Auto Reviews: Nissan Z, Ford Mustang Mach-E

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• These deals are already on sale 2 weeks before Amazon's next Prime Days
• Meta launches the next gen of new wearable glasses which could change everything
• Auto Reviews:  Nissan Z, Ford Mustang Mach-E

Episode Transcript

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:09):
High Tech Texan.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
It was to make life easier, new technology, and Michael
Garfield has something you might like.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Another week is done. That means the weekend is here,
which means it's another edition of this show twenty three
years right now? Can someone extrapulate how many I have done?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Actually, it's tough because I also, in addition to the
weekend show, I did a weekday show for what three
or four years too long? The fact is I could
still have a voice. It is amazing. Welcome wherever you
are listening. We appreciate that. Michael is the name Michael Garfield.
That is called the high Tech Text and Show. I

(01:22):
absolutely promise we talk more than technology. This is not
a geeky show whatsoever. It's hip, it's hot, it's happening
and as I say, I'm a tech sex a. That's
how it works. We have a phone number that you
can get in because it is an interactive radio show,
so so much more than a podcast. Talk to me

(01:43):
people three four six twenty nine text and three four six,
two nine eight three nine to six. Wherever you are listening,
we are all across the iHeartRadio network, which means if
you download that free app, you could take it. You
could take my voice anywhere. You could listen to you
on the smart speaker. Doesn't matter if it's one of
them nests. It doesn't matter if it's one of them echoes.

(02:06):
You could walk around your home and you can be listening.
You could have one eye on your TV. And actually
this show it airs several times throughout the weekend across
different terrestrial DMAs as we say designated market areas. We
are in Houston, we are in Dallas, we are in
San Antonio. You could be listening in the morning, eating breakfast,

(02:28):
a little lunch, little football kickoff, be it NFL, be
it college. I don't know when you're listening to it.
You could be listening to it again after we put
it up on the podcast. It just don't matter. As
long as you are here. That matters to us. And
I like to thank the good folks behind the glass
over there punching buttons. That is a calum. That is

(02:49):
Will and a few of the guys. You would think, guys,
after twenty three years of doing this show, I would
have some clue as to what you're doing over there,
all those buttons you're pushing, you know, because I come
on the other side, you know, during the breaks and
I'm like, you know what's going on and you know, well,
you know, we'll you know, shoot the breeze and you
know what are you talking about? And you know, hungry
you're eating it. But there's I know, there's buttons, there's phones.

(03:14):
There's all this technology back there to make my voice,
all our voices here at Dihart Rady to go all
over the world. Callum and I'm looking you specifically because
we have worked for quite a while together. You're on
your cell phone, man, you're talking to somebody on your
cell phone. Is that actually a required subject, a require
thing that you should be doing for your job? Because

(03:36):
if the red hot Line, the red phone, the red
Line calls like Batman if they need if the big bosses,
the guys in the carpeted offices down the hall at
I heart. If they want you, they ain't gonna call
your cell phone. They're gonna call the red line. Who
you talking? Are you wondering a pizza? Bro? If you
are hungry, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm gonna
get you some Cobo Bobs deal Cabo Bobs because it's
we do the show on a Saturday. Cobo Bob's closed

(03:58):
on Sunday. Com about four locations in Houston, six or
seven or eight of them in Austin. I was just
in Austin last week for the Longhorns game. By the way,
big shout out to Arnold and loriie Rios, who run
the Houston market for Cabo Bob's. I saw them at
the game. We're gonna give away a twenty five dollars
gift card as we do each week. But also get

(04:19):
off the phone. Bro, Come on, you have to punch
the buttons. Wake up just like everybody else. Is what
are we talking about today? Well, we do have your
phone calls. But guess what Amazon is doing again? They've
already had one, if not two. Get prep papel. I
will tell you when another Amazon Prime Day is. That's right,

(04:40):
we have one coming up within it's within the next month.
And so if you've been waiting for all your holiday
shopping things, you may want to wait because Amazon's having
another Prime Day. Actually it's Prime Days. I think it's
over a day. We'll have to check about that and
believe it or not, I'm already seeing free Amazon Prime Days.

(05:03):
At some point, this is gonna be like the boy
who cried Cried Wolf. Oh okay, it's into the Prime Day.
I mean see, it used to be once a year.
It used to be every July. It used to be
one day, then it was two days. Then I think
it maybe four days right now, maybe a week in July.
And I always thought of Amazon Prime Day as being
the and if your longtime listeners know this, I called

(05:26):
it the annual garage sale. They have a right for
all the warehouses across the world. They try to put
things on sale that didn't sell well so they can
have room in space for the upcoming holiday season. Maybe
maybe that's not the real reason. Actually, between you and me,
the real real reason this is truth. It's to get

(05:47):
people to subscribe to Amazon Prime, to pay their one
hundred and fifty nine dollars a year or whatever it is,
and everything. That's why. But I always thought it was
a kind of a clearing house for what it is.
But guess what, they're having another one. I really think
it's the third one of the year. Somebody fact check
me on that thing. Chat chat GPT Jim and I
could you fact that one? Check that. I'll tell you

(06:08):
what's up with that. What's Michael driving? You know? Fifteen
years I get to I have test driven vehicles fifteen years,
well over one thousand vehicles. It is not paid. I
don't work with dealerships. I get vehicles every week, every
single Thursday, for fifteen years. I have a service that

(06:29):
I'm not the only one. There's probably fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
eighteen people like me who do this around the state
of Texas. And a company comes Yes, this is a
humble bragg. A company comes up to the house and
they drop off keys in a new car, and I
get it for one week and they let me another
my ILK put it through the paces. You know, we

(06:51):
test it and then we either write about it, we
blog about it, we yap about it, we video about it, whatever.
And on this radio show, I generally go through the
what's Michael driving this week? Had some sexy ones over
the past week or two. Last week I was in
a Nissan z Z that was the old, well relatively,

(07:13):
the Nissan three hundred Z, the fast, saucy two seat
sports car. Before that, it was what the two eighty
z X. Before that, it was the two forty SX.
Ironically my very first car that I bought way back
in the day, bright red, and it had some neat features,
including a little button. It was like the it wasn't

(07:34):
nitrous oxide or is that what it was. Was it
the dukes of Hazzard or something that you know, y
you hit the button and those the rocket launching or
something like that, like Evel Knievel. But it did have
a fun little button that made this thing go nasty
nut sell. This was the Nissan Z Nismo in imo version.
Nismo is Nissan's a racing team. It's a souped up

(07:56):
racing car. So I had a good time in that.
And then this week I go from that to a
Ford Mustang Mache electric vehicle. YEP, that's how I do it, baby.
Next week I could be in a minivan, god do
the old family truckstur The week after that, don't know,
whatever rolls up, I get the drive in it for
a week, so I will give you the At some

(08:18):
point between now and the end of the show, I
will talk about my Nissan Z's Nismo experience. Who is
it for? Who is it not for? There's probably a
longer list of who probably should not purchase this thing.
Not that it's not a great car, but if it's
a small two seater car, you could probably imagine if
you've got a family car seats, this is not for you.

