WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.400 Is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining US and the high Tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:15.720 Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items to make life easier, 3 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:26.199 new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield 4 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:33.240 is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. 5 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:42.439 Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield, 6 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.320 another high Tech Texan show. And I appreciate you guys too, and 7 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.399 hope all is well. Got two hours of pack behind info, ament, 8 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:55.079 question and answers, maybe some giveaways, who knows, But we're going to 9 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.520 pack two and a half three hours into a two hour show, mostly because 10 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.880 I talked pretty quick. But I don't know. I haven't been that caffeinated 11 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:06.560 up. Maybe I'll slow down a bit. Appreciate you. Calumri. Calamri 12 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:08.920 is on the other side of that glass. At the one two call in, 13 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.239 I'll give out the number seven one three. Say it with me. 14 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:17.959 People hadn't changed in twenty plus years two one, two, five nine five. 15 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.439 Oh, you can find me high Tech Textan if you're too shy to 16 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.359 call. It's h I g h T E c h T e x A 17 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.319 N. Hey, mama's talking to you. Would you get last week from 18 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:32.159 Mother's Day? I hope you did celebrate? Listen, it's is it really 19 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:38.599 about the gifts. It's about the that you are just thrown upon from all 20 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.519 of your kids, not thrown up, not thrown up from your kids, 21 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.040 from your grandkids. A happy Mother's Day. I hope it was very nice 22 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:49.840 for all the females out there who do have kids, grandkids, great grandkids, 23 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.040 great great grandkids. I don't know, we're living so long nowadays. 24 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:59.560 Would you get because I uh, things that I do as a consumer entertain 25 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.519 a what I'm saying, I kind of got my pulse on what's hot, 26 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:07.959 what's not? What you should get? What Dad, maybe you shouldn't get 27 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:10.120 and if you shouldn't get it, you could throw it my way. It's 28 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:16.319 not just Mother's Day because now it is graduation time. Graduations they're starting to 29 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:21.879 happen. If you you high school, you college person, if you just 30 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.599 graduated, what's something you want? I'm here to kind of give you some 31 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.960 gift ideas. Yes, dads, I know you're up next and about a 32 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.560 month from right now. For dad's day, grads and dads. Why is 33 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:38.080 grads and dads always paired together versus grads and moms Because the first thing that 34 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.599 people do athletes do when they're on the field TV cameras in front of the 35 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:46.639 face, it's I mom, They don't worry about Dad was standing outside in 36 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.400 the rain and the snow. Over all those years, coach you all how 37 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.199 to throw that fastball, the curveball, snap of football. No, no, 38 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.520 it's hi mom, beat but listen, it's moms and dads. Every 39 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.280 day should be parents day. Graduation gifts, do you need anything from a 40 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:05.520 phone, a tablet, a computer, a laptop, which are really good 41 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:09.000 gifts to give to kids who graduated high school were going to college. Before 42 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:13.240 you do make that decision, you really want to check with the school that 43 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:17.280 the kids are going to to make sure that nothing is solewly required. In 44 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:22.360 terms of a brand, I remember years and years ago was a furtherer Yale. 45 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:27.120 You only could use an Aumball, which I actually wouldn't have chosen Harvard 46 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.560 if that indeed were the case. Do you really need a tablet versus a 47 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:35.639 tablet and a laptop or even a desktop? According to a few of my 48 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.000 kids. Yes they did. Dad, Let's go out and show some more 49 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:39.960 shekels for all of this year. I don't know if you need all that 50 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:46.439 stuff. Still, the one thing, probably the only thing that I probably 51 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:54.400 still have from my college days in people, I graduated college forty plus, 52 00:03:54.439 --> 00:04:00.319 just over forty years ago. I still have my clock radio. I have 53 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:02.319 a clock radio. You know this, despite a hat. I have fifteen 54 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.639 phones here, I have a clock radio next to me because it's got two 55 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:12.240 different speakers, and it's something I don't know if I'm gonna give up with. 56 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.879 It's it's something I'm used to. Other than that, everything's gone. 57 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.360 So so whether you do need an alarm clock, for kids who have graduated 58 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:25.839 college who actually have a job where they have to physically go somewhere, maybe 59 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.600 you do need an actual alarm clock. I maybe can help you with that. 60 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.040 So let me know what I can do for you. Lots of news. 61 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:35.680 Also, one of the things I wanted to talk about is streaming. 62 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.240 You know, when it comes to streaming, it's the new way we It's 63 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:45.120 it's not relatively new way that we consume media. We still consume radio, 64 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:49.120 which we hear at. iHeartMedia. We do. Thank you for streaming or 65 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:54.600 listening to the old fashioned radio. Whether it's in the car, on FM 66 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.879 or AM. It don't matter how you listen to us, keep it on 67 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.040 podcasts. We do like you to listen live. Try to make it easy 68 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:04.560 for you on my show Saturday late mornings early afternoons, unless it's an encore 69 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:09.600 presentation, whereas a late night Saturday at early Sunday morning. But as you're 70 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.399 driving around, you're just sitting out by the pool, whatever you're doing. 71 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.240 Maybe you're walking. You've got your old fashioned stereo, you know, Walkman 72 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.959 headphones, which, by the way, I'm foreshadowing there is a story about 73 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.160 Walkmen's and cassette tapes are coming back. You're not going to blame this one, 74 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:29.519 but so we do, thank you for listening. Television has also undergone 75 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.480 a big change, you know, over the year. Still exists all the 76 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:40.600 local channels Houston and many major demographic areas well over fifty sixty or so television 77 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:43.319 stations that are being broadcast over the air right now. If you have an 78 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.079 antenna, a digital antenna, you could watch them for free. Free. 79 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:51.439 We love that, we love free. But then the comes cable and now 80 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:57.519 they're streaming and streaming. If you think about all the subscriptions you have, 81 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.639 and this is where I'm going with this, how much are you paying? 82 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.240 And it is a lot. And I thought about this most notably because the 83 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:10.639 news that came out this week with the NFL the big going the number one 84 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.800 thing that we as Americans watch on TV. And this is a fact, 85 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:18.480 this is not anything else. Always, every single year, the number one 86 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:25.800 shows we watch are Football Live Football, the ultimate reality show. Sunday Night 87 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:30.920 Football always comes in at number one rated of the top show of this season. 88 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:35.959 The Super Bowl gend always the number one rated show of a given calendar 89 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:41.120 year with about one hundred hundred and twelve million people doing em. The NFL 90 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.240 is going nowhere. The NFL could do anything at want, and the NFL 91 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:49.120 is changing the way that we consume media television specifically, let me give you 92 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:55.160 an example. NFL fans used to be able to watch every game with just 93 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:00.800 a cable package and a Sunday ticket subscription. But this come year twenty twenty 94 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:09.759 four, the NFL has placed games across eleven different channels, including four subscription 95 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:15.759 services, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, ESPN Plus, along with cable 96 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:21.480 and Sunday ticket, it is going to cost an armload anywhere between eight hundred 97 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:28.000 and fifty. So I've even seen up to fifteen hundred dollars for a subscription 98 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:32.120 to subscribe to all of these things. If you are an NFL fan like 99 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.199 I am, odds are you may pay for this summer of some of this 100 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:38.879 stuff. You may get smart and go to a sports bar. You may 101 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.399 get smarter and actually borrow somebody's password if you can, maybe a neighbor has 102 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:48.199 it. But it's not getting cheap. So then I'm thinking if you subscribe 103 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.639 for some of these things, And this is what happened to Peacock last year, 104 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:55.519 Peacock actually aired a game, a playoff game in early January. It 105 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:01.560 was Kansas City Chiefs because Miami Dolphins. Three million people signed up just to 106 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:07.680 watch this game on Peacock. What they did they a lot of people churn, 107 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.680 it's called churn. A lot of people unsubscribed afterwards, how many people 108 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.920 forgot when we come back, I'm gonna talk about that. And I saw 109 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.879 a stat over here our great state of Texas. You, my dear and 110 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:26.160 fellow Texans, you were paying a lot for subscriptions. Have you signed up 111 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:31.000 for things that you're still paying for monthly but you don't even use. I 112 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:35.240 will tell you it reminds you what they are and what you need to cancel. 113 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:41.360 Coming up right here on the big high tech text in show all your 114 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.879 people out there trying to figure out where you're gonna return your Brother's Day gifts? 115 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.879 Did you do it? The mom's come on, just just I know 116 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:50.919 you were sweet. You know, little kids made you a little handmade car 117 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.039 with crayons, dear mommy, the bestest thing in the world. And you 118 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.720 know they went out and got you something with the little help of dad or 119 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.799 you know, grandma or something like that. Your return, I mean, 120 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.000 do your return gifts for Mother's Day? Because do the kids ask you a 121 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.279 week or two later, Hey, mom, man, where's they? Where's 122 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:11.559 where's that huh? Where's that blouse that I bought you? Where's that purse 123 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.519 that was just ugly? I got it? Duff five below? Do you 124 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.320 return these things? If you do want to return some things or dads, 125 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:22.080 if you feel guilty, or husbands or kids and you'd feel guilty for not 126 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.159 getting moms some stuff, might I recommend US coins and jewelry. That's right, 127 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:30.879 US coins and jewelry'd been around for two generations right now, Kenny and 128 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.279 Matt Duncan. They are Actually, I don't know that they specifically are, 129 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.000 but I know they are open as I speak, alive on this Saturday, 130 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:43.000 right on Katie Freeway. Iten Voss Road, right on the Feeder Road. 131 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.000 Man, they've got a great place. And oh what do you think you 132 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.960 know, Chief Michael? What do moms? What do they want there? 