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food, consumer lifestyle. Yes, apparently we are going to mix in a
lot of technology because there was a little bit of news coming out of Coopertine
or California earlier this week. But I do want to say hello. For
the next two hours, it's me, it's you, And if you're happy
to have your TV on, keep your eyes on those college football games.
If you're listening live and two ears right here to KPRC nine fifty am that
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app. The name is Michael Miguel, Michael Garf anything but Mike, I
am fine with that. I'll tell you what, folks, there's going to
come a day when tech journalists tech entertain a list like myself tech bloggers that
we do not feel compelled to be a dutiful extension of Tim Cook's marketing department
people. That day is not today because Tim Cook and Apple they had an
announcement earlier this week, and I am actually going to talk about it,
which is a bit rare because if you know me for two plus decades,
I don't talk a lot about Apple. Yes I know they're out there,
Yes I know they're ubiquitous. Yes I know nine out of ten teenagers has
an iPhone versus other phones. And that is actually a stat that I saw
earlier this week. But I'm proud to be a green bubble guy in Android.
I do get shunned for that, but I'll tell you what more people
use, and I'll tell you again the Android operating system than iOS. And
so I've got to talk to my masses. At least that's my excuse.
You know, it was with every iPhone release, all the tech nerds around
the world. They're split over whether the product evolution is either impressive or is
it superficial. Well, I'm going to quickly break down and the six or
seven ish products that they announced that it is not in stores yet, but
they will be in less been a week from right now. And by the
way, I'd love to hear from you. Have you pre ordered the iPhone
fifteen, any one of the four models you're looking forward to get one or
two of the new watches they talked about. I am at seven one three,
two, one two five nine five. Oh, we do give out
that phone number because it's an interactive radio show. We'd love to talk to
you. Feel free to disc disguise your voice, feel free to disguise your
accent. If you are from other countries that you don't want to pretend actually
are from the Great United States of America. We are here for you.
Calum read Hello, sir. You are going to be picking up the phone
calls and anybody. Well, if anybody tries to call and wants to know,
what are my thoughts, ma'am? Is it? Should I should I
switch to Android? Should I stay with iPhone? Should I spend the seven
hundred to twelve hundred dollars on a new iPhone. Well, I'm gonna let
you decide, because a lot of you fanboys and fangirls, you've already decided,
you know long. I realized that a long time ago, and it
has been sixteen years since the first iPhone came out. I've stopped trying,
and I really never have tried to convince one side of the faction to flipping
to the other side of the faction. There used to be a lot of
comparison. I used to compare the iPhone to the Android phones. And I'm
not singing out any specific Android phone because there are many, from Samsung to
Google to that Nokia LG. I mean way back in the day too one
plus wy Y. I mean there's a number of them out there, a
lot of Chinese manufacturers, just that they're they're out there right now nowadays.
My ILK who are also covered the tech industry and myself, we don't we
don't really compare well, there's this iPhone better than this Android or in the
other phone, because I believe in folks, correct me if I'm wrong.
At this point in your life, at this point in your everyday processes,
you're what your lifestyle, your business. You're pretty much setting your ways over
which operating system you're gonna go to. Are you in the Apple ecosystem?
Okay? If you are, you're pretty much you're gonna go with the iPhone.
Okay, cool? Great, Great, I mean I'm not giving you
crap. Good for you, go for it. If you're not, there's
many androids to choose from so gone to the days where I'm saying, you
know, I get a call, Hey, Michael, why are you such
an Android fan? You know, don't you like this and blue dot and
green dot and facetimes all this stuff, and I you know, maybe back
in the day, I'm like, well, because it does this baby dolls.
If you're an iPhone gallery girl, if you're an iPhone hawk, good
for you. You just keep getting the iPhone seriously. And if you're an
Android person, and if you like androids, you know, do you want
to flip flop either way? It's it's it's up to you. I'm just
gonna break down and give you. Are these products decent? Are the new
features on these new devices worth trading in? Upgrading, giving away year old
phone, buying a new one, setting it up it's up to you,
but I will start with this. Let me let me complete the first segment
here for about two more minutes. News Yes, out of Cupertino, California.
The September events that Apple does, they've always been a spectacle, big
spectacle. I watched in online and it wasn't so much like when Steve Jobs
used to do it. It was like live webcast. He's on stage,
he's got his little jeans and his black turnleck on and he talks about the
computers and maybe the iPads, and then it's in one more thing. No,
this was a slick Hollywood movie production that Tim Cook, who now runs
Apple did. It looked pretty much all prerecorded, and which is funny because
the people covering it, maybe some other tech journalists or nerds or whatever,
who were in the Coupertino, California Theater on Apple's campus, all they were
doing and they were sitting in auditorium and watching this movie the same way we
were watching the movie online on when it was dreaming what they did get to
do. They actually did get to play with a hands on and you know,
see it for even a few minutes. I will let you know this
in about twenty minutes from now. A buddy of mine who does almost exactly
what I do in California in the Los Angeles area, he is going to
come on because he was at the launch in California, and he's going to
give us his thoughts and we're gonna kind of compare what we each think.
So standby for that's in twenty minutes. But really, here's the Delio.
Four new phones released, the ipple iPhone fifteen and the iPhone fifteen plus the
iPhone fifteen Pro in the iPhone fifteen Pro Max, so pretty much standard.
Every time Apple comes out with an iPhone, there's about four versions of it,
two on and I hate to say it, but let's just let's call
it the standard end, and then two on the higher end. With the
Pro maxes. They do start at eight hundred dollars. The highest one goes
up to about twelve hundred dollars. I could sit there and make fun of
the price, but you know what that is. What the price is.
Samsung came out with an eighteen hundred dollar phone about two months ago. These
are full computers and they do a lot. The iPhone fifteen to fifty plus
pretty much. They quickly continue the legacy of pretty much all their predecessors.
Apple calls it power and elegance. There is a new chip in a sixteen
bionic chip. And I could talk about all the chips I want. That
means nothing to you, Willie. I think you're very happy with the speed
of your phone and whatever. There's maybe some computational photography coulda capabilities on the
lower end, but they didn't really upgrade the camera lands on the lower end
versions. They do have a ceramic shield front cover kind of a glass back
cover the upper level ones. Yes, there are some upgrades when it comes
to the cameras, even a higher end chip. And again I'm not gonna
go, well, you know how fast this thing is. But at the
end of the day, and I'm gonna leave you with this to think about.
The headline Bury the lead and I did a lot of interviews in the
past two or three days. Hey, Michael Richard thoughts in the iPhone.
The lead story is the fact that these new iPhones Apple for the first time
in eleven years, they are kissing the lightning charger bye bye, and they
are flipping to what the rest of the world uses, including the androids,
the USBC and when you know that the lead. The big story is,
oh my, the lightning charger is gone, and there's a new way to
charge your phone. When more people talk about charging your phone versus the phone
itself, they tell you there's not a lot to see with the new phones.
I'll let you just rest on that tasty tidbit as we come back.
Michael Garfield is right here. It is the high tech tacting chow, just
like that big movie boy said, Michael is my name? Feel free to
hit us up. People love to talk to you. Not a big football
game until six o'clock tonight when at your okay, my Texas Lawhorns take on
Wyoming Cowboys twenty seven and a half point spread. People who you got,
tell you what? This is what happens man. You have a good game
like we did last week at Alabama. Oh, the world's now on you.
