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Speaker 3: Was the weakly before Christmas and all across the airwaves,
Speaker 3: not a creature was stirring. Oh my, what an outrage.
Speaker 3: You should be listening to the high Tech Texans because
Speaker 3: if you haven't bought gifts, you will be sweating. My
Speaker 3: name is Michael and thanks for tuning in. We've got
Speaker 3: a pack show, so start calling in on Samsung, on Jeep,
Speaker 3: on Asis we go. So buckle up, my friends and
Speaker 3: let's start this big show. And with that we do
Speaker 3: kick off one of the last few high tech texting
Speaker 3: shows of the year, the final show before Christmas and
Speaker 3: the first day of Hanukkah that starts this week. I
Speaker 3: am here for you. Hey, listen an interactive show. If
Speaker 3: you're just tuning in for the first time, we don't
Speaker 3: take ourselves seriously, But dang it if I don't give
Speaker 3: you some darn good information, last many gift ideas and
Speaker 3: a number of things, it's we'd love to hear from you. Listen,
Speaker 3: my friends. We're in Houston, We're in San Antonio. We're
Speaker 3: in Dallas. Shout out to KPRC nine fifty news Radio,
Speaker 3: twelve hundred WOAI and the Mighty Mighty eleven ninety in Dallas.
Speaker 3: I hope all is well. I'll start off with the phone,
Speaker 3: because that's what we do. Three four six, twenty nine hexan.
Speaker 3: Butt your glasses on and you look at those little
Speaker 3: letters underneath your numbers on the phone. If you've got
Speaker 3: questions about anything, yes, I do technology. If you want
Speaker 3: a laptop, if you want a phone, if you want
Speaker 3: a high definition TV, good time to buy. But if
Speaker 3: you want a car, I got some information about that.
Speaker 3: Probably one of, if not the best time of the
Speaker 3: year to buy cars. And I do has drive well
Speaker 3: over sixty plus cars a year, trucks, SUVs, evs. I
Speaker 3: am your guy. If you want a little travel, if
Speaker 3: you want a little cocktail, spirits and bourbon. What else
Speaker 3: can I do for you? Maybe I don't know a lot,
Speaker 3: but I know a little about a lot if that
Speaker 3: actually makes sense. Three four six two nine t e
Speaker 3: x A M My man, Callum Reid. He is manning
Speaker 3: the phones. He's on the other side of the glass
Speaker 3: as we do this show this weekend, and we appreciate
Speaker 3: you hanging around. Hey today on the show, Uh, we're
Speaker 3: gonna tell you how to switch to encrypted messaging. For
Speaker 3: some reason, you're scared with the FEDS. You're telling you,
Speaker 3: hey man, if you're trying to send text between androids
Speaker 3: and iPhones and iPhones and androids, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 3: how to switch to encrypted messaging to last minute gifts
Speaker 3: you can send immediately. Since we're just a few hours
Speaker 3: away from the big Hanakah Harry arrival and also sat
Speaker 3: Nick he's gonna be coming down the chimney two. We've
Speaker 3: got a number of countdowns with the top Google searches
Speaker 3: and things, but we gotta start with this. I have
Speaker 3: to start with this, the biggest question I have received
Speaker 3: this week. Anybody any guesses? Callum? As I look at
Speaker 3: you through the glass, any get biggest question of the week. Now,
Speaker 3: you're probably thinking, Hey, Michael Man, I've got my I
Speaker 3: got my parents, I got a shop for which should
Speaker 3: I get them? Or Listen? My kid really wants this phone,
Speaker 3: and I want something economical like you would think. It's
Speaker 3: a technology, maybe a car, maybe a consumer question the
Speaker 3: biggest question of the Michael, what is up with these drones?
Speaker 3: What is going on with these drones? Are we being invaded?
Speaker 3: Freak it up? If you follow the news. Apparently New
Speaker 3: Jersey is getting just invaded by drones. But then again,
Speaker 3: it's New Jersey. Do we care? Do we care here
Speaker 3: in Texas so much? See here in Texas we actually
Speaker 3: launch powerful rockets now to space. No longer do we
Speaker 3: launch them out of Florida. No, No, we launch rockets
Speaker 3: here out of our grain stead of Texas. Apparently drones
Speaker 3: now are infiltrating. We're going I'm gonna I'm gonna throw
Speaker 3: with this. I'm gonna ask you, my dear listeners, what
Speaker 3: do you think these drones are? Three four six twenty
Speaker 3: nine hex it call me if you've get up busy signal,
Speaker 3: keep trying. If you get a voicemail, leave a message.
Speaker 3: I will. You'll hear the voicemails. You know, we do
Speaker 3: have the right to replay your your voice on the air.
Speaker 3: What do you think is going up with these drones.
Speaker 3: I've been reading a lot of stories. It's not that
Speaker 3: I am not a conspiracy theory type of dude, But
Speaker 3: it could be a lot of the I mean, it
Speaker 3: could be our own government testing some anti military whatever.
Speaker 3: It could be the invasion like one of my favorite
Speaker 3: movies of all time from like back in the nineties,
Speaker 3: Independence Day. They could be launched from a mothership that
Speaker 3: are all synchronized at at a certain time to go
Speaker 3: off and do harm. I really don't think that's it
Speaker 3: to me. It could be the NFL. Listen, they've infiltrated
Speaker 3: every aspect of our lives. It could be just a
Speaker 3: good promotion that all of a sudden, these drones are gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, start forming, you know, a live score of
Speaker 3: what's going on with the cowboys in the Houston Texans gamp.
Speaker 3: I just I don't have an actually idea, but I
Speaker 3: bet you do. Three four six twenty nine Texans. I'd
Speaker 3: love to hear from you. We have a few giveaways here,
Speaker 3: by the way, if you are listening live right now
Speaker 3: in Houston area, we're actually doing a feat. We're doing
Speaker 3: something that I don't know if has ever been tempted before.
Speaker 3: We're on KPRC nine to fifty am Saturday, eleven am
Speaker 3: to one pm. Now, if you're listening in San Antonio
Speaker 3: in Dallas, we're gonna repeat this thing. And well, we're
Speaker 3: still here. We've got the phones working and everything. But
Speaker 3: we're part of iHeartRadio Network. Our sister station in Houston
Speaker 3: is News Radio seven ktr H, which is the big
Speaker 3: blowtorch here. I am attempting to do something that has
Speaker 3: never been done before. I am competing against myself while
Speaker 3: you're listening to me right now live on the High
Speaker 3: Tech Textan Show on nine to fifty am. I am
Speaker 3: currently on our sister station seven forty am filling in
Speaker 3: as host for the Car Pro Show because Jerry Reynolds,
Speaker 3: who is the normal host of the Car Pro Show,
Speaker 3: is not in. They asked me to do it because
Speaker 3: I also review cars that I know a little or
Speaker 3: two or things or ten things about new cars. So
Speaker 3: I am actually competing. So if you want to like
Speaker 3: be freaky geeky and kind of like, you know, be spellbound,
Speaker 3: you should actually see what's going on here at where
Speaker 3: I'm sitting in the studio. I'm going back and forth
Speaker 3: between each studio. I'll just let you think I'm doing this.
Speaker 3: I'm going back and forth between each studio, between each
Speaker 3: commercial break, hosting two different shows simultaneously. People. This is
Speaker 3: one of the positives of being ADHD. It is. I
Speaker 3: wear it with a badge. It is. It's something it's
Speaker 3: that I can control with my little medication. But I'm
Speaker 3: all good, I am caffeinated up, and I'm co hosting
Speaker 3: two shows simultaneously. So if you want car information, I'm
Speaker 3: still going to give it to you here. There is
Speaker 3: some car news every week. I do get the test
Speaker 3: drive some cars I've been driving a really interesting view.
Speaker 3: Don't sleep on a Buick, people, It's a relatively inexpensive car.
Speaker 3: Buick has done well. I got some news about EV's
Speaker 3: GM is partnering up the company that allegedly is going
Speaker 3: to make our the EV charging batteries, you know, charging
Speaker 3: infrastructure a lot better in the United States, which is
Speaker 3: something much needed. I am your guy, so buckle up.
Speaker 3: When we come back, I am going to tell you
Speaker 3: number one. I got a question over here about when
Speaker 3: you're online and shopping and you share a computer at
Speaker 3: home or maybe yeah, probably at home with maybe your spouse,
Speaker 3: maybe your kids. Odds are you're going to start getting
Speaker 3: advertisements of what you've been searching and shopping for. How
Speaker 3: do you hide those? One of the many things that
Speaker 3: I am going to guide you through because Santa Garfield
Speaker 3: is here for you. Three four six two nine textan
Speaker 3: buckle up, Happy holidays. We're having a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Minial you right back out this oh the high tech
Speaker 3: thats Shop. This is the I Sex Show. Do not
Speaker 3: turn the channel if you think I'm gonna afford you
Speaker 3: with all this technology, mumbo jumbo, meg megabytes and gigabytes
Speaker 3: and eight you know, all the Wi Fi s No, no, man,
Speaker 3: It's it's a consumer product show. I'm more than happy
Speaker 3: to guide you through. Hey, listen, I want to bring
Speaker 3: a bottle of bourbon to this last minute holiday party.
Speaker 3: What you got? I am a you know one of
Speaker 3: the things I am a I am a brown water
Speaker 3: of ficionado. I talk about spirits, I talk about sports.
Speaker 3: We got a big college weekend. We got the Longhorns,
Speaker 3: we got the Cowboys, the Texans. Actual Saturday afternoon in
Speaker 3: NFL football, the the here's a little trivia question for it.
Speaker 3: Did you know that it is it's a law. It
Speaker 3: literally is a law that NFL games cannot be played
Speaker 3: on Friday nights in all of Saturdays from the second
Speaker 3: week of September through the second week of December. Now
Speaker 3: that we are past the second week of December, Saturday
Speaker 3: NFL games could be played. And it goes back to
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty one. I want you to look it up.
