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Michael Garfield. And with that opening, we say hello. On the second weekend of December twenty twenty three, a few weeks away from the new year, which means we got to hurry up and get all those gifts my friends, for those celebrating Hanukkah, which started like three nights ago, two and a half nights ago. I want to wish all of our Jewish friends is very happy Hanakkah. The holiday begins and it lasts for eight days. And I'll tell you what this year. It comes during a a horrific global
spike in anti Semitic rhetoric attacks. But Hankika's message of finding light in times of darkness, it's taken on a greater residence this year. So hang in there. My friends light the candles, and I hope things do get lighter in our lives in this country, in the Middle East and what have you. Without getting too heavy and too deep, we were going to start this show again seven one three, two one two five nine five ozho the number
hadn't changed two plus decades. I've been doing this and this is two plus decade, eight decades of holiday gift giving ideas. I look at Callum Reid. He's pushed the buttons and keeping us on air, right through that glass I'm looking at. Could you do me a favorite? Could you make sure I answer at least one phone call. Sometimes I just don't even look at the phone. I'll answer a few calls, a call or something like that, especially because I want to ask all my listeners. You know, what
can you suggest for holiday season? You know, I'm I'm a fifty in the fifties, and you know, a white male, and maybe I know what I want and what's good for me, even though I try to keep an eye out for everybody male, female, wherever you're from. But maybe you kids out there, maybe your grandparents out there, maybe say hey, listen, I got something. I found something my kids wanted this. I
got this for myself. Why didn't you share it with me? You can do that on a high tech Texan all the social media also seven one, three, two, one two, five nine five. Oh. I am going to give you some holiday shopping suggestions different categories too. Somebody asked me about travel gifts, gifts that are good for travelers. A lot of people are road warriors, and so I definitely can come up with something like that. I can give you some fun local based shops. I was on Great
Day Houston, CBS Channel eleven, as I am semi regularly. This past week I was. I spotlighted a few local stores if you have a little budget, not maybe not for everybody. Gave you some ideas, one of which was from US coins and jewelry. I brought on TV and I had to have a security guard with me. They brought over a four hundred thousand dollars gold boullion. Yes, they have this in their vault. Not that anybody is going to buy these things in a regular basis, but it is
there for you. But they also brought over some jewelry and coins, some Texas memorabilia if you're looking for maybe some old maps or We brought in a before the Texas was a state, it was what the Nation of Texas. It was a lean certificate that you could buy for a thousand dollars or something was framed. It's really nice. Memory million at the US Coins and Jewelry on Katie Freeway. You go check that out. Brought something in from Republic
Boots. Great certificate. Get somebody a handmade pair of boots. It does take a little while, but boy, they know how to do it there in the Heights. I thought that was pretty fun. And then to top out the old cowboy Western where I went over to the hat store and I brought in a few hats, not just cowboy hats, but some fedoras, some chickipoo hats with feathers. It's give you some nice things. And so
those are the non technological things I talked about. I do have some techie things, or you know what, I have a few other non techie things. I asked my son, I have three boys, and asked my youngest son, I said, what do you want? What do you want for gift? And the only thing the kid wants is tickets to the National Championship game here in Houston on January eighth. The kid like me is pretty cocky, and we do believe that the University of Texas Longhorns will be here in
NRG Stadium. But he wants tickets. Have you seen the ticket prices? It is literally one month before the game. The minimum to get in, I guess on the secondary market, the the seat geeks and what have you is eighteen hundred bones. And that's for the top level. I saw something for seven thousand dollars. This is if the Longhorns make it in here,
it could be the most expensive ticket. Actually, I can put that it will be the most expensive ticket to any college sporting event ever because it's going to be like a home game for the for the Longhorns. Texas travels well, the fans travel well, Texas fans have money. It's gonna be big. So you know what, maybe you should go ahead and buy those tickets right now. What are your what are your thoughts on gift cards? I love gift cards. Again, you may not. This is this is this
is me, this is card man. You give me some gift cards. I'm going to town. Oh it's not personal. I don't care people. You absolutely, my man, my girls, whoever give me some gift cards. If I could pick this is not this is actually I'm begging right now my favorite gift card. If I could pick a store, a local store, I probably would pick Academy Sports because I could always get something in Academy. I'm a runner. I go through shoes every three months, running gear.
They've got ammunition for my gun as they've got I just had to go get a duck in fishing license. Think guys, they got some cool stuff. Target's pretty cool. Walmart. Hell, I'll take KGB. I don't care what what is wrong with the gift card. It means a lea. Hey, listen, it's better than getting Jack Squad, if you know what
I'm saying. Seven three, nine five, Oh, all right, some of the other things coming up. Uh, here is something that and I gotta I'm gonna get this guy on the I'm gonna get him on the phone here in the next segment. Here is something you don't think of. You need to give the gift of health. And this is again from another fifty plus year old dude talking to you. We are not getting younger, and
we need to make sure we're in good health. I have not been in the greatest health as of Lake for some stupid reason, and I'm not giving you my hippa, but there is something you need to go get. You need to make sure that you guys, everybody is free of cancer, free of you know, you know it's you know, check your Cohen Colonoscovis and me he goes on or not. There's something called an advanced body scan, and there is a it's really this is technologically advanced. It is a scan
that you lay down in for less than five minutes. It scanned your entire body and actually can see things inside your already arteries, your calcium score in your heart. It can determine if something that you hadn't even had a clue is in your body. We're going to talk to the founder of Advanced Body Scan and I think he's going to throw out a nice little I told him, if he comes on, he's got to throw it a little promotion for
my listeners, So stand by for that. So when I talk about things to get, we really do go off the cuff, off the chain and more than happy to take your calls and read all your text in your tweets. I'm sorry your ex's and everything that you put on Instagram for me. We will remember a few people who have passed this year. And I'm also going to count down. I saw this the top twenty five Wikipedia articles of twenty twenty three. It really surprise me, the Wikipedia articles, and I
would think Taylor Swift would be number one. She's not even in the top ten. You'd be get surprised what the top twenty five articles are. Stand by, We're gonna come back. We're gonna talk to Steve Marler. He is with advanced body scan, just to kind of give you some ideas how to make sure that you were healthy going into twenty twenty four. All your questions, all your calls on the Fun, Fun, Fun High Tech Texan Show, we are back at it, Michael Garfield, the long running High
Tech Textan Show. Thanks to everybody logging on all over the country on iHeartRadio Holiday gift giving time. And you know, I'm in the midst of my holiday gift guides. And yes I do talk about products and a lot of services too, but I got something you probably don't think of, maybe giving
somebody a lot longer to live. You know, I do cover the health and medical industries, certainly being here in Houston, and I want to give people to ideas of what to give people to maybe make sure that they're in good health, better health, fix their health as we move into twenty twenty five. For one of which that was very I wasn't that familiar with,
