What to do when your phone overheats in the sun

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• What to do when your phone overheats in the sun
• How to sign up for the new Starlink satellite cell service next week
• Deep dive into the Hawk Eye camera system overtaking MLB, NFL, tennis and more. End of umps and refs?

Episode Transcript

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

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

Speaker 1 (00:09):
In the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
a high Tech Texans to make life easier technology and Michael.

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Garfield has something you might like.

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Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio add now you're high Tech Texan Michael Garfield.

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And here we go. Probably the week that is the
lowest of the lows because there's not much going on
except my energy, enthusiasm and personality. That's what I'm doing
for twenty three years. Hope everybody has having a very nice, hot,
dry I hope weekend. The name is Michael Michael Garfield.

(01:08):
If you want to go formal, if we're really tight,
you know my nickname g RF get answers real fast,
it is GARF. Hey, thanks, We're gonna have some fun
over two hours, and I do have some information. I
know this is kind of a slow time, but some
of the things I want to talk about. Yes, it
has a little do with sports. We're actually football will
be played at the end of this month. As ugly

(01:30):
and nasty as it will be with the Hall of
Fame game, but we are getting closer to football. Baseball
is in swing and feel free to use that pun.
And I was watching the Major League Baseball ASG All
Star Game. I don't know why, because generally on that Tuesday,
when it's played every summer, I really don't have anything

(01:50):
to do, even if I'm traveling. May I find a
beach house, or if i'm you know, visiting somebody a
buddy's house. We're just kind of hanging on a Tuesday
and there's nothing really else to watch because a little
trivia question for you too. The only two days of
the year, the only two days of the year. And again,
the WNBA may screw this set up. I'm not sure where.
There's absolutely no professional sports played in the world, at

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least the United States. The day before and the day
after the Baseball All Star Game. Football's not playing, hockey's
not playing, basketball is over. There are no baseball games,
real official Major League Baseball games. The day before because
it's a home run derby. The day after because it's
the sb Awards and it's a travel day. So really,
there you go. That's about it. So I'm generally watching

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the Baseball All Star Game, which only I'm a weak removed.
I guess it's been from tennis. And do you know
what Wimbledon, for example, and the Baseball All Star Game
have in common. Well, there is a high tech camera
system that either helped or actually substituted for officials who

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normally watch and help judge and keep the game going.
And I got into a number of discussions and people
have emailed me over the past few days since the
All Star Game about my thoughts on the use of
Sony's Hawk Eye. That's the computer vision system that Baseball
used during the All Star Game to help decide really

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ball in strike calls, or at least challenges to ball
and strike calls. And it was the first time in
an actual well let's see, I guess can we call
the All Star Game a real game. It's been used
in preseason games, It's been used in the minor leagues
this preseason and spring training, if you will, and it
really has gotten pretty positive reviews with surveys from fans. Well,

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now that I think more people had their eyes on
the All Star Game versus Spring training, we actually got
to saw it's being used at least a few times
where cal Raleigh, who was the he was a catcher,
he actually challenged the call and it was overturned what
the umpire actually saw and it was interesting, it was neat,

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but yeah, it's controversial. I'm on to backtrack here about
a week where if you watched Wimbledon, and again I
talk about this because I'm a massive sports fan, Wimbledon,
for the first time ever, they did not have human
line judges. These are the people who stand in those
really nice, hoty toutty purple sport coats and their hats,

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who stand quietly down each of the lines that you
can see the service lines and the outlines for the
singles of the doubles, where they raise their hands up
where they with their human eye see a ball whether
it's in or out. They were replaced by the Sony
Hawkeye Vision camera. Now, the Sony Hawkeye Vision camera actually

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was created for tennis. And if you've watched tennis at
least of the four majors, you know how it happens.
If one of the players thinks that the human judges
or umps called the ball incorrectly, maybe it was out,
in and out, they raise their hand and they challenge
it and within seconds. And here's the key. It has

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to be quick. Within seconds. A computer shows this on
the screen in the stadium so the fans and the
players can watch simultaneously. They show the shadow of the
tennis ball of where it hit and even if it
touches on just the easiest bit of the line, it's
technically end but it's worked pretty falsely. The players have
accepted it, the tennis you know, gurus, the executives, they've

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all accepted it. I've accepted it, and I have often thought,
how come other sports can do this well? Baseball finally
is challenging Baseball is using it in football this season
for the first time. They are going to experiment with
Sony's Hawkeye Challenge system. They're going to put and I
believe it's a little tiny micro chip will current it's

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actually an RFIDA radio frequency small little chip inside the
football and then have a set of cameras to use
where the ball is placed, Did the ball cross the
gold line, did the ball cost the first down line?
It's it's going to be I don't think that players
or coaches are going to be able to challenge it,
but they're going to be testing it. Who is a

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purist who is a traditionalist because I'm telling you right
now you don't like it. Oh, the umpire should be
the end all, be all the umpire. Well, I don't
want anybody to lose their job. Listen, I don't want
anybody to lose their job. But if you think about it,
I actually believe more jobs are created where there's one

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umpire behind the plate. And I know there's more, you
know umpires also out in the field. Let's just say
the one. If you think he or she is going
to be removed because of this it information AI system,
there needs to be a number of people programming it
and keep it up and keeping it honest and using

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the replay. I don't want to get into semantics of that,
but the point is traditionalists don't like it. I'm a
traditionalist when it comes to a number of things. I
don't use dating apps. If I'm going to meet somebody,
I better meet it organically. Somebody's a buddy of mine said, hey, Michael,
I got a little girl for you gotta go out with.
I'm a traditionalist, old school guy when it comes a

(07:23):
lot of things. But also I cover technology. I understand
how technology can make your life they can make processes
things very easier and simpler. Do they get it correctly
all the time, No, they don't. It's going to get
better as these machine learns. But I personally didn't have
a problem this past Tuesday at Major League's All Star Game.

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Whether you like it or not, we are going to
see this on a regular basis in almost all sports.
You look at Premier League football, we call it soccer.
They've used this for years. Pretty controversial, but it's called
VAAR Video assistant referee. It replaced human line callers who
see if the ball crosses the goal. If it could

(08:07):
speed up the game, I want it to happen. It
can make things better and more true and honest, for
lack of a better term. I like it. Also, I listen.
I'd love to talk about this. Do you like it?
Do you enjoy it? Do you think it it speeds
up the pace of play? Do you think it slows
down the pace of play? I'm here for you. See
this radio show Interactive. Last time I checked oke a
podcast three four six twenty nine Texan. His phone number

(08:30):
you can call me three four six two nine eight
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know thought on this, Michael, back to school's coming up.
I need some examples of something to buy a computer.

(08:53):
Leave a voicemail. We do have a right to play
it on the radio, so you can kind of be famous.
Certainly I'm not. After twenty three years of doing this
on the radio show. We have a lot coming up.
It's summer. Have you ever had the problem and you're
at the pool, you have your phone and all of
a sudden it overheats. Yeah, have you ever had a
problem where starts to melt. I'm gonna tell you the
importance of keeping your phone cool, what happens to a
when it overheats, and how you can cool it down.

(09:16):
Also back to school. God, I'm testing this new computer,
one of the most inexpensive computer laptops I have ever seen.
I'll tell you how relatively inexpensive is and where you
can getting that. Your question Michael's a name, Michael Garfield.

