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Speaker 3: Well, well, well, Happy post Father's Day to everybody out
Speaker 3: there who's celebrated. And it is officially the first day
Speaker 3: or two of summer. Welcome to Texas Freaking News. It's hot,
Speaker 3: it's Africa hot, It's Texas hot. I'm gonna keep you
Speaker 3: cool here for the next two hours. We always have fun.
Speaker 3: If you are a longtime listener of the High Tech
Speaker 3: Texan Show, I guarantee you we will talk just more,
Speaker 3: a lot more than just about technology. We ain't gonna
Speaker 3: geek things out. I'm not gonna tell you how to
Speaker 3: fix your computer, because I don't care how to fix
Speaker 3: your computer. I'm gonna tell you if you want to
Speaker 3: buy a new computer, I can actually tell you that
Speaker 3: I ash you and you could tell you what type
Speaker 3: of phone you want and maybe what type of phone
Speaker 3: you want to stay away from. Uh oh is that
Speaker 3: a segue into talking about Trump Mobile? Oh? Yes, I'm
Speaker 3: going to get to that. If you are interested in
Speaker 3: a new cell phone, here's another deal that I don't
Speaker 3: know if slim shady, if it's worth going, but I
Speaker 3: will really break it down of howie the Trump family
Speaker 3: is able to offer it's own cell service because they
Speaker 3: have such an unbelievable, long, lengthy background in offering mobile service.
Speaker 3: But I'm not stopping there. I am going to tell
Speaker 3: you how to stop trackers from collecting your health data.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you a review of a robot lawnmower. People,
Speaker 3: I grew up in Texas. I grew up in the heat,
Speaker 3: and I grew up mowing lawns because if you were
Speaker 3: a kid, if you're a boy who grew up in Texas,
Speaker 3: that's what you do. And from the ripe old tender
Speaker 3: age of I mean, I may have been ten, eleven,
Speaker 3: twelve years old, I was mowing lawns. I was mowing
Speaker 3: my parents lawn in Dallas, my grandparents lawn in Dallas.
Speaker 3: I'd go to Austin to see another set of grandparents.
Speaker 3: I did that. I've had two to three homes in
Speaker 3: my adult life when I had kids, and I still
Speaker 3: move my lawn. All I need to tell you is this,
Speaker 3: where the hell was this robotic lawnmower when I was
Speaker 3: growing up. I'll tell you if it's worth the price,
Speaker 3: and is it even worth the ha ache of you
Speaker 3: getting it up and seeing if it works. Those are
Speaker 3: just a few of the things that I talk about.
Speaker 3: I test, I give you my opinion so you don't
Speaker 3: have to. Also the famous weekly What's Michael Driving this week?
Speaker 3: I have been in not one but two cars for
Speaker 3: the entire week where I test drive and I will
Speaker 3: give you my thoughts ononovich is the Nissan Frontier Pro
Speaker 3: four x. It is a mid sized truck, a mid
Speaker 3: size truck. If you listen to me, you know I
Speaker 3: am a fan of mid sized trucks. They are very
Speaker 3: easy to maneuver, They're easy to park. I don't schlep
Speaker 3: a lot of things like I need a quarter or
Speaker 3: a half ton or anything. Nope, I actually like this.
Speaker 3: I will yap about that. And also the Honda Passport.
Speaker 3: I don't actually get a lot of Hondas, and I
Speaker 3: will tell you if this little suv, a small suv,
Speaker 3: is worth its weight and what you want to pay for.
Speaker 3: Now I have set up everything. Not much else to
Speaker 3: talk about in the world of sports, because pretty much
Speaker 3: the NBA season zo over, the NHL seed, this is over.
Speaker 3: Football doesn't start for another I don't know about eighty
Speaker 3: one days. Not niggas baseball.
Speaker 1: Guy.
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Speaker 3: x You can find it on Instagram and Facebook. If
Speaker 3: I haven't blocked you, and let me help you out.
Speaker 3: I have blocked a few people and you know who
Speaker 3: you are, so sucks for you, even though I'm sure
Speaker 3: you've probably went to some of your friends account to
Speaker 3: see who I'm going out with, or what I'm testing
Speaker 3: or where I am at. But it's my life. You
Speaker 3: didn't want it. I'm just rolling here on the radio
Speaker 3: as I have for twenty three years. I actually am
Speaker 3: going to start with a little politics. And I don't
Speaker 3: talk about politics people, but I'm sorry, but so many
Speaker 3: things involved in technology has a political bent, mostly because
Speaker 3: of tariffs, mostly because of I don't know, hope people
Speaker 3: wanting to get into the mobile industry. But let's talk
Speaker 3: about TikTok. TikTok. Guess what. The clock has turned back
Speaker 3: once again. Your president has extended for the third time,
Speaker 3: TikTok's ban in the USA deadline by another day's promises, promises, promises, unkept, unkept, unkept.
Speaker 3: Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok's parent company, which
Speaker 3: is you know it is China based Bite Dance, in
Speaker 3: order to sell the app to an American owner. It
Speaker 3: went down for about forty hours in January. People freaked out.
Speaker 3: I didn't freak out. Because I don't have TikTok. Then
Speaker 3: March April comes a long Let's give it another ninety
Speaker 3: days and guess what, it's still there. Sign it an
Speaker 3: executive of order granting a third extension. Now this goes
Speaker 3: to September seventeenth. Does no one want to buy this?
Speaker 3: Is it too expensive? Or does anybody care? I mean,
Speaker 3: I want to be respectful because people do make a
Speaker 3: living off of TikTok. My son, my youngest son, is
Speaker 3: a very very big TikTok influencer, and I know he's
Speaker 3: not too happy if for some reason he shuts down.
Speaker 3: TikTok is one hundred and seventy million users in the
Speaker 3: US alone, and a support for a band has actually
Speaker 3: slowly declined. Why well, because then they think it's a
Speaker 3: Chinese based on and they're stealing all their information. Listen,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into it whether it should
Speaker 3: be banned, whether it should not be banned, because most
Speaker 3: every technology item, most every app that we have is
Speaker 3: from outside the United States. When I went to China
Speaker 3: last April, and I spent some time in Shin's In,
Speaker 3: which is the Silicon Valley of China, and I met
Speaker 3: all these companies, and I actually saw and realized how
Speaker 3: they can make things quicker, how they can make things
Speaker 3: cheaper versus the United States. Do they actually take the
Speaker 3: information and steel? I don't know. The thing is, I
Speaker 3: don't have really anything to hide. If the United States,
Speaker 3: for all I know, they may actually have been taking
Speaker 3: a lot of my data, and I'm sure a lot
Speaker 3: of it. Are they know where I am? My cell
Speaker 3: phone carrier knows where I am because I have a GPS,
Speaker 3: because I use Google Maps, they have to know where
Speaker 3: I am in a given point. Do I care that
Speaker 3: they know that I go to HB eighteen times a week.
Speaker 3: I don't know, dude. I hope they're proud of the
Speaker 3: fact that I actually, you know, go to the gym
Speaker 3: a dozen times a week, and I hope they track
Speaker 3: how much I run as they train for marathons. I'm
Speaker 3: not hiding any secrets, people. The only the worst thing
Speaker 3: that's gonna happen to me, I think I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: served up a ton of advertisements for things that I like, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, we're about to do We're gonna take
Speaker 3: a break right now. Thank you for listening to these
Speaker 3: advertisements here on the iHeartRadio Network because this is a
Speaker 3: free radio show. Doesn't cost you jack. People. All you
Speaker 3: need to do is just spend four or five minutes
Speaker 3: listening to some of these wonder commercials, and I hope
Speaker 3: you buy from them. When we come back, talk a
Speaker 3: little bit more of TikTok, and I'm going to delve
Speaker 3: into this Trump mobile phone. I'll tell you why this
Speaker 3: family is getting into it, how easy it is to
Speaker 3: start your own cell phone company, and also something like, uh, well,
Speaker 3: these these phones really are going to be made the
Speaker 3: United States specifically because what I just mentioned about two
Speaker 3: minutes ago. My name is Michael. I'm not a hater.
Speaker 3: I'm a fact giver.
Speaker 4: All the troops right here on the High Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 3: You welcome, You're back to programming. The name is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: It is called the High Tech Textan Show, but we
Speaker 3: talked so much more about technology standby. I want to
Speaker 3: give a big shout out to the city of Dallas,
Speaker 3: Dallas Fort Worth. I was in Dallas last week and
Speaker 3: I actually got to listen to this show. My show
Speaker 3: on kfx R, which is eleven ninety am Talk radio
Speaker 3: five to seven pm on Saturdays in the after late
Speaker 3: afternoon also Sunday mornings from eleven in the morning to one.
Speaker 3: I don't ever listen to this show. I talk, I
Speaker 3: do the show, but because it's on in different times
Speaker 3: in Dallas and also San Antonio in Houston, the some
Speaker 3: we tape it and then we air it again. It
Speaker 3: sounds like live, and so I've never heard it. So
Speaker 3: I'm in Dallas visiting my parents for Father's Day. Happy
Speaker 3: late Father's Day people, and I'm rolling up and down
Speaker 3: Central Expressway Saturday, five point thirty six people o'clock PM.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna tune into eleven ninety.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna actually hear a number one. I want to
Speaker 3: hear it actually airs, which it does, and it's really cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, Dallas is my hometown. I was raised in Dallas,
Speaker 3: my parents are in Dallas. I went to high school
Speaker 3: in Dallas. My buddies are in Dallas. And to be
Speaker 3: on the airways in Dallas, it's it's a thrill. It's
Speaker 3: a treat. And I'm moderored. So I'm listening in you know,
Speaker 3: a commercial plays and there's bump music, which sadly is
Speaker 3: not the bump music that I want. But last iHeart
Speaker 3: is so cheap. We have no money for actually licensed music,
Speaker 3: so we have to hear this crap music. And I
Speaker 3: apologize for that, and then I thought, Callum, you can
Speaker 3: help me out with this. I thought we had bumpers
Speaker 3: bumpers in the radio industry. Are you're listening to the
Speaker 3: High Tech Tection Show with Michael Garfield at eleven ninety am, Dallas.