Twenty seven and a half. I'm not a gambling guy, but I'm
kind of a gambling I'll tell you this. The Horns should win. I
don't think they're gonna win by twenty seven and a half, so the Please
don't take my advice, but don't laugh at me if I'm wrong. Wyoming
plus twenty seven and a half closer to the twenty seven and a half Horns
will win. There you go. Don't give me crap if I'm wrong,
but feel free to give me money if I am right. Calum, I
don't know about you. You're at You're a gambler, Calum. Calum read
here on the other side of the death. Now, I am a gambler.
I go to Las Vegas over under four and a half times a year.
See what do you see what I did there? This is why I
am a professional talk show host. Me to personality. I go to Vegas
to gamble over under four and a half times for a year. Probably gonna
hit the under this year. I'm going on. I'm going to at least
one more time this year, and then I'll start off with Cees and Jane
where anyway, no big deal. You see what's happening with the world of
technology with MGM and Caesar's Resorts. These two casinos were hacked earlier this week
and they're still not up to full speed. Some ransomware group claim responsibility for
this MGM Resorts cyber outage, and MGM Resorts owns a ton of hotel casinos
in Vegas, and I've been watching this on social media. I haven't really
seen it in mainstream media. I mean, and I watched the nightly news.
But social media there's there's people who anecdotally that they're in Vegas and they're
standing in line waiting to check in. The Computer systems are down, the
locks on the doors are down, the slot machines are not working. Man,
I'll tell you what I mean. There's a lot of money. Caesar's
was also hit earlier this week. Get this. They this team who held
them for ransom. They asked for thirty million dollars Caesar's. Caesar paid half
of that. I think Caesar's Properties Resorts they paid fifteen million dollars to undo
the malware system. The I mean the group's claim to use this common social
engineering tactics, are gaining trust from employees to get inside information. I mean,
they're trying to get brandsom money out of that. It's freaking crazy,
man. I mean it's the MGM Resorts. I mean, they can shut
down the Las Vegas Strip. MGM says, uh, you know, we're
we're back up to operational speeds. I don't know, be careful what you're
doing. I mean, this is a wake up call. Not I mean
this is a casino. I know, Oh what a big deal. It's
a multi multi multibillion dollars deal in that industry. And then I mean,
think about it. Could I mean, if if they could take down You've
got to think that the systems that casinos are incredibly secure IT systems. When
the government's IT system is hacking goes down, we are screwed. And understand
how I just raise that I said when I did not use IF. I
mean you talk about warfare. You know, I'm not sure if there's gonna
be a World War three per se or anything right now. But I'm telling
you what the next day. Some way to shut down a government is to
go straight for their infrastructure. The I thing. I'm telling you people,
it's just s s shore everything up. Now. Hey, now that I
pepped you guys up, we're worried. Oh we were talking about the iPhone.
Anybody gonna get the iPhone fifteen seven one three two one two five nine
foe five nine five four New iPhones were announced. They will be on sale
next Friday, which is the twenty second. The iPhone fifteen, the iPhone
fifteen plus then we got the fifteen Pro and the fifteen Pro Max. I
will tell you this, I am not getting any of them. To continue
my track record with not having an iPhone. I think since the iPhone one,
I think since five phone, I don't even see I see people holding
their iPhone. I see people taking selfies. I can I see people holding
them up on TV. I can tell within two tents of a second is
that an iPhone or not, just because the way that the camera outlie is.
You know what it looks like on the iPhone. If it's not the
two or three kind of a square array, triangle array of a phone,
you know it's not it. My girlfriend's got an iPhone. I'm just last
time actually see one of those. I don't even look at the phone itself.
I just know there's there's an iPhone. I know. I'm a green
dot guy. If you if you, if you have an iPhone, if
you text somebody doesn't have an iPhone, you don't get that little blue dot
going back and forth. You get a green dot. I just like band
different and it's not easy being actually it is very easy being green. The
two higher phones, so they're gonna go up to twelve hundred dollars. The
camera is a little bit more improved I have because I will I will not
play with one. I won't see it. I can't. I can't tell
you is this the best camera on the market. I do know this,
and this is just an anecdotal. When I take pictures with my phones and
they're generally a Samsung phone, this is not a Samsung commercial. Even the
iphoners say, hey, listen, we get let's get a group shot.
Michael. We're gonna use your phone because you have a better camera. The
cameras are not just phones, are not just cameras. There's the operating system,
there's the infrastructure that's that's the way it works with your iMac, your
Mac deskop with everything. So anyway, those are coming out. But the
big news, let me spend about three or four minutes on this. To
me, the big news is the Apple's proprietary lightning connector is Gonzo. After
eleven years, they're switching to USB C the letters C you know what USB?
You know what USB Universal Cereal Bus. That's the way to connect devices,
to charge them and to transfer data. They've been around for many,
many years, but there's many, many different types, and they're very confusing
too. If you look in your car, if your car is more than
three, four or five years old, you probably have a USB charger and
it's got that's it's a larger plug. And you have to when you plug
in something, you have to make sure you're plugging it the right way.
Over fifty percent of the time you know you're gonna plug it in. It's
like, oh, so I gotta turn it on upside down. That's a
USB a USBC the letter C. It's symmetrical. It's like an oval.
Doesn't matter if you plug it upside down, right side up. It works
for the most part. USBC. It's a faster way to charge, and
it's a much faster way to transfer data. I'm gonna get into this because
not all usbc's or usbc's that to me has been the big news. Is
it big news? We'll listen. Remember this. This is the third type
of court. And I'm gonna use the word port that Apple has used in
as iPhones when it first came out. If you remember this, there was
in very long thirty pin connector PAM, really weird looking, and they hey
had that for a good four or five years. Then it was the iPhone
sex They said, hey, you know what, we got this lightning and
I like the lightning because it doesn't matter which way you plug it, upside
down, right side up. But it was Apple and it was proprietary.
And let me help you out how Apple works. It is one of this
not the world's most viable company. They want you to use all their products
and everything. They're gonna make a proprietary the lightning, only work with the
connector, only work with the Apple products. They wanted you to buy the
chords, they wanted you to buy the special cases. They wanted to do
everything. Apple did not really want to switch to USBC, but due to
regulations in Europe, the EU European Union, they had to do it.
Last year, the EU said, and they passed the law that by twenty
twenty four all mobile personal devices has to have USBC. They're doing this to
make it to make waste E waste better. They want one standard adapter.
So every time, why all these other adapters because this every time you throw
them away, the plastic in the air and everything. So the European Union
said electronic makers they had to support the standard thing. And Apple last year
said man, we sell a lot of phones in Europe. Ain't no way
we're gonna come up with two different iPhones with a lightning screw it. We're
gonna comply with the law. USBC has become universally accepted standard, and that
was what Apple said earlier this week. We're bringing it to the iPhone,
one of the percenters says, But the shift to USB chargers for the iPhone
fifteen, it's gonna mean that Apple users old lightning cables they ain't gonna work.
No more people, they ain't gonna work. By the way, Apple,
the shares of Apple, they closed down more than a one percent after
the event Tuesday, means nothing still valuable. But that to me seem to
be the lead. More people are talking about, including me. When I
was doing all these interviews, well, the fifteen and they got four phones.
But guess what, Welcome to the world of USBC. We now have
one universal core, which is actually good for me because so many, so
many of my friends iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, and if I'm in their
car and I need to charge my Android, all they had is a lightning
cable. People were all gonna live under one happy roof. We are brothers.
