Must have Back-To-School items your kids need

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• Must have Back-To-School items your kids need (all grades)
• Google's new app lets you virtually try on clothes. But do they make your butt look big?
• How using a digital TV antenna can save you money and produce higher quality video

Episode Transcript

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Is Michael Garfi.

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Michael Garfield.

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Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan.

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Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
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April.

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We are just trudging through it. Summer is just nasty.
We've made it well, at least through the last weekend
of July. At the end of the day, it's not
that we're counting down until it gets cooler. We're counting
down to football season, people, And technically we're less than
one week away because next Thursday, Man is the Hall

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care if it's not a real football game. At least
there's some simulation that fall is coming, and that does
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and I why don't you just use chat GPT and
find out what a radio show versus a podcast is.
But the phone number is three four six two nine
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nine HEXIT. That is how you're going to get a
hold of me if you want to follow me on
all the socials, high tech textent high t eh T
e X A n approaching fifty thousand followers on Instagram.
You know what, if I have a few more of
you people who said, you know what, let's put Garth
over the fifty k mark, I would appreciate. I wonder,

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I wonder it. I'm going to be monitoring this. No,
I don't want to do it. I don't want I
was going to do a contest, but within two seconds
I actually talked myself and I was going to do contest.
If I could monitor who exactly is the fifty thousandth
person who follows me, I would have given away something.

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But then again, I'm actually defeating the purpose because all
you people are going to be holding off, waiting for
forty nine nine ninety nine before you go, So don't
do it. So no prizes for anybody put me over
fifty thousand. Maybe I will give everybody a super code,
a secret code to get you something free. How about that.
I think that's a better way to position it. You see,

(04:48):
it's called marketing people, and really that's what I do.
And listen some of the things that we are also
going to talk about today AI and chat GPT I
believe it or not. If you're a long time listen.
I didn't talk about that a ton. There's a lot
of my ilk who also do some radio shows, to
a few TV segments and certainly podcasts where they you know,

(05:11):
go nuts on the chat GPT and AI I don't
talk about it a lot. I'm going to slowly start
talking about it a little bit more because it is
permeating into just so many things that we do. And
I'm not the guy who's going to bang his shoe
on the table and pretend it's the un he Actually
you should use chat GPT to actually go google that one. Folks.

(05:35):
I'm not get off my lawn guys saying, oh hey,
always going to take over all our jobs. We don't
want it. AI. I bet for a lot of listeners
out there, they're helping you. I bet the chat GPT stuff,
it's it's interesting. I got some stories on AI how
it can do some really interesting things, and I've been
playing with them because it actually does work pretty pretty cool.

(05:57):
We've got a I guess I'll bury the lead Tesla.
The outlook for Tesla as vehicles as a vehicle manufacturer
doesn't look great, great great, based on some numbers which
I'll get to, but Apparently they may make more money
in another area because Tesla just opened a diner. Don't

(06:18):
even laugh. I mean Elon Musk apparently can do everything.
He could shoot rockets and satellites into space, he could
build cars, he could tell off the government, the president
of the United States. Apparently he can also make hot
dogs and shakes too. I will tell you where that is.
And I got an early review on that thing. But
I do want to start out. Give me about two
minutes over here. What a very touching and sad week

(06:39):
this has been when it comes to celebrities and celebrity deaths.
Started off the week with just the horrible news that
Malcolm Jamal Warner died at fifty four, drowned in coast
to Off near Costa Rica. For those of age, and
obviously I would say, you have to be about forty
years old and above. Well, you know what. The Cause

(07:00):
Show has been in reruns too. But he was the
only son of on The Cosby Show and just a
great young actor, a funny young actor. He may not
have followed his career, he continued to work after the
Cosby Show. I think he launched his own podcast recently.
But you know, you just you don't want to ever
hear anybody drowning, period, drowning at fifty four. He was

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out there with his daughter too. She's fine, his younger
daughter too. But it's sad because there's so many memories
and so many laughs that at least in you know,
the I was in college when I was watching The
Cosby Show, and there was it was tough to be
bigger on television in the nineties. Whatever you think of
Bill Cosby right now, it's not the point, but The
Cosby Show in actually, and I say the nineties, the

(07:47):
late eighties, it was Thursday night must see TV. It
was absolutely huge. And then obviously in the nineties, in
the two thousands, even right now, the repeated so that came,
I think on Monday Tuesday comes we find out that
Ozzy Osbourne passed away. I'm not the biggest Ozzy Osbourne fan.
Black Sabbath certainly not. He was the lead singer Black

(08:08):
Sabbath at one point. You can define it as heavy metal.
I knew Crazy Train, but Ozzie was a character, a
larger than life, more than a rock star dude. He
was on MTV at the reality show We Knew. His
wife Sharon Osbourne, who actually started out his as his manager,

(08:29):
his two kids and everything. But I know he fought
parkinson disease and obviously so so many issues with drugs,
which is just obviously have just been talked about him.
There's no rumor he or anything, but all of a sudden,
he just up and dies. If that wasn't enough, you
kind of wake up on Thursday morning and we hear
of an absolute American or worldwide icon who suddenly died

(08:54):
of cardiac arrest, and that is Hul Kogan. I was
not a massive wrestling fan. I didn't get into wrestling,
but it doesn't matter. You knew if Hull Cogan was
walking down the street, you knew whole Cogan easily probably
one of the top five most recognizable people in the

(09:14):
United States. And that's a fact. He's got the upside
down you handlebar mustache, he's got his flowing locks, he's
got his twenty four inch python biceps, just a larger
than life character. Yes, he had issues. He's got the
listen again, document it steroids, you know, using racial slurs
and everything, you know, what have you. And I'm not

(09:38):
discounting that, but you just don't want to see because
to so many people, to so many kids who grew
up and really in my wrestling he was an icon.
He is gone. We continue that with Chuck Mangione, great
musical artists from the seventies. Connie France has great musical
artists from the nineteen fifties and the sixties. They passed
away just I don't know what it is, man, It's

(09:59):
just the dull old days of summer. But this, among
all weeks, it was just really, really tough. And I
know it made us all think and and I know
it makes us realize how lucky we hopefully are. Tell
your loved ones you love them. Try to do everything
you can in life to live your life. Stay out
of the heat, and drink a lot of water. Not

(10:19):
that that would have prevented anything of what happened with
some of those deaths earlier this week, but my goodness,
it was a tough one. I'm going to take a break.
Michael Garfield is my name. When we come back, I'm
gonna talk a little about an interesting thing Google just
officially launched that will help you buy new clothes without
ever going to a store. And pretty much you can

(10:40):
guarantee they're gonna fit if I thought that.

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Many more things too.

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On the High Tech text and Show just really getting

(11:10):
revd up Segment two of what we call the High
Tech Textan Show. If you're not that familiar with it,
I am the longtime host, well over twenty years. Michael
is the name Michael Garfield. Specifically, you can find me
at high Tech textin dot com spell the whole thing out.
Find me on social media. I'm looking. I'm looking at Instagram.

