WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:06.799 Is Michael Garfi. 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:07.759 Michael Garfield. 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:09.240 Michael Garfield's joining. 4 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.080 In the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with 5 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:13.800 a high Tech Texans. 6 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:15.599 Have to make life. 7 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:19.320 Easier new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might like. 8 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:31.640 Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping 9 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:37.280 you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the 10 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:43.079 iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan Michael Garfield. 11 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.119 This week on a high Tech Texan show. One of 12 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:55.799 the original video conferencing services that we used so many 13 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.520 years ago has called it quits. I don't know when 14 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.399 the last time you used it. With that is shutting 15 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:06.959 down Google making it easier to remove your personal information 16 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:09.920 from the web. That's a good thing, people, especially if 17 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:14.480 you have something to hide. And how embarrassed are Tesla 18 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:19.719 owners right now that they have to start hiding the 19 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:24.560 name Tesla on their cyber trucks. People, We've got all 20 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:29.239 that your questions and answers at three four six twenty 21 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:32.159 nine Texan. That is how you're going to get a 22 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.000 hold of me. Michael. Is the name Garf the first 23 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:39.280 four letters of my last name Garfield. If we're really tight, 24 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:41.840 love to hear from you. A big shout out to 25 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.359 everybody listening terrestrially here as we approach oh our last 26 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:52.319 full day of daylight saving time. I believe that's right, people, 27 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:54.640 we got to set the clocks forward. If you were 28 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:58.719 in Houston on KPRC nine fifty San Antonio, what is up? 29 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:03.680 News Radio twelve Hundai and then Big D Dallas Mighty 30 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.959 Mighty eleven ninety talk radio. Should you not be listening 31 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.120 that way? Hey, thanks for listening to us on the stream. 32 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.879 You can do that by downloading the iHeartRadio app. And 33 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.599 then if you've missed this two hours of just just 34 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:20.120 fun information, you could podcast. We podcast it right callum. 35 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:22.039 Once we're done, he will put it on the podcast. 36 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:26.800 Just look for iHeartRadio app, Spotify, Apple were over, great 37 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:32.280 and award winning radio shows are replayed, not mine, but 38 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.639 look for high Tech Texan. Glad you are here and 39 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.000 let me start with this. This has been a very 40 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.960 busy week in a very high caloric week. As I 41 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:47.199 sit here in my city of Houston, people, I will 42 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:51.280 say this, I am done with barbecue, and I'm actually 43 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.120 I'm done with food for that matter. After three straight 44 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:59.719 days of playing around at the world Championship Barbecue Contest, 45 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:08.400 which was held between judging barbecue, judging steaks, sampling one 46 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:11.560 hundred different restaurants around Houston about a week ago, four 47 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:13.560 hundred and fifty bottles of wine which I did not touch. 48 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.879 The wine, by the way, and then starting off with 49 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:19.120 one of a new rodeo was at the rodeo just 50 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.719 kicked off at Rodeo Houston. I was up in the 51 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.240 Director's club thanks to a friend with all you can eat, 52 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:27.159 all you can drink. This is this is not a 53 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:30.960 it's a fun month, but you just yea yeah, gotta 54 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.280 slow it down. And I say this to myself, but 55 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:37.240 if anybody wants to take advice, because it's make sure 56 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.400 you continue to exercise, strap on the running shoes, get 57 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:44.840 on your exercise by go to the gym. But just 58 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:46.960 you got it. And I've known this. This is not 59 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:49.879 my first rodeo unintended, but I've done this for almost 60 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.680 a quarter of century. Right now, I have too much 61 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:56.520 fun sometimes and as I'm getting older, I just gotta 62 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:58.240 slow it down. I gotta sew it out. So in 63 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.280 no way we are on a no food don't even 64 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.479 mention f O O d H for another week or 65 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.080 two or three, I'm not even sure. And then we 66 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.840 got March madness coming up. It's come on people, March 67 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:11.879 is it came in like a lion. I don't know 68 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.599 