I am at seven one three, two, one, two, 523 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:35.079 five nine five. Oh when we come back on the other side. The 524 00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:38.960 best cheap phone of twenty twenty three, the cheap Phone. I'm here to 525 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.440 save you money people, That's what I do. Also, we have a 526 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:49.400 giveaway saw the PlayStation five. They've sold over fifty million units. That's a 527 00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.719 lot blows away Xbox and everything else. Nice folks at Sony Entertainment have allowed 528 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:55.079 me to give away some games. I'm going to give away a game. 529 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:59.480 So if you're interested in winning one of those, suck up people, because 530 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:01.119 this is what we do. He's called the TS. You gotta listen sometimes 531 00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:05.119 over the next hour. Michael is my name. There is Callum read here 532 00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:08.960 on the other side. KPRC nine fifty eight m the final show before Christmas 533 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:25.880 of twenty twenty three. We're gonna be right back. I tex Is Michael 534 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:30.800 Garfer, Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining us in the high Tech Texan. 535 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:36.159 Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texans items to make life easier, 536 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:45.119 some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want Texas. Michael 537 00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:52.159 Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your 538 00:38:52.159 --> 00:39:01.840 gadgets occurred worldwide on the iHeartRadio. Add your high Tech Textan. Michael Garfield 539 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:08.199 halfway to a happy hour halfway through the show, the final show before Christmas 540 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:12.199 season twenty twenty three. We're just a day and a half away, or 541 00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.199 if you're listening on the repeat, it maybe Christmas. It's a happy podcast 542 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.800 day. I do thank you for twenty plus years of your listenership. Michael 543 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.000 is my name, Michael Garfield. It is called the High Tech textan show. 544 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:27.440 We talk much more about technology. We have a little fun our number 545 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.199 one pack with some Christmas gift last minute Christmas gift items. Yes, you 546 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:36.039 just still get your gift cards, but also beware of the last minute Christmas 547 00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:42.840 phishing schemes or the credit card or the gift card scams or whatever. That 548 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.320 is very scary out there. Also ran through everything you should do to protect 549 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:50.519 yourself and your data, you know, as you kind of kind of like 550 00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:53.280 got a lazy, quiet week before twenty twenty four rolls around. If you 551 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:57.559 missed that, well, our good friend Callum Reid here, he's on the 552 00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:00.480 other side of the glass Calumn. You're going to post this podcast here within 553 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:04.280 the next hour right thereout it so you can go to iHeartRadio and you can 554 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.239 listen to your heart's content and you can share the link so you can get 555 00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.679 more fun listeners. Gub it up. Maybe next we'll do it the next 556 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:17.719 break give away a we'll give it away a PlayStation five game. Saw this 557 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:21.880 PlayStation five and that's a good gift. But the thing is, though, 558 00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:27.119 there's a lot of people in your life who may already have one Sony PlayStation 559 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:32.800 five. The PS five has sold over fifty million consoles over the past three 560 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:39.360 years, estimated to have outsold the Xbox Series X and S three to one 561 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:45.119 this year three to one. That's pretty big milestone. And this is, 562 00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:51.199 according to Sony's figures, impressive figure because the supply chain issues they kept the 563 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:54.360 PS five in limited supply when it first came out, what was about November 564 00:40:54.360 --> 00:41:00.760 of twenty twenty. And it's pretty good. My son has a PS five. 565 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:02.159 I do not have a PS five. My youngest son is a PS 566 00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:08.639 five. You can do a lot more than just play games, stream stuff 567 00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:13.320 on there. Pretty cool. We're gonna get which which I don't know what 568 00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.840 game to do, tay. What we're gonna give away? You know what 569 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:20.159 I'm gonna give away. I'm not now stand by. Next up, we're 570 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:23.840 gonna give away MLB the show twenty twenty three. You know why Major League 571 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:29.280 Baseball. Very realistic. Four K. We're gonna give away thank you again 572 00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.840 to Sony Entertainment. I'll tell you which callor to be not now though, 573 00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.000 because this was a very big year in baseball for the state of Texas and 574 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:46.199 my team, the Texas Rangers, World champion. Very realistic. We have 575 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:52.480 come so far video games for those of my ilk my age, I'm gonna 576 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:58.280 throw out pound for pound without my favorite video game system in my lifetime. 577 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:01.840 Now again, my age, I'm in my fifties. I've been through a 578 00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:06.079 number of different systems. We start with Atari and then we can go all 579 00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:09.039 the way up to PlayStation five. We've been through Xbox, We have been 580 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:15.039 through all the Nintendo's Nintendo innes now now there's Nintendo Twitch. There's all this 581 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:19.960 other stuff. But for me, it was a relatively short lived gaming system 582 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.199 from the late seventies to the mid nineteen eighties. And they're actually still around. 