(11:30):
Still close to fifty thousand. We haven't reached that threshold yet,
so feel free to join the fund. What you're gonna
see is good, clean, fun, nice, a lot of video
reviews of a lot of things that I'm testing. And
believe me, I you're not going to hear me talk
about or answer your questions of how to fix your computer. People,
those days are ovah. It is so much cheaper to

(11:51):
buy a freaking new computer laptop instead of fixing the thing.
I'm not gonna teach you how to fix your phone
I will give you. I'm not gonna I'm gonna review.
I get several new phones per month. There's many manufacturers
of phones. By the way, I'm not going to sway
you going from that iPhone to I'm not going to
sway you to go from iOS to Android. I'm not

(12:11):
gonna swear you Android iOS. I will talk about the good,
the bad, some of the features that are really neat
with phones, some neat apps. I test drive at least
one car every single week for the past fifteen years.
I don't even own a car. Every single week I
get a car. And this is not sponsored. This is
not from one dealership. I don't even work with dealerships people.
I work with manufacturers. One week I get this past week,

(12:35):
I was in a Toyota and I was in an
Alpha Rimeo Romeo. Last week I was in a Chrysler Pacific.
Of the week before that, I was in a BMW.
I test drive minivans. Evs said, Anne's cuvs, SUVs, trucks,
you name it. And so I'm gonna give you the real,
the real stuff, without anybody saying, hey, he's being paid

(12:59):
for that. I do not do that when it comes
to that. So that's what you're gonna get here. That's
what you're going to get her phone number if you
want to ask questions. We are almost well. We actually
are back to school. Three four six twenty nine Texan
three four six two nine eight three nine two six.
I was in I like going to stores. I was

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in Walmart recently. I think I popped into Target. I
think it was an office depot or something like that
first thing you see, Man, it's aisles and aisles of
back to school. I don't miss that. I, as a
as a former student, actually went to school for sixteen years,

(13:40):
all in different grades, and I graduated on time. That's
twelve years of grade school, high school, and then four
years of college. That's how. And as a parent of
three boys who were have been out of college for
several years right now, I don't miss back to school.
I don't miss going up and down the little the
aisles of your stores to buy pins, binders, paper, blue crayons, cleanex.

(14:11):
I don't miss that stuff. I don't miss getting with
the well, I guess it was letters. It wouldn't even
email when my kids were actually back in school. Here
are the fifteen supplies that your son needs before he
goes to kindergarten? And why was Kleenex a box of
cleanex always in there when I was in school? And

(14:31):
I'm going to go back to the seventies when I
was in Greade School. I remember my parents and certainly
it was my mom moved who took me shopping and everything.
We had to come on that first day and we
had to have a pencil bag and we had to
have well it was a trapper keeper but I was
a little late. But we had to bring a box
of clean X. And you go to your homeroom and
there's twenty five thirty kids in they were in my homeroom.

(14:56):
Who was going to use twenty five to thirty boxes
of CLEANEX in a given season? Obviously this is seventies.
I mean, there was no such thing as COVID. I
mean maybe there was strapped throat and then maybe there
was a flu or something like that. I mean it
was big tissue paper had a conspiracy with every school
district in the country. They had to I mean we did.

(15:20):
It was unbelievab. I don't know. Listen, if there's a
parent right now, could you give me a shout hop
me an email Michael at high Tech Texa dot com.
Go on my ex which is high tech textan do something.
Do you still need to bring clean next to school?
Obviously we don't call them cleanext. We called them tissue paper,
because let me help you out, I ain't buying your

(15:41):
price cleanex lent. I'm going to freaking Walmart and I'm
getting a freaking whatever brand. I'm going to Aldie and
I'm getting the off brand price of this stuff. What where?
How did I even get on this thing? Oh? Back
to school? You probably do your kids do need at
some point, and I say need, there's a there's a
different between want and need of laptops, of tablets, and

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I'm not calling it an iPad, desktop, computers, calculators. Some schools,
particularly colleges, are very specific about brands. I remember, I
think it was Harvard way back in the day when
Apple's just came out. They wanted you to get that Apple,
the Mac computer, the laptop that was. They don't want

(16:29):
you to get anything Windows. I mean, they were very
very specific about this thing. But if you're trying to
decide between back to school items over the next month,
I'm really going to be into that. I know school.
I am based in Texas, and if you're not based
in Texas, you probably don't realize this, but Texas schools
start very early compared to the rest of the country.

(16:49):
It's always how it's Ben's always allies. But I think
the first day of public school, at least in the
Houston area and maybe across Texas is like August thirteenth.
I mean, so your your suber vacation people, it's almost over.
But the good news is for kids, you get out
earlier than anybody else in the country. We get out

(17:11):
before Memorial Day generally. Oh everybody else from the East
coast New York, Ah, they're going through mid June. Ah,
screw them. So back to school is one of the
things I'm talking about. Back to school clothes shopping people.
I just took six and a half minutes to go
that long way. That was a long walk to get
to where I'm going Right now, I'm gonna talk about
using AI, using chat GPT, and I saw something that Google.

(17:34):
Actually I've been playing with and I talked about it.
If you listen to my show, you may have tested
it about two months ago when I talked about it.
But Google announced just a fused it a few days
ago that it's officially launching. Officially launching. It's a new
AI feature that lets you virtually try on clothes virtually.

(17:54):
It's a virtual try on feature and It's been in
testing for about two months and I've tried it and
it's pretty freaking scary yet pretty cool. And it works
by letting users upload a photo of themselves to virtually
try on a piece of clothing. So to use it,

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you need to tap on a product listing or an
apparel product result. Just tap on it again. This is Google,
which is Android to and a little icon will pop
up that'll say try it on. There. You need to
upload a full length photo of yourself. Then you're gonna
be able to see what you might look like wearing

(18:38):
that clothing. Then you can save it, share it with friends, everything. Listen.
Google has tried this before. The earlier features really focused
on showing items on different range of models bodies. But
this new feature, man, it is letting you upload a

(18:59):
virtual version of your own body. It's an experimental app
that they did launch last month called Doppele Doppl and
I downloaded it is free doppel as in, if you
think about it, doppel ganger, because that's your virtual I
got the DOPPL, try it and we could talk about

(19:22):
is this who is this going to? Is this going
to hurt any retailer? Is this going to help. We're
gonna take a break right now and we'll come back
and weigh in on this. I absolutely think it's gonna
help because a lot of people are shopping online and
a lot of people they don't know what size they
are they guesstimate. That's a downside because when I shopped,

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and certainly when I grew up, YEA had to actually
walk into a store and you tried something on, whether
you're a sh medium, a large, and extra large or
whatever you are, you tried it on, turned it around
in the mirror, looks good. I'm gonna get online. Don't
order a medium and a large and an extra large
and I'm gonna return the other two. I just it's
it's a whole pros it's a whole process. Now, this
actually may help. Talk about that and some other ways

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that I personally have started using AI and g and chat,
GPT and things like that that you may already be
ahead of me. It is pretty cool. Michael GARKI will
be High Tech Texans Show, bottom of the first hour

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of the High Tech Texans Show. It's what it's called.
You can find me a high tech Texan spelled the
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much for all my all my friends listening and family

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listening in Dallas. Talk ready eleven ninety. Yes, that is
where I grew up. High school, grade school, and it's
just talking. You just did it. I was talking about.
It's it's pretty much back to school time. I walked
into Walmart and targeted a few other stores this week
for something. Man. First thing, you're just inundated. You got

(21:29):
your trapper keepers, your your paper, your crayons, your zipper bags,
and I guess it's mostly grade school stuff that you need.
I mean, if you keep walking to the back of
the store, when you get to the laptops and the
tablets and the calculators in the phones, yeah, that's I

(21:50):
guess for the upper high school in the college folks too.
But did you go to any one of these big
I'm I'm not saying any of one of these is
my favorite store. A lot of these places have online
shopping to hopefully you did your Amazon frime days and
everything or whatever? But uh, there will start to be
sales here in the next probably now, certainly not the
next week for desktops and laptops and dorm gear. Whether

(22:12):
you need a clock radio, I'm dating myself right now.
How old I am? Clock radio? Does any kid, I
say kid in college or certainly younger okay to me
either the kit they're a kid, do they have a
clock radio? Do they know what a clock radio? An

(22:34):
alarm clock? Kids, let me be more specific, do you
have an alarm clock next to your bet?

