How to prepare for the future

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• Can the internet really be taken down by an Amazon server outage? How to prepare for the future
• How to spot a fake AI video
• EV sales are slowing down but electric bikes are the new rage. How to buy one.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael Garfi of Michael Garfield.

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Michael Garfield's joining in the.

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High Tech Texan.

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Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans. It
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Garfield has something you might like.

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Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
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Well look at this, the final show before Halloween of
twenty twenty five. I hope you have your candy ready,
and if it's Reese's, do me a favor. I want
you to pop me an email and tell me where
you live. And you better have some of those big
bars too. I don't one listen. I'll take REases in
any way, shape or form the greatest candy bar knowing

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to man. But come on, people, you're gonna have some leftover.
You're gonna have to do something with it. Maybe I'll
just give you the address here at the radio station.
Because it is all good. Yes, we are talking halloweight.
We're gonna talk about the fact that the Internet almost
died earlier this week when the Amazon Web services server
went down? Man, what happened? I spent an entire day

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with media all over the country telling them it's okay,
calm down, all is well, tell you what I will
tell you how close the world is to a shut down.
One of the things that we're gonna be yapping about.
Also a new camera specifically for your toilet. You don't
want to miss that. And why e bikes seem to

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be one of the hottest thing right now. I've actually
been playing with an e bike for the past two weeks.
I've mentioned it here too, but I'm gonna talk about that.
The name Michael Garfield, the show, The High Tech textan
show I promise it is not all about technology. In fact,
we're gonna go fifty to fifty. We actually may go
sixty to forty of its technology. It is the middle

(02:09):
of football season. We can talk about the Halloween costumes
that are hot, which actually kind of surprises me right now,
or anything else do you want to yap about? Because
it is pretty much holiday season. The shopping season is
really starting to heat up. Getting a lot of questions about, Hey,
should I get this laptop? Or is this the phone
I should get? What about a TV? Is there a

(02:30):
drone that you like? They're asking me about e bikes too.
See I am your answer man. I'd love to have
Shell actually sponsor this if you go back in today's
this Shell answer man. I'm just garf ga RF get
answers real fast. I like to thank Google and the
BS that I've actually accumulated over the past thirty years

(02:50):
for that. I see calum read, I see well. I
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(03:13):
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So maybe something to give away. Lots of car talk evs.
I was in an EV last week. I'll give you
my rundown of that. The EV industry. I don't know

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how big of a bright outlook it is for that.
That's what we have today on the show. Pull up
at your pull up a cocktail and I am here
for you. This last weekend of full weekend of October
of twenty twenty five, why don't we talk about where
you were Monday when the Internet seemingly almost shut down.
Monday will go down is the day that Amazon broke

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the Internet for millions of Americans. The outage was a
harsh reminder of the fragility, how fragile our global Internet connectivity,
and actually Amazon's role is so much dependent on we're
dependent on their online infrastructure. There was a glitch with

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an obscure Amazon database which disrupted lives for millions of
people across the US as the core Internet service failed
to function for just a variety and just an array
of companies. Alexa devices couldn't hear the corporate lack messages,
wouldn't posts, students couldn't turn in assignments, access materials from courses.

(05:06):
I was monitoring this stuff. Financial trades were impossible on
certain platforms if you tried to use Zoom, Venmo, Instacart,
a lot of other services. They had prolonged dowlages that
ripple through homes and businesses. Me personally, I was trying
to upload some of my podcasts to Spotify and I
just I finally figured out what was going on. It

(05:27):
just kept the circle of hell. It just it's you know,
it's waiting and waiting and waiting and wait, oh yeah,
it's It was the Amazon. The trouble started a few
hours after midnight on the Least Coast. There was a
minor update to what's called a Domain Name system, which
is d NS. And really it's the kind of software
it's week that happens millions of times a day on

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the Internet. But what happened it sent that whale oil
machine that underpins the modern Web really just creening into
a crash. I want you to think about this. DNSX.
It's kind of a telephone directory for the Internet because
what it does it instructs machines on how to find
each other. And Amazon Web Services or AWS. You've seen

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a lot of the commercials if you watch the NFL,
there's the AWS data. How they can predict how fast
these running backs are running. It's become one of the
world's most important databases. And suddenly machines on the Lease
coast of the United States they tried to process trillions
of requests and they were getting the Internet's equivalent of
a wrong number. And Amazon Services themselves, they were some

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of the first to feel the effects. The system that
helped sort Amazon packages onto trucks. It guides drivers on
the road. That went down middle of the night on Monday,
spread way far beyond Amazon across the Internet. It delayed
four thousand flights, It knocked out news websites. It turned

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into one of the most prolonged daily outages for AWS,
and it reminds us the fragility we are, fragile of
the global connectivity. And that went dark. Now by late
Monday afternoon, Amazon said it had restored a lot of
the services. I was probably doing my six TV interview,
my eighth radio interview, going Michael, what do we do?
What do we do? My analogy was this, if you

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live in the Gulf Coast and you we are affected
by a hurricane or a power outage, what can we do?
Who do we get pissed at? Do you get pissed
at your electricity provider? Odds are if you're smart enough,
you don't, because your electricity provider is nothing but a
marketing company that sits between you and Center Point Energy.

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In the case, if you're in the Gulf Coast Houston area,
hurricanes go down, there's nothing you can do but sit
in the dark, other than be prepared. And yes, I'm
an eagle scout. I've talked all my life about being
prepared every hurricane season, which, by the way, we still
have one more month of hurricane season. It doesn't end
till November thirtieth. Yes, yeah, I want you to have

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your backup batteries. If you have a generator, do you
have a whole home generator. Do you have a big
eco flow home electricity generator. Do you have flashlights? Do
you have fans? Do you have a number of different things.
That's all we could do. And so it went down,
and so this is going to happen between now and

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the end of whatever. Listen, Ben Franklin, have been in
electricity a long time ago, and guess what, it is
still relatively unreliable, dependent on weather, depending on electricity lines whatever.
The Internet is just as fragile. You don't think we're
dependent on internet, cell service, telephone service. It's communication that

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to me, and I've always said, is probably the biggest
threat known to war a country. You want to get warfare, yes,
I know there's bombs and what's going on in Gaza
right now and everything. It's horrible, But you want to
shut down the infrastructure of a government, there are countries
that have the capability to do it. This was not

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nefarious as far as we know. This was just a hiccup.
It was a glitch by Amazon Web Services. It's back
up and running. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars
in downtime, that is a fact. But imagine if a
government comes directly after our government, our country, our infrastructureation people.
You better have smoke spignals, You better have a wired

(09:24):
copper telephone line still there. You better have I don't know,
homing pigeons, because that's all we got. Hey, we're gonna
continue to talk about this. I have a lot of reviews,
a lot of phone calls. I'm going to get to
Michael is my name. We have some fun. I don't
take it too seriously, but I do tell you about
as best as advice as I can. Coming up hottest
Halloween costumes. That's right, we go to internet alogies to

(09:44):
the greatest holiday of the year. Coming up my high
tech text and shit, not too sexy or smart of

(10:13):
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(10:35):
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have a VPN which I actually can talk and recommend
that too. Last weekend of October, pumpkin beer going down
a number of things to talk about. I saw I am.
Longtime listeners know this my favorite holiday of the year

(10:56):
is Halloween. We could debate whether it's a holiday or not. Okay,
there was no miracle that happened that oil held out
for eight nights. Jesus was not born, the Angel of
Death not pass over our houses. The Declaration of Indepense
was not signed. If those are holidays, those are holidays.

