Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 1: The high Tech Texan.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items
Speaker 2: to make life.
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Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
Speaker 3: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: I will spare you the details of my Spotify rapped
Speaker 2: playlist is past year, but rest assured you can bet
Speaker 2: it involved a lot of eighty songs in yacht rock.
Speaker 2: More importantly, I am focused on the Texas Long Warriends
Speaker 2: playing in the SEC Championship this weekend. Folks, we welcome
Speaker 2: you to the high Tech Texan Show. Michael Garfield. Does
Speaker 2: the name be it? KPRC nine fifty in the Houston
Speaker 2: area news Radio twelve hundred WAI, San Antonio, and soon
Speaker 2: in another large Texas city starting next weekend. We continue
Speaker 2: to take over the greatest state in the Union, and
Speaker 2: I hope you're gonna have fun join us here. I
Speaker 2: just need a few minutes, maybe an hour or two
Speaker 2: of your time. If you don't get the full two
Speaker 2: hour show. Wherever you are, we have this thing called
Speaker 2: the podcast, so you can listen to the dulcet tones
Speaker 2: of my voice whenever and wherever you want. You download
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. You look for Michael Garfield, you look
Speaker 2: for high tech textan spell the whole thing out, and
Speaker 2: then you can get to me. Because it is the
Speaker 2: holiday season. Did you survive cyber Monday? And I'm looking
Speaker 2: at you, callum, who's my main behind? You know, he's
Speaker 2: the Oyes, you know, pay no attention to the man
Speaker 2: behind the glass window there, callum. Did you survive cyber Monday?
Speaker 2: Get this stature? Thirteen billion dollars in sales. Cyber Monday,
Speaker 2: the monday you went back to the office, allegedly and
Speaker 2: they named it cyber Monday. Little history for you here.
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday is a made up name from the National
Speaker 2: Retail Federation, probably started around twenty years ago. It's because
Speaker 2: back then, twenty twenty five years ago, a lot of
Speaker 2: homes didn't have high speed internet. It was dial up,
Speaker 2: you know, AOL and all that other stuff. It was
Speaker 2: very slow. But a lot of businesses they had high
Speaker 2: speed internet, and so what a lot of online retailers
Speaker 2: were seeing. It was the Monday after Thanksgiving, the monday
Speaker 2: right after the Black Friday that they saw a lot
Speaker 2: of sales coming in during the day. So people were
Speaker 2: waiting to get to the office on a high speed
Speaker 2: internet connection to shop. National Retail Federation there, you know,
Speaker 2: their job is to promote retail sales, and they said,
Speaker 2: you know what, let's just come up with something Cyber Monday,
Speaker 2: and so stores went with it. In thirteen billion dollars
Speaker 2: later this year. That's a record. I have one question though,
Speaker 2: remember when people complained about the price of groceries, of
Speaker 2: the price of gas and how they were going to
Speaker 2: pay for that seems pretty recently where people were kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, ragging on that. What happened to that? You
Speaker 2: may not have grocery and gas, but you know what
Speaker 2: scrot it saw on airfire for forty nine ninety nine.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy the thing on Cyber Monday. Thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2: That's a crow. Did anybody shop at stores? I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear from you. Let me tell you how interactive
Speaker 2: this show is. I'm gonna give you the phone number.
Speaker 2: It works all across the state, actually works all across
Speaker 2: the country. It's not the world, because we do have
Speaker 2: free cell phone service even on the weekends. It's generally included.
Speaker 2: It's three four six two nine Texan. Spell the whole
Speaker 2: thing out three four six twenty nine Texan. You can
Speaker 2: join in. You can tell me, Hey, did you shop
Speaker 2: at stores? Did you exclusively do it online? Did you
Speaker 2: wake up like back in the day about three in
Speaker 2: the morning on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and you're
Speaker 2: stocked from all of the stuffing and the dressing and
Speaker 2: the turkey, and you just stand in line to get
Speaker 2: one of the of the ten flat screen TVs that
Speaker 2: were on sale. No, no, I am taking you in
Speaker 2: the semi way back machine, but I am interested. Did
Speaker 2: you go to stores? I did not, You know what,
Speaker 2: I'm going to take that back. I did buy something
Speaker 2: on Black Friday online, but I didn't buy it because
Speaker 2: of Black Friday. It was it wasn't really on sale.
Speaker 2: I bought bought some clothes for my favorite clothing store
Speaker 2: based out of California, and it was like thirty percent off,
Speaker 2: but they were having this thirty percent off sale for
Speaker 2: the entire month of November, So I mean, yes, I
Speaker 2: bought something on Black Friday, and it just happened to
Speaker 2: be that Black Friday. It wasn't a Black Friday, salf
Speaker 2: and I didn't buy one thing on Cyber Monday. What
Speaker 2: did you buy? Share it with us, Share it with
Speaker 2: my listeners, because I will. Throughout the show, I'm going
Speaker 2: to start listing some of the better deals and give
Speaker 2: you some gift ideas for the person who is just
Speaker 2: so darn hard to shop for. And you're listening to
Speaker 2: one right now, you know, and I'm honored, I'm blessed.
Speaker 2: You can call it whatever. I don't need a lot
Speaker 2: of things. If I do need or want something, certainly
Speaker 2: in the technological gadget world, I could, you know, business wise,
Speaker 2: I could send an email or contact them saying, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: do you mind if I try or test test something out?
Speaker 2: And I'll get it for thirty days or so, and
Speaker 2: I'll test it and I'll decide if I like it
Speaker 2: or don't like it. But then it gives me good content.
Speaker 2: It gives me good content to talk to you, show
Speaker 2: it on my TV segments and everything on my social media.
Speaker 2: That's what I do for well over twenty years. If
Speaker 2: you're relatively new to the show, certainly in San Antonio
Speaker 2: because we just started on news radio twelve hundred WOAI
Speaker 2: was it just about a week or two ago? You
Speaker 2: may be listening. I'm not gonna tell you how to
Speaker 2: fix your computer. I'm not gonna do it. No. I
Speaker 2: will tell you what to buy and what to stay
Speaker 2: stay away from. And it's not just tech. I spend
Speaker 2: a lot of my time in the automobile industry. I
Speaker 2: test drive cars, trucks, evs. I'm actually gonna have a
Speaker 2: lot of I have a lot of vehicle and automobile
Speaker 2: news coming up throughout the show. Every week I get
Speaker 2: to test drive a brand new vehicle, not from a dealership.
Speaker 2: None of this is paid, none of it's sponsored. I
Speaker 2: can tell you if it's crap. I can tell you
Speaker 2: if it's just you know, if it's a gym. Even
Speaker 2: this past week, a friend of mine, she was looking
Speaker 2: for a brand new EV and she asked if I
Speaker 2: would go to some of these deals a few dealerships
Speaker 2: with her. And I haven't been to a car or
Speaker 2: a vehicle dealership in years. I really think it has
Speaker 2: been years since I've stepped into a dealership. I'm a
Speaker 2: lot of dealers. I just have I think I've had
Speaker 2: a bad experience with car dealers dating back to my
Speaker 2: first car that I bought in the nineteen eighties. It's
Speaker 2: just they're just tough salespeople. I'm Adhd. I don't want
Speaker 2: to wait while they go in the back to talk
Speaker 2: their manager and coming back and forth. I mean I
Speaker 2: literally had to pop an Adhd pill or two before
Speaker 2: I went with her. I gotta say the experience wasn't
Speaker 2: nearly as bad as I thought it was going to
Speaker 2: be with the salespeople, I guess. We went to some
Speaker 2: decent dealerships, testing a few cars out. I have driven
Speaker 2: these cars. She has never driven them, So I sat
Speaker 2: there and gave her my thoughts and opinions. This is
Speaker 2: what we did. We test through which she tested with.
Speaker 2: It was a Genesis who I actually think Genesis makes.
Speaker 2: I love Genesis brand. This is not an endorsement right now,
Speaker 2: but if I was having to buy a Eagle right now,
Speaker 2: I would absolutely look at Genesis. I think they've got
Speaker 2: great warranties. What they've done with the brand is wonderful.
Speaker 2: I think their electric cars are good, not that I
Speaker 2: would get an electric car. We looked at a Ford,
Speaker 2: We looked at the Ford mock e mustang not badna decent.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have a lot of the bells and whistles
Speaker 2: of some of the other ones. She looked at a
Speaker 2: Cadillac lyric and then she went I think she looked
Speaker 2: at a pole Star. I didn't go to that one.
Speaker 2: But the polls, there's a lot of evs. But this
Speaker 2: is just one of the industry's topics that I can
Speaker 2: guide you through if you just tuning in, thinking, oh
Speaker 2: the guys gonna you know, tell you how to fix
Speaker 2: your motherboard of a computer. People, the only mother board
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm on board of my mother But hopefully
Speaker 2: today are listening right now on iHeartRadio up in Dallas,
Speaker 2: where I am from. That's the only you know, mother
Speaker 2: stuff I will talk about today. I am not Father Christmas,
Speaker 2: I am not Hanaka Harry, but tiss this season, hey listen,
Speaker 2: coming back, we are going to talk about some of
Speaker 2: the tech flops of the year. The top twenty five
Speaker 2: most viewed Wikipedia pages. Can anybody guess some of the
Speaker 2: top ones? Believe it or not. Somebody just sent me
Speaker 2: a list of the most popular dog names of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. I think it's pretty funny if dog names
Speaker 2: are pretty much the same as as people daves do
Speaker 2: and your calls love to hear from you. If the
Speaker 2: phone's busy or if you voicemail comes on, leave a message.
Speaker 2: We have your permission by the way of airing it
Speaker 2: on the show, and we'll see if we can get
Speaker 2: to your questions and answers. Three four six, twenty nine Texans,
Speaker 2: This is Michael Garifield having some fun with you, Hooker
Speaker 2: Lawren's on the High Tech Texan Show. Mack at it.
Speaker 2: It is called the high Tech Texan Show. Happy weekend
Speaker 2: to you wherever you are listening plausibly live via San
Speaker 2: Antonio Houston. Excited. Next week we're adding another affiliate, adding
Speaker 2: another affilia. I can't am I calum ever allowed to
Speaker 2: say legally technically can we allude to it? It's it's
Speaker 2: I've twenty three years, I've been on in in Houston
Speaker 2: on KPRC nine fifty am as the high Tech Textan Show.
Speaker 2: That is me. I have trademarked Michael Garfield. I am
Speaker 2: the high Tech Texan. Just added San Antonio. I've sentata.
Speaker 2: I have not been to San Antonio in a while.
Speaker 2: I need to get Santa we need to do a
Speaker 2: show from say Antonio, can we do it from the
Speaker 2: the iHeart Studio. Let's take it on the road, Let's
Speaker 2: take it on the river. Is the river? Is the
Speaker 2: river walk? Still a thing I need to hear from
Speaker 2: San Antonians, San Antonio whites. San Antonio Studs helped me out,
Speaker 2: helping you know, got a great city, Party City three four, six,
Speaker 2: twenty nine texts. That is how you can get to
Speaker 2: me and say Hi, we don't take anything too seriously.