(08:40):
And then I just started playing around in the Ford
Mustang mach E. We will talk about EV's, especially because
we are about one week a week, week and a
half away from all of the tax rebates from buying
a new and used EV. They are gonzo. We probably
have less than ten days September thirtieth, is it? You

(09:02):
got questions of what you should buy? Should you buy
an Ethee? I can talk you out of it, I
can talk to you into it. You know the number
three pour six twenty nine. Texans don't go anywhere. We're
having a good time, abady, right, Michael Bouget. This is

(09:32):
called the High Tech Texan Show for the name of it. Well,
you think we're all gonna talk tech and megabytes and gigabytes. People,
you have not listened to the show. I'm your buddy,
I'm your pal. The name is Michael Garfield, originally from
the great City of Dallas, Texas. Parents still live there
WT White High School there. Certainly they probably are listening

(09:53):
right now. On eleven ninety a m terrestrially up in
the Dallas area. Went to school in Austin. I'm gona
give you my resume over here at University of Texas.
They're the greatest college and the history of the world.
Huge burn orange ut dude ut. Family generation after generation
currently living in and around the city of h Town

(10:16):
in Houston, So I really hit some of the big cities.
Don't want to forget San Antonio. We are on w
A I twelve one hundred a m. That's a big stick.
That's fifty thousand watts. My voice is actually heard in
Mexico right now. Well, i'miya, Miguel. How is horrible? I
apologize for this. I could also do it in Hebrew

(10:37):
and Yiddish. Do I won't. I won't won't even attempt that. However,
you are listening, I do, thank you for that and
happy weekend to you. Oh, speaking of speaking of Austin,
I was in. I went to Austin last weekend for
the UT football game UT versus UTEP football game, which
we we sorry about that the University of Texas football
fans and alumni and diehards thinking that we're gonna cut

(11:00):
for the point spread, which was about what one hundred
and eighteen. Turns out one hundred and eighteen was the temperature,
and that was just a kickoff. It got worse than that. No,
the Horns didn't look good. The Horns walked out with
a w somehow, some way. I have been to UT
football games in Austin. I remember my parents taking me
when I was a very a little kid because my

(11:22):
mom was born and raised in Austin, and it's one
of the reasons I wanted to go. I went to
go to the University of Texas. I have been at
some form of Memorial Stadium, DKR Memorial Stadium, Earl Campbell,
Ricky Williams Field at d Cart dk R Memorial State
I've I've been for easily fifty plus years. I don't

(11:46):
know if I remember ever being as hot and shitzy
that means sweaty, then last week it was it was disgusting.
And I'm on the well I see. I call it
the students side because when I was in school, students side,
So I was on the east side, you know, the
which is you know, the backs upright to eye thirty five.
So the sun kickoff three o'clock, so the sun is

(12:07):
now smacking our faces and it was like, it was
just you're kidding me. And I had a I don't
wear hats a lot because I've got some I got
some lettuce up top of my head, so it's not
like I get burned on my dome. But I war
cowboy hat, straw cowboy hat just to protect them. And
I was just sweating through that. It was it was
good anyway. Kickoff Saturday night, six pm over under Calum.

(12:33):
Let's get in here. However, I will it be ninety
eight degrees above or below? At six pm? It is hot?
And I'm sitting there thinking, I'm not going off on
a tangent over here, because this is what I do.
It's what Michael wants to talk about because we talk
about all consumer life. We talk about pretty much everything
except politics. I talk about consumer lifestyle, love, sports. I'm
your sports guy. With all the money that is filtered

(12:56):
through the University of Texas athletic program, with all of
the nil all right, the name image like this, with
all the TV contracts from the SEC, with all the
money that's being paid to the coaches and to the players.
Do you think maybe one day they could build an
air conditioned dome over the freaking stadium. Just an idea.

(13:23):
The September and I'm serious, the October games, they're pretty
bad in terms of weather. Actually on the field right
now there, they're not looking great either, But I'm not
talking about that. It was hot and nasty. Should you
be listening or driving to Austin right now? Good for you? Awesome.
I would rather be in Chicago right now. Chicago, Sunday afternoon,
my Dallas Cowboys will be playing. I was in Chicago

(13:45):
in August. I got to go to Soldier Field. I
went to a pregame in Soldier Field. I just want
to see what Soldier Field was like. It is the
absolute worst Innisfel stadium I have ever been to. And
I've been to a number of them because I cover games,
I get media originals and everything, and I'm a big fan.
It is the smallest, true story NFL stadium in the league,

(14:05):
and it is the oldest NFL stadium the league. And
they're talking about they're going to move it out to
the Arlington Heights in the suburbs, but it's still sitting
right there on Lakeshore Drive, right next to Lake Michigan,
and it is. It's just it's not a good stadium.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
It is.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
It's not a good stadium. So in a way, hopefully
the Cowboys will bring one home. Have we covered the
sports anything else sports wise we need to talk about
before we move on, We continue with what I call
the high Tech Texan Show, traditionally Amazon Prime Days. Amazon's
bringing back another Prime Day. They have officially announced the
dates for its upcoming Prime Day sale. Ladies and gentlemen,

(14:42):
sit down. It is a whirlwind forty eight This is
not this is they didn't pay me to say this.
It is a whirlwind forty eight hour event that is
going to start on Tuesday, October seventh, an end Wednesday
October eighth. There you go, do we need another Prime Day?

(15:03):
Prime Day? Big Deals is what it's called Big Deal Days.
I'm due apparently load up on your holiday shopping. I
guess holiday. We could take a quick poll over here
phone number three four six two, and you can also
find me at X. I should probably put I like
these polls, and I do a lot of polls on X.

(15:24):
If you go to high Tech text and h I
G H T E C h T E x A
N follow me on X. When do you start your
holiday shopping?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Do you?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
I mean, do you wait till ride after late Thanksgiving
Day which is then Black Friday the next day? Well? No,
because I can't do Black Friday because we got an
NFL game and then now we got the Horns AGGI
game day. I think it's the day after Thanksgiving. No,
can't do that. Do we do we wait to Cyber Monday,
which is the Monday after Thanksgiving? Do you wait until
like two days before the holiday? Christmas, Honka, kwansa, whatever

(15:57):
you're celebrating, or do you get ahead of the curve?
Do you do it in October? When is it? I
don't Personally, my job is to tell you ideas of
what to buy and what not to buy, and that's
what this is why I exist for two plus decades.

(16:18):
You're gonna email me Michael at high tech textan dot
com you're gonna call me three four six two Garf.
That's my nickname. Should I get this TV? Should I
get a phone? What phone should I get? How about
a backup battery? Do I need a backup generator? Heard
you talk about this car? Does this make sense for

(16:38):
me and my family of five? My job is to
tell you what to get when not to get. I
don't have your budget. I don't know what your budget
is because I'm talking to the masses. I'm preaching to
the masses and no, that's right. And then Daniel came
from the lions dead and gim again, get off the island.