(11:19):
Halloween is just something special. I personally don't celibate Christmas,
and so I went nuts for Halloween, Halloween decorations, Halloween.
Where else in any other time in the world could
you go to strangers' houses as a kid, knock on
a stranger's door and they give you freaking candy? I mean,

(11:41):
is it? Don't tell me. It's not the greatest thing ever.
I have so many wonderful memories growing up in Dallas
staying out to I mean, I don't know. I may
have stayed out with my buddy's till eleven o'clock midnight,
which I then found out that if you go late
and almost the lights are off, and you knock on
a door and all these people they have left different candy,
they say, screw it. They dump the whole candy right

(12:02):
into your back. I mean, they listen, there's tricks around
all this stuff. I have three boys. I'd like to
say the reason I had kids was because it gives
gave me another fifteen to twenty years of legally trick
or trading, because you really can't go trigger trading when
you're an adult. So Halloween is around. My kids are
now grown. I'm so it's so cool because I threw.

(12:22):
I threw the biggest Halloween parties in the neighborhood. And
that's because I wanted. I wanted my house when my
kids were younger. I wanted it to be the house.
And if you're a parent, maybe you'll understand what the
house is where all the kids gather at your house.
To me, it's it's comfort, it's safety. I know my kids,
all their buddies were at my house. We had a pool,

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pool table, air hockey table, an actual stand up gallagha
and misspac Man machine, Xbox, Sony, PlayStation, Nintendo, we had
it all. It was just the party use And so
I loved Halloween so much. I said, you know what,
I'm gonna throw a Halloween party at the heyday of
my kids young years. I'm going to go back probably

(13:08):
how old of the kids says. So I'm going to
go twenty. I'm gonna go eighteen years ago or so,
we had a Halloween party that had one hundred people.
And I'm not being you know, you know it's not hyperbole.
It's one hundred people. Had it catered. I think we
had James Coney Island come in, had a bounce house,
had costume contest. We had a contest where all the

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parents had to bring their favorite spooky, scary dessert and
I gave away gift cards. I mean, it was just
the best anyway knew here nor their happy Halloween. Make
sure I get your leftover Reese. It's awesome. But times
continue to change when it comes to costumes. You know,
the costumes. When I was a kid, we were astronauts.
Because when I was a kid in the early seventies,

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oh man, it was the Apollo Mission. It was cool.
And then you know, maybe it was Gillian and Skipper
and Grizzly Adams Little House and the pro in football
obviously growing up in Dallas, absolutely I had I think
it was it. I have well, I was too. It
was a Roger Staubach, Jersey could have been a Drew Pearson,

(14:12):
not even sure at the helmet had the pads and everything.
Nowadays there's saucy, sexy characters. It's like, what do you do?
What is my fifteen year old kid dressing up like that?
You know? Luckily I don't have girls, and I don't
even want to get into that stuff. So I'm looking
in point is I'm getting this is a four and
a half minute payoff. I'm looking at the top costumes
of twenty twenty five people. I am out of touch.

(14:35):
I am Hallootes, out of touch, out of time. And
by the way, I think I actually did go as
Hallo notes on one Halloween the Halloween costumes, and I
got to show you this right over here? Where is
let me pull this thing up. I don't know who
these people are. There is a show apparently on Netflix
called K Pop Demon Hunters. Is it on Netflix? I

(14:56):
guess so. I don't watch this k Pop Demon Hunters.
It's a cartoon about I don't even want to try
to explain it. What is it? Girls who sing and
they fight monster? I don't know. I just I'm sure
I screwed that up. I'm looking at the top ten
Halloween costumes this year. Uh. The top eight of ten,

(15:20):
I believe are from K Pop Demon Hunters. All I
know is whoever the I think it's Japanese anime. They're animators.
I don't know whoever created this thing. They're laughing all
the way to the bank. Number one some character named Rumy,
part human, part demon Zoe. Zoe's the emotional glue of
the group. I'm reading this, by the way, Mirah gruff loving,

(15:43):
main character of the group. Here's a dude actually named
Jinu Jinu. He's the leader of the Saja Boys. I
have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, baby Saja.
And then there is Derby, Derby the Tiger all right,
haven't heard of note one of these things. The other

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ones that round out the list Chicken Jockey from Minecraft,
never heard of it, La Boo Boo, I've heard of
La booboo. Those are those furry, cute sharp two dollars
that are viral. Never seen one in real life. And
then we've got el Falba from Wicked, the Green Witch. Right,
I haven't seen Wicked, but I've seen the previous I

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know who that is. And then, fine, finally, can we
go back to the nineteen seventies the Lorax. Isn't that
a doctors Who's character. I think there's a new doctors
Who's movie coming out early next year with Bill Haters
the voice. I think it's Cat and hat. I don't know.
I think the Lorax is a character. What happened to
football players? What happened to basketball? But? Does no one

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want to be Steph Curry? Does no one want to
be Cooper Flag up in Dallas? No one want to
be CJ. Strip? Well, maybe nobody wants to be a
Houston Texans I understand that thing. Uh, oh, look good,
I did. No one wants to be an arch Manning.
Come on, man, just shut up and give me your candy.
That's what thought about that? Uh? Parents or kids call me? Now?

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What are you going as for holidays? And what is
your favorite candy? And if it's not Reese's, don't call
me three four six two nine eight three nine six
three four six two nine eight three nine two six.
You want extra credit, take a picture of your costume
and send it to me. Post it on my X
account high tech text and hi g h T E

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c h T E x A M. Maybe I will
respond with a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's,
which is my favorite restaurant currently right now in Austin
and Ousto here in Houston.

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Uh.

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If I find a really cool Halloween costume, worthiness and
then I will DM you and I'll get your information.
If not, maybe I'll give another one out on there
between now and the end of the hour. All Right,
you know the you know how to get me? Coming up,
we're going to talk a little about artificial intelligence. Hey,
is anybody going as Ai for Halloween? Because that would
be a that would be a really cool costume. How

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would you go as Ai? I guess you can go
as Allen Iverson see that. You see what I did there?
I snuck in a basketball references because his nickname is Ai.
He didn't play any longer. Practice. Man, you talk about practice,
but you're going as Ai. That's actually a dang good
high tech text in costume by way, how to spot
a fake AI video, I'm gonna tell you. And also Instagram,

(18:29):
I love me some Instagram just came out with some
new AI features. Not here to scare you, not here
to warn you. I'm just here give you the P
by P, which is the play by play. It's the
high tech texting show. Michael Garfield stay right there shifting

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through my Instagram looking at all you cute little Halloween costumes.
Feel free to bring it in between now and the
end of the show. I'm gonna pick one of the
the better, the cuter, the whatever costume. Adults are kids.
I'm giving away a twenty five dollars gift card to
Cabo Bob's. If you're in the Houston area. You love
it for locations, man, They're open every day except Sunday. Unbelievable.

