Hi Texan is Michael Garfel Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining the high tech Texan.
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Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades hoping you make magic with
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Texan, Michael Garfield. You are listening live from spread Folks Ranch, just
about ninety minutes or so southwest of Houston. Michael Garfield is the name in
Crewe. Sorry to say I'm not in studio, but really, if you're
listening on radio or podcast cast, does it really matter. No. My
job is to get out and about because I am the man about Hdown or
man about the world, actually the world, accorded to garf to give you
some ideas of where to go, what to do. It is just technically
a week from Memorial Day, yeah, but making a Memorial Day weekend summers
around the corner. If you listen here in our terrestrial territory of KPARC nine
fifty AM, which is Southeast Texas, got a really really unbelievable fun place
to go, especially for you Texans who like hunting and fishing and eating and
just just living off the land. It is called spread Oaks Ranch spread Oaks
Ranch dot com. I actually was unfamiliar with it until a few months ago
and the nice pr folks and reached out to me, going, Michael,
this is just up your rally. You like food, you like drink,
you like hunting. You're just a Texan you want why don't you come out
here and check it out and maybe do the show. Why not? We
love taking the show on the road, So for the next two hours we're
gonna tell you a little bit about it. Have had shattered conversation or two
with the proprietor and also I really think arguably the most important person here on
site. Certainly when you go to a club, a country club, it's
the chef for the food and beverage manager, which is really the person you
really want to buddy buddy up with. And last night, Friday night,
I did have a really nice buddy buddy time with Rick Rosser, who is
the chef the as he calls himself, you name it, I do it
to call up the lodge manager or whatever. But he rustled up some unbelievable
stuff from this fifty five one hundred acre beautiful place. Man. We got
ducks and we got dear a lot of Farrell Hawgs. You know what that
means. Farrell Haggs. Guess who brought guests? Who brought a little Umm,
I'm gonna go, Scott. I brought a contraption to maybe help with
the overfestation of Farrell Hawgs, which I may be doing here after the radio
show. It's a neat place for a get away destination wedding m and they
could they could not be more accommodating. So we will talk about the spread
Oaks Ranch a little bit more throughout the day. If you've been here,
by the way, we'd love to hear from you. Maybe you give me
some ideas of what to do, what to eat. Anybody ever had a
pheasant egg? I he was, Rick was, Rick was like putting a
pheasant egg under my nose last night. This day have pheasant out here too,
And so if you have some suggestions for me to do what to do
out here? Seven one three two one two five nine five two one two
five and nine five ozh You could also to check out some of the pictures.
I've been uploading some really fun pictures to the old ig high Tech tex
and Hi g h T e h T e x A and high Tech text
and uh listen, I do have a full show. It's it's called the
High Tech Text and Show. Really it's more than technology. It's just it's
whatever the hell I want to do. You know what? Did again?
I've lived a and I'd like to continue to live a long, fun life.
Let's just generalize it five decades or so. I'm a runner, I'm
a lover. I'm not a fighter. I'm an eater, I'm a drinker.
We have some fun. Why not doing it? I will start with
this, Speaking of lover, I hope you every every mother out there loved
and enjoyed Mother's Day last Sunday. If you got to spend time with your
mom, Mozel, that is good for you. If your mom happened to
tune into my radio show, so I gave them a shout out, just
like I wrote a very special Mother's Day night to my mother thanks to chat
GPT. This is what we do. Listen, by the way, moms,
I'm talking to you. If you did not get what you wanted from
Mother's Day. If you don't like it, and I know you did not,
well, I assume you didn't tell your kids that or tell whoever got
it for you. But if you don't like it, sneak away with your
cell phone sometime between now, in the next hour and forty five minutes,
call me and tell me. You can disguise your voice in your name.
I will suggest something else for you, maybe something that you really want.
Maybe maybe it is a kitchen gadget that you want for yourself that, as
I talked last week, kitchen gadget in appliance is really not the thing to
get mom, or your spouse or your girlfriend. Take it from me.
Maybe you want a little jewelry. I know a little a little about that.
You want a car? Oh, I know a lot about cars and
trucks. A matter of fact, later the show, I have got to
tell you I'm due. I'm gonna do a whole segment because I you know,
I review cars and trucks. I was in a massive, fun,
huge pickup truck and Moms, should you have the means that wherewithal or just
the the gusto to drive something big? I will tell you all about the
Ford F one fifty Raptor R. The R don't give me. Oh,
I've heard of the raptor Ah. This is the special hard defined version of
the F one fifty Raptor R. This truck is stupid, big Mom.
I'm gonna tell you how you get one of those. We'll actually see.
I can tell you if you want one of those. I don't know why
it wouldn't, but I will suggest some things for you coming up. I'm
also gonna tell you about free TV. There is there was an announcement a
few days ago. There is a company, a hardware company that is allegedly
seems to be they are going to give away half a million three fifty five
inch televisions. There is a catch. It's could be a dilemma. I'm
gonna let you decide whether it's a dilemma or not. I actually signed up
for one. I don't know if it's ever going to come from a fruition.
It's half a million TVs, it's a it's a lot of coin.
There are a lot of questions, but I'm gonna let you know where to
sign up for it, and you know what, I'll go ahead and blow
the deal. If you do want to find out information, If you want
to see if you can get in Q in line for one of those,
you go to my Twitter account. We're gonna tweet you now. High Tech
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is a new company that will give you that will give you a free TV
and I'll tell you about the catches here at some point soon. Google changing
a few things. I love Google. Not an endorsement. I wish it
was, because Google's great. Either the Android operating system. I've got Google
doorbells, and you know Google, you know smart speakers, I've got Gmail,
I use Google Maps. It goes on or not. If you haven't
used your Google account in a while. This they just the wonderful company called
Google. They just announced that they are going to delete active accounts. Well
let's put it this way, sorry, inactive accounts. If you're Google,
whatever Google service you use, if it's inactive for about two years, they're
going to delete it. I'm gonna tell you how to save how to save
a life, how to save your Google account, other fun things for you.
We've got hotels that have been three D printed. A lot of travel
coming up. As I told you, I'm traveling right down. I mean
it's a it's a weekend trip, not too far away. We'll tell you
more about that. I got some questions for you seven one, three,
two, one two, five, nine five, And also Q and A.
I do answer to some Q and A one which actually happens to me.
And I didn't think it was a phenomenon, but it actually is.
It happens to other people. Does your television sometimes turn on by itself like
a ghost? Mine does and one of mine does, And I just thought
it was weird. Maybe there's a ghost in the machine. Maybe it's somebody
pimping me. This actually is a phenomenon. I will tell you why it
does and what to do about it, because you don't want that. So
a lot of TV talk, some sports talk, some neat stuff going on.
By the way, rockets are you did not get that number one pick,
but I do have san Antonio listeners, san Antonio the big winner of
the week. Congratulations on that number one selection in the NBA draft, which
is happening next month. Listen, having a good time. Michael Garfield spread
Oaks Ranch coming up. You want to hear a little bit more about spread
K's Ranch. We're gonna sit down with Forest Wiley. He is the owner,
proprietor. It's got some fun stories. This guy. It's a conservation
it's a preservationist and some good food, a lot of of wildlife, a
lot of hunting, a lot of good food. As we continue from spread
Oak's Ranch, don't go anywhere. It is Michael Garfield on what we call
the High Tech Texan Show. We are back at it on Behind Tech Texan
Michael gart the show. Happy Saturday and everybody. Just halfway through or so,
May of twenty twenty three, Congratulations to everybody's graduating. Summer seasons coming.
That means weddings, that means travel, which is one of the things
that I do. You know, I've done this show for well over twenty
years, and I love getting out of the studio because it's tough just to
kind of keep me belt it is sitting down anywhere, and so I take
the show on the road, which is exactly what we are doing this weekend.
I am just about an hour and a half outside of Houston on the
south southwest side. I am at It's just gorgeous. I never knew this
existed. It's called spread Oaks Ranch. It is I can't even tell you
how something like fifty five hundred acres will get the exact dimensions. It is
just great. I got here yesterday and there's everything from hunting and I mean,
I can't just walk out without seeing a duck here or fueral pig over
here. The food is great. So many things to do. I want
to I want to bring in the owner over here because I gotta learn more
about this and it's one of my things that I want to do. I'd
like giving you guys some information. His name is Forrest Wildly Forest as the
owner of what we call spread Oaks Ranch over here, I'm gonna call you
cowboy a hoss for us. First of all, you know, you know
how to host and I do. Thank you for having me out here.
