Are Black Friday Deals Really Worth It?

Today on The High Tech Texan Show - 

• Are Black Friday deals really worth it. When you should hit that BUY button.
• How to delete and deactivate your X/Twitter account.
• The reason most people don’t sell their used smartphones. But here is why you should.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael Garfier.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Michael Garfield.

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Michael Garfield's joining.

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Us in the high Tech Texan.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans. It
has to make life easier some new technology.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
So Michael Garfield has something you might want.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Texas.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield twenty
three years.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I have been hosting this show. Twenty three years. I
have spread the love, the knowledge, the wealth, okay, maybe
not the wealth about most everything I like and the
products you either wanted, you needed, or you're now collecting
dust in your closet. This is called the high Tech
Texan Show. And my name, as you heard in that

(01:08):
grandiose opening, it's Michael Garfield. You can call me Michael,
you can call me Garth. Just don't call me late
for dinner. And yes I do dad joke quite well.
Twenty three years people, this radio show has solely been
broadcast in Southeast Texas, you know, Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, and
everything on KPRC nine fifty am, which is the oldest

(01:32):
talk radio station in our great state of Texas. In fact,
this is the longest running local show in the one
hundred and one year history of KPRC. Now, yes, it's
also heard throughout the iHeartRadio app across the country, also
podcasted wherever a great podcast or heard. But starting this

(01:54):
week that all changes. You see. I had a goal
all those years ago to spread my content to as
many people who could listen, and that's why I coined
and trademarked the term high tech Techan instead of the
high tech Ustonian. And as of this weekend, this show

(02:15):
finally is truly techan just like me. Hello San Antonio
and WOAI listeners, Welcome to the high Tech Texan family.
Wait wait, wait, wait before you flip to another station,
and we know who you are. Oh, yes, we do

(02:36):
have the technology. Give it a listen, give it a
few weeks. I've been doing this for an entire generation.
From the name of the show, you may be expecting
to call in and have me help fix your motherboard
on your computer. Ah, you're listening to the wrong show.
You might as well find a nice, blonde, knowledgeable female

(02:56):
who's been doing tech specific radio shows for about as
long as I have. Nah Ah, this show is fun.
This show is fast, personable, it's hip, it's hot, it's happening,
as my grown kids say. Speaking of which, you will
find out that I am a grown kid. You see,
I'm a kid who enjoys what he does for a living.

(03:18):
I'm a kid who gets to play with most any gadget, car,
piece of food. You want me to try it before
you buy it, I'm your guy. But know this, I'm
not afraid to hold back. If I don't like something,
If I think it's cheesy, could break easily, it's too expensive,
I'm gonna tell you to walk away or even run,
simple as that. This show is not about computers people. Well,

(03:41):
actually it can be if you want my advice on
buying laptops or desktops. But it's also about cars, trucks.
I test drive over sixty vehicles a year. I can
help you decide which ones to look at, which ones
to stay away from. It's about most anything that consumers want.
You like peanut butter, I'm gonna tell you what I

(04:02):
think the best peanut butter on the market is cell phones,
streaming services, bourbon, places to travel, what to whar I
gots it. All that, my friends, is what this show
is all about. So buckle up and let's roll to
celebrate us going statewide, not national yet, one step at

(04:23):
a time. We have a brand new phone number to
get in Okay. For years it's been seven to one
three blah blah blah blah ba. So no matter if
you're listening in Houston or in San Antonio and soon
to be one more city too. Jot this down here
it comes. It's an interactive show, and it's an easy one.
I'm all about marketing. Wait for it. Three four six

(04:47):
twenty nine. Texan. Nah, it's called marketing people. Three four
six twenty nine Texan. Why don't you call me? If
you're new to the show, say hi, Promise I'm not
gonna bite you. If you're a long time less there,
it's like garf man, glad to hear you. I drove
across the straight to Texas. Three four six twenty nine. Textan.
We're gonna have some giveaways, but what it is is

(05:08):
you call me, you say, hey, Michael, ah Black Friday
sales are coming up. I see something. Am I gonna
get schnookered? Should I wait till a little closer to
the Christmas Hanak holiday. That's it three four six, twenty nine, Texan. Yes,
if you want to go old school, you can also
email me I guess if you really wanted to Michael

(05:28):
Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Either way, we're gonna try
to get you on, play your voice, make you famous,
answer your question. Promise I want to laugh at you.
Quick history. There's been some questions, there's been some doozies people.
I mean, I remember, like, you know, how do you
turn a computer on? Back when the start Putton, you

(05:49):
know from Microsoft Windows came round, how do you turn
a computer off? Just nothing is too funny, too trivial.
Because we have fun here, That's what it is. I
will set up what's coming in, what you're gonna hear
until we sign off today and we do this every weekend.
But today on the show, we're going to talk about
Blue Sky. Well, yes, there are blue Skys here for

(06:10):
my show and hopefully my career as we continue to
expanded to more markets. Blue Sky it's actually an app
people that many people are logging on and creating a
free account to because they're flocking from X in Twitter.
I will tell you what Blue Sky is and how
it does differ from other social media apps. I am
going to talk about Black Friday. Are Black Friday deals?

(06:31):
Are they really worth it? We are less than one
week out from Thanksgiving? The Cowboys afternoon game. Actually I
think that. By the way, massive Cowboys fan here. I
will not rag on the Cowboys, grew up with them.
I'm a big d guy. But dang man, this is
not a good pro NFLC. Great, it's great college season
for me. And if you're new, hooking morns people, because

(06:53):
that's how I roll. We're gonna talk about Black Friday deals.
We're going to talk about streaming issues. Anybody have any
questions about that old the waste of time Jake Paul,
Mike Tyson fight. It's about more than that. There's been
some winners in some losers. And I'm gonna look at
it from a business streaming standpoint too. How many streaming
services do you have? And I guarantee it's too many.

(07:15):
It is too many. We'll tell you how to stop that.
Those are the things that we're gonna yap about. Three
four six twenty nine. Texan. This is the energy. This
is my electricity. I haven't even had caffeine yet today
and I'm still fired up. I am pumped. Not only
that I am heard in the largest city across Texas,
which is used in the fourth largest city across the country,

(07:37):
but now in San Antonio, another top ten most populous
city in the state of Texas. You guys are great,
So I'll tell you right now, from Alamo Heights to
Garden Ridge to Sibilo to Hollywood Park, give me at
least one hour of your time right now, and we
are going to have some fun. I promise. Michael Garfield
is the name. It's the High Tech Texan Show coming up.

(07:59):
We're going to get into the content, and I guarantee
you are god all love it. We'll be right back
we get into it. It is the High Tech Texan Show.
Welcome new listeners all across the state of Texas, including
our new affiliate WOAI in San Antonio. We've been doing
this for two decades in Houston on KPRC nine point fifty.