(19:32):
Make your own time well, you can watch people. You
can tell the money on your Tacos huge burritos case
Adilla's thanks to Arnold Rios Lori Rios. They're the kind
of the regional managers and marketing folks in the Houston area.
Gift cards also good in Austin, which I will be
in Austin discoming Monday. If you're in Austin listening, tune
in Fox seven, the Fox TV station. Every Monday, I

(19:53):
have a segment I talk about some technology features. What
am I talking about? Oh, I'm talking about Oh, security cameras.
Talk about security cameras, the outdoor security cameras. Then now
have a built in solar panels so you don't need
to bring them in every three or four or five
months to charge these things. I'll be showing off some
of those. So anyway, that's what's going on over there,

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So good luck with your Halloween costumes. Phone number here
three four six two nine eight three nine two six.
A joke that I was going to go is AI
for Halloween. I'm really not actually dressing up for Halloween.
I would, but I'm not going to be in town.
Alan iverson artificial intelligence. It's the same thing. Everything is

(20:35):
becoming AI right now. I don't talk a ton about AI.
I'm experimenting. I'm playing with it. I use Gemini on,
which is an app on my Samsung phone. Their newest
version is just it's still even to me, I am jaded.
Michael Garfield, by the way, you're listening to the High
Tech Text and Show. I've been covering technology officially professionally

(20:58):
for almost twenty five years now, TV, radio, social media,
newspapers and everything. I'm at the point where I'm so jaded.
The very little things impress me, especially products. What's new
about your phone? Okay, it's just another phone. It's got
a great camera, blah blah blah. Yeah, we got foldable phones.
Everybody other than Apple flip phones. It's good, all right,

(21:19):
next laptops, TVs, whatever. It just just here we go again.
Let me do a review, and that's it. I am
being blown away by what's happening with artificial intelligence. I
could type in any scenario of whatever photo, whatever picture,

(21:40):
illustration that I want done, and within seconds it is popped.
It just pops it out. Ah. Can I put tom
Cruise on a sailboat while he's juggling eggs? Eight seconds
later and it's like, dang man, when did Tommy boy

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actually pose for this? It's unbelievable. Anyway, I'll continue to
talk and recommend about AI. Whatever Instagram is finally wrapping
it's heads and hands around AI. You know, Instagram is
a is a wonderful platform. I use it quite often.
I've got almost fifty thousand followers, and I hope to
have more. If you follow high Tech Texan Hi g

(22:22):
h T E C h T E XN, that's where
you're gonna see a lot of my reviews and fun
videos and products. But pretty much I edit myself the videos,
I take pictures, and that's it. I hit post and
I move on my merry way. Oh no. Instagram stories
stories that you know you take a picture of last
for maybe twenty four hours. It just got an upgrade

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because now you're gonna be able to edit your stories
in a number of different ways using artificial intelligence. I
just saw this. You're gonna have the ability to add, remove,
change images and videos in your stories. It's actually been
around a few months, but they're now adding some new things.
Instagram is owned by Meta, which is Facebook and Instagram right,

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but it's some of the videos you could put sticker.
If you've restyled a photo that you're particularly proud of,
you you could put a sticker on there. This is
add yours so your friends now can use the same
edits on their own stories. They're seasonal effects. You can
actually make a Halloween or a Dwally thing going on.

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Right now, you can use a new browser feature to
add preset effects for your short videos. Text restyling. Instagram's
testing out a new way to restyle the text in
your stories. You know, normally we have six seven, eight nine,
maybe that okay, do I want times new roman? But
now you can you know, you could choose from things
like chrome or a balloon and you could see what's coming,

(23:51):
is coming up, It's it. I got into covering technology
twenty five years ago because I realized tech was moving
so fast. At that time. It was the dot com era.
There were tech companies doing this and you could do
everything online. You could register for your license plate online.
And then there was this thing called Wi Fi, and

(24:12):
then a few years later digital TV came along, and
then in two thousand and seven it was the Apple iPhone,
which was a game changer. I created this persona. I
created this media personality so I could explain in real
world terms what technology is, how it could help your life,
help your life. Wi Fi helped our lives. I didn't

(24:34):
need to plug in my laptop anymore. I could go
to a coffee shop and open my laptop and whoa
wirelessly over the air man I could surf. That was
the paradigm shift that I got so excited about. Nowadays,
I may not even have to edit my own dang videos,
or take photos, or even do a radio show because hey,

(24:54):
I could probably copy my voice. By the way, this
is the real Michael Garfield. That's how quickly are changing,
and that's why you get all your saucy sexy top
of the line. First time you've ever heard it? Information
from me, that is, That is what I'm here for.
Videos are very tough too. I saw an article what
was in USA today about sometimes you're looking at video

(25:16):
and you don't know it's real. How do you spot
a fake AI video? Because nowadays we need to be
suspicious of every viral video on social media these days.
I remember a year ago, two years ago, Tom Brady,
he was he was shot hitting a hole in one
on a golf course from out to know, two hundred

(25:36):
yards out, and I'm like, come on, the dude is Superman.
He's the best looking guy ever. He's got all these
super Bowl rings. He's just he's he looks great. He's
got he's a freaking stud. He's got another job for
three hundred and fifty million dollars, you know, on Fox. What
else could this guy do? Oh? Now he hits a
hole on one and I'm looking at the whole thing

(25:57):
and the way it was he was edited very nice,
and like, I don't believe it. The point is now
you have to spot fake videos, and let me tell
you how to do it, because what happens to us
when seeing is no longer believing and it's happening right
now because there's another new app that just came out
that I have yet to play with, but it's called
Sora two s R. If anybody has played with this,

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I'd love to hear from you. Next segment, I want
to take a phone call or two or ten three
four six two nine eight three nine two six three
four six twenty nine text in have you used Sora
two because it only works an iPhone, which obviously I
don't have an iPhone, so I'm not doing that. My
son does it. I'm watching them a videos my son makes.
I'm like, since k Cock Dog, when did you go

(26:42):
to a Hollywood and hire a production team? It's amazing?
What can happen? Number one? How let me do this
real quickly about a minute a half. How do you
tell if a video is real or AI? Well? Number one,
you have to check the source. If it's real, multiple
credible outlets or witnesses are gonna confirm it. If every

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link leads back to the same viral TikTok post, odds
are in a rail. Look closely, do you see any
spongy spots on the video? I say spongy and I
go back to the Sora because I've seen some of them.
A lot of Sora fakes are edited to erase the
original watermark, the watermark that says Sora, because they want

(27:23):
that on there. If you look closely near the corners
or near the edges of the frame, for a little
blurry patch, maybe some smeared light, maybe a soft square
that looks out of focus. Obviously that's where the watermark
where an AI app was a not real Here's another one.
Watch the camera. Watch the camera, not the subject of

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the video. AI is great it faces, but AI is
not great at filming them real video. It wobbles slightly
by the person holding the camera. AI clips they just
move too smoothly. It's like they're gliding on whales rails.
It's just like a Hollywood thing. If it feels more

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like a drone shot than a phone shot, pause before
you believe it. Also, look for light and shadows behaving naturally.
Look physics. If the wind blows, do you see a
sleeve flutter? Do reflections actually reflect?

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Ay?