Congrats on such a success out here. Why is it such a hidden secret,
my man? Hey, well thanks thanks for coming Mike. And you
know, spread Oaks Ranch, we started out here about fifteen years ago.
We built the lodge about six years ago, and it's just it's the whole
deal. You know, We've got farming, ranching, hunting, outdoor sports.
Really just come out here and you can't believe it's an hour and a
half away from Houston. So that's been the big gram again. Really really
hunting's how it started, and we've kind of branched into all kinds of different
things. It's fifty acres, is that right, That's a that's a lot
of land here. Yeah, it's fifty We bought it in three different pieces.
About a third of its farm land, about a third of it is
kind of pasture land with big trees, and then a third of it's dedicated
to waterfowl. So it's it's a third or third or third Colorado River frontage.
Um, you know, it's a beautiful place. I was able to
walk around a lot yesterday. I spending some time and doing little fishing,
but just walking alone. It's just great hiking. But I mean, I
got my exercise yesterday. My man, I'll tell you what I'm doing.
The show here and just a beautiful you know casita, which which you have
several of and you've got everything from a farmhouse, the main house. It's
very picturesque and I already put some of my Instagram page. Here's a lake
over here, there's there's there, there's a lot of you call the impondments.
There's just a lot of water everywhere, which I like, Yeah,
we're on the coastal prairie, so you know, this is the native habitat
for you know, the the ducks, the alligators, uh, you know,
all the waterfowl, the big fallout in the fall with all the migratory
birds coming coming through. But yeah, forty five different empondments. Um,
you know, eight of them are permanent lakes. The rest of them are
man made. And we do it really to encourage the wildlife and the waterfowl
to come down every fall and stick through the spring. So um, like
I said, very very much focused on trying to integrating the farming, the
ranching and the wildlife kind of the way. I remember that when I was
a kid growing up in Wharton, Texas and Rosenberg, Texas. True Texan
speaks, and I'm there's there's a we went to a place last night right
on property of here. It's massive, it's it's got like four rooms in
private baths. You call it the Old three hundred and explain how something to
do with Stephen F. Austin or something. What's the story there? Yeah,
So it's actually we call it the Old three hundred. It's got eight
bedrooms and eight bathrooms in it. We can put twelve people up here in
their individual rooms and own bathrooms. But essentially the first approved American immigration into
Texas when it was Spanish Texas and then Mexican Texas was with Stephen F.
Austin. He became an impresario with the Mexican government after the Mexican Revolution in
eighteen twenty one, and he got approval to bring three hundred families into Mexican
Texas. Let them, you know, get they each got a league or
about five thousand acres granted to them by the Mexican government. But they had
to fulfill conditions and that was run off the Cronquin Indian make it productive either
farming, ranching, and then keep it that way for a period of ten
years, and then the land reverted to them what Stephen F. Austin got,
and it was between the Colorado and the Brazis River, so we're on
the Colorado River. So three hundred families they made, they tamed it,
and then they got to keep the land after they kind of proven that they
had done it. And Stephen F. Austin for doing all that, he
got a big chunk of land up where Stephen F. Auston University is,
So he got eighty thousand acres for putting all these families together. It was
the Mexican government's way to grow tons, to tame the Cronkwin Indians, and
to make the land productive. So we honored that that history by naming it
All three hundred. The actual original site where the Old three hundred would come
and pick up their supplies is on Jennings Lake, which is on our property.
So that's the spot where the Old three hundred started the first approved American
immigration into Mexican Texas. I love it. I just get Texas history is.
Obviously it's so important to me. I remember I study in seventh grade
and obviously somebody of listeners here are born, raised, generational, so this
is this is something very neat. Talking to Forest Wiley. Forest is the
owner of Spread Oaks Ranch, where about ninety minutes outside of Houston. Just
looking outside that there's just so many fun things to do. You were just
going through the Texas history. So you talk about historical roots, but you
look around and I already talked about there's ducks out here, but I mean,
you have what how many heads of Brangus cow out here? You got
wildlife flying around. There's organic crops out here. Give us a little bit
more lay of the land. Yeah, So we are cow half operation.
Five hundred mama cows, thirty five bulls, and so we have about four
hundred and fifty calves born every year. We sell them off when they hit
about nine months old, six seven hundred pounds. We farm, as you
mentioned, we have organic and conventional farming. We've got about two thousand acres
that we farm, and that's Texas Road. Crop used to be all rice,
but that went away about ten fifteen years ago, and then again the
rest of it is basically left for wildlife habitat. You know, when I
was a kid growing up in Horton, Texas and Rosenburg, Texas, we
used to go up and down the rivers because they were public waterways and we
were hunting fish, and occasionally we'd get off the waterway with tennis shoes and
do some more hunting and fishing. We used to call them Tennessee leases.
And I promised myself, if I ever had a chance, I'd come back
and kind of recreate what I remember as a kid. You know, you
didn't have the big corporate farm or the big corporate ranch. You had these
integrated operations that had a little bit of everything, and it really supported the
wildlife. And so that's the whole purpose of spread Oaks is to be integrated
kind of like what I remembered as a kid. And it works well for
the farming and ranching and for the waterfowl and all the other you know wildlife
out here, dear. Unfortunately a lot of pigs, but you know,
all the other wildlife really enjoys it. Yeah you okay if I take care
of some of those pigs later today, because I brought my rival absolutely as
many as you want. Like I said, you know, we encourage people
come out and shoot the pigs because they're a big problem in Texas. We
have a couple of companies that bring out their helicopters into it, and so
we appreciate all the help you'll give us. I've never never been hella hogging,
but I I am loaded right now, and I know thirell pigs.
If people don't understand this, they really can't be at issued. So I'm
gonna do my part later today when I when I get off, when I
get off the air for us Wiley joining me here for another minute to two.
He is the owner of his beautiful spread Oaks Ranch. I can imagine
listen. I know you're very nice because I'm doing a radio show and it's
just you know, it's just me out here. It's so big and spread.
I can imagine the events that you have out here. I mean,
can I go with hunting and fishing reps or or weddings, destination stuff,
family, your unions? I mean what all do you host out here?
Yeah, we've all the above. We've done weddings, kind of destination weddings.
You know, a family wants to bring twenty people that go to Costa
Rica or the Caribbean. Instead they come here for the whole weekend and kind
of share the whole weekend with the family and have their small wedding, very
intimate and a lot less travel and a lot less stress. We do corporate
events, we do leadership training out here. Um, you know, we've
done culinary weekends. We do one every October with Brennan's restaurant. They come
out half Brennan's and half Rick and you've met Rick. Rick is showing himself.
Yep. Last night o he knows, he knows how to cook man
he does, he does, and like ninety percent of what you eat out
here comes from out here, you know. So there's some of the stuff
that we have to buy. But between the gardens and the cattle and the
sheep and the chickens and and the pheasants, basically, you know, we
we produced ninety percent of which you eat. And you saw Rick how he
cooks it. He has a big smoke house and so he's big into charcoteries
and turned and meets into something special. So you know, we've done you
know, family reunions. We've had up to twenty eight people out here at
one time. Double occupancy. You know, we can get about thirty people
into the space and it's a great place for a weekend family reunion. We
got skeet and trapped that you can do. We do ranch tours with all
the Texas history. You know, this used to be a big gathering spot
for all the skirmishes before Texas became independent. So Gonzalez goalie had they're all
kind of mustard here on the ranch and then would go off to the battles.
So it's we can take you on a tour and give you all the
history. Of course, all the fishing in the lakes where got lots of
stock ponds with big bass. As you mentioned, you can walk around and
just depending upon the time of year, enjoy all the wilderness, the flowers
in the spring, the fall fall out of all the migratory birds. So
lots to do. Well. I'll tell you what you haven't feed me quite
well. The breakfast this morning was amazing. And when I'm done here at
one pm Central time, I think I may have to go help you out
with a little pig action to help you out over here. But I totally
can see so many fun things that the events out here great Texas history,
and I know, after what fifteen years of ownership, you're doing a great
job for us. If anybody wants any more information, how about that website
or how can they get a hold of you. Yeah, on the website
you spread Oaks Lodge or spread Oaks Ranch, either one will pick it up
and on there we have our contact information either by email or you can call
Jed who who will answer the phone and give you all the different things you
can put together out here. So please spread Oaks Ranch, Spread Oaks Lodge
on the internet or and then that will have Jed's phone number on it.
