How to stop trackers from collecting your health data

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• Trump Mobile? Just stay away from it all
• How to stop trackers from collecting your health data 
• REVIEWS: A robot lawn mower; 2025 Nissan Frontier PRO-4X truck

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining in the
High Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high
Tech Texans to make life easier, new technology, and Michael
Garfield has something you might like.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan Michael Garfield.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, well, well, Happy post Father's Day to everybody out
there who's celebrated. And it is officially the first day
or two of summer. Welcome to Texas Freaking News. It's hot,
it's Africa hot, It's Texas hot. I'm gonna keep you

(01:11):
cool here for the next two hours. We always have fun.
If you are a longtime listener of the High Tech
Texan Show, I guarantee you we will talk just more,
a lot more than just about technology. We ain't gonna
geek things out. I'm not gonna tell you how to
fix your computer, because I don't care how to fix
your computer. I'm gonna tell you if you want to
buy a new computer, I can actually tell you that

(01:32):
I ash you and you could tell you what type
of phone you want and maybe what type of phone
you want to stay away from. Uh oh is that
a segue into talking about Trump Mobile? Oh? Yes, I'm
going to get to that. If you are interested in
a new cell phone, here's another deal that I don't
know if slim shady, if it's worth going, but I

(01:53):
will really break it down of howie the Trump family
is able to offer it's own cell service because they
have such an unbelievable, long, lengthy background in offering mobile service.
But I'm not stopping there. I am going to tell
you how to stop trackers from collecting your health data.
I'm gonna give you a review of a robot lawnmower. People,

(02:18):
I grew up in Texas. I grew up in the heat,
and I grew up mowing lawns because if you were
a kid, if you're a boy who grew up in Texas,
that's what you do. And from the ripe old tender
age of I mean, I may have been ten, eleven,
twelve years old, I was mowing lawns. I was mowing
my parents lawn in Dallas, my grandparents lawn in Dallas.

(02:40):
I'd go to Austin to see another set of grandparents.
I did that. I've had two to three homes in
my adult life when I had kids, and I still
move my lawn. All I need to tell you is this,
where the hell was this robotic lawnmower when I was
growing up. I'll tell you if it's worth the price,
and is it even worth the ha ache of you

(03:02):
getting it up and seeing if it works. Those are
just a few of the things that I talk about.
I test, I give you my opinion so you don't
have to. Also the famous weekly What's Michael Driving this week?
I have been in not one but two cars for
the entire week where I test drive and I will

(03:22):
give you my thoughts ononovich is the Nissan Frontier Pro
four x. It is a mid sized truck, a mid
size truck. If you listen to me, you know I
am a fan of mid sized trucks. They are very
easy to maneuver, They're easy to park. I don't schlep
a lot of things like I need a quarter or
a half ton or anything. Nope, I actually like this.
I will yap about that. And also the Honda Passport.

(03:46):
I don't actually get a lot of Hondas, and I
will tell you if this little suv, a small suv,
is worth its weight and what you want to pay for.
Now I have set up everything. Not much else to
talk about in the world of sports, because pretty much
the NBA season zo over, the NHL seed, this is over.
Football doesn't start for another I don't know about eighty
one days. Not niggas baseball.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Guy.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
All you got is you and meet people. That's all
you got. All right, let's roll. Let me give you
the phone number here if you want to get in
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as an interactive radio program, which, oh by the way,
is podcasted on iHeartRadio. Thank you to callum. Read over here.

(04:30):
He is behind the glass ache out. Once I finish,
he will put that on the iHeartRadio and then you
can listen to this at your heart's content. Anything else
we need to talk about, you can follow me at
High Tech Texan HI g h T e h T
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is online on web. You can find that same on
x You can find it on Instagram and Facebook. If

(04:52):
I haven't blocked you, and let me help you out.
I have blocked a few people and you know who
you are, so sucks for you, even though I'm sure
you've probably went to some of your friends account to
see who I'm going out with, or what I'm testing
or where I am at. But it's my life. You
didn't want it. I'm just rolling here on the radio
as I have for twenty three years. I actually am
going to start with a little politics. And I don't

(05:15):
talk about politics people, but I'm sorry, but so many
things involved in technology has a political bent, mostly because
of tariffs, mostly because of I don't know, hope people
wanting to get into the mobile industry. But let's talk
about TikTok. TikTok. Guess what. The clock has turned back
once again. Your president has extended for the third time,

(05:42):
TikTok's ban in the USA deadline by another day's promises, promises, promises, unkept, unkept, unkept.
Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok's parent company, which
is you know it is China based Bite Dance, in
order to sell the app to an American owner. It

(06:05):
went down for about forty hours in January. People freaked out.
I didn't freak out. Because I don't have TikTok. Then
March April comes a long Let's give it another ninety
days and guess what, it's still there. Sign it an
executive of order granting a third extension. Now this goes
to September seventeenth. Does no one want to buy this?

(06:29):
Is it too expensive? Or does anybody care? I mean,
I want to be respectful because people do make a
living off of TikTok. My son, my youngest son, is
a very very big TikTok influencer, and I know he's
not too happy if for some reason he shuts down.
TikTok is one hundred and seventy million users in the
US alone, and a support for a band has actually

(06:53):
slowly declined. Why well, because then they think it's a
Chinese based on and they're stealing all their information. Listen,
I'm not going to get into it whether it should
be banned, whether it should not be banned, because most
every technology item, most every app that we have is

(07:16):
from outside the United States. When I went to China
last April, and I spent some time in Shin's In,
which is the Silicon Valley of China, and I met
all these companies, and I actually saw and realized how
they can make things quicker, how they can make things
cheaper versus the United States. Do they actually take the

(07:37):
information and steel? I don't know. The thing is, I
don't have really anything to hide. If the United States,
for all I know, they may actually have been taking
a lot of my data, and I'm sure a lot
of it. Are they know where I am? My cell
phone carrier knows where I am because I have a GPS,
because I use Google Maps, they have to know where
I am in a given point. Do I care that

(07:59):
they know that I go to HB eighteen times a week.
I don't know, dude. I hope they're proud of the
fact that I actually, you know, go to the gym
a dozen times a week, and I hope they track
how much I run as they train for marathons. I'm
not hiding any secrets, people. The only the worst thing
that's gonna happen to me, I think I'm gonna get
served up a ton of advertisements for things that I like, which,

(08:20):
by the way, we're about to do We're gonna take
a break right now. Thank you for listening to these
advertisements here on the iHeartRadio Network because this is a
free radio show. Doesn't cost you jack. People. All you
need to do is just spend four or five minutes
listening to some of these wonder commercials, and I hope
you buy from them. When we come back, talk a
little bit more of TikTok, and I'm going to delve
into this Trump mobile phone. I'll tell you why this

(08:44):
family is getting into it, how easy it is to
start your own cell phone company, and also something like, uh, well,
these these phones really are going to be made the
United States specifically because what I just mentioned about two
minutes ago. My name is Michael. I'm not a hater.
I'm a fact giver.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
All the troops right here on the High Tech Texan Show.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
You welcome, You're back to programming. The name is Michael Garfield.
It is called the High Tech Textan Show, but we
talked so much more about technology standby. I want to
give a big shout out to the city of Dallas,
Dallas Fort Worth. I was in Dallas last week and
I actually got to listen to this show. My show
on kfx R, which is eleven ninety am Talk radio

(09:49):
five to seven pm on Saturdays in the after late
afternoon also Sunday mornings from eleven in the morning to one.
I don't ever listen to this show. I talk, I
do the show, but because it's on in different times
in Dallas and also San Antonio in Houston, the some

(10:12):
we tape it and then we air it again. It
sounds like live, and so I've never heard it. So
I'm in Dallas visiting my parents for Father's Day. Happy
late Father's Day people, and I'm rolling up and down
Central Expressway Saturday, five point thirty six people o'clock PM.
I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna tune into eleven ninety.
I'm gonna actually hear a number one. I want to
hear it actually airs, which it does, and it's really cool.