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I can get these almost right, but it's not there yet.
You could turn the sound up. Listen closely, footsteps, voices,
they might drift out of sync. The background hum feels
a little too clean. Someone probably hit mute on reality
watch the account. If a video comes from a mystery person,

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a mystery handle with no bio, no history, no location,
delete it, forget it. You know it's fake too. Finally,
if you really want to do asz appruter on the
whole thing, slow it down and go frame by frame,
frame by frame, off on highlight. Little telltale AI hiccups
like a melting logo of vanish a hand, a jumble
text or signs. Sadly, we are at the point that

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we're going to have to do this. Hey, that looks
pretty cool. Did this person really say that? Did this
person really hit a hole in one? Listen? If you
have time, slow it down. I think the next thing
that I need to invent, the real or fake AI
video app? Anybody want to help me with that one?
Talk to me phone number here. Before we take our
final break on this first hour three four six twenty nine,

(29:27):
text and follow me post something fun high tech text
and h I G H T E C H T
EAT x A N. It's Michael Garfield stand by. Final
segment of this hour. We'll segment on this first hour

(30:04):
of the final weekend of October of twenty twenty five.
Happy Halloween to those of you getting ready to celebrate.
Looking for all of your fun photos that you can
post on my Twitter oh my ex account High Tech
Texan HI g h T E C h T E
x A N. Michael Garfield is the name saw this
funny thing. I'm a college football fan. There's no doubt.

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We've got my University of Texas Longhorns going to cow
Bell Hell this Saturday in the afternoon playing Mississippi State
mississipp State Bulldogs. If you were in the Houston area,
if you want to watch it, why don't you roll
up the Patterson Park official UT watch party. Man, there
was We had a ball last week even though we

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barely we even though the Horns barely be Kentucky. It
was a night game at Patterson Park. It was packed,
burn orange everywhere. Drinks were flowing, so many TVs. Twenty
two to five Patterson, which is an it at Patterson,
which is your itin and Shepherd so almost at the
heights three point fifteen kickoff on Saturday for Texas versus
Mississippi State. Also, because I'm a college football fan, I

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follow the whole sports things. Do you see what's going
on in Lubbock with Texas Tech. No more tortillas and
this has become a national news story. I am not
getting you Tech. For a long time, Texas Tech their
tradition for some odd reason, but then getting aga in

(31:32):
colleges about odd traditions they threw tortillas up in the
air or on the field. Right, Well, the Big Twelve
is starting to stop it and find them. Texas Tech
is banning the tradition of tossing tortillas at kickoffs of

(31:54):
home football games thanks to the Big Twelve starting to
find them. I mean that's they started off the coach's
press conference this week with it. It's over one hundred
thousand dollars fine for their second and sub subsequent offense.

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How simple is this for the opposing team? The opposing
team needs to bring tortillas and throw them on the field. Duh,
Oklahoma State, I'm looking at you. You're going into Lubbock
this weekend. The decades old tradition, if it goes back
to the nineteen nineties, Texas Tech fans throw a tortillas
in the air at the opening kickoff, and after all

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the other kickoffs, and I guess somebody. I guess there's
the Red Raider who comes out on the horse and
slams the no no, that's Chief Osiel. I don't I
don't have to every touchdown today. You know that I'm
not a big Texas tech you know, follower. Is there
a tortilla like Bevo? Bevo has you know the Cowboys

(32:59):
to follow around Bevo and shovel up? You know what?
Is there a tortilla picker upper? Is it like the
leprechaun at the Notre Dame. I don't know. If there's
a scholarship, I would have sent my kids to be
the tortilla picker upper. But imagine you're I mean, listen,

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imagine not I don't know. I'll put my mind tone
to what we can't see in the eyes of Texas
at the end of every game, which actually almost happened
about five years ago. But traditions are what make college football.
I mean, I can dig it. Do you know who's
going to hurt the most? You know who's going to
hurt the most from not throwing the tortillas in the field?
HB and Mission Tortilla Company. If I was AGB and

(33:45):
with AGB. If if you're not in Texa, agib Is
is absolutely the coolest, the greatest, the most unbelievable grocery
chain you've ever seen. It's always number one rankings and
the most loyal thing, very loyal. I assume there's Agb's
in Lubbock. There's Agb's all over Houston, San Antonio, Austin,
coming up in the Dallas area. I assume they're in Lubbock,
right If I was, and they make This is not
a commercial for agib hip. If you're listening, I want

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to do a spot or ads for you. It's the
greatest homemade freshly tortilla you've ever had. You go to
AGB and they've got a butter one and they sell
them and I think a ten or twenty pack, and
they are hot, and I'm telling you what it is,
one of the greatest treats you've ever had. Certainly is
a Texas. If AGB is in Lubbock, they need to
pull the old Nike Michael Jordan thing. Go to AGB

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buy a ten pack of tortillas. Everybody sneak them in
your pants. Go to a tech Tech Texas tech Rader game,
throw them on the field as they're throwing them on
the field and hib Ad runs on the scoreboard, in
hib pays the one hundred thousand dollars. Fine boom. I'm
a marketing genius. Next question, simple as that. No, I
just thought it any way, shout out to Texas Tech.

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Actually a good friend of mine. She is up in
Texas Tech. She's not listening now, She's probably got a
podcast this later. She her daughter goes there, and she
went up to the Oklahoma State camp of Oh. I
am the high tech Texans. I am from Texas. I
love Texas. I've lived in many cities across Texas. My
logo is a cowboy hat. I have eight to nine

(35:13):
pairs of boots. I travel this state. I have never
been to Lubbock. I have never been to Luppick. I
don't know why. Tex Tech obviously that's the big thing there.
I no one in my family, me, no one ever
went to Texas Tech. Uh, no one, No real reason
for me to go to Texas Tech. It would be nice,

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obviously to go to back in the Big twelve when
Texas and Texas Tech played. I never got to go
to an away game, never had the opportunity if there's
a Texas tech booster who does have a private jet
who would like to actually open my eyes to what
it's like to go to a Radar Rada game. I
am here for you. But anyway, that's that's my that's
my college told you. It's not a high tech textan show.

(35:55):
It's the high tech text and we don't talk about
tech too much. Uh, let me finish up with the camera.
Let's just finish up this hour with a camera toilet.
Why don't we I review cameras, I have review phones,
I review security cameras. I got a lot of stuff
I review. I'm wondering if this is one that I want.

(36:15):
Coler that's right, one of the great makers of toilets.
They're launching a new Colar Health division, and his very
first product is a six one hundred dollars camera for
your turlet. Can't make this up. It's not aple, fools,
I'm serious. It's called Dakota d e ko DA and

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it's equipped with sensors that analyze I'm sorry, if you're
eating lunch, analyze whatever liquid or solid waste goes into
the turlet bowl. With validated machine learning algorithms, the data
is going to give you insights on your hydration, your
gut health as well as the presence of blood. Oh.
By the way, of course, it's going to share your
data with the color Health app. I want to know

(37:05):
more about this camera. How do you charge it? Does
it have a little sanitation thing? Do you mount it
on a wall? What actually does it take a picture of?
You got the full moon? I mean, I gotta give
DAP to the pr person with this press release. By
turning the bathroom into a connected, data informed health and

(37:28):
wellness hub, Color Health empowers individuals to turn ordinary routines
into proactive, personalized experiences unquote, because who doesn't want to
be proactive about heat? I mean, really, five hundred bones
of this camera. I am sure I'm gonna see it
at Consumer Electronics Show because i always go by the
smart home devices and I've been to the Color booth

