Be wary of what information you share with AI

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• How this Super Bowl will change the business of free/paid TV sports
• T-Mobile launches *free* Starlink satellite service for all data carriers
• Why you need to be careful what info you share to AI apps and companies

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael Garfield's joining.

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In the high Tech Texan.

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Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texas.

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It's to make life easier technology and Michael Garfield has
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Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
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Michael Garfield, Alan Dine's Day, super Bowl President's Day. People,
It's February. It is Black History Month, it is Michael
Garfield's birthday month. We've got rodeo season coming up at
the end in Houston. Let's celebrate and we're going to
do that for the next two hours. I do thank

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you everybody tuning in once again, twenty three years in running.
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I don't geek out that much. Trust me, people, interactive show.
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You download the iHeartRadio app and you can listen to
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If there's some reason I want to hear this Ova
and Ova again. Tell your friends follow me on social
media because we also give away a lot of good stuff. Man,
I was actually taking I didn't take official inventory because

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if I took inventory of all the crap and gadgets
that I have in my house, the company send me
that I continue to keeping a hoarde over the years.
I really could open a retail store. And I'm serious.
It's not going to be a massive retail store, maybe
like a Trader Joe's size retail store. But I am

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sitting probably on a ton of cash because these are
products that companies said, you know what, you know, we're
gonna upgrade these things. Just go ahead and keep it,
don't send it back. And these are things from phones
to TVs, to chargers, to cases, to cables, to speakers
to earbuds. I mean it goes on and on and
on and before anybody gets bright ideas, I have a

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lot of cameras and security on my home, and I
have a lot of guns too. We're allowed to have
legally guns in Texas also to protect this house. I
sound like an NFL commercial right now. We most protect
this house. So what I do I have to get.
I want to give some of this stuff away. So
we could do it via here, via a phone number
which I'm going to give you. We could do it.

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And I just sometimes I'm in my closet and going, oh,
I forgot about this. Let's take a picture of this,
Let's put it on my Instagram. Let's create a fun contest,
and I'm going to mail it off to you. That's
why you need to follow me certainly on Instagram. High
Tech Texan Hi g h T e H T e
x A N And we are off. It is my
first show post super Bowl. I have been alive for

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every single Super Bowl actually, and I don't want to
start ragging on it like this was the most boring listen.
I've seen some blowouts people without a doubt, but this
was kind of unexpected. If you listened last week. I
had a big upside potential in my square pool four
hundred dollars a square square pool, which was a ten

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thousand dollars per quarter payout. I didn't come. I mean, listen,
even if you're one point off, it's not like you're close.
It just doesn't work that way. I mean, it's so
random the way they score. And then I guess if
the score was closer in Kansas City, had gone for
an extra point instead of going for a two pointer. Yeah,
worked out, But I'm not in the wood. I could

(03:59):
have shoot a game, but even if I won the
ten thousand dollars per quarter, I'd still be here for you.
How did you watch the game? And this is what
I want to know, And with that we do start
our interactive radio show three four six twenty nine text
and that is the number where you can get to
me three four six two nine te xam. When I

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say how did you watch the game? I'm not really
concerned as woods and chips and guacamole and seven layered
dep some wings. Because if you did, thanks for inviting me.
Not did you watch it over cable? Did you watch it,
like I suggested, using an over the air digital antenna
which doesn't compress the signal. And you were probably impressed

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because there's no lag, You're not thirty seconds behind the
game of play, because that's pretty cool. Did you watch
it on tub And if you did not watch the game,
you still not know it to be. But if you
watched the game, you saw some kind of interesting commercials
for two B Tubi and that is the streaming service
that Fox bought a year ago. How did you watch?

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I'd love to hear from you. You can also go
on x Twitter, whatever you want to call it. And
by the way, it's also the same handle high Tech
Texts and Hi g H T E H T e
x A N. Did you enjoy watching the game? Did
you notice any different whether you streamed it, whether you
watched it on cable where you if you watch it

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over the air, did you watch it on your phone?
Did you watch it on your tablet, your desktop? I mean,
because we are consuming media at different in different forms.
This did not happen fifty nine years ago when Super
Bowl one happened in Los Angeles. It didn't happen ten
years ago at Super Bowl forty nine.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
But it is.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Happening now that we as consumers, we are watching these
not just on linear television. We're all sitting on a
couch watching on that the big old back of the day,
the cathode raid too. But now we're watching on flat
screen digital TVs, generally via cable, because we are now mobile,

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and I like, here's an example, I'll tell you this, like,
I went to a pregame party. I was over in Houston,
Verizon nice for the Verizon folks. They invited me to
a pregame. Actually it was a pregame in watch and
actually stay and watch the game at the Houston Texans
practice facility, that big bubble right across the street from
NRG Stadium. I didn't want to stay for the game

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because I just I wanted to to just I didn't
want anybody around me. I wanted to watch it. I
wanted to listen to the commentators. I wanted to watch
the commercials and hear the commercials versus sitting with twelve
hundred and fifteen hundred, two thousand people there. So I
went to the pregame. I was there for about an
hour and a half. Made some funny videos. Yes you
can see those on my fun Instagram. You can like
them if you want. But I went there and on

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the way home and I'm not supposed to do I'll
just I'll just keep this safe. So I was a
passenger in the car and I was watching the NFL
pregame on my phone via two b and that was
the only way to watch it because normally I would
watch Fox Sports app, which I have and is free,
but I downloaded they I'm a soccer man.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
That got me.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
I downloaded the two B app which is free, and
it is one of, if not the largest free streaming app.
I mean, it's not like it's there's not a lot
of live programming, even though they did open up the
Super Bowl and the Super Bowl pregame show to live programming.
I mean there's a ton of channels and you could
see movies and old sitcoms and whatever. But I was
watching the pregame in the car on my mobile phone

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and this signal was great, just over five G. How
did you watch it? Three four, six, twenty nine, Texans?
What did you think of the commercials? I usually kind
of I am a marketing guy. I'm really into the
commercials and I'm really in the marketing, and I saw
a lot of the commercials even before they air. They
had some funny ones. We could talk about the halftime
show when we come back. I am going to give

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you kind of my favorite commercials, some of them that
actually worked in a commercial. If you are buying advertising,
if you buy advertising here on my radio program, which
we hope you do, please contact your local iHeart radio station,
and you could, for a fraction of a fraction of
a fraction of a fraction, purchase commercial time on this

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radio show Versus eight million dollars for a thirty second
ad during the Super Bowl. But we hope advertising works here.
It keeps us free. Like we're about to go to
commercial right now, listen to the ads that run. I
don't know what's gonna run, but I hope you choose
to go buy from them and shop from them. When
I talk about companies like Cabo, Bob's US Coins and Jewelry,

(08:41):
Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy or whatever, I thank you they are
are sponsors. But I will come back and I will
tell you just because I saw ads for AI companies,
car companies, beer companies, I didn't go out and buy them,
but I will tell you a few that actually immediately
pushed my buttons. I went online and I utilize their services.

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All that coming up next here and the biggest winner
from the I'm gonna tell you who the biggest winner
was last Super Bowl Sunday. You may be perplexed. That's
what we do here on the High Tech Texan Show.
It's called the teas it's Michael Garfield. Happy Weekend. Wherever
and however you're listening to.

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The show, I may get hang in there.

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It's called the Teas People. That's what I do. I'm
better than Mike Greenberg. This is Michael Garfield. As you heard,
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twenty two, twenty three, twenty four years. I do think
everybody for tuning in, and also for downloading the iHeartRadio app.
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podcast of iHeartRadio. And you downloaded, and you listen, and

(10:23):
you listen and you listen. Did anybody record the Super Bowl? Anybody?
If you watched it live? The only people I think
who would rewatch the Super Bowl are probably Philadelphia Eagle fans,
because that's going to live in posterity. Shocked me that
the Eagles won. I didn't have any money directly on
the outcome of the game. I was in a square pool.

