Happy July 4th!

Today on The High Tech Texan Show - 

• Is the Lincoln Nautilus the most luxurious interior and advanced of any vehicle on the road?
• "Amazon Prime Days" is approaching. Here are some sneak peek deals 
• How to pick a wireless plan for your international summer travel plans

Episode Transcript

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Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. MichaelGarfield's joining in the high Tech Texan.
Michael Garfield is here with a hightech Texan. It was to make life
easier of new technology. So MichaelGarfield has something you might want, Texas.
Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic

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with your gadgets. Heard worldwide onthe iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech
Texan, Michael Garfield. You knowhow I always start the second hour of
the show, which is pretty muchhalfway through the show. You listen to
me a long time, twenty plusyears. I got my stick? How

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do I start the second hour ofmy show? It's halfway to happy Well,
guess what. This is the timeof the year where I can finally
say it's halfway through Happy Hour oftwenty twenty four. That's right, people,
it is finally the first part ofJuly and we are halfway through this

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year. How's your year been?Talk to me here? Seven one three,
two, one two, five,nine to five. Oh, listen,
I know it's slow, it's hot, it is nasty, it is
slow. You have nothing else todo? Why don't you join me?
As we do? Kind of amid year update of the High Tech Texan
Show. Not a ton of thingsgoing on in the technology world. We

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are about to hear some announcement officiallyof some new Samsung Bubble devices. I
for one, as a Samsung Androidfan, I'm very excited about that.
But other than that, it's thedol drums of summer. I mean,
sports kind of suck right now overall. I mean football, you know,
training camp's not even started. Basketball, NBA is Ova. Not a hockey
fan, but the Stanley Cup isactually kind of that's done. I mean,

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yeah, We've got the Paris Olympicscoming up at a week or two
or three, whatever it is,and I'm not really excited. Yeah,
Simon Bile's local Houston girl. Shedoes well, but it's the Olympics.
I hardly know anybody even participating inthe thing. So what do we do?
Man? We just sit inside theair condition, We do a radio
program, you call me, youtweet me, you x me, you

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threads me, you Facebook me,and we or we sit in the pool
sipping some sides. And throughout thesetwo hours, I'm probably gonna give you
an opportunity, an idea or twoof giving you some nice recipes. You
see. The show is so muchmore than technology. It started out as
the High Tech Texas Show. Actually, officially the name is still the High
Tech Texan. But if you dofollow me on social media unless you're blocked,

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you will find out I do somuch more than just technology. I
test drive car. Oh, I'vegot a beautiful vehicle that I've been test
driving this past week. It isit is. It is luxury. Actually,
one of the most interior, interiorluxurious vehicles that I have ever been
in. And I've been testing vehiclesfor well over fifteen years. It is

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awesome. Stay tuned, I'll tellyou what that is. We've got if
you're a gamer, a few interestinggames. How about a streamer, I'm
nothing but a stream right, anythinggood to watch? I guess we've got
Hard Knocks just started. I don'tknow if you care about the New York
Giants, but I'm finding myself rewatching. This is how bored I am.

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I'm rewatching old shows that have beenon for the fifteen sixteen years. I
don't know why I'm flipping through Maxand I found one of my favorite shows
of all time. Actually, Ilove this show so much that the opening
theme song to the show I stolefor about five or six years the opening
theme song for my show. Itis Entourage. I'm watching that again.

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I mean, that's how bad itis. Anybody did anybody see the new
Beverly Hills top not so f justcame out on Netflix, and my buddies
using a password that I was borrowing, I expired, so I still haven't
seen ax l F. So somebodythat can give me the play by play
on that, I'd love to hearfrom you. Calum calub Is, my

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man, he is you have nothingelse to do on the first, you
know, first few weeks of July, My man, you just sit here.
Yeah, you're right. This isat least IR pays the er conditioning.
This is not a this is nota bad deal. If you're hot
and you're schmitzy outside, let's justcome inside the iHeart Radio studios and we're
all good. I do want youmentioned something that I guess we should say

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happy birthday or happy anniversary too,because it was almost one year ago exactly.
Do you remember what happened one yearago? The first week or two
of July, there was a newlaunch of a new app that out of
the Blue really set the wor onfire. Amazing amount of downloads overnight.

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It just appeared on your app storeor your iTunes or whatever you call it,
and you downloaded. And this wasgonna be the killer. This was
gonna be the Twitter killer, theex killer. Folks. Do you remember
it was one year ago that wewere introduced to Threads. It's it's from

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Meta, which is the the overthe big corporation, the company that owns
Facebook and Instagram and what's app.It's called Meta, and they pushed out
Threads, the app, and anattempt to take on the platform that we
now know as X and at atime, mister Zuckerberg he said that he
hoped it would turn into a publicconversations app with over a billion people on

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it. And that was a quoteright there. What was in California?
And I don't even know why Ithought. I think I got a press
release. Somebody inside Info gave methe idea that Michael he got a download
this thing. Within hours, Iwas watching the account of how many millions
of people signed up, and inthe first day, Threads saw over thirty

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million sign ups. Had to bea record of some some time. The
app now one year in has overone hundred and seventy five million monthly users.
And this is according to Zuckerberg.Yay, but x mister Elon Musk
says there's over six hundred million monthlyusers on map. And I'm not going
to go back and board, butI want to talk about threads. Did

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you sign up for threads? BecauseI signed up for threads and I spent
the next day or two and Iwas listen. I'm never on vacation,
but I was out in Cali onthe left coast, and I was doing
a lot of interviews. Michael,is this going to be the Twitter killer?
It was tough to evaluate, andI remember my first thoughts were because
so many people. I mean,this was the talk for about a week,

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week and a half. I mean, this was the summer dull drums
work. I mean it was over. I mean it took up a good
part of July. All people weretalking about was threads. Because then again
I just told you there's nothing goingon sports or you know, just nothing's
happening. There's no big packt lodges. I believe I kept saying this.
Finally, because I've seen a numberof different attempts of other companies trying to
dethrone Twitter, and when Elon Musktook it over man, it was getting

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dog. People were dropping off,he was ticking off advertisers. There was
too much politics nor one of that, and Threads was the sweet place,
the nice place where you didn't haveto read about COVID nineteen. You didn't
have to read about politics. Andfor the first month or two or the
rate, I didn't see anything quoteunquote bad about it. There was nothing
controversial. Come to think of it, I'm trying to think what was even

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on there because that earliest version,the earliest iteration of threads, to me
now feels a little bit off,maybe a little bit broke. Okay,
there wasn't a web version. Therewas a number of different missing features.
If indeed it was going up againstTwitter or X and a year in,
I'm still really not clear what threadsactually is for. I actually had this

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conversation with somebody about a week agotoo. Do you use threads? I
downloaded Threads. Threads is on thehomepage of my phone, right next to
X and my Instagram and my Facebook. How many social media outlests we need?
Because Hound for pound Dolliver if youlook at it Threads, it really
is almost exactly to some extent onthe surface, just like Twitter X you're

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right, eat something. It's twohundred and forty characters or so. You
put a picture and you wait forcomments. And I remember saying, man,
we may never use Twitter. Peopleare saying I'm done. Twitter's gone.
X is gone. I'm sorry.A year later, one of the
first apps that I use in themorning. I wake up in the morning
to get my new I just kindof scroll through Twitter. I can't tell
you the last time I opened Threads. Maybe it's not going to be that

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quote unquote public square for less angryconversations. How do we fix that.
I'm gonna take a break right now. If you indeed are on Threads,
why don't you juicer jump up?And then maybe I'll start reading it again.
At High Tech Text and I wasable to grab that same moniker like
I have across social media. HI G H T e H T e

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x A at High Tech Text andhey, we got a big show,
fun show. We got a giftcard too, to give way. We
are going to have a really niceinterview of how to really dress nicely.
You ever had a custom suit,a custom sport code made, got a
gabin dasher, got a guy who'sgonna give us the inside secrets. So
what's so special about having closed madespecifically for you. I'll give you a
review of an unbelievable vehicle that I'vebeen driving here with the past week.

