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Speaker 1: Shall we begin the program? And I will start by
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Speaker 1: be harmed or consumed in this version of the High
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Speaker 1: Michael Garfield, just like that big booming voice at the
Speaker 1: top of the hour, said, what is going on in
Speaker 1: between world traveling stops. My passport is being stamped and
Speaker 1: stamped and stamped. But enough time to make it back
Speaker 1: to htown to do the show, to take your calls,
Speaker 1: to update you with what is going on in the
Speaker 1: world of yes technology, but so many products in consumer
Speaker 1: lifestyle to answer your questions. A few fe a month
Speaker 1: or so before we really start thinking about the holiday
Speaker 1: shopping season, We've got a full show. I don't even
Speaker 1: know where to start. I've got a lot of notes,
Speaker 1: as I had a lot of time on an airplane
Speaker 1: back and forth to Germany last week for what they're
Speaker 1: calling the world's largest consumer and electronic show that I
Speaker 1: just got back from. Before I hop on another plane
Speaker 1: tomorrow to go to London. Not bragging, but uh actually
Speaker 1: is am? I is not name dropping? Is it city dropping?
Speaker 1: When you're a traveler? I like that alas Southwest Airlines
Speaker 1: does not get to fly yet to Germany or Europe,
Speaker 1: so I can't take a companion. Actually I could if
Speaker 1: I really had one and wander one. But we'll get
Speaker 1: to that. I'm gonta give you the phone number. Callum.
Speaker 1: Good to see him, Man, did you miss me? I
Speaker 1: brought you back up. I tried to bring you back
Speaker 1: some beer from Germany. I was in Berlin, Germany. As
Speaker 1: you know, callub Calum Reed is on the other side
Speaker 1: of the glass.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: He's pushing the buttons into making sure that we sound
Speaker 1: correctly in answering your phones. October Fest it wasn't started officially.
Speaker 1: I did see a few signs that were starting to
Speaker 1: be uh you know, put up and displayed around the city.
Speaker 1: I will tell you and I'm gonna I'm gonna really
Speaker 1: do a semi deep dive into Berlin, which was the
Speaker 1: first time I've ever been to that city. And beer
Speaker 1: flows like water. I'm surprised they don't bathe in beer
Speaker 1: and shower and beer. I mean, it is tough to
Speaker 1: turn your head left or right without finding a beer somewhere.
Speaker 1: It was quite good, quite good. Actually, I need to
Speaker 1: get James Simpson, who does the beer show here on
Speaker 1: k PERC nine fifty am on Sundays. He I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's been to Germany, but he knows his beer.
Speaker 1: But I hang out with him and we could swap
Speaker 1: some stories. In the meantime, Callum, I did not bring
Speaker 1: it back Getta beer, but I did bring you a
Speaker 1: few other gadgets. I will give you the phone number
Speaker 1: from my audience and so you could talk to Callum
Speaker 1: and he'll put you through to me. Seven to one
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Speaker 1: Speaking of world, I'm going to talk a lot about travel.
Speaker 1: I haven't This is the first time I've did I've
Speaker 1: done some international travel in several years, and I'm very
Speaker 1: glad that I renew my passport. My passport expired last April,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking myself, I said, you know what, you
Speaker 1: never know when you need it, and I'm glad because
Speaker 1: it's I'm a stamp with the hell out of it
Speaker 1: right now. The State Department, I just saw the US
Speaker 1: State Department just kind of streamline. Believe it or not.
Speaker 1: They are processes of speeding up the way that you
Speaker 1: could apply and get approved for a US passport. You know,
Speaker 1: there is horror stories over the years, like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: it takes weeks. It takes months to get approved for passports.
Speaker 1: I remember years and years ago there were only a
Speaker 1: few cities in the country where you could physically walk
Speaker 1: into an office and get your passport done, one of
Speaker 1: which was here at Houston. I don't think you could
Speaker 1: do that anymore. I'm not not sure. But now there
Speaker 1: was a test online a few months ago and they
Speaker 1: just approved it where you can get your passport reading
Speaker 1: relatively quick time. I must say. When I applied from
Speaker 1: my passport to be renewed in was it may yeah,
Speaker 1: it was May this past year. I think from the
Speaker 1: time I filled out and mailed it in. Yes, I
Speaker 1: hadded mail it anks. You have to mail pictures and
Speaker 1: sign a form and everything. It took it took maybe
Speaker 1: nine days till eleven days to actually get the new
Speaker 1: passport back, which was which to me is record time.
Speaker 1: So do I get your passports? It's nice to have.
Speaker 1: You never know when you want to flee this country,
Speaker 1: which it may be coming to that sooner than later.
Speaker 1: No politics here. I did not watch. Apparently there was
Speaker 1: a debate. I did not watch a debate. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. We may want to leave this wonderful country
Speaker 1: of ours. I have no clue where it is going.
Speaker 1: Would I moved to Berlin, Germany. No, I wouldn't move
Speaker 1: to Berlin, Germany. Germany is a neat place to visit.
Speaker 1: There's no knocks against it. It's a very It's a
Speaker 1: young town. Callum, you you'd live there, you're what you're
Speaker 1: in your white mid upper twenties. That's a sweet spot.
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of young people, youngish people there,
Speaker 1: and I say young people's the kids, you know. I
Speaker 1: have three boys wro allowing their twenties a lot of
Speaker 1: twenty and thirty year year olds and a lot of English.
Speaker 1: I had no problem with the English barrier. I had
Speaker 1: my Samsung phones with my AI Translation app ready to roll,
Speaker 1: but alas I did, actually didn't need to even use that.
Speaker 1: I did not need to use that whatsoever. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of English speaking over there, so big city.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that, and I did. I will
Speaker 1: let me let me lead this two things. The reason
Speaker 1: I was there, I mean, it started out as business
Speaker 1: and it's also obviously I did a lot of touring
Speaker 1: insight seeing the world largest consumer and electronics show. For
Speaker 1: the past twenty five plus years that I've kind of
Speaker 1: been in this industry, cees the Consumer Electronic Show we
Speaker 1: just held every year in Las Vegas. They always say
Speaker 1: it's the world's largest trade show or the consumer electronics Show.
Speaker 1: Well there's another one that allegedly is even bigger. This
Speaker 1: is what I went for. It's called efa IFA. It's
Speaker 1: the it's a ifa. It stands for something in another language.
Speaker 1: I don't even have a clue what it means, but
Speaker 1: it is a consumer electronic show. They say this is
Speaker 1: the world's largest consumer electronic show. This actually lasts about
Speaker 1: ten days versus the typical three or four days for CEES.
Speaker 1: Eighteen hundred plus global exhibitors. They had two hundred or
Speaker 1: so speakers, and they say more than two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand visitors from one hundred and thirty eight countries.
Speaker 1: That's who attended this past week at EFA in Berlin.
Speaker 1: And I'll get into the comparing of how this compares
Speaker 1: to CEES. There were very few American companies, I must say,
Speaker 1: not a lot of American based companies here, a lot
Speaker 1: of home impliances. But the big difference is this has
Speaker 1: opened up to the public. The public can buy tickets
Speaker 1: to walk through the show. Versus CEES. It's trade show only.
Speaker 1: There's media, which is how I get my press pats,
Speaker 1: and then there's the manufacturers. There's the buyers, the marketers
Speaker 1: and whatever. He's not open to the public CEES. This
Speaker 1: is open. So it's like a car show. Car shows
Speaker 1: are actually open to the public. There you buy tickets
Speaker 1: and you can peruse your cars, trucks and whatever to
Speaker 1: determine what you're gonna buy next. This is kind of
Speaker 1: the same thing. That's why this is technically larger. In
Speaker 1: my mind, I did, however, get to meet real quickly
Speaker 1: Berlin's governing mayor, the mayor of Berlin. He was there
Speaker 1: on opening day. There was security around. I have no
Speaker 1: clue what was going on. His name is Kai Vegner,
Speaker 1: I believe is his name. I am kidding you, not
Speaker 1: as I go to break here breaking every one. I'm
Speaker 1: kidding you. Not his title. He's the governing mayor. But
Speaker 1: there's another title. I cannot make this up, folks. The
Speaker 1: dude's name. The dude's title is Burgermeister. I am not
Speaker 1: kidding you. Burgermeister hi Vegner. Dude, it is a year
Speaker 1: without you know, the Santa Claus. It was hilarious. I did.
Speaker 1: How awesome would your business card be if it says
Speaker 1: Burger Meister, burger Meister, meister Berger. I'm not get There
Speaker 1: were a lot of parts of Berlin that reminded me
Speaker 1: of the old stop motion animation The Year without a
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Remember that that was awesome. There I met
Speaker 1: the Burgermeister fur Led. It was just cool. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you more about that. Listen, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: what I saw. I'm gonna give you some travel tips.
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Speaker 1: I was there for ifa IFA. It is the world's
Speaker 1: largest consumer electronics show. I saw some things. It was
Speaker 1: very interesting. To kick off the show, I went to
Speaker 1: a preview night for media only, and they do this
Speaker 1: at CEES also. It's called Showstoppers. Showstoppers, it's nice. They
Speaker 1: have about seventy companies and they only invite media, so
Speaker 1: it's a more intimate situation for me and my ILK
Speaker 1: who covered the industry, so we don't have to schlep
Speaker 1: around the hundreds of thousands of square feet of the
Speaker 1: show floor the exhibits that start the next day. But
Speaker 1: it was really nice what show Stoppers done. They had
Speaker 1: a number of really good companies and some of the
Speaker 1: products in the themes that I saw. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of home appliances. There were a number of different
Speaker 1: the robotic vacuums and robotic mops. There were the robot type.