(16:58):
I am preaching of what you should and which should
not get. But it's up to you decide what your
budget is and also decide when you want to when
you want to start shopping. I start talking about holiday
stuff probably early October, and it looks like, thanks to Amazon,
I'm gonna be talking about Amazon Prime Day. What's good

(17:19):
and what's bad. I already see some deals out there
and the deals and I'll tell you again then I'm
gonna move on. Amazon is brilliant with the capitol b
they have these. I mean they started it. It was
a bookstore online. Jeff Bezos makes you know, billions, billions
of billions and dollars, divorces, his wife marries this whoever

(17:40):
chick she is. They're still on their honeymoon. Neither here
nor there. But the point is Amazon is the world's
largest seller of almost everything. Right, and then if you
pony up one hundred and fifty nine bucks a year,
whatever it is, No, You're in the club. You're in
the Prime club. This is better than Costco. This is
better than Sam's Man, because we're gonna show up at
your door within two days and we're going to give
you that delivery that is included. Okay, I dig that thing,

(18:02):
and you can get almost anything. This is not an
Amazon commercial because I do have an Amazon Prime account.
I do pay. They don't give me anything for free.
I don't buy a lot of stuff on Amazon in
any given year, right like this year in twenty it
is now what almost the tenth month of twenty twenty five.
If I've purchased five things on Amazon, I'm lying. I mean,

(18:27):
maybe I do watch Amazon Prime Video. I watched Thursday
Night Football d D DA Dad. That's one of the
reasons I get it, because you forget with Prime. With Prime,
you get I'm sorry. With Amazon Yeah, Amazon Prime, you
get Prime Video, movies, TV sports, a lot of sports
over there too, and you can get music to listen to.

(18:50):
You can get storage, you can store all your five
I think you can get unlimited photo storage. There are
positives actually to get that over here. But when it
comes to Amazon Prime Day, they're also brilliant of putting
on sale their own products. Fire TV which are TV's
branded fire TVs, fire sticks which are like streaming sticks,

(19:12):
like the Roku sticks or the on onn from Walmart sticks.
They're gonna be cheap. You're gonna get the Amazon Echo devices,
which uses that special magic word that starts with an
A to wake it up. I'm not going to say
it because your Alexa will wake up. Oh sorry about that, folks.
Amazon really is smart. They're doing again. Look, if you're

(19:32):
interested to buy streaming sticks, if you're interested to buy
TVs or echoes, those are you going to be your
best deals and odds are If you start looking at
Amazon right now, they're going to be there. We will
update you more as October seventh and October eighth get
closer when we come back. I got some emails over here, Michael,
I'm interested to hear about your thoughts on the evs.

(19:54):
You talked about how these new sub subsidized rebates are
ending the end of September thirtieth. This is from Janis.
I will go over that because it's September thirtieth is
the date. If you're going to buy an EV now now,
over the next ten to eleven days, maybe even best
an only time, so you can potentially get a rebate.
You don't go anywhere. It's the high ten Testament show always.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
What is going on?

Speaker 4 (20:33):
If you were from get Because we're all radio, we're local, Well,
I'm regional across Texas. Who am I kid, I'm national, baby,
I'm all over, I'm worldwide. I'm mister worldwide because I
heart radio. App can't be heard most everywhere in the world.
And if you are in countries that don't like Western media,
like China, use a VPN, a virtual private network. It

(20:56):
actually worked because I did it myself a visiting China
earlier the shar year. But I am based humbly in
the state of Texas because we're sweet, we really really
are seven to one to three. Well, actually, now let
me give you the phone number two. It's actually it's
not that sound thing. That's the old number. This is
how long i't be doing this show. Three four six
two nine eight three nine two six he speak. I

(21:17):
have a little little Texas anecdote. So if you're in
I live in Houston, but I also get around to
all the big cities that were in Dallas, San Antonio,
and Austin, but live in Houston. And I was doing
a photo shoot. Sounds really hoity toity, doesn't It's what
a photo shoot? Earlier this week, the great and really

(21:40):
really talented people from Gettings G I T T I
n GS Gettings Photography. It's been around. I think Michael
told me. His name is Michael and Monica. They own
it now. It's been It's had several owners. The Guinnings
family started it ninety seven years ago. I don't know
if I got that incorrect, but it's been a long

(22:00):
time superstar photographers. I mean, you want a family portrait.
I mean, this is the real deal. Long story short.
I'm m seeing a big a gala event coming in November,
and Gettings is the official photographer all these people who
were being honored and as the mc they wanted. They
offered me for a sitting for photos, and I'm like, yeah, sure,

(22:26):
you know whatever, you know when we come to your studio.
Because the last time, actually I do have my head shot,
my official headshot for my bio, I was probably eight
years old or something, and I got to say, well,
it's a little cocky, but you know, screw it. I
really haven't aged that much, so it looks like I
took it last week. Shut up. I still have my
full head of hair. Not the point, but I remember

(22:48):
going into a studio, So I'm thinking I'm gonna go
into the getting studio, which is kind of in central Houston,
and I'm gonna pretend like when I was a little
kid at Sears and my parents took me to Sears.
You remember this if if you're of age, if you're
like forty eight years or above, maybe forty five, your
parents used to take you to J. C. Penny Olen
Mills Sears and they had a photo Kmart Kmart, Yes, Kmart.

(23:13):
They had a photo studio in the back and you
would sit there in your freaking little polyester suit in
the nineteen seventies and you would put your little You'll
put your rest your chin on your on your little
arm and your fist. And the photographer, god love him,
who is a child photographer. He would sit there with
a little squeeze and sit there going ooh, he's a

(23:34):
good boy, smile for the camera. Smile. So no way,
I was thinking that's gonna happen. This is, this is,
this is you see this the wayback machine here on
the Michael Garfield Show. So anyway, I didn't go to
their photography studio because they said, you know, min Michael,
we want your personality. What do you do? You do
you what if we come to your home or go somewhere.
I mean, if you're a are you a hunter? You

(23:56):
know we go in the woods, or I know you
like cars, you want to pose in front of a
car or whatever. And I'm like, well it's I don't
want to be outside. It's gonna be hot in Switze
Schitzy and like that. I said, well, well, I mean
you come to my house. I got a really nice house.
It's you know, photographer bull. You know what I collect.
I love Bourbon. I collect bourbon. I've got a beautiful

(24:16):
Bourbon bar that I specifically built and it's it's it's
faux painted, and I've got this great collection. Maybe I
stand up front. Oh that's great personality. So longstorts at
Michael from Gettings. He comes over and he uh, he
and his wife Monica just bought the Jitting's studio and
everything about it about only about three or four months ago,
just this summer, even though I've heard of Gettings forever

(24:38):
like that. And I met him, and he came from
tells me a story. He came from Virginia, And here
is the four minutes into this story, here's the point
of the story about how sweet texts is. He could
not get over how nice Hexans are. He was just glowing. Man,
we've only been here three months. Every bar bod he

(25:00):
is so nice. They stop and they say hi, and
you ask questions and they give you answers and they
wave at you with all five fingers when you're driving
in the car. Oh. So it was just it's really
nice to hear. So welcome to the city of Houston,
Michael and Monica Kittings. I'm anxious to see the photos

(25:24):
that they took, because they did. They positioned me in
like three different areas like that. If you are following
me on Facebook or don't? Did I push him to
my Instagram yet? I kind of got some behind the scenes.
But they came and they set up the whole. He
set up the whole lights and he he did not
bring the squeaky toy. He didn't do the you're a
good boy carf smile of the camera. No, no, he

(25:46):
just he was just making jokes.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Where was he?

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Where was that going? Callum? Get me on track. Where
was I going with this?

