What's New Samsung?; EV Review; First Half Of The Year Tech Review

• Inside info: what to expect this week from Samsung's product announcements

• Test drive review: Nissan Ariya electric vehicle

• First half of year tech recap: Threads, Netflix, ChatGPT, AI

Episode Transcript

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Hi tex is Michael Garfield. MichaelGarfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high Tech
Texan. Michael Garfield is here witha high tech texting items to make life
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Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with
your gadgets. Heard worldwide on theiHeartRadio. Act Now your high tech Texan,
Michael Garfield. Despite the writers andactors strike, this show must go

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on. So in accordance with thefact that I am not a card carrying
number of SAG or AFTRA, Ihave written and I will act up for
the next two hours right here onthe Eye Tech text and show. That's
exactly right. I hope all iswell. Halfway through, well over halfway
through the happy hour year that we'rein. I don't know, is this

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is this a happy year? Asfew years have just not been just exuberants
or happy, at least for me. I don't know. We've got the
weather situation, it's just so danghot, at least where I am based
here in Houston. We've got dareI say the recession word mortgage rates to
jobs and Netflix continues to raise theirprices. I mean, listen, I
go on and on and on.I'm not cavetching, and feel free to

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google that. And this is I'mnot cavetching. Everything's for cockta in this
world. Just bear with me becauseI'm the good news guy. I stay
away from politics pretty much. Ijust give you the consumer lifestyle information and
fun interesting stories that I think youwould like in the dog days of nasty
summer. Michael, as my nameis, you heard from the big booming

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voice opening Garfield is the last namebeen though this for over two decades.
Things continue to evolve in change inthe world right now, and I'm just
here to get you through that change. I'm gonna give you the number this.
This is the one thing that hasn'tchanged in two plus decades. I've
been doing this, the phone numberto get into the studio seven one three
two one two five nine five.Oh. We say this because it's a

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radio call in the show here onour Posiblay Live Saturday late morning show.
Should you be listening on KPRC ninefifty am, if you're listening on podcasts,
well, you feel free to callthe number. Not on op anybody's
going to answer, but you canlisten to this on podcast. Podcast was
not around twenty years plus ago whenI launched this radio program. Podcast is

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something that we take the show.We put it on iHeartRadio, so you
can download it for free Spotify,Google, wherever award winning radio programs or
podcasts or heard. You can typein Google Michael Garfield high Tech text and
and you can hear whatever we're you'reyapping about. I try to keep things
up to date with what is goingon. As you know, we are
continued in the midst of a SAGafter a writers and hack or strike man

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and I do not know when thatis ends. I follow this because I
also, you know, cover thebecause streaming industry, certainly the TV,
the film industry, the radio industry. It's it's just something that I've always
been involved in. Is something Ilike the business side of it. CBSNBC
have already altered their fall programming,which is they're going to have to do

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listen. I without a doubt Ido right and I have acted and I
certainly act up quite regularly. I'venot been a member of SAG or AFTRA,
despite the fact that I have beenon some some very famous television shows
and things like that, but Inever did it regularly. Plus, Texas
is a non union state, andso uh my brothers and sisters who do

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right and do act who do belongto SAG and after I feel for you.
The big issue, the sticking pointis AI or even chat GPT.
It's just artificial intelligence is certainly changingso many factions and factors of the way
they we work. Artificial intelligence nowmake take the place of real actors with
their faces and their voices, allabbision impossible in chat GPT. I mean,

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scripts can be written from different youknow, from from from these bots,
from technology that can then be saucedup by writers. You know,
maybe you don't need producers and directorsin Hollywood don't value the writers that That's
what this stick up is and that'swhy it's so different than other clashes and
strikes. Over the past few years, technology has caught up to the game,

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and you know, they need tothink about what has happened in the
future. So that's really kind ofthe breakdown. But well, we could
talk about that if you want to, but I kind of wanted to pare
down where we are here in July, halfway through this year, and whether
you had a great year, goodfor you, you know, a crappy
year, which a lot of peoplecontinue to have. I do wish you
well, but there are things tokind of look back, and you know,

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I take notes and I look overmy kind of show notes over you
know, week to week, monthto month, and I kind of wanted
to go back what's been happening nowthat we have less than six months between
the end of this year, AndI'll start with the AI, the rise
of artificial intelligence. I think theuse of artificial intelligence through the tools like
chat, GPT, it was,without a doubt, it's probably the biggest
tech story of this year so far, and it's starting to upend how we

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search online. I mean, AIhas infiltrated our health, education, travel.
A lot of people worried that arewe gonna lose our job? So
yeah, it's kind of a bigdeal. And anecdotally, I think people,
maybe Americans, they fear that AIit's gonna make society's ills, the

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issues we have even worse, andtech companies we want to do something about
it. Just where does it go? I don't know. I was on
a podcast very nice to have theother folks at the PR Boutique's publiclations firm.
They had me as a guest intheir podcast just earlier this week,
and we were talking about the biggestissue when it comes to public relations,

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and you know, is chat GPTgoing to make PR people their jobs?
It's kind of irrelevant. Well maybemaybe a chat GPT can can you know
type of press relations? Yes andno? And I'm old school, Yes,
I'm OG, I'm MG the og. I'm the old guard going.
You know, what it is aboutlife is about relationships and businesses about relationships.

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The reason from the PR standpoint.Now again, I'll go back to
the podcast. That I really adorethe public relations industry is they pitch me
stories about Hey, here's a newrestaurant, there's a new product, there's
a new car, here's a newtravel opportunity. Here's something. They give
me ideas for content. It makesmy job easier, and then I review
it and then I real human being. I do not use chat GPT,

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I don't use AI. I do, but the one on one, the
relationships I have with the people inthese PR firms, I know that's a
real person. The other end Ihave that working relationship with these people and
I can trust them. So thisis what it goes back to networking and
marketing and whatever. I tell mykids this, and my kids obviously,

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and I have three boys, allgraduated from college. They're all in they're
doing well in the business world.And the one thing I tell the Matt,
you gotta get out their network.Know these people. No, you
don't know who's going to beep atyour potential boss, your potential customer,
your potential employee, or your potentialbusiness partner. And that's what networking is
about. And that's one thing Idon't think, well, I don't know

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if AI or chat GPT is figuredout how to network out. But that
is some of the things that aregoing on. Other big story, real
quickly before we get to the breakof twenty twenty three, the possible day,
possible fall of Twitter at listen whenElon must bought took over Twitter last
year, so many things have changed. They laid off so many staff people.
They they they the content moderation andthey're they're they're pushing users to describe

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to Twitter blue so you can getthe blue check mark in whatever. They
just hired a new CEO with Twitteris rain on the you know, the
quick social media tap tap tap inyour keyboard and putting things out there.
It's not getting in the easier,certainly with the arrival of Threads, which
was launched less than a month ago, big Twitter competitor from Facebook's parent company,

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it drew one hundred million users inless than a week. What's Twitter
gonna look like by the end ofthis year, I'm not sure. I
wish I could tell you. Sothose are the few of the questions when
we come back. I'm gonna takea break right now, but we could
be. Here's another thing Netflix,it could it was the end of an
era at Netflix. A Netflix justcame out with report. I'm gonna got
some really interesting good news for Netflix, but could be the end of an

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error for Netflix and a lot ofthese streamers too. So that's what I'm
here for. If you want totalk, if you want to tweet,
if you want a thread, Mayhigh Tech dex An h h t E
c ht e x A, andMichael Crapel is my name. Hope you're
inside or buy a pool state tuned. We're gonna be right back, not

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yet lunch time, unless you eatan early lunch on Saturday. Should you
be listening live on kp or Cnine fifty am. How are you just
like that voice said, it's Michael'smy name. We're talking fun consumer lifestyles.
Might here to I'm here to guideyou through what to do, how
to stay cool, how to staycool get out of thee hundred and three
degree weather here in the Houston areawhere I am based in, get your

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butt in the pool, or geton a plane and get out of town.
But there's there's very few places inthe United States now that are that
are cool. Yeah, I'll tellyou what right now. I was in
southern California earlier this month on thebeach. That was cool, but I
don't even need But then he gonnago about an hour end too. Was