Speaker 1: The robot Rock was there. For example, I actually have
Speaker 1: been using a robo rock vacuum mop in my house
Speaker 1: I've been testing for the past month or so, which
Speaker 1: works very well. Then there's the upright Eureka was there.
Speaker 1: They had some of their new products that you've that
Speaker 1: you've heard of. Projectors. Home projectors, I must say, are
Speaker 1: really getting big. And this is a category that I'm
Speaker 1: more the happy to answer your questions and give you
Speaker 1: some some guidance because television's HDTVs have become so relatively
Speaker 1: inexpensive from what they started. You know, when they when
Speaker 1: they first came out in two thousand and two, two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, there were fifteen it was twelve to
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars for a fifty inch flat screen TV.
Speaker 1: Now you can go to Costco, you can go to Sam's.
Speaker 1: You know, you can get a you know, sixty five
Speaker 1: seventy five inch four you know, five hundred to one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars projectors though, why not use a projector? And
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a trend because companies,
Speaker 1: a lot of Chinese companies, they're making projectors that do
Speaker 1: show four K, ten eighty p screens that you can
Speaker 1: project on a wall, both inside and outside. They're becoming portable,
Speaker 1: they're becoming so much, so much smaller than the old projectors. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, you know again, I'm showing my age over here.
Speaker 1: But you know, when ustep projector, you know, these things
Speaker 1: were like you saw in the nineteen seventies nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: in school. You had to, you know, put these things
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty feet back and they had a very
Speaker 1: large lens and you had to really darken the room.
Speaker 1: And then some of them for televisions. There was the red,
Speaker 1: the green, the blue, you know light that that converged nowadays,
Speaker 1: you know, I have one here, I actually have one
Speaker 1: right now I'm holding this is from a company called
Speaker 1: x GMI x g I M I and I could
Speaker 1: talk about this now because I met the x GMI
Speaker 1: folks in New York a month ago. I did less
Speaker 1: than a month ago. I've been traveling on and they
Speaker 1: had me up to a press conference where they launched
Speaker 1: a new line. They launched about four to five to
Speaker 1: six different new projectors that also I saw at EFA.
Speaker 1: They had a big booth in EFAH that are relatively inexpensive,
Speaker 1: one of which is a portable one. I'm holding this
Speaker 1: thing up right now and it looks like a it's
Speaker 1: a canister. It's a large can of soup. If if
Speaker 1: I could, you know, just you know, kind of give
Speaker 1: you an analogy of how big or small this thing is.
Speaker 1: It's I'm holding out it is less than what is
Speaker 1: this a pound and a half or something. So I
Speaker 1: could take it to a friend's house to plug it
Speaker 1: in through USB or maybe a small or a mini
Speaker 1: HDMI plug. I we wright to plug it. We can
Speaker 1: watch football game we could project it outside to make
Speaker 1: a big screen. If the kids are having a pool
Speaker 1: party or you know, some birthday party, they want to
Speaker 1: show a movie. You know it's a frozen plug it in,
Speaker 1: you could do this too. But on the inside of
Speaker 1: your own there are There was a lot of projectors.
Speaker 1: I mean there was a number of different ones that
Speaker 1: I saw at Ifa Was at Yarba. That was another
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Speaker 1: and show if you want to ask about that, if
Speaker 1: you're thinking about looking for a really good home theater
Speaker 1: experience or outside home theater experience. But computers really really
Speaker 1: revolutionized projection technology. It was scout Is probably the early
Speaker 1: eighties were LCD projectors made home theaters much more accessible.
Speaker 1: But some of the advantages that I, you know, I
Speaker 1: think of it. I was taking notes of having a
Speaker 1: projector at home. It's really but what beyond what a
Speaker 1: basic TV can give you. You can, you know, customize
Speaker 1: the screen size because projectors provide screen size variations, unlike
Speaker 1: conventional TVs, which are a set a set form. You
Speaker 1: can get huge images to make you feel like you're
Speaker 1: part of a live event, you can. You know, projectors
Speaker 1: refract if you think about it, projectors reflect light rather
Speaker 1: than transmit it straight. So sometimes it's more comfortable for
Speaker 1: your eyes than standard screens. It's an indirect light projection.
Speaker 1: It really it probably can help lower eye strain. The
Speaker 1: size of projectors, I said, they're very small. They fit
Speaker 1: for mounting on shelves or ceilings. They're portable right now.
Speaker 1: And I think for the value, projectors give a bigger
Speaker 1: screen size, not a fraction of the cost as big
Speaker 1: high def TVs. You know which is better value, And
Speaker 1: so when you're looking for them, just you know a
Speaker 1: few factors to consider. Look for projectors with high resolution.
Speaker 1: You want at least ten eighty P four k's ideal
Speaker 1: for really the best clarity. You want good brightness. Brightness
Speaker 1: is measured in lumens, that's what it is. And maybe
Speaker 1: a high contrast ratio for vivid colors and the deep blackings.
Speaker 1: As you know, if you've listened to my show for
Speaker 1: a long time, the most important color when it comes
Speaker 1: to looking at television screens, it's it's the color black.
Speaker 1: It really is. Uh, it's the best projectors. Listen, it's
Speaker 1: I saw so many ex Jimmy was one. I like
Speaker 1: it because I've really got to actually talk to a
Speaker 1: lot of the executives there. Yaber y A b e R.
Speaker 1: I saw those folks over at as showstoppers. They were
Speaker 1: in they were in Berlin too. There's food listen, a
Speaker 1: lot of Chinese Japanese companies do food. Doughties and Tupetros
Speaker 1: and did these are brands with you know, truth be told,
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with I've never heard of. But go
Speaker 1: look at the prices of some of these things and
Speaker 1: think of how you may want to use it. Maybe
Speaker 1: you want to use it for the holiday season, the
Speaker 1: football games. It's they're they're really good. So anyway, those
Speaker 1: are some of the things that I think I saw
Speaker 1: that that kind of I'm not gonna say took over
Speaker 1: IFA in Berlin, but it was one of the bigger
Speaker 1: categories that I saw along with some of the home appliants.
Speaker 1: The home appliants says, you know, I saw hair, hair brushes,
Speaker 1: I saw some high tech hair brush and of course,
Speaker 1: you know me and the hair I wanted to sample
Speaker 1: these things. But but I think that that nice lady
Speaker 1: working at believe she couldn't understand English. Uh she didn't,
Speaker 1: so I got her card, said yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's going to help grow your hair. I do not
Speaker 1: need help them growing my hair. But there's hair brushes,
Speaker 1: there's high tech hair dryers, there's there's there's there were
Speaker 1: window cleaners that that that automatically stick on your window.
Speaker 1: It's like a robotic window cleaner. Imagine taking your robotic
Speaker 1: vacuum cleaner and it vertically sucks and sticks onto you
Speaker 1: the outside, over your windows and it cleans your windows.
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Speaker 1: I was on an eight hour flight minimum, I think,
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Speaker 1: made me comfortable and some things that I actually discovered
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Speaker 1: or back. Jet Lags are real thing, people. Jet lags
Speaker 1: a real thing. It was a seven hour time difference
Speaker 1: between Berlin, Germany and Houston. Berlin where I was last
Speaker 1: week to go to EFA. I f A EFA Berlin,
Speaker 1: the world's largest consumer and electronics expo and trade show.
Speaker 1: First time I've ever been to Berlin. Had a really,
Speaker 1: really nice time. I stayed in the center of this city.
Speaker 1: I do want to thank the folks from EFA and
Speaker 1: Berlin and everybody from Chryl to Steve Leon and the
Speaker 1: folks at Showstoppers for getting me over there and hosting
Speaker 1: me in a number of my ilk in the media
Speaker 1: so we can cover it. Some of the EFA has
Speaker 1: been around for it. This is the one hundredth year,
Speaker 1: one hundred year. What was technology like one hundred years ago?
Speaker 1: I would love I don't know that. I can someone
Speaker 1: find a does someone have a YouTube channel one hundred
Speaker 1: years ago to actually have some video or some raw
Speaker 1: footage of what products were displayed one hundred years ago
Speaker 1: at the very first EFA conference. I mean, think about this,
Speaker 1: It was nineteen twenty four, nineteen twenty four of the
Speaker 1: very first year that was before the When was the
Speaker 1: Berlin Olympics? When that nineteen thirty six, the Jesse Owen Olympics.
Speaker 1: I mean, who created a technology show in nineteen twenty four?
Speaker 1: I mean what was it? Was? It was that a horse?
Speaker 1: Was it a carriage? I have no clue anyway, but
Speaker 1: there were eighteen hundred plus companies from all over the
Speaker 1: world does showcasing their wares. I'll go get at the
Speaker 1: Board of Berlin. It's well, I'll tell you what. Let
Speaker 1: me give you my quick thirty second sixty second Berlett. Berlin.
Speaker 1: It's a it's an incredibly historical city. It really, really
Speaker 1: is it. The weather was actually very eustony ish it was.
Speaker 1: It was hot, it was toasty. It was ninety or
Speaker 1: so degrees and there was some humidity, and I'm thinking, I,
Speaker 1: you know, I I imagine Germany is hills and mountains
Speaker 1: and snow and you know, you know, Christmas and the
Speaker 1: whole thing like that. Not this time of year. People.
Speaker 1: It was it was a little toasty. I do to understand.