Speaker 3: It reintroduces a show, So I really thought those aired
Speaker 3: every time we bump at the commercial, Callum, do we do?
Speaker 3: We not have that now? So I'm listening and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, here's bump music and here's my voice,
Speaker 3: and I just start. I didn't introduce myself. I didn't
Speaker 3: say it's Michael Garfield again, thanks for kid. You know
Speaker 3: it's the third segment. I just started talking about content
Speaker 3: whatever I was talking about. And I'm thinking, if anybody's
Speaker 3: just tuning in, they have no clue who I am
Speaker 3: and what the show is. So until callum, somebody Brian Erickson,
Speaker 3: we get bumpers that says you're listening to the High
Speaker 3: Tech Tection Show with Michael Garfield. Every commercial, I'm going
Speaker 3: to reintroduce who I am. Hey, Gang, I'm Garfie nickname
Speaker 3: from Dallas White High School. Live in Houston now thirty
Speaker 3: years what's up, San Antonio? Love visiting? I'm here. I'm
Speaker 3: your guy. By the way, if you do want to
Speaker 3: call in, if it's not live, you still can call
Speaker 3: in because we have a voicemail. Then you can leave
Speaker 3: voicemails and we have a right to play it. Three
Speaker 3: four six two nine eight three nine two four six
Speaker 3: sorry three four six twenty nine texts in if you
Speaker 3: want to spell that out, use your cell phone. What
Speaker 3: cell phone service do you have? What cell phone service
Speaker 3: do you have? Well, there's the major network carriers AT
Speaker 3: and T jobless face by the way, who still don't
Speaker 3: even know who I am. Verizon familiar with those guys
Speaker 3: T Mobile that really don't have any Sprint anymore. Sprint
Speaker 3: was folded into to T Mobile. Those are our big three,
Speaker 3: But then we have tons of other ones, Boost Mobile,
Speaker 3: Mint Mobile, little things like this, and you're wondering how
Speaker 3: does that work? Long story short, I don't want to
Speaker 3: get into it, because if you're a long time listening
Speaker 3: you know how it works. Other than the big three
Speaker 3: who actually have built infrastructure, who have built cell towers,
Speaker 3: who actually sell you the data, the time, how long,
Speaker 3: how many minutes, whatever you want. They also lease some
Speaker 3: of their bandwidthout to small carriers, smaller carriers. Some of
Speaker 3: these carriers are actually owned by the big boys, they
Speaker 3: just rename them. I think Boost is part of Team
Speaker 3: Mobile whatever. There's also, for example, Exfinity. If you're in
Speaker 3: Houston and you have Exfinity Cable, you probably get things
Speaker 3: in the mail. You probably see the commercials for Exfinity Mobile. Well,
Speaker 3: Exfinity is a is a very large, one of the largest,
Speaker 3: the largest cable internet company in the country. Let me
Speaker 3: help you out. They don't do anything really directly with
Speaker 3: cell phones, but oh, by the way, they market some
Speaker 3: phone service for Expinity Mobile. What they do and what
Speaker 3: anothers do is they lease time. They lease space of
Speaker 3: bandwidth on a T and T Verizon and T Mobile.
Speaker 3: What these organizations are called are m v n o's okay,
Speaker 3: which is a pretty much a mobile virtual network operator.
Speaker 3: It's a virtual network operator. Anybody who's anybody who's got
Speaker 3: marketing money can create and start and mv n oh,
Speaker 3: I swear and I've thought about this. I probably could
Speaker 3: have and I maybe should have because I have I'm
Speaker 3: very honored to have such a nice, long, large audience
Speaker 3: across the country. I could create a high tech Texan
Speaker 3: mobile company htt Mobile, that's right, and I could charge
Speaker 3: anything I want. What I would do, I would just
Speaker 3: lease airtime least bandwidth time from one of the biggies.
Speaker 3: That's what Expinity does. That's what Ryan Reynolds does. Ryan Reynolds,
Speaker 3: who created if founded mint Mobile. All right, well, guess
Speaker 3: who did it recently. That's right, You're President of the
Speaker 3: United States. His family Trump Mobile. That's where we're going.
Speaker 3: It took me a while to get here. Trump Mobile
Speaker 3: coming out with its own smartphone and its own service.
Speaker 3: One of Trump's kids, the Trump Organizations, they just announced
Speaker 3: a smartphone that allegedly is going to be made in
Speaker 3: the United States. It's going to be called Trump Mobile,
Speaker 3: and they're going to have a plan that is going
Speaker 3: to be forty seven dollars in forty five cents a month.
Speaker 3: I like the marketing because Trump was is the forty
Speaker 3: seventh in the forty fifth president of the United States.
Speaker 3: Nothing solid, just an announcement, just a press release. Anybody
Speaker 3: gonna do this. The guy to talk out of things.
Speaker 3: I'm here to give you my thoughts, my reviews, my
Speaker 3: recommendations on so many topics, from cars to phones, to
Speaker 3: fashion to bourbon.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I'm here, but I will tell you this. Stay away
Speaker 3: from my man. Nope, In case you missed it, This
Speaker 3: four hundred and ninety nine dollars Trump branded built the
Speaker 3: United States phone and ain't gonna be built in the
Speaker 3: United States. There is no way in the Lord's work
Speaker 3: that a phone can be made in the United States
Speaker 3: for five hundred dollars. DNA can barely make one for
Speaker 3: five hundred dollars, and after a little digging. Oh, by
Speaker 3: the way, it looks like a lot of people have
Speaker 3: figured out this six point eight inch phone with a
Speaker 3: fifty megapixel camera is likely going to be me China,
Speaker 3: or at least parts of it. It may be put
Speaker 3: together or sing old in America. Does that matter because
Speaker 3: all the phones you have used in your life have
Speaker 3: been made and manufactured not in our great country. And
Speaker 3: by the way, don't get me wrong, I love our country.
Speaker 3: I am so American. I believe red, white and blue
Speaker 3: and burnt orange. I am not dis in America. I
Speaker 3: love me some the United States. But the United States
Speaker 3: cannot build and manufacture many things as cheap and sometimes
Speaker 3: not as good as other countries. Conversely, our great country
Speaker 3: of America produces a ton of great things that blows
Speaker 3: other countries away. But when it comes to mobile phones,
Speaker 3: not gonna work. Phone is likely going to be produced
Speaker 3: by a Chinese device manufacturer, which is type of company
Speaker 3: that designs and manufactures products based on a specification in
Speaker 3: another firm. If Trump wanted a phone built in the
Speaker 3: United States, we would probably be paying two thousand to
Speaker 3: three thousand dollars for this thing. Phones need foreign components.
Speaker 3: This t ie Trump's organization phone is different. Now, I
Speaker 3: have no information, No one has information of what's revealed
Speaker 3: in particular components. But there are some components that are
Speaker 3: gonna be out there. I mean, the screens primarily are
Speaker 3: made by South Korea firms Samsung LG. They produce these phones,
Speaker 3: They produce screens, they produce the microchips. The processor probably
Speaker 3: gonna be from the Taiwanese firm called Media Tech, because
Speaker 3: Media Tech they produce so many of these qualcum chips
Speaker 3: that almost every phone out there. I'm just doing research
Speaker 3: for you, am I talking you out of it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: But don't believe the hype of people. Now before we
Speaker 3: take a break, I'm gonna tease you this. How hard
Speaker 3: is it for somebody to come up with an mvno?
Speaker 3: Not that hard. I will tell you the history of
Speaker 3: them VNOs, who actually has hit it and become a
Speaker 3: millionaire without a billionaire, and why Trump wants to get
Speaker 3: in the game.
Speaker 5: This is the High Tech Textan Show, and I am like,
Speaker 5: wherever you.
Speaker 3: Are listening, whatever city you are trustly listening in, maybe
Speaker 3: you're listening on a podcast, and iHeartRadio. We welcome you back.
Speaker 3: This is the first hour of what's called the High
Speaker 3: Tech Texan Show. My name is Michael Garfield, Dallas boy
Speaker 3: now living in h Town, but I'm all over the
Speaker 3: great state of Texas, and I do thank you here.
Speaker 3: I'd love to hear from you if you don't want
Speaker 3: to call into our phone number because you're shot three
Speaker 3: four six twenty nine Texan three four six two nine
Speaker 3: eight three nine six. By the way, find me on
Speaker 3: most all of the social media platforms other than TikTok,
Speaker 3: which by the way, there's another ninety day stay before
Speaker 3: it's old high tech text and spell the whole thing
Speaker 3: out h I G H T eh T E X
Speaker 3: a m. We're in the middle of a discussion of
Speaker 3: Trump's announcement of his new mobile phone service. And yes,
Speaker 3: I don't delve into politics, but yes I delve into technology. Yes,
Speaker 3: mobile phones are technology. I've been reviewing phones ready much
Speaker 3: straight for twenty eight to twenty five years, actually more.
