Last-minute streaming deals for football season TV watching

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael Garfield, Michael Garfields joining.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
In the high Tech Texan.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michael Garfield is here with a.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
High Tech Texas. Its to make life easier, new technology,
and Michael Garfield has something you might like.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
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 3 (00:46):
We have been waiting three long months of official summer.
We have been waiting seven months since the last time
we saw an actual, real cal football game. Ladies and gentlemen,
as we opened the show the last Saturday of August

(01:07):
twenty twenty five at eleven o'clock AM live in the
Houston area and depending where you are in San Antonio
and Dallas, people, game is on my Texas Longhorns and
the biggest college football game of the year, at least
so far, it is it. As we come on the
air kick off, and I'm going to tell you where

(01:27):
to watch the games no matter where you are. If
you were in Houston and you're listening on KPRC nine
to fifty am, thank you so much. I've only been
doing this for twenty three years. Come on down. We
are at Patterson Park. Oh, what a great fun location.
It is an huge indoor outdoor, three level bar, sports bar.

(01:47):
It is beautiful. It's only been built what about a
year and a half. Two years last year the UT
official watching party. This year, I'm helping them promote it.
Twenty two o five Patterson. Get in your car, obviously.
The college games are what three and a half hours
or so, two two zero five Patterson Street. It's at
I ten you know where iten and Shepherd is inside
you know Loop six tent I ten in Patterson. So

(02:11):
Patterson is one block parallel right next to Shepherd, just
on the north side of I ten. Here it is crazy.
It is burnt orange. Lee Corso just said goodbye to
his long tenure on college game day. Oh, I'm getting
for CLEMP. It is big. Hey, if you're in Dallas,

(02:32):
you're listening probably on iHeartRadio before it actually airs on
talk radio eleven ninety am. There's a big party going
on for the UT alumni at Longhorn Steak, Longhorn Steakhouse,
Longhorn Ice House, which they may serve steak, I'm not sure.
Longhorn ice House is at nineteen oh one West Northwest Highway.
I need to at some point hop up to Dallas.

(02:53):
My good buddy Doug Rice. I believe. I think he's
the president of the Dallas Texas EXAs. Matthew McConaughey impersonation
known him since I was in grade school. I grew
up with him, certainly in college too. He is hosting
that Longhorn ice House San Antonio. You need to tell
me where the official UT watch party is over there, because,
tell you what, I think I may have given up

(03:15):
on pro football as a Dallas Cowboy fan. I thought
I've seen everything, but Jerry just pretty much traded again
the farm once again. Micah Parsons over Tell you what
is a Dallas boy? I mean, I grew up in Dallas.
My parents still live in Dallas, and you know, my
heart still there. Dallas not having a very good sports year.
We have Luca and Micah generational talent two each twenty

(03:40):
six year old unbelievable players, superstars in their respective leagues. Gone.
I mean, Dallas really is a great city. I don't
know why they wanted to oh, I know where they
wanted to leave. Well, maybe Micah got almost what two
hundred million dollars for a contract. Yeah, I probably would
do that too. Anyway, it is football season, and alas,

(04:01):
we have many things to talk about. But if you
tune in and you think, oh, it's called the high
Tech textan show, well, if you've listened long enough over
two decades, I talk about whatever Michael wants to talk about.
You know, I love me some football, you know I
love I love the technology and the technology. It's not
just phones, it's not just TVs TV football season. I

(04:21):
can help you steer you there for some neat products.
It's cars, it's trucks, it's beer, it's liquor, it's alcohol,
it's travel, it is I know my demographics, and I
am honored for you for so long, for tuning into
the show and asking me just my opinion, my questions.
Because I again, when somebody wrote an article a few
years ago to celebrate my twentieth anniversary doing this, I

(04:45):
was an influencer before the word influencer was even created.
I mean, I don't I'm not disagreeing with that. I
don't love the word influencer, but yeah, I guess when
I started on the NBC affiliate in Houston, twenty three,
twenty four years ago, when I was showing off tech
products and items and showing you how to use Wi
Fi and laptops and whatever. Yeah, I guess if you

(05:08):
saw what I was showing off and used them and
you bought them, I did influence your purchase. I guess
we can go with that. Maybe I will influence your purchase.
I give you my really honest opinion. Do I like
this liquor? Do I like this bourbon? Do I found
a new margarita mix. I got a new SUV I'm
playing with. Here's an EDM trying this week. I have

(05:29):
test driven will over a thousand cars, so pretty much
across the gamut. I'm your mouthpiece, I'm the opinion guy,
and I'm here for you. Let me give you the
phone number. Should you be speeding off to join us
at Patterson Park twenty two oh five Patterson Street, do
not show up. We're in maroon. I want to see
bern Orange phone number here is three four six two

(05:51):
nine Texan three four six twenty nine t e X
A N. We will be monitoring the game, but also
monitoring the phone line, monitoring the social media, which is
high tech Texan Hi g h T e h T
e x A n high tech Texan. If I have
yet to block you from my Instagram or anywhere else,

(06:12):
you can follow, and I've done a lot of I
was very busy. I had a really busy week, really busy,
and I did a lot of fun videos on Instagram
and posting. I started off the week I was in
New York City. If you tuned in last week, we
did the show from up there. I flew up there
for a press conference for a robotic lawnmower, Yarbo. Ya

(06:35):
Arbo came out with a new version and upgraded version
of their robot lawnmower, the Lawnmower Pro, and I was
had a really interesting time learning about that. Seeing about that,
I will give you my thoughts and review. I do
not actually have a demo unit. I haven't played with it,
but talking sitting down one on one with the president

(06:56):
of the company's it's a unique thing in Texas. We
have a long we have big lawns. It is hot.
Do you actually want to go out there and moet? Well?
I did for a long time when I was a kid,
because there was no such thing as robotic lawnmowers. Now
they are, and I have played with a few other
I'm interested and anxious to get this yar bow because
it's a very different take. I'm the typical robotic lawnmowers

(07:18):
that are already out there. So I did that in
New York City, had some fun. I'll give you my
what to do. If you go to New York City,
I'd tell you what. The weather was great, and I'd
love to be there now, big, a big professional tennis fan.
US Open is going on. Been watching on a daily
basis and a nightly basis too. It's crazy. The weather
looks good and I need a here at Patterson Park.

(07:39):
You know what, I may have a make. I may
have them make me a Honey Deuce. Honey Deuce the
official drink of the US Open, because every event now
I has to have an official drink. Right, It's a
honey Dews. I'll tell you what's in there. Also other
things that we are going to talk about. If you
are watching the game at home, and certainly here or
wherever sports bar you're at, the game is on Fox.