(10:34):
I mean, Dallas is my hometown. I was raised in Dallas,
my parents are in Dallas. I went to high school
in Dallas. My buddies are in Dallas. And to be
on the airways in Dallas, it's it's a thrill. It's
a treat. And I'm moderored. So I'm listening in you know,
a commercial plays and there's bump music, which sadly is
not the bump music that I want. But last iHeart

(10:55):
is so cheap. We have no money for actually licensed music,
so we have to hear this crap music. And I
apologize for that, and then I thought, Callum, you can
help me out with this. I thought we had bumpers
bumpers in the radio industry. Are you're listening to the
High Tech Tection Show with Michael Garfield at eleven ninety am, Dallas.

(11:16):
It reintroduces a show, So I really thought those aired
every time we bump at the commercial, Callum, do we do?
We not have that now? So I'm listening and all
of a sudden, here's bump music and here's my voice,
and I just start. I didn't introduce myself. I didn't
say it's Michael Garfield again, thanks for kid. You know
it's the third segment. I just started talking about content

(11:39):
whatever I was talking about. And I'm thinking, if anybody's
just tuning in, they have no clue who I am
and what the show is. So until callum, somebody Brian Erickson,
we get bumpers that says you're listening to the High
Tech Tection Show with Michael Garfield. Every commercial, I'm going
to reintroduce who I am. Hey, Gang, I'm Garfie nickname

(12:01):
from Dallas White High School. Live in Houston now thirty
years what's up, San Antonio? Love visiting? I'm here. I'm
your guy. By the way, if you do want to
call in, if it's not live, you still can call
in because we have a voicemail. Then you can leave
voicemails and we have a right to play it. Three
four six two nine eight three nine two four six

(12:23):
sorry three four six twenty nine texts in if you
want to spell that out, use your cell phone. What
cell phone service do you have? What cell phone service
do you have? Well, there's the major network carriers AT
and T jobless face by the way, who still don't
even know who I am. Verizon familiar with those guys

(12:46):
T Mobile that really don't have any Sprint anymore. Sprint
was folded into to T Mobile. Those are our big three,
But then we have tons of other ones, Boost Mobile,
Mint Mobile, little things like this, and you're wondering how
does that work? Long story short, I don't want to
get into it, because if you're a long time listening

(13:08):
you know how it works. Other than the big three
who actually have built infrastructure, who have built cell towers,
who actually sell you the data, the time, how long,
how many minutes, whatever you want. They also lease some
of their bandwidthout to small carriers, smaller carriers. Some of

(13:32):
these carriers are actually owned by the big boys, they
just rename them. I think Boost is part of Team
Mobile whatever. There's also, for example, Exfinity. If you're in
Houston and you have Exfinity Cable, you probably get things
in the mail. You probably see the commercials for Exfinity Mobile. Well,
Exfinity is a is a very large, one of the largest,
the largest cable internet company in the country. Let me

(13:53):
help you out. They don't do anything really directly with
cell phones, but oh, by the way, they market some
phone service for Expinity Mobile. What they do and what
anothers do is they lease time. They lease space of
bandwidth on a T and T Verizon and T Mobile.
What these organizations are called are m v n o's okay,

(14:19):
which is a pretty much a mobile virtual network operator.
It's a virtual network operator. Anybody who's anybody who's got
marketing money can create and start and mv n oh,
I swear and I've thought about this. I probably could

(14:40):
have and I maybe should have because I have I'm
very honored to have such a nice, long, large audience
across the country. I could create a high tech Texan
mobile company htt Mobile, that's right, and I could charge
anything I want. What I would do, I would just
lease airtime least bandwidth time from one of the biggies.
That's what Expinity does. That's what Ryan Reynolds does. Ryan Reynolds,

(15:01):
who created if founded mint Mobile. All right, well, guess
who did it recently. That's right, You're President of the
United States. His family Trump Mobile. That's where we're going.
It took me a while to get here. Trump Mobile
coming out with its own smartphone and its own service.

(15:22):
One of Trump's kids, the Trump Organizations, they just announced
a smartphone that allegedly is going to be made in
the United States. It's going to be called Trump Mobile,
and they're going to have a plan that is going
to be forty seven dollars in forty five cents a month.

(15:42):
I like the marketing because Trump was is the forty
seventh in the forty fifth president of the United States.
Nothing solid, just an announcement, just a press release. Anybody
gonna do this. The guy to talk out of things.
I'm here to give you my thoughts, my reviews, my

(16:03):
recommendations on so many topics, from cars to phones, to
fashion to bourbon.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Man.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
I'm here, but I will tell you this. Stay away
from my man. Nope, In case you missed it, This
four hundred and ninety nine dollars Trump branded built the
United States phone and ain't gonna be built in the
United States. There is no way in the Lord's work
that a phone can be made in the United States

(16:32):
for five hundred dollars. DNA can barely make one for
five hundred dollars, and after a little digging. Oh, by
the way, it looks like a lot of people have
figured out this six point eight inch phone with a
fifty megapixel camera is likely going to be me China,
or at least parts of it. It may be put

(16:54):
together or sing old in America. Does that matter because
all the phones you have used in your life have
been made and manufactured not in our great country. And
by the way, don't get me wrong, I love our country.
I am so American. I believe red, white and blue
and burnt orange. I am not dis in America. I

(17:15):
love me some the United States. But the United States
cannot build and manufacture many things as cheap and sometimes
not as good as other countries. Conversely, our great country
of America produces a ton of great things that blows
other countries away. But when it comes to mobile phones,
not gonna work. Phone is likely going to be produced

(17:37):
by a Chinese device manufacturer, which is type of company
that designs and manufactures products based on a specification in
another firm. If Trump wanted a phone built in the
United States, we would probably be paying two thousand to
three thousand dollars for this thing. Phones need foreign components.
This t ie Trump's organization phone is different. Now, I

(18:01):
have no information, No one has information of what's revealed
in particular components. But there are some components that are
gonna be out there. I mean, the screens primarily are
made by South Korea firms Samsung LG. They produce these phones,
They produce screens, they produce the microchips. The processor probably
gonna be from the Taiwanese firm called Media Tech, because

(18:22):
Media Tech they produce so many of these qualcum chips
that almost every phone out there. I'm just doing research
for you, am I talking you out of it?

Speaker 1 (18:32):
No?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
But don't believe the hype of people. Now before we
take a break, I'm gonna tease you this. How hard
is it for somebody to come up with an mvno?
Not that hard. I will tell you the history of
them VNOs, who actually has hit it and become a
millionaire without a billionaire, and why Trump wants to get

(18:54):
in the game.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
This is the High Tech Textan Show, and I am like,

(19:23):
wherever you.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Are listening, whatever city you are trustly listening in, maybe
you're listening on a podcast, and iHeartRadio. We welcome you back.
This is the first hour of what's called the High
Tech Texan Show. My name is Michael Garfield, Dallas boy
now living in h Town, but I'm all over the
great state of Texas, and I do thank you here.
I'd love to hear from you if you don't want
to call into our phone number because you're shot three

(19:45):
four six twenty nine Texan three four six two nine
eight three nine six. By the way, find me on
most all of the social media platforms other than TikTok,
which by the way, there's another ninety day stay before
it's old high tech text and spell the whole thing
out h I G H T eh T E X
a m. We're in the middle of a discussion of

(20:09):
Trump's announcement of his new mobile phone service. And yes,
I don't delve into politics, but yes I delve into technology. Yes,
mobile phones are technology. I've been reviewing phones ready much
straight for twenty eight to twenty five years, actually more.
If you want to go get back to my original
bag phone. Anyone raise your hand. Who had a bag

(20:30):
phone in nineteen ninety one?