133 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.919 The moms are coin collectors. Oh, by the way, it's also called 134 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.360 US Coins and Jewelry. Yes, moms walk in and they've got a really 135 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:58.960 beautiful lot of rotating a lot of new things coming in every time I go 136 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.559 there. There's diamond tennis bracelets, there's rings, beautiful earrings. Yes, 137 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.639 they have watches, Rolex watches. Mama need a Rolex watch. That's right, 138 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.840 What time is it? I got one? I don't. I have 139 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:13.720 a male Rolex watch. Actually, US Coins enjoy it. If you're listening 140 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.120 outside of the Houston market, if you have coins, if you want to 141 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.480 deal with them, they are absolutely incredibly trustworthy. Trust me. You can 142 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:26.559 even do it online US Coinsandjewelry dot com. Go see him. They're open 143 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:30.840 six days a week and on the seventh day, they rested, just like 144 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.960 Chick fil A, Hobby Lobby, Cabo bobs at a few other folks. 145 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.039 But we do think it so that there's one day. And by the way, 146 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.039 dads may want to get dad a little gift to rate Texas the State 147 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:46.799 of Texas memorabilia flags. I need stuff. Love that place, said, 148 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.519 going into kill some time and browse and buy a lot of stuff. As 149 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.759 we do continue what we call here the High Tech Taxi Show, talking about 150 00:10:54.879 --> 00:11:00.399 streaming and more so subscriptions. May think of how many subscriptions that you have. 151 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:05.759 When I hear the words subscriptions, I'm old school enough to think, 152 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.759 oh, it's a magazine subscription, maybe a subscription to a newspaper, because 153 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:18.600 that's the way I grew up in the seventies and the eighties. Thinking well, 154 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.320 I mean TV was, you know, over the air, we watched 155 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:24.279 that. But then we had cable, and you do subscribe to cable. 156 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.639 But just we never call the subscriptions. It's just we had a magazine subscriptions. 157 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.360 Now there are subscriptions to so many things, including subscriptions, yes, 158 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.720 to streaming services. And I let into that right before the break. If 159 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:43.559 you're just tuning in. How if you're an NFL fan, you're now going 160 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:48.240 to have to subscribe to no less than four different streaming services to watch a 161 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:52.519 full season YouTube Tvpacock, Amazon, Netflix, ESPN Plus, they're all out 162 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:58.080 there. Times did you subscribe for something You're thinking, Oh, I'm test 163 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:01.240 it out for thirty minute. At thirty minutes, I'm gonna stead up for 164 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.240 thirty days and then if the thirty days you'll forget. That happened to me, 165 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.519 That happened to me recently. What was I testing out? Well, 166 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.519 I was testing out it was a Was it Spotify? No, it was 167 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:16.440 YouTube Music. I think they got me. And you gotta be careful because 168 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.679 I listened there's YouTube Music. It's a free app and you can listen to 169 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:26.600 free songs. But if you look it, sometimes a box pops up and 170 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:28.919 says yes or no and you don't read it. And that box, I 171 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.919 think specifically said hey, would you liket to thirty day trial and will bill 172 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.360 you? After that, I clicked yes, thinking it was going to go 173 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.159 away. Guess what, I accidentally signed up for freaking YouTube. So I'm 174 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.039 thinking, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna cancel it, and I put a 175 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.480 little reminder in my calendar, but sometimes I don't even see it. So 176 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.399 I got busted for a month before I that reminded me when I saw my 177 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.919 credit card, I'm like, come on, man, but how many of 178 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:56.639 you forgot about There was a survey. There's a tech company called Bengo bangl 179 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:01.720 and they recently did a survey on subscription and they included subscriptions of all kinds 180 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:09.639 of categories streaming video, retail, music, gaming, news, health and 181 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:16.759 fitness, home internet, box, physical goods that you get a box like 182 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:22.320 the Jelly the month, club education. In all but two of these categories 183 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:28.360 retail and streaming video and demand. This firm found out that Texans led all 184 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:33.759 other states and the national average and the percentage of consumers who have subscriptions. 185 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.919 People, are you willing to pay all these recurring bills? They also get 186 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.799 I got a number for you. They found that on average, Texans have 187 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:48.240 six subscriptions, which I saw that I'm thinking that's kind of low. Texans 188 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.840 have six subscription which cost an average of twelve hundred dollars over the course of 189 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.360 the year, and that's the most in the US, and that's far above 190 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:01.960 the national average. Of nine hundred and twenty four bucks. Is that some 191 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:07.639 of the higher outlay may be attributable to the level of subscriptions that we text 192 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.600 and seek, But the survey fail that the textants were more likely than other 193 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:16.399 Americans to cancel a subscription if it included advertisements. Okay, what am I 194 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:20.320 saying over here? Well, I think it suggests that you may be paying 195 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:22.399 a lot of recurring bills for things that may not be so much of a 196 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:28.399 need as they are a want. Ah. Yes, the classic need versus 197 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.120 want taught my kids this. It's a topic of the Garfield household. Growing 198 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.120 up. Kids. Let me tell you what need is versus wanting something. 199 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.000 There's a decent chance that you might not even want some of the services for 200 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:46.600 which you're repeatedly paying. It may be just you've forgotten you even signed up 201 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:54.519 for Americans are spending billions on stuff they forgot to cancel. I want you 202 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:58.440 to think about that. There was a paper last year I think it was 203 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.879 a researcher, may have been from A and M. It said that when 204 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:07.559 people are forced to pay attention and actively re up their subscriptions because their credit 205 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:13.960 card expired, there was a sharp abnormal drop and subscriber retention rates. If 206 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.360 that's the only way you remember by your credit card expiring people, you should 207 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:24.840 have your credit card expire on a monthly basis. If you have your subscriptions 208 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:31.120 set up on auto pay, periodically check the price because they can go up 209 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:33.240 fast when you're not looking. Maybe a good idea to set an annual date, 210 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.799 like you know, the day after Tack Day. Check your subscriptions if 211 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:43.159 you really still want them and you want to keep paying for them. What's 212 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.600 a wors think about it right now? How many streaming services do you have 213 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.120 that you watch? Oh? You know during COVID Man that was perfect Disney 214 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.799 Plus launch during COVID I mean that's all we did. We stayed home. 215 00:15:54.840 --> 00:16:00.480 I mean it got millions, tens of millions of initial subscribers. You may 216 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.600 not watch it anymore or I forgot I had that. I guess the easiest 217 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.919 way is go look at your credit card bill and again just a little consumer 218 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:11.159 news for it. Look at your credit card bill and what is recurring or 219 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.360 not? I try not to recur a lot of things. I do have 220 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.960 Amazon and that's sixteen bucks, and I still probably don't even the BROI on 221 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:23.360 that still may not even be worth it. I have k ole sadly, 222 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.960 also, I just signed up one I'm a new Peloton or I have Pelot, 223 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.759 I have a Peloton bite, and so I have to pay for that 224 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:33.799 a month. I'm like, a man, is that worth it? But 225 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.639 that I mean you have to sometimes the way I look at things, it's 226 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.759 like, all right, I'm gonna pay for this, but instead of doing 227 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.879 something else, is it worth it? Okay? So instead of a gym 228 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.399 membership, which I really I don't never belong to a I belong to a 229 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.399 country club which has a gym, but out of a gym membership, right, 230 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.159 instead of a gym membership, I'm gonna pay my monthly Peloton bill because 231 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.480 I'm still getting my shits in, I'm still working out. Sometimes you have 232 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.000 to justify things like that. So the skin a little psa little public service. 233 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.920 An now it's but for you people, go take some time maybe here 234 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:11.799 as the kids are getting out of school, maybe early summer, pin to 235 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:15.599 paper, just do it all that how much subscription you're paying you, I'm 236 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.680 probably gonna save you a lot of money. And so I'm more than happy 237 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.960 to take a little commission for that anything else I can do for you, 238 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.079 give me a shout. Michael Garfield is the name. Callam Reid, go 239 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:27.279 a head to start playing some music and punching us out of here into a 240 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.759 break. When we come back, it's the bottom of the hour. I 241 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:34.319 kind of tease this, but cassette players, and you kind of know my 242 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.759 age or any when I told you I grew up in the seventies and the 243 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.960 eighties as a young little high tech texting, but cassettes were the rage. 244 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:47.279 I still have most all of my cassettes and and my CDs set players are 245 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:53.960 coming back. That's a bad news for you. Watch that. I got 246 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:56.799 eight parrots. I got a nightmare that I'm gonna bring back for you. 247 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.759 This was pretty big, knew man. It was a press release. Mom 248 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:04.000 was this. This came out two or three days ago, and it brought 249 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:08.799 back flashbacks from me as a as a parent, as a dad raising my 250 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:12.759 kids. I was I was a little too old for this, but as 251 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:19.640 a dad, I spent many, many a time in this establishment, and 252 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.079 luckily they serve beer. It was the only way I actually could have could 253 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:29.200 have could have just really just plowed my way through. Chuck eat Cheese. 