but I did a lot of research. Deborah Duncan, one of my coworkers at Great Day Houston, she had suggested I'd look into preventative scans, actually something called advanced body scan here in Houston, and I thought the technology is absolutely, at least from reading it, a wonderful thing. I want to get to know a little bit more about it. So you know what I did. I got the owner. I got the man himself who created the concept. His name is Steve Marler. Steve joins me. Steve, I
appreciate your time. How are you in the world of health? I hope you're one hundred percent right. Hi, Michael, I'm great, and thank you for having us here. Listen, tell me about the concept of preventative scans and how you started your company. You bet so. Approximately fourteen years ago now, my mother was diagnosed with the late stage ANSWER and I was in the imaging world. Unfortunately, she passed away from the consequent treatment after
the diagnosis, and it was a terrible ending. I knew that this technology was available. It was, but there was a barrier to get to it, and so we had to find a way to use this technology to detect these deadly diseases at the earliest stages. And we worked through those barriers. Took us a few years. We finally got going on it. In the first day we opened advanced body scan, I put my dad in the scanner, found out he had a near fatal heart problem. Within days, he
was in an open heart surgery. He's going to be eighty nine this coming year and just doing fantastic and there's no doubt he wouldn't be here if we had in the scan. That's the motivation that's driven us to open these locations and make this successful. To everyone you talk about scans, let's say so many of us we've had CT scans or MRIs and different parts of the body. This is an entire body, it's the whole body scan. Let me start with this. What type of scan is it? Technology was so we
actually do the body scan itself on a CT scanner. It's one of the most advanced cts available today. We use Siemens products in Houston, but we also do brain scans AI over red brain scans on our three t MRI here in our Houston facility. As well. We offer several different types of scans, heart and lung scans. We offer a virtual colonoscopy scan. All of
these are designed to detect early stage heart disease and cancer. And again, heart disease and cancer are the two deadliest diseases that kill more people than all other diseases combined. Again, I think it's one of the reasons I wanted to spotlight this especially. You know, you don't think about this as a giving or a gift or something like that, but there's nothing more precious in the gift of life. As we continue to talk to Steve Marler, Steve
is with advanced body scan. We'll make sure to give the address here in the Houston area. There's also a few of the locations across the country, so we'll let you know what is the process, Steve. Once you're in there that body scan on that CT scan. Er, how long does it take? Great question? This is one of the easiest medical tests you'll ever take. It takes less than five minutes. Now when you come into our
office, we're going to do a pre consultation with you. We're going to talk about your previous history, medical history, and your previous family history. But this scan itself, there's no needles, there's no dies. You dress just as you are. You literally lay down on the machine for a few seconds. You go in and out of a big wide opening. You never stop inside the machine. And it's like you say, it takes less than five minutes. When you're done, you get up and walk out. What
do you see? And how long does it take to actually get the results? So the results come in five to seven days if there's nothing critical. You know, we have a trained technician and of course a board certified radiologist, doctor Anthony Sparks, who reads every scan we do. If you see something, you will you will get a call almost immediately within twenty four hours. We look at every major in the body, as well as the heart
and the vessels around the heart. We're looking for the things that cause heart attacks. Let's face it, what's the first symptom of a heart attack? Well, I mean, listen, I think I was taught when I was going through boy Scouts. Having your chest starts to tighten, your shortness of breath, maybe something happens on your left side of your body busy correct, which is a heart attack. Right. Unfortunately, most of the time the first sign of a heart attack is a heart attack, and even with today's
advanced technology, still over half are fatal. So the key is to find and these these symptoms come usually after years of having signs of the disease that just haven't manifested into symptoms yet. So that's the key. We get the scan, we see it at an early stage, and then you can get help. It's diet change, it could be intervention, it could be all types of things. And you know, we have one of the most fabulous medical community in the world right here in Houston, Texas. So it's easy
and quick to get help once you have the information. And that's what we're talking about here. When you get this report, you've got access that information. If we have findings, will help you get into this fabulous medical system that we have here in Houston, Texas. One more question or so good this one coming from a listener. Just email me right now. Do you
get or can you get a heart calcium score with the scan? Absolutely every scan we do comes with a heart calcium score, except our virtual kronoscopy. But we're going to do an offer for your listeners. You mentioned give the gift of lie. We're going to do a couple's heart and lung scan. So that's for two people for two So I'm sorry, I've got confused.
We're going to do a couple's heart scan which includes the calcium score, and it's also includes the radiology report as I said, as Red barboard certified radiologists. And for both of you, it's only one hundred ninety nine do for your listeners. WHOA that is holiday special. I tell you what, Steve, what I mean. I generally know kind of the pricing of these things. If your research for this is for couples, this is the gift that keeps on giving. This is great. It's called Advanced Body Scan. You
can give us the location here in the Houston area, you bet. We're located at forty four sixty Bisonette Street in bel Air, Texas. So it's at the corner of Newcastle and Bisonet. And if you'd like to talk to us further or get scheduled for a scan, you can give us a call at eight three three four one one scan again, it's eight three three four
one one seven two two six. Tell you what that is that that's something that should be in your stocking and in everybody's right underneath everybody's Christmas tree. Steve Marler, Advanced Body Scan. I'll tell you what I can. I can't even imagine the survivor's stories that you have. It's just amazing. And the fact that you caught you know, you're with what you talked about your dad, it's the you know, thanks to what you came up with.
There are are probably a lot of people who should thank you. We've had tremendous amounts of success stories that if you go to our website at Advanced bodyscan dot com and look under success stories, you will see a lot of these testimonials. Well good, all right, folks, how about this? Put it on the Michael Garfield Holiday Gift Guy. Generally I talk about phones or cars or televisions. Why not get it? I got an entire preventative body
scan, Advanced body scan, especially with the special that Steve did. Steve, listen, I appreciate, my man, We do appreciate your time and congrats on your success. Michael, thank you for helping us spread the work and early detection saved lives. We appreciate that. That is Steve Marler. If you're just tuning in, you missed it. Really I really did interesting conversation advanced body scan. I'll tell you what I need to go through one
of those things. I did one once about eighteen years ago. I mean really, that technology was nothing like it is right now. And uh, it's amazing what you can see. It's amazing what you can find. And there's so many I was on the website. There's so many survivor stories, really interesting things that people have caught tumas, cancers, things, hard issues before it's before they would even know. And so it's it's it's not a sexy gift, but I'm telling you what life could be sexy, depending on
how you look at it. Michael Garfield High Tech Text and Show. If you don't know the number yet, seven one three, two, one two, five nine five ohs. Somebody wanted to know, Hey, Garth, what are your favorite travel gifts? I'm a traveler, And then I got another one later in the week that said, hey, you know what, my husband travels a lot. Anything small. I mean, I know you you know, get any headphones or smaller laptops, anything that you would recommend.