Speaker 4 (20:33):
I did?

Speaker 3 (20:33):
All right. I will tell you a story, maybe the
second hour, of what I found in my garage, an
entire treasure trove, dozens of old Garfield phones. Will I'll
get to that about twenty or thirty minutes. But anyway,
what is how can Trump all of a sudden dizzy
competing with AT and T, T Mobile and Verizen. Not really.

(20:56):
I will tell you how Donald Trump and Ryan Reynolds
can easily sell your phone plans. And I'll start with
the I'll start with I'm gonna bury the lead right now.
You can blame Ryan Reynolds, the actor, the heart thrub
Blake Lively's husband, Deadpool, whatever you want to call him.

(21:19):
He is a celebrity, and now Trump is a celebrity too,
with the announcement in the debut of Trump Mobiles a week.
It seems like there's a hot new trend in celebrities
selling things, not just tequila, it's phone service. It's Ryan
Reynolds' fault. To be clear, None of these celebrities, none

(21:42):
of these political figures, are building new cell networks from scratch.
Like I explained last segment, they're launching a mobile virtual
network operator and MVNO. These are companies that buy wireless
service from the three big US carriers and they resell it.
It's a business model that exists and has existed for decades.

(22:05):
And for those of you in Texas, I'm gonna give
you the best analogy. Who is your electricity provider? All right?
If you're in Houston, for example, you may have one
of a MIL, you may have NRG, you may have
discount power, you may have the I mean, it goes
on and on and on and on. Let me help

(22:26):
you out. All these companies are are marketing companies who
buy and measure electricity, wattage power from center point in Turkey.
They're the marketing arm. That is what a mobile virtual
network operator is. You're gonna be talking on AT and
T you're gonna be talking on T Mobile, You're gonna

(22:49):
be talking on Verizons network. But your bill is gonna
come from Mint Mobile with Ryan Reynolds, or it could
come from Trump Mobile, it could come from anybody else.
That's easy explanation. You're welcome. It's a good arrangement business
wise for the big carriers because they may have extra
network capacity that generally would go unused. So pretty much

(23:13):
they get a guaranteed return on their big expensive network investment.
MVNO's they have been around for decades, but you're hearing
a bottom more recently. All this additional capacity that five
g's allowed. Five G it's allowed. It's compared to LTE,

(23:35):
which was years ago. If you have a five G
network available, you are going to have some capacity to
run these and probably to sell some of the extra times.
If you think about it, they're more attractive to customers.
There's e SIM technology where you don't have to physically
take that little, tiny, little tiny SIM card out of

(23:56):
your phone or put it in your phone to start it.
These SIM cards are virtual and you could just light
up a phone number or switch a phone number automatically
over the air. But there's Ryan Reynolds. You son of
a gun. You you Ryan Reynolds. It was about six
years ago. It was twenty nineteen. Let me tell you
a story. He bought an ownership in a company called

(24:17):
Mint Mobile, and it was an MV and O that
was using the T Mobile network, and he became the spokesperson.
Very clever ads. He is a very smart dude, just
like he did with his gin. He actually owns an
advertising marketing company. Very clever ads. It was a very
smart pricing model, fifteen dollars a month, all you can eat,

(24:40):
something like that. It won over a lot of people
and it turned into a very lucative venture for Ryan Reynolds,
who eventually sold the business to T Mobile itself something
like one point three billion dollars. At that point, celebrities
are like, yeah, let's get into it. Didn't I tell you?

(25:03):
Like last week it was Jason Bateman and those three
comedians Will Arnette. I think they launched their own SmartLess
I think so. It's called they launched their own en
V I O. I'm getting ticked. I didn't. I still
haven't done mine yet. That's how we wound up living
in the world with a president's family company sells wireless service.

(25:25):
I don't think it's a scenario any of the founding
fathers could have foreseen. It's a weird concept. The Trump
organization is a branding operation, real estate, whatever it is.
They license their name. Good for them, they're making some money. Great.
Is there controversy, Sure you could say there is so

(25:50):
one is there's a captive audience out there, and there's
a marketing opportunity out there. I don't think this is
a last time we're gonna hear from a public figure
ready to sell us wireless service. And I guess we
have Ryan Reynolds to thank for that. So that is
how the Trump family, out of the blue, they decided,

(26:12):
let's license our name and let's just make some money
on a forty seven dollars forty five cent per month plan, which,
by the way, let's talk about this. If your cell
phone or your data plan is up or about to expire,
I want you to do your research. And if you
think that there is only AT and T, and there
is only T Mobile, and there's only Verizon, there are more.

(26:37):
There are many, many, many more companies that are cheaper.
Look at Total Wireless. I talk about total Wireless, lot,
Total wireless is an envn O, but it's horizon. It
uses the rise of network, and it's a heck of
a lot cheaper. There's all unique if you prepay. I
think there's an all you can eat plan for as
low as twenty five maybe forty dollars a month. There's

(26:58):
stores that you can walk into. I actually used too
Total wireless right now, but I could sweach at any time,
certainly because my contract is coming up in about a
month and I am going to look at the best deal. Yes,
look at the small print. Some of them could throttle
the service. It may not be five G at the
highest at the most used time of the day in

(27:20):
the late afternoons. But I'll tell you right, I've never
had an issue right now with my Total Wireless. So
for all your questions, feel free to come in use
your m V and O service US your actually the
big three service to call me three four, six, twenty
nine texts. And that is how your president and his
family are getting into the mobile cell phone business, which

(27:43):
if it actually ever comes out with a phone, and
if it debuts, I actually may be surprised. There's just
a lot of backtracking coming out in Washington, DC, look
at me trying to get political but not being political.
One more segment this hour. Don't hang up. I have
fun and I tell you like it is. I will
ask you your questions, and I do have some questions
on the email and also some callers here on the

(28:05):
High Tech Textan Show. Wherever you are listening, whatever city

(28:32):
you are, trust really listening in. Maybe you're listening on
a podcast in iHeartRadio. We welcome you back. This is
the first hour of what's called the High Tech Texan Show.
My name is Michael Garfield, Dallas boy now living in
h Town, but I'm all over the great state of Texas,
and I do thank you here. I'd love to hear
from you if you don't want to call into our
phone number because you're shot three four six twenty nine

(28:54):
Texan three four six two nine eight three nine. By
the way, find me on most all of the social
media platforms other than tik tok, which, by the way,
there's another ninety day stay before it's sold. High Tech
Text and spell the whole thing out high Tech t
e X A M. We're in the middle of a
discussion of Trump's announcement of his new mobile phone service

(29:20):
and yes, I don't delve into politics, but yes I
delve into technology. Yes, mobile phones are technology. I've been
reviewing phones reready much straight for twenty eight to twenty
five years, actually more. If you want to go get
back to my original bag phone. Anyone raise your hand?
Who had a bag phone in nineteen ninety one?

Speaker 4 (29:40):
I did?

Speaker 3 (29:40):
All right, I will tell you a story, maybe the
second hour, of what I found in my garage, an
entire treasure trove, dozens of old Garfield phones. I will
I'll get to that about twenty or thirty minutes. So, byway,
what is how can Trump all of a sudden dizzy
competing with AT and T T mobile and not really?

