FCC Updates The Definition Of "Broadband"

Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining us in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high tech textan items to make life easier, new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Textan. Michael Garfield. Happy Saturday for those of you listening lot on kp R C

nine fifty and Michael is the name. And I'm not going to say why are you listening? Well, how about this? I hope you are listening with two ears while maybe having at least one, potentially two of your eyes on March mad people, one of my favorite times of the year, and not talking a lot about it. Well, you know what I will talk about it if you know what I have done for the past thirty five plus years, this weekend, every weekend, well since I began this show.

You are listening plausibly live from Las Vegas people. Is there a better place to be than Las Vegas? Number one? Throughout the year? Is there a better place to watch and be a part of March Madness and potentially lose money but potentially win money. Then Las Vegas been out here since Wednesday. Tip Off Round one was Thursday. You got your Houston kooks? Who you got your brackets? I generally start this show off with I know your brackets

busted, blah blah blah blah. You your bag. Your bracket is always going to be busted. It's just there're the other people in your pool just as busted as yours. Listen, I'm more than happy to take your phone calls about your bracket. Still, God, who's left alive in the tournament?

Seven one three two one two five nine five zero. No matter if I'm in the studio or not the studio right now, good old Callum Reid and the boys are back there punching the buttons and making sure that I am broadcast all over Southeast Texas terrestriallylack I have for twenty two plus years, but also all over the Internet. Thank you for dyl Ludy, the iHeartRadio app. I'll be here for the next hour and forty five minutes and then I

guess, let's see UH does not play today on Saturday. My University of Texas Longhorns who put it up today. So I hope all is what march madness. The real madness is believing that you actually have a chance of filling out a perfect bracket. A perfect bracket. The odds of that. But you may have heard this this week. The odds of a perfect bracket one in nine point two quinn killion if you were to pick each of the games through a coin flip. But if you know something about basketball, nice to

meet you. The odds improve to one in one hundred and twenty billion. All right, So I got that going for me. I got to have quick breaking news. I did not have another a perfect bracket for the first probably for the fiftieth consecutive year that I have been doing the brackets for a long, long, long time. What else you got for listen? Today? We are going to talk about a number of interesting things, including the

FCC. Do we like you? We actually hear? Because this original originates as a live radio program, not a podcast, I have to follow some FCC rules, which means there's a few certain words that I cannot say. But then when it goes to podcasts, you could say any f up any you could say anything that you want. FCC actually did this a solid You don't hear that a lot when it comes to internet speeds. And for all you streamers out there, streams nothing but a stream Hulu. I actually have

Hulu. I signed up for Hulu last December for ninety nine cents a month, and you should have two if you use someone else's password, because guess what happened this week you ain't using that password anymore. Hulu becomes the latest streamer to crack down on passwords, following Netflix and a few others. And I will tell you who is up next the summer, and you and your kids are not gonna be happy about that. You know the phone number,

My email address here Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. And also go to all the socials high tech text at h I G H T E C h T E x A N you spell the whole thing else It is high tech Texan. If you're too shy to pick up the phone call, feel free to post a little something and maybe I'll give you a shout out. The

madness is indeed arrived, having a fun time here in Las Vegas. This is my not that said, I guess humble brag or it's like for those of you who can't stay in Vegas, as you're not gonna like my fourth straight month in Las Vegas. I'm going this is so far the record. I've been coming to Vegas for forty this is my fortieth year. I did come before I could legally gamble, but I can hear forty years in Las Vegas. The average, I ually get to Vegas three to four times a

year. This is my fourth time in a row. So who knows some way, it's just it's a blast. I do not go did Michael, what shows do you go to? I don't go to any shows forty years, well over one hundred and fifty times, two hundred times to Vegas. If I've seen five shows, have any kind of my life on lying. I don't see shows. I sit in front of it. It depends where this week, me and my say eight guys from our college days, our

thirty fifth, thirty sixth year of gathering together. I love telling that story because a lot of my people go, oh, that's so cool. I should have done that. What a neat tradition? Yeah, shut up, you should have done that. It's a phenomenal tradition. Sadly, I've never spent an entire spring break with my family when my kids were young, because it's like, guess what, Daddy is going to Las Vegas for spring break?

And it is a blast. We sit and watch TV pretty much all days with all the round one, round two games, we hit the craps table in the afternoon. Between the morning and the afternoon games, we hit the pool that we do a dice dinner and then we pass out. I do wake up, I go to the gym, and then we repeat and rinse, repeat all over again. So no matter how much you were watching it, how much time have you wasted on Thursday and Friday of already from

your work? I bet your boss is not too happy about you. But hopefully you'll beat your boss in in the pool. But if you don't watch college basketball, you probably are have been screaming at your TV simply because an unpaid nineteen year old missed a free throw. Yes, this is what we do. It's sorry about that. Check it out the time over here, we're going to take a quick break. That's how we start the show. We don't really get into too much technology. It's a pop lifestyle. What

is going on show. Last week we talked a little about what was happening with Kate Middleton. Has she been seen? She's like the elusive Bigfoot right now because somebody posted a photo on Twitter of her and Prince William maybe walking out of a grocery store holding some bags. Let me help you out, people, I really don't care about the story. I mean, whatever the damn monarchy does. You don't believe it. They are worthless there whatever, but let me help you out. I will tell you this. They are

massively, massively rich. They could do any damn thing they want in that country, England. The hell if Prince William and Princess Kate are walking to and from a grocery store with grocery bags, HGB. I am deploring right now open up a store somewhere in England. So at least they have curbside pickup. That is all I ask for this week of March. All right, coming back, it is the High Tech Decks It Show. It's Michael Garpo's dead by my brands. I've been answering some emails if you want to

know what we do during the commercial breaks over here. I am always online. I got at least one eye up on the TV watching a little match, madness. I got one mouth in front of the microphone. I got two earphones so I can hear Callum talk to me. What are you whispering? Callum? Really? You got uh going all the way. I mean, I'll tell you what, march madness. I have like five brackets, five six brackets you know online where someboddies like that man I got I got

UH going all the way. I've got Yukon just they're just they're so, they're so tough. I'm not high on UT this year. Last year I had UT going to the final four. I mean it was made for UT. Last year. It was in Houston and they were doing great, and both Houston and Texas where they were one game half a game away from going to the final four. So it's in Phoenix, Arizona in three weeks. I have no clue. Who is going tell you what? Don't sleep.

I got some sleepers. James Madison one of my sleepers. I can tell you this now because I've already submitted my pool brackets and the and so of you, so we shall see it is garf. Also some emails over here. What I'm doing? Somebody said, hey, Michael, I saw you on Great Day Houston, Shadow eleven. I had no clue that's what you look like. Why are you wasting your time on radio? Is that calumb Is that a compliment? I maybe I don't know. I do radio two.

