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, Texas. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. You heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Help me out here. Is it a good thing
or a bad thing that it's already jumped? I'm kind of perplexed over here. Yeah. I always have a love hate relation. Actually I have a hate relationship with the weather that we have here in Southeast Texas and Jerry's is just not the best time of year, man, I'm telling you what. Oh by the way, welcome to our hurricane season. If that's not futted up for you, it's already nasty hot Memorial Day. I hope you had a nice, safe one last weekend. It was hot, it was hazy,
it was muggy. There was the stuff floating all over the city in the air. There were fires in Mexico or something, and then these rainstorms came down. It's just dogs and cats living together, total chaos. Just don't know what to say. Now come the doll days. The doll and you have to say it like that. It's the dog days. It's not Africa hot yet, as I like to say. That may happen around August
or so, but it is just nasty. So if you can get out of town and still listen to this radio program, we do thank you for downloading the iHeartRadio app because wherever you go in the country, in almost the world, there are some countries who actually ban free speech and free radio. By kay Heart, you could take us anywhere, so we do thank you for that. Michael is the name. I'm the nice Michael, the original Michael here at the iHeartMedia iHeart Radio Houston, been doing this for well over
two decades. You know the drill. I'll give you the phone number seven one three two one two five nine five oh nine to five oh. Obviously it's a little numerical alliteration aligned with our frequency on the amplitude modulation AM dial. If you are listening to us that way, a's old school if you're in your car, So hang in there, people. We do have some interesting topics. This is what we do. I'm not going to tell you
how to fix your computer. This is not just all technology show. If you think it is where you've been for two decades, I don't talk about that. It's whatever Michael feels like, yeap, and about whatever you want to contribute by calling in or even using our beautiful social media accounts high Tech Texan. If you're too shy to call, too busy to call, you could just go to h I G H T E H T e X say an high Tech texts and you can write me something, you can respond to
something, you can ask me a question, and we monitored here. We've got a big staff. BIG's a right, Calum read over here, who has long been pushing the buttons and answering phones here on the other side of the glass. How big is our staff? Callum over under? What half a person? That's all good respect to you, brother, All right, we got one person, we got two people. We got me. Also, it's a good thing that there's an ADHD flowing here. Look at me
giving out my hippa and my government things. Do you app about today? If you have an iPhone seven number one, where the hell have you been gett into the twenty first century, but it actually could mean you can get money. I will tell you there's an iPhone settlement that is happening that you can hop in on. Look at me telling you how to get some money. We go from iPhone sevens to artificial intelligence. Samsung I made an announcement
that it will soon add AI on its watches on its Galaxy watches. I like that news. I do have several galumy he watches. I am a Samsunk fan. If you have a T mobile, your network just got bigger. They have acquired another data online the cellular company will tell you about that, and also some other anecdotes that we have, including cars. You know, I'm a big car guy. I review cars for actually a living, probably more so than I talk about technology. I've got some really cool vehicles
that I've been riding around and testing in. These are not advertisements for dealerships. I do not do that, so I can rag on vehicles, as with Charles Barkley rags on his bosses at Turner. So it's up to me to talk about that. But when you want to talk about a new GMC homer ev that I've been rolling around and that's right over the next week. If you see a massive gmc hummer nice and quite evie, odds are that could be me. So give me a horns up and flag me down and
maybe I can give you a ride in that. So I will give you the what to do, what not the buy and oxlough. I got a list, got a list of the most stolen cars in the US. It's not good news the fact that one of my son's cars is at the top of the list and it was actually broken into not long ago. So it's the realities of the world. So that's some of the things that we are going to talk about. Callum, Callum, what what phone do you? Are? You? An iPhone dude? You an Android dude like me?
iPhone? You have an iPhone seven? When was iPhone? How many generations were you born? When an iPhone seven and seven plus came out? They they have been in the market for quite a while. In twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, for some reason, I'm gonna put some money in your pocket.
Air people. For some reason, iPhone seven and iPhone seven plus owners, if you still have you're actually are gonna get paid because Apple has settled a class action lawsuit regarding audio issues with those phones, and that could result payments of up to three hundred and forty nine bones per person. However, if you fall into this category, you better hurry up. You have until June third to file your clim so you've got about forty eight hours to start,
depending on when you're listening to this. Now, let's go back in time. To be eligible, you need to have owned an iPhone seven or seven plus between September of twenty sixteen and January third of last year, and you've also had to report the audio issue to Apple during that time frame. It is so the more I talk about this, the less amount of people actually are going to be able to claim this thing. But this also includes anyone who paid for or repair for those issues out of their own pocket.
So for some reason, this sounds like you this class action website, which is it easy? You can go to smart Phone Audio Settlement dot com. Is that easy to remember? Smart Phone Audio Settlement dot Com. You can double check your eligibility. You could print out a form and you can. You can, and good luck if you can mail it in the mail arrives by June third. Veiling in is this what Apple is? It's it's actually a brilliant employee. I'm giving this story with two days to get to go.
You've got to mail this thing in. It's beautiful. Payments are gonna art from about fifty bucks to three hundred and forty nine dollars three hundred forty nine dollars. But the lawsuit, by the way, it dates back to twenty eighteen with the release of the version of the iOS eleven point three, because that triggered a hard work bug in both phones, and at the time it seemed like a microphone problem since people were difficult to hear them voice calls
kind of sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher, Yes, ma'am. The lawsuit, however, it was later attributed the issue to a faulty audio chip in there so an I anything else I can do for you other than give you some money. And for some reason, if you have an iPhone seven or seven plus, do you a favorite? Would you call me? I'm taking a break right down. I want you to I want it done to see how
bad the audio is. The number here is seven one three, two one two five nine five O. You see people, this is how much fun. We have. We entertain you, not Charles Barkley. For some reason, TNT loses inside the NBA. Inside the NBA is going nowhere. It will go wherever somebody it moves to, whoever has that the licensing rights for the pregame and postgame show. But if anybody wants a semi white version, cocky version, semi cocky version of Charles Barkley, who's not afraid to talk
and have some fun, I am your guy. Talk to my manager, Michael Garfield. It's the name. It is the long running high tech texting show. When we come back, I will tell you. For some reason, you do have a Samsung Galaxy Watch, which I do like, I do recommend AI. Is that a good thing to have artificial intelligence on your watch on your wrist? But AI is almost everywhere right now, and I've been playing I've been playing with some AI apps on my on my phone.
