WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.320 Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:15.359 Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texan, items to make life 3 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:25.640 easier, new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael 4 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:32.679 Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your 5 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:40.960 gadgets. Heard worldwide on the Iheartmaredio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. 6 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:47.159 Michael Garfield. Well, we have a lot to pack in on this first 7 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:52.079 weekend of March. It is called the High Tech Textan Show, so much 8 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.560 more than technology. Let's quickly start it off. We're going to give you 9 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.479 the phone number. It's interactive. Last I checked. Love to have you 10 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:00.600 to call in, ask me some questions and say hi, comment, agreed, 11 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.280 disagree? Come on man, it's debate all yeah, whatever, exactly 12 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:08.959 what I love doing debating? Uh seven one three two one two five nine 13 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:12.799 five. Oh, this number is not changed in well over two decades I 14 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:18.120 have been doing this show. Calum Reid is right across the aisle over here 15 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.159 through the window. He is pushing the buttons to make sure that you hear 16 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.879 me what we're going to talk about. In this episode of the Iech Texas 17 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:30.040 show. Hey man, were you affected by last week's AT and T downfall? 18 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.680 At and T that cell service went out for a number of hours? 19 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:40.040 You could be eligible for some credit AT and t's eating a little crow, 20 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:42.040 and I'll tell you how you can get a little credit should you have been 21 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:47.439 affected. Also, Wi Fi calling in general, when you don't have phone 22 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.159 service, what do you do? Were you really sol were you just out 23 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:55.159 like in the forest? Were you like living in the antiquated age, old 24 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.200 era when you didn't have cell phone service about a week or so ago. 25 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.560 Well, there is such a thing called Wi Fi calling that MANI phone services 26 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.400 and phone cellular systems have. I will tell you how to put that on. 27 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.400 And also, if you ever dreamed of driving a car that is built 28 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:14.280 by your favorite company called Apple, you can get that out of your dreams, 29 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.360 and get that car out of your dreams too, because it is Ova. 30 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:21.360 Well, I'll talk about a new watch that was just launched in debuted, 31 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.240 a phone review, some other things, but we are going to start 32 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:27.280 it off with how do you get your money back from when AT and T 33 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:34.759 went down? Where were you it was last thur? It was Thursday of 34 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:38.560 one of the last Thursdays of February in the morning. I did not know 35 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.360 this because I do not have AT and T cell phone service, and I 36 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:47.240 was out at the Rodeo Barbecue Cookoff. I was going live out there on 37 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:53.120 Channel eleven because I'm on Great Day Houston, and we did notice anything until 38 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:55.759 we're getting ready to go live at night in the morning, We're interviewing somebody 39 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.400 and says, boy, I hope you got cell phone connection. You don't 40 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.919 have AT and T because the service is down, And I kind of shook 41 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:05.520 it off, and the next thing I know, just it started trickling in. 42 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.400 It's like I can't contact I can't get can I borrow your phone? 43 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:12.240 GARF? What's going on? AT and T? They just they had an 44 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.680 internal failure from what they're saying, and I had guessed, I think correctly, 45 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:20.360 that it was either trying to upgrade service, a server's issue, or 46 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.560 something. You know. Everybody was debating it was a solar flares, but 47 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:29.120 a majority of their service went down for people across the state of Texas, 48 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.280 California, and in other parts of the country. It was pretty bad and 49 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.159 it was down from most parts of the day. What happened. Listen. 50 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:40.639 I'd love to hear your stories and what did you do? Because it's some 51 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:46.400 people they their lives came to a standstill because you add no data connection, 52 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:52.599 and I sympathize with you. I totally can understand that feeling. Sometimes when 53 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:54.159 I travel a few times a year and I'm out, I hike with my 54 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.400 buddies. We're in these mountainous ranges way out in West Texas. It's a 55 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:01.919 big bin. We were in Utah last December, and I'm like, help, 56 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.039 what happens if there's an emergency? How do I get hold of somebody? 57 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.039 It's old school, but we don't understand this. I mean, we 58 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:14.840 didn't have cell phones in college, and how do we know where to connect 59 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:16.639 with our buddies when we were going on Sixth Street before that? How did 60 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:21.199 our parents fonus, track us, tell us what it was coming time for 61 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:25.399 dinner. We just had to wait till it got dark and we just rode 62 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:28.519 our bikes home and that was it. Nowadays, no, we are so 63 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.839 connected, and so we were in the dark. So AT and T they 64 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.439 admitted it, and AT and T came back and they said, hey, 65 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:38.079 guess what we feel so bad? We are going to give you some credit. 66 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.279 Should you be an AT and T customer and should you have been affected 67 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.879 by our outage on Thursday February twenty twenty second it was a technical area. 68 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:51.399 Ace T and T said it planned to give effected accounts credit for the outage. 69 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:57.040 Folks, get ready to go to the bank, because you could receive 70 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:06.120 five dollars five bones, five bones for having your life come to a halt, 71 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:10.439 including potentially some of your businesses. If you take you know, if 72 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.319 you if you you know, if you have a restaurant and you use the 73 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.360 AT and T sell service det for you know, signing the credit cards gone 74 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.120 five bucks. That's all good. They apologize. Though worth it or not, 75 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:27.920 I will tell you this. You need to avoid getting scammed while pursuing 76 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:32.000 your refund. Do this. Go to AT and t's official website, which 77 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.720 I think is AT and T dot com, ATT dot com. Okay, 78 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:41.480 don't go to social media, don't go to third party accounts. AT and 79 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.720 T senate its website. It's been contacting quote potentially impacted customers, which is 80 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.360 a live all right. If you receive a text from some weird number, 81 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:54.759 just would you just call AT and T log onto your account to see what's 82 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.279 going on, the company's going to credit consumers five bucks per AT and T 83 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.519 Wireless Act. It does not apply to a T and T business, AT 84 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:06.279 and T Prepaid or Cricket, which is part of AT and T Build Credits. 85 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:11.519 It's going to be applied within one to two billing cycles. They're going 86 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.480 to make it right, is what they say? Five bucks for that? 87 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.000 Is it worth it or not? Probably not. But if this happens again 88 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.519 to you, whether you're on AT and T, Verizon, T Mobile, 89 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:26.680 some mvn O, whatever it is, how do you avoid this? Whether 90 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.480 there are a few workarounds. And when I was doing some last after we 91 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.160 found out my phone was okay and I finished some of the TV stuff I 92 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.199 did is three or four five different hits on different radio stations around the country. 93 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:42.319 It's like what to do. My first advice was use Wi Fi calling. 94 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.839 If your carrier has an outage or you're heading out somewhere remote, you 95 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:53.800 can likely still make calls or text using the internet for backup. It doesn't 96 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.319 matter if you're a T, Verizon, most all phones have it too, 97 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:02.120 iPhone, Android phones, whatever. But Wi Fi calling is something you need 98 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:06.279 to turn on your phone. And I actually do this, not even just 99 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:10.759 in cases of emergencies. I always have it on when I'm in a trusted 100 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.720 Wi Fi network, like at home, or like at work or somebody something 101 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:17.879 else. I actually use Wi Fi versus cell. Does it make a difference? 102 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:20.399 Sometimes it does. You know, remember back in the day where you 103 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.279 ad x number of minutes per data on your cell. Maybe you know like 104 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.639 that now, but we mostly have unlimited minutes. It doesn't matter too much. 105 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.079 But sometimes if you're in a building in the cell signal is not strong, 106 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:36.120 Wi Fi maybe stronger. So go into your settings, whether you have 107 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:40.680 an Android, whether do you have an iPhone, play around with it on 108 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.399 the iPhone. Go to the settings and go to the cellular setting, tap 109 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.600 Wi Fi calling, turn it on. If you have an Android, go 110 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:53.600 to settings and hit connections and turn it on. Turning it on actually works. 