Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 3: In the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
Speaker 3: a high Tech Texans.
Speaker 4: Have to make life.
Speaker 3: Easier new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
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Speaker 1: This week on a high Tech Texan show. One of
Speaker 1: the original video conferencing services that we used so many
Speaker 1: years ago has called it quits. I don't know when
Speaker 1: the last time you used it. With that is shutting
Speaker 1: down Google making it easier to remove your personal information
Speaker 1: from the web. That's a good thing, people, especially if
Speaker 1: you have something to hide. And how embarrassed are Tesla
Speaker 1: owners right now that they have to start hiding the
Speaker 1: name Tesla on their cyber trucks. People, We've got all
Speaker 1: that your questions and answers at three four six twenty
Speaker 1: nine Texan. That is how you're going to get a
Speaker 1: hold of me. Michael. Is the name Garf the first
Speaker 1: four letters of my last name Garfield. If we're really tight,
Speaker 1: love to hear from you. A big shout out to
Speaker 1: everybody listening terrestrially here as we approach oh our last
Speaker 1: full day of daylight saving time. I believe that's right, people,
Speaker 1: we got to set the clocks forward. If you were
Speaker 1: in Houston on KPRC nine fifty San Antonio, what is up?
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Speaker 1: look for high Tech Texan. Glad you are here and
Speaker 1: let me start with this. This has been a very
Speaker 1: busy week in a very high caloric week. As I
Speaker 1: sit here in my city of Houston, people, I will
Speaker 1: say this, I am done with barbecue, and I'm actually
Speaker 1: I'm done with food for that matter. After three straight
Speaker 1: days of playing around at the world Championship Barbecue Contest,
Speaker 1: which was held between judging barbecue, judging steaks, sampling one
Speaker 1: hundred different restaurants around Houston about a week ago, four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bottles of wine which I did not touch.
Speaker 1: The wine, by the way, and then starting off with
Speaker 1: one of a new rodeo was at the rodeo just
Speaker 1: kicked off at Rodeo Houston. I was up in the
Speaker 1: Director's club thanks to a friend with all you can eat,
Speaker 1: all you can drink. This is this is not a
Speaker 1: it's a fun month, but you just yea yeah, gotta
Speaker 1: slow it down. And I say this to myself, but
Speaker 1: if anybody wants to take advice, because it's make sure
Speaker 1: you continue to exercise, strap on the running shoes, get
Speaker 1: on your exercise by go to the gym. But just
Speaker 1: you got it. And I've known this. This is not
Speaker 1: my first rodeo unintended, but I've done this for almost
Speaker 1: a quarter of century. Right now, I have too much
Speaker 1: fun sometimes and as I'm getting older, I just gotta
Speaker 1: slow it down. I gotta sew it out. So in
Speaker 1: no way we are on a no food don't even
Speaker 1: mention f O O d H for another week or
Speaker 1: two or three, I'm not even sure. And then we
Speaker 1: got March madness coming up. It's come on people, March
Speaker 1: is it came in like a lion. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's like a lamb. It's windy, it's fattening. But
Speaker 1: oh think I didn't even participate Marti Gras. I didn't
Speaker 1: even have time for the Marti Gras. So for all
Speaker 1: you people doing who went nuts on Marti Gras, because
Speaker 1: let me help you out, it was more than a
Speaker 1: fat Tuesday. It was fat freaking March. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what right now? And I guess what do you say
Speaker 1: to people who are who are in the middle of Lent?
Speaker 1: Right now? And this is a serious question because I
Speaker 1: don't celebrate Lent. Do you say happy Lent? Do you
Speaker 1: say clean your lint trap? Do you say? What? What
Speaker 1: do you? Because what is lnt? Actually I need to
Speaker 1: google this thing. Lent is giving up something for forty
Speaker 1: days that that that is to make your life better,
Speaker 1: to healthy or something like that. Because I hear a
Speaker 1: lot of people saying, well, I'm giving up meat, and
Speaker 1: I think, don't you give up me? But you have
Speaker 1: to eat fish on Friday? I mean, please, don't come
Speaker 1: to me for religion. Folks just don't. But people they don't.
Speaker 1: They give up drinking. They I don't know, they a
Speaker 1: number of shopping I don't know what it is. Whatever.
Speaker 1: If you're celebrating lent, dig into your belly button, see
Speaker 1: if you find any and I hope you're having a
Speaker 1: good one. However you are celebrating. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: so we got it. We got Passover coming up next,
Speaker 1: but the Eastern coming up, the very big religious time,
Speaker 1: religious time of year, but probably much more so than
Speaker 1: Christmas time. There's just a lot of back to back stuff.
Speaker 1: I digress because I'm trying to keep my mind off
Speaker 1: of food. Let's start with the fact that one of
Speaker 1: the original one of the original video conferencing service that
Speaker 1: you may have used, is actually fine. Finally, I think
Speaker 1: is the word shutting down and I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: Who remembers using Skype? You remember Skype? Skype was that
Speaker 1: first tool that allowedest to one of the first tools
Speaker 1: that got us to pretend like we were living in
Speaker 1: the Jetsnian age, you know from the Jetsons. If you
Speaker 1: remember watching that nineteen sixty era Hannah Barbara cartoon, yes,
Speaker 1: I know they have flying cars, and yes everybody has
Speaker 1: sky apartments, and yes, if you have to walk the dog,
Speaker 1: you got to go out on a you know, automatic
Speaker 1: little you know walking machine and you have to yell, Jane,
Speaker 1: stop this crazy thing. But it was always interested in
Speaker 1: me to me that they had these video televisions where
Speaker 1: if George was at the office and Jane or the
Speaker 1: kids were back at home the sky apartment, instead of
Speaker 1: picking up the phone call, they would just turn on
Speaker 1: the TV and they could talk to each other. And
Speaker 1: I just thought that was man, eyes, are we ever
Speaker 1: going to see that in our lifetimes? Well, we actually did,
Speaker 1: and we actually do and we realize it now on
Speaker 1: a very regular basis, if not several times a day
Speaker 1: via Zoom or be it FaceTime, or be a Microsoft
Speaker 1: teams and there's a number of these. But if you
Speaker 1: go back, people, one of the more popular, one of
Speaker 1: the first video conference application out there was Skype. Years
Speaker 1: after was created invented, Microsoft bought the company and to
Speaker 1: this day Microsoft owns it. And I think Microsoft said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't want to be in this business.
Speaker 1: Microsoft breaking News is doing It's doing away with its
Speaker 1: once popular video conference application Skype. Apparently they are streamlining
Speaker 1: their free consumer communication offering. But also, by the way,
Speaker 1: Microsoft has something else for years. It's called Microsoft Teams,
Speaker 1: and it did kind of, you know, continue to bubble
Speaker 1: up in my mind the few times that I use
Speaker 1: Microsoft Teams is why does Microsoft still have Teams and
Speaker 1: why do they still have Skype? Because Microsoft Teams, for
Speaker 1: the most part, is free. Yes, there is a business
Speaker 1: option too, but they just don't use it. If you
Speaker 1: still use Skype, people listen to my show more often
Speaker 1: because you really got to get it to the twenty
Speaker 1: first century. Skype is going to be around until May fifth,
Speaker 1: so we now have less than two months. It's going
Speaker 1: to give users time to explore. This is from Microsoft.
Speaker 1: They want you to explore Microsoft Team and decide on
Speaker 1: the option that works best for you now real quickly.
Speaker 1: Some alternatives to Skype. As I said, WhatsApp is very good.
Speaker 1: WhatsApp is a popular app. It is owned by Meta
Speaker 1: and that's the same company that owns Facebook and Instagram
Speaker 1: that works all over the world, same features as Skype,
Speaker 1: along with text messaging and voice and video calls and
Speaker 1: even group chats. Zoom without a doubt. Another popular alternative
Speaker 1: many people became familiar during COVID nineteen pandemic, and I
Speaker 1: think app is best known for its video meeting functions.
Speaker 1: Google offers something Google offers video conferencing called meat that
Speaker 1: replaced the old Google hangouts, And so anyone with a
Speaker 1: Google account can use Google Meet. And yes, if you're
Speaker 1: an Apple user, you can use FaceTime across iPhone and
Speaker 1: iPad and your Mac devices. We take our first break
Speaker 1: over here. I am not right now utilizing any of
Speaker 1: these video conferencing. Back in the day, I asked, I
Speaker 1: simultaneously did this radio show while using a video conference,
Speaker 1: and it was really fun. I mean this was way
Speaker 1: before Skype. I mean I set up an old fashioned
Speaker 1: webcam and I had a server. But it was neat
Speaker 1: because people actually got to see the magic behind the microphones.
Speaker 1: Like it's really sexy. It's just me and my hair
Speaker 1: doing a show. But when we come back, I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Three four six twenty nine textan
Speaker 1: send me a x or tweet high tech Texan Hi
Speaker 1: g h T E c h T e x A
Speaker 1: N Are you sad to see Skype go? What will
Speaker 1: you use? What's your most popular video conference? And then
Speaker 1: I'm I've received since this news hit a few days ago.
Speaker 1: I've received a lot of emails because I asked. I
Speaker 1: put out a little poll. What are some of the
Speaker 1: failed or apps or services or.
Speaker 4: Products and technology that you have used recently that are
Speaker 4: no longer around.
Speaker 1: We'll take a poll. We're here from you. It is
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield, the long running high Tech Texan show. I
Speaker 1: missed it before, but I would be remiss in reminding
Speaker 1: you that this is the weekend that we lose one
Speaker 1: hour of sleep. Now listen, this debate comes up twice
Speaker 1: a year pretty much. Why do we still have daylight
Speaker 1: saving time? Why don't we have one? And you're not
Speaker 1: going to get an argument for me, But you're not
Speaker 1: going to like my take because I actually prefer the
Speaker 1: winter months. I like when it gets darker a little earlier,
Speaker 1: and only because I love being outdoors and I'm a
Speaker 1: runner and living in Texas, I don't like running during
Speaker 1: the summer it's hot. I think about it this way
Speaker 1: because I think three steps ahead of everybody else. If
Speaker 1: it gets darker earlier, I know it's the fall in
Speaker 1: winter season, which means it's cool outside, which is better
Speaker 1: and easier for running and biking at longer lengths without
Speaker 1: fitzing during the summer. You see, this is how my
Speaker 1: mind works. And if you don't like it, I guess
Speaker 1: just to stop listening. But that's how I think about it.