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it a Palm Springs Palm desert?Did they had? They were? They
reached the third highest recorded temperature inthe history of planet Earth. What was
it one hundred and fourteen hundred andsixteen degrees or something. I don't get
my facts straight, but that Ithought that was interesting. So, wherever
you are, stay cool. Wegot some fun tips for you. I'll

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give you the number if you wantto say hi. If you're traveling,
you got questions for me. Travel. Travel is big people. We still
got a month plus of suburb beingto travel is uh. I'm not saying
it's a nightmare. A lot ofpeople are traveling. COVID. Apparently COVID
is not over. One of mygood friends actually got back from Paris last
week and he caught COVID on theplane back. And you know, you

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don't want to make fun of It'slike, man, I thought COVID is
over, and he's like, no, it's not over. So wherever you
are traveling, stay safe. Butlisten, there's travel. I think I
have a story about travel apps tomake things easier a traveling to the levels
of travel have gotten certainly pre pandemicagain. And it ain't cheap to travel
too. So if you're listening meto me outside of Houston in another time

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zone, thank you. This iswhat you should be doing. Absolutely after
twenty two years, you found me. I was talking about the second half
of the first half of this year. The first half of this year.
It's visually over. Things have,without a doubt changed. A lot of
the things that have changed are let'ssee the fact that AI is taking over

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the world, the rise of AIchat GPT. Undoubtedly that was the biggest
tech story of twenty twenty three.Twitter now may have its biggest competitor or
foe. Is Twitter going to dieby the end of the year. I
don't think so. But Threads isout there. I will talk about the
Actually, you know what, isthis a good time to talk about the
last week or two I've been talkingabout Threads. This is Facebook's parent company,

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come Meta, and just quietly theylaunched this July fifth, and within
a week they had one hundred millionusers. It's the apps, it's it's
really Instagram without the pictures, becauseInstagram is obviously owned by Meta, which
Facebook, and the same thing thatI'm not surprised at this news. This
wasn't click bait for me when Isaw the headline, the fact that Threads

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the app, it's losing the amountof people already who log in on a
daily basis. So it's been releasedtwo weeks, yeah, almost two weeks
into two two and a half weeksright now. The according to data analytics
company it's called similar Web. I'mquoting them, the total number of people

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going to Threads in a daily basis, which Threads is like a Twitter app.
It dropped from forty nine million peopleduring one week to twenty three million
near the start of this week.The time spent in the apps is going
down. Also, it's listen.It's no surprise. Do you know why,

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Because you, my dear audience,you're fickle, the fickle finger of
fate. Audiences are fickle. Hey, we're all in baby when it's the
latest and it's greatest and it's theshiniest new thing in the world. That
this was the so called Twitter killer, I went on. I recorded a
number of different interviews with a fewdays after it was launched. This could
be the tw This actually could bethe Twitter killer. But people, baby

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dolls, we have very infamous shortattention spans. Fact that you're hanging in
with me here for two weeks,much less twenty two plus years, I
appreciate that. What do we doI mean is are we gonna go back
to Twitter? Listen? New Threatapp downloads past the one hundred and fifty
million mark less than two weeks.It's which is, it's still far beyond

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its initial praise. But what's theissues. Well, I'm gonna give you
the issues. For starters, it'sonly been two weeks. Would you give
this thing a minute to settle in? People, Threads is light years of
head of where Twitter was in itsearly days. The good parts of it
of Threads which I like. It'sclean, it's it's it's relatively ad free.

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The post of comments seem to remainpositive, at least the people that
I follow on feed. There's not. It's it's kind of a breath of
fresh air. I like you thatdon't you. We're positive people. They
do need to make some move,some some bold moves. They gotta monetize
it. Without a doubt. Threadslaunched his bare bones without a doubt.

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It's working. It's working. Twittershitzing are they doing losing people too?
How is it doing versus thwitter?Threads is doing better than twitter on in
several fronts. No matter what ElonMusk tweets about it. They think people
at Twitter, including Elon Musky,they were very snarchy with comments when Threads

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the competitor, came out, butit could have been knee jerk. Twitter
limit limited the number of tweets youcan see you today. A lot of
backlash. That's why Threads continues togo and go and go. So there's
my little Threads. Let me giveyou one more thing about Threads as we

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continue to kind of recap the firsthalf of this year. Even though Threads
launched the second half of this year, saw this article. I'm I'm gonna
quote the USA today. I'm gonnagive them some credit over. Thread knows
a lot about you because all appsand all data, everybody knows everybody about
everything on the Internet. The onlyway to You can't even get away from
her. My grandmother passed away lastyear to one hundred and five. A

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lot of my listeners know this.Never saw the internet, never was on
the internet. She's on the internet. Everybody who's anybody has the Internet.
Okay, your name is data,government, whatever it is. But more
and more of these things, youknow, no one bothers to read the
end user license agreement. Oh,let me let me just check this one.
If you don't check the box,you ain't gonna download the app.

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But if you don't download the app, don't use it, and your phone
becomes a brick. Threads, Threads, listen, there's a lot of mother
And I'm not ragging on Threads,but I saw this. Threads collects a
lot of information because social media platformsthey monetize the user data by cut because
they sell advertising based on your locationand your activity. Threads ask for financial

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information, health in this diagnostics verysensitive info, probably even more than other
other apps. I will tell youthat. Now. It's interesting between Android
and iPhone Apple iPhones have less datacontrol than androids when it comes to Threads
information. Android users can toggle offsome of the data request from the app,

(16:26):
while the Apple version is kind oflike you better take it? Are
you better leave it? Is threadsdata? Somebody asked me, Michael,
is Thread's data collection worse than twitters? Threads collects what you're posting about and
liking where you are, whether youbought something through a third party site,

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maybe a different app, maybe agame that you logged onto using your facebag,
Facebook or Instagram account. Threads cancollect and save this information, and
the data can also be shared thirdparty services that connect your Threads profile Reds,
which is owned by Facebook. Andwe've been on Facebook for a long
time. People they know a lotabout it. Is it safe, though?

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Is anything safe? Threads is inone hundred plus country right now.
But it's not a surprise. Itisn't available in the europe Union yet because
Meta Facebook's apparently they were they hadthey had. There's little big lossuit going
on with EU regulators. I thinkMeta had to pay four hundred million dollars
by EU regulators forcing users to accepttarget of ads. Listen, I like

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it. It's fun. Am Iusing a lot? No? I probably
should because there's nothing else going onin summer. It's hot at you know,
white out there. But be carefulbefore you download some things some of
the things that happened. Also,I'm gonna take a break to the bottom
of the hour right now. Iwill tell you why threads took off so
suddenly. But also, if there'snothing else to do, and if you're
not a baseball fan, they're thewomen's soccer you do Women's World Cups going

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on right now. If there's nothingto do, you are probably streaming.
Anybody, go to any good stream? What do I watch right now?
That's like to been the hottest questionfor so many years. Right now,
Hey, what's the latest thing Icould stream? We'll tell you why Netflix
just came out from some information goodnews for Netflix, maybe bad news for
Netflix Prime Video and a lot ofthese other things. I will talk about
that and anything else do you wantto seven one three, two one two

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five nine five. Oh, We'regon be right back. It's called The
High Tech Texting Show. I amMichael Garfield. First hour of the show.
This is at the bottom of thehour, which means the start of
the third segment. You know,if you listen to podcast, nobody knows
the time it is. It isMichael Garfield. We called this the High

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Tech text and show Man. Itis all consumer fun, food, drain,
travel, cars, trucks, techdevices, whatever you wanted to well,
almost whatever you want to talk about. Let's stay away from the politics
because that's what's kept me young forthe past two plus decades that I've been
doing this on this radio show.Phone number here, Callum. How about
it. I haven't said to CalumReid. He's the guy who on the
other side of the glass who runsthis radio show. You're pushing the buttons.

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He is at He'll pick up thephone. Maybe call him you feel
like picking up the phone today.Tell you what. We're gonna play a
game I am going to give.I'll make the phones' ring right now,
Colum, because I want to wakeyou up. All right, how about
we give something away because this iswhat we do on radio. Deal,
all right. So I was hangingout at a relatively new tex Mex restaurant
kind of on the southwest side inMissouri City, which is near Sugar Lamb.