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And who knows what I'm gonna talkabout because I have to fill two hours.
Michael garthon it is called the HighTech Text Show. I hope you're
inside over you're to pool as weare the halfway point of twenty twenty four,
halfway to half the hour, andI don't hope everybody had a very
good July fourth holiday, hope.I hope everybody's having a good summer as

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we're in the middle of the doljums of the summer. You got ready
for you're ready for football season.I mean, the NFL is trying to
jump start the NFL. Really it'sin a cycle of twelve months a year,
but I would say it's about elevenmonths. I ain't not much happened
in the world of NFL. Ido know that Hard Knocks. What is
it about a six week program onmax HBO that started I don't care.

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This year it's the New York Giants. Does not matter to me. I
did see something that's very interested interesting. I guess for the July fourth weekend,
most people who work, if youdo work, you got July fourth
off, and it was weird.It was a Thursday this year. I
know a number of people, justanecdotally, who had to work that Friday,

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July fifth? Did you have towork? Did anybody have to work
that for? So you get off, you get a day off on Thursday,
and you're laying around, You're puttsaround, it's one hundred and five
degrees in the sun. You're havinga few coldy you're having a lot of
coldies, some marks and bruskies.Whatever you're having. Oh man, we're
gonna have a good day. OhI gotta go to work the next day.

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And for those of you who driveto work, I guess the good
point is there was not a lotof people on the road on Friday,
July fifth. Getting doing it fromyour office number one in Houston. There's
not a lot of people on theroad in the summertime because people get the
hell out of town as they should. They go to Colorado or something.
But then you get Saturday and Sundayoff. I was on man, that
was I should have been a fourday weekend. Should have been dad.

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I guess the only thing worse isis when July fourth falls on a Wednesday.
July fourth and I guess New Year'sEve helped me when am I missing
over? Here are the only two. They're the two most celebrated holidays where
Americans for the most part do getoff of work. But it's not on

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a specific day of the week.I guess obviously. I guess Christmas is
in there at Christmas in there too, but people usually get the whole week
off for Christmas date tickets the endof the year. So New Year's Eve
can fall on in New Year's Daycan f on a Wednesday. July fourth
can fall on Wednesday, and youstill have to work either the two days
before two days after Thanksgiving, weknow allys is on that Thursday. Generally

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we get the Friday off. Christmaspeople usually get that last week off.
Ah, what about two by Shavapassover? Young Kipper always falls Dude,
Young Kipper is on Texas Oklahoma weekend, And what there's a dilemma for me
now in the world am I gottago to the Texas. Oh you go,
oh you get and not have afutcher scorny dog. There's my dilemma
that I'm worrying about three months ahead. I digress people, And the reason

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I bring this up? Where wasI going? The reason I bring this
up, it's how many days aweek do you work? Generally? Here
in America, we work five daysa week. That's what my father did,
That's what his father did. Fornations. Generally, people are five
days a week. If even hereat our radio program on Monday through Friday.

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If you have a week day programlike my buddy rod Ryan at our
sister station here at the Buzz DanaTyson here at Sunday ninety nine, we
go on and on and on.I used to have a weekday talk show
also here, Monday through Friday.You have five days. Well, guess
what. There's a country who said, screw it, we're doing a six
day week. Then he guesses,calub alum, that's you have talked to

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you about. Come on, Helm, did he ask which country introduced just
introduced a six day work week?Now? I love this country. I
visited this country once. It isparts of it are the most beautiful places
I've ever been to an earth,and parts of it are old and ugly,

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so I'm still debating whether I shouldmove there. Ladies and gentlemen,
A six day work week has justbeen instituted in Greece. Do you know
why? Because it's the word Greece. If you think about it, They've
given us some pretty good ideas inthe past. I think they gave us
democracy. I think they created geometry. I'm kind of hoping this latest invention

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does not catch on. It's asix day work week, I'm not kidding
yet. New regulations took affecting Greecejust about a week or two ago.
It extends the typical forty hour workweek to forty eight hours per week for
private businesses providing around the clock services. Okay, now let's break that.
What is a private business providing roundthe clock services? Well, I mean

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here in media radio we broadcast twentyfour to seven. Actually, the iart
is private business, is not apublicly owned company. Okay, so there's
one. Oh good. So nowinstead of working two hours a week,
I'm a good to forty eight hoursa week. This is the first of
their kind rules in the European EuropeanUnion, and they're doing this to boost

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the Greek economy, because I stillthink the economy and Greece sucks from it's
in a decade long slump. It'sgood or bad. I think that the
new rules really flying the face ofa broader trend towards shorter work weeks.
Because here I think the four daywork week is gaining with some mo it's

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getting some momentum. Am I wrong? Almost one third of US businesses are
considering cutting their work week down.This is according to a survey of CEOs
by KPMG. This is a fewmonths ago. I have different I have
questions. This is why I amhere for you. If you're going to

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cut down to a four day workweek, are you only paying for four
days? I assume you are yoursallets, I mean for years salo He
said this based on a five daywork week and maybe two weeks vacation,
you know, on the first year, and it goes on and on and
on. Well, if you're onlyfour days a week, maybe you're I
mean, you're going down what twentypercent? You're gonna cut your Are you're

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gonna cut your salary? Twenty percent? Would you be willing to take that
seven one three, two one twofive nine five ooh Snichel Garfield. I
get down to the hot topics,the hard hitting topics. Speaking away,
I also do travel. I said, Greece has is one of the most
beautiful spots I've ever been to.But also it's it's like that there's spot

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that I did not like. Hey, listen, my job is to throw
up my opinion. I give areview and recommendations. Two thousand and eight,
I believe, yeah, two thousandand eight. I want on a
cruise. I wanted a uh itwas. We went out of bars It
was a family cruise. Kids wererelatively young. Went out of Barcelona.
We went to like twelve countries.I mean, I don't know, it's

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been eight countries in twelve days.Twelve countries and eight days. I forgot
what it was. We go toGreece and we went to two Greek islands.
We went to Santorini and Miconos.Absolutely two of the most gorgeous spots
I have ever been to, Likegorge Santorini built up on top of a
hill, but in Micanos it wasjust clean. It's all white, very

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greeklike stuff. It was awesome.We didn't go to Athens. E times
is an old, dirty town.It's like an odt, you know what
I'm saying, not an ODB.It's just old and dirty. Of course
it's old. I'm not freaking.We drove by where the Olympics started.
We saw the Parthenon, which wasyou know, it was neat Hey,
we saw the Parthenon. You knowsomething I studied as a kid in school.

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It's just it was just kind ofa if you're if you're from Greece.
I'm not trying to rag on you, because there are some absolutely horrific
places here in the United States.I was just not a big fan of
Athens per se. Other than that, Greece it's the word. I love
to go back, and I loveto broadcast my program for me. He's
seven one three two one two fivenine five zero brapa le Mitchello from Italy

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olive oil. I remember the wholething. It was most of it was
good. Where am I going?This is what we do here in the
middle of summer eight? Well,well, I will take a break when
we come back. Count on ason because Amazon Prime days. Amazon's pretty
smart Amazon used to have one dayin the middle of summer called Amazon Prime
Day, where pretty much that everythingwas discounted for Amazon Prime members. It's

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a garage sale to clear the garage, to clear their warehouse and get ready
for the holiday. Zazon now it'sPrime Days, it's two days, and
it's perfectly situated right here in themiddle of July where there's no football and
no more the real sports bej now, so I'm gonna saw some of the
deals, even though it doesn't startto July sixteenth and seventeenth. I will
give you a deal or two thatthat you need to be watching out work

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should you be a Prime member.Garf is the nickname. It's called the
High Tech Text and shows name isMichael Garfield. But you probably know that
since that big booming voice that justintroduced me out of the commercial that's here,
that is Calum Reid. He ispushing the buttons, enjoying the year,

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conditioning as we all should have noclue when rain is gonna come.
Uh, why don't you make aninteractive and call me say what's up?
A big shout out right now tous coins and jewelry. Hey, you
know what if you don't have alot of things to do. How about
taking up a hobby coin collecting?Hellum, you know what coin? Do

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you know? The official word ofa coin collector, a coin expert is
it's a new mismatist. Mit no, no, you can still wear clothes.
No, no, it's a newmismatist versus a philatal list, which
is what I am. That's someonewho collects stamps. Okay, easy does
it? Easy? Does it?In US coins and jewelry. It has