(30:04):
I will tell you how Donald Trump and Ryan Reynolds
can easily sell your phone plans. And I'll start with
the I'll start with I'm gonna bury the lead right now.
You can blame Ryan Reynolds, the actor, the heart throb,
Blake Lively's husband, Deadpool, whatever you want to call him.

(30:26):
He is a celebrity. And now Trump is a celebrity too.
With the announcement in the debut of Trump Mobile this
a week, it seems like there's a hot new trend
in celebrities selling things, not just tequila. It's phone service.
It's Ryan Reynolds's fault. To be clear, None of these celebrities,

(30:49):
none of these political figures, are building new cell networks
from scratch. Like I explained last segment, they're launching a
mobile virtual network operator and VNO. These are companies that
buy wireless service from the three big US carriers and
they resell it. It's a business model that exists and

(31:10):
has existed for decades. And for those of you in Texas,
I'm gonna give you the best analogy. Who is your
electricity provider? All right? If you're in Houston, for example,
you may have one of AL, you may have NRG,
you may have discount power, you may have the I mean,

(31:31):
it goes on and on and on and on. Let
me help you out. All these companies are are marketing
companies who buy and measure electricity, wattage power from center
Point in Turkey. They're the marketing are That is what
a mobile virtual network operator is. You're gonna be talking

(31:53):
on AT and T, You're gonna be talking on T Mobile,
You're gonna be talking on Verizons network. But your bill
is gonna come for Mint Mobile with Ryan Reynolds, or
it could come from Trump Mobile, it could come from
anybody else. That's easy explanation. You're welcome. It's a good
arrangement business wise for the big carriers because they may

(32:15):
have extra network capacity that generally would go unused. So
pretty much they get a guaranteed return on their big
expensive network investment. MVNO's they have been around for decades,
but you're hearing a bottom more recently. All this additional

(32:35):
capacity that five g's allowed. Five G it's allowed. It's
compared to LTE, which was years ago. If you have
a five G network available, you are going to have
some capacity to run these and probably to sell some
of the extra times. If you think about it, they're
more attractive to customers. There's e SIM technology where you

(32:59):
don't have to physically that little tiny, little tiny SIM
card out of your phone or put it in your
phone to start it. These SIM cards are virtual and
you could just light up a phone number or switch
a phone number automatically over the air. But there's Ryan Reynolds,
You son of a gun. You you Ryan Reynolds. It

(33:19):
was about six years ago. It was twenty nineteen. Let
me tell you a story. He bought an ownership in
a company called Mint Mobile, and it was an MV
and O that was using the T Mobile network, and
he became the spokesperson. Very clever ads. He is a
very smart dude, just like he did with this gen

(33:39):
He actually owns an advertising marketing company. Very clever ads.
It was a very smart pricing model, fifteen dollars a month,
all you can eat, something like that. It won over
a lot of people, and it turned into a very
lucative venture for Ryan Reynolds, who eventually sold the business
to T Mobile itself something like one point three billion dollars.

(34:05):
At that point, celebrities are like, yeah, let's get into it.
Didn't I tell you? Like last week it was Jason
Bateman and those three comedians Will Arnette. I think they
launched their own SmartLess I think so it's called they
launched their own envy O. I'm getting ticked I didn't.
I still haven't done mine yet. That's how we wound

(34:27):
up living in the world with a president's family company
sells wireless service. I don't think it's a scenario any
of the founding fathers could have foreseen. It's a weird concept.
The Trump organization is a branding operation, real estate, whatever
it is. They licensed their name. Good for them, they're

(34:50):
making some money. Great. Is there controversy, Sure you could
say there is. So one is there's a captive audience
out there, and there's a marketing opportunity out there. I
don't think this is a last time we're gonna hear
from a public figure ready to sell US wireless service.

(35:10):
And I guess we have Ryan Reynolds to thank for that.
So that is how the Trump family, out of the blue,
they decided, let's license our name and let's just make
some money on a forty seven dollars forty five cent
per month plan, which, by the way, let's talk about this.
If your cell phone or your data plan is up

(35:33):
or about to expire, I want you to do your research.
And if you think that there is only AT and
T and there is only T Mobile, and there's only Verizon,
there are more. There are many, many, many more companies
that are cheaper. Look at Total Wireless. I talk about
Total Wireless lot. Total Wireless is an envn O, but

(35:54):
it's Verizon. It uses the rise of network and it's
a heck of a lot cheaper there's all unique if
you prepay. I think there's an all you can eat
plan for as low as twenty five maybe forty dollars
a month. There's stores that you can walk into. I
actually used too Total wireless right now, but I could
sweach at any time, certainly because my contract is coming
up in about a month and I am going to

(36:16):
look at the best deal. Yes, look at the small print.
Some of them could throttle the service. It may not
be five G at the highest at the most used
time of the day in the late afternoons. But I'll
tell you right, I've never had an issue right now
with my Total Wireless. So for all your questions, feel
free to come in use your m V and O

(36:38):
service US. You're actually the big three service to call
me three four, six, twenty nine texts. And that is
how your president and his family are getting into the
mobile cell phone business, which if it actually ever comes
out with a phone, and if it debuts, I actually
may be surprised. There's just a lot of backtracking coming

(36:59):
out and washing me. See look at me trying to
get political but not being political. One more segment this hour,
don't hang up. I have fun and I tell you
like it is. I will ask your questions and I
do have some questions on the email and also some
callers here on the high Tech Textan Show, Happy Late

(37:21):
Father's Day, which was earlier this week. My name is
Michael Michael Garfield, the long running host of the long
running high Tech Textan show heard all across the state
on your wonderful iHeartRadio Network podcast the show if you
have missed any of it on the iHeartRadio app. It
is absolutely free to download for all you dads out there.
I was in Dallas last week visiting my father. Maybe listening,

(37:42):
maybe not right now, but my parents still live in Dallast.
What Father's Day gifts did you get? Did you get
a cell phone? You didn't want it? Would? I? Usually
I do this on Mother's Day, I do it on Christmas,
Honakah whatever. If you got a gift and you have
to fake it, especially if your kids give it to
you right in front. Oh, this is exactly what I want,
this is the tie whatever, and you want to return it,

(38:04):
feel free to call me three four six twenty nine
textan right now. Disguise your voice if the kids are listening,
and I will tell you. Maybe another brand or another
model that may be a little better, that may be
a little cheaper, so you can, you know, keep some
extra cash, we return it or exchange it. That's some
of the things that I do. That I mean, that's

(38:27):
people want to you know, for some reason, you actually
got some clothing that you may be a sh medium
sized T shirt and you don't like the color purple
or burn orange. I'll bite off of you. So let
me know. You can find me online. High tech textan
awsome Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. While we're talking
about phones, we just were talking about the new Trump
mobile announcement that allegedly there's going to be a five

(38:51):
hundred dollars phone allegedly being built totally in the United States.
How about iPhones. I don't talk about iPhones much, but
this kind of it. If Trump I saw this headline
and I'm just going to headline, if Trump gets his way,
could iPhones made in the US really cost thirty five
hundred dollars? That's the headline. And I thought about that headline,

(39:14):
especially as Trump just announced his own phone is going
to be sold for a really low, low lit Goo
price of four hundred and ninety nine dollars. It is,
so it's a game. I'm reading this headline. If Trump
gets his way, could iPhones made in the US really
cost thirty five hundred Well, if he's a smart marketing guy,

(39:35):
sure make iPhones cost thirty five dollars, one hundred dollars,
make the Trump phone four hundred and ninety nine dollars,
and by going buy the Trump phone. Really not the point.
The point is tariffs because iPhones are not made in
the United States. You know why iPhones are not made
or states because iPhones are actually good, they actually work.
Because a lot of technology like that is not made