254 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.359 That's right, people, did you really know about Chuck E Cheese? I 255 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.759 just I just wanted to mention this Chucky No, it's not closing, and 256 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.599 yes there still are Chuck E Cheese. I live within. There's two Chucky 257 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:49.519 Cheeses each within six minutes of me. Lucky Cheese is removing all of its 258 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:56.079 animatronics by the end of this year. People, if you grew up in 259 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:00.960 the eighties, the nineties or the oughts, you have fond memories of going 260 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.279 to Chuck E Cheese celebrate birthday parties, maybe because your parents took it as 261 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:08.599 a tree, but a huge part of going to Chuck E Cheese, people 262 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:18.160 was watching Munches Make Believe band, the freakyest band, the creepiest nightmarish things 263 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:26.960 you have ever seen, nightmares with that animatronic band used to go and I 264 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:32.160 used to listen to who created this? Damn it? Who was in the 265 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:33.880 band? It was like the freaking Beatles. It was Chuck E Cheese, 266 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:41.440 mister munch where my kids jasper tea jowls. There was the dude in the 267 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:47.319 drums the past Pasqually, Pasqually of the chef, and there was one chick. 268 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.119 Was she the lead singer. Hell any they would see those songs that 269 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:57.200 day would get the Birthdays Star. Remember the Birthday Star song, Oh My 270 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:03.480 Go three. I had three boys people. I said, they let's let's 271 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:06.400 go to Chuck E Cheese. Like, don't you want to go to like 272 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:07.759 a I don't know, a dynamite factor or something. No, we're gonna 273 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:14.559 go to Chuck E Chee. Oh god. So there there's these these life 274 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:21.160 size three four five six foot tall robotic They move their mouth and it they 275 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:23.680 just clang clang clang clang, kind of Oh my gosh, Chuck E Chiese. 276 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:26.480 Apparently I don't know. They're getting into the twenty first freaking century. 277 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:32.480 Finally they are removing them because they're having an aggressive transformation. This is a 278 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:38.440 quote from their CEO. Oh my goodness, so wow, it's it's it's 279 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.920 sad. It's a sad day. I'm sitting Shiva for Chuck E Cheese. 280 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:48.000 In the band, mister munch kids want to play more nowadays with screen based 281 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:52.880 entertainment and what they're going to do. They're taking down these animatronics. They're 282 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.680 breaking up the band. It's pretty much what they're doing, and they're gonna 283 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.960 be replaced with a band that's playing on a giant screen and a digital dance 284 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:07.640 floor. So your questions, and this is why I go deep. I 285 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:12.839 look inside things. Number One, I want to buy these animatronics. I 286 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.319 want the whole freaking band, and I want to set it up in my 287 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:21.440 living room, right in the corner, right next to my bar. I 288 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:26.759 want people coming in hanging at Garf's crib, football watch parties wherever I do. 289 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.559 I want them coming in and then they're gonna go, what in the 290 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.640 world is freaking Henrietta Hippo or whatever her name is, Henny Chicky Poozy When 291 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:38.799 you're hey, man, Garf a squally on drums? Heah man, what's 292 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:45.160 up that love? I mean, there's hundreds of these, there's hundred locations 293 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:48.440 that they're taking. They gotta be up for sale, Folks. Keep it 294 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:51.200 out of eBay for that for me, because I may want to buy these 295 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:53.720 things. And here's the thing, this actually may be great marketing. I 296 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:56.440 am a listen you can break me down a lot of ways. I am 297 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:02.119 I a radio broadcaster. AM I a TV out of media personality, am 298 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:06.839 I an mc do. I am I a reviewer, consumer technology reviewer, 299 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.960 bring me. I'm a marketing guy. I came up with my high tech 300 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.519 texted moniker. I work with companies to help market their products. I'm a 301 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:17.039 market again. Let me tell you that this could be the greatest marketing move 302 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:22.640 in a long time. Chuck E. Cheese is breaking up the band and 303 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.759 I'm just gonna throw it out here. Do not be surprised. Within two, 304 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:33.160 three, four, five years there's going to be a reunion tour. 305 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:41.200 Just saying, the Chucky Freaking Cheese reunion Tour. Hey, the Who and 306 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.400 the Stones have done it for thirty plus years, We're getting the band back 307 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:49.480 together. I'm serious. This is this is brilliant t shirts, concerts, 308 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:56.279 pepperori rolls, stale bread, thin crust pizza, the taste like shoe leather. 309 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:02.119 It just it's the whole thing. Sitting shiver for Chuck E. Cheese. 310 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:04.559 Thoughts on this seven one three, two, one, two, five 311 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:10.440 nine five up be it traumatized by the Chucky Cheese animatronics. It's really is 312 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:15.279 a childhood rite, a passage if you think about it. I mean, 313 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:21.920 the kids, what do kids have left right now? I'll say, come 314 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:26.960 on, where do you take your kids? Right now? I digress Michael 315 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:29.720 Garfield. This is called the high tech Taxi show. Let me digress and 316 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:33.079 go back in time too, we did. I didn't go to Chuck E 317 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.039 Cheese as a kid, and obviously a young young kid in the seven nineteen 318 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:41.519 seventies error. But by the time the eighties, the late seventies and early 319 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.920 eighties came wrong, I was listening to music and I am very much into 320 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:48.480 music, which I still dress like and act like and listen to music like. 321 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:53.000 I'm still from the nineteen eighties. And cassett players that was all the 322 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:57.440 rage because set players. Kids. If you don't know what a cassette player 323 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:00.400 is, either a come over to my with your parents. I'm just not 324 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.039 that I want to bring kids. Go on gruge, go online, go 325 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.519 google it because we did not have Google in the eighties. L we didn't 326 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.039 have Google until you know, to the two thousands. But cassette tapes were 327 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.519 a way to listen to music portably. Well. You didn't have to you 328 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.920 know, schlep a record player and have these big, you know, vinyl 329 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:22.720 LPs that went around and are reel to real disc or eight track tapes. 330 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.680 No, there were cassettes and you used to listen to little earphones on them, 331 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:29.359 kind of like a walk man. And there were home cassette players too 332 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:34.279 that you can get really high five sound. That made way of to CDs, 333 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:38.000 which made way to m P three's, which now makes way to streaming. 334 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:44.079 And that's what it is. But guess what, there's another new Vinyl 335 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:48.279 records came back a few years ago and for real audio, it's a series. 336 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.240 There is nothing like listening to vinyl. You know, put the needle 337 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:53.720 on the record, and I've lost so much of my audience right now. 338 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:57.839 You have no clue what I'm talking about, but it's it's it's analog, 339 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:03.720 but it still sounds great. There's a new analog challenger because cassette tapes apparently 340 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.880 are coming back. They've you know, those tapes which have been in my 341 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.400 garage and my kids sit there laugh at me with what's what's all these dusty 342 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:15.880 things? I think they may have a second lease on life. That's right, 343 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.559 because there's new portable pairs players a little tight pick that's coming on the 344 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:22.519 market. I was at CS earlier this year January. It was a consumer 345 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:26.200 electronics show, and you know, listen, they I see so many headphones 346 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:33.440 and digital audio players. I actually saw a portable cassette player or two or 347 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.799 three. There's there's one from a company called I need know how to pronounce 348 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:41.319 it f I I oh, sea, let's just call it that. And 349 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.359 it kind of looked like a walk man. Then it's it's small, it's 350 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:49.279 about the size of a cassette and it's got play fast forward rewind sound quality. 351 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:53.720 Is there? You can buy these things right now here is there's another 352 00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:59.559 company called We Are Rewind. We assessed the end of the company, so 353 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:04.200 we are a realisted What my question is why it's it's it's you know, 354 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:07.720 I just like just like Jurassic Park, you know, it's it's We shouldn't 355 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:15.559 be asking, oh, but why why do we even need this? CDs? 356 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:18.880 They were indestructible, that's how they were marketed. And then bye bye 357 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:23.920 the cassettes. I mean, if you look at it, it's a plastic 358 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.240 case. There's a thin magnetic tape in there. That's the weak point because 359 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:32.640 how many times has for adults right now, if you're over forty or fifty, 360 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.960 how many times has your tape been eaten by a machine or unspooled? 361 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.119 And then you take a pencil and you have to rewind it you. That's 362 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:48.640 right. Apparently they're that's a odd thing. Yesterday's tailor's with makes cassettes right 363 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:55.759 now, go on like you get them on eBay and whatever. How much 364 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:00.880 of these babies, uh these things forty dollars or so. There's that that 365 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:06.000 theofiio and that's about one hundred and nine dollars. I'm looking right over here. 366 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:11.640 I just thought it was interesting. Not people. People may say, 367 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:18.000 I'm all order, I do hesitated to throw some stuff away. I have 368 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.720 every cassette that I ever bought or was given as a gift in the eighties 369 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.920 and they're sitting in my garage and they're probably worked from the sun, hundreds 370 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:30.720 of them. And I have my mixtapes too. I gotta take a break 371 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:32.480 over our wall. Come back, let me tell you what a mixtape as 372 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:36.440 kids, because you really, I'm gonna tell your young kids you missed out 373 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:41.240 on a lot. I also have all my CDs, which I actually took 374 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:45.960 the jewel cases and I've made a piece of art of it in my home. 375 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:51.039 All my CDs, like eleven foot tall. I took all my duel 376 00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:53.279 cases, all from the eighties, and there's a piece of eleven foot tall 377 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:56.680 art that's hanging my wall, which actually I probably should go and give up 378 00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:59.920 this whole media thing and become an artist. I've already to come back, 379 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.359 Michael Garfield. I'm gonna tell you how a mixtape works. You can call 380 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.359 me and you can tell me what is a piece of technology that I just 381 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:08.839 missed. But maybe one day it'll come back. I think the list is 382 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:18.359 pretty short. High tech taxi shell could be right back. Big shout out 383 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:25.240 right now to our good Sultan is at Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy. If you don't 384 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:29.039 know what Hollanding pharmacy is, they want to look into it. Men. 385 00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:30.839 At the end of the day, it could save you ate a lot of 386 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:36.640 money and a lot of time filling prescriptions. Campbell's Compounding been in the Houston 387 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:40.559 area for how long have I known that? Ask Campbell? Twenty plus years 388 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:45.079 or so. Two locations. There is one on Kirby near Holcombe, too 389 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:48.839 far from the med Center. Actually I popped in there to pick up something 390 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.599 three days ago. Omar in the Gang Hello. And there's one in Sugarland 391 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.240 on the southwest side. Campbell's Compounding no matter. If you want any type 392 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.599 of meds to make it more flavorable for your kids to swallow bubble gum flavor. 