Don't love them yet, they're not really fully there. And also graduation gifts, congrats to all the grads of high school and college and post college. Uh, just fulfillments. You need a guest, I may have some ideas for you. Don't go anywhere, because we will continue in a editory too. Body successfully used Facebook Marketplace. If you need to sell something and you want to keep a local you don't want to do the eBay, what's your what's your? God, I'm serious, what's your go to site? Talk
to me here seven one three two one two five nine five zero. As we continue with the Michael Garfield program, you can call it the high tech text and show. I guess we'll kind of use a little technology. What I grew up as a kid, we used to have these things called garage sales. And in fact, my parents who still live in the in the in the same house I grew up in Dallas. My mom still holds garage
sales. I remember setting things out on a Friday night in our garage and then driving around with my parents hammering up signs I'm not kidding you on local telephone poles and streets. Here's the garage sale at this address. Saturday morning, eight am, be there. And I remember sitting out helping her sell
some things. We're just kind of watching when randos we just pull up into our driveway and then walk around and I would sit here and be very melancholy like because my parents, my mom would actually would sell like my clothes that I wore growing up at I mean, what do you do? Why are you selling my tough skins? Do you know how much history you know? Those purple tough skins and en joy they brought me and you're selling her for
fifty cents? Mom? What are you doing? Man? Ah? The garage sales were at and then eBay comes along and it's like the online garage sale. And I've used eBay before, and eBay is fine for things you can met mail. I mean all the extra tech product stuff I get that companies don't want back and they're probably four generations old. I mean, I gotta mail those things. But what have you got something big? I mean there's a was it angie List or Craigslist or something? Who who's your if?
I sold a few things on Facebook Marketplace? The reason why I ask? And actually, I'm really lazy over here, So I'm gonna I'm gonna try something new. I'm gonna try to sell something on my radio show. I have a Big Green Egg. Love the Big Green Egg for all you Texans out there like grilling and smoking. Big Green Egg. It's a Commada style big smoker. It's a it's a large version. I think they have
a small, medium, large, and extra large. It is just a few years old, has not been used to todd It's an excellent quality. It's always been covered. I've got a pizza stone to cook pizza on. I've got some utensils. It's on wheels. It's got little, you know, side shelves and trays, and it's heavy, and I'm trying to sell them. The reason I'm trying to sell it is because I got a new Commata Joe, and I don't need two of these things, and so I'm just lazy man. I just I got to take photos of this thing.
Then I got uploaded to someplace like Facebook Marketplace. And so if anybody's interested at a relatively new owned by the High Tech text which I propably just devalued it by saying that anybody wants a big green egg, perfect time for the summer, contact me here at the station. You can find me online at Michael at high tech Textan dot com. You know how to find me. Just then just let me do it. We negotiate a little something, we do a deal. I'm telling you what, If this works, I'm selling
everything in my house. See yeah, this way, we don't have to split the commission, and you come pick it up, and you know, you could see whatever a truck I'm driving this week, it'd be fine, big green egg for sale right here on the uh, Michael Garsholt specifically, I will, I will autograph it, and I will pay you extra to take it. Now, we'll negotiate, will negotiate. See that that's the easy way to do things. Artificial intelligence. I get asked this a lot,
Garth, do you use it? I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence, Jesse, Yet it is pretty whack. It's pretty crazy. Uh, Chat GPT. A lot of my buddies use it. I've tried it. Was it last year on air. I actually had chat GPT right pay Mother's Day message for my mother. It worked well. It was pretty sappy, and I think she heard it. She got for clem. She cried, it was pretty good. Hey, I's man, it's almost everywhere. Samsung a little company you've heard of. I'm a Samsung fan. I'm getting a lot
about Samsung. Michael. You're the king of Samsung. I don't do anything. I don't buy anything. I don't buy any Android, any Samsung without you. I know, you went to South Korea last year. I know you saw those flipping fold phones before anybody else. You reported back that was cool, bought a ton of them. When's the next one coming out? I got the number five last year, I got that flip five, got that full five. Or here they're coming out with a six, or here
they're doing something in Paris or something LA. But you going, what's good? Can I get? Actually I could just deny. I don't know really officially anything. I have to assume every year, Samsung said, I have to assume every year every company is coming out with something. I'm always wanting to be the first one to tell you the inside info. I've got my great day used to producers, Michael, can you give us some video? Can you report firsthand? Gives me? I don't know much. I don't
know much. I can't even get. I hope it's coming. I love the flip phones. I love the fold phones. Form factors are great. I'm an Android guy. What else can I say? I don't know, but I can't cont firm this. Samsung dig just on something. They are adding AI to their Galaxy Watch. I probably have three Galaxy Watches. It's my smart watch. Of choice. I don't use any of that Apple stuff. And there's a lot of watches thit bits and whatever. But Galaxy Samsung
AI is being added later this year. Later at this year's stand By Health and Fitness features to the Galaxy Watch. They announced this a few days ago. It's going to have personalized health scores, tips, sleep indicators, and suggested workout routines. Something's going to be called the Energy score energy why not used in the energy capital of the world. And it's going to learn from several of your personal metrics to give you comprehensive health insights. So it's pretty
much. One of the things that I do find interesting on smart watches is they can monitor your sleep, and they can monitor your heart rate and the variations in between and now along with your physical active when you're awake. So they use all this data and they're gonna, I guess, have a suggestive routine to have fitness goals and make you live longer hopefully. Sleep features. Allegedly they're getting an AI enhanced upgrade. What is an AI enhanced upgrade sleep
feature? To me, it's taking a ambient right, No, it's going to give you an extra insight into your nightly habits, algorithms. They're gonna analyze your sleep, movement, your latency, your heart rate, your respiratory rate. And the thing is with this, and I've talked about this again, people think they're gonna get smart watches and they're gonna lose weight. It
doesn't work that way. I've said this since the advent of smart watches, and I have tried most every smart watch on the market is it will help you monitor your steps, and many people monitor your steps. But I want you to think about it. All right, good, so you walk six thousand steps today, Hey, what do you do? Do you celebrate? Yeah? Yeah, I have gonna have a glass of wine? Right, You don't do That's not going to help you lose weight. It's about analyzing