Speaker 3: See I don't listen. I have a BS degree really
Speaker 3: doesn't stand for bachelor or science. But I want you
Speaker 3: to believe me on this one. Okay, it is absolutely true.
Speaker 3: This is why now NFL games are on Saturday afternoons
Speaker 3: right now, and they're gonna be there for a while.
Speaker 3: But it's it's really it was to protect and back
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty one college and high school games, and
Speaker 3: so that's the way they get around it. So whatever
Speaker 3: your favorite team is, and I know we have a
Speaker 3: lot of Dallas listeners, We've got Houston listeners. San Antonio,
Speaker 3: I want to hear from san Antonio. By the way
Speaker 3: you are you are you a Cowboy fan, a Texans fan,
Speaker 3: maybe a Saints fan or anything else and a totally
Speaker 3: growing up in Texans. And it seems like San Antonio
Speaker 3: is a cowboy city. I don't know why. It's maybe
Speaker 3: because out of the Oilers left back of the day
Speaker 3: and there was no Houston team for a while, and
Speaker 3: it took a while for the texanstead ofally to gain traction.
Speaker 3: But it seems to me Dallas with the San Antonio city.
Speaker 3: But San Antonio, I love your Alamodome. You got the
Speaker 3: Alamo Bowl. I know you wanted it an NFL team
Speaker 3: back in the day, which is why you built the
Speaker 3: Alamo Dome. And so it's a big city. Man, it's
Speaker 3: like the ninth most populous city in the in the country.
Speaker 3: Let's let's get an NFL team in San Antonio. What
Speaker 3: would the San Antonio NFL team name be? Again? Another question?
Speaker 3: So I can hear from you. Three four six twenty
Speaker 3: nine Texan three four six two nine t e x
Speaker 3: A N. My name is Michael Garfield. It is called
Speaker 3: the High Tech Texan Show. However, right now, you guys
Speaker 3: do actually email me too. If you want to send
Speaker 3: me an email, you can to my website, which is
Speaker 3: high Tech Textan. You spell the whole thing out hig
Speaker 3: agent and then you can find my website. Michael my
Speaker 3: email Michael at high Tech Texan dot com and then
Speaker 3: you can send me an email like this. You've got mail,
Speaker 3: all right? This is from Jonah. Jonah actually is in Bernie, Texas.
Speaker 3: A new listener listening on WOAI twelve hundred. Appreciate that,
Speaker 3: Dear Michael, just picked up your show. It sounds good.
Speaker 3: Love your energy. But I got a question about this.
Speaker 3: My wife and I share the same computer at home.
Speaker 3: It's a desktop computer, and so I wanted to go
Speaker 3: online shopping. How every time I start searching for things,
Speaker 3: I get advertisements that are served up on Facebook and
Speaker 3: everywhere else, so she could see what I've been looking
Speaker 3: for so so much for my surprise. Is there a
Speaker 3: way to hide everything that I search for so she
Speaker 3: has no clue of what I'm looking for to get
Speaker 3: her for the holidays. That's from John. A very good question.
Speaker 3: I like that, and it's actually a very good point.
Speaker 3: Do you ever wonder why when you search for something,
Speaker 3: or even when you talk about a subject and you
Speaker 3: think you probably are right, that your phone is listening,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden you get advertisements that pop
Speaker 3: up on Facebook, on Twitter, on your websites. Wait a minute,
Speaker 3: that's uncanny. I was just talking about that. How is
Speaker 3: there an ad being popped up? Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 3: to the world of the digital age. When you search
Speaker 3: for something, there's little tiny cookies for lack of a
Speaker 3: better term, which is technically what they're called, that know
Speaker 3: what we're searching for. Don't think Amazon is not a
Speaker 3: multi billion billion dollar company by just hey, thanks, we'll
Speaker 3: take your order and we'll leave it at that. They
Speaker 3: know what you're searching for, they know what you're shopping for,
Speaker 3: and they're going to give you some suggestions of pretty
Speaker 3: much almost the same thing, the same category or a
Speaker 3: competing you know, you know, a type of product. That's
Speaker 3: how the advertising works. They're very smart, I say they,
Speaker 3: But that's that's what they're Maybe it's the drones that
Speaker 3: we're smart. I don't know, but it's a very good question.
Speaker 3: If you use the same computer and you say browser,
Speaker 3: and somebody is shopping or searching from searching for something
Speaker 3: on that computer, the next time anybody else gets on
Speaker 3: the same computer, you're probably gonna get some ads that
Speaker 3: are popping up. So if you're searching for jewelry something,
Speaker 3: you know what's gonna happen. Oh my goodness, how come
Speaker 3: I'm seeing all these watches, I'm seeing all these ear rings.
Speaker 3: It used to be so much easier to hide presents
Speaker 3: because you could stash those behind doors and the back
Speaker 3: of a closet and hiding in suitcases or whatever. But
Speaker 3: online shopping is where we are right now, and it's
Speaker 3: very convenient, but also can spoil the surprise by accident.
Speaker 3: It's a digital footprint. It's a digital footprint that we
Speaker 3: leave when browsing items online, and it follows us across
Speaker 3: the Internet, showing up as ads in browsers or maybe
Speaker 3: on our social media fees. But breaking news, I am
Speaker 3: here to tell you there are some ways to hide
Speaker 3: these digital footprints and keep your gift a surprise. Let's
Speaker 3: start with this Number one. You need to use incognito
Speaker 3: mode or private browsing, So follow me here. If you
Speaker 3: use something like that, it's a way from whatever you
Speaker 3: search for that does not follow you around the Internet,
Speaker 3: because these browsers are designed to not track things, including
Speaker 3: all the websites that you visit. And since it's not
Speaker 3: tracking whatever you're visiting, it won't actually advertise the sweater,
Speaker 3: the tennis years, whatever you bought for your partner, for
Speaker 3: your kids, or whatever, and you don't need to download
Speaker 3: anything to use it because it's a feature in the
Speaker 3: browser that you're probably already using. For example, if you
Speaker 3: use the Chrome browser, go check out incognito mode. You
Speaker 3: open your Chrome browser, you go open the navigation bar,
Speaker 3: and you look for the word file. Okay, pull down
Speaker 3: the file menu, and right there it's gonna say new
Speaker 3: incognito window. And then you use the browser as you
Speaker 3: normally would. If you use Safari. For all you mackers
Speaker 3: out there, open Safari, click the file button and you'll
Speaker 3: see something that says new private window. Oh, use the
Speaker 3: browser like you normally would. There you go do things
Speaker 3: like that, and then Jonan, I appreciate that email. What
Speaker 3: you need to do at that point, you could just
Speaker 3: shop all you one. By the way, if you want
Speaker 3: something from me, my favorite color is purple or boord orange.
Speaker 3: I'm a medium and just send it here courtesy the
Speaker 3: High Tech text that I'm here for you. Any questions
Speaker 3: you want, Michael at hi Tech Textan dot com give
Speaker 3: me a call right now three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: Textan got a call over here. I see on the callboard.
Speaker 3: Wanted to know, so, uh, we'll get to this after
Speaker 3: the break, Michael, my kids are worried. Is TikTok really
Speaker 3: getting banned? Oh there is a deadline. I see something
Speaker 3: in January. Maybe the reason I never got on TikTok
Speaker 3: probably the only social media I'm not on. I will
Speaker 3: tell you what the delio as much as we know
Speaker 3: right now. If TikTok is going to be banned within
Speaker 3: the next few weeks, stand by it is the high
Speaker 3: tech piction.
Speaker 4: Sure playing holiday music. There's anybody now tell them you're
Speaker 4: in charge of this stuff?
Speaker 3: Would go we can't license it because we're too cheap
Speaker 3: of a radio station. Is that what it is? What
Speaker 3: happens if I sing? If I if I start singing
Speaker 3: fa la la la la, am I gonna get fined
Speaker 3: by our bosses? Or is you know it? I mean
Speaker 3: it's not the FCC just I don't know. We need
Speaker 3: to figure this out, man. It's all about music, baby.
Speaker 3: Come on the time of year, you know, I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you this. This This may be the year I
Speaker 3: have heard the Mariah Carey song as least amount I've
Speaker 3: ever heard it. I may have heard that all I
Speaker 3: Want for Christmas, Wie. And we're just a few days
Speaker 3: before Christmas and I haven't seen love actually either. What
Speaker 3: is up?
Speaker 1: This is?
Speaker 3: This is just an odd season. I do not know
Speaker 3: what's going on. Michael Garfield. This is the high Tech
Speaker 3: Textan Show. I hope everybody is doing well wherever you
Speaker 3: are listening terrestrially, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas. If you're listening
Speaker 3: to us on iHeartRadio, we do thank you for not
Speaker 3: only downloading, but upgrading and updating your app. iHeartRadio, by
Speaker 3: the way, just upgraded it's app. Not that it was wrong,
Speaker 3: but there's always improvements. Some really neat features. By the way,
Speaker 3: let me go ahead and tell you it was a
Speaker 3: big refresh. It's got some neat features that bring the
Speaker 3: best of live radio to your phone. First thing you'll
Speaker 3: know you're on the new iHeartRadio app if the first
Speaker 3: thing you see at the top are free sets. I
Speaker 3: guess what the smart folks at iHeartRadio did. They said,
Speaker 3: let's see if we can mimic what the car radio
Speaker 3: used to. Well, still looks like there's preset channels you
Speaker 3: could save up the fifteen favorites at the top of
Speaker 3: your screen, and number one you need to add the
Speaker 3: high Tech Textan show. You need to add KPRC nine
Speaker 3: fifty am. You need to add WAI twelve hundred, and
Speaker 3: you need to add KFXR the Mighty eleven ninety in Dallas.