Speaker 1: Either way. The point is, when you go to bed
Speaker 1: Saturday night, set your clock ahead one hour, you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose an hour of sleep. Now, many, many, in most
Speaker 1: objects that we have automatically will set your clocks forward
Speaker 1: or back, depending if you're in the fall too. Cars,
Speaker 1: newer cars do it. Your your cell phone automatically does it,
Speaker 1: which means if it's connected to your smart watch, that
Speaker 1: will do it. Now things that don't. If you have
Speaker 1: an old fashioned clock on the wall, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to take you know, take your finger and just kind
Speaker 1: of loop it around an hour. A microwaves, A lot
Speaker 1: of older microwaves and current microwaves, they don't don't change.
Speaker 1: I've got a microwave, I've got to do it manually.
Speaker 1: I've got a clock on my oven that I have
Speaker 1: to do it manually. Other than that, computers do it automatically.
Speaker 1: Other than that, just don't forget. Because the last thing
Speaker 1: you need to do is I always forget this. I
Speaker 1: always tell people, if you forget to six o'clock forward,
Speaker 1: you're going to be an hour late to church on Sunday,
Speaker 1: or you're going to be an hour early. I still
Speaker 1: haven't figured that part out, but that is what you
Speaker 1: need to do so this coming weekend. So depending when
Speaker 1: you're listening to this or how you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: you can go ahead and do that and you actually
Speaker 1: should be set to go. You know, Scott finished talking
Speaker 1: about Skype and how it's shutting down, and I posted this,
Speaker 1: I think, on my ex account, and I asked a question.
Speaker 1: I said, is anybody sad to see Skype? Go it?
Speaker 1: And to that point, what are some of the products
Speaker 1: that tech products or services over the years or even
Speaker 1: recently that are no longer here that you miss? And
Speaker 1: I kind of compile the list and run through them.
Speaker 1: Now if I forget something I'd love to hear from.
Speaker 1: This is an interactive radio program Folks three four six
Speaker 1: twenty nine, Texan three four six nine t X A
Speaker 1: n If for some reason Callum doesn't feel like picking
Speaker 1: up the phone a voicemail, should pick up leave a voicemail,
Speaker 1: and if so, you you do give us the right
Speaker 1: to utilize your voice on the radio. The FCC actually
Speaker 1: just which I just took my annual class. We have
Speaker 1: to tell you that, but feel free to leave a voicemail.
Speaker 1: Somebody wrote that Fossil no longer makes smart watches. I
Speaker 1: actually forgot the fact that Fossil, which I think is
Speaker 1: based in Dallas, good watches, but they made a smart watch.
Speaker 1: Fossil ceased the production of their smart watches last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good, all you Apple fans. Apple last year
Speaker 1: they discontinued a few things. They had a blood oxygen sensor.
Speaker 1: They they discontinued the sale of watches equipped with blood
Speaker 1: oxygen sensors because they lost a patent dispute. Apple Pay Later,
Speaker 1: which I guess was different than Apple Buy Now, the
Speaker 1: buy now pay later service was shut down Dan they
Speaker 1: did that thing didn't last a year. Uh, and they
Speaker 1: reverted back to the traditional Apple pay model. I guess
Speaker 1: that's kind of like a layaway that didn't work. Someone
Speaker 1: put that the decline of physical media. The trend away
Speaker 1: from physical media continued with Best Buy stopping to sell
Speaker 1: physical movie discs. I do remember the news that red
Speaker 1: Box that was around for like two decades. They closed
Speaker 1: all twenty plus thousand of their kiosks. They fought for bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: And I mean when I say physical media, it's the CDs,
Speaker 1: the DVDs, the cassette tapes, the albums that we used
Speaker 1: to have everything. Now most everything is all digitized. What
Speaker 1: else died recently? The end of instant messaging services? I
Speaker 1: seq remember the letters man if you were a kid
Speaker 1: in the nineties, man and the letters I CQ. I
Speaker 1: think it was an Israeli They created an israel service
Speaker 1: and they created it because it was kind of a
Speaker 1: play on letters of the term I seek you S
Speaker 1: E E K you, like where are you online? Twenty
Speaker 1: seven years that was around that shutdown. Google shut down
Speaker 1: a number of apps, Google shutdown, Google pay, Google podcasts,
Speaker 1: a lot of number of things. It's sad seeing this
Speaker 1: stuff go. But as things go bye bye, things are
Speaker 1: also invented. I mean, I've been doing the show what
Speaker 1: Now twenty two minutes or something. I can't even tell
Speaker 1: you the number of startups that have actually launched around
Speaker 1: the world. And that's why I like talking about technology,
Speaker 1: tech related things, and I do get excited about that.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know, I get excited. If you
Speaker 1: can't hear it in my voice, maybe you can see it.
Speaker 1: And this is a good time to let everybody know
Speaker 1: and not that my radio show is heard terrestrially in Austin.
Speaker 1: That's the one big city I have yet to infiltrate,
Speaker 1: as we are heard in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
Speaker 1: But if you're driving on WOAI has got a very
Speaker 1: big stick, you may pick that up in Austin, which
Speaker 1: Austin is probably my favorite city here. Obviously I'm a
Speaker 1: UT graduate, my mom's from there, the whole thing. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I very honored to say am the new technology reporter
Speaker 1: with the weekly segments on Fox seven in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: That's right, people, It took me thirty plus years after
Speaker 1: I graduated from UT with a Radio Intelligion Film degree.
Speaker 1: And when you graduated from UT and you had a
Speaker 1: RTF degree or even a journalism for that point, you
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to stay in Austin. You wanted to
Speaker 1: get a job, or you wanted to get an internship
Speaker 1: at one of the local TV stations. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I graduated, there was no Fox. It was ABC, CBS,
Speaker 1: at NBC and KTBC was a CBS station. It's now
Speaker 1: the Fox station that I'm on. I was never able
Speaker 1: to get on there. Whatever it thirty plus years later.
Speaker 1: Guess what, I guess you can always go home. I
Speaker 1: am now on KTBC Fox seven every Monday, seven forty
Speaker 1: five in the morning on their Good Day Austin. I
Speaker 1: will be there showing some products, talking about news, and
Speaker 1: I could not be more excited, along with a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that I do on Houston TV with
Speaker 1: Great Day Houston. It's kind of fun, very ironic. I
Speaker 1: was up there last week. I drove up Monday and
Speaker 1: just kind of meet and do my first little shot
Speaker 1: on the set in the morning. And I was less
Speaker 1: than one mile away from the UT Communications School. And
Speaker 1: so I guess everything that changes remains the same or
Speaker 1: whatever they say. So shout out to Austin. I continue,
Speaker 1: I don't know, before I get to old gray, wrinkly
Speaker 1: tired voice is shot. I'm trying to take this entire
Speaker 1: state of Texas, if not the country by storm.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 1: It's only taking me twenty three plus years of the
Speaker 1: high tech texts and brand to do it. So that
Speaker 1: is something new to and I am excited new things
Speaker 1: that we will talk about that just came out. I
Speaker 1: went down memory lane just now. In a few I
Speaker 1: talked about how I graduated college and now I'm in Austin.
Speaker 1: But I also before that talked about some of the
Speaker 1: products and services that we kind of grew up with
Speaker 1: or liked that they no longer exist. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's ICQ or Skype is now shutting down, which brings
Speaker 1: us the whole thing. Well, let's go back in time.
Speaker 1: I want you to think about this over this next
Speaker 1: few minute break. What were some of your favorite games
Speaker 1: you used to play as a kid. Now I have
Speaker 1: to define this. If you are under forty years old
Speaker 1: right now, I know you're gonna come up with a
Speaker 1: video game, all right, You're gonna go Super Mario. You
Speaker 1: gotta go Tiger Woods Golf or something like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of talking about over forty years old right now.
Speaker 1: What board games were your favorite? And I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to Shoots and Ladders, Candyland, Monopoly. It goes on or not.
Speaker 1: There's a point where I'm going over here, and if
Speaker 1: you want to realize how tech is now infiltrating the
Speaker 1: old school board games, you're gonna have to stand by.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back and I'll tell you that's going
Speaker 1: just like that big booman boy said Michael, is my name,
Speaker 1: Michael guard Build. We're at the bottom of that first
Speaker 1: hour of my High Tech Textan show. Don't go anywhere
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Speaker 1: that's how you're gonna get to me. You can post
Speaker 1: something like this subject we're about to hit. Go back
Speaker 1: back many years ago. If you're over forty years old
Speaker 1: or so, what were your favorite games that you used
Speaker 1: to play? And I'm talking board games. I grew up
Speaker 1: in an era and I was a young kid in
Speaker 1: the seventies where there were really no home video games.
Speaker 1: There were board games. And today, yes, there's still a
Speaker 1: board games, but I don't think youngins play board games
Speaker 1: like we used to because there's so much going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got phones that do crossword puzzles. Now,
Speaker 1: we've got video games, we've got PlayStation and xboxes and
Speaker 1: Nintendo's We've got switches and twitches, we got everything. But
Speaker 1: back in the day, kids, Uncle Garfy, storytime. Here, pull
Speaker 1: up a chair, there were these things called board games
Speaker 1: from companies like Hasbro all right, and you would just
Speaker 1: on a rainy day, even a sunny day, you and
Speaker 1: your friends would sit there around a kitchen table of
Speaker 1: your buddy's house and you would just play Sorry, shoots
Speaker 1: and ladders, checkers. I was never a chess guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Game of Life. What was your favorite board game?
Speaker 1: You can just hit me at high Tech textan right now.
