Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfier.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 2: Us in the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans. It
Speaker 1: has to make life easier some new technology.
Speaker 2: So Michael Garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 1: Texas.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield twenty
Speaker 2: three years.
Speaker 1: I have been hosting this show. Twenty three years. I
Speaker 1: have spread the love, the knowledge, the wealth, okay, maybe
Speaker 1: not the wealth about most everything I like and the
Speaker 1: products you either wanted, you needed, or you're now collecting
Speaker 1: dust in your closet. This is called the high Tech
Speaker 1: Texan Show. And my name, as you heard in that
Speaker 1: grandiose opening, it's Michael Garfield. You can call me Michael,
Speaker 1: you can call me Garth. Just don't call me late
Speaker 1: for dinner. And yes I do dad joke quite well.
Speaker 1: Twenty three years people, this radio show has solely been
Speaker 1: broadcast in Southeast Texas, you know, Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, and
Speaker 1: everything on KPRC nine fifty am, which is the oldest
Speaker 1: talk radio station in our great state of Texas. In fact,
Speaker 1: this is the longest running local show in the one
Speaker 1: hundred and one year history of KPRC. Now, yes, it's
Speaker 1: also heard throughout the iHeartRadio app across the country, also
Speaker 1: podcasted wherever a great podcast or heard. But starting this
Speaker 1: week that all changes. You see. I had a goal
Speaker 1: all those years ago to spread my content to as
Speaker 1: many people who could listen, and that's why I coined
Speaker 1: and trademarked the term high tech Techan instead of the
Speaker 1: high tech Ustonian. And as of this weekend, this show
Speaker 1: finally is truly techan just like me. Hello San Antonio
Speaker 1: and WOAI listeners, Welcome to the high Tech Texan family.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait before you flip to another station,
Speaker 1: and we know who you are. Oh, yes, we do
Speaker 1: have the technology. Give it a listen, give it a
Speaker 1: few weeks. I've been doing this for an entire generation.
Speaker 1: From the name of the show, you may be expecting
Speaker 1: to call in and have me help fix your motherboard
Speaker 1: on your computer. Ah, you're listening to the wrong show.
Speaker 1: You might as well find a nice, blonde, knowledgeable female
Speaker 1: who's been doing tech specific radio shows for about as
Speaker 1: long as I have. Nah Ah, this show is fun.
Speaker 1: This show is fast, personable, it's hip, it's hot, it's happening,
Speaker 1: as my grown kids say. Speaking of which, you will
Speaker 1: find out that I am a grown kid. You see,
Speaker 1: I'm a kid who enjoys what he does for a living.
Speaker 1: I'm a kid who gets to play with most any gadget, car,
Speaker 1: piece of food. You want me to try it before
Speaker 1: you buy it, I'm your guy. But know this, I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid to hold back. If I don't like something,
Speaker 1: If I think it's cheesy, could break easily, it's too expensive,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you to walk away or even run,
Speaker 1: simple as that. This show is not about computers people. Well,
Speaker 1: actually it can be if you want my advice on
Speaker 1: buying laptops or desktops. But it's also about cars, trucks.
Speaker 1: I test drive over sixty vehicles a year. I can
Speaker 1: help you decide which ones to look at, which ones
Speaker 1: to stay away from. It's about most anything that consumers want.
Speaker 1: You like peanut butter, I'm gonna tell you what I
Speaker 1: think the best peanut butter on the market is cell phones,
Speaker 1: streaming services, bourbon, places to travel, what to whar I
Speaker 1: gots it. All that, my friends, is what this show
Speaker 1: is all about. So buckle up and let's roll to
Speaker 1: celebrate us going statewide, not national yet, one step at
Speaker 1: a time. We have a brand new phone number to
Speaker 1: get in Okay. For years it's been seven to one
Speaker 1: three blah blah blah blah ba. So no matter if
Speaker 1: you're listening in Houston or in San Antonio and soon
Speaker 1: to be one more city too. Jot this down here
Speaker 1: it comes. It's an interactive show, and it's an easy one.
Speaker 1: I'm all about marketing. Wait for it. Three four six
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Texan. Nah, it's called marketing people. Three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine Texan. Why don't you call me? If
Speaker 1: you're new to the show, say hi, Promise I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna bite you. If you're a long time less there,
Speaker 1: it's like garf man, glad to hear you. I drove
Speaker 1: across the straight to Texas. Three four six twenty nine. Textan.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some giveaways, but what it is is
Speaker 1: you call me, you say, hey, Michael, ah Black Friday
Speaker 1: sales are coming up. I see something. Am I gonna
Speaker 1: get schnookered? Should I wait till a little closer to
Speaker 1: the Christmas Hanak holiday. That's it three four six, twenty nine, Texan. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you want to go old school, you can also
Speaker 1: email me I guess if you really wanted to Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Either way, we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to get you on, play your voice, make you famous,
Speaker 1: answer your question. Promise I want to laugh at you.
Speaker 1: Quick history. There's been some questions, there's been some doozies people.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember, like, you know, how do you
Speaker 1: turn a computer on? Back when the start Putton, you
Speaker 1: know from Microsoft Windows came round, how do you turn
Speaker 1: a computer off? Just nothing is too funny, too trivial.
Speaker 1: Because we have fun here, That's what it is. I
Speaker 1: will set up what's coming in, what you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: until we sign off today and we do this every weekend.
Speaker 1: But today on the show, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: Blue Sky. Well, yes, there are blue Skys here for
Speaker 1: my show and hopefully my career as we continue to
Speaker 1: expanded to more markets. Blue Sky it's actually an app
Speaker 1: people that many people are logging on and creating a
Speaker 1: free account to because they're flocking from X in Twitter.
Speaker 1: I will tell you what Blue Sky is and how
Speaker 1: it does differ from other social media apps. I am
Speaker 1: going to talk about Black Friday. Are Black Friday deals?
Speaker 1: Are they really worth it? We are less than one
Speaker 1: week out from Thanksgiving? The Cowboys afternoon game. Actually I
Speaker 1: think that. By the way, massive Cowboys fan here. I
Speaker 1: will not rag on the Cowboys, grew up with them.
Speaker 1: I'm a big d guy. But dang man, this is
Speaker 1: not a good pro NFLC. Great, it's great college season
Speaker 1: for me. And if you're new, hooking morns people, because
Speaker 1: that's how I roll. We're gonna talk about Black Friday deals.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about streaming issues. Anybody have any
Speaker 1: questions about that old the waste of time Jake Paul,
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson fight. It's about more than that. There's been
Speaker 1: some winners in some losers. And I'm gonna look at
Speaker 1: it from a business streaming standpoint too. How many streaming
Speaker 1: services do you have? And I guarantee it's too many.
Speaker 1: It is too many. We'll tell you how to stop that.
Speaker 1: Those are the things that we're gonna yap about. Three
Speaker 1: four six twenty nine. Texan. This is the energy. This
Speaker 1: is my electricity. I haven't even had caffeine yet today
Speaker 1: and I'm still fired up. I am pumped. Not only
Speaker 1: that I am heard in the largest city across Texas,
Speaker 1: which is used in the fourth largest city across the country,
Speaker 1: but now in San Antonio, another top ten most populous
Speaker 1: city in the state of Texas. You guys are great,
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you right now, from Alamo Heights to
Speaker 1: Garden Ridge to Sibilo to Hollywood Park, give me at
Speaker 1: least one hour of your time right now, and we
Speaker 1: are going to have some fun. I promise. Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: is the name. It's the High Tech Texan Show coming up.
Speaker 1: We're going to get into the content, and I guarantee
Speaker 1: you are god all love it. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: we get into it. It is the High Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 1: Welcome new listeners all across the state of Texas, including
Speaker 1: our new affiliate WOAI in San Antonio. We've been doing
Speaker 1: this for two decades in Houston on KPRC nine point fifty.
Speaker 1: So no matter where you are, how you're listening via
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app Terrestrial, which some people still do in
Speaker 1: their cars, we thank you. I guarantee we're not gonna
Speaker 1: bore you. I guarantee. I'm not gonna tell you how
Speaker 1: to fix your computer. Oh we are so much more
Speaker 1: than that. I will tell you what potential app to download.
Speaker 1: All right, who's hurt of blue Sky? Nah? Raise your hand, Riten,
Speaker 1: put your handback in the wheel. You're driving people blue Sky.
Speaker 1: If you haven't heard a Blue Sky, you've probably been
Speaker 1: busy watching I don't know, NFL college football. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: worried about the election, you're happy about the election. Whatever. Well,
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't do a lot of politics,
Speaker 1: so this is a pretty much political free radio, Chaseeau.
Speaker 1: But Blue Sky, I will tell you a lot of
Speaker 1: people are flocking to it and deleting X, Twitter, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, maybe for political reasons. Big news.
