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Speaker 5: two nine eight three nine two six Calamrie Calum here
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Speaker 5: the Little Tech Texan. Version three. We continue with what
Speaker 5: we were doing for twenty three years, and we've got
Speaker 5: a number of things on the docket for you, starting
Speaker 5: with guess what's coming up in about a week a
Speaker 5: week and a half or so, depending on when you're
Speaker 5: listening to this. That is right, friends, It is another
Speaker 5: Amazon Prime Day twenty twenty five summer version. Every year
Speaker 5: they do it, and it's coming.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 5: They've expanded it. It actually used to be a day.
Speaker 5: It used to be a Prime Day sometimes in July
Speaker 5: you know, halfway up the holiday shopping season. Then it
Speaker 5: went to two days. Recently they got cocky with man, Well,
Speaker 5: let's just continue to extract more money out of all
Speaker 5: of our followers and members that we're gonna go three days.
Speaker 5: You know what, We're gonna get to a week someday,
Speaker 5: but we're gonna go to four days, folks. It is
Speaker 5: July eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleven, still a way away.
Speaker 5: But I've already found some pretty decent sales and deals
Speaker 5: right now. I will give you a heads up to
Speaker 5: go ahead and get into the hunt before those days.
Speaker 5: Those days can be a little hairy, the you know,
Speaker 5: the websites, web traffic could slow down, and I know
Speaker 5: they promised to get you there with what free two
Speaker 5: day delivery if you are an Amazon Prime member, which,
Speaker 5: if you break it down, really the purpose of Prime
Speaker 5: Day is well, I have two theories. If you're a
Speaker 5: longtime listen, I've said this number one. It's a garage
Speaker 5: sale because Amazon wants to empty out a lot of
Speaker 5: its warehousing spaces for some items that just haven't sold
Speaker 5: over the past six months since the holiday season. They
Speaker 5: just said, let's put it on sale. Let's get out
Speaker 5: of here. We need some new inventory space for the
Speaker 5: holidays of coming year. That's one. So you do need
Speaker 5: to be wary that a lot of the stuff that's
Speaker 5: on sale it maybe it may just not be a
Speaker 5: good product. It they just weren't. They're putting a price
Speaker 5: tag and they're slashing that's right, crazy Eddy, They're slashing deals.
Speaker 5: So that's one. Number two. Really, the real, honestly reason
Speaker 5: that Amazon started this they want to They wanted to
Speaker 5: sell memberships because in many cases, obviously you do have
Speaker 5: to become a member to shop on Amazon Prime. You
Speaker 5: got to create an account, and you do if you
Speaker 5: want something within two days of shipping, you definitely have
Speaker 5: to be a Prime member. And so a lot of
Speaker 5: people are Prime members. And you know, I asked this
Speaker 5: question because I I am an Amazon member, and I
Speaker 5: only hopped on Amazon maybe three years ago, and some
Speaker 5: relatively new It's because I didn't think I needed it,
Speaker 5: and I and as a consumer, I'm going to give
Speaker 5: you this for food for thought. You may already be
Speaker 5: a member of Costco, which costs you probably fifty to
Speaker 5: sixty bones a year, and you may be a Sam's Club,
Speaker 5: which again another fifty to sixty year more. If you're
Speaker 5: a business member, you know you can buy and immediately
Speaker 5: walk into a warehouse location and bring back a number
Speaker 5: of different items. Absolutely not as vast as Amazon. But
Speaker 5: you're paying memberships and you're paying subscriptions, and I continually
Speaker 5: to remind you that how many subscriptions do you have
Speaker 5: right now on top of your your streaming services or
Speaker 5: you know, maybe you read some online magazines, online newspapers
Speaker 5: and everything. Do you really want something else? And I'm
Speaker 5: not talking to you out of getting an Amazon deal.
Speaker 5: Maybe I say listen, keep Amazon. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 5: if you don't use Costco or Sam's or Walmart or whatever,
Speaker 5: these you don't need that. But just think about it,
Speaker 5: because some of these deals there could be good. And
Speaker 5: I'm going to go for some decent ones that I found.
Speaker 5: But over the next week, week and a half, I
Speaker 5: know I'm going to hear from a lot of you,
Speaker 5: certainly on email, social media you have going, heygarth Man,
Speaker 5: does this does this look right? I'm trying to get
Speaker 5: a new camera, a new action camera, maybe a new
Speaker 5: new TV or or something. That's what I can I
Speaker 5: could talk you down off the off the Cliff Ford
Speaker 5: so I will go over some of those things. I
Speaker 5: want to start out with this, and I'm going to
Speaker 5: tease it right now because we as a it's not
Speaker 5: just a country, we as a world, uh, which is
Speaker 5: just not the easiest place to live right now if
Speaker 5: you were living under a rock, which at some point
Speaker 5: we may have to get under a rock or in
Speaker 5: a bunker. Uh. There's there's there's a potential war, uh, firing,
Speaker 5: cease firing. What's going on, and it's it's unsettling, just
Speaker 5: to say the least. I try to avoid politics, but
Speaker 5: over the past year or two, it's just the the
Speaker 5: the intersection between politics and in technology and what I
Speaker 5: talk about, they do intersect. So I still try to
Speaker 5: weigh in with my opinion for more of the text
Speaker 5: is the political side. But and I'm going to try
Speaker 5: to tempt that right now. You've got you obviously you
Speaker 5: understood and you heard what happened last weekend with the
Speaker 5: attacks that America did, the air strikes on three Iranian
Speaker 5: nuclear facilities, and the Iran officials, Iran officials, they've warned
Speaker 5: of retaliation after the air strikes. Something did happen on
Speaker 5: Monday with what was going on in Qatar or Cutter.
Speaker 5: But there's something that I am continuing to have my
Speaker 5: head on a swivel and keep you updated with, and
Speaker 5: that is the possibility of a cyber attack. And I
Speaker 5: know I'm going to talk here for about sixty seconds
Speaker 5: where before we take a break, and I want you
Speaker 5: to hang on because federal officials and cybersecurity experts they
Speaker 5: have sent out a warning of increased risk here my words,
Speaker 5: increased risk for cyber attacks amid the growing attention to
Speaker 5: what's going on between US and Iran. Right now, there
Speaker 5: are no specific credible threats against the homeland, but the
Speaker 5: Department of Homeland Security they warned up low level cyber
Speaker 5: attacks amid a quote heightened threat environment. So we've got
Speaker 5: public infrastructure, the private sector could be potential targets. Large
Speaker 5: scale cyber attacks probably unlikely based on what Iran is
Speaker 5: attempted before and based on their technology which is in
Speaker 5: my opinion not nearly as advanced to some other countries
Speaker 5: out there which would could which could cyber attack. As
Speaker 5: we take a break, I want you to hang on,
Speaker 5: give me three or four minutes, listen to some of
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Speaker 5: because this is why we keep our radio show fr
Speaker 5: Ee Garf staff free. But when we come back, I'm
Speaker 5: going to tell you what a retaliation from Iran could
Speaker 5: look like when it comes to cyber attacks, and more importantly,
Speaker 5: how can you the consumer protect yourself from cyber attack?
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Speaker 5: It is absolutely free most countries around the world, and
Speaker 5: as I know from visiting China earlier this year, if
Speaker 5: you do have a VPN to get you out of China. Yes,
Speaker 5: you can actually hear US in that country. I do
Speaker 5: not know if Iran right now is letting the iHeartRadio
Speaker 5: app entered their internet space. And I say this because
Speaker 5: I'm continuing what I what I started in the first
Speaker 5: segment about a potential cyber attack that we as consumers
Speaker 5: and we as businesses, we always need to concern ourselves with,
Speaker 5: and especially in light of what happened last week when
Speaker 5: you know the US, you know, it took out allegedly
Speaker 5: three different nuclear sites within Iran. Iran to some degree,
Speaker 5: they you know, sent more missiles over to a US
Speaker 5: air base in Qatar. But there are other ways other
Speaker 5: than physical shooting in bombing, and that's the cyber attack.
Speaker 5: A cyber attack is it's hackers, it's them shutting down
Speaker 5: the Internet. It's the slowing down our internet space, a
Speaker 5: denial of service attack for lack of a better term,
Speaker 5: but that's what it's called in the in the tech world.
Speaker 5: There is a possibility, and there is a warning and oh,
Speaker 5: by the way, be you know, watch out for something
Speaker 5: that US official cyber attask. We are at a risk now.
Speaker 5: And I've long said this. If you I've done this
Speaker 5: show twenty three years, and I've listened. I'm always giving
Speaker 5: tips of how to protect your passwords and how to
Speaker 5: use a VPN and in things like that. And I've
Speaker 5: seen companies beef up and secure their IT department, just
Speaker 5: billions and billions of dollars of IT employees and anti
Speaker 5: phishing software and spyware and making sure that corporations use VPN.
Speaker 5: But guess what last week we had one of, if
Speaker 5: not the world's largest, you know, cyber password hacks that
Speaker 5: stole sixteen wet billion different user names and passwords. We
Speaker 5: are always going to be at risk from having our
Speaker 5: information and connecting online, connecting to our computers, connecting to
Speaker 5: our mobile phones, and so yeah, there at some point
Speaker 5: there is going to be more to come. And getting
Speaker 5: back to my point over here, I have long said
Speaker 5: on this radio show wherever I go, if you really
Speaker 5: want to bring people, consumers and businesses to some extent
Speaker 5: to its knees to a standstill, yes, hardcore military physical
Speaker 5: action with bombs and whatever, we'll do it. But don't
Speaker 5: sleep in the fact that shutting down our communication grid,
Speaker 5: the way that we communicate to get money out of
Speaker 5: our banks and our ATM and our traffic green light
Speaker 5: red light systems on and on and on. They shut
Speaker 5: that down. If that shuts down through a cyber attack,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. We're in a standstill we are.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine back in the COVID day when there
Speaker 5: was a worldwide demand that we don't leave our houses,
Speaker 5: we don't do anything. Imagine we're stuck in our houses.
