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Today on The High Tech Texan Show - 

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• REVIEW: Dodge Durango R/T
  
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Tech Texan is Michael Garfer.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Michael Garfield.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Michael Garfield's joining US.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
And the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
a high Tech Texans.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
It was to make life easier.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Some new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might want.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Texas.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio act. Now your high Tech Texan Michael Garfield.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
For twenty three years, this radio show has solely been
broadcasted in Southeast Texas, Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, and all that
stuff on KPRC nine Am, which, by the way, if
you're listening anywhere in the world, it's the oldest talk
radio station in this great state of Texas. In fact,

(01:08):
this is the longest running local show in the one
hundred and one year history of that station, kpe PRC. Now, yes,
it's also heard through the iHeartRadio app across the country,
also podcasted wherever great podcast or heard. Three weeks ago,

(01:29):
this show expanded finally to San Antonio and we have
been pumped shout out to WOAI twelve hundred to blow
Torch down there in Central Texas, South San Antonio. Love you.
People already been coming in strong, phone calls, emails. Heck,
I've even been invited to do the show from the

(01:51):
river Walk, and we need to coordinate that people mad
I love going to that Riverwalk, needs restaurants, suggestion to everything.
But starting this week, there's bigger news. Are you kidding me?
Bigger news? You see? I had a goal all those
years ago, twenty three plus years ago, to spread my
content to as many people who could listen. And that's

(02:13):
why I coined and trademark the term high tech Texan
instead of the high tech Ustonian where I currently live,
and as of this weekend, this show is truly Texan,
just like me.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Hello Dallas and kfx R eleven ninety all you listeners
in Big D, we welcome you to the high Tech
Texan family.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
If you're a longtime listener, either in Southeast Texas or
online via the iHeartRadio app, you know how big this
one is for me because Big D is not just
another city. Big D. Dallas is my hometown. Dallas is
where I was raised. Dallas is where a lot of

(03:07):
my family still lives, including my parents, Larry and Susan Garfield,
what's up? Who begged me, by the way decades ago
to study you become a doctor? Oh, you shouldn't get
in the media. You need to be a doctor, maybe
a lawyer or something like that. Guess what They finally
get to listen to their kid over the local airwaves,
And all I can say is, you know, you were

(03:29):
actually right. I probably should have become a doctor, maybe
even a lawyer, anything else but a media personality. Neither here,
neither there. I am in Dallas, I am in San Antonio,
and I am in Houston, three of the most populous
US cities, the three largest cities in the state of Texas.
I couldn't be happier. Okay, let me explain. If you're

(03:51):
new to this show, all right, you San Antonio, you're
probably new three weeks in Dallas. You may have hurt
me on iHeartRadio because I got so many friends, so
many childhood friends, high school of friends and everything. We'll
talk about that. If you've never heard this, wait before
you flip to another station. Okay, we know who you are.

(04:12):
We're iHeartRadio people. We know you're flipping. Okay, give this
show a listen, Give it a few weeks. I've been
doing this show for an entire generation twenty three years. Okay,
from the name of the show, you may be expecting
to call in and have me help fix the motherboard
on your computer. Well, if so, guess what you're listening
to the wrong show. You might as well find a nice, blond,

(04:33):
knowledgeable female who's been doing tech specific radio shows for
about as long as I have. Nope, See, this show
is fun. This show is fast, personable, it's hip, it's hot,
it's happening, as my grown kids say, speaking of which,
you're actually gonna find out that I am a grown kid,
a kid who enjoys what he does for a living.

(04:54):
I'm a kid who gets to play with most any gadget,
any car, any piece of food you want me to
try before you buy it. I am your guy. But
know this, I am not afraid to hold back. If
I don't like something, if I think it's cheesy, could
break easily, too expensive, I'm gonna tell you to walk away,

(05:15):
run away. It's as simple as that. This show is
not about computers. Well, I guess actually can be if
you want my vice, I'm buying laptops or desktops, but
It's also about cars and trucks. I test drive over
sixty vehicles a year. I can help you decide which
ones to look at, which ones to stay away from.

(05:35):
It's about most anything that consumers want. Anything you like,
peanut butter. I'll tell you what I think is the
best one on the market. Cell phones, streaming services, bourbon,
places to travel, what to Where I got All that? That,
my friends, is what this show is all about. So

(05:56):
buckle up and as I say, let's row make some
sex a radio On top of that, you could be
a part of this show. I'm gonna give you a
phone number right now. I want you to lock it.
I want you to load it. Love to hear from you.
If it's a busy number. If it keeps on ringing,
maybe a voicemail will pick up. Leave me a voicemail,
ask me a question. Okay, if you do leave a voicemail,

(06:17):
we do have your permission to put it on the radio,
either today, next week, or whenever. Here's the number, three
four six twenty nine Texan. I mean, come on, really,
you can't beat that three four six two nine tex A.
N All right, go check that out. Now, what are
we gonna do? To today. Well, we're gonna talk about

(06:39):
last minute gifts that you can send immediately. That's right,
we're in the midst of the final like, say, what two
weeks or so before the holiday season, Christmas is coming
hanakah starts on the same evening as that. Whatever you're
gift giving maybe has a lot of birthday. By the way, man,
if you got a birthday near Christmas, riven honekah, that
it just sucks for you, doesn't it. I'd you know,
let's start first question for you to call in, see

(07:01):
if you can get in if you've got a birthday
within a few days, let's just say Christmas, all right,
do you get the oh, by the way, where to
give you two for one? Do you celebrate it together?
God forbid? You actually have your birthday on Decebary twenty fifth,
twenty fifth, which actually could Is it a great thing?
Is it not such a great thing? I wouldn't think
it's such a great thing because it's some Listen, kids

(07:24):
are out I always thought about this way. Kids are
out of school. So knowing not a lot of people,
not a lot of your buddies are either a gonna
know what your birthday b they can't celebrate with you.
You know, they can't bring cupcakes at school? Are you
even go to bring cupcakes? It's going anymore with all
these diseases. Who even knows? Three four six twenty nine Texan.
All right, if you celebrate a birthday, if someone you

(07:46):
know it celebrates a birthday, do you just give them
one big gift or do you go separate? That's the
stuff I want to But anyway, it is last minute.
Some of the things that you may not be thinking of.
I'm gonna give you some ideas of what you can
do to send this immediately, because you do have to
be wary the post Office, the FedEx, the ups, the Amazons,
they may be a little slow right now on delivering things. Also,

(08:06):
I got a list tech flops of the year. What
are some of the flops of the year. Actually didn't
even have to be tech. It could be in sports.
And I'm looking at my Dallas Cowboys right now. Listen, Hey, Dallas,
don't you rag me the fact that I'm actually living
in Houston. I am a Dallas boy, and I am
not afraid to hide it as I'm living here in Houston. Man,

(08:26):
I'm a Cowboys guy and I'm a Longhorns guy. But whoo,
I'll tell you a flop of the year. I don't know.
Is Mike McCarthy is the flop of the decade? Is
it Jerre? I don't know. We will find out also
into the year top list. Whatever you want. Hit me
up all on social media. Actually, I will tell you
where to find me on social media after this first break,
but we could not be happy to be here with

(08:48):
you for the next two hours. Hello h Town, Hello Dallas,
Hello San Antonio, Hello freaking Texas. Because I am Michael Garfield.
I am back home in Big D with the high
tech text and show Don't Go in the World. That

(09:19):
is the number, the new number of the new show.
If you're listening up in the Dallas Fort Worth area, welcome,
what is going on? My good friends KFX are eleven
ninety am North Dallas, maybe near my parents. You know
my parents I live up. I'm I'm from Dallas, raised
in Dallas. Big D is in my heart. Cowboys, lifelong fan,

(09:41):
went to school WT White, Big shout out to WT White.
Matter of fact, a lot of my college buddies, my
high school buddies, are listening right now. They're sending me
some emails. Let me tell you how to get in
on this interactive show stand by it's called the High
Tech Texan Show. I talked a little about technology. I
recommend I'm not going to tell you how to fix
maybe almost anything. I'm gonna tell you what to buy

(10:03):
and what not. The buye yes with gadgets. That's what
I did, started out twenty plus years ago. But now
I review cars and I'll give you some of the
what's Michael driving this week and what to stay away
from and also a lot of other good stuff. We're
gonna lap about today. Last minute gift ideas for the
holiday season that you can get like immediately, like you
don't even you can go online. You can buy these

(10:24):
things and have them email directly to your friends, your family,
your loved ones. Before that, I just gave you the Actually, no,
it's do a little Instagram, Let's do a little Facebook,
Let's do a little X, let's do a little Blue
sky let's and whatever out there. I generally keep it
to high Tech Texan hi gh teh T e x A.

