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Today on The High Tech Texan Show - 

• • What to expect at CES
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  • Smart Phone safety tips for your teen 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael Garfer.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Michael Garfield.

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Michael Garfield's joining in the.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
High Tech Texan. Michael garfil is here with a high
Tech Texans.

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It has to make life easier technologs, So Michael Garfield
has something you might like.

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Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Why don't you begin the twenty third year of the
high Tech Texan show a Happy New Year, Lassia Latova,
however you say it, however you celebrated, we do. Thank
you for tuning in wherever you're listening to restrially Houston
and San Antonio, Dallas for worth, if you're on iHeartRadio,
and no matter how you listen, you least listen and

(01:07):
we appreciate that. First time here all we're gonna have
some fun. I swear I'm not gonna tell you how
to fix your computer, despite what you think with the
high tech texts and is about, I ain't doing that.
I'm the guy who's gonna entertain you for maybe two
hours unless we're preempted by basketball and whatever market you're in.
If not, just go to the podcast iHeartRadio. Look for

(01:29):
Michael Garfield, look for high Tech Text and we're gonna
give you some tips. We're gonna take your calls, your questions,
because yes, you probably got some holiday gifts that you
know what. Yeah, I appreciate my kids. They love me.
They gave me a little something something. I don't want this, man,
this is a piece of crap. Ah No, no, Michael,
what should I return it for? One of the many

(01:50):
things that I could do for you? And I just
don't do tech gadgets. However, this next week, week and
a half, two weeks are gonna be a little tech
centric and I'll tell you why. But I do. I
do trucks, I do fashion. I actually got me some
new athletic leisure. It's called athleisure. That's what the word is, where,
you know, lose a little weight in that last year,

(02:11):
hoping to keep it off in this new year, so
I gotta look fit. If you don't believe me, you
could check out the things I post an I video
and I take photos. You can go to the website
high Tech Texan spell the whole thing out. If that's okay,
High Tech t e x a n high Tech Texan
dot com Instagram close to fifty thousand followers. Can we

(02:35):
hit fifty five thousand before the end of the show.
It's up to you. People start off the New Year
right and follow me high Tech Texan. I am on X,
I am on Blue Sky, I'm on threads. I you know,
it's a little trepidation of how much I post war
and when I am not on TikTok, something I never
ever did. Just no reason for the other is just

(02:57):
do I really need another social media platform? Plus, is
TikTok going to be around? We are less than three
weeks allegedly from it being banned in the United States. However,
your incoming future president United States has just asked Congress
to push back the January nineteenth date to ban TikTok

(03:21):
until after the inauguration. I don't know, maybe he just
wants people making videos of his inauguration.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Me.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I would rather TikTok be around a few extra days
because in the same night of inauguration, it is the NATTY,
the National Championship for college football, and let's hope our
Texas Longhorns are there. We are just one game away
to see if our Horns play in the National championship
woo past few weeks. Man, tell you what I wish,

(03:48):
spitz a idea. I had a decent and a nice
holiday season, you know, spin it s all the kids
here and there. Well, I'll tell you what my longhorns woo.
They put me my blood pressure, my blood pressure up
and down, especially during that last Peach Bowl. It was tight. However, Dallas,
the Horns, actually sorry, Arlington Horns are coming to you

(04:10):
later this week in the Cotton Bowl versus the Ohio
State again. Big football guy right over here. Hey, let
me give you the phone number. It's an interactive radio show.
Anybody want to call him? It's three four six twenty
nine Texan. Can't be easier than that, three four six
two nine t e x A N. If we pick

(04:33):
up the phone, we decide to pick up the phone,
we'll put you on air. If for some reason it
goes to voicemail, we do have the right to record
your voice and then re er it and I can
answer your question. So leave a voicemail saying Garth, you
don't know what you're talking about, saying Garth, this is
what I would like you to review and or just
a typical question. How you know is that your real hair? Yes?

(04:54):
It is. By the way, how old are you going
to be this year? Not going to tell you, but
you may even figured it out on my birthdays next month.
It's the milestone. But you know whatever, we move on
three four, six, twenty nine t e XA. And with
that we are going to start a number of things
because these these three months of the year, let's see,
I'm gonna go November, December and January always have been

(05:16):
my busiest of the year, always and generally if you
have a real job versus kind of like a fake
job like I do in the media, these are the
slowest month, right, Yeah, it take some time off. We're
gonna vacation, We're gonna go skim, We're gonna go to
Mexico whatever, like, no, no, no. This is a holiday
shopping season where I have to pop on a number
of outlets all across the country regularly. You know, this

(05:39):
is the great last minute buys. This is the steal today.
You know, if you want to buy a car, you
know before December thirty first, this is what you should
be looking for. So I have been busy and it
doesn't stop on January first. No, it continues because I
am leaving on yet play this weekend once I hang

(05:59):
up to my from because I am off to my
annual johnt to Alas Vegas folks. It is the annual CEES,
which used to be called the Consumer Electronic Show. Now
they just go by CEES. This will be my I
think this is about my twenty second or twenty third
year I have been to Vegas and you have to
train for CES. It is the world's largest technology trade show,

(06:25):
and actually it's one of the world's largest trade shows period.
One hundred and fifty hundred and eighty thousand people from
all over the world. They do go to Las Vegas.
It is not open to the public. You need to
be number one. You need to be a product manufacturer.
You need to be a buyer, you know, to buy
the products. You need to be in the media. And
I do appreciate the folks at the Consumer Electronic Association

(06:48):
they put it on. They really do treat us or
we in the media quite well. They have long built
a radio and TV studio for me and many other
media folks and organizations right on the floor of the
Las Vegas Convention Center. And I say this is because
for those of you who have never been to CEES,
for those of you who saying, oh man, I'd love

(07:09):
to go to CEES, it's there's good parts and there's
tough parts. With the thing there, it is so much
to consume because there's so much walking. It takes up
the entire Las Vegas Convention Center. It takes the Venetian
Convention Center over there. There's ballrooms, there's private parties, there's
there's suites of just information. There's dinners, there's breakfasts, there's speeches,

(07:32):
there's brunches. You really have to know pan this thing out,
and you know, I've got lot. I literally have a spreadsheet.
So I am going to make it simple and bring
this stuff for you, which is why you should highly
suggested follow me on all the social media's high tech texts,
and I'm probably gonna do a lot of the Instagram
because that's cool. It's easy for me to shoot some
video quickly uploaded and show you a lot of the

(07:54):
things that you know, what you probably don't need, don't want,
can't afford this coming year. And that's the point of CEES.
Every year. It's in early January, is because companies from
all over the world will they bring their products. A
lot of them will hit the showroom for so they
will be on sale. A lot of them are concepts,

(08:14):
a lot of them are just research and development. A
lot of them are just hey, look at me over
here waving a flag. I want you media people to
cover me and mention me. I kind of sift through
all that BS. Is this something that you really want,
really need? Is it going to change your life? And
so I already have an idea of what is going
to be shown there in terms of categories and specific products,

(08:36):
and I'll run through that, and I'll say this before
we take our first break. If you see something to
see a report, Hey, you know this is neat Feel
free to reach out to me via some of these
social channels and email, which you'll find on my website,
high tech Textion dot com. Hey Michael or Garf if
we're tight, go buy this booth or did you see

(08:57):
this or did you hop in this concept car or
whatever and see if you can check this out and
give me the play by play. I will try to
do my best, so coming up stand by what to
expect at see s. Give you a little apple TV Plus.
If you want to watch something free this weekend, they're
opening up their gates. Stand by. The name is Ark.
We're gonna be happy here if we continued, I kept

(09:33):
that team show. We're not going to geek out. This
is not what we do. We have too much fun.
Michael's the name, Michael Garfield, my man, Calum ree Callum.
Happy New Year to you, brother? Do you have a
good one? You did Santi give anything good? I know
I gave you. Did you kill that? The bottle of
hoots that I gave you? Did you like that? I'm
rye Okay, you deserve it. He keeps. He keeps the

(09:56):
machines well oiled and running. If you want to talk
to him, he may callum. Decide you in the mood
to pick up some phone calls? Maybe maybe okay, number here.
It's it's an interactive calling show. If you want to
ask questions of what to buy? Is this a good
Is this a good time of year to get a TV?
Knowing that football playoffs, super Bowls about a month away?