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yeah, we're giving away a gift card? Is that right? Exactly? Uh, callum,
you are not actually allowed to win this color number
ten right now, We're gonna give away a Cabo Bob's
gift card. Wonderful. I ate there two times, at least
two times a week. I was there on Thursday. I
was at the one out in Fort Benn County on

(26:13):
the Southwest Freeway in the meadows. There's three other in
the Houston area. There's six seven eight of them in Austin.
There's one in San Antonio. Dallas sucks for you. You
need to come down to one of those other cities
to use it. But you go to the line, you
pick a tort to five different fresh tortillas. They press
them right in front of you. You go down the line.
You put the chicken, you put the barbecue, you put
the steak, you put the barbacoa. They can make caesa dias,

(26:35):
they can make the soft tacos anything, and the chips
are to die for twenty five dollars. Gift card goes
to color number ten seven to one three two one two,
five nine to five. Oh seven one three two one
two five nine five. Oh, I do think Arnold Rios
he is the manager, the area, regional the manager. He's

(26:57):
like Cabo Bob Junior. He's the regional manager for everything
here Houston. His wife Lori, she is the marketing queen
of that. And they do such a good job, great catering.
They do a ton of catering for schools. Should I
ever get married again, I may actually I may actually
hire them for my wedding. But alas, don't hold your
bet for that. Stop calling. We already have a winter.
We already have win win a winter. Absolutely beautiful chicken

(27:21):
or tilla, soft taco casadia dinner here I take text
and show, Oh yeah, I know where we were going
with this. Communities. If you are living in and around
the Houston area. I got something for you. I get
into art. Houston Art Weeks. Houston Art Weeks is coming up.
It is October tenth through nineteenth, which is actually kind

(27:43):
of like a week and a half Houston Art Weeks.
What it does unites the cities, neighborhoods, galleries, independent artists
for similarly celebrating creativity, community passion. It is called Houston
Art Weeks and you can go to the Stella Nova
Foundation dot org, Stella Stella Nova and Ova Stella Nova

(28:07):
Foundation dot org. My friend Doug Harris runs this. I
don't know what Doug doesn't do. Doug actually was in
Radio Forever. Today he runs the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.
He's a nice dresser, raises money for Houston Art Weeks.
He watches he's a movie critic Junior mens if you

(28:27):
remember back in the day. Anyway, Houston Art Weeks is
coming up tenth through the nineteenth of October, and so
it's really good celebration, celebration. So this is being a
pop up art exhibition and sale at the Montrose Center
starting off on Saturday, October eighteenth. A lot of stuffs
so Stella Nova Foundation, the big benefactor. Primary beneficiary is

(28:51):
a Mantro center. So congrests with that. Then I'll mention
it again as we get close, just to let you
know this is awesome. This is how we bs through
segment number three. When we come back, you want to
do EV's I teased electric vehicles, how the rebate, the
the tax rebate when you buy these things are going

(29:12):
bye bye. On September thirtieth, I will review quickly a
little the first few days that I've been in the
Ford Mustang mock e and uh, should you switch to
an EV. I'll tell you how to decide that is
coming up from what we call the high tech tension.
Should we talk cars, we talk trucks, RE talk tacos,

(29:48):
re talk sports, and I guess we do missing mix
in a little technology on a very high level, very
high level. I am not going to tell you how
to fix your computer. I have never will. I'm gonna
tell you how to buy a new computer and new
laptop save you money. That's what we do on the
High Tech Text and Show. It's what it's called. Michael
Garfield is my name. Yes, we are heard terrestrially across

(30:11):
the state of Texas along with the iHeart Radio app.
Feel free to download it. And if you want to
hear little music, the iHeart Radio app works incredibly well.
By the way, is it okay to talk about this?
I don't want to talk about another competitor. I mean,
there's a lot of people listen to music their own ways.
I would never recommend Apple Music because I'm just not

(30:32):
an Apple guy. This was need to now listen. I
will tell you what if you want music, if you
want to listen to any radio station eight hundred and
fifty plus iHeart radio stations, I'm serious, it's totally free,
download the iHeart Radio app. And that's number one what
I tell you to do. Spotify has been around quite
a while too. I don't listen to Spotify nearly as
much as I do iHeart Radio. And I'm serious about

(30:52):
this because I do. I listened to other radio shows
on iHeart across the country on my Heart. But Spotify
there's a free level of Spotify, and then there's the
premium levels of Spotify that goes it's maybe like twelve
thirteen dollars a month, which I don't think you need
to buy that because I know you can download ihearten
you can listen to most all of it for free.

(31:13):
I will say this, I have a free Spotify account
and kind of big news over here, A big news
over here. As of a few days ago, Spotify accounts
with a free plan you can now choose any track,
any song, and immediately listen to it. And that's different

(31:34):
because previously that feature was paywalled for premium subscribers. If
you picked that, you know, if you pick a song,
if you pay fifteen bucks a month, hey play any
song you want at any time. But if you were
free and I wanted to play this specific song, well
maybe I have to listen to like three or four
other songs that sounds similar to it before you get
to the song, because non paying ones they had to

(31:55):
shuffle through an album a playlist until the song they
wanted to hear came up. Well, now you can't use
any track you want by searching and selecting it in
an album or selecting in a playlist or whatever. And
the feature just rolled out globally the other day. However,
the free plans other limits have not changed. You will
need to listen to ads and you got to choose

(32:15):
your limited skips wisely before you're out of skips too,
So that's a neat feature. But you know what, Spotify,
screw it. I do use iHeartRadio. I'd listen. I'm a
I go up and down the aisle. You know, I'm
neither on the left side of the right side. I
just you know, I want to make sure that everybody
is knows what's going on in the world of technology.

(32:36):
I wan, it's been the final few minutes of this
hour talking about cars. Finally the Ford I was away
long story show. If you haven't, I only I mentioned
this every single week for twenty three years. I test
drive cars, a brand new cars. Okay. I don't get
them from dealership, so I don't need a promoter dealership.
I cannot even tell you a dealership to go to.
I get these directly from manufacturers. They do not pay me.

(32:59):
There's this is total content. I'm a member of the
Texas Auto Writers Association. I get a car, I can
rag on it, I can rem it, I can praise it.
I can do anything I wanted with the thing. That's
that's what I do. Okay, So what was I in
last week? I was in a Nissan Z and I'll

(33:22):
talk a little bit more about that next hour because
I want to talk about evs right now, because this
is we're getting down to n nitti gritty. The end
of this month. The end of this month is September thirtieth.
It ends the federal tax rebates up to seventy five
hundred dollars for a new vehicle and a little less
than that if you want a used electric vehicle. They
go by by. That's just what the Trump administration said

(33:45):
that this has been out there for months, and so
EV sales, which have been very very slow over the
past several months, years, or whatever it is, they're starting
to pick up now because right now prices are discounted,
you're going to get a little rebate, and you're like, like,
you know what, maybe this is a pretty good deal.
I had a cousin of mine. He went out above

(34:06):
two or three weeks show he got a What did
he get? He got a BMW I was it an
I four, went in an I eight. I don't know,
but he got a it was used. But he got
a heck of a deal of these things. And so
if you're thinking about getting a EV now, he got
about ten or eleven days to do it. I on
a separate note happened to be in the Mustang mock E.

(34:29):
Kind of It's not near and dear to my heart,
but it's interesting. The very first electric V I drive
an electric vehicle. Again, Let's put it this way. If
I get an average of sixty to sixty five vehicles
a year to test drive, I get at least once
a week. Sometimes I double up and I get to
a week. Right, I'll have over a thousand vehicles I've
tested in fifteen years. The very very first EV that

(34:51):
I remember driving was the Mustang mock E when it
came out twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two. I'm not sure.
It pulled up to my house. I didn't know what
to do with it. It looked neat. But I'm taking
the word Mustang and I'm like, nope, this is all marketing,
because we know what a Ford Mustang looks like. Ford
Mustang is one of the most classic looking vehicles ever

(35:12):
made on the road ever. Sexy, fast, saucy speedster. This
is not a Mustang. It looks like it looks like
a Ford some just a regular Ford or you know,
Ford type of thing. But they use the tape term
Mustang for marketing. Ooh, it's a Mustang. Don't kid yourself.
It's not the typical Mustang, but it's a Ustan nice car.

