Speaker 1: Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 3: Michael Garfield, Alan Dine's Day, super Bowl President's Day. People,
Speaker 3: It's February. It is Black History Month, it is Michael
Speaker 3: Garfield's birthday month. We've got rodeo season coming up at
Speaker 3: the end in Houston. Let's celebrate and we're going to
Speaker 3: do that for the next two hours. I do thank
Speaker 3: you everybody tuning in once again, twenty three years in running.
Speaker 3: It is called the High Tech Textan Show. Don't turn
Speaker 3: it off, people, There is so much more than just technology.
Speaker 3: I don't geek out that much. Trust me, people, interactive show.
Speaker 3: Whether you're listening over the air in Houston, San Antonio,
Speaker 3: in Dallas, we can also download it, so there's tech.
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Speaker 3: If there's some reason I want to hear this Ova
Speaker 3: and Ova again. Tell your friends follow me on social
Speaker 3: media because we also give away a lot of good stuff. Man,
Speaker 3: I was actually taking I didn't take official inventory because
Speaker 3: if I took inventory of all the crap and gadgets
Speaker 3: that I have in my house, the company send me
Speaker 3: that I continue to keeping a hoarde over the years.
Speaker 3: I really could open a retail store. And I'm serious.
Speaker 3: It's not going to be a massive retail store, maybe
Speaker 3: like a Trader Joe's size retail store. But I am
Speaker 3: sitting probably on a ton of cash because these are
Speaker 3: products that companies said, you know what, you know, we're
Speaker 3: gonna upgrade these things. Just go ahead and keep it,
Speaker 3: don't send it back. And these are things from phones
Speaker 3: to TVs, to chargers, to cases, to cables, to speakers
Speaker 3: to earbuds. I mean it goes on and on and
Speaker 3: on and before anybody gets bright ideas, I have a
Speaker 3: lot of cameras and security on my home, and I
Speaker 3: have a lot of guns too. We're allowed to have
Speaker 3: legally guns in Texas also to protect this house. I
Speaker 3: sound like an NFL commercial right now. We most protect
Speaker 3: this house. So what I do I have to get.
Speaker 3: I want to give some of this stuff away. So
Speaker 3: we could do it via here, via a phone number
Speaker 3: which I'm going to give you. We could do it.
Speaker 3: And I just sometimes I'm in my closet and going, oh,
Speaker 3: I forgot about this. Let's take a picture of this,
Speaker 3: Let's put it on my Instagram. Let's create a fun contest,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to mail it off to you. That's
Speaker 3: why you need to follow me certainly on Instagram. High
Speaker 3: Tech Texan Hi g h T e H T e
Speaker 3: x A N And we are off. It is my
Speaker 3: first show post super Bowl. I have been alive for
Speaker 3: every single Super Bowl actually, and I don't want to
Speaker 3: start ragging on it like this was the most boring listen.
Speaker 3: I've seen some blowouts people without a doubt, but this
Speaker 3: was kind of unexpected. If you listened last week. I
Speaker 3: had a big upside potential in my square pool four
Speaker 3: hundred dollars a square square pool, which was a ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars per quarter payout. I didn't come. I mean, listen,
Speaker 3: even if you're one point off, it's not like you're close.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't work that way. I mean, it's so
Speaker 3: random the way they score. And then I guess if
Speaker 3: the score was closer in Kansas City, had gone for
Speaker 3: an extra point instead of going for a two pointer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: worked out, But I'm not in the wood. I could
Speaker 3: have shoot a game, but even if I won the
Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars per quarter, I'd still be here for you.
Speaker 3: How did you watch the game? And this is what
Speaker 3: I want to know, And with that we do start
Speaker 3: our interactive radio show three four six twenty nine text
Speaker 3: and that is the number where you can get to
Speaker 3: me three four six two nine te xam. When I
Speaker 3: say how did you watch the game? I'm not really
Speaker 3: concerned as woods and chips and guacamole and seven layered
Speaker 3: dep some wings. Because if you did, thanks for inviting me.
Speaker 3: Not did you watch it over cable? Did you watch it,
Speaker 3: like I suggested, using an over the air digital antenna
Speaker 3: which doesn't compress the signal. And you were probably impressed
Speaker 3: because there's no lag, You're not thirty seconds behind the
Speaker 3: game of play, because that's pretty cool. Did you watch
Speaker 3: it on tub And if you did not watch the game,
Speaker 3: you still not know it to be. But if you
Speaker 3: watched the game, you saw some kind of interesting commercials
Speaker 3: for two B Tubi and that is the streaming service
Speaker 3: that Fox bought a year ago. How did you watch?
Speaker 3: I'd love to hear from you. You can also go
Speaker 3: on x Twitter, whatever you want to call it. And
Speaker 3: by the way, it's also the same handle high Tech
Speaker 3: Texts and Hi g H T E H T e
Speaker 3: x A N. Did you enjoy watching the game? Did
Speaker 3: you notice any different whether you streamed it, whether you
Speaker 3: watched it on cable where you if you watch it
Speaker 3: over the air, did you watch it on your phone?
Speaker 3: Did you watch it on your tablet, your desktop? I mean,
Speaker 3: because we are consuming media at different in different forms.
Speaker 3: This did not happen fifty nine years ago when Super
Speaker 3: Bowl one happened in Los Angeles. It didn't happen ten
Speaker 3: years ago at Super Bowl forty nine.
Speaker 4: But it is.
Speaker 3: Happening now that we as consumers, we are watching these
Speaker 3: not just on linear television. We're all sitting on a
Speaker 3: couch watching on that the big old back of the day,
Speaker 3: the cathode raid too. But now we're watching on flat
Speaker 3: screen digital TVs, generally via cable, because we are now mobile,
Speaker 3: and I like, here's an example, I'll tell you this, like,
Speaker 3: I went to a pregame party. I was over in Houston,
Speaker 3: Verizon nice for the Verizon folks. They invited me to
Speaker 3: a pregame. Actually it was a pregame in watch and
Speaker 3: actually stay and watch the game at the Houston Texans
Speaker 3: practice facility, that big bubble right across the street from
Speaker 3: NRG Stadium. I didn't want to stay for the game
Speaker 3: because I just I wanted to to just I didn't
Speaker 3: want anybody around me. I wanted to watch it. I
Speaker 3: wanted to listen to the commentators. I wanted to watch
Speaker 3: the commercials and hear the commercials versus sitting with twelve
Speaker 3: hundred and fifteen hundred, two thousand people there. So I
Speaker 3: went to the pregame. I was there for about an
Speaker 3: hour and a half. Made some funny videos. Yes you
Speaker 3: can see those on my fun Instagram. You can like
Speaker 3: them if you want. But I went there and on
Speaker 3: the way home and I'm not supposed to do I'll
Speaker 3: just I'll just keep this safe. So I was a
Speaker 3: passenger in the car and I was watching the NFL
Speaker 3: pregame on my phone via two b and that was
Speaker 3: the only way to watch it because normally I would
Speaker 3: watch Fox Sports app, which I have and is free,
Speaker 3: but I downloaded they I'm a soccer man.
Speaker 4: That got me.
Speaker 3: I downloaded the two B app which is free, and
Speaker 3: it is one of, if not the largest free streaming app.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like it's there's not a lot
Speaker 3: of live programming, even though they did open up the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl and the Super Bowl pregame show to live programming.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a ton of channels and you could
Speaker 3: see movies and old sitcoms and whatever. But I was
Speaker 3: watching the pregame in the car on my mobile phone
Speaker 3: and this signal was great, just over five G. How
Speaker 3: did you watch it? Three four, six, twenty nine, Texans?
Speaker 3: What did you think of the commercials? I usually kind
Speaker 3: of I am a marketing guy. I'm really into the
Speaker 3: commercials and I'm really in the marketing, and I saw
Speaker 3: a lot of the commercials even before they air. They
Speaker 3: had some funny ones. We could talk about the halftime
Speaker 3: show when we come back. I am going to give
Speaker 3: you kind of my favorite commercials, some of them that
Speaker 3: actually worked in a commercial. If you are buying advertising,
Speaker 3: if you buy advertising here on my radio program, which
Speaker 3: we hope you do, please contact your local iHeart radio station,
Speaker 3: and you could, for a fraction of a fraction of
Speaker 3: a fraction of a fraction, purchase commercial time on this
Speaker 3: radio show Versus eight million dollars for a thirty second
Speaker 3: ad during the Super Bowl. But we hope advertising works here.
Speaker 3: It keeps us free. Like we're about to go to
Speaker 3: commercial right now, listen to the ads that run. I
Speaker 3: don't know what's gonna run, but I hope you choose
Speaker 3: to go buy from them and shop from them. When
Speaker 3: I talk about companies like Cabo, Bob's US Coins and Jewelry,
Speaker 3: Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy or whatever, I thank you they are
Speaker 3: are sponsors. But I will come back and I will
Speaker 3: tell you just because I saw ads for AI companies,
Speaker 3: car companies, beer companies, I didn't go out and buy them,
Speaker 3: but I will tell you a few that actually immediately
Speaker 3: pushed my buttons. I went online and I utilize their services.
Speaker 3: All that coming up next here and the biggest winner
Speaker 3: from the I'm gonna tell you who the biggest winner
Speaker 3: was last Super Bowl Sunday. You may be perplexed. That's
Speaker 3: what we do here on the High Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 3: It's called the teas it's Michael Garfield. Happy Weekend. Wherever
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Speaker 3: better than Mike Greenberg. This is Michael Garfield. As you heard,
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Speaker 3: are finished here, he'll put it up on the old
Speaker 3: podcast of iHeartRadio. And you downloaded, and you listen, and
Speaker 3: you listen and you listen. Did anybody record the Super Bowl? Anybody?
Speaker 3: If you watched it live? The only people I think
Speaker 3: who would rewatch the Super Bowl are probably Philadelphia Eagle fans,
Speaker 3: because that's going to live in posterity. Shocked me that
Speaker 3: the Eagles won. I didn't have any money directly on
Speaker 3: the outcome of the game. I was in a square pool.