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Actually I was in one, two three, I was in
three or four different square pools. Man, I kept bup
gus freaking gupgus. Man can close. But whatever, that's just money, right,
It's not like I get paid for this radio shows.
You know, might as well just you know, throw away
some money out the window. The advertisements, though, anybody have
some good ones?

Speaker 5 (11:06):
Did?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
What was your favorite? You know? Was it the Dorito
thing that some user actually made and he was abducted
by aliens? Was it the Budweiser horse who little pushed
the keg up and down this street? Uh? Some of thes.
I was looking at the USA Today ad meter, which
I followed for years and years and years. One of
the big ones was the Ford commercial. No, I wouldn't

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you see, I don't even know it wouldn't have Ford
commercial it was. It was the jeep commercial with Harrison Ford.
You see how sometimes it didn't push the button U
That was probably one of the best lines. He goes
I like my jeep even though my last name is Ford.
Very good with it. Uh. Glenn Powell University of Texas,
by the but a lot of UT grads actually not.
They didn't probably graduate. Between Matthew McConaughey and Glenn Powell

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UT Longhorn Boys, they actually played big roles in commercials,
just like Xavier Worthy of UT Longhorn scored a few
touchdowns for the Camp Jedi Chiefs Longhorns all over the place. Baby.
I didn't rush out to buy hardly anything. I haven't
bought Budweiser, a Bud Light beer. I did like the
post Malone commercial. I think that was fun. Didn't certainly

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didn't go buy a car. But you know what I did.
I downloaded two different apps that advertised a quick advertisement
during the actual Super Bowl and one that didn't even
advertise during the Super Bowl because they used guerrilla marketing

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and they use tweets, they use Instagram. Because you know
what we as it get carrying over from the first segment,
we as a society, when we watch things, and certainly
when we watch football games, odds are we're using a
second screen, and we use the term second screen is
most likely it's your phone that you're holding while you're

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sitting on the couch watching your TV. You're on it
because you're texting your buddies. Hey man, did you see
that play? A Mahomes is not you know, rocking right now?
What's what's going on? Was that a concussion? Can't believe
they went for two. They should have got the whole thing.
Maybe you're looking at live stats, maybe you're doing live betting,
maybe you're doing emails. Maybe you're just I tell you

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what I guarantee if unless you're an Eagles fan, you
got bored, probably at the beginning of the second quarter.
So it's the second screen. So I mean, I'm going
through my ax and my tweets and all this stuff,
and I saw one from a company I've never heard of,
and dang it if it didn't work. It's and this
is not an app, but anyway, it's it's for me.
I wish they would pay me to talk about this.

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But it was called Perplexity, and it's an app. And
they did a Super Bowl contest that as I was
reading post Super Bowl, it moved the needle on the
number of downloads. Now, if you're watching the game, you
saw ads eight million dollars a popp or so for
open ai and Google because they were promoting their AI

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search engine a lot of money. But there's this. I
wouldn't even familiar with this company and I cover the
tech industry. It's called Perplexity. And what they did they
posted a tweet sorry X whatever you want to call it.
And what they did is they wanted users to download
its app and oh, by the way, into a contest

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that could result in a one million dollar whin. Yeah again,
I'm a sucker, I'm a consumer. I wanted to try it.
But this one contest, this one X host it increased
the mobile app installations by about fifty percent. This is
according to an app intelligence provider called app Figures. A

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million dollars very clever way to not only boost the
apps installations, but really help familiarize users with how this
Perplexity AI search works. Because you to enter the contest.
And I love this and this is this, this is for marketing. Gosh,
I love marketing. I love this stuff. It was really
kind of brilliant. Just because you download an app and

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install it, these companies want you to use it and
to enter the one million dollar contest. You had to
use it, and you had to use it during the
Big Game. I don't think I'm allowed to call it
the Super Bowl, Sorry about that. And what it did
is since it's an AI app and what AI apps
are there for, they want you to launch it and
then ask questions, any questions. So what you had to

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do you had to download it during the game. Then
you had to ask it at least five questions right
there on the app during the big Game. Then the
company said he was going to pick one million dollar
Winter I did not win by requiring users to ask
these five questions to do the contest. I think the
app itself the perplexity, it really help users get the

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overall initial learning curve of how to try a new product. Brilliant,
I say brilliant. And the other one was one that
we saw on TV and did you check this out?
It was right near the end of the game, if
anybody was still watching, near the end of the fourth quarter.
It was from an app again I've never heard of,
called Fetch, and it was I don't even know if
it was a thirty second ad. It may have been

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a fifteen second ad, and it may I don't even
it may have just been graphics on a TV. I
don't even know if anybody was even talking, and it said,
if you download the app right now, they're giving away
one point two million dollars. Like immediately, it was like,
what ten thousand dollars a second over two minutes or
something like that, And of course, yep, sucker downloaded the

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app and here was this is why this was so compelling.
You had to immediately download it because it was getting
ready to start. So when you and I don't know
if the NFL appreciated this, because I did not fully
and clearly and consciously watch the last two to three
to four minutes of the football game because I was
too busy downloading, registering for this app, and then watching

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the app to see if I won the ten thousand dollars.
It was. It worked to some extent because two minutes later,
when I found out I didn't win Jack, I uninstalled
the app. That that could have been one of the
fastest let's download the app and let's uninstall the app
in the history. But it worked. I don't even know
what fetch is about. Your favorite commercials. Tell me over here.

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Phone number is three four six twenty nine. Textan I'm
about to give you some controversy. Don't call, but this
is my opinion. The big winner. Who's the winner in
the Super Bowl. Everybody's got their opinion. You're the oh
the Philadelphia Eagles were the big winner? Was Fox the
big winner because it was it about one hundred and
forty six million dollars worth of profit or revenue in

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the day. Not in my mind, after spending this past
week watching the game, assessing the ads, assessing the halftime, assessing,
you know, was there any glitches, Tom Brady, whatever? Was
in my mind, the biggest winner was Kendrick Lamar. Yep,

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Kendrick Lamar, the halftime entertainer. I'm not necessarily a fan
of Kendrick. I really didn't enjoy that halftime show because
I don't think I'm in as demographic. I knew two
of his songs coming in. That's the only thing I
really knew about him. The thing is you have to
factor in not only what happens live, but also in

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the chatter online, the viralinness of it, and let me
help you out. I over the past week six days
have seen more chatter about Kendrick Lamar's halftime show than
the actual highlights. The play by play of what happened
in the actual game. Kendrick Lamar won this Jay Z's Company,

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you actually put on the whole halftime show. They won
it because it's buzz and it was polarizing whether you
hated it, whether you didn't understand it, whether you liked it,
whether you loved it. My goodness to me only the
number one thing that is continuing to come up at
the top of my Thieves, top of my Instagram, top

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of my Facebook was Kendrick Lamar clips ten second, thirty
second clips of his halftime show. Behind the scenes of
the halftime show, did you see Serena Williams do this?
Did you understand the underlying segment of what he was
trying to do? Drake? It lasted a week and it
still could go on. To me, the buzz in the

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viral Kendrick Lamar biggest winner of the week other than me,
because you're listening to me right now, all right halfway
to the end of the first hour. You know the
phone number it is Michael Garfield. When we come back.
Is the end of TV as we know it actually
about to be over? I think it may be. And
what's up people? The Gulf of America. Apparently it's officially

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changed on some apps coming up right here on the
High Tech Testing Show, Last we forget. This is a

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call in radio show, and I do thank you for calling.
We've got a few people on the line. Let's see
if we can get to those three four six twenty
nine textan that's three four six two nine T e
x A N. Michael Garfields is the name. We have
been talking a little about Super Bowls and television and
how did you watch it? Did you watch it linear?
Over the air TV? Cable TV? Is the end of

(20:36):
TV as we know it? Near? I'll get to that,
but as I said, we we can't keep a lot
of these colors on hold right now, so let's go
to the phones. How you doing. I appreciate this is Brian, Brian,
it's Michael. What's going on today?