Speaker 1: Blue Sky just this past week hit twenty million users
Speaker 1: and is growing like wildfire. All Right, you never heard
Speaker 1: of it, or maybe you see people saying, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: killing my X account, my Twitter account, I'm going to
Speaker 1: blue Sky. Let me give you the breakdown. It's a
Speaker 1: relatively new social media platform, all right, and it is
Speaker 1: receiving a big influx of users who are fleeing from
Speaker 1: X or Twitter from what critics describe really as a
Speaker 1: toxic environment under Elon musk direction. Now, listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: an Elon hater, and I did listen. If you know me,
Speaker 1: there's no hate. There's just too much positive things in
Speaker 1: the world. But there's a lot of things that that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, who owns a new bought Twitter for forty
Speaker 1: four billion dollars about two years ago. That has changed
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't like it. You know,
Speaker 1: he sought to overhaul the platform to fit his free
Speaker 1: speech absolutist vision, all right, And since then, there have
Speaker 1: been other social media platforms that have tried to compete,
Speaker 1: try to get the you know, the users to log
Speaker 1: on regularly. There's been Instagram came out with Threads about
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. Anyone on Threads anyone
Speaker 1: anyway mastered it on as a new one. These were
Speaker 1: some of the original top contenders in the race. None
Speaker 1: of them really have been able to secure the position
Speaker 1: as x's top competition, not recently. Changes to X that
Speaker 1: were rolled out during Elon's tenure. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he newtered the block feature, which means if you previously
Speaker 1: block somebody, one of the things that you can do
Speaker 1: Now people are literally able to see what's going on,
Speaker 1: so they've he's unblocked it. So he's now making verification
Speaker 1: a payable subscription. It used to be Hey, I'm verifiedable
Speaker 1: legit person. Oh no, no, you want a blue check marker,
Speaker 1: you have to pay. He's obviously increasing vocal in the
Speaker 1: support of you know, right wing issues. He's president at
Speaker 1: Trump's you know, you know, he's not a cabinet member,
Speaker 1: but you know he's very involved in that. But election
Speaker 1: day appeared to be the last straw for a lot
Speaker 1: of people who were turned off by elon support of
Speaker 1: Trump or maybe the political discourse whatever. So people are
Speaker 1: now flocking to this thing called blue Scott. The difference is,
Speaker 1: and I guess the question is, you know what is
Speaker 1: blue Scott. It is an alternative social network. It is
Speaker 1: blowing up right now, which is a good thing. It's
Speaker 1: finally having its moment. It's an open source, which means
Speaker 1: there's not one person, there's no one overlord who oversees it.
Speaker 1: Anyone over the age of thirteen. You can join Blue
Speaker 1: Sky as long as you're legal in your country. Now,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the day Blue Scott launched as
Speaker 1: an invitation only service. Back about a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago, and then in the eliminated of the invites
Speaker 1: in the invite codes in February of this year, so
Speaker 1: anybody can sign up. It is free. Go to your
Speaker 1: little iTunes, go to your Android up Google Play Story
Speaker 1: and you download Blue Sky all one word and you
Speaker 1: install it on your phone and you're set to go.
Speaker 1: You sign up, you create an account, and pretty much
Speaker 1: at that point you need to pick your handle. Your
Speaker 1: handle is your nickname. You know my by the way,
Speaker 1: let me introduce you for those new listens. My nickname, shockingly,
Speaker 1: it's high tech Texan. Spell the whole thing out h
Speaker 1: I G H T E C h T E x
Speaker 1: A M. Spell the whole thing out, high tech text.
Speaker 1: And you can find me on Instagram. You could find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter x Still you can now find me
Speaker 1: on Blue Scott Facebook. I'm actually Michael Garfield. That's I'm
Speaker 1: on LinkedIn too. I'll let my kids do the TikTok,
Speaker 1: I'll let my kids do snap and everything. But pick
Speaker 1: a handle, pick your name, pick whatever it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: it must be at least three characters, and you can
Speaker 1: only use letters, numbers and hyphens. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Once you've got that account name, you know, you set
Speaker 1: up your little capture and things like that, just to
Speaker 1: know it's you, and you look for your interest. What
Speaker 1: do you want to what do you want to follow? Animals, art, books, sports, science, politics, whatever.
Speaker 1: All right, at that point you're set to go. And
Speaker 1: then it's kind of like X and Twitter. You follow
Speaker 1: people who you like me personally. I'm a sports guy.
Speaker 1: I love sports. I follow athletes, I follow, you know,
Speaker 1: sports networks for the inside news. It's cool, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'll follow some people who follow the weather. Certainly.
Speaker 1: I do some technology stuff I would love. I would
Speaker 1: prefer I would demand you follow high tech textan and
Speaker 1: I thank you for that because that's that's one of
Speaker 1: the ways that we actually give away gifts and products
Speaker 1: and products around here. And let me help you out.
Speaker 1: Oh I get some products. Give me about a month
Speaker 1: and a half and I'm in Las Vegas for the
Speaker 1: Consumer Electronics Show, and I come back with bags and
Speaker 1: bags full of stuff that they want me to give away.
Speaker 1: It's not just hollow number ten. Oh no, no, you
Speaker 1: follow me on social media. That's how we're going to
Speaker 1: do it. So that's that's my that's my lost leader
Speaker 1: of say please bug me, please bother me on one,
Speaker 1: on Blue Sky, on Twitter, on Instagram. Thing, all right,
Speaker 1: lots of things to follow. You can customize your feed,
Speaker 1: you can do anything else anything you want. You can
Speaker 1: block accounts, you can mute accounts. You could do a
Speaker 1: lot of things. And you should be at that point
Speaker 1: set to go. It's up to you. This is not
Speaker 1: a political thing, the least not for me. Do you
Speaker 1: want another one? Do you need another social media app? No,
Speaker 1: you probably don't. If you're a brand, it doesn't hurt
Speaker 1: to be across the board. If you're an influence there,
Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt to be everywhere. But we are all tired.
Speaker 1: We're just our eyeballs are probably bleeding from so much
Speaker 1: of the crap that keeps feeding and scrolling bias. Do
Speaker 1: we need another time sucker something else? I mean, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm on Facebook, I'm on this. No, you
Speaker 1: sometimes don't do it if you want to. If you
Speaker 1: want to follow news, don't. But to me, and here's
Speaker 1: just my assessment. Right now, I've been on Blue Sky
Speaker 1: for all of a week. Right now, there is less noise,
Speaker 1: there's less chatter, there less hate for lack of a
Speaker 1: better term on Blue Sky than I have seen on
Speaker 1: X Threads. I could say the same thing I hopped
Speaker 1: on Threads, which is from Meta fast Book, Facebook, and
Speaker 1: Instagram a year ago. And you can find me on
Speaker 1: High Tech Texan. I don't go there a lot. I
Speaker 1: really thought Threads free to download also was gonna be
Speaker 1: the Twitter killer. It's got two hundred million subscribers Threads does.
Speaker 1: That's ten times as big as what's going on over
Speaker 1: at Blue Sky. But also Twitter X has three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty seven million. They're slowly but surely falling off.
Speaker 1: Wait until then, there you go. There's your Blue Sky breakdown.
Speaker 1: All right, Now, when we come back, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you how to fully delete if you want to get
Speaker 1: off that X and Twitter, I'm gonna tell you how
Speaker 1: to delete that. I'm also gonna take your phone calls
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine Texan. As we continue the
Speaker 1: High Tech Textan Show. This is Michael Garfield. Heard that
Speaker 1: a lot of people cross the state. Now big number,
Speaker 1: new number, my friends, three four six twenty nine Texan.
Speaker 1: That's how you're going to get a hold of me.
Speaker 1: If you're just going up and down the radio dial
Speaker 1: in Houston. Well, I do think you for tuning in
Speaker 1: to KPRC nine to fifty am, where this show has
Speaker 1: been for twenty three years, and this show has now
Speaker 1: been on twenty three minutes. I think now maybe thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: As we get to the bottom of the twenty thirty
Speaker 1: minutes san Antonio, what is off the first over the
Speaker 1: year terrestrial show? As we picked up another affiliate on
Speaker 1: WAI flagship talk news station, which is great, What is
Speaker 1: up san Antonio? Already hearing from San Antonio, San Antonioan's
Speaker 1: San Antonio Heights. That's whatever you want to call you.
Speaker 1: You're a textan just like me. This is the high
Speaker 1: Tech Texan Show, Michael Garfield. We're fun guaranteed, not the
Speaker 1: boy guaranteed. And I'll tell you how to fix your computer.