We are assistants. We are one of family. Right now on the
USBC, Praise the Lower, Praise the European Union, and welcome to the
twenty first century Apple. It is about freaking time, all right, let
me come back. I'm gonna dial up a good buddy of mine who does
the same. He's not the high tech Californian I told him to coin that,
but he is a radio and TV technology personality like myself on the left
coast. He was actually at the announcement in Cupertino, California. I'm gonna
get his thoughts and so you can hear about it. Well, what's going
on in the world of Apple along with your phone calls. Later in the
show, it's Garth the high Tech Tips back at it. It is the
long running high Tech tech and show. Michael Garfield open phone lines here seven
one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, that number has
not changed in two decades that I have been doing this show. Do you
know what's changed in two decades? It's what type of phone you have called
me on here in the studio. You remember the rotary phone days. Okay,
we're not going to talk about that, but it seems every single month
there's a new phone that has been launched and released, and obviously, since
the start of the show this morning, we have been talking about the news
that little company in Cupertino, California, has just announced its new lineup of
phones. I apparently was very busy this week, or my invitation got lost
the mail. I was not in Cupertino, so I have to live micariously
through press releases and also some of my ilk who attended the Cupertino, California
press launch, one of which is a good buddy of mine. His name
is rich DeMuro. He is in Los Angeles. He is on KTLA channel
five. He by the way, he's the high Tech California I've mentioned this
before. He's on KFI, which is their talk radio station in Los Angeles.
On iHeartRadio. He covers technology. He joins me, right now,
Richie, Rich, how are you, my friend? I'm doing fantastic and
the high Tech Californian by way of New Jersey because I'm actually from New Jersey.
So wait a minute, I'm living in California. If you trademark both
of those, because I've got the techs and think over, are you better
hurry out? No? Well, we've got the almost the whole country,
right, Yeah, we actually actually the ones that colt. Let's put it
that way, Rich, Listen, There's gonna come a day when tech journalist
tech bloggers don't feel compelled to be an extension of Kim Cook's marketing department.
But today, my friend, is not that day. As with every iPhone
release, tech nerdum if you will, it's split over whether the evolution is
either impressive or superficial. I have talked about it. You have seen the
IFO fifteen quick thoughts. Impressive, superficial? Is it evolved? Look?
I think this is evolutionary, not revolutionary. The iPhone itself was revolutionary,
of course what you can do on it. It's still an amazing platform.
And the changes that Apple makes to this device are very helpful for iPhone user.
So, for instance, you've got USBC. You've been talking about it.
That is a big change. It's something that Android users have come to
know and love. But now that we have one cable and one type of
connection for everything, it makes life a lot easier in so many different ways.
The accessories you purchase, the cables you purchase, the different devices that
you're trying to plug into you ask a friend for a cable, you're no
longer shunned. If you need an iPhone cable or an Android cable, it's
all going to be the same. So that in itself is a big deal.
Of course, we know Apple was really forced to do this by way
of the EU. It's not something they necessarily wanted to do on their own,
even though they've had Lightning for ten years. But the other changes,
things like improved camera. You know, the action button on the side of
the iPhone fifteen Pro is actually pretty cool. They did the improved zoom on
the iPhone fifteen Pro Max. So what you're seeing here is a lot of
different choices, a lot of small things, but they add up to kind
of meaningful changes if you're an iPhone user that wants to upgrade eventually. I
want to break this down, Richie, and I'm gonna take it the way
you explained it, all right. That was a great you know, top
to bottom, you know, two and a half minute summary which which covered
everything. But the interesting thing is, my man, you lad with the
USBC. It's the USBC without a doubt. It is revolutionary. Or actually
it's big news because Apple finally says, hey, listen, we're not doing
proprietary. We're going to do something that the world has so many Android it's
not just Android. I mean there's headsets, there's there's air, there's you
know, headphones. So many things work on USBC. I cover the car
industry. You're seeing USBC ports being built into those cars. The fact is
that you led with that. I led with that. This was the story
and not so much of my goodness. There's four new phones, there's two
new watches, it seems to me. And again I'm trying to lead you
over here. Let's look at those phones, the iPhone fifteen and then in
the pro the two. On the pro side, you gave a few of
those little pay There's so many things with the buttons of like death. But
again, anything all and inspire you to tell people like your iPhone fourteens,
I gotta run out and get the fifteen. No, and I actually don't
really ever recommend that people upgrade unless there is a reason why they want to
upgrade. Now, if you're a tech person like myself, there's a whole
bunch of tech enthusiasts out there that have to have the latest and the greatest
there's people that are really into photography who if there's an iPhone that has a
better camera than what they have, they need to get that. But for
the rest of the masses, if you have a phone, you're pretty much
going into the Apple Store once every three years and you're saying, hey,
what's new, and they show you the iPhone fifteen Pro Max and you say,
oh, that's too expensive, what else do you have? And then
they kind of go down the line. So these little features that pop up
in the new phones are nice. So, for instance, if you're getting
the iPhone fifteen or the fifteen plus, those are the base model. They
get that new dynamic island, which is taking advantage of the kind of the
notch in the phone, so they've made the best of that, and you're
getting a new improved forty eight megapixel camera, which is good. You're going
to take pictures that are going to look better, they're going to have more
information in the pictures. Then you're also getting a better zoom lens on there
as well. So again, small changes, but they're meaningful. If you
come from a different phone, you say, oh, my photos look better.
I've got this fun little dynamic island I'm still angry that Apple did not
upgrade the screen on the base model iPhone. It's still got a slower refresh
rate than almost any budget Android phone out there, and it also does not
have the new always on display which they introduced last year with the pro models.
The Rich Buro he is in the Los Angeles area. That's where he's
based right now. Rich on tech radio show KFI AM and also TV Boys
So Pretty, also KTLA Channel five. It's over the years. In recent
years, I think Apple really has expanded its global market share over its smartphone
rivals. I mean, you look at Samsung and wah, why despite Apple's
prices, you know, everything is rising. I saw a stat ration almost
nine and ten US teenagers are iPhone users. And is it because they've convinced
themselves that green text bubbles are uncool? I mean, it's Apple's marketing.
It's in people's DNA. I know, from my standpoint, I have stopped
trying to advance iPhone users to flip to Android and vice versa. We do
stay in our lanes right now. What does it take for somebody to really
switch operating systems and go from one to the other. At this point,
it's nearly impossible, and I think that it is something that I don't even
you know. I used to do a lot of comparisons iPhone androids. Should
you switch, should you get this? Should you change to this new phone?
The problem is people, and Apple's done an amazing job at this building
that ecosystem. So if you have an air tag, you have AirPods,
you have an Apple Watch, you have an iPad, you have a Mac
computer. They call it the halo effect of the iPhone. You start with
the iPhone and slowly but surely you build on these other products. Once you
get in deep with that, there is no switching. Now. The kids,
I call them kids, the teenagers that, like you mentioned, they
have to have the blue bubbles. That's where it starts. And Apple knows
that. That's the reason why Apple has not made I Message for Android.
They could have the top messaging app in the US overnight. By the way,
no other country in the world cares about blue bubbles. They do not.
It's not even a consideration. They're using WhatsApp, they're using line over
in Japan, they're using wee chat in China. They do not care about
blue bubbles. This is a US problem. It's a US thing. But
like you said, once people get into that world, they can't really get
out. You know what, I'll tell you again as an ant, long
time Android guy, it's not easy being green Richie's not easy being green baby.