(39:55):
in the United States. iPhones are costly, and a lot
of people agree that a new tariff environment and pressure
from Trump, they the prices may skyrock it there's a
tariff of release. What twenty five percent that has to
be paid by Apple coming into the US. There's no

(40:18):
I don't know who came up with the thirty five
hundred dollars headlock, but right now there's the there's a
global head of technology research at a AT where to
push securities. It's a financial services He estimates iPhone could
run as much as twenty three hundred dollars when herrafs
are taking into account, and that's a big increase from
Apple's views models as about twelve hundred dollars. I don't

(40:40):
know who came up with the thirty five hundred dollars
I think goes a bad headline. It's yes, I wanted,
I'm no there everything made that day in the United
States for air. If they're not, so, what are you
gonna do. You're gonna suck it up and we're gonna
pay the pup. Listen one more hour when we canning back,
I'm gonna tell you what I found in my garage.
You're gonna laugh, laugh, laugh, You're gonna say, hey, I
might have that same stuff in my garage too, don't
go anywhere high tech.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Next is Michael Garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining in
the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a
high Tech Texans.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
To make life easier, system new technology, and Michael Garfield
has something you might like.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Halfway through the end of the show, which means this
is halfway a happy hour. My friends, what is going on?
Just like that big boomy voice says, it is Michael Garfield.
I am known as the high tech Texan. What's good? People?
We have a post Father's Day show taking suggestions. If
you want to return some of your gifts, maybe I
could tell you to get another model or something. It

(42:17):
is three four six twenty nine Texan three four six
two nine t e x A N. We actually spent
a lot of the first hour talking about phones and
cell phones and new mobile companies and how can the
President of the United States and his family all of
a sudden come up with a a a network, an
operating network for for cell phones along with actual phones. Well,

(42:38):
I told you what a multiple virtual network operator is,
and feel free to go back and listen to that
on podcasts. But I want to talk about phones. I
want to talk about actual phones. What phone did This
is a rhetorical question because I can't hear you right now.
But what phone are you using right now? Okay? Are
you using something made by app? Are you you made?
Are you using an Android? Whatever it is? I am

(43:01):
historically an android guy, and I get a lot of
phones per year. I test them out. A lot of
these companies don't want them back, and I don't throw
things away and I don't sell them. So I have
kind of a graveyard for phones. And I don't know
what you do with your old technology. This is where
I'm going with this. I do know that I have
this container or this kind of storage box in my

(43:23):
garage that is known as the cell phone boneyard of
the Garfield family. I just tossed my phones in there.
Friend of mine wanted to know if I had an
MP three player laying around because she wanted it. She
needed it for something, and I'm like, well, phones, it's

(43:47):
at the end of the day, it's it's a storage device.
There's tons of storage. Why don't you just use your
phone and put music on there. Well, she couldn't do it,
going to camp. Can't have any type of cell phones.
That's got to be an actual, typical MP three players.
And I'm like, man, I haven't actually had an MP
three player in years. Point is, I go into the
garage and I get out the boneyard, I get out

(44:07):
this box. So I started having fun. I start pulling
out I haven't seen this box in years. I start
pulling out these phones looking for an MP three player,
and I realized I could open a technology museum. I
took a photo of not even all of these phones
laying out dust, hobweeds, crack screen, and I posted it

(44:32):
on my x account. Go to high tech text and
hi g h T E c ht E XN. You
can see it there. Actually, you sit it on Facebook.
You can see it even on my Instagram high tech
text him and I and I put all these help
one two, three, four, FI, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen seventy. There must be about twenty four phones. This
isn't even all my phones. People, I have Blackberries. I

(44:56):
have a number of Blackberries, LG, Samsung Home, Dell.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
HP.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Actually have an app. I actually have an Apple iPod,
one of the original iPods, not a phone. VS run
the gamut from the year nineteen ninety eight, nineteen ninety
nine till till to recently. Here is a Motorola. What
is this thing? It's a Motorola communicator. It's a clamshell
thing that looked like it comes from a sci fi movie.

(45:33):
I posted this with what what is your favorite What
is your favorite cell phone of all time? For the
next hour, we're gonna play the game. Let's call Michael
Garfield on the High Tech Textan Show and tell him
what is your favorite phone of all time?

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Time?

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Time three four six twenty nine, Texan three four six
two nine eight three nine two six Post a photo
if you're still using it, I don't care. I know
some people are still using their clamshell flip phnes from
two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight. They take
care of them that you call my show on them?

(46:11):
I know you, guys.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Is just it.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
It's a walk down memory lane. I'll bury the lead
and I'll tell you what mine is. I think my
favorite phone of all time is the BlackBerry Pearl. It
was one of the smallest Blackberries ever released. I loved

(46:34):
it because of the small form factor. I can keep
it my front pocket. It kind of slid up. It
wasn't a flip phone. It didn't have specific letter keys
that had numbers, and it used T nine. You remember
what tennin if you needed a text on And here's
the thing, we as Americans didn't text a lot twenty

(46:56):
years ago. Other countries, European countries. They texted. They got
into the texting thing before we did much much more.
We talked on the phone. So what we had to
do we you know, you have the keyboard one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight nine. Was it at star pounds star zero
pounds something like that. But there's also letters on those
on the so if you look at the number two key,

(47:17):
it's ABC, the three key D E F and so
you had to tap on those things. It was just
so it was sos like it was rudimentary, very morse codesh.
That's fine. Love the BlackBerry pearl. And you could see
the BlackBerry pearl right there, second row, right side. And
look who the carrier was. People, I'm gonna throw out
a name of your go a freak right now if
you're old, if you're old like me, it ain't Verizon,

(47:41):
because I see a Verizon. It ain't sprint. I even
see a sprint for people. My BlackBerry pearl was on
Singular C I N G U L A R, which
I think was was that bought out by AT and
T or Verizon. I don't even know. Look at that thing,
it's got a little track ball. I got at least
two flip phones. There is my very first BlackBerry, which

(48:02):
is on the Verizon network, had a little plastic holster. Man,
love to hear from you. Back in the good old
days when we used to have newspapers and when you
only had a radio. Hello, my friend, we had big, old,
clunky cell phones that didn't even have letters on them.
It was just numbers. Some of them folded, some of

(48:26):
them were big, some of them weren't color. You couldn't
touch the screen. It was the iPhone in two thousand
and seven when was released. That was the first screen
you can touch. There's no doubt, man, how'd we live
back then? Those were the good old days. I'd love
to hear from you, Michael Garfield High take text and
show when we come back. Listen, I'm going to tell
you how to stop trackers from collecting your health data.

(48:47):
I'm going to tell you, actually, if you're an Android fan,
Andre the latest version of Android Android sixteen is actually out,
I will tell you how to download that, but only
on a few phones. And also trying to unsubscribe from
all your emails that you thinker spam. Think again before
clicking unsubscribe on some of those emails. That's right, Garb's

(49:08):
here to one, don't go anywhere, hang up your phone
or actually comments three four six twenty nine Texans the Heigh.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Tech Texans Show.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
For a second hour of the High Tech Textan Show.
Thank you so much for joining me wherever you are listening,
if you're over the airwaves in Dallas and Houston and
San Antonio. Thank you for showing the kids what an
AM radio DOW looks like. And if you're listening on iHeartRadio,
you can download the app or talk to your smart
speaker just say yo, wake up word whatever it is,

(49:53):
and I don't want to wake up your smart speaker.
Listen to this radio. So listen to KPRC nine fifty
eight I AM on iHeart Radio. Listen to eleven ninety
talk radio on iHeart Radio. Listen to WOAI twelve hundred
on iHeart Radio. Do it right now. You can listen
as you, you know, putter around the house and do
whatever you need to do. See that's a more waste.

