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Earthquakes eclipses. What's next? People? Judgment Day? Here it comes
and we're going to talk about it right now. It is another edition of
a high Tech Texan show. Earthquakes don't happen on the least coast at least
not a lot, and eclipse is rarely cut through our great state Texas.
That is happening in a few days. Question, do you care? Where
will you be on Monday? And are you gonna go see this thing?
Or in Houston where I'm based and most of my listeners are based, not
of the total path of totality, gonna get a little blockage? Are you
gonna roll up to Austin or Dallas or somewhere to check it out? People?
Calm down now, listen. I've done this show for twenty two years
right now, and this is the first time in the history of my show
here on tape earc. Nine fifty am that an eclipse is causing some rucas
in atalas. The fact is, I'm actually dedicating a few minutes of it
because you know, yes, there is some technology to it. Obviously,
the soul or the atmosphere, the way that the sun and the moon,
you know, pass over each other, creates a shadow of a doubt.
The funny thing to me is, listen, and I don't want to make
light of this because this is a once cident. I don't even want to
say a lifetime because generational. I think another one's happening in twenty forty four,
so hopefully we or most of us will be around, and so that'll
be the next generation. But here's my thinking, And tell me if I'm
wrong, and I'd love to hear from you. Seven one three two one
two five nine five. Oh, it's a clipstock here on the high tech
textan show. What's the Big Delio? Because every single night of our lives,
for like nine hours ten hours, we see darkness. The Earth rotates
away from the sun. We look up and it's dark. So now it's
gonna happen for all of four minutes at the I think, the longest length
in some places, and we're gonna get darkness. And not only that,
the forecast for the weather across Texas at least it ain't that good, you
know it? See it's I'll tell you what. How come this doesn't happen
on Young Kipper Because on Young Kipper, with the holiest day of the Jewish
year, you're not supposed to eat until sun down to sundown. I mean,
hell, at one in the afternoon on Monday, we could have add
a snack and if we ate fast at least, don't look You've heard it.
Don't look up at the sun. And if you do, make sure
you have special glasses and listen. This is not a joking matter at this
point. You're right. We are not going to be used in the least
for most of my listening, God is it. We're not going to be
in the total path. And so if you do look up, there is
going to be a large bit of the sun still showing. Don't look at
the sun, people, because retinas are a good thing. Have some special
glasses and there are some special glasses if you can find them. The more
I didn't really want to make anything out of this. I don't know gently
where I am on Monday afternoons around one o'clock, I'm gently at home.
Maybe I would go out and take a look up with glasses. I'd make
a little pinhole camera like I did when I was in boy Scouts of you
know, so I can, you know, see the outline of the s
sun, and I actually can tell you how to do that later the show.
However, if you are around your television on Monday morning, I will
be reporting live from Space Center Houston. I will be there as a contributor
to Great Day Houston on CBS Channel eleven. Space Center Houston, I believe,
is hosting some sort of a gathering, and if you want to feel
the spatial sense of something, I believe you can go out there down in
clear Lake area. Shout out the clear Lake come out. I will be
there from at nine in the morning until ten in the morning before the actual
festivities happen with the sun, and then the sun will disappear. If we
can even see the darn sun with the clouds right around I think one o'clock
one thirty Central Time on Monday. So I guess maybe I'm gonna make it
a little bigger deal than it is, because that's what we do in the
media. It's like, oh, no, the hell is opening up.
Can you imagine that if we didn't predict it, I mean, we're I
mean, listen, there's so many beautiful, wonderful sciences, tistan engineers.
We know exactly to the second where the sun is gonna be. We've seen
the map, how it cuts across Texas and goes up to the northeast and
goes all the way through Maine on Monday. We could predict it. Can
you imagine? La la, la, la la. We didn't know this
was happening, and all of a sudden, at in the afternoon, the
freaking just it just goes dark. I mean, you think you were thinking
of being invaded by something from Star Wars or something. At some point.
It happened before I don't know, let's go back sixty seven. Well,
I don't know, Copernicus or something. I guess he figured it out,
you know, way long ago. But before that happened, It's like,
man, wait, what's going on? Why is it dark? Are you
going to freak out. There's listen, there's parties. My son is up
at Austin, and Austin is pretty much in the path of totality. He
was invited to on a boat on Lake Austin. They're having some part with
cocktails and everything like that. I don't know if I that's kind of scary,
man, because don't you know, the moon gets closer, the tides
rise, it's gonna be dark for for a minute, all of a sudden,
and then you're out of the boat, you're drinking. Aw, what's
the side of Who has made T shirts for this thing? I survived the
eclipse of twenty twenty four. Oh my goodness. Anyway, I'll tell you
whatever the next a little while, I'm gonna tell you how a son,
how the sun could burn a hole in your eyeball. See that's that's a
good that's a good lead right there. As we say in the media industry,
how the sun can burn a hole in your eyeball. There are specific
sunglasses you can use, actually you should use. Don't use a regular sunglasses
because they do have to have a certain standard. I will tell you what
standard that is and how they're made. And there's also some apps because you
know what, of course there is of course there are some apps where you
actually can watch it predicted where to get the glasses and what happy I will
talk about that in a number of other things. Plus your phone calls.
Here already gave you the phone number seven to one three two one two five
nine five vote. There are there are there are buildings that there are freeways,
there there are entities companies that are closing. My buddy up in Dallas,
he's a lawyer, sends me an email the Dallas County buildings are going
to be closed on Monday. No, I'm not making fun of Dallas,
because I'm sure there's going to be a lot of these across the country.
They're closing the people. It's four freaking minutes of darkness. I have driven
in so much torrential rainstorms in my life, probably certainly through a hurricane and
probably through a tornado. And then it passes for four minutes. It's going
to be darkness, and buildings and governments have to close. What is happening,
dogs and cats living together, total chaos. And with that, we're
gonna take our first break of the High Tech Texting Show. I am here
to entertain you. I'm not here to scare you, but I'm just curre
giving the facts, ma'am, just the facts. Michael Garfield is a bat.
It is the high Tech Texan Show. Perfect people. Now we're getting
eclipse jokes, which is fine. We can we can joke about an eclipse
if there is a natural occurrence that we can kind of have a little fun
with. Apparently it's the eclipse which is coming up on Monday. Welcome back.
It is Michael Garfield. We are called the High Tech Texan Show here
all across the country. And you know what, my voice can't be heard
throughout the entire path of the eclipse this coming Monday. You could download the
iHeartRadio app I won't be live. Actually you can listen to the podcast recording
of this. Thank you so much, mister Callum. Where you do does
that every single week? You really don't want to joke about hurricanes, which
we do have our fair share of hurricanes here in the Gulf Coast area.
Read you which, by the way, I think I saw that the hurricane
predictor there was a press conference at that happened I think last Thursday or so,
that it's going to be a little bit more active this year? Is
that what they say every year? Noah, the National Organs of Wind in
Space and what whover the heller is they have to do that every year,
don't They have to say this season is going to be a little bit more
active, cause you gotta be prepared. I'm all about preparedness, man,
I'm an Eagle Scout. Be prepared. That's the motto of the Boy Scouts.