Speaker 1: And the reason I say is is these games still
Speaker 1: are here. But I saw this and this is it
Speaker 1: kind of brings a little nostalgia, but I love how
Speaker 1: the fact it brings technology into the world. Monopoly, pound
Speaker 1: for pound, Monopoly probably was my most played board game.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing is I could tell you years
Speaker 1: in years of playing it up at the street at
Speaker 1: my buddy Stuart Robinson's house with with Kurt Johnson. And
Speaker 1: again these are some little kid buddies of mine. I
Speaker 1: played that game so many times. I don't know if
Speaker 1: anybody ever won the game of Monopoly, because can you
Speaker 1: win Monopoly? Because it is the longest freaking game ever.
Speaker 1: It just went on and on and on, and I
Speaker 1: always wanted to be the banker because I don't know.
Speaker 1: It really did help me with my math, because I'm
Speaker 1: pretty good when it comes to numbers, and I always
Speaker 1: had to be you know, there was these little tokens
Speaker 1: and you could choose that the top hat, the iron.
Speaker 1: I had to be the race car. I mean, I
Speaker 1: was a baby. It's like, I ain't playing if I
Speaker 1: ain't the race car, or I'm not the banker, I
Speaker 1: ain't playing. But anyway, whatever, if you were the banker,
Speaker 1: you can kind of cheat too, but that's neither here
Speaker 1: nor here nor there. Well I saw this. Hasbro has
Speaker 1: announced a new version of Monopoly, and it simplifies the
Speaker 1: game by replacing cash and the banker with a mobile
Speaker 1: app that handles all the games transactions. Okay, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I may have to play this game again. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's called the Monopoly App, Banking game and a smartphone
Speaker 1: where a tablet takes over the role of the banker.
Speaker 1: It keeps track of every player's money and properties. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. So they announced this thing. Apparently it's coming
Speaker 1: out later this year. It's gonna sell for twenty five bucks.
Speaker 1: But the game board, yes, it's a board, it's an app.
Speaker 1: It's a board game, but use an app. But apparently
Speaker 1: they it's the same layout with the traditional version. But
Speaker 1: what do they they don't have They're trying to make
Speaker 1: a kid friendly, so they don't have park place and boardwalk,
Speaker 1: which were the most valuable properties. And now it's a
Speaker 1: rocket launch pad in the moon, and there's like I
Speaker 1: think they put a chocolate factory, a virtual a VR
Speaker 1: roller coaster, a dinosaur park. Anyway, apparently everybody selects the
Speaker 1: token and a matching bank card and property cards and
Speaker 1: you scan them and are recognized by the app. I
Speaker 1: like it is this gonna? Is this gonna slow the
Speaker 1: game down even more? Because I'm square. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've ever finished the game of Monopoly three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine Texan three four six nine texts, Hey, Mike, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's something, Oh Mike, what about card games? How about
Speaker 1: go fish Solitaire? You okay, you always had a I
Speaker 1: always had a deck of cards around, but you know
Speaker 1: you with your I mean, we're not playing My buddies
Speaker 1: and I when we were like nine or ten, we
Speaker 1: weren't playing poker. No, we were playing colorful games from
Speaker 1: like Hasbro and in all these other things. We were
Speaker 1: eating cereal and we were watching Saturday morning cartoons. People.
Speaker 1: It just if you're under forty, you just don't understand it. Man,
Speaker 1: if you're under forty to understand. And here's another thing
Speaker 1: that's way begone days. I had a conversation with my uncle.
Speaker 1: So I have an uncle who lives here in the
Speaker 1: same city with me and my aunt. But I was
Speaker 1: talking to my uncle. I don't know, we got We
Speaker 1: got on the subject of newspapers or something, cause I
Speaker 1: think my name was in the Houston Chronicle. But I
Speaker 1: used to subscribe to the actual newspaper. My gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: dating myself to sound so old. Uh, And I don't
Speaker 1: have it, but we've got to, you know, I he
Speaker 1: I don't laugh. But he subscribes to the newspaper still,
Speaker 1: And he tells me this, and I literally stopped and
Speaker 1: looked at him. I'm like, are you the only person
Speaker 1: on your block who subscribes to newspaper? And he he
Speaker 1: said yes. He goes he does not remember seeing any
Speaker 1: other physical newspapers laying in front lawns, and again, if
Speaker 1: you're under forty, you still don't even know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about right now. Anyway, Uh, he's he's if I guess.
Speaker 1: If you subscribe to the Physicals newspaper, you get an
Speaker 1: online account. Anyway, I have his username and passwords. So
Speaker 1: I've ever wanted to see something in the in the
Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle or actually at the Dallas Morning News. I
Speaker 1: have my parents account number two because I think they
Speaker 1: still get a newspaper. Man, I'll tell you what they like.
Speaker 1: When I started this show twenty three years ago, I
Speaker 1: did subscribe to the newspaper. There was no such thing
Speaker 1: as a flat screen TV. There there an electric car.
Speaker 1: How is that even possible? How long could the do
Speaker 1: they make the cords to plug in your car while
Speaker 1: you're driving? Woo people? Things have changed and I have
Speaker 1: to change. It is great. Cell phones have changed. Speaking
Speaker 1: of cell phone, new cell phones are coming out. I
Speaker 1: told you a few weeks ago, Apple announced some allegedly
Speaker 1: cheaper phone which wasn't too cheap. Mobile World Congress is
Speaker 1: going on right now. Which is that's in Barcelona, which
Speaker 1: I've never been. I've been to Barcelona, but I've never
Speaker 1: been the Mobile World Congress. It's like the S it's
Speaker 1: like the cees. Specifically for mobile phones. Mobile World Congress,
Speaker 1: Samsung announced a few things Samsung. They announced the A
Speaker 1: twenty six and A thirty six. Now this is not
Speaker 1: their S series Galaxy phone. This is similar. It's not
Speaker 1: as fast as a chip, but they're pretty inexpensive. Yes, folks,
Speaker 1: there are such things as inexpensive phones. The A twenty
Speaker 1: six two hundred ninety nine dollars, the A thirty six
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety nine dollars, A lot of the
Speaker 1: A series apparently they got upgrades that match kind of
Speaker 1: what we saw from this S twenty five, which I
Speaker 1: went to San Jose for the big announcement with in January.
Speaker 1: I would get these. I mean, you know what, going
Speaker 1: back to my uncle just now, how I just my
Speaker 1: uncle who who still subscribes newspaper, He does have a
Speaker 1: Galaxy A series, not an S series, but and he
Speaker 1: likes it. Come to think of it, most all of
Speaker 1: my things, I'm not an Apple guy, but most all
Speaker 1: my family actually is an Android guy. That maybe somebody
Speaker 1: out there actually listens to me. Maybe they do listen
Speaker 1: to me. But between now and the next week, I'll
Speaker 1: get more news and press releases coming out of what
Speaker 1: was launched at Mobile World Congress. I'll see some international
Speaker 1: phones that will not be launched here in the US
Speaker 1: that are bigger, stronger, faster, thinner, cheaper and whatever. But
Speaker 1: the it's nice to see that Samsung, what mini companies
Speaker 1: also are releasing phones that aren't a thousand dollars or
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred dollars. It's nice to see something in the
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars range. But that's one of the many,
Speaker 1: many things that I do that I talk about on
Speaker 1: the radio, that I will show off should I get
Speaker 1: samples and demos on my TV segments, that there are
Speaker 1: phones that you do not need to pay an arm
Speaker 1: and a leg. There are the phones that are not
Speaker 1: made by a company that is the same as a fruit.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm here for to give you alternatives.
Speaker 1: Three four six twenty nine textan Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take one final break this first hour when
Speaker 1: we come back. Google just made it a little easier
Speaker 1: to remove your personal information that you don't want on
Speaker 1: the web. Can they like erase like ex wives and girlfriends?
Speaker 1: Then then I'll be excited.
Speaker 4: But stand by and said, we'll tell you how this works.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go back on my word. I
Speaker 1: told you I wasn't going to talk about food anymore,
Speaker 1: because this past week I've done nothing but judge barbecue
Speaker 1: steak restaurants, everything for the Rodeo Houston and what was
Speaker 1: going on with the Barbecue Cookoff. But this is the
Speaker 1: time of the show where I do want to recommend
Speaker 1: if you are hungry and if you are still eating
Speaker 1: Cobo bobs. Cobo Bobs four locations in Houston, one in
Speaker 1: San Antonio, mini in Austin, Dallas sucks for you. You
Speaker 1: don't have any yet. You need to get down and
Speaker 1: try some cowbo Bobs. Unbelievable. Go through the line. You
Speaker 1: can watch them. You pick one of five tortillas, okay,
Speaker 1: and they will press them right fresh for you and
Speaker 1: they are massive. They will stuff any type of thing
Speaker 1: you want in your burrito and they are massive. You
Speaker 1: can make a case Adiya. The chips so great. It's
Speaker 1: just I discovered cowbo Bob's. When was it, I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably by six years ago or so, maybe seven. Now
Speaker 1: that was an awesome because I visited my son in
Speaker 1: school and when they came to Houston. I just I
Speaker 1: was beside myself. It is great. I go to the
Speaker 1: wine on the southwest side and Stafford the Meadows right
Speaker 1: on Highway fifty nine. There's one on Mason Road. There's
Speaker 1: one Chimney Rock, fountain View area, over and se and Felipe.
Speaker 1: Please do go have some lunch, take it on for dinner.
Speaker 1: They were open six days a week.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Chick fil A stole their business model. They're not open
Speaker 1: on Sundays. But Cabo Bobs is it stand by Between
Speaker 1: now and the end of the show, We're going to
Speaker 1: give away a twenty five dollars gift card Cabo Bobs.
Speaker 1: I'm not particularly hungry right now because I've had so
Speaker 1: much food over the next last week or so. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll probably eat between now and the end of March,
Speaker 1: and so I will go to do me some Cobo Bobs.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we continue the high tech textan show.
Speaker 1: Michael is my name? How many times have you continue
Speaker 1: to think that your personal information on the Internet is
Speaker 1: just way too much? Well, it is, but welcome to
Speaker 1: the world that we live in the twenty first century.