Speaker 3: Actually I was in one, two three, I was in
Speaker 3: three or four different square pools. Man, I kept bup
Speaker 3: gus freaking gupgus. Man can close. But whatever, that's just money, right,
Speaker 3: It's not like I get paid for this radio shows.
Speaker 3: You know, might as well just you know, throw away
Speaker 3: some money out the window. The advertisements, though, anybody have
Speaker 3: some good ones?
Speaker 5: Did?
Speaker 3: What was your favorite? You know? Was it the Dorito
Speaker 3: thing that some user actually made and he was abducted
Speaker 3: by aliens? Was it the Budweiser horse who little pushed
Speaker 3: the keg up and down this street? Uh? Some of thes.
Speaker 3: I was looking at the USA Today ad meter, which
Speaker 3: I followed for years and years and years. One of
Speaker 3: the big ones was the Ford commercial. No, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: you see, I don't even know it wouldn't have Ford
Speaker 3: commercial it was. It was the jeep commercial with Harrison Ford.
Speaker 3: You see how sometimes it didn't push the button U
Speaker 3: That was probably one of the best lines. He goes
Speaker 3: I like my jeep even though my last name is Ford.
Speaker 3: Very good with it. Uh. Glenn Powell University of Texas,
Speaker 3: by the but a lot of UT grads actually not.
Speaker 3: They didn't probably graduate. Between Matthew McConaughey and Glenn Powell
Speaker 3: UT Longhorn Boys, they actually played big roles in commercials,
Speaker 3: just like Xavier Worthy of UT Longhorn scored a few
Speaker 3: touchdowns for the Camp Jedi Chiefs Longhorns all over the place. Baby.
Speaker 3: I didn't rush out to buy hardly anything. I haven't
Speaker 3: bought Budweiser, a Bud Light beer. I did like the
Speaker 3: post Malone commercial. I think that was fun. Didn't certainly
Speaker 3: didn't go buy a car. But you know what I did.
Speaker 3: I downloaded two different apps that advertised a quick advertisement
Speaker 3: during the actual Super Bowl and one that didn't even
Speaker 3: advertise during the Super Bowl because they used guerrilla marketing
Speaker 3: and they use tweets, they use Instagram. Because you know
Speaker 3: what we as it get carrying over from the first segment,
Speaker 3: we as a society, when we watch things, and certainly
Speaker 3: when we watch football games, odds are we're using a
Speaker 3: second screen, and we use the term second screen is
Speaker 3: most likely it's your phone that you're holding while you're
Speaker 3: sitting on the couch watching your TV. You're on it
Speaker 3: because you're texting your buddies. Hey man, did you see
Speaker 3: that play? A Mahomes is not you know, rocking right now?
Speaker 3: What's what's going on? Was that a concussion? Can't believe
Speaker 3: they went for two. They should have got the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're looking at live stats, maybe you're doing live betting,
Speaker 3: maybe you're doing emails. Maybe you're just I tell you
Speaker 3: what I guarantee if unless you're an Eagles fan, you
Speaker 3: got bored, probably at the beginning of the second quarter.
Speaker 3: So it's the second screen. So I mean, I'm going
Speaker 3: through my ax and my tweets and all this stuff,
Speaker 3: and I saw one from a company I've never heard of,
Speaker 3: and dang it if it didn't work. It's and this
Speaker 3: is not an app, but anyway, it's it's for me.
Speaker 3: I wish they would pay me to talk about this.
Speaker 3: But it was called Perplexity, and it's an app. And
Speaker 3: they did a Super Bowl contest that as I was
Speaker 3: reading post Super Bowl, it moved the needle on the
Speaker 3: number of downloads. Now, if you're watching the game, you
Speaker 3: saw ads eight million dollars a popp or so for
Speaker 3: open ai and Google because they were promoting their AI
Speaker 3: search engine a lot of money. But there's this. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't even familiar with this company and I cover the
Speaker 3: tech industry. It's called Perplexity. And what they did they
Speaker 3: posted a tweet sorry X whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3: And what they did is they wanted users to download
Speaker 3: its app and oh, by the way, into a contest
Speaker 3: that could result in a one million dollar whin. Yeah again,
Speaker 3: I'm a sucker, I'm a consumer. I wanted to try it.
Speaker 3: But this one contest, this one X host it increased
Speaker 3: the mobile app installations by about fifty percent. This is
Speaker 3: according to an app intelligence provider called app Figures. A
Speaker 3: million dollars very clever way to not only boost the
Speaker 3: apps installations, but really help familiarize users with how this
Speaker 3: Perplexity AI search works. Because you to enter the contest.
Speaker 3: And I love this and this is this, this is for marketing. Gosh,
Speaker 3: I love marketing. I love this stuff. It was really
Speaker 3: kind of brilliant. Just because you download an app and
Speaker 3: install it, these companies want you to use it and
Speaker 3: to enter the one million dollar contest. You had to
Speaker 3: use it, and you had to use it during the
Speaker 3: Big Game. I don't think I'm allowed to call it
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, Sorry about that. And what it did
Speaker 3: is since it's an AI app and what AI apps
Speaker 3: are there for, they want you to launch it and
Speaker 3: then ask questions, any questions. So what you had to
Speaker 3: do you had to download it during the game. Then
Speaker 3: you had to ask it at least five questions right
Speaker 3: there on the app during the big Game. Then the
Speaker 3: company said he was going to pick one million dollar
Speaker 3: Winter I did not win by requiring users to ask
Speaker 3: these five questions to do the contest. I think the
Speaker 3: app itself the perplexity, it really help users get the
Speaker 3: overall initial learning curve of how to try a new product. Brilliant,
Speaker 3: I say brilliant. And the other one was one that
Speaker 3: we saw on TV and did you check this out?
Speaker 3: It was right near the end of the game, if
Speaker 3: anybody was still watching, near the end of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: It was from an app again I've never heard of,
Speaker 3: called Fetch, and it was I don't even know if
Speaker 3: it was a thirty second ad. It may have been
Speaker 3: a fifteen second ad, and it may I don't even
Speaker 3: it may have just been graphics on a TV. I
Speaker 3: don't even know if anybody was even talking, and it said,
Speaker 3: if you download the app right now, they're giving away
Speaker 3: one point two million dollars. Like immediately, it was like,
Speaker 3: what ten thousand dollars a second over two minutes or
Speaker 3: something like that, And of course, yep, sucker downloaded the
Speaker 3: app and here was this is why this was so compelling.
Speaker 3: You had to immediately download it because it was getting
Speaker 3: ready to start. So when you and I don't know
Speaker 3: if the NFL appreciated this, because I did not fully
Speaker 3: and clearly and consciously watch the last two to three
Speaker 3: to four minutes of the football game because I was
Speaker 3: too busy downloading, registering for this app, and then watching
Speaker 3: the app to see if I won the ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: It was. It worked to some extent because two minutes later,
Speaker 3: when I found out I didn't win Jack, I uninstalled
Speaker 3: the app. That that could have been one of the
Speaker 3: fastest let's download the app and let's uninstall the app
Speaker 3: in the history. But it worked. I don't even know
Speaker 3: what fetch is about. Your favorite commercials. Tell me over here.
Speaker 3: Phone number is three four six twenty nine. Textan I'm
Speaker 3: about to give you some controversy. Don't call, but this
Speaker 3: is my opinion. The big winner. Who's the winner in
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. Everybody's got their opinion. You're the oh
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Eagles were the big winner? Was Fox the
Speaker 3: big winner because it was it about one hundred and
Speaker 3: forty six million dollars worth of profit or revenue in
Speaker 3: the day. Not in my mind, after spending this past
Speaker 3: week watching the game, assessing the ads, assessing the halftime, assessing,
Speaker 3: you know, was there any glitches, Tom Brady, whatever? Was
Speaker 3: in my mind, the biggest winner was Kendrick Lamar. Yep,
Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamar, the halftime entertainer. I'm not necessarily a fan
Speaker 3: of Kendrick. I really didn't enjoy that halftime show because
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm in as demographic. I knew two
Speaker 3: of his songs coming in. That's the only thing I
Speaker 3: really knew about him. The thing is you have to
Speaker 3: factor in not only what happens live, but also in
Speaker 3: the chatter online, the viralinness of it, and let me
Speaker 3: help you out. I over the past week six days
Speaker 3: have seen more chatter about Kendrick Lamar's halftime show than
Speaker 3: the actual highlights. The play by play of what happened
Speaker 3: in the actual game. Kendrick Lamar won this Jay Z's Company,
Speaker 3: you actually put on the whole halftime show. They won
Speaker 3: it because it's buzz and it was polarizing whether you
Speaker 3: hated it, whether you didn't understand it, whether you liked it,
Speaker 3: whether you loved it. My goodness to me only the
Speaker 3: number one thing that is continuing to come up at
Speaker 3: the top of my Thieves, top of my Instagram, top
Speaker 3: of my Facebook was Kendrick Lamar clips ten second, thirty
Speaker 3: second clips of his halftime show. Behind the scenes of
Speaker 3: the halftime show, did you see Serena Williams do this?
Speaker 3: Did you understand the underlying segment of what he was
Speaker 3: trying to do? Drake? It lasted a week and it
Speaker 3: still could go on. To me, the buzz in the
Speaker 3: viral Kendrick Lamar biggest winner of the week other than me,
Speaker 3: because you're listening to me right now, all right halfway
Speaker 3: to the end of the first hour. You know the
Speaker 3: phone number it is Michael Garfield. When we come back.
Speaker 3: Is the end of TV as we know it actually
Speaker 3: about to be over? I think it may be. And
Speaker 3: what's up people? The Gulf of America. Apparently it's officially
Speaker 3: changed on some apps coming up right here on the
Speaker 3: High Tech Testing Show, Last we forget. This is a
Speaker 3: call in radio show, and I do thank you for calling.