Speaker 3: If you want to go get back to my original
Speaker 3: bag phone. Anyone raise your hand. Who had a bag
Speaker 3: phone in nineteen ninety one?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 3: All right. I will tell you a story, maybe the
Speaker 3: second hour, of what I found in my garage, an
Speaker 3: entire treasure trove, dozens of old Garfield phones. Will I'll
Speaker 3: get to that about twenty or thirty minutes. But anyway,
Speaker 3: what is how can Trump all of a sudden dizzy
Speaker 3: competing with AT and T, T Mobile and Verizen. Not really.
Speaker 3: I will tell you how Donald Trump and Ryan Reynolds
Speaker 3: can easily sell your phone plans. And I'll start with
Speaker 3: the I'll start with I'm gonna bury the lead right now.
Speaker 3: You can blame Ryan Reynolds, the actor, the heart thrub
Speaker 3: Blake Lively's husband, Deadpool, whatever you want to call him.
Speaker 3: He is a celebrity, and now Trump is a celebrity too,
Speaker 3: with the announcement in the debut of Trump Mobiles a week.
Speaker 3: It seems like there's a hot new trend in celebrities
Speaker 3: selling things, not just tequila, it's phone service. It's Ryan
Speaker 3: Reynolds' fault. To be clear, None of these celebrities, none
Speaker 3: of these political figures, are building new cell networks from scratch.
Speaker 3: Like I explained last segment, they're launching a mobile virtual
Speaker 3: network operator and MVNO. These are companies that buy wireless
Speaker 3: service from the three big US carriers and they resell it.
Speaker 3: It's a business model that exists and has existed for decades.
Speaker 3: And for those of you in Texas, I'm gonna give
Speaker 3: you the best analogy. Who is your electricity provider? All right?
Speaker 3: If you're in Houston, for example, you may have one
Speaker 3: of a MIL, you may have NRG, you may have
Speaker 3: discount power, you may have the I mean, it goes
Speaker 3: on and on and on and on. Let me help
Speaker 3: you out. All these companies are are marketing companies who
Speaker 3: buy and measure electricity, wattage power from center point in Turkey.
Speaker 3: They're the marketing arm. That is what a mobile virtual
Speaker 3: network operator is. You're gonna be talking on AT and
Speaker 3: T you're gonna be talking on T Mobile, You're gonna
Speaker 3: be talking on Verizons network. But your bill is gonna
Speaker 3: come from Mint Mobile with Ryan Reynolds, or it could
Speaker 3: come from Trump Mobile, it could come from anybody else.
Speaker 3: That's easy explanation. You're welcome. It's a good arrangement business
Speaker 3: wise for the big carriers because they may have extra
Speaker 3: network capacity that generally would go unused. So pretty much
Speaker 3: they get a guaranteed return on their big expensive network investment.
Speaker 3: MVNO's they have been around for decades, but you're hearing
Speaker 3: a bottom more recently. All this additional capacity that five
Speaker 3: g's allowed. Five G it's allowed. It's compared to LTE,
Speaker 3: which was years ago. If you have a five G
Speaker 3: network available, you are going to have some capacity to
Speaker 3: run these and probably to sell some of the extra times.
Speaker 3: If you think about it, they're more attractive to customers.
Speaker 3: There's e SIM technology where you don't have to physically
Speaker 3: take that little, tiny, little tiny SIM card out of
Speaker 3: your phone or put it in your phone to start it.
Speaker 3: These SIM cards are virtual and you could just light
Speaker 3: up a phone number or switch a phone number automatically
Speaker 3: over the air. But there's Ryan Reynolds. You son of
Speaker 3: a gun. You you Ryan Reynolds. It was about six
Speaker 3: years ago. It was twenty nineteen. Let me tell you
Speaker 3: a story. He bought an ownership in a company called
Speaker 3: Mint Mobile, and it was an MV and O that
Speaker 3: was using the T Mobile network, and he became the spokesperson.
Speaker 3: Very clever ads. He is a very smart dude, just
Speaker 3: like he did with his gin. He actually owns an
Speaker 3: advertising marketing company. Very clever ads. It was a very
Speaker 3: smart pricing model, fifteen dollars a month, all you can eat,
Speaker 3: something like that. It won over a lot of people
Speaker 3: and it turned into a very lucative venture for Ryan Reynolds,
Speaker 3: who eventually sold the business to T Mobile itself something
Speaker 3: like one point three billion dollars. At that point, celebrities
Speaker 3: are like, yeah, let's get into it. Didn't I tell you?
Speaker 3: Like last week it was Jason Bateman and those three
Speaker 3: comedians Will Arnette. I think they launched their own SmartLess
Speaker 3: I think so. It's called they launched their own en
Speaker 3: V I O. I'm getting ticked. I didn't. I still
Speaker 3: haven't done mine yet. That's how we wound up living
Speaker 3: in the world with a president's family company sells wireless service.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's a scenario any of the founding
Speaker 3: fathers could have foreseen. It's a weird concept. The Trump
Speaker 3: organization is a branding operation, real estate, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: They license their name. Good for them, they're making some money. Great.
Speaker 3: Is there controversy, Sure you could say there is so
Speaker 3: one is there's a captive audience out there, and there's
Speaker 3: a marketing opportunity out there. I don't think this is
Speaker 3: a last time we're gonna hear from a public figure
Speaker 3: ready to sell us wireless service. And I guess we
Speaker 3: have Ryan Reynolds to thank for that. So that is
Speaker 3: how the Trump family, out of the blue, they decided,
Speaker 3: let's license our name and let's just make some money
Speaker 3: on a forty seven dollars forty five cent per month plan, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, let's talk about this. If your cell
Speaker 3: phone or your data plan is up or about to expire,
Speaker 3: I want you to do your research. And if you
Speaker 3: think that there is only AT and T, and there
Speaker 3: is only T Mobile, and there's only Verizon, there are more.
Speaker 3: There are many, many, many more companies that are cheaper.
Speaker 3: Look at Total Wireless. I talk about total Wireless, lot,
Speaker 3: Total wireless is an envn O, but it's horizon. It
Speaker 3: uses the rise of network, and it's a heck of
Speaker 3: a lot cheaper. There's all unique if you prepay. I
Speaker 3: think there's an all you can eat plan for as
Speaker 3: low as twenty five maybe forty dollars a month. There's
Speaker 3: stores that you can walk into. I actually used too
Speaker 3: Total wireless right now, but I could sweach at any time,
Speaker 3: certainly because my contract is coming up in about a
Speaker 3: month and I am going to look at the best deal. Yes,
Speaker 3: look at the small print. Some of them could throttle
Speaker 3: the service. It may not be five G at the
Speaker 3: highest at the most used time of the day in
Speaker 3: the late afternoons. But I'll tell you right, I've never
Speaker 3: had an issue right now with my Total Wireless. So
Speaker 3: for all your questions, feel free to come in use
Speaker 3: your m V and O service US your actually the
Speaker 3: big three service to call me three four, six, twenty
Speaker 3: nine texts. And that is how your president and his
Speaker 3: family are getting into the mobile cell phone business, which
Speaker 3: if it actually ever comes out with a phone, and
Speaker 3: if it debuts, I actually may be surprised. There's just
Speaker 3: a lot of backtracking coming out in Washington, DC, look
Speaker 3: at me trying to get political but not being political.
Speaker 3: One more segment this hour. Don't hang up. I have
Speaker 3: fun and I tell you like it is. I will
Speaker 3: ask you your questions, and I do have some questions
Speaker 3: on the email and also some callers here on the
Speaker 3: High Tech Textan Show. Wherever you are listening, whatever city
Speaker 3: you are, trust really listening in. Maybe you're listening on
Speaker 3: a podcast in iHeartRadio. We welcome you back. This is
Speaker 3: the first hour of what's called the High Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 3: My name is Michael Garfield, Dallas boy now living in
Speaker 3: h Town, but I'm all over the great state of Texas,
Speaker 3: and I do thank you here. I'd love to hear
Speaker 3: from you if you don't want to call into our
Speaker 3: phone number because you're shot three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: Texan three four six two nine eight three nine. By
Speaker 3: the way, find me on most all of the social
Speaker 3: media platforms other than tik tok, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: there's another ninety day stay before it's sold. High Tech
Speaker 3: Text and spell the whole thing out high Tech t
Speaker 3: e X A M. We're in the middle of a
Speaker 3: discussion of Trump's announcement of his new mobile phone service
Speaker 3: and yes, I don't delve into politics, but yes I
Speaker 3: delve into technology. Yes, mobile phones are technology. I've been
Speaker 3: reviewing phones reready much straight for twenty eight to twenty
Speaker 3: five years, actually more. If you want to go get
Speaker 3: back to my original bag phone. Anyone raise your hand?
Speaker 3: Who had a bag phone in nineteen ninety one?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 3: All right, I will tell you a story, maybe the
Speaker 3: second hour, of what I found in my garage, an
Speaker 3: entire treasure trove, dozens of old Garfield phones. I will
Speaker 3: I'll get to that about twenty or thirty minutes. So, byway,
Speaker 3: what is how can Trump all of a sudden dizzy
Speaker 3: competing with AT and T T mobile and not really?
Speaker 3: I will tell you how Donald Trump and Ryan Reynolds
Speaker 3: can easily sell your phone plans. And I'll start with
Speaker 3: the I'll start with I'm gonna bury the lead right now.
Speaker 3: You can blame Ryan Reynolds, the actor, the heart throb,
Speaker 3: Blake Lively's husband, Deadpool, whatever you want to call him.
Speaker 3: He is a celebrity. And now Trump is a celebrity too.
Speaker 3: With the announcement in the debut of Trump Mobile this
Speaker 3: a week, it seems like there's a hot new trend
Speaker 3: in celebrities selling things, not just tequila. It's phone service.