(19:29):
It's called Johnny Tamales. Johnny Tamali'sMissouri City opened up March. I
think had a I was sipping aJohnny up margharita some of my boys over
there and just got to meet inthe general manager. Oh Garth, I
listened to your show. How Iwould you like to give away some gift
cards? Folks? Who wants afifty dollar gift card to Johnny Tamali's Tex

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Mex Cantina in Missouri's City? Readyto drink? All right? Call um
tell you what ninth caller seven onethree two one two five nine to five
h two one two five nine fivezero ninth color somebody's getting fifty bones.
Feel free to go over there.It is on Murphy Road, not far

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from Highway Sex twenty seven twenty FMten ninety two. It's Murphy Road.
And they got some dang good Mexicanfood. I know Russell Jonathan. They
they helped run the kitchen I hadsome seafood Enchilatta's our seafood in chilatties Is.
My grandmother used to call him shrimp, crawfish, mushrooms, creamy white

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wine sauce at soapapas. I didnot have a soapopeia. I did not
have So when I start running more, when he gets colored like love their
fahita bowls, good combination plates,favacada, walk in free ice stream to
free ice cream people? Can youcan you believe we beat free ice cream
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as in Missouri City. Did wehave a winner yet? All right,
Collin's working out by now. Stopcalling about the winning gift card for fifteen
bucks. I got a few ofthose, and so maybe we'll do another
one later today. See that's calledthe tease people. See if all of
us fails, I guess I couldbecome a teacher or professor. What you
means I'll get stuck on Gilligan's Island. I can teach you how to do

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radio. It's called the teas upnext after the break? All right,
so we do have a winner forthe f if you dewll or Johnny Tomali's
text marks Cantinas. It's good food. And by the way, it's almost
lunchtime, so maybe when I'm donehere, I may roll over there.
Uh where were we? Oh?Yeah, we were continuing. Oh I'm
gonna I'm gonna pay it off overhere. Netflix Netflix, Netflix just reported

(21:49):
a very big second quarter there.I saw their numbers came out. You
know, I talk about streaming too, because people are cutting the cord and
whatever. They added almost six millionnew paid subscribers and that beat Wall Streets
expectations six million. That's the benchmarkcompany when it comes to subscription streaming video
without a doubt. Revenue eight pointtwo billion, income one point five billion,

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it has two. Netflix has twohundred and thirty eight million global paid
memberships. That's a lot. Howmany does Costco have? Could someone check
that? Amazon? Netflix two hundredand thirty eight million global paid memberships.
And one of the reasons why,it's because they cracked down on passwords sharing

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earlier this year. And I toldyou this was coming a long time ago.
This was the first report and Iwas very anxious as the first report
that came out since the company beganits password sharing cracked down here the United
States. It's password sharing. We'regonna call it kaye to sharing because it
encourages password shares to pay to addanother abscriber or suck it up them by

(22:57):
their own subscription. And the strategyappeared to paid off more and more people.
That's why they added so many subscribers. So if you were watching your
ex spouse's account or or you know, you use your name again, it's
gone. Because if you do notlive in the same household, you allegedly
you can't watch anything right now,that's why it went up. Oh,

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by the way, that was thegood news. I guess for them,
it's nice for Netflix to sneak inthe fact that Netflix continues to push its
advertise the supported plan. Earlier thisweek they acted its cheapest ad free plan,
the Basic Plan. So now fifteendollars fifteen and a half bucks for

(23:40):
a standard add free plan. Solisten, things are getting more expensive.
I'm not going to go over whichis the bait. Listen if you guys
want to debate because you have nothingto do and call me at seven one
three, two one two five ninefive. O Oh, this dreaming is
the great You gotta watch this.You gotta watch the series on Prime or
here's something on Roku. Hey feelfree, It's good. I'm here to
talk to you. But Netflix continuesto be the leader. And so are

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you a new user because your youryour account was shut down because you're not
the original household of the actual owner. Well it sucks for you. Better
whip out your wallet and start youstart paying up. I got an email
over here if you want to emailme. I am at the Michael at
high Tech Texan. Uh, somebody, somebody, Michael love your show.

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You apparently seem to know about marketing. Why did Threads take off so suddenly?
Why did Threads take off so suddenly? It's a combination of things.
I think it's it's I think itis a it's a big combination of things.
Why it took off? Um,and there's some lessons to be learned

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too, I mean it was Threadswas born in a perfect storm. Threads
again, this is the Twitter competitor. And you think I'm promoting it,
they're paying me. I'm so not. Threads came into in existence at a
very critical time that was marked byso many changes on Twitter and what Elon
Musk is is trying to lead thecompany to Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook met up

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Read's Instagram guy. His decision tolaunch Threads quickly, even without ironing out
potential bugs or waiting for a morestreamline and sign up process. Screw it.
It was July fifth, I remember, it was the death of July
fourth. No one announced it.It was like, oh my god,
look how cool this is. Weknew it was coming, but it just
popped up and the factors collectively createda perfect storm that catapulted Threads to it.

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It was an explosive start, seventyfive million users in four days.
It's now it's crossed one hundred andfifty million mark. It was inclusive access
too. There are other competitors ofthe blues guy. There's a number of
other Twitter competitors, if you will. Threads extended its platform to everybody.
They eliminated this only approach. Ihate that too. Hey man, I'm

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in, I'm behind the rope,I'm the sudden the rope man. You
need an invitation. They just said, screwing, We're gonna open it.
Everybody download it on an Apple,downloaded onto Android. And this move was
welcomed by so many users. Itallowed Threads to quickly surpass competitors that that
it imitated that you clubhouse, therewas another one to do, We're so
exclusive, screw that staff man.I think the positivity also helped to grow.

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And there's so much negativity often associatedwith Twitter and even Facebook too.
I think Threads so far they've infuseda refreshing positivity into the social media communication.
I think that also helps also.I think I know the big one
too, is because there's a veryseamless transition from Instagram. Threads has a
very user friendly strategy that lets Instagramusers inherit their follower base. It eased

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the user transition. It's a verysmart strategic move. It's gave Threads an
edge and quickly establishing an active andengage user base. There's uh the early
adopter Instagram, Twitter, TikTok.They've matured, they've been around for a
while. Threats gave people a freshchance to be early adopters. I'm one
of the first ones. Why Idon a little with the first day,
the first week, and leverage,leverage the growth. Tell you this,

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don't never count Elon musk Out.One of my old bosses here at our
old program directors. He was talkingabout Howard Stern. Howard Stern, you
know, the kingle media and radioguy. Now he's on Serious XM.
He used to have a thrust Orradio show and it never was really big
in Houston. Obviously is New Yorkbased and in the other way. But
you used to never get one ofour competitors. Here at KPRC years ago,

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fifteen plus years ago, smallest atsmallest, very small AM station,
they started carrying Howard Stern and hewas a daily and this is maybe when
I had a daily radio show moneythrough Friday and Saturday here on this on
this radio program. And you know, he can called big meeting. It's
like, I know it's a it'sa low powered station. But he said,
never underestimate, don't ever count outHoward start. And we you know,

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we took that seriously. Don't everlook over her shoulder to take anything
anybody, any competitor, for granted. I think I think that that show
lasted maybe six months on air hereand used it before that local Euston radio
station took it off the air.But we don't take anything for granted.
I'll say it again and I'll usethe analogy don't ever count Elon Muskow.

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Threads had an unbelievable start. Youcan't ignore the strategic dare I say,
brilliance of Elon musk He made adecision to financially reward content creators on Twitter,
which is going to generate good impressions. That's a smart counter move that
could curb Thread's momentum. He hireda president. There's a new CEO.

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She's doing to my well, Ibelieve so is this a blipping the raider?
I don't know. We're at We'rein an interesting age. We're in
a hot summer, we're in arecession, we're in a we're board,
We're in a nothing else is goingon. I don't know. That's why.
Maybe another perfect storm for these things. But if you've used the reads,
if you use Twitter, be careful. TikTok. I'll come back.

