Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 2: In the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
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Speaker 5: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
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Speaker 3: Depending on when exactly you are listening to the show,
Speaker 3: might I be one of the first to say Happy
Speaker 3: Father's Day. I may be the only person who tells
Speaker 3: you Happy Father's Day. Kids, Look at the calendar. Should
Speaker 3: you have the luxury of still having a father present
Speaker 3: and in your life? Get on the horn, even if
Speaker 3: you have to send a text. That's what the kids
Speaker 3: do now. Wish good old Dad. Ah, Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 3: One of the things that we are going to talk
Speaker 3: about today. How are yes I am a father?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I have yet to hear from one of my three kids.
Speaker 3: I know it's coming there. They're very good about that.
Speaker 3: I have already contacted my father, so much so that
Speaker 3: I came to visit my father as we do this
Speaker 3: radio show in the great city of Dallas, Texas, where
Speaker 3: I am from and where my parents live. Taking the
Speaker 3: show on the road normally in h Town in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 3: Why not visit your dad and your parents on Father's
Speaker 3: Day weekend, no matter where you are, no matter how
Speaker 3: you are listening. I do thank you for tuning in
Speaker 3: to the twenty third year that we have done a
Speaker 3: Father's Day show on the High Tech Deection Show all
Speaker 3: over the state of Texas. Yes, in Dallas Talk Radio
Speaker 3: eleven ninety in San Antonio, WAI, the Big Stick twelve
Speaker 3: hundred AM, and of course the flagship nine to fifty
Speaker 3: AM in Houston. Also, this didn't happen twenty three years
Speaker 3: ago when we started. We are on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 3: because technically apps didn't even exist other than appetizers on
Speaker 3: menus at restaurants. Twenty three years you go when I
Speaker 3: started this. Thank you for downloaded the app. You can
Speaker 3: listen to it again and again on the podcast once
Speaker 3: it is completed iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple and wherever award winning
Speaker 3: and non award winning shows are heard. Michael is the
Speaker 3: name Miguel Garf. Everything but Mike, just stay away from
Speaker 3: the mic. Let me talk on the mic. Just don't
Speaker 3: call me Mike. I will give you the phone number
Speaker 3: to chime in, because this is the last time it checked.
Speaker 3: A very interactive radio show. I do not talk down
Speaker 3: to you, I don't yell at you. We really don't
Speaker 3: do politics. This is pretty much consumer lifestyle. It is sports,
Speaker 3: it is travel, it is technology. It is anything that
Speaker 3: I feel like yapping about. Three four six twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Textan is the phone number you can get in three
Speaker 3: four six two nine eight three nine two six. If
Speaker 3: you're a little too shy to call it, get your phone,
Speaker 3: get your voice on the airways. There's this thing called
Speaker 3: social media that I'm trying to corner high tech texts,
Speaker 3: and I make it real simple for you. Hi g
Speaker 3: h T e h T e x A N that's
Speaker 3: x Twitter. It is not TikTok. It is well. You
Speaker 3: can find me on Facebook and LinkedIn if I didn't
Speaker 3: block you on threads. Actually, I've been peruising threads and
Speaker 3: posting a few things on threads a little bit more
Speaker 3: than I have been threads. As next month, what is that?
Speaker 3: The second anniversary Threads, which was allegedly the Twitter killer
Speaker 3: has been around Twitter. As we know it. The name
Speaker 3: has been killed, but X still does live. Whatever platform
Speaker 3: you choose to use, I'm gonna try to be out
Speaker 3: there so you can talk with me. If you want
Speaker 3: to go old school. Other than the phone call, you
Speaker 3: can even email me. High tech Textan dot com obviously
Speaker 3: is the website you can go Michael at tech textan
Speaker 3: dot com. So we do start this at Father's Day Gifts.
Speaker 3: If the show is aired on the weekend on random
Speaker 3: different times. Obviously, if it's a Saturday, you've got a
Speaker 3: few hours to go. If it's on a Sunday, you
Speaker 3: better figure out something. And obviously, if it's Sunday, you're
Speaker 3: not getting Dad an in person Chick fil A card
Speaker 3: or a Cabo Bob's card because they closed on Sunday.
Speaker 3: But you can go online and get Dad some sort
Speaker 3: of a gift card, an e gift card. And this
Speaker 3: to me is a low hanging fruit. I talk about
Speaker 3: this all the time. Why not get a gift card?
Speaker 3: Probably because I like cards, and this is my show,
Speaker 3: and I know what I like, and I recommend what
Speaker 3: I like and what I use, and sometimes would I
Speaker 3: give gift cards? Let me go shoping in buying things
Speaker 3: for what I want. Maybe I don't want a coffee
Speaker 3: mug because I don't drink coffee. Maybe I don't want,
Speaker 3: you know, a sleeve of golf balls, probably because I
Speaker 3: have fourteen dozens sitting in my garage. Let me shop
Speaker 3: what I want to shop. I love clothes, me loves
Speaker 3: I like fashion. I like me some style. I shop
Speaker 3: for myself. No one shops for me. Number one, I'm
Speaker 3: not married, that's what. But I like getting my own clothes.
Speaker 3: I have my favorite stores. My kids and my friends
Speaker 3: know what stores I like. Maybe I'll get a new
Speaker 3: gift card. It's not Does anybody find this impersonal? And
Speaker 3: phil this come on, talk to me over here. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't want to sit here for on. I don't
Speaker 3: want to celebrate my Father's Day weekend talking to a wall,
Speaker 3: talking to Callum, which, by the way, Callum is whatever
Speaker 3: the producers of the show looking through the last here, Callum,
Speaker 3: we actually no, sorry about that now. I'm so used
Speaker 3: to saying looking for the glass. That's where my mind
Speaker 3: is right now. You were back in the Houston studio.
Speaker 3: Why I'm in Dallas right now? Callum? You were not
Speaker 3: a dad. I met your dad, Callum, remember that I
Speaker 3: did did I get? I gave you a bottle of
Speaker 3: bourbon when your dad was in down what a few
Speaker 3: years ago, and either you solely or you and your
Speaker 3: dad killed that bottle of bourbon within like two hours. Happy,
Speaker 3: happy Father's Day from that thing. I don't want to
Speaker 3: make this about me, but I am making about me.
Speaker 3: I love bourbon. My birthday last February, I got, I
Speaker 3: get a ton of birthday gifts. I got about nine,
Speaker 3: ten eleven bottles of bourbon. I got nothing else. People
Speaker 3: know what people knew what I'd like then, and I
Speaker 3: like experimenting and playing around with new bourbons. Whatever you
Speaker 3: want to get Dad, try to figure out what dad does,
Speaker 3: what dad likes, what dad needs, what a dad wants
Speaker 3: it to dad needs, Because as I have taught my kids,
Speaker 3: there is a difference between needing and wanting. And I
Speaker 3: think we don't need a lot of things. We need
Speaker 3: air to breathe, maybe they need some water, maybe need
Speaker 3: some protein. We want a lot of things. I would
Speaker 3: like a lot of things. I'd like my own airplane.
Speaker 3: I'd like to be retired. I'd like to not do
Speaker 3: the show anymore. Nope, I'd do it because of my
Speaker 3: love for you find out what Dad really kind of wants,
Speaker 3: and it may be something so small. It may be
Speaker 3: a subscription to an app. Maybe Dad wants to read
Speaker 3: the New York Times. Maybe Dad wants a subscription. Maybe
Speaker 3: Dad does not no longer subscribe to the newspaper like
Speaker 3: the Dallas Morning News, like my parents still get the
Speaker 3: actual paper. But maybe get him an online version, doesn't
Speaker 3: cost too much, doesn't have to be anything big. Speaking
Speaker 3: of big, later in the show, Oh, I will be
Speaker 3: doing my weekly review of What's Michael Driving, where I
Speaker 3: get to test drive cars for the past fifteen years,
Speaker 3: and yes there I've been in a nice one or
Speaker 3: two for the past week or two. Some evs also,
Speaker 3: So that's what I will talk about.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: What we'll also hit over here some of the topics
Speaker 3: that I've people have been emailing about, or I've been
Speaker 3: seeing the news. Hey, Houston in Dallas. If you're not
Speaker 3: ready for it, or if you've never tried it, look
Speaker 3: up in the air, look up at the sky. It's
Speaker 3: not a bird, it's not a plane, but it's a
Speaker 3: drone and it's probably carrying some groceries because drone delivery
Speaker 3: in Houston in Dallas are happening right now. I will
Speaker 3: tell you what company. And you've heard of this company,
Speaker 3: You've probably shopped to this company. I'll tell you what
Speaker 3: company is doing it. And I'm gonna tell you if
Speaker 3: anybody has ever had drone delivery service, definitely want to
Speaker 3: hear from you. I I've seen them, I've done TV
Speaker 3: stories on them. I've actually never had it done to
Speaker 3: my I've never delivered one to my house. It'self three
Speaker 3: four six two nine eight three nine two six. When
Speaker 3: we come back, Yeah, I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 3: about the Doomer Delude, but I'll also talk about self
Speaker 3: driving cars because Texas is now the state that is
Speaker 3: seemingly half if you have a self driving vehicle for
Speaker 3: a ride sharing service. Texas is like the place there's
Speaker 3: like wars are going on. How many companies are doing
Speaker 3: all that? I'm another tack texting specially. What are the
Speaker 3: great things that I enjoy on Father's Day weekend? It's
Speaker 3: the US Open golf tournament. It's it's a tradition, well
Speaker 3: some like any other, turn onto the TV. Make It's
Speaker 3: it's early summer. It's just always hot and ass in Texas.
