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Speaker 2: Cheerio, Hip Pip, and welcome to the final show of
Speaker 2: September twenty twenty four. As we do this plausibly live
Speaker 2: one Saturdays, as we have done for two decadeses called
Speaker 2: the high Tech Texan Show. But oh my, so much
Speaker 2: more to talk about sumer products and lifestyle. My job
Speaker 2: is to test things out, drive vehicle, play with computers, TVs, phones,
Speaker 2: try some bourbon fashion restaurants, and I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: some advice. I'm just after two plus decades. It's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's an honor to build up a brand where I
Speaker 2: work with companies where they send me some stuff to
Speaker 2: play with so you don't have to just running and
Speaker 2: buy it. You can call That's right, it's it's a
Speaker 2: it's a radio show. We can do this is seven
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Speaker 2: People seven one thirty two one two five nine. I
Speaker 2: have ocallum it did. It's good to see. It's been
Speaker 2: a while. I did some traveling, as you know. A
Speaker 2: few weeks ago I was in Berlin and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I said, you know what, I got
Speaker 2: a life to live. Let's go play in putts around,
Speaker 2: Let's go to London. So I spent four and a
Speaker 2: half five days in London this about a week past
Speaker 2: week or so. It did was it was fun. And
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, and I'll sprinkle this throughout
Speaker 2: the show because I'm the high traveling Texan. London easily
Speaker 2: in my top three cities in the world. And you know,
Speaker 2: I'm a California guy. You know, I'm so okay guy. Internationally,
Speaker 2: it could be my favorite this It was my fourth time,
Speaker 2: but I just really got to spend some time walking
Speaker 2: the city, taking the tube, the trains, exploring new parts
Speaker 2: that I haven't seen before. I stayed on the East
Speaker 2: side of London and just some food. It was blast
Speaker 2: I mean weather, forget about it. What am I doing
Speaker 2: in Houston? What are we doing in Newston? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2: The cost of living is I guess relative relatively, okay,
Speaker 2: sixty five seventy degrees during the day in London at
Speaker 2: this time of year. Night got down to about fifty
Speaker 2: five on the people are just those people like to
Speaker 2: drink Callum, I yeah, I know you're a drinker. Caltum
Speaker 2: over here. He's pushing the buttons, running the show. You
Speaker 2: need if you need to visit London, my man, because
Speaker 2: they have pubs more frequently than we have Starbucks in
Speaker 2: this country or seven elevens or I mean, it is unbelievable,
Speaker 2: and they love drinking, and they're so friendly, and they're
Speaker 2: it's a different culture. They're much more forward. I mean,
Speaker 2: females will come up and start talking to you at
Speaker 2: a bar. That's the way I liked it. Uh uh ah,
Speaker 2: huh than than just it's four o'clock. I don't care
Speaker 2: if it's Monday Tuesday, if it's about four four thirty
Speaker 2: in the afternoon. Every single pub I walk past, and
Speaker 2: I walk past a lot of pubs, it was packed people.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe you know some of them were they
Speaker 2: got off of works, like you know, they were tressed
Speaker 2: up and then their khakis and somebody even had suit
Speaker 2: codes on and they're just sitting there holding up pint
Speaker 2: and they're just quiffitted down. I need to get James Simpson,
Speaker 2: our beer guy on this show, Dave to talk about
Speaker 2: some of the beer that I tasted over there. But anyway,
Speaker 2: it was fun and London was great, and throughout this
Speaker 2: episode we'll sprinkle it in. I will give you one
Speaker 2: of the reasons why I was over there. I'll talk
Speaker 2: about it in the next segment. It does have to
Speaker 2: do with laptops and technology. Other news coming up. If
Speaker 2: you're does anybody still use X or tweet? I don't use.
Speaker 2: It's probably of these social media platforms that I use,
Speaker 2: and I guess I use three or four. I don't
Speaker 2: use all of them. I use X formally Twitter the
Speaker 2: least and I I mean I may not even use it.
Speaker 2: I mean Elon Musk continues just to really to jack
Speaker 2: up what is going on at X. He pulled another one,
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what that is about. If you
Speaker 2: block people from seeing your post on X, well kiss
Speaker 2: that goodbye. Because Elon said, screw it, We're gonna make
Speaker 2: sure that everybody seize your post. So he's removing the unblocking.
Speaker 2: We will talk about that of why actually it kind
Speaker 2: of is making difference and why more and more people,
Speaker 2: I think, in my opinion, are going to start pulling
Speaker 2: away and getting and stop using that X. By the way,
Speaker 2: if you do use Instagram and Facebook and you're not blocked,
Speaker 2: because you can still block people on those. I am
Speaker 2: at a high tech Texan on most of them HI
Speaker 2: g h T E C h T E X A N.
Speaker 2: And you could see some of the travels and shoveils
Speaker 2: of my trip, some of the fun things that I ate,
Speaker 2: some of the technology that I was playing with. You
Speaker 2: could see that in other international news. Also with vehicles,
Speaker 2: because I do talk a lot about cars and trucks
Speaker 2: I get to test drive in for fifteen years, I
Speaker 2: drive it. The US has made a move the Biden
Speaker 2: administration has made a move that I actually really I
Speaker 2: don't agree with really because I think the US is
Speaker 2: really lying of one of the reasons that they do
Speaker 2: that they are banning in about a year or two
Speaker 2: the importing of Chinese vehicles, Chinese evs and just Chinese vehicles,
Speaker 2: and they gave one reason, but I don't think it's
Speaker 2: really the reason that they want it. I think the
Speaker 2: US is doing its best to promote and protect Detroit,
Speaker 2: the automakers here, which I can respect. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to the consumers itself and the escalating prices of
Speaker 2: the vehicles that we are buying here in the US
Speaker 2: versus how inexpensive the Chinese vehicles are priced and would
Speaker 2: be priced if they came to the US, I think
Speaker 2: they're protecting the Detroit and I think that's what they're hiding.
Speaker 2: So look at me, look at Garth going all conspiracy.
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Speaker 2: just have some fun. And I know it's college football season.
Speaker 2: So keep one ear right here for the next hour
Speaker 2: and forty five minutes. Keep one eye on the television,
Speaker 2: even though the Longhorns don't kick off till three point
Speaker 2: fifteen this Saturday in the afternoon Central time, so you
Speaker 2: don't have to. It's not going to eat into your Longhorn.
Speaker 2: The number one country, the number one team in that
Speaker 2: country right now. I'm very pumped up about that. But
Speaker 2: I will take your calls if you are really in
Speaker 2: the holiday gift spirit mode, give it about it of
Speaker 2: a month and I will really start listing a ton
Speaker 2: of things for the holiday, holiday gift giving, the Black
Speaker 2: Friday shopping and everything as we move into the season
Speaker 2: like we always do. Michael high tech Textan dot com
Speaker 2: for the emails. If you're shy, you can try me
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Speaker 2: we'll do it the low school, old fashioned way. You
Speaker 2: can call Callum. He just may answer your phone and
Speaker 2: we'll put you on the air. Seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two five nine five. Oh, when we come back
Speaker 2: a little bit more. Why I was in London specifically
Speaker 2: about a new designs for laptop computers. I think you're
Speaker 2: going to hear this, it's interesting. Seven two one two
Speaker 2: five nine five Oh. I just got back and down
Speaker 2: a lot of jet lag. I was in London and
Speaker 2: I got back just yesterday Friday. This is after almost
Speaker 2: a back to back to Berlin. And it's funny. I
Speaker 2: travel quite a bit across the United States. I'm not
Speaker 2: a big international guy, but it would have reigns it
Speaker 2: pours correct. So I go to Berlin for the IFA
Speaker 2: Technology Conference a few weeks ago, come back home, and
Speaker 2: then I hop over to London. Specifically I went for
Speaker 2: the UH There was the London Design Festival. It's an
Speaker 2: annual event twenty two years running that showcases artists and
Speaker 2: in so many ways that design factors into our everyday
Speaker 2: lives and ice in I got to thank the folks
Speaker 2: at asus A SU's computers. And you know, if you've
Speaker 2: listened to my radio show, you watch me on TV,
Speaker 2: you watch my social media. Yeah, obviously I talk a
Speaker 2: lot about laptops and technology, and I've really been spotlighting
Speaker 2: some products and some laptops from Asus as US as
Speaker 2: of late, one of the world's leading computer laptop companies,
Speaker 2: and they held a specific event a design a showcase
Speaker 2: during London Design Festival, and it was really interesting because
Speaker 2: you don't think much about the design of laptops now,
Speaker 2: you know. They just came out with the zen Book,
Speaker 2: and I've tested some of their zen Books and I'm
Speaker 2: a big fan of z in books. They are light,
Speaker 2: they are super fast, that great software you know, AI
Speaker 2: and everything. But they came up with that with a
Speaker 2: trademarked new material on the outside of their laptops to
Speaker 2: make them look really cool, sustainable, innovative. It's called Sarah Aluminum.
Speaker 2: Love the name. It's like ceramic and aluminum together, Sarah Aluminum.