583 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:29.920 I think they're making comeback. People. Do you remember Mattel in television 584 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.119 Boom? Sorry, that's my favorite. One of the first I think to 585 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:38.039 get licensed by the NFL, Major League Baseball and a few of the other 586 00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:43.480 leagues. It was. It was a really ingenious system. But it's just 587 00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:46.920 so rudimentary looking at it today. But you'd set it up. Man. 588 00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.599 You had to have a switcher. You had it turned your TV channel to 589 00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:54.639 channel three. But it came with these two wired controllers. Of course they 590 00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:00.760 were wired. There was nothing wireless, and it was really genius. So 591 00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:06.079 the controllers were numbered pads. Okay, I want you to imagine your cell 592 00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:09.440 phone. Imagine your cell phone with a wire coming out of attached to a 593 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:16.679 console. But each game, which was a cartridge that you put into television, 594 00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:22.840 it came with this little colored plastic overlay that you slipped in on the 595 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:28.480 front of that controller. So imagine slipping, you know, posting something, 596 00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.360 you know, pasting something onto the top of your cell phone. And if 597 00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:35.320 it was football, for example, actually just do baseball. If it was 598 00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:40.039 baseball for example, it had an overlay photo of a baseball diamond. All 599 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:43.840 right, So the baseball diamond, you know what a baseball diamond looks like, 600 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:47.239 and when you push whatever part of the baseball diamond, it correlates to 601 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:52.039 the number pad below it. So let's just say, obviously the catcher is 602 00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:55.920 at the bottom home plate, which equates to like the number zero, so 603 00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.320 you would and so you're never looking at the number pads. You'd just looking 604 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:02.239 at the overlays. And that's how it worked. And so the batter would 605 00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:05.679 hit, you know, a button, and then when you swing, you 606 00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:07.519 would hit a button, and if you wanted your your you know, your 607 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:10.519 third baseman to catch it, you would push the third base, which I 608 00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:15.239 think Corless said number four. I believe it really was neat. I mean, 609 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:20.159 I lived for this game, and I guess I'm in I'm sixteen, 610 00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:24.280 seventeen years old or something like that. I was so into football. I 611 00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:29.800 mean, I was the king of metel intelligence football. I actually had a 612 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.960 playbook. I wrote down different plays because I think you could punch in like 613 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.039 four eighty six and that was your play where the wide receiver would come out 614 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:40.079 and I would have a third to third down and short play. I mean, 615 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:43.880 I am not kidding you, and I would draw the plays. I 616 00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:45.800 have no clue. I didn't get into coaching. I mean, I was 617 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:51.119 into this stuff, but it was fun. Again, if my kids saw 618 00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:54.840 this, and it may actually be in my parents' attic, this matillg I 619 00:44:54.880 --> 00:45:00.119 should hook it up and they would spend fourteen seconds playing this game before they 620 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.159 would put it down, Like, what is this versus? It was hours 621 00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:07.599 and hours per day, if not certainly per week of us playing this thing. 622 00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:09.800 So anyway, what is your favorite? Tell you what where before we 623 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:15.000 take a break up here anybody, what is your favorite gaming system of all 624 00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:20.800 time? It again, I think it revolves around your age group. What 625 00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:24.320 did you grow up with? Seven? One three two one two five nine 626 00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:28.800 five. Oh, you can talk to me if you're too shy to call 627 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:34.559 hit my Twitter or sorry X high tech textan hi g h T e h 628 00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:38.440 T e x a n high tech textan, and you can tell me what 629 00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:42.480 it is mattel and television. You actually you know what? Feel free to 630 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.519 actually give me your your your favorite game and if you didn't play the home 631 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.119 consoles, yes, you could tell me your favorite stand up game. I 632 00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.440 know you used to put quarters in the machine from this pac Man in Galaga 633 00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:57.199 and Donkey Kong. You can go that way. Uh, It's just that's 634 00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:00.760 the fun that we talked about in It's just amazing how far that the technology 635 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:04.000 has come. It's pretty pretty cool. Michael's my name, Michael Garfield. 636 00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:07.320 It is called the High Tech textan show. Happy early Merry Christmas to everybody 637 00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:10.400 celebrating as we record this, actually do the show two days before Christmas. 638 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:14.920 We will come back and we'll give away a little PlayStation five game, and 639 00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:19.679 I'm going to talk about the best cheap phone of this past year that you 640 00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:28.960 can still go out and get. Stay by I Tech Text and show saw 641 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.880 this. I don't know if anybody cares about this. Anybody ever driven those 642 00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:37.360 electric scooters in and around these cities. These god awful They're the demons, 643 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:42.199 and they're devils that I do not recommend. I don't think anybody ever should 644 00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.679 ride some of these scooters. Bird was one of these big scooters companies. 