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Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Another Saturday. Should this be the last Saturday
before school starts for all you hiddos out there? Sucks for you, but
not your parents or me, because school it's over for me. But this
is what I do. I am here to give the final BTS addition of
the high tech text and Show. Now not the BTS, the pop group
of which I'm very tight with, Sugar, one of the singers, dancers
and rappers from Back to from BTS since I was hanging out with them in
Korea a few weeks. Got no BTS. That's back to school. That's
that's old school. When we say BTS, folks, it is it's coming
Monday. For a lot of you, it is back to school. If
you need help with final laptops, desktops, alarm clocks, whatever you need
to buy, or one for yourself, for your kid, for your grandkids,
for your graduation presence. I am here for you a proper introduction.
Michael is the name seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh.
I don't bite, I really don't. You can ask people, and
it's kind of fun to call me because we just laugh and I just,
you know, just just kind of make you smile because that's what I do
in life. It's it's it's simple stuff. Callum read hello, Callum,
how are you? He is on the other side of the glass. He
will pick up your phone call and he will say, hey, man,
what do you want to talk to Garf about? Really? Do you want
to do? You want to check out a Samsung phones? It's excuse me?
Is that a phone in your pocket? Are you're just d happy to
see me? Samsung Phones? By the way, that the products that I've
been yapping about for several weeks right now, the z Flip five, the
z Fold five. They officially went on sale yesterday. Should you be listening
live Friday, August eleventh, They are in the public. I've had him
for about two weeks and I've now made the Flip five my regular everyday phone,
and it's fun. It's neat getting some ooh and I'll look at that.
How cool is that? Can I hold it? Can I touch it?
I'm like, how you doing? My name is Michael. But I
love the form factor. It is half the size of a regular phone.
It folds down like a clam shell and then you full it up it becomes
just the size as a regular phone. Does not have the greatest cameras in
there with the lenses, I will say that compared to other Samsung phones that
I have, But for the convenience, I'm pretty pretty impressed. You can
go back to my podcast you can hear me talking about the full reviews of
the Fold five and the Samsung Tablet great. I like the tablet is thin.
It is it's a large size by fourteen point three inches, comes with
a little spin so you can draw on some things. And also the Samsung
Watch there's the Watch six and the Watch six Classic. By the way,
shout out to Toby dagonheart triangle printing. He just he texts me was it
today, this morning or yesterday? Garf, I missed some of your show
last week, I have the Galaxy Watch five. Is it worth upgrading to
the Watch six? I know you like the bezel, the rotating bezel on
the new Watch six Classic, but is that reasoned upgrade? I text at
him my thoughts and honestly, if you have a Watch five and you're happy
with your Watch five, I'm not sure there's a big, big reason to
go out and buy another one for three hundred four hundred dollars or so.
I love the fact that Samsung brought the rotating bezel. Bezel is the outside
rim of watches, and other than the Watch five, which they took that
away, they brought it back on one of the new watches they hear,
the Watch six Classic, because it as you rotate it right or left,
it flips from screen to screen to screen instead of you know, finger swiping
finger swiping it is it? So if you can live with your Watch five,
you really don't care about the rotating bezel, Toby, go ahead and
you keep your Watch five and maybe the Watch seven. It'll do other things
and so we'll check about out for next year. Anyway, what else can
I set up for the show today? I do have a list of some
of the better laptops, your best last laptops, especially for college kids.
It's not uncommon for high schoolers to have laptops or tab but college kids,
it's I don't know it is a is a laptop must have for college?
It's it's a question that you, you folks, can answer for me.
I listen, my three kids are done and gone through college. And I
remember my oldest he wanted a not only a laptop, but he wanted a
tablet. I thought that was a little overkill, but you know, we
got it for him, and I guess he used both of them. I'm
not sure, but it's so funny how times change. I went through college,
oh, Sharklin, without a desktop, without a computer. Actually we
had a computer. It was called a blue book and a number two pencil.
You know, we sit here, you know of people of my age
and ilk how do we get through college? And we didn't have cell phones?
How'd we know? You know? You know, if we wanted to
meet up on sixth Street and Austin, where were we supposed to? How
do we do it? I don't know, I honestly do not know how
we did it. I think, you know, our fraternity were just hey,
man, we're gonna meet at uh, you know this this place on
you know Maggie May's on sixth Street. Be there at ten o'clock. And
if you weren't there, you weren't there. We remini this more about that.
Then, how do we get through college without a computer? That's what
we did. Very tough to get through college without computer. But I guess
I'm going back to my question from two and a half minutes ago. Do
you get through college without a laptop or do you have a desktop? I
could not live on a laptop alone daily. I have a very large desktop,
nice to meet you, thirty two inch all in one gorgeous display.
It's an HP. Actually I have two of them, so technically I got
about sixty four inches sitting on my home desktop, just because that's what I
do. I sit at a computer most of the day and I'm typing and
I'm I'm writing, and but also I have I record things. I have
not only this much where my video camera is. I do my zoom calls
from there, and so we can talk about that sometimes during the show.
I am gonna list you a few different or best laptops for kids, especially
if you're going off to college. Other things I'll talk about. I have
talked about phones a lot, but I'm getting a lot of questions recently,
maybe not on the phone, but just anecdotally wherever I go. When I
show off the phone, I'm talking about mobile plans. Who's the carrier now?
The new Samsung phones their launched for Verizon Wireless and in the other carriers.
And I remember the day when the very very very first iPhone came out,
actually in two thousand and seven, they had an exclusive deal with AT
and T five years. The only only where you can the only carrier you
can work an iPhone on it was AT and T. I don't think you're
going to see deals like that anymore because it actually just doesn't open up the
market. But I will give you somebody. I ask people how much are
you spending on your cell phone service? And they tell me these these numbers
in their absurd I will tell you other much more inexpensive ways to get cell
phone service. There's no reason you need to be paid seventy eighty plus dollars
a line, no matter way. So anyway, I got that. I
also got some news about another Prime day. Amazon has another Prime Day.
They just announced coming up later to this year. I thought it was just
a summer thing. So much to do, so many things to give away.
I got gift cards coming up between now and one o'clock PM Central.