(35:34):
I happen to be in the twenty twenty five Select
Mustang Machi five passengers. Seventy three kilowatts per hour usable
battery if anybody cares, anybody knows about that eats or fast.
This thing is roomy. This thing is easy to get into.
I like the way that the shape of it looks.

(35:56):
There's no outward door handles, especially in the backseat. There's
this little button that looks like a little camera that
you pop open, and the door pops open to get
in the back. Three people easily can get in there.
It it's inside, it's it's typical. Ev It's built on
what we call what we call a skateboard. Imagine a

(36:18):
skate A skateboard is flat. There's no reason for that
big drive shaft thing that goes up and down from
the front of the car to the back of the car,
the big hump, if you will, that we all had
for years and years. So it's a scale. It's on
a flat things you can put your feet everything. It's
got a nice fifteen inch touchscreen. It's got about a
ten inch digital instrument cluster and that's the thing that

(36:38):
you see when you're looking through the steering wheel, which
is nice. It has got Ford's Blue Cruise, the one
Ice particularly had, and that's neat that's where and that comes.
There's about what three quarters of a million miles of
highway in the United States that have been mapped out,

(37:01):
and on this car there is radar cameras lidar that
knows where you are with the GPS, so you can
take not only your foot off the gas like cruise,
but you could take the hands off the wheel, which
is why it's called Blue Cruise. Now GM there it's
called super Cruise. This is called Blue Cruise. It's it's
pretty good. So the retail price of this baby was

(37:25):
right about thirty six thousand dollars if you add in
all the options. This is about a forty thousand dollars
Ford Mustang make. And if you get it, I am
not sure if this one qualifies for the full up
to seventy five one hundred dollars rebate that you would
get from the government if you hurry up and get
this thing now. But you can go just do a

(37:45):
little Google in search on ev rebates twenty twenty five.
Some of them you're gonna get seventy five hundred dollars.
Some of them maybe get a few thousand dollars. But
now is the time to do it. I'll say it again.
Evs are very good cars as a second car, Okay,
But for me, as I told you, I drive from
Houston to Austin, I go to football games. I go

(38:05):
to Houston to Dallas to see my parents. I don't
have a lot of patience, period, but I certainly have
range anxiety. The range on this thing. They say it's
two hundred and twenty two, one hundred, whatever it is.
Realistically maybe it's one ninety. At some point I'm gonna
have to stop. I'm gonna have to stop at Madisonville,
I have to stop at a Bucky's. Whatever the neat

(38:26):
thing is. Some now these things are coming with Tesla adapters.
You can go to Tesla chargers because there's much more
Tesla charging network, and that's gonna be the industry standard
one day, actually very soon. These were not built with
the Tesla charger built into the cars, but there's a
Tesla inverter that if you purchase, and this one has

(38:46):
it too. I can pull up to a Tesla, pop
the inverter converter on, and then I can go to
a Tesla charger and charge a Ford. In this case,
is it worth it? You tell me? Will be one
of go for it? What I'd pay more than forty
thousand dollars? Probably not. I don't need two cards right

(39:06):
now because I live alone. The kids are gone out
of the house. They're doing everything, and that's destiny in
the back. But the Mustang Maki, he's very nice, very fast,
very comfortable car. Not a lot of bells and whistles,
nice little power train, warranty, bumper to bumper warranty and everything.
One hundred and seven miles per gallon equivalents. That's how

(39:27):
they measure it with EDS. It's not miles per gallon
because there is no miles per gallon there's no fuel.
This is the equivalent. If there was gas, you get
one hundred and seven miles per gallon equivalent. That's pretty strong.
Then there is a case if you're actually trying to
get an ED, I re number one. Obah, coming back.
I remember two lots more to do and give away

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dar if we really don't have anything other else to
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that way, Brian. But hopefully maybe we'll teach somebody something
Like last segment before the end of the hour, we
were talking about electric vehicles. The time is nigh my people,
because the case for buying an EV has never been stronger.
By the way we are halfway a happy hour, I
forgot to mention that don't drive and drink. EV's not

(42:13):
all of them are self driving. Get somebody to drive
you where. Worry. The case for buying an EV, it's
really never been stronger for right now, but only for
the next nine ten eleven days because the impending expiration
of that federal incentive for EV buyers and the leases
September thirtieth. I've been monitoring this as I usually do.

(42:37):
It's kind of led to an EV buying binge, and
it's really created like now, we're never decision for millions
of Americas, do or die? Do I do it now?
Not yet? What camp are you in? Are you a supercommuter?
Are you anyone hauling heavy loads, long distances? Can you
charge your vehicle at home or at work? A lot

(43:00):
of people are in the market for a used car.
There are reasons people should consider an EV. What factors
to weigh now and even in the future. After September thirtieth,
new EV's can be had for under forty thousand dollars.
I just talked about the Mustang Ford Mustang mach E
I am driving test driving this week. It's right at

(43:22):
forty thousand dollars. Nice car. Go back and listen to
this podcast after the show, give you a review. Many
are from American carmaker. These center forty thousand dollars. There's
a lot of them made in America. There's cheaper ones
made in China, but we ain't getting those here in
the United States. The thing is, you think of evs,
you may think of Tesla, a great Texas based company,

(43:45):
and I'm always pimping Texas. Tesla is no longer the
only option for an affordable high performance EV. There's a
lot of good entry level options GM, Ford, Kia, Hyundai,
They're here now, Subaru, They're coming, They're coming. Zim. Look
at the charging range. The vehicles charge relatively quickly. They

(44:08):
have ranges around three hundred miles, bells and whistles, a
lot of the other interesting stuff that you can get
on them. But how do you know this is for you?
So let me see if I can give you a
little mental exercise to gauge whether an EV might make
sense in your life. How do you actually use your car?

(44:29):
Follow me here. Many people still cite range anxiety as
a reason to avoid evs, and I have range anxiety.
Range anxiety means listen, I only know this. You know,
on the best of days, I'm going to get three
hundred miles worth of electric range. I can go three
hundred miles before I have to stop and charge. It's
that's what the manufacturers is in a real world to

(44:51):
maybe one hundred and ninety maybe two hundred miles. And
so when I'm driving, when I'm test driving an EV
which I probably get once a month, right now, my eyes, yes,
they're on the road, but my eyes they quickly go
down to that digital information cluster and I look, uh oh,
forty percent, thirty nine percent, thirty percent. I'm like, oh, no,
I need to charge this thing. I get anxiety. Man,

(45:14):
God forbid, I'm down in a fifteen percent. I'm freaking out.
The average driver in the US travels thirty three miles
a day. This is according to the Federal Highway Administration
data right now. If you have a plain old wall socket,
actually it's typically enough to recharge that amount of energy
overnight if you go thirty three miles a day, and

(45:37):
it's cheaper than gas potentially where you live. But if
you drive a lot more, you're going to want a
faster charger at home. Maybe your garage doesn't already have
one of those two forty volt socket, all right, that's
the that's what you plug your dryer into, right your
clothes jar. You can call your electrician. You can probably

(45:57):
get it wired up for you. So there's an expense
right there. It's there's some caveats too, EV versus gas complication,
and you got to look at the money, and EV
can save you around probably fifty percent on fuel and maintenance.

