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another high Tech Texan show. And I appreciate you guys too, and
hope all is well. Got two hours of pack behind info, ament,
question and answers, maybe some giveaways, who knows, But we're going to
pack two and a half three hours into a two hour show, mostly because
I talked pretty quick. But I don't know. I haven't been that caffeinated
up. Maybe I'll slow down a bit. Appreciate you. Calumri. Calamri
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N. Hey, mama's talking to you. Would you get last week from
Mother's Day? I hope you did celebrate? Listen, it's is it really
about the gifts. It's about the that you are just thrown upon from all
of your kids, not thrown up, not thrown up from your kids,
from your grandkids. A happy Mother's Day. I hope it was very nice
for all the females out there who do have kids, grandkids, great grandkids,
great great grandkids. I don't know, we're living so long nowadays.
Would you get because I uh, things that I do as a consumer entertain
a what I'm saying, I kind of got my pulse on what's hot,
what's not? What you should get? What Dad, maybe you shouldn't get
and if you shouldn't get it, you could throw it my way. It's
not just Mother's Day because now it is graduation time. Graduations they're starting to
happen. If you you high school, you college person, if you just
graduated, what's something you want? I'm here to kind of give you some
gift ideas. Yes, dads, I know you're up next and about a
month from right now. For dad's day, grads and dads. Why is
grads and dads always paired together versus grads and moms Because the first thing that
people do athletes do when they're on the field TV cameras in front of the
face, it's I mom, They don't worry about Dad was standing outside in
the rain and the snow. Over all those years, coach you all how
to throw that fastball, the curveball, snap of football. No, no,
it's hi mom, beat but listen, it's moms and dads. Every
day should be parents day. Graduation gifts, do you need anything from a
phone, a tablet, a computer, a laptop, which are really good
gifts to give to kids who graduated high school were going to college. Before
you do make that decision, you really want to check with the school that
the kids are going to to make sure that nothing is solewly required. In
terms of a brand, I remember years and years ago was a furtherer Yale.
You only could use an Aumball, which I actually wouldn't have chosen Harvard
if that indeed were the case. Do you really need a tablet versus a
tablet and a laptop or even a desktop? According to a few of my
kids. Yes they did. Dad, Let's go out and show some more
shekels for all of this year. I don't know if you need all that
stuff. Still, the one thing, probably the only thing that I probably
still have from my college days in people, I graduated college forty plus,
just over forty years ago. I still have my clock radio. I have
a clock radio. You know this, despite a hat. I have fifteen
phones here, I have a clock radio next to me because it's got two
different speakers, and it's something I don't know if I'm gonna give up with.
It's it's something I'm used to. Other than that, everything's gone.
So so whether you do need an alarm clock, for kids who have graduated
college who actually have a job where they have to physically go somewhere, maybe
you do need an actual alarm clock. I maybe can help you with that.
So let me know what I can do for you. Lots of news.
Also, one of the things I wanted to talk about is streaming.
You know, when it comes to streaming, it's the new way we It's
it's not relatively new way that we consume media. We still consume radio,
which we hear at. iHeartMedia. We do. Thank you for streaming or
listening to the old fashioned radio. Whether it's in the car, on FM
or AM. It don't matter how you listen to us, keep it on
podcasts. We do like you to listen live. Try to make it easy
for you on my show Saturday late mornings early afternoons, unless it's an encore
presentation, whereas a late night Saturday at early Sunday morning. But as you're
driving around, you're just sitting out by the pool, whatever you're doing.
Maybe you're walking. You've got your old fashioned stereo, you know, Walkman
headphones, which, by the way, I'm foreshadowing there is a story about
Walkmen's and cassette tapes are coming back. You're not going to blame this one,
but so we do, thank you for listening. Television has also undergone
a big change, you know, over the year. Still exists all the
local channels Houston and many major demographic areas well over fifty sixty or so television
stations that are being broadcast over the air right now. If you have an
antenna, a digital antenna, you could watch them for free. Free.
We love that, we love free. But then the comes cable and now
they're streaming and streaming. If you think about all the subscriptions you have,
and this is where I'm going with this, how much are you paying?
And it is a lot. And I thought about this most notably because the
news that came out this week with the NFL the big going the number one
thing that we as Americans watch on TV. And this is a fact,
this is not anything else. Always, every single year, the number one
shows we watch are Football Live Football, the ultimate reality show. Sunday Night
Football always comes in at number one rated of the top show of this season.
The Super Bowl gend always the number one rated show of a given calendar
year with about one hundred hundred and twelve million people doing em. The NFL
is going nowhere. The NFL could do anything at want, and the NFL
is changing the way that we consume media television specifically, let me give you
an example. NFL fans used to be able to watch every game with just
a cable package and a Sunday ticket subscription. But this come year twenty twenty
four, the NFL has placed games across eleven different channels, including four subscription
services, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, ESPN Plus, along with cable
and Sunday ticket, it is going to cost an armload anywhere between eight hundred
and fifty. So I've even seen up to fifteen hundred dollars for a subscription
to subscribe to all of these things. If you are an NFL fan like
I am, odds are you may pay for this summer of some of this
stuff. You may get smart and go to a sports bar. You may
get smarter and actually borrow somebody's password if you can, maybe a neighbor has
it. But it's not getting cheap. So then I'm thinking if you subscribe
for some of these things, And this is what happened to Peacock last year,
Peacock actually aired a game, a playoff game in early January. It
was Kansas City Chiefs because Miami Dolphins. Three million people signed up just to
watch this game on Peacock. What they did they a lot of people churn,
it's called churn. A lot of people unsubscribed afterwards, how many people
forgot when we come back, I'm gonna talk about that. And I saw
a stat over here our great state of Texas. You, my dear and
fellow Texans, you were paying a lot for subscriptions. Have you signed up
for things that you're still paying for monthly but you don't even use. I
will tell you it reminds you what they are and what you need to cancel.
Coming up right here on the big high tech text in show all your
people out there trying to figure out where you're gonna return your Brother's Day gifts?
Did you do it? The mom's come on, just just I know
you were sweet. You know, little kids made you a little handmade car
with crayons, dear mommy, the bestest thing in the world. And you
know they went out and got you something with the little help of dad or
you know, grandma or something like that. Your return, I mean,
do your return gifts for Mother's Day? Because do the kids ask you a
week or two later, Hey, mom, man, where's they? Where's
where's that huh? Where's that blouse that I bought you? Where's that purse
that was just ugly? I got it? Duff five below? Do you
return these things? If you do want to return some things or dads,
if you feel guilty, or husbands or kids and you'd feel guilty for not
getting moms some stuff, might I recommend US coins and jewelry. That's right,
US coins and jewelry'd been around for two generations right now, Kenny and
Matt Duncan. They are Actually, I don't know that they specifically are,
but I know they are open as I speak, alive on this Saturday,
right on Katie Freeway. Iten Voss Road, right on the Feeder Road.
Man, they've got a great place. And oh what do you think you
know, Chief Michael? What do moms? What do they want there?
The moms are coin collectors. Oh, by the way, it's also called
US Coins and Jewelry. Yes, moms walk in and they've got a really
beautiful lot of rotating a lot of new things coming in every time I go
there. There's diamond tennis bracelets, there's rings, beautiful earrings. Yes