If you're listening live on KPRC nine fifty, I do think if we're hanging
in here, Michael Garfield and the Gang. It is called the High Tech
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we certainly do the little technology, but we have more fun talking about other
things, like how school starts for a lot of kids this coming week,
so be prepared for Facebook with the parents posting the back to school the first
day of school pictures. I guess I'm guilty of that towards the end of
my kids high school years or maybe they're early college years. I guess Facebook
was around that I did it. But I mean, listen, it's cute
seeing all the first and second gradest. I'm looking at my cousins. I
have, like second cousins. They're really I mean they're in first grade,
second, third, fourth, and they're really cute. You know, there
are in other cities, and I get to see them and they don't have
any teeth, and they've got the short haircut with the bowl cuts. It's
it's neat. So I just you just gotta suck it up and and bear,
you know, grin and beart with with a nice cocktail. By the
way, bout the mine, h callum, would you want to give away
the uh? We got a Johnny Tamali's gift cards because we need some of
margharita. You want to do that in about fifteen twenty minutes. Okay,
you remind me we got we are gift cards to give away Great tex mex
Out on the southwest part of town. Johnny Tamali's standbyer for that school's going
back. Hope everybody had a good summer. Anybody see movies? I still
have yet to see the Barbie movie or the Oppenheimer movie. Have I even
seen a movie? I didn't see Mission Impossible? Man, I suck bro
listen, I'm just now starting Ted Lasso. I'm serious. One more person
over the past three or four years. There you go. If you gotta
watch Ted Lasso. You know you're like Ted Lasso, sweet innocent guy sports
fan, and I love Jason Sadik is a big fan from his for years
for Saturday O Live. Literally just got Apple TV Plus thank you Steph Curry
with a free two month code, which I can. I need. I
need to watch everything in the next two months. So I did start watching
Ted Lasso. It's good. It's that's a good series. It's cute,
it's a really really I'm only on season one and so if it's a really
nice I like that. I like Ted Lastso it's it's it's pretty all right.
Going back to Barbie, Barbie just hit the one billion dollar worldwide mark.
One billion dollar is the first billion dollar movie to be directed but by
a female director, Retta Gerwig. So let's just say this. Yeah,
she's the first female director to direct a movie that has made over one billion
dollars. Good for her. It seems it's a feel good movie. I
love the song from Dual Leap. I hear the radio. I heard Will
Ferrell's in there. I mean, it can't be that, but I guess
I'm I guess. I'm waiting till it's on Apple TV and if it is
a better be on Apple TV within the next two months, because I'm not
I'm not continuing Apple TV Oppadiber it's a log movie. But I did see
this open hiner. This is the stats ever. I love stats Man.
You could take anything and you could statusize it and make anything sound sexy.
Oppenheimer has become the highest grossing film set during World War Two ever in the
history of movies, and it passed Saving Private Ryan and dun Kirk. I've
never even heard of dune Kirk, and I've never seen Saving Private Ryan.
I don't think I'm not gonna be warm movie guy. You'd see Oppenheimer.
I don't think it's about war per se Saving Private Ryan, and it's it's
physically said in war right. Yeah, five hundred million dollars plus global box
office. It's pretty good. What's the best movie ever set during World War
Two? Callum and I'm looking at you? Are you a warm movie?
Guy? Dendler's list? That was World War Two? Wasn't it great?
Great flick, very important story? And Gloria's Bastards? I was that a
comedy? I've never seen in Gloria's Bastards, I should see. I just
I get invited all these movie premiers. I just don't go to the movie
premiers. Generally the conflict with with too much sports on. But there's been
no sports this summer. I don't know. It's been traveling too much.
I don't know I'm supposed to do. All right, you want to get
back to this thing? Seven? Anybody want to feel free to call me
now seven one three, two, one two five nine five, Oh with
your you got thirty seconds. I want your Barbie or your Oppenheimer reviews,
or Mission Impossible, or your favorite movie this summer, favorite movie of the
summer. I don't want to hear what you want to watch streaming? Okay,
because I have some time, I'll go for the matinees before it hits
you know, the evening. Should I go see Barbie Oppenheimer's seven one,
three, two, one two five nine five. Oh, Michael Garfield,
promise I'm gonna talk about some BTS stuff. Back to school? Congratulations kids,
if you were back to school, who needs a who needs a laptop?
Is it our laptops? Absolutely must have things for kids in college?
Right now? Let me ask another question. Is college the must have or
must do thing for kids or young people nowadays? That's a bigger question.
If you want to spend the next hour on is college worth it? I'm
here for you. I come from a long line. You've educated people.
My parents, my grandparents went to college. My three kids went to college.
Pretty much every single person. We all graduated write at four years,
because that's what you're supposed to do, right right unique. My middle son
he kind of question college during college. I told him, listen, if
you want to create a multi gazillion dollar deal just to leave college, maybe
like Bill Gates, maybe like Michael Dell. You make you know. I
want you to create a white paper and give me the whole business plan.
I will look at it, and if I agree, I will let you
drop out of college at last. See you did not do that. So
I have three college edum mcated kids, that's good. Well, anyway,
they all point is they all had laptops. They all had desktops. So
whether you're heading to an actual physical campus or maybe you're taking classes online,
I'm guessing a laptop. It's you really need something to be the center for
your studies. You could debate laptops versus desktops, but getting a new new
machine for the back to school season, you may want to need it.
You may need it. These kids may need it. A high school laptop
versus a college laptop. They could be two different things. You needs word
processor, you need software or apps, be at Microsoft Office or something to
do a word processor processor or a spreadsheet, maybe it's Excel or something like
that. Yes, there are Google spreadsheets and whatever. But laptop shot there
and there's a ton to choose from. There's Apple mac, there's Apple MacBooks,
there's Windows Oriented. There's there's good ones for gaming, which I really
should we really get into the best gaming laptops. Number one, they're so
expensive they're probably worth It's gonna cost you more for a gaming laptop than it
is to sending your kid through what fifteen or eighteen hours of college credit.
I'm not sure there's chromebooks, which are really inexpensive, and there's budget ones.
But listen, let me give the quick play by play over Apple.
Listen, there's there's Intel powered MacBooks. Do you need these things? Hey?
Maybe if you're a Mac family, you're gonna make you're gonna want some
of these opera line specs these days, they're gonna cost you eighteen hundred to
two thousand dollars From most college students, I think a mid range machine to
use primarily for just writing papers, maybe some web browsing. I think that
may be enough, depends on what you study, depends on what college you
go to. I mean you can get by with an Intel Core I three
processor, maybe six gigs of RAM. If you need specialized software, should
you be designing or programming, then you upgrade and you pay attention. I
think to the weight and size, because if you're lugging or slipping your laptop
to classes in your backpack, you don't If you're walking far, you don't
want anything too big. Maybe you want to look something around the thirteen inch
category, the ultra portable. You have a price range, there's I can
give you a six to eight hundred dollar price range. I'll tell you what.
We're about thirty seconds to do. We take a break. When we
come back, I'm gonna break it down into prices. I'll break it down
into the best budget laptop or laptops. If you want a Chrome book,
I think Chrome books are really good for high schoolers. Chrome Books does not
It's a laptop made by HP, Lenovo and everything. But they use the
Chrome operating system. They don't use Windows or they don't use Alphis and obviously
there's there's no Microsoft word running on anything. That's why they're really inexpensive.
I'm gonna give you that. Any questions, I'm here for you at seven
one three two one two five nine five. Oh. When I come back,
everybody, take a guess what my favorite laptop is. Let's see if
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just the crossroads of most city. Great people. There's Reggie O'Neil.
They're running it fun bar, free ice cream, free ice I'm not gonna
tell you you don't have to buy anything to get free ice cream with the
machine, but there's free ice cream there. Margarita's. I am there.
It's not it's not far from my crib, so I am there once a
week at least I was there. Last Sunday I went to a shooting range.