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No?

Speaker 5 (22:40):
And many of you don't even have watches because you
use your phone. You could set as many alarms as
you can. You could set one to open, you'll wake
you up at six o'clock and you can snooze, and
then six oh five you set another one, and then
six twenty, and then by the time you get to
about eight thirty, you're gonna go screw it. I'm not
gonna go to that class. That's what we did in college,

(23:01):
except we didn't use phones. We had an alarm clock.
Oh and by the way, yes, I use my alarm
on my phone sometimes. But big Daddy g that's me Garth.
I still have a clock radio right by my bed
and guess what. It wakes me up every single morning
to nine fifty am and used in Texas. That is,

(23:24):
I am shilling for iHeart Radio right now, phone number
here three four six twenty nine. Text. And we were
talking about a new feature, a new app actually that
Google officially launched and Google does things and it's Gentlina.
It's a test, it's a beta test. If it works,
they'll officially release it. They just did. They have a

(23:45):
it's an app called Doppele doppl It was an experimental
app about a month or two ago. Now it's official.
It lets you virtually try on clothes, almost any clothes,
right on your phone. You upload a photo of old body,
phot you take a selfie, you have someone take a
picture of you standing, you know, you put it, you know,
I stand up against the kind of a blank wall

(24:06):
or something like that. You could Then any almost anywhere
you shop and you see a shirt, hands, suit, shoot whatever,
you kind of touch it, it'll save that dress, shirt, whatever.
Then you upload your photo and it melds them together

(24:27):
and it shows you what you would look like wearing that.
And yes, it does make my butt look fat. I'm
just kidding. Actually, something hit up anting what it is?
I tried a similar service about two weeks ago. I
was ordering a new pair of running shoes. I know
exactly what size running shoe I am. I've run for
thirty years. I wear the same size running shoe pretty

(24:50):
much across the board. Sometimes there may be a smidge bigger,
but I want a little extra room on my shoes. Whatever.
But this is a new brand I have never heard of. Actually,
I'll tell you. It's called Kuzu ku z U. Pretty cool,
very padded. I like it for my running running stop.
So they wanted to make sure that there's this feature

(25:11):
it's free that you can try right now that lets
you measure your feet. And what you do is you
sit down in a chair and you take your shoes
and socks off. Now imagine this. You take your phone
in your camera. Actually, you pull up the app really

(25:32):
on the on this website, and you kind of, you know,
you know, put your feet apart, about two feet apart,
and you kind of put your camera in between your legs,
pointing down at your feet. And it's got these little
guidelines put your feet within these, you know, dotted lines.
It to click button. It'll scan your feet. I'm not kidding.

(25:56):
I'm not making this up, and it'll tell you what
size shoe you wear. YEP. It uses artificial intelligence. That's
what AI is, what I just told you about Google
These doppele things. They also can create AI generated videos
so you can get a better sense of how the
outfit would look on you in real life. This to me,

(26:19):
and we can debate about this. Three four six two
nine eight three nine. This helps retailers, It will help sizing.
Number one is I gave the example last segment. There's
a lot of people who will order two or three
different sizes of something. Oh, I'm not sure if I'm

(26:40):
a smaller medium, let me just order a smaller medium.
Comes from whatever retailer you want. You try it on,
you pick one that fits, and what do you do? Well?
In many cases you just call your ups guy or
your Amazon to do it again or whatever and they
pick it up. Man, that is just a lot of return.
That's a lot of credit card hold before you get

(27:03):
the money back. Versus how I guess your parents and
grandparents and actually me, we used to do it and
we still do it. We walk into stores. We try
some things on, we just buy the one size that fits.
But anyway, using these AI features, you I assume and
it worked. You can be more assured of what size

(27:25):
and what color you want. And more and more online
retailers they're having just like that Kuzoo website of the
of the shoe, they're going to launch features like this
because it saves them money in the long run of well,
we're gonna have to return it, we're gonna have to

(27:45):
sing this label, and then we're gonna wait and they're
gonna have to credit your thing, and it just and
that adds It adds time, but it's going to add
costs to the retail value. But it also it makes
it user friendly. It makes to me the company going, hey,
they're using some really cool tech to make my life
easier to assure that I'm gonna get a good size

(28:07):
and good color. So they're a forward thinking company. So
we talk about it, and I'm gonna continue a little
bit more slowly, but surely I'm gonna talk about artificial intelligence,
but to talk about using chat, GPT and things like this,
where it's it's not a bad thing. I don't want
to have a bad taste in my mouth. Listen. We
can go on and on about disruption and paradigm shift.

(28:32):
I went to school in college. There was no computers.
There were no personal computers. The Apple first, you know,
the Lisa, the very first macadozeet was launched, and maybe
I was a sophomore or something. Now we had pins
and papers and blue books. Woo woo. Man, if you
ain't fifty plus, you have no clue what I'm talking about.
We had, right, We had an ink pan, We had

(28:53):
a number two pencil, Dixon Tykon de Rogan for the win.
Laptops come along, desktops come along. Who's putting up a
fit that? Oh my god, Dixon Tykonder Rogan. They're not
gonna sell any more pencils and hens and blue books.
Last I check, they're still selling paper. They're selling line paper, okay.

(29:16):
And then laptops came wrong. Then desktops replaced them, and
then phones replaced all this stuff, and now we're using
voice activation instead of keyboards. We do adapt a lot
of the same companies continue to make these products, and
they'll be there. So I'm not ragging on anything. My
job is he yes, promote and utilize technology for the

(29:36):
good because I'm that nice, sweet eagle scout guy, So
I try to stay away from the bad things that
technology can bring. By the way, don't go to the
dark web. Don't don't surf some bad websites. There you go, kids,
anything else I can do for you. Michael's a name.
We're gonna come back, final segment of this first hour.
When we come back, I'm getting hungry. I will tell

(29:56):
you how about the new Tesla. This is not an
April Soul's joke, despite the fact that at the end of
the Julie coming up, I'm a high tech texting show,

(30:36):
not an AI voice you're listening to, at least not yet.
Don't laugh that the time may come, and it may
come very soon. This really is my sexy Gravelly potentially
Casey Caseon's sounding like voice Michael Garfield. This is the
high tech textan show we are. What is this last?
This last segment, this first hour, two hour radio show.