your data. So if you walk six thousand steps to day, well you should have a goal of walking seven thousand steps the next day, and then more the next day and then the next day. That's how you do it. I mean, yes, you can use it as a reward or but have a donut. But if you think you're going to get healthier by having a smart watch, no, it's going to give you a tool or tools to help you reach whatever goal you want it to help you reach. But
you gotta read the data with artificial intelligence. Maybe that's gonna help. I'm a rudder. This Galaxy watch is going to get new aerobic threshold and anaerobic threshold heart rate zone metrics. It's gonna help me stay in my optimal training window. Okay, good. I cannot give you the actual date, can't give you that it's going to be with the one UI six Watch update leader this year. Maybe I could do test this thing. I do not know
Sam Skun's Samsung's coming out with a new watch. They did also come out with a new watch last year when I was in South Korea with a lot of media's journalist. When I gave you the breaking news, it was the uh was that the Watch six pretty cool stuff. A few different versions variations of it. I like it cinema. That's what AI does. Anybody scared of AI, Well, I got open phone lines right here. Don't be scared of me. I'm a nice, friendly guy. I just give you
some information seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, I have Michael Garfield give me a call to each halfway of the first hour of the long running radio program KPRC nine fifty am across Texas and all around the world on iHeartRadio. I know, I know, I promised to talk about graduation gifts, congratulate relations do all the graduates. If you've graduated college. College graduates, they need gifts. They may need new clothes for a
new job. Oh, that's right, everybody's worked from home. College graduates may need some new pajamas. I suggest, Ralph Lauren, it's a purple shade or something. I think that's a good one. High school graduates, absolutely, if you do plan to go to if they do plan to go to college, it made you new laptops. Got a few laptops. I have been playing with a Sharp laptop. No, no, not a laptop that's Sharp. Sharp is actual a tech company, and whether you know it
or not, they actually have laptops. And a friend of mine works for Sharp, and she gave me a few weeks ago a laptop to play with. I'm currently testing that. Not bad so far, very light, Windows based, and I'll give you the full review here in the next week or so. The Sharp laptops are good tablets. Potentially, you do need to check with colleges to see if anything's mandatory too. I remember back in the day when laptops were really coming out. I'm talking what late eighties, early
nineties. Some college is mandated what type of laptops you had to have. I think Harvard they mandated you had to have an Apple, you had to have maclap lap book. I actually would have said, screw it. I'm just going to go to a better college, the University of Texas. If anybody mandated me to get an apple, so check on that. God alarm clocks, microwave ovens, all in one devices for small dormitories. That's good. If you are debating between a gift that you should get your college grad
you can give me a shites out. There's a helum calum. You've graduated college, right, What did you get for college? What did you when you graduated college not long ago? What did you get? You got money? Money's good, Money's always good. Money's good. I graduate. Let me try to think. Let's go back to the wayback machine. I graduated from college. I mostly got money, wasn't a ton and I pulled the money together and I got the highest tech piece of equipment that I've always wanted.
And again this is late eighties. I got an entire new home audio system, a high five, yes high fi audio system. I got a it was a Yamaha receiver. I guess it was mostly yama. I got a cassette to cassette where I could record a little cassette track to cassette track and make copies of it. I got a an LP record player. I did not have an eight track tape. And I got some kick ass set of speakers. I mean these speakers. These speakers alone were like seven hundred
dollars. And these speakers back then, I'm my kidding. These speakers they probably gost seven hundred dollars to ship from New York. They were massive. I think ADS was the name of these speakers. They were phenomenal. They were phenomenal. It was big that I had to get a cabinet and it's like a four foot tall a cabinet with a glass door. Oh my god, you guys, you know, if you're over like four or fifty,
you know what I'm talking about. Man, it was nice. I got a CD player because CDs were all the rage back in the ladies, and now that I started my CD collection, that is how I do it. And you know what, I still have that unassembled set. It is gaining dust in my garage. I should sell my LP player because LPs are coming back. And that's about that, Debbie. This is how quickly technology changed
it. But that's what I did for my college graduation. So if anybody wants to re up and get me some new gear, you know how to get me here at the iHeartRadio station here in Houston. I saw this. Also, I'm a speaking the eighties, big eighties guy. I mean, I live in the eighties. My bump music is the eighties. I dress like the eighties, my hair's in the eighties. It's the greatest decade for me. It's just as simple as that. Movies were big. You remember
Home Alone? Of course, you remember Home Alone? Home Alone? Actually was that in the ninety I may have come out the nineties. Deadn't matter Home Alone? Sorry for that segue. The house that Home Alone was shot at in suburban Chicago is now for sale. Is now for sale. Did you see the price of this? Let me give you the price this, Who's Got Money? Five point twenty five million dollars five point twenty five million
dollars. It is nine thousand square feet. It was last sold twenty twelve for one and a half million dollars and I saw it on Zillo five plus million dollars. Is built in nineteen twenty one, five bedroom, six baths. The film was in nineteen ninety, but they shot in the eighties. There you go. Kevin McAllister ruined that does it even have a basement? I've e would you pay a premium on a movie house? It was upgraded in twenty eighteen, by the way, and looking at pictures over here,
it does not look like the house that was in. I don't see buzzes roam, I see the spider marks on the wall. I don't see any of that other stuff. It does look nice from the outside. Five and a half million bones. Well, I'm gonna ask you a better question. If you could have any fictional house, where would you like to live? Honestly, it's good. I think this is a good It's called an evergreen topic question here on the radio seven one three, two, one two,
five nine five. Any fictional ass that you've seen in TV or movies? Where would it be? I mean, I can go back to black and white days, the monsters. That's this crazy man, I freaking drag in in the basement. I remember vaguely Three Men in a Baby, remember that movie, and they lived in an apartment maybe in New York something that was a phenomenal apartment. That was the eighties Deathlay. I'm like, oh, ow cool man was that? Steve Guttenberg, Tom Selleck, I know there.
