WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.400 Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:15.720 Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items to make life easier, 3 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:25.679 some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael 4 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:32.719 Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your 5 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:41.799 gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio add now your high tech Texan, Michael 6 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.280 Garfield. Well, after this busy week, Now what do we do? 7 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:50.359 We have a super Bowl hangover, the Valentine's Day hangover. If you're in 8 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.280 the Houston area. Guess what. Get the boots polished, get the hat 9 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.520 ready to roll because it is almost Rodeo time. The cook office next week 10 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:03.879 airs so much to do every February is just why does it we gain? 11 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.000 I know, I gain so much weight, well not so much weight. 12 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.799 But it's a tough month. Am I complaining? No? Not really, 13 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:14.920 because they still have a job to do. But part of my job and 14 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.760 with the with air quotes, I get to go out and sample a lot 15 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:22.159 of food and and I you know, drink a lot of things and just 16 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:23.920 and I do it because I'm a reviewer and This is why you listen to 17 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:30.200 my show, because I have to go through all the nasty crap that you 18 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:34.280 don't want to taste, all the yummy stuff that I can recommend. People 19 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:36.599 think, Oh, how come you don't wait three hundred dollars, Well no, 20 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:42.359 this Actually I would love a sponsorship Biozimpic or zep bound will go be 21 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.519 somebody, No, no, no, I have to run it off actually 22 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:48.519 to have to do physical labor and I just sample a little bit. So 23 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:52.200 we'll talk about that later because we have so much other things to talk about 24 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.920 in such a short amount of time. You know, I'm a massive sports 25 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:00.519 fan. I was in Las Vegas last week a lot of the Super Bowl 26 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:04.719 events. It was just a ball. We've got pitchers and catchers reporting so 27 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.120 many things in the world of sports, but sometimes they bite you in the 28 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:12.120 butt. Because today a very short, high tech text and show. We 29 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.520 are out of here at forty five minutes after the hour because we have to 30 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:22.039 make way for the University of Houston Cougars and my University of Texas Longhorns basketball 31 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.439 game which is being played right here in Houston. We will pick that up. 32 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:30.759 Because KPRC Radio, we are the official besketball flagship, I guess partners 33 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:35.680 of the University of Houston Cougars. So you've got a really quick time to 34 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.240 pick up the phone, get on your email, get on your little social 35 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:43.680 media and talk to me. Answer. I am here to ask answer your 36 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.400 questions whatever you need, almost for anything, as long as it's not politics, 37 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:52.560 Alreny world history. I am your guy. Seven one three two one 38 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.919 two five nine five zero two one two five nine five zero. There is 39 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.960 Calum over here. He is manning the phones. You can also find me 40 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.120 a high tech texts and spell the whole thing out on x on Instagram, 41 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.639 Facebook, you can buy me on Michael Garfield and of course high tech textan 42 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:12.039 dot com. How did you watch the Super Bowl? Did you like the 43 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:16.120 game? Everybody? It was a good game. I ended up, I 44 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:22.199 think overall because I was in Vegas, where you legally can place bets on 45 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:27.479 games. I think I came out a little behind on the bets. And 46 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.599 I knew I was a Kansas City fan, and I bet Kansas City plus 47 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:32.319 two and a half, which they did? You want to? And this 48 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:36.800 is why I shouldn't bet. And I'm going to get into the more technical, 49 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.400 technological fun stuff up, but hear me out. The over under was 50 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:44.080 forty seven and a half points. It was a very slow game. I 51 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.960 took the over because I'm an optimist. Optimists, you know, the sun's 52 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.919 going to come out tomorrow. Oh, it's gonna be a fun game. 53 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.759 Everybody's going to score touchdowns, everybody gets points, and we all have fun. 54 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:58.479 Forty seven and a half points, very slow game to start. It 55 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:01.639 does not look like it's nearly going to hit forty seven and a half total 56 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.360 points. Over when you combine both of the team scores, all of a 57 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.599 sudden, it goes to overtime, and I'm thinking it was I think it 58 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.879 was thirty eight points going into overtime or something like that. And sure enough, 59 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:15.240 guess what I'm thinking, Oh my gosh, I have an opportunity. 