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been around for two generations. Ihappened to Roll and why I'm on there
at least once a month, Bobbyonce every three weeks. Kenny and Matt
Duncan. They are the two partners. They're the sons of the owner that
has been around since nineteen eighty five. I did a video on Instagram and
I actually it was kind of atest. I like having fun with these
guys. I just walk it inand looking at the watches, jewelry obviously,

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but they're really unbelievable when it comesto coins. They are some of
the country's leading new mesmatist in termsof you bring your coins in and they
can look at them and they couldgive you a value of what those coins
are. And I was always wonderinghow do they do that? I mean,
is there a machine? But theythey are years and years and years

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and they study it. So Imade a ninety second video. If you
haven't followed me yet on Instagram hightech texting h I G h T E
C h T e x A Nfollow me unless I've already blocked you,
you can't. I did a videoand I brought coins in to Matthew Duncan
and I plopped them on the counterand I said, I just asked him.
I said, hey, what arethe first things that you look at

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to value a coin? And youknow what I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
I'm gonna blow the lead right here. I'm actually gonna got ruin it for
you. Even though you should watchthe video because I'm losing weight and I
had a really nice shirt on.They he looks at the year and if
it's a silver coin, if it'sa silver half dollar, and if it's
it's a quarter, it's a higherpercentage of silver for coins that were minted

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before nineteen sixty five, so rightbefore Generation X there were something. So
if you have a quarter that wasminted three nineteen sixty five. Instead of
being worth a quarter, it's probablyworth almost five dollars. You laugh,

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but you don't know. And Ihave a ton of chit. I don't
know why, but I have oneof those change coin holders in my closet,
and over the year, every timeI come home, I empty my
pockets and they go into the littlewrappers of the pennies and the dimes nickels.
I'n't got a ton of quarters.I swear, I'm holding my hand
up right now. I come homefrom US Coins and Jewelry and I go

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through all my quarters to fought tosee if anything was from ninety. The
closest I can was nineteen seventy.I had a nineteen seventy quarter on me.
But I'll tell you what It's somethingif you do have a coin collection,
if you want to sell your coinsto see what they're worth, they
go to US Coins and Jewelry dotcom. Go in and say you've heard
it on the Garfield Show. Becausethere's maybe another Michael or two or three

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who actually promotes it. But lethim know that you listen to the garf
Show. Go look at the rolocksis, Go look at the Texas memorabilia.
Go look at the sports cards andmemorabilia. They are great. They're
on Katie Freeway write at vass thesouth side of Austin, and they're just
awesome. They are not open onSundays. They obviously have Chick fil A
actually still their business model, butthey are open six days a week,

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and they are listening to me rightnow. So I appreciate the nice folks
at US Coins and Jelry. Theywill not be participating in Amazon Prime Days,
even though they do give you somegreat deals at US Coins and Jewelry.
For Amazon Prime Days, we haveto call it plural, call listing
plural right now because it is twodays this year, July sixteenth, July

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seventeen. People, if you werean Amazon Prime Time remember you are going
to get some discounts and some things. It was about a week or two
ago. They're already releasing. Youknow. There's some sits online that says,
hey, you know, they getready because these are some early deals
that you can get, and alot of the deals that you can get
are the best deals that you're goingto get out to tea right now are

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Amazon products themselves made by Amazon,including the Amazon Fire stick, the Amazon
Fire TV, the Amazon Kindle,the Amazon Echo which is all exa sorry
to just set off your ale accepp. Those are going to be discounted the
most. I see a little ofApple stuff coming down here, which I

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really don't care about. Amazon hasa fire TV down bar. Soundbars are
good, gives you some great sound. Little, you know, kind of
a center speaker. Generally one hundredtwenty dollars. One is gonna be on
sale for one hundred dollars, soyou get a little percentage off there.
Here is an Amazon Fire TV fortythree inch four K TV, normally for

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fifty four hundred and fifty bucks.It's gonna be sliced ninety dollars down to
three hundred and sixty bucks. Youcan imagine how TVs are so cheap nowadays.
They are so inexpensive nowadays. Myfirst I had a fifty inch I
love telling this story. My kiddid two thousand and three. Two thousand
and three, digital TVs first cameout. In the first some of the

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first flat screen high def TVs cameout. I had a fifty inch Hitachi
retail twelve thousand dollars. I amnot using hyperbole. Look that word up.
It was I didn't pay twelve thousand. It was twelve thousand for a
fifty inch. You're gonna get afifty inch now easily for four hundred dollars

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if it's on sale. So that'sanother Prime one other Prime Day deal.
I saw this. There is aKindle maybe, but Kindle maybe. I
read books Kindle. This sax isa pretty good deal. You know.
Kindle was the very first e reader. It wasn't really sexy. It's it's
really there's a nice handheld, smallsize, and it uses e or digital

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ink. It's not color. It'skind of black and white, which makes
it actually very simple to read outsidethe sun. People want to listen.
Hey, if you read books,Michael, it's the best, you know
reader. Should I get a tabletif you want it? Just for books?
Don't don't laugh, do not sleepon the Kindle. And there's several
different versions of the Kindle. Buton Amazon Prime Day on July sixteenth,
there's a really good offer here.Prime members you can have three months of

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a free Kindle unlimited subscription. That'san exclusive deal. It's gonna save you
thirty six dollars. Thirty six dollarsyou get three months of Kindle unlimited for
us, all the books you couldread. There's four million book titles.
Win. I'm gonna be a littletip if you're deciding on what and this

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is a tip I give we probablyten eleven, twelve years ago when these
kindles first came out, and thenthe iPad came out. Should I get
an iPad? Should I get aKindle? Should I get a Google tablet
or something like our Samsung Tap.Look at the app store, look at
bookstore, find out what titles theyhave. To me, that's the way

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to go, because maybe there's acertain publisher that doesn't work with a tindle
or work with Apple. Look atthe titles. I will tell you in
the Kindle library they have about fourmillion book titles. They have access to
magazines and comic books, and Imean they have audio books over there.
The three months. I think oncethe three months are up, the subscription

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is gonna renew at the usual rateof twelve dollars per month. But I'll
tell you what three months is threemonths, and so that that's one of
the things you should look at.So I give me another week, how
about this? Because I'm not gonnaI get press releases. Hang on and
make sure you follow me on threads. May make sure you follow me on

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x high Tech text and I willbe putting links to some of the better
at least in my opinion, AmazonPrime Days that will be happening July sixteenth
and seventeenth. One of the fewsubscriptions I have streamers I have, I
do have Amazon Prime. I rarelybuy anything from Amazon Prime. I actually
use Amazon I watch Prime Video.That's pretty much what I mostly use it

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for, certainly knowing that the NFLhas the Thursday Night games and a few
Christmas Day games coming up on AmazonPrime Video. All right, we're gonna
take a break, final break ofthe first hour. Hope you were cool.
I do, thank you for hangingin. Guess what company filed for
bankruptcy. Something tells me you usedthis company. You use the services of

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this company, and you still maywalk by this every time you walk into
a grocery store. It's still there, but it may not be working because
they are bankrupt. I'll tell youwhat that is after the break. Going
through some emails and some people whoare xing and tweeting and sending me dms

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and what have you, while Ido a radio show. You see I
can do that. People, It'samazing what Adhd does. See. I
don't know, you know, I'vealways you know, I've always also wanted
to be ambidextrous too. You knowwhat, I'd give my left arm to
be ambidextrous. Dad jokes here allthe all day, all the time.
Here on the Michael Garfield Show.Happy Midsummer. It's our Midsummer high tech

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textan show where not a lot ofthings are happening in the world of its
Actually, well, are a lotof things happening in the world other than
the heat and hurricane season. There'san election coming up, but the sports
are kind of quiet. But weare here for you. Gotta give away
a gift card to Cabo Bob's CoboBob. I haven't been eating a lot

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lately, but when I eat,man, I'm a Cobo Bob's two three
times a week. Great. It'sout of Austin for locations here. Tell
them what you want on your burritos, your tacos, You take it to
go, you eat in the whthere's but oh it's so good. Next
down, Raya have a twenty fivedollars gift card to Cabo Bob's thank them
for h hokuss up with that?Uh, let's see Samsung Unpacked is happening.

