Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfier.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 3: Us in the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan.
Speaker 4: It was to make life.
Speaker 2: Easier new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
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Speaker 1: What is up? Two hours of fun? I do think
Speaker 1: you for tuning in, no matter how and where you
Speaker 1: were listening, We're gonna have some fun. If you're listening
Speaker 1: live or plause be live, because I know we do
Speaker 1: repeat this show a few times over the weekend on
Speaker 1: APRC nine sixty am. You can try to call if
Speaker 1: you have any questions, because we do talk about some
Speaker 1: hard hitting things, not we actually are going to have fun.
Speaker 1: I am here to entertain you, whether we do it
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, late Saturday night, Sunday at night. Two. The
Speaker 1: phone number here if you want to try seven one
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Speaker 1: I'm here just entertain you as you're driving around, You're
Speaker 1: baby driving through. It's the southeastern part of Texas, in
Speaker 1: and out of Louisiana, and if you're listening on iHeart Radio,
Speaker 1: well it's a it's a hot new way to do it,
Speaker 1: and that did not exist what I started this program
Speaker 1: twenty two plus years ago. No, it was just over
Speaker 1: the year radio. But now you can take us everywhere
Speaker 1: you go download the I Heart Radio app. Of course
Speaker 1: it'll be podcasted after and some of the things that
Speaker 1: we do talk about. It's called the High Tech Texan
Speaker 1: Show Number one. I am based in Texas without a doubt.
Speaker 1: I'm proud to be a Texan, which is why I
Speaker 1: named in trademark my moniker that way. I started twenty
Speaker 1: plus years ago talking a lot about specifically and only technology,
Speaker 1: and it's lackable. One of the things that we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about today is how there's a lot of
Speaker 1: retro technology that is coming back today. It is not
Speaker 1: just you know, vinyl records or record players. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of other things, including gaming, but now it is
Speaker 1: much more of the technology. And so for those of
Speaker 1: you before clicking the radio off, going oh man, the
Speaker 1: guy's going to talk above my head and he's going
Speaker 1: to help me fix my computer. I've actually never done
Speaker 1: that in the twenty plus years because I tell you
Speaker 1: what new computers to buy or what laptops to buy,
Speaker 1: but also I talk about cars and trucks and travel
Speaker 1: and fashion and interesting news in the world of pop culture.
Speaker 1: I'm just again, I'm never shoving longtime listeners. No, I
Speaker 1: don't shove any politics down your face. I am a
Speaker 1: fan of the Dallas cout Boys in Texas Longhorns, and
Speaker 1: so you're going to get a little little of that.
Speaker 1: But after last week, I'm actually not going to talk
Speaker 1: a lot about the Longhorns. We will see what happens
Speaker 1: this weekend in Nashville at Vanderbilt. So yes, so I
Speaker 1: do talk a lot about sports too. So it's a
Speaker 1: potpourri just like a Jeopardy category that we're here for you.
Speaker 1: That is our good man, Callum Reid. He is on
Speaker 1: the other side of the glass, Gallum Good. Callum and
Speaker 1: I we hung out together for a bit earlier this
Speaker 1: week at a gun range. We had a radio client
Speaker 1: defend at Texas Gun Club in Stafford, Texas, on the
Speaker 1: southwest side of Houston. Good seeing him a man and
Speaker 1: did you shoot or not? Callum? You were kind of
Speaker 1: just hanging around the greenoes lunch spread that they had.
Speaker 1: I didn't see you in the shooting range, man, but
Speaker 1: I brought a few of my guns. I belong to,
Speaker 1: actually do belong to Texas Gun Club, and I should
Speaker 1: go there more often. I belong to a country this
Speaker 1: country club. So I golf not a lot when it's hot.
Speaker 1: So this is golfing season two, and about ten minutes
Speaker 1: away is the gun club too. I should go there
Speaker 1: more often because it's fun shooting, fun shooting. I've got
Speaker 1: a whole array of and this is what we do
Speaker 1: in Texas. People. We have guns. A lot of peoples
Speaker 1: have guns, and we're very responsible though at least I
Speaker 1: know I am. So I whipped out my several nine millimeters.
Speaker 1: I had a forty. I didn't shoot my forty five.
Speaker 1: I have a beautiful forty five, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the AMMO for that. But I have,
Speaker 1: you know my everyday carry piece. Is that what we
Speaker 1: call it? So back away people, back away. I have
Speaker 1: the six hour P three sixty. That's a great model.
Speaker 1: I have a Smith and Wesson, even about my little
Speaker 1: twenty two just to play around with Pink Peeter and
Speaker 1: pew pew, and did not bring any of my other
Speaker 1: shotguns or ars. But that's okay. But anyway, it's good scene.
Speaker 1: It caw many time you want to go back to
Speaker 1: the gun club, Texas gun Club. I am your guy,
Speaker 1: and uh, but that was nice seeing you. But so no,
Speaker 1: Callum is my The point of this is this is
Speaker 1: Callum keeps us on the air, keeps us running. Uh,
Speaker 1: you bleep out any of the bad words that I say,
Speaker 1: you could bleep them out, you have to bleep them
Speaker 1: out over the ear. J Are we allowed to keep
Speaker 1: them in on the podcast, Callum. So that's that's going
Speaker 1: to cause more pain for you because you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to edit. And you know, as I'm John, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: the nice guy on air. I'm just going I just
Speaker 1: want to make things easy for everybody I work with,
Speaker 1: and so I'll try to refrain from many of the
Speaker 1: four letter for bombs over here. But feel free to
Speaker 1: open up a call and we have a dump button
Speaker 1: waiting for you. All right down to business people. I
Speaker 1: actually I'm going to talk a little about technology, about
Speaker 1: a technology I don't talk about a lot because I'm
Speaker 1: not an Apple guy. Really, I'm an Android, dude, Apple iOS.
Speaker 1: Has anybody downloaded the up updated Apple operating system, the
Speaker 1: Apple I for their iPhones. I told you last week
Speaker 1: what to do to prepare your iPhone for the iOS eighteen.
Speaker 1: I also said last week that something tells me eighteen
Speaker 1: point one, the upgraded version is coming, because that's how
Speaker 1: software is released. They release it, people find a bug,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, and so within a matter of days,
Speaker 1: not hours, the second version comes and that's where they
Speaker 1: put the point or the dot eighteen dot one. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, not only within one week as I predicted,
Speaker 1: Apple iOS eighteen point one is already out. They just
Speaker 1: did out. Apple just announced eighteen point two is coming
Speaker 1: out soon for developers to play with. And so it's
Speaker 1: it's a cat and mouse a game. But I do
Speaker 1: recommend in most cases if you have a little trupidation
Speaker 1: about downloading it because you don't want to do software download.
Speaker 1: You're used to what you're using. At some point, if
Speaker 1: you don't upgrade your software or your firmware or any
Speaker 1: product that you have, your product is going to become obsolete.
Speaker 1: The companies no longer support it whatsoever. So I just
Speaker 1: I just download them and cross my fingers and suck
Speaker 1: it up. You do want to make sure you back
Speaker 1: up everything on your phone, put it to the iCloud,
Speaker 1: or connect it to your computer, no matter what you're
Speaker 1: upgrading to try to do that. But if anybody has
Speaker 1: updated or used the iOS eighteen or eighteen point one,
Speaker 1: let me know. We're some of the new features Apple Intelligence,
Speaker 1: their version of AI, and I just want to let
Speaker 1: you know that that is out here too. Other things
Speaker 1: when we come back. Talked last week. Also, you know
Speaker 1: what this show is going to turn into. Hey, remember
Speaker 1: we talked about this seven days ago, and life changes
Speaker 1: so fast. There's already something change. I told you last
Speaker 1: week how the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, is trying
Speaker 1: to put into law to make it easier to unsubscribe
Speaker 1: from things in newsletters, cables, subscriptions, streaming services. Because it's
Speaker 1: easy to have one click and to subscribe services. But
Speaker 1: it's like jumping through hoops and walking through the middle
Speaker 1: Earth to unsubscribe some things. The FTC wants to make
Speaker 1: it easier. Well, that was the news last week, the
Speaker 1: click to cancel rule. All right, Well, guess what. The
Speaker 1: FTC is already being sued by probably some of the
Speaker 1: companies you expect to sue it for this stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, well, what kind of trouble times do
Speaker 1: we live in? Love to hear from you? High tech
Speaker 1: texting dot com? Spell the whole thing now, Michael Gourdfield
Speaker 1: is a name. We're gonna be right back. See. All
Speaker 1: it takes is four or five minutes of a few
Speaker 1: commercials to keep this radio show for free. We don't
Speaker 1: charge you a cent. We just we give you content
Speaker 1: like I'm doing right now, and then we give you
Speaker 1: some ideas of where to shop. Maybe we give some
Speaker 1: things away, and that keep shit tied to the radio.
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking giving things away, I'll put you
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Speaker 1: you can use twenty dollars. Just put it towards some
Speaker 1: of you put it towards. Do you have a cover
Speaker 1: for your phone? Make sure you always have a cover
Speaker 1: because if you drop that bad boy, you can get expensive.
Speaker 1: And so there you go. So we will, uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna give that away. Also have some more. I got
Speaker 1: another gift card to Cobo Bob's baby, Big Cobo Bob.
