Father’s Day Finds

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Is Michael Garfild Michael Garfield.

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It is June of my Friends, which means one thing.
I'm ready for my Father's BA and I'm sure you
are too if you are a father coming up. What
do we gotta We got about two weeks. People, take
care of your dad's I hope my dad is not
listening in Dallas right now because we were going to
go through at some point. I love this show, taking

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your questions in your calls of the technology or non
technology Father's Day gifts, and oh, by the way, if
you're a graduate, I've got some stuff for you too.
Michael is the name if you haven't figured that out
the long running High Deck Textan show. Yes, we do
talk and answer your questions and give you some recommendations

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on products that go beep and buzz and they need
charging in batteries. But I also talk about and review cars.
Oh man, I was in a big, old, unbelievable expensive Mama.
If you are interested in getting dad, or you're graduate
a one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars big ol'd mama electric suv, I've got the thing

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for you. I was in the Cadillac Escalade IQ Luxury
Too version. By the way, yes it is not cheap,
but pound for pound every week, I as you probably know,
if you're a longtime listener, I do test drive a
brand new vehicle from random manufacting. Not random, but dozens

(02:10):
of different manufacturers. It's not up to me to choose.
They actually send it to me. I don't get paid.
It's my two cents. Done it. For fifteen years, I
have done about a thousand and I'm not kidding. If
you multipled out a thousand different vehicle reviews, evs, SUV,
sports cars, many evans, it goes on and on or not.
This year twenty twenty, we're almost halfway through twenty twenty five.

(02:33):
This probably my top three or four vehicle that I've
driven in terms of luxury man, they have some features
in this thing that that even blew me away. I
will give you that full review of my thoughts. Why
maybe you need to start saving some shekels to uh
and then maybe maybe just I know, sell two or
three of your kids, morgage your entire home. This this

(02:55):
vehicle is so big you probably could live in here
if you live alone. We will talk about that. I'm
let me give you the phone number to start everything off.
Callum read on the other side of that glass. He
may answer your phone calls. If he doesn't, and if
it rolls over to voicemail, leave a voicemail. We have
a right to play your voice and I can then
answer your questions. We don't want to keep you holding

(03:17):
too much. Three four six two nine eight three nine,
which is three four six twenty nine texts in Just
call say hi, ask me some questions. If you want
to wish Dad an early happy Father's Day, leave a
message to talk to me. I will give Dad a
shout out like You can also reach me on social media,

(03:37):
which I try to have corded the market, which not really,
but I do have a nice following thanks to you.
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Hi g h T E C h T e x
A N Facebook unless I have walked you more than
happy to hear from you some of the things that
we are going to talk about. Last last week I
talked semi extensively about in Austin what cotwall this state

(04:03):
legislature was going on. There was a bill that would
have banned social media from miners under eighteen years old.
That bill did not pass Earlier this week. I will
tell you why, what could it have meant? Also tell
you why now maybe the time to buy a phone.

(04:28):
That's right, despite all the tariffs and all the threat
of tariffs coming in from other countries, including China. I
got I'm reading some reports and I'm sipping through the
you know, the reading inside the tea leaves. If you want,
this may be the good time to get your butt
out and buy the phone. Maybe a late Mother's Day gift.
Maybe you don't want to get that graduate Hey, you know, listen,

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I had to go all through high school with this
crappy hand me down phone, you know, mom, dad, grandmother
or something. Don't you think it's time for me to
get a phone. I will tell you about that. I
got some cool apps to help your life, you know,
be a little bit more seamlessly. And also, don't forget
this is a big time of the year now that
it's summer for people to move, buying new homes, renting

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new homes. I get this question pretty often, certainly this
time of year more than others. When you move out
of a home, what do you do with the smart
home technology? Do you move it with you? Do you
leave it for the next homeowner? If you own the

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house and then you sell it, can you take some
of it? How tough is it to remove thermostats, smart
light bulbs, change your pass world passwords? What's the process
of teaching the new owner how to use this stuff?
Are you? Are you obligated to give them lessons on well,

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how to use this, how to use that? Very good questions.
We'll talk about some of the things in your home
that you may forget that's smart. You may have even
forgot that there, You may even forgot how to use
them yourself. And so we will get through that sometimes
between now and in the NBA's show, which is about
two hours from right now. So whether you're listening in Houston,
San Antonio, Dallas, terrestrially sometime this weekend, or if you're

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listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can download that free app.
There's an app that's going to change your life. You
can also listen to the podcast once we finish this
two hour show. My man Callum he puts it up
not on the burg but he puts it somewhere on
a server that you can download and listen and send
it to your friends over and over again. We do

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have one or two gift cards to give away. We
love restaurants now that school is out, now that the
cost of living and the cost of meals continue to escalate.
I bang on doors of my good friends who own restaurants, going, hey, man,
can we give some stuff away? Yes, we do. We
do have some gift cards from Cobo Bob's. Oh, just
one of my favorites. I love Cobo Bob certainly. Four

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locations in Houston, eight or nine in Austin. We've got
some in San Antonio, none in Dallas, so you can
travel should you end it up there. Bred Zeppelin too,
if you've never been to Bread Zeppelin. Oh that's phenomenal salads,
bread fresh break. We've got that for you too. I
will take your calls. Looks like we've got a few
on the line, but you do have to hold on
to the second segment, so don't go anywhere again. Michael

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Garfield is the name Garf. If we are tight three
four six twenty nine Texan. When we come back, I
will tell you where to see me. This coming Monday morning,
I do a regular weekly TV actually several TV gigs.
I will be showing off a good four or five,
maybe six fun products to give you some Father's Day

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gift ideas. Even though I'll kind of bury the lead
and tell you what I'm gonna show off and think
to give you some ideas. Some of them aren't too expensive.
Some of them Dad may want. Some of them Dad's
never even heard of. But I'll tell you what. They're
gonna be much better than the typical Father's Day gifts
that I used to give my father, which were a
sleeve of golf balls and a coffee mug, which, by

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the way, my kids, if you are of a certain age,
gave me the same thing too. My kids, I got
a tie which I don't wear, and a coffee mug
which I don't drink coffee. We're gonna personalize things for
you a little bit here on the High Tech Texting Show,
it is mister Michael Garfield. I do thank you for
tuning in. Fire up, hang on, we'll be back in

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a be a minute. On the Hiway Saxon Show, I
want to get things started off quickly. Told you I
got a few things to give away. Man, Why plots around, man,
Let's just take it. Put the pedal to the battle. People.
I'm men. Give you a call, give me your phone number,
call on number ten. What do you want to give away? First?
Let's do bread bread Zeppelin. I know locate you if

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you're in Houston. They got one location, at least one
location that I know of that I go to quite regularly.
It's on Highway fifty nine Southless Freeway, right inside the Loop,
right across from the Oasis of Love. Yes, you never know,
Joel Ostein could walk in there too. They ask for
some money to actually get one of the sandwiches, but
you can treat him to lunch with this gift card.
I'm gonna give you color number ten right now. Talk

(09:13):
to me seven to one three two one two five
nine five Oh, color number ten? You got? You got?
I think it's a is it a fifteen or a
twenty five dollars gift card? Either way, man, it takes
care of lunch or dinner. You go in, you get
one of their wonderful salads. If you want their bread sandwich,
they think they bake this fresh French bread and then
they kind of take the the chewy. They hold it

(09:36):
out if you will, so it's hollow. They shove one
of fifteen made salads whichever you want, and so when
you eat it, you're eating like, you know, this awesome
caesar salad with chicken, but it's wrapped around this bread.
You can also get a bread bull if you want
to too. Phone number seven one three two one two
five nine five. Oh, we have a we have a
winter throws up yep up. Sorry, hang out people, we

(09:58):
got a winner. We got a winter. Don't worry. We
got another gift card to another another wonderful restaurant next hour.
This is what we do. It's radio people. We want
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(10:19):
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We make, we make tech, we make technology sexy. It's

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it's it's tech yology for the high tech Texan. I
actually should trademark up. We should put that on a
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I don't think I have a Texas accent. Does anybody
think I have a Texas accent? I know my mother's
got a Texas actor. She's from Austin. Talks a letter
with that Texas trying very cute. I grew up on TV.