Speaker 5: Imagine we had no TV. Imagine we had no Internet,
Speaker 5: we had no connectivity. Yes, we would be driven crazy mentally,
Speaker 5: but we wouldn't get any information. We wouldn't know the
Speaker 5: all clear sign. We wouldn't be able to you know,
Speaker 5: you know, check on our relatives and our friends to
Speaker 5: see how they're doing. That could be a possibility now.
Speaker 5: To be sure, Iran, they do have the capabilities of
Speaker 5: doing something with cyber attack. I think there was an
Speaker 5: assessment back at twenty twenty four of the Office of
Speaker 5: the Director of National Intelligence the country had launched cyber
Speaker 5: attacks against Israel and a cybersecurity firm here in the NAIs.
Speaker 5: They found that seven hundred percent spike in cyber attacks
Speaker 5: after Israel launched a missile strike targeting Iran's nuclear program
Speaker 5: earlier this month. It would not be the first time
Speaker 5: the US has faced such a threat, and specifically from Iran,
Speaker 5: it was back twenty sixteen they was ties to Islamic
Speaker 5: Revolutionary Guard Core and everything that. There have been potential
Speaker 5: holes and cyber attacks. I'm gonna get to the chase here,
Speaker 5: cut to the chase. How big of a threat is
Speaker 5: this to US Americans? But the threat of disruptive cyber
Speaker 5: attacks has increased. It is important to recognize that Iran
Speaker 5: has had the term is mixed results with disruptive cyber attacks.
Speaker 5: All right, maybe they have done that. And again I'm
Speaker 5: gonna quote here Google Threat Intelligent Group. Their chief analyst's
Speaker 5: name is John Holtquist. He gave a quote. It's Iran
Speaker 5: has frequently fabricated and exaggerated their effects in an effort
Speaker 5: to boost their psychological impact. However, we should be careful
Speaker 5: not to overestimate these instants and inadvertently assist the actors. Again,
Speaker 5: that's from a quote. Okay, smarter people than I. Could
Speaker 5: they do something that has significant effects? Yes, absolutely they could.
Speaker 5: What do you do? How can you my lists and
Speaker 5: the consumers out there? How do you protect yourself from
Speaker 5: a cyber attack? Well, number one, you need to listen
Speaker 5: to people well speaking, you know, talking mouths like me.
Speaker 5: Listen to what the government says. US government works closely
Speaker 5: with all sectors to keep them informed because cyber criminals
Speaker 5: often go after end users consumers. So you're gonna go
Speaker 5: just go on with your lives. But your device on
Speaker 5: its own, they could be exploited and they could be leveraged.
Speaker 5: Lots of worries out there. So a few things to
Speaker 5: protect yourself. Here we go. Number one, be careful of
Speaker 5: fake emails or text You're not gonna get an email
Speaker 5: from an Iranian threat person saying hey, click on this link.
Speaker 5: It may look like it's gonna come from the US
Speaker 5: Social Security Department. It may look like it comes from
Speaker 5: the IRS. It may look like it's coming from the
Speaker 5: toll road. It might look like it's coming from your
Speaker 5: bank or credit card. They want you to click on
Speaker 5: a link. It could affect your computer with malware. Still
Speaker 5: use your names and passwords. I get these things on
Speaker 5: a semi regular basis. Right there before clicking on a
Speaker 5: text on an email or a text, who is it from?
Speaker 5: Do you know the person is from? Generally other than
Speaker 5: you know two factor authentication. Banks don't send you text
Speaker 5: pick up the old fashioned phone, get in your car,
Speaker 5: go to a bank, talk to them before clicking on
Speaker 5: that link. Also, be careful of telephone calls that appear
Speaker 5: to be from an authority figure. There's often the cyber
Speaker 5: criminals are going to try to tell you that you've
Speaker 5: done something wrong. You're gonna be arrested. Make sure the
Speaker 5: real number for your bank or make whatever your financestitution.
Speaker 5: It's in your phone. And if you've see any suspicious
Speaker 5: activity or unsolicited email or text or calls. Just because
Speaker 5: I get a call that says White House on my phone,
Speaker 5: I'm guessing it's probably not the White House. They can
Speaker 5: actually do that too. Don't pick up a lot of
Speaker 5: these phone calls less you one hundred percent know it's
Speaker 5: from Watch your social media accounts too. Hackers may try
Speaker 5: to take over your social media accounts. They're going to
Speaker 5: get you to click on malicious links. Okay, don't take
Speaker 5: the Oh, let's take a quiz on ten steps of
Speaker 5: how do we can get a better tan this summer.
Speaker 5: You can go living your life without doing those things.
Speaker 5: This word manager programs. I get asked about this all
Speaker 5: the time. Use a password manager program. Don't use the
Speaker 5: same password for multiple accounts. Change it. I don't care
Speaker 5: if you change one letter of everyone. Change it. You
Speaker 5: can use a password manager. It helps you keep track
Speaker 5: of your password safely. Just Google password managers. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of reputable ones out there. And also, like I
Speaker 5: just said, the term two factor authentication. I use it
Speaker 5: for most everything. Yes, it's a pain, slows me down,
Speaker 5: and maybe I got it. I've got it today. Where
Speaker 5: between five to eight seconds right now it asks for
Speaker 5: a second type of approval. Often it's going to send
Speaker 5: you a text message with a four five six digit code.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's an authenticator app. Microsoft has one. I use
Speaker 5: that to get into my iHeartMedia email account. They do
Speaker 5: offer more protection than clicking two factor authentication. Even Google
Speaker 5: Gmail offers it. Other than that, I will keep you
Speaker 5: updated here on my X account. High Tech Text and
Speaker 5: high T e C h T E X A N
Speaker 5: about cyber and potential cyber attacks. Just be vigilant, download
Speaker 5: as much stuff as you can, keep it on your
Speaker 5: hard drive, and cross our fingers if anybody has been
Speaker 5: you know, manipulated, or if you've actually fallen for some
Speaker 5: of the stuff, tell you what we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 5: I'd love to hear from you. If you want to
Speaker 5: call three four six two nine eight three nine two six,
Speaker 5: that's how you get to meet Michael Garfield right here
Speaker 5: on the High Tech Textan show. When we come up,
Speaker 5: I am going to play something for you that is
Speaker 5: generated by AI artificial intelligence. You don't think AI right
Speaker 5: now is scary. You are not gonna believe this. I
Speaker 5: do a radio show.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 5: It is a radio show which then recorded to a podcast. Uh,
Speaker 5: it's lunchtime here on the weekend, last weekend of June
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty five. I am a little hungry alas
Speaker 5: I do have to finish work, and so does everybody
Speaker 5: here I'm looking at in the radio studio. When I
Speaker 5: am done, I will swing by Cabo Bob's. I do
Speaker 5: thank them for the potnaship. We love Cabo Bobs in
Speaker 5: the Euston area four locations. Check it out cabobobs dot com.
Speaker 5: And you make your own hacos. You make your own, well,
Speaker 5: they make it for you. Tell them you want on
Speaker 5: your burrito. It's not like anything you ever had because
Speaker 5: the meat alone, they are smoked on what's called the
Speaker 5: Kamata joe. It's big green eggish if you will. It's
Speaker 5: like a ceramic cooker. That's why the meats are great.
Speaker 5: You have your choice of one, two, three, four, five
Speaker 5: different freshly made tortillas right in front of you. Oh
Speaker 5: my goodness, I love it. Like the smoky chili, and
Speaker 5: they got the ancho, and they got the corn, they
Speaker 5: got the buttermilk flour, and the chips. I say this
Speaker 5: again every time someone tas comes over. I always have chips,
Speaker 5: squawking kesa that I bring in at least twice a
Speaker 5: week from Cobo Bob's. That's right, I do because I'm
Speaker 5: a host that I'm an entertainer. They're like, where did
Speaker 5: you get these chips? The double thick crunch phenomenal zero
Speaker 5: locations in Dallas for of you up there, but Austin
Speaker 5: location eight or no, I know them. I thinking Austin,
Speaker 5: San Antonio. You got one two lunchtime, dinner time. They
Speaker 5: are closed on Sunday. Suck it up, people, you're gonna
Speaker 5: go hungry that day. But Cabo Bob's love those folks.
Speaker 5: That's good. Now I'm hungry. Now I gotta keep on rolling. AI.
Speaker 5: To the best of my knowledge, AI does not come
Speaker 5: into big play at Cabo Bob's, or they still have
Speaker 5: actually real great employees, which they do take care of employees.
Speaker 5: They're back there, they're they're pressing and top, they're pressing
Speaker 5: the tortillas, and they're rolling the big old Mama burritos,
Speaker 5: and they're making the chips and everything. But AI has
Speaker 5: infiltrated many, many other things. And sometimes I've given warnings.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I say it's inevitable. It is just like that
Speaker 5: Texas rainstorm. Baby, it is just inevitable. It is gonna come.
Speaker 5: I don't use a ton of AI a lot. It
Speaker 5: doesn't infiltrate my life. But there's been a lot of
Speaker 5: talk when it comes to entertainment in Hollywood. That's why
Speaker 5: there was the actors strike a few years ago. The
Speaker 5: what the Screen Actors Guild. They couldn't come to an
Speaker 5: agreement with, you know, the AI use or the repeat
Speaker 5: use of actors and their voices and their faces before they,
Speaker 5: you know, finally came to an agreement at some point.
