WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:06.799 Is Michael Garfer. 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:07.759 Michael Garfield. 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:09.240 Michael Garfield's joining. 4 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.119 In the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with 5 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:13.800 a high Tech Texans. 6 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.039 To make life easier, new technology, and Michael Garfield has 7 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:19.320 something you might like. 8 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:31.640 Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping 9 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:37.280 you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the 10 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:44.439 iHeartRadio add now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. 11 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:51.200 A nice warm studio in Houston, Texas, as I do 12 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.520 the long running a high Tech Texans show. What a 13 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.000 week this is. I swear I could be the new 14 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.359 Ted Cruise. And I I say that with respect from 15 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:05.280 a man who somehow just happens to leave town during 16 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.799 inclement weather, be it a freezer or hurricane. I did 17 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:14.239 it again unexpectedly in Houston earlier this week there was 18 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:18.239 a snowstorm. You talk about hell freezing over on Monday 19 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:23.120 evening early Tuesday morning, the Houston area got pelting. If 20 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:24.920 you're listening in Houston, if not, if you're around the 21 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.200 state of Texas, I'm sure you are cold too. And 22 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.680 if you're around the country on iHeartRadio, you're probably realizing 23 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:36.760 it's pretty chilly. But it rarely snows in parts of 24 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:39.879 Texas and certainly Southeast Texas. I have been in Houston 25 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:42.359 thirty years or so, and maybe in the thirty years 26 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:47.879 it has snowed three times, four times of any sort 27 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.519 of accumulation, and I think every time it snowed over 28 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.879 those thirty years, I've been out of town. And I 29 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.719 won't even talk about the hurricanes I've missed too. Monday, 30 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.439 I had an expected for several weeks trip out of town, 31 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.439 and they had already said that they're going to close 32 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.640 The city of Houston said they're going to close both airports, 33 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.240 Hobby and Intercontinental, and I was worried if I was 34 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:10.680 going to get out of there. I get to the 35 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.240 airport Monday at Hobby, I fly out Southwest, my preferred 36 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.400 airline of choice. By the way, flight takes off at 37 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:19.560 five o'clock, I believe they shut down the airport a 38 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.360 few hours later. I was one of the final and 39 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.439 last planes to get out before they shut it down 40 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.800 on Tuesday, and sure enough, the snow came in and 41 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.960 I was nowhere near the state of Texas. In fact, 42 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.479 I am still as we do the show this weekend, 43 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.879 nowhere near the state of Texas ladies and gymen, I'll 44 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.800 tell you where I am. I am in the state 45 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.280 of California. Normally I am in socout. I have two 46 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:47.120 sons who live in southern California, Los Angeles area. By 47 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:49.479 the way, they are fine with the fires. Thank you 48 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.080 so much for asking. A lot of people certainly have. 49 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.439 But this past week, since Monday evening, I have been 50 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.599 in no count northern California. I used to love San Francisco. 51 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:03.360 San Francisco is just a beautiful city. It's it's it's 52 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.159 kind of weird. Now it's kind of dangerous. Right now. 53 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.919 I am just south of San Francisco, about an hour 54 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.639 south with traffic, of course, because this is my first time, 55 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:16.719 believe it or not, the high Tech text in his 56 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:21.199 very first time, formerly in Silicon Valley, I have been 57 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.759 in San Jose, California. Sing it with me. People, If 58 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:28.479 you're a Dion Warwick fan, do you know the we 59 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:33.319 descend whose a? Actually I was a little b backrack 60 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:37.319 there San Jose, California, because I am here for us. 61 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:39.400 I've been here quite a bike quite a bit this 62 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:44.000 week for the big press conference and the launch of 63 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:50.240 Samsung's brand new smartphone line, the Galaxy S twenty five 64 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.199 three new phones that I am going to spend a 65 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.879 nice portion of today's program taking your questions going over 66 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:01.560 the new phones that I have and played with and 67 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:06.360 have one. Actually, I'm sitting here with several phones and 68 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:10.599 my laptop connected to the World Wide