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Continuing hot summer mid July twenty twenty five. Still have
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right now. If you're in the mode for a car.
I've been doing this for how long I've been testing
reviewing cars? Fifteen sixteen years. I'm just hit the one

(10:15):
thousand mark, the one thousandth vehicle that I review. None
of this is paid, is just all me. I take
them for a week. Mini manufacturers. I don't work for
a dealer. Dealers don't pay me. Even the manufacturers don't
pay me. I give you the good, the bad, the nastiness,
whether if it's an EV, whether it's an SUV, maybe
a four or maybe I said Dan, maybe a CUV.

(10:36):
I'm your guy. If you want me to test something,
or if you're in the mode right now, this is
what I do. Yeah, I mean, it's a semi car show,
but I talk about so much more. I get, you know,
because I have stuff to talk about. Phone numbers three four, six,
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(11:27):
Thank you Callum for recording this and then putting it
on the podcast so you can go back years and years.
I've been doing this so long, twenty three years. Started
on TV. I still do TV, where I remember explaining
what Wi Fi was. I'm not kidding you. I remember
when it was the transformation between analog to digital TV,

(11:48):
and I spent several years. The hot topic was how
to buy a high definition TV? What's the digital TV?
Should I get a plasma? I mean this is I mean,
should I get an LED? Now there's oled, Now there's
a number of different ways. Now there's projectors. I mean
I just tell people to just get a projector. Man,
you could have a fifty h TV. You canna have

(12:09):
one hundred twenty in TV, depending on how far back
you could actually place the projector. These are the things
that I do for you, my friends. Then became the phones.
Apple comes along July end of June two thousand and seven,
comes out and the iPhone comes out, and that changed

(12:29):
everything because it stepped up the game from phone manufacturers
and then the hot topic on my show since two
thousand and seven and probably still today what type of
phone should I get? What type of phone should I have?
I think nowadays it has been eighteen years. You probably

(12:50):
have your favorite phone. We could start at the top.
Are you an iPhone person? Are you an Android person?
Those are pretty much the two segments that we have.
The iPhone's made by one manufacturer, Apple, Oh. Android phones
are made by mini manufacturers Samsung one plus a, SEUs LG, Motorola.

(13:17):
Google has its pixel. It goes on and on, which
is why the Android operating system three to one has
more users around the world. More people use the Android
operating system simple it is fact. It is true, quite
simply because of scale of numbers. There's more manufacturers making
Android phones versus the one manufacturer who makes the iOS.

(13:38):
So when I use an Android phone, shut up. I
don't want guilt that I've got blue dots or green
dots or bubbles or whatever. This I don't even know
what color they are. It's a phone. I'm not the
guy who's going to try to convince you to switch
from iPhone to Android or vice versa. You do what
you do. I'm the guys a lot of phones. Even

(14:01):
though I don't test Apple phones. Apparently they don't like me.
They don't know I exist, So I don't test Apple phones.
But the point is I will test phones, and I
will let you know better features, better camera, easy to use?
Is it bloated with too much software? Does it fold?
Does it flip? Things like that? How easy it to use?

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But at the end of the day, and I still
get this, Jeez, Michael, I've used an iPhone forever. I'd
kind of like the switch to an Android because I
hear the cameras are better. But I'm just afraid I
won't know how to use it. And then what I
do if they talk about this in person, I open
my Android whatever Android am using, and I show them
my home screen, and you know what it looks like.

(14:43):
This may shock you listeners. It kind of looks like
an Apple iPhone. It's got app icons on a home screen.
It's got a little app that in the shape of
a phone, which means yes, it can make calls. Yes.
It's got the same ten digits and a pound side

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and an asterisk just like other phones. It's got a
camera button that are you kidding me? It opens up
a camera. It's got a gallery button that wow, you
push this button in it shows all the photos that
are in your phone. It's got a little message button
where I can receive and send text on an actual

(15:25):
English keyboard that has the same twenty six letters that
all phones do. It's not that hard to switch operating systems.
The phone works the same way. There's a button on
the side. You turn it on. You download almost the
exact same apps. You want to listen to me, you
download the iHeartRadio app. You've got all your Apple Music apps,

(15:48):
You've got your Spotify apps. If you want that. It
downloads TV, it surfs the web. It's not that hard
to flip. I'm again, I'm telling you that we all
get along. These phones roughly do the same things. The
operating systems as we know it, Yes, they're different. If

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you work in an Apple ecosystem in your home, in
your office, in your family, you have a Mac computer,
you have the laptop, You've got the Apple Watch, you
have a car that uses Apple Car Play. Fine, keep
using the iPhone. And I guess your question is do
I need the latest iPhone? Do I want the iPhone
fifteen sixteen? Do I still if somebody told me the

(16:32):
other day she's got an Apple iPhone nine and I said,
I'd tell you what if it works, why spend more money.
I'm just I'm really, I'm the I'm the real guy.
R E A.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
L Z.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I keep it reels, but I do test a lot
of phone. Matter of fact, what am I testing right now?
A suits as us. They just sent me a phone,
even though they do laptops and depth and desktops. It's
a game phone. It's about It's one of the thinner
phones I've ever used, same form factor. It's about six

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point a six point nine inches diagonally great sound, but
it's got a very very fast snap Dragon computer chip inside,
unbelievable graphics. But guess what, it still makes phone calls,
it's still text it still allows me to do everything
I'm testing that. I may give you a little play
by play today, but give me another week and I'll
actually review that. Tell you what I wanted to the

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reason I got on phones. And again, if you're just,
if you're new to me, you don't know what I do.
That was more of an explainer. I'm not pushing. I
do not have an agenda. I don't talk about politics.
I do love sports. I am a true Texan from Dallas,
went to school in Austin, happened to live in the
Houston area right now. I'm just a fun, friendly guy that,

(17:51):
believe it or not, don't have doesn't have a lot
of gray hair yet. And I'm just excited about all
this stuff. I get excited when Xavier, my ups delivery guy,
or my FedEx guy comes up with another I got
three of them this week. Oh good, What do I
get to test in this week? Yes, I got a
new laptop. Yes I got a new phone. Yes I
got another car to drive I'm gonna tell you my
real feelings. I'm not swayed by Hey, Garth, you know, uh,

(18:15):
let's endorse this. Listen, I do. We do endorsements without
adult You'll know when I do endorsement because we do
endorsements here, because it keeps our radio program fr ee.
That's my favorite four latter word. By the way, free.
We're gonna take a break. We would like you to
listen to some of the commercials that keeps our radio
stations fr ee. When we come back in a few minutes,

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I am going to tell you a little bit more
about phones and how they can get so hot, why
they get so hot in the summer, especially if you
keep them in your pocket, in your car ro out in
the sun, what to do to keep them cool, and
what to do if they get too hot, and how
to make sure they continue to work. Just a few
things along with your phone calls three four six, two nine,
text in two nine t e x an, give me
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No matter how you are listening, where you are listening,
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We do appreciate you tuning in. Michael Garfield is the name.
It is called the High Tech Text and Show. It's
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world I want to talk about. Stand by, I'm going
to talk about phones, keeping them cool. They get hot

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during the summer. A little trivia question. Anybody know the
anniversary of what is happening this coming Sunday, this Sunday?
If I say July twentieth, what does it mean to you? Anyone? Anyone? Yes,
actually it's my ex brother in law's birthday. But other
than that, anyone, I'll give you the year July twentieth,

(20:09):
nineteen sixty nine. Were you born? I would say half
my audience was born. I know the demographics. I got
a lot of people who loved this. I got a
lot of young geest too. Very important date in the
history of mankind. In fact, one giant leap for mankind

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happened this coming Sunday back in nineteen sixty nine. It
was the Apollo eleven mission with the landing for the
very first time on the moon. Neil Armstrong, May he
rest in peace. And buzz All bus Aldron, who I
have met several thives, who is probably the craziest cat

(20:50):
I've ever met, and he has every freaking right to
be crazy. I say crazy in a fun way. Cocky
is the better word. The dude was like the second
person ever to walk in the freaking moon. Do could
do any dang thing he wants this week? And where
were you? If you were born? Where were you? I
was a very very little kid. I do not remember it.