Get your batteries, get your backups, get your everything. And I'll
talk about that the hurricane season, which is coming up here not too long
right now. But you really don't want to joke about hurricanes, absolutely do
not. I want to talk about tornadoes. I am absolutely deathly afraid of
tornadoes. I was in a tornado. I was a young kid alone in
Dallas growing up. But not funny. Tsunamis not really good. But eclipses,
it's a natural thing. But you could predict, you can see,
you could predict that. You predict you know when an eclipse is coming.
We pretty much can predict hurricanes. We kind of know where they're going.
We can make these spaghetti models. So you I want to race yourself,
Effie. The tornadoes, you don't know when the hell is going on.
And that's why tornadoes to me are the scariest. Hey, it's a sunny
day, all of a sudden, it's Texas. It starts getting cloudy five
o'clock in the afternoon, a little humid in the year, all of a
sudden, and not in Houston, but in Dallas we grew up. We
have these things called the tornado sirens, which is a very smart thing to
have. Houston just did and still doesn't have their stuff together, but at
least they would give you a thirty second warning when you're these sirens going off,
but you don't know when where they're gonna hit. That's why to be
tornadoes are scary. Eclipses they're fun. We need to make it. We
need to make some T shirts talking about the eclipse. There's apps out there.
Should you be having him? Who's having an eclipse party? You imagine
if this was on a weekend, that would be fun. But this is
a Monday. I already mentioned that there are cities or counties that are closing
some of their buildings on the Dallas County is closing a lot of their I
think all their building They're just closed for business. School's closing. Who's having
a an eclipse watching party? And how come I'm not invited? I will
bring I will bring the rum, and I'm gonna bring dark rum. You
see what I did there. It's gonna get dark for four minutes. I'll
bring the dark rum. You know how to get old of me? Michael
at high tech Texan dot com, Michael Grefield at iHeartMedia dot com. Let
me know better? Clear up about tell you what? Because Monday night is
the National Championship. Who you got the final four which actually tips off at
about two or three hours book the sun continues to come back. Now,
I know the final four is in Arizona. It's not that the eclipse is
not gonna affect that. But there's a lot of things happening Monday. Very
busy, next week very busy. If you want to find out what's going
on, let me give you some apps. Oh it's a technology show.
I'm gonna give you some tech advice, right, Okay, NASA actually has
an app. You can find it on all of your Apple stores, your
Google Plays. You can watch a lot live Well, okay, I'm making
fun of it, and I understand. You can watch live streams of the
eclipse. You know how you watch a live stream of the eclipse in Texas,
you'll look up and you sky people. But if you don't live in
the path, you actually can watch the live stream. It also has latest
NASA images and news and information in podcast everything that's pretty cool. There is
another App Store, pretty highly rated app in the App Store, pretty highly
rated. It is called one Eclipse, Oh any one eclipse. It was
this is the year, let's see, according to the description, it key
features including a countdown timer if you can't tell time, interactive eclipse map,
and an eclipse simulator. Here's an eclipse simulator. Close your eyes, wait
till the sun goes down tonight, and then look up. There's the eclipse
simulator. I am just ragging on the eclipse. I think I'm kind of
making fun of people who are just taking it so so seriously. Here here's
another another app. It's called Total Solar Eclipse Innovative, developed by the Exploratorium.
It's a museum of science and tech in San Francisco. It's got a
three point eight star rating and blah blah blah, I don't even why do
I have no clue what the funny thing is you download this and then you're
gonna delete it at two o'clock in the afternoon Central time on Monday. If
you need this stuff, phone number here is seven one three two one two
five nine five O the eclipse classes. We'll get off the eclipse here soon,
but it only happens once every generation. There is a there's a big
company who actually makes it. They're not official, but there would have.
There's the several companies who makes the official glasses that you're allowed to look up
at the side and just because you have really cool ray bands or Maui gems,
which by the way, I'm I'm surprised no company actually got into the
marketing of this, and if so, I'm kind of missing the thing.
You know, Oreo Cookie should have it because Oreo Cookie kind of look you
know, it looks like a moon because it's dark, you know, chalk
it on the outside. They should take a bite out of it. That's
my prediction for what they're gonna do on Monday. All right, some sunglass
companies should have hopped on here. There's a company called American Paper Optics.
It's out of Tennessee, and they're one of the few companies who make certified
authorized glasses. They say they're gonna sell seventy five million pairs of eclipse glasses
this year, seventy five million pair And where are you gonna get these things?
They sell online for twenty nine dollars each, twenty nine freaking dollars each.
People, just make yourself, make do it. Do it, Do
it yourself. Take a piece of paper and take a little tiny pin,
a little tiny you know, just like a needle and pin and poke a
hole in it. Stand with your back to the sun. Hold the paper
out at arm's length and hold it over. Go outside and hold it over
a flat surface, it concrete or something. The sun is gonna shine through
that little hole in the paper and reflect onto the concrete, and as the
solar eclips, as the moon moves in pat and in front of the sun,
you're gonna be able to see the solar clips move for that four minutes.
That's a way without even looking up. But there, I just saved
you twenty nine dollars. Anything else I can do for you all for four
and a half minutes. The let me give you the isl ISL. This
is the certification glasses. You have to have an ISL logo and there is
a is one two three one two. That's the co prendit on the inside.
Don't fall for any counterfeit isl logo sunglasses people, don't you do that.
My listeners are much smarter than that. I S one two three one
two. There you go, go go beat your sunglasses. Anything else we
have to cover or make fun of seven one three two, one two five
nine five to zero. The sun can actually burn a hole in your eyeball.
I'm gonna get a quote here from the National Journal. The sun is
the most powerful source of energy in the solar system. It's the most energetic
object for light years in all directions. Even though I thought I was the
most energetic object in all light years. But that's okay. Uh. The
energy it expels so intense it can actually burn holes in your vision. You
see what light enters our eyes the lens of our eyes. It focuses light
to the retina, which is in the back of the eye, and then
the retina chemical sensors pick up the presence of light, transmitting the information to
the brain. Now, the retineck can handle indirect sunlight. Indirect sunlight just
fine. But think of what happens when you hold the magnifying glass up to
the sun. They can start a fire. People, it's very intense.
Don't look up with the sun. You know what? Actually we should get
how come I listen, where's the eye doctor to the stars? Where's my
eye doctor? How come he's not calling in seven, one, three,
two, nine, five? Oh my good man, Alan Panzer, great
eye doctor. Actually should have had him. How come I don't have a
producer on the show. We should have set him up. We're gonna take
a break. Are we done? Are we done with the sunglass and the
the eclipse? Happy Eclipse Day this coming Monday, people courtesied me. All
right, Uh, I'm gonna stay on NASA. All you people who have
worked are currently worked in engineering, and all you rocket scientists down there,
I got a story for you. We need a debate about this. Apparently
the White House is demanding that we need to create a new time zone,
a lunar time zone, because we're going to be going to the Moon doesn't
need its own time zone. And we will debate the best time zone in
the world. And take a guess who I'm going with? Right here on
the High Tech Taxi show at the bottom of the first Hour of the High
Tech Text and show, Hey, anybody, anybody gets some good sales on
Eastern Candy. You guys were so were supposed to report of where the best
sales are from Eastern Candy, generally on Monday, the day after Easter,
one of my favorite days of the year, man, because that's when you
go for the leftover candy fifty percent off. Maybe I'm I'm very bullish on
the Easter candy with deeper sales, and I really don't move until we're seventy
percent or so. It's now, it's now the week after, almost a
week after Easter. Anybody can report, And really, all I care about
is Reese's, the Reese's Eggs, the Reeses, this and that. You
give me somebody call in seven one three, two, one two, five
nine five. Oh, I'd love to talk. I'd love to put you
on there. Don't be shut. I need discounts on Eastern Candy. One
top should I a true story And this is why I got into it.