Speaker 3: We've got a few people on the line. Let's see
Speaker 3: if we can get to those three four six twenty
Speaker 3: nine textan that's three four six two nine T e
Speaker 3: x A N. Michael Garfields is the name. We have
Speaker 3: been talking a little about Super Bowls and television and
Speaker 3: how did you watch it? Did you watch it linear?
Speaker 3: Over the air TV? Cable TV? Is the end of
Speaker 3: TV as we know it? Near? I'll get to that,
Speaker 3: but as I said, we we can't keep a lot
Speaker 3: of these colors on hold right now, so let's go
Speaker 3: to the phones. How you doing. I appreciate this is Brian, Brian,
Speaker 3: it's Michael. What's going on today?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 6: Michael, great show. I always follow you and I bought
Speaker 6: a S twenty five based on your recommendation. I'm curious
Speaker 6: about a case and I noticed the new mag charging
Speaker 6: on the backround, wondering what your recommendation is.
Speaker 3: Look at that somebody taking my advice I talk about phones.
Speaker 3: You get it. I appreciate it. Thank you, Brian. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that call. Yeah, let's talk about magnetic cases. I
Speaker 3: don't talk about cases a lot. I talk about the
Speaker 3: phones a lot, but I will and I have recommended
Speaker 3: for twenty three years that I've been doing this radio
Speaker 3: and the TV segments. You need a case because it
Speaker 3: protects your phone. The phone is not cheap nowadays. It
Speaker 3: it's going to give it at least one, two, three,
Speaker 3: four years longer. And for some reason, you do want
Speaker 3: to sell that phone one day or give it away.
Speaker 3: You want it in good condition because you're gonna it's
Speaker 3: more valued. You're gonna get your you know, potentially more
Speaker 3: money if you do happen to sell it. So in
Speaker 3: terms of cases, let's talk about the magnetic stuff. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm not an Apple guy, and I do know years
Speaker 3: ago that Apple came up with a with with something
Speaker 3: that it was a magnet that was embedded. It was
Speaker 3: starting in the iPhone twelve back in twenty twenty. It
Speaker 3: was a magnet and they trademarked it. It's called mag safe,
Speaker 3: all right. It's a technology and what it is, it's
Speaker 3: a ring of magnets that's embedded in the back of
Speaker 3: the phone and It's been on every iPhone since the
Speaker 3: iPhone twelve. And you can go out and you can
Speaker 3: buy accessories from battery packs, to phone grips to just
Speaker 3: a number of other things and it magnetically. It just
Speaker 3: puts it on the back of your phone and you're
Speaker 3: set to go. Well, because I'm not an iPhone guy,
Speaker 3: I've never really utilized mag safe. Like, guess what you
Speaker 3: are available to use it for Android phones? Brian, you
Speaker 3: said you got the new Samsung S twenty five, whatever
Speaker 3: version you got. There are a number of companies who
Speaker 3: make and we're not gonna call mag Safe because mag
Speaker 3: safe is for Apple, but they are magnetic cases that well,
Speaker 3: you know, obviously you could put it on put on
Speaker 3: your phone, which allows you to put these accessories to
Speaker 3: make it work, including the wallets, the phone grips, and
Speaker 3: the battery and the batteries. And there's a number of
Speaker 3: them out there. And as a matter of fact, when
Speaker 3: we just name check this one, when I picked up
Speaker 3: my Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Ultra back in San
Speaker 3: Jose a few weeks ago at the big press event
Speaker 3: that I was at, I ran into a gentleman from
Speaker 3: Spegan spig E n. Speagan, good case maker, and he
Speaker 3: was very nice enough. He gave me one of these
Speaker 3: new magnetic cases. And this is the first time I've
Speaker 3: actually ever used a magnetic case. I'm telling you what.
Speaker 3: And this is not an endorsement of any I wish
Speaker 3: it was an endorsement for speaking and all these ye
Speaker 3: I'm just let me just tell you this is the
Speaker 3: only type of case I would buy. I love this
Speaker 3: magnetic case. I would say absolutely everybody out there, it's
Speaker 3: worth investing. And they're not that expensive. I mean at
Speaker 3: the top level maybe a case you can get a
Speaker 3: sixty dollars, but you can get cases, you know, five, ten,
Speaker 3: fifteen dollars. I say the sweet spot is twenty five
Speaker 3: thirty five forty dollars though for a magnetic case. But
Speaker 3: the specific speaking case that I have, not only it's
Speaker 3: got a little it's got a round magnet on it
Speaker 3: that I could just pop everything on there. This one
Speaker 3: actually had a kickstand and I can now automatically stand
Speaker 3: the phone up if I want to take selfies or whatever.
Speaker 3: So it's good. So to answer your question, yes, if
Speaker 3: you do have an Android phone, I would recommend if
Speaker 3: you're getting a get a case the least of us.
Speaker 3: Just get some sort of a case. There are hundreds
Speaker 3: and hundreds of case companies out there. I don't endorse
Speaker 3: one yet. I should because I would probably actually make
Speaker 3: the company go public. But in this case, I have
Speaker 3: a spegan. It worked. I got don't know four other companies.
Speaker 3: Now we were offering to semi cases I can try out.
Speaker 3: I may do that, but go get it, gogle. Go
Speaker 3: check that out, and go get a magnetic case. And
Speaker 3: so I do. Thank you for that phone called Brian
Speaker 3: phone number hero of the long running high Tech Texan
Speaker 3: show heard all across the country on iHeartRadio in the
Speaker 3: app three four six twenty nine Texan. That is how
Speaker 3: you'll get to meet anybody checked out their Google Maps
Speaker 3: or the Apple Maps lately. You ever zoomed into that
Speaker 3: body of water just south of Texas and Louisiana and
Speaker 3: Mississippi and Alabama. I don't know about you, but I
Speaker 3: went to six sixteen years of school and I learned
Speaker 3: that body of water was Gosh, I hate using past tense.
Speaker 3: It was called the Gulf of Mexico. You know, as
Speaker 3: I sit and do the show in Houston, Texas, I'm
Speaker 3: probably no more than fifty miles fifty five miles from
Speaker 3: that body of water as muddy and discussing as it
Speaker 3: is in Galveston, which used to be called the Gulf
Speaker 3: of Mexico. People, if you believe what Google says and
Speaker 3: what Apple Maps now say, it is officially changed to
Speaker 3: the Gulf of America. Go check it out. Open your
Speaker 3: maps right now, right and just look look where you are,
Speaker 3: and just take your little two fingers and spread it out,
Speaker 3: move it up and down. Look right there in the
Speaker 3: middle where there's a lot of oil buried under that water.
Speaker 3: And it's going to say the Gulf of America. Anyone
Speaker 3: does Is this a big dealer?
Speaker 4: No deal?
Speaker 3: Three four six twenty nine Texan, Google officially and Apple
Speaker 3: they have officially changed the name, based on the orders
Speaker 3: of President Trump, the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf
Speaker 3: of America. That's it. It was an executive order renamed
Speaker 3: the body of water, and the Federal Board of Geographic
Speaker 3: Names formerly changed it this past Monday. Now give us
Speaker 3: some insight, because I researched things for you. The Geographic
Speaker 3: Names Information System, believe it or not, that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: It sits under the United States Geological Survey, and they
Speaker 3: are the ones that provide the names used in Google
Speaker 3: Maps also changed. Mount Denali in Alaska also got a
Speaker 3: name change. It was officially renamed to Mount McKinley following
Speaker 3: Trump's executive order on January twentieth. I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: Google has or Apple has renamed that yet, but it
Speaker 3: is going to be updated. I'm trying not to make
Speaker 3: this political. Let's just talk about changing names. Is anybody
Speaker 3: going to Are you really going to start calling this
Speaker 3: the Gulf of America if you are someone who is
Speaker 3: my age, if you were in your fifties or area
Speaker 3: below that, we know what it was, Hey, cage, you
Speaker 3: want to go waiting in the muddy waters of Galveston
Speaker 3: in the Gulf of America. Believe me, if you've ever
Speaker 3: seen parts of the Gulf of America, I'd being pretty
Speaker 3: embarrassed to call it the Gulf of America. There's some
Speaker 3: disgusting waters. And you know what, let's do a little
Speaker 3: riff on this. When I was a kid, the body
Speaker 3: of water was called the Gulf of America the Gulf
Speaker 3: of Mexico. When I was a kid, there were nine
Speaker 3: planets in the Solar system. Now there's eight. How and
Speaker 3: when did all of this change in? I'm thinking, did
Speaker 3: I waste sixteen years of my life going to school
Speaker 3: to learn this stuff that's going to change? I mean,
Speaker 3: my poor mom who had to help me when I
Speaker 3: was making the actual, you know, the three D full
Speaker 3: diagrams of the solar system when I was in I
Speaker 3: don't know what fourth fifth grade and we had to
Speaker 3: go to the stores to get the styrofoam balls and
Speaker 3: we got ten different balls and we had to color them.
Speaker 3: One was the Sun. Had to get that big styrophoam ball.
Speaker 3: We got a little teeny one from Mercury, and then Venus,
Speaker 3: and then Mars and a little tiny blue dot, which,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, your Earth is so small, all right?
Speaker 3: And then there's Jupiter and how do we make the
Speaker 3: rings around Saturn? And we had to go get some
Speaker 3: construction paper and do that. And then there was Yourinus.
Speaker 3: And then there was Pluto, little tiny purple thing. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I was a ten years ago. Somebody said,
Speaker 3: you know what, Pluto ain't no planet anymore. I don't
Speaker 3: think it was the President of the United States. What
Speaker 3: else am I missing? Before we get to break three? Four, six,
Speaker 3: twenty nine textan if you are relatively of my age,
Speaker 3: what changed from science to geography that we learn? I mean,
Speaker 3: remember the metric system we were it was the seventies
Speaker 3: and I think that was that Gerald Ford thing or
Speaker 3: is it a Jimmy Carter thing back when he was
Speaker 3: President man America switching to the metric system and we
Speaker 3: had to go through what a decimeter and a hectameter
Speaker 3: and a millimeter and all this stuff? How'd that turn out?