Speaker 1: Anything that we do, any movie that we make. It's
Speaker 1: like enemy of this date. It is. Our information is
Speaker 1: out there. How do these companies know what we were
Speaker 1: looking at online to send us up a marketing ad
Speaker 1: of what we're looking at? I mean, it's just it's uncanny.
Speaker 1: How do you remove I get to ask this a lot.
Speaker 1: How do you remove some of your personal information out
Speaker 1: of search results so you're not found, so your information
Speaker 1: is not there? Honestly, it's almost impossible. It is very tough,
Speaker 1: and you used to have to jump through hoops and
Speaker 1: steps and try to contact someone. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it be a Google, be whatever the service you're used.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. But news this week, which actually seems good
Speaker 1: news if it does work. Google just announced that it
Speaker 1: is making removing your personal information from search results easier.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like the headline on the forefront. Okay,
Speaker 1: so when you search for yourself, what do we call that?
Speaker 1: Self searching? Ego ego searching. If you search for yourself
Speaker 1: and you see a link that contains information like your
Speaker 1: email address, your home address, your phone number, you can
Speaker 1: request to take it down in just a matter of seconds.
Speaker 1: Now this new feature, it's part of Google's results about
Speaker 1: you Okay. It's called Results about You, and it's a
Speaker 1: tool and it monitors the web for your personal information.
Speaker 1: It alerts you when new search results contain it. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've never set an alarm of let me know
Speaker 1: when more information is out there and you can get
Speaker 1: it alert, you may want to go to Google and
Speaker 1: actually do that. But this is something new. It's called
Speaker 1: Results about You, and I'm not that familiar with it,
Speaker 1: but after reading it, I'm like, okay, I can dig it.
Speaker 1: At least I'd like to see. Google's trying to make
Speaker 1: it easier. So to use the new feature follow me here.
Speaker 1: First you search for yourself on Google. Now, this is it.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to say, I'm gonna listen. Long time
Speaker 1: listeners know that I got some quirks. Okay, who does it?
Speaker 1: Whether you believe it or not, I'm a different cat.
Speaker 1: I have never in my life had a sip of coffee.
Speaker 1: Don't want to, won't try it. That's the way it goes.
Speaker 1: I've never seen any of the Godfather movies. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can go on and on, all right, I'm just weird.
Speaker 1: So when I say this, I want you to take
Speaker 1: it to heart because I am not lying I have
Speaker 1: never searched for myself on Google. I have never put
Speaker 1: in another you know why, because I don't want to
Speaker 1: see what's out there. Not that I'm hiding anything, because
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't need the ego search.
Speaker 4: Should I as a public figure, because I do radio
Speaker 4: and TV and whatever for twenty place years.
Speaker 1: I probably should. I don't.
Speaker 4: Just who knows it's out there? Not the point. If
Speaker 4: you feel safe, search for yourself on Google. Type your
Speaker 4: name and Google Now.
Speaker 1: If you see a result that contains your personal information,
Speaker 1: you tap the three dot menu, a little three nt
Speaker 1: we call it a burger whatever it is called the
Speaker 1: three dim next to that result. Once that comes up,
Speaker 1: you choose the option in the window that says remove result,
Speaker 1: and then you choose the option that says it choose
Speaker 1: my personal info and I don't want it there. And
Speaker 1: that's about it.
Speaker 3: Pokes.
Speaker 1: That's it. Google's gonna review request. They say they're gonna
Speaker 1: get back to you it in a few hours, maybe
Speaker 1: a few days. You keep going, repeat that for other
Speaker 1: search results you want taken down. Now strict keep in mind,
Speaker 1: Google's not gonna approve all the takedown request, and even
Speaker 1: if a result is removed. It's only gone from Google Search,
Speaker 1: not the original website itself. That's a whole different can
Speaker 1: of worms. But if you want to, if you want
Speaker 1: it completely gone, you're gonna have to do a takedown
Speaker 1: request with the original site and good luck with that.
Speaker 1: I have not tried it, but the fact that this
Speaker 1: is coming from good resources and press releases and everything.
Speaker 1: Feel free to try it, and if it does work
Speaker 1: for you, I would love for you to share it
Speaker 1: with me. And if not, I'm gonna search for you
Speaker 1: and I'm coming and get you. And again, search for
Speaker 1: yourself on Google. If you see a result that could
Speaker 1: change your personal info that you don't want up there,
Speaker 1: tap the three dots right next to it, choose removed result,
Speaker 1: and then you know, shows my personal info I don't
Speaker 1: want there. That's it. Okay, I dig that, man, I
Speaker 1: dig it. Google trying to make things easier other than
Speaker 1: the fact, trying to make sure that we do pay
Speaker 1: them in some way, shape or form, just like YouTube.
Speaker 1: That's right, YouTube owned by Google. YouTube just launched something new.
Speaker 1: Let me quickly get to this before the top of
Speaker 1: the hour. YouTube just launched a seven dollars ninety nine
Speaker 1: cent per month advertising free. It's called Premium Light subscription
Speaker 1: YouTube not YouTube TV. I wish it was seven ninety
Speaker 1: nine YouTube itself. It's a new premium subscription. It's called
Speaker 1: Premium Light, and it's gonna let you watch the most
Speaker 1: videos ad free for about eight bucks a month, so
Speaker 1: you can watch videos across gaming and fashion and beauty
Speaker 1: and cooking and news, whatever you gotta do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is ad for not the real premium, which is
Speaker 1: fourteen bucks a month, which is gonna let you download
Speaker 1: and play things in the background or watch music videos
Speaker 1: without ads. No, no, no, this is a light for
Speaker 1: eight bucks.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's whatever I watch YouTube not that often. I'm more
Speaker 1: than happy to sit through a few seconds of add role,
Speaker 1: just like you're allowed to sit through a few seconds
Speaker 1: of ads, well maybe a few minutes of ads on
Speaker 1: this radio station, you see, we hear at iHeartRadio. We
Speaker 1: keep things for free, and we do that because we
Speaker 1: love offering free content, and all we ask from you
Speaker 1: in return is not to pay us. Just listen to
Speaker 1: our commercials. We hope you actually utilize them, and then
Speaker 1: we talk about companies like Cowbo, Bob's or whatever I
Speaker 1: just mentioned. We'd love for you to PATRONI them a
Speaker 1: shop there and that's all we ask. Do you have
Speaker 1: to know? Hope you do, absolutely do when you're gonna
Speaker 1: judge you seven ninety nine, thirteen ninety nine, any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. Difference between old school good stuff.
Speaker 4: Like good old fashioned radio and all this new high
Speaker 4: pollutant online subscription stuff. I've anything like this stuff that
Speaker 4: I adds you. Could you information Listen hour number one, OBA,
Speaker 4: do me a favor, hang tight, give me about five
Speaker 4: or six minutes because at the top of the hour,
Speaker 4: listen to some of the ads, because when.
Speaker 1: You come back, you got one more hour of free
Speaker 1: brain day. That's how you go. Michael Garfield high Tech
Speaker 1: Textans Hill.
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Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is here with a high tech.
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Speaker 1: One hour into the show, one hour ago, not a mathematician.
Speaker 1: I play one on the radio, but that means we're
Speaker 1: halfway through the show, which means we're a halfway to
Speaker 1: a happy hour. You're probably listening to this on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Happy hours should be going on. If you're listening on
Speaker 1: a Saturday, you've got a few hours to get prepped
Speaker 1: and set that clock one hour forward. And if you're
Speaker 1: listening on Sunday, especially if you hear it in Dallas
Speaker 1: and San Antonia, well guess what. I hope you set
Speaker 1: the clock ahead, baby, because you lost one hour of sleep.
Speaker 1: You're tired. I will try to talk as low as
Speaker 1: possible so you can comprehend. But we need to stop this.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of michigans. I don't know why are
Speaker 1: we are we? Are we happy with one part of
Speaker 1: the year. Why do we keep going back and forth?
Speaker 1: It's it's too tedious, as somebody figure this out somehow.
Speaker 1: All my life we've done this, but I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of the uh, the devices that we use,
Speaker 1: they automatically set clocks forward in back cars, smart watches,
Speaker 1: obviously they're connected to your cell phones. They do that,
Speaker 1: but still don't forget to check your microwave don't forget
Speaker 1: to check your oven. How about the clock on the wall,
Speaker 1: take your little finger, rewind it, put it forward, go
Speaker 1: check it out. And also don't forget. By the way,
Speaker 1: I must remind you to check the battery in your
Speaker 1: smoke alarms because this is you know aw I say,
Speaker 1: I actually grew up listening to those PSAs. Set your
Speaker 1: clocks for spring forward, fall back, and check your smoke
Speaker 1: alarm batteries because the last thing you want is that
Speaker 1: thing going off at two in the morning. It's it's
Speaker 1: not fun. I'll give you the number here three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine Texan. Feel free to call ask questions,
Speaker 1: Say hi, way in on anything, Tell me a Joe,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Did you love the Oscars? I actually
Speaker 1: I caught a little. I thought Conan O'Brien was awesome.
Speaker 1: He really was. I think ratings were down a little,
Speaker 1: mostly probably because no one saw pretty much nine out
Speaker 1: of the ten of the nominated movies Anora the hell
Speaker 1: was that man? You never heard of it until last
Speaker 1: Sunday Night walked away over everything? But Conan was actually good.
Speaker 1: Say whatever you want to talk about. I am your guy.
Speaker 1: Three four six twenty nine Texan for some reason nobody
Speaker 1: picks up other than voicemail. Leave a voicemail, then we
Speaker 1: do have a right to play your voice here on
Speaker 1: the radio. I talk about a lot of things, including
Speaker 1: cars and trucks. For fifteen years, I have reviewed and
Speaker 1: test driven. I think I just hit my nine hundredth vehicle,
Speaker 1: kid you not. This past week I was in a
Speaker 1: Lexus UX three hundred F sport. I don't do a
Speaker 1: lot of Lexuses. Not bad. It was gas, luckily, because
Speaker 1: I needed a gas car because I needed to drive
Speaker 1: from Euston to Austin to Austin. I had two test
Speaker 1: cards this week, and I also had a Chevy Equinox,
Speaker 1: which is good, but it's an EV. I like EVS,
Speaker 1: but we're not gonna go through this again. I personally
Speaker 1: wouldn't buy an EV because all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: just make up my mind to go from Houston to
Speaker 1: Dallas to Austin to San Antonio. I don't want to
Speaker 1: sit there and plan out my trip like I'm on
Speaker 1: TRIPLEA to charge the car, and I have ADHD and
Speaker 1: I don't have the patience to sit there and wait
Speaker 1: forty five minutes to an hour for the thing to charge.
