Tech for Travelers: Must-Have Gadgets, VPNs, and Why You Don’t Need the Latest iPhone

Today on The High Tech Texan Show - 

• What gadgets do you travel with internationally? 
• Why you don't need that new iPhone 16
• How to use a VPN on your phone and why it is so important 

Episode Transcript

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

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

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Us in the high Tech Texan.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan. It
was to make life easier new technology.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
So Michael Garfield has something you might like. Texas. Michael
Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you
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(00:39):
Now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I guess we could say all is right in the world.
I'm not sure it all is right, but summer not
of officially over, but football season is here, and really
is That's what matters in life. Will you welcome you,
my friends? It is Michael Garfield. Yes, this show is
much more than just about football. But I don't know,

(01:06):
maybe there's a little pep in my voice because it's
been a long just dull, hot, nasty summer, hurricane here
and there, hurricane season still going on, but at least
we have something looking forward to. The kids are back
in school. I've been covering back to school products this
last week. If you saw Great Day Houston, which I

(01:27):
appear on quite regularly, I had a slew of back
to school products. If you have questions about that, or hey,
is this really worth it or what's the price? That's
what I do. I do a lot of consumer lifestyle products,
not just technology. Even though I did showcase a laptop.
I had a really beautiful laptop from a Asus. It's

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covered in Sarah aluminum. I love how these companies come
up with names. It's ceramic and aluminum together. It's incredibly
thin laptops sixteen hundred dollars. No, it's not a Mac
not a MacBook. It's actually a Windows operating system. Let's
see if laptops nowadays are coming with buttons on the
keyboard to automatically launch AI and so you have to

(02:12):
have a good ALI processor. This someone specifically has a
neural processing unit built in whatever that is. But some
of the other things that I did showcase on Great
Day Houston, you could see that on my website, which
is high Tech text in dot com. We'll start there
at h I G H T E C h T
E X A N and the one of the other

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products that I showed off. It was kind of weird
to me, and maybe it's a generational thing. I know
my kids kind of thought it was cool, but I
do plan to use it here in the next few days.
It's it's a from a company called victur v I
t U R E. And there are glasses that you
put on and where all right, and let me see

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if I can describe these. It's not VR, it's not
rdual reality glasses. They're x R glasses, which I don't
even know what technically that stands for. But what it
does is you plug these glasses and they look like sunglasses.
And again I did this, my spotlighted this in my video.
If you want to check it out. They plug it
into Yes, it's a plug. It's a proprietary plug that

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goes into a USBC, which means if you have an
Android phone, it goes directly into there. If you have
the newest iPhone iPhone fifteen and goes into there. It
goes also as an adapter that goes into gaming systems. Yes,
that's right, for PlayStations and xboxes and what have you.
If you're a if you use Twitch or a stream,

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it works there too. What it does when you plug
it in and you put the glasses on it mirrors,
for lack of a better term, what you're seeing on
your screen on your video game or whatever, and it
projects the image directly in front of your eyes. Remember
these glasses are just millimeters in front of your eyes,

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but it appears that the screen is about one hundred
and thirty inches diagonally eleven foot long screen. And so
I used it as a back to school product because
a lot of kids when they go to school, they
have small dorms, storm rooms. Maybe they don't have a
room for a TV, but they also have a video

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gaming system, and then maybe they won't they obviously they
have their their monitors. Maybe it's a laptop monitor. Well,
why buy a TV now when you can have something
like this and just plug this in lay flat in
your bed, Look straight up and you can allegedly see
a one hundred and thirty inch or eleven foot long
screen play games two. It comes with an adapter where

(04:48):
your buddy it's got two glasses, can plug into this
thing and you can play head to head games. It's interesting.
It's about five hundred dollars. But one of the uses
that I'm going to try it for I am flying
out in a few days. I am going to a
technology conference in Berlin, Germany, and so I have a
long flight on United Airlines and instead of watching the

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I don't know, I'm bringing a tablet obviously with you
know what it's like, you know, ten eleven twelve inch
tablet or a you know, a fourteen inch laptop. I
am going to bring these glasses and kick back on
the plane and have a screen that is just as
big as the cabin almost at eleven foot long. This
to me could be the future of flying into entertainment

(05:34):
and flying. You know, airlines they're trying to continually to
come up with faster Wi Fi and how to make
you more comfortable. And you know, most all seats on
I guess airlines other than Southwest Airlines, they have video
screens in the back of their of the chair so
you can see what's going on. Why not have these

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glasses that you can plug in instead of the video screens.
You don't have to install new seats because obviously you
have to get a new seat to install a video
screen in the back of the seat. You know, make
a deal with a company like this, and you know
you can get these things at bulk, certainly cheaper than
five hundred dollars. Just have a pair of glasses attached. Yes,

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I know they could walk hop people could walk away
with them, but there's ways to start that. Yes, I
know they'll break, but it's pretty cool. The screen resolution
is really really nice. It's called Victor VI t u Ari.
Is just one of the things that I'll continue to
talk about. Maybe back to school. Maybe it's a holiday gift,
which I will probably start the holiday stuff and it

(06:37):
probably about a month and a half, two months or so.
Holidays are around the corner, which means there is an
announcement from Apple. When we get back after this break,
I will tell you when Apple is going to announce
and launch their newest iPhone. And again, I'm not the
iPhone guy. I do not have an iPhone. I am
Android top the bottom. Yes, the high take dex and

(06:58):
does not use an Apple because Apple does not send
me their products for some odd reason to test or
try because they know that I don't know. After fifteen
years of phones, they've never sent me Jack. I'm not
gonna talk about it. I think Android phones are better,
certainly the camera. It may not be in the ecosystem
that you like or love, but the fact is more

(07:19):
people around the world use the Android operating system, much
more people around the world use the Android operating system
than the iOS operating system. So I talk to the
majority of the people who listen to tuned in to
watch the TV segments and whatever, but iPhones. For the
lack of a better term. At sixteen, which we're gonna
call it, I will give you the information should you

(07:41):
be so inclined to listen to it, I'll give you
the phone number here. We have some giveaways today. We've
got some gift cards to a restaurant and actually a
store will that actually sells iPhones and Android phones and
sell service and internet service. I'm calling now for the giveaways.

(08:01):
You can call it now to ask questions and talk
to me. Callum is on the other side of this phone.
He'll pick up the phone seven one three two one
two five nine five Oh, coming back with us so
much more Here it is a high tech text show,
Happy Football Season. Michael Garfield. That is right there is
the sultry dulcet zones of Michael Garfield, Tom the original

(08:26):
Michael Here on KPRC now I Heart Radio based in Houston.
Twenty two years. We have been doing this. We do
thank you for tuning in. Started out two decades ago.
Talking specifically about tech products, and I remember doing laptops
that were so big and so heavy that they looked
like desktops. I remember, we're talking about phones that were

(08:48):
so big and heavy that they look like laptops. And
now everything is getting smaller and faster and sexier. And
just as you know what, some things went up in
price more expensive, something's that went down in price. I
remember the desktops, the typical Windows PC desktops when I started,
they were two thousand, twenty five hundred dollars. And you know,

(09:09):
I don't think that included the monitor. Obviously, I use
an all in one. Right now, you know, you can
get a desktop computer for a lot less. Right now,
laptop computers have gone up in price, it seems, but
they've they've gotten lighter and faster. Showed off a few
showcases of back to school items. I've been playing with
a laptop for the past we could do from a
company called a SEUs. It is it's not a Mac,

(09:32):
it's not an Apples, not an iOS, it's not a
Mac OS, it's an actual Windows operating system. I showed
that on my Great Days Houston TV segment. I had
about five or six products you can see that if
you would like to see actually what the face and
the hair looks like behind his voice that you may
have no clue, not that it's it's important or sexy