Speaker 2: So they took over this design studio and it was
Speaker 2: open to the public during London Design Festival, but I
Speaker 2: had the sneak preview about day before it opened with
Speaker 2: some media from around the world, and I really got
Speaker 2: to tour and talked to some of the marketers of
Speaker 2: how and how the research and design went to create
Speaker 2: Sarah Luminium, and why they created Sarah Luminium and where
Speaker 2: they got the inspiration but the exit the exhibition was
Speaker 2: really interesting. They had a number of specially commissioned pieces
Speaker 2: and some artists there that you could walk around and
Speaker 2: you could talk to some of these artists of how
Speaker 2: they look at obviously the world differently that'd be a
Speaker 2: furniture lighting installation, and it was. It was really interesting
Speaker 2: to walk through it and to listen to these artists
Speaker 2: about the aesthetics of the world around us, but also
Speaker 2: the new technologies and then how it culminates with with
Speaker 2: with what ACES has done and there's z in Books
Speaker 2: series two to create this proprietary so Sarah lumin Material, Now,
Speaker 2: Sarah Lumina, let me describe it again because I've talked
Speaker 2: about this before. It's kind of a high tech material
Speaker 2: that the aerospace industry, luxury watch industry is utilized and
Speaker 2: and it's it's an innovation a SU as they've invested
Speaker 2: several years into really fine tuning the process and for
Speaker 2: the texture, the hardness and the colors. There's no pigment
Speaker 2: from what I understand, that's added throughout the entire process.
Speaker 2: There's the colors, uh, and they're precisely controlled by electric
Speaker 2: current and voltage and mineral formula and if you look
Speaker 2: at it the final product as a result, it's it's
Speaker 2: scratch resistant. Uh, it's there's longvity in it, and it
Speaker 2: really it's a unique look. It's not just a solid silver.
Speaker 2: You know, we're used to seeing laptops that are silver
Speaker 2: or black or gray. This is kind of design that's
Speaker 2: built in over here, which which is neat. And I
Speaker 2: did showcase this on one of my KJOEU Channel eleven.
Speaker 2: Great they used in segments that was about a month ago,
Speaker 2: a month and a half ago, along with one I'm
Speaker 2: producing here. I just finished editing. But it's a sustainable
Speaker 2: material and London is really big on sustainable materials. It's
Speaker 2: you know, I'll continue to talk about my travels, but
Speaker 2: sustainability is something very key that we need in our
Speaker 2: on Earth right now. It's less hazardous to the environment.
Speaker 2: It substitutes the acids that are i guess traditionally employed
Speaker 2: for aluminum anionization for a new higher voltage method which
Speaker 2: which uses water, pure water, and the process which they
Speaker 2: go by it it eliminates the organic compounds and the
Speaker 2: heavy metals from the wastewater and it results in one
Speaker 2: hundred percent recyclable material. I really did a good job.
Speaker 2: So if you're if you're really green or earth based
Speaker 2: in things, but obviously you want technology and you're afraid
Speaker 2: that gosh, I don't want to buy another piece of
Speaker 2: metal that's just going to be trashed. Really, look what
Speaker 2: a SEUs has done as us.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I know, I was in Berlin and I talked about
Speaker 2: it again a few weeks ago. With what they have done.
Speaker 2: They got together with Inteled with some of their chips,
Speaker 2: but it was a really really interesting learning process for
Speaker 2: me of of you know the design factor. You know, listen,
Speaker 2: I'd like to think up a fashionabook guy. I really
Speaker 2: look at design when it comes to fashions, certainly men's
Speaker 2: fashions of what I've wear, the buildings, the homes that
Speaker 2: we live and work in, but it's everything that we
Speaker 2: touch and feel. And a SEUs has done a really,
Speaker 2: really nice job. So I do want to thank them
Speaker 2: for helping me get over to London, showing me around
Speaker 2: and understanding a little bit more. If anybody does have
Speaker 2: some questions for me seven one three, two, one two
Speaker 2: five nine five Oh, obviously we're past the point of
Speaker 2: back to school technology help, but if you needed I
Speaker 2: am here for you. We've got the holiday shopping season.
Speaker 2: I'll be doing some of my gift guides coming up,
Speaker 2: probably start that what mid to late October. So I
Speaker 2: am here for you to talk about football, travel, computers,
Speaker 2: a sus whatever you need, high tech text. It is
Speaker 2: the nickname all across the world on iHeart Radio. As
Speaker 2: we continue the show, Oh, I got one for you here, callum.
Speaker 2: You ever uh you ever been to London by the ways,
Speaker 2: you really needed to go. I went to a play, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I wanted to play was a musical? Sorry about that.
Speaker 2: I went to a musical. I went to Phantom of
Speaker 2: the Opera. And the funny thing is, I thought I
Speaker 2: knew I was going, and I went with a few people.
Speaker 2: I had tickets, and I thought, I've seen Phantom of
Speaker 2: the Opera. Yeah, I don't let me help you out.
Speaker 2: I don't see a lot of musicals, all right, I
Speaker 2: just did listen. If it doesn't have commercials and referees
Speaker 2: and umps and whistles, I really don't watch it or
Speaker 2: pay attention. So I'm thinking, okay, well I've seen Phantom
Speaker 2: of the Opera. I'll go just for the sake of it,
Speaker 2: to go to the West End, in London, and you
Speaker 2: know Broadway type of stuff. So why beautiful old I
Speaker 2: mean just majestic theater. It used to be called Her
Speaker 2: Majesty's Theater. Now it's His Majesty's Theater obviously since Prince Charles,
Speaker 2: King Charles rules everything. So lights go down and I'm
Speaker 2: like right in the center, like a kind of the
Speaker 2: upper level, and it starts and I'm looking in. About
Speaker 2: five minutes in, I'm thinking, I don't recognize that. I
Speaker 2: don't remember these characters. And then there's this big chandelier
Speaker 2: and I'm not spoiling anything, don't worry people. This is
Speaker 2: chandelier that kind of moves and it goes up to
Speaker 2: the top of the over the audience and things, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, I don't remember this, what's going on? And
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you hit me. Now ten minutes
Speaker 2: into the play. Oh man, I've never seen Phantom. I've
Speaker 2: seen Le Miserrob like three times. And that's why I
Speaker 2: wasn't so excited, because I think leme Meserrob is all
Speaker 2: in French maybe and it's about crosson or what. There's
Speaker 2: this police sit out meg and I'm like, what am
Speaker 2: I doing? But the Phantom of the opera was good.
Speaker 2: It was the I was able to follow along. I
Speaker 2: did have to pop an extra eighty h D pill
Speaker 2: before I went in, so I'm throwing my hip out there,
Speaker 2: but that's that. But it was it was really nice.
Speaker 2: So anybody ever have the chance to go see Phantom?
Speaker 2: Is Phantom still playing in New York on Broadway? I
Speaker 2: don't know. I for Cats has stopped. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't really don't care. I can count the number
Speaker 2: of musicals I've seen in my life probably on one hand.
Speaker 2: Now these I don't know one and a half hands.
Speaker 2: But it was good, and uh, it's it's what a
Speaker 2: fun area, what a fun area of London, the West
Speaker 2: End or Covid Garden. It was. It was great. So there's,
Speaker 2: you know a little bit more of my travels with
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Speaker 2: Oh I didn't flu shot. I was I mean, I
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Speaker 2: can go ahead and send me something on X, which
Speaker 2: is Twitter for lack of a better term. Elon Musk
Speaker 2: owned thing that he continues to really tick people off.
Speaker 2: He pulled another one. He pulled an another one, uh
Speaker 2: with with on X and I'm telling you people, it
Speaker 2: was people aren't happy? People are people are really not
Speaker 2: happy with mister Elon Musk over here and I and
Speaker 2: I'll tell you are you do you guys still use
Speaker 2: of all the social medias? Do you guys still use
Speaker 2: uh X or Twitter as much as as anything else
Speaker 2: because at some point we've all encountered someone who just
Speaker 2: doesn't get boundaries. You know, they get too deep into
Speaker 2: our personal space, oblivious or maybe maybe too aware of
Speaker 2: our discomfort, and the problems magnified online because there's instant
Speaker 2: access to someone's digital footprint and that could be that
Speaker 2: could lead to abuse, you know. So why most platforms
Speaker 2: have some sort of blocking feature that enables people to
Speaker 2: limit some users access to their lives. I keeed you not.
Speaker 2: Over the years, I've blocked people. I've blocked listeners to
Speaker 2: dad who have been rude, mean, use language that I
Speaker 2: didn't want on my pages. Maybe people that are not
Speaker 2: my life anymore that I just not that I'm hiding
Speaker 2: anything because there's really nothing to hide in my open
Speaker 2: book of a life. It's just they don't I don't
Speaker 2: want them seeing what's going on. Well, mister Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: Texas resident by the way, he announced to change this
Speaker 2: week to excess policies to enable users that you've blocked
Speaker 2: to see your post. Now, they're not going to be
Speaker 2: able to interact with you, but they're going to see
Speaker 2: what you're posting to the platform. And the funny thing
Speaker 2: is Elon has waned against the blocking feature before saying
Speaker 2: users could already get around this by switching to a
Speaker 2: non blocked account, which which is true. Listen the reasons
Speaker 2: this is a terrible, no good and really bad idea.