(10:18):
Good question. I'm more than happy to give you a
model or two or three three four six twenty nine
Texan three four six two nine t e x A N.
Michael Garfield. If we don't pick up, the voicemail should
pick up and you can leave us a voicemail and
I can listen and play it for you. I will
be I got a busy weekend for me. I got

(10:41):
a pack for CEESH the old Consumer Electronics Show, which
which it's in Vegas, and it starts well, I fly
out Sunday afternoon. I gotta actually watch the Cowboy game
on on the plane, hopefully they show it. Uh. And
then it is walking over under the number of steps

(11:03):
I take in a single day walking around the massive
Las Vegas Convention Center, the Venetian Center Center and all
these other parties over under is twenty thousand steps. And
I am not kidding you. And I usually take a
Screenshotah okay, it's a humble brag of how many steps
I walk on a given day. I've got a train
for this thing. Now. I'm a runner peloton watch it.

(11:27):
You know. I'd like to think, I mean relatively good shape,
certainly for my age. I'll tell you what this takes
a toll. I mean you are go, go go. I
mean it's you know, you had no time to you know,
to change outfits. It's so you know, I got to
wear me some tennis shoes and just just go, go go.
But I do it for you people. I do it
for you. I bring and here's something that you're going

(11:47):
to love. If is certainly if you're new to the show.
I generally bring one to two empty suitcases and I
kind of fold them up, you know, just the soft
side of what's to Vegas. Because I bring back toys, golow,
I bring back demos. I bring back sample products that

(12:07):
companies sometimes will give out the journals like me and
they say, hey, listen, this is not for you. Why
don't you give them to your followers on social media?
Since we know you have so many followers, maybe you
want to give them on the radio. So this is
why you follow me. People. You go to High Tech
Text and h I G H T E C H
T E X A N on Instagram, on as and

(12:28):
we give out a lot of stuff there, some of
the things that I think, and I'm kind of give
you a play by play of all the emails and
invites because I got a media pass and you know,
they want me to stop by this booth, that booth whatever.
I think some of the trends that are going to
be around at CES this year, next or this coming week.
Certainly in twenty twenty five, AI is going to get

(12:50):
even more pervasive in all areas that I'm walking around
on the on the CEO show floor. I mean, we're
going to likely get the slew of new processors and laptops.
There's gonna be wearables, trackers, There's gonna be bathroom appliances,
massage chair. Oh, those massage chairs. I'm not getting you.

(13:11):
I gotta I got a press release invite to some booth,
and you know, they try to entice you because there's
over ten thousand different companies, products, pitches and everything in
this four day you know, massive convention across Vegas, and
they have to get our attention. Where are we gonna go?

(13:32):
But there's this one company's massage here, uh you know here,
dear Michael Hougtak text and no, we want to invite
you to uh this booth at this time. Please make
an appointment for a complimentary massage. We're gonna put you
one of our massage chairs and it's gonna do this
and this and stretch you and all this other stuff.
It is. It is pretty nice I just don't have
a lot of time. I mean it might good. I'll
sit there for five to six minutes and massage here.

(13:54):
I'll take a video and I'll i'll feature some of
the new things. Is it heated? Does it? And uh,
you know? Does it touch?

Speaker 3 (14:01):
You know?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Doesn't massage your calves when you're walking. I don't know
what it is, but a lot of massage chairs. But
these it's not just geeky things. It is smart home.
There's a massive area that continues to grow for smart homes,
everything from the smart cameras to the even smarter doorbells
using AI and so when you ring the doorbell, it'll
recognize somebody's face and it'll announce to you homeowner of

(14:24):
who's there. There's a lot of that stuff. There's going
to be TVs too. TV. I think people associate cees
with high definition TVs, and it really was to some extent,
even though TV's now are so ubiquitous and you can
get TVs relatively inexpensive, but I remember when HDTVs and

(14:45):
flat screens really were first announced to the masses. And
I'm let's go back to two thousand and one, two
thousand and two or three you know, when digital TV
was mandated by the FCC, they were there were fifty inches,
maybe there was a sixty inch one, and they were
very expensive. They were, you know, thicker and heavier than
what they are now. But I mean, you couldn't walk

(15:07):
around the CES show floor in Vegas without getting a
sunburn down each aisle because these TVs were just bright
and blaring and glaring and right in your face. I mean,
these fifty inch TVs, I'm not kidding you were fifteen
thousand dollars back in the day. You can get a
fifty inch TV right now for maybe two hundred dollars,

(15:29):
two hundred and fifty dollars, probably even cheaper than that,
depending on what brand and what time of year. But
there's gonna be some you know, a new line of lcdtvs.
LG always does something crazy. I saw this year. They're
already you know, they have a bendable oled, a forty
five inch bendable gaming monitor, curve screens, screens that will

(15:57):
roll up. There's a c through screen that I think
LG is coming up and it turns what it is
is if you live in a high rise apartment, for example,
if you live in a beach, have a beach house. Well,
and the only place to set a TV is like
right in front of the window. Well, you have a
picturesque window. What it's going to block your pretty view? Well,
when it's turned off, it'll now allow it to be

(16:20):
see through. You could see through it. It's something you need.
Probably not. Is it going to be expensive, You dang straight,
it's going to be expensive. But this is this is
this stuff. This is the candy that they dangle in
front of us our eyes. So we can then go
back on our TV programs like I'm going to do
and our radio show is going, oh my goodness, this
is you know, absolutely not what I expected. And now

(16:43):
I don't think anybody's really going to buy this thing.
Cars and Trucks several years ago, to me, Cees turned
into kind of the de facto auto show. Most all
the major auto manufacturers generally have a presence over there,
and not just American cars. You're going to see a
lot of the foreign cars, a lot of Chinese companies
who have a lot of the inexpensive electric vehicles which

(17:06):
when they if and when through tariffs they're allowed to
be shipped to the United States. There's not going to
be as cheap, but uh, they're they're they're interesting to me.
I cover the car and truck industry very very closely,
and I'm I'm impressed with love some of this stuff.
But then the world of politics and tariffs and shipping

(17:27):
and trade get into the way. It's like, man, can't
we just all you know, we are the world? I
mean some of the products that are made outside of
the US, and I love me and some America. Do
not get me wrong. I will prote promote American products.
I will prote American companies. I'll it's certainly Texas based companies.
It's in my freaking moniker. I'm the high tech text
and so many smart companies in Texas and here America.

(17:48):
But there really are brilliant companies around the world that
I think a lot of American companies borrow, for lack
of a better word, from to make their products. But
they can be cheaper overseas. Will they be shipped here?
In tariffs? I don't know. The new administration in Washington,
d C. They they go, you know, they'll move into
the White House here in a few weeks. But we

(18:09):
shall see. But I will see some products that I
will be ooing and aweing about uh if anybody still
cares about, you know, micro chips whatever. I don't really
get into the geeky what is you know, it's in
Vidia versus a m D. There's next generation GPUs and
all these cool new Radion seven thousand cars that are

(18:29):
cards that you put into your computers. I'll look at it,
I'll get into it. I'm pretty much what is it
going to mean to you? Is it going to meet
faster computers and cheaper computers and their laptops going to
get even lighter without without a do. I expect to
see some really neat new ones. I'm a fan of
a SU's as US. They are a Taiwan manufacturer of

(18:52):
a laptops that I spent some time with them last
year with their design company of you know how they
get things, continue to be thinner, continue to be lighter,
continue to have AI in it. I will be going
to a press conference with them to report back and
see what's up. And then there's medicine there. I'm getting
so many emails and invitations and press releases of new

(19:14):
hearing aids and hearing tests that you can get over
the counter there's updates you know for some of these
you know ear pods that will help you know with
your hearing health for you. You know, the biggest audio
companies around you know, Sendheiser for example, they make great
earbuds and great headphones. You know, they launch new models.