(50:13):
You can not listen to your favorite radio shows. A
lot of reviews that I do. And here's something that
you can get dad for a late Father's Day gift.
Dads who mow the lawn. This is one of those
products that I reviewed that made me think, where was
this invention when I was a kid, Because growing up
in Texas, I mowed the lawn. Now, yes, we did,

(50:37):
at one point we had a mowing mowing riding lawn
or because our lawn was so big. But I still
had to get off and I had to bag all
the mulch and everything. But also for a good twenty
twenty five years and at least two of my houses,
as you know, when I had kids, I mowed the lawn.
And the funny thing is I really didn't complain as
hot and nasty as just as just the laborious just

(51:00):
it's this thing that we have to do. I wanted
to do it myself. I didn't want anybody. I didn't
want to pay some dude did actually, you know, mow
my lawn because it really was the only place anywhere
in my life that I could escape and get away
from everything, no kids screaming. I really didn't even fifteen

(51:22):
twenty thirty years ago, I didn't have a radio or
earphones or iPods or eye players right to put in
my ears. I listened to the home of the mower,
and I did thinking, I did my best thinking out there.
As matter of fact, I think I believe I actually
came up with the concept of the high tech text
and when I was mowing, it was just a hum
mowing out there twenty three years ago. Well, nowadays there

(51:42):
are opportunities where there is no home from a lawnmower,
even though your lawn is being mowed and you don't
have to pay anybody to do it. Because I played
with and tested and currently reviewing a robot lawnmower. A
robot lawnmower, people, I'm not kidding you. It's hut out
of the world conceptualizing to believe there is a robotic lawnmower.

(52:05):
Because you know what a robot vacuum cleaner is. You
may have one many of them out there from roboock
is a brand name, I robot, whatever it is. You
know what they do. You program it, They map out
your living room, your dining room, your kitchen. You plug

(52:26):
it and you charge it and they just let it
go and it chases the cat around. There you go,
same concept a little bit more technologically events. So there
is I tested out and I tried. It's a company
called Ecovacs. Eco Vacs They actually make robotic vacuum cleaners,
but they also make, among many other companies, robot lawnmowers. Ways,

(52:48):
about what is this thing? Weigh thirty five pounds. You
don't really need to pick it up a lot. It's
about the size of a small tricycle that a kid
would ride. Charge it. It's got a battery. You put
it outside. You initially one time map your lawn and

(53:09):
it uses LIDAR. Do you know what light R is, Well,
it's not radar. It's got two lightar cameras. It stands
for light detection and ranging. And here it is what
it is akin to. You ever seen self driving cars,
way mos, all these new uberjaxis, they have all these

(53:29):
cameras and all these spinning things. That's LYDAR. It's a
remote sensing method and it uses laser light to measure
distance and it creates kind of a detailed three D
model of objects in the environment around you. There is
a light ar that's kind of three hundred and sixty
degree lightar camera on top of this robotic mower, and
there's a front facing camera that also uses LDAR, and

(53:52):
so as it moves it sees everything. It sees trees,
it sees garden hoses, it sees pets, it sees people
walking around, and it knows when to stop, when to
turn does everything. So you charge it, you turn it on,
You download an app and I put it in my
yard and I let it go. I mapped it. I

(54:14):
saw it going all at trace, all around the edges.
Once it's locked in, it's locked in, it comes back.
It charges itself. You hit a button and it goes.
Battery lasts for about well, they say it's about forty
three hundred square foot yard, which is about me. It's
about a typical size of a lawn. It wouldn't do
my one acre parents house, you know, lawn that they have.

(54:36):
It comes if it does run low on battery. It
automatically knows when it's running long battery. It will roll
back and put itself on the charger, kind of like
robotic vacuums. Charger does need to be plugged in. It's
waterproof ip X six rated, so you don't want it
in big ring downpours it, you know, so if it
gets hit by a sprinkler, maybe you want to hose

(54:56):
it down to clean it. That's fine, but I got
to tell you you can adjust the cutting length of
grass from about one point two inches to three and
a half inches on grass, It's got two rotary blades,
cuts about a thirteen inch wide. Half goes up and
back and up and back, and it kind of actually

(55:17):
does its own little twirl. But it knows where it's
been because it has GPS. Nobody can steal it because
it does have a GPS, and it actually does have
alarm so you can track it if somebody actually steals it.
I have no clue why anybody would want to steal
a thirty five pound lawn more, especially because the charging
pad is probably stuck, or because you can actually put
these pegs and actually, you know, kind of really get

(55:38):
it into the ground over under price before I tell you?
Do you like the concept? Does everybody like the concept
of a robotic lawnmower? So instead of slapping up and down,
going to get gas, making sure there's oil, either pushing
the button, pushing the lawnmower, getting your hands dirty, you

(56:00):
need to do is start your app sit back, have
a coldie. You don't even need to be home. You
can set a schedule every Monday, every Saturday, whatever you
want to do, and it cuts it in concept. I
love the idea. So how did it work out?

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Well?

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Not back the lawn that it was cutting, and I
want to be honest with you, I want to raise
my hand. I actually took it to my neighbor's lawn
because he has a bigger lawn, more wide spaces, because
I was actually had to shoot a TV segment for
my Fox and my CBS stuff that I'm doing, so
I'm actually you'll see it. I will put it on
my YouTube channel here the next week or so. You
actually see what was going. So I needed a big lawn.
He's got a big law. There was no way that

(56:40):
this robot lawnmower was going to last his entire lawn,
which is fine. I only needed about an hour's worth
of b roll shots and everything. But it was relatively
easy to set up, very simple to map out. I
pushed a button and it was going. It found its
way around trees. It know when the grass stop and
the cement started, so we're to turn around and keep

(57:02):
on the grass. It mulched closely enough, and it threw
the mulch particles right back into the ground. It doesn't
need bagging, and sure enough, when it ran out of battery,
went right back and charged itself. I took a hose,
I sprayed it off. I actually like it. What I
get one tough question. I actually like exercise, breaking news.

(57:26):
I kind of like mowing. I also don't like spending
a lot of money host to this specific Ecovac A
three thousand goat lidar robot lawnmower twenty five hundred dollars. Yikes,
don't turn the radio off. There are others on the market.

(57:48):
There are cheaper ones, Ego Vacs even makes it cheaper
one themselves too. They're more expensive ones. But I guess
this is where you start doing the ROI what's your
return on an investment? So if I pay twenty five
hundred dollars, well number one, I'm not gonna have to
gas it out. Not that you pay a lot of
gas for a lawnmower over a given summer. How much
do you pay your lawn guy or your lawn gal.

(58:10):
Do you pay them fifty bucks? Do you pay them
seventy five bucks? Well, now you don't have to do that.
Then again, does your lawn person do more than just
your lawn? Because this thing, last I check it didn't
like weed out flowers or anything or prune trees. How
much is your time worth? Sometimes it does take several

(58:31):
hours to prep to mow and do everything. Pretty much,
this is other than almost simple. It takes a matter
of minute to actually hit the button. It sometimes doesn't
even take that longs to the schedule. It's a matter
of time. This is what I do when I review products.
I'm gonna probably tell you what I get it. But
I am in a different lifestyle, my age, kid situation,

(58:52):
family situation, probably than you are. I have three grown boys,
I live alone. I actually don't have a massive, massive yard,
which is why I look for cars, and I look
for trucks, and I look for tech products, and I
look for smart home gadgets a little different than you.
But I am going to tell you these things are
out there, Dad, if you're interested. I do like it.
It is nice. You need to decide if it's worth
whatever price you get it for. By the way, next

(59:13):
month Amazon Prime days. I think it's got four days
coming up. I don't know if this is going to
be an Amazon Prime, but we could talk about that later.
There it is my review the Ecovac's Goat, a three
thousand robot lawnmower. Have you used one of these?