(08:01):
We were very close to not being able to watch
it on YouTube TV. If you have YouTube TV, you
may have had to either a get to a sports
bar or b get it over the air digital antenna.
It's a football season. Of course, there was going to
be a potential blackout, hold off, standout of one network

(08:21):
versus a TV carrier. We'll tell you how that ended.
Even though it's temporary. We've got that. We've got Apple
TV with a price hike, and we've got a number
of different products too, including a new wireless microphone system
for all you creators out there. I spent three days
of this week also m seing and moderating a huge

(08:42):
panel that came to Houston, Texas. It's the beverage industry.
It's called Supplier Showcase. I hung with one hundred and
sixty two different brands of alcohol non alcoholic drink mixers.
And I'm just really still nursing to hangover right now.
But it's the hair of the dog as we kick
off the football season. Don't go anywhere. We've got about
an hour forty five minutes more of fun. Michael Garfield

(09:04):
is the name.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Will be right back, big big weekend.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Football Listen school is cranking here for the past two weeks,
maybe three weeks.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's still hot.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's you know, listen, get in the pool right now.
If you're not here at Patterson Park in Houston for
the big Utube watch party versus Ohio State, you get here.
If not, I hope you're in a pool. I hope
you're drinking a coldie. And by the way, I probably
do have some cocktail and drink suggestions. Michael Garfield is
the name. Yeah, it's called the High Tech Texan Show,

(09:50):
but it's maybe I'm just high if I don't talk
a lot about tech. Actually, no, we don't do that
inebriated can I Maybe I should actually come up with
a new title, the inebriated text. I don't know. I
was a little I wasn't two sheets to the wind
earlier this week, I was about one point five. Because

(10:12):
I was. I am. I I seed and moderated listen
A big, a big part of what I do on
a week week, weekday basis because I come to you
on the weekends. Part of my you know, what I
do is I m C and I moderate a lot
of events across the country. You know, I bring, I
bring the energy, I bring the personality, you know. And

(10:34):
so I work with organizations, companies, not profits, whatever, and
we and we have a good time working with the
liquor spirits industry has long been a fun blast for me,
and I know a lot of the spirit brands. I'm
a no secret, I'm a big brown water guy. I'm
a bourbon guy. Believe it or not. I currently do

(10:56):
not have the official bourbon of the High Tech Text
and we're working on that. I'm they have found one
or two or ten. Earlier this week, I was at
the Posto Hotel in Houston and that was a three
day conference for the liquor industry put on by It's
a great beverage promotions company, Patrick Henry Creative Promotions. They're

(11:17):
based here in Houston. This is their ninth annual event.
One hundred and sixty plus brands came to this convention
came to this the conference, hundreds of restaurants. I'm talking
everybody from you know, the Darden restaurants and I means
to Applebee's and Cracker Barrel. And of course I'm blinking

(11:41):
right now because I talked to all these people like that.
Who else was It was just it was on and
on run. And what they're doing is they're trying to
meet each other. Obviously, the brands want to get in
and stock their stuff and all landries obviously to stock
all of their liquor in the restaurants. So it was
a schmooth vest. It was fun. I was on stage.
I met so many people. It was great. But then
you walk the ballroom and you talk about Halloween, Christmas

(12:04):
and Halloween combined. I've got this. I got bags and bags,
and I'm walking up and down and they're sampling and
you know a lot of these you know people, they're
based in Texas or they know me. They listen to me. Hey,
garf man, you got hey, you need a bottle of
bourbon just so you can review it? Why yes, I do,
thank you so much. So it is party at the
garf House and it's good. So I found a good gin,

(12:25):
Impress Gins. Actually I have a Austin. Austin based company
owns it. Was it in Press nineteen oh eight or
Impress eighteen oh nine, apologize that it's kind of a gin.
A number of different tequilas Adulce Vita, which I found
out is the official tequila of the University of Texas, Longhorns,
which you we like that. We have a Casa Drug Goones,
which actually was founded by the president CEO of iHeart Radio,

(12:50):
Bob Pittman, So let's just keep a count. He created
MTV back in the early eighties. He now runs iHeart Media,
iHeart Radio and Oh by the way. He also created
a very high end premium tequila brand, so a lot
of stuff Ranch Water. Here's a recipe of the minute
ranch water. You shouldn't now know what ranch water is

(13:12):
after being around for five, six, seven years. You take
some tequila, you take some lime, you take some club soda,
topo Q whatever it is, and you mix it in there.
It is literally the world's skinniest margarita. It is good.
There's no sugar and you gonna love it. People a
little tahen on the side. But hope you're drinking whatever
you're drinking is you're watching and you're listening to me,

(13:34):
and you're watching the Texas Longhorns, Ohio State game or
whatever you're watching right now. We give you the phone
number three four six twenty nine Texan. We've got callum.
He is running the phones. If you want to call.
If if you get a voicemail, leave a voicemail and
we can we'll use that. You're very low I cover
the TV industry, not only which TV is to buy,

(13:57):
but also what is going on in the world of
broadcast streaming over the year, How to watch TV, how
to save money? Are you a cord cutter? What are
you doing if you have YouTube TV, which is one
of the better and more rich lustrous in terms of

(14:19):
number of different channels. That's one of the bigger streaming
services for live TV. I remember when they launched it
a few years ago, forty whatever bucks a month. Now
it's like eighty eighty two eighty three dollars a month.
It's going to continue to go up because that's what
we got over here. But there was a crisis earlier
this week because it always seems this way, and I

(14:42):
don't want to get into the intricacy of the laws
of you know how, Oh, you know how. It's a
distributor your Exfinity, it's a distributor of TV. It's YouTube TV,
it's a distributor of live T Roku Live is a
distributor of TV, and you just don't put channels on there.
These channels either have to pay to be on there

(15:03):
in different tiers, or you know, they pass it through
customers or customers have to upgrade to a different package,
a higher end package for the pay thing. It's it's
it's crazy stuff. But anyway, Google, which is YouTube's parent company,
had a little issue with Fox. Fox that's right where
the ute game is being showed right now, along with

(15:23):
a few of the other you know, Fox station, Fox News,
Fox this what's that? Uh? Google and Fox head until
four o'clock Central time last Wednesday a few days ago
to strike a new deal for keeping all the Fox's
content on the YouTube TV streaming service. And again, this
is YouTube TV. This is not YouTube dot com. This

(15:44):
is YouTube TV. Uh. Google said that Fox was looking
to increase its payout beyond that streaming platform. Fox quote.
I'm gonna give you a quote here. Fox is asking
for payments that are far higher than what partners with
comparable content offers receive. Fox alleges that Google continually exploits

(16:05):
its outsized influence by proposing terms that are out of
step with the marketplace. Fox is proposing a fair, comprehensive
deal to continue our relationship with YouTube TV. That is
a quote from Fox, back and forth. This happens all
the time. And you know what, you don't when it happens.
It happens during football season. Because that's when people care,

(16:25):
Because whether you like it or not, football is the
consistent number one content that people tune into TV for US,
no secret. For years. Every year Super Bowl is number
one something like ninety nine of the top one hundred
TV shows and any given season are football games. So,
for instance, do you know how many people who are big,

(16:47):
long worn fans, Ohio State fans, college college football fans
who had YouTube TV We're freaking out earlier this week, going, oh,
I'm not going to be able to watch the game.
Bottom line, they came to a deal, so what standoff
is over. It's a extension of a deadline as they
draft a new contract. But Fox is on the streaming

(17:08):
service right now. However, real quickly, what do you do
if one of your TV channels goes off air, specifically
in over the air TV channel. Maybe it's CBS right
before an AFC game, before a Houston Texans game, maybe
it's Foxy. Go once again, folks, real quickly, there's such
a thing still as an antenna. It's a digital antenna.