645 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:50.880 They just filed for bankruptcy. Good for them. That company is once valued 646 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:54.880 at two and a half billion dollars two and a half billion dollars. They're 647 00:46:54.920 --> 00:47:00.320 still operating as normal. But there they were the trendiest thing in the world, 648 00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:06.119 and there were an iceore. They weren't so much. They never hit 649 00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:08.880 it big in Houston. It's just because h Town is really not built as 650 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:13.480 a city Number one to really be outside for his long length of time, 651 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.719 because it's so nasty, hot and human here but you really can't be Houston 652 00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:22.079 so big, and there's I can't think of really one dense spot of town 653 00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:25.320 that's relatively safe enough without the traffic that you can ride these things in. 654 00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:30.320 They were massively big in Austin. You go to maybe some of the beaches 655 00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:35.559 in California, somebody these other cities to tour. Anyway, my son had 656 00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:39.519 a horrific actually two of my sons actually had accident's one was a really horrific 657 00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.400 incident that luckily he is still around to talk about it. But I do 658 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:46.880 not recommend anybody riding any of these scooters. And so Bird now has a 659 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:51.760 file for bankruptcy. So you know, I just listened. I'd make me 660 00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:57.800 no ill will on anybody's job creation. But good for them because hopefully these 661 00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:00.239 things will be gone. That's just to know. By the way, maybe 662 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:04.199 some good or bad things as we wrap up Best of the Year, Worst 663 00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:06.880 of the Year. Let's go ahead and do this, because people have been 664 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:12.400 breathlessly waiting talked about PlayStation five PS five fifty million units have been sold three 665 00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:16.159 years, very popular game. The nice folks at Sony Entertainment reached out to 666 00:48:16.199 --> 00:48:19.679 me that they say, hey, Garth man, all you do is talk 667 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.280 tech. Everybody loves you. I bet you want to give away something. 668 00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:24.039 I say, yep, I say, can we give away a PlayStation five? 669 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:29.320 Nope, but we can give away some games. So they gave me 670 00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:30.719 a few games to give away. I'm gonna do well one here do a 671 00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:36.079 few on my Instagram and x so if you follow me high tech text at 672 00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.239 hi g h T E h T E x am, we're gonna give away. 673 00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:42.760 How about this a new copy. It's a downloadable copy, so we 674 00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:49.719 can send you a code. PS five MLB The Show twenty twenty three Major 675 00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:53.400 League Baseball Realistic Baseball Game color number nine. Right now, callum, sir 676 00:48:53.880 --> 00:49:00.000 seven one three two one two five nine five H two one two five nine 677 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:05.920 five Oh colling them nine because we are kp PRC nine five Oh callum, 678 00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:07.840 just kind of tell me my ear who's the winner is and we will get 679 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.760 you that. We'll do this until well we got a few to give away. 680 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:14.519 Somebody would give away another next week two at the end of the year. 681 00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:17.440 So thank you to the Sony Pepes, which is a very very nice 682 00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:22.480 of them. I will see Sony and many many other companies in about two 683 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:25.360 weeks. I will be at CES that is used to be called the Consumer 684 00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:30.760 Electronic Show that is in Vegas, that is where the mecca of anybody who's 685 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:35.119 anybody in the world of technology, and a lot of ancillary industries too. 686 00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:37.800 They will go out. This will be my twenty well other than COVID. 687 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:42.760 Well they actually stopped it during COVID. This is at least my twentieth year, 688 00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:45.519 twenty twenty one, twenty two years. I've gone out there and I'm 689 00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:50.639 I'm a jaded person. Whatever you do in life, I think you do 690 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:52.960 become jaded, whatever your expertise is. And yes, I have become jaded 691 00:49:52.960 --> 00:50:00.119 in technology, which I think is a good thing for you, because I 692 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:04.840 I'm not the guy who's got eyes wide open and going googga on everything that's 693 00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:07.480 released, going this is the greatest product in the world. You gotta get 694 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:13.400 this. No, I actually I'll look at it, I'll study it. 695 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:16.320 I realize doesn't work, isn't worth it? Is it worth the money? 696 00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:22.559 Who's it for? What? Demographic? Kids? Adults, teenagers, men, 697 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.400 women? Is it good for travel? Is it a home type of 698 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:30.239 thing? And so I am jaded. So I gotta say it has been 699 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:36.400 a while since I have been blown away by any product or service or anything 700 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:40.320 I've really seen at CEES. I mean, let's go back to the two 701 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:46.280 thousand and four, five six, when I first started going out there where 702 00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:52.000 flat screen TVs are. High definition TVs were the thing. I mean that 703 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.960 was. It was unbelievable. I mean, they filled the Las Vegas Convention 704 00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.440 Center with nothing but rows and rows of TV. They had Sony and they 705 00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:06.920 had Magnavox, and they had I mean just companies that are not ha Tachi 706 00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:10.119 Fooji things, the companies that don't even make or not even around anymore. 707 00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:16.400 Now there's what is it TTCL and all these Samsung certainly still out there. 708 00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:20.480 But they had so many TVs. I would walk down the aisle and I 709 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.679 would joke to myself, I'm gonna get a sunburn because there's so much light 710 00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:29.760 that is being displayed on the TVs. They were the biggest Greens. I 711 00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:31.880 remember the big Oh my goodness, I can't believe there's a fifty five inch, 712 00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:36.639 there's a sixty five inch I one time, I remember there was a 713 00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:40.800 one hundred inch that really I think they were selling it for one hundred thousand 714 00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:46.000 dollars back in the day. And you know now, now there's roll up, 715 00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:52.679 rollable, there's roll up televisions, there's foldable televisions. They are fun 716 00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:54.320 to see, but it you know, to me, it's like, okay, 717 00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:59.159 I literally can go get a TV right now. I can get a 718 00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:02.400 forty three TV. And I saw this at Best Buy for one hundred and 719 00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:07.599 twenty nine dollars. It's forty three inch. It's decent size, fifty five 720 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:09.960 inch. You can get a nice one for two hundred and fifty bones. 