393 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.519 They can make a lot of stuff, maybe to these new meds that 394 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.960 are very expensive or hard to get or hard to find, these new weight 395 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:11.359 loss meds or whatever they are. Campbell's Compounding Farming Pharmacy can help you. 396 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:18.039 Go to Campbell'scompounding dot Com. I just call ask just you have your doctor 397 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:21.000 write a prescription and go pick it up. Tell me you heard it on 398 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.680 mister Michael Garfield's program, because they really are good. Been using them for 399 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:27.000 a long time. My kids used to didn't take a lot of they didn't 400 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:30.200 like the tastes of medicines, and so I would go over to Campbell's Compounding 401 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:33.519 Pharmacy. Hey can you make this, but make it a bubble gum flavor. 402 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:36.240 And one time I asked them if they could make a bourbon flavor for 403 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.839 me. Didn't work, did not work, But if anybody could make it 404 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.039 work, it could have been Campbell's Compounding. See, so we thank them 405 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:47.480 for their partnership. Here. As we continued the high tech text and show, 406 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:52.960 I was talking about cassette. That's cassette tapes. Apparently slowly but surely, 407 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:59.720 maybe making you a comeback sound of like albums, vinyl records in turntables 408 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:03.759 and help they made a comeback come back a few years ago. And even 409 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:10.039 my of my youngest son, who's he was twenty three, he bought somebody 410 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:14.000 gave him a record player, and now he's getting into albums, LPI albums, 411 00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:17.440 and I guess he goes to these secondhand shops and buy some of them, 412 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.000 and they'll call me and ask me because a lot of them are from 413 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.440 the eighties, the nineties or the two thousands. Obviously he was even born 414 00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:26.000 for a lot of that time. But I still have a lot of my 415 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:30.799 records that I had, and I didn't have a ton of records. I 416 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:36.039 had much more cassette tapes and certainly more CDs, but I still have my 417 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:38.200 record That's the one thing I don't keep in my garage. Kids, People 418 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:44.440 do not keep your final albums in your attic or in your garage you're anywhere 419 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:47.960 hot, incuston, because at some point we're gonna have a little meltage going 420 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:49.640 down there. I keep this in my closet, but it was neat because 421 00:30:52.200 --> 00:31:00.319 he went through my album collection, probably earlier this year, and he took 422 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.759 some of them, which I loved because they were just sitting in my closet 423 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.039 so he could listen to him. And you know, my stuff is it's 424 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:10.279 all eaies. It's the only vinyls I have is absolutely from the eighties. 425 00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:15.039 I mean he did you know Lionel Ritchie, he took just you know night 426 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.200 Ranger. I mean these you know stuff that you know I had early ages, 427 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.119 but before we flipped the cassettes in CDs, it was cool. But 428 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:27.160 cassettes are coming back. But one thing I want, I want to kind 429 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:30.960 of want to stir some memories here because I'm a memory. Yeah, some 430 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:34.319 music. Music, And I've always said this music is incredibly important to me. 431 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:38.640 Music, my bump music over here. Before we couldn't start playing real 432 00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:41.759 music because we don't have the money to license it. That's my company. 433 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:47.640 I used to could play all the music I wanted and most of my bump 434 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:49.759 music from the eighties because that was the best time of my life. I 435 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:52.960 went to high school, I went to college in the eighties. That's where 436 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.400 I found my love for for the media of a radiotellivision and film, which 437 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.720 is my but that's my what I got my degree in uh MTV. It 438 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:05.240 began in nineteen eighty one. That's what we grew up. At some point 439 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.640 you said, hey, did you hear that new song? And then it 440 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:10.880 became then it became hey did you see that new song? It's worth style, 441 00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:15.319 it's it's really changed culture the eighties. It's on the map. And 442 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:20.559 so that's that's why I have all of you know, the medium media from 443 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:23.000 there. But one of the things that I did is not only could you 444 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:28.960 go out and buy real albums from every single artist that hear, they sold 445 00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.480 blank tapes. Now, they did not sell blank vinyl where you could actually 446 00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:36.880 make and record anything on your vinyl record. But when it came real to 447 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.480 reel you could do that. But I'm not even getting that. You could 448 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:45.000 do this with cassette tapes. You would go buy blank cassette tapes. You 449 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:49.759 would then record things. So if you could record an album, and if 450 00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.279 you hooked everything up correctly to your high five, you had and here's your 451 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.319 high five stereo. All right, So you had your you had a record 452 00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.519 player, you had a cassette tape, you had the tutor potentially an amplifier. 453 00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:05.720 So as long as you hit record on that cassette tape. It would 454 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.480 record whatever input was in there. So let's say you wanted to make a 455 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.039 cassette tape of an album that you already have, so you could then take 456 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.400 that cassette tape anywhere. You could put it in your walk. Man, 457 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:17.279 you could put it in your car because cars used to have these things called 458 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:22.680 cassette players, and you hit record. Then if you're really cocky, you 459 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:31.000 had you could record radio and people right now. The greatest compliment anybody could 460 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:35.400 ever give me is, hey man, Michael, I'm recording you right now 461 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:37.319 on your radio show. Because this is what we as kids used to do. 462 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:42.359 We would record radio, not so much talk radio, am radio, 463 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.480 but we would listen to our FM radio and we would listen for songs, 464 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:52.920 and you would record songs off the radio, and I spend, okay, 465 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:59.240 it's not even hours. Here's of my life waiting for the DJing to shut 466 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:04.799 up so I can hit record, and you've got a time it right to 467 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:07.840 record the entire three and a half four minute song, and then you shut 468 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:10.400 it down just as he started the back talking back and back announce it. 469 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.400 You would do this on and on and you would tell these mixtapes in my 470 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:21.280 garage right now, and I should really post this put on my Instagram to 471 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:29.599 have all the comments. I have thirty forty over the years, different mixtapes. 472 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.920 Each one is sixty or ninety minutes of every song, and again it 473 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.960 goes back to each other early eighties and a lot of the time sometimes you 474 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:38.960 didn't hit it right, you would get the DJ. And so I have 475 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:43.400 Ron Chapman, one of the DJ that I grew up with in Dallas, 476 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.639 on the famed KVIL. I have his voice on my cassette. That's why 477 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:50.599 I wanted to be KAVL was the He was the first greatest disc jockey. 478 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.920 If you're from Dallas area from the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties, you know 479 00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:58.079 who Ron Chapman is. But that's what I listened to, and I mean, 480 00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:00.639 it was just it was phenomena I like on mixtapes. And I'm gonna 481 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:05.800 end the story right here. You could take a pin and you would take 482 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.239 the little paper out of the cassette so you would write down which songs are 483 00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:13.159 on there, and I would name it and the name of my mixtapes, 484 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:15.559 the name of Michael's mixtapes. I should have been Michael's mixtapes. It was 485 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:20.320 called Awesome Songs. And if any of my buddies are listening on i R 486 00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.599 Radio anywhere around the country right now, if you've got I grew up with 487 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.519 the in Dallas and we I talked to a lot of my buddies. They 488 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:30.880 knew I had awesome songs, and I started numbering them and I used Roman 489 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.920 numerals because I was also a Super Bowl fan. I have awesome songs one, 490 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.079 two, three, four, five, six, se of eight and 491 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:42.000 I'm in it went all the way. He's into my thirties. Awesome songs 492 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:45.159 thirty two, thirty four, thirty five. I need to pull these out. 493 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:50.320 But what I did, You actually can digitize these things. I have 494 00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:52.519 a device and you could probably find these on the ebag. I have a 495 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:57.000 device where a cassette. It's a physical cassette players about the size of a 496 00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.519 toaster rubbish ball toaster or something, and it has an output that is USB. 497 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.960 Plug it into your computer, You hit and it's it's a one to 498 00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:08.039 one. You have to hit play. Listen to the old thing in real 499 00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:13.199 time while you're hitting record on an MP three. It's a pain in the 500 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:15.360 you know, what But it's a way to digitize old songs. People. 