(09:53):
or anything. But you can go to high Tech texts
in dot com h I G h T E C
h t X an high tech texting dot com and
I upload a lot of the videos and reviews that
I talk about. One of the products that I put
on the TV segment was a new way to connect
to the Internet. I say new way. It's a product

(10:15):
that it's not cable because I have cable from Comcast
and Exfinity, and it is an arm and a leg.
I still have no clue why I pay much, but
I'm about to pull the plug because I've been testing
and playing with wireless home internet. That is right. It
is the services from Verizon in this specific one. I
think Timo has the service too. But you go get

(10:37):
a router and what it does. It pulls down a
five G high speed up to George beccabets per second
Internet signal through the cell phone towers. It then as
a built in router that will give you deliver you
Internet across your entire home so now then you can
use your streaming, you can cancel your cable and everything.
The router is about forty five dollars one day purchase,

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and the monthly fee if you bundle things together through
you know, some certain phone plans, it's as low as
thirty five dollars per month. This specific one, it's from
Total Wireless, Total Wireless. It's an Envy and O that
uses the Verizon net network. I got it at the
Total Wireless store. There's about eleven of them that are
owned by a company called Victra Victra dot Total Wireless

(11:23):
dot com. This is across the Houston area. Tell you
what I'm gonna do. We're gonna go ahead and then
give away something right now, How would you like a
twenty dollars gift card to use at a Victra Total
Wireless store. You can use it. You can't use it
for to pay off your monthly cell phone plant, but
you can use it for to buy a cell phone.
You can use it to buy a cell phone cover

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or some of the other accessories that they have. They
have a lot of accessories. When you walk in caller
number nine. Right now, Calum, let's let's put it to
the test. Seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh,
we'll give away two gift cards right now, two gift cards.
First two callers seven one three two one two five
nine five. Oh. If it's a busy signal, it means
suck it up. You didn't win. We'll do uh, but

(12:08):
maybe we'll try it. We do this every week. Uh.
Later in the show, we'll have some other giveaways, maybe
from a nice restaurant or two. But Total Wireless Uh,
they offer some really really inexpensive calling plans. You don't
need to pay the one hundred and fifty two hundred
dollars a lone per month. Go check out Total Wireless
dot com. I have unlimited service. It comes with I

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think it is what fifty bucks a month, sixty bucks
a month. It comes with Disney Plus subscription or something.
It's it's very cool. Victra v C t R A
dot Total Wireless dot Com. But let's see if we
get some winners over there. As we do CONTID do
what we call the uh the high tech text in show,
getting some uh. I didn't really ask this question. I

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posed it last week. People know I'm uh. I like fly,
I like traveling, I really really do kind of it's
got us sad to travel alone, but suck it up.
That's what you do. Taking a quite a long flight.
In the next few days, I am going to Berlin, Germany.
First time I've been to Berlin, and it is a
big technology conference over there. I'm spending a few extra

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days just to kind of sight see and tour. Hopefully
we'll be coming back with some more giveaways. We'll call
this it's the Sea, it's the International. It's not CEES
because CEES, as you know, is in January and Vegas
that I go to that's the Consumer Electronic Show. But
this is maybe the international version that I hear is
just as big. But I'm flying and I'll be hopping

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on United Airlines and I'm going to bring a ton
of a number of things for a night. Well, it's
a nine hour flight at least it's a nine to
a fifteen hour flight that I've got, depending on the stop.
And so people are telling me or giving me suggestions,
what do you pack when you travel internationally? What do
you now? I already told you last segment. I'm bringing

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these new type of glasses that I'm testing out playing with.
They're XR glasses. The tour v T you are. There's
these glasses that you can plug into a phone or
your laptop or even a gaming system. So I'll bring
up I'll bring a tablet, I'll bring a phone, I'll
bring a laptop. I'll plug these glasses in and it's
going to project an image right in front of my

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face of about an eleven foot long screen one hundred
and thirty hundred and thirty five inches. It's pretty cool.
So now I and it's got speakers built into the
sides of the glasses. There needs about five hundred dollars
VI U R E. I'm also bringing I got a number.
I used to travel. I don't travel on very far flights.

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I go to California, I go to Left Coast, it's
about what three hour flight. I've been to New York
several times as of recent that's about a three hour flight.
I'll go to I'll fight to Chicago. That's about a
two hour flight. So generally I don't even need an
extra battery for a phone or something. Now I'm gonna
need a battery or two. So international flights. Back in
the day, I used to carry probably about two additional batteries.

(15:00):
So I'm carrying one battery right now, and I got
a big old MoMA battery. The batteries which everybody should have, obviously,
if you're in Houston, you've got a hurricane season, you're
gonna have power outages that you should carry one always
in your car, just in case something goes on. They
could be very very small, and they're measured. If you
have glasses or very good eyes sight, you could. They

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generally print it on the battery and they're very small.
They're measured in milli amps or milli ampeters. Okay, it's
m ah. The higher the number, the more battery juicet packs,
the longer it lasts, whatever. Generally you're gonna get something
like the batteries inside our phone. Maybe they're gonna have
twenty five hundred to thirty five hundred four thousand mill amps.

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That battery in the phone's gonna last you possibly what
a day, depending how much you talk, how much you
text less than a day. If you don't really use it,
it's gonna last maybe three four, five days, could be
a week. Batteries, you want one with a pretty hot
mill amps and the maximum the last I checked, the
maximum milliams that you can carry on a plane, because
you know, planes have real rules of what you can

(16:06):
and can't carry on is something like twenty thousand or
twenty two thousand miliams. I have a twenty thousand miliam battery.
It's not the smallest thing, it's not the lightest thing,
but this thing can charge. I think it's got three
USB A and USBC inlets or outlets. Actually you could
plug things into. It's got it. You actually could lie

(16:28):
flat a phone on there and wirelessly charge. Just got
a CHI charger built in this was I think I
have one. I think the one I'm taking is from
Goal zero g O l z E ro O, which
I think is associated with NRG for some way, shape
or form, had it for a few years. I usually
don't carry it on a plane, but I just know,
just for some reason, the last thing you want to

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do is you don't want your you know, your your
your device is to die. Despite the fact that a
lot of airplanes right now, they're coming the newer versions
of planes, they do have outlets and USBC portlets, outlets
to to charge your stuff, but it's always nice to
church it. So anyway, the point is, what do you

(17:08):
take on a flight to entertain you, well, just a
free thing. Do you take snacks. By the way, here's
a tip. If you take medications, carry your medications in
your carry on bag. Don't check them in. I had
an issue about a year and a half ago. Remember
the snafu that Southwest Airlines had in December, right on

(17:31):
Christmas Day, that they had a glitch that none of
their flights were going anywhere. I happened to be in
Los Angeles and I happened to be flying back that
day on Christmas Day. Christmas Night canceled my flight. I
was already in LA for five or six days. I
had five or six days, maybe even one extra day's
worth of my medications. Yet I just did a pills

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you take a night of the morning vitamins and whatever.
I ended up staying in LA like four extra days.
I mean, I was freaking, and so you know I
had to go to you know, call Walens getting things
transferred over. But anyway, take take your medication, take batteries,
take a laptop. Potentially take a laptop or a tablet.
When I travel for two or three days, I generally
don't travel with the laptop. I take my tablet, my

(18:14):
tablet is just as big. I can type on it,
I can use my email and whatever. It's lighter too.
I try to take take things as light as possible.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
So.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Headphones. When we get back, I see I'm right at
the top of the break over here, I will tell
you about headphones versus your buds, which you're better, and
why it's so important to get ones with a n C.
If you don't know what the letters a n C four,
I'll tell you what that is. I'll up to the
break the bottom of the hour. Last time I checked here,