(46:20):
When comparing new vehicles, think about it. If there's you
don't need gas, you don't need oil, you don't need
a lot of stuff if you have an electric vehicle.
The average selling price of a new vehicle in the
United States, it's about forty nine thousand dollars. Okay, compare
that to many of the EV models that are under
forty thousand dollars. Sounds pretty affordable.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Now.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Like I said, Ford, Mustang Machie, maybe the Chevy Equinox,
maybe the new Nissan Leaf. They're ready to roll. Evs
have a volt so quickly that older models generally don't
stack up to newest ones. So when the US market,

(47:02):
gas is still king. That's why I say never buy
version one of anything. Wait to version two, version three.
If you went out and you bought a EV years
ago version one, it's like, you know what, they didn't
get a lot of range relatively, they don't have a
lot of bells and whistles, they don't have that cool
big eye popping touch screen infotainment system most of all

(47:26):
of them do. Right now, you wait, how long does
the batteries last? We really don't know. The longevity of
batteries really isn't an issue anymore. Evy batteries are now
likely to outlive the cars that they power. This is
according to you know, a number of dewin to the
different companies. And trust me, I did my research board

(47:48):
GM other startups. You know, they're promising to bring significantly
more affordable new models to market, you know, later next year,
twenty twenty six. And you know we're promised you know,
ev mileage of four hundred miles, faster charging. You just
need to a side. But all I know right now,

(48:08):
at the end of this month, September thirtieth of twenty
twenty five, unless somebody in office extends on his promise
generally like he generally does, the rebates, the federal incentives
are going bye bye. So I'm not telling your rush
out to a dealer, but you got a week and
a half to really consider this something I want. Do

(48:28):
we want a second car? You tell me, and I'd
love to hear from you. If you do, we'll go
out and get one. Tell me which one you got.
This is a conversation. That's why it's called a radio show.
Michael Garfield is the name. Here's the number three four
six two nine eight three nine two six when we
come back. Got some emails over here, Michael, what is
the the the capital of the best smart watch you've

(48:52):
ever tried? Whatever you say, I'm getting it good. I'm
gonna need about two minutes and two says we'll be
back at two. It two. Why I think about that.
I'm Michael Garfild, my Tech Texan Show in the midst

(49:25):
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(49:48):
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Houston market. Right here, Michael is the name of what
we got about again, you know, with thirty five forty
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t e X A N. Did anybody get that new
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(50:30):
Call me maybe I'll pick it up. I don't know.
Tell me how this sound? Tell me how the sound is?
Can you hear me? Three four six nine two six.
I don't have one. I do not plan to get one.
So I would love one of the ney things about
doing a radio show with a call in number, which

(50:51):
a lot of podcasts can't do, won't do. I can
hear from you, I actually can listen. You could say, hey, Michael,
this is neat. This is the greatest phone I've ever have.
It's like, you know what camera's Okay, should have listened
to you should have got an Android or whatever it is.
But you go ahead and call me. Got an email.
Somebody wanted to know what is the best smart watch
on the market period. Very good question. And I test

(51:17):
a lot of relatively good amount of smart watches from
a number of different brands. And I actually was on
my Fox. I do a weekly segment on Fox Austin
Fox Channel seven in Austin on Monday mornings and Good
Morning Austin. And I did it probably about three weeks ago.
And I brought I must have brought a dozen watches

(51:39):
on and I had them all on my wrist. It's like, yo, man,
I feel like I'm in New York City, you know,
like open up with my coat and go, hey man,
you want to buy watch? So I did a number
of different manufacturers and my favorite one. And again it's
this is not a full fledged endorsement over here. I
probably have two favorite ones. Probably have two favorite ones,

(52:00):
one of which I like, Well, I'm gonna give you
the bigger band, dame. I'm gonna go with Samsung. Samsung
always comes out with a watch, the one I use
kind of the most. If I'm wearing My Samsung watch
is probably a year when did I get it? One
to two years old? It's the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra

(52:23):
Ultra and it's a big it's a bigger watch. I
like bigger watches. I'm a dude. I'm a six foot
talld dude. I'm you know, I just want something, madre.
I want something that pops Watches to me. Are they
are pieces of jewelry? You know, by the way, Yeah,
they tell time, and smart watches do a lot of
other things. Smart watches are smarter than just typical fitness

(52:45):
watches that yes, they can. You know, they do more
than just tell you how many steps you're taking or whatever.
You know, they can do your your your pulse, heart rate,
and you know you're you know, almost everything except one
day they'll be doing your blood alcohol level. But I
like the Samsung Watch Ultra. It is a it's a
premium Android smart watch, especially if you're an athlete or

(53:05):
an outdoor enthusiast. I listen, I mean do I am
an I an athlete? In my mind, I am an athlete.
I run or I bike most every single day of
the week. I want to time myself. I do want
to know my heart right, my heartbeat. I want something
that I could PLoP into this swimming pool, get sweat
on and everything. It is durable. It's because it's got

(53:28):
you know, it's got a you could swap out the bands,
but this comes with it. I love it because it
comes with a bright orange. It's not really a burnt orange,
which really would have put me over the top, but
it's a bright orange. It's a bright orange band that
that's not leather, so you could sweat it and wear
it and everything you want you can change it to.
It's got a titanium build, it's got a very durable
sapphire crystal display. It's got a really nice GPS knows

(53:50):
where it's going, and it's got a really nice smooth performance.
It's got where OS W E A R. That's the
operating it's got the wear operating system along with Samsung's
one UI seven all right. It may have been upgraded
since then. Battery life very good because it's larger. It
works with Samsung's health that I do have a Samsung
phone most often all the time. I flip here and there.

(54:13):
It's not the cheapest thing. It came out I think
right around seven hundred dollars. I think it may be
six hundred and fifty dollars right now. If you wait
a little longer holiday season, Amazon Prime Days, maybe you're
gonna find it a little cheaper. It does not have
things that I would add on it. A lot of

(54:34):
the smart whitches. Sometimes we'll have this rotating bezel or
rotating crown, which are kind of fun. Instead of using buttons,
you can kind of rotate the bezel and change the
screen or whatever. This one doesn't have it, which is
you know, it's a good little give and take, you know,
in a situation over there. But it's a bright it's
a sharp display again, the between the battery life, the

(54:55):
band system changing, what have you.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
The door.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
That's one of the two that I wear most frequently.
That's one, so it's the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra. The
other one is from a company that I also like.
It's it's not nearly as big, and you have to
you have to look for it. But it's called one
plus one plus O N E P l U S
all right, And they are on Believe version three right now.

(55:24):
And I think I have version one, two, two R three.
I think I have three right now, not as big,
but I I just think it's seamless. I love good
battery life. It is Android, it's got a dual operating
system architecture. It's got really good health and fitness tracking.

(55:47):
Comprehensive health monitoring. I mean it does my risk, temperature,
follow detection. If I follow it a lot, you know,
it'll call somebody if I want to. Really good accurate GPS,
smooth performance, really user friendly. It's kind of got a
weird app. The app is it's not called one plus that.
The app is for some reason called oh Health, but

(56:07):
very clear interface for how far did I run? How
fast did I run?

Speaker 2 (56:11):
You know?

