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August 16, 2025 • 70 mins
Today on the High Tech Texan Show:
  • AOL dial-up service is ovah. What to do if you still want slow, cheap internet service
  • Why banning cell phones in school is not the best idea
  • Deals on NFL Sunday Ticket and freebies for college students
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Xan is Michael Garfi of Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael Garfields joining you in the high Tech Texan.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I do have to make life easier.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
System new technology. Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio.

(00:38):
Add now your high tech Texan, Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
You've got mail? I tell you what if you got mail,
buddy boy, it is going to be a slow delivery
as we welcome you to a mid August twenty twenty five,
two hour show over the high Tech Textan Michael Garfield.
And with that, how old are you to remember what
we call dial up? Well, if for some reason you

(01:26):
still have dial up, A, you have not been listening
to this Chazzeaux in the twenty three years I've been
doing it. B. You may live out in some rural
country or see. You actually may be the smartest of
all of us because you ain't paying two hundred three
hundred bones a month for a high speed internet service.
Maybe you are still on the ten to twenty dollars

(01:47):
AOL dial up service. But if you are, you heard
the big news this week, walk it down a little nostalgia, people,
because AOL finally shutting down it's dial up Internet. And
I know, I'm probably gonna lose a number of my
listeners right now because they're gonna go, Michael, what the

(02:08):
hell are you talking about? What was that scroll? What
was that screeching record? Was that nails on a chalkboard? Well,
I've actually have not heard that sound in many years myself.
When I was putting together the show and I was
downloading it and I was, you know, importing it so
we could play it. It is kind of like takes

(02:29):
me back to a time where there nails on a chalkboard.
It's we didn't know where we were back in the
mid to late nineties when that stuff. But folks, Q
the door closed sound affecting because an Internet og is
logging off. Yep, it was just last week AOL quietly

(02:49):
announced that it's pulling the plug on dial up Internet.
And you know what that was? That was the service
that made a hy two k era icon. AOL said
it made the decision after a routine evaluation of its
products and services. I want I'm wondering who has AOL?

(03:13):
And in fact, I'm gonna kick off the show in
an extraordinary way. You know we listen. We love promotions
at radio. We give away things generally. I wait till
you know halfway to Happy Hour. I'm gonna start off
the show with a contest. You ready for this? The
first five people who email me from an ALO dot

(03:36):
com Internet account and it's gotta say, at AOL dot
com you are gonna win a ten dollars gift card
to Dairy Queen. Is there anything better in the summer
than a DQ blizzard? I got a stack of these
Dairy Queen gift cards that nice folks from Dairy Quain.
They said, give them away anything you want. I said
DQ was old school. Ain't nothing more old school than AOL.

(04:00):
First five people, I want an email? It's better say
your name or whatever it is at AOL dot com,
Only one per person. I want you to mail it
to Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Get on your
AOL dot com I want is any do you think
I'm gonna get one email? Over under game? And if

(04:23):
I do get five, how long you think it'll take? Now?
Listen my show airs at different times of the weekends
over here. It's in Houston, it's in Dallas, it's at
San Antonio. People from all over the world actually could
listen to it on the iHeartRadio app. Michael Garfield. Just
like the cat at iHeartMedia dot Com. All you need
to do from your AOL dot com account put fut

(04:46):
Dairy Queen, put AOL in the subject line and just says, Hey, Garf,
I am one of the freaking dinosaurs. I am the
last holdout. I'm going down kicking and screaming on September
thirtieth of this year because I will never I have
more Internet access. It is done, so and then give
me your address and then we can mail this card
to you. First five Dairy Queen ten dollar gift cards. Hey,

(05:11):
what a way to start off the summer. It's freaking
one hundred degrees now, schools back in. Football's yet to start. Really,
dol drums, I'm going to give you a blizzard over there.
So while we sit shiva for the OG the original
dial up service man, I will tell you this the
final goodbye. It's scheduled for September thirtieth, presumably because that's

(05:33):
when the company's mom needs to make a phone call.
Get off the Phobe dial up stays have been numbered
for a while. If your first reaction when you heard that,
or you heard it from you right now, it probably
was dial ups still exist, you're probably not alone. I
mean AOL America Online. It's fallen a long way since

(05:56):
it was the country's biggest Internet provider. Wayback machine right now.
Nineteen ninety nine, AOL had more than eighteen million subscribers.
Twenty fifteen maybe about two million AOL dial up customers.
Twenty twenty one, the number was in the low thousands.

(06:22):
Dial Up does persist in part because there's some rural
areas in America that don't have access to affordable high
speed internet. Don't get me wrong, people, I don't like
paying a lot of money for a lot I don't
like paying money for a lot of things. I don't
like paying a lot of money for a lot of things.
But fortunately for them, other companies, other companies, they will

(06:43):
still offer dial up services, maybe at your local phone company,
be it at and t bit at, whatever you app
should still be out there. Maybe something for like ten
dollars a month ain't gonna be fast. But as for
AOL man, Please, let's have a moment of silence. Doesn't
seem right to have a moment of silence for AOL
Probably more appropriate to have a moment of chaotic beeps,

(07:06):
tone and static. Right, Okay, stop it, sto. I don't
want to hear that anymore. I don't need those fingernails.
Oh my goodness. What does Steve Hayse think? Steve Case founder,
the founder of AOL. Back in the day, he was
the big dug man, he was the evangelist. He if

(07:26):
you didn't know who Steve Case was, American businessman, investors
of philanthropists right now, former CEO, founder of AOL. Uh
bought I think they merged or bought Time Warner back
in the early two thousands. I mean, it was the
world's biggest communication company. He was the Bob Iger, Elon Musk,

(07:47):
Donald Trump, he was. He was it man. And then
I just he sold out And I guess he's he's
laughing and scratching his fingertails all the way to the bank.
What does he think about this? Listen, before we take
a first break over here, I'd love to hear your memories,
any funny stories you know your parents picking up the
phone and dropping your connection of that fourteen point four

(08:09):
boad rate the facts machine. Oh my goodness, people, before
we get out of here, we're gonna have some good stuff.
Taylor Swift on the other side. That's right, Taylor Swift
stand by, she is coming on the High Tech Tech
I'm sorry, that's the the wrong one. No, she's not
coming on this one. I'll tell you what though, I
need a girlfriend who can help me promote this show
and my podcast. Anybody got a sister? Three four six

(08:34):
two Michael Garfield. That's how we do it. On a
midsummer hot high tech Texan show. Having some fun yet parents,

(09:01):
I bet you are. Kids are back in school pretty
much here in the state of Texas where I am based.
That's why we call the show the High Tech Tech Sun.
We do talk a lot more about technology, even though
aol let off the show with the man. I've been
doing this show twenty three years and I didn't even
used to talk or recommend aol It was it was dying.