Speaker 1: You're hungry, you like yourself some good burritos, tacos silence
Speaker 1: Cobo Bobs four locations in Houston. They're also on Austin too,
Speaker 1: So we got that for you. Not now, we will
Speaker 1: tell you when that is. So, if you listened last week,
Speaker 1: I was talking about this new Federal Trade Commission, they
Speaker 1: are trying to start what's called a new rule click
Speaker 1: to cancel, that requires companies to make it very simple,
Speaker 1: very easy to cancel subscriptions anything from newsletters to cable
Speaker 1: to it gets out of your water to your Colligan belt,
Speaker 1: which is causing me headaches and pains when cull again,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you what anyway? I like it because
Speaker 1: if you think about it, it's so simple to sign
Speaker 1: up for anything. One click, you're done, Amazon, one purchase,
Speaker 1: put it there, you go. None but to cancel. You
Speaker 1: try to cancel your cable bill, cancel something, it's your
Speaker 1: gym membership. Oh ye ei, sit down and prepare to
Speaker 1: I don't know. It will waste five hours, if not more,
Speaker 1: of your time. It's a pain. Well, last week or so,
Speaker 1: FDC says, Okay, we're gonna make it easy. We just
Speaker 1: need to just get through this. We're gonna run it
Speaker 1: out there. Well guess what. Three three industry groups, The
Speaker 1: Electronic Security Association, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the NCTA.
Speaker 1: Being asked what that is, they're already suing. They're suing
Speaker 1: the Federal Trade Commission from a forcing it's clicked to
Speaker 1: cancel rule. And yes, the groups opposing it represent exactly
Speaker 1: the names you'd expect, because the member companies who profit
Speaker 1: from subscriptions that are very simple to start yet hard
Speaker 1: to stop. They're part of this stuff. The NCTA, it's
Speaker 1: the Internet and Television Association. They represent service providers like Comcast,
Speaker 1: Charter Cos. They represent Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Brothers, YIP
Speaker 1: seven hundred members. They include almost any company connected to advertising, Google, Netflix, Amazon,
Speaker 1: metaut goes on and on and on. They said, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're going to sue. Well, of course they want to sue.
Speaker 1: They want to make it hard for you to cancel.
Speaker 1: Looking forth over here, the group's lawyers argued that the
Speaker 1: FTC is trying to quote regulate consumer contracts for all
Speaker 1: companies in all industries and across all sectors of the
Speaker 1: economy unquote, by attempting to forbid business from making customers
Speaker 1: handsle services using a method that differs from how they
Speaker 1: signed up. Okay, here's my opinion. Who cares what method
Speaker 1: you use to sign up and cancel. If I go
Speaker 1: buy a car, I'm gonna use one method. But if
Speaker 1: I want to sell a car, I can use many
Speaker 1: different methods. I mean, come on, man, let me know
Speaker 1: many subscriptions and this is it, each and every one
Speaker 1: of you listening right now. How many subscriptions do you have?
Speaker 1: You don't even know because I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: can't put a number online subscription, email, newsletters, text, credit cards,
Speaker 1: you've got your home services, you've got how many let's
Speaker 1: go to streamings that didn't exist twenty years ago when
Speaker 1: I started this radio radio show. How many streaming services
Speaker 1: do you have that you don't net? Oh wait, even
Speaker 1: I thought I canceled that now, honey, I thought you
Speaker 1: cancel it. No, I did not do that. It should
Speaker 1: be as simple to click undo. But it's not. Man,
Speaker 1: they want you, They want to keep you. They want
Speaker 1: to make it sticky. And so now there's a lawsuit
Speaker 1: about this. Oh my, here's what you probably should do.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a pain, but there's software programs
Speaker 1: like this. Listen if you have it, if you're really
Speaker 1: good with Microsoft Excel or a Google Sheets, or forms,
Speaker 1: what day side a list, every single thing that you
Speaker 1: have a subscription for. Now, this is even different than
Speaker 1: your bank accounts and your yeah yeah, your insurance information,
Speaker 1: which obviously you should have, your family should have to
Speaker 1: just the stuff. You'd be surprised how much money you're
Speaker 1: just pissing away each month. Go try to cancel one
Speaker 1: or two of these things, and next week you're gonna
Speaker 1: call me. You're gonna say, garf man, man, you are right.
Speaker 1: It is just I try to cancel my gym membership.
Speaker 1: I forgot this. I even pay, I pay ten dollars
Speaker 1: a month. Whatever it is. I had to physically write
Speaker 1: a letter and snail mail that, which I am not kidding.
Speaker 1: I still think there are some gym memberships and maybe
Speaker 1: some others that that's how you have to cancel. And
Speaker 1: if you think about it, who wants to sit down,
Speaker 1: HiPE out a letter, write a letter? Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: who even has a stamp to mail it? Who's to
Speaker 1: say that the recipient the gym membership or whatever he
Speaker 1: is even going to receive the thing. That's what makes
Speaker 1: it difficult, and it is it's it's time that something changes,
Speaker 1: because light itself, as we know, it is already too
Speaker 1: convoluted and just it's it's screwed up. Can we make
Speaker 1: things easier? Can we make things these are out or no?
Speaker 1: So do I that again. I'm just trying to organize
Speaker 1: your life. I'd like to think I'm a relatively organized guy,
Speaker 1: but still some things just get out of out of
Speaker 1: whack and out of hand. I try to keep lists
Speaker 1: on in my Microsoft Outlook, all my frequent flyer lists,
Speaker 1: like I have folders frequent flyers, and I pretty much
Speaker 1: only fly Southwest airlines. We love Southwest Airlines. Southwest baby
Speaker 1: trying to get the a list preferred again disclosed to
Speaker 1: do it. But I have probably eight, nine, ten frequent
Speaker 1: flyer miles of all the airlines I have flown over
Speaker 1: the years. My hotel rewards card, my just everything. I
Speaker 1: organize them and then I sync them up so they're
Speaker 1: on my computer, but they're also on my phone too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll go into when I check into a hotel.
Speaker 1: Is this a Marriott? Is this an IHG? Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me give you my frequent stayer card
Speaker 1: or something. You need to have these things, because that's
Speaker 1: the purpose. I opt out of a lot of their
Speaker 1: email newsletters because again organization Michael here, I tried to
Speaker 1: make sure that my email inboxes about is uncluttered. These
Speaker 1: are listen. I know this is a busy time of year.
Speaker 1: It's the holiday seasons are getting repped up. You're gonna
Speaker 1: do some traveling and visitors are gonna come and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be busy shopping and buying you know whatever, and
Speaker 1: tying up the year. I talk about this a lot
Speaker 1: when summer comes, because summer we may tend to have
Speaker 1: a little bit more time our hands. I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you have some time, maybe it's a project for you,
Speaker 1: your spouse say, maybe you want to get your kids involved,
Speaker 1: maybe you get but get your life and order people.
Speaker 1: I see what the FTC going back is trying to
Speaker 1: do here, and there's gonna be a lawsuit. So again
Speaker 1: it's something for me to talk about. It's decent content,
Speaker 1: and I do think you're a listening bottom of the
Speaker 1: hour right now. When we come back, I am going
Speaker 1: to talk about a streaming service and a service that
Speaker 1: you probably pay I don't know, ten dollars twenty dollars,
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a month Amazon, Amazon. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something new that they've added another perk, because you
Speaker 1: do get some perk by having and again this is
Speaker 1: not an Amazon add I wish they would advertise with me,
Speaker 1: but they don't. Amazon and many other streaming services they
Speaker 1: do want to offer value. Amazon just added another partner
Speaker 1: that can save you some money on something that you
Speaker 1: used every single day, folks. That's called the T's. Because
Speaker 1: I'm a professional, We're going to come back on a
Speaker 1: high tech texting show. I guess we can call this
Speaker 1: my Halloween edition. As we do the show here on
Speaker 1: the a few days before Halloween. The next show that
Speaker 1: I do will be a few days after Halloween where
Speaker 1: everybody will be on a sugar a high right, Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: It's called the High Tech textan show where I talk
Speaker 1: about any damn thing that I want, anything that you want.
Speaker 1: You know, Halloween probably is my favorite holiday of the year.
Speaker 1: I don't know, tu Bischavat is pretty close to where else?
Speaker 1: And what else can you go up to total strangers
Speaker 1: dolls and ring the doorbell and you say, got there
Speaker 1: and you just get some candy people? How cool is that?
Speaker 1: Have you seen the prices of chocolate? Oh? I do
Speaker 1: not think I'm going to get a lot of races
Speaker 1: this year. Man, the price of chocolate? What are you
Speaker 1: planning to give out? I need to take a quick pull.
Speaker 1: If anybody wants to go to X and hit me
Speaker 1: up high tech textan h I G h T E
Speaker 1: C h T E x A N go to X
Speaker 1: if you will. If your Facebook friend hit me up?
Speaker 1: What do you give me? If you're if you're even
Speaker 1: giving away candy unless you're one of those Halloween misers.
Speaker 1: We're going to turn the lights off and watch TV
Speaker 1: quietly upstairs. If nobody rings our doorbell, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Unless you're in the gated community, I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: you don't have any kids in your community. But have
Speaker 1: some fun. People have some fun. Callum, are you trick
Speaker 1: or treating? I look at callum, callum, you're uh what
Speaker 1: your mid twenties, upper twenties. Yeah, you go. You told
Speaker 1: old a trick or treat? You know what? If listen
Speaker 1: here your ears at some point, I'm kind of cool
Speaker 1: with it. If you make an effort and you're in
Speaker 1: your teens or even your tool, I don't know, because
Speaker 1: you can I can go trigger treating with a mask.