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All is well, have a football season. Happy it's not
fall yet. Man, it ain't it ain't thing. It's still hot.
But I'll tell you what to me is the summer
is pretty much over. It is sae because there's something
to watch on TV on a regular basis. We got
your Orangs, big Orons game. Got the NFL for all

(19:12):
you Techans fans. Good for you. I actually I'm not
going to ever switch from a Cowboys fan because I
am from Dallas originally. But I'll tell you what. I
am not looking forward to this Cowboys season. I probably
am looking more forward to the Textan season and the
great CJ. Stroud than I am the Cowboys season. But
you know what, I don't care. Just just give me

(19:33):
the pigskin, baby. That's all I really care about. Michael
Garfield is the name. Congratulations to the two folks, you
got their information. Caleund gave away twenty dollars gift cards
to a Total Wireless store owned by Victor v C
TRA about eleven stores across Houston v CtrA dot Total
Wireless dot com. If you really want to save some

(19:54):
money on a five G home wireless internet so you
can kill your go get a router. They've got accessories,
they've got phone cases, they've got phones, and they've got
some really inexpensive plans that they'll work on the Verizon network,
So go check that out. We may give away some
later this week, but certainly I got a stack of
them they sent me, so we'll we'll do it next week.

(20:17):
That is Callum read over there, Hello Callum Hope, are
you ready for fall? Still got another what month or
two of hurricane season? So buckle down with that. I
on the conversation of I'm gonna talk about headphones and
earphones a it's back to school, but also travel, got
some travel coming up. I got a very long flight

(20:38):
back and forth to Berlin coming up, which I'm excited about.
By the way, is anybody's got any tips on what
to do and see in Berlin. I'm gonna have a
little extra time too to play around. Let me know.
I can't wait to see the wall. I want to
go write some of the graffiti in the wall. Wait
a minute, hold on being told something myers by Calum?
What's that? Calum? There is no wall. There's gotta be

(20:59):
a wall in Berlin somewhere, right. I can't, I can
like graffiti on it. Deil Roy was here, Garth was here.
Is is beer? Beer is big in Germany? Right? Oh? Man?
You know what I just now putting two? I mean
it's not October yet, but October Fest in Germany. Oh dude,

(21:21):
I think I scheduled like by this trip like a
month too soon. How awesome would dad be? How awesome
would that be? Oh my goodness? Yes, I will bring
back my share of beer when I go to Germany's
come here. But what I'm talking about when you travel
and I'm getting some emails here Michael at high tech
Texan dot com, that's one of them. What do you

(21:42):
take when you travel on the phone and I'm getting
some fun stuff. I gotta I got a teddy Bear.
That's and then someone who sent me they sent me
a picture of their kids teddy bear. Oh, how cute
is dad? Good? Dad? Appreciate Who is that? That was Jeremy, Jeremy,
thanks so much. Uh, barf bags. I don't carry a
barf bag. Generally planes have those. Has anybody ever used

(22:05):
a barf bag on a plane? Should we just? Should
we go here? I need to see this is what
radio does. We could just go any different way or avenue.
Do you have barf bags anyway? I don't think I've
used it. I mean, I know, not recently. Maybe when
I was a kid. I have to ask my parents.
My shit, you know what? Okay, hold one, bear with

(22:25):
me for thirty seconds. You know what I used the
barf bag for? Okay? You know what a barf bag
looks like. It looks like a lunch sack, but it's
white and it's lined with like plastic or something in
it to hold a barf in there. Oh, when my
kids were young, we would travel and we would fly.
We generally we'd go to California every summer, and you
got to entertain. You have to entertain kids when they're young,

(22:47):
from from a day old, from two months old up
to you know, eight, nine, ten years old. Hell, I'm
almost I'm in my fifties. You got to entertain me.
I would take crayons and I would take a barf
bag on the plane and I would make barfbag puppets.
And if you think about it, if you put your hand,
it was a clean bar back. It held me out
of here. You put your hand in a lunch sack

(23:09):
and you can make a puppet out of it. You
put your fingers in that little top fold over thing,
and you know whatever. So I would take the bar
back and then my by each of my kids and
my three boys, I would make them. We would draw
and make the little mouth. It was a very rudimentary
Jim Henson muppet type of thing, and we would draw
lips and eyes, and then I would put it on
my hand and I would make voices. You know in

(23:30):
the planet. How are you justin? How many we have
ninety more minutes? Please don't cry until we land in California.
That's what That's the only thing I've ever done with
barth bags. Call me a great dad, come me a
weird dad, But alas, this is what you have to
do for kids. Let's get to headphones. Who knows what
the letters A in C on headphones stand for. Well,

(23:53):
back in the day is recently as dead, but I
first heard the term four five, six years ago it
was active noise canceling. There are noise canceling earphones, but
they were active noise canceling, which means it would listen
to what's going on. Actually, you actually put this way,
you could turn on active noise canceling to drown out

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kids crying and airplanes for example, dog's barking. There are
a little different than noise canceling headphones because they've got
microphones outside and it would turn up the noise canceling
the white noise. Well, the ANZ now also stands could
also stands for adaptive noise canceling, and there is a
difference between active and adaptive noise canceling. The adaptives ones

(24:37):
that I've been playing with several they come with an
app depending on what brand maker manufacture of these earphones
or headphones. And again I spotlighted a few of these
on my recent Great Day at Houston TV appearance. You
can see that at high Tech textsin dot com spelled
the whole thing out one of the top things listings
about a seven and a half minute video, and I

(24:57):
showed earbuds. I think they're from one plus. I like
one plus O n E p l us is their
new buds Throw three their third version really cool, the
little tiny charging case. They have adaptive noise canceling. So
I downloaded the for the one plus adaptive noise canceling

(25:18):
earbuds and they run about one hundred and seventy bucks.
I think they may be on sale for the next
month or so. And you could set things to adapt
to this noise around you, so on when you're wearing
these around on a plane, maybe you're wearing these when
you're running or walking on the street. You could put
the noise canceling on so you don't hear cars honking,
which I actually really don't recommend. You really do need

(25:40):
to hear what's around you, be it an emergency siren
or dog's barking, so you can run and get away
from them. But they're adaptive noise canceling, and so they've
got microphones, little tiny sensor microphones on the outside of
this things. It's listening to the environment around you. And
you could set the level of how adaptive you want
these nose cancelings to turn on and off. You could

(26:02):
turn the entire thing off and so you could just
hear the music or whatever. But you can hear a
lot of outside noise, or you can adapt to have listen.
Somebody could be clapping and yelling almost straight in your
ear and you're not gonna hear a lot of that
outside noise. So you may when you're purchasing or looking
for headphones or earbuds, look for the a n C
at least active noise canceling, if not adaptive noise canceling.

(26:26):
I also showed off some bigger earphones, and these are
the ones that the traditional headphones. Let's go on this way.
That's got the band that goes over your ears left
to right that we use here in the radio station.
We call them cans. Back in the day. They cover
your entire ears. Generally, they have foam around around them.
They used to be very heavy and have a core

(26:46):
that you can plug it. At least the ones I
have actually now are here in studio. But these are
Bluetooth also and they have active and adaptive noise canceling.
You don't need to spend one thousand dollars. You don't
need to spend four hundred dollars to get the beats
By or the things they make them. I would get
a good I think a good solid starting line for
a good I mean a really good pair. It's one

(27:07):
hundred and fifty dollars or more. You could get them.
You can go to Amazon and get some no names.
You can get these things probably for thirty or forty dollars.
I would invest in one that are at least one hundred,
one hundred and twenty hundred and fifty dollars. They generally
they come with a nice case, They come with a
cord to charge at USBC cord, and they can come
with an app to download. There's no specific maker model

(27:29):
I like. Again for the ear buds, I've been playing
with the one plus buds Pro three, but I also
have been playing with the Samsung. Samsung just release their
third version, third version of their earbuds, their Buds Pro
and little small, cute little charging case. The problem I
have with these earbuds sometimes when I wear them, they

(27:49):
fall out. One falls out. How many times have you
crawled on your hands and knees on an airplane to
try to find this thing. Some of the newer models
have actually a little it's called find my Earphone Find
my Device. I know it works on Android quite well
with Google, and I know my Samsung buds have those.
It will locate either your left or right ear. But
if you find these things, you turn it on again.