I was I in college, or I graduated college, and I moved in
to my parents' house again. Because you know what, it's a kind of
a law you do that we don't have a job, and I don't even
know if I had even had a job, didn't have money, didn't have
a lot of money, but he used to rolled around and I was really
into Cadbury cream egs. Do we like Cadbury cream eggs? I think we
can agree we like Cadbury cream eggs. We do. So we had in
Dallas, I guess across Texas before Walgreens and CVS were brand names, we
had a drug store called Ekerds. Anyone remember Eckerds? And we had Skillerns
and I forget which one it was. And so I'm going back to the
late nineteen eighties and they had I guess they had. They had Cadbury Eggs.
They had all their stuff on sale for fifty percent off. But anyway,
it was there about another week. So in a way, Cock dogged
me. I went in and I went up to the manager and I asked
him, make up. They need their shelf space back. They don't want
this candy left over here because it's taken. You know, it's just just
taking valuable shelf space where they could be putting something else to sell. So
I made them a deal. I said, I'll buy every piece of Eastern
candy, especially all these Gadbury eggs ten cents on the dollar. He thought
about it for like eight seconds. He goes, deal. Literally, I
got a shop may have been two shopping carts. I had enough Hadbury cream
eggs that if I melted this thing, I would have had a chocolate fountain
that would just that probably would go for months and months and months. I
don't even know what I did. I show up in my card, I
bring them back into my house. I my parents like, what are you
doing? I said, I don't know. It's such a deal. It's
such a deal, like I you know, it's like I deal with Motts
after passover every year. So anyway, I thought, anybody who has a
left over at Easter candy, here's what I would do right now. If
anybody any store right now has left over Easter candy and you want to sell
it to me for like pennies on the dollar or donate it, I I'm
serious, hand to gott. I will come pick it up, and then
I will go donate it to UH Shelter Kids Organization or something. I'm more
happy to do it because these kids listen. You know how many people love
would love candy and kidds and I'll pick it up. That's what I would
do for you. Yes, okaynighty, I will okay, I'll put my
hand in the bag and I'm gonna have a snack or two. It's it's
that's it's commission. I'll sneak a little chocolate peanut, but interaction. But
I'm I'm dump it all off. I to uh to some needy organization.
Seven one two, I've dined five. Oh. That's how you're gonna get
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We're talking. We've already been through the eclipse stuff. Oh yeah,
hey NASA, I thought this is a district. This kind of fascinates me
because I do I do like space when we study this in science. I
guess all kids study this in science at a young age. And one of
the first things you do you learn about the planets. And since I have
been in school, we have lost a planet. Pluto apparently is no longer
a planet, or maybe they reinstated. I don't know. I feel I
feel bad for Pluto, little little, tiny, little blue, little or
purple little planet out there. But anyway, who made the was it the
dioramas? It just it's just one of the things that you have to do.
You got to go to to Michael Ws. You gotta go to a
hobby lobby. You gotta go a shop. You gotta get the styropham balls.
You gotta get a big old mama ball. You gotta paint it yellow
for the sun. And then you hang them in like in a shoe box.
And then proportionally the sizes. You got to put mercury. You gotta
put the you know, vnie you got up Earth. You gotta put the
ju Jupiter's pig. And then you gotta make some rings around Saturday. You
learn about space and we forget about the moon because planets are the came then
there because you know, there's a lot of planets have moons elimle bit,
they have multiple moons. We got one moon. Moon is very important to
us because the Moon's about gravity, it's about our tides, it's about everything.
Moon is so important that we as a jeep Bolton, certainly as the
country United States, we had to have a race to the moon. John
F. Kennedy, We've got to better band of the moon. Why does
rice plate texas heavy? Yeah, we've got to have a race a bit.
We as the United States, greatest unch in the world. We uh,
we go to the Moon. I'm not pulling the allegedly I was.
I was a little kid when it happened. I was like four years old,
and then it was I just remember seeing Walter Cronkite and crying the whole
thing. Obviously, this is what I studied. The point is, I'm
talking about the moon right now. Well, apparently we're gonna go back to
the Moon. We don't want to go to any other planet, but we're
gonna go to the Moon again because apparently we're gonna colonize the Moon. We're
gonna put air condition in the Moon. We're gonna do something in the Moon,
and not in real estate. But if I was a realtor, I
tell you what I'd bide low right now, I buy a few acres of
that Moon. Maybe next to a crater, could be cool, could be
a good investment. Not sure, But the point is, it's so important
that we're going back to the Moon. The White House has a little mandate
over here. The White House has published a policy memo asking NASA to create
a new time standard for the Moon, and they want it by twenty twenty
six. Robbie will be called Coordinated Lunar Time that it's going to establish an
official time reference to help guide future louter missions. The US, China,
Japan, India, Russia all have space business to the Moon, either planned
or completed. LASSA. It's not the only ones trying. The European Space
Agency they're also trying to make a time zone outside of Earth. Give of
the Moon's winter gravity, time moves slightly faster up there, so the same
clock we have on Earth would move at a different rate on the Moon.
Anybody see the movie Interstellar, Right, it's it did happens just like that.
We age faster and what have it? So can we as a we're
I have smart listeners out there. I probably have some people who actually work
at NASA with NASA seven one three two one two five nine five ozho try
to get in now, maybe a little later show, can we come up
with something like this? What should the time zone be? I say,
because NASA based in Houston, we go with Central time Zone. Because let
me help you out. I have traveled across this great country of ours for
a long time, and there is no better time zone, an essential time
zone. And that is not even a debate, not at don't even call
my phone number and tell me there is other better time zone because the least
coast ah and ain't admant. I ain't staying up to one in the morning
to watch the end of a freaking sports game or the end of foul or
Camo. Nope. And then the Mountain time zone, I didn't know what
the hell that is. I can't figure that thing out now. I do
love me some West Coast I'm a left coast guy, but they still work
kind of on the Eastern time zone. It's like how the news is our
news? Here are evening news six o'clock, ten o'clock, so we grew
up with no, No, it's seven and eleven o'clock. It's late.
Man, you missed a lot of this stuff. Central. Who's with me?
The moon should be Central, Saandor's time. Just just keep it that
way. Craziest time zone and I need to verify this, and we're up
against the break. There is a time zone that you know. Time zones
work on the hour, you know, and it's either it's East Coast,
it's Central. It's just it. It is. There's a time zone that
works only half an hour. I think I think that was there. It's
in St. John's to Canada or Newfoundland. It's like the first place in
North America where sunlight reaches. And I went there about seven years ago.