Speaker 3: So gentally you want to be inside with a coldie.
Speaker 3: I'm a golfer. I like watching golf on TV. But
Speaker 3: it's a Father's Day weekend always in the US Open.
Speaker 3: This yay, sitting in Dallas as a Dallas boy. Scottie Scheffler,
Speaker 3: Let's bring it? Can you do it? Can you make
Speaker 3: three of your four majors wins? What a year you
Speaker 3: are having? Jordan Speith, love you, buddy, both of my
Speaker 3: ut X alumnis one of them, bringing home and Opemett
Speaker 3: in Pennsylvania. Tough course, tough course. So if you're enjoying
Speaker 3: the US Open, if you're joining golf, you're joined Father's
Speaker 3: Day weekend. Thank you so much for joining us. Michael
Speaker 3: is my name. It is called Michael Garfield. That is
Speaker 3: called the High Tech Texan Show. I am actually in
Speaker 3: Dallas visiting and hanging with my parents to celebrate Father's
Speaker 3: Day weekend. Hopped over to the iHeartRadio Dallas World headquarters.
Speaker 3: First time I've been there. I'm from Dallas. I haven't
Speaker 3: lived in Dallas here for three years. I'm based in
Speaker 3: Houston now. Obviously I do a lot of my shows
Speaker 3: out of the iHeart Euston office. My first time in
Speaker 3: the iHeart Dallas office. Impressive Amy, Stacy and all the
Speaker 3: other gang who I met. It's pretty good. I am
Speaker 3: the new I trying to make me the face and
Speaker 3: the voice of iHeart Dallas. I'll take it. I'll take
Speaker 3: It's near the galleria, near the galleria where I had
Speaker 3: my right I had my bomb at the Weston Galleria,
Speaker 3: probably Dallas, folks. I don't get to the galleria much,
Speaker 3: obviously to more in Dallas. I don't gohead get up
Speaker 3: to Dallas a ton ton ton here, but I'm driving
Speaker 3: up like a gosh man. That was my Uh, what's
Speaker 3: about my prom date? Tracy newsomblad should me listen to
Speaker 3: the show? Trace? Remember that night? It did? I'm I'm
Speaker 3: sure you did. Probably forget it. I digress phone number
Speaker 3: here if you want to chime in, ask me questions,
Speaker 3: last minute Father's Day gifts. Maybe you're nearing down a phone,
Speaker 3: a set of headphones, ear pods. I'm at three four six,
Speaker 3: two nine eight, three nine to six. That's how you
Speaker 3: get me if you're in the Austin area. That was
Speaker 3: me earlier this week on Fox seven Good Day Austin,
Speaker 3: which I do each Monday, and I brought in four
Speaker 3: or five different Father's Day gift ideas, one of which
Speaker 3: was a set of headphones inexpensive. I am not the
Speaker 3: guy who is going to suggest the most expensive item
Speaker 3: in the room. If they're headphones, for example, active noise
Speaker 3: canceling headphones, yes, I can go tell you how to
Speaker 3: get a three hundred to five hundred dollars pair of headphones. Okay, good,
Speaker 3: but you're gonna get justice as solid, if not sometimes
Speaker 3: even better product in that category for cheaper. I found
Speaker 3: a pair of seventy or eighty dollars headphones, and if
Speaker 3: you want, I'll tell you right now it's this one
Speaker 3: was from one more the number one more, one more,
Speaker 3: and they make a line of headphones and earbuds. I
Speaker 3: like these because they're very they're comfortable when you put
Speaker 3: them over your ears. Okay, these aren't the ear I
Speaker 3: mean the one. The ones I'm suggesting are over the years.
Speaker 3: Because Dad sometimes just wants to shut out the world.
Speaker 3: Right Dad's on an airplane, Dad's got grandkids or maybe
Speaker 3: even kids. Right now, it's like I don't want to
Speaker 3: hear the app and active noise canceling. They're very light,
Speaker 3: come in a really nice zip case. They fold up
Speaker 3: in a unique way that they're they fold up relatively small,
Speaker 3: seventy or eighty bucks. They got active noise canceling. They
Speaker 3: hold a charge very long, the ones I've been playing with.
Speaker 3: And so again, that's just one suggestion. If you're looking
Speaker 3: for a dad gift earpot, earbuds or some sort of
Speaker 3: a headset. It also, I don't there is a have
Speaker 3: you is anybody I'm gonna pay this off about drones?
Speaker 3: Drones are fun. Dad may be into drones. Dad may
Speaker 3: be into flying drones. Man, they got cameras and drones.
Speaker 3: Drone delivery has been bantered about for many years. There
Speaker 3: has been so many tests, a lot of it here
Speaker 3: in our great state of Texas. Whether it's from Amazon,
Speaker 3: whether it's for other other you know, retail outlets, it's
Speaker 3: here and so much so. There is a big story
Speaker 3: you may have heard of called Walmart. Any anyway, Walmart
Speaker 3: they are now expanding its drone delivery services to five
Speaker 3: more cities here in the US, one or two of
Speaker 3: which now Dallas and Houston. And if you're listening in Bentonville, Arkansas,
Speaker 3: where Walmart is based, yeah they're there too. Walmart said
Speaker 3: it's made more than one hundred and fifty thousand drone
Speaker 3: deliveries since it launched its service about four years ago.
Speaker 3: Interesting because anecdotally looking up in the skies, I have
Speaker 3: never seen a random drone delivery. Now I've seen a
Speaker 3: drone delivery because at a press conference, I've been invited
Speaker 3: to these companies that are going to show off how
Speaker 3: the product works and everything, and I think it's neat.
Speaker 3: But that was a planned one. Has anybody even seen
Speaker 3: if anybody's actually had something delivered via drone? Let me
Speaker 3: know how it works. Was it cool? Did the ice
Speaker 3: cream melt? How quick did it go to your front door,
Speaker 3: your back door if you weren't home? What happened? Were
Speaker 3: you scared? Some of them a porch pirate was gonna
Speaker 3: was gonna steal it? Those are issues that I know
Speaker 3: a lot of people have about drone delivery. Walmart already
Speaker 3: does drone delivery here in Dallas where I am right now,
Speaker 3: and now it's happening to Houston too. Thing is, though,
Speaker 3: if you want to try it, you have to sign
Speaker 3: up on its drone delivery partner service, not Walmart per se.
Speaker 3: It's called wing Wiing. If you go to wing let
Speaker 3: me give you the website over here. It's Wing. It's
Speaker 3: just Wing dot com, slash walmart if you want to
Speaker 3: and pretty cool. You know I'm on the website. Now
Speaker 3: here's a drone. Here's a shot of a drone. Shot
Speaker 3: of the app delivering. It talks about Dallas, talks about
Speaker 3: Houston specifically, and I mentioned those because that's my radio audience.
Speaker 3: And you can sign up through Wing. You can put
Speaker 3: your home address in to see if you are eligible
Speaker 3: to have drone delivery. Drone delivery in a little as
Speaker 3: thirty minutes. I'm trying to think when I would use it.
Speaker 3: And again, maybe I am of different milk because I'm
Speaker 3: an og all right. I didn't grow up with drone delivery.
Speaker 3: I didn't grow up with door dash and Uber eats
Speaker 3: and everything. You see kids pull up a chair because
Speaker 3: it's Uncle Garfy time. If I needed anything at the store,
Speaker 3: we get a little closer. I'm gonna whisper to. We
Speaker 3: got in our cars and we drove to the store.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable concept. Parked the car, went up and down the aisles,
Speaker 3: bought a little something, and we came home. I don't
Speaker 3: want to rag on people who use these delivery services
Speaker 3: food deliver service. How lazy are you? People? Get your
Speaker 3: freaking car, get out, go around the corner, get yourself
Speaker 3: freaking burger, and didn't come home. Nowadays, man, no time,
Speaker 3: gotta have it, door dash, you gotta have it uber
Speaker 3: needed and now we have to have delivered via drunk
Speaker 3: missing a dinner ingredient, order it and get it. I
Speaker 3: will tell you this. I make fun of this. I
Speaker 3: actually probably could have used this service. A few days ago,
Speaker 3: I'm at home. I'm in Houston, and I was making
Speaker 3: turkey tacos, one of my favorite things to make. Tough
Speaker 3: to get anything healthier, healthier turkey ninety nine percent one
Speaker 3: percent fat turkey tacos. And I'm looking around. I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: I don't have any tortillas. Had a buddy of mine
Speaker 3: he was coming over to I'm thinking, oh man, it
Speaker 3: need some tortillas. I didn't really have time. I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there getting ready to make the turkey meat he's coming
Speaker 3: over over. I live half a mile from the Whole Foods,
Speaker 3: I live a mile from an HGB. I just couldn't
Speaker 3: find the time get it all together within ten minutes
Speaker 3: to get tortias. Actually, I could have and I should
Speaker 3: have even tried drone delivery if it's available to me.
Speaker 3: So you know what I did. I texted my buddy, Hey,
Speaker 3: by the way, stop at the store, when you come
Speaker 3: over here and give me some tortillas boom. He was
Speaker 3: my Uber Eat driver. Let me know if you have
Speaker 3: used it? Would you use it? What's the cost? What
Speaker 3: I mean, I went over some negatives. It's averaging ninety
Speaker 3: eight to one hundred degrees already right now and early
Speaker 3: to mid June. I want some ice cream. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: let a drone deliver that to me. By the time
Speaker 3: it goes up, down, over and sits on my porch,
Speaker 3: it ain't happening. Milk refrigerator, things that could spoil. I
Speaker 3: don't see that happening. If I'm not home, my neighbor
Speaker 3: sees or somebody sees a drone come down deliver man.