111 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:59.079 That means if you could not get a cell signal this past week, 112 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.079 week and a half or so, if you found a Wi Fi hotspot, 113 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.959 like if it was if you're in your home or into building that Wi Fi 114 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.199 odds are, you could have made a call. For emergencies, made regular 115 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.519 calls and people can reach you. It's a backup that people do not know, 116 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.160 they do not utilize. You really should try it yourself. Anything else 117 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:18.399 I can do for you, bo Hey, tell you what. We're gonna 118 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.800 go a little off the grid when we come back over here. Got to 119 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.480 have an interview longtime buddy of mine. His name is Mike McGuff. Mike 120 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.199 is a media blogger. He covers the media here in Houston, actually across 121 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:35.000 Texas, but he's also a big fan of an age old radio station that 122 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.200 used to be part of well, actually it is, but it used to 123 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.679 be part of our clear Channel slash iHeartMedia family here in Houston Rock one oh 124 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.600 one k l O L. If you are of age, if you've been 125 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.879 in Houston for a while, you may remember it back in the day of 126 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.200 just some crazy stuff, Steven Sipprwitt, Greg Oprewitt, the Boner. I 127 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.639 myself even started my career with a few daily hits on this station. It 128 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.200 is gone right now, but a brand new movie is about to be released 129 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:07.480 that Mike McGuff directed and produced. He has spent many, many years of 130 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.120 his life bringing this to fruition with some really cool interviews and so if you 131 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.559 want to relive the days of Runaway Radio. I'm going to have him on 132 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.159 to talk about how he made it, how long it took to make it, 133 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.720 and why was the labor of love coming up right here at the High 134 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:24.960 Tech Texan show. Back at it, Michael Garfield. It is the long 135 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:30.919 running high Tech Textan show heard KPRC nine point fifty AM, which is part 136 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:35.759 of the iHeart Radio conglomerate here in Houston, formally Clear Channel and formally a 137 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:41.039 few of the things before that. I have been a part of this iHeart 138 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.919 slash Clear Channel family for twenty two years right now. And I've told the 139 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.440 story before because people want to know how I kind of got into media TV 140 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:52.759 in the radio, but also here at iHeart before that was Clear Channel. 141 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:54.799 It's a long story. I won't get into it the moment, but I 142 00:09:54.840 --> 00:10:00.320 remember coming here starting off my media career and eight radio stations. It's very 143 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:03.840 big, powerful radio stations. Obviously seven forty k titer h This KPRC nine 144 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:09.240 fifty Am honored to be the longest running radio show here at the KPRC now 145 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.960 at twenty plus years. But there was also KLOL Rock one oh one, 146 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:20.799 and that was part of the conglomer back then, back when KOL was KLL 147 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.159 and for so many Eustonians who are listening to the show and maybe around the 148 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.360 world if you're listening to it on the podcast or iHeart Radio app. You've 149 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.519 heard of Rock one oh one, the Runaway Radio and it is a part 150 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:33.960 of Euston herriage for decades and actually at least maybe two generations or so. 151 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.519 And it was an honor to be on it for the for two three four 152 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.799 years with some of the radio gods, and it was a neat history. 153 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.600 But history is now coming true. If you did not know much about the 154 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:52.480 Rock run oh one radio days, you can soon because there is a documentary 155 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.320 that has been in the works for probably a decade, is getting ready to 156 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:00.519 hit video on demand in theaters near you. I want to talk to the 157 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.519 writer, the producer, the director who has this been a labor of love 158 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.519 for so long. His name is Mike McGuffey is a longtime media blogger, 159 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.240 a frequent guest to this show, a good friend of mine. Mike joined 160 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.200 us in. McGuff let me start with this writer, producer, and director. 161 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.919 Why are you still gracing your presence here in Houston with this how come 162 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.600 you're not in Hollywood already I already tried. They kicked me out as soon 163 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.159 as I flew into No not look guarded too lax. See, I can't 164 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.559 even get the airport right. So they turned me around and say, go 165 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.240 back to Texas. We don't want you here. Well, I have to 166 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.320 say, this is a media blogger. You're the only radio DJ in town 167 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:43.559 who launches his career on billboards and commercials before he even gets behind the microphone 168 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:48.960 of a radio station. Right, like you were already like a presence before 169 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.879 you ever got behind that microphone. Kind of did it bass ackwards. Really, 170 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:56.919 it was close to it. It's not about me or but real quickly, 171 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.320 So I started on Channel two early in the morning on the morning show, 172 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.919 where I created the high tech text and it was almost simultaneously that Time 173 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.519 Warner back in the day they picked me up as the road Runner spokesperson because 174 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.039 I was talking about technology, which then within a few months led to my 175 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:16.559 employment at Clear Channel Radio. And so the funny thing is I was probably 176 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.840 one of the few people who actually in the entire industry who studied radiotelligence film. 177 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.480 There's a lot of people who are very successful more successful to me. 178 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.919 Now who they stay. I mean, Dana Tyson, I'm one of my 179 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.919 she was a stockbroker. I mean, I actually studied to be in this 180 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.799 thing, so I took a kind of roundabout way. But you do cover 181 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.080 so many people in the media of the goings on and who's leaving and listen 182 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.840 to media landscape has changed so much in the last twenty years that you've been 183 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.840 covering it. But what you have done right now, you've taken a classic 184 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.360 I'm an absolute classic, iconic radio station here in Houston k LOL rock one 185 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.399 oh one, and you have documented it going back until I think it was 186 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:56.960 to nineteen seventy. Let's start it this way. What's your infatuation with this 187 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.360 radio station so much so that made you make a documentary? Well, I 188 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.120 always wanted to make a documentary. That was something you know, I wanted 189 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.960 to do. But you know, you never think that's actually going to happen, 190 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.840 right, Like, you don't set out saying, yeah, I'm in 191 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.440 Houston, Texas, I'm going to try to make a movie. Usually those 192 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.639 words are not uttered around here too much. But I thought that, you 193 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.480 know, I wanted to make one, and as a media blogger, all 194 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.559 I did was here about k LOL, even years after it went off the 195 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.919 air, and it was the station I grew up with. I mean, 196 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.600 that was my introduction to real rock music when I was a freshman in high 197 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:37.240 school. It was like the ritual for anyone who lived here into rock music. 198 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.759 You're going to probably tune into kal LOL. And you know, this 199 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:45.200 is pre Internet for me. I was in the very early nineties as a 200 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:50.759 freshman in high school, and you know, you didn't know sink about your 201 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.799 favorite bands. You didn't know kind of lifestyle stuff for just trendy news that 202 00:13:54.919 --> 00:14:00.000 might interest a rock fan. Well, the k LOL DJs were the inner 203 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:03.679 for you back then. You listen this station, you got entertained, you 204 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:09.240 learned something, You learned something about the artists you love. And that's kind 205 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.120 of I think how kal Lowel, which some of the DJs will call it 206 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:18.360 like a lifestyle, they are absolutely correct because they were switched a part of 207 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.360 the community and it was kind of like a tribe. You know, your 208 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.120 people. You'd go out to concerts, and you can still go to concerts. 209 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.759 I went to the Guns and Roses concert a couple months ago and I 210 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:35.200 saw Runaway Radio shirts like original ones from the station's heyday all over the place. 211 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:39.879 I saw the Motley Group Poison Show a year before that runaway radio shirts 212 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.399 there too, so it definitely lives on in the hearts of its listeners. 213 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.519 So it makes the perfect documentary. And besides that, the station was extremely 214 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.639 visual. So you know, you think about a documentary with the radio station, 215 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.840 well, oh, how do you do that? It's all audio? 