I am a double threat. I'm a triple threat. I am a radio TV social media personality. Take that, people, That was me on Great Day Houston. I am a regular contributor and I was doing a which seems like my annual segment on outdoor grilling gadgets and accessories every every spring, yeah, early to late spring. The folks great. They uston debraa knunkin CBS Channel eleven. They have me specifically co On and hey Michael man,

everybody loves cooking and grilling. The weather's getting warm, and what do you got? I actually played with and my eye as well. Give you a review right now. I brought in a few outdoor gadgets, but my newest and I like cooking. I am a man. I like cooking and grilling. Don't need a lot of red meat though I'm a fish chicken guy, but all my buddies come over and they like the meat. I have a new I have another Oh yeah, yeah, I need a bigger house.

I have another grill smoker device. I have had fired desk of ice like the fire Disc, which is neither a grill or a smoker. It's just an outdoor cooker runs on propane. I've had a Big Green Egg and by the way, I still have a Big Green Egg, which I am selling right now. I have not put down on Facebook marketplace if anybody is interested. And the high Tech Texans personally autographed, which I devalued Big Green Egg with all the accessories. It's only like two or three years old. Great

shape. Let me know. Pop me a note because I have replaced my Big Green Egg with another Kamada Comado style ceramic smoker. It is the Kamato Joe. Wait a minute, it's just not the red, not the green, but the red Comado style cooker from Kamada Joe. It is the technologically advanced Connected Joe. That's a KA Connected Joe. So I saw this at CEES Consumer Electronics Show last January, and I did. I went to a reception in I was blown away. It's relatively new and it is to some

aspects. The accessories are different than the Big Green and I don't want to sit here and go you know, compare the two really, but some of the things I really like about the Connected Egg. It's okay, bear with me over, Yes, I'm gonna go back. It's the relatively, I have a large size, so it's the same size as my Big Green Egg. It works in the same principle. It is a Commodo style. It's a dome that seals, which keeps all the heat in, which keeps all

the smoke in if you're smoking something. But the difference is almost in there. This comes with a lot of accessories. Big Green Egg does not come with a lot of accessories. Big Green Egg wants you to purchase the accessories. So in terms of pound for pound, deal for the deal, I like commoda Joe. But this is called the Connected ko in it it's a K because that's the way they brand it. But it's connected because it is technologically advanced. Now you plug this one in and you plug it in.

You don't have to plug it in, but you want to plug it in to electric electric OL it because it has a digital readout screen panel on the front where it is telling you the digital readouts, including the temperature, of the inside of the Kammanda Joe. Also, it has not one, not two, but three different plugs for probes food probes that you can plug in. It comes with one probe already and it's got a digital readout so you

can see the inside temperature of your meat. It's got a fan built in and so you don't have to solely rely on air, you know, like you do with the big grain egg and cooking on these commandostylegios. It's a it's a science and I'm not saying I perfected it, but I've had one of these for three years or so. And so you know, you turn the heat to turn that to make the heat go up, and the heat in the in the connected Commanda Joe up to seven hundred degrees. I'm talking

you could put a pizza in there. So you have to open the bottom. And you know air affects fire, more air, more wind fire. That's where you blow on fire to you know, not to really put it out, but to make it grow. This has a controlled fan that will monitor it knows how open or how closed the upper air intake and outtake vent is all together. It comes with an app free app that you can monitor and change things remotely. You can set the temperature. You can actually dial

things. Hey listen, I'm cooking pork, I'm cooking poultry, I'm cooking beef, I'm cooking a reb by, I'm cooking a steak. It'll beep when the temperature gets it gets up there. Very very convenient. So that's one of and so I like it. If you want to check it out, you can go to a Commado joke. It's k O kam a d O Comado Joe and there's there's a there's a number of them. Now. I specifically have the connected Joe and they run. You're going to find them

for about seventeen hundred dollars. I think Home Depot, Academy Sports and Outdoors has it, and there's other ones. You know, they Kamada Joe makes a big Joe to make a classic Joe, but this is connected, so it's a little bit more high tech. And I found it, you know, pretty very easy to use, and things came out really simple, you know, I get I played it with it one time and then I used it on my segment on Great Day Houston, and it was pretty cool.

So anyway, if you're looking for something for outdoor a grilling of gadgets. I was playing with an electric fire starter that was pretty cool. You can find it. Tell you what I think. I put the video on high Tech Texting dot Com from my channel eleven hit last Wednesday. So at H I G h T E c h T E x A. And actually my buddy Darryl Darryl Kunda, Darryl Kunda used to actually work here with us at the iHeartRadio. Great dude, big griller, big dude. He knows how

to grill and everything. So he won. He probably he probed over this. This brought a source looking bone. I'm talking it was like this was from Flenstones or something. It was a huge piece of like red meat. It looked great. He seasoned it perfectly. He brought over some chicken. We put that on there and they came out perfect. It was quite tasty. And so whatever you want to cook, it's pretty good. I'm next. You can when I say pizza, you can cook pizza on these things.

And so outdoor grilling is it's pretty cool. So there you go. It's the Connected Joe. There is the high Tech Texan Review. Definitely I enjoyed it. You will too. And by the way, seriously, I really I need to sell my big great egg which comes with a number of different accessories, a big cover, it's on wheels and everything. Talk to me, people, email me Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com or bought me a note on my socials at High Tech Texan. When we come back,

we are going to talk about what the FCC did. Actually pretty cool. You don't hear that a lot? Federal Communications Commission. I love you guys, you know why because technically you tell me what I can and what I can't say. And also Hulu just kind of threw down the gauntlet so you no longer can actually share your passwords. I will tell you the next streaming

service to do so coming up this summer. All here on the ht T shizzow that means High Tech Texan bell you what, after all this talk of food and motto Joe open and smoking, how about going on a diet? Not that I well, I'm always trying to keep fit, but if you were one who are looking to shit a few pounds and you're thinking about getting all these high falutin new drugs that help you lose weight or curb your appetite. I know they're expensive. Sometimes your insurance does not pay for them.

May I suggest Campbell's compounding Pharmacy. Spell it Campbell's Compounding dot Com. Two locations, one near the mediciner, one out in sugar Land, Exis where I can nearly reside by. And I've known Lance Campbell for fifteen years now, if not even more than that. And I remember my kids were young. They didn't like stomaching, nasty tasting medicine or something like that. But one of the many things that Campbell's compound like pharmacy, they can do.

They can make any drug pill syrup taste like anything they want. You want bubblegum kids could bring it. I always joke that man Lands, how come you can't make something taste like bourbon? You probably could if you wanted to. But anyway, they're convenient, they're fast. Have your doctor prescribe something and pick it up Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy Iamcampbell's Coompounding dot Com. Tell them you heard it on this wonderful radio show talk about stream You're streaming is the new

technological way to watch television. As you know, all you need is an Internet connection. We'll talk about this first before we talk what the FCC is doing or done with your internet connection. Hulu is is it it's owned or cohened by Disney, Right, yeah, Hulu. I didn't have Hulu until this Sumber and I saw this special. And sometimes things are so good.