(11:02):
I'm surprised I don't have a Cuban accent because I
grew up watching I love Lucy Now. But it's tech
yaw ledge here on the High Tech Textan show. Uh.
Last week I talked quite a bit about this. I
try not to delve into politics, and I'm serious about that.
I mean, it's very you know, if I talk politics,
I'm gonna get myself in trouble because I just don't
know much about politics. But there are some political things

(11:25):
that obviously revolve around technology products, gadgets, and you know
how you know the government oversees them. You know, the
TikTok ban. Obviously there is there going to be a
bann or not. That's a government. That's a pop political
thing too. Right, Well, there was a bill last week
in the legislature of the state of Texas that would

(11:48):
have banned social media for minors for kids under eighteen.
Exis was poised to pass into law what would have
been in one of the most restrictive sets of social
media rules for miners, pretty much making it illegal for
those under eighteen to be on social media. But breaking news,

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it failed, actually failed on a technicality when the legislature
ended its session just ahead of a key vote. You see,
this is why I just don't get into politics. Man.
All this stuff is rigged, isn't it. House Bill one
eighty six. It would have prohibited miners from creating new
social media accounts on things like TikTok and Instagram and

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x see. The legislation also would have required age verification
for everyone else creating a new account, I don't care
if you're forty or fifty or sixty, you would have
had to verify your age. But under this legislation, parents
could ask for a miner's social media account to be
deleted and a platform would be required to remove it

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within ten days. The lawmakers who supported the bills that
it would hound through the mental health harm that social
media hoses to team. The bill did pass in the
House of Representatives, needed to pass the Texas Senate and
get a signature from Governor Greg Abbott. Now, there was
a similar law that passed in Utah last year, but

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it was blocked a few months later. It did not pass.
Would have gone to defect September first, and let me
stop here and if you want a weigh in, feel
free hit me on social media because I'm over eighteen.
See what I did there? Three four, six, twenty nine
texted let's let's look at this two ways. Imagine this
thing would have passed. And your if your a parent

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listening to one now, or your grandparents and in someone
in your family under eighteen lives and breathe on social media,
which they probably do. They didn't take their phone off,
the fun away from their face. They're always looking down
their thumbs and all kind of hurt, and they're and
slings up because all they do is they're they're tiktoking
away and their Instagram away to everything. Imagine if they've
been on there two, three, four, five years but they're

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still under eighteen years old. Imagining them after you delete
legally their social media account. If this had passed, Take
the temperature in your house, how heated of a battle

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would it have been between mom and dad and the
teenage son or daughter. And then you do it. You
got two or three kids who you have wiped out
and deleted the history of their TikTok, Instagram and X.
That alone scares me. Talk about mental health harm, I'm

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talking physical health harm. If our parents, man, I put
my running shoes on it, just get ready to roll, baby.
That's number one. But then let's say leok's look at
the older folks. Okay, I mean listen, If you're of
age right now, odds are I'm guessing you probably have

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at least one social media account. I have a lot
of them. I don't have TikTok. For example, I'm not
on TikTok. Let's say all of a sudden one day that, Okay,
I'm gonna jump on the barnwagon. Man, I'm gonna get
the final, final, final social media account that I never have.
I'm gonna get TikTok. Well, gosh, I'm gonna have to
get on that. I'm gonna have to bear. What am
I supposed to do? I don't know the age verification process?

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Am I gonna have to now take a photo of
my driver's license and upload it to TikTok, which I
know is currently owned by a Chinese company. Oh? I
want to do that? I'm not sure. That's a tough one.
Those are the effects in my mind. And that's just
I'm dead. That's just top of the heap that's coming

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to mind right now. I mean, this law, it's been
challenged in courts and provisions, and not only here Texas,
as I said in Utah. So I don't know who
started it, what what have I made? But at the
end of the day, I guess do we take a

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breather or do and as we get the break over here,
do you fight the fight again September when legislation starts again,
are you like, well, let's get it on because I
don't want my kid on there legally, you know what.
And here's my final thought about this. And my kids

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are in their twenties and my oldest is gonna be
thirty one this year. I didn't have to live through
this is social media when they were young wasn't merely
as big to all my three boys. I don't have
any girls. I have three boys, so I didn't have
I I never had to worry, you know. My concern was,

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at what age do they get a cell phone? At
what age do they get their own computered? Are they
allowed to take their own computer lap up in their
room without mom and dad looking over their shoulder? Do
we want to get driver's license? Things like that. It
is so tough being a parent today. It's it's I

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can't even imagine. I have empathy for you parents right
now who have teenage kids, of the mental potential harm
that they see by going on social media. It stressed.
It does stress me out. I use it a lot
for my business. I there are so many other people

(17:33):
who do similar things to what I do. They review
technology and they write blogs, they do with other step
and to me, it's like how do they beat me
to the punch? How do they get this press release?
And I didn't get this press release. I had this review,
but I was not supposed to publish it until this
time because I was under an embargo. It stresses me
out just for that. I'm not even I'm not even
in high school where things get even more heated. And
you know how this person looks at me over here

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and I have too much makeup on ever hair, and
my hair is done of it. It's very, very tough.
God bless your parents. You have a tough battle. Did
this failure of house build one eighty six, which would
have prohibit and made it illegal for those under eighteen
to be in social media? Did it help or hurt

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you raising your kids? Phone number three four six twenty
nine texts. As we continue a wonderful show hanging there,
don't move family time on the high tech textan show.
I'll explain Michael Garfield, I hope for having a good weekend.
If you're listening on the weekend, not only across Texas

(18:39):
but around the world, thank you for tuning in or
downloading the radio show. It's actually a radio show that's
been recorded which then is on a podcast, So it's
actually a radio show. Kids, if you don't know what
radio is, it's like a podcast, but it's live or
plausibly live that is broadcasted over the airwaves. That's what
a radio is. But then it's recorded and then you

(19:01):
get downloaded via iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple or wherever. Award winning
podcast or heard these kids that are And it's sad
when the next generation they don't even know it radio is.
I actually got into the side note over here this
it's I I love talking about generations because when I
cover and recommend and try to make you understand how

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rapidly the world of technology and gadgets and laws and
rules and and just everything works, there's there is a
generation there. There are my parents who are are in
their eighties and who are very very smart. I mean
I learned most everything that I got from my dad,
who's an electrical engineer, and I mean he built, you know, televisions,

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he did he's kicked back of the day. I mean,
he's very well tuned to what's going on. And then
we've got my generation Gen X, Generation X if you will, okay, yeah,
so we you know it was we he did not
go to college with cell phones. We had him after college.
To this generation, millennials will do whatever. I don't know,
Jim ABC, whatever you call these kids nowadays, I mean