(10:44):
You have to spell the whole thing out high tech Texan.
Don't give you the hi Tech Texan now it's high
high Tech Texan, high Tech Texan dot com big on Instagram.
Just over fifty thousand people now listen, So a fifty
thousand follow on Instagram. Okay, now we just open it
up to Dallas. What is that the top six the

(11:06):
sixth most populous city in the country, in the country. Okay,
If I don't have four hundred and fifty thousand followers
by the end of the show, something's wrong. Follow me people,
funny stuff. Every time I test a product, drive a car,
I know I certainly will put on Instagram. If you
go to X you will or blue Sky or Twitter
or what not? Twitter. Sorry about that. Threads, you're gonna

(11:28):
get a little mic takes mostly on sports. I'm a
sports nut. You know I'm gonna make some sports in
How about the Texas Longhorns. I was at the game
and Atlanta. I did go to the SEC Championship last week.
It didn't come out the way we wanted. But you know,
at the end of the day, I think I think
Sark may have been playing chess in three D or
four D. Maybe he just said, you know what, we've

(11:49):
got our If we don't win, just let Georgia take
the Crown. We'll have a relatively easy path to the Natty.
We'll be back in the same building on January twentieth
and so maybe so anyway, massive Longhorn fan, I'm still
a Cowboy fan. People. I've lived through five Super Bowl
wins and I've got all five Super Bowl Repic Gold rings.

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But it's the one of the flops this year. And
I will be talking later the show about some flops,
tech flops, car flops, sports flops, people flops. Maybe a
win or two. We're winning. Where now you were in Houston,
we're in San Antonio, and now we're in Dallas. Before that,
I gave you the phone number. It's three four six

(12:31):
twenty nine Texan. Why don't we, as we say in
the business, go to the phones. This is Mike. How
are you. It's Michael Garfield. Welcome to the High Tech
Texan Show. What is going on?

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Yeah, I just talked to you on iHeartRadio. I've been
San Antonio. You definitely need to come over here and
do some shows from our great city. And we've got
best food south side of San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Mike, san Antonio first Color today. Oh good, this is
this is one of the things there we have some
fun with So Mike, Thank Mike, thank you so much
for the call. Mike invites me to San Antonio. Does
he can someone find out? Does does he work for
the CVV Convention of Visitors Bureau? I mean, does he
have au thorough tie to actually invite me to do
my radio show from San Antonio on the Riverwalk anywhere?

Speaker 6 (13:22):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
He wants to talk about the food. They've got some
good food over there. Let's open. Hey, san Antonio versus
Dallas versus Houston. Who's got the best food, Who's got
the best food? Here's what I want. I want somebody.
I want people to call in, but don't nominate your city. Hey, Austin,

(13:42):
I know if you're listening on iHeart Radio, because I
know we're not terrestrially at Austin yet Rio Grand Valley.
I don't you know what this show has also heard
iHeart Radio. It's on the app. You could download the app,
look for Michael Garfield, look for the high tech text,
and you can listen pretty much anywhere around the world
except China. I think China blocks it. I'm not sure.
Call in if you've been to Texas, where is the

(14:03):
best food Mike says, they got some of the best
food anywhere. I like San Antonio. San Antonio and Austin
they have like a Taco war, and then Austin and
then kind of Houston. Certainly Lockhart's in there when it
comes to barbecue two. I like me some food, and
I get to go to restaurant openings and I have
restaurant tours and chefs on the show. So it's going

(14:26):
to be fun. We have a big party over here
San Antonio, Dallas, and again I'm a little Dallas centric
today because first time we want to make sure they're
happy and welcome if they're listening on eleven ninety am
KFX are part of our Heart Radio family. Best restaurants
in Dallas. Now, I'm from Dallas. My parents live in Dallas.
Some of my best friends, my childhood friends, grew up

(14:46):
in North Dallas. Went to W. T. White High School.
By the way, I already got an email over here
Chris Domhoff. Hello, haff I went to high school W T.
White with domb Hoff. He is listening, GARF. Been listening
to you here on iHeartRadio probably for about fifty years.
Great growing up with you. I never thought you'd mount
to anything. But it's pretty cool listening to you over
the year on eleven ninety. I guess that's a compliment.

(15:08):
Guess that's a compliment just because you're retired, bro and
you hit it big with ignite. I mean, come on, uh,
three four six twenty nine Texan. You can call into
three four six two nine t e x A N
Restaurants in Dallas. Don't laugh. I am not a pretentious guy.
I don't eat, believe it. I don't eat a lot

(15:29):
to eat. I don't eat a lot of red and meat.
I'll eat barbecue here and there. I rarely have a steak,
and I really have a hamburger, all right. So when
I come in and if I have two steaks a year,
I'm lying, okay, two two steaks year. One of them
is it Nick and SAMs. This is an unsolicited big

(15:50):
Nick and Sam fans. The reason why I love Nick
and Sam's cool meat area right off the edge of downtown.
They got a freak cavia. Actually, before I go the dead,
do they still have the free caviar bar. I was
just amazed first time I went in there, because I
like caviar, and I'm waiting in line with the bar
with my boys, and all of a sudden people are

(16:11):
going on with their little dishes and they're snacking on something,
and that's like, what are you eating? It's a caviar caviar.
Where'd you order that? Oh? No, it's a free caviar bar.
I don't know if they still have it. Somebody called
three four six two nine Texa. Does Nick and SAMs
still have a free caviar bar? Because let me help
you out. I made me need to do my show
not only from Dallas, but from the caviar bar at

(16:32):
Nick and SAMs. It's it's a great place. Don't sleep
on this because we don't have any of these in Houston.
I say we because I live in Houston area now.
There are no Taco Buenos. It's Houston now. I grew up.
When I was in Dallas, I lived on Taco Boyo.
I have never walked into a Taco bell, but Taco

(16:53):
Boino is the boin man. I am a Buino head.
I actually used to work for there for one week
in high school. I won't even get into the story
about that. Love me, just give me a freaking bean burrito. Okay,
don't eat a lot of them. Just a little bit
more fattening than that I need right now in my
older age. Love me san buena three four six two nine,
text and you tell me what some of your favorite

(17:13):
food is. Should we actually get start into the show.
See this is the show, this is the fun show.
But we want you to be a part of this thing.
Care I did promise this last minute gifts that you
can send immediately. How can you send a gift Michael,
I mean it's it auto a wrap. No, if you
think about it, think of a gift card. Okay. Now, generally,

(17:36):
when you get a gift card, you go to a
store and you buy a gift card. Oh, give me
thirty five, give me fifty dollars, give me one hundred dollars,
me a thousand dollars. Go to Walmart, go to Target, whatever.
You know, if you really wanted an apple, you go
to the Apple store type of thing. It's not breaking
news that you can go online and buy a gift
card for yourself, or you can gift a gift card.

(17:56):
So much so, go to one of your favorite stores
and it doesn't even have to be a brick and
mortar store. Go to an online store and go purchase
a gift card, put the email of the person you
want to send it to and snap like that. They're
gonna get an email and they're gonna say, oh that
and just put a little note in there, I mom my, dad,

(18:16):
and I got you a little gift card. That's cool.
That's the media. But there are other things too. Tons.
How about subscriptions. How about as my good friend cousin
Eddie likes to say, it's the gift that keeps on
given year round, clark that it is, ed word that
it is. How About a Jelly of the month club?
How about a craft beer club? How about a coffee club.

(18:40):
There are clubs that you can get something on a
monthly basis and you can start it right online. They'll
immediately send an email to your gift recipient congratulations. For
the next twelve months, You're gonna get a new beer
to try, You're gonna get a new type of coffee
to grind. You're gonna get a new book to read.
You're gonna get a new dessert that that's coming. You
know what. Yes, you two can get a Jelly of

(19:02):
the month. So that's something that you can do. Also,
one more before we take a break, really easy. I
talk a lot about streaming because streaming is a massive
technology that's relatively new, But streaming nowadays is almost it's
like we're going back to cable because there's so many
things that are bundled together. Oh, if you get Disney
even once you get Disney Plus and Hulu together, I mean,
just bundle these things and call it cable. I will

(19:25):
tell you this. You need to start unbundling. You need
to start killing some of your streaming services, because odds
are you probably have too many streaming services and you're
probably paying almost as if not more than your role
cable subscription. Do you really need Netflix and Disney Plus
and Hulu and Apple to TV and blah blah blah bah. Yeah,
the thing is where I'm getting over here. Always go check,

(19:49):
probably every six months, what do you want? And if
you don't watch it, if your kids don't watch it,
ask yourself, what am I doing still paying nine ninety
nine nineteen ninety nine a month of the thing. But
when it comes to streaming and inner, maybe your parents,
maybe your neighbor, maybe your kids who had just moved out,
Maybe they don't have a streaming services service. Maybe you
want to get one of those. I'm not gonna give

(20:10):
you which one. I don't care what you get. Get Amazon,
get Prime Video, get Netflix, get Disney Plus. But it's
easy to sign up nowadays, or probably have some specials
on sale. I just saw it went off off sale.
Hulu had a ninety nine cent per month subscription for
one year. I think the deadline passed. I think it
was early December on that one. But take a look

(20:31):
out there. Those subscriptions may be simple, but tell you
what in a snap, can't think of anything to do.
Give them some sort of a streaming, maybe some entertainment,
maybe an audible account or book. But just remember iHeartRadio
absolutely free. You can listen to anything on iheard from
all over the country, all eight hundred plus of our
radio stations, including me, no matter where we are, where

(20:52):
where you are? All right, break time, Bottom of the year.
How about a little tech flops? How about some flops
of the year three four, six, twenty nine Texan? All right,
you can't say the Cowboys. We know they're the flop
of the year. All right, when it comes when it
comes to our expectations of what the cowboys should have been,
I'm a cowboy. Event let me help you out. I
am not a cowboy hater. Nope. I got my opposite

(21:13):
at home. I got decorated burn orange and I got
the blue and silver people. No, I'm a cowboy lover
and I'm not too happy with my boys this year.
By the way, Jarak three four six, twenty nine text
and I'd love to give you some advice here on
the High Tech Texans Show show. Michael is my name.