Speaker 1 (59:25):
You like it?

Speaker 3 (59:26):
This is where you could talk to me. Love to
hear from you. Give me a call. Three four six
twenty nine, Texan. The name is Michael Garfield with no
calusis because I ain't pushing, no lawndower, no war pot

(59:54):
them at the hour my friends cope Paul as well.
Before I return you to the full first weekend of summer,
you will be excused. And if you're at the pool
listening to me, well you're probably already more excuse And
I hope you have a nice coldie in your hand.
Feel free to invite me over when I'm done hot
weather out there. Michael is the name. It's called Michael,
Michael Garfield. That's what they call me. They call me Garf,

(01:00:18):
but it is called the high Tech Texan Show. We
thank you for hanging around summer summer movies. Summer Lovin
had me a blast. This is the tops Other than
the Tom Cruise Dead Reckoning thing. Has there been a
big action movie the least yet? I do know this

(01:00:40):
coming week f one with Brad Pitt is coming. Those
are I mean big blockbusters. I mean you see NonStop
promotion worldwide tours and interviews on Enter Damage Tonight you
see billboards, it's it seems to me, I mean, just
the anecdotally, I've seen less and less of big blockbusters

(01:01:02):
coming out or being promoted. And I talk about this
because do you know what's being promoted right now almost
bigger than any of these other movies. It's the fiftieth
anniversary of one of the most famous films of all time?
Where were you fifty years ago this week? Nineteen seventy five? Now,

(01:01:27):
knowing my audience a lot of you were born, and
if you weren't born, did you see this movie? Because
I got to tell you. If you're a longtime listener,
you know I am the king of pop culture. I
am the king of the eighties. If there's music, if
there is a song, if there is a fad, if
there is a fashion, if there is a trend, if

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there's a whatever it is the era, I'm pretty much
all over it. But it's I'm not embarrassed to say
I when it comes to movies, I don't I haven't
seen a lot of the big movies that have been blockbusters,
that have been famous, that have been award winners and
be in people are surprised. For example, I have never
seen any of the Godfather movies. None, Nope, haven't seen it,

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and I can go on stop. I don't want any
calls right now. I'm not doing it right now. I
know point is fifty years ago one of the most
incredible movies really, which literally and figurally started the summer
box office boom where crazy movies, big ones were released
in summer. It was fifty years ago this week Jaws. Jaws,

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a seafaring masterpiece about the shark. Steven Spielberg. Director John
Williams did the music and score. I've never seen it.
I never saw it because number one, I was relatively
young in nineteen seventy five, even though probably somebody saw it.
But I don't dig sharks. I don't dig movie that

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are scary. Now, I'm not saying Jaws is scary because
I haven't seen it, because but I've studied it because
when I was in Radyotos in the film, when we
studied Steven Spielberg, I mean he talked about the shark
where you never initially saw the shark, and you heard
the dune done dune, dune, dunk to the two note,
I mean and then finally you see the Shark and

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it's it's it's your mind in things.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
It was phenomenal. So know I if anybody has seen
if you want to reminisce on the greatest big blockbusters
all the time, now you can call me. Just don't
yell at me for not seeing Jaws in many of
the other movies. You can feel free to give me
a shout if you want to pick up I don know, callum.
If you want to pick up the phone three four
six twenty nine Texan three four six two nine t
E X A N, feel free to uh check that out.

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But I saw a list of the top ten shark movies.
Let me just run through this people, the top ten
best shark movies. This is according to US USA Today,
Real quickly, ten Deep Deep Blue Sea, three Meg Too,
the Trench, Jaws, two the Meg, the Reef, Open Water

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under Paris, the Shallows, Deep Blue Sea, and a number one,
of course, was Jaws. I am oh for ten, and
I am proud to say I am oh for ten.
I just I'm not gonna do it. I do go.
I don't mind the ocean in the water. I go
to Southern California, so a few times a year to

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see the kids, I go to the ocean. I don't
want in the back of my mind knowing or thinking
there's a freaking movie shark out there, or a real shark. Anyway,
I just thought that was an anecdotal thing. Happy anniversary
to Jaws. And then we could play the what movie
has mich Golt not seen? And then you would be
in all just as scary as as sharks. This is

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a hard segue. Kids, if you're learning to get into
broadcast journalism, this is how you do it, just as
scary and sharks. How about all these potential hackers and
trackers trying to collect data from your cell phone and
from your personal lives boom see, I did it. So
another story about trackers collecting your health data, and I

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found this one interesting. It's because I do track my health.
I have several smart watches like all of you out there.
I have apps that will show me my beats per minute,
how long I've run, how I sleep. Because of technology,

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we are I think it's great because we are getting
data and we are getting regular personal feedback on how
we live, how we exercise, and how we sleep and
how we can improve much more so than back on
my old days, where we got it once or twice
a year by taking tests at a doctor's office. Now

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we get immediate feedback when we wake up. If you
sleep with your smart watch on a lot of the people,
the first thing you do is you take a look
at your wrist. It's like, oh, was I in rimsleep
for an hour and two minutes? And what's my sleep score?
And then you know how quickly and when I'm on
my bike, can I get my beats permitted of my heart?
And what's my resting heart rate? It goes on and on.

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Personal health information is very big. However, there's a lot
of this information that is being leaked to third party
companies who may be using it. Maybe it's the watch
manufacturer or something. What is happening, Well, there are a
lot of health websites, health exchange websites, and they you know,

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companies like Google and Snapchat and LinkedIn and believe it
or not, they use they track user activity to target advertising.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
They do.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
Websites. Website owners they install and they configure coating to
provide tech companies on their pages. And these things are trackers.
As you know, when you load a page this tracker
coding runs, collecting data, sends it to the tech company servers,
and it goes on, how do you protect your data
from these trackers and especially when it comes to health
stuff too? Well number one did you know? Well, quickly

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over here you can block trackers. If you're using Safari
as a web browser, I want you to use go
click on Advanced Tracking and finger Printing Protection. Okay, it'll
block the trackers, a lot of the trackers. If you're
using Chrome or other browsers blocking third party cookies, it

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actually won't stop the trackers from sending your data, but
it's going to make it harder to link the data
to you. Specifically, what I would do is I would
install a privacy protecting browser extension. So if you're using
a desk, hot brower browser, use a privacy protecting browser
extension that they're they're called a number of things. One

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it's called privacy badger. One's called you block the letter,
you block, you block origin. Those things can help to
switch to a new browser. I actually use a browser
browser called Brave. I have long used a bro It's
a free browser. Brave. What it does it hides a
lot of this stuff it's almost like a built in VPN,

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very privacy focused. I don't use Edge, I don't use
Safarian do it. I use Brave duck Go. Believe it
or not, there's all that also ones the block trackers too.
But believe it or not, what doesn't work to block
trackers a VPN. I've longchouted using a virtual private network
to keep your privacy at least your Internet connection secure.

