How to get a pool installed in your yard in under 3 hours

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• How to get a pool installed in your yard in under 3 hours
• Learn how to FaceTime video chat between an iPhone and an Android phone
• REVIEW: 2025 RAM 2500 Limited Longhorn and what DEF is

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
I can see the end is insight the end of
the summer. Well, it's the listen. It's still going to
be off for the next two months or so. But
I'll tell you what people. Football season as we know it,
and really that's why I live for. Don't worry about
this technology and consumer lifestyle stuff that I talk about
for twenty plus years here on the radio. Now, baby,

(01:08):
it is football season. This actually this weekend is week zero.
Week zero. There is such a thing. We've got a
Callege football game later today. List on Saturday. If you're listening,
it's in Dublin Island, the hotbed of football. And so
you know what countdown is on my University of Texas Longhorns.

(01:28):
Next week, biggest game of the season. It may be
the entire season, even though it's week one. I'm excited.
You're gonna hear some pep in my step. Probably you've
got some pep in your step because if you're a parent,
your kids are pretty much all back to school right
now as we get to one of the final weekends
in August of twenty twenty five. Michael is my name,

(01:48):
Michael Garfield. I want to start with a comment following
up from last week. Last week, I did a fun
little contest based on a story that I read about
a well, if you saw the story, if you listened
to the radio show last week, I was talking about
how AOL and yes, America Online still is in existence

(02:10):
in some way, shape or form with dial up internet service.
There is dial up internet services, but they announced about
a week and a half ago that AOL by the
end of September of this year, they are killing their
dial up service. There will be no AOL. And I
was wondering, I was just anecdotally wondering of all my
very intelligent listeners who have taken my advice of kind

(02:35):
of getting into the twenty first century and the technology
world over the past two decades that I've been doing
this show. And I wonder how many how many listeners
still have an AOL account at aol dot com. And
so what I did is I offered a contest the
nice folks at Dairy Queen and who doesn't love Dairy Queen.

(02:56):
They gave me some gift cards to give away. However
I wanted. I said, let's have some fun. The first
five people who sends me an email from their Aol
dot com email account, we'll get a ten dollars Dairy
Queen gift card. And so I talked about that. It
may have been in segment one or segment two last week,

(03:18):
and I'm thinking, am I gonna get any I mean,
I've got a sophisticated audience. Nobody either a you don't
listen to the show, which everybody should, or be everybody
is off Aol. Well lo and behold. By the time
we finished the Chauseeau, I had about a dozen emails
verified from an at Aol dot com account. So a

(03:43):
few things that I that I'm pulling away from this. People,
get your butts into the twenty first century. Listen, There's
nothing wrong with an Aol dot com email address. It's
just it's it's maybe a kin to how I feel
because I'm an Andrew guy and people think, oh man,
high tech Dixon, you're mister Apple, and you get so

(04:04):
I'm a I guess I'm a green daughter or a
blue daughter because I don't even have an iPhone. I
don't even know if I'm a Green daughter blue dot
I don't know how it works, but I sometimes am
ostracized by friends on my text chain, like my high
school buddies. It's like, oh, garf man, you're the one
who's screwing up. I can't send a picture because you're
the green daughter or something like that. I shaid, shut

(04:25):
up a mostra, and so what if I ever, It's
not like I look at the email address from people
who send me things in a regular basis, but sometimes
my eyes will glance it said AOL dot com. It's like, huh,
how old is this person? Do they not understand? Why
don't you just pick up the phone and dial me

(04:46):
up and talk to the other radio show? But were
you still have? Point is we still have some Aol
out there. The email address I am assuming may stay
around after September. It's the dial up service from Aol
dot com where you know that dial up versus the
high speed internet, the inexpensive handshake audible sound that actually

(05:12):
sounds like this that is going away in September, but
believe it or not, we already get so. And the
point is, if you emailed me last week and you
were the first five in I responded, I got your addresses,
your snail mail addresses, and we have emailed you a card.

(05:32):
And again you already have known if you won, because
I responded very kindly. Hey, old timer, thanks for sending
me from your AOL. Congratulations you're one of the first
five for everybody else and since and the show airs
in different timeslots throughout the weekend in Houston, Dallas, and
San Antonio and then again around the country on the iHeartRadio.
So through the first few days of this past week,

(05:55):
I was still getting so maol. There's more people than
I actually thought on AOL. But the point is, thank
you for taking the time a to listen. However wherever,
whenever you listen to this show, be a podcast, be itlive,
but also taking some time to get on your email
account and really join the show. And so I'm going
to do more and more of that. Listen. I've got
a lot of companies and friends and restaurants and whatever.

(06:17):
I'm more than app They're more than happy to give
me gift cards and promo codes are something to my listeners,
and so we're going to do this on a regular
basis between now and the end of the show. My
good friends at Cabo Bob's, which is one of my
favorite fast casual restaurants. It actually probably is my favorite
fast casual restaurant. They have many locations in Austin, about
four locations in Houston, one in San Antonio. Should be

(06:39):
in those areas. They always give me gift cards. I
will give one of those way away between now and
the end of the show, and I will take your calls.
This is an interactive show. And if you do have
an Aol dot com account, you probably still have a
wired phone in your house. I'm sorry, a wired phote
in your house. You can call me at three four

(07:01):
six twenty nine texted and that's three four six two
nine eight three nine two six. You can give me
your favorite AOL stories why you still have AOL? Better
than that, why you still have a dial up phone service? Listen.
I can kid all I want, but my parents who
lives still live in Dallas. Still live in the same

(07:22):
house that I grew up in Dallas. They have a
wired phone line, and I talk to them on their
wired phone line. They both have cell phones. I don't
think my mother turns hers on too often. My dad
generally turns his on, but I don't know if he
keeps it on his person. Maybe he keeps it, you know,
next to a share or something like that. But the
easiest way I still it's programmed in my phone. I've

(07:44):
got bomb cell phone, Dad's cell phone, and I never
I never text them. I don't even call them on
the cell phones. I have parents, which is my which
is my landline? They have had that, They have had
that landline. We moved into that house in nineteen seventy one,
the same phone number. That phone number is so old

(08:04):
we didn't have to dial in area code. We didn't
have to dial two one four Dallas area go back
then it was seven digits. And I know right now,
all of you people who are over I don't know
what forty years old, you're shaking your head, going, yeah,
I remember my phone number. My parents still have theirs,
my grandparents still have theirs. That's old school stuff. We
can laugh about it, but I'm the guy who tries

(08:25):
to get you into the twenty first century. Listen. Coming
up today on the show Schools Back In. Got some
anecdotal stories from parents and teachers who are praising this
new Texas ban on bringing cell phones into schools. Teachers
say it's actually working. Teachers say kids are actually paying
attention to them, they're actually responding to the teacher's questions,

(08:49):
and they're having conversations face to face, one on one
with their peers in class. Maybe taking a step back
from technology is a good thing. I've got that. We've
got some new gear that was just released by Google.
If you look in for some new phones. I've got
some travel stories. And by the way, you know I
review vehicles, cars and trucks a lot. I have got it.
I've got an interesting story of a wonderful truck that

(09:12):
I was reviewing this past week. All right, it's a mammoth.
I was in a RAM twenty five hundred Longhorn, a
one hundred thousand dollars unbelievable, top of the line, hiccup truck.
I'll tell you how I almost stalled and couldn't get
this thing started between Houston and Austin. That's that's that's

(09:33):
that's a heroine thing. Don't go in to wear. A
lot of fun stuff coming up, Michael Garko, this is
the I Tech Texan Shows. Oh great, Now I'm continuing