Well fantastical. I thought, you know, if everybody wants to check out
my Instagram, high tech texts and high t E C H T E x
in I'm putting some videos. I'm putting some really nice photos. Just give
you guys somebody to do, things to do. I know, obviously hunting
a seasonal come September. You've got a different things, but it is.
It's Ferrell Pig Hunt season here in about an hour and a half. That's
okay with you, my man. There you go, brother, I love
hey, listen, thank you so much for hosting again. I'm gonna get
Rick on next hour and we're gonna talk a little about some of the food
he's gotten. But you've got to you've got a really fun show place out
here. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming out, and good luck
with those pigs now, gotcha? All right, dinner time people not from
mes anybody else eats that gas? All right? Michael guard filed out here
again, spread oaks, Rangel Listen, we have a lot more coming up
here. Yes, we do have some things in consumer lifestyle. I'll tell
you which, which vehicle I drove out here because every week I get the
test to have a new vehicle. I'm glad I got this one to come
out here too. It's a little wet with all the rain, but I'm
having a lot of fun. If you can't tell Doug go anywhere, it
is Michael Gard feel right here on KPREC nine fifty am. iHeart Radio around
the world on the High Tech Text and show Bottom of the Hour. When
you think you continue to tune into the fun Saturday, I tet texting the
show. How are your name is? Michael? None to call me Mike?
What'd you get for Mother's Day? People get an air friar? That
was really not your number one gift for Mother's Day? Come on, ladies,
give me a call seven one three two one two five nine five.
Oh, Maybe able to tell you to exchange it for something else. Maybe
you want a new iPhone, you want to you want to iPhone, an
Apple Watch? I don't know. You want some jewelry. I'll suggestive,
but that's what I do. Last week we counted down some last minute Mother's
Day's gifts, and it seems like for the most part, everybody was happy.
Flowers always something nice but if you were at least able to spend it
with your mother, good for you. That It's sweet. See we're very
sentiment over here as we continue to Michael Garfield shoh. Speaking of which,
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generally on this side of the microphone. I'm the interviewer, I'm the host.
And it was really neat and in special and interesting to be a guest
when Kenny and Matt hosted their their weekly podcast and they wanted me on there,
and I'm thinking, why why would you want me? But it was
this we got It was about an hour and fifteen minutes. Then it will
be I believe on YouTube here at some point soon were they were asking me
questions about, yes, about technology, but also about you know, branding
and how do you brand yourself? And it was very flattering. Uh,
you know, I've been doing this for twenty two years. They wanted to
know how I started or created the high tech techs in brand way before social
media. It's a lot of hard work, fits and tears people that I'm
still shitzing right now two decades later. The point is then we got into
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into all I'm in you listen if we generally, hey man, here's my
phone, whatever time it is. But I do like jewelry, especially for
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And then watch us too. They've got a great selection of Rolex watches and
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You can just go shopping there. Some moms, if you did not like
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Jelry and you tell them that. Michael Garfield, Oh, that's right,
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I come in there, they get shipments, I asked him. I say,
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guards coming in there. About two weeks ago, I was there they I
mean they had some jewelry, beautiful bracelets, women's jewelry, earrings. I
went in there on Thursday and it's like, my goodness, this is the
most jewelry I've ever seen at any of the Jewelry star I've ever been into
it. And they're just they're so fair and they're really great boys. What
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It's Katie Freeway I ten just near Voss as we do continue the High
Tech Texan Show. Speaking of time, it's just about what thirty five minutes
or so after eleven am Central time. If you're listening live on KPORC AM
Radio nine fifty all across the southeast portion of the Great State of Texas.
TV is awesome. Mom. I don't know if you want a TV or
not, but this is there anything better than a getting a gift? Which
is nice? But how about getting something free even it's not a gift.
This was kind of here's something that made the headlines and I kind of jumped
on. I'm anxious to see what everybody thinks about this. There is a
company that is taking names and they are going to give away TVs, totally
give away fifty five inch TV. It's a company called Kelly t E L
L Y Kelly, and it's kind of a startup, and it's a hardware
startup, meaning it's hardware, meaning they actually make a TV. And they're
giving away half a million of these new smart TVs for free. Here's a
catch. Oh really, there's a catch. The catch is at the fifty
five inch smart TV comes with a second display, a little secondary display that
sits underneath the TV. It's a video thing and displays ads while you watch
your favorite TV shows. So the trade offer free TV is agreeing to let
this brand new start up collect a lot of data about you because the money
ads make from what they make from the ads, they cover the cost of
the TV itself. So I'm looking at this and I'm look at the privacy
follow see because this is what I do for you, folks, according to
the privacy policy the startup company, they collect data about what you view,
where you're located, what you watch, along with maybe what could be inferred
about you from that information. And there are a lot of people out there,
probably most all of those things. I'm I'm worried about my data.
What am I supposed to do? Listen when you're on the internet, when
you have an email address, whatever you serve. I'm sorry, people,
we trade a lot of things. We trade our data. Why do you
see all the advertisements on Facebook, pop up or whatever social media you're on
or whatever website, going, oh gosh, how do they know I was
in the market for a car, a piece of jewelry, a tennis racket,
a pickleball racket, or something like that. Well, they they they're
a little everything from a little pick souls is what it's called. Uh,
there's maybe cookies, which you've ever heard of in the internet world. They
know where you're serving, what you're tracking, and a lot of people believe
that your phone is listening to you. If you mentioned a word all of
a sudden, you're gonna get served up some ads. Would you here's a
question of the day. Would you sign up for this and to get a
free fifty five inch TV? Oh have the secondary screen where there you're you're
constantly going to be see ads. I went back and forth and I said,
screw it. I signed up. Now am I gonna get it?
I don't know how this thing works because you actually have to fill out some
information. You got to fill out your age, you're where you're living,
how many hours a week or a day you watch TV? And now listen.
I am at TV, Hank. I mean, there's no secret,
man. I live on TV, actually live watching ESPN, so I'm certainly
I watched a lot of sports live sports sports shows. I watch an average
of I don't even know what I putted. I mean I watched an average
of easily my TV. Because I work a lot from home, my TV
is on easily six seven, eight hours a day. Whether I'm directly watching
it or not, I'm not. You know, it remains to be seen.
But listen when I watch. Here's here's my thing. When I'm watching
sports, and you've done this too over the past, the perifylation of television
sports over the past anywhere between ten years or so. There's this thing called
the bottom line. It's a scroll in the bottom and it shows you other
scores of what's happening. It shows you the breaking news of stage headlines.
If you're on ESPN, go to listen, CNN, does it Fox?
It's just you're constantly at the bottom of the screen. Do you watch this
or does your eyes float away from it? I'm gonna be I'm gonna be
honest. If I'm watching some content, if I'm watching a game, my
eyes really don't drift down to the lower third. It's not even the lower
third. It's probably like about the lower fifth of the screen to see,
So I don't see it. Would I notice the ads? I mean,
depends how bright they are. Is there sound that's coming on? Again?
Questions? I don't know. But for a free teeth, I'm used to
actually having tons of stuff on my screen. We all are and and don't
and think about this smart TVs which many of us have. They are notorious
data collectors. Years ago, years ago, Visio televisions were caught spying on
customers viewing habits, and they were ordered offer customers a way to opt out
of the tracking. And there's a lot of other smart TV makers that are
not much different. Samsung collects and information about what users watch on its smart
TVs and data that was subsequently stolen in the data breach last year. This
is according to TechCrunch dot com, which I'm reading right here. It's it's
a give and take situation. Seven one three two one two five nine five.
Oh. You can go on my Twitter and actually I put a link
if you want to sign up for a free smart TV. Now. The
reservation does cover and I'm clarifying this the first five hundred thousand TVs they're expected
to ship this summer. I don't know the full specs. I don't know
if it's four KHD, but the set's worth to be estimated about a thousand
dollars in retail. And there is again for some reason you don't want it.
I think you can return the TV, but you have to pay five
hundred dollars or so. They're taking this company called Telly. They're taking reservations
free fifty five inch TV that continuously displays ads. I'm part of the secondary
screen. So if you if you're willing to accept those ads or maybe tune
them out and share your data. It's free people, you don't have to
you don't have to do it. Listen. I love ad. You just
heard me do an ad for US coins and jewelry. You know what that
cost you cost you about a minute and a half of the time, but
also gave you an idea of potentially that's a pretty cool thing. Michael shops
there, and I certainly will vouch for them. I'll stand behind them.