Speaker 2: They're too long. I'd be here much longer than an
Speaker 2: hour and a half of this radio show that I
Speaker 2: have left today to do it. But it's a reminder
Speaker 2: that X is a place that thinks trust safety are
Speaker 2: just not good and and and I don't agree with that.
Speaker 2: If you don't want people harassing you, you know, for
Speaker 2: parents out there listening, it's like there's online harassment that
Speaker 2: that that your kids may have been bullied, right. It
Speaker 2: happens more than you think. I I anecdotally hear stories
Speaker 2: several times a year like, oh my kid was harassed,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking it's tough for me to fathom. Yes,
Speaker 2: I mean I was. I wasn't harassed by kids at school.
Speaker 2: I was, you know, jostled, made fun of, and you
Speaker 2: know obviously, which is why I'm a little bit more
Speaker 2: sensitive than other people out there. But but online, man,
Speaker 2: you can hide behind online. So there should be something
Speaker 2: that allows you to block heat poll or other pages.
Speaker 2: Facebook does it Instagram ologe you to do it a
Speaker 2: lot of things, but no, they they said, uh, we're
Speaker 2: gonna block blocking good idea or not seven one, three,
Speaker 2: nine five. I personally don't think it is. I absolutely
Speaker 2: don't like it, and I'm not I'm listen, I'm not
Speaker 2: anti Elon. I'm really not. I mean, he's doing a lot.
Speaker 2: We appreciate all those taxes in what he's doing for
Speaker 2: the state of Texas. I think almost every single one
Speaker 2: of Elon's companies, and he's got a lot, they're based
Speaker 2: in our great state. I mean, he's got at least
Speaker 2: he's got a house somewhere in and around Austin. That
Speaker 2: Tesla headquarters are just outside of Austin. Bas Drop, which
Speaker 2: is just on Highway seventy one. As we're driving from
Speaker 2: Houston to Austin, there is I mean, you can't see it.
Speaker 2: It's kind off Highway seventy one. Bass Drop is kind
Speaker 2: of like the Bastion Man, where you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of Blan's companies are based. He shoots off of SpaceX
Speaker 2: rockets down to the coast in South Texas. So now,
Speaker 2: hey man, we appreciate putting not putting Texas in the map,
Speaker 2: but keeping Texas relevant and you know in the news.
Speaker 2: But in this one, I'm gonna I'm gonna go counter
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Speaker 2: if you don't want, you want to just get off
Speaker 2: totally of the social platform, you post things, and people
Speaker 2: post things because they want all their friends and all
Speaker 2: their followers and I just mape it the world to see. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you this because there's privacy and this
Speaker 2: is something that we as a as a human species
Speaker 2: and we as a generation now and it's it's probably
Speaker 2: it's it's the first, almost the second generation that we've
Speaker 2: been around with social media. I know, I didn't have
Speaker 2: to grow up with social media as a kid in
Speaker 2: the late seventies and the early eighties or anything, and
Speaker 2: that was less pressure. Nowadays there is pressure because I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you it's scary. When I got into the
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Speaker 2: are smarter than me, they're all retired right now. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be working Saturdays for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2: But getting back to the point, I do a lot
Speaker 2: of events. I MC events, we do live broadcast. Very
Speaker 2: rarely do I go on my social media and tell
Speaker 2: people where I am. Listen to that verb. I do
Speaker 2: not tell people where I am at that given moment,
Speaker 2: but I will post where I was once I'm done.
Speaker 2: And that's for safety reasons. And we have been told
Speaker 2: from HR from the radio and the TV stations just
Speaker 2: bet you got to keep your head on a s whiffle.
Speaker 2: And it's not just the typical media people right now,
Speaker 2: it's it's there are so many famous people who are
Speaker 2: online who you follow on TikTok and you recognize right now,
Speaker 2: I mean my youngest son right now. It's in some
Speaker 2: of the most the proudest moments of my life is
Speaker 2: when I'm walking around with my son. He's twenty four,
Speaker 2: who has an incredible, big following, an influencer, does a
Speaker 2: ton of sports, and didn't win whatever. He is read recognized.
Speaker 2: He is recognized so much more than I've been recognized
Speaker 2: in twenty years. And it's just I'm proud Papa sticking
Speaker 2: out there, and I tell him, you need to be
Speaker 2: careful because people follow you. They think they know you,
Speaker 2: but they don't. I think I know Tom Cruise, I
Speaker 2: know Lester a Hold because I watch NBC News. I
Speaker 2: know everybody on ESPN. I don't I know a ton
Speaker 2: of stuff about them and what they like, what they
Speaker 2: don't like, just because I've listened to him, I've watched
Speaker 2: him for years and years. Just like so many of
Speaker 2: these folks, you know exactly so many things about me,
Speaker 2: but I don't need like it has happened before where
Speaker 2: people are posting, re emailing Hey man, I know you're
Speaker 2: gonna be MCing this thing, and so can I come
Speaker 2: up and get a picture or I want to introduce
Speaker 2: you to somebody. It's it's you need to have that
Speaker 2: wall for lack of a better term, going back, as
Speaker 2: we end this segment over here, Elon and X there,
Speaker 2: tear down that wall, mister Gorbachev. They're they're tearing down
Speaker 2: by not letting you block people to see what you post.
Speaker 2: And that's where I'm really adamantly against it. Thoughts on
Speaker 2: that this is what it's here for. Let me hear
Speaker 2: from you. You can call, but you don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: broadcasting from see what I did there? Seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two five nine by Michael Garbill Bhideck Dexon
Speaker 2: Just like that big boy said. It is Michael. You
Speaker 2: can call me GARB G A r F. If we're tight.
Speaker 2: If we're tight, you can give us a call over here. Callum, Calum,
Speaker 2: Are you still away? Calum's on the other side of
Speaker 2: the glass. He's pushing buttons. Are we still in the air? Hello?
Speaker 2: Is this thing on? It's a radio show vert is
Speaker 2: not a podcast. It will be podcasted. Callum, you do
Speaker 2: a great job. He kind of zips things up and
Speaker 2: he will once I finish this program at one pm
Speaker 2: Central Time on this Saturday, he will put it on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app or the website iHeartRadio dot com. And
Speaker 2: then you can go to a kp RC you can
Speaker 2: look from Michael Garfield and you can hear all two
Speaker 2: hours again to your heart's content, because I know so
Speaker 2: many people do that. Right, Oh my goodness. A big
Speaker 2: shout out to my guys over at US Coins and Jewelry.
Speaker 2: Hello to the Duncan boys, Kenny and Matthew Duncan. They're
Speaker 2: on Katie free A right at VASS not too far
Speaker 2: outside of Loop six ten. I just they just texted, like, say,
Speaker 2: Kenny just texted me listen to you, Garf. Thank you
Speaker 2: for the post from London. That was hilarious. Tell all
Speaker 2: your listeners to come by. We'll take care of them
Speaker 2: before the holiday rush when it comes to gold selling
Speaker 2: and buying and also a jewelry. You got it, buddies,
Speaker 2: you got it. So fulling up. I was in London
Speaker 2: for this past week and I'm walking around the city
Speaker 2: and I go to Big Ben and I've been here before.
Speaker 2: It is like my fourth time to London, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't any rush. And now I was just strolling along
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two thousand steps a day according to my watch,
Speaker 2: and I'm standing in front of Big Bin, which is
Speaker 2: very famous. Would would would would anyone argue name a
Speaker 2: more famous time piece in the world. Maybe the clock
Speaker 2: and back the Future, Marty, But the Big Bin's it's
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty solid, even though it's actually I have
Speaker 2: a problem because it's it's not correct with the time
Speaker 2: because it's six hours ahead of Central time zone. See
Speaker 2: what I did there. So I'm standing in front of
Speaker 2: Big Bin, and because of the US coins and jewelry,
Speaker 2: I'm a partner with these guys. I love them and
Speaker 2: I always hold up because I I have fun a
Speaker 2: rolex for them, even though I did not take the
Speaker 2: rolex of the trip. And I always do my Instagram
Speaker 2: videos and maybe some commercials, and I hold up my
Speaker 2: watch from there and I get, you know, my tagline
Speaker 2: is I look into the camera and ice Green Boyds.
Speaker 2: And so I did something specifically for us goings and
Speaker 2: enjoy where I'm standing in front of big Ben, and
Speaker 2: I hold up my wrist and I'm like, what, big man,
Speaker 2: you got it wrong. You're six hours ahead, so do
Speaker 2: The point is US coins and Jewelry dot Com. You
Speaker 2: don't even need to be in used and to utilize them.
Speaker 2: They are one of the country's leaders, if not leading,
Speaker 2: organization that actually buys your coins. That'll sell you your coins
Speaker 2: if you're a coin collector. Stay it's really Christmas. Also,
Speaker 2: they have a lot of great jewelry too, and sports
Speaker 2: paraphernalia also right here on itin just south of near
Speaker 2: Boss Boss Rogo. Check that out. We continued the Garb Show.