(09:22):
And actually Michael Garfield is the name. Long story if
you're a longtime list of mine, and let's go back
to two thousand and one, two thousand and two when
I created the High Tech Texan, which is me. It's
a persona, it's trademarked, and I started in Houston on
Channel two, which is the NBC affiliate, and I was
My goal was to talk about technology in a very

(09:46):
simple way, not using megabytes, gigabytes, something easy to understand.
It was the dot com era. You know Super Bowl commercials.
Every company was left and right starting and asking for
millions of dollars and then just going bank or whatever.
But that the time when Wi Fi just came out,
Bluetooth wasn't even on the map yet. Digital TV and

(10:06):
high definition TV were still two three years away. The
Apple iPhone, which really transformed phones, that was sixty seven
years away. So I created it and I was on
TV every morning on Channel two. It was called nothing
but Net because we couldn't think of anything else other
than Internet, Nothing but Net, and I kind of made
my name that way. And then that was even before

(10:28):
radio and then Clear Channel Radio, which was the name
before it became iHeart Radio. Seven stations in Houston. They
hired me and I got this show which is now
we're at twenty three, twenty four years old. I was
on all six of our other radio stations. There was
no email. Really, I used to get hate mail physically

(10:50):
in the mail box, snail mail. I'm not kidding you,
I get it. I'm going old school here and so.
But that was when the Time high Speed and was
taking over. That is went in Houston and now I'm
gonna go to Houston. The Time Warner had just come
to town and they launched road Runner Anyone. Roadrunner was

(11:13):
the high speed internet service from Time Warner, and they
did a lot of advertising and if so fact though,
I was on Channel two and Time Warner did a
lot of advertising on Channel two. Right after my segment
in the morning, the marketing people from Time Warner Roadrunner
locally in Houston, they called me up. They introduced themselves

(11:35):
to me. They asked me to come speak at a
conference on technology where it is. I made friends with
them and the rest is history. They made me their spokesperson.
I was on TV commercials more than Mattress Mac back
in two thousand and two. I'm not kidding you. I
was on Billboards. It was TV commercials. It was a
very successful campaign and really I'm indebted to Jane Larson

(11:58):
was his name. Jane was the marketing a lady who
kind of came up with the concept, and they really
helped build my brand and put the high tech texting
on the map. But it was Time Warner slash AOL.
It was one company. They were the world's largest communication company.
So it was tough for me to say no to
anything if the world's largest communication company wanted to meet you,
brother spokesperson and so. But even then, my job, I guess,

(12:23):
is the spokesperson for high speed internet with Roadrunner. I mean,
I remember the number seven one three, three three five fast.
It's the fastest way of the Internet. My job was
really to kind of diss dial up because it was
everybody was on dial up. You plugged in your motem,
you had a fourteen point four boad raid and you
had to handshake with the screechy stuff which we heard

(12:45):
in segment one. But it was very fast. And look
how far we have come. And it's not just in
what has come with the paradigm shift of fast high
speed Internet has come with the paradigm shift of life,
not only how we communicate, but how quickly we communicate.
How small the world has become. I mean we can

(13:07):
fast forward twenty five years too. We can have video
conferencing like we only saw in the Jetsons. We have
Zoom and then Skype before that. Whatever. We can sit
in our office and we don't need to travel around
the world to have a one on one face to
face conversation. Not in person in person, but face to
face conversation. Everything changed with that Internet. I mean you

(13:32):
can go back and we studied the Gutenberg and the
printing press. Babe, how that changed publishing and printing back
in the day. Without a doubt, the Internet, but then
the high speed Internet. That was a point that you
need to mark in the timeline of civilization. Now, is
high speed internet available to every single person in America

(13:53):
or certainly everybody in the world and at an affordable price.
Absolutely not. It's expend and little side note, I have
long been an idiot. Still when Houston swapped markets, Time
Warner and Roden are no longer in the Houston market.
It is now Comcast slash Exfinity. They stupidly did not

(14:16):
choose to continue to use me as a spokesperson, so
I have not recommended him, and I have paid three
hundred dollars per month for pretty much nothing. I don't
get payper BW channels. I get everything. Yes, I'm the
one who says pull the plug, cut the kve, but
cut the cord. So you know what I did. I

(14:37):
literally have been paying three hundred and twenty dollars. I mean,
I'm giving you my hip. Write here people. I went
into a Comcast Exfinity store three days ago, very nice people,
and I got to say nice stores, air conditioned, clean.
They try to upsell you on mobile phones and whatever.
They knew who I was. They scanned me in, knew

(14:59):
my addre to my phone number, and I said, I said, listen,
can I get a better deal? I'm paying way too
much and I'm waiting for the hullable. And the young
lady who was helping me, she pulled up and she's
switched a few things for me. She took off home
phone because I don't use a home phone. I even
know why I had a home phone on my account.
Oh anyway, she chopped off one hundred bucks. And I

(15:22):
say this as a consumer, because what I am. I
am a consumer. I'm a consumer fan friendly person for
you who gives you recommendations. I did not threaten to leave.
I could have pulled the Oh I'm gonna cut the cord,
and I may have played that game. I was in
the mood to play games. I just said, I've been paying,
and she saw how long I've been a customer. I
have been a customer from them and their predecessor for

(15:43):
twenty five years. It's a long time. She got one
hundred bucks off. I'm still paying two hundred whatever dollars
a month. It's still expensive. I'm still not getting all
the cool channels. All I get. All I cared about
is ESPN and did That's about it, because football seas
is about The start point is if you think you're
paying too much with anything, with your subscriptions, with your newsletters,

(16:08):
start unsubscribing. How many streamers do you have? This is
the time. This is the time of the year where
we reset. Kids are back in school, summer's pretty much over,
mom and dad. Mom or dad back to school, You're
back in the groove. Look at what you have and

(16:28):
your bills go in your credit card. Oh, I didn't know.
I'm paying fourteen ninety nine a month for the streaming serviced.
No one watches this thing. Go renegotiate. Do you still
take the newspaper? Listen? I don't want to tell the
Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Light, Houston Chronicle where my
shows are. I'm not ragging on them. Cut that stuff.
You could go all digital. There are a lot of

(16:50):
good writers and information in a newspaper. And again, man,
I'm using some old terms over here between AOL newspapers.
Maybe you don't want the thing thrown on your doorstep
like my parents still get every single day. You do
have to be of age. Try to save some money.
I did it this week. I'm still trying to figure
out how to save more money. Not recommending, not dissing,

(17:11):
just giving you ideas. And you know what I didn't
talk about. I apologize. Stand by Now we may get
Taylor Swift on the line, not kidding. This is not
the New Horizons podcast. This is the High Tech textan
show which, oh by the way, is turned into a podcast.
Thank you very much, Callum Reid. After the show. You
can hear this to your heart's content. You can play
the Aoil handshake, and you can hear me begging for

(17:35):
a girlfriend like Taylor Swift, who at least has some
clout when she makes an announcement and appears on her
boyfriend's podcast, it becomes the single biggest podcast listen to
and viewed in the history of podcast. Taylor, you got
an older sister, Help a guy out. I need listeners
in viewers. Michael Garcield, that's the high Tech Dexion Show.