216 00:14:54.919 --> 00:15:00.799 But in k Loel's case, they were very smart and so when it came 217 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.639 to TV commercials, to television appearances, to marketing campaigns in print, so 218 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:11.519 you bring all that together and you start having kind of an interesting visual palette 219 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.600 to work with for the documentary. And then of course a lot of these 220 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:20.360 were crazy rebellious types on air, so of course that's going to make an 221 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:24.320 interesting story for sure. Talked about this as kind of the Internet before the 222 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:30.799 Internet. Certainly was, but I think the difference is the radio or the 223 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.320 obviously the TV and radio airwaves. It's governed by something called the FCC, 224 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.679 where the Internet is not. And can you imagine if the FCC was not 225 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.960 there when Rockwan it was around. Because they can do anything. Because I'm 226 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.759 gonna give some adgatives over here and tell me if this is correct or what 227 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:48.799 I'm missing? Launching and risque and just over the top, and it's like, 228 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:50.200 did I hear what I just thought I hear? You know, there 229 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:54.919 are kids probably like you who were drawing. Their parents drove them to school, 230 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.440 and maybe the parents did not want their kids listening to it. They 231 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:02.240 barely got by on that FCC, but it was something that was really unheard 232 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.919 of before. Yeah, we actually talked about that. That's part of the 233 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:10.279 story, that they would get fined and get in trouble with the FCC. 234 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:15.200 And we talked to one of the program directors involved in and making sure the 235 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.399 station kept its license, and he actually says in the film there were times 236 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:26.639 I hated my job because he had to try to rain in these people to 237 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.159 make sure the station was not fined. And the way they got around it, 238 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.879 you know, there was that double entendre stuff like they would be the 239 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:36.639 way they would say things, they'd have to say it in such a way 240 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.879 where they could get it passed. But of course the listeners could figure it 241 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:44.919 out. Maybe kids obviously didn't always get it, but the adults were probably 242 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:49.720 sitting there laughing Mike McGuff he is the director of Runaway Radio. We'll give 243 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.639 you all the information of where you can see it, and certainly if we're 244 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.200 long time Ustonian, they're just a fan of some of the iconic people, 245 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:02.240 the DJs, all the personalities. This is definitely a you can't miss thing 246 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:08.039 coming up here. The personalities listen. Nowadays, we know it's about content, 247 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.160 content, content, and to be popular you have to have a hot 248 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.799 take back then, but the personalities on air are they're near and dear to 249 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.119 so many listeners. They're near and dear to me because a lot of them 250 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.240 were my co arts. I work with them and I saw them every single 251 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.440 day. But let's start with Stevens. Improve it now. I when I 252 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:29.279 started two thousand and one, two thousand and two, Mark Stevens was already 253 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.519 passed in, but Jim Prewitt was still on the radio. But the Stevens 254 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:37.559 impruit that show alone, I mean, those those guys actually did get national 255 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.960 attention for what they were doing. Yeah, we have a clip in the 256 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.319 movie from the Morton Downey Junior Show, which was a syndicated talk show, 257 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.799 and he came down to Houston and tape the show and Stevens, I prud 258 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:56.880 are you know, interviewed there and they essentially carried the station for many many 259 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.880 years. When they got there, you know, they were in the battle 260 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:07.480 with ninety seven Rock, so they kind of helped spark the revival of Kale 261 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.279 Lowell when they faced a lot of adversity in the Radio Awards as we called 262 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:17.359 them back then. So they were the pillars of that station. And when 263 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:21.680 you know, Mark Stevens was let go. I think the station was already 264 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.160 in decline for other reasons, but that certainly did not help them. Specifically 265 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.440 about the movie, this was how many years in the other taking? When 266 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.680 did you even start this project? I started in twenty ten, which was 267 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.079 lucky because I was able to get people, honestly before they passed away. 268 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:42.240 If I'd started any earlier or any later, we wouldn't have some of the 269 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.759 people and a lot of people who you interviewed for this. And I did 270 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.160 see a clip it was it was. It was amazing some of the stars 271 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:51.720 that you got to sit down. Sammy hager Lyle love it. I saw 272 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.559 Melita, Melissa its Ridge, I saw Dusty Hill in there too. How'd 273 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.440 you get how did you get? You know? These people actually sit down 274 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.759 and talk about Kalowell. Well, you wonder why it took so long. 275 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.640 That's part of the reason. I mean part of it was just to get 276 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.960 even some of the Kalel people to sit down for an interview would take years. 277 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.279 And also when you're dealing with Alan of that caliber of these musicians that 278 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.599 they have busy schedules, are on tour, so sometimes that took years to 279 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.880 get. But you know, stubbornness pays off, so eventually we did get 280 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.079 them, and I think they add a lot to the film because we picked 281 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:30.440 those kind of big time rock stars that actually have connections to KOLL and they 282 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.240 have stories associated with it which make it interesting. It's a part of the 283 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.599 story. It's not just to have them there because you know they're popular and 284 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.920 people know who they are, but they actually are connected to the station. 285 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.920 Talking with the director Mike McGuff of a Runaway Radio, we'll be right back 286 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:52.759 with more after this. It's Michael Garfield. It's the High Tech Tection Show. 287 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:56.480 Continuing going with more of my interview with Mike McGuff, the director of 288 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:04.359 Runaway Radio, the new documentary movie about KLOL Rock one oh one, and 289 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:10.480 with Mike McGuff He is the director of the new video on demand movie. 290 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.440 He's actually gonna be playing in a Alibo draft house near you soon. He 291 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:17.799 is the directors called Runaway Radio. Obviously, the Runaway Radio. That that's 292 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.960 the iconic logo that I still see now. I mean, years and years 293 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:26.759 after the demise of the format itself, people are wearing that logo. I 294 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:29.839 still see bumper stickers. I mean, that iconic radio. It's a lot 295 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:30.960 of stuff. It's about marketing, and it was marketing. We can go 296 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.960 back to Doug Harris, another good friend of ours, of how that logo 297 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:38.599 was everything about the little radio running with the tennis shoes and the gloves out 298 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.640 there. But it's people still do remember it so much this so it's it's 299 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:47.799 nostalgis coming back again. Yeah, absolutely, I mean I think that was 300 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:52.279 brilliant. That Runaway Radio logo really cemented the station in people's minds. And 301 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.079 I mean we were at literally two Saturdays ago, We're to stop light. 302 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.279 Now I'm not paying attention, and my wife goes look and in front of 303 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:03.119 us was a bumper sticker with the Runaway Radio on someone's back window. So 304 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:04.960 yeah, and like I said, I go to concerts still to this day, 305 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:10.039 and their k LOL runaway radio shirts everywhere, and now you can buy 306 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:15.440 the runaway radio shirt from companies across the country. Even one of the Kalea 307 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:21.279 DJs, Chris Allen, selling of favorite radiohurts dot Com where you can buy 308 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:23.400 it. But it's everywhere, it's on etc. It's on all these other 309 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.519 apparel sites. Just type it in and you're going to find them. At 310 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:32.559 shocking that it's still alive in twenty twenty four about some of the DJs. 311 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:36.480 It was more than just a Stevenson Prwitz show. A lot of the DJs 312 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:40.440 who did participate in in this, the movie that it's coming out with, 313 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.000 they still her here in and around the Houston area, and a lot more 314 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:47.640 still involved in median radio. A good friend of mine outlaw Dave od I 315 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:52.240 know when most iconic voices that dude was. He's participating. And of course 316 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:55.039 we love Dana Steele. Dana is a very big presence. She's you know, 317 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:57.480 she's still doing radio right now. We've got Brian Boner Shannon. I 318 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:03.240 mean, were they excited, were they nostalgic? Were they getting little for 319 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:06.759 clemped When you were asking all these questions. Yeah, I mean, I 320 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.519 definitely think that you sit down with someone for two hours and reminisce about the 321 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:17.000 past, and I think it definitely brings out emotions and thoughts maybe you know 322 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:21.400 that they weren't going to have before the interview, and definitely when they've seen 323 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:26.200 it, the reaction is a total time warp. I mean, even if 324 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.880 you have never heard of k Lowell, watching that old video will take you 325 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:33.079 back to your youth, you know, in the eighties, seventies, eighties, 326 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:36.640 and nineties, You're going to have memories associated with, you know, 327 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.920 your own past, just kind of it is like a time machine taking you 328 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:42.440 back to those decades. And of course if you grew up in Houston, 329 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:47.759 then yes, this will really be a time work because we have file footage 330 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:52.160 going all the way back to the seventies where we're chilling with Galveston, downtown 331 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.400 Houston, astral World, all the way up into you know, the nineties. 