Speaker 1: It's like Houston. I think it does get a little
Speaker 1: cooler October November to sever. Easy to circumnavigate. Subway. I
Speaker 1: got a week long subway pass on the what's called
Speaker 1: the BVG. Very easy to get around. I stayed right
Speaker 1: in the center of the city. Ritz Carton Ritz Carlton
Speaker 1: Hotel probably one of the nicest hotels, I mean, without
Speaker 1: being a Bridgewart resort hotel that I've ever stayed in.
Speaker 1: The customers, the customer service and the way they take
Speaker 1: care of people at at at hotels or even restaurants
Speaker 1: outside of America or just I'm sorry, they blow America away.
Speaker 1: I mean they were just so nice. Germans loved their
Speaker 1: breakfast too. What is up, Calum, You would have loved
Speaker 1: their breakfast. I could have sat there at this The
Speaker 1: breakfast is included in a lot of the hotels. I
Speaker 1: believe in Germany that they had it. They had an
Speaker 1: all you can eat breakfast buffet, which I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: call it a buffet. It was the most high end
Speaker 1: flud that you could just keep going in and going.
Speaker 1: That was my only meal of the day. I mean
Speaker 1: I could have sat there for three hours. Then they
Speaker 1: knew exactly my name. Hell on, mister Garfield, take it
Speaker 1: that it was your day. They knew what I drank.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, hey, I know you don't drink coffee, sir,
Speaker 1: or tea. Here's your Pepsi Max Pepsi because it's a ritz. Carlton,
Speaker 1: because it's a merry out company, could not have been nicer,
Speaker 1: very easy to get to. I stayed in the pots
Speaker 1: demmer Plots, which is it's a famous part of the
Speaker 1: city walkable to. I saw the Brandon Gate, I saw
Speaker 1: Checkpoint Charlie, and they left up a very large section
Speaker 1: of the Berlin Wall. There's a two hundred yards or
Speaker 1: so with a really interesting museum, I'm a memorial in
Speaker 1: terms of history, there's there's to me. I'm listening. It's
Speaker 1: incredibly old city. But in the last one hundred years
Speaker 1: we've got the Hitler error, which we want to forget,
Speaker 1: and then there's the Cold War and there's remnants of
Speaker 1: both of those everywhere. And there was a really moving
Speaker 1: outdoor display and I'm not going to call it a
Speaker 1: museum of for to commemorate of all the Jews who
Speaker 1: perished during that horrific period, you know, about ninety years ago,
Speaker 1: and it's very, very moving. If you've been to Berlin,
Speaker 1: it's there are just hundreds and hundreds of not thousands,
Speaker 1: of these these stones and that you can walk through
Speaker 1: that very claustrophobic, and it just gives you the sense
Speaker 1: of what it was like to be Jewish and living
Speaker 1: in that time, and it was it was very moving.
Speaker 1: But it's I think Germany has realized that, you know,
Speaker 1: what we really I don't know, do we really want
Speaker 1: to take responsibility and we're kind of embarrassed for what
Speaker 1: Hitler did there We're going to commemorate and realize and
Speaker 1: and hopefully tried to make amends and of what should
Speaker 1: not have happened. Oh, so many of the gooes, and
Speaker 1: and there was a lot of museums, and it really
Speaker 1: was touching, it really was moving. And so should you
Speaker 1: go to Berlin, please make time to go to some
Speaker 1: of these commemorative places. Just you know, when the wall
Speaker 1: came down, I don't know a lot about history. History.
Speaker 1: It was not my thing, and it's still not my thing.
Speaker 1: I stayed probably somewhere. I don't know if I was
Speaker 1: on the east or west side of Berlin, because the
Speaker 1: wall was zigzagging you everywhere. And where I was staying
Speaker 1: that was at Checkpoint Charlie. That was one of the
Speaker 1: places where you could walk between the east and the
Speaker 1: west side. It just I learned a lot, really really did.
Speaker 1: There's there. The shopping was fun. There are high end shops,
Speaker 1: large avenues, large museums, and again a lot of youth,
Speaker 1: a lot of young people, twenty and three year olds
Speaker 1: just walking around. Everybody spoke English and they were they
Speaker 1: were they were quite friendly. It'd be nice to actually
Speaker 1: to go back again, maybe in the winter. So a
Speaker 1: quick travel thing. So I popped over. I hopped over there,
Speaker 1: and uh, sadly, Southwest Airlines Southwest Listen, Texas based company.
Speaker 1: I'm a longtime shareholder. I'm an a list preferred I'm
Speaker 1: a companion path. I know you go to Mexico. I
Speaker 1: know you go to a lot of countries kind of
Speaker 1: down south, you know, Jamaica. You really should go Europe
Speaker 1: would be nice, be nice to actually have my companion
Speaker 1: pass actually worked at Europe. But when traveling on an airplane,
Speaker 1: I I kind of overpacked. I brought compression socks. I did.
Speaker 1: Somebody told me to do that. There's Wi Fi over
Speaker 1: the ocean right now by the way. If you're a
Speaker 1: Tea Mobile customer, which I'm not a Tea Mobile customer,
Speaker 1: United as a deal with T Mobile that you actually
Speaker 1: can get free Wi Fi. That was pretty cool. If not,
Speaker 1: I think it's at eight dollars. But there's the flight
Speaker 1: that I was on. They had in the seat in
Speaker 1: front of you. They had the video screens and you
Speaker 1: could watch hundreds of movies and everything. Everything. Now, when
Speaker 1: you bring your own Bluetooth headphones, the particular aircraft I
Speaker 1: was on, you couldn't connect your Bluetooth earphones to the
Speaker 1: video that you're watching. So you know, I also brought
Speaker 1: a tablet. I brought my aceus's laptop and so I
Speaker 1: was watching movies via the Wi Fi through this, so
Speaker 1: I can have my Bluetooth headphones. They do give you
Speaker 1: the little corded old fashioned headset that you have the
Speaker 1: wire to plug in. But a dude sitting next to
Speaker 1: me on the flight back, he was using this gadget
Speaker 1: that it was really brilliant and it's a this particular company,
Speaker 1: and I haven't I reached out to him, and I
Speaker 1: need to try a sample. It's called Airfly AI r
Speaker 1: fl Y and what it is. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: Bluetooth device that has a three and a half millimeter
Speaker 1: phone jack, a headphone jack, just like your old phone
Speaker 1: from years ago had the little headphone jack. You plug
Speaker 1: the headphone jack into that video monitor because planes they
Speaker 1: have those little headphone jacks, you know, they still do
Speaker 1: what it does then it allows a little tiny that
Speaker 1: gosh's only like one inch one and a half inches long.
Speaker 1: It's a Bluetooth connection that takes the audio output from
Speaker 1: those airplane video monitors and allows you to connect your
Speaker 1: Bluetooth headset. So now you can watch those video monitors
Speaker 1: on an airplane through your Bluetooth headset. I think they're
Speaker 1: a fitting where between forty to sixty dollars. So I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty cool too. Other few things that
Speaker 1: I tried out over there. First time I've ever used
Speaker 1: an eSIM and e SIM. Do you know what at
Speaker 1: e SIM? Well, when you travel across to another country,
Speaker 1: how do you use your cell phone? Do you light
Speaker 1: up your international plan for ten dollars a day or
Speaker 1: whatever it is? Or do you get do you buy
Speaker 1: a SIM card? And again this SIM card SIM it
Speaker 1: stands for Subscriber Identity Module. It's that little tiny plastic
Speaker 1: card that you probably never see, but it's in. You
Speaker 1: could pop it out of your phone. It's the size
Speaker 1: of your pinky fingernail, if not even smaller than that.
Speaker 1: That's actually your phone number. That's how you change your
Speaker 1: phone number. That's all your dat. You could switch from
Speaker 1: phone to phone to phone. You just move your SIM
Speaker 1: card to other phones. But now there's an eSIM, which
Speaker 1: is like an electric or SIM. It's not a physical card.
Speaker 1: Newer phones, your iPhones or Android phones, they have the
Speaker 1: ability to add an unphysical or a number if you will,
Speaker 1: another phone number that allows it to connect internationalist. So
Speaker 1: no I bought an ESM and I think I bought
Speaker 1: like five gigs of data. Generally, when you buy these
Speaker 1: a SIM cards, there's so many companies. Gigsky is one
Speaker 1: of them, Errol is another, and we could talk about
Speaker 1: this later. If you've got your favorite one and they
Speaker 1: you could. Some of them are ten dollars. I think
Speaker 1: I paid forty dollars because I knew I was going
Speaker 1: to have to stream the Texas Michigan football game. How
Speaker 1: about them orangs by the way, And it worked, It
Speaker 1: worked quite well, and so I bought it before I went,
Speaker 1: before I traveled. It was on my phone. As soon
Speaker 1: as I landed in Berlin, I switched over from my
Speaker 1: traditional United States phone number to this e SIM and
Speaker 1: I was able to receive calls and text and everything,
Speaker 1: even though I still did use WhatsApp and whatever. And
Speaker 1: they work pretty well. And so before you travel, do
Speaker 1: your research. Make sure you pop in, you know, go
Speaker 1: to go find a company put in the country you're
Speaker 1: going to pick your plan, how much you're going to use.