Speaker 3: It's Ryan Reynolds's fault. To be clear, None of these celebrities,
Speaker 3: none of these political figures, are building new cell networks
Speaker 3: from scratch. Like I explained last segment, they're launching a
Speaker 3: mobile virtual network operator and VNO. These are companies that
Speaker 3: buy wireless service from the three big US carriers and
Speaker 3: they resell it. It's a business model that exists and
Speaker 3: has existed for decades. And for those of you in Texas,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you the best analogy. Who is your
Speaker 3: electricity provider? All right? If you're in Houston, for example,
Speaker 3: you may have one of AL, you may have NRG,
Speaker 3: you may have discount power, you may have the I mean,
Speaker 3: it goes on and on and on and on. Let
Speaker 3: me help you out. All these companies are are marketing
Speaker 3: companies who buy and measure electricity, wattage power from center
Speaker 3: Point in Turkey. They're the marketing are That is what
Speaker 3: a mobile virtual network operator is. You're gonna be talking
Speaker 3: on AT and T, You're gonna be talking on T Mobile,
Speaker 3: You're gonna be talking on Verizons network. But your bill
Speaker 3: is gonna come for Mint Mobile with Ryan Reynolds, or
Speaker 3: it could come from Trump Mobile, it could come from
Speaker 3: anybody else. That's easy explanation. You're welcome. It's a good
Speaker 3: arrangement business wise for the big carriers because they may
Speaker 3: have extra network capacity that generally would go unused. So
Speaker 3: pretty much they get a guaranteed return on their big
Speaker 3: expensive network investment. MVNO's they have been around for decades,
Speaker 3: but you're hearing a bottom more recently. All this additional
Speaker 3: capacity that five g's allowed. Five G it's allowed. It's
Speaker 3: compared to LTE, which was years ago. If you have
Speaker 3: a five G network available, you are going to have
Speaker 3: some capacity to run these and probably to sell some
Speaker 3: of the extra times. If you think about it, they're
Speaker 3: more attractive to customers. There's e SIM technology where you
Speaker 3: don't have to physically that little tiny, little tiny SIM
Speaker 3: card out of your phone or put it in your
Speaker 3: phone to start it. These SIM cards are virtual and
Speaker 3: you could just light up a phone number or switch
Speaker 3: a phone number automatically over the air. But there's Ryan Reynolds,
Speaker 3: You son of a gun. You you Ryan Reynolds. It
Speaker 3: was about six years ago. It was twenty nineteen. Let
Speaker 3: me tell you a story. He bought an ownership in
Speaker 3: a company called Mint Mobile, and it was an MV
Speaker 3: and O that was using the T Mobile network, and
Speaker 3: he became the spokesperson. Very clever ads. He is a
Speaker 3: very smart dude, just like he did with this gen
Speaker 3: He actually owns an advertising marketing company. Very clever ads.
Speaker 3: It was a very smart pricing model, fifteen dollars a month,
Speaker 3: all you can eat, something like that. It won over
Speaker 3: a lot of people, and it turned into a very
Speaker 3: lucative venture for Ryan Reynolds, who eventually sold the business
Speaker 3: to T Mobile itself something like one point three billion dollars.
Speaker 3: At that point, celebrities are like, yeah, let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Didn't I tell you? Like last week it was Jason
Speaker 3: Bateman and those three comedians Will Arnette. I think they
Speaker 3: launched their own SmartLess I think so it's called they
Speaker 3: launched their own envy O. I'm getting ticked I didn't.
Speaker 3: I still haven't done mine yet. That's how we wound
Speaker 3: up living in the world with a president's family company
Speaker 3: sells wireless service. I don't think it's a scenario any
Speaker 3: of the founding fathers could have foreseen. It's a weird concept.
Speaker 3: The Trump organization is a branding operation, real estate, whatever
Speaker 3: it is. They licensed their name. Good for them, they're
Speaker 3: making some money. Great. Is there controversy, Sure you could
Speaker 3: say there is. So one is there's a captive audience
Speaker 3: out there, and there's a marketing opportunity out there. I
Speaker 3: don't think this is a last time we're gonna hear
Speaker 3: from a public figure ready to sell US wireless service.
Speaker 3: And I guess we have Ryan Reynolds to thank for that.
Speaker 3: So that is how the Trump family, out of the blue,
Speaker 3: they decided, let's license our name and let's just make
Speaker 3: some money on a forty seven dollars forty five cent
Speaker 3: per month plan, which, by the way, let's talk about this.
Speaker 3: If your cell phone or your data plan is up
Speaker 3: or about to expire, I want you to do your research.
Speaker 3: And if you think that there is only AT and
Speaker 3: T and there is only T Mobile, and there's only Verizon,
Speaker 3: there are more. There are many, many, many more companies
Speaker 3: that are cheaper. Look at Total Wireless. I talk about
Speaker 3: Total Wireless lot. Total Wireless is an envn O, but
Speaker 3: it's Verizon. It uses the rise of network and it's
Speaker 3: a heck of a lot cheaper there's all unique if
Speaker 3: you prepay. I think there's an all you can eat
Speaker 3: plan for as low as twenty five maybe forty dollars
Speaker 3: a month. There's stores that you can walk into. I
Speaker 3: actually used too Total wireless right now, but I could
Speaker 3: sweach at any time, certainly because my contract is coming
Speaker 3: up in about a month and I am going to
Speaker 3: look at the best deal. Yes, look at the small print.
Speaker 3: Some of them could throttle the service. It may not
Speaker 3: be five G at the highest at the most used
Speaker 3: time of the day in the late afternoons. But I'll
Speaker 3: tell you right, I've never had an issue right now
Speaker 3: with my Total Wireless. So for all your questions, feel
Speaker 3: free to come in use your m V and O
Speaker 3: service US. You're actually the big three service to call
Speaker 3: me three four, six, twenty nine texts. And that is
Speaker 3: how your president and his family are getting into the
Speaker 3: mobile cell phone business, which if it actually ever comes
Speaker 3: out with a phone, and if it debuts, I actually
Speaker 3: may be surprised. There's just a lot of backtracking coming
Speaker 3: out and washing me. See look at me trying to
Speaker 3: get political but not being political. One more segment this hour,
Speaker 3: don't hang up. I have fun and I tell you
Speaker 3: like it is. I will ask your questions and I
Speaker 3: do have some questions on the email and also some
Speaker 3: callers here on the high Tech Textan Show, Happy Late
Speaker 3: Father's Day, which was earlier this week. My name is
Speaker 3: Michael Michael Garfield, the long running host of the long
Speaker 3: running high Tech Textan show heard all across the state
Speaker 3: on your wonderful iHeartRadio Network podcast the show if you
Speaker 3: have missed any of it on the iHeartRadio app. It
Speaker 3: is absolutely free to download for all you dads out there.
Speaker 3: I was in Dallas last week visiting my father. Maybe listening,
Speaker 3: maybe not right now, but my parents still live in Dallast.
Speaker 3: What Father's Day gifts did you get? Did you get
Speaker 3: a cell phone? You didn't want it? Would? I? Usually
Speaker 3: I do this on Mother's Day, I do it on Christmas,
Speaker 3: Honakah whatever. If you got a gift and you have
Speaker 3: to fake it, especially if your kids give it to
Speaker 3: you right in front. Oh, this is exactly what I want,
Speaker 3: this is the tie whatever, and you want to return it,
Speaker 3: feel free to call me three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: textan right now. Disguise your voice if the kids are listening,
Speaker 3: and I will tell you. Maybe another brand or another
Speaker 3: model that may be a little better, that may be
Speaker 3: a little cheaper, so you can, you know, keep some
Speaker 3: extra cash, we return it or exchange it. That's some
Speaker 3: of the things that I do. That I mean, that's
Speaker 3: people want to you know, for some reason, you actually
Speaker 3: got some clothing that you may be a sh medium
Speaker 3: sized T shirt and you don't like the color purple
Speaker 3: or burn orange. I'll bite off of you. So let
Speaker 3: me know. You can find me online. High tech textan
Speaker 3: awsome Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. While we're talking
Speaker 3: about phones, we just were talking about the new Trump
Speaker 3: mobile announcement that allegedly there's going to be a five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars phone allegedly being built totally in the United States.
Speaker 3: How about iPhones. I don't talk about iPhones much, but
Speaker 3: this kind of it. If Trump I saw this headline
Speaker 3: and I'm just going to headline, if Trump gets his way,
Speaker 3: could iPhones made in the US really cost thirty five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars? That's the headline. And I thought about that headline,
Speaker 3: especially as Trump just announced his own phone is going
Speaker 3: to be sold for a really low, low lit Goo
Speaker 3: price of four hundred and ninety nine dollars. It is,
Speaker 3: so it's a game. I'm reading this headline. If Trump
Speaker 3: gets his way, could iPhones made in the US really
Speaker 3: cost thirty five hundred Well, if he's a smart marketing guy,
Speaker 3: sure make iPhones cost thirty five dollars, one hundred dollars,
Speaker 3: make the Trump phone four hundred and ninety nine dollars,
Speaker 3: and by going buy the Trump phone. Really not the point.
Speaker 3: The point is tariffs because iPhones are not made in
Speaker 3: the United States. You know why iPhones are not made
Speaker 3: or states because iPhones are actually good, they actually work.