Speaker 5: You know, we hear even on the radios in the
Speaker 5: radio side, you know your favorite this Jockies, how you
Speaker 5: doing coming up? We're gonna play the forty songs. You know,
Speaker 5: there are ways to actually recreate their voices. You know,
Speaker 5: we at some point I'm facing it people. Luckily, I
Speaker 5: guess I'm on the backside of my career. They can
Speaker 5: be replaced. Nice talk about this, because there was this
Speaker 5: app that I was playing with that I just downloaded
Speaker 5: and it what it is? It replic It has a
Speaker 5: it generates a standalone it's let me put it this way,
Speaker 5: it's a standaloade voice generation app. It's a voice AI
Speaker 5: company called eleven Labs, and I'll give you the u
Speaker 5: RL if you really want it. You have to spell
Speaker 5: out the word eleven Labs. And it's a free downloadable
Speaker 5: app too. They released a mobile app. It's yes, it's
Speaker 5: for Android, Yes, it's for iOS, and it generates voice
Speaker 5: clips from anything including things that you sit there and
Speaker 5: type and text listen. Until now, if you had to
Speaker 5: generate samples using you know, AI poors, AI powered voice libraries,
Speaker 5: you kind of had to rely on the web everything. Oh,
Speaker 5: now there is a mobile app that generates clips on
Speaker 5: the go. You may have used something like this. That
Speaker 5: may be freaky deeky, but I tried it and I
Speaker 5: wanted to see how it work. And this it turned
Speaker 5: my head. It really really did. So what I did
Speaker 5: is let me let me pull this thing up. It's
Speaker 5: called let's see eleven. And you know they want you
Speaker 5: to subscribe. Blah blah blah blah blah. They don't we Anyway,
Speaker 5: I want to sit here and I want to use
Speaker 5: this voice. And what they already do, you can actually
Speaker 5: tell it to. You can have a male voice who's
Speaker 5: a teenager and authoritative, you know, voiceover you know female.
Speaker 5: You can have you know, kids, people sounding like kids
Speaker 5: or whatever. But then there's a few celebrities and I
Speaker 5: found one I wanted to try. If anybody in this
Speaker 5: is a generational actor who's no longer with this, but
Speaker 5: Bert Reynolds, anybody, you have to be of age.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Burt Reynolds. He was just a great iconic actor. He
Speaker 5: was like in the seventies and eighties music movies with
Speaker 5: Smoking the Bandit and Boogie Knights and everything. He was phenomenal.
Speaker 5: It's a deep, authoritative voice. It's great for narration and whatever.
Speaker 5: So anyway, I wanted to try this, so I wrote
Speaker 5: a promo for my high tech textion show. I typed
Speaker 5: it three sentences into this app and I said, hey,
Speaker 5: I want Burt Reynolds, which, by the way, it is
Speaker 5: trademarked and he and his estate and his family gets
Speaker 5: paid for this, so this one's legit. All right, I'm
Speaker 5: going to play this and if you know Bert Reynolds's voice,
Speaker 5: I want you to close your eyes and listen. If
Speaker 5: you don't know, Burt renlds, this is this is this
Speaker 5: is about as Burt Reynolds, as Burt Nolts. This could
Speaker 5: get take a Listen to a promo as voiced by
Speaker 5: Burt Reynolds.
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Speaker 5: Did I not tell you? Is that freaky deaky? That
Speaker 5: is how far one instance in one use of AI
Speaker 5: has come. That's crazy, man, I mean it's listen. I
Speaker 5: know you can have GPS with the voice of Darth
Speaker 5: Vader and you can have your fame it. There's Comedia,
Speaker 5: is there's Kevin Hart. I mean, it goes on and on,
Speaker 5: but now you could tell it and type anything. I mean,
Speaker 5: if I really wanted to, like I want you to
Speaker 5: think about this. If I had a sore throat, I
Speaker 5: could type in my entire radio show like I'm doing
Speaker 5: right now, and I can have Burt Reynolds host my
Speaker 5: radio show, which at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 5: much sexier than listening to me. But this do you
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna throw this out to you. Do you
Speaker 5: find this scary? Do you find this neat? Do you
Speaker 5: find it cool? Do you not even know how to
Speaker 5: categorize it? Or is it a little of both? This
Speaker 5: is a consumer facing app that is that is no cost.
Speaker 5: This is how quickly we have become and how machine
Speaker 5: learning is out there. And I this is when people
Speaker 5: pass on. I mean the most famous listen I want.
Speaker 5: I think about this the reason my idol, the reason
Speaker 5: I got into radio, and this entire thing. I grew
Speaker 5: up listening to a very very famous disc jockey, Casey Caseum.
Speaker 5: Casey Caseum based out of Los Angeles. He was a
Speaker 5: disc jockey who every week did a syndicated show called
Speaker 5: American Top forty. All right. I listened to that American
Speaker 5: Top forty every single weekend through middle school and high school.
Speaker 5: I wrote down the Top forty. I got his speech
Speaker 5: pattern I used to imitate him. I actually utilize his
Speaker 5: voice in some parodies for commercial ads. Technically people say
Speaker 5: I actually look like him, which is neither here, nowhere there.
Speaker 5: But he's gone. He passed away ten eleven years ago,
Speaker 5: but his voice still lives on in cartoons. He was
Speaker 5: the voice of Shaggy and Scooby doo Zucks like Scoopy,
Speaker 5: what is Scooby? The thing is, though I at some point,
Speaker 5: I'm sure there's a Casey Caseen voice impersonator AI app
Speaker 5: right now. If not, I need to create one. I
Speaker 5: would love to actually do. My entire show is the
Speaker 5: voice of Casey case even though it kind of sounds
Speaker 5: like Casey. But he's gone. And so the longevity of people,
Speaker 5: and the funny thing is, this is what machine learning
Speaker 5: can do. You don't need You could have been dead
Speaker 5: for generations, but still your work on movies and voice.
Speaker 5: I mean, think of James Cagney or Jemmy Jemmy start
Speaker 5: you know, Jimmy Stuart died what I don't know, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five years ago, potentially. I mean, all you need
Speaker 5: to do is just run all of his movies and
Speaker 5: you know it's the Christmas movie and everything, and you
Speaker 5: could generate his voice. And I think the question is
Speaker 5: in these cases of celebrities, they need to get these
Speaker 5: companies need to go to the proper channels and compensate
Speaker 5: their estates and their families. But for fun purposes like this,
Speaker 5: I mean, luckily this Burt Reynolds, this app that I
Speaker 5: use specifically from eleven Labs, hopefully Burt Reynolds family. It's
Speaker 5: not gonna be pissed at me because this they're probably
Speaker 5: getting paid I don't know two tenths of one cent
Speaker 5: or something for me using that, but I wanted to
Speaker 5: illustrate it. As more of this comes along, I will
Speaker 5: do it too. There's video things that actually can take
Speaker 5: pictures of me and probably morph me into these even
Speaker 5: my TV segments. I mean, it could be a fake
Speaker 5: Michael Garfield. I hope they get the hair right. That's all.
Speaker 5: That's all I care about. But a little AI trick
Speaker 5: em or trickery for you. By the way I'll put this,
Speaker 5: if you want to play an experiment with this thing,
Speaker 5: because there probably could be some really good uses, Like
Speaker 5: for some reason, you do get out a laryngitis and
Speaker 5: your voice sharts. They just pump something out. This particular
Speaker 5: one is from a company called eleven Labs e L
Speaker 5: e V e N Labs eleven Labs. You can download
Speaker 5: it right now for absolutely free and you can go
Speaker 5: check it out yourself, which, by the way, I probably
Speaker 5: should do. Callo. We should actually create a contest here
Speaker 5: who can create a promo for the High Tech Texan Show,
Speaker 5: kind of like what I just did. You're listening to
Speaker 5: the High Tech Texan Show. That's right, counting down the
Speaker 5: top forty hits, the number one number technology expert that
Speaker 5: you need to listen to. We need to have people
Speaker 5: come up who can create the best promo, you know
Speaker 5: at a ten second rejoiner or something, and then I
Speaker 5: should give away out an maybe a Cowbo Bob gift card.
Speaker 5: So feel free to come up with something like that.
Speaker 5: All right, When we come back, Michael Garfield, I'll go
Speaker 5: through a few of the early Prime day Amazon Prime
Speaker 5: Day deals that I saw, and also some information on
Speaker 5: that massive, massive password hack. We're sixteen what billion passwords
Speaker 5: were stole? Does this affect you jumping up? I'll tell
Speaker 5: you the information. In the meantime, you see you go
Speaker 5: out and keep reaching Fay.
Speaker 6: Stars No Burt Reynolds.
Speaker 5: This segment just lill o me. Michael Gartfield is the name.
Speaker 5: I host this long running two decades plus. It's called
Speaker 5: the High Tech textan show. I promised not to really
Speaker 5: go all tech and not use megabytes and gigabytes. If
Speaker 5: you're a long time listening you know that I'm going
Speaker 5: to talk about food, drink, travel, fashion, cars, a lot
Speaker 5: of car reviews to and other interesting features like an
Speaker 5: AI voice generator that you could type something into an
Speaker 5: app and have Burt Reynold's voice push it out. If
Speaker 5: you dis missed that, go back and listen to the
Speaker 5: show on podcast. That is the scary stuff that AI does.
Speaker 5: Phote number here if you have a question or you
Speaker 5: want to tell me how freaky that was. Three four
Speaker 5: six two nine eight three nine two six, I just
Speaker 5: say yo, callum man. Let's see if you could put
Speaker 5: you on Michael's show. If you just get a voicemail,
Speaker 5: just record something, and we do have the right to
Speaker 5: play your real voice, not AI generated, on this radio show,
Speaker 5: so feel free to do that. Amazon Prime Day talked
Speaker 5: about that a few segments ago. Countdownazon people, why don't
Speaker 5: they change the name to Amazon Prime Days? Actually, I
Speaker 5: know what because at some point soon it's going to
Speaker 5: be Amazon Prime Week, and then it will be Amazon
Speaker 5: Prime Month pretty much the month of July. It is
Speaker 5: now four days long. It's not a Prime Day. It's
Speaker 5: four days July eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh. I've already
Speaker 5: been looking for some interesting things that I saw. You
Speaker 5: are generally going to get relatively good deals on Amazon
Speaker 5: branded products. Shocking right. The Amazon Echoes, the Echo Dots,
Speaker 5: the Amazon Firestick, the Fire TV stick, the Amazon Fire
Speaker 5: TVs themselves, those are going to be the easy, low
Speaker 5: hanging fruits that Amazon to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 5: want to push our own branded stuff on there. It
Speaker 5: makes sense I do the same thing too. Speaking of
Speaker 5: fire sticks, I did see this already. If you want
Speaker 5: to sale Amazon's fire tv stick. Fire tv stick four
Speaker 5: K four K is very nice. It is already on
Speaker 5: sale for twenty four to ninety nine, which is half
Speaker 5: off normally the Amazon Fire tv Stick four K fifty dollars.