(08:20):
So no matter where you are, how you're listening via
the iHeartRadio app Terrestrial, which some people still do in
their cars, we thank you. I guarantee we're not gonna
bore you. I guarantee. I'm not gonna tell you how
to fix your computer. Oh we are so much more
than that. I will tell you what potential app to download.
All right, who's hurt of blue Sky? Nah? Raise your hand, Riten,
put your handback in the wheel. You're driving people blue Sky.

(08:42):
If you haven't heard a Blue Sky, you've probably been
busy watching I don't know, NFL college football. Maybe you're
worried about the election, you're happy about the election. Whatever. Well,
by the way, I don't do a lot of politics,
so this is a pretty much political free radio, Chaseeau.
But Blue Sky, I will tell you a lot of
people are flocking to it and deleting X, Twitter, whatever

(09:05):
you want to call it, maybe for political reasons. Big news.
Blue Sky just this past week hit twenty million users
and is growing like wildfire. All Right, you never heard
of it, or maybe you see people saying, Hey, I'm
killing my X account, my Twitter account, I'm going to
blue Sky. Let me give you the breakdown. It's a
relatively new social media platform, all right, and it is

(09:29):
receiving a big influx of users who are fleeing from
X or Twitter from what critics describe really as a
toxic environment under Elon musk direction. Now, listen, I'm not
an Elon hater, and I did listen. If you know me,
there's no hate. There's just too much positive things in

(09:50):
the world. But there's a lot of things that that
Elon Musk, who owns a new bought Twitter for forty
four billion dollars about two years ago. That has changed
and a lot of people don't like it. You know,
he sought to overhaul the platform to fit his free
speech absolutist vision, all right, And since then, there have

(10:11):
been other social media platforms that have tried to compete,
try to get the you know, the users to log
on regularly. There's been Instagram came out with Threads about
a year and a half ago. Anyone on Threads anyone
anyway mastered it on as a new one. These were
some of the original top contenders in the race. None
of them really have been able to secure the position

(10:32):
as x's top competition, not recently. Changes to X that
were rolled out during Elon's tenure. I mean, you know,
he newtered the block feature, which means if you previously
block somebody, one of the things that you can do
Now people are literally able to see what's going on,

(10:53):
so they've he's unblocked it. So he's now making verification
a payable subscription. It used to be Hey, I'm verifiedable
legit person. Oh no, no, you want a blue check marker,
you have to pay. He's obviously increasing vocal in the
support of you know, right wing issues. He's president at
Trump's you know, you know, he's not a cabinet member,
but you know he's very involved in that. But election

(11:15):
day appeared to be the last straw for a lot
of people who were turned off by elon support of
Trump or maybe the political discourse whatever. So people are
now flocking to this thing called blue Scott. The difference is,
and I guess the question is, you know what is
blue Scott. It is an alternative social network. It is

(11:36):
blowing up right now, which is a good thing. It's
finally having its moment. It's an open source, which means
there's not one person, there's no one overlord who oversees it.
Anyone over the age of thirteen. You can join Blue
Sky as long as you're legal in your country. Now,
let's go back to the day Blue Scott launched as
an invitation only service. Back about a year and a

(11:59):
half ago, and then in the eliminated of the invites
in the invite codes in February of this year, so
anybody can sign up. It is free. Go to your
little iTunes, go to your Android up Google Play Story
and you download Blue Sky all one word and you
install it on your phone and you're set to go.
You sign up, you create an account, and pretty much
at that point you need to pick your handle. Your

(12:19):
handle is your nickname. You know my by the way,
let me introduce you for those new listens. My nickname, shockingly,
it's high tech Texan. Spell the whole thing out h
I G H T E C h T E x
A M. Spell the whole thing out, high tech text.
And you can find me on Instagram. You could find
me on Twitter x Still you can now find me
on Blue Scott Facebook. I'm actually Michael Garfield. That's I'm

(12:42):
on LinkedIn too. I'll let my kids do the TikTok,
I'll let my kids do snap and everything. But pick
a handle, pick your name, pick whatever it is. Okay,
it must be at least three characters, and you can
only use letters, numbers and hyphens. So there you go.
Once you've got that account name, you know, you set
up your little capture and things like that, just to
know it's you, and you look for your interest. What

(13:02):
do you want to what do you want to follow? Animals, art, books, sports, science, politics, whatever.
All right, at that point you're set to go. And
then it's kind of like X and Twitter. You follow
people who you like me personally. I'm a sports guy.
I love sports. I follow athletes, I follow, you know,
sports networks for the inside news. It's cool, all right,
you know, maybe I'll follow some people who follow the weather. Certainly.

(13:24):
I do some technology stuff I would love. I would
prefer I would demand you follow high tech textan and
I thank you for that because that's that's one of
the ways that we actually give away gifts and products
and products around here. And let me help you out.
Oh I get some products. Give me about a month
and a half and I'm in Las Vegas for the
Consumer Electronics Show, and I come back with bags and

(13:44):
bags full of stuff that they want me to give away.
It's not just hollow number ten. Oh no, no, you
follow me on social media. That's how we're going to
do it. So that's that's my that's my lost leader
of say please bug me, please bother me on one,
on Blue Sky, on Twitter, on Instagram. Thing, all right,
lots of things to follow. You can customize your feed,

(14:05):
you can do anything else anything you want. You can
block accounts, you can mute accounts. You could do a
lot of things. And you should be at that point
set to go. It's up to you. This is not
a political thing, the least not for me. Do you
want another one? Do you need another social media app? No,
you probably don't. If you're a brand, it doesn't hurt

(14:26):
to be across the board. If you're an influence there,
it doesn't hurt to be everywhere. But we are all tired.
We're just our eyeballs are probably bleeding from so much
of the crap that keeps feeding and scrolling bias. Do
we need another time sucker something else? I mean, oh,
you know, I'm on Facebook, I'm on this. No, you

(14:47):
sometimes don't do it if you want to. If you
want to follow news, don't. But to me, and here's
just my assessment. Right now, I've been on Blue Sky
for all of a week. Right now, there is less noise,
there's less chatter, there less hate for lack of a
better term on Blue Sky than I have seen on
X Threads. I could say the same thing I hopped
on Threads, which is from Meta fast Book, Facebook, and

(15:10):
Instagram a year ago. And you can find me on
High Tech Texan. I don't go there a lot. I
really thought Threads free to download also was gonna be
the Twitter killer. It's got two hundred million subscribers Threads does.
That's ten times as big as what's going on over

(15:30):
at Blue Sky. But also Twitter X has three hundred
and twenty seven million. They're slowly but surely falling off.
Wait until then, there you go. There's your Blue Sky breakdown.
All right, Now, when we come back, I'm gonna tell
you how to fully delete if you want to get
off that X and Twitter, I'm gonna tell you how
to delete that. I'm also gonna take your phone calls

(15:50):
three four six twenty nine Texan. As we continue the
High Tech Textan Show. This is Michael Garfield. Heard that
a lot of people cross the state. Now big number,
new number, my friends, three four six twenty nine Texan.
That's how you're going to get a hold of me.
If you're just going up and down the radio dial
in Houston. Well, I do think you for tuning in

(16:12):
to KPRC nine to fifty am, where this show has
been for twenty three years, and this show has now
been on twenty three minutes. I think now maybe thirty minutes.
As we get to the bottom of the twenty thirty
minutes san Antonio, what is off the first over the
year terrestrial show? As we picked up another affiliate on

(16:33):
WAI flagship talk news station, which is great, What is
up san Antonio? Already hearing from San Antonio, San Antonioan's
San Antonio Heights. That's whatever you want to call you.
You're a textan just like me. This is the high
Tech Texan Show, Michael Garfield. We're fun guaranteed, not the
boy guaranteed. And I'll tell you how to fix your computer.