(21:49):
If we're tight, you can call me Garth. We want
to welcome our newest I guess we'll say, ohfiliate where
we're heard. For twenty three plus years, we've been in
Houston on the big talk radio station KPRC nine to fifty.
Just a few weeks ago we expanded to San Antonio
on WOAI, which is kind of a news talk station

(22:10):
twelve hundred and now just this week the very first
time herd Saturday and Sunday. By the way, check your
KFXR eleven ninety website. It's called the High Tech Texans
Show up in the Dallas area, my hometown. Actually, what
the iHeart the iHeart studio is? What is it just
just near the isn't it crossing the galleria? Real close?

(22:31):
To the Galleria. It's the Dallas Toway and just north
of LBJ, not far from where my parents still live,
from the same house that I grew up in, from
the same room that they still have it. Well, actually
they did kind of redecorated. Am I same high school, which,
by the way, w T. White Longhorns. If anybody really

(22:51):
needs some trivia, I have been a I was an
Orange and White Longhorn for eight consecutive years. No, I
was not held back in high school. No, I actually
did finish college in four years. It was four years
of the w T. White Longhorns and four years of
the Texas Longhorns. That that is Burton Horns. Some of

(23:13):
my high school buds tuned in. Shout out to Mike Hurst.
What's up, Mike? Oh, I'm sorry. Michael K. Hurst lawyer
esquire used to be president of the Dallas Bar Association,
one of my best friends growing up. So he's sending
some text right now, Garth, you're selling a good really.

Speaker 7 (23:36):
Oh, we can tell maybe over the year, maybe over
the weeks. Now we're gonna tell some high school stories.
It's amazing, it's amazing. I actually am doing what I'm
doing well.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
All my friends are either A most many of them
are retired right now. They're lawyers who got ranches and
second or third homes and ski lodges. Nope, not me here.
I am working on the weekends. Not a big deal.
Phone number three four six two nine t e x
A N. If we don't pick up the phone, feel

(24:07):
free to leave a voicemail question. If you need some
last minute shopping advice, it doesn't even matter almost what
it is you need. Bourbon, by the way, I'm a
big brownwater guy, big brownwater guy, collect bourbon. I give
me a price point, I'm gonna tell you a good one. Naturally,
you know what. As much as a Texan as I am,
I'm not a big Texas bourbon fan. I still got

(24:27):
to lean on a little Kentucky over there, but I
got a ton of that stuff. I actually do test
drive cars. I remember the Texas Auto Writers Association as
we get to know each other, which means for fifteen
sixteen years, I work and meet and talk to the manufacturers.
I don't deal with dealerships, just no dealerships. These are

(24:48):
directly for the manufacturers. That is not paid. I don't
endorse them. So we test drive these things, and every week,
every single week, for fifteen years, I have received a
test card from one week. I have driven over seven
hundred eight one hundred different vehicles over the past ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fifteen years. It is up to me. It is my
content and is my mind. I can rag on them,

(25:09):
and I could. I can just tell you how disgusting
this is and how bad this is. I can tell
you how great they are. This is unpaid. And that's
what you're gonna get with me. You're gonna get the truth. Baby.
You can't handle the truth because I speak the truth.
That's exactly right. This past week I was driving in
a writing Yeah, I was driving. I was a Dodge
Durango RT Dodge Durango. Okay, I do evs. This let

(25:32):
me help you out. This is about as further away
from an R from an EV and electric vehicle as
you can get. This is a Dodge Durango massive HEMI
six point three leader. I mean you can hear when
I start the car up, I wake three or four
of my neighbors up. I mean, this thing rumbles. This

(25:52):
is a gas guzzling machine. Specifically, this is the RT
model R slash T stands for road track. It's pretty much.
It comes with its special RT badging and has an
upgraded suspension, upgraded tires and brakes, and generally more powerful engine.
And so between now and the end of the show,
I'll give you a little bit more play by a play,

(26:14):
But they start around at the bare bones level. You're
gonna get about fifty two fifty three thousand dollars just
to start before you continue to go up. But the
thing is, though there's no one answer. I'll get a question. Hey, Garth,
which by the way, is my nickname, not g A
R T H. Not Garth like Wayne and gar No,

(26:35):
no Garth like the first four letters of Garfield. So
if you want to get tight with me, spell it right, Garth.
They say, Garf, what's the best vehicle to get? What's
the best car? What's the best truck I should get?
And that's an open ended question because I generally answer
questions with a question, and that means I have to

(26:57):
ask you, well, what are you looking for? Are you
a truck? Do you want a truck? Do you want
a sports card? You want a two seater? Do you
want something? Because you're getting ready to have a baby,
and you need something that is safe, but also it's
got a big backseat that's easy to put a car
seat into. Do you want an electric vehicle? I mean,
so I answer questions at that point, I narrow it down.

(27:19):
So if you want to help me narrow things down,
I'm looking for this. I'm looking for this. Fine. I
have a podcast. Well, this show is podcasted, so if
Casha is it, you can hear the dulcet tones of
my voice over and over whenever, whenever you want to.
You can got iHeartRadio. Let's just look up high Tech
textan Michael Garfield and you'll hear it. But also there's

(27:41):
another podcast I do specifically about cars and trucks, and
I've done this for years, and so I did. There's
just a number of them, and they're they're really they're
they're they're relatively short. Nothing's longer than ten minutes, somewhere
between six to ten minutes. It's pretty much what's Michael
driving this week? I will tell you that, Hey, this
is good, But however, you may want to watch the
gas mileage or you know what. The back seat is

(28:04):
so small you're not gonna fit any you know, adult
sized people in there, or if you want to schlep
something in the back of this truck bed. This only
comes in a crew cabum and you're not gonna get
a longer, you know, six foot bed or something. Go
check that out and you can look for high Tech Texan.
That also is on iHeart, Spotify, Apple and wherever the
great podcast or then. So I know that's some of

(28:25):
the things that we have going on. Phone number here
is I look at some of them ring and we'll
get to you if not. If you don't. If you
don't get to you, just go ahead and leave a
message and we'll play it here shortly or maybe next week.
Three four six twenty nine Texan three four six two
nine Texan talked about I saw an article that started
listing some of the tech flops of the year. What

(28:46):
were some of the flops as we get to the
end of twenty twenty four, I think across the board
it seems to be And this was the first one
that came to mind. It was those Apple Vision pro
goggles that Apple released. When was that it was around
summer maybe maybe springtime or so. And these are these

(29:08):
ar VR goggles that are heavy, looks like a helmet
and you put it on, and they did. They were
they were incredibly pricey. What they were these like eighteen hundred,
two thousand and three thousand dollars. I did not have one.
I didn't even test one because they just they weren't selling.
And it's not that they were. I mean it was

(29:29):
a flop. But here's the thing. As interesting as the
technology is in goggles like that, I just don't think
the mass consumer audience is ready for that stuff. And
a lot of and you know, one of this, I
think this was the one that the vision pro They
wanted you to wear it outside because you can kind

(29:50):
of see through it, but they still needed some a
power you know, you had to wear a battery packing thing.
I mean it was like you're you know, you're walking
around like you're connected to like life support or something.
It just it wasn't there. I mean, I do play
with AR and VR glasses and actually I got a
pair from Meta I'm playing with that actually reminds me
I got to send them back to for the test

(30:11):
review unit. But I'm playing with fun some the Meta
and it's neat, but the best way for me and
my suggesting to experience them is sit down in a
in a in a chair with wheel it's like a
rolling chair, like a desk chair. Okay, you're at your desk,
and you know a desk chair generally has wheels. You
can kind of wheel yourself around. Sit down, and you

(30:33):
know what, maybe you want to take a belt and
strap yourself in like it's a ten thousand dollars pyramid
final question or something, because you don't want to fallow
because these things the spatial you know sense that you're getting.
It's crazy awesome, it's real, but you can lose your balance.
So sit down number one. Okay, And if you're in
a wheelie thing, and I tell you why, in your
wheeling thing because as you turn your head left, you're

(30:54):
gonna these goggles makes it look like and feel like
you're actually in this room or in space or wherever
you you are. So if you turn left, but anyway,
take your feet and start turning your chair just in
a circle. Just just make a circle, go left and
right as you look up, as you look down. I
was playing with a it was something in these metaglasses Meta,
which is the owner of Facebook and Instagram, but you

(31:17):
know the Zuckerberg's company. This is not an endorsement. This
is just the ones I'm playing with right now. But
it was a movie about a space shuttle and they
took this three hundred and sixty degree high definition camera
in the actually was the ISS, it was the International
Space Station, and they talked to and they showed the
I think there was two sometimes three depending on when

(31:38):
they were shooting this inhabitants of the space station and
how weightless it is. But it's unbelievable because you actually
feel like you're weightless yourself and you're looking and you're
looking up, and you can move your head up, and
you can move your head down, and then you wheel
you're not just turn your feet around and now you're
looking behind it. It's three hundred and sixty degrees. That
is cool, but it's not for everybody going back, What

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were the flops of the year. I want to open
the phone lines and feel free to hit me up
on X Blue Sky, Instagram, find me high Tech textan
h I G h T E C h T E
x A N. There's a number of things that are
out there, all these artificial intelligent hens, the humane AI pen,
there's the rabbit r one. A lot of people are

(32:21):
saying the iPhone sixteen series it was actually a flop.
I don't know about that. I think Apple expected to
sell more of those. But you tell me some of
the flops of the year. All right, tex the Cowboys
are off limits. We already know they're a flop. I
say this as a Cowboys massive fan. I know you're disappointed,
just as I up in Big D three four six
twenty nine text in it is the high Tech Texting Show.