Speaker 1: So luckily, even though the Chevy Equinox EV good price,
Speaker 1: good pickup, absolutely looking into that thing. But luckily I
Speaker 1: had a gas powered card and this time it was
Speaker 1: Alexis UX three hundred f good little plastic key, nice
Speaker 1: little pickup, not a huge car, four door fit you
Speaker 1: know it fits nice. Two people comflip potentially three small
Speaker 1: people in the back got me to Houston to Austin
Speaker 1: so I could do my TV stuff good and I
Speaker 1: was pretty happy with that. A little overpriced for what
Speaker 1: it is, but you know, if you want the full review,
Speaker 1: check me out. Go to Spotify. It's the podcast look
Speaker 1: for high Tech Texan. I have hundreds and hundreds and
Speaker 1: hundreds of reviews to steer you see see what the
Speaker 1: punt I did in the right direction or the wrong direction. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of vehicles, I refuse. I absolutely cover the car industry,
Speaker 1: the automobile, the vehicle industry a lot. And this was
Speaker 1: kind of interesting, surprising, really amaze me how far people go.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to talk about Tesla. Now we know
Speaker 1: who owns Tesla. It's Elon Musk. Now it is a
Speaker 1: Texas based company, so a we got to love that.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for buying it in the revenue
Speaker 1: coming into a great state. A lot of people. Again,
Speaker 1: as I try to stay away from politics, they're some people.
Speaker 1: I'll just say some. I won't even say a lot.
Speaker 1: Some people maybe not be too happy with Elon right
Speaker 1: now for whatever he's doing or whatever he's not doing.
Speaker 1: Don't know, don't follow the news whatever it is, but
Speaker 1: Tesla and I'm reading this. This comes from Marketing Daily News,
Speaker 1: which I it's a reliable resource because I get a
Speaker 1: lot of my information. Tesla owners seem to be finding
Speaker 1: creative ways to distance their vehicles from the founder and CEO,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, because they fear vandalism of their Tesla vehicles.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at a picture right now, So City
Speaker 1: with the article it's a Tesla cyber truck and on
Speaker 1: the back of it in big letters, somebody went to
Speaker 1: office depot and just got some of those pelon stick
Speaker 1: on letters and they put the word Toyota. In this case,
Speaker 1: they're not making fun of Toyota. They're unsuccessfully trying to
Speaker 1: remove the test slow logo and let people think it's
Speaker 1: another manufacturer not getting you. People are putting stickers on
Speaker 1: vehicles in different variations there's even one that somebody put
Speaker 1: a sticker says, and I'm again I'm quoting an article quote,
Speaker 1: I bought this car before I knew Elon was crazy unquote.
Speaker 1: Can't verify that. Not trying to spend rumors, I'm reading this,
Speaker 1: but some owners right now they're removing the Tesla logos
Speaker 1: from their vehicles and they're replacing with badging from other automakers,
Speaker 1: between Toyota, the Honda, Audi did they just don't see it.
Speaker 1: That makes no sense to me. And I'll say this
Speaker 1: right now, don't do that. It's just at some point
Speaker 1: that may ask for more vandalism. You know what a
Speaker 1: cyber truck is for as ugly as it is. In
Speaker 1: my honest opinion and my personal opinion, I don't care
Speaker 1: if you slap a Cadillac, put a BMW, put a Mercedes.
Speaker 1: I know what that thing is. You ain't fooling me.
Speaker 1: I know what you know. The other Tesla series looks
Speaker 1: like just stop it. Then I heard during Marty Grass
Speaker 1: there was a Tesla. There were cyber trucks driving up
Speaker 1: and down Marti Grap parades and people were booing them. Man,
Speaker 1: this world is just a it's a it's a strange
Speaker 1: place right now. I'm not going to comment on it.
Speaker 1: I really try not to. But it's just you're you're
Speaker 1: booing a vehicle in a parade. What's what's up? What's
Speaker 1: what is up? People just thought that was interesting. If
Speaker 1: anybody loves their Tesla, I'm here for you three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine, Texan if you want more play. But
Speaker 1: if you were in the market for a specific, specific
Speaker 1: vehicle right now, maybe it's a minivan. I I was
Speaker 1: in a Kia Carnival about two weeks ago. Gave my
Speaker 1: thoughts in that. Right this week, what am I in?
Speaker 4: Actually?
Speaker 1: I got two vehicles this week. They just delivered it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm in a mas To c X ninety Premium plus
Speaker 1: and it's a PEV, which means the plug in a
Speaker 1: high hybrid electric vehicle. I'm not a big I'm not
Speaker 1: a huge fan of plug in hybriate. They're only going
Speaker 1: to give you what thirty extra miles if you plug
Speaker 1: it in to me, doesn't make sense. But this is
Speaker 1: what I do. You tell me three four six twenty
Speaker 1: nine Texan. What do you want to buy? What are
Speaker 1: you thinking of? I will tell you unbiased Nope, it's
Speaker 1: not I don't get paid by any but no dealerships
Speaker 1: pay me. The manufacturers don't pay me. This is Michael's
Speaker 1: content and that is what's key. Three four six twenty
Speaker 1: nine Texan. If you're too shy to call, just log
Speaker 1: online and go to any of those social media's high
Speaker 1: tech textan spell the whole thing out h I G
Speaker 1: h T e C h T e XA with that
Speaker 1: bright number one of this outline, We're going to be
Speaker 1: right back. I'm a high tech texting show. Looking at
Speaker 1: some of the events coming up this month now that
Speaker 1: it's a lot of events mad between the Houston Livestock
Speaker 1: Show and Rodeo, we got south By Southwest and Austin.
Speaker 1: If you're tuning in in big a shocking the high
Speaker 1: tech Texan who I probably should own south By Southwest
Speaker 1: especially it's because it's one of my favorite cities of Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: and I was there thirty forty years ago, when obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, I was a young kid when everything started.
Speaker 1: It's growing into this massive thing and I don't even go.
Speaker 1: I think I've been once for a day or two.
Speaker 1: Obviously I focus on cees. But anyway, if we're going
Speaker 1: to south By Southwest. It's a movie festival and technology
Speaker 1: festival that I should be all over, neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: We got a few more weeks. If you're into home
Speaker 1: and garden shows, there is one in the northwest Houston area.
Speaker 1: It's the cy Fair Home and Outdoor Living Show. I
Speaker 1: used to go to the show a lot. Broadcast asked
Speaker 1: give some I did it like a seminar. Tony Wood
Speaker 1: from a text Wood Shows really does a nice job
Speaker 1: of putting on these big home in outdoor and garden
Speaker 1: shows springtime. If you're out and about looking for you know,
Speaker 1: gardening ideas or home saunas or roofings or cement or whatever,
Speaker 1: I actually am planning to be out there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be out there. I'm gonna go out there on Sunday,
Speaker 1: what's March twenty second, March twenty third, And if you
Speaker 1: want to come, say hi and meet me and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be out there on behalf of Roboock,
Speaker 1: which is the ultimate robotic vacuum cleaner. Again, it's a
Speaker 1: home show, and there's these things called smart homes, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to bring in more. You know, I'm one
Speaker 1: of the guys with a big mouth, and he has
Speaker 1: to try out so many of these cool things that
Speaker 1: go around your home. Home Robotic Roboock just came out
Speaker 1: with a vacuum and mop Vacuum slash Mop. It's a
Speaker 1: stand up unit, the F twenty five. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: out there demonstrating it, recording some radios and podcasts and so.
Speaker 1: It is sci fi Home and Outdoor Living Show. It
Speaker 1: is March twenty second, March twenty third, starts at ten
Speaker 1: in the morning on Saturday, eleven in the morning on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And the admission wait for it, fr ee. My favorite
Speaker 1: four letter word, it is freeze. The Berry Center in Cyprus, Texas.
Speaker 1: There'll be a lot of boots out there, and I'll
Speaker 1: mention this in the next week or two, but I
Speaker 1: hope to see out there.
Speaker 4: MG.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield, The High Tech Texans Show News around the world.
Speaker 1: Actually it is around the world. It's how many of
Speaker 1: you are frustrated when this is this is first world problems.
Speaker 1: You're on a plane and we're used to Wi Fi. Now,
Speaker 1: most every commercial airline has some sort of a Wi
Speaker 1: Fi where you can stay connected to the ground. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: some airlines wi Fi systems satellite, you know, which obviously
Speaker 1: is operated by satellite. They really don't have this long cable.
Speaker 1: They don't have like a Cat five cable, you know,
Speaker 1: from the tail the plane going down to the to
Speaker 1: a airport. Now it's satellite delivery. Some of them are spotty.
Speaker 1: I am a big Southwest Airlines guy, and for a
Speaker 1: long time I've used Southwest. It's Southwest is not the
Speaker 1: fastest Wi Fi I've been on. I think I've used American,
Speaker 1: they used, you know, they used there's a lot of
Speaker 1: these third party companies. What it's like Bungo. But do
Speaker 1: I bring this up is because I saw a little
Speaker 1: something that Starlink in Starlink again shocking one another one
Speaker 1: of Elon Musk's companies. It's a satellite service and they
Speaker 1: are starting to roll this thing out to commercial airlines.
Speaker 1: And I just saw that United I think they just
Speaker 1: put the first Starlink Wi Fi satellite system in some
Speaker 1: of their planes. They are going to upgrade its entire
Speaker 1: fleet and yeah, they just updated with mo was this
Speaker 1: this is Friday. The first Starlink equipped regional regional plane
Speaker 1: is ready to fly. Regional or not. I don't know
Speaker 1: what region is flying in. And the interesting thing is,
Speaker 1: because I did a lot of research on this scene,
Speaker 1: it is not cheap. It is not quick to retro
Speaker 1: fit a plane, and a lot of planes are relatively old,
Speaker 1: so you have to go in and you've got to
Speaker 1: rip up seats and rip up the cabling or ad cable.
