WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.320 Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining in the 2 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.640 High Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high 3 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:17.440 Tech Texans to make life easier, new technology, and Michael 4 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:19.320 Garfield has something you might like. 5 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:31.640 Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping 6 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:37.280 you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the 7 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:42.479 iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan Michael Garfield. 8 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:55.520 Well, well, well, Happy post Father's Day to everybody out 9 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:01.280 there who's celebrated. And it is officially the first day 10 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:07.159 or two of summer. Welcome to Texas Freaking News. It's hot, 11 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.560 it's Africa hot, It's Texas hot. I'm gonna keep you 12 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.719 cool here for the next two hours. We always have fun. 13 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.400 If you are a longtime listener of the High Tech 14 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:20.719 Texan Show, I guarantee you we will talk just more, 15 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.000 a lot more than just about technology. We ain't gonna 16 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:26.120 geek things out. I'm not gonna tell you how to 17 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:28.239 fix your computer, because I don't care how to fix 18 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:29.640 your computer. I'm gonna tell you if you want to 19 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.560 buy a new computer, I can actually tell you that 20 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.120 I ash you and you could tell you what type 21 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.840 of phone you want and maybe what type of phone 22 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.159 you want to stay away from. Uh oh is that 23 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:45.079 a segue into talking about Trump Mobile? Oh? Yes, I'm 24 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.480 going to get to that. If you are interested in 25 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:51.079 a new cell phone, here's another deal that I don't 26 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.920 know if slim shady, if it's worth going, but I 27 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:58.480 will really break it down of howie the Trump family 28 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.840 is able to offer it's own cell service because they 29 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.120 have such an unbelievable, long, lengthy background in offering mobile service. 30 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.439 But I'm not stopping there. I am going to tell 31 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:12.080 you how to stop trackers from collecting your health data. 32 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:17.960 I'm gonna give you a review of a robot lawnmower. People, 33 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:21.639 I grew up in Texas. I grew up in the heat, 34 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:23.879 and I grew up mowing lawns because if you were 35 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.039 a kid, if you're a boy who grew up in Texas, 36 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:31.000 that's what you do. And from the ripe old tender 37 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:34.319 age of I mean, I may have been ten, eleven, 38 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.759 twelve years old, I was mowing lawns. I was mowing 39 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:40.639 my parents lawn in Dallas, my grandparents lawn in Dallas. 40 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.000 I'd go to Austin to see another set of grandparents. 41 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:46.159 I did that. I've had two to three homes in 42 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:49.280 my adult life when I had kids, and I still 43 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:52.479 move my lawn. All I need to tell you is this, 44 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:56.360 where the hell was this robotic lawnmower when I was 45 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.400 growing up. I'll tell you if it's worth the price, 46 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.919 and is it even worth the ha ache of you 47 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.400 getting it up and seeing if it works. Those are 48 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.599 just a few of the things that I talk about. 49 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.000 I test, I give you my opinion so you don't 50 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:17.280 have to. Also the famous weekly What's Michael Driving this week? 51 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:19.879 I have been in not one but two cars for 52 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.879 the entire week where I test drive and I will 53 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:28.080 give you my thoughts ononovich is the Nissan Frontier Pro 54 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.919 four x. It is a mid sized truck, a mid 55 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.719 size truck. If you listen to me, you know I 56 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:34.680 am a fan of mid sized trucks. They are very 57 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.719 easy to maneuver, They're easy to park. I don't schlep 58 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:39.479 a lot of things like I need a quarter or 59 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.120 a half ton or anything. Nope, I actually like this. 60 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.960 I will yap about that. And also the Honda Passport. 61 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.120 I don't actually get a lot of Hondas, and I 62 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.800 will tell you if this little suv, a small suv, 63 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.360 is worth its weight and what you want to pay for. 64 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:56.639 Now I have set up everything. Not much else to 65 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:58.599 talk about in the world of sports, because pretty much 66 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.919 the NBA season zo over, the NHL seed, this is over. 67 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.479 Football doesn't start for another I don't know about eighty 68 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.840 one days. Not niggas baseball. 