(19:37):
You know they're coming out with stuff and you know
they're you know, got to have you know, how to
improve hearing, and you know to stop it. You know,
you know of keeping the tunes you know so loud
that can you know, damage your ears, you know how
you know however, you know, young or whatever age you are.
I think electricity, the growth of electric cars right now,
it's nearing about ten percent of new models that are

(19:59):
sold you know states, but they're gonna be a lot
of new concept vehicles today is going to be all over.
Hyundai is always you know, already sending me emails and emails.
You got to stop by this. But you know there's
also these concepts like you know VT o ls, you know,
vertical takeoff and landings. These these drones that at some

(20:21):
point in our lives will carry people Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation.
They're pledging to actually launch these, you know e VT
o L services in twenty twenty five air taxis for
lack of a better better term, I'm gonna see and
sit in some of those things. Uh, there's going to
be satellite phones, you know. You know Apple just not

(20:43):
long ago they introduced their emergency s OS via satellite
I think that was in the iPhone fourteen a few
years ago. Well, now you know they're expanding it. You know,
Qualcom a component maker, you know they're trying to bring
you know, those similar capabilities to Android devices, to Google
as launched a satellite calling in their Pixel nine phones, Starlink,

(21:04):
you know SpaceX, you know elon the Texas Man they
have you know, gone live already in New Zealand. T
Mobile opened up you know, beta signups for it's Starlink
powered satellite cell service. This year, I'm going to see
a lot of a lot of those things. Soundbars are big,
you know, if you want to add those to give
better sound projectors, I expect to come back with at

(21:27):
least one or two or three projectors that are getting
really small, really a short throw meanings you can keep
them right very close to your wall. For one hundred
and twenty inch screen picture. I'm going to give a
few of those away. If I get him, I'm going
to give them away to you, ladies and gentlemen. There's
my cees. What to expect. Follow me all next week
right here, high Tech Textan and I'll tell you what's up?

(21:48):
All right, coming back, we will continue the show. Hey,
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(24:12):
new year is here, and last week I did a
lot of wrap up of my favorite things of the year.
It's funny it took me to the last week of
the year to find I think my new favorite streaming
TV series. And the reason why is because I don't
have Netflix. I do not have a membership because Netflix,

(24:32):
earlier last year they really cut down on password sharing
and I couldn't share passwords from some of my family members.
So I said, screw it up not watching Netflix. So
I go visit my son, my oldest son. He lives
out in LA and I spent a few days with
him over the holiday break, and he has Netflix, and
so I started binging this show Fell in love with

(24:55):
There was only one season and I watched all ten
episodes like in two days. Nobody wants This, Oh loved It.
Kristen Bell and Adrian Brody I think is his name.
It's about an interfaith marriage about the rabbi and shiksa
who didn't get mad and the family didn't want it.
It was hilarious. It's a funny rom com. It's a

(25:18):
meet cute type of thing. As the girls say. It
was really good and to me that overtook my other
favorite streaming show, which was on Hulu Only Murders in
the Building. I've watched Only Murders in the Building for
a few years. Right now, I love it. I think
it's really smart. I like the way to do it
the season four and I wasn't up to snuff as

(25:40):
the first few seasons and so nobody wants this my
favorite streaming show this past year, which when they come
out with season two, I'm going to need to try
to borrow somebody's password on Netflix where you can invite
me over and I'll bring potato, lotkeys and matsa. So
that's if you want something to watch while you still

(26:00):
have nothing to do before you go back to work,
you can check that out. However, this weekend, the weekend
of January fourth and fifth, and depending on when you
are listening to this show, I do have a little
treat for you. Actually I don't have a treat for you.
I will give you the information from Apple who has
a treat for you. Because this weekend Apple TV Plus,

(26:21):
which is a streaming service, they are offering free. They're
opening up their original TV shows and movies. So if
you've never seen some of the Apple original series like
ted Lasso or Shrinking or Severance the Morning Show, you
better change your weekend plans because it's pretty much Saturday

(26:45):
and Sunday of this weekend free streaming of its original
series and there's zero required subscription. That's not bad, that's
nice of it to do. It's I think they're doing
this in part to a more subscribers to a streaming platform.
Because and I follow the streaming industry, I'm the one

(27:06):
who tells you people, you're probably paying too you need
to cut off some of your streamers because you probably
don't watch them, and you're paying too much money. Because
the competitors of it, I mean Prime and Hulu and
Peacock and Max, it goes on and on and on.
I mean, I think this coming year there is going
to be a shakeout, there's going to be a consolidation
of streaming options. But Apple really has been lagging behind.

(27:30):
I mean, they spent billions of dollars I believe, and
they've invested over the past several years of creating a
TV in a movie studio to come up with some stuff.
So they're offering a full weekend of open access to
Apple TV Plus. But I think it's just their original content,
like some of the movies, like like the shows. I

(27:50):
was able to watch ted Lasso. I think Apple TV
still you're allowed to share passwords. So was about a
year ago, last year something, maybe a year and a
half ago. I watched ted Lasso, Love ted Lasso, that
was great, rumor as they're making another season. I saw Severance.
I saw the first episode of Severance. That was freaky deeky.
I didn't dig Severance. Love Adam Scott got the me.

(28:13):
I ran into Adam Scott in Austin earlier this year.
And just a funny comedian. That's what he really is.
By by by Trey. It's just a freaky, deeky thing.
But I will there's one people tell me to watch.
I haven't watched Shrinking. Anybody ever watched Shrinking? Give me
a shout? Three four six twenty nine, Texan set. The
Harrison Ford Peter whatever his name is, it's it's it's

(28:35):
supposed to. It's supposed to be pretty funny. I don't
know if I have time, but I've got a pack
and I got to get out of here for ces.
But anyway, that's that's it's me giving you a little
something something if you have nothing to do the two
football games on Saturday. You got Cowboys playing on Andrew
Texan's playing on Sunday, so you may not have enough
time to watch that thing. Phone number here three four

(28:56):
six twenty nine T e X A N Michael Garfield
is his name? Already given out the twenty dollars gift
card to Total Wireless to help you something. We've got
more of those interesting things to give away. Speaking of TV,
who watched Dick Clark New Year's Rock and Eve with
Ryan Seacrest. A lot of people, they like, twenty million

(29:18):
people watch that every year. Here's the thing. There was
a football game on there was on December third foot
that was That was the Boise State Penn Steak game
that ended. And then generally it's not the If you're
of age and you just don't want to go out
anymore because you realize that New Year's Eve is amateur night,

(29:38):
you do stay at home and you sit on a
couch and you turn the TV on, and Guy Lombardo
is not on anymore. And then you've got Dick Clark's
New Year's Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Then I
think CNN has something too. But the Dick Clark thing
has long, long, since the late seventies, has been like

(29:58):
the leader, so many people watch it. Here's what I
want to know. I it's number one. It's if you
go out, it's generally on in the background. If you
go to somebody's house party, you want to turn it
on in the Central time zone right before eleven o'clock
so you could see the ball drop. Why is this
no knock on anybody? Dick Clark was a god to me,

(30:19):
a leader. I mean, he was the ultimate one of
the reasons why I want to get into this media.
Number One, I now am the youngest teenager or the
oldest teenager in the world. He was just unbelievable with
American Bandstand. He was radio, he was TV, he was
just a host. I loved it. He passed away. Ryan
Seacrest comes in, very talented, dude, does everything that I

(30:43):
would want to do. Why is it? Why is it
if anybody gainst me this and maybe I'll give you
a gift to Why is it still called Dick Clark's
New Year's Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest? Rest in peace,
Dick Clark, You've been gone for a while, it's still Clark.
I mean, Dick Clark had a TV production company. They

(31:04):
still may be around, they still may produce it. But
at some point, if I ask my youngest son, who's
twenty four, do you know who Dick Clark is? He
probably would think it's a porno film. He probably has
no clue who Dick Clark is, knows who Ryan Seacrest is.
Dick Clark's New Year's Rocket gave At some point, don't
you think they have to change that? I mean, if

(31:24):
I ever retire from this show, it's the High Tech
Text Show with Michael Garfield. Would one of my three
boys take it over? Would it be Michael Garfield's High
Tech textan show with Adam Garfield? Would it know? You
know what? Callum? Do me a favorite? You know, let's
get with our iHeart Bosses. I think I need that.
In the clause, I think I need that in the

(31:46):
Sante Claus, the Hanika Harry clause in my contract right now,
that's my God's in my vision war for twenty twenty five.
I need to start a legacy for this show. It's
going to be called Michael Garfield's High Tech Texting Show
with whoever takes it over. And it would be nice
if you know what. Screw it, damn straight, I'm gonna
do nepotism. I got three boys. I need to take
care of them. Oh my god. That conversation came up

(32:12):
a lot over the holiday season. You know, whether it's
we're watching the Christmas Day football games with the great
Iron Eagle, who's a great play by play announcer, and
on the other game it was his son. All right,
it was a Noah Eagle, who I think is the
next great play by play that's his son. Geez, wonder
how I got that job. Then I flip over at

(32:33):
NBC Sunday Night Football and there he is. There's Chris Collinsworth,
great analyst, right, he's your color man, former Cincinnati Bengo
wide receiver receiver Florida Gators. Been doing it forever. Oh
wait a minute, who is one of the host before
Sinnight Football. It's his son, Jack collins Worth. Nepotism. It's

(32:55):
it's rampant, especially in the media business. I don't even
know if any of my three kids even want to
do this. They study it, but it's gonna be Michael
Garfield high Tech Textan Show with either Justin Josh or
Adam Garfield unless color Ni Murdine wants to call it
and win the spot to host this show. I'm kidding
right now, do you have to take a break. Michael
Garfield's High Tech Texan Show will continue right after this.