(30:56):
No matter how you're listening, Terrustrilly over the radio, it's
it's number one to radio. They Oh, by the way,
we put it on the podcast on iHeart Radio. But
shout out to Houston, shout out to Dallas, shout out
to San Antonio, and uh. I have been doing this
for twenty three years, which means I'd like to kind
of think I'm kind of know what I'm yapping about
when it comes to consumer products and tech and lifestyle.

(31:18):
Answering your questions which products, which cars, which bourbon, yeah,
which restaurants, where to travel? I'm kind of like the
jack of all trades, master of none that you could
just nickname me with that three four six two nine
text and three four six two nine eight three nine
two six callum read what's up? Callum? Will are there

(31:40):
behind the glass or potentially if they're still awake, you
guys still, Yeah, they may be answering the phones and
you can ask me questions about back to school or
where to take that last minute vacation. I can necessary
where to play golf? I got invited to play golf
at apparently the number one rate, number one rated golf

(32:02):
course in Texas. Any guesses where it's is, Guys, any
you know what the number one I took the I
need to google this, but I took the word from
the person who invited me. She's the membership director. But
the number one rated golf course in Texas Columbus Texas, Columbus, Texas,

(32:24):
between Houston and Austin. I ten Highway seventy one, which
I drive through once a month when I drive from
Houston Austin. A big easy ranch is at the name
of it I got, and it is private. I mean,
it is a private and I don't even know how
much it costs to be a membership over there. I
gotta do. I play golf in august I like golf.

(32:47):
I've golfed most all my adult life. I belong to
a country club on the southwest side of Houston. I
just I just in the summertime in h town. Man,
with the humidity, I really kind of like back off
of golfing. But I got this. I know first world problems.
I got this invite. I guess I could use it

(33:08):
when it gets cooler, but I don't want to lose it. Man,
she invited me, and I guess I don't know she
wants me to meet. You could stay the night over there,
and they have fishing and wildlife. I gotta do it.
I gotta do it anyway where am I going to.
It's just it's just hot out there for you. Uh,
you know the fun number. They apparently, oh they Oh,
by the way, here's this Okay. It took me what

(33:28):
three minutes exactly a segue into this thing. It's a
long walk, but I did it. Apparently they have a
private chef where you can eat. All right, Well, guess
who's a chef to some extent. And I didn't know
it until this past week when he opened a restaurant.
Would it surprise you if I say, Elon Musk opened

(33:51):
a restaurant, just one and when it surprised you if
it's called the Tesla Diner in dry people. I am
a content creator. I'm a storyteller. I could make things
up and you wouldn't know. I am not making this up.
The very first Tesla diner and drive in opened in Hollywood, La, California,

(34:21):
and there was lines of people waiting to get up.
You do not need a Tesla to go there. It
does help. And I'll tell you here in a sec
over and I'm looking at the menu. Well, I'll get
the domand well the hot dogs, hamburgers and shakes and
things like that. Anybody, I mean, listen, if you're not

(34:43):
a Tesla fan and you think Texla does not know
how to make cars. I mean, you're probably gonna think
that they're gonna jack up this burger and you're not
gonna're gonna get fod pisoning. I'm not saying that whatsoever.
The early reviews have been as decent. Obviously it's California.
Obviously it's Tesla. It ain't cheap. They have a Tesla
burger with electric sauce. You can get a side of

(35:08):
fries for four dollars, four biscuits and red gravy for
fifteen dollars. What is he doing? I mean opening a diner.
I mean the listen. He is the richest man in
the world. They could do any darn thing he wants.
But it's a retro inspired drive in diner. Oh, by

(35:28):
the way, you can charge your electric vehicle, not even
just Tesla's. You could charge other electric vehicles too. Thirteen
dollars for a hot dog, fifteen dollars for fried chicken
and waffles. You know what, fifteen bones for fried chicken

(35:49):
and waffles in La. That's not bad. I don't know
how big it is. So up at twenty four hours
they serve breakfast takas. You know what, I'll put up
breakfast tacos in Texas versus the breakfast tacos in California.
I mean, they could do have some tacos in Calvin
So cal nine bucks and an avocado toast for eleven dollars.

(36:11):
Don't laugh. Eleven dollars for avocado toast is a pretty
decent deal. You see. I don't know what he's trying
to do, but I'm looking at I'm reading that, I'm
watching these reviews over here. You drive up and it's
on a course. It used to be a Shaky's Pizza. Boy,
you got it. You gotta be kind of old baby
to remember a Shaky's pap I had birthday parties a
Shaky's Pizza, okay, when I was a kid.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
They have Wago beef chili. You can go inside, you
can sit in your vehicle. But when you roll up,
they have got two massive sixty six foot outdoor screens
led megascreens. So what it is. It's kind of like

(36:56):
a drive in movie and again, kids pull up a chair.
Uncle Garfie, he's got a story. You have no clue
to drive in movie is. But if you have a tesla,
it automatically starts. The sound starts streaming through the infotainment
center of a Tesla. Is this gonna make you buy

(37:17):
more tests? I don't know, but you know what, I
think this is brilliant and I'm gonna tell you why
for the last minute before we take our halfway to
happy hour break. Because it furthers the brand. There's really
no bad news about this. No one's got poisoning yet
for the first week he believe it or not, for

(37:37):
La and I go to Sokal my oldest son lives
out there. You know, I thirteen dollars for a hot dog,
fifteen dollars for fried chicken and waffles, kind of in line.
So it's not drum it's it's relatively decent news for
the brand Tesla, versus the real news of the Tesla
manufacturers that they're losing market share and they're gonna have
a tough row about it. They're not selling as many vehicles. Now,
this is really good for the brand and got me

(38:02):
to talk about Tesla an entire segment, which I rarely
do I talk about electric vehicles. I just don't have
the opportunity to test drive Tesla's out there, there you go,
Where's then I'm really surprised there's not one in Austin.
Elon loves himself some Texas. He lives in Austin area.

(38:22):
That's where Tesla's are made. I absolutely will go and
techna and check it out should they come to Austin. Actually,
next time I'm in La, I'll go. We'll give it
the play by the play. All right, our number one
officially over when we come back. Got a lot of
emails of my Fox TV segment in Austin. I'm on
Fox TV once a week. I do the technology stuff
and I was talking about it. New ways to watch television,

(38:46):
you know what, not new ways other ways to watch
television other than cable local TV. For my favorite four
letter word f r ee. And guess what the picture
quality blow is? Away quality you're getting on your trible
tod I will talk about that, answer your questions along
with some of the best leap trackers out there. Michael

(39:08):
is the name Michael Garfield. Welcome, I remember you coming
up of a high tech Textan.

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Shield is Michael Garfier, Michael Garfield, Michael Garfields joining in
the high tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a
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Garfield has something you might want.

