Apple's Refund Settlement; Tech To Protect Your Home; New Reviews!

• Are you eligible for Apple's $500m refund settlement?

• Tech to protect your home from natural disasters (hurricanes, wildfires)

• Reviews: Samsung Watch 6 Classic, Lexus 350NX, Buick Encore

Episode Transcript

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Hi Texan is Michael Garfield. MichaelGarfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high tech
Texan. Michael Garfiel is here witha high tech texta items to make life
easier technology. So Michael Garfield hassomething you might like. Texan. Michael

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Garfield is your high tech Texan.Three decades hoping you make magic with your
gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadioAct. Now your high tech Texan.
Michael Garfield. Another Saturday, halfwaythrough August, which meets it's halfway through

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this hot, nasty, nasty monthof August. Maybe the hottest July on
record. Let's just screw that,Let's just go for the hottest August on
record. Why not? But itis always cool here on nine fifty eight
KPRC. That's terrestrially here in Houston. No matter where you are, no
matter how you are listening, beat Diheart Radio, be at a podcast,

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you name it. I am herefor the next two hours. We've
got a lot of energy, alot of a lot of iced tea,
and a lot of coke zero flowingthrough the veins. And so as we
always say, I packed three hoursinto a two hour show, we do
have a number of things to yapabout along with your phone calls, because
this is a talk show. Thisis a talk station, all Texas,

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all talk, all high tech textsin these next two hours. Seven one
three two one two five nine fivezero. That is the phone number where
you can get to callum. Hello, callum sir. Put them through to
me and we'll see what's going on, including back to school. A lot
of people. I found out thatEuston Hi s d You kids don't go

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back to school for another week orso, week and a half or so.
There's a lot of outlying school.Say if we're Bend, or if
you're down near Galveston, Friendswood orwhatever like that, I'll tell you what's
going on. You're back in school, sucks for you. Should you need
any type of back to school supply, you need laptops, you need watches,

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you need tablets, you need Ipotentially could be your guy, because
I am going to talk about anumber of things. I got another Samsung
review unit this past week. Asyou know, for the past month it's
kind of been Samsung story. AsI was in Soul, South Korea late
July for the big Samsung press conference, where I saw the unveiling of the
Flip five, the Fold five.I got the Watt one of the watches

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and the new tablet. Well,I actually got another watch. I got
the Samsung Watch six Classics. Sonow I have the Classic along with the
regular Watch six. This is brandnew. They're nice folks at eight T
and T. Well, we're niceenough to let me try one of the
Watch six Classics. I like thisbeing I'm just gonna kind of bury the

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lead right now. It's because thebezel, the bezel, which is the
outside ring on a watch face.The Samsung has has returned the rotating bezel
on the Watch six Classic, notthe regular Watch six they just released.
But the Classic runs anywhere between threeclose to three hundred, three hundred and
fifty dollars. But I love therotating bezel, which they had on some

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previous versions, because it's an easyway to move between screen to screen,
so you can see your notifications,your messages, your heart rate, and
have you. I'll get to thefull review on that later. I will
tell you that if you do havean iPhone and you had an issue with
an iPhone back in the day aboutslowing down, there is a payout apple
Is has to pay out with afive hundred million dollars iPhone settlement. I'll

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let you know if you are eligibleto get some money. If you've been
following what's going on in Maui.Man, it is just a horrific tragedy
with the wildfires going on. AndI say this is we were just getting
into this really really dangerous part ofhurricane season here and in Southeast Texas and
along the Gulf Coast. Got someinformation on how to protect your homes from

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natural disasters. I'm gonna use technologyproducts because we do smart homes and all
of us do have something in ourhome that's hopefully smart other than your wife
or your kids. I will tellyou some things to help your protective and
also we'll do the typical car reviews. I was in not one but two
vehicles last week. I will giveyou my unpaid for just thoughts topped to

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bottom on the new puck Encore cutelittle buck Encore and the Lexus three fifty
nat it is a hybrid. I'vebeen test driving those. That's what I
do because I cover the car industryso much. Other than that, I
am here for you. Where dowe start? It's got three emails Michael,
I remember that iPhone slowdown? What'sthe deal man? How do I

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actually get some money? All right, let's let's get to this real quick.
For the for the break. Itwas years after a lawsuit that alleged
Apple was adding software that slowed downolder iPhones. Do you remember this?
There was about twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, and Apple now has agreed to pay

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a settlement of hundreds of millions ofdollars. It was December twenty seventeenth through
June eighteenth, about a six sevenmonth period. There were sixty six class
action lawsuits that were filed against Applealleging this issue, including that Apple deliberately
slowed down battery performance of older iPhoneswith the latest iOS updates. So there

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was a It was a twenty seventeenletter to consumers. Apple apologized for slowing
down the older iPhones. And Iguess the point is, as they wanted
you to buy a new iPhone,you mean humpany you? So anyway,
they said in a letter that thesoftware update from twenty sixteen may have had
some users experience longer launch time forapps and other reductions and performance. Unquote

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all right, here's what's going on. Payments now. They're going to be
distributed to people who filed claims beforethe October twenty twenty deadline. And you
owned somewhere in the range of aniPhone six or a six plus or an
iPhone seven or a seven plus.About three million people filed and they were

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approved, and you're expected remember it'sa five hundred million dollars settlement. If
you filed, you're expected payments aroundsixty five bones. Absolutely worth your time
to do that, Absolutely worth yourtime. Can you imagine a company,
a technology company, doing something alittle twisted to actually control you, control

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us as people and humans, inorder to get you to maybe buy a
new version to something. Ah huh, I can't believe it. Can't believe
it went away. That's that iswhat's going now and happen. I'd like
to if you you know what,it's been five years, it's been five
plus years, if you even rememberfiling, I'd love to hear from you

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and tell me what you're gonna dowith the sixty five dollars. Yeah,
let's go out for some drinks.Let's go for two drinks. Phone number
is seven one three two one twofive nine five. Oh, I'm Michael
Garfield. This is the whole KPORCHigh Tech Texting Team. If you're listening
on iHeartRadio, thank you so muchfor downloading it. When we come back,
I am going to talk a littlebit back to school. I'll talk

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to you about these new watches.Should you want a smart watch? Should
your kids want a smart watch?Of going back to school? And also
how to protect your home in anatural disaster. I do know here the
Gulf Coast that I've been living infor thirty plus years, and I mean
there's so many of my listeners who'vebeen living here a lot longer, for
generations and generations. I know it'shurricane warning. Do you have your water?
Do you have your battery backups?But there are other technological ways to

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actually protect yourself. You see,this is what I do. I give
you the inside, fun information easyto understand. When we come back on
the High Tech text and show Hello, Hello, No, it is mister
Bigale Garth build that not nearly lunchtime? Should you be listening live Sinday

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just after I don't know about whateleven twenty a m. Central time?
I mean, you know, listen, you're probably just waking up. Maybe
it is lunch time for you.Standby because we do have some giveaways for
you. Because this is what wedo on the air. You don't give
nothing away. Ain't nobody going tobe listening, even though you should,
because I got some good information foryou. Fifty dollars gift card to Johnny

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Benny Hanna hundred dollars gift card comingup. I just ate at Benny hannam
last earlier this week, my parentswere in town celebrating their sixtieth anniversary.

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Muzzle toop raise your hand out there. If you could tell me you've done
anything for sixty years, much lessstay married. Don't even ask me how
my parents have done that point.As my parents were in town, some
kids in town too, relatives,and we had a little surprise going on
over at Benny Hannah and it's it'sit's dang man. The food is good.