Speaker 2: I do try to give you some hard hitting, good information,
Speaker 2: personal recommendations of pretty much anything consumer lifestyle. I am
Speaker 2: your guy. Yes it's called the high tech Texan, but
Speaker 2: there's technology built in pretty much anything in anywhere, certainly
Speaker 2: the auto industry. That's why I talk a lot about
Speaker 2: cars and trucks, the fashion industry, watches, and you know what.
Speaker 2: The way that spirits, the way that bourbon, the way
Speaker 2: that vodka is made and distilled, there is technology over there.
Speaker 2: By the way that I had some I had some
Speaker 2: good vodka. I'm just learning to drink martinis. I'm just
Speaker 2: learning to drink because I'm I'm a brown water guy.
Speaker 2: I am a bourbon guy. I have a bourbon collection.
Speaker 2: I'm a collector of bourbon, and about a year and
Speaker 2: a half ago, I just started drinking some martinis and
Speaker 2: so you know, I'm kind of playing around with some vodka.
Speaker 2: There is a Texas based podcast I found. It's called
Speaker 2: Freo f R. I. Oh, it's not free, but it's
Speaker 2: actually it's actually relatively inexpensive. About what fifteen bucks for
Speaker 2: a seven hundred and fifty mili about I had a
Speaker 2: freeo teeny bought a bottle and I shook it up
Speaker 2: and I stuffed my own blue cheese olives. I just
Speaker 2: need to open a bar garf bar. So yeah, my
Speaker 2: point is, this is the things that I talk about.
Speaker 2: So we're having fun holiday season. We are just a
Speaker 2: few weeks away from the all important big day. The
Speaker 2: Big Man's coming down the chimney the same night Hanakhah
Speaker 2: Harry arrives for all the nice little Jewish boys and
Speaker 2: girls on on Moishia and Shlomo. It's it's it's a
Speaker 2: whole thing. But Cyber Monday, we just we just completed
Speaker 2: have a list of some of the top items that
Speaker 2: were purchased on Cyber Monday. Any but you could probably
Speaker 2: guess if we put some money on it, and I say, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna of the five or six most sold sought
Speaker 2: after product categories. What would you say? And you could
Speaker 2: probably win it. Here's the answer right now. Headphones, speakers,
Speaker 2: smart watches, computers. Believe it or not, Boy, hey Mary Christmas,
Speaker 2: there's our computer. Electric scooters. Electric scooters. Apparently a lot
Speaker 2: were sold on Cyber Monday. A lot of gaming consoles,
Speaker 2: the PS five, the Xbox series, the Nintendo Switch, Oled,
Speaker 2: the oled some of the most popular items, thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Still looking for anybody who's actually went to the stores,
Speaker 2: went to the stores and shop. The problem was shopping online.
Speaker 2: It's when after about an hour or two, you kind
Speaker 2: of have a knack in your stomach because you're hungry,
Speaker 2: and there's no Anti ann pizza nearby your laptop. And
Speaker 2: that's a feature that it's you know, you just want
Speaker 2: to go to a mall, don't you. You want to
Speaker 2: walk by the Anti ANNs, and you still want to
Speaker 2: smell that fresh pretzel, maybe a little sour cream and
Speaker 2: onion cheese spread on the top too. It said, that's
Speaker 2: what one thing we can't get yet. And notice I
Speaker 2: said the word yet, I know where technology is coming.
Speaker 2: There's it's not smell a vision, but I seriously. I
Speaker 2: was at CEES, the Consumer Electronics Show, which I go
Speaker 2: every year. Every year. This will be my if January
Speaker 2: will be my twenty second, twenty third year. I go
Speaker 2: to see yes, and I see the craziest stuff, ninety
Speaker 2: percent of which will never be released to the public.
Speaker 2: There was a company, probably from Japan. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of cool stuff comes from out of there. They had
Speaker 2: this this thing that plugged into your USB on your
Speaker 2: computer and there's little cartridges and it would it would
Speaker 2: blow out fragrances, it would blow out smell to try
Speaker 2: to enhance your shopping experience or replicator duplicate some product,
Speaker 2: like if they were selling chocolate. You know, your online
Speaker 2: and they what these fret with this company was trying
Speaker 2: to do is like if you're shopping for candy or
Speaker 2: chocolate or peppermint or something like that, as soon as
Speaker 2: you go to the website, this the smell, this little
Speaker 2: smoke would come out. And it's a good thing these
Speaker 2: things never come to fruition because could you imagine get
Speaker 2: like shopping online for weed or some of these drugs.
Speaker 2: Actually that's what I should have done. I'd be so rich,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't need to sit here on weekends, and I'd
Speaker 2: do a radio show. Three four six two nine te
Speaker 2: x A N. That is the phone number to get
Speaker 2: to the high tech text and show. Michael is my name,
Speaker 2: three four six at twenty nine at Texas. Uh I
Speaker 2: had I have it. For some reason, I have had
Speaker 2: over the past week more conversations than normal about Android
Speaker 2: versus I thought, you know that that pops up. I
Speaker 2: mean it's it's obviously with the Texas versus Texas A
Speaker 2: and M game last week, we're talking about rivals. And
Speaker 2: by the way, my side came out on top hook
Speaker 2: of horns. There's you know that. You've got Republicans, you've
Speaker 2: got Democrats, You've got the aggies, you've got the long horns.
Speaker 2: You've got Houston versus Dallas. You've got se San Antonio.
Speaker 2: You stand alone. That's how good you are. There's always
Speaker 2: going to be debate about something in technology. It is
Speaker 2: it is going to continue to be Android versus iPhone,
Speaker 2: and there is it's a debate that can't be one,
Speaker 2: which is I don't like that, which is why I
Speaker 2: never talk about politics. I will put my toe into
Speaker 2: sports without a doubt, because I do have favorites in sports,
Speaker 2: and I wear that on my sleeve, and I do
Speaker 2: wear my favorite. When it comes to Android versus iPhone,
Speaker 2: I'm an Android guy and the looks that I get going,
Speaker 2: O can the high tech tection. You don't have an iPhone? No,
Speaker 2: I don't have an iPhone. I have had one or
Speaker 2: two iPhones. The very first one when it came out
Speaker 2: in what two thousand six, two thousand and seven, I
Speaker 2: had the very first iPhone sold. They didn't give it
Speaker 2: to me, so I bought it six hundred dollars in Houston.
Speaker 2: I was the first person in line because I knew people.
Speaker 2: But I got it and that was it. I'm an
Speaker 2: Android guy. Quite simply, three quarters of the world a
Speaker 2: seventy almost seventy five percent of the world when you
Speaker 2: look at smartphones, uses the Android operating system seventy five percent.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to the masses, I want to
Speaker 2: use the apps. I want to get to know the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm never going to convince, and that's not my job.
Speaker 2: I don't want to convince iphoners, iPhone fanboys and fangirls.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to convince you to flip to Android.
Speaker 2: I don't want to flip Android to iPhone. You know
Speaker 2: what you want. You have an ecosystem, all your family
Speaker 2: is on this iPhone, so we can FaceTime and face
Speaker 2: jet and I message good. But I'm just going to
Speaker 2: tell you why I prefer. Why I prefer I'm not
Speaker 2: paid for it. I listen. I would say it again
Speaker 2: if Samsung or Google on the Android side wanted to
Speaker 2: endorse me, I have probably sold more Android phones than
Speaker 2: any other form of advertising they've done for free. I
Speaker 2: just talk content. I think the greatest advertisement that I
Speaker 2: think iPhone could do, certainly in the state of Texas,
Speaker 2: is flip me to the Macintosh ecosystem in the iPhone
Speaker 2: on the iOS. Because I've staunchly been not a supporter
Speaker 2: of theirs for twenty years, I can see, I mean,
Speaker 2: I could see TV commercials, billboards, breaking news, the high
Speaker 2: tech text and switches to iOS people. My agent is
Speaker 2: on standby three, four, six, twenty nine texts. And if
Speaker 2: you want to do that until then, you're not going
Speaker 2: to get a paid endorsement for any of this stuff.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get my true feelings. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to working together cross platforms. There was an issue, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this not too long ago,
Speaker 2: there's been some hackers, Chinese hackers, that's right, who have
Speaker 2: been trying they may have attempted to steal text. And
Speaker 2: here's why. One of the things that Apple people love,
Speaker 2: it's their text message. They're not vulnerable, they are secure,
Speaker 2: they are locked down, they're encrypted. Well breaking news. Yes,
Speaker 2: when you in an Apple device text another Apple device,
Speaker 2: yes there is encryption. But when an Android device texted androvice,
Speaker 2: they're encrypted. Also, the issue is when you go cross platform,
Speaker 2: when you go Apple text to Android or an Android
Speaker 2: text to Apple, none of that stuff's encrypted. And that's
Speaker 2: what happens. Three weeks ago, the FBI and the Cybersecurity
Speaker 2: and Infrastructure Security Agency, that's right, there is such a thing.
Speaker 2: It revealed that hackers connected with the People's Republic of
Speaker 2: China they'd infiltrated the US telecom infrastructure as part of
Speaker 2: this broad and significant cyber espionage campaign. Hackers are still
Speaker 2: at work, cybersecurity officials this week. They haven't been able
Speaker 2: to evict them from these networks. The point is, I'm
Speaker 2: talking about encryption right now, So what do you do
Speaker 2: got a less than thirty seconds before we get out
Speaker 2: of here or break You may at this point if
Speaker 2: you do have friends who are on the other platform
Speaker 2: of you, and you want to make sure whatever you're
Speaker 2: sending them a photo or a text is encrypted, is secure?
Speaker 2: Why don't you use a third party company? Example What's app?
Speaker 2: What's app? You can text, you can talk, you can
Speaker 2: video chat, and you can send encrypted messages. Signal is
Speaker 2: another app that you can download. These are free apps
Speaker 2: that I'm giving you your folks. These are private companies.
Speaker 2: They help stop that stuff. And even the government officials
Speaker 2: are suggesting if you're concerned about the security of your messaging,
Speaker 2: you should use encrypted messaging system like WhatsApp, like Signal,
Speaker 2: and there's a few others. Anybody got some issuse, anybody's
Speaker 2: going you know what, if anybody knows my text my
Speaker 2: phone number right now, why don't you text me? And
Speaker 2: that's right now? I think a green dot shows up
Speaker 2: with me. I'm sorry, I'm not a blue dot. But
Speaker 2: you know what doesn't matter. People, we're still communicating. Life
Speaker 2: is good and I'm the guy with the microphone on
Speaker 2: the radio telling you that I'm just kind of an
Speaker 2: android guy. Simple as that. Well, back at is Michael,
Speaker 2: It's the high tech texting show. The big number to
Speaker 2: get into the radio show three six twenty nine texts
Speaker 2: and we make it easier for you three four six
Speaker 2: two nine T e X A N. Should you go
Speaker 2: straight to voicemail because we're just overwhelmed because now we're
Speaker 2: heard in several great cities across the great state of Texas.