Speaker 4 (56:12):
And you know you can see the graphs over there too,
so I you know, I think that's good too. They're
cheaper also, the one plus Watch three, as I told you,
the other the Samsung is what six hundred and fifty
bones you can get to one plus Watch three. Let
me take a quick look over here, so I don't
give you the wrong one, uh three hundred and fifty dollars.

(56:37):
So you could almost get two of these for the
price of the other. Nice one I like, which is
the Samsung Watch Ultra Watch. You know again, switchable bands
whatever I think you have to. Well, this is at Walmart.
I go to the one plus. Just go to OnePlus
dot com. I think that's what it is. And again

(56:57):
before I give out bad information, before I get sued
or you know, bob Byger kicks me off. This here way,
Bob Buyer can't touch me here. This is all right?
Radio Is it OnePlus dot com? I just want to
make sure it is one plus dot com O N
E P l U S. And they have phones also,
I use a phone. I use a one plus phone.
So those are the two. So they answer your question.

(57:18):
Those are the two watches that I use. Apple just
came out with another watch. Apple does not send me anything,
so I have no opportunity to review it. So as
far as I know, they are embarrassed and it's a
piece of crap. That's how I decipher Apple. I've been
doing this twenty two years and they still don't let
me try anything. So they're afraid that I can actually

(57:38):
tell the truth. But I do want to test something
before I give you the word to go buy this thing.
So those are the two. So no, I do thank
you for that question, and I appreciate that. When we
come back how health. Speaking of health, how healthy are
you all right? Diet? There are so many new tests,
technological health tests that you can take to check your blood, oxygen,

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your VEO, to what your what's the inside of your
body look like. There's a company here, it's in and
around Houston that will do it. So we're gonna tell
you the benefits of going through some of these tests
coming up right here on the high tech text and show.

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We welcome you back. Michael Garfield has the name, been
doing this for twenty three years right now over the
airwaves across Texas. We do thank you for tuning in.
We have some open phone lines over here, but I'm
not gonna give up the phone number to confuse anything
right now because we right now are gonna talk about
one of my favorite most important topics that I kind
of live by. It's health. You gotta stay young, you

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gotta stay healthy, you gotta stay energetic, just like me people,
And how do I do it? Well? A lot of
coke zero, Now that's really well. You gotta run, you
gotta watch what you eat, but you do have to exercise,
and also you need to test yourself. Listen, I'm not
a spring chicken. On a regular basis. I do go
to a doctor's and I always like, you know, measuring
where I am and of you know, what's what's my
you know, my heart rate and you know what you know,

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what can I improve with what I'm doing. Not too
long ago, I was at a facility on the the
north northwest side of town to check really kind of
my whole body infrastructure, how things, you know, how I
you know, kind of respond to you know, exercise and
what I can improve on. It was called dexa Fit.
Really had an interesting time only was there but gosh

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about an hour and a half didn't take too long,
and I got a full body snapshot of what was
happening with me dexa Fit in the Woodlands. I actually,
you know, trying to promote health. I want to convey
that message to you, and so I'm going to spend
a few minutes right now with Cornell sell Egg. Cornell
is a health coach at the Dexa Fit location in
the Woodlands. Not only that I love this, Cornell, You're

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You're bio is something that I would strive for in
my life over here. I mean, you are a certified
personal trainer of fitness, nutrition, specialists, a spitting instructoral licensed
massage therapist. How big is your business card?

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
I fell into the Health and Fitness UH arena and
fell in love and it became my passion. So it
just continues.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Yeah, it true? Is I mean just by the looks
of you, I mean I looked like I think you
could binge press me. Let's start with this for those unfamiliar,
and I don't know if I did a semi decent
job of explaining what dexafit is in your words, what
is the facility and what's the whole process.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
At dex efit, we do health technology. We do a
Dexa scan, R and MAR testing and VO two max testing.
It's all health technologies that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
People can use to become healthier, to follow their fitness journey,
to to really gauge where they stand as far as
their health is concerned.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
I went through some interesting test. It didn't hurt whatsoever,
but they really measured a lot of things there. I
think believe there's three tests at dexa fit. What does
each one measure in, how do they work and what
kind of info do they give?

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Sure? The Dexa scan is the gold standard basically of
finding out exactly what's going on in your body. You
lay on a bed and an X ray arm basically
X rays you scans your body and through this you'll
find out your body fat, the good fat as well

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as the bad fat. The bad being the visceral fat
that's around your organs. It gives you your bone density,
it gives you a great base where you need to go.
And then the other test we do is the VO
two max test. So the VO two max test, you're
running on treadmill and you're wearing a mask and the

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machine and you're wearing a heart rate monitor and between
your heart rate and the oxygen in and CO two out,
the machine can read your cardiac health. Then the last
test we do is the R and R which is
your resting metabolic rate. So the resting metabolic rate. You're

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breathing into a tube and the computer can tell by
the oxygen in versus the CO two out how much
energy your body is taking at rest. Okay, how many
calories your body needs just for your heart to be,
for your lungs to breathe, for the blood to move
through your veins. Then when we get this number, we're

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able to build. We're able to add for your level
of activity at work, your level of activity exercise, and
then you get a gram total.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
That a great explanation. I personally like that via too,
because you know, I strapped that thing on the mask
of my face. I feel like the six million dollar
man running all sell a health coach dex of Fit
the Woodlands. We'll make sure we give you the phone
number of the website over here too. What type of
person can benefit most from testing a dex off it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Oh, it's really anybody and everybody. I mean we've had
people of all walks of life come in here to measure.
I mean we have people, you know, you have women
with you know that want their bone density because they're
in their fifties. We have bodybuilders coming in that want

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to know where their body fat is. We have people
who started semi glue tithes and they want to keep
track of you know, making sure that they're you know,
there are lean muscles staying on in their bone density
is good. You know, we have an array of of
all types of people that come in to get this

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testing off.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Should a person visit fit for testing, well, we you know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
We recommend that you know, you come and you do
all three tests, you get your baseline. You know, you
know where you're at, you know how to go forward.
And then we recommend the DEXA scan every three months.
You know, three months is long enough to see if
progress is being made, but it's like a short enough
amount of time. So this way you're not like spinning

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your wheels and wasting your.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
Time so much talk about progress and I think as
a coach, as a motivator that you are core now.
I think you probably enjoy sharing results with clients. What
are some of the success stories or what do you
love most about that, you know, giving those results to clients,
especially when they're when they're on the right track.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
It's it's just it's amazing. It's amazing to sit there
and analyze the numbers and see what happens. You know,
everybody has their own story unfolding as we're looking at this.
I mean, we just started seeing people in May. We
just had our grand open a month ago, so now
we're having people return for their three month check. So

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it's just amazing. When you put the number aside by
side to see where they were last time to this time,
you're able to see exactly what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Great success stories without a doubt. I mean I walked
out of there, you know, you know, finding a lot
about my health, my body, what I can't approve, and
it's doe. I heed the advice, and I think everybody do.
Everybody should. And if longtime listens of mine, they know
I'm a runner and I like biking, and you know,
we're only trying to continue this crazy life that we
live in as healthy as as we can. I know,

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dexa Fit is there for that Cornell selling if you don't,
If you don't mind, I'm gonna go ahead and give
out the the website and phone number for people to
call you. It is two eight one six seven seven
thirty nine fifty three two eight one six seven seven
thirty nine fifty three. In the website, particularly for your location,
it's Woodlands dot dexa Fit d e x a f

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T Woodlands dot dexafit dot com and they can get
a hold of you and come in and get all
the information. Sounds good, but I do appreciate your help
and do me a favor, you know, keep keep working out.
I think you're doing well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
This is anti.