I think Leonard Nimoy directed them. Three Minute Baby. It was cool apartment. If I could pick any fictional house, it actually may be from a show that I've never seen, Beverly Hills nine o two one. Oh. I've never seen an episode of Beverly Hills nine O two one. Oh, But there is a Beverly Hills nine o two one house in southern California, and it is in between Hermosa Beach in Manhattan Beach, right on the water, right on the beach, right on the strand is what they call
it. Now. My son lives in Hermosa Beach, so I go to. I visit several times a year and I run. It's my favorite and as a runner at my favorite run in the country the United States is running from Hermosa maybe Rodondo Beach all the way up to Manhattan beach, Baby dough elsa gundo on the water. It's nice and cool. Man. You see
beautiful people, you see multi million dollar houses. Ohy way, there's a house right on the border of Hormosa and Manhattan Beach, and every time I passed, it's known as the Beverly Hills nine, a two to one to oh house. I don't know if it was the main house where the characters lived. Maybe it was one of the was there even a divorced parent. I don't even know. It is just the location is spectacular. It's got a nice size lawn. People stop and take pictures of it. It's kind
of a cool blue painted beach vibe. I just like that area. I would I would pick the Beverly Hills, not a two one o house. What do you got? I would not get the home alone house. What's it? What's the mortgage rate? Now? Hey? Nine percent? Five point two five million. That's a lot of scratch, people, It's a lot of scratch. There is your real estate news for today. Real estate brought to you by nobody. My real Estate's report each week is unsullied by
sponsorship. Since I started the show in two thousand and one. Michael Garfield. It is the high Tech Texan show. What else do I want to talk about? I was speaking of homes my neighbor across the street two days ago. I saw there's a lot of commotion. There was a lot of rock us in the Taka's happening there. There was trucks out in front. I've lived across the street from my neighbor for seven years. Nice couple, older couple, and we're in the Southwest suburb of Houston. They got a
whole home generator installed. They've lived here, they've probably lived in their house nine years. Why now it kind of I haven't talked to them yet, but it scared me. Do they know something I don't know? I mean, today starts hurricane season June first. Is there going to be a large number of hurricanes that we're going to lose power? I need to ask them how, because I really thought whole home generator and a whole home generator is
you got to have a compoy come install it. He goes on the side of your home, and then you got to have a line with gas. There could be a you know, a gasoline or oil generator. But if anytime your power goes out, which has happened quite frequently here in the Texas area the past few weeks. With storms, the whole home generator kicks in. I have three or four other neighbors who have whole home generators, and I am very lucky Knuckwood that my area, my subdivision where I live Howard,
does not go down a lot. It does not go down a lot, but once in a blue moon when it does, I hear these generators automatically kick in, and they're the only homes with lights on, and they're the only homes with the air conditioning. I will tell you this as we go to break. There are a few things in life that you don't want to own because you don't want to purchase and you don't want to upkeep them. You want friends who own them. Number one, you never want to
own a boat. You want a friend with a boat. Number two, you don't want want to own a private jit. You don't want to own an airplane. You want a friend with a private airplane. I have to put a whole home generator in there. I don't want to go to the expense of the upkeep of a whole home generator, but man, it's good to know some of my neighbors have them because if my power goes down, you know I'm coming knocking within about forty five seconds, I will stop there.
We'll come back. If I'm thinking of other if I get think of any other products, if you get think of any other products that you don't want to own, but it's nice to know someone who owns them. Talk to me here at the radio program. It is called the High Tech Text and Megal that's my name. Emails. Thank you people. Apparently you know you don't like Colin. I'm not going to hurt you. People. Feel free to call the radio. If not Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia. You can
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sometimes I still question why I am an Amazon Prime member. I don't order a lot of things through Amazon. And is that the only streamings that's the only streaming service. Well, it is a streaming service because one of the membership beneforts of Amazon Prime is you am Amazon Prime, is you get Prime. It's called it's a streaming service, and I got it. I got Amazon Prime. So wait to actually watch a streaming show. Years ago the
marvelous missus masl which is off. It's a repeats right now, but that's why I got it. And I still pay sixteen stupid dollars a month for something that I use. There's another perk, and the reason I talked about is another perk coming because I got that. And if you're an Amazon primember, you probably know this because I think they just email you Amazon Prime. If you remember, you now get free delivery on your grub Hub plus eligible
orders over twelve dollars if you order food. And this is not a big deal to me, well, you know, I listen. I know I'm old man yelling at the clouds, even though I'm not. I am not an order delivery restaurant guy, because how lazy do you have to be? It just when I for my life. The only thing that you order traditionally is a pizza. If you want a pizza, you would call pizza Hut, you would call pizza in. You got Dominoes, Now you go whoever.