60 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.800 Uh. San Francisco forty nine ers, they kick the field goal. Kansas 61 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.720 City Chiefs. They come back and they score a touchdown. They score a 62 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:28.120 touchdown to win the game. Final score forty seven? Is it forty seven? 63 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.199 Forty six points? Right? It's forty six points. I think was 64 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:38.160 a score all they all they needed a score was an extra point. You 65 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.639 don't kick an extra point in overtime when you win the game, that extra 66 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.040 point would have put me over. Anyway, I don't want to talk about 67 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.920 it because I had one hell of a craps rud at the brand new Fountain 68 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:48.399 Blue Hotel. Yes, I do travel too, so if you want some 69 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:53.360 recommendations somewhere to stay in Las Vegas, I am your guy at seven one 70 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.759 three two one two five nine five O. Did you watch it at home 71 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.920 or did you watch it at a bar? Did you watch it on streaming? 72 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:06.160 There are so many ways to watch TV right now, and I and 73 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:10.439 I've noticed. Let me, I don't know if you notice this because if 74 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.399 you watch it at home or if you can't compare to what is happening. 75 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:19.439 But I have noticed this because when I watch games, I text with my 76 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:24.600 buddies who are watching the same game too, and they're watching it in different 77 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:28.519 cities. They're watching it at home, they're watching it at bars. And 78 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:33.279 when you broadcast things, where you stream things, it's not exactly synced up, 79 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:41.439 and in some cases you are really way behind real time playing. Which 80 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.680 is it is? It's stupid that it sucks. Tens of millions of people 81 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:51.319 they were gathered around to watch the Super Bowl, but they weren't all watching 82 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:55.720 it at the exact same time I saw it. Where was it? This 83 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.759 was on the verge and I have noticed this before, and they actually did 84 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:03.160 it in interesting article in comparison, here's what's going on here at home in 85 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:08.319 the Houston area. I have Comcast Exfinity cable, expensive as hell. I 86 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.480 did not know why I still have it. I should cut the cord, 87 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.519 I know, I should, just you know, beat my own dog food 88 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.040 into it. Every time I'm watching a game and I'm texting with my buddies, 89 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.199 a lot of them are in Dallas. They are telling me what's happening 90 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:25.600 before I can see it, because in my particular case Comcast Exfinity, it's 91 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:30.399 maybe thirty to forty five seconds behind real time what's happening, and so they're 92 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.600 spoiling it from me. And that's exactly what happened in the Super Bowl. 93 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:41.160 Cable streams of the of the Big Game were about fifty seconds behind what was 94 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:45.120 happening on the field, and if you have streaming services, it was even 95 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.439 worse. Some viewers were watching a stream that was about a minute and a 96 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.519 half behind the real world. And what that does? It maybe not it 97 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:55.920 doesn't mean a lot to you, but it leaves plenty of time for social 98 00:06:55.959 --> 00:07:00.519 media post and text and push notifications to spoil what was happen happening in the 99 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:06.519 game Hulu, NFL plus Direct TV stream they were on average more than a 100 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:12.240 minute behind the action on the field. Listen, I understand there's going to 101 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.279 be some delay between a real time event and footage appearing on TV sets across 102 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:21.000 the country, but people, they need to improve this stuff. I mean, 103 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:25.160 the delays in the field. Is it a gambling issue? You know? 104 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.040 You know, I'll tell you what. Let's actually pause the game and 105 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.759 reset it about a minute later, and I can bet against my friends setting 106 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:35.560 next to me because I could check my uh my text and find out what 107 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.120 actually happened. Yeah, there's there's a few ways to get around this thing. 108 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.680 But if you did, anybody experience delays that you knew of, because 109 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:46.079 listen, if you don't go online, if you don't do social media, 110 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:47.720 if you ain't talking to anybody, you're sitting there watching you on your on 111 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.600 your on your home. You could be watching a three week old presentation of 112 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:56.279 a football game. It doesn't matter to you, but in some in some 113 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.319 cases, seconds mean a lot, a lot, I mean money, and 114 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:01.759 it beads dollars and it means time. Listen. When we come back, 115 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.439 I'm going to follow up on this about ways to watch free television. I 116 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.600 did a story on Channel eleven. It ran around the website right before the 117 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.800 Super Bowl because Channel eleven here is CBS and brought in the super