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
I love it. We all need anti age too. That thanks, Cordell.
I appreciate it. I really do run my longtime listeners,
know you know, they give me crap all the time.
I don't eat this. I don't eat this. I just
want to kind of live and have some fun. And
I know I really did learn a lot by going
out to that Texa fit location and getting tested Michael's
and a Michael Garfield don't go anywhere. We're gonna be
back as we continue the high Tech test and show

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all across terrestrial radio and Texas and around the world
on I heartradio dot Com. Standby final segment of it

(01:07:10):
this week's high Tech Detection Show. It is Michael Garfield
about to bid you a little adieu. Should you be
listening to this in and around the Houston area and
you want to watch the Lexus Longhorn Games, where am
I gonna be watching it? I always watch my Longhorn games.
If I'm actually not at the game, I go to
Patterson Park. Have ever been to Patterson Park? Beautiful, especially

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this time of year as it gets cooler. Patterson Park
it is on Iten Katie Freeway, just near Shepard all right,
not too tart, too far from downtown Houston, all right,
It is three levels, all wood inside outside, forty plus TVs.
The great Lonnie Schiller, very big name when it comes
to Houston restaurants and famous stuff. He built it, open,

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it runs it right now. It is twenty two to
oh five Patterson Street. Very laid back bar. Got some
food trucks in front. Look really looks like a treehouse.
Smoke cigars in the third level, believe it or not,
only on the third level. Got some arcade games, rooftop
settings inside outside, but a lot of longhorns. They do
gather at every single home game. Kickoff Saturday six pm

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versus Sam Houston. What's up bear Cat? Six o'clock Saturday night.
Go check it out. Patterson Park, twenty two oh five
Patterson Street. And also, dare I say it's also the
official watching spot for the Philadelphia Eagles. If you're an
Eagles fan, you want to gather with all your fellow
Philadelphia Eagles. You know, I could sit here and rag

(01:08:38):
on my Eagles, the Eagles because I have my Cowboys fan.
They pack so many Eagles fans into this thing during
the Eagles games, it's not even funny. I think that
the Eagles Chiefs games they had last week, I had
somebody five hundred Eagles fans. I'm not kidding you, not
getting it, But anyway, let's talk long Horns six o'clock
Saturday night. Go check it out two two oh five

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Patterson Street. Fun. Fun you can bring kids to if
you really want to. But nice cocktail specials and everything.
So hookam Morns is what I say. A few other
things to tie up what else happened this week? When
it comes to the world of technology, I'm really into wearables.
I just about two segments ago, I was talking about
smart watch as somebody wrote in and they wanted to

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know what's my favorite smart watch of all time? And
if you want to know what the answer is, you
can go listen to it on the podcast, which is
gonna be added in about what ten minutes. Callum Yeah,
I go to iHeartRadio dot com or your iHeartRadio app
and look for Michael Garfield that's my name, and look
for September twentieth, twenty twenty five the show, and you

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actually can go to what was that segment six segment
then you can listen to that. I'll tay you my
favorite smart phone, but there's other wearables. Technology is becoming
computers becoming on your body, including glasses and eyewear. Many
of us remember the famous Google glass that was, I
don't want to say a failure. It was brilliant idea

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ten plus years ago. It was before his time. That's
as simple as it is. The reason those didn't take off.
People were not ready for looking at other people who
had a camera in their glasses recording them. They just
weren't ready for More and more companies are coming out

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with these things, including Meta. Meta is the company that's
wholly owned you know, but it's the Mark Zuckerberg company,
right but they own Facebook and Instagram.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
I have a two pair of Meta glasses kind of
the newer anyway, Meta and mister Zuckerberg, they just announced
a new pair another pair of smart glasses with a
little upgrade right now. The current generation of smart glasses
has from Meta is in collaboration with ray Band's owner

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and it's called esselor Lexotica, And that's been around for
a few years and ray Band big name, ex or
Lexatica the name when it comes to glasses and sunglasses.
They really did a good job until now that generation
of glasses that before this announcement this week you could
put them on their sunglasses. They were glasses that you

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could even put your own special lenses in if you
needed real glasses. They had speakers built into the kind
of ears, you know, kind of the ear bud, you know,
type of thing that you connect over years. It had
a camera that the app, you know, you could push
a button on the side of the uh of the glasses.

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It'll take a snapshot, it'll take a three minute video.
Transfer it up to your phone. You could put it
on Instagram whatever. You can play music, and you could
take phone calls with it because it's got a built
in microphone. Did a lot of stuff relatively interactive. This
new version, when I'm getting at it, really takes it
up to the because now there is a small built

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in display that when you're wearing them, you could see.
This harkens back to that original Google glass years and
years ago. So now you could be looking at somebody
and in the upper right hand corner maybe of your
eye your eye vision site, you actually could read your
emails or your text, or the stock market, or the weather,

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or maybe surfing the internet. And also with this announcement
can be controlled by these small hand movements. If you
wear this wrists strap, which is called the neural band
neural bands. That's pretty big advancement. The company, to me,

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is betting that these smart glasses are going to be
the next big computing device because there is growing success
in this category. Alasis isn't a prototype. This is actually here.
The glasses and the neural band go on sale the
end of this month, September. Seven dollars. That's steep. It's

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pretty steep or what it is. I haven't tried it yet.
I'm hoping Meta Seora, Exotica, ray Ban, somebody sends me
a pair so I can test wagon review them on
my TV segment radio show, and I'll tell you what's
going on. The previous version were about three hundred dollars

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that you can still take pictures and still see. If
you want to put your toe in the water of
a wearable on your face, go get the older version
for three hundred dollars. Can't give you my thoughts yet,
because you know, I haven't tried these new ones, but
such is what I talk about. What's new of all
the things that I cover, the things that really pump me,

(01:13:55):
I like cars, trucks, the technology there phones and watches.
It's it's getting kind of old to me. I haven't
seen anything that's really really rolled out new. It's oh,
here's another chocolate bar phone, or here's a phone that
folds a folds. Okay, whooped to do? We've done this.
Wear bulls are neat and I was really excited this
past January at CES I met the folks at x

(01:14:18):
ex looral Exotica. They got me a pair of these
metas I wear them semi often. This one seems like
I could do even more because now I can wear
them and see what's going on with the web in
the messages remains to be seen pun intended of what's
going to happen, whether these are at theater one hundred

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dollars at some point maybe I will tell you with
that call them what you say? Well, what do we say?
Let's wrap up the show two hours? You give them
this for twenty three years, Bringston, Texas and now heard
all over the world. I mean, iHeartRadio. Wrap. Michael Garfield
is the name. It is called the High Tech textan
show which you want to see some of the TV
segments that I do all across the country and syndicated format.

(01:14:59):
You can go website high tech textan dot com speilt
the whole thing out if you won't make to review,
give you my thoughts on something that you haven't heard.
Pop me a note. It is on that website between
now and then next week when I am here next weekend.
Have a safe week, enjoy the football, pray for Pula weather,
and start hoarding your Halloween candy, especially Reese's so I

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can start snacking on that. My name is Michael Guarthook.
I really do appreciate you tuning in for all these
years until next week. Have fun, be safe, because my
show is over