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Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio ads Now your high tech texts in Michael Garfield.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Start of our number two of the two hour show,
which means we are half way Happy hour on the
High Tech text at Michael Carfield Show. Oh Hot Summer continuing,
had a fun first hour. Talked a little about artificial intelligence.
Some of the things that Google is doing would virtually

(40:28):
let you try on some clothes. Very nice to back
to school. Talked about some back to school products, gadgets
for all ages and types. And that's one of the
things that I know do yap about. And it's not
just technology. If you're just tuning in. Oh, the guy's
gonna tell me how to fix my computer. Now, I'm
actually not gonna tell you how to fix your computer,
because I don't know how to fix your computer, and

(40:48):
I don't care to fix your computer. I'm gonna tell
you which computer to buy. Which laptop is a good deal. Oh,
by the way, I saw a really good deal on
a laptop. It Asus. I am an Asus to make
really good computers laptops and UH one hundred and fifty
seven dollars at Walmart. It was really good. It's a

(41:12):
it's a Chromebook, so obviously doesn't have Microsoft Windows. But
it's a heck of a deal man. So you know,
things like that. If you have questions, I will try
to answer them for you. Should you get through the
phone lines and the phone number three four six twenty
nine Texan three four six two nine eight three nine

(41:34):
two six, mister Will, mister Callum Reid who put this
show together. They're over there. They may be snacking on
something or drinking something, but uh, just just do what
you want. Hopefully they're going to answer the phones of that.
Hey speak speaking of. You know, I review a lot
of things, and if you follow me on social media,
you kind of laugh and choco light get your comments

(41:55):
of like, man, what are you reviewing today? What car
are you driving this week? What type of cocktail are
you sampling this week? What? What watch are you using?
Which phone are you using with? What clothing brand? What
running shoes? I mean, that's I taught. I'm the consumer
guy for you. You know, I'm telling you and I'm
going to get some good deals. This past week, I
uh went to social media to to post a photo

(42:19):
a few photos of a product or two that I got,
and it was it was like five packages from Xavier
and if you know me, that's my ups guy who
were on first name basis because I get I get
some sort of delivery daily and I guess I requested this,
but I forgot. I all. I like testing ready to
drink cans. You've seen everything from white Claw to high

(42:45):
Noon to ranch watering cans. Those are called RTDs ready
to drink and some have alcohol, some don't. Last week
I got a brand called Better and it was a
non alcoholic mocktail and I got to tell you that
was the first mocktail in the can of your head.
It was phenomenal. Had some sugar in there, which I'd

(43:06):
really jump. I tried not to drink sugar, but whatever,
it was really good. Yes, you could put liquor in
there and mix it. So I got one, and I'm like,
my eyes kind of let up. I'm like, oh my god,
here's a dilemma. Let me tell you my dilemma. Maybe
you my listeners can help me out, because I know
my Facebook and my Instagram users have come out of
the woodwork. This is another reason why you need to
follow me on Instagram. As I approach fifty thousand followers,

(43:31):
I got a ready to drink can't a number of
cases of them from Cheech and Chong, and I could
probably stop right there and let your imagination take you
to where it's going. Yes, they are THHC infused drinks
and a ready to drink can If you know me,

(43:56):
I'm not a fan of drugs of any common other
than caffeine. Caffeine is a drug technically and legally, and
I love me some caffeine with my coke zero. I
have never smoked a cigarette in my life, much less
anything worse. I call me a nerd. Call people when

(44:17):
you ask me, jeez, Michael, how do you continue to
stay looking so young at your age? Well, it's probably
from the drugs I didn't do when I was a kid.
Neither here nor that. So I am not trying a
THHC drink. I need people to potentially help me review this,
and I can see the phone lines lighting up right now.

(44:38):
This could have been one of my most popular posts
on Facebook at Instagram this past year. When I I'm
sitting surrounded by cases of high tea. That's the brand
from Cheech and Chong High Tea. It's high T love
it love the play on words. But there is PC THHC,

(45:03):
which is the drug that is in marijuana or cannabis.
I'm not even going down there because I'm not even
sure and I've never been stone. I'm not starting that
trend right now, So I want to Apparently a lot
of people are are are are experts in THC infuse drinks.

(45:25):
I'm not. I'm not ragged. I'm not giving you upon
in my opinion because I am not reviewing this. This
is one of the few times I'm going to turn
to my viewers, my TV viewers, my followers on its
social media, my listeners on radio, if you happen to
see me, or maybe what I'm what I really should.
I have so many people wanting to try this stuff.

(45:49):
I may want to hold an event somewhere. Maybe I
should have a listening party and bring some ice cold
in the THC infused drinks. Now, apparently we were this
close in the Texas legislature about a month ago of
our Lieutenant governor killing or outlawing or banning I think

(46:12):
banning is the word THC or drinks like that. But
at the last minute, our governor he said no, no, no, no,
We're gonna think about it a little bit more. Whatever.
So as of right now as I do the show
at the end of July, these drinks are still being
sold and they're still legal, but that could change because

(46:32):
I think they're voting on it again. What I really
should do, I should hold on to these and if
they are deemed illegal and they are pulled off shelves,
I could actually put these in the black market and
make some money. I mean, I'm debating. I am debating
open phone lines right now. Thoughts on THC drinks three

(46:55):
four six twenty nine Texan. I don't really know a
lot of laws about marijuana or drugs. I don't think
they're legal in Texas. I think maybe from medicinal purpose.
I will tell you that when I go visit my
son and so Cal in California. Woo, I smell something.
You go to New York, you walk around the streets

(47:16):
from New York in Las Vegas. Oh my goodness, I
don't care how much cologne. I could doubt myself and
Ralph Lauren Polo or some of the obsession. Whoo man,
that stuff's gonna seep through. So I'm kind of against
that stuff. Maybe I'm a little conservative, maybe a little prude.
Maybe I'm just eagle scout boy. Whatever. Uh, that is

(47:38):
some of the things I'm I test.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Not.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
I mean, listen, alcohol is not saying it's great for you.
It's not good for you. I drink it in moderation.
I collect bourbon, high end bourbons. Have we just passed
National Tequila Day. I had a little of that stuff.
But they're legal. But then again, THHC drinks are legal too.

(48:05):
I don't know. I'm all over the place, so I'm
actually so far over the place. You know what I
should do. I actually should just pop what I actually
should just pop a top and just drink one before
the end of the show. That's to tease people. I
got about forty five more minutes stand by because of
Hero Pop Top. I may be drinking some of this stuff,

(48:26):
but odds aren't. Probably not. When we come back. Listen,
I teased it. I got a few more things to
yap about, but I do want for the end of
the show, I'm going to talk about digital antennas. Digital Antennas.
It is a way that you could watch over the
AIRTV in any city that you're listening to me right now. Absolutely,
the big cities of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and

(48:47):
Austin and everywhere else there are free dozens, dozens and
dozens of free over the AIRTV that it cost you nothing.
And the picture, the picture quality is so much better cable.
I will tell you how to do it. I did
a TV story on it in my Austin Fox station
last week, and so all you have about that and
home we come back for now to the end of

(49:07):
the shows. Michael garpup I tech text in time popped up.