Speaker 3: Because a lot of technology like that is not made
Speaker 3: in the United States. iPhones are costly, and a lot
Speaker 3: of people agree that a new tariff environment and pressure
Speaker 3: from Trump, they the prices may skyrock it there's a
Speaker 3: tariff of release. What twenty five percent that has to
Speaker 3: be paid by Apple coming into the US. There's no
Speaker 3: I don't know who came up with the thirty five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars headlock, but right now there's the there's a
Speaker 3: global head of technology research at a AT where to
Speaker 3: push securities. It's a financial services He estimates iPhone could
Speaker 3: run as much as twenty three hundred dollars when herrafs
Speaker 3: are taking into account, and that's a big increase from
Speaker 3: Apple's views models as about twelve hundred dollars. I don't
Speaker 3: know who came up with the thirty five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: I think goes a bad headline. It's yes, I wanted,
Speaker 3: I'm no there everything made that day in the United
Speaker 3: States for air. If they're not, so, what are you
Speaker 3: gonna do. You're gonna suck it up and we're gonna
Speaker 3: pay the pup. Listen one more hour when we canning back,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you what I found in my garage.
Speaker 3: You're gonna laugh, laugh, laugh, You're gonna say, hey, I
Speaker 3: might have that same stuff in my garage too, don't
Speaker 3: go anywhere high tech.
Speaker 1: Next is Michael Garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining in
Speaker 1: the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a
Speaker 1: high Tech Texans.
Speaker 3: To make life easier, system new technology, and Michael Garfield
Speaker 3: has something you might like.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: Halfway through the end of the show, which means this
Speaker 3: is halfway a happy hour. My friends, what is going on?
Speaker 3: Just like that big boomy voice says, it is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: I am known as the high tech Texan. What's good? People?
Speaker 3: We have a post Father's Day show taking suggestions. If
Speaker 3: you want to return some of your gifts, maybe I
Speaker 3: could tell you to get another model or something. It
Speaker 3: is three four six twenty nine Texan three four six
Speaker 3: two nine t e x A N. We actually spent
Speaker 3: a lot of the first hour talking about phones and
Speaker 3: cell phones and new mobile companies and how can the
Speaker 3: President of the United States and his family all of
Speaker 3: a sudden come up with a a a network, an
Speaker 3: operating network for for cell phones along with actual phones. Well,
Speaker 3: I told you what a multiple virtual network operator is,
Speaker 3: and feel free to go back and listen to that
Speaker 3: on podcasts. But I want to talk about phones. I
Speaker 3: want to talk about actual phones. What phone did This
Speaker 3: is a rhetorical question because I can't hear you right now.
Speaker 3: But what phone are you using right now? Okay? Are
Speaker 3: you using something made by app? Are you you made?
Speaker 3: Are you using an Android? Whatever it is? I am
Speaker 3: historically an android guy, and I get a lot of
Speaker 3: phones per year. I test them out. A lot of
Speaker 3: these companies don't want them back, and I don't throw
Speaker 3: things away and I don't sell them. So I have
Speaker 3: kind of a graveyard for phones. And I don't know
Speaker 3: what you do with your old technology. This is where
Speaker 3: I'm going with this. I do know that I have
Speaker 3: this container or this kind of storage box in my
Speaker 3: garage that is known as the cell phone boneyard of
Speaker 3: the Garfield family. I just tossed my phones in there.
Speaker 3: Friend of mine wanted to know if I had an
Speaker 3: MP three player laying around because she wanted it. She
Speaker 3: needed it for something, and I'm like, well, phones, it's
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's it's a storage device.
Speaker 3: There's tons of storage. Why don't you just use your
Speaker 3: phone and put music on there. Well, she couldn't do it,
Speaker 3: going to camp. Can't have any type of cell phones.
Speaker 3: That's got to be an actual, typical MP three players.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, man, I haven't actually had an MP
Speaker 3: three player in years. Point is, I go into the
Speaker 3: garage and I get out the boneyard, I get out
Speaker 3: this box. So I started having fun. I start pulling
Speaker 3: out I haven't seen this box in years. I start
Speaker 3: pulling out these phones looking for an MP three player,
Speaker 3: and I realized I could open a technology museum. I
Speaker 3: took a photo of not even all of these phones
Speaker 3: laying out dust, hobweeds, crack screen, and I posted it
Speaker 3: on my x account. Go to high tech text and
Speaker 3: hi g h T E c ht E XN. You
Speaker 3: can see it there. Actually, you sit it on Facebook.
Speaker 3: You can see it even on my Instagram high tech
Speaker 3: text him and I and I put all these help
Speaker 3: one two, three, four, FI, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 3: sixteen seventy. There must be about twenty four phones. This
Speaker 3: isn't even all my phones. People, I have Blackberries. I
Speaker 3: have a number of Blackberries, LG, Samsung Home, Dell.
Speaker 1: HP.
Speaker 3: Actually have an app. I actually have an Apple iPod,
Speaker 3: one of the original iPods, not a phone. VS run
Speaker 3: the gamut from the year nineteen ninety eight, nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: nine till till to recently. Here is a Motorola. What
Speaker 3: is this thing? It's a Motorola communicator. It's a clamshell
Speaker 3: thing that looked like it comes from a sci fi movie.
Speaker 3: I posted this with what what is your favorite What
Speaker 3: is your favorite cell phone of all time? For the
Speaker 3: next hour, we're gonna play the game. Let's call Michael
Speaker 3: Garfield on the High Tech Textan Show and tell him
Speaker 3: what is your favorite phone of all time?
Speaker 1: Time?
Speaker 3: Time three four six twenty nine, Texan three four six
Speaker 3: two nine eight three nine two six Post a photo
Speaker 3: if you're still using it, I don't care. I know
Speaker 3: some people are still using their clamshell flip phnes from
Speaker 3: two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight. They take
Speaker 3: care of them that you call my show on them?
Speaker 3: I know you, guys.
Speaker 1: Is just it.
Speaker 3: It's a walk down memory lane. I'll bury the lead
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what mine is. I think my
Speaker 3: favorite phone of all time is the BlackBerry Pearl. It
Speaker 3: was one of the smallest Blackberries ever released. I loved
Speaker 3: it because of the small form factor. I can keep
Speaker 3: it my front pocket. It kind of slid up. It
Speaker 3: wasn't a flip phone. It didn't have specific letter keys
Speaker 3: that had numbers, and it used T nine. You remember
Speaker 3: what tennin if you needed a text on And here's
Speaker 3: the thing, we as Americans didn't text a lot twenty
Speaker 3: years ago. Other countries, European countries. They texted. They got
Speaker 3: into the texting thing before we did much much more.
Speaker 3: We talked on the phone. So what we had to
Speaker 3: do we you know, you have the keyboard one, two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 3: seven eight nine. Was it at star pounds star zero
Speaker 3: pounds something like that. But there's also letters on those
Speaker 3: on the so if you look at the number two key,
Speaker 3: it's ABC, the three key D E F and so
Speaker 3: you had to tap on those things. It was just
Speaker 3: so it was sos like it was rudimentary, very morse codesh.
Speaker 3: That's fine. Love the BlackBerry pearl. And you could see
Speaker 3: the BlackBerry pearl right there, second row, right side. And
Speaker 3: look who the carrier was. People, I'm gonna throw out
Speaker 3: a name of your go a freak right now if
Speaker 3: you're old, if you're old like me, it ain't Verizon,
Speaker 3: because I see a Verizon. It ain't sprint. I even
Speaker 3: see a sprint for people. My BlackBerry pearl was on
Speaker 3: Singular C I N G U L A R, which
Speaker 3: I think was was that bought out by AT and
Speaker 3: T or Verizon. I don't even know. Look at that thing,
Speaker 3: it's got a little track ball. I got at least
Speaker 3: two flip phones. There is my very first BlackBerry, which
Speaker 3: is on the Verizon network, had a little plastic holster. Man,
Speaker 3: love to hear from you. Back in the good old
Speaker 3: days when we used to have newspapers and when you
Speaker 3: only had a radio. Hello, my friend, we had big, old,
Speaker 3: clunky cell phones that didn't even have letters on them.
Speaker 3: It was just numbers. Some of them folded, some of
Speaker 3: them were big, some of them weren't color. You couldn't
Speaker 3: touch the screen. It was the iPhone in two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven when was released. That was the first screen
Speaker 3: you can touch. There's no doubt, man, how'd we live
Speaker 3: back then? Those were the good old days. I'd love
Speaker 3: to hear from you, Michael Garfield High take text and
Speaker 3: show when we come back. Listen, I'm going to tell
Speaker 3: you how to stop trackers from collecting your health data.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you, actually, if you're an Android fan,
Speaker 3: Andre the latest version of Android Android sixteen is actually out,
Speaker 3: I will tell you how to download that, but only
Speaker 3: on a few phones. And also trying to unsubscribe from
Speaker 3: all your emails that you thinker spam. Think again before
Speaker 3: clicking unsubscribe on some of those emails. That's right, Garb's
Speaker 3: here to one, don't go anywhere, hang up your phone
Speaker 3: or actually comments three four six twenty nine Texans the Heigh.
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Speaker 3: You can not listen to your favorite radio shows. A
Speaker 3: lot of reviews that I do. And here's something that
Speaker 3: you can get dad for a late Father's Day gift.
Speaker 3: Dads who mow the lawn. This is one of those
Speaker 3: products that I reviewed that made me think, where was
Speaker 3: this invention when I was a kid, Because growing up
Speaker 3: in Texas, I mowed the lawn. Now, yes, we did,
Speaker 3: at one point we had a mowing mowing riding lawn
Speaker 3: or because our lawn was so big. But I still
Speaker 3: had to get off and I had to bag all
Speaker 3: the mulch and everything. But also for a good twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five years and at least two of my houses,
Speaker 3: as you know, when I had kids, I mowed the lawn.