Speaker 1: It just takes a matter of minutes to actually to
Speaker 1: scan it maybe a QR code, and install it on
Speaker 1: your phone. The latest iPhone models, they have a capability
Speaker 1: to store. I think up to eight different eSIMs simultaneously,
Speaker 1: so esim's actually at work pretty well. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about VPNs, why it's important to use a
Speaker 1: vp a virtual private network when you're traveling, and plus
Speaker 1: your phone call seven one three, two one two five,
Speaker 1: nine to five. Out here Michael Garfield, it's high Tech
Speaker 1: Texan Show. Back at it, Michael Garfield. It is the
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Speaker 1: But we talk about any damn thing I want to
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Speaker 1: around the world. We do thank you for tuning in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes before twelve o'clock net, which means
Speaker 1: it's lunchtime. Joe joins me right now tavern by Hearsay.
Speaker 4: So we came across the property about a year ago.
Speaker 4: It is a couple of blocks away from our landmark location,
Speaker 4: which is two one eight Travis Street, which is the
Speaker 4: original land of the original Here State that we opened
Speaker 4: fifteen years ago. This is only a couple of blocks
Speaker 4: away and we have the opportunity to pargure with the
Speaker 4: market square tower luxury apartment buildings. There's three hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty units above us. There's another luxury condo building across
Speaker 4: the street from us that have another three to four
Speaker 4: hundred units in it, and it's perfectly located in the
Speaker 4: heart of the theater district. Right around the corner is
Speaker 4: a couple of theaters that drives a lot of tragic
Speaker 4: to that downtown area. So we wanted to take advantage
Speaker 4: of the opportunity of the location that was available, but
Speaker 4: we needed to come up with a different style concept
Speaker 4: so that we didn't capitalize or we didn't cannibalize the
Speaker 4: market share. So we decided to do is create a
Speaker 4: concept called Tavern by Hearsay. We have a core about
Speaker 4: twenty five to thirty percent of our regular gastro lounge
Speaker 4: menu items on the Tavern menu, but the other seventy
Speaker 4: percent is an elevated version. It's a lot of British influence.
Speaker 4: We have fish and chips. We have some Indian influence
Speaker 4: as well. We have a phenomenal Tandory chicken sandwich. We
Speaker 4: offer Tandori pizza, we have a curry and then we
Speaker 4: have some of the staple we have a filet and
Speaker 4: some of the other stable dishes that we have at
Speaker 4: the other locations as well, but we needed something a
Speaker 4: little bit different to capture and draw a different clientele based.
Speaker 3: Being so close to the original market square.
Speaker 1: When you walk into a tavern, you know, you hear
Speaker 1: the word tavern. No, no, it's kinda you're gonna smell
Speaker 1: beer and you know these dark and maybe you're gonna
Speaker 1: get some darts or whatever. This is totally it's pretty
Speaker 1: much different. I mean, it did not smell like beer. There,
Speaker 1: there was no darts. It's high end and that's what
Speaker 1: you want, you know, for your clientele. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to the dishes, you know, I expect fish and chips, everything,
Speaker 1: but the Indian inspired selections. Great call, but that that's
Speaker 1: kind of out of the blue. I mean, how did
Speaker 1: you kind of like narrow down that Well, when you think.
Speaker 4: Of a tavern, the initial inspiration came from Great Britain.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of high end hubs and taverns,
Speaker 4: you know that you'll see in the UK, and we
Speaker 4: were really inspired by that and we wanted to create
Speaker 4: more of an elevated intimate feel something a little bit
Speaker 4: different than the Gastroroounde's location and the space is very small,
Speaker 4: it's about seventy five seats, very intimate, and we wanted
Speaker 4: to do something a little bit more elevated, a little
Speaker 4: bit more higher and and we wanted to bring that
Speaker 4: local kind of cheers vibe that you would see at
Speaker 4: your regular bar and tavern. We want that type of
Speaker 4: feeling experience, but with an elevated decore and with an
Speaker 4: elevated cuisine.
Speaker 1: We congratulations because you actually achieved that. Talking to Joan Natality,
Speaker 1: he's the CEO of Landmark Hospitality. You probably have heard
Speaker 1: of here City Gastro Pubs. We're talking specifically about restaurant
Speaker 1: the tavern by year Say, which I went into two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. I got to stop in. I got to
Speaker 1: talk about these fish and chips.
Speaker 3: Well, your traditional fish and chips.
Speaker 4: Again, this is something that we were inspired by British
Speaker 4: influence is with whitefish. We actually took a play on
Speaker 4: it and we use redfish and we do have very
Speaker 4: lightly battered We do lightly battered the redfish, which gives
Speaker 4: it a little bit of a flaky crust, but we
Speaker 4: do something a little bit different than your traditional.
Speaker 1: Fish and chips and the Indian inspired to It's funny
Speaker 1: because I'm going to London tomorrow. I'll be in London, right,
Speaker 1: I've been to London a few times, it's been years.
Speaker 1: There are more Indian restaurants in London than probably in India,
Speaker 1: and so that I'm I think kind of makes sense
Speaker 1: now where you're going this day. But the way you
Speaker 1: do the tandory pizza and the skewers and you have
Speaker 1: a lot of quarry over there too. Yeah, your chef
Speaker 1: for probably has to have a lot of background.
Speaker 4: With that, right absolutely. And you know, we wanted to
Speaker 4: do something a little bit different. We wanted to capture
Speaker 4: a little bit more of a market share and cater
Speaker 4: to all different kinds of clients. You know, we have
Speaker 4: the gasual lounge locations. We just open one recently in
Speaker 4: Levy Park where there's a lot of families. We have
Speaker 4: a smoke meat section in there because we have a
Speaker 4: beautiful smoker. We added the pizzas as well in the
Speaker 4: Leady Park section and that gave us a little bit
Speaker 4: broader of an audience than the other gasual lounge locations.
Speaker 4: And then here over at Tavern, we wanted that a
Speaker 4: little bit of Britain in that little bit of Indian influence,
Speaker 4: just to capture a little bit wider of a demographic.
Speaker 1: There's this conversation with lot of talking about your bar,
Speaker 1: your bar, or your whiskey bar. You know, I'm a
Speaker 1: big brown water guy. I walked in Man. I saw
Speaker 1: bourbon after bourbon after bourbon, scotches everything, and your cocktail
Speaker 1: menu just really really interesting in and unique. I mean
Speaker 1: you had a little different twist on the old fashioned.
Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit more about your cocktail menu,
Speaker 1: how you came up with it and some of your
Speaker 1: special offerings.
Speaker 4: So, yes, you mentioned they hear' say old fashion. So
Speaker 4: we do a play on a old fashion. It's a
Speaker 4: little bit different than your traditional one. We actually infuse
Speaker 4: our Woodsford Reserve bourbon in toasted almonds, sassfron and cammameal tea.
Speaker 4: So we going through an infusion process and we have
Speaker 4: a specific, very individual taste to our old fashion which
Speaker 4: you can't really get anywhere else but at all the hearsays,
Speaker 4: so that old fashion is on our tabern menu and
Speaker 4: is on our gasht allounge menu as well.
Speaker 1: Last question before I get you out here talk about
Speaker 1: your expand for some of your new restaurants.
Speaker 4: Yes, in mid November, we are going to be expanding
Speaker 4: into the Beaumont area. We are very excited about that.
Speaker 4: Around November fifteenth, we're going to be launching in Beaumont
Speaker 4: and then after there we are actually going.
Speaker 1: To all places. Listen, I want to congratulate you on
Speaker 1: your success. Familiar with here, saying so many of my
Speaker 1: listeners are, but the venue Tavern by hearsay, how about
Speaker 1: the specific location again the address if you want to
Speaker 1: tell folks, oh sorry, three seven Preston Street, seven three
Speaker 1: seven Preston by the way, it's right in front of
Speaker 1: Market Square and it's inside the Market Square Tower luxury apartments, folks,
Speaker 1: and definitely go check it out. Jodahtow Listen. Thanks between
Speaker 1: fifty one and fifteen. The hearsay is you've got a wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful group of restaurants and very soon you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful batch of brown water at the courtesy
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you so much. I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: And when anybody wants to come to Tavern, please note
Speaker 4: that we do have two hour complimentary valet for anybody
Speaker 4: that's joined the restaurant. I know the downtown location is
Speaker 4: very difficult to find parking when we offer two hour
Speaker 4: complementary valet. If you want to come in, just grab
Speaker 4: a cocktail, grab a couple of advertisers before a show
Speaker 4: with the theater, or if you want to come have
Speaker 4: a dinner. We've definitely made it as easy as possible
Speaker 4: for people to join us.
Speaker 1: Spot downtown tavern By here, tavern By here to say, Jonahall,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, congratulat your success, and I'll see
Speaker 1: you in Kentucky soon and let's keep expanding your restaurants.
Speaker 4: Michael Pleasure, thank you so much for joining. Thank you
Speaker 4: fel so much for letting us join, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And look you sent got it all right, folks, it's it.
Speaker 1: I didn't get your hungry. I don't know what does
Speaker 1: it is? Lifetime here as we take a break here
Speaker 1: on the High Tech Texan show, cocktail time, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be right back.
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Speaker 1: Wait for the show, which means it is halfway to
Speaker 1: happy hour. It's Saturday, it's September. It's college football season.
Speaker 1: Happy hour. Actually you should have started early this morning
Speaker 1: with College Game Day. Michael Garfield, thank you for joining
Speaker 1: our number two. We are back in the USA, at
Speaker 1: least temporarily. Fun trep interesting trip to ETHA, which is
Speaker 1: the world's largest technology in consumer trade show expo in
Speaker 1: the world. It was in Berlin, Germany. I was there
Speaker 1: for about six days last week, first time in Berlin.