(49:31):
See a few calls coming in right now. Michael is
the name? Ask me questions, Father's Day gifts. If you're
narrowing something down, I am here for you. I review
most everything in the consumer lifestyle people. I'll give you
my thoughts three four six, twenty nine textan If you
are using your cell phone, I hope you have a
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They have all you can eat unlimited service. Probably start
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(50:36):
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High Tech Text and Show on a Father's Day weekend.
Emails also coming in for people who are too shy
to call. I do get emails Michael at high Tech

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Texting dot com. And with that we will go to
the old email inbox.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
You've got mail that is right.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
This comes from Jared. Jared is in Plano, Texas, not
far from actually where I'm doing the show this weekend.
What is Ooh, Jared Garth enjoyed listen to your show.
I just found it a few months ago. Good information.
I love your personality and enthusiasm. I assume that you
do a lot of photo taking with your Android phone.
You always talk about do you use a photo editing app?
And which one would you recommend? Jared, thank you for

(51:25):
tuning in and finding the show. Tell your friends and
family they should also listen. I'm sure you listen on
talk radio eleven ninety here in the Dallas area. I
have no less than four or five photo editing apps
that I use on a pretty regular basis. I shoot
a lot of products that I review, and I shoot

(51:48):
a lot of videos. I use my phone actually to
what I do TV segments in Austin and Houston, and
I shoot a lot of those segments on my actual phone.
My phone now can provide a clarity and a quality
that a ten twenty thousand dollars TV camera now can provide.

(52:11):
And this one fits in your pocket too, but I
edit it. I got it videos, which that was not
your question. Edit photos inherently. Whatever phone you use there
is a built in photo editor. Some of them are
rudimentary that you're gonna do, the saturation, the color. You
can crop them, you can mirror room, flip them upside down,

(52:32):
and some of them will just the lights. Can you
lighten somebody's face? Some have features that you can make
people thinner, fatter and remove wrinkles or whatever. But the route.
There are hundreds of, not thousands of photo editing apps.
One I have used for a long time to color correct,
sometimes sharpen things up. That gives me a lot of leeway.

(52:57):
Maybe there's a photo where only a part of the
photo that I want lightened up, so now I can
kind of hit a dot or circle it and lighten
this and keep It's called snap Seed, totally free. Snap
Seed that's almost a go to one on a regular basis.
One that I just downloaded that I saw that was

(53:21):
just made available a few months ago for the iPhone
but only Android. Was just a few days ago. Adobe
just re re really released a photoshop app, Yes, real Photoshop.
They released a mobile version of Photoshop iPhone earlier this year.

(53:43):
The Android is finally here. If you're an Android user,
why don't you try it and download it right now?
It's in beta. But the best thing while it's in
the beta the testing period, it is totally free, totally
free to use, and it kind of does the same
thing that the desktop version of Adobe Photoshop and listen,
Photoshop is the catch Altar Photoshop was one of, if

(54:07):
not the first to market. Photoshop is not the easyest
image editor to use, because there's layers, there's masks, there's transformations,
there's things that I don't even know how to use.
But I tell you what, playing around with it for
an hour or so, it's kind of cool and there's
a lot that it does it for you because there's
some AI built in, some generative AI tools. Technically, this

(54:30):
is about the third attempt that Adobe has tried to
do with Photoshop on phones. I remember they had a
Photoshop Express, there was a Photoshop Touch or something many
many years ago. I'm kind of liking this. I haven't
done a lot of it, but I don't know what
they're going to charge for this, when they're going to
start charging for it, But if you want to try it.
Try the Photoshop for Android. It should work on most

(54:53):
newer Android phones. You have to have Android eleven or
higher and that takes you back four years or so,
which is certainly fine. You don't need a lot of
extra memory. But it kind of works. I mean, you know,
there was a photo of some people. I had you
touch the photo and it pulled the people out on
a white background. Now you can actually put a left

(55:14):
I can put a background of a beach. I could
put a background of the moon, and I could put
them on there. Normally you would need some be pretty
prolific in photo editing, which I'm actually not. This kind
of does it for you. So that's one or two.
Let me quickly look at my phone, so if I
could think of anything, those what other photo editing things
that I have? I like snapseed, I like that thing

(55:37):
I use Google Google Photos good. They have something called
the Magic Editor. I have that one. Yeah, those are
those are the two or three that I recommend if
anybody else has some that actually that you would recommend,
love to hear from you. Three four six twenty nine texting.
But that's one of the ones that I can recommend.
I got another one over if I got another phone.

(55:58):
A little phone tip for you. I hopefully every phone
has a case on it. Mind does, because the case
is going to allow you to help prevent dings, glass breaks,
and whatever. I'm an android guy. I have several androids
from several different manufacturers that I test on a regular basis. Okay,
do not have an iPhone. The latest iPhones have what's

(56:19):
called mag Safe. It's a magnetic circle in the back.
And if you've got a phone that's I don't know
what is at least three years or more or something
like that, it's maxim I really didn't understand because I
have an Android. I didn't ever really understand or get
into the mag Safe thing. It's a magnetic backing that
can do a number of different things. It could wirelessly,

(56:43):
you could set itself and wirelessly charge. You could take
little tiny portable batteries.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
You know.

Speaker 5 (56:49):
Some people have a wallet or something like a credit
card holder back there. They make magnetic credit card and
wallets to fit on your mag safe. They make little
tiny batteries, smaller batteries to give your of some wireless
charge if you're they have They have car holders, you know,
things that will clip onto your air conditioning thing and
then you could magnetically pop your phone on there. I

(57:11):
really only got into it about in last January. I
got one of the new Android phones I was testing.
Company sent me Androids by Nature. Legally, they don't have
mag safe built in. I think it's exclusive to Apple
at least, but under that name. But there are phone
cases that you could put on regular other phones that
have the round magnetic circle that will wirelessly charge. And

(57:33):
so I'm really kind of into mag Safe chargers. And
I bring this up is because a buddy of mine,
Doug Dougie, came over to my house earlier this week
and he walks in and he's he's he's a big
electric in double A. He's really big. He's an electrical engineer,
mechanical engineer. He's brilliant guy. He has a foldable phone,
little foldable phone, doesn't have a case on it. So

(57:56):
he walks in, he sits on my counter and he starts.
He got it on Amazon. I don't know what it was,
but it was a do it yourself mag Safe kit.
So for twenty one bucks, he told me he bought
the circular magnet that you can buy you can upgrade
your phone to make it mag safe ready, And I'm like, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug,

(58:17):
don't stick it on there yet. I've got like ten
of these things that companies have sent me. So let's
go shopping. So for his Father's Day President, I went
down in my garf goodie case in my closet and
I gave him one of these things and he put
it on there. So he's going to return the Amazon
thing for twenty one dollars. But he's using it too
on things. But I bring it up, he goes it's
a neat feature. It really really does. And you don't

(58:40):
now have to have an iPhone. You can have any
sort of phone and you can go get either a
case or you can just literally get the magnet itself.
One side of it sticks. It's a sticky substance that
sticks on your phone, and the outside of it is magnetic.
And now you can use the same things that Apple

(59:00):
uses for the things. And so again it's again could
be a good Father's Day present. Charges wirelessly charges always
have these things. Again, not giving you it. I'm not
here to give you one even brand of it. I'm
just letting you know some of the neat features that
are out there for you. All right, little another Father's
Day for you. When we come back, gonna speak with

(59:20):
a gentleman who knows everything about Search engine optimization. If
you have a website, if you want to gain traction,
if you don't have SEO already built into one of
your marketing campaigns, will tell you how simple it can be.
And also some of the companies, what type of companies
industries really are kicking it when it comes to SEO.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
That on the High Tech Texting Shot, I yes, summertime.