(16:54):
We don't do that all consumer products technology. I got
a car, I've been testing out a car. Who wants
an EV man? I got my listen? This is new,
this your first time listen to me. Listen. I am
a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association, been there
for about fifteen years, which means I talk about, I

(17:14):
write about, and I review cars, trucks, pretty much anything
with four wheels on it. I've been doing it for
quite a long time. On average, I get in a
brand new vehicle sixty times a year, well over once
a week. I get a vehicle for one week. All right.
I don't work for a dealership. I am not pimping
a dealership. I'm not even gonna tell you where to
buy a car. I work straight with the manufacturers. They

(17:37):
let me and my ilk other people who review cars trucks.
I give you my thoughts. I can tell you they
are horrible. I can tell you they're great. Doesn't matter.
I don't get paid for anything. That's why you can
trust me electric vehicles. You'll get to know me of
the love hate relationship I have with electric vehicles. This
past week, I've been in a accurate Z Did you

(18:01):
even know Accura makes an electric vehicle? I gotta say
it's quite I will. I'm gonna do a little lost
leader of it. It's quite nice. It's it's a very
nice EV twenty twenty four Acura ZDX, not the cheapest thing,
very roomy. It is fast, just like a lot of
the EV's. Give me about fifteen minutes. I will tell
you cop about two or three pros and pretty much

(18:25):
one by major con the major negative that I always
have about ev cars, But that's some of the things
that we do. Got an email over here already to
Michael Gurfield at iHeartMedia dot com. This comes from Chris
Tally in San Antonio. Chris, you are now my first
San Antonio and San Antonio White not my first texting
my brother to to send me an email and way

(18:48):
in Dear Garth. Great hearing from you. I used to
drive through Uston to hear you all the time. Can
I wait to listen to you every single week here
on OAI. Got a question for you. He was talking
about blue Sky. You were talking about apps that you
should or should not download. Here's the big question for
you when it comes to posting personal things. This is
actually a good one. What personal things should I never
post online? Chris Tally CT This is going to be

(19:11):
from you. A number one. How old are you kids?
Post everything? Chris? I know you're I'm assuming you're not
a teenager. I don't know. There's a number of things
you shouldn't post. People post too much. People believe, or
it seems that social media is the facebooks and everything.

(19:33):
It's an online diary. If you think about it, it's
kind of it kind of has become an online diary.
Here I am eating, Here, I'm going on vacation. Here,
here's a picture of my new grandkid. I'm doing that.
Got a new job? Personal news okay, yes there, you
post about your favorite sports teams, your politics, whatever it is.

(19:54):
People can tell a lot just from following you. At
that point, they could potentially take your information and use
it against you. Not good. Now, listen, there is zero
fool poof fray from anybody of stealing any information or
pretending they're you. Right now, welcome to the twenty first century. People.
They could do anything, but in my opinion, you're helping

(20:17):
them by posting a lot of your personal stuff, almost
too much. So. To answer your question, Chris, what should
not you post? Number one? I have a few rules
over here. No matter what age or whatever you do,
try not to post your relationship status. And here's why.
If you're a widow, if you're a widower, especially a
recently widowed person, you're a sitting duck. Crooks want to

(20:38):
get their grimy hands on everything from inheritance money to
whatever scam scam scams. Try not to post that you're married,
your divorce, you're dating, whatever relationship status. Number One, stay
away from posting your vacation plans. Seriously, if you start
telling people, hey, I can't wait for my upcoming cruise.

(20:59):
We're going to be in here and I'm gone for
a week, why don't you just go ahead and leave
your front door open? People? All right, Just that's it. Specifically,
if you're going on a cruise or a specific flight,
people can now start digging into Oh wait a minute,
here's my frequent flyer account number, and I'm gonna pretend

(21:19):
i'm you, and I'm going to cancel the trip and
refund the money back to wherever I'm going. I don't
mind people posting their vacation photos, but I do this,
and this is my trick, post them when you get back,
when you're done. And I do this too. It's in listen.
This is a safety, you know, listen for. It's safety
for everybody. I've been in the public ear, the public eye,

(21:43):
if you will, for you know, two decades. And I
want people to generally come to my remote broadcast or
let them know where I'm doing a segment on this
TV show or whatever. If I'm m seeing an event,
but I found in the past that man, you can
get some weirdos. And I don't want to use that
s stalker word, but I just did. I generally now

(22:04):
post not where I am, but where I've been. Something
to keep in mind. Vacation plans are certainly one of them.
A lot of people say, try to stay away from
don't really post a lot of stuff of your kids,
your kids' school, your kid's activity. You're proud of your kids.
I am proud of my kids. I want to share
those milestones too, But posting your photos in front of

(22:27):
your kids school have you sharing their weekly soccer schedule
or something. You never know who's watching. The thing that
really scares me is those first day of school picks
that happened every August here in Texas and the little kids,
the little ones, and there's this chalkboard that mom and
dad put up. Hi. My name is Sally, I'm six
years old. I go to this elementary school. I am,

(22:51):
you know, you know, three feet eight inches tall and
I weigh this pounds. Listen. I get that that's a
memento that you want to do every year. Do you
really need to tell the world about that because you
just told me every single thing about your kid. I know, okay,
and if your kids coming home walking out of school
and somebody knows that information. Hi, Sally, how are you do?