Speaker 2: One thing they don't sell. I'm gonna talk about cars now.
Speaker 2: Because I am a member of the Texas Auto Writers
Speaker 2: Association TAWA, on the board for fifteen plus years, I
Speaker 2: have and I get to drive test, drive cars, in trucks,
Speaker 2: in vehicles, and not from a dealership. This is what
Speaker 2: I'm about to say that none of this is a
Speaker 2: commercial because I do not represent or speak for a dealership.
Speaker 2: I do not. I work directly with the manufacturers, and
Speaker 2: the manufacturers don't sponsor this either. I get a vehicle
Speaker 2: once a week from random manufacturers. Chevy, BMW Mercedes Key.
Speaker 2: It goes on and on and on. Doesn't matter. I
Speaker 2: don't even choose. A company just comes up and drives it,
Speaker 2: gives it to me, gives me the keys and lets
Speaker 2: me drive it for a week, and I give you
Speaker 2: my honest thoughts. But I do understand the car industry
Speaker 2: and the Biden administration did something. They did something or
Speaker 2: that they passed a bill or a law that is
Speaker 2: effectively going to block the import of Chinese electric vehicles. No, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not getting into the evs. You know my thoughts
Speaker 2: on evs. Okay, it's not that I don't like evs.
Speaker 2: I just don't like charging evs. I just don't have
Speaker 2: the patience for that. I think EV's they're fast, they're
Speaker 2: some of them are sexy, They're cool to look at
Speaker 2: and very futuristic. I just don't have the time or
Speaker 2: the patients to discharge you. Now that being said, I
Speaker 2: understand the worldwide I guess marketplace for automobiles. I love
Speaker 2: and I stand by every US manufacturer, everyone from GM
Speaker 2: from everything that Stilantas owns, which is Dodge g ram Ford.
Speaker 2: I like that company too, bing go at number one,
Speaker 2: buy American. Do you hear what I said before I
Speaker 2: continue this, buy American. The Biden administration wants you to
Speaker 2: buy American, and they're trying to protect the Detroit automakers.
Speaker 2: But they just passed something. But they didn't give us
Speaker 2: the correct excuse. They didn't give us the true reason.
Speaker 2: Because the Biden administration just announced a comprehensive plan to
Speaker 2: ban Chinese software and some hardware from Internet connected cars
Speaker 2: in the United States. Now it's being framed as a
Speaker 2: national security measure because the admission the admin is stating
Speaker 2: that the software poses quote new threats to our national
Speaker 2: security voting through our supply chains unquote. Okay, this is
Speaker 2: the same reasoning behind a ban not long ago, of
Speaker 2: telecommunications equipment from Chinese companies like Huawei and Zte. You
Speaker 2: know that case those claims they were there was in
Speaker 2: truth behind it, because documents reportedly showed that Huawei was
Speaker 2: involved in the country's surveillance efforts. But the announcement goes
Speaker 2: on to say that China could use critical technologies from
Speaker 2: connected vehicles within our supply chains for surveillance and sabotage
Speaker 2: to undermine US national security. Now, this ruling could cover
Speaker 2: any piece of hardware that connects it vehicle to the
Speaker 2: outside world, and that includes Bluetooth, sell Wi Fi, satellite components,
Speaker 2: camera centers onboard computers. Now, the software ban would go
Speaker 2: into effect in model year twenty twenty seven. They also
Speaker 2: proposed a ban including Russian automobile software. All right, but
Speaker 2: here's the point. This proposed ban is primarily for Internet
Speaker 2: connected software, and it would effectively block all Chinese auto
Speaker 2: imports because the software it's pretty much baked inside. Right.
Speaker 2: But it's already tough to get a Chinese vehicle here
Speaker 2: in the States because of the recent tariffs that were
Speaker 2: placed on Chinese evs, But now this would make it
Speaker 2: nearly impossible. Why am I talking about this? Why am
Speaker 2: I kind of a little ticked off? Because right now
Speaker 2: Chinese vehicles Chinese electric vehicles. There's a company in China
Speaker 2: called BYD that's one of many EV production companies. It's
Speaker 2: called by D. They're not here in the United States,
Speaker 2: but if you get it China, you'renna see them everywhere.
Speaker 2: There is a model of a BYD vehicle, I think
Speaker 2: it's called the Seagull EV. It's sells for around ten
Speaker 2: thousand dollars, then thousand dollars that's it. That makes it
Speaker 2: cheaper than any American EV even after we slap one
Speaker 2: hundred percent tariff tax on it. Right now, I'll take that.
Speaker 2: I'll take it twenty thousand dollars EV any day of
Speaker 2: the week. But what this new admit but that the
Speaker 2: administration is doing. They're saying, nah, we're gonna do it
Speaker 2: for security reasons. To me, I'm reading between the lines.
Speaker 2: They're just protecting Detroit in America, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: Just didn't I don't. They're just not being transparent. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the gun. We look at me going off politics,
Speaker 2: but I'm also talking technology in cars. Hour one OVA,
Speaker 2: one more hour. If you want a debate, going to
Speaker 2: your thoughts, you want to talk about EV's and cars
Speaker 2: like test drove probably three v's in the past month
Speaker 2: and a half. We'll talk about that. On the other side.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield, voters call the tech texting is.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfields joining.
Speaker 1: Us in the high tech Texan.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is.
Speaker 1: Here with a high tech Texans.
Speaker 2: It was to make life easier some new technology.
Speaker 1: So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make
Speaker 1: magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act.
Speaker 1: Now your high tech Texan Michael Garfield halfway.
Speaker 2: Through the show. This two hour show, one hour down,
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Speaker 2: It is Saturday, just after twelve noon Central dime. Should
Speaker 2: you be listening live on KPRC Radio nine fifty am.
Speaker 2: It is, It's listen, it's Happy Hour. Because it's Saturday.
Speaker 2: We've got college football already kicked off. My Longhorns kickoff
Speaker 2: in just over three hours from right now. First SEC
Speaker 2: game in Conference SEC Game EVA for my Longhorns Mississippi
Speaker 2: State Bulldogs. Even though the longruns are favored by thirty
Speaker 2: five and a half, I give those points and take
Speaker 2: the over because the Horns are looking pretty good. But anyway,
Speaker 2: you can listen to that on our sister station seven
Speaker 2: ninety Sports and we got the uh Cougars, I believe
Speaker 2: playing on this radio station later today. So football season
Speaker 2: in full swing. You know what I've noticed more recently
Speaker 2: over the years, just I don't like the more recently
Speaker 2: that there is a big and I'm gonna use the
Speaker 2: analogy of football. Okay, I'm gonna there's a big do
Speaker 2: I don't want to use the World war. There is
Speaker 2: animosity and there are people taking sides. Listen. Everybody has
Speaker 2: their favorite team in any sport, and whether you truly
Speaker 2: mean it or you just want to give your buddies
Speaker 2: the business, you always have to say, oh man, my
Speaker 2: team's better than your team. Listen. I've done this my
Speaker 2: entire life as a Texas Longhar Longhorn. I am not
Speaker 2: a fan of Oklahoma centers, and I'm just really not
Speaker 2: a fan of the Texas a and m Aggies. I
Speaker 2: was just born and bred that way, despite the fact
Speaker 2: that several of my closest and past closest friends our Aggies,
Speaker 2: have been Aggies. And when They's and long Worns played
Speaker 2: years ago, which they will start again this year right
Speaker 2: after Thanksgiving, it was, you know, head to head and
Speaker 2: you gave each other and I can't say the word
Speaker 2: now but you know, you give each other the business.
Speaker 2: Oh it just sucks it sold. I'm not gonna that's
Speaker 2: the way it works, right. Well, the analogy I'm gonna
Speaker 2: use and technology is there is another head to head
Speaker 2: battle that I think is just is worse than the
Speaker 2: long words and the aggies, the long wrns of the simoners,
Speaker 2: or anyway your rival versus their arrival. It's iPhone versus Android.
Speaker 2: It is texting. It is blue dot and green dot.
Speaker 2: Now follow me along, and if if you you've got
Speaker 2: to have this, everybody out there probably has had this issue.
Speaker 2: You're an iPhone user. Oh I'm an iPhone user. It's
Speaker 2: so cool. And remember if you're a long time listener,
Speaker 2: I am an Android user. So just hear me out.
Speaker 2: So I'm an iPhone users. Oh, well, you know what
Speaker 2: you're When I text to an Android, they don't go
Speaker 2: they don't go through all the way. Sometimes that if
Speaker 2: we're on a group text, you're the one person with
Speaker 2: an Android phone and it's a green dot and or
Speaker 2: nothing ever goes and no one else gets it because
Speaker 2: you screw it up, green dotter, you Android user, you're
Speaker 2: you know you're screwing it up. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 2: see you a photo. Well the photo is pixelated, the
Speaker 2: video it's all grainy and things. I get it, I
Speaker 2: did it, but you know what, suck it up. I
Speaker 2: don't have a problem as an Android person, and I
Speaker 2: don't even know because what green or blue is until
Speaker 2: my people who use iPhones tell me I'm a green
Speaker 2: dotter because as an Android user and I'm on Google
Speaker 2: Messages is what I use. We don't get green dots
Speaker 2: blue dots, you know, we get check marks, we get autoo.