Web, so I 69 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.400 can bring you these dulcet tones of my radio show. 70 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.759 If you hear some buzzing or a phone going off, 71 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:18.959 it's gonna take me a few seconds to figure out 72 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.639 which one is a buzzing, and I'll shut it down. 73 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.040 But for those of you who are big Android fans 74 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.079 and who are big Sandsunk fans, and you know, if 75 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.680 you're a long time listener, I am one of those people, 76 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:33.480 guilty as charged, and I was very excited to take 77 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.879 a first hand look, a first look, and I am 78 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.759 gonna rub it in because for all you others ayo 79 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.560 out there that you have not seen it yet, because 80 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:44.439 it does not hit the streets until February seventh, you 81 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.759 can pre order it as of earlier this week. I 82 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.920 will tell you the difference between the Galaxy S twenty five, 83 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:56.199 the S twenty five plus and the Monster S twenty 84 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:00.279 five Ultra. What changes have been made, if any, on 85 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:05.879 the hardware, and what changes absolutely were made on the software. 86 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:10.639 Two big letters that you could probably guess as I'm 87 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:13.759 just two weeks removed from cees that were very prevalent 88 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.879 in the press conference. And the things that I'm playing 89 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:21.519 with is AI artificial intelligence. Samsung continues to go all 90 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:25.240 in on AI, as many many other tech companies are, 91 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:29.000 and some of the features are very cool, I must say. 92 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.920 And again, I've had the phone in hand for about 93 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.680 two days right now, and I'm getting more used to it. 94 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.720 It feels sleek, and particularly the S twenty five Ultra, 95 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.480 which is the big boy. You know. I'm used to 96 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.959 Samsung's foldable phones with the flip phones. Now I'm back 97 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.439 to the big hershey bar, the bar of soap size phone, 98 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.480 and it is quite large, but it is redesigned with 99 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:54.560 the hardware and the software is pretty pretty cool and unique. 100 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:56.240 I think you were going to like it. I like 101 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.639 what they have done with the price, because I'll give 102 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:01.680 you the laws leader right here, I'll bury the lead. 103 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.319 They haven't done anything with the prices. Samsung has kept 104 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.879 the three phones the exact same prices as the three 105 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:12.279 different S twenty four models last year which we will 106 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.879 go over to. But was able to spend a lot 107 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:18.000 of time with a lot of my ilk other people 108 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:22.600 technology journalists, reviewers and YouTubers and influencers who are much 109 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.839 younger than I with their thoughts, and I will kind 110 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:27.839 of mix that in with my thoughts. But if you 111 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.959 are again a longtime listener, you know generally I am 112 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.639 a big Android guy. I do not own an Apple phone. 113 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:36.639 Apple who does not know even though I am so 114 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:40.879 close right now to Coopertino. I am very close to Coopertino. 115 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:43.959 They Apple has no clue who the high tech textan is, 116 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.480 which is why I don't really talk about Apple products. 117 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:47.839 They don't send me any I don't get them, I 118 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.720 don't play with them. I'm just not in the Apple ecosystem. 119 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:52.600 I'm not a hater. It is just a fact. There 120 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.439 are a lot of companies who don't send me let 121 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:57.319 me test and review, even for a matter of thirty 122 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.399 days or whatever it is that I'm happy to send 123 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.199 products back. Apparently they aren't proud of their products, that 124 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.720 they don't want a big voice and face and TV 125 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:06.879 and radio to talk about it. Well, then I won't 126 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:10.120 talk about it then, But I do thank Samsung, specifically 127 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:15.360 Nicole and Jane and Dale and Michael and a lot 128 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:17.879 of the folks on the PR side with the internal 129 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.720 and the external parts of the company who were kind 130 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.360 enough to help me get out to the San Jose, 131 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:25.800 which by the way, should keep a review. Said, let 132 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.040 me give I got to get out of here about 133 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:29.920 a minute for the first break, San Jose. I like 134 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.319 the weather. It's certainly not snowing here in San Jose, 135 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.360 when everybody was buried in the snow in Houston that 136 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.759 I was got. I can look at the mountains. I'm 137 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.160 in my hotel room right right now in downtown San Jose. 138 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.079 The weather is it's crisp, it's cool. I can dig it. 139 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:49.639 But I gotta say, this is a sleepy town. Has 140 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.399 anybody been to San Jose. Let me give you the 141 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:54.000 phone number three four six twenty nine texts and that's 142 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.360 how you can hit me for the next hour and 143 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:59.240 forty five minutes or so. Three four six two nine Texan. 