(32:43):
Michael Gart people, we're gonna come us.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
One more time.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
We have changed it.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
He was down to twenty three years due came to
phone number plays. So he'd been doing the High Tech
Texan Show twenty three years. And we do so much
more than technology. It is three four six twenty nine
Texan and three four six two nine t e x
A n already heard from Mike and san Antonio inviting
me to do the show from the river walk ere.
He says, san Antonio has got great food. We know

(33:27):
that san Antonio's got some. Really, I had some. I
need a fit I had I love Caeso. There's a
Caeso Flemiado, There's a there's a Mexican tex mex restaurant
in the Pearl. I've been going to San Antonia. I've
never lived in Santoina. I've been going there so much
since I was a kid. My parents used to take me.
Remember the Jack's Brewery or Pearl, but no, it was

(33:48):
Pearl Brewery, right, And they had They used to have
those big beer storage containers, I mean massive, but they
were there. They look like mountains and they were painted
like pearl cans. Cans. We used to take a tour
and they used to give out samples of beer to adults,
but we used got that. I was a kid, I
got root beer samples that Pearl's. Now what it's like

(34:10):
this there's an outdoor shopping area, there's apartments, there's something man,
there's somebody helped me out of there's a tex Mex
restaurant and have the Casa Flemiado is just stupid awesome.
It is just good. Garf is the nickname Michael Garfield,
the high tech text and show. We're gonna play a
little game there. We're gonna play an over undergame. So
one of the things that one of the many things

(34:31):
that I do, I let you know about what's going
on in the world. For consumers, if there's a data breach,
if there's a recall, if there's something Sometimes there's a
class action suit and maybe you can get in on
it because something happened to a product. I don't know
what it was. It was an earlier this year, last
year that there was a data breach on Equifax. There

(34:52):
was the Equifax data breach, and they had their information
and for some reason, if your data was compromised, if
you actually can get in on this consumer restitution fund,
which is gonna be distributed to settlement class members with
valid claims. And I gave you a website. It didn't
it ended months ago, right Anyway, We're gonna play a

(35:13):
little game right now. I got an email earlier this
week Tuesday, Dear Michael Garfield. The Equifax data breach Settlement
Agreement says any remaining funds in the Consumer Restitution Fund
will be distributed to settlement class members with valid claims.
You have a valid claim and are eligible for additional payment.

(35:35):
It will be sent to you by electronic prepaid card. Oh,
I'm so excited. It's coming the week of December sixteenth.
So next week I'm gonna I'm gonna get this pay
out over under people, all right, three four, six, twenty nine,
text or hit me up find me on X Blue
Sky High Tech. Textit over under. How much do you

(36:01):
think I am going to get a prepaid card for
as part of the remaining funds in the Consumer Restitution
Fund for the Equifax data breaching settlement? I am going
over under a dollar forty two? Anyone, anyone over under?
Take a best guess, and you know what, we could

(36:22):
play prices. Right if anybody emails me or post it
on X to say, garfear's my guests Equifax data breach,
you're gonna get X the person who comes the closest
without going over the amount I get, I will give
you that amount, all right, unless it's a really very

(36:46):
high amount, I'm not going to give it to you.
And I say this, it's because I love the way
they were were this. I mean it was it was millions,
and it could have been tens of millions, and it
could have been one hundreds of millions dollars that all
the people would get distributed to, right, because so many
people their data was compromised. And you've seen how this

(37:09):
stuff is. Right, But it says any remaining funds well,
you got to take out your lawyer fees. And this
is where as I started my show, where my mom
and my parents in Dallas, they say, you know what,
you should have been a lawyer. You should have been
a doctor. I probably should have like all my Mike
held another one of my wty classmates. He just came in,

(37:29):
powerful lawyer, told you, Mike cursed lawyer, Andy Whittaker. Lawyers.
All buddies of mine in Big d right now, they're
they're sending me their wishes and love because we just
started in Dallas and k FXR eleven ninety. I do
appreciate all my igh school people. Listen from W. T. White,
what is it dollar forty two? I say this, it's

(37:50):
because I get a check once a year. I don't
think it's twice year because I haven't seen one in
a while. I may get a check once a year.
From my appearance on General Hospital. Yes, that's right. Your
boy just doesn't do radio. Slapped the little makeup, little

(38:11):
lipstick on a pig, and he's presentable here and there.
I did a stint like a three three episode arc
on General Hospital in twenty eleven. So this is thirteen
years ago, right, And I get a check. I'm not
a SAG member. I don't have a screen actor's go card,
but I think it comes from ABC because General Hospital
still I think it's the last remaining or one of

(38:31):
the last two remaining soap opera still on. And I
get a check, and I'm not kidding you, man it
it gets its ABC Network, ABC Studios and it's a
check and you open up. I kid you not. If
this thing is two dollars and eighteen cents, I'm lying
just sitting fair man, stuff fair and you know what

(38:55):
you end up doing. You don't cash the thing because
you just want to frame is like, oh yeah, I
remember I was on TV. I was a general hospital
back of the day. Now I'm gonna frame this two
dollars an eighteen cent thing. Oh my goodness. Uh okay.
The Equifact Data breach settlement. If anybody else is it,
got theirs, even though I think they're gonna be distributed

(39:15):
next week. Good for you. I don't know if we
get the same amount or anything, but anyway, these are
the when there are situations like this, if there's a breach,
if there's a settlement, like you know, Apple says this
cord you know, burned down and they're having a They've
donated tens of millions of dollars to this pool, and
everybody who legally can claim that they bought one of
these things, I will give you the instructions of how

(39:36):
to actually submit your claim textually make money over there,
So Equifax, it's the the over undergame three four six
two nine text in you could find me. Also, I
do have a website too, which is high tech texting
dot com. Shockingly h I G H T E C
h T E x A N. Actually it's a big
I'm gonna end this the first time on a very

(39:57):
big note. Okay, there's not a lot of good news
is that's happening in the world right now? There really
is not. There's not a lot of good news that's
happening in the media world right now. Okay, you got
companies now merging, you got companies laying off. You got
this whatever it is, and call it lucky. No, it's
not luck, because I always say this, I don't think

(40:18):
there's such thing really as luck, because you make your
own buck. And this is words I live by. Here's
my sales motivational speech for anybody who wants me to
come in and speak to your group because they do
a lot of speaking around the country. You make your
own buck and so much. Someone is thinking about this,
how about these lottery winners. Don't tell me that these
lottery winners are just luck. They actually had to get

(40:41):
their butts in the car to go to a store
to buy a lottery ticket, sometimes waiting in line and whatever.
They made a portion of that quote unquote luck happen,
all right, So it's hard working, hard luck. The fact is,
though I've been doing this radio show twenty three years
in Houston, now heard in San Antonio is a few

(41:02):
weeks ago now just starting today Dallas area, Welcome Dallas people.
I also am I home am I still say my
home time's Dalla. My hometown is Dallas, but I do
live in the Houston area. I also contribute to a
TV show. It is called Great Day Houston. It is
on the CBS affiliate Channel eleven KHOU, which is owned

(41:22):
by Tegna, which is also owned by Channel eight wfaas
up in Dallas, which by the way, if you recognize
the voice, if you recognize the face, you recognize the face,
but you couldn't recognize the name. I was also on
Channel eight up in Dallas thirteen twelve eleven, thirteen eleven

(41:44):
ten or eleven years ago. They had just started their
four pm afternoon news and I did a segment with
what was it? I think his name is Jason on
channel like good Dude. There's a lot of good money
or consumer stuff right now. I like him a lot.
So the way I did a technology segment, that was it.
So I still do TV and I contribute to Great
Day Houston and this coming Tuesday as we get ready

(42:06):
to finish this top of the Hour, This coming Tuesday,
if you're in the Houston area, or if you go
to kheou dot com if you want to see what
the guy behind the microphone looks like. I am actually
a host game the show. Our regular host Debora Duncan.
She's actually taking a little vacation time, so she's tolling
a little Johnny Carson having someone sit in for hear
and one of my goals whatever probably wanted to do