721 00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:17.039 I paid my first fifty five inch flat screen TV two thousand and three, 722 00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:22.800 twelve thousand dollars. It is now two hundred and fifty dollars and it's lighter 723 00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:27.159 than a feather. This is how fur technology is going. So what do 724 00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:31.920 I expect. I am getting inundated by emails because I'm registered and all the 725 00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:35.199 companies are out there. Hey, Michael, so you're coming to see Yes, 726 00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:37.320 come to my booth because you're going to see this, and there's a 727 00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:39.239 happy hour here and you can meet the owner over here, and I want 728 00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:43.800 you to interview this person. I will have a radio booth on site. 729 00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:46.000 I will be taping a lot of my stuff and so you will listen to 730 00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:52.960 me January January Saturday, January thirteenth, I will come to you plausibly live 731 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:57.760 from Las Vegas. The following week, I'll be on Great Day Houston that 732 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.679 I usually do, and I'm going to bring on some the I guess, 733 00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:05.760 cooler products that I'm able to grab to show you maybe some of the trends 734 00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:08.880 that will be happening in twenty twenty four. In terms of trends, as 735 00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:15.719 I mentioned last last hour, I think the augmented reality, virtual reality glasses, 736 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:21.239 like what Meta has doing with RayBan there, I think going to be 737 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:24.320 a trend. I think as the prices continue to go down, I mean, 738 00:53:24.360 --> 00:53:29.800 I still think three hundred dollars that's a relatively okay price for a cool 739 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.880 piece of technology that's got cameras built into the glasses. I think that's pretty 740 00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:36.880 cool. I think I'm going to see a number of those. I see 741 00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:40.480 battery power, wireless battery chargers. I don't see a lot of phone. 742 00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:45.280 Samsung will be there, and I'm going to one or two of their events 743 00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:50.480 or their receptions or private media parties there. I think they're going to show 744 00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:54.360 the new I'm not going to give out any trade secrets. But I'm guessing, 745 00:53:54.519 --> 00:53:59.760 let me put it that way, the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four that 746 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:01.960 they will be releasing at some point, I'm under embargo as soon as I 747 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.639 see that stuff, so I can't talk about this. Really isn't the phones 748 00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:12.480 thing. There's a separate phone, big international release. I think it's MWC 749 00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:15.000 that comes out. Where's that in Germany? I forget where that is. 750 00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:17.719 That's in February. And then every company Apple does their you know, their 751 00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:24.320 iPhone announcement what in Septemberish, Samsung does one generally in February, and that 752 00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:29.159 you generally folded one in July. And so don't expect me to come back 753 00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:30.440 with, oh, look at these coolest phones over here. This is just 754 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:38.039 more about wearables, sports, sleep, health and everything. It is fun, 755 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:40.920 it's it's fun to walk around and see some of this stuff. It's 756 00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:44.400 it's certainly one of the it's it's the mecha of what I do, and 757 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:47.079 it's a great schmoozing and get to meet more and more of these companies so 758 00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:50.480 I can play with their products, or they can tell me what's going on, 759 00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:53.239 so I in turn can give them to you. Then, speaking of 760 00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:57.159 giving to you. I think we have a winner of the PS five. 761 00:54:57.239 --> 00:55:00.840 Stop calling. We have a PS five game. It was MLB the Show 762 00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:07.320 twenty three and that goes to Jeffrey K. Last name. I'll just put 763 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.039 a K Jeffrey K. Jeffrey K is in pair Lansa. Thank you so 764 00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:15.119 much. May have time to give one more way this today. If not 765 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:20.519 tune in next week the last show of twenty twenty three, we'll give some 766 00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:22.719 more of those. Check out High Tech Texts and Hi g h T E 767 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:28.559 C h T E x A N on the socials and we'll give a few 768 00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:30.760 away on those, all right when we come back, maybe some of your 769 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:38.519 calls. Also some Apple news. There's another Apple iOS software update, three 770 00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:42.239 or four days after the last one came out. I'll tell you why. 771 00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:46.239 Actually you should download this. And if you if you bought an Apple Watch 772 00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:51.960 nine a few days ago, congratulations, you're the last person ever to buy 773 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:53.800 the Apple Watch nine. A lot of issues going on with that. Stand 774 00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:57.679 by, I'll tell you not that, Michael Garfield. It is the HTT 775 00:55:57.880 --> 00:56:05.920 High Tech Text Show thirty minutes to go. You could suck that up. 776 00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:08.880 People, can't you come on your bucket here for an hour and a half, 777 00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:15.519 gave away Sony PlayStation five game Who Knows, I may throw in another 778 00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:21.719 your question's final few thoughts as the Christmas Hour becomes Dick Dick, Dick, 779 00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:24.599 Dick Dick ticking around. Garf is my nickname, Michael Garfield. We've been 780 00:56:24.639 --> 00:56:29.280 doing this for well over two decades. I'd like to think we have some 781 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:32.079 fun. I thank you. I think everybody here at KPRC nine point fifty. 