144 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.839 We've got Collum back in studio. He'll put you through 145 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:04.240 to me if I want to take some phot calls. Certainly, 146 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:06.680 I'm on all the social media channels X and Blue 147 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:09.600 Sky and Facebook and Instagram, where I posted a lot 148 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.079 of videos and photos of these new phones. You can 149 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.199 hit me high Tech text and Hi g h T 150 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.600 E C h T e x A M. Not much 151 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.839 to do in San Jose, I gotta say, just downtown. 152 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:24.399 It's kind of a sleepy it's a sleepy hood. But 153 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:27.319 we can get into that later. Michael Garfield is the name. 154 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.519 It is the High Tech Textan show. Gonna have a 155 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.000 fun snapping a lot of reviews. And oh, by the way, 156 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.440 TikTok made some news. You guys back on TikTok. Well 157 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:40.840 it's I guess people are still scrolling because the doomsday 158 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:42.799 came and went. So there is a new president. The 159 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:48.000 TikTok is still up. Netflick has raised its prices, more 160 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:51.519 controversies in Hollywood with AI, I have got it all 161 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.759 as we do count down to the Super Bowl. With 162 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.080 no Texas teams in there so much to talk about. 163 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:59.080 On this weekend's edition of The High Tech Text and Show. 164 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.440 You just can't go anywhere. 165 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:19.879 Stay right there, Fox twenty nine, Texas. 166 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.840 That is the only school phone number. But then again, 167 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:25.480 this is an old school show. In the new world, 168 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:28.720 the new technology consumer lifestyle world. Michael Garfield. It is 169 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:30.799 the High Tech Texans Show, and if you want to talk, 170 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:35.360 ask questions about everything from the brand news Samsung phones 171 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.799 that you may have been reading about. I am doing 172 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.120 the show from San Jose, California. I know the way 173 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.320 to San Jose, California, thanks to Southwest Airlines and actually 174 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.960 the nice folks at Samsung for helping me get up here. 175 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.960 I've been here most all week, missing the snow in 176 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:53.279 Houston and the cold weather in Texas. I'll be back soon. 177 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.600 People don't worry about it. But big Samsung press conference 178 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:01.000 was held in San Jose on Wednesday, and we got 179 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.759 to play with and I still am playing with in reviewing, 180 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.320 and I'll give you my thoughts on the new Samsung 181 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:11.279 Galaxy S twenty five series, especially the S twenty five Ultra, 182 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:18.240 the Monster, the Big Dog, AI enabled everywhere, new hardware, 183 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.639 rounded edges. It's quite nice. Same price as as last 184 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:25.080 year S twenty fours, which we'll get into should I 185 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:27.639 I want to hit TikTok here real quick though. Okay, 186 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.720 I don't want to make this all Samsung in phone centric, 187 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:33.840 even though I'm go yet, You, my dear listeners, you 188 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.720 do provide me everything that is happening with what is 189 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:39.600 going on? So if you want to change the subject, 190 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:42.519 I'm your guy. But there was a little bit more 191 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.360 news earlier this week. We got a new president. How 192 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.360 about that. We have a new national champion in college football? 193 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.960 No Ohio State not too happy about that because my 194 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.240 longhorns were not. There. A lot of things happen. I mean, hell, listen, 195 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:02.360 Trump takes Officehio State wins. Hell Freeze is over in Houston. 