I am not kidding you. When we come back, w' verify this the
time zone? Is it thirty minutes? It's like East Coast plus thirty minutes
is the time zone for that? It's crazy. I really, the moon
does not need to jack with that. That was already. That's already hard
enough to figure out. Just stick with Central time zone and that's it.
It's Michael Garfield. It's coming up almost at noon Central time here in the
Houston area. But we're gonna be back to finish up this first hour to
ideent DEXI show. Just cheffing and verifying our track stash here at APRC Radio
actually now, and nobody does anything from here. It's all me, my
crack staff and my Google has proven to the fact that I remember that.
As we talk about time zones, there is one active time zone with a
half hour offset from Universal Coordinated time. And indeed it is in Newfoundland,
in Canada. First place that light, that daylight that the sun hits in
North America, on the entire continent of North America. I happened to be
there was about seven years ago, and I could not believe it. You
had to set your watch not just ahead to East coast time, but East
coast time plus half an hour plus half an hour. It is the It's
the craziest thing we talk about this because the apparently the Moon is getting its
own time zone. We're going to the moon. People. What do I
do is that I want to find a bank. It's gonna what's the mortgage
rate of getting a house right now on the moon. A lot of space
that can get a ton of sunlight. You got one hell of a view.
Hope it that has air conditioning. It genally is cold up there.
I don't know. Maybe time to buy little real estate up at the moment,
because the moon's getting his own time zone by twenty twenty six. This
is a uh I guess it's a directive from the White House. So all
of you NASA beautiful people down in clear Lake area, I know you're listening
to me. You love me, you love the show. Hit me up
seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. If you can't
get through, you know how to get me in the socials, high techs
and NA chi g h t e c h t e x A N what's
the answer. I say, moon just goes on Central Time because Central Time
is the home of NASA, and it's the best freaking time zone, best
breaking time zone. And I certainly, i'd say to America, certainly,
i'd say it don't go to that Greenwich crap. No, I don't want
to Meridian nah. Now, No, it's it's it's got to be Central
time Zone, because that's how we do it. They do things there,
Uh, a few minutes to the top of the hour. We'll just make
this relatively short segment. Bad news for Disney Plus people. You know,
Netflix got smart with cracking down on password sharing last year. I used to
actually, who didn't borrow and I use the word borrow loosely somebody's Netflix password?
Oh? Sure, can I borrow? Yeah? Yeah, let's say
yeah. But Netflix said, you know what, now, we're gonna come
up with the way that if you don't you cannot share your password out of
home, We're going to force you to buy a your own subscription. And
it worked. Man, Netflix gained millions millions of new subscribers that ended last
year because they cracked down a password share it slowly but surely, I'm going
to continue to call you. Surely there are other streamers that are gonna do
it, and the Disney Plus password sharing cracked down. The countdown is on
people. It starts in gum. They already have rules in place to prevent
subscribers from sharing their passwords. And now we have pretty mu an idea of
when they're going to start making users pay to share it. And it is
going to be starting at June in a few countries. It's going to expand
to all subscribers in September. In September. I'm trying to think, who's
password do I have for Disney? And I'm looking at you act thinking of
you, my dear friend Harry in New Orleans. I think I have your
password. Perry, You're going to need a move in with me. Yeah.
I really shouldn't as for them that, because he definitely would move in
with me or I'm gonna have to pay eight dollars a month. I would
not pay eight dollars a month for Disney. I am trying to think of
all the streamers that I use I have access to, which I do not
have access to Netflix anymore because I don't think Netflix is worth it. I
have Prime, and the reason I have Prime, And the reason you have
Prime Video is because you are an Amazon Prime member, which a lot of
people forget. Oh wait a minute, they have their own streaming. Amazon
Prime's got some good stuff, it's not bad. So I have Amazon Prime.
I have Peacock. But I have Peacock because I have Exfinity. I
pay an armload for Exfinity and I get one level of Peacock, so I
get Peacock, I get a finished it. And now I do have Hulu.
Now I told you I got the deal of the year last Christmas time,
Hulu offered one dollar a month subscription legally actually sorry, ninety nine cents
a month. I pay ninety nine a cents a month for just for one
year before it goes up. So now I have Hulu. Hulu is now
solely owned by Disney. Hulu is built into Disney Plus. So I do
have Hulu, I do have Peacock, I do have Prime. I do
not have Netflix. I have Disney. I don't watch anything on Disney.
What do I watch you on Disney? I don't care really about the Marvel
movies because they're on cable all the time. Star Wars, No, now,
I don't now. The world of cable is changing. And what I'm
more concerned about is what's gonna happen to ESPN. ESPN already has its own
subscription tiers called ESPN Plus, which doesn't offer a lot butt. ESPN has
just said they're getting together with a Warner Brothers Discovery, which actually has TBSTN
T and a number of other things, and they're gonna have their own subscription
channel too. That thing is not gonna be cheap. That thing is gonna
be twenty thirty forty bucks a month. And if that happens, what I'm
probably gonna do. I've been threatening to drop cable for years and years and
years because the only thing I do watch is ESPN. I watch sports.
It's all I'm watching. At that point, I'll just I'll pay forty I'll
pay for my internet access and I'll pay for that Win Sports channel. And
that's about it. Man. Things are getting expensive. But you know what
remains free? Reo. We love radio. You know why radio is free.
I don't know why radio is free, but radio is advertiser supported.
And I say, I don't know because nowadays, even though we're paying for
streaming, it's also ads supported. Because Prime, Netflix, maybe Disney,
they're running ads while we're paying for it. They're using the newspaper magazine subscription.
Yeah, let's go ahead and pay for subscription, and we're going to
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When we come back, we're gonna talk about more, including phones if you
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And I have a meets upgrade. Did you want to download if you
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a look at that clock. People, No, the sun is still out.
There's no eclipse yet. We've been talking about that first hour. We
are halfway through the end of the show. We are half way that happy
hour. It is Saturday as we do this show live on kp RC nine
fifty eight m And you know what, you know what, it's happy because
it's final for hard who has final bar? I have kinetic, I have
u Conn in one of my brackets, so I am still alive. There
I sink that bracket gets to be a whopping ten dollars, and that is
it. Had a good time. A few weeks ago, I went to
Las Vegas. Always go to the first week of March Madness tournament when there's
a ton and we have paired it down to this, the women's final four
actually now the women's National Championship tomorrow. Very exciting, and we got an
eclipse on Monday. I started out the first two segments of the show.
You want to go back and listen to podcasts soon on iHeartRadio you'll hear my
take on why in the world are people freaking out that there isn't there is
eclipse? It gets it gets dark every single night of our lives. And
if you're having an eclipse party, good for you. Imagine if the eclipse
happened on a weekend. That'd be fun. Who's Who's Who's taking to the
debts? It's a late lunch. It's gonna happen around one thirty Central Time
on Monday, Houston. Not in the Path of Totality. I love it's
it. I sound so professional. So the path of totality Austin, San
Antonio, Dallas, my parents up in Dallas, buddies up in Dallas.