782 00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:37.800 That's am amplitude modulation that's in the Southeast Texas area, Houston based, 783 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.679 and now that we can broadcast around the world, I heartrighted. My son 784 00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:45.559 is in Australia right now and he said he tuned in, which is interesting 785 00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:50.480 because Mike, I have three boys and they never listen to this show. 786 00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:53.400 They know exactly what I do. They've been in the studio, they've watched 787 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.719 me record the show from home, the whole thing, but they actually never 788 00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:00.079 listen. The kid is God love him. He's he's my oldest. He's 789 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:02.800 traveling alone for three weeks in Australia and he says, Hey, I was 790 00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:07.599 listening to iHeartRadio. I heard you, I heard you great. Feel free 791 00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:09.679 to travel the world. Then you can listen to what's going on back home. 792 00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.360 He actually has the old one, the oldest one. He has an 793 00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:17.920 Apple. There are there are two of my three kids have iPhones. My 794 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:22.599 middle son took after me. He's he's an Android. He's an Android kid. 795 00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:25.920 I do need to make sure that both my sons and all of you 796 00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:31.119 know who do have iPhones. There has been another iPhone software update. If 797 00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:35.559 you already didn't get it pushed or reminded to you on your phone. It 798 00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:40.920 was just a week after Apple issued a pretty substantial software upgrade for their iPhones 799 00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:45.239 and the iPads, and they did it again. About a week ago, 800 00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:51.159 was December eleventh. Apple released iOS seventeen point two, and it added a 801 00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:54.320 few things. It added this new thing called the journal app, some functionality 802 00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:59.960 for cameras on the higher I fifteen models, and a few other things. 803 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:05.039 Seventeen point two. Whoops, wait a minute. A week later, seventeen 804 00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:13.119 point two point one. It's a security update, and it's it's needed for 805 00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:19.840 I'm quoting Apple here important bug fixes and is recommended for all users unquote. 806 00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:23.480 That's according to Apple. They didn't list any other security issues specifically, you 807 00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:29.280 know, to update addresses on the site but they pretty should you. Really, 808 00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:35.760 they're very quy on details. They don't disclose to discuss it, confirm 809 00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:40.760 security issues until an investigation has occurred, patches or releases are available. I'm 810 00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:43.440 not sure. I can't. I don't even want to speculate. But the 811 00:58:43.480 --> 00:58:45.039 point is, every time you see these things, a lot of people are 812 00:58:45.079 --> 00:58:47.280 like, man, do I really want to update some of this stuff? 813 00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:51.840 Some of this stuff you do need to update, especially when it comes to 814 00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:54.360 the third number, seventeen point two. Well, I don't know if I 815 00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:58.599 want to do seventeen point two because I really like my color of the background. 816 00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.519 When you get to the point one's the point to seventeen point two point 817 00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:06.559 one, seventeen point two point two, there's little tiny numbers I guess on 818 00:59:06.599 --> 00:59:09.079 the third decimal point. After the second decimal point, it's kind of a 819 00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:13.880 security update. So yes, go ahead and do that. Go ahead and 820 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:17.360 do that. Speaking of that, who has an Apple Watch? I do 821 00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:20.679 not have. I don't have anything max, So that's not a big deal. 822 00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:23.519 But it's not a shock there. Apple watches have sold quite well over 823 00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:30.840 the years. They really have. The latest was it the late is it 824 00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:37.039 the Apple Watch nine? Yeah, you ain't getting at anymore. I thought 825 00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:40.840 this was really interesting. It's made worldwide news too. Apple stops selling actually 826 00:59:40.920 --> 00:59:45.159 two of its smart watch for at least smart watch models. I guess it's 827 00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:51.000 at least for the time being, the Apple Watch Series nine and the Apple 828 00:59:51.079 --> 00:59:57.519 Watch Ultra two no longer available for purchase here in the United States. Apple 829 00:59:57.679 --> 01:00:05.119 dropped the devices from its websit site last Thursday and tomorrow, I guess December 830 01:00:05.239 --> 01:00:07.199 twenty fourth, as we did the show live here, they're pulling it off 831 01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:13.639 their retail shelves. They launched in September. Now why you ask, after 832 01:00:14.039 --> 01:00:19.119 three months they're pulling it out. Well, there's a little legal issue over 833 01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:23.639 here. The US International Trade Commission. It determined that apples there's a feature 834 01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:30.519 on the Apple Watch that measures your blood oxygen. They're saying it violated medical 835 01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:35.840 technology patent rights. There was a company called the Massimo. There's a medical 836 01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:40.000 technology company called Massimo. They had the patent on this. Of course, 837 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:44.400 Apple it's bringing its lawyers into the phrase, saying it it tends to appeal 838 01:00:44.440 --> 01:00:49.440 the decision to the federal circuit. They're saying that a pause on sales can 839 01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:52.920 negatively impact users who rely on Apple Watch safety and health features and whatever. 840 01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:57.559 I'm not going to go to the he said, she says type of thing. 841 01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:02.639 But it's an Irvine, California based Massimo company. But they accused Apple 842 01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:08.039 of using blood oxygen tracking technology that infringed on its patents. Now, Apple's 843 01:01:08.079 --> 01:01:12.840 blood oxygen feature that first launched gosh, what was that back in twenty twenty 844 01:01:13.599 --> 01:01:16.800 the Apple Watch series six. Well, Massimo filed the complaint back and then 845 01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:24.239 back twenty twenty one, and now Apple is also accused Massimo of infringement patents. 