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Technology getting really cool, getting Uh, it's it's fun to
help you kind of keep keep things going together. Other
travel accessories I'm looking, Uh, you gotta have the little
head pillow. I mean, I guess that unless you get
upgraded all the way to up hilarious on United Airlines
or first class or something where I got. I think

(28:30):
they give you a companion to snuggle with or something.
I don't know. They give you a pillow of there's
a there's a big TV in there, there's chargers, there's
there's wood paneling. From what I understand, I don't know,
but yes, you probably should bring a little ped pillow
headrest over here. I'm going to test out. I gotta
I got a new set of luggage from a company

(28:51):
called Monos. Is it Monos or monas m O N
O s really really nice. It looks very sturdy. I'm
just starting to pack from these things. Uh, they've got wheels,
they've got expandable cases for the carry ons, the check ins.
Take a look at monos dot com and follow me
on Instagram unless you're block and I'm gonna do I'm

(29:13):
gonna be doing a lot of travel videos, travel tips
of what to carry with not to carry, including luggage
and whatever. Again, I do consumer lifestyle. I'm just I'm
not gonna tell you how to do the technology stuff.
We're gonna take one more break this hour. When we
come back, I'm actually gonna give you some iPhone news.
I'm gonna give you the date where they're gonna announce
the next iPhone, what the iPhone's gonna be called, and

(29:36):
maybe some other rumors. Oh, signed out, it's gonna hurt.
I don't talk a lot about iPhones, But anything else
you have for me, I'm here forty seven one three
two one two five nine five ozho high Deck Deck
can show final few minutes of this first hour of
the High Deck Texting show you. It's funny. I've got

(29:58):
like two emails in a text to SELC. Yes, Michael,
you sound so upbeat. You sound a little bit even
more hyper than you normally do. Did you not take
your ADHD pill today? No, no, listen, I'm not giving
them a government Okay, no hippo here, No, no, that
football's football is back, baby, football was own. I don't
you know. I'm not gonna say. I don't care if
either my you know, my team's and the long orange

(30:19):
of Cowboys that you know they lose every single game.
I don't know what that happened. It's just it's it's
just awesome. The worst months of the year from your summer.
I just I just there's just there's nothing. I'm not
the biggest baseball fan. You know, NBA is okay, I
mean that ends in early to mid June. You know,
I didn't get into the Olympics too much. And even

(30:40):
then it's every four years, but it is all D
D D football. Uh well, no, I mean, let's if
you want to talk about football, a lot of technology
and football. Did did you finally be okay? Well, we'll
go on this. The NFL was testing a little r

(31:01):
f I D chip, a little tiny chip that's in
ball so they actually can measure the first downs more
actiously measure the downs. It took them long enough. Now
it was only in the preseason. They announced that they
are not going to use it in the regular season.
So this is good news for the chain gang. You know,
this guy's in the end of the black and white
Did they wear the black and white shirts with the refs?

(31:21):
And you know they pulled the ten yard Janes. They're
gonna be around at least for a little while. I
don't think of the NFL is trying to replace jobs.
They just want things more accurate because it's I don't
need to be controversial where you know, did the ball
across the goal line or anything like that. So there
is technology everywhere. I mean hell, like when you watch TV,
if there's no yellow superimposed line to show where the

(31:43):
first down is, I'm lost. What do we do before that?
What did we do? They say, Yes, there's there's there's
that's my spin on. There's technology and everything, including football.
Uh yeah, I'm gonna talk about iPhones here. This is
gonna hurt. I'm not an iPhone guy. For all you
people who are, yes, I'm I'm a am I a
green dotter or a blue dog. I don't even know
how it shows up on iPhones. I'm an Android guy,

(32:05):
so whatever, and I'm ostracized by that. I really really am.
I was removed. Well, one of the reasons why I
was removed from a chat, a longtime chat of eight
buddies from Hay School, because they got really ticked off
that some of their messages allegedly weren't being delivered. They
weren't coming through it. But but they don't know. I

(32:26):
still got the messages, but they didn't think I got
the messages because I'm the only one that doesn't have
an iPhone. I mean, I'm an ostracized you know what,
You're ostracized your iphoners. We all get along. Whatever new phone,
iPhone Allegedly it's gonna be called the iPhone sixteen. It
is going to launch or be announced on September ninth,

(32:52):
usual pomps show Apple's campus live stream, and we pretty
much know what's going on new handsets hardware wise, it's
gonna be nothing much new. Nope, maybe they're it's a
little bigger, the sixteen, the sixteen plus the sixteen pro,
the sixteen Promax. It's gonna have a USBC again like

(33:16):
last time. It's what's so innovative about this. Yes, they're
gonna make They're gonna have a new chip set that
takes advantage of some more AI full intelligence, which hey
is actually artificial intelligence. No flip phone, no full phone
like almost every single other manufacturer has. Nope, they're just

(33:39):
doing their own thing. They it's gonna it's gonna get
an action button, an action button which was introduced last
year for the I Found fifteen pro or Pro Max.
It's a it's a button that's a replacement for a
mute swish, but you can control a bunch of different things.
You set it to change the ringer settings, the camera
of the flashlight and more. Okay, so there you go

(34:01):
over there. The prices they ain't gonna be cheap. They
are gonna they are gonna launch a Watch Series ten
and an Apple Watch Ultra three. It's gonna be a
little bit bigger, forty one milimeter form factor and a
forty nine millimeter design. I like big watches. I've been
wearing these sam Sung Ultra, the Galaxy Ultra for the

(34:23):
past month or so. It's big, it's I think it's
at least forty three forty nine millimeter and it does
so much I've been sleeping. I'll give you the review
next the next hour, but I've been sleeping with the
thing because it monitors my sleep. I don't snore, I
don't have sleep APN yet, but it shows the rhythm patterns.
Am I a rim sleep? I mean, there's a lot
of things going on. It's Apple's launching that too, if if,

(34:46):
if you like it air pods for their fourth generation
of AirPods. It's funny. I just talked earlier the show
about a n C active noise canceling or adaptive noise canceling.
I like it to think this means is anytime companies
launch new products, you'd like to think that the previous
version goes on sale. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

(35:08):
I'll say this for most everything, and I'm not ragging
on iPhone over here directly, but when the iPhone sixteen
comes out, do you need to run on and you'll
get an iPhone sixteen? Absolutely not, especially because this isn't
just an over over overhaul of everything. It's pretty much
almost the same hardware. There's nothing wrong with the iPhone fifteen,
there's nothing wrong with the iPhone fourteen, and they're going

(35:29):
to be cheaper, and they may have discounts, they may
put bundles together. So if you do have an older phone,
you don't need to get one every single year. I
think that you know, resting there again, I'll get you
rest in peace, my friend Steve Jobs. It's marketing. They
created the we're going to announce the new iPhone and
one more thing, which means you had to go out

(35:50):
and get a new one every single year. You don't
need to get anything every single year unless the thing
is broken. That's what cases in covers. You're for go.
Put a case and a cover on your phone. Any phone, Samsung's,
Get Oneplus's, Motorola's, LG's anything. Take care of your phone.
It's gonna last four years. I generally say get every

(36:12):
other version of a phone. If you want to keep
up with the Joneses, stick to an odd or stick
to an even number, because maybe every two years there's
gonna be an upgrade. That's where it's getting. So if
you have an iPhone fourteen and you didn't get the
iPhone fifteen, maybe you want to get the iPhone sixteen,
and then what do you do with your old one?
I know you hand it down, but you're gonna also
turn these in and you can resell them to also

(36:34):
get some money. We can talk about that. So there
is your iPhone news. Who's gonna get one of these things?
I am certainly not Nope, not whatsoever. Got about another
maybe a minute or two. On the other side, I
told you we got them travel coming up Berlin, Germany.
Here I come, duff. I'm not getting emails of where
to go, what to do, and what to eat and
what to drink in Berlin, Germany. But I'm also going

(36:54):
to continue you what to carry on the plane. But
how about this when you travel internationally? Body asked me
this two days ago. Where were they going? They were
going TikTok TikTok. Oh Oh, Sylvia, Sylvia, I love Sylvia Jones.
Shout out to Sylvia Jones. She pretty much runs the
show here at iHeartMedia here in Houston. She is wonderful.