That's the traditional We're going to order it and they're gonna deliver it. Other than that, man, if I want a burger, if I want something for restaurant, I get my butt in the car. Maybe I call it in to pick it up. Maybe I order it and wait. And nowadays it's like even my kids. I got three kids, the three boys during their twenties. Hey, you know, I'm gonna door dash it. I'm gonna rub it and then they add on this exorbited fee and then it
takes forever. Chase in point. Last weekend, Mammy, okay, weekend. I'm at some friend's house and it's kind of at night, and it was a long day, little in the sun, little cocktails, and someone was hungry and they wanted Popeyes Fried Chicken and they were too lazy to go get Popeyes Fried Chicken. And so I see the dude on his phone. He's punching some buttons. I said, what did you do? I just
ordered Popeyes Fried Chicken and old fashioned me. I'm like, oh, I didn't know Popeyes takes orders and they can deliver it to you or are you gonna pick it up? But the dude looks at me like I'm from freaking outer space, aren't you the high tech top? I said, yeah, he goes I it was door dash. I said, you ordered Popeyes on door to Oh yeah, man, it's gonna be here soon. I said, okay, we'll give you a time fry. Dude ordered it at eight
ten pm. Not using hyperbole here, and I guess you can monitor where your food is from an app or something. Everybody's kind of getting a little hungry. Everybody starts talking about the Popeye's biscuits, A little two piece little honey on there, fries price beans, eight thirty rolls around, eight forty rolls. Run it's gonna be here ten minutes. Man ten minutes, nine
o'clock rolls around, says it's going to be ten minutes. Car rolls up at nine to fifteen, over one hour after he orders it on door dash. I think it's gonna be ice cold here. There were there was nine people, I think, and I'm thinking, man, he ordered boxes. There's gonna be boxes of chickens. Man, there's gonna be some mashed potat trees, rice and beans, but it's gonna be some biscuits. I mean, it's gonna be like two three bags carried it. Guy goes to the
door, comes back in the living room. He has got one bag. I could see inside the sea through bag. It's a box of chicken, A bigger box of chicken and like two containers on top. I'm like, bro, how much did you order? How little did you order? He goes, Oh, I got like a twelve piece. It took an hour for all that, all that little to come. I asked how much it was. I don't even know, with or without debt. He tells me
eighty dollars. He paid eighty dollars for a I'm guessing to twelve piece box, a chicken, a container of rice and beans, and a container of mashed potatoes and some biscuits which I guess maybe was included or something. Eighty freaking bucks. Half of that had to go to the delivery service. And I say, this is why you do that? I digress. Grub up plus is a partner with Prime. If you live in the US and you pay your full Prime subscription for one hundred and thirty nine dollars, you're gonna
pay no fee for eligible grubbub of orders over twelve dollars. Woo awesome. Who's gonna do it? People? Stop being so frickin lazy. Restaurants don't make nearly as amount of much as money support Mama Shop, Pump Mama pop. Restaurants just go pick it up, man, go send your kid to pick it up. You can get it hot and you can actually out it. Maybe I'll throw in an extra back of Chips. I Digress coming up
one more hour, almost halfway to half hour. On the other side, T Mobile is they're gonna give you a better worse service because they acquired a other big cell company. I'll tell you what that is, and we bid I do. One of the very first messaging chat systems on the Internet is shutting down. Do you still have an account to stand by? I'll tell you what Dad is. On the High Tech Taxi Show is Michael Garfield of
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rum season and it's uh, it's always fun season. After twenty two years, we continue to do the show. I'll give you the number seven one three two one two five nine five oh. Number has not changed in all these years, twenty plus years we've been doing it. High tech texting, dot com, high tech text in at all of our mostly all not on TikTok. But if you went to the Instagram, should you not be
blocked? Twitter and Facebook, you can find me answer, you know, ask me some questions, and we were just talking about some fun stuff. Last hour. We hit a few things. If you have an iPhone seven, uh, first of all, get into the twenty first century people, but you may actually be ELI eligibles for some money. There was a lawsuit for the iPhone seven and you can get up to three hundred and fifty or so dollars. Go back and listen to my first hour on the podcast,
which is coming up soon. Uh, here's something new. Also, how much do you how much do you pay for your cell service or data service? If you have a service from the Big three or the Big four At and T, Verizon, T Mobile, it may not be that cheap. There are cheaper ways, relatively inexpensive ways to get sell service. But we got a little buy out over here. Got some news that could drive up
the prices because the Big four maybe the Big three right now. The news is T Mobile has acquired US Cellular for about four and a half billion dollars, and that means T Mobile is going to own all of US cellular stores, some of its spectrum assets, and a lot of its customers. And that's pretty big now. US Cellular, they may not have a mass that presence here in the Texas area, but you know, you may not have come from Texas. And then really at some points places it doesn't matter where
you live. If you find a good deal, get a good deal. The whole deal' is supposed to be done by mid twenty twenty five, the whole regulatory approval thing. But it's pretty big. I mean, I obviously I study the industry. Team Mobile is gonna walk away with HASH about thirty percent of US Cellular's wireless spectrum, which they hope to use to improve coverage in rural areas because you know T Mobile for a long time. For me, it's you start traveling out and obviously Texas is so big and you're on
these little two lane highways. It's you may not have service US Cellular. They may have better service out there. It's just if you look at a map, where are the quote unquote dead spots that cellular companies have. Well, in many cases it makes sense to hell just buy out or merge with a company where they have sell spots versus creating, launching, building and installing new cell towers of your own. So current customers of your US you're gonna
be able to keep your plans. You're going to switch to a similar T Mobile contract. But this is just the latest consolidation moved by T Mobile. Last year they acquired Mint Mobile, and I know very well Mint I in T Mobile because that's the cell service that I use. And this is not an endorsement for it, but I understand, I understand, and I try to help you save money for a product that is in the ether. You don't see it, you explore once it listen. You know, we could
talk about Apple, we could talk about Android. Those are physical products that people are so accustomed to. There's Apple fanboys, there's and Android people and whatever. Those are physical products that you buy and you use. But when it comes to the data plan the cell service pan, a lot of people say, doesn't matter. I just want something relative expensive. Does it have a family pan? How many gigs do you get a month? Why look at that? And about two years ago I started looking at m v n
O. They're what it is, it's a mobile virtual network operator. These are marketing companies And I want you to think about it this. If you understand in Texas, when you choose a energy company, odds, well, you're not using center Point. But if you're in the Houston area, you're using Centerpoint. Centerpoint is the provider who's just going to be pumping that electricity,
but you're really not contracting through them. You're getting one of many, many, many, many companies from NRG to whatever and their mom and pops. What they're doing is they're just buying energy per minute kill Watson, and they're reselling it and marketing to you. How much can you say that's the same thing of what MVNOs do. Multiple mobile virtual network operators Mint Mobile has
long bought time on T mobiles network. But mint Mobile, which actually used to be owned or thinks backed by Ryan Reynolds, the act or ee, is hilarious. He does a lot of the marketing. They had a service fifteen dollars a month, and I'm sorry, that's a hell of a lot more. That's all a lot cheaper than T mobile or anything else is gonna give you. So I said screw it, and I had no issue for two years. I pay at this moment fifteen dollars a month. T Mobile
says, screw it. There are so many people using mint Mobile and they're using a network, we'll just buy it. You go back T Mobile merge with Split in twenty twenty twenty. I mean it's they're like pag man, they're just eating up the dots and small, small carriers. So just a little update for some reason you want to talk about this. There are a ton of MVNO's. If you like the Verizon network, there are several like Boost Wireless. I mean it's you know Virgin. I mean, look at
Exfinity. Don't think they have an Exfinity mobile. They're not in the business of setting up towers. They're they're purchasing and reselling and remarketing. That is what an mv NO is. There you do, I do your research. If you have a specific one you want me to talk about, that's what I do. So there's your update for what's going on in the data space. Sponsored by No One Unsullied. Since we've started this show back in two thousand and one, Michael's here. We're going to take a break. When
don't we come back? So much more, including one of the original chat messaging services, is about to end. Do you still use chat? Man? We're gonna put on our way back machine and go back when the Internet was just starting and who was a long time ago, right here in the old High Tech text Show. Appenerally, a lot of you people are very interested in saying what your cell service plan? Always blogg over my mind. How come I do not endorse a cell phone service? I really don't.