(21:12):
I'm sure my parents are listening to this episode right now.
My dad, absolutely electrical engineer and NASA geek, was in
the Air Force. I'm sure, without a doubt he definitely
remembers where he was. But speaking of space, A little
quick bump over here, I thought, I thought this was interesting.
In the news, someone just paid a record amount of

(21:35):
money for a piece of Mars. Hear me out over here,
there was there's a fifty four pound meteorite that was
found in the Sahara Desert about two years ago. Somebody,
I guess, put it on an auction site, Sotheby's auction,
and someone bought this thing for five point three million dollars.

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What I mean, I know Marchian meteorites of any size,
they're very rare. I mean to get here, I guess
an asteroid first, I ask to hit Mars and eject
material from its surface. Oh, by the way, they didn't
ask to travel about one hundred and forty million miles
through space to reach Earth. I did not even know

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this thing existed. Here's two things. Number one, how do
we know this actually came from Mars? I mean it
was it kind of reddish or something. I mean there's
also red rocks. I mean, I don't know. That's one.
Can we prove it from Mars? And number two, who

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would buy this thing? A period B five million dollars?
What do you do with it? Apriweight? I mean, I guess.
I guess they prove as I'm reading over here, they
confirmed its Martian chemical composition. Uh yay, Why didn't I

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mean this? Who would How much money do you have
to have people? Do you give it to a museum
or is it just in your four year and it's
like a conversation piece. Come over, have some people over
for a few drinks. Something new, you know, you know,
I've got my you know, eighties memorabilia, and I decorate

(23:37):
things with all my purple stuff like that. Hey, Michael Man,
what is this this? You know it kind of looks
like a neat rock. Oh it's from Mars. Oh really,
matter of fact, here's what I'm gonna do. I am
gonna go outside and look for a relatively large sized
rock and I'm just gonna put it in my house
and when people ask me what it is, I'm just
gonna say it's from the Moon. I mean, I've done

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things with NASA before I floated in zero gravity on
the vomit comment got a lot of I've had NASA scientists,
rocket engineers, they've been on my show. I mean, it's
not a far fret stretch that I'm tied with NASA.
I'm just gonna say it's for them from the moon.
Save myself a few million dollars. Anyway, eBay phone number

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here three four six twenty nine. Texan, let's get back
to this show. This is what I've been I've been
teasing this for a while, and I apologize. It's very hot,
one hundred degrees and it's people. If you're just new
to Texas, this ain't even summer, yet it's gonna get hot, Scorcher.
What do you do to protect your phone? Please try
to avoid your phone from overheating. How many of you

(24:41):
have had a little pop up on your phone that
says overheated phone, Your phone's overheating. The possible battery damage.
iPhones and other Android phones, they're built to operate from
about thirty two degrees fair night, maybe in ninety to
ninety degrees fairyhey, all right, So from freezing to halfway

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to boiling less than halfway to boiling now, very hot
conditions for your phone can permanently shorten your battery life,
so you don't want to do that. They also can
slow down your processing capabilities of your phone, also causing
it to heat up even more. Do not ever leave
your device in your car because temperatures and park cars

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and kids and pets don't even go there. It exceeds
that range. But what causes your phone to warm up
if you leave your device in a car in a
hot day And this has happened to me because I'm
hanging out in the sun sometimes on the beach. My
phone's out there. Never leave it in direct sunlight. I
at least put it under a towel. Other thing that
I do is I usually bring a cooler, a little

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little water, little soda, a little cocktail. I don't put
it in the cooler, but I keep it. I have
a pocket in the cooler. Still not great, and I
still covered up. One thing you can do. You don't
want it to get wet and ice melts if it's
in a cooler. Get a zip block back. Get put

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it on top of the ice, maybe on some cans
of cokes, sodas, beers, or whatever it is that you
know it's not gonna get soaked or wet. Maybe you've
got some tupperware because you've got some fresh watermelon, some
fresh fruits and blueberries or something like that. You can
keep it near the top of your cooler. That will help.
But put it in a zip like bag. Farging your device. Oh,

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by the way, it heats up too wirelessly or with
a cord, so certain features or functions may at least
temporarily freeze up. And I hate to use that term
freeze because it's trying to protect the device. But once
your phone gets too hot, it's going to display warnings
that the device needs to cool down before you can
use it again. What should you do if your phone

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gets too hot? Real quickly, got a few more minutes
over here. If your device gets too hot, turn the
freaking thing off. Move it to a cooler environment which
is away from the direct sunlight, and allow it to
cool down. Let it breathe. Give your gadget room to breathe.
Put it in a shaded spot. Like I said, I
told you about that cooler trick. I've actually tried it

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in my refrigerator for five minutes, six minutes. Do not
put it in the freezer. Don't put in the freezer.
I probably wouldn't even recommend the refrigerator too, because rapid
cooling could lead to condensation on the phone, which you
don't want that to happen too. Don't put it underwater.
But again, turn it off. And if your phone is

(27:41):
shut down from the heat, what do you do? Do
not panic rumincome Most of the modern devices nowadays they
have safeguards. They have automatic shutdowns as part of the plan.
So you take your smartphone out of your pocket and
you put it somewhere out of the sun as soon
as possible. I know this has probably happened to you.

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I know it has happened to me, even as smart
and as prepared as I've tried to be. But direct sunlight,
that's a no noe. Keeping my car, that's a no
no to you. Anybody else got some tips? This is
what I'm here for. I'm not mister know at all.
I come close. Three four six two nine Texan three

(28:23):
four six twenty nine e x an Michael gardflf's the
High Tech Textan Show. When we come back, I will
tell you about the laptop that I would just send
that I'm testing right now. Pretty nice, certainly works for school.

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Man.

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I can't believe how inexpensive it is. I'll tell you
how little it costs relatively and where you can get it.
It's a little free back to school inside info from
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you're just tuning in, I was talking about what happens
if your phone gets too hot in the summer. Obviously,
Number one, never leave it in direct sunlight, if you're
next to a pool, if you're by a beach, Never
leave it in your car, just as you should never
leave a kid or pets in your car. So be protective.