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they were born with I think they popped out of
the womb and I you know, I think they already
had a datas and sell his phone plan already already,
you know they're subscribe to it. So I want to
talk about TV. I was watching with a buddy of
mine who who was He's also in radio. He was
in TV with me. Actually, my very first job in

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local TV was on Channel two in Houston, the NBC affiliate,
back in two thousand. I was on the morning show
where I created the high tech text and my friend
Don was the was a morning anchor, and we continued
this day to be good friends. He was over at
my house earlier this week and he's he's older than me.
He's a good he's a good fifteen years older than me.
Doesn't know. He does not look like it and he
certainly doesn't act like it. And we were watching the

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Nightly News at five thirty Central time here on NBC,
which as of last Friday was called NBC Nightly News
with Lester Holt I've long watched five thirty news. It's
the national news. I go back to the heater Jennings
Dan rather those times, those were journalists, man, that was

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the time, without a doubt. And then recently, obviously we've
got David you were on ABC. But the Lester Holt,
I'm a big Leicester Holt fan. Lester Holt, if you
didn't know, retired from the NBC Nightly News, not from NBC,
but he as of last Friday, he is not no
longer the anchor and managing editor. Tom Yamas is the

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new nightly news anchor and managing editor as the last Monday.
So if you look in the your online guide at
five point thirty on NBC, you're gonna see NBC Nightly
News with Tom Yamas. I like Tommy Yamas. He's been
a good reporter. I've seen him do it and so
I've watched him in the first few days of this week.
So my buddy and that we were done and I
were just watching these things and we're talking about who

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watches the nightly news. I don't want you to think
about this, And if you want to weigh in people
you know, feel free you can email me. Michael Garfield
at iHeartMedia dot com. You can call in right now
three four six two nine eight three nine six, or
go to you find me on x You can find
me on Instagram or whatever on High Tech Texas. Who

(22:24):
watches it? I watch it. My buddy Don watches it.
Because we're fifty and older and we're kind of talking
about do kids don't even know? I don't think nightly
news exists. My three boys, maybe my oldest is thirty,
he's aware of it. But generation, the new generation, they

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don't consume news like that. They may not even have
a TV. They get their news TikTok, scrolling Instagram, listening
to a podcast, rumor at the coffee shop, even though
you shouldn't be drinking coffee if you're under freaking eighteen
at least. But that's just old school me. But that's

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what they do do. They watch the nightly news and
sit down. And then we're watching the nightly news and
we talked about how much it's changed, you know, let's
go back. I go back to Peter Jennings, who was
I mean to me that he was ABC News and
Dan rather CBS, uh, and it's it's those were the

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times in the days where there was nightly news and yes,
there was death and there was destruction and whatever. Now
NBC always ends it with and the good news tonight,
which okay, I can see what they're trying to do.
They're trying to position or what will. But nowadays it
was look at the opening. Do you if you listen
to the top of my show thirty minutes ago when

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I opened it up, did you hear when ie how
I opened the show? And what we do in media,
we learn you have to tease. It's called the tea's
You have to give people a little idea of what
you're gonna hear and what you're gonna watch. And my
teas was it's Father's Day, it's graduate, it's graduates. I'm
gonna talk about some of the things to review, and
I'm gonna talk about Oh, by the way, now maybe
the time to buy a phone, and I'll tell you why.

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And by the way, do you have a smart home?
If you're getting ready to move, do you take the
smart features out of your home and move them with
you or you leave it? That was a tease and
I will pay them off between now in the next
hour and twenty minutes, I'll talk about it the nightly
news on NBC go. I'd love them. It's only thirty minutes.
There was a solid two minutes, if not two and

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a half minutes of the tease donning a dun dun
donner a dun dun d day, Good evening, I'm Tom
Yamas tonight on the NBC. And even five seconds here boom,
tornadoes sweeping across a scrunchy boom, the fire bomber in Colorado. Boom,
Trump did this, boom, Elon must did this. But and

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it kept going on. I'm like, are you gonna start
the freaking news? Then they do about four I tell you,
I three stories. The second story is alive reporter somewhere
where they do a talk back. Tommy almost ask them
a question. Then there's the commercials. Let's talk about commercials. Listen.
I love commercials. Commercials are the reason we exist on radio.

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By the way, we're gonna take a commercial break, probably
in about another five minutes, and we do appreciate you
shopping and taking our advice of whatever you hear. By
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That's why commercials exist. You know what type of commercials
almost solely or on the nightly news. Think about it.
Pharmaceutical ads. Pharmaceutical ads. This person's got indigestion, this person's
got a prostate issue. This person can't conceive this person
getting whatever it is. Why it's because the demographic of

(25:58):
who watches the freaking nightly news. Anybody who's of age
forty fifty sixties and you keep on going. They're on
some sort of a mitigation. Why not reach where you're
going to exactly? I dig it. I don't mind. It's
other than you know, it's it's free. I don't pay
a subscription specifically for NBC, ABC and CBS to watch

(26:18):
the MIV news. Yes, I play a subscription for my cable.
I can get it for free over the air. It's
what you get. You are not paying for this radio
station right now. It is free. Our gift to you,
thank you Marconi for creating radio. It is free. All
we ask is that you take a few minutes of
time each hour and just listen to our commercials and
then we get back into content. Anyway, maybe this is

(26:41):
a rant. It's just times have changed. And I guess
the what Don and I and these two curmudgety old
got Well I'm not old. But anyway, we came to
surmise that at what point does national TV news and
for that point, maybe local TV news just not exist?

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And I'll open it up as we get to a
commercial break coming up here. At what point are is
the technology that you use on a regular basis doesn't exist?
Cars and vehicles or technology. That's why I review them,
and I have reviewed them for fifteen years. If you
have a new car that's certainly fifteen years old and

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with one hundred percent, well certainly ten years old and
no more the bells, the whistles, the cameras, the sensors,
it is technology on top of technology. It helps us
to drive, It helps us try to avoid res and
accidents and incidents with the safety features what have you.

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But when will it become obsolete that we don't dip
behind the driver's wheel. When aren't we in that driver's seat?
And that's where the self driving veles come in, folks.
That's a segue because when we come back, we're going
to talk about self draw self driving vehicles, specifically ride
sharing vehicles. Ride sharing because the state of Texas, I'm

(28:08):
not saying, was one of the last to adopt it.
But if you are in the major cities of Houston,
in Dallas, and absolutely Austin, and Austin is the key
out of ground because driverless ride sharing companies are all
over the place. And that's right if you haven't seen
them around Houston. Way Moo is one of them, just
launched in Houston, in Dallas too, But we're gonna talk

(28:28):
specifically about Austin and a few more cities. Would you
trust that would you get behind a car? And in
your lifetime would you ever buy a vehicle that doesn't
even have a steering wheell it just lets AI and
robots and really the hand in trust of God to
get you from point A to point B. That's some

(28:50):
of the things where we happen about it right here.
Michael Garfield is the name. It is Deep high Tech
Texan Shoo money. How I go down one path, I
start talking and then I go just got a zig zag.
Michael Garthur. We're back the final segment, this first hour
of the High Tech Texting Show. Happy first full week

(29:12):
of June, two weeks to Father's Day. And I don't
even know if I'd even recommended one Father's Day get
yet I'm getting on your emails, what phone, what TV?
What car? Oh? I got it? I got one about
someone wants to car wants me to Okay, there are
suggestion there about the BUYO more than I could answer.
That's the standby. I was talking about kids and families
and generations. How technology skips this generation, how the generation

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or two before is they don't know what a newspaper
you know? It goes on and on. I was getting
with this. I saw this. I have three of my
longtime very good friends, their neighbors. I grew up with them,
all of our kids pretty much the same age. There
was like four families that hung out together, and I

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was one of the families, and these three other families
that those three of the four families now have one
of the kids who are engaged to be married. And
it all happened within about a month and a half
of each other. Recently, I am the only one. None
of my kids have got engaged and I'm cool with that.
There's no rush whatsoever. So we got weddings next year.