Speaker 3: So go ahead and just put all those on there.
Speaker 3: That's a little tip for me to you. There's a
Speaker 3: scan button. Remember the old school car radio. There's a
Speaker 3: feature on that that you scan through live stations to
Speaker 3: see what's playing. That's pretty cool. There's a live radio dial.
Speaker 3: It shows nearby radio stations based on your location wherever
Speaker 3: you open the app, which is pretty cool. It's nice
Speaker 3: for discovering new stations when you're traveling. Whatever I see here,
Speaker 3: it's got what's trending, what's new and hot across stations,
Speaker 3: and playlist and this is nice. It's got a lyrics
Speaker 3: button right now so you could sing along with live radio.
Speaker 3: Lyrics are now displayed for a lot of the songs,
Speaker 3: because the worst is is you start like mouthing like
Speaker 3: you think you know the lyrics, but you're singing the
Speaker 3: wrong lyrics. All that on the big update of the
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. How about that pretty cool stuff. I'll give
Speaker 3: you the phone number here. We got questions if you
Speaker 3: have a last minute holiday questions Michael, I need to
Speaker 3: get this, or what's my favorite bourbon? Or why were you?
Speaker 3: I saw you on social media? What in the world
Speaker 3: were you doing on a cruise? I am here for
Speaker 3: you three four, six, twenty nine text and I this
Speaker 3: past weekend, I was on a cruise. When was calum
Speaker 3: You ever taken a c You ever been on a cruise?
Speaker 3: This was maybe my fifth or sixth cruise all time.
Speaker 3: I like cruises. They're kind of fun. We took one
Speaker 3: cruise way back in the day when my kids were younger.
Speaker 3: They're they're in they're all twenties right now. And I'll
Speaker 3: say that, and this is not an advertisement. I'm not
Speaker 3: even gonna tell you which cruise line. It doesn't matter
Speaker 3: because I'm just just generally own for pound. When you
Speaker 3: have a family, I think cruises are the most efficient.
Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna say cost saving, but easiest way
Speaker 3: to travel and it can save you a ton of money.
Speaker 3: And I say this from a dad who flew his
Speaker 3: family out somewhere every summer growing up, and we usually
Speaker 3: went to California. We usually went to southern California, so
Speaker 3: we would buy you know, five tickets. You know me, Mom,
Speaker 3: three kids. We would rent a house at a beach,
Speaker 3: go shopping groceries. Then we evidably we would end up
Speaker 3: eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner. One kid wants this, one
Speaker 3: kid wants this, the other kid wants this. It was
Speaker 3: just it adds up. You go on a cruise, man,
Speaker 3: mom and dad can do one thing and you could
Speaker 3: just kiss your kids, could buy They're gone. Depending on
Speaker 3: what age they are, they can eat almost twenty four
Speaker 3: to seven. They got the freaking chicken nuggets, they get
Speaker 3: the Macardi and cheese, they get the buffets, they got
Speaker 3: a kid's area, they got whatever, and you pay and
Speaker 3: it's like pretty much almost all included. Cruises are fun.
Speaker 3: When I went to we went to the Bahamas. This
Speaker 3: was this was a business cruise, by the way, Seriously,
Speaker 3: was went a cruise food to Miami, went to the Bahamas.
Speaker 3: Whather wasn't that eight by the way, But this was
Speaker 3: like one of the largest ships I've ever been on.
Speaker 3: It's like seventeen levels, had a shopping mall, had an
Speaker 3: ice skating rink. I can't make this stuff up. Had
Speaker 3: a zip line, It had a one of these surfboard
Speaker 3: things where you can get our surfboard and it creates
Speaker 3: waves to pretend like you're surfing. Had like the Central Park.
Speaker 3: It at the park you can walk through on a ship.
Speaker 3: It was. It was amazing. A lot of cocktails too.
Speaker 3: It was very fun. So theway, just just give you
Speaker 3: an idea of what to do. I'm not the I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not the I'm not the biggest sailor top Dilligan
Speaker 3: type of guy. But I thought that was pretty fun.
Speaker 3: So anyway, if you follow me on social media, and
Speaker 3: I do, thank you for following me. It's a high
Speaker 3: tech text and big Instagram guy. By the way, h
Speaker 3: I G h T E c h T E x
Speaker 3: A N. You can see some shots from the ship.
Speaker 3: You actually can see some of the new products I've
Speaker 3: been testing out. I got new phones, I've got new
Speaker 3: got some new swag, I got some new jackets and
Speaker 3: some new athletic type of where which I like. You know,
Speaker 3: it's just a day in the life of Garf. That
Speaker 3: that is what we hear for. I did promise you
Speaker 3: a question of her. I did see somebody on the phone,
Speaker 3: Hey Michael, is it really true that TikTok maybe getting banned?
Speaker 3: My kids are freaking out. What is going on with this?
Speaker 3: All right, let let's let's address this subject. It's the
Speaker 3: elephant in the rooms, the elephant in the country right
Speaker 3: now in the United States at least. Is TikTok really
Speaker 3: getting banned in the United States. So I'm going to
Speaker 3: tell you what we know after a court denied a petition. Now,
Speaker 3: I do not delve into politics. Obviously this is a
Speaker 3: political issue, so I will touch on it with facts,
Speaker 3: no opinion. A federal appeals court denied TikTok petition for
Speaker 3: the Supreme Court to pause and review legislation that could
Speaker 3: ban the app in the United States. It was that
Speaker 3: the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Speaker 3: They denied a motion that was filed by TikTok and
Speaker 3: really it's Chinese parent company called Byte Dance, temporarily pause
Speaker 3: legislation that would ban it in the United States if
Speaker 3: byt Dance does not sell it before January nineteenth of
Speaker 3: next year. So we are less than a month away.
Speaker 3: So TikTok and byt Dance they filed their emergency injunctions.
Speaker 3: They asked the Supreme Court to reviewal legislation, and TikTok
Speaker 3: says they're planning to take this case the Supreme Court,
Speaker 3: which has an established and quoting this which has an
Speaker 3: established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech unquote,
Speaker 3: is it getting banned well? The current President Biden signed
Speaker 3: this past spring, the protection the Protecting Americans from Foreign
Speaker 3: Adversary Controlled Applications Act. Say that ten times fat is
Speaker 3: that even an acronym pafac aaka PAWFACA, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. Biden signed
Speaker 3: this last sprank, and it's going to make TikTok illegal
Speaker 3: for distribution in the US if byte Dance cannot sell
Speaker 3: it by January nineteenth. At that point, the app is
Speaker 3: going to be illegal for distribution through app stores like
Speaker 3: your Apple App Store, your Google Play, and internet service providers.
Speaker 3: They're also going to be required to make the app
Speaker 3: inaccessible on US internet browsers, So users who have TikTok
Speaker 3: downloaded on their devices they'd still be able to use
Speaker 3: the app, but banning TikTok from app stores would prohibit
Speaker 3: future software updates. But if ByteDance does sell TikTok before
Speaker 3: January nineteenth, the app will remain available in the US.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? And you're probably asking why could
Speaker 3: it be banned? Well, many government officials they've seen TikTok
Speaker 3: as a national security threat for many years. Actually, they're
Speaker 3: worried that byte Dance, which is based in Beijing, has
Speaker 3: access to American data and they're sharing it with Chinese
Speaker 3: government surveillance. Whether it's true, whether it's not, whatever, But
Speaker 3: that's what a lot of people think. When Trump was
Speaker 3: in office back in twenty nineteen, he issued a national
Speaker 3: emergency saying that foreign adversaries were exploiting vulnerabilities at information
Speaker 3: and communication technology services, and then Biden in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: one issued a new executive order so that byt dance
Speaker 3: continues to threaten the national security foreign policy. Listen, that's
Speaker 3: above my pay grade. But bottom line, if you don't
Speaker 3: know TikTok, TikTok, it's a social media application and it's
Speaker 3: pretty well known for its very quick short form videos.
Speaker 3: People users they can create, they can post, they can
Speaker 3: interact with videos in the app. It's very popular for
Speaker 3: scrolling through algorithms and allows users to post videos maybe
Speaker 3: between three to ten three seconds ten minutes long. Cool
Speaker 3: filters and whatever is it going to be uproar. Yes,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of people who make a lot
Speaker 3: of money on TikTok. There are a lot of people
Speaker 3: now who make their living by making YouTube videos, making
Speaker 3: Instagram and videos, and making TikTok videos. It is a
Speaker 3: major revenue source. Does that matter? Apparently not to the government. Again,
Speaker 3: according to them, I don't know. I will keep you
Speaker 3: up to this minute by minute. At the end of
Speaker 3: the day, if I was a betting man, I don't
Speaker 3: think TikTok is going to be banned either. Byte Dance
Speaker 3: is going to sell it. They'll create another holding company.
Speaker 3: The US will say, yeah, maybe we'll wait and see
Speaker 3: a little bit more. Just my guess doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 3: I don't use TikTok, never have. Just another social media
Speaker 3: platform that's just a little too much for me. I've
Speaker 3: already got enough. Which I tell you to follow me
Speaker 3: on High Tech Texan when it comes to x and
Speaker 3: Blue Sky and also Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. I'm also
Speaker 3: on there too. Coming back finally, a few minutes of
Speaker 3: this hour three four six twenty nine, text about I
Speaker 3: answer your questions. It's Michael Garfield. It's called the High
Speaker 3: Tech text and show Michael Garfield if we'd tight, you
Speaker 3: can call me Garth. Don't call me Mike. I know
Speaker 3: we're in Dallas right now. We're hurt on Dallas on
Speaker 3: the Mighty abouty eleven ninety and I'm from Dallas and
Speaker 3: I went to high school in Dallas. Shout out to W. T.