Speaker 3: That is just ring the bells. Open the door, man.
Speaker 3: I'm inviting Porge pirates to come. And it's a number
Speaker 3: of things that I need to see and get proven
Speaker 3: to me whether I want to use it. All right,
Speaker 3: when we come back, what is your inbox looking? And
Speaker 3: I want you to think about this. Got a quiz
Speaker 3: for you. Okay, I'm gona let you think about four
Speaker 3: five minutes. What is the oldest email that you have
Speaker 3: currently in your email inbox? Does it be the oldest
Speaker 3: email that I have that I disfigured that. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about cleaning out your mailbox. Tips on that much more,
Speaker 3: Eco bartone Hi tip.
Speaker 4: That se.
Speaker 3: Talking about Father's Day gifts, and I actually start the
Speaker 3: show talking about getting Dad a gift card or an
Speaker 3: E gift card. If it's if you're listening right now
Speaker 3: and it's Sunday, actual Dad's Day and you're forgeating, you're like, Oops,
Speaker 3: didn't know it's Dad Day. Need to get him something.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many websites and retail stores and
Speaker 3: whatever you can. You can go online and you can
Speaker 3: order a gift card and have an email to Dad,
Speaker 3: I mean, and then order things online. That's an E
Speaker 3: gift card I am going to give away. How about
Speaker 3: me giving away a Father's Day gift right now, an
Speaker 3: actual gift card right now, caller number ten. Give you
Speaker 3: a special phone number seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: five nine five zero. Dad, you are getting a twenty
Speaker 3: five dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's a restaurant, and
Speaker 3: if you're in Dallas, sucks for you. You don't have any
Speaker 3: Cobo Bobs, But Houston there's four of them. Austin when
Speaker 3: you got about eight of them. San Antonio, you got one.
Speaker 3: Love Cobo Bob's fast, convenient, go through the line. You
Speaker 3: tell them what you want on your tacos. First of all,
Speaker 3: you got five different tortilla joices that you're they're gonna
Speaker 3: make right in front of you. Immediately, got a little cilantro,
Speaker 3: You got a little red chili, doesn't matter. You put
Speaker 3: and they take a they take a Kamata joe. You know,
Speaker 3: one of those smoker devices like a big green egg.
Speaker 3: That's where they make their meat, their chicken, their steaks,
Speaker 3: cook to smoke to perfection. You can make tacos that
Speaker 3: you can make one of the world's largest burritos. You
Speaker 3: tell them what you want in it. You get some caso,
Speaker 3: you get some chips. You call her number ten. We
Speaker 3: got one. Stop gone. You just want a twenty five?
Speaker 3: Do I hope it's a calum is it? Is it
Speaker 3: a dad? It's a dude? Okay, hopefully you're a dad,
Speaker 3: whoever you are, Mister Winter sir, you got a twenty
Speaker 3: five dollar give car to Cabo Bob's my favorite. Go
Speaker 3: go check that out. We do continue the High Tech
Speaker 3: Texan show Father's Day Weekend special on the road show
Speaker 3: from Big d Up in Dallas, hitting the Old, the
Speaker 3: Haunting Ground, staying with my parents, strapped on the running shoes.
Speaker 3: Early Saturday morning, ran by my old high school, WT Whites,
Speaker 3: long arms, looking good man, glad the old high School
Speaker 3: is still running. So wherever you are, a happy Father's Day,
Speaker 3: trying to get to your life in order. Summertime is
Speaker 3: a good time to actually look at your business, look
Speaker 3: at your processes, and clean things up. Maybe it's your garage,
Speaker 3: maybe it's your inbox. I was looking at my inbox.
Speaker 3: In my inbox on my desktop Major one, I have
Speaker 3: nine I must have cleared it out. I had nine
Speaker 3: hundred and forty six emails in my inbox. They're all read.
Speaker 3: I've read them all, but for some reason, either I
Speaker 3: don't delete them, I forget about them the next day too,
Speaker 3: and they just go down and down and down and
Speaker 3: down and out. I have over fifteen thousand items in
Speaker 3: I deleted my trash box that for some reason, I'm
Speaker 3: just holding on just in case I need to go
Speaker 3: find it. I need to dump that at some point.
Speaker 3: Your inbox and especially the one on your phone. My
Speaker 3: phone I keep very clean. I mean I have generally
Speaker 3: have no more than four or five six in my phone.
Speaker 3: Phones have much more limited space. So if you've got
Speaker 3: some time, just a little thing for you to do,
Speaker 3: little summer cleaning, clean up your inbox if you like me.
Speaker 3: Every time I get an email, it comes to my desktop.
Speaker 3: That's my main I want everything on my desktop at home.
Speaker 3: Oh by the way, obviously I get it on my phone,
Speaker 3: which is immediate, which is what I like, and that's
Speaker 3: how we communicate. But then I delete it on my phone. However,
Speaker 3: I always have a backup on my inbox at home. Yes,
Speaker 3: you can sync them together. If not, obviously you have to,
Speaker 3: you know, clean up your inbox one by one on
Speaker 3: your desktop and on your phone. But what's the oldest
Speaker 3: email in your inbox? Is anybody checked? And look scroll down?
Speaker 3: If you're driving, don't do this, I looked. I am
Speaker 3: an idiot. I have no clue why I've kept a
Speaker 3: few so much. I mean, I delete all of them.
Speaker 3: But of my almost one thousand emails, I have an
Speaker 3: email forgot who was from. I don't even know if
Speaker 3: it was even important, certainly not. Now I have an
Speaker 3: email from January of twenty eleven. Why in the world
Speaker 3: do I have a fourteen and a half year old email.
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's why I got this whole thing.
Speaker 3: It's just let's give tips on how to clean out emails.
Speaker 3: It makes no sense. So here's my to do list
Speaker 3: for me. I need to clean my inbox up. Let
Speaker 3: me see if I can get it under I don't
Speaker 3: know two hundred. I don't need to keep all these things,
Speaker 3: if not categorize them. I have so many folders on there,
Speaker 3: all right, But I'm not a hoarder. But if anybody's
Speaker 3: ever seen my garage at home I have it's a
Speaker 3: two car garage that I could barely fit one car in.
Speaker 3: And it's really because, yes, I'm a sentimentalist. I've got
Speaker 3: a lot of my stuff that my parents said, I
Speaker 3: want this out of our house. It's going to your house,
Speaker 3: like all my high school yearbooks and everything. But I
Speaker 3: also do get a ton of gear. I have to
Speaker 3: test all these products, and I just throw them in
Speaker 3: my garage. I also have closets filled. I literally could
Speaker 3: open a Best Bide like store. I either need to,
Speaker 3: and a lot of these companies they don't want the
Speaker 3: stuff back now. A lot of the gear that I
Speaker 3: have probably five years old. Some of the most absolute
Speaker 3: things obsolete things in technology. Hey, something gets over two
Speaker 3: years old in technology, it is Ova, it is old.
Speaker 3: I mean I got phones literally, I still have some
Speaker 3: of the original flip phones from Nokia. Maybe I'm an
Speaker 3: open a museum one day. I have got not one,
Speaker 3: but two untested robotic lawnmowers. Did you know? You know
Speaker 3: there's robotic vacuum planners and mops. You know that there's
Speaker 3: robotic lawnmowers. I'm getting ready to test one of the mouse.
Speaker 3: I need to do a TV story for my TV segments.
Speaker 3: Give me about two weeks and I'm going to test
Speaker 3: one of these robotic lawnmowers. That actually is a very
Speaker 3: good Father's day idea. If your dad mows the lawn
Speaker 3: or still mow's lawn. And my dad is in his
Speaker 3: eighties and we've always had a riding lawnmower in Dallas.
Speaker 3: We have we had a relatively big yard, still do heat.
Speaker 3: I think he still mows. I need a check, and
Speaker 3: I feel bad. He should not be mowing the lawn.
Speaker 3: He needs to hire a service. But why not get
Speaker 3: a robotic lawnmower? If it actually works things, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: test it. These things are not cheap. They're anywhere for
Speaker 3: one thousand and fifteen hundred two thousand dollars. At the
Speaker 3: end game, if it saves money from if it saves
Speaker 3: it'll definitely save you time because when I mowed my lawn,
Speaker 3: when I mowed that lawn when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: that was that was a two to three hour experience
Speaker 3: riding up and down the lawnmower and then then been
Speaker 3: bagging everything my homes. Over the past thirty years, when
Speaker 3: my kids were going up, I really enjoyed mowing lawns.
Speaker 3: Is a Texas kid, I didn't love the heat. I
Speaker 3: still don't love the heat. But I grew up mowing
Speaker 3: my grandparents lawn, which was nearby in Dallas. I grew
Speaker 3: up mowing my lawn. I grew up, and I taught
Speaker 3: my kids and I made them. If lack of a
Speaker 3: better term, I guess I did learn out to mo lawns.
Speaker 3: But I kind of enjoyed mowing lawns. I live in
Speaker 3: a house now that I don't have a big lawn,
Speaker 3: and I really don't need a mo lawn. I have
Speaker 3: them all lawn mowing service, and don't laugh, I really
Speaker 3: do miss mowing lawns. I missed the solid solidarity, the solitude.