You're at the grocery store and you're in a checkout lane and you're just sitting there looking, oh, man, I want a piece of gum, I need a resis or something like this, kind of a last minute purchase. It is what happened with Hulu. I think my dad sent me this length. He said, hey, Hulu is having this sale for the holidays ninety nine cents a month. Last year, I think they had it for a dollar ninety nine a month. They said, screw it up for one year.

And by the way, this could come to Simber if I'm still around, guys still remind me to cancel by Hulu subscription. I'm like, come on, twelve bucks a year? Are you kidding me? Twelve? I am an actual Hulu subscriber, And it was worth it back then because I actually found a great streaming show. I was watching Only Murders in the Building that I've got into those three seasons. I did it, and I watched it on Hulu, which I thought was pretty cool. I actually like that.

Hulu got an issue here. Hulu subscriber beware, because the password sharing crackdown is officially here. That's right, just like Netflix. The new policy went into effect earlier this week. It's barring people who don't live in the same household from piggybacking on subscriptions. Yep, oh vap. Now they send an email in January notifying their subscribers it's gonna ban sharing accounts with people outside of their homes in March. Check your calendar. It is now March.

Now. It's the change to the Hulu subscriber agreement. It's similar to an update to the Disney Plus subscriber agreement late last year. Now, Hulu defines a household as a collection of device is associated with your primary personal residence that are used by the individuals who reside therein oh, that is a freaking lawyer speaker eh breaking new Disney Plus is also plenty to crack down on passwords sharing

this summer. Uh oh, all you little kids who have to watch Frozen and you're sharing your grandmother's account nope, tying to pony up people work for Netflix. Netflix started this. They saw a big boost in subscriber growth after it began cracking down on password sharing. It was last May been around almost a year max, which was formerly HBO Max. They're also the latest to restrict passwords sharing. Streaming services looking to hook new subscribers used to allow.

They even encouraged people to share accounts. Remember those days. But they're losing so much money now, rising pressure to stem their financial losses, they've it's changed the rules. Streaming plans not typically allow multiple devices within a household to access content on a single subscription, but allowing friends and family members to move

off those subscribers. Nope, it is for boten. Oh why as we say and al still predicting the passwords sharing crackdown is gonna spread to all streaming services eventually, it will. Do you remember what hell it's open phone lines now? Seven one, three, two five? What have you shared? Do I say, illegally? Your WiFi? Your Internet account? How many people are glombing off their neighbors wi Fi right now? I mean is a tour question. I mean you're not gonna have to call in and you can

tell me. Feel free to call in, feel free to send me. You could change your name. I want to identify you. Hell, I would do it too, but you know what I'm I mean, I'm kind of close to my neighbors. I ain't that diet with my neighbors. You know what I'd like? I listen. I'm a consumer, I'm flesh and blood. We all want deals. I give you deals. I tell you prices on competing products from top to bottom. I'm gonna give you the best

price, but also make sure it's the best product out there. I told you last week that I joined the Cold Time an official, a Pelotonian. So I bought a Pelotonka. By the way, here's your deal. I bought it used off Facebook marketplace, so anyway, it's got a pretty good deal. I needed shoes. I needed biking shoes, so I researched for two and a half days a pair of biking shoes that I got for all

of twenty four bones on online. Pretty cool, and I still have yet to subscribe to see here's the thing you need to subscribe to Peloton forty four freaking bones a month. Listen for all you Pelotonians out there, I have open phone lines? Is this really worth it? Can I use this Peloton that I'm that that is sitting in my office at home, ready to go, plugged in shoes next to it, cleaned up, It's it's beautiful, it's perfect. Can I just ride it? Or that's not the point.

And I don't think it's the point because if I just wanted a bicycle, a stationary bicycle, I'm gonna go at Academy and I think I can probably why I went for one hundred and twenty five dollars hundred and fifty bucks. It just sits there and has a tension wheel and then you're set to go. So I'm looking, I'm researching. I'm like, there's a Peloton app, there's a Peloton app plus? Does that work? Because those are cheaper? And then forty four dollars a month you're getting this thing. But then

I find out a few of my buddies have it. They said you actually can share your Peloton account with five people. Okay, now I'm thinking. So my Mike buddy of mine, one of my best friends, he's in Atlanta. He goes, Hey, Verify, It's okay, I'll just give you my username and password. I'm thinking, good, I'll pay you half of it. I'll go have these with you. Aparently you can only log on one Peloton at a time or something, so if you have a household

of five people, you can have one Peloton and in five people. Because it's a different serial number, I don't know, it's screwed up. So away if anybody has a way around for me for getting a Peloton subscription, uh seven point three two one two five nine five up this it's a business. It's an amazing business model, the subscription based model. And that's what you want because it's mailbox money people. I mean, it's Peloton. I've

said it before. It's Amazon should have given away a little tiny Alexa device free to every single person in this country free. It's a trojan horse. Jeff Bezos when he owned it back in the day, would have a trojan horse inside every single home and it would it would make everybody use the Amazon ecosystem. They would have to do. They don't have to pay for Prime, but if they want to order anything or all the answers, that's it. They have so much data on you. Give away the razors and sell

the blades. Give it away so Gillette, just give away the stupid give it, give away the razor because they know they got you on those freaking blades. It's what a subscription based model is. And they're in it for money. And that's why going back to the streamers, they're cracking down and

they're gonna start charging. All right, one more segment this hour. When we come back, I will tell you what are good friends at the Federal Communication Commission, the people who let us know that we cannot say this four letter word or two. We love them right now, from about the news to something they've changed for the first time in ten years. I'll tell you what that is. On the other side, I'd like to thank good boys and US coins and jewelry. I say boys specifically Kenny and Matt. Duncan

knows, the two brothers who run that thing day to day. Their father started it and I know they're listening right now because they are open on Saturday as we do this radio show. They do take the Chick fil A model and they close on Sunday, so you better get there. A little spring break present, little Easter gifts. And I say gifts, it's called US coins and jewelry. Every time I go in there. I don't know why, man so I got my rolex from there. And they'd love buying Rolexes

and then reselling them and trading them in and flipping it. And I did that most recently, about a month ago. Women. They've got tennis bracelets and beautiful earrings. They've got great Texas memorabilia. I'll tell you what if you're looking for, you know, old timey original state flags of Texas. They got great sports cards you get, they'll buy your sports cards. They've got autographed baseballs. It's it's it's it's really just an interesting place. It