(33:34):
It's like that boy, the high Tech Texting Show. Michael.
The shout out to all people listening. In one of
our newer affiliates in Dallas, the Mighty Mighty eleven ninety a. M.
I don't know. You think my parents are listening to
this thing. They're maybe sleeping. I have no clue. But anyway,

(33:57):
my hometown of Big d we just picked them up
as an affiliate in early December and before that. Now
in San Antonio News Radio twelve hundred w A I
the Blue Torch, what's up, San Antonio? How you doing?
How you doing? A nice little alamabole you had over there, boy,
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(34:17):
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I don't think China and maybe a few other companies
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(34:41):
it's a tariff. I don't know. Maybe our new administration
will do something about that. So I can literally say
I am world wide worldwide phone number. If you want
to call. If we can't pick up, we apologize, may
get a voicemail, leave a voicemail. Well, you know, we'll
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It's three four six twenty nine and X A N.

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Did you or your kids get a new phone this
holiday season? At iPhone or so? If your kids got one,
it's you know, I get a lot of this from parents, going, man,
I don't know if my kid's too young for a phone,
I don't want to you know, you know he or
she you know, you know taking off into the room

(35:27):
or you know with I'm not looking at it. What
are they surfing on. Can you know they get calls
by spams? Can they get hacked? It's a very good question,
very valid point. A little stat for you, by the way,
from the Entertainment Software Association, about sixty two percent of
US children's children's from ten to seventeen years old, they've

(35:47):
they asked for electronics or tech items like smartphones or
smart watches this past holiday season. And you probably maybe
if you're a parent, you got your kids one personal
technology devices from Apple. They're among the most used in
the United States. So if your child is getting if
you got an iPhone, or if you really want to

(36:09):
review or think about, you know some recommended parental tips
of what it do when it comes to kids in smartphones.
That's what I'm here for. One of the many things
that I'm here for when it comes to smartphones and
parental settings. Let's start with this. Do not assume that
once the options are set that they don't need to
be checked regularly because kids are smarter than the average bearer.

(36:32):
Boo boo, yes they are. Don't assume that it's bulletproof
childproof because tech companies told you they are. Not the
case a lot technology it's always evolving. The features changed
just as quickly the expectations for how a child reacts
response to those changes. You may need to re evaluate
it all right, the boundaries Number one what you need

(36:53):
to do. And again, I am a parent. My kids
are now in their twenties and ones of them went
in their thirties two. But I had to live this,
you know, a decade, a decade and a half to ago.
Setting parental controls shouldn't happen alone. Don't do it in
a vacuum. You need as a parent to make a
conversation with your kiddos. You need to review the settings

(37:16):
and you see how it all works together. You got
to tell the kids the risk, what's allowed, what's not allowed,
with who they can react to, with who they can communicate,
and you need to set some rules for the device. Listen,
I'm not the greatest parent in the world. You maybe
you're not, but at least I have a really good

(37:37):
relationship I've always had with my kids and they've never
as far as I know, they never stepped over their boundaries. Okay, nobody,
you know, No Feds every came knocking at the doors.
I never found anything elicited or legal on their phones. No,
that's why I got to keep my phone away from them.
But parents real quickly. Some specific settings to check out

(37:58):
on maybe an Apple device Number one. On parents who
have an Apple device. You can create a family group,
and then you can set up a child account where
parental controls can be accessed and you can monitor the uses.
You can also approve all the purchases like in the
app store. You could choose to share a child's location,

(38:19):
sharing information with additional family members. You as a parent,
can set up you set up a child account. Right,
It's not hard whatsoever. Just go in the settings and
just set up a child account. At that point. I
always tell people I really do. Some of my advice
is you look over their screen time settings. One of

(38:40):
the most important settings that I recommend is look at
the screen time. How much time do kids, well even
parents yourself spend in front of the screen. You could
set limits for how long apps can be used individually
or by a group. You can monitor usage. You can
get weekly activity reports kids. They can reques has more

(39:00):
time for an app? They can send you a request
all right, or you can approve it. Go in your settings,
go look at screen time settings and other parental controls
in there. You may want to set it downtime. You
can use downtime to block certain apps or notifications for
specific blocks of times. You can make gaming all the
games off limits at bedtimes on weekdays. Then you can

(39:24):
use restrictions. Look at your restrictions. Go to restrictions into
your settings. Parents can prevent their kids from installing new
apps and making an app purchases. It's the last thing
you need to do when they're playing Candy Crash and
all of a sudden you're getting a bill on your
credit card, you know, for another eight hundred dollars. Parents
can set up their kids devices to limit adult content,
open only websites that the parents select. These are here

(39:47):
all right. Point is, and this has been going on
since I've been doing the show for twenty years, which
is it was great for me back then because twenty
years ago my kids were very, very young, and I
had to go through this thing too. And I don't
have the answer. Hey, Michael, what age is it proper
for my kid to get a phone? Not up to me,
Not up to me, ma'am. Sorry, I don't know. For me,

(40:08):
I know I have boys and as I have my
first son, and then my second so and then the
younger kids seemed to grow up faster than the old
than the older ones, right, because they learn they hang
around their older brothers and older sisters. So maybe the
younger kid gets something a little at a younger age
than the older one did. Sorry, that's what it is.
I'm also the oldest of my family too, and so

(40:29):
you know, I had I had to suck it up
and go through that way. So I don't have specific answers.
These are only guidelines, but I would do want to
let you know that the technology products out there, as
much as parents may pooh pooh them and oh my goodness,
they're so bad, there are ways to make them safer.
Notice I didn't say they're amazed to wake them safe. No, nothing,

(40:49):
hardly anything can be made safe nowadays, anything online, your information, online, cars,
I mean, you know, it's it's they're as safe as
they could be. But then again it's up to the driver.
But as parents try to be responsible, you're getting ready
to you know, getting kids of age. Maybe they're seven, eight, nine,
ten eleven, maybe they're thirteen fourteen? How is it time
for their first phone? Is it time for their first laptop.

(41:11):
You know, should I keep the laptop? Can they take
it in their room? Do I keep it? Make them
keep it out in the public area so I can
kind of walk behind and see what's going on. Welcome
to the world of parent one kids. Ain't easy being parent,
It's not you know, it's not easy. Well, doing another
hour of the show, but I am here for you
our number one OVA the High Tech Tax Show. Hopefully

(41:32):
wherever you are in your jurisdiction, your local listening marketing community,
you can listen to that hour number two. For some
reason we are signing off or early. Go to iHeartRadio.
You can hear of the second hour coming up right
after this on the Tech Textan Show. Happy New Year,
my friends. Right is Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Michael Garfield.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Michael Garfields joining in the high Tech Texan.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
It has to make life easier technologs, So Michael Garfield
has something you might want.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iheartwadio.
After now You're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield, We go,
let's start our number two.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
And say Happy New Year. Is the second hour of
the High Tech Texan Show. We are halfway through the
show and I'll say it for the first time this year,
we are a half way to happy hour. One of
the odds that you do not even know what date
it is right now. It happens every year the last
two weeks of the year. It is was Christmas on

(43:02):
a Wednesday. It's just you're sitting in your pajamas for
two weeks. You don't know what time it is. Odds
are if you're listening this weekend and this coming Monday,
you have to go back to back to school or
back to work for the first time in a long time.
Sucond up. It's called a shower, people, and it's actually