846 01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:27.639 They're going back and forth, you know what. But you know who 847 01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:31.800 actually can get out of this? The White House, the freaking with Joe 848 01:01:31.880 --> 01:01:37.039 Biden. The White House. They have until Christmas Day to review the ITC's 849 01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:43.039 the International Trade Commission's restrictions, but Apple went ahead and pulled it. So, 850 01:01:43.239 --> 01:01:49.039 by the way, let's recap again. The blood Oxygen app is available 851 01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:54.639 on the Apple Watch Series six or later the Apple Watch se That'll still be 852 01:01:54.679 --> 01:01:59.840 available for purchase if you want an Apple around Christmas or after on Apple's website 853 01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:06.559 stores. And then that's it. To give you an idea of how big 854 01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:12.239 this wearable is. Apple's wearable and their home and accessories. There's you know, 855 01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:15.360 things like that other than their iPhone, other than their MacBooks, and 856 01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:22.960 brought it in more than nine billion dollars last quarter. That's about ten percent 857 01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:29.840 of their total net sales. That's pretty big. So I love these features 858 01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:36.079 on watches, but blood oxygen. I actually went out to sea was it 859 01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:38.480 Walgreens for twenty dollars or whatever? What's twenty five bucks? I bought a 860 01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:42.599 blood oxygen monitor. Now, listen, it doesn't I can't wear it on 861 01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:45.320 my wrist, but it's a little tiny device that fits in my finger that 862 01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:49.480 I can put it on. I can check what's going on. Blood oxygen 863 01:02:49.559 --> 01:02:52.440 is important, especially during the COVID time. I mean, listen, I'm 864 01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:54.360 not a doctor. I played one on TV in General Hospital. Actually I 865 01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:57.639 didn't apply. I was on General Hospital. I didn't even play a doctor. 866 01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:00.199 Point is it measures the oxygen in your blood, which really should be 867 01:03:01.159 --> 01:03:06.000 I think ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven certainly that percent or above. 868 01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:08.599 And when this came into the forefront, we worried about it during COVID 869 01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:13.679 because when COVID came in affected their lungs, we you know, we didn't 870 01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:15.679 have as much oxygen flowing through our body. Man, there was a rush 871 01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:20.000 during COVID. There was a rush on blood oxygen monitors. There was a 872 01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:23.840 rush on thermometers and all of all of these things. Now they're all over 873 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:28.960 the place, but it's the same type of technology. I use it to 874 01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:32.880 show these things are effective. So a week ago was ago week ago, 875 01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:37.960 I was in Utah in the mountains. I was sixty four one hundred feet 876 01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:43.519 up, well over a mile high in the Utah Mountains. We're obviously oxygen 877 01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:46.440 thinner, and I brought my little blood oxygen a little monitor up there, 878 01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:49.920 put my finger in there, and sure enough, Man, sometimes it was 879 01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:53.639 like eighty eight percent, eighty nine percent. I'm like, damn, get 880 01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:58.559 me out of here. Then we hiked five to seven miles a day and 881 01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:01.320 I lived to tell about it, at least for now. So these things 882 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:06.360 actually do work. I've not really tried the blood oxygen monitor on a watch, 883 01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:12.960 but I've tried the beats permitted. I've tried heart rate monitors on the 884 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:15.159 watch. That's really neat to say, Listen, do are these things one 885 01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.360 hundred percent accurate? No, I would go in. I would trust a 886 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:23.000 doctor, but for an oh By the way as a baseline, if you 887 01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:26.360 use this, if you use a blood oxygen monitor, or if you use 888 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:29.760 a beats permit a heartbeat you know monitor on your phone, on your on 889 01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:32.639 your watch, well you know whatever, that normal. And I use the 890 01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:40.519 air quotes of normal numbers they're supposed to be. Now they could let's just 891 01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:43.480 say your normal heartbeat is about fifty two beats permitted, kind of like what 892 01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:46.679 mine is resting. Well, let's just that that's what it is from a 893 01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:49.559 doctor. Well let's just say my watch does it's sixty. Well, as 894 01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:53.920 long as it continues to say sixty sixty sixty six on my watch, at 895 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:57.440 least there's a baseline normal. But then seriously, go trust a doctor, 896 01:04:57.559 --> 01:04:59.840 which is one of the reasons I had a doctor on my show about it 897 01:04:59.880 --> 01:05:04.400 now to talk about getting yourself checked up part issues and cardiology issues in that. 898 01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:08.679 You see, I'm not a doctor on TV or the radio, but 899 01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:12.400 I actually bring the real things here on my show. So there there's your 900 01:05:12.599 --> 01:05:17.079 Apple Watch series. Final thing. I've been teasing this all show. I 901 01:05:17.199 --> 01:05:23.199 want to talk about the best cheap phone I got about a minute before the 902 01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.519 final break, and then we'll come back after this but listen. I had 903 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.920 a really interesting year with the phones. I got to travel to Soeul, 904 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:36.760 South Korea last July for Samsung. I covered the Samsung launch of the Samsung 905 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:44.360 Flip five, the Samsung fold five. Got to tour the Samsung manufacturing plant. 906 01:05:44.599 --> 01:05:47.000 Really impressed and actually to see another part of the world. And I 907 01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:49.599 like those phones they use. Those phones. They are not cheap phones. 