(42:28):
as a radio intelligence film major. I absolutely look, I'm
jumping at this and I'm so excited. I'm gonna go
through some of the cool technology gifts and gear that
I will show and tell because that's what you could
do on TV. Got some really cool interviews lined up
I will be hosting. So for some reason, I'm gonna
get you. Good morning Texas. You're looking for another dude

(42:49):
who wants to make his way home. He's got good hair,
he's got a ton of energy. Talk to my age
Michael Garfield, our number one. Oh, stay tuned, don't go anywhere.
So we have some fun this weekend. Off college football
weekend and it's an off season with my Dallas cob
right here. It's called the high Tech text.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
Ian.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Is Michael Garfil Michael Garfuld.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Michael Garfield's joining us and the.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
High Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high
Tech Texans items to make life easier, new technology.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
So Michael Garfield has something you might want, Texas.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Yes, started number two of the high Tech techt Show.
It's a two hour show. We're halfway through and if
you're new to the show, say it with me. This
is what we do. We are a halfway to happy hour.
Show runs at the weekend, so pretty much it always
should be a happy hour. If you're listening on some
sort of a podcast and it's not the weekend, well

(44:18):
you know what. I just hope you're listening and you're
driving safe. We don't drink and drive, but we can
drive and listen, as simple as that. Michael Garfield is
the name. And as we start the second hour, I'm
not going to go through the whole spiel like I
did in the first hour, but we welcome another affiliate.
And this one's a big one for me, certainly important
and very near and dear to my heart. The first
week we are heard in the Dallas area. Welcome KFX

(44:43):
are eleven ninety a m. It's special to me because, oh,
I don't know, it's only my hometown, Big d where
I grew up, where my parents still live, where I
went to high school, or all my buddies. I got
family up there. I'm actually based in Houston area right now,
but I get up to Dallas as much as possible.
You could take the boy out of Dallas, but you

(45:05):
can't take Dallas out the boy. What is up by
the way, i'd really I used to get into this
because I thought was fun. It was good talk show, fudder,
and I've been doing this for twenty This my twenty
third year. By the way, that I'm doing this show,
which is not going to be all about technology. I
am not going to tell you how to fix your computer.

(45:25):
We have a lot of fun, much more fun we'll explain,
but talk right to you. You want to push some buttons,
you want to push people buttons, You want to be polarizing. Now,
I do not and will not talk politics, and don't
worry about that. I do tick people off a little
when it comes to sports because I am from Dallas,
so I am a massive Cowboys fan, and I grew

(45:46):
up in the era of the Tom Landry, the Roger Staubach,
Drew Pearson. I mean I can name the entire you know,
the offense, the defense, in everything. That's what I grew up.
I was a kid with so no matter where I am,
where I go, where I live, you know, I love sports.
I'm absolutely adore football. I'm just always going to be
Cowboy guy. Not that easy living in Houston, not that easy,

(46:10):
you know. I grew up in Dallas and here I go,
I'm pushing buttons, and I apologize. So I grew up
in Dallas and I have still have two uncles and
aunts and cousins in Houston. So we visited Houston semi office.
I knew Houston quite well just from visits and growing
up in Dallas. And this is serious. No one in

(46:33):
Dallas that I knew. I've had any issue with Houston. Actually,
I was jealous of Houston because Houston was a It
is a bigger city, man, how Come I don't live
in the biggest city in this state. I'm in Dallas, Man,
Houston's number weight, It's it's larger, there's more people. I
like coming down visiting Galvis is not too far away.
But you know, just whatever it was, I moved down here.

(46:54):
I've been here thirty years now. Man, I do not
know what Dallas has to pissed so many people off
in Houston. There are not a lot of Houstonians who
like Dallas. And I'm like, what is the deal? Because
the Cowboys have one, not only one championship compared to
zero in Houston and football, but five? Was it because

(47:18):
you're president? That happened to be murdered in Dallas? In
the sixties before I was even born. What is it
about Dallas to check? No one could pinpoint it? No one.
All right, so I'm spreading love. I'm Centerville people, Okay,
I'm right in between the I'm I forty five. Gotta
stop in Centerville, all right, I'm getting some beef jerky.

(47:38):
I'm stopping the left side and stop right so it
doesn't even matter. So then a lot of love. And
by the way, not forgetting you San Antonio either. Hello
Wai which big blow torch? Fifty thousand watts of so
I technically let me think about this. My voice is
now being heard in Mexico because that's how big it is.
It's awesome. So anyway, welcome Texas. This is the high
tech Texan show you want to get in. It's interactive.

(48:01):
It is three four six two nine T e X
A N and I hope you put your glasses on
or your font is very big on your phone that
you can actually type in T e x A N. Okay,
so then that's how you spell it. You could also
go online you get it to x. You can go
to Instagram. Thank you for following me on Instagram. Man,

(48:22):
we got a lot of stuff to give away. You know,
I do review phones, TV's cars, to broadcast my show
from exotic places, cruises, mountaintops. A lot of the times
I say, hey, man, you mind if we have an
extra product at extra trip, can we give something away.
I give a lot of that stuff away online too,
So yeah, have to follow me high tech text in

(48:43):
hi g h T e h T e x A N.
Just on Instagram see something. I just give Dallas a
big shout out on my Instagram. You actually could see
me inside the studio. By the way, a little bit,
let's get to a little technology here. The photo that
you see or the video that you so if you
go to if you go to Instagram, high tech text
and spell the whole thing out, that's me and studio.

(49:06):
It's beautiful. It's it's the iHeartRadio studio. Happens to be
the one at Houston, doesn't matter. It's amazing how technology works.
I can talk in Houston and it comes out over
the airways and many other cities. So that is me.
That's what it looked like. That is my real hair.
Yes I still have hair at my age and and
that's what I dress like or whatever that photo. Let
me just talk about photos right now because people are
all worried about the data and Big Brother and photos

(49:28):
and what information could they have and don't have found
a website that I want you to play around with
just for you know, snorts and giggles. Let's keep it
clean here because we're over the air. So there was
there was this really smart dude who used to work
for Google, and he realized how powerful the Google search
engines and just the data they have, all right, so

(49:53):
he created He was playing with some artificial intelligence models
about how Google's AI software can how much they can
learn from studying images. So just about a month ago,
this dude is on his own right, he launched a
website kind of a marketing stunt that's designed to turn
Google's technology against itself. What you do is you can

(50:16):
upload any photo to the website. It's then sent to
the Google Cloud. It's a program, and give it about
eight seconds maybe less. What you're gonna see next to
the photo you uploaded is a startingly just startles you.
A thorough three paragraph description of what this artificial intelligence sees.

(50:41):
It is crazy. If you don't understand what artificial intelligence is,
you gotta try this. Here's the website. It is called
they see your Photos dot Com. That's it. They see
your photos dot com. So what I did is I
uploaded a picture of me in the radio studio, same

(51:02):
one that you see a video. That's what it looks like.
So I'm wearing a white shirt, you know, black pants,
a belt, I got a jacket on. I'm standing in
front of all a gear at the microphone. Everything I
uploaded it, and I'm not gonna read you the whole thing.
This Google doesn't know me from Shay Nolla, or does it.
This is what it This is what it wrote, just
from the description quote. The image shows a man standing

(51:24):
in what appears to be a professional radio studio. In
the foreground, he has positioned next to a large audio
mixing console, his hand resting on the controls. Several computer
monitors display various interfaces, possibly related to broadcasting or audio production.
The background features gray walls. A subtle but noticeable detail
is the recess lighting in the ceiling, which adds to

(51:45):
the professional aesthetic. The man appears to be middle aged. Dude,
I'm just a kid, a middle aged of Caucation ethnicity,
and displays a friendly and approachable demeanor. He is well
dressed in a gray jacket over a white shirt. He
looks confident and comfortable in his environment. This is okay.
That's alone blows me away. Get this, this is what

(52:08):
I'm reading here. The picture was taken with the Samsung
Galaxy Z Flip six on Thursday, November twenty first, at
about three forty seven pm. They almost fell out of
my chair when I read that. Unfreaking believable. This is
what artificial intelligenceive just from a photo. I continue. His watch,

(52:29):
subtly visible, appears to be quite expensive and hints at
his economic status. He seems to be actively involved in
his work, and his appearance suggests a successful career in lifestyle.
The image bo sharp details, the texture of his jacket,
the intricate design of the mixing console, blah blah blah,
blah blah blah, it goes on. I'm done with that stuff.
It's crazy. I'm looking this picture and I don't even

(52:52):
see my watch. I do not see my watch. It
may be one smidge of a hair or something sticking
out of watch, and they know it's it's not a
Samsung Wat, it's not a fitness watch. They actually is.
One day, actually was wearing one of my nicer watches.
It's unbelievable. Check it out. But this is the stuff
that I want to get make you aware of. This

(53:13):
is not an endorsement. Google didn't pay me to say this.
I'm just letting you know what is out there I
want to be aware of and how smart this AI is,
but also potentially how scary this website again, it's called
They See Your Photos dot com. And so this middle
age Caucasian ethnicity man with a very nice watch is
getting ready to take his first break of the hour.