69 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:07.120 Guy. 70 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.560 All you got is you and meet people. That's all 71 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.759 you got. All right, let's roll. Let me give you 72 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:13.000 the phone number here if you want to get in 73 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:19.079 three four six twenty nine Techan three four six two 74 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:22.519 nine eight three nine two six last I checked it 75 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.199 as an interactive radio program, which, oh by the way, 76 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:30.319 is podcasted on iHeartRadio. Thank you to callum. Read over here. 77 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:34.360 He is behind the glass ache out. Once I finish, 78 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:36.319 he will put that on the iHeartRadio and then you 79 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.439 can listen to this at your heart's content. Anything else 80 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:41.720 we need to talk about, you can follow me at 81 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.600 High Tech Texan HI g h T e h T 82 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.319 e x A n spelled the whole thing out. It 83 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:48.879 is online on web. You can find that same on 84 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:52.240 x You can find it on Instagram and Facebook. If 85 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:54.240 I haven't blocked you, and let me help you out. 86 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.160 I have blocked a few people and you know who 87 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.399 you are, so sucks for you, even though I'm sure 88 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.920 you've probably went to some of your friends account to 89 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.800 see who I'm going out with, or what I'm testing 90 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:06.480 or where I am at. But it's my life. You 91 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.920 didn't want it. I'm just rolling here on the radio 92 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:11.959 as I have for twenty three years. I actually am 93 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:15.199 going to start with a little politics. And I don't 94 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.800 talk about politics people, but I'm sorry, but so many 95 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:24.199 things involved in technology has a political bent, mostly because 96 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.480 of tariffs, mostly because of I don't know, hope people 97 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.279 wanting to get into the mobile industry. But let's talk 98 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:34.600 about TikTok. TikTok. Guess what. The clock has turned back 99 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:41.240 once again. Your president has extended for the third time, 100 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:53.040 TikTok's ban in the USA deadline by another day's promises, promises, promises, unkept, unkept, unkept. 101 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:57.240 Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok's parent company, which 102 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:01.360 is you know it is China based Bite Dance, in 103 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:05.680 order to sell the app to an American owner. It 104 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:10.600 went down for about forty hours in January. People freaked out. 105 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:13.560 I didn't freak out. Because I don't have TikTok. Then 106 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.399 March April comes a long Let's give it another ninety 107 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.480 days and guess what, it's still there. Sign it an 108 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:25.120 executive of order granting a third extension. Now this goes 109 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:28.040 to September seventeenth. Does no one want to buy this? 110 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:34.720 Is it too expensive? Or does anybody care? I mean, 111 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:36.800 I want to be respectful because people do make a 112 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.279 living off of TikTok. My son, my youngest son, is 113 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:41.959 a very very big TikTok influencer, and I know he's 114 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.560 not too happy if for some reason he shuts down. 115 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.279 TikTok is one hundred and seventy million users in the 116 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:53.120 US alone, and a support for a band has actually 117 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:58.680 slowly declined. Why well, because then they think it's a 118 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.560 Chinese based on and they're stealing all their information. Listen, 119 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.800 I'm not going to get into it whether it should 120 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:09.160 be banned, whether it should not be banned, because most 121 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:14.920 every technology item, most every app that we have is 122 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.199 from outside the United States. When I went to China 123 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.279 last April, and I spent some time in Shin's In, 124 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.879 which is the Silicon Valley of China, and I met 125 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:29.079 all these companies, and I actually saw and realized how 126 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.079 they can make things quicker, how they can make things 127 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:37.560 cheaper versus the United States. Do they actually take the 128 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:41.720 information and steel? I don't know. The thing is, I 129 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:46.079 don't have really anything to hide. If the United States, 130 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.000 for all I know, they may actually have been taking 131 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:49.480 a lot of my data, and I'm sure a lot 132 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.160 of it. Are they know where I am? My cell 133 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.800 phone carrier knows where I am because I have a GPS, 134 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:56.959 because I use Google Maps, they have to know where 135 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.399 I am in a given point. Do I care that 136 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:02.319 they know that I go to HB