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I'll tell you a little funny TikTokstory coming back. But it's not for
me. I think I'm not I'ma late adopter and I'm a not not
adopter on on TikTok. And there's'salways so much for social media. I
can do people, But whatever socialmedia I'm on, I do thank you
for following me. Un listen,I've blocked you. Do you find me
at high Tech tex An Hi gh T E c h T e x
an reading questions and comments right now, coming back final segment of this first

(29:33):
hour of the High Tech Text andShoe a few minutes until the top of
the hour. If you're listening liveright now on k p RC nine fifty

(29:56):
am, that's uh Texas Talk?Is that what we call it? Right
now? Man? I've changed somany iterations. I've been here for so
long. But it's nine five zeroam. If you're listening on the I
Heart streaming app live right now,should be just a few minutes before twelve
o'clock. How much lunchtime? MichaelGarfield does a name it? We call
this the High Tech Texan Show.Ah, where do we leave? I'm

(30:18):
what was I was? I wastalking about? Oh yeah, I was
talking about threads, social media andwhatever. I'm not a TikToker, I
am not, but I thought Ithought this was interesting over here. This,
this headline grabbed me. This.I guess it was clickbait and I
just had to do some research here. TikTok is the most popular news source
for twelve to fifteen year olds,says one communications company, When who two

(30:45):
monitors all this stuff? TikTok isthe most popular news source for twelve to
fifteen year olds, the algorithm drivenviral videos. It's overtook YouTube and Instagram
is the single most used single sourceof news for young teenagers. So I'm
reading this, see I don't haveyoung teenagers anymore. When they were twelve

(31:08):
to fifteen years old, and certainlywhen I was twelve to fifteen years old,
what was I watching news? For? Good? For you if you're
twelve to fifteen year old kids watchthe news. When I was twelve to
fifteen years old, I mean Iwas hanging out with my buddies. We
were listening to music. We meanthere were sports going on, and I

(31:30):
don't know were you even listen.I know local news was much larger back
at them when I was growing uphere. They went the late seventies,
early eighties when I was twelve tofifteen years old. Nowadays it's I guess
they do get it through apps,but then again, can they believe it's
That's the hard problem right now.Kick used to be a YouTube, Instagram,

(31:53):
Facebook Messenger. The study found outfor kids twelve to fifteen. TikTok
the most used single source of newsacross all platforms twenty eight percent. And
it's is this is this? Isit a good thing? I mean I
want them, as I'm scrolling downthis story, I want them to define

(32:15):
news. What kind of news?Because on TikTok, aren't some what's all
these the ice cream challenge and obviouslythe things I don't know, what's news?
Did they know what's going on?And did the World Affairs they that
somebody crossed over the DMC at theNorth Korea last week, that the mortgage
rates are still you know, hoveringit some of its highs in the past

(32:36):
decade. What kind of news?I don't know. I'm not on TikTok.
The only news that I get Iget on threads, I get on
I don't know. I live onESPN I and I will tell you about
my Texas Rangers are doing pretty decentright now. And how's your used in
Astros? So I thought that,so, you know, if you want
to chime in on what's going onwith your kids, they're more than happy

(32:57):
to hear. That's great. They'regetting news, though, but to find
news and it is it the truth? Seven one three two one two five,
nine five. I'm gonna give youthe question of the week, though
Question of the Week brought to youby nobody that is sponsible, by the
way, Question of the week,if not the entire summer, Here it
comes. You're ready, callum,I'm looking at you. Barbie or Oppenheimer.

(33:20):
Oh, this is the weekend thepeople have been waiting for. The
new Barbie movie and the new AtomicBomb movie from Christopher Nolan to director Oppenheimer.
Both opened officially. I guess lateThursday night or or Friday. Barbie
is going to do better just becauseit's more mainstream and as a shorter movie.

(33:40):
Oppenheimer is three hours long, andthen obviously that's that means it's they
can't have as many showings as othermovies are. Certainly Barbie I want to
see. I want to see Barbie. If anybody wants to come in right
now and give me the Barbie orOppenheimer overview if you want a quick review.
Seven one three two one two fivenine five. H I'm actually surprised

(34:01):
I have not seen Mission Impossible yetDead Reckoning Part one, even though I
have been for the past three tosix months have been seeing every single behind
the scenes motorcycle, jump, card, chase on top of train, and
fight that the internet could tease andpush out. That's a lot movie too,

(34:21):
that's almost I think that's two hoursand forty five minutes or so.
I don't know, Yeah, it'sI guess. Here's here's the thing about
going to movies in the summer.Right now, it is air condition and
it's a dark and you could maybelean your chair back and just sit there
and suck up the ac baby,and you don't need to pay for you.

(34:44):
You need to pay for the movie, which may be probably more pensive
than the air conditioning. Right now, Barbie, all right, Calum,
you're gonna see Barbie. Yeah,you're not a Barbie. I'm a Barbie
girl. You're not a Barbie,dude. I don't know why. I
mean, I like this that that? What's the song? The duel?
We should play the due a song, Dance the night, good song that's
been on the radio for a while. I mean, I'll see Oppenheimer.

(35:07):
I may wait till it's screaming,I guess, Or how bored I really
am. I don't know. Ijust I never got into the whole atomic
bomb thing, World War, andthen how it was made, the Manhattan
Project, that that that's that's that'shistory that I think I must have skipped
over that year or something in history. I just really didn't understand the whole

(35:29):
thing. Christopher Nolan, Yeah,I just the dude is a it's a
brilliant director man, but sometimes he'sjust over the top. I would probably
see it just to see how themovie was filmed because he exclusively uses Imax
cameras, and Imax is a big, big friend of Christopher Nolan, and
so it may only be shown inImax. I'm not sure, but yeah,

(35:53):
I bet, I bet it's beautifullyshocked. But it's also three hours
and none. You can't drink beforethat because you don't want to walk out.
So who's seen it? Up?Looking for reviews at seven one two,
one two, five nine five.Oh. Speaking of TV, I'm
not speaking of TV. If I'mspeaking of media, I have never watched.
I'm not a reality show guy,because reality shows are not reality.

(36:15):
The only reality show true reality showis sports, because I'm Guldibal enough to
know that sports is not fixed.You're watching a baseball, basketball, football
game, soccer gamble whatever it is. It's real TV. There is no
script you go, you win,whatever it is. So the scripted crap
like this about the Bachelors and theReal Housewives, Fake Housewives, they're they're

(36:38):
scripted. So there's a new Bachelorcoming out though, and I thought this
was interesting. I'm not gonna watchit. It's they picked a new Bachelor
and this it's the first time there'san old, older gentleman. I'm not
saying old guy. It's called theGolden Bachelor. It's the first senior edition
of the Bachelor. So they pickedthis guy who's seventy one, retired restaurant

(37:04):
tour and he's a grandfather and he'sfrom Indiana. Good looking dude though,
very fit. I do like thatidea because love food and should be found
at a later age in life.Good for that. Okay, is it
again? Because it's kind of scripted? It what is scripted? I don't

(37:25):
know if it's going to be onit? What is't? Is it on
ABC? I even watch this?Is ABC gonna air it this fall because
the screenwriter, the screen and actorswriters strike, the writers an actors strike.
I don't know. The Golden Bachelorfirst did I wonder what is there
a minim and age? Is itlike sixty Remember I used to sixty five
is retirement? Allegedly art is artgoing to spawn to the thing? I

(37:51):
am not an ART member. Ican join ARP. I have not joined
ARM. I have no clue whyARP is what fifty or fifty five one
or the other Golden Bachelor? Ifat what do you mean? Colum's got
a question what he's saying? Ifif they ask me, would I do
it now? Or when I'm seventyone? It is TV gonna even exist

(38:12):
as we know it when I'm seventyone, even though I'm not that that
that that far. I'm waiting fora back Oh, I don't know.
I'd have to see the contract.I gotta I gotta get my agent to
see if everything lines up. Okay, I don't know. I would potentially
think about it. No, thata later nau. No, No,
that's when we got Barbie Oppenheimer orthe Golden Backlog. Hey, next hour.
You know I do review cars.I will tell you what I have