I will going back. Verizon Wireless was my first title sponsor. I think title sponsored the show. Gosh, what was that about? Eighteen years ago? It was the High Tech Texting Show brought to you by Verizon Wireless, and then whatever. But then you know, all these companies started merging and
then there was a price war whatever like that. And so obviously I talk a lot about phones the hardware, but you really can't discount the fact that phones or bricks, they're nothing unless you have data and you have cell services. So do your shopping. I do my shopping. And I just I just mentioned T Mobile is acquiring US Cellular. That's really a T Mobile has really done. They've done a really smart job of acquiring smaller services and merging.
Obviously sprinting a few years ago, making their footprint larger. But how about the cost. And cost is big. So take a look into what I cut. What are called m vno's, which are mobile virtual network operators. These are the small wins like Mint Mobile, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Exfinity. These are smaller. Sometimes they can save you money, but you got to look at the plans. But that's what I'm here for. Michael is a name. Got any graduation ideas or opportunities you need me to
throw out some ideas. I am here for you. How far do you go back with the internet? How far do you remember your first email address? Do you remember your first ISP? Even before that, do you remember getting on the internet before there was really email was a big thing, and it was just a kind of a BBS, a bulleted board service or a chat service. I want you to go back, and I want you to think late nineties, early two thousands there was a very popular messaging app and
that lasted. It lasted a short period in the nineties, early oughts. It it was from Russia and it was called, and it still is to this minute, called I see Q three letters I c Q. Well, believe it or not, it's still around. I don't know how many users. To find out how many there's not a lot of users. Well, we are soon going to be sitting Shiva for this thing, because it is going to stop working on June twenty sixth. It's going to join the other
apps and software of old and the great big farm in the sky. People. It's encouraging users to move to other messaging systems. One is which is called VK Messenger for casual chats VK Workspace for professional conversations. I'm gonna take you, uncle, Garfy's going to take you back over here. I see Q came into the picture at the time when most people were using i RC
to chat, and IRC was mostly meant for group conversations. I see Q comes in and it made it easy to communicate one on one, and users who signed up for account got a signed a number that grew longer as it went on. Wasn't an email address, it was a number. The longer you use, the later you signed on, the longer than because it was sequential. I think the shortest numbers had five digits, which means I mean users who got them were quick. They were there at the very beginning.
At some point yearly two thousand, it reached one hundred million registered accounts, and then guess what comes along aim AOL messenger. Man, I'm throwing I'm going old school Yahoo Messenger MSN from Microsoft Messenger MSN Messenger and that it just eclipsed everything in popularity and those are bygone times. And by the way,
a little trivia. Anybody know we're the name of the company I se Q derived its name from well, originally was developed an Israeli company, but I the letters I CEQ derived from the phrase I seek you I S E E K Why are you? I seek you? It was purchased by AOL then it was bought by a Russian company. It's now that Russian company still there. It's called VK, which is why it's pushing its own services. Who
did this? Man? Let's let's I would tell you to send me an ICQ message if you still have it, but that is long gone for me, long gone for me, and I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my thought. Yet obviously I get asked regularly to extrapolate on the future of technology of communication. What's going to become of email addresses, what's going to become of phone numbers? I mean, we know that the way we consume television has
drastically changed from over the year antennas to cable and satellite. Now it's internet streaming. It's a different beast and I don't know when this is gonna happen, but this is my take. When it comes to using phones. We now know landline phones are antiquated. I'm not saying they're a thing of the past. My parents and Dallas still have their landline phone and you laugh.