(30:11):
Here's I saw. There's another law coming down that at
least one state has starting cracking down on distracted driving.
You know, many states don't let you text and drive.
Many states don't let you hold your phone physically up
to the ear and drive. You have to have it
on bluetooth or a speaker phone. And it's particularly California

(30:33):
does that. Well, guess what California has done. Now, boy,
I tell you what California man. Get you guys A
Craig Ray. New California law. Not making this up. Man,
It cracks down and distracted driving by You can no
longer hold your phone or touch your phone while driving

(30:55):
for any reason. It is now illegal. Yep. California Peels
Court ruled just a week or two ago drivers around
the state of California, you have to keep your phones
out of your hands and your eyes on the roads. Okay, cool,
we kind of done that. There is a no touch ruling. Literally,

(31:17):
I'm not making this up. No touchy, no touch you
the fog. There's a no touch ruling. It states that
holding a phone for any reason, including navigation, including looking
at your map, is a violation of the States hands
free law. Nope, nope, course of course, the state says, Oh,

(31:37):
it's not about punishing drivers, it's about protecting lives. I
mean it's nice word speak. Yes, distracted driving, it's a
deadly problem in California and across the nation. Thirty three
hundred people were killed in distracted driving crashes in twenty
twenty two, according to the National Highway Trade Safety Administration,
Traffic Safety Administration. I'll give you that. But what is

(32:01):
now illegal at least in California? And I say this
because yes, my show is heard on Ihearten California. Well,
what starts in California? What starts in New York? I
remember the seat belt the first you have to wear
a seatbelt, that rule, that law started in New York.
And guess what, it's everywhere right now, it's probably gonna
come to Texas. It's illegal to hold your phone for

(32:23):
any reason while driving, music notifications, maps, You cannot manipulate,
you cannot touch, and you cannot swipe your phone even
if it's mounted. So I like, I have a mount.
I mean you can buy these mounts. They're ten fifteen dollars.
You can mount your phone, clip it to your air
conditioning event. You cannot swipe your phone looking at your

(32:47):
phone screen while holding it, even if you're not actively
using it. It's illegal. So you're asking me what's allowed, well,
using a phone mounted on your dashboard, or when it's
allowed operating your phone even with a single tap or
a swipe while it's mounted. Allegedly that's loud, which kind

(33:10):
of contradicts itself from what I just said. But I'm
just reading here and then using voice commands or hands
free features. That's what they want you to do. Now
you can say, hey, Siri, read my text. If you
could do it with your voice, it's fine. But I'm
gonna say this as of now. At some point they're

(33:30):
gonna out roll out loll voice stuff. Just thought that
that was interesting. It's coming down the pike. I just
kind of want to let you know that. Let me
get to this because I teased it, and we'll get
to the break right now. Then much more in our
number two, I got to I get things to test
all the time. This is the time where I'm doing
July a lot of back to school stuff, and then
August I do my little back to School guide back

(33:53):
to Stool Media tour. Obviously, laptops, tablets, they're on the
list too. Laptops a lot of a lot of students
in high school, almost every student, certainly in college. You
need a laptop. You graduate college, maybe you need something
at home. Maybe if you as you get older you
want to communicate, You don't needs no high falutin, very
high priced the laptop that does a million things. Maybe

(34:15):
you don't want it to be too heavy. That's what
I'm talking about. A little t's right here. This may
go on my back to school guide. Asus as us
very familiar with it. Send me a lot of I
just got a phone from Asus. Got a lot of
laptops from Asus too. They make very strong, very good laptops. Generally,
those laptops can range five hundred and six hundred two

(34:35):
thousand dollars or so. This is different. This is an
Asus chrome Book.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
The difference between a Chromebook and a typical laptop slash
Microsoft Windows laptop is there is no Microsoft operating system
on it. It is an Android operating system. Android Chromebook
Mini manufacturers make chromebooks. Dell makes a Chromebook, HP makes
it chromebook a SEUs makes a Chromebook. It goes on

(35:02):
and on and on. There is no Microsoft Windows. There
is no Microsoft Office installed on this thing. Number one.
It it makes it cheaper. These manufacturing companies, they don't
have to license this because a lot of some of
the price that you pay when you buy a full
service laptop computer that has Microsoft it's got Microsoft Windows,

(35:24):
which Microsoft gets a chunk of that. Listen, Apple takes
a nice little chunk of that for everything that they do. Okay,
they keep that internal. But let's talk about these. This
is an Asus fifteen point six inch chromebook. It's got
an Intel Seleron processor. For all you geeks out there,
and I hate doing this. It's got four gigs of

(35:44):
RAM and one hundred and twenty five one hundred and
twenty eight gigabytes of memory. Not bad. Could there be more?
Absolutely fifteen inches opened it up, played with it for
a day or two so far, haven't fully tested it yet.
Incredibly light, very nice screen, not a touch screen. Battery

(36:06):
life about eight hours, good screen resolution, solid state drive,
one hundred and twenty eight terabytes. Massive. Walmart has this.
Is not an ab Walmart has this on sale one
hundred and fifty nine dollars. Don't know how long it's
gonna last. Take my word. I just pulled up the

(36:29):
Walmart site one. I think the Asus site may have it.
Has it liked that, maybe a few dollars more? This
not bad price. Who do I recommend chromebooks for someone
who doesn't do a lot of graphic intense video games,
someone who doesn't do a lot of graphic design, and
you need all the you know the computing space. Who

(36:50):
do I like it? For students who need to surf
the web? Who uses email? Yes, you can put a
word processor on here. It doesn't have to be Microsoft
word There's other ones. There's free ones that you could
download from Google itself. They have a micro that they
have a word processing and a number of you know,

(37:13):
spreadsheet processor. Do that you can download free one hundred
and fifty nine dollars. If you're working for someone who's relative,
maybe a first laptop, maybe kids who have attended to
see to break something. Better to break something for one
hundred and fifty nine dollars than fifteen hundred and ninety
nine dollars just saying I like it after a day
and a half. Good job, A says ACU's Chromebook. There

(37:33):
you go, our one OVA, our number two when we
come back. Star Lank Saturny satellite internet service launching next week.
Doesn't matter what carrier you have on your phone. I'm
gonna tell you how you can get it. Plus your
calls an emails coming up like Google on there, I
could get some ship is Michael Garfi.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Michael Garfield, Michael Garfield's joining.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
In the high tech Texan Michael Garfield is here with
a high Tech Texans items to make life easier technology.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
And Michael Garfield has something you might want.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio Act. Now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
We are at the start of the second hour of
the high Tech Texan Show, which means we're pretty much
halfway through. Say it with me, my longtime listeners. We
are halfway to halppy hour. Actually we're over half way
through the year of twenty twenty five. It's hot as
you know what. It's happy screw it, it's happy hours
the weekend right now. It doesn't matter what you well,

(39:07):
it doesn't matter. I hope you're not driving. But if
you're not driving, you're listening to me at the pool,
chilling at your house. Hope you have a coldie. People,
just enjoy it while you're a can. Michael Garfield is
the name. Thank you very much, big first hour. If
you missed it, go to iHeartRadio about an hour or
so and then my man Callum Will they are going
to post the two hour show. You can listen over

(39:30):
and over again. Gave you zip tips on what happens
when your phone overheats, what you should do, and what
you should not do, pretty much how to keep your
phone cool. If you've ever been outside right now, especially
in Texas, man, don't leave it out in direct sunlight,
if you're at the beach, you're at the pool, don't
leave it in your car. But I'll tell you what
to do to make sure it doesn't sustain permanent damage.