if it's like a lamb. It's windy, it's fattening. But 69 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.519 oh think I didn't even participate Marti Gras. I didn't 70 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:20.360 even have time for the Marti Gras. So for all 71 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.319 you people doing who went nuts on Marti Gras, because 72 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:24.600 let me help you out, it was more than a 73 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.079 fat Tuesday. It was fat freaking March. I'll tell you 74 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.040 what right now? And I guess what do you say 75 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:31.959 to people who are who are in the middle of Lent? 76 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.040 Right now? And this is a serious question because I 77 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.839 don't celebrate Lent. Do you say happy Lent? Do you 78 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:41.959 say clean your lint trap? Do you say? What? What 79 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.519 do you? Because what is lnt? Actually I need to 80 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:46.839 google this thing. Lent is giving up something for forty 81 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.120 days that that that is to make your life better, 82 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:52.839 to healthy or something like that. Because I hear a 83 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.800 lot of people saying, well, I'm giving up meat, and 84 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.160 I think, don't you give up me? But you have 85 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.879 to eat fish on Friday? I mean, please, don't come 86 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.160 to me for religion. Folks just don't. But people they don't. 87 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.800 They give up drinking. They I don't know, they a 88 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.480 number of shopping I don't know what it is. Whatever. 89 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.399 If you're celebrating lent, dig into your belly button, see 90 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:18.480 if you find any and I hope you're having a 91 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.160 good one. However you are celebrating. There's a lot of 92 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:23.279 so we got it. We got Passover coming up next, 93 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:26.920 but the Eastern coming up, the very big religious time, 94 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.800 religious time of year, but probably much more so than 95 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.240 Christmas time. There's just a lot of back to back stuff. 96 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.079 I digress because I'm trying to keep my mind off 97 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:39.000 of food. Let's start with the fact that one of 98 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.920 the original one of the original video conferencing service that 99 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:47.120 you may have used, is actually fine. Finally, I think 100 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:49.000 is the word shutting down and I couldn't believe it. 101 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:56.160 Who remembers using Skype? You remember Skype? Skype was that 102 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.839 first tool that allowedest to one of the first tools 103 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.759 that got us to pretend like we were living in 104 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:04.720 the Jetsnian age, you know from the Jetsons. If you 105 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:09.480 remember watching that nineteen sixty era Hannah Barbara cartoon, yes, 106 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.199 I know they have flying cars, and yes everybody has 107 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.519 sky apartments, and yes, if you have to walk the dog, 108 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.240 you got to go out on a you know, automatic 109 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.680 little you know walking machine and you have to yell, Jane, 110 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:22.800 stop this crazy thing. But it was always interested in 111 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:27.240 me to me that they had these video televisions where 112 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.199 if George was at the office and Jane or the 113 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.920 kids were back at home the sky apartment, instead of 114 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:34.399 picking up the phone call, they would just turn on 115 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.519 the TV and they could talk to each other. And 116 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.399 I just thought that was man, eyes, are we ever 117 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:42.480 going to see that in our lifetimes? Well, we actually did, 118 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.000 and we actually do and we realize it now on 119 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.720 a very regular basis, if not several times a day 120 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:53.439 via Zoom or be it FaceTime, or be a Microsoft 121 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:55.279 teams and there's a number of these. But if you 122 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.399 go back, people, one of the more popular, one of 123 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:03.360 the first video conference application out there was Skype. Years 124 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.040 after was created invented, Microsoft bought the company and to 125 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:10.639 this day Microsoft owns it. And I think Microsoft said, 126 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.240 you know what, we don't want to be in this business. 127 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:17.720 Microsoft breaking News is doing It's doing away with its 128 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:22.480 once popular video conference application Skype. Apparently they are streamlining 129 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.480 their free consumer communication offering. But also, by the way, 130 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.839 Microsoft has something else for years. It's called Microsoft Teams, 131 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:32.120 and it did kind of, you know, continue to bubble 132 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.160 up in my mind the few times that I use 133 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.720 Microsoft Teams is why does Microsoft still have Teams and 134 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.480 why do they still have Skype? Because Microsoft Teams, for 135 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.399 the most part, is free. Yes, there is a business 136 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:44.800 option too, but they just don't use it. If you 137 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.920 still use Skype, people listen to my show more often 138 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:49.519 because you really got to get it to the twenty 139 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.879 first century. Skype is going to be around until May fifth, 140 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.600 so we now have less than two months. It's going 141 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.120 to give users time to explore. This is from Microsoft. 