(23:13):
You had a good time? Listen to your mom, who
I follow on Facebook, told me to give you a rite.
Just really try to stay away from your kids. I didn't.
I could talk about my kids though. My kids are
in their twenties and one of them is in their thirties.
They're out there on their own, they're adults right now.
But when I started doing this, you know, my my
youngest son was one year old and one years old,

(23:33):
and I don't even remember giving their names. I would
talk about my kids in general. My kids actually helped
me in the tech world back then. They got to
play all the video games and help review things for me,
and I would just say, hey, you know the you know,
the eight year old, this one, the five year old, this,
you know this one. I tried not to poster faces
as a young kid. So again, be very judicious what

(23:53):
you're doing. Also, be cautious with your work details. Another
opportunity for a scam. Fishing scams target They could target
you know with you highly personalized information. You know, if
you got mid level employees or high level employees, you
know they may have access to your company's finances. The
more specific details you post, the more fuel that you

(24:14):
give a scammer. And that includes where your work and
your you know what your role is and things. And
so to wrap it up, listen Chris Tally, thank you
so much here in San Antonio listening on WAI. Ask
the question what should I out post online? Just use
your common sense to everybody out there is just be
very careful because all too often now people are scamming, scamming, scamming,

(24:34):
and so there's your answer with that, Michael Garfield. It
is called the High Tech Texan Show heard all across
terrestrial radio in Houston, Southeast Texas KPRC nine to fifty am.
And could not be more excited to add all over
San Antonio, Central Texas area w A I more cities
to come. Hopefully you are going to end this year
pretty pretty big. If you want to get in, leave

(24:56):
a message, try to get to the callers and say hi,
three four six twenty nine Texan three four six twenty
nine Texan. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com When we
come back, I will tell you a little bit more
about my electric vehicle experience in the twenty twenty four
Acura GDX. And also how to delete I promise this

(25:17):
when I need to pay it off. How to delete
your Twitter account, your x account, Twitter account? Should you
be leaving it for the Blue Sky or anything else?
That's what I'm here for. It's the High Tetext Show.
Time goes so fast, don't it sure does, especially when
you talk fast. You see what I do is I
pack like a three or four hour show into my

(25:38):
one to two hour show here on the High Tech
Texan Show. Michael Garfield is my name. If this is
your first time, give it a week or two or three.
This is fun. I'm not gonna bore you. If you
hear the energy coming through the radio waves, that's really mine.
No caffeine yet, people, I'll give you the phone number
here if you would like to participate in the show.

(25:59):
Black Friday coming up. I'm gonna take a little time
and tell you our Black Friday deals really worth it.
We're less than a week from Black Friday right now.
In Black Friday is it's the Friday after Thanksgiving named
Black Friday, because if you look at it the old
Ledger over, you know, did you make money, did you
lose money? You're either in the red where you're losing money,
or you're in the black when you're making money. And

(26:21):
generally a lot of stores, a lot of retail stores,
you finally get into the black during the holiday season,
especially if the big shopping day after Thanksgiving, hence the
Black Friday. And I haven't even gotten a Cyber Monday
yet and everything else. But a lot of these deals
may not be worth it, and you really do need
your studying. And I've already found some Black Friday deals
that look on the surface like it, so I can't

(26:44):
pass this up. It's such a great deal. You may
want to pass it up because there's still you got
at least another month here or so before the big
man comes down your chimney. As we continue the show,
all right, real quickly, I promised I talked about Blue Sky.
If you're just tuning in, this show will be podcasted,
which means you can listen to it again and again

(27:04):
and again. You can go to iHeartRadio. That's an app
you download for free. You look for Michael Garfield, you
look for high Tech Texan and then you can listen
to it again. I did talk about Blue Sky, what
it is, how to sign up, why it's different than
X and Twitter, because so many people seem to be
flocking from X in Twitter. I will tell you this,

(27:25):
if you're thinking about getting or deleting your Twitter or
almost any other app, it's sometimes it's not just as
easy as uninstalling it from your phone. That's not deleting it.
That's not deleting your account. It's deleting it from your phone.
And believe it or not, it's a bit of a
process to delete your ex account. And again, X Twitter,

(27:46):
I'm gonna call them the same thing because it's the
same company, different name. Let me tell you how you
do it. First, you have to deactivate your account, which
keeps your account in a system, but it removes your
display name, your user name, your public profile from the site.
You have thirty days to reverse it. It's reversible for
thirty days. Okay, some of your posts may still be

(28:08):
viewable on Google or search engines. And at that point,
if they click on it, people click on it, you
know it's gonna lead to an error page on the
Twitter site. But if you want to delete it. Here's
what you do. Okay, open your account. Open your X account.
You look for the word more option on the left
side more Okay, it's a circle three dots. Click it more.

(28:29):
Then you look for settings in privacy in your account. Finally,
you're gonna drill down to deactivate account. Think about it?
Do I want to day? I hate shit itdn'd confirm
you want to suspend your account. You select deactivate bottom
of the screen. You now have a month restore your
account if you want to. After the thirty day window

(28:50):
is done. Your X account is OVA. That's the term
we use here. It is not over. It is OVA.
Your ex account is done. Deactivate it now. You can
download your account data before you deactivate and delete your account,
which means you can keep all your past tweets and
things like that. There you go. Now, there's not a
way to wipe out all your tweets on the X

(29:13):
platform in like one solid sweep. There's a few workarounds.
There's a few third party services. You can delete a
lot of your tweets for free. You can subscribe to things. Seriously,
you could subscribe. There are services like tweet, delete, tweet, deleter,
Circle Boom. Those are real services that you can subscribe

(29:33):
and they'll delete everything that you're tweeted. Back in the day,
you could do that or just just let them float
and thin air and somebody just email me over hey, Michael,
will I be able to reuse my email? If I
deactivate my Twitter account? You will not be able to
use the same email address or user name for an

(29:54):
X account for the entirety of that thirty day deactivation period.
After that, X says that their support team can clear
email addresses from the system. But you know what, how
hard is it to go get another freakin email. I
have probably had fifteen different email addresses my work whin,
I've got fourteen personal lies over there. He's just gonna

(30:15):
go grab a Gmail address. So anyway, there you go.
If you're trying to get out stop off of Twitter.
Don't just install it. You have to deactivate it. And
I hope that works. I'm not telling you to do
it or don't do it. You may want to get
off every single social media It's not just as simple
as hey, let me know, stole it from my phone. No,
there's there's several more things about that. Uh three four

(30:38):
six twenty nine. Text in is the phone number. You know.
We've got Callum over here. Callum, by the way, you
will hear me shut out. Callum is the guy who
sits on the other side of this glass, who pushes
the buttons and makes miss sound sex a. He answers
your phone call. Sometimes if he doesn't, he'll let him
roll the voicemail. You can record a little something and
we can play it back to make your famous here
over the year. Ways, if you've got questions about pretty

(30:59):
much and you can sumer product, I'm your guy. Not
just tech and apps. I'm gonna talk about cars now. No,
I got into cars. Well, I've been driving for quite
a while, but I started reviewing cars fifteen sixteen years
ago because I realized that cars and trucks they are technology.
They're nothing but technology right now. And so I'm a
member of the Texas Auto Writers Association Writers. Even though

(31:23):
I talk about it and I do write sometimes about
it too, I do get to review cars directly from manufacturers.
I don't go to dealer ships to say can I
test drive this? No, there's a service that actually delivers
me a car every single week for fifteen years. I
get it for one week, and I get to drive it. Yes,
it's a neat perk. Sometimes it's a pain. And then
you know what, because I got to keep schlepping, you know,

(31:44):
all my personal items from one car to the other
car to the other car. But don't cry for me, Argentina.
But I get to drive almost everything on the brand
new stuff this week. And I hey, callum, we need
a sounder. Can we create you know, we got we're
upping our listeners here, man. We need a sounder. Like
what's Michael driving this week? R you know? Okay, yeah,
you work on that, buddy, Thank you. This week I

(32:04):
have been driving the twenty twenty four Acura zd X. Anyone,
anyone Now. It's their electric car, all right, Acura Honda,
same company, the ZDX. It's an ev all right. It's
it's very I love the design, very distinct. It's got
some the front part, the front fascia is what it's called.