(38:35):
been driveing driving an electure car forthe past week. I will tell you
what that is. Some of thethings I like about it, some of
the things I think I can approve. And also big announcement next week coming
this up next week Samsung. Samsung'sgot a bagging all the way from the
Soul Korea. Who wants to playby play? I'm gonna give it to
you. Coming up one more hourthe high Tech Textra Show. Yeah,

(39:07):
Hi Texan is Michael Garf. MichaelGarfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high Tech
Texan. Michael Garfield is here witha high tech texting items to make life
easier new technology. So Michael Garfieldhas something you might lie, Hi tex

(39:29):
Michael Garfield is your high tech Texanthree decades hoping you make magic with your
gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan.
Michael Garfield. Halfway through the show, which means halfway to half hour,

(39:51):
people, I don't know. It'sso hot right now. Happy hour
probably has started a last I amdriving at this radio show, so no
happy hour for me. I dothink a nice cold ranch water maybe in
store T minus fifty five minutes orso sore wherever you are consuming this radio
program via live radio via podcast,Hey do thank you. Michael Garfield is

(40:14):
the name been doing it two plusdecades. I'll give you the number here.
Callum has been over there giving gaveawaya gift card to Johnny Tamali's Great
Mex Text Mection, Johnny Tamali's Cantina, Tex Mex Cantina and Missouri City.
They may actually have the show onright now Great Bar TV's I guess the
Women's World Cup is going on.We've got the the Open. We used

(40:37):
to call it the British Open,but now it's the Open that I think
the rounds are coming to an endbecause they're what six seven hours ahead of
us. That's probably shown it.Johnny tamalies right now. It's on Murphy
Road, right near Highway six,not too far from Sugar lad but it's
in Missouri City. We gave awaysome each week. We'll give away some
gift cards from there. So gowell, belly up to the bar till
we heard it on the old MisterGarfield HTT high Tech tics and show ah.

(41:02):
If you're watching the Open or theGolf? Are you watching it over
the air, you're watching it online? Are you all? Are you watching
it on cable? So many peopleare cutting cable and I who who do
I can I believe this stuff.So I got this in my email inbox.
Here there is a report from somecompany, go dope docso d o

(41:24):
XO. I don't know. Theylook at cable TV, Internet and how
much people spend. Can anybody guesswith the average household spins on cable and
internet each month? Calum read overhere, my man who's running my show
on the other glass, how muchdo you know? You're you're laughing here
he's making the money, money money, Johnny Manzel sign Yeah, it's believe

(41:46):
it or I'm looking at this.This has got to be a lie.
This is too low. The USyearly average, the US yearly average of
how much people spend on cable andinternet. Are you ready for this?
It is eleven hundred and sixty onedollars a year. So doing my math,

(42:09):
that's ninety six bones a month.Where are the world are people getting
this little rate of cable and internetfor ninety six dollars a month? Because
I am nowhere near there? BecauseXfinity just totally reems me. That's my
fault. I need to dump them. But the reason I bring this up,
it's because your fair city of Houston, Texas, people you're below average.

(42:36):
The average household in Houston spends onethousand, sixty five dollars on cable
and internet, eight percent lower thanthe US yearly average. So that is
Eustonians eighty eight bucks a month.Please, somebody call in. Tell me

(42:58):
where in the world like a cableand internet? Frady eight bones a month?
How don't even have any of thepaystations And I'm free time is higher
than that? Come on Expinity,Comcast. Man, what am I doing?
There's a lot of bills we needto pay, mortgage, rent,

(43:20):
auto loans, utilities, health insurance, auto insurance, cable and internet,
mobile phones, life insurance, alarmsecurity. This is this is why people
are cutting the chord. The thingis, though, when you cut the
chord, you still well you listen, you, I'm not gonna say needs
not everybody needs the internet, butyou do need an Internet signal. Do

(43:45):
you need internet coming into your home? Be a Wi Fi or be it
you know through you know, justthe cat fiber or you know, some
sort of a cable thing, becauseat that point then you can buy your
subscriptions for streaming and what have you. I'm i saying you need cable because
that alone is going to card you, you know, two hundred dollars potentially
plus. But if you need internet, how much this internet? Can you
get? Cheap Internet? I meanI think that there's a subsidy you can

(44:07):
get some internet. Could be dialup, I don't know, ten twenty
bucks a month or so. Butinternet alone is gonna get your fifty sixty
seventy bucks to beending what speed yougot. Then you start putting, Okay,
I have Netflix, I have Disney, I have Roku, I've got
to Prime, I've got all thisother stuff. You're back almost up to
where you're starting right now. Yes, I do know people who do not

(44:30):
have any sort of live TV.They have internet connectivity because all they watch
are the stributing shows. They watchstreaming Netflix, they watch Prime Video.
I probably could do that. Askyourself. This it gets people. They
asked me for tips. You know, how do I cut my cable bill
down? Or you know what about? Could you start where this? Could

(44:52):
you live without live television? Icould live without live television during the summer.
I can live without live television mostweek days throughout the year. But
come Saturday for college football, comeSunday for NFL. Buddy boy, I
need me some content. Sports isbig. That's why ESPN is the most

(45:16):
watched cable, most expensive cable company, uh network in America. Yeah,
they asked from from the the affinities, the cable providers, the services.
They've got to pay ESPN a freea fee which means they go to the
subscribers to cover that cost. Andit goes on and on and on because

(45:38):
ESPN has to pay the rights toMonday Night Football, Wibbledon, Tennis,
I the early rounds, the Masters. It's content, man. But I
guess here in Uston, man,we are below average. Who another reason
to moved age down? Seven threetwo one two five die five? Oh

(46:00):
oh my goodness. This the dogdays Ofcember. When we get how long
ago? Have we got? Abouta minute? A minute? Half?
Now? I got about a minute. When we come back, well,
I'm gonna talk about cars also,I tease this last hour. I do
get to drive, test, drive, manding cars directly for manufacturers. I
do not talk about. Yeah,I'm not gonna tell you about a dealership.
I don't get paid for the stuff. I have been driving an electric

(46:22):
car. You know my thoughts onelectric cars. I like electric cars.
I do not like our infrastructure ofcharging electric cars here in the United States,
It's just not there yet. ButI will tell you which electric car
I drove last week. Is itgood? What I wouldn't prove? Is
it worth it? I got that. And also speaking of electric there is

(46:42):
a price war. There's a pricingwar that it looks like prices for new
audiomobiles are coming down. You see. My job is to give me some
good news people. That's what Ido. Try not to give you anything
bad. I try to give awaysome gift cards. I am your guy,
Michael Gardfield. That's what we do. I'll give you na you know
I'm do you know the phone number? We're gonna take a break, go
get a colder when we come back. It is more of the high tech
Texan show. Time check right nowwe go back to the high tech text

(47:17):
shows. Just about what twenty minutesafter the hour that is including to my
beautiful time piece, is that Iactually recently got from the US coins and
jewelry. Might as well talk aboutthat. Matt, Matthew Duncan, what's
up? Matt, Matt and Kinney, the Duncan brothers. Their dad started
at What's what nineteen eighty five andthese two cats they are running in solid
It's it's nice because I wear thisbig nice watch. Yeah okay it's flashy,

(47:43):
but whatever. And I tell me, you know, I got it
at the US Coins and Jey dotcom. The fact has it been here
almost what forty years? So manypeople continue to shop up there. Oh.
I love Kenny, I love Matt. I go there. You know,
I sold some coins back there USCoins and Drewy dot Com. It
is at eighty four thirty five KatieFreeway near Voss. It's not in Katie,

(48:05):
but it's on I ten. ItTenant Voss, not too far outside
of the Loop six ten. Theyare open right now. They're open on
Saturdays. They do close on Sundaysbecause I think they want to emulate Chick
fil A. But that's cool.But I was in there last week,
was talking to Matt, and Ijust I just love browsing through there.
They've got some great if you likeTexas history memorabilia like the signed Texas Declaration,

(48:31):
the Texas Stars, the original Texasflags and things like that. They
got those. They're at their prestigiouscoin dealer and I walk in and they
have some very private little cubbies whereyou can go in and you can show
your jewelry and they'll buy it orgive you the price for gold and silver.
I think two of the five cubbieswere occupied by when I walked in.