Speaker 1: It's not cheap and it's not easy to have. United
Speaker 1: said it took only about eight hours to install the equipment,
Speaker 1: which they say is about ten times faster than installing
Speaker 1: other types of Wi Fi technology, which means they're going
Speaker 1: to upgrade about forty planes each month starting in May,
Speaker 1: and they have a goal of equipping the entire fleet
Speaker 1: of two cabin regional aircraft by the end of the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's cool. I want to know when they're going to
Speaker 1: do the I don't want to say real planes, but
Speaker 1: the non regional, the the big boys, the big jets.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now United, and I know
Speaker 1: United has a big presence in Houston obviously used to
Speaker 1: be Continental Airlines here. When and if you want to
Speaker 1: prove how fast your starlink Wi Fi system is, I
Speaker 1: the high tech Texan himself, Michael Garfeld, who has been
Speaker 1: a presence in the technology world in Texas for well
Speaker 1: over twenty years, and I have broadcasted my show from
Speaker 1: so many places around the world. Right, I want to
Speaker 1: broadcast my radio show from a moving airplane, from an
Speaker 1: airplane up there, which nowadays with the technologies, all I
Speaker 1: need I need my computer, microphone and headphones, and I
Speaker 1: need a fast internet connection. Shocking to most of you people,
Speaker 1: because you think, you know, we have all the studio
Speaker 1: and the satellites and the microphones and the producers and
Speaker 1: the service. Yes we do. That's the second part of it.
Speaker 1: You know, we relay our live voice to these radio
Speaker 1: stations with the satellites and towers. But it can eminate
Speaker 1: pretty much now from anywhere that we have an Internet connection,
Speaker 1: so united. You want some fun publicity pr elon my
Speaker 1: man starlink, Happy to do it, big promotion. I want
Speaker 1: a water cannon, you know when the plane lands. That'd
Speaker 1: be awesome. Maybe they let me actually sit right seat. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to be the full captain.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe I could just got to sit there
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe do a segment from the right seat,
Speaker 1: just you know, and obviously I bring a video camera,
Speaker 1: do the whole thing. I would love to do the
Speaker 1: high tech textan show heard around the world, and I
Speaker 1: heart radio and I want to broadcast it from a
Speaker 1: plane using high speed internet. I have long wanted to
Speaker 1: do this, but internet speeds need to be relatively quick,
Speaker 1: so we can, you know, get the voice back up
Speaker 1: and down to the Earth satellite the whole thing. So anyway,
Speaker 1: there you go. That's that is a goal. The other
Speaker 1: goal is to fly on Air Force one. Okay, non political.
Speaker 1: I don't care who's the president. I just I just
Speaker 1: want to say Air Force one. I'll give you the
Speaker 1: phone number here other cool places that suggestions I should
Speaker 1: broadcast the show from three four six twenty nine Texan
Speaker 1: four six two nine T E x A N. That
Speaker 1: is how you're going to get me. You could find
Speaker 1: me on all the social media outlets, most all of
Speaker 1: them high tech texts and Hi g H T E
Speaker 1: C H T E x A N. I've done my
Speaker 1: show from the beaches of Mexico many times in a
Speaker 1: partnership with a lot of resorts over the years, kind
Speaker 1: of partnered. They've flown me and some of my producers
Speaker 1: down there, and I'll tell you how far technology has
Speaker 1: come and I told you right now, we probably could
Speaker 1: do a radio show, a live radio show from a
Speaker 1: moving airplane if if, if the internet is fast enough.
Speaker 1: Back in the day when we had to do live
Speaker 1: radio shots, there are several ways to do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: going back, even before I was in radio, there was
Speaker 1: the there was radio trucks that you would see driving
Speaker 1: around town, and you think they're promotional vehicles. KTRH seven
Speaker 1: to forty news. There's my KPRC nine to fifty am.
Speaker 1: You know, there's all the WAI twelve hundred. They would
Speaker 1: have these trucks with this big antenna that would raise
Speaker 1: up all right, not when they're moving, but they're parked
Speaker 1: in front of you know, maybe a sporting event or something,
Speaker 1: these big in hit as. They would rise up in
Speaker 1: the air twenty thirty forty feet in with an antenna,
Speaker 1: and the antenna would point to the receiving antenna either
Speaker 1: at the radio station or at the radio kind of
Speaker 1: the radio farm, if you will, in the outskirts of
Speaker 1: the town. And these trucks were these trucks and antenna's
Speaker 1: they were called Marty m ARTI I believe they were
Speaker 1: called Marty trucks. And I had just gotten into radio
Speaker 1: when these Marty trucks were being phased out. But that's
Speaker 1: how you had to do this live radio shot. And
Speaker 1: you just better hope. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: a clear line aside or whatever. Then when I and
Speaker 1: again let's go back to two thousand and two, when
Speaker 1: I started radio two three, two thousand and three, four five,
Speaker 1: six seven, we were able to buy the get these
Speaker 1: devices and plug a phone line, an analog phone line,
Speaker 1: the copper phone line, a pot, it's pots, a plain
Speaker 1: old elevance service fount and we would connect to the
Speaker 1: studio with via fax. And man, I am really aging
Speaker 1: and dating myself over here. So we would so we
Speaker 1: would be at like a home and garden show. And
Speaker 1: actually we used to do this from like the Scifare
Speaker 1: Home and garden show that I just mentioned a few
Speaker 1: minutes ago. So we would have an engineer on site.
Speaker 1: Dave Obert used to work You love David. I think
Speaker 1: Dave still worked with us here at iHeartRadio. They used
Speaker 1: to hear Dave Obert, great engineer. He would come out
Speaker 1: there with all this gear in a truck in a
Speaker 1: box on wheels, set up this table, put the headsphone,
Speaker 1: the headsets, and we'd have to have an engineer to
Speaker 1: make sure it's all there, and he would dial in
Speaker 1: this phone number, had this local seven to one to
Speaker 1: three phone and would dial into our radio stations I
Speaker 1: guess server for lack of a better term. It's a
Speaker 1: receiving thing. And they would connect and you can kind
Speaker 1: of hear it like the old fashioned bod rate. You know,
Speaker 1: there's this high pitch signal goes before it connects. I'm
Speaker 1: losing half my aut three Where is my audience right
Speaker 1: now with this story? But that's how we did. And
Speaker 1: then the products these devices got smaller, so much so
Speaker 1: that I actually went out and I bought my own
Speaker 1: and it was probably about a thousand bucks fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: It was a little investment. It was called the Blue Box,
Speaker 1: all right. Comrades was the name of the company. And
Speaker 1: this allowed me, because I knew how to connect it,
Speaker 1: I didn't need an engineer, not that I'm smarter than engineer,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty you know, self sufficient. I could
Speaker 1: travel anywhere. I could go on vacations. Now again, my
Speaker 1: show has always been on Saturday for twenty plus years.
Speaker 1: I mean I could rarely go on vacation with the
Speaker 1: family because I couldn't. I had to work weekends. Now
Speaker 1: I can travel anywhere, and we used to vacation and
Speaker 1: meet the kids were young. We used to vacation in
Speaker 1: southern cal all the time, and so I would we
Speaker 1: would rent a house. We would. I mean I could
Speaker 1: do it from the beach. As long as I pull
Speaker 1: I plugged in a telephone cord, it would connect, all right.
Speaker 1: That went away along with plain old telephone service line.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Now we could do it via the internet with a
Speaker 1: high speed. We could do it on Wi Fi. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be high speed. But also when we could do it,
Speaker 1: we could do it from home. We just have to
Speaker 1: plug you know, the internet in because generally you're gonna
Speaker 1: get faster speeds with direct broadband versus versus Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: That is how far we have come. So if anybody
Speaker 1: has a suggestion, I have done my show from jeez
Speaker 1: man and just the mountains of Colorado, the beaches of California. Yeah,
Speaker 1: four or five resorts on the beach, literally by the
Speaker 1: pool in Mexico. I think I have done. I know
Speaker 1: I went. Did we do it from Amsterdam? I went
Speaker 1: to Iceland. Once I did I did a few from
Speaker 1: the least coast here and there, but I love taking
Speaker 1: the show on the road, getting some interviews, setting up
Speaker 1: to webcam and so I am your guys. Let's do
Speaker 1: it in the air. As all those flight attendants say.
Speaker 1: It is garf bottom of the hour. We've got thirty
Speaker 1: more minutes. You know the phone number. When we come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about more technology that was around my twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago, much less a year ago. Self driving
Speaker 1: robo taxis coming to Dallas along with Waymo just starting
Speaker 1: to hit these streets driverless taxis in Austin. People resist,
Speaker 1: say you can talk about this coming back on a
Speaker 1: high protechnic show. He's got a tax from my buddy.
Speaker 1: Kenny dumped in over at US coins and jewelry. The
Speaker 1: uh yeah, one of the easily one of the top two,
Speaker 1: top three, maybe the top one coin jewelry buy and
Speaker 1: sell in the country, I mean country. Kenny Duncan is
Speaker 1: not well. He's second generation. He his dad Kenny Senior,
Speaker 1: started this years ago. Kenny Duncan, his brother Matthew Duncan
Speaker 1: is it's family business. I ten Katie Katy Freeway right
Speaker 1: did Foss road Dude is a new msmatist, which I
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I'm allowed to say on these airwaves.
Speaker 1: New mysmatist is someone who actually was an expert in
Speaker 1: coin coin collectors. If you have any coins jewelry, gold, silver,
Speaker 1: and they are expanding anyway. He just texted me because
Speaker 1: I dropped by his place. It was it Thursday, so
Speaker 1: I was picking out. I check it out the whole
Speaker 1: just a slew of Rolex watches and they've got diamond Joey's.
Speaker 1: They were showing me this. I guess it was an
Speaker 1: engagement ring, folks, I'm not no, No, wasn't for me.