(17:31):
And if you're of age growing up in the seventies eighties,
that's what we had before there was really cable. They're
not big. They don't. You don't have to get on
your roof to put these things because it's digital TV.
Go out and by yourself a ten dour twenty dollars
maybe a thirty dollar tops digital TV antenna. You plug
it into the back of your TV or screwed in
and the coaxle thing what it does. It picks up

(17:53):
over the air signals. So in this case, you were
watching Fox twenty six in Houston. If you're in Alice,
what is it? Fox four, Fox eleven, it will pick
up the signal. So you really didn't need to freak out.
And that's one thing maybe as a backup you should have.
And I will tell you this, even though it is
over the ear channels, and there are probably over sixty

(18:15):
seventy or eighty over the ear channels in your major
market right now. Yes a lot of them are Spanish speaking,
Yes a lot of them are. All they do is,
you know, replay sitcoms or something. But ABCCBS, Fox, PBS,
they are required by the FCC to broadcast a signal.
And guess what, no question, the over the air signal

(18:38):
that you see that you look at is a better
picture quality than what you get from a streaming service
or cable. Because the signal is not compressed. It comes
over the ear. There's less latency. I have Exfinity sadly,
because I pay an arm and a leg, I am
probably anywhere between ten to thirty seconds behind real time.
I'm watching a game. My buddies are watching a game

(18:58):
in other markets. They're telling the texting me what happened,
and I haven't seen it yet. Over the air, it
comes quicker, it comes less compressed. Here's your secret. Get
a digital TV antenna. With that, we take a break
bout of it. The hour horns up. My name is Michael.
It's the I Tad Texans Show, continuing what we call

(19:36):
the high Tech Texan Show. Happy last weekend of August
is it? If you're new to Texas, Just because the
calendar flips over to September here in a few days,
it really doesn't mean it's gonna get cooler. It just
does not work. It doesn't work that way. It's sorry,

(19:57):
sorry about that. Wait, does we could debate this win?
Does fall actually start? I mean, I guess chronological levy
are on the calendar was September twenty first or something
like that. It doesn't work that way, especially if you're
I mean, I know this, going to football games in Austin,
sitting out in the early Septemer all heck, almost through October.

(20:18):
You're schitzing. Man, It's not fun. I point is. I
hope you're a either in a pool, cowboy pool by
the way, in your backyard. I hope you're in air conditioning.
If you're not right now at a sports bar watching
the kickoff of college football. If you're in Houston, you
should be at Patterson Park official University of Texas watch party.

(20:38):
If you're wearing you know, the scarlting gray Ohio State,
I mean, you may not want to show up there.
I mean, without a doubt they're going to take your
money for the nice cold beer. But it is burnt orange.
Burnt orange. I kicked off about thirty minutes ago, and
that is what's happening. If you're in Dallas, the official
UT watch party happens there. I know that they have

(20:58):
a big, big turnout the year after year after your
Longhorn ice House on West and Northwest Highway. So that's
my job is to tell you how to watch games
in TV. Also, just got through talking about telling you
about the controversy how Fox, Fox TV, Fox Sports, Foxes
almost was blacked out, kicked off of YouTube TV contract dispute.

(21:24):
This company wants more money, you know, negotiation. There's a
temporary hold on it, which is why if you have
YouTube TV, you are right now able to watch Fox,
at least temporarily until they figure that thing out. The
way we consume TV, it's so confusing, and you know,
I have I laugh and I have fun. You know,
back in the old days, we turned our TVs on

(21:47):
and we had these big antennas on top of our roof.
Maybe we had five, six, seven, eight channels and UHF
and VHF and it was free. I mean, that's it
just it does work that way. Still, there is a
such thing as getting a digital antenna because local channels,
by the FCC, they are mandated to have an over

(22:08):
the air free signal. So if you don't want to
go through any of this michigosh and pay hundreds of
dollars a month for TV and whatever and internet, go
get a TV. Go buy a ten to fifteen to
twenty thirty dollars small digital TV antenna, plug it in
and you can watch free TV. You can watch over
the year, ABC Local, Local, CBS Local, NBC Local, Fox, Local, PBS,

(22:32):
and a lot of the other you know channels like that.
But you're not gonna be able to watch a lot
of football. If you want to watch NFL football this season,
you're gonna have to like seven different services including Amazon, Netflix, ESPN,
plus the paid stuff NFL Network. I mean, it goes

(22:52):
on and on and on, and then there are other
players getting in the business. And I bring this up
because there's this interesting lawsuit because I saw something that
Sling TV was just opened up and offered about a
week ago, and I'm thinking, this actually is a pretty
interesting thing. Normally, when you subscribe to a TV service,

(23:14):
live TV streaming service, it's a month long contract. Sometime
their contracts for a year. Sometimes it's just month to
month to month. Sometimes they're thirty dollars a month, and
maybe they're fifteen whatever. It's well, sling TV launch something
called a day pass, a four dollars ninety nine cent

(23:37):
per day pass. If you want to watch Sling TV
on one day, twenty four hours, four dollars ninety nine cents.
I'm thinking, huh, well, I really only want to watch
Saturday's College football. But my college football, if I want
to watch my Longhorns, they're pretty much always going to
be over the year because SEC as a deal. Well,

(24:00):
I mean they're gonna be on Fox. Uh, they're gonna
be on ESPN. And I do have the ESPN app
or somebody's password or whatever, but it's also going to
van ABC. But you get to the NFL and I
want to watch something. I want to watch Thursday night football,
Well I need Amazon. Well I want to watch it.
But here's the thing. ESPN is in the Sling TV

(24:26):
four dollars and ninety nine cent pass. ESPN is suing
Sling TV because Disney, which owns ESPN, says Sling is
not authorized under their carriage agreement to include ESPN in
short term plans. Ah, man, come on, Disney on Iiger

(24:48):
help us out over here. So now they're going back
and forth. The day pass actually is it was a
pretty smart idea ESPN. Just a week they launched a
brand new standalone app. And I say standalone for thirty
dollars a month, which means standalone you don't have to
have cable anymore, you don't have to have streaming. For

(25:10):
thirty dollars a month. You can watch anything and everything
on ESPN, ESPN two, ESPNU. He has been everything. I'm
an ESPN guy. Ninety percent of what I watch is
on ESPN, but the ten percent stuff I also do.
I was thinking about it. I think I could do
with ESPN and just watching it with the digital antenna
over the air. What say you I want to talk

(25:32):
to I want to hear from you about this three
four six twenty nine textan. It's convoluted, it's confusing. I
don't want to say it's a money grab because it's
a way of business. It's what it is. It's laying
market of this short term stuff for sports fans to
watch a specific game for less money really than subscribing
a PAYT servers for the full month. I like what

(25:52):
they were trying to do. It's just not working out
that way. So anyway, talk about that and I think
at that point, oh, let me give you one more.
I'm gonna give you one more streaming and then we'll
get onto bigger things too. I always talk about too many.
You have too many streaming services that you don't even
know about. Did you? I bet you forgot you had
Disney Plus? Do you know you had Apple TV. Maybe
not during the summer, maybe you forgot about it. I

(26:13):
don't know. Well, guess what how much was Apple TV?
Apple TV just Apple TV? I think it was ten
dollars a month. It now just took a thirty percent
price hike. They just hiked Apple TV plus. Why. Well,
it's a money losing streaming service. I will tell you that,
and that's a fact. So what do you do when

(26:34):
you're losing money? Well, of course you bump up the
price by thirty percent? Is that smart?

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
You don't think the company makes enough money off the
iPhones and off iOS and everything. They're losing money and
they're Robin Peter or Papal. I don't know. You don't
go into business to lose money. I get it, But
you do want to go to business to actually gain,
in this instance, more subscribers. Do you get more subscribers
by hiking your price thirty percent? Maybe you want to

(27:02):
try to lower it thirty percent, even for a short
term one month, two month trial period. At that point
you can beef up your numbers. Hey, we got a
million and a half new subscribers this month, and maybe
you'll stay around because people forget they subscribe to streaming services.
So as of last week, new customers, you're paying thirteen

(27:24):
bones per month instead of ten dollars. Existing Apple TV
Plus subscribers you get thirty days. So come September you're
gonna see thirteen dollars. How do they justify it? Well,
Apple had said they launched a slew of TV shows
and movies that doesn't include any ads. I'm gonna give
you that. Apple TV Plus is the only major streaming

(27:47):
service that does not offer a price reduced ads supported plan.
But this is the third price increase for Apple tv
Plus in the last three years. Started at seven bucks,
went to ten dollars, and it just continues to go.
It goes on and on and on. I don't have
Apple TV Plus. I actually maybe do I borrow Someboddy's.