(37:15):
She is going to Greece in September, and she asked
me a point blank should I get a new SIM
card for the time that I'm going to be traveling abroad.
I'll give you my thoughts on whether you should get
a SIM card, an international SIM card versus keeping your
own SIM card, in cell phone number and what have

(37:36):
you when you traveled. You may be surprised at my answer.
Got so much of that. More coming up next hour
and more giveaways to gabo BOMs. If you're hungry right
here on the High Tech Textan Show. You're listening over
the year on KPOR seeing fifty am and also around
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Halfway through the show, halfway to half hour, start drinking
because football season is year. Summer it's in my mind
is over. Because we have something to watch on Monday night,
Sunday night, Sunday Days, Saturday Full Sunder Days, Thursday nights.
Only life is back in order. This it's called The

(39:03):
High Tech Textan Show. Thanks for tuning in doing some
back to school. We're doing some back to work product reviews.
If you want to go to my website Nightech Texan
dot com see some of the products that I showcased
a few days ago on Great Day Houston, CBS Channel
eleven five or six. Little things earbuds and earphones. Got

(39:25):
a cool laptop. Got a interesting bedside lamp that are
good for dorm rooms. It's got a spot by hidden
super secret spotlight that comes out so you can lay
in bed and focus it on book whatever you're reading.
Uh five G home Internet. It's a heck of a
lot cheaper than getting cable internet or what have you,
and some of the things like that. But also if

(39:47):
I didn't answer your questions, we're gonna do it now.
It's what a radio shows about. Calum Reid on the
other side of that, he's answering the phone calls seven
one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, we'll
be here for the next twenty five or fifteen minutes
or so. This week I travel. We ended the last

(40:07):
hour on travel. When you travel, certainly internationally, what are
the products that you take on a plane to make
yourself comfortable? Laptop batteries, extra batteries. People, people are studying me.
The emails up with kind of snacks, fids. If you're
in first class or Polaris in United you don't need

(40:28):
to bring snacks, but power bars or candy bars. Okay, gum,
all right, good? But you know, in terms of devices,
I talked about headphones and if you want to go
podcast this which you can end up at an hour
on iHeartRadio because Callum will upload it. Talked about a
in c active noise canceling or adaptive noise canceling headphones

(40:53):
and earbuds, which is better for you? You like earbuds
or headphones? You know what I don't? I like both
of them. What plane. I kind of like the headphones
because they those are the ones that go around your
head and around your ears instead of inside your ears.
Those are buds. The headphones like I'm wearing now, the

(41:13):
big ones that we'd wear in radio. It kind of
drowns up more noise, kind of gives you more thing.
And so you know, one hundred and fifty dollars I
think is a good price point. You don't need to
spend a ton more than that. I mean, I'm not
gonna give any specific brands, but Bluetooth without a doubt,
make sure they have a and see though active noise canceling,

(41:35):
and it's kind of fun when it's it's neat. When
you flip the switch between non noise canceling and noise canceling,
there's like this white noise that's pumped at and really
it really does drown out to a lot of noise
out there too. The what else we were talking about? About?
Oh yeah, got a big question. Uh, Sylvia Jones love

(41:56):
Silves Silva runs the h I'm gonna just guess she
runs our higher media office here in Houston. She's going
to grease next month. Hope that's not a sacred self.
Sorry about that, she asked. She wanted to know. She
asked me point blank. She says, Michael, should I when
I go over there for my phone? Should I get
an international calling plan? Should I put a new SIM
card in there? And the SIM card SIM that's the

(42:20):
little tiny chip that are in most cell phones now
nowadays they can have an E and electronic virtual SIM card.
But let's just talk about the little tiny chip that
is smaller than the fingernail on your pinky. True story
that's your phone number. That's pretty much everything. The phone
is the hardware. I don't care if you have an iPhone.
I don't care if you any have an Android. But

(42:42):
it's that little tiny card that you get that cell
phone providers give you that you pop in very carefully
into the little slot on your side of your phone.
That's your phone number. And technically, if your phone is unlocked,
let's just say that you could take that little SIM
card and you could swap from phone to phone to phone,
and everything travels with you, that will be your phone number.

(43:04):
That's how I do it, because I test phones on
a daily basis. At any given time, I probably got
four or five six phones. Generally they're unlocked, which means
I could take my regular simcar which is my personal
my phone number, and I can move it from phone
to phone to phone instead of me carrying my regular
phone for calls and then the test phone or ten
that I'm carrying right now. But the point is should

(43:27):
you Should you get it when you travel internationally? My
answer is this number one. It depends up where you
are going internationally. If you're going to Mexico or Canada,
two countries that actually border the United States. There are
several cell phone providers that automatically give you Mexico and

(43:47):
Canada calling included with your plan. You don't need to
do a darn thing. They go, some don't if you
travel further than that, if you're going to Europe, if
you're going to Australia, where you're going, that's pretty fun
are they have different types of phone systems, and at
that point your coverage may not be included. So the

(44:07):
most important thing is whoever your cell phone provider is,
log online, call them, walk into a store if there
is a store. Let's come about their international calling plans?
Is is it a international calling plan already included with
what you're plan? What you're paying for now? If you're
on a prepaid plan, Odds are they're not. Sometimes it
costs a little extra, could be as cheap as ten

(44:28):
dollars extra per month for you to upgrade your phone
when you go and broad without having to swap out
your SIM card or changing your number. Now you probably
ask why would I swap out my SIM car? Well,
if you travel to a country it's pretty far away
and you're gonna be there a while, and you don't
it's too expensive for you to use your own cell

(44:49):
phone plan because of data roaming or whatever. You can
buy a temporary SIM card. Sometimes there's vending machines and
airports when you land, and what it's going to it's
going to give you quote unquote local coverage from whatever
country you're in, and it's gonna be a heck of
a lot cheaper than having roaming charges. Now you're not

(45:11):
gonna have your phone numbers, so when people try to
call you, it's not gonna work. But this is why
sometimes I recommend and wait for it sit down, that
you don't even get into simcard because Wi Fi is
so ubiquitous in many parts of the world, not all
the parts of the world, many parts of the world.
Almost wherever you go, you're gonna have a Wi Fi signal.