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Got boom, boom boom. We got three weddings next year. Simpoint,
who are the same age as my kids? Which is fine.
I mean they're they're in their upper twenties and they're
all working, and then that's fine, that's great. They should
be started family. Great. Byway, we're going to you know,
I got I gotta start. It's so sad going the
wedding alone. Anybody want to go to a wedding with
me next year? Stand by? Say look, this is my

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on air dating app instead of online dating app. Hey,
that's actually a good idea. Tell them right dead down
what I'm gonna start a segment. I'm gonna I'm gonna
start the first on air. Does anybody ever do an
on air dating app? I don't know. We'll talk about
that anyway, got three weddings next year, And what do
you what do you get for presents? Something that I
certainly know of because my job is to suggest gift giving.

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But I saw this, I guess you've been out of
the loop. I don't go to a lot of weddings.
And here's the headline I'm gonna I'm gonna give credit
to the USA today. Forget the registry. Belples want wedding
guests to help with their home down payment. Number one,
the average wedding cost. Anyone, any guesses, and he guesses

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over under the average cost? Think about it? Yeah, five seconds.
What's the cost average wedding? Thirty six thousand dollars? Average
home down payment? Buy a home? What's the average home
down payment? Anyone hint? It's more than a wedding anyone?

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Fifty five thousand dollars. This is according to real estate data. Okay,
rising interest cost inflation? All right, can you have? Can
you have a wedding averaging thirty six dollars? Then you
want to buy a home? Fifty five thousand dollars? Just
put down payment. So apparently there's a rising number of

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engaged couples who want cash for a house from their
wedding guest. Hey, forget about the air fryers. Hey, you
know that fancy gravy bowl that we want registered to,
you know, for over there at at the store. Nope,
don't worry about it. I need a blender. Oh, I
want a blender in some kitchen towels. Ah, I want

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some cold, hard cash because we want to put a
house for sale. Here's a survey. Six thousand couples were registered.
Eighty seven percent are asking for cash, forty one percent
specifically requesting it for a home down payment. Man, times

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have changed. I guess now instead of recommending which type
of air fryer or blender, or which I can do,
I'm gonna say, well, here's a good mortgage rate. Why
don't you go with this bank, And I'm gonna go
ahead and deposit something for you. It's just it's just cold,
you know what, people I I I love gift cards.

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If somebody wants to get me a gift, I love
a gift card because I can use it for whatever
I want. But a lot of people think it's just
so impersonal. I want to give something that they will
that you really want. Really, I don't want to look
a gift horse in the mouth. But I had a

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had a birthday earlier this year, and and I am
not kidding it. I got a nice little amount of gifts.
I probably got a dozen gifts or so. I didn't
ask for these gifts. Whatever, We've really good friends. Every
single gift was a bottle of bourbon? Why? Because they

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know I love bourbon. I'm a bourbon kind of sewer.
I collect bourbon, I display bourbon, I teach bourbon cool.
And most all of them were small brands I have
yet never heard of, and I've wanted to try. It's
just awesome. And I sat there the next day counting

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my blessings just to have friends like that in the thoughtfulness.
But I'm thinking, man, how much more bourbon do I need?
I mean, I got more bourbon that I could actually
host a wedding or do it by myself. Maybe you know,
I would have liked some running shoes from my cabin.

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You know, maybe there is something, I mean, gift car
would be nice. Gosh. I hope nobody who gave me
a bottle of bourbon is listening right now, because I
love you, and I thank you, and come over and
have a drink with me. The point is it's just
mortgage down payment for mortgages. Yes, it's cold, but the
point is I can appreciate these kids who actually wanting
to move move into a home and trying to do

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things that will help them. It is not cheap. There
is nothing really that is inexpensive in the world, and
certainly what is going down in the United States of
our great America. Why not how many times there is not?
It may be again, I haven't had a kid who
got married yet or got engaged yet, but all three

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of my buddies who has kids getting who just got
they got engaged, every single one, and easily with the
past ten fifteen years. When I have other friends who've
gotten their kids are getting engaged. I don't know if
the joke or not, but they always say I offered
him money instead of a wedding. They could have a
money or they could have a wedding, and you know,

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it's kind of a joke. It's like wedding like that.
But apparently, at least the friends I hang out with,
they all want a wedding. They want the bride to
be wearing wine, they want to walk down the AIP
doesn't need to be fans, he doesn't need to be extravagant.
Maybe they want to have only fifteen to twenty people.
Some of them they want four hundred people whatever. Nope,
they want it. And there's the parents shaking their heads.

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I told them I'd give I'd write them a check instead.
Of the wedding. Nope, you know kicks. Uncle Gurphy's got
the little news for you. Over here you found your
love of your life. Hopefully take the freaking money. Mom

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and Dad want to help out. Parents want to help out,
and you think you want a wedding that averages what
did I just say? Thirty six thousand dollars? Even if
mom and Dad offer you half in cash, Hey, you
could up with thirty six dollars the wedding or just
you know, screw it. Was just I don't want to
go through the rigg road. Just here, take take eighteen thousand,
Take three, take the cash, take the cat, have some

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friend and then come out to my house and celebrate
with bourbon. Once again. Michael Garfield to freaking rescue, figuring
out your life for you. What else I can do?
I hope you had the good first hour. Next hour,
I promise to get down to the nitty gritty. I'm
gonna tell you some ideas for Dad's day. I'm going

(37:17):
to tell you why now may indeed be the time
to buy a phone, despite the fact that tariffs may
be here. And then I'll give you some phones together.
There's a TV somebody wants to know about a car.
I'll give the car this dude who wrote me an email.
I'll actually read the email. I'll suppress the name though.
I want to hang out with this dude. He hadn't
bought a car in eighteen years. I'll tell you how

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much you getting ready to spend on the car. All
back I'll give away, and your questions coming up an
hour two A deep Ideas.

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The high Tech Texts and people. One hour down, one
hour ago, which means we are half wait happy hour.
What are you talking about the first week of June? People,
it's happy hour all day, open up by the fool, listening,
having a cocktail, not driving as you should. I talked
about bourbon this last segment, but I love bourbon. I'm

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a bourbon. I'm a bourbon snob. I'm happy to say it.
It's the only thing I'm snobbish about. Really. I collect bourbon.
I drink bourbon. Bourbon is not a it's not a
drink to drink at the pool. It's just to me.
Try to avoid bourbon in any brown water during the day.