Bowl was 118 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.040 broadcast on CBS, and so I kind of explain that you can get free 119 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.439 television you don't need to pay. No, well, yes, there's some 120 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.920 asterisk, there's some caveats, But when we come back, I'm going to 121 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.920 tell you how you right now can get free TV year day in, day 122 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.080 out. There's over one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty different TV channels 123 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.480 right now floating above your head, free that you don't have to pay. 124 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:41.080 I'll take that. I'll take your questions. Coming back on a very short 125 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:50.480 and special high tech textan channel Happy Happy Saturday. Should you be listening live 126 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.960 on KPRC nine to fifty am, all across Southeast Texas And if you're listening 127 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.759 on stream, well, you're actually may probably a little behind, maybe thirty 128 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.399 second kids are a minute behind, which is actually what we're going to talk 129 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.000 about here to zech. But still you get the great content, the wonderful 130 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.919 humor, and great tips and if you still want to contact me, I'm 131 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.320 pretty much monitoring all of my social media high tech text and Hi g h 132 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.480 T E C h T E x A N. Michael is my name. 133 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.519 That is Callum over here. He's answering your phone calls, pushing the buttons. 134 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.840 We have just about thirty minutes, twenty five minutes or so we get 135 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.840 out of got to get out of here a little early today, make way 136 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.840 for the University of Houston Cougars in the Texas Long Orange with a basketball game. 137 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:37.240 They are tipping off well. Actually, our pregame coverage is forty five 138 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.039 minutes after the hour, so hurry up and get in this portion of the 139 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.720 show. We're brought to you. Thank you so much to Papa's p LR 140 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.519 RUM. I don't know if you had a cocktail or ten during the Super 141 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.279 Bowl, but rum is in really having some fun with it. This is 142 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.519 Ernest Hemingway's special recipe and family made in Key West. You can get it 143 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.480 at yourspection, in Total Wine and pretty much where all good liquor is sold. 144 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.519 Pop p I l a R. Yes, they have the blonde rum, 145 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.000 they have the dark rum, but you may want to try some that 146 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:11.759 has been soaked in a cask strinked rye whiskey barrel. So good people, 147 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.960 so good. Why not have a little post Valentine Day celebration. Also you 148 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.519 can get it at wonderful restaurants. I need to actually host the cocktail hour 149 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:26.480 with Papa's PLR. Good partners of mind. That the Capitol Grill near the 150 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:31.360 Galeria area guarding Grace, Well, that's a great restaurant. That's downtown. 151 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.919 They serve it. Blue Lagoon down in Texas City, that's that big lagoon 152 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.639 on Lago Mar. They have several bottles of there too. So I'll be 153 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:43.320 I don't know, let me get let me get through the rodeo and everything, 154 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.840 and then we'll have a little Papa's PLR A little fun time here. 155 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.799 I told you that streaming sometimes slows things down versus real time, Like right 156 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:58.039 now it's real time and by the time my voice gets through the our equipment 157 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.720 into the broadcast ten and plus. Also here on AM radio, we have 158 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:07.200 a seven second delay. We've always had a seven second delay because we have 159 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:11.639 live phone calls coming in and that prevents you from cussing at us. On 160 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:16.960 live radio, we have what's called a dump button in here. The point 161 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:22.639 is that's that's for a purpose. On live radio, we do callings. 162 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:28.519 I was talking about the Super Bowl last weekend. Depending on how you watched 163 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.559 it, you may have seen it broadcast that was anywhere between thirty seconds to 164 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:37.279 maybe a minute and a half behind real time streaming services. If you were 165 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:41.360 watching it maybe NFL dot Hulu or NFL dot Com or NFL Plus or something, 166 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:43.559 they were behind real time, and it's it's kind of a spoiler because 167 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.879 I watch TV with a second screen in my hand. That phone is always 168 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:50.080 in my hand. My buddies are like, oh my god, did you 169 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:56.360 see the play yay touchdown? Man woo? My team covered? Can you 170 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:01.320 believe they dropped it? Fumble? And it ruins for me and could ruin 171 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.360 it for you if your TV hasn't caught up to that point right now, 172 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.679 there are ways to watch it. One of the best ways to watch things, 173 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.679 to me in absolute is about as close to real time as possible is 174 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:18.399 to get off of cable, get off of streaming, and do something that 175 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:20.840 man, we're going to go back to the old days. We're gonna go 176 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:28.000 ota ota over the air if you were of age. And again, I 177 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.159 let's just say I grew up. I was a little kid in the seventies. 