(45:34):
Planes have Wi Fi, airports have Wi Fi cafes, restaurants, hotels,
tour buses. Sometimes cities and neighborhoods are all let up
with Wi Fi. And if you plan to stay within
that range, you can keep your own simcard. What I
would do, turn your cell service off, go to your settings,
turn yourself on cell service off, because at that point

(45:55):
you're going to have to pay roaming charges. But if
you have Wi Fi calling that most phones have, turn
it on. Now you can use apps like What's App,
Facebook Messenger, he says, not only calling where you can
call all your friends, you can do video chat with
your friends. The world is getting smaller. The several past,

(46:17):
several times that I have traveled abroad, I have not
got a new SIM. I have not even upgraded my plan. Yes,
sometimes here and there, if I'm remote touring, I'm not
gonna have cell phone service, maybe for an hour or
two or three, believe it or not, it's I sweat.
It all depends where you're going, how long you're going,
how much do you really want to be in contact
with somebody, and what's the cost. If money is no

(46:39):
object to you, and if if that's good, it defines
you we need to be friends. Just keep your keep,
keep your cell phone number, keep your SIM, car, keep everything,
and just roam. But I'm trying to save you some money.
Find an international plan, upgrade with your with with your
wireless provider, or buy a local SIM card at your depth,

(47:00):
at your destination. It's going to give you the best rates.
It's going to give you local discounts and things too.
You can buy these at network shops, seven eleven's, local stores,
airports and everything the spots of that. We're gonna take
a break. You call me from your SIM card seven
one three, two one two five nine five. Oh my
burn builders, we come back beside. Take that to the show. Hey,

(47:23):
it's lunchtime right now. Should you be listening a lot?
Just after about twelve fifteen twelve twenty pm Central time?
How about some lunch? Callum? Read over here? You hungry buddy.
You're hungry now? Well, we don't get to eat right now. However,
when I leave the studio, I am going to stop
at Hobbo Bob's build my own giant burrito. I'll may

(47:45):
get some tacos over there. When I stopped back to
some of the southwest side of town. There's four of
them here in Houston. As you know, Callum, I think
you've tried it, some of the greatest. I love getting
their chips in the case on the guacamoli. You go
in and you have five different choices of tortis is
to choose from where you watch them, rest them right
there and heat them up. Oh so ancho chili and

(48:07):
the tomatillos Uh, tortillas are great. Who wants to eat? So?
I got a twenty five dollars gift card that Cabo
Bob's restaurant color number nine, talk to talk to column
right now seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh,
you gonna get a Cabo Bob's rest gift gift card.

(48:28):
They'll take a fish tacos too. They're out of Austin.
They've got several locations in Austin. They got one in
San Antonio. Four locations here and you're going to Every
time I take somebody to introduce them to Kaba Bob's
is like, damn man, they need more of these locations.
They tell my good friend, uh Laurie, she's the marketing
and the catering director there. She promised me there's there's
more coming there. There's more coming in Cindy Houston area.

(48:51):
But in the meantime, we already have a wedder. I
was quick twenty five dollars gift card fee. More so standby,
may do it today, may do it to coming weeks.
So it's all good. We do. Thank them for partnerships.
It's what we do, man. It's radio. It's all about giveaways.
It's it's a lost leader. You know, radios have hats
and tea shirts and coozies, but we also have fun

(49:14):
stuff for things in and around the city. So thank you.
Cobbo Bobs with that. Been talking about phones the iPhone sixteen.
It's just it's announced that they're coming out. Nothing really
sexy and new with the iPhone sixteen. They're gonna be
a little larger, but whatever. No foldable phones, no flippable phones.
Sorry about that. The last semeon when we talked about

(49:34):
traveling international, should you get a new simcar? Should you
just use Wi Fi wherever you go and use WhatsApp
or Facebook Messenger or whatever? All depends somebody I got
an email just now. Also it says, hey Garf, good
conversations about traveling internationally. Do you recommend a vp in

(49:56):
on your phone and do VPNs work on iPhone? This
is from Aaron. Aaron. Where's Aaron live? Aaron's and Woodlands? Okay,
thanks Aaron. That's a very good question. VPN virtual private
network You typically think of vp nds when it comes
to logging in remotely wherever you are around the world

(50:17):
from your desktop or your laptop, and it is something
you probably should because it does provide extra security. Like
when I log in as to my iHeartMedia account, if
I log in remotely, I've got to I'm gonna call
it jumping through hoops. It's two factor authentication. I've got to,

(50:40):
you know, put in my user name, my password. I
then get a text on my phone with a code.
I got to put the phone code in. It's five six,
seven extra seconds. But it's mandated by my company. It
may be mandated by your company that when you log
in remotely, you do new dextra five privacy. And I'm
cool with that. But these vp they actually do work

(51:01):
on phones. Aaron, you are correct, sir? Do you need it? Well,
it all depends what you want to do. If you
want to do banking, if you have some private email
or personal email, or some of the other apps that
you don't your health, whatever, it may be worth using
a VPN on your phone to give you some sort
of privacy. Now what do you do? Well, what a

(51:26):
VPN you use? It does make a difference. Now you
said it Apple, right, Now, Apple offers a VPN like
service in the form of my Cloud Private Relay. Anybody
ever heard that? Now, it's not really a full blown
virtual private network. But it's one option because there are

(51:53):
VPNs and they're free VPNs. There's a lot of I
use a free vp and at home on my desktop,
but a lot of them collect your personal data and
they sell it to advertisers, which is to me, the
exact opposite of what a VPN stands for. But that's
what you do. So you should research your VPNs. There
are several options. Some of them cost money and maybe

(52:16):
worth paying a little bit money for it. But installing
a vp and let's do it for your let's talk
about the iPhone. If you decide on a v and
there are a number of them, go to your app
store and just search for vp in virtual private network. Now,
when you decide on which VPN to install, download it,
do the install just like any other app. You could
subscribe to it, purchase it if you want, and at

(52:41):
that point, once it's installed, you're ready to start using it. Now,
each op has a different layout, different functionalities, but there
could be a list of all these servers that you
could choose from. And herein is the is the difference.
Where is a server? You know what a server is?
Server is it's the cloud, It's a hidden computer somewhere. Generally,

(53:02):
your server is where you are located. If you're listening
in Houston right now, obviously the odds odds are you
may have a Texas based server. You can change the
country if you want to. So what you need to
do on your VPN hit connect, hit connecting your phone
and it's going to find some sort of a server
to route your internet or your cell phone service through.

(53:26):
So it's not going to show you and let people
know that companies know your exact location. It could think
you're in Germany, it could think you are in Australia,
it could think you're in Iowa. When you install the
app of your VPN, it really should integrate into your
iPhone's networking options. You can go into settings and add

(53:47):
the VPN configurations or whatever. And if you really want
to make sure to see what's going on, check your
IP address. It's it's pretty funny. There's what's the website?
Here's a website. It's called what is my ip dot com?
I'm not kidding you, what is my IP address dot com?
Riot with the VPN off, and it should show you

(54:09):
your server pretty close to wherever you are. Turn your
VPN on go to the same website. What is my
IP address dot com? Turn it on now. If the
number and location on the map doesn't change, that means
your VPN is not working. But if it's working, it's
gonna appear that you're in another part of the world.
So yes, it does answer your question. Aaron, thanks for

(54:31):
the email. I appreciate that VPNs do work on phones,
something probably I would recommend nowadays to further protect your privacy.
If you are really actually if you're really really intense
and scared, worry about it. If you do nothing but
surf to get betting scores on ESPN, even then you made,

(54:53):
they may steal a lot of them steal There may
be ways that websites get a lot of your data.
But if it's worth it to you, don't do it.
But VPNs actually do work. It's a good question too.
You can actually stream, actually come out. I'm gonna take
a break right down. You can actually stream video who
your TV through a VPN. It's like a ghost man.

(55:14):
No one knows where you are. No one knows where
I am right now. I could be in the radio studio,
I could be home, I could be around the country.
It's the power of radio. It's pretty funny. Maybe I'll
tell you exactly where I am when we come back.
You could hang on right after this play. I talk
more than about phones. I tell you I swear I

(55:34):
swear man, I really do it. It's very a phone.
It's a phone smartphone centric show, with the announcement of
the iPhone sixteen. When you travel, should you put a
new SIM card in? Should you you just Wi Fi?
As we continue the high tech text and show, here's
one that kind of crossed my screen a few days
ago that I really don't care about, but alas it's marketing.