501 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.480 I just did a massive wayback machine here on the high Tech Texting Shot, 502 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.440 I will step into the twenty first inur in the way back, I got 503 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.960 a review of a phone, Google Pixel eight a just came out. Google 504 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:31.280 Pixel makes great Android phones, got some really neat AI features and also one 505 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:35.320 of the things I've been playing with, I got a This was not around 506 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.679 in the nineteen eighties. This was not around three years ago. I have 507 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:42.880 a pair of smart glasses. Ray Band just came out about six months ago, 508 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.880 with a pair of smart glasses that you wear these sunglasses. It listens 509 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:51.519 to you. It's got a camera and a video camera hands free. Oh 510 00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.239 it's sneaky. Deekey. I'll tell you if it's worth the money. All 511 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:59.000 that so much more on the flood high Tech Texting Show right here on KPORC 512 00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:15.599 nine fifty eight. I'm an iHeartMedia. Is Michael Garfer. Michael Garfield. 513 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:19.840 Michael Garfield's joining us in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with 514 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:24.239 a high Tech Texan items to make life easier of new technology. So Michael 515 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:35.400 Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. 516 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:45.840 Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio 517 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:51.760 Act. Now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield, you look at black 518 00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:54.760 people. Thank you for listening to our number one of the high Tech Texan 519 00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:59.079 show. This begins our number two. And I may not be the greatest 520 00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.119 mathematician, but pretty much halfway through the show say with me, we are 521 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.000 halfway to happy hour. You know, you know what if it's If it's 522 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:12.079 just after twelve noon, should you be listening? Love? It is happy 523 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:15.519 hour? If it's the repeat at twelve fifteen in the morning, twelve to 524 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:20.000 ten in the morning. See you know what it's You've had a long happy 525 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:22.960 hour either way. Michael is the name Michael Guarfield, but doing it for 526 00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:30.280 twenty three years, the longest running live local radio program on this heritage station, 527 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.360 which just turned ninety nine years old. Left ninety nine years old, 528 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.480 kap or see. I've been doing this almost a quarter of that time off. 529 00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:44.719 That's why I talk about everything that happened in the eighties at a fun 530 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:47.960 first hour, talk about cassette players. They're kind of on the comeback. 531 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:54.000 There are companies. Now we're making cassette players, and there are the music 532 00:38:54.239 --> 00:39:00.559 labels. They're making cassettes just like they're making final albums. Again, it's 533 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.320 not the highest quality audio by uni stretch of the imagination, certainly since we 534 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:08.639 now have well there's CDs obviously, which were better. Now they're streaming, 535 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:12.599 which is even better. It takes you back in time. It takes you 536 00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:17.119 back in dime, doesn't it. Also this hour I got a review of 537 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:22.639 the new Google Pixel eight. Good. There's no iPhones released right that. 538 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:27.079 There's always new Android forms being released. Google Pixel eight great. AI features 539 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.320 that which is very nice. And also next segment unless I sneak it in 540 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:36.039 this segment, I'm wearing this new there's these smart glasses ray Band, great 541 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:39.559 sunglass company. Meta. You've heard of Meta. That's the company that owns 542 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:45.440 Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp. They got together and they created a few years 543 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.400 ago they came out with a pair of smart glasses and was version one. 544 00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:53.960 It was called the Facebook Stories Glasses. Version two came out late last year, 545 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.840 six months ago or so, and now they're called the ray Ban Meta 546 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:02.800 Smart Class. I have a pair for the past week or so, and 547 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.400 I got him from my eye Doctor to the Stars in Houston. Doctor Alan 548 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:12.639 Panzer, great eye doctor, uses more technology to check your eyes in anybody 549 00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:15.679 else. He's in the bel Air area if you want to go see him. 550 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.960 He also obviously has a sunglass and glass shop in there. But anyway, 551 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.400 he got these. He's let me use them. Uh, and they're 552 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:23.800 pretty neat. I'll review those two. That's that's right. I am. 553 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:31.159 I'm always watching you and I'm always recording you because these these glasses they have 554 00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:35.119 a camera and a video camera built in. You don't know. You don't 555 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.199 be careful when you're talking to me, people, because you don't know if 556 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:39.480 I'm recording it. So I got this. I do want to mention this. 557 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:44.039 I like, I like talking about food and sports, and this is 558 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:47.400 what we do here. And then since it's lunchtime, as we plausibly do 559 00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:55.000 this thing live. I saw a story two days ago which absolutely hit a 560 00:40:55.239 --> 00:41:00.559 interesting weakness as a as a when he plus your radio guy, there are 561 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:07.400 things called evergreen topics, and when sometimes when we and the my elk here 562 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.800 on the radio or media, we run out of things to talk about about 563 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:16.039 new topics or whatever, we sometimes lean on what we call evergreen topics. 564 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:20.639 What's an an evergreen topic is just a topic. It's a conversation, it's 565 00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:27.639 a debate that's really never going to be solved. But for talk radio, 566 00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:31.639 it gets the phones ringing. It's let me think about this. There's always 567 00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:36.480 one side and there's the other side, and you know, maybe it's like, 568 00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:43.880 here's an example, should chili have beans? Yes or no? Seven 569 00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:49.880 one three two one two five nine five Oho call drove right now. The 570 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.679 radio HOS takes a stance. Callers agree, callers disagree. This radio says, 571 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:59.679 abs a frickling not there. This is Texas. Ain't no beans should 572 00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:04.639 be in chill? Next topic, that's an evergreen can't till two hours talking 573 00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:08.280 about that. Another one that resembrings this up is is a hot dog a 574 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:13.960 sandwich? It's a rhetorical question. I don't want a debate about this right 575 00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:15.880 now, but I saw this story and that was a log leader you gotta 576 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:21.599 listen to this is a hot dog a sandwich? There's a better question that 577 00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:28.239 we should ask. Is a taco and a burrito a sandwich? I want 578 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:34.159 you to think about this, that taco and a burrito, are they sandwiches? 579 00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:43.239 Well, a judge in Indiana thinks, so this story. There was 580 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:46.440 a ruling that just came down from a legal battle that's been going on for 581 00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:52.519 two years. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, there was a strip mall that 582 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.920 planned to open up. There was a restaurant that wanted to open there and 583 00:42:55.039 --> 00:43:00.719 it was called the Famous Taco Mexican Grill. Just a local Mama ba the 584 00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:06.000 Famous Taco Mexican Grill. The planning commission rejected his bid to open this place 585 00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:12.960 because, according to agreement with a local condo association nearby, only alcohol free 586 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:21.239 restaurants that did not allow outdoor seating and only sold quote made to order or 587 00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:25.840 subway style sandwiches unquote were allowed to open at that location. So there was 588 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:30.800 a lawsuit. The agreement I think was put in place to keep some national 589 00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:36.159 fast food chains from opening in the strip mall down to get that whatever it's 590 00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:45.639 cool by local but the Famous Taco Restaurants was ruled it is now permissible into 591 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:50.599 the terms of the original written commitment that here it comes. Tacos and burritos 592 00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:58.280 are our Mexican style sandwiches and the original written of commitment does not restrict potential 593 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:04.079 restaurants to only American is en style sandwich is unquote folks seven one three two 594 00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:06.880 one two five nine five. Oh, you haven't thought about that, have 595 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:09.280 you? No, we do eat. Is a hot dog a sandwich? 596 00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:20.480 If you think about it, I'll go wrapped in a bread like substance. 597 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:27.079 Maybe it's fried, maybe it's not. How about a brito corn flour yep, 598 00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:31.400 could be bread. It's not a what redefine as an American style sandwich 599 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:36.960 with their ear's two pieces and that's it. I'm down with this fight me 600 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:43.800 people. Hot Dogs not a sandwich. Britos tacos are a sandwich. I 601 00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:45.239 think yeah, Cayleum, we can go ahead and take the rest of the 602 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:49.400 the show off. I think the calls are gonna light up the or it's 603 00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:52.960 right now. I'm hungry. By the way, when we come back. 604 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:55.559 Speaking of tacos and Britos, got a gift card for you, the Great 605 00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:00.639 Hobbo Bob's four locations in Houston. I have a twenty five dollars gift card. 606 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:06.719 We'll do that next segment, so you then can go get a I'm 607 00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:08.119 there easily two to three times a week. It is great. You go, 608 00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:12.760 you pick it up. You order massive burrito, bulls, tacos, 609 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:16.039 soft shell tacos too. You can watch the tortillas being pressed right there. 610 00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:20.880 Five different kinds of tortillas that you can pick Ancho, chili, fire, 611 00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:22.239 milk, flower. Oh, it's phenomenal. Got a gift card for it. 612 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:27.559 And guess what they're sandwiches. We are meet people right here on the 613 00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:37.760 High Tech Testing Show. I know why you people hung around. You want 614 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:43.519 to win something lunchtime. Right now we were talking about I've never seen the 615 00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:47.000 phones go crazy right now? Cal should even answer these just I lost them 616 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:52.199 to give their answer. Is it taco and a burrito? Are they sandwiches? 617 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.440 Just I just wanted just an anecdotal on the screen. Yes or no? 618 00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:59.679 What say? I say? They're sandwiches, their Mexican style sandwiches. 619 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:04.960 There's your new evergreen topic. Chili should have no beans of the Great State 620 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:09.760 of Texas. Hot dogs are not sandwiches. Tacos and burritos sandwich What a 621 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:13.480 you gonna do about it? Seven one three, two, one two five 622 00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:15.440 nine five. Oh, I give you that number right, go ahead and 623 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.519 clear the lines. I'm gonnaell why we're gonna give some pick away? All 624 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:21.239 right? I'm gonna give away a sandwich. I'm giving a white sandwiches right 625 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:25.079 now. Cabo Bob's love this place. I found them in Austin years ago. 626 00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:30.079 They have several locations. They have now infiltrated Houston four locations. There's 627 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.559 one near Katie, there's one in Stafford the Meadows on the southwest side, 628 00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:37.280 there's one of the Gallery area, and there's one of the Northwest. SI 629 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.719 I go to Cabo Bob's. I got a twenty five dollars gift card twenty 630 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:45.679 five bones so you can get tacos burritos, and you can call them sandwiches. 