142 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:00.800 They want you to explore Microsoft Team and decide on 143 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.480 the option that works best for you now real quickly. 144 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.600 Some alternatives to Skype. As I said, WhatsApp is very good. 145 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.279 WhatsApp is a popular app. It is owned by Meta 146 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.040 and that's the same company that owns Facebook and Instagram 147 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:17.079 that works all over the world, same features as Skype, 148 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:20.240 along with text messaging and voice and video calls and 149 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.160 even group chats. Zoom without a doubt. Another popular alternative 150 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.279 many people became familiar during COVID nineteen pandemic, and I 151 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.839 think app is best known for its video meeting functions. 152 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:36.080 Google offers something Google offers video conferencing called meat that 153 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.519 replaced the old Google hangouts, And so anyone with a 154 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.840 Google account can use Google Meet. And yes, if you're 155 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.279 an Apple user, you can use FaceTime across iPhone and 156 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.120 iPad and your Mac devices. We take our first break 157 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:53.080 over here. I am not right now utilizing any of 158 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:55.759 these video conferencing. Back in the day, I asked, I 159 00:08:55.799 --> 00:09:00.000 simultaneously did this radio show while using a video conference, 160 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.679 and it was really fun. I mean this was way 161 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.759 before Skype. I mean I set up an old fashioned 162 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:07.000 webcam and I had a server. But it was neat 163 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.200 because people actually got to see the magic behind the microphones. 164 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:12.159 Like it's really sexy. It's just me and my hair 165 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.639 doing a show. But when we come back, I'd love 166 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.399 to hear from you. Three four six twenty nine textan 167 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.600 send me a x or tweet high tech Texan Hi 168 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:24.519 g h T E c h T e x A 169 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.480 N Are you sad to see Skype go? What will 170 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:29.919 you use? What's your most popular video conference? And then 171 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:32.840 I'm I've received since this news hit a few days ago. 172 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.720 I've received a lot of emails because I asked. I 173 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.039 put out a little poll. What are some of the 174 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:43.039 failed or apps or services or. 175 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:45.440 Products and technology that you have used recently that are 176 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.000 no longer around. 177 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:49.000 We'll take a poll. We're here from you. It is 178 00:09:49.039 --> 00:10:10.360 Michael Garfield, the long running high Tech Texan show. I 179 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:13.679 missed it before, but I would be remiss in reminding 180 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:17.039 you that this is the weekend that we lose one 181 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:21.679 hour of sleep. Now listen, this debate comes up twice 182 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.919 a year pretty much. Why do we still have daylight 183 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:29.279 saving time? Why don't we have one? And you're not 184 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:31.559 going to get an argument for me, But you're not 185 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.559 going to like my take because I actually prefer the 186 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.639 winter months. I like when it gets darker a little earlier, 187 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:45.679 and only because I love being outdoors and I'm a 188 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:50.639 runner and living in Texas, I don't like running during 189 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.480 the summer it's hot. I think about it this way 190 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.960 because I think three steps ahead of everybody else. If 191 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.200 it gets darker earlier, I know it's the fall in 192 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:06.720 winter season, which means it's cool outside, which is better 193 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:11.080 and easier for running and biking at longer lengths without 194 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.799 fitzing during the summer. You see, this is how my 195 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.240 mind works. And if you don't like it, I guess 196 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.600 just to stop listening. But that's how I think about it. 197 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:23.960 Either way. The point is, when you go to bed 198 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.919 Saturday night, set your clock ahead one hour, you're gonna 199 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:31.080 lose an hour of sleep. Now, many, many, in most 200 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.200 objects that we have automatically will set your clocks forward 201 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.000 or back, depending if you're in the fall too. Cars, 202 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:44.120 newer cars do it. Your your cell phone automatically does it, 203 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.799 which means if it's connected to your smart watch, that 204 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.600 will do it. Now things that don't. If you have 205 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.840 an old fashioned clock on the wall, you're gonna have 206 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:53.600 to take you know, take your finger and just kind 207 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:57.399 of loop it around an hour. A microwaves, A lot 208 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:00.639 of older microwaves and current microwaves, they don't don't change. 