196 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:04.200 I mean, this is this is what we're living with 197 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.320 over here. But then again, in the tech world, something 198 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.720 happened two days before inauguration. It was a week ago, 199 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:15.279 last Saturday. Because all of a sudden it happened. You 200 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:17.120 know the old adage, where were you when the lights 201 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:22.600 went out? Where were you when TikTok went down? And 202 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:27.519 true to the administration's words, TikTok went down in the 203 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:32.399 United States. Now I didn't know it until I started 204 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:35.440 getting barraged with emails and phone calls and screenshots with 205 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.799 that little pop up saying capcut is no was currently 206 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.080 not available in the United States because I don't use it. 207 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.919 I never have used TikTok. I know, I know I'm 208 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.879 supposed to. I am the high tech textan. But it's 209 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:46.720 so I can only handle so many and I want 210 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:51.200 to handle only so many social media apps. There's there's 211 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:54.639 no one reason why I never downloaded TikTok. To me, 212 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.200 TikTok was a little late to the party. I mean, 213 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.799 if I look at Facebook from back of the day 214 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.080 and then Twitter, those are the two big boys that 215 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.799 were launched, you know, way back when the first you know, 216 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.519 big social media is and then I had you know, 217 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.720 obviously I'm on LinkedIn, and then there's What'sapp even though 218 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.320 it's not social media, and it's a blue sky that 219 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.080 I'm playing around. But TikTok when it had launched, maybe 220 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:21.480 I assumed and thought it was just for the younger set, 221 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:23.799 and I think it kind of was. And now TikTok 222 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:27.320 is a major major player when it comes to social media, 223 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:31.000 certainly for not only people how to dance and you know, 224 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.519 get dressed with me, get ready with me, or whatever, 225 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.720 but also for corporations. Corporates companies use it to great 226 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:42.320 marketing opportunities. I totally understand that, But I never downloaded, 227 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:45.480 not really because it was owned it is still owned 228 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.799 to this minute by byte Dance, which is a Chinese 229 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.799 based company, which is the reason for the potential band 230 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.519 that it did go down. I just didn't have it. 231 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.919 So that being said, I didn't know what it went down, 232 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.639 so it didn't affect me whatsoever. Now I know my 233 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.600 youngest son was not happy because my youngest son, he's 234 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.879 twenty four, he is to some extent along with this 235 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.080 real job, he is a social media influence. There. Gosh, 236 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.120 I hate that tar, but he's an influencer and he 237 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.840 makes a good amount of kwan by posting some fun, 238 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.799 fun videos on Instagram and TikTok and so you know, 239 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:22.519 he was texting me and when we had to talk, 240 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.039 he goes, man, what's he goes, TikTok is down. That's 241 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.519 that's not good for me. And you know, listen, when 242 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:31.399 it now cuts into your livelihood and your business of 243 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.440 how you make money. I understand that side of the uproar. 244 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:39.799 I'm all for everybody making moulah in money, all right, 245 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.240 And so I felt bad for that, But at the 246 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.200 end of the day, I knew something was gonna happen. 247 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:49.679 You just don't kill and stop an app that has 248 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.320 what three hundred million users or whatever it is in 249 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.039 the United States. For so long. But sure enough it 250 00:13:55.159 --> 00:14:02.159 was down Saturday afternoon, but by Sunday morning ish, less 251 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.799 than twenty hours or so, it seemed to ah suddenly 252 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.720 pop back up. And you know who took the credit 253 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.120 for that. But apparently there is now a seventy five 254 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:16.159 day reprieve and while the executive order to allow the 255 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.639 new administration. And again this is all politics, which I 256 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.360 just don't get into politics, but in this case it 257 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:25.360 is politics. And so the new administration is going to 258 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.720 give itself an opportunity to determine the appropriate course of 259 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:34.759 action for TikTok and hopefully create an American joint venture 260 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.159 with at least fifty percent of it being controlled by 261 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.320 US interest. And it goes on and on, and now 262 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:42.879 we've got people for like Elon Musk and mister Beast 263 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.960 and there, you know, just a rumor of that they 264 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.879 may potentially buy the fifty percent of it. You know what, 265 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.960 I want some media too. Maybe we could start a 266 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:52.720 rumor that the high tech text and wants to buy 267 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.320 fifty percent of it. Hey, I'll pull my money together 268 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.480 with anybody. You know, I got a few shekels here 269 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.279 and there. I'm more than happy to buy one billion 270 