Speaker 2: Sometimes this is s M S and rcs or whatever
Speaker 2: it is. And I've I'm not gonna say I've gotten
Speaker 2: too fights, but I have been kicked out of groups,
Speaker 2: and really I don't communicate with some people anymore. I
Speaker 2: Am not kidding you. There is a big baby who
Speaker 2: I went to Hay School with in Dallas, and I
Speaker 2: know he's not listening to this, and so it doesn't
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. He has a group of about seven of
Speaker 2: us are eight of us that all went to high
Speaker 2: school high school people. So I've known these guys for
Speaker 2: forty plus years and for the past six seven eight
Speaker 2: years we're just all texting back and forth. We all
Speaker 2: went to our reunion last year, and most of us,
Speaker 2: you know, went went to ut and so we were
Speaker 2: talking football. We talk about everything. But once in a while,
Speaker 2: big baby in Dallas gets a little drunk and he comes.
Speaker 1: Out of the woods.
Speaker 2: Hey Garfield, man, you know you need to get with
Speaker 2: the real world. You need to get the iPhone. I'm like,
Speaker 2: do you know who I am? Do you know what
Speaker 2: I do for a living? No, I'm not getting with
Speaker 2: the real world. Once you get with the real world,
Speaker 2: and if you've encountered this, listen, if you want to this,
Speaker 2: disguise your voice. I'm bullied, and I talked about bullied
Speaker 2: last hour. I literally am bullied for an Android user.
Speaker 2: And it's just the stupidest thing. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's a communication device and whatever. And the reason is
Speaker 2: because iPhone and iOS they use one, you know, they
Speaker 2: use what is it FaceTime and the I messages that
Speaker 2: I died, so what it's called ibdes it. I don't
Speaker 2: even use an iPhone the ims verres. You know, Android
Speaker 2: has long used RCS, which is rich Communication Service. And
Speaker 2: I bring this up. Hear me out, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: Ebity and ivory living in perfect harmony. The world's collide.
Speaker 2: The new iOS eighteen, the new software operating system which
Speaker 2: is getting ready to come out, actually did come out.
Speaker 2: It now supports RCS, which means better texting for iPhone
Speaker 2: and Android. Woo. Who you're gonna get typing indicators when
Speaker 2: people are typing in real time. You're gonna get read
Speaker 2: or red receipts. Oh, this person is read it. You're
Speaker 2: gonna be able to share large photos and videos. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be this. It's so great, this is this is wonderful.
Speaker 2: Now how do we do it? And this is mostly
Speaker 2: for you U iPhone hogs. If you have an iPhone,
Speaker 2: why don't you join the big party. Go to your
Speaker 2: settings it general and then about, and then scroll down
Speaker 2: to your carrier because you have to make sure your
Speaker 2: phone carrier data carrier supports RCS. So go to General, Settings, General, About,
Speaker 2: look at your carrier and tap it. It should change
Speaker 2: to show I AM S that's the word letters, I
Speaker 2: AMS status and it should display voice SMS and r cs.
Speaker 2: It should okay, and scroll down. At that point, go
Speaker 2: to your settings and go to your app. Go to
Speaker 2: your messaging and so I guess go to I message
Speaker 2: under your text message, find RCS messaging. Okay, so in
Speaker 2: your I messaging and your messages under text messaging, you
Speaker 2: want to see RCS messaging, make sure it's turned on.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the freaking real world. Okay. Android users, you
Speaker 2: may have to switch to using Google Messages to enable
Speaker 2: RCS on your Android, which I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people already use Google Messages. Okay, because I could sync
Speaker 2: it up with when I'm sitting on my desktop at home,
Speaker 2: I can my texts not only come to my phone,
Speaker 2: they come right to my desktop. Okay, download the Google
Speaker 2: Messages and enable the RCS chat, which is pretty much
Speaker 2: by default. Ladies and freaking gentlemen. An't we all get
Speaker 2: along Aggie's long horns living together? Androids and all the iphoners.
Speaker 2: Hopefully this is gonna help. Obviously, iphoners, you have to
Speaker 2: download iOS eighteen because it now supports Rich Communication Services RCS.
Speaker 2: How about that? And you know what, if you know me,
Speaker 2: if anybody out there knows my cell phone number and
Speaker 2: has my text number, test it out. Don't text me
Speaker 2: before you allow for RCS. Go to your messages apps
Speaker 2: and allow text messaging RCS. Let me see what you think.
Speaker 2: Is it still gonna be a green dot, blue dot.
Speaker 2: Send me a photo. Let's see if it's pixelated. This
Speaker 2: is what I do. I try to bring the world together,
Speaker 2: one radio show at a time. Twenty two years after
Speaker 2: doing it. All right, we're gonna take a break right now.
Speaker 2: Michael is a name. It is the ident Text Show.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the phone number seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two five nine five. Oho. That's not my mobile number. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's not my cell phone number. In the twenty three
Speaker 2: years that I've been doing this show here on kp
Speaker 2: RC Radio, I may have accidentally given out my cell
Speaker 2: phone number once, maybe twice, because after twenty two years,
Speaker 2: that phone number has not changed. It's our call in number.
Speaker 2: It's our contest number, all right, and so it's written
Speaker 2: in big number right here for you. When I started
Speaker 2: in radio in two thousand and one, here it was like,
Speaker 2: have people call it, because people, it's it's a it's
Speaker 2: a talk show right on AM. It's talk shit. You
Speaker 2: call into your sports stations, you call it to this
Speaker 2: great talk station. You want to talk to your host.
Speaker 2: You want to And I've memorized that I have said
Speaker 2: that number more than any more than eight six seven
Speaker 2: five three oh nine, and I'm an eighties guy. Okay.
Speaker 2: It is seven one three two one two five nine
Speaker 2: five oh. And the reason it's five nine five oh
Speaker 2: because our radio is on nine five oh am nine
Speaker 2: to fifty amplitude mode modulate. Okay. So sometimes maybe if
Speaker 2: my mind is not into it, sometimes my mind wonders,
Speaker 2: I'll say seven one three, bit, I'll and I maybe
Speaker 2: once or twice I've given on my cell phone, not
Speaker 2: that anybody's ever called it, but I'll give you the
Speaker 2: phone number if you don't want to dial and talk
Speaker 2: to Callum. Read Callum is our wonderful man over here,
Speaker 2: the long haired, bearded wonder boy. That's you, Callum. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at you. Thanks for pushing the buttons and make
Speaker 2: answering the phones. If anybody wants to call, give me recommendations,
Speaker 2: or tell me about tell me about the iPhone and
Speaker 2: Android texting system slowly but surely coming together. If you
Speaker 2: just heard our last segment, If you don't want to
Speaker 2: do that, you're too shot, feel free to go to
Speaker 2: high tech text and on Twitter or x which I'm
Speaker 2: probably not gonna use anymore, because if you listened last hour,
Speaker 2: elon Musk love him R Adam. He says, you know what,
Speaker 2: We're not gonna let blocking happen anymore. So you may
Speaker 2: have blocks and people from seeing your ex hosts, We're
Speaker 2: gonna unblock. So we're we're unblocking the unblocking. We're blocking
Speaker 2: the unblocking, if that even makes sense sort of. That's
Speaker 2: how you get a get a hold of me. I
Speaker 2: got from London and this is my second international trip
Speaker 2: in about three weeks. And that's not a humble brag.
Speaker 2: That's a freaking brag. People kidding. I never I used
Speaker 2: an e SIM card and I'm gonna keep this on
Speaker 2: the line of phones. And there's several ways to keep
Speaker 2: a contact communication using your cell phone when you travel abroad.
Speaker 2: You can light up your international calling plan. You can
Speaker 2: get a SIM card. In the SIM card, it's that
Speaker 2: little tiny card that most every single phone has that
Speaker 2: you you probably may not even know it exists. There's
Speaker 2: a little tiny little pinhole in your phone iPhones and
Speaker 2: androids that you can take this little paper clip type
Speaker 2: of device and pop it out and the card comes out.
Speaker 2: And the card itself is the size of your pinky
Speaker 2: less the size of your pinky fingernail. That's actually your
Speaker 2: phone number. That's actually a lot of the data of
Speaker 2: your contacts. Everything's stored on there. So when you take
Speaker 2: that SIM card out and put it to another phone,
Speaker 2: most your phone numbers transferred to the new phone, a
Speaker 2: lot of your contacts, everything's a lot of things are
Speaker 2: transferred to your new phone. But then there's an ESM
Speaker 2: I'm calling an electronic SEM whatever it is, an eSIM.
Speaker 2: It's a virtual SIM card. There's no physical SIM card.
Speaker 2: And so you can use these when you travel abroad.
Speaker 2: You can buy them from many many companies. Put your
Speaker 2: credit card in. You decide how many megs or gigabytes
Speaker 2: of data that you want to use in any given time.