There's actually a lot of things in the world of travel that would be really good gifts. I'd start with headphones and earphones. If you are a traveler and on a plane a lot, I would actually say you need you probably look at some noise canceling headphones or even noise canceling ear buds if you will. And I'm trying to avoid well, I'll give you some specific name
brand recommendations. But between the crying babies and the chatty neighbors and the flights, whoever you're going to give a gift to, they may like a pair of noise canceling headphones. Generally you can charge them the USB. Some of them take some batteries. Number of them out there. They're gonna noise canceling. It doesn't one hundred percent canceling noise, but it just kind of what they do is they pump in some white noise which then drowns out crying babies
and what have you. So it's a nice kind of home. And yes, you could put these noise canceling headphones on and you could bluetooth them to your phone, bluetooth them to your tablet or laptop so you can watch your movies and everything on your through your headphones, and so they just don't have to sit there and be quiet. Really, what you want to look for, you want to look at long battery life if you want to specifically,
Sony makes up obviously several pair out there. They're not the cheapest thing. It's here's something. Let's say I'm just looking at Amazon or something. Three hundred and twenty eight dollars. See, that's a lot. You don't need to spend three hundred plus dollars. I mean, you can get some decent ones for over one hundred dollars or so. You can also get some earbuds
now over the ear headphones. They're gonna do a much better job of canceling out noise than the ear buds just because and we call them cans here in the radio lingo. They're hey, man, you got your cans? Those are? You know? You can imagine what a DJ in the studio, you know, always wears or used to wear. Those were cancer. They cover your ears and they're gonna block out noise much better. And they're gonna
give you a good sound too, always better. Now they're not as convenient as those earbuds, EarPods, whatever you want to call them, but a lot of these new over the ear earphones they will fold up. They're pretty compact in those we're pretty too, So that's just suggestion number one. If they If you know somebody who stays in hotels, you actually can give them a little streaming stick like a Roku streaming stick or an Amazon fire stick,
because they're these things are like little compact media players. And television's in hotel rooms now they pretty much have HDMI ports in the back or the side of the TV. You could plug something in there, so you could travel with these things because it's the size of a USB stick, if you will. And one specifically I mentioned the Roku. Roku has a streaming stick for k and I think it's under forty dollars or so, and it's going to make
it easier for them that they're sitting in a hotel all night. They can stream all their favorite shows and their movies right on that TV. So no longer do they have to look at it at a laptop. They don't have to look at whatever the hotel shoddy channel selection is and it's it's just nice, tiny little doer dongle and it draws the power from the TVs, you
know, USB ports or the Hdmi ports. It's pretty cool. I mean that's something you didn't think of. But for big travelers, for you know, if you travel a lot and you stay in a hotel, you know, get them a get him a streaming stick. I thought that would be pretty neat. Let's see non tech. I actually showed off adopt kit. I have no clue where the word adopt DPP came up. But for dudes, I guess what a girls call it, bathroom carry makeup kits. Dudes
are dop kits, so I are totletree kits, whatever it is. I showed off a beautiful leather one that Republic Boot Company on the Heights they had. You don't need go extravagant, but a totally try kit. Put all your deodorant, your lip balm, your face wash, everything in there. You can, even you don't get it monogram. That's again, I'm just
thinking travel stuff. If you travel internationally, like my son is doing right now, gosh, I forgot to actually give him my travel adapter, a travel adapter not the sexiest gift ever fits in a stocking though, but some of the international travelers you may want to keep in your bag. Check out the ones that are going to work with your European UK, maybe the Australian outlets. But you know, make it essential and these things are they fit in the palm of your hand. It's like a big ice tube, if
you will. Some of these new ones they have a USB ports built in, so you now you can plug it into this wall wherever you are and you could charge into some mobile devices. I thought that was pretty neat. So here's one fifteen fifteen bucks. What's the name of this brim new Wanga n E w v A n G A new Venga travel power adapter that's on Amazon right now. Speakers too, So if you travel, you go, you lay out in the pool, maybe you play tennis, you're playing your
pickleball or something. If you want to play your speakers, Santra. There's a ton of travel speakers out there. JBL. You get these things for under fifteen thirty forty fifty dollars. Attach them to chairs. You could put them in your TA rack and a hotel room so maybe in your hotel room, you don't want to stream stuff on television. Maybe you want to listen to your music, so you can clip these on anywhere. So that's another thing you could potentially do. You may want to get ear plugs. You
want low tech noise canceling things. Get go get some earplus. Here's a cheap one. Go to your gun store, go to Texas gun Club, go to go to academy. What do they like? There's little orange squishy things. Go get those things over do they like? Forty cents or so? There you got. It's Pretty's pretty nice, dude. Laptops are small. Don't sleep on the fact that you can get a little tiny wireless mouse. Also laptops sometimes people don't like using the touchpad or the joystick or something.
Logitech, for example, they make a really tiny travel mouse. It's wireless, little bluetooth thing. It's lightweight's like ninety five grams. It's got a scroll wheel, very smooth, you know, certainly under one hundred dollars. Maybe're gonna get that for seventy five or eighty hours. Backpacks, oh very good, litt I can go tell you to get a beautiful leather overnight thing. But get a backpack, get one that has padded no reason. I mean, listen, I can give you some that cost hundreds of dollars.
Spend a little something, maybe make it a little fashionable. You know, you don't have to go out and get a Gucci or a coat or anything like this. But go get something that's got a padded pocket for that laptop or for your tablet. To make sure it's got a lot of pockets that come in different colors. If you want to, you can decorate it, girls, if you want to get something for dead, I guess you can. What's what's this stuff called? When you could put the glitz,
the glitz and the glimmer and the whole thing. You can sparkle it up whatever you can, barb it up, on it with. I don't have a girls, people, I don't know what it's called. Sunglasses always good too, travel sunglasses. Maybe some plastic ones you can you can you could throw in the bag. And I guess one more thing is I guess get some subscriptions. Get a subscription to a streaming service. Get it maybe a book service you could, you know, speaking of books, traveling with with
tablets are great or even those. An e reader doesn't have to be an Amazon Kindle or something. There are a number of off brand one's one is called I think it's called the Cobo Kobo less than one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars and then get them a subscription to to download some books. And so for the traveler in your life, that actually may be something really really special. What did I forget? People? What did I forget? Seven to one three two one two five nine five? Oh? What else can
I tell you? Over here? It's some updated news here on the I gave you some news about a week or two ago that said, uh, I've iOS the iPhone. They are going to start playing nice with Android between the green bubbles and the blue bubbles, and they're going to have some you know, they're gonna meld the fact that everybody the messaging system is going to work across It's not there yet. Maybe it's gonna come in twenty twenty four. Who the heck knows. But there is an app for all you Android
people could actually download that just came out. It is called Deeper Mini m I. Now the Beeper is a chat app. We're gonna call it what's app and whatever, But there's like this teenagers it high schooler I think who came up with this app and he did a workaround. It is legal. It's the Beeper Mini Am, I and I app, and it's got a pretty bold claim to bring true ie message support to Android devices. I have an Android device. I get ragged on the fact that I'm not a blue
messenger, I'm a greener or something like that. I haven't downloaded, but there's a lot of buzzer everywhere that this thing actually works. So if you go to Android, go to deeper Mini am, I and I the kid it was created by some sixteen year old high school student. Note to my kids who are in their twenties, lazy bumbs. Come on, man, were what were you doing when you were sixteen? And apparently the bubbles will be blue. You don't have to any more social havef to have any more
social stigma link to green bubbles. You don't need an Apple I'd need to log in. I'll tell you this. The platform is not hacking the eye message experience, so it works on Android. It is the ie message experience working on Android because it's sending actual eye messages. I need to download this. But I heard that's pretty hot. There's your news right now. All right, I'll tell you what I promise. I'm gonna pick up a phone