Speaker 3: Not too well here in the United States? Because we said,
Speaker 3: screw it, we are the United States and we could
Speaker 3: do anything we want, and we did, which I guess
Speaker 3: is what the president is doing right now. We're just
Speaker 3: going to rename everything. And why why didn't even how
Speaker 3: Nolan Trump, who is a really good businessman just in
Speaker 3: some ways shapes and forms, why didn't he just find
Speaker 3: a sponsor for it? Why not? I mean because I know, uh,
Speaker 3: shell Shell does a lot of deep oil well thrilling
Speaker 3: and digging in the Gulf of America. Why not just
Speaker 3: it's the Gulf of America gold brought to you, what
Speaker 3: the shell Gulf of America. How much money that they
Speaker 3: would take him? The VP We're sorry about the oil spill.
Speaker 3: But you know what, we're gonna take spot title sponsorship
Speaker 3: right now. You know we're just gonna soften our image.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave you with this. I have a new
Speaker 3: name for it. If we're gonna self name things, we're
Speaker 3: gonna sponsor things, we are now gonna call it not
Speaker 3: the Gulf of America, ladies and gentlemen, the new body
Speaker 3: of water. It's the Garth of America.
Speaker 4: Well you're at that.
Speaker 3: I'll segment first hour of the show. Michael Garkfield. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much. Phone number here. Maybe we'll pick up
Speaker 3: another color or two. Just if you have questions, You
Speaker 3: have thoughts on pretty much anything, man, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Been testing out some new bourbon too. If you're a
Speaker 3: big Brown Water fan, I'm more than happy to give
Speaker 3: you some of my faves. It's added another like twelve
Speaker 3: to fifteen bottles of my collection. Very nice birthday gifts
Speaker 3: earlier this month to some of my buddies. But it's
Speaker 3: it's lifestyle, it's consumer stuff. Whatever you need. I am
Speaker 3: your guy. Three four six, two nine. Texan must follow
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Speaker 3: the most of the social media because I'm not doing
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Speaker 3: you can win, got to give some Actually we're giving
Speaker 3: something away next hour, Big Marty Grock Galveston, got some
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Speaker 3: Marty Rough fan, high tech text and hi g H
Speaker 3: T E H T e x A N. One of
Speaker 3: the things that I also cover, probably almost more than
Speaker 3: anything else, is automobiles. I'm a big automobile I review
Speaker 3: cars and trucks, non sponsored, don't deal with dealerships. It's
Speaker 3: directly from the manufacturers. Been doing it fifteen years. I
Speaker 3: have test driven probably over one thousand vehicles, sports cars, SUV, cuvs, evs,
Speaker 3: you name it. So I do cover the industry pretty intensely.
Speaker 3: And you know, obviously EV's electric vehicles. I have my
Speaker 3: thoughts if you're a longtime listener on it. But I'm debating,
Speaker 3: and I think the industry is debating whether it's good
Speaker 3: business or not. I saw this headline Ford lost five
Speaker 3: billion dollars on EV's last year at twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: It predicts it will lose another five billion dollars this year.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty five, Man Ford. It released its fourth
Speaker 3: quarter in full year earnings earlier this week, and they
Speaker 3: did beat Wall Street expectations. Good for them, but the
Speaker 3: predictions of a tougher year ahead it really kind of
Speaker 3: underscores how far the company still needs to go before
Speaker 3: it can really right size its electric vehicle business. And listen,
Speaker 3: to be sure, the gas cars that Ford still has,
Speaker 3: they're doing quite well and they're bringing in enough revenue
Speaker 3: for the company, So the company is still making money.
Speaker 3: But the company warned its earnings may drop two billion
Speaker 3: dollars or more of this coming year thanks to new
Speaker 3: vehicle launches and following car prices and whatever. Ford I
Speaker 3: believe to me, they're kind of struggling to keep up
Speaker 3: with the rivals and the EV market. I mean, GM
Speaker 3: has come out with several new models last year, the
Speaker 3: Chevy Head some I've tested a number of those, the Cadillac,
Speaker 3: the Cadillact Lyric. I played in that that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Ford don't really, by my account, only has three battery
Speaker 3: electric vehicles on sale right now, three of them right,
Speaker 3: Mustang being one GM's EV business. I believe it's showing
Speaker 3: signs of profitability. Ford seems to struggle a bit Ford
Speaker 3: cancel plans to introduce an electric three row SUV. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm not telling you to steer away. There's
Speaker 3: a pun intended right there, but you may want to
Speaker 3: think about it. I'm fine with EV's and again, I
Speaker 3: literally have to put an asterisk in a caveat every
Speaker 3: time I talk about EV's because people think I hate EV's.
Speaker 3: I don't hate evs. What I'm not a fan of
Speaker 3: it's our battery charging infrastructure that we have here in
Speaker 3: the United States right now, there's just not enough chargers.
Speaker 3: And for a dude like me, and again, I everybody
Speaker 3: is in a different situation. If you were a stay
Speaker 3: at at home person and you don't drive to the office,
Speaker 3: you don't commute, and you don't do whatever. If you
Speaker 3: do nothing but take the kids to school which is
Speaker 3: two miles away, you take them to soccer practice, and
Speaker 3: you got a charge you at home, perfecto. I think
Speaker 3: EV's are great, right, But for me, kids are great.
Speaker 3: Courage kids are out of the house. Single guy. Parents
Speaker 3: live in you know, Dallas. I want to go to
Speaker 3: the UT Games in Austin, that's just from Houston. When
Speaker 3: we're talking two hundred and twenty five to three hundred miles. Man,
Speaker 3: that is just about the limit of what an electric car,
Speaker 3: electric vehicle will go. I mister Adhd, I am not
Speaker 3: one to stop somewhere halfway three quarters of the way
Speaker 3: on the road, pray that there's going to be a
Speaker 3: charger that's readily available. Wait forty five minutes, for an
Speaker 3: hour if that, to even get the thing almost up
Speaker 3: to one hundred percent, and go, I am snap, snap, snap,
Speaker 3: I'm on the road. Let's go, go, go. But maybe
Speaker 3: there's a reprieve in site. I saw this too. Tesla
Speaker 3: based in Texas. By the way, Tesla has a ton
Speaker 3: of Tesla superchargers, and that's their proprietary charger. And if
Speaker 3: your member a story I told you about three months ago.
Speaker 3: I've never tested a Tesla. They're not in the program
Speaker 3: that I actually get vehicles, but I get a lot
Speaker 3: of other electric cars that are non Tesla cars. Well,
Speaker 3: Tesla has a proprietary charger that you just can't plug
Speaker 3: in to any other type of vehicle that's not a Tesla.
Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, Tesla announced that some of
Speaker 3: their charging stations had been fitted with adapters for other
Speaker 3: EV brands, some of which are in Texas. Well, it
Speaker 3: was what was it about? February twenty twenty three, the
Speaker 3: White House issued guidance that ed manufacturers who wanted to
Speaker 3: receive federal funding they had to make their chargers agnostic,
Speaker 3: no matter what brand it was, it had to work.
Speaker 3: So Tesla announced then that they they were going to
Speaker 3: open about thirty five hundred of their supercharges to other vehicles.
Speaker 3: All right, well, now, allegedly they if you have a
Speaker 3: non Tesla EV, you're going to be able to charge
Speaker 3: your non Tesla vehicle there. This happened to me. I went,
Speaker 3: I went to somewhere in Brinham, Texas, you know, on
Speaker 3: the about an hour north west of Houston, and I'm
Speaker 3: in a Chevy Equinox I think it was, or whatever
Speaker 3: it was, and I'm down to nothing, and I'm on
Speaker 3: my map, on my Google Maps, and I'm looking for
Speaker 3: a charger and the only chargers that were popping up
Speaker 3: are Tesla. And I just had the worst weekend because
Speaker 3: like I think I'm gonna might the car was, battery
Speaker 3: was gonna die. I pull up a Tesla couldn't fit
Speaker 3: into my car. It was bad. But anyway, Tesla promised
Speaker 3: to make thirty five hundred of its stations available to
Speaker 3: all electric vehicles by the end of last year. If
Speaker 3: you do want to try this out and you find
Speaker 3: one and you have a non Tesla EV, Tesla has
Speaker 3: retrofitted some stations with a what's called a magic doc
Speaker 3: It's a magic dock. It is an adapter that is
Speaker 3: placed on top of Tesla's flug and it enables non
Speaker 3: Tesla EV's to charge at a maximum rate of two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty kilos. And to use this thing, you
Speaker 3: need to download the Tesla app and create accounts brilliant, brilliant, Okay,
Speaker 3: and then you hit charger non Tesla and I'll let
Speaker 3: you find a super charger site that is near body.
Speaker 3: Oh and yes, you do need to add a payment card.
Speaker 3: It ain't free. People. At that point you go to
Speaker 3: find the stations, you plug it in and you start charging.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know how much it costs. And
Speaker 3: believe it, you heard another story about what a month
Speaker 3: and a half ago when I went to Lake Charles
Speaker 3: and I was in a hummer H three EV what
Speaker 3: was it eighty dollars to charge the thing and he
Speaker 3: killed an hour and a half of my time I
Speaker 3: will continue to follow this market and then maybe talk
Speaker 3: to you any to talk to about it the ED.
Speaker 3: But now we're gonna take a break. We're gonna hear
Speaker 3: something about wonderful partners and sponsors. You're gonna go buy
Speaker 3: something from them, and you're gonna sit right here and wait.
Speaker 3: We need to come back on a high Tech Texan
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Speaker 3: Start of the second hour, and since I have two hours,
Speaker 3: we're gonna call this pretty much halfway through the end
Speaker 3: of the show. And we always do call it halfway
Speaker 3: to happy hour. Even though you're listening plausibly live on
Speaker 3: the weekend, it should be happy hour. Really, I don't
Speaker 3: know why you're happy because now the football season's Ovah
Speaker 3: what is there to do? And listen, I'm speaking for
Speaker 3: me personally. I mean, you probably have a good life.