332 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.960 All that footage is really going to You're going to see things you haven't 333 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.519 seen in a long time. We'll just say that, I'm gonna call it 334 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.039 the demise of the format. When Kala Well was taken off the year as 335 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:11.799 it was and replaced with a Latin pop music format. How did that, 336 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:17.759 I guess hit you as a listener and any reaction that you remember since you 337 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.759 do cover the media, you know what, what do you remember about a 338 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:26.200 story or two or three of the people were they ready to burn down the 339 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.519 program directors that they want it back? And then it's because it's no longer 340 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.240 here. Yeah, I was. Actually I didn't even have my blog when 341 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.839 Kalewell went off the air. I probably started my blog a year later, 342 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:42.039 but I worked at Channel thirteen, and I remember all the TV stations, 343 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:47.200 the Chronicle were doing stories about it over and over, and yeah, there 344 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:49.799 were there were Petisians, you know, like we say in the movie, 345 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:56.119 there there needed to be like a mega on air because just the listenership for 346 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:02.119 that kind of station was right there and no one was really catering to that. 347 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:06.279 But at the same time, why did they take kalo lo Well, 348 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:10.960 they could have honestly taken another station in the portfolio, and honestly, I 349 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:14.319 don't think anyone would have cared at that point, and I wouldn't have a 350 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:18.440 documentary today, you know. It's just that k Loel was kind of one 351 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.480 of those stations that hit people in a special way. So of course they 352 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:25.759 were upset when it was taken away. And I know a lot of people 353 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:27.519 that time would say, Okay, you know, maybe they weren't even listening 354 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:32.640 to ko Well back when it went off the air, But I think knowing 355 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:37.079 it was there was always kind of like a security blanket emotionally, and they 356 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:41.599 probably always figured the station could come back to some kind of dominance. I 357 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.079 mean every station, and as we talk about in the documentary, there were 358 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:49.079 ebbs and flows at the popularity of the station from the beginning. So that 359 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:56.400 just happens with anything. Longtime fans of Kalol when they see this movie Runaway 360 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.759 Radio, what do you think they'll they'll learn that they did know about the 361 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:04.799 station or about the personalities. I think, honestly, there are people who 362 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:08.880 worked there who have seen this film and did not know everything that's in the 363 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:15.400 film. It is that vast that research that because you know, you have 364 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.000 your time frame that you listened or worked at kale Well, which would be 365 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.720 a number of years, but you know you weren't there in the very beginning 366 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:27.119 or at different parts of it. So yeah, there's so much going on 367 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:33.240 with this and the three decades it was on the air, plus that it 368 00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:37.079 will show you things you probably had no idea were going on, even if 369 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:44.039 you worked there. That surprised me from an internal inside baseball media standpoint is, 370 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:45.480 you know a lot of people don't realize that. You know, they 371 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.640 hear our voices on the radio, or they see us on TV or maybe 372 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.920 on stage, and a lot of times they're the same personality. I mean, 373 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.559 my name is really Michael Garfield. It's not a stage name. I 374 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:59.000 mean, I like to think I don't put on any ears. Is just 375 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:00.400 Garf. Come up and talk talk to me. Some people, you know, 376 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.960 they do have that personality. Maybe they're a little bit more angry, 377 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.519 maybe they're a little bit more different, maybe they have a little accent or 378 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:12.000 something. But it was very intimidating to me so real quickly when I started 379 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:18.079 in the business here at Clear Channel. It has now been twenty two years 380 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:23.119 almost exactly coming up in April of twenty twenty four that iHeart at that Clear 381 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:26.759 Channel had eight stations, all located in the same complex. And this was 382 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:33.359 back in early two thousands when radio was in Clear Channel just owned so much 383 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.000 of this airways, which I think we kind of still do. But let's 384 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.839 go back to Sunday ninety nine Weaver, Moro and Dana and we've got to 385 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:45.079 Katie Ah had Jp and Lanta the Arrow ninety three seven had Deanan Raj. 386 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.319 We had Mixed ninety six point five in our stable and it was you know, 387 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.960 Larry Moon and in Shelby. I mean I went to that first day 388 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:56.359 and I didn't know really much about radio or certainly about media, and the 389 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.640 kind of market manager sat me down in every single one of these personalities over 390 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.759 there because they wanted to introduce me, because I was gonna do segments on 391 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.039 all of these stations, and I mean I was like, this was like 392 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:11.079 the Justice League of America. I mean, there's this is every superhero that 393 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.400 that's known to Houston. Audiences are in there and they're they're, you know, 394 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.279 they're talking like, here's what Michael's gonna do. He's gonna come on 395 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.279 each morning, do a three, four or five minute bit talk about technology 396 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.519 and whatever. So I did all the stations, but the last one I 397 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:29.880 did not go on to yet. It was Rock one oh one, and 398 00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:33.319 at that point it was greg O Prewitt and the boner As I was done, 399 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:37.680 and I had a great time in all the other ones. I was 400 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:42.759 terrified, terrified to walk into that studio. I didn't grow up in Houston's, 401 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:47.000 but I just knew of Stevens and Prewitt and how different they were and 402 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.119 what they're gonna ask me, or they gonna ask me, I don't know, 403 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.720 just a strip in front of the newly web camera. I don't know 404 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:56.440 what they were gonna do. I gotta tell you Jim Prewitt again icon I 405 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.400 did the five or six minute bit. He couldn't have been more inviting and 406 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.720 made me laugh and everything like that. I walked out of the studio. 407 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.039 He came after me out of a studio and he just stopped. Just give 408 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:10.559 me a high five. He goes, dude, that was phenomenal. Where 409 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:11.880 did you come from? I said, I'm kind of new with this stuff. 410 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.119 I haven't done a little TV. He goes, you were e fin 411 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.559 brilliant. Can't wait till you come out on a regular basis over here. 412 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:22.000 But he I said, can you give me any tips? And he goes, 413 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:23.759 no, I think you're good. You know, maybe you just want 414 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:26.920 to talk a little slower and kind of play off everybody else, but he 415 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:29.759 couldn't have been more invited. And I guess the point of the story was, 416 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.599 you know, if you grew up listening to anybody on the on the 417 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:34.200 radio at one o one, and maybe you thought Stevens or poo what, 418 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:37.640 we're a little off person to person one on one. Wise they were. 419 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.519 They could not have been nicer, and I think maybe that helped their longevity. 420 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.920 Yeah, definitely, Jim Brewy had this kind of spiritual thing about him, 421 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:52.559 and I actually have a personal story with him. I mean I had 422 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:57.160 set up an interview with him at his gun store for something related to Channel 423 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:04.759 thirteen years ago. And at that point, my dad had died and or 424 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.920 maybe it was when my mom had died actually, and I had called him 425 00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:12.400 and said I couldn't make this because you know, I wasn't going to be 426 00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:17.000 at work because I had to deal with the funeral and stuff. And I'm 427 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:21.559 talking to him on the phone and he was just super nice and just super 428 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:26.240 calming, and it was you know, take aside, this is Jim Brute 429 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.599 you're talking to. He was just like a wonderful person to talk to on 430 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:36.559 the phone and such a horrible time. So yeah, there was something about 431 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:41.160 him that you sort of saw it on the air, but I think a 432 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.920 very you know, empathetic guy off off off Mike too. What I and 433 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.359 I think people who do see this the Runaway Radio, what is the movie? 