could not be nicer folks. And obviously they're dealing coins. New mismatist is the official term for that. And if you have a ton of coins that you've been keeping and thinking there were something buff Nichols or whatever it is, take it to them for at least a quote doesn't cost anything. Schlep it in there. They got phenomenal security, really really tight, great cameras and so don't be worried. And it's just it's always a fun packplace. You

never know who you're going to see in there. Iten Kenny Freeway just outside of Loop six' ten right, voss us Coins and Jewelry dot Com. You don't even need to be in Houston to work with them because they could do it though remotely online. So, Kenny and Matt, I know you're listening right now. And as I hold up my rolex, what time is it? That's a running joke at it's actually just a few minutes before the

top of the hour. Hour number one will soon be over, but not before I give you some good news, good news from the Federal Communications Commission, the f c C, same organization that every year that we here at this radio station, all radio stations publicly over the air, that we have to get certified that we know what we're doing. We have the power of broadcasting because it's live. We have rules of what we cannot say. We don't have rules of what we can say, but we have rules of what

we cannot say. And so far, I've got a pretty good track record of twenty two years right now. So the FC she should love me and I actually appreciate them specifically for what they just did. For the first time in almost ten years, the FCC has raised the speeds required to describe what

Internet broad band means that's right. The every year they go through. It's the Internet Assessment, and the FCC concluded that one hundred megabits download, one hundred megs per second download, and twenty megs upload will be the new standard. That news probably is going to irk your ISP your ISPs who would love to keep pointing to the fact that twenty five megs down and three megs up, which has been the previous standards, and convincing people they're getting high speed

broadband. No, listen, remember the days of dial up internet access? Yes, I do too. Kids, You have no clue what your parents went through. It's like a fax machine. Then we had internet first big ISP here in the Houston area two thousand and two. Roadrunner from Comcast remember that, I'm sorry. Roadrunner from Time Warner was Time Warner's Roadrunner. How

do I know? Because I you're illustrious radio host was the spokesperson. Yes, that was me over twenty years ago, being chased by people in parks, golf courses, standing in coffee shops, and schools of people lining up to ask me questions about technology and the inner Yes, I have some of my career to thank for Time Warner Roadrunner to help put me and my brand on the map. I don't even think it was. It got us out of dial up, man. And actually, it's funny to a quick story.

So I'm shooting these It's true. I was. If you've been her, listen, if if you guys remember when I was the spokesperson TV radio and billboards. Dude, I was more ubiquitous than freaking Mattress Mac. It was crazy, man, this two thousand and two, two thousand and three, they we had there was a massive of public relations or advertising the agency. We shot these commercials and we shot them int Austin and they aired here, they aired in the Dallas area, they heard in Rio Grand Valley.

It was, it was, it was, it was really neat something. It's you know, I made it. I did. Look So it was it was a transition of a paradigm shift, going from dial up internet access AOL or whatever ev one to much higher speeds through your cable system. That was roadrunner maybe. And so I remember the director of the commercial. Every time I said I was trying to compare, somebody would ask me a question,

Hey, you're Michael Garfield, aren't you the high tech textan? What's the difference between you know, our dial up in uh in high speed broadband. So I would say, well, dial up is a very it's the low tech, old fashion away. But the director wanted me to put my put some stank on the word dial up. So every time if you go back out of there, it's on YouTube somewhere. It wasn't just dial up. It was dial up dial up, Like, what the hell dial up? Man? It was I'm not getting it time I say dial up,

I still stank it up. By the way, back to the story over here that by the way, gosh, I wish time water Road. I think I I forgot it was so long ago because remember Time Warner left the Houston area and switched some markets, and now Comcast has it, and Comcast does not know who in the world I am. They charged me out the Yahoo for freaking cable speech, which I cannot stand, and I'm gonna cut

the cable, so screw you guys. Well, anyway, the FCC did this report and it broke down in a lot of areas where the country's online infrastructure falls short, and they concluded that broadband really isn't being deployed quickly enough to serve Americans, and more specifically, they said they, you know, fixed terrestrial broadband service. This is not satellite. It's yet to be deployed to about twenty four million Americans. I don't know where these people live,

but I'm down with this. And the funny thing is, give it another few years and we're gonna laugh at the current of what they just changed. Okay, it went from twenty five megabits per second download now the minimum standard is one hundred megabitz download. And we're gonna laugh this thing because sometimes as soon it's gonna be a thousand megabits, which is a terrem whatever. I don't even know, it should be one hundred megabits. Listen, the FCC

can't police isp IS to force them to boost their speed. But I think this type of move it's it's about as good as they can get what it can do to prevent them from marketing their services broadband internet if they don't need the thresholds, So are they gonna have to come up with another buzzword to sell customers on the super fast glacial internet speed or the outdated inter speed. I don't know. You can't call twenty five megabits, which is just getting

ready to go away. You can't call a dial up because you're not dialing up and you're still getting it through the Internet. Maybe they should just call it internet speed versus broad band. You got to use that broadband. There you go, shout out, what up? F freaking CC. Good for you, Federal Communitas Commission. Make those ISPs, crank it up, But please don't let up charge war because that ain't happening. It's not. We're going back to smoke signals. Our number one officially stand by. Much more

fun. Check in on March Madness. Your phone call is seven two one two five died five. Oh it is Michael. This is the high Tech Textans Show. Is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items to make life easier, new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan three decades helping you make magic with your

gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio add being the only one right now. You're high Tech Texas and Michael Garfield. Halfway through this show, it's halfway to halfy hour, people say with me, happy Saturday, March Madness Saturday, mister Michael Garfield from Las Vegas, because you know what it is, March madness, and this is where everybody should be. Is there a better place to watch all these games than a sportsbook? Would you? I mean

I should start a poll. Would you watch because there's so many simultaneous games going on sportsbook your living room? Or would you actually rather be at the game? Now, I'm a live, live sports event guy without a doubt, but and I've been to I mean, I've been to so many final fours. But when you go to Final four, that's the only game being played. But if you go to one of the first rounds, there's simultaneous

games. I mean, I'd be in a sportsbook if you've never been to a sportsbook to watch a live sports event, and you don't have to have money on it, but it's better if you do it. Is it is wild? I mean every play there is something happening, and then you know, somebody has a buzzer beater at the end of the game and they cover this spread. You're a hugging this dude who's standing next to you. You

have no clue who he is, but you're won some money. It's it is a blast, So we do thank you for tuning in and got to keep it quiet over there, even though the game's just tipped off here on the Pacific Coast time and also the Central time wherever you are listening to Happy Hour brought to you by Papa's p Lar. There's a lot of happy hour here in Las Vegas. There is a lot of happy hour going on, and I'm really starting to drink a lot more rum courtesy of Papa's p LR.