(39:52):
You certainly don't want that. Had a discussion about the
sports technology. If you watch the All Star Game this
past week, does anybody care that? I mean, umpires were
still there, but they utilized Sony's Hawkeye camera for the
very first time. Were pitchers batters and catchers. They actually
could challenge balls in strikes and it actually worked. I

(40:16):
know there was at least one call that was over turned.
Is this the end of umpires? Is that a good thing?
A bad thing? I mean, tennis already uses it, Soccer
already uses it, Football and the National Football League is
going to use it. So talked about the technology of sports.
Gave you a quick update kind of a recommendation on
a new laptop one hundred and fifty nine dollars that

(40:38):
I found at Walmart. It's an Asus Chromebook fifteen inch.
I'll be doing a lot that probably will hit my
upcoming August back to school segment. I usually do three
four weeks of back to school. Here's what you need
for all you kids moving into dorm rooms? I mean,
you know, is there an all in one computer? I

(40:59):
know you don't have a lot of room in there.
What's the best tablet? You know, things like that. What's
the best car for kids? Yes? Kids? For some recent parents, Hey,
you're going to college, let's get your car. And I
know some kids who are out there with range rovers
in BMW's. I don't associate with those type of people really,
but stand by August is going to be full of

(41:20):
that things. So I am here for you. I will
give you the phone number if you don't mind. Michael
is the name three four six twenty nine Texan three
four six two nine eight three nine two six. You
could follow me online on most all of the Internet
little apps called Instagram, X threads, Facebook. If you're not

(41:41):
blocked and you know who you are, high tech textan
just follow me Hi g h t E c h
t E x a n high tech texting. You see
a lot of the things that I'm playing with, reviewing
things that I will about the review. What did Michael
get in the mail today? What car's Michael driving? What's
Michael eating today? With Michael wearing today? I don't know.

(42:02):
I should have my own channel. Actually I do have
a YouTube channel. Just look for high Tech Texan. It's
over there too. Who I talked a lot about cell
phones number one, what to do when they get hot.
But we are about a week away from the launch
of a new feature on cell phones. It is SpaceX.

(42:23):
Heard of it, Elon Musk heard of that, dude, Texas
space guy. Well, Elon has launched a just a whole
network of low orbiting satellites around the world, and it's
called Starlink. That's the name of well SpaceX is the
name is company. But they're Starlink Satellites and what they're doing.
It actually has Internet service and it also has a

(42:46):
direct to cell phone messaging service and in partnership with
t Mobile standby if you don't use Tea Mobile. But
they did a partnership with Team Mobile called Tea Satellite.
But it's also going to be available at and T
and Verizon customers in about a week or so. Now.
T Mobile says its goal is to eliminate mobile dead

(43:08):
zones for good by use of elon six hundred and
fifty seven Starlink satellites that will be used exclusively for
cell phone service. How many of you have been in
a mobile dead zone? How many of you live in
a house where your cell phone is spotty? People? This
could be the godsend. I have not tested it yet.

(43:29):
T Satellite has been in beta testing probably for the
past six seven months. One point eight million users have
signed up for it so far, and to me, this
is a big step forward in mobile technology. It works
with most phones made during let's just say the last
four years or so, and it doesn't require any dedicated hardware.

(43:50):
And it's going to be available to T Mobile, to
AT and T and to Verizon customers for about ten
bucks a month or if you're on T Mobiles guess
high Level Experience Beyond plan. It's gonna be free for
anyone on that T Mobile Experience Beyond or their Go
five G next plans. That's what it's called. Now, there's

(44:16):
a few ways to use it. Number one, T Mobile
and I say this. Sadly, T Mobile has already had
a reason to test it out, which is number one,
it's emergency service, because it enabled Tea satellite earlier this
week in communities that were affected by the flooding in
Central Texas. T Mobile customers in those areas they were
able to use text to nine to one one and

(44:38):
basic test messaging, and they received emergency alerts on their
combatible devices. TA satellite going in the future, they are
going to be free for emergency uses across the country.
But pretty much what it is this is not a
commercial for T Mobile. I wish it was. I wish
they pay me, But this is something that all cell
phone users are going to be using. T Satellite. Its

(44:59):
partners between T Mobile and Elon Musk Starlink direct to
sell SMS message service, messaging successibility in areas really where
there is no cell service. Starlink itself already has about
seven thousand low Earth orbit satellites in the sky, six
hundred and fifty seven of those seven thousand devoted entirely

(45:20):
to this Tea Satellite service. I think the goals expanded
into about a five hundred thousand square mile range across
the US that traditional cell phone towers can't reach. That
kind of blows my mind. There's half a million square
miles of US that just it's not reached by cell
phone towers. I don't know where is it Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas.

(45:41):
I don't know. Satellite connectivity in cell phones really isn't new.
iPhones have had it probably for the past three years,
but it's typically been reserved for SOS messaging to connect
you with their emergency dispatcher. But next week te satellite users,
there're gonna be a to send SMS text on iPhones

(46:02):
and androids. I like it. That means you're gonna be
able to send images and audio clips along with standard
text messages. I think later this year the service is
going to expand to data support it with third party
apps like WhatsApp, acuweather x I. This is you know

(46:26):
what we can be. We can debate sports technology traditionalists. Oh,
I don't want I don't want cameras replacing umpires in
line judges. I think it's fine to some extent because
technology it is helping and is it assisting. In this case,
technology is absolutely assisting. I don't want Dell zones, the
dead zones for for for mobile phones. The future of

(46:48):
what we're going to be doing is low orbiting satellites.
Elon Musk has that has it up there. You should
be good to go real quickly. Phones that are supported
Apple thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, iPhones, Google, Google Pixel
nine and above, Motorola, the Razor twenty twenty four and
above Samsung. You got all the way going back to
the what do we got? He over here, the Galaxy

(47:10):
Z fold three, the Galaxy S twenty three's, the S
twenty four is, the S twenty five's, even some Galaxy
S twenty ones and S twenty two's. I see too.
So if you want to try it real quickly, you
could sign up for you at least you could try
to sign up for the beta. Just Google. Just do this,

(47:31):
just Google t Mobile starlink. See if it works. I'm
gonna see if I can try it next week, next
two weeks. If you've tried it, I want to hear
from you next week. We're gonna continue to show after
this any of your calls depending if you can go
me on satellite, I am here for you. I'll tell
you what's Michael driving this week? And some other meat
pieces including I'm for a giveaway. Don't go anywhere. They

(48:16):
call this the high tech Textan show. I do not
talk with the southern drawl, but I figured i'd turn
it on right now for all you people around the country,
not in Texas. Listen to me. This is not how
many of us talk. We actually talk like this, like
real human beings. I have twenty eight teeth only because
I never had will wisdom teeth. They never came in people,

(48:39):
so that's all I got. But I like to think
I speak well. I don't speak good. I like to
speak well. Hopefully you speak well too. If you want
to get in and speak well to me, give you
the phone number here on this radio show. Three four
six twenty nine Textan three four six two nine eight
three nine two six. Michael Garfield is the name.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
I saw two movies over the past few weeks. I
actually went into a movie, Theata, and I saw F
one and Superman, two of the big blockbusters so far
this summer. I liked the air conditioning. I splurged on

(49:19):
eating popcorn with just a smidge of butter, kind of
let myself go. Didn't love either of the movies. I
knew I wasn't going to love f one just I
just because I knew the it was gonna look cool.

(49:41):
Joseph Kazinski, the director who did Top Gun Maverick, I
just pretty much knew it was going to be Top
Gun on a racing track, and it was right there.
I could have told you what the story was about.
I could have told you it was about the aging
race car driver who has a feud, who's trying to
teach the young kid on his team what to do
exactly what Maverick did in Tapka Maverick. Same thing. Hey,

(50:05):
wasn't that oppressed I heard? I read a number of
decent reviews for Superman. Not the biggest Superman fan, not
the biggest comic book fan. I enjoyed some of the Avengers.
I like the humor. I did dig the original Superman
until this day. I'm old school. Christopher Reeve is the

(50:25):
ultimate Superman from the nineteen seventies. I was gonna give
James Gunn benefit of a doubt. He's the director. I
like what he did with Guardians of the Galaxy. I
like this David Corn sweat Guy looks pretty, looks like Superman.