Speaker 2: Leave a voicemail and then as you leave a voicemail
Speaker 2: you do, we will tell you that we have the
Speaker 2: right to actually play your voice on the radio. Will
Speaker 2: make you famous, not that making you're not famous by
Speaker 2: getting on the radio, because let me help you out,
Speaker 2: that is not true. But if you've got questions, you're
Speaker 2: thinking about a big purchase, you're looking at cars or trucks,
Speaker 2: odds are I have probably test driven it. I will
Speaker 2: give you a non paid response because no endorsements come
Speaker 2: to me at all. I don't work with the dealerships.
Speaker 2: Do get to test drive from manufacturers, and sadly they
Speaker 2: don't pay me one freaking red cent. It would be nice,
Speaker 2: but you're going to get the truth from me. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield is the name if me Movies. This past weekend.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of a lot of family time. My
Speaker 2: three boys who are grown well, they're in their twenties
Speaker 2: right now. We're ones and just hit thirty. They came in.
Speaker 2: It was great to have all three boys together at
Speaker 2: one time. A great football weekend. You know, my Longhorns
Speaker 2: beat the Aggies. Going to the SEC Championship this week
Speaker 2: and I will be in Atlanta. Look for me. I'll
Speaker 2: be wearing the burn orange. By the way, I will
Speaker 2: be at the SEC Championship. And so, since we've finished
Speaker 2: this radio show, it his wheels up for an up
Speaker 2: and back trip and my Cowboys one. I'm a big
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys fan. Did anybody see any movies Wicked? I
Speaker 2: heard that's a long movie. I'm not No. I just
Speaker 2: I don't need to see that. I mean, maybe I'll
Speaker 2: wait the cable for that thing. Gladiator. I'm not a
Speaker 2: Gladiator fan. I don't know how that fared either. I
Speaker 2: do get to go to some media preview screenings. I
Speaker 2: get invited to a number of them, a lot, relatively
Speaker 2: most of them. I don't go to a lot of
Speaker 2: them anymore. Am I just getting lazy? Am I getting
Speaker 2: used to just watching things on my TV screen, I do.
Speaker 2: I mean listen. I grew up in the era, well
Speaker 2: the mini I mean listen. I'm old enough to know
Speaker 2: that you go to the movies. It's quiet, there's a
Speaker 2: big screen, you eat your popcorn, you turn your cell
Speaker 2: phone off, and your set to go. I went to
Speaker 2: a movie. Bear with me. I went to a movie
Speaker 2: screening this past Monday for a movie that's not coming
Speaker 2: out until Christmas Day, so I've seen it three weeks beforehand.
Speaker 2: And I don't think I'm under embargo to talk about
Speaker 2: a lot of the movies that I see. A lot
Speaker 2: of things that I do. I get a sneak peek,
Speaker 2: I get to play with these gadgets, whatever. But I'm
Speaker 2: under embargo not to give my review, my thoughts, and
Speaker 2: my pictures anything until the date that this company says it.
Speaker 2: Because you know, the gay your companies planned the launches
Speaker 2: and everything. I don't think I'm under embargo to talk
Speaker 2: about it. But let me give you a quick review.
Speaker 2: I saw the new Bob Dylan movie starring Timothy Shallomey.
Speaker 2: It's called a Complete Unknown, coming out on Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you this. I'm a music fan.
Speaker 2: Love music, Okay, but mostly from the late seventies, and
Speaker 2: I'm an eighties guy. I'm a yacht rock and then
Speaker 2: I'm an eighties guy. I'm a big, big, big pop guy,
Speaker 2: and I like the current stuff too, just because of
Speaker 2: my kids. I am not a Bob Dylan fan, never
Speaker 2: have been a Bob Dylan fan. Matter of fact, I
Speaker 2: think the only thing I've ever heard Bob Dylan sing
Speaker 2: was a few lines and we are the world all
Speaker 2: right back in the eighties. I'm not a folk music fan.
Speaker 2: Don't know much about Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Joan Biaz.
Speaker 2: Just don't know, and I just really don't care. So
Speaker 2: after some reason, I went to this movie. I don't
Speaker 2: know why. Maybe it was Monday night, really had nothing
Speaker 2: to do on Monday night. Two hours or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: It easily was my favorite movie of the past year
Speaker 2: or two. It was unbelievable. It was a go see
Speaker 2: this movie even if you're not a Dylan fan or
Speaker 2: a folk music fan. Timothy Shallow May easily is going
Speaker 2: to be nominated for an Oscar. This kid, I didn't
Speaker 2: know much about Sliman dudes like twenty seven years old
Speaker 2: or something, totally transformed himself into Bob Geldolf. All right,
Speaker 2: Robert Zimmerman, whatever you want to do. Unbelievable. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of music. There's a lot of songs, most of
Speaker 2: which I did not know. I know what Dylan sounds like.
Speaker 2: Sounds exactly like Dylan, and I think he did his
Speaker 2: own singing. Phenomenal movie. Great direction to the director who
Speaker 2: did walk the line. The Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash actually
Speaker 2: was a part of this movie. Well, not the real
Speaker 2: Johnny Cash. There was a character Johnny Cash in the movie.
Speaker 2: Great movie. All right, there you go. There's my two
Speaker 2: cents about movie three four six twenty nine. Textan Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield is the name here, talk about android versus iOS.
Speaker 2: Some reason it passed to you know, because I'm going,
Speaker 2: I guess I'm going to holiday parties and people. I'm
Speaker 2: like a doctor. You know, you go to a party
Speaker 2: and you're standing in line in the bar. Hey, what
Speaker 2: do you do? I'm a doctor? Really, you know what
Speaker 2: do you Yeah, I'm an orthopedic surgy. Oh hey, doc,
Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. I've got this elbow problem.
Speaker 2: You know it happens, you know me. You meet a dentist, Oh,
Speaker 2: a dentists. Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a dentist. You know, I've got a practice
Speaker 2: over here downtown. Like, oh really, hey, could you take
Speaker 2: a look at this molar? It's really hard. I mean
Speaker 2: the same thing people find out what I do. It's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: well what phone do you use? Yeah? You know, I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about getting this TV Michael, you know what do
Speaker 2: you suggest? I'm fine with that because people they I'm
Speaker 2: honored that people listen to me. They trust my opinion.
Speaker 2: And then everybody, a lot of people want to know, hey,
Speaker 2: what phone you have? Or when I'm taking pictures or
Speaker 2: selfies or you know, whatever I'm doing, I take up
Speaker 2: my phone and I personally, I mean I at any
Speaker 2: given time, I am probably using four, five or six
Speaker 2: different phones and they're all androids because Apple doesn't send
Speaker 2: me any iPhone, so I've never had it. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't use an iPhone. But the what I'm using
Speaker 2: right now it's the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Sick. It's
Speaker 2: the flip phone, the sixth version of the of the
Speaker 2: flip phone. That's my daily phone at this moment, and
Speaker 2: they're just awed. It's like, did your phone just fold.
Speaker 2: I'm like, where have you been? This is the sixth
Speaker 2: version of Samsung. They're on every other commercial for the
Speaker 2: past six years that Samsung phones they flip and they fold,
Speaker 2: Motorola one, plus all these other companies they make flippable
Speaker 2: and foldable phones. People are so stuck in their iOS Apple,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, just kind of ecosphere. They don't
Speaker 2: they don't even know that phones are foldable. All but
Speaker 2: one day, god forbid, Apple ever launches a foldable phone.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the coolest and greatest thing since
Speaker 2: slice bread. So do I. There's other things that that
Speaker 2: Android does over here, And I just saw this Android
Speaker 2: just launch some upgrades to some of the things they're doing.
Speaker 2: Because obviously there's AI, which does not stand for Apple
Speaker 2: Intelligence by the way, but Android just came out with
Speaker 2: their latest Apple you know, upgraded Apple. The androids latest
Speaker 2: runs of AI features UH, file sharing, and a number
Speaker 2: of anythings they got. This one new feature for all
Speaker 2: you Android listeners out there, They have expressive captions. It's
Speaker 2: a new enhancement. It's called expressive captions. What it does
Speaker 2: it generates automatically subtitles that attempt to capture your emotion
Speaker 2: and intensity of what's being said. Let me give you
Speaker 2: an example. You're you're on a video chat and you're
Speaker 2: chatting with a friend who groaned after you make a
Speaker 2: lame dad joke. All right, and I'm not talking about me,
Speaker 2: but a lame dad joke. So this expressive captions, it's
Speaker 2: not only gonna transcribe what this person said, but it's
Speaker 2: also gonna include a quote grown, the word grown in
Speaker 2: the transcription. So it's going to it's gonna it's like
Speaker 2: a wamp want Do you need this or not? Is
Speaker 2: it a life change or no?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: And they're out. The Google also come out. Google. I
Speaker 2: say Google because they're the creators and they're the ones
Speaker 2: who do Android system. They have something called the image
Speaker 2: Q and a feature and it helps image descriptions. It's
Speaker 2: really it's actually the design to assist low vision users,
Speaker 2: maybe blind users, but anybody can use this to describe
Speaker 2: a picture in a natural sounding voice. And again, I
Speaker 2: guess the point I'm trying to make. When a company
Speaker 2: comes out with an upgrade, maybe it's a new version
Speaker 2: of their operating system, should you download it? Should you
Speaker 2: use it? Because Apple's on what eighteen point two I
Speaker 2: think of their iOS version, and so many people, Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't want to do the new version because it's
Speaker 2: going to screw things up, but I'm not used to it.
Speaker 2: At some point you're going to have to upgrade to
Speaker 2: the new iOS versions. It's just it's an over the
Speaker 2: air software update, because if you don't download that software update,
Speaker 2: you're not going to get you know, I'd like to
Speaker 2: think it's for the better. I mean, I like to
Speaker 2: think that it's for security purposes or whatever, but at
Speaker 2: some point your phone is not going to be able
Speaker 2: to be fixed, or you know, it's going to go
Speaker 2: out of warranty if you don't do your job of
Speaker 2: upgrading some of this stuff. So I don't hesitate to
Speaker 2: tell people, Yeah, download the updates and then look at
Speaker 2: some of the features. It's not just the updates, because
Speaker 2: some of this stuff are actually fun. They could be
Speaker 2: kind of useful, useful maybe it's the expressive captions type
Speaker 2: of things, or you know, the for you know, for
Speaker 2: people who have some disabilities, like like I talked about
Speaker 2: with this image with the low vision users or the
Speaker 2: blind users. Go ahead and download some of this stuff,
Speaker 2: and if you've got questions, feel free to ask me
Speaker 2: phone number here three four, six, twenty nine texts and
Speaker 2: we do continue the high tech text and show. When
Speaker 2: we come back, we're going to talk a little tech
Speaker 2: flop of the year. What's the biggest flop in your
Speaker 2: mind that was released this year? There's there's seemed I
Speaker 2: put this out on my X in my blue sky
Speaker 2: kind of a pole on my social media this past week.