I know I get young dull the time, but screw it, man,
I'd like what I like last question. Listen, we spent some time
earlier the summer. We were in South Korea. We were for the there
for the Samsung launch and that was a really really big deal. I mean
it was worldwide media. They launched the fifth version of their fold and their
flip phones. We know Google and their Pixel. They've got a really nice
fold foldables and flips right now. Something we have not seen from Apple during
your time up in the Cooper tin or campus earlier this week. Any rumor
just between you know, the journalist or just kind of rumors at any point
are they going to do anything with flippables of foldables. You know, it's
a big question. It's a question that a lot of people want the answer
to. And we all think that Apple will do a foldable at some point
when the technology is right. We know rivals like Samsung and in China there
are many many foldables to choose from here in the US. You really have
Google, You've got Motorola, and you've got Samsung and one plus is going
to come out with a foldable as well. But the reality is it's not
a perfect science. It's not a perfect screen technology, and Apple, I
think, is waiting to perfect that technology before they introduce it. They're usually
several years behind when it comes to coming out with something that is super,
super cutting edge like that. And I think they've seen the progress with foldables.
I don't think they're convinced just yet that people have a reason to get
these. In fact, myself, I feel the same way. I've been
testing all of these foldables. They're fun, they're different. Do I need
it? Not necessarily? And I think Apple knows that, And they've still
got a pretty good runway with the iPhone. People are still lining up to
get those phones, not so much like they did before. Now they're buying
them online, but they're still buying, you know, fifty five million of
these phones every quarter. That's a sizeable number, you know as well as
I do. It's a good supermarketing. The second that Apple releases their first
foldable phone, the world is gonna say, Oh my goodness, I didn't
know you can make foldable phones. I gotta get these things. It's unbelievable.
How you know Apple knows how to run a market and make things popular.
So you know, I'm gonna listen how many times I had a tablet
years before the I pad came out. No one knew what a tablet.
It was, Oh my god, here's an iPad, and and there goes
crazy. That is for Apple. His name is Rich Jamuro. He is
in Los Angeles. You can find him rich on Tech. I follow him
a great Instagram follow in many of the things KTLA and Channel five plus our
Hi heart sister station k F. I am my man, great seeing you.
I appreciate the coverage and I know you need to hop on your radio
show right now. It's I'll become Saturday Morning. It is great talking to
you. Thanks Mike, thanks for having me on. Appreciate it. Green
Bubbles forever, That's what I say. That's Rich. He's a good dude.
Good dude, had a lot of fun time in Korea. All right,
we're gonna take a break right now. Michael is the name High Tech
Texan show. Hi g H t e C H T e x A n
all Oh up social media and don't give me some crap because I got green.
People. It is easy being green. I've lived like this for a
long time. I gotta thank brother, my buddy Rich Demureau rich On Eck
told him he used to come up with the heat. He should do the
high tech California. He's based in Los Angeles. You ever had anybody ever
be envious or of a position and opportunity a job that you would want.
You know, you can do anywhere else across the country, especially if it's
in the same line of work where you're doing. Do Rich has got it.
Rich does technology talk show on KFI AM, which is relatively close to
KPORC nine fifty am here in Houston. He's on daily on KTLA, which
is a kind of an independent TV station in the morning, does tech reviews,
and he lives in La. Hello Hurler, Please the dudes like ten
years young and younger than me. Rich retire, Rich goes somewhere else in
the country. Rich, I will bequeath you the high tech Texan conglomerate.
I will be the high tech California. Rich has got hit. No,
he's a good dude. We hung out in a Soul, Korea earlier this
summer at the Samsung event. Very nice, so he had a very nice
take. He was in Gupertino, California, earlier this week for the Apple
iPhone announcement. We're talking about Apple I phone. There are other things in
the world to talk about. As we come up to lunchtime, as we
did the show live. If you were listening to the Encore broadcast here on
nine fifty am k p r C, it is almost midnight, the show
comes on. You know what, it's twice as nice. Apparently everybody out
there wants to hear me once in the afternoon and once late at night,
or apparently we have no other programming. Can't figure out which. But if
you're up at night, late at night, have some caffeine, keep talking,
keep driving. Love to hear from you, High tech Techs and high
ec ht e x A n dot com, I Tech Texan dot Com.
Almost lunchtime here, by the way, perfect time to remind you that Johnny
Tamalis is rocking right now because it is lunchtime as that we're talking about this,
and they have the TV's rolling for the college football games right now.
It is in the wonderful community of Missouri City, southwest side of the Houston
area twenty seven twenty f M. Ten ninety two, also called Murphy Road,
right near Highway six, right near the border of Sugarland in Missouri City.
I go probably about once and a half a week. Oh, by
the way, I'm a I'm a bear of breaking news. Have you ever
been to a tex max restaurant that serves halal meat? Welcome to Johnny Tamali's
in Missouri City, just this past week. Actually, I think this was
a bigger announcement this week than the iPhone halal meat get. People been asking
for, man and it is goods head length there yesterday with a new buddy
in a client and I phenomenal stuff. Yes, they also have everything on
the men that you can't think of. Phenomenal lynch a Latta's, free ice
cream for the kids, of beef beef, the chicken fajitas, the ramp
and not just but that the drinks are ice cold. Uh and it's very
I love the vibe, especially right now. I may actually pop what am
I doing now? I may actually pop over there afterwards to celebrate the New
year with some halal meat. So I may see you over there, So
go check that is Johnny Tamali's in the sea as a Missouri City dot com
halal meat. Seriously, I love to hear your reviews in this thing.
Halal menu. I mean everything's fahita salads, chicken cobb salads, and the
beefahita is it's it's halal. You had me at halal. Where are we
in the world of technology? Oh well, we'll do a little bit more
Apple next hour. Who here still has a DVD player? Put your hands
down, you're driving. If you didn't notice that we talked about earlier this
year. Later this month, we're just about two weeks away. Netflix is
winding down the rentable and mailable DVDs that started that company many many years ago.
Remember the little red, little envelopes, mail you the DVD, you
watch it, you return it three days later. Whatever it is. It's
ova September twenty nine. Netflix no longer renting DVDs by mail. And it's
done. But a lot of people believe it or not rent DVD still.
And there is a service that was beautifully just launched. Knowing that the Netflix
DVD mail service has gone, there is an independent video store chain here in
the United States. I'm not familiar with it. It's called Scarecrow anyone any
calum anyway. I don't even know is it? Are they in Houston,
Dead Matt They launched its own rent by mail service that's going to send DVDs
and Blu Ray disc right to your door. They started piloting this thing about
four years ago. Actually was pretty good during it, and now that Netflix
has done zo, they're beefing it up. This is not a commercial for
it. I have a DVD player. It is in my garage gaining dust
somewhere. But apparently you have to be approved for some reason. You sign
up for account, you have to be verified improved by a staff member.
I don't know why. But you put DVDs into your online shopping cart.
They're priced individually. Shipping is gonna cost you twelve dollars for up to six
discs, and you rent it for two weeks and then you can renew my
phone or you play your late fees. Apparently they have about one hundred and
forty thousand titles in its collection, which it's interesting because Netflix, at the
end of it here they only had five thousand dollars in its catalog. Oh,
here has a DVD player? Is anybody going to use this? I'm
done talking about the scar Crow service. But you know, we talk about
I talk about it technology. That is it es all the time. It's
we go from medium to medium to medium. I'm gonna listen. I remember
I was a kid. Eight track tapes were a big thing, and then
it was cassette tapes. Yes, I still had some LPs, you know,
the records if you will. But when cassette tapes came in, and
I had a car and I was sixteen seventeen, and every car had a
cassette tape player, and then that, oh, by the way, that's
gone. Then there was there was the CD player in the car. Right
then you had the optical disk the CD player, and then slowly I don't
I don't even know it. And I remember I review cars. I don't
know of one brand new car manufacturer or car model maker model that has CD
players anymore. Now we've got the USBA, the USBC, and we've got
Bluetooth. We stream things right now, Yes, we've got set, We've
got iHeart can be streamed, and I a lot of you are listening to
me in your car via the iHeartRadio app. Thank you so much for doing
that. We change and we hang on. And I have hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of the cassettes. I have hundreds and hun of LP albums.