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It's just not you don't want to mix that with sun,
and it's just you don't want to do that. And
actually you probably never want to drink bourbon. It is
so people think it's a quiet taste, it's a sipping
thing and it'll get you jacked up. And that's not
a pun because Jack Daniels is not a bourbon. And
if you know anything about anything, you know that is

(39:40):
a true fact. Michael with a name, Michael Garfield. Let
me give you a phone number to say hi, ask questions.
Father's Day is coming up, by the way. If Dad
likes bourbon brown water, why don't you love to hear
from you? More than happy to give you a few
brown a few brand suggestions. I just don't do tech.
I do bourbon. I do spirits three four six twenty nine,

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Texan three four six two nine eight three, nine two six,
Hello to Houston, San Antonio in Dallas. If you're listening
terrestrially over the era radio on iHeartRadio. If nine you
can download the iHeartRadio app, which you may already have,
and you're listening to me somewhere around the world. It
is a worldwide show speaking of spirits, found a new
spirit to drink. It is a It's a rum. I

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like rum, very very sugary, obviously, because by nature it's
either you know, it's either molasses, believe it or not.
Most all rooms are made up from molasses. Some you're
gonna find pure sugar. Can uh. This is not an
endorsement over there, but CARDI happens to make this and
I do not. There may be other brands that make it.
It is called it's a dragonberry flavor. I'm not getting you,

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and I think I don't even know is dragonberry an
actual fruit? Somebody googled that for me. I think my
vegan son likes dragon bearer. I'm not sure. I don't
even know, but I don't know what dragon bear is.
It's it's dairy, fake flavored. It's very sweet because it's rum. Oh,
it's good it's good. Put a little lemonade in there.
Put a little diet grape soda. Oh, it's good. That's

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that is. That's a pool time drink. Don't drink brown
water during the day. Drink something like that. Something sweet,
you know, Pi nikolata is whatever like that. I like
this dragonberry type of thing. Just a little something from
me to you. Three four six twenty nine. Texan Father's
Days coming up this coming Monday, if you were in Austin,
I will be on Fox seven as I am every

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Monday morning with my little high Tech Texan Report segment.
I'm going to be showing off a number of different
Father's Day gift ideas. Some of them are not too expensive.
Nothing's really really too I mean, I'm not showing off
a car. Nothing's too expensive. One of which is a
brand new tablet and is not an iPad because I

(41:58):
really don't do Apple things. And I'm allowed to say
it right now because I was under embargo. I couldn't
say or even mention it until last Thursday of June fifth,
But now I had I've had it for at least
a week and a half, but I couldn't talk about it.
I can now I'll be showing off. It's a company
called one plus, which I'm very familiar with. I like

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one plus O N E P l U S. It
is a company out of China. I have at least
the last two iterations of their smart watch, which I
really like. I also have passed two or three of
their phones. I think they're on the one plus thirteen
great Android phone, like not. They just came out with
their third version of their tablet. It is called the

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one plus Pad three brilliant Android based tablet, great bright screen,
easy to use. I've got a little an e pen,
a little electric pencil that I could sit there, and
I don't use those things a lot. I think that's
an oh. By the way, you don't need to spend
extra on that. I also got a little uh detachable keyboard,

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which is nice. I particularly don't use tablets for typing
massive things. I usually I use tablets mostly when I'm
gonna I always take it on a plane because that's it.
I got a twelve inch high colored bright screen touchscreen
to watch movies, live TV and everything when I'm on
my Southwest Airlines. Uh. Really good battery of life for this,

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and very durable and in certainly when you look at
the price, you know, compared to you know, the iPads, these,
I think these these, I think it run's about I
think it's six hundred dollars chick out. It's one plus
dot com one plus three. That's what it is now.

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They're always gonna have some specials in deal too. That's
one of the things I'm gonna talk about. Get that
a tablet don't have the new fangles setting up computers
or laptops side, but they also have lap Do you
want a laptop and all on one computers? I got
that too. What else am I bringing? I am bringing
some headphones. Dad may want some headphones. Dad may not like.

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But these are also for graduates too. Dads and grads.
They may not want earbuds, they want headphones full have us.
You do not need to spend an arm in a
leg for headphones. Oh yeah, you gotta have the Beat.
Gotta have the Beat headphones Apple all they know you
really don't. No, So I got a pair that I've
been using that are very comfortable. They are full cans

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as we say, which means they go over your ears.
They're padded, they are yes, they're wireless and they are
active noise canceling, and right now they're no more than
about eighty eight dollars. And as I go to this website,
I think there's even a code you can use. It
is from a company called the onemore dot com. The
number one mo O r E. It's the one more

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so no flow pros n s O n O f
l O w SO no flu pro wireless active noise canceling.
They sound great, they fold up. They come in a
case USPC chargeable, eighty eight bones, really good sound ratio,

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ultra wide frequency, good response, high performance headphones, immersive sound,
active noise canceling, which means a baby crying on the
plane and you rarely can hear the thing. Eighty eight bucks.
It's not cheaper. Okay, that's what I do. I trying
to save your money. Over here. I had, Oh here's
what I'm not gonna bring. I ran that this was

(45:43):
this ran last week and I can't bring these here
because they're in my backyard. Dad is a barbecue griller.
Right real quickly, I reviewed not one, but two high
tech barbecue grills. High tech I played with a Hamada Joe,
but specifically the newest version called the Connected Joe. That's

(46:05):
a with a k Ao n N. It's the whole
Connected Joe. It's got this little brain. It's got a
little digital readout, it's got the probes. It sets the temperature.
It's got an app that uses AI. You can pull
up a menu going I want barbecue, chicken, skewers, whatever,
and you put it on the app. It automatically sends
it to the grill. It knows when to put it on.

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It beeps and tells you when it's ready. Not cheap.
It's about two thousand dollars. It's very heavy Connected Joe,
but it's a Commodo style cooker. You can cook, you
can cook desserts, you can actually make it a real grill.
Very nice, not cheap. The other one from a company
called brisk It, very cute. Right, two words b r
I sk brisk It Okay, brisk it grills. You go

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to brisk you know, brisket grill. So it's a brisket
grills dot Com I reviewed that one five hundred and
fifty dollars or so. This is a pellet grill, just
like your trigger, but this also has a little smart
AI artificial intelligence app tell it what you want. That's

(47:12):
my first time I've ever used a pellet grill, and
I've had this thing for a few months and I
did a side by psych comparison, did about a four
and a half five minute TV segment. If you want
to see it, go to my website high tech Texan
dot com. H I G H T E C H
T E x A N. Also, I believe it or not,
I actually have a YouTube channel too. Look for Michael
Garth to look for high Tech Texan AKA. You could

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see it and it shows you the difference between the two.
They're very simple to use, obviously, be brisket pellet much cheaper,
five hundred and fifty versus the two thousand. But these
things then now it's almost two it's almost too tough
to jack it up. To screw it up. You really
have to be an absolute horrific person in the kitchen

(47:58):
or in the outdoor grill who apps has no attention span,
because when the app buzzes andes says get that piece
of meat off the grill, you disregard. No, no, just listen
to it. Effortless. Actually, I think that's one of the slogans.
It's an effortless would pellet grill to brisket? So do
I something to get dad? And the meat thing is snap.

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Remember when charcoal grills, you're still like, take forever to
fire up. Nope, these things far up in just an instant.
Check that out when we come back, your calls, your questions,
and a review of the vehicle of the week that
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And also trying to answer your questions, and so we
do thank you for that. I do drive cars and vehicles,

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and I test drive them every single week. I do
not get paid for this, and so I can rag
on them or love them whatever you want. Looking for
a dad's a grads a gift present? Well, who's got money?
How much money would you be willing to spend on
your dad? Probably not as much as if dads or

(49:47):
moms spend on graduation gifts, because I've seen I've seen
some parents give give graduations some cars. How much do
you want to you want to spend one hundred and
thirty hundred, forty hundred fifty doll Well, if not, ere Muffett,
because we got about two or three minute conversation. Because
I last week was driving around the twenty twenty five

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had a lac Escalade. IQ heard of that one. You've
heard of the Cadillac Escalade. This is the Escalade, which
is a big Mama three to row seven passenger suv. Oh,
by the way, the IQ means it's all electric, that's right.