I do not know what they're doing in it pay but anyway, see,
yeah, we may not even see The weather forecast is supposed to be a
politic, cloudy, an overcast. So whatever you're gonna do, put your
put your sun's screen on, and don't look up at the sun. I
go back and podcast this. Actually I did talk about special glasses that you
need. Just don't your sunglasses. Don't use your regular sunglasses. I don't
care if they're polarized. I don't care if they're Porsche lens. I don't
care if they're Rave bands or Malwai. Gym's Day are not certified. You
need a specific I as one to three wine two is the number that's got
to be stamped on those things. And so go get a pair of those
and enjoy it. And something sup tells me that it's going to be covered
quite a bit successfully on television with much better views than even looking up through
those pairs of sunglasses. I actually, if you tell you what I will,
I will give you everything you need to know, because I will be
on Great Day Houston, Channel eleven on Monday mornings. Set your clocks between
nine at ten o'clock. I will be reporting live from Space Center used in
dot in clear Lake because they're hosting I believe it's a watch party down there.
I'm not gonna hang around till one o'clock or though. But if you're
out and about in clear Lake on your way to work, come say hi
and we can have a little pre pre party down there, pre party down
there, halfway a happy hour. We are brought to you by Papa's PLR
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Hit me up? Email, hit me up. Maybe a little social
maybe you throw a little part, maybe throw a little trip together. We'll
keep Key West in the summer. Going to Papa's Pilar Distillery. If you
can't wait, go get your own bottle or two or ten. Drink responsibly.
You can go get these things at Total Wine. They're on the shelf,
specs on the shelf, goody goody, and you can make your own
dark and stormy. Should you be having an eclipse watching party on Monday?
Have you done your taxes yet? Oh? By the way, another big
taxes are coming up too. I have known. One of the things about
me, I don't putts around. I really don't. I'm not a procrastinator.
But what is it when it comes to taxes that you just kind of
put it off? So many people I know, Oh, I'm just gonna
file extension April fifteenth. I don't. I'm not an extension filer. Which,
by the way, I do file my taxes every year. People,
I'm I'm tight. I'm good with the RS. I'm on RS is good
side. It is not that hard because I actually have an account. He's
a CPA, which he's a good dude. It does not stand for constant
Pain of the ass. He's actually the World car Parking it did. It's
a real CPA. Good dude. I fill out this big form and I
have all these it's it's a little convoluted because I have all these ten ninety
nine's and whatever it's They don't kid yourself. It ain't a time. But
I give it to him and then we go and I sit in his office
right around April tenth, eleventh, twelfth, son away. I just started
the process, just started the process. I have one rule for my CPA.
One rule. Heap me out of jail. That's it. That's my
rule for my CPA. I did I have any reason to go to the
jail, but just filing on time? Bro, tell me why too?
If I get something back, Let's go to some cocktails, Let's go on
a trip, Let's buy a card, let's do something. Just keep me
freaking out of jail. People, stay out of jail. Pay your taxes.
How come this is not sponsored? How come Turboat tax a software package?
They should sponsor this segment. Nobody is sponsoring this ride down. I
was just letting you know that is coming up. Uh this big week.
We got we got eclipses, we got uh, we got taxes. Actually
it's a it's a it's a pretty big month. When we come back,
we're gonna talk. Actually, no, ho should I do this now?
There is you know, I'm really big with food. I'm really big of
events and a lot of good A lot of charity events, charity ball season,
uh neat things are happening coming up today. What I'm gonna run an
interview. I'm a chat with the good of my Tom Sagesta. He is
the general manager of the downtown Four Seasons Hotel in Houston, and he also
created a charity. It's called Camp h Town. He and his wife run
this and every year they raise money for and they had they they take one
week in the summer and they bring kids who they have cancer certainly normally don't
have the opportunity to go to a beautiful place like the Four Seasons and they
turn an entire floor of the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston and they make it
into Camp h Town for these kids. At the you know, they're cool
and they have cabanas and just fun neat stuff like it. Great event that
you could participate in later this month that has to do with some top celebrity
chefs in Houston year in you're out one of the funnest events. We could
join some great food, but the money goes to such a really great cause.
I'll be talk to the top Debbie a little bit more information and hopefully
you're gonna get some tickets. We can ask some poe with that, but
we could continue the high take dext and show all the way up to the
top of the oup. We are back at it. Hope everybody is having
a wonderful day. It is Michael Garfield KTRC nine fifty AM in Houston,
And if you're not in Houston, we do thank you for downloading the apps
called the iHeartRadio app and you listen to this show everywhere in the country and
actually around the world. But you know, why not come to Houston.
You got about another month or so before he gets really dasty, So we'd
love to have you. By the way, if you're looking for a hotel,
I think I know one really really good one where I will be at
just a few weeks because I plan unattending one of my favorite events of the
year. Listen. There's a lot of wonderful events that raise funds year in
year out of this great city of Ores And I'm honored sometimes d mc it.
I'm honored sometimes to sit at tables, and I'm really honored when there
are some good chefs with great food. So I gained five pounds in a
single night. And this happens to be one of them coming up on April
twenty fourth. It is the I believe it is the fifth annual Celebrity Chef
Against Cancer and it is held once again as always at the Downtown Beautiful Four
Seasons Hotel. It is shared by the great general manager down there, Tom
Sugested and his beautiful wife. I want you to think about going and attending
because this is this is such a special night for you foodies, but also
for a wonderful cause. Mom joins me right now, Tommy top. You
know I'm still digesting all the food from last year. My bad. You're
ready to do it again, absolutely, my thanks for having me on.
We're not gonna go for five pounds this year. We're going to go for
six or seven. I see what you do. It's a special one since
it's our fifth annual Celebrity Chefs Against Cancer. We're so fortunate they have some
great chefs join us again this year, and people have been supportive for all
five years, which really really exciting. And the money goes to raise camp
raise funds for Camp Eachtown and Camp Eagetown is our camp for children that have
been touched by cancer. Every summer, we do it in July. This
year is July fourteenth to nineteenth, and we have about thirty two children and
their siblings working with Andy. And you're said to bring children to the hotel
and have a year a week of camp in an urban setting instead of a
rural setting. We take a whole floor and we and take the furniture out
and put bunk beds in and give them them all camping experiences and show them
things around the city that they might not experience. So we raised money.
April twenty fourth, I'm six to nine pm. Some great chefs that are
going to be here. You get a little taste of their food, from
Marmo to Toro Toros to bayoum Bottles, a garden Race, Alex Brandan's been
I supported for five years. Ben Bird will be there support it for five
years. Just some wonderful, wonderful peopleI ucci to. So you talked about
some of the great restaurants. If you see now, I'm going to be
here April twenty four, So it's something you don't want to miss anyway.
You teat everything up. I don't even know how many questions I have left.
You got it all. But let's let's start with the most important one.
You were very you and your wife are very involved with Camp page Town.
You talked a little bit about it about the kids who obviously who rarely
get the chance to do something to come and stay at at absolutely a top
notch hotel for a while and just just live up the luxury like that.
Ye. How did this start chard involvement in campage down? Well, we
really we formed a nonprofit for Camp Bagetown and I'm the president and my wife
is right alongside of me as a vice president. And we started it back
in Chicago. We started a camp for kids with cancer, and we had
an opportunity and when we moved to Houston to do the same thing, and
we met with the folks over at Andy Anderson and there just have been great
to collaborators with us and ensuring that we had children that we could come and
enjoy a week of camp in this great urban setting and we do things like
go to Astro's game, go to the Houston Zoo has been great to us.