call because the phone the phones are bumping right now. Seven one three two five nine five. Oh. We're gonna continue Holiday Edition high Tech technagure. Give you the phone number one more time. See if we can get to some calls. Seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. That number has not changed well over twenty years I have been doing this radio show. We continue to give you some ideas of what's going on with the
holiday shopping season. Many products and services are out there, but you know, listen, my job is to scour all the aisles and all of the websites and web pages to tell you what's going on. You know, I'm more of than happy to talk to you out there, if you want to call, if you want to send me an email, or hit me up on the social media. Matter of fact, let's go to a phone call right now. Somebody may happen to have an answer this. Oh, look
who's on the phone. I have not talked to my eye doctor to the stars in Forever, the one, the only doctor, Alan Panzer. What's up, Doc, Well, I thought i'd call and talk to you about the latest Meta ray Man glasses. There's some new ones out. Well, yes, you know we had the stories before that we had the Google glass or whatever, but right, Meta glass, and it's very unique and very
new. I was at your office, Wax. I go regularly because I get my eyes checked up, and I love just perusing your sunglasses and you were so excited. How many months ago was it because you had them? I guess the first version of the Meta obviously being the parent company of folks of Facebook and what's happened in Instagram and what have you, so they are a parent and I'll talk to the audience over here. But there are glasses that can actually be darkened I believe to be like sunglasses do. And and
you can put a prescription lens in there, right, Doc. There's a camera and controlling on your phone. I believe you can record video, and there's microphones that you can do Bluetooth in the whole thing. So there's a there's an updating pair you're saying over here, it does something different. Yes, this pair has five microphones and two speakers, so that you can have
bluetooth into your ears and you can. At this point you'll be able to say, hey, meta, videotape Michael Garfield, and it will start videotaping. So on one side is a high resolution camera and on the other side it's just a little light to let you know that you're being videotaped. Interestingly enough, it's a white light, not a red light, so you might
not notice that you're being taped. But it has the click on it, of course, you know, like a mouse, but two clicks get you Spotify, one click gets you your music off of your phone, and and it's just kind of astonishing. It's four hours you can run it. It has an eyeglass case which has the ability to charge it eight times or so, and so you can actually it's up to thirty six hours of charge in the case, so you can go on a hiking trip, let's say,
and you can video. Now you can only do one minute of video. It can stream for thirty minutes straight to Facebook. But after your one minute video, you could hit it again and you could take another video. How much did you sell it for now? I think they are about three hundred and fifty dollars. Astonishingly they're not as expensive as one might think. The one area that I find not as flattering is that they are sunglasses. Well, if you wanted to go to a party in video, you wouldn't want
to walk in wearing sunglasses. So the product that is selling the most is a transition lens, and it turns extremely dark when you side, and so they come with yellow lenses and they can have your prescription put in them. But I think anybody who's really interested would probably put a transition lens with their prescription or no prescription if they didn't happen to need it. That way, you could go in and out wear them all the time and be able to
video wherever you were, as well as listen to your Bluetooth music. The sound is very good, and the microphones will allow you to interview somebody with them just sitting on your face. You know. It's funny. I remember the Google Glass. This was the first of it's kind years ago and it was in beta test. They were a thousand bucks each and they were so controversial. They just never took off, and I really think it was because
they were ahead of its time, mostly because of privacy. I mean, you could wear these glasses that look like regular reading glasses or something, but you also could be videotaping somebody, and then people did not like that privacy wise, and so Google kind of killed the whole Google Glass and Meta along my ray Band kind of like the co partnered to make these. They came out with them. I remember about a year or so ago. I guess you're saying, now there's an upgraded version, which is good. But the
thing is, though, it's kind of scary. But they do as you said, they do have that light. I guess it's a white light now. To let you know, it's like we call in the TV business, we call it a tally light. Usually it's a red light on a camera in studio, but if you're recording something, as I'm looking at you, I can see this white light flashing on your glasses and I could say, uh, what are you doing? Man, what's up? And so I guess you can't do things, you know, discreetly now because it's kind of
light. If you remember Google glasses, there was no mistaking what you were wearing. It was a piece of twisted wire. I mean, they did not look like glasses. So that's true, and that's true we're gonna sneak one over like you could today with a pair of wayfarers. I mean,
it's just not gonna happen. Whereas this thing, you couldn't tell any difference between the people that walk in my office already wearing wayfares and the people wearing the Google glasses the metaglasses are I could, I could, And let me tell you this. I can see for me, like you know my obviously my kids now they're in the twenties and they do all the hittocking type of things, and I think my son even was interested in a pair for me.
I can see why they're useful for me because when I do videos, I do a lot of Instagram videos and I do a lot of product reviews. So let's just say I'm opening up a box with my two hands, and you know, I'm showing off a phone or something. Well, I see my perspective out of my eyes, but how are my two hands going to be in the shot when one hand is holding the phone. Now, I actually can just put these glasses on. It's got a camera and it's
literally filming what I'm seeing. And so I see there's a useful purpose of these for these point of view type of angles. There is a there is a small issue, and that is that the camera's on the left hand side. So if you think you're pointing straight out who you're shooting, uh, there're gonna be a little more space to the right, so you'll have to kind of learn to turn your head a little to no know, Zuckerberg's going to have to go back to the damn ballpark and create another camera with this
camera in the center. Let me get him online, one hold on. Anyway, it's a very fascinating, very fascinating product. I think that at the price point, you know, three hundred plus dollars, it will sell because plenty of people pay three hundred dollars for guccies, for sap cheese, you know, lots of things they pay way more than that, and they don't get. Basically a computer. These are going to be able to translate
languages. They will be able to point at an object and you will be able to say, hey, Meta, what's that, and we'll say the Statue of Liberty? Yeah, exactly, kind of like Google lens, which is which is really nice. All right, So doctor Allen Panser, three h I mean, I haven't seen these in the market, yet you have them in your office three hundred and fifty dollars or so. If we have three or four pairs, but most of them are going to be ordered,
you know, to what you want. In other words, we've got a yellow pair and a gray pair and a brown pair or whatever. But most of the people, if they need a prescription, we're going to special order theirs. And at this point we're being very careful with them. But they also are waterproof. I mean they're going to be I think it'll be a
very fascinating thing. I sold many pairs of stories. I was quite surprised, and people would go and go skiing, and then they would live stream it to Facebook while they were skiing or bob slutting or whatever they were doing. So it's going to have some huge, huge benefits. As I said, the only thing is, you know, if you purchase a pair as a sunglass, then walking inside with them, you're gonna have to take them off and you're not going to see. So transition will solve that problem.
And they've got a super deeper transition which turns extremely dark and extremely light. All right, well, I'll tell you what. Since that was the tip of the day. I'll let you. I'll let you give a little sales pitch over here. Where's your office? How can we get hold of you? People want to come and grab some My office is called the Houston Dry Eye Clinic. Gets at Beach Nuts six ten. Our phone number seven one
three six six four, forty seven sixty and the forty seven sixties. Of course our address, which makes it kind of a little bit easier to remember. We're right across the street from Ireland and you know so been there for thirty one years. Hey, speaking of a dry eyes, give me about thirty seconds over here, winter dry season. My eyes are actually dry right now? What's the secret? Should I hydrate? Drink water, spray something?