(32:27):
The front part really interesting. It's clean because it is electric,
it doesn't need air vents to go in. I like
the led headlights. It's got a really nice a diamond
pentagon with like this three D embossed diamond pattern that
illuminates the lights all around. I think a lot of
evds do that, and I think it looks neat and
it's sexy. This is inside. It's got banging Olofsen premium audio,

(32:50):
which is good so you can hear me and well
you can't really stereo because we're on the AM dial,
but you know what I'm talking about. But the immersive
listening experience very nice. Eighteen speakers are there.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
It integrates Google built in. There's something called Google built
in now. Yes, it does have Apple Car Play, it
has Android Auto. But a lot of companies are using
Google's kind of operating system, if you will, which is fine.
I am a Google I'm an Android fan, and I'll
talk about that, you know, next hour two. Uh. The
particular model I'm driving, it's called the Type S as

(33:22):
in sex eight the Accura zd X. All right, it is.
It is not the cheapest thing. Okay, these things, you know,
they're they're they're running you know, sixty ish, you know,
thousand dollars or so real quickly if you're new, I
like evs a lot for a number of different reasons. Yes,

(33:44):
they're quiet, Yes, from the green effect, they don't you know,
produce the you know, you know, the combustion. They are fast,
they are big, they are roomy. What I don't like,
and I don't have time to get into it now
because we're up against the bottom of the coming up
at the top of the hour. I do not like
the charging in for structure that we have in the
United States right now. I do not have the patience

(34:04):
to find a charger when I'm on the road, hopefully
crossing my fingers that no one is using that charger,
waiting for them to use the charger, and then pulling
up the vehicle I'm playing in and waiting forty five
minutes turn hower to charge the vehicle. If I'm driving,
I want to get from point A to point B. Yes,
I know, if you own an EV you probably have
a charger in your garage, which is great. You probably should.

(34:24):
Maybe you don't drive more than one hundred, one hundred
and fifty two hundred miles. The range of this one,
by the way, is right about two hundred and eighty
five miles for this one. Not bad. It's kind of
the upper range of a lot of the evs right now.
But sometimes when I want to drive from Houston to Dallas,
ain't gonna happen, and I'm gonna have to plan my
trip like triple a trip tick days and I just
dated myself at that point. I don't want to stop somewhere.

(34:45):
I think evs are great as second cars. Have a
gas one, then also have that EV for the local trips.
But if you're looking for one, the ZDX from Accura.
Really good performance, really good design, like the technology, very woomy,
good horse power, and you're set to go two hundred
eighty five three undred miles. Top of the hour. I

(35:07):
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You missed the second hour. You want to hear it
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The clock right now, halfway through the end of the show.
Hour number one is officially over and you got sucking
off people. You got about fifty two more minutes of
me in the High Tech Texan Show. Michael Garfield nickname
is Garf, which means we are a halfway a happy hour, beautiful,
beautiful weekend here in Texas. Finally it got cool. I'll

(36:29):
tell you. I'm telling you right now, man. And I've
always said this, if the weather like this was year
round in Texas, we would have San Diego prices. That's right,
San Diego. Ah, yes, I know what that means. The
humidity in the heat, you laugh, is what keeps us

(36:51):
here in Houston area. Specifically they not paying high, high,
high exorbitant gas prices, state taxes. Housing is just it.
There's nothing really There's two things that are that that
can come from humidity that are actually positive in my mind.
Number One, it keeps our prices down. It keeps people sweltering, going, ugh,

(37:16):
why do I live here for about six months of
the year, especially when they walk outside it in August.
It's just nasty. Number two. It keeps our skin nice
and moist and keeps us younger. Other than that, I
can't think if anybody else can give me a reason
that humidity is a good thing. Open it up right now, okay?

(37:36):
Three four six twenty nine Texan new number. By the way,
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(37:57):
use your use your voice style. Last hour we did
cover Blue Sky while people are flocking to it. I
did tell you how to fully delete and deactivate your
Twitter x account. Again, just by uninstalling the app on
your phone does not delete your Twitter account. You've got
to actually deactivate it, which takes It's a thirty day
process too. By the way, Black Friday this is the well.

(38:21):
This is the annual last show before the Black Friday Deals.
Anybody who's gotten something, saw a deal they want to
share with me. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot Com three
four six twenty nine. Textan if you know my cell phone,
feel free to text me what deals are out there?
Are Black Friday deals worth it? Are they worth the wait?

(38:48):
Typically the week before Thanksgiving Day and ending that following Monday,
which is Cyber Monday. It's some of the busiest shopping
days of the year, and this year the number of
people shopping in stores and online during that period they
it could hit a new record. This is according to
the National a Retail Federation. But people, you like consumers,

(39:09):
we're all we're trying to make the most of the
Black Friday sales. It may not be getting the breast
your your best prices of the season. There there's not
and I'm looking, I'm gonna throw at us out over here.
According to wallet hubbs twenty twenty three best things to
buy on Black Friday Report, Okay, this is from last year,
thirty five for thirty five percent of items that major

(39:30):
retailers they offered no savings at all compared with their
pre Black Friday Day prices. A lot of them could
be misleading, and so that that's one of these Here's
another thing. A lot of people have concerns about shipping.
That's a very good reason to shop early because consumers,
they're increasingly they're they're worried, they're concerned that they're online

(39:52):
orders they may not arrive in time for the holiday,
rightfully so, so in period of such high volume selling
third party shippers, they're very strained. And you've got god gosh,
love your ups, your FedEx, your Amazon delivery person over there.
I mean order early, okay, uh, but Dan, I guess

(40:18):
to kind of finish my thought of it, what discounts
should you expect on Black Friday? I mean, I think
you're gonna you're gonna easily see twenty to thirty percent off,
not everything store wide, of wherever you're shopping, because it
depends on the retailer. I mean some markdowns they could
be fifty percent or more. But you have to ask yourself,
fifty percent off what the estimated manufacturer suggested retail price,

(40:42):
which no one ever sells at that price for I mean,
you got premium brands, high end brands. They're probably mean
you got brands like a Nike, Lululemon or something like that,
they may not offer more than twenty or thirty percent.
I mean you have to have the balance yourself. What

(41:03):
not to bly on here, here's a good one. What
should not you buy on Black Friday? What to stay
away from? Typically? Black Fridays are a great time to
find rock bottom prices on clothing for the winter fall. Clothing,
flannels and denim, and codes and accessories and all other fuds,
all that other stuff. Televisions, consumer electronics not bad. You're
gonna get some good deals too. You may want to