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Well, it's they're they're getting readyto release some information on their new
mobile devices. I kind of gota sneak peak, which I can't say.
I'm under embargo, but I willbe playing with some of their mobile
devices, some that could be regular, maybe they'll full I don't maybe sympletel
time, maybe some of this jewelry. I don't know a lot of rumors
out there, so I never reallycan't say anything, Like I really can't

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say anything but that. Maybe Icould be bribed and someone's got it's got
a nice cold beer for me.You know where to find me right now?
Bad news man. Guess guess whowent bankrupt? Guess who went bankrupt?
Yeah, we talk about I talkabout streaming. I was just talking
about streaming before the break. Youknow I have Amazon, which includes Prime
Video. Uh, there's so manyother streamers. You got Disney, Disney

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Plush, you got Hulu, yougot Roku, you got Netflix, you
got Max, HbA, you canget a you got Boo, you got
Peacock Olympics. You're coming up beforethere was streaming. How would you watch
your movies? You probably watched themon DVDs, which you probably got through
the mail from Netflix. That's howNetflix started. People think, oh,

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Netflix is the streamer. Well,Netflix actually started by mailing DVDs and red
envelopes that you had to watch andreturn within three days. Remember those old
at Bultman chair. Uncle Garfy's gotsome stories for it. That's how it
worked. But along with Netflix,there was another service that you can get
immediately by just going to a localgrocery store, convenience store, walking right

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up to it, putting a dollar, two dollars, three dollars in,
and boom, it was a vendingmachine. It would pop right out.
How many times do you still walkinto HB or I don't know, some
convenience store and see Fox. Yes, that red vending machine. That was

(31:38):
you pick what I said. Ididn't. They were outside of McDonald's,
I think, correct me if I'mlong people, do you remember them being
outside of McDonald's, which I thinkMcDonald's owned a large percentage or a certain
percentage of that company, which ispretty It was smart back then. You
hey, man, hey, honey, kids, you want to go to
White what movie you want to watch. Let's go get a DVD. Well,

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blockbusters are dead. Let's go tothe vending machine. Oh, there's
one right up here at McDonald's.Oh let's just go in and get a
few Big Max and some freaking McNuggetswhile we're at it. It was like
a lost leader. It was brilliant. I go to a chip, I
got one of my agp's that Igo to. I'm not kidding you.
It still has a red box thatI have used. Well, I've walked

(32:22):
PI. It's been there for fifteenplus years. I'm not twenty years.
It's bankrupt. It's bankrupt. RedBox itself was acquired by another company about
a year ago, and now it'sover. They have filed for Chapter eleven

(32:42):
bankruptcy protection. They had a netloss last year of six hundred and thirty
six million dollars. Wonder why it'snot a joking matter, because they have
there's obviously if it's so many people. They laid off a lot of people,
They suspended their medical di benefits,they miss payroll, people didn't get

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paid, So certainly not a jokingmatter. When any company goes belly out
some point, it seems companies haveoutlived their time. I made a reference
to Blockbuster. There are very fewpeople right now who are over certainly twenty

(33:29):
years old. Let's put it thisway, sir, under twenty years old,
who have a clue what the wordblockbuster is. They don't remember Blockbuster.
My youngest son's twenty four, justturned twenty four. He I don't
know. I don't know. Ishould ask him. I don't think he
remembers Blockbuster. My oldest son,he'll be thirty coming up soon, and
he'll probably remember going to Blockbuster withme on a Friday night, like pretty

(33:52):
much the whole country did, browsingthrough the section in trying to get a
VHS that we had to be kindand rewind to return. They're gone,
and it looks like we're doing thesame of DVDs. Who has I mean,

(34:13):
do you still does anybody still havea DVD player that is not in
their garage, that's actually plugged intotheir TV set, their audio video system,
and you use it on a semiregular basis. Do you use it
three times a year? Man?I don't know. I'm pretty sure I

(34:37):
have a DVD player somewhere in mygarage. Then again, I also have
a record player. Somewhere in mygarage. I still have my cassette deck.
What we called a jam box backin the eighties, was it,
man? That was it? Ifyou didn't have a jambox, a Panasonic
jam box, you popped your cassettein and you walked around. Man,

(34:59):
you were pimp king strutting doing somebreakdancing. I didn't know the break dancing.
That somewhere still in my garage.I know. I'm a hoarder.
Red Box dats around nine hundred andseventy million dollars. What am I missing?
We got a really about two moreminutes left in this hour seven one
three two one two five nine five. Oh, if you're too shy to

(35:21):
call follow me, go to X, go to UH, I guess,
just go to X, go tothreads. Maybe I'll open that too.
High tech textans bubble whole thing outh I G H P E H T
E X A M. What issomething that you liked, you used,
maybe you grew up with for severalyears, maybe a generation, maybe a

(35:43):
half a generation. And I'm gonnacall red Box in there too. That
is just it's just not there anymore. And why are there still? Right?
I mean I'm not chelling you.I walk into HGB. There's this
one I go to on the southstside of the HOTWN and there's a red
box. Look at it. SometimesI don't stop. I'm like, oh,
there's the red box, and Idon't think about it. I've never
seen anybody use it. Why isit still there? I mean, if

(36:08):
you break into the we I meanlisten. I mean I on a hot
day and I don't have it.I don't I don't have a dollar,
two dollars? How much? It'slike, how much is a sod?
How much is a coke? Cost? Now too? But I break into
the vending machine if I was thirsty, and break into the red box actually
to return all my DBDs. Timesare changing, people, Times aren't changing.

(36:30):
Twenty two years though, I'm stillhere, not a lot of cracks
in my face though. One hourdown or jazz about halfway to half the
hour of the high de Dex andshow I take it is Michael Garfield.

(36:58):
Michael Garfield. Michel our Field's joiningus and the high tech Texan. Michael
Garfield is here with a high techTexan items to make life easier, your
technology. So Michael Garfield has somethingyou might want. Michael Garfield, is
your high tech Texan three decades helpingyou make magic with your gadgets. I

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heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act.Now your high tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
Just like it's halfway through the yearof twenty twenty four, halfway through
the halfway to happy hour on theshow. Also what is up? Thank
you for tuning in the middle ofthe summer. It's our summer special brought

(37:50):
to you by actually nobody. Weneed to find a sponsor for that,
colum so let's let's work on that. Seven one three two point two five
nine five zero. Michael Garfield,thanks for you. In the first hour,
had a lot of fun, talkeda little about the upcoming Amazon Prime
Days just in case you want tospend some of your hard earned money on
really just maybe a deal or two, but a lot of crap. As

(38:13):
I say, the Amazon Prime Daysis something that's Amazon's done almost every single
year, right in the dead middleof summer as a garage sale. They
got they got to move this stuffout of the warehouses that just doesn't sell
year round, so they can makemore room for other crap that we don't
need. During this upcoming oh ADay season. I know, I'm marsh

(38:34):
some things we actually do need andI get asked so often and in so
many places, by so many differentpeople in so many different ways. Technology
advice, Yes, it's it allstarted here. It actually started on TV
where people used to write letters intothe tvst I was on channel too,

(38:54):
KPRC, the NBC affiliate here whenI started the illustrious media career of mine
in the year two thousand. Thatemail was certainly around. I didn't get
a ton of it, but peopleused to write emails to the station.
Hey, Michael, what do youthink about this? Can you further explain
what Wi fi actually is? ThenI moved over to radio clear Channel Radio,

(39:15):
which is now iHeart Radio, andI was on all eight of our
local stations, including KPRC Radio,which is no affiliation currently with kp r
C TV. It's a long story. Emails started to come in, even
though I did get some hate mail, emails started to come out. And
then when I'm out and about,I do a lot of things in and

(39:37):
around not only the city of Houston, but across the country. I speak,
I had motivational sales speeches, whatever, and Obviously it's based on technology.
So I get a lot of techquestions, and I kind of liken
myself to a doctor. You know, you're at a party. You go
up and you meet a doctor.Oh you're a doctor, Hey, doc,
let me ask you a question.You know, I've got this kind

(39:57):
of pain in my arm. It'sthe same thing high tech texting. Hey
man, what kind of phone youhave? Hey, I'm trying to get
a computer. You know, whatwhat should I get? Listen. I
don't lie whatsoever. I this iswhat I want to do. I'm more
than happy to help if I can't. And I say this, it's because
I got asked about a laptop computer. And I don't get that question too
often either. People they're keeping theirlaptops longer. Laptops are relatively inexpensive.