(10:09):
to get AOL email. Stop ever, not doing a contest
anymore people. That was last week. That was like we
found out there's a lot more aol dot com emails
out there. Even though AOL is subsuspenc quitting. They're saying
sea out of here. We are cutting off that electronic
handshake that we've known for so long. At the end
of September, we're going to move on to more technological

(10:33):
things in the twenty first century as we continue what
we call the High Tech Texan Show. Michael is my name,
Michael Garfield originally from Big d WT White Longhorns. That's it.
Parents still live there. I'm now down in Houston, but
you can hear me not only in Dallas and Houston,
San Antonio, WOAI and all over the world. Man, you
don't need to be in Texas to listen to me,

(10:54):
because I do talk about stuff that affects the world.
And that's why you could download the iHeartRadio app cost
you abstatively nothing to do that. It is free. That's
my favorite four letter word. And happy to give you advice,
be it back to school, be it, be it cars
and trucks. Now, I have covered the automobile industry for

(11:16):
about fifteen years, and I realized years ago that the
cars and trucks are everything technology, and so I became
a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association. And I
may not write about it, but I certainly review it,
and I recommend or I talk you out of it.
Not it's not a paid thing. I work with the

(11:38):
original manufacturers, the OEMs. I do not work with dealerships.
This is not an ad for anything. This is on
a weekly basis. This is content. This is dare I say, journalism,
And I get to review these things. Every week. I
get a car driven rolled up to me. Maybe it's
a truck, maybe it's an EV, maybe it's a sports car, whatever,

(11:58):
and I'm gonna give you my thoughts to the thing.
But this past week was interesting. I don't get a
lot of diesel vehicles. I don't get a lot of
diesel trucks. Mostly you're gonna find diesel engines in trucks
and big trucks. Maybe I get three diesel vehicles any
given year, and I get a vehicle week, at least
a vehicle week. So I do about sixty sixty five
vehicles a year that I test drive. Maybe three or

(12:21):
four have stick shifts, which I hate. Maybe three of
them have diesel or so I don't hate diesel. But
generally they're a little louder than an engine, absolutely louder
than a very quite evy that doesn't even have an engine.
And they're big. They're very big trucks. So in a way,
let me bury the lead over here. I was driving

(12:42):
in for one week, a twenty twenty five pretty new,
very new Ram twenty five hundred limited Longhorn. Okay, let's
break that down. It's Ram. It's not called the Dodge Ram.
They killed the Dodge name years ago from that, so
it's Ram twenty five hundred. This is This is not
a fifteen hundred, a typical half ton quarter ten. This

(13:03):
is a big, big monster. It's a Ram twenty five hundred.
I mean, I'm six foot tall and I could barely
if I stand next to the grill, maybe I can
barely see over it. And it's a limited Longhorn. It's
a Longhorn edition, which is great because you know, I
am a Longhorn, but this Longhorn is. They pimp this

(13:24):
thing out as about as pimp.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
As you can go.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
This is the limousine luxury. You name it, we make it,
We put it in there. Unbelievable beautiful leather seats, stitched
leather on the sides of the doors, big word silver
Longhorn logo right between the driver and the passenger seat.

(13:48):
Unbelievable amount of headroom front and back. It's just a
gorgeous screen, a typical RAM twelve inch vertical screen. It's
great speakers, it's big, and it's a diesel. Now again,
let's say I have two to three diesels a year.
The vehicles I get are pretty new, they have less

(14:10):
than three to five thousand miles on it. Rarely do
I even need to fill them up with gases, certainly
in diesels, because the diesel range. Big trucks like this
probably four hundred, four hundred and fifty miles generally don't
drive that much. But this past week I was going
from Houston to Austin round trip, probably about four hundred
and fifty miles, so in a way I get in

(14:32):
into it. A quick review of this thing. It is.
The base price of a RAM twenty five hundred limited
is about seventy six thousand dollars. You put the long
horn and everything that comes with it, we go to
one hundred thousand dollars. I was driving at a one
hundred thousand dollars, massive, beautiful vehicle. Okay, I don't schlep anything.

(14:54):
Six point seven Leader commins turbo diesel engine. This thing,
we'll get that. You could cross the ocean as far
as I know. It's unbelievable. Big bold, loud, great truck bed,
big cargo covered, tie down hooks. I mean, I need
a ranch for this thing. Then you put the Longhorn
you package on there, custom preferred package. You know, the

(15:18):
leather seats, the leather door trim, the big keyfob, the
luxury front, rear floor mats. It's got a fifth wheel
in there if you want it in the back. I
mean it goes on and on. One hundred thousand dollars,
whit away. I'm driving. It's all good. I like it.
I would recommend this if you've got a truck, if
you've got a fifth wheel, if you've got a ranch.
This is the stuff you need. This will get you

(15:39):
over anything, rivers and whatever. I'm not kid, it's phenomenal.
There's my review. Get it. I'm driving the diesel. Here
comes the fun part. I know how to drive a car.
I know pretty much a good amount about cars, maybe
not so much about diesels. I do know you don't
put regular gasoline un letter to regular in a diesel.
You've got to put the green stuff the diesel engine,

(16:01):
the diesel fuel into the diesel engine. If not, you're
gonna have an issue. Okay, I've heard stories about that.
I'm halfway to Austin and all of a sudden, and
I know I've got four I'm showing four hundred miles,
four hundred and twenty five miles of range for the
diesel fuel. I'm just trucking along. I'm doing thing, listening
to Moneion radio and all this other stuff, and all
of a sudden, something pops up on the keep on the dashboard.

(16:22):
It says the engine is going to slow down and
be limited to to five miles per hour unless you
stop and refill the d e F. So, noway, I'm
looking at this thing, and I'm like, and it says,
I have about eighty nine miles. In eighty nine miles,

(16:45):
the engine is gonna shut off or it's gonna governing
itself down to five miles an hour. Anyway, I'm looking
at this thing. I'm like, I didn't think about it.
Driving along and I'm getting coat in a pass La
Grange and now you know, I'm getting into bass Drop.
Now I'm getting about forty miles. I'm getting about I'm
about I get this thing says you have forty miles

(17:07):
before you've got the def and it's gonna shut down.
So now I start taking this thing seriously. Now my
issue is this, and I ain't stupid. I but again,
I don't own a diesel. I only get these for
one week. They're brand new. So I'm reading Deaf What
in the world is Deaf? And it's got this little

(17:28):
crazy icon logo on the dashboard. So anyway, I'm driving
and all of a sudden, I take my phone out
and I'm and I take a picture of the of
this icon. And because I have an Android phone, I
got a Google. I actually can Google image search, so
inn away it's Google. I said, what is this thing? Well,
I'm reading, actually it is a reading to me because
I don't drive and get on the phone. I understand

(17:52):
now what DEF is. Let's go through it if you
don't know. But if you're a diesel person, I'm sure
you're gonna give me a call here, which you can
right now now at three four six twenty nine TEXTANDF
stands for diesel exhaust fuel. And in twenty ten, fifteen
years ago, the EPA, I believe the US government, they
mandated if you have a diesel engine, you have to

(18:16):
now add fuel DF diesel exhaust fuel, which is really
kind of a mixture of I think it's cat p
I am not kidding you with cat urine in water.
It's a it's a clear liquid. Sure enough. If you
open the diesel tank where you put the gas, the
fuel in right next to the tank where the diesel

(18:38):
goes in, there's a little blue cap nozzle that says,
DEF had no idea. I stop at the Bass Drop BUCkies.
I I got me a big old mama, you know,
diko because sadly they don't have coke zero. We can
debate about that another time. Anyway, I'm thinking i'm reading
this thing now that I've stopped, I'm like you need

(18:58):
to fill this thing up right now. So now I'm thinking, okay,
maybe it's like an oil thing. You need to get
it oil. So an away BUCkies inside does not have
two and a half gallon jug of this thing. Google.
I find it at O'Reilly's, half a mile away. I
go up. I go to a Riley's. I walk in.
There's a palette of de f fluid sitting in front.