I was out. I went to the shooting range with a friend and
then we hopped over to Johnny Tamalies and we sat at the bar. Very
important too. If you're going to go to a gun range, shoot first,
then drink afterwards. I would absolutely not recommend doing it the other way
around. So afterwards, when we went over to JT S Johnny Tavalli's frozen
margarita ranch water phenomenal, Enchilada's stuffed avocados, it just disgreat. So anyway,
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You cannot be a ployee of iHeartRadio. You cannot. You could be
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you be of age. So thank you to Johnny Tamali's big partner here of
the high Tic Texan show. So you know the number. We will get
a winner. And I would say stopped calling by right now because we probably
should have gotten color number nine. I see Callum talking to somebody, getting
somebody's name. I want to go back to the laptops, back to school
a little BTS time. What is my favorite laptop? I have a Samsung
laptop. I used to for years have HP laptops. Obviously, I'm a
Windows guy. I used to work for Microsoft years ago. And when you
work for Microsoft back in the day, Bill Gates put a chip in your
head where you have to use Microsoft. You can't use anything Apple, which
is maybe why I am wired, Like I'm kidding like that. No he
did not, But when you work for a company, you quote unquote,
you eat your own dog food. So obviously I was. I used to
try out every Windows version upgrade before it was released. Every piece of software.
Every game it was an in so I'm just used to the Windows operating
system. The Windows operating system is more prevalent than the iOS around the world,
which is why I'm more familiar with that. So I can answer some
more of your questions. But it doesn't matter right now. Who manufactures the
computer does some extent it does. I would say go with the brand names
or anybody from HP Lenovo. If you want a gaming machine, Razor R
A z R makes a really really good one. Dell gotta go with my
ut guide Dell and Apple. MacBook Air you got some money, go with
MacBooks. If you want a powerable machine for college, it really is hard
to beat a MacBook Air from Apple. There's a few new models. There's
a new fifteen inch MacBook Air. There's last year, I think it was
a thirteen inch model. There it's either an M one or an M two.
This year that the new fifteen inch M two MacBook Air. How much
is that? It's about that bad boys, about twelve hundred bones. It's
it's actually about thirty to see. It's it's fifteen inch liquid reatin to display.
But the thing is, though, if you don't want to spend that
much. I always say this, look at last year's models. Let's just
last year's the M two laptop. It's about a thirteen inch and it's it's
it's a little cheaper. Maybe starts doting on thousand dollars, So it's listen,
I'm not gonna you're honestly gonna do this. I remember years ago.
Was it a friend of mine who went to Harvard and when laptops started to
become a thing, was it? Was it the Ivy League schools Either a
they gave you a laptop because it was baked into into the tuition, or
they made you specifically get and I think it was an Apple. So before
and again, I don't know. If you're still residencing for college even though
college a has already started or being starts within the next three weeks or so,
you need to check with your college. Do they have any type of
rules that you need a Windows based computer. You need a computer that it's
not bigger than twelve inches because the desktops are small. Do you need an
Apple computer? That's be'st the number one thing you can check if you're looking
for a Windows computer, What price range do you have Dell HP to me,
I like HP used to be Compact, which used to be based in
Houston. Kind of favorite those folks. I still have some friends and the
pr companies at HP. They do let me test some of those. Apple
does not let me test. They do not send me jack Apple does not
know exists. So you know how to say about that. But going back
to HP, let me give you a good budget one HP pavilion, the
pavilion line. I think they have a new one called the Arrow thirteen a
er oh, probably around six hundred dollars. This version maybe a year maybe
a little long older than that. But the fact is it's it's still a
good graphics card. It works well, and it's I think for a lot
of people it's about price point. If you're going to college, if certainly
if somebody, if you're buying somebody a graduation gift or a parent listen,
I've been there, done that three times. College and now college and now
college in out. There are a lot of things that you need for college
that where do we start? The housing, the books, the fraternity fees.
Is the kid bringing a car, I mean, it's just a clothing.
It goes on and on and it's where can you save some money but
still get something that's worthwhile. And that's what I do. My job is
to kind of like give you some ideas of where to save money. I
think the HP actually works, works works. Well. What about tablets too?
As I told you the story man the first time, my oldest son,
well over ten years ago, he goes, oh, yeah, I
go in to college. I need a laptop and a tablet. And you
know, listen, who am I to Actually I tell exactly who I am
to say, Well, why do you really need both of these things?
You can also get a combination. You can get convertible models. There's a
there's a number of laptops that will actually convert to a tablet. Whether your
kids like this or not, but still it they work well. Uh.
Microsoft has has has the surface, Microsoft Surface Pro nine, Microsoft Surface site.
Isn't that the official tablets of the NFL that you see all the players
in the sidelines, you know, diagramming their plays or you know, trying
to break and crack over their knees or something. They're they're two and one
laptops. Really, they're rotating hinges, their tablets with kickstands, their slim
and their light. Some of them. I've been testing these things for years.
You you can unhook or unhinge the keyboard and it becomes a tablet.
A lot of them come with the like Microsoft Surface. These things run.
I think, let me see if I can do a quick Amazon search for
you guys here the about eight just over eight hundred bucks, eight hundred thirty
bucks, and there maybe some deals from back to school deals, what have
you. But Microsoft has a really cool cover. It's got a pen,
spens. You could take notes on these things unless you're sticking, you know,
bent on sticking to Apple's ecosystem, in which case, yes, and
iPad pro probably would be good. I think the Surface nine arguably the best
convertible laptop around. So there you go. Listen. I want to hear
your thoughts too. I I have one laptop, well sometimes I only have
two laptops, and I don't use it all that much when I travel,
Like I when I went to Korea two weeks ago, I brought my laptop
thinking that well, actually I had to bring my laptop because that's actually how
I do my radio show remotely, and and that's how I hooked up when
I did my show from Soul. But other than that, I thought I
was going to be using it for for email and everything. I didn't have
time. You know, when you're traveling, it's and again this is this
was business slash in vacation and playing around. I'm just not sitting in my
hotel room all the time, you know, sitting there surfing. This is
what phones are for. This is how things have changed. I can go
back forty years or so ago when we know we used to travel to the
world, we didn't have a laptop, desktop, phone or anything. But
nowadays we have so so many devices. We're gonna take a break over here.
We got to one more a segment in this hour when we can come
back. I do have some emails I'm gonna read. I will tell you
about and I know it's gonna be too late. Amazon every year has Amazon
Prime Days, and we know we just went through it about a month ago
in July. We'll guess what. Amazon just announced another Prime Day coming up.
Apparently, Well you're gonna miss it because it's after school starts, but
it's before the holiday season. I'm wondering why they do this. I'll tell
you all about that. On the other side of here on the high tech
textan show could continue to talk a little bit about the back of school and
just gave you some ideas of laptops and tablets. How about watch I talk
about that because I'm gonna talk a few I don't know about a minute here.