They're going to come in and get the low level light therapy. Okay, file modulation, you know, like you see the TV commercials where the guy puts the Tommy copper on his shoulders and said, yes, well we have that as a mask and that makes your dry eye go away. Get out of here. Eight minutes? How many fifteen minutes? See, I'll tell you what in the morning, before you before I before I do nothing, I'll just roll. That is awesome. I look at this thing,
the dry eye King. He is the eye doctor to the start. I've got one other thing that is I'm coming out with in their night vision glasses, there's vision glasses. There's a company that's come up with a particular color which enables you to see more clearly at night. I don't mean like the green glasses of the military. It's a pink lens and it makes night vision
unbelievable. Look at this guy. So what I've done is I put him into a fit over so that you could put him over their glasses without wording pink glasses. How about that? You need to call him more often to give us updated in the world of eye technology stuff. Right, awesome, Hey, it's great here. Yeah, what is so good for from you?
Listen, you have been a caller friend doctor for gosh decades right now, do not be shy, my man, Happy Honikah, and congrats on everything that you continue to do. Thank you very much for having me. That is doctor Allen Panzer p A n Z E R. He smart. I love the He really is at the forefront of all these new top every time I come in and he's got another gadget to check your eyes. Out all right. It is top of the hour right now, so well it's
reset. Don't go anywhere. I will give you that phone number if you have just as cool as suggestion for a gift, just like doctor p. I'm at seven to one, three two one two five, nine to five oh one more hour. Coming up of the high Tech Texan Show is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining us in the High Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texan. It was to make life easier some 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 occurred worldwide on the iHeartRadio added now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Halfway to half hour. Drink him if you got him? Man, come on, are you you work for the year. It's already the second weekend of December as we continue the high Tech text in the show. Or just after twelve noon on a Saturday, if you're listening on KPRC nine to fifty am, or if you're listening to the Encore repeat, it is just after
midnight on Sunday twice as nice people. I will give you the phone number and if you are listening on the earlier one, we can see if we can sneak you in seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, they just get a call. Thank you very much. For one of the long time callers, Doctor Allen Panzer gave us an update, a
gift suggestion. Actually, I'm the freaky diky glasses that you can wear to record things from Meta the latest from Mark Zuckerborg as he gets into our lives later at this hour, We're going to talk a little bit of spirits. You know, I'm a big rum fan. Papa's Pila rum Is. We'll be on tap and I give you some cocktail recipes for that. What else we got? I got some emails we want to answer, and you know what, just real quickly, you know, I know it's on a cup,
but we're gonna sit shiva, sit a little shive over here. It was very sad. Earlier this week, legendary sitcom producer screenwriter Norman Lear passed away. Dude was one hundred and one. And if you're of age, and let's go back to the seventies when we start his TV shows dominated the airwaves. I mean they changed the face of television because he wrote and he developed comedy hits that really engage with serious social issues. Starting with All in
the Family. Then he goes to the Jeffersons and then Maud and I remember, as I mean, I was a relatively young kid, obviously in the seventies, and All in the Family was it, and I think it was. It was a CBS lineup, was a Monday Night. I'm not sure All the Family, Jeffersons. I never was a mod fan. Then he goes a Good Times. This is all comes out of Norman Lair. But if you have to, and you know what will open listen. We'll take a little poll over here if you could name the great the most iconic,
and I'm gonna say most iconic. I'm not gonna say greatest, because it could be it could be a hero, it could be a villain, could be an anti hero. The most iconic TV character and the history of let's say comedy or sitcoms. You gotta start at Archie Bunker, don't you. I mean, there's Fred G. Sanford and the G stands for Garfield, I mean Sherman Hemsley, you know, George Jefferson. Of course, there's Gilligan, Fred Flintstone. But comedy, Carol O'Connor man, he was on
the family, he was he was Archie bonker Man. And again it goes back to Norman Lair. What am I missing here? Seven? One three, two, one two, five, nine to five. Oh yeah, we can reminisce on seven because this is a pop culture radio program. You know, sometimes I would rather talk about all eighties music or all television shows from the seventies and eighties, because that is my sweet spot. And we can talk about some technology too. Here's some in tech that goes back.
Okay, let me throw in a little media right here. Have you ever has anybody ever seen It's a wonderful life, Calum, you're nodding your head. I love Christmas. I don't know. I like Christmas movie. I love Christmas movies. I love Christmas cartoons. And again my age Charlie Brown, Christmas, Rudolph, the Year without a Santa Claus got the Heat miser thing, and then obviously we've got Christmas Vacation. I have never seen It's a wonderful life. I don't know why. Obviously came out way before I
was born. It's black and white whatever. Anyway, follow me here, people, this is the tech technology spin over here, Jimmy Stewart, Jeremmery. I can't even do a jimmery start. And the only reason I know what Jimmy Stuart sounds like is because I think Dana Carvey did a Jimmy Stewart impression on Saturday Night Live. Jimmy Stewart died in nineteen ninety seven. There is a there's an app, a meditation app. It's pretty popular now. It's called Calm. Anybody. Anybody use Calm. Calm. They they have
like noises. I think that I don't even know what that. I think they've met. I've never used it, but it's got it's got like waterfalls white noise. But it's also got people talking and reading books and doing that. Calm has just come out with a sleep story and it uses an artificially intelligenced generated voice of the late Jimmy Stewart. So there's a It's a Wonderful Wife, It's a Wonderful life sleep store that will calm and put you to
bed. And they used AI to duplicate Jimmy Stewart, is that freaky deek hear what people you wanted to know? Why the writer's strike, the actor strike went on so long earlier this year. This is case in point. Who's getting the royalties that Jimmy Stuart's family, I hope so his trust. This is why there was the the artists strike and the writer's strike. AI is a scary thing. I have not heard this. Oh, by the
way it reached calm. To its credit, it received the express consent of Jimmy Stuart's family and a state to move forward with the project before they actually did it. That that should seem like a given considering the actors not around the verbalized whether he wants his voice used to put people to sleep, But in this era, it's becoming crystal clear. That's how keen studios are to lock actors into deals meant to turn their digital likenesses into everlasting revenue streams.
You're gonna download this thing? Calm tell you what? I need to calm down right now, especially after I go get my advanced body scan. Thought that would be interesting seven one, three, two, nine five. Oh, when we come back, did you hear who's the Time Magazine's person of the year. Take one guess and I will tell you the top twenty five Wikipedia articles of twenty twenty three. I like Wikipedia. I use Wikipedia.