Speaker 4 (20:48):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (20:48):
Michael, great show. I always follow you and I bought
a S twenty five based on your recommendation. I'm curious
about a case and I noticed the new mag charging
on the backround, wondering what your recommendation is.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Look at that somebody taking my advice I talk about phones.
You get it. I appreciate it. Thank you, Brian. I
appreciate that call. Yeah, let's talk about magnetic cases. I
don't talk about cases a lot. I talk about the
phones a lot, but I will and I have recommended
for twenty three years that I've been doing this radio
and the TV segments. You need a case because it

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protects your phone. The phone is not cheap nowadays. It
it's going to give it at least one, two, three,
four years longer. And for some reason, you do want
to sell that phone one day or give it away.
You want it in good condition because you're gonna it's
more valued. You're gonna get your you know, potentially more
money if you do happen to sell it. So in
terms of cases, let's talk about the magnetic stuff. Now,

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I'm not an Apple guy, and I do know years
ago that Apple came up with a with with something
that it was a magnet that was embedded. It was
starting in the iPhone twelve back in twenty twenty. It
was a magnet and they trademarked it. It's called mag safe,
all right. It's a technology and what it is, it's
a ring of magnets that's embedded in the back of

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the phone and It's been on every iPhone since the
iPhone twelve. And you can go out and you can
buy accessories from battery packs, to phone grips to just
a number of other things and it magnetically. It just
puts it on the back of your phone and you're
set to go. Well, because I'm not an iPhone guy,
I've never really utilized mag safe. Like, guess what you

(22:31):
are available to use it for Android phones? Brian, you
said you got the new Samsung S twenty five, whatever
version you got. There are a number of companies who
make and we're not gonna call mag Safe because mag
safe is for Apple, but they are magnetic cases that well,
you know, obviously you could put it on put on
your phone, which allows you to put these accessories to

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make it work, including the wallets, the phone grips, and
the battery and the batteries. And there's a number of
them out there. And as a matter of fact, when
we just name check this one, when I picked up
my Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Ultra back in San
Jose a few weeks ago at the big press event
that I was at, I ran into a gentleman from

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Spegan spig E n. Speagan, good case maker, and he
was very nice enough. He gave me one of these
new magnetic cases. And this is the first time I've
actually ever used a magnetic case. I'm telling you what.
And this is not an endorsement of any I wish
it was an endorsement for speaking and all these ye
I'm just let me just tell you this is the
only type of case I would buy. I love this

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magnetic case. I would say absolutely everybody out there, it's
worth investing. And they're not that expensive. I mean at
the top level maybe a case you can get a
sixty dollars, but you can get cases, you know, five, ten,
fifteen dollars. I say the sweet spot is twenty five
thirty five forty dollars though for a magnetic case. But
the specific speaking case that I have, not only it's

(23:55):
got a little it's got a round magnet on it
that I could just pop everything on there. This one
actually had a kickstand and I can now automatically stand
the phone up if I want to take selfies or whatever.
So it's good. So to answer your question, yes, if
you do have an Android phone, I would recommend if
you're getting a get a case the least of us.
Just get some sort of a case. There are hundreds
and hundreds of case companies out there. I don't endorse

(24:17):
one yet. I should because I would probably actually make
the company go public. But in this case, I have
a spegan. It worked. I got don't know four other companies.
Now we were offering to semi cases I can try out.
I may do that, but go get it, gogle. Go
check that out, and go get a magnetic case. And
so I do. Thank you for that phone called Brian
phone number hero of the long running high Tech Texan

(24:39):
show heard all across the country on iHeartRadio in the
app three four six twenty nine Texan. That is how
you'll get to meet anybody checked out their Google Maps
or the Apple Maps lately. You ever zoomed into that
body of water just south of Texas and Louisiana and
Mississippi and Alabama. I don't know about you, but I

(25:02):
went to six sixteen years of school and I learned
that body of water was Gosh, I hate using past tense.
It was called the Gulf of Mexico. You know, as
I sit and do the show in Houston, Texas, I'm
probably no more than fifty miles fifty five miles from

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that body of water as muddy and discussing as it
is in Galveston, which used to be called the Gulf
of Mexico. People, if you believe what Google says and
what Apple Maps now say, it is officially changed to
the Gulf of America. Go check it out. Open your
maps right now, right and just look look where you are,

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and just take your little two fingers and spread it out,
move it up and down. Look right there in the
middle where there's a lot of oil buried under that water.
And it's going to say the Gulf of America. Anyone
does Is this a big dealer?

Speaker 4 (26:05):
No deal?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Three four six twenty nine Texan, Google officially and Apple
they have officially changed the name, based on the orders
of President Trump, the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf
of America. That's it. It was an executive order renamed
the body of water, and the Federal Board of Geographic
Names formerly changed it this past Monday. Now give us

(26:32):
some insight, because I researched things for you. The Geographic
Names Information System, believe it or not, that's that's the thing.
It sits under the United States Geological Survey, and they
are the ones that provide the names used in Google
Maps also changed. Mount Denali in Alaska also got a
name change. It was officially renamed to Mount McKinley following

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Trump's executive order on January twentieth. I'm not sure if
Google has or Apple has renamed that yet, but it
is going to be updated. I'm trying not to make
this political. Let's just talk about changing names. Is anybody
going to Are you really going to start calling this
the Gulf of America if you are someone who is

(27:17):
my age, if you were in your fifties or area
below that, we know what it was, Hey, cage, you
want to go waiting in the muddy waters of Galveston
in the Gulf of America. Believe me, if you've ever
seen parts of the Gulf of America, I'd being pretty
embarrassed to call it the Gulf of America. There's some
disgusting waters. And you know what, let's do a little

(27:39):
riff on this. When I was a kid, the body
of water was called the Gulf of America the Gulf
of Mexico. When I was a kid, there were nine
planets in the Solar system. Now there's eight. How and
when did all of this change in? I'm thinking, did
I waste sixteen years of my life going to school

(28:00):
to learn this stuff that's going to change? I mean,
my poor mom who had to help me when I
was making the actual, you know, the three D full
diagrams of the solar system when I was in I
don't know what fourth fifth grade and we had to
go to the stores to get the styrofoam balls and
we got ten different balls and we had to color them.
One was the Sun. Had to get that big styrophoam ball.