(50:46):
I'm a big Rachel Brosnahan fan Lewis Lane. She was
the marvelous Missus Masel. Although I'm looking at her on
screen and I'm trying to think she's Lewis Lane, and
the only thing I'm waiting for is to hear to
speak Kiddish because to me, she's still moreless Missus maisl
one of my favorite shows of all time on Amazon. Uh.
Other than that, man, it was just I didn't love it.

(51:08):
It was kind of you know, I'm not spoiling anything
over here, but it was just it was set in
just kind of a different galaxy type of thing. A
world of Metropolis obviously was the city, but you don't
find it odd seeing asteroids going off or big tall

(51:29):
monsters like Godzilla like monsters just kind of trouncing around
Metropolis like every day. You don't think twice of it.
I just didn't like kind of the setting. I mean,
it wasn't tongue in cheek enough. I mean, I like
jokes here and there. Listen, go see the thing. At
least you're gonna get air conditioning. Go see in imax.

(51:49):
Just that's my two cents. The Michael Garfield The Variety
Hour here reviewing movies speaking of it, speaking of Imax,
you pay a little extra for Imax. There is Imax
is the super wide, super tall screen that gives you
a bigger sense of being in the movie, as Nicoles

(52:11):
Kidman says, cost a few extra bucks more. There's movies
have to bech I mean, you can kind of up
scale movies if they're shot on one format to make
them look larger and bigger. To be true Imax, you
have to shoot them on Imax cameras. And there's only
a handful of true Imax cameras in the world. And

(52:34):
generally big time movies, big budget movies, movies directed by
Christopher Nolan, they utilize Imax cameras. Speaking of which, I
couldn't believe what I just read. Speaking of a Christopher Nolan,
he did Oppenheimer for example, in many other I'm not
gonna call it weird. He's an all tour great director.

(52:59):
He's he's currently filming a new movie. It is called
The Odyssey. It is going to be released next year.
It is going to be released in July of twenty
twenty six. The tagline is a journey begins. It's called
the Odyssey. Who's even in this thing? Do you even

(53:20):
know who's Matt Damon. He plays Odysseus, so it's a
Homer Greek epic thing. Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway. I'd pay
extra money to see Anne Hathaway. Zindaia. I'd paid double
the money to see Zindaia, Lupita Nyongo, Robert Pattinson, he
actually went well, he was Batman, wasn't he. Charliet Thearon,

(53:42):
Oh farant I'm digging it over here. Okay. It's gonna
be released July seventeenth of twenty twenty six, one year
from this week. It's the first movie ever shot entirely,
entirely entirely with Imax cameras, even though Nolan uses Imax
camera sometimes he uses them from some scenes sometimes not.

(54:04):
Why am I talking about this because tickets for this movie,
The Odyssey just went on sale one year before it
hits the big screens. That is classic. That is marketing
at its best. It suckered me into talking about this

(54:25):
for three minutes of my radio show. I did not
buy it. I'm probably not gonna see it because I
think I've maybe seen two of Christopher Dowan's movies. Awesome marketing.
The tickets go on sale one year beforehand. Actually, if
you think about it, not a bad deal because the
odds of the price of the movie going up in
the past year. Certainly, I'm max pretty big. It's just

(54:50):
that is beautiful. That is beautiful. Michael Garfield continuing the
high tech Textans show, Oh what do we got? Instead
of forking money over, I'm gonna fork something over to you.
I'm gonna fork a gift card. That's right, people, it's
time to do a giveaway. This is what we do
in radio. You take two hours listening to me, you

(55:11):
deserve something at least at least one person, if not
a few more, depending on how many things we give away.
This is what we do in radio. When I'm doing
this right now, it is lunchtime. It may be lunchtime,
it may be dinner, it may be snack time. For you,
We're gonna give you a twenty five dollars gift card
to Cabo Bob's one of my favorite fast casual restaurants.
They're based in Austin. There's several in Houston. Sucks for you, Dallas.

(55:34):
You're still allowed to win and you can use them
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And you go down the line and you tell them
you want something in a burrito, you want a case
a da made, you want to make it a burrito bowl,
you make it one at a salad. And this is
where at the end you say, I want to do

(55:54):
what Michael Garfield has recommended some day one. I want
the greatest tortilla chips you've ever had. I don't know
what they do their double thick, unbelievable crunch. You get
some qeso, you get some guak, and you get these
chips and you take them to go. You can eat
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(56:16):
twenty five dollars. Cabo Bob's. They have done such a
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Texas floods. They continue to donate food up and around
Central Texas, the Austin area. Arnold Rios, Lori Rios, they
just they run the Houston area. They just cannot be nice,
so they say, Michael, listen, we love your show, and
then we want to, you know, just really let people

(56:36):
try it. Stop calling. We already got a winner right now,
already got a winter. Let's see if we could do
one more between the now and the end of the show.
But Cobo Bob's they are great, uh coming up. We'll
just take a break right now. I will tell you
what I have been driving over the past week or two.
Should you be in the mood to get your kit
a car for school, maybe you're updated to a SUV
a CUV. I was an electric vehicle. I was in

(56:57):
an electric volvough. I don't get a lot of volvough.
I'll tell you which model I was in, how much
it costs, in a feature or two that I actually
thought was pretty impressed with one or two of the
equals that I've been driving. That's what I do right
here for you, all right, thirty more minutes, don't go anywhere.
The High Tech Texas Show. Welcome you back. It is

(57:39):
Michael Garfield. I hope you're having a great weekend. Open
phone lines here, and of course you can get me
online as you have for the past twenty three years.
High tech textan dot com h I G h T
E C h T E x A N Listen. I'm
all over the state. This is what I do. My
job is to be mister Texas. Right now. I am
based in the Houston area, and I tell you what,
I've been here for about thirty years, and this area

(58:02):
amazes me. It continues to grow and grow. And I
moved here. I moved to the southwest side of Houston
and specifically Fort Benn and I think Fort Benn, then
let's go back thirty years, may have been one of
either the top or the number two fastest growing community
in the country of the USA. It's still going it's
still going crazy. I mean, I'm driving up and down

(58:23):
the Grand Parkway and I go by fullsher for example,
which is kind of due out west. That city is
like mega fast growing everywhere. If I had to move again,
Full Shore maybe one of the top areas that I
wanted to move in. It is so good. I was
driving out there recently for a client event and I
see these signs that are going up and there's something

(58:44):
else that are been and I'm I'm an interviewer, I'm
an inquisitive guy, so I wanted to find out what
else is moving here to the area. And I found
out there is this huge lifestyle development in complex that
is just getting ready to be built. And so again
mister digging, and I wanted to, you know, let people
know that if you're moving or if you're looking for
new workspace, this could be it. I found out what's

(59:05):
going on. So I'm gonna spend a minute or two
with this one. It is. It's a massive companies international company,
but they are there's a US region that is based
here in the United States.

Speaker 5 (59:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
The gentleman name who runs it here, his name is
Sachya Gooduru. He's the CEO. And I know, Sachi, I
just totally botched up your name. But I appreciate you
having with me. Welcome to the High Tech Texan Show.
How are you today?

Speaker 5 (59:30):
Good?