Speaker 1: If you podcast this, which by the way, Callum, you
Speaker 1: will put this up on our iHeartRadio podcast less than
Speaker 1: an hour. Once the show is ova, you can go
Speaker 1: back in here our number one with my Bible thoughts
Speaker 1: on and actually touring around Berlin. It's it's a very
Speaker 1: interesting city. It really is. At some points. He should
Speaker 1: go check it Out's a lot of history, fun shopping,
Speaker 1: very young city. But if you're a history buff between
Speaker 1: the I guess the Hitler era which we don't, which
Speaker 1: we want to forget about. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: history and museums there and the Cold War. The wall
Speaker 1: got to go up and touch and pieces of the
Speaker 1: wall that are that are that are still in place
Speaker 1: over there. But your questions and phone calls, that's what
Speaker 1: we do here. Seven one three, two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five. Oh, I did see some interesting technologies over there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this is not doesn't take the place of cees which
Speaker 1: happens in Las Vegas every January, which this will be
Speaker 1: probably my twenty third year coming up that I will attend,
Speaker 1: but uh not. A lot of American companies were showing
Speaker 1: their year off. This is much more of an international
Speaker 1: trade show. A lot of Chinese companies when it comes
Speaker 1: to household products, robotic vacuums and mops and chitchen gadgets
Speaker 1: in what have you. There there's some TVs. I did
Speaker 1: not no no phones really per se. I think the
Speaker 1: phones kind of took their own They had their own
Speaker 1: press conference this week. Apple had their iPhone sixteen announcement.
Speaker 1: If anybody cares, they're coming out, I guess another week
Speaker 1: or so, they'll have the sixteenth version of the iPhone.
Speaker 1: Sixteenth is coming out, several different versions of that. And
Speaker 1: speaking speaking of phones, wasn't speaking of China on the
Speaker 1: same day that Apple announced earlier this week it's iPhone sixteen.
Speaker 1: There's a Chinese company that's it's kind of controversialist. It's
Speaker 1: not too big here in the United States. It's called
Speaker 1: wah Wai. And you probably don't understand or maybe heard
Speaker 1: of it, but you may have seen it when it's
Speaker 1: written out, but it's h u a w e y
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, but it's pronounced Whahwei. Huawei announced Get
Speaker 1: this a trifoled phone, a phone that folds out, not
Speaker 1: just fold like, because you know there's foldable phones and
Speaker 1: flipes all you nine iphoners. This is a triple fold phone,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. And it's big and it's massive.
Speaker 1: It's it's basically in a transformer that fits into your pocket.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like science fiction. It's called the mate xt.
Speaker 1: It folds at not one, but two scenes to allow
Speaker 1: for three modes of operation, a regular sized phone, a
Speaker 1: larger square phone, and then a tablet, and when fully expanded,
Speaker 1: fold out, fold out the screen measures ten point two
Speaker 1: inches diagonally, that it's got everything from your messaging and
Speaker 1: your photo editing and your translation. The price tag. If
Speaker 1: this doesn't turn you away, twenty eight hundred dollars went
Speaker 1: e eight hundred dollars. Apparently it hasn't turned too many
Speaker 1: people away because the company, whether you believe this or not,
Speaker 1: they have said they already have five I have a
Speaker 1: million free orders. This is from Huawei, so I cannot
Speaker 1: verify if they're actually five million orders. Now that may
Speaker 1: be pre orders. Are they actually going to turn into
Speaker 1: qualified sales. I'm not sure, but you know, for years
Speaker 1: I said, there's some controversy. For years, the US has
Speaker 1: tried to really stemy Hua Wai's growth with sanctions, but
Speaker 1: the Chinese tech company, which is really big in China,
Speaker 1: they fought back. I mean, the company has reported double
Speaker 1: digital revenue and profit growth last month, and it's really
Speaker 1: giving Apple a run for its money in the Chinese market.
Speaker 1: And that's coming out. But there was not a lot
Speaker 1: of phones announced at EFA, But there was a lot
Speaker 1: of phone news this coming week. If you want to
Speaker 1: talk about phones, I am here for you. Use your phone.
Speaker 1: You can call me seven one three, two, one two, five,
Speaker 1: nine to five. Ho as we talk a little bit
Speaker 1: more about travel too. I used I don't use a
Speaker 1: VPN a lot here at home private network when I'm
Speaker 1: connecting on a computer, and I really didn't plan to
Speaker 1: use one when I was in and when I was
Speaker 1: traveling internationally. But I needed one. And let me tell
Speaker 1: you why VPNs. The more I talked about it, and
Speaker 1: the more I just antadotally talked to people from America
Speaker 1: who I was, who were there in Germany with me
Speaker 1: covering the ETHA technology vension, why they use a VPN.
Speaker 1: A VPN, by the way, it's an application that runs
Speaker 1: in your computer, but it also runs in your phone,
Speaker 1: and it encrypts your data, and it can conceal your location.
Speaker 1: It hides your location, It confuses servers to not let
Speaker 1: them know exactly where you are. What it does that
Speaker 1: makes it harder for hackers to steal your passwords and
Speaker 1: all the other data that you have. But it also
Speaker 1: allows you to access websites that may be blocked in
Speaker 1: the country you're visiting. Russia, China, Iran, they heavily restrict
Speaker 1: and they ban VPNs. But I see the stat only
Speaker 1: forty one percent of Americans use a VPN, and whether
Speaker 1: you want to use it now in the United States,
Speaker 1: but when you're traveling you may want to let me
Speaker 1: tell you quickly. I got about them in two minutes
Speaker 1: for the break. Why I started using a VPN last week.
Speaker 1: I'm in Germany, so it's Saturday morning, and well it's
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, seven hours ahead, and I wanted to watch
Speaker 1: arguably the biggest college actually not arguly the biggest college
Speaker 1: football game of the season, my Texas Longhorns versus the
Speaker 1: Michigan wolver Raines. Well, I have and I have the
Speaker 1: ESPN app, and I can watch pretty much anything that's
Speaker 1: on ESPN when I'm in the United States because ESPN
Speaker 1: has the rights to broadcast Well that specific well actually
Speaker 1: was Fox, but it was on Fox. But I watched
Speaker 1: the ESPN College Game Day. I wanted to watch point Is,
Speaker 1: I wanted to watch TV United States TV, but I'm
Speaker 1: in Germany. Well, you can't just snappily do that. So
Speaker 1: what I did is I downloaded a VPN. There are
Speaker 1: free VPNs, which sometimes she may want to stay away
Speaker 1: from because they're free with all the ads popping up,
Speaker 1: and there's some that are reputable that you have to
Speaker 1: pave on an annual basis, Nord VPN and a number
Speaker 1: of those others. But the thing is I had to
Speaker 1: install a VPN. I found a VPN that has a
Speaker 1: United States based server, so I think it was like
Speaker 1: it pretended I was in Chicago. Once I downloaded and
Speaker 1: turned the VPN on, even though I'm physically sitting in Berlin. Gervity,
Speaker 1: the world and anybody surfing them from my computer and
Speaker 1: my phone thought I was logging in from the United
Speaker 1: States because I used a VPN. Well, knowing that I'm
Speaker 1: in the United States and I'm using air quotes, I
Speaker 1: could do anything I wanted to, Like I'm in the
Speaker 1: United States, so I was allowed to watch the ESPN
Speaker 1: app for College Game Day, I got to tune into
Speaker 1: Fox Sports app to watch the actual game, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, Jack's Longhorns slot the hell out of the
Speaker 1: Michigan Wolverines VP or a big Do you use a VPN?
Speaker 1: Talk to me? Seven one three two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five. Oh, it's also how you could probably listen
Speaker 1: to me all around the world. Mostly around the world
Speaker 1: where VPNs aren't banned. You could download the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: I remember going to Mexico. I've done my show from
Speaker 1: all over the world. I remember doing my show in
Speaker 1: Mexico and people were listening to me while they're standing
Speaker 1: I'm doing it from the resort and they were standing
Speaker 1: right in front of me on their phones listening to
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio. That Mexico. There's just one country that actually
Speaker 1: you can you don't need you know, that allows you
Speaker 1: to listen to the United States. Sometimes when you travel though,
Speaker 1: you need to pretend you're not there. That's when some
Speaker 1: of the ways you should use a VPN. And if
Speaker 1: you are traveling abroad, howd of recommend a VPN Virtual
Speaker 1: Private Network? All right, anything else you got, We're going
Speaker 1: to take a break right now. Our number two continues
Speaker 1: here right here on the Hot Tech Texan Big Shodow.
Speaker 1: Yes a few uh about twenty minutes after the hour,
Speaker 1: Thank you tuning in Michael Garfield, the long running high
Speaker 1: Tech Texan show kp ORC Radio nine to fifty AM
Speaker 1: here in and around Houston and also around the world
Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio, and he were talking about some news Earlier
Speaker 1: this week, Apple announced the sixteenth iteration of its iPhone,
Speaker 1: the iPhone sixteenth for all you Apple bands out there.
Speaker 1: If you're a longtime listen, you know I'm kind of
Speaker 1: an Android person, just because the Android operating system is
Speaker 1: much more prevalent around the world than the iOS. But
Speaker 1: that's okay. But it didn't stop one particular gentleman in Houston, Texas,
Speaker 1: one talented man, one talented artist, from paying homage to
Speaker 1: arguably one of the greatest inventions of the technology era,
Speaker 1: the iPhone. There is an art show that has something
Speaker 1: very closely to do with iPhones, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this. The famous artist here,
Speaker 1: John Slavey, who has been in Houston for thirty years,
Speaker 1: incredibly talented man. He is exhibiting an art show right
Speaker 1: now that goes through the early part of October, which
Speaker 1: is called Adam and Eve and the iPhone. I know
Speaker 1: Tim Cook must be very happy. John Slavey joins me
Speaker 1: here for a few minutes, what they can brow pay
Speaker 1: homage to the iPhone? And here in Ust it will
Speaker 1: have to start with an apology.