(28:23):
We got a little teeny one from Mercury, and then Venus,
and then Mars and a little tiny blue dot, which,
oh my gosh, your Earth is so small, all right?
And then there's Jupiter and how do we make the
rings around Saturn? And we had to go get some
construction paper and do that. And then there was Yourinus.
And then there was Pluto, little tiny purple thing. Well,

(28:45):
I don't know, I was a ten years ago. Somebody said,
you know what, Pluto ain't no planet anymore. I don't
think it was the President of the United States. What
else am I missing? Before we get to break three? Four, six,
twenty nine textan if you are relatively of my age,
what changed from science to geography that we learn? I mean,

(29:07):
remember the metric system we were it was the seventies
and I think that was that Gerald Ford thing or
is it a Jimmy Carter thing back when he was
President man America switching to the metric system and we
had to go through what a decimeter and a hectameter
and a millimeter and all this stuff? How'd that turn out?
Not too well here in the United States? Because we said,
screw it, we are the United States and we could

(29:30):
do anything we want, and we did, which I guess
is what the president is doing right now. We're just
going to rename everything. And why why didn't even how
Nolan Trump, who is a really good businessman just in
some ways shapes and forms, why didn't he just find
a sponsor for it? Why not? I mean because I know, uh,
shell Shell does a lot of deep oil well thrilling

(29:54):
and digging in the Gulf of America. Why not just
it's the Gulf of America gold brought to you, what
the shell Gulf of America. How much money that they
would take him? The VP We're sorry about the oil spill.
But you know what, we're gonna take spot title sponsorship
right now. You know we're just gonna soften our image.
I'm gonna leave you with this. I have a new

(30:15):
name for it. If we're gonna self name things, we're
gonna sponsor things, we are now gonna call it not
the Gulf of America, ladies and gentlemen, the new body
of water. It's the Garth of America.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Well you're at that.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'll segment first hour of the show. Michael Garkfield. Thank
you so much. Phone number here. Maybe we'll pick up
another color or two. Just if you have questions, You
have thoughts on pretty much anything, man, it doesn't matter.
Been testing out some new bourbon too. If you're a
big Brown Water fan, I'm more than happy to give
you some of my faves. It's added another like twelve
to fifteen bottles of my collection. Very nice birthday gifts

(31:12):
earlier this month to some of my buddies. But it's
it's lifestyle, it's consumer stuff. Whatever you need. I am
your guy. Three four six, two nine. Texan must follow
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(31:33):
something away next hour, Big Marty Grock Galveston, got some
tickets to give away next hour. If you're a big
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T E H T e x A N. One of
the things that I also cover, probably almost more than
anything else, is automobiles. I'm a big automobile I review
cars and trucks, non sponsored, don't deal with dealerships. It's

(31:57):
directly from the manufacturers. Been doing it fifteen years. I
have test driven probably over one thousand vehicles, sports cars, SUV, cuvs, evs,
you name it. So I do cover the industry pretty intensely.
And you know, obviously EV's electric vehicles. I have my
thoughts if you're a longtime listener on it. But I'm debating,

(32:21):
and I think the industry is debating whether it's good
business or not. I saw this headline Ford lost five
billion dollars on EV's last year at twenty twenty four.
It predicts it will lose another five billion dollars this year.
In twenty twenty five, Man Ford. It released its fourth

(32:43):
quarter in full year earnings earlier this week, and they
did beat Wall Street expectations. Good for them, but the
predictions of a tougher year ahead it really kind of
underscores how far the company still needs to go before
it can really right size its electric vehicle business. And listen,
to be sure, the gas cars that Ford still has,

(33:04):
they're doing quite well and they're bringing in enough revenue
for the company, So the company is still making money.
But the company warned its earnings may drop two billion
dollars or more of this coming year thanks to new
vehicle launches and following car prices and whatever. Ford I
believe to me, they're kind of struggling to keep up
with the rivals and the EV market. I mean, GM

(33:27):
has come out with several new models last year, the
Chevy Head some I've tested a number of those, the Cadillac,
the Cadillact Lyric. I played in that that was pretty cool.
Ford don't really, by my account, only has three battery
electric vehicles on sale right now, three of them right,
Mustang being one GM's EV business. I believe it's showing

(33:48):
signs of profitability. Ford seems to struggle a bit Ford
cancel plans to introduce an electric three row SUV. I
don't know. I'm not telling you to steer away. There's
a pun intended right there, but you may want to
think about it. I'm fine with EV's and again, I
literally have to put an asterisk in a caveat every
time I talk about EV's because people think I hate EV's.

(34:10):
I don't hate evs. What I'm not a fan of
it's our battery charging infrastructure that we have here in
the United States right now, there's just not enough chargers.
And for a dude like me, and again, I everybody
is in a different situation. If you were a stay
at at home person and you don't drive to the office,
you don't commute, and you don't do whatever. If you

(34:31):
do nothing but take the kids to school which is
two miles away, you take them to soccer practice, and
you got a charge you at home, perfecto. I think
EV's are great, right, But for me, kids are great.
Courage kids are out of the house. Single guy. Parents
live in you know, Dallas. I want to go to
the UT Games in Austin, that's just from Houston. When

(34:53):
we're talking two hundred and twenty five to three hundred miles. Man,
that is just about the limit of what an electric car,
electric vehicle will go. I mister Adhd, I am not
one to stop somewhere halfway three quarters of the way
on the road, pray that there's going to be a
charger that's readily available. Wait forty five minutes, for an
hour if that, to even get the thing almost up

(35:14):
to one hundred percent, and go, I am snap, snap, snap,
I'm on the road. Let's go, go, go. But maybe
there's a reprieve in site. I saw this too. Tesla
based in Texas. By the way, Tesla has a ton
of Tesla superchargers, and that's their proprietary charger. And if

(35:36):
your member a story I told you about three months ago.
I've never tested a Tesla. They're not in the program
that I actually get vehicles, but I get a lot
of other electric cars that are non Tesla cars. Well,
Tesla has a proprietary charger that you just can't plug
in to any other type of vehicle that's not a Tesla.

(35:56):
A couple of years ago, Tesla announced that some of
their charging stations had been fitted with adapters for other
EV brands, some of which are in Texas. Well, it
was what was it about? February twenty twenty three, the
White House issued guidance that ed manufacturers who wanted to
receive federal funding they had to make their chargers agnostic,

(36:17):
no matter what brand it was, it had to work.
So Tesla announced then that they they were going to
open about thirty five hundred of their supercharges to other vehicles.
All right, well, now, allegedly they if you have a
non Tesla EV, you're going to be able to charge
your non Tesla vehicle there. This happened to me. I went,

(36:39):
I went to somewhere in Brinham, Texas, you know, on
the about an hour north west of Houston, and I'm
in a Chevy Equinox I think it was, or whatever
it was, and I'm down to nothing, and I'm on
my map, on my Google Maps, and I'm looking for
a charger and the only chargers that were popping up
are Tesla. And I just had the worst weekend because
like I think I'm gonna might the car was, battery

(37:01):
was gonna die. I pull up a Tesla couldn't fit
into my car. It was bad. But anyway, Tesla promised
to make thirty five hundred of its stations available to
all electric vehicles by the end of last year. If
you do want to try this out and you find
one and you have a non Tesla EV, Tesla has
retrofitted some stations with a what's called a magic doc

(37:23):
It's a magic dock. It is an adapter that is
placed on top of Tesla's flug and it enables non
Tesla EV's to charge at a maximum rate of two
hundred and fifty kilos. And to use this thing, you
need to download the Tesla app and create accounts brilliant, brilliant, Okay,
and then you hit charger non Tesla and I'll let

(37:44):
you find a super charger site that is near body.
Oh and yes, you do need to add a payment card.
It ain't free. People. At that point you go to
find the stations, you plug it in and you start charging.
And I don't even know how much it costs. And
believe it, you heard another story about what a month
and a half ago when I went to Lake Charles
and I was in a hummer H three EV what

(38:07):
was it eighty dollars to charge the thing and he
killed an hour and a half of my time I
will continue to follow this market and then maybe talk
to you any to talk to about it the ED.
But now we're gonna take a break. We're gonna hear
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Speaker 3 (39:18):
Start of the second hour, and since I have two hours,
we're gonna call this pretty much halfway through the end
of the show. And we always do call it halfway
to happy hour. Even though you're listening plausibly live on
the weekend, it should be happy hour. Really, I don't
know why you're happy because now the football season's Ovah
what is there to do? And listen, I'm speaking for