Speaker 2: It's there seems to be one product, h that's kind
Speaker 2: of trending. And know, by the way, guess who makes it? Ah,
Speaker 2: it's your favorite company, Apple. I'll flop from Apple. I
Speaker 2: will tell you after the break. Just like that big
Speaker 2: booming boy sounds. I do think that for you that intro.
Speaker 2: Michael is the name you can call me. It's don't
Speaker 2: make me garf g r F first four letters of Garfield.
Speaker 2: That's with we're tied. Michael is fine. Htt high tech
Speaker 2: text and yeah, easy on the mic, not the microphone
Speaker 2: like this thing. No, no, you know I used to
Speaker 2: be Mike Mike Garfield in high school and then then
Speaker 2: I'm matured. It's it's it's Mike mister Garfield to you,
Speaker 2: doctor Garf. Just you know what my parents, you should
Speaker 2: have been a doctor. You know what, call me doctor
Speaker 2: Garfield that actually would be impressed. This is called the
Speaker 2: High Tech Texans Show. I'm gonna tell tech flop of
Speaker 2: the year. We're gonna talk about that in a second.
Speaker 2: I gave. I gave my quick review. I got to
Speaker 2: see the new Bob Dylan movie about Bob Dylan's life.
Speaker 2: It doesn't come out till Christmas Day, but I got
Speaker 2: to sell the sneak media preview. It's phenomenal. And I
Speaker 2: am not a Dylan fan. I am not a folk
Speaker 2: music fan whatsoever. But I was incredibly entertained, just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Timothy shallow May didn't know much about Challo May's what
Speaker 2: twenty seven year old actor? He just totally transformed himself
Speaker 2: into Bob Dylan. It was an amazing movie. A lot
Speaker 2: of Dylan songs which I don't know hardly any of those,
Speaker 2: but he was really good. Go see this. I will
Speaker 2: tell you that what I loved and enjoyed because I
Speaker 2: love and enjoyed the music. Has anybody seen the new
Speaker 2: yacht Rock documentary on Max HBO Max. It was released
Speaker 2: last Friday. It's been out a week. I saw it.
Speaker 2: I watched it three times in the first five days.
Speaker 2: Loved that did a great job. If you're a yacht
Speaker 2: rock fan, and this is and I look at I'm
Speaker 2: looking at Callum over he Calum Reads, a longtime man
Speaker 2: who he put together to the show. He's on the
Speaker 2: other side of the glass. He's pushing the buttons and
Speaker 2: he helps select the bump music. Callum, this was your
Speaker 2: cue to play sailing or Ride like the Wind or
Speaker 2: anything by Michael McDonald. We can't do it because we
Speaker 2: don't because when we podcast it, we don't have the
Speaker 2: I guess we don't have the funds at iHeart to
Speaker 2: actually pay the licensing fee. So if I sing sailing
Speaker 2: right right now, like a few bars, would we get busted? Well,
Speaker 2: it's not not down the parade dies, at least it's
Speaker 2: not for me. If the wind is right, we can
Speaker 2: sail the way. Now. Hey, welcome to San Antonio. Your
Speaker 2: favorite son, Christopher Cross. Absolutely watch this. If you're a
Speaker 2: yacht rock which is it's the late seventies and early eighties.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of the soft field. But all it
Speaker 2: gets unbelievable how interwoven the music is. And it pretty
Speaker 2: much starts with Michael McDonald, all the members of Toto
Speaker 2: and Steely Dan are pretty much all integrated together to
Speaker 2: make the sound of yacht rock. And I'm a big fan,
Speaker 2: absolute big fan of yacht rock. So there's I'm giving
Speaker 2: you something to do. Should you not want to watch
Speaker 2: the University of Texas Longhorns play in the SEC Championship
Speaker 2: this weekend, you can do that. Tech flops of the
Speaker 2: year I do. I mean I sometimes I talk about technology.
Speaker 2: It's in the in my moniker, which i've trademark. By
Speaker 2: the way, Tech twenty twenty four is ending and you're
Speaker 2: saying a lot of countdown list the top ten, the
Speaker 2: top twenty five of this and that whatever like that,
Speaker 2: What are the biggest tech flops of the year? And
Speaker 2: I put this poll out on some of my social media,
Speaker 2: which you should be following and commenting on. Just look
Speaker 2: for a high tech text and high tech t e
Speaker 2: X A N. That's where you're going to get all
Speaker 2: your consumer product breaking news and some of my thoughts,
Speaker 2: no matter if you're on X, Instagram, blue Sky, whatever
Speaker 2: you are. So I put a biggest tech flop of
Speaker 2: the year. There seemed kind of to be a consensus.
Speaker 2: And then when I followed up asking people, well, did
Speaker 2: you get this product and they knew of the product.
Speaker 2: Hardly anyone bought the product, which means it was a
Speaker 2: flop of the year. It's there's a number of them,
Speaker 2: but the consensus to me it seemed to be from
Speaker 2: a company called Apple. It was the Vision pro Do,
Speaker 2: you know, their little augmented reality headset that literally had
Speaker 2: no AR capabilities really almost it's those goggles that you
Speaker 2: put on your head that people that you actually can
Speaker 2: kind of gentle when you put these VR or these
Speaker 2: AR goggles on your head, and you know, Meta makes
Speaker 2: a pair of glasses what you're pretty decent too. They're
Speaker 2: expensive for what they are, and you look like you're
Speaker 2: in this three hundred and sixty degrees. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: kind of freaky deeky. If you ever tried these things out,
Speaker 2: I would recommend sitting down and actually, which it's fun,
Speaker 2: sit down in a rolling chair like a desk's chair
Speaker 2: that's got wheels on it. Not that you're gonna do it,
Speaker 2: but I want you just to spend if you ever
Speaker 2: put these things on, don't move around like you know
Speaker 2: you're racing. All you need to do is just you know,
Speaker 2: take your feet and turn around left and right and
Speaker 2: spend because as you turn around there's this spatial awareness.
Speaker 2: You look, you literally tilt your head up and you
Speaker 2: can see the ceiling of whatever you are. I was
Speaker 2: using one this pass actually tell you. Next hour, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna interview. I'm gonna talk to a gentleman with a
Speaker 2: project here that's going on in Houston for the next
Speaker 2: few weeks. It's called the Infinite And what they did
Speaker 2: is they took a high definition three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: degree camera and in the Space Shuttle actually I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: the International Space Station and they filmed these astronauts and
Speaker 2: there's a whole series of these things and you can
Speaker 2: actually go. It's in so if you're in Houston, soar
Speaker 2: your yards, which is this really really neat kind of
Speaker 2: area not too far from downtown and in midtown. You
Speaker 2: can go and you gotta get buy a ticket and whatever,
Speaker 2: and you walk into this replica of the International Space
Speaker 2: Station and they give you these VR goggles to wear
Speaker 2: and you can actually sense yourself that you're actually floating
Speaker 2: in space. And so that's overall what these goggles do.
Speaker 2: And they're they're pretty good. They're not cheap. The Apple
Speaker 2: Vision pro hands down, was it You could hold a failure,
Speaker 2: but I also could you know, simmer down and say
Speaker 2: it may not have been a failure. It's an interesting product,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't ready for the masses yet. And that's
Speaker 2: you know, you know, because I you know, I'm taping
Speaker 2: when I say these things. It was a I guess
Speaker 2: it was a failure that people were not running out,
Speaker 2: lining up and buying these things because they were thousands
Speaker 2: of dollars, very expensive, and I just don't think really
Speaker 2: people even cared even and I'm not just ragging on
Speaker 2: the Vision Pro, but this was the kind of consensus
Speaker 2: what people said. You know, the Vision Pro. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of hype, and I think that, to me
Speaker 2: is what makes a flop. If something is hyped up
Speaker 2: and it doesn't live up to the challenge, then it's
Speaker 2: a flop. And sadly, as a Dallas Cowboy fan, I
Speaker 2: could probably say that it's always hyped up and not
Speaker 2: living up to the challenge. But I think it was
Speaker 2: the Vision Pro this year, Oh this is gonna check.
Speaker 2: Everybody's gonna be wearing these Vision Pro things, are gonna
Speaker 2: be wearing them. They're still heavy, they're still large, they're
Speaker 2: still weird looking and they certainly not meant to go outside.
Speaker 2: You need to have a battery pack, you know, in
Speaker 2: the most instances to charge this particular version of it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't there a few others that I got AI
Speaker 2: artificial intelligence, you know, artificial intelligence. Now they're built into
Speaker 2: a lot of phones and computers and laptops, but there
Speaker 2: are standalone devices like where there's something called the Humane
Speaker 2: pen PI in it's a pen that you actually pin
Speaker 2: on your shirt, your jacket, your blouse or whatever, and
Speaker 2: it listens to what you're talking. It will it will
Speaker 2: automatically record and then upload and inscribe conversations. Well, I
Speaker 2: don't norm really bought this thing, and I use one.
Speaker 2: A company sent me one from a company called plod
Speaker 2: p l A U D. It's a plot AI pen
Speaker 2: and it's very light. It's like one inch and it's
Speaker 2: a little magnet.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I could stick it on on my shirt every time
Speaker 2: I'm interviewing somebody, if I'm in a locker room I'm
Speaker 2: doing sports interview, if if I'm in a meeting and
Speaker 2: I just want to record the thing. But then again,
Speaker 2: we could do that on our phones. And now you
Speaker 2: can transcribe things phones. Those things were flop easy. Rabbit
Speaker 2: was another. If you're familiar in the technology world, and
Speaker 2: you know what rabbit the rabbit r one. It's this
Speaker 2: little device that no one really even you know, kind
Speaker 2: of understood. So those are some of the bigger tech flops.
Speaker 2: We get to the top of the hour here. Should
Speaker 2: you carry on to the second hour of listening to
Speaker 2: the show terrestrially or via the iHeartRadio app. If you
Speaker 2: look for Michael Garfield the high Tech Text and I'd
Speaker 2: love to hear from you. What is your biggest tech
Speaker 2: flop of the year. Please do not list the high
Speaker 2: Tech Text and show. I'd like to think it's not
Speaker 2: a flop since we've added not one, but next week another,
Speaker 2: We'll add two new major Texas city affiliates this year.
Speaker 2: I took him twenty three years to do that, but
Speaker 2: couldn't be happier day by We're gonna be back for
Speaker 2: hour number two.
Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield's joining us.
Speaker 3: In the high Tech Texans. Michael Garfield is here with
Speaker 3: a high Tech Texans. It was to make life easier
Speaker 3: to some new technology.
Speaker 1: So Michael Garfield has something you might want, Texas.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is your high tech Texans three decades helping
Speaker 3: you make magic with your gadgets. I heard worldwide on
Speaker 3: the iheartware. Do you add now your high tech texts?
Speaker 3: And Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Halfway through the show, you know what we say? My friends?
Speaker 2: We are a halfway to halfy hour and should you
Speaker 2: be listening pausedly live on a Saturday, it is happy hours.
Speaker 2: We prepare for the Texas Longhorns to play in the
Speaker 2: SEC Championship. Sorry about all you Aggie's out. There was
Speaker 2: a tough fought game, but I am glad that the
Speaker 2: rivalry was back. Michael Garfield is the name, and you
Speaker 2: need to hurry up and finish the show because wheels
Speaker 2: are up so I can get to the SEC Championship
Speaker 2: game in Atlanta, Georgia and see how far my Longhorns
Speaker 2: can go. Not a sports show, per se, but I
Speaker 2: talk about any darn thing I want to, and I will,
Speaker 2: and you can lead me to. You can ask questions
Speaker 2: and I will try to answer. Should you have late
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday questions? There's still some Cyber Monday stuff on sale.
Speaker 2: There'll still be more sales. I do mind you you
Speaker 2: better hurry up and buy things should you want them
Speaker 2: to be shipped to arrive before Christmas Day, which also
Speaker 2: is the same night as Hanaka this year falls on
Speaker 2: the same start night of Hanukah. You could check that
Speaker 2: out and give me a call. Got a new phone
Speaker 2: number here after twenty three years, because now we are
Speaker 2: statewide heard not only in Houston but also in San Antonio.
Speaker 2: And next week can't tell you what city we're going
Speaker 2: into just because my program director Brian Erickson, who's probably
Speaker 2: not listening, I probably could just tell you what city
Speaker 2: it is, but I'll play along. But next week we'll
Speaker 2: go to another large city in Texas. So the number
Speaker 2: three four six two nine Texan? Pretty cool? Huh? Three
Speaker 2: four six twenty nine Texan? Should you get a busy signal?
Speaker 2: Try again? Should you get the voicemail, leave me a voicemail.
Speaker 2: We do have the right to play it on the air,
Speaker 2: and you know, put the nice sexy dulcet tones of
Speaker 2: your voice all across the state of Texas. If you
Speaker 2: just want to give a comment. You got a great
Speaker 2: deal in a Cyber Monday deal and you want to
Speaker 2: share it with this feel free. I did. I did
Speaker 2: get a number of emails and should you want to
Speaker 2: email me, you can go to uh, let's see, we
Speaker 2: can go to Michael at high Tech and we'll try
Speaker 2: that one. I only got like eighteen emails Michael at
Speaker 2: high Tech texting. By the way, spell the word high high.
Speaker 2: It's you know, I'm pretty literal, guy says do the
Speaker 2: whole thing Michael at high Tech tex dot com emails
Speaker 2: over here is like, hey, Michael, my office is getting
Speaker 2: ready to do an office exchange gift party, kind of
Speaker 2: a gag thing. Any ideas for like a white elephant gift?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think we could spend more than
Speaker 2: twenty five or thirty dollars. And by the way, Michael,
Speaker 2: is there a way for me to get out of
Speaker 2: this gift exchange? You know what, let's start with that
Speaker 2: last part. How do you get out of a holiday
Speaker 2: office gift exchange? Because I'm not a big fan of them,
Speaker 2: and it's it's because you picks. There's several ways to
Speaker 2: do it. Everybody puts their name in a piece of
Speaker 2: a piece of their name in a hat or something
Speaker 2: we draw. You don't know who you're giving the gift to.
Speaker 2: And the worst is and I'll tell you this because
Speaker 2: I am at an office white elephant exchange for the
Speaker 2: TV show that I'm on that I contribute to. I'm
Speaker 2: on Great Day Houston. It's obviously breaking news. It's in Houston,
Speaker 2: it's on CBS, it's on Channel eleven, it's in the mornings.
Speaker 2: And I know most everybody who works on the show floor.
Speaker 2: I know the producers, the executive producers, the host, Debora Duncan.
Speaker 2: I'm all tied with that. But apparently they invited some
Speaker 2: of the sales sales executives. There's some sellers who actually
Speaker 2: sell for the show. I don't know these people, so
Speaker 2: I drew the name of some ladies. He's a female
Speaker 2: who have never heard of, who's in the sales department.
Speaker 2: How am I supposed to shop for this lady? I
Speaker 2: don't know anything about it. And so the point is
Speaker 2: it's a quandary that I think a number of people do.
Speaker 3: What do you?
Speaker 2: So? I guess you just kind of got to go
Speaker 2: generic across the board. So I look for some just
Speaker 2: funny tongue in cheeky because what you want to do
Speaker 2: when you open these things in front of everybody? I
Speaker 2: think you kind of want to laugh. It's like ha
Speaker 2: ha ha. It's like and so you kind to stay
Speaker 2: away from the the canies you. I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: some hairy guy. You want to get him a shaver
Speaker 2: or something for your back. I don't even so. I
Speaker 2: found a few funny haha things online. Uh, KFC is
Speaker 2: selling a limited edition eleven Herbs and Spices fire starter log.
Speaker 2: That's a fun best elephant that best. That's a good
Speaker 2: white elephant gift because it's intriguing. It is. I guess
Speaker 2: it's like a draw dra flame log. It's a four
Speaker 2: pound fire log and it's wrapped in holiday people paper
Speaker 2: and it's got a picture of the Colonel Colonel Sanders
Speaker 2: and apparently it smells like KFC fried chicken. This is
Speaker 2: a this is a log that you put on your
Speaker 2: fire and it smells like fried chicken. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you what. That's actually not a bad deal. I need
Speaker 2: to I don't know why this company did not send
Speaker 2: me one of these detests, because if this is, I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess their marketing is at a gag gift. I
Speaker 2: think it's about thirty four dollars on Amazon. I just
Speaker 2: looked this thing up and I actually have a gas fireplace.
Speaker 2: I couldn't use it, but I got two smokers outside
Speaker 2: that I could, you know, put it on with, you know,
Speaker 2: before I cook or something. Uh. There's some people the
Speaker 2: online reviews claim it smells exactly like the inside of
Speaker 2: a KFC. I'm gonna be honest, I have not stepped
Speaker 2: inside of a KFC. Maybe since I was like nine
Speaker 2: or eleven years old. I'm not kidding you. I think
Speaker 2: I've had it. Maybe I've gone through the drive through.
Speaker 2: I just don't eat a lot of fried chicken. I
Speaker 2: love the smell of fried chicken. But you know what
Speaker 2: they're smart? How about making some fireplace starter logs that
Speaker 2: smells like side dishes? How about Little Matt, you know,
Speaker 2: mash potatoes in there, French fries. I don't know what
Speaker 2: else is KFC known for. So I gag gift number one.
Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting. Uh, here is a banana foam.
Speaker 2: It is a I actually a company did send this
Speaker 2: to me years ago. It is a bluetooth phone that
Speaker 2: literally is shaped and looks like a yellow banana. Hey,
Speaker 2: man's not a banana, myaipop? Is that a banana you're
Speaker 2: talking to? In my ear. It is a banana. So
Speaker 2: you could pair your phone with this bluetooth banana and
Speaker 2: you hold it up to your ear and it's got
Speaker 2: you know, it's got the mouthpiece down, it's got the
Speaker 2: receiver up tops, a volume button like that, and it's
Speaker 2: it's forty dollars. That's actually pretty funny. I actually kind
Speaker 2: of like that. Can you can you play music through it?
Speaker 2: I don't know the banana fun Yeah, man, you put
Speaker 2: a bana phone in am I stocking. Here is a
Speaker 2: clock alarm that's on wheels. It's on wheels. It's a
Speaker 2: little tiny clock radio that sits next to your bed.
Speaker 2: It's about thirty six bucks. It'll tell you the time,
Speaker 2: but on the ends of it, it's kind of a
Speaker 2: plastic type of thing. It can't break, but it's got
Speaker 2: some wheels that are bigger than the clock radio, so
Speaker 2: it actually can you hit the snooze button and it'll roll.
Speaker 2: I believe it rolls around your room, which forces you
Speaker 2: to get out of bed to shut the durned thing up.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: It's from a company called Clockie Colocky Clocky Alarm on wheels.
Speaker 2: One more before we get out of here. Saw these
Speaker 2: lightsaber chopsticks. I mean, is there really any point to
Speaker 2: sushi if you're not eating your food with utensils that
Speaker 2: are protected by the force. These are light up light
Speaker 2: staber chopsticks. They come in different colors with the press
Speaker 2: of a button, little tiny batteries included. These are ten
Speaker 2: dollars at Amazon. Haven't used them, not really recommending them,
Speaker 2: just giving you ideas for white elephant gifts, folks. I'm
Speaker 2: taking first break for this hour. What am I missing?
Speaker 2: Hit me up Michael at high Tech textan dot com,
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Speaker 2: over the place, two hours of just fun, just interactivity
Speaker 2: to get your mind off the world and maybe give
Speaker 2: you some ideas of what the shop for, tell you
Speaker 2: what products to stay away from, give you my thoughts
Speaker 2: on sports. We've never going to talk about politics. That's
Speaker 2: what keeps me on. People absolutely keeps me on three
Speaker 2: four six twenty nine Texan that is that is the
Speaker 2: phone number. I do talk a lot about vehicles. I
Speaker 2: do get to test drive cars, trucks, ebs, many of
Speaker 2: them just before they're released or they hit the showroom floors.
Speaker 2: I don't work with dealerships. I work directly from the manufacturers.
Speaker 2: Obviously a lot of the manufacturers based in Michigan. I
Speaker 2: got a little company service that every week drives a car,
Speaker 2: gives me the keys, lets me play with it for
Speaker 2: a week, and there's the switch and swap out fifteen
Speaker 2: years people. Yes, that is a perk, but it's at work.
Speaker 2: It really is. So I do kind of cover the
Speaker 2: very closely cover the automobile industry so much so that
Speaker 2: I know what's going on around the world when it
Speaker 2: comes to cars. Because how about this, you're familiar with
Speaker 2: the Pope mobile. The Pope, the Pope, the head guy
Speaker 2: over there who lives in the Vatican kind of makes
Speaker 2: some rules for a religion. Pope Francis drives around or
Speaker 2: is driven round for years and years and years, like
Speaker 2: forty five years in a open hop vehicle known as
Speaker 2: the popemobile. Does anybody who know the manufacturer? A little
Speaker 2: trivia question? Who manufactures forty five years the same manufacturer? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Actually we should give something away. Do we have anything
Speaker 2: to give with? Who makes the popemobile? Three two one?