(43:22):
called clothes, real clothes, not just your pajamas. That's how
we do it. Michael is my name, Michael Garfield. It's
called the High Tech Textan Show, starting out the first
of full year with three big markets, not just Houston
that I've been in on KPRC nine to fifty am
for twenty three years or so. Also welcome San Antonio,
Wai and Dallas eleven ninety am. My hometown and so

(43:46):
all across Texas. We're going to give you tips, questions,
and answers when it comes to consumer lifestyle products. I
do cars and trucks just as much as I do technology.
I ended the year it was pretty cool, kind of
a checked a box or two off of things I
never done. I got to sit in and fill in

(44:07):
for my buddy Jerry Reynolds. He is the car Pro Guy,
the Car Pro Show. He's heard in sixty markets. He
took some time off and because, like Jerry, I test
drive sixty or seventy different vehicles a year. I'm a
member of the Texas Auto Writers Association. I just get
the opportunity to test write these things. I kind of

(44:27):
know what to look for, what not to look for,
what to guide you in and out of. I got
to sit in and for him for one of his
three hour shows. That was neat. So if you are
in the market for a new vehicle, you can, I
don't know, call me, Hey, Garf, I want a sports car.
I'm now an empty nester, so much of the minivan.
I need something fast and sexy and snappy. Hey, Michael,

(44:49):
is it now time to get an EV I heard
evs aren't selling so well. GARF should is hybrid better
than an EV right now, these are the questions I'm
more than happy to answer, at least try to answer.
And it's interactive, and so I'm going to give you
a phone number here that you should just lock and
load three four six twenty nine textan three four six
two nine t e x eight in. If we don't

(45:12):
pick up, voicemail should pick up and you could leave
a voicemail and we we do have the right to
do anything with that. Now I'm not going to use
AI and change your voice, but no, well, we can
replay it and then answer your question that way, and
so I'll want you to give that a try. Some
of the uh A lot of people were commenting on
my instagram, I'd love my an well. I enjoy my Instagram.

(45:34):
It's how I relate and I can show you the
videos of some of the cool products cars, whatever I'm
testing or f I'm traveling, you can follow me. Thank
you so much for following me at High Tech textan
h I G h T E c h T e
x A N. I highly recommend you start following me
because when I come back from CEES next week Consumer
Electronics Show. I'm gonna have a Santa bag worth filled

(45:58):
of new demos and to and products that I'm going
to have to give away to my listeners and my
social media followers, and so some of the things that
I will videotape or you know, do some live streams
on my Instagram, I will be giving those away. And
if you follow and like and make a comment and
you're snarky and cute and fun enough, you could win.
So that's why you need to follow me. High tech

(46:19):
texts and spelled the whole thing out. Anyway, I got
some comments. I posted some of my travels over the
past week or two. I went to a Los Angeles
two of my kids live in Los Angeles, and I
visited him and I got to see one night. I
went to a venue which I believe is the future,

(46:41):
even while it's not the future, because it's actually now
the future of sports watching. And if you're in Dallas
right now, you may have been to the one in Dallas.
You may have heard what it is, because there's only
two right now in the world. One's in la and
ones in the great city of North Dallas. It is
called cosm anyone anyone Coosam. It's kind of a joint

(47:05):
named smushy name between the cosmos and a stadium. And
it's the same technology that's used in a planetarium. You
know what a planetarium is. You go in and there's
this big rounded dome. You look up and you can
see the stars and whatever. Well, there's a company that

(47:25):
runs the software technology for a lot of planetariums, and
they have built their own, literally built their own facility.
It's called Cosm. Cosm one in Dallas and one in
LA A new one is opening in Atlanta very soon,
and then Detroit. It is a sports watching venue. And
it blew me away. And this is not an advertisement.

(47:47):
I don't endorse these people even know Cosm. If you're
listening in Dallas right now, I should be, as the
high tech Texan who covers this industry, I should endorse you.
It was dang cool.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
It is.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Let me see if I can describe it. It is
a stadium like facility in one end of it that
is built inside of a dome, not unlike a planetarium,
but unlike a planetarium, which really just has a clear,
empty painted roof dome where a projector projects stars and things.

(48:19):
This is an eighty five foot curved dome with LED panels,
millions and millions of LEDs they could project images. In
many cases, it's mostly sports games through their own proprietary
cameras that are out a game in up to twelve K. Okay,

(48:39):
you don't even get four K for the most part,
even though your TV probably can get four K. This
is twelve K. So you sit down and generally you
have to there's an interest fee. You have to buy
a seat or a couch or whatever, and they show
a specific game inside this dome. Now, I was there
the night of the Dallas Mavericks versus the Phoenix Suns.
This was I think the day after Christmas, and I

(49:03):
am sitting down inside this dumb and I literally think
I am at the stadium. It is almost almost It's
not three hundred and sixty degrees, but it's at least
I mean, if you can imagine one hundred and eighty degrees.
Because there's several cameras that COSM installs and maintains in

(49:23):
many of these basketball and football stadiums. There is one
at mid court, there is one under each basket, and
I think there's a fourth one kind of up in
the stands. They don't use that one a lot. And
you literally think you're on the on the floor. You're
sitting on the floor. I've actually sat on the floor
several times of a basketball game. My feet were on
the woods. I just happened to know a few nice

(49:45):
people who have invited me of it. This was pretty
much almost the same experience. I am not kidding you.
I was. The camera was positioned so low on that floor,
and I thought I was right there because of the
quality of the camera. Jason Kidd, Mavericks coach, was standing
in my way. I wanted to tell them, dude, move,

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that's how what it was cool. That isn't And there's
three levels. You could sit on the floor. You could
sit on the second level, which to me I probably
is the best one. There's a third level. They've got bars.
It's an entertainment thing. There's another end of it. It's
called the Hall or the Great Hall. It's a one
hundred and fifty foot long led ribbon of a screen

(50:27):
and it is a looks like a sports book on steroids. Obviously,
you couldn't gamble in LA and you can't gamble on
those in Texas. At some point when they open gambling.
Here's what I feared. I'm gonna wind up this this
my speech over here. You really should check it out.
It's worth it. If you're living in Dallas, if you're
listening to this, at some point you're traveling to La
Hopefully there's gonna be They're gonna be built in many,

(50:48):
many cities. I particularly want to invest in this company,
that's how cool it is. But this is the future.
So much so if I was an NFL or an
NBA or a sports owner where I rely on a
lot of my revenue from selling tickets, which are not
cheap NFL tickets, I would be worried that I am
never gonna sell tickets again, because to me, it is

(51:11):
just almost as just as an unbelievable atmosphere to sit
in the cosm and watch it. You this was free parking,
didn't have to pay for parking, didn't have to fight
eighty thousand plus people for a for a parking spot.
To get in and out. The prices of food nah,
probably just as high. You know, I had some nachos

(51:32):
with or whatever it was. But the experience is there,
and if these things get more ubiquitous, sports stadiums and venues.
They may not have to be built to have eighty
or one hundred thousand people. They may be smaller because
this technology, with the cameras in the twelve K, it's
coming here. Just my two cents. These are the things
that I cover. I will review again. Not endorsement, but COSM.

(51:54):
You're pretty cool. Talk to me three four six twenty
nine texts and three four six two nine techs and
Michael Garfield. You got questions about that? I am here
for you. We continue the show right after this three

(52:23):
four twenty nine Texan. If for some reason anybody out
there still understands what a CALED radio show is, it's
three four six two nine T e x A N.
If we don't pick up, leave a voicemail will play
it for you. Most people now try to interact on
social media, which is just as fine. Here a high
Tech Texan h I G H T E C H
T e x A N. Michael Garfield is the name.