(48:52):
About three minutes later, I turnedmy head around and all five or
occupied. This isn't the middle ofday of around lunch time. They know
how to pack people in certified.I'd use Rolexes and other Swiss watches.
They have several hundred of them available. I will tell you this, I
know that, but there's a shortageof Rolexes. And if you have them,
look US Coins and Jewelryes wants toappraise them and potentially buy it from

(49:13):
you too. They increase in value. So anyway, it's it's neat.
Uh, it's safe without a debt. I had a nice conversation with one.
I counted to listen in three securityofficers over there. Great customer reviews
US coins and Jewelry dot com.If you see me out, ask me
what time it is, and Iwill show you my beautiful shiny timepiece that
I got. And it takes alicking and it keeps on ticking. However,

(49:35):
that's a brand that's a slogan ofa watch that I actually do not
have that brand. I have somethingthat actually is involved with tennis and golf.
We'll just we'll go that way.Vote number here. If you want
to call and ask questions, thisis a call in show seven one three,
two, one two, five ninefive. Oh. That is Calum
Reid on the other side of theglass. Will pick up the phone and
say, hey, man, whatdo you want to talk to him,

(49:57):
mister Garfield about Calum? Don't misterGarf, will just say Garf, all
right, dude, what do youwant to talk to Garf about? If
you want to talk about cars,I'm gonna give you a car, a
little quick car review right now.So I do test drive cars on a
weekly basis, fifteen plush years.Every week I get a brand new vehicle.
It is agnostic when it comes tothe brands, I get them.
You name a brand and odds areI get it. They don't come from

(50:20):
a dealership. They come directly fromthe manufacturer, which means a lot of
them from Detroit area. They cometo my house. I drive them,
and it's it's it's a pretty cool. I call it a benefit. You
call it a perk. But it'spart of my job is to, you
know, evaluate these things. Iwas in an electric vehicle. Let's talk
electric all right, everybody. Youknow, there's now the time to hop
on an electric vehicle. Should Ibuy one right now? It's it depends.

(50:45):
I like electric vehicles. I don'trag on them. I do rag
on the infrastructure in America that wedo not have enough electric vehicle public charging
stations. They if you do happenupon one, maybe there's three or four
station where you can plug your vehicleinto it. Half of them are generally
being used. When you pull up, half of them may have been broken,

(51:07):
they may not be full level threeand maybe a trickle charge. Then
you've got away thirty forty five minutesan hour to get back on the road.
Just it's just not as you piquitousas gas stations right, which is
on almost every street corner, andyou fill up a tank in less than
ten minutes and you're on your way. If you're ADHD and you travel a

(51:29):
lot of evs, may not bethe thing to do because snap, snap,
snap, let's go. If youdo commute between your home and your
office and school and nearby, certainlyless than twenty thirty forty fifty miles.
Yeah, I think electric vehicles maybethe vehicle for you where you have a
home charger, you install it athome while you go to work your office,

(51:50):
and you can charge it there.You're never going to have the range.
Anxiety is what it's called. Ohmy goodness, I'm fifty miles forty
miles, thirty miles. I needto find a battery charger. All it's
gonna be stalled in stockument. Youdon't want that. We already have enough
anxiety life, right. I didn'thave any anxiety of this past week because
I was rolling around in a twentytwenty three Nissan. Al right trivia question.

(52:14):
I'm not gonna give anything away.What is Nissan's consumer EV electric vehicle?
Right now? Anyone out there?Anyone? What was I driving the
Nissan Aria A R I y Areleased Certainly in the past year, I
did. I saw the I sawthe concept when Nissan sneak peaked to me

(52:37):
gosh a year ago, when theFinal Four was here in euston early April.
Nissan is a longtime partner of theNCAA Final Four, and they actually
had a Nissan Aria or two orthree on display over at the NRG Stadium
outside of the big festivities this pastweek. They drove one up and I
actually got to play with it.So it is a Nissan Aria. It

(52:59):
is one hundred percent of electric.It does not have a gas powered engine.
You do not need to put gas. You can't play gas, you
can't change oil on it. Itis not a The range of this thing,
you always want to know how farcan the electric battery go? Right,
and so the range on this oneabout two hundred and eighty nine miles.
Now what is that compared to?Is that good? Or battery sent

(53:22):
right now? I think there isa Tesla version that can get you three
hundred fifty miles or so. There'sa lot of evs out there. Depending
on if it's the extended battery,you're gonna find something in the range of
two hundred and twenty five and averageup to two hundred and seventy five maybe
three hundred miles. Okay, that'sgood, So you don't need to continue
to you know they'll they'll go longerand farther. And this particular one has

(53:47):
a eighty seven kilowatt obviously lithium ionbattery. It um looking up. Somebody
notes that I took over here.It can go up to two hundred and
thirty eight horse power. Now,let me give you some some ups and
down to this thing. Electric vehiclescan go very fast, and they can
go zero to sixty in super fastlightning speed, very very fast. I

(54:09):
got into I got behind the NissanAria, very comfortable. I've been in
faster electric vehicles. The zero tosixty punch, I did not time it.
It was good. It was fast, but I use the word relatively
fast because I've been in some otherones. A Genesis. Man, I
was in a Genesis electric vehicle lastApril. I guess was it? I

(54:34):
think with just an absolute rocket thatyou need that pick up. I mean,
this thing was fun. Most electricvehicles are. They're designed like the
Jetsons and and this is just whatthey do. I remember, so my
son doesn't. I took my sonsomewhere earlier this weekend. He was in
the car with me, and Iguess he hasn't been in one of my
electric vehicles. Did I test?And he's looking to go it? Man,

(54:57):
this is kind of plane. Andhe used the word plane because a
lot of electric vehicles now are designedvery minimalistic, and what I define it
as I want you to picture itlike this. It's called a skateboard platform.
I think the Genesis guy actually toldme it's a skateboard. A skateboard
is flat, it's got wheels,right, you stand on it all right,
So this doesn't have a lot ofthem. There's a lot of open

(55:19):
space. There's no center divider onthe floor between the driver of the passenger,
so it's flat. So technically,you know there, you could you
just like crawl over there if youreally want to. It's just because of
the way it's designed and the drivetrain and whatever. So I was telling
him, well, it's not playing. This is how a lot of the

(55:42):
electric vehicles are m This one fromNissan relatively probably a little bit more minimalistic
than other evs that I have been. Nice touchscreen, horizontal infotainment screen.
Obviously it's very quiet because it makesno noise because that's where you know obvious
that because it's act right there.But the this has the typical of Nissan.

(56:02):
I loved Nissan. They have somethingcalled the pro pilot pro pilot assist,
which you know obviously tells you howfar you are from a car in
front of you, so safety systemsare certainly there. This does have everything
from the Nissan Connect infotamen and youknow, yes you can charge your Android
Auto wireless, Apple Car Play.You know it's got the navigation serious and

(56:24):
everything. By the way, alsodoes have AM stations, which is good.
And if you're driving an electric car, thank you for listening to an
AM station right now. Nine fiftynice wheels, nineteen h alloy wheels,
which is nice. Really good spacein the back when you pop the hatchback.
But also remember there's nothing in thefront because there's no engine. It's

(56:45):
called a front, a front trunk. There's space up there too. Price
on this thing before we take abreak, manufacturers price fifty three thousand dollars
or so. This had some carpetedfloor mats and some splash car. This
had a lot of up charges.On my mind was about fifty nine thousand
dollars, So fifty three to fiftynine thousand dollars. It's the new Nissan

(57:05):
Aria. You may not have known. I've seen a few commercials for the
Nissan's Aria, the electric vehicle,but almost every manufacturer is coming out with
an eed. Right now, I'mgonna take a break. You tell me,
do you drive an EV? Doyou like eeds? What's the pluses
and what's the minuses? And Iknow there's a number of different minuses I
could. I know a number ofpeople, one of which is a good
buddy of mine who works here atthe radio station who bought a Tesla,