Speaker 3: And the funny thing is I really didn't complain as
Speaker 3: hot and nasty as just as just the laborious just
Speaker 3: it's this thing that we have to do. I wanted
Speaker 3: to do it myself. I didn't want anybody. I didn't
Speaker 3: want to pay some dude did actually, you know, mow
Speaker 3: my lawn because it really was the only place anywhere
Speaker 3: in my life that I could escape and get away
Speaker 3: from everything, no kids screaming. I really didn't even fifteen
Speaker 3: twenty thirty years ago, I didn't have a radio or
Speaker 3: earphones or iPods or eye players right to put in
Speaker 3: my ears. I listened to the home of the mower,
Speaker 3: and I did thinking, I did my best thinking out there.
Speaker 3: As matter of fact, I think I believe I actually
Speaker 3: came up with the concept of the high tech text
Speaker 3: and when I was mowing, it was just a hum
Speaker 3: mowing out there twenty three years ago. Well, nowadays there
Speaker 3: are opportunities where there is no home from a lawnmower,
Speaker 3: even though your lawn is being mowed and you don't
Speaker 3: have to pay anybody to do it. Because I played
Speaker 3: with and tested and currently reviewing a robot lawnmower. A
Speaker 3: robot lawnmower, people, I'm not kidding you. It's hut out
Speaker 3: of the world conceptualizing to believe there is a robotic lawnmower.
Speaker 3: Because you know what a robot vacuum cleaner is. You
Speaker 3: may have one many of them out there from roboock
Speaker 3: is a brand name, I robot, whatever it is. You
Speaker 3: know what they do. You program it, They map out
Speaker 3: your living room, your dining room, your kitchen. You plug
Speaker 3: it and you charge it and they just let it
Speaker 3: go and it chases the cat around. There you go,
Speaker 3: same concept a little bit more technologically events. So there
Speaker 3: is I tested out and I tried. It's a company
Speaker 3: called Ecovacs. Eco Vacs They actually make robotic vacuum cleaners,
Speaker 3: but they also make, among many other companies, robot lawnmowers. Ways,
Speaker 3: about what is this thing? Weigh thirty five pounds. You
Speaker 3: don't really need to pick it up a lot. It's
Speaker 3: about the size of a small tricycle that a kid
Speaker 3: would ride. Charge it. It's got a battery. You put
Speaker 3: it outside. You initially one time map your lawn and
Speaker 3: it uses LIDAR. Do you know what light R is, Well,
Speaker 3: it's not radar. It's got two lightar cameras. It stands
Speaker 3: for light detection and ranging. And here it is what
Speaker 3: it is akin to. You ever seen self driving cars,
Speaker 3: way mos, all these new uberjaxis, they have all these
Speaker 3: cameras and all these spinning things. That's LYDAR. It's a
Speaker 3: remote sensing method and it uses laser light to measure
Speaker 3: distance and it creates kind of a detailed three D
Speaker 3: model of objects in the environment around you. There is
Speaker 3: a light ar that's kind of three hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: degree lightar camera on top of this robotic mower, and
Speaker 3: there's a front facing camera that also uses LDAR, and
Speaker 3: so as it moves it sees everything. It sees trees,
Speaker 3: it sees garden hoses, it sees pets, it sees people
Speaker 3: walking around, and it knows when to stop, when to
Speaker 3: turn does everything. So you charge it, you turn it on,
Speaker 3: You download an app and I put it in my
Speaker 3: yard and I let it go. I mapped it. I
Speaker 3: saw it going all at trace, all around the edges.
Speaker 3: Once it's locked in, it's locked in, it comes back.
Speaker 3: It charges itself. You hit a button and it goes.
Speaker 3: Battery lasts for about well, they say it's about forty
Speaker 3: three hundred square foot yard, which is about me. It's
Speaker 3: about a typical size of a lawn. It wouldn't do
Speaker 3: my one acre parents house, you know, lawn that they have.
Speaker 3: It comes if it does run low on battery. It
Speaker 3: automatically knows when it's running long battery. It will roll
Speaker 3: back and put itself on the charger, kind of like
Speaker 3: robotic vacuums. Charger does need to be plugged in. It's
Speaker 3: waterproof ip X six rated, so you don't want it
Speaker 3: in big ring downpours it, you know, so if it
Speaker 3: gets hit by a sprinkler, maybe you want to hose
Speaker 3: it down to clean it. That's fine, but I got
Speaker 3: to tell you you can adjust the cutting length of
Speaker 3: grass from about one point two inches to three and
Speaker 3: a half inches on grass, It's got two rotary blades,
Speaker 3: cuts about a thirteen inch wide. Half goes up and
Speaker 3: back and up and back, and it kind of actually
Speaker 3: does its own little twirl. But it knows where it's
Speaker 3: been because it has GPS. Nobody can steal it because
Speaker 3: it does have a GPS, and it actually does have
Speaker 3: alarm so you can track it if somebody actually steals it.
Speaker 3: I have no clue why anybody would want to steal
Speaker 3: a thirty five pound lawn more, especially because the charging
Speaker 3: pad is probably stuck, or because you can actually put
Speaker 3: these pegs and actually, you know, kind of really get
Speaker 3: it into the ground over under price before I tell you?
Speaker 3: Do you like the concept? Does everybody like the concept
Speaker 3: of a robotic lawnmower? So instead of slapping up and down,
Speaker 3: going to get gas, making sure there's oil, either pushing
Speaker 3: the button, pushing the lawnmower, getting your hands dirty, you
Speaker 3: need to do is start your app sit back, have
Speaker 3: a coldie. You don't even need to be home. You
Speaker 3: can set a schedule every Monday, every Saturday, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to do, and it cuts it in concept. I
Speaker 3: love the idea. So how did it work out?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Not back the lawn that it was cutting, and I
Speaker 3: want to be honest with you, I want to raise
Speaker 3: my hand. I actually took it to my neighbor's lawn
Speaker 3: because he has a bigger lawn, more wide spaces, because
Speaker 3: I was actually had to shoot a TV segment for
Speaker 3: my Fox and my CBS stuff that I'm doing, so
Speaker 3: I'm actually you'll see it. I will put it on
Speaker 3: my YouTube channel here the next week or so. You
Speaker 3: actually see what was going. So I needed a big lawn.
Speaker 3: He's got a big law. There was no way that
Speaker 3: this robot lawnmower was going to last his entire lawn,
Speaker 3: which is fine. I only needed about an hour's worth
Speaker 3: of b roll shots and everything. But it was relatively
Speaker 3: easy to set up, very simple to map out. I
Speaker 3: pushed a button and it was going. It found its
Speaker 3: way around trees. It know when the grass stop and
Speaker 3: the cement started, so we're to turn around and keep
Speaker 3: on the grass. It mulched closely enough, and it threw
Speaker 3: the mulch particles right back into the ground. It doesn't
Speaker 3: need bagging, and sure enough, when it ran out of battery,
Speaker 3: went right back and charged itself. I took a hose,
Speaker 3: I sprayed it off. I actually like it. What I
Speaker 3: get one tough question. I actually like exercise, breaking news.
Speaker 3: I kind of like mowing. I also don't like spending
Speaker 3: a lot of money host to this specific Ecovac A
Speaker 3: three thousand goat lidar robot lawnmower twenty five hundred dollars. Yikes,
Speaker 3: don't turn the radio off. There are others on the market.
Speaker 3: There are cheaper ones, Ego Vacs even makes it cheaper
Speaker 3: one themselves too. They're more expensive ones. But I guess
Speaker 3: this is where you start doing the ROI what's your
Speaker 3: return on an investment? So if I pay twenty five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars, well number one, I'm not gonna have to
Speaker 3: gas it out. Not that you pay a lot of
Speaker 3: gas for a lawnmower over a given summer. How much
Speaker 3: do you pay your lawn guy or your lawn gal.
Speaker 3: Do you pay them fifty bucks? Do you pay them
Speaker 3: seventy five bucks? Well, now you don't have to do that.
Speaker 3: Then again, does your lawn person do more than just
Speaker 3: your lawn? Because this thing, last I check it didn't
Speaker 3: like weed out flowers or anything or prune trees. How
Speaker 3: much is your time worth? Sometimes it does take several
Speaker 3: hours to prep to mow and do everything. Pretty much,
Speaker 3: this is other than almost simple. It takes a matter
Speaker 3: of minute to actually hit the button. It sometimes doesn't
Speaker 3: even take that longs to the schedule. It's a matter
Speaker 3: of time. This is what I do when I review products.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna probably tell you what I get it. But
Speaker 3: I am in a different lifestyle, my age, kid situation,
Speaker 3: family situation, probably than you are. I have three grown boys,
Speaker 3: I live alone. I actually don't have a massive, massive yard,
Speaker 3: which is why I look for cars, and I look
Speaker 3: for trucks, and I look for tech products, and I
Speaker 3: look for smart home gadgets a little different than you.
Speaker 3: But I am going to tell you these things are
Speaker 3: out there, Dad, if you're interested. I do like it.
Speaker 3: It is nice. You need to decide if it's worth
Speaker 3: whatever price you get it for. By the way, next
Speaker 3: month Amazon Prime days. I think it's got four days
Speaker 3: coming up. I don't know if this is going to
Speaker 3: be an Amazon Prime, but we could talk about that later.
Speaker 3: There it is my review the Ecovac's Goat, a three
Speaker 3: thousand robot lawnmower. Have you used one of these?
Speaker 1: You like it?
Speaker 3: This is where you could talk to me. Love to
Speaker 3: hear from you. Give me a call. Three four six
Speaker 3: twenty nine, Texan. The name is Michael Garfield with no
Speaker 3: calusis because I ain't pushing, no lawndower, no war pot
Speaker 3: them at the hour my friends cope Paul as well.