(40:24):
They don't need my assistance or whatever. But this one came from my cousin.
My cousin, she lives here inHouston, and well, absolutely,
she's my I guess she's my secondcousin. She's my mom's first cousin.
So she's she's in her late sixties. I believe she could be early.
Said no, no, no,no, no, she's late sixties,

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I guess, and she texted me, and you know, she's so cute,
funny, she seems to him,Michael, this is your cousin.
I'm like, I know this,got a question. I need a laptop,
and I need something really simple.I really just kind of want to
go online and do a few thingsand whatever, and then what can you

(41:06):
do to help me? So obviouslyI'm the guy who's trying to I always
show the answer where I give yousome products, I don't want to give
you the most expensive thing out there, because there's there's so many opportunities to
save money for this product. Forthe product. So I set there in
thought for a minute or two,I'm thinking, well, she may be
she may want a chromebook. Now, if you don't know what a chromebook

(41:28):
is, a chromebook, it's aform factor of a laptop. But a
chromebook uses the Google operating system.It's not Microsoft operating system, and it's
not an Apple operating system. Soit's cheaper, it's more affordable. It's
an affordable laptop. They are lightweight. They're made by several manufacturers. Google

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HP makes one, Lenovo makes one, Acer makes one, Dell makes one,
Asis makes one, there's there's anumber of different ones, and they're
just not They don't come with alot of blokeware. They don't come with
all the other software that that MicrosoftWindows may be packed with. But when

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you're using you know, generally youthink there's two types of laptop computers.
There's Microsoft Windows and there's there's Applewith the Mac MacBooks. Those have specific
software which obviously you have to licensewhat have you. Well, if you
don't have you have to need thoselicenses, the software licenses, they become

(42:35):
cheaper. In fact, I'm justplaying around on a search right now.
I see this cannot be right.I see a del phone book. I'm
clicking on this just to make surebecause I don't want to give out bad
information. This, this honestly can'tbe true. Here is a Dell laptop
from Walmart dot com for fifty threedollars. This is used though this is

(43:02):
okay. I knew that was goingon, So that's used. Here is
here's an HP Chromebuck for sixty dollars. All right, there may be used
at the point. At the pointis you can get brand new ones for
easily one hundred and fifty dollars.One hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars
where to eat the day day cheapon those things. So no, I
text her back. I said,hey, hey, what do you think

(43:23):
about this? Here's a growbuck.Apparently she knew what a chromebuok goes,
and she says, well, I'mactually may want to use a little Microsoft
Excel and some Microsoft word. Ohokay, cock dog, no, now
you tell me. So at thatpoint we have to go up in price,
and so I did some research andit's then you get to go to
you know, you got a pricepoint of still not too bad. You

(43:45):
can get a Windows based where Iam not said, she's not getting an
Apple that nobody needs an Apple,No one needs to pay that much and
they're more confusing. So obviously I'msticking to Microsoft Windows. It's something for
two fifty three fifty. If youreally want something, you can get a
three thousand and five thousand dollars laptop. She doesn't want that because she's not

(44:06):
a gamer. At least I didn'task her if she's a gamer. So
no, I don't know what sheended up getting, but there are there
are a ton of different opportunities whenit comes to different products and I have
to, you know, figure out, you know, what's right and what's
not right for people. And Ihave to, you know, I have
to qualify that question. But askingmore questions. She also says she wants
a printer too. Printers gets ina whole nother gang. And the first

(44:29):
question is I answer, or evenI ask myself, is how much do
you want to print? I havea wireless printer at home. I've got
a really neat total compack small.I don't even sometimes I lose it on
my shelf. It's an HP Tango. If you could take a look at
it, it's not expensive whatever.If I print a ten pages a month,

(44:54):
maybe a lie, I don't printthat that much at all. If
you have an office, if youhave a smaller business that you meant to
print, you need to sign things. Yeah, you're gonna need you know
something that you're not going to bedrinking the ink. Had another question.
I was talking to a good buddyof mine, the eye doctor to the
Stars, doctor Alan Panzer, Uhdoctor P calls me earlier this week,
and he was talking about printing.He actually uses these tanks, these printing

(45:16):
tanks, and he was having anissue that they weren't working, and I
told him I have actually never usedthose printer tanks because I don't print that
much. I generally stick with theprinting cartriges that come with it. I
have an HP because I don't usea lot of ink. I have a
I have the black ink cartridge,and I have the coloring cartridge. I've

(45:37):
seen those printer you know ink.They're containers. I think what Shaquille O'Neil
I think was what I did theEPs and commercials or something. But they're
big tanks. Has anybody actually hadluck with those printer tanks. They're larger
bottles of different colors that you canhook up to your printer, and they
don't cost nearly as much. Becauseprinter ink or printer cartridges are akin to

(46:02):
razor blades, buy the razors,actually give away the razors and sell the
blades. That's a phenomenal business.BALL usually give away printers HP. Every
episode should give away the printers,just to make sure you're gonna write the
printer inc the same thing. Soanyway, that's how kind of I determine
what type of advice and if youhave any advice on printer even printers,

(46:23):
I'd actually like to hear from you. You see what you think? We're
gonna take break number one a hournumber two. Mister Michael Garfield coming back
and has promised I got to getrid of one of these gift cards ers.
So who wants to win something?Calum You ready for the phones to
light up? Owl about a twentyfive dollars gift card Totabo Bob's. What

(46:46):
a fun, great restaurant. Someof the best freshly made steak or chicken,
tacos, fajitas you we can callit. It's a quick service restaurant.
It's out of Austin. If you'refamiliar with the four or five locations
at Austin, I think there's onein San Antonio. There are now at
least four here in the Houston area. I am there at least twice a

(47:06):
week. If you follow me onInstagram, you can see how I go
through the line. I tell themI want the chicken, maybe I want
a little of the fried fish.But the neat thing is five different types
of tortillas that they press and heatright in front of you. Oh my,
the tomatillo. They have a smokycheddar. It's it is so good.

(47:27):
Twenty five dollars gift card Cobo Bob'sseven one three two one two five
nine five. Oh, calling Humbernine, how about that calem give that
thing away? Two one two fivenine five Oh you are the next winner
of a Cobo Bob's gift card.I do thank you to their Uh they're
I'm not gonna say it's a partnershipthere. We're just kind enough. They
know I'm a big fan. Sothey said, Michael, we're not going
to feed you because you're not eatinga lot, you're losing a little white.

(47:50):
You're looking great. And once youjust give this way, make somebody
else, uh you know, givethem some protein, happy to do it,
happy to do it, so we'llget a winner on that thing.
Time to talk about cars and trucksright now. You know. One of
the things that I do is Iget to test drive some really brand new
sometimes never seen sometimes not even onthe market yet really need cars. I'm

(48:14):
in trucks. I'm a member ofthe Texas Auto Writers Association, which means
I deal with manufacturers. I meanthe you know the previous segment I was
telling you about. My job isto give advice of telling you what to
buy and sometimes where to buy it. When it comes to cars and automobiles,
this is and it's it's totally it'smy opinion. It's unpaid endorsement,

(48:35):
which I really don't like dealing.But alas, I don't deal in dealerships.
Okay, if you like what Isaid that no dealing in dealerships.
I can review vehicles. They comestraight from the manufacturers, which means I
use, I can dis on them, I could love on them, but
I'm not going to recommend a dealership. I don't endorse a dealership. I
don't have deals with dealerships, andso it's totally up to me. So

(48:57):
if you like something I hear about, go figure out where dealership is.
And so I'm gonna give you thetrue ups and downs of the things that
I did, the things that Ilike and that I don't like. This
past week or so, I've beenriding around one of the most luxurious vehicles
I have been in in a longtime, Mediavior. Certainly on the inside.
I have been riding around at atwenty twenty four Lincoln. Let's write

(49:22):
a Lincoln Nautilus. Now, ifyou haven't seen a Lincoln Nautilus, it's
an suv. It's a two rowsuv. Several different levels of Lincoln.
You can you can start yourself witha Lincoln, you know, get these
things for around fifty to fifty fivethousand dollars, and then at some point
you start getting the upscale, upgradedversions, the different badges, if you

(49:42):
will. Well, I happen tobe in the Lincoln Nautilus black label.
They caught a bla it sounds likea Scotch, doesn't. No, it's
not. It's not a Scotch,but it is a black label rolls up
in front of my house because it'sdelivered each each Thursday, I get a
car that rolls up, a vehiclethat rolls up in front of my house,
and they give me the keys,and I get to have it for
a week. And I'm looking atit and it's it's kind of a it's

(50:04):
a monotone color, kind of adark grayish type of thing. Well,
I love the grill, the twentytwo inch wheels. They're very big,
kind of nondescript. And maybe it'sjust because it's just one monochrome to me,
dullish color. All right, anyway, get inside, man, I

(50:24):
stepped inside a freaking rocket ship tothe future. This is I can't say
I'm looking into the future because thefuture is now. The display on how
everything is laid out on the dashboardit's crazy. And I took some video

(50:46):
and I posted it on my Instagramhigh tech text and h I G h
T E C H T E TE x A N. This looks like
it could be an electric vehicle,because electric vehicles they do kind of go
all out on how they're laid outinternally. Then you know, they got
a big twelve inch touchscreen, whichnow we're kind of used to seeing.