Speaker 3: You're married, you got a husband, you got a wife,
Speaker 3: you got kids, and you're gonna start the end of
Speaker 3: the softball the baseball season. You know, maybe wait whatever,
Speaker 3: maybe you travel, you got the school in ballet and whatever.
Speaker 3: Not me, okay, three boys grown up. I'm alone. Football
Speaker 3: is the only thing that matters to me. Not a
Speaker 3: big baseball fan unless the Rangers are potentially the Astros
Speaker 3: are contention, so that's months and months and months away.
Speaker 3: Inchers and catchers report soon. By the way, NBA, maybe
Speaker 3: I'll get into it when playoffs start and then it
Speaker 3: gets the hot, disgusting dulgems of summer and the only
Speaker 3: thing I count down is August when football season kind
Speaker 3: of gears up a yet, so pretty much, I have
Speaker 3: six months, steah, with five months, six months to do nothing.
Speaker 3: So if you're happy and you know it, clap your
Speaker 3: hands and just keep on tuning in. Talked a lot
Speaker 3: about the super Bowl last week, the big winner. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna tell you who my big winner was. You're
Speaker 3: gonna have to go podcast at from last hour Callum
Speaker 3: reed we'll put that up here very quickly. Just go
Speaker 3: to iHeartRadio dot com and you can actually download the podcast.
Speaker 3: Just look for high Tech Hexan or Michael Garfield and
Speaker 3: you can feel my energy and you get that talked
Speaker 3: about some of the Super Bowl ads. There was a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl ad for tea Mobile. Anybody see that, And
Speaker 3: it actually kind of prize me too, because it was
Speaker 3: an intriguing spot that described their free, yes, my favorite
Speaker 3: four little word, free satellite smartphone service that's available to
Speaker 3: customers of any major wireless carrier, Yes, including AT and
Speaker 3: T and Verizon and obviously T Mobile. What the deal
Speaker 3: is And because I got a number of different emails
Speaker 3: about this, here's the deal. T Mobile heartnered up with
Speaker 3: satellite provider Starlink and they're essentially introducing satellite service when
Speaker 3: you're in an area without traditional cell service. Pretty much
Speaker 3: about anyone in the United States with a mobile phone
Speaker 3: and a relatively new mobile phone as long as you'r
Speaker 3: as long as your phone is less than four years old. Yes,
Speaker 3: I know there's some fine print there too. You have
Speaker 3: to sign up for this limited number of spots that
Speaker 3: T Mobile is making available for this free trial data test,
Speaker 3: and so Google that if you want to, if you
Speaker 3: get in, you're gonna have access to free text messaging,
Speaker 3: location sharing, and nine to one one emergency tech services
Speaker 3: through June. When you're in kind of like this dead
Speaker 3: zone when you don't have traditional cell service. So if
Speaker 3: you're in the middle of the if you go hiking
Speaker 3: and you're in a mountain or something and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you know you don't have any bars on
Speaker 3: your phone, that's a dead zone. Well what happens now,
Speaker 3: It's gonna connect to the Starlink satellite service, which is
Speaker 3: a low Earth orbit satellite that is floating up in orbit,
Speaker 3: and you're gonna be able to connect that way. Now.
Speaker 3: The commercial service allegedlates launching in July. I believe they've
Speaker 3: already had a price on that thing. You're gonna pay
Speaker 3: fifteen dollars a month if you're an existing Team Mobile customer.
Speaker 3: Maybe if you're twenty bucks a month if you're with
Speaker 3: eighteen Hoizon that that's That's what I'm saying right now.
Speaker 3: You don't need to change your current cell plans. It's
Speaker 3: not going to change how and where any of that
Speaker 3: stuff works. So T Mobile kind of taken a lead
Speaker 3: when it comes to this and the way it works,
Speaker 3: it's once you go outside of your traditional cell network,
Speaker 3: your phone essentially switches over to a new satellite network
Speaker 3: that's powered by these Starlink satellites. And there's about four
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty of them or sell. You may have
Speaker 3: noticed them flying overhead over the last few months if
Speaker 3: you look up in the sky. They're not UFOs. They're
Speaker 3: just to bring a starlink satellites and T Mobile can
Speaker 3: make this offer to eighteen T Verizon. It's completely different,
Speaker 3: independent from existing cell networks, and that's why they can
Speaker 3: offer it. So it's the same process to switch over
Speaker 3: to it, regardless of your primary cell phone care carrier.
Speaker 3: So fudos. And again this is not an ad for anybody.
Speaker 3: It's certainly not T Mobile, but it's I like this news.
Speaker 3: It's it's a new and better way, allegedly better way
Speaker 3: of communicating. And one day maybe it's gonna make cell
Speaker 3: phone os, cell phone the actually cellular towers obsolete, which
Speaker 3: potentially could make it cheaper. I mean, think about it,
Speaker 3: these cell phone towers. Somebody has to go out and
Speaker 3: build these towers. Somebody's got to climb up these towers.
Speaker 3: And put all the you know, the the repeaters and
Speaker 3: the cell dishes up there, and make sure they're continuing
Speaker 3: to work and if they break or something, you gotta
Speaker 3: at one point, we may not need this. Now we
Speaker 3: just launch a satellite, a series of network of satellites,
Speaker 3: and now we could talk anywhere on Earth. I dig that, man,
Speaker 3: I dig it. I just want to number one, may
Speaker 3: make sure it works. And what information can they potentially
Speaker 3: get from you? Probably not more than they already get
Speaker 3: from us, because they get everything from us right now.
Speaker 3: And how much is it gonna cost? But okay, I
Speaker 3: see T Mobile taking the lead and again as a
Speaker 3: marketing guys, kind of a tech story overy here. I
Speaker 3: thought that was really really interesting. Now listen I AT
Speaker 3: and T and Verizon. I think they have made announcements
Speaker 3: last year, and they previewed some of their own satellite offerings.
Speaker 3: That's in conjunction with other satellite providers, and there's a
Speaker 3: few of them out there. But regardless, I think this
Speaker 3: new satellite service it represents a pretty impressive accomplishment from
Speaker 3: T Mobile and Starlink, and it really highlights how far
Speaker 3: mobile technology has come. I mean, you go back to
Speaker 3: the early days of cellular I mean it's it's like magic.
Speaker 3: So I personally I think I did sign up for
Speaker 3: the bet at beta test, I haven't received word. If
Speaker 3: I'm one of the people who get it. Who knows.
Speaker 3: But then again, I don't go on a lot of
Speaker 3: dead zones. But the funny thing is you may live
Speaker 3: in a house that's got a dead zone because I
Speaker 3: get questions and calls all the time, Michael Harcomb, and
Speaker 3: I'll go on my top upstairs bathroom and I can't
Speaker 3: get any cell cell service. Well, you may actually do
Speaker 3: it now, but I will keep you up to data
Speaker 3: when that goes online. For some reason, I make it
Speaker 3: to the beta test, I'll let you know and for
Speaker 3: some reason, and this is why it's an interactive show.
Speaker 3: If you get chosen to be a beta tester for
Speaker 3: this limited T mobile Starlink hookup, try it and then
Speaker 3: you're gonna call me and you're gonna let me know
Speaker 3: how it goes. And we'd love to put you on
Speaker 3: the air in which we can we could do right
Speaker 3: now as we take our first break of this hour
Speaker 3: three four six two nine t e x A N.
Speaker 3: Now when I coming up, we're gonna talk about AI
Speaker 3: a little bit more. You saw some TV commercials during
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl for AI. Don't know if you use
Speaker 3: it a lot, but I'm gonna give you warning now
Speaker 3: because this is what I do. Be there very careful
Speaker 3: with your AI data that you give. Some AI companies
Speaker 3: out there, specifically the ones that are from China. I
Speaker 3: will name check those coming up and some other things
Speaker 3: that you need to really be aware of should you
Speaker 3: use artificial intelligence. Nothing artificial here. I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 3: pure sugar and sweetness. Michael arg over the day and
Speaker 3: on the High Tech Text and Show, we are back
Speaker 3: at it. Michael Garfield is the name. It's called the
Speaker 3: High Tech Texans Show all over at the State of Texas.
Speaker 3: Big shout out obviously to Houston Galveson, but also Big
Speaker 3: D Dallas and also San Antonio terrestrially. If you're listening
Speaker 3: on iHeartRadio, move to Texas people. We want your money,
Speaker 3: even though we have a no state income text. But
Speaker 3: we do have some fun and it's my job just
Speaker 3: to tell you about what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3: Doesn't have to be about technology, whether it's cars or
Speaker 3: parties or cocktails. I am your guy, busy month man
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. We're middle of the month of February,
Speaker 3: and it's betraying. I had birthday, Super Bowls done, ces
Speaker 3: is finally over, had the Great Houston Auto Show a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago. Countdown the rodeo and barbecue cook off
Speaker 3: that's coming up. But I was noticed also what happens
Speaker 3: every year right around this time is another massively big
Speaker 3: party that happens down in the kind of the southeast
Speaker 3: state of Texas, in Galveston exactly. It is Marty Gras.
Speaker 3: And I know this specifically because here at iHeart we've
Speaker 3: long time had a partnership with Marty gra Galveston, not
Speaker 3: the one in New Orleans, but Marty gra Galveston. There's
Speaker 3: generally an iHeart parade and for years, man, I used
Speaker 3: to go down there and throw beads and everything. And
Speaker 3: sure enough I pulled it up and looked at the calendar.
Speaker 3: Guess what, it's next weekend. So it's my job to
Speaker 3: tell you what's going on and maybe give away a
Speaker 3: little something something. So what do we do. We go
Speaker 3: to the Queen of Marty Gras herself. Her name is
Speaker 3: Rochelle Salinas. Is are you the queen of Moments the
Speaker 3: queen of Marty Gras. Do you have an official title?
Speaker 3: What do we got here?