(18:11):
I know you guys at least do listen to some
sort of a speaker content thing. Be it my rate,
be it a radio show. Thank you. Radio different than
a podcast in terms of it's getting more difficult to tell.
This is radio. It is broadcasted on a heritage radio station.
Heritage radio stations Big Shout Out Houston, KPRC nine point fifty,

(18:33):
San Antonio, The Big Stick News Radio twelve hundred WAI
and Big D Dallas Talk Radio eleven ninety broadcast. There's
a specific time you could listen in your car on
AM radio, which again old school. And then there's podcasts
which did you could listen live or download on like
on iHeartRadio and a number of other you know, podcast

(18:55):
specific type of platforms and that and that's pretty much
the different. There was a big podcast this past week,
and well it's a very big podcast. Travis Kelsey and
his brother and his brother, the Kelsey Brothers. They have
a big. It's called New Horizons. I have no clue.
Famous football players. Travis Kelcey girlfriend Taylor Swift. If you

(19:19):
haven't heard it, man, this was like broke records like that.
So Taylor Swift, believe it or not, they've been dating
what a year? Two years? Never been on Travis's podcast
until this week. And why not because Taylor is I
think I'm gonna I'm a decent marketer. Taylor and her
team What is Upgrol announced a new album and apparently
apparently it's a big deal with swifties. I mean, I

(19:41):
like Taylor's Swift songs here and there, I mean whatever,
but you know it's maybe it's the age difference. I
don't know, but she was on there. It just broke records.
You just unbelievable. It's smart. And you know who has
Taylor to thank? Travis and Jason Kelsey. They had a

(20:05):
very popular podcast It is strat do spheric now because
Taylor's on there. Talked about her new album she has
coming out in October, The Life of a show Girl.
It's it's brilliant because it expands her demographic, I mean

(20:26):
generally Taylor's demographic, certainly for younger girls who go to
her concerts in her scream and then maybe their moms,
and then there's certainly some dads too. I mean, she
definitely has a male following too, but a lot of
the feat let's just talk about girls ten, eleven, twelve,
you know, up like that, they really didn't really get
into football. But now she's dating Travis Kelsey. They're all

(20:49):
Kansas City Chiefs fans NFL if I didn't know better,
the NFL itself is behind some of this. They are
getting a huge new demographic of audience to certainly to
tune into the Kansas City Chiefs and just maybe follow football.

(21:11):
I didn't listen to this podcast. I know quite a
bit about it because it's it's you know, I do
cover the media industry, in the sports media industry, but
to me, it's brilliant. Callum, I look at you, Callum,
and will there they run the show. I'm looking to
hear through the glass. Who could I have on this
show that would give us kind of a clout, certainly

(21:36):
better cloud than just my ugly punt them to do it?
Can we reach out to anybody who? Do we know?
I'm not asking for Taylor, I mean, does it have
to be a somewhat in music. By the way, I
did get a press release from bun Bee's people. Bunbee

(21:56):
they they want me to you know, he's a rapper.
He also owns Trilberger in Houston. They I think they
wanted me to interview him and talk about a new
triblerger or something like that. I mean that would get
us a few hundred extra people, I would think. I mean,
he's got a big following. I don't know anybody know
Megan Markle uh no, Prince Harry Nah, I mean somebody

(22:20):
all right, open. I'm open to if you if you
are famous, if you know someone who's famous and can
get a hold of them, I'd love to get them
on my show. If it's big enough, I will go
to them, set up the cameras and do a podcast.
I'll have my son, who is a wonderful podcast editor.
Should you be in the podcast video editing business, I'll

(22:41):
go to them. Maybe we'll make some of my headlines
like Travis and Taylor call me three four six two.
Michael Garfield aiheartmedia dot com. Still waiting to see I
died to check my email. I'm looking for five people.
The first five people with an AOL dot com email

(23:04):
address to email me to win a dairy to win
a Dairy Queen gift card to open the show. If
you just tuned in about AOL is killing their business,
It's over by September thirtieth, no more dial up service.
And I'm wondering who, at least who listens to my show,
who has AOL? I knew one person who has, and

(23:30):
she still may so girlfriend I went out with ex
girlfriend that I is. A girl that I went out
with a few years ago, hasn't hat I don't even know.
I don't even know if she's still alive had an
AOL dot com account. I'm like, girl, you're going out
with the HTT. Can we do a little upgrade? I mean,
can we get you a little Gmail action? Which I
think she did, still had al AOL account? Who else

(23:53):
has an Aol? Send me an email Michael Garfield at
iHeartMedia dot com right now and just put like dq
sid me your address all able to tall it to break.
Let's check and see if we actually, uh have have
gotten any emails. I'm just to send you a ten
dollars Dairy Queen gift card. Who has this stuff? I

(24:14):
like to think we are in the the twenty first century.
Speaking of twenty first century, welcome back to school, you kids,
school kids in Texas. Uh, something tells me public schools,
you are not bringing your phone? Oh school, you're starting Houston, Dallas.
At least I know you students. Parents, they have mixed

(24:36):
reactions because Texas is a cell phone band. That is right.
There's a new state law that prohibits student from using
personal communication devices. Pretty smart to call it that, because
it's not just cell phones, smart watches, earbuds. Prohibits using
these devices throughout the school day in school. Districts were
required to implement a policy enforcing that rule by September

(25:00):
their discretion, whether it be an outright ban of devices
on school property or just keeping the phones in backpacks
when at school? What did your school do? Talk to me?
If you have a phone handy right now? Well, it's
a weekend and it probably has no school three four
six two nine text and three four six two nine
eight three nine two six Is this or good or

(25:22):
bad thing? And I'll tell you what. I didn't have
to deal with this when I had younger kids. My
kids now are. I just had a son who turned
thirty one, Happy birthday, justin uh So, I've got kids
in the mid twenties to their very young thirties. They
had phones, but they weren't nearly as prevalent back in

(25:45):
two thousand and five twenty ten in school and whatever.
I didn't have to make that debate, give them the
rules or anything. They got phones relatively early because I
got a million phones sitting around because companies gives me
phones to death. I got but I don't don't even
know if they took them. But it's more than about
using them to cheat, use chat, GPT. It is about safety.