631 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:49.239 You don't have to call them sandwiches. Do whatever you want. They're 632 00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:53.840 good stuff. Call her number nine go seven one three two one two five 633 00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:58.119 nine five. Oh, callum see if you can have pick a runner seven 634 00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:00.360 one three two one two five five. Oh if you're getting a busy signal, 635 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:05.199 folks, I'm sorry about that. You you missed it. I thought 636 00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:06.960 that that was pretty neat. So no way, Yes, I told you 637 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:08.960 I was gonna give away some money stuff. Let's tell you about these glasses 638 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:13.599 I'm playing with. Let me tell you about these glasses. So I test 639 00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:16.519 things all the time, and if you follow me on Instagram saying goes on 640 00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:21.079 one if you're not blocked, it is a high tech Texan h I g 641 00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:24.199 h t E c h t e x a n high tech Texan. Read 642 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:27.400 it. Follow me and you can win things too. Actually, I think 643 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:30.760 I gave away some I way a lot of this stuff that I review on 644 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:36.440 Instagram too, if you should follow me. Also been playing with these these 645 00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:40.119 glasses and they're smart glasses, their sunglasses. So ray Band got together with 646 00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:49.239 Meta Meta with Jones, Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and they have these the 647 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.199 second version of these smart glasses. Now, let's go back in time where 648 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:58.000 you maybe remember something about ten years ago called Google Glass. Google Google came 649 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:02.320 up with a pair of glass is that you could wear. But they were 650 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.960 they were smart. They had a camera built in, little tiny camera. 651 00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:12.440 It was like one of these hidden cameras you see on these hidden shows, 652 00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:16.000 and you know, the news reporters would go and and you know, try 653 00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:22.119 to sneak some stuff like it where you could record video, you can take 654 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:27.480 a photo, but also you could see things on the screen and like one 655 00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:30.199 of the eyes they had a little tiny because they're so close to your eyes. 656 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:31.880 You know, if it were a pair of glasses. You know, 657 00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:36.480 glasses themselves are less than one inch from your eyes, so if there's a 658 00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:37.960 speck of dirt, it looks like a big speck of dirt. And they 659 00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:45.280 also had this little tiny monitor where you can actually surf a web page again 660 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:47.000 ten years ago, and it looks like it was like one hundred and twenty 661 00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:51.639 eight screen. It was so big. It was a beta model, it 662 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:54.119 was tests. They sold these things for a thousand dollars. I actually got 663 00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:58.920 a buddy of mine bought one. I tried to mind to play with them 664 00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:02.239 for an hour or two eat too expensive for what they were ahead of their 665 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:06.960 time ten years ago. People didn't like the security effect, like what do 666 00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.400 you mean you can videotape meant anything just by looking at me? Didn't work 667 00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:15.719 fastboard and there's several other iterations of them on the market right now. But 668 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:17.760 ray Ban is a very big it's the biggest name when it comes to sunglasses. 669 00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.119 Meta it's a very big name when it comes to technology. So they 670 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:24.599 have these out right now, and they came out about six or seven months 671 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:30.519 ago. This particular version. They had several different styles of sunglasses. One 672 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:36.320 of which is the classic wayfarer wave. I've never been a wavefairer surfing kind 673 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:39.320 of dude. I mean, it's it's very Tom Cruise, risky business type 674 00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:43.400 of stuff. It's just they're very big, heavy, just they don't look 675 00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:46.480 good on my face, but they protect your eyes or whatever. So my 676 00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:52.679 eye doctor, doctor Alan Panzer, the eye doctor to the Stars as I 677 00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.280 called him on the show for years and years. He's in bel Air right 678 00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:00.280 on his Loop six tended Bissonet. Great eye doctor comes on this sh but 679 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:06.480 this dude spends more money buying new technological devices for his office so he could 680 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.480 see inside your eyes all the way to your brains. If you need an 681 00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:12.800 eye doctor, I really do recommend doctor Allan Panzer. But when you walk 682 00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:16.440 into a typical eye doctor, he's got a whole line of eyeglasses style designs 683 00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:21.119 that obviously he could make it to prescription glasses. They also sell sunglasses. 684 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:24.079 So he carries these ray Ban Meta Smark glasses and he says, hey, 685 00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:27.559 you got to come try these things out. So he's he let me play 686 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.440 with these pair, which I've been playing for three or four five days, 687 00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:37.119 and they're interesting. They I don't love the style of the Wayfarers. I 688 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.559 understand why the three or four different stylings. They have to be kind of 689 00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:45.719 thick because there's software built inside of them. And so I'll describe him here. 690 00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:49.880 They are Wayfarer style. These actually are radiant. Is it gradient? 691 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:52.480 Is that what there is? They change So if I walk outside, they'll 692 00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:55.639 like sunglasses, they'll change a little into a darker shade. Inside it's just 693 00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.880 clear lass. Yes, you can make these into prescriptions. And what they 694 00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:05.599 are is they have two speakers built into the arm pieces, if you will, 695 00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:07.280 you know, I call them the arm rockers. They go over your 696 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:14.480 ears. So you've got a Bluetooth connects to your phone Bluetooth wise, so 697 00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:16.280 your phone has to be within thirty feet of you or so. And you 698 00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:21.159 can listen to songs. You can talk on the phone, you can listen 699 00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:23.719 to your podcast, you can listen to iHeartRadio right now. You can wear 700 00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:28.480 these things. But walking out with the parasunglasses and you can hear and the 701 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.039 sound is great. I gotta tell you, sound as bad. There's microphones 702 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:32.760 built in. There's microphones built in, so you can talk in the phone. 703 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:37.639 So now what I'm describing, it's a pair of glasses with a microphone 704 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.639 built in, speakers built in near the ear, and you're set to go. 705 00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:49.000 So also it has a it's a meta AI. Meta has its own 706 00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.199 artificial intelligence type of thing, and so you actually can say the words like 707 00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.639 hey Meta, just like you can do Siri and Google and Alexa and all 708 00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:57.960 this other fun stuff, and you can ask it questions. You can just 709 00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:00.880 ask. You don't even to take your phone out. You say, Hey 710 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:05.960 Meta, what's the weather today? Hey Metta, what's the greatest radio show 711 00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:07.920 hit in the history of talk radio nine to fifty k years? Hi tech 712 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:12.360 text show? You just ask it. That's neat too. But the key 713 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:15.639 feature is, I think the interesting feature is there is a camera built in. 714 00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:21.639 Now. The camera on this one specifically is just over your left temple. 715 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:23.920 It's on the left eye where the sun glads the freight the face of 716 00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:30.000 the sunglass, your left eye sunglass meets that rocker arm, that arm that 717 00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:36.639 goes over your left ear, very small, very dinky millimeters and it's a 718 00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:40.079 camera. It's roughly, it's pretty good. It's got pretty decent megapictures. 719 00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:44.440 It is not as good as your your your camera phone, but it could 720 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:49.199 take a photo and it could take videos. That's right. All you need 721 00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:53.440 to do hands free is walk around and you could videotape your point of view, 722 00:52:53.559 --> 00:52:58.199 your POV, whatever you're watching, whatever you're saying. It also takes 723 00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:01.000 a photo too. You do that because also has a little shutter over the 724 00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:05.480 right temple. There's a little tiny button if you want to take a photo, 725 00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:07.480 you just take your finger up there and you just push it down and 726 00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:09.920 it goes. Well, you could turn the sound off. That starts the 727 00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:14.840 video, stops the video, and it takes a photo. Now, how 728 00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:16.760 do you stop security? Whoa wait a minute. One of the things is 729 00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:20.960 security. I don't want to be People don't want to walk around and potentially 730 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:24.039 have themselves videotaped just by someone having a conversation. Well, on the right 731 00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:29.199 side of the glass that you're looking at, if someone's looking at you, 732 00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:35.000 there is a light, small light that flashes very brightly white. It flashes 733 00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:37.360 white, and every time you're reporting or every time you're taking a photo, 734 00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:43.039 it flashes white. So you know, and I don't think you could turn 735 00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.679 this thing off. It's a safety feature, which I understand and I appreciate. 736 00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:50.519 It's a safety feature that someone's gonna look at you, going why is 737 00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:53.360 that white light flashing? And you could say, uh no, I just 738 00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.159 you know, I'm just getting excited. You're actually a videotaping on it. 739 00:53:57.679 --> 00:54:01.599 These things are three hundred dollars at least for this pair, and I'm still 740 00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:06.000 playing with it. But my question is it worth it? These will and 741 00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:10.559 here's the answer within thirty seconds sixty seconds. These come in handy in several 742 00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:15.199 different aspects, which I'm still trying to come up with more aspects. And 743 00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:17.199 if you could think of any, let me know. Number one, when 744 00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:22.079 I review a product, when I do these, what's called the open box, 745 00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:28.440 open boxing, the open box ceremony. I need two hands. I 746 00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:30.800 get a box. A lot of people say, oh if look at the 747 00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:35.360 packaging. And then when I test drive cars for a living, well, 748 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:37.719 it's tough to drive with one hand and hold my phone, which is the 749 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:43.440 camera. Well, now I can put these glasses on hit record. I 750 00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:47.079 don't need to touch it. Think the audio is phenomenal where I'm talking over 751 00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:51.599 what I'm ever I'm looking at. I then could take this in one up 752 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:57.320 in automatic and inherently, because it's owned by Meta, it automatically send can 753 00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:00.840 send these videos or photos directly to your face. Becre eats to brand. 