(53:34):
Michael Garfield is his name, three four six twenty nine
text It is how you.

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Can get to the movie right back, no matter what time.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
A little of this idea is we can take you
between in and wherever, certainly all over the state of
Texas right now, long time in Houston, just now in Dallas, Texas.
Starting this week, a few weeks ago, we're in San Antonio.
Phone number it is three four six twenty nine texts.
And we want to make it interactive. I am your
consumer lifestyle guy. If you want questions about where to go,

(54:25):
where to shop, with to buy, that is me. You're
not going to get politics. You're going to get a
little of you know what, I got two hours to kill.
This is Garf's life. I'm going to tell you what
I like eating, when I like buying, what I don't
like driving, or just hat this and your holiday season's
coming up? What do you want to stay away from?
You want a last minute gift? Last hour, we went
over some last minute gift ideas that you could get immediately,

(54:48):
I mean immediately, and those are actually kind of you
can go online and get some gift cards. But I
gave you some other ideas other than gift cards. A
matter of fact, I'm looking at something blinking over here.
Let's go to the phone. Hello, this is Michael. Who
am I speaking with?

Speaker 4 (55:01):
Hello Michael, this is Marcos Rodriguez.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
IV.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Actually been on the show once before, a long time ago.
I used to work at Torchy's Tacos and you actually
went to a little restaurant that I was working in
and had a dish.

Speaker 6 (55:14):
I remember that.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
But I was just wondering, is there a way to
get in a like a video meeting while the show
is on air, like like I used to a long
time ago. Either If there is, maybe I just didn't
see it on your website. But I'd like to be
a participant again.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Oh my, check that out. We got an old timers
or art Marcos man. He just brought out something that
I forgot that we used to do. First of all,
look at Marcos. Does he still work at the Torchies
or no? Was that was that a free shout out?
He was he was trying to do. Listen, I like
Torchies from Austin. I'm a Cabo Bob's guy right now.

(55:56):
That that's what you even heard there. So Marcos used
to I guess he used to work at Cheesy. Then
he went to a restaurant and then I had a dish.
I guess. So Marcos, thank you for calling it what
he was referring to. He wanted to get see if
there was a video meeting. I started the show two
thousand and one, so again it's about twenty three year

(56:19):
long show. And then I realized that computers were relatively
new and they were expensive. But video, I mean, Skype
wasn't even around, and there were no video cameras that
were really built into computers or laptops. Thing. You would
have to go get a standalone, you know, video camera

(56:40):
and plug it in. And this is even before USBC.
I mean, this is like you know, the PC slot
or something you do in stall. But what I did
is I used to I guess that was a bro
I used to do a video cast, a video meeting.
It again, I'm not taking any credit. Somebody else and
then the world may have done this. But first one

(57:00):
that I knew of on radio where I had a
video camera in studio pointing at me, and I would
give out this website and they would log in and
they could see me, but if they had a video camera,
we could see them. And so it was this big
video meeting. You know what, dang it, man, I invited.
I invented zoom and I didn't even know this. What hell?

(57:22):
Why am I wasting my time of the weekend. I
should be totally retired right down. So I actually invented zoom.
That's what I'm gonna come up with. That's what I
did to answer your question, buddy, Marcus. No, we don't
do that anymore. I don't do that anymore. I don't
We've changed venues. Sometimes I do this. I do this

(57:43):
radio show a lot of times remotely, and we could
do this right now. You know, back in the day,
certainly twenty years ago, certainly ten plus years ago. I
mean we had to be in our studio. We absolutely
professional gear, had the producer and everything. We did take
the show on the road, and well, I'll tell you
what it was. It was, you know, I'm talking to
what it was, the whole ring of a row. I mean,

(58:05):
we had to bring in you know, remote satellite vans.
Then we had equipment there. I used to broadcast my
show some really fun places. I have done my show
from several locations in Mexico. We've gone to resorts in Colorado,
we were scanned I take it to the beach in
California at some neat places because we worked for some
partners to do that. And the technology back then was

(58:26):
so bad. We're just so old. Let's put it this
way that it was like a fax machine. So we
had to actually put a phone cord into this device.
I used to carry dial a number into the studio
and it literally used a boad rate like nineteen nine
hundred bought. I mean you would hear that like a
fax machine, and then you know I talked back to

(58:48):
the producer and I couldn't even answer phone calls. You know,
A lot it was. It was just really crazy. Point
is today I probably could do this radio show with
this good audio quality on my cell phone with the
high end, with a high end microphone and a high
speed of Wi Fi connection, I probably could. So I
don't do these video meetings anymore because sometimes I'm in

(59:10):
the studio. Sometimes they do it for my home studio.
Sometimes I do it from laying in bed because I'm Jared.
Sometimes I'll go on the road where I'm traveling, and
so we we just don't do it. But I'll tell
you what now that we're in more than just h town.
Were just Houston, Marcos, now everybody cross Texas. Maybe they
want to see what's going on. Maybe maybe we'll start

(59:30):
the video meeting again. So I do. I do. Thank
you for that. So if you want to get in
like Marcos does, because you could be famous too with
your voice on the air. Oh by the way, this
just did. Uh. Having your voice on air does not
make you famous. And take that from someone whose voice
has been on the air for well almost a quarter
of a century. Right now, three four six two nine

(59:51):
t e x a N three four six two nine
t e x a N. That is how you're going
to get onto here. Uh, this is so up. Let's see.
Oh it is time for email. What's up with des?
You've got mail? Darn right, we got mail boy, there's
a there's an old school for a yog's out there.
Remember that sound. We do have Mailhi, Michael, heard you

(01:00:12):
talking last hour about streaming services. I actually took your
advice that I discounted how many streaming services we currently have.
And I just think I yelled at my kids a
little too loud. They've had Disney Plus and they haven't
watched the thing in seemingly about six months. We have
nine different streaming services. No wonder. I never could figure
out why my bill was so expensive. Appreciate the uh

(01:00:34):
excellent hold on, I just lost my place away. I
appreciate the advice. Thank you very much. By the way,
which one do you recommend if you could only have one?
All right? That's from Jeanett. Jeannette is in sant Anton
North side, San Antonio. Thank you very much for listening.
She sent me an email. You can too, Michael Garfield
at iHeartMedia dot com. I want to say I told

(01:00:55):
you so, but I freaking told you so. How many
streaming services do you have. You have to keep account
of this thing because it's it's like candy. Oh, I'm
gonna sign up because my first month's free. Oh wait
a minute, two ninety nine for the first six months.
Wait ninety nine cents for an entire per month for
an entire year. How cool was that? And then you

(01:01:17):
freaking forget to delete it and cancel your account. People
don't get you knoggered into that stuff. You don't keep
account on a regular basis. Let's talk about streaming services. Hey,
I see where it is. Where in the I'm not
gonna say. We're in the relatively infancy of streaming services.

(01:01:37):
You know, people are cutting the cord and they've been
around for a while. Remember when Netflix is the big
daddy of them all. That really is because they were
one of the first really truly streamers. But do you
remember when Netflix was not a streamer. Netflix was a
company that you had to have a subscription to where
you ordered DVDs. You went online and you ordered what

(01:01:58):
what was the max? Three, four or five DVDs per month.
They would come in a red envelope and they would
come in your mailbox and you would do it, watch
a DVD Okay, right now, I've probably lost easily a
quarter of my audience if because if you were under
twenty five, maybe thirty, you have no clue what I'm
talking about. Netflix was not Netflix as you knew it.
And then read Hastings who found in Netflix. He was brilliant.
He saw, wait a minute, there's way with high speed internet,

(01:02:20):
we actually can create this app on our TV where
we can now stream at anybody's wishes that their behas
that when I hit the play button, almost every single
movie that we have in stock. Let's kill this thing.
So they killed that business model of mailing the DVDs out.
So count how many you have. It's not so much
how many you have. Take maybe make a log of

(01:02:42):
how often you watch them? Now to answer your question,
if I could pick one, which is it? Again, I'm
going to do what I do. I answer a question
with a question meaning, what's your life like? Do you
have young kids who love watching cartoons, who love watching
the princesses? They're maybe Star Wars fans, Yeah, probably Disney

(01:03:06):
pluses for you. Do you like someone who is an
NFL fan, a live sports fan? Well, guess what for now?
What in third or fourth year? Right now, and they've
got a long deal. Amazon, by the way, has the
streaming service. If you have an annual subscription that you
pay one hundred and sixty bucks for for Amazon, you
probably may not even know this breaking news. You've also

(01:03:27):
got a streaming service. It's called Prime Video. Well, they
have a deal with the NFL. They produce an air
they don't know erics. It's not airing because it's the
stream a Thursday night football game al Michaels Kirk kurb Street.
For years, they have done that, that's right, and they've
got they're starting to do it, and now everybody else
is getting in the game. Pecock is getting in the game.