Ads. Ads are not a bad thing. This is why you're listening to
KPRC radio where it is free. Does not cost you anything to listen to
this radio station. In effect, it's a it's a it's a business model
that has been around for a long time. Is it for you talking up
here? We are going to take a break. When we come back,
I'm gonna tell you how you can make a lot of money on social media.
I my social media is growing and growing, which is nice, and
it's nice that you know companies will now you could partner, you know,
listen, influence or whatever it is. I'm gonna give you a story about
some Snapchat influencer of how much money this chick made in one week, and
you're gonna be like, I'm quitting my job. How in the world does
this happen? This is this is the world we're living in, my friends,
and I'm just here to hold on right along and tell you stories.
Michael is my name, Michael Garfield. It is called the IDEC dex and
shell see three two, one, two five nine twenty two years that number
has not has a lot of change, lottest change what I started doing this
radio show, the longest running live radio program here on kpre SE nine fifty.
Either way, we just celebrated ninety eight years of broad jesting on this
heritage talk station. Why they have let me do it for about a quarter
of that time. I still can't figure it out. Well, maybe it's
because of you, dear listeners who listen treshally on nine fifty AM Southeast Texas,
but also around the world on the iHeart Radio app. Wherever you go,
you could take me and you can listen anytime at your Leisia. You
don't need to listen live. Well, I like you listening live because sometimes
I may say, hey, it's lunchtime here. It's almost twelve o'clock noon
Central time here on this beautiful Saturday. I got a deal at the restaurant.
At the first twenty people there get free burritos. I'm not saying that
right now because I don't have anything to give away. But does it feel
free to listen live as you're driving around wherever you are? Certainly if you
are in the great State of Texas high Tech Texa dot com. I've done
this for twenty two years, and it's not like they pay me to do
this. That's I don't want to get into it. That's too much information.
But more and more there are ways to actually or a living without without
working. It's kind of like radio, right. Yeah, it's social media.
It's a it's a funny thing. It certainly was not around when I
was in college to take social media classes. But I've tried to glom on
and all of us have everybody here at our station, and at most everybody's
certainly and definitely in the media because our bosses they want us to. You
know, we are quote unquote and I hate using this term sometimes, but
where personalities and obviously people tune in to heroes, and so they want to
follow us on social media. And the more, the more post that you
have, the more people will maybe click to KPORC website. It goes on
or not, especially in the TV business. I know so many my buddies
of who are in the TV business, the sports anchors, the morning host
or whatever. I believe it's in their contract they need to post photos on
an hourly basis or something during their their shifts or something. It's just it's
it's for content. Hey, listen, I get if you get enough viewers
and followers, it becomes an advertising platform. And look at look at the
famously the Kardashians. You know, I don't know how many millions or hundreds
of millions of followers that they have, but every time allegedly Kim Kardashian,
you know, post one tweet, it's could be a quarter of a million
dollars. A man's crazy. And I say this is because I saw this
story about an influencer, which is a name. I do not like that
title. I think that's be it because I was among many somebody had called
me. I was twenty about two years ago. The Houston Chronicle, I
think was doing a twenty year column on you Know Me in Congrats and High
Tech dex Rand and I think they quoted they said Michael Garfield was an influencer
before the word influencer was around, which was it's nice, but there had
been many influencers. I mean when I started on Channel two, where I
started my local media career, even before radio, in two thousand and two
thousand and one, I was on the morning early mornings on Channel two on
the morning show, and I would be able to at the desk and I
would talk about technology and I would hold up products like I would explain what
Wi Fi was. I mean, that's how long I've been doing this.
And then when the rollout of you know, digital TV and HDTV, and
they were laptops that were very big, and cell phones here everybody and I
allow I was doing. They weren't endorsements. It was just me taking I
think two minutes and thirty five seconds. Right before that they would flip today's
show. I would just explain, hey, this is a neat piece of
technology, and I would talk simply about it and how it could be good
for your life or you know, maybe why this is you know, maybe
you should wait to version two, three, four, or five. But
people would see it. Viewers would see it. They would say, Michael's
in't to know about this thing. He must be relatively intelligent about this subject.
I'm going to go out and buy one of these laptops. That's pretty
much. I'm breaking down what an influencer is without really endorsing it. And
I talk a lot about a stuff on the show that is not endorsed.
It's just content. But when I do talk about things that I like,
like said I love Android phones, I get paid zero and it ticks me
off. I talked more. I have said the word Samsung more on this
radio program in twenty two years than probably any other brand. I have not
gotten squat from Samsung. It's just something I like. I review. It's
good content. Samsung. I'm sick of it. We need to talk to
my people. Anyway. Let's go back to the story. There's this there's
an influencer and NANSK wins here, probably some young girl on Snapchat. Her
name is Karen Marjorie. And again I'm giving her publicity. I don't know
who she is. She made more than seventy one thousand dollars in one week.
One week what she did. She released at an artificial intelligence version of
herself. It's called karen Ai. She's charging fans. I love how they
use fans one dollar per minute for this karen Ai to be their virtual girlfriend.
This is from Fortune magazine. As of last week, this karen Ai
had more than one thousand quote unquote boyfriends or other words paying some subscribers,
and she estimates she could eventually bring in five million dollars a month from this
chat bot. Man, people, I tell you, I thought I was
I thought I was new. I thought I was a first to the game.
I thought I was smart. I have missed the boat on so many
things. Oh my god, seventy one girl in one week. Now.
To be sure, I don't have Snapchat. I've never used Snapchat. I
don't know who this lady is. This girl is, I don't know how
old she is. But if this is anywhere true, that is it's a
pretty darn good business model. You ever had a virtual girlfriend? Callum,
I'm looking at you here on the other side, callum, you have a
you have a real girlfriend, right, yeah? Really describe how that is?
I forgot about that. Say, what is a virtual girlfriend? Someone
to talk to? That we used to just buy a magazines back of the
day. I don't know what a virtual girlfriend is and a dollar per minute
whole cow. I mean, I need to you know what I should?
You know this is what I'm doing. I'm not stealing. I'm gonna partner
with this, Karen Marjorie Chick. Maybe I'm gonna come up with garf Ai.
Well, I can have a thousand virtual girlfriends. Hell, I'll charge
them a penny permitted. Hell, I'll pay for you to be my virtual
rural girlfriend. That's a funny story point is seventy one thousand dollars. If
you parents or your kids are listening, and if you want to get a
what career should go into? People, Listen, I am old school.
Go to college, get a degree, at least take some sort of a
writing journalism class. You can speak well, you can write well. Become
a doctor, become a lawyer, be whatever like that. But if all
those fails, Hell, just create a virtual boyfriend or girlfriend out of yourself.
People, Because I mean I know a few doctors, most all my
friend or lawyers. I don't think that makes seventy one girl in one week.
I just don't I know, I don't a few more minutes before the
top of the hour. On the other side, we are going to talk
a little bit more cars and trucks. And I had a monster. I
had the Ford F one fifty Raptor R pickup truck. It was absolutely stupid,
and I say stupid with a lot of respect. Man, it was
amazing. If you are a truck head, a truck fangirl, a truck
fan boy, you got to hear some of this stuff. I was rolling
around, I got stairs, and it wasn't about my flowing hair when the
windows was rolled down. Now, this is about the five point two leaders
supercharged V eight with a Shelby GT five hundred engine, which, oh,
by the way, produces seven hundred horses seven hundred horsepower, and a pickup
truck. That's just one of the things that I get to I drive a
two around with It's it's fun. Yeah, I do get to do a
lot of fun things. I get to talk about stuff. Sadly, I
don't get indoorsed for some of these, but I will. I will anybody
want to. I'm more than happy. I'm not gonna be your virtual boyfriend,
but I'm more than happy to speak for you if I do like and
truly believe in your product, because that is how I've done it for twenty
years. Our number one is officially I've coming up. I'll learn a little
bit more of where we are here at spread Oaks Ranch, ninety minute southwest
of Houston, and it's a child time. Rick Rosser, the head chef.
Oh, we had a fun time last night, eat and drinking and
cook And we'll telly a little bit more about where we are and give you
some ideas of where to travel because we are taking the show on the road
all summer, I hope so and for the rest of you know the days
that we were on the radio, because we try to have some fun,
happy Saturday people. Michael garfeerd, We're gonna be right back. Yeah.
High is Michael Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining the high tech texting Michael Garfiel
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on the iHeart Radio Act. Now you're high tech Texan Michael Garfield check o'clock.