434 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:51.519 They're going to find out a lot of inside information. It's going to 435 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:52.960 bring back a lot of nostalgia to and probably a lot more sales for that 436 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:57.160 Runaway Radio D shirt that you're actually wearing right now, Mike McGuff listen, 437 00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:02.319 I could be selling them. I feel like am I missing out by not 438 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:04.680 cashing in on that too? I think there's enough out there. You haven't 439 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:07.519 learned anything from me about how to market yourself. Come on, mcgoverer, 440 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.039 we got to continue to work with this. But I'll tell you what, 441 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:14.160 you're doing a great job of quote unquote selling the film. Tell us where 442 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.240 can we see it? What are the days? Not only on video demand 443 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:21.559 but also a special presentation coming up at an actual movie theater. Yeah. 444 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:26.240 So February twenty seventh, which is very soon, it will be available to 445 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.720 rent or buy on Amazon, Google, YouTube, Voodoo, Xbox, and 446 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.880 that list kind of goes on forever. So any place that you rent any 447 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:40.960 movie, it will be there. And then Saturday, March second, will 448 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:47.759 have the Houston premiere at the Alamo Draft House in Katie and there's going to 449 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:51.599 be a Q and A and you're going to see a lot of your favorite 450 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:55.119 people in the film will be there where you can talk to them and meet 451 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:59.440 them, and I'm sure we'll have some special surprises as well. There's a 452 00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:07.240 sixth and nine o'clock screening, but I will say they are it's practically sold 453 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.000 out, so definitely go to rock one oh one movie dot com and you'll 454 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.720 see a linked where you can buy tickets. So yeah, I do that 455 00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:18.359 quickly. It's the information is rock one oh one movie dot com. His 456 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.640 name is Mike McGuff. You talked about a labor of love. This is 457 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:22.240 easily what about a third of your life. I think it took to make 458 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:26.519 this, didn't it. Yes, it is taking a piece of me. 459 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:30.640 I have lost a piece of my life and my soul giving up this. 460 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:36.200 But it has been fun to make it. The process was a lot of 461 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:40.039 fun making it, so you know, I don't look back at it badly. 462 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:42.240 It is a gift for all of this. And listen, congrats. 463 00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:45.160 I have known you have talked about this for as long, almost as long 464 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.680 as I've known you, and it is finally here. So congrats on Mozeltov 465 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.240 on having another baby come out. His name is Mike mag Listen. Thank 466 00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:55.039 you so much for your time, my friend, and I wish you the 467 00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.200 best of luck. Thank you, and with that we will continue the High 468 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:06.640 Tech text and Show with me Michael Garfield right after this. We enjoyed that. 469 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:08.880 We do. Thank mister Mike McGuff and good luck with Runaway Radio. 470 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:16.240 Some really interesting stories. I wasn't around in Houston when the Runaway Radio one 471 00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:22.880 oh one was really into the hyperdrive, and I honestly, I don't know 472 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.319 if that was for me. I mean, I grew up in Dallas and 473 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:29.720 there was a format kind of like that, and you know, just you 474 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.839 know, I was more of a sunny ninety nine ish, you know, 475 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:36.440 pop music kind of guy. But to be able to actually be a part 476 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:40.519 of it, even for two years two three years of rock one oh one, 477 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:44.880 to be on it with Jim Pruitt and and those folks over there, 478 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:49.799 which is pretty cool. We do continue High Tech Textan Show. Had some 479 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:53.359 extra time in my hands this past week due to a little illness. If 480 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:57.920 you can't figure it out through my kind of stuffy nose. I usually sound 481 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:02.440 a little bit more sexier than this, don't cal thoughts. So kind of 482 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:09.160 stuck at home, just watching watching TV movies, not many sports. I 483 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:13.559 mean to NBA, you know it's made. It's baseball spring training. I 484 00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:17.559 don't care. NBA, you know it's not in the playoffs yet. So 485 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.640 I'm watching some I figured i'd catch up some movies that I've never seen, 486 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.599 and I really don't. I know, I'm opening up a can of worms. 487 00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:30.160 I'm gonna start this conversation and it's a it's a little shortened show today. 488 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:31.839 We got to get out of here at that thirty minutes past the next 489 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:37.160 hour. Got a basketball game coming up for you. But if you've listened 490 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.559 to me a long time, you know that I am a pop culture mogul. 491 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:47.680 I know incredible, an incredibly stupid amount of information about pop culture dating 492 00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.920 back to the seventies. Certainly the eighties is my sweet spot, and I 493 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:57.119 put it to zero use. But it is surprising when you find out what 494 00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.359 movies I have never seen in my life. So do I figured i'd have 495 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.599 a two hours to two three hours to kill and watched the movie I have 496 00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:07.920 never seen. I went on my Twitter account high tech Texan, and I 497 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:12.480 talked about him. People were just going just freaking crazy. H I was 498 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:15.239 live blogging like I've never seen it before, which I haven't. Uh the 499 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:20.960 Shawshank Redemption. Stop it, do not call right now. Yes, I 500 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.480 know, I'm in my fifties. I've never seen The Shawshank Redemption. I've 501 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:29.920 heard about it, and I got to tell you this, don't hate, 502 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:37.960 but what's the big deal? I mean, Morgan Freeman, awesome, Frank 503 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:42.000 Debond, I believe the director, that was his first directing debut, beautifully 504 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:49.360 directed, Love the camera work, I love everything. Tim Robbins, really 505 00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:53.760 good actor. But uh, just I didn't I thought it was I expected 506 00:34:53.800 --> 00:35:00.199 more from shaw Shak shaw Shank. You know, I'm not gonna spoil for 507 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:04.960 anybody who's about the prison thing escaping and whatever. It was just kind of 508 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.000 it was kind of slow, kind of kind of slow. Seven one, 509 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.320 three, two, two, five nine five. Oh yeah, I feel 510 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:12.400 free to open up the phone less because they'm not going to answer them right 511 00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.639 now. I still have some top in my hands. Uh, tune in 512 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:20.760 to my Twitter because I will probably try to watch for the first time ever 513 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.960 The Godfather Parts one and two, which I've never seen. I swear I'm 514 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:30.960 losing listeners right now. I know. Then after that I may go for 515 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:35.760 the Big Lebowski, maybe Little Jaws. Never seen them. Lord of the 516 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:43.960 Rings, Nope, it's a wonderful life. Never have seen it up, 517 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:46.119 Fight Club Matrix, Nope. I can go on and on and on. 518 00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:51.000 I'll still beat your butts in trivia. I will still take you down. 519 00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:53.239 I digress. It is Michael Garfield. This is called the High Tech Textan 520 00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.760 show. You know the phone number right now? Tell you what you know. 521 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.920 I'm a big car guy always. I have a member of the Texas 522 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.800 Auto Writers Association. For the past fifteen years, I have been able to 523 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:09.000 test drive vehicles of all sizes and shapes and colors and actually power trains, 524 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:14.199 certainly now electric. I do not get paid these. This is not endorsement. 525 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:17.719 I do not work with dealerships directly with manufacturers, just like an auto 526 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.440 writer. It is my thoughts. I could tell I can call them out 527 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.199 and I could say they're all crap. I can love them, I can 528 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:30.159 hate it. It don't matter. I will tell you this. One vehicle 529 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:35.199 I was looking forward to test drive if it ever came to fruition in my 530 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:43.119 lifetime. Was the long rumored Apple car. It has been long rumored for 531 00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:52.199 about ten years that Apple was reportedly making a vehicle, ten years, billions 532 00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:58.039 of dollars, multiple leadership changes, rumors, rumors, rumors. But the 533 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:06.800 rumor coming out of Bloomberg past week the Apple car project is dead Gonzo Apparently 534 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:13.000 they have officially canceled the car. Two thousand employees had been working on it. 535 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:20.199 Pepa's going to move many of those employees working on the car to other 536 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:27.199 divisions of Apple, maybe the Artificial Intelligce division. Apple never spoke publicly about 537 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:31.599 its efforts to build a vehicle. Internally, it was known as Project Titan. 538 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:35.639 If you followed it listen. There were a number of leaks over the 539 00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:39.639 years, a lot of ambitious stuff. They wanted to build a fully self 540 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:45.000 driving car without pedals, maybe without a steering wheel, with a remote command 541 00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:51.559 center ready to take over for a driver. Is building a car company? 