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sick of me. People. When people come regularly to US Coins and Jewelry,
they must think I may work there. I'm they're quite often. I
hang out with Kenny and Matt Duncan. They are. They run it on
a day to day basis. Their fathers started the Great Premier Gold and Silver
Buyer Company in nineteen eighty five and they buy and sell coins, loose diamonds,
watches, a state jewelry, precious metal, and they really are the
most prestigious coin dealer in Houston. It's really kind of fun just kind of
watching people slept sometimes in suitcases, like they're rolling their suitcases and there's a
little there's a little private you know, cubicles that they have expert coin dealers
and they will go through it meticulously and they'll give you an idea of how
much this is worth, and you know, sometimes, you know, I'd
sit in the background with Kenny and Madden. It's just amazing watching Kenny,
Like he takes his little loop and he puts us in his eye. He
looks at the watch and he could tell you when it was made, what
brand, and what year was it gone. He looks at a coin.
I mean, they're just smart guys. Absolutely trustees pisas. So if you
buy in volume, you've inhered a coin collection, you want to see the
value. Might I recommend you as Coins and Jewelry dot Com they're at eighty
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there no issues, cameras everywhere, and you could also buy online. For
all those my people who are outside of Houston right now, feel free to
come up. They tell me stories on people fly in just to meet with
these guys in person. They also do a great big business online US Coins
and Jewelry dot Com. This guys are good. I think Kenny's Kenny Kenny's
right now whereth he traveling. He goes to all these coin shows and he
buys all these coins, he trades all these coins. He's just he's like
a master numismatist, and which is actually that's not a bad thing. You
know. He didn't do any harm to anybody. It's just it's a coin
collector. That's what it's called. Oh my goodness. All right, Michael
Garfield here, if you want to call into the High Tech Text and Show,
got a few minutes before hop of the hour hour number one seven one
three two one two five nine five out. Anybody buy anything on Amazon Prime
Day last July about a month ago? You callum, did you buy anything?
Now? Amazon? For years and years and years they've had one Prime
Day per year, and it's Junily in July, and I call it again.
It's like a massive garage sale where they take their warehouses. They just
want to get rid of everything so they can bring in new crapola so they
can sell it for the holiday season. Well, apparently Amazon's not done with
it with its membership only sales event for this year. Amazon just announced it's
going to hold another Prime Day, well of sorts, in October this year,
they got a new name for it's gonna be called Prime Big Deal Days.
Oh you're a big deal. It's gonna be an October. I don't
think I could look. I don't. I don't. I can't even tell
you when odds are. It's gonna be two days long. And I think
if they're going if and it's generally only for Prime members, right, but
I think they're gonna offer the thirty day free trial to trial to new Prime
subscribers, so if you want to, you can start your free trial ahead
of the event to participate. I gotta tell you of all the years,
and I'm an Amazon I have an Amazon account. I have an Amazon account
because I wanted to watch a series on Amazon Prime Video, The Marvelous Missus
Mazel, which was just five seasons of hilarity. But that's that's series ended.
So I still and scratching my head as I'm serious why I still have
an Amazon account Because I rarely buy things on Amazon. I just don't.
I just don't. I don't buy a lot of things online. That's right.
I'm the guy who tells you to use technology. I don't buy a
lot of things online. I will tell you my neighbor. I think they
could you know, the wife, could you know, should be having an
affair with the Amazon Prime delivery guy because he's there all the time delivery.
I'm kidding, but that just give you an analogy of how often he's he's
actually delivering to their house. Everybody gets to him, so many people get
deliveries. So my guess is you're gonna get to Echo Amazon Echo speakers,
Amazon Kindle E readers, Amazon Fire TV devices. I'm guessing that Amazon is
going to use this Prime Day kind of as an early Black Friday deal for
Prime subscribers, and you're gonna headphones, Earbud, laptops. I'll keep you
updated as we get closer. I'll start looking for things that are on sale.
But again, I do the research, and I think you should do
your research. It's not hard to do your research. There's there's Amazon price
trackers that you can monitor specific items on Amazon. It's actually it's I've talked
about this for years. It's called Camel Camel Camel. Seriously, go to
camelcamelcamel dot com and you can monitor. You can put in a specific price
on something for Amazon on and you can get alerts. And emails to let
you know, hey, is this the best price out there? It's just
don't fall for any of that stuff. Hey, speaking of delivery drivers,
I saw this. Where was Where was this? A big shout out now
to my UPS delivery guy, my UPS to a He's his name is Xavier
x x Man is what I call him. I get a lot. I
do get a lot of UPS deliveries. And this is like when companies send
me products to review, they generally send them ups, some of FedEx,
butmotionally ups. And for years I've had I've had one, the guy who
drives my route. His name is I've become so friendly with him. I
had literally have a cell phone number. And he's cool. Like if I
need a signature on something, he'll say, hey, man, I'm coming,
I need your signature, or this is what time I'll be here.
If I know I'm not going to be there for that night for a delivery
or out of town, I will I will call or text him and I
will go find him earlier in the day on his route and he'll meet me
and I can sign for my package. I mean, he's cool. Point
is shout out to X Man and everybody works for UPS. There was a
potential strike with the delivery drivers. Recently Teamsters will obviously not unionized here in
Texas, but they're apparently everybody wants to wear brown now, the Teamsters negotiated
a new contract that will pay full time UPS drivers about a hundred and seventy
girl a year. What the hell am I doing wasting my time on the
radio? I asked myself this sometimes at work. Sometimes I'm serious, Holy
crapol Up. I mean, who wouldn't want to drive one of those big
Mama trucks? You know you got to do. You could do roll with
the windows and the doors open. You can make them clothes. You get
to meet people every day, and you earn one hundred and seventy and bottom
line, man, have you ever seen an overweight delivery driver? It's certainly
in Texas. You shitz so much water weight out every day. I mean,
dude, my man is a good shape. It's like a workout every
single day. I'm not making fun of any of this day. Man,
this is good for UPS. Negotiator Teamster one hundred and seventy thousand a year
to dry They'll and this is what's going I mean between Amazon FedEx ups.
Everything's about delivery nowadays. I totally get it. So I don't know.
Can I can I do that Monday through Friday and still do this on Saturday.
If I can get Saturday's off and still do this gig, It's not
gonna be a two big big of a deal out of a deal for me.
All Right, We're gonna take a break because it is our number one
is coming to an m I am going into I will tell you this when
zoom, who hasn't zoom come on in? Zoom Zoom ZOOMA zoom Boston mass
oh two one three four, no Zoom. The video conferencing thing it had
its heyday in COVID. I'm gonna tell you why zoom Actually maybe OVA that
may not be good for you. Also, it is car time, you
know, I drive card lots of stuff. I will give you the play
by play of my test review car this week, the Alpha Romeo Tonale.
GM just launched a new Cadillac electric car. I will tell you the range.
GM is going balls to the wall. I'll tell you the range,
how far you can get on their new battery powder electric vehicle, and anything
else you need. My name is Michael Garfield. It is the high Tech
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Now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. We are halfway to half
the hour, halfway thill the high Tech Texting Show. Happy Saturday to you.