Speaker 3: It's probably the one time ever that I'm not taking
Speaker 3: phone calls because I can't hear the phone calls because
Speaker 3: of the lawn mighter. And I just sit there and
Speaker 3: think going back to it. Right now, I can rip
Speaker 3: out a lawn chair, have a nice cold brewer, tow
Speaker 3: or tend watching my robot mow my lawn. I will
Speaker 3: give you the P by P by the end of June.
Speaker 3: I will put the link on my website, high tech
Speaker 3: Texting dot com. But if anybody has these robotic lawns,
Speaker 3: apparently they work just like robotic vacuums. You charge it,
Speaker 3: you set it up, you map out, it maps out
Speaker 3: your lawn, you download the app, looks at the go
Speaker 3: around the trees, goes around the sprinkler systems, and didn't
Speaker 3: whatever like that. I'm very anxious to see how it works,
Speaker 3: and so that's one of the only things. So if
Speaker 3: it works, I actually may give that to my dad
Speaker 3: for a post Father's Day gift. I probably should have
Speaker 3: done tested it out a month ago and brought it
Speaker 3: here and given them this weekend. Alas I did. Phone
Speaker 3: number HI one more time three four six twenty nine, Texan.
Speaker 3: The name is Michael Michael at high Tech Texan dot com.
Speaker 3: What a little somber note. And I got an email
Speaker 3: over here from a company touting something that I realized
Speaker 3: I talk about dads. I appreciate my dad still with us,
Speaker 3: still kicking here. What if you've lost your dad and
Speaker 3: it's Father's Day? And for those of you who do
Speaker 3: not have a father right now, I seriously my thoughts
Speaker 3: are with you. I hope your thoughts of DABD are
Speaker 3: with you too. But how would you like to honor
Speaker 3: dad on Father's Day if you've lost him?
Speaker 6: That story I Taxing Shows.
Speaker 3: Final segment this first hour of the High Tech Texting Show.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is the name. Appreciate reading all your emails,
Speaker 3: listening to you, got some Father's Day gift ideas for you,
Speaker 3: got an interview next hour. If you're interested in search
Speaker 3: engine optimization, A lot of people have websites. How do
Speaker 3: you optimize it? So when you go to Google or
Speaker 3: search somewhere. How do you optimize that we have an
Speaker 3: expert coming on and about that about forty minutes from
Speaker 3: right now, mentioned this kind of a tease before the
Speaker 3: show in a little somber Let's bring it down on
Speaker 3: a very special episode of Punky Brewster. Here's a very
Speaker 3: special segment on the High Tech Texting show. This is
Speaker 3: Father's Day weekend. I am in Dallas right now. I'm
Speaker 3: visiting and hanging out out with my dad and my
Speaker 3: mom too, and two of my three kids happen to
Speaker 3: be in Dallas this weekend. So it's great to be
Speaker 3: able to spend it not only with a generation above me,
Speaker 3: but also a generation below me. But there's many of
Speaker 3: you who have lost your dads, and I know this
Speaker 3: this weekend, this holiday can be difficult to celebrate. How
Speaker 3: do you still think of dad? Do you honor dad?
Speaker 3: This was brought up to my subject, to my attention,
Speaker 3: and the reason I'm thinking about it is I got
Speaker 3: an email earlier this week. It's you know, I get
Speaker 3: story pitches all the time from company. So there's a
Speaker 3: press release. If you're interested about this. This is I'm
Speaker 3: not This is not a commercial I swear I don't
Speaker 3: know anything about this company other than what I'm reading
Speaker 3: in this press release. And I'm not selling this company
Speaker 3: just but it was very interesting. There are there is
Speaker 3: a company who transforms cremated remains into a collections of
Speaker 3: stones that allow them to I guess, literally hold their
Speaker 3: loved ones. Again. I'm trying not to be morbid over here.
Speaker 3: I'm really trying to be sinceers for those of you
Speaker 3: who have lost a loved one. I mean, I actually
Speaker 3: let's expand this and not just to ads and they
Speaker 3: have been cremated. Where are there? Where are there remains?
Speaker 3: Are they in your house? Or are they in a
Speaker 3: just not whatever they call the mausoleum, not a crematorium.
Speaker 3: But you know, when I'm thinking of here, but if
Speaker 3: you taking the ashes and you've spread them over their
Speaker 3: favorite golf course, favorite beach, their favorite place overlooking mountains
Speaker 3: or sunrises or sunset. So I'm reading this thing, I'm like,
Speaker 3: is this It's just I don't I'm not big into
Speaker 3: death really just you know, I don't really think about it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about it. It's just, you know,
Speaker 3: different subject for some. But there is this company. It's
Speaker 3: called hearting stone that cakes cremated remains and solidifies them
Speaker 3: into these stones. And I'm looking at the website. I
Speaker 3: won't even give the website. I'm not promoting this thing,
Speaker 3: but is this odd? Has anybody done something like this?
Speaker 3: Not even that I even want to open the phone
Speaker 3: lines to this, but it's a way to remember. It's
Speaker 3: a solidification service for the In return, they return the
Speaker 3: full amount remains in an average of about forty to
Speaker 3: eighty stones. And I'm looking stones. These look like those
Speaker 3: stones that you see in these little calming ponds. They're
Speaker 3: very they look smooth. Why do they do this? And
Speaker 3: actually I don't want to question it the entire because
Speaker 3: I'm going to take it at their work. How do
Speaker 3: I really know that Dad is in those stones? Ape color, texture?
Speaker 3: They say each collection is uniquely beautiful and solidified, which
Speaker 3: is an alternative to ash. There is a here's the
Speaker 3: crazy thing, which I appreciate, But there's a anytime money
Speaker 3: back guarantee. What okay, I want the ashes back? How
Speaker 3: are they going to do that? Anyone? Calum, I know
Speaker 3: you're my over under take a guess. At the cost
Speaker 3: of solidifying someone's ashes into forty to eighty stones anyone,
Speaker 3: anyone which, by the way, while you're thinking, they send
Speaker 3: a collection kit to retrieve your loved one's ashes. You
Speaker 3: send the ashes to their lab. They solidify the ashes
Speaker 3: into stones. It's interesting. There's a quote. Stones are in
Speaker 3: quotes right now, and then they ship the stones back
Speaker 3: to your house. A lot of five star reviews over here, anyone.
Speaker 3: If you guessed fifteen hundred dollars keep going up, you're
Speaker 3: way low. If you order now, and I don't even
Speaker 3: know if there's a promotion code. Twenty five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: is the process? Twenty five hundred dollars turned to see?
Speaker 3: This is where if we had a budget at iHeartRadio
Speaker 3: and we had we have the rights to allow to
Speaker 3: play music, so we can license them, but we don't.
Speaker 3: This is where we do Eello's turn to stone, right,
Speaker 3: twenty five hundred dollars. Would anybody do this? I just
Speaker 3: not a commercial. I wouldn't do this. I'm not getting agree,
Speaker 3: madd I don't know if any of my family's getting cremated.
Speaker 3: We we're not a cremating type of people. But if
Speaker 3: you are just throwing it out there anyway, Happy Fathers
Speaker 3: Day people, twenty three years I've been doing this. I
Speaker 3: think the first time I've ever brought brought the tone
Speaker 3: down to that such is the world of technology, consumer lifestyle.
Speaker 3: That's what you go through lots to talk about. Dextur
Speaker 3: We're gonna give something away maybe, but have you driven by,
Speaker 3: or seen or driven in one of these ride sharing
Speaker 3: cars that does not have a driver? You hear about them,
Speaker 3: You hear what's happening in Los Angeles right now where
Speaker 3: wai mo. That's another one of these robotaxi type of things.
Speaker 3: Several of them have been burned. And by the way,
Speaker 3: people have been asking if if my kids, who do
Speaker 3: live in LA, if they have seen these quote unquote riots,
Speaker 3: They don't they live in LA. They don't even know
Speaker 3: their Eclians going on. Do you not believe anything that
Speaker 3: the menia says unless the position in then that's the
Speaker 3: simple as waymos are being burned? Why are they being burned?
Speaker 3: But I will tell you why. Our great state of Texas,
Speaker 3: particularly Austin. But I'm not I'm don't use the fact
Speaker 3: that they're not already in Dallas and Houston and San Antonio,
Speaker 3: but particularly Austin. This is the hotbed this is and
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why why the state of Texas legally
Speaker 3: is the hotbed of why so many companies are rolling
Speaker 3: out and testing their self driving, no driver driverless vehicles
Speaker 3: in the state of Texas. Saw fear this past weekend
Speaker 3: when I was in Austin. We'll talk about that and
Speaker 3: also a few more products I'm getting questions for here
Speaker 3: on an email. My name is Michael Garfield. Father's Day weekend.
Speaker 3: Here on the High Tech Texan shows.
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Speaker 3: Halfway through the show, almost halfway through the month of June,
Speaker 3: which means we're halfway to happy hour. No matter how
Speaker 3: you break it down, it is Michael Garfield. That's right,
Speaker 3: sixty minutes down, sixty minutes to go. You're celebrating this
Speaker 3: weekend Father's Day, US Open weekend. If you're watching golf,
Speaker 3: chasing the rain, whatever you're doing, I do thank you
Speaker 3: for making an hour or two to listen to this show,
Speaker 3: whether I've Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, whether recorded or podcasted,
Speaker 3: which we will do. Thank you Callum Red for posting
Speaker 3: this on the old iHeartRadio. Just look for high Tech
Speaker 3: texts and you can listen to all of my previous
Speaker 3: shows and all fifteen years you can find of my
Speaker 3: car reviews. Each week I do get to test drive
Speaker 3: a car. I rolled up here. By the way, I'm
Speaker 3: doing the show from Dallas this weekend, where my dad
Speaker 3: and my parents are, and two of my kids actually
Speaker 3: here this weekend, so I'm trying to make a little
Speaker 3: family affair out of my Father's Day weekend. Drove up
Speaker 3: here in a brand new Nissan Frontier mid size truck,
Speaker 3: the Pro four X version, the Pro four X Nissan Fun.