542 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:58.280 It's not easy, ask Elon Musk. The fact is Apple had reportedly considered 543 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.119 pricing the car around one hundred thousand dollars, which is in the ballpark of 544 00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:07.760 a very very high end Tesla model axe an Apple execs even then they were 545 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:13.800 concerned about the profit margins. This is true. This is one of the 546 00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:20.480 rare setbacks for the company, rare setbacks for Apple, and I'm fine with 547 00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:30.000 it. Let Apple do what it does best, overcharge for items and technology 548 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:37.559 that look sexy that generally other companies have already beaten them to the punch and 549 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:40.679 work better. Boom. I did lay an egg on that one. Sorry. 550 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:46.760 Let Apple work on the Apple car play. Just just let it do 551 00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:53.440 it. The Apple Car itself never felt real. I mean, it was 552 00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:57.719 just just you know, there's only so much rumors that you're going to go 553 00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:00.880 through before it's like it ain't gonna be out there. One time, the 554 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:06.920 funny, the funniest story that I thought it was real. I go to 555 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.639 call. I love California. I got visiting. I love visiting and travel 556 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:15.119 in California. I am in cal I'm in San Diego. I'm gonna go 557 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:20.800 four years ago, three four years ago. I'm driving north on the San 558 00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:24.280 Diego Freeway four or five, I believe, and I'm going north headed back 559 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:30.400 to Los Angeles, and I see an s u V driving next to me. 560 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:35.920 It did not have a a badge on it. And the badge is 561 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:37.400 if you look almost every single car, it's the metal badge that has the 562 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:42.880 emblem of every manufacturers from BMW to four to GM. Just this one didn't 563 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.599 have a badge, and it didn't have the little letters that are that are 564 00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:49.960 stamped on there or you know that other than the other than the words, 565 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:57.440 and it looked very professionally done. Lisa, l I s A, all 566 00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:00.039 right, l I s A. And I'm driving and I'm like, that 567 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:08.280 car looks familiar, but it's freaking me out that i haven't seen anything called 568 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:14.280 the Lisa. So I'm thinking, what is this? And I'm driving and 569 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:16.840 I'm following this car for I'm not kidding you, thirty forty miles and I'm 570 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:22.679 thinking, wait a minute, Lisa was the name of the very first Apple 571 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.360 computer when that came out in the nineteen eighties. I'm wondering if this is 572 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:34.719 a test model of the Apple car. Oh name Lisa, And I'm getting 573 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.920 I'm been driving up taking pictures and I've got the scoop of my lifetime and 574 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.320 it's gonna be crazy. And all of a sudden, I'm looking closely. 575 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:43.519 I'm like, I recognize that car. You know what it was. It 576 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:52.559 was a freaking Hyundai Hallisade Hallisade p Alisade and there was a lady driving it. 577 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.920 It looked like her husband was in the passenger seat. What they had 578 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.960 done, and I've seen this before, they removed they very carefully. You 579 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:05.280 can remove the badges in the lettering. And she took the word Pallisade and 580 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.039 she took the first part of that off. She took the second part off, 581 00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:12.599 and all she left was apparently her first name, Lisa P A L 582 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:16.719 I A D. Lisa. Oh my, it's a good thing I didn't 583 00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:21.280 post that. I was such a fool. Our ip Apple, howks, 584 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:25.280 you're not getting your six figure Apple car, So get out of my dreams, 585 00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:29.039 you will dream. Thirty more minutes of the show. We got the 586 00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:30.679 top of the hour coming up. It's Michael Garfield. It's the high Tech 587 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:34.280 Dex and I hope you're having fun as much as I am. Can I 588 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:49.199 have a clean x plaze? So I Texan is Michael garfil Michael Garfield, 589 00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.519 Michael Garfield's joining Yeah, the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with 590 00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:57.880 a high tech Texan. It was to make life easier. There some new 591 00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:07.599 technology. So Michael Garfield has something you. Michael Garfield is your high Tech 592 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:17.559 Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on 593 00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:23.960 the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield, Top of 594 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:28.559 the Hour. Halfway through the show. Actually we're over halfway through the show. 595 00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:31.079 A little shortened special version of the High Tech Textan Show. This week. 596 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:34.960 We only have thirty more minutes. Got to make way for a University 597 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:40.280 of a Houston Cougar basketball game, the number one ranked UH Cougar basketball game 598 00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:46.119 for so standby will lead you up until the twelve thirty pm Central time tip 599 00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:51.360 off. In the meantime, we're over halfway to Happy Hour. Happy Hour 600 00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:53.960 starts now on a beautiful Saturday here in the Houston area, brought to you 601 00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:00.159 by Papa's p l R Rum. Papa Papa as in Papa Hemmingway that is 602 00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:06.440 his rum. Great to hear stories and get photos and posed and tagged from 603 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:07.960 a lot of my listeners. The past six seven, eight months I have 604 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:12.280 been yapping about this. It was really great rum. Don't sleep on rum 605 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:16.400 man. It is good. It's good sipping especially the different verytelles as I 606 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:21.239 call them. They have the light blonde rum goes good, you know, 607 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:24.960 poor little coke, little Kuba Libra, the dark rum. And I did 608 00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:30.360 a video on my Instagram earlier this week. It's it's rodeo season, rodeo 609 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:35.239 time here in h Town. And I came up with a garf's rodeo rum. 610 00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.480 It's a rum drink. It's a it's a dark and stormy. So 611 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:43.039 you take the dark papas people are dark rum. Little two ounces, Take 612 00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:49.239 some ginger beer. Don't love ginger beer. Four ounces of ginger beer ice. 613 00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:51.760 Put a little lime in there. You know I put in a little 614 00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:54.119 lime. You think it's like a mule. You're gonna love it. Love 615 00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:58.440 ginger beer is good, which goes into a Moscow mule. If you put 616 00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:00.199 vodka in there, put some rum in the becomes a dark and stormy. 617 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:04.440 I call it a rodeo rum. Try that, but you got to use 618 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.239 Papa's PLR. You can get it. All your great stories. You got 619 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.119 Goodie Goodie, you got total Wine, you got Specs, you got Ralston. 620 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.920 It is served in the Capital of Grille. I see it downtown of 621 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:17.880 Garden Grace asked for Papa's PLR rum and I guarantee those bartenders will know me 622 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:23.440 because I helped get that in there. You know what, come by the 623 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:28.880 end of this month and when I feel better in Rodeo Zova, Rodiova I 624 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:30.800 need, I'm gonna I'm gonna have a happy art that I'm going to host 625 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:36.679 and I will be buying rounds of anything made with Papa's PLR rum. We 626 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:42.199 continue the ht T show National Margarite today, not going too far of it 627 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.599 is actually was celebrated last week. I'm gonna have some, I know, 628 00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:49.679 I'm We're gonna have an interview coming up here. Callum, I hope you're 629 00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:55.239 hungry. Escalante is celebrating thirty years. Could you believe that thirty years Escalante? 630 00:44:57.480 --> 00:44:59.599 There's like what eight of them I think Aaron Houston. They are coming 631 00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:01.800 in there bringing margarita is because they serve margaritas to go, but also some 632 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:05.559 of the great Fahidas. We'll talk about that in the meantime. We lot's 633 00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:07.719 good down to business. You know what I feel sorry for, you know 634 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.920 the Valentine's Day with you know, came and went. I don't know how 635 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.119 you guys celebrated it, and maybe you didn't. Maybe you're still trying to 636 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.280 figure out which dating app you're going to get on there. But guess what 637 00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:24.039 I read. I saw this about dating apps. There's a tender and Bumble 638 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:30.280 and Hinge, and I am not kidding you. I am not on any 639 00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.480 of these apps, never have been. I I don't think I planned to, 640 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.760 and I may not plan to because they may not be around longer. 