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and I've seen toiletge that'll bry you clean. You wave
your hand, wave your foot, It opens up and down.
Built in Bluetooth can't wait to analyze everything that happens
in the toilet. Ladies and gentlemen, this is how he
entertain you. How we're number one over. Don't go anywhere.
When we come back, we do have some gift cards

(38:11):
to give away. I'm gonna tell you why e bikes
electric bikes are the hottest thing right now. And also
a few reviews, including probably the first drone that I
actually enjoy because it's so easy to use. Home coming up,
one more hour, It's Michael Garbold high Tech Relationship.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Is Michael Garfild Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high
Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
High tech texts technology, so Michael Garfield has something you
might want on.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio Act. Now You're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Halfway through the show, hour one done, one more hour,
which means we are a halfway to Happy Hour. It
is happy it is last show before Halloween. As you
listen to the second hour of the High Tech Texan Show,
if you listened to the first hour, I said we'd
go sixty non tech, we probably went eighty twenty. We

(39:48):
covered the Texas tech stopping the tradition of throwing tortillas
in the field, which I then suggested a GB actually
sponsor it and pay the fine. We talked about the
top ten Halloween costumes, of which I think think I've
heard of one of the top ten because I don't
watch K Pop Demon Honors, and then I also talked
about the best Halloween candy there is, which is Rees's.

(40:10):
We'll get a little bit more intricate with fun technology,
including drones and e bikes and electric vehicles or whatever
you want to talk about, because this is how we roll.
It's it's an interactive radio show. Yes it's Callum and
well you put it on a podcast so you can
listen to it to all your heart's content afterwards. But
if you're listening allegedly supposedly plausibly live, you can call

(40:34):
me and say hi, leave a message and maybe we'll
air it to three four six twenty nine textan three
four six two nine eight three nine two six, big shoutouts,
good day, good night, good afternoon, winding whenever this is
being played over the weekend to on my Houston over
the ear listeners KPRC nine fifty am been doing that
for twenty three years. San Antonio man I got a

(40:57):
hanker for freaking tacos right now, News Radio twelve hundred WAI.
I know you got a lot of brecky tacos there,
and then Dallas Talk Radio eleven ninety am. If you're
not listening that way, you are listening maybe online on
the stream. Just download the I Heart Radio app and
you're set to go. I promise not to talk about
the camera toilet. Yeah. I did talk about that, and

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that's why you should go listen to the podcast. So
I ended last hour Cohlers coming out with the camera
for your toilet to I don't know, check your health.
I'm glad the cameras and AI can actually do that,
but we do continue. I was thinking, what's old is
new when it comes to technology. I always do the

(41:41):
famous what's the oldest piece of technology that you have
in your house? It's a fun little game. It's fun
little parlor game, you know, no need to whip up monopoly. No,
what's the oldest piece of technology? And people they go back, well,
my haven't got a new phone in about eight years. No,
I'm sure you have older technology than that. Well I
got my microwave. I mean, okay, it's it is technology.

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It's you know, certainly came around in the mid seventies,
you know, in the terms of mass consumers, and maybe
not no grip to me my answer because of my age.
It's my alarm clock. I still have the alarm clock.
The sits next to my bed digital display AMFM radio

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that I had in college. I don't know why I'm
used to it. Yes, my phone sits next to my
bed too, and if I need a back back up,
I'll set my alarm clock and I will set my
phone to go off. But generally I just wake up
to songs radio stations. I mean, I don't know how

(42:49):
sexy it is waking up to the voice of Walton
and Johnson or Jimmy Barrett, but that's sometimes what I do.
What's the oldest gadget you have? I mean, it's a
retoric question. You don't need to call off you want to,
but I much to think about it. Maybe time to upgrade, right.
We say this it's because what's old is becoming new.

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And I say this because I just got I bought
a gift for somebody for her birthday recently that she
wanted that I never thought I would buy because I
thought the age has passed. I thought the time has
gone bye bye. I bought for her a record player,

(43:37):
a freaking LP vinyl record player. I'm probably gonna lose
half my audience right now because you don't know what
a record or a vinyl record is, or a record player.
I owe not. I know my demographics. They're a little older. Okay.

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I have a record player. Got it with my graduation
money from college forty years ago? Is that right now?
Less than that had the whole stereo system. Man, it
was popping Yamaha stereo system, big speakers, everything, set, receiver, equalizer,
record player. Because I had records Man late seventies, Barry

(44:25):
Man alone, Captain de Taneil, the whole thing. I still
have those records. And by the way, if you have records,
do not storm in a hot place. Do not storm
in your attic, do not storm in your garage. Put
them in a closet like I do. And they're gaining dust.
I have not whipped out excuse me while I whip
this out. I have not whipped out a vinyl record

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thirty years. I don't even know the record player that
I have. It's a very expensive one. Maybe a technique
I think that was the name of it. It's in
my garage somewhere. So in a way talking to her,
she didn't know. I mean it was a surprise to her.
But she's like, I have all these records, and we

(45:06):
start comparing records, so really, do you have Barry Man
a little Live? And do you have Yeah? Yeah, I
actually have the Lionel Richie and it was the one
it was printed. It had his picture on the actual vinyl.
And we're going on. She goes, yeah, but I don't
have a record player. I'd love it like that. So
in no way, I'm starting research record players. They're back. Man.
If you're an actual audio file, meaning you enjoy pure sound, analog,

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non digitized, it is tough to beat the sound of
putting a needle on a vinyl record, be it a
thirty three and a third, seventy eight, forty five. And
I please, kids, don't turn this off. I'll get back
to briality here a second. And just listening to it
through the speakers, it's gonna bring you back to a time.

(45:54):
It's gonna bring listen. It brings me back to when
I was fifteen years old. I had a record player
skipped and sometimes it was scratchy, but nowadays record player
I got it's it's a neat I mean, and there
are a lot of companies who do it. And I
got one that's kind of portable. So it's got a
the old Victrollok, you can cover it up. It looks
like a suitcase. But it comes with speakers. And here's

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the high tech version of it. They're Bluetooth speakers. So
now not only can you play a record and it
comes through the speakers that are built into the thing,
and it's it's decent sound, but now you can bluetooth
connect your phone and stream music or this radio show
through the record player. They can be expensive, they don't

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have to be expensive. But I just thought it was interesting.
What's old is new? Think about it. We're going back
to flip phones and foldable phones. Those were some of
the you know back in the late nineties. Are the
early two thousands, man who didn't have no Kia foot
the Motorola flip phone. Baby, we had to have it.
Thought that was a taking a break. Chime in with me. Here,
what's the oldest piece of technology that they have? What

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is maybe something like that record player? Maybe it's maybe
went and bought a digital camera, a digital SLR versus
the old single lens reflex? Are you going back to
what it used to be? Talk to me? Three four
six two nine two six Michael garthlod it is the
high Tech Textan show for the things I always do.