(28:10):
I don't want to say that, but uh, I don't know.
I don't I've never seen Severance. I don't care to
sounds freaky. I did watch the studio seth Rogen a
lot of Emmy nominations. That funny, all right, other stuff now,
Ted Lasso, I think what they're they're filming the fourth season.
When that comes, maybe I'll do a trial run What

(28:30):
streaming service could you not do without taking calls? Right now?
Go on AX also find me high tech text at
h I g h t E c h t v
x A m high tech text tell me the streaming
service they had.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
To have one? What do you do?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
My name is Michael. It's called the high Tech Texting Show.

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Final segment of our number one of what we call
the High Tech Textan Show. And have we even talked
about anything? Technological? Doesn't matter people, This is Michael Garfield
and whatever what e Michael talks about? Whatever? One of
my nice listeners want to hear, I am your guy.
You can give me a call here, maybe we'll answer.
We'll see three four six two nine eight three nine

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n Instagram if you're not banned in block or X
and I still have a blue is it blue?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Skuy?

Speaker 3 (29:55):
I have man, I haven't played that. I've used that
in the wall. I checked threads once in a while.
Uh yeah, I'm on Facebook. But you can also email
me to the old fashioned way Michael at high tech
textan dot com. By the way, Michael, is it a
serious question? Is it difficult to spell Michael? Yeah, I'm

(30:15):
I'm asking for a friend and the friend is me. There.
I guess there could be two ways to spell Michael,
if you mix up the A and the E and
the E and the a. Ah. I've been named Michael
for for many decades, and I used to go by Mike,
and you really can't jack up Mike, but Michael, m

(30:39):
I C H A E L. And if anyone has
any sort of edgemacation, certainly I would assume a business
professional you know how to spell Michael. And if you're unsure,
you ask reason. I was at a and you've everby

(31:02):
talked about so I was. I was at this conference earlier,
this week's about three day conference. And there was a
lot of liquor companies, beer companies and all this stuff,
and they were, you know, you walk by, they give
you samples that you know you take. There's tins and
there's hats and all this. There was a company, a
famous beer company, will not name them, who were etching

(31:23):
your name in their famous glass and the shape of
this glass is very well known and closely associated with
the beer. And before you even start guessing, there are
several beer companies who do have glasses that are very unique,
very proprietary in their shape.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Like it.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
So in a way, I'm going through and I have
a number of glasses with my name. Etch Sometimes I
go high tech texting on there. I don't know that
you can only put one word, so an away, I said, okay,
so no I just I say Michael. So anyway, they
go about. The dude goes about his business and he
sits there and types something in and then he goes
through this etching and this is this laser thing, and

(32:00):
I'm sitting here chatting and waiting for the whole thing. Anyway,
it comes out, they polish it and they put in
this beautiful box. I'm like, oh, thank you, this is
really cool. I walk away and I get away about
you know, twelve fifteen feet and I kind of like
open the box. M I C H E A L.
I'm like, what are you? Are you kidding me? And

(32:23):
of course what I guess the question is what would
you do if number one I paid for this? Yes,
I would go back and to have them redo it.
This was just a giveaway. They were giving free different body.
So I'm like, well, okay, the next thing is if
I this was my first class of its kind and

(32:44):
it was so cool that I love this beer and
I love this glass, and I would put it on
my shelf or I would drink out of every day. Yes,
I would go back and just and return it and
say do it again? What this? This is not my
first personalized anything. This is definitely not my first glass
or mug. I really didn't care, and so I threw

(33:09):
it away. Is it bad? Is it bad? I'm sid
Oh my gosh, I'm just I'm not a bad person.
It's just what am I gonna do with this thing?
I mean, I guess I could have gone on eBay
and like, hey, anybody named Mike Keel, I mean you know,
actually I'll pay you to take this thing and get
you get I guarantee. Right now, Calum, are we looking

(33:30):
at the phone lines? Are they lighting up? All the
people who spell their name in my h E A
L are calling right now? Would you throw that thing away?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
For man?

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh god, how I got off of that? Anyway? It's hey,
great beer, phenomenal beer. Alas, I'm gonna be drinking it
out of the can. I'm not pooring it into a
Mike Keel glass. Oh gosh, uh we continue over here?
What was Oh? We got about a few minutes old,

(34:02):
getting questions a lot about gambling and betting, and certainly
it's it's football season right now. You know, I'm a big, big,
big football guy. Right now, we got the Texas Longhorns
playing Ohio State. I hope you're at the watch parties.
Where were you doing? Did anybody bet on this game?
Or do you plan to bet here? If you're in Texas?

(34:23):
Legally we are not allowed to bet. There are no casinos,
there are no legal bookies. You got your buddy, you
got your bookie down in the street corner. You got
something like that. You could go across the straight line
to Louisiana, which sometimes I do. You know, living in Houston,
we ca just go to Gold Nugget or something like
that two and a half hours. But there are there
there's offshore betting too. But there's a new type of betting,

(34:46):
relatively new, that is really growing, and it's called prediction markets.
You have anybody ever heard of this? There are there
are several companies, one of which is called Hollymarket. There's
another one that I read about and I downloaded goal.
It's called cal sheet Ka Lshi and I didn't know
much about it whatever like that. But this is a

(35:07):
type of it's a wager, but it's a contract really,
but it's more than sports. You can bet on almost anything.
I got that. Here's the app. I'm scrolling through my
app right now. You can bet and I'm not kidding
you whether win or Let's put this way, if Taylor

(35:28):
and Travis Kelcey will get married before January first of
twenty twenty seven. You could have bet on the presidential election.
You could bet on elections in countries all over the world.
You could bet on who's gonna win the Emmy, Best TV,
Best TV Drama, the Best Actor in the Emmy. I mean,

(35:50):
it's anything, and the odds are kind of odd. If
you will, you instead of bet, Okay, I'm gonna'm gonna
put one hundred bucks down at plus one fifty. You know,
put one hundred dow You're gonna one hundred fifty somethdy No,
it's it's you bet on the percentage. Like the football game.

(36:10):
Let's just say the Texas by kickoff was favored, so
Texas fifty five percent, Ohio state forty five percent, which
means you're gonna win a little bit more in Ohio
state because they are the underdogs. But the point is,
here's the point. These are not regulated as of right
now by the states. It's regulated at the federal level,

(36:33):
which means even though legal gambling in about thirty eight states,
of licensed sports books operate in thirty eight states, and
in most of those states the legal gambling is twenty one.
This went CALSI, and this is not an endorsement. I'm
just telling you about it. Calshi is available to anyone

(36:56):
over eighteen, and because it's regulated by the Commodity Future
Trading Commission, it can operate in all fifty states, yes,
including Texas, a state that does not have legalize betting people.
Is this gambling, Yes, it's gambling. You can argue logistics,

(37:18):
you can argue whether it's federally legal, but it's gambling.
And you know what, I freaking love it because I
am responsible. I know what I want to lose, sure
as hell want to win something, But I think it's interesting.
Next down, I don't know yeah, Actually, I'll pop through it.
We're gonna take a break RBS. Now we are bet
I'll take a break up. I'll mention here and there

(37:40):
of some of the things that you can bet on
real quick. Democratic nominee in twenty twenty eight Gavin Newsome
thirty percent, AOC ten percent, ten percent, next US presidential
election winner JD. Vans thirty percent to who's the nineteen percent?
I mega's honor as politics, here's culture with what Who's

(38:03):
gonna win? The Nobel Peace Pies? Upstart? You get in there?
What's gonna be? This the Rotten Tomatoes score of this
new movie coming out called The Roses. I'm not getting
you above fifty fiber of above sixty eight crazy stuff.
All right, let's let's win some money and have some
fun together. By the way, good luck if you're playing
the power ball. Michael Garfle's the name Hour number one

(38:25):
is Oba. We're gonna be right back hanging there.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Is Michael Garfild.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Michael Garfield.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Michael Garfield's joining.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
In the high tech Texan.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Michael Garbil is here with a high tech Texans to
make life easier.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Like on Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texas three
decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide
on the iHeart Radio after now, You're high Tech Texas.