(41:24):
stay away from beauty products. You may want to stay
from footwear. Typically those things and I have seen cyber Monday,
wait a few days for that thing. Trips, a lot
of airfares, a lot of cruises, a lot of tour packages.
They generally wait until even after Cyber Monday. Somebody, I think,

(41:46):
I don't know if it was a joke. They coined
it traveled Tuesday. That you're gonna see a lot of
discounts on you know, what should I do in twenty
twenty five? Should I, you know, go to Europe or
something like that. Toys? It could pay to hold out
And the last few weeks of December. Maybe holiday decorations
they start getting cheaper. Obviously there the last few days

(42:06):
before Christmas. Exercise equipment in things that you know, exercise
equipment is a big seller now because I'm going to
get in shape next year. Yeah, watch out, listen. If
you want to really make sure you're getting a good deal,
I'm gonna tell you this, and I've said this for
so many years. You can call, you can ask me,
you can email me. I generally know the value of something,

(42:28):
could you get it lower? But there's this thing called
Google search for it. There are apps out there or
even browser extensions you could download for free on your browser.
One is called Camelizer, that's c A M E l
I Z e R. One's called Honey. What they do
is they could keep an automatic eye on price changes

(42:51):
and let you know when a price drops. Some of
them give you coupon codes. Shop Savvy that's another app
that does great price comparisons. You know. Look, you know
if you have credit card rewards coming in or coupon codes.
There's a coupon cabin I think is you know another
thing too? Look at that. Pay attention to the price

(43:14):
adjustments and the return policies. People, but be wary, do
your research, don't jump think about it, ask your significant other,
sleep on it, and make sure There is a return
policy too also, but you know I would actually stay
away from it. Listen, I love small businesses and I
know small business shopping is coming the last weekend of November.

(43:37):
It's great to deal with big box, big name companies,
brand companies. They do have a return policy. If you
know you're buying one on one maybe a small you know,
mom and pop shop you've never heard of, do a
little research better Business Bureau. But it just again, this
is the time to be potentially scam Just be wary.
Scrooge mcgarth has spoken, all right, when we come back,
what else you want to know? Oh? I hit on

(44:01):
it last week. But the streaming issues. I know, we're
well over a week removed from the Jake Paul Mike
Tyson fiasco and I'm not even talking about the Netflix
stream I'm like, what did I just waste my Friday night?
For the NFL has got something to worry about that.
But I'm going to tell you about the state of
streaming where we are right now. Again, I do cover
that area because it is technology and it's just not
as sophisticated as you really think it is. Now we'll

(44:23):
get into that when we come back. Here. I'm a
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(45:29):
who uh anybody. I don't really want to spend too
much time with a Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight because
it was it was well over a week ago, but
it's it's there was. There were some winners and losers,
believe it or not. And the way you're not gonna
believe I say that, I mean and I'm not. I'm
not talking Mike Tyson, who actually won a lot of money.

(45:50):
I'm not. I'm not talking Jake Paul, who is If
you still don't know who the guy is. He's some
YouTube influencer and he's one hell of a marketer. But
he won too. He won also. But there's been a
fast narrative that Netflix's upcoming the NFL Christmas Games could
be a technical disaster based on what happened last week.

(46:12):
Because despite the fact that sixty million people allegedly tuned
in to stream what they were hoping to see a fight,
and there was a few good ones on the undercard,
but there was massive streaming issues. It was almost a joke.
Netflix is a joke, which actually which is pretty ironic too.
But anyway, the Netflix is going to scream stream but
not one, but two NFL games. Let me help you

(46:36):
out jumping from a paid side show joke of what
the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight was to the NFL. Netflix.
You're playing with the big boys. Netflix. You're on the clock. Netflix.
If you screw up in an NFL game, you just you
give it up. Baby, it's done. But it's probably just

(47:01):
as likely that the Christmas games and Netflix are gonna
be fine. And it's probably just as likely that Peacock
and Amazon will also screw up an NFL game or
YouTube TV well, or any streamer will. And I'm gonna
tell you why. I'm a realist and I'm not a hater,
but just listen to me, people, This is the stuff
that I cover because it's streaming. It's streaming. Streaming is unpredictable,

(47:27):
and it is far from as reliable as cable and satellite.
People still seem to not understand this, no matter how
many times I say it. Not that continue to run
away on the Tyson Paul fight. But as advanced media
lessons go, it delivered a knockout. And I'll start with Netflix.

(47:53):
They were a big winner, that's right, a winner. What
do they win? Well, they won a crash course in
network topology and a live case study on what it
takes to deliver sixty million concurrent streams over the public Internet. Yes,

(48:13):
they have some homework to do. They the production value
was horrible. No one cared. It wasn't the main event.
They won a place in the global news cycle for
several days. You want brand awareness, I that Friday night,
I was making Netflix. I never typed the word Netflix.

(48:36):
I was making Netflix jokes. But you know what a
lot of if you're from the theory, hey, even bad
PR is good PR. Netflix they got a ton of PR.
Education's expensive when you add it all up, when you
add up the purse, the gate, the streaming costs of
production costs. This win if you will, it probably cost
Netflix between seventy five to one hundred million dollars. They

(48:59):
may have not been a winner in your book, but
they learned a big lesson. Jake Paul, I didn't know
much about this dude, Love him or hate him. Guy
understands this game better than anyone else. People call me
a marketer, and I am a marketer. I branded myself
the high tech text in twenty three years ago, before
social media was around. I was an influencer before the
word influencer. Really was around to even denote what was

(49:20):
going on. I know and understand how to pimp yourself,
how to pimp your own brand. Everybody does it right
now and you need to this, Jake Paul, I need
to take a lesson. This dude didn't just win the fight.
He delivered a masterclass social video, social media, shameless self promotion,
streaming is in the future. It's the present people watching

(49:44):
this dude. This was a completely fabricated event. This fight.
It raked in cash and attention. Man like, it was
just it was nobody's business. This dude got paid to
beat up an old man. He's okay with it. Tyson
fifty eight years old. He won because he crushed the

(50:05):
meta game. He reminded us, really that age is just
a number. And if you have a discipline to train
like a madman for six months, whatever he did, did
he win or lose that it doesn't matter who cares.
The fight was rigged. It was it heavily choreographed because
it's boxing. The outcome didn't matter. Mike Tyson really couldn't lose.
If he survived, he won. If he won, he won.

(50:26):
He really won, win, win, win, win, win everything. What's
the takeaway. Here's the takeaway for me, and this is
the way I look at it. Traditional media is officially
out for the count there's my little you know, boxing analogy.
It's out for the count traditional media. No amount of
nostalgia for the good old days. Uh uh, this was it.