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I was in an electric massive suv four hundred and
sixty mile range between charges, seven hundred and fifty horse
power with that two hundred and five kilowatt battery. First
thing I noticed was how big this is. And by

(50:51):
the way, I pulled up to the galleria this week
and some couple walking to the car literally stopped look
at me and they yelled, hey, hey, I love your car,
And of course I said, huh thanks. Little do they
know that I had to turn it in two days
later because I get these things only for one week.

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Point is it's a head turner. You look around the
outside and it is big. These wheels sixty one psi
they hold I think like forty four inch wheels. They're huge,
tons of rome. But it had some features in there
would blew me away, one of which I sit in.

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And you know how those infotainment screens, you know, you know,
you could touch you can see it's in the gently
in the middle, so it's the driver and the passenger
can reach and touch it, and you could radio, and
you've got the air conditioning and the seats and everything
like that. Yes, this has the center touch screen, but
across the entire dashboard right above it, from the left

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side to the right side, the left pillar to the
right pillar, there is an entire curved fifty five inch
diagon to display. It goes all the way from left
to right, anything that you need to know. It's got
the heads up display for the driver. He shows how
fast you're going, It shows your RPM, it shows you

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whatever you're listening to on the radio. Everything on the
right side the passenger, right above the glove box. You
know what exactly, there's a TV. There's a TV screen.
There's a monitor where the passenger can plug in his
or her phone via HDMI or stream something to the
phone and watch TV. Uh you're thinking of gosh, isn't

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it illegal to have a TV or a monitor in
the front seat. Yes, but thanks to a very unique screen,
the driver cannot see what's on the passenger scene because
it's you know, kind of got a little coating over there.
So now the passenger has their unscreen. The two seats
in back, which are facing the back seats of the

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front driver and passenger, they have their own screens about
what twenty inches wide, so they can watch it and
generally kids sit back there. Yes, there's Wi Fi. Yes,
there's Bluetooth. There's so many controls. Oh wait a minute,
I'm not even done out of the front seat. Let's
get back in the front seat. It's so big and heavy.
Sometimes these doors are massively, very tough to either open

(53:23):
or close, so in way the first two times I
get in it, I sit there and I've got long arms,
and I reach it. I'm pulling. The door closed a
little heavy, and it gets almost to close. It kind
of stops itself, and then the last inch or two
kind of closes itself. I'm like, oh wow, this is
nice because I don't need to slam this thing. It
closes and locks it by myself. What I found out

(53:45):
it does better than that. All you need to do
is reach out and just touch the freaking door. The
entire door closes. You don't even need to start it.
It starts and finishes the closing the doors. And when
you hit from the outside, you just kind of touch
the thumb little thing and just like instead of pulling,
the door opens up itself. Pretty pretty cool. Oh wait

(54:05):
a minute, I'm not done. It's got a massive moonroof sunroof. Moonroof.
Now it doesn't open and slide open. I'm fine with that.
I don't use moon roof too much. Generally moonroofs they
have this thing that slides to block the sun. Sometimes
they're manually. You have to reach up. You gotta slide
all the way back. Nowadays cars they have front to back,

(54:29):
very long moon roofs and sun roofs, and so there's
no way that you can physically slide it back. If
you're in the driver's seat, it's not gonna reach other back.
So they have little buttons you could do it all right.
This one does not have anything that slides back. So
I get in the car and I look up and
I see this massive, long, beautiful moonroof. I mean it
goes from the fire. I mean this thing must easily
must be four and a half five feet long of
beautiful plate glass. I'm looking up and I'm seeing the

(54:50):
sun and everything, and I'm looking at I'm trying to
figure out it's too sunny, man, How do I slide
this thing to get closed? And looking I still can't
figure it out. I even had to freaking go online
in Google. How do you close the moon roof on
a twenty twenty five Cadillac Escalade IQ doesn't come with one. Nope,

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It's got a button which is not easy to find
on the infotainment screen. As you touch it, the glass
is tinted, it becomes darker itself. Mah, you could say
it's like seventy five percent darkness, one hundred percent darkness,
zero percent darkness. Oooh who. It's got supercrews, which means

(55:36):
you could take your hands and your foot off the
wheel when you're driving on certain highways and byways around
the country. A lot of GM lot of cars have
that too, because it's an electric vehicle. It's got a front,
which means it's got a trunk in the front trunk
which we call a front. It's got a massive well
behind the third row seat. There's decent storage. You put

(55:58):
the third row seat down, you got really good stories.
You put the second and third row streets down. You
got a king sized bed back there. You could fit
not kidding you. I like the long range four hundred
and sixty miles on a single charge, this interior forty
speaker sound system with the fifty five inch touch green
which I told you, I mean it's huge. It's got

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a wheelbase of about one hundred and thirty six inches.
It is very heavy. Weighs ever nine thousand pounds, which
does a lot of that is battery. It can toe,
can toe about eight thousand pounds. But it's fast because
it's electric. Goes from zero sixty and what they say,
and I didn't time at four point seven seconds. You
imagine a nine thousand pound vehicle going zero sixty and

(56:43):
four point seven seconds. The one I particularly had it
was called the Luxury two. That's there. That's another model
has a little red V, the letter V on the
steering wheel. And I'm looking at this thing. What is it?
What is this the thing? And why is it read?

(57:05):
It's the V mode. It's velocity max. Hit this little
V button, A little V icon is gonna appear on
your driver information center. It's gonna give you even more
horsepower and more torque to make it faster. I only
tried it once, and I'd made sure I was on

(57:26):
a five lane highway and there was no one around me.
Got speed racer. All this can be yours kids, if
you graduate, you get the doctor gree and someone spends
one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Now again, listen, I
had the one that has packed with absolutely every accouterment
that you can have. But this thing was a monster,
easily one of the top three vehicles I have driven.

(57:48):
This is not paid. I don't. I'm not gonna tell
you where to go get it because I don't even
know a Cadillagic dealership. This is what I do. If
they deliver these cars every week. Next week, I'm gonna
be in probably a Chevy next week, I'm gonna probably
be the w the week after that. I'm a number second.
I drive all this other stuff. But dang man, who
it was pretty cool? Mom and Pop? What do you

(58:08):
think you gonna get it? Talk to me over here,
Michael Garfield. We're gonna be back. When we come back,
time to give away something. We're gonna give Dad a
Cobo Bob gift card. I'll tell you how to win that,
and also a little bit more cars. If you have
a Ford, uh oh, your car may have just been
recalled with something you don't know. I will tell you
top that right here on the High Tech Texans Show. Hey,

(58:34):
some of you have sat and listened to me for
the last hour and a half. I gotta reward you
all right, who wants something? Hey Dad, Happy Early Father's Day. Graduates.
You can go get a snack, because I know it
ain't cheap to go get some lunch to dinner. Cabo
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lots of them all around Austin, four of them here
in the Houston area, one in San Antonio, Dallas. Hopefully

(58:56):
you're gonna get one soon. Doesn't matter. You can win
it as long as you're listening. Your number ten. You
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you can find the Cabo Bob's, go in you go