Speaker 3: White High School. I was known as Mike Mike Garfield
Speaker 3: in Dallas. I've matured since then. It's Michael. But we
Speaker 3: can also Garf, not Garth with a thh no Garth,
Speaker 3: the first four letters of Garfield. That's the name. I
Speaker 3: will give you the phone number if you want to
Speaker 3: get in an interactive show the last weekend before the
Speaker 3: Christmas and Christmas Day, Christmas Night Hanakah starts all in
Speaker 3: the same night. It is three four, six, twenty nine
Speaker 3: texts and I'd love to talk to you if you've
Speaker 3: got questions on what to buy, what not to buy,
Speaker 3: or need some last minute gifts ideas. I opened the
Speaker 3: show with the fact that a lot of people are
Speaker 3: asking me of these drones. Man, what's up with these drones?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I can't I'm still I'm asking you
Speaker 3: to call the phone number. Go to my high tech
Speaker 3: text and x er my blue Scott, tell me what
Speaker 3: you think of these drones are floating around New Jersey.
Speaker 3: But there's another thing. Have you ever, if you've been online,
Speaker 3: have you seen people try to attempt to take photos
Speaker 3: of these New Jersey drones? And you're probably asking yourself,
Speaker 3: why are they such horrible photos? Why are they so bad?
Speaker 3: And I actually could probably tell you about that versus
Speaker 3: what these drones are. If you take your cell phone
Speaker 3: out your phone cameras and try to take a picture
Speaker 3: the middle at nighttime and you've got this green and
Speaker 3: red flashing thing buzzing by, you can probably figure out
Speaker 3: it ain't gonna be the greatest picture. Phone cameras are incredible.
Speaker 3: They are little, these little machines. They could do so
Speaker 3: much with their little tiny lenses and sensors anything you want.
Speaker 3: But even as smart as they are, they have their limits,
Speaker 3: including one that's very particular right now. It's these drones
Speaker 3: that are hovering in the middle of the night. You
Speaker 3: ever try to take pictures of fireworks, It's not the
Speaker 3: easiest thing to do because it's night. The shutter needs
Speaker 3: to be opened a little bit more odds are you're
Speaker 3: holding the thing. Odds are you're not gonna be totally still.
Speaker 3: What you need to have a very still camera. It's
Speaker 3: just tough. So you're trying to do it and it's
Speaker 3: just not working. If for some reason you really want
Speaker 3: to try to get a picture with like a drone,
Speaker 3: try to get a better camera, like a real camera,
Speaker 3: And I say, what a real camera is? Yes, I
Speaker 3: know where phones have real cameras, but let's go back
Speaker 3: to the old days where you have like an SLR
Speaker 3: where which is now a d SLR, which is the
Speaker 3: digital single lens reflex. You know the Nikons or you
Speaker 3: know the Minoltas, or or these things with the lenses
Speaker 3: that have a high shutter speed that has you know,
Speaker 3: you know telephoto or you know, zoom lenses or white
Speaker 3: angle lenses. It's really just tough getting these things because
Speaker 3: every photo that I've seen, and I haven't seen a ton,
Speaker 3: really I'm not following the story that too much, but
Speaker 3: it's just what's up with that. It's very very It's
Speaker 3: it's tough to do it at night. Camera phones are
Speaker 3: getting smarter. As a matter of fact, I'm playing with
Speaker 3: I am a sworn to secrecy. I've signed an embargo
Speaker 3: of a phone I've been playing with for about a week.
Speaker 3: Right now, I can't talk about it for another few weeks.
Speaker 3: But this camera, it's pretty strong. Is it as good
Speaker 3: as a digital single lens reflex camera? No, But for
Speaker 3: a phone that is built on a camera, it's phenomenal.
Speaker 3: And as you could probably guess, it's not an iPhone
Speaker 3: it is. It is a type of Android phone, because
Speaker 3: android phones, in my opinion, and since this is my
Speaker 3: show and I try to base things, in fact, the
Speaker 3: android cameras are so much more advanced than the iPhone cameras.
Speaker 3: Suck it up. Sorry about that, you want to yell
Speaker 3: at me. Three four six twenty nine, Texan, I can't
Speaker 3: tell you that. By the way, speaking of early January,
Speaker 3: when I could talk about this thing, I will be
Speaker 3: hopefully fingers crossed in Las Vegas. I will be my
Speaker 3: twenty third year at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. I
Speaker 3: will be broadcasting and recording and podcasting and shooting TV
Speaker 3: from the Las Vegas Convention Center show floor. There's a stop.
Speaker 3: There's a little studio being built to me, built for me,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna have a guest. I will give you
Speaker 3: the insight. So this is this is the show to
Speaker 3: tune into when if you want all the information about
Speaker 3: you know, the text and the the tech of the cat,
Speaker 3: the gadgets and things like this and the other the
Speaker 3: other fun thing. It's you know, I've got my schedule
Speaker 3: is filling out. I'll be there Sunday through Thursday, the
Speaker 3: first full week in January. I mean, I've got meetings
Speaker 3: set up, I've got press conferences, I've got all these things.
Speaker 3: And I always go out there with like one or
Speaker 3: two empty suitcases because companies will give me products, demo
Speaker 3: stuff for me to either aus or b giveaway on
Speaker 3: my radio show or on my social media hand hint.
Speaker 3: See I'm winking right now, but you can't tell because
Speaker 3: it's actually radio. Another reason for you to keep tuning
Speaker 3: into me, and another reason for you to follow me
Speaker 3: on social media high tech text and hi g H
Speaker 3: T E H T E X A N and don't laugh, man.
Speaker 3: We used to give away everything a radio, but now
Speaker 3: we actually do a lot on social media. So you
Speaker 3: follow me, and I mean, I'm coming back on with
Speaker 3: some neat stuff. A lot of kitchen gadgets, there are some,
Speaker 3: there are a few phone there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: phones themselves, a lot of televisions. You ever try to
Speaker 3: you ever try to get a telephone, You ever a television,
Speaker 3: and you carry on on Southwest airlines. Not the easiest
Speaker 3: thing to do. But I'm a less preferred, and hopefully
Speaker 3: I'm this close to a lists preferred on Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 3: When the clock strikes zero zero on January first, I'll
Speaker 3: get it again. Because if I'm a less preferred, I
Speaker 3: can pretty much fly the plane, I think, and I
Speaker 3: can bring like five televisions back from a CES. So
Speaker 3: stay tuned over there three four six twenty nine T
Speaker 3: e X A N. I also review people and used to.
Speaker 3: They're emailing me right now, Michael, how is it possible
Speaker 3: you're moving between seven forty am talking that you're hosting
Speaker 3: the car pro Show, which has heard around the country,
Speaker 3: by the way, but you're also doing the high Tech
Speaker 3: texting show. I'm not ambidextrous, but it's amazing when you
Speaker 3: broadcast from a studio that's got many different studios. That's
Speaker 3: what we do here at iHeart, so back and forth
Speaker 3: we're doing it. So I actually am going to talk
Speaker 3: about cars next hour here on this particular show. If
Speaker 3: you stay tuned. I am going to give you some
Speaker 3: car car news. Every week I do get to test
Speaker 3: drive a car. I am not going to promote or
Speaker 3: tell you about a dealership. I don't work with dealerships,
Speaker 3: which means I can rag on all the vehicles I
Speaker 3: don't like, and I can tell you the good thing.
Speaker 3: This is not a paid sponsorship. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 3: the real stuff. I have been rolling around in a
Speaker 3: brand new Guick twenty twenty five Encore. I test out
Speaker 3: some nice things about it. There's some things that I
Speaker 3: would improve. I will tell you about that next hour. Also,
Speaker 3: for those of you ED fans, you're thinking about getting
Speaker 3: an EV maybe I'm gonna give you some news about
Speaker 3: maybe America. Maybe our country is trying to get in
Speaker 3: get things in order by having more charging stations. Because
Speaker 3: to me, that's that's a big hold up that's keeping
Speaker 3: me and a lot of people from buying evs. It's
Speaker 3: just I need a charge if I want to drive
Speaker 3: between my flagship stations in each of my cities of
Speaker 3: San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas, the Big Triangle, the Southwest
Speaker 3: Airlines Triangle. If you will, I'd like gas cars because
Speaker 3: I just I'm gonna pull off the highway. I want
Speaker 3: gas up and I want to go. But if there's
Speaker 3: going to do you have some news about a big,
Speaker 3: big company who makes cars partnering up with a big
Speaker 3: charging company that hopefully is going to make charging stations.
Speaker 3: You pick with us, and that's exactly what can you mean?
Speaker 3: One hour down, one hour to go left with the
Speaker 3: high pay Coaction Show. Michael Garfiet is my name. Happy
Speaker 3: weekend before the big holiday they do. We're gonna be
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a.
Speaker 3: High Tech Texans.
Speaker 2: It has to make life easier system technology, So Michael
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Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 1: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio add Now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: We are happy to the high Tech Show. As I say,
Speaker 3: half way a half hour, no matter when you're listening
Speaker 3: to us. You know it's a weekend, so we'd like
Speaker 3: to think it's happy hour. Just be responsible people and
Speaker 3: keep listening right here less than an hour to go.
Speaker 3: In this weekend's edition, the final week ind before Christmas,
Speaker 3: right here on your favorite radio station. Trust really in Houston, Dallas,
Speaker 3: San Antonio and across the world, well most of the world.
Speaker 3: I don't think China lets us in on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 3: but you could listen to us. Love to have you
Speaker 3: a ask me some questions if you want some last
Speaker 3: minute holiday gifts. Had a full fun hour and threw
Speaker 3: out a few tips. But my tip line three four
Speaker 3: six twenty nine textan that's how you're gonna get to
Speaker 3: me three four six two nine e x A N.