eighteen times a week. 137 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:04.720 I don't know, dude. I hope they're proud of the 138 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:07.160 fact that I actually, you know, go to the gym 139 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.439 a dozen times a week, and I hope they track 140 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.720 how much I run as they train for marathons. I'm 141 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.680 not hiding any secrets, people. The only the worst thing 142 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:18.160 that's gonna happen to me, I think I'm gonna get 143 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.839 served up a ton of advertisements for things that I like, which, 144 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.519 by the way, we're about to do We're gonna take 145 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.120 a break right now. Thank you for listening to these 146 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.959 advertisements here on the iHeartRadio Network because this is a 147 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.680 free radio show. Doesn't cost you jack. People. All you 148 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.440 need to do is just spend four or five minutes 149 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.480 listening to some of these wonder commercials, and I hope 150 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:37.759 you buy from them. When we come back, talk a 151 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.759 little bit more of TikTok, and I'm going to delve 152 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:44.159 into this Trump mobile phone. I'll tell you why this 153 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.399 family is getting into it, how easy it is to 154 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:51.399 start your own cell phone company, and also something like, uh, well, 155 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.000 these these phones really are going to be made the 156 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:55.559 United States specifically because what I just mentioned about two 157 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.840 minutes ago. My name is Michael. I'm not a hater. 158 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.279 I'm a fact giver. 159 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:20.559 All the troops right here on the High Tech Texan Show. 160 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.679 You welcome, You're back to programming. The name is Michael Garfield. 161 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.480 It is called the High Tech Textan Show, but we 162 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:34.039 talked so much more about technology standby. I want to 163 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.799 give a big shout out to the city of Dallas, 164 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.720 Dallas Fort Worth. I was in Dallas last week and 165 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.879 I actually got to listen to this show. My show 166 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:49.240 on kfx R, which is eleven ninety am Talk radio 167 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:53.279 five to seven pm on Saturdays in the after late 168 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:57.320 afternoon also Sunday mornings from eleven in the morning to one. 169 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:03.279 I don't ever listen to this show. I talk, I 170 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.519 do the show, but because it's on in different times 171 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:11.440 in Dallas and also San Antonio in Houston, the some 172 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.039 we tape it and then we air it again. It 173 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.320 sounds like live, and so I've never heard it. So 174 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.440 I'm in Dallas visiting my parents for Father's Day. Happy 175 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.440 late Father's Day people, and I'm rolling up and down 176 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.840 Central Expressway Saturday, five point thirty six people o'clock PM. 177 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:28.960 I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna tune into eleven ninety. 178 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.399 I'm gonna actually hear a number one. I want to 179 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.080 hear it actually airs, which it does, and it's really cool. 180 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.879 I mean, Dallas is my hometown. I was raised in Dallas, 181 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.240 my parents are in Dallas. I went to high school 182 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.320 in Dallas. My buddies are in Dallas. And to be 183 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.559 on the airways in Dallas, it's it's a thrill. It's 184 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:47.039 a treat. And I'm moderored. So I'm listening in you know, 185 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:52.720 a commercial plays and there's bump music, which sadly is 186 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.320 not the bump music that I want. But last iHeart 187 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:57.600 is so cheap. We have no money for actually licensed music, 188 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:59.080 so we have to hear this crap music. And I 189 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:03.440 apologize for that, and then I thought, Callum, you can 190 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.000 help me out with this. I thought we had bumpers 191 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:10.759 bumpers in the radio industry. Are you're listening to the 192 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:14.759 High Tech Tection Show with Michael Garfield at eleven ninety am, Dallas. 193 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.639 It reintroduces a show, So I really thought those aired 194 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.440 every time we bump at the commercial, Callum, do we do? 195 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:28.559 We not have that now? So I'm listening and all 196 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.679 of a sudden, here's bump music and here's my voice, 197 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.559 and I just start. I didn't introduce myself. I didn't 198 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:35.559 say it's Michael Garfield again, thanks for kid. You know 199 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.120 it's the third segment. I just started talking about content 200 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.279 whatever I was talking about. And I'm thinking, if anybody's 201 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.759 just tuning in, they have no clue who I am 202 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:49.360 and what the show is. So until callum, somebody Brian Erickson, 203 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:53.600 