(47:35):
I tell you, I pulled my promises and just like that,
how about we give away a little something as we
come back to the Michael Garfield High Tech Texan show.
Big Cabo Bob's Fan they are such arnold in Laurier Rios.
They run the kind of the Houston area, the four
of the different locations of Cabo Bob's always they love
the show. They listen to my show, Garf. I know
you're a fan back from the Austin days. Here here's

(47:57):
some gift cards. Give them away. I got one of
the meadows Stafford southwest part of town. There's one on
Mason Road in your een. There's one northwest, not too
far from Willowbrook Mall. There's one near the gallery here,
color number ten right now seven one three two one
two five nine five oh, Color ten. This is gonna
go quick two one two five nine five oh. I'll

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give you about fifteen seconds for tat to stop. You
go in. They make the biggest loaded burritos. You want steak,
you want chicken, you want beef, They got it all.
They make them. They smoke that stuff on a commoda Joe.
You could tell them to put rice, put beans, go
less than the guacamola, go heavy on the casa. They've
got it all. They make case of dias, they make tacos,
and they make those tortillas right in front of you. Stop.

(48:40):
We have a winner, winner Winter Cabo Dinner. Congratulations. We
will get that gift card to you as we do
continue the Michael Garfield Show. What do we got here?
In terms of car You want to talk a little
about cars. Every week for the past fifteen years, I
get to test drive for one week a brand new vehicle.
This is not a deal with a dealership, Nope. I

(49:01):
get them directly from the manufacturers. There's a third party
company out of Dallas who drives a vehicle from could
be one of a dozen manufacturers. They don't pay me
to do this. It's good content because I am actually
an auto reviewer, a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association,
so I can tell you that this car is a
piece of crap. I can tell you that this car

(49:21):
is one of the coolest things in the world. I
get to drive SUV, cuvs, EV sports cars, minivans, whatever
it is. I've run the gamut. If you want to
hear a review and you're just tuning in you're thinking
about buying a vehicle, go to go to the I
podcast them all so I know it's I believe it's
on iHeart, I know it's on Spotify. Just look for
a high Tech Texan subscribe. You can see a photo

(49:45):
of every single vehicle I've done, and I spend eight
to ten minutes giving you the ups and downs, how
much it costs, what's good, what's bad about it? Okay,
that's enough about me. This past week, I was in
a twenty twenty five Jeek Wagon Ear. That's right. It
used to be just the Wagon Ear, but I don't
know little they decided to put the Jep name back

(50:05):
of the Wagon Air. I was in a Jeep Wagoneer,
very nice CUV, which is a kind of a crossover
utility vehicle. Nice hatchback. Oh, by the way, it was
an electric vehicle. And here we go, We're off to
the races. Love it Jeep brand, tough to beat, holds
its value, great handles, wonderful, good power inside leather, great screen,

(50:34):
everything adjustable, unbelievable sun roof two rows, back, folds down,
can hold probably a queen size bed, steering wheels, crazy shape,
Love the infotainment screen. I mean, go on and on
and on. It's an electric vehicle. Every time I talk

(50:54):
about electric vehicle and I hate doing it. There's gotta
be a story with my electric vehicle. Well, I was
running low on a battery and I had a range anxiety,
and I was going somewhere the next day I had
to go charge it. I don't have a charger because
I don't own one. Every month, every six weeks I
probably get an electric vehicle drive a ton that given week.

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But some weeks I do and if it's an evy,
I need to charge it, which means I have to
play Let's go seek and spell. Let's play hide and seek?
Where can I drive to to kill two hours of
my time at the minimum to charge the damn car.

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I live near a Whole Foods. Cool Whole Foods. Really
only has they got one charging unit, one hose that works.
I have an app. I think it's evy go. In
that case, I can see if the charger is available,
and I live two minutes from a Whole Foods, so
I can say, okay, it's available, let me just go.

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So drive over there, plug it in. I can walk
home for an hour while it charges totally easily, like
tap wep catch twenty two. I see it's open, I
drive over there. In those two minutes that I drove
over there, somebody with another EV pulled up and used
the hose. Whoop, there it goes that I need this
thing charge. I'm now down to like eight percent. Now

(52:21):
I'm freaking out. Now it's eight o'clock at night. I
don't want to be driving around anywhere. I go to
a Walmart because there's a Walmart not far from me
in the parking lot that's got an Electrify America. And
again I say evy go, I say Electrify America charge point.
These are third party companies. These are their own companies
who own these charging stations. Sometimes they put them in

(52:45):
a Walmart parking lot. Sometimes they put in a Whole
Foods parking lot. Sometimes they're free standing. Whatever. I don't
have a tesla. I'll say it again especially if you
saw my TV story in Austin Fox about three weeks ago.
Tesla chargers charge Tesla's they have a certain type of
fit that goes into their charger. Then there's all you others.

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Now they are starting to combine and Tesla is going
to be able to convert and you can use a converter.
I don't have any of that stuff yet, so I
can't use a Tesla charger. So now here I am
at Walmart, eight o'clock at night frame one of the
four bays which are very fast charging relatively fast charging
base aren't used. I'm thinking, who is here on a

(53:28):
Tuesday night charging their vehicle at eight o'clock at a Walmart. Well,
a lot of people were, believe it or not. I
pull up, I get the fourth, the last open bay.
As I'm pulling in, another car pulls up and he goes, hey,
are you just starting to charge? If I was ten
seconds later, I would have missed that one and I
would have had to wait at an hour until somebody charges.
But anyway, whatever, pull the car in, get this app,

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put my credit card, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
So then what do I do yep, forty minutes walk
through Walmart and I buy that I do not need.
We talked earlier this hour about what's old is new?
How about what's new is old? Why am I going

(54:12):
back in time with evs? That is the problem. I'm
not talking you out of buying an EV. I'm going
to give you stats y EV's. Certainly after last month
when the seventy five hundred dollars tax credit went bye bye,
there's a lot of companies who are really pulling out
and are slowing down their evs. Manufacturing. Evs are fast,

(54:33):
they're sexy, their technology driven. I like EV's. I don't
like our battery charging infrastructure that we have the United States.
That's it. I killed two freaking hours, maybe charged it
to ninety two percent, drove home, woke up, then I
had less than ninety percent, drove somewhere on the northwest

(54:54):
side of town, freaking out with it. Range anxiety again.
I know, if you buy an EV you're supposed to
and should get your own chargers, so you won't have
that problem. I don't have that problem. It's just it's
such a pain point. Is if you're interested in a
jeep wagoneer EV. And if you want an EV and
you have your own charge at home, it's a very

(55:15):
nice vehicle. Go to a Jeep dealer. I'm not gonna
recommend dealerships because I don't do this. It's not a
commercial for Jeep. Again. Next week I'm going to talk
about a BMW. The week after that, I'm going to
talking about a Kia. Go test drive it. Because EV's
now they may be at a certain discount, and EV's
as we know it, they may stop being manufactured up.

(55:37):
That's called the t's. On the other side of this break,
I'm gonna give you the latest what's going on in
the EV world. How a manufacturer just laid off six
hundred workers. How these manufacturers let them out of Detroit,
are changing their plans to back off of making so
many EV because they're just not selling. Fact. Right here,
I'm a high tech text show. Final thirty minutes of

(56:15):
this high tech texting show with me Michael Garfield. After that,
I will release you to watch your college football. If
you are listening on a Saturday morning in one of
the big cities that we are broadcasting in, We've got
and if you're in Houston, we're on KPRC nine to
fifty am. I happen to be in Houston and the
official University of Texas watch party versus Mississippi State. Bring

(56:37):
your earphones because there's gonna be a lot of cowballs.
Three point fifteen kickoff at Patterson Park. Patterson Park, twenty
two to oh five Patterson. I always say, listen the
first five people to come up to me and say, hey,
hook a Horn's Garth. I love your show. I'm buying
you beer. I could get there before you. Better get
there quick. Great place, forty plus TVs, three level outdoors.
It's like a treehouse. Everybody comes. It's just open air.