(57:25):
who sold it or returned it ortraded it in within three months because he
didn't like it for some reason.Everybody, he's got the what's up with
this thing? So we can talkebs if you want to coming back.
Michael Griffeld does a name, andit's called The High Tech Text and Joe

(57:50):
high five and they're having fun.About three more minutes left of this program
for this week. I do thankyou for tuning in. Michael is the
name. It is called the highTech Text and show got a few open
phone lines. I don't callum.Should we give anything more away? We
already gave away a fifty dollars giftcard too. The Johnny Tamali's text mex
Canteen out in Missouri City, Ohman, I've been hanging out there quite

(58:12):
a bit of good stuff. Andshould we wait, okay, well wait,
maybe we'll give one away a bit. If not, we'll maybe we'll
do it online. I don't know. Standby. Yeah, it's it's it's
it's the element of surprise. It'steasing. It's what it's called teasing you.
I was talking about electric vehicles becauseI do one of the things that
I vastly cover very closely. It'sthe automobile market. I was test drubbing

(58:32):
the Nissan Aria last week or so, fifty three to sixty thousand dollars depending
on how you do it. Nota bad car, fast, not as
fast as other electric vehicles. Andwhat I did forget to mention, somebody
had email me over Michael, howmany miles per gallon? The thing?
The thing with electric vehicles, theydon't actually the ft see or whoever it

(59:00):
is that they don't. You can'tsay MPG. It's not miles per gallon
gallon of what because you don't putgas in there. See, we're used
to MPGs. Oh, what's thegas miledge? Well, it's an electric
vehicle. There is no gas miledge. So, and I've told you this
before, this is why you listen. I'll tell you again. What they
use is something called MPG E.The E stands for the equivalent. What's

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the what's the miles per gallon equivalencythat you would get if you did put
gas in there? And the numberswere obviously generally higher. The MPGe for
the NISSCENARIAE eight ninety eight miles pergallon equivalency. You hear that number,

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it's like, well, maybe Ishould get an electric vehicle. But then
again, stand by, electricity ain'tfree either when you plug it in you
you generally have to pay cost moneyto install expensive battery in your garage do
but ninety eight MPGe it's good number. Actually comparatively, I will say this

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ice wars. There's kind of aprice war happening in the electric vehicle world
right now. And I am verysurprised, very surprised. Who is in
the price war? In thousand dollarsprice cut? Are you ready for this?
On Ford's pickup truck, the Fone fifty Lightning was Ford just reduced

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the starting cost of its all electricbattery powered pickup truck from sixty thousand to
fifty thousand. And the reason theysaid it was because of lower material prices
in greater production capabilities. I havedriven the Ford F one fifty lightning.

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Pretty pretty cool if you're a pickupperson very fast. Doesn't have not only
do you have a bed in theback, you know the bed of the
truck, you also got that there'sthere's no engine, so you got the
front the front trunk, so there'sthere's room to store up there and lock
things up comfortable. They did agreat job. Can't wait to until Ram

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comes out with theirs rams come mightself the concept and at the Chicago Auto
Show last Edguary, it's coming outsoon. Can't wait for that one.
What is it? Because Tesla rolledout its very first production cyber truck and

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that is going to directly rival theF one fifty lightning. Ellie blue Buck
is estimating the cyber truck from Tesla, built right here in our great state
of Ductus, got start about fiftythousand dollars. Interesting four to slash prices

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before four to slash prices on itsMustad mock E electric suv several times because
they're trying to compete with others,including Tesla. Because Tesla itself has cut
its prices because it dominates about sixtypercent of the American electric vehicle market,

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they'd been raising prices. Ford hasbeen had been raising prices on the F
one fifty Lightning until now where didthey get this? Uh? Ford has
been Sales in the Ford F onefifty Lightning dropped from thirteen thousand of the
second half of last year to eightyeight hundred in the first half of this
year. And I'm guessing Ford hopesthe price gout is gonna do sales.

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But apparently there's still an oversupply ofthe reduced Mocke that far outpaces demand the
Mocke, the Mustang Maki. Isaw one of the road really this week.
I don't see a lot of theFord Mokis. I will say this
be very first electric vehicle that Igot to test for a week now,
because it might generally test pressed vehiclefleets are a week at a time.

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It was the Ford Mochi and itwas the first time I spent a good
quality amount of time an electric vehicle, and I was it was kind of
a giggle machine. I was laughing. It's like, oh my goodness,
it doesn't make a sound. There'sa lot of room, interesting design,
very skateboard is if you will,and it's so fast people were stopping this

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is two years ago. Baby.People were stopping because if you look at
it, it's it's a small suv. It's kind of a compact utility vehicle,
four doors, and there's no nameon the back. It doesn't say
Ford, it doesn't say Mochi.It's got the famous Mustang that you see

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on the Ford Mustang logo, butobviously it does not look like a regular
gas powered Ford Mustang, and whichis a head scratcher, legently for marketing
for me. But then I understood, why did Ford name this thing the
Ford Mustang Maki? It is looksnothing like a Mustang at all. Mustangs
are sexy. It's an iconic carbecause it's marketing, because Mustang is so

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iconic with Ford is a fast,cool, muscle type of power car.
Let's go ahead and just call itinstead of the Ford Mochi called the Mustang
Maki. So that was just itwas kind of some brandy, That's why
they did it. Don't confuse yourself. The electric Mustang looks nothing like the
regular Ford classic cast bar Mustang.But I but I saw those out there
and it was fun. That wasthe first time I've sat and really truly

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tested the Machi. I liked thatcar. Would I would? Actually what
do I recommend for evs? Oneof my favorites is the Kia. I
like the Kia EV six bigger bubbleear looks kind of a little bit more
bubble uh fast. I like theKia brand. I like the key EV

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six. Genesis fans you know,do not sleep. And again zero I'm
talking about is pay. This isjust totally my thoughts to this true story.
I love the Genesis brand. Genesisbrands is just some of the cars
are a great If I if Ihad to buy a car right now,

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I probably would seriously lean toward aGenesis of something like that. I got
to drive the Genesis GV sixty thatwas the first dedicated to ED model that
that was last April. I guessis that was a giggle machine. Love
the GV sixty. It is supersuper fast and it's it's they're not cheap

(01:05:45):
sixty five thousand dollars or so,but very very cool m NIS scenario.
I like it. Maybe not mytop five Ford makee cool. I think
I'm interested to see the next redesign, maybe two point zero, because you
know, you kind of want theseEV cars to look a little sexty um.

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I don't. I do not spenda lot of time in Tesla's matter
of fact, I think I've beenI've been at a Tesla less than five
times in my life, and Ihaven't spent a lot of time over there.
I do know that they have sixtypercent of the EV market. I
do know that they're made in ourgreat state of Texas, which I certainly
like that fact. They do havea lot of very good range too.

(01:06:30):
I think the highest range Teslas ofthe model Y I may have about three
hundred and fifty. I just don'thave enough facts to say, Hey,
do I put these things in myin my top five? If you have
a Tesla, if you have anEV, we got about what fifteen twenty
more minutes of the phone of theshow here seven one three, two,
one two five nine five zero Teslaif you know they make cars but tests

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a battery maker. You don't haveto have a Tesla card to have a
Tesla battery in your garage. There'snot a lot of battery makers that you
know. If you have an EV, you want to put up at least
a level two charger in your garageso you can charge your your your rig
overnight. Every time I pass abouthis garage and here, my good neighbor,

(01:07:15):
mind's got two Teslas, and hisgarage doors open sometimes and there's the
Tesla battery charger. But then again, somebody else has a what do they
have they have? I think theymay have a key to EV six,
so they also have a Tesla batterycharger. T Tesla's a battery charger maker,
which is great. And I justhope and I haven't even really talked
to my neighbors. How do theylight the cars or whatever, But I'm
just hoping that wherever they go it'sless than two hundred miles at a time,

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so they don't have to wait andfreak out to try to find a
charger, because that's the issue thatwe have, the infrastructure of charging.
I hope it changs. I hope. I hope chargers are faster and they're
just as ubiquitous as gas stations.Does Buckeyes have chargers? I think I
think somebody said Buckis has electric chargersright now. That's the most brilliant thing