I still do recommend landline phones. If you live in an area that is prone to flooding, prone to power loss, and I'm looking at you, and I'm talking to you right now, Southeast Texas. I'm looking at you at Galveston. I'm looking at you all the way up the I forty five corridor. For some reason, you were prone to flooding and your power goes down, which in some cases cell phone sites go down. There is maybe one form of communication still out there. It is an old fashioned pots phone
line pots pots plane old telephone service. It is the copper wire that, depending on when your house was built, that was built into your own that you can plug a phone into now to be sure if you still have a phone line. And for you, I'm absolutely not making fun of you because you may be my lifelote and your family's lifeline. Do yourself, favorite do not have a cordless electrical phone that you need a publican to electricity for the phone to work. I mean, go to Amazon, go to radio shack
or somewhere. Man, get an old Prince's phone, a rotary phone, plug it in. You need to got a phone that does not need electricity. I'll tell you what those old copper lines. Thank you. Alexander Graham freaking bellman. Dude knew what he was doing, and they do stand the test of todd. So many of us have cell phones right now, but how many of us don't even pick up the phone. How many of us text? Now? Yes, we text because we reach other via those ten
digits we're signed. We don't know ow it. Our cell phone numbers we do not own. They are actually assigned and own for lack of better termed Buy your cell or data plan company, Verizon, Mintmobile, d Mobile, whoever it is. You page month, you get to keep your number. I've had my cell phone number for twenty years. That's only the number that my kids that a generation now use. They can keep that forever. But think about it. We are on social media. We are on Instagram,
we are on Facebook, we are on TikTok we're on WhatsApp. We don't have phone numbers for though we have our names or our user names, and you can use the chat feature, the video chat feature, or even the audio calling lack of a better term feature on there to contact someone my looking glass. You can quote me this from the high tech text. At some point phone numbers will become obsolete. We are going to be using another service, may not be one. Maybe said well that utilizes and let's this connect
just by clicking a button on their name or photo. If you look for me on Instagram, if we're friends, if we're friends on Facebook, it takes one click to hit the call button or hit the video button to attempt to call me and then video chat with me. No phone number needed to me. That's an next iteration. Can't tell you when that's gonna happen, can't tell you if that's gonna happen. It's gonna be a slow boat, just like the slow boat for over the air to digital TV, to internet
streaming to whatever. But that's my thought, but very soon. June twenty sixth Rest in peace, ICQ. And by the way, it's a little bonus. Here's a bonus contest. Time look at me, listen to look at me. Do it a little tune for here. If for some reason you still have an AOL email at aol dot com. The first email that I get from an AOL dot com email address right now, you're gonna win a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's Great Burritos, four locations across
Houston. We spoke with the older last week Burrito's Tacos. Everything you need to send the email go do. Go to Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Email me, but I'm checking your address. The first at AoE at AOL to say, man, I still am old school? Do I win the Cabo Bob's gift card? Something like that? Send it to Michael at my c H A. E. L. Garfield like the cat at iHeartMedia dot com contest is right there. All right, great day. When we
come back, we're gonnaee my thumb. We can out at him of the hour. We start that with a big shout out on long time partners Campbell's compounding pharmacy. I've been reading a lot about compounding pharmacies, especially now that people trying to get medications that are very expensive maybe you don't have you know, a certain type of insurance or something. In many cases, it's a lot cheaper to have it compounded through one of these local compounding pharmacies Campbell's Compounding
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I used to do this for my They used to make bubblegum flavor medicine, so it would you know my kids could swallow better back in the day. That's a needs compounding pharmacy. So Campbell's c A MP B E L L S campbell'scompounding dot com. As we continue less than thirty minutes of more of this show, first show of June twenty twenty four. Ooh, it's hot man, it's nasty, hut and I hope you're at the pool doing something. By the way, we do have somebody still has an Aol account if
you just tuned in. We had a little fun little contest the first person who emailed me with an a from an Aol dot com email address. You guys, you just want a gift card from Cabo Bob's. Cabo Bobs, Oh beautiful, make your own burritos and tacos case at Diaz. I hit the one Stafford Texas. There's one near the Galleria. Uh, there's also one at Cyprus and one on Katie, Texas. They're out of Austin. They are good and they are big awesome, so we do thank them for
that. But whoever wanted and I'm looking at this email address, listen, I promise not to give you crap. Hey, listen, man, Old habits are hard to die. You don't want to give up your AOL dot com. If you an a if you get an email. First of all, when you get an email, and you usually have an email client,
maybe it's Microsoft Outlook. Generally the name pops up. If I send you an email and you have micro so you're gonna see an email from Michael Garfield, You're really not going to see it's Michael at high Tech textan dot com, Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Look how many people look at the actual email address? And a lot of times if it's your business address, it's ad company dot com. Yes, there's Gmail dot com. I got one of those. There's Yahoo, there's like hos let's go back. But
so about AOL? I just I take a pause, man, I'm like, how old is this person? How lazy is this person? How old school is this person? I don't want to change my email address, get it. People don't want to change their phone numbers. I mean, my parents and I talked about this last segment. My parents still have a landline. My parents still have the same phone number since nightteen seventy two or seventy three. I am not getting you fifty plus years. You need people call
our usual right now. My parents have cell phones, but changing an email address is tough, so good for you. I'm not making fun of you. I know still people who have fought that are I used to get people, said Michael, I's still my flip phone, which is not a bad thing because flip bones and both bones actually now are coming back. There's many of them on the market. But oh no, no, no, I really have the old motor rule of star attack flip phone. I'm not hating
man, I mean, dude, I am og. Maybe I'll go I'll go back when you know, you know ipe still, I remember the landline. I remember my the coolest thing ever. If you were a teenager, you would get your own phone line in your room. That was it. Baby. Nowadays you know you got kids who were like seven years old, six years old. Can I go my O cull phone? Dude, if you know you're lucky, you know you're thirteen fourteen years old, your parents
sprung for a your own number and we didn't have aria goods then. I remember my seven digit phone in Dallas and it was not eight six seven five three oh nine. No, no, no, but it was it was seven digit. I remember my friends seven digit before area goes we had to man were mandated. Oh those at the time. Maybe if you're under thirty year scratcher, What is this dude talking about? That's all right, we still tied. I can still tell you know, if I can go Drake
versus Kendrick right now, you know, I'm up with the times. People don't worry about it. Seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. Notice that's ten digits right now. And it's actually a landline that you would have to call in and Calum, you'd have to pick up that landld Callum actually sitting by a phone. We're just connected to the wall and a switchboard, not a cell phone. So those those still do exist. By the way, has anybody seen a drone deliver a product? You know,
we hear about drone deliveries. Amazon is testing this and companies and just made me think of it, because Amazon, it does have is experimenting with drone deliveries and you have to get FAA approval. You've get it. Used to be the line of sight, I mean your home, your business had to be within a line of sight of a distributor for Amazon, whereas a drone, it takes off and it's slowly dowers the package down into your backyard or parking lot. But it had to be within obviously pretty quick, pretty