Speaker 2: Mercedes Benz. Mercedes has long made the popemobile, right, so well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, anyway, let's go with that. Guess what the
Speaker 2: Pope got this this week? You ready? Nope, didn't get
Speaker 2: a Corvette. No, Pope Francis has received the first ever
Speaker 2: all electric Pope Mobile from Mercedes. The all electric Pope Mobile.
Speaker 2: It's actually it's a I'm looking at this thing, and
Speaker 2: it's a modified version of Mercedes G Class suv. It's
Speaker 2: it's in the classic pearl white and I believe Mercedes
Speaker 2: got together a very close coperation cooperation with the Vatican.
Speaker 2: They tailored it to the needs of the Pope.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And the engine has been adapted for low speeds because
Speaker 2: you know, he just did. You don't really see speed racer,
Speaker 2: Pope Francis, you know, practicing for F one just kind
Speaker 2: of goes through the Vatican, you know, just just you know,
Speaker 2: waving to people, shaking hands as like that. Uh. There's
Speaker 2: a seat that's been heated and elevated so you can
Speaker 2: see the Pope better. There's a little grab bar, you know,
Speaker 2: so when the Pope stands up, it's better stability over here.
Speaker 2: And is this a message? And I don't know this thing.
Speaker 2: It is he trying to say the protect the environment whatever?
Speaker 2: I don't know. And I don't think it's a plug
Speaker 2: in Is this a plug in hybrid? I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: But this is a truly first But no, it's not harpard. No,
Speaker 2: it's true electric vehicle, So it's not a hybrid. I
Speaker 2: think he's tried to plug in hybrid before, back in
Speaker 2: the day. But Pope is going EV. Hope is going EV.
Speaker 2: Let's see uh, Mercedes. Let's see what these other popes got.
Speaker 2: Pope John the twenty third about a three hundred Mercedes
Speaker 2: three hundred sel Man, It's good to be Pope Hope.
Speaker 2: John the second got to modify G class. Previous popes
Speaker 2: had the Mercedes Benz M class. Freaking Ope Francis is
Speaker 2: in a G wagon. This dude has stud that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Electric vehicles. Test drove some electric vehicles this week. Actually
Speaker 2: not for me. Actually had a friend was looking for
Speaker 2: an EV and she didn't know much about EV vehicles
Speaker 2: and she wanted my opinion. So we got the player around.
Speaker 2: I went and we went into Genesis. Was it was
Speaker 2: it the G eighty or the G No, it was
Speaker 2: the G sixty. I love Genesis. Genesis does a great job.
Speaker 2: That was nice. She was in a Cadiacic Lyric. I
Speaker 2: got the drive the Cadillac Lyric all electric car SUV
Speaker 2: probably about three months ago. That's nice. A lot of
Speaker 2: luxury in there. Drove the Mustang mock E, the Ford
Speaker 2: mock E. Mustang good fast, just a little bit less,
Speaker 2: a little more rudimentary, just you know, less you know,
Speaker 2: fu fu stuff inside than the Genesis or some of
Speaker 2: the higher end versions, but it's still it's electric. It's electric.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm really not recommending any electric cars. I mean,
Speaker 2: I like them in concept, I just do not like
Speaker 2: the infrastructure of our battery charging system here that we
Speaker 2: have in America or even around the world. I want
Speaker 2: to get from point A to point B as fast
Speaker 2: as I can, and I really don't feel like stopping
Speaker 2: and charging and waiting and going back and forth. I
Speaker 2: think evs are a phenomenal second car. If you are
Speaker 2: a two car family or more, have a gas vehicle
Speaker 2: number one for the quick, long trips. You don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about it. Second car. Use it for putting
Speaker 2: around the city, you know, taking the kids to school,
Speaker 2: to gym practice, to ballet swim meets, bring it home,
Speaker 2: charge it in your garage, and just do that again.
Speaker 2: It's a good second car. I just there's no way
Speaker 2: I personally, and this is me where I am in
Speaker 2: my lifestyle lifetime right now. I am not getting an
Speaker 2: electric car because in a snap, you know, I want
Speaker 2: to drive to see my parents, my friend's up in Dallas,
Speaker 2: I go to Austin for someone. The range potentially will
Speaker 2: get me to Austin. It may get me on. I'm
Speaker 2: like the obviously it's not. We don't call it fumes
Speaker 2: because there's no gas. It may drag me into Dallas,
Speaker 2: but at that point I got to find someplace to
Speaker 2: charge it up. And then I'm just I'm just sitting there.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's good for the Pope. Good for the Pope.
Speaker 2: Don't do not need to worry about that. So thoughts
Speaker 2: on that if you're looking for a vehicle. This past week,
Speaker 2: I actually was in a what was I in this week? What,
Speaker 2: by the way, with the new expanded listenership, Callum Callum Reid,
Speaker 2: I'm talking to you here. We should create a sounder
Speaker 2: or should I get with a Bobian who's our imaging director?
Speaker 2: You know? Like, what's garf driving this week? Actually, well,
Speaker 2: electric cars don't even make noises. I mean we really
Speaker 2: shouldn't even use that vrooms. What's carf driving this week?
Speaker 2: This past week I was in a Buick Encore, which
Speaker 2: is the relatively small Buick. And I will say this,
Speaker 2: people don't sleep on Buock. I think Buick has done
Speaker 2: an excellent job of rebranding. Yeah, I think that's what
Speaker 2: it is, because they got a new logo and putting
Speaker 2: a lot of thought, a little bit more technology, smooth
Speaker 2: rides power in some of their buicks. I think the
Speaker 2: Buick in Vista E n V I s t A
Speaker 2: vastly surprised that the design, the look is cool. That's
Speaker 2: a really good car. It's not an electric No, I'm
Speaker 2: just talking about vehicles right now. But I know I
Speaker 2: was in the Buick Encore, which is a relatively inexpensive one.
Speaker 2: It's it's small, it's technically it's a CUV, the compact
Speaker 2: utility vehicle, and it fits three people in the back.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put three big adults in the back. It's
Speaker 2: got the hatchback. But it got me where I wanted
Speaker 2: to go. And so if you're looking for a price
Speaker 2: point in the you know, the low forty thousands or
Speaker 2: the high thirty thousands, depending on how you can figure it,
Speaker 2: you know, go test drive it, go look at a Buick.
Speaker 2: And this is what I do. And there's my quick review.
Speaker 2: I did not tell you a dealership to go to.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't get you an inside brother in
Speaker 2: law deal because I don't know any dealerships. This is me,
Speaker 2: as a third party, non paid person who just happens
Speaker 2: to test drive vehicles. I will tell you to stay
Speaker 2: away from it. Like if you have a brood of
Speaker 2: kids that always are going to soccer games, football games, everything,
Speaker 2: and you need to take longer road trips, you need
Speaker 2: some room. Probably gonna steer you away from the Buick ncore.
Speaker 2: You see that if you have a little tiny baby seat,
Speaker 2: you got a little tiny baby, You're gonna have to
Speaker 2: bend down a little bit lower to get that baby
Speaker 2: seat in and out and in and out. Maybe you
Speaker 2: want a little bit more room, especially if you're gonna
Speaker 2: have one kid and you're gonna have two or three kids.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love it. Just take put yourself and
Speaker 2: I try to put myself in the position. Where are
Speaker 2: you in life? Do you carry a lot? Do you
Speaker 2: schlep around a lot of people? Are they kids? Are
Speaker 2: you a realtor where you're showing off clients? Do you
Speaker 2: want them in comfort? I will tell you. You give
Speaker 2: me your scenario and I can kind of tell you
Speaker 2: the better vehicles for you. So that's kind of how
Speaker 2: to do it. I'll also give you some ideas of
Speaker 2: what to do in and around the cities. There is
Speaker 2: something special coming on which is pretty cool. That's happening
Speaker 2: near downtown usedon. It is called the Infinite, The Infinite,
Speaker 2: It's at sore your yards. That is a huge technological
Speaker 2: wonder that includes virtual reality and augmented reality goggles that
Speaker 2: you put on that put you really literally in the
Speaker 2: International Space Station. It runs through early January, so we
Speaker 2: have a few more weeks to do it. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we're going to talk with one of the
Speaker 2: co creators of this entire event, this spectacle that is
Speaker 2: going on. So don't go anywhere. Standby as you're continued
Speaker 2: to listening to the High Tech Texas Show. We welcome
Speaker 2: you back. Michael Garfield is the name of the long
Speaker 2: running High Tech text in show here in Houston, k
Speaker 2: PRC nine fifty am, also San Antonio, Dallas, Trestrally and
Speaker 2: Oh by the way, download that iHeartRadio app and you
Speaker 2: can listen to us pretty much anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: I say anywhere in the world. I wonder if you
Speaker 2: can hear my radio show in space. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask our next guest over here, because
Speaker 2: he actually may know the answer. Listen, we're here in
Speaker 2: h Town, which you know, if you think about it,
Speaker 2: here in the United States, if not the world. I
Speaker 2: mean this is you think of space, you think of
Speaker 2: Johnson's Space Center, you think of just everything going back
Speaker 2: to you know, the Johnson era presidency. A big shout
Speaker 2: out to everybody down in clear Lake who's working or
Speaker 2: worked on the space program. And so it's it's the
Speaker 2: heart of the city what we got over here. And
Speaker 2: I talked about a lot and I flid a zero
Speaker 2: gravity I've been on the vomit comments, so I kind
Speaker 2: of got a little bit of a little little skin
Speaker 2: in the game. It's fun, but I really enjoy it.
Speaker 2: But the conversations around commercial space travel, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it continues to go. There's news briefs with you, and
Speaker 2: there's the astronauts up there right now in the ISS.
Speaker 2: They're doing you know, they're doing their social media reels,
Speaker 2: are doing their selfies. But can you imagine, I mean,
Speaker 2: how so many people, most everybody on Earth is never
Speaker 2: going to get the opportunity to do that. But can you,
Speaker 2: at least in virtual reality. I do have the answer,
Speaker 2: because you can. There is an exhibit going on right
Speaker 2: now near downtown Houston that you can participate in. It's
Speaker 2: called Space Explorers the Infinite. It is going on for
Speaker 2: the next month at the beginning of January. I've experienced
Speaker 2: it and it was over the top so cool. I
Speaker 2: wanted to talk to the man who kind of directed
Speaker 2: it and kind of co founded it. His name is
Speaker 2: Felix Legendess. He's the director of the Infinite Houston. He
Speaker 2: joins me, right now, please tell me you're on the
Speaker 2: International Space Station. I'd love to talk to somebody on
Speaker 2: the ISS. Felix, are you up there?