(39:39):
me personally. I mean, you probably have a good life.
You're married, you got a husband, you got a wife,
you got kids, and you're gonna start the end of
the softball the baseball season. You know, maybe wait whatever,
maybe you travel, you got the school in ballet and whatever.
Not me, okay, three boys grown up. I'm alone. Football
is the only thing that matters to me. Not a

(39:59):
big baseball fan unless the Rangers are potentially the Astros
are contention, so that's months and months and months away.
Inchers and catchers report soon. By the way, NBA, maybe
I'll get into it when playoffs start and then it
gets the hot, disgusting dulgems of summer and the only
thing I count down is August when football season kind

(40:20):
of gears up a yet, so pretty much, I have
six months, steah, with five months, six months to do nothing.
So if you're happy and you know it, clap your
hands and just keep on tuning in. Talked a lot
about the super Bowl last week, the big winner. I'm
not gonna tell you who my big winner was. You're
gonna have to go podcast at from last hour Callum
reed we'll put that up here very quickly. Just go

(40:40):
to iHeartRadio dot com and you can actually download the podcast.
Just look for high Tech Hexan or Michael Garfield and
you can feel my energy and you get that talked
about some of the Super Bowl ads. There was a
Super Bowl ad for tea Mobile. Anybody see that, And
it actually kind of prize me too, because it was

(41:02):
an intriguing spot that described their free, yes, my favorite
four little word, free satellite smartphone service that's available to
customers of any major wireless carrier, Yes, including AT and
T and Verizon and obviously T Mobile. What the deal

(41:25):
is And because I got a number of different emails
about this, here's the deal. T Mobile heartnered up with
satellite provider Starlink and they're essentially introducing satellite service when
you're in an area without traditional cell service. Pretty much
about anyone in the United States with a mobile phone

(41:46):
and a relatively new mobile phone as long as you'r
as long as your phone is less than four years old. Yes,
I know there's some fine print there too. You have
to sign up for this limited number of spots that
T Mobile is making available for this free trial data test,
and so Google that if you want to, if you
get in, you're gonna have access to free text messaging,

(42:09):
location sharing, and nine to one one emergency tech services
through June. When you're in kind of like this dead
zone when you don't have traditional cell service. So if
you're in the middle of the if you go hiking
and you're in a mountain or something and all of
a sudden, you know you don't have any bars on
your phone, that's a dead zone. Well what happens now,

(42:33):
It's gonna connect to the Starlink satellite service, which is
a low Earth orbit satellite that is floating up in orbit,
and you're gonna be able to connect that way. Now.
The commercial service allegedlates launching in July. I believe they've
already had a price on that thing. You're gonna pay
fifteen dollars a month if you're an existing Team Mobile customer.

(42:58):
Maybe if you're twenty bucks a month if you're with
eighteen Hoizon that that's That's what I'm saying right now.
You don't need to change your current cell plans. It's
not going to change how and where any of that
stuff works. So T Mobile kind of taken a lead
when it comes to this and the way it works,
it's once you go outside of your traditional cell network,

(43:19):
your phone essentially switches over to a new satellite network
that's powered by these Starlink satellites. And there's about four
hundred and fifty of them or sell. You may have
noticed them flying overhead over the last few months if
you look up in the sky. They're not UFOs. They're
just to bring a starlink satellites and T Mobile can
make this offer to eighteen T Verizon. It's completely different,

(43:43):
independent from existing cell networks, and that's why they can
offer it. So it's the same process to switch over
to it, regardless of your primary cell phone care carrier.
So fudos. And again this is not an ad for anybody.
It's certainly not T Mobile, but it's I like this news.
It's it's a new and better way, allegedly better way

(44:06):
of communicating. And one day maybe it's gonna make cell
phone os, cell phone the actually cellular towers obsolete, which
potentially could make it cheaper. I mean, think about it,
these cell phone towers. Somebody has to go out and
build these towers. Somebody's got to climb up these towers.
And put all the you know, the the repeaters and

(44:28):
the cell dishes up there, and make sure they're continuing
to work and if they break or something, you gotta
at one point, we may not need this. Now we
just launch a satellite, a series of network of satellites,
and now we could talk anywhere on Earth. I dig that, man,
I dig it. I just want to number one, may

(44:49):
make sure it works. And what information can they potentially
get from you? Probably not more than they already get
from us, because they get everything from us right now.
And how much is it gonna cost? But okay, I
see T Mobile taking the lead and again as a
marketing guys, kind of a tech story overy here. I
thought that was really really interesting. Now listen I AT
and T and Verizon. I think they have made announcements
last year, and they previewed some of their own satellite offerings.

(45:12):
That's in conjunction with other satellite providers, and there's a
few of them out there. But regardless, I think this
new satellite service it represents a pretty impressive accomplishment from
T Mobile and Starlink, and it really highlights how far
mobile technology has come. I mean, you go back to
the early days of cellular I mean it's it's like magic.
So I personally I think I did sign up for

(45:34):
the bet at beta test, I haven't received word. If
I'm one of the people who get it. Who knows.
But then again, I don't go on a lot of
dead zones. But the funny thing is you may live
in a house that's got a dead zone because I
get questions and calls all the time, Michael Harcomb, and
I'll go on my top upstairs bathroom and I can't
get any cell cell service. Well, you may actually do

(45:55):
it now, but I will keep you up to data
when that goes online. For some reason, I make it
to the beta test, I'll let you know and for
some reason, and this is why it's an interactive show.
If you get chosen to be a beta tester for
this limited T mobile Starlink hookup, try it and then
you're gonna call me and you're gonna let me know
how it goes. And we'd love to put you on
the air in which we can we could do right

(46:17):
now as we take our first break of this hour
three four six two nine t e x A N.
Now when I coming up, we're gonna talk about AI
a little bit more. You saw some TV commercials during
the Super Bowl for AI. Don't know if you use
it a lot, but I'm gonna give you warning now
because this is what I do. Be there very careful

(46:38):
with your AI data that you give. Some AI companies
out there, specifically the ones that are from China. I
will name check those coming up and some other things
that you need to really be aware of should you
use artificial intelligence. Nothing artificial here. I'm one hundred percent
pure sugar and sweetness. Michael arg over the day and
on the High Tech Text and Show, we are back

(47:23):
at it. Michael Garfield is the name. It's called the
High Tech Texans Show all over at the State of Texas.
Big shout out obviously to Houston Galveson, but also Big
D Dallas and also San Antonio terrestrially. If you're listening
on iHeartRadio, move to Texas people. We want your money,
even though we have a no state income text. But
we do have some fun and it's my job just
to tell you about what's going on in the world.

(47:44):
Doesn't have to be about technology, whether it's cars or
parties or cocktails. I am your guy, busy month man
I'll tell you what. We're middle of the month of February,
and it's betraying. I had birthday, Super Bowls done, ces
is finally over, had the Great Houston Auto Show a
few weeks ago. Countdown the rodeo and barbecue cook off

(48:06):
that's coming up. But I was noticed also what happens
every year right around this time is another massively big
party that happens down in the kind of the southeast
state of Texas, in Galveston exactly. It is Marty Gras.
And I know this specifically because here at iHeart we've

(48:27):
long time had a partnership with Marty gra Galveston, not
the one in New Orleans, but Marty gra Galveston. There's
generally an iHeart parade and for years, man, I used
to go down there and throw beads and everything. And
sure enough I pulled it up and looked at the calendar.
Guess what, it's next weekend. So it's my job to
tell you what's going on and maybe give away a
little something something. So what do we do. We go

(48:50):
to the Queen of Marty Gras herself. Her name is
Rochelle Salinas. Is are you the queen of Moments the
queen of Marty Gras. Do you have an official title?
What do we got here?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
No, No, I'm not. I've got to be unbiased to
my cruise, so we can just be the Money Gras Maven, gotcha.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
So there's a lot of queens. I guess momas is
a specific you got to educate you. Moments is a
specific parade or a crew or something like that.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah, so what makes money Gross so special? Even in
New Orleans? There are all the types of cruse, and
a crew is a group of people that participate in
a parade or a ball or a fundraiser. They're usually
some sort of community service element to it. And so
Nights of Momis is the oldest crew in Houston and Galveston.