641 00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:43.519 Bumble, which I don't I think it's based in Austin. Bumble just laid 642 00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:45.079 off a lot of its staff. It's planning to lay off about thirty percent 643 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.199 of its staff. That's about three hundred and fifty employees. Last quarter, 644 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:55.719 the fourth quart earnings either the profits, they're not nearly as profitable as they 645 00:45:55.800 --> 00:46:02.599 used to because gen Z Generation Z, which is I guess younger than my 646 00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:08.559 generation X gen X. Apparently dating apps are now a turnoff. Tellum, 647 00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:13.280 you you're a gen Zer. You know you don't want to talk about your 648 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:20.000 dating Okay, that's fine. A Bumble, the CEO said, the cuts, 649 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.960 that's gonna the cuts are gonna say the company about fifty five million dollars 650 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:28.480 and the company plans to invest in relaunching the app next quarter with new safety 651 00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:35.360 and artificial intelligence features to woo gen zers who are looking for love, Actually, 652 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.119 let me give you, let me give you a little help over here. 653 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:43.039 They probably need to woo gen xers like me looking for relove after divorces 654 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:47.639 and whatever happens. But it's not easy because a lot of people. Everyone's 655 00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:52.960 losing interest, it seems, and swiping for a soulmate, but especially those 656 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:59.079 young people. Here's a survey last October survey from axios Slash Generation Lab, 657 00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:04.599 seven nine percent of college and grad students said they don't use dating apps. 658 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:07.599 That's interesting, that's a high number. Now, I've got three boys who 659 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:15.840 are in their twenties who are not married. They're gen zers, and I 660 00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:19.280 actually I don't think they used They don't use any of it. But that's 661 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.320 but I think I know a lot of their buddies do. That's a high 662 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.880 number, so that's not working. Meanwhile, forty percent of users who were 663 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:34.159 over thirty said they've paid for dating apps, pair to just twenty two percent 664 00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:37.599 of users who are under thirty, according to a Pew Research study. Listen, 665 00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:44.000 bumble the competitors out there, they're scrambling to innovate two tender believe it's 666 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:46.320 I'm reading right now. They're trying to shake up its reputation from being a 667 00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:52.719 hookup app hinges investing in in person meetups. You know what, maybe do 668 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:58.480 what us us parents did, but I guess we were dating in the eighties 669 00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:02.719 or something they did. It's it's just it's called organic, man, But 670 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:06.239 maybe not do that because it's it's really not working for me either. I 671 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:10.960 don't know. He's just you go, you meet somebody. Hey, I 672 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:15.320 got a friend for you, Michael. I don't know. I don't know. 673 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.039 I just thought that was intro because dating apps. I'm not saying they're 674 00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:22.760 over done, but I just I just they did with a little fishy to 675 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:25.480 me, little fish to me even know. I know, listen, there's 676 00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.280 some success stories. Never my buddies have found their soul mas are still married 677 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:32.239 from dating apps. Good for you and I. What I do is I 678 00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:37.280 go up to their their wives, who are very friends, we are friends 679 00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:40.400 with when I say, you got a sister? Where am I going with 680 00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:43.639 this? I don't know. I'm getting hungry and I'm ready for another cocktail 681 00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:45.719 over here. It's almost national, butgrab Marguerite's coming it. It's gonna be 682 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:51.280 crazy. U no use to not gonna think about the number right now. 683 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.519 I got about another minute, actually less than a minute, real quickly had 684 00:48:55.559 --> 00:49:00.840 a I knew I've been playing with a smart watch. And I don't have 685 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:01.639 a ton of time to talk about it now, even the show. But 686 00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:05.840 it reviewed a little bit more next week on my show, but also going 687 00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:08.320 to put some notes on my website high tech texts in dot com. A 688 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:15.960 company called one Plus. Don't sleep on this company. Last year I found 689 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:20.800 and I got to test for the first time a phone, a foldable phone 690 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.719 from one Plus. It was called one Plus Open. It was a fold 691 00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:28.880 of a phone. I really really dug it. Just about a month ago 692 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:30.960 they had sent me the one Plus twelve, which is a new flagship phone. 693 00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:36.719 Is an Android affordable great. They just launched it and I've been playing 694 00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:37.760 this and I could say a word for about the last two two and a 695 00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.760 half weeks. Sit me there new one Plus Watch two. This is the 696 00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:46.039 second version of their watch. This is an Android watch. I really like 697 00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:51.920 it. What I'm impressed about this entire company. Their batteries. Their batteries 698 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:57.639 are just crazy awesome, long, huge. This is a dual operating system. 699 00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:00.960 Nice looking, very large because I like large watches, you know, 700 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:07.159 millimeter size, easy to manipulate, screen great, so many apps. The 701 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:12.159 battery life is fantastic, last almost four days. Quick charging that it comes 702 00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:17.320 with too. You could customize the watch face work seamlessly on either the Samsung. 703 00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:22.480 It's certainly the one plus. I like it a lot, three hundred 704 00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:28.239 dollars fifty dollars traded. Also it's called the one plus watch too. We'll 705 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.960 talk more about that next week, but in the meantime, this is what 706 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.039 I do. I review as many things as I can, and it doesn't 707 00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:37.519 have to be technology. Because coming up in his time for fajitas and margaritas 708 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:39.599 before we get out of here, don't go anywhere. It is Michael Garifel, 709 00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:47.840 the high Tech text in Shiseau. Good afternoon, my good friends. 710 00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:51.719 I appreciate you tuning in. It is Michael. Actually i'm gonna call this 711 00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:55.679 segment. I'm gonna call it the Miguel Garfield. It's the Alto Technelaria Tjano. 712 00:50:57.119 --> 00:50:59.599 I gotta do a little Spanish here because you know what this week is. 713 00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:04.239 It's National Margarite a week. Technically it was national Margarita Day, but 714 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.960 I'm going to go with the entire week right now? Is Margarita's? Is 715 00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:10.000 that the official drink of Texas? If it's not, I'm really going to 716 00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:14.679 start some sort of a petition to make it, because that's pretty much what 717 00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:19.000 we drink here year round and certainly this week. So many restaurants out there 718 00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:23.079 doing Fahida specials and Margarita's, but one of the biggies with the classic and 719 00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:29.719 now turning thirty years old, this restaurant here in the Houston area, Escalantes. 720 00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:32.320 Everybody should be familiar with Escalantes. They got seven locations all around the 721 00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:35.599 Age Town area. I go to the one out in sugar Land that's near 722 00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:39.039 me. So good. And not only are they're celebrating their thirtyth aniversary, 723 00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:44.679 they're celebrating National Margarite to Day and fatas and so bringing food into studio, 724 00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:46.280 which is really the coolest thing I get to do in media. I get 725 00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:50.760 all. I got this food over here. It's Ali Quert this he is 726 00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:54.960 the general manager of the Meyerland location and he is celebrating for Escalantes bringing in 727 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:58.400 some good food. Hey, I appreciate, and why did you only bring 728 00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:04.000 just like three or four margaritas to me and me go, of course we 729 00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:07.079 should. I mean, we have a few margaritas, but you're more than 730 00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:10.039 welcome to come over. You know, we have tons of margaritas waiting for 731 00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:13.639 you, guys. And it's not just this week you do. Every time 732 00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:16.800 you're open, you do have margarita. It's not just celebrating National Margerita Day. 733 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:21.880 For those unfamiliar, I don't know why thirty years that Escalonte's has been 734 00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:24.800 over here, tell us a little about Esclonte's how it started. So Esclentas 735 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:35.320 started back in December nineteen ninety three with our Woodwag location. It comes from 736 00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:40.639 a family, Miss Barbara Escalantes, and that's where all the recipes are coming. 737 00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:44.280 So there is an Escalon. There actually is an Escalante. Yeah, 738 00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:46.000 that's a last name. Okay, very good. All right, So for 739 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:50.159 some reason you change at Garfield would be a nice name for a new Mexican 740 00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:52.639 restaurant. If you guys want to branch out right, you can take that 741 00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:58.519 back to your marketing place. The first location, as you said, was 742 00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:00.679 was on Woodway. Woodway, is it? And that's still there? Yes, 743 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:06.079 that's the oge you know one. Oh my goodness, you have been 744 00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:07.920 working there twenty years or so, is that what you're doing? Yes, 745 00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:13.039 being with the company for twenty years. Actually, I started at wood we 746 00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:17.039 and Boss as a server and move myself on. Did you know what? 747 00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:21.440 I love hearing stories about that, and so I think the Escalantes may actually 748 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.599 be changed to wert this here the next generations. As we're talking to Ali 749 00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:29.000 quert This, he's the GM at one of the escalantes over here. One 750 00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:30.920 of the signature things, and I continue to read more about it and along 751 00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:35.960 with my visits. Everything is fresh, and that's one of the things that 752 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:39.360 you pride yourself on that is correct. Everything's fresh, made from scratched. 