This year, we're going to the Natural Science Museum down We go to
Leakewood Yacht Club and the members of Lake Yacht Lake Laut Club bring out their
their boats and take them on and take all the kids and the counselors on
the out on the golf for about an hour, hour and a half and
they come back and swim. So just so many people getting together that yes,
have these children just be normal. It's like they would go to any
other camp and it's just the whole hotel. It gets involved in it serving
meals to insisted in with the arts. Last year we had a DJing training,
so all the kids learned how to be a DJ. It's just a
wonderful week and this April twenty fourth allows us to raise money for the camp
and we have some great option at him through Michael you know, four or
five different four seasons hotels from Napa Valley to Palm Beach, the Pump to
meet that Serf club in Miami are optioning a couple of nights at their hotels
and beautiful air rings and a great watch and even three magnums of Louis Road
Air champagne. So it's a great fun night and we create a place with
a lot of energy so you can get meet some people that are part of
the off the Houston community and just have a lot of fun. So it's
it's about of fun and enjoying each other and enjoying what Newston has to shell
show in the culinary cuisine. Oh Tommy is the general manager of the Four
Seasons Hotel in Houston, specifically about this really big event, the great fundraising
opportunity. It is April twenty fourth, as he said, it is downtown
at the Four Seasons Hotel, Houston. You work with the ut M d
Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital. It's I know, it's it's an oncology camp that
helps kids who've been touched by cancer, and it's just a unique opportunity.
Listen, I remember going to camp and out out in the woods in Texas
heat with ticks and canvas tents. It was it's not the type of camp
you're providing them. So I mean described the faces the attitudes of these kids
who were just you know, living you know without you know, to some
extent in the lap of luxury for a week. Well, it's wonderful.
We started off with a reception over Georgia Brown Center where they parents shop off
their kids and the kids are signing in and getting all their camp materials and
shirts and so forth. We walk them over to the Four Seasons from the
Georgia Brown. We have a red carpet that goes to the lobby of the
hotel with all our staff. They're ready to greet the kids as they walk
into the hotel and they run upstairs and open the doors to their cabins.
And the cabins are a beautiful guest room with bunk beds and all I'll decked
out with a great betting and just camp style, and they go to the
swimming pool. We have a barbecue and that kicks off the week. Kicks
off the week. A lot of the kids don't know each other. They
might know each other a little bit, so you know, it's just great
to see them buying throughout the week. And by the end of the week
they're just having a ball and they've made new friends. And we do this
something special every every night before everybody goes to bed. We call it tipping
the hat. You put on a cowboy hat and you're asked, do you
have anything that you were grateful about today or anybody you want to thank?
And you get the cowboy hat and you say, I like to tip the
hat to my counselors, or it's Andy Anderson, or to the four seasons
or just two few friends that you made. So it's really an opportunity to
be grateful for what happened that day. And that's a really special moment.
As we go through the through the week, and one of our favorite parts
is House of Blues but prom night, uh Thursday night, so uh we
get lower awards. Wonderful. She donates dresses for the girls, and the
girls throughout the week to pick out their dresses and try them on, and
I've seen she just near Hemzum and the kids get all dressed up and we
go to the House Blues to have dinner and dancing to this jockey and we
dance the night away for a problem night before they before they come home,
so jilly, all different types of activities that made it really really fat,
so very joyous community no doubt shit tip their hats to you and your wife
for making five years and raising so much money and being able to do this
real quickly before you let you go. I know, obviously it's there's the
fundraising element of what you're trying to do. Without a doubt you're going to
shatter and accomplish all these records. But for the people who are interested in
going there is as you said, there's a lot of food. You know,
always the first the ballroom is just massive. When you walk in,
there's a great DJ. It's just a wonderful vibe of the the events I've
been to. But the first thing I see I always stop at Toro,
your famous restaurant in Steve. You got Jonathan Asparzi's always making some good stuff
and buy you and bottle favor. I'm not kid in my favorite bar in
the city because it is all it's brown water. Baby. You know,
I'm a bourbon guy, so you really roll off the red carpet and you've
got some heavy hitters this year for the around Houston chefs. Absolutely, you
got to come and try our new bourbon from Garrison Brothers. We made a
new barrow of Garrison from Garrison Brothers and it was just brought in a couple
weeks ago, so you got to come try that and just great chefs.
And you know, this year really exciting because we last year we started a
camp in Atlanta also, and this year we're starting to camp in Baltimore and
camping Houston. So it's really something that's been catching on. So it's just
been wonderful to see the Houston community just embrace what we're trying to do,
and what they're doing is really giving children a chance to be normal, make
some new friends, and really have a camping at scire is coming up at
his April twenty fourth. It is the celebrity Chefs Against Cancer. It is
at four Seasons Hotel Houston, tom for If people want to quickly before they
sold out to get some tickets or tables, how can they get the information
Camptown camphtown dot org and do the events page and you can go ahead and
get tickets and make a donation there or the tickets at two hundred dollars the
piece and we look forward to c and guarantee you have a good time.
It meets you friends, I always do. It is camphtown dot orgon I'll
say this, we're all friend Well listen, we're all friends of the media,
we're all friends of charity. But despite the fact that once again I
was bumped off the mic by my good friend Ruben Domingos is the MC,
I'm still gonna go. I'm still gonna dress better than he is. Okay,
he gets if he gets a horse throat. I am your backup guy.
Absolutely to be honor to both have you and Rubinair. So it's just
we appreciate the support on you dude. Congratulations to you your wife. Four
Seasons Hotel used to d April twenty four checked out his camphtown dot org.
The diet starts today, baby, I cannot wait, and I'll see you
on the twenty four. Tom Nick forty, Michael, thank you for all
you have. Thank you very much to Tom. Folks, this is a
you know, maybe it's the the spring's coming up and you want to bust
out some new clothing or you feel like, you know, you've been cooped
up in the winter all along. This is a great time to get out.
If you haven't been to the Four Seasons Hotel, you uston. They
take such a good job. I mean they've got to the Bayou and Bottle,
They've they've got a freaking golf simulator in there. Man. That It's
just it's in the heart of everything downtown and it is great and Helm is
one of the most gracious and wonderful people in this city. Campagetown dot dot
org. Michael Garfields a name KPRC nine fifty a M stamp Hi, We're
going to come back right after this. Hey, thank you again to mister
Tom Sagesta. He is the general manager that the Four Seasons Houston. It's
I just love hearing stories about that nonprofits helping helping people, certain kids in
this case experience something fun. I mean, listen day forty. Yeah.
I love resorts. I love traveling four Seasons man. That's that's top relying
people. And you know, I've had the opportunity and the ability just to
stay in nice places like that, but there are there are so many people
who don't have the opportunities, and so what they're doing to give kids a
week in camp at a four Seasons is pretty special. That is coming up
at the end of April. We gave you the website that if you just
missed that interview, check it out on podcasts, which we'll be posted on
iHeartRadio, which you should download. That appen about the thirty minutes or so.