(49:36):
Tilman Fertita is a part of that crew, and so
they have a big ball at the San Luis Hotel
and that's one of the grandest parades that happens on
the second weekend too.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Okay, so you talk about two weekends, So let's start
with the play by play. First weekend is this next weekend,
this coming weekend, which is the weekend of the twenty second,
twenty third, and then it goes again another weekend too.
It's two weeks of partying. Are you kidding me, Rochelle?
I mean, how good? How do people in the southeast
Southeast Texas take this? Between Barbiecue cook Golf, between Marty Grass,

(50:08):
between everything you got going on? But this is a
party though.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Yeah, I got to say so for the rest of
the week. To get through the weekend, that's for sure.
But it's you know, it is NonStop fun and it's
a real cultural experience. There's more than twenty parades in
Monty Grog Galveston. There's all kinds of balls, live entertainment, music,
food vendors, and the parades are spectacular and they have

(50:33):
some different themes. Our first night on February twenty first
is a fire trick parade and it's you know, open
for free that night, and then it's a ticketed event
the rest of the weekend. And we've got Brett Michaels performing,
Cameron Sacki Bands, Country fan of Kevin Fowler. So good
live entertainment, great costumes, and thousands and thousands upon thousands

(50:57):
of beads to be caught as well.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Michaels every rose as though you see, you don't need Brett,
you got the real Michael Garfield there, uh, former poison.
We're talking to Rochelle Selina specifically about Marty gra Galveston.
It is coming up these next two weeks February, I
guess twenty second, twenty third, and also what is that
March first and second? It is that it's I've been

(51:21):
many many times, and because actually iHeart, we have our
own parade. I think it's going about crude to iHeart
on one of the days. And actually, let me pull
this up. It is, uh next Saturday, it's the It's
February twenty second at three pm. It's you know what
I've ridden. I think that's the only parade I have
actually been in. I know people, I bet I can
dit in that parade and throw throw some beads. But

(51:41):
it is a ticket event. A lot of people think, oh, well,
you don't need a ticket, but I guess at one part,
right through the big downtown, the heart, the strand, it
is a great viewing area, Rochelle, and I guess at
that point you do need some tickets, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
You do need tickets in the downtown district, which is
all fenced off for everyone's safety and It's a a
lot of fun being in that area because the parades
go around in that route in that kind of rectangular
streets of downtown and it they go by twice, so
you're getting all the parade action right there. We also

(52:16):
have the Golden Bead Award prize that goes out. We
have three days that we throw the golden bead and
if you catch this s bead, you could win a
thousand dollars towards a cruise out of Galveston. You could
win two airfare tickets to Mexico, and you could win
a Galveston VIP package. So that's another whole reason to

(52:40):
go and get your chance at winning. It's not just
catching any of the regular beads, but the special medallion
ones and this really cool golden Bead prize.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
The one's a winner. By the way, any females out
there need some tips on what's the best way to
efficiently catch beads, you want to go ahead and explain, no, no, no,
cancel that question.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
You know what's funny is that I was talking with
someone the other day. Galveston is definitely one of the
more family friendly versions of Mardi Grass celebrations and I've
brought my kids the last few years. They love catching
the beads. Obviously, when it gets dark, it's probably not
as family friendly, but it really is good for everybody
to come and have a good.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Time without an ad I have three boys, as you know,
and for years and years I used to take them
and actually brought them on the floats with me, and
so it's really neat throwing and tossing the beads out
to the kids and all the family members. Speaking of which,
this is a family event. Let's go back to the tickets.
What are the ticket packages, how much are they adults, kids,
and what's the easiest way to get them?

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, check out online on mardigron Galveston dot com. There's
a variety of ticket offerings. So right now the first
weekend package is going for thirty one bucks, but you
can also get the VIP balcony experience. You can just
get a one day ticket. Children under twelve are free,
So there's different packages that you want to look out online.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
I will recommend this having about any access and pass.
I'm looking at them right now because you can buy
them right online. It's a great vantage point because you're
above the crowd and then you know, yeah, you're throwing
the beads down, and you know generally it may come
with some cocktails. I don't even I haven't look at
the package yet, but it's it's a neat meat damage point.
And I must say, but the many years I've done it,
and it's been a while since that i've been, I

(54:19):
actually may go this year. I don't think I'm doing
anything on the twenty second. So you know, Brett Michael's
Michael Garfield little duet, what do you think?

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Yeah, we can get you down on a float too.
I mean, you can't mince out on the fun. The
Galveston also offers the float build your own float package too,
so you can. There's two major experiences if you're one
to upgrade is definitely going to the balcony and throwing
the beads at the people there, or riding in a
parade and being a part of the parade float, because

(54:49):
those are definitely high end experiences that you're not going
to get anywhere else, and it just makes it really special.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
It's fun without a doubt. Let if those are my
longtime listeners in Houston, Listen Houston, Galvitz and it's the
same VMA. I mean, Gallison is less than forty five
minutes away. But for my newer listeners right now in Dallas,
in San Antonio and actually across the state of Texas,
there's a lot of destinations you may have never been
to in our great state or certain events, you know,
be it art shows or sporting events. This is one

(55:17):
to put on your calendar. I mean, they just take
a week in and go ahead, and I know, maybe
just a one to two weeks away, but coming down
to Galaston, it's it is fun and it is it
can't get crazy on a weekend like this, and so
I do wish you good luck, good weather, and also
my dear listeners. Rochelle, you have kindly donated what a
family four pack of tickets to us to want a

(55:39):
lucky listener, Is that right?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
That's right, you got four tickets to give away.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
Look at this, This is why you tune in people,
not just for my you know, you know, stupid ugly
looks and this nasty charm. You'll want to win. And
that's what we're doing with the radios to stand by.
Between now and the end of the show, We're going
to give away a Family four pack. Rachelle probably will
see you and throw you some beads. You do the
same when I see you next weekend at the first
of the two weekends of Marty Grog Galaston. I appreciate
your time.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Yeah, thank you. We'll have fun.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
That's fine. Really, hey, folks, listen it really, it's all
about having fun. And the first time I didn't know
what to expect because I've never even been to the
one in New Orleans. But I can't imagine New Orleans
even being you know, this much fun. It's a blast.
And plus I don't have to you know, drive six
hours to New Orleans or hopping a plane. I just
hopped popped down to Galvey. It's cool stuff. This is
high tech text and show. Michael Garfield is the name.