Speaker 1: No one that knows how old I am. If you
Speaker 1: make an effort to put a mask on, just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you some candy. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 1: Just just make an effort, just put a smile. I
Speaker 1: mean the memories I have of just trick or treating
Speaker 1: for like five straight hours on a school night with
Speaker 1: you know, no parent supervision. Again, in the the late seventies,
Speaker 1: the late seventies, when I grew up. At that time,
Speaker 1: it was just fun halloween costumes. What is a hot hollow?
Speaker 1: I saw something on Hell Oh my son love my
Speaker 1: my side. Three boys, my sons are all in their
Speaker 1: twenties and I they go to Halloween parties, are invited
Speaker 1: to Halloween parties. I don't if they trick or treat.
Speaker 1: I would not mind if they trick or treat. I
Speaker 1: told the story last week. I think the reason I
Speaker 1: wanted and had kids was an excuse for the next
Speaker 1: twenty plus years to go trick or treating myself self.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking to my son, my youngest. He's in Austin,
Speaker 1: and he was invited to a party. And it may
Speaker 1: be tonight, baby, this weekend. And my son graduated from
Speaker 1: ut like I did. He went to the Big ut
Speaker 1: Georgia game last year last week, which I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about. He said, he's this is a litle
Speaker 1: a cocky kid. He goes he was invited to party.
Speaker 1: I said, what do you what do you dress it
Speaker 1: up as? He says he wants he's going to go
Speaker 1: as Quinn yours and not show up cause for effect.
Speaker 1: So callum, that's where you that's where you put a
Speaker 1: rim shot. That's good, Quinn yours not showing up. Oh
Speaker 1: look at me racking on my own textes long wards. No,
Speaker 1: I did see the top trending Halloween costumes this year
Speaker 1: according to Google. A quick rundown. Number one Beetlejuice because
Speaker 1: the new Beetlejuice two or Beetlejuice be am. I allowed
Speaker 1: to say it three times. New Beetlejuice movie came out recently.
Speaker 1: The the Shrunken Head Bob is the number one for
Speaker 1: Indian costume on Google from Beetlejuice. Number two is that
Speaker 1: the ray Gun chick from the Olympics, who was just
Speaker 1: the funny, weird break dancer. That's an easy costume. He
Speaker 1: used to wear some kind of green and yellow outfit
Speaker 1: with a hat on it. I'm not sure there's a
Speaker 1: Dolores from Beetlejuice. There's some characters from inside Out. That's
Speaker 1: a movie I've never seen. Doctor Doom. People helped me
Speaker 1: out over here. Okay, here's why I know. Here's here's
Speaker 1: number nine. Sabrina Carpenter. Now she's a singer. She's she's
Speaker 1: very pretty young, twenty ish, a singer type of thing.
Speaker 1: How do you dresses? I mean, if a Sabrina Carpenter
Speaker 1: dress person comes to my door, which trick or treats,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't recognize Sabrita Carpenter, mean I would recognize, like,
Speaker 1: remember the eighties, early eighties Madonna last when Madonna got big.
Speaker 1: It's kind of easy to spot Madonna because Madonna I
Speaker 1: had this style. Madonna had these that was a desperately
Speaker 1: seeking Susan era and you know, the big black boots,
Speaker 1: kind of the goth thing, and your hair is blonde
Speaker 1: and you had black lipstick on, and then you had
Speaker 1: these the rubber gasket wristbands or something. Oh Madonna. I mean,
Speaker 1: if Sabrina Carpenter closed my eyes, it looks the same
Speaker 1: as Taylor Swift. It looks the same as I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably six or seven of these other people. So I
Speaker 1: don't what are you going as? Uh, somebody's actually hold
Speaker 1: on Chipotle, Chipotle Burrito. Somebody's going as a Chipotle. I
Speaker 1: would not. I would go as a Cabo Bob's Burrito
Speaker 1: because it's a bigger, better costume. You see what I
Speaker 1: did there. I always take care of our partners and
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Speaker 1: should you be listening plausably live here to me? Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield is the name. It is called the the High
Speaker 1: Tech Textan Show. It's whatever Michael wants to talk about
Speaker 1: and have fun with the uh my longtime listeners here
Speaker 1: on weekends. If you have Amazon, as I promised, I'm
Speaker 1: going to pay off this tease here, Amazon has a
Speaker 1: little something for you Amazon Prime members. How much do
Speaker 1: you pay for Amazon Prime? Is it twenty? It's about
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty hundred and forty bucks a year
Speaker 1: right now? Right? I guess maybe I don't know. And
Speaker 1: you're getting a new perk. By the way, you're getting
Speaker 1: extra savings at the pump something we use every day, gasoline.
Speaker 1: If you link your Amazon count with a BP or
Speaker 1: an Amaco station, you're going to save ten cents a gallon.
Speaker 1: Walmart actually has something like this with Exxon stations, and
Speaker 1: they're a competitor. They have Walmart Plus. I do not
Speaker 1: have Walmart. I like Walmart. I don't have Walmart Plus.
Speaker 1: But if you go to Exon station, that's odd because
Speaker 1: Walmart this was its own gas stations. But maybe they
Speaker 1: use Xon. Maybe it's an Exon brand stations. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Before you do this, you need
Speaker 1: to agree to let BP. If you're going back to
Speaker 1: the Amazon story, you need to let BP collect information
Speaker 1: about you to get your discount. So what's the harm
Speaker 1: in joining just one more wealthy program? Huh? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You link your Amazon count to BP and and then
Speaker 1: you go. Companies need to do that programs like this.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of happy because Amazon, I think, already offers
Speaker 1: partnership discounts to really boost Amazon Primes appeal as a
Speaker 1: subscription because listen, I just said it's one hundred thirty
Speaker 1: hundred and forty hundred and fifty bones a year. But
Speaker 1: what are you getting for that? Okay, well, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get two free days of free shipping. The second day
Speaker 1: free or whatever it is, you get the streaming service
Speaker 1: because prices do keep keep getting hired for streaming services.
Speaker 1: Amazon also added free food delivery through Grubhub this past summer.
Speaker 1: I don't mind keep adding on. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: here's a perk. At what cost is it? Well, it's
Speaker 1: your giving up a lot of your some of the
Speaker 1: your information. How do you protect yourself for some of
Speaker 1: this stuff? The thing is the most valuable, But what's
Speaker 1: the if you think about if you own a company,
Speaker 1: you may own a mom at pop shop. What do
Speaker 1: you want to do? You want likes, you want email, subscription, newsletters.
Speaker 1: You want information because you can market that way. The
Speaker 1: most valuable piece of anything of a company right now,
Speaker 1: it's data. It's information. You look at Amazon. How much
Speaker 1: information does Amazon? Microsoft? Apple? How much information do they
Speaker 1: have on us? It is stunning, It is stunning. How
Speaker 1: much information is they? These companies know more about you
Speaker 1: than the closest family members do. I'm serious about that.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you didn't know that you related to
Speaker 1: this person. Maybe you didn't know somebody's maiden name, or
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't know that this person's is connected to
Speaker 1: you this way. Maybe your kids don't know that you
Speaker 1: like this certain type of food, or that you buy
Speaker 1: this certain type of clothing brand or whatever. Amazon knows.
Speaker 1: All these companies know this stuff. You know, she should
Speaker 1: you know when you're when you're out there dating. And
Speaker 1: next the next segment, I'm gona talk about online dating
Speaker 1: apps because that they're in the news too. When you
Speaker 1: start dating someone, you've got it. And again I'm not
Speaker 1: an expert of this, but you have to start from
Speaker 1: ground one. What's your name? Where are you from? And
Speaker 1: at my age, it's like have you been married? And
Speaker 1: I guess you should start off are you currently married?
Speaker 1: Which is at that point you just say, buy nice media.
Speaker 1: Have you been married? Do you have kids? Your parents
Speaker 1: still alive? Where did you go to school? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: people now this and listen online. I don't do any
Speaker 1: online ditty. I'm so don't. I'm getting close to potentially
Speaker 1: doing good d and I just bemo, here's a QR code.
Speaker 1: Can you just scan this? And I just read every
Speaker 1: single thing that these companies know about me. You could
Speaker 1: see every movie I've watched, downloaded, rented the music I
Speaker 1: listened to. It's gonna save me time from sitting awkwardly. Uh,
Speaker 1: at a at a bar or a dinner. I know
Speaker 1: I'm old school, but these new school stuff, man, they
Speaker 1: know everything about you and vice. Yeah. Conversely, I can
Speaker 1: actually scan somebody, you know, a lovely looking lass. Let
Speaker 1: me scan your QR code. Oh do you vote for
Speaker 1: this person? I don't know about that way. Man. You
Speaker 1: don't like the Cowboys fans? What you're a hockey fan
Speaker 1: and know you want you buy all these NHL jerseys.
Speaker 1: I'm just not a hockey dude. Man, I don't think
Speaker 1: I could spend all the you know, you know October
Speaker 1: through June, you know, watching high with you. Sorry, peace out.
Speaker 1: It just means things up, I know. And I'm it's
Speaker 1: if you listen to me. I'm so not a debute downer.
Speaker 1: I am. I am. I make Annie look like a
Speaker 1: p SMS people. I love life. I'm passion. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you what's out there. Companies have information, just be
Speaker 1: careful what you do with it. Coming back, I will
Speaker 1: talk about online dating. Maybe you can give me suggestions
Speaker 1: here seven one, three, two, one two five ninety five.