(50:48):
You go back to streaming right now, don't. Streaming is
relatively new, and I want you to think about the
history of media. Radio, the media that you're listening over
the air on right now, the fifty If you're not
listening on podcas as, you're listening plausably live right now,
I am broadcasted of a radio frequency on iHeartRadio in
Dallas and San Antonio. Okay, that is it, right, Radio

(51:09):
as we know it, and we're gonna go back to
Marconi has been well, well over what one hundred years.
Then we got television. Television as we now know it's
been around since what nineteen forty five, nineteen fifty, so
television as we know it now seventy years, seventy five years.
Print okay, print has been around incredibly a long time. Okay.

(51:33):
The Internet as we know it, we're getting shorter now,
the World Wide Web as we know it, what the
mid to late nineteen nineties. Okay, twenty five years streaming
what five years? Six years? So it's infancy. That's why
it's unpredictable. Suck it up. I remember watching Prime Video

(51:57):
owned by Amazon, when they did their first n NFL
game three years ago. It's like, oh, my goodness, this
is a paradigm shift. Did it's not going to be
on Fox, CBSNBC or ESPN. What am I gonna do?
I logged onto Prime and it was had some latency,
it was relatively slow. This is going to be horrible.
Guess who's laughing all the way to the bank. Well,
the NFL, but also Prime because NFL games are content

(52:21):
and people subscribe to watch that content. They watch NFL games,
and their production value has gotten better. And Prime has
figured out. Peacock last year owned by Comcasts, they figured
it out. Peacock handled the Olympics this past year in
Paris so well, wasn't even funny. Great job of having
so simultanean so many different sports, so many different channels

(52:42):
you can do that. This was the new one for Netflix. Again.
I'm giving us some slack nail mcoffin or a lot
of kudos come Christmas. Day, all right, bottom of the hour,
what else you got new phone number three four six
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(53:49):
If you we got a new phone number three four
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not make you famous. And you could take that from me.
After twenty three years, who got a lot a number

(54:11):
of emails. Hey Michaels, this is a good time to
buy a smartphone. Into the year, you don't see a
lot of Yeah, you're gonna see some smartphone sales. You're
gonna see some rebates too. For example, if you want
an Apple and if you want an iPhone, Apple does
not discount their phones, but Apple will package things together

(54:33):
for deals. You're still pretty much gonna pay the full price.
But oh, by the way, if you sign up for Apple,
you're gonna get one hundred and fifty dollars iTunes card
or something like that. Maybe you're gonna get an extra
battery charger. Nothing new has been released over the past
month or two. The latest iPhone came out a few
months ago. Samsung's generally released two times a year between

(54:54):
their flip phones and foldable phones, and there's a whole
slew of phones coming out. My question in somebody ask this, Michael,
if I get a new smartphone, what should I do
with my old one? And can I sell it? The
answer is absolutely yes, you can sell it. And I've
talked about this, and you can sell it a number
of different ways. There are services that will specifically take

(55:14):
your electronics very conveniently. They will even mail mail you
a box and a cart and you mail it back
to them, and depending if it's in very good shape,
they're going to give you relatively top dollar. If it's
scratched up and doesn't work, and they're not going to
give you as much. I mean, you can google search
all you want. I'm not going to go through that stuff.
You can give it away. You could just throw it
in a box, which I have most and think about it.

(55:37):
I've had and tested so many smart smartphones or even
dumb phones, going back twenty plus years. I have boxes
of them. I don't know why. Maybe one day I
think I'm going to open a high tech text and
museum and I'm like, hey, do you remember when this
phone slid out and there was the size of a laptop.
I don't know it's there, but I saw this stat
which is interesting. Nearly seventy percent of US smartphone owners

(56:03):
have never sold their old phones. Now I want you
to ask yourself, I see if you can guess? Why?
See if you can get What have you done when
you got an old smartphone? If you're given it to
your kids, just give it to a spouse, give it
to a friend, you toss it, or did you sell it?
Nearly seventy percent of American smartphone owners said they've never

(56:24):
sold a phone that they longer need and you know why. Well,
here's the biggest response. About seventy seven percent. Three quarters
of smartphone owners say that resale value was either not
influential in their purchase decision or they even considered. A

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lot of people are not confident in the resell value
of their smartphones. Is it even worth it? Or should
it just remain a paperweight on your desk. The market
for refurbished and use mobile phones in this kind was
eight billion dollars last year, and that is forecasted to
triple by the end of twenty thirty one. This is
from Zion Market Research. Okay, iPhones, Yes, they do have

(57:12):
a good reputation for retaining value. It's good choice for
shoppers if you looking for It's like the Toyotas or
jeeps of smartphones. Right, But why do people hold onto
their smartphones. Well, the reasons consumers provided for not selling
old phones it varied, and I'm looking at this the
pole results over here. But the reason the results indicate

(57:35):
that most people they don't want to make the effort.
You lazy people, you didn't know where to resell it.
But here's another one. They're worried about their privacy. They're
worried about their privacy that people are going to the
new owner of their phone are going to get the
data from that old device. Really, it's actually easy to

(58:00):
understand why you got more than fifteen hundred data breaches
have already happened.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
It.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
I'm gonna going back to the first half of this
year of twenty twenty four big ones at and T Ticketmaster.
You got phone makers like Apple and Samsung, and they're
aware of these worries and they've rolled out privacy updates
to their devices. It's all good. But despite that, though
data privacy, it's holding back most smartphone owners from selling
their devices. You need, if you want to sell it,

(58:31):
delete every single thing from that phone. But before you do,
make sure you back it up because your phone contains
a lot of your personal stuff. I want you to
look at your gallery, look at your photos right now. Now,
hopefully you may be smart enough to back up your
phone on a regular basis. Back it up to the cloud,
put things in the iCloud, put things on one drive,
put whatever it is. If you don't do that, maybe

(58:53):
once every week or so. Plug your I mean we're
gonna go og old school radio. Plug your phone in
to your computer, your desktop, your laptop, Transfer your photos,
your contacts, your videos off your phone. Number one. It
clears up your phone, which may gives you more memory
on a phone. But now you have a backup in

(59:13):
case you lose your phone, case someone steals your phone.
You need to do that before wiping data clear from
your phone, back it up unless you just don't want it,
but something tells me you want something on there. Okay.
At that point, the best way to wipe your phone
is you go to your settings and then you hit

(59:35):
reset to factory data, reset to when it came out
of the factory. It's going to have to jump through hoops.
It's gonna it's going to ask you, is this really you?
Who owns a phone? Is going to put your four
digit input? You know the password? Is it going to
look do your your face recognition, your your fingerprint. It's
going to ask you, are you sure you want to
delete this to factory reset. I do this a lot

(59:57):
because when I review phones, odds are I've got after
thirty days or whatever, the company wants it back, so
I factory reset mine. It's not that big of a hassle,
big of a deal. I do back up that phone
because if I've used it for a month and you know,
take photos and whatever, but then I factory reset it,
and sure enough, pretty much everything is gone. So much

(01:00:18):
so that when you turn that phone on again, it says, HI,
to set up your phone into your Google name or
whatever it is. Factory reset. But again, think about it
before you do it, back up everything. Then you go
ahead and do it. But that's one of the reasons
why how many people and again we got about with
fifteen twenty minutes over here, three four, six, twenty nine Texan,

(01:00:40):
how many people just don't sell their phones? How many
do you have right now? I probably have cell phones
doing the show twenty three years. I get this phone,
I get this phone, I get this. I mean, I
don't know, Matt, what do I got? I got? I
don't know I got what eighty ninety phone sitting gaining dust.