Speaker 1: We don't do that all consumer products technology. I got
Speaker 1: a car, I've been testing out a car. Who wants
Speaker 1: an EV man? I got my listen? This is new,
Speaker 1: this your first time listen to me. Listen. I am
Speaker 1: a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association, been there
Speaker 1: for about fifteen years, which means I talk about, I
Speaker 1: write about, and I review cars, trucks, pretty much anything
Speaker 1: with four wheels on it. I've been doing it for
Speaker 1: quite a long time. On average, I get in a
Speaker 1: brand new vehicle sixty times a year, well over once
Speaker 1: a week. I get a vehicle for one week. All right.
Speaker 1: I don't work for a dealership. I am not pimping
Speaker 1: a dealership. I'm not even gonna tell you where to
Speaker 1: buy a car. I work straight with the manufacturers. They
Speaker 1: let me and my ilk other people who review cars trucks.
Speaker 1: I give you my thoughts. I can tell you they
Speaker 1: are horrible. I can tell you they're great. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I don't get paid for anything. That's why you can
Speaker 1: trust me electric vehicles. You'll get to know me of
Speaker 1: the love hate relationship I have with electric vehicles. This
Speaker 1: past week, I've been in a accurate Z Did you
Speaker 1: even know Accura makes an electric vehicle? I gotta say
Speaker 1: it's quite I will. I'm gonna do a little lost
Speaker 1: leader of it. It's quite nice. It's it's a very
Speaker 1: nice EV twenty twenty four Acura ZDX, not the cheapest thing,
Speaker 1: very roomy. It is fast, just like a lot of
Speaker 1: the EV's. Give me about fifteen minutes. I will tell
Speaker 1: you cop about two or three pros and pretty much
Speaker 1: one by major con the major negative that I always
Speaker 1: have about ev cars, But that's some of the things
Speaker 1: that we do. Got an email over here already to
Speaker 1: Michael Gurfield at iHeartMedia dot com. This comes from Chris
Speaker 1: Tally in San Antonio. Chris, you are now my first
Speaker 1: San Antonio and San Antonio White not my first texting
Speaker 1: my brother to to send me an email and way
Speaker 1: in Dear Garth. Great hearing from you. I used to
Speaker 1: drive through Uston to hear you all the time. Can
Speaker 1: I wait to listen to you every single week here
Speaker 1: on OAI. Got a question for you. He was talking
Speaker 1: about blue Sky. You were talking about apps that you
Speaker 1: should or should not download. Here's the big question for
Speaker 1: you when it comes to posting personal things. This is
Speaker 1: actually a good one. What personal things should I never
Speaker 1: post online? Chris Tally CT This is going to be
Speaker 1: from you. A number one. How old are you kids?
Speaker 1: Post everything? Chris? I know you're I'm assuming you're not
Speaker 1: a teenager. I don't know. There's a number of things
Speaker 1: you shouldn't post. People post too much. People believe, or
Speaker 1: it seems that social media is the facebooks and everything.
Speaker 1: It's an online diary. If you think about it, it's
Speaker 1: kind of it kind of has become an online diary.
Speaker 1: Here I am eating, Here, I'm going on vacation. Here,
Speaker 1: here's a picture of my new grandkid. I'm doing that.
Speaker 1: Got a new job? Personal news okay, yes there, you
Speaker 1: post about your favorite sports teams, your politics, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: People can tell a lot just from following you. At
Speaker 1: that point, they could potentially take your information and use
Speaker 1: it against you. Not good. Now, listen, there is zero
Speaker 1: fool poof fray from anybody of stealing any information or
Speaker 1: pretending they're you. Right now, welcome to the twenty first century. People.
Speaker 1: They could do anything, but in my opinion, you're helping
Speaker 1: them by posting a lot of your personal stuff, almost
Speaker 1: too much. So. To answer your question, Chris, what should
Speaker 1: not you post? Number one? I have a few rules
Speaker 1: over here. No matter what age or whatever you do,
Speaker 1: try not to post your relationship status. And here's why.
Speaker 1: If you're a widow, if you're a widower, especially a
Speaker 1: recently widowed person, you're a sitting duck. Crooks want to
Speaker 1: get their grimy hands on everything from inheritance money to
Speaker 1: whatever scam scam scams. Try not to post that you're married,
Speaker 1: your divorce, you're dating, whatever relationship status. Number One, stay
Speaker 1: away from posting your vacation plans. Seriously, if you start
Speaker 1: telling people, hey, I can't wait for my upcoming cruise.
Speaker 1: We're going to be in here and I'm gone for
Speaker 1: a week, why don't you just go ahead and leave
Speaker 1: your front door open? People? All right, Just that's it. Specifically,
Speaker 1: if you're going on a cruise or a specific flight,
Speaker 1: people can now start digging into Oh wait a minute,
Speaker 1: here's my frequent flyer account number, and I'm gonna pretend
Speaker 1: i'm you, and I'm going to cancel the trip and
Speaker 1: refund the money back to wherever I'm going. I don't
Speaker 1: mind people posting their vacation photos, but I do this,
Speaker 1: and this is my trick, post them when you get back,
Speaker 1: when you're done. And I do this too. It's in listen.
Speaker 1: This is a safety, you know, listen for. It's safety
Speaker 1: for everybody. I've been in the public ear, the public eye,
Speaker 1: if you will, for you know, two decades. And I
Speaker 1: want people to generally come to my remote broadcast or
Speaker 1: let them know where I'm doing a segment on this
Speaker 1: TV show or whatever. If I'm m seeing an event,
Speaker 1: but I found in the past that man, you can
Speaker 1: get some weirdos. And I don't want to use that
Speaker 1: s stalker word, but I just did. I generally now
Speaker 1: post not where I am, but where I've been. Something
Speaker 1: to keep in mind. Vacation plans are certainly one of them.
Speaker 1: A lot of people say, try to stay away from
Speaker 1: don't really post a lot of stuff of your kids,
Speaker 1: your kids' school, your kid's activity. You're proud of your kids.
Speaker 1: I am proud of my kids. I want to share
Speaker 1: those milestones too, But posting your photos in front of
Speaker 1: your kids school have you sharing their weekly soccer schedule
Speaker 1: or something. You never know who's watching. The thing that
Speaker 1: really scares me is those first day of school picks
Speaker 1: that happened every August here in Texas and the little kids,
Speaker 1: the little ones, and there's this chalkboard that mom and
Speaker 1: dad put up. Hi. My name is Sally, I'm six
Speaker 1: years old. I go to this elementary school. I am,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, three feet eight inches tall and
Speaker 1: I weigh this pounds. Listen. I get that that's a
Speaker 1: memento that you want to do every year. Do you
Speaker 1: really need to tell the world about that because you
Speaker 1: just told me every single thing about your kid. I know, okay,
Speaker 1: and if your kids coming home walking out of school
Speaker 1: and somebody knows that information. Hi, Sally, how are you do?
Speaker 1: You had a good time? Listen to your mom, who
Speaker 1: I follow on Facebook, told me to give you a rite.
Speaker 1: Just really try to stay away from your kids. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I could talk about my kids though. My kids are
Speaker 1: in their twenties and one of them is in their thirties.
Speaker 1: They're out there on their own, they're adults right now.
Speaker 1: But when I started doing this, you know, my my
Speaker 1: youngest son was one year old and one years old,
Speaker 1: and I don't even remember giving their names. I would
Speaker 1: talk about my kids in general. My kids actually helped
Speaker 1: me in the tech world back then. They got to
Speaker 1: play all the video games and help review things for me,
Speaker 1: and I would just say, hey, you know the you know,
Speaker 1: the eight year old, this one, the five year old, this,
Speaker 1: you know this one. I tried not to poster faces
Speaker 1: as a young kid. So again, be very judicious what
Speaker 1: you're doing. Also, be cautious with your work details. Another
Speaker 1: opportunity for a scam. Fishing scams target They could target
Speaker 1: you know with you highly personalized information. You know, if
Speaker 1: you got mid level employees or high level employees, you
Speaker 1: know they may have access to your company's finances. The
Speaker 1: more specific details you post, the more fuel that you
Speaker 1: give a scammer. And that includes where your work and
Speaker 1: your you know what your role is and things. And
Speaker 1: so to wrap it up, listen Chris Tally, thank you
Speaker 1: so much here in San Antonio listening on WAI. Ask
Speaker 1: the question what should I out post online? Just use
Speaker 1: your common sense to everybody out there is just be
Speaker 1: very careful because all too often now people are scamming, scamming, scamming,
Speaker 1: and so there's your answer with that, Michael Garfield. It
Speaker 1: is called the High Tech Texan Show heard all across
Speaker 1: terrestrial radio in Houston, Southeast Texas KPRC nine to fifty am.