Speaker 1: Oh Michael, it is the HTT High Tech Detection Show.
Speaker 1: Final segment this hour, hour number one. Oh, the The
Speaker 1: HTT Show that's my uh that's the acronym of the
Speaker 1: mo Moniker high tech textan show talked a little about tech,
Speaker 1: a little about Halloway, and right now, what costumes you going?
Speaker 1: As I gave you the the top twenty five trending
Speaker 1: costumes since you need a last minute costume seven one three,
Speaker 1: two one two five nine five. Oh, chocolate is expensive, man,
Speaker 1: these times. I want to give you some good news. People,
Speaker 1: get what good news do I have? I let's see
Speaker 1: in Hope, Texas win. Texans play this Sunday cold. They're
Speaker 1: favored pretty well. Maybe you got something going there. I'd
Speaker 1: like it to get cooler. You know the worst thing
Speaker 1: about Halloway trigger treating when it's hot and sweaty outside.
Speaker 1: I've done that many many to obviously growing up in Texas,
Speaker 1: but when my kids were younger, I'm gonna go back
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. When I was taking the trigger treating.
Speaker 1: I would dress up because that's how I rolls, and
Speaker 1: I'll wear these big old costumes. And it's October thirty.
Speaker 1: First you would think that the weather was nice. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's like eighty nine degrees ninety ninety one at the
Speaker 1: start of the or treating you know when the sun
Speaker 1: almost goes down and I'm just fitzing up a pool
Speaker 1: and then I'll put I used to pull the ya.
Speaker 1: Everybody in the world knows that reese is are the
Speaker 1: greatest thing knowing to man. And my kids have some,
Speaker 1: my three boys, they would, you know, always ask can
Speaker 1: I have an extra win for my dad to bit
Speaker 1: back there? And I would. They would give me reces
Speaker 1: and I would put it in my pocket to the
Speaker 1: costume and I'd walk two houses down and it would
Speaker 1: just be melted chocolate. Can I just wish for cooler weather? Finally?
Speaker 1: That's I don't know. Maybe I have some good news there.
Speaker 1: Here's some good news. If you're doing or want to
Speaker 1: do some online dating. Calum, do you do? Is he? Calum?
Speaker 1: You are the big Calumar here mid twenties. He's working
Speaker 1: the phones and punching the buttons. Here on the other side,
Speaker 1: you're perfect. I don't know, do you have a girlfriend?
Speaker 1: Online dating? Because this is this is your generation, right,
Speaker 1: this is how you f I see. I am of
Speaker 1: the generation where to find a mate you you would
Speaker 1: somebody would introduce you. You would go to a restaurant
Speaker 1: or a bar, hang out with your buds and then
Speaker 1: you would meet somebody and that was it. Nowadays there's
Speaker 1: online dating apps, and so it's a lot of a
Speaker 1: number of my buddies now who were divorced and now
Speaker 1: they're on there, you know, maybe looking for their second
Speaker 1: love of their lives. They they've tried the dating apps,
Speaker 1: and I just it's as as technological advance as I am.
Speaker 1: I just I haven't taken this step yet. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw the reason I talked about this. I saw
Speaker 1: the story there is, Uh, we're talking about advertising bad.
Speaker 1: You see all these advertise advertisements or here advertisements for Bumbleeharmony,
Speaker 1: match dot com, Hinge and Tender and reading these because
Speaker 1: I do not know these offhand, I really don't. They're
Speaker 1: spending more money. You're gonna see more odds for these,
Speaker 1: probably this time of year, because time of the year,
Speaker 1: the holiday seasons where I guess you could get lonely
Speaker 1: you want to meet somebody with Last year the number
Speaker 1: one biggest learning experience over here, the biggest change has
Speaker 1: been Bumble as he clips Tender as the that is
Speaker 1: spending the most on advertising. Humblest spent forty four million
Speaker 1: dollars this year through the end of July. And you know,
Speaker 1: I just I'm talking about this because online dating has
Speaker 1: come up relatively frequently for me lately. Garth, how come
Speaker 1: you're not on it? Man? It's just like shooting fish
Speaker 1: in the barrel? Are you kidding me? This is the
Speaker 1: easiest thing to do. I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is this, and this is I'm not
Speaker 1: begging into some of some of my radio ad salespeople
Speaker 1: who Calum we were hanging out with at their client
Speaker 1: event a few days ago at the Texas Gun Club.
Speaker 1: You want an easy, low hanging endorsement, it's getting me
Speaker 1: on a dating app. So bumble match, dot com, e harmony.
Speaker 1: If you're interested. You got a single dude who does
Speaker 1: nothing but promote technology. I should try this thing. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's maybe that, Maybe I'm just tolding out for a
Speaker 1: sponsorship endorsement. I don't know. I honestly that's not the
Speaker 1: reason why. But you know what that would do. But
Speaker 1: then again, if a coffee company, I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 1: things I hate, and you know, if you're a long
Speaker 1: time listening, you know things I like and don't like.
Speaker 1: I have never in my life and I'm in my fifties.
Speaker 1: I've never had a sip of coffee. I don't want
Speaker 1: to drink coffee. I'm not gonna start drinking coffee if
Speaker 1: is folders still around. This is what an idiot I
Speaker 1: wanta comes to coffee community. I think community coffee. They're
Speaker 1: based here in Houston, right right. If a coffee company
Speaker 1: came to me and they said, Michael, we got a
Speaker 1: great here's the we're gonna this, this is phenomenal. You've
Speaker 1: never had a sip of coffee five plus decades of
Speaker 1: your life. We're going to make a commercial. We're gonna
Speaker 1: film you and pay you. You're gonna endorse our company
Speaker 1: of drinking your very first sip of coffee. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it. I just don't think I would do it
Speaker 1: because it's ingenuous. He I only talk about I promote
Speaker 1: things that I truly belie, even in love, and like
Speaker 1: that's the true me. It's if if it I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, if Hellman's mayo or Duke's mayonnaise came here,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even I would not even respond to them.
Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way. Nope, we used to do we
Speaker 1: still we used to broadcast the Texas A and M
Speaker 1: football games. I don't know do we even still broadcast
Speaker 1: the Aggi football games on one of our stations? Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we do. Uh. And this is this I'm not
Speaker 1: riding on Aggie's at all right now. This is a
Speaker 1: true story. So this is about twenty years ago and
Speaker 1: I just came here and it was Aggi's on KPRC
Speaker 1: Aggi and My show on Saturday. From at this time slot,
Speaker 1: we're generally lead into an Aggie game kickoff. Well, not
Speaker 1: of these are incredibly loyal, and there are so many
Speaker 1: locally used to own Texas A and M graduate owned businesses,
Speaker 1: Aggie owned businesses, right, and our sales team would go out,
Speaker 1: they would pitch me to do commercials and that's what
Speaker 1: we do over here. If we're on the radio, it's hey,
Speaker 1: it's Garth for this. Uh. They would not pitch me
Speaker 1: to any Aggie own clients because all I would all
Speaker 1: I talk about is still is Texas Longhorns. And I man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you don't want to it's it's it's
Speaker 1: fun and games. And again, my late great best friend
Speaker 1: Randy Lemon, who passed away about year and a half ago,
Speaker 1: major Raggy. We had so much fun of going back
Speaker 1: and forth out our radio shows. The guard line in
Speaker 1: my show is just you know, Aggie's in Longhorns, but
Speaker 1: it's you believe in what you want to believe in
Speaker 1: and uh and and I hope when you hear commercials
Speaker 1: across all platforms of TV and radio, and I know
Speaker 1: it doesn't work. Now I look at these social media
Speaker 1: and I'm getting on my soapbox. Now, these social media influencers,
Speaker 1: these young kids, they they get they get paid on
Speaker 1: godly amounts of money for making these fun content videos.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to sell. They've probably never used
Speaker 1: the product. I grew up. I worked at QVC. I
Speaker 1: literally was on air at QVC where I studied products
Speaker 1: of why this product is going to change your life.
Speaker 1: I understand how to position it, but I use it
Speaker 1: too because people come up to Michael the I really
Speaker 1: drive this car? Do you really wear this clothing brand?
Speaker 1: Do you really drink this beer? Yeah? I do? And
Speaker 1: in so much though, I can actually give you the
Speaker 1: name of the owner of the company. If you want
Speaker 1: to get this deal, just use my name like that.
Speaker 1: So there's the soapbox. So where was I even going
Speaker 1: through this thing online dating. They're spending a lot of money.
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 1: Promote one, but oh beck could be a very interesting campaign.
Speaker 1: I'll let you love molam mat here for the next
Speaker 1: five six minutes while we go to the news top
Speaker 1: of the hour break. We have one more hour coming up.
Speaker 1: I will tell you where I'm going to be Monday.
Speaker 1: Speaking of radio, if you are a Ustonian and you
Speaker 1: grew up and you are a longtime fan of Rock
Speaker 1: one one glol just an iconic radio station, which by
Speaker 1: the way, I was on when I started my career
Speaker 1: twenty plus years ago, I got some We got some
Speaker 1: infrot for you this coming Monday, a screening of a
Speaker 1: documentary film about it. And tickets are going fast and
Speaker 1: I literally and to god, I don't even know they
Speaker 1: could be sold out right now. That's next out right
Speaker 1: here on the High Tech Dexan.
Speaker 3: Show is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 3: Us in the High Tech Texan.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texans who
Speaker 1: items to make life.