Can't one hundred percent believe anything on Wikipedia because anybody can go change it if you want to, Like someone can say like I'm running for you know, vice President United Day or or the State of Texas governor. Hey, you can make stuff up. I actually believe it. Top twenty five Wikipedia articles twenty twenty three. I guarantee you probably can't guess what number one is. All that coming up as we just passed the halfway to half the hour market,
I'm a high tech tax and shizz out back at it. It is m G the H two T y tech text or in the second hour coming up to have a little rum talk. Who's Thursday? Man? Give you some ideas of gift giving, especially uh rum don't sleep on rum man. Especially this Papa is pillar rum that I'm about to talk about. It's good stuff. How many people give wine for gifts? I mean it's just they make wine specific wine bags. I don't drink wine, but I have bottles
of people give me bottles of wine. I haven't even mentioned regifting. I used to do entire segments of regifting. I already did my gift card stick. I'm fine with gift cards. People want to give me a gift card, give me a gift card. I don't drink wine, but people still give me wine. I mean, I guess they don't know me. You
kind of have to know your audience. You know. I'm very nice about it because anytime somebody walks in or somebody walks up to me about give me something, and I see a wine bottle, I'm thinking, please, please, please be a bottle of rum, please be rummer bourbon. And then I open up. It's a bottle of like Cabernet savigon blanc. I don't know what. I don't know what it is. And then my next thing in my mind is like, well, good, I gotta I can regift
something right now. So we're talking gifts in whatever. So more than happy to you to give you some ideas. Give it. Give me a topic. I've been through, travel gift ideas, kid gift ideas, tech gift ideas. UH. The football ticket nat AT National Championship Longhorn Game Bowl ticket ideas seven one three Guess who Calum Calum over here? Who's h point and producer and putting the show together? Uh? Any idea? Who the Time magazine pick of the year. Time Magazine's Person of the Year used to be
a massive thing when Time Magazine actually was owned by Time Life. It is now not owned by Time Life, even though they think it is some sports illustrated like third party Crapola company. He owns Time, but they still they sell magazines. But the Person of the Year was It's interesting because it wasn't the most popular person. It was the person and I used to get every my grandparents every day for the holidays. Every year for the holidays, I
got an annual subscription to Time Magazine. I loved it. It's the only way I kept up with what was going on in the world, and I always look forward to that December issue Person of the Year and the Person of the Year was chosen by the editors of Time Magazine by the person who has changed the news that year, for better or worse. It's exactly why Hitler Stalin they were persons of the year. Nowadays there are here to sell magazines,
so the finalists this year were actually put it this way. Last year was the Ukrainian president Zelensky. Year before that, it was Elon Musk calamany any clue? Yep, you got it. I didn't have to give you ten seconds, buddy, folks. The person of the Year twenty twenty three e Taylor Swift. You see, the editors weren't just trying to adulate the pop star so they could snag some limited edition eras tour tickets or popcorn. No. No, And I will say this, and I'm not making fun
of Taylor Swift, because yes, I am jealous. Her contributions to twenty twenty three were. They were pretty monumental. They seriously were. The Fed, the Federal The Fed himself gave her a shout out for boosting the US economy this summer because the hotel booking surrounding her contract dates. I'm not kidding you. The Arass Tour expected to become the first concert tour ever to gross over a billion dollars. Swift herself became a billionaire this year. She came
out with a movie in what November. It helped MC smash its previous record for ticket sales revenue in a single day. And she doesn't even have to sing. She shows up at football games and viewership rises when she goes to
a Kansas City Chiefs game with her alleged boyfriend Travis Kelcey. I'd love to be in a How would you like to have a dinner party with the past recipients of Time Magazines Persons of the Year, Taylor Swift, Media, Elon Musk and here's Ukrainian President Zelenski. What do you want to talk about? What do you want to talk about? Times have changed? All right? So here's my shift to Wikipedia. I like Wikipedia to smach night chu just
Wikipedia. Every December, at the end of the year, Google always puts out its most search rankings? What have we search foremost? Wikipedia actually puts out it's articles of the top twenty five, the top whatever articles that people have looked for. Callum will play it again. What do you think the number one most searched article on Wikipedia is? What topic? Whatever? No, it is not Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift comes in at number twelve.
Numerow twelve. That's Taylor Swift. You want to let's see here? I mean, I guess I can go to the top ten. Scot Matthew Perry number seventeen. But actually Matthew Perry has something to do with number two. I'll give you number two, number two most searched Wikipedia article this year, deaths. In twenty twenty three, forty two million people look for death They
typed in deaths in twenty twenty three. That said, Matthew Perry. By the way, when the oscars roll its in Memoriam, whenever the oscars are in March, who's gonna get the hammer slot? Matthew Perry may be up there. I mean, I know we still got three or four months to put to for I hate saying this is Mary Morby, but Matthew Perry in terms of people who in movies, in movies, and he's been in movies the last I call it the hammer slot, the last slot before everybody collapsed
and they go to commercial. Let's say number three search the twenty twenty three Cricket World Cup. You see, this is why it's called the world Wide Web. We don't know what cricket is in the United States, but it's the third most search Wikipedia article of twenty twenty three Indian Premier League. I'm guessing that has to do with cricket. That's number four, Number five Oppenheimer the film A film I did not see Oppenheimer himself, Jay Robert Oppenheimer.
The seventh most searched Wikipedia article Barbie, You say Barbie the film thirteenth most watched, most searched Wikipedia article of this year. So it's Taylor Swift twelve comes in just ahead of Barbie. You got Christian Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Premier Leagues. We've got a lot of soccer. Elon Musk is up there
too in a few movies, Garden, the Galaxy, Volium three. So not that it doesn't matter one way or the other, but I'm just thinking, this is what we look at. Notice I didn't find Middle East Gaza strip a Moas Israel. No, it's Taylor Swift, Barbie and the last of US TV series. It's what does this say about us? I have no clue what it says about us. I will tell you what to say
about you, especially if you were a cocked up person. Coming up, we're gonna have a nice chit chat of what goes best in rum with a specific rum that is a partnered to license with the Ernest Hemingway family. There's Ernest Hemingway. Was he in the top twenty five search? No? He was. I am a Hemingway fan. I've never read a Hemingway what he did some bullfighting. He sure knows what the world is going on. Makes a lot of rum. Stand By, We're gonna come back in as the
High Tech Dexton Show. We are back at it continued the long running A High Tech Textan show. Michael Garfield is the name. Open phone lines here if you want to continue to talk about what you want to get somebody for the holiday season. I'm at seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh, that number has not changed in the well over twenty years I have been doing the show, now heard all around the country, actually around
the world. Thank you for downloading the iHeartRadio app. I had the ultimate gift actually to give somebody. All right, would you make make sure either're over twenty one and make sure they're a Spirit fan. You know, for months right now, I've been talking about Rum. You know, I love all my spirits, but I've really become a bigger fan of Rum because I've I've a number one I found a phenomenal Rum brand. But now I've been
playing around with some cocktails. It's called papas PLR P I L A R Ernest Hemingway very associated with it, and I've been helping a number of my buddies in the restaurant industry stock it in their bars, uh in their restaurants. And so if you happen to go up and see it, make sure you pull that bottle down and you asked for either a shoot straight or have a cocktail. But people then ask me, you know some stories? You know because Papa Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, which is his name is on the
bottle, you know, he's a storyteller. You know what, I'm gonna do one better. I'm actually gonna go to the source to help me tell the story. Right now. Justin Daniels, he's the Texas state manager for Papa's PLR brand. He is joining me here for a few minutes, justin. I see you brought into the studio. You brought your own cocktail over here, which which very tale of Papa's is your favorite. I know that's a tough one, like picking your favorite kid. Oh, I hear you.