Calum, mister Callum Reid, who edits out? Do you don't edit
out anything? There's there's too much gold in this content, Callum. I
must be the easiest show to put on podcast. You don't have to edit
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just kind of like Thton Page Man, you put it on there. And
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down I forty five in Southeast Texas, We're here for you to keep you
entertained. I'll give you the number seven one three, two, one,
two five nine five. Oh. I talk a lot about cars and people.
Really, it's really nice because this isn't just about technology. I'm not
your Kim Commando. I'm not going to tell you how to fix your computer
and motherboard and crap like that. I'm gonna go tell you which new device
to buy. What's a relatively inexpensive water compare a lot of products. And
it's not just in tech, it's it's in everything. It's in automobiles.
You know, I do cars and trucks. For fifteen plus years, I
have reviewed on a regular basis every type of vehicle that prop and I'm not
going to say motorcycles, but mostly things with four wheels. And this past
week I was rolling in a very nice car. I was in an Infinity
q X fifty five. I don't love Infinities, or which is the high
end version of Nissan. A little plastic key this is. It's a it's
a nice small suv. We'll call it a CUV. Four doors, hatch
back, relatively good cargo space, the the infotainment center system, it's it's
you know, I got these two screens that have always kind of thrown me
off. I don't know why that. I'll make it one screen, a
larger screen. It's you know, it's okay, up, there was this
there's this piece of plastic, at least my my demo car, that kept
falling off. When you know, when you open the driver's side of your
the door, there's that kickplate there's this, you know, right between you
know, we're on top where the door closes and where the door opens,
you know the bottom part of that, and there's this just plastic piece.
And every time I get out, my left foot gets out. And if
this, this three foot long plastic piece just falls out, I have no
clue why. And again that could easily be fixed or glued in if I
actually own this car. But I get these cars for a week, and
I'll give you my thoughts when I'm testing and driving. And next week I'm
gonna be in a a Chevy Colorado, which is a pretty it's very nice.
It's it's a mid size. It's a it's a mid sized truck,
not a big half ton or something. And so I like those maneuverability.
So tune in next week and I'll give you that. But the point is,
the past two weeks, I've been in gas powered cars, and I
like gas powered cars, and I'm getting I'm really The topic of electric vehicles
continues to bubble up as I see information news from companies that companies aren't manufacturers,
they're not having as much success with evs as they thought they were going
to ESLA is having some issues in one of which was Tesla. And I'm
not gonna only rag on Tessa over here, Tesla because there's a Texas based
company, which we love. Tesla models. When you come out with a
car, and I know the car, I know the automobile industry, you
have got to keep out every year at least maybe two years of updating a
model of a car, but something new in it. Give it is software
upgrade, maybe change the bumper, do something. Tesla just for all back
to a purpose. It's it's relatively not brand new car manufacturer based. You
know, obviously if you put it up against anything of the Big Three or
anything coming out of Michigan, they really haven't updated a lot of their models.
There's the Model WHY, there's the Model X, there's the S,
there's the three. They just they just need to come up with new stuff
to keep people happy. And that's one of the reasons as they're not selling.
I see I anecdotally. I talk to a few buddies of mine who
run dealerships and not name naming any names. A lot of EV's just sitting
out there on the on the end, they're dis greatly discounted. I do
like evs I like the concept of EV's, I think, and you've heard
me talk about this almost every week, Michael. I know what you're gonna
say. They go fast, they're sexy, they're cool. They are,
but the infrastructure of how we have to charge them when traveling and waiting ain't
appened. I already have enough anxiety. I don't need range anxiety. It's
by range fifty miles. I need to find some place to charge it.
Finally, if I'm find someplace to charge it, oh wait a minute,
I gotta wait thirty minutes because all the chargers being taken. Finally I get
on there. Oh wait a minute, they're not up to full capacity speed.
It's only charging at fifty percent, which means I now I have to
wait another hour to charge it and I'm still not going to get a full
one hundred percent electric charge. Can't do it, people. I need to
get from A to B, A to Z in a snap. So much
so I saw this news. There are now manufacturers who have planned to kill
all of their They had planned to kill all over most of their gasoline power
cars in favor of evs. They are backtracking on that. This just m
Ford Mortar Company, the laying production of an all electric suv and pickup truck.
They are like many other manufacturers. They're instead focusing on offering hybrid options
across its entire North American lineup by twenty thirty. Now for It says it's
going to continue to invest in evs. But you know what the shift comes
as an entire automotive industry has been rethinking plans for EVS. I like hybrids.
Hybrids are fine. Hybrid means a combination that hits the definition of hybrid
of gas and electricity. Some of these electric cars that are hybrids, you
don't need to plug them in. They regenerative braking. They will charge itself
as you break. I'm fine with this. I just we wait. I
don't know it is a chicken or egg. Did the motor did the manufacturers
force EVS on it? Or was it just these yuppies first to market,
the Californians or whoever it was. It's like, oh, this is a
great new thing, man, it's it's it. We're gonna go all electric
and save the gas thing. Knowing that the batteries, we have no clue
how long the life of a real battery is. Before you have to spend
more tens of thousands of dollars replacing the battery, and how are you going
to dispose of those batteries. It's not all green, so there's some issues.
I'm not telling you to go out and sell your EV. I'm not
telling you to go not to buy an EV, but I'm just telling you
right now, these are facts. When you got the Ford Motor Company saying
a week we've announced in all electric suv and all electric pickup truck, we're
gonna rethink that we're kind of good delay that because there's a lot of GPS
that are sitting all the dealership blots right now. We need a discount,
we need to buy. We need to build something people are going to buy.
So there's your iyebage right now. If you want to get into discussions
when it comes to UH Carson Trucks, I am your guy seven one oh.
Let me hit this because I teased it. I talk a lot about
phones. One of the things that I do I get to test a lot
of new phones other than Apple. Apple does not send me jack, so
I don't talk about Apple. I love Samsung, Motorola, and uh as
A recently one plus, very very I'm very pleased with one Plus. It
is an Android Chinese company O N E P l U s. They just
came out with the one plus twelve, the twelfth version of it. It
does not fold, it does not flip, even though they did release a
foldable phone end of last year, which I also like. I have that
too. It's as about software when you're buying a and well we could talk
about this with the Android. There's Google Pixel, There's Samsung, There's one
Plus, There's Motorola, there there's thing. You have a lot of options
when it comes to Android phones. Do you want one that folds? Do
you want one that flips? But what kind of software do you want?
I think Google, because Google is the company that makes Android. Android is
on by Google. Okay, so when you actually have a manufacturer from Google
Pixel, they're gonna pack every piece of software artificial intelligence in there. They've
got some really neat stuff. I love the commercials. Take a photo,
you can use artificial intelligence. You can easily delete somebody. It's actually called
the magic eraser circle something, and they're gone. You can move the pictures
up and down. Samsung has something like it. One Plus did not have
anything like that. Breaking news. Should you have a one plus phone?
And I actually my dad has one, and I actually I've got three or
four of them right now there there. One plus is rolling out updates to
a bone with something called the AI Eraser feature, the AI Eraser feature,
and it's its own version of Magic Eraser. It's it's it's the company's first
AI powered feature, and it's going to be available on a range of one
plus smartphones, including everything I talked about, the one plus twelve, the
twelve R, the Win plus Open, which is the foldable phone that I
have also and uh they uh they can raise some perfections in the photo.