Speaker 2: Easier new technology.
Speaker 1: So Michael Garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 2: As Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades,
Speaker 2: helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on
Speaker 2: the iHeart Radio Act. Now You're high Tech Texan Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: One hour down, one hour to go. I've been pretty
Speaker 1: good at math all my life, So that means we're
Speaker 1: halfway through the show, which means we are halfway to
Speaker 1: halfy hour, as we say each and every top of
Speaker 1: the second hour here on the High Tech Textan Show.
Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in, whether you're listening live PLAUSI Live
Speaker 1: a reprepresentation on kprc AM all across Southeast Texas or
Speaker 1: downloading on the iHeartRadio app. How cool is that You
Speaker 1: can listen phone number here if you want to join
Speaker 1: in the fun as we talk about all pop culture
Speaker 1: type of fun things and some news this week seven
Speaker 1: one three, two, one two, five nine five. Oh. I
Speaker 1: got a few emails this week about retro technology. Technology
Speaker 1: that is old is new again. And obviously you have
Speaker 1: to you have to understand what generation you are in.
Speaker 1: But from my you know my generation as a gen xer.
Speaker 1: I'm a gen xer and I was a teenager in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. I mean breaking news. I'm obsessed with
Speaker 1: anything that looks or sounds or tastes and smells or
Speaker 1: feels like a throwback to that time. I mean I
Speaker 1: still have semi big hair. I mean I don't have
Speaker 1: any jelly shoes, or I don't have any let games
Speaker 1: or my white high top rebox. Oh yes I had this,
Speaker 1: But a lot of the electronic stuff they're coming back,
Speaker 1: and so open phone lines. I just gave you the number.
Speaker 1: Let me give you the my ex Twitter or whatever
Speaker 1: you want to or threads high tech texts and h
Speaker 1: I G h T E C h T e X
Speaker 1: and just spell high tech texts. Spell the whole thing out.
Speaker 1: You'll find me. What's your are you using or what
Speaker 1: do you miss about gadgets back in the day, and
Speaker 1: give me a specific one. I mean. One of the
Speaker 1: greatest handheld gaming devices before really true gaming came along
Speaker 1: was the Mattel football, the little Motel foot. They had
Speaker 1: a basketball too, but that little bit tell handheld electronic
Speaker 1: football game. But all they have was an up and
Speaker 1: down and left and right, and they were dots. It
Speaker 1: was a plastic screen that looked like a football field
Speaker 1: and you would just go up and down to move
Speaker 1: your player, which was a freaking dash, is what it
Speaker 1: was and you would score a touchdown. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you talk about retro Those things were freaking addicting. Some
Speaker 1: of the things that are back right now. Flip phones,
Speaker 1: flip phones are all the rage these days, and I
Speaker 1: think it's partly due to smartphone burnout. I use a smartphone.
Speaker 1: I use a flip phone right now, but I do
Speaker 1: use a high heck. I mean there's low tech flip phones.
Speaker 1: And I say that there was a Barbie flip phone
Speaker 1: that came out earlier this year, and it really did
Speaker 1: nothing other than what the original flip phones did when
Speaker 1: they released what twenty to thirty years ago. You know,
Speaker 1: you had to use the crazy text like if you
Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, text the letter C, you had
Speaker 1: to hit the two button three times to two. And
Speaker 1: there was this, I mean, just rudimentary stuff. But they're back.
Speaker 1: I use a Samsung flip phone. There are also many
Speaker 1: fold phones right now, but those things are coming back.
Speaker 1: To what am I missing over here? Remember somebody had said,
Speaker 1: if you go on eBay, the original Sony walk Man
Speaker 1: is back, the Sony freaking walk Man. And you know
Speaker 1: what I had. I didn't have the original Sony walk Man,
Speaker 1: and I may have had a knockoff version of the
Speaker 1: portable radio FM AM cassette player. Will you put the
Speaker 1: wired ear buds in your ear? And it was plastic.
Speaker 1: But those things are coming back. I mean, it's an
Speaker 1: is analog here to stay. Who needs digital? But there's
Speaker 1: a market for this, which I'm kind of kind of
Speaker 1: happy because I am not saying I'm a hoarder, but
Speaker 1: I do tend to keep a lot of crap around
Speaker 1: my house and in my garage. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are listening who know me pretty well.
Speaker 1: They're going, yep. I have cell phones that date back
Speaker 1: to yes, the original flip phones. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I think maybe one day I may want to create
Speaker 1: a small, high tech textan museum. Do you remember when
Speaker 1: technology like this? I have almost every blackberrier I still
Speaker 1: they're sitting there, sitting in a box, gaining dust in
Speaker 1: a garage. Oh no, it's nostalgia. Somebody make me an
Speaker 1: offer for this day. The final records you're back, my son,
Speaker 1: he's in his twenties right now. For the last holiday
Speaker 1: season he wanted or he went out and got a
Speaker 1: record player. He went out and bought some records at
Speaker 1: old vinyl stores. I have a pretty much all of
Speaker 1: my record words, which I don't use because my record players. Again,
Speaker 1: it's still in my garage, but I don't keep it
Speaker 1: out anywhere, but I have all my records. So he
Speaker 1: came back, he came to town, I don't know a
Speaker 1: few months ago, and he sifted through my records. But
Speaker 1: it was neat sharing this with you know, another generation
Speaker 1: of this is how music used to be. You just
Speaker 1: don't download it. There was liner notes where you could
Speaker 1: see the lyrics, and there was you know, the you know,
Speaker 1: thank you to my producers, and there was all these
Speaker 1: great photos, and the album covers were spectacular, like Asia,
Speaker 1: some of the greatest art Well covers ever. And you know,
Speaker 1: he was looking at this thing and whatever and then
Speaker 1: putting the needle on it. It suthing. He got a
Speaker 1: really crappy record player. But nowadays, the high end vinyl
Speaker 1: record players, analog as they are, there is some of
Speaker 1: the greatest sounds, if not even better sounds than digital.
Speaker 1: I'm serious about this thing. That's Old is New Man,
Speaker 1: which is good as I continue to reach a sadly
Speaker 1: a milestone birthday here next year, Old is New A
Speaker 1: boombox I still have my boombox. It was a Panasonic
Speaker 1: and I didn't call it a boombox. I called it
Speaker 1: a jam box. This jam box made it through high school,
Speaker 1: made it through college, and it has made it through
Speaker 1: another forty years post college. But the boomboxes, the jam
Speaker 1: boxes are back. Sony still makes it jbl Anchor. There's
Speaker 1: bluetooth versions of Now I will put my cassette in there.
Speaker 1: I should post this on my I need to post
Speaker 1: this on one of my or a few of my
Speaker 1: social media's. What my jam box looks right now? It
Speaker 1: is there's paint on air because I sit in the garage.
Speaker 1: I mean, this thing has been through everything. It's probably
Speaker 1: floated in lakes and rivers because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: we used to go waterskin on boats in high school
Speaker 1: with some budies of mine. They didn't have the big
Speaker 1: sophisticated sound systems. Hey man, Garth, bring your jambox. That's
Speaker 1: coming about Polaroid pictures, man, And I know there's a
Speaker 1: whole subset of people listening going, what is this guy
Speaker 1: talking about? Holaroids? Baby Polaroids still make cameras, the instant camera,
Speaker 1: the Polaroid six hundred supercolor is that it's one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty bucks. It's an instant camera. Got the rainbow stripe?
Speaker 1: You put the film in there? Oh, I just lost
Speaker 1: another whole subset of people that are know what film is.
Speaker 1: You push your button and all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: goes and you'll wait sixty seconds and you actually have
Speaker 1: a printed version of whatever you're taking instead of on
Speaker 1: your digital phone right now. Alarm clocks always the trivia question.
Speaker 1: What's the oldest piece of technology you have in your house?
Speaker 1: People forget the alarm clock. I still have the alarm
Speaker 1: clock I used in college and it's still sitting next
Speaker 1: to my bed and it still freaking works. Yes it is.
Speaker 1: Alarm clocks are coming back. What's up? McFly Back to
Speaker 1: the Future VHS DVD, Blow Blu Ray Are they returning?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break. Love to hear from you. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know the phone number. If not, hit me up
Speaker 1: high tech text and spellb the whole thing out on
Speaker 1: all the social media's. I'll give you a shout out
Speaker 1: with one of your favorite retro technologies. It's Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: You're back. Depending on when you are listening to this,
Speaker 1: it could be lunchtime, it could be dinner time, and
Speaker 1: you may be hungry. How about we give a little
Speaker 1: something something for your Cabo Bobs. I truly eat here
Speaker 1: twice a week. You go through the line. They they
Speaker 1: make their chicken. They have Commata Joe's in their fast
Speaker 1: food restaurants, but they've piped out, so this they smoke
Speaker 1: their mates. They have got brisket, they've got chicken, they've
Speaker 1: got great fried fish. You go down the line and
Speaker 1: you tell them to put this, and you make these
Speaker 1: massive burritos. You can make tacos. They have just fresh
Speaker 1: tortillas that you could choose from. You get up, you go.
Speaker 1: You're set to go four locations here in and around
Speaker 1: Houston area. They have given me a twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: gift card to give away to you. Call her number
Speaker 1: ten right now, Calum. You are not allowed to win,
Speaker 1: but you can answer the phones seven one, three, two
Speaker 1: one two five nine five oh colored ting you gotta
Speaker 1: get a twenty five dollars gift card. Goes a long
Speaker 1: way too, Cabo Bobs goes long way. Really good stuff.