(56:59):
It's nice. It's great. Lonnie Schiller, the great, the Houston
restaurateur who created and started Cafe Annie and the Grove
downtown he created, he runs it. He's there too, so
in a way, forty TVs. It's fun. It is. That's
in Houston. I know the Texas exist. They have a
watch party also somewhere on Northwest Highway if you're listening
in Dallas. But get there if you can, and good

(57:19):
luck to the Texans and the Cowboys. Texans play the
forty nine ers at home. How Boys at broncos O.
It's gonna be a good one. It's all football all
the time over here. Happy Halloween too. I talked last
at last segment about I gave a review on the
Jeep Wagoneer electric vehicle. I like Jeep. It's a great brand, Wagoneer,

(57:40):
little high end, not cheap, great ride, tons of cargo.
It's an electric vehicle. Hopefully you're going to go find
it a dealership. But this is not a commercial. I'm
not gonna I'm not I don't even know a Jeep
dealership anywhere across the state. I work with the manufacturers.
I tell you how crap. I don't like the battery
charging in for structure in the United States. I'm not

(58:01):
going to buy an EV but I just gave you
a nice recommendation for one if you want one. That's
what we do. But let me tell you about the
whole industry of evs. I have no agenda. Big Gas
did not say, Michael, I want you to go on
your show and rag on evs now. I look at facts,

(58:23):
ESLA sold some stock not doing well. You look at GM,
you look at all these other American manufacturers who also
made gas cars. They wanted to shift to nothing but
electric cars by twenty thirty. They're backing off of that.
They're putting it in reverse because they're saying, maybe people

(58:44):
just aren't ready for electric cars. Well, here's some news editor.
Everyone heard of Rivian. Rivian makes EV trucks. I think
was initially founded or funded by Jeff Bezos Amazon back
in the day. My cousin in Atlanta, he has a Rivian.
Seen it. I see him on the road, see a

(59:06):
lot in California. They're cool. I think they're more. They're
one of the better designed EV trucks out there. Oh my.
They are just doing another round of layoffs four point
five percent of its workforce. This is according to the
Wall Street Journal. I'm not making this up. They're trying
to conserve cash because of the expected drop in sales

(59:31):
of electric vehicles. More than six hundred people are slated
to lose their jobs. At the end of last year,
the company had just under fifteen thousand employees. It's not funny.
It's it's in the vehicle operations, it's in the marketing departments.

(59:52):
A month ago, they did a smaller round of layoffs,
about one point five percent of its work force. Rivian
and other EV manufacturers. They're being hit hard by the
pullback in policies that supported the adoption of electric vehicles.
Just the end of last month, September thirtieth, it was
the end of the seventy five hundred dollars federal federal

(01:00:13):
tax credit for consumers who are buying evs, and the
sales seem to be tanking, and the policy changes it's
derailed the sales of compliance credits that have been an
important source of profitability for Rivian and all those others.

(01:00:33):
Rivenan sales grew thirty two percent in the third quarter.
A lot of EV sales went up in the third
quarter because people were listening to me saying September thirtieth
is the deadline of that pullback of the tax credit.
Do you know the way to go? I am not
in the mode right now to buy a vehicle. Would

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I buy a vehicle right now? Potentially I probably need one,
But I would I buy an EV? No? Would I
buy a gas one? Potentially I'd start with a hybrid.
I think hybrids are great back in the day when
the Nissan Leaf started this. And listen, there's several types

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of hybrids. There's the plug in electric hybrid. It's called
the PF plug in hybrid electric vehicle. I don't get that.
I don't understand it. It's gas, but to charge it,
you've got to also go to an electric charger and
it's maybe going to give you thirty miles total range.
Doesn't make sense to me. Regenerative braking is the way

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to go where it recharges itself as you're driving it,
as you break and as you come to a stop.
That's why when you look at the miles per gallon
or miles per gallon equivalent of hybrids, well, let's put
it this way for years and years, when you look
at the MPG and you look at the Manroney sticker
on cars, you're gonna get better gas mileage on the

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highway because you're gonna go at a straight clip fifty
five sixty miles an hour. You don't need to stop start,
stop start. It's to stop start that kills the gas.
So you're getting better mileage traditionally with straight gas on
a highway, but for hybrids, every time you hit the
brake and come to a stop sign or a stop light,

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it charges the electric motor and then the gas takes in,
which is why it's reversed. You look at the miles
per gawen on a hybrid, the city miles per gawen
is more than the highway. That's just the way it works.
I've seen some that have sixty seventy eighty miles per

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gallon or miles per gallon equivalent because of the charging,
depending what it is. Yes, they started out as Nissans.
They started out as kias. They were boxy, weird. Dare
I say ugly cars? Nowadays hybrids are sexy in almost
every manufacturer can make them. I potentially this is just
me and I listen. I'm not even gonna. I don't

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do it. Sadly, I should be doing endorsements on cars. Apparently.
iHeartRadio sales staff. Maybe just not out the snuff to
find me a deal because I'm very particular over a
dealership and a car that I would endorse. But overall,
I like hybrids, and I think hybrids are the way
to go. I'm looking at the trend right now. Manufacturers
are hearing from their dealers. They're slowing down an EV

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production and they're picking up on hybrid production, and they're
going to continue the gas stuff too, what's old is new,
what's new as old. But there you go. That's what's
going on in the world of electric vehicles. Let me
give you one more. Do you know it's also big
in the world electric vehicles electric bikes. Speaking of Rivian,

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it was a really nice change of publicity. Along with
the fact that they just announced six percent of their
workforce is being let go, they just came out with
the fact that Rivian, the electric company, they're coming out
with a new electric bike in Electra, a USBC chargeable

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electric bike. Should we talk it's forty five hundred dollars.
Maybe we won't mention that. Has anybody ridden an electric bike?
I got into electric bikes earlier this summer. I was
in Chicago and the city of Chicago has got a
really wonderful system. I think it's called Divvy Bike divv WYT.
They have a bike system where you could put your

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credit card in or have an app. And downtown Chicago,
which is a very commutable and walkable and bikeable, you
can go to a bike rack which is on every
other corner, perfect in the summer. You put your credit
card in there. It charges you by the minute or
by the quarter of a mile and you could then
drive it around, return it to another bicycle rack. Buddy
of mine who lives in Chicago, we went all over

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the city. We went to Soldier Field, we went to
the old Midway Airport, were actually Migsfield. We did all
the fun stuff. So I got home and guess what
I did. I got an electric bike company called turn
Teern wasn't familiar, but I did my research. Love it.
I particularly have. If anybody wants this, that's a great

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holiday shopping season. And I'm gonna do a little bit
more talk on this over the weeks. It is a
turn Vectron v ek tro n. Not only is this electric,
which fund because you don't need to turn the electric
power on, you can use it as a real bike.
It's got three levels, kind of an easy assist, a
big one and then pretty much you still have to pedal,

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but it could take you well over twenty miles per
hour with very little effort. Oh, by the way, this
thing's foldable. Phenomenal. I want to take this on a
road trip, go to Austin, go to Dallas, I could
take another plane. Phenomena. Love it not cheap thirty five
hundred dollars or so Rivian forty five hundred dollars. But maybe,
just maybe, if you live in the right city, in

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a commuting city, electric bikes could be fun. Final segment.
I got to take a break. Love to hear from
you last time. We'll open up for phone calls one
more time. Three four six, two nine eight three nine.
You have an electric bike, you have something new that'll
just save you some money, give you some exercise. We'll

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talk about that. I'll see if I can wind it
up by talking about a cool drone I've been playing
with right here on my High Tech text and show.