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I forgot how fun it is,and they still do the little volcano
choo choo choo choo choo, thefake catchup. But man to shrimp the
lobster to beat by day. Anyway, I just I took everybody out and
surprised him. My parents over there. So anyway, they offered to give
me a hundred dollars gift card togive away. So you know what I'm
gonna do it. I will tellyou when to call in, But not
yet. I do have some moreimportant information other than giving away free things

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all least, I think it's youget has anybody even following the wildfires out
in Maui? It's just disaster andthey these believe it or not, these
these wildfires that could be the deadliestin modern US history. Not the natural

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not not the biggest natural disaster,but the wildfires itself. Natural disasters are
aren't an uncommon incurrents. If youfollow what I'm saying over here, the
number and cost of weather and climatedisasters, it continues to rise. And
that's according to Noah, the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It's due to

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climate change and in our population growth. It's it's a simple zet fact for
here's some facts that's ideal. Infacts Facts twenty twenty two, eighteen natural
disasters in the US cause more thanone billion dollars in damages each. It
was three hurricanes, two tornadoes,some extreme storms, some wildfires, and

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some drought. Who that's a lotof money, man, is this is
where our insurance is rising? Imean, we may feel hopeless. What
are we supposed to do? SoI am here to tell you your home
you're smart home can actually help protectyou. Now you're probably wondering, garth,
how do I make sure my houseis safe from fire in fuego?

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Well? Number one, As ahomeowner, you need to conduct a home
assessment to see what changes could makea big diff in reducing your home's risk
from wildfire. And there's websites andthere's apps with checklists that can help.
Feel free to google it. Butgeneral fire prevention tips and I'm gonna go
back to my boy scout days.Seriously, you know, regularly clean your

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roof surfaces, your gutters, makesure your chimney is inspected annually. Look
at your vegetation around the house,say make sure it's non combustible. Keep
them several feet from your home,keep any power lines near your home clear
of tree limbs, you know,things like that. It's yes, ideal

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in common sense. But you talkabout tech stuff. Let's talk about some
technology for fire prevention in the home. Yes, they're smoke alarms. They're
getting more advanced. Some of thenew ones. They can give you notice
of fire, smoke, carbon bnoxidepoisoning. You got storm related outages that

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they can increase the odds of ahouse fire or even carbon monoxide poisoning.
Because there's generators, there's a numberof people who have these whole home generators
die. I have at least twoto three neighbors right around me who've got
whole home generators. And you knowone honestly, one of the best things
is if your neighbors have a wholehome generator and you don't, because you're
gonna, say, have a lotof money, and if your power goes

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out, hopefully your neighbors are gonnalet you inside their air conditioning. Battery
based generators probably are a safer betcompared to gas based ones because a lot
of these new generators, maybe thegenerac ones, and again I don't want
to you know, call singular brandout. You know, they're they're based
on you know gas that you youknow, you just have to run a

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gas line, you know, youknow to the home. So, but
the batteries obviously are a little bitmore safer. Hurricane is big here.
How do you protect your house fromflooding during a hurricane. Well, there's
a number of different steps. Andif you're in the Houston, or if
you're in the Gulf Coast, andI have listeners all across the Gulf Coast,
you better listen up. Here's yourgoal. You know what the goal

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is. The goal is to keepwater from entering your home. So this
isn't a technological thing. But secureyour roof, shingles, your check your
gutters, your down spouts, foryour proper drainage. You want to seal
all the openings and your cracks andyour holes. And when you're building,
would you use water Please use waterresistant building materials. If you're renovating,

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use water resistant building materials, especiallybelow ground on level. For for for
all of you with no basements,and there's probably hardly a basement here in
my list, my terrestrial listening audience, this is tough to have a basement
in the state of taxes. Andby the way, everybody living up and
down you know by the brais byyou the braswood. I'm talking to you.
Make sure there's weather production seedlans around, you know, the lower floor,

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ground windows. But technology wise,there are a few products that can
help warn you, and I'm gonnasay warn you a flood damage. Little
tiny sensors you could place around yourhome that detects moisture and it notifies you
through an app or announcing a problemon a smart speaker. And I have
I actually have a few of these, and I'm not listen. I'm yes,

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everybody should be worried about damage water, hurricane coming in, but also
what happens if you're sink or fosteror toilet starts leaking overflowing. This is
where I put my sensors. DLink makes a d Link it's big company
too. They make a water sensorabout eighty bucks kid kit k DDE kitty.
They make a water in leak freezeto detector. I have one,

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and what it does is it wildlysinks to your WiFi at home and I
actually get an alert every time myWiFi goes down, I get an alert
that it's actually good because it letsme know that my WiFi is down and
they'll say water sensor is offline orwater sensor has detected a leak. So
sometimes they're not true, but atleast I know, like, oh,
I better check what's going on.And if I'm out of town. And

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because I do have cameras in myhome on each of my floors, if
I do get one of these alerts, it's like, oh, something's wrong
with my water sensor. I immediatelylog onto my camera and I zoom in.
I'm like, oh my gosh,goodness, do I see water on
the ground? And luckily I havenot yet. But I'm gonna tell you
again, the Wi Fi connected sensors, they can't stop the water from causing

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bad, costly problems in your home, but they can quickly notify you to
the issue, which could mitigate thedamage. So again, a few tech
tips that we need to do interms of disasters or natural disasters. I
mean, yes, every what isit? What may first? Actually June
first, when hurricane season starts,and I'll do my typical I go on

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TV and I'll do my radio stuff. Make sure you always have bottle water
and your can. Oh, yourmanual, can openers, make sure you
have battery backups, make sure youhave you know a number of different apps,
and your your cansa tuna, andanything else you need. But there
are tech you know tech things too. And when I'm away also, I

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do know that I'm you know,if my WiFi goes down, that means
I can't get my cameras, andI check those. I mean, I
know that, hey, Houston's havingsome bad weather, so I will I
will gradually log in to make surethat the power is stilling on my home
because if my cameras, I can'taccess my cameras, I know my WiFi
is down, the electricities probably down. Then I'll call a neighbor and go
check it. So a few tips, certainly not a laughing matter. And

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when it comes to what's going onin Maui or anywhere else, it's just
again, I'm an eagle Scout.Be prepared. That is the motto of
the Boy Scouts, and that's whatI try to do, folks, Be
prepared. I got ninety more minutesof yapping over here. Michael Garfield.
It is the High Tech Text,and show bottom of this first hour of

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the High Tech Text and show hopeboas well. We're about what but twenty
minutes away? What do you say? Callum? We'll give away one of
the beautiful restaurant gift cards, theJohnny Tomali's out of Missouri City, maybe
to one of the Benny Hannas.We'll do it as we get closer to
lunch time. Should you be listeninglive right now on KPRC nine fifty am,
or if you're at iHeart Radio theUS back to school stuff if you

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have it, I'm getting some emailsover here. By the way, if
you want to email me because you'retoo shy to call, suck it up,
people, I'm a nice guy.I'm not gonna hurt you, and
I don't I don't yell at you. No, no, no, you
can email me. Go Michael Garfieldat iHeartMedia dot com. You can check
me out at high Tech Text andon a lot of the social media platforms.
Some back to school stuff, especiallyfor kids going back to back to

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college. If you're going back tocollege, or if your kids go back
to college, what did you Theyshould be probably almost there and moved in.
By the way, I say alot of my friends on Facebook and
they're getting for clam because they alreadyshipped their kids off to school and their
picture of their dorm rooms in therein the sorority and they've got the matching

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comforters and everything. What other piecesof technology did you get them? I
remember I did I have it?We did? Maybe we had a TV.
They certainly weren't high definition. Inmy dorm room. When I went
to ut in Austin, I hadan alarm clock. It literally was a
clock radio, which, by theway, I still have the same thing.