We are at just after twelve o'clock cent time, halfway through the High
Tech Texan Show, which means we're halfway to happy hour. We've been again
to part week hitting. It's all happy hour on Saturdays, on this pretty
mid May day. If you're listening live on KPARC Radio, it's a happy
hour right now. Because we are not in studio. We're broadcasting from spread
Oaks Ranch, about ninety minutes southwest of Houston. It is a massive fifty
five one hundred acre beautiful wildlife preserved. We got we got ducks, we
got teal, we've got pheasant, We've got fair all dogs which I'm getting
ready to go take down after the show is over. Some great food.
We'll talk one more time with Forrest Wiley, who is the Odor, and
long later this hour of all the great food with Rick Rosser. Just to
give you some ideas of where to go destination weddings. Not that I'm having
one, but if you anybody wants to go somewhere for destination, they've got
Oh, I got Casita's big ranch house. It's it's it's quite fun.
So it's nice to take the show on the road and give you some ideas
of where to go. We hope to take too lots of travel this summer,
and I have a companion pass no companion, so let's go. Let's
fly people. Phone number here is seven one three, two one two,
five and nine to five. Oh, that's how you're going to get into
a Callum. He's on the other side. Callum's back in studio. He's
to keep his on the ear. This will be podcasted, so you can
go to the iHeartRadio app after this is completed at one o'clock Central time and
listen to your heart's content one more time. Last hour, I talked about
there's a company who's giving a free televisions free to half a million free TVs,
fifty five inch TVs. The catches that it comes with a little secondary
screen underneath the TV that you have to watch ads advertisements NonStop, along with
a little data they collect from you where you are, what you watch,
and what have you. Is this something you I do? I signed up
for it. I don't know if I'm going to be one of the first
half a million people who will get this thing, but I'll take a fifty
five inch TV maybe I won't turn it on, but I'm interested to check
it out if you would like to sign up for one of the TVs.
I believe I put the link on the old Twitter high Tech Texans, so
go check that out. What else I wanted to talk about? I guess
I teased that I might as well pay it off. You know, I
do like driving. One of the things that I do as I review and
I recommend cars and trucks. For fifteen years I have been a member of
the Texas Auto Writers Association, which means I write and I talk about recommend
cars and trucks, sadly for no money. It's all content, not endorsement.
I do not work with dealerships. I worked directly with the manufacturers.
So I had a really nice one from a very powerful manufacturer, very famous
manufacturer, this past week or two from Ford. Anyone, anyone Ford pickup
truck fans, here it comes. You've heard of the Ford F one fifty,
obviously a very, if not the most popular truck on the road.
Then there's the Ford F one fifty Raptor version, which is the upgraded kind
of interior, a little bit more elegant, and you may have not heard
of this one. This was the Ford F one fifty Raptor R and I
don't know exactly what the R stands for other than raw, which I made
that word up because while starts with the W. This was right. The
most impressive thing about this was the damn truck itself. The looks, the
sound, the ride, the stairs. I got. It was unbelievable.
These are very, very tough to find. If you go to a Ford
dealership or look on line, if you can find one. I believe the
sticker the way I the sticker price that what I drove was just about one
hundred and ten thousand dollars. That's just the sticker. And because these are
so hard to get, there's not They don't make a ton of them.
Good luck finding one, and good luck finding one for that price. But
if you happen to get one, you've got the means to get one.
Don't worry about the gas mallad journey thing, which was relatively decent. This
is a five point two Leader supercharged V eight engine. Oh it's not just
any old V eight engine you ever heard of. Shelby Carol Shelby famously the
racer out of Dallas. This has a V eight Shelby GT five hundred engine,
which is in a truck bad, which means it's not the bad it's
in the engine of the truck. It's gas. It's not by the byways.
Someone says, I posted this online a picture. Is it is that
electric or a hybrid? Uh, let's let's go back on time, people.
This is one solid gasoline. No, this is this is a gas
power baby. Seven hundred horse power in a truck goes from zero to sixty
Oh, just about three point seven seconds. Moms, didn't get what you
wanted last week from Mother's Day. You're salivating on this thing right now.
Dad's kids listen to this. Go go get mama. Raptor R. It's
got a valved exhaust. This is neat the exhaust pipes. You actually can
switch different modes, so from normal to sport and Baha, like you're driving
around the hills and the offerading of Baja and the exhaust it's it number one.
It dampens the noise. If you go to normal, the engine is
relatively quiet. You push a button on the steering wheel, you go into
sport mode. Obviously you get a little bit more, you know it the
wheels, and the steering tightened up the exhaust. Now we're talking, then
you gonna buy a mode and you wake up the entire neighborhood. The tires
thirty seven inch all terrain tires. These tires are massive, obviously, they're
they're three well over three well well over there over three feet in diameter,
toes up to eighty seven hundred pounds. Inside. Seats could not be more
comfortable. They're front, the front or the Racaro seats. The rear seat,
the rear it splits into like a sixty forty split seat, and so
it's just like a bench that folds up. And so you could put your
rifles, your shotguns, which I did, by the way, easily under
there to hide them. And again the price is one hundred and ten thousand
dollars. I don't know what else to say. It's a lot of the
stuff. A lot of the things I get to drive are fun. They're
smile machines. Yes, I have to drive small, boxy sedans. I
have to test drive probably two times a year, maybe a mini minivan.
I have to drive little small cars that barely fit through four people in there.
I like sport cars. I drive SUVs, but then I drive pickups.
Some of them are like, oh my goodness, this if but I
give you every vehicle is meant for somebody else. You may be in a
mode of frame of life right now where you're just out of college, you
don't have a lot of money. Sure, I'm gonna go tell you to
see if I can get you a twenty thousand, twenty five thousand dollar vehicle
that's going to last year for a long time. Okay, that's that's fun,
all right. If you are looking for a second, third, fourth
car and you got nothing but money to spend, sure, I'm gonna tell
you to go get a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Mercedes Ragtop, you
know, AMG model, which I've had several over the years. Now,
i am not telling you to go get one, but I'm just giving you
the idea that if you're a pickup truck and you want one of the most
ultimate pickup trucks. There's probably two ultimate pickup trucks, the Ford F one
fifty raptor the Raptor R. But also Ram has one called the TRX or
the t Rex. So apparently they're marketing to dinosaur fans the Raptor or the
t Rex, the trx. This is what the forward Raptor are can compared
to. So there you go. There's this kind of the update of the
day. What else you got for you? I don't know. Let's find
out after the break a little bit more where we are at spread Oaks Ranch
while we're eating, and give you an idea where to come before we wind
up the show. Here jazzed about forty five minutes. It is called the
high Tech Text and Show. Michael Garfield is the name. We are back
at it on the High Tech Texan Michael Garfield Show. Happy Saturday eight everybody
jazzed halfway through or so, May of twenty twenty three. Congratulations to everybody's
graduating. Summer season's coming. That means weddings, That means travel, which
is one of the things that I do. You know, I've done this
show for well over twenty years, and I love getting out of the studio
because it's tough just to kind of keep me belt it is sitting down anywhere,
and so I take the show on the road, which is exactly what
we are doing this week. And I am just about an hour and a
half outside of Houston on the south southwest side. I am at just it's
just gorgeous. I never knew this existed. It's called spread Oaks Ranch.
It is I can't even tell you how something like fifty five hundred acres will
get the exact dimensions. It is just great. I got here yesterday and
there's everything from hunting and I mean I can't just walk out without seeing a
duck here or fireal pig over here. The food is great. So many
things to do. I want to I want to bring in the owner over
here because I gotta learn more about this and it's one of my things that
I want to do. I'd like giving you guys some information. His name
is Forest Wiley. Forest is the owner of what we call spread Oaks Ranch
over here. I'm gonna call you cowboy a hoss for us. First of
all, you know you know how to host and I do. Thank you
for having me out here. Congrats on such a success out here. Why
is this such a hidden secret? My man? Hey, well, thanks
thanks for coming, Mike. And you know spread Oaks Ranch. We started
out here about fifteen years ago. We built the lodge about six years ago,
and it's just it's the whole deal. You know. We've got farming,
ranching, hunting, outdoor sports really just come out here and you can't
believe it's an hour and a half away from Houston. So that's been the
big brawlm again. Really really hunting's how started, and we've kind of branched
into all kinds of different things. It's fiftys is that right. That's a
that's a lot of land here. Yeah, it's fifty We bought it in
three different pieces. About a third of it's farm land, about a third
of it is uh kind of pasture land with big trees, and then a
third of it's dedicated to waterfowl. So it's it's a third or third or
third six miles Colorado River frontage. Um, you know, it's a beautiful
place. I was able to walk around a lot yesterday. It's been in
some time and doing little fishing, but just walking alone. It's just great
hiking. But I mean, I got my exercise yesterday, my man.