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It is cocktail time out here for March madness got some you know, every year when the Super Bowl comes around, March Madness rolls around. I generally go through the Let me tell you how you can watch or stream or remotely watch all these sporting events, because there's there's there's a number of different ways that you can watch it out of your house. You know. I grew up in an era where number one, well I was born with black

white tea was around. But then there was color TV with no remote control. There was only over the year broadcast channels, and that was the only time you're watching TV as simple as that. Nowadays, we watch TV on our phone, we stream TV. We don't even have our traditional TV, and so what do you do. This is where I come in. March Madness is great used to be. There's an NCAA March Madness app that I

believe you could download. And even though I'm I go to Vegas every single year for thirty five years this weekend to watch all the games on a big screen. Sometimes when I'm walking around the casino or from you know, we're in dinner or something, and I still want to watch the games, I whip out the app and you could watch it. Now nowadays you don't need all these different apps. You don't even though you need to be logged into

a few different services. It hasn't always been easy watching March Madness, despite the fact there are tons of games, because they're on four networks. They're on CBS, T and T TVs and True TV, and you often would have to pay for a cable, a satellite, a streaming t package if you really wanted to catch all the action. This year a little easier. So if you do want and I know the game, they're already in the

kind of the second round. But if you need, all you need is one of two streaming services for March Madness, and if you want both of them, they are less than thirty dollars total for a month and then you can cancel it. One is Max, the you know, the old HBO Max and Paramount Plus together the two of them are gonna run you about twenty two bucks for the month of the tournament. And that includes that included the playing games earlier this week, the rest of the tournament on all four networks,

and eventually the final four. The championship game is gonna be on April eighth. The Championship game, there's there's gonna be some different looks and sounds. Championship game is gonna be on TBS. It will not be on CBS because every year they alternate, and even years it is on TBS in for

the first time in thirty some odd years. Goodbye friends. Jim Nantz will not be doing the P by P. Jim Nantz will hopefully be in the audience for his alma mater, the University of Houston, watching the game in Phoenix where it's going to be played. No, it is going to be called by the new CBS lead March Madness basketball commentator Iron Eagle, who is a group broadcaster. He is good. Oh excuse me, see I'm alread

getting choked up for this thing. So Max with advertisements ten bucks a month, live sports from T and T, TBS, thrue TV paramount plus with Showtime it's twelve bucks a month, and you've got the live CVS speeds. They don't have contracts, so if you want to cancel once the tournament's over

easyps, you could easily do so. So for if you're if you're considering getting Max, the cheaper annual rate they they're offering a new deal through April ninth, takes over forty percent off the regular price if you were willing to prepay for an entire year. Generally, I'm not a prepayer. I mean I told your at last hour I signed up for Hulu for an entire year in December. Well that's because it was for ninety nine cents a month.

I'm down with paying twelve bones a year. I'm fine with that forty So no, I generally paid month to month for Max with the ads option, that would bring the price down to like seventy bucks for the first year. That's about five dollars and eighty three cents per months. So at twenty two bucks total, it's gonna be a big diff discount from last year, when the cheapest option was a combination of Paramount plus premium for the CBS games and

then the Sling TV Blue for the TNT type of games. So this year is gonna be cheaper, and but you're still going to have to pay. There's it's just very tough to find anything free on TV, not at all, even when I'm watching the games. Ain't nothing free in Vegas anymore. Ain't nothing older. I got comped, Yeah, you got to. You gotta put some money down on the table to actually be comped. But that's

why we're out here. We are having fun. When we come back, I've got some Q and A. You guys are a little shy to call, but somebody wanted to know, Hey, Michael, what is what is the best one of the best video doorbells out there? Uh, this gentleman

cannot decide on what your doorbell and there are a lot of doorbells. I went through the same predicament about a year ago, because I've probably had every two years, I get a new video doorbell to test, starting with the Ring video doorbell, then kept upgrading it, and you know, I've gone through some It's not hard to install it because most of them are wireless. I will kind of give you my thoughts on what I'm using currently right now

is the video doorbell, which I really do like. And I will give you a few others to choose from. And if you are too shy to call seven one three two one nine five oz, you can do what this dude did and he can email me Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot top. With that, we're gonna be right back with the High Tech Text and show checking emails here. As we come back to the HTT show, it stands for high Tech Text and it is Miguel and Michael garth Field. How are you

middle of March? Got two weeks to Easter? What are you guys doing for Easter brunch? Somebody needs to help me and I'm not being physicious. Uh. Easter is when we say he is risen? Is that right? Callum help me out? He is risen, which grammatically I don't think really make the sense. He has risen like the Pillsbury doable right? And then the is it the Friday before that? That is good Friday? Does that mean you have to eat fish on Fridays or not meat or something I'm very

confused. Saturday is in Saturday is something. Saturday is my radio show, and it's it's exactly. That's the weekend of the Houston Open, the Texas Children's Hospital Houston Open, so that it is going to be a very big weekend. And I guess, so I guess the final of the Houston Open is going to be on Easter Sunday. Okay, is that a lot of what happens on Eastern You go to church and you have brunch by the way, Actually I know, Actually I tell you I'm probably gonna I don't celebrate

Easter, but I may have to have Easter brunch the Capitol Grill. I was over there picking up something the other day. I got this massive Easter brunch. I mean they got like, uh, well, first of all, everything is at the Capitol Grill is just like awesome. But I was talking to Steve Jost, my mother over there, who is the managing partner. He said, you need to come by for Easter brunch at the Capitol Grill. And I'm like, you know, I mean I don't eat a lot. He goes, no, no, you don't have to, love

but I mean the food is huge. So it is. Uh, let me give you the calum will make you hungry? Okay, calum, what are you doing for? You? Do you hunt for Easter eggs? When does that stop? These are serious? I'm not making fun of anything. No, no, my hunt for you know the Afha coma from Matza. That's what I grew up by, you know, not big Sure what's going on? So? Uh? Fourteen ounce bony dry age New York strip and

eggs. Who I love how you see brunch? So I guess you could take a New York piece of meat strip, you throw eggs on it, it becomes brunch. It's smart, lobster free, no relation to Tillman lobster free, Tata truffle, Holliday sauce, white cheddar, hash browns. Okay, that's in the lead for me right now. Crabcake benedict not bad in a eight ounce center cut filet mignon. We've also got oh kids, We've got chicken fingers, mac and cheese, miniature cheeseburgers, classic style French toast,

scrambled eggs with dessert. And there's ice cream. Oh my goodness. Got to reserve your table though. So there's your brunch. That's particularly the cup where else you know, taking phone calls over here if anybody has their brunch suggestions. But oh, by the way, they have mimosas about like they also have Papa's p LR rum too, nice little rum drink in the morning. And then you can go out and watch the final round of the