178 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.440 In our homes, we had these big TV antennas, and they were 179 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.519 big that generally you had to have a company get on your roof and they 180 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.759 had to stall these big, wiry looking things and they point them to them 181 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:48.399 to the direction of the TV towers where your ABC, CBS and NBC and 182 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.240 maybe PBS at it as I Fox wasn't even around, and you would pick 183 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.840 up over the air TV signals and we got a whopping five to ten channels, 184 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.039 be it VHF or UHF, and I know them thowing acronyms here that 185 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.039 maybe half my audience has no clue what I'm talking about, you kids. 186 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.039 And then at the end to end, it was it was then cable came 187 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.399 in. Cable came in really in the early eighties. Then and then obviously 188 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.320 there's satellite. We know there's no need for antennas. You do have a 189 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.159 satellite dish in some cases, but the fact is it's still out there because 190 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:26.799 TV stations, by law by the FCC, they had to broadcast, and 191 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.600 they still have to broadcast over the air. Now. These signals are digital 192 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:37.039 DTV digital TV signals, and yes, you can pick these things up over 193 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:43.200 the air ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Telemundo stations that do not 194 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.279 broadcast in English. There are a ton of a matter of fact, I 195 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.279 think there's one hundred and thirty one hundred and sixty different channels and sub channels 196 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:54.039 here in the Houston area alone that you don't need one cent to subscribe to 197 00:13:54.120 --> 00:14:00.559 them. They are fr ee garf style my favorite four letter word. And 198 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.159 I talked about this last week right before I did a segment on Channel eleven 199 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:07.679 CBS because CBS broadcast is Super Bowl. To let people know, hey, 200 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.639 man, if you don't have you know, if all you do is subscribe 201 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.080 to streaming services and you don't have cable, that you don't think you can 202 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.480 get CBS in this particular case, let you know that all you need is 203 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.799 a little indoor or even a small outdoor antenna that you can hook up to 204 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:26.200 your TV, your digital TV, and you can get free over the AIRTV. 205 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:28.639 My point being, and when I said the best way to get real 206 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:35.240 time TV is over the air, there's very little delay from where it's broadcast 207 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:41.639 to what you're seeing versus streaming services, cable services and what have you. 208 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:46.080 And on top of that that, in most cases the picture is much more 209 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:52.000 clear. It's not nearly, if any compression, because on satellite, I 210 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.799 mean on cable, how many how many cable channels do We have hundreds of 211 00:14:54.799 --> 00:15:00.360 cable channels and you've got one little pipeline, one little coaxle cable coming into 212 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.600 your home. They've got to compress these channels and so it's pixelated. Maybe 213 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:07.639 they don't look good and there's not a lot of four K in some instances. 214 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:09.919 But now for over the year, you're getting this raw feed in real 215 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.039 time. What do you do? Will you go out? If you have 216 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.960 a digital TV, and most digital TV nowadays they have a built in tuner. 217 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:22.200 Okay, tuner is good. You still need a little antenna and there's 218 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:28.720 digital antennas right now. I was playing on this website antennasdirect dot com. 219 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.639 A lot of great articles that you can read about how to do it and 220 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:37.000 how simple it is. They add reviews of TVs and everything. But if 221 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:41.840 you're tired of all these prices, how much do you pay for cable two 222 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:43.320 hundred, two hundred and fifty bucks. Obviously, it's the Internet, it's 223 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:48.360 the television. You may have streaming sticks. Man, you get a good 224 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:54.799 a TV antenna and you're going to get free access to live TV channels provided 225 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.440 you can catch their signals. You set it up, you'll watch live events. 