(52:46):
I've been doing it for well over two decades now.
Happy New Year, I guess, and we're now moving into
the twenty fourth decade that I have been quote trademarked
the High Tech Texan and relatively new to the Dallas
Airway is on eleven ninety am and twelve hundred AMWOAI
in San Antonio. Great to have you folks along for

(53:08):
the ride. Hope you're understanding now after about a month
being on the air that I am not the guy
who's going to tell you to I'm gonna tell you
don't call me and say my computer's broken and I
think it's the motherboard. Can't tell me how to fix this.
When I started this show and my idea for creating

(53:28):
initially which started to be a technology show to guide
people on what products to buy in speaking at a
very easy to understand term without using megabytes and gigabytes,
I never wanted to be and I never was the
guy who was like, well, this is what you need
to do to reove the motherboard and how to put
more ram your thing. Now it's easier for me to

(53:48):
tell you, you know what, go buy a freaking new
laptop or a desktop. I'm going to tell you which
one to buy. Give me your budget. Is it for you,
is it for your kid? Do you want it for
work or business? To be more powerful and speedy and quick. No,
I'm the guy who's going to tell you what to buy.
And then since then I've expanded to mini consumer electronics,
and so I do cars and trucks whatever. Oh, by

(54:09):
the way, speaking of cars and trucks, it's time for
what's Michael driving this week? Callum, I'll tell you what
Calum Reid, who is my main man, who helps with
this show and across the entire network here do me
favorite because Callen does a lot of the production stuff.
Can we can can I get one request this year?
Can we get a Can we just get a sounder

(54:33):
of what's Michael driving this week? You know, maybe like
a car zooming? Well, of course if it's electric, there'd
be no So what's Michael driving this week? Because each
week I do get to test drive a car. Not
from a dealership, Nope, I work directly with manufacturers. They'd
not pay me to talk about this, which means I
can rag on them. I could love on them. And

(54:54):
I'm going to give you my really true, true, honest
thought and honest opinion. So what's Michael driving this week?
This past week I was in a twenty twenty five
Infinity q X eighty And if you don't know what
that is, it is one big mama of a vehicle.
It is akin to its sister company Nissan, the Nissan Armada,

(55:19):
which is a very large three row suv. Now, the
particular when I was in I was in the new
version of the twenty twenty five QX eighty. But the
specific badge you the model, it was called the Sensory
That's right, there's a sensory addition, not that you need
the Century edition and that includes the you know, different

(55:40):
you know packages, you know with the soft interior lighting
and the premium cargo and you know, this thing's got
an umbrella holder and the premium paint and everything.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
You know.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
It's just it's the Sensory package. But just a quick
play by play, this is what I do. It is massive.
I'm a six foot tall guy, and you know, generally
if I'm standing next to a six you know suv
they're a little taller than me, I kind of take
a little hop up and I can see over it do.
This thing is I had to check the clearance when
I'm driving underneath, you know, into a parking garage. It's

(56:15):
it's quite tall, which is great for a headroom, all right.
It makes it very easy to get in, not only
the second row, but the third row. And that's something
you need to consider if having a three row vehicle
is it's it's nice, it's cool. If you want something.
If you've got a lot of kids, you ever tried
getting back into a third row of some of these things.

(56:36):
Sometimes you need to actually make your body do origammy.
It doesn't work. If you have a car seat, Oh
my goodness, bless you. If you have to put car
seats in the third row, almost impossible. But if you
want to carry adults, you know, maybe you're a realtor
and you drive, you slet people around to see, you know,
properties all the time. You know, you know, maybe if
you have a big office and you guys got a

(56:57):
lunch on a regular basis, Hey I'll drive. Let's get
all these people in here. This is one of the
most comfortable and easiest to get into third row seats
third row vehicles that is on the market in my
opinion right now, it's the Infinity QXCD. Again, the Nissan
Armada has it too, the Infinity. It's the I'm going

(57:19):
to use the term it's the luxury, premium, higher level
brand than the Nissan Armada. So you take Nissan. Almost
a lot of the vehicles that Nissan makes, they sex
them up and they charge more money, and they put
nicer leather and you know, some features in there in
the Infinity and most most all brands do this. I
mean exactly, look look at Chevy, you look to GMC,

(57:40):
you look at Toyota, you go to Lexis. It's almost
the same thing. But here it's we have the Infinity.
This one as a Monster three and a half liter.
It was a V six twin Turbero engine says it's
rated up to four hundred and fifty horse power, which
is pretty big. It got up to speed quite well,
had a has a nine speed automatic, transmissions automatic. It's

(58:03):
got paddle shifters if you really want to, you know,
get it up there. Four wheel drive if you wanted to.
Mine actually had a four wheel drive. The suspension was
nice in because because it's so tall and it's it's
semi wide, but it's not like it's a truck or
a hummer wide like that. You know, you could think,
I hope the suspension is not going to be too bouncy.

(58:23):
The electronic air suspension was quite nice. It was really
good ride. It also has what's called the dynamic digital suspension.
You could tow this thing up to eighty five hundred
pounds because this is a big vehicle in itself. Love
the wheels had twenty two inch aluminum alloy wheels, and
so when you're rolling by, it looks good inside, very nice.

(58:46):
It's got the neat little you know, well, it's got
root well on the outside. It's got the roof rails,
it's got the lighting path of the mud lights. You
open that you open up and at night there's this
light that shines directly down on the ground, so you
see where you're getting in. Those are called mud lights here.
But when you get in, you could customize all of
the lights. My son, not that he's a little kid,

(59:06):
he was playing around and he learned how to turn
the interior lights to different colors. Purple my favorite color,
no to infinity. You probably want to include burn orange.
If you want to sell a little little born in
the state of Texas. Maybe you want to get some
college colors just to stay away from a room. But
they wish they did have burn orange. But the seats
were comfortable. I drove this back and forth to Houston

(59:28):
to Austin in back. It was a pleasure. It was
a treat. Massaging chairs didn't use that feature too much.
That the massage chairs, I will tell you a bugaboo
of mine that to get to them, to get to
some of the controls, including the massage chairs, you had
to dig down into the touchscreen menu to get to it.

(59:50):
I think Infinity, if you're listening to me, it would
be easier to put some of the features like again
a massage chare or even the ambient lighting, like I said,
a little higher up in the menu instead of digging
down into a sub menu and a submuse in a
sub menu to put it on. Listen if that's my

(01:00:10):
biggest bugabooon, I love that word. You've done very well
with with this ride. The technique Nissan Slash Infinite. They
always do a nice job with safety. They have the
pro pilot assists and they have everything from they also
because this is so big and people, I guess a
lot of people haven't seen this yet. I'm so used
to it because all the most of the vehicles that

(01:00:32):
I drive have this. If you look at the rear
view mirror, you know, traditionally a rear view mirror is
a rear view mirror. It's a mirror that's stuck on
the front windshield and you glance up at it and
you could look through the you're through your vehicle, which
sometimes maybe be eight nine, sometimes ten feet long. You've

(01:00:54):
got to look through the vehicle out the backglass to
see who's behind you. Nowadays, the rear view mirror is
not a rearview mirror. It's actually a rearview camera, and
it's it's it's freaky deeky. The first time you see this,
maybe the first ten times you see this, and the
first time you drive it. It's there's a depth perception
you got to get used to for long vehicles, for

(01:01:16):
SUVs right now. And this is smart if you really
think about it. Instead of having a rear view mirror
that's stuck in the front of your windshield, now measure
what's the distance between your front windshield and your rear windshield.
If you've got an suv like this, this infinity has
got to be easily easily ten eleven feet long. So

(01:01:36):
now you've got to look. If it's just a rearview mirror,
you've got to look through you know, here comes You
got to look past the front seat, past the second
row seat, past the third row seat, and then out
the rear view mirror, then behind that to see what
cars are driving behind you. Nowadays they mount a camera
on the back of the vehicle. So now that rearview

(01:02:00):
camera is now shooting backwards and it's projecting in this
rearview mirror. So as a driver, you're looking up in
this rear view camera. You're not seeing ten to twelve
feet behind you through the vehicle then no, No, you're
seeing directly a vehicle behind you, and you can tell
what's kind of TV monitor quality, and so it's really weird.

(01:02:21):
Now to be sure, there is a switch that you
can go back and forth. If you don't like the mirror,
you can go to the camera. If you don't like
the camera, you can go back to the mirror. I
am now after test driving vehicles, so often I'm cool
with having this camera, but when people sit and they
look at it, U's going, oh my gosh, how's that work?
So no way, this has that rearview mirror in the
rearview camera. So that's just another explanation of something that's

(01:02:42):
out there. Bottom line, I do like this a lot.
It's not the greatest when it comes to fuel economy
just because it's so big. It's rated at sixteen in
the city, nineteen on the highway, so it's seventeen miles combined.
That is for the Infinity QX eighty. Let's give you
a price here real quick s. I'm gonna look at
the rooney. I'm gonna do some cheating over here. Woo

(01:03:03):
hello head anyone anyone over under play the quickly over
under game for the twenty twenty five Infinity QX eighty
MSRP without a lot of the options ninety nine thousand,
nine hundred and fifty bones the way I drove it
with all the options, the propilet assists, the lighting packages.