I'll tell you what I'm doing. The show here and just a beautiful,
you know casita, which which you have several of and you've got everything from
a farmhouse. The main house is very picturesque and I already put some of
my Instagram page. Here's a lake over here, There's there's there, there's
a lot of you call impondments. There's just a lot of water everywhere,
which I like, Yeah, we're on the coastal prairie, so you know,
this is the native habitat for you know, the ducks, the alligators,
uh, you know, all the waterfowl, the big fallout in the
fall with all the migratory birds coming coming through. But yeah, forty five
different impondments. Um. You know, eight of them are permanent lakes.
The rest of them are man made, and we do it really to encourage
the wildlife and the waterfowl to come down every fall and stick through the spring.
So um, like I said, very very much focused on trying to
integrating the farming, the ranching and the wildlife kind of the way. I
remembered that when I was a kid growing up in Wharton, Texas and Rosenberg,
Texas, true Texan speaks, and I'm there's there's a We went to
a place last night right on property of here. It's massive, it's it's
got like four rooms in private baths. You call it the old three hundred
and explain how something to do with Stephen F. Austin or something. What's
the story there. Yeah, so it's actually we call it the Old three
hundred. It's got eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms in it. We can put
well people up here in their individual rooms on bathrooms. But essentially the first
approved American immigration into Texas when it was Spanish Texas and then Mexican Texas,
was with Steven F. Austin. He became an impresario with the Mexican government
after the Mexican Revolution in eighteen twenty one, and he got approval to bring
three hundred families into Mexican Texas. Let them, you know, get they
each got a league or about five thousand acres granted to them by the Mexican
government. But they had to fulfill conditions and that was run off the Coronquin
Indian make it productive either farming, ranching, and then keep it that way
for a period of ten years, and then the land reverted to them what
Stephen F. Austin got and it was between the Colorado and the Brazis River,
so we're on the Colorado River. So three hundred families they made,
they tamed it and then they got to keep the land after they kind of
proven that they had done it. And Stephen F. Austin for doing all
that, he got a big chunk of land up where Stephen F. Auston
University is, so he got eighty thousand acres for putting all these families together.
It was the Mexican government's way to grow taxes, to tame the cronkwind
Indians, and to make the land productive. So we honored that that history
by naming it all three hundred. The actual original site where the Old three
hundred would come and pick up their supplies is on Jennings Lake, which is
on our property. So that's the spot where the Old three hundred started the
first approved American immigration into Mexican Texas. I love it. I just get
Texas history is. Obviously it's so important to me. I remember I study
in seventh grade. And obviously somebody of listeners here are Born Ray's generational so
this is this is something very neat talking to Forest Wiley. Forest is the
owner of spread Oaks Ranch, where about ninety minutes outside of Houston. Just
looking outside that there's just so many fun things to do. You were just
going through the Texas history. So you talk about historical routes, but you
look around and I already talked about there's ducks out here, but I mean
you have what how many heads of brangs cow out here? You got wildlife
flying around, there's organic crops out here. Give us a little bit more
lay the land. Yeah, So we are a cow calf operation. Five
hundred mama cows, thirty five bulls, and so we have about four hundred
and fifty calves born every year. We sell them off when they hit about
nine months old, six seven hundred pounds. We farm, as you mentioned,
we have organic and conventional farming. We've got about two thousand acres that
we farm, and that's Texas Road. Crop used to be all rice,
but that went away about ten fifteen years ago, and then again the rest
of it is basically left for wildlife habitat. You know, when I was
a kid growing up in Horton, Texas and Rosenberg, Texas, we used
to go up and down the rivers because they were public waterways and we're hunting
fish and occasionally we'd get off the waterway with tennis shoes and do some more
hunting and fishing. We used to call them tennissee leases, and I promised
myself if I ever had a chance, I'd come back and kind of recreate
what I remember as a kid. You know, you didn't have the big
corporate farm or the big corporate ranch. You had these integrated operations that had
a little bit of everything, and it really supported the wildlife. And so
that's the whole purpose of spread Oaks is to be integrated kind of like what
I remembered as a kid. And it works well for the farming, ranching,
and for the waterfowl and all the other you know wildlife out here,
dear. Unfortunately, a lot of pigs, but you know, all the
other wildlife really enjoys it. Yeah, okay, if I take care of
some of those pigs later today, because I brought my rifle, absolutely as
many as you want. Like I said, you know, we encourage people
come out and shoot the pigs because they're a big problem in Texas. We
have a couple of companies that bring out their helicopters into it, and so
we appreciate all the help you'll give us. I've never never been hella hogging,
but I I am loaded right now, and I know thrilled pigs If
people don't understand this, they really can't be at issued. So I'm gonna
do my part later today when I when I get off, when I get
off the air, for us Wiley joining me here for another minute to two.
He is the owner of his beautiful spread Oaks Ranch. I can imagine,
and I know you're very nice because I'm doing a radio show and it's
just you know, it's just me out here. It's so big and spread.
I can imagine the events that you have out here. I mean,
can I go with hunting and fishing trips or or weddings, destination stuff,
family, your unions? I mean, what all do you host out here?
Yeah, we've all the above. We've done weddings, kind of destination
weddings. You know, a family wants to bring twenty people that go to
Costa Rica or the Caribbean. Instead they come here for the whole weekend and
kind of share the whole weekend with the family and have their small wedding,
very intimate and a lot less travel and a lot less stress. We do
corporate events, We do leadership training out here. You know, we've done
culinary weekends. We do one every October with Brennan's restaurant. They come out
in half Brennan's and half Rick. And you've met Rick. Rick's showing himself
yep, last night. O. He knows, he knows how to cook
man he does, he does, And like ninety percent of what you eat
out here comes from out here, you know. So there's some of the
stuff that we have to buy. But between the guard and the cattle and
the sheep and the chickens and and the pheasants, basically, you know,
we we produced ninety percent of which you eat. And you saw Rick how
he cooks it. He has a big smoke house and so he's big into
charcouteries and turned and meets into something special. So um, you know we've
done um, you know, family reunions. We've had up to twenty eight
people out here at one time, double occupancy. You know, we can
get about thirty people into the space and it's a great place for a weekend
family reunion. We got skeet and trapped that you can do. We do
ranch tours with all the Texas history. Um, you know, this used
to be a big gathering spot for all the skirmishes before Texas became independent.
So Gonzalez goalie had they're all kind of mustard here on the ranch and then
would go off to the battles. So it's we can take you on a
tour and give you all the history. Um of course, all the fishing
in the lakes where got lots of stock ponds with big bass. As you
mentioned, you can walk around and just depending upon the time of year,
enjoy all the wilderness, the flowers in the spring, the fall fall out
of all the migratory birds. So lots to do. Well, I'll tell
you what you haven't feed me quite well. The breakfast this morning was amazing.
And when I'm done here at one pm Central time, I think I
may have to go help you out with a little pig action to help you
out over here. But I totally can see so many fun things that the
events out here, great Texas history, and I know, after what fifteen
years of ownership, you're doing a great job for us. If anybody wants
any more information, how about that website or how can they get a hold
of you. Yeah, on the website you spread Oaks Lodge or spread Oaks
Ranch, either one will pick it up and on there we have our contact
information. Either by email, or you can call Jed, who will answer
the phone and give you all the different things you can put together out here.
So please spread Oaks Ranch, spread Oaks Lodge on the internet or and
then that will have Jed's phone number on it. Well fantastical. I thought,
you know, if everybody wants to check out my Instagram high tech texts
and hi g h T E c h T E x in. I'm putting
some videos. I'm putting some really nice photos. Just give you guys somebody
to do, things to do. I know obviously Hunting a season will come
September. You've got a different things, but it is. It's Ferrell Pig
Hunt season here in about an hour and a half. That's okay with you,
my man. There you go, brother, I love hey, listen,
thank you so much for hosting again. I'm gonna get Rick on next
hour and we're gonna talk a little about some of the food he's gotten.
But you've got you've got a really fun show place out here. Thank you
so much. Thanks for coming out, and good luck with those pigs.
Gotcha all right? Dinner time? People not promise anybody else who eats.