Speaker 2: Say you're traveling for a week, Say you want five
Speaker 2: gigs of data for a week. I priced this out.
Speaker 2: Five gigs of data for a week probably runds you
Speaker 2: anywhere between ten to twenty dollars. Now, what's gonna happen
Speaker 2: is depending on what country you live in. You may
Speaker 2: not get phone calls on your actual seven to one
Speaker 2: three number in case anybody from Euston or the United
Speaker 2: States wants to call you. But you're gonna be able
Speaker 2: to text, You're gonna be able to surf, but you're
Speaker 2: also going to be able to get online, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna use so many other communication platforms. You can use what'sapp.
Speaker 2: I lived on WhatsApp for those two different individual weeks
Speaker 2: that I was traveling abroad. You can use Facebook, Messenger,
Speaker 2: you know, you can use it's called deet Telegram, which
Speaker 2: is you know, it's really big in the UK. You
Speaker 2: can use a lot of these other things. And so
Speaker 2: I'm not saying recommend it, but it gives you another
Speaker 2: opportunity of lighting up your international plan. Maybe your cell
Speaker 2: phone provider. Maybe you're a small have a small cell
Speaker 2: phone provider. They don't have international plans. That's one thing
Speaker 2: to do over the past years when I used to travel,
Speaker 2: I haven't going to Mexico in a while. You go
Speaker 2: to Mexico almost any contrary. What am I even talking about.
Speaker 2: I just use the Wi Fi because Wi Fi, for
Speaker 2: the most part, is so ubiquitous around the world. You
Speaker 2: can find it almost anywhere. I'm on an airplane and
Speaker 2: there's Wi Fi on airplanes right now, and I'm on
Speaker 2: United Airlines in this case, going across the pond twice,
Speaker 2: I was in almost constant communicado the entire time I'm
Speaker 2: over the freakin Atlantic Ocean and we're flying over Iceland
Speaker 2: right and I'm on and I'm on Wi Fi and
Speaker 2: I'm getting texts you land airport. Almost every single airport
Speaker 2: has Wi Fi restaurants, hubs, bistros, hotels, libraries, neighbors. Some
Speaker 2: neighborhoods light up their entire neighborhood with Wi Fi that
Speaker 2: you don't even need to get, you know, utilized, your your, your,
Speaker 2: your plants. And so that that after one of the
Speaker 2: things that I learned in If you want anything more specific,
Speaker 2: feel free to pop me an email or post something
Speaker 2: or contact me and I can totally can get into
Speaker 2: that thing. Another one more thing, and I want to
Speaker 2: get all my little soapbox over here. It may seem,
Speaker 2: if you listen to the entire show that I'm really
Speaker 2: not a fan of a lot of things going on
Speaker 2: here in the United States. Wrong. I am just as
Speaker 2: pot as anybody in this country to be in a America,
Speaker 2: to be free to live the land of the brave. Everything.
Speaker 2: I love products made here. I'm always promoting in America.
Speaker 2: But dang man, there are some processes that America is
Speaker 2: very far behind, one of which is the cell phone industry.
Speaker 2: All right, you were locked into a carrier. You know, sure,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a I'm gonna get you know, buy
Speaker 2: this phone. We'll knock off eight hundred dollars up, but
Speaker 2: we're gonna lock it into a three year contract plan.
Speaker 2: What is this? A lot of other countries don't do
Speaker 2: this another one. And this is where I'm this is
Speaker 2: where I'm on that. I loved being in London and
Speaker 2: I loved Berlin. A few weeks ago. They utilize they
Speaker 2: utilized mobile wallets on your phone. They really don't even
Speaker 2: like taking physical credit cards when you pay. I never
Speaker 2: once had to switch money. I never bought euros in
Speaker 2: Berlin and I never bought British pounds or quid. Did
Speaker 2: not do it in London. Everything was credit card and
Speaker 2: not one did I use my physical credit card because
Speaker 2: I have a credit card like most of you. Looking
Speaker 2: on your phones. It's called Apple Pay for you iphoners.
Speaker 2: There's the Google wallet, there's a Samsung wallet. Listen, you
Speaker 2: can do PayPal, you could do there's a number of
Speaker 2: different things, right, but you go in mewhere, at least
Speaker 2: in London, and they have these mobile mobile readers, wireless readers, that. Yes,
Speaker 2: if you really want to, you could take your physical
Speaker 2: card and you can tap it. And we see that
Speaker 2: in the United States a lot where you can tap
Speaker 2: your card. But more and more United States. Yes, I'm gonna,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna. I will admit, we're seeing more where you
Speaker 2: can tap your phone and pay. But there's a lot
Speaker 2: of places. HGV. I believe does not use tap to
Speaker 2: pay Walmart. I was at Walmart two days ago. I
Speaker 2: was trying to tap to pay and I'm asking the
Speaker 2: guy and he's laughing me. He goes, no, we don't
Speaker 2: use tap to pay. I think Kroger is just experimenting
Speaker 2: with it everywhere I went in Berlin and London and again.
Speaker 2: And you guys feel free to call me antag me
Speaker 2: if you travel more. I took my phone out, I
Speaker 2: opened my Google wallet and I tapped it and I
Speaker 2: was ready to go. If I wanted a piece of gum,
Speaker 2: if I wanted a coke zero, I don't care if
Speaker 2: it cost forty eight cents or forty eight pounds or whatever.
Speaker 2: I used it every store it was a vendor. I
Speaker 2: bought refrigerator magnets and t shirts off the vendors. The sidewalks.
Speaker 2: I bought bagels off the like like a vendor, you know,
Speaker 2: like a hot dog type of stand. It was just
Speaker 2: a matter of you know, Kenny's dimes or dollars. They
Speaker 2: took it and it's secure. I like this a lot.
Speaker 2: It just opens. It just makes things so much more simple.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna lose your credit card. Yes, there's ways.
Speaker 2: I mean I have to I use an authentication where
Speaker 2: I have to use my thumb print before I tap
Speaker 2: my phone. You can put a pen code in there
Speaker 2: on your front. You could put your facial recognition or whatever.
Speaker 2: Do I'm just just telling, come on the United States man,
Speaker 2: you need to get your stuff together and just be
Speaker 2: more user friendly when it comes to the technological processes
Speaker 2: that have gone off. All right, did I vent? Did
Speaker 2: you get the fact that I'm not an American hater,
Speaker 2: I'm an American lever. But there are some process that
Speaker 2: we willly need to get their stuff together. If I
Speaker 2: get I haven't you know what open bone mines? Tell
Speaker 2: me what processes we need to get together? Seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two five nine five. Oh, when we
Speaker 2: come back, I will tell you when to use that
Speaker 2: number because it's gift card giveaway time. Here, I'm Michael Garfield,
Speaker 2: chap Okay bottom of the hour, less than thirty minutes
Speaker 2: to go of this big show here called the High
Speaker 2: Tech textan show where we talk about food, drink, anything
Speaker 2: else you want to talk about, where I could test
Speaker 2: and play with. But I also give away thanks because
Speaker 2: it's radio. And one of the rules of radio, if
Speaker 2: you really want to keep listeners or gain listeners, just
Speaker 2: give away stuff. Just give it away. You know what,
Speaker 2: who wants the microphone? Seven? One three two? Oh no,
Speaker 2: we uh it is gift card time. It's uh. It's
Speaker 2: nice to be able to do a show around lunchtime.
Speaker 2: You may be hungry right now, and I have a
Speaker 2: twenty five dollars gift card too. Cobo Bobs And if
Speaker 2: you're not familiar with Cabo Bob's, it is a I'm
Speaker 2: gonna call it a fast casual eatery based in Austin,
Speaker 2: four locations here in and around the Houston area. And
Speaker 2: it is fenop. If you like build your own burrito
Speaker 2: as well. You actually go up and down the line
Speaker 2: and you tell the folks to stuff this burrito with
Speaker 2: this uh. You get to make a choice of one
Speaker 2: of five different torpillas, not just one thwartilla. They've got
Speaker 2: some buttermilk, the flour, the spice U so good. You
Speaker 2: can have little tacos anything. It's all yours. Ninth callar
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Speaker 2: oho Alim will pick up the phone and in a
Speaker 2: about twenty seconds thirty seconds right now as the phone
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Speaker 2: up and then just call back later. Just call back later. Seven.
Speaker 2: Love me some cobo bops actually hungry, good stuff. I've
Speaker 2: lost weight on cobo bobs and my peloton. Also, it's
Speaker 2: anybody peloton or anybody or exercise bike, soul cycle. There's
Speaker 2: somebody told me there's another one. I didn't even hear
Speaker 2: of it. Oh it's a London things. So I've in
Speaker 2: London and I'm having dinner with some friends who live
Speaker 2: in London and they haven't seen me in a while,
Speaker 2: and very nice, very cordial, and it's like, man, you
Speaker 2: just you look great, you stay fit? What do you do?