753 00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:45.760 We get our pros every single day. Some of them come from Mexico, 754 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:51.039 California. But yeah, everything's fresh. One of the staples that I think 755 00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:53.039 of how to tell a really good text Max restaurant from another, it's the 756 00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:55.760 tortillas. Yes, sir, to tell me you make those all on site? 757 00:53:55.880 --> 00:54:00.960 We do. We do as a made paid order. We do half 758 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:06.639 I'm sorry, flour and corn tortillas handmade. Yeah, delicious. Half so 759 00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:10.320 half are flour and half a Yes we do have flour. Yes, yes, 760 00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:14.480 Oh that's a good consistent. As I peak over the monitors and I 761 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:16.039 see just a whole plethora of food over here. I can't wait to dig 762 00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:20.599 in, one of which is your caeso queso. Again, I talked about 763 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:22.480 margarite as being the national drink of texts. I think keeso should be like 764 00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:28.000 the probably the national food or something that literally should be injected directly into our 765 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:30.639 veins. You use queso blanco. I noticed the white cheese. I love 766 00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:32.920 that much more so than the yellow cheese. Yes, sir, so, 767 00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:38.920 we're known for queso blanco. It's made with Shadar cheese and American white cheese, 768 00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:45.440 white onion, and green bell peppers. Delicious too. Staple, I 769 00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:47.039 talk about staples again. You know, obviously I'm an enchilada fan. I 770 00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:50.920 mean, I go simple. I like cheese enchiladas. But you cannot have 771 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.719 a great restaurant without having great fatas, which I know. I generally have 772 00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:55.400 this chicken fijedas which your sweat. Can you give me the secret sauce of 773 00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:00.519 how you make it fijeda? So? Well? Well for the beefaheda wheels 774 00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:07.960 outside skirt. Of course, we marinated overnight with our secret recipe and we 775 00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:14.519 cooked our feeding meat, medium ware. Serve on a hot scalet, very 776 00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:15.960 hot skill Joe. By the way, if you if you ever see a 777 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:20.440 hot skiale coming out, people don't have the kids go oh is this hot? 778 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.840 Stay away for that stuff. We're chatting with Aliquert This he is with 779 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.719 Escalante's. There are thirtieth anniversary seven locations and we'll kind of give a break 780 00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.159 that down here in a second. So let's take a look as we go 781 00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:31.360 down the radio down left to right, some of the good stuff that you 782 00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:34.880 brought into celebrate. We already talked about the fetas. You've got the beef 783 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.239 and you've got the chicken in on the top of a little bit of veggies 784 00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:43.639 here. Huh yes, sir, so serve it with saltate, onion and 785 00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:46.679 bad pepper, of course, with all the fixings fresh peakle. They got 786 00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:52.920 your fresh wacamole, shred of cheese and sour cream. We have sights cylinder 787 00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:58.440 rice, Mexican rice, black bean and rey fried pinto beans, which both 788 00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:01.239 are vegetarian. And I noticed you. We got two guacamoles over here, 789 00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:05.559 and they're a little different, you know. One it's like your typical guacamole 790 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:07.119 but this one looks like a table side, is that right? That is 791 00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:14.599 correct. So we're known for making the wacamole on table. So it's fresh 792 00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:17.840 meat per order, which you can tell us what do you want? What 793 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:22.199 do you want us to add it to guacamole and we'll do it for you. 794 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:24.719 Oh that is awesome. I love it. It's fun just watching how 795 00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:28.000 it's made. And of course I sit there and try to replicate it and 796 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:30.760 home myself. It just never tastes as good as you guys do it in 797 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.880 the restaurant. We have the touch. Oh exactly. Yeah, you need 798 00:56:34.920 --> 00:56:37.000 to come over and make something in my kitchen. All right. Now comes 799 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.000 to even just as fun stuff. It's a National Margarita Day was a few 800 00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:43.320 days ago. Well I'm going to call this National Margarite a week. You 801 00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:45.679 actually brought in a few of these things, and you just don't have one 802 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:49.679 type of margarita. You brought in several of them. What are the differences 803 00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:54.360 are you? So we have what we call Escalante's number four. That margarita 804 00:56:55.960 --> 00:57:02.039 has a history. So pat Antrio and Kope went to Halisco, Mexico, 805 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:07.840 and they actually picked that barrel. Actually it was the fourth barrel. And 806 00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:15.599 that's what the name is coming gotcha. Uh, it's hand picked that Margaret. 807 00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:22.440 It's made with heradula double barrel, not on Halicore fresh squeeze slam use. 808 00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:24.239 And I got that? Is this the one right here? That is 809 00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:27.880 the one? Okay, I'm gonna say. I'm a professional, so I 810 00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:32.320 could do this on live radio. So let me go ahead. And oh 811 00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:35.800 that is like you know what, it's not too sweet because you never you 812 00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:37.840 don't need too much of that sugar. That is good, strong, as 813 00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:39.639 I say. But I'm a professional. I can do this. Kids, 814 00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:42.960 do not do this at home while you're talking on the radio. That's just 815 00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:45.320 one. We also have something. I see some jlapenas floating in there. 816 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.519 What else do we have? Yes, so we have we have a spicy 817 00:57:49.559 --> 00:57:57.559 mango which is a model fresh mango and fresh jilapenos with Catas Blanco tequila, 818 00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:00.960 not on Halicore fresh slam use. And I we used only fresh lamb use 819 00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:06.320 and I got it with our margerators. If you have to pick one signature, 820 00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:08.519 which one would say, is there one did you actually call signature or 821 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:12.119 just all the mo open your mouth? People, Well, I'll go within 822 00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:15.960 number four. That tequila is made especially for us, so you can't get 823 00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:21.079 it anywhere else or then in our seven locations. It is. It is 824 00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:23.440 good stuff. Chatting here with Alec Wert This he is with Escalante's. Actually 825 00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:27.719 I'm looking at the emails coming over here. We've got actually someone who actually 826 00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:30.960 lives near you in Myreland. Is his name is Jim. Jim says, 827 00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:34.599 hey, it's I frequent the Mierland location. I need to start venturing out 828 00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.079 to the other one. And do they have a happy hour because that is 829 00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:38.960 something I've never seen. So actually the last question, oh you do tell 830 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:44.280 us about do we have a happy hour? It's Monday through Friday three to 831 00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:49.800 six, and we feature in our original margarita with perto Wai jerta Goal tequila 832 00:58:50.280 --> 00:58:55.360 and Jule's sixty proof Tequila's that's the key right there. Ooh, sixty proof 833 00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:59.800 because generally it's forty. Generally tequilas are forty, but we're going sixty sixty 834 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:05.280 only at Escalante, only in Escalantes, with fresh flame use and simple syrup. 835 00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:08.159 Oh my goodness, this is good. You guys open seven days a 836 00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:14.920 week. We open seven days a week. We open at eleven Fridays and 837 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.599 Saturdays, we'll close at ten, gotcha. Any other day we close on 838 00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:20.440 nine, right, And to wrap it up over here, you have seven 839 00:59:20.480 --> 00:59:22.679 locations we've already know. We know the Myerland. There's one in Woodlands, 840 00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:27.400 there's one on wood Way that I know. There's one in right on West 841 00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:30.400 Timer in kind of the River Roxea type of area. That is correct, 842 00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:31.840 one town of country. Yes, gosh, I'm getting this off a handed. 843 00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:35.679 What am I missing? Sugar Land? Sugar Land. I go to, 844 00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:38.400 of course Sugarland, and we have one not south, oh, NASA, 845 00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:42.880 down south Okay, wherever you are listen. Our radio signal goes all 846 00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:45.320 the way across southeast Texas people. You got to try it out. Happy 847 00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:49.719 National Marguerite today. And actually as a gift from Escalont's. You see, 848 00:59:49.719 --> 00:59:52.119 I'm not the only one who benefits from all this good food. Two of 849 00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:54.400 our lucky winners. You brought in some gift cards, didn't you, my 850 00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:58.519 friend. Yes, we have two one hundred dollars gift cards. Two one 851 00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:00.760 hundred dollars gift cards. People stand by I between now and the end of 852 01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:04.280 the show, or maybe one on social media. High tech tax I will 853 01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:07.719 give away these gift cards Courts Escalante, so you do can win the opportunity 854 01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:09.480 to go try some of these margaritas. And by the way, if you 855 01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:12.920 don't win, suck it up. Just go to them, go eat there. 856 01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:15.800 That's how good it is. Ali Horitis, thank you so much for 857 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:17.639 coming in and happy National Margarita Day week. Of course, thank you so 858 01:00:17.719 --> 01:00:21.760 much for having us here and just come and see us. You got it 859 01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:23.360 so friendly, so good. Thirty freaking how do you say? It's that 860 01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:31.320 Trent, you need one more margarita? Let me help you out. You 861 01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:34.280 brought a lot of margarita's in. I'm gonna have by the end of the 862 01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:37.280 show. I'm gonna be absolutely it's all espagnol here all the time. All 863 01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:42.760 right. It is Miguel Garfield KPRC nine fifty AM here in the Houston area, 864 01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:45.400 but also on iHeartRadio all over the country. Appreciate you. Tune in 865 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:46.559 and we'll be right back after this.