Speaker 1: And could not be more excited to add all over
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Central Texas area w A I more cities
Speaker 1: to come. Hopefully you are going to end this year
Speaker 1: pretty pretty big. If you want to get in, leave
Speaker 1: a message, try to get to the callers and say hi,
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine Texan three four six twenty
Speaker 1: nine Texan. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com When we
Speaker 1: come back, I will tell you a little bit more
Speaker 1: about my electric vehicle experience in the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: Acura GDX. And also how to delete I promise this
Speaker 1: when I need to pay it off. How to delete
Speaker 1: your Twitter account, your x account, Twitter account? Should you
Speaker 1: be leaving it for the Blue Sky or anything else?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm here for. It's the High Tetext Show.
Speaker 1: Time goes so fast, don't it sure does, especially when
Speaker 1: you talk fast. You see what I do is I
Speaker 1: pack like a three or four hour show into my
Speaker 1: one to two hour show here on the High Tech
Speaker 1: Texan Show. Michael Garfield is my name. If this is
Speaker 1: your first time, give it a week or two or three.
Speaker 1: This is fun. I'm not gonna bore you. If you
Speaker 1: hear the energy coming through the radio waves, that's really mine.
Speaker 1: No caffeine yet, people, I'll give you the phone number
Speaker 1: here if you would like to participate in the show.
Speaker 1: Black Friday coming up. I'm gonna take a little time
Speaker 1: and tell you our Black Friday deals really worth it.
Speaker 1: We're less than a week from Black Friday right now.
Speaker 1: In Black Friday is it's the Friday after Thanksgiving named
Speaker 1: Black Friday, because if you look at it the old
Speaker 1: Ledger over, you know, did you make money, did you
Speaker 1: lose money? You're either in the red where you're losing money,
Speaker 1: or you're in the black when you're making money. And
Speaker 1: generally a lot of stores, a lot of retail stores,
Speaker 1: you finally get into the black during the holiday season,
Speaker 1: especially if the big shopping day after Thanksgiving, hence the
Speaker 1: Black Friday. And I haven't even gotten a Cyber Monday
Speaker 1: yet and everything else. But a lot of these deals
Speaker 1: may not be worth it, and you really do need
Speaker 1: your studying. And I've already found some Black Friday deals
Speaker 1: that look on the surface like it, so I can't
Speaker 1: pass this up. It's such a great deal. You may
Speaker 1: want to pass it up because there's still you got
Speaker 1: at least another month here or so before the big
Speaker 1: man comes down your chimney. As we continue the show,
Speaker 1: all right, real quickly, I promised I talked about Blue Sky.
Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in, this show will be podcasted,
Speaker 1: which means you can listen to it again and again
Speaker 1: and again. You can go to iHeartRadio. That's an app
Speaker 1: you download for free. You look for Michael Garfield, you
Speaker 1: look for high Tech Texan and then you can listen
Speaker 1: to it again. I did talk about Blue Sky, what
Speaker 1: it is, how to sign up, why it's different than
Speaker 1: X and Twitter, because so many people seem to be
Speaker 1: flocking from X in Twitter. I will tell you this,
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about getting or deleting your Twitter or
Speaker 1: almost any other app, it's sometimes it's not just as
Speaker 1: easy as uninstalling it from your phone. That's not deleting it.
Speaker 1: That's not deleting your account. It's deleting it from your phone.
Speaker 1: And believe it or not, it's a bit of a
Speaker 1: process to delete your ex account. And again, X Twitter,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call them the same thing because it's the
Speaker 1: same company, different name. Let me tell you how you
Speaker 1: do it. First, you have to deactivate your account, which
Speaker 1: keeps your account in a system, but it removes your
Speaker 1: display name, your user name, your public profile from the site.
Speaker 1: You have thirty days to reverse it. It's reversible for
Speaker 1: thirty days. Okay, some of your posts may still be
Speaker 1: viewable on Google or search engines. And at that point,
Speaker 1: if they click on it, people click on it, you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna lead to an error page on the
Speaker 1: Twitter site. But if you want to delete it. Here's
Speaker 1: what you do. Okay, open your account. Open your X account.
Speaker 1: You look for the word more option on the left
Speaker 1: side more Okay, it's a circle three dots. Click it more.
Speaker 1: Then you look for settings in privacy in your account. Finally,
Speaker 1: you're gonna drill down to deactivate account. Think about it?
Speaker 1: Do I want to day? I hate shit itdn'd confirm
Speaker 1: you want to suspend your account. You select deactivate bottom
Speaker 1: of the screen. You now have a month restore your
Speaker 1: account if you want to. After the thirty day window
Speaker 1: is done. Your X account is OVA. That's the term
Speaker 1: we use here. It is not over. It is OVA.
Speaker 1: Your ex account is done. Deactivate it now. You can
Speaker 1: download your account data before you deactivate and delete your account,
Speaker 1: which means you can keep all your past tweets and
Speaker 1: things like that. There you go. Now, there's not a
Speaker 1: way to wipe out all your tweets on the X
Speaker 1: platform in like one solid sweep. There's a few workarounds.
Speaker 1: There's a few third party services. You can delete a
Speaker 1: lot of your tweets for free. You can subscribe to things. Seriously,
Speaker 1: you could subscribe. There are services like tweet, delete, tweet, deleter,
Speaker 1: Circle Boom. Those are real services that you can subscribe
Speaker 1: and they'll delete everything that you're tweeted. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: you could do that or just just let them float
Speaker 1: and thin air and somebody just email me over hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: will I be able to reuse my email? If I
Speaker 1: deactivate my Twitter account? You will not be able to
Speaker 1: use the same email address or user name for an
Speaker 1: X account for the entirety of that thirty day deactivation period.
Speaker 1: After that, X says that their support team can clear
Speaker 1: email addresses from the system. But you know what, how
Speaker 1: hard is it to go get another freakin email. I
Speaker 1: have probably had fifteen different email addresses my work whin,
Speaker 1: I've got fourteen personal lies over there. He's just gonna
Speaker 1: go grab a Gmail address. So anyway, there you go.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to get out stop off of Twitter.
Speaker 1: Don't just install it. You have to deactivate it. And
Speaker 1: I hope that works. I'm not telling you to do
Speaker 1: it or don't do it. You may want to get
Speaker 1: off every single social media It's not just as simple
Speaker 1: as hey, let me know, stole it from my phone. No,
Speaker 1: there's there's several more things about that. Uh three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine. Text in is the phone number. You know.
Speaker 1: We've got Callum over here. Callum, by the way, you
Speaker 1: will hear me shut out. Callum is the guy who
Speaker 1: sits on the other side of this glass, who pushes
Speaker 1: the buttons and makes miss sound sex a. He answers
Speaker 1: your phone call. Sometimes if he doesn't, he'll let him
Speaker 1: roll the voicemail. You can record a little something and
Speaker 1: we can play it back to make your famous here
Speaker 1: over the year. Ways, if you've got questions about pretty
Speaker 1: much and you can sumer product, I'm your guy. Not
Speaker 1: just tech and apps. I'm gonna talk about cars now. No,
Speaker 1: I got into cars. Well, I've been driving for quite
Speaker 1: a while, but I started reviewing cars fifteen sixteen years
Speaker 1: ago because I realized that cars and trucks they are technology.
Speaker 1: They're nothing but technology right now. And so I'm a
Speaker 1: member of the Texas Auto Writers Association Writers. Even though
Speaker 1: I talk about it and I do write sometimes about
Speaker 1: it too, I do get to review cars directly from manufacturers.
Speaker 1: I don't go to dealer ships to say can I
Speaker 1: test drive this? No, there's a service that actually delivers
Speaker 1: me a car every single week for fifteen years. I
Speaker 1: get it for one week, and I get to drive it. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a neat perk. Sometimes it's a pain. And then
Speaker 1: you know what, because I got to keep schlepping, you know,
Speaker 1: all my personal items from one car to the other
Speaker 1: car to the other car. But don't cry for me, Argentina.
Speaker 1: But I get to drive almost everything on the brand
Speaker 1: new stuff this week. And I hey, callum, we need
Speaker 1: a sounder. Can we create you know, we got we're
Speaker 1: upping our listeners here, man. We need a sounder. Like
Speaker 1: what's Michael driving this week? R you know? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you work on that, buddy, Thank you. This week I
Speaker 1: have been driving the twenty twenty four Acura zd X. Anyone,
Speaker 1: anyone Now. It's their electric car, all right, Acura Honda,
Speaker 1: same company, the ZDX. It's an ev all right. It's
Speaker 1: it's very I love the design, very distinct. It's got
Speaker 1: some the front part, the front fascia is what it's called.