(55:55):
One oh one. There is a new Barbie flip phone
humming to stores in October. It is I searing pink
with a beaded phone strap and stick on charms and
retro Barbie stickers. Of course, why not? Actually let me
ask you a question. Why is it coming like a

(56:19):
year and a half after the Barbie movie was released.
That that's a question. It's a it's a novelty phone.
It really works. It's from a company called HMD, which
is a Human Mobile Devices They it's a company. They
actually own the branding rights to no Kia phones. If
you're lick here. It's a retro style flip phone totally

(56:40):
no Kia phone, no third party apps. It's just like
the old school T nine phone where you just if
you really want to text something, it takes you forever.
Remember those things. But it's hot pink. Who's getting one
of these things? How much is this thing going to be?
One hundred and twenty nine dollars? I'll tell you what,
man it it? Who is the market for this? Young

(57:03):
girls right to like Barbie's. Well, if you're relatively young
and parents, you don't want to give your daughter a
full functioning phone to go start surfing the web. All
this is is a phone. You can call the phone,
or the phone could call you. Tell you what, man I do?

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Know you can you could find one of those for
certainly much more to dodge twenty nine dollars and you
could paint the darn thing or you could be dazzled
if you want. But the Barbie Phone is coming in
October first. It is going to come unlocked and activate
on all of your major networks eighteen, TT Mobile and Verizon.
How about that. You can go to HMD's website if
you really want to order this thing. HMD dot com.

(57:46):
I am not going to be getting one of those.
I doubt they're gonna be. The company is going to
be sending me one of those not my target demo
I had if I had a daughter, a young if
I if I had a daughter, if I had a
young daughter, I might have to we do call this
the high Tech textan show phone number twenty more minutes
if you want to call ask questions what car am
I driving? I haven't even talked about what am I
driving this week because it's one of the things that

(58:07):
I do. I do test struck funds and tons of
manufacturer cars. I do not even don't work with dealerships,
the nice manufacturers, the actual OEMs. The manufacturers let me
use a car for a week at a time, driving
unpaid thoughts so I can rag on every car or
love on every car. This past week, I've been in
two actually I've been in a super Aru BRZ. Did

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you know super Ru makes a sports car, the super Route.
It is a little two door, two seat, well technically
is four seats. There's two little things in the back,
which is there's no way anybody's getting back there. It's
called the BRZ sports Cars about thirty five thirty eight
thousand dollars stick shift, which I don't like driving stick
shifts on a daily basis in Houston traffic. It's not fun.

(58:52):
Manuals are not fun. It's good. I think super Woo
does a really really good job when it comes to
cuvs crossover utility vehicles. If you go to Utah or Idaho, Colorado,
sometimes Superrew is almost the official vehicle of those states.
I mean, they're not over the top, they're affordable, they

(59:12):
will go off road to some extent. Uh, they're they're
pretty comfortable. The seats can fold down if you want
to bring your skis. I don't know. I didn't. I
wasn't fully committed to their sports car. The super Wo
b r Z a little plastic inside. I didn't love
the interface for their uh the infotainment screen. If I

(59:34):
was getting a sport two seater sports car, Yeah yeah,
I may obviously I get a Corvette because I'm a
Corvette guy. But I probably will look for something else
decent price though, And I do like Superwu as a brand.
If I was by it, if if I did some
off roading, if I, you know, traveled on a regular basis,
and I had a ranch or was going off the grid,

(59:55):
but also city driving perfect. I'd get a superrew Brz.
I don't know. Also had a toytoa land Cruiser. Now
we're talking. This is a big boy. Toida land cruisers
are big. I gotta say it was a little plastic
eat inside, also the dashboard and other things. But this

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land Cruiser, man, it cruises over all types of land
four wheel drive, high, four wheel drive, low, It rides nice,
it rides high, there's ever a flood. This is the
type of veocre you want. I think it's about fifty
nine thousand dollars. I think as is what this is
the upgradeed Win Toyotas last a long time. Toyotas last

(01:00:38):
a long time. Toyda land Cruise. I'm gonna give you
a more full kind of interview it once I get
my notes and thoughts together. But I was in a
Toida land Cruiser and a Super u Brz. If you
do want to hear some of my thoughts over the
past fifteen years of reviewing vehicles, cars, trucks, whatever, you
can go to a podcast look on I think they're
wrong it just look for high tech texts and wherever
you can find your podcast spot off five. iHeart Apple,

(01:01:03):
but it's it's high tech text and I generally put
all of my thoughts reviews of vehicles on there. And
if you want me to hast drive and ride and
give you my thoughts on a vehicle, let me know
and I can try to do that. Got a super
Rubierasi this coming week, I'm I am going to be
in a Cadillac Lyric. It's an EV. It's you know,

(01:01:24):
my thoughts about EV's. I like to drive around an EV.
I wouldn't want to know an EV it's unless it's
my second vehicle. It's electric. But the Cadiachic Lyric is
supposed to be really strong, beautiful, very high end Cadillac.
So tune in next week and I will give you
information about that. Hey, to drive, you need you need
a driver's license, right. I love what I saw coming

(01:01:46):
out of California. I said, I good favorite state after Texas.
I love it. Baby. They are they're not shy about
adapting technology, adapting to technology. Android users. We're participating in
a pilot program in the state of California where they
can put their driver's license, their California driver's license in

(01:02:09):
their Google Wallet. It's a mobile driver's license program. It's
open to about a one point five million Californians right now,
and it is so simple. At least according to Governor
Gavin Newsom, I don't know why every state's gould to
allow this one day. So Texas, get your stuff together,

(01:02:30):
and Governor Abbitt, you're listening to me, I'm more than
happy to spearhad this. I'm weren't happy to be your
technology guru, your gangst of technology, whatever you want to
call me. I'll move to Austin for you. Love Austin too.
Texas needs to really get into the twenty first century.
There's no reason we shouldn't be testing this thing too well.

(01:02:50):
While it's not working yet in California, it will soon.
I love the fact that they start with Android. If
we ever use their their their we'll pay their Google
wallets or whatever. I have my credit card and some
of my Affinity cards stored in my Google wallet. I
have androids of Google Wallet. I store my my my

(01:03:14):
airport check in TSA tickets Mobile tickets. You probably do
that too. I don't use my Google Wallet a lot
to pay with things because generally I have my actual
real wallet with my real credit card. But you can
use these things by tapping or touching your phone to
these high tech check out register and scanners. At some point,

(01:03:39):
if the law allows you not to physically carry your
driver's license like they're doing in California, we may never
need to carry our actual wallet. And I feel bad
for the leather companies around the world. We're not going
to be I need to buy these wallets anymore. A
real wallet. Retail locations tsa airports law enforce state government.

(01:04:01):
Why not watches now allow you to tap and pay
using NFC nearfield communications? How many of you have done that?
I see so many people doing it in California. Not
that I go to a Starbucks, but I go to caves,
little restaurants where people go through the line. They hold
their watch up. Be it an Apple Watch, be it
a Fitbit, be it a Samsung Watch. I have it.