(26:09):
And when I come back, I got my thoughts just
me maybe as a parent, on should kids be able
to use their phones and their communications devices in school?
Got that more back to school items, your questions and
calls three four six, two nine eight three ninety two
six Michael Garfield, Coon p High Tech tex In show

(26:44):
breaking news here on the High Tech textan show with
me Michael Garfield. Believe it or not, there are a
few people who have Aol dot com accounts. We did
get at least five emails in our contest that I
threw off the cuff. If you if you didn't hear
this past week AOL dial up is OVA dying after
twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven years. September thirtieth is

(27:08):
the last day, and I was wondering who still has
an Aol dot com account. So I said, the first
five people who email me from their Aol dot com account,
I will give them, each of them a ten dollars
gift card at Dairy Queen. The nice folks at darry
Queen love me. Get a blizzard of people like that,
believe it or not, stop emailing. Let's see if these

(27:30):
some of his addresses. I want to see how rural
these addresses are. Are they like in the middle of
Texas or Louisiana or wherever my listening audience is. I
don't know. We'll check that out. Michael Garfield's is the
name find me at high Tech textant h I g
h T E C h T e x A N
high tech textan dot com. I'm on the most all

(27:51):
other than tik dot, most all of the social media
out let's unless you're blocked, I am here for you.
Talked about school bands on school phones, phones from kids
Texas law right now big push to band cell phones
in schools that happened this year. What is your school doing?
Parents love to hear from you. Three four six two
nine eight three nine six. Do you support this or not?

(28:14):
And I am I'm not saying I'm on the fence,
but I'm not going to disagree with whatever you say
because I respect my audience. There are pros and there
are cons. But if you are a parent, and I
am a parent of three boys, and again my kids
are out of school, they're out of college, I didn't
have to really go through this because back in twenty

(28:36):
somemid years ago, phones weren't as phones are now where
we live and die and breathe in social media and
just everything. But I am kind of concerned about the
growing push to ban these cell phones in schools. Is
it a disregard by state legislatures and governors who have
discounted well, I think some parents stand on this device

(29:00):
of issue. Parents like me see cell phones as a
critical communication tool. Now, I know they want reasonable I
know they want balanced school policies. They don't want extreme
measures that ignore their reality of family life, I guess,

(29:21):
and I can understand the frustration from educators because cell
phones can be distracting. They're a nuisance in the classroom.
But I think banning them it misses the point, and
I think it ignores the bigger picture. Let me give
you some stats here. More than ninety percent of teens
have a cell phone by age fourteen, fifty percent or

(29:44):
so on one by the age of ten in today's America.
And I know this just anecdotally, friends, family, neighbors. Phones
are how kids communicate with their family. It's how they
keep up with their friends, It's how they do their schoolwork.
They navigate their world around them right on their phones.

(30:07):
It's a habit. When a poll from the National Parents'
Union latest poll that I saw, seventy eight percent of
parents whose children take phones to school they want their
kids to have access to their phones during the school day.
Why in case of emergencies in a country where mass

(30:32):
shootings are too common, where your child could be in danger,
do you want them to be able to reach you.
I know the answer to that. We go to Parkland, Florida.
We go to Uvaldi, Texas, where cell phones actually save lives.
They located kids calling first responders to the scene. Students

(30:56):
use them to find safety, They call their parents, The
guided first responders to where they were. It's facts, not
even hypothetical. But emergencies they're not the only reason. What
if your child is dealing with anxiety, a social moment
needs a quick check in. This is nothing that my

(31:22):
age we're ever able to do. Maybe we were able
to walk down to the nurses office tell them we
had a headache, and they called our parents on a
wired phone line. Kids aren't used to that. Kids are
used to hitting a button it says mom, dad and
calling them. It matters to well being for kids, but

(31:44):
also probably matters to well being for parents. Phones truly
really creating the problem. Classrooms is the solution, not the band,
but the fair of educators to manage the challenge adults.
They need to help kids prepare for modern life eaching

(32:08):
responsible tech, which is what I've tried to do for
twenty plus years. It's not optional anymore. People used to
listen to me, Oh, Michael, you're talking stuff that I
don't understand, which is a lie because I talk in
very understandable language. But we do expect kids to learn it.
Kids no more than adults now when it comes to tech,

(32:31):
What do you do as an adult? Guess what you
do as an adult, you walk into meetings with your
phone right in your hand. We, for the most part,
we scroll right during our meals. We check our texts,
We check our notifications in the middle of conversations. At
least I do. Maybe it's the ADHD in myself, but
I know a lot of people do. So Pretending our
kids live in a different reality than we do is
just dishonest. I'm not being hypocritical. So let's stop acting

(32:55):
like the only option is to fight phones and teach
kids how to use them responsibly. So we build in
specific times when it's appropriate, lunchtime, recess, have some nice,
open and honest conversation that brings parents into discussion. But
more importantly, educators give them the tools, the training, and
support to make these policies work in the real world.

(33:16):
Maybe our kids will be better or maybe just maybe
I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. Got
a few seconds here left in this first hour of
the show. Talk to me Send me an email three
four six two nine eight three nine two six Michael
Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. It's an opinion. Saw some

(33:38):
also columns and articles in several publications on that same
subject from USA Today to Washington Post to Wall Street Girl.
So I've been thinking about this. A yes, I am
lucky to be living in this day and age where
my kids don't have to worry about this. But tell
you what, I empathize with your parents right now, and
your kids do. It's tough. Where is that alan between

(34:00):
the two? I don't know if I don't have an answers,
just my thoughts. But we come back more fun, that's right.
NFL Sunday ticket can't wait three weeks away. I'm gonna
get you some deals to save you some money since
I saved some money on my new cable. Well, so
some of your question back to school gears, some smart
glasses and students going back to college. I got some

(34:21):
free software apps for you kids, and Google's got something
free for you too. F R eating my favorite fourth letter.
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Halfway through the high Tech Texan Show, which means we
are halfway to happy hour. Oh it is happy hour.
School fully back in session for most public Texas schools.
Still hot. Maybe you're listening this weekend in the pool
by the pool with the cocktail, as long as you're
not driving as cool with me. Halfway to happy hour,
one hour to my happy hour. In the meantime, I'm

(35:49):
here for you. It's a question and answer. It's just
different than podcast. Is actually radio show wherever you're listening
to re story across the state of Texas, maybe around
the world. Iheartrate you give me a shout three four
six two nine eight three nine two six three four
six twenty nine. Text and Fun First hour talked about
AOL people, al anybody remember AOL. Here's a quick refresher, Okay,

(36:18):
stop it, I mean nails on a freaking chalkboard. We
talked about that about an hour ago. AOL as we
know it. The dial up is going to be officially
over September thirtieth. Who still has AOL? If you've listened
to my show for twenty three years, odds are I've
tried to give you some advice to really get into

(36:41):
the twenty first hell the twentieth century for that batter.
But dial up still exists. There's a lot of rural
areas across America that don't get high speed internet, or
maybe it's just too expensive, which it's getting expensive to
me and a lot of other people too, So there
are going to be other options. Still just AOL. It's

(37:01):
not gonna provide it. You can talk to you or
contact your local telephone company, your telco company, and they
actually may have it too. But those were the days.
So we've I've talked about AOL, We've talked about newspapers.
It's old school here on the on the High Tech
Textan Show. However, there's some new things we want to

(37:21):
talk about. This coming Monday, I will be doing my
regular segment and Austin. Should anybody live in or near
the Austin area or have this thing called the internet,
high speed internet, you can go to Fox seven Austin
dot com and you can see my weekly segment where
I bring on technology. I'm gonna do a little back