Speaker 2: I know you're a runner? You still run? I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I still run because I've run you know, thirty years
Speaker 2: marathon or whatever. But I told him I just picked
Speaker 2: up Peloton and I bought a Peloton bike off a
Speaker 2: Facebook marketplace for you know. It was relative. It was
Speaker 2: a deal I couldn't pass up. And then I subscribed
Speaker 2: to service and this past summers passed three or four months.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm obsessed with it. It is just yeah, I
Speaker 2: have a favorite trainers. And if anybody's a Peloton or
Speaker 2: try to find me, what am I think? I'm Texas
Speaker 2: boy Garf. That's my name on Peloton and we could
Speaker 2: be friends on Peloton. But it's a different exercise to running.
Speaker 2: And I have dropped about twenty five pounds or so.
Speaker 2: And listen, listen, I've stopped drinking calcohol nearly as you know,
Speaker 2: as a lot as I used to, and don't eat
Speaker 2: at night, stop snacking. But all in all, and I said,
Speaker 2: is Peloton big here in the UK? They gave me
Speaker 2: another name? What is uh? I can't even think of it?
Speaker 2: And I said, is that here only in the UK?
Speaker 2: They're like, no, it's worldwide. I'm like, okay, well it's
Speaker 2: it's not as big as Peloton. I mean maybe it's not,
Speaker 2: so I don't know. The travels with Michael. This is
Speaker 2: the things that I'm telling you about Oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: do you uh? I was in London and can anybody
Speaker 2: guess And for those of you been to Lendon, you
Speaker 2: know the answer without a doubt. The number one hype
Speaker 2: of food that has served the restaurants, the number one
Speaker 2: restaurant type. And let's just go with the type of coils,
Speaker 2: seeing the type of country, the type of flavor, Okay,
Speaker 2: because here in Texas we're text mechs right, uh damn,
Speaker 2: we're barbecue Okay, I call those types of restaurants kinds
Speaker 2: of restaurants. And believe it or not, I did see
Speaker 2: some barbecue, and I did see a few text mechs
Speaker 2: and some burritos uh in across the pond. I did
Speaker 2: not try them. They do need to open a Cobo
Speaker 2: by I know the folks, the executives at Cabo Bob's
Speaker 2: and Austin. I said you need to. You need to
Speaker 2: go to the UK and open over there. They're actually
Speaker 2: thinking about the number one restaurant type. Unequivocally, there are
Speaker 2: more Indian food restaurants in London than there are in India.
Speaker 2: And let me help you out that food is a
Speaker 2: hot I mean I had some chicken vindaloo and some
Speaker 2: non bread and the but with the rice it I
Speaker 2: I can stand some heat. Don't get me wrong. I'm
Speaker 2: from Texas and I could eat me some halopenias and
Speaker 2: from the happocante sauce. What a man. I need to
Speaker 2: meet some chocol milk or something good. Indian food, good
Speaker 2: Indian food. I like Indian food. There are some great
Speaker 2: Indian foods here and around Houston. I need I need to.
Speaker 2: I should eat more Indian food. Anybody Indian food fans,
Speaker 2: let's go to lunch sometimes seven one three we do
Speaker 2: ever winter for the cabo bobs. There's the food. Oh
Speaker 2: the other big thing food markets, food holes, you know,
Speaker 2: food holes and food markets. They've been around here in
Speaker 2: the United States. I don't know. They seem to start
Speaker 2: proliferating three four years ago, and to me they were
Speaker 2: glorified shopping all food courts. But these outdoor slash indoor
Speaker 2: markets that I experienced it in London, they were such
Speaker 2: a blast. Oh my goodness, they were so good. They're
Speaker 2: there summer, I mean during lunchtime, breakfast or lunchtime. It's
Speaker 2: just there's little tiny day It's like a ten x
Speaker 2: ten booth and there's mom and pops and they open
Speaker 2: up there. Did they make great pastries and bread, guiss songs?
Speaker 2: They got their coffee porn. Somebody was making was Zoto
Speaker 2: truffle that you could smell a quarter of a mile away,
Speaker 2: and I was just I was floating on there and
Speaker 2: I add some of that sandwiches and everything. I just
Speaker 2: the food markets are great, the food. You know what,
Speaker 2: I need to stop bitching about America. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: bitch that America uses so much preservatives and grabbing their
Speaker 2: food while other countries, maybe Germany, maybe the UK, then
Speaker 2: you know, wherever a London dy, it just seems a
Speaker 2: little healthier. Look at that. Did the taste a little
Speaker 2: bit more fresh? Okay, that's it because I do like
Speaker 2: me some food here, not ragging on anything. Seven one three,
Speaker 2: two one two five, nine to five. Get some emails
Speaker 2: over here, Michael, did you use a VPN when you're traveling?
Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to go over uh the UK for
Speaker 2: about a week and a half, and I needed to
Speaker 2: know if I should use a vp in what are
Speaker 2: the ins and outs and ups and downs of these things?
Speaker 2: And what about a free one? All right? This is
Speaker 2: from Janet. Janet she is in the Woodlands. I did
Speaker 2: use a VPN on I did I brang. I didn't
Speaker 2: bring my laptop. I brought my tablet. Now you can
Speaker 2: use your VPN a virtual private network. You could use
Speaker 2: a VPN on your phone. You can certainly use it
Speaker 2: on your laptop, computers, and when you're traveling, I highly
Speaker 2: recommend to another country. I highly recommend that you do
Speaker 2: use a VPN because what a VPN does, it will
Speaker 2: lessen the chance of your device getting hacked. Okay, not
Speaker 2: one foolproof, but lessens the chance. VPN there are a
Speaker 2: number of them. There are there are a number of
Speaker 2: them that are paid, and there are a lot of
Speaker 2: them that are free. You can go to your app
Speaker 2: store and you could download a free VPN. The thing
Speaker 2: to me personally is the reason is free is because
Speaker 2: maybe it's just not all that good. Maybe you're gonna
Speaker 2: have to put up with some advertisements, which I'm fine
Speaker 2: with that. Sometimes maybe you can only use a VPN
Speaker 2: for one hour at a time before it knocks you off.
Speaker 2: You have to redial and connect again, ups and downs.
Speaker 2: If you have McAfee security, I think that comes with
Speaker 2: the VPN. Kaspersky there's a number of very reliable ones
Speaker 2: that do cost money, and in this case it is
Speaker 2: probably worth the cost of a monthly fee, which it
Speaker 2: can range anywhere between I don't know, eight to twenty
Speaker 2: dollars a month, or maybe it's an annual thing. If
Speaker 2: you travel a lot, use a VPN. The reason I
Speaker 2: used a VPN, and it's not like I'm sneaky because
Speaker 2: I was talking, and again I'll use this example. I
Speaker 2: was talking to my friends who live in London. They
Speaker 2: graduated from UT They've lived in London for thirty or
Speaker 2: for twenty years now. They are big Longhorn fans, and
Speaker 2: they obviously have issues of getting watching Longhorn sports Longhorn
Speaker 2: football in another country in a six hour difference time zone,
Speaker 2: because it seems for some odd reason that soccer they
Speaker 2: call it football and rugby are the thing over there.
Speaker 2: I don't understand rugby. Don't even get into the old
Speaker 2: They don't show a lot. The NFL is pretty big,
Speaker 2: but college football it is. It's tough to find some
Speaker 2: college football. So what they do from their house they
Speaker 2: use a VPN that's based in America. And what it
Speaker 2: does it hell, and I'm not using the word tricks.
Speaker 2: It lets the computer know that it lets the computer
Speaker 2: think that that computer is physically in the United States,
Speaker 2: and then they at that point they subscribe to ESPN
Speaker 2: dot com or they download the Fox Sports Happen and
Speaker 2: even though there's some place far away around the world,
Speaker 2: when they log in to this app on Fox Sports,
Speaker 2: we are Fox Sports. Fox Sports app thinks that the computer,
Speaker 2: even though it is physically in London, they think it's
Speaker 2: similar in the United States, and they are allowed to
Speaker 2: show up because Fox really only has the rights to
Speaker 2: broadcast that college football game in the United States. That's
Speaker 2: why I used a VPN. I watched all I watched
Speaker 2: the Longhards again VPN. I tried it without it. Nope,
Speaker 2: we're sorry. The service here is blocked out in these
Speaker 2: foreign countries. Use a VPN and when you come back,
Speaker 2: you can bring me a gift. That's okay now you
Speaker 2: know your gift is your listenership. That's all I care about.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Janet. In the Woodlands, we got one more segment,
Speaker 2: Don't go Anywhere. We'll round it up with a little
Speaker 2: bit more travel tips, advice of the protect products that
Speaker 2: I saw, and I think we have one more gift
Speaker 2: card to give away something else. It's called the High
Speaker 2: Tech Text and ships canby final segment right here for
Speaker 2: the week on the HTT show. You know what, let's celebrate.
Speaker 2: Let's give away a little something. Total Wireless it is
Speaker 2: a selling data plan carrier. Here. They've got a number
Speaker 2: of different stores all over the Houston area that are
Speaker 2: owned by Victra vic tr A, about ten or fifteen
Speaker 2: different stores. I pass them quite often. I have a
Speaker 2: twenty eight dollars gift card where you can go in
Speaker 2: and use it for anything you want. You can use
Speaker 2: it on a phone, you can use it on a
Speaker 2: phone cases in chargers. You can get wireless home Internet.