Speaker 1: The front part really interesting. It's clean because it is electric,
Speaker 1: it doesn't need air vents to go in. I like
Speaker 1: the led headlights. It's got a really nice a diamond
Speaker 1: pentagon with like this three D embossed diamond pattern that
Speaker 1: illuminates the lights all around. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: evds do that, and I think it looks neat and
Speaker 1: it's sexy. This is inside. It's got banging Olofsen premium audio,
Speaker 1: which is good so you can hear me and well
Speaker 1: you can't really stereo because we're on the AM dial,
Speaker 1: but you know what I'm talking about. But the immersive
Speaker 1: listening experience very nice. Eighteen speakers are there.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: It integrates Google built in. There's something called Google built
Speaker 1: in now. Yes, it does have Apple Car Play, it
Speaker 1: has Android Auto. But a lot of companies are using
Speaker 1: Google's kind of operating system, if you will, which is fine.
Speaker 1: I am a Google I'm an Android fan, and I'll
Speaker 1: talk about that, you know, next hour two. Uh. The
Speaker 1: particular model I'm driving, it's called the Type S as
Speaker 1: in sex eight the Accura zd X. All right, it is.
Speaker 1: It is not the cheapest thing. Okay, these things, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're running you know, sixty ish, you know,
Speaker 1: thousand dollars or so real quickly if you're new, I
Speaker 1: like evs a lot for a number of different reasons. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're quiet, Yes, from the green effect, they don't you know,
Speaker 1: produce the you know, you know, the combustion. They are fast,
Speaker 1: they are big, they are roomy. What I don't like,
Speaker 1: and I don't have time to get into it now
Speaker 1: because we're up against the bottom of the coming up
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. I do not like
Speaker 1: the charging in for structure that we have in the
Speaker 1: United States right now. I do not have the patience
Speaker 1: to find a charger when I'm on the road, hopefully
Speaker 1: crossing my fingers that no one is using that charger,
Speaker 1: waiting for them to use the charger, and then pulling
Speaker 1: up the vehicle I'm playing in and waiting forty five
Speaker 1: minutes turn hower to charge the vehicle. If I'm driving,
Speaker 1: I want to get from point A to point B. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know, if you own an EV you probably have
Speaker 1: a charger in your garage, which is great. You probably should.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't drive more than one hundred, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty two hundred miles. The range of this one,
Speaker 1: by the way, is right about two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: five miles for this one. Not bad. It's kind of
Speaker 1: the upper range of a lot of the evs right now.
Speaker 1: But sometimes when I want to drive from Houston to Dallas,
Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen, and I'm gonna have to plan my
Speaker 1: trip like triple a trip tick days and I just
Speaker 1: dated myself at that point. I don't want to stop somewhere.
Speaker 1: I think evs are great as second cars. Have a
Speaker 1: gas one, then also have that EV for the local trips.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking for one, the ZDX from Accura.
Speaker 1: Really good performance, really good design, like the technology, very woomy,
Speaker 1: good horse power, and you're set to go two hundred
Speaker 1: eighty five three undred miles. Top of the hour. I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed our number one San Antonio for the
Speaker 1: first time you've heard it's called the high Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 1: You missed the second hour. You want to hear it
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Speaker 1: Michael Garfield. This is all over the state, most of
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Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the iheartware.
Speaker 1: You laugh now you're high.
Speaker 2: Tech Texan Michael Garfield checking.
Speaker 1: The clock right now, halfway through the end of the show.
Speaker 1: Hour number one is officially over and you got sucking
Speaker 1: off people. You got about fifty two more minutes of
Speaker 1: me in the High Tech Texan Show. Michael Garfield nickname
Speaker 1: is Garf, which means we are a halfway a happy hour, beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful weekend here in Texas. Finally it got cool. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. I'm telling you right now, man. And I've
Speaker 1: always said this, if the weather like this was year
Speaker 1: round in Texas, we would have San Diego prices. That's right,
Speaker 1: San Diego. Ah, yes, I know what that means. The
Speaker 1: humidity in the heat, you laugh, is what keeps us
Speaker 1: here in Houston area. Specifically they not paying high, high,
Speaker 1: high exorbitant gas prices, state taxes. Housing is just it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing really There's two things that are that that
Speaker 1: can come from humidity that are actually positive in my mind.
Speaker 1: Number One, it keeps our prices down. It keeps people sweltering, going, ugh,
Speaker 1: why do I live here for about six months of
Speaker 1: the year, especially when they walk outside it in August.
Speaker 1: It's just nasty. Number two. It keeps our skin nice
Speaker 1: and moist and keeps us younger. Other than that, I
Speaker 1: can't think if anybody else can give me a reason
Speaker 1: that humidity is a good thing. Open it up right now, okay?
Speaker 1: Three four six twenty nine Texan new number. By the way,
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine text and if we don't answer,
Speaker 1: we actually have a voicemail that picks up where we
Speaker 1: can put you on the air later in the show
Speaker 1: or even next week. Three four six twenty nine. T
Speaker 1: e x A N. If your eyes are too small
Speaker 1: to see the letters t e x A N, just
Speaker 1: use your use your voice style. Last hour we did
Speaker 1: cover Blue Sky while people are flocking to it. I
Speaker 1: did tell you how to fully delete and deactivate your
Speaker 1: Twitter x account. Again, just by uninstalling the app on
Speaker 1: your phone does not delete your Twitter account. You've got
Speaker 1: to actually deactivate it, which takes It's a thirty day
Speaker 1: process too. By the way, Black Friday this is the well.
Speaker 1: This is the annual last show before the Black Friday Deals.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's gotten something, saw a deal they want to
Speaker 1: share with me. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot Com three
Speaker 1: four six twenty nine. Textan if you know my cell phone,
Speaker 1: feel free to text me what deals are out there?
Speaker 1: Are Black Friday deals worth it? Are they worth the wait?
Speaker 1: Typically the week before Thanksgiving Day and ending that following Monday,
Speaker 1: which is Cyber Monday. It's some of the busiest shopping
Speaker 1: days of the year, and this year the number of
Speaker 1: people shopping in stores and online during that period they
Speaker 1: it could hit a new record. This is according to
Speaker 1: the National a Retail Federation. But people, you like consumers,
Speaker 1: we're all we're trying to make the most of the
Speaker 1: Black Friday sales. It may not be getting the breast
Speaker 1: your your best prices of the season. There there's not
Speaker 1: and I'm looking, I'm gonna throw at us out over here.
Speaker 1: According to wallet hubbs twenty twenty three best things to
Speaker 1: buy on Black Friday Report, Okay, this is from last year,
Speaker 1: thirty five for thirty five percent of items that major
Speaker 1: retailers they offered no savings at all compared with their
Speaker 1: pre Black Friday Day prices. A lot of them could
Speaker 1: be misleading, and so that that's one of these Here's
Speaker 1: another thing. A lot of people have concerns about shipping.
Speaker 1: That's a very good reason to shop early because consumers,
Speaker 1: they're increasingly they're they're worried, they're concerned that they're online
Speaker 1: orders they may not arrive in time for the holiday,
Speaker 1: rightfully so, so in period of such high volume selling
Speaker 1: third party shippers, they're very strained. And you've got god gosh,
Speaker 1: love your ups, your FedEx, your Amazon delivery person over there.
Speaker 1: I mean order early, okay, uh, but Dan, I guess
Speaker 1: to kind of finish my thought of it, what discounts
Speaker 1: should you expect on Black Friday? I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna easily see twenty to thirty percent off,
Speaker 1: not everything store wide, of wherever you're shopping, because it
Speaker 1: depends on the retailer. I mean some markdowns they could
Speaker 1: be fifty percent or more. But you have to ask yourself,
Speaker 1: fifty percent off what the estimated manufacturer suggested retail price,
Speaker 1: which no one ever sells at that price for I mean,
Speaker 1: you got premium brands, high end brands. They're probably mean
Speaker 1: you got brands like a Nike, Lululemon or something like that,
Speaker 1: they may not offer more than twenty or thirty percent.
Speaker 1: I mean you have to have the balance yourself. What
Speaker 1: not to bly on here, here's a good one. What
Speaker 1: should not you buy on Black Friday? What to stay
Speaker 1: away from? Typically? Black Fridays are a great time to
Speaker 1: find rock bottom prices on clothing for the winter fall. Clothing,
Speaker 1: flannels and denim, and codes and accessories and all other fuds,
Speaker 1: all that other stuff. Televisions, consumer electronics not bad. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get some good deals too. You may want to
Speaker 1: stay away from beauty products. You may want to stay
Speaker 1: from footwear. Typically those things and I have seen cyber Monday,
Speaker 1: wait a few days for that thing. Trips, a lot
Speaker 1: of airfares, a lot of cruises, a lot of tour packages.