Speaker 3: And I I'm not I'm not a big I am
Speaker 3: a big gift card guy. I don't like recommending gift
Speaker 3: cards because that's a cop out. Hey, you know what
Speaker 3: it wishould I get my you know, and my friend,
Speaker 3: my coworker, my mom like, oh good, a gift card.
Speaker 3: I appreciate gift cards. I collect gift cards. I take
Speaker 3: my gift cards some generally, and I put them in
Speaker 3: my digital wallet on my phone. I use Google Wallet.
Speaker 3: Whether you use that or Apple Wallet, it's not like
Speaker 3: you're gonna you put them in there, and you don't
Speaker 3: have to carry you all your gift cards around and
Speaker 3: you know generally that there's is either a QR code
Speaker 3: or there's the wireless NFC. You'll hold your phone up
Speaker 3: to the register wherever you're checking out. You could virtually
Speaker 3: use them too. You get a gift card to Amazon
Speaker 3: or something, and then you can go to Amazon and
Speaker 3: you can put that gift card into your Amazon wallet.
Speaker 3: How many times has this happened to you though, Where
Speaker 3: you've got a fifty dollars gift card or something and
Speaker 3: you use a little, and you use a little and
Speaker 3: use a little, and then now you're down to like
Speaker 3: a buck forty three and you're like, what am I
Speaker 3: gonna buy with a dollar forty three? You throw it away? Well,
Speaker 3: don't do that, because I you boy, Michael Garfield iex
Speaker 3: and has got a little holiday hack for you, a
Speaker 3: little gift card hack. So if you get let's just say,
Speaker 3: you get a visa card, right, and it's got an
Speaker 3: awkward leftover balance, you don't know what to do, and
Speaker 3: you want to use it on Amazon, open your Amazon
Speaker 3: account and go to your payments. You know generally you're
Speaker 3: gonna have a visa or whatever like that, and there's
Speaker 3: a little there's a little link there. It says reload
Speaker 3: your gift card balance. So Amazon dot com slash reload
Speaker 3: your gift card balance or just go there. Enter the
Speaker 3: exact remaining balance on your Visa gift card literally exact
Speaker 3: dollar forty three right, and then you hit by now,
Speaker 3: buy it now. One more step follow me people. Then
Speaker 3: you add the visa card as a payment method, and
Speaker 3: you complete your purchase by now, and it's going to
Speaker 3: quote unquote transfer its balance to your Amazon gift card balance. Boom.
Speaker 3: Anything else I could do for you, I am your boy.
Speaker 3: And then once the balance is in your Amazon account,
Speaker 3: you could delete the card to avoid any confusion later.
Speaker 3: It's kind of it's an easy way to turn off
Speaker 3: hard to use gift card into something a little bit
Speaker 3: more useful. It's it's a lot of people said it's
Speaker 3: it's worked, So why why don't you check that out
Speaker 3: back for you? For the gift cards. I don't know
Speaker 3: what else I could do. I also gave your phone number.
Speaker 3: Two I gave you. I'm not going to confuse you year,
Speaker 3: but I gave you the phone number to Collin. There's
Speaker 3: another phone number I'm gonna give you if you want
Speaker 3: to try this. You know what AI is, Artificial intelligence?
Speaker 3: Do you understand what AI is? Probably not fully if
Speaker 3: you ever used AI? Maybe maybe not. When chat GPT
Speaker 3: came out, has it been one year or two years?
Speaker 3: It was December, it may have been last year. I mean,
Speaker 3: this thing has taken the world by storm. Now there's
Speaker 3: several versions, and there's several companies. There's Samsung, Galaxi's got this,
Speaker 3: and you've got so many of the Microsoft Copilot on
Speaker 3: and on and on, and if you don't understand it,
Speaker 3: you don't want to download it. Chat GPT just came
Speaker 3: out something with something kind of low tech, which I
Speaker 3: can appreciate. They came out with a whole free phone
Speaker 3: number where you can call in and interact with chat GPT.
Speaker 3: I am not kidding you. It is one eight hundred
Speaker 3: Chat GPT ha open ai. The company that makes chat GPT,
Speaker 3: just launch this phone number. I'm not making this up.
Speaker 3: Try it. It's available for phone calls and text. It's
Speaker 3: a new way to talk to its viral chatbot. You
Speaker 3: can use you know, you go on WhatsApp, you can
Speaker 3: do it too. It's with one eight hundred two four
Speaker 3: two eight four seven eight, which is one eight hundred
Speaker 3: Chat GPT and they just open it up and they said,
Speaker 3: the company said, the callers will get each caller gets
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes free per month to use it. Fifteen minutes. Actually,
Speaker 3: I like this idea. I mean it's part of a
Speaker 3: growth plan for this company because the company is trying
Speaker 3: to battle. As I said, they've got Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon,
Speaker 3: there's so many of this AI intelligent little bots over here.
Speaker 3: But for the one and hundred number you could call
Speaker 3: without an account, and the company says, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: it's working on ways to be able to integrate WhatsApp
Speaker 3: messages with the person's GPT Chat GPT credentials. So fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: You should try this thing. And if you're really smart,
Speaker 3: because it's really fifteen minutes per phone number, because it
Speaker 3: knows if you have a burner phone, if you've got
Speaker 3: a Google voice phone number, which I have like three
Speaker 3: of them, use that too. That's it's it's I like it.
Speaker 3: It's just a little taste. It's tough for me, it's
Speaker 3: tough for anybody to really explain what open AI or
Speaker 3: chat GPT is, but here or this is a low cost, easy,
Speaker 3: simple way to try it out, old school parents, grandparents,
Speaker 3: do it one eight hundred chat GPT. Funny enough, if
Speaker 3: I remember correctly. Google launched a similar tool gosh fifteen
Speaker 3: years ago two thousand and seven. It was called Goog
Speaker 3: four one one and it was free directory assistance by voice.
Speaker 3: And they stopped this years ago. I don't know why Google.
Speaker 3: You know, it's everything's in beta and I think it's
Speaker 3: one eight hundred Goog four one one or something. Companies
Speaker 3: have tried this. One of my first companies when I
Speaker 3: used to work for MCI MC. Do you remember the
Speaker 3: days of MCI AT and T long distance? I worked
Speaker 3: for at the world headquarters of MCI in Washington, d
Speaker 3: C is like a little the only bleep and you
Speaker 3: know where I ever actually lived outside of the state
Speaker 3: of Texas. And MCI came up with they wanted to
Speaker 3: start collect calling, and I think it was MCI who
Speaker 3: came up with the number one eight hundred collect and all.
Speaker 3: It was because when you generally picked up a phone
Speaker 3: from a payphone, Oh my goodsh goodness, I'm dating myself. Kids.
Speaker 3: You don't even know what a payphone it. When you
Speaker 3: picked up a phone, you hit zero, you dialed an operator,
Speaker 3: and you say I want a dial collect, which means
Speaker 3: you can call long distance anywhere and the other end
Speaker 3: would pay for it. And you used to do that
Speaker 3: in college because you college, you have no money and
Speaker 3: you would call zero. Hi, can I make a collect call?
Speaker 3: Operator says, who do you want to call? Well, and
Speaker 3: I want to call this number and it's my parents.
Speaker 3: The phone ring at your parents' house and the operator
Speaker 3: would be on the line. Would you like to accept
Speaker 3: a collect call from Michael? Well? Hopefully they said yes,
Speaker 3: and then they would be building. Anyway, MCI got in
Speaker 3: the game because they wanted some pieces, and so they
Speaker 3: created one eight hundred collect and there was They did
Speaker 3: TV commercials with Carrot Top. I remember, I think I
Speaker 3: was on the TV side because I was in the
Speaker 3: marketing team, and I think I watched them film some
Speaker 3: of this commercials. You don't hear a lot about eight
Speaker 3: hundred number. You don't mean they're still out there without
Speaker 3: a doubt, they're toll free numbers. There's eight hundred, there's
Speaker 3: eight eight eight, there's eight four to four, there's all
Speaker 3: this other stuff. But if you want to try this,
Speaker 3: getting back as we take a break over here, try
Speaker 3: chat GPT, listen to some of the props fifteen minutes
Speaker 3: free per month, one eight hundred chat GPT. Anything else
Speaker 3: I can do for you, well, yeah, I still have
Speaker 3: about forty more minutes ago, so don't go anywhere. For
Speaker 3: my Australia friends, and I'm talking to you, Mark Parrett,
Speaker 3: a longtime listener in Australia, they just put a ban
Speaker 3: on social media for this age group. I'll have everybody. Yes,
Speaker 3: if you're under this age and it's in the teens,
Speaker 3: you are no longer allowed to be on social media.
Speaker 3: I like this. I actually kind of do they. I
Speaker 3: wish they would actually start to hear. United States, if
Speaker 3: you're under fifty you shouldn't use social media. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you that, your questions, everything else coming up on a
Speaker 3: high ten fexted show teen I don't know, fifteen thirty
Speaker 3: forty five minutes unless you're being interrupted by basketball games
Speaker 3: or whatever. It is the weekend. It is called the
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Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is the name originally from Dallas, living in Houston.
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Speaker 3: I've been doing the show twenty three years. Mark Prrott
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Speaker 3: twenty years. He lives in Australia. Dude is fourteen hours
Speaker 3: ahead of us here in Texas. So I always ask him, like, well,
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Speaker 3: But he's never actually come through with that. No, But seriously,
Speaker 3: he's listened to us online and you know everything's everything
Speaker 3: from what's happened now all the social media. He's always
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Speaker 3: know if you know this. Your country in Australia. Australia
Speaker 3: has approved a social media ban, a ban on social
Speaker 3: media on I'm gonna call him kids or teenagers under
Speaker 3: sixteen years old. Australia is banning children under sixteen from
Speaker 3: using social media. Do we like that? Yay or nay?