209 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:02.639 I've got a microwave, I've got to do it manually. 210 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.080 I've got a clock on my oven that I have 211 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.360 to do it manually. Other than that, computers do it automatically. 212 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:13.320 Other than that, just don't forget. Because the last thing 213 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:15.879 you need to do is I always forget this. I 214 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.320 always tell people, if you forget to six o'clock forward, 215 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.320 you're going to be an hour late to church on Sunday, 216 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.159 or you're going to be an hour early. I still 217 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.039 haven't figured that part out, but that is what you 218 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.519 need to do so this coming weekend. So depending when 219 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:29.799 you're listening to this or how you're listening to this, 220 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.759 you can go ahead and do that and you actually 221 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.240 should be set to go. You know, Scott finished talking 222 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.320 about Skype and how it's shutting down, and I posted this, 223 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.960 I think, on my ex account, and I asked a question. 224 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:44.159 I said, is anybody sad to see Skype? Go it? 225 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:48.120 And to that point, what are some of the products 226 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.759 that tech products or services over the years or even 227 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:55.360 recently that are no longer here that you miss? And 228 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.000 I kind of compile the list and run through them. 229 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.559 Now if I forget something I'd love to hear from. 230 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:04.759 This is an interactive radio program Folks three four six 231 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.879 twenty nine, Texan three four six nine t X A 232 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.080 n If for some reason Callum doesn't feel like picking 233 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.919 up the phone a voicemail, should pick up leave a voicemail, 234 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:15.960 and if so, you you do give us the right 235 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.679 to utilize your voice on the radio. The FCC actually 236 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.600 just which I just took my annual class. We have 237 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.000 to tell you that, but feel free to leave a voicemail. 238 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:30.440 Somebody wrote that Fossil no longer makes smart watches. I 239 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.320 actually forgot the fact that Fossil, which I think is 240 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:36.000 based in Dallas, good watches, but they made a smart watch. 241 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.960 Fossil ceased the production of their smart watches last year. Okay, 242 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:45.200 that's pretty good, all you Apple fans. Apple last year 243 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:50.240 they discontinued a few things. They had a blood oxygen sensor. 244 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.639 They they discontinued the sale of watches equipped with blood 245 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:59.039 oxygen sensors because they lost a patent dispute. Apple Pay Later, 246 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.440 which I guess was different than Apple Buy Now, the 247 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.039 buy now pay later service was shut down Dan they 248 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.840 did that thing didn't last a year. Uh, and they 249 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:11.279 reverted back to the traditional Apple pay model. I guess 250 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.600 that's kind of like a layaway that didn't work. Someone 251 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:20.240 put that the decline of physical media. The trend away 252 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:25.759 from physical media continued with Best Buy stopping to sell 253 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:29.320 physical movie discs. I do remember the news that red 254 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:33.879 Box that was around for like two decades. They closed 255 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:38.159 all twenty plus thousand of their kiosks. They fought for bankruptcy. 256 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:42.759 And I mean when I say physical media, it's the CDs, 257 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.399 the DVDs, the cassette tapes, the albums that we used 258 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.919 to have everything. Now most everything is all digitized. What 259 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:55.759 else died recently? The end of instant messaging services? I 260 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:59.120 seq remember the letters man if you were a kid 261 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.200 in the nineties, man and the letters I CQ. I 262 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.440 think it was an Israeli They created an israel service 263 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:06.799 and they created it because it was kind of a 264 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:10.080 play on letters of the term I seek you S 265 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:14.080 E E K you, like where are you online? Twenty 266 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.559 seven years that was around that shutdown. Google shut down 267 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:21.559 