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Good Michael Darfield, and thank you for having me here.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Let me get the right. What is the official title
in the name of your company?

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Is it's jennifria US Properties.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Jennifria US Properties, and you do it. I mean, listen,
I'm looking on your website. I mean, you've got tons
of stuff all over the world in India, but you're
really growing a big footprint here, not only in Texas,
not only in Fort benn Because you already have something
in Katie, is that right? What did you build in
Katie that long ago?

Speaker 3 (59:58):
That's great. We built a retail center. We started in
twenty seventeen. We completed after COVID It's and city of Katie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
And then now you're looking sites a little further south
in the great city of Fullshure. How familiar were you
with Fullshure? I mean, did you understand how big this
place was growing?

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Yes, I mean you know the reason why we went
there is because of the growth and how the city
has a vision too. I mean, for sure, the mayor
and the city staff has a very good vision for
the growth of the city, well structured, well planned, and
we went there for that purpose.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
So I'm driving by and I see these signs, and
I believe the entire development it's called Fullshure Central, that's
going to be the place to be. What inspire the
vision for this and how do you see it transforming
the local community?

Speaker 5 (01:00:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
The vision for Full Sure was shaped with the city's
long term goals in mind, smart growth, economic viability, and
community will being so with So you know, with Full
Share rapid growth that everyone knows about the population is increasing,
it has a strong local identity. We saw an opportunity
to create a signature lifestyle or mixed use destination. Everyone

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has a different name for it. The drives economic development, right.
We want to bring that economic development to the city
while for sure preserving the charm and the values that
make the city unique. I mean, Full Share is a
very unique city. I mean again, our intention over there
for the Fullture Central is also to create local employment,

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attract quality investment from the retail businesses, and create a
gathering space that enhances civic pride.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
I When people come there, they have a nice area
to have music. And it's a long term I said
for the city also in terms of to designate the
balance with thoughtful urban planning and keep this close knit
community together. So these are all the things that brought
us up to Full Share and the development, the way

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it is developed is because of that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
You nailed it. I mean obviously, yeah, I've watched the
city grow and grow and grow, and now with you
know the West Park Toway, I mean that's the lifeline.
I mean it's just you get just one straight shot
from the gallery and you're there. You talk about this
being a lifestyle development and to me, I can envision
dining and shopping and entertainment. Is that what people are

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going to find there that they can't get anywhere else
currently in Full sher That's great.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
They can shop, they can have food, there will be
some entertainment. Wellness which is fitness concepts.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
Will be there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
There's office space that small businesses can start growing out
of their homes into the office spaces where they can
grow from there. So it gives encompasses all these facilities
for the community.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Talking with sat Yah Gooduru talk specific about Full Shoal
Central and I'll tell you what I'm here and already
Sacha email from my Fort Ben listeners right now they're going,
oh so that's what was going on? And how long
is it going to be stand by people, I'll get
to these questions. This is very informational. Yeah, share your
vision for the economic impact of Full Soil Structural And

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I specifically say this because I think I believe I've
met the mayor before, and you know, cities just don't
develop all the you know, overnight, they have to have
a lot of thought. What is the economic impact going
to be because that's going to help the growth. Is
this going to have that growth on local businesses and
job creation?

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Yes, yes, Fulcher Central will be creating approximately six hundred
jobs is what we are estimating in the in that area,
or even more, I mean depending on how many restaurants
we bring into the area. And some of these jobs
will be direct employment and probably from the same community.
And we're also working with the city to as send

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some land for the upcoming water treatment facility. You know,
this economic impact, I mean with the water treatment plan
for the city being there held the city further growth.
So not only jobs, we're also working with the city
to improve the infrastructure.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Also, as I'm driving by, you can just tell and
and again you hear the word lifestyle development. There's no
doubt there's going to be office spaces, retail spaces either
for purchase or release. What are the features maybe opportunities
that I think we should know about Full Social Central.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
It offers a half a mile walking trail. It is
open for public. I mean people can come walk. I mean,
you know it's nice landscape, pond trail around the pond
with water fountains being there. So it gives a. We
want to be part of the nature. I mean, of
course we are developers. We are building something for the community,
but we also want to bring that kind of environment

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over there. There will be a concert area in an
approximately two acre park where there will be concerts done
on the weekends. Of course weather depending, but we will
be doing every week so people can come there, enjoy
the music, enjoy the pond, enjoy the seating areas that
on the trail, walking on the trail. Yeah, those kind

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of festivities will be there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
It sounds great. You know what I'm thinking about. Something
popped in my mind. I may think of, like maybe
leasing a little space to create a broadcast studio. What
do you think, man, it sounds like an eat and
walk on the trails. Can you make me a deal
on a little space? Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Sure it will be a great thing to do. I
mean yes, yes, by.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Pil I take textis broadcast Central. It's called full Shial Central.
I'll let you go on this one. I know it's
just in its early stages, and I see construction kind
of starting to happen over here. Any upcoming events plan,
maybe a groundbreaking ceremony, you know, people can get involved
and learn more.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Yes, Yes, we have a groundbreaking ceremony on July twenty
fifth where we are expecting one fifty plus people. If
anyone is interested at everyone is welcome there. We'll have
the mayor, the city manager and also the Commissioner of
present one for ben County will be there, and we
have many other guests coming there for this event, and

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the listeners will also be welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Alright, aight, July twenty fifth, afternoon ish. I think it's
about four o'class.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
It's not four pm. Four pm?

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Yeah, okay, is there how about a specific location address
If people just want to get involved or RSVP, can
they just come back?

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
So the location is on south of FM ten ninety three,
in the intersection of Texas Heatyes Parkway in ten ninety nine.
There's no address assigned yet. As you know, this is
just about to start. This is right opposite to the
library building, but on the southern side of FM ten
ninety three.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
It's full sure Central. I don't know if there's a website.
I'm checking, okay at first central dot com. Yes, I
like that it reads everything about it. I guess I
should have done some research over here. F U L.
S Ah e a R. That's called it's fullsher folks.
That's how I say in text. It's not full share,
it's full Shercentral dot com. The twenty fifth of July.

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Coming up here on a Friday afternoon at four o'clock.
I'm gonna have to roll by my friend, especially if
there's gonna be a nice aff little cocktails. But it's
nice to meet and greet the mayor. And I want
to learn more about this because I am a Fort
Ben resident. I think this is just going to do
nothing but enhance this entire lifestyle out here. My friend Satya,
congratulations on this. I appreciate this, and I know I
look forward to following the building in this construction. And

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tell you what, when it's already done, I'll come out there.
I'll jump out of a plane, land in a parachute
and high five everybody, just to celebrate it, because I'm
very excited about this.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
Likewise, thanks a lot, Michael, thanks a lot for having
me year.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
I appreciate it. Okay, good look, thank you for your time.
But how about that, folks to look at me. I'm
like the Convention of Visitors Bureau. If you want someplace
to live, come to Fort Benn County. I should talk
to those folks. No, but the full Shities, I mean,
it's amazing. I was out there years and years ago.
There was no West Park till White I'm rolling out there.
That was this great restaurant. I forgot what it was,
but you know, you go out there now and it
is just it's it's a great it's easy commute, so

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many things to do, and this fullcal Central is going
to be a very very much needed and added attraction
to it. Michael's the name and is Michael Garfield. All
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(01:08:50):
Tech Text and Show It is Michael Garfield. The thought
you'd like to hear that, especially if you're in Houston.
You know what, you don't need to live inside an
actual city to live in a city. I live in
the suburbs of Houston. I actually grew up in the
city of Dallas. But it's it's neat as I'm driving around,
because you know, one of my partner companies has it's
a big land developer. They have communities everywhere. So I mean,