(37:42):
to school stuff. And it was last week I did.
I got really into no no, no, no. You know what
I did last week on Fox Even I talked about
how to transfer data from one device to another when
you get a brand new device. And this is actually
I'd like to think it was good advice. I did

(38:02):
get a really nice feedback from a lot of viewers
and even listeners. You may get a new laptop, it's
back to school, and you may get a new job.
You may want to freshen up your full technology devices.
You're gonna get a new laptop, you're gonna get a
new desktop. How do you get all of your old information,

(38:23):
your data, your email, your contacts, your photos, your videos,
everything from the old device to the new device now,
Years and years ago, it was a very slow, rudimentary process.
And yes, even now you can use some of those
ways too, Like you could take a thumb drive, a

(38:44):
USB thumb drive, a USB a thumb drive, maybe it'll
hold a few gigabytes in there, and you could put
it into the old PC, move your files onto the
thumb drive, take the thumb drive out, put it into
the new unit, upload it or really download all this stuff,

(39:04):
and you go back and forth and back and forth,
because nowadays you have a ton of gear. I got
a new desktop about I set it up about a
week or a week or two ago, and this is
why it was top of mind. I had to look
for different ways because I have about one terabyte terabyte
of information and it was going to take forever. There's

(39:27):
no way in the world I'm taking a thumb drive
and I'm going back and forth and back and forth
and back and forth, and so are there ways to
do it? So in a way on my TV segment,
I talked about some software along with some hardware devices
to help do it. I used a product, and again
I spotlighted on the segment something called z install. So
it's a download. It's a software program that you download,

(39:48):
what is it twenty or thirty bucks, but it's a
license you downloaded, and you downloaded on the old computer.
You download it also in the new computer, all one price.
You don't need to buy two of them. And then
you've got to connect the comuter computers in one sort
of way. Now you could do it wirelessly Wi Fi.

(40:10):
Make sure they're both set up on the same Wi
Fi network in your house or your office. But wired
is incredibly faster than wireless, and so you want to
plug it in to the same network. So obviously I
have a wired network and a wireless network in my house,
most everybody does. You got to go to a router,
so you can plug the old computer into the router

(40:32):
and you put a new computer in the router. Make
sure they find each other, and they'll find each other automatically.
And then to that point you run the software. It
knows what the old computer is, it knows what the
new computer is, and then you can start picking and choosing.
You could download the whole thing. You could download the
whole inch a lot of the whole KLA everything one teraby,
or you could say, you know what, I only want

(40:52):
to transfer these files, and depending how much data there is,
you hit click and it goes again. Wired is faster
than wireless, and in my my one terabyte it took
I gotta say it took a good six to eight hours,
even on a wired computer. Again, I had a lot

(41:13):
of data. Wirelessly would have been longer. Now another way
you could do it. You could put everything up in
the cloud. And if I were you, obviously I hope
all your data is backed up somewhere. Maybe it's the cloud,
maybe it's on a you know, one drive, you know,
maybe it's whatever, all these drives that you call. And

(41:34):
then once it's there, when you install and turn on
the new computer, log into that cloud and you can
download it. All right. So that's one way to do it.
But I the Z install was good. There was another
one I used years ago called PC Mover. This one's
a little different. The same thing. You buy it and
you download it. But this one, I remember my PC mover.

(41:54):
It came in a box I had to, you know,
you get I guess on Amazon, but I think I
got it a best buy it. I'm talking years and
years ago. It comes with a crossover cable, so you plug.
You put the two computers next to each other, and
you physically plug the cable into one. You plug the
cable into the other. Now this is a special cable.
You just can't put a USB into a USB. It's
a crossover cable, so it knows what's going on. But

(42:15):
it came with it again twenty five thirty forty bucks.
Whatever it is that did it too. Z install pretty
much does the same thing. You just don't need the
cable and so a feeld for thought. Should you be
getting new devices, you have to remember, I mean, unless
you don't want any of your old information, unless you're
starting a witness protect your program, unless you don't want

(42:36):
any photo contact or anything in your new device, which
I don't know why you would do that. Go ahead
and set it up, but it's not the easiest thing,
and I actually had to do some research on myself
to do it, but I got it all done. I
use the install and I do thank you for watching
this segment on Fox seven. And if you do want
to see that segment and all my segments, you can
go to my website high Tech text in dot com

(42:58):
high Tech t e x A N go down to
the bottom and see all the videos that I've been
doing on a weekly basis on Fox seven. Other than that,
it is break time. Later in the show, we're going
to talk about cars. What car is GARF driving this week?
Answer your questions, some free software for college students, some update,
what's going on with streaming the NFL seasons, about the

(43:18):
start I got some discounts, and how you can get
the NFL network. Anything you need. I am here for you.
It is Garth on the high Tech Texan Show. Halfway

(43:55):
through the high Tech Texan Show, which means we are
halfway to hour. Oh it is happy hour. School fully
back in session for most public Texas schools. Still hot.
Maybe you're listening this weekend in the pool by the
pool with a cocktail, as long as you're not driving
as cool with me. Halfway to happy hour, one hour
to my happy hour. In the meantime, I'm here for you.

(44:17):
It's a question and answer. It's just different than podcast.
Is actually radio show. Wherever you're listening to re story
across the state of Texas, maybe around the world. iHeartRadio.
Give me a shout three four six two nine eight
three nine two six three four six twenty nine text
in fun first hour, talked about AOL people al, anybody
remember AOL. Here's a quick refresher nails on a chalkboard

(44:45):
if you ask me, Oh my goodness, yeah, we hit that.
Actually had a fun little contest. I asked for five people. First,
five people who still have an Aol dot com email
address to email me a so I can laugh at you.
But no no, no, be I I gave away some
Dairy Queen gift cards. We believe it or not, at
least five people. It took a while. It took a while,

(45:07):
but I got at least five emails, and so we
will email you those Dairy Queen gift cards we got.
We got, we got more than five, so I don't know.
I won't tell if you won yet, but it may
be time. It's go get an email account. People, get
into the twenty first century. I've only been doing this
show a quarter of a century. At AOL is over AOL,
you still will be able to get some sort of
a dial up account from. Maybe it's your local phone service.