Speaker 3: My goodness, this is no way to start an interview.
Speaker 3: So I'm sorry. I'm an iPhone guy. I've been using
Speaker 3: an iPhone forever and I did all this artwork based
Speaker 3: upon my own iPhone eleven. I'm not even keeping up,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just disgraceful. I know, I know, isn't
Speaker 3: a terrible gosh, Well we.
Speaker 1: Have you're about five D five versions behind. But I
Speaker 1: do want to congratulate you know. I've actually seen some
Speaker 1: of the artwork and it really listened. You're you're very,
Speaker 1: very talented artist, and you've done so many unique things.
Speaker 1: We'll make sure we give out your website here before
Speaker 1: we get out of here. But this particular one caught
Speaker 1: my Adam and even the iPhone and it's over. These
Speaker 1: are handmade, and I'll let you describe it a bit,
Speaker 1: handmade iterations of the iPhone, you know, displaying, you know,
Speaker 1: so many different pictures and variations. Tell us about the
Speaker 1: display and how it came about.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I ended up making a lot of artwork
Speaker 3: based upon the size and shape of an iPhone. So
Speaker 3: I made this enormous ensemble of iPhones that look just
Speaker 3: like my iPhone eleven, exactly the same size, you know,
Speaker 3: about three by six inches. I made it entirely out
Speaker 3: of wood, canvas and paint, and I've made it even
Speaker 3: a little holder wilerm and I stuck them on the wall,
Speaker 3: and I have a big matrix of these, one hundred
Speaker 3: and five of them on the wall in the gallery,
Speaker 3: and each one is painted to look like an iPhone
Speaker 3: taking a photograph of something. And that gave me an
Speaker 3: opportunity to paint an image on these little iPhones, and
Speaker 3: I decided to select an entire range, a wide variety
Speaker 3: of images that kind of exemplify how we see the world.
Speaker 3: We see the world through the iPhone. We see the
Speaker 3: word through our smartphones in general, really, and everything that
Speaker 3: we experience we record on our phones, and we learn
Speaker 3: and experience all kinds of things on our phone. So
Speaker 3: I have all kinds of objects, all kinds of images
Speaker 3: rather on all of these phones. So I have landscapes
Speaker 3: and sea scapes, I have food and beverage, I have
Speaker 3: life and death. I have war images, I have babies,
Speaker 3: I have old people, you name it. Everything that we
Speaker 3: would normally use an iPhone to record is here. So
Speaker 3: the ensemble itself becomes a kind of an encapsulation of
Speaker 3: the human experiences seen through the smartphone. And I've done
Speaker 3: some other larger paintings that are much much bigger than phones,
Speaker 3: that might go as high as four feet that have
Speaker 3: the icons replaced with other imagery to exemplify what we
Speaker 3: use the iPhone for, how it affects us and so forth.
Speaker 3: So all of this came about because I use phones
Speaker 3: a lot. We all use phones, and in my last show,
Speaker 3: I'd done some paintings about the phone, and I just
Speaker 3: decided to go.
Speaker 1: All in on.
Speaker 3: Making these works about the So technically it's a painting
Speaker 3: of an iPhone taking a photo, which you know I
Speaker 3: talk about the it taking a higher step back.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've talked about this. The world has changed
Speaker 1: so much obviously, you know, back again out of my age.
Speaker 1: I'm dating myself right now. You know, we had to
Speaker 1: carry around these big cameras to take a phone, you know,
Speaker 1: the SLR cameras and which became digital sl our cameras.
Speaker 1: But with the advent of this of the phones and
Speaker 1: the cameras and phones are so good right now that
Speaker 1: we capture everything. And when I talk about and I
Speaker 1: recommend and I review phones, I have to remind people
Speaker 1: that it's called a smart phone, but I think the
Speaker 1: most used app on a phone is the camera. It's
Speaker 1: more of a I use my smartphone as a camera
Speaker 1: more than I do anything else. Really, I take photos,
Speaker 1: I shoot my videos, I edit my videos, and we
Speaker 1: see life as you're right, John, through the our smartphones Thane,
Speaker 1: and I guess that's what inspired you to say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: this is what we're living now in the twenty first
Speaker 1: century of how we view the world.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I agree. I do more with the camera
Speaker 3: and the video on the phone than anything else. Of course,
Speaker 3: we spend a lot of time watching the news and
Speaker 3: getting all kinds of information and engaging in social media too,
Speaker 3: and this hasn't a profound impact on our sociability and
Speaker 3: our mental state. And there's a number of paintings here
Speaker 3: on that as well.
Speaker 1: Do John Slaby, he has got day show. It's at
Speaker 1: the Archway Gallery and it runs through Thursday, October third.
Speaker 1: Will give you a little bit more information about this later,
Speaker 1: but when you go obviously you said there's well over
Speaker 1: one hundred eightings that you have that depict the actually
Speaker 1: outside of an iPhone and are they all iPhone fourteen's?
Speaker 3: Did the one you have is that the framework iPhone eleven?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry eleven. Android users are welcome. I promise, really,
Speaker 3: we will not throw you out of the gallery. You're
Speaker 3: more than welcome to come in I state. But I
Speaker 3: make about an iPhone can be said about any smartphone.
Speaker 3: I will just put it that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, but I first heard about reading about this as
Speaker 1: Apple heard about this. Obviously you didn't either permission. But
Speaker 1: have they thrown in any thoughts or contacted you or
Speaker 1: have you have any contact with them?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I have not. No, I'm waiting to be sued, which
Speaker 3: would be great because you know, anything that makes an
Speaker 3: artist famous, even if it's a lawsuit, is a good thing, right.
Speaker 1: Exactly, You wouldn't been technically you're paying knowledge to this thing,
Speaker 1: and it's true, if you think about it, you probably should.
Speaker 1: You should be hearing from Samsung, LG, Motorola or Google
Speaker 1: Pixel inviting you to use their cameras to actually do something.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 3: Now I got a living exactly.
Speaker 1: And then the next thing, I'm just listen, I'm a
Speaker 1: marketing guy, and you know I'm me give you an idea,
Speaker 1: so what you should do the next quar I know
Speaker 1: this is foreign toy because you're an Apple guy, but
Speaker 1: there are there are phones that actually can fold and
Speaker 1: flip out right now, breaking news. You need to create
Speaker 1: a painting that actually flips and folds.
Speaker 3: Out based upon the sam star you go there, you
Speaker 3: go see I did a painting that's an altarpiece here
Speaker 3: and it actually folds outwards. So I'm already halfway there.
Speaker 1: The uh as, I'm kind of perusing on the website
Speaker 1: here overlooking at some of your the paintings that you're done.
Speaker 1: You're doing so the framework obviously goes back to the
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven. But I'm looking at the photos that you're
Speaker 1: depicting inside and here's one, here's here's flowers, and here's
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a grass scene or whatever like that.
Speaker 1: Were these pictures that you have taken on your actually
Speaker 1: iPhone or just kind of concepts that you see within
Speaker 1: generally what an iPhone could shoot?
Speaker 3: Well, that's a great question. Actually, most of the photographs
Speaker 3: of my own that I shot with my phone, but
Speaker 3: I did solicit some friends and friends provided me with
Speaker 3: I think ultimately about thirty odd of the images that
Speaker 3: are shown are from friends. So that allowed me to
Speaker 3: open up the variety of photographs that I used on
Speaker 3: the images. So, for example, I had a female friend
Speaker 3: who sent me pictures of herself in a dressing room. Now,
Speaker 3: guys don't do that. I don't ever do that. So
Speaker 3: that's allowed me to add that to the to the
Speaker 3: library of images. I also downloaded about maybe about a
Speaker 3: dozen image is off the Internet, and that's where the
Speaker 3: war images come from. So mixed in with all these
Speaker 3: so called banalities of our you know, everyday experience, mixed
Speaker 3: in with all of that are pictures from Ukraine and Gaza,
Speaker 3: some really horrific scenes. So it really as to a
Speaker 3: high drama of when one looks at the Entyrenants ensemble, the.
Speaker 1: One hundred plus paintings that you know you have done
Speaker 1: and displayed at the at the gallery, does anyone or
Speaker 1: to particularly stand out? Do you your favorites or that
Speaker 1: resonate with people looking at it?
Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, I don't know. I am in love
Speaker 3: with a lot of them. I have a lot of
Speaker 3: self portraits in there. Some of them are pretty funny,
Speaker 3: Like I have a self portrait, a selfie that I
Speaker 3: took after I had my tooth extracted, So there's me
Speaker 3: with a big ice pack on my face. And a
Speaker 3: friend bought that piece because she had had a lot
Speaker 3: of dental surgery recently, and I thought, well, that's brilliant,
Speaker 3: because what a great connection and I think people can
Speaker 3: connect with a lot of these different images. So that's
Speaker 3: what makes it so powerful.
Speaker 1: Definition of a self portrait, it's a selfie.
Speaker 3: It's a self self port portrait of a selfie.