Speaker 1: I like it, say, this is what I did. It's
Speaker 1: a radio man. We just we we give stuff away.
Speaker 1: That's what I should do. I just talked about retro
Speaker 1: technology items. Then have of my garage? I need a
Speaker 1: high tech text and garage sale. I could, actually I could.
Speaker 1: I could make some pretty big coin. There's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of old stuff that I have. Retro is a
Speaker 1: new thing. It is, it is coming back. But new
Speaker 1: technology is also scary too. And I got it. I
Speaker 1: several times a month, I'll get emails and I'll get
Speaker 1: some calls. Here is it safe to share? Michael? Tell
Speaker 1: me about this biometric data? And I just got an
Speaker 1: email right now, Michael, last last hour. You just talked
Speaker 1: to the data that companies utilize and covet data. But
Speaker 1: what about biometric data? What about my eyes? What about
Speaker 1: my fingerprints? Is that okay to do? Should I use
Speaker 1: my phone where I look at it for face identification?
Speaker 1: If not Apple or Samsung, they're going to get my
Speaker 1: face ID. Well you know what. Apple has been using
Speaker 1: your face data for security for many years. I use
Speaker 1: my fingerprint to unlock my phones. Have you been to
Speaker 1: the airport lately and you go through TSA and you
Speaker 1: don't even need to show your ID. You look into
Speaker 1: this device and it scans your face Clear does it,
Speaker 1: and TSA does it. Also, that's the biometric stuff, your face,
Speaker 1: your fingerprints. One end. They can save some time. They
Speaker 1: can save a little time. But there's a number of
Speaker 1: different security lists. I'm not going to tell you what
Speaker 1: to do and what not to do. If you want
Speaker 1: to save time, you just let big Brother continue to
Speaker 1: do what it does. Go ahead, do it. Should you
Speaker 1: give companies? Should you give agencies access to your most
Speaker 1: personal data, stuff that you were born with, your fingerprints
Speaker 1: and everything. Cell phone companies have been doing it. My computer,
Speaker 1: I have an HP. I've long had an HP, even
Speaker 1: in my home, on my desktop, even though the fact
Speaker 1: that I live alone. I have a password on my desktop,
Speaker 1: but I don't use my password. I have a camera,
Speaker 1: like most desktops and laptops have a camera facing me.
Speaker 1: I let it recognize my face and it opens it up.
Speaker 1: Sure as heck saves me time, people, Sure as heck
Speaker 1: saves me from remembering the password. I just look at
Speaker 1: the camera. I'm fine with that. I don't get no.
Speaker 1: HP may do something with it. What are they going
Speaker 1: to do? I don't know. Are they going to clone me?
Speaker 1: It's good get I said, I don't know. Another nice looking,
Speaker 1: hairy guy, go ahead, clone me the Apple face ID whatever.
Speaker 1: It's called the Touchless Identity Solution. You look at a camera,
Speaker 1: you wait for an agent to give you the green light.
Speaker 1: Boom boom. But for this to work, you're gonna need
Speaker 1: a US passport and you need to sign up with
Speaker 1: for TSA PreCheck both of what I've done. When you
Speaker 1: scan it in through your Airlines app, they're gonna ask
Speaker 1: you to have a biometric scan. I'm actually fine with
Speaker 1: that whatever, but you know something, I don't use it locks.
Speaker 1: I don't shop here often. That I really had no
Speaker 1: problem because I wanted to test it out. Whole Foods.
Speaker 1: You've been a Whole food slightly. They have process that's
Speaker 1: kind of similar to the TSA. They don't scan your face,
Speaker 1: but they scan the palm of your hand. It's through
Speaker 1: the Amazon one. You link a credit card to your
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, your palm signature when you check out,
Speaker 1: and I believe all Whole Foods have this. You scan
Speaker 1: your hand with the scanner. There's a specific scanner. You
Speaker 1: scan your hand and the data finds is compared to
Speaker 1: your palm signature that's stored in Amazon's cloud finds the match,
Speaker 1: charges your credit card, You're paid, You're good to go.
Speaker 1: Amazon says they only save the mathematical data behind your
Speaker 1: palm signature, not the actual photos of your hand. Ah,
Speaker 1: what's the diff Go ahead and get a photo of
Speaker 1: my hand. What are they gonna do? But then again,
Speaker 1: this means that hacker couldn't use a high quality pick
Speaker 1: of your palm to pass as you if they did
Speaker 1: with Amazon says by not actually saving photos of your hand,
Speaker 1: it's listen heard these more advanced biometric skin screenings. Are
Speaker 1: they hack proofs? It's pretty unlikely that a crook's gonna
Speaker 1: fool a biometric reading in the airport because agents would
Speaker 1: figured it out pretty quickly. But even if it's whole foods,
Speaker 1: it'd be tough for someone to use an image of
Speaker 1: your palm to pay. But I said this because I've
Speaker 1: covered this industry for twenty plus years. As technology advances,
Speaker 1: so do criminals. Artificial intelligence, the deep fakes, there's so
Speaker 1: much better than they were a year ago. Yes, there
Speaker 1: could be a day when deep fakes masks. I'll admission impossible.
Speaker 1: They could fool facial recognition software. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: to think about this. Do you trust the government agencies?
Speaker 1: Do you trust big companies to store your biometric data,
Speaker 1: much less any other kind of data. They're not immune
Speaker 1: to data breaches. So I guess to answer the questions
Speaker 1: that I get, you know, think about opting into or
Speaker 1: not opting into these services to protect your biometric data.
Speaker 1: Never possible. Use your biometric stuff in pandem with a password,
Speaker 1: maybe two factor authentication. Maybe it's authentic era. Yes, read
Speaker 1: my face. But before you let me in or before
Speaker 1: you charge something, send me a text so I can
Speaker 1: verify a second way. Okay, that's cool. If you use
Speaker 1: or upload biometric data online, you may want to try
Speaker 1: to use a VPN, the virtual private network to secure
Speaker 1: your Internet connection first. Try not to do it on
Speaker 1: a public system. But it's it's it's a can of worms.
Speaker 1: It's this is the stuff that I cover, this is
Speaker 1: the stuff that I test too. That go back to
Speaker 1: the Whole Foods thing. I'm actual only found out about it,
Speaker 1: but I'm standing getting ready to check out of the
Speaker 1: Whole Foods and it's like, and I do have an
Speaker 1: Amazon account. It's like, okay, let's go ahead, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you do have to go to I believe the Whole
Speaker 1: Foods initially to scan your palm, which I did. It
Speaker 1: took all of I don't know, a few seconds. It
Speaker 1: knows it matches up with my credit cards and I'll
Speaker 1: set to go. But it's pretty cool. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 1: I have a Whole Foods that is less than half
Speaker 1: a mile from my house, totally walkable, and I generally
Speaker 1: walk where. When I'm on my run, I will stop
Speaker 1: through the Whole Foods to pick up one thing or
Speaker 1: two things. I don't run with my wallet, but you
Speaker 1: know what I always have. I got my palm. Yep.
Speaker 1: I sit there and I pay with my palm. It's
Speaker 1: that's a convenience. I'm sorry it is, and I'm cool
Speaker 1: with that. But that's what we do with technology. Our
Speaker 1: phones are not only convenient, they're almost it's it's almost
Speaker 1: it's necessary. Nowadays, you don't want to let people know
Speaker 1: where you are, so let's just turn off your GPS.
Speaker 1: Well okay, good, Well if you want to use Google
Speaker 1: Maps or something, good luck, because your mapping needs to
Speaker 1: know where you are. So that's why GPS is enabled.
Speaker 1: If not, your phone becomes a brick. We have to
Speaker 1: give out our information to utilize something it's it's it's
Speaker 1: the exchange. Sometimes instead of subscriptions, that's what you do.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you still have to pay a subscription like Amazon
Speaker 1: and still give your palm information away. Hey, thoughts in this.
Speaker 1: I'm more than happy uh to uh take your phone calls.
Speaker 1: I promise I won't ask you for a subscription fee.
Speaker 1: I won't ask you for your password. You could just
Speaker 1: call seven one three two one two five nine five.
Speaker 1: O's we get to the bottom of this hour. I'm
Speaker 1: a high tech texting show, got it. I hope everybody's
Speaker 1: having a very nice Saturday here one of the what
Speaker 1: is that technically it's the last Saturday by October very nice.
Speaker 1: Less than a week from now, we're going to be
Speaker 1: sugared up for Halloween. Michael Garfield visiting you very long
Speaker 1: running high tech tech student show here KPRC nine to
Speaker 1: fifty am twenty two years. I've been wasting working for
Speaker 1: you on Saturdays. And if you're listening on iHeartRadio, thank
Speaker 1: you for downloading that app. Tell you what if you're
Speaker 1: in Houston, I got an idea of where you want
Speaker 1: to be next week, actually two days from right now,
Speaker 1: this coming Monday night to kick off Halloween week. I
Speaker 1: know where I will be. I'm actually anxious. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to the newly reopened, refurbished River Oaks THEA
Speaker 1: And you have to say it that way, it's the
Speaker 1: ATA because it's spilled that way. It's long been just
Speaker 1: an iconic theater auditorium here in Houston for a long time.