Speaker 1: They generally wait until even after Cyber Monday. Somebody, I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a joke. They coined
Speaker 1: it traveled Tuesday. That you're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 1: discounts on you know, what should I do in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five? Should I, you know, go to Europe or
Speaker 1: something like that. Toys? It could pay to hold out
Speaker 1: And the last few weeks of December. Maybe holiday decorations
Speaker 1: they start getting cheaper. Obviously there the last few days
Speaker 1: before Christmas. Exercise equipment in things that you know, exercise
Speaker 1: equipment is a big seller now because I'm going to
Speaker 1: get in shape next year. Yeah, watch out, listen. If
Speaker 1: you want to really make sure you're getting a good deal,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, and I've said this for
Speaker 1: so many years. You can call, you can ask me,
Speaker 1: you can email me. I generally know the value of something,
Speaker 1: could you get it lower? But there's this thing called
Speaker 1: Google search for it. There are apps out there or
Speaker 1: even browser extensions you could download for free on your browser.
Speaker 1: One is called Camelizer, that's c A M E l
Speaker 1: I Z e R. One's called Honey. What they do
Speaker 1: is they could keep an automatic eye on price changes
Speaker 1: and let you know when a price drops. Some of
Speaker 1: them give you coupon codes. Shop Savvy that's another app
Speaker 1: that does great price comparisons. You know. Look, you know
Speaker 1: if you have credit card rewards coming in or coupon codes.
Speaker 1: There's a coupon cabin I think is you know another
Speaker 1: thing too? Look at that. Pay attention to the price
Speaker 1: adjustments and the return policies. People, but be wary, do
Speaker 1: your research, don't jump think about it, ask your significant other,
Speaker 1: sleep on it, and make sure There is a return
Speaker 1: policy too also, but you know I would actually stay
Speaker 1: away from it. Listen, I love small businesses and I
Speaker 1: know small business shopping is coming the last weekend of November.
Speaker 1: It's great to deal with big box, big name companies,
Speaker 1: brand companies. They do have a return policy. If you
Speaker 1: know you're buying one on one maybe a small you know,
Speaker 1: mom and pop shop you've never heard of, do a
Speaker 1: little research better Business Bureau. But it just again, this
Speaker 1: is the time to be potentially scam Just be wary.
Speaker 1: Scrooge mcgarth has spoken, all right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: what else you want to know? Oh? I hit on
Speaker 1: it last week. But the streaming issues. I know, we're
Speaker 1: well over a week removed from the Jake Paul Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson fiasco and I'm not even talking about the Netflix
Speaker 1: stream I'm like, what did I just waste my Friday night?
Speaker 1: For the NFL has got something to worry about that.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you about the state of
Speaker 1: streaming where we are right now. Again, I do cover
Speaker 1: that area because it is technology and it's just not
Speaker 1: as sophisticated as you really think it is. Now we'll
Speaker 1: get into that when we come back. Here. I'm a
Speaker 1: high tech texting show. Happy weekend, whatever day or how
Speaker 1: you happen to be listening to this radio program. Been
Speaker 1: doing it for twenty three years. Finally we got a
Speaker 1: new phone number of people. It's gonna make it simple
Speaker 1: for you. Three four six twenty nine texts and three
Speaker 1: four six twenty nine text And if for some reason
Speaker 1: nobody picks up and it goes to voicemail, leave a question,
Speaker 1: leave a message. We do have the right and I
Speaker 1: say it there when you hear my voice on that call,
Speaker 1: on that voicemail, we do have the right to utilize
Speaker 1: and use your voice on radio. So if you don't
Speaker 1: want to talk, don't talk. But that's that's how you
Speaker 1: get to meet. You can email me I Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: at iHeartMedia dot com. Is we are heard now and
Speaker 1: more and more cities across this great state of Texas
Speaker 1: welcome San Antonio, w o A. I to the to
Speaker 1: the list and soon to come. It's another big city.
Speaker 1: That's all I can say. And I'm quite it only
Speaker 1: took twenty three years. Thank you Brian Erickson, program director.
Speaker 1: iHeart Houston. He believes in me. Thank you. I appreciate
Speaker 1: who uh anybody. I don't really want to spend too
Speaker 1: much time with a Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight because
Speaker 1: it was it was well over a week ago, but
Speaker 1: it's it's there was. There were some winners and losers,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. And the way you're not gonna
Speaker 1: believe I say that, I mean and I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking Mike Tyson, who actually won a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not talking Jake Paul, who is If
Speaker 1: you still don't know who the guy is. He's some
Speaker 1: YouTube influencer and he's one hell of a marketer. But
Speaker 1: he won too. He won also. But there's been a
Speaker 1: fast narrative that Netflix's upcoming the NFL Christmas Games could
Speaker 1: be a technical disaster based on what happened last week.
Speaker 1: Because despite the fact that sixty million people allegedly tuned
Speaker 1: in to stream what they were hoping to see a fight,
Speaker 1: and there was a few good ones on the undercard,
Speaker 1: but there was massive streaming issues. It was almost a joke.
Speaker 1: Netflix is a joke, which actually which is pretty ironic too.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the Netflix is going to scream stream but
Speaker 1: not one, but two NFL games. Let me help you
Speaker 1: out jumping from a paid side show joke of what
Speaker 1: the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight was to the NFL. Netflix.
Speaker 1: You're playing with the big boys. Netflix. You're on the clock. Netflix.
Speaker 1: If you screw up in an NFL game, you just you
Speaker 1: give it up. Baby, it's done. But it's probably just
Speaker 1: as likely that the Christmas games and Netflix are gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. And it's probably just as likely that Peacock
Speaker 1: and Amazon will also screw up an NFL game or
Speaker 1: YouTube TV well, or any streamer will. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you why. I'm a realist and I'm not a hater,
Speaker 1: but just listen to me, people, This is the stuff
Speaker 1: that I cover because it's streaming. It's streaming. Streaming is unpredictable,
Speaker 1: and it is far from as reliable as cable and satellite.
Speaker 1: People still seem to not understand this, no matter how
Speaker 1: many times I say it. Not that continue to run
Speaker 1: away on the Tyson Paul fight. But as advanced media
Speaker 1: lessons go, it delivered a knockout. And I'll start with Netflix.
Speaker 1: They were a big winner, that's right, a winner. What
Speaker 1: do they win? Well, they won a crash course in
Speaker 1: network topology and a live case study on what it
Speaker 1: takes to deliver sixty million concurrent streams over the public Internet. Yes,
Speaker 1: they have some homework to do. They the production value
Speaker 1: was horrible. No one cared. It wasn't the main event.
Speaker 1: They won a place in the global news cycle for
Speaker 1: several days. You want brand awareness, I that Friday night,
Speaker 1: I was making Netflix. I never typed the word Netflix.
Speaker 1: I was making Netflix jokes. But you know what a
Speaker 1: lot of if you're from the theory, hey, even bad
Speaker 1: PR is good PR. Netflix they got a ton of PR.
Speaker 1: Education's expensive when you add it all up, when you
Speaker 1: add up the purse, the gate, the streaming costs of
Speaker 1: production costs. This win if you will, it probably cost
Speaker 1: Netflix between seventy five to one hundred million dollars. They
Speaker 1: may have not been a winner in your book, but
Speaker 1: they learned a big lesson. Jake Paul, I didn't know
Speaker 1: much about this dude, Love him or hate him. Guy
Speaker 1: understands this game better than anyone else. People call me
Speaker 1: a marketer, and I am a marketer. I branded myself
Speaker 1: the high tech text in twenty three years ago, before
Speaker 1: social media was around. I was an influencer before the
Speaker 1: word influencer. Really was around to even denote what was
Speaker 1: going on. I know and understand how to pimp yourself,
Speaker 1: how to pimp your own brand. Everybody does it right
Speaker 1: now and you need to this, Jake Paul, I need
Speaker 1: to take a lesson. This dude didn't just win the fight.
Speaker 1: He delivered a masterclass social video, social media, shameless self promotion,
Speaker 1: streaming is in the future. It's the present people watching
Speaker 1: this dude. This was a completely fabricated event. This fight.
Speaker 1: It raked in cash and attention. Man like, it was
Speaker 1: just it was nobody's business. This dude got paid to
Speaker 1: beat up an old man. He's okay with it. Tyson
Speaker 1: fifty eight years old. He won because he crushed the
Speaker 1: meta game. He reminded us, really that age is just
Speaker 1: a number. And if you have a discipline to train
Speaker 1: like a madman for six months, whatever he did, did
Speaker 1: he win or lose that it doesn't matter who cares.
Speaker 1: The fight was rigged. It was it heavily choreographed because
Speaker 1: it's boxing. The outcome didn't matter. Mike Tyson really couldn't lose.
Speaker 1: If he survived, he won. If he won, he won.
Speaker 1: He really won, win, win, win, win, win everything. What's
Speaker 1: the takeaway. Here's the takeaway for me, and this is
Speaker 1: the way I look at it. Traditional media is officially
Speaker 1: out for the count there's my little you know, boxing analogy.
Speaker 1: It's out for the count traditional media. No amount of
Speaker 1: nostalgia for the good old days. Uh uh, this was it.