(19:18):
I'm like, okay, this apparently there's a lot of diesel
fuel trucks that stop by. I buy this thing for
eighteen dollars, very simple. I open the little gas cap
over there. I made sure you do not put deaf fluid.
Do not put that fluid inside the diesel tank. You
put it inside right next to it, there's another nozzle
filled it halfway up Boom there is a literally you

(19:41):
know where you know where the gas If you look
on your information board and it shows how much gas
you have left, you know x number of miles. On
the other side of this readout there is a DEF
tank shows if you're full or empty. Ladies and gentlemen,
if you have a diesel, it's def diesel exhaust fuel.
Open the phone lines right now, as we get to
the bottom of the hour. Has anybody ever run out
of this stuff? And does your engine literally shut down

(20:04):
or does it limit you to five miles an hour?
I could only imagine if I didn't heed that warning
and learn about DF at that moment, I've would have
been stuck. I would have had it called. You know,
my son who lives in Austin for reconnisis. It was crazy,
which by the way, I didn't find out because I
posted this on my Instagram, which you should follow my
Instagram high tech text and spell the whole thing out.

(20:24):
A lot of diesel owners says, yep, I feel your pain.
This is what we have to deal with. Blah blah blah. However,
there's a lot of gas stations, including Bucky's. If you
go to the gas pump and you go to the
diesel station, they have DF at the pump. You could
pump DF into the deef container. Game changer. Pretty smart folks.

(20:47):
Jeff jam one oh one right here on the High
Tech Textant Show, when we come up, I'm going to
talk something really Texas. We need pools this time of year.
I'm going to tell you how you can get a
pool installed in the back of your home in less
than three hours from a Texas based company coming up
right here on the High Tech Texans show Knock at

(21:31):
It Michael Varfield, the long running Height Tech Texans Show
towards the end of the summer. But guess what is Texas?
It is still h O T D D day day
da day. Hit is hot, hot Hot. The good news
is when I finish the show here in just a
matter of an hour, hour and a half, I know
where I'm going to be sitting, and I'm gonna be
sitting outside my backyard watching a little callage football. Oh,
by the way, soaking.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
In a Cowboy pool.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
If you've been watching me on my Instagram, my social media,
if you happen to catch Fox seven in Austin or
maybe Great Day Houston, saw that beautiful stock tank pool
that I got from an Austin based company called Cowboy Pools.
It's it's I can't tell you how convenient in fun
it is, especially for someone like me who used to
have an inground pool. I don't want to call a

(22:13):
real pool, but it was an in ground pool that
took months and months to build and had to get
a billion per minutes at a cost. I don't want to
tell you how much it cost. Now I got this
cowboy Pool installed it what less than three hours, And
it's just it's a great backstory. It's a company, husband
and wife team out of Austin, Amanda Cheftel and Aaron Weiss,
and I wanted to kind of get their their story
to see you know how it started. And I just

(22:34):
love entrepreneur across Texas and so they are joining me
right now. Hey, guys, I appreciate you tuning in. Are
you sitting in a cowboy pool right now?

Speaker 5 (22:41):
We should be We should always be sitting in a
cowboy pool. Yeah, thank you're having us Michael, No, no,
it's my pleasure. There's no better state, literally at the
Korea something like this than Texas. I mean, it is hot,
it is a year round.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
We can get in pool certainly if you have a
heater or a chiller or something like this. For those uninitiated,
we haven't seen a lot of stuff what I've done.
We're going to your website at cowboy Pools dot com.
What is the category of a stock tank it is.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
We call it a soaking pool, we call it a
cocktail pool. It's an above ground pool. But it's kind
of in a category of its own because above ground
pools tend to be you know, bulky, clunky, maybe not
the most attractive, not the most long lasting, and these
are none of those things. These are sleek, these are durable,

(23:29):
long lasting. They're a real pool solution that's practical, budget
flent friendly, space conscious, all these things easy.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I'd like said to flying out the door, but
they're actually rolling out the door, because I've seen them
being installed. Were you actually delivering you roll them into
the whatever space, be at a backyard or be it
a balcony, which we could talk about later. Aaron, the
concept five years ago that you created this, how did
you come up with the idea?

Speaker 7 (23:53):
You know, we have just moved into a house. Were
there about a year. We couldn't really agree on any
of the backyard choices, you know, we were waiting to
do it any landscape decisions until we could agree, And
then we came across the stock tank pool and kind
of kind of blew our minds. It was always been
a DIY project, and then so we tried to diy
it ourselves and ran into issues that most people do

(24:14):
a lot of people do there there were at the time.
There wasn't comprehensive resources. You couldn't find a real, real
nice how to video, how to put it together, what
parts to get? You know, we were hesitant to drill
the holes all the things, and we made some decisions
that we wish we hadn't and so we joked in
the process, wouldn't it be great to turn this into
a business, a turnkey service for people who don't want

(24:35):
to do this themselves. And then a few months later
COVID hit and we found ourselves. We found ourselves with
more time on our hands, and our careers kind of
came to a stop. We were in marketing and filmmaking,
and then you know, we called some suppliers and just
kind of went for it, went for this business idea
that that we wouldn't have had time for otherwise.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
What's the demographic? I mean, who gets these cowboy pools?

Speaker 7 (24:58):
Yeah, as much as we wish we could drill down
our demographic further, it's really uh spans the gambit.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
We uh we found that it's it's singles, it's people
with kids, it's people with grandkids, it's uh.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
Emzy nesters who just want to chill it's you know,
couples that want a place to soak, it's you know it,
and it can be an all day, all evening, all
year solution. We also offer heater chillers. The new product
that we're super excited to talk about is called the
temp Tamer and it can chill down to below forties

(25:37):
for an icy cold plunge, up to one oh four
for a hot tub, and anything in between. You know,
relaxing soak all year rounds. So don't really anyone that
wants to get in some water wants to relax. Health
and wellness focused people that you want a cold plunge
or a hot tub.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Talk with Aaron Weissmanda chef tel. They created and they
own the company. It's called Cowboy Pools are out of Austin,
and I know you actually you deliver across Houston. You
just opened that and all over the cross across not
all the state of Texas, but also across the country.
To Aaron, you were just telling me about somebody in
New York, Manhattan installing it on a balcony.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Sent right, Yeah, it's something we always thought about and
you know now glad to see it come to life. Uh.
Customer of ours in in Manhattan. Customer of customer of
ours in Manhattan and New York City put a six
foot pool on their on their eighth floor balcony.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
And they also installed the tem tamer heater chiller. So
now it's you know, a year round soaking pool for
them in Manhattan in Chelsea, and it's it's quite a
cool site to see a cowboy pool with that you know,
skyline in the background.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
I have to imagine because of the size. It's there's
people who have town homes. They have a single family units.
For example, let me give you my lifestyle. You know,
I've had the ranch down home for you years and
years the kids were growing up, and now I've moved
into a three story It's a house with a relatively
small backyard, and there's just no way in it. It's

(27:09):
not a town, it's not connected, but it's all my backyard.
And listen, I love entertaining. I mean, I've got two grills,
i got a smoker, I got a TV. Is football
seasons coming up. But one thing right now, it's still
going to be ninety to one hundred degrees all the
way through October. I cannot build. There's no way I
can actually dig an actual pool, which is why I
found Cowboy Pools. And so my neighbors around me probably
a little older demographic too, maybe they were retired, maybe

(27:30):
they got grand kids, but they also have that same
limited space. I have to say that's that's really almost
the low hanging fruit of the people who could should
consider one of.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
These absolutely, and I think that's the truth for a
lot of people. You know, new builds tend to have
smaller yards. Yeah, and then that's kind of the time
we're in. Budgets are getting tighter and building a pool
isn't is kind of a luxury that we don't we
don't need to do anymore now that we have things
like Cowboy Pools. All you need is a level, flat surface,

(28:01):
outdoor electricity, and a way to roll in your tank
and you can have a you know, six to ten
feet of soaking pool at your temperature, at you know,
writing your backyard.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Amanda Chef, tell Aeron, why's joining me from Cowboy Pools
For a few more minutes. You talked about the six
to ten foot Aeron, I'm gonna talk to you a
little bit more about the Pacific. They're come in different sizes,
and obviously before you put it in, you actually kind
of want to scope out. Maybe I think you can
even send you some pictures with your suggestions. But what
are the different sizes? What's the process of ordering one?