(01:04:24):
I'm playing with the Samsung Cultural Watch right now. I
have it connected to my Google wallet. I have to
put it a little coat, a little pattern I draw.
But I'm allowed to actually just pay through my watch,
which goes to my credit card. Why not have your
driver's license on there and your insurance car people at
the twenty first freaking century. They afraid that I'm going

(01:04:46):
to photoshop use AI to actually put a fake number
on there. Okay, I appreciate that, but there's they're test
highlighting this program in California. That should and I haven't
tried it obviously, but it should allow you to not
alter it. They should have a little stamp to make
sure that, yes, this really is my driver's license. I

(01:05:07):
like that, So hopefully Texas is gonna come without that soon,
and I will let you know when in it that
ever happens. Final break. Right now, we've already given away
a few things to Cabo Bob's, to Victra dot Total
Wireless dot com, your Total Wireless five G store. So
we're gonna ended up with ten more minutes maybe of
some of your questions that you email me, and some
other neat information that I'm gonna leave you with for
until next week on the show. I take textan It's

(01:05:29):
gar Jim Bocken. Final segment of the show of the
high tech texts in show. Michael not gonna give you
the phone number because I got a few emails to answer.
Then we'll wrap it up. Calum Or. You thank you
for working the board and pushing the buttons, answering the phones.

(01:05:49):
Callum is going to clean up, dude? Is there a
lot cleaning up you need to do before you take
this show and then podcast it on iHeartRadio. Calend No, no,
I'm a one take. You know, I don't cuss. Actually
I can't cuss. The funny thing is, I can't no
cuss words to this because I'm over the ear podcast.
You can cuss all you want, but because you take

(01:06:11):
this show two hours and you just you know, sweeten
it up, maybe with a sound to bang by voice sexy. Yeah, uh,
there's no cuss words. I could insert some that'd be
pretty good. I needed. Should I just start an X rated,
well not an x rated, just a forfanity laden high
tech text show specifically for a podcast. Would you want
to co host that with me? Colum? They can still

(01:06:35):
be doing reviews. This car, this phone is so I
would never get this pieceable. You know. It just makes
me work. It makes the more real, man, it really does.
I mean all these podcasters I say they used to
I listened to podcast. It's like I forget that. I'll
listen to a podcast for such radio because I mean,

(01:06:56):
I'm in the media, the broadcast media where we are,
I have constraints because we have to follow rules from
the FCC. There's things you cannot say on TV and radio,
and every year we have to actually go through this
course of what we can and can't say. That's how
I've done it all my career. So I'm listening to
podcasts sometimes and I hear all these words, I'm like,

(01:07:19):
wait a minute, how come they get away with Oh,
it's a podcast, it's not over the air, it's not
over the ear.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Times times have changed. I do listen to music on thing.
I saw this for instagrammers. By the way, thank you
for following me on Instagram. I got about what fifty
one thousand followers. I need about five million followers, like
one of my sons. But it's high tech texts and
high t e H T e x A N. Unless
I have blocked you, you can follow me and a

(01:07:46):
lot of the a lot of reviews, a lot of
the products that I play around with, you know, kind
of behind the scenes every day in the life of Garf,
which is really not that sexy. I could put it
on there. I saw Instagram, let just open they just
added a new future. There's a music feature on Instagram.
Instagram profiles, they just got a musical update, a musical update.

(01:08:10):
If you go to your edit profile it that's where
you can put your photo up, update your photo. You
could put your website. You can put your bio Rulson.
I mean you can't put a time, but your bio
or things that you're an influencer or whatever you are.
There's a new little option there. It's called music and

(01:08:32):
you can add your favorite artist or a song on there.
So I guess it's it's good for musical artists, but
anybody can do it. So maybe you could put you know,
whatever moos you're in whatever. So I just tried it,
and any clues, any guesses, not that you're going to anything.
Who is the artist there's in? I don't know. I

(01:08:55):
can almost give you my life savings if I you
to guess which song I even uploaded? Which artist did
I put for my music in my bio on Instagram? Anyone?
You got it? Recently just performed in Sugarland, Texas Barry Manelo,
the greatest living legend musical artist in history of the world.
According to Garth, I played Daybreak. I love that song Daybreak.

(01:09:21):
And you know what, if we didn't have if we
actually had money to pay for licenses on podcast pallum,
you'd be playing a few snippets of Daybreak by Barry
Maneli right now, wouldn't you. But alas we can't because
our company is too cheap. Did I say that we
don't want to license it? Just an interesting new feature
for you instagrammers over there, So thank you for following me.

(01:09:43):
And if you do follow me and you click my
bio and you can go listen to if you listen
because it's Daybreak, if you want to believe I can't
be day Break? Did we just have to license that?
I am not sure? And if I saw you at
the Barry Man of the concert, I was nice to
meet you. It was actually good seeing you. What other

(01:10:05):
the last notes before we get out here in the
past two or three things that we want to talk about,
no other than that, Well, I still have about three
minutes hold on. I was just gonna follow up with
thank you so much for your tips of where to go,
what to do in Germany and Berlin. Germany got some
other ideas of what to carry on a plan people
don't like me, Hey, Michael, bring it twelve ounce coke

(01:10:26):
z or I know you're co zero. Bring that through TSA?
Will you trying to get you arrested people? And you
know no, I'm not even gonna not even a joke
of what other people actually were saying, because I probably
would be stopped at at TSA. So, but thank you.
When I do return from the IFA conference, which is
a massive technology conference next week, I will DHU and

(01:10:49):
all the cool things that I saw, maybe companies gave
me to bring home to test that I don't want
to keep. That I will give away on the air.
You never know, TVs. I'm waiting for a car company.
You say, Michael, you talk about cars for fifteen years.
We're gonna do a big giveaway in your car. We're
gonna get at your show. We're gonna give away a car.
Not holding my breast of that. But I have given away.

(01:11:11):
I've given away TVs, I've given away trips, I regularly
weekly give away to gift cards, to restaurants. Thank you
again to Cabo Bobs, great Burritos, Tacos, phenomenal Chips, KSO
four locations here and around Houston. Thank you also to
Total Wireless, specifically the Victor owned stores eleven stores, v

(01:11:32):
I C t R, a Victor dot Total Wireless dot
com alternative for much less expensive cell phone service. You
can get a phone there. You can bring your own
phone and use their cell phone service. Doesn't matter, if
an Android, doesn't matter, if it's an iOS iPhone. Gave
away a gift card to that, two gift cars to that.
We'll do that here in the next few coming weeks.

(01:11:53):
And so I just want to make Everybudy happy. I
little pep in my voice because it's an FL season,
because it's college foot all season, and I think everybody
should be happy. We here at KPRC nine to fifty
am Radio. We are at the officially Houston based partner
of Jackson's Longhorns, which may or may not interrupt or

(01:12:13):
one of my shows throughout the season. So I apologize
for that in advance, but that's how we do it
in radio. If you do want to see some of
my back to school gift guides that we talked about,
I had five or six things that I spotlighted earlier
this week on my TV segment on Great Day Houston
Channel eleven CBS. Thanks to Debra Duncan and Ralph Garcia
and all the folks who run that show. I'm on

(01:12:34):
there quite regularly. And I showed off a router from
Total Wireless five G home Internet. I showed off some
virtual classes that I am taking on the United Airlines
playing to Berlin, so I could put them on, plug
them into my phone, and it appears right in front
of my eyes. I'm looking at a one hundred and
thirty five inch screen. I put active noise canceling, adaptive

(01:12:55):
noise canceling headphones and earphones at Every person going to
college should have to drown out their roommate or drawing
out their teachers. Should you want that, go to my website.
You're gonna find a lot of this stuff, including how
to email me, high tech text and h I G
H T E C H T E x A N.
Now with that, I don't know what do you say
you want to call me? Want to wrap it up?
Everybody go watch your football games. Okay, go watch your longhorns.

(01:13:17):
It's which currently in progress, or it's starting here later,
whatever you want to do, make it a good, good time.
Hopefully no more hurricanes are coming. Be on the lookout
for that if so, have all your battery backups and
everything you need, and if you need to hit me,
it's Michael pat high Tech Texting dot Com. For everybody
who's been a part of this one, I do thank
you so much for tuning in. I have a great weekend.
People smile, and let's hope it gets cooler. So my

(01:13:39):
name is Garthden right now, my show is Oh Bah,