(45:30):
But AOL, as we know it did it has gone.
We did talk about that, did a little Taylor Swift
Travis Kelcey New Horizons podcast. I'm still looking for my
muse like a Taylor Swift to come on my show
so I can get a one hundred million listeners and viewers.
So if anybody who knows inby famous, who wants to
I don't know, spend ten fifteen minutes of time with me,

(45:50):
I could do it remotely. I can come to them.
Shoot the whole thing I'm here for you. Just let
me know three four six two nine textan three four
six twenty nine textant. That's how you go to get me.
And so those are the number of things I'm thinking
about back to school. Anybody still need any back to
school gear? I spent a good amount of time last
week talking about some technologically advanced, mostly TechEd devices that

(46:17):
you could get for your kids or yourself if you're
in school. And yeah, I went over laptops, some really
inexpensive ones. I mean I'd found one hundred and fifty
nine dollars Asus laptop. It's a Chromebook. I think Walmart
had it easily the lightest laptop I've ever touched, scene
or held. I mean it's less than a pound. Really

(46:37):
nice Chromebook, which is still fine certainly for high schoolers
not gonna do your you know, high speed you know
gaming on the web, but word processing and surfing the web.
I think it's great for anybody, not just students. Tablets,
battery backups, active noise canceling, ear pods, earbuds, or headphones,
because odds are, if you're in a dorm, you don't

(47:00):
want to hear your roommate yapping to their boyfriend or
girlfriend of their mom crying asking for more money. So
you need the active noise canceling stuff easily. You can
get some active noise canceling things for under one hundred dollars.
You don't need to be, you know, spending much more
than that. If you specifically are looking for something, you
can call me, send me an email, and I can
give you some links for some of that stuff. Other
things software. I listed some software for college students that

(47:26):
were free, and let me see if I can pull
that up. That was from last week, but I think
that was a kind of a big hit on my
ex account. Some free things Google Docs, Google Docs, and
you don't need the Microsoft Office Suite. Docs from Google.
It's roughly the same thing they got Google Calendar. Google

(47:49):
meets part of the Google system. You don't need to
get Microsoft three sixty five. They could do a lot
of that stuff. They have like a spreadsheet type of thing.
Google Docs. Just just search Google Docs. Totally free, totally
free scanning apps. You don't need a scanner. I don't
know if you need to scan ever. Note used to
be free, no longer free, but Adobe scan Cam scanner

(48:09):
those are free. Also. If you need Scanner. The lot
of photo editing software that are free to. I mean,
it's you can. I'm just you may not need that
if you want to. Hey, I get this. A lot
people want to create their own podcast. I'm like, what
are you trying to do? Hone in on what I'm doing,
even though I do a radio show, not a podcast.
I use Audacity. I have long used Audacity. It's a

(48:36):
free audio editor and it does create a podcast. And
you can like do sound effects like the AOL sound
like I've been doing. You could tweak a song. It's
really simple to use, totally free, and I know these kids.
There are podcast classes that even areund high school, certainly college.
I like that. I mean, you know photo Adobe makes
one costs money to. I mean I like that. Audacity

(48:58):
to Freeways to watch TV collects. Other video streaming services, Crackle,
to be, Amazon Freebee, Sling, Free stream they're out there too.
There's a lot of free things. There's a lot of
discounts too. Shopping. Do you know if you're a student,
college student, you can get an Amazon Prime Student discount

(49:19):
for six months are free. So when your kid moves
off to college, not at your house anymore. Gloming on
your one hundred and fifty nine dollars a year. Amazon
Prime students get free six months. That's worth fifty tuition
wherever you're sending them. Right after that called sixty nine
bucks a year. Hell, I want to go back to school. Apple,

(49:43):
Best Buy, Samsung, Microsoft, They give discounts for a lot
of things too. Go check if you listen. Military vets
absolutely deserve discounts. If not, everything for free. Don't sleep
with the fact that students, Hey, I'm a student, what
do I get asked for? I think that's a free
one too. Speaking of relatively and expensive for free, let's

(50:05):
talk about streaming. In last hour, we were talking about cable.
I went into an Exfinity store. I negotiated a better rate,
saved about one hundred bucks, but I'm still paying an
varment a leg. Roku just launched a new service. I
think it's the cheapest AD free streaming service out there.

(50:26):
Roku just launched something called Howdy adye a month two
in a month, kind of based on the idea that
people want Netflix add on with no annoying commercials. It
is the cheapest major general entertainment AD free streaming service,
far below the cost of what Netflix is what eighteen

(50:46):
bucks a month? Huhu itself is nineteen bucks a month?
Is this? Roku has about ten thousand hours of content,
Warner Brothers, Discovery films, you know, Blindside, Kids in the Hall,
Mad Max, A lot of that stuff now was at
the right time. Average price of an advertisement free plan
they're about fourteen bucks right now. This is three dollars

(51:08):
pretty much. Go check it out Roku. Roku channel called
a Howdy, don't know how it's gonna do? I have
a downloaded not even sure? I mean I can. I
can barely watch this stuff I'm watching. But again it's
what I do. I look for deals, I tell you
about it, and then what do you got? Oh? Coming back?
I got a deal for you. How would you like?
Free chips and kso? Yep, not only free chips, get

(51:30):
the best chips ever made, and I am not using
I proberly stand by. Give me about two minutes and
two seconds free chips and k so. I'm gonna tell
you how to get that out. In the middle of

(52:06):
hour number two out of two hours, the High Tech
Texans show it his miguet Michael Garfield, Thanks for Colin,
Thanks for listening if you want to call three four
six twenty nine. Texan been doing this for twenty three years.
If you just tune it in to where you been. People,
we move fast, We have some fun, and we have
a little jokes. I get things away. Speaking of giving
things away, who wants free chips in Caso? The best

(52:30):
freshly made to stott A chips you've ever had. Now
you do have to live in Houston or Austin, maybe
San Antonio, Dallas sucks for You're gonna have to move.
Cobo Bobs. I've talked about it for a year. My
favorite fast casual place I eat a I am not kidding.
This week over under three or three and a half
times I've been to Cobo Bob's and the week's not

(52:51):
even over yet. Get a brito, get a casia. They
go down the go down the road. Tell them I
want the chicken, I want the brisket, whatever phenomenal. Make
your tortillas. They press right in front of you. But
I always walk away with a bag of chips. All
that and a bag of chips. Maybe it gets some guak,
maybe I get some salsa. Guess what, my friends, how

(53:12):
would you like a free order of chips and kso
from the Great Cabo Bob's. Four locations in h down
right Arnold and Lori Rios who run git over here
or Ony don you go to h go to Austin.