Speaker 3: I didn't need really to schlep anything in a truck.
Speaker 3: It's a mid sized truck, so easy to maneuver, easy
Speaker 3: to part, work done, guzzle, a lot of gas, a
Speaker 3: lot of opportunities, a lot of ideas. If you're interested
Speaker 3: in that, but pretty rugged. I like the front fescia,
Speaker 3: this new grill, it's a new bumper design. You look,
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, that's not the Nissan Frontier that I
Speaker 3: normally see. Love the oe afterburn orange paint, not burnt orange,
Speaker 3: but pretty close. Got some meat cameras, off road cameras.
Speaker 3: Six foot bed which is nice, dude, is about seven
Speaker 3: thousand pounds or so. They really did a good job
Speaker 3: of upping the infotainment. The touch screen about a twelve
Speaker 3: twelve point three inch touch screen, wireless Android Auto obviously,
Speaker 3: which I like. I don't care about iPhones, and it's
Speaker 3: got the Pro four x pro X badging. It's nice.
Speaker 3: So thank you for Nissan to get him. Every week.
Speaker 3: I do test drive some of these babies, and they
Speaker 3: are They're pretty cool. So if you're you're interested. I
Speaker 3: don't work with the dealerships. I work directly with the manufacturers,
Speaker 3: so I'm not going to tell you a Nissan dealership
Speaker 3: to go shop at. But if you want to hear
Speaker 3: one of my almost one thousand, fifteen years on a
Speaker 3: weekly basis, I obviously sometimes I get two per week.
Speaker 3: I've matriculated and multiplied and figured the total number. But
Speaker 3: in fifteen or so years, I have test driven over
Speaker 3: one thousand cars. I don't even own a real car. Really,
Speaker 3: I test drive one each week. They do not pay me.
Speaker 3: I just roll with the people. So you can actually
Speaker 3: take it because I can rag on my vehicles and
Speaker 3: I don't have to rag on my vehicles. So happy
Speaker 3: Father's Day if dad wants a car. Speaking of cars,
Speaker 3: I was at Austin last week. Yes, apparently I am
Speaker 3: driving all over this state of Texas this month. So
Speaker 3: in Austin last week. And it's interesting because on a
Speaker 3: relatively regular basis, certainly if you're downtown Austin, you see
Speaker 3: self driving cars. And if you've never seen a self
Speaker 3: driving car, the first time you see it gets a
Speaker 3: little freaky dki. It's like Ghostbusters, who are driving that thing? Now?
Speaker 3: It's you notice these because they have radar, light ar,
Speaker 3: physical things sticking off the top of the vehicle, on
Speaker 3: the sides of the vehicle, so we can quote unquote
Speaker 3: see use GPS map itself out watch for pedestrians, looks
Speaker 3: at the lights, red light, green light everything. They are
Speaker 3: pretty smart. And Waimo there were a number of wes
Speaker 3: Weimo launched late last year or something. You actually can
Speaker 3: order them through the Uber to experience a self driving
Speaker 3: car and sit in the back. Kind of cool to
Speaker 3: need experiment if you want to. People have a lot
Speaker 3: of trepidation about it. Totally understand letting big brother, actually
Speaker 3: your big sister drive for you a lot of Waymo's,
Speaker 3: which is fine. I did not see, but this weekend
Speaker 3: there was a report, ironically on South Congress Avenue where
Speaker 3: I was walking on Sunday. I should have kept my
Speaker 3: eyes open for the debut of a brand new company
Speaker 3: that is not even starting to let passengers ride in it.
Speaker 3: But it's happening later this week. Your good friend in
Speaker 3: Austin resident, Elon Musk, is launching a Tesla Robotaxi for
Speaker 3: the public. But they were rolling out on South Congress.
Speaker 3: I got back on Monday or Tuesday, and I saw
Speaker 3: on Twitter or x which Elon Ostill owns video of
Speaker 3: seeing these vehicles in the wild up and down Congress Avenue.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, I must have seen that,
Speaker 3: which I didn't even notice it. I mean, they're not flashy,
Speaker 3: they're not yellow, they're not bright, they're just regular looking
Speaker 3: Tesla like cars. And it is Tesla and they are
Speaker 3: rolling out self driving robotaxis to the public June twenty second.
Speaker 3: They're very excited about it, and actually a lot of
Speaker 3: people are excited about right now. They're going to have
Speaker 3: about ten to twenty of the Tesla model y SUVs.
Speaker 3: They're going to work in limited areas, which is pretty
Speaker 3: much downtown Austin. They're gonna say ROBOTAXI on the side
Speaker 3: of it, which I did, which I saw in the videos.
Speaker 3: No human driver. There's no human driver whatsoever. Now we
Speaker 3: can talk and this is just this has been my
Speaker 3: fodder over the past year or two. Would you trust
Speaker 3: and would you ride in the back seat of these things?
Speaker 3: There's probably a good number of my listeners right now
Speaker 3: who have already ridden in the back of a driverless vehicle.
Speaker 3: Weimos are not having a good time. In other news,
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles where allegedly and on one square block
Speaker 3: of Los Angeles, there are protests going on for something
Speaker 3: that I don't even understand or care about. But there
Speaker 3: are about five Waimo self driving robotaxis that were set
Speaker 3: on fire during protest. I have no clue why, and
Speaker 3: I bet people who set these things on fire still
Speaker 3: don't have a clue because no, the driver can't get
Speaker 3: out and fight back. I don't know these cars. Weaimo
Speaker 3: uses one vehicles. They use a Jaguar Eye Pace. It's
Speaker 3: an electric suv cost about seventy three thousand dollars. One
Speaker 3: of the reasons, I think is because if an electric
Speaker 3: car ever goes up in flames, you don't want to
Speaker 3: be around it because it is thick, black smoke that
Speaker 3: billows into the sky for hours on end. You just
Speaker 3: can't have a fire truck come and just douse water
Speaker 3: on These are battery fires. Maybe that's one of the
Speaker 3: reasons why let's hope that doesn't happen. Let's hope that's
Speaker 3: the nonsense stops stop at people. But one of the reasons,
Speaker 3: and here in Austin, Man there are a number of
Speaker 3: other companies already rolling things out. There's one called was
Speaker 3: it Zeus or something amat Amazon's got one, and I
Speaker 3: don't know I need a high tech text in robocar.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm the only company doesn't even have one
Speaker 3: right now. One of the reasons that there's so many
Speaker 3: in Texas is because of the lack of legal issues
Speaker 3: that company need to jump through hoops to test and
Speaker 3: utilize self driving car in California, which you know has
Speaker 3: had them for a while, you have to go to
Speaker 3: the DMV in California and you've got to get permits.
Speaker 3: In Texas, you do not need a permit in Texas
Speaker 3: as long as those vehicles passed the muster in the
Speaker 3: standards of what a typical vehicle needs to drive on
Speaker 3: this the highways and byways of Texas, companies are allowed
Speaker 3: to actually test self driving cars and utilize them. Low
Speaker 3: hanging fruit. Also, we don't have state income tax people,
Speaker 3: greatest date in the world. Bring it on people. So
Speaker 3: if you see and happen to roll by in Austin
Speaker 3: one of these new Tesla things. But I want you
Speaker 3: to think about this. These are just ordinary Teslas. Yes
Speaker 3: there they're Teslas, but they're outfitted a little bit more
Speaker 3: to be self driving. How about all the Teslas we've
Speaker 3: been hearing about that are sitting on lots because they
Speaker 3: haven't been sold. Tesla has maybe had some issues over
Speaker 3: the past year with sales, stock has dropped and whatever
Speaker 3: for whatever reason. But they've got a fleet, fleets and
Speaker 3: fleets of fleets. Tesla's sitting there, you know, what they
Speaker 3: could be doing. They could be programmed to drive off
Speaker 3: their own parking lots and then come to your house
Speaker 3: to pick you up. It's a world of robots, if
Speaker 3: you think, just throwing that out there. Kind of world
Speaker 3: we live in not an easy one right now. It's
Speaker 3: very tough. Just take care of yourself, take care of
Speaker 3: each other. Break right now. I am going to get
Speaker 3: to some question as answers. Here's a question coming in
Speaker 3: from an emailer right now. What hey, Garth, what photo
Speaker 3: editing app do I use or do you recommend? That's
Speaker 3: a great question. More and more people, man, we are
Speaker 3: taking photo after photo after a photo you may want
Speaker 3: to edit it for for more light, more saturation. Number
Speaker 3: of them out there. There was one that actually was
Speaker 3: just released and I just downloaded for the first time.
Speaker 3: That normally costs money. It's totally free right now, totally free.
Speaker 3: I'll give you two or three to choose from. We'll
Speaker 3: saw some more of your calls, and here's email. I'm
Speaker 3: a high tech next show. Be a few calls coming
Speaker 3: in right now. Michael is the name. Ask me questions
Speaker 3: Father's Day gifts. If you're narrowing something down, I am
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Speaker 3: That is right. This comes from Jared. Jared is in Plano, Texas,
Speaker 3: not far from actually where I'm doing the show this weekend.