I think I have a few eight track tapes somewhere and they're just sitting there
gaining desk. Actually they're not. Actually, I was very creative. I
don't know if I posted this year's yet. I took all of my I
took a lot of my CDs, and I made a piece of art out
of it in my house. It's like an eleven foot tall sculpture. I
physically made it seriously, hand to God. And all my CDs are pretty
much from the eighties, and it reminds me of the eighties. I just
I needed a piece of art that was very, very tall in my stairwell,
and I took just the CD the jewel boxes what it are, what
they're what they're called, and I kind of glued them on the on these
woodpieces. And every time I walked by it, I don't know, eight
times a day, up and down the stairs. And it's a piece of
my life style. It's a piece to my memories, all the eighties music,
and you know, if you listen to me, you know music plays
a lot of it. But the point is that medium is done. It's
over, but apparently there's they were still hanging on by a thread. We're
gonna take a break. If you still have a DVD player and you're still
using Netflix, at least the next two weeks, I'd love to hear from
you. Pick up your rotary phone and call seven one three two one two
five nine five out. If you don't have a rotary phone, you can
put a stamp and mail it here to iHeart. And if not, you
actually could send up a smoke signal. If you still have a DVD player.
This is what I do. I have fun and I talk trash,
but I give you some good advice. One more hour of great advice coming
up after this. Yeah, so high tex is Michael Garfiel. Michael Garfield.
Michael Garfield's joining the high tech text and Michael Garfiel is here with a
high tech texted items to make life easier. Technology. So Michael Garfield has
something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets heard worldwide on the iHeart Radio Act. Now
you're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. That's it. Say when did you
know where we are? We are halfway through the high Tech Texan Show.
We're a halfway at a happy hour. It is. You're listening in the
just after twelve p m. In the afternoon on Saturday, when we're doing
the show clauseby Live. Probably a happy hour if you're watching some college football
games. If you're listening to the Encore broadcast on KPRC nine fifty am in
the Houston Galveston area, it is just after twelve midnight. It's actually Sunday,
by the way, So since it's Sunday, you can quickly tell me
who won the Longhorn Wyoming game so I can play some bets on it.
You see, that's how the the time continuum factor works. I think we
are powered by the flex capacitor here on the Michael Garfield Show. Actually we
are I empower at some time by Coke zero. I love Coke's here.
I don't drink coffee, breaking news, I love iced tea. I do
like Coke diet coke, and I love I really like Coke zero and I
say this is because there's a brand. I don't want to scare you,
so hang in here. There's a brand new coke. This is not a
joke. It's not April fourth, there is. I'm not kidding You'll explained
Hooke just launched a new flavor that was co created by artificial intelligence. No,
not artificial sweeteners AI people. AI is everywhere. I did not expect
it to be used as a salvo in the color Wars. Nope, I'm
not kidding you. It is called here's the name. It's called Why three
thousand, the letter Why three thousand. I actually would call it why why
three thousand? That they created a flavor out of the future. By the
way, should we take a calum? Should we take a pull? What
does the future taste like? I know the future is bright. We have
to wear shades. What does the future taste like? I am not kidding
you. It is a limited edition flavor, Taste of the Future, co
created with AI people. This is why I exist and do a technology oriented
consumer lifestyle show. I just love talking about this. Not really, I
mean this is out of Terminator or Skynet. I do not know how it
tastes. I do not know where you can buy it yet, but apparently
a few testers describe it as resembling a raspberry slushy. Raspberry Slushy. Here's
the process started with researchers collecting flavor prefaces from consumers and they try to find
trends to understand what the what the future case like. The data was fed
into an AI system and it created the flavor profile, and before you know
it, a new baby soda was born. Most they also had AI design
the artwork on the can. It's one of those slim cans and I don't
know if it's a twelve ouncer. Maybe it's a daydouncer. It's like a
Beechy Neon purple can vibe. Who asked for this? It's a limit,
it's a limited edition. They're not replacing new cocon old coke like back in
the Color Wars. Is this like Dippin' dots? Remember Crystal Pepsi? I'm
dating myself right now, who remembers Crystal Pepsi? Crystal Pepsi was hilarious.
Pepsi, as we know, is a dark colored soda like coke. Pepsi
thought it was a really interesting deal that they lie a frystal clear color white
color soda. Oh, I'm sorry, isn't that called sprite or seven up
or maybe a mountain dewish thing? There was? There was? How did
they pull the wool over eyes on that one? If somebody gives me a
camp Coca Coca like I go to Cees and cees a Cocus actually launched a
flavor or two at ces which is in January the Consumer Electronic Show. I
mean, somebody, let me, let's me taste it. I will.
I don't really think I'm rushing out to buy an artificial intelligence? Is there
anything more the definition of what it is than a soda that was designed by
artificial intelligence? Since if most everything inside of a soda is artificial, look
at me ragging on my daily caffeine intake. Anyway, that's there's your consumer
Livestyle right now. We'll give you the phone number in case you do want
to talk about iPhones if you just tune in, we spent most of the
first hour talking about Apple's announcement. By the way, how come Coke didn't
come out with an Apple flavored to coincide with the iPhone? This is why
I'm a marketing genius. This is why I'm giving away this information for free.
Somebody better steals. Apple that announced four new iPhones, two new watches,
and the biggest thing is the dongle. It is it's the charging system.
It's the USBC, and USBC is very confusing. And I'll touch on
this right now. This is the first time Apple has ever used USBC.
They're doing they're killing the Lightning chord from now on. They're doing this is
because not because they want to. It's the European Union mandates that all the
handheld mobile gadgets starting next year support one universal standard, and they went with
USBC, which has been around on Android phones and many of the things for
for several years. Right now, generally the USBC is quicker than the lightning
However, not all USBC means USBC On the iPhone fifteen and fifteen plus.
There will be when it comes up later this week Friday, September twenty second,
there will be a new USBC cord and it is going to be the
slowest USB transfer speed. It's called USB two point zero. And I don't
want to get into the megabex. It's it's gonna confuse you. But it's
the same transfer speed data transfers between your computer and the phone. It's the
same transfer speed as you're gonna get with the lightning connector. So there's really
no positive. There's no plus on the two lower end brand new iPhones,
the iPhone fifteen the iPhone fifteen Plus, however, not so fast. The
two higher end brand new iPhones, the iPhone fifteen Pro and the iPhone fifteen
Pro Max, they're going to support USB three point zero speeds about twenty times
fast. That's a big difference. And I don't know, I don't know
why Apple limited the upper new iPhones to do this versus the lower Maybe it's
price, whatever, But there's a number of different positives why faster transfer speeds
and data speeds work. If you love shooting video, if you are very
high end photographer and you use a very high end pixels or even shooting the
raw mode, you know it could take up a lot of storage on your
phones. The fact is you've got the new iPhone fifteen Pro the Pro Max.
You actually can plug your usbcnto the phone. You can plug the other
phone the other end into a one terabyte data storage or something, and you
could shoot and transfer immediately and quickly all that data so it doesn't clog off
your phone. That's one of the many, many reasons. I'll get it.
Tell you more the order of the specs after the break. Would love
to hear from you seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh,
that's how you're gonna get to us here KPRC Radio nine fifty am and
used in and all over the world. As we continue, V High Tech
Text and Show, and I'm thirsty? Is somebody gotta why? Three thousand?