(01:03:24):
I drove a one hundred and seven thousand dollars vehicle.
Woo woo. That is not cheap. However, for some reason,
you still like the size and you want something that
you can look at a similar one. Look at the
twenty twenty five Nissan Armada, which is built in the
same frame and may not have a lot of the
premium coruiterments, but those started about fifty six thousand dollars.

(01:03:48):
Maybe looking that way, but anyway, I do appreciate the
nice folks at Prestige Otto. Nice folks at Infinity for
let me drive this. If you want me to drive
something you haven't tried, hit me up. Michael at high
Tech Texting. This is the high Tech Tech Issue show
earn all across the country on our Heart Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Getting hungry as we did this show.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
This is what happens man. I'm about an hour and
what hour and a half into the show, got about
thirty more minutes. It's I need some sustenance. Baby needs
some And wherever you are, wherever you were listening, and
maybe lunchtime and maybe dinner time, you may be listed.
I don't know, maybe in the middle of the night.
If you're listening to this on podcast, Michael Garfield the
High Tech Textan Show, it is time to start off

(01:04:45):
the new year with some yummy continued the new year
with some yummy food. I'm such a Cobo Bobs fan.
And if you if you're in Dallas, it sucks for
you because there are no Cobo Bobs in Dallas. There's
one in San Antonio. If you're listening in Austin somehow
on iHeart Radio that's the home base Houston. There's four
of them. I'm such a Cobos Bob's fan it's not

(01:05:09):
even funny real quick. They started in Austin. There's one
near UT campus. And when I visited my son with
the past four four or five six years, always took
them right near the Attorney House Rio Grand you're thirty
second Street, there was this Cabo Bob's and it's you
go in, it's it's fast casual. You know, you go
through the line and they make you make your own burritos.

(01:05:33):
You tell them what you want in your burrito, or
you or your taco, or you make a case of
dilla or the nachos and type of thing. But the
way they do it, and I saw this when I
was going through the line. It's the meat that not
only is the chicken and now he's brisket. Not only
is their steak, but they smoke them on these Kamata Joe's,
which is kind of like a big green egg, but
it's a Kammata style cooker. The meat is abstintively phenomenal.

(01:05:56):
And the neat thing is you get to choose your
freshly made tortilla. It's not walling. When you go to
these other joints. It's like, oh, you're gonna have a
flower tortilla. No, there's like ancho chili, and there's like
five flavors, buttermilk flour. You could choose right there. You'll
watch them press it, You'll watch them heat it up,
and you go down the line. Love it. Cobbo Bobs,
I'm starving. Tell you what right now? How would you

(01:06:17):
like to win? Is it twenty five dollars? I got
a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bobs. Whoo
call her number nine seven to one three two one
two five nine five. Oh, better, hurry up, calls fast
seven one three two one two five nine five.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
I cannot leave until about thirty more minutes out of
the studio and then I will roll over to my
Cobo Bobs. Uh, the one I have in Houston. And
actually I was in Austin last week and I went
to not one, but two in Austin. I am not kid.
I went to three different Cabo Bobs two cities within
twenty four hours. I'm a pimp. Maybe it's how it is,
and we have a winner. Ova, stop calling, sorry you

(01:06:56):
didn't win, Suck it up, it's go worth it to
just go buy your own tacos. And Britos Cabo bo
Oh so freaking good as we continue the High Tech
Texan Show. And you could find me on almost all
social media, certainly Instagram. Would you better follow me? You
know what, I've given away Cabo Bob's gift cards on
my Instagram, on my X account h I g h

(01:07:17):
t E c h t E x A N. You
will not find me on TikTok because I do not
have TikTok. And it's not because of any political or
I'm afraid anybody's gonna steal anything. It's just when TikTok
came around, I was already on Facebook, and already on
X or Twitter, already on Instagram, and already on LinkedIn,
and and it's just it was on and on. I'm like,

(01:07:38):
I don't need this. And I guess when TikTok started,
it was a young man's game. It was the young
kids game, you know, my my kids were in there,
along with Snapchat, which I'm those are the two ones
I'm not on. I'm not on Snapchat either. I'm like,
I don't need it. TikTok has really grown into something big,
something phenomenal. I still, to this minute, have never hopped
on it, and that point made you move. Because there

(01:08:01):
is a law potentially going to be banning TikTok in
the United States. Is it going to take effect?

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Is it not?

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
I know this is going to be a topic of
late night hocktail bar chatter next week at the Consumer
Electronics Show where I'll be.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
But the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
Law requiring a ban or a sale of TikTok is
set to take effect on January nineteenth, just what two
and a half weeks away, And by the way, it's
one day before Trump's inauguration. Well, President future president Trump

(01:08:42):
again apparently doesn't want this. Whether he likes TikTok or not,
maybe he wants to be talked about on social media
because Trump has asked the Supreme Court to delay the
law that could ban TikTok until after his inauguration, after

(01:09:03):
on one day. Is it gonna happen? Is it not?
I don't out now. Trump's stance on TikTok is much
different from the one he took in his first term,
because he pursued a ban of the app in twenty twenty.
He also floated the idea that Microsoft could work out
a deal so the Treasury of the United States gets
a lot of money. I don't even know with that man,

(01:09:23):
But anyway, he reversed his opinion on a TikTok ban
during his second campaign. He said that banning TikTok would
make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be the
enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.
Apparently he does not get along with Mark Zuckerberg. Probably
Elon Musk does not either, But anyway, he has asked
for the Supreme Court to say, you know what, let's
delay this thing. So January nineteenth may not be the day,

(01:09:46):
doesn't matter to me. I'm not on TikTok. However, there
is something just as big happening on January twentieth Inauguration day.
It ain't inauguration. It's the National Championship, which hopefully our
University of Texas Longhorns will be playing in. That's a
big day, man, And I know there's a lot of
political people out there. God love you who listen to
the show. Good for you, And you couldn't give to

(01:10:08):
shakes of anything to care that. There is a football game,
the football game, the culmination of this year's college football season,
that is taking place the same night when Trump is
going to be dancing the night away, going to all
the balls in Washington, d C. No, no, no, no, no.
Hopefully I will be in Hotilenta with Matthew McConaughey. All right,

(01:10:29):
rooting on the the Texas Longboards a big month, big
month after that. Then I have a big birthday a
few weeks later. Absolutely nobody. I don't even really care
about that. Speak continue the High Tech Texans Show. Okay, No,
not politics. That was just a fact. Just like facts.
I'm talking about football. I just happen to have something

(01:10:49):
that has to do with TikTok and that's all I
am talking about here. Congratulations to Jonathan Jonathan is in
jonathanan san Antonio won the Coboos give card promotion. Good
for you. There is one Cabo Bob in San Antonio.
Good for you. This is what we do to give
things away for all you kids out there. If anybody

(01:11:12):
has it, is anybody parent having a kid born this year,
this year, in twenty twenty five, because there is a
new name for this generation and it starts this year.
Raise your hand. If you're a baby boomer. I am
not a baby boomer. I am a gen Xer, which
came after baby boomer. I'm a gen X I made

(01:11:33):
If you really want to figure out how old I am,
and let's go do your research. I made generation X
by thirty four days. If I was born thirty four
days earlier, I would be boomer. I just made it
gen X. And then there was gen Y, and then
there was gen Z, and then there's a millennium. There's
a new name as of a few days ago, because

(01:11:54):
if you are born, if babies are born starting New
Year's Day of twenty twenty five, you now are a
member of here's the new name. You are generation beta
b Eta beta, beta, beta, alpha, beta, Gamma. Oh it,
generation beta. It will include kids born this year through

(01:12:16):
twenty thirty nine. There you go, There you go. If
you think about it, their parents mostly will hail from
gen Z, like my son's gen Z. He's not having
a kid yet. And even the youngest millennials you know,
going back to from nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety four,
these gen Z kids are having babies now their generation

(01:12:37):
beta beta. Some demograph demographer, demographer, a guy who does demographics.
His name is Mark mccrindall. He coined the name generation
Alpha for people born between twenty ten and twenty twenty four,
and so he said, screw it, let's just keep going
down the Greek alphabet. And now in twenty twenty five

(01:12:58):
you are Generation Beta test. I guess it's just that
they're gonna keep going Down's is when is? Isn't it
gonna be when they get to Omega? When everybody is?
Will there be a world? Who knows? Who knows? I