Speaker 1: It was shut down for a while refurbished, and this
Speaker 1: Monday night is something special, especially for all you longtime
Speaker 1: Ustonians who are fans of radio, specifically Rock one oh
Speaker 1: one k l o L if you remember that name,
Speaker 1: the station in the call letters. I have a little
Speaker 1: history with Rock one oh one when I started with
Speaker 1: Clear Channel Radio twenty two, twenty three years ago. So
Speaker 1: your gentleal which is now iHeart just really a name change.
Speaker 1: We owned eight stations here and I had a presence
Speaker 1: on all eight of our stations and appearances in one
Speaker 1: of which was Rock one oh one. I was with
Speaker 1: the greg O Pruitt and the Boner, and two of
Speaker 1: those guys, greg O and Boner, I believe, are going
Speaker 1: to be at this very special event on Monday along
Speaker 1: with some other people. It is a movie. It's a
Speaker 1: documentary that was released not long ago, a special screening
Speaker 1: this coming Monday night. The director, the person behind the concept,
Speaker 1: who's worked over three quarters of his life, has put
Speaker 1: all of his dollars in money into it that he
Speaker 1: can't end his kids to college. Those names. Mike McGuff,
Speaker 1: he is here in Houston, and I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: him in because I'm excited because I'm going to be
Speaker 1: emceeing this. Mcguffer joins me, Maybe, are you nervous to
Speaker 1: have more people see this thing and either cheer or
Speaker 1: hopefully give you some critique.
Speaker 4: I'm actually more nervous being on the high tech textan show,
Speaker 4: to be quite honest. But now here you know that
Speaker 4: I took fourteen years to make this. But think about
Speaker 4: I think I've been coming on your show for seventeen
Speaker 4: years now. I just realized that is how what a
Speaker 4: long running show? This is becoming iconic, a legend in
Speaker 4: it self. Your radio show, the iTech Texan.
Speaker 1: Well maybe after a quarter century it will be iconic,
Speaker 1: but I will tell let's go, let's get back on
Speaker 1: topic here, should we rock one to one? Kalel is
Speaker 1: iconic and listen, you know everybody could talk about radio.
Speaker 1: What's happening? In radio nowadays. I obviously I still believe
Speaker 1: in radio rock.
Speaker 3: One to one.
Speaker 1: You talk about one of the most iconic rock stations,
Speaker 1: not just in Texas, my friend, but did you know
Speaker 1: in the country it is no longer in its sane,
Speaker 1: you know, since as we knew it back then, you know,
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties. But why was this so
Speaker 1: important for you to dig into this fourteen years and
Speaker 1: make a documentary out of this?
Speaker 4: Well, I grew up with the station, you know. It
Speaker 4: was one of those stations you found when you were
Speaker 4: I was like a freshman at Lamar High School, so
Speaker 4: you know, you're kind of figuring out the world, and
Speaker 4: this is pre internet. So you tune in and you're like, wow,
Speaker 4: this is kind of mind expanding and they're talking about
Speaker 4: stuff I have never heard on this station, and being
Speaker 4: such a music I just liked it because of that.
Speaker 4: The DJs were knowledgeable about the music. I learned about
Speaker 4: current bands at the time, I learned about past bands.
Speaker 4: I really developed my what we call classic rock knowledge.
Speaker 4: They're listening to kol because back then I couldn't just
Speaker 4: log on to streaming and pick whatever I wanted, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, I could go to a CD store tape
Speaker 4: store back then, and I wouldn't have known what I
Speaker 4: was looking for, right, So, radio it's so important to
Speaker 4: introduce you to the music and really just the lifestyle
Speaker 4: and the comedy. Think about it, we didn't have social
Speaker 4: media with now you have TikTok, you know, comedians, Instagram, comedians.
Speaker 4: You had Stevenson prove it back then and all the
Speaker 4: other DJs who were always razor.
Speaker 3: Or had a raise wit.
Speaker 4: So it's that that's why I did it, because it
Speaker 4: really is a time that no longer exists, just thanks
Speaker 4: to the changes in society with you know, hey, this
Speaker 4: is the high Tech Texan Show. Think to how much
Speaker 4: technology has changed everything since the time even that station
Speaker 4: went off the air in two thousand and four. Think
Speaker 4: of how much has happened since then. It's kind of
Speaker 4: amazing to think.
Speaker 1: That it is for those of the for the listeners
Speaker 1: out there who really never grew up or understood it.
Speaker 1: But to just describe how iconic was radio, I mean,
Speaker 1: listen radio Marconi. It's been around for so long. But
Speaker 1: I mean my Eraine Obvious film a few years older
Speaker 1: than you. You know, I grew up in the late seventies,
Speaker 1: and the eighties, and I still live. I'm the eighties guy.
Speaker 1: If you listen to my buck music. Eight music is
Speaker 1: so important to me. I say this, music really is
Speaker 1: the only thing that can take you back in time.
Speaker 1: You hear something and you remember, oh man, I remember
Speaker 1: where I was. I was in high school, or that
Speaker 1: was my first college loan, or the first time, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm met my spouse, our first dance, whatever was. But
Speaker 1: going back to one oh one, there were anecdotally, just
Speaker 1: I know this because there are high schoolers, there was college.
Speaker 1: There were growing up folks listening driving to work type
Speaker 1: of thing, and they would just sit there in their car,
Speaker 1: you know, in the parking lot, because there was a
Speaker 1: big going on. And you talk about personalities because radio
Speaker 1: is at least it was personality driven. You said Steven's
Speaker 1: Impruit and it was a rock formatt and would you
Speaker 1: say this was the start of the shock jock type
Speaker 1: of air going back to those folks.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean, because I want to start in seventy.
Speaker 4: You know, it was really a progressive station with all
Speaker 4: the kind of play whatever they wanted. Their Their playlist
Speaker 4: was wide from rock to foulk to jazz, with even
Speaker 4: maybe a little bit of country thrown in there, kind
Speaker 4: of the alt country maybe, and it developed into the
Speaker 4: eighties into the rock station we kind of more know today.
Speaker 4: But that, yes, that definitely included the shock jock element. Now,
Speaker 4: Stevens and Brewitt were shot jogs. They had started that
Speaker 4: as Hudson Harri Again and Kilt back in the seventies.
Speaker 4: And even if you listen to stuff back then, you
Speaker 4: really hear elements of the show that was on kl
Speaker 4: Well maybe not quite as racy as it was, you
Speaker 4: know back then. What definitely, as things became more extreme
Speaker 4: in the eighties, so did the radio, so did the
Speaker 4: shot Josh Howard stirred on the air.
Speaker 3: At that time.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so I would say Steven Zubert were on
Speaker 4: the forefront of the shot jock world and continued writing
Speaker 4: that really until the end.
Speaker 1: Talking to Mike McGuffey is the director, producer in the
Speaker 1: brains behind the documentary. It is a movie that is
Speaker 1: being screened this coun be Monday night, seven o'clock. It's
Speaker 1: at the newly reopened River Oaks Theater on West Gray.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about how to get tickets. It might get
Speaker 1: those even more tickets because I know this is a
Speaker 1: it's a pretty big one. I know you've screened it
Speaker 1: a few times. But the new River Oaks Theater is
Speaker 1: you know, is pretty cool. The how did you find
Speaker 1: the video? I mean, how did you and talk about
Speaker 1: some of the people that you interviewed in here, because
Speaker 1: you're get some solid rock stars along with the people
Speaker 1: who played a part on air and off air.
Speaker 4: See right there, you just explained why it took me
Speaker 4: fourteen years because trying to find the video, find the
Speaker 4: images and talk to those rock stars. I mean, some
Speaker 4: of the rock stars took six years to get. It
Speaker 4: is not easy to land a Sammy Hagar, you know,
Speaker 4: a Dusty Hill of zz Top who I think that
Speaker 4: probably was his last video interview before he passed away unfortunately.
Speaker 4: You know, we shot that in you know, February of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty before the lockdown, and after that they went
Speaker 4: on tour and he unfortunately died and so that's probably
Speaker 4: the last interview with them that I'm aware of, at
Speaker 4: least on video.
Speaker 3: But you know that was the.
Speaker 4: Hard part is trying to lock down the rock stars
Speaker 4: and not slock them.
Speaker 3: But you know you have to be you know, hey,
Speaker 3: let's remember me are you willing to do an interview?
Speaker 4: And eventually maybe they'll give in, But then you have
Speaker 4: to work around a rock star schedule which is always
Speaker 4: on the road touring, so that makes it tough, but
Speaker 4: it was well worth it, and just even sometimes trying
Speaker 4: to land interviews with the kale O All staff honestly
Speaker 4: was difficult.
Speaker 3: You're in the making.
Speaker 1: Without a deck and Mike McGuff over here. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna follow up and we'll kind of end on this
Speaker 1: before we give out the information. If you know these
Speaker 1: screens and if no one's been to a screen, this
Speaker 1: is more than a scritting. This is fun and I
Speaker 1: appreciate you asked me specifically if I could kind of
Speaker 1: emc or host this, because you know, I had a
Speaker 1: little background towards the end of the Rock one oh
Speaker 1: one era, and it was really fun to be able
Speaker 1: to be a part of it and say I was
Speaker 1: a part of it. But that was the greg O
Speaker 1: Jim prewittt Also to be able to work with him,
Speaker 1: what a just an unbelievable nice guy, amazing guy. S Mark.