That's awry. Michael Gardfield out here again, spread Oaks, Rangel Listen.
We have a lot more coming up here. Yes, we do have some
things in consumer lifestyle. I'll tell you which which vehicle I drove out here,
because every week I get to test to have a new vehicle. I'm
glad I got this one to come out here too. It's a little wet
with all the rain, but I'm having a lot of fun. If you
can't tell Doug go anywhere, it is Michael Garfield right here on KPREC nine
fifty am iHeart Radio around the world on the High Tech EC and show Good
Afternoon, Welcome back. It is beIN gu Darfield. I hope you're having
a great day. Rainy for the past week and a half. Man,
this weekend turned out quite well. Phone number if you want to get in
talk to me, ask me some questions Postmother Day return gifts. I am
your guy seven one three two one two five nine five out. I've told
you several times where I am. We are not in studio, which really
is a good thing if you think about it. I'm about an hour and
a half outside of Houston, about on the southwest side. I am at
the beautiful spread Oaks Ranch, and I'm so glad I learned about this and
got here yesterday. I'll be here another four or five six hours. And
I mean, this is a summer camp for adults. I'm just gonna gotta
throw it out there. I've done everything from skeet shooting and there's Ferrell pigs,
and I haven't even gotten to the food yet, which is what I
want to do. The chief chef, the chef extraordinaire, the man with
the plan of the kitchen. His name is Rick Rosser. And now he
and I tucked each other quite quickly, because you know, I like me
some food and some wild game and everything else he serves here. I'm gonna
bring Rick in for a few minutes to talk over there. Rick, are
you are you trying to just get me fat? Or you just want to
showcase your talents? I mean, what's the real story here, buddy?
You know, it's just it's it's uh, it's maybe it's a mixture of
both. You never know. Well, you do have talents, and you
know we were talking over for sellable cocktails, which obviously you're a cocktail maker
too, But twenty five years of professional artisanal cooking experience. Uh, you've
you've traveled around and find dyning. I mean, get a quick background of
what brought you to spread oaks over here in terms of food. Um,
look, you know, maybe some serious religion and praying. Uh you know,
really spread oaks lodge and ranch. We're out here. We have a
forrest gave us the opportunity to build a thirteenth century smokehouse. How many people
get to say that? And when he gave us that opportunity and we started
looking at blueprints and then just really the recipes that can go from that,
it sparked a whole new thought process out here. I don't want to get
ahead of myself. Last night's dinner also buco grim will lava. We raise
parsley in a lot of different areas because it's a great companion garden plant for
us tomatoes. It keeps the deer away. But we some hydroponic parsley grim
Wi lava with a little wild orange juice in there from our orchards. Then
we follow it with our three mile corn. You have to be real careful
when you have a farmer that works with you and he plants a thousand acres
of corn and you make mention. He's like, hey, man, i'd
really like to I've never had sweet corn before. Can we grow that?
And then next thing, you know, he plants three miles of corn for
you. So we spent last summer picking corn and rolling it into ground corn
for polenta, and we served it last night. Yet again never points the
way that yellow corn really tastes great. Uh, and then the axis dear
DEMI to top it. Wow? Wow, wow is it? I mean
I listen, I'm rolling out there thinking, okay, I'm gonna have a
burrito. No no, no, not not with chef Rick Rosser. Baby,
you don't do that stuff. I meant you and everything, and and
the point is, and we talked to forest earlier about the fifty five hundred
acres that that you were on a spread Oaks ranch. I mean everything is
microlocal. I mean, as you said, you're growing this over here and
you and listen, you're you're talking about pheasant I mean, pheasants are laying
eggs. You're having pheasant legs eggs because you gotta eat them because there's no
incubator. I mean, there's there's You got a lot of top quality organic
fruits to vegetables, to herbs, and you got a shade house and a
greenhouse. I mean, you don't need to go to a grocery store really,
you know, the we don't. We really try and just eat and
grow what we want. So when the guests come in, it's very seasonal.
One of the funniest things is, you know when you when you call
sometimes there are people that want to have a menu when you come out here,
and that's so hard to think about because of what we're doing. Uh,
you know, we raise lambs on property. You never know what the
protein might be because it's so seasonal. And when I say seasonal, it
changes from week to week. You know, tomorrow we'll have to go pick
squashing zucchini because you were here and we didn't get to go to the field
garden today, so we'll be behind. And then we'll have bigger squashing zucchini,
so we'll have to play with the flavors that go with that with the
next guests that come in. So microlocal I like that. I like that.
Yeah, yeah, feel free of trademark that we're talking to. Rick
Roster. He is the he is the chef, the lodge matter. He
just does every pretty much almost everything here. We are again where it's spread
Oaks Ranch. There's links, there's pictures on my Instagram account, checkout high
Tech text and dot com. Certainly from a lot of the food that we
had last night. You talk about the meats too. I mean, I
mean that charcouterie board you met. I thought, I'm I'm a decent charcouterie.
Dude, Dude, I took lessons from you. I mean this CHCARDI
I don't even know what all you put on there. You just you know,
you kept doing it. But everything from the Hennah house and your smoke
house and and every all the proteins you had. You got a stock bass
lake. I know we went nuts on fishing yesterday. I mean, who
knows what you're gonna throw on the plate. And I guess when people come
be at weddings, be at corporate outings, that's what they expect. They
just said, Man, I'm just sitting down. You just you just feed
me and I don't really don't care what it is. Yeah, once once
we established that, it's going to be amazing. Truthfully, the return business
is great because of just the calmness, the we take care of everything when
you when you show up, just because of the expectations and the culture.
You know that. But it's not just me on the ranch. There's we
have a whole team here Chef Spencer that helps me out with all of our
charcouterie items. Couldn't do it with it. It's not just one person.
Forest has been a great uh know. He just sees the vision in people
and gives them the talent and the ability or gives them the ability to do
that. So I didn't awesome. Yeah. We also I don't want to
sleep on your on your cocktails because you also you do some mixology classes too,
and you know, I love I love making a drink. But we
had a ball last night waiting on the honeysuckle now so we can get back
to our honeysuckle simple syrup for those brown water drinks you know, old fashions,
just something brown waters the way to go. So we've already blown through
all of the dew berries for this year. We're waiting on muscadine grapes,
honeysuckle. U can't really find the passion flowers that grow out here usually get
caught by the raccoons and there's not much flavor. But we're in that we're
in that sadly enough, we're in that summer grind, and we'll just start
eating vegetables and really relying. This is when Spencer and I start hitting hitting
the smokehouse, uh, making all of our charcooni because it takes I mean,
it takes anywhere from three months to three years, depending on what we're
processing. So from duck presciutto that Spencer knocks out of the park, to
our soap prosada from the lambs, the presciutto from some of our old school
farmers, got really exciting. It never slows down here just because we're always
doing something for the next group. It's it's crazy. Yeah. I mean
the wine parings and the cocktails are great, you know, you know,
I mean we had a great discussion about brown water because I am a bourbon
guy over here. But also I mean the foraging and you know, the
the outdoor fire pits and the cookery and I know you teach culinary classes.
I mean, it's it's a really really nice escape. It's only an hour
and a half from Houston. And the fact is, I'm not going to
call it a secret because it's been around for a while. But you for
as Spencer in the entire gang. I mean, you offer a lot of
stuff, and for us was saying, you know the number of different you
know, it's a destination wedding. I mean, why go to Mexico when
you can go an hour and a half and you close your eyes and you've
got your own private personal chef and you know all the great casitas and everything.
I mean, you're pretty much living on paradise. Am I wrong with
that one? No, you're not. I'm I'm living the dream. I'm
living the dream. We are living the dream and your fatness up and we
cannot thank you for it. So I get off the air here one o'clock
in the afternoon of the Saturday. So for the next hour or two,
I don't know what do you got fun for us to do? I know
we fished, we can go shooting again. I don't know what do you
think we should be doing? You know, I would like to take and
put you on a buggy, and I think we should go tour the grounds
a little bit more, show you some of the history that we have being
one of the original three hundred settlements of Texas. You know, we haven't
even cover some of the just the grounds on the property. It's really cool.
Our corn is just starting to tassle, so we've got about a thousand
acres of corn that we could go look at. We're still holding ducks that
are migrating through from Mexico. We still got some teal on property, so
that'd be cool to see. And then UH have to go look at some
more deer because all of our fawns are starting to drop. So you gotta
love the cute baby deer. Yeah, what if what if we run into
some feral hogs? What am I supposed to do? Ah? I don't
know if we can say that on the air. Boom boom boom. Baby,
we gotta take those things down. They are a nuisance. They are
nuisance and auto sim ha ha. You are a fun dude. Eight listen,
I get I enjoyed hanging with you yesterday and right now in the radio.