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm not. I've got to be unbiased to
Speaker 2: my cruise, so we can just be the Money Gras Maven, gotcha.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of queens. I guess momas is
Speaker 3: a specific you got to educate you. Moments is a
Speaker 3: specific parade or a crew or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what makes money Gross so special? Even in
Speaker 2: New Orleans? There are all the types of cruse, and
Speaker 2: a crew is a group of people that participate in
Speaker 2: a parade or a ball or a fundraiser. They're usually
Speaker 2: some sort of community service element to it. And so
Speaker 2: Nights of Momis is the oldest crew in Houston and Galveston.
Speaker 2: Tilman Fertita is a part of that crew, and so
Speaker 2: they have a big ball at the San Luis Hotel
Speaker 2: and that's one of the grandest parades that happens on
Speaker 2: the second weekend too.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you talk about two weekends, So let's start
Speaker 3: with the play by play. First weekend is this next weekend,
Speaker 3: this coming weekend, which is the weekend of the twenty second,
Speaker 3: twenty third, and then it goes again another weekend too.
Speaker 3: It's two weeks of partying. Are you kidding me, Rochelle?
Speaker 3: I mean, how good? How do people in the southeast
Speaker 3: Southeast Texas take this? Between Barbiecue cook Golf, between Marty Grass,
Speaker 3: between everything you got going on? But this is a
Speaker 3: party though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to say so for the rest of
Speaker 2: the week. To get through the weekend, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: But it's you know, it is NonStop fun and it's
Speaker 2: a real cultural experience. There's more than twenty parades in
Speaker 2: Monty Grog Galveston. There's all kinds of balls, live entertainment, music,
Speaker 2: food vendors, and the parades are spectacular and they have
Speaker 2: some different themes. Our first night on February twenty first
Speaker 2: is a fire trick parade and it's you know, open
Speaker 2: for free that night, and then it's a ticketed event
Speaker 2: the rest of the weekend. And we've got Brett Michaels performing,
Speaker 2: Cameron Sacki Bands, Country fan of Kevin Fowler. So good
Speaker 2: live entertainment, great costumes, and thousands and thousands upon thousands
Speaker 2: of beads to be caught as well.
Speaker 3: Michaels every rose as though you see, you don't need Brett,
Speaker 3: you got the real Michael Garfield there, uh, former poison.
Speaker 3: We're talking to Rochelle Selina specifically about Marty gra Galveston.
Speaker 3: It is coming up these next two weeks February, I
Speaker 3: guess twenty second, twenty third, and also what is that
Speaker 3: March first and second? It is that it's I've been
Speaker 3: many many times, and because actually iHeart, we have our
Speaker 3: own parade. I think it's going about crude to iHeart
Speaker 3: on one of the days. And actually, let me pull
Speaker 3: this up. It is, uh next Saturday, it's the It's
Speaker 3: February twenty second at three pm. It's you know what
Speaker 3: I've ridden. I think that's the only parade I have
Speaker 3: actually been in. I know people, I bet I can
Speaker 3: dit in that parade and throw throw some beads. But
Speaker 3: it is a ticket event. A lot of people think, oh, well,
Speaker 3: you don't need a ticket, but I guess at one part,
Speaker 3: right through the big downtown, the heart, the strand, it
Speaker 3: is a great viewing area, Rochelle, and I guess at
Speaker 3: that point you do need some tickets, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You do need tickets in the downtown district, which is
Speaker 2: all fenced off for everyone's safety and It's a a
Speaker 2: lot of fun being in that area because the parades
Speaker 2: go around in that route in that kind of rectangular
Speaker 2: streets of downtown and it they go by twice, so
Speaker 2: you're getting all the parade action right there. We also
Speaker 2: have the Golden Bead Award prize that goes out. We
Speaker 2: have three days that we throw the golden bead and
Speaker 2: if you catch this s bead, you could win a
Speaker 2: thousand dollars towards a cruise out of Galveston. You could
Speaker 2: win two airfare tickets to Mexico, and you could win
Speaker 2: a Galveston VIP package. So that's another whole reason to
Speaker 2: go and get your chance at winning. It's not just
Speaker 2: catching any of the regular beads, but the special medallion
Speaker 2: ones and this really cool golden Bead prize.
Speaker 3: The one's a winner. By the way, any females out
Speaker 3: there need some tips on what's the best way to
Speaker 3: efficiently catch beads, you want to go ahead and explain, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: cancel that question.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is that I was talking with
Speaker 2: someone the other day. Galveston is definitely one of the
Speaker 2: more family friendly versions of Mardi Grass celebrations and I've
Speaker 2: brought my kids the last few years. They love catching
Speaker 2: the beads. Obviously, when it gets dark, it's probably not
Speaker 2: as family friendly, but it really is good for everybody
Speaker 2: to come and have a good.
Speaker 3: Time without an ad I have three boys, as you know,
Speaker 3: and for years and years I used to take them
Speaker 3: and actually brought them on the floats with me, and
Speaker 3: so it's really neat throwing and tossing the beads out
Speaker 3: to the kids and all the family members. Speaking of which,
Speaker 3: this is a family event. Let's go back to the tickets.
Speaker 3: What are the ticket packages, how much are they adults, kids,
Speaker 3: and what's the easiest way to get them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, check out online on mardigron Galveston dot com. There's
Speaker 2: a variety of ticket offerings. So right now the first
Speaker 2: weekend package is going for thirty one bucks, but you
Speaker 2: can also get the VIP balcony experience. You can just
Speaker 2: get a one day ticket. Children under twelve are free,
Speaker 2: So there's different packages that you want to look out online.
Speaker 3: I will recommend this having about any access and pass.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at them right now because you can buy
Speaker 3: them right online. It's a great vantage point because you're
Speaker 3: above the crowd and then you know, yeah, you're throwing
Speaker 3: the beads down, and you know generally it may come
Speaker 3: with some cocktails. I don't even I haven't look at
Speaker 3: the package yet, but it's it's a neat meat damage point.
Speaker 3: And I must say, but the many years I've done it,
Speaker 3: and it's been a while since that i've been, I
Speaker 3: actually may go this year. I don't think I'm doing
Speaker 3: anything on the twenty second. So you know, Brett Michael's
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield little duet, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can get you down on a float too.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't mince out on the fun. The
Speaker 2: Galveston also offers the float build your own float package too,
Speaker 2: so you can. There's two major experiences if you're one
Speaker 2: to upgrade is definitely going to the balcony and throwing
Speaker 2: the beads at the people there, or riding in a
Speaker 2: parade and being a part of the parade float, because
Speaker 2: those are definitely high end experiences that you're not going
Speaker 2: to get anywhere else, and it just makes it really special.
Speaker 3: It's fun without a doubt. Let if those are my
Speaker 3: longtime listeners in Houston, Listen Houston, Galvitz and it's the
Speaker 3: same VMA. I mean, Gallison is less than forty five
Speaker 3: minutes away. But for my newer listeners right now in Dallas,
Speaker 3: in San Antonio and actually across the state of Texas,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of destinations you may have never been
Speaker 3: to in our great state or certain events, you know,
Speaker 3: be it art shows or sporting events. This is one
Speaker 3: to put on your calendar. I mean, they just take
Speaker 3: a week in and go ahead, and I know, maybe
Speaker 3: just a one to two weeks away, but coming down
Speaker 3: to Galaston, it's it is fun and it is it
Speaker 3: can't get crazy on a weekend like this, and so
Speaker 3: I do wish you good luck, good weather, and also
Speaker 3: my dear listeners. Rochelle, you have kindly donated what a
Speaker 3: family four pack of tickets to us to want a
Speaker 3: lucky listener, Is that right?
Speaker 2: That's right, you got four tickets to give away.
Speaker 3: Look at this, This is why you tune in people,
Speaker 3: not just for my you know, you know, stupid ugly
Speaker 3: looks and this nasty charm. You'll want to win. And
Speaker 3: that's what we're doing with the radios to stand by.
Speaker 3: Between now and the end of the show, We're going
Speaker 3: to give away a Family four pack. Rachelle probably will
Speaker 3: see you and throw you some beads. You do the
Speaker 3: same when I see you next weekend at the first
Speaker 3: of the two weekends of Marty Grog Galaston. I appreciate
Speaker 3: your time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. We'll have fun.
Speaker 3: That's fine. Really, hey, folks, listen it really, it's all
Speaker 3: about having fun. And the first time I didn't know
Speaker 3: what to expect because I've never even been to the
Speaker 3: one in New Orleans. But I can't imagine New Orleans
Speaker 3: even being you know, this much fun. It's a blast.
Speaker 3: And plus I don't have to you know, drive six
Speaker 3: hours to New Orleans or hopping a plane. I just
Speaker 3: hopped popped down to Galvey. It's cool stuff. This is
Speaker 3: high tech text and show. Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere. Yes, stand by. We will give away
Speaker 3: that full pack to Marty Brod Galves stand by.
Speaker 4: Here for you.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is the game, be long running, a high
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Speaker 3: com wherever you get your great streaming and also podcasts,
Speaker 3: look for the high tech texts. And it is my job.
Speaker 3: I use the word job, but that's what I've done
Speaker 3: for well over two decades and giving you some ideas
Speaker 3: reviewing some products and services. You know, one thing that
Speaker 3: I don't talk about too much that I need to
Speaker 3: start thinking about myself as I turned another year older
Speaker 3: and continue to get up there in age, is what
Speaker 3: happens to all of my information, my data, my photos,
Speaker 3: my videos, you know, as I get older. You know,
Speaker 3: I mean I do have given all three of my boys,
Speaker 3: you know, my passwords and what's going on. It's not
Speaker 3: even just in case, it's when it happens or something.