Speaker 1: You go back to streaming right now, don't. Streaming is
Speaker 1: relatively new, and I want you to think about the
Speaker 1: history of media. Radio, the media that you're listening over
Speaker 1: the air on right now, the fifty If you're not
Speaker 1: listening on podcas as, you're listening plausably live right now,
Speaker 1: I am broadcasted of a radio frequency on iHeartRadio in
Speaker 1: Dallas and San Antonio. Okay, that is it, right, Radio
Speaker 1: as we know it, and we're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: Marconi has been well, well over what one hundred years.
Speaker 1: Then we got television. Television as we now know it's
Speaker 1: been around since what nineteen forty five, nineteen fifty, so
Speaker 1: television as we know it now seventy years, seventy five years.
Speaker 1: Print okay, print has been around incredibly a long time. Okay.
Speaker 1: The Internet as we know it, we're getting shorter now,
Speaker 1: the World Wide Web as we know it, what the
Speaker 1: mid to late nineteen nineties. Okay, twenty five years streaming
Speaker 1: what five years? Six years? So it's infancy. That's why
Speaker 1: it's unpredictable. Suck it up. I remember watching Prime Video
Speaker 1: owned by Amazon, when they did their first n NFL
Speaker 1: game three years ago. It's like, oh, my goodness, this
Speaker 1: is a paradigm shift. Did it's not going to be
Speaker 1: on Fox, CBSNBC or ESPN. What am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: I logged onto Prime and it was had some latency,
Speaker 1: it was relatively slow. This is going to be horrible.
Speaker 1: Guess who's laughing all the way to the bank. Well,
Speaker 1: the NFL, but also Prime because NFL games are content
Speaker 1: and people subscribe to watch that content. They watch NFL games,
Speaker 1: and their production value has gotten better. And Prime has
Speaker 1: figured out. Peacock last year owned by Comcasts, they figured
Speaker 1: it out. Peacock handled the Olympics this past year in
Speaker 1: Paris so well, wasn't even funny. Great job of having
Speaker 1: so simultanean so many different sports, so many different channels
Speaker 1: you can do that. This was the new one for Netflix. Again.
Speaker 1: I'm giving us some slack nail mcoffin or a lot
Speaker 1: of kudos come Christmas. Day, all right, bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: what else you got new phone number three four six
Speaker 1: twenty nine Texan. As you're listening to the High Tech
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Speaker 1: If we have nobody picks up and we'll maybe air
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Speaker 1: not make you famous. And you could take that from me.
Speaker 1: After twenty three years, who got a lot a number
Speaker 1: of emails. Hey Michaels, this is a good time to
Speaker 1: buy a smartphone. Into the year, you don't see a
Speaker 1: lot of Yeah, you're gonna see some smartphone sales. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see some rebates too. For example, if you want
Speaker 1: an Apple and if you want an iPhone, Apple does
Speaker 1: not discount their phones, but Apple will package things together
Speaker 1: for deals. You're still pretty much gonna pay the full price.
Speaker 1: But oh, by the way, if you sign up for Apple,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get one hundred and fifty dollars iTunes card
Speaker 1: or something like that. Maybe you're gonna get an extra
Speaker 1: battery charger. Nothing new has been released over the past
Speaker 1: month or two. The latest iPhone came out a few
Speaker 1: months ago. Samsung's generally released two times a year between
Speaker 1: their flip phones and foldable phones, and there's a whole
Speaker 1: slew of phones coming out. My question in somebody ask this, Michael,
Speaker 1: if I get a new smartphone, what should I do
Speaker 1: with my old one? And can I sell it? The
Speaker 1: answer is absolutely yes, you can sell it. And I've
Speaker 1: talked about this, and you can sell it a number
Speaker 1: of different ways. There are services that will specifically take
Speaker 1: your electronics very conveniently. They will even mail mail you
Speaker 1: a box and a cart and you mail it back
Speaker 1: to them, and depending if it's in very good shape,
Speaker 1: they're going to give you relatively top dollar. If it's
Speaker 1: scratched up and doesn't work, and they're not going to
Speaker 1: give you as much. I mean, you can google search
Speaker 1: all you want. I'm not going to go through that stuff.
Speaker 1: You can give it away. You could just throw it
Speaker 1: in a box, which I have most and think about it.
Speaker 1: I've had and tested so many smart smartphones or even
Speaker 1: dumb phones, going back twenty plus years. I have boxes
Speaker 1: of them. I don't know why. Maybe one day I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to open a high tech text and
Speaker 1: museum and I'm like, hey, do you remember when this
Speaker 1: phone slid out and there was the size of a laptop.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's there, but I saw this stat
Speaker 1: which is interesting. Nearly seventy percent of US smartphone owners
Speaker 1: have never sold their old phones. Now I want you
Speaker 1: to ask yourself, I see if you can guess? Why?
Speaker 1: See if you can get What have you done when
Speaker 1: you got an old smartphone? If you're given it to
Speaker 1: your kids, just give it to a spouse, give it
Speaker 1: to a friend, you toss it, or did you sell it?
Speaker 1: Nearly seventy percent of American smartphone owners said they've never
Speaker 1: sold a phone that they longer need and you know why. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the biggest response. About seventy seven percent. Three quarters
Speaker 1: of smartphone owners say that resale value was either not
Speaker 1: influential in their purchase decision or they even considered. A
Speaker 1: lot of people are not confident in the resell value
Speaker 1: of their smartphones. Is it even worth it? Or should
Speaker 1: it just remain a paperweight on your desk. The market
Speaker 1: for refurbished and use mobile phones in this kind was
Speaker 1: eight billion dollars last year, and that is forecasted to
Speaker 1: triple by the end of twenty thirty one. This is
Speaker 1: from Zion Market Research. Okay, iPhones, Yes, they do have
Speaker 1: a good reputation for retaining value. It's good choice for
Speaker 1: shoppers if you looking for It's like the Toyotas or
Speaker 1: jeeps of smartphones. Right, But why do people hold onto
Speaker 1: their smartphones. Well, the reasons consumers provided for not selling
Speaker 1: old phones it varied, and I'm looking at this the
Speaker 1: pole results over here. But the reason the results indicate
Speaker 1: that most people they don't want to make the effort.
Speaker 1: You lazy people, you didn't know where to resell it.
Speaker 1: But here's another one. They're worried about their privacy. They're
Speaker 1: worried about their privacy that people are going to the
Speaker 1: new owner of their phone are going to get the
Speaker 1: data from that old device. Really, it's actually easy to
Speaker 1: understand why you got more than fifteen hundred data breaches
Speaker 1: have already happened.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna going back to the first half of this
Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty four big ones at and T Ticketmaster.
Speaker 1: You got phone makers like Apple and Samsung, and they're
Speaker 1: aware of these worries and they've rolled out privacy updates
Speaker 1: to their devices. It's all good. But despite that, though
Speaker 1: data privacy, it's holding back most smartphone owners from selling
Speaker 1: their devices. You need, if you want to sell it,
Speaker 1: delete every single thing from that phone. But before you do,
Speaker 1: make sure you back it up because your phone contains
Speaker 1: a lot of your personal stuff. I want you to
Speaker 1: look at your gallery, look at your photos right now. Now,
Speaker 1: hopefully you may be smart enough to back up your
Speaker 1: phone on a regular basis. Back it up to the cloud,
Speaker 1: put things in the iCloud, put things on one drive,
Speaker 1: put whatever it is. If you don't do that, maybe
Speaker 1: once every week or so. Plug your I mean we're
Speaker 1: gonna go og old school radio. Plug your phone in
Speaker 1: to your computer, your desktop, your laptop, Transfer your photos,
Speaker 1: your contacts, your videos off your phone. Number one. It
Speaker 1: clears up your phone, which may gives you more memory
Speaker 1: on a phone. But now you have a backup in
Speaker 1: case you lose your phone, case someone steals your phone.
Speaker 1: You need to do that before wiping data clear from
Speaker 1: your phone, back it up unless you just don't want it,
Speaker 1: but something tells me you want something on there. Okay.
Speaker 1: At that point, the best way to wipe your phone
Speaker 1: is you go to your settings and then you hit
Speaker 1: reset to factory data, reset to when it came out
Speaker 1: of the factory. It's going to have to jump through hoops.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's going to ask you, is this really you?