Hopefully you are listening right now, just after your twelve black news time
on a hot August day, the most here in Texas. The school starts
later this week. Sucks for you, guys, but I am giving you
some BTS information. That's right, sugar, back to school. Last hour,
I covered laptops and tablets and cars and new phones. I am here
to answer your questions if you need any last minute advice. If you get
a busy signal that means calum you're sleeping on the job over there. Feel
free to put them through if you would like. I'm at seven one three
two one two five nine five zero nine five zero meeting nine to fifty am
terrestrially. That is KPORC Radio here in and around Southeast Texas. Been doing
this twenty two years now here on the radio. Technologies has changed and the
show has changed too. When I talked about laptops and desktops the last hours,
I don't often talk about that. I think we have as a society
generally, we have already several computers, desktops, laptops, tablets in our
homes right now. And I don't talk a lot about the TVs. You
know, I remember the advent of flat screen TVs and digital television high definition
television that took up a lot of my time and on the airwaves fifteen years
ago. I think a lot of our homes are saturated with flat screen TVs
right now. Nowadays it is phones. Phones come out. Everybody wants a
new phone because they could do so many things, so much phones or even
replacing what laptops and tablets can do. For those of you who went out
yesterday and bought or they received your new Samsung Galaxy Z fold phone or z
flip phone that I've been talking about and reviewing for the past two weeks.
Good for you. You gotta tell me if you like it. It does
take some getting used to give me an email already, give you a phone,
email me, tweet me, zeet me, thread me, whatever,
social media. You may like these things. So that's those are some of
the things. Ever, I also do cars. Next I'll tell you what
next segment, I will tell you give you my review. Every week I
talk about cars in a segment because I am a member of the Texas Auto
Writers Association for about fifteen years, and so I get to test drive cars.
I do not deal with dealerships. Sadly, I don't even endorse a
dealership. I would, but apparently my sales team downstairs here at iHeart is
sleeping. But I do get to test it directly from the manufacturers, which
means this is just my opinion. I can rag on them, I can
love them, I can leave them, and I could do whatever I want
yap about them. But this past week I was in an Alpha Romeo Tonally
t O n A l E. It's kind of a compact utility vehicle four
door CUV. But every time I, you know, I get to play
in Alpha Romeo's relatively often. But why do it? Because it's an Italian
made brand, Italian Alpha Romeo. I just don't say Tonally. You gotta
say Donale, Donali. I'm gonna go get some Bosta. I need to
drive the Tonally after Olive Garden and then game would absolutely on. I'll tell
you about that that next one. I will do a little bit more car
talk that that next hour and stuff. I want to tell you about the
Zoom stuff. Anybody still zoom? Zoom took over from Skype. Was it
Skype? Would you say was really the first consumer popular it's popular consumer video
conferencing and now so many people do it on their phone, FaceTime and what
have you. But Skype was good, but Microsoft bought Skype and then COVID
comes around and Zoom just zoomed up. Now, Zoom, to be sure,
was created before Covid. There it was a popular app that you could
use before Covid. But when everything was you know, work from home and
nobody left, I mean, Zoom was like, you know, that was
it, man. Everybody was all over, especially when we did remote work.
Well, if you haven't been filling the headlines, companies really don't want
you working remotely anymore. If there was a tombstone, I would put r
ip fully remote work twenty twenty through twenty twenty three. Yes, remote work.
You lived a beautiful life that left an imprint on couches everywhere. Plausive
death. Well, I think it's Zoom. Zoom as a company just told
its employees within a fifty mile radius of one of its offices around the world
that they must come into the office at least two days a week. So
you've got Zoom, the poster child for remote work during the pandemic, which
emerged from kind of obscurity to be the go to video platform for meetings and
virtual happy hours and everything you want. Symbolism of a here of telligence employees
to return to the office. Oh my goodness, there's a lot of hostility
now towards these work from homes, from the executives. It hadn't been good
for the Zoom stock. A Zoom stock sword about six times its price during
the pandemic. Zoom has now lost more than one hundred billion dollars in market
value just in market value since its peak and check this one out. You
talk about a company is trying to lure its workers back Google up in Silicon
Valley. They're offering employees it seems like a sweet sweetheart of a deal to
check out its own hotel. Apparently, Google owns a hotel on its Mountain
View, California campus, and it's offering its employees ninety nine bucks a night
to stay, hoping that Googlers won't need to freak out with our long commute,
because sometimes you have to commute so far up in the northern California area,
they might as well just stay on campus. It's a summer special,
and it apparently does not fall under approved business travel, so you have to
pay it. But ninety nine I extrapolated this for you. This is what
I do. Ninety nine bucks and night comes out to about three thousand dollars
a month. Let me help you out. There is nowhere, maybe in
the state of California or the left coast, where you can rent three thousand
bucks a month where someone makes your bed and it's cleaned every day. That's
a heck of a deal, man. But I guess you have to be
a Google employee to take this. I just can't go visit out there at
the end of the day. Now we're gonna take a break away. What
are your thoughts on work proposed? Just anecdotal it. Feel free to call
me here at the end. On the other side, are you I have
for twenty years almost work from home. Yes, I come into the studio,
do it. But I don't like to have to sit here Monday through
Friday. Do it. I'm gonna work from home. It takes a certain
type of person. Listen, I'm not perfecting it. I'm not patting myself
at the back. Sometimes it's incredibly frustrating, especially if you're a people person
like me. I think offices are are wonderful thing. Do you like slepping
and sitting in traffic and all the you know, the the you know the
water cooler talk no. Seven one three, two, one, two,
five, nine five. Do you work from home? Do you work from
the office, or which would you rather do? Are you ready to get
back into the world and actually meet people? Talk to me here. It
is Michael Garfield. Ye hope everybody's having to be out here. It is
Miguel Garfield, the Michael Bitsak, whatever you want to call me because don't
call me Mike. You can call me seven one three, two one two
five, nine to five. Oh. I do a lot of car testing,
automobile. I've been doing it for a long time. I actually cover
the automobile industry just as much, if not more, than the technology industry
on a weekly basis. I am test driving some sort of vehicle directly through
the manufacturers. There's people want to know how this happens. I'll give you
some inside baseball. So I'm a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association for
about fifteen years. And generally this was started years ago. Tim Spell,
great dude who did all the auto reviews in the Houston Chronicle. Remember that,
kids, it's a newspaper. I don't I don't have time to explain.
And every Sunday you would wake up and you get the big Sunday morning
paper and you would go to the automobile section and on the front page there
there would be a review. Generally for years and years. And he's certainly
in the nineties, early two thousands and or eighties. Tim Spell, he's
since retired. He still lives in the air. He actually may listen to
my show, and he's actually a good friend of mine at one of the
nicest men in the world. Oh, I swear he is awesome. Taught
me a lot about the industry. I used to travel to him him several
times to car shows or vehicle launches, and it just it's driving in a
car with a car expert. It's like eating dinner with a food expert or
food critic. You just learn a lot. So he got me involved in
the Texas Auto Writers Association, and since then, obviously that since the almost
non existed newspaper world, it's become electronic and so. On my radio show
for many, many years, well over a dozen, I've been reviewing and
testing cars and giving my thoughts. And how it works is it takes years
to build up the trust with manufacturers directly, and most of them are in
Michigan, as you know, it will except Nissan's that's coming out of Tennessee.