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Fine all final segment of it. This week's High Tech
Texting Show. After this, it is all football time, Saturday, College,
Sunday Pro. Whatever you're doing, Michael Garfield, wherever you are, however,
you may be listening, be it live, be it a podcast,
be it app be it over the year. Hey man,
thanks doing it. Almost a quarter century. Still have my voice,
so we're sucking it up. Yes, everything I've talked about

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continues to change. I do talk a little about tech analogy.
Holiday season are coming up. I will start to answer
a lot of your questions and emails too. If you
want an email, you can go to the website high
Tech Texan dot com. H I G h T E
C h T e x A N Yes, you have
to spell the whole thing out and I can talk
about laptops. I ask talk about video cameras too, uh

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and security cameras. UH. This coming week on Fox seven,
I am going to Monday morning by the way up
in Austin. If you're up there, I'm going to be
talking about a number of outdoor security cameras, specifically the
ones I've been playing with from a company called Reo
Link R E O L I n K. Just a phenomenal,
very smart, easy to use line of video cameras, great

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resolution and uh if you haven't installed, they really do
provide good security for a very good price too. It's
not like you have to hire, you know, guard dogs
or a secret service detailed to come you go. Spend
anywhere between a hundred twenty tops of one hundred and
ninety nine dollars and you can just get a whole

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slew you know, different ones of them. One of them
is a it's a battery powered one. It's a two
K outdoor camera. It shoots in two K super HD
connects to your Wi Fi. All you need to do
is charge the battery up, place it somewhere that's facing
your house. Whatever. It's got lights, that a spotlight, it's
got a siren. It's got audio where you can take

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the app and actually talk to someone on the camera, Hey,
get off my property. Gives you some great true color,
relatively inexpensive. The thing with that, though, it's a battery,
and so once every several months you're going to probably
have to just detach the battery from this little magnetic base,
go inside, put it on your USBC, charge it for
a few hours, and come back. Still, it's not a hassle.

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It's worth it too. Other ones that I'm playing with,
they actually have built in solar panels, just a relatively
small solar panels. And one thing that we have here
in Texas, if you're listening, we love our solar panels.
We love our son And so there's a camera that
can be controlled. It could tilt, it could pan, it

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could zoom. So there's two of them on playing with.
One is called the Real Link Argus a r g US,
and then the other one it's the four k ET
but it's a cellular solar camera kit. So this thing
can go further. You really don't even need Wi Fi
and actually work on cellular and what you do you

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just download the apps. It's your user name in Pasco.
But the fact is you now can really mount these solidly.
You can screw these things down because you know you're
not going to really have to take them down because
when the sun comes up during the day pretty much
three hundred and sixty plus days a year here in Texas,
it will charge it. The Wi Fi works great. It's

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really fun because I have Normally I would put two
why wireless cameras in my backyard to cover the whole thing. Now,
because this I can control these real link cameras with
it with my app, I can go up and down
and zoom in and zoom out and pinch. It's really neat. Again,
all hundred two hundred dollars. And by the way, if
you want these, might I recommend to walk into a

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Best Buy because there are several Best Buys around this state,
including San Antonio, Beaumont, Lubbock. That's like the third time
I mentioned Lubbock in this show, which is odd. Walk
into best Buy and look for Rio Link. That's great partnership.
They just started where they're selling them. There are E O,
L I NK Real Link and so that's one of
the things that you will see on my Austin TV

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show this coming Monday and every Monday. I'm also next week.
I think the following week, I think I'm going to
talk about a drone. Believe it or not. Over the
twenty years I've been doing technology, I may have had
two or three drones sent to me from companies I can.
I get sick of a phone every month or every

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three weeks. I get more phones than anything else. Camera phones,
this phone, android phone, all these different I get everything
except an iPhone, but I get all the Android phones,
which is great. Different companies. I've got some TVs, remote
control devices, batteries, backup battery drones. I don't know if
companies don't like sending them. DJI world leader when it

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comes to drones. Finally, it took me what ten twelve
years to find a DJI person in PR could have
been more professional, nicer, but that's just here there. Send
me one. Let me play with it for all of
about two to three weeks, and then I had to
send it back. And it was cool and I was
just afraid I wasn't gonna break it. Point is, I'm
playing with one right now from a company called hover Air,

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and I gotta tell you, drones can be confusing. Sometimes
you have to go out and take a class. Then
sometimes you have to have license and clearance from the
FAA because you can't fly them too close to airports
and everything. This is one of the easiest ones I
have ever flown. And the Other cool Thing magazine just
named this particular drone from hover Air one of the

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best inventions of twenty twenty five. They may have read
my mind, because this probably will be on my one
of the best products of twenty twenty five. It's the
hover Air. What is this, I'm just reading it. It's
the X one pro Max. I'm looking actually at the
drone itself. It's an action camera, but the design is amazing.
It folds up so it can fit into kind of

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a large pocket. It comes with a nice little carrying
pouch too. But it's one of the follow me drones.
Now let me explain. Want to follow me drone? Yes,
you can control it to go up and down and
left and right. But if you want an action cam
and action cams, it's like a GoPro. You want to
mount that thing on your helmet and you want the
point of view of you sliding down the skiing down

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a mountain, you want you biking on a trail. Well,
now you can take this and it's pretty much almost
pre programmed. By hitting a button that follows you. It
floats up. It can go behind you, it can go
in front of you, but it follows you. It sees
what color you're wearing. It actually has a beacon you
could do but as you're skiing down a mountain, as

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you're running along a lake, as you're I don't know,
just riding at a golf cart, it will follow you.
It has got a great four K camera. You put
an SD card in there. It records photos, you can
snap photos. There's so many pre proof I've been playing
with the pre programming. It's got the bird's eye view
where it goes up up, up, up, up, and then

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down down, down, down down. It's got the zoom where
it it's like a Dolly shot, and then it goes
from thirty or sixty feet out and it slowly zooms
into you. It's actually an AK camera, apologize, but it
slowly goes into you. It's like having a camera crew
two different versions of the thing. There's the X one
pro Max that is I believe seven hundred dollars, and

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then there's the X one fro and that is and
let me get the price right, I believe that's five
hundred dollars. What the funny The best part is real
quickly if it falls, and it's gonna fall, the propellers
aren't exposed. The propellers are encased in this very tough
ABS type of plastic thing. It's just really smart the

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way they did it. If you want to see some
of the videos I did shooting it just out of
the box, having it about a week or two set
Instagram as for h I G h T E C
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with that, callum will let's put a bow on this
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also the hottest Halloween costumes. Last time. I'm going to
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following weekend, we're going to set our clocks back, which
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