close line of sight. And I saw that Amazon is getting FAA approval the fly its drones farther. And yes, Amazon has drones. It it's got its own division. It's called Prime Air. With all due respect and maybe a loss from Michael Jordan, Amazon Prime Air drones, and the FAA's granted Amazon permission to operate package delivery drones beyond the visual line of sight, which is obviously farther than a human can see. If you want me to spell
it out, it's a pretty big milestone. Amazon has had a long running ambition to deliver products to customers within thirty minutes, and you could do it. Amazon is set to try this out. And this the reason I talk about it in College Station, Texas, which I believe you were in our range of KPRC nine to fifty. Shout out to the college station. Non Aggie's in college station. Love you guys, listen to me. I am as serious. Has anyone seen a drone just fly to your next door neighbor,
fly somewhere drop a deliver package. I want you to call me out. I just I want the experiment. It's like it's like a UFO because it's so new. I laugh. And you can actually bookmark this show that I'm doing on the first of June twenty twenty four, because it could be a year, it could be ten years right now where this is going to
be a very single minute of the day. We see Amazon trucks all over the time in the two hours of this show, and I can look outside of the window here in the studio, I could probably count probably forty or fifty even on a Saturday Amazon trucks rolling by, and UPS trucks and FedEx trucks. Look at I don't see a drone out there rolling in with the package. It could be non stop. It could be ever present years from right now, but it's rare right now. Seven three, two two five
nine five. Oh, talk to me? Have you seen what? Did it? Freak you out? I have my issues and qualms about this thing. I mean, they better get their processes correct, and I know GPS helps, and there's something that's not going to be able to do it. I'd like to order a quart of half gallon of Bluebelt ice cream here in mid June, and I would like a drone to get that to me within thirty minutes. Yeah, that's gonna work out well. At that point,
it's going to be a shake, a melted milkshake. And obviously there's so there's only X many pounds right now that a relatively small or light drone can carry. What if it rains. I'm more worried about what if it delivers it to the wrong address. I mean, if it's supposed to land in my backyard and the GPS just happens to be off and I'm getting something, you know, got a secret of a special that I you know, the only reason I'm ordering it. I'm not walking ahead do it atb I'm doing
it onlines, and no one sees what it is. And all of a sudden, my neighbor gets It's like, hello, don't want that. But they are testing this primere in it's a city in Arizona, and apparently it's gonna be somewhere in College Station. So I don't know if we're ready for that technology. But you you talk to me if and when you see one. Now let me know the final segment coming up, and I'm gonna talk a little or a lot about cars. You know when I do I get
to drive cars and trucks all the time. It's not a sponsored thing. I'm gonna rag on a few, I'm gonna love on a few, and also take a guess. I'm gonna give you about three minutes. What do you think is the most stolen car in the country, most stolen car? Lock to me, think about it. Coming back. Final segment of the High pntexon show. Good News, Bad News, Final segment, Final eater. Nine minutes of this show. I know you had so much fun.
Good show. By the way, Callum, I don't know. You know, I had a little energy Energy drink beforehand, kind of pepped up you like a good show. Thank you for hitting all the right buttons and keeping us on air twenty two years we've been doing this. Thanks also the guys who's sitting in the carpeted offices here at iHeartMedia Houston, Eddie Martini, Brian Erickson, Mark Sherman. For some reason, they keep me rolling, they
keep me on. Apparently they can't find anything else to counter program. Don't get any idea, guys, dump get any ideas and thanks, it's your listening on iHeartRadio app all over the country. Covered a lot of stuff. Certainly it's not just technology. At some point I probably should change the show's name, but it's the high tech text show. It's consumer lifestyle. Gave you some I think a good few ideas for graduation, a few cocktail recipes.
We're to travel this summer, and what to drive? Actually speaking or driving. I do get the opportunit to test drive a lot of cars and trucks. I'm a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association, and for fifteen years I get to meet the manufacturers. I do not deal with dealerships. I'm not sponsored or sullied by any sponsorship by dealerships. I can rag on cars, I can love on cars. I get to test drive at least once, if not two times. It's not sometimes three per given week.
I just got out of a actually it was really nice. It was a Kia. Well, no, no, what was am I talking about? It was? Yeah, it was a Sorrente. Kia's Sorrento, which is a very really nice car which handles well. It's a good price, don't sleep. Don't don't sleep on South Korean manufactured cars. I think Genesis does a great job. By by the way, I just this week getting a Genesis G seventy. A G seventy not an electric one, but it's pretty cool and I love it. Saedan, I think Genesis are doing a great
jobs. I wanted to talk about stolen cars though I saw this. I saw a report. I guess I will give you credit. I'm supposed to talk about this. I saw a report of the list of the top ten most stolen cars in the country, and this is from I'm actually going to give you this thing most stolen up the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Okay, I kind of do to trust these guys. Used to be pickup trucks, full sized pickup trucks used to be the most stolen vehicles. Now it's become
cars a little bit more. Any gases, any guesses. It's funny because I talk about South Korean cars, which are really good, well made vehicles. Six out of the top ten spots are made by Hyundai in Kia. Oops, South Korean cars number one most stolen vehicle in twenty twenty three. The Hyundai Elantra number two, the Hyundai Sonata number three, the Kia Optima, and for those of you who owned these vehicles, no, I'm not giving you some really good news and good news. You better get some anti
theft. You better lock these things up in the garage. You better have something on them. Coumbing it. At number four, we're back to the pickup trucks, the Chevy Silverado fifteen hundred. A lot of people like stealing those. We then to go to the Kia Soul at five, the Honda Accord, the Honda Civic, the Kia Forte, the Ford F one fifty Hiccup at number nine, and then the Kia Sportage. So pretty much we've got eight of the top ten are domestic. Everything else is it's a little
foreign. And here's the reason, well, at least for Hyundai and Kia. The rise in Hyundai and Kia thefts probably stems from a social media trend, which is it needs to go away and it is kind of fading.
That used to be called something called the Kia Boys Challenge Boyz Kia Boys, and it showed TikTok users how to steal these vehicles, which is a USB drive Lunday went in a big anti theft campaign and the ease of stealing older Hyundais and Kyas it's it's it's going to continue to play owners and auto insurancers from the insurance from for some time. I understand that. But bottom line, twenty twenty three saw another record year for car thefts. Over one million
vehicles have been stolen nationwide. I mean the trend may be slowing down, but Key and Hundai owners, you really want to consider stronger security security measures. And I speak from experience. Two of my three kids, I don't know two of the top ten most stolen cars, one of which was broken into and my son in Austin three or four months ago. It wasn't stolen, but it was attempting because I think it's he has a Hyundai, and
Hyundai has an upgrade and I think they do this for free too. They all have an upgrade in the software that does not allow this Key of boys kicktock thing to do anything with the USB, so they thought it was an older model, older software. Broke the window, try to hit the steering mottle conal, try to hijacket or hot wire with the USB, and it didn't work. Because he did get down Hyundai free software upgrade. I do recommend you guys doing the same. See this is what you learned here on
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