Speaker 5: Now it's twenty five bones far as I could tell,
Speaker 5: it's the lowest price of the year. If you don't
Speaker 5: know what a firestick is, it is a very good
Speaker 5: and smart device streaming TV shows and movies from Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu,
Speaker 5: a HBO Max, Paramount plus, blah blah blah, the whole thing.
Speaker 5: And it actually can do more than just stream audio
Speaker 5: and video. It's it's integrated with the Alexa and the
Speaker 5: Amazon and other service. And this one it comes with
Speaker 5: a remote control. Some of them don't come with remote control.
Speaker 5: You probably want to buy a stick that does have
Speaker 5: a remote control. But this one has the Alexa Voice
Speaker 5: remote control. It triggers the voice Assist assistant. What you
Speaker 5: do is you plug this into your TV in the
Speaker 5: back of your HDMI and what it is, it receives
Speaker 5: a Wi Fi signal and then you know, you just
Speaker 5: kind of turn your TV into the source HDMI one
Speaker 5: or whatever it is, and then now you can use
Speaker 5: it to use the remote to go and download all
Speaker 5: these other apps. Obviously, the Amazon Prime Prime is probably
Speaker 5: gonna Prime Video, which is probably already gonna be downloaded,
Speaker 5: but you can, you know, download the HBO Max of
Speaker 5: the Hulu, the Netflix and all these other things too.
Speaker 5: So if you have a lower, if you have a
Speaker 5: TV that is not connected to the internet or Wi Fi,
Speaker 5: or it's old enough it doesn't even have a Wi
Speaker 5: Fi connection, maybe you have one that's outside, and you
Speaker 5: know that's the easiest thing to do. That's one of
Speaker 5: the reasons you should get some sort of a streaming
Speaker 5: stick that listen. There's other manufacturers. Roku makes a very
Speaker 5: nice one r Okau, but I happen to see one.
Speaker 5: It's about a year and a half old. This is
Speaker 5: the twenty twenty three version of the Amazon Fire TV
Speaker 5: Stick four K, but still for twenty five bucks. It's
Speaker 5: actually not a bad delio whatsoever. I saw one more
Speaker 5: thing a lot of people. It may be time. I'm
Speaker 5: always I don't remind people enough that if your Wi
Speaker 5: Fi in your house over the years, it starts slowing down.
Speaker 5: Number one. Obviously it's there's many reasons, but it may
Speaker 5: be an older system because there are newer versions of
Speaker 5: Wi Fi. There's Wi Fi six, there's Wi Fi seven,
Speaker 5: There's all these other you know, categories and definitions. But
Speaker 5: if you have a Wi Fi system that is I
Speaker 5: mean listen, Wi Fi as I know it, I think
Speaker 5: it was kind of invented in two thousand and two
Speaker 5: thousand and one, that was when I first started the
Speaker 5: High Tech Texts and TV program. In the segments, I
Speaker 5: remember explaining what Wi Fi was explaining with it now
Speaker 5: it's ubiquitous everywhere. But if you don't have a mesh
Speaker 5: router system for your Wi Fi, you may need to upgrade.
Speaker 5: You may want to upgrade need in one or two things.
Speaker 5: You may want to upgrade to a Wi Fi mesh
Speaker 5: router system. And this is a system that will can
Speaker 5: replace your current Wi Fi system with. If your Wi
Speaker 5: Fi system only has one router, so you connect your
Speaker 5: cable if you will your cable box, your cable box
Speaker 5: itself actually could have if you have Xfinity, it could
Speaker 5: come with a Wi Fi router. But if you have
Speaker 5: your own and you want a larger, a stronger signal
Speaker 5: that goes out farther to more areas of your home,
Speaker 5: even on the outside backyard, you may want to upgrade
Speaker 5: to what's called a Wi Fi mesh system. This comes
Speaker 5: with sometimes three different little repeater stations. You connect one
Speaker 5: where your old WiFi router was right off the where
Speaker 5: your internet cable comes in. Then throughout your home you
Speaker 5: place these others small in there. Sometimes you can't even
Speaker 5: notice the little repeater systems across your home and what
Speaker 5: it does it creates just kind of close your eyes
Speaker 5: and imagine this kind of mesh network system that hits
Speaker 5: every corner, every inch of your home inside and out,
Speaker 5: and throws that signal to make it just as strong
Speaker 5: as it was when it comes right out of the
Speaker 5: pipeline of the Internet. A lot of these are user friendly,
Speaker 5: they work well with this, and there's a number of them.
Speaker 5: I even forget I haven't upgradeed my mesh system and
Speaker 5: gosh a good seven years or so, I've forgot the
Speaker 5: name of my manufacturer. Point is, there's a lot of
Speaker 5: these that I'm seeing right now. Pop it up on
Speaker 5: Prime Day. There's one right now. There's a company called
Speaker 5: TP Link, tp dash Link, l i Ink. They they're
Speaker 5: really good when it makes a lot of routers. They
Speaker 5: have got one now two hundred. It's a three pack
Speaker 5: which comes with three repeaters two hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 5: which is one hundred bucks off right now. This is
Speaker 5: the Tepee Link Deco Dco Wi Fi Mesh router system.
Speaker 5: That's just one of them. But again, if you're looking
Speaker 5: for something to get, because there's deals you just can't
Speaker 5: pass up. Man crazy any deals, you may want to
Speaker 5: upgrade your Wi Fi system, especially if you're finding that
Speaker 5: you know you have more access points. Don't forget. Your
Speaker 5: WiFi now is in use more than ever because your
Speaker 5: doorbell is connected to Wi Fi many cases, all of
Speaker 5: the wireless cameras inside and out they're on Wi Fi.
Speaker 5: All of your little smart speakers are connected to Wi Fi.
Speaker 5: Your kids are on Wi Fi, your neighbors are on
Speaker 5: Wi Fi. I have probably over fifty some odd devices
Speaker 5: that are using my Wi Fi that I didn't even
Speaker 5: know about. You can go look into your router and
Speaker 5: actually see that. So again, just some ideas for you
Speaker 5: to think of, particularly five five you want something specific brand,
Speaker 5: I'm here for you our first what hour break? We're
Speaker 5: halfway through the show. I am at three four six
Speaker 5: two nine eight three nine two six. If the voicemail
Speaker 5: try to get through Michael Barker was the names the
Speaker 5: high Tech section show, would we come back? I'm gonna
Speaker 5: tell you about that massive password hack that went down
Speaker 5: last week. Sixteen billions passwords were hacked. I can actually
Speaker 5: tell you specifically if your information has been stolen, how
Speaker 5: really pack a new safe browser for you to use?
Speaker 5: Because browser's now we're under it back? And also how
Speaker 5: about this? Are you ready to go see the f
Speaker 5: one movie. Are you an iPhone user? Well, if you
Speaker 5: saw something pop up for an ad on your iPhone
Speaker 5: that you had no clue how it got there, I
Speaker 5: will tell you how to get rid of it. All
Speaker 5: that and so much more.
Speaker 3: High Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 5: Is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 4: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield's joining us the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 4: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
Speaker 3: To make life easier.
Speaker 2: Technology and Michael Garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 4: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 4: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 4: iHeartRadio Act. Now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 8: Halfway through the show and almost we're just shy halfway
Speaker 8: through the year of twenty twenty five, which means it
Speaker 8: is halfway to happy hour in.
Speaker 5: More ways than one. Michael Garfield is the name, as
Speaker 5: you heard that big booming voice the long running High
Speaker 5: Tech Texan Show. Bear with me, it is not all
Speaker 5: about tech. We're gonna have a lot of fun. I
Speaker 5: don't know, may have a cocktail recipe for you. I'm
Speaker 5: really into gin for some reason. Gin is very tough
Speaker 5: to make. If you're trying to make a cocktail. I
Speaker 5: think I found a few secrets since again, just let
Speaker 5: you know some of the things that we do talk about.
Speaker 5: Very interactive show, which means you can call, you can
Speaker 5: give me your opinion, your thoughts, you're anything that you
Speaker 5: want to lap about. Hey, Prime days coming up, all
Speaker 5: four days of it. As we've been talking about the
Speaker 5: first hour, Michael, I need to get this. What's your
Speaker 5: opinion on this Wi Fi route? Or what's your opinion
Speaker 5: on this fire stick? What's your opinion on whatever? TVs clothing?
Speaker 5: I am your guy. Three four six two nine textan
Speaker 5: three four six two nine eight three nine six That's
Speaker 5: how you get me. You can find me online, high tech,
Speaker 5: text in on most most all the socials h I
Speaker 5: G H T E C H T E X A N.
Speaker 5: That's how you do it. How about this massive password
Speaker 5: reach last week? Did you did you hear about this thing?
Speaker 5: I spent a few hours last week with some of
Speaker 5: my radio and TV affiliates. Hey, Michael, what's your opinion?
Speaker 5: You know, sixteen billion passwords were exposed and what was
Speaker 5: the biggest data breach? Ever? Well, what actually matters is
Speaker 5: this There is a debate over what information was given
Speaker 5: out and whether it's new information is it recycled data.
Speaker 5: Hackers reportedly allegedly they got a lot of it by
Speaker 5: installing malware on user computers that logs in what you type. Listen.
Speaker 5: I don't care if it's false. I don't care if
Speaker 5: it's new. I don't care if it's old. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: You just need to keep your information safe. I went
Speaker 5: over at last hour for another reason that there could
Speaker 5: be there is a threat, a very low level threat
Speaker 5: of a cyber attack from Iran or maybe another country,
Speaker 5: after the retaliation of what the US did to you know,
Speaker 5: blowing up their you know nuclear you know, fortificated data,
Speaker 5: you know, plutonium plants, there could be some sort of
Speaker 5: retaliation with cyber attacks. And as I said, last last hour,
Speaker 5: and I'll do it again to protect Number one. Never
Speaker 5: reuse your passwords. I understand why you reuse your password,
Speaker 5: so you remember it every time. Don't use a week password.