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Yeah, we have a six foot diameter, eight foot diameter,
and ten foot diameter pool and fits anywhere from two
to four adults all the way up to ten adults comfortably.
And you find most of the information on our website.
You can call us week days and we're here to
answer your questions.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
When once you order it, what give me the process
in terms of time length obviously where they roll it in,
but the installation itself, by the time they get on
your property to the time they leave, it's a snap. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Once you order your pool on the website, we reach
out to schedule and it's anywhere from two to four
weeks out. Then our team comes out, rolls the pool
into your backyard and sets it up. And really what
takes the longest is to fill it up, but two
to three hours and then you're ready to soak a lot.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
A question before I get you guys out of here,
so I can get in my tub and you can
get in your tub. Also, future expansion plans. I mean,
I know you have a lot of accessories. I mean
you can get benches, and you already talked about that
the tamer with the chiller and the heater, which is great.
Like that, you've conquered Texas. What's next beyond what you
got going?

Speaker 6 (29:27):
Yeah, we're super excited for this temp tamer that we
can preassemble ship nationwide with our preassembled pools. You know,
it's just twenty to maybe forty minutes of setup time
and then you have a fully functional pull in your backyard.
Aside from that, just announced a partnership with yards En,
who is a nationwide outdoor design company and they also

(29:53):
help you, you know, find contractors and get your yard landscaped.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
They create three D and two D renderings of your
yard that you can then use to carry out whatever
whatever design you want bring your dream backyard to life.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
It is called cowboy poolscowboy Pools dot com. Love the concept.
And again in terms of you know, I always look
for great ideas, you know, be it in the specific
tech world or the ancillary stuff like that, consumer lifestyle,
love the entrepreneur spirit. I love our great state of Texas.
So congrats on your success, and you know, I can't
wait to you really expand across the world maybe and

(30:30):
show with people with the Austin and Texas and cowboys
are all about sort of way.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Good luck.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
Yeah, thanks so much for having it.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
Yeah, thanks, Michael, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
All right, folks, we're gonna take a break here on
the High Tech text and Show. It is Michael. And
guess what less than one hour I'm putting on those
swim trucks, turning on that TV, ice, cold beer, and
then game on. No cool tags needed. Right here on
the High Tech Taxi.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Show, I'll tell you what that cowboy pool.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Right now, man, idiot is hot. As we do this
show here the little second to last weekend of August
week zero, as we say in college football, I do
thank you for tuning in. I'll be here for another
what hour and ten minutes or so. Michael Garfield is
the name. Thank you for following me on high Tech Textan.
By the way, if you want to see what that
cowboy pool looks like, and gave you the website cowboy

(31:36):
pools dot com, you need to follow me on Instagram.
I need to have a cowboy Pool football watching party. Anyone.
I'm here's the next contest.

Speaker 8 (31:46):
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
I got an eight foot cowboy pool in my backyard.
Climate control can make it nice and chili if you want.
I've got a TV out there. I've got a grill,
I've got a smoker. I've got Bruskies. All the bourbon
you can drink fits probably six to eight people in there.
Send a headshot. I just kidding it. I don't know,
but anyway, I fine, go take a look what it
looks like if you're not blocked on my Instagram high

(32:07):
tech texts in h I G h T E c
h T e x a N. By the way, I'm
gonna this is how you're gonna holiday seasons coming up. People.
I'm gonna give out a lot of these gifts and
samples that I'm getting specifically on my ig my Instagram.
So if you do download that thing, follow me. You
have to follow H I G h T E c
h T e x a N. May actually give away

(32:29):
a phone. Do you know why, because a lot of
schools are probably picking up phones from from students who
snuck their phones in New school band Texas cannot bring
phones into classrooms. You gotta lock them up. You gotta
teachers take them or something. It depends on which way
I'm looking for anecdotal stories here, parents, students. You may

(32:53):
be ticked. You may think it's a good idea. I
don't know. Open phone line here too, three four six
two nine eight nine two six. You can use your
phone because if you're listening on the weekend, you're like
school on a weekend. You got no class? Call me
three four six twenty nine texts and how is the
school phone band working? I read an article, yes, say

(33:18):
today Wall Street. You're not sure that a lot of
teachers are really liking it, and they're it's like the
teachers are getting for a breath of fresh air. Number one,
We love teachers. If you're a teacher, hats off to you.
We salute you. You have got a very tough job.
You probably don't make a ton of money. Probably you're

(33:39):
worth much more than that what you're getting paid. But
you're dedicated. And I remember my teachers, and I probably
should have paid more attention. And I did not even
have a cell phone to take my attention away from them,
so I can imagine what they're fighting. But I was
reading this article and it they ask a few teachers
of the past week, week or two of school. Now

(33:59):
that there's phones and kids can't scroll or whatever they seem,
the kids are paying more attention than class. The teachers
are saying that she's getting more eye contact with people, listening.
Kids listening to the teachers and the kids maybe when
they get a break or maybe, I don't know, towards
the end, they're not scrolling. The kids are actually talking

(34:21):
to each other. Is that a novel idea or are
we in a wayback machine from when I was like
in grade school in the seventies, high school and college
in the eighties. Man, kids, this is how it was.
I mean, the only attention thing that took me and
you know a lot of other folks away. I'll go

(34:42):
back to college. I'm in school University of Texas, and
there's a free daily newspaper which I think they still publish.
I'm not sure. It's called the Daily Texan. It was
published week days, Monday through Friday. And you just walk
into class and there's, you know, a newspaper ben and
you just kind of open it. You take a free paper.
You know, it talks about what's going on campus. Little
the city of Austin sports and everything, and we would

(35:05):
bring those into class and we would sit in these
large classrooms you know where I mean the teachers they're talking.
They don't know what you're doing when you're sleeping. But
we did not have phones, We did not really have
laptops with whatsoever in the mid to late eighties. But
we would read the paper. But then again, at some point,
the paper's done. I couldn't kip, I couldn't play solitaire,

(35:26):
I couldn't browse anywhere else. I was reading the freaking paper.
And then we kind of had to pay attention if
we even went to class. But kids, I know nowadays
you go to class three, four, six, two, nine, eight nine.
Any parent out there, any teacher out there, love to
hear from you? Teachers, I'll give you some love, give
me a little, give me some content. Call me. Michael's
my name. I'm not gonna bite you. I'm a nice guy.