754 00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:05.960 My son was playing with these. He has an older pair from another model 755 00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:08.079 for about three or four years ago. He does a lot of fun videos. 756 00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:12.039 He's an Instagram influencer and all this other fun stuff. He plays foot 757 00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:15.719 he plays flag football by wearing these things. It's really kind of cool watching 758 00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:19.000 from his point of view of how he's catching the ball and running and dodging 759 00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:22.760 Dac with his neat little things, neat little perspectives. Maybe you want to 760 00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.559 videotape your kids crawling or something like that. Three hundred dollars. You decide 761 00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:28.800 if they're worth it, But I think they're pretty neat open phone calls. 762 00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:30.519 Right now, we're going to take a break. A bottom of the hour 763 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:34.239 seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. I'm looking at 764 00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:45.840 you. I'm always to you. If somebody's watching me on Saturday early afternoon 765 00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:50.280 here in used in seven to one three two one two five nine five oh. 766 00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:52.599 It is called the Michael Garfield Show, sometimes called the High Tech Texting 767 00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:55.280 Show. But you know what, I talk about any dang thing I want 768 00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:59.239 to, and I answer all your questions whatever you want to talk about. 769 00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:01.000 What's Michael dry? I think, what's Michael eating this week? Where's Michael 770 00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:04.920 Travelight? I need a TV show, man, I need a TV show 771 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:07.320 people to follow a day in the life of Garf. It's how it works. 772 00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:09.440 Let's take a little phone call over here. We got a few people 773 00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:14.320 on hold. Hello, this is Elliott Elliott. How you doing. It's 774 00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:20.159 Garf? What's going on? Garf? What's up? Elliot? Hel Elliott 775 00:56:20.199 --> 00:56:22.239 Wood? Is this my man? Yeah? It sure, it is? 776 00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:24.960 How we're What you doing? What are you doing? Shouldn't you be working 777 00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:30.000 downtown to Garden Grace right now? Look? I am, I am, 778 00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:31.039 I'm here. We're kind of between lunch and dinner. So I had a 779 00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:35.360 moment. I was listening to your show and just had to call in and 780 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.400 tell you about some things we had coming up. I know you're a big 781 00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:40.800 celebrity, but we've got an event next week with a huge celebrity. I 782 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:45.480 wanted to invite you to and invite all your listeners to you. Okay, 783 00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:47.079 this is called free pimping people. And only because I've known this guy for 784 00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:51.880 like almost twelve years. He's a good music quire for to buy Elliott Wood, 785 00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:55.280 Guard and Grace. One of the absolute finest restaurants here in Houston is 786 00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:59.440 downtown. They called us. It's much more than a steakhouse Elliott, much 787 00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:00.559 more because even eat the red meat, that's how good it is, your 788 00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:04.719 fish and everything else. Right, absolutely, Yeah. We're founded by one 789 00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:07.400 sleep tattooed celebrity chef out Hawaii named Troy Guard. So we've got a lot 790 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:12.239 of other creative dishes. We have a sushimi program in seafood, and we 791 00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:16.320 get to celebrate a lot of that next week, along with another culinary celebrity 792 00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:21.920 named Rocco di Spirito, who has a new fookbook out called Everyday Delicious. 793 00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.159 It's a New York Times best seller and an Amazon bestseller. So he is 794 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:31.360 joining our very own chef Troy Guard to have an evening of pass bites and 795 00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:37.199 cocktails, just celebrating all of these new recipes that he's focused on in his 796 00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:40.519 book, along with the magical talents of Chef Troy. Here on the patio 797 00:57:40.719 --> 00:57:45.280 actually at the what we call a horseshoe bar at Guarden Grace, go dispirito. 798 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.840 Look, let me think, he and I know it's I'm not the 799 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:52.119 biggest celebrity chef guy other than Troy Guard, who is my favorite by the 800 00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:57.480 way, But Rocco he was one of the early ones. He was one 801 00:57:57.480 --> 00:58:00.559 of the first ones when it comes to the chef's on TV. Is all 802 00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:05.119 right? That is absolutely correct? Yeah, he honestly it's probably like one 803 00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:09.519 of the pioneers of doing the reality chef restaurant shows. Literally his show was 804 00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:15.280 called The Restaurant in New York City. Uh, he had that for quite 805 00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:16.599 some time. I think he was even GQ's Man of the Year at some 806 00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:21.760 points. Yeah, I was art the guy. Yeah yeah, lopular man. 807 00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:27.000 I know you're avery popular guy. But yeah, so Rocos still a 808 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.320 little this is neat because I you do these things several times a year. 809 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.360 You always have is this one of your collabs? You call it a collab 810 00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:35.400 with all the Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's a collab. Yeah, 811 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:37.480 you know. We we had one with Andrew Zimmer last December. So this 812 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:42.119 is this next big one coming up with rocoa spirdo. Uh we do. 813 00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:45.079 We've got others in the hoppers, some other really neat things coming up down 814 00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:46.480 the down the way. Uh, you know, got a pink and white 815 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:49.280 party. I got to tell you about here in a little bit too. 816 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.719 That's going to happen in June, on June sixth. But first one in 817 00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:55.079 the opera is is this one? This is actually next week. It is 818 00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:59.760 on May twenty third at five o'clock. It's it's tickets are only seventy five 819 00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:05.559 dollars and it comes with a signed an autographed copy of his new cookbook, 820 00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:07.639 Every Day Delicious. So hell of you know pas sob it? Yeah? 821 00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:10.239 Okay, so first of all, I you know, I think I've been 822 00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:13.639 to every single one of these you've done in the several years that you knowing 823 00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.400 ex Well, it's just a good for those of people who have never been 824 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:21.039 to Garden Grays downtown. It's it's we'll give the addresses on Dallas Street. 825 00:59:21.079 --> 00:59:23.639 But it is you're two, it's massive. How many square fore you got? 826 00:59:24.039 --> 00:59:29.719 Oh man? It is fifteen thousand square feets two stores downstairs, and 827 00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:32.519 you're always passing out food? Are you? Are you gonna do the few? 828 00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:36.360 Ye? What a drink? You're gonna drinks? A few drinks are 829 00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.639 included along with some past bytes and stuff. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so 830 00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:44.000 we've got a couple of drinks that are going to be showcased. We just 831 00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:47.679 won a couple of awards at this last event called Top Taco. We as 832 00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:52.159 a modern steakhous actually won people's choice on the taco at Top Taco. So 833 00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:57.159 we're gonna that's gonna be one of our past bites. Uh it ruled Ribby 834 00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:01.679 Taco with a bone marrow saltsa macha. It's gonna be amazing. We're gonna 835 01:00:01.679 --> 01:00:06.000 do the Lime and the Coconut, which is the cocktail that won that same 836 01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:08.599 events, and we'll have all of our signature cocktails available. You can choose 837 01:00:08.599 --> 01:00:10.800 one. We're gonna give out a couple of drink tickets so they can choose 838 01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:15.519 what they want. And we're gonna have a few bites from Rocco's cookbook as 839 01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:19.639 well. We're gonna do a tuna crudo, a short rib, a chicken 840 01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:23.519 sattee, just a lot of really fun small bites that we can pass and 841 01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:28.559 everybody can enjoy and really get to mingle. They're gonna get to meet all 842 01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:31.280 the chefs. They'll get to meet Chef Rocco, Chef Troy Guard. It's 843 01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:35.000 gonna be a lot of fun. Oh So, and they geta and they 844 01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:37.639 get the cookbook for that price too, and you get the cookbook. Yeah, 845 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:42.440 autographed, autographed cookbook. I know how to you know, do you 846 01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:45.760 know how to devalue things really quickly? Let me also autograph it after all, 847 01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:50.079 Rocco. At that point you're gonna have to give that thing. That's 848 01:00:50.119 --> 01:00:52.039 pretty cool, all right. It's always great to hear from you. So 849 01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:57.960 it's next Thursday, the twenty third garden Grace, yep, and you have 850 01:00:58.039 --> 01:01:00.440 to pre bye. And what's the website's garden? So yeah, you can 851 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:05.119 go to Guardandgrace dot com and that will link you to open table. If 852 01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:07.079 you have an open table app on your phone, you can just navigate to 853 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:13.039 Guarding Grace Houston through open Table. The tickets are pre purchased through open table 854 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.000 or that through the website. And uh, that's gonna be on the list 855 01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:19.280 here at the door. So as long as you've got that taken care of, 856 01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:22.400 we're gonna be expecting you seventy five dollars plus taxing gratuity. It's gonna 857 01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:25.480 be a lot of fun. As soon as I get off this radio show, 858 01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:29.039 I will purchase one. Uh maybe a guest, I don't know, 859 01:01:29.239 --> 01:01:31.000 I should raffle off who should be my plus one. I don't know. 860 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:35.079 Oh, this is definitely a vent. You want to take some plus unex 861 01:01:35.239 --> 01:01:37.840 just give me a lot of fun rock. That's pretty cool, right, 862 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:40.719 so next Thursday, I've no I tell you what if you think about it, 863 01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:45.440 especially dads you like to cook good early Father's Day gift the autographed copy 864 01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:46.480 of his book. That's pretty cool. Oh that is a great ada. 865 01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:49.719 I didn't even think of that one. Look at the great idea is coming 866 01:01:49.719 --> 01:01:51.960 from me. I love it. You miss Mother's Day, so screw that. 867 01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:55.039 Yeah, alright, so good Gardy Grace Rocker Spirito. And I was 868 01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:58.719 about that you said something about the pink and white party. This is the 869 01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:01.159 time it's Jillian mayor are you doing it again this year? Because that is 870 01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:04.760 always long to arts? When is it asking to be a lot of fun? 871 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:08.000 So we're doing that on June sixth. It will be again on the 872 01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:13.159 Horseshoe Bar patio. So just a celebration of all wines that are white and 873 01:02:13.239 --> 01:02:15.480 pink. We're gonna have eight or nine different vendors there giving out samples of 874 01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:20.280 their best, their most delicious wines. We'll again do some passed bites, 875 01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:22.639 a couple of cocktails. So that's just a patio party. You know, 876 01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.320 everybody's gonna dress in pink and white. You know, think kind of like 877 01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:30.239 white linen night or whichever. You know, everybody's gonna have the same attire 878 01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:32.719 on. It's gonna be a celebration of the patio celebration the summer. Everybody's 879 01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:36.400 gonna have a lot of fun. So that's June six. That are nothing 880 01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:38.559 better than hanging on a patio in early June in Houston, my friend. 