(39:15):
Michael Garfield.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Our number two of two starts right now. We are
halfway through the show and let me help you out. People.
It's the last Saturday of August maybe follows around the corner.
Football season is going on right now, so it should
be happy hour. We're a halfway to happy hour. Nah,
we're in the middle of it right now. Patterson Park
twenty two to five Patterson Street in Houston. If you

(39:45):
are listening in Houston on KPRC nine point fifty right now,
that's the place to be. Texas watch parties all season long.
It's going to be one heck of a season for
the Longhorns. Come on out Dallas if you're listening to
on iHeartRadio right now, you got a big watch party
going on at Longhorn Ice House. That's on West Northwest Highway.
Wherever you are, however, you are celebrating the start of

(40:08):
football season. It is great. But I do thank you
for the least keeping one ear onto this radio program.
If you miss something because you're cheering for a long
worm touchdown. You can go back and listen to the
podcast because Callum and Will who put the show together,
they put it on the podcast. Go to I Heart Radio,
you download the app and you look for Michael Garfield,

(40:28):
you look for high Tech Texan and you can listen
to this over and over and over again to your
heart's content, listening to my take on what to buy,
what to stay away from, a lot of reviews and not.
It's just technology. It's not that I'm getting ready to
talk about a what about a three thousand dollars robotic lawnmower?

(40:49):
I just actually kind of went to a press conference
for to learn about I will talk about good ways
to stream TV, why you shouldn't use streaming TV, why
you should go to use a digital antenna for free TV.
I review cars and trucks. What was that? What was
I in this past week? I was in a super room.

(41:10):
Uh yeah, and then yeah I wasn't a super rue.
So I'll I'll give you the play by play. I
do have some stories. Let me do it next segment
over there. How the surge in electric vehicles, believe it
or not, is demanding right now there's a demanding surge
to buy evs, and the reason why it's because we

(41:31):
are just days away before that tax credit expires. I'm
going to give you some really interesting stats of that.
So if you're looking for a vehicle right now, again,
I do review in test drive vehicles. I've done it
for fifteen years. I've had some clunkers, I've had some
sexy ones. I've got some smart ones. I personally am
in the the mode of my life. I guess we're

(41:54):
gonna describe it. You know, the kids are gone and
it's just me, and but sometimes I make it a
snow decision. You know, I live in Houston. I want
to drive up to Dallas to see my parents. I
want to drive to Austin for a football game to
see one of my kids. Also, I'm just not an
EV guy right now, at least the way that battery
life and stopping and waiting for charging is. I'm just

(42:15):
not there. I don't hate evs, but they are right
for some people. Certainly they are very good as a
second car in a family when you do have a
gas car at that. But again, my thoughts and that's
what I'm here for. And we have ten digits for
you to contact us here at the station if you
do want to state your case, ask me questions about

(42:35):
a product or a cocktail. I am your guy. Three
four six twenty nine Texan. That's three four six two
nine eight three nine two six should be a toll
free call, since pretty much now and the world everything
is a toll free call. Do you remember back in
the day when cell phones first started coming out and
everything would be charged by the minute, but on weekends

(42:55):
you would get free calling. I mean, I'm gonna go
back to the early nineties when I got my first
cell phone, which was a bag phone. Well, I just
dated myself right there, didn't I It was calls less.
I don't even know who my carrier was. Calls if
you made a if you made a cell phone call
for less than sixty seconds, less than a minute. I

(43:16):
would get my bill at at the end of the month,
and I would call customer service and my cell phone
provider and I would go through every single call because
you would get an itemized I got over with these diyes.
You could see every single call of what day and
what time, and how long the conversation was. It was
an itemized bill. Like a long distance bill, and I

(43:40):
would go through on customer service and I say, hey,
this call lasted under a minute. Wipe it off, and
they would wipe it off and I would just, you know,
it would take I don't know, I don't know, thirty
forty fifty bucks off of each of my monthly bills.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
But then on.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Weekends, man, I would call. And this is when not
a lot of people had cell phones and they couldn't
have them, they didn't want them, and I had really
had no reason to even have a cell phone or
pay for one back in nineteen ninety one something like that.
But I would walk around mall and I would carry
my bag phone on my shoulder. And it's too long

(44:17):
to explain, kids, but just go google cell phone, bag
phones nineteen nineties. It was, it was. It was so stupid,
but that's the way it was before we could, you know,
hold phones in our in our pockets or even on
our watch right now, But on weekends they were free calling.
So when I started this show two thousand and two
thousand and one, I think there was still the weekend

(44:38):
calling plans before and now it's all you can eat.
It don't even met local phone calls, you know, calls
across the country, ere it codes. It's it's all one
right now. But there was a time where we called
long distance. But I used to say, hey, listen, if
anybody around the country's listening to me, or even even
obviously was it my show started only in Houston. You

(45:00):
didn't need to eat your cell phone minutes because we
can calling. Was free, call me right now. So I
just that was the way back machine. This is how
long I've been doing the show. But this is how
long I've been covering and analyzing and anecdotally just telling
stories about technology. And we've come a long way, baby,
We certainly have in all that time. So it is
a free call pretty much wherever you are. Three four

(45:22):
six two nine eight three nine two six, callum if
you want to answer the phone. If not, let them
go to voicemail and then we could play it other
things that we want to talk about. I want to
make a note of this real quickly. I only got
about a minute, minute and a half. It is. This
is this week yesterday, actually Friday. It marks two decades
since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast. Twenty years

(45:46):
since Katrina roared ashore on the Gulf Coast. It was
the morning of August twenty ninth. It was two thousand
and five. I mean, it devastated some of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and as we know, it was New Orleans that received
the lion's share of the damage because it was the
levies and the floodwalls that were breached. There was thirteen

(46:08):
hundred people who died. I think it was the eighty
percent of the city was underwater for weeks. The city
lost more than about one hundred and twenty thousand residents
who fled and they never returned. A lot of them
came to Houston. I remember the Astrodome was like ground zero,
where people were sleeping on the floor of the dilapidatee
Astrodome even back then. Ian two decades now, I think

(46:29):
Katrina really has redefined New Orleans, depending on who you ask.
I visit New Orleans occasionally. I go there for some
football games. They have big events. Super Bowl was there
just this past year, I believe, and it's a fun city.
I know a lot of my listeners, I know a
lot of my bosses and the people I work with
there are from New Orleans. It's a resilient city, resilient town.

(46:52):
And it's just if you happen to be in New
Orleans or even Houston or on the Gulf Coast in
We're around twenty years just to see the pictures in
the devastation were to live through it, man, I don't
know how we have got past that. It was also
about eight years ago, right around this week, that Hurricane Harvey,
I believe it was, came through Houston, in Galveston, in

(47:14):
parts of this area, and in shutdown a lot of
the city we live. If you're in the Gulf Coast,
as I have been doing now Houston thirty plus years,
in a very hurricane flooding, weather prone city. This time
of season, hurricane season, I believe it all goes to
November first, so we're still in the thick of things.

(47:35):
Make sure you're always prepared, have back up, have the
battery generators. You don't even need to get those big
ones installed for twenty thirty thousand dollars. At least go
spend a few hundred dollars on a generator to at
least keep your refrigerator and a fan running. But be
prepared in those are the things that I'm here to
tell you, so a bit of remembrance as we go
back all those years, but we do move forward. We
are going to take a break when we come back.