(35:49):
Tell me, have you noticed a difference are Does anybody
snuck a phone in accidentally? Ring or beep? And you
can't even have watches now? Oh oh man, ale, somebody listen.
I could listen. I could tell you several ways to
communicate via technology I got smart watches out the wazoo,
some of which you don't. You don't need a cell

(36:09):
phone to connect to. Some have their own cell phone.
Sell chips in there, right, the data chips. No, you
can't even wear those, So I guess these kids are
walking in with Rolex's or something high nex. Oh my goodness,
back of the day. So do I phone as I
promote technology? And I really do. I got into this business,

(36:30):
this category my brand twenty five years ago, almost right.
My job was due talk about in easy to understand
terms of how technology can help our lives, help our business,
help our processes right as the high tech tech sun.
I want to find Texas based companies if I could

(36:52):
just about light them their entrepreneurship. That's really why I
started this thing, turned into a career. Knock White still
rolling right now, but now I'm finding man, what's old
is new, when's new is old? Maybe we do need
to go back in some aspects to selll no phones

(37:15):
in school, to simpler times of really understanding the purpose
of what we're trying to do. You go to school
to learn at the end of the day. That's probably
if there's a motto of what a school is in
terms of definition. You go to school to learn something.
Maybe it's a specific class, a specific skill, a degree,

(37:40):
something hobby. I don't know what it is. Teachers are
getting paid for the most part. They want your attention
because there's thirty people. There's a thousand people in a class.
And yes, I did have a freshman year class. I
had a well over one thousand people. Get off the phones.

(38:00):
I didn't think i'd say that, because we love our phone.
When the school day is over, get on your phones
and still social media because it's not good. Top of
the hour, number one, Come on Buck next hour. And
guess what if you have a non Apple device? Because
I don't talk about apphole a lot, and you're all
jealous because you can't FaceTime, which is Apple's proprietary and

(38:23):
the video concipent. I want to tell you how you
can hop on Apple FaceTime Chat when you have an
Android or even a computer.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
I'll be dead.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Also, yes, what the time says ticktoc TikTok. We have
one more month until TikTok is once again potentially banned.
Why does this keep happening? We'll talk about back your
questions and anything else you need to know as we
sweat out the end of the summer twenty twenty five.
Michael Garkfield, it's the high tech texton.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Show is Michael Garfi. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in
the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a
high tech text.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
It also make life easier technology and Michael Garfia has
something you might like.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio add now You're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Halfway through the high Tech Texan show here one of
the final few weekends of the summer. No, not really
of August. Let's put it that way. Summer's going to
be around here for quite a while. Halfway to happy hours.
What we say happy hour does begin because football season
technically college football season technically begins today. Dublin, Ireland. Dublin, Ireland.
How about that?

Speaker 8 (40:05):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Kansas State, Highway State or something like that. The real
stuff starts next week week one man?

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Next?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Who Texas, Ohio State?

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Who you got?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
It's gonna be a big year for my Longhorns and
whoever you're rooting for, I hope it is all well.
In the midst of a fun chat last hour, we
had a nice conversation with the founders and owners of
a Texas based company to cool you down. It's called
Cowboy Pools. It is a unique company that installs, with

(40:36):
one under three hours, a stock tank pool wherever you
want it, in your backyard, on your balcony, in your ranch.
Hell of a lot cheaper than building an in ground pool,
and a hell of a lot quicker. That's nice, So
we actually may replay that. At the bottom of the hour.
A lot of people were emailing me from their regular accounts,

(40:56):
not their Aol dot com account, asking me about questions
about that. By way that was that. We also talked
about school phone bands. How's that going if you're a teacher,
if you're a parent, if you're a student, how's the
first two weeks of school going where you have to
really give up your phone during the day. Anecdotally, a
lot of teachers are enjoying it. There seems the kids
are students are giving them a lot more attention. Shockingly,

(41:19):
shockingly be about that. I do know one thing that
the kids could be upset about in another month or so.
It's the fact that TikTok could be banned again in
just under one month. Why does this? Why does this happen?
Hey talking about politics. Sadly politics is coming into this one.

(41:42):
TikTok owned by a Chinese based company called byte Dance.
You're President Donald Trump doesn't like that, says they could
steal information. Banned them for three or four days right
before his inauguration in January. That didn't last too long,
but anyway, Trump says there is one more month to

(42:02):
finalize the sale of TikTok. He is demanding the TikTok
be sold to a US based company or go dark
again in the United States January. This is seven months now.
Apparently there's been negotiations for the sale of TikTok been
ongoing with China. It's it's almost tough to have a

(42:30):
comment about this. Let me just explain some facts over here.
The deadline for TikTok to be sold is September seventeenth.
Some government officials are concerned that TikTok poses a national
security threat, believing that byte Dance, based in Beijing, is
sharing US user data with China. TikTok denies that Trump

(42:54):
signed an executive order three times now that push back
the deadline for when TikTok must be sold. Ah, it's okay,
let's just push it back and one more time. Okay,
we'll give them a little slack. It's been promising deals
with China or right there on the horizon is Listen,

(43:17):
my youngest son influencer uses TikTok. It makes money from TikTok.
Do I know if byte Dance is using US data
illicitly or despy? I don't know. Is that the reason
I don't and never have used TikTok. One of the

(43:38):
only few social media platforms I don't use is TikTok.
Interestingly enough, I do use a software program on my phone,
an app that is also owned by by Dance. It's
a video editing tool called cap cut, which I think
is the easiest to use video editing software for Instagram,

(43:59):
real videos and even to talk. So yes, I'm still
using something for byte Dance. The reason I don't use TikTok,
I mean, I think the reason I use TikTok is
already have enough social media. I'm on LinkedIn, I'm on Facebook,
I'm on Instagram, and maybe one or two other things
that I used. I'm on threads, probably should get on TikTok.

(44:20):
Not the point, but it is a livelihood for a
lot of people. There's a lot of money to be
made for these content creators. I I, if I got
a TikTok account, probably could be making some money by creating.
But I don't. Maybe one day I'll get one of
my kids actually to do it for me. This was

(44:43):
a big story last year, big story in January when
it goes down. It was a big story in January
when it went down for about twenty four hours. It
went for about it was dark for about maybe twenty
four hours January twentieth, nineteenth, literally right when when Trump
was inaugurated, interesting enough that it went dark because it

(45:06):
was a federal legislation that was signed it into law
by in twenty twenty four and they came up with
that date of January twenty So do I. I don't
know if this is going to affect you, but I
want to let you know. But this could be in
the middle of September, right in week three of football
season or so. This could be something that we are
going to talk about. I got a question over here
about logging in and signing in. And this comes from

(45:27):
a listener in San Antonio. Hey, Garth, like show listening
to WAI catch you anytime I can be logging into
a new laptop that I got and asked me that
I can actually use face recognition or a pass code
or a past key. What is a past key? Very
good question because there are several ways that you can

(45:49):
log in to your computer, to your laptop, and I'll
just spend maybe quickly two minutes. It's a pass key.
It's a relatively new technology and it promises safer and
easier logins to websites and apps. So if you continually
to put your username and your password and so many

(46:10):
other you know things like that, you could start using passkeys.
And it works by using to make it simple. It's
a very unique mathematical value. But it's a private key
that is stored on the device you're using along with
the public key on the website or app you're connecting to.
So it's like a lock and key system and the
app of the site. It can determine whether you have

(46:31):
the right private key. If you have it, boom, it's
going to log in and you authorize this exchange by
entering a master password or a pin, or you can
use your face or a fingerprint scan. But passkeys they
can eliminate the hassle of creating and keeping track of
several complex passwords they themselves. However, they do present a

(46:56):
few new hassles, sinking private keys of cross platforms. If
you have an Android phone, if you have an iPad,
if you have a PC. Passkeys can confuse users still
trying to understand what two factor authentication is. It's really tough.
You can't transfer passkeys across password manager apps. A lot