(01:13:18):
think generation axis? You know, gen X, sexy, you know
Jim yd do whatever is? No? I still think you
know I'm a Gen X? Or is it the great
I don't know. Is it the Baby Boomers? Or what
was the one before that? With Tom brocaw coined the
greatest generation? Was it was World War two or something
like that. I don't even know. But there was a
silent generation back in the nineteen twenties. If anybody has

(01:13:40):
a better term for generation beta, phone lines were open
three four, six, twenty nine texts and you can call
me right now, tell me if I generation beta? If
if that's if? It was good about it? I just
thought I threw that out there. I thought that was,
you know, interesting. Uh, maybe maybe I will have a
grandkid who is a generation A beta a beta locker,

(01:14:00):
a babe, a beta kid, I hate a kidd, and
I beta beta kid. Tell you what, We're gonna take
one final break right now. If you're listening in and
around the Houston area, we may have to take a
sign off break over here because I think we have
a is it a host? Is it a Houston Rockets
or Houston Couber's or the uh basketball game going on?
If you're in Dallas, Antonio, nowhere else around the world,

(01:14:21):
you're gonna get the final fifteen minutes here of the
High Tech Taxing Show. I do appreciate you. Happy New Year.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Don't go anywhere when there's you have to final second

(01:14:48):
here on the old High Tech Texan Show.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Thank you for hanging in there. Happy New Year. First
weekend of January of twenty twenty five, starting up my
twenty third year of doing this. New to the Dallas
area and eleven ninety am, New to San Antonio, WAI
twelve hundred and thank you for a long time listeners
in and around Houston. Kp RC nine fifty am. You

(01:15:11):
can hear this on iHeart Radio. You're just tuning in.
You missed all the fun stuff. What I expect to
see and find and bring back from cees. Starting early
next week Consumer Electronics Show, you can go download the
podcast Callam Read. You're gonna put this on podcasts, right,
you're already already getting rid of podcasts. Soon as we
sign off. You can go to iHeart Radio and look

(01:15:33):
for High Tech Texan or Michael Garfield or whatever radio.
Trust your radio station you're listening on here in Texas
and you can listen to the full two hours of
fun stuff. And remember, kids, I have a BS degree
and it does not stand for Bachelor of Science.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
I talk the truth, but I just you know it's
good BS. It's united. I talk. I answer questions, answer
your phone calls, give out the I'll give out the
number one more time. May not be able to get you,
but it is a voicemail and you can leave a
voicemail question whatever you want. Three four, six, twenty nine
hex and t X A N. Congratulations to whoever won

(01:16:12):
the Cabo Bob's Gift Card and the Total Wireless Victor
Gift Card. We give those out on a regular basis
and hopefully we made your new year off to a
right start. Do you know whose New year did not
get off to a very good start. You know who
did not have a good week. It's Ford, the Ford

(01:16:33):
Motor Company. Yikes. Earlier this week their x account allegedly
was hacked and they quickly pulled it down. But it
was something to the effect of Gaza and Israelis and
Ford quickly took that thing down and they issued, you know,

(01:16:55):
some sort of an apology that that was not us,
it was hacked or whatever. And whether it was hacked
or not, and I'm going to give them the benefit
of the doubt saying it was hacked instead of some
crazy employee whose last day was December thirty. First, it
still resonates, it was out there in the media. And
then number two and this was sad the tragedy that

(01:17:16):
happened in New Orleans with the truck going through Bourbon
Street and killing so many people. It was just horrible
and not a good way to wake up on January
first to a new year. The truck was a Ford Lightning.
It was an ev It was a Ford Lightning, which
actually I believe was rented in the Houston area. And

(01:17:37):
again I am not speculating, not doing anything. I'm just
giving the facts of Ford is having a very bad week.
And the shots of the photos, let me put it
this way, the photos of the truck that finally came
to a rest somewhere on Bourbon Street, it clearly showed
it was a Ford and it was a Ford Lightning,
which is an EV. So I think they said they

(01:17:57):
were cop cooperating with the authorities or something. And I'm
not blaming Ford whatsoever. It's just the dude who rented
it happened to rent it Ford Lightning, which is interesting
because if he rented it in Houston and went to
New Orleans, that dude easily had to stop at least
two times somewhere on Ien and sit there at a

(01:18:19):
charging station for about an hour to get that thing done.
And if you listen to my rap if you listen
to my show from a week or two ago, where
I test drove a Hummer EV from Houston to Lake Charles,
and I went into a ten minute diatribe of why
I'm probably in my personally, I'm not getting an EV
because I had a hard time in Lake Charles finding
a charging station that then killed an hour and fifteen

(01:18:43):
minutes of my time away from the gambling tables, and
it cost me eighty five dollars to charge it up. No, no,
and so that anyway we'll we'll leave it at that.
Ford just not having a good week. I am going
to be hanging out with I don't know is Ford.
I need to check. Will Ford be at CS. There
will be a lot of vehicle manufacturers this coming week
at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you do follow me

(01:19:05):
on Instagram x Facebook, you're going to see a lot
of posts. If you want me to specifically see something
that you read about or hear about, or see on
some national media. A lot of national media will be there.
I will have a broadcast booth specifically mine High Tech
Texan situated in one of the Las Vegas convention floor halls.

(01:19:29):
Generally I'm right next to right near CNN and Fox
and CNBC and tech Crunch and all this other stuff. It's,
you know, it's nice opportunity to mix and mingle with
my filo media folks, get interviews with some other people
who do what I do. Their opinions are generally different
than my opinions, and also have interviews on with manufacturers

(01:19:52):
who are out there, who are rolling out there refrigerators
with touch screens and things that you may not need
or may not afford speaking with here. Here, here's one more.
Somebody has sent me this. Hey a Garth, I know
you're going to see, yes, see what your thoughts on
in this? And you know why the companies keep coming
out with products that we don't need as a consumer.

(01:20:12):
That's from Jessica. Jessica's in the North part of Dallas.
She's listening. It's a good point. She sent me this
link and I saw this and I'm I'll probably walk
through the LG booth. LG, you know, they make so
many things. They make refrigerators, they make kitchen appliances, they
make big TVs, they make phones. LG is going to
launch its latest microwave oven. It is an LG signature

(01:20:36):
model and it features a twenty seven inch touchscreen display
on a microwave. Let us never be with al screens people.
The test green display is being described as an immersive
entertainment experience right in your kitchen. Microwave also connects to

(01:20:57):
Wi Fi for streaming content and it has built in speakers.
You know, finally I could watch stuff during the ninety
seconds it takes popcorn to pop And this is why
I go to cees to wrap up this show to
get content on things that are smirkish, laughable, going, people,

(01:21:19):
do we really need this? And that's the way I
cover products. I'm a serious person because I understand you're
putting your heart earned money into products that you want
my opinion of don't ever mistake or get me wrong
on that. That comes first. But there's ways for me
to deliver, to deliver content where okay, maybe it's a
little tongue in cheek, Hey this is good. I'm not
the guy I used to be, the guy who comes

(01:21:42):
back from ces going this is the greatest, Ignorerald, the
like goodness. There's a high definition TV, and there's a
new computer and there's a printer. This is I am
now very very jaded. I take things at arm's length, going, hey,
this is nice. I know what they're doing. They're trying
to get some press, some ink, some digital ink of
people like me in the media to talk about this
so I can mentioned the word LG, which I just did.

(01:22:05):
What is it right? And is it real for consumers?
Odds are a lot of the stuff that I'm going
to see are not. But it's still fun and it's
funny and It's something to kick off the year, which
I have done almost almost half my life, maybe forty
percent of my life. As I get into the twenty second,
twenty third year, that I do that. But I don't know.
Maybe if I could fit in a twenty seven inch

(01:22:26):
touchscreen display microwave oven in my carry on back, I
will give that away. And that's what Next week I
will be coming to you from Las Vegas. I will
be pre recording some of some interesting interviews. But if
you want to follow along the p by p the
play by play as I call it, absolutely I do.
Thank you for following me on the social media, specifically

(01:22:48):
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Those guys are great, happy, happy, healthy New Year to you,
and I look forward to talk to you every single weekend,
right here on whatever station or whatever means you're listening
to it. My name is Michael Garfield, and right now
the first show of twenty twenty five is over.