Speaker 1: I definitely wish I was, but unfortunately I'm right here
Speaker 1: on Earth.
Speaker 2: Well, we're glad you're on Earth. But I tell you what,
Speaker 2: as the director of this, if you weren't in the
Speaker 2: ISS to film this, this is one of the most
Speaker 2: amazing things I have experienced by putting on the VR
Speaker 2: goggles and set. And if anybody has never put on
Speaker 2: a virtual reality headset, I mean number one, that's unbelievable
Speaker 2: of what it can show you. But to be able
Speaker 2: to position and pretend to think you're actually standing on
Speaker 2: that International Space Station, looking up, looking down, looking around,
Speaker 2: you just did a great job. So congratulations on that.
Speaker 2: How hard was it to put something like this together?
Speaker 1: Well, it was the first time ever that a project
Speaker 1: of that scale was actually filmed in space, regardless of format.
Speaker 1: So we actually sent virtual reality cameras to the International
Speaker 1: Space Station in twenty eighteen and we filmed for two
Speaker 1: and a half years with twelve international astronauts, mainly NASA
Speaker 1: astronauts up there on the space station. So we did
Speaker 1: everything from the ground, So we were talking to the
Speaker 1: astronauts in orbit, sometimes doing video conference, sometimes true email,
Speaker 1: sometimes through phone discussing, you know, all the shuts that
Speaker 1: we wanted to capture. And it was more than two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty hours of footage that we filmed up
Speaker 1: there in space over that period of time, and then
Speaker 1: we had to download it back to planet Earth. We
Speaker 1: had to put it together, and then we spent another
Speaker 1: year creating the show Space Explorers the Infinite. So it's
Speaker 1: a pretty exhaustive but rewarding endeavor.
Speaker 2: Rewarding without a doubt. I mean, it's just anybody goes
Speaker 2: through it, it's like you are got to be kidding.
Speaker 2: I mean, I want to be an astro I wanted
Speaker 2: to be an astronaut as a kid, obviously with the
Speaker 2: you know, the Apollo program. I want was the age
Speaker 2: wanted to gause. I want to see if I could
Speaker 2: do it again. As we talked to Felix Leginess is
Speaker 2: the director of The Infinite Houston. It's it's Sawyer Yards,
Speaker 2: just on the edge of downtown Houston. It's it's painful.
Speaker 2: What about seven eight, eight months so far?
Speaker 1: Is that right, Felix, Yes, it is, And I really
Speaker 1: wish that whoever's listening this morning needs to go now,
Speaker 1: needs to book it now because it's going to be
Speaker 1: there until January fourth. So we have just a couple
Speaker 1: more weeks left here in Houston, and Dan the show
Speaker 1: will continue its world tour, so it's time to book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. I need to listen if you
Speaker 2: have family in town for the holidays. This is something
Speaker 2: totally totally different to do, especially because it's going to
Speaker 2: be gonzo out of here in the early part of January.
Speaker 2: The feeling that I got, I was, you know, I
Speaker 2: can since the emotion, the drama of just listening and
Speaker 2: talking and looking and almost touching or shaking the hands
Speaker 2: of these astronauts because it was so close, but you
Speaker 2: could feel them that you could feel I since homesickness,
Speaker 2: if you will, because they've been up in space so
Speaker 2: long makes space sickness, you know, because you know what
Speaker 2: they're going through. But I learned so much of you know,
Speaker 2: how they you know, live in zero gravity, how they function,
Speaker 2: and what their what their mentality is up there. It's
Speaker 2: it's it's a whole navigation thing. I mean, it's not
Speaker 2: so much about the As a director, I feelix it's
Speaker 2: not so much about showing how cool it is, but
Speaker 2: it's also bringing emotion and put you know, putting that
Speaker 2: the viewer of the audience in their space. Was that
Speaker 2: a difficult things as a filmmaker.
Speaker 1: Well, that was really the heart of this project. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't want to capture the spectacle of space. I mean,
Speaker 1: for sure we had an interest in that, but really
Speaker 1: we wanted to capture the intimate experience of what it's
Speaker 1: like to live in space for a long period of
Speaker 1: time among you know, fellow astronauts. You know, those heroes
Speaker 1: are there in space for many, many months. Some of
Speaker 1: them go there for up to a year, separated from
Speaker 1: their families, separated from their loved ones, and they're there
Speaker 1: with just a few people in an environment that is dangerous,
Speaker 1: and they perform very dangerous tasks like spacewalks, you know,
Speaker 1: which might be one of the most extraordinary things that
Speaker 1: we humans can possibly do. And and so we wanted
Speaker 1: to capture all of that, and we captured with them
Speaker 1: astronaut lalgs. So we asked the astronauts to occasionally, you know,
Speaker 1: talk to the virtual reality camera as if they were
Speaker 1: talking to a fellow crew member, and to really share
Speaker 1: their insights, you know, about what it's like to live there,
Speaker 1: to be there, to how do they think, what happens
Speaker 1: in their mind when they look back at planet Earth
Speaker 1: from the window, how do they feel. And we captured really,
Speaker 1: really all of that material and it really became the
Speaker 1: heart of this experience and it's it's a really moving
Speaker 1: perspective to hear astronauts talk about their their feelings, their thoughts.
Speaker 1: It's also interesting to mention that while we were filming
Speaker 1: all of this in space, the pandemic happened, and it
Speaker 1: turns out that we were filming with astronauts that were
Speaker 1: in space while everybody else was on the Earth, and
Speaker 1: so we also managed to capture their perspective of what
Speaker 1: it's like to be the only human beings that are
Speaker 1: not on the Earth during you know, an event of
Speaker 1: that scale, and so many things like that I think
Speaker 1: really shaded the emotional experience.
Speaker 2: Of this without a doubt. Felix legendis he's the director
Speaker 2: of the Infinite Houston Virtual Reality Just to really exhibit
Speaker 2: that is just it blows your mind. I think it's
Speaker 2: it's phenomenal, goes through the beginning of January here, it's
Speaker 2: your yards will give you more specific information about where
Speaker 2: to get the tickets. You talk about the spacewalks, and
Speaker 2: that blew me away when I was watching that too,
Speaker 2: and in the COVID nineteen thing. But for you, obviously,
Speaker 2: I mean you got you got the raw footage and
Speaker 2: you put everything together. Give me one or two of
Speaker 2: your standout moments that that viewers can experience in this
Speaker 2: space mission.
Speaker 1: So, okay, the spacewalk was something, you know, extraordinary but
Speaker 1: also extraordinarily difficult to capture. We had to create a
Speaker 1: three sixty treaty camera that is designed to operate in
Speaker 1: the vacuum of space, and we sent that camera to
Speaker 1: the space station, and so we had to egress that
Speaker 1: camera outside of the ISS and attach it to the
Speaker 1: robotic arm of the International Space Station called Canada Arm
Speaker 1: two and then we would use the robotic arm as
Speaker 1: a sort of a celestial crane in a way to
Speaker 1: move the camera all around the International Space Station to
Speaker 1: follow the astronauts during a seven hours space walk. And
Speaker 1: so just preparing for that shot took about a year
Speaker 1: of you know, camera camera choreography with NASA, and it
Speaker 1: went through many many steps of you know, approval and
Speaker 1: making sure that the camera would not be in the
Speaker 1: way and that we would be able to get close
Speaker 1: enough to the astronauts to really capture the feeling that
Speaker 1: we're there with them, which is really the point of
Speaker 1: virtual reality is making you feel that you're not a spectator,
Speaker 1: but you're actually there. And so preparing for that day
Speaker 1: of filming in the vacuum of space to more than
Speaker 1: a year and a half, you know, of preparation and
Speaker 1: technological development, and so when you see it, when you
Speaker 1: are in the experience as of viewer, you just feel
Speaker 1: like you're there, floating in space, and you can look
Speaker 1: around and if you look below, you see planet Earth
Speaker 1: the way astronauts would see it from four hundred miles away,
Speaker 1: and it's there entirely there, not corrupt by a frame,
Speaker 1: because there is no frame, and you see the astronauts
Speaker 1: that are, you know, a couple of feet away from you,
Speaker 1: performing this extraordinarily dangerous task of a spacewalk, and so
Speaker 1: you are there with them as they move through the
Speaker 1: different work sites. It's a pretty profound, emotionally impactful feeling
Speaker 1: to experience all of that at once. And one thing
Speaker 1: that stands out for a lot of our audiences is
Speaker 1: this feeling of the overview effect. You know, of course
Speaker 1: it's extraordinary to look at astronauts doing a space walk,
Speaker 1: but it's also extraordinary to just look back planet Earth
Speaker 1: as if you were floating above it and you see
Speaker 1: it all. You see entire continents from up there, and
Speaker 1: it just creates an emotion of belonging. You feel connected
Speaker 1: to that planet even though you're separated from it. You
Speaker 1: also feel that it's fragile. You see you see the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: and you can see that in the VR experience. You
Speaker 1: see this very thin atmosphere that contains all of the
Speaker 1: oxygens and all of the life, the entire biosphere protected
Speaker 1: by that thin atmosphere, and it just creates a feeling
Speaker 1: of belonging. And there's something very very powerful in there
Speaker 1: that that I think audiences really respond to.
Speaker 2: I went through several emotional stage with exist writing. I
Speaker 2: think was the first thing that came to my mind
Speaker 2: is just this is this is about as close as
Speaker 2: the actual space that I'm probably going to get to,
Speaker 2: but it is amazing. Talk about this as we got
Speaker 2: about a minute or so left. I think it's a
Speaker 2: kind of a it's a family oriented like that. What
Speaker 2: ages is it appropriate for? Would you say?
Speaker 1: So? It's eight years old plus, so we have you know, young,
Speaker 1: you know kids that come to see us, but we
Speaker 1: also have elderly people, so it's really for everyone. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be a space enthusiast, you don't have
Speaker 1: to be a technology enthusiast. You just have to be
Speaker 1: I think curious about experiencing this very unique experience endeavor
Speaker 1: that only four hundred humans have had the opportunity to do,
Speaker 1: which is go to space and live in space. So
Speaker 1: you can be one of them. And I think that
Speaker 1: there's something for everyone in.
Speaker 2: There, without a doubt. I mean I heard I personally
Speaker 2: recommend it, and again I know it's it's been open
Speaker 2: for six seven, eight months, but we got less than
Speaker 2: a month now for people to get to it. If
Speaker 2: anybody is interested in tickets, are getting over there. Give
Speaker 2: us the quick information. Where can they get the tickets
Speaker 2: and everything else.
Speaker 1: The Infiniteuston dot Com. Just go on that website. The
Speaker 1: Infinite Houston dot com is very simple and you can
Speaker 1: buy your tickets there.
Speaker 2: The Infinite Houston dot Com. It's in Sore Your Yards,
Speaker 2: which is a really area just on the edge of downtown.