we get bumpers that says you're listening to the High 204 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.440 Tech Tection Show with Michael Garfield. Every commercial, I'm going 205 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:00.879 to reintroduce who I am. Hey, Gang, I'm Garfie nickname 206 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.200 from Dallas White High School. Live in Houston now thirty 207 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:10.000 years what's up, San Antonio? Love visiting? I'm here. I'm 208 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.279 your guy. By the way, if you do want to 209 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:14.600 call in, if it's not live, you still can call 210 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.519 in because we have a voicemail. Then you can leave 211 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.039 voicemails and we have a right to play it. Three 212 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.120 four six two nine eight three nine two four six 213 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.720 sorry three four six twenty nine texts in if you 214 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:29.799 want to spell that out, use your cell phone. What 215 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:32.919 cell phone service do you have? What cell phone service 216 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.799 do you have? Well, there's the major network carriers AT 217 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.720 and T jobless face by the way, who still don't 218 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.559 even know who I am. Verizon familiar with those guys 219 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.879 T Mobile that really don't have any Sprint anymore. Sprint 220 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:53.080 was folded into to T Mobile. Those are our big three, 221 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.919 But then we have tons of other ones, Boost Mobile, 222 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:04.679 Mint Mobile, little things like this, and you're wondering how 223 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.759 does that work? Long story short, I don't want to 224 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:08.279 get into it, because if you're a long time listening 225 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.279 you know how it works. Other than the big three 226 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:16.080 who actually have built infrastructure, who have built cell towers, 227 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:22.919 who actually sell you the data, the time, how long, 228 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:27.720 how many minutes, whatever you want. They also lease some 229 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:32.080 of their bandwidthout to small carriers, smaller carriers. Some of 230 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:35.759 these carriers are actually owned by the big boys, they 231 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:37.720 just rename them. I think Boost is part of Team 232 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:42.080 Mobile whatever. There's also, for example, Exfinity. If you're in 233 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.559 Houston and you have Exfinity Cable, you probably get things 234 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.320 in the mail. You probably see the commercials for Exfinity Mobile. Well, 235 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.440 Exfinity is a is a very large, one of the largest, 236 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.519 the largest cable internet company in the country. Let me 237 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:57.320 help you out. They don't do anything really directly with 238 00:13:57.440 --> 00:13:59.879 cell phones, but oh, by the way, they market some 239 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.200 phone service for Expinity Mobile. What they do and what 240 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:07.840 anothers do is they lease time. They lease space of 241 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:12.000 bandwidth on a T and T Verizon and T Mobile. 242 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:18.840 What these organizations are called are m v n o's okay, 243 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:25.879 which is a pretty much a mobile virtual network operator. 244 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:31.759 It's a virtual network operator. Anybody who's anybody who's got 245 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:36.240 marketing money can create and start and mv n oh, 246 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:40.120 I swear and I've thought about this. I probably could 247 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:41.840 have and I maybe should have because I have I'm 248 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.080 very honored to have such a nice, long, large audience 249 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.000 across the country. I could create a high tech Texan 250 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:52.399 mobile company htt Mobile, that's right, and I could charge 251 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.279 anything I want. What I would do, I would just 252 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.960 lease airtime least bandwidth time from one of the biggies. 253 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.360 That's what Expinity does. That's what Ryan Reynolds does. Ryan Reynolds, 254 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.919 who created if founded mint Mobile. All right, well, guess 255 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.519 who did it recently. That's right, You're President of the 256 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:14.120 United States. His family Trump Mobile. That's where we're going. 257 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.720 It took me a while to get here. Trump Mobile 258 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.919 coming out with its own smartphone and its own service. 259 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.080 One of Trump's kids, the Trump Organizations, they just announced 260 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.960 a smartphone that allegedly is going to be made in 261 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:33.120 the United States. It's going to be called Trump Mobile, 262 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.679 and they're going to have a plan that is going 263 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.039 to be forty seven dollars in forty five cents a month. 264 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:45.279 I like the marketing because Trump was is the forty 265 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:49.799 seventh in the forty fifth president of the United States. 266 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:55.960 Nothing solid, just an announcement, just a press release. Anybody 267 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.799 gonna do this. The guy to talk out of things. 