Speaker 3: Before I return you to the full first weekend of summer,
Speaker 3: you will be excused. And if you're at the pool
Speaker 3: listening to me, well you're probably already more excuse And
Speaker 3: I hope you have a nice coldie in your hand.
Speaker 3: Feel free to invite me over when I'm done hot
Speaker 3: weather out there. Michael is the name. It's called Michael,
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield. That's what they call me. They call me Garf,
Speaker 3: but it is called the high Tech Texan Show. We
Speaker 3: thank you for hanging around summer summer movies. Summer Lovin
Speaker 3: had me a blast. This is the tops Other than
Speaker 3: the Tom Cruise Dead Reckoning thing. Has there been a
Speaker 3: big action movie the least yet? I do know this
Speaker 3: coming week f one with Brad Pitt is coming. Those
Speaker 3: are I mean big blockbusters. I mean you see NonStop
Speaker 3: promotion worldwide tours and interviews on Enter Damage Tonight you
Speaker 3: see billboards, it's it seems to me, I mean, just
Speaker 3: the anecdotally, I've seen less and less of big blockbusters
Speaker 3: coming out or being promoted. And I talk about this
Speaker 3: because do you know what's being promoted right now almost
Speaker 3: bigger than any of these other movies. It's the fiftieth
Speaker 3: anniversary of one of the most famous films of all time?
Speaker 3: Where were you fifty years ago this week? Nineteen seventy five? Now,
Speaker 3: knowing my audience a lot of you were born, and
Speaker 3: if you weren't born, did you see this movie? Because
Speaker 3: I got to tell you. If you're a longtime listener,
Speaker 3: you know I am the king of pop culture. I
Speaker 3: am the king of the eighties. If there's music, if
Speaker 3: there is a song, if there is a fad, if
Speaker 3: there is a fashion, if there is a trend, if
Speaker 3: there's a whatever it is the era, I'm pretty much
Speaker 3: all over it. But it's I'm not embarrassed to say
Speaker 3: I when it comes to movies, I don't I haven't
Speaker 3: seen a lot of the big movies that have been blockbusters,
Speaker 3: that have been famous, that have been award winners and
Speaker 3: be in people are surprised. For example, I have never
Speaker 3: seen any of the Godfather movies. None, Nope, haven't seen it,
Speaker 3: and I can go on stop. I don't want any
Speaker 3: calls right now. I'm not doing it right now. I
Speaker 3: know point is fifty years ago one of the most
Speaker 3: incredible movies really, which literally and figurally started the summer
Speaker 3: box office boom where crazy movies, big ones were released
Speaker 3: in summer. It was fifty years ago this week Jaws. Jaws,
Speaker 3: a seafaring masterpiece about the shark. Steven Spielberg. Director John
Speaker 3: Williams did the music and score. I've never seen it.
Speaker 3: I never saw it because number one, I was relatively
Speaker 3: young in nineteen seventy five, even though probably somebody saw it.
Speaker 3: But I don't dig sharks. I don't dig movie that
Speaker 3: are scary. Now, I'm not saying Jaws is scary because
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it, because but I've studied it because
Speaker 3: when I was in Radyotos in the film, when we
Speaker 3: studied Steven Spielberg, I mean he talked about the shark
Speaker 3: where you never initially saw the shark, and you heard
Speaker 3: the dune done dune, dune, dunk to the two note,
Speaker 3: I mean and then finally you see the Shark and
Speaker 3: it's it's it's your mind in things.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was phenomenal. So know I if anybody has seen
Speaker 3: if you want to reminisce on the greatest big blockbusters
Speaker 3: all the time, now you can call me. Just don't
Speaker 3: yell at me for not seeing Jaws in many of
Speaker 3: the other movies. You can feel free to give me
Speaker 3: a shout if you want to pick up I don know, callum.
Speaker 3: If you want to pick up the phone three four
Speaker 3: six twenty nine Texan three four six two nine t
Speaker 3: E X A N, feel free to uh check that out.
Speaker 3: But I saw a list of the top ten shark movies.
Speaker 3: Let me just run through this people, the top ten
Speaker 3: best shark movies. This is according to US USA Today,
Speaker 3: Real quickly, ten Deep Deep Blue Sea, three Meg Too,
Speaker 3: the Trench, Jaws, two the Meg, the Reef, Open Water
Speaker 3: under Paris, the Shallows, Deep Blue Sea, and a number one,
Speaker 3: of course, was Jaws. I am oh for ten, and
Speaker 3: I am proud to say I am oh for ten.
Speaker 3: I just I'm not gonna do it. I do go.
Speaker 3: I don't mind the ocean in the water. I go
Speaker 3: to Southern California, so a few times a year to
Speaker 3: see the kids, I go to the ocean. I don't
Speaker 3: want in the back of my mind knowing or thinking
Speaker 3: there's a freaking movie shark out there, or a real shark. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I just thought that was an anecdotal thing. Happy anniversary
Speaker 3: to Jaws. And then we could play the what movie
Speaker 3: has mich Golt not seen? And then you would be
Speaker 3: in all just as scary as as sharks. This is
Speaker 3: a hard segue. Kids, if you're learning to get into
Speaker 3: broadcast journalism, this is how you do it, just as
Speaker 3: scary and sharks. How about all these potential hackers and
Speaker 3: trackers trying to collect data from your cell phone and
Speaker 3: from your personal lives boom see, I did it. So
Speaker 3: another story about trackers collecting your health data, and I
Speaker 3: found this one interesting. It's because I do track my health.
Speaker 3: I have several smart watches like all of you out there.
Speaker 3: I have apps that will show me my beats per minute,
Speaker 3: how long I've run, how I sleep. Because of technology,
Speaker 3: we are I think it's great because we are getting
Speaker 3: data and we are getting regular personal feedback on how
Speaker 3: we live, how we exercise, and how we sleep and
Speaker 3: how we can improve much more so than back on
Speaker 3: my old days, where we got it once or twice
Speaker 3: a year by taking tests at a doctor's office. Now
Speaker 3: we get immediate feedback when we wake up. If you
Speaker 3: sleep with your smart watch on a lot of the people,
Speaker 3: the first thing you do is you take a look
Speaker 3: at your wrist. It's like, oh, was I in rimsleep
Speaker 3: for an hour and two minutes? And what's my sleep score?
Speaker 3: And then you know how quickly and when I'm on
Speaker 3: my bike, can I get my beats permitted of my heart?
Speaker 3: And what's my resting heart rate? It goes on and on.
Speaker 3: Personal health information is very big. However, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of this information that is being leaked to third party
Speaker 3: companies who may be using it. Maybe it's the watch
Speaker 3: manufacturer or something. What is happening, Well, there are a
Speaker 3: lot of health websites, health exchange websites, and they you know,
Speaker 3: companies like Google and Snapchat and LinkedIn and believe it
Speaker 3: or not, they use they track user activity to target advertising.
Speaker 1: They do.
Speaker 3: Websites. Website owners they install and they configure coating to
Speaker 3: provide tech companies on their pages. And these things are trackers.
Speaker 3: As you know, when you load a page this tracker
Speaker 3: coding runs, collecting data, sends it to the tech company servers,
Speaker 3: and it goes on, how do you protect your data
Speaker 3: from these trackers and especially when it comes to health
Speaker 3: stuff too? Well number one did you know? Well, quickly
Speaker 3: over here you can block trackers. If you're using Safari
Speaker 3: as a web browser, I want you to use go
Speaker 3: click on Advanced Tracking and finger Printing Protection. Okay, it'll
Speaker 3: block the trackers, a lot of the trackers. If you're
Speaker 3: using Chrome or other browsers blocking third party cookies, it
Speaker 3: actually won't stop the trackers from sending your data, but
Speaker 3: it's going to make it harder to link the data
Speaker 3: to you. Specifically, what I would do is I would
Speaker 3: install a privacy protecting browser extension. So if you're using
Speaker 3: a desk, hot brower browser, use a privacy protecting browser
Speaker 3: extension that they're they're called a number of things. One
Speaker 3: it's called privacy badger. One's called you block the letter,
Speaker 3: you block, you block origin. Those things can help to
Speaker 3: switch to a new browser. I actually use a browser
Speaker 3: browser called Brave. I have long used a bro It's
Speaker 3: a free browser. Brave. What it does it hides a
Speaker 3: lot of this stuff it's almost like a built in VPN,
Speaker 3: very privacy focused. I don't use Edge, I don't use
Speaker 3: Safarian do it. I use Brave duck Go. Believe it
Speaker 3: or not, there's all that also ones the block trackers too.
Speaker 3: But believe it or not, what doesn't work to block
Speaker 3: trackers a VPN. I've longchouted using a virtual private network
Speaker 3: to keep your privacy at least your Internet connection secure.
Speaker 3: But VPN they're handy for really kind of obscuring your
Speaker 3: location of where you actually are, right, But it won't
Speaker 3: stop trackers from reading and writing cookies and sharing details
Speaker 3: about your advice too. Also, oh you're gonna be You're
Speaker 3: gonna outsmart them. You're gonna use incognito mode or private mode.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna block trackers either. So if you don't,
Speaker 3: nothing is gonna one hundred percent stop blockers and trackers.
Speaker 1: But do what I do.
Speaker 3: Use a use a a web browser, brave duck duck Go.
Speaker 3: Use a privacy protecting browser extension. It's something you can
Speaker 3: download for free that may help too. Just a little FYI,
Speaker 3: we got one more segment to go. I do think
Speaker 3: you can tune it in there. It is Michael barcod
Speaker 3: in the high Tech tex and Code. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: We're gonna wind it up, big.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A few more minutes before we wind up the bag
Speaker 3: and close it and zip lock it up for this
Speaker 3: week show, the first radio show of the Summer of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, officially Summer. Hey, the good news people.