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:02.039 to one percent of TikTok. That's all I got. So 271 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.120 TikTok was not what affected me though, And this is 272 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:08.240 to prove to you that I'm not really afraid of 273 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:10.840 the Chinese steeling my data because I really have zero 274 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:15.480 secrets to hide. TikTok or Sorry byt Dance owns a 275 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.480 number of other companies another a number of other apps, 276 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.480 one of which is one of my favorite apps that 277 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:25.799 I have downloaded that they are quote unquote taking my data. 278 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.240 And it's a video editing tool and you're probably familiar 279 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:33.039 with it, but it's called cap cut. I love cap Cut. 280 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.279 I'm doing more and more videos on Instagram and YouTube 281 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.519 and whatever, and cap cut has got to be one of, 282 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.320 if not the easiest video editing apps out there. I 283 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:45.840 have long said that since I've been using that well 284 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:49.320 over a year. My kids use it and what have you. Yes, 285 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.000 it is owned by byt Dance, they have my email, 286 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.120 they've got all my photos that I've uploaded. But dang, 287 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:59.279 it is easy. Sure enough, that went down also on Saturday. 288 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.080 Now at that point it starts affecting me because I 289 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:07.000 can't edit my videos using my favorite editor, and so 290 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:10.200 again I even go to my son, my youngest son. 291 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.879 I said, what are you using to edit your videos? 292 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:15.679 And he gave me like two or three other free 293 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.759 downloadable video editing tools which are not nearly as simple 294 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.279 as as cap cut. But he goes, this is what 295 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:23.919 I used to use before cap cut was around, and 296 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:26.600 luckily I didn't need to make any videos. But I'm 297 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.360 thinking if TikTok was coming up again, cap cut needs 298 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:31.320 to come back up again. Well, I will tell you 299 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.399 cap cut did not come back until like Tuesday morning, 300 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:36.840 and so it's funny how TikTok came online, but it 301 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.279 took it two extra days for capcut. As of right now, 302 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:43.039 cap cut is back and unluckily I'm gonna use it. 303 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.919 So I guess the whole point is this is this 304 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:52.679 is a government play, and I never liked government plays 305 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:55.120 when it came to business. And I want to go 306 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.559 back to when I used to work at Microsoft. One 307 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.559 of my first jobs ever was at Microsoft. It was 308 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.639 what was in the nineteen nineties or well, I guess 309 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:05.319 my first job. It was one of my first few 310 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.359 jobs and it worked in Microsoft. And this is when 311 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:10.319 Microsoft Windows was had to go up again in court 312 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:15.119 and they were being lawsuits because of Windows and the 313 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.319 Internet Explorer browser were forcibly being put onto every single 314 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.000 laptop and desktop paper made and blah blah blah. And 315 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:23.920 to me, I mean, it's not like I was trying 316 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.720 to protect Steve Jobs at Steve Job. Sorry about that, 317 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.759 Big Bill Gates. But here is a guy, Bill Gates who, oh, 318 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.519 by the way, started a company called Microsoft way back 319 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.200 in the day. He a brilliant man. He made it 320 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:43.759 incredibly incredibly successful company. He was so successful that now 321 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.799 our own government was coming after him, and that really 322 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.079 ticked me off. And that turned me as one of 323 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:50.480 the reasons. It just kind of I get turned off 324 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:53.279 with the government, the politics, and to me, it was 325 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:58.519 a message that Americans and again let's talk about Microsoft, 326 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.920 which is American company. Americans, now what's giving them a 327 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:06.200 mode of motivation an entrepreneurship of anybody, of making an 328 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.559 incredibly incredibly successful company where your own government is coming 329 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.200 after you. It's a cynical way of looking thing, maybe, 330 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.079 but also I think it's a realistic way that I 331 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.839 started seeing things back in the nineteen nineties. Well nowadays 332 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.799 it's the same thing. Listen, Other than the borders of China, 333 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.519 United States, which it's again that's above the pay grade 334 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:27.400 and whatever. Are they stealing things data from us? I 335 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.160 don't know whatever, that's not the point. But here's an 336 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.799 