Speaker 3: What is up? Jared? Garth enjoyed listening to your show.
Speaker 3: I just found it a few months ago. Oh good information.
Speaker 3: I love your personality and enthusiasm. I assume that you
Speaker 3: do a lot of photo taking with your Android phone.
Speaker 3: You always talk about do you use a photo editing
Speaker 3: app and which one would you recommend? Jared, thank you
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Speaker 3: I have no less than four or five photo editing
Speaker 3: apps that I use on a pretty regular basis. I
Speaker 3: shoot a lot of products that I review, and I
Speaker 3: shoot a lot of videos. I use my phone actually
Speaker 3: to what I do TV segments in Austin and Houston,
Speaker 3: and I shoot a lot of those segments on my
Speaker 3: actual phone. My phones now can provide a clarity and
Speaker 3: a quality that eight ten, twenty thousand dollars TV camera
Speaker 3: now can provide. And this one fits in your pocket too.
Speaker 3: I edit it. I got it videos, which that was
Speaker 3: not your question. Edit photos inherently whatever phone you use,
Speaker 3: there is a built in photo editor. Some of them
Speaker 3: are rudimentary that you're going to do, the saturation, the color.
Speaker 3: You can crop them, you can mirror room, flip them
Speaker 3: upside down, and some of them will just the lights.
Speaker 3: Can you lighten somebody's face? Some have features that you
Speaker 3: can make people thinner or fatter and remove wrinkles or whatever.
Speaker 3: But the route. There are hundreds and not thousands of
Speaker 3: photo editing apps. One I have used for a long
Speaker 3: time to color correct, sometimes sharpen things up. That gives
Speaker 3: me a lot of leeway. Maybe there's a photo where
Speaker 3: only a part of the photo that I want lightened up,
Speaker 3: So now I can kind of hit a dot or
Speaker 3: circle it and lighten this and keep. It's called snap Seed,
Speaker 3: totally free. Snap Seed's that's almost a go to one
Speaker 3: on a regular basis. One that I just downloaded that
Speaker 3: I saw that was just made available a few months
Speaker 3: ago for the iPhone, but only Android was just a
Speaker 3: few days ago. Adobe just re re re released a
Speaker 3: Photoshop app, Yes, real Photoshop. They released the mobile version
Speaker 3: of Photoshop iPhone earlier this year. The Android is finally here.
Speaker 3: If you're an Android user, why don't you try it
Speaker 3: and download it right now? It's in beta. But the
Speaker 3: best thing while it's in the beta the testing period
Speaker 3: is totally free, totally free to use, and it kind
Speaker 3: of does the same thing that the desktop version of
Speaker 3: Adobe Photoshop and listen, Photoshop is the catch all tar
Speaker 3: Photoshop was one of, if not the first to market.
Speaker 3: Photoshop is not the easyest image editor to use, because
Speaker 3: there's layers, there's masks, there's transformations, there's things that I
Speaker 3: don't even know how to use. But I tell you what,
Speaker 3: playing around with it for an hour or so, it's
Speaker 3: kind of cool and there's a lot that it does
Speaker 3: it for you because there's some AI built in, some
Speaker 3: generative AI tools. Technically, this is about the third attempt
Speaker 3: that Adobe has tried to do with photoshop on phones.
Speaker 3: I remember they had a Photoshop Express. There was a
Speaker 3: Photoshop Touch or something many many years ago. I'm kind
Speaker 3: of liking this. I haven't done a lot of it,
Speaker 3: but I don't know what they're going to charge for this,
Speaker 3: when they're going to start charging for it. But if
Speaker 3: you want to try it, try the Photoshop for Android.
Speaker 3: It should work on most newer Android phones. You have
Speaker 3: to have Android eleven or higher and that takes you
Speaker 3: back four years or so, which is certainly fine. You
Speaker 3: don't need a lot of extra memory. But it kind
Speaker 3: of works. I mean, you know, there was a photo
Speaker 3: of some people. I had you touch the photo and
Speaker 3: it pulled the people out on a white background. Now
Speaker 3: you actually put a layer. I can put a background
Speaker 3: of a beach. I could put a background of the moon,
Speaker 3: and I could put them on there. Normally you would
Speaker 3: need some be pretty prolific in photo editing, which I'm
Speaker 3: actually not. This kind of does it for you. So
Speaker 3: that's one or two. Let me quickly look at my
Speaker 3: phone so if I can think of anything those what
Speaker 3: other photo editing things that I have? I like snapseed.
Speaker 3: I like that thing. I use Google Google Photos good.
Speaker 3: They have something called the Magic Editor. I have that one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: those are those are the two or three that I recommend.
Speaker 3: If anybody else has some that actually that you would recommend,
Speaker 3: love to hear from you. Three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: textan But that's one of the ones that I can recommend.
Speaker 3: I got another one over if I got another phone.
Speaker 3: A little phone tip for you. I hopefully every phone
Speaker 3: has a case on it. Mind does because the case
Speaker 3: is going to allow you to help prevent ding's glass
Speaker 3: breaks and whatever. I'm an android guy. If several androids
Speaker 3: from several different mean factors that I test on a
Speaker 3: regular basis, Okay, do not have an iPhone. The latest
Speaker 3: iPhones have what's called mag safe. It's a magnetic circle
Speaker 3: in the back. And if you've got a phone that's
Speaker 3: I don't know what is it, at least three years
Speaker 3: or more or something like that, it's maxim I really
Speaker 3: didn't understand because I have an Android. I didn't ever
Speaker 3: really understand or get into the mag safe thing. It's
Speaker 3: a magnetic backing that can do a number of different things.
Speaker 3: It could wirelessly, you could set itself and wirelessly charge.
Speaker 3: You could take little tiny portable batteries. You know, some
Speaker 3: people have a wallet or something like a credit card
Speaker 3: holder back there. They make magnetic credit card and wallets
Speaker 3: to fit on your mag Safe. They make little tiny batteries,
Speaker 3: smaller batteries to give yourself some wireless charge. If you're
Speaker 3: the They have car holders, you know, things that'll clip
Speaker 3: onto your air conditioning thing and then you could magnetically
Speaker 3: pop your phone on there. I really only got into
Speaker 3: it about in last January. I got one of the
Speaker 3: new Android phones I was testing. Company sent me androids
Speaker 3: by Nature. Legally, they don't have mag safe built in.
Speaker 3: I think it's exclusive to Apple at least, but under
Speaker 3: that name. But there are phone cases that you could
Speaker 3: put on regular other phones that have the round magnetic
Speaker 3: circle that will wirelessly charge. And so I'm really kind
Speaker 3: of into mag Safe chargers. And I bring this up
Speaker 3: is because a buddy of mine, Doug Dougie, came over
Speaker 3: to my house earlier this week and he walks in
Speaker 3: and he's a big electric in dou He's really big.
Speaker 3: He's an electrical engineer, mechanical engineer. He's brilliant guy. He
Speaker 3: has a foldable phone. Little foldable phone doesn't have a
Speaker 3: case on it. So he walks in, he sits on
Speaker 3: my counter and he starts. He got it on Amazon.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was, but it was a
Speaker 3: do it yourself mag safe kit. So for twenty one bucks,
Speaker 3: he told me he bought the circular magnet that you
Speaker 3: can buy. You can upgrade your phone to make it
Speaker 3: mag say ready, And I'm like, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug,
Speaker 3: don't stick it on there yet. I've got like ten
Speaker 3: of these things that companies have sent me, So let's
Speaker 3: go shopping. So for his Father's Day President, I went
Speaker 3: down in my garf goodie case in my closet and
Speaker 3: I gave him one of these things and he put
Speaker 3: it on there. So and he's going to return the
Speaker 3: Amazon thing for twenty one dollars, but he's using it
Speaker 3: too on things. But I bring it up. He goes,
Speaker 3: this is it's a neat feature. It really really does.
Speaker 3: And you don't now have to have an iPhone. You
Speaker 3: can have any sort of phone and you can go
Speaker 3: get either a case or you can just literally get
Speaker 3: the manet. The magnet itself. One side of it sticks.
Speaker 3: It's a sticky substance that sticks on your phone and
Speaker 3: the outside of it is magnetic. And now you can
Speaker 3: use the same things that Apple uses for the things.
Speaker 3: And so again it's again could be a good Father's
Speaker 3: Day present charges wirelessly charges always have these things. Again,
Speaker 3: not giving you it. I'm not here to give you
Speaker 3: one even brand of it. I'm just letting you know
Speaker 3: some of the neat feature that are out there for you.
Speaker 3: All right, little another Father's Day for you when we
Speaker 3: come back, gonna speak with a gentleman who knows everything
Speaker 3: about Search engine optimization. If you have a website, if
Speaker 3: you want to gain traction, if you don't have SEO
Speaker 3: already built into one of your marketing campaigns, will tell
Speaker 3: you how simple it can be. And also some of
Speaker 3: the companies, what type of companies industries really are kicking
Speaker 3: it when it comes to SEO dot On the High
Speaker 3: Tech Assent, sire Ah, Yes, summertime. It is here whether
Speaker 3: you like it or not, which means you take me
Speaker 3: wherever you are at the pool on your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: We continue the long running high Tech text and show.