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It is here whether you like it or not, which
means you take me wherever you are at the pool.
On your iHeartRadio app. We continue the long running high
Tech text and Show. Michael Geifield is the name shout
out to not only Houston, which I've been doing this
for twenty three years, but also Big D my hometown
Dallas Talk Radio eleven ninety and also San Antonio. All
you san Antonians, San Antonio Whites. I don't know whatever

(01:00:27):
you are. You have good Mexican food down there on
WAI twelve hundred topics suggestions. A few people ask me
over the past month for some reason. Maybe it's that
time of year summer, some businesses are getting kind of slow.
They have time in their hands. Should they upgrade their
website or websites still relevant? Should I just be doing
social media? Websites are very relevant. Let me help you
out my website. I still think it's very relevant. Just

(01:00:49):
about a month and a half ago, some company found
me and I got another gig from it, and so
it always should be updated and out there, but also
should have SEO search engine optimization. It's been a while
since I talked a little SEO, which means it's been
a while since I talked to Steve Winter, who runs
astounds in Houston, who runs website. He also from Big

(01:01:09):
d My man, how's your summer been been outstanding?

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Had a lot of fun, just played a little golf
and bandon dunes up in Oregon. Had a great time.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
Let me check my spam email. I don't remember getting
that invitation.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Yeah, yeah, don't worry. It's a lot of fun. But
I say we average walking. I think twelve to fourteen
miles a day, and that's hard on an old man.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
I'll define old baby. You ain't that much older yet.
We got to keep in shape. But the fact, the
fact is you do have time for golf because you
your your company is crank and you have got a
team who just does so many things. I communicate with
them regularly because anytime I need something maybe at not
fixed but added, or like I just added a few
new radio stations to my rate to you know, Driva,

(01:01:54):
Absolutely exactly. So I emailed your staff and I'm like, oh,
Steve's not here, he's golfing, but we're more than happy
to take care. Yeah. So as towns. Obviously you do
create websites, you update websites, you get them into the
twenty first century. But a website is really not truly
working unless it is optimized for search engines. And let's
put it this way. When I get asked about this,

(01:02:16):
the first question I asked when people ask me about
SEO is I asked them what type of company they have?
What service are they in. I'm going to ask you this,
look at all your clients, deve fittest downs. What are
some of the better companies, services, jobs, organizations that work
well with SEO.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Yeah, I'm glad to ask that because you know, when
we go in with a client, what we say it
all the time, we really want to be their best salesperson, okay,
and their cheapest salesperson. They're the ROI. And certain businesses,
absolutely in what we're doing, are better for our services
than others. And you know, your service business is your hvac,

(01:02:54):
you're plumbing, you know, and even even service businesses you know,
your accountants and law and things like that, where you know,
a lot of them don't have salespeople. They're great engineers,
great technicians, great practitioners, but they don't have a sales force,
right and and their services are not inexpensive, okay, And

(01:03:15):
so leads and all. And an investment in a website
in SEO is huge, you know, we do it. You know.
Pest control is another big one for us. Those are
the companies that we really really see great returns on
and can truly make a difference. One of one of
my commercial HVAC clients is in my breakfast club and

(01:03:35):
he goes, I said, you know how any thing he's
going he goes, Man, he goes, you know, we they
we've impacted his business so much. He goes, but I
almost need to turn my website off right now. I
am just getting slammed, you know. But those are the
ones we love to hear from right and and those
are the results we're looking for. Are those companies that
we can really really make an impact, and we try
to be very honest. It's people that come to us,

(01:03:57):
you know, they're trying to launch, like a new clothing
brand or something that's almost more of a viral or
a luck or you've really got to get out there
and get you know, those folks out there that have
all the followings whatever to try to promote a brand,
because you're competing against Lululemon and you know, the Gap

(01:04:17):
and all these other different companies that have been out
there forever. Very hard to do. But local service businesses
serving in the community or whatever you're not. We can
do national brands. We've done some really cool national stuff too,
but you talk about the ones that are the quick,
easy returns, you know, are these service businesses that have

(01:04:38):
a certain geography with with within which they work and
going after those and just seeing some fabulous results.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
Deeve Winter joining me. He is with astounds A S
T O U N d Z dot com. For some reason,
you were interested in upgrading your website getting se O.
I certainly can vouch because I've worked with this company
for many years. It's funny you got an anecdotal story
about when when se works well, it certainly proves your point.
But when it doesn't work well, Steve, it also proves

(01:05:06):
a point. Let me tell you. So, I got a
friend of mine. She owns her own event company. So
she runs events, big weddings, corporate events and wedter and
she and things like that. She relies on her website.
She is seoed it out all right. Well, her website
was down for like a week and a half in
April or May. She noticed the lack of incoming calls

(01:05:30):
that she got from people asking for proposals solely because
her website was down. But her SEO nothing was hitting
right there. And so it just shows you how important,
how vital is the business is right now, whether it works,
whether it doesn't work, you got to have the thing running.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Yeah. And the other thing we ask our clients, I mean,
you know, we want them engaged with us. We like
some of our clients. We literally get sales reports from them,
and we know what is you know, when when things
are up and down or whatever, we're looking at it.
Surprisingly enough, I had one of my clients I had
been trying to get together with them forever. They in

(01:06:08):
the asphalt business and they were rebuilding up. They had
moved their warehouses and other things and just wouldn't really
get with us. And I'm sitting there talking to him,
and they said, well, we may go to another web company.
We haven't really been getting many leads. And I'm going,
I'm scratching my head, and I go and I send
them a list of all the leads we had been getting. Well,
they had made some changes on security on their email

(01:06:31):
or whatever else, and all of our leads were going
to spam. They realized they had missed probably two million
dollars in leads that we had generated, and you know,
just because we didn't have regular meetings, and I had
tried to meet with them and they were too busy.
And yet, I mean, you talk about wasted money and all.

(01:06:51):
That was crazy. And it broke my heart to hear this,
you know, and here they've lost two million dollars in
business that we had in generating in the background that
they didn't know about.

Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
It's great, it's crazy stories like this, I'll ask, you know. Actually,
I just got to hold them. They've got an email
over here, SEO is the subject coming in. This is
from James. James is in Parentland. He wants to know
how difficult is it to set up and start the
whole SEO process, Which is a very good question because
I bet a lot of people think, oh my gosh,
this is going to take further today.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
Yeah, it's not hard at all. You know, we have
a very simple questionnaire that we send that asks them.
You know, as I say all the times, if it
takes more than twenty minutes or a glass of wine,
you spent too much time on it. But it asks
just basics on you know, where they're wanting to show up,
what their geography is, where their service areas, what do
they think their keywords are, who do they think their

(01:07:44):
competitors are. And then we go do all the analysis
and look at it and come back with the solution.
And you know, truthfully, with AI these days and everything else,
we used to have our clients we would want them
to help us or whatever, or write a lot of
their marketing content and stuff like that. Today we write
most of the content and do ninety eight percent of

(01:08:06):
the work and so you know, it just takes a
little bit of time, and you know, review as much
as they want to. Some of our clients review it
very detailed. Others don't pay any attention to it at all.
They look at us as the experts and we go
and do everything this needed simple.