(47:55):
A little update of what's going on with the Horns game.
I hope you're watching. I hope you're listening. Some new
products coming out, including AI, a new way to take
notes and listen to conversations and have an assistant always
by your side. More products coming out. More in the
passive shows you. Oh, we talked us more about technology,

(48:32):
the things that go beep and buzz here. Yes, it's
called The High Tech textan show. My name is indeed
Michael Garfield. You can call me the High Tech text
and because I trademarked that name. But we talk about
a lot, a lot of a lot more things because
it's whatever I want to talk about. I am your
consumer lifestyle guy. I am a massive sports fan. Football
fan today is like a It's opening season for me.

(48:55):
I mean I didn't have to go put my kids
through school. My kids are now graduated on go to school.
So this is the first day of school. This is
the first day of college football season. My Texas Longhorns
playing right now, as we're doing the show live versus
Ohio State Patterson Park, twenty two oh five Patterson Street,
which is at Patterson and I ten, just inside the loop.
Hundreds of people dressed in burn orange, going crazy, drinks specials,

(49:17):
and Terry Black's barbecue. I don't eat a lot of
red meat. I do like barbecue. I will eat barbecue
and as much as great as barbecue as Texas and
certainly Houston has my favorite barbecue. And this is not
an endorsement that Terry Black does not. I don't even
know Terry Black love Terry Black's barbecue originally from Lockhart.

(49:37):
I go to the one in Austin all the time
they went on Barton Springs. Lonnie Schiller, the great restaurateur
who owns Patterson Park Sports Bar, went to Lockhort Lockhart,
Texas yesterday and brought back pounds and pounds and pounds
of pounds of Terry Black's barbecue, selling and serving and
slicing right now at Patterson Park. Oh, now you're gonna

(50:01):
come right. I just hope there's some left twenty two
oh five Patterson Street. That is where you're gonna watch
all the Longhorn games this season. In Dallas. You've got
the Longhorn ice House in Northwest Highway, San Antonio. Someone
at San Antonio give me a shout. Tell me where
a Longhorn watch party is. I talk about it because
I'm a Longhorton. I'm a fan sec baby. But we

(50:24):
do continue. I also cover food, I cover liquor, I
cover fun stuff. I also cover cars and trucks and vehicles,
and I keep my pulse of what's happening. Over the
past five, six, seven years, electric vehicles created more brands.
The big one that we know Tesla. Guess where the
headquarters are. Guess where they're made, Right in the state

(50:45):
of Texas, right outside of Austin, Bass Drop area. Yes,
we know that too. Tesla has not been doing well
with stock prices. EVS sales have not been doing well.
A lot of the major manufacturers from GM to four
or they've kind of changed their plans over the past
few years, you know, thinking hey, we're gonna go all electric.
It's like, I don't know if consumers are really running

(51:07):
to stores to buy electric vehicles hybrids. I actually would
recommend over electric vehicles right now, certainly if you have
just a one car family. But I did see this.
Over the past few weeks. EV demand is surging, which
was expected because incentives in tax credits are driving demand,

(51:33):
but the countdown is on. There is as I do
this show about thirty five days left before the seventy
five one hundred dollars new ED tax credit and four
thousand dollars for used EV tax credit. It expires September

(51:53):
thirtieth is a day. But demand is spiking right now,
so all dealers are reporting a twenty to thirty percent
more foot traffic looking at EVS sales. Also, one hundred
and thirty thousand new evs were sold. It's a twenty
six percent month of a month and a twenty plus
year over year. Thirty six thousand used evs have been sold,

(52:17):
and that's a twenty three percent gain a year over year.
If you look at that, EV share lifted to about
nine percent of new sales and two percent of use sales,
and that I don't think. I don't remember the numbers
being that big. And if you think about it, nine
percent of new sales do I use the term just

(52:39):
nine percent, so ninety percent ninety one percent of new
car sales are gas powered typical combustible engines only nine
percent are evs. It's slow. I'm not ragging on evs whatsoever.
I say this as a stat going, well, if you're
looking for an EV, now's the time to buy. One

(53:00):
of my cousins lives in Houston and he's a professor
at Rice. Yes, that's a yeah, that's a humble brag. Also,
he's the smart one of the family, and he specifically
talks about and teaches on the grid, the electric grid
and how to get off. I mean he actually has
solar panels where he has shown me that I think
they turned backwards, that he uses so little actual electricity

(53:25):
traditionally and uses solar power. I think the electric companies
that he has to subscribe to pay him or something. Anyway,
He's long had gas Howard. No, no, no, he's long
had evs small ones. So he was in the market
to buy another EV and he saw used ones and

(53:46):
so he and I were going back and forth of
about three weeks. So he decided and set up. He
saw great deals unused evs, and he ended up buying
I believe it was a BMW I four and it
was one year U used, and I think he got
it for like thirty three thousand dollars for a Beamer
Eye four with with very low mileage. And I guess
I say this is because listen, I'm not talking anybody

(54:10):
out of it. I potentially would even consider. And I
just told you I'm not an ev guy in the
time and stage I am in my life right now.
For thirty or those thousand dollars to get a rarely
a low mileage Beamer I four or something like that,
I potentially even would consider it. So if anybody asks questions,

(54:31):
if you've got stories that hey, this is this is
a great vehicle that I bought someone I know. But
talk to us right now. We'd love to put you
on air three four six twenty nine text in the
three four six two nine eight three nine two six
that is what you could talk about. Uh, let's see
what car was I driving this past week. I do

(54:53):
get to uh drive a vehicle for a one solid week.
This is not from dealerships, as you know, I work
directly with the manufactur It's a pretty sweet deal. Fifteen
years I don't even own my own car. Really, I
get delivered a car every single week, or ivy or something.
I take the good with the bad, But then again
I get to review it in this past week. What's
garf driving in? By the way, calla we need, we need,

(55:15):
we need. I've been asking for theme music. What's garf driving?
This week? I was in a super U Ascent and
it smelled nice. No no, no, no, it's not that
one a S C E N T. It's a four
door suv super ru. I believe it may be the
unofficial vehicle of the state of Utah or Colorado or

(55:38):
something like that. You go to so many people have
them because they're very practical. They're not ostentatious, nothing showy,
but they get the freaking job done. It goes through snow,
it goes through rain, it does go some off roading,
and it gets you from point A to B. Superrews
are very very solid vehicles. This one, the Ascent, four

(56:01):
door suv, good power. It's got a two point four
leader turbo charged engine, nice wheels, easy to get into.
I had a this mine was actually kind of pimped
out a bit, knowing that you put the stuff through
rugged terrain. It had the nice big you know, floor

(56:22):
mats for mud and you know, the things back, easy
to get into on the back seat, a lot of headroom.
The entertainment scene. Now I look at this too because
the entertainment info tainment system kind of reminded me of
the Infinity, which you know, it's okay, like it's it's
it's neat. I think they need to up the graphic

(56:43):
game a little bit. Again, this is me nitpicking them
the whole thing. But the sound system is nice. But
the point is it is rugged. If you have a
lot of things to shlip, it's great. It's not massive.
I mean, you're not gonna fit you know, six people
in this vehicle. But if you want to lay down
in the back, yes, you could put skis in there.
Should you go skiing. That's why they love it up
in the Colorado Utah area. You're gonna put you're taking

(57:04):
the kids to school, put the soccer, the ballet, the dance.
Fifty two thousand dollars, which, oh I found that to
me maybe a little on the high end side for
a super U A cent or something in this suv thing.
Good gas mileage not great, twenty one combined, nineteen in
the city, twenty five on the highway. So overall, if