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This is totally different. This doeshave a center infotainment touchscreen. I believe
it's ten to twelve inches, butthat's not what's crazy. It has.
Now I'm gonna try to give youthe play by play, but this is
what we professionals do. We're toexplain it on the radio. Imagine you're
sitting in the driver's that you're sittingin the passtreet and you're looking out of
the windshield. All right, Well, you have a dashboard, and the

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dashboard generally it's it's a little curvature, just the way the cars are built,
and it's kind of flat. Mostof them are flat. Right on
top of the dashboards, you couldsee right out the window. Well right
on the dashboard left to right,there is an elongated, very horizontal,

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if you will, forty eight inchscreen that goes from the left side of
the vehicle, right where the thestate inspectrum goes, all the way to
the right side the right a pillarwhere the passenger seats sits. It's maybe
only five inches high, but itis forty eight inches long. People,

(52:20):
it is a four foot long display, and it is gorgeous. It is
bright, and you can make thisthing do anything you want. So right
in front of you, Yes,you've got the odometer, you've got the
speed dometer, you've got got allthe info that you need. A little
right of that, you've got yourmap, your navigation map, and the
navigation map. Now it's a littlebit more on the on your eye level,

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because it's right on. It's onthe lower part of the windshield.
Now correg me, this is notprojected onto the windshield. It's actual a
video screen that is built into thecar. So technically you can call it
part of the dashboard because right abovethat there is the windshield. Then after
that you could configure anything you want. You could put the weather, you

(53:05):
could put the time, you couldput a clock up there. You've got
the radio, you've got the tripmonitor, maybe the trip one oh domeinter
the trip too O dometer. Butit is right displayed in front of you
like you're as you see in moviesthat you're in an airplane or a rocket
ship, and it just blew meaway. At that point, you can
set the color scheme. Now thisisn't new, and you getn't get the

(53:30):
higher end cars with the ant.It's called ambient lighting, and you're mostly
gonna see this at night when it'sdark, but you could set the ambient
lighting to kind of a more purplehue. Maybe it's an orange, maybe
it's a yellow, maybe it's agreat It changes everything. It's it's unlike
anything I've seen. So I gottagive some props to Lincoln on their Nautilus

(53:52):
for having this just really incredible display. And to me, it's like this
is it's very futuristic. We're gonnasee the things on more and more vehicles,
and Lincoln just did one heck ofa job. The steering wheel is
interesting. It's not a round steeringwheel, and it's not a racing steering
wheel. A racing steering wheel.Generally, the the top art is round,

(54:15):
but the bottom is flat. Givesyou a better grip, it doesn't,
You know, when you turn ityou can get your hands around that,
you know, a little easier,you know, when you're turning corners.
This is kind of a it's almosta bow tie shape, if that
makes sense. It's a little bitmore rounder than a boat, more rounded.
It's more round than a bow tie. But it's kind of an elongated
horizontal of handlebar. Point is there'sa theme that goes inside. I think

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I have a redwood theme. It'sa calming presence that makes you think just
because it's a dark it's not adark, it's it's kind of an off
red maroon pattern on the seats.It is interesting some of the crazy features
it has built in, Like I'mnot gonna call it perfume, but since

(55:00):
not dollars and cents but sc nts. It's got three different scent cartridges that
you can interchange, and it'll makeyour cabin smell like a forest. It'll
smell like fresh linen, it'll smelllike clouds. If you don't clouds,
I mean this thing is pimp pimp. This is the black label. We'll

(55:22):
tell you it runs about seventy eightthousand dollars eighty thousand dollars. But it's
a very nice, luxurious vehicle.Is it worth it? Not sure?
It rides very well, it's gotvery good pickup, it's got a nice
engine. But it is two rows. It's almost large enough if you look
at it from the outside that itcould have a small third row seat.

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It doesn't, but it does allowfor a very large cargo space. It's
got the automatic tailgate that lifts upwhen you put that. Even when you
put the second row down, youcould fit a lot of cargo space in
there. But overall, it's beena while since I've been in a Lincoln,
which is part of the Ford family, the Lincoln Nautilus black label.
It's neat. If you ever happento drive by a Lincoln dealership, go

(56:07):
inside and just take a look atthe Nautilus and order take a look at
some of the stuff that I'm puttingon my social media because it's actually very
interesting. Good job, Lincoln Nautilist. I applaud you. Speaking of luxury
coming up, you ever thought aboutgetting anything custom a custom made suit,
a custom made coat. They're notas expensive as you would think. And

(56:27):
I'll tell you what the quality andthe way that actually you could design your
colors, the lapels and things arevery interesting to actually make it look like
you no need to buy anything elseoff the rack. I found a great
habitashery over here. We're gonna gothrough the process of how he makes his
clothes and what makes me look sogood when I'm walking around. I'm pimping
on stage coming up here on theHigh Tech TEXTI show, we are back

(56:57):
at it. Michael Garkiels is thename Summer or whatever day you may be
listening to it. Should you belive, happy Saturday, if you're listening
to this on iHeartRadio or podcast,don't matter when you're listening to it,
but that's from listening. That's whatcounts. I have so many followers and
which I'm grateful for. Thank youfor everybody out there following me at High
Tech Text and on Instagram and Facebook. And I get a lot of comments

(57:20):
over the years about my clothes,and I you know, it's not that
I'm a clothes horse, but Iwant to make sure I have always worn
really nice clothes. And one ofthe reasons why is because I talk a
lot about technology, and you thinkabout it, you know, you think
I would dress like a geek,right, Well, I do so much
TV. I get on you know, on stage and stuff. It's the
last thing I want to do isyou know, look like a geek.

(57:40):
And so I you know, Iput a lot of effort and time and
money and style, you know,information into what I wear, including some
of these sport codes. And overthe past few months, I've been collecting
some really need sport codes that havebeen custom made for me. And I
never in my life but I actuallywould have anything custom made for me.
But at the end of the day, it sits unbelievably, they're not nearly

(58:04):
as expensive as I thought, youknow, custom suits or coach would wear.
And I get him right here bya gentleman who is mister Houston,
and he's so mister Houston, andhe's so mister habitat Serie. I love
the moniker, I love his website. I love the name of this company.
It quite simply is Houston Suit Guyaka Steve Springer, who I've known

(58:24):
for quite a while. I wantto bring him in and we're going to
talk a little fashion here in themiddle of summer. Steve something telling me
right now, you're wearing a sportcoat, correct or not? You know,
it's it's the job. You've gotto always have a sport code.
I can't go I can't go tothe grocery store and not have a sport
coat because you never know who you'regoing to run into, and you want

(58:45):
that best first impression every time matterwhich it is by the way, here
in July of twenty twenty four,it's very hot. But how often do
you get stopped by people going,hey, nice coke? Because I know
it's happened to me a lot lately, you know it does. It happens
a lot. And it's not becausenecessarily that the jackets that I make or

(59:07):
wear are flashy or in any waycrazy. It's just that when somebody is
wearing something that looks nice, isput together well, people notice, and
so I think that's important. Biggestcompliments I think I continue to receive.
And this is years and years andyears. It's nice when I wear I