Speaker 1: That's look at this guy where John slavery or categorizing
Speaker 1: everything very interesting. If people want to see the show,
Speaker 1: it's Adam and Eve and the iPhone. It's at the
Speaker 1: Archway Gallery. What's the address of the other gallery.
Speaker 3: It's two three oh five done Laby. So it's on
Speaker 3: dun Laby Street in the Montrose area, just north of
Speaker 3: Fairview and it right for six days a week except Monday,
Speaker 3: So come on buy and when's to.
Speaker 1: October third, I believe and if people and these are
Speaker 1: for purchase too, so if people want a selfie self
Speaker 1: portrait selfie, they can get one.
Speaker 3: There you go absolutely, well, it's it's great.
Speaker 1: I want to congratulate your success. You're getting incredibly talented
Speaker 1: artist here at Houston, John for some reason, you do
Speaker 1: want to venture out and do an android. Let me
Speaker 1: offer myself to be your first self portrait selfie. Thank
Speaker 1: your tough on a samside, all right, sounds like a
Speaker 1: DL got so listen, congrats again our success and I
Speaker 1: appreciate your time and folks that he gets so much.
Speaker 1: Runs through October third. It is it Archway Gallery, Adam
Speaker 1: and Eve and the Eye Phone brought to you by Android.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't know about that one. We'll
Speaker 1: get well, ye, we'll see if we can get some
Speaker 1: of a sponsorship for my man, John Slavey. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get did you the High Tech Taxi show
Speaker 1: right after this don't go Anywhereah, just about thirty more
Speaker 1: minutes left here this show. I'd love to hear from
Speaker 1: you seven one three two one two five nine five
Speaker 1: zero thanks to artist artiste John Slavey here with his
Speaker 1: iPhone art exhibit. iPhone Art exhibit. You know what it's
Speaker 1: I'm not the greatest painter in the world. Maybe I
Speaker 1: should do Uh, I'm gonna do an Android art exhibit.
Speaker 1: You know. Take that. Get a sponsor. I'll get wild
Speaker 1: wide at sponsors. I don't know if Samsung doesn't want to,
Speaker 1: So we continue the the High Tech Textan Show top
Speaker 1: of the hour. I was talking about using VPNs and
Speaker 1: e sim with for your phones when you travel internationally
Speaker 1: and someone it actually someone just sent me this about
Speaker 1: traveling with gadgets and gear to Mexico and I had
Speaker 1: to do some quick research here during the break, So
Speaker 1: bear with me. And if anybody has had issues with
Speaker 1: traveling with gadgets and iPads and laptop devices to Mexico
Speaker 1: and has come across this, I would I would love
Speaker 1: for you to call in seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two five nine five M see if you can verify this. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to spread rumors, but and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: in so much so I have to cite my source.
Speaker 1: This is on Yahoo Life. There is a writer, Jony Sweet.
Speaker 1: She just wrote this a few days ago. And I
Speaker 1: did a little bit more research and I did see
Speaker 1: a few articles about this about thinking twice before bringing
Speaker 1: laptops and iPads to Mexico because it could cost you money.
Speaker 1: Apparently there Mexico has a tax on extra technology gadgets
Speaker 1: that you bring into the country that tourists are allowed.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna quote this now. According to the Mexican
Speaker 1: Consulate General in Montreal, I'm just reading this, tourists can
Speaker 1: bring only one laptop, notebook or other portable computing device
Speaker 1: into the country with out paying taxes. Does anybody know
Speaker 1: about this, and if you exceed these limits bringing more
Speaker 1: iPads and laptops on your trip to Mexico, you may,
Speaker 1: and I use the word may, you may need to
Speaker 1: pay hundreds of dollars when you go through customs at
Speaker 1: the airport, and you can face a fine. And the
Speaker 1: writer here, the author of this article, has a friend
Speaker 1: of hers. She landed in Cancun, and I'm reading this
Speaker 1: on Yahoo life. Was that iPad in a MacBook Pro?
Speaker 1: Last week? She was asked to step aside for a
Speaker 1: bag search through customs. Customs a just discovered devices they
Speaker 1: demanded and that's reading what she wrote. They demanded she
Speaker 1: pay about one hundred and ninety US dollars in duties
Speaker 1: for bringing the extra laptop or it was going to
Speaker 1: be confiscated. So how many devices? Has anybody heard that? Seven?
Speaker 1: One three two one two five nine five zero Find
Speaker 1: me on x also high Tech Texan HI g h
Speaker 1: T E c ht E x A N. Has anybody
Speaker 1: ever been busted in Mexico for bringing too many devices?
Speaker 1: Because let me help you out. Well, if he just
Speaker 1: tuned in, I just came back from Berlin. I was
Speaker 1: in Germany for this big technology convention. If they taxed
Speaker 1: me on everything that I brought in and actually took out.
Speaker 1: I mean laptops, bluetooth headphones, several cameras and phones that
Speaker 1: would have probably cost me more than the flight itself.
Speaker 1: They have made me. No, they could have helped me
Speaker 1: capitives over there. They need to read this sort of
Speaker 1: about Mexican customs is strict about your gadge account. You're
Speaker 1: allowed just one tax exempt hortable computing device per person.
Speaker 1: We have been to Mexico most all of my life.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't go regularly, but the resorts can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've traveled across the border here in Texas,
Speaker 1: I the Cancuns, the world. I mean, I don't ever
Speaker 1: ever heard of this nineteen percent duty on the estimated
Speaker 1: value of your extra device. But they say they don't
Speaker 1: check everybody. There are travelers online who claim this laptop
Speaker 1: rule as a myth, and they've breezed through customs, probably
Speaker 1: me one of them, because Mexico customs officers don't search
Speaker 1: every bag you so you may get lucky, so you
Speaker 1: could hope for a free pass, but if not, if
Speaker 1: you get busted, it's it's gonna be. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost you some some pesos, baby interest. I
Speaker 1: did not know this. I don't know, I think cal
Speaker 1: I'm will tell you what you know, what we need
Speaker 1: to do. I think we need to go to Mexico.
Speaker 1: I think you know I have done my radio show
Speaker 1: for Mexico no less than three or four times, several
Speaker 1: different cities, beautiful resorts. I think we need to go again,
Speaker 1: don't you think? So? Next month or two, set up
Speaker 1: shop at at the pool and and let's just bring
Speaker 1: all our gear. I mean I travel with radio gear,
Speaker 1: which that I mean that technically is not a personal
Speaker 1: gadget to do shows over there. I've I've never heard
Speaker 1: of this. This is this is kind of I again,
Speaker 1: I can't confirm this. I'm trying to get behind this,
Speaker 1: but I've see several things online, including an article written
Speaker 1: by Joni Sweet on Yahoo life, uh yahoo dot com
Speaker 1: slash lifestyle. So that's what I got. Anybody can confirm that?
Speaker 1: Please let me know seven one, three, two, one two
Speaker 1: five nine five. Oh where else do you want to travel?
Speaker 1: That's that? That is absolutely crazy? Hey, Garth, Yes, I've
Speaker 1: been to Berlin and I've been to Germany many times.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you had a really nice experience. This is
Speaker 1: not the best time of the year for the weather.
Speaker 1: Weather does get much better and cooler come November through February,
Speaker 1: not unlike it is in Houston. Were you able to
Speaker 1: walk around and see some of the it's actually going
Speaker 1: too fast. Were you able to walk around and see
Speaker 1: some of the nicer clothing shops and shops. I know
Speaker 1: you're a clothes horse. I know you're always looking for
Speaker 1: great deals. Where your thoughts on shopping is that a
Speaker 1: good place to buy? This is from James. James is
Speaker 1: in Parentland. I wasn't able to shop there. There was it.
Speaker 1: There was a store if anybody's been to London, the
Speaker 1: probably the biggest store in the world, the one of
Speaker 1: the most famous stores in the world, which I love.
Speaker 1: It's Herod's. It's six or seven store. In the basement.
Speaker 1: They have got this food hall which is bigger than
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's bigger than a shopping mall of
Speaker 1: a high end food and everything. There's no Herods in Berlin,
Speaker 1: but there is something very similar to it, and it's
Speaker 1: called how to v Ka Dawe's called kata v High
Speaker 1: end District. I took the subway to get there. Absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I mean it is. You walk in and everything. They've
Speaker 1: got your Louis Vaton's, and they've got the Balleenziegas, and
Speaker 1: they've got the Cardier's, and then you go up and
Speaker 1: they've got they got the men's section, which I did
Speaker 1: not buy anything of that men's section. It was not
Speaker 1: the cheapest thing, even with the euro conversion of the adults.
Speaker 1: But on the top floor they had a food hall
Speaker 1: and I wanted to live there. This was so cool
Speaker 1: they I mean you talk about the neatest and highend.
Speaker 1: First of all, you could oversee the whole city of Berlin.
Speaker 1: Highly recommend if you go there, go to the store
Speaker 1: called Kada v just they was it Vove through Champagne
Speaker 1: my way Shandon. They've got a champagne area. They've got
Speaker 1: oysters over here, They've got sushi over here. They've got
Speaker 1: a beer Stein's over here, They've got chocolate, chocolate, chocolate,
Speaker 1: They've got candies over a was to. It was fun.
Speaker 1: They have you talk about universals. I love shopping at Zara.
Speaker 1: I love Uniclo and if you don't know what Unicloe is,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen there's Unicloth coming to Texas in about
Speaker 1: a month or two. It's gonna be a Memorial City mall.
Speaker 1: And for my Dallas people, it's gonna be the Dallas Gallery.