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My oldest piece of technology is myclock radio that I've now had for
forty oh it's coming up on fortyyears. Coming up on forty years.
I probably this week, my goodjust four decades. Should have a birthday
party for that thing. What Ialways like asking this, it's the oldest
piece of technology you have in yourhouse. Think about it. I'd love

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you to go go zeep me orgo thread me at high tech tech and
oldest piece of technology you may stillhave. Listen if your mind listen.
Generations now they don't have alarm clocks. They have phones. They set the
alarms in the phones. But alot of people still have alarm clocks.
I still like turning over and lookingto see what time it is. That's

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old school stuff. I know,what's your what's your oldest piece of technology
or maybe electronic that you have inyour house. Talk to me here going
back to TVs. And I saythis because I saw what Samsung announced this
little pet. I wish this wasaround when I was in school. Samsung
to earlier this week they announced apre order for what's called the Freestyle GIN

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two, as in Generation two witha gaming hubb. It's what it is.
It's a next generation projector, soit's affordable. You could take it
a anywhere. It's a little projectorand what you could do. It projects
things on your wall, your ceiling, almost any surface up to a one
hundred inches. I mean that's prettycool. I mean these things are getting

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and then and there. It's gonnabe you coul pre order for about eight
hundred dollars. You can pre ordernow to the end of August on Samsung
dot com. You also get afree water and dust resistant case, by
the way, which is a sixtydollars value. But the thing is this
new model. It gives you quickaccess to streaming entertainment platforms, but it
also features the Samsung Gaming Hub,so you can play games from Xbox and

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some of their other streaming partners withno console. That's pretty cool. So
you don't need an Xbox console.So now you could take your your shows
and movies and on the g I'veused project I've played with projectors before.
I actually need I'd love to getone of these things. And I always
project them on the wall. LikeI remember when the kids were young,
and I would have I would takea projector and there, and the projectors

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when the kids were young, Imean they were they were pretty big.
I mean there, you know,it's like a big briefcase and we would
have pool parties and I would setit up and i'd actually i'd hook up
a computer a monitor and then Iwould project it and we would project against
the wall of my garage. I'venever projected on my ceiling. Dude,
how trippy is that? I mean, let's just have let's have a movie
watching party or street let's watch tedLasso. But here we're gonna we're gonna

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lay on the ground on my carpetand we're gonna asking popcorn. But we're
gonna look up. That's funky,man. I a should try that.
So, uh, it's it's it'sa Samsung Gaming Hub. Three thousand games
from Xbox and Video g Force nowI Amazon, Luna and a lot of
other cool stuff. So go checkit out. Samsung dot com eight hundred

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dollars. If you pre order,you would have the most popular dorm room
anywhere. I actually you'd have themost popular house. I see. I
always wanted a house. You know, I had three boys, and I
wanted a house that was the housewhere all my all my kids and my
and their friends would just kind oflike hang out because you know, yeah,

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I was that dad because I justwanted to hang out with them.
But you know, I was theone who had the old school Gallagha machine,
Missus pack, miss pac Man machine. There's the actual stand up versions.
We had three projection TV screens.Now I lied, I lied.
We had one projection TV screen.So I had a ceiling mounted projector,

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which again was massive. It wasit was you know the size of a
big briefcase and it had had onehundred and twenty inch throw one hundred and
twins so it was like massive.What was it? What is that six
feet or something? And actually morethan six It was like twelve feet.
It was flanked by two fifty inchflat screens, and we had it because
three kids. We had an Xbox, we had a PlayStation, and we
had a Nintendo, so each eachkid had their own platform, so they

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all three simultaneously could play it atonce. I mean I lived in an
arcade. I created an arcade athome, and we had a pool and
the whole stuff, and so thisis what I was doing quite well,
all right, yeah, now Ido not have any of that stuff.
I do have a lot of flatscreen TV's, but that's the kind of
a house that I wanted. Andit was fun because all the kids used
to and other friends like, hey, let's go over to the Garfield's house.

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Oh, you know him, hisdaddy gets all the the the Xbox.
Every day FedEx comes up and he'sgot this new Xbox game. Oh
really, Tiger Woods, you know, two thousand and six or something had
come on over. Let's go playwith it. It's so it's so cheaper
to do it right now. Myprojector back in the day, how much
was that projector? I mean itwas thousands of dollars. Then I had
to come get it installer to dothe whole thing. These projectors nowadays,

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they're they're portable. You could pickthem up a movement anywhere. So this
eight hundred dollars Samsung portable projector,I mean you can, you could take
it anywhere. There's a lot ofthem like that right now. And so
why not take it to your dormroom. I mean, you you're gonna
be you're you're gonna be a bigman campus or a big woman on campus.
So it'd be nice if I actuallyget through, I try out one

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of those or some of those otherTVs. Phone number here on the old
HTT High Tech Textion show seven onethree two one two five nine five zero
Calum, don't know. Don't giveaway any gift guard yet. We'll do
that here in about five or tenminutes. We got that coming. We
will do that. The somebody askedme about QR scanners. Remember when COVID

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came around, and you would goto restaurants and you would have a mask
on, and they stopped printing menusbecause you didn't want to touch it.
And you would see this square,black and white crazy thing, and you
would take your phone and you woulduse your camera, and then all of
a sudden it would connect to awebsite and would be the menu. It's
called a QR code, and theyreally haven't. It is a need a

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vengeon and it worked much more onmenus. You can do a number of
different things with it. But it'sno secret that scanning a QR code can
be pretty annoying. It's just it'sjust a process. I did see this,
and Android, Android itself operating itis trying to make it easier by
doing something. They're adding a featurethat's accessible with your quick setting shortcuts and

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they're scanning built into your camera.So Google has updated something. It's a
little barcode. And I don't knowif you if you've got if you've got
a Google phone, if you gotan Android phone, Yes, it's one's
a Samsung and there's several others too. There is a distinction between a Google

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code scanner and other barcode scanning things. And again I don't want to get
too technical, but it is kindof an issue. So third party apps
are soon going to be able tozoom in on it. And I'm gonna
give you a good let me quicklytell you example. So if you were
trying to stream something from your televisionand you have an account for Netflix,
and you have account for Amazon,and you have an account for Max.

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Instead of using your remote control inyour television two type in and you've got
to use your you know, yourup and down, the left and back
button to type in all your emailand information. That is a pain.
And then you know what nowadays,what you can do. It's they will
throw up one of these QR codeson screen and they'll say, use your
phone, take a picture of theTV screen and automatically then it'll let you

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sign it. The problem is sometimesyou're pretty far away from your television,
you're laying in bed, you getyour television. What these new features that
Android is doing, It's automatically goingto zoom in. It's going to notice
and recognize these QR codes and it'lllet you zoom in. So these it's
gonna be used on a regular Androidcamera. All these things are gonna be
updated in the latest versions of theAndroid operating system. But it's it's gonna

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I don't mind these QR things.I see them more and more places.
Business cards. You actually can putthem on a business card and just have
people. And I actually have one. I've got one of these electronic business
cards. It's from a company calledHello. Is it Hello Hello dot me,
dot mme and I create it's freeand I created a code and it's
on my phone. Someone says,hey man, you got if you've got

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a business card? And I'm like, yeah, I do, but tell
you what here And I pull upmy app. A QR code comes on
my screen and I will have themtake a picture of it. That's one
easy way to do it, andautomatically they can import that directly into their
phone. These QR codes, Idon't mind them, and they just need
to get simpler to use. AndI think by now most people know how
to use them. I remember anumber of people you know during COVID it's
like, how do you do it? Do I need to download a QR

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reader? Now phones, Now we'llactually take a picture and automatically take it
to that website. But again techthat is making things easier and improving on
things. I will be come back. I promised to give away one of
these gift cards. At least Iwill take your phone calls and I will
talk to you about what Amazon isdoing. Amazon continues to get into the
doctor business. Would you trust adoctor on Amazon. I don't know.

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Doctor Garf is here to give youall the information you need. Last seg
Remember when we get to twelve o'clock, a local live time on KPRCY nine
fifty am. Should you be listeningin Southeast Texas? Say what because it's

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Actually I haven't tried the ribs becauseI'm not a porkman. But man,
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getting some of these ribs. Theylook so good. Definitely check out some
of the Diablo, which is thesizzling vehitas along with the shrimp del mar.

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He goes on and on and on. Address it's right on Murphy Road
near Highway six Murphy Road, soit's FM ten ninety two. If you
really want to lock it in,it's twenty seven twenty FM ten ninety two.
It's in most City, right onthe edge of Missouri City in sugar
Land. Go on out there.They open right now for launch next week.
I need to bring some here intothe studio because it is good and

(29:40):
actually I need a cocktail right now. We already look at that calling number
nine. Already got it. Igot a thumbs up from Calum in the
window, so feel free to stoptrying. Next week we will have another
Johnny Tamali's and later this later thisshow, we've got some Benny Hanna gift
card coming to you. So congratulations. There is a fifty dollars Johnny Tamali's
Zuri City card. This is whatyou get by listening to my show.