Speaker 5: Don't use the word password as a password. Don't use
Speaker 5: password one, two, three, four, five, six, or any combination.
Speaker 5: Now never use it across the same site. If one
Speaker 5: gets compromised, guess what that actor is using it to
Speaker 5: get into your bank account, your school records, everything that's there.
Speaker 5: Here's what I do. If you don't use a password manager,
Speaker 5: which I'll tell you about a SAC, at least utilize
Speaker 5: some sort of a code system that only you know.
Speaker 5: And and this is this is I'm not going to
Speaker 5: say I do it. This is this is something easy.
Speaker 5: If you I'm gonna forget my password, I want you
Speaker 5: to use one base string of letters in text, just
Speaker 5: something you're always gonna remember. Use a combination maybe of
Speaker 5: your first name, your last name. Change a letter instead
Speaker 5: of the using you know there's a letter E. Use
Speaker 5: a three because it looks the same instead of using
Speaker 5: an L. Use the number one whatever. Used maybe the
Speaker 5: first eight or nine or ten characters, it's the same thing.
Speaker 5: Then change the last few characters into whatever website you're
Speaker 5: trying to log into. If you're trying to log into
Speaker 5: a Wells Fargo bank account, use your same ten digit
Speaker 5: let's just say master beginning of your security code, and
Speaker 5: then use the letter's WF Wells Fargo. And then if
Speaker 5: you're trying to log into your University of Houston school records,
Speaker 5: use those same ten letters again, and just change those
Speaker 5: last two letters to uh, University of Houston. At least
Speaker 5: it's a different password for everything. At least you're never
Speaker 5: going to forget that solid first portion of your code.
Speaker 5: Then whatever website you're on, you're going to like, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm on Wells Fargo, so it's got to be WF.
Speaker 5: That's one way to do it. You can also use
Speaker 5: a password manager, and these are apps, and these generate
Speaker 5: in store very long passwords, very unique passwords. I'm talking
Speaker 5: sixteen plus characters for every single account. Yes, you need
Speaker 5: to protect your password manager with a strong master password.
Speaker 5: And there's a number of them out there too. And
Speaker 5: what I do is now I'm using more and where
Speaker 5: I'm using two factor authentication two. And you may see
Speaker 5: it written as the letter too, the letter F the
Speaker 5: letter a two factor authentication. But going back to Google Gmail,
Speaker 5: if you use that, it uses it. If I wanted
Speaker 5: to log on to the VPN for my email here
Speaker 5: at iHeartMedia, they make us use an authenticator app or
Speaker 5: two factor authentication. What happens is you log online first,
Speaker 5: maybe to your bank account, and you put in your
Speaker 5: tend did you you put in your password? It ain't
Speaker 5: gonna let you in the website yet, they are going
Speaker 5: to text you, so have your phone nearby. Sometimes it's
Speaker 5: an email of this one time used password, pass code, patents,
Speaker 5: a set of numbers. It's only gonna be around for
Speaker 5: five minutes, ten minutes, or whatever. You're gonna have to
Speaker 5: use that and then enter it. That's your second level.
Speaker 5: That's called two factor authentication. Just listen it is it
Speaker 5: a pain in the butt, yeah, Midge, But I got
Speaker 5: it down somewhere between six seven eight seconds. I have
Speaker 5: my phone with me. I know what texts coming through.
Speaker 5: What are those sick digits? Put put a minute, worre
Speaker 5: set to go. You don't need to panic, You don't
Speaker 5: need a freak. You don't need to change all your
Speaker 5: passwords for everything from Apple to Google to Facebook, dif anything.
Speaker 5: But make sure your social media accounts certainly do they
Speaker 5: have strong, unique passwords. Maybe two factor authentication able. I
Speaker 5: get stories all the time. You hear hacker, this, hacker this,
Speaker 5: It's a lot of them were tricked into entering their
Speaker 5: log in information on a fake site to steal them.
Speaker 5: Now that summer is here, you got some extra time
Speaker 5: in the hands. Maybe this is a good time to
Speaker 5: change to be your passwords, just to kind of maybe
Speaker 5: download a password manager. Browsers too. I saw something that
Speaker 5: there's a lot of browsers now that are being taken
Speaker 5: over or encrypted or having malicious links or software. And
Speaker 5: I mean I use I have long used. I don't
Speaker 5: use Microsoft Edge, I don't use anything I actually I
Speaker 5: don't use Chrome. Well that's my secondary one. I use
Speaker 5: a password. I use a browser called Brave Rave free
Speaker 5: to download because I'm thinking because it, you know, allegedly
Speaker 5: blocks a lot of you know, third party cookies and everything.
Speaker 5: I was read somewhere that even Brave failed some sort
Speaker 5: of a test scam blockers and anything. So I'm reading
Speaker 5: where did I read this? Well, it doesn't even matter
Speaker 5: where I read it. Some news site online. If you're
Speaker 5: worried about malicious links and anythings. Safari you use that
Speaker 5: a lot. When it comes to Apple, it's decent, but
Speaker 5: it was able to download in some bad thing. I'm
Speaker 5: not saying these are bad. I'm not saying a roun
Speaker 5: but these are just instances that there was this test
Speaker 5: done for the scam blocker. Already. Chrome is actually good
Speaker 5: and Duck Duck go, Duck Duck go. I see commercials
Speaker 5: that I've never done it, but it's a browser. But
Speaker 5: those two browsers apparently are flagged sites as dangerous or
Speaker 5: they have blocked access to things that we're trying to
Speaker 5: fish sin malware or common scams. Again, I talked about this.
Speaker 5: These are the time of years that maybe some of
Speaker 5: you have a little bit more time in your hands
Speaker 5: just how to protect yourself because now with what's going on,
Speaker 5: with the positibility of a low level cyber attack, you
Speaker 5: need to make sure that everything is tight, tight, tight, tight,
Speaker 5: all right? Coming back, who wants to see the F
Speaker 5: one movie. If you have an Apple wallet, odds are
Speaker 5: you may have gotten an ad where you could save
Speaker 5: some money and you're thinking, why in the world did
Speaker 5: I just get an advertisement in a coupon on my
Speaker 5: Apple iPhone? Well, I'll tell you why. Coming back. I'm
Speaker 5: a high tech textan show. Almost halfway through summer, we'll
Speaker 5: well past the halfway point of the high Tech textan show.
Speaker 5: Michael Garfield is my name. It is me. You can
Speaker 5: call me Garth G A R F. If we are tight,
Speaker 5: you know the phone number. It's in an directive radio
Speaker 5: show three four six nine eight three nine two six
Speaker 5: Find Everything High Tech text and Spell the whole thing
Speaker 5: out Hi Tech textan dot com. See some of my
Speaker 5: TV segments that I've done. Did a Father's Day gift
Speaker 5: guide few weeks ago, did a graduate gift guide a
Speaker 5: few weeks ago. I'm probably gonna do a little with
Speaker 5: some Amazon Prime Day tips here in the next day
Speaker 5: or two. If you're in Austin, Austin Fox seven TV
Speaker 5: show on Monday mornings that I'm on, also Great Day
Speaker 5: Houston Channel eleven CBS, I pop on there some my often.
Speaker 5: And if you have a radio, if you have a
Speaker 5: TV station that you want me to contribute to, feel
Speaker 5: free to call me. We're then happy to work out
Speaker 5: a deal with you. Who's traveling this summer? Actually have
Speaker 5: I even done trial? I don't think I've done a
Speaker 5: segment on travel technology, gears and apps. Actually I probably
Speaker 5: should do that. There's a lot of neat stuff out there.
Speaker 5: I went to about a month ago where always I
Speaker 5: went to California to see one of the kids. I'm
Speaker 5: doing a little traveling. I'll be hopping on an airplane
Speaker 5: here soon. TSA always gets bogged down, and I do
Speaker 5: have TSA. I pay extra to get through the TSA,
Speaker 5: which those lines slowly but surely seem to be getting
Speaker 5: just as long as the non TSA. But they solve
Speaker 5: this that more and more people are getting stopped at
Speaker 5: TSA for some of their food and snacks that they're
Speaker 5: bringing on planes. I mean, listen, you need your photo ID,
Speaker 5: you need your boarding pass, and you kind of need
Speaker 5: some airplane snacks. Am I wrong? People? Am I not?
Speaker 5: I mean, do I speak to truth people and travelers?
Speaker 5: You could bring a lot of food on the plane.
Speaker 5: I mean I sit next to people and then they listen.
Speaker 5: They mostly buy it at the airport. Back when Papasitos
Speaker 5: was at Hobby Airport in Houston, man, I would sit
Speaker 5: next to somebody with some breakfast tacos and some enchiladas.
Speaker 5: I'm like, really, some people bring containers of Chinese foods.
Speaker 5: Some people bring I've see people like bring harboiled eggs.
Speaker 5: I mean whatever, I mean, if you want to share
Speaker 5: with your seat mate or your rowmate, man, let's roll
Speaker 5: went away. You know there's a liquid limit, right, It's
Speaker 5: like what three point four ounces or one hundred middle
Speaker 5: liters that you can't you know, bring with liquid or
Speaker 5: jail gel or aerosol or cream or something. Foods that
Speaker 5: are also liquid or jail or aerosol have to comply.
Speaker 5: So it was a USA. Today. I was reading something
Speaker 5: that there are snacks that are subject to TSA Liquid rules.
Speaker 5: You what ever, this creamy cheeses, hummus, peanut butter, yogurt,
Speaker 5: jam and jelly, and creamy dips and spreads, those actually
Speaker 5: count as TSA Liquid rules. And this sucks because I'm
Speaker 5: gonna tell you why I travel with peanut butter. Now.