Speaker 3: I think everybody needs to start planning ahead. We plan
Speaker 3: for our financial future, but what about our legacy the
Speaker 3: family is we have so much data in our photos. Well,
Speaker 3: there are companies, there are answers out there, I mean
Speaker 3: on Facebook and Instagram. You can set things like you know,
Speaker 3: if for some reason you expiring you pass you know
Speaker 3: who can access your account. But let's go back to
Speaker 3: the photos in the data in your life history. There's
Speaker 3: a company I found here, it's in Houston, that it
Speaker 3: is just doing some really really neat things with memories
Speaker 3: and creating these legacies, so much so they put it
Speaker 3: in the name of the company. It's called my Legacy
Speaker 3: Video dot Com. It's run by Chris Swanson, who I
Speaker 3: have known for many, many years. What an unbelievable background
Speaker 3: he has had in the video production industry. He's created
Speaker 3: this thing and I think it's just a great idea,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to bring him in to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Chris wants and joins me. Right now, Chris, you are
Speaker 3: my legacy people. I'm gonna give you my password just
Speaker 3: in case something happens to me. Can I trust you
Speaker 3: with that?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: You can?
Speaker 3: Well that is good. Hey, listen, we have worked on
Speaker 3: so many projects together. Obviously your background with you know
Speaker 3: ABC thirteen in the video thing you have this this
Speaker 3: company you just created is called my Legacy Video dot Com.
Speaker 3: At the top level, explain what that is to the listeners.
Speaker 5: Basically, what we do is this all came about when
Speaker 5: I went to one of my very good friends. You
Speaker 5: passed away, and I had left his celebration of life,
Speaker 5: and I'm driving down the road and I thought, Wow,
Speaker 5: the stories that this guy had are gone. He lived
Speaker 5: a life like many many of us do. We have
Speaker 5: a lot of fun things we do, we have a
Speaker 5: lot of obstacles, we overcome, we have a lot of
Speaker 5: experiences that we go through in our life. And I
Speaker 5: was thinking, all of his experiences are gone. So I thought,
Speaker 5: you know, we can do this. I've got a video
Speaker 5: production company. Let's document people's lives. And so what we
Speaker 5: started doing is we do an extensive interview with people
Speaker 5: about their life, starting out with you know, where were
Speaker 5: you born, who was your mom, who was your dad,
Speaker 5: who was your grandma, your grandpa? What do you remember
Speaker 5: about them? Going up through growing up, going to school?
Speaker 5: You know, did you play in the band, did you
Speaker 5: play football? What did you do in your life? And
Speaker 5: then onward through you know, did you get married, who
Speaker 5: was your wife or your husband? And how did you
Speaker 5: meet them? And where was your honeymoon? And you know,
Speaker 5: just all these facts about life that a lot of
Speaker 5: times people don't talk about. And we go all the
Speaker 5: way up through current time, and most of the time,
Speaker 5: these people that we interview have accomplished things. You know,
Speaker 5: it's not a twenty year old normally that we're doing
Speaker 5: an interview with, but it's people that accomplishing. They talk
Speaker 5: about their business experience, you know, if they have a company,
Speaker 5: how they started it or what they did is a profession,
Speaker 5: and experiences they had during that. It's just a wonderful
Speaker 5: opportunity to get people's lives documented. And then after the
Speaker 5: we do the interview, we do an extensive, long interview.
Speaker 5: We asked them for do you have a picture of
Speaker 5: you in elementary school? Do you have a picture of
Speaker 5: you playing football? Do you have a picture of you
Speaker 5: with your spouse at your wedding, Do you have pictures
Speaker 5: of you at your job if you're a pilot, or
Speaker 5: you're a teacher, or you know whatever. Or video We
Speaker 5: take those videos and those pictures and then we incorporate
Speaker 5: that into the video production that we do about people's lives.
Speaker 5: And the magic of this is once we get this completed,
Speaker 5: they can pass that on down to their kids, grandkids,
Speaker 5: great grandkids, great great grandkids, and after they're long gone,
Speaker 5: there's a legacy of their life and what they've done.
Speaker 5: And you know, we did this for one of our
Speaker 5: clients and at Christmas time they took it and showed
Speaker 5: it to their whole family. It made their Christmas magical
Speaker 5: because the grandkids were asking, you know, you know you
Speaker 5: raise chickens, and he said, yes, you know, I raised chickens,
Speaker 5: and you know, the chickens would lay eggs and I'd
Speaker 5: take the eggs and I'd go sell them. And that's
Speaker 5: the way I raise money to go to college and
Speaker 5: buy my first car. And it was just amazing how
Speaker 5: people don't talk about this, and they go to family
Speaker 5: gatherings and they talk about, you know, their hairstyle and
Speaker 5: their clothes and whatever. They don't talk about their history.
Speaker 5: And it just makes a legacy for people, and people
Speaker 5: absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: It sounds interesting. I've seen some of your work Chris
Speaker 3: wantson It is called my Legacy video dot com. Is
Speaker 3: you're not a fly by night guy when it comes
Speaker 3: to doing something like this. Your background. I know, you're
Speaker 3: at ABC thirteen, you have been behind the camera. You're
Speaker 3: an editor, and so you and your staff a lot
Speaker 3: of skills over there to put something like this, to
Speaker 3: make it compelling and really to be a story to tell.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, this is a quality production. It's network quality, it's professional.
Speaker 5: The people that work with me are award winning journalists
Speaker 5: and videographers and editors, and you know, it's it's a
Speaker 5: first class production, and we really put every effort into
Speaker 5: it to make it as amazing as we can. By
Speaker 5: the time we finished with one of these videos, it
Speaker 5: could be shown on network television. It's that quality.
Speaker 3: Your audience that I guess the people who have been
Speaker 3: purchasing and utilizing your services. Can I imagine they're you know,
Speaker 3: close to or in retirement right now, and you know,
Speaker 3: either they're getting it for themselves as a legacy, but
Speaker 3: I also I also can see kids or grandkids even
Speaker 3: giving this as a gift to those grandparents, like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, we want to know your legacy so we
Speaker 3: can continue to pass it down. You know what's what's
Speaker 3: kind of that sweet spot that you've seen with your clients.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, when I was working in the media, I spent
Speaker 5: years at KPRC Channel two, and then I spent many
Speaker 5: years at Channel thirteen. I had one particular friend of
Speaker 5: mine who used to tell me and I had a
Speaker 5: camera with me all the time, and he would say Hey, Chris,
Speaker 5: I want you to bring your camera over and I
Speaker 5: want to interview my dad and get him to tell
Speaker 5: some of those stories that he's got that are just awesome.
Speaker 5: We never did it, and his dad passed away, and
Speaker 5: you know me, I'm ashamed to say this. When I
Speaker 5: was growing up, my father played the fiddle, and now
Speaker 5: I don't have any video of my dad playing the fiddle,
Speaker 5: and I just scratch my head. It's like, Chris, what
Speaker 5: is wrong with you? You know, you had a camera
Speaker 5: with you all the time. It's so easy. People don't
Speaker 5: think about it. But then once people are gone, you know,
Speaker 5: you can consider it to be priceless. Because I did
Speaker 5: a documentary on the history of the Lakewood Yacht Club
Speaker 5: and during that documentary, we interviewed five people in their nineties.
Speaker 5: After we did the interviews and before we got the
Speaker 5: video produced, one of the people we interviewed in their
Speaker 5: nineties passed away. So I took that entire, uncut, raw
Speaker 5: interview that we did with this gentleman and send it
Speaker 5: to his family, and to them, that was priceless. They
Speaker 5: have him on camera telling his stories about his boat
Speaker 5: that he loved so much, and how much you loved
Speaker 5: going out on his boat, and you know that kind
Speaker 5: of thing you just don't think about it sometimes until
Speaker 5: it's too late. Right now, it's not too late. And yes,
Speaker 5: you know, some people want to do it as a
Speaker 5: gift to their children and their grandchildren. Sometimes the children say, hey,
Speaker 5: I want my dad's stories to be documented, and they'll
Speaker 5: call us and say, hey, you know, let's do a
Speaker 5: video on my dad or my mom or both of them.
Speaker 5: The last one we just completed, we did the husband
Speaker 5: and the wife, and you know, they we interviewed one
Speaker 5: of them separate, and then we interviewed together, and then
Speaker 5: the ladies separate. And when they were together, it was magical.
Speaker 5: The way that they talked about their honeymoon and how
Speaker 5: they met. It was just it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Without a doubt. I think the word that really struck
Speaker 3: me is priceless. It is priceless. The fact is, you know,
Speaker 3: I continue to say, you know, a few years ago
Speaker 3: I lost my grandmother lived to one hundred and five
Speaker 3: years old, so I got to spend a lot of
Speaker 3: time with her. Over and over the years. I did
Speaker 3: document things with a lot of photos, in a lot
Speaker 3: of video. Because I dabble in that too, and point
Speaker 3: is I probably should have done more. I want to
Speaker 3: share that with you know my grant, my grandkids are
Speaker 3: around what their grandmother was like. But the fact is
Speaker 3: you put it together in a very very professional manner.
Speaker 3: Last question for I get you out of here, Chris,
Speaker 3: what's the Process's people are interested, how do they get
Speaker 3: in touch with you? What do they need to do?
Speaker 3: Background the whole thing?
Speaker 5: Basically, all they needed to go to my Legacy video
Speaker 5: dot com and then there's a form on there that
Speaker 5: can fill out that can read about it. If they
Speaker 5: can watch a sample of one of the videos that
Speaker 5: we did and they kind of get an idea of
Speaker 5: their mind, then what we will do is we'll contact them.
Speaker 5: We'll find out exactly what their specific need is. Everything
Speaker 5: is customized to the specific need. We have one that
Speaker 5: we're about to do where we're going to travel to
Speaker 5: another sea interview the son of the lady that we're
Speaker 5: doing the documentary on. But basically, just go to the website,
Speaker 5: send us a message, We'll contact you and we'll find
Speaker 5: out what your needs are and we'll go from there.
Speaker 5: We'll set up a time to do the interview and
Speaker 5: we'll make it happen.
Speaker 3: Is the name of the website. It is my Legacy
Speaker 3: video dot Com. His name is Chris Swanson. You continue
Speaker 3: continue to do very smart and great work, and I
Speaker 3: love the concept of what you're doing, so I appreciate
Speaker 3: their time and best of luck, my man.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for your time. Michael. I love
Speaker 5: working with you. You're an amazing professional. We've done some great
Speaker 5: things together. Your radio show is awesome and amazing, and
Speaker 5: thank you for taking the time to visit with me
Speaker 5: about my project.