Speaker 3: Three four six twenty nine Texan The ban it's not
Speaker 3: going to take effect for about a year, but it
Speaker 3: could see technology companies find up to thirty two million
Speaker 3: dollar US if they don't comply. There's a Prime minister
Speaker 3: over there, Anthony Albanis, I guess, says the legislation is
Speaker 3: needed to protect young people from the harms and I'm
Speaker 3: using that quote of social media something many parent groups
Speaker 3: have echoed. What's going on in Australia. This actually is
Speaker 3: not the first attempt to globally restrict children's social media use.
Speaker 3: But the minimum age of sixteen, that's the highest set,
Speaker 3: the highest age set by any country. They said they
Speaker 3: want to have our kids to have a childhood and
Speaker 3: parents to know that we have their backs. That's a
Speaker 3: quote over there. Now. It doesn't say or specify which
Speaker 3: platforms are going to be banned. Is gonna come later
Speaker 3: from the Australia's Communications Minister. I guess that's like their
Speaker 3: I don't know their fcc uh and I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I mean it could include Snapchat or TikTok or
Speaker 3: Facebook or Instagram or x or I don't know. It
Speaker 3: could be YouTube. I don't know. It's in Australia. You're listening.
Speaker 3: Let uncle Garfy tell you what a VPN is. Oh no,
Speaker 3: I didn't go there. Call Oh parents all over Austia.
Speaker 3: You getting ticked to me right now? You know why
Speaker 3: because officials in Austraia also warned that restrictions could easily
Speaker 3: be circumitted through tools like a VPN, but they're gonna
Speaker 3: do everything to cut that back out. I listen. Since
Speaker 3: I've been doing this show twenty three years and my
Speaker 3: youngest son is twenty four. I started doing when my
Speaker 3: youngest was like just born, and I did a lot
Speaker 3: of parenting things, parenting tools and parenting advice when it
Speaker 3: comes to tech, and you know, should they get a computer,
Speaker 3: or should they actually be on a desktop computer, much
Speaker 3: less a laptop computer, much less get a cell phone.
Speaker 3: I used to add a lot of those questions back
Speaker 3: in the day, and my answer was this as a
Speaker 3: it's a one on one it's a case by case, parent,
Speaker 3: case by case basis. I parent, and I and their
Speaker 3: mom we raised three great kids, the great boys. It's
Speaker 3: up to us. I'm not going to tell you how
Speaker 3: to parent. You're a kid. There's no rule, there's no law,
Speaker 3: there's not even a guideline. I mean a lot of
Speaker 3: people again back in the day, again, cell phones were
Speaker 3: expensive and they were bigger, you know, going back to
Speaker 3: two thousand and five fifteen, it's like, well, you know,
Speaker 3: my kid, he or she better be a teenager, better
Speaker 3: be thirteen. Some parents says, no, no, I got my
Speaker 3: first kid tell a cell phone at nine years old.
Speaker 3: You know some people right now, Listen, kids come out
Speaker 3: of the womb right now, you know, potentially holding a
Speaker 3: cell phone. Dad will hand him a cell phone or something.
Speaker 3: I see all the time when I go to restaurants.
Speaker 3: Little kids right now they are using their and I
Speaker 3: have to make it's their parents' phones to play games.
Speaker 3: The parents download the apps, they play a game, they
Speaker 3: play whatever, they candy, crunchy crush, whatever it's going. And
Speaker 3: that's but the kids are getting used to holding this
Speaker 3: device and probably talking on it too. I me, you know, hey,
Speaker 3: let's call grandma, let's call grandpa. Also, they're growing up
Speaker 3: with these things in their hands, and at some point
Speaker 3: at a much younger age than the age than I
Speaker 3: know my kids did. And I honestly cannot tell you.
Speaker 3: I cannot remember what age that each of my three kids,
Speaker 3: my three boys, got their first smartphones. The ages is
Speaker 3: getting younger. Number one, it could be safety. Parents do
Speaker 3: want to make sure that their kids go to school,
Speaker 3: they need they need something safe. Well, you also could
Speaker 3: put you know, trackers, You could put air tags in
Speaker 3: their in their briefcases or their lunchboxes too. And so
Speaker 3: I'm not ever going to answer the question of hey, Michael,
Speaker 3: what's the proper age to give a phone to a kid?
Speaker 3: Because kids a a differently. The youngest kid, I don't
Speaker 3: know it generally could grow up faster than the older kid.
Speaker 3: I know, our youngest you know, kids seem to be
Speaker 3: a little bit more mature, mature more, let's put it
Speaker 3: that way. At whatever X age was than our first
Speaker 3: or second kids, is because they you know, he learned
Speaker 3: from his older brothers. One of the fun tips I
Speaker 3: used to give, and this was true in this, in this,
Speaker 3: in this may work for you too, laptops and tablets
Speaker 3: or even a desktop computer. At what age, Michael would
Speaker 3: can I let my kid have a laptop? And I said, listen,
Speaker 3: I think computers are great. Kids need to learn and
Speaker 3: understand how to utilize computers in a keyboard and everything
Speaker 3: and what a mouse's without a doubt. But at a
Speaker 3: young age, I would not recommend, and again I have
Speaker 3: to throw that in, I would not recommend giving somebody
Speaker 3: who is in the single digits, you know, hunder ten
Speaker 3: years old whatever, give them a computer, laptop and let
Speaker 3: them put it in their room. Don't let them surf alone.
Speaker 3: So what I used to do. Even in my house,
Speaker 3: we had a we had one computer. And again it's
Speaker 3: this is very hard to leave. You know. You would
Speaker 3: go out and you would buy one computer, your first
Speaker 3: home computer for your home back in the late nineties,
Speaker 3: early two thousands. It was twenty five hundred dollars at least,
Speaker 3: and you would put it in a public area of
Speaker 3: your house. You would put it in the family room,
Speaker 3: you would put it in the kitchen. Okay, because I
Speaker 3: always tell the parents, you need to see what your
Speaker 3: kid's doing online. Don't let your kid take that in
Speaker 3: the back room because you don't know where he or
Speaker 3: she is is surfing to so at a young age,
Speaker 3: absolutely have parental supervision, walk by and use the computer
Speaker 3: with them. You know. Now, it's funny because your kids
Speaker 3: are gonna teach you. You tricks your kid. I last segment,
Speaker 3: I was talking about AI chat GPT. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 3: I first heard about chat GTPT last year through my son.
Speaker 3: My kids tell me. My son tells me how to
Speaker 3: edit on some of these apps. My son actually is
Speaker 3: it influencer right now. And it's if that's what these
Speaker 3: kids do. We learn from our kids, but at some
Speaker 3: point you still have to be a parent. My kids
Speaker 3: are grown. I'm absolutely and will always be their dad
Speaker 3: and their parent. I really they're on their own right now.
Speaker 3: I really have no not allow to say so of
Speaker 3: what they can and can't do. But when they were
Speaker 3: under my roof and they were on my payroll, quote unquote,
Speaker 3: absolutely I could tell them what to do. But you
Speaker 3: know when they before they could drive and whatever. So
Speaker 3: again printing advice, parenting advice one oh one, take it,
Speaker 3: leave it. But Australia sixteen years younger starting next year,
Speaker 3: potentially you ain't getting on social media? You know what,
Speaker 3: are we going to open the borders to Australian kids
Speaker 3: so they can come here? Yeah, that's what I'm here for.
Speaker 3: Thirty more minutes left the High Tech Texas Show Michael
Speaker 3: darkfielders the day. You know, yeah, I say, if you
Speaker 3: have a real job, can you just leave? If you
Speaker 3: have a cubicle, if you have an office, Oh, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go down the snack here. And when you're doing radio,
Speaker 3: when you're doing you know, you're you're on a time
Speaker 3: limit over here. You know, we've got a commercial break,
Speaker 3: you know, every two and two and a half minutes,
Speaker 3: and we gotta we gotta run to the restroom if
Speaker 3: we need to. And you know, you got to bring
Speaker 3: some snacks. And I bring this up. You know sometimes
Speaker 3: I bring some snacks and I don't know, I'm trying
Speaker 3: not to eat as much. You know, it's the holidays
Speaker 3: and that's stuff. And uh, I was passing by and
Speaker 3: people you may not believe me. I have never walked
Speaker 3: into a Taco Bell and and I drive by several
Speaker 3: all the way to the studio. I'm just not a
Speaker 3: Taco Bell guy now, growing up in Dallas, I am
Speaker 3: a Taco bueno guy. I am a bueno head. I
Speaker 3: actually used to work in high school. Seen your year
Speaker 3: of BI school. I used to work at a Taco Bueno.
Speaker 3: Love Taco Bido. There are a few and are between
Speaker 3: now there is no Taco Boy noos. It's Houston. There
Speaker 3: used to be some. I don't think they're in San Antonio, Dallas.
Speaker 3: I know there's still a few. No way that that's
Speaker 3: my frit so I don't go to Taco Bell. But
Speaker 3: apparently somebody just sent me this. There Taco Bell is
Speaker 3: rolling out. I have to read this down. I don't
Speaker 3: want to throw out false advice. It seems true. Taco
Speaker 3: Bell is rolling out chicken nuggets. Tell man, are you
Speaker 3: kidding me? Taco Bell chicken nuggets? I mean, chicken is
Speaker 3: a hot thing. Remember the chicken sandwich wars. Popeyes released
Speaker 3: something a few years ago, and then the other They
Speaker 3: try to go after Chick fil A. I'm a Chick
Speaker 3: fil A fan without a doubt, anyway, it's introducing just
Speaker 3: introduced chicken nuggets. And are they gonna put it on
Speaker 3: the Dorito's Locos type of thing? You know what I do,
Speaker 3: like me some chicken nuggets. Are they fried or something?