(47:19):
of you people may have password managers, which I've kind
of recommend over the years too. You don't have to
install a password manager. Update software, do a little digging.
I think they're relatively new. You can get locked out.
There are hundreds of sites already that take pass keys,

(47:42):
and it's just another way to try to securely log
you in to your device and specific websites or apps.
You should continually use two factor authentication, meaning log in.
It's going to send you a text or an email,
you have to check that. Read it. Maybe it's six

(48:04):
digit code, go back to the website and put it in.
Could it could slow down ten seconds. But it is
a not a sure far away, but a more solid
way to log you into something. That is what a
past key is.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
I hope I.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Explained that when we come back. People smart AI glasses mind,
you know, I get all this stuff to try. There's
a smart AI glass that can remember people's names. This this,
this is a breakthrough walking down, walking around, you're out
of you're out of meeting a dinner. I don't know
what you forget this person's name. How about having a

(48:38):
smart smart smart glass recognize who it is whisper in
your ear or actually show you on the glass screen.
That's pretty cool. I got that. And I'm gonna tell
you if you have a non Apple device, I'm gonna
tell you how you can use Apples full stop. Look
at me. All the goods, Michael barthough, I tech.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
That check.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Right with to this show, especially if I can seas
to get out and see your cowboy pool or go
drinking or watching Week zero of college football as fast
as we can. But I do appreciate, really from the
bottom of my little heart, you taking some time. You
may be in the car, you may be in a pool,
you may be listening while you're working out or you're
running through the iHeartRadio app. But my name is Michael,
Michael Garfield. We've been doing this twenty three, twenty four

(49:34):
years here on the High Tech textan show having some
fun is not all about technology. We don't geek out
and I try to use plain, simple English. I make
tech sexe. That's exactly what I say, speaking of sex
A I love. I wear sunglasses all the time. Number One,
I think the sunglasses could. I think it makes most
everybody look better. Agree or disagree. It protects you from

(49:57):
the sun, which we need here in Texas too. But
sunglasses and glasses themselves are getting smarter. They're wearables. It's
a category of technology. It's growing and there are a
lot of smart glasses. You may have seen Meta, which
is Facebook the owning a parent company. They got together
with RayBan and they sell for about three hundred dollars

(50:20):
a pair of smart glasses and you wear them and
it's not You may remember the Google glass. They came
out gosh what eight years ago, ten years ago, and
it was a beta test. They were a thousand dollars
and you wore them, but they had a camera on
them and you could record people. But they projected things
on the screen. When you wore them, it looked like

(50:40):
it's on a twelve foot screen, just because it's so
close to your eyes. It really didn't work, and it
didn't work very simply because consumers weren't ready for it.
Oh my gosh, are you recording me on on one?
All this stuff, they weren't ready for it. Consumers seem
to be ready for it now because there are a
number of different manufacturers who are making smart glass. I

(51:01):
actually have two pair of Meta ray band glasses slash sunglasses,
I think one of them are The lenses get darker
as you go outside. Uh. They've got a camera in
ford facing camera in on one side of the lens,
and you could snap a photo or you could take

(51:22):
a video. The videos, I think go up to three
minutes long. They have speakers built into the arms if
you will, of the glasses, so when they rest right
above your ears, you can listen to music. They bluetooth
to your phone. You could take a phone call because
they have a microphone and speakers in those glasses. It
does a lot of stuff. You can ask ai Hey, Meta,

(51:46):
for example, to tell you something. They can give you
directions in your ears while you're walking around. They're pretty cool.
I guess you can use these. Hey, I don't know
if if schools ban these yet, but maybe what I mean,
there's a number of different pairs. I got a pair.
I was in China last April and I met a
company called even Realities and they gave me a pair

(52:08):
to test. It's another pair of smart glasses. They're okay. God,
these are more expensive. I think these are four or
five hundred dollars. They look a little sleeker and sharper
than the Meta version because they don't have a camera
built in or speakers in there, which allows the glasses
to be smaller. Right, there's no hard drive or anything

(52:30):
really in there, and so it does less than what
Meta does. They're more expensive. What these do? These will project,
these even Realities they will project things on the inside
of the glass that only you, the wearer can see.
So when you get a text, or if you read
an email, or it will project a map and help

(52:51):
you navigate somebody by wearing the glasses and you could
just look at it. I think the smartest feature it
does there's a teleprompter feature, So you could wear these
glasses load in a TV script a speech, and now
you can just sit there and read it. For those
of you who don't like memorizing things, I think that's

(53:12):
pretty and it scrolls up and down. The point is
I'm giving somebody's with these smart glasses. Do There's another
one that just came out and I do not have
this one, but I was reading. But it's from a
company called Halo Halo Glasses, and it's from a company
called Brilliant Labs. They're expected to ship here in another
two months or so three hundred and fifty dollars. It's

(53:33):
an open source frame smart glass. They look a little
meta ish, pretty thick. They do have speakers in the
side so you can bluetooth. You can listen to music,
probably talk on the phone. But this feature seems interesting
and I'm anxious to try it out. It is a
let me make sure I get this right.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
It's a patent pending memory system called Narrative, and it
uses data collecttion did from its camera and its microphones
and interactions when you're wearing it to create a private
and personalized knowledge base just for you. And what this
Narrative software does it allows the smart glasses to recall

(54:14):
the name of someone you've met when you're talking to
them again. It will even give you access details from
your past conversations. I like that I meet I'm out
and about and people come up to me quite often
and they tell me, Hi, how are you? What's going on?

(54:37):
I have a relatively good memory. It's maybe it's probably
slowing down this midge, but I have a tough time
recalling a Do I know this person or do they
just recognize me from the TV? Or if I'm on something?
Do I really know this person? Haven't seen him in
years and I forgot their name. Did I go to

(54:58):
high school with you way back in the day. I
don't know. So it's nice to have a little angel
on your shoulder or glasses on your face to whisper
in your ear. Hey, this is Jennifer Smith. You met
her July twenty twenty three at a luncheon and you

(55:24):
were talking about the Dexas Longhorns, you know, upcoming season.
That's cool because what it does, it makes it if
this is seamless and it works relatively something like that,
and the other person doesn't know you're getting fed this information.
I last hera noe de Bergerac. It's impressive to the

(55:47):
other person. Oh my gosh, Michael, how did you remember?
It's great for business clients too, if you did business
with somebody. If I like I have done endorsements for
twenty five years, I started doing endorsement twenty five years ago.
And I don't some of these I don't talk to
some of these companies. We've each gone our own ways.

(56:08):
They've done anything. This person who used to be at
this company is now doing something in another company. He's
gonna come up to me and say, Hey, Michael, what's
going on? If I can have this thing quickly this part,
Hey man, Jeff, what's going on? House member? Yeah, yeah,
we met when you were working there for that software company.
What are you doing right now? This Jeff guy is
gonna go Holy grab man, Michael, what a great memory.

(56:29):
I mean, tell you what I'm with this new company.
We may need let's talk, we may be able to
work again. Let me sign that new deal again. Little
things like this give you a leg up, little leg
up again. That's just from a sales marketing point over there.
So hopefully I will try these Halo or Brilliant labs.
If you're listening, if you're monitoring a radio station. So

(56:49):
high tech Textan needs to try some of these things.
I'll in this segment over there between watches, smart rings,
heart monitors, fit trackers, glass this is smart clothing, wearables.
What's the most impressive thing that you have seen, that
you have used or you want that you've seen out there.