Speaker 1: They were taking a picture of this ring. Matthew Dunkle
Speaker 1: was taking a picture of this ring, and he was
Speaker 1: standing outside in front of the building and there was
Speaker 1: like two guards around him, and I'm like, yo, Maddie,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. He wanted to get the sun
Speaker 1: reflecting on this thing. He's holding up this ring, and
Speaker 1: I am not listen, we use hyperbole sometimes, I am
Speaker 1: not kidding. I almost was blinded by the shine on
Speaker 1: this thing. I think it was six carrots. Not only
Speaker 1: was this diamond big, gorgeous, but there was it was
Speaker 1: diamond encrusted all the way around the ring, I mean
Speaker 1: the bottom of the ring. I don't understand. Well, actually
Speaker 1: I do. I used to sell this stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff on QVC. But anyway, one of the many things
Speaker 1: that they have it is diamonds. Anyway, he just texted,
Speaker 1: he's listening to the show. They are open on Saturdays,
Speaker 1: not Sundays. If you don't matter when you're listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast right now, if you're not in Houston, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: US Coins and Jewelry dot Com they have sports memorabilia.
Speaker 1: They have just got a whole baseball fan, especially Astros fans.
Speaker 1: They got a slew of Jeff Bagwell and Craig Bigio
Speaker 1: dual autograph baseballs, a lot of them stacked up over there.
Speaker 1: You can come in. You could purchase those. What a
Speaker 1: great gift to get fired up for the of the season.
Speaker 1: But go check them out. US Coins and jewey dot Com. Kenny,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being potna here of this
Speaker 1: show and tuning in. Garf is the name. And you know,
Speaker 1: one way to get to US Coins and Jewelry you
Speaker 1: could you could drive very big parking lot. And by
Speaker 1: the way, they're expanding their building too. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I was supposed to say that on the air.
Speaker 1: But they are creating another building right next to their
Speaker 1: current building and it's gonna be gorgeous. He actually walked
Speaker 1: me through it.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Wait, good parking lot. But you can also you could
Speaker 1: take a taxi, or you could take an Uber, or
Speaker 1: you could take a lift. And odds are in Houston
Speaker 1: those services are going to have a driver. And I
Speaker 1: say this, It's like, what are you talking about, Matt, Well,
Speaker 1: doesn't every car have a driver? No, they don't. People,
Speaker 1: Because if you are listening at our great capital of Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: Uber and a company named Waimo Waymo they just partnered
Speaker 1: in They just launched a self driving car to pick
Speaker 1: up passengers. Oh perfect, just in time for the billions
Speaker 1: of people going into town for south By Southwest, just launch.
Speaker 1: It is an autonomous option. Autonomous. Now there's two keywords
Speaker 1: I want to talk about her. One's autonomous, which means
Speaker 1: it's self driving. It is like Ghostbusters. People ain't nobody
Speaker 1: in that driver's sept So it is a paradigm shift
Speaker 1: that you may have to be freaked out with. That's
Speaker 1: number one. Number two, it's an option when you call
Speaker 1: an Uber or Weimo. You get on one of their
Speaker 1: the apps, you have the option of saying I want
Speaker 1: to try one of these autonomous babies or he no,
Speaker 1: I want real I want a real human flesh up
Speaker 1: there driving me. Now. They already have the service in
Speaker 1: San fran Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Weaymo's trying to expand
Speaker 1: in the more cities they've cleaned up with umer Uber.
Speaker 1: They announced this last September, and I don't know, is
Speaker 1: this something that you would do. It's a network of listen,
Speaker 1: they have human driven cars. They're going to continue to
Speaker 1: give rides in Austin. But if you've never been driven
Speaker 1: in a self driven car, it's weird. And by the way,
Speaker 1: for all you people who are big at University of
Speaker 1: Texas and Arch Manning or Cooper Manning fans, apparently it
Speaker 1: was it Weimo or Uber one of them. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They just did an nil deal with Arch Manning, the
Speaker 1: quarter back for the Longhorns, and they did they really
Speaker 1: need funny I don't know, probably sixty second video on
Speaker 1: social media just to announce it. Just this week. You
Speaker 1: got Arch Manning, who's the quarterback. You've got his dad,
Speaker 1: Cooper Manning of the famous Manning family. And then you've
Speaker 1: got Arch Manning, the grandfather, the famous footballer from the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies nineteen eightys. All three are sitting in the
Speaker 1: back of a waymo and there's no driver and it's
Speaker 1: a very funny family. Cooper's a very funny cat. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. So anyway, they lined that too, So
Speaker 1: that's number one. That's Austin. Then I saw this big
Speaker 1: d and I know we're broadcast in Dallas on the
Speaker 1: Mighty Mighty eleven ninety Talk Radio eleven ninety. How are
Speaker 1: you guys doing well? Guess what, You're not left out
Speaker 1: either because Robotaxis we're gonna call this Lift is bringing
Speaker 1: robotaxis to Dallas. Lift, which is a competitor to Uber.
Speaker 1: They want to keep pace and they're launching a fleet
Speaker 1: of robotaxis as as soon as twenty twenty six. That's
Speaker 1: a quote right now. This is according to report that
Speaker 1: I saw in tech Crunch. These are robocabs and they
Speaker 1: are going to be able to and they're going to
Speaker 1: use you know, for GM OUTI, Volkswagon, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of other stuff. They're going to use these vehicles
Speaker 1: and driverless and they're going to pick you up in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And I say this because this is kind of a question,
Speaker 1: and this is what I do. I love hearing from you, folks.
Speaker 1: So if you can't get through the phone lines, or
Speaker 1: if you want to leave a voicemail three four six
Speaker 1: twenty nine Texan, you can go to high Tech go
Speaker 1: on x dot com h I G h T E
Speaker 1: C h T E X AM. Do you trust this?
Speaker 1: Would you ride in a driverless vehicle? Have you ridden
Speaker 1: in a driverless vehicle? I want to take this boy.
Speaker 1: We got about twenty four minutes left to this show,
Speaker 1: but I want to hear from you. I have done it,
Speaker 1: and I I am a It's my job to actually
Speaker 1: put myself out there, try technology, utilize technology so I
Speaker 1: can put it into my mind frame, in my words,
Speaker 1: and bring it to you. I'm not saying or endorsing
Speaker 1: that this is the safest way to ride. I mean,
Speaker 1: no one is. I mean you can't guarantee anything. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. The driverless cars, with all of
Speaker 1: their radar and lightar systems and their cameras, they may
Speaker 1: be safer than a human driver. They may be not
Speaker 1: for me to say yet we're gonna have to study
Speaker 1: this thing. But I'm just here to say one of
Speaker 1: the reasons this has been possible for years driverless cars.
Speaker 1: The first time I saw a driverless car, I was
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. I was up there for something, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna go back eight years
Speaker 1: ago maybe, and I land in San Francisco Airport and
Speaker 1: I get into an actual taxi cab. Actually you know
Speaker 1: what it was, maybe something I was there for an
Speaker 1: event and maybe somebody picked me up in a car. Whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I was in the back. There was a real human
Speaker 1: driving me, and we're on what is it, the the
Speaker 1: I five or something whatever that is going north to
Speaker 1: San Francisco, the city itself, because the airport is south
Speaker 1: of the city, and we're just rolling over here. It's
Speaker 1: a gorgeous day and there's you know, there's the mountains,
Speaker 1: and I can kind of see the ocean on the
Speaker 1: right hand side, at the Pacific's ocean, you know, at
Speaker 1: the bay, and then to the right of me, here
Speaker 1: comes this car and it just it was just not
Speaker 1: a big deal. It's you didn't have lights in it,
Speaker 1: there was no driver and the first time you see it, dude.
Speaker 1: It is freakyeeky. It's like dang, and you want to
Speaker 1: you want to move lanes, you want to get away
Speaker 1: from it. First time and there was no one in
Speaker 1: the back seat. They were just testing this. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was Apple of it was Google,
Speaker 1: I don't know, a third party company. Whatever it was,
Speaker 1: it it was Craig Craig. It was back. Now we're
Speaker 1: at the point where we have riders in the back.
Speaker 1: I've tried it at ces. You know, I take videos
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and the first thing is the first thing.
Speaker 1: I will guarantee you that there's a few guarantees over here.
Speaker 1: The first time you ever get in the back of
Speaker 1: a driverless car, whenever it happens in your lifetime, you're
Speaker 1: going to take pictures in video. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I was an Uber when
Speaker 1: Uber was invented, versus a taxi cab driver. You had
Speaker 1: a conversation with Uber driver. It's like, hey, do you
Speaker 1: like driving for this Uber thing? And how does it work?
Speaker 1: I mean that was mandatory. It's mandatory now to get
Speaker 1: in the back of one of these riverless cars and
Speaker 1: take a picture and post the thing and I'll end
Speaker 1: the point. My point with this. It has been around
Speaker 1: for many years. Why hasn't it really taken off? Yes,
Speaker 1: technology has continues to get better with the radar system
Speaker 1: than the eighteen or the eighty plus cameras they have
Speaker 1: on board, the light oar system that sees everything. I
Speaker 1: will tell you the secret, which is not a secrets.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before in my opinion, in my mind,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm I speak the truth and I
Speaker 1: think I'm right. The reason why driverless cars have not
Speaker 1: taken off it is because it is a major paradigm
Speaker 1: shift for our lifestyle, our trust, and the way we operate.
Speaker 1: When Henry Ford created that automobile many many years ago,
Speaker 1: there has been a human driver. All right, we trust ourselves.
Speaker 1: Do we trust technology? Listen? There's stories about companies and
Speaker 1: servers being hacked all the time like that. Do we
Speaker 1: trust it? I don't think there is a trust factor.