Speaker 1: Who owns a phone? Is going to put your four
Speaker 1: digit input? You know the password? Is it going to
Speaker 1: look do your your face recognition, your your fingerprint. It's
Speaker 1: going to ask you, are you sure you want to
Speaker 1: delete this to factory reset. I do this a lot
Speaker 1: because when I review phones, odds are I've got after
Speaker 1: thirty days or whatever, the company wants it back, so
Speaker 1: I factory reset mine. It's not that big of a hassle,
Speaker 1: big of a deal. I do back up that phone
Speaker 1: because if I've used it for a month and you know,
Speaker 1: take photos and whatever, but then I factory reset it,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, pretty much everything is gone. So much
Speaker 1: so that when you turn that phone on again, it says, HI,
Speaker 1: to set up your phone into your Google name or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Factory reset. But again, think about it
Speaker 1: before you do it, back up everything. Then you go
Speaker 1: ahead and do it. But that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why how many people and again we got about with
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty minutes over here, three four, six, twenty nine Texan,
Speaker 1: how many people just don't sell their phones? How many
Speaker 1: do you have right now? I probably have cell phones
Speaker 1: doing the show twenty three years. I get this phone,
Speaker 1: I get this phone, I get this. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Matt, what do I got? I got? I
Speaker 1: don't know I got what eighty ninety phone sitting gaining dust.
Speaker 1: I mean, I go back to the BlackBerry. I have
Speaker 1: no Kia. I have branded. ESPN came out with the
Speaker 1: phone swear. ESPN came out with If I have the
Speaker 1: ESPN phone, it's a brick. Barbie just actually, Barbie just
Speaker 1: came out with its own branded phone. I got phones
Speaker 1: that slide, I got phones that flip. I got flowing
Speaker 1: phones that fold. They're funny. Did just look at these things?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: This is how far we've come. What's new is old again.
Speaker 1: Now there's flip phones. You remember the flip phone they
Speaker 1: used to have. I actually were I carry a flip phone.
Speaker 1: That's my number one phone right now. I have the
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip six. It's a great flip It's
Speaker 1: a great phone. Does a heck of a lot more
Speaker 1: than the old Motorola Star Tack came out back in
Speaker 1: the day. You're sitting on money, people. If you want
Speaker 1: to do it, it could be nostalgia for people. It
Speaker 1: could be some extra money in your pocket. Just if
Speaker 1: data privacy is you're concerned, wipe it clean, wentce, you
Speaker 1: back up the stuff and there you go. Fifteen more minutes.
Speaker 1: I have the High Tech Texting Show. Try to get
Speaker 1: your phone calls in three, four, six, twenty nine. Text
Speaker 1: in Garfield that iHeartMedia. Before we wrap it up, but
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. Final segment this week of the High
Speaker 1: Tech Texan Show. It is Miguel Michael Garfield. I will
Speaker 1: release you to do whatever you need to do to
Speaker 1: carry on with your weekend. Or if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this on podcast, thanks for downloading it. Hopefully you subscribe
Speaker 1: to it listen on a regular basis. Big time of
Speaker 1: year for me, obviously, it's the holiday gift giving season.
Speaker 1: Doing a lot of media hits. What are the best
Speaker 1: options for Black Friday? The Cyber Monday? Is this a
Speaker 1: good deal? What's the hot? Good games and cars and
Speaker 1: trucks and everything? This weekend? A lot of TV stuff.
Speaker 1: If you're in Houston, tune into Great Day Houston Channel
Speaker 1: eleven CBS, where I am a contributor and I'll be
Speaker 1: doing a lot of things in the next few weeks,
Speaker 1: including hosting the show the second a few days day
Speaker 1: or two in the second week of December. Excited about
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Speaker 1: the other side of the glass. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for all you continue to do to make me sound great.
Speaker 1: And also thanks to Brian Erics. And Brian Erickson is
Speaker 1: the program director at k Pierce actually all the AM
Speaker 1: stations here in Houston on iHeartRadio. He has been my guy,
Speaker 1: the boss for pretty much almost since I've been here
Speaker 1: for twenty years. And he got a got a nice
Speaker 1: little promotion there. He now is programming our Dallas, Austin
Speaker 1: and San Antonio stations for iHeart and with that he's
Speaker 1: he's taking me with him to some of those markets.
Speaker 1: And so first week to be heard on w o
Speaker 1: A I in uh in San Antonio and looking forward
Speaker 1: to that and adding some more cities, and so I
Speaker 1: appreciate so big shout out to Mark Sherman. Mark Sherman
Speaker 1: is he's also he's like a vice president of programming,
Speaker 1: and he's vice president of being probably the nicest guy
Speaker 1: in radio, Mark Sherman radio personality, but also behind the
Speaker 1: scenes for so many markets there. Mark was involved in
Speaker 1: an accident earlier this week. He's he's doing relatively well
Speaker 1: and thoughts his prayers that June, his wife, his kids,
Speaker 1: and everybody. But the dude has got a great sense
Speaker 1: of humor and he's just making do of it. So
Speaker 1: we're thinking about him, and maybe Santa's got a little
Speaker 1: extra special for him, including a new car since his
Speaker 1: car is no longer working. Mark, if you need some
Speaker 1: advice on buying new cars and trucks, I may want
Speaker 1: to listen to this show because it's one of the
Speaker 1: things that I do. I was talking about the smartphones
Speaker 1: last segment. What are the reasons most people don't sell
Speaker 1: their old smartphones. A lot of people are scared of
Speaker 1: their data privacy. Oh if I sell it, people are
Speaker 1: going to see my data and photos legit reason, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad people are thinking about that. But there are
Speaker 1: ways to remove and factory reset your phones. But you
Speaker 1: may be sitting on money. I mean, if you've got
Speaker 1: a relatively recent phone, maybe you know and similar one
Speaker 1: or two or three generations older than what you have
Speaker 1: right now, and it's in good condition, which hopefully you've
Speaker 1: put a case on it, you can get several hundred
Speaker 1: dollars or credit on something, so you should think about that.
Speaker 1: But somebody wrote in here to Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
Speaker 1: dot com, GARF love your show. Congrats on the upgrade.
Speaker 1: It's not really an upgrade. Is it an upgrade to
Speaker 1: be in San Antonio? It's an expansion to San Antonio?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. What about password managers? Is that
Speaker 1: something that I should put on my phone or even
Speaker 1: on my desktop computer? Do they work? It's a good question.
Speaker 1: That's from Jeff. Jeff is in the Woodlands, Texas, just
Speaker 1: north of Houston. Anybody know the most common password? Anybody
Speaker 1: can guess what is the most common password. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not, it's not the word password. I think that's
Speaker 1: number two. It's one, two, three, four, five six. I
Speaker 1: have no clue why it's just six digits. I have
Speaker 1: no whatever. Because people are lazy. How long does that
Speaker 1: take to crack a second Nord pass? They did a
Speaker 1: study the most common passwords. They've been looking at the
Speaker 1: most common passwords for about six years. Right now it
Speaker 1: may be time to start using a password manager. A
Speaker 1: manager it is. It's an app, and it's a helper,
Speaker 1: and it's much more technologic advanced than keeping passwords in
Speaker 1: a book on sticky notes. A password manager's an app
Speaker 1: and it keeps your passwords encrypted and secure. It also
Speaker 1: does something you probably didn't know, but it helps you
Speaker 1: avoid using the same password over and over again. Password
Speaker 1: it's a key to accessing any account. If you use
Speaker 1: that same key everywhere and some bad person gets a
Speaker 1: hold of it, they can get in everywhere. So password managers.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of password manager apps out there. Apple
Speaker 1: has a new one. It's called Passwords, an app that
Speaker 1: you can download on the iPhone. It's very good, but
Speaker 1: only if you use Apple products. Okay, if you have
Speaker 1: an Android or Chrome. Google has their own password manager
Speaker 1: and guess what it's called. Oh, it's called password Manager Free.
Speaker 1: It's simple. It actually works across across a ton of devices.
Speaker 1: If you want a third party, there's nord pass has one.
Speaker 1: There's there's a long been up that one of the
Speaker 1: older ones. It's called one password, the number one password
Speaker 1: dash Lane. That da s h L A N E
Speaker 1: dash lane bit warden bit. I like the name of
Speaker 1: that one Bitwarden. It's it's free. It's an open source,
Speaker 1: which means a lot of people help keep it secure.
Speaker 1: Once you sign up, you download the app and all
Speaker 1: your devices or maybe the extension on your web browser, okay,
Speaker 1: and then you can turn on your auto fill and
Speaker 1: your phone set on your phone settings, and you select
Speaker 1: your password manager and pretty much you're set together. The
Speaker 1: relatively easy to use. Some are free, some cost money.
Speaker 1: I suggest maybe starting out with a freebie bit Warden
Speaker 1: or again Google's password manager. Apple you've got something called passwords.
Speaker 1: If you don't think it's secure enough, maybe worth paying
Speaker 1: something a little bit more nord Pass or something like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, to answer your question, Jeff and the Woodlands,
Speaker 1: thank you for tuning in password managers. They are not
Speaker 1: a bad thing, you know, it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Me shutting up, me getting out of here and letting
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Speaker 1: We've always only been trushly in Houston getting I'm getting
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