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get those unbelievable I am addicted. I'm not addicted really
to anything in life. I mean I'm not. I love
my bourbon, I'm not addicted to bourbon. I love a ESPN,
I'm not addicted to it. I'm closed. But I'm addicted
to their Destata chips. Love. There are tortilla chips that
are just absolutely fried right there. They are so thick.
Get some queso, get some guacamole, Get the freshly made

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tortillas right in front of your eyes. Choose from five
different tortillas, and you could put chicken, which is made
by the way, on a kamata. Joe told you ten
minutes ago I was reviewing it. Come out of Joe
for Father's Day. It's the kamata TOAs the smallest men.
They got chicken, they got beef, they got barbo CoA,
they've got fish fried fish. Oh, it's phenomenal. We have
a winner. Stop calling seven one. I'm not gonna give

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you the fun number. Thank you. Each week for a
while we've given out a Cobo Bob gift card, and
so odds are you're gonna see me generally you're gonna
see me one on the southwest side of Houston. I
am there way too much with my tortilla chip fresh
tortilla chip fetish. That's what I was at, a fetish.
I don't know. It's a problem and I need to
stop that body by K s O and Chips. That's

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actually a T shirt I have here. It is Michael Garfield.
It's called the High Tech Texan Show. I just gave
you a pretty extensive full review of the Ultimate Father's
Day Gift or Dad's or graduation Gift. It was the
one hundred and forty thousand dollars plus Cadillac Escalade IQ,
which is the three row, seven seat electric vehicle. If

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you just missed that, give me about twenty or thirty minutes.
It will be on iHeartRadio app where you can listen
to the repeat podcast of this show. Thank you, Callum Reid.
Just look for high Tech Texan or Michael Garfield. Listen
to that. But I do cover the tech car industry,
certainly the car industry too. Ford just issued a major

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recall due to a rearview camera glitch. Oh man, I
thought technology was here to help us. Now they're glitching
for us. How many does this effect? Oh not too
many cars? Just one point one million vehicles. They just
recalled due to a rearview camera gletch. Does your Ford

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have a rearview camera? So apparently Ford models released across
three years here to have an issue affecting the usability
of the review camera features software era. Apparently they couldn't
fix this over the air. They couldn't fix this with
a software update. You may have to want to bring
it in. Yes, some are electric, Yes some are hybrid.

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It was a problem that could result in accidents in
property damage. As I read this just word for word.
I want to make sure I get it right. Was
released between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five. Were
named in the recall, which Ford did submit to the
National Highway Transportation and Safety Association. So has it been recalled?

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Let me quickly run through these things. Actually it's not
as many as they thought. Let me just give you
some brands. If you have a Ford Bronco A F
one fifty and Ford Edge between twenty twenty one and
twenty twenty four, recalled Ford Escape F two, fifty f three,
fifty f four to fifty f five to fifty f
six hundred of it. You didn't even know that? Make
does Released in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,

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recalled Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator twenty twenty two, twenty twenty
three and twenty twenty four recalled Ford Ranger, Ford Mustang
twenty twenty four recalled in the Ford mock e released

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between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three, recalled sorry
about that. Don't know how long they were just they
were named. They will be updated by a dealer free
of charge. You may have gotten a letter. If not
think about that. Go to the website. It is the

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NHTSA dot gov, n h ts A dot g o V.
That's where you actually should bom mark that thing. Check
out your vehicle, no matter what it is. But that
was that was the fourth thing I hate hearing that
I don't know if I have I ever, I'm trying
to think of if I really I have one card

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that I've had for twenty years and I don't remember
having it recalled. But it's such a pain because back
in the day you had to take it to a dealer.
I mean, I mean, you gotta get off work and
you gotta think and you gotta leave it. Then how
long is it take bh.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Blah blah blah blah if it's generally nowadays they can
do software updates over the air, which means if you
have like on Star or whatever type of service that you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Have, you get down it. It's it's like a radio.
I mean your your your car receives radio signals. Your
car can receive you know, satellite radio signals. Your car
can receive data. They could be downloaded and upgrading. A
lot of the other stuff can't. And apparently this one
may not have it gosh, hey, they to actually say that.
If you do have questions about cars, if you oh
one more, got an email, got an email from uh,

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we're gonna His name is Kurt. Kurt is in Houston.
Kurt is in Houston. Let me let me give you
the I want to say this Barbadim. Kurt responded to Kurt.
I answered this because I answer almost all these calls.
Where is Kurt? If you want to email me, you

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can go to actually on my website. Oh here it is,
go to website high tech Texting dot com and you,
you know, send an email to Michael. This is from Kurt. No.
I'm yeah, we're gonna call hi Kurt. Let's just keep
it at that. Hey, Garth, my wife wants to splurge
on our first new car in eighteen years. What do
you think about the Mercedes S five eighty. It's only

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about one hundred and ten thousand dollars. I think your
wife is gonna like that, Kurt. Hell, yeah, man, you
don't buy a car in eighteen years save up now.
The S five eighty a very good car, and actually
it's the flagship model of the S Sedan series. It
is a good car. It is comfy. It is very

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powerful for what it is. The only and this is
what I responded to him, the only thing that sticks
out to me when I did see it, sit in
it and test drive it quickly. I'm not a fan
of and I'm not just harping on Mercedes, but Mercedes
does this more than other manufacturers nowadays because of that beautiful,
full large color infotainment screen with the touch screens. Right,

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they're removing buttons, physical buttons and knobs. Yes, I'm an
og I'm the old guy. I like a knob to
turn up the volume and turn down the volume. I
like the buttons that push. I don't care if they
have haptic feedback. I like the program man. Maybe they
don't program my radio stations, but air conditioning. I want
to be able to touch all this stuff. You're not

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seeing these on a lot of vehicles. They think they're
gonna save money by not putting knobs, and they're gonna
put all the information that the buttons and a menu
and a sub menu and then in a sub sub
menu on that touch screen. And that Mercedes S by
eighty is one of those. I mean you have to
drill down to get to some of the most mundane things,

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like to store radio station, you could probably have to
push eight buttons, which, by the way, one of the
things I didn't actually tell you, and don't laugh. The
Cadillac Escalade IQ, the massive suv that I was in
last week that I reviewed. I tried to open the glovebox.
And I've seen this on probably once out of every
fifteen vehicles that really really new ones, high tech ones.

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You know how to open a glovebox. Almost in every
glovebox you've ever been in, there is a latch that
you just gotta pull the glovebox falls open. The Cadillac
Escalate IQ, the electric vehicle, does not have any latch.
There is no button. You cannot physically pull, touch, push

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something anywhere near the glovebox. So how in the world
do you open it? It took me a minute or two.
Guess what. Go to the infotainment screen, find the proper screen,
and then hit menu, sub menu, go down and boom.
That's right, you have to touch the touch screen to
open the glovebox. I don't like that. That's a pain.