Speaker 1: I don't think we do. What happens if all of
Speaker 1: a sudden the pedal gets stuck and you're going one
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour and you can't stop. What happens
Speaker 1: if you decide the last minutes that wait, mane, here's
Speaker 1: my stopper's traffic. I want to get out what happens
Speaker 1: if you are in a wreck and the car doors
Speaker 1: are stuck in the back seat? Are you're going to
Speaker 1: climb over the front seat?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: What happens when you get in a wreck? Whose fault
Speaker 1: is it? I know there's cameras? Is it the other
Speaker 1: person's fault? Is it the Waymo's Well, you can't see
Speaker 1: the driver of weimo because there is no driver. There's
Speaker 1: still a lot of questions. But I think it's our
Speaker 1: lack of acceptance in the consumer market. Your thoughts, please
Speaker 1: tell me fifteen more minutes, three four, six, twenty nine
Speaker 1: texts and if you don't like it, you know what,
Speaker 1: text me your address. I'll come pick you up in
Speaker 1: one of the two vehicles that I'm testing this week,
Speaker 1: the Lexus UX three hundred F Sport and the Chevy
Speaker 1: Equinox EV. If you want the full reviews, you can
Speaker 1: go to my podcast Spotify and many other podcasts. You
Speaker 1: look for high tech texts and nine hundred plus vehicles
Speaker 1: that I have been reviewing over the years, and so
Speaker 1: you're gonna get my opinion on that coming up we
Speaker 1: will wrap up some more news actually going around Texas too.
Speaker 1: Hey remember all those drone deliveries that were happening in
Speaker 1: all these cities, including College Station in parts of Dallas. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, I don't think people actually like drones flying
Speaker 1: around to deliver all their products. I'll tell you one
Speaker 1: city who said, Ova, We're stopping it. It's right here
Speaker 1: on the High Tech Texan Show with me and Michael Breslin.
Speaker 1: We made it, people, We made it final segment of
Speaker 1: this weekend's High Tech text in Show. I do thank
Speaker 1: you for tuning in. I thank you for all the
Speaker 1: nice comments, especially some of you folks in Austin, where
Speaker 1: our show is not hurt terrestrially in Austin. It's heard
Speaker 1: in Houston and San Antonio, in Dallas. But I guess
Speaker 1: the signal in San Antonio WAI twelve hundred am. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's a pretty big blowtorch fifty thousand watts. I
Speaker 1: guess that reaches into Austin. Just started the gig on
Speaker 1: the Austin Fox seventh station. I am the new technology
Speaker 1: correspondence reporter. Did my first segment last Monday. So every
Speaker 1: Monday seven forty five am. If you are in Austin
Speaker 1: or if you want to go online the Fox seven Austin,
Speaker 1: you can see some of the products I'm reviewing. And
Speaker 1: you actually can see what the hair behind the microphone
Speaker 1: looks like. That is my actual hair, folks. I'm very
Speaker 1: proud of it. To my age. And there you go.
Speaker 1: So I do thank you, so shout out to everybody
Speaker 1: and everybody coming to Austin for south By Southwest. I
Speaker 1: do want to remind you this weekend it is we're
Speaker 1: losing an hour of sleep. So whatever time you're listening
Speaker 1: to this, if you're listening on a Saturday, set a
Speaker 1: reminder in your mind before you go to bed Saturday,
Speaker 1: sprang forward. Set your clock ahead one hour. For all
Speaker 1: those non automatic things like your microwave, your wall clock,
Speaker 1: maybe your old timey clock radio like I still have,
Speaker 1: maybe your micro your oven, whatever, it is a lot
Speaker 1: of other a lot of the devices that we have,
Speaker 1: they do set automatically. Your phone will reset automatically. Your
Speaker 1: if you're smart watch is connected to your phone, it's
Speaker 1: going to set automatically. To your computer pretty much sets automatically.
Speaker 1: Your cars depend older cars will not do it. I
Speaker 1: don't know, depending on the model. I don't know when
Speaker 1: the time bline was of what year, make, model, but
Speaker 1: most of your cars should if they're within the you know,
Speaker 1: probably i'd say the last five, six, seven years, they
Speaker 1: should automatically update. But if not, the worst thing to
Speaker 1: do is if you don't drive on Sunday. You get
Speaker 1: up Monday morning to go to the office, and you know,
Speaker 1: your clocks in your home are all set, You're all
Speaker 1: cool for daylight saving time, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're getting your car like we do my good ism
Speaker 1: an hour late. You set your set your car clock
Speaker 1: back just to forget about that. Hey, speaking your clocks.
Speaker 1: One more thing too, about this clock? Where did I
Speaker 1: see this? There is a there's an app. Here is
Speaker 1: an app that I don't know if you want to download.
Speaker 1: And that's that's counterintuitive to what I talk about, because
Speaker 1: I generally tell you here's something that you may want
Speaker 1: to try. I may want to download. This is kind
Speaker 1: of a this is a morbid thing. This is a
Speaker 1: morbid thing.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: There is a there's an app here. It is called
Speaker 1: the death clock. I'll tell you, I guess what that does.
Speaker 1: It is a AI powered death clock, and it claims
Speaker 1: to predict when and how you will die by analyzing
Speaker 1: factors like your age and your health, and your habits
Speaker 1: and your lifestyle choices. So apparently you I have not
Speaker 1: done this app, but I don't want to do this app,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1: You download this app, they ask you questions like how
Speaker 1: often do you work out? Do you have stress, how
Speaker 1: do you sleep, what do you do, do you drink
Speaker 1: a lot? What's your cholesterol, your blood pressure? And listen.
Speaker 1: There is a disclaimer states the results are for entertainment
Speaker 1: purposes only and they should not be taken as scientifically accurate.
Speaker 1: You know what if it's an interergy it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's a betting site. Why not? Where's I use prize picks?
Speaker 1: You know it's god, it's a betting app. Maybe do
Speaker 1: they have an over under of when some specifically is
Speaker 1: going to die? This is sound It sounds like it's
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity over Here. At the end of the
Speaker 1: questionnaire on this app, you're going to get a shareable
Speaker 1: page with a quote save the date that shows the
Speaker 1: day and the age you're expected to die. People who
Speaker 1: comes up with this and I'm serious about this thing.
Speaker 1: You know what. We don't have enough time to take
Speaker 1: questions about this, but feel free to as we hang,
Speaker 1: you know, get ready to wind the show down. Go
Speaker 1: to x dot com, Go to high Tech Texan spellball
Speaker 1: thing on high Tech Texans. Would you do this? It is?
Speaker 1: It is? Would you want to know when and how
Speaker 1: you will die? It's unsettling. It's unsettling to see a
Speaker 1: number and a date attached to your final day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess you can view it as a wake up call,
Speaker 1: reminder that we're not going to escape the inevitable, but
Speaker 1: maybe you might be able to push it further into
Speaker 1: the future. I say it's morbid. The app also offers
Speaker 1: some suggestions on how to live longer. Obviously, I think
Speaker 1: there's a paid subscription plan here somewhere with personalized longevity plan.
Speaker 1: Here's a longevity plan. Stop drinking as much, work out, smile,
Speaker 1: talk to people, did out love life, you know, just
Speaker 1: stop smoking, don't do drugs. I sound like my mother,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. We all could go at any minute,
Speaker 1: but I kind of live by those rules. That's why
Speaker 1: I look. I don't think I look my age. I
Speaker 1: sure as heck, don't act my age people. If you
Speaker 1: know how old I am. And I got the energy
Speaker 1: right here death Clock. It is available on iOS and Android.
Speaker 1: This was not an endorsement whatsoever. That is the weird
Speaker 1: stuff we talk about. Uh did I tease something else?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, drones real quickly, I'm sorry about that. I
Speaker 1: got about a minute and a half over here. Amazon
Speaker 1: did an experiment in College Station, which is a city
Speaker 1: northwest of Houston, and I think there may be a
Speaker 1: college there. I'm not sure. Okay, I'll just kind of
Speaker 1: go with that as a long word. Amazon has been
Speaker 1: experimenting drone deliveries in college Station for a while. Long
Speaker 1: story short. The people who live in College Station population
Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty five thousand. They have not
Speaker 1: been too happy with it. And this is a story
Speaker 1: that I read on Wired Wired dot com. I'm not
Speaker 1: making this stuff up. They people did not like the buzzing,
Speaker 1: the sounds. There was I think two drones fell out
Speaker 1: of the sky. They didn't hurt anybody. People think about
Speaker 1: the privacy, you know some people. I was there a camp.
Speaker 1: The people don't want to layup by a swimming I'm
Speaker 1: reading somebody didn't want lay out by swimming pool. Because
Speaker 1: they thought the drones camera was pointing down. You know,
Speaker 1: Amazon comes back and forth say no, no, no, this
Speaker 1: is at the end of the day. Amazon experiment of
Speaker 1: flying drones in college station apparently is OVA. They are
Speaker 1: shutting down soon, no longer. Nope, that's it. You're not
Speaker 1: going to be able. Are you aggy people to order
Speaker 1: cookies or toothbrushes or toothpaste at your women? Have it
Speaker 1: deliver within the hour. That's another paradigm shift. And we'll
Speaker 1: talk about this next week, because we in this show
Speaker 1: we talked about paradigm shift of driverless vehicles, the waymos
Speaker 1: of the world of robot taxis. Would you sit in
Speaker 1: a car that's being driven by nobody? Would you try drones?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen one of these things work. I probably
Speaker 1: should do a story for one of my TV segments
Speaker 1: over I'd like to see how it'll work. But I
Speaker 1: don't know because I live in Texas and most of
Speaker 1: the time, if I got a hanger for some ice
Speaker 1: cream and I want it delivered quickly and I'm not
Speaker 1: home ill they drop that bluebell in the wrong backyard,
Speaker 1: man had to waste the money and I got a
Speaker 1: big old hot milk shake these a the framings that
Speaker 1: I think about, the technology to the forefront that makes
Speaker 1: you think too. With that ending the show, Thank you
Speaker 1: to Calum Read and thank you to Will. Thank you
Speaker 1: to Brian Erickson for me keeping me on all of
Speaker 1: these cities here on the iHeart meeting at work. If
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Speaker 1: being interactive and listening. We're twenty two, twenty three plus
Speaker 1: years Michael Garthurs, my mate, have a wonderful weekend. Sorry
Speaker 1: you're losing an extra hour of sleep spring for of
Speaker 1: my friends. I'll talk to you next week because right
Speaker 1: now my show is over.