(57:11):
I'm gonna give you the phone number over here where
we take a break three four six, twenty nine text
in what I may do. Actually, last hour we had
a chat with the founders of Cowboy Pools Man. I
already got about a dozen messages emails of that. Michael,
what's the name of this thing? How they create this thing?
I actually may run that back. I may run back
that next We certainly will be here for the next
thirty minutes or so. At the top of the hour,

(57:31):
it's high tea. Back at it to Michael Varfield. Be
long running high Tech Texan show towards the end of

(57:53):
the summer. But guess what is Texas? It is still
h o T day day day day day day. It
is hot, hot hot. The good news is when I
finish the show here just a matter of an hour,
hour and a half, I know where I'm gonna be
sitting and I'm gonna be sitting outside my backyard watching
a little gallage football. Oh, by the way, soaking in
a cowboy pool. If you've been watching me on my Instagram,

(58:13):
my social media, if you happen to catch Fox seven
in Austin or maybe Great Day Houston. Saw that beautiful
stock tank pool that I got from an Austin based
company called Cowboy Pools. It's it's I can't tell you
how convenient in fun it is, especially for someone like
me who used to have an inground pool I don't
want to call a real pool, but it was an
en ground pool that took months and months to build

(58:34):
and had to get a billion per minutes at a cost
I don't want to tell you how much it cost.
Now I got this Cowboy Pool installed it what less
than three hours, and it's just it's a great backstory.
It's a company husband wife team out of Austin, Amanda
Cheftel and Aaron Weiss, and I wanted to kind of
get their their story to see, you know, how it started.
And I just love entrepreneur across Texas and so they
are joining me right now, Hey, guys, I appreciate you

(58:57):
tuning in. Are you sitting in a cowboy pool right now?

Speaker 7 (59:00):
Should be?

Speaker 5 (59:01):
We should always be sitting in a cowboy pool. Yeah,
you're having those market No, No, it's my pleasure. There's
no better state literally the Korea something like this than Texas.
I mean it is hot, it is a year round.
We can get in pool certainly if you have a
heater or a chill or something like this. For those uninitiated,
I haven't seen a lot of stuff what I've done.
We're going to your website at cowboy pools dot com.

(59:22):
What is the category of a stock tank it is?

Speaker 6 (59:27):
We call it a soaking pool, we call it a
cocktail pool. It's an above ground pool, but it's kind
of in a category of its own because above ground
pools tend to be you know, bulky, clunky, maybe not
the most attractive, not the most long lasting. And these
are none of those things. These are sleek, these are durable,

(59:47):
long lasting.

Speaker 7 (59:49):
They're a real.

Speaker 6 (59:50):
Pool solution that's practical, budget flent friendly, space conscious, all
these things easy.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
I'd like said to flying out the door, but they're
actually rolling out the door because I I've seen them
being installed. Were you actually delivering you roll them into
the whatever space, be at a backyard or be it
a balcony, which we could talk about later. Aaron, the
concept five years ago that you created this, How did
you come up with the idea?

Speaker 7 (01:00:11):
You know, we had just moved into a house, were
there about a year. We couldn't really agree on any
of the backyard choices, you know, we were waiting to
do any landscape decisions until we could agree. And then
we came across the stock tank pool and kind of
kind of blew our minds. It was always been a
DIY project, and then so we tried to diy at
ourselves and ran into issues that most people do a

(01:00:32):
lot of people do there there were at the time.
There wasn't comprehensive resources. You couldn't find a real, real
nice how to video, how to put it together, what
parts to get you know, we were hesitant to drill
the holes all the things, and we made some decisions
that we wish we hadn't, and so we joked in
the process, wouldn't it be great to turn this into
a business, a turnkey service for people who don't want

(01:00:53):
to do this themselves. And then a few months later
COVID hit and we found ourselves. We found ourselves with
more time on our hands, and our careers kind of
came to a stop. We were in marketing and filmmaking,
and then you know, we called some suppliers and just
kind of went for it, went for this business idea
that that we wouldn't have had time for otherwise.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
What's the demographic? I mean, who gets these cowboy pools.

Speaker 7 (01:01:16):
Yeah, as much as we wish we could drill down
our demographic further, it's really spans the gambit. We we
found that it's it's singles, it's people with kids, it's
people with grandkids, it's emzy.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
Nesters who just want to chill, it's you know, couples
that want a place to soak. It's you know, and
it can be an all day, all evening, all year solution.
We also offer heater chillers. The new product that we're
super excited to talk about is called the Temp Tamer,
and it can chill down to below forties for an

(01:01:56):
icy cold plunge up to one oh four for a
hot tub, and anything in between. You know, relaxing soak
all year rounds. So so really, anyone that wants to
get in some water, wants to relax, health and wellness
focused people that you want to cold plunge. You're a
hot tub.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
Talk with Aaron Weissmanda chef Tel. They created and they
own the company. It's called Cowboy Pools are out of Austin,
and I know you actually you deliver across Houston. You
just opened that and all over the cross across not
all the state of Texas, but also across the country.
To Aaron, you were just telling me about somebody in
New York Manhattan installing it on a balcony.

Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
Sent right, Yeah, it's something we always thought about and
you know now glad to see it come to life. Uh,
customer of ours in in in Manhattan, customer of customer
of ours in Manhattan and New York City put a
six foot pool on their on their eighth floor balcony.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
And they also installed the tem tamer heater chiller. So
now it's you know, a year round soaking pool for
them in Manhattan in Chelsea, and it's it's quite a
cool sight to see a Cowboy pool with that you
know skyline in the background.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
I have to imagine because of the size. It's there's
people who have town homes, they have a single family units.
For example, let me give you my lifestyle. You know,
I've had the ranch style home for years and years
the kids were growing up, and now I've moved into
a three story It's a house with a relatively small backyard,
and there's just no way in it. It's not a

(01:03:27):
town I it's not connected, but it's on my backyard.
And listen, I love entertaining. I mean, I've got two grills,
I got a smoker, i got a TV's football season's
coming up. But one thing right now, it's still going
to be ninety to one hundred degrees all the way
through October. I cannot build. There's no way I can
actually dig an actual pool, which is why I found
Cowboy pools. And so my neighbors around me probably a
little older demographic too, maybe they were retired, maybe they

(01:03:48):
got grand kids, but they also have that same limited space.
I have to say, that's that's really almost the low
hanging fruit of the people who could should consider one
of these.

Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
Absolutely, and I think that's the truth for a lot
of people. You know, new builds tend to have smaller yards. Yeah,
and then that's kind of the time we're in budgets
are getting tighter, and building a pool isn't is kind
of a luxury that we don't we don't need to
do anymore now that we have things like Cowboy Pools.

(01:04:17):
All you need is a level, flat surface, outdoor electricity
and a way to roll in your tank and you
can have a you know, six to ten feet of
soaking pool at your temperature, at you know, riding your backyard.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Amanda Chef, tell Aeron, why's joining me from Cowboy Pools
for a few more minutes? You talked about the six
to ten foot Aeron, I'm gonna talk to you a
little bit more about the specific They're come in different sizes,
and obviously before you put it in you actually kind
of want to scope out. Maybe I think you can
even send you some pictures with your suggestions, But what
are the different sizes? What's the process of ordering one?

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
Yeah, we have a six foot diameter, eight foot diameter
and ten foot diameter pool and fits anywhere from two
to four adults all the way up to ten adults comfortably.
And you find most of the information on our website.
You can call us week days and we're here to
answer your questions.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
When once you order it, what give me the process
in terms of time length obviously where they roll it in,
but the installation itself, by the time they get on
your property to the time they leave, it's a snap. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:05:15):
Once you order your pool on the website, we reach
out to schedule and it's anywhere from two to four
weeks out. Then our team comes out, rolls the pool
into your backyard and sets it up. And really what
takes the longest is to fill it up, but two
to three hours and then you're ready to soak.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
A lot of question before I get you guys out
of here so I can get in my tub and
you can get in your tub. Also, future expansion plans,
I mean, I know you have a lot of accessories.
I mean you can get benches, and you already talked
about that the tamer with the chiller and the heater,
which is great. Like that you've conquered Texas, what's next
beyond what you got going?