a number of apps, Google shutdown, Google pay, Google podcasts, 268 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.080 a lot of number of things. It's sad seeing this 269 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:28.360 stuff go. But as things go bye bye, things are 270 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.600 also invented. I mean, I've been doing the show what 271 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:33.039 Now twenty two minutes or something. I can't even tell 272 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.480 you the number of startups that have actually launched around 273 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.840 the world. And that's why I like talking about technology, 274 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.480 tech related things, and I do get excited about that. 275 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:45.720 And if you don't know, I get excited. If you 276 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.159 can't hear it in my voice, maybe you can see it. 277 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:52.360 And this is a good time to let everybody know 278 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.279 and not that my radio show is heard terrestrially in Austin. 279 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.759 That's the one big city I have yet to infiltrate, 280 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:04.200 as we are heard in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. 281 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.200 But if you're driving on WOAI has got a very 282 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:09.840 big stick, you may pick that up in Austin, which 283 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:12.360 Austin is probably my favorite city here. Obviously I'm a 284 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:14.840 UT graduate, my mom's from there, the whole thing. But anyway, 285 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.519 I very honored to say am the new technology reporter 286 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:25.159 with the weekly segments on Fox seven in Austin, Texas. 287 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:30.399 That's right, people, It took me thirty plus years after 288 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:35.399 I graduated from UT with a Radio Intelligion Film degree. 289 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:38.519 And when you graduated from UT and you had a 290 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:42.159 RTF degree or even a journalism for that point, you 291 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.080 kind of wanted to stay in Austin. You wanted to 292 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.159 get a job, or you wanted to get an internship 293 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:48.440 at one of the local TV stations. And you know, 294 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:51.519 when I graduated, there was no Fox. It was ABC, CBS, 295 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:57.360 at NBC and KTBC was a CBS station. It's now 296 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.879 the Fox station that I'm on. I was never able 297 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.879 to get on there. Whatever it thirty plus years later. 298 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:06.599 Guess what, I guess you can always go home. I 299 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:10.200 am now on KTBC Fox seven every Monday, seven forty 300 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.039 five in the morning on their Good Day Austin. I 301 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.680 will be there showing some products, talking about news, and 302 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.680 I could not be more excited, along with a lot 303 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:20.640 of the things that I do on Houston TV with 304 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:26.359 Great Day Houston. It's kind of fun, very ironic. I 305 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.559 was up there last week. I drove up Monday and 306 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:32.960 just kind of meet and do my first little shot 307 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:35.640 on the set in the morning. And I was less 308 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:39.400 than one mile away from the UT Communications School. And 309 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:42.039 so I guess everything that changes remains the same or 310 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.400 whatever they say. So shout out to Austin. I continue, 311 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.160 I don't know, before I get to old gray, wrinkly 312 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.400 tired voice is shot. I'm trying to take this entire 313 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.240 state of Texas, if not the country by storm. 314 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:53.519 People. 315 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:56.240 It's only taking me twenty three plus years of the 316 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.240 high tech texts and brand to do it. So that 317 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.400 is something new to and I am excited new things 318 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.400 that we will talk about that just came out. I 319 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:08.839 went down memory lane just now. In a few I 320 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:12.200 talked about how I graduated college and now I'm in Austin. 321 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:14.119 But I also before that talked about some of the 322 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.160 products and services that we kind of grew up with 323 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.079 or liked that they no longer exist. You know, maybe 324 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.559 it's ICQ or Skype is now shutting down, which brings 325 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:26.240 us the whole thing. Well, let's go back in time. 326 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:28.200 I want you to think about this over this next 327 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:32.599 few minute break. What were some of your favorite games 328 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.400 you used to play as a kid. Now I have 329 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:39.839 to define this. If you are under forty years old 330 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.759 right now, I know you're gonna come up with a 331 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.440 video game, all right, You're gonna go Super Mario. You 332 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.640 gotta go Tiger Woods Golf or something like that. Okay, 333 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:51.079 I'm kind of talking about over forty years old right now. 334 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:55.000 What board games were