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in the world is places of businessthat have that put electric chargers in there
in their parking lots. Because youhave to literally leave your car charging,
your vehicle charging for thirty minutes toan hour, if not even longer.
What do you do? You goinside and you buy things, and BUCkies
is renowned for that. People spendmore money inside BUCkies than they do with

(01:08:24):
the gas. And you know whatI'm talking about, people, Listen,
it takes less than ten minutes topull up a car. You can do
some damage your BUCkies in less thanten minutes. You imagine walking around a
huge BUCkies for forty five minutes whileyour car is charging. Three trips and
you could probably afford to buy abrand new your car. Oh my goodness,

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that's that's the gay give away.The razors sell the blades. People
just get them inside the shop.Hey listen, one more segment to go,
don't go anywhere. We'll fetish upthis weekend's edition of the High Tech
Texan Show. Here come the segmentto be waiting for final segment Today's Hi

(01:09:12):
Tech Text and Show. I meanhere all one hour, fifteen minutes or
so. We thank you for that. We'll I'm gonna finish up strong as
well. HEAs Do talked a lotabout electric vehicles. Electric vehicles news cars
I've been testing. Also kind ofgive you the first half of twenty twenty
three breakdown in the technological consumer lifestyleworld between the launch of Threads. Is

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at the end of Twitter, isit? What's going on with streaming and
Netflix? Password sharing is over?Whatever else you can kind of sum up
and we will get to the intothat here about ten minutes or so.
Congratulations too. Actually you want Irunning a guy named Johnny one at the
fifty dollars gift card to Johnny Tamali'sat the Johnny Tamali's tex mex Cantina in

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Missouri City. If you did notwin day sucks for you. He probably
didn't win the powerball. I guaranteeif you're in Texas you did not win
the powerball earlier this week. Butnext week we'll give away some more at
the brand new Johnny Tamali's. God, that's a good place. I need
a man, I need a COLDImargharita right now. Great food. It's
a Murphy Road right near Highway six, right on the edge of a sugarland

(01:10:19):
in Missouri City. And so Ithink for the partners that also a big
shout out to US coins and JewelryMatt Kenny Duncan. They are open right
now. They will not be opentomorrow one Sunday. She'd be listening.
But if you're in the Houston area, or if you're not in the Houston
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buying your gold, you're buying yoursilver to selling your gold and silvered rolexes.

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Great, great folks, and sotell them you heard it on the
old Michael S. Garfield radio programand that is how we do it.
What to expect next week, Ihaven't mentioned it yet, but the countdowns
on people. I'm faction ready togo? Are you? Samsung? They
are doing their Unpacked event, that'swhat that's what they call it. They're
packing all the information of everything thatyou need to know about the announcement of

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their next devices. That is Tuesday, Tuesday at six a m. Central
time, because they are holding theevent in Soul, South Korea, where
Samsung is headquartered, and they aregiving giving the insight of their new devices.
And I'm just taking a guess.It seems like they're going to unveil

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some new models of the the ZFold and the z flip phone, among
with some other gizmos. I've beenvery intrigued by the Galaxy Z flip because
I love the form factor of flipphones. The small devices fits in your
pocket hoping for a few things.Maybe they're gonna help, maybe the battery
life's gonna improve, what have you. So I think that's that. That's

(01:11:53):
pretty cool flip phones. You laughat it, but flip phones are back.
They may have been a big partof our what we did in the
past when mobile phones came around,remember the motor rottle razor or something.
They're gonna be a part of ourfuture. It's flip phones. If they
do announce the version five, yougotta think fliphones, we're gonna get smaller,

(01:12:15):
They're gonna get thinner, they're gonnaget faster, the bold, the
foldable glass. I know because I'veplayed with all versions initially of the of
the Samsunn foldable and the and theflip phones. They're pretty cool. So
well, we shall see. Sothat's coming up from Soul Korea. You
like callum, you like soul food, you like Korean food? What do

(01:12:38):
you eat in Soul Korea? Ilove Korean fried chicken. I think they
have any Korean fried chicken. It'snot no, it's soul. No,
no, soul is spelled. Itsays e O U L. There's some
good soul food here in Houston.I don't know. Maybe there's some good
Maybe there's soul food and soul Korea. I know the Olympics were their nineteen

(01:12:58):
eighty eight, So I don't know. Standby because next week we're going to
see if we can focus on everythingthat happened for SAMs. I am a
Samsung again, love Samsung. Ihave tried every Samsung phone, the S
whatever since the S three, four, five, six, seven they're on.
I think they're on S twenty three'sright now. Love it. They
have never paid me a dime,sadly because I give it this so much

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publicity. But I am an Androidfan because quite simply, the Android operating
system is more prevalently used across theworld than the I phone operating system.
The iOS and I have to talkto the masses people, and so that's
why I'm a big Android guy.And you know Sam Sing, I mean
I gotta Sam some. I thinkI have Samsung TV. I don't know.

(01:13:41):
Maybe I'll bring back a refrigerator.Samsung has refrigeration. I love when
I got a Sumber electronic show.The cees Samsung generally Samsung Sony. Uh.
There's a number of boots that areso big that the size of city
blocks within the convention center. AndSam Song has always done a massively unbelievable

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job because they they create a kitchenscene, because here's everything they have in
the kitchen, and here's everything theydo in the bedroom. Here's everything they
do in the TV with saw theirthin flat screen rollable crazy TVs, their
watches, their cameras, their phones. It's it's a massive company. So
anyway, stand by and they myguesses they will go on sale sometimes in
August, because I usually have abet, you know about two week lead

(01:14:25):
times, So we shall see aboutthat. There's another thing too. I'm
gonna end this on some health somehealth news for you. I have.
I haven't had a very healthy summer. Long story short, not that you
need to know. My hippa hada horrible sign sign you situs. My
back hasn't been great. I knowI'm catching left and right, but the
fact is, and I saw thisthe other day. If you're sitting at

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your desk or computer all the time. Would you do yourself in favorite and
would you get up and walk becauseas one of the ways to prevent back
injuries or spine issues, and Iwould you know, listen, I'm going
through YouTube videos and how to stretcheverything. Motion is big. And maybe

(01:15:08):
it's you can call this thing onlinespine computer generated back pain that I think
it was something. There was anarticle in New York Times not too long
ago. But we are, weare tethered to our computers, and I
think fifty percent of us more wehave what's called online spine health experts.
They want you to do ergonomic Theycreate ergonomic inventions in our workspaces to help

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stop this thing. Next scrunching,you know, just stretching or whatever.
Do yourself a favor, Take frequentbreaks, get up, walk around maybe
every thirty minutes. Set your watch, set your your your Alexo, set
anything you know to ping you everysixty minute, every hour or something.

(01:15:56):
Just any activity is better than none. I have rhyme ten marathons, half
marath I've been running for thirty years. I don't have the greatest spine age,
generation and spine. I find it'sstuff out there and I've never stretched,
and I'm paying for it right now. Stretching is your friend when discomfort
creeps in shoulder opening, stretches andhiplexers and regular exercising motion is the lotion.

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People, You've got to move sittingup right with your laptop and move
around people at side. Don't ignoreyour pain. That's a public service announcement.
I wish I had a spine doctoror somebody else to actually spont to
this, but I'm not. Ijust thought about that. I gotta get
out of here because I've been sitting. Actually, see what I do is

(01:16:41):
I have one of those adjustable desksthat allows me to raise it and lower
it so I can sit and standand sit and stand. That's what I
do. So I've been sitting andstanding for two hours. But guess what,
the show's almost done. It isgoing to be Happy Hour in about
thirty five seconds. It is timeto get out in the sun and have
a little fun. That's probably whatyou've been doing while you've been listening to
my show. And I do thankyou for tuning in. Calum Reid,
thank you very much for pushing thebuttons, and also, as always,

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Eddie Martini here at iHeartRadio in Houston, Marksruman, Brian Ericson, and everybody
else who's been a part of theshow. Thank you, thank you.
I have a very good week.Tune in and follow me on threads and
Facebook and Instagram and every other socialmedia that I have versus not having again,
remember I'm not a TikTok guy.People. Guess what, go have

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some fun because right now the HighTech Tax and Show is over.