But the manufacturers, knowing that you have a good audience in your trusted
resource I'm getting for Climped, they will let you on a weekly basis.
There's a there's a third party company they contract with and it's actually out of
Dallas. So every Thursday, this company will have a driver. He comes
down, drives down to my house with a brand spanking new vehicle gassed up
ready in a roll. He switches out the vehicle that I was in this
the previous week. And they do this every Thursday. This is my Thursdays
for the for the past fifteen years. I know, don't cry for me,
Argentina. This isn't a perk. This is actually part of my job.
It's it's it's a gig, but it's neat. And I will tell
you this. Oh Michael, you're the lookie's coolest thing in the world.
I gotta drive a lot of turkeys before I get to a lot of the
drive a lot of the chariots. Back in the day, I used to
laugh, you know, I gotta drive a lot of the Kios to get
to the Mercedes and the BMWs. Hell there's Keyas and hund in Genesis that
are better than the Mercedes and the BMWs. Right now, I've seen the
evolution of vehicles and I do thank you all my listeners for trusting me on
this stuff. And so that's kind of how the system works. I take
notes, usually take some videos. I will post it on my social media.
This is when i'm driving, and also take your request, Michael Man,
I'm looking for a pickup. Have you drive in this new pickup.
I will contact that specific manufacturer, whatever it is, and I'll say,
hey, listen, can I drive in this one for a week and then
I'll give you my thoughts. Well, anyway, that's how the system works.
And this past week or two I was driving in a new one,
the twenty twenty four Alpha Romeo Tonale Tonale. The Tonale it's a plug in
hybrid small suv plug in hybrid. We call that a p have if you
ever see the initials p h ev, it's pronounced key have. But it's
a plug in hybrid electric vehicle. Well, Alpha is getting ready to transition
away from gas powered car so slowly but surely. This is a little foot
in the door or foot on the on the gas pedal they're having. It's
a domination, so you could it as a gas engine, but also you
could plug it in to get a few miles. I say a few.
We'll get to that. So anyway, I drove this for a week.
It's a plug in hybrid. I think it does make sense to some ekesense
ALFA Romeo is very known for its very good performance and good handling. It's
got a it's got some nice luxury features, it's got some good technology in
there. There are a few things. It's not the cheapest compact sub in
the market. It doesn't have a ton of cargo space, so I don't
think the backseat is is about as big as it could be. It as
a four door, holds about five people. So that's my quick quick overall,
let's take a look at it. It is has a one point three
leader turbo charged I four an in line four one point three leader. There's
a lot of one point three leaders out there, and it's generally when I
hear one point three leader. Physically, it's not a big car. It's
just not that you're not going to find a pickup truck. You're not going
to find a big old suv with a one point three leader because it's relatively
small. But it's a relatively small but it's a relatively powerful vehicle. If
the weight of the vehicle is not that heavy, we call that again.
Tim Spell taught me this your power to weight ratio. Well, this isn't
a very heavy car, so it's not bad. As we continue to talk
about the twenty twenty four Alpha Romeo Tenali has one hundred and eighty horse power
good not a ton, But it also has a one hundred and twenty one
horsepower electric motor and it's on that rear axle. Now you combine these things
with the one hundred eighty horsepower gas twenty one horsepower electric motor, and now
you're going to get roughly about two hundred eighty two hundred and eighty five or
horsepower overall. Can Now we're talking. It's an automatic. It does have
paddle shifters, which I don't use a lot of the paddle shifters a lot,
but it's a six feet automatic. The batteries in there, it's a
fifteen and a half ot kiloop battery. And this is where people scratch their
heads. Remember it's gas and electric and you have to plug it. In
the original hybrid cars, it was regenerative breaking, meaning every time you're driving
around the city and you break, it would charge the battery. I like
that, but nowadays you get the opportunity, the wonderful convenience and I'm using
air quotes in a lot of you know, sarcasm. Here to go find
a battery charger, plug it in, wait thirty minutes until somebody finishes charging
their vehicle, and then you wait thirty forty five minutes to charge your vehicle.
And in this specific vehicle, it's going to give you a reported thirty
three miles of electric only range. And so people say, man, what's
what's the point that's it. I'm only gonna get thirty three miles of electric
only range. Jeeps have these two and I will tell you why I just
mentioned the word geep here in the same sentence. That's what they do.
It's going to give you a combined EPA rating of about twenty nine miles per
gallon. If you want to fully charge your battery, it's gonna take about
two hours two and a half hours using a Level two charger, which is
the mid range charger. I mentioned the word Jeep because Alfa Romeo, the
brand is now owned by the holding company who owns Jeep, Dodge Ram and
now Alfa Romeo. The company is called Stilantis. It's good company, but
they're bringing Alfa Romeo into the fold here, and so Alfa Romeos are going
to be Stilantis's stilanticized. Is that a word they haven't been fully stilanticized yet,
in one of which is because a lot of the reviews that I do,
it's inside the car. Listen, we here in Texas, we sit
in our cars, we sit in traffic. Is it comfy? Does the
is it a big touch screen? How do you interact with the with the
infotament system? Stillantis generally, Dodge, Jeep and Ram has the best infottament
system in my mind. It's called you Connect the letter you Connect. Love
it Big Mama screens great on the steering wheel, behind the steering wheel.
On the left side, there's your volume right side. You change the station.
It works. Alpha Romeo has yet is the only one of the brands
that stillance zones to adopt the U Connect system. They need to do that.
The system here, it's it's a nice touch screen. It's good,
but it's still it's just not there yet. Now it's really interesting and I'm
mompst up against the break here. About three or four weeks ago, I
got to test drize a new model, a new Brandon new badge from Dodge,
the Dodge Hornet, the Dodge a Hornet pound for pound. The Alpha
Romeo Tonali is the new Dodge Hornet americanized. It's the same thing. And
if you want an Alpha romeoish type of thing, you can go get a
Dodge Hornet. You're gonna save some money. Is this a good car for
you? Yes? Is it an expensive car for what it is pound for
pound? Yes, it rides well. It is a little cramped in the
back seat. I think what you're getting here is the Alpha Romeo brand.
You're gonna get that nice logo on the front, which I love it,
with the snake and the Italy and everything. I think that's Nate but the
latest between the technology and there and the paddle shifters. It's cool. It's
decent. I'm six foot tall. I fit in the front seat quite well.
I have a little problem getting in the back. But other than that,
what are you gonna do? The cons doesn't have a lot of storage
space in the back. It does have a little cubbyhole that you if you
have a piece of ply wetter or some skis, you can put that down
on the back while still sitting two people in the back too. The verdict
here it starts at about forty nine thousand dollars. My test model is about
fifty seven thousand dollars after you had the premium interior and sound, and all
the packages and the wheels and the power roof and the paint. Everything kind
of expensive for its class. I think the competitors are looking at maybe the
BMW X one, maybe the Mercedes GLA, the Volvo x C forty.