908 01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:54.960 They're anywhere between one thoy to eighteen hundred dollars for those foldable phones. A 909 01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:58.159 lot of these fold this was this the year of foldables. There's a lot 910 01:05:58.199 --> 01:06:01.480 of foldables released. And I will tell you, Okay, I'll tell you 911 01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:03.559 what. Here's the teas. When we come back, I'll tell you a 912 01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:08.639 great cheap phone at inexpensive phone. I will tell you my phone of the 913 01:06:08.800 --> 01:06:14.239 year that I am using right now, and it is my favorite of mini 914 01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:15.519 phones that I've tried out. And believe I get to try out a lot 915 01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:18.239 of phones and guess what, and ain't got to be an iPhone. People, 916 01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:21.400 there's the teas right there. Hang on. Final segment coming on after 917 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:30.639 this. Won't give out the phone number because this is our final segment, 918 01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:32.239 so I will just have you listen to the dulcet tones of all the fun 919 01:06:32.440 --> 01:06:36.559 voice that I comes out where I give you some really neat information. Callum 920 01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:40.760 Reid listen. I want to wish you Merry Christmas. Everybody else here at 921 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:44.920 iHeartMedia based out of h Town, Eddie Martinez who runs the host show, 922 01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:48.559 Mark Sherman, Brian Erickson, and all the people who all the people back 923 01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:53.320 there behind that window, I have no clue what you do. What do 924 01:06:53.440 --> 01:06:58.480 you do? I know you do more than me, But you're pushing buttons. 925 01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:02.239 You're doing stories that it's great. From KTRH to seven ninety Sports, 926 01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:06.280 to everybody else that we have here at our eight restore radio stations in Houston, 927 01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:12.320 Merry Christmas to you. I plan to be here next Saturday. That 928 01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:15.079 will be the final Saturday of twenty twenty three, That'll be December thirtieth, 929 01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:20.079 before I take off to go to the sugar Ball in New Orleans to cover 930 01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:26.480 the University of Texas Longhorns. Can that team do it to get to Houston 931 01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:29.639 the next week for the Natty? We shall see so fun sports, a 932 01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:31.679 lot of bowl games coming up. We also, whatever you do get for 933 01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:35.880 Christmas next week, it's the it's the fun show where you call in and 934 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:41.280 you go, I hate what I got for Christmas? Michael, I got 935 01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:44.000 this headphone? Are these the right headphones? They don't fit me? Give 936 01:07:44.039 --> 01:07:46.039 me another idea. I need to return these. What do you suggest? 937 01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:53.199 It's the Return Suggestion edition of the High Tech Texting Show. Generally an annual 938 01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:57.559 fun event. Pull up some hot chocolate, Missile, and we will sit 939 01:07:57.639 --> 01:08:01.440 down together and have some fun. Next week we do this shizzo. All 940 01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:06.000 right, let's talk phones, best cheap phones. Let's talk about some cheap 941 01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:10.880 phones. Phones got very expensive. Phones are very expensive, but those are 942 01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:15.520 the only phones you mostly hear about. There actually are some relativetively affordable phones. 943 01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:18.600 I've seen phones that start around one hundred and sixty dollars or so, 944 01:08:19.279 --> 01:08:24.880 and they're not bad whatsoever. The best cheap phones in the market market. 945 01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:29.640 They do offer a lot of the smartphone essentials, but you don't have to 946 01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:33.039 pay that big price tag. Of all the flagship competitors, I say flagship 947 01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:38.199 like right now, let's look at Samsung. Samsung's flagship phone, the Galaxy 948 01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:45.079 S twenty three, the iPhone fifteen, the more advanced models. Okay, 949 01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:49.520 I'm gonna call it mid price five hundred dollars the upper ends of those flagships. 950 01:08:49.560 --> 01:08:53.319 Yeah, they're one thousand dollars eighteen hundred dollars for the foldable phones. 951 01:08:54.399 --> 01:08:57.079 But there's some cheap phones and one of the best ones out there. Let's 952 01:08:57.079 --> 01:09:00.359 call it the best cheap phone of this past year going into this year, 953 01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:03.840 Google Pixel. Now Google, Google makes phones, well, they don't make 954 01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:06.800 it, but they brand their own phones. Google Pixel is a very solid 955 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:12.720 phone, good camera, the model that's relatively it's a endless I'm also gonna 956 01:09:12.760 --> 01:09:18.920 kind of concur with c net dot com the Google Pixel six A six A 957 01:09:19.119 --> 01:09:25.920 the letter A six A best cheap phone of the year three hundred and forty 958 01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:30.319 nine dollars because a lot of the features, like a top of the line 959 01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:35.800 camera, a fast processor, years worth of software support with upgrades, they're 960 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:43.720 all included. And the six A from Pixel they do provide a lot for 961 01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:47.239 a lot less. Now you can look at Google's Pixel seven A that's about 962 01:09:47.399 --> 01:09:51.800 five hundred dollars. It's a pretty good value. But the six A still 963 01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:57.640 takes some good photos for its price, neat design, neat features in the 964 01:09:57.760 --> 01:10:02.199 software photo editing. There you go, good value, good Android phone. 965 01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:09.800 The Google Pixel six a Yes, you're gonna sacrifice maybe a few things. 966 01:10:10.800 --> 01:10:15.319 Maybe the video quality isn't good as the still photos, maybe the display is 967 01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:18.000 not as bright as the others. But it's it's very nice, it said 968 01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:21.079 three hundred and forty nine. It's certainly worth it. If you're looking for 969 01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:28.079 I'm gonna use the word affordable, the most affordable iPhone, and I'll give 970 01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:30.399 this. This is this, according to c net dot com, most affordable 971 01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:36.239 iPhone, the Apple iPhone SE that came out in twenty twenty two. It's 972 01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:40.760 kind of a mix of an older design, It's got some new smartphone features, 973 01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:44.520 good chip support, five G support, four hundred and twenty nine bones. 