And what it does, it's the artificial intelligence and analyzes an area, creates
a background that that you know, will blend into an existing image. Google
has something called the Magic Eraser. Adobe has something too if you want to
play butt software. It's called Generative Phil. So I thought that was pretty
nice. It's it's i'm i'm, i'm, I love these features. And
just just to finish the subject, when you're deciding on the phone, people,
you dance with the one who brung you. I'm never gonna be the
one who says, hey, all you Apple fanboys, and fangirls out there,
you need to look at an Android. Android. It's about time you
get with the program and stop being a blue dot, green dot and get
over due to Apple. Never I am not the one to convince you of
that. It's pure pressure. It's what your family, it's what your business
news to communicate whatever. But if you're looking and when you have Apple,
you pretty got no choice other than Apple, other than which model fifteen fourteen
thirteen Android, which is the world's most popular. This is a fact time
at big time. I think it's got at least seventy percent share versus Apple
iOS. The Android operating system on phones in the world, in the world,
not just the United States, more popular. That's why I like using
androids, because I want to speak to some of the massive parts of my
audience of how do you utilize Android? All right, And it's not that
hard to work an Android. It's really almost no different than working an Apple
iOS. There's buttons, there's a phone, you talk, you use your
get type and it's all the same. But look at the different software features
too. And I'm the one who help can guide you this thing. I
think Google Pixel is phenomenal. I do like Samsung one Plus. I knew
they lacked a few things. Seeing this update it brings them up with the
crowd too. You look for price, you look for battery life, and
I just I'm interesting. I think the phone market itself, it's at a
very stagnant period of time. There's nothing other than flippant foldal phones, which
Apple does not have as of right now. There's really been no big innovation
when it comes to the hardware part of phones. What is the next one?
I don't know, but every year we get a new phone, and
you just have to have it, even though you really don't. You do
have to stay here for the final ten minutes the show. We're gonna take
our final break this week. It is Michael Barfield. Don't go anyway.
Wherever you are, however, you are listening to this program terrestrially or via
the IR Radio app. We do thank you for listening. We got the
final actually less, we got less than ten minutes. Man, we've been
talking too much. Be it the Eclipse, be it car reviews, be
it tax season. Don't forget about that, the password sharing crackdown. We
try to cover it all. I look at your topics. Listen to your
phone calls, whether we take a phone call or not. I could see
you guys holding on the phone lines with some of the topics are I try
to treat you you as much information as possible before we get out of here.
One of the one of the more hot topics that I have been questioned
or getting about, surely in the state of Texas in the past few weeks
has been the use of vp ns virtual private networks and also an anti virus.
And the question is, hey, garth Man, what's the diff between
an anti virus and a VPN? And hang with me. I'm kind of
tell you why Texas is a lot of Texans have been asking him about this.
Both a virtual private network and an anti virus, those programs can help
protect your digital life, but each week they're different. Each one serves a
completely different purpose. A vp INN keeps your Internet activity private, and the
antivirus software helps keep your connected devices secure from outside threats like viruses, duh
and other belware. So VPN focuses on privacy, antivirus software concentrates on security.
Ah cool, everybody follow the follow lines. Okay, it's good.
So the EPN The reason I'm getting questions from the VPN there. Generally,
there was a law that was passed in Texas a few weeks ago that certain
websites cannot be accessed in the state of Texas. And these are, for
lack of a better term, pornography sites. Can we say that word or
sites that are very similar to that, And yes it is. It is
very simple to turn the on and off key that in him knowing where you
are through your IP address, where you're where your server is located. Now
listen to the words where is your server located? Where I'm based in Houston.
We're all the staffer. We're based in Houston. We're connected to the
Internet, we are on the either AT and T fiber line whatever it is.
The servers go are somewhere in the state of Texas. So every time
our IP address those numbers that we don't care what they are, it knows
I'm in the state of Texas. Well. There are certain states that allow
you their countries. There's China doesn't let you even get out of the country.
They know where you are. What a VPN does. A VPN one
of the many things it does it keeps your Internet privacy, but it also
can confuse the servers and mask where you are. So to answer your question
without getting really technical, there is a way to surf websites that legally,
I guess now in Texas, you're not supposed to be surfing in Texas and
still surf them in Texas by using a VPN. That's all I'm saying.
I'm not telling you to do it, not telling you do it, but
that is what a VPN is. Works like this. It's software that encrypts
your Internet traffic and route you and all your data through an encrypted tunnel to
a secure server and another location. And in the process, the VPN changes
your right p address to the address of a different serfer that you're connected through,
and that makes websites think you're in a different geographical area, different state,
different country, and that helps boost your online privacy because it really renders
your Internet traffic indecipherable to your ISP, to your government hat workers, hackers,
do your network administrators, while it hides your true IP address from websites
you visit. Now you aware that when you use a VPN, it's now
the VPN rather than your ISP that could technically monitor or log your traffic.
So it is vital that you use a trustworthy VPN. There's a number of
them out there, and there's a lot of benefits to a VPN. VPN
they can help you buypass firewalls. They can access the open Internet if you
live in a region with heavy Internet censorship, if you're a student block from
accessing certain sites on school Wi Fi. You can use a VP at the
hydri Internet browsing activity from your ISPEP, and a number of things like that.
That is, what of should you get one? Should you not?
It's up to you. I'm just letting you know. I get asked this
thing. What is it? On the other side, what's an antivirus?
Antivirus software? They scan your device feters, laptops and stops phones. They
scan it for viruses and malware, and the antivirus software it could detect and
block malware from infecting your computer. They could delete it. If it's already
on your computer, you could do a manual scan keep it running. But
if it's it keeps your computer safe from viruses and everything else. Fraud identify
that you have a less chance of that happening. Not foolproof. It is
not foolproof, but those antivirus programs can warn you if you're visiting a side
or clicking link that could be malicious. Do you need both? They're both
good tools to use, but they each protect you in different ways. Each
one is an incomplete solution if you're looking for comprehensive online privacy and security.
So if you want complete protection, yeah, go ahead. Both have an
antivirus. Have a VPN in your arsenal. I'm not gonna we're running out
of time. I'm not gonna get you any specific ones. Do your research
next week. You know what, If you guys want to email me,
contact me, post it on my socials high tech texting. What's your favorite
VPN? What's your favorite anti security software? I don't endorse one. I
do on one of my devices. I have a VPN. I have antivirus
software on everything, as you should. First thing, when the first thing
I did when I started, when I created my high tech text and brand,
I started on a channel two and twenty twenty three years ago. Man,
when the first thing I told people, make sure you have an antivirus,
make sure you change your passwords. Almost a quarter century later, I'm
still doing that same thing, and I'm a quarter century later, I'm still
on iHeartRadio and on KPRC nine fifty am. I do want to thank our
chief had honcho here in the Houston area, Eddie Martini, Brian Erickson,
Mark Sherman, and everybody else who runs the iHeartRadio. I do want to
thank you. Happy Eclipse, DAG, happy whatever day you're celebrating. Go
out, be safe, have fun, watch the final four. Let's just
hope you keep on living in this crazy world that we are. My name
Michael Garfield. This is the Heightened Texting Show, and right now my show
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