They're not plug in hybrid. This is gonna save you a little gas mallage.
Should you continue to charge this thing up? I had it a week,
I did run out of electricity power. I didn't bother charging it up
again. I just don't know if me and my lifestyle right now would be
ready to charge these things on an electric charger. When we come back,
though, I love your thoughts. I will tell you about full electric cars.
GM just announced a vehicle that has an amazing range you're gonna be surprised
at. And guess what it is so powerful, it's soon gonna let you
charge your home. Should you're a home lose power, which sometimes happened here
in Texas. Hope you enjoyed that This is what we do here on the
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as I can, as hot as it is. Good luck with kids going
back to school. I am here for you on the High Tech Text and
Show. Just continuing to review some cars. I just told you I was
in an Alpha Romeo Tanali, which is goods a little overpriced for what it
is. It's a plug in hybrid, A plug in a hybrid, a
p have. I think the biggest question that I get nowadays in terms of
any consumer lifestyle review, and it used to be, Michael, what kind
of phone do you have? That's what I'm gonna get? Should I get
an LCD high definition TV? Or should I get a plasma? Remember that
stuff, the LEDs, the LCDs, the plasma was what's what your favorite
laptop? Nowadays, I think a lot of the questions I get are about
electric vehicles. Which is the best EV or should I get an EV?
Long time listeners know where I'm going with. I love EV's. I think
they're very powerful, I think they are fast. I think they are sexy
the way that is their designed personally for me at my age group. Where
I am, where I commute, where how often I drive, whether I
go on the road for road trips and ev is not for me. Houston
is a very big city. We drive far. I have ADHD number one,
which is built in a little anxiety. There is something called range anxiety
when you have an electric vehicle, because they don't have there's no gas tank.
Brother, you better be prepared to pull off the road, hunt and
pack and find a battery charger. Pray that the battery, the public battery
charging system is working a full operation. Hope there's no other cars or vehicles
being charged. You have to wait to get a spot. Then when you
finally plug it in, you're gonna have to wait thirty minutes to an hour.
Let me help you out. Big Daddy Garf does not do that.
I do not like waiting. There's no putton around when it comes to me.
That's why I can't have an electric vehicle. I think the infrastructure of
our battery charging system in the United States is not nearly adequate of what it
should be. On the on the reverse side, let's say you have an
electric vehicle. And what people do. They install their own battery system at
home. It's like a Tesla battery. You don't eat a test. Tesla
makes batteries also, not just cars. So you plug it into your charge
it overnight. Let's say you're commute to work is ten miles, fifteen miles,
maybe twenty miles. Maybe your office when you get there also has a
battery charger. Phenomenal, plug it in. Maybe you just drive around the
neighborhood and that's your community. You take the kids to school, you go
to the grocery, you go to the gym, and your back, you
come back home, plug it in, phenomenal, mozel top, go get
an ev. But if me, who wants to hop in the car and
go see my son in Austin, that's that's you know, that's two hundred
plus miles. Now I'm thinking, man, if I don't have a full
charge, I better stop stup. I better be looking at Bass Dropp or
somewhere just inside of Austin, man and charge that thing up. And when
I get there, I just can't scoop him up. Hey man, let's
go to dinner. Doop got to charge the car. That's gonna slow it
down. Is it a good second second vehicle? Absolutely, there's my thoughts
of electric vehicles now. Having said that, as range, the range battery
range starts escalating, starts going up. Okay, now we're getting somewhere.
I don't have to worry about it as much. And I talk about this
as a segue because General Motors just announced a new type of battery that is
going to have a longer range, but also it's going to let you charge
your home. It will power your home. These things aren't gonna be out
for a few years, but GM just says it's coming out. Was called
V two H Vehicle to home bi directional charging on all of its electric vehicles
with this new old tim battery technology by the model year twenty twenty six,
and the first that's going to support this tech this year. It's the Chevy
Silverado EV, the GMC Sierra EV, Denali, the Chevy Blazer, and
the just announced Hadillac Escalade IQ. I'll tell you about that in a sec
There are a number of different automakers that are adopting this vehicle to home.
It let's owners power their homes in a pinch using their electric vehicles. Why
is this important. If you live in Htown. Do you remember the horrible
freeze February of twenty twenty two. I guess it was so many people lost
power in their homes. Well, guess what if you had a vehicle,
and I think Ford had a pickup truck the only one at the time that
would let you bi directly charge. You can just charge up your home through
your car. Pretty cool. Hum, It's an option. There's a lot
of black listen between hurricane blackouts, weather blackouts, and it's not just here,
all across the country. I mean they were rolling blackouts because of the
heat across the country. You could charge your home. Not bad. Old
tim evs Old Tim is is what GM is gonna is talking about. I
thought that was I thought that was pretty interesting. Speaking of something new GM
Cadillac, they just denounced the new Escalade IQ. Pretty impressed at least with
the specs. So it's gonna debut with a four hundred and fifty mile range
in the battery. That's big considering right now the most Tesca can get is
what three hundred and three fifty Excuse me, that's what Tesla says. Maybe
not the real world. If you're Following that news, Escalade IQ is gonna
roll off the assembly line next year, only gonna cost one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars if you can find one. I'm looking at it. I'm looking
at the photos. It doesn't as peer as tall as other Escalade. It's
kind of a sloping cabin. It's got a little angular d pillar kind of
by the rear hatch, that rear hatch thing, but it's pretty imposing.
I am a Cadillac fan, I'm a GM fan, and I do like
the Escalades too. It's got it. Allegedly, it's gonna have some neat
tech innovations. And again, all I did is watch the press conference.
Full dash length, curved led screen fifty five inches diagonally. If you listen
to my show, and you know, one of my biggest pet peeves is
what's I call it's called the real estate right there on the dash, it's
the dash real estate. If you've got a dashboard just sitting there and it's
just a plastic or whatever dash and you've got a small little screen, people,
you need to maximize it. That's why I like trucks. Trucks were
the first ones. They came up with these twelve inch screens. Yes,
Tesla and a lot of these evs have really cool screens. The bigger the
screen, the easy ears for me. Nowadays, there are these curved screens
that have the information display where you look in with your gas range or speedometer
or odomin. This is gonna have a full a full linked dashboard fifty five
inches. It's awesome. It's gonna have super Crews, which is their self
driving tech. It's gonna have a two hundred kilowat old tim power train which
is gonna be four hundred fifty miles. And you're asking about I just got
an email at Michael. That's good. But with the horsepower, well,
according to the company, seven hundred and fifty horsepower. Nice, seven hundred
and fifty. Now the Catiac, they've already an ounce what they have,
their lyric, the L y R i Q, the lyric. There's a
lot of ques in here. It's their compact suv and it's an electric vehicle
that's on sale now. But Cadillac is going to become all electric. Man,
Cadillac is becoming a true electric brand. It's pretty saucy. Again,
this is not coming out for a while. I certainly hope to have it
to drive it for you. And every time I get something crazy like I
like, I need to start offering like test drives. Who wants to take
me to lunch? And I'll pick you up in one of these things that
happened. I had the Ford F one fifty Lightning. I was one of
the first Ford electric trucks, which actually just lowered its price by ten thousand
dollars. By the way, those things are fun, They're cool, They're
need to look at. I facetiously said. I said, Hey, listen,
man, I get this thing for a week. Who want to take
me to lunch? And I just, hey, tell you what, It's
a nice way to meet people. How you know my name is Michael?