And we're gonna play around here for another few hours, but certainly we
want to so many of my listeners to at some point go check it out.
It is called Spread Oaks Rand spread Oak Ranch dot com. Come out
and hang with Rick and Forrest and the rest of the gang. That it's
just it's fun stuff. I'll but just I'll just make sure I just you
know, I don't want to overread. But my man, you are a
chef extraordinary and I appreciate your hospitality. Thanks, Sarah, you have a
great day, gotcha. Okay, well, we'll see you soon when we're
off there. That is Rick Rosser here as we continue to be spread Oaks
Ranch Broadcast. Check it out and you want to see some pictures. You
want to see all the fun stuff we're doing. Go on the old Instagram.
For me, it's called high Tech Tech and hi g h T E
C h T E x A N and you. At some point we're gonna
want to come out here. You're you know yourself. Some couples and weddings
certainly corporate out it. All right, We're gonna take a break so I
can finish up the show so I can have even more fun. Oh,
come on, I always have fun on the radio. But don't go anywhere.
It is Michael Garfield here KPRC nine fifty A M here you got who's
hungry? We do thank Rick Rosser, who is the head executive chef extraordinaire
here at does spread Oaks Ranch. When you thanked him for our stay ninety
minutes out southwest of used to go to spread Oaks Ranch dot com. We
appreciate it. What a what a fun time, got a fifteen more minutes.
Uh. It's Farrell Hawks, by the way, if all if you
the speakers were blasting out here all over the fifty five acres of property.
If you're a Farrell Hawk, baby, you're going down. You're going down
after this baby. A lot of a lot of fun hunting. Welcome to
Texas people. I'll give out the number one one more time, if that's
okay, seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh, Michael
Garf, Garfield, Garf. Yeah, let's just you know, don't call
me Garfield, don't call me Mike, call me Garf, Mikhael, Miguel,
don't call me late for dinner. And and Rick did not call me
late for dinner last night or even lunch. Just it's which I think it
looks like he's setting up here on the end of the corner. Some of
the things that we talked about today. I talked about that Mother's Day If
you didn't like your Mother's Day gift, I'm I got a few emails saying
hey, Michael. My kids were very sweet. They got me this,
But should I exchange it for another product? I like this watch. I
would rather have this smart watch whatever. And that's what I'm here for.
I'll suggest something that you really really want. Tell me, tell me,
tell me what you really really want? TVs too. I told you how
to get a free TV. Actually, they're starting this this promotion this summer.
It's it could be a good Father's Day gift. It's a company called
tell E T E L L Y there. They just announced it giving away
half a million free TVs fifty five four KTVs catches. There's a secondary part
of the screen underneath the fifty five inch TV screen that will show ads,
advertisements NonStop and they're going to collect a little of your data. Is that
a good exchange? Is that? Yea? Or nay? You tell me
about that, speaking of a TVs. Lots lots of things happening in the
world of television, which I do follow. This past week in New York
there was the big advertising conferences for all the networks. It's called the Upfronts.
Upfronts they usually happen in May, and all the the television networks from
NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and every Disney and whatever. They will
host the advertising buyers, some big clients and let them know, hey,
here's our fall TV lineup. Let's take your money right now so you can
sponsor it, and some big announcements to Disney actually threw something out that Disney
obviously owns ESPN ABC. They had said that ESPN as we know it,
which is pretty much almost every single cable and satellite channel, that at some
point they may pull that off cable in satellite and may take it all streaming,
not like ESPN, kind of like ESPN plus where is right now,
but they could take it all streaming, which is interesting. U. The
NFL announced that they're doing a playoff game, their very first playoff game in
January, and it's going to be on a streaming package. This is play
now, nothing different. It's a little different because we've known for the past
year Thursday night games have been on Amazon, which is a un like what
one hundred billion dollars deal over the next thirty years or something that's that's a
Thursday night game. This is playoffs NBC Peacock, which is a streaming service.
They paid one hundred and ten million dollars to air one NFL game.
People content is king. The NFL is king the high Tech text and Shows
number two. For one hundred ten million dollars, you could not only title
this program the high Tech Texting two brought to you by Blah. I will
also marry you, Okay, it's I will. I will live with you,
I will show for you around for the rest of my life. Point
is, there is a lot of content, there's a lot of changes,
there's a lot of advertising, but there's also ways to watch free TV.
Two things are free and I don't have this. There is something called Sling
TV. They just announced a new free streaming service. Now, when's the
last time you heard well, first of all, my favorite four letter word,
and who isn't free? A lot of streaming services, you know,
they cost money eight bucks, nine bucks, ten bucks, twenty bucks a
month. Sling TV just announced a new level. It's called Sling Free Stream,
Sling Free stream, and it's it's a way to watch TV absolutely free.
Because you know why, it's advertisers supported. We talked about that.
I just talked about these new TVs and add supported streaming t and if you
think this is a new thing, you are listening right now to radio.
How much is this costing me right now? Nothing? Why? Because it's
advertising supported, which, by the way, we do think are good friends
at US coins and Jewelry, Universal Plumbing Supply, Astounds dot Com, which
is with a Z. They they upkeep, they keep up with my SEO
searching optimization and my website. See because I just said that for ten seconds
listening to this or freeze, that a big deal. Now Sling for you
stream, by the way, they can access more than three hundred and thirty
five channels, no sign up, no credit card required. Almost too good
to be tweet. I don't know. So I'm reading it and this is
not an endorsement. I'm just I'm just reading this. This one I think
USA today. It's first of all, it's different than Sling TV. Sling
TV is a paid subscription based service that gives you live channels. There's I
think three levels orange and blue or orange and blue, anywhere between forty to
sixty dollars a month, and that's paid. Sling Free Stream is a free,
ad supported service that gives you free streaming content from about three hundred and
thirty five live channels, and you can get this online. There's a Sling
app on Roku or the Amazon Firestick, Xbox PlayStation and a lot of your
smart TVs. You can get this thing. Let's see over here. All
you need to do is visit the Sling Free stream website and you start watching,
or you can download the Sling TV app. I'm trying to see what
kind of channels they are over here. Live news channels include ABC News Live,
CBS News, Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Sports content is available. And you know
you're not getting ESPN with this thing, though, because nothing's free with that
thing. Bar Stool Sports and overtime they're free. Okay, I mean I
gotta dig this. You just again, is this your end all, be
all service for everything. It's not for me because I need live big major
sports like NFL, which you know is going to go on the ESPN and
and things like that. But it's nice to know something that's free and it
suck it up. Who cares if they're advertisements. We've lived through advertise,
You read up newspaper, you read a magazine. If you do, you're
way too old. The demograph and for this radio show, you know what
you get. You're gonna get ads you listen to this radio station. Listen,
we're about to take a break. To the end of the show.
You're gonna hear about four or five minutes with the advertisements. At the top
of the hour, you're gonna hear some news and good content. We'll go
back into content with the you know, whatever program is next. Then you're
gonna hear some advertisements. Again, happens on TV. You know, a
thirty minute television sitcom really only has I believe, twenty two minutes of actual
content because they leave eight minutes four TV commercials. We have lived with this.
I'm willing to live with this, and I know you have to because
we consume media, and that's the way it is. By the way,
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these the people who work the the smart people, and they do a good
job with that. We take a little glance in the show. We got
about another thirty forty five seconds. We do like to thank one more time
our hosts this weekend spread Oaks Ranch dot com or spreadex Lodge fifty five one
hundred massive acres with fishing. If you have a corporate outing, if you
want to corporate retreat, if you want to an event, bachelor party,
a destination wedding, you could bring your guns. You can bring whatever you
got. They've got the ponds lakes. It's so much here. Thank you
so much to for us Wiley, to also Rick Rosser, and to a
good friend Kim Pageant at Paget Public Relations. So who was the one who
actually told me about this great place. For all of us who've been a
part of this show, we do thank you for tuning in. Callum,
go take a nap right now, my man, and let me know who
wins the Breekness horse Racing stinks the derby here later today. I will see
you next week with more information. If not, you can find me high
Tech Texan dot com and everywhere else you will find those great words high tech
Texan. On so social media, my name is Michael and right now let's
go hunting some pigs and hogs. My friends, my show is over.