(01:09:13):
Houston is a big city and it's neat seeing cities grew.
When I moved thirty years ago to the Houston area
and where I live, I live in sugar Land. I
live in the southwest part it was it was a
the Fort ben County that one of the fastest growing
counties in the country. But man, the city of Sugarland,
in Richmond Rosenberg there were relatively small. They're massive right
now full Shre. We just talked about directly out west

(01:09:37):
if you just take the you know, the West Park
toll way, it's going to cost you several dollars to
get out there, but there's freeways to get out there,
free ways, and free opportunities to get out there too.
I'm anxious to go see what's going on in full
Shore Central full Shure. That's a mouthful, huh, full Share Central.
So I appreciate the developers coming on and talking about

(01:09:59):
that as promised. What has Michael been driving these past
few weeks, Well, I will tell you happen to be
driving one of which an electric vehicle, not the biggest
span of electric vehicles, just because I travel up and
down highways and byways. I do go from Houston to
Dallas and Houston to Austin quite frequently. I really don't

(01:10:20):
feel like stopping and letting the phone charge and doing whatever.
So they're really nice for intown driving and whatever. But
if you happen to have a yearning for an EV,
I was in a Volvo e X forty. It is
an all electric vehicle. I haven't been in a Volvo,
either electric or actually a engine gas powered Volvo in

(01:10:45):
a long time. I liked it. Volvos are safe. It
was I'm not going to call it a station wagon.
It was very CUV a compact utility vehicle like had
four doors, had a hatch back, and actually carried a
lot of cargo. Range of about two hundred and eighty

(01:11:05):
five to three hundred miles, which is not bad. Good
air conditioning, folks, at the end of the day, this
is what we care about. We want air conditioning in
this time of the year work well. I like the
infotainment system about what a ten eleven vertical inch ten
eleven inches vertical right in between the in between the
passenger seat and the driver's seats, easy to touch, easy

(01:11:28):
to reach. I've test drive so many vehicles. I look
for the smallest little things that stick out in my mind,
and one of the smallest things. As stupid as it
may seem, but we live in our cars. We live
in a driving state. The state of Texas is a

(01:11:50):
driving state. Unlike we don't have meaning, we don't have
a lot of mass transit, we have so much room.
Whether you're listening in Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and certainly Houston.
There's just a lot of highways, in freeways, in parking, garage,
in grocery stores, parking. We just we drive. We spend
so much of our time in that we want accessories,

(01:12:13):
fun things, air conditioned seats, sun roofs, moon roofs, cameras
inside and outside. We want them everywhere when I'm driving.
How easy it is is it to use some of
the features, including the radio, including listening to nine to
fifty am in Houston, twelve hundred am in San Antonio,

(01:12:35):
eleven ninety am in Dallas. Yes, you can listen to iHeartRadio. Yes,
you actually can stream your phone using Apple car Blade,
Android Auto. You can charge your fump. Let's go back
to the radio thing. There are generally there are controls
on the steering wheel to control the volume of your
radio in your Bluetooth and also to change the channels.

(01:12:58):
Even though I do not know why you would change
the channel on your radio, because whatever you're listening to
right now, which is my channel, thank you, and I
suggest you not to change it. Sometimes these channels are confusing.
I am a symmetrical person, and I'd like to think
do the Japanese call it con say engineering. I'm not sure,
but you want it to be easy to use, not confusing,

(01:13:23):
make it simple whatever, So I like when the volume
control and the change the channel control, maybe change the
track on whatever you're listening to is either a the
same direction, the same side of the steering wheel, and
the same amount of pressure that you use your finger

(01:13:43):
to press it on. Many of equals some many of missed.
All of them which are made by Stalantis and Stalantis
that's the name of the holding company that has Chrysler, Jeep,
Ram Dodge. They all had little buttons behind the wheel

(01:14:05):
for the most part that you can use your finger,
keep your both hands on the wheel, keep them at
the nine o'clock and the three o'clock position, and you
can use your fingers too. Volume up, volume down. There's
even a center button that goes to your favorite school.
But if you use the step buttons on the steering
wheel on the front. I found something in the Volvo
that I liked. The volume and the change the channel

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or track was on the exact same round button. If
you pushed up on the button on this round part,
it depressed and kind of indented a bit. Volume goes up.
If you pressed down, the volume goes down. If you
pressed on the left side the channel which change to
the left or whatever. The next one on the favorite
was if you pushed it on the right, the next one,
the next track moves. You laugh about this, you're thinking,

(01:14:50):
jewsh my car does this is? Let me help you out.
I am in at least, if not one, two cars
a week, brand new cars. And the discrepancy between this
little fe feature, it's all over the board the Volvo.
At least this ex forty has it too. So that's
one and I liked it a lot. Any guesses over
under on the price the Volvo EX forty, this year's

(01:15:12):
model twenty twenty five over under on the price anyone.
It is about fifty two thousand dollars. Fifty two to
fifty three thousand dollars. There you go. This was the
ex forty single Motor Corps four door suv fifty two
five hundred dollars. Real quickly, I go from that to
a minivan. Big Daddy Garth was rolling around the sit

(01:15:35):
Day for one week and a Chrysler Pacifica limited minivan.
I tell you, man, I got to go through the sexy, expensive,
ragtop cool cars, but I also have to go through
the minivans, and I gotta go to the SUVs, the cuvs,
the two car sports cars. I do at all. I
will tell you this. This is an unpaid endorsement. There's

(01:15:56):
not a lot of minivan manufacturers and models on the road.
Isisler Pacifica. It is my favorite. It rides very well.
The hybrid version is phenomenal. But some of the accessories
are fun. And it's the little things I just told
you about the Volvo and the little volume up and everything.
The neatest, oddest feature that the Chrystler Pacifica has long had,

(01:16:21):
and sure enough mine hated this week. It has a
built in vacuum cleaner Up Up, Up easy doesn't Why
does it have a vacuum cleaner who generally drives and
rides in a minivan? Families, little kids, little kids who
eat cheerios who spill them on the carpet of the
second and third rows of the minivan. It's got a

(01:16:44):
built in It is on. It is between the second
and the third row on the left hand side, so
when you're opening the sliding door on the driver's side,
you can simply reach back, flip the switch. And it's
got a hose that extends, and it's got a freaking
vacuum cleaner built in. I love it, and I'll say

(01:17:04):
it again technology. Where was this back in the day
when I needed it? When my three little boys spilled
everything known to agb all mad carpet. I've could have
sucked it up with the built in vacuum cleaner. But
this is what I do. I'll tell you what's out there.

(01:17:26):
I'll tell you to potentially go test it out. I
tell you to potentially buy it. You tell me if
there was a good color, bad golf, that's what we do.
Is this a good color? Bad call?

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
To waste two.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Hours of your time?

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
With me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
I hope it was good. I hope you had fun,
because right now we are ending the show on behalf
of everybody, including Pallum and Will Brian Erickson, program director
for all of these Ihearts nations across Texas, than I
am on. Hey, keep cool people, Thank you so much
for tuning in. Next week, we'll have more stuff to
give away. We're counting down to back to school and
then finally football season in life as we know if begins.

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We do have a great weekend. He safe. My name
is Michael Garfield and right now my show is over.