Speaker 3: Let me keep reading this thing. I don't know a
Speaker 3: it's lt O. Okay, it's gonna be limited time only.
Speaker 3: They're marinated in jalapino buttermilk flavor and coated in a
Speaker 3: mixture of breadcrumbs and tortilla chips. Sounds good, sounds a
Speaker 3: little too fattening. They got some dips. This is jalapino
Speaker 3: infused honey, mustard, spicy ranch or chili, tomato bell sauce.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you again, this is not an endorsement. This
Speaker 3: is not a commercial read. I've never been to a
Speaker 3: taco belt. I probably don't plan on me into a
Speaker 3: taco belt. But apparently chicken is the big thing it is.
Speaker 3: Let's see the chicken cantenam in you. They announced they
Speaker 3: did this last year. And I'll put a little asterix
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm just trying to get myself hungry. As
Speaker 3: beef prices are climbing, fast food chains apparently they're now
Speaker 3: relying on chicken as a cheaper alternative. Then the amount
Speaker 3: of chicken products eating at the drive through, you know,
Speaker 3: big chains, grown eleven percent since twenty nineteen. Now, this
Speaker 3: is funny. I'm gonna in destroyed here because to me,
Speaker 3: I eat grilled chicken, not fried chicken. Grilled chicken, there's
Speaker 3: no debate. It's healthier than having a hamburger. There's no
Speaker 3: question in terms of fat rams in water. That's why
Speaker 3: I've always eat chicken. I don't eat a lot of
Speaker 3: red meat, so I'm a chicken guy. I love the
Speaker 3: grilled chicken at Chick fil A, and if it's grilled,
Speaker 3: it's almost any places I'm gonna eat this thing. But
Speaker 3: the chicken places that sell chicken in burgers obviously not
Speaker 3: Chick fil A. The chicken has always been more expensive,
Speaker 3: and this is a problem in America. If somebody wants
Speaker 3: us to get healthier, why don't you make the chicken cheaper?
Speaker 3: I don't know. According to what I'm reading right now
Speaker 3: from market research from some firm called Circanna, beef prices
Speaker 3: are climbing and chicken finally is going to be cheaper,
Speaker 3: which is good. Now, chicken, it's gonna be ten bucks
Speaker 3: for a sandwich in a Burger's going to be twelve bucks? Anyway,
Speaker 3: where was I? That was the bump here at the
Speaker 3: we got less than thirty minutes to go because I
Speaker 3: get a little hungry. Michael Garfield. It is the high
Speaker 3: tech text and show. If you still want to get
Speaker 3: in or try to leave a voicemail, which we could
Speaker 3: play on air three four six twenty nine textan three
Speaker 3: four six t exiting and you see we talk much
Speaker 3: more about technology. It's pop culture, anything going on in
Speaker 3: the world, including automobiles. I am a longtime automobile reviewer.
Speaker 3: I am a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association,
Speaker 3: which means nothing really too. It means I'm I'm an
Speaker 3: accredited journalist, and I'm using air quotes when I say
Speaker 3: journalist that reviews vehicles. I've done it for fifteen years.
Speaker 3: And I don't deal with dealerships. I deal with manufacturers,
Speaker 3: and I do get the opportunity to test drive a
Speaker 3: lot of cars each week of the year. So this
Speaker 3: year I've driven well over sixty sixty five sometimes I
Speaker 3: get two a week vehicles. So if you want to
Speaker 3: know something to buy, I am your advice man. I
Speaker 3: am your shell answer Man not sponsored by Shell, but
Speaker 3: that'd be nice. And I do keep up with what's
Speaker 3: going on the news, including this. We talk about EV's
Speaker 3: longtime listeners know and I'll say it again. I always
Speaker 3: have to say this. I like evs. The electric vehicle
Speaker 3: cars are big. I mean, they're fast, they're they're sexy,
Speaker 3: they're neat looking. Ah, They're just not for me at
Speaker 3: this point in my life right now, because I don't
Speaker 3: like the charging infrastructure that we have in the United States.
Speaker 3: As soon as charging infrastructures, charging stations are ubiquitous as
Speaker 3: gas stations, which means every single street corner of America
Speaker 3: like a Starbucks. And it gets faster where I don't
Speaker 3: have to wait forty five minutes and I can fill
Speaker 3: my tank up like I'm filling a gas up in
Speaker 3: five minutes. I'm there, But it's not. However, I see
Speaker 3: this news General Motors GM. They are partnering with charge Point.
Speaker 3: Charge Point actually it's a battery charging company. You see
Speaker 3: these stations all over the country. GM is partnering with
Speaker 3: charge Point and they're building out new Evy, a new
Speaker 3: EV charging network under a new brand. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: called GM Energy. But here's the thing. As I'm reading this,
Speaker 3: GM plans to install and I'm quoting up to five
Speaker 3: hundred fast charging ports at stations five hundred. Whooped, dee
Speaker 3: frickin' do I I am broadcast over the air in
Speaker 3: three of the largest nine cities in the country, Houston,
Speaker 3: Santa Studio, and Dallas right now. Each of those cities
Speaker 3: you'd use well over five hundred to make it ubiquitous.
Speaker 3: I applaud what GM and charge Point are trying to do,
Speaker 3: but we just need more. We need to figure out
Speaker 3: the batteries I had or not. EV sales depending on
Speaker 3: who you're reading out of the they make up about
Speaker 3: ten percent of new car sales. I don't know what's
Speaker 3: happening with the Is it gonna be Is the tax
Speaker 3: rebates gonna come back? You know once the new administration
Speaker 3: comes in. I'm not getting to the politics things. I
Speaker 3: will keep my eye on this in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: but it's it's listen. I can recommend you some EV cars,
Speaker 3: but if you want that, you know how to get me.
Speaker 3: Three four six, twenty nine text and so there is
Speaker 3: the automobile update of the week. What was I driving
Speaker 3: in this week? I always get conscuted. I was in
Speaker 3: a Hey, what one of my top three vehicles of
Speaker 3: the year. We'll play a game hop three vehicles a year,
Speaker 3: surprise me. The Buick Invista and again not sponsored right now.
Speaker 3: You know what, if I I wish a vehicle company
Speaker 3: would sponsored me, I could sell more vehicles than anybody else.
Speaker 3: But no, this is just me because I rag on
Speaker 3: more vehicles than I actually like them. Buick convist If
Speaker 3: if you don't know what it is, go look it up.
Speaker 3: E n V I S T A. Buick has actually
Speaker 3: really done a nice job of bringing that brand back,
Speaker 3: for lack of a better term, They've got a whole
Speaker 3: slew of inexpensive vehicles, the Encore, the Enclave, kind of
Speaker 3: smaller cars, the Invista four door seats five people. It's
Speaker 3: you know, kind of yeah, subs tell me, but I
Speaker 3: was in a Buick Invista not long ago. It's not
Speaker 3: an ev It's an actual gas power car, great infotainment,
Speaker 3: not that expense. You can probably get these babies around
Speaker 3: forty thousand. I say, not that expensive, but cars are
Speaker 3: expensive right nowadays. Probably one of my top three top
Speaker 3: two new vehicles that I really didn't know much about
Speaker 3: until I actually stepped in it, and uh and I
Speaker 3: test drove it for a week and so uh fos
Speaker 3: favorite vehicle of the year. Any year that I get
Speaker 3: to test drive a Corvette, it's my year. I am
Speaker 3: a Corvette guy. I just like the sectionists of a Corvette.
Speaker 3: I'm at a point in my life where my kids
Speaker 3: are grown. I don't need a big car. I just
Speaker 3: want something fast. It's like the new, the new, the
Speaker 3: the mid the most updated, the C eight model, which
Speaker 3: is the mid engine where the engine is in the
Speaker 3: middle of the car, not in the hood, which gives
Speaker 3: it a better turn power and ratio because the engine.
Speaker 3: You know, if the engine is in front of a vehicle,
Speaker 3: you can imagine it pulls the car, even though there's
Speaker 3: all well drive. But anyway, it pulls that the weight
Speaker 3: is in the front. Now the weight of the engine
Speaker 3: is in the middle. I like it and I got
Speaker 3: the win. Did I have one of these things? I
Speaker 3: may have been in the summer so I had I
Speaker 3: had the top down. It was the Lettuce was flowing. Man.
Speaker 3: It was just there's nothing better than a Courtvette for me.
Speaker 3: But I also have sixty sixty five other vehicles that
Speaker 3: I test drove to so if you want to get
Speaker 3: in there, we got about fifteen more minutes today. You
Speaker 3: can also podcast this for some reason in your market
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Speaker 3: Michael Gorefield high Tech text and we'll continue. But we
Speaker 3: got less than ten more minutes to go, so don't
Speaker 3: go anywhere. Stand by as we wind up the final
Speaker 3: a few minutes of the we get Buffalo Christmas, We
Speaker 3: go final seven year the high tech text and show
Speaker 3: thank you off in here. Know you're not probably trying
Speaker 3: to find a parking spot at all your shops because
Speaker 3: you figured, well online shopping right now with just a
Speaker 3: few days before Christmas and hanuk and ain't gonna work,
Speaker 3: and so you're a fighting the traffic here at the
Speaker 3: day of the gallery. Yeah, you're at your little local
Speaker 3: shopping mall wherever you are, so suck it up. You
Speaker 3: can listen to the last seven minutes with me while
Speaker 3: you're driving around trying to find that spot, and we'll
Speaker 3: send you off and letting you know that I am
Speaker 3: a sized medium and my favorite colors purple. Should you
Speaker 3: be shopping for your favorite your favorite radio host who
Speaker 3: has been wasting spending twenty three years of his weekends
Speaker 3: giving you some good ideas and things to buy and
Speaker 3: things to shop for. Michael Garfield is the name. Anybody
Speaker 3: traveling on planes, anybody ever have any lost luggage issues?