Houston Open golf tournament. As we continue the high tech texting show, see I talk about food. Actually a ton of hunger right now, actually right now as we broadcast the show from Vegas, which I do every year on first weekend of March Madness. It is just don't know, it's the Way twenty five or something like that. I don't even have a watch, but I'm a little hungry. I think it's breakfast. I need to do something

about that. I'm not getting a room service. I I room service is the funniest thing they may It is so overpriced, and is it even good? Am I stay at hotels you know, semi quite a bit. I don't know. Maybe once I have ordered room service, and I think I was on a freaking account. Luckily I had a company with spongsor the whole thing. I mean, I don't need a lot of breakfast or in ever

even well, it's not anay breakast, lunch, your dinner. I just rather just go down and get something to see people, certain certainly here in Vegas, instead of sitting in there. I don't know what we got on that, but we will continue. I got an email over here somebody was saying, hey, high tech Texan, what's the best video doorbell out there? I'm deciding between two or three. It's confusing. Do I really need to spend that high expensive one on the Ring? Because everybody's heard of Ring

a video doorbell that is from Justin. Justin is in Parentland. There are a number of different ones, number of different ones. Ring was the real first to market that went nuts. And what was it? It was an Amazon who bought that company for a billion dollars or something. And you know they could be controversial. I mean, can you can police can actually confiscate what happened on your you know doorstep. You see all the time, you

know, forged pirates going up in stealing you know packages. You know, it's really good for safety. I have used five or six of them over years. Every every year year and a half or so, some company sends me one to play with and test with. And I'm sticking with this one right now. But let me get the one I have right now, the one I actually have. Again, not a commercial. I'm just I'm telling because I'm gonna give you some other brands. I've been using the Google Nest

the second generation. It's on the second generation. Uh. There's two types. There's there's one that has battery operated that you can take the battery off and recharged. There's then there's one that's wired. You know, because most all doorbells and if you take the doorbell off, there's two little wires in there. I'm using the battery one and I like that, and I will and I will tell you why because there it's super simple to set up,

whether you're getting the wired one or not. But there's also live video feeds again that come with an app. Always pretty much comes with an app. There's a live video feed, two way audios, so whoever rings, they could sit there and talk to you and then you could talk back. And there's alert notifications and again a lot of them do this, but the alert notifications, I mean every time I see I could set it any time I see movement within the camera's range. Front, porch, driveway or whatever I

can get it. I get a good pop up alert. I get an alert when a package has arrived, and an alert will say someone's at your front door with the package. Then I could say, and then if the UPS guy happens to move the package or someone steals it, I'll immediately get it or going your package is removed. Facial recognition and everything runs about one hundred and fifty dollars or so Walmart maybe a little cheaper, but it's great

performance and the features are pretty free too. And one of the other things that you need to take account of is does it record things? You have to have a subscription service, you know, like a cloud type of thing. Well, this one you've got. I believe it's three hours without a subscription, so anything over the past three hours, and which is fine because

anytime something happens you can set up a notification. I get it within three seconds versus three you know, much less three minutes, much less three hours. It's called the Nest Doorbell. It's the Google and it obviously works well with Google Assistant. Yes, it's compatible with Alexa too, and also it has a lot of AI artificial intelligence technology, so you know, as I

said, you get the package, the person, the vehicle notifications. You do get a nest to wear, a subscription that allows for face identification, and the warnings are really good. It works in that it works in relatively cold. It's never dropped below zero here in my house, but for the past years in the heat, not a big deal. The battery last for a good at least a month and a half two months if you don't sit there looking at live video all the time. And I like it. Whenever

you charge it, you pop it off. And then you do, you charge it with USBC and you're set to go. Other ones on the market. Boy, there's a ton of them, there is there. Yes, there's the ring video doorbell. I think we're up to the Pro two version. Say's two hundred and thirty bucks. That's two hundred and thirty dollars. It's it's a it's a hot We're gonna call it high end. It's not

the best value, but if you want some features, they're there. It's got a big, super wide field of view, big one to one aspect ratio, it's got a high you know resolution, all the basics you want, you know, with with the you know with the video doorbell. It's got radar sensing, it's got a bird's eye view and a lot of stuff. It's got three D motion detection. It's nice. It's just it's just a little bit, you know, a little bit expensive. And so you

got that going on. We've got ARLW. I like Rlow a r l O. I have Rlow video wireless video cameras all inside and outside my home. I've used those for years and I haven't changed them out. Arlow also makes a video door bell. It's a two K video doorbell. It is about ninety dollars Best Buy, maybe Amazon, and if you want pound four pound dollar for dollar, this may be the way to go. It's got a built in siren to a audio motion detection. As I said, you

know a lot of other stuff, very simple to install. Seven has night vision two. A lot of them have night vision with this is also but for ninety bones. And I do like Arlow the it's the app is really easy to use, certainly for my wireless cameras. And if you already do have Urlow cameras well, you may want to keep in the family and getting urlow. So that's another one smaller brand names. If you want a really really inexpensive one, I'm not going to use the word cheap. There is

which one can I recommend? Over here? There's there's one called Blink b l I n K Blink. They make a few wireless cameras for indoors. They have a doorbell for let me pull this one up over here, forty two bucks. Forty two bucks, decent video quality, you can see the people packages at your door. They do have cloud storage, which is you know that does require subscription and it's easy to install. Also, I think

you can get this best buy. It's a smaller, little tiny ones probably only about what three and a half inches you know, top to bottom, But for forty two dollars. If you want something, you know, maybe you're an apartment and it gets wireless, you just need to just kind of like put a few you know, drill a few holes, and you should be set to go. What do I justin? I do? Thank you for the the question. I hope that a lot best video, doorbell cameras,

anything else you got, you tell me coming up? People want to know what's what I'm driving this week? Every week I get to test drive a new vehicle. And I will tell you if you're a big old Texan who likes big old pickup trucks, I'm driving around a lot of fun, a lot of things that could tow this week. I'll tell you that I may side want just about thirty more minutes ago in this week's version of the

HTT High Tech Textan Show. Wherever you are listening, you do not have to be in Las Vegas, where we are broadcasting from right now for March Madness, Happy March Madness Saturday. You could be listening all over the place terrestrially back in h Town Houston kp RC nine to fifty am. And of course iHeartRadio thank you for downloading the iHeartRadio app. You can take the voice

anywhere you want to go. Also on podcast Callum, we'll be putting this up on the podcast, so you may be listening podcast at any point in time if you just want to listen to it again to be entertained iHeartRadio. Download that app and search for Michael Garfield KPRC, and you should be set to go. I actually flew out here, and just shockingly to so many of my followers and friends, I did not fly private this trip. No, I took the company plane southwest. What do you gonna DOA hey,

listen, I may list preferred. I got two free cocktails, and so you can't complain about that. Did not drive I have, I've never drive. I got a buddy of mine has a condo in Vegas, so he's made the drive from Texas to Vegas. It's just it's pretty much I t in on a lot of it. It's a he it's pretty long to do that. You want a comfortable car or a big old mama a new truck.