Speaker 2: I've been using that from Total Wireless. It's it's a
Speaker 2: device that uses at home high speed five G home Internet.
Speaker 2: Now is I put this little device? I don't you
Speaker 2: plug it into to the electricity outlet power. That's it,
Speaker 2: no cables, no nothing, and it throws out a big
Speaker 2: Wi Fi signal so you don't need to pay the
Speaker 2: absorbent prices. And that thing starts at about thirty five
Speaker 2: forty five dollars a month. That's what they can do
Speaker 2: all right. Called number nine seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two five nine five zero calum go ahead and find
Speaker 2: out that who is going to get the twenty dollars
Speaker 2: gift card to one of these Victra Total Wireless stores
Speaker 2: so they can go get their five G home wireless
Speaker 2: internet or trains for their service like I have. That's
Speaker 2: my to selling data provider there. They're good stuff. So
Speaker 2: that's it. And that's the last time I would give
Speaker 2: out the phone number this show because got less than
Speaker 2: seven or eight minutes over here. I do thank you
Speaker 2: for tuning in. Recapping a number of different things. One
Speaker 2: the pop design I was over in London this past
Speaker 2: week for London Design Festival aeseus as US. It's a
Speaker 2: computer company, one of the world's largest computing companies. I
Speaker 2: went to one of their exhibits where they brought in
Speaker 2: a number of different artists from all over the place
Speaker 2: to talk about form, shape factor design and had a
Speaker 2: lot of conversations interviews of how Asus designs their laptops
Speaker 2: with kind of a smudge free type of really cool
Speaker 2: kind of outside not just grace, not it's just black.
Speaker 2: There's some designs that really kind of built and baked in.
Speaker 2: It's called Sarah aluminium. And so you can podcast this
Speaker 2: and about what ten minutes callum ten minutes, you can
Speaker 2: go to iHeartRadio app and download high tech textent er
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield Show, and you can listen to that. Again.
Speaker 2: I gave you some more travel tips. How come we
Speaker 2: in the United States don't use our our phones to
Speaker 2: pay with nearly as much as anywhere else around the world,
Speaker 2: especially you get. I mean, when I was in Berlin
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, or London last week, man, I
Speaker 2: never once whipped out my wallle excuse me while I
Speaker 2: whipped this out. Nope, whipped out my phone. I unfolded
Speaker 2: my phone. So give you a kind of a hint.
Speaker 2: What type of phone I have? I unfolded my phone
Speaker 2: and I just tapped it up to these readers. This
Speaker 2: I know we have. We have some of these mobile
Speaker 2: tapped to pay readers here in the United States, but
Speaker 2: they are everywhere, I mean, and everywhere when I traveled,
Speaker 2: I do like that? What else do I got? Oh? God,
Speaker 2: I did a segment about an hour ago exactly on
Speaker 2: cars vehicles. I review. I test drive cars every single week,
Speaker 2: so much so that I own a car that is
Speaker 2: eighteen years old. Eighteen years old, it still runs sitting
Speaker 2: in my garage. But I'd hardly ever use it because
Speaker 2: I test drive cars for a week. This is not
Speaker 2: an endorsement. I don't use dealerships. I am not endorsing
Speaker 2: your dealership. But I just review cars, be at the
Speaker 2: good or bad, and I generally do a segment called
Speaker 2: what's Michael driving For the past week or two or three,
Speaker 2: I've driven some fun stuff this past week. I was
Speaker 2: in an EV. I was in an interesting one. I
Speaker 2: was in a Chevy Equinox EV. Now I don't love EV's.
Speaker 2: I didn't mind this one because I didn't travel the
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty five miles before I had to
Speaker 2: recharge it because I just don't like recharging. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you, man, Chevy did it hell of a job
Speaker 2: on their Equinox. They really did standard dub the price
Speaker 2: for the one, and I, I mean again, I had
Speaker 2: almost to be upgrade because that's the model that did
Speaker 2: the shivy folks let me use for a week. Starts
Speaker 2: at forty three thousand, and they put a tun of
Speaker 2: a ton of options in there. Also with super Cruise package.
Speaker 2: You know it's about fifty thousand, but the point is
Speaker 2: forty three to fifty thousand, you're going to get this EV.
Speaker 2: Two people in the front, three people in the back, hatchback.
Speaker 2: We're going to call it a small CUV, small SUV
Speaker 2: if you will, ranges two hundred and eighty five miles.
Speaker 2: But I love the digital screens. They have that seventeen
Speaker 2: inch diagonal diagonal LCD display console. The driver information center
Speaker 2: is about eleven inches, so it's a beautiful screen. Rides comfortable,
Speaker 2: very quiet. Here's something in the history of automobiles, and
Speaker 2: I've been testing fifteen years. I know how to start
Speaker 2: a car. We all know how to start a car.
Speaker 2: Back in the day. You get in the car, you
Speaker 2: take a key, you put it in the ndition, you
Speaker 2: turn it, it starts. Nowadays you have wireless key fobs.
Speaker 2: You approach your car, it unlocks. Keep the fob of
Speaker 2: your pocket, your purse, then put your foot on your brake,
Speaker 2: hit this ignition button somewhere in that car, and then
Speaker 2: you go and get in the equinox front of my house.
Speaker 2: I have a key and over under four minutes, I
Speaker 2: am looking everywhere for the ignition button. I have the
Speaker 2: key fob in my hand. There is no button, no switch,
Speaker 2: there is nothing to turn on this EV car. Now
Speaker 2: I am at my wits end. I'm like, it's a
Speaker 2: middle of the day, so and drink. It was. This is
Speaker 2: Craig Cray. Just that's when I was about to open
Speaker 2: my phone in Google, and that would easy could have
Speaker 2: been the most one of the most embarrassing Google searches ever.
Speaker 2: Ow to turn on car. I'm looking around and I'm
Speaker 2: punching some buttons. You know. It's just I'm just sitting
Speaker 2: there and it's hot in the afternoon, and I'm getting
Speaker 2: ready to spit and stuff like that, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, I must have hit something, and this little
Speaker 2: information right through the steering wheel and the driver information
Speaker 2: just play. There's a little message that popped up to
Speaker 2: turn on ignition, depress the brake. So I touched the
Speaker 2: brake with my foot. It turned the car on. There's
Speaker 2: no freaking ignition switch that blew me away. Future cars,
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, that's a paradigm that's a paradigm switch.
Speaker 2: That is a paradigm shift. If I've ever heard when
Speaker 2: you just put your foot of the brake, I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'd like it, because inherently, when I get
Speaker 2: into a car and I get into a new vehicle
Speaker 2: every single week for the past fifteen years. I have
Speaker 2: I know with which stations, radio stations to set, do
Speaker 2: the mirrors pair my blue tooth. When I do, and
Speaker 2: I don't even turn the car on, invariably my right
Speaker 2: foot goes to the break. I don't know, I just
Speaker 2: don't want the car to move, even though it's not
Speaker 2: going anywhere. It's not even on. So now my foot
Speaker 2: goes to the break and it turned the car on.
Speaker 2: It was just weird. I neither hear dr air. Maybe
Speaker 2: you think it's a cool thing, maybe not, but we
Speaker 2: like it. If you're in DVS, right, I've been in
Speaker 2: faster evs. They go from zero to sixty and what
Speaker 2: have you. Genesis are phenomenal, the Ford Mustang, he's great.
Speaker 2: Tesla's have a hypersonic speed or whatever. This is not bad.
Speaker 2: I know the GM General Motors, which is the parent
Speaker 2: of Chevy. Mary Bara who's the CEO. You know, she's
Speaker 2: vowed that we need to get more evs, more EV's.
Speaker 2: You know, they may have back stuff on that and
Speaker 2: they're going to you know, potentially hybrids. But if you're
Speaker 2: in DVS, take look, it's the Chovy equinox starting into
Speaker 2: a forty three thousand dollars. I'm sure you can get
Speaker 2: the even lower using the word lower badges of the equinox,
Speaker 2: but this happened to be the two rs, which is
Speaker 2: kind of the highering. What and so there is my
Speaker 2: weekly What's Michael driving? Other than that? Callum, I think
Speaker 2: we made it. We gave away some gift cards and
Speaker 2: we had some good content. And you, my friend, are
Speaker 2: going to zip this up and put it on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app so you can podcast this thing and listen
Speaker 2: to it over and over again. I am going to
Speaker 2: actually now make it happy hour instead of halfway to
Speaker 2: happy hour, and wait till three fifteen for the kickoff
Speaker 2: of the University of Texas Longhorns very first in conference
Speaker 2: SEC Flootball Gang, Mississippi State bulldal be going now for
Speaker 2: all of us have been a part of this show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Callum, Eddie Martini, Brian Erickson, Mark Sherman, and
Speaker 2: everybody else is like, you know, I cannot think of
Speaker 2: right now. I'll see you next week. My name is Garth.
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