incredibly successful company and now we've got governments going, well, 337 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:34.359 you can't do this or you want a piece of this. 338 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.559 It's like, man, it's just because I'm a pro business guy. 339 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.279 I really really am. I'm an entrepreneurial pro business guy. 340 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.039 But here's where we are. As we get to a 341 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:43.400 break here at the bottom of the first hour of 342 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.039 the High Tech Textian show, TikTok is back running. We've 343 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.920 got about what two and a half three months before 344 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:51.559 the administration currently right now, it's going to have to 345 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:53.680 take a look of how TikTok is going to continue 346 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.039 to run. Is an American company going to get fifty 347 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.319 percent of it or one hundred percent of it? We 348 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:01.880 don't know. But I'm going to give you the phone 349 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:05.000 number one more time. People three four six twenty nine 350 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:07.880 textan Where were you when the lights went out? Did 351 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:14.880 it affect you personally if financially or did you didn't? 352 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:16.319 Did you take a step back? And I want you 353 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:17.599 to think about this. Did you take a step back? 354 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.680 You know what? I actually talked to somebody. I didn't 355 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:23.279 get online. I wasn't doom scrolling. I went out and 356 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.160 walked my dog. I talked to neighbors because, after all, 357 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:29.400 and I want you to remember this, It's just an app. 358 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.519 It's just an app. For the first eighty percent of 359 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:37.079 my life I lived without an app. I live without 360 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:39.079 an app, and I was fine with it. Yes, I'm 361 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:41.400 kind of addicted some app, addicted to some apps right now. 362 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:46.160 But where Harway is a society? Do we need this stuff? 363 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:51.519 Some people do for businesses and they make money. But 364 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:53.279 if all you do is sit there and doom scroll 365 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:55.119 to see what somebody had for breakfast, or what lipstick 366 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.880 somebody's wearing, or a beauty tip or a dance tep man, 367 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:00.200 where are we right now that people freak out to 368 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:02.319 think of you see more than technology. I'm a think 369 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:05.039 and a doer. Michael Bardom It is the Hi Tech 370 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:27.599 Texan Show, right the Hi Tech Texan Show coming to 371 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:32.240 you from northern California, Silicon Valley. I probably should do 372 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:35.000 more Silicon Valley people. I probably need to do more 373 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:37.000 shows up here. Actually, believe it or not. My first 374 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:42.160 real time spent in Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, maybe 375 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:44.599 one of the sleepiest cities I've ever seen. I really 376 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:47.279 expected more. I mean, it's a pretty city. I'm like, 377 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:51.319 I'm overlooking the mountains and what have you. But downtowntown, 378 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:55.279 hose old people. It's a ghost town. There's no homeless 379 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:58.519 people here. There's a few sandwich shops and buildings, a 380 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:01.960 lot of hotels, a lot of hotels. God to go 381 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.599 into the SAP Center where the San Jose Sharks, for 382 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:09.599 you hockey folks play. That's where the Samsung Big press 383 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:14.160 announcement launch was for the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty 384 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.359 five series. Just north of here, about about an hour 385 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.160 forty five minutes an hour, depending on what the traffic is. 386 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:22.599 They know, by the way, there is traffic here. There 387 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.240 is San Francisco. I'm not far from Levi Stadium where 388 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.480 the San Francisco forty nine ers play, which is pretty cool. 389 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:33.359 I actually passed that a few days what was it 390 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:37.160 two nights ago, because I went to the city of 391 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:40.160 San Francisco. Thank you again to Samsung. They want us 392 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:43.200 to play around with the Galaxy S twenty five Ultra 393 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:44.759 and they said, you know, we're going to show you 394 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:47.319 some sights and let you do some things. And they said, Michael, 395 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:49.319 you are also one of the biggest sports fans that 396 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:52.400 we know who also covers technology. We are going to 397 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:57.559 take you to a Golden State Warriors game. Steph Curry, me, 398 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:01.720 eighteen thousand other friends got to go to the Chase Center. 399 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:07.039 It's a pretty new complex, great gorgeous, very technologically advanced 400 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.359 basketball arena in concert arena right there, not too far 401 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:14.839