They're all fantastic. My I really enjoy the finish dark rooms, the sherry finish and the rye whiskey finish RUMs are are my favorites, and I'm I often say my favorite mixer is ice. You know, I just like I like my room with a big piece of ice and and sipping on it, maybe with a nice cigar. And you're ready to go. Man, you've got a good point over there, especially when you talk about sherry finished and rye finished. You know, people those words are that description is really
not associated a lot with rom. You just think of ram as it is it is white ram or is it dark Rom? And then but this this is a whole new ball game. But let's let's start at the beginning. Papa's pillar it Key West and the founder and the distiller give us the top level story of how it even started as a brand and how it was made. Absolutely so it is a collaboration between the Hemingway family uh and and one of the creators of Angels M V Bourbon, a guy named Steve Groth.
And Uh, this is a Papa is Hemingway's nickname Pilar was the name of his beloved both that he traveled all around the Caribbean in and so that's where the name comes from. Uh. The the collaboration between the Roth family and the Hemingway family has been fantastic and uh, it's it's produced Papa's Pillar Rum. And we also have a sister brand that is a whiskey called Hemingway Rye.
But Papa's Law Rum is uh, I mean, it's it's it's the stuff I've When I was approached by this company to come on board, I was ecstatic when I tried the juice. It is, it is a fantastic rum. But talk about the distilling process, you know, you know I I have been to Bourbon distilleries and I've seen how vodka has quickly made. What is the process, where is it done? And there's a long time
master distiller who's involved in this? Correct? Yeah? So so the the distillation of rum, so rum whiskey, like you mentioned bourbon and things, those are made from a combination of grains, usually corn rye, malted barley, sometimes wheat, whereas rum is actually made from distilled sugarcane. And we source globally. We source from the Caribbean, uh, some South American,
some Central American. And what we do is when the distillation is finished and the blend is done, we rest it in a combin nation of bourbon barrels. Spanish Oloso sherry casks and in the case of the dark Room, the port wine casks also, And so with the blend and the different aging and the different casks, you get a flavor that you really just can't find in any other rum that's out there right now. No, I absolutely agree. As we're talking to Justin Daniels, Justin is with Papa's p lar. Certainly.
I luckily I have a few cases on hand, and so if any of my clients or family are listening and guess what I just blew the surprise, that's what they're getting for the holiday season. It makes a great gift as well as some nice things to sip on, especially with your favorite way to do it, Justin with that one rock, one big ice ball. One of the most unique things when you see the sitting on a shelf behind a restaurant or certainly in your favorite liquor store, it's the shape of the
bottle. I noticed it right off because as an eagle scalp and that that I am. It looks like a canteen. And there's a story behind that canteen. The shape of the bottle, that's absolutely correct. So the bottle is fashioned after a war World War Two Army Canteam, and that is because Hemingway served in w W one and two. And then there's several different points
on the bottle itself. We have a compass on the top just kind of denoting the traveling aspect of Hemingway. There's also a rooster on the bottle, which if you've been down to Key West, roosters and chickens are protected down there, so they're running all over the place in and out of restaurants, So that's kind of a little symbol of Key West forests. There's pin quills, and also on the sides of the bottles you have just the full process.
It tells you where we're source it from and what we're aging. So a lot a lot of transparency with our process right on the bottle you talked about before, there's I want to get into the specific you know that. I think there's the key for vera tells and I'm gonna use that word. We talked about the rye finished the sharey finish. But you also have to blonde and dark for those of you, For those people maybe are not rum
aficionados, maybe they want to dip the toe in the water. Where do you tell them to start which one, sure, I'm I mean I would say it just depends on what you like. You know, a lot of people like the lighter rum, some people like the darker rooms, and so we have something for everybody. Are our blonde rum is a great way to start. That's a great one for if you're gonna mix with some cocktails, like a nice peanut Colado or a reef runner. That blonde rum. So
that's something kind of in between. It's not exactly a white room, it's not a dark room. It's something in between. We created that category. It's the first ever blonde rum. It's very similar to RUMs that was enjoyed by Hemingway in the thirties and forties in Cuba. It's it's an eighty four proof rum, a blend of six different RUMs that we source globally. Like I mentioned, I mean, you're gonna get just notes of real bright citrus,
You're gonna get fresh butterscotch, you're gonna get floral notes. It almost has like a creamy buttery mouthfeel. It's fantatic. All kinds of accolades and awards we've won with this thing. It's a fantastic one and then you then you move onto your dark room. You know it's it's you get some amazing bourbon notes there. That one's eighty six proof. It's a little overproof. It's a blend of nine different RUMs that, like I said, we source
globally. With that one. You're gonna get kind of notes of dark chocolate. You're gonna get some rich maple. But then you're gonna get things you're not used to. You're gonna get some candied orange, you know, maybe a little bit of ripe fig a lot of accolades with that one as well, double gold, best age room, all kinds of stuff. No, it's good, it's funny. I make a joke, you never forget your first blonde if you want to start there, and then you go and then
dark. You've also got the sherry finish and the rye finish. The first sip I ever had, I think was the was the sherry finish. It. You know, you ef you actually even have a single cask offering over there too. But what it is, it's in correct me if I'm wrong. You've got this beautiful rum, but you finish it in that ol roso sheery cask and so that brings out the more flavors, a little notes of and I tasted a little bit more spice. Was it toffee or something like
that. I don't know how you describe, but that thing. I dare anybody that you better not put anything in that that goes. You better sip that with either alone or with an ice cube. That thing's killer one hundred percent. It's fantastic. Yeah, you mentioned toffee. I mean they're they're the Oulosa sherry cast. I mean in our you know, the room already sees some sherry uh in the initial blend, but then we take the entire
blend and we finish it in the sherry cast. So yeah, it does give little notes of toffee, some spice, some toasted oak and uh. And you you know, uh, I I love it, as I said, my favorite mixer's ice. I love it on ice. But I will tell you that it also makes a hell of an old fashion I mean just
delicious. So I mean, and and any of your kind of whiskey centric cocktails like a Manhattan or or an old Fashion, this is gonna slide in there beautifully and and give you flavor profiles you you wouldn't expect from those cocktails. Yeah, and that's what I did right there. You know, little tips like this because listen, as an old fashion we all take us bourbon bourbon bourbon, maybe a little Rye or something like that. But why not open it up, you know, you know, look outside the lines,
go with something like Papa's Pillar rum to put it in there. It's awesome. And one more you also have one called the Rye Finish. That's something super special. What's that? Absolutely that's our most recent offering, so kind of kind of similar to the Sherry Finish in that we take our dark room and once the blend is done, we finish it in a Rye whiskey barrel.