Why? Why? Lunch time? If you're listening live, including afternoon
on a Saturday, we're midnight snack time. Should you be listening to the
encore broadcast of the wonderful show? It's wonderful because you were listening. I
thank you for that. It's called The High Tech Text. And Michael is
my name? Uh? Speaking of food? What about fifteen minutes we are
going to talk meat and I listen. I told you this show is so
much more about the technology. It's a consumer lifestyle show. Restaurants, cooking
tips, a lot of food, a lot of rum. We'll talk about
popas pillar rum, which is a big partner of mine. I know about
fifteen minutes we're gonna have Anthony Thomas come on again. I interviewed him about
three weeks ago and it just went over like gangbusters. It really did.
To do this from Australia and he's a cowboy. He's like a real cowboy.
I think later this weekend he's going to Albuquerque to to be a you
know, do ropes and cattle something. But he is based here in the
Houston area and he has his own meat company, meat processing company. You
can buy meat by the side of beef, half a side of beef,
the quarter side of beef, and it is the best organic, free just
the whole thing. And I mean even me, the not so heavily red
meat eater. Guy got a quarter of pounds of beef. It's nice to
have in your in your freezer. Dudes come over, people come over,
they want meat. We watching football games. To go out and just get
a beautiful filet marbled or some ground beef. It's great. So we'll talk
to him about you know, ten twelve, fifteen minutes to get you hungry.
It's called Thomas Cattle and Catering. And so we got that. Are
we done? Talk about the new iPhone? I have now spent more on
this one show talking about using the word iPhone or Apple that I pretty much
have on almost any given year, and it generally happens each time this each
each September, that's when Apple holds its new conference. And so I think
we've covered everything. Four new phones, two new watches, a partridge in
a peatree, and a new charging system Lightning is gone, and the next
week the new USB C charger. And the fact is, I'll say it
again, if that's the lead story that Apple is switching to USBC, and
we're not talking as much about Oh look at this new phone. It fold,
it flips, it's powerful, it's got the greatest camera in the world,
it's inexpensive. No, none of that stuff we're talking about. So
that I should tell you about the news right there. You know, a
lot a lot of times people ask me about my career. You know how
I started, And you know, do I tend you you're a podcast host?
Well, I mean yes, I this a radio show host for well
over twenty years here on iHeart Radio in KPRC nine fifty. They take my
show and they'll put it on a podcast and so you can listen to it
later. But it's it's I'm still I'm barely holding on to the radio hostport
part, so I'm lucky for that. But I started out most. I
started out in television and I was a radio TV RTF major at small college
in Austin, d the University of Texas, and it's a It's something I've
always wanted to do, either be behind the mic, in front of the
camera or doing something. And I'm believing or not. At my age,
I'm still freaking doing it as hard as ziz right now. But the first
job that I got, real, real, real job, paying job,
I was on QVC. I was, yes, that's right, the home
shopping network. And I was one of the first times with my obviously,
I moved outside of Texas for the first time of my adult life. And
I'm like, I don't know, and so I'm living outside of Philadelphia.
This is I think QVC is still maybe headquartered there in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
And I was right before I got married. I lived alone and I was
the new kid. I was the youngest show host ever hired. I was
like twenty two maybe twenty three, right out of college, and I had
to work. It was a twenty four hour shopping news channel, shopping channel.
So they put the young guy in the middle of the night. So
my shift was like two, three, four, five in the morning,
you know, East coast or Central time, and obviously maybe it was you
know late people were still up on the on the West coast. But it
was fun and I learned a lot about you know, live TV and selling
products which we did not have a script for. And this is why I
get even more into gadgets and products. I was able to look at something
and try within three or four or five six minutes tell you why this product
is gonna change your life. You need this phone, well, there were
no smartphones really in nineteen eighty nineteen ninety. There you need, you need,
you need this kitchen gear, you need the black and decker electric drill.
You need diamonique, the second hardest known substance demand. That's right.
But one of the things I learned about about media itself and how to do
it. And this is where I'm going with the story from watching people on
TV two on the radio is one of the things that I do. And
if you're a long time listener, you know this. I talked very fast,
and that is that's my nature, and it's really odd from a dude
from Texas whose parents are from Texas with little accents, and it's just I'm
just I like, I enjoyed life. I'm excited, I really am.
This is really my personality. I'm just like this kid and I talk fast.
I'll be very excited. So the first device that I got, the
biggest device that I got, which I still after thirty pleasure years, haven't
done, is from TV producers and even radio people. It's slow down,
just just freaking slow down. What I used to do is a trick I'm
as I'm looking at they have TV cameras on the set of VC. And
when I did to remind myself, I traced my hand, you know,
like you know when you're a little kid and you do drugs for Thanksgiving and
you make a turkey with your hand and your fingers. So I trace my
hand and I wrote the words slow down, like you know, my hand
is like stop, slow down, and I would tape I printed it out.
I taped those underneath the camera so when I'm looking at the camera,
I would remind myself to slow down. The point as it didn't work,
it still doesn't work, but you love me for who I am and as
the simple as that I also used to say, and I still sometimes do
it. People get into these traps. And when I talked to kids who
are in communications, they said, what do you do well? The word
and your hems and your haws. They are things that you try to,
you know, forget. Sometimes I still say the word when I'm thinking of
things, but I try to cut it. And this was a very long
story to get here, But I wish I was growing up and starting my
media career now because there is software, there's artificial intelligence when you're recording things
to automatically cut out the hums. Adobe Premiere Pro, which is a very
powerful and relatively easy to use editing tool, Premiere Pro that dead records,
audio, records video. They see it, but I did see. They
just started a feature that has automatic removal of background noise or accidental ms.
They get muttered. Calum. As I look at Calum other side of the
glass, he's running the board. Is it possible to do this thing live?
We should actually test this. If not, I should record the show
that will automatically takes up my moms. But anyway, Adobe Premiere Pro,
apparently I haven't tried it yet. It should get rid of your ums and
hums with a recent update to the software. It's called filler word Detection,
because that's what it is. It's a filler because hey, what's going on?
Okay, Jason and Parland, thanks for calling. What can I do
for you today? So you try to do it? Try to stop it.
The fact is now I don't even need a practice. Thirty years they
still can't do it. Now I can edit things by using I really should
try this, says it's them. Let's see these new features they're launching.
Also in another package, it's called commercial. It's Adobe's Firefly for enterprise with
generative AI artificial intelligence. So you should try this. So anyway that this
segment I talked about, Okay, this is what we need to do.
If you were looking, if you're young, if you're old, if you're
looking to get into media, or you're doing a podcast and you have filler
words like M and hum and whatever, maybe you want to try Adobe Premiere
Pro. These are the things that make our job a little easier. What
else can I tell you? All Right, I tell you to stand by
because after this we're gonna talk meat we're gonna talk how to grill some great
meat the filets and give you some ideas. I never went to eat healthier.
And if you're looking for just top notch befred meat that goes straightly to
from that farm to your table, you gotta talk to You gotta listen to
Anthony Thomas cut up. But Thomas Cattle and Karen Comfrey don't go anywhere.
Thirty more minutes left in the show. There's like that big good voice set.
Michael Guard Guild is the name of everybody is having a wonderful day.
I feel in the air, baby, get you know there's a chill in
the air. The football season is back and the kids are back in school.
Holiday seasons not too far away. I'll be giving my countdown of my
reviews, my recommendations for the holiday season. I'll give you a review and
recommendation right now, certainly because I've been starting having some guys over for football
season. Man, you better start grilling. And this is grilling season.
You're not outside sweat too much, but you gotta start with some phenomenal food.
And if you're a meat eater, certainly here we are in Texas.