226 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:00.919 You've got sports on the your broadcast networks. You got your news, 227 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.519 and you get everything else for it free, no subscription. You just buy 228 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:10.320 the antenna. These the antennas run anywhere between thirty forty bucks. Gonna get 229 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.039 a little bigger win that maybe you have to put outside because you live a 230 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:17.360 little further away from the actual broadcast tower. Yeah, maybe they're gonna be 231 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:18.679 one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty dollars. But that's it. It's a 232 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.720 one time purchase. To be sure. To be clear, all you're gonna 233 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.639 pick up is local over the year TV. You're not gonna get any paid 234 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.360 You're not gonna get CNN and I get an ESPN. You know, I 235 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:34.080 getting HBO. No, no, no, you're gonna get in this case, 236 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.679 ABC thirteen, Channel two, kp r C, Channel eleven, KHOU. 237 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.080 You're gonna get channel eight PBS. You're gonna get the local Telemundo feed, 238 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:48.679 but still you're gonna get all the major during football season, most all 239 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.480 the football games other than Monday night and Thursday night on Amazon. You're gonna 240 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.360 get all the Sunday football games, which you're broadcast on CBS, Fox, 241 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.759 and then the NBC night game. Obviously, football season's over, but that's 242 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.119 that. Baseball basketball, they're gonna be a little different. Baseball obviously is 243 00:17:03.119 --> 00:17:07.160 a regional sport, and they have deals with Cable in the satellite basketball. 244 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:11.039 A lot of that stuff is on TBS cable. A lot of that stuff 245 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.519 is sorry TNT, A lot of the stuff's on ESPN. They do broadcast 246 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.799 some of the stuff on ABC. But I'm letting you know there are options 247 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.000 out out there right now. It's very simple to do. You get it. 248 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.960 You get an antenna. Sometimes they're small enough if you live close enous 249 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.240 to the broadcast antennas. Here in the Houston area. The majority of the 250 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:34.240 broadcast TV actually in radio towers are in Missouri City, which is on the 251 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:37.559 southwest side of Houston. So if you live anywhere in Fort Benn County, 252 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.799 you are golden man. You're less than anywhere between one mile that maybe fifteen 253 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.119 miles away. If you are on the other side of town, you don't 254 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.440 have a direct shot between buildings. Sometimes there are a few other antenna towers 255 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.039 you need to check it. Go to that website. I told you Antenna's 256 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.920 direct and there's actually a app you can download, Antenna Point. I believe 257 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.759 you put your address in actually your GPS and your phone will actually pinpoint where 258 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.319 you are in your home. It'll show you which way to point your antenna 259 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.720 when you purchase one at home and put it up at home, and tell 260 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.680 you how far it is away. Six miles, seven miles, eight miles. 261 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:15.480 To be sure, anything over fifty sixty miles it's almost impossible to get. 262 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.279 Be sure to read it. Don't believe anything that says one hundred to 263 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.759 two hundred mile range. It's physically impossible. Whoever invented television back of the 264 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:29.680 day doesn't work works with radio some cases, not with TV. There's your 265 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.319 TV update. I am here to help you. I am here to save 266 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:33.799 you money. What else I can do? Fifteen more minutes before we got 267 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:36.920 to get out of here at a short high tech texting show. We're going 268 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:42.359 to be right back Michael Warfield. That's the name. Believe it or not. 269 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.640 This is the final segment of this week's High Tech Texan Show. Tell 270 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.240 you what if you can get a job where you work forty five minutes a 271 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:52.279 week. I'd say take it, but then again I would ask to be 272 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:56.359 paid for doing this too. It is a short version of the High Tech 273 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:00.240 Texting Show. We're out of here and just about ten twelve minutes making for 274 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:04.960 the University of Houston Cougar's University of Texas Long Orange basketball game here on KPRC 275 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.759 nine to fifty am. That's our flagship where we broadcast this from, So 276 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.240 you better hurry up and get in. Thanks to US Coins and Jewelry for 277 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:17.039 this shortened segment. They've been around for thirty some odd years. I'm in 278 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.240 Vegas last week, true stor. I'm in Vegas last Saturday, Super Bowl 279 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:25.480 weekend. I'm at the Palazzo Hotel, getting ready to go to the Playboy 280 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:30.160 Bunny Brunch. Don't ask, it's a whole news story. I'm near the 281 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.359 checking desk for Palazzo. I look over and who do I see? I 282 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:37.720 see freaking Kenny Duncan. Kinney runs US Coins and jewelry. He was just 283 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.759 he flew in for the day with some buddies to do some gamble or something 284 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.920 like that, and we just I bet we talked for four or five minutes. 