Speaker 5: I don't bring a jar of peanut butter. I don't,
Speaker 5: and I think I'm under the three point four ounces,
Speaker 5: but I travel with the little kind of prepackaged What
Speaker 5: is it like, justin is that the name of the brand,
Speaker 5: like almond butter, peanut butter? Sometimes I have little jiff
Speaker 5: little cups that you can kind of like open the
Speaker 5: top and spread. I live peanut butter, the greatest food
Speaker 5: known to man. Love love love. It's tough for me
Speaker 5: to go in without peanut butter. I don't know do
Speaker 5: I need the TSA now, like pulling my carry on
Speaker 5: out and giving me like just reming me going, I'm sorry, Garfield.
Speaker 5: You you know you actually brought the You and Laura Scudder,
Speaker 5: she is not your companion on Southwest Airlines. Man, come on,
Speaker 5: I love Laura Scudder baby. You know you stirred up
Speaker 5: and it's a fresh Nope. Has anybody been called out
Speaker 5: by the TSA for food? I want to hear from you.
Speaker 5: Three four six, two nine eight three died in two six.
Speaker 5: I promise not to last. Actually, I sympathy. I have
Speaker 5: sympathy for you on the same thing. Did you see
Speaker 5: the story that was going around? I certainly I hit
Speaker 5: it in Houston last week. Somebody at TSA was trying
Speaker 5: to and I gonna call it smuggle. They were carrying
Speaker 5: something like one hundred packs of fresh h EB tortillas.
Speaker 5: And I had to laugh at this story. And I'm
Speaker 5: gonna tell you why, because pretty much all my listening
Speaker 5: audience in Texas you know what HGB is, right, it's
Speaker 5: it's it's the I didn't. It's the greatest grocery store ever.
Speaker 5: It's phenomenal. If you've never had freshly made HB tortilla,
Speaker 5: you were missing out on a very good portion of
Speaker 5: your life. They are fresh. I like I like the
Speaker 5: uh the butter ones. Oh unbelievable. They make them fresh.
Speaker 5: They sell them for whatever. Two and a half three
Speaker 5: four bucks. You get ten of them, maybe twenty of them.
Speaker 5: They're warm, and you take them home and you just
Speaker 5: shove them in your pile. There's a buddy of mine, Brian,
Speaker 5: who used to live in Houston. He now lives in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: When he comes here to visit his parents in Houston,
Speaker 5: I kid you not, he goes to AGB and he
Speaker 5: buys things that he that AGB is not in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: He buys things, including tortillas. When I visit him, I
Speaker 5: bring him hib tortillas. So I've smuggled in. I use
Speaker 5: the word smuggling. It's funny. I've brought him on the
Speaker 5: plane two or three packages of tortillas. Somebody had a suitcase,
Speaker 5: a carry on suitcase, I believe of one hundred packs
Speaker 5: of tortillas. I want to know where this person is,
Speaker 5: and I want to sit with them next time because
Speaker 5: I'm gonna whip out my peanut butter, because you've never
Speaker 5: tried anything if you haven't had peanut butter on a
Speaker 5: fresh door. Tia, phenomenal, Love that story, Love that story.
Speaker 5: Good for you, Hib. I don't know if that was Agy.
Speaker 5: They may have. Hib. Better find that person, reach out
Speaker 5: and give them a gift card. Phenomenal publicity. HB should
Speaker 5: give me a gift card because I'm talking about it
Speaker 5: right now. Who's planning to see this F one movie?
Speaker 5: Callum Calum, read over here? Will you guys got to
Speaker 5: see this F one movie with Brad Pitt at the
Speaker 5: end of the day at some point, I probably will
Speaker 5: see it because I'd like cars. I like fast cars.
Speaker 5: I like the suspense. I know what it is. It's
Speaker 5: Brad Pitt exploring the world of Formula one. I can
Speaker 5: even write the script right now. Let me guess he's
Speaker 5: a washed up, tired, old ornery race car driver. Some
Speaker 5: rich owner is gonna have to give him a second
Speaker 5: chance and teach some young buck of how to drive.
Speaker 5: So they hired him, and it's just gonna escalate and
Speaker 5: blah blah blah. I mean, there's probably a love interest.
Speaker 5: There's fast moving cameras and fast sound and fast songs. Folks.
Speaker 5: I probably just say, get ten, fifteen, twenty bucks on
Speaker 5: a movie ticket. That's what it is right now. Directed
Speaker 5: by the same guy who did Top Gun Maverick. I
Speaker 5: think it's written by one of the guys who did
Speaker 5: Top Gun Mavericks. Pretty much what it is. It is
Speaker 5: Brad Pitt in a car substituting for Tom Top Gun Maverick,
Speaker 5: Tom Cruise and you know F sixteens fatans. Nope, that's
Speaker 5: what it is. It's produced for the very first time
Speaker 5: by Apple. Apple is taking it shot at producing a
Speaker 5: movie that is released in theaters, not just on Apple Plus.
Speaker 5: And from what I heard, this is a two and
Speaker 5: a half hour, two hours, fifteen minute Apple commercial. Apple airbuds,
Speaker 5: Macintosh computers, iPhones, they're just product placement everywhere you go.
Speaker 5: They don't have an Apple. You know that. I'm an
Speaker 5: Android guy, but apparently and I need verification on this.
Speaker 5: If you have an Apple and this happened to you,
Speaker 5: I want you to text me and text me if yea,
Speaker 5: if you have my text deal, free to text me,
Speaker 5: but email Michael at high Tech textan dot com call
Speaker 5: in three four six twenty nine, text and use your
Speaker 5: iPhone if you want to Apple. Hey, you have an
Speaker 5: Apple wallet, you guys, use that there's so much cross
Speaker 5: promotion here that Apple Wallet in the app. People have
Speaker 5: been reporting of getting a push notification that they're complaining
Speaker 5: that Fandango, which I guess is a movie ticking app,
Speaker 5: is offering a ten dollars discount for anyone buying two
Speaker 5: or more tickets to the film. They're pushing this onto
Speaker 5: your Apple wallet. Listen, we are barraged every ten seconds
Speaker 5: of the day somewhere with ads. Okay, in about a
Speaker 5: minute a half, you're gonna hear some ads on this
Speaker 5: radio show. You're driving around a guarantee, you're looking at
Speaker 5: a billboard right now, you're watching TV, you're on IT,
Speaker 5: you're somewhere online, and Google is listening to You're gonna
Speaker 5: get served up an act. I really don't want an
Speaker 5: ad popping up in my wallet, my Apple wallet, or
Speaker 5: wherever it pops up, because I know that's my credit
Speaker 5: cards in there? Are they just going to say this
Speaker 5: is kind of the same. It's not nearly as bad
Speaker 5: as a feedback. Remember when YouTube famously launched one of
Speaker 5: their albums years ago to every single single iPhone user
Speaker 5: as it download, and they didn't ask for it. Actually,
Speaker 5: it was it was it was it a song, It
Speaker 5: was a it was twenty fourteen. It was their album
Speaker 5: called Songs of Innocence. If you had an Itune account
Speaker 5: and you had an iPhone, it was an audimatic download
Speaker 5: and it was met with big backlash. Users didn't want it,
Speaker 5: infringement on the privacy. I'm not saying this is the
Speaker 5: same thing, but that's a tie in right now, So
Speaker 5: I thought that was it. For some reason, you're getting it.
Speaker 5: Let me know. There is a way to stop that
Speaker 5: if you don't want these, If you don't want these
Speaker 5: advertisements here, you do have to go. Let me see
Speaker 5: if I can find it for you, because you do
Speaker 5: have to go into your settings, all right. This is
Speaker 5: if you have iOS twenty six beta, which is a
Speaker 5: new option to you go to offers, you go Apple Wallet,
Speaker 5: there's a tab or something called Offers and Promotions. This
Speaker 5: is for their only their new operating system iOS twenty
Speaker 5: six Offers and Promotions, and you turn it off, you
Speaker 5: disable it, so I see what they're doing. This is
Speaker 5: only in the iOS twenty six. Someone tells me that
Speaker 5: Apple is planning to do this on a regular basis,
Speaker 5: which is why on their brand new operating system they
Speaker 5: offer a way to disable it. But that's the way
Speaker 5: to do it. Anybody mad about that or not? Now,
Speaker 5: if they gave a free and absolute free ticket to
Speaker 5: F one, maybe I wouldn't be so ticked, all right,
Speaker 5: there you go, coming up Austin. I'm looking at you.
Speaker 5: Did you have you seen the super secret new Tesla
Speaker 5: ROBOTAXI rolling around? It's Invader right now. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: when it's going to your task going the back field
Speaker 5: high Tech.
Speaker 1: Tex Just two more segments to go, about thirty.
Speaker 5: Minutes of your time before we are out of here
Speaker 5: this weekend for the High Tech Texan Show. Thank you
Speaker 5: for hanging in there, having some fun with me through
Speaker 5: out by the pool, having a cocktail. Send one to me.
Speaker 5: Michael's the name, Michael Garfield. We're having some fun. We
Speaker 5: talk about consumer lifestyle products. Amazon Prime's coming up July
Speaker 5: eighth to eleventh. I told you about that, gave you
Speaker 5: some sales that are already going on. When it comes
Speaker 5: to a few things, I talked about the New f
Speaker 5: one movie, whether you want to see it or whether
Speaker 5: a Apple is pushing a coupon to your phone, still
Speaker 5: waiting for people to tell him about that. So we
Speaker 5: just kind of run the gamut and let you know
Speaker 5: about some things. Big shout out. It's funny because I
Speaker 5: you know, it's summer. We want the bathing suit, the swimsuit,
Speaker 5: the bikini, the speedo, I do not wear speedo the swimsuits.
Speaker 5: You know, you want to get that the good summer bought.
Speaker 5: It's not helping that I'm getting invited to a lot
Speaker 5: of these new restaurant openings and tastings. It was it
Speaker 5: was it a smart thing for me to invite Dairy
Speaker 5: Queen into our radio studio earlier this week so I
Speaker 5: could test out one of their five new Summer Blizzard favors.