Man, you've got to had the finest meat around. And I've found the
place so much so that I actually even get to talk to the man,
the rancher himself, to actually figure out how my filets and how my cuts
are coming. I've talked about it is called Thomas Cattle and Catering. It's
called that because that's the last name of the gentleman himself, Anthony Thomas.
We had him on the show about two or three weeks ago, and I've
gotten a lot of questions about so this is a true Texas business and you
know, what's the process and of you know, getting from you know,
these steers all the way to your table, and you know what. I
could talk about it all I want, but I like bringing in the man
himself number one of which because he's got the coolest Australian accident ever, even
though he's a Texan. Right now, Anthony Thomas joins me again. Happy
follow my man. I hope you're doing well. Yeah, good night,
Thanks thanks Marchael, thanks for having me today. I emxcited to be here
again. Well, I'm excited to talk about this because you know, I'd
like to think that I'm gonna I set my expert on everything though I'm not
traditionally a big red meat eater. If I'm gonna eat some red meat,
my man, I'm gonna eat it. It is pure, it is Texas
And this is exactly what you and you offer. Again, you came up
with this company how long ago here when COVID started. Just figure this is
a smart way to do it, because instead of going to the grocery store
and I don't even want us talking at today, we could talk for hours
and hours about the difference between grocery store bought meat and whatever the processing issues
going there versus the pure stuff. And I obviously you've had a lot of
success here in the past few years. Yeah. So I'm actually a professional
rodeo athlete. I was competing in the Houston Rodeo and shortly after I progressed
to the finals at Rodeo Houston, the pandemic hit and they shot Rodeo Houston
down and our whole tour beyond. And so I actually honestly had an epiphany
from God that I needed to use my skills a cowboy to start this fond
to table beef business. You know, coming from Australia, coming from a
country where health and food and what they allow you to eat and what they
allow to put in your food is very important in Australia. Moving to this
country and seeing how how skewed the food system was over here, I've found
myself with an opportunity to educate consumers and Texans on a better way to get
their beef and the Actually, this is not only a better without a doubt,
it's better because I've tried it and I've talked to you. I mean,
I look at the pictures and I'm posting picture on Instagram and they just
look they look phenomenal, they taste and I know they are incredibly healthier for
you. We could talk about that, but it's also the it's the process
of buying buying beef and buying a steer because you're a little different. I
mean, listen, they're there are a number of companies out there where you
can buy a few, you know, shrink wrap frozen steaks and filets and
hamburgers, and they'll send them to you. You, my freend, you
offer the opportunity to purchase a steer, or at least a share of the
steer. And I've already heard for someone about listen, the past wet three
or four weeks. I've been talking about you my listeners that they've bought half
a steer, quarters steer, family goes in together and by the whole steer.
It's the concept of buying in bulk what we're talking about here, Anthony.
Filling your freezer. Many people have not done that, but I gotta
tell you, the convenience is incredible, especially the next three or four months.
You've got family coming in for the holidays. That's a big selling point
and an opportunity that you're offering. Yeah. No, you know, people
procrastinating wait till the last minute when they're entertaining and having family other you know,
no better time than Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up. You got football season,
you're having buddies over, and you need to grill. Buying in bulk
and getting the fraser. There's so many benefits in doing things this way,
other than the fact that you know exactly where your food's coming from here in
Texas, and so all of our beef once it's once we get the cattle
processed, it's old vacuum sealed, so it never it never goes bad in
your fraser. And just the luxury of not having to scramble to the grocery
store and hoping that you're gonna get good beef. It's one hundred percent strike
right every time when you're having people over, because all you have to do
is reach in your phraser and you know what it's going to be. Every
time. The Anthony Thomas, he runs Thomas Cattle and Catering. I know,
stand by, folks, We're gonna make sure I give you his phone
number and it's Thomas Cattle and Catering. Died Cob. I talked about your
phone number. And the interesting thing about you because you owe this. You
are the man himself and you really, Anthony, you are the single only
person other than you and your butcher who take care of literally that steer from
when it is bat when it's in that pasture, all the way till it
gets to your house because you many times you actually deliver it. But your
phone number. I'm gonna get off the phone number. And you want people
to call you because you want to ask them questions about you know, how
do they like there? I mean, how do you like the marbling?
And how thick do you want your filets? I mean that's like old butcher
you know, from like the Brady Butcher, from the Sam's Butcher. I
mean that's top notch, quite a quality service. Yeah, So wisdom is
everything. A lot of my business and what I do is not only you
know, raising the highest quality beef that money can buy, but education.
So educating my customers on becoming a beef connisseure, actually knowing where their beef
comes from, how it's raised, and how it's butchered. We dry age
out beef and there's nothing better than having the knowledge of what you're cooking and
what you're feeding your family. And that's something I really take joy in.
Give me one or two of your your favorite let's put this way, the
most popular beef fights that people request, how it's marbled and thing. You
know, what are your top selling Yeah, so that's funny. So you
know, the typically consumers in the city, they go to the grocery store
and they know your mainstream cuts like your Ribby's filets and York strips, Sloan's
briskets, whatever. But we take pride in Thomas Cattle and catering. My
butcher actually takes the time and effort to carve a lot of these specialty cuts
that most people don't know about, such as flat Irons and Delmonico's and Denver
Steaks, just to mention a few, and these really surprised people because,
you know, typically you're either a ribbi or a filet guy or a New
York strip guy. But these extra cuts that we have, like the Denver
steaks and the Chalk Eye steaks, the del Monico steaks and the flat irons,
they're very They're surprisingly, very tender and marbled. And people love to
have that element of surprise when they try some different steaks and they figure,
well, this is just as good, if not better than the ribbi that
I'm used to going for or the filet that I'm used to going for every
time. Okay, thank you. I know it's lunchtime right now, but
thanks now. My mouth is watering del Monico and the Dever. Listen,
people think they know, okay, they go to a menu, I know
the word in New York, I know the ribbi, you got filet mignon.
But the fact is, I mean, you've got a butcher and you've
got you over there. I mean, you literally can make these custom cuts.
And a lot of people, probably including me, until a few weeks
ago. Anthony didn't even know there's such thing as a custom cut. I
mean, this thing is yours. It is a I'm not saying it's a
new concept, but is it a phenomenal concept. And at the end of
the day, I think it's economical when you're stocking your freezer too, none
of the last minute of stuff. And it's so much healthier. And again
we're running out of time. We got about a minute over here. We're
gonna have you back here in a few more weeks. But the Omega threes
and everything I mean is it is incredibly healthier, which is so important to
us. Anthony, Yeah, no, absolutely, So essentially, what you're
doing is you're buying a home raised fat and steer from us. In that
posture, a ranch is an al from Houston, and we're going to dry
edge that steer for you, and you get to customize exactly the way that
you want the steer cut up. So any cut known demand, it's it's
yours, and you're going to get to customize the way that you want that.
So the thickness of your steaks, whether you want more robes or less
ribs, or more steaks bone in or boneless cuts, you get to actually
have your beef exactly the way you want it. And there's one person that
ever touches your meat instead of fifty or one hundred people across different countries that
are touching your beef in a factory. So we truly believe that we are
providing the highest quality beef local to Houston. You know you were live in
Texas. We live in a cowboys state, So why shouldn't you be able
to get your beef straight from a ranch of straight from the source. It
is gentlemen, Anthony Thomas, you're private and personal butcher who himself delivers it
to your door. Anthony, I've got about four four emails in the last
minute. Half shut up and ask his phone numbers. Theyn't call you.
How do we get in touch with you? Yeah, my phone numbers two
eight, one six, four, five nine two three seven, And I'm
ready available any day during business hours to walk you through the process of getting
a farm raised steer from us and everything that that entails. Give me that
one more time to eight one to a one six, four five nine three
seven. Wait one six, four, five nine two three seven. Folks,
he is getting ready to hang up, so you can call them now.