268 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.039 I'm here to give you my thoughts, my reviews, my 269 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:07.080 recommendations on so many topics, from cars to phones, to 270 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:08.639 fashion to bourbon. 271 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:08.879 Man. 272 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:12.279 I'm here, but I will tell you this. Stay away 273 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:17.080 from my man. Nope, In case you missed it, This 274 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:20.159 four hundred and ninety nine dollars Trump branded built the 275 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.919 United States phone and ain't gonna be built in the 276 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:27.519 United States. There is no way in the Lord's work 277 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.879 that a phone can be made in the United States 278 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:37.159 for five hundred dollars. DNA can barely make one for 279 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:41.240 five hundred dollars, and after a little digging. Oh, by 280 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.639 the way, it looks like a lot of people have 281 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:47.840 figured out this six point eight inch phone with a 282 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.399 fifty megapixel camera is likely going to be me China, 283 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:54.240 or at least parts of it. It may be put 284 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:58.120 together or sing old in America. Does that matter because 285 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:01.120 all the phones you have used in your life have 286 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:05.599 been made and manufactured not in our great country. And 287 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:09.359 by the way, don't get me wrong, I love our country. 288 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:12.359 I am so American. I believe red, white and blue 289 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:15.519 and burnt orange. I am not dis in America. I 290 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.480 love me some the United States. But the United States 291 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:24.720 cannot build and manufacture many things as cheap and sometimes 292 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.920 not as good as other countries. Conversely, our great country 293 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:31.240 of America produces a ton of great things that blows 294 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.880 other countries away. But when it comes to mobile phones, 295 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.960 not gonna work. Phone is likely going to be produced 296 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.960 by a Chinese device manufacturer, which is type of company 297 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.000 that designs and manufactures products based on a specification in 298 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.920 another firm. If Trump wanted a phone built in the 299 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.920 United States, we would probably be paying two thousand to 300 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:56.759 three thousand dollars for this thing. Phones need foreign components. 301 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:01.279 This t ie Trump's organization phone is different. Now, I 302 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.440 have no information, No one has information of what's revealed 303 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.480 in particular components. But there are some components that are 304 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.680 gonna be out there. I mean, the screens primarily are 305 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:15.440 made by South Korea firms Samsung LG. They produce these phones, 306 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:20.240 They produce screens, they produce the microchips. The processor probably 307 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.640 gonna be from the Taiwanese firm called Media Tech, because 308 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:25.799 Media Tech they produce so many of these qualcum chips 309 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:30.480 that almost every phone out there. I'm just doing research 310 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:31.960 for you, am I talking you out of it? 311 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:32.119 No? 312 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:36.240 But don't believe the hype of people. Now before we 313 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:39.920 take a break, I'm gonna tease you this. How hard 314 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.119 is it for somebody to come up with an mvno? 315 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:47.759 Not that hard. I will tell you the history of 316 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:51.400 them VNOs, who actually has hit it and become a 317 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:54.400 millionaire without a billionaire, and why Trump wants to get 318 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:54.759 in the game. 319 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.160 This is the High Tech Textan Show, and I am like, 320 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:24.079 wherever you. 321 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:26.960 Are listening, whatever city you are trustly listening in, maybe 322 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:29.960 you're listening on a podcast, and iHeartRadio. We welcome you back. 323 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:32.680 This is the first hour of what's called the High 324 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:35.839 Tech Texan Show. My name is Michael Garfield, Dallas boy 325 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:37.640 now living in h Town, but I'm all over the 326 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.160 great state of Texas, and I do thank you here. 327 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.599 I'd love to hear from you if you don't want 328 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.759 to call into our phone number because you're shot three 329 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.359 four six twenty nine Texan three four six two nine 330 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.960 eight three nine six. By the way, find me on 331 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.359 most all of the social media platforms other than TikTok, 332 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.759 which by the way, there's another ninety day stay before 333 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.599 it's old high tech text and spell the whole thing 334 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:05.240 out h I G H T eh T E X 335 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.880 a m. We're in the middle of a discussion of 336 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:13.519 Trump's