Speaker 5: The time, I thought it was smart while I was
Speaker 5: eating it. Probably the greatest dessert in the history of
Speaker 5: the world, in my opinion, the Dairy Queen Blizzard. It
Speaker 5: was a great idea. Okay, now I don't know, I'm
Speaker 5: running a next two or three extra miles on top
Speaker 5: of the already miles that I'm running in this hot
Speaker 5: weather and then hopping on my peloton even Moore. Probably
Speaker 5: not the smartest thing. And not only that. Tried pizza
Speaker 5: high Tap an about here for putt that Dallas. You
Speaker 5: know this pie tap there's like what six seven eight locations.
Speaker 5: Houston got its first pie Tap location not too far
Speaker 5: from Central Market Sam Felipe near Wesleyan. That is some
Speaker 5: good food that these these It's called pie tap because
Speaker 5: it's pizza pies and also a lot of beer on tap.
Speaker 5: They have probably one of the most killer appetizers I
Speaker 5: have tried, and I kind of keep account of it,
Speaker 5: like best apps out there. It's this garlic bread dough
Speaker 5: with this special garlic butter that just melts on contact.
Speaker 5: It is stupid awesome, all right, mushroom pizza yaukey? They
Speaker 5: got burgers go check out PI tap by the way,
Speaker 5: so they brought more food into the station earlier this week.
Speaker 5: This is not good. And if that wasn't enough, My
Speaker 5: good friends over at Gringos, tex mex Hello, Jonathan Kim, Russell, Lebarro,
Speaker 5: Heather McCann and everybody else been associated with these folks
Speaker 5: for twenty years. I got to do a little friends
Speaker 5: and family, which means I can order any dang thing
Speaker 5: I wanted while they tested out and checked out how
Speaker 5: the food service and help with their servers or anything.
Speaker 5: This is past week. Was up in Tomball, Texas. Shout
Speaker 5: out Tomball Way Way on the north side of Houston,
Speaker 5: corner of Rand Parkway ninety nine and Highway two forty nine.
Speaker 5: It's up there. It's a hike, but I get you know,
Speaker 5: I did it for the sake of feedback, and several
Speaker 5: Margharita's and you know Poyo Marisco and everything. I talk
Speaker 5: about this because there is a little technology bent over here.
Speaker 5: Joey Farina, he's the head of their IT department's been
Speaker 5: with them forever. Sub Joey, I know he listens to
Speaker 5: the show. He was telling me. You walk into the state,
Speaker 5: it's gorgeous. And I have been to probably ten friends
Speaker 5: and family openings of Gringos in the past twenty years.
Speaker 5: It's great. I'm on there last. I'm very excited to
Speaker 5: be able to get to know these people. They're wonderful people,
Speaker 5: great food, great family restaurant, free ice cream. If I've
Speaker 5: been to ten of them, every new restaurant is gorgeous.
Speaker 5: It's bigger, it's prettier than the other one. This one
Speaker 5: is no exception. You walk in, there's this massive bar,
Speaker 5: a lot of TVs. They got watch six eight TVs
Speaker 5: there in the bar loans you can watch your sports.
Speaker 5: And I was talking to Joey, who's the IT He's
Speaker 5: very proud of the server room and pulling all the
Speaker 5: cable and all the cameras. They have more security cameras,
Speaker 5: literally than four docs. I am not kidding you. If
Speaker 5: I wanted to steal a tistato chip from whoever I'm
Speaker 5: eating with, I guarantee this camera has me I can
Speaker 5: get busted. And it was just not a good relationship thing.
Speaker 5: They got cameras everywhere. But anyway, Joy was telling me
Speaker 5: at Gringos for the first time, instead of using typical
Speaker 5: fiber or internet company or cable, they installed Starlink. They're
Speaker 5: using starlink and that's Elon Musk's service, relatively new that
Speaker 5: you're gonna be finding on airplanes to make Internet go faster.
Speaker 5: He loves it. They installed it in the roof, he said,
Speaker 5: I don't know. It's maybe about one foot by one foot.
Speaker 5: Dish automatically finds the point in the sky in the
Speaker 5: southern atmosphere. You know whatever. Starlink, he says, is fasted
Speaker 5: I needed. I haven't tried starlink. I'm waiting for United
Speaker 5: Airlines to to put Starlink on their flight so I
Speaker 5: can test it and everything. But I thought it was cool.
Speaker 5: It's available now, and one of the reasons I think
Speaker 5: you use it is because they are built this restaurant
Speaker 5: Tomball is so remote and it's such a new area
Speaker 5: that they're building in right at the corner of these
Speaker 5: two highway intersections. I don't think even fiber could have
Speaker 5: been run out there is he's not run out to
Speaker 5: the Yes, they said, screw it, let's try this starlink
Speaker 5: and he said it's working well. And I saw how
Speaker 5: it works. So congratulations to the new Gringos, tex mex
Speaker 5: Tomball restaurant. When you go in, asked, I don't know,
Speaker 5: try I don't know if they have Wi Fi, but
Speaker 5: ask them to change a TV channel or something like text.
Speaker 5: It's very fast, very internet. I thought that was pretty good.
Speaker 5: What else do we got? Few things? I wanted to mention, Yes,
Speaker 5: I've been through the tortilla TSA. We've been to the
Speaker 5: tortilla type of thing. Uh uh subscribe. I mentioned this too,
Speaker 5: that I am also here to help you out with
Speaker 5: canceling your subscriptions. Time of the year right now it
Speaker 5: is summer, sneaky subscriptions continue to ruin your budget. This
Speaker 5: is the time of year to maybe go over everything
Speaker 5: that you have subscribed to. Like I said, Amazon Prime's
Speaker 5: coming up. The reason Amazon Prime Day was coming up, specifically,
Speaker 5: Amazon wanted to sell memberships subscription which is one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty five hundred and fifty bucks a year. That's
Speaker 5: what a subscription is. Oh wait a minute, you have
Speaker 5: a Sam's Club. Oh wait a minute, you have a Costco.
Speaker 5: Oh wait a minute, you and then you've got all
Speaker 5: your streamers. How many subscriptions do you need? Americans spend
Speaker 5: more than one thousand dollars a year on subscription services.
Speaker 5: I think people, here's a stat throwing away, well over
Speaker 5: two hundred dollars a year that you're not using that
Speaker 5: time statbot. Four to five US adults have paid for
Speaker 5: one or more subscriptions in the past year. Average total
Speaker 5: amounts spent the past year for prescriptions ninety hours a month.
Speaker 5: That's o're a thousand bucks a year. Sixty one percent
Speaker 5: of subscribers are rethinking they're paid subscriptions because of the economy.
Speaker 5: You about it, streaming video, music services, retailers, gaming subscriptions,
Speaker 5: news and media services, health and fitness services, meal kit
Speaker 5: food delivery services, security apps kind of need that, software management,
Speaker 5: financial apps, a lot of things that you're spending on saying.
Speaker 5: I'm giving you ideas right now. You're like, hey, Dan,
Speaker 5: I wonder if my wife canceled the of the Hulu
Speaker 5: like I told you to or whatever. This is a
Speaker 5: good time to go check out to see how do
Speaker 5: you do it? How do you find and how do
Speaker 5: you cancel subscriptions you don't want anymore. There's actually a
Speaker 5: budgeting app, believe it or not, that helps you where
Speaker 5: your money is going, so you could scale down spending
Speaker 5: in all these categories. Actually just some budgeting apps. They
Speaker 5: can help you identify all your subscriptions and they can
Speaker 5: cancel them for you. I know this because I saw commercial.
Speaker 5: What's the commercial I see on the NBA? Is it
Speaker 5: for Rocket Money? Is that what it is? Right? Something
Speaker 5: like that? I'm not sure. It helps people flag all
Speaker 5: your accounts and I guess I don't know. I haven't
Speaker 5: use it, but one click it gets rid of your
Speaker 5: own new subscriptions. There's one way to do it, I know.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think hopefully is Rocket Money free? I
Speaker 5: don't even know that. Maybe another subscription. Also, here's another
Speaker 5: way auto your bank account. Look at your credit card bill.
Speaker 5: Odds are you're going to pay via your credit card?
Speaker 5: Go through your credit card and if you see something recurring,
Speaker 5: like I see an Amazon bill every single month or whatever,
Speaker 5: is it I don't know, ten dollars twelve fifteen bucks
Speaker 5: a month, like yeah, I know, I know, like that,
Speaker 5: but that's really the only streamer service that I subscribe to.
Speaker 5: I continue to steal my other's friends pass words. Just kidding,
Speaker 5: not really, But go through your credit card statements and
Speaker 5: if you see something come up over and over again,
Speaker 5: you're thinking, man, when's the last time I actually went
Speaker 5: into costco or if you when was the last time
Speaker 5: I actually watched it? Subscription service? Cancel the dang thing, man, cancel.
Speaker 5: So this is the time to do it. Look for
Speaker 5: some of these apps if you want to, you know,
Speaker 5: get better deals. Look for bundle subscriptions. For example, I
Speaker 5: think Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus. You can all three
Speaker 5: get those in one three bundle, something like seventeen bucks
Speaker 5: a month. If you use something like Apple Music, they
Speaker 5: offer you know, maybe you know, maybe Apple Music, you
Speaker 5: get free with some unlimited calling plan. I think Total Wireless,
Speaker 5: like Total Wireless. I think at the high end plan,
Speaker 5: they gave me a full year of Disney Plus. I
Speaker 5: use Total Wireless. That's great, by the way, use it
Speaker 5: that way. But again, downtime, middle of the summer, it's hot,
Speaker 5: as you know what, cancel some of your subscriptions. Don't
Speaker 5: cancel this show. One more segment to now hang in.
Speaker 5: You could do it people. It is the High Tech
Speaker 5: Dection Show with me Michael Garfield.
Speaker 7: We made it.