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
Yeah, we're super excited for this Temptamer that we can
preassemble ship nationwide with our preassembled pools. You know, it's
just twenty to maybe forty minutes of setup time and
then you have a fully functional pull you backyard. Aside
from that, just announced a partnership with yards En, who

(01:06:05):
is a nationwide outdoor design company, and they also help you,
you know, find contractors and get your yard landscaped.

Speaker 7 (01:06:17):
They create three D and two D renderings of your
yard that you can then use to to carry out
whatever whatever design you want to bring bring your dream
backyard to life.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
It is called cowboy poolscowboypools dot com. Love the concept
and again in terms of you know, I always look
for great ideas, you know, be it in the specific
tech world or the ancillary stuff like that consumer lifestyle,
love the entrepreneur spirit. I love our great state of Texas.
So congrats on your success. And you know I can't
wait to you. Do you really expand across the world.

(01:06:48):
Maybe show with people with the Austin and Texas and
cowboys are all about sort of way. Good luck.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Yeah, thanks so much for having us.

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
Yeah, thanks, Michael, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
All right, folks, we're gonna take a break here on
the high tech text and show it is Michael. And
guess what, let's than one hour I'm putting on those
swim trucks turning on that TV ice cold beer and
then game on.

Speaker 8 (01:07:05):
No cool tags need it right here on the high
tight textan show.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
I am all fired up sitting in my cowboy pool.
A team might have twelve minutes right now, Michael Garfield.
Thanks again to Amanda and Aaron, Austin based. They created
this really neat product that you should take a look at.
Cowboy Pools dot com six foot eight foot ten foot.
They install this thing in less than three hours. It's
got a filter, it's chlorine. It's pretty good. It's got

(01:07:48):
a chiller and a heater. They say thirty seven degrees.
Tell you what when it's one hundred degrees outside and
you're sitting outside having a coldie, you're watching the football
right now? Yeah, turning that thing done a thirty seven degrees.
I do think them that's what we do. It's not
just jipicle standard technology. Also yap about other cool products
out there, consumer lifetime. That's kind of what I say. Final,

(01:08:10):
I don't know, six seven, eight minutes over here. I've
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for you. They actually do take cash, and they do
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Sometimes there's a line. They move as fast as they can.
You will thank me, thank me later. All right, I'm
gonna pay this one off right now too. Apple FaceTime.
I generally cannot do Apple FaceTime because I do not
have an iPhone. I have an Android. I probably have

(01:09:40):
six Androids at any given time because I'm testing a
lot of the androids. Uh, I guess I'm a green doughter.
Is that what it is? So a most ostracized that
way from all you iphoners. Shut up, And I really
can't do FaceTime because FaceTime is Apple's proprietary video comferencing. Generally,
what you do as you hit a I don't. I

(01:10:00):
don't even know how you do it. FaceTime you can
do a video conference if you have an Apple to
an Apple well, guess what. There's a little trick that
FaceTime can connect almost anybody instantly, and it works through
a web browser. If you have an Android, if you
have friends on an Android or even a Windows computer,
you actually don't have to have any extra apps installed.

(01:10:22):
It is simple. You have to have apples. New Rich
Communication Services RCS, which is in the IOSA teen that's
the latest version of their operating software, Rich Communication Services.
It's really not that lockdown as you think it is,
because it allows you to do what I'm about to
tell you. One limitation though, if you have an Android,

(01:10:45):
if you are a PC user like I am, you
cannot start or initiate a FaceTime call on your own.
The Apple user has to create the link and invite
you to join. So how do you have video chat
on an Android. Well, someone with an iPhone or an
ant or a Mac or whatever, they have to start it.

(01:11:09):
So for all you iPhone ers out there, open your
FaceTime app, you hit create link. It's right there, Create link,
and a little screen slides up from the bottom. It
says FaceTime link. Then you add a name to enter
a name for your chat. Then on the same screen
you choose an option to share the FaceTime link. You

(01:11:31):
can send it via message, email, calendar, anything else you got,
or you can cut and paste it somewhere, send it
through WhatsApp. It's really kind of identical degenerating FaceTime video
call right now. If you have an iPhone, I'm sorry.
If you have an Android phone, here's how you join that.
When you receive that little link, you click that link.

(01:11:53):
That link opens in your browser, and you do need
the latest version of either Chrome browser or Microsoft's Edge browser.
With your name, hit continue and join. Boom, the host
is gonna let you in. I give you my phone
number right now to test it out if you have
an iPhone. But I'm not gonna do that. I need

(01:12:14):
to try this. I want to try this. I'll go
to one of my friends who has an iPhone. Geez,
I wonder if I have any, and I will try it.
But maybe we're beginning of world where we can all
get along? Can't we all get along?

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
People?

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
We're little old Android users like me, which, by the way,
Android owns seventy to seventy five percent of the operating
system market for phones, where iOS only has twenty five.
Fact around the world, three to one more people use Android.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Fact.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
But yes, I have little old Android, and nobody likes
me because I get a green dot or something. You
can't do this, shut up. The phone is a phone
is a phone. It makes calls, I can surf, I
can send email whatever. I'm not ragging on any operating system,
not mentioning any manufacturers, because any androids, they have many manufacturers.

(01:13:15):
Androids have everything from one plus to l G to
Samsung to Google Pixel to motor Roll, goes on and
on and on. That's why there's more Android users around
the world versus one brand of phone uses iOS iPhone.
You see, I do my research. I am here for you.

(01:13:36):
So that's what we got. What did I forget over here?
I haven't talked? Did I haven't got about two minutes?
I got an e bike? Did I tell you about this?

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
I have? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
I have an e b I'm getting it. I'm doing
a TV segment on e bikes and motorized bike. I
am having a blast. I'll talk more about this next week.
It is from a I did my research. It is
from a company called turn t e r N for
probably one of the leading it's a phenomenal brand. And
I have the turn Vectron v e k t ro

(01:14:08):
o N back to school. If you're looking to get
around from point A or point B. If you were
really into pedling, but you also want motor assistance. It's
not the cheapest thing, but it is fun and this
one is foldable. So if you see me around Memorial Park,
in Houston or up and downtown Lake in Austin. That's
me and hopefully I'll be wearing some glasses where if

(01:14:30):
you say hi, it will tell me in my ear
who you are and what your name is. That's a
callback from an earlier segment. Today, I'll talk about more
and I'll tell you when that story of the TV
segment it's posted for a turn e bikes and we'll
have a conversation if you have an e bike or
a scooter or something better ways to get around, and
certainly evs or diesel engines, make sure you add diesel

(01:14:52):
exhaust fuel d EF. Go back and listen to the podcast,
then you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:14:59):
Segment too.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
You got to get out of here. We got the folks.
Callum will thank you so much for keeping the show
on air. Our good friend Brian Erickson, who's the program
director for most all of the Heart stations, your Stead
of Texas, Eddie Martini, everybody who's kept me on there
for twenty three plast years. Thank you. Follow me gifts Prizes,

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and on Instagram, on x Facebook, because that's how you
can get new people. Go enjoy your cowboy pool, have
a coldie, don't drink and drive. Go get your phone
out of the school so you can use it and
watch some football because WFE, as we know it, slowly
starting to get back to the ship in the fall.

(01:15:43):
My name is Michael Garde the High Tech Texts, and
right now my show is over.