(56:25):
Don't go anywhere. Yes, stand by. We will give away
that full pack to Marty Brod Galves stand by.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Here for you.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
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tech textan show all across them. When I say all
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that twenty three years in Houston on kprc AM nine fifty.
But also, what's up San Antonio Wai twelve hundred and
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(57:20):
ninety and of course all over the world. iHeartRadio dot
com wherever you get your great streaming and also podcasts,
look for the high tech texts. And it is my job.
I use the word job, but that's what I've done
for well over two decades and giving you some ideas
reviewing some products and services. You know, one thing that
I don't talk about too much that I need to
start thinking about myself as I turned another year older

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and continue to get up there in age, is what
happens to all of my information, my data, my photos,
my videos, you know, as I get older. You know,
I mean I do have given all three of my boys,
you know, my passwords and what's going on. It's not
even just in case, it's when it happens or something.
I think everybody needs to start planning ahead. We plan

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for our financial future, but what about our legacy the
family is we have so much data in our photos. Well,
there are companies, there are answers out there, I mean
on Facebook and Instagram. You can set things like you know,
if for some reason you expiring you pass you know
who can access your account. But let's go back to
the photos in the data in your life history. There's

(58:26):
a company I found here, it's in Houston, that it
is just doing some really really neat things with memories
and creating these legacies, so much so they put it
in the name of the company. It's called my Legacy
Video dot Com. It's run by Chris Swanson, who I
have known for many, many years. What an unbelievable background
he has had in the video production industry. He's created

(58:47):
this thing and I think it's just a great idea,
and I wanted to bring him in to talk about it.
Chris wants and joins me. Right now, Chris, you are
my legacy people. I'm gonna give you my password just
in case something happens to me. Can I trust you
with that?

Speaker 5 (59:00):
Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (59:00):
You can?

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Well that is good. Hey, listen, we have worked on
so many projects together. Obviously your background with you know
ABC thirteen in the video thing you have this this
company you just created is called my Legacy Video dot Com.
At the top level, explain what that is to the listeners.

Speaker 5 (59:20):
Basically, what we do is this all came about when
I went to one of my very good friends. You
passed away, and I had left his celebration of life,
and I'm driving down the road and I thought, Wow,
the stories that this guy had are gone. He lived
a life like many many of us do. We have

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a lot of fun things we do, we have a
lot of obstacles, we overcome, we have a lot of
experiences that we go through in our life. And I
was thinking, all of his experiences are gone. So I thought,
you know, we can do this. I've got a video
production company. Let's document people's lives. And so what we

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started doing is we do an extensive interview with people
about their life, starting out with you know, where were
you born, who was your mom, who was your dad,
who was your grandma, your grandpa? What do you remember
about them? Going up through growing up, going to school?
You know, did you play in the band, did you
play football? What did you do in your life? And
then onward through you know, did you get married, who

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was your wife or your husband? And how did you
meet them? And where was your honeymoon? And you know,
just all these facts about life that a lot of
times people don't talk about. And we go all the
way up through current time, and most of the time,
these people that we interview have accomplished things. You know,
it's not a twenty year old normally that we're doing

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an interview with, but it's people that accomplishing. They talk
about their business experience, you know, if they have a company,
how they started it or what they did is a profession,
and experiences they had during that. It's just a wonderful
opportunity to get people's lives documented. And then after the
we do the interview, we do an extensive, long interview.

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We asked them for do you have a picture of
you in elementary school? Do you have a picture of
you playing football? Do you have a picture of you
with your spouse at your wedding, Do you have pictures
of you at your job if you're a pilot, or
you're a teacher, or you know whatever. Or video We
take those videos and those pictures and then we incorporate

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that into the video production that we do about people's lives.
And the magic of this is once we get this completed,
they can pass that on down to their kids, grandkids,
great grandkids, great great grandkids, and after they're long gone,
there's a legacy of their life and what they've done.
And you know, we did this for one of our

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clients and at Christmas time they took it and showed
it to their whole family. It made their Christmas magical
because the grandkids were asking, you know, you know you
raise chickens, and he said, yes, you know, I raised chickens,
and you know, the chickens would lay eggs and I'd
take the eggs and I'd go sell them. And that's
the way I raise money to go to college and

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buy my first car. And it was just amazing how
people don't talk about this, and they go to family
gatherings and they talk about, you know, their hairstyle and
their clothes and whatever. They don't talk about their history.
And it just makes a legacy for people, and people
absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
It sounds interesting. I've seen some of your work Chris
wantson It is called my Legacy video dot com. Is
you're not a fly by night guy when it comes
to doing something like this. Your background. I know, you're
at ABC thirteen, you have been behind the camera. You're
an editor, and so you and your staff a lot
of skills over there to put something like this, to
make it compelling and really to be a story to tell.

Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
Absolutely, this is a quality production. It's network quality, it's professional.
The people that work with me are award winning journalists
and videographers and editors, and you know, it's it's a
first class production, and we really put every effort into
it to make it as amazing as we can. By

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the time we finished with one of these videos, it
could be shown on network television. It's that quality.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Your audience that I guess the people who have been
purchasing and utilizing your services. Can I imagine they're you know,
close to or in retirement right now, and you know,
either they're getting it for themselves as a legacy, but
I also I also can see kids or grandkids even
giving this as a gift to those grandparents, like, hey,

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you know, we want to know your legacy so we
can continue to pass it down. You know what's what's
kind of that sweet spot that you've seen with your clients.

Speaker 5 (01:03:49):
Absolutely, when I was working in the media, I spent
years at KPRC Channel two, and then I spent many
years at Channel thirteen. I had one particular friend of
mine who used to tell me and I had a
camera with me all the time, and he would say Hey, Chris,
I want you to bring your camera over and I
want to interview my dad and get him to tell
some of those stories that he's got that are just awesome.

(01:04:10):
We never did it, and his dad passed away, and
you know me, I'm ashamed to say this. When I
was growing up, my father played the fiddle, and now
I don't have any video of my dad playing the fiddle,
and I just scratch my head. It's like, Chris, what
is wrong with you? You know, you had a camera
with you all the time. It's so easy. People don't

(01:04:31):
think about it. But then once people are gone, you know,
you can consider it to be priceless. Because I did
a documentary on the history of the Lakewood Yacht Club
and during that documentary, we interviewed five people in their nineties.
After we did the interviews and before we got the

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video produced, one of the people we interviewed in their
nineties passed away. So I took that entire, uncut, raw
interview that we did with this gentleman and send it
to his family, and to them, that was priceless. They
have him on camera telling his stories about his boat
that he loved so much, and how much you loved

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going out on his boat, and you know that kind
of thing you just don't think about it sometimes until
it's too late. Right now, it's not too late. And yes,
you know, some people want to do it as a
gift to their children and their grandchildren. Sometimes the children say, hey,
I want my dad's stories to be documented, and they'll
call us and say, hey, you know, let's do a
video on my dad or my mom or both of them.

(01:05:35):
The last one we just completed, we did the husband
and the wife, and you know, they we interviewed one
of them separate, and then we interviewed together, and then
the ladies separate. And when they were together, it was magical.
The way that they talked about their honeymoon and how
they met. It was just it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Without a doubt. I think the word that really struck
me is priceless. It is priceless. The fact is, you know,
I continue to say, you know, a few years ago
I lost my grandmother lived to one hundred and five
years old, so I got to spend a lot of
time with her. Over and over the years. I did
document things with a lot of photos, in a lot
of video. Because I dabble in that too, and point

(01:06:17):
is I probably should have done more. I want to
share that with you know my grant, my grandkids are
around what their grandmother was like. But the fact is
you put it together in a very very professional manner.
Last question for I get you out of here, Chris,
what's the Process's people are interested, how do they get
in touch with you? What do they need to do?
Background the whole thing?

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
Basically, all they needed to go to my Legacy video
dot com and then there's a form on there that
can fill out that can read about it. If they
can watch a sample of one of the videos that
we did and they kind of get an idea of
their mind, then what we will do is we'll contact them.
We'll find out exactly what their specific need is. Everything
is customized to the specific need. We have one that

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we're about to do where we're going to travel to
another sea interview the son of the lady that we're
doing the documentary on. But basically, just go to the website,
send us a message, We'll contact you and we'll find
out what your needs are and we'll go from there.
We'll set up a time to do the interview and
we'll make it happen.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Is the name of the website. It is my Legacy
video dot Com. His name is Chris Swanson. You continue
continue to do very smart and great work, and I
love the concept of what you're doing, so I appreciate
their time and best of luck, my man.