Speaker 3: Michael Greifeld is the name shout out to not only Houston,
Speaker 3: which I've been doing this for twenty three years. But
Speaker 3: also Big D, my hometown Dallas Talk Radio eleven ninety
Speaker 3: and also San Antonio. All you san Antonians, san Antonio Whites,
Speaker 3: I don't know, whatever you are. You have good Mexican
Speaker 3: food down there on WAI twelve hundred topics suggestions. A
Speaker 3: few people asked me over the past month for some reason.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's that time of year, summer, Some businesses are
Speaker 3: getting kind of slow. They have time in their hands.
Speaker 3: Should they upgrade their website or websites? Still relevant? Should
Speaker 3: I just be doing social media? Websites are very irrelevant.
Speaker 3: Let me help you out my website. I still think
Speaker 3: it's very relevant. Just about a month and a half
Speaker 3: ago some company found me and I got another gig
Speaker 3: from it, and so it always should be updated and
Speaker 3: out there, but also should have SEO search engine optimization.
Speaker 3: It's been a while since I talked to a little SEO,
Speaker 3: which means it's been a while since I talked to
Speaker 3: Steve Winter, who runs a Stouns in Houston, who runs website.
Speaker 3: He also from Big D. My man, how's your summer
Speaker 3: been been outstanding?
Speaker 1: Had a lot of fun, just played a little golf
Speaker 1: and Bandon Dunes up in Oregon. Had a great time.
Speaker 3: Let me check my spam email. I don't remember getting
Speaker 3: that invitation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, don't worry. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But I say we average walking I think twelve to
Speaker 1: fourteen miles a day, and that's hard on an old man.
Speaker 3: Well, define old baby, ain't that much older. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: got to keep in shape. But the fact, the fact
Speaker 3: is you do have time for golf because your your
Speaker 3: company is cranking. You have got a team who just
Speaker 3: does so many things. I communicate with them regularly because
Speaker 3: anytime I need something maybe at not fixed but added,
Speaker 3: or like I just added a few new radio stations
Speaker 3: to my rate to you know, absolutely exactly. So I
Speaker 3: emailed your staff and I'm think, oh, Steve's not here,
Speaker 3: he's golfing, but we're more than happy to take care. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so astounds. Obviously, you do create websites, you update websites,
Speaker 3: you get them into the twenty first century. But a
Speaker 3: website is really not truly working unless it is optimized
Speaker 3: for search engines. And let's put it this way. When
Speaker 3: I get asked about this, the first question I asked
Speaker 3: when people ask me about SEO is I asked them
Speaker 3: what type of company they have, what service are they in.
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you this. Look at all your clients,
Speaker 3: the fittest downs. What are some of the better companies, services, jobs,
Speaker 3: organizations that work well with SEO.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad to ask that because you know, when
Speaker 1: we go in with a client, what we say it
Speaker 1: all the time, we really want to be their best salesperson, okay,
Speaker 1: and their cheapest salesperson.
Speaker 2: They're the ROI.
Speaker 1: And certain businesses absolutely in what we're doing, are better
Speaker 1: for our services than others. And you know, your service
Speaker 1: business is your h va C. You're plumbing, you know,
Speaker 1: and even even service businesses you know, your accountants and
Speaker 1: lawyers and things like that, where you know a lot
Speaker 1: of them don't have salespeople. They're great engineers, great technicians,
Speaker 1: great practitioners, but they don't have a sales force, right
Speaker 1: and and their services are not inexpensive, okay, And so
Speaker 1: leads and all. And an investment in a website in
Speaker 1: SEO is huge, you know, we do it.
Speaker 2: You know. Pest control is another big one for us.
Speaker 1: Those are the companies that we really really see great
Speaker 1: returns on and can truly make a difference. One of
Speaker 1: one of my commercial HVAC clients is in my breakfast
Speaker 1: club and he goes, I said, you know how any
Speaker 1: things going.
Speaker 2: He goes.
Speaker 1: Man, he goes, you know, we they we've impacted his
Speaker 1: business so much. He goes, but I almost need to
Speaker 1: turn my website off right now. I am just getting slammed,
Speaker 1: you know. But those are the ones we love to
Speaker 1: hear from, right and and those are the results we're
Speaker 1: looking for.
Speaker 2: Are those companies that.
Speaker 1: We can really really make an impact.
Speaker 2: And we try to be very honest.
Speaker 1: It's people that come to us, you know, they're trying
Speaker 1: to launch like a new clothing brand or something that's
Speaker 1: almost more of a viral or a luck or you've
Speaker 1: really got to get out there and get you know,
Speaker 1: those folks out there that have all the followings.
Speaker 2: Whatever to try to promote a brand.
Speaker 1: Because you're competing against Lululemon and you know, the Gap
Speaker 1: and all these other different companies that have been out
Speaker 1: there forever. Very hard to do. But local service businesses,
Speaker 1: serving in the community or whatever you're not. We can
Speaker 1: do national brands. We've done some really cool national stuff too,
Speaker 1: But you talk about the ones that are the quick,
Speaker 1: easy returns. You know, are these service businesses that have
Speaker 1: a certain geography with within which they work and going
Speaker 1: after those and just seeing some fabulous results.
Speaker 3: Steve Winter joining me. He is with astounds as t
Speaker 3: O U n d Z dot com. For some reason,
Speaker 3: you were interested in upgrading your website getting se O.
Speaker 3: I certainly can valiche because I've worked with this company
Speaker 3: for many years. It's funny you got an anecdotal story
Speaker 3: about when SEO works well, it certainly proves your point.
Speaker 3: But when it doesn't work well, Steve, it also proves
Speaker 3: a point. Let me tell you, so, I got a
Speaker 3: friend of mine. She owns her own event company. So
Speaker 3: she runs events, big weddings, corporate events and wedther and
Speaker 3: she and things like that. She realizes on her website
Speaker 3: she is seoed it out all right. Well, her website
Speaker 3: was down for like a week and a half in
Speaker 3: April or May. She noticed the lack of incoming calls
Speaker 3: that she got from people asking for proposals solely because
Speaker 3: her website was down, but her SEO nothing was hitting
Speaker 3: right there. And so it just shows you how important
Speaker 3: how vital is the businesses right now, whether it works
Speaker 3: whether it doesn't work. You got to have the thing running.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other thing we ask our clients, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we want them engaged with us. We like
Speaker 1: some of our clients. We literally get sales reports from them,
Speaker 1: and we know what is you know, when when things
Speaker 1: are up and down or whatever, we're looking at it.
Speaker 1: Surprisingly enough, I had one of my clients. I had
Speaker 1: been trying to get together with them forever. They in
Speaker 1: the asphalt business, and they were rebuilding up. They had
Speaker 1: moved their warehouses and other things and just wouldn't really
Speaker 1: get with us. And I'm sitting there talking to them,
Speaker 1: and they said, well, we may go to another web company.
Speaker 1: We haven't really been getting many leads. And I'm going,
Speaker 1: I'm scratching my head, and I go and I send
Speaker 1: them a list of all the leads we had been getting. Well,
Speaker 1: they had made some changes on security on their email
Speaker 1: or whatever else, and all of our leads were going
Speaker 1: to spam. They realized they had missed probably two million dollars.
Speaker 2: In leads that we had generated.
Speaker 1: And and you know, just because we didn't have regular meetings,
Speaker 1: and I had tried to meet with them and they
Speaker 1: were too busy. And yet I mean, you talk about
Speaker 1: wasted money and all that was crazy and it broke
Speaker 1: my heart to hear this, you know, and here they've
Speaker 1: lost two million dollars in business that we that we
Speaker 1: had been generating in the background that they didn't know about.
Speaker 3: It's great, it's crazy stories like this, I'll ask you know.
Speaker 3: Actually I just got to hold them. They've got an
Speaker 3: email over here. SEO is the subject coming in. This
Speaker 3: is from James. James is in Parentland. He wants to
Speaker 3: know how difficult is it to set up and start
Speaker 3: the whole SEO process, which is a very good question
Speaker 3: because I bet a lot of people think, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: this is going to take further today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not hard at all. You know.
Speaker 1: We have a very simple questionnaire that we send that
Speaker 1: ask them. You know, as I say all the times,
Speaker 1: if it takes more than twenty minutes or a glass
Speaker 1: of wine, you spent too much time on it.
Speaker 2: But it asks just basics on you know.
Speaker 1: Where they're wanting to show up, what their geography is,
Speaker 1: where their service areas, what do they think their keywords are,
Speaker 1: who do they think their competitors are? And then we
Speaker 1: go do all the analysis and look at it and
Speaker 1: come back with the solution. And you know, truthfully, with
Speaker 1: AI these days and everything else. We used to have
Speaker 1: our clients we would want them to help us or whatever,
Speaker 1: or write a lot of their marketing content and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Today we write most of the content and
Speaker 1: do ninety eight percent of the work and so you know,
Speaker 1: it just takes a little bit of time, and you know,
Speaker 1: review as much as they want to. Some of our
Speaker 1: clients review it very detailed. Others don't pay any attention
Speaker 1: to it at all. They look at us as the experts,
Speaker 1: and we go and do everything this needed simple. Is that?
Speaker 3: All right? People want to get up contact with you
Speaker 3: obviously at stounds with a Z dot com phone number anything.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean it's all there on astounds dot
Speaker 1: com I cell number two eight one eight eight twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: His name is Steve Winner astounds dot com. It is
Speaker 3: all se O all the time. A man stay cool
Speaker 3: out there, Hit him, hit him straight and long, and
Speaker 3: I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: Hook them horns.
Speaker 3: Look, I like this guy. Hook them horns. Count down
Speaker 3: eighty one days they'll kick off people. All right, Michael Garfield,
Speaker 3: I got to get back an air conditioning at cocktail
Speaker 3: time here on the High Tech Texting Show, Don't Go Anywhere.