974 01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:45.760 You get that at Apple. Not bad for an Apple. If you 975 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:47.840 want, oh, I have to have an iPhone, well, you know 976 01:10:47.920 --> 01:10:50.760 what, you don't need to go out and get the iPhone fifteen or the 977 01:10:50.840 --> 01:10:55.760 Max and the Pro. Feel free to settle in for you know, one 978 01:10:55.880 --> 01:10:59.920 or two years behind. But let's look at last year, the twenty twenty 979 01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:03.359 to the iPhone se. That is the most affordable iPhone. If you're looking 980 01:11:03.399 --> 01:11:12.079 for something that other phones to consider six hundred dollars the iPhone thirteen. It's 981 01:11:12.159 --> 01:11:16.119 not I wouldn't consider that cheap. But you compare it to the fourteen fifteen, 982 01:11:16.159 --> 01:11:20.680 the fifteen pro Yes, the iPhone thirteen is very cheap. I think 983 01:11:20.720 --> 01:11:27.760 the iPhone thirteen it's a good Apple phone, typical six point one inch screen, 984 01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:30.119 good rear cameras, dual real cameras, good battery life. And still 985 01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:34.479 look at that. Listen, it gets confusing. How do you buy these 986 01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:38.039 good cheap phones? Number one? Would you try it before you buy it? 987 01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:42.239 Try to walk into a store. Hold it is it heavy? Is 988 01:11:42.279 --> 01:11:44.880 it light? Does it fit your purse? Does it fit youre? What 989 01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:47.479 is it fit in your pocket? You also have decide whether you want the 990 01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:51.640 android phone. Do you want an iPhone? What apps do you have? 991 01:11:53.960 --> 01:11:57.199 I listen as big of as an Android guy I am. I am never 992 01:11:57.279 --> 01:12:00.439 going to try to convince someone to come over to the Android side. I'm 993 01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:03.920 never gonna have an argument with Apple fanboy because I will lose. Okay, 994 01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:09.479 you do you, I do me. But I know that seventy plus seventy 995 01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:13.319 five percent of the world, and I'm gonna say in the world's operating system 996 01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:17.079 they use Android. Fact, there's a lot of iPhones. But let me 997 01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:20.319 help you out. You look at all the phones, all the manufacturers, 998 01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:26.760 from Samsung to Google, to Motorola to LGED, but they all use Android 999 01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:31.000 versus one company uses iOS, which is Apple. That's why there's more Android 1000 01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:34.279 software out there in the world, and I do. That's why I talk 1001 01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:36.439 about Android a lot. I want to talk to the masses out there. 1002 01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:41.000 Also. Pick the most important feature. What's important to you? Is it 1003 01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:43.319 the screen size? You want a big phone, you want a small phone. 1004 01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:46.760 Is camera quality awesome to you? You want better battery of life? 1005 01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:51.439 Those are going to help narrow your choices. And with that I will name 1006 01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:58.359 my favorite phone of the year. And for years, I cannot remember the 1007 01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:04.119 last time I picked a non on Samsung phone as my favorite phone of the 1008 01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:08.720 year. I always don't go for the flagship phones. It's not like I 1009 01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:12.279 have to have ooh, the Galaxy S twenty three, the S twenty two, 1010 01:13:12.600 --> 01:13:15.840 the S twenty one, any of those stuff. Sometimes the flips I 1011 01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:18.760 think I love flip phones. I love the I love the form factor of 1012 01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:23.520 the flip phones because they're relatively small. I think the fold phones they fold 1013 01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:26.520 out, they're great become they come like a little tablet, a little fablet. 1014 01:13:26.760 --> 01:13:30.399 Sometimes they're a little heavy. Twenty twenty three. Michael Garfield, The 1015 01:13:30.439 --> 01:13:35.920 High Tech textan show My Favorite phone not a Samsung My Favorite phone. Was 1016 01:13:36.000 --> 01:13:40.800 able to get one of these to try in September, about a month before 1017 01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:43.479 they were even released. I had to keep my mouth shut. If you 1018 01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:46.399 see me walking around, ask me and tell me to show you excuse me 1019 01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:50.039 while I whip this out the phone I am caring. I am carrying a 1020 01:13:50.119 --> 01:13:57.000 phone from a company called one plus. It is the one plus Open. 1021 01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:02.960 It is a foldable phone. It is relatively light, certainly lighter than the 1022 01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:09.439 Galaxy five fold phone. It is form factor when you hold in your hand. 1023 01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:12.720 It is about a typical size of any iPhone or any other phone that 1024 01:14:12.800 --> 01:14:15.920 you have. But voila. The panels are thin enough you open it up 1025 01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:19.640 like a book. Now you can sit there and almost watch television. You 1026 01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:24.840 can have a little tablet type size type of thing. I think the software 1027 01:14:25.079 --> 01:14:30.159 is good. It runs a different software than a typical Android software because Google 1028 01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:34.199 one one plus makes it. I wasn't too familiar with the company. They 1029 01:14:34.279 --> 01:14:39.159 have been around for a while. They are out of China. They are 1030 01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:43.039 not cheap. This one is about eighteen hundred dollars. It's got a feature 1031 01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:46.640 I don't like. There is no wireless charging on this thing, but when 1032 01:14:46.680 --> 01:14:50.439 you do plug it in to charge it, it has got a rapid charger 1033 01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:54.640 that comes with it, and so this thing can fire up full blown in 1034 01:14:54.720 --> 01:15:00.239 about twenty to forty minutes or so. One plus Open that is what it's 1035 01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:03.199 called. You do have to order it, I believe online. Go to 1036 01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:08.239 n E plus. This is not an endorsement whatsoever. I wish they would 1037 01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:10.800 pay me, but nope, OnePlus dot com and I think you can go 1038 01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:13.159 to Best Buy. I do not think you can go to any of the 1039 01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:15.960 carriers, the verizons of the AT and T S or the T mobile stores 1040 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:18.319 to get it, but they do. They are unlocked, and so you 1041 01:15:18.359 --> 01:15:23.680 could put it on any of the services. There it goes my favorite phone. 1042 01:15:23.800 --> 01:15:26.640 And with that, let's start widening this thing down. I do wish 1043 01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:35.439 everybody Mary Christmas. Do you ho ho ho. I'll see you next year. 1044 01:15:35.560 --> 01:15:40.039 Wax upbe we'll talk to you next week before we turn the calendar on. 1045 01:15:40.119 --> 01:15:43.079 Behalf of everybody who has been a part of this show, including you, 1046 01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:45.960 my man Callum read. Thank you guys so much. Be safe, 1047 01:15:46.079 --> 01:15:49.039 enjoy the family, and we'll talk to you next week where you can rag 1048 01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:54.600 on all the bad photos and the bad family stories you had to endure this 1049 01:15:54.760 --> 01:15:58.760 Christmas season as we ride into twenty twenty four. Thank you so much. 1050 01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:00.960 My name is Michael the High Tech Text and Show, and right now my 1051 01:16:01.159 --> 01:16:04.319 Christmas Special is over.