(01:03:49):
Netflix will have not one but two streaming football games
on Christmas Day, Houston Texans one of those, if you care,
and Beyonce's playing the halftime too. There's no answer of
what's the best streaming service. Best is a very relative term.
What's the best taco, what's the best inchilada? People? We
could debate which is actually makes for great radio that

(01:04:09):
I'm not gonna do that right now, but I'm trying
one of the things that I do to I save
you money. I'm more than happy to tell you to
go get a seventy five inch TV and go get
a Sony bit. You know what, you're gonna be paying
for the nose for that stuff. I rarely recommend products
that are very, very expensive. I'm gonna take a product
that I've tested that I know has a good brand name,

(01:04:30):
maybe a good warranty behind it, and I'm gonna tell
you an alternative product that's gonna save you money and
it's gonna work just as well. That's just kind of
the history. If you are new to this radio show,
which is called the High Tech Texan by the way,
best Taco, tell me right now three four six nine
text and we're gonna be right back on the High
Tech Texting Show. It is Garb. Yeah, this is about

(01:05:10):
thirty more minutes left the show. So don't go anywhere.
I mean, got nothing else to do than your holiday shopping.
And so that's the neat thing that you can listen
to the show while you're sitting at your at your computer,
your laptop or your phone shopping away. You're thinking, oh,
should I get this version or this star, this model,
and you're gonna say, hold on, let me call Garth,

(01:05:31):
let me see what's up with him. And you can
do that quite simply right now three four six twenty
nine Texan three four six two nine t e x eight.
And it does not have to be in the world
of technology. Nope, you can ask me. Hey, listen, Michael,
that's which movie should I see? Is this?

Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
Is there is there a streaming show that you should watch, which,
by the way, I don't see a lot of movies.
This isn't, oh by the way, and then this is
I think I kind of run this show like this.
Oh by the way, I have seen in twenty twenty
four in a movie theater three movies two two earth two,
I don't even know. I get invited to momost every

(01:06:11):
movie premiere, and like an idiot, I just don't go
to a lot of them. I don't know why. I mean,
unless it has Adam Sandler, which Sandler doesn't the least
movies in theaters anymore because he goes straight to Netflix.
Will Ferrell, I mean, just to give you an idea
of like who I am for all you new listeners
up in the Dallas area, this is that's that's what
I do on my comedies, man, I mean, maybe I'll

(01:06:32):
do it this time of year. Absolutely love watching the
Christmas holiday movies. I have yet to see look at
we are less than two weeks for Christmas. I have
yet to see Love. Actually yet, I have not seen
the greatest holiday movie yet. Seen Diehard twice already it's
been on. I haven't seen a lot of Love. Actually,
neither here nor there. Saw a movie let me give

(01:06:54):
you something to do on Christmas Day? Got to got
invited about a week ago, three weeks before it's released.
I saw that Bob Dylan movie with Timo's Timothy shallow
May a complete unknown that's the name of it. All right,
let me help you out right now. I'm not a
fan of Bob Dylan. Never liked his music. Maybe I

(01:07:15):
know of like two songs he sang. I just I
don't like folk music, not me, uh huh. If it
ain't eighties, if it ain't out rock, sorry, people just
not doing it. Didn't know much about Timothy shall May.
In fact, maybe I've seen a movie I think he was.
Wasn't he an Interstellar? He was really young and interstellar

(01:07:36):
The McConaughey's Kid or something like that. I don't even
know I've ever even seen it, Like a real shallow
May movie. Didn't see that. Willie wonk a thing on
let me help you out unsolicited. Disney's not paying me
to talk about this or endorse it, which I wish
they would. Absolutely one of the best movies I've seen
in years. What Timothy shallow May did to transform himself

(01:07:58):
into BA into Bob Dylan was amazing. Yes, I know
what Dylan looks like. Yes, I'm gonna backtrack. I have
heard well, no, I didn't hear. My favorite Dylan song
is not even a song. It's when he sang the
lines we are the wow, oh the j That's about it.

(01:08:22):
I know him from watching We Have the World video
for all those times back in the eighties. Jamithy shallow
May is It's uncanny. It's uncanny, absolutely has to be
should be nominated for an Oscar. I can't say he's
gonna win it because I again, I've seen what won
two three movies this entire years or whatever. It is.
It's great. A lot of music, a lot of Bob

(01:08:44):
Dylan music which I didn't even know it any odd stuff.
But it was a compelling story. The director was great.
Was it was it? James Mangold, I forget who was
he was the guy who did dub the Johnny Cash
movie walk whatever that Well, I think again, mister movie here.
But it was really good. So go see that on

(01:09:04):
Christmas Day because that's what it comes out. What do
I watch streaming wise? Tell exactly what do I streaming wise?
It's on Max, not HBO, but it's on Max. I
just told you I like yacht rock music. There's a
yacht rock documentary that came out one week ago. I
watched it three times in the first five days it
was out. It was good and supposedly it's gonna be

(01:09:27):
like a whole series this stuff, but it's just one episode.
It's about an hour and a half hour, forty whatever
minutes long. It was good. And if you are anything
near my age, if maybe maybe you're middle aged, apparently
that's what Google AI calls me. I don't know. But
if you were anywhere around the late seventies early eighties
and you like it, and you listen to yacht rock
on one of these satellite channels, which you shouldn't because

(01:09:51):
you should be listening to this radio station right now,
it was good. They had San Antonio Zone. Christopher Cross,
he was a major part of it actually is daughter
was one of the producers, Michael McDonald, But it is
just it was good if that was your jam back
in the days. They really did a really nice job
of intertwining of how yacht rock, why it was called

(01:10:14):
yacht rock, what's the sound? And it's amazing how all
of the major yacht rock artists that you could think
of were interconnected, starting with Michael McDonald, Steely, Dan, Christopher Cross,
Kenny Loggins. I mean, I know music trivia. I mean,
I am stupid eighties guy. It's very tough to stump

(01:10:36):
me on anything eddies music. I actually found out a
lot of stuff how everything was intertwined, not only just
behind the microphone, but in the studio. The same producers
Toto Hotel one of the greatest eighties albums of all time.
Toto for did the Porco Brothers, David Page, they played
on almost every single yacht rock autumn album for everybody else.

(01:11:00):
Wait there you go, so got to go see Go
watch yacht Rock for another two weeks on Max until
the Bob Dylan movie comes out, and then you can
thank me later. And then we got to start the
whole year over again. In twenty five as we continue
the what's it called the High Tech tex Show? That
is me and Michael Garfield. I am about to less

(01:11:20):
than a month out. I will be in Las Vegas,
speaking of streaming and doing the show and broadcasting show live.
I will be doing this show from Las Vegas, one
of my favorite cities in the world, because that is
the site of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which is
no longer called the Consumer Electronic Show, it is just
simply abbreviated as CES. This will be by twenty second,

(01:11:41):
twenty third year. The kind folks who put on that massive,
massive technology electronic convention, they build a radio studio for
me right on the Las Vegas convention show floor. I
have guests on and good for you people. I bring
an extra suitcase two because of all the companies I
meet and the parties I go to and they give

(01:12:02):
out samples, I say, hey, can I get one to
give out on air? Can I give one to give
out on my Instagram? High Tech Texan? Yeah? So January
is uh, it's me giving gifts to you.

Speaker 6 (01:12:13):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
I certainly don't play Santa Claus. Sometimes I'll do the
Hanaka hairy thing, but January. It is all high tech Texan.
It's gift exchange time. Well, I give you the gift
of beautiful content, lovely voice, a lot of hair, and
some gifts that I bring back. So just kind of
giving you the annual play by play of what I did. Generally,

(01:12:35):
December January are my two biggest busiest months. And I
cannot stand in summer. Hate summer. I'm a winter. I'm
a runner. I like staying going outside, and so it
keeps me rolling, absolutely keeps me rolling. This was let's
see how much time I've heard? You got about two
or three minutes? Do I want to start this right now?

(01:12:56):
Did I mention this last week? Or so? I saw this?
Somebody we were to talk about cell phones and you know,
Michael was the best cell phone to get. And again
it's I again. I'm gonna answer it with it. Answer
your question with a question. You know, what do you want?
Are you an iOS person? You're an android that opens
up a whole new thing. I say, what do you
when you get a new cell phone? I ask people
what do they do with their old ones? What do

(01:13:18):
you do? And ask yourselves this. You don't need a
call in, but you could or you could put it
on X or a blue sky and or respond to me,
what do you do with your old smartphone? Because odds
are we've had smartphones swell over twenty twenty five years.
When you get a new one, and I know you
do get a new one, what do you do? You
throw it away? Do you give it to your spouse,

(01:13:38):
do you give it to your kids? Do you sell
it because you can't make some money? You probably if
you don't do anything but put it in a drawer,
you're sitting on some cash. People, as long as it's
in really good condition, it's not chip, there's no scratches.
You can get some bucks, you can get some rebates
or something. Nearly seventy percent of American smartphone owners said

(01:14:00):
they've never sold their phone, so they do something with it?
All right, what do you do with it? Do you
give it away? I'd love to actually hear from you.
Go to high tech text and h I G H
T E C h T E x A N and
give me a poll here on X or blue Sky,
or just respond to something on my Instagram over here.
But why don't people hold on to their smartphones? Why