(53:32):
It's like six or seven of them, one in San Antonio. Unbelievable.
Here's what you need to do. You download the Cabo
Bob's app that was released. You can use it one
time up until early September shows a little promo code
right there. Order on the app you get a free

(53:55):
order of freaking chips and QSO. I don't know what
else I can do for you? Is that the coolest
thing in the world? Love it? Later on the show
tell you what I'm going also give you away a
gift card too, but not right now because I just
give away. At least I told you how to get
a free Kabo Bob's chips and case and chips and
case o. God, They're good. I'm hungry. Then probably gonna

(54:16):
be my first stop when I get uf the radio show. Uh.
Somebody just said, Hey, Michael, did you see that Sling
TV just launched a one day subscription garf? What am
I gonna watch in one day? I saw that while
we're talking about subscriptions, which certainly is technology of how
we watch TV. I saw that Sling TV. There's another

(54:38):
one of these pay services. They launched a day pass.
It's for ninety nine a day, which lets TV viewers
watch Sling TV for a single day, no further obligation. Thick.
I also have a ten dollars weekend past, fifteen dollars

(54:58):
a week past, but it's aimed at fewers looking to
watch a big sporting event, maybe a prestige TV show
without having to purchase a monthly subscription. Any would anybody
do that? Five bones a month, five bones a day
Fling TVs they have, I think they have two different plans,
an Orange plan, a Blue pan forty six hours a

(55:22):
month for five bucks, instant twenty four hour access. I mean,
I guess it all depends what sports they have and
what sports don't you have right now? If I mean,
if a lot of people watch UFC, you know pay
per view, which is stopping. By the way, that's a
whole nother subject thanks to paramount plus. Uh, if it's

(55:44):
a big playoff game like how about this, you know,
get a playoff game if you don't have Amazon don't
have Netflix or you don't have Peacock Back about the
past two years. The NFL in January has been exclusively
showing those on streaming for five bucks a day. Sure,
I'll watch a big NFL game. And how about what

(56:04):
freaking ESPN and Fox just did? ESPN, what have we
got about? Wee can run week from Right now, ESPN
is finally launching there stand alone direct to consumer over
the top service. And guess what it's called. ESPN's what
it's called. So you don't have to get anything else.
All you need is internet service. It's kind of like

(56:26):
a streamer, but every single thing ESPN has to offer.
Do not think I'm not thinking about this seriously because
if you know me, I watch one channel pretty much
ninety percent of the time. I watch ESPN everything, and
this has like ESPN, ESPN two, ESPNU, ESPN SEC all
this other stuff. Thirty bucks. Okay, so now you've got

(56:47):
a factor in your Internet. How much is that a month?
Thirty forty fifty sixty bucks a month. Then you got
a ESPN. Maybe you have another streamer too, like I
have Prime Video. All this other stuff on Fox is
doing the same thing. Fox is coming out one for
twenty dollars a month to watch Fox. ESPN and Fox
are actually combining it. You can get the bundle between
ESPN of Fox. They have a partnership forty dollars per

(57:10):
month instead of fifty step sold separately. You can get
thro over the top services. This is so damn confusing.
Do you remember when TV was free? This is like,
let's go back at the time machine day. We start
with AOL. Then I talked about newspapers. Now I'm talking
about Hey kids, do you remember when TV was free?

(57:32):
You had a big antenna on top of your house
and you got seven or eight channels. It was awesome.
You got ABC, CBS, NBC. Fox was not invented back then.
In the seventies, you got PBS, you got a few
UHF channels, and that's about it. But dang, it was free. Man.

(57:53):
Now to be sure, TV still is free. I've talked
about this medion a time. If you do go get
a digital over the year antenna and plug it into
your TV. You can get probably in big cities like
we're listening to and in Dallas and San Antonio, Houston,
you can get dozens and dozens, maybe one hundred free
TV signals right now, totally free. I'm not kidding you. Yes,

(58:16):
they're over the air. So you're gonna get ABC, CBS,
NBC and PBS and some of their digital channels eleven
point one, eleven point two, eight point one, a point two.
You ain't gonna get ESPN, you're not gonna get CNN,
You're not gonna get You're not gonna get Fox News.
You're certainly not gonna get any streamers. But all you
need you need to get a digital TV antenna, which

(58:37):
can cost anywhere from ten bucks maybe to forty fifty
bucks for a big of higher power one. But they're free.
FCC mandated all local TV stations half to broadcast and
over the air digital signal. And I'll tell you what,
digital signals not compressed. They look a lot better than
the signals that you get through cable. True story, So

(58:58):
many ways to watch, and then one more NFL dun
dun dun du two weeks away, NFL Sunday Ticket, football
season back, NFL Sunday Ticket. It's now part of YouTube,
by the way, so if you want to watch it,
you subscribe through YouTube TV. Not just YouTube. It's gonna

(59:22):
be YouTube TV. What is that eighty bucks a month
or something like that? Every single out of market game,
on top of the local and national games you're already
gonna get. Normally, Sunday Ticket runs four hundred and eighty
bucks a year. Damn. I love the NFL for returning customers.
New customers, you can get it for two hundred and

(59:44):
eighty bucks. I did see a few deals. Quickly, let
me run thiees. This is what I do. If you
have Verizon, if you get a new Verizon line, you
get Sunday Ticket for free. Existing customers can get it
for two hundred and seventy six dollars for Verizon, that spy,
you have to join my best buy plus fifty bucks

(01:00:05):
a year or something. You get Sunday Ticket for two
hundred and fifty eight dollars. Students up ten minutes ago
told you. Students, you get some cool YouTube offers a
student plan for one hundred and nineteen dollars. And you
know what, that's exactly why you're sending your kids to
school to watch NFL five to seven nights a week. Students,

(01:00:26):
you get NFL Sunday Ticket for one hundred and nineteen bones.
Medical providers, teachers, nurses, first responders in military. You should
be getting this for free, but you're not. You do
have a special price of one hundred and ninety eight dollars.
Probably worth checking out because there is no programming like

(01:00:46):
the NFL. Generally the top one hundred shows in a
given year are NFL games, number one obviously being the
Super Bowl. Welcome to football season. How do you think
the Cowboys are going to do out the Texans? Fifteen
twenty minutes more love to hear from you three four
six two nine eight three nine two six. What else

(01:01:08):
I can do? Oh? When we come back, look at
to sell your gear? I My garage is so full
of crap it's not even funny. Yes, I can go
on Facebook Marketplace. There are a number of other ways
that I actually can sell things, specifically digital stuff, technical stuff.
But also I found another one or two. If you
have big items, even cars, that you don't want to
ship them, you can't ship them somewhere it actually works

(01:01:30):
for you. And one more little college student freebie when
we come back people, I don't know what else I
could do. Michael Garfield was the name. It's the high
Tech taxon Ship. I'll segment right here just want to

(01:02:01):
make sure everybody's listening. Thank you so much. Lets see
how much we can fit it in seven minutes. I'll
tell you what right now, Caller number seven, I'm gonna
give you a twenty five dollars Cabo Cabo Bob's gift card.
Unbelieve I already told you. Everybody who downloads the Cabo
Bob's app free chips and Caeso here for the next
few weeks. Cabo Bob's four locations in Houston five, six, seven,

(01:02:22):
or eight of them in Austin two. When in San Antonio,
Dallas sucks for you. You better move right now, Caller seven,
give you the phone number seven one three two, one
two five nine five oh seven one three two one two,
five nine five oh caller numbers seven twenty five dollars.
Thank you to Arnold Rios Lourier Rios. They run the
Houston market. These are good all over the state of Texas.
Stop when I went at Chicken, when I went a