(30:02):
This is what you you don't Igive away free information. I try to
make you laugh and entertain try togive you something to think about and talk
about it. And and now I'mgiving away some gift cards. I mean,
I don't know what else I cando for you. Let's see what
else I can do for you.What story? I had a story?
So now I had a better story. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

(30:23):
yeah, we're talking about last segment. We were talking about the smart homes
and everything from smoke alarms to helpyou and water sensors. Should you know
hurricane season? Right now, Ihave a my front door. I have
a smart front door lock that isfingerprint activated. And these were these are

(30:48):
relatively new. Let's go back five, six, seven, eight years ago.
But now now you know, you'vegot big manufacturers like Yale Locks and
what have you. They are makingthese things and you can go to your
home depots or your lows. Youcan get them on an Amazon. And
I don't think it's hard to installa new doorlock. I've done it so
many times because I test out somany new locks. I mean I could
probably change lock ten fifteen minutes andit's really not that hard. But some

(31:11):
of them are neat because you couldpunch in a code, maybe a four
or five, six, seven,eight digit code. You can give every
member of your family their own code. You can give your mad to code.
You can give a special one timeactivated code for your neighbor if they
need to get it. But nowadaysyou can actually could put your fingerprint on
there. And I've been using afingerprint I D here for about two years
or so. It's it's good,it's I have a percentage of luck on

(31:37):
the first time I put my fingeron it there, it's it's about seventy
percent of the time. If myfinger is a little sweaty, there is
direct sunlight that hits that fingerprint sensor, so sometimes it doesn't have to sit
there and try it again. Ifnot, I do have a backup system
of punching in a code on theretoo. But I saw this somebody's I
saw what some people are doing.It was this week there was a big

(32:00):
security conference, I think it wasin Vegas. It's called def Con that
people are now putting implants in theirskin, these little r F I D
chips in their scanner and their fingerprints. Now stand by, let me tell
you what these r f radio frequencyidentification. These little r f I D

(32:22):
chips. These can be found inyour toll tags. For example, every
time you have a toll tag andyou go through a toll booth, if
you're in Houston and you go onthe Sam Houston Tollway or the Westpark Tollway,
you know you have that little tolltag that you have on your window.
Well, if you really crack itopen, there's a little tiny chip
in there, and it's an rf I D chip. And what it

(32:42):
is, it's it's always sitting ona signal and every time it passes through
a sensor of any sort of kindit register is that hey, all right,
well this RFI D chip is registeredto this car, which is registered
to this credit card, and that'show you get the toll tag. RFI
D chips or many places. They'rein grocery stores right now. I think
Walmart, I think is one bigexample. They use RFID chips on a

(33:02):
lot of their products. So everytime a product is bought and leaves the
store, some stores have a chipreader so they know, okay, well
I just know that a case ofCoca cola left, or here's some produce
or here's some clothing, Well itknows that it was purchased, so then
it could goes to the ordering departmentthey need a restock and reorders. It's

(33:25):
not like they could. It's atracking thing. It's yes, it's a
tracking thing if you really think aboutit, but it's for inventory and use
in whatever. But people are puttingthese things in there in their wrist in
their fingers. For one example,is exactly what I just said. Well,
I have a lock on my frontdoor and it's got a fingerprint sensor.

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Well, sometimes it works, sometimesit doesn't work. If I had
a fingerprint sensor, if I hada sensor, a little tiny chip that's
implanted in my skin, all Ineed to do is just approach my door,
my car door, my garage door, my office. It automatically opens
up. And I guess, I'mhere's the point I'm getting. Would you
do this? Let's say it's actuallysafe and it's not gonna hurt your blood,

(34:08):
it's not gonna do anything. Iguess I am betting less than five
percent of my listener, five percentof America who would want to do this
because they're so afraid of the governmenttracking you. I'll go back to one
of my favorite movies, Tom CruiseMinority Report. If you remember the Minority
Report, they tracked everybody through theireyes. There was I iris sensors.

(34:31):
You would go Tom Cruise was walkingthrough them all and they would know it's
him by scanning the eyes, andthey would know what he buys and shops.
Hey, welcome to the gap.You're you're a large and you're a
size you know, thirty four jeans. That's that's tracking. I'm not saying
r F I D is like this, and who knows, the world may

(34:52):
be like that one day. Butpeople are putting these things, call them
pass keys, poem thing in intheir body. I don't know you can
I mean, listen. Advantage iswell, you can leave your keys at
home. It's a cool party trick. I don't know the downsides. I

(35:15):
don't know if there's any doctors outthere. I mean, could these things
I mean, I listen, Iknow there's silicon and maybe there's a metal
in these chips. Could what happensif you stay in the pool too long
or the shower too long? Dothey rust inside your body? I don't
know, but this is something toponder as we get to the top of
the twelve o'clock hour. We haveabout six seven minutes for you to think
about it, and you can calland weigh in on should would you put

(35:37):
these little tiny chip and plants underyour skin so you could leave your keys
at home? A lot of moreand more people are doing it. I
don't know, I'm I don't knowif I'm there yet. I'll give you
that number seven one three two onetwo five nine five zero. Coming back,
I will talk about the latest smartwatch out there. I am playing
with the newest Samsung Watch six Classic. Not only was it announced, it

(36:00):
has been on sale for about aweek right now. I got to play
with that thanks to my friends atAT and T. Also, there's a
lot of alert Did you get analert on your cell phone one of these
kids were kidnapped? Or there wasa silver alert or an amber alert.
I'm gonna tell you how to ifyou're sick of those things. There's a
way to turn those things off.Do you want to turn them off?

(36:21):
Because some of these are national emergencies. I'm gonna tell you how about some
emergency settings on your phone that youcould set several different alerts that will let
you know what's going on in includingbad weather wherever you are again, fun
stuff that I'm gonna talk about that'sgonna keep you hanging on for one more
hour. Mister Michael Garfield. It'scalled the high Tech Taxing Show, and
I do thank you for tuning instandby. Hi is Michael Garfield. Michael

(36:57):
Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the highTech Texan. Michael Garfiel is here with
a high tech Texan. It wasto make life easier technology. So Michael
Garfield has something you might want.Michael Garfield's your high Tech Texan. Three

(37:20):
decades helping you make magic with yourgadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act.
Now your high Tech Texan. MichaelGarfield. Halfway through the show on
a high August day is halfway toa happier hour. You know what I
was. We just gave away agift card to Johnny Tamali's Text Mix Cantina,

(37:45):
Missouri City, and they got somenice cold Margarita's and Alando's luck old
Beer. I think happier is actuallystarting. I don't know. I'm here
in studio. You know we dohave a refrigerator. Do you guys mind
if I pop O top. Okay, well we'll talk about that. It's
coming up this hour. You haveanother gift card for you. You got
to tune in one hundred dollars giftcard to Binny Hannah. Several of them

(38:05):
located here in the Houston area.There's about seventy of them around the country.
You are eligible to win anywhere inthe country you are. You can
just go check them out if youare a calor number whatever. We pick
sometime between now and the end ofthe hour. Michael Garfield does my name?
Hello, Callum? How are youCalum? I got some bad news
for you? Or is it actuallya good news? Fall in winter or

(38:27):
my absolute favorite times of the year. I do not like heat. I
cannot stand heat. I'm an outdoorperson. When it comes to I'm a
runner, and I don't not likeIt's very tough to run in the summer.
It's very difficult to run in theheat that we've had over here for
the past two or three months.It's just been disgusting. I like,
I am one of the few peoplein the world who like when the time

(38:50):
switches to daylight saving time. Iguess what it is when it gets darker
earlier, because which to me,it means it gets cooler earlier, which
means I could run earlier and thenget home and still go out and do
things at night. I'm just aweirdo about this thing. But the point
is, how do you know whenfall is here, folks? When you

(39:12):
start seeing pumpkin spice everywhere at everysingle grocery store, in restaurant. Welcome
Fall, Welcome Fall, Dorrius fuckDorus ready not people, Fall flavor is
here, saw it Duncan. Duncanalready launched its fall menu earlier than ever.