Speaker 2: Plenty of parking and it's it is quite an experience. Felix,
Speaker 2: that is awesome. I don't know are you eligible for
Speaker 2: oscar or something for directing this because if I was
Speaker 2: a butter baby, I'd get you in there.
Speaker 1: Hey man, oscars in virtual reality. We have to make
Speaker 1: that connection, but it's not. It's not really happening yet,
Speaker 1: so we have to. We have to make it to
Speaker 1: that moment.
Speaker 2: I will create a new award just for you. That's
Speaker 2: how cool it is. Listen, congratulations on your success, the
Speaker 2: success of this. It is called the Infinite I n
Speaker 2: FI n it the Infinite Houston dot Com. Go get
Speaker 2: the tickets down before the show leaves and gets out
Speaker 2: of this atmosphere, at least the used atmosphere. By January fourth,
Speaker 2: Best of luck, my friend and I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: You got it all right, there you go. We're going
Speaker 2: to take a break right now. It's space exploration. I
Speaker 2: don't know, listen. I know we're kind of the holiday
Speaker 2: shopping season right now, and I've got a few things
Speaker 2: about VR goggles and VR glasses, but the use of
Speaker 2: what Felix and his team dead to make a VR
Speaker 2: these these classes are absolutely unbelievable. So we'll talk about
Speaker 2: that a little bit more as we come back on
Speaker 2: the Hi Tech Texan Show right here in Houston, k
Speaker 2: PRC nine fifty a m final segment of this weekend's
Speaker 2: High Tech Texan Show. I'll give out the number one
Speaker 2: more time. Maybe we can sneak somebody in. If not,
Speaker 2: leave a message next week we will play some audio.
Speaker 2: If you got a good question, just don't be rude. Man,
Speaker 2: have you got questions? This is my real hair, that's
Speaker 2: my real teeth. Now, this is who I am, Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield three four to six twenty nine texts and we
Speaker 2: do appreciate the interactivity three four six two nine Texan
Speaker 2: when we log on or sign on next week, not
Speaker 2: only can I welcome Houston as I have for twenty
Speaker 2: three years on k PRC nine to fifty. Not only
Speaker 2: can I continue to introduce myself to San Antonio as
Speaker 2: for the past two weeks, we've been on news radio
Speaker 2: twelve hundred WAI. Next week I will sign on to
Speaker 2: another city in this great state of ours, Texas, and
Speaker 2: I could not be more happy. And my parents are
Speaker 2: probably happy too, because they can listen to it terrestrially
Speaker 2: and if you know where I'm from or where they live,
Speaker 2: maybe you could figure it out. But until then, we'll
Speaker 2: just kind of keep it on the deal, make you,
Speaker 2: make you tune in next week. It's like, after the break,
Speaker 2: we'll become it. It's it's you know, it keeps you
Speaker 2: buckled in, and that's that's how we do it here
Speaker 2: on the radio. I teased this early in the show,
Speaker 2: so I better pay it off. End of year lists,
Speaker 2: End of year list, the top this, the top that,
Speaker 2: and whatever, the top not that. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: through all twenty five the most popular Wikipedia pages of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I actually like Wikipedia, and in wi
Speaker 2: wikiped it's it's it's Google. It's got all a ton
Speaker 2: of information you don't really know if it's legit because
Speaker 2: anybody and what Wikipedia is, anybody can go in and
Speaker 2: update there own or change anybody else's Wikipedia background, biography
Speaker 2: or whatever. So you never know. Technically, if I had
Speaker 2: time or cared, I could say that I was I
Speaker 2: was elected vice president. I mean, who knows?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Do Wikipedia? Very popular around the world? And what were
Speaker 2: people looking at the most the Just go through some
Speaker 2: of the top ones. The top number one most viewed
Speaker 2: Wikipedia page of twenty twenty four by far is Deaths
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, forty four million page views. Deaths
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. You more big people out there,
Speaker 2: you more bid people. That was almost twice as many
Speaker 2: as number two, which was Hamila Harris was number two.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty four United States presidential election came in third.
Speaker 2: Lyle and Eric Menendez believe it or not, are back
Speaker 2: in the news. They were the fourth most popular most
Speaker 2: viewed Wikipedia pages, followed by Donald Trump. There's your top
Speaker 2: five Lyle and ericman Are they still in jail? Aren't they?
Speaker 2: Somebody's arguing for them to get out of jail or released.
Speaker 2: Summer Olympics made it. Let's see, there's Biden, there's Musk,
Speaker 2: there's the Euro twenty twenty four Cups. Apparently soccer's pretty big.
Speaker 2: Sean Combs Seawan Combs uh Dune Part two movie Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy June. A lot of political stuff chat GPT was
Speaker 2: looked at. Taylor Swift. There you go, Taylor Swift top
Speaker 2: twenty five most ranked pages. If anybody carescept me this,
Speaker 2: I don't know why, because I'm not the biggest I'm
Speaker 2: not a dog guy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I don't hate me for not being a dog guy.
Speaker 2: It's just, you know, I didn't really grow up with
Speaker 2: a dog. And that's it. Top trending dog names of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. This is from what's this website? It's
Speaker 2: called the Dog People. It's on a website called rover
Speaker 2: dot com. And I have no clue why this person
Speaker 2: sent this to me. To the top male dog names
Speaker 2: that I'm wanting to I was, I look the only
Speaker 2: reason I'm talking about this. I looked at this. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking these are like dudes names. They really are. The
Speaker 2: top top ten male dog names. Number one is Charlie. Charlie.
Speaker 2: That's it, Charlie in the box off He's comings off
Speaker 2: the Islands. I thought he was to play with the
Speaker 2: Charlion box. Charlie. The number one male dog name Max, Milo,
Speaker 2: Cooper or Cooper as we say in the Manning Family, Buddy, Teddy, Rocky, Bear, Leo,
Speaker 2: and Duke what the duke? The duke? Those your top
Speaker 2: male dog named, Charlie? Charge is that? I mean, don't you?
Speaker 2: I mean I just thought dog names had dog names.
Speaker 2: I mean you know, if I had a dog, I
Speaker 2: mean I would, I would name it Baxter, maybe because
Speaker 2: I'm a you know, Anchorman fan Scooby Resois. I mean,
Speaker 2: I would totally be you school with school Charlie Man
Speaker 2: Female dog names. This, this is where the show is going,
Speaker 2: right now, fit people, We're ending the show on top
Speaker 2: dog names. Uh Luna, Now that's an interesting name. Luna Bella.
Speaker 2: Isn't Bella a princess in a Disney movie. I don't
Speaker 2: have girls, so I don't know. Daisy. Look at that
Speaker 2: dog them days dukes. Lucy is number four Lily. I
Speaker 2: have a cousin Lily. I have a second cousin named Lily. Lola.
Speaker 2: Shout out to James Simpson, our beer guy. His daughter's
Speaker 2: name is Lola, Zoey Sadie. I have a second cousin
Speaker 2: also named Sadie. I wonder did my cousins. I'm seriously,
Speaker 2: did my cousins name their daughters after this list? Because
Speaker 2: I have a cousin Sadie and a cousin Lily Coco.
Speaker 2: I do not have a cousin Coco. And then Bailey
Speaker 2: baylet top. I mean there's list everywhere people, but the
Speaker 2: number one name Michael means godlike is my Actually, let
Speaker 2: me look at this. What is the hop male name?
Speaker 2: Because for years it did used to be Michael, and
Speaker 2: I thought that was cool. And then I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 2: why do I have such a common name top male names?
Speaker 2: It's is that Michael's top baby boyd names in the
Speaker 2: US In twenty twenty four, Liam no looks like Michael
Speaker 2: fell down to number sixteen this year Liam Noah, Oliver James,
Speaker 2: Elijah Matteo one of my best friends. His grand Slam's
Speaker 2: name is Matteo, Levi Oh and Alexander Asher boy Man.
Speaker 2: These times are in changing, people, times are in changing.
Speaker 2: We do appreciate you, tutored in. What did we forget?
Speaker 2: Do we tease anything? No? Not really? Bitcoin? Anybody have bitcoin?
Speaker 2: I don't talk a lot about Hey, the cryptocurrency because
Speaker 2: I I'm not a big believer. I don't own any
Speaker 2: but bitcoin had one hundred thousand dollars I guess the
Speaker 2: equivalent of a hundred thoughts, one hundred whatever it is,
Speaker 2: it's one hundred thousand bitcoins. It's a lot, man. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine that? It's the dudes who you know? Because
Speaker 2: Bitcoin's been around for a while and I think he
Speaker 2: used to play video games and you got, you know,
Speaker 2: awarded in bitcoins or something. And I remember the story
Speaker 2: there was a dude who had bitcoin and you could
Speaker 2: actually pay for like Pizza Hut or Burger King or
Speaker 2: Papa John's or something like that. Oh here it is, yeah. There.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and nine, when bitcoin launched, there was
Speaker 2: a programmer who paid for two Papa John's pizzas with
Speaker 2: ten thousand bitcoin. Okay, if the dude didn't buy those
Speaker 2: two pizzas and had ten thousand bitcoin instead of shoving
Speaker 2: his face with some Papa John's, he would be sitting
Speaker 2: on one billion dollars, which is enough to buy about
Speaker 2: two thirds of Papa John's international itself. People, hold on
Speaker 2: to your investment. I think big coins a little undree.
Speaker 2: Hundred thousand that's big. This is not an endorsement or anything.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was fine about Really just want
Speaker 2: to give the guy some some business over buying to
Speaker 2: Papa John's pieces in two thousand and nine, where he
Speaker 2: pretty much could have been a really fat cat right now,
Speaker 2: is he? These are the things that we talk about
Speaker 2: and care about wherever you are listening Houston, San Antonio,
Speaker 2: around the world. We do thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2: I do thank our program director Brian Ericson for giving
Speaker 2: us the greenlight to keep on doing this for twenty
Speaker 2: plus years. Thank you to Callum Reed Eddie Martini. The
Speaker 2: new Houston I Heart Radio iHeartMedia president just named Paul
Speaker 2: Lambert Pablo, longtime co worker of mine. He takes over
Speaker 2: the daily duties are running the seven or eight iHeart
Speaker 2: stations in Houston. Just a good dude. Thank you Paul
Speaker 2: for keeping me on. I'd appreciate that too, Big l
Speaker 2: s U fan, so uh hey go Tigers. Uh hook
Speaker 2: of warns people, let's just uh hope uh And and
Speaker 2: if you're a Longhorn listener and fan, we got one
Speaker 2: Texas team to go all the way to the national
Speaker 2: champion to either US or SMU what do you got.
Speaker 2: My name is Michael Garfield. Appreciate you tuning in and
Speaker 2: have a great week, Happy holidays. We'll talk to you
Speaker 2: next week with another city added to the UH to
Speaker 2: the listening audience, but right now my show is over.