(57:28):
people think of super rules, maybe not. In my listening
audience of Texas. I don't know. I know Texas is
a very good pickup estate, but there is some off roading.
If you have a ranch and if you do just
you know, kind of go out on the you know,
somewhere on the weekends, you should take a look at
these super Rules because they they certainly do well when
you kind of get a little off road, and they
do ride quite quite nicely. So check it out. I'm

(57:50):
not gonna give you a dealership. I don't even know
where a super U dealership is. I don't get paid
for this stuff. This is totally my review of my thoughts,
but something that I probably would consider. I don't know
in terms of price point, I would be looking for
something maybe a little more value, which I will continue
to compare and update you with. If you want to
hear any of my past reviews on vehicles, I have

(58:11):
hundreds of them listed you can They're all on a
separate podcast you can go to. I think it's on iHeartRadio.
I know Spotify has it and Apple. Just look for
high Tech Texan h I G H T E C
h T e x A N high Tech Texan. When
we come back, we got more stuff your calls. We'll
talk about robotic lawnmowers, sleep trackers, empower banks. This is

(58:32):
the time we could be losing some power due to weather.
I got things to make sure that your laptops, your fans,
refrigerators are charged up. Genuing the long running Mister Michael

(59:02):
Garfield high Tech textan show. You can call it the
high Tech textan show. You can call me the high
tech text in which I have trademarked and I am
call me Garf Gaarf And by the way, I'm gonna
spell this thing or but you know it's Wayne and
Garth in Wayne's world. No, it's not Garth. It's Garf,
and the F and the thh are very tough to understand,
especially with the fast cadence of which I speak. So

(59:24):
my last name is Garfield, which is not made up.
It's actually my real family name, Garfield, like the cat.
And by the way, it continues to amaze me how
people do not realize that there was a president of
the United States also named Garfield. If you were under
like thirty five or forty years old, you may not

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know that the twentieth President of the United States was
James A. Garfield. He was assassinated in six months into
his term. But it's every time I use that, it's
not kind of a joke. I check into a hotel.
What's your last name? Garfield? Like the president? And they
look at me like huh Garf G A R F

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I L d oh, like Garfield a cat? And I
literally stop, I say, did you not know there was
a president Garfield? No? I didn't. Anyway, Garfield is the
last name. Take the first four letters Garf. Okay, that
is the nickname. If we're really tight. Phone number hit
here has not changed, well, actually has changed in the
past year, but this is the number if you want

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to talk to Garf three four six two nine eight
nine two six. Uh. So, when I get the invitation
to the wedding of the I guess so far the
century in the United States, maybe next year or whenever,
maybe they will get my name right, Michael Garfield. And
of course I'm talking about those two lovebirds, Taylor Swifton

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Travis Kelce. I don't want to get into this too much,
but I actually probably should. Let the NFL is leaning
into this marketing thing. Maybe it's going to get me
some more listeners too. I probably should do a two
hour show on Travis and Taylor. Oh my goodness, there's
no Easter eggs here. People. I do like looking at
the ancillary fun stuff. I am not making fun of

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them whatsoever. And I wrote this, I broke the news.
I mean, I don't know, I didn't break the news,
but I said this right after they got engaged. Was
it earlier this week? I don't know. It was a
big week. Yeah, it was this week. And I'm serious
about this thing. People are gonna make funny comments. I've
seen the memes, snides, you know, snarky remarks. The fact

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is they do seem happy, they do seem in love,
and dang it, man, good for them, because I love
love and dating nowadays, it is not easy. Dating for
me has never been easy. I was lucky to actually
even fine get married and married for twenty three years

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way back in the day. I haven't been married for
now what twelve years, because I just don't I don't know.
I don't even get mister high tech text and not
on the dating apps. I just I don't know. I
sit here and I watch ESPN, and I don't know.
Maybe I'm waiting for somebody to knock on my door.
No one's knocking on my door. Point is he found somebody.
She's found somebody there happy let him have their love.

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So and I'm serious about this. I know I'm getting
for Clym too. Anyway, I love some of these companies
and promotions who have hopped on the Taylor and the
Travis bandwagon. Earlier this week I saw some of these
fun things that you could do that companies are letting
you do to play off the Taylor Travis thing. And

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good for them, because I understand marketing promotion like that.
Number one was Papa John's Last Wednesday. Papa John's had
a deal for those people with the same first names
of Taylor and Travis. If your name is Taylor, if
your name is Travis, last Wednesday, in their loyalty program,
you got a thirteen dollar reward. I think thirteen is

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the Taylor's favorite number. They gave you thirteen dollars reward
that you had to use it. I think on Wednesday
if your name was Taylor travisqute very nice. Luckily I
didn't have to go through all these extra carbs because
Michael is nowhere and even near those names too. Some
soda company gave thirteen percent off a subscription order of

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its probiotics Sodas Portillo's they gave you if you ordered
a dollar thirteen worth of food, they give you free
onion rings to make it look like it was a
wedding ring. Door Dash had a coupon code or something
of thirteen. Okay, I get the thirteen type of things.
I don't know, but it's fun hopping on the bag.
Win don't getting good for them? Brilliant right before NFL

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season kicks off. The NFL is writing it better than
Jerry Jones would doing in terms of a marketing play
like that. So they are everywhere, so good for those
kids and so happy for them. Oh, I did tell
you I was going to do some my travel itenerary.
I happened to be in New York City last weekend.
I was up there for a press conference, which I'll

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talk about here. It was for a Yarbo Yaarbo. They
just announced a new robotic lawnmower, the robot Lawnmower Pro,
which I'll give my thoughts here. I actually don't have
a Yarbo Lawnmower Pro. I do cover that segment. I
do have other mowers that I have tested out. That
are robotic, just like your robotic vacum cleaner. They there's

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a robot that will mow your lawn. I'm serious. And anyway,
they have me up in New York. I don't go
to New York a lot. It acts. I did go
to two times, maybe three times last year, but before
that it's been years. So I had a fun time.
I went to a play I guess it was on
Broadway or was like four one hundred feet right off Broadway.

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It was called Oh Mary. Anyone I heard of this
thing called Oh Mary. It was a comedy and I
did not know what to expect, so I go in
and it was I still to this minute, I don't
know what to expect. How did you describe it? It
was about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln,

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because apparently she was a little kooky. And again I
don't think it's I think we're past the timeframe where
she has passed on that we actually can you know,
joke about it right now? It was about her, but
it was a farce. Abraham Lincoln was in the play
and it was played by what's his name is Camal
Nunn whatever, he's the comedian funny guy. I saw him

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that he played Abraham Lincoln. There was only like four
people in the entire play, and they played different characters.
But it was kind of an over the top Mary
Lincoln because there was this Yeah, I don't even know
who the other characters were. It was fun, it was funny,
we laughed. It was an hour and a half. I
liked it because I'm not a Broadway guy. I really
don't want to sit anywhere for two and a half
hours and then have the half what do they call

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halftime in Broadway shows? This is what an idiot I
am break what was a curtain call? Not? What are
they called timeouts? Whatever? This one was an hour and
a half stop. There was no intermission, thank you. There
was no intermission. It was like boom. It was an
hour half. It was like almost at about It was
the entire length of our first half of a football game.