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love really cool, fashionable shirts,lots of buttons, and you see how
I dress, and then I maynot wear a ton of sport coades.
Even though I'm doing it now,I really find it a compliment when not
women come up and tell me thatthe suit or the shirt looks good.
It's when dudes come up and seriouslysay, hey, where'd you get that?
Because I know for a lot ofmen, a lot of them don't

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care, especially here in Houston,they wear T shirts and it's just kind
of a town where you wear bluejeans. Ever, But when they sincerely
say, at a sharp board,did you get it? Do you find
more in your business? Is itthe men? Do they not care as
much? Do they care as muchas the women? But I think it's
odd that it's I find it moreflattering when the guys say, hey,
man, nice stuff. Absolutely,you know, I think, like you

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said the Moniker Houston suit guy onInstagram, I actually get more comments,
more questions from guys all the time, because quite honestly, when a guy
walks in the store, if you'veever thought about it, you go clothes
shopping, what do you do?You see things on mannequins and you say,
wow, that looks really good.I want that. For most guys,

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it's hard to go and find things, put things together kind of sort
it out in a way that makessense. And a lot of guys we're
really busy. So when you gointo your closet, you want to know
that the first thing that you grabis going to look really, really good,
no matter what it is. Mostof us have three or four outfits,
maybe even just two or three.That is kind of our go too,

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And it doesn't matter where we're going, what we're doing. Why do
we grab those two or three outfitsover and over. It's because that's what
we feel good in. We feelconfident when we wear it. And so
I always ask people when that they, you know, kind of start the
consultation process with me and learning aboutcustom clothing. I said, what would
it be like for you? Wouldit be mind blowing? Would it be

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life changing if that every item inyour closet you had that same confidence and
feel about every time you grabbed itout of there, no matter what it
was, And it would open upyour world to a much larger wardrobe.
And you know, it's it's kindof that Dion Sanders thing. You'll look
good, you feel good, youfeel good, you play good, you

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play good, they pay good.That's kind of that's kind of that whole
world of having that first impression andbeing confident when you meet somebody. It
doesn't matter if it's in business,doesn't matter if it's just in person,
talking to new people, meeting newpeople, relationships, whatever it is.
When you when you look good andfeel good, you're more confident and it

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shows is proving time. Steve Springeris his name, Houston Suit Guy.
You can google it and social mediaeverywhere you'll find and we'll get more than
that. How'd you get started inthis business? So for years I actually
spent time in kind of the kindof the menswear world, big box stores,
you know, and I got alittle bit of a little bit of

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taste of what custom men'swear was likeat some level, and I realized that
custom menswear is where that you getto actually build relationships. I get to
sip with someone like yourself like wedid, and understand about you, how
you wear clothes, what you dowhen you put a sport code on.

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Is it just date night? Isit that I'm in front of a camera,
Is it that I'm you know,I just want to elevate my game.
I would just want to better feelbetter. So all of those things
are very important. You know,somebody might come in and say, you
know, hey, I'm I sellBMW's, you know, for instance,
and I have to be in asuit every day, and I want the

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best looking suit out there, andso they picked these really expensive, beautiful
fabrics and I'll tell them, look, you know, that might not actually
be the right fabric for you.And the reason is you're in and out
of cars all day. I'm goingto make you a suit that's really beautiful,
that's going to show you off inyour best light, but it's not
going to be maybe quite as expensivebecause we need something that's a little bit

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more bulletproof for what you do.So it's all about the personal experience and
being able to understand what you want, what your goals are in developing a
wardrobe. And so you know,for me, like I said, it's
transitioning from those those big box storesand really stepping out on my own.
You know, COVID was was reallythat that factor that made it all happen.

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And you know, it's it's interesting. My very first client, very
first client as a with Bluefine Men'sWear was actually a KPRC Frank Billingsley Rank.
He he you know, had knownhim for several years and he called
me and said, hey, itlooks like your stores closed. Man,
I we know what's going on.And I said, well, they've closed

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down all these stores, you know, due to COVID, but just so
happens, you know, in thebackground. I've been working on this for
a while now and I've got allmy fabrics from Italy and England. And
he said, well, can youcome over? And so I went over
to his house and he bought acouple of suits. And that has just
absolutely become, you know, kindof the best ever. Building on those

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relationships and having clients that have reallyreally good experiences that have become honestly some
of my best friends. Love Frank. I don't think he's gonna be wearing
a lot of suits anymore. Hashe just retired? Very very lucky guy
Steve Springer joining me here for thenext few minutes, known as the Houston
Suit Guy custom made Suits. Talkabout the process. I like the process.

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I have never been through a custommaking a sport code or suit process,
and I tell you what it was. It was simple. But Steve,
I got to say, it waskind of fun because I got along
with you to design some stuff.Obviously you took my measurements, and at
that point it was let's go shoppingthrough all of these fabrics. And in
your office, I know you justhave swatches and swabs and books and books

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and books of different fabrics thick thanthe color patterns. I know what colors
I like and which was awesome becausewhen I go used to go shopping off
rack in stores, it's like I'mgonna have to buy something they got here.
That's it. It may not havebeen truly truly garf stop. You
made design. Let's put it thisway. You do you help me design

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garf sport codes because I like color. I like things because I'm on stage
and I'm on TV. I needsomething that pop. And so whether it
say a purple, which is myfavorite color, a purple sport coder blazer
beautiful and uh and then you talkedabout, well this one has you know,
a little you know, patch styleof pockets on the whole thing.
It's you actually guide me through theprocess. You look at my skin tone,

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this is gonna pop. That wasthe neat one on win experience.
And that's I think what you profess. You are one on one you custom
make these for everybody. But yes, from the from the way that we
started is we we basically say,like I said, the the consultation piece,
let's figure out what you're looking for. And then once we've kind of
got that built out in our mindwhat your your goals are, then we

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start to select fabrics. And theseare all fabrics that are imported from Italy
and England like Xenia, Laura,Piana and you know all those really really
great fabric mills, Fox Brothers outof England, Hudtersfeld, really really great
you know, cloth, top quality, beautiful, beautiful cloth, and so

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we start from a quality product andthen and then we start to build out
the design together. Houston Sue guy. I'll tell you what, Steve,
We'll get you out here on thisand we're going to go to the email
over here. So it's funny,I got it. This is from Jeanette,
which is a female. She goesgreat topic right now because my husband
dresses like generally, how long doesit take to make a sport code?

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Which is actually I think it's afair question. Sure, typically I want
to have about six weeks. That'sthat's you know, So it's a real
easy process to set up an appointmentwith me. Most the best scenarios to
set up appointment with me and mydesign center which is in the Houston Heights,
and that's that's just a really easyprocess there. And after we design

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it and I start into the production. It takes typically about six weeks.
And then as soon as everything isI've done the whole QC process on the
finished garments, then I will sendyou a message to schedule a final fitting
appointment, which you know ninety ninepercent of the time you want. You
try it on in the dressing room, everything is perfect and you'll leave with

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the garment that day. If there'sany tweaks or adjustments that are needed,
typically takes two to three days,and then you'll have your your suit or
tucks makes sense, and we endit with this, as we quote Saturday
Live, it is better to lookgood than to feel good, and I
absolutely look good. You look goodevery time we're wearing anything that is made
by you. People want to geta hold of you. What's the easiest

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way. So the easiest way isto go either to Instagram through Houston suit
Guy, or you can go directlyto my website houstonsuit Guy dot com,
or you can go to bluefinemenswear dotcom. Either way works. You'll get
there. There's a there's a messagebutton, or you can call me.
I'll put my put my phone numberout there, seven one, three,

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six five nine ninety twenty eight.You can call or text that number.
Texting is better obviously just because ofvolume. But if you can send me
a text or or just go straightto the website, there's a way to
contact me right there, or youcan send me a direct message on Instagram.
Houston Suit Guy, Suit Guy,and for all the people. Every

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time I happen to wear some ofthese sport codes out there, when people
do come up and say where didyou get that? I have a pocketful
of your business starts that I givehim, and you know I do because
I get a lot of comments everytime I'm out in one of your great
sport codes. Steve Springer, Houstonsuit Guy. Loved the branding and love
what you do. Congrats and yoursuccess, my man. I can't wait
to order a few more coming uphere. Thank you for your time and

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dress well. Mia Migo, youtoo. Take care Michael. That is
Steve. What cool is that?I mean literally, people, I mean
I never thought I'd have anything thatwas custom and it was so freaking simple.
And I'm not going to, youknow, give out his government or
information. But he's got some otherthan Flank. He's got some pretty famous
clients, some of which I justwant to hang around his shop to just

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watch him come in and out.Steve Springer check it out of Houston suit
Guy. All right, this iscalled the High Tech Text Show KPRC Radio
nine fifty am, not only inHouston but around the world. And iHeartRadio.
Don't go anywhere. We'll be rightback. We made it almost.