(39:36):
They're pouring pumpkin spice, signature lattesand pumpkin coffee. Suck it up.
I don't want to see these Facebookposts or can't believe you're already starting
to pour pumpkin. Shut up,you know what. I know it's one
hundred nine degrees right now, Butif I see and smell pumpkin, it
at least gets me thinking about fall, puts me in a better mood.
Okay, seven eleven's got it's that'spumpkin spice, lattam pumpkin coffee too.

(40:01):
There are seven elevens now in agedown. There is a god. August
first, that's starting. It's nicerthan to break out the pumpkin a little
bit earlier. What's wrong with it? Why can't pumpkin be year round?
Okay, you know what, maybenot, but at least it gives me
the sense that fallows freaking here.And I'll tell you what. I love

(40:22):
me some pumpkin beer, low pumpkinbeer, and I usually miss pumpkin beer's
out. Now go to a grocerystore and you got there's so many different
kinds of pumpkin spice beer. Ilove it. That is fault October Fast.
It's it's it's a comfort flavor.It's why are the phones letting up?

(40:45):
People? Are people calling to complainand yell at me, shut up
about the pumpkin. No, I'mnot shutting up up pumpin. I saw
pumpkin pop darts. There's pumpkin cereal. I haven't been to Trader Joe.
I love Trader Joe. Trader Joe'sis like the king of pumpkin. Everything.
Well, I know it's fall whenTrader Joe's whip side because you can't

(41:07):
walk three feet into a Trader Joe'sand you can see everything pumpkin, pumpkin
ice cream. And it's not thatI love the pumpkin flavor, because really,
what does pumpkin taste like? Isit kind of an orangey type of
thing. And don't get me wrong, I don't drink coffee, so I
don't care if dunkin and seven eleventhey're whipping out your pumpkin spicelot day.
It doesn't bother me because I donot walk into a Starbucks because big Daddy

(41:29):
Garf has never had a sip ofcoffee in my life, and even pumpkin
is not going to get me tosip coffee. Do you know? According
to Nielsen, spending in all retailoutlets including supermarkets, restaurants, and more
during a week over week since lastdogs we as America have spent eight hundred

(41:52):
and two million dollars on pumpkin products. Don't tell me it doesn't work.
I have pumpkin house spray. Youknow how you can like spray a little
effervescent like you make things, youknow, glade or whatever this stuff is,
you know, for breeze, andit makes your house smell good.
I love the smell of pumpkin.I'll get pumpkin. I don't like the

(42:15):
really really sweet, sweet smell andstuff of pumpkin. But it just it
just it just it puts me inin the mood. Goldfish now, goldfish
dunkin pumpkin spice grams. Where isthere there is a dunk There's a dunkin
at Hobby Airport. I think there'sone out by me. Chris. There's
no more Krispy Kreams in Houston.I saw that's a bet. So the

(42:36):
last Krispy Creme I think is GonzoI think goes out on West Timer in
your Beltway eight. I think it'sgonna correct me if I'm wrong people,
But if you go somewhere and I'lldig this, I mean, listen,
I think donuts phenomenal. If Ihave one donut a year, I'm lying,
And I think donuts are one ofthe best foods ever, I just
can't or won't eat a donut justbecause of all the fat and take.

(42:59):
They have four different kinds of pumpkindonuts, Pumpkin spiced cheesecakes, World donut.
Okay, that's it, Okay,I'm going to find it done.
I'm going to find a Krispy Creamenow for that pumpkin spice maple pecan donut
the original and cake pumpkin spice.Done it. I'm going to find a
pumpkin spice cheesecakes world done it.If anybody is near the galleria where we

(43:20):
are broadcasting from, feel free toroll by a Crispy Creme, which I
know we don't have any year inHouston, but feel free to defind me
one what's the big problem with this? I don't care. Well. I
can't wait till Eyehop rolls out onAugust twenty eight. They're pumpkin spice pancakes.
I don't need a lot of piantcakes. Man. But oh, sure's

(43:43):
good. I'm sorry, I just, I just, I just. I'm
just dreaming about the fall where Ican stop wearing shorts. No, I
wear shorts year round two, which, by the way, more people are
going back to the office right now. What do you think about wearing shorts
in the office? Is that?Is that a problem? I mean,
did the tyranny of long pants?If your bosses want you to go into

(44:04):
work, shouldn't you have the wherewithalto say, you know what, boss,
the sucks. I'm gonna wear myflippy flops and I'm gonna wear some
cargo shorts. There's a big question. I mean, who cares if I'm
flashing a little leg in the office. I know you boomers out there,
I don't care. I wear shortsquite often. I got some pretty sexy
legs. They're hair right, man, But I'll do it. Listen,

(44:28):
it ain't nineteen twenty one people.There's a reason people wear pants nowadays,
wear shorts. I went to abig family event this past weekend that traditionally
you wear a suit and tie tolet me help you out. I do
not remember the last time I worea tie. I don't even know where
my ties are. Generally I weara sport coat to one of these events.

(44:49):
Didn't wear a sport coat. Ijust I wore a button down shirt
and I always fits into that thing. Don't do it not me? There
you go. See this is theseare the interesting things that I talked about
when it comes to consumer light.Stop people, Pumpkin weather is here.
You got a problem with that.You talk to me, or you actually
tweet me or zeet me or threadme at high tech text and all right,
coming back, we're gonna talk alittle Amazon. Amazon is opening some

(45:10):
clinics. Would you go to anAmazon clinic or a virtual clinic for a
doctor. And also I'll tell youwhat what I've been driving, give you
some of my reviews of cars.So how we do it? Just have
too much fun here on the highTech text and show quick taking the clock.

(45:31):
We've got about eighteen nineteen minutes afterthe hour, and I look at
that because I'm looking at my watch, which I recently got from the US
Coins and Jewelry. I know Kennyand Matt Duncan they're working right now six
days a week. People. That'sthey work on shobas. That's right,
but they're closed on Sunday, justlike Chick fil A. Go check them
out US Coins and jewel You heara lot about them here on not only

(45:52):
this radio station, but also oursister radio station seven forty K TIERRASI just
because there are a lot of USwe shop there. Man. It's been
around since nineteen eighty five. Euston'spremier in gold silver buyers. And they've
got unbelievable watch collection, use Rolexes, other Swiss watches. They have several
hundred available at any given time.And I'm telling you right now, I've

(46:14):
learned a lot about watches. Andspecifically rolexes. Do you know if you
don't wear a rolex and you justkind of let it sit on your on
your deskary in your jewelry box fora while, you don't wear it,
it's it stops just because you needto keep the thing moving. Guess what
I got. It's an automatical windingmachine that I got also at US Coins
and Jewelry. And I put myrollie in there and I put it right

(46:36):
and it next to my bed andit slowly, just kind of very quietly
just rotates and rotates, so it'salways on time. Just a little something
I learned from Kenny and Matt Duncan, who run US Coins and Jewelry.
It's at eighty four thirty five KatieFreeways. It's I ten your Voss not
too far out of Loop six ten. They are open right now Monday through
Saturday. If you want to callthem or go online at US Coins and

(47:00):
Jewelry dot com. Tell him youarder from me. Seven one three,
five nine seven sixty three sixty seven. I wore my relex to this family
event that I had last week.No less than three of my family members
like damn, damn htt you makeit a big I'm like, well,
my kids are off my payroll rightnow. Yeah, I'm gonna actually spoiler
to myself and act one lives up. Cousin of mine lives in Florida.