And with that it's time to talk about what's Garb driving. If you are a longtime listener, I am a member of the Texas Auto Writers so Siation. That is association where you have to get certified that you know how to test drive cars, review rate them, do not get paid, which I am not getting, never been paid to write about any of these vehicles

that I talk about. It's just it's legit content. And so I've I've poop pooed on a lot of cars, and I've given praise to a lot of vehicles too, And so hopefully you can trust me for fifteen years not from a dealer. I'm not even going to mention one dealer. I just straight for the manufacturers, and so that's why you could trustmih And this past week I have been driving around in the twenty twenty four Ram fifteen hundred limited hickcop truck. It's four by four, it's crew cab, and I must

say it is probably one of, if not the best in class. It's big. Listen. I don't fancy myself as, Oh, you're a Ram guy, You're a Ford guy, You're a GM guy, You're a Toyota guy, you're a Nissan guy. They all make trucks opinions. Some are better than the other. Some are plastic key than the others. In Toyota, some are they don't toe as much. Not that I do a lot of towing, but to me, the way I review cars and trucks, I'm not your car and driver motor trend head guy where I'm gonna talk about

the torque and what is towing capacity and the power to wait ratio. I mean, listen, there's plenty of ways that you can find that we live in our cars. Houston is a driving city. We are in our vehicles a long time. We sit in traffic and we drive everywhere from the Woodlands to Galveston to Stay down to Katie And it's just a beltway eight and Loop six' ten and just it's traffic. It's you want to be comfortable. Does it ride well? There's a lot of potholes. Does it take care

potholes? Yes, we on weekends we maybe do want to go putting around, you know, take it off road, take it graveling, take it on your ranch. Does the air conditioning work? Does it have heated seats? Is it easy to get a car seat back of these vehicles? What's the infotainments? You know, system look like? You know, what are the technology features for safety? Those are the things that I rate and review And for this thing, it checks off. This is so cliche and I

hate using it, but it checks off a lot of the boxes. It is incredibly comfy to ride with the suspension because rams ram is continuing to uh to really upgrade its you know, suspensions and rides everything. Because years ago ram went with the a coil spring rear suspension that really improved the handling and the trailering and control and the ride quality. I mean, it rides a lot smooth than some of its rivals, especially with the if there's nothing back

in the bed. Other manufacturers have done this. I think Toyota Tundra. They switched to coil springs recently and it but it rides well, yes, you're sitting up high. It rides like a traditional truck. But this one here, this is the limited edition and you're going to get in and the trim level it's it's a trimlet. Listen. They have a long Horn edition where which I love the Longhorn edition for a number of reasons. I love that mascot of the Longhorn, But it's about the fanciest you get in and

you're liking a boot shop. It is just it smells phenomenal. This is the limited and so you know soft leather, special color schemes, you know, different styling elements. And the first thing that I like that One of the reasons why I'm kind of been a fan of the RAM trucks in Ram fifteen hundred is they were the first ones to really take the screen the real estate on that dashboard and say, you know what, why are we playing

around with an eight inch touch screen or eight inch screen. We have a lot of room up here, and so they came out with their twelve inch, massive, gorgeous touch screen, vertically oriented kind of like test Left. You've ever seen one of those, and it could do so many things. It is there, you connect system and it's beautiful. You could split the screen in two. You have the map up top, you can have the navigation down below, what's playing on the UH and ever it's it's it's just

so nice. The in car technology is just it's cool. It's and there's there's there's nothing bad. I can even go about it. Yes, it's got Apple Car Play, Android Auto, it's got the wireless cheat charging, all the USB ports, the USB seve and the usbas just any any anything you want and it works well. It is a big baby. It's a it's a The tailgate, this particular one opens up with kind of a the two thirds the split design one. You know you can it's a one.

You could open up half of it. Well, three quarters of it goes to the left side, a quarter of it goes to the right side, and it's easy to get in and climb into the back if you need to. The backseat is just tremendously big. Obviously because this is limited. It's got some features such as the sliding step, the step that pops out so you can easily climb in. Uh, there's there's just a ton of headroom

and uh it's everything works well. Base price of this is right about seventy thousand dollars the way it was configured for me in the media when we were driving around on these things. It's about eighty two thousand dollars. Listen that I could tell you a lot more expensive trucks. I can tell you some trucks that cost less than that. But for Ram, which I still think does a just a top of the line ride, it maybe looking at it

fuel economy. You got eighteen to the city, twenty two in the highway nineteen combined about typical for a big o'mama truck or something you know of that nature. But it's not intimidating, you know, it's not like dudes have to drive this thing. You know, you know, chicky poos chicks go

love this thing too. It's got good horse power. I believe's about three hundred and five horse power, and I'm gonna say there's two sixty nine pound feet of torque For you gearheads, if you really care about any of that stuff that I really don't. Absolutely, it's good toe it's got a really good cameras everywhere that you know, in the bed around the side. But I like it. It's not it's not super super big. I mean, it's parkable, and it begs, you know, to me, is I

don't I understand the reason people want trucks. They shlep a lot of stuff, they work, they use them for their work. I don't shlept a lot of things. And in fact, the only time I even had the need and to use the word need for a pickup truck was about two weeks ago when I bought a used Peloton And the one week I didn't have a truck as my test vehicle, I actually fitted into a Kia EV nine electric vehicle. Sideways. That's neither here nor there. But I don't need a

truck. A truck for me is you know, maybe if I had a ranch, if I was you know, going out to the you know, to the hill countries or something on a regular basis. Sure. And also sometimes they're difficult to park where I'm going with this thing. Sometimes trucks are very large to park. Sometimes they're too tall that I can't get it. It's parking garages. It's like, oh am, I seven foot one inch below, so like you know, I don't hit scrape the top of the

car. This one's easy to park back in because of the cameras. I like this a lot. So for all you fans out there who are looking for a big you know, fifteen hundred, HEMI e torque Ram, I've got the Rambox, an innovative thing. The RAM boxes. On each side of that bed, probably about four feet long. There are lockable little cabinets, one on each side that Yes, you could store your tools in there.