Speaker 3: Oh you mean I actually have a legacy myself. I
Speaker 3: may have to utilize your services.
Speaker 5: Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 3: I like it all right. That is my legacy video
Speaker 3: dot com. I feel free to check them out, really
Speaker 3: really moving pieces without a doubt. Michael is the name
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield. Whether I have a legacy or not, We're
Speaker 3: going to continue to be here on this radio program.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a break right now. Open phone line
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two five ninety five. It's
Speaker 3: called the high Tech Tax and shift. Do not go anywhere.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 3: Coming to the end final seven or eight minutes of
Speaker 3: this week's edition of the High Tech Texan Show. As
Speaker 3: if you've listened to the whole thing. Do you see
Speaker 3: what I mean? Like, this is not a fully technical,
Speaker 3: tech centric thing. It's it's Michael's Holden court Man. We're
Speaker 3: talking super Bowl commercials, marketing, bourbon travel. I'm consumer lifestyle.
Speaker 3: The problem is that I've the brand of the high
Speaker 3: tech text in which I have trademarked by the way
Speaker 3: twenty plus years ago. It's it's it's tough to switch
Speaker 3: it with a literation like the con sumer lifestyle tech Texan.
Speaker 3: It's don't everybody, it's just me. It's garf baby. You
Speaker 3: know how to do it. I'm going to give out
Speaker 3: the phone number one more time, even though we're almost
Speaker 3: at the end of the show. But here's why. As
Speaker 3: promised if you listened a few segments ago, Marty gra
Speaker 3: Galveston coming to Galveston, and as promised from a very
Speaker 3: nice Rochelle who is the marketing person there, she has
Speaker 3: graciously donated a four pack of tickets to go that
Speaker 3: the second Friday, which is Friday February twenty eighth. If
Speaker 3: you want to go to Galveston, Marty Grau, which really
Speaker 3: is fun, caller number ten right now, three four six,
Speaker 3: twenty nine, Texan. You don't even have to be in
Speaker 3: the Houston Galveston area. If you're listening up in Dallas
Speaker 3: or San Antonio, maybe worth coming down for the weekend.
Speaker 3: And if you don't win, suck it up, go buy tickets.
Speaker 3: But we got four pack for you right now. And
Speaker 3: actually I'm gonna talk a few more seconds and I'll
Speaker 3: say stop calling, because this is the phones are coming
Speaker 3: in real quickly. Three four, six, two nine T E
Speaker 3: X A N color number ten. You're gonna get that,
Speaker 3: and you can check out Marty Grag Galveston. I've never
Speaker 3: been to the to the do I call it the
Speaker 3: real Marty Gras, which is in New Orleans. I have been,
Speaker 3: and I'm not gonna call the one in Galveston fake
Speaker 3: because it is fun. It's over two weekends and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff going on, and when the weather's great,
Speaker 3: it's I've been on the parade, the floats, the balconies.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. I've taken my kids there. It's kid
Speaker 3: friendly until it ki's kind of dark, until you know,
Speaker 3: maybe it's not so friendly. That's friendly. Color number two. Oh,
Speaker 3: we got it. Callum all right, stop calling? See how
Speaker 3: fast these things go. It's what radio is all about. Man,
Speaker 3: if you give stuff away, it's uh win and winno
Speaker 3: Marty grag Galveston Dinner. All right, so away, congratulations if
Speaker 3: you won the four backup tickets to Marty Grau Galveston.
Speaker 3: One more story I want to hit. I kind of
Speaker 3: teased it a little earlier. A lot of AI stuff
Speaker 3: going on out there. You saw Super Bowl commercials from
Speaker 3: open ai chat, cheep to Google, some promotions when the
Speaker 3: potential I don't know if you did with actually when
Speaker 3: there was another one that kind of launched not long ago.
Speaker 3: It's called deep Seek Deep Seek and it was about
Speaker 3: two weeks ago. These things come and go real quickly.
Speaker 3: They get a lot of headlines. And this was the company,
Speaker 3: it's out of China that launched it with a fraction
Speaker 3: of the dollars. The research and development that OpenAI Chat
Speaker 3: GBT did and that's what made headlines. Well here I
Speaker 3: am and we are based in Texas, and I don't
Speaker 3: know how this news escaped me. This was two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: January thirty first, Governor Abbott issued a ban prohibiting the
Speaker 3: use of AI and social media apps affiliated with and
Speaker 3: I'm quoting here the People's Republic of China and the
Speaker 3: Chinese Communist Party on government issued devices. On government issued devices. So,
Speaker 3: if you work for the State of Texas and they
Speaker 3: have given you a phone or a laptop, sorry, you
Speaker 3: cannot download or use social media apps apparently like TikTok,
Speaker 3: nor red Note nor deep seek on your government issued device.
Speaker 3: All right, for all you people who are just regular
Speaker 3: citizens and you get your own device that you pay for,
Speaker 3: apparently your coolio, I'm gonna give you a quote from
Speaker 3: the governor. Quote, Texas will not allow the Chinese Communist
Speaker 3: Party to infiltrate our state's critical infrastructure through data harvesting
Speaker 3: AI and social media apps. Unquote. Whoo, big daddy, gov.
Speaker 3: Ain't he ain't jacking around? Is he? Callen? Can we
Speaker 3: get the governor? Okay? I know we only got a
Speaker 3: few minutes. Maybe next week he wants to call in.
Speaker 3: I met him a few times, do you think so?
Speaker 3: I just listen. How come I'm not the technology czar
Speaker 3: of Texas? Maybe because well, I don't know what would
Speaker 3: I issue a ban on government issued Maybe maybe on
Speaker 3: government issue devices. Potentially it's a cautionary thing. I understand it.
Speaker 3: But is this that slippery slope as well. If it
Speaker 3: starts on government issued devices, is it going to be
Speaker 3: a ban on other things like deep seek or Lemon
Speaker 3: eight or MUMO or red Note or deep Seek. Remember
Speaker 3: Texas put a ban on going to websites like like
Speaker 3: the pornography type of websites. And I do not know
Speaker 3: this because I go there are people seriously, I just
Speaker 3: read that. If you know me, you know me. It's
Speaker 3: I read things like this. There are ways to get
Speaker 3: up around that, as I told you, through downloading VPNs,
Speaker 3: but there are ways that states can actually govern or
Speaker 3: tell you where to go and what not to go,
Speaker 3: and this is one of them. So I thought that
Speaker 3: was interesting. And by the way, I know, we got
Speaker 3: about maybe two minutes real quickly. This was something I seek.
Speaker 3: I saw this on it was online. I think it
Speaker 3: was on c net. Be careful with the data that
Speaker 3: you give deep Seat and pretty much every other AI
Speaker 3: and in this article went on. It was written by
Speaker 3: a brief oller Deep seeks China connection is worry sump,
Speaker 3: she writes, And you really need to watch what you
Speaker 3: can get. But the problem is, what do you know
Speaker 3: what information you're already giving? What do you China, every company,
Speaker 3: every country has so much information on it. Deep Seek, Yes,
Speaker 3: it has ties to China, just like you can compare
Speaker 3: it to TikTok, and security experts say that while deep
Speaker 3: Seek's data security threats are real, they are different from
Speaker 3: those of social media platforms. People are worried about it
Speaker 3: because they've got ties to China, just like they potentially
Speaker 3: are worried about it for TikTok, which is owned by
Speaker 3: byte Dance, which is in China too. You got lawmakers
Speaker 3: on both sides of the aisle worried that US user
Speaker 3: data could be used by the Chinese Communist Party for
Speaker 3: intelligence purposes. I don't know how to do it. Eight
Speaker 3: eight second TikTok, Dance and some of these things. Getting
Speaker 3: a handle on deep Seat or actually any other AI
Speaker 3: it's not that simple. It's not as simple as banning
Speaker 3: an app. The average consumer probably won't even know what
Speaker 3: AI model they're working with. When you're using an AI model.
Speaker 3: Would the Chinese Commuist Party use deep Seat data for
Speaker 3: intelligence purposes? It's above my pay grade. Probably could. I
Speaker 3: don't know how to stay safe be smart with AI,
Speaker 3: just like everything else. Best practices use unique passwords, change
Speaker 3: them regularly enable to factor authentication, which means not only
Speaker 3: inner a password, make sure this company texts you a
Speaker 3: six digit pass code or something like that that for
Speaker 3: you intern two different times. All right, keep your personal
Speaker 3: information personal, right, No social security number, don't put your
Speaker 3: banking information out there any of that stuff. Be skeptical.
Speaker 3: I mean, keep your head on a swivel. People, just
Speaker 3: because something is new, don't rush to be an early adopter.
Speaker 3: Don't just because an AI or now app is trending,
Speaker 3: doesn't mean you have to right away. I know, I
Speaker 3: was watching some Super Bowl commercials and I downloaded these apps.
Speaker 3: But they've been around for a while. Some of them
Speaker 3: weren't absolutely new. If you can read the terms of condition,
Speaker 3: good luck, because I don't have the patience from the stuff.
Speaker 3: And you really, you really should be aware of America's adversaries.
Speaker 3: Any app that's based in China, right, it probably should
Speaker 3: be treated with suspicion. You know, potentially Russia. I ran
Speaker 3: North Korea too. Privacy rights do we have here in
Speaker 3: the US or the ear opinnion If you don't apply
Speaker 3: to a lot of these apps, just freaking and be
Speaker 3: careful no matter where you are, what you're driving.
Speaker 4: What are you download?
Speaker 3: Because that's what I do, because I cover all. Hey, listen,
Speaker 3: I want to thank you so much too. Chris Swanson
Speaker 3: my legacy video. Great concept. Also, Rochelle Marty Gron Galveston.
Speaker 3: Good luck with that coming in the next few weeks.
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