(47:22):
He absolutely loved it what I did. Let I'm not kidding you. I
was in. I went to USCoins and Jelry. I was walking around
with Kenny. I was at thejewelry counter. I was live video chatting,
not FaceTime because I do not havean Apple, but I was live
video chatting showing off the watches tomy cousin so he could get one remotely.
It's what they do, free writtenappraisals on almost everything. They want
to buy your watches, They wantto buy your coins. At least go

(47:45):
in and check them out. Itis fun. They got a lot of
neat stuff you as coins and jewelydot Com. Thank you guys. Fun
same makes you look good, makesyou feel good walking around. What time
is it? Really? I don'tknow. Let Mary check on. My
watch was at a Rolex nas youknow it's just yes, it's arilics.
Yes, it's a relics seven onethree, two, one two five nine
five out not giving away any giftcards. Yeah, we gave it one

(48:07):
last last hour. We got onemore to give away. I wanted to
talk about I do a lot ofcar reviews, and I don't like when
you get into your car now andit's one hundred hundred and ten degrees it's
just nasty hot? Did I didI mention this last week? It was
I saw this from early August thata man in Arizona was trapped in his

(48:29):
tesla on a one hundred degree day. Let me give you the headlines.
This is from USA Today. Arizonaman was trapped in his tesla on a
one hundred degree day. Okay,what was the most shocking thing you got
from that headline? Here's the mostshocking thing. Why is it only one

(48:52):
hundred degrees in Arizona? That's I'ma factual, duke had to be much
much more than that. The pointis, it's these electric cars, and
sometimes the little there actually is,even though there's a lithium ion battery in
the car and your car has aletter range, little tiny things within your

(49:14):
car. Maybe it's the door opener. Sometimes they're running a small battery,
maybe a little twelve volte battery.Apparently that twelve volte battery inside dude's car
in Arizona was dead and he couldn'tget out. Stand By, if you're
a Tesla or any of these otherelectric cars, there's there's generally a manual
door release that you can use inemergencies. Win or if you ever buy

(49:37):
an electric vehicle, could you doyourself a favor? Could you I'm not
a big reader of manuals, butcould you literally take a lot of time
and look at every little detail ofhow to run your car and what happens
in case your battery dies, wherethe rip chord is, where the eject

(49:59):
button is to override to escape thevehicle if your battery dies. By the
way, the emergency latch is foundunderneath the windows switches of the front seat
if you have the Tesla model.Why but he was trapped in there for
a while. He got out,Okay, But it's it's little things like
this, and I hate reading manuals, Like if I have to if I

(50:20):
have to read a manual, housesomething works, Odds are you're gonna have
to read the manual two or threetimes And I'm not smarter than you.
That's not it. But my mind, if a product is designed well,
I'm going to look at it andI can quickly decipher how to use it.
I get into a brand new vehicleevery single week. I test drive
a new vehicle every week. SometimesI get two a week. This past

(50:43):
week I was into a week.It rolls up in front of my house
from a service. I get thekeys, I get in. I don't
look at the manual. I haveto quickly assimilate, and this is how
I review vehicles. Is it easyto find the on off the start button?
You laugh at me. It tookme a good forty seconds to find
the on off start switch on theAlpha Romeo that I had last week.

(51:06):
It's on the left side, bottomof the steering wheel. That's where the
on off switch is. Sometimes I'mporches there on the left side of the
column when you physically have to puta key in. How the most difficult
thing for me and I rate this, it's because how easy is the infottament
system? Is it easy to nay? Is it easy to switch radio stations?

(51:30):
Can you quickly lock in nine fiftya m KPRC see what I did
there? Is it easy to switchfrom the navigation system? How hard is
it to plant to program your Bluetooth, your kids Bluetooth in there. If
you have to go through two,three, four or five, six or
more screens, screw it, man, that's tough. And I'm telling you
right now, I've just I havenot ever been a fan of Mazda.

(51:51):
The Masta's infottament screens have historically beenvery difficult to sift through. I will
tell you this last March, whenI got to drive the new Mazda c
X ninety, it seems they haveeased up and made it simpler to use
though infottament system. So they're finallygetting it. And I say this is

(52:13):
because this week I'm tooling around ina Mazda Miata. Yes, a six
foot told dude like me is ableto fit in a Mazda Miata. It's
also nice that this new one isthe RF. It's it's got a button
that makes it a heart. It'sa hard top, but it's automatic convertible,
so I don't need to take anythingoff. It's a hard top convertible.

(52:35):
But this Mazda had a little difficultythe new one of programming things on
the infotainment system. Where am Igoing with all this stuff? But the
point is. I review cars.I'm not afraid to tell you, man,
this thing needs to be improved.I don't have a sponsor. I
do not work with dealerships. Iwork directly from the manufacturers. I'm remember
the Texas Auto Writers Association, AndI'm gonna give you the play by play.

(52:59):
And I have to drive through Kia'sBMW's Mercedes. Oh I know,
woe is me? I drive minivans. I drive two seater, little tiny
cars, just like the Demiata.I drive big MoMA SUVs, eight seater,
big things, the quarter of amillion dollars cars or cars that'll cost
eighteen thousand dollars. I'm gonna giveyou the play by play. I was

(53:21):
in a really cute well, there'stwo of them. Let me go start
with Alexa. I was at Alexisthree fifty n X. It's a hybrid.
I don't get a lot of lexusIs if you will, because there's
several differ companies who delivered in thesecars. I don't mind Lexus. Lexus
got better. Alexis used to havethe touch had where you would actually have
to take your finger and change allthe infotainment system. They got rid of

(53:43):
that stuff in their newer vehicles.Now there's knobs, and there's buttons,
and then there's other things like that. But Alexus three fifty n X,
you are not bad approaches about fortyfive thousand dollars. I like the hybrid.
My neighbors said, I pull out. My neighbors says, is that
electric? And I said, no, it's a hybrid. And this is
a regenerative breaking. You don't needto plug this hybrid in, so it's
not a plug in hybrid electric vehicle. This is just a typical hybrid.
Every time you hit the brakes itit kind of regenerates. And I gave

(54:07):
him about a thirty second dissertation.He asked me, do you like electric?
Do you like hybrid? And Iactually like hybrids right now because I
still don't love the public, ourcurrent America public system of charging our phones.
I don't want to have to sitthere wait thirty or forty five minutes
and cross fingers that there's going tobe an open electricity and it's at full

(54:28):
charge. If I'm driving from hereto Dallas, I want to be able
to just quote unquote gas up inten minutes. I really don't feel like
putzing around for forty five minutes orso. I'm just not there yet.
I think it's great. Electric carsare great as a second car if you
have to do some driving within thecities. But this is a hybrid.
Hybrids are fine and you can getbetter gas mileage. When we come back,
I will tell you the other carI was driving, it's a little

(54:50):
one, is relatively inexpensive. Andif you want me to test drive something,
all you need to do is sendme an email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
dot com and I will try toget on my list of what to drive.
Coming back here on the high Techtext and show less than thirty minutes

(55:14):
to go stand by. Before theend of the segment, we will give
away a one hundred dollars gift cardto Benny Hanna a little Teppanyakisa Benny A.
Hanna, several locations four or fivelocations in the area. By the
way, brand new and Conro shoutout to Conro our signal nine fifty am
terrestrially goes up to Conro, goesdown to Galveston, and you could take

(55:37):
us anywhere if you listen to theiHeart Radio app. So go check out
Benny Hannah when I would tell youwhen it cala, remind me before the
segments over to give out the numberand we'll figure out what the color number
will actually win. That it isMichael Garfield, High Tech Text and Show.
We talked to oh so much abouttechnology. I already went through.
It's pumpkin latte spy season. Ifany of you guys and gals care about

(55:58):
that. I don't drink coffee,but I like the pumpkin flavor and it
makes me feel like fall is here. Don't look at the thermometer, man,
but falls technically here. If seveneleven and Duncan and kruspy Kreeme launched
there, they're put their pumpkin stuff. Talking about cars driving, I was
I have a twenty twenty four Lexusthree fifty n X I was driving just

(56:19):
this past week. I only getthese cars for a week. They do
knowing gives me a car to keep. I have to every week. We
keep flipping and flipping and flipping theNX I had two last week I had.
I like hybrids. I like theold fashion old fashion. There's two
kinds of hybrids. There's a hybridthat has regenerative breaking, which means and
this is like when the Prius,remember the Prey Preus. The hybrid use

(56:42):
Actually, well was the electric carscomes up? It was when you break
it's and if you go back toyour sixth, seventh, eighth grade or
ninth in your college of how youknow energy works and energy. Energy is
stored up. When you break,it regenerates the battery inside and it gives
you more miles to go on.Nowadays, you can plug in hybrid cars,

(57:06):
and you certainly can plug in electriccars. Plug in hybrid cars.
They're called PHEV plug in hybrid electricvehicles. He have is the nickname.
They don't give you a ton ofmiles like I was in a jeep p
have. Maybe you got twenty milesextra. Some are gonna give you thirty
miles. But a true hybrid carsyou can it's gonna give you good miles.