(01:14:24):
don't they sell them? Because this holiday season. It's a
good time for people looking for cell phones, and it
could be a smart time to sell. There are companies
out there who will buy it from you. Maybe they'll
give you cash, maybe they'll give it to you in
gift cards. I remember a Target or Best Buy they
had deals. You can go drop off a cell phone
and they'll look at the condition. Is it an excellent condition,

(01:14:46):
is it good condition? Or does it even turn on?
He'll give you on the spot a gift card for
that store. I prefer it would have the cash. Also,
you can put it on an eBay if you want to.
The point is we had these discussions, but a little
for you. Should you sell your old smartphone? Should you
give it away? Number one? I would recommend this. Make

(01:15:07):
sure you back it up. Make sure you either put
stuff that's on that phone in your cloud or connect
it the old school way. Put a freaking cord in
it and put it into your computer too, and then
download or upload everything from your phone onto your computer,
every video you've made, every photo you made, all your
contacts and all your other emails things. But at that point,

(01:15:28):
before you sell it, before you give it away, you
go to your settings and you put reset to factory settings.
You wipe that thing clean. Don't ever give your phone away.
I can't think of an instance where you just say, hey, man,
here I'm gonna see how much. Here's five hundred ors
a thousand bucks. Hey hey, if you're a husband, you

(01:15:49):
really probably want it. Would you pretty much want to
raise that when you give it to the wife. And
if you're a wifey, you probably want to raise it
before you give it to your husband. Certainly your kids,
you don't know what's on there. Wipe it clean because
they can get your information. But just don't sit there
and try to delete everything. You know what, Just do
a freaking factory reset. Set it to where it's brand new,
like it's coming out of the box. A little tip

(01:16:10):
from me to you. I just thought that was an
interesting We've got one more segment, so you can't go anywhere.
You better hold on. Well, we zip up the show.
The first show ever heard terrestrially in the Dallas area.
As we welcome KFX are eleven ninety as a new affiliate.
It is Michael Garfield, Dallas Boy himself. I'll live it
in h down. It's not I take texting show. Yes,

(01:16:51):
it's about seven or eight minutes eleven and this edition
of the high tech texting show What are We down?
This is the we only have two more shows left
this year? Are you kidding me? You know what? I hate? Oh?
This year has gone by so fast, though, I can't
believe it's a shut up. No, it did not go

(01:17:11):
by fast, because the last I checked, it was three
hundred and sixty six years actually days of the year,
actually this year, and it was it was. It was
a long year. It's it was just as long as
anything else.

Speaker 6 (01:17:25):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
It was a long, hot, nasty summer. But you know what,
We're gonna start again and it's just gonna go just
as fast it was last year. I say it just
because you know, I'm excited that the show's almost over.
I get to take a little break, not too intensive
college football weekend. This week got Army Navy, I got

(01:17:46):
my long horns are off all of the stupid conference
championships which at some point our needless and will not
be played. Those were last week. Horns played next week.
So if you're going down to Austin and you got
an extra ticket, I am your boy, because I could
do my show from Austin. Michael Garfield is the name.
This is the High Tech Texan Show. And if you

(01:18:08):
break it down, I proved something to you. I said this,
and we do this because every week we have new listeners.
In this past few weeks, we've got a lot of
new listeners, not just in Houston, where we've been on
the air for well over twenty years. Three weeks ago
we launched in San Antonio, and today our very first
terrestrial station in Dallas KFXR eleven ninety. So we're adding.

(01:18:33):
We are adding people left and right, huge, big show, NonStop. Man.
Look look at the numbers of my Instagram coup. Thank
you so much for following Instagram. And actually, what I
need to do. I need to contact restaurants and fun
places in Dallas and San Antonio. The only way you're
gonna win is to follow me on Instagram. High Tech
Texan HI G H T EH T X A M.

(01:18:54):
By the way, I don't don't want to forget Houston.
We've been on in Houston twenty three years, actually on
kp year see Radio. A lot of Houston companies that
I work with and endorse, one of which is US
Coins and Jewelry. And if you are this man, these
these guys are so busy. I wanted to get Kenny Duncan.
Kenny runs US Coins and Jewelry second generation. The dude

(01:19:16):
doesn't even have time to take a sip of water.
I know they're listening to my show right now. And
they're massive showroom in Houston. It is on it Katie
Freeway right at Voss Voss going there. They are open
on the Saturdays as we do the show. They are
closed on Sundays. Apparently Chick fil A stole their idea
and they do give their employees a breakoff. But if

(01:19:36):
you're looking to if you want to sell some quick
collect coins that you don't need to live in Houston alone.
They do it online. They're totally trustworthy, trustworthy on steroids.
These guys are just top notch. One of the best
new mismatists, which means a coin collector in the country.
I've traveled with him. I see how he buys coins,

(01:19:57):
how he sells coins. They also do trading for sports cards, collectibles,
but they also give back. I say this because US
Coins and Jewelry. They are having a toy drive which
is running running next week all next week. It is
Monday through Friday, December sixteenth to the twentieth. They are
accepting unwrapped toy donations as long as it's ten dollars

(01:20:18):
or more. If you just walk in to US Coins
and Jewelry in Houston December sixteenth to twentieth, walk in
with an unwrapped toy. Each toy donation, they are going
to give you a quarter ounce silver coin a silver coin. Also,
each donor you're gonna receive a raffle ticket for a

(01:20:39):
grand prize that will be announced on December twenty third.
All right, that's how that's how good these guys are
and Galas. They're wonderful folks. So you can go see
them if you want. Specific it's eight four three five
Katie Freeway in Houston, eight four to three five Katie Freeway.
These toy drives are great. We did one for Great
Day actually right Day, Uston partner with a number of them,

(01:21:01):
but I was shooting a segment for a where were
we We were at the Outdoor Lights show the Botanic Garden,
Uston Botanic Garden. There's a big bend to collect toys
for kho U Channel eleven CBS, which I'm a part of.
On Great Day Houston but whatever you can do. Man,
it's I talk about gift giving and whatever. Yeah, but

(01:21:22):
feel free for donations too. And by the way, a
big shout out to to you know it. You can
call it pandering or whatever, kissing up to my bosses,
but I really don't care about them, nor do they
care about me. iHeart Radio, iHeart Media does an unbelievable
job of working with Saint Jude's Hospital, Saint Jude's for
Children's Hospital every single year. So much so. I know

(01:21:45):
the regional president of all of iHeartMedia, and you can
I'm gonna say his name because he's long been my boss.
His name is Eddie Martini. He oversees all of the
iHeart Radio stations pretty much Trusty where you're listening right now.
It goes into all over Texas in Louisiana. He makes
a mandate that we does radio thons golf tournaments. I

(01:22:05):
just participated in these St. Judes at Children's Hospital I
Hurt Radio golf tournament this past Monday. It was at
the Golf Club of Houston where they used to play
the shell Uston open when they used to call, they
used to open the shell used to open two hundred
and fifty six teams, and I am not embarrassed to say,
drum roll plays. We won the entire tournament. My team

(01:22:30):
won the entire tournament. I am not taking full credit.
We had a ringer who could drive a golf ball
three hundred and twenty five three hundred and fifty yards.
I was nails from about one hundred yards out with
my pitching ron hunted decently. But whatever it was, we

(01:22:50):
won the entire tournament. How cool is that an employee
wins it. It's not like I won money, like it
was all for donation, but they raised what they raised
five hundred six hundred thousand dollars just from the golf
urn alone. Think about that this time of year, and
that that's and that is isn't Is that the meaning
of Christmas? I don't know. I watched too many Christmas
specials growing up. I'm not sure. If it's the Island

(01:23:13):
of Misfit toys actually left the island and they were
kicked out of Santa Sleig with umbrellas and fell through chimneys,
and now they're in actually little boys and girls' hands.
I don't know if that's the spirit of Christmas. I
don't know if you're supposed to stand at somebody's door
and professor, confess your true love to someone who's already married,
now that you're gonna, you know, love them until the

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day they die. I don't know, but I think donations
and reflecting and maybe having some hot chocolate around the
fire is is pretty good too. And it doesn't matter
if it's a big tree. You could just go and
look for some search lights and just get a little
sickly looking tree and just if you just give a

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little love and give a little car and wrap it
with a warm blanket at the bottom, and you know,
just you know, take a go to a dog's house
that has a lot of decorations and steal those and
put it on the Christmas tree. That's the meaning of Christmas. People,
I'm sorry, don't ask me. I celebrate Honika. What are
you gonna do with that? We are shutting down this
episode of the High Tech Texans show Love Being with You,

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Big d Dallas. I hope my parents were listening to Rashully.
If not, they can podcast to let everybody else go
to iHeart Radio. Download that free to app and you
can listen to so many people, so many different podcasts.
Including this show Calum Red Brian Erickson. Shout out to
my program director who said, you know what garbage about.
Time we actually give you the name of the high

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Tech text instead of the high Tech Ustonian. We're gonna
put you in Dallas. We're gonna put you in San Antonio.
And so shout out to the state of Texas. Next week,
the final episode before Christmas Day. Oh my fuckle up, people,
have a great week. Book them Warrens, enjoy the cool weather.
Whatever you want to do, find me at high Tech
Texting dot com. My name is Michael and right now

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this is how we end the show. People, for twenty
three years, my show is over.