Speaker 3: Last Friday was the longest day of the year. Just
Speaker 3: lead to just terrestrially and solarly and everything summer, sourctice,
Speaker 3: whatever point is. Every day now become shorter as we
Speaker 3: count down to winter. I mean, listen, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: I'm from Texas. I've lived here most all my life.
Speaker 3: It's just hot man, and I you know, I like
Speaker 3: being outdoors because I'm a runner. I just did the
Speaker 3: one hundred plus degree weather. The humidity, it's not conducive
Speaker 3: for running for runners, and that's really why I just
Speaker 3: I like cool weather. Let's go people, Snap, Snap, Let's
Speaker 3: let's get it going. Michael Garfield final a few minutes
Speaker 3: of this week's high Tech Text and Show. Not going
Speaker 3: to give the phone number on. We've got a few
Speaker 3: things to talk about. I I teased them, I got
Speaker 3: to pay them off. Talk talk about all the emails
Speaker 3: that everybody is beginning. This is a good time year.
Speaker 3: If you're your schedule is getting a little bit lighter,
Speaker 3: maybe you're you know, you're working from home, maybe you
Speaker 3: have a fagation days to do something about all this
Speaker 3: spam mail that you're getting. I continue to get more
Speaker 3: and more, and spam is getting tougher and tougher to determine.
Speaker 3: I've ben get my website high tech textan dot com
Speaker 3: is hosted through register dot com, which is Network Solutions,
Speaker 3: and I've had it for years and years and years,
Speaker 3: and I know every year when the annual fee payment
Speaker 3: is coming up. So when I get emails throughout the year,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, what do they want? Why do they want
Speaker 3: me to click this link? This past week, I've gotten
Speaker 3: like three emails that are very very suspicious. They con't
Speaker 3: it says register dot com from the sender. It's got
Speaker 3: the register dot com logo in the email and it's
Speaker 3: got hey, you need to verify your account click here.
Speaker 3: And I'm very cautious and you should I talk about
Speaker 3: this because I want you to be too. Before clicking
Speaker 3: on these things. You need to think about it now.
Speaker 3: It's a serious thing. I don't want my website to
Speaker 3: go down. And so this is why I'm reading this
Speaker 3: thing like this the suppruter film like word by word,
Speaker 3: going oh wait a minute. And what I found is
Speaker 3: when I got to the very bottom, there's small print.
Speaker 3: It's got legal stuff registered trademark. This email is being
Speaker 3: sent by Network Solution, and I'm looking closer, things are off.
Speaker 3: Number one, I look for misspellings. I didn't see misspelling,
Speaker 3: but networksolutions dot com is one of the but I
Speaker 3: look at how it's written or typed out in this
Speaker 3: bottom of the email. In the legal lees, it was
Speaker 3: like network in dot or period etwork, Like why do
Speaker 3: they put a period between network? The other thing that
Speaker 3: you could do is you could take your mouse. If
Speaker 3: you're on the desktop or a laptop, take your mouse,
Speaker 3: and I want you to hover over the link. Put
Speaker 3: your mouse on it, don't click it. What happens is
Speaker 3: you're going to get a little pop up. And if
Speaker 3: that doesn't happen, I want you to hover over that
Speaker 3: link and write click on your mouth. When you write
Speaker 3: click out of a mouth, you actually can potentially see
Speaker 3: what's the destination website that that link is going to
Speaker 3: take you to, and if it's odd, and if it's long,
Speaker 3: and if it doesn't say in this case register dot
Speaker 3: com or network solutions, eh, don't do it. Don't click
Speaker 3: on it. I didn't. The point is how do you
Speaker 3: get off? How do you amy? I'm a big unsubscriber.
Speaker 3: Every few weeks I go and I'm like, why why
Speaker 3: am I getting this? Let me scroll down and let
Speaker 3: me click the famous unsubscribed button. I want you to
Speaker 3: think twice before you do that. At least one in
Speaker 3: every and here's a here's a stat stat of the
Speaker 3: day by DNS filter. At least one in every six
Speaker 3: hundred and forty four click here to one and subscribe
Speaker 3: links led to potentially malicious web sites. Now one in
Speaker 3: six hundred and forty four. It's pretty decent batting average. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: but the one time you click on that and your
Speaker 3: computer goes I don't want you calling me watch for
Speaker 3: that stuff. So what do you do? A lot of
Speaker 3: email service providers they have a built in unsubscribed feature
Speaker 3: that does not require interacting with any of these shady links.
Speaker 3: All right, The easiest, most common are the list unsubscribe headers.
Speaker 3: It's a banner with the little hyperlink that comes from
Speaker 3: your email provider. You can click through it. The other
Speaker 3: thing is you can actually go just get out of
Speaker 3: that email, go to the website. Actually go to the
Speaker 3: website that sent you. So say you don't want to
Speaker 3: there's a burger chain and you subscribe to it, Well
Speaker 3: you could get you don't know where that's going to lead.
Speaker 3: Go to the burger chain's website, go to your account,
Speaker 3: then unsubscribe that way. That's the other thing. And the
Speaker 3: other thing I could do is the famous junk button.
Speaker 3: This is my last resort, but sometimes I have to
Speaker 3: resort to it more than often. I use Microsoft Outlook
Speaker 3: and I have a junk folder. Anytime I'm getting something
Speaker 3: and it's from a Rando person email address, I will
Speaker 3: write click and I will hit junk immediately. It goes
Speaker 3: into my junk folder, not spam, a junk folder, and
Speaker 3: it blocks that sender from ever not sending me. They're
Speaker 3: gonna send me emails, but I'm never gonna see it.
Speaker 3: I junk those. You can also do that with ex
Speaker 3: girlfriends or ex boyfriends. See what I did there. Just
Speaker 3: a time of year, you got a little lecture time
Speaker 3: in your hands, you may want to do that real quickly,
Speaker 3: what's Michael driving this week? I told you this past week.
Speaker 3: Every week I do get to drive a brand new
Speaker 3: vehicle for a week. It is not from a dealership.
Speaker 3: I work directly with the manufacturers. I've been doing it
Speaker 3: for about fifteen years, been driven over one thousand cars.
Speaker 3: I don't get paid for it. These are my thoughts.
Speaker 3: This past week, Michael was driving in the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five Nissan front here Pro four x crew cab. By
Speaker 3: the way, it's a mid size truck. If you're in
Speaker 3: the mood for a market for a mid sized truck,
Speaker 3: there are a few mid sized trucks you're usually thinking.
Speaker 3: You know, if you think of a pickup truck, you're
Speaker 3: gonna be a halftime. You're gonna be a four to
Speaker 3: f one fifty, the Ram, and you know, just all these.
Speaker 3: But the mid size truck Nissan Frontier, the GMC Canyon,
Speaker 3: the Chevy Colorado, the Toyota Tundra, those are the smaller ones.
Speaker 3: I actually like those. I personally prefer those if I
Speaker 3: had to get a truck because I don't really don't
Speaker 3: haul and schlep a lot of things. They're easier to park,
Speaker 3: easier maneuver, and you know they still work and act
Speaker 3: very nice off road. I've long been a Nissan fan.
Speaker 3: I haven't been the biggest proponent of the Frontier, but
Speaker 3: I really like this one, really because it's the Pro
Speaker 3: four X. Pro four X is the badge, the kind
Speaker 3: of the outdoor rugged badge that on the outside he
Speaker 3: gives you a lot more stability off voading opportunities, but
Speaker 3: on the inside they really kind of trick out the
Speaker 3: vehicle a lot more of The Nissan Armada has a
Speaker 3: Pro four X version, which I absolutely loved, but the
Speaker 3: Nissan Frontier Pro. I tell you, what, if you actually
Speaker 3: put Pro four X on a jar of mayonnaise, I
Speaker 3: would I would potentially try it. That's how great I'd
Speaker 3: like the Pro four X upgrade. It runs about forty
Speaker 3: one thousand dollars for the regular Frontier. The Pro for
Speaker 3: X is going to add about another six seven thousand
Speaker 3: dollars after all is said and done. But those are
Speaker 3: the premium packages. But it's got a very nice three
Speaker 3: point eight leader V six engines a V six engine
Speaker 3: at a relatively small vehicle, so you know you're gonna
Speaker 3: get a lot of pickup. It tows well, three hundred
Speaker 3: and ten horse powers. It's got great cool tires, the
Speaker 3: seventeen inch pro alloy wheels. There's a lot of neat
Speaker 3: things on this. If you are looking to get a
Speaker 3: mid sized bruck, I would look at the Nissan Frontier.
Speaker 3: If you have the funds and the necessary means, check
Speaker 3: out the pro four x versions. If you do, take
Speaker 3: it on motor off and there you go. If you
Speaker 3: want to hear all my reviews from fifteen years, you
Speaker 3: can go look on a podcast. You can even specifically
Speaker 3: check out Spotify. Look for a high tech texts in
Speaker 3: and every week it's just pop pop pop. You're going
Speaker 3: to get reviews. Other than that. I got to get
Speaker 3: out of here, folks. Callum's giving me to get out
Speaker 3: of here because it is cocktail and happy hour time. Officially,
Speaker 3: I do thank everybody in my Heart Radio network for
Speaker 3: keeping us on for twenty three years. You know how
Speaker 3: to get me at the long url high tech text
Speaker 3: and spell it all out. Hey, Happy summer officially on
Speaker 3: behalf of everybody who's been a part of this one
Speaker 3: may get a great week, stay cool, and we'll talk
Speaker 3: to you next week. My name is Garne and this
Speaker 3: show is over