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
Thank you so much for your time. Michael. I love
working with you. You're an amazing professional. We've done some great
things together. Your radio show is awesome and amazing, and
thank you for taking the time to visit with me
about my project.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
Oh you mean I actually have a legacy myself. I
may have to utilize your services.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
Let's do it. Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
I like it all right. That is my legacy video
dot com. I feel free to check them out, really
really moving pieces without a doubt. Michael is the name
Michael Garfield. Whether I have a legacy or not, We're
going to continue to be here on this radio program.
We're gonna take a break right now. Open phone line
seven one three two one two five ninety five. It's
called the high Tech Tax and shift. Do not go anywhere.

Speaker 6 (01:08:26):
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Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Coming to the end final seven or eight minutes of
this week's edition of the High Tech Texan Show. As
if you've listened to the whole thing. Do you see
what I mean? Like, this is not a fully technical,
tech centric thing. It's it's Michael's Holden court Man. We're
talking super Bowl commercials, marketing, bourbon travel. I'm consumer lifestyle.

(01:08:49):
The problem is that I've the brand of the high
tech text in which I have trademarked by the way
twenty plus years ago. It's it's it's tough to switch
it with a literation like the con sumer lifestyle tech Texan.
It's don't everybody, it's just me. It's garf baby. You
know how to do it. I'm going to give out
the phone number one more time, even though we're almost
at the end of the show. But here's why. As

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promised if you listened a few segments ago, Marty gra
Galveston coming to Galveston, and as promised from a very
nice Rochelle who is the marketing person there, she has
graciously donated a four pack of tickets to go that
the second Friday, which is Friday February twenty eighth. If

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is fun, caller number ten right now, three four six,
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And if you don't win, suck it up, go buy tickets.
But we got four pack for you right now. And

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and you can check out Marty Grag Galveston. I've never
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and I'm not gonna call the one in Galveston fake
because it is fun. It's over two weekends and there's
a lot of stuff going on, and when the weather's great,
it's I've been on the parade, the floats, the balconies.
It's pretty cool. I've taken my kids there. It's kid
friendly until it ki's kind of dark, until you know,
maybe it's not so friendly. That's friendly. Color number two. Oh,

(01:10:34):
we got it. Callum all right, stop calling? See how
fast these things go. It's what radio is all about. Man,
if you give stuff away, it's uh win and winno
Marty grag Galveston Dinner. All right, so away, congratulations if
you won the four backup tickets to Marty Grau Galveston.
One more story I want to hit. I kind of
teased it a little earlier. A lot of AI stuff

(01:10:56):
going on out there. You saw Super Bowl commercials from
open ai chat, cheep to Google, some promotions when the
potential I don't know if you did with actually when
there was another one that kind of launched not long ago.
It's called deep Seek Deep Seek and it was about
two weeks ago. These things come and go real quickly.

(01:11:18):
They get a lot of headlines. And this was the company,
it's out of China that launched it with a fraction
of the dollars. The research and development that OpenAI Chat
GBT did and that's what made headlines. Well here I
am and we are based in Texas, and I don't
know how this news escaped me. This was two weeks ago.
January thirty first, Governor Abbott issued a ban prohibiting the

(01:11:45):
use of AI and social media apps affiliated with and
I'm quoting here the People's Republic of China and the
Chinese Communist Party on government issued devices. On government issued devices. So,
if you work for the State of Texas and they
have given you a phone or a laptop, sorry, you

(01:12:08):
cannot download or use social media apps apparently like TikTok,
nor red Note nor deep seek on your government issued device.
All right, for all you people who are just regular
citizens and you get your own device that you pay for,
apparently your coolio, I'm gonna give you a quote from

(01:12:30):
the governor. Quote, Texas will not allow the Chinese Communist
Party to infiltrate our state's critical infrastructure through data harvesting
AI and social media apps. Unquote. Whoo, big daddy, gov.
Ain't he ain't jacking around? Is he? Callen? Can we
get the governor? Okay? I know we only got a
few minutes. Maybe next week he wants to call in.

(01:12:50):
I met him a few times, do you think so?
I just listen. How come I'm not the technology czar
of Texas? Maybe because well, I don't know what would
I issue a ban on government issued Maybe maybe on
government issue devices. Potentially it's a cautionary thing. I understand it.

(01:13:10):
But is this that slippery slope as well. If it
starts on government issued devices, is it going to be
a ban on other things like deep seek or Lemon
eight or MUMO or red Note or deep Seek. Remember
Texas put a ban on going to websites like like

(01:13:31):
the pornography type of websites. And I do not know
this because I go there are people seriously, I just
read that. If you know me, you know me. It's
I read things like this. There are ways to get
up around that, as I told you, through downloading VPNs,
but there are ways that states can actually govern or

(01:13:51):
tell you where to go and what not to go,
and this is one of them. So I thought that
was interesting. And by the way, I know, we got
about maybe two minutes real quickly. This was something I seek.
I saw this on it was online. I think it
was on c net. Be careful with the data that
you give deep Seat and pretty much every other AI
and in this article went on. It was written by

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a brief oller Deep seeks China connection is worry sump,
she writes, And you really need to watch what you
can get. But the problem is, what do you know
what information you're already giving? What do you China, every company,
every country has so much information on it. Deep Seek, Yes,
it has ties to China, just like you can compare

(01:14:35):
it to TikTok, and security experts say that while deep
Seek's data security threats are real, they are different from
those of social media platforms. People are worried about it
because they've got ties to China, just like they potentially
are worried about it for TikTok, which is owned by
byte Dance, which is in China too. You got lawmakers
on both sides of the aisle worried that US user
data could be used by the Chinese Communist Party for

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intelligence purposes. I don't know how to do it. Eight
eight second TikTok, Dance and some of these things. Getting
a handle on deep Seat or actually any other AI
it's not that simple. It's not as simple as banning
an app. The average consumer probably won't even know what
AI model they're working with. When you're using an AI model.

(01:15:18):
Would the Chinese Commuist Party use deep Seat data for
intelligence purposes? It's above my pay grade. Probably could. I
don't know how to stay safe be smart with AI,
just like everything else. Best practices use unique passwords, change
them regularly enable to factor authentication, which means not only
inner a password, make sure this company texts you a

(01:15:40):
six digit pass code or something like that that for
you intern two different times. All right, keep your personal
information personal, right, No social security number, don't put your
banking information out there any of that stuff. Be skeptical.
I mean, keep your head on a swivel. People, just
because something is new, don't rush to be an early adopter.
Don't just because an AI or now app is trending,

(01:16:00):
doesn't mean you have to right away. I know, I
was watching some Super Bowl commercials and I downloaded these apps.
But they've been around for a while. Some of them
weren't absolutely new. If you can read the terms of condition,
good luck, because I don't have the patience from the stuff.
And you really, you really should be aware of America's adversaries.
Any app that's based in China, right, it probably should

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be treated with suspicion. You know, potentially Russia. I ran
North Korea too. Privacy rights do we have here in
the US or the ear opinnion If you don't apply
to a lot of these apps, just freaking and be
careful no matter where you are, what you're driving.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
What are you download?

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
Because that's what I do, because I cover all. Hey, listen,
I want to thank you so much too. Chris Swanson
my legacy video. Great concept. Also, Rochelle Marty Gron Galveston.
Good luck with that coming in the next few weeks.
Next week we're gonna have two more hours of fun
fun fund. If you want to get into me time, fine,
fine website high tech textan dot com. It is Michael
Garfield and he will talk to you then because right

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