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But VPN they're handy for really kind of obscuring your
location of where you actually are, right, But it won't
stop trackers from reading and writing cookies and sharing details
about your advice too. Also, oh you're gonna be You're
gonna outsmart them. You're gonna use incognito mode or private mode.
It's not gonna block trackers either. So if you don't,

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nothing is gonna one hundred percent stop blockers and trackers.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
But do what I do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Use a use a a web browser, brave duck duck Go.
Use a privacy protecting browser extension. It's something you can
download for free that may help too. Just a little FYI,
we got one more segment to go. I do think
you can tune it in there. It is Michael barcod
in the high Tech tex and Code. Don't go anywhere.
We're gonna wind it up, big.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
A few more minutes before we wind up the bag
and close it and zip lock it up for this
week show, the first radio show of the Summer of
twenty twenty five, officially Summer. Hey, the good news people.
Last Friday was the longest day of the year. Just
lead to just terrestrially and solarly and everything summer, sourctice,

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whatever point is. Every day now become shorter as we
count down to winter. I mean, listen, I'm sorry, I'm
I'm from Texas. I've lived here most all my life.
It's just hot man, and I you know, I like
being outdoors because I'm a runner. I just did the
one hundred plus degree weather. The humidity, it's not conducive

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for running for runners, and that's really why I just
I like cool weather. Let's go people, Snap, Snap, Let's
let's get it going. Michael Garfield final a few minutes
of this week's high Tech Text and Show. Not going
to give the phone number on. We've got a few
things to talk about. I I teased them, I got
to pay them off. Talk talk about all the emails
that everybody is beginning. This is a good time year.
If you're your schedule is getting a little bit lighter,

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maybe you're you know, you're working from home, maybe you
have a fagation days to do something about all this
spam mail that you're getting. I continue to get more
and more, and spam is getting tougher and tougher to determine.
I've ben get my website high tech textan dot com
is hosted through register dot com, which is Network Solutions,

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and I've had it for years and years and years,
and I know every year when the annual fee payment
is coming up. So when I get emails throughout the year,
I'm thinking, what do they want? Why do they want
me to click this link? This past week, I've gotten
like three emails that are very very suspicious. They con't
it says register dot com from the sender. It's got

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the register dot com logo in the email and it's
got hey, you need to verify your account click here.
And I'm very cautious and you should I talk about
this because I want you to be too. Before clicking
on these things. You need to think about it now.
It's a serious thing. I don't want my website to
go down. And so this is why I'm reading this

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thing like this the suppruter film like word by word,
going oh wait a minute. And what I found is
when I got to the very bottom, there's small print.
It's got legal stuff registered trademark. This email is being
sent by Network Solution, and I'm looking closer, things are off.
Number one, I look for misspellings. I didn't see misspelling,
but networksolutions dot com is one of the but I

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look at how it's written or typed out in this
bottom of the email. In the legal lees, it was
like network in dot or period etwork, Like why do
they put a period between network? The other thing that
you could do is you could take your mouse. If
you're on the desktop or a laptop, take your mouse,
and I want you to hover over the link. Put

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your mouse on it, don't click it. What happens is
you're going to get a little pop up. And if
that doesn't happen, I want you to hover over that
link and write click on your mouth. When you write
click out of a mouth, you actually can potentially see
what's the destination website that that link is going to
take you to, and if it's odd, and if it's long,

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and if it doesn't say in this case register dot
com or network solutions, eh, don't do it. Don't click
on it. I didn't. The point is how do you
get off? How do you amy? I'm a big unsubscriber.
Every few weeks I go and I'm like, why why
am I getting this? Let me scroll down and let
me click the famous unsubscribed button. I want you to

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think twice before you do that. At least one in
every and here's a here's a stat stat of the
day by DNS filter. At least one in every six
hundred and forty four click here to one and subscribe
links led to potentially malicious web sites. Now one in

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six hundred and forty four. It's pretty decent batting average. Okay, okay,
but the one time you click on that and your
computer goes I don't want you calling me watch for
that stuff. So what do you do? A lot of
email service providers they have a built in unsubscribed feature
that does not require interacting with any of these shady links.

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All right, The easiest, most common are the list unsubscribe headers.
It's a banner with the little hyperlink that comes from
your email provider. You can click through it. The other
thing is you can actually go just get out of
that email, go to the website. Actually go to the
website that sent you. So say you don't want to

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there's a burger chain and you subscribe to it, Well
you could get you don't know where that's going to lead.
Go to the burger chain's website, go to your account,
then unsubscribe that way. That's the other thing. And the
other thing I could do is the famous junk button.
This is my last resort, but sometimes I have to
resort to it more than often. I use Microsoft Outlook

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and I have a junk folder. Anytime I'm getting something
and it's from a Rando person email address, I will
write click and I will hit junk immediately. It goes
into my junk folder, not spam, a junk folder, and
it blocks that sender from ever not sending me. They're
gonna send me emails, but I'm never gonna see it.

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I junk those. You can also do that with ex
girlfriends or ex boyfriends. See what I did there. Just
a time of year, you got a little lecture time
in your hands, you may want to do that real quickly,
what's Michael driving this week? I told you this past week.
Every week I do get to drive a brand new
vehicle for a week. It is not from a dealership.
I work directly with the manufacturers. I've been doing it

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for about fifteen years, been driven over one thousand cars.
I don't get paid for it. These are my thoughts.
This past week, Michael was driving in the twenty twenty
five Nissan front here Pro four x crew cab. By
the way, it's a mid size truck. If you're in
the mood for a market for a mid sized truck,
there are a few mid sized trucks you're usually thinking.

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You know, if you think of a pickup truck, you're
gonna be a halftime. You're gonna be a four to
f one fifty, the Ram, and you know, just all these.
But the mid size truck Nissan Frontier, the GMC Canyon,
the Chevy Colorado, the Toyota Tundra, those are the smaller ones.
I actually like those. I personally prefer those if I
had to get a truck because I don't really don't

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haul and schlep a lot of things. They're easier to park,
easier maneuver, and you know they still work and act
very nice off road. I've long been a Nissan fan.
I haven't been the biggest proponent of the Frontier, but
I really like this one, really because it's the Pro
four X. Pro four X is the badge, the kind

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of the outdoor rugged badge that on the outside he
gives you a lot more stability off voading opportunities, but
on the inside they really kind of trick out the
vehicle a lot more of The Nissan Armada has a
Pro four X version, which I absolutely loved, but the
Nissan Frontier Pro. I tell you, what, if you actually
put Pro four X on a jar of mayonnaise, I

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would I would potentially try it. That's how great I'd
like the Pro four X upgrade. It runs about forty
one thousand dollars for the regular Frontier. The Pro for
X is going to add about another six seven thousand
dollars after all is said and done. But those are
the premium packages. But it's got a very nice three
point eight leader V six engines a V six engine

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at a relatively small vehicle, so you know you're gonna
get a lot of pickup. It tows well, three hundred
and ten horse powers. It's got great cool tires, the
seventeen inch pro alloy wheels. There's a lot of neat
things on this. If you are looking to get a
mid sized bruck, I would look at the Nissan Frontier.
If you have the funds and the necessary means, check
out the pro four x versions. If you do, take

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it on motor off and there you go. If you
want to hear all my reviews from fifteen years, you
can go look on a podcast. You can even specifically
check out Spotify. Look for a high tech texts in
and every week it's just pop pop pop. You're going
to get reviews. Other than that. I got to get
out of here, folks. Callum's giving me to get out
of here because it is cocktail and happy hour time. Officially,
I do thank everybody in my Heart Radio network for

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keeping us on for twenty three years. You know how
to get me at the long url high tech text
and spell it all out. Hey, Happy summer officially on
behalf of everybody who's been a part of this one
may get a great week, stay cool, and we'll talk
to you next week. My name is Garne and this
show is over