(01:02:44):
chicken dinner, when I went a brisket dinner, and when
I went a steak dinner, when I went a caso,
when I went to tacos, when I went to chips
and Caso love Cobo Bobs. Thank you so much Cobo
Bob's partnering with us over here. I review cars. Also
didn't have a lot of time to review cars. I
was in a nice EV this week. I was in
a twenty twenty five Kia EV six really honestly, again,

(01:03:08):
not paid, not endorsed. I don't work with the dealership.
I mean I get these for manufacturers. My job is
to rag on them and just put them through the hoops.
I actually, you know my thoughts in EV cars. I
like EV cars, I do not like the way we
charge them. I personally probably would not get an EV
myself and my lifestyle because I want to hop in
the car. I want to go see my kid in Austin.
I want to go see my kids in my parents

(01:03:29):
in Dallas. I just don't want to stop in charge.
But if you do want it as a second car,
if you do like EV's, take a look at the
Kia e V six. It's kind of an suv. Very comfort,
very quiet, very cool, cargo space, probably fit a queen
size bed back there, nice features, works great, Gonna get
two seventy five three hundred and three twenty five miles

(01:03:50):
in the whole thing the one I got. This is interesting.
Here's a trend there are I'm just gonna narrow it down.
There are two types of charging outlets that are found
in cars here in North America. One, and I'm just
gonna break it down, is Tesla like and it's called

(01:04:10):
E I'm sorry, it's called NACS NACS North American Charging Standard.
It's got two prongs. Tesla uses them solely. When it
came out, only Tesla used them. Tesla's Trooper superchargers. That's
in a CS. The other type, which most every other

(01:04:31):
auto manufacturer has used, from GM to Kiya to a
Hyundai to four it's CCS. It's kind of like Android
in Iowas it's CCS Okay, CCS one, and maybe there's
a you know, J seventeen seventy two. I'm not getting
to that, but it's Tesla and all others. Well, guess
what in ACS, the Tesla type of charger is now

(01:04:54):
becoming the standard. You're gonna see more non Tesla vehicles
built in with the Tesla type of chargers, and there'll
be more Tesla type of NACS National Association of Charging
Stems Belt. Well, guess what the Kia EV six that
I had was the first non Tesla I have driven

(01:05:14):
with the NACS charger, and I had a pain in
the you know what charging this thing because what I
found out. Long story, I just I have so many
nightmares because I get vehicles wont for an entire week.
A company delivers a vehicle to my house every Thursday
for the past fifteen years. I get to drive it,

(01:05:37):
put it through the hoops. I either talk about it,
write about it, rag on it, love it. I'm not paid.
I can hee on it if I want to. Okay,
this is totally honest my opinion. I've just had the
worst luck when it comes to charging vehicles. I don't
have a charger at home, so if I need to
charge it, I'm gonna go to Walmart parking lot, Whole
Foods parking lot, pay some money. I got a wait

(01:06:00):
till somebody moves away from the charger. I gotta make
sure that the cord stretches to the car. I gotta
put the credit card in, I gotta download the app.
I've got to wait forty five minutes. I gotta wait
an hour. Hope it works whatever. So now I'm thinking, Okay,
I got the Tesla like NACS charger for this Kiyam.
I go to a Tesla supercharger not far from me
on the southwest side of Houston. It's ninety five degrees.

(01:06:22):
I'm down to like, I don't know, twenty one percent.
So I'm getting the anxiety down. I'm in a bad
cell phone zone spot. It takes fifteen minutes to down.
I'm not kidding you. Fifteen minutes to download the Tesla app,
put my credit card in, it doesn't charge. I then
come to find out that not all Tesla supercharging sites

(01:06:43):
work with the NACS conversion to non Tesla cars. Just
want to rip my freaking hero. Just want to rip
my freaking Hero. Just I want a standard. I want
an EV that will go five hundred, six hundred or
more miles and did just charge fast. I don't want

(01:07:06):
to stop in Centerville, Texas between Houston and Dallas, and
I don't want to wait forty five minutes. I want
to get from A to B. I got ADHD and
that's the way it is. Other than that, if you
do like uh cars, electric cars, and you got a
charge you at home. Look at the key at EV six.
It's a great car. How about that took you on

(01:07:27):
a roller coaster on that one roller coaster on that
one did pro Oh yeah, I promise one more thing.
Google has one free year for students Google Gemini, Google
Google's Pro AI, unlimited chats, image uploads, quiz generations with

(01:07:50):
uh all the way off for ends October six. It's
just for students. Also get two terabytes of storage a
free for one year. Everything you need is I'm not
gonna get into the debate. Woll should college kids or
high school kids be using Google Gemini, which is AI
similar to chat GPT. But if you got students get oh,

(01:08:13):
you get a year free? Why even go to school? People?
Why even go to school? Why even have textbooks when
you have things like this? Man, if this stuff was
around when I went to school, I don't I'd be
a doctor or I would be unemployed. I'd be in jail.
I don't know which. But Google is now getting into
the game. It's Google Gemini. Do use Google Gemini. It's

(01:08:33):
on my Android foeto. But this is the free pro
plan for students. Just google it. Just go to Gemini
Google Free students in your set. Anything else that we missed?
I did a lot? Oh yeah, one more how to
sell your gear. Go check out this offer up dot com.
It's a new website I found offer up dot com.
I like Facebook marketplace to sell big things bicycles, grills, cars.

(01:08:57):
You can go to digital sites to you know, to
sell you're a phone online to so many different places.
You know, there's a ton of stuff. Sell my phone,
sell sell dot com, ecoatm, Gazelle. But I like this one.
It's called offer up dot com. I mean I saw
an Apple Watch for twenty nine bucks. I saw a car.

(01:09:19):
I saw a camera for like fourteen hundred dollars it
was used. Saw a car for four hundred bucks. I
saw menshirts for five dollars offer up dot com. I mean,
this is the stuff that I find. This is the stuff.
So what do we do? We gave away gift cards
to Cabo bobs. I told you how to get a
free chips and qso at every Cabo bobs. Download the
app and you get a free coupon for one free
kso and chips. AOL is Done gave away Dairy Queen

(01:09:40):
gift cards for people who at aol dot com email accounts.
Texas schools had banned phones. We talked about that my thoughts.
Roku has a very inexpensive free dollar a month. New
channel called Poudy gave you some deals on Sunday ticket
and I think I entertained you. That's a guy there.
Other than that, if you want to listen to this
all again, hallum will, they're getting ready to record this,

(01:10:03):
which they've done. They're gonna put it up on Honheartbrainar
dot com. All you need to do is look for
Hot Tech Texan from Michael Garfolk. Other than that, we
are one week most are foot foot fall season. With that,
I'm gonna bid you a great add Happy Hour officially
starts for me. Enjoy the kids back to school, enjoy
the pool, enjoy the hot weather in Austin Monday morning.
See you on Fox seven where I always am, and

(01:10:25):
on these radio stations next weekend. For everybody who's been
a part of this one, he'd be great some Michael
Weekend people. My name is Michael Garfield and this show
is over.
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