(57:28):
Yes, they still have a gastank. I'm more of a in
terms of practicality, if you haveone car, I am more of a
hybrid fan than I am an electricfan, because I still think for long
trips you need to gas up.I am not putzing around and waiting thirty
forty five minutes or an hour forme to charge my all electric vehicle anyway.
That was my Lexus three fifty X, which I actually do like.

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It's good. It's a ROADTI,it's a it's a compact SUV, which
is like a CUV, which isa compact utility vehicle. See, it's
you know, four doors, twopeople in front, up to three people
in back. Nice little tailgate.You can still fit some you know things
in there. People in there,well not people in the tailgate. You
can fold the back seat down,you can get some good stuff, handles
quite well. It is Alexis andso it's gonna be a little bit price

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here. But I also had anothervehicle. I was playing, and I
was playing in a new Buick Encoresexy little thing. Little is the word.
This was the actually upgraded Encore GXAuveneer. Auveneer is the high level
finish on all of the Buick models. Uh, it's it's it's four doors.

(58:37):
It fit my father in the frontseat, and folks, let me
help you out. That says alot. I'm six foot tall, I'm
driving. He's six three, andhe's he's got he's got some growth.
With all due respect, can fitin the front seat. Mom was in
the back and we got did Iput two others? I think we had

(59:00):
three people back there total. Itwas it was a squeeze. It was
a squeeze on this one. Itdoes have some pep and get up and
go. It's got a one pointthree Leader turbo engine. But because it's
a small ish car, it's alsoa very small compact CUV or SUV.
The power to weight ratio is stillthere. One point three Leaders is not

(59:21):
a turbo engine. It's not thebiggest engine there. And if you've got
a very heavy vehicle, that ain'tgotta get you nowhere. But if it's
a relatively light vehicle, it's gotsome good you know, get up and
go. BUEX always has some greatsafety and security features, good connectivity.
I do like the way General MotorsGM, which is the parent company of
Buick. They actually work their infotamentsystem if you will. This has a

(59:44):
you know this is but what wasit about? An eight inch touch screen
information display. It's got all youryou know, your USBC plugs, you
know you're wireless charging and whatever priceon the Buick, it's standard. The
standard price is about the two thousanddollars. The Auvenir or everything else.
This is about thirty five thousand dollars, is what I was tested. How

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much you're willing to spend for vehiclesnowadays? I mean, listen, I've
been in a two hundred and thirtyfive thousand dollars vehicle, if not more.
For this is thirty five thousand dollars. This I would recommend. It's
good for Listen, if you're justout of college. Maybe you're in college
because it's smallish, maybe you're inhigh school. I think a buddy might
think. My best friend, hisdaughter has a Buick Encore. She got

(01:00:27):
it when her senior year in highschool, and I believe she has it
in college right now. She's outin California. Hey, listen, it
gets you around. It's nowadays.It's affordable. And I say nowadays it's
affordable and Buick. I like Buick. My parents still in Dallas have a
Buick, and that beast has beenrunning for twenty years. It is.

(01:00:51):
They've got it now buck bull.Yeah, it's not your father's Buick,
not your father's Oble's Oldsmobile. It'sactually not a Nosemobile. Is that a
Buick? Yes, that's a Buick. So there's my two quick reviews.
Go check it out again. Iam not going to give you a dealership.
I don't deal withal I would loveto recommend a dealership any dealerships out
there who want me to come talkto them potentially endorse them, but I
got a lot of checklist before Iendorse any company specifically dealership. There's you

(01:01:15):
know, I'll tell you what.There is only one automobile dealership. I'm
not mentioning the name that right nowbecause I know them. I grew up
with them. They and it's adealership that has several different brands, so
they do not only one manufacturer.They do. They have obviously they're different

(01:01:36):
individual dealerships, but they're conglomerate.Their parent company, which is still goes
by the same name, family name. I would endorse them every time I've
come. They are the nicest,they are the cleanest bays. They they're
service people. They will hop out, they know you by name. You
go in and you can get somefresh cookies, you can go get some
some soda. They could not benicer. That's the only one, and

(01:02:02):
I'm not I'm not gonna get manyfree love but they're based out of Dallas
and let you see if you canfigure that one out. But anyway,
I'm just I deal with the manufacturers. They don't pay me, and I
can tell you how crappy they areactually how good they are. I'll tell
you what you want to give away. Callum is reminding me to give away
some Benny Hannah gift cards. Okay, I'm gonna give away one gift card.
Who's hungry right now? Benny Hannahbeen around celebrating sixty years same anniversary

(01:02:29):
as my parents. What was that? Nineteen sixty three, Rocky Aoky came
up with the concept of Benny Hannaa little teppanyaki thing, several of them
around Houston. Caller number nine hitme up seven one three, two one
two five nine five, Oh,call them. It's up to you.

(01:02:52):
Go ahead and do it. It'sup to you calling them A nine.
Who's going to get the steak andlobster? It's good. One hundred dollars
goes a long way over there.They got a great are too. By
the way, got about two minutesbefore the end of this segment. Did
anybody get any alerts on their phonethis week? There was like a Amber
alert or silver alert or something.I was at dinner and all of a

(01:03:15):
sudden, everybody's phone goes. Iyay, okay, it's good to get
these alerts. And I'm not raggingon alerts. They're there for a reason.
When I grew up, there wasa torn in Dallas. There was
a tornado siren. They don't havethose here in Htown. If there was
a tornado spot in your area,every few miles in Dallas, if there's

(01:03:35):
a tornado warning, I believe itis not a watch. There's an exciting
of a funnel class. You wouldget this. Oh my good, this
is the worst sound in my life. I mean, it was like a
freaking air raid. But it servedthe purpose, like man, keep your
head on this swivel, man duckfor cover. Go in a room with
no windows. Don't have those here. Nowadays, everybody has cell phones and
if there is an alert you get, you get these things. They go

(01:03:59):
off. You could see whether youknow this or not. When you could
set alerts, go into your settingsand alerts and you could turn them all
off. You could turn some oneand some up. There's national emergencies,
there's weather alerts, there's amber alerts, there's silver alerts. It's actually something
called a rapid s OS and it'sa collaboration with emergency responders and what it

(01:04:21):
is, it's a it's rapids.It's like a connector and uses cloud communication
and data analytics to funnel essential information, including your exact location, from your
device to the nearest nine one oneemergency center. So this is a different
type of alert that actually goes theother way. So if an emergency,

(01:04:43):
say you fall, I'm following it, I can't get up, you can
maybe press the side button or anSOS button or even cars, cars have
crash detection now in rapids. It'sit's a platfor them. It's free of
charge to nine one one centers,either through cloud based software. It charges

(01:05:05):
license fees to technology companies and otherdata providers and it licens it. But
for you it's free. I mean, gadgets can save your life. I
mean I talk to a lot ofpeople and they don't have any idea how
many potentially life's having features their honordevices are your watch right now? Look
at your smart watches? I wasI talk a lot about the Samsung Watch

(01:05:26):
six Classic that I'm wearing. Youreye felt, your your what is it?
Your Apple Watch it's got if youfall it can actually call somebody.
There's a if I fall in Ican't get you could you could tap to
emergency contacts. There's a health app. It monitors your you could monitor your
blood pressure. There are devices outthere. Apple's health app is actually does

(01:05:49):
a good job. So anyway,always do something like that emergency ss on
know your Apple, watch, yourSamsung watch Samsung. When I was at
at sam and Soul, Korea,we actually met, says a doctor who
runs there. Watch division if youwill, because they're relying more and more

(01:06:10):
and health. I mean you couldcheck your you know your pulse and actually
I should check my pulse here duringthe break because we got only one more
segment. I tell you what,I'm gonna take a Break'm gonna check my
pulse. When we come back,we will wind up the show. We
already have a winner for the BennyHanna. Thank you Benny Hannah for giving
away a one hundred dollars gift card. We'll try one next week too.
My name is Michael. Help meout finish, help me cross the finish
line. People. We'll be rightback. Final segment, Final seven and

(01:06:40):
a half minutes or so. ITech Texas show. I do thank you
for tuning in. I congratulate thewinners today. I think Benny Hannah man,
I'm a digging Benny Hanna. Iwent to the grand opening of their
Conro location about a month ago.Forgot how fun that place is. We
were there earlier this week celebrating myparents anniversary at the Whole Machine there.