Speaker 1: I finally Texas is getting a Unicloth. It's a Japanese
Speaker 1: clothing store. There's another one that I'm a fan of.
Speaker 1: It's called Prime Mark, and I went to my first
Speaker 1: one in Chicago this summer. But there were several Prime
Speaker 1: Marks over here. This is like ready to wear, and
Speaker 1: I think it's from Japan. Also, this has got to
Speaker 1: be the most inexpensive clothing I've ever seen. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got I got really nice T shirts,
Speaker 1: cool dress t shirts for three dollars and thirty cents
Speaker 1: US dollars. I mean, it is stupid. In Chicago this
Speaker 1: past summer, I got a bathing soup for three dollars.
Speaker 1: Did you not so? Yes, I appreciate that. Yes. I
Speaker 1: did go shopping over there too, brought back a laptop.
Speaker 1: I did get to go again. I was there for IFA,
Speaker 1: which is a very the world's largest consumer and trade
Speaker 1: technology show. Two hundred and fifteen thousand people went through
Speaker 1: the gates. It was in a very big convention center
Speaker 1: called Messe Berlin e SSE. It was just walking and walking.
Speaker 1: You know, I was doing twenty twenty five thousand steps
Speaker 1: a day, which was you know, typic typical when I
Speaker 1: go to cees in Vegas and January. But I did
Speaker 1: go to Assist Computers as US. They weren't on the
Speaker 1: show floor it is I did. It's a computer company,
Speaker 1: monitor company, but they released they had a partnership with Intel,
Speaker 1: and I went to a press conference over there and
Speaker 1: they released some really cool new computers locked. It's actually
Speaker 1: the laptops really cool. I've been using an ACIS computer.
Speaker 1: I like these things and I recommended. I was on
Speaker 1: Great Day Houston. I did my kind of back to
Speaker 1: school guide about three or four weeks ago. I showed
Speaker 1: off a really very lightweight, nice as US computer. They
Speaker 1: also make keyboards and mice and all these other things,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to laptops, they're really taking a
Speaker 1: really kind of stronghold of how small, how light, how
Speaker 1: functional they can be, and the design the way they
Speaker 1: design these things. They have the outside is not just
Speaker 1: metal or aluminum. It's Sarah aluminum, cere aluminum. It's a
Speaker 1: new type of lightweight design thing which well looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Saw a ton of things. One more segment, last chance
Speaker 1: for phone call seven one three, two five zero, before
Speaker 1: we wrap up this week's version of the High Tech
Speaker 1: Detection Show. Before we pack up again and get my
Speaker 1: passboard stamp to London this coming week. It's the High
Speaker 1: Traveling Texan gif made it people almost made it. Final
Speaker 1: segment of this week's show. Not an international show. Between
Speaker 1: international shows. I got back from Berlin at the Big
Speaker 1: ETHA Technology conference last week and then off to London,
Speaker 1: England tomorrow for a few days to do research on
Speaker 1: some laptops and actually check out and explore the city.
Speaker 1: Haven't been to London in When was the last time
Speaker 1: I went to London? The last I went to London
Speaker 1: was just awesome. It was two thousand each, I believe
Speaker 1: it was two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: You think has has London changed in sixteen years? You think, anybody?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. This will be my third trip, third
Speaker 1: or fourth trip to the London, so I'm actually looking
Speaker 1: to explore that and next week on my High Tech
Speaker 1: Textis show, I will give you updates, more travel tips,
Speaker 1: and I do thank you It's nice knowing that people
Speaker 1: actually listen and contribute to the show via phone calls
Speaker 1: or emails Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com if you're
Speaker 1: too shy to call. Also an x also on Instagram,
Speaker 1: and I talked about your trials when you travel internationally.
Speaker 1: Do you use an e SIM versus your your regular
Speaker 1: international phone plan? Do you use a virtual private network,
Speaker 1: which I do recommend highly, especially if you want to
Speaker 1: watch United States TV. You need to use a VPN
Speaker 1: to confuse the servers, to let them think you're in
Speaker 1: the United States, so you can watch football games on
Speaker 1: the ESPN app or or Amazon apper or whatever. A
Speaker 1: lot of travel tips that we talked. If you do
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Speaker 1: and listen to this two hour show at at your
Speaker 1: heart's content. And we do appreciate that they just sent
Speaker 1: me this too. Michael saw this at about international in
Speaker 1: different countries. The countries that swear the most, that swear
Speaker 1: the most, I have no clue. It's amazing you can
Speaker 1: find anything on the Internet and you don't know what
Speaker 1: to believe. But I guess it's onnimplefloss dot com and
Speaker 1: using a database of one point seven million English language
Speaker 1: location tag tweets, this website tremmd extraneous words from users
Speaker 1: posts about who swear the most? Any clue? Play a
Speaker 1: little game over here what country swears the most swear words?
Speaker 1: And I would love to tell you some of these
Speaker 1: swear words, but we are at least over the year,
Speaker 1: we are bound by the fcc of I'm not using
Speaker 1: swear words. If this was a solely a podcast, I
Speaker 1: can use any word that I want to. When it
Speaker 1: came to the most foul mouth countries in the world,
Speaker 1: does it surprise you if I say the United States
Speaker 1: was found to be the country that swears the most
Speaker 1: number one. You know what I'm getting for glynt that's awesome.
Speaker 1: UK has number two, followed by Australia, New Zealand. In Canada,
Speaker 1: anybody cares, we swear the most at least online and
Speaker 1: by the way, the most profane city in the US.
Speaker 1: So they're breaking this thing down. The most profane city Baltimore,
Speaker 1: followed by Baton Rouge, I see u lsu Fans Atlanta, Detroit,
Speaker 1: and Jesse goes in at number five. Eaterston freaking Texas.
Speaker 1: Gotta be proud of that. Gotta be it. John Whitmark,
Speaker 1: something to hang your hat on. John Whitmeyer is the
Speaker 1: Burgermeister of Houston. If you've listened to the top of
Speaker 1: the show. I ran into it. I saw and I
Speaker 1: got a picture of the Mayor of Berlin. His name
Speaker 1: is Kai Kai Wegner. He was at the IFA show.
Speaker 1: He was surrounded by security. Did not know this guy
Speaker 1: is from anything. I asked, who is that? Somebody said,
Speaker 1: that's the Burgermeister. His title is the Burgermeischer, which I
Speaker 1: translates maybe to the mayor of in Germany. I met
Speaker 1: the Burgermeister Meister Berger. I love that. I want a
Speaker 1: business card with my name burger Meister Meister Garth, the
Speaker 1: high tech Burgermeister. I needed trademarks, something that is hilarious
Speaker 1: walking around the show. That is my final thoughts of
Speaker 1: IFA Berlin. It's different in many aspects than cees that
Speaker 1: Consumer Electronics show Number one. This one in Berlin, which
Speaker 1: had two hundred and fifteen thousand people from one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty eight countries attend. It's a longer show. I
Speaker 1: think it lasts. I don't know, six seven, eight, nine
Speaker 1: days CES only lasts really as an exhibition, probably four days.
Speaker 1: CEES is trade show only. You have to be either
Speaker 1: the media to cover it. You have to be a buyer.
Speaker 1: You have to be a manufacturer versus the if of
Speaker 1: the Berlin one. It's open to the public. Publican buy
Speaker 1: tickets to go look at all these technology products. It's
Speaker 1: gone like a car show. There were not a lot
Speaker 1: of American companies displaying their wares at this ETHA Berlin,
Speaker 1: where you'll you are able to see a lot of
Speaker 1: American company startup companies, Mama pop companies, neat ideas at CEES. However,
Speaker 1: I'm walking around and I see a big, a big booth,
Speaker 1: massive booth at the Berlin trade show and it's Tesla,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, now we go because I did not
Speaker 1: see one automobile display at ETHA Berlin versus CES has
Speaker 1: into a defecto car show. Almost every major auto manufacturer
Speaker 1: has a massive booth. It CGES Consumer Electronics Show in
Speaker 1: Vegas in January. So this is the first car. So
Speaker 1: I walk up, and not only is Tesla a car,
Speaker 1: it's a Texas based company. Badquarters are in Austin. Now
Speaker 1: I'm getting excited. I'm looking around. I see TV's in
Speaker 1: the wall. I don't see a car. I go up
Speaker 1: to the ladies. She speaks German in English. Hello, I said,
Speaker 1: Tesla Texas. I'm from Texas, and she looks at me
Speaker 1: like I'm a freak. Yeah. I said, aren't you from
Speaker 1: Texas and she says, no, we're not the car company.
Speaker 1: We're a technology company based in Serbia. I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Apparently there is another Tesla company that
Speaker 1: is not associated associated with Elon Musk's car and battery company,
Speaker 1: but it is a it's a manufacturer of hardware, of
Speaker 1: television or whatever, based in Serbia. So the first thing
Speaker 1: I tell this lady is like I'm sniffing a lawsuit,
Speaker 1: and she laughs she has no, We've got patents and
Speaker 1: trademarks on this and that. So Tesla new to me.
Speaker 1: Two different companies. If you want the car company, I'm
Speaker 1: not endorsing the Tesla car company or the Tesla Serbian
Speaker 1: technology company. I just thought I thought that was interesting,
Speaker 1: very interesting. Did not know that maybe there's another Google
Speaker 1: around the world, diet Maybe there's another high tech Texan
Speaker 1: that is outside of the United States. Because I hold
Speaker 1: the trademark inside the United States. I need to do
Speaker 1: some research on that. Absolutely, I gotta wind up the
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