285 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:48.160 And obviously I showed him that I'm always wearing the rolex that I got 286 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.519 from US Coins and Jewelry. Good, dude, go tell them, you 287 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:53.039 go tell him that. Hey, man, I heard you're at the Super 288 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:57.400 Bowl. I hope you want some money, Katie Freeway. I tend just 289 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:03.079 at VOSS if you want to sell or buy any coins like my uncle is 290 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:04.680 doing. My man, my uncle is a coin collector. He walked in 291 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:07.160 there last week and they gave him top dollar for coins. He did not 292 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.319 even need to use my name. But that's my job, is to let 293 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.640 you know if you want to buy some coins, some jewelry. Rolex's a 294 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.599 lot of women's joy. They had a very big Valentine's Day, by the 295 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.200 way, very big. They got some beautiful diamond ear rings and tennis bracelets, 296 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.440 almost anything you need. But they are just top top doutch people at 297 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:30.240 US coins and Jewelry dot com, and so was good seeing them. A 298 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.559 few of the things that what we do in the world oh do I want 299 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:37.680 to talk about the Apple Vision Pro. I haven't once mentioned this Apple Vision 300 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.319 Pro, this new ar VR type of thing, because I'm not a big 301 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:45.480 Apple guy, and the fact is it's very expensive and I really don't think 302 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:49.720 it's ready for consumer use yet. But the only funny thing, I'm sorry, 303 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:56.200 I'm not making fun of Apple, but I am. There's a big 304 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.119 uptick in users returning it to the store. They purchased it less than two 305 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.839 weeks. Apple allows you to return any product within fourteen days of purchase, 306 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:08.759 and for the first wave of Vision Pro buyers, we're almost right there. 307 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:14.440 This is that uncomfortable, big thing that looks like a ski visor that you 308 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.200 put on your face and you could see augmented reality and virtual reality. I 309 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:22.079 have not tried one, so I'm not giving it a review. I am 310 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:26.119 only reporting what i've heard, not even anagotally. These are the actual columns 311 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.160 I've seen the Verge dot com USA today. They've been written about it, 312 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:33.359 writing about it, but it's not that comfortable. It gives some people some 313 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.799 headaches, it gives some people some eyestrain. These are the top reasons that 314 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:47.480 people say they are returning their Vision Pro headsets, I listen. I've used 315 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:55.079 a few ar augmented the meta from meta Facebook meta company. I just is 316 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:57.039 it an age appropriate thing? This is not going to be that people thought 317 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.319 this is going to be the start of something like an iPhone. It's not. 318 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:04.400 You don't wear these things every day. You just it's a niche type 319 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:07.119 of thing. Point is, they're returning him. So if you do happen 320 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.359 to have a vision pro, I'd love to hear from you, get you 321 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.440 on to my show. I maybe one hundred percent wrong. This could be 322 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.559 the next thing since slic spread. But again, just the reviews. I'm 323 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:19.720 there. It's cool, it's neat, But in terms of everyday usage, 324 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.599 you're gonna use it for a week or two. Maybe it's gonna gain get 325 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.599 some dust by sitting on the shelf. Maybe you're gonna return it after fourteen 326 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.319 days. I just thought that was interesting. I'm playing with a new watch. 327 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.039 I got a new smart watch that I cannot tell you who it's from. 328 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.559 I cannot tell you that anything about it. It's under embargo for the 329 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:41.240 next week or ten days. I love smart watches. I will tell you 330 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.960 this. It's not from Apple. I'm gitterally and Android or a non Apple 331 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.000 watch or anything, and it was really really neat. It's got some neat 332 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:52.039 features. What I'm about to tell you has nothing to do with the one 333 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.640 i'm testing. Samsung, which I have three Samsung watches. They're getting the 334 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:03.839 role to roll out a feature that I like this because these are tools you 335 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.599 wear on your wrist that can monitor and help save lives, save you pre 336 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:11.839 screen for health or something. And it comes to heart rate monitor, how 337 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.759 many steps you're taking? You know, right? It did? It gets 338 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.799 you in shape. Maybe it's the carrot in front of your face, maybe 339 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:25.160 it's your motivator. Whatever. But I saw Samsung just got FDA approval for 340 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:30.079 a sleep apnea feature on the Galaxy Watch and they're rolling it out later this 341 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:33.720 year. So the FDA they've given the green light to sleep ATNA. Now 342 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:36.759 I don't have sleep apnea, but I know a lot of people do, 343 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.640 a lot of my buddies have this sleep APNA and you wear the cpat machine. 344 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.680 But what it is if you wear this Galaxy Watch, there's a detection 345 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:51.160 feature. And don't ask me how the whole thing works, but it's going 346 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:53.799 to be compatible. I think it's with the Galaxy Watch wearables, which I 347 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.680 have several of them. Maybe you know what, Maybe I have sleep apnea. 