(01:07:00):
And also thank you to Johnny Tamalies. Took the boys to Johnny Tomalies on
Thursday night at Missouri City. Sawa Man. Reggie and Neil love the
crowd. Man Good Happy Hour twotwo to six pm Monday through Friday,
FM ten at ninety two. It'sMurphy Road right near Highway six. Don't
sleep on a man. That gotsome great margaritism free ice cream, brief
officer. If I didn't have anyof that. Kids, actually one of

(01:07:23):
the kids actually had that. Iwant to pay this off here meeting.
I'd been teasing this the entire show. Forgot about this. We I just
talked about some technology that actually iscan save your life. These are fall
detection you know, sensors on yourwatches, your Apple Watch, your your
Fitbitch, or your smart watches.The Virtual Health has become prevalates. Certainly

(01:07:47):
during COVID online you could talk toyour doctor. You can look at your
doctor and I guess they could examineyou open up and say, ah,
you put your mouth up to thecamera on your on your screen or something.
Amazon is getting into this business.Amazon just rolled out a virtual health
clinic across the country and it's beenaround for a while, but it's expanding

(01:08:08):
it. They launched at last Novemberkind of as a way for patients to
connect with tele medicine providers so theycan receive treatment for comic condition. Maybe,
but Amazon's been trying to break intothe healthcare industry, you know,
for years, some mixed success.But they're rolling out a virtual health clinic
service. So they're saying it's avirtual platform for users to connect with healthcare

(01:08:31):
providers to treat comic conditions like sinusinfections I had. I had a terrific
sinus infection in June for the firsttime my life. I don't know how
they can do this online because theonly way my E and T lady figured
out I had a sinus infection,she shoved a microscopic camera up my nose.
I think that's inversion eight coming nextyear. I'm not sure. So

(01:08:55):
the thing is that Amazon doesn't providethe tele medicine services itself, but they're
randing it as an Amazon Clinic andtheir partner going there never different companies,
and so there it's now across allfifty states you can do Amazon Clinic through
video visits. I've actually never I'vetalked to my doctor when I needed to

(01:09:18):
look if I was getting on oroff medication. I think two or three
times, and I'm really I'm reallyclose with my general practitioner, Buddy Man
a man, so I might aswell just talk to him on the phone
cause I see him regularly too.But you know, we did a video
because they've got a document this stuff. Oh did you see your doctor?
I'll tell you what it does say, Tim, you know the worst part

(01:09:38):
of going to a doctor or clinicor hospital freaking parking, Like I go,
what it? It's just why arethese hospitals so crowded? Because me
and know my general practitioner, he'slike in a hospital it was he used
to Methodist or something, and I'mlike driving around for freaking twenty minutes is
longer than I'm with the doctor.So yeah, the virtual visits are fine.

(01:10:00):
I just don't listen. I coveredthee the technology in the medical industry.
I got some more electronic show.Every single January, there's a whole
another convention, wing center, wingof all the telemedicine thing. I just
I just don't It's tough to do. And I talked to my doctor.
I said, do you like this? He goes, well, yes to

(01:10:20):
an extent, because they can fitmore patients in and the doctor actually can
do it at home at night orwhatever, which is good. But the
point is, how much can youreally tell through video conference? I mean
he can't take my pulse, yes, I mean I can give him my
pulse based on my smart watch.I don't think smart watches, with all
due respect to everything, including mySamsung that I'm wearing right now, I

(01:10:43):
don't know how accurate they were.Actually I did a test. I went
to my cardiology. I went toeight cardiologists, new cardiologists, and he
was measuring an old fashion off withthe ball. But he was squeezing and
squeezing and squeezing versus my blood pressurewas on my watch. There was a
discrepancy. I mean, some thingsare still og old school, but listen,

(01:11:09):
this is what I do. Ido. I'm not ragging on it
at all. It's just are wethere yet to fully believe that e Doctor's
electronic doctors electronic equipment is there yet. We could talk about that next week.
Other than that, I am havingfun with my Samsung Watch six Classic.
I have the Watch six which wasjust when on sale about a week

(01:11:29):
ago, and that's the newest versionof Samsung's Watch six. But they also
have a Watch six Classic and Ilike it at and t thank you so
much. They let me play withone here for a few weeks, and
this is the one where they broughtback the rotating bezel, don't I was
so I don't know why Samsung removedthe rotating bezel from their watches about two
versions ago. The bezel is theouter ring on a watch. And listen,

(01:11:54):
my Rolex also has a rotating bezel, which really doesn't do anything other
than you know, put the youknow, the twelve o'clock or the timer
on a little but the rotating bezelon a smartchwatch actually has a very useful
function because you can rotate it fromscreen to screen to screen. So I
can rotate it between my blood pressure. What's my notification? Am I getting
a text? Am I getting anemail? To Watch six? You can

(01:12:16):
take your finger and you can kindof rotate it on there. But I
still haven't got the traction yet.So I do like to Watch six classic.
That is it worth upgrading from you. Let's just say you have a
Galaxy Watch five I got. Igotta tell you the Watch six follows the
Watch five template. Overall, it'sgot some useful updates. I think the

(01:12:38):
battery life, maybe the fitness toolsare relatively the same. I think the
screens are brighter and they're larger.There's two different millimeter versions of each of
these things. I think I gotthe forty seven millimeter, which is I
like, I like close to fiftymillimeters. I'm a I've kind of got
a big risk. I got abig hairy wrist that they charge that.
I will tell you this that theycharge faster. It's got ultra fast charging,

(01:13:02):
and the GPS tracking and the healthsensors seem to work. Well.
I've only had this for a fewdays. I'm still playing with a AT
and T. Thank you, butI said welcome return for the rotating bezel.
When you're gonna if you get oneof these things, maybe you haven't
had one. I'm a big Galaxywatch band. I thought I had every
versions I think since the second versionof the watch, and I'm an Android

(01:13:24):
guy. But make sure you reallytake a look because there's about one hundred
and hundred fifty dollars difference. TheWatch six Classic, which is the bigger
one with the rotating bezel, that'sgonna run your three hundred and three hundred
and fifty bones. The Watch sixlittle smaller, a little bit more active,
does not have the rotating bezzl there, you're going to run those babies
around two hundred I think two hundredand fifty. Don't quote me on those.

(01:13:45):
Your mileage may vary based on whereyou get these things. But they're
very good watches. They're great Androidwatches too, and they actually doesn't matter
if you have an iPhone. Useyour iPhone, but then you look down
at your wrist. Just a watchfan, I'm just a watch fan,
and I do think of the Atent folks, and also Samsung and Berlin
Rosen for letting me play with allthese watches as I use my Samsung Galaxy

(01:14:09):
Z Flip five. If you seeme out I've got the newest version of
that flip phone, and it's actuallya pretty pretty cool. Hope, I
answered a lot of your questions.I gotta get out of here. Thank
you so much to my man Callumfor giving away some things, and everybody
else who hung with me for thepast two hours. Happy fall at least
according to seven eleven, Krispy Kremeand Duncan because they got pumpkin spice lattes

(01:14:30):
and all this other pumpkin stuff outthere, and I'm actually kind of a
fan of anything pumpkin. I'm haveeverybody who's been a part of this one.
I do thank you for tuning in. Shout out to Eddie Martini,
to Mark Sherman, Brian Ericson,and all the people who sit in the
carpeted offices here at iHeart and Houston. My name is Garth. Check me
out, Hi, tech Tecan dotcom. We will see you next week
right here, but right now,my show is OVA.