(01:01:01):
I mean, I go back to the BlackBerry. I have
no Kia. I have branded. ESPN came out with the
phone swear. ESPN came out with If I have the
ESPN phone, it's a brick. Barbie just actually, Barbie just
came out with its own branded phone. I got phones
that slide, I got phones that flip. I got flowing
phones that fold. They're funny. Did just look at these things?

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
This is how far we've come. What's new is old again.
Now there's flip phones. You remember the flip phone they
used to have. I actually were I carry a flip phone.
That's my number one phone right now. I have the
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip six. It's a great flip It's
a great phone. Does a heck of a lot more
than the old Motorola Star Tack came out back in
the day. You're sitting on money, people. If you want
to do it, it could be nostalgia for people. It

(01:01:46):
could be some extra money in your pocket. Just if
data privacy is you're concerned, wipe it clean, wentce, you
back up the stuff and there you go. Fifteen more minutes.
I have the High Tech Texting Show. Try to get
your phone calls in three, four, six, twenty nine. Text
in Garfield that iHeartMedia. Before we wrap it up, but
don't go anywhere. Final segment this week of the High

(01:02:09):
Tech Texan Show. It is Miguel Michael Garfield. I will
release you to do whatever you need to do to
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(01:02:29):
Doing a lot of media hits. What are the best
options for Black Friday? The Cyber Monday? Is this a
good deal? What's the hot? Good games and cars and
trucks and everything? This weekend? A lot of TV stuff.
If you're in Houston, tune into Great Day Houston Channel
eleven CBS, where I am a contributor and I'll be
doing a lot of things in the next few weeks,

(01:02:49):
including hosting the show the second a few days day
or two in the second week of December. Excited about
that it's amazing. Throw some makeup on a pig. It
could be semi decent. It's just it's it's lights and
makeup people, that's that's real. He was I got a
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And also thanks to Brian Erics. And Brian Erickson is
the program director at k Pierce actually all the AM
stations here in Houston on iHeartRadio. He has been my guy,
the boss for pretty much almost since I've been here
for twenty years. And he got a got a nice
little promotion there. He now is programming our Dallas, Austin

(01:03:32):
and San Antonio stations for iHeart and with that he's
he's taking me with him to some of those markets.
And so first week to be heard on w o
A I in uh in San Antonio and looking forward
to that and adding some more cities, and so I
appreciate so big shout out to Mark Sherman. Mark Sherman
is he's also he's like a vice president of programming,

(01:03:55):
and he's vice president of being probably the nicest guy
in radio, Mark Sherman radio personality, but also behind the
scenes for so many markets there. Mark was involved in
an accident earlier this week. He's he's doing relatively well
and thoughts his prayers that June, his wife, his kids,
and everybody. But the dude has got a great sense

(01:04:15):
of humor and he's just making do of it. So
we're thinking about him, and maybe Santa's got a little
extra special for him, including a new car since his
car is no longer working. Mark, if you need some
advice on buying new cars and trucks, I may want
to listen to this show because it's one of the
things that I do. I was talking about the smartphones
last segment. What are the reasons most people don't sell

(01:04:38):
their old smartphones. A lot of people are scared of
their data privacy. Oh if I sell it, people are
going to see my data and photos legit reason, and
I'm glad people are thinking about that. But there are
ways to remove and factory reset your phones. But you
may be sitting on money. I mean, if you've got
a relatively recent phone, maybe you know and similar one

(01:05:00):
or two or three generations older than what you have
right now, and it's in good condition, which hopefully you've
put a case on it, you can get several hundred
dollars or credit on something, so you should think about that.
But somebody wrote in here to Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
dot com, GARF love your show. Congrats on the upgrade.
It's not really an upgrade. Is it an upgrade to
be in San Antonio? It's an expansion to San Antonio?

(01:05:22):
Thank you so much. What about password managers? Is that
something that I should put on my phone or even
on my desktop computer? Do they work? It's a good question.
That's from Jeff. Jeff is in the Woodlands, Texas, just
north of Houston. Anybody know the most common password? Anybody
can guess what is the most common password. Believe it

(01:05:42):
or not, it's not the word password. I think that's
number two. It's one, two, three, four, five six. I
have no clue why it's just six digits. I have
no whatever. Because people are lazy. How long does that
take to crack a second Nord pass? They did a
study the most common passwords. They've been looking at the

(01:06:04):
most common passwords for about six years. Right now it
may be time to start using a password manager. A
manager it is. It's an app, and it's a helper,
and it's much more technologic advanced than keeping passwords in
a book on sticky notes. A password manager's an app

(01:06:26):
and it keeps your passwords encrypted and secure. It also
does something you probably didn't know, but it helps you
avoid using the same password over and over again. Password
it's a key to accessing any account. If you use
that same key everywhere and some bad person gets a

(01:06:48):
hold of it, they can get in everywhere. So password managers.
There's a lot of password manager apps out there. Apple
has a new one. It's called Passwords, an app that
you can download on the iPhone. It's very good, but
only if you use Apple products. Okay, if you have

(01:07:10):
an Android or Chrome. Google has their own password manager
and guess what it's called. Oh, it's called password Manager Free.
It's simple. It actually works across across a ton of devices.
If you want a third party, there's nord pass has one.
There's there's a long been up that one of the
older ones. It's called one password, the number one password

(01:07:32):
dash Lane. That da s h L A N E
dash lane bit warden bit. I like the name of
that one Bitwarden. It's it's free. It's an open source,
which means a lot of people help keep it secure.
Once you sign up, you download the app and all
your devices or maybe the extension on your web browser, okay,
and then you can turn on your auto fill and

(01:07:53):
your phone set on your phone settings, and you select
your password manager and pretty much you're set together. The
relatively easy to use. Some are free, some cost money.
I suggest maybe starting out with a freebie bit Warden
or again Google's password manager. Apple you've got something called passwords.
If you don't think it's secure enough, maybe worth paying

(01:08:13):
something a little bit more nord Pass or something like that.
But yeah, to answer your question, Jeff and the Woodlands,
thank you for tuning in password managers. They are not
a bad thing, you know, it's not a bad thing.
Me shutting up, me getting out of here and letting
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to everybody who made this one happening twenty three years.
We've always only been trushly in Houston getting I'm getting
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(01:09:59):
Happy holiday days. We will talk to you the day
after Black Saturday, or the weekend after Black Saturday, which
means a few days before Cyber Monday, and we'll give
you some better deals with that. The name is Michael
Garfield and right now this show is over.