348 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.240 I'm gonna can't wait for this thing. Might watch up later this year. 349 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:06.279 But if you're age twenty two or older and you have not been diagnosed 350 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:10.759 with the condition, to check for signs of sleep apneum it allows you to 351 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:15.279 do so. It looks for signs of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea over 352 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.880 a two night monitoring period. That you're going to need to track your sleep 353 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:22.680 for more than four hours twice over a ten day period to use this thing. 354 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:30.640 Twenty five percent a tenth of women in the US have obstructive sleep apnea. 355 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:34.680 Some neat features over there, so you can have a good night's sleep. 356 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:40.240 By the way, I don't have sleep apneum But should I just should 357 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:44.039 I give out my hip over here? A little trouble breathing has raised your 358 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:47.200 hand? Or call me or we're almost out of time? Has anybody had 359 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:56.240 deviated septim surgery a procedure inside their nose to correct a deviated septum. I 360 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:00.480 don't have time to take your calls, but do me a favor. Pop 361 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:04.359 me a note. Michael at high tech textan dot com spell the whole thing 362 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:11.599 out. Just it just, it's I just I want. I need feedback 363 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.559 from people who have had it, yay or nay. Some people tell me 364 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:18.839 it's a life changer. I can breathe, I can run. I'm not 365 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:23.240 out of breath, alive. Did it hurt deviated septum? Hit me up? 366 00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:29.319 I need to know ya. Your name Michael at high Tech Texan dot 367 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:32.359 com. See, finally, once you're doing something for me after I've been 368 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:37.720 wasting twenty two years of my saturdays helping you, helping you. What are 369 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:40.279 the things cars? I'm a big car guy. I got about two or 370 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:42.079 three more minutes every week I get to test drive a car. People always 371 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.279 ask me, Michael, what are you driving? What's good? This past 372 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:52.039 week I was in a beautiful twenty twenty four Sierra twenty five hundred crew cab. 373 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:57.680 It's the at four x GMC has the one of their largest I mean, 374 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:02.160 it's a twenty five hundred. It was a massive truck. I had 375 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:03.480 it for a week. I do not get paid for these reviews. I 376 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.279 am a member of the Texas Auto Riders Association. I get these directly from 377 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.519 the manufacturer. I do not deal a dealership. So if you want to 378 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:12.839 buy one, great, If you don't, I don't care. But all 379 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:18.200 I know this had a Duromac six point six liter turbo diesel. This thing 380 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.240 was let's say I'm six foot tall, this thing easily standing from their tires 381 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:23.799 all the way to the top of this must have been a seven and a 382 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:30.440 half foot vehicle. Priced eighty one thousand dollars standard. Oops, I'm sorry. 383 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.920 I had the AT four X edition. This is the one that you 384 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.839 take off row with all the accents, the bigger tires. Total price one 385 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.640 hundred and three thousand dollars. For one hundred and three thousand dollars, this 386 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.200 better half air conditioning and sleep six people. But it was a dang good 387 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.720 ride. GMC one of my favorite manufacturers. They really really did a good 388 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.960 job. And for some reason, you are a rancher, you want something 389 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.640 big to prove when you roll up to the roadia here the next week or 390 00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:59.799 two that you are a big Texan. Check out the GMC twenty twenty four 391 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.240 Sierra twenty five hundred and if you don't want to, I do not care 392 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:06.079 because I'm not getting paid for it. But I absolutely like that for a 393 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:08.680 twenty one of my favorite larger, much more and more than a halftime. 394 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:12.359 If you want a massive truck that hauls everything, there you go. Other 395 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:15.480 than that. I hate saying this, but the show is almost done people. 396 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.640 You know why gotta make way. We got to get out of here 397 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:22.440 for the University of Houston, University of Texas. We've got a basketball game. 398 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.160 Your Cougar's my Longhorns, who you got, Calum read everybody else? 399 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:27.559 Thank you for at least getting me on for forty five minutes next week. 400 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:30.799 If there's no basketball, I am here. We'll talk about it because I 401 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:34.480 will be judging barbecue brisket at the Rodeo Barbecue Cookoff. If you go out 402 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:37.319 there, look for me, and I guarantee I look the other way. 403 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.559 My name is gar Hey. Thanks for tuning in, people, because right 404 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:44.680 now my shortened show is over.