Speaker 5: Final few minutes of the High Tech Textan Show, the
Speaker 5: last show of the weekend of the last weekend in June,
Speaker 5: which means we are, I guess coming up in a
Speaker 5: few days. We are halfway through Happy Hour of twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five. Where did a year go? It flew by
Speaker 5: so fat? No I didn't. This time is moving slower
Speaker 5: and slower. The world is just so jacked up, and
Speaker 5: I am the only voice of reason. Michael Garfield. That
Speaker 5: is my voice. Thank you for listening. Thank you also
Speaker 5: to Callum and Will for keeping the show on the air.
Speaker 5: Brian Erickson, iHeartRadio program chief across the state of Texas.
Speaker 5: Thank you for Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Terrest. Really listening
Speaker 5: to this show. If you're in Austin, I do have
Speaker 5: an Austin presence. If you watch every Monday morning on
Speaker 5: Fox seven, that is me. That's what I look like.
Speaker 5: I do it technology segments. I need to what are
Speaker 5: you doing this coming? We Oh, that's right. This coming Monday,
Speaker 5: if you're in Austin. I taped a piece of a
Speaker 5: robot lawnmower. It'll run this Monday, I think seven forty
Speaker 5: five am on Fox seven in Austin. I will then
Speaker 5: put it on my high tech texting dot com and
Speaker 5: YouTube channels. But I tested out a lawnmower where you
Speaker 5: don't have to do a dang thing except download the
Speaker 5: app and charge it up and it goes. I'll say
Speaker 5: it again, where was this when I was a kid? Man?
Speaker 5: I had to grow up. When I grew up, ma'am,
Speaker 5: my parents maybe mow the lawn bag then didn't know, No,
Speaker 5: don't need to do that all. Is it worth the
Speaker 5: twenty five one hundred dollars the version I tested, I
Speaker 5: will will tell you that. So that's my Austin tip.
Speaker 5: I got to Austin at least once a month to
Speaker 5: actually tape these things, and I missed it this month.
Speaker 5: But when I go in a few weeks, I apparently
Speaker 5: am going to see another driverless ride sharing service because Tesla.
Speaker 5: Welcome to the gang. Tesla launched a robo taxi service
Speaker 5: just a few days ago in Austin. There's anybody seen
Speaker 5: those yet they I've seen some videos of them. They
Speaker 5: look pretty cool. Not a Tesla fan for safe they
Speaker 5: look they're testing with a very small number of cars,
Speaker 5: and they're testing them with a human person actually sitting
Speaker 5: in there in the passenger seat. They're not doing anything
Speaker 5: other than monitor but maybe they've got a chicken break
Speaker 5: or something that'll help it. I understand the company's caution
Speaker 5: seems for the best because I think one robo taxi
Speaker 5: from Tesla attempted to drive on the wrong side of
Speaker 5: the road already. Has anybody done this? My cousins from
Speaker 5: Atlanta were in town this past week. They got two
Speaker 5: cute little kids, and they had said they were in
Speaker 5: San Francisco not long ago, and they took way Moo,
Speaker 5: the driverless Waymo, everywhere they thought. The kids thought they
Speaker 5: were in Disneyland. They loved it. It is a crazy
Speaker 5: experience when you sit and let a nobody, a robot,
Speaker 5: a ghost drive you around. But it's also freaky. It's like,
Speaker 5: excuse me, driver, can I get out?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Uh, ain't no one there to talk to. So you're
Speaker 5: gonna see more and more of these things. Waymo also
Speaker 5: operates in Austin. I was in Austin. I did see
Speaker 5: there's any one called Zeusk. I think it is is
Speaker 5: that the Amazon went Austin. It's it's it's it's it's
Speaker 5: a betting ground for the state of I mean, they've
Speaker 5: been in California for a while, but Austin. Maybe it's
Speaker 5: so progressive that it's like, you know, all these new
Speaker 5: tech That's why I have a technology segment Austin. There's
Speaker 5: so many tech oriented things. It works well. But also
Speaker 5: Texas is relatively simple the state of text with it
Speaker 5: is simple to get a license for robotaxis. You just
Speaker 5: need to make sure that the cars actually passed inspection
Speaker 5: and then you're ready to go. You don't have to
Speaker 5: jump through hoops. That's why Tesla, which is Elon Musk,
Speaker 5: which is based in Houston, which is based in Austin area. Anyway,
Speaker 5: they decided let's just roll it out in Austin. But
Speaker 5: I thought that was needed. So if anybody is I'm
Speaker 5: not going to give out the phone number anymore. But
Speaker 5: that's another one that was out there. Speaking of which,
Speaker 5: what's Michael driving? I do get the test drive cars.
Speaker 5: This past week I was in two cars, one of
Speaker 5: which was the Buick Invista. I'll say it again. I
Speaker 5: tried it last year. Buick Invista was my favorite car
Speaker 5: of the entire year. Every year I get to test
Speaker 5: drive cars. I get him for one week. This is
Speaker 5: not sponsored, They're not through a dealership. I get them
Speaker 5: directly for the manufacturer. I am very lucky. I've done
Speaker 5: this for fifteen years. I've tested you Haven over one
Speaker 5: thousand cars. I don't even have my own car because
Speaker 5: I get a new one every week to drive. Buick
Speaker 5: and Vista relatively inexpensive. It's in the thirty thousands. It's
Speaker 5: a kind of a sedan four door, comfy, good tech drives. Well,
Speaker 5: didn't have the biggest sized engine, but it does get
Speaker 5: you from A to B where you want to go.
Speaker 5: I just loved it. This was the Avanir Buick Avanir
Speaker 5: that's kind of the higher end luxurious that has, you know,
Speaker 5: a little bit more things built in with the seats
Speaker 5: and everything. Buick Investor. Man, I know times are tight,
Speaker 5: budgets whatever. If you're thinking of a car, if you're
Speaker 5: thinking of one that you want a comfy ride and
Speaker 5: you don't want to spend an armored leg because you know,
Speaker 5: cars are not cheap nowadays. Take a look at you.
Speaker 5: I think Buick has done over the past three four, five,
Speaker 5: six years with the brand. It's great invest to E
Speaker 5: n V I s TA definitely like that, absolutely like that.
Speaker 5: Also was in a Toyota land Cruiser. I haven't been
Speaker 5: historically a big Toyota guy. A lot of the Toyota
Speaker 5: in my mind when you sit in it's very plastically
Speaker 5: the land Cruiser. It's big. It's that their biggest vehicle
Speaker 5: yet it is a Mama suv. It holds a ton
Speaker 5: of stuff, especially when you put that third road down.
Speaker 5: It is actually the second second road down. It is big.
Speaker 5: Ah handles well still, you know, I'm knocking on the plastic.
Speaker 5: You know, there's not a lot of wood grain. They
Speaker 5: keep it down. But it's not the most it's not
Speaker 5: the cheapest thing ever. But if you're a Toyota fan,
Speaker 5: Toyota does hold its value. Toyota is a Texas base
Speaker 5: now in the United States company and you may want
Speaker 5: to look at that too. So those are the two
Speaker 5: I had from an suv into the more for a
Speaker 5: typical four door Sudan thing. So that's one of the
Speaker 5: things I roll. Finally, last email of the week, here
Speaker 5: we go. What do I got? Hey, Garth heard you're
Speaker 5: talking about your blizzard. You said there's five new blizzards.
Speaker 5: What are the treats? Because I love me some blizzards. Well,
Speaker 5: all right, that is from Janet. Janet, I love me
Speaker 5: some blizzards too.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 5: They came into the studio last week. They brought at
Speaker 5: the twenty twenty five summer Blizzard treats. There's five of them,
Speaker 5: one of which some'mores marshmallow chocolate bars, gram crackers. Good.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give it on a one to five. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give that a three. Not a big marshamallow fan.
Speaker 5: I do like the the grahm crackery type of thing.
Speaker 5: Not enough chocolate, you have to have chocolate to get
Speaker 5: a five out of five. Number two, they brought in
Speaker 5: a confetti cake blizzard. Woo, little cake pieces, confetti frosting,
Speaker 5: little birthday action over there. Good vanilla ish didn't have
Speaker 5: enough chocolate. We give that three and a half. Dipped
Speaker 5: strawberry cheesecake blizzard. Cheese cake pieces in there, chunks of
Speaker 5: chocolate strawberry topping. Give that one a four. Different mixes
Speaker 5: in a little sweetness, a little fruit. So I got
Speaker 5: my fruit. Finally. Now there's two more cotton candy. Cotton
Speaker 5: candy blizzard, cotton candy sprinkles pretty much with their white
Speaker 5: ice cream two, two and a half. Do you like
Speaker 5: cotton candy? Get it? Not a big cotton handy guy.
Speaker 5: Last one here it comes five out of five. The
Speaker 5: mixing bowl mashup Blizzard. What do you say is in
Speaker 5: the mixing bowl mashup blizzard? Oh it's only a blend
Speaker 5: of brownie batter and chocolate chip cookie dough for the win.
Speaker 5: I rate my Blizzards people best dessert in history, ma'am. Sorry,
Speaker 5: that's the way he goes. Would have got a six
Speaker 5: on a scale of five and dead peanut butter man
Speaker 5: deal mixing bowl mash up. There you go. Just it's
Speaker 5: public service, not paid don a commercial, but able to
Speaker 5: tice tho DQ people to actually bring it into the
Speaker 5: studio with that show, is ober? I need to go
Speaker 5: run another didn't least six to eight miles after everything
Speaker 5: I've eaten this week? Whatever you do, have a good
Speaker 5: upcoming July for holiday.
Speaker 3: We will have a.
Speaker 5: Show next week in too, like we always do. It
Speaker 5: will be halfway through at the end of the year.
Speaker 5: I do want to thank my good friends Calum and
Speaker 5: Will keeping us on the air making the sound sex eight.
Speaker 5: This is my real voice. This is not a Burt
Speaker 5: Reynolds AI and this that reference. Go back and listen
Speaker 5: to the podcast. People can make theres some scary things
Speaker 5: out there. People pray for our world. Pray in the
Speaker 5: second half. There's a lot better than the first half.
Speaker 5: My name is Garth. I go great first weekend and
Speaker 5: week of July. Fucking next weekend because right now my
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