Speaker 1: I knew everything about radio voter Dana Steele, who I
Speaker 1: still keep in contact with. Who else will be there
Speaker 1: because I'm going to be entering a Q and A,
Speaker 1: so for all the fans who grew up listening to them,
Speaker 1: they actually get to see them, to see what they
Speaker 1: look like. Who all's going to be there this coming
Speaker 1: Monday night.
Speaker 3: It's actually going to be packed. The stage will be full.
Speaker 4: Everyone wants to come out and do the River Roks
Speaker 4: Theater just because it it's iconic. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 4: have Eddie the Boner, greg O pat Fant who signed
Speaker 4: on the station, Doug Harris who was the promotions manager,
Speaker 4: Dana Steele, as you mentioned, doctor Betty Halpern, who is
Speaker 4: Doctor Betty from the Stevenson Brewet Show, a big part
Speaker 4: of their advice section on there.
Speaker 3: Landy Griffith, the traffic master, will be there.
Speaker 4: I'm probably leaving people out at this point because I'm
Speaker 4: trying to do this at the top of my head.
Speaker 4: But yes, we have a solid lineup and we will
Speaker 4: definitely be handing out prizes.
Speaker 3: I mean I have.
Speaker 4: Runaway radio documentary shirts, I have stickers, and we actually
Speaker 4: have another Kalol company of favorite radio shirts will be
Speaker 4: there handing out free kal Lowel shirts. We try to
Speaker 4: turn it into as much of a rock concert as
Speaker 4: you can in a movie theater. So it's kind of
Speaker 4: like those old giveaways where kaloys to show up and
Speaker 4: hand stuff out.
Speaker 3: We're doing the exact same thing. We want to keep
Speaker 3: it a fun atmosphere.
Speaker 1: I want to buy tickets if they're because it's interesting,
Speaker 1: because you know you can. You go on to buy
Speaker 1: tickets and there they're like twelve or thirteen dollars or
Speaker 1: something like that, but you have to get an a
Speaker 1: signed seat. I checked a few days ago and it
Speaker 1: was running low. But if people want to get a ticket,
Speaker 1: they need to act like asap. Where can they find
Speaker 1: the info?
Speaker 4: Rock one oh one movie dot com is the website,
Speaker 4: and that is going to have multiple leaks to that
Speaker 4: Riveroke screening at set.
Speaker 3: You log and you can just scroll down.
Speaker 4: You're going to see how to buy the ticketscke.
Speaker 1: One movie dot Com. I hope listen congrats again. I've
Speaker 1: actually seen it. It's neat seeing the people that I
Speaker 1: worked with and also listened to you before I started
Speaker 1: working in radio. They got so many stories and I
Speaker 1: can imagine it's pubably gonna be uncensored when I get
Speaker 1: that microphone at the end because you know it's the
Speaker 1: FCC cannot tell us what to talk about, what not
Speaker 1: to talk about. Uh, but your kudos without a doubt.
Speaker 1: I hope there's gonna be a lot of photos, bring
Speaker 1: the cameras, and you deserve a lot of credit diagnosed.
Speaker 1: This is a very very loving creation that took Qai
Speaker 1: large part of your life. So congratulate the success, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. All Right, Monday night is it? It
Speaker 1: is at Riveroaks Theater Rock one oh one Movie dot Com.
Speaker 1: I will be there as well as well as just
Speaker 1: a got crazy cast characters from back of the Day
Speaker 1: of Rock one o one. All right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break right now. Open from lines. Michael Garfield is
Speaker 1: the name seven one three two one two by five
Speaker 1: from lines right here, We're gonna be right back there
Speaker 1: you go, people fired up. Final segment here. I do
Speaker 1: think mister Mike McGuff the film director, among many of
Speaker 1: the things, if you are able to attend this coming
Speaker 1: Monday's documentary screening Question and answer from Rock one oh one, KLLL,
Speaker 1: I'd look forward seeing you come up and say hi,
Speaker 1: I have not checked the tickets, but it's just I'm
Speaker 1: actually interested to see also the new River Oaks the
Speaker 1: AA they did apparently they've done a great job of
Speaker 1: restoring that historic there we in Houston Theater. And so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun Monday night reliving and recounting all
Speaker 1: of the crazy stories man that we probably can't say
Speaker 1: on air, of all those Rock one oh one ers back.
Speaker 4: In the day.
Speaker 1: Let's see what are the things to do before we
Speaker 1: wrap up over here? I got some emails over here,
Speaker 1: and Michael, I know you traveled internationally this past summer.
Speaker 1: Did you have any tracking devices that you put inside
Speaker 1: your suitcases? Because I'm getting ready to travel and I
Speaker 1: don't want to lose my suitcases because I hate the airlines.
Speaker 1: Okay that's from Jeanette. Oh okay, Jeanette, let's just air
Speaker 1: it out over here. Yeah, I actually did. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the air tags and the Samsung smart tags. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually do have a few of those that are
Speaker 1: that are pretty cool. My luggage luckily was not lost,
Speaker 1: but you can put these anywhere. And I guess the
Speaker 1: question is, I don't know if you want a specific brand,
Speaker 1: I mean air tag. If you're an Apple person, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go bite your Apple AirTags what these are there?
Speaker 1: Blue tooth trackers. They're the size of a keychain, and
Speaker 1: you put them actually on your keychain. You could put
Speaker 1: them inside your luggage. You could put them in your
Speaker 1: purse and a backpack. You could put them in a
Speaker 1: car and track people driving in cars. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give you crazy ideas about that, but they're out
Speaker 1: there and there are a number of them. Samsung makes
Speaker 1: one job. There's one called Chipole just not Chipotle, it's
Speaker 1: Chipolo c Chipolo. I saw those guys in Berlin when
Speaker 1: I went to Berlin at IFA, a big technology conference.
Speaker 1: So there's what The original one, I think was a
Speaker 1: company called Tile. They were one of the first ones.
Speaker 1: Anybody remember that Ti l e. They were one of
Speaker 1: the first Bluetooth tracking tags. They actually just came out
Speaker 1: with several new products. By the way, they just bought
Speaker 1: the company just bought Life three sixty. Anybody have that app.
Speaker 1: I used to have that app when I used to
Speaker 1: track my son with his knowledge in college, just to
Speaker 1: make sure it really was if he loses his phone,
Speaker 1: I knew where the phone was. Type of thing. A
Speaker 1: lot of families use it, and I think it's good
Speaker 1: to use it for for families and kids, so you
Speaker 1: know where you are. But Tyle has a few new
Speaker 1: ones and they're really tip they're they're pretty inexpensive over here.
Speaker 1: One is called the tile Mate twenty five dollars. This
Speaker 1: has a three hundred and fifty foot range, so if
Speaker 1: you place your car keys around your house or something
Speaker 1: like that, you can go to an app on your
Speaker 1: phone and make it ring and buzz and track it
Speaker 1: and whatever. There's a tile Pro a little bit more expensive,
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars, five hundred foot range. There's one that
Speaker 1: you can put into your wallet. It's like it looks
Speaker 1: like a credit card, and somebody and Chippolo has one
Speaker 1: of these. Two you go, it's like a credit card.
Speaker 1: You don't want to lose your wallet. It's called the
Speaker 1: tile Slim. It's about a three hundred and fifty foot range.
Speaker 1: And then there's one that's a sticker I think tiles
Speaker 1: come out. It's called the tile Sticker, and it's small
Speaker 1: enough to stick on something like a remote control, because
Speaker 1: nobody loses a remote control. Right, three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: foot range. You have to keep in mind these ranges
Speaker 1: are based on Bluetooth and what you're gonna do. You're
Speaker 1: gonna rely on tiles finding network when your phone is
Speaker 1: not near these tags. It works like this, and that's
Speaker 1: actually the big difference between Tile and the Apple and
Speaker 1: the Android Tile. The company has its own tracking network
Speaker 1: on seventy million customers that's running the Life three sixty
Speaker 1: app or the Tile app. So to me, it was
Speaker 1: a pretty smart acquisition for like for Tile going after
Speaker 1: Life three sixty because a lot of people have that app.
Speaker 1: But what I like about it it's cross platform, so
Speaker 1: your trackers are going to work no matter what combination
Speaker 1: of phones your family has. Doesn't matter, if your Apple,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, if you're Android, Ebity and Ivory. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've got an Apple to get I've got I've got
Speaker 1: my my Google Android, and I most my two or
Speaker 1: three of my kids they have their iPhones. But if
Speaker 1: you lose it, no matter what are, it's going to
Speaker 1: find something within three hundred three hundred feet of Bluetooth
Speaker 1: whatever and it'll signal where your bag, where you're whatever
Speaker 1: you're you're trying to track is on. It's pretty cool
Speaker 1: like that. So yes, I do recommend these for your
Speaker 1: own safety if you're prone to losing things. Uh, these
Speaker 1: could be good stocking stuffers because they're not expensive at all.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that you know, the
Speaker 1: people are very aware of that because people can track you
Speaker 1: where you don't want them tracking you. You know how
Speaker 1: many have heard the stories of oh, well, my smiuse
Speaker 1: has put one of these Apple air tags in my
Speaker 1: car h or on my license plate behind and you
Speaker 1: don't know what's on there. You actually, with Apple and
Speaker 1: with the Samsungs, you can scan your surroundings to see
Speaker 1: if there's a rogue tracker. There's a way to do
Speaker 1: it for Tile. It's it's a kind of convoluted, but
Speaker 1: that's there too. If for some reason you think you're
Speaker 1: being followed, you think someone's tracking you. Yeah, you actually
Speaker 1: just go do a Google search for how do I
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