I kind of mentioned we have a sister brand, Hemingway Rye. We're utilizing a Rye whiskey barrel which is going to give notes of kind of vanilla nuanced spices, maybe a little bit of roasted coffee. And that one has also got some fantastic accolades. The Best New Expression in twenty three Best Age Rum. We're seeing fantastic accolades with this one. And this is really your whiskey drinker's room, So highly recommend this one for Christmas as well. One
more question, I'll get you out of here on this. One of the things that I absolutely continue to love and respect what Papas Pilar is doing. It's there's a there's a conservation aspect of it. And I know everything starts down there in Key West. Always a lot of you know, conservatory stuff going on. What's the collaboration with the Hemingway family is doing so yeah, I mean Hemingway was a huge conservationist, you know, back before people were
conservationists. And in that spirit, the Hemingway family and the brand, we've contributed millions of dollars to causes that advanced literacy, water conservation, really ocean conservation. You know, we we've it's something that is very important to our brand and very important to our company. It is important. It's just you know, obviously if the taste alone is enough, is not enough, There's there's something about that that goes in your back of mind, is absolutely worth
checking out. Papa is a p LR P I L A R. Absolutely. You know, the bottle fits in a stocking people if it's in a box, and uh, just make sure you walk up to your favorite restaurant. I know specifically we've got down in Texas City at Lago Bar, at the Blue Lagoon, there's in the Capitol Grill, in the in the Gallery area, So you're doing your job justin you're getting it in as many shells
as you can. Absolutely. We Also you can find it at any of your total Wines, your local specs, and a lot of your independent liquor stores around town are going to have it as well, so plenty of places to pick it up for a stocking stuffer. Well, good listen, I appreciate the big poor you just gave me, so clink and cheers to you. I appreciate it, my man, And tell you what, We're probably gonna talk to you here around New Year's to see we'll come up with a
New Year's cocktail mate with Papa's pillar. Deal. Absolutely, brother sounds great. Justin Daniels if you need them. Folks. I thought we're we're past my halfway to happy hour because we're already early afternoon here in the Central time zone. But you know what, you know, just kick back and wrap your presence and you know, if you can get up Papa's pillar in there, it's just a little bonus. We're gonna come back after this. We're to take your phone calls. Check me out at high tech Texan dot com
and all the social media. We'll be right back. Final segment this week's High Tech Textan Show, Give you out the number one more time. See if you can sneak in seven to one three two one two five nine five. Oh Callum is on the Standboy, Maybe I'll get to you, Maybe I won't. Thanks to Justin Daniels, Papa PLR rum, I love it. What's your favorite way to actually drink rum? Just put an ice ball in there, man, don't mix it with anything, dude, That's true.
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them keeping this radio show free as it should. What are the things? Oh this this came into mind now my son is traveling. My oldest son is traveling right now, and he is in a very very very far away country right now, and we are keeping up with him through what's app. I like what's app. WhatsApp does videos, and WhatsApp is like end to end encrypted unlike some of the other chat apps. And then whatever, and
I'll get to another story on Facebook about this. But as long as you're in you have some sort of service, be it Wi Fi, be it sell or something. I mean, what's happened is a onedle thing. But sometimes and iPhone you maybe you'll see this. If you've ever tried to send things pictures of videos on WhatsApp, they compress them quite largely and they don't turn out as they should look in because everything is too compressed. Well breaking
news. WhatsApp is currently rolling out a new update for iOS users that lets you I call you people share photos and videos on WhatsApp in their original quality with no compression. Look at that. I mean they've been What's app has pretty been notorious for low quality media transfers, so it's a nice change, I'll tell you that. So the secret is the media file. I mean, the media files aren't compressed at all, but this update treats media as
standard data files. So when you send a file, they're not transformed into previews for the chat window, but the recipient can click to view them. So you're still gonna be able to send me the old fashioned way if losing the chat window preview themed thumbnails is a bridge too far. Okay, this is not automatic. You do have to consciously decide to send an uncompressed image or video. There's you have to click the plus icon to transfer a document.
Go ahead and try it right now. It's been a big year for WhatsApp because they've been trying out a lot of new features. There was a dedicated mac Macintosh app back in August, they had video calling capabilities I think from up to eight people. They had a Windows client earlier in the year, so they're they're actually doing a pretty good job. Encryption is a big thing. Encryption means well, hopefully nobody's gonna see or read what's going on.
Facebook has always had an issue about that, and that's why even though WhatsApp is owned by by Meta, which is also on Facebook Facebook Messenger, which I actually use semi often there, it's not all encrypted. Wait a minute, more breaking nose. According to mister Zuckerberg, Facebook Messenger is going to become fully encrypted. They're rolling out a default end to end encryption for personal messages and calls. They just said this earlier this week. It's even
going to extend to Instagram at a date to be determined. That's a pretty big win for privacy advocates because they've been urging tech companies to adopt this practice to protect consumers. I don't know why they haven't done it before. End to end is big, so you really want to check this. So right now WhatsApp has it, Facebook Messenger coming sin and this is a way. And again I'm android guy, and I still get the business from all my
people. Because I'm a green daughter, not a blue daughter. You can't use you can't use FaceTime, Well no, I can't use face Time per se. But I also but I could easily do a video chat with anybody, any body by using WhatsApp or even Facebook Messenger, which is the video app. I could skype, I could zoom, I could do a lot of stuff. Is it as easy as clicking on facet app? Well,
what's apped is almost as easy as FaceTime. It's an app. You click on a person, you click the video button and boom, you're there. I do it with my I son all the time because he's got an iPhone. Earlier this, I mean last Thursday night, were lighting the candles. Honaka, Hey, what's going on? We're video We're looking at each other. I'm Android, he's iPhone, Ebity, Ivory, living in perfect harmony.
It works. The world's a small place, people, and especially next year, as I said, if Apple is gonna open up their I message to make everybody happen, even on Android and again the news I told you last hour. If you can't wait, there is an app that you could download on the Android platform that it simulates and actually lets you do I messages on an Android platform. There's a seventh It's called Beeper Mini. Am I in a Beeper Mini seven day free trial? That think it's like about ninety
nine a month. I haven't tried it yet, but I heard it's supposed to be great. No more green, no more green dots, no more ostracize. I am so ostracized it's not even funny. Oh my goodness. Let's see. Well what's Michael driving this week? I have been driving so many vehicles. I have any been updating this. I have reviews on my podcast and actually on high Tech Texan. Did you know that there is a Toyota Grand Highlander. The Toyota Highlander has been around for a long time.
There's a Grand Highlander. This baby is a three row, massive, big old suv. It starts at about forty three thousand dollars. There's a hybrid about forty four thousand dollars. Drove around that and that that was really really cool. You know my thoughts on electric cars? Am I even getting into that? But if you want to, I do review a ton of cars because I am a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association and they are it's it's I'm honored to I'll be able each week to get a number of different
cars. Next week, I think I'm gonna a Broncos Sport and who knows who a super Ro so who knows what else is I'm gonna drive up inn But I try to talk about what you want, and I hope I did this time, and I hope gave you some ideas for Honika gifts for Christmas
gifts. We're gonna do it again next week. In the meantime, you can watch Great Day Houston CBS Channel eleven this coming week because odds are I am going to pop up a few of those times Monday through Friday night in the morning, So wake up early, people, and then always right here. Thanks to the book, big folks like Eddie Bartini to Brian Erickson to Mark Sherman, the guys who sit in the carpeted offices down down the way here and iHeart media here in Houston keeps me on the air for well over
twenty three years. People, if you want to get me something, I like gift guards and I need tickets to the Sugar Bowl and also the National Championship to see the Horns. Other than that have a great, great rest of weekend. My name is Michael Garfield and guess what. My show is over