Speaker 3: Winding down the special Father's Day weekend show. Michael is
Speaker 3: the name, whatever your name is, Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3: Happy Father's Day to you, your dad, your granddad, your
Speaker 3: great granddad, your father's to be. If you want to
Speaker 3: email me when the show is over, give me a
Speaker 3: comment on x hi Tech Texan Hi Tech Texting dot com. Whatever.
Speaker 3: Next week, we're gonna do the difficult. If you didn't
Speaker 3: like your gift you got for Father's Day, call let
Speaker 3: me know. I'm more than happy to tell you what
Speaker 3: to trade it in for. We're still about two weeks
Speaker 3: away before I review and do my little TV segment
Speaker 3: on robotic lawnmowers PI. That could be a good Father's
Speaker 3: Day gift. Sorry'm a little late on that. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna give out the phone number anymore because we are
Speaker 3: winding it down. We are quick countdown. We are one
Speaker 3: year away, almost exactly this week from the World Cup
Speaker 3: humming to coming to the United States, but coming to Texas.
Speaker 3: Two locations in Texas. Dallas actually is at Arlington. We've
Speaker 3: got at and T Stadium and in RG Stadium. In Houston, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, for all you soccer nerds, uh football nerds,
Speaker 3: coming extra When the games are played here across North
Speaker 3: America next year, they will be played in stadiums like
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs Stadium at and T Stadium in our
Speaker 3: G Stadium. They will not be referred to as those
Speaker 3: with title sponsors. FIFA, the governing body of World Cup.
Speaker 3: They have strange laws when it comes to sponsorship unless
Speaker 3: a company is a partner high level partner with FIFA,
Speaker 3: no names, no logos, no anything will be mentioned. So,
Speaker 3: as of right now, is a true story. The instead
Speaker 3: of playing an eighteen and T stadium in our lilingketoonn
Speaker 3: or Jerry World the the World Cup six seven games
Speaker 3: that will be in the Dallas area will be played
Speaker 3: at Dallas Stadium. Houston will not be played at in
Speaker 3: our G Stadium. They will be played at Houston Stadium.
Speaker 3: The final match will not be It'll be in the
Speaker 3: Meadowlands at not MetLife Field or whatever it's called. It
Speaker 3: will be at New York, New Jersey Stadium. I am
Speaker 3: not kidding you. I bring this up because I saw something.
Speaker 3: Where is this when they got some press release over here?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they are every every stadium will have grass.
Speaker 3: Not just grass, It'll be elite grass. It is high
Speaker 3: tech grass. That's why they send it to me. Twelve
Speaker 3: US stadiums, twelve different turf strategies, from synthetic blends to
Speaker 3: ultra durable b to grass. There are gonna be GPS
Speaker 3: guided sand layers, twenty eight miles of a heated pipes.
Speaker 3: This is the one that's going to be in Philadelphia,
Speaker 3: growing lights to simulate sunderlight, sunlight under closed roofs. Are
Speaker 3: they going to have California baits? Since Amelia, I'm not
Speaker 3: I'd even know, and I thought, you know what this is?
Speaker 3: Do you know who's bag? This would be for all
Speaker 3: of you if you've lived in Houston area for years
Speaker 3: and years. One of my best friends, Randy Lemon. Randy
Speaker 3: used to host the garden Line Big Gardener, sadly tragically
Speaker 3: quickly passed away two and a half years ago. Right now,
Speaker 3: I miss him every single day. This would be a
Speaker 3: story of the Randy and I would both cover technology
Speaker 3: based grass. So be on the lookout if you were
Speaker 3: a FIFA World Cup fan coming to the United State,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be pretty big. I know the seven matches
Speaker 3: going to be in Houston alone. It's gonna It's got
Speaker 3: like seven Super Bowls. It's going to be big one.
Speaker 3: More sports notes. Good luck to us all the Texas base,
Speaker 3: certainly Dallas based golfer in the US Open this week
Speaker 3: if they made the cut. Scotty Scheffler just tearing up
Speaker 3: the golf roll right now. Did you see with Scotty
Speaker 3: Scheffler deleted his Venmo account. They talk about, you know, Venmo,
Speaker 3: it's a new technologically based way to actually send money
Speaker 3: to somebody. I have Venmo, PayPal, the whole thing. Scotty
Speaker 3: deleted his Venmo account. Do you know why? This is
Speaker 3: a sad state of golf and a sad state of betting,
Speaker 3: And I do like betting on sports. He deleted his
Speaker 3: Venmo account because he would hear from fans whether they
Speaker 3: have a financial benefit or anything in their outcome of
Speaker 3: betting on him. So, if somebody bet on Scotty to
Speaker 3: win and they want a good amount of money out
Speaker 3: of their kindness with the heart some rando would Venmo
Speaker 3: Scotty some money as a thanks for helping me win.
Speaker 3: But sadly, if they lost on Scotty, he would get
Speaker 3: nasty messages asking Scotty to pay them back. That's not it.
Speaker 3: That's not good. I mean, this goes back. I mean
Speaker 3: there's a lot of negative interaction with people in Betters too.
Speaker 3: Last month, was it the Houston astrost pitcher Lance mccullors.
Speaker 3: He received death threats online from a fan from a
Speaker 3: better who was frustrated and drunk when he lashed out
Speaker 3: on social media. Just, you know, just people, just be
Speaker 3: smart about this. Things, Be smart about this things. You
Speaker 3: could do better than that, so could Scotty. Let's go Scotty. Also,
Speaker 3: all you Android fans out there, and I know there
Speaker 3: are so many because I'm an Android guy. Also, the
Speaker 3: latest operating system, Android sixteen is here. I get this
Speaker 3: a lot. Yes, every time iPhones launch a new operating system,
Speaker 3: Hey should I do it?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Do I? Do I have to download it? Michael? Should I?
Speaker 3: I personally don't have a problem with upgrading to the
Speaker 3: operating system as early as I can. I have my
Speaker 3: phone set on push notifications. It'll let me know, Hey,
Speaker 3: there's a new operating system. You're ready to download this thing?
Speaker 3: And I'm just going to go, Hey, Yes, I mean
Speaker 3: I think there's before an operating system is launched. There
Speaker 3: is a lot of testing. There's a lot of beta
Speaker 3: program testing that anybody can actually get into if you
Speaker 3: sign up for it. I really don't play with the
Speaker 3: beta I wait till it's officially launched. Point is Android
Speaker 3: sixteen just announced it. It is rolling out. If you have
Speaker 3: a Google Pixel phone, you're getting that update first. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you got to dance with the one who brung you
Speaker 3: or eat your own dog foods. Since Google is Android,
Speaker 3: Android is Google, you know, then they make phones. They're
Speaker 3: gotta give it to them. So all the other Android
Speaker 3: manufacturers you're gonna have to wait a little look at
Speaker 3: some of the upgrades over here, anxious to try. You're
Speaker 3: gonna get more streamlined notifications. So if you're like waiting
Speaker 3: for food delivery to get your house, instead of opening
Speaker 3: your delivery app every five minutes, they're gonna give you
Speaker 3: live updates to keep you informed in real time if
Speaker 3: you care about that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I set clearer and simpler calling with hearing devices hearing aids.
Speaker 3: There's there's actually bluetooth. There's hearing aids that have Bluetooth
Speaker 3: that will automatically connect to your phone. Actually, I know
Speaker 3: someone who uses it. And actually they're pretty cool. They're
Speaker 3: gonna make that a little bit more easier access in
Speaker 3: working with that, there's gonna be better security with a
Speaker 3: single tap of your phone, which is good. Security is
Speaker 3: always goods only if they need to enhance security. Nothing
Speaker 3: too bad about that. That are connection with tablets using decks,
Speaker 3: decks pretty cool. That's something that mirrors your phone to
Speaker 3: a tablet in computers. Anyway, when I download this, I
Speaker 3: don't have a pixel. Google. Nice to meet you if
Speaker 3: you do get the Android sixteen anxious to hear your
Speaker 3: thoughts on that. But at the end of the day, no,
Speaker 3: I'm not too wary of downloading these things after they've
Speaker 3: been through beta. Within it about a day or two,
Speaker 3: they're generally having up updated features. So my guess is
Speaker 3: the over under is about probably four days before Android
Speaker 3: sixteen point one or sixteen point one is released, and
Speaker 3: says out other than that, sounds like I got to
Speaker 3: wrap up this. I got to wrap up the show. People,
Speaker 3: get out of here. It's only a two hour show
Speaker 3: that we've been doing it pretty much for almost half
Speaker 3: my life. Thank you for doing it in Callumrie. You're
Speaker 3: not a dad, but tell your dad happy Father's dat
Speaker 3: you for everybody who celebrates Father's games, everyone who's missing
Speaker 3: your dad thinking of you. Thank you to all my
Speaker 3: Father's Day wishes, great singing and being with my dad.
Speaker 3: My kids also here up in the Dallas area. We'll
Speaker 3: be back next week, probably from Houston, or you know what,
Speaker 3: I could take the show on the road. Hey, if
Speaker 3: someone wants to invite me to their call Rotoh House
Speaker 3: beach House in California, no prob I am there with you.
Speaker 3: Find me at high Tech Texan dot com all the
Speaker 3: social media. My name is Michael. I have a great
Speaker 3: week's stay cool my people, and I will talk to
Speaker 3: you next week. But right now, my Father's Day special
Speaker 3: for my Father's Day weekend is over.