Speaker 3: Knock wood. I've actually been pretty good about that. A
Speaker 3: travel tip for me is if anybody has Apple air tags.
Speaker 3: I don't use Apple stuff, but Apple air tags. Other trackers,
Speaker 3: there's so many different ones. I mean, Samsung makes the
Speaker 3: Samsung were the tracker. There's Chippolo makes a tracker. Hyle
Speaker 3: was one of the first ones out there t il
Speaker 3: e you know they're they're They're the size of a
Speaker 3: quarter fifteen twenty twenty five dollars each, and you could
Speaker 3: track many things. You just put it on your you
Speaker 3: could put it in your luggage. And that's where I'm
Speaker 3: geting at. Actually I put it in my luggage. And
Speaker 3: if you get your phone and you have an app,
Speaker 3: and you know, Google makes something on find my device,
Speaker 3: and Apple makes its own little thing so you could
Speaker 3: see where they are, and it works on little Bluetooth
Speaker 3: and you know, and there's Bluetooth and Wi Fi networks.
Speaker 3: A lot of places all over the world, including in
Speaker 3: airports too, and airlines now they're finally getting in on
Speaker 3: it too. If you have an air Tag and Apple
Speaker 3: air Tag and you want to download the latest operating system,
Speaker 3: the OS version operating system version, you could generate this
Speaker 3: link help airlines themselves track down your missing luggage. So
Speaker 3: there's this. There's a new release of the iOS. It's
Speaker 3: the eighteen point two, all right, the Apple iOS, and
Speaker 3: I do recommend everybody update to their system. So if
Speaker 3: you have an Apple iPhone, get the eighteen point two
Speaker 3: and there's an option in the find my app Find
Speaker 3: My two words app is an option to create a
Speaker 3: sharable link to the location of a lost air Tag
Speaker 3: and anybody who receives this link is going to be
Speaker 3: able to track down its whereabouts and hopefully uncover your
Speaker 3: missing luggage or any other item. And you can share
Speaker 3: this link with a family member, a friend, a traveling companion. However,
Speaker 3: sharing it with airline personnel can be even more productive
Speaker 3: is they can hunt down your bags in places that
Speaker 3: you can't go to within an airport. Just this past week,
Speaker 3: United Delta and Air Canada they're supporting this new feature
Speaker 3: to track down lost de delaid bags.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: That's good for them. And there's the others who are
Speaker 3: going to you know, I did Delta, British Airways lofts.
Speaker 3: Tensa is an American in there. I don't want to
Speaker 3: no Americans not in there. I got according to my
Speaker 3: list right here. Southwest. I listen, man, get your stuff together,
Speaker 3: love Southwest. I am a Southwest guy from as a
Speaker 3: Dallas guy, grew up Dallas, used to go to Love
Speaker 3: Ice skated Love. Anybody remember that in the late seventies.
Speaker 3: I've had Southwest there like stock blieve me, like a
Speaker 3: very small amount of shares since I was like thirteen.
Speaker 3: I'm an a list preferred and a week to go.
Speaker 3: I'm very close, and I'm not there yet. So if
Speaker 3: anybody from a Southwest is listening, help a brother out.
Speaker 3: And I know there's Southwest has changing itself. In twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five or twenty twenty six, there's gonna get a
Speaker 3: new boarding procedure. But you know things like this, Number one,
Speaker 3: you need to speed up your Wi Fi Internet and
Speaker 3: as the high tech text, I should be the spokesperson
Speaker 3: for that. And number two, things like this. You see
Speaker 3: all these other airlines hopping on the Hey, this is
Speaker 3: a neat way to if you find the lost luggage,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe we can, you know, start tracking it down.
Speaker 3: But I see what you're doing. Southwest. You're like, no,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna hop from the vandwagon because we don't
Speaker 3: lose luggage. Oh. I see what you did. I see
Speaker 3: what you did. That's the reverse marketing. That's why I
Speaker 3: love it. Fly the friendlies guys, Baby, we really move
Speaker 3: our tails for you. Herb caliher wild Turkey all the way.
Speaker 3: Big Southwest guy, big, big, big Southwest guy. I'll ended
Speaker 3: up with this. We'll do a show next week. That's
Speaker 3: the weekend of the twenty eighth and twenty ninth. Actually, no,
Speaker 3: we got two more shows. Then we will be live
Speaker 3: from Las Vegas, my favorite place on Earth, well outside
Speaker 3: of Texas, for my twenty third CEES Show Consumer Electronics Show,
Speaker 3: and this is the big one. This is where. It's
Speaker 3: the world's largest technology trade show. One hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: thousand plus people from all over the world. They're nice folks.
Speaker 3: At CEES. They build a radio and a TV studio
Speaker 3: right on the convention floor. For me, I'll be broadcasting,
Speaker 3: doing some live Instagram stuff. Which is why you need
Speaker 3: to follow them on Instagram, Hi tech text and Hi
Speaker 3: g h T E c h T E x A N.
Speaker 3: And this is where I bring a lot of these
Speaker 3: goodies back, these little samples where they want me to
Speaker 3: give them away to my social media followers and maybe
Speaker 3: my radio followers. Again, that's why you need to follow me.
Speaker 3: So some of the things I've been like my inbox
Speaker 3: over the past three weeks, and this happens every December,
Speaker 3: my inbox on a daily basis, and I'm not kidding you,
Speaker 3: easily forty to fifty new messages solely from companies who
Speaker 3: will be at cs HI stop by our booth. We're
Speaker 3: debuting this and come to this event, and we're having
Speaker 3: a press conference, and here's a press release, and now
Speaker 3: there's a reception. Can you come over here, and here's
Speaker 3: a dinner over he over here. There's only so many
Speaker 3: hours a day and it's just me. So I'm planning
Speaker 3: out and you know what I'm doing here for about
Speaker 3: four days, you know, six seventh, eight ninth or whatever.
Speaker 3: So I'll be out there and so I will give
Speaker 3: you a little tip and hint just from the emails
Speaker 3: of what I think are going to be big. What's big?
Speaker 3: What's coming in cees twenty two, twenty five. What I'm expecting.
Speaker 3: I'm expecting the letters AI to get maybe branded on
Speaker 3: my brain. AI is gonna be everywhere every almost every
Speaker 3: other press comfort press release. I'm getting like the oh,
Speaker 3: we've got a day. I remember when Google came out there.
Speaker 3: I remember Alexa was just you know, launched. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, there's generally one product, one theme, one something
Speaker 3: that takes over the show. Last year, AI was relatively prevalent.
Speaker 3: I think this year it is gonna be just just NonStop.
Speaker 3: A lot of keynote speeches are gonna be you know
Speaker 3: this on AI and whatever. There's gonna be some new
Speaker 3: video cards for all you hanks out there who are
Speaker 3: falling in Vidia. Finally, obviously they're you know that's that
Speaker 3: stocks done pretty well. By the way, they're supposed to
Speaker 3: announce a new video card. Am D is supposed to
Speaker 3: announced some video cards for for computers. There's gonna be
Speaker 3: some new I know, there's gonna be need some laptops
Speaker 3: a sus A s us I like that company. They
Speaker 3: are out of China or actually time on that is right.
Speaker 3: They they're coming out with something new. I'm supposed to
Speaker 3: go to a press conference with them, and they're they're
Speaker 3: very cool. They usually give me some to give away,
Speaker 3: so that's pretty neat. Earbuds and headphones, they're generally out there.
Speaker 3: Sennheiser is supposed to announce something. I think the airpod's
Speaker 3: too pro two. I think they were just released. I'll
Speaker 3: see what's going on that. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 3: how many more earbuds and earphones that we actually need. Vehicles.
Speaker 3: I'd say ten years ago the Sterber Electronics Show turned
Speaker 3: into a de facto auto show. A lot of a
Speaker 3: lot of high tech vehicles, not just electric vehicles, but
Speaker 3: some really some you know, prototype demo models of something
Speaker 3: that will never be ever gonna be built. There's drones.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are these taxis, like flying taxi. There's
Speaker 3: these mock ups that you could sit in that look
Speaker 3: cool and you know, I'm gonna, without a doubt, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna post them on my my social media. They're like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, how cool is that. It's like, you
Speaker 3: know what, my lifetime, we'll probably never see it, but
Speaker 3: it is pretty cool. TVs sound bars they seem to
Speaker 3: be some of the hot stuff. But I will let
Speaker 3: you know when that's coming up in two weeks. But
Speaker 3: until then we still have the New Year's Next week
Speaker 3: is always my yeah, yeah, next week is always my
Speaker 3: fun one. It's the what did you get for Christmas?
Speaker 3: And I will tell you what to return it for.
Speaker 3: That's always fun. The last show of the year right
Speaker 3: after Christmas. So I'm about half of everybody put this
Speaker 3: game together. Number one Callum reeves he's kind of editing,
Speaker 3: answering the phone, the checking the voicemail. Brian Rickson, program
Speaker 3: director at a lot of these stations that we're on,
Speaker 3: Eddie Martini and anybody else who has kept me on
Speaker 3: the air for twenty three years, thanks doing so. The
Speaker 3: new folks who struck missing, I hope you kind of
Speaker 3: are trying to figure out what the show's about. I
Speaker 3: don't talk about too many pep and things, try not to,
Speaker 3: and i'd stay away from politics. I popped up absolutely
Speaker 3: talk about sports, food and anything else that I care about.
Speaker 3: I'm just entertain That's what we do. Michael Gark Buildings
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Speaker 3: If you miss some or all of it, check it
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Speaker 3: slip right I tech texting I should be said to
Speaker 3: do all right people, awesome, a great weekend, bundle up
Speaker 3: and seriously Merry Christmas. Let's get this year over whip
Speaker 3: and have an even better one that's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Talk to you next week because right now my show
Speaker 3: he is over.