I repeated that my accent is not as cool as yours. Mister Australian
who now lives here in the Houston area. Hey, listen, well I'll
say it again. Your success amazing. I love how you created this concept
and this is unique. And I love the fact that a lot of my
listeners are starting to call you. I call you and start ordering their sides
to beef. This is a perfect time of year. It's Thomas Cattle and
Catering dot Com. Two eight one six four five nine two three seven.
Rodeo Cowboy, you are now released. Go eat, go eat some of
your own food, my man, because you need to strengthen up for all
your rodeos coming up. But I appreciate your time. Thanks for having me,
Marcael. I look forward to being the household name would founder table Beef
in Houston, Texas. I think, yeah, you're you're a well on
your way, folks. Give him McCall Anthony Thomas. All right, there
you go with the phone number. Well, I'm not gonna give you my
phone or I don't want to mix it up again. I'll give you his
It's two eight one six four five nine two three seven you know, one
of the things that I love is listen. It's reviewing recommendations. My job
is to review, study backgrounds of every product in every service. It's what
I love. Meeting vocal businesses, local Texas businesses, which I've done for
twenty plus years. I get to know them. I understand. I'll have
him on the show sometimes I'll put my name behind him if I believe in
him. I believe in this guy. It's just it. And again I'm
not mister red meat a ton, but dang man, his stuff he's good.
Once't you give him a shot? As we continue the High Tech Textion
Show right here KPRC Radio Houston and around the world on iHeart Radio. And
thanks again man. I'm getting some emails over here about to Anthony Thomas.
You see this is in the nice emails going geez, Michael, you know
what you actually it is this kind of a fun morning show type of thing.
You don't just talk about geeky stuff. You actually have some really good
interviews. I appreciate what Anthony Thomas just talked about it. I'm gonna give
him a call to see if I can get a half a side of me.
Never been able to do that my life before. Okay, okay,
that was from Jeremy. Jeremy's in Sugarland. Jeremy, that's what I do.
The Yeah, I don't want to make this boring. I'm not going
to tell you about all these things that go beep and buzz. I'm here
Austo to talk about the consumery neat stuff from cars, two drinks, to
cocktails to food. And that was Anthony Thomas, by the way, that
is a Thomas Cattle and Catering Company four h six six four seven seventy nine
hundred. Call him now loved as he loved it day man. If you
liked his accent too, from Australia. He'll tell you all about the beef
stuff and you know how to order it, and the cuts and filets.
It's it's really good things. It's all something else about was it beer?
Oh? I saw this story about beer? This is crazy. You know
what surge pricing is. We've heard the word surge pricing when it comes to
obviously, when it comes to uber or maybe left certain parts of the day,
it becomes more scarce or the pricing surges to meet the supply demand.
And you know it's just from data. I mean listen, airlines do this
too, hey, you know listening on these holiday seasons, we gotta raise
the price of tickets and surge pricing. There is a there's a pub company
in Britain. It's the Britain's largest pub company. It's called the stone Gate
Group. They announced they're gonna do surge pricing at eight hundred of its locations
across the UK. They're gonna with surge pricing, so they're gonna put up
a sign. It's called polite notice. You know those UK people are so
sweet. The polite notice. It's gonna warn drinkers about the increased costs during
peak times. And the price increase is up to an additional twenty pence for
a pit of beer. What is it? What is a pence? What
is a pence worth? Calum? Can you tell me that? Because someone
google's thing? How much is a not mike pence worth to the American dour?
Is it a few cents? As of as of twenty twenty one,
tenpence is about fourteen cents in America, So twentypence so you got about a
quarter, right, So they're gonna raise it a quarter. I'm sure what
time is this. It's funny because what time is this gonna happen? Is
it gonna be? I would assume the peak times would be what we know
is happy hour, and generally happy hour you lower the price. So is
this called the unhappy hour? I have no clue. I don't know if
I would drink at this place doing this because there was a twenty eight point
seven million dollars loss for the first half of the year because of the Britain's
cost of living crisis. So Britain's having a cost living crisis. So they're
raising the price of beer during certain times to actually increase the cost of living
crisis. This is unhappy hour, absolutely unhappy hour. I don't I don't
like this, but I'll tell you what. These companies, with access to
algorithms and obviously their desire and their need to maximize revenue. I mean,
they're going to keep finding price in new ways to add prices to every single
part of life. I mentioned earlier in the show. At least I think
I did there is. Las Vegas casinos have had a very bad week.
MGM and Caesar's the two I think the two biggest casino resort companies that have
so much presence in Vegas. They were hacked and their systems have been down.
The credit card machines, the way that you can check in, the
way you check out, the gambling aspects, the food ordering, and even
I think the payroll of employees. It has been down most all this week.
I think Caesar's allegedly paid about fifteen million dollars in ransom to get their
systems back up. MGM. They're still fighting for this thing. All I
know is they've lost a lot of predact These casinos lost a lot of credibility
and they've lost a lot of money. I would talk about surgery pricing,
and I'm gonna say so, I'm going after casinos because I go to Vegas
quite often. Casinos, now you know what it's like to be held ransom.
When we see in line item on our bill that says resort fee,
which is the biggest BS fee that I could potentially think. I've seen some
BS fees, but I cannot send a resort fee twenty five bucks a night
maybe if not more, for a resort fee. Excuse me, what's a
resort fee? Well, it's you get to internet access, okay, which
is everywhere you can get to the GM or the workout facility, and it's
just overall with fee. There's so many of the casinos do this thing.
There's resort fee and they're not even resorts. Some of them aren't even resorts,
folks, casinos, screw you. This is what it's like to behold
hostage by you and hacked for all these years. See what I did there.
I'm not gonna give out the phone number because we're about the two or
three minutes d I did talk about two segments ago before we talked to me
Anthony Thomas. I talked about how I started my career and giving some people
some advice. And nowadays when I talk to people, it's like how do
I get into the media, And I'm like, do you really want?
And I'm serious, you really want to get into the media. However,
sometimes jobs that come along, it's just, oh, my goodness, I
want to be in the media. I saw this one. This is a
Gannette Gannette Is. They own newspapers USA Today and a number of others.
They're hiring a reporter to cover nothing but Taylor Swift was this listing on LinkedIn?
Because I should apply for this thing. It's It's not common for an
entertainment reporter to cover only one artist, but USA today they are planning to
hire not one, but I think two people. Who is a massive Swifty
in a dream job. I'm looking at this thing, the role. It
requires international travel, and it pays between forty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars.
Here, let me help you out. That's a pretty big spread.
I'd like to know which side of that I'd beyond. But then again,
there's people out that we're going I do it for free, Swifty cruel summer.
Oh my goodness, I understand why, because Taylor Swift is unstoppable right
now. Her tour it took in one point six billion dollars the Erros tour.
Would you like to just, hey, fly anywhere and cover Taylor Swift
and get paid? Where's the where's the Beyonce beat? Let's hear it for
the Htown girl? I do it? I mean I don't like right.
Of all the things that I do, I do right, and obviously I
do electronic media, I do TV, I do ready to add I would
i'd write, I'm not to make a Swifty fan. I mean Beyonce's okay
too, but it's a heck of a job. So kids, if you
want to get a media better get your TikTok, resumes and everything else you
need to do to talk about. Oh my god, it's it's Taylor.
Taylor. By the way, I had a very big music MTV Music Video
Award winning this session earlier. This week's first time I talked about m TV
on the show probably in about twenty plush years, which means is time to
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