your favorite? And I'm gonna go 335 00:18:55.119 --> 00:19:03.079 to Shoots and Ladders, Candyland, Monopoly. It goes on or not. 336 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.680 There's a point where I'm going over here, and if 337 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.920 you want to realize how tech is now infiltrating the 338 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:12.079 old school board games, you're gonna have to stand by. 339 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.039 We'll be right back and I'll tell you that's going 340 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:34.400 just like that big booman boy said Michael, is my name, 341 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:37.039 Michael guard Build. We're at the bottom of that first 342 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:40.400 hour of my High Tech Textan show. Don't go anywhere 343 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:43.680 we do. Thank you for contributing high Tech Texan on 344 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.400 all the social media. Spell the whole thing out h 345 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:48.799 I G H T E c h T e x 346 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:50.599 a N. If you don't want to call in to 347 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:53.960 three four six two nine T E x A N, 348 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.200 that's how you're gonna get to me. You can post 349 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:59.960 something like this subject we're about to hit. Go back 350 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.279 back many years ago. If you're over forty years old 351 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:05.640 or so, what were your favorite games that you used 352 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:08.359 to play? And I'm talking board games. I grew up 353 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:09.799 in an era and I was a young kid in 354 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.759 the seventies where there were really no home video games. 355 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.920 There were board games. And today, yes, there's still a 356 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:22.200 board games, but I don't think youngins play board games 357 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:24.640 like we used to because there's so much going on. 358 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.319 I mean, we've got phones that do crossword puzzles. Now, 359 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:30.799 we've got video games, we've got PlayStation and xboxes and 360 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:35.519 Nintendo's We've got switches and twitches, we got everything. But 361 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:39.000 back in the day, kids, Uncle Garfy, storytime. Here, pull 362 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:42.519 up a chair, there were these things called board games 363 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:46.680 from companies like Hasbro all right, and you would just 364 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.480 on a rainy day, even a sunny day, you and 365 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.279 your friends would sit there around a kitchen table of 366 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:57.519 your buddy's house and you would just play Sorry, shoots 367 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:03.160 and ladders, checkers. I was never a chess guy. Uh, 368 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.000 the Game of Life. What was your favorite board game? 369 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:09.599 You can just hit me at high Tech textan right now. 370 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.240 And the reason I say is is these games still 371 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.440 are here. But I saw this and this is it 372 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:17.519 kind of brings a little nostalgia, but I love how 373 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:23.200 the fact it brings technology into the world. Monopoly, pound 374 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:27.279 for pound, Monopoly probably was my most played board game. 375 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.400 And the funny thing is I could tell you years 376 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.680 in years of playing it up at the street at 377 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.000 my buddy Stuart Robinson's house with with Kurt Johnson. And 378 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.480 again these are some little kid buddies of mine. I 379 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:42.880 played that game so many times. I don't know if 380 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:45.640 anybody ever won the game of Monopoly, because can you 381 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.400 win Monopoly? Because it is the longest freaking game ever. 382 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:51.160 It just went on and on and on, and I 383 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:54.960 always wanted to be the banker because I don't know. 384 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:56.759 It really did help me with my math, because I'm 385 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.039 pretty good when it comes to numbers, and I always 386 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:01.319 had to be you know, there was these little tokens 387 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:05.559 and you could choose that the top hat, the iron. 388 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:08.119 I had to be the race car. I mean, I 389 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:09.519 was a baby. It's like, I ain't playing if I 390 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:11.759 ain't the race car, or I'm not the banker, I 391 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:14.960 ain't playing. But anyway, whatever, if you were the banker, 392 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:16.920 you can kind of cheat too, but that's neither here 393 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.960 nor here nor there. Well I saw this. Hasbro has 394 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:24.640 announced a new version of Monopoly, and it simplifies the 395 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:30.519 game by replacing cash and the banker with a mobile 396 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.920 app that handles all the games transactions. Okay, I'm sorry, 397 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:37.039 I may have to play this game again. That's pretty cool. 398 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:43.200 It's called the Monopoly App, Banking game and a smartphone 399 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:44.960 where a tablet takes over the role of the banker. 400 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.920 It keeps track of every player's money and properties. It's 401 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.960