881 01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:43.159 But you know what, it's always wine because there's some cold cocktails and cold 882 01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:45.800 wine coming. So I love that stuff. Yep. We got a tent, 883 01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:46.920 we got fans, we got cocktails. It's gonna be a lot of 884 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:49.760 fun. Well good, all right, everything else going on? You? 885 01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.880 Any technology advice? What kind of phone are you using? That? Oh? 886 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:57.440 Man? I actually just got the new Pixel eight fro from Google. 887 01:02:57.960 --> 01:03:00.199 What do you think? Though? I love it, man, love it. 888 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:01.360 I'm still learning how to use it. I'm still learning about all the 889 01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:05.679 different AI features and the photos and how it edits them and how it, 890 01:03:05.920 --> 01:03:07.559 you know, pops up all these suggestions I never even heard about. So 891 01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:10.199 it's pretty That's why we get along. Because you're an Android guy, So 892 01:03:10.239 --> 01:03:14.639 I really appreciate you tuning in for two decades. But the good thing Google 893 01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:17.199 makes strong phones. The new Pixel eight, they really packed in a ton 894 01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:21.280 of AI features. You know. Actually, the next what next Thursday, 895 01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:23.280 I'll see if I get there early, I'll show you a really cool trick 896 01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:27.559 or two. When you take a photo, you actually can move around a 897 01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:30.039 person to make aus you know, pretend like they're on standing on the top 898 01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:31.159 of your head. You don't need things that you know, the kind of 899 01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:35.559 kids would like to so good. The man has taste in wine, in 900 01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:38.840 steak and events and also technology. Elliott Wood, ladies and gentlemen, if 901 01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:43.360 you need o't thank you so much. It's always a pleasure talking to you. 902 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:45.119 And I look forward to seeing you next week here at Garden Grace for 903 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:49.079 the event with Chef Rocket of Spirito. As you see, Pepy, you 904 01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:52.159 listen, you get opportunities, you get invites, and you get all the 905 01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:54.039 information that you need. Elliot Wood, appreciate it, my man. I 906 01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:59.880 will see you next Thursday and Guardandgrace dot com. I'll go to Spirito. 907 01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:03.159 All the sluts downtown here in Houston. All right, Uh, listen, 908 01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:08.480 We're gonna take a break one open phone on seven one three two one two 909 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.400 five nine five. Oh, give me a shout and your voice will be 910 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:23.320 all over there across Houston, round the world behindh Art Radio. Always liked 911 01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:26.599 taking phone calls from you folks. Thank you Elliott for giving your shop good 912 01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:30.480 hearing from you. And it's the last segment and I'm not gonna give out 913 01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:32.800 the phone number. Not sure if we have time for you, because I 914 01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:35.840 still have to wrap up and I got to feel those things to yap about 915 01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:41.559 here. Congratulations to who is that was that? Jane? Jane is on 916 01:04:41.639 --> 01:04:45.960 the northwest side. She won the Cabo Bob's gift card. Good for you. 917 01:04:47.719 --> 01:04:50.320 It's callum. I'm just adding go to We were looking at the phones 918 01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:54.440 and all the response of what made the phone ring? You know I liked 919 01:04:54.480 --> 01:04:56.920 it. I prepare for this show man. I got topics of that, 920 01:04:57.039 --> 01:05:00.679 and I know I got giveaways. It's the number one topic we had today. 921 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:03.800 Is a taco and a burrito a sandwich? Are they sandwiches? I 922 01:05:03.880 --> 01:05:06.400 take the answer, yeah, at least according to it. If you've missed 923 01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:10.320 this, this was a story I talked about thirty minutes ago. A judge 924 01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:15.360 in Indiana has ruled at a taco in a brito are indeed sandwiches. They 925 01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:20.800 are Mexican style sandwiches. Which is allowing a restaurant to open up this Mexican 926 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:27.159 taco shop only because the landlord and a strip mall said only sandwich shops could 927 01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:31.320 open. It's it seven grade man, where was this topic twenty years ago? 928 01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:36.199 Because after twenty years, my only evergreen topics are should beans be in 929 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:42.239 chili? And our hot dogs is sandwich? No? But I think tacos 930 01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:46.320 and britos are sandwiches. It's enough of the Michigan. As we wind up 931 01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:49.880 the show, thanks again to our big up partners, Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy. 932 01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:55.000 If you're looking for a great compounding pharmacy. 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We got about eighty more minutes 942 01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:36.679 to cocktail time. It is a rum time here. Papa's pillar. You 943 01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:43.320 can go find that at your favorite liquor stores including restaurants too. Kapitallc Grill 944 01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:47.199 has a bottle or two. I believe in get the gallery area. You 945 01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:49.480 know what we just talked to Elliott. We just talked to Elliot. Would 946 01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:54.079 a garden grace? I know for a fact they go through like fifteen bottles 947 01:06:54.119 --> 01:07:00.199 a week. Boring Papa's p LR rum down at the Blue Goon, Texas 948 01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:04.719 City at the Big log on mar Crystal Lagoon, great resk, going going 949 01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:10.239 and have some hypopus pel are we thank you for your patronage there. I 950 01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:13.400 want to talk about have I kind of covered everything and I only have about 951 01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:15.440 five more minutes. About the cars? You know, I get to test 952 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:19.719 drive cars vehicles every single week, not from a dealership but directly from the 953 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:24.559 manufacturers. This is all my opinions. I can rag on them all I 954 01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:28.760 want, I can love on them all I want. I was in what 955 01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:31.559 was I? I was in at Superaru WRX. Anybody ever heard of that 956 01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:34.519 one? I wasn't even familiar with this. I liked super Rus. This 957 01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:40.400 was a sports type of car. And it has a stick shift. It's 958 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:46.719 a manual transmission. I test drive no less than sixty to seventy different vehicles 959 01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:49.320 in a year. Every single week I get at least one, if not 960 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:56.360 two vehicles I test drive it one to two per year are stick shift. 961 01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:00.599 I hate stick shifts. I'm sorry, No, I know how to drive 962 01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:04.679 driven a stick shift. My first car was a dick shift. They can 963 01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:09.320 be fun when you're on the open road by driving a stick shift in traffic. 964 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:12.360 Get out of here, people, no, sir, not happening. 965 01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:16.680 Open listen. I raced racecar. I've been on race tracks. Man, 966 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:20.520 you can get it going, But daily driving, I just I just can't 967 01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:24.399 do it. I like the car. Forty five thousand dollars or so. 968 01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:27.359 It's you know, it's gotten me. It is zippy, it's a great 969 01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:31.119 warranty, good back seats, dice actual trunk. See it's not a CUV 970 01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:33.920 and SUV. It's not a hashback. You don't see these a lot. 971 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:40.039 They may even make these in a non manual one. I like automatics the 972 01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:45.119 way to go when you're in traffic. What we actually may have a have 973 01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:48.239 another ever bring top I guess people could people could digress and actually disagree with 974 01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:53.279 me evs though there was some big news in the EV's and this is really 975 01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:55.039 not the time, as I closed the show, but this is a good 976 01:08:55.039 --> 01:09:00.279 show since I don't talk politics, but I thought this was interesting that the 977 01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:05.479 Biden administration did something very interesting into that sting earlier this week. When it 978 01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:09.920 comes to electric vehicles. Now, whether you like or love or hate electric 979 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:12.319 vehicles, and I have my thoughts on this. If you're a longtime listener, 980 01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:16.399 you know my thoughts on electric vehicles. But electric vehicles they're not selling 981 01:09:16.520 --> 01:09:21.720 too much right now American electric I mean there's American made electric vehicles, and 982 01:09:21.760 --> 01:09:27.840 there's some made around the world, including Chinese. The Biden administration and not 983 01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:32.920 too much on friendly terms with China as of late, they now want to 984 01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:39.520 put another towering wall of tariffs to block Chinese electric vehicles from coming into the 985 01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:45.560 country and eating into American automaker's lunch. So the government announced that tariffs and 986 01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:54.640 Chinese vehicles are going to quadruple from the existing to one hundred percent. If 987 01:09:54.680 --> 01:09:59.159 you think about it's going to make prohibitively expensive to sell them in the United 988 01:09:59.199 --> 01:10:05.840 States, jacked up terroristly. It's reflecting a significant escalation in this US China 989 01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:13.399 trade war. There's a lot of conflict. Here's the thing, Chinese evs. 990 01:10:13.479 --> 01:10:17.840 And there are a dozen different Chinese EV companies. Odds are you have 991 01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:20.199 not heard of most of them, if not all of them. I'm familiar 992 01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:25.359 with them because I cover the industry. They are high quality, and they're 993 01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:30.560 pretty low cost because they do have heavy government subsidies. The average cost of 994 01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:34.680 an EV in the United States write them on forty seven thousand dollars China twenty 995 01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:41.439 eight thousand dollars. Rud or bad. Listen. I'm not doing this into 996 01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:46.039 politics, but let me help you out if any government administration, this current 997 01:10:46.119 --> 01:10:49.039 one, the one before, the one after it, whatever it's going to 998 01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:55.640 be, if they really want to make the world green and everything all eco 999 01:10:55.880 --> 01:11:00.960 friendly, If the US wants to increase EV adoption and the main barrier right 1000 01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:06.079 now. It's the high cost why block cheaper models from entering the US park. 1001 01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:13.119 I don't want jobs to go away to America. I don't, But 1002 01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:19.680 what's the imperative and biggest point here. These tariffs now are gonna make it 1003 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:24.720 virtually we're the only thing that we can afford our US cars. Yay, 1004 01:11:25.039 --> 01:11:30.359 seriously love US cars. But man, if all the hey we're gonna go 1005 01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:32.399 green, we're gonna have all these batteries made, and you have battery chargers 1006 01:11:32.439 --> 01:11:36.640 made, there's still a relatively few ev adoption over there because of the current 1007 01:11:36.720 --> 01:11:39.640 cost of these things. I want you to think about that. You have 1008 01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:42.520 a week to think about that, and talk with me next week, where 1009 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:45.199 again I will answer your phone calls and give away some stuff because we have 1010 01:11:45.279 --> 01:11:48.840 so much fun. Seven one three dive no no, no more phone calls. 1011 01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:54.079 I'll give you my email Michael at high Tech texsm dot com on the 1012 01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:57.479 old social media high tech texting dot com h I G H T E C 1013 01:11:57.720 --> 01:12:00.359 h T E x E E x A N Callen read. Thank you so 1014 01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:03.920 much everybody else here at iHeart Media and Houston the home base over here, 1015 01:12:04.319 --> 01:12:09.920 appreciate you have a fun weekend PGA Championship Golf. Whatever you're gonna do, 1016 01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:14.640 be safe, watch the weather, Congrats to Mother's Day, grads and dads 1017 01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:16.279 and everything, and we'll do it next week. My name is Michael Garfield. 1018 01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:20.640 It's the High Tech Taxing Show, and right now my show is over.