announcement of his new mobile phone service. And yes, 337 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:18.880 I don't delve into politics, but yes I delve into technology. Yes, 338 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.160 mobile phones are technology. I've been reviewing phones ready much 339 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:26.200 straight for twenty eight to twenty five years, actually more. 340 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:27.880 If you want to go get back to my original 341 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:30.400 bag phone. Anyone raise your hand. Who had a bag 342 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:32.359 phone in nineteen ninety one? 343 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:33.440 I did? 344 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:36.960 All right. I will tell you a story, maybe the 345 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.759 second hour, of what I found in my garage, an 346 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:44.559 entire treasure trove, dozens of old Garfield phones. Will I'll 347 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:46.279 get to that about twenty or thirty minutes. But anyway, 348 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.720 what is how can Trump all of a sudden dizzy 349 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:55.279 competing with AT and T, T Mobile and Verizen. Not really. 350 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.000 I will tell you how Donald Trump and Ryan Reynolds 351 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:04.440 can easily sell your phone plans. And I'll start with 352 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.720 the I'll start with I'm gonna bury the lead right now. 353 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:11.240 You can blame Ryan Reynolds, the actor, the heart thrub 354 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:16.640 Blake Lively's husband, Deadpool, whatever you want to call him. 355 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:23.400 He is a celebrity, and now Trump is a celebrity too, 356 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:27.119 with the announcement in the debut of Trump Mobiles a week. 357 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.079 It seems like there's a hot new trend in celebrities 358 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:37.319 selling things, not just tequila, it's phone service. It's Ryan 359 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:42.359 Reynolds' fault. To be clear, None of these celebrities, none 360 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:45.839 of these political figures, are building new cell networks from scratch. 361 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:50.640 Like I explained last segment, they're launching a mobile virtual 362 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:55.960 network operator and MVNO. These are companies that buy wireless 363 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.559 service from the three big US carriers and they resell it. 364 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:05.000 It's a business model that exists and has existed for decades. 365 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:07.599 And for those of you in Texas, I'm gonna give 366 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.920 you the best analogy. Who is your electricity provider? All right? 367 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:19.039 If you're in Houston, for example, you may have one 368 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:21.480 of a MIL, you may have NRG, you may have 369 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:24.559 discount power, you may have the I mean, it goes 370 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:26.960 on and on and on and on. Let me help 371 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:32.079 you out. All these companies are are marketing companies who 372 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:38.440 buy and measure electricity, wattage power from center point in Turkey. 373 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:43.079 They're the marketing arm. That is what a mobile virtual 374 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:46.680 network operator is. You're gonna be talking on AT and 375 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:49.240 T you're gonna be talking on T Mobile, You're gonna 376 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:52.559 be talking on Verizons network. But your bill is gonna 377 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:56.480 come from Mint Mobile with Ryan Reynolds, or it could 378 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:58.480 come from Trump Mobile, it could come from anybody else. 379 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:05.559 That's easy explanation. You're welcome. It's a good arrangement business 380 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:08.519 wise for the big carriers because they may have extra 381 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:13.160 network capacity that generally would go unused. So pretty much 382 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:17.519 they get a guaranteed return on their big expensive network investment. 383 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:25.119 MVNO's they have been around for decades, but you're hearing 384 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:29.920 a bottom more recently. All this additional capacity that five 385 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.680 g's allowed. Five G it's allowed. It's compared to LTE, 386 00:23:35.079 --> 00:23:37.359 which was years ago. If you have a five G 387 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:39.680 network available, you are going to have some capacity to 388 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:45.839 run these and probably to sell some of the extra times. 389 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:47.920 If you think about it, they're more attractive to customers. 390 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.799 There's e SIM technology where you don't have to physically 391 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.440 take that little, tiny, little tiny SIM card out of 392 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:58.240 your phone or put it in your phone to start it. 393 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:01.640 These SIM cards are virtual and you could just light 394 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:04.039 up a phone number or switch a phone number automatically 395 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:09.759 over the air. But there's Ryan Reynolds. You son of 396 00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:12.440 a gun. You you Ryan Reynolds. It was about six 397 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:14.000 years ago. It was twenty nineteen. Let me tell you 398 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:17.880 a story. He bought an ownership in a company called 399 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:21.799 Mint Mobile, and it was an MV and O that 400 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:26.119 was using the T Mobile network, and he became the spokesperson. 401 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:31.279