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And it was fun. Got to eat a lot. Went
to my favorite John John's Pizza. I've loved John's Pizza.
I think there's two locations to sit down restaurant right
in your Times Square. Wasn't happy. I was their quality
went down. Hopped over to car Mines, great Italian restaurant
had a cocktail there. Spent some time in Koreatown. I
never had been to Koreantown. The Empire State Building is

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like right smack dab in the Koreatown. I went to
with the PR people here. I went to a Korean
karaoke bar. Anybody ever been to a Kerrieok? And this
was different. I've done karaoke rarely you go to a
bar they have a Ariok machine on a Thursday night. No, no, no,

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this is a karaoke bar where there's an individual room.
It's about the size of a large closet. They've got
a big TV screen, they've got two wireless microphones, and
they've got a catalog of thousands of songs and some couches,
so you and your boys, I don't know, you make
a couple's night or whatever it is. It maybe it

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holds six people, seven people, eight people top screen. They
bring you drinks that you can order, and it's a
soundproof room with lights in a disco ball and you sing.
I like this better than karaoke because now I don't
have to perform in front of sixty people one hundred people.
There was only like four or five of us over
there that we were singing. It was like one hundred
bucks an hour. It was actually pretty fun. I like that.

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Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. I've never done that before.
All the times I've been to New York because I
used to go a little bit more often when I
was younger, never walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. It was
a really really nice day. I got to see or
right over. You look down and there's a South Street
street board where the ESPN studios are are. Brooklyn. Kind
of a hip place right now. Eight lunch on the

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other side in Brooklyn at the foot of the bridge.
Then took a subway back up. That was kind of fun,
really nice weather. I wish I was there now for
a US Open. I've been to the US Open I
think two times, way back in the day when I
used to be in sports marketing. But New York is
a It's a fun place to visit. Got asked a lot,
would you ever move I'm a Texan, would you ever
move to New York? I actually would, believe it or not.

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I think now in my life that the kids are grown.
I raised kids in Texas where I was raised, you know,
in a ranch style house, where we could walk to
school and drive our cars to the grocery store and
have a lot of spath. I'd move, but I would
have to have one kick ass job, a high paying
killer job. If they asked me to be on as

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a host or on Good Morning America, Today's show or
ESPN something that I want to do and paid me subsequently,
and sure I would move move to New York at
this point last my agent has been sleeping on the
job right now. But should you be in the position
to offer me something to move up to New York
with a job in media, I'm there for you. Call

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me three four six twenty nine Texan, and I actually
would change my moniker to the high tech New Yorker.
New Yorker, don't go anywhere. Football season, have it a
good time here Michael Garfield's Good Morning, final final segment

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of the show. Then we can get you back to
watching football fully. The Texas Long Orange Ohio State college
football game. One gotta thank and everybody listen if you want,
if you're in Houston, I'll say it again all the
Long Worn fans, this is gonna be a big season,
very big. High expectations for Texas Longhorns. Patterson Park absolute
sports bar. Phenomenal only. It's relatively new. It's been around

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maybe two years. Fully built, three level indoor outdoor. It's
a deck, there's wood, there's air conditioning inside, forty TVs.
I'm going to be helping promote it. I'll be there
for some of the games. I'll be buying you some
beers and stuff throughout. It is twenty two to five
Patterson Next Thursday, it's the NFL kickoff. Can you believe that?

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Next Thursday? My Dallas Cowboys. Let's not talk about that
and the Philadelphia Eagles believe it or not. This is
if you're Philadelphia Eagles fan. Patterson Park is the official
Philadelphia Eagles watch party. Are hundreds and hundreds of Eagles
fans go out there, and so I'm not sure I
should show up with my cowboy uniform, cowboy uniform wearing

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the game. But NFL season starts and now we are
having fun. So noway, those are the things that I
will tell you about. Thanks also to my good friends
over at Cabo Bob's Cowboy. You know what, did we
give away a gift card yet? By the way, let's
do it one more time. Tenth collar. Right now, we're
going to give you something to celebrate Taylor and Travis
everything tenth callar seven one three two one two five
nine five. Oh, I'm gonna give you a twenty five

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dollars gift card. Top Cabo Bob's. It is the best
burritos and tacos and chips. It is football season. They
are not open on Sundays, so if you're listening on
a Saturday, go stuck up before on Sunday. Four locations
in Houston, six seven, eight locations in Austin, one in
San Antonio. Cabo Bob's is good. Stop we already look
at that, already got a winner. Stop calling right now.

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Cabo Bob's. Thank you to Arnold and Lori and everybody
else who was there. They love me talking about it,
and they are probably sick of me walking in because
I'm probably there easily three to four days a week.
That's how good this stuff is. We'll finish it up.
What did I talk about, Oh, we'll talk about that
that lawnmar I told you. I was in New York
and I went up to UH to find out about
these new robotic lawnmowers. Yarbo a Uass based company came

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out with an upgraded version of their robotic lawnmower. It's
the Lawnmower FRO and it's a modular lawnmower. And what
that means it's really smart because robotic lawnmowers. I want
you to think of best. You know what a robotic
vacuum cleaner. You know, they kind of look like a
disc or something. You can call them roombas, eco flows.
There are so many companies who offer them. And what

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they do is you charge them up, you let them go.
They've got sensors and AI and cameras and they go
around your couches and they go around your chairs and
they sweep up and they can they can vacuum and
they can mop. Okay, now let's soup them up. We
could put blades underneath. For years, there have been robotic lawnmowers.
Now we in Texas we have hundreds of acres. Do

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you want a robotic lawnmore to actually do this? I
mean that's almost impossible. If you got a typical size,
regular size house with the yard, front yard, backyard, and
you don't want to go out and mow in one
hundred degree heat, why don't you get consider a robotic lawnmower.
If you go to my website high Tech Texans all
the whole thing. I did a TV segment Fox Austin,

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Fox seven and Austin, which I do each week, and
I reviewed and I showed you how one worked about
a month ago, and it was from Ecoflow. Well, this
is from Yarbo Yarbo. I went up for a press
conference and this is their second generation that they came
out with. It's modular, meaning they've got interchangeable pieces that
you can put on the they're electric and we're not

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going to call it the motor part of it if
you will, and it changes to add more power, not
just making it a lawnmower. You can change the blades
and you can make it a snow blower, just exactly
what we need to hear in Texas, right. You can
make it a leaf blower. You could do a number
of different things. This one has a bigger battery. The

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old previous one covered about six acres. Now the lawnmower
Pro they came up with can cover up the twelve
acres per week. So you charge it and you're set
to go. It can cut very close to the ground
about giving your grass about one one point two inches.
It can actually get even lower if you want. It
gets to about point eight inches too. There also came

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out with something new. It's called a trimmer arm. It's
an attachment that's really the first of its industry. You
can it kind of looks like a weed whacker or
a weed weed eat or something, but it's a string
trimmer and as it goes by your fence or around trees,
it'll trim some of those high weeds that are next

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to It's pretty kind of ingenious that you can actually
buy this add on, you know, you know type of thing. Personally,
I don't I haven't used one of these. I want
to try it, and they're potentially going to let me
try one of these things. But it's relatively heavy and
it's relatively expensive too. If you want this new Yarbough
mower and the trimmer package, it's going to cost about

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fifty eight hundred dollars or so. It's not a small investment,
and it's really almost as twice of which you can
get with a John Deere writing mow or if if
if you look at you know, some of the smaller ones.
But this is the robotic. This is the worlds that
we live in. And I will tell you it's nice
to be able to support a US based company, not
that we don't love any you know, companies elsewhere, but

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I got to sit down and talk with the owner,
Ken and I think next week I'm going to run
some of that to ask them about how they came
up with this. But they're always inventing really really sharp.
I know it's towards the end of lawnmowing season, but
if you're listening to me somewhere around the rest of
the country and you don't have to be in Texas
and you want something where you don't want to be
able to you don't want to personally go out and

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shovel snow blow leaves are certainly you know, mo lawns.
We now have robots just like the Jetsnian age when
Rosy the robot used to do anything that will take
care of our lawns and our yards. What else are
we coming to in this world but those? And this
is some of the things that I cover, And with
that I get to slowly wind down the show. And

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for keeping me on here for twenty two or twenty
three years. It's getting into the nitty gritty fun part

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