Is that electric vehic? Or you're just happy to pick me up? Yes?
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Garfield, actually the final segment. I hope you have a good Saturday.
Following up from my Automobile, I was just I did a whole segment on
electric vehicles. If you just if you missed, it sucks for you.
But it doesn't suck because every show is podcasted, so you can listen to
this beautiful voice to your heart's content over and over again. Calum Reid Yeoman's
effort here on the other side of the glass. He will make sure in
about ten minutes once we're done, he'll put that up on podcast. You
get iHeartRadio and you look for KPRC, you look for Michael Garfield, and
you should be able to find and listen at you Alisia. But following up
the electric vehicles, I'm an electric vehicle fan. I'm just not a fan
of our charging infrastructure that we have in the United States. But I did
see this though, and I'm not trying to scare you. I'm not ragging
on any specific manufacturer, but electric vehicles relatively new in our lives right paradigm
shift. There was an Arizona man he told us about a week ago.
A week and a half ago, Arizona man told a Phoenix TV station that
he was trapped inside his Tesla during a one hundred degree day and did not
know how to get out. Hold on, let me read this. Is
you sure? This is not from college station? Oh? I didn't go
there? Yes I did. Sorry, I love you, aggies. Quote
seventy three year old dude. I couldn't open the doors, I couldn't lower
the windows. The computer was dead, so I couldn't open the glove box.
I couldn't open anything. Unquote. Now there was there was plenty of
rain still on the vehicle, but a twelve volt battery inside the vehicle that
powers the items was dead. Listen, I will tell you this, and
this happens to you. Tesla does have an override to escape the vehicle if
the battery dies or if the doors won't open. Listen, I know we
most of us over sixteen, we know how to drive. I've been driving
for forty years. My jobs to get into a new vehicle on a weekly
basis, sit there, figure out everything works. Because if I need to
read a manual. You guys are screwed. My job is to quickly know
it without reading manuals. That's the high tech Texan's job. But when I'm
getting into the electric vehicles, I'm finding the fact that maybe I'm gonna open
I'm I made Google search of how this thing works. So, for some
reason, you get a new vehicle and you pick it up from the delivery
person or you go to the dealership, you probably should kind of get a
little play by a playoff what happens if, because this isn't the first time
I heard something about this. By the way, the emergency latch is underneath
the window switches in the front seat of the Tesla model. Why the little
why Here's okay, I guess imagine being trapped in your car. It's like,
you know, you have this nightmare, like, oh my god,
you're gonna drive off a bridge and you're gonna go underwater, and you see
news new segments of how to escape it. Okay, I get that.
When you're sitting in a parking lot alone, it's like, hello, anybody,
can you come smashed my window? Poor man was in one hundred degree
heat. Oh yeah, yeah, And This isn't even a joking matter.
Man. This is why you do not slept hats or dogs and cars in
the summer. Certainly kids too. Just gotta be careful people. Anyway,
I just did. That was a little PSA from from me to you.
Too late to give out the phone number because I think we're done with that.
What was I gonna talk about? Oh? I didn't pay this off,
did I? I was, man, I was talking about mobile plans.
I've been reviewing all these Samsung phones, but more and often in the
past two weeks, people wanted to know, Hey, if I get a
new phone, man, my mobile plans running out? Why am I paying
so much? Verizon it just announced that it's having another price hike. They
had a price hike in April for some of their Verizon plans. They're beyond
unlimited and beyond the limited fifty five and I was at and T recently raised
their rates for some of their plans too. Apparently Verizon wireless phones plans are
going up also starting in September. If you're on the unlimited post paid wireless
plan, you're going to be charged next to three bucks a month. We'll
say it again, I am a fan of m v NOS. M v
NO a mobile virtual netural mobile virtual network operator. These are the smaller companies
that you see on commercials or ads that say, hey, listen, you
can have unlimited for fifteen, twenty twenty five bucks a month. Why should
we be paying the big wireless things. Famously, there's Mint Mobile. Ryan
Reynolds, the actor, that's that's the company that he co created and he's
they marketing unlimited calling plan I think for twenty or twenty five bucks a month.
What they do these companies, and there's tons of they utilize. They
rent space on the big three's towers. Ay take AT and T, they
take T Mobile, or they take Verizon. They'll rent time off for them
and they will market them to you. This is very similar an analogous to
our electric companies here in Texas. Here in Houston, we all get electricity
from Centerpoint Energy, but there are hundreds of companies, hundreds of companies that
just market the service, the electrical service that comes from Centerpoint. All they
are is marketing and building companies. We shop around which kilowatta is going to
be better, which, but it's the same thing. And I am fine
because these are non tangible products. This is not a car, this is
not a piece of clothing. This is quite simply electricity that is delivered.
You can't see electricity, and you really can't see phone lines. They utilize
the same thing. So I'm actually fine with saving money from mvn as everything
from boost seller Exfinity, Exfinity that's an m v And now you think Exfinity
is in the job critic cell towers, No, all they do is they
resell. I think they're on the Verizon network. I actually use mint Mobile.
I've used him for two years, never had an issue. And I'll
tell you what the last thing I'm gonna say. If anybody wants Mintmobile,
and if you want to email me or if you want to tweetmail me for
a special discount, do you get like the first month free email me and
I'll do it. I'm actually a fan. This is not a commercial.
I'm just this is what this is what I do. I saved you some
of this stuff. I wish mit Mobile was a sponsor in mine. I
just happen to use Mitmobile. Michael at high tech Texts, go at high
tech text and dot com find me a high tech text and spelled the whole
thing. Uh h I g h T E c h T e x an.
You could find me on Twitter, you could find me on Instagram,
you can find me on threads. Luckily, you can find me on Facebook
and all other stuff. Hey, it's worth a try. You're sending kids
off to school. You don't need to be paying seventy eight bucks a line
fifty. You can get a praise like I think. It's a little five
to ten dollars a month, man, And plus we're on y five a
lot of the time. What else can I do for you? Nothing?
Callum Reid and everybody behind the scenes, from Eddie Martini to Mark Sherman,
Brian Ericson, Paul Lambert. I thank you for keeping it me here for
twenty two plus years. Who knows how long it'll go. I just hope
I don't melt away. People. Happy back to school season, Happy almost
football season. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I will see you next
week here KPRC nine fifty and I Heeart Radio go podcasting. My name is
Michael, and right now my show is overa