If you're a workman, you can store your clothes. But it's always great for a tailgate party because you can put ice in there and put a ton of beer and it is just beautiful. I love it. It's a party truck. Check it out as the Ram fifteen hundred Limited Edition eighty anywhere between seventy and eighty thousand dollars. Ish, I'm not going to tell you a dealership to go to. I don't promote dealers. I'm just going to tell you what I like, what I don't like about these vehicles, as

I've done for fifteen plus years. On that side, So any questions talk to me here before we take our last break. Seven one three two one two five nine five oh. Coming up, got a question about keeping your data private? I can go through that again. And someone wants to know

about what smart watch do I wear? Well, Uh, I get about five or six smart watches that I'm playing with right now, but I will tell you my favorite one that really is brand new that I've only found out about three weeks ago and I've been wearing it non stop, well along as my Rolex from US coins and jewelry. One more segment to go. Hang in there. We're having some fun here. Michael Garfield High Tech Text and Show. Final segment. Final ten minutes show left here. So I'll give

you out the phone number one more time. Maybe callum we'll pick one up. Maybe we won't. Seven to one three two one two five nine five oh. Number hadn't changed in twenty plus years. I have been doing this show where I started talking about a lot of computers and desktops and laptops, all technology geeky stuff. Now it's uh watches and trucks and betting and travel.

It's it's the world, according to Garf, should be a better aptly named radio show, which actually was the name of my daily non technology show on KPRC about ten years ago. I don't know, cal, but you know, you know that maybe should we rebrand the show from high tech text into the World according to Garf. By the way, you're relative, what are you? Twenty three, twenty four, twenty five? When I say the world according to Garf? Do you get the reference ring familiar? Now?

Kind of? Yeah. There was a movie in the eighties that was start Robin Williams and Glenn cose Close. It was based on a book. It was called The World according to Garf. Garp the World. It was good movie. Robin Williams is great, and so I figured, well, it's a little play on words. We're gonna call it the World according to Garf. Garfield Grf my first ford, my nickname. Nah, but I mean this is I talk. I talk about what's going on my world. Man, That's what I do. Maybe take a poll on that. I

don't know. We'll see. Somebody did ask me about, well, okay, let's talk about technology again. Someone says, uh, hey, Garf, So they got that right. People actually call me Garth like Garth Brooks Garth from Wayne and Garth Wayne's World. No, no, no, it is Garth with an as feel Garfield first four letters of the word Garfield. That's my nickname. Call me anything you want, but don't call me late for dinner. Hey Garth, How do I keep my data private? You

know? With everything from the byte dance, the tiktoks and everything. I'm really scared to use it. So something I could download other than a VPN, Well, you're kind of getting things confused. VPN can help you when you're on the web, but your personal data, like on your phone, it's it is tough there. I saw something about a month ago. I haven't actually tried it yet, but it is a it's an app that is called it's called Permission Slip. What it's actually it love me to put the

way it's a service and what it could do. It could help you tell companies to stop selling your personal data, because that's really one of the main issues, because it could be easy to forget that your personal data is scattered all over the web. Now. Every time you sign up for a new social media platform, you buy something online, you're given those companies bits and pieces of your personal data, and the companies you give your data to and

data brokers. They sell your personal data to other companies that use your info to sell ads that are targeted to you. And if you want to fix

this, it's been complicated, it's been confusing. But there is an app called Permission Slip and it comes from a very reliable company called Consumer Reports, and it reaches out the companies on your behalf and it orders them to stop selling your information nation nation, some states have passed legislation that allows you to exercise some control over what happens to it, and depending on your state, you can prohibit data brokers from selling your data or even delete your online data

outright. And so this is kind of where which could where permission Slip comes in. It does the legwork of collecting the places that might have your data. So what you do is you sign up for the service Permission Slip. Just go Google Permission slip or Consumer Reports and sign up with an email address that you generally use when you're signing up for your rewards programs or creating online accounts. When you sign up, you're going to be giving up options of

popular companies data brokers that could have your information. And if you think that company might have your data and you want to do something about it. You select learn more and take Action. That's actually a tab learn more and take Action, and then you're going to go to a screen that you know it's going to show the sort of data the company usually collects and what your options are. You could delete your account with a specific company, you could just

say stop selling it. What happens then, and this is the key, permission slip submits their request on your behalf, so you still might have to confirm the request directly with the company and also is probably going to take a bit of time to have your request processed. Your information is leaded, So hang in there, people. But that's one way to do it. It just called a permission slip. Anybody try out let me know next week.

Uh, well more, somebody contacted me, Michael, I hear you talking about US coins and jewelry with your beautiful Rolex, which I plan to get one day, but until then, I'm a smart watch guy. Do they sell smart wee and which ones can you recommend? No? US coins and Joey does not sell smart watches. They have beauty, I mean they have unlimited supplies of gorgeous role Axes, and a few others for men and women. No, you can get your smart watch it. You can get those

things online, and they're getting cheaper there. There is a lot of confusion too. I have probably let me think, if I let me imagine my dressers or one, two, three, four, five, I may have five right now that I'm testing. Most of them are Samsung. I have them going back to the Samsung version three four. I've got two Samsung five's and I got two Samsung sixes. Again, I'm an Android guy. I've never used an Apple eye watch, so I'll let you guys figure that out.

Probably one of the more expensive one. I will tell you that what I've been using real quickly over the past three or four weeks. It came out. It is from a company called one Plus o n e pl Us. One Plus also makes phones, and I actually I got my dad a one plus phone, the one Plus twelve a few weeks ago, and he loves it. It is an Android phone and it's really really good. It's speedy. They've been making phones for years, and one Plus just came out

with their second version of their watch. It's called the one Plus Watch too. Very creative about anywhere between two hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars. And it's larger than normal. When I wear it, some people, you know, they notice it, which is It's fine. I actually like, maybe it's because I'm a dude and I got a hairy arms, just like I want people to notice my watches. They notice when I know I'm wearing a Rolex from US Goings and Enjoy, and they noticed the smart watch just

like, what is that That doesn't look like an Apple eye watch. I'm like, no, it's not, because it's own versus the kind of rectangular square of the Apple eyeway. But it's one point four to three inches across little sapphire crystal display and it is it. The battery life is so freaking impressive. Charge last potentially up to one hundred hours if it's in smart mode, twelve days if you put in power saver mode. And I'm you know, I don't like putting in a power saving mode, but that's how long

it can you do. It could track your sleep like you know in stress and your your fitness metrics in two and it's got customizable buttons and you can download all the the apps and whatever it is, but I just I just like it. It is different and it is big and it works well. So that's what I'm wearing. Again. They did not pay me to say this. I've just been playing with it. I'm going to return it to them. But that's I test products for thirty days or so, and there

you go. It's nice. It's got Google's where Os four platform, which is the latest. So there you go. That answers your question. That is the what's Michael wearing on his wrist right now? Versus what's Michael driving? Which I told you last segment. What's Michael about to do right now? I'm about to hang up the microphone and hit with my buddies who are in the sportsbook watching the first of the next round of games as we wrap up the show from Las Vegas, fifth thirty six year from Las Vegas on

the very first weekend of March Madness. It is a trans tradition with a lot of my guys from college, and it is something so fun wherever you are watching those games, rooting for your favorite team, Go Koogs, Go Longhorns. Certainly in the ladies bracket, you enjoy yourself. I do thank

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