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Is that going to stop me from buying a car? No?
But dang it to pain. It really really is but anyway, Kurt,
for example, thank you so much. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
dot com. That's how you're gonna find me. Do you
want something? I don't care. If it's a car, I
don't care. If it's a barbecue grill, I don't care.
If it's just any old question. Coming up the final

(01:08:15):
segment day of the High Tech Texting Show. Do you
use voice to text yet? Do you use your voice
to text or you still use your thumbs? It's an
app actually that's gonna make voice to text a lot smarter,
even smarter than the app that you have not testing
your phone, but also your desktop too. Talk about that

(01:08:36):
final segment coming out pre Father's Day, pregraduation, little segment,
little show, yeah called the high Tech text It's Michael Garfield.
Look at this. We made it to the final one,
final segment of this week's first week of June High
Tech Texting the Show. Next week we're gonna do the
same thing one week to go at well, it's actually

(01:08:58):
two weeks from Father's Day, and I know a lot
of graduations are happening, and I do sincerely congratulations tell
them the people listen. I got a cousin second cousin
of mine in Florida just graduated fifth grade. Her great
you know, my uncle and aunt there. You know, her
grandparents went all the way from Texas to visit the

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fifth grade graduates. I mean, it's whatever, you graduating from
fifth grade, high school, college, getting ready to get on
your own. Seriously, congratulations in good luck, I mean, and
I have to say it. You know it used to
be good luck. Now it's like good luck. That's sad.
You have to actually put that stink on him, man,

(01:09:38):
because good luck. With what's going on in the world,
in the economy right now, I'm not gonna give out
the phone number because I do want to get to
a few things that I did promise told you right
now that don't if you're thinking about buying a smartphone,
tariffs are coming. You know what's gonna happen. Now may
not be a good time to wait. This actually could
be a decent time to buy a phone. And I'll

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tell you why. I was looking at some of the
numbers over here. The US and China.

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
They're going to drive smartphone shipment growth despite these tariffs,
which means China makes these phones, they're mostly going.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
To be shipped to the US in China, but there's
not there the shipman. You know, you generally think, Okay,
we're gonna make more and more of these phones. We're
gonna ship them. Oy uah. The growth is only going
to be point six percent year over year because of
the economic challenges. It's gonna it make cost more money
to make these phones. Are people gonna be buying the phones?
You know? You go back to April second. I think
when all of a sudden it was the first tariffs
are coming out here in the United States, there was

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so much uncertainty, and I think there still is more uncertainty.
So what this means in terms of availability and prices,
I think less people are buying over the past what
two months ins April second, they haven't been buying phones.
And now that a lot of these smartphone manufacturers they
may not be making a lot anymore. Now maybe the

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time before the price is go up, not even just
because of tariffs. Now maybe the time to buy it.
I'm not gonna tell you which ones to buy. There's
a number of them over there. I mean Google Pixel
just came out, they had their nine and a lot
of the iPhone is seventeen coming out later this year,
that could be obvious. You know, the iPhone seventeen when
it comes out in October, it could boost shipments and
sales because last year was the iPhone sixteen was the

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top selling smartphone for that first quarter of twenty twenty
five globally. My guess is the twenty iPhone seventeen uh grades,
they're expected to do fairly well. But you can't control
growth protections, you can't control cell fie prices. Whatever is
important that you have to do is best for your wallet.
So if you're thinking you're buying a cell phone, now,
maybe the time so graduate you're graduating, graduating college because

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you had the same phone for four years, mom and dad.
Or if you're buying it you're pulling your money together,
now maybe the time to do it. You don't want
to wait till later, because I still I can't. No
one's gonna protect what's happening with the tariffs, what's happening
with the growth. So that's number one I wanted to
talk about. So I talk about this and I don't
have a lot of time to get into it. I
really do apologize. I talk about moving. This is the

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time of the year when people move. What do you
do if has this happened to you? You're moving? What
do you do with all of these smart home features
that you have built in and baked into your house?
Moving the loan could already be a huge issue, a headache.
You throw in all the connected gadgets that you have,
your doorbells, your thermostat, your cameras. Do you need a

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factory reset them? Do you need to uninstall them? Do
you take them with you? Deciding what to do with
your smart home when you move, it just adds a
whole other layer of complexity to what's already difficult. How
about that smart lock? Did you put a smart lock
on your front door? What do you do with the
old wine? Are you gonna take your smart luck off
and take it to your new house? What about all
the smart lighting? I mean, when I moved to my home,

(01:12:52):
I upgraded everything to LED. That's all I have is
smart lighting. You know I don't need to leave it
over there, But some of you you self installed it.
Did you take the dumb lighting put it in your garage?
Just do it while you put the smart lighting up?
Are you gonna get reverted back? Is it better to
replace your thermostat with a non smart one, or you
know what, Dad, screw it, just leave it, buy a

(01:13:13):
newer version for your home, speakers, smoke alarms. The list
goes on and on and on. Listen. We could talk
about this and debate about this, but you know, in
my opinion, if you have to really spend time unscrewing
things from the ceiling, and if you have all these
smart light fixtures and light bulbs, that's a lot of time,

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that's a lot of pain. They may be in the
realtor contract going hey, this light fixture is it is
what it is. You can't replace that after we sold it.
A lot of this stuff is negotiated in that contract too.
I haven't bought a home. Last time I bought was
eight years. But nowadays they they may say anything. It
is a physically attached to the wall, to the front,

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to the outdoors, which means all of your outside cameras,
it means that video door bell, that smart lock. You're
stuck with. If the technology and I'll end the conversation
with this, but if the technology that you have has
been installed or around your home for a good four
years and five years for the most part, leave it

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because there are upgraded versions of almost every single product.
What used to be a wired camera so you can monitor,
they're now wireless. If you had a wireless camera from
five years ago, it may have been two K. Now
they're four K, if not even higher than that. There's

(01:14:38):
faster in longer range Wi Fi systems. There are better
speakers that are probably less expensive than the ones that
you wired or you wirelessly put in your home. Things
to consider when you're buying it, just because if life
isn't hard enough, I just thought I did. Was this
something a buddy of mine because he's getting ready to move,
and he asked me questions about I take this, and

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then we got into a deep conversation, a really good
conversation about that. So maybe you know you want to
think about that. And finally, one other thing. When you're
on your text, do you use voice text? Your phone
may inherently use your voice text, like I have an
Android phone, and I you know, I can actually sit

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there and use my voice. There's also apps to help
you with this. Somebody wrote in and they said, hey, listen, Michael,
should I trust this? There's something called whisper flow, and
I thought they spelled the word whisper wrong, but it's
wisp R. I haven't downloaded it, but I did a
quick review on this thing. What it does it let
you dictate text on your phone. And according to this

(01:15:45):
this gentleman who actually sent me to the email, he said,
it actually works very well and it's very simple, and
he only has it for the iPhone. He may not.
I don't think it's even actually available for the Android yet,
but again I don't have an iPhone. That's probably one
of the reasons why I haven't done it. Actually checked
it out. But the point is, use voice text as
much as you can, but before you send it, take

(01:16:08):
a glance to make sure that it got everything spelled correctly.
I am extremely anal when it comes to the punctuation periods,
the explanation points, the commas, and everything else. I don't
want just typical leaving it to AI because it's a
bad reflection. Again, it's like I'm not an English major.

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But I'm very very intricate with that thing. So away, well,
next week we'll get into a little bit more text
voice to text. Believe me, right now, what you deserve
at the past, dour was actually my voice where I
actually talked as we wind the show down. Michael Garfield
is the name. I thank you for tuning in. Thank
you to Brian Erickson, who's the big program director across Alive.

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iHeart for the state of Texas for keeping me on
all of these shows. Next week we've got more Father's Day.
We have more more dads and grads.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Gift.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
If you want to email me, like so many of
you are doing during the week when our show is
not on. All you need to do hi tech texting
dot com. Let's see an email. H I G H
T E C h T E x A N. Thank
you for tuning in, my friends. Be safe out there
where your sun's screen. Don't drink brown water during the day.
Don't take any would nickels. My name is Michael Garfield,
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