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We got about eight more minutes ofthe show. Oh man, indulgence of
summer. I do thank you forhanging in there. Hey, also,
thanks so much to Houston Suit Guy. If you just turned our chat,
it's it's pretty listen. I talkso much more about technology. It's it's
you know, it's the world accordingto Garf. It's whatever I want to
yap about. And I always likespotlighting entrepreneurs, local businesses. And you

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know, he is a one manband who just decided to break away from
the big box stores of not MedastriusShmata and does a week call it which
is clothing or rags and created ishis own place, Houston Suit Guy,
Houstonsuit guye dot com. And hetell you what he did. He just
actually just texted me. He goes, Hey, Garth, thank you so

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much for the opportunity to speak.By the way, if anybody mentioned your
name, I'm going to give themten percent off anything. How about that?
So, Houston Suit Guy, ifyou someone you know wants a custom
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picking out all your fabrics and youcould save ten percent twenty plus years
the industry. And this is good. This is the most famous thing that's

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ever happened to me. Is I'vebecome a coupon. My name is cue
pot ten percent. If you mentionedMichael Garfield, so give him it.
Really good stuff. Not going togive out the phone number anymore. We
do have a winner for the CaboBob's gift card we gave away two segments
ago. Congratulations to the winner,whoever that is. That You're going to

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be eating well at one of thefour Houston area Cabo Bob's location. It's
actually almost lunchtime for me. Iactually may have to run up there.
And get a little snacky poo ifI need to what other things I want
to head, I'm gonna go throughsome emails. Oh my, a lot
of it, a lot of travelinggoing on. And I got two three
emails, one of which in thelast hour asking me about international phone plans.

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One of the best phone plans becausethey're traveling internationally. It's the third
question, similarly like that that I'vegot this pass week using your phone internationally.
It's a little it's it's no longeras simple as just popping in a
different SIM card. And if youknow what a SIM card, the sim
card is a little tiny, physicallittle card. It's a little electronic card

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that you can pop in and popout of your phone. That's something you
have to use, a little pen, a little almost like a needle that
comes with it. That for yearsand years phones at that actually is your
phone number. So whoever your carrieris, Verizon, T Mobile, eighteen
T whatever it is, they sendyou this little tiny card and you pop
it in and that's the phone number, and it keeps a lot of your

(01:12:51):
data and things on there. Andso when you get a new phone,
quite simply over the years, allyou need to do is pop that little
SIM card out which is your phonenumber, put it into phone, and
you're set to go. Now,newer phones now have don't have the physical
card. They have an electronic sim. It's called the E's an e SIM.
It's not an E SIM. Caris just an e SIM. It

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is kind of confusing. But assummer travel heats up, you do have
some questions on what's the what's thebest phones with international plans. I'll try
let me see if I let seeif I can take two or three minutes
before we get out of here toexplain this. I'll focus on US carriers,
United States carriers, UH, anda lot of that could be applied
to traveling in other countries. Ihave this is there. I have no

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skin in the game. I haveno endorsement with anybody. I'm just looking
at rates. I don't care whoyou use, all right, you may
like one, you may not likeone, but just just quickly anecdotal scanning
the if you really Globe Trot frequentlytake a look at Verizon's unlimited Ultimate Plan.

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It's their most premium plan. It'sunlimited kind of takes a page from
T Mobile's playbook. As international textinghas data and over about two hundred country
all right, now, it's dataand texting. It does not include voice.
But here's the thing you can getaround voice because nowadays, really if

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you ask me, and I haven'ttraveled a ton internationally, but I've never
done anything. I've never upgraded myphone because Wi Fi is so over existed,
it's so ubiquitous in libraries, cafes, restaurants, airports, hotels,
resorts. If you're on Wi Fi, you can use WhatsApp, you can

(01:14:41):
use FaceTime. Other messaging apps hasvoice culling features. I used to get
a Wi Fi calling Verizon has somethingcalled mix and match plans for different lines
on your account, and that couldbe helpful for you. If you're on
a family plan. That means ifyou have one line on an ultimate for
the month you'll be traveling, youcan keep the other lines on a more
affordable plan, So that that's oneopportunity too. So to determine where you

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want to go, do a littleGoogle search, what country you're traveling in.
Who's your provider? If it's Ifit's T Mobile, go to the
T Mobile website. Does it work? Does it include extra minisc a lot
if you're going to Mexico or Canada. I believe I don't quote me,
but some of these plans actually includeMexico in Canada, so you don't even

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need to upgrade. There's another goodone for international plans. T Mobile has
something called the Magenta Max. TheMagenta Max, it has a high speed.
The other thing is you may ifyou get a hot spot. If
you know what a hotspot is,If your phone has a hot spot and
it's included maybe in your unlimited plan, you can actually light up your phone

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to become a hotspot. And yourparty who travels with you, maybe at
your family kids, whoever, theycan actually glomb off of your hot spot.
Tell them to turn on their WiFi. Get onto your Wi Fi
because you're broadcasting from your hotspot.That's another secret too, Latin America.
If you're going to Latin America,Number one, take me. I got

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a new passport at and T UnlimitedPremium maybe the best for you. And
it's and then there's roaming versus localsim cards. The big reason that I'm
come to talk a little bit aboutroaming is because most common ways US people
you probout United States consumers still buytheir phones. It's through wireless carriers and
installment plans, and to keep peoplefrom taking advantage of subsidized phones leaving for

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other providers, the carriers lock theirphones to their networks until you finish your
two or three year installment plans.And so sometimes you can go to another
country if you have a lock phone, and you could go get a SIM
card to temporarily put in point isthe world is getting smaller when it comes

(01:16:58):
to communication. Well, last yearI went to South Korea and I didn't
do a derned stand and I usemint Mobile. I don't even use one
of the big three. I usemint Mobile. By the way, if
you want a discount for mint Mobile, pop me a direct message or send
me an email, because I havea discount for you, because it's already
inexpense enough. Now mint Mobile isnow solely owned by T Mobile, but

(01:17:19):
mint Mobile, I have a discountthat i'd probably get you. Just happy
to actually share that with you,but it's I'm not gonna blast it out
right now. But I didn't evenupgrade a mint Mobile because I knew on
the airplane I flew United they hadWi Fi and that actually got when I
got on Wi Fi. It lastedall over the Pacific Ocean until I landed
in South Korea. South Korea gotto the airport, there was Wi Fi.

(01:17:41):
Didn't have Wi Fi and the busof the cab, but once I
got to my hotel resort, Ihad Wi Fi. I went to a
convention center because it was a bigpress conference I went to for Samsung.
They had Wi Fi. I wentto restaurants, they had Wi Fi.
You just don't need a ton ofthat stuff. The world is getting smaller.
And I'll tell you what, inthe twenty two plus years I have
been doing this pace, the worldcontinues to get small. This what used

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to be a local radio station,a local radio program here in Houston on
KPRC, the signal. We havea five thousand watt station. Yes,
it was barely able to reach northof the Woodlands. It got halfway to
Austin. Certainly, it covered Galveston, and it got not to the Louisiana
border, and that was it.Nowadays, you download the iHeartRadio app and

(01:18:24):
I have a worldwide radio show.And I do thank you for listening that
for all these years, twenty twoyears and going. I want you to
continue to have a great summer.Thank you Callum Read for putting this on
the podcast. I'm going to takea few days off. I'm doing some
traveling. Don't stalk me, people, but follow me on social media because
I'm doing more and more videos andtips to that don't keep you happy,

(01:18:45):
not just about tech, but cars, travel, bourbon, clothing, fashion,
or whatever else I actually feel likedoing. Hey, stay fool,
seriously, drink hydrate. For allof us who've been a part of the
show, I do thank you fortuning in. My name is Garth Garfield,
and she is the High Detection showHappy Middle of Summer because right now,
this particular episode is over.