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
Is that all right? People want to get up contact
with you obviously at stounds with a z dot com
phone number anything.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Uh yeah, I mean it's all there on astounds dot com.
My cell number two eight one eight eight twenty twenty.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
His name is Steve Winner astounds dot com. It is
all SEO all the time. A man stay cool out there,
hit hit him straight and long, and I appreciate your time.
Hook them Hornsok, I like this guy. Hook them horns.
Count down eighty one days they'll kick off people. All right,
Michael Garfield, I got to get back an air conditioning
a cocktail time here on the High Tech Texting Show.
Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
We made a final segment of this week's High Tech
Texan Show. Did you have fun? First time you listen?
Did I entertain you? Are you laying out by the
pool sipping a THHC and infuse drink. That's a callback
to the first segment of this hour. I got sent
cases because I test and love drinking, giving my thoughts

(01:09:31):
on just about anything, but certainly ready to drink cans
THHC infused drinks. Somebody sent me cases of the whole thing.
I don't cake, or drink or smoke anything like that.
My buddies now are coming out of the woodwork. Hey man,
Gorf Medal, don't take it over. I'll give you my review.
I bet you will. I absolutely bet you. I bet
you will. So no, I actually tease the fact that

(01:09:55):
maybe I'll open one between now and the end of
the show. I'm gonna go ahead and forego that, so
I will keep these maybe in the next week or
two or three. Maybe you know they're good for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
Football season's coming up. I'm trying to put together some
deals where I have a University of Texas football watching
parties on a Saturday. Obviously, when I do my radio show,
maybe I'll bring some THC in fuse drinks and we'll
just do that. So standby. It's one of the things
here for you. I'm not gonna give out the phone
number because we are almost out of here. I did
want to follow up this because I've been talking about

(01:10:26):
this thing. Football season is coming up. Do you how
much do you pay to watch TV? If you've long
been a cable subscriber, it is not cheap. I currently
pay three hundred and twenty or three hundred and thirty sum.
I'd absolutely wasted dollars Exfinity just I have no clue
what they're doing. It's horrible. It is about time to

(01:10:48):
cut the cord. And I realize there are many other
ways to watch TV. You probably know some, but you
probably don't know somewhere you forgot some if you are
of a certain a again over forty five fifty years old.
Back before cable, there were these things called antennas where

(01:11:09):
you had to have these things installed on your roof
and they were two three four feet tall high, and
if there was a high wind, God forbid a hurricane
or tornado, they would blow off the roof. They would
pick up over the air signals that the local TV stations,
the local ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and this is even
before Fox was a network. You would pull down these

(01:11:32):
channels and they were on VHF and UHF and you
would go up and there wasn't a remote control. You
would turn it and there was black and white but
then there became color, but it was free. You had
to buy the andenna, but it was free over the air.
Then comes cable and then cable networks, everything from CNN, ESPN,

(01:11:54):
I mean, Discovery and then everything. Then there was streaming services.
Then there was HBO. Then there was Internet. Now you
could stream air money on top of money, on top
of money. Well guess what the Yeah, FCC has mandated
that even though all television went digital about what fifteen
years ago, all local over the year TV stations still

(01:12:17):
have to broadcast and over the air free signal. It's
digital now, it's not analog like you used to be.
So if you are in Dallas and you love watching
ABC channel eight, WFAA, KDFW, you got your NBC, KXASTD
five things like that. Yes, you could pay for it,

(01:12:40):
but if you have a digital antenna somewhere inside or
outside of your home, you could pull down that signal
for absolutely free. And just in time for football season.
It used to be every single NFL game was broadcast
on over the air channels. Now you're gonna get maybe,

(01:13:00):
well you're gonna get maybe sixty seventy percent of them.
Sunday Night football on NBC Sunday afternoon football on Fox
and CBS, and maybe later in the year. You're gonna
get a Saturday in December. But you're gonna get a
lot on ESPN. You're gonna get a lot on Netflix. Now,
you're gonna get a lot on on Prime Video. That's

(01:13:22):
the way it is. But if you want to save
money and you don't really care about cable channels and
you just want to watch your local news and local
over the air for the prime time from seven o'clock
to ten o'clock Central time, go by yourself a digital
TV antenna. You can get these at big box stores.
You can get them online. And I did this story.

(01:13:42):
I showed off a number of them every Monday morning
if you're in Austin. I am the technology contributor to
Fox seven in Austin, and last Monday I was on
and I talked about and I showed off some digital
TV antennas. Some are kind of small, some are a
little bigger. They're not the size of those big aerial
analog antennas that we used to see in the nineteen

(01:14:04):
seventies and nineteen eighties. A lot of these are indoor
antennas where they're very flat, so flat, they lay flat
against a wall. Maybe they're one foot squares or maybe
a rectangle, but they're flat, and sometimes they're colored like
white to match your walls. I do recommend you put
them relatively near a window so it picks up the

(01:14:25):
TV signal that wherever your house, apartment, office is located.
It's kind of you doesn't have to be the line
of sight, but it's picking up a signal. TV signals
in a municipality local generally goes sixty seventy eighty miles away.
So if you're in Houston, yes, you're gonna get the signal.

(01:14:46):
In Galveston, you're gonna get the signal in the Woodlands.
You start getting out of that range, then you have
to pick up some other loosey goosey stuff. The point
is it's free, and then you're thinking, okay, well I
can settle watching you know, local news and everything like that.
What's the TV picture look like? People? Let me tell
you the picture is better than cable quite simply because

(01:15:12):
over the air signals are not compressed digitally. I want
you to imagine that one cable coming into your home,
you're getting two hundred three hundred channels. How do they
do that? Well, they've got to compress that picture. They've
got to compress that signal over the air. They got
nothing but airwaves. Baby. I watched the Super Bowl in

(01:15:34):
Fox this past February on the outside. I have a
TV on the outside in my backyard digital antenna. I
was watching local over the air Fox inside about four
feet in my office in my home add cable watching
Fox Cable channel number one over the air. It was

(01:15:54):
like six seconds to twenty seconds faster, truly live my
cable Exfinity. I'm looking at you my cable in sports.
It's delayed thirty seconds at least from real time. So
number one, I'm getting real time, almost real time. Number two,
the signal was unbelievable. I mean you could see blades

(01:16:15):
of grass, you could see just everything. It's a better signal.
I just saved you three hundred dollars a month. What
else can I do for you other than give you
some t hcmpus for and some kidding about that. That
ends the show. I hope I gave you seacaps. I
hope you're having a good summer.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
Hang on.

Speaker 5 (01:16:33):
This week, we have an NFL game. It's an exhibition
Hall of Fame game.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
But we leaves.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
We're getting closer to fall, maybe ranching towards cooler weather.
Keep hydrated, keep the nice people, Hug your loved ones.
Tough week with losses of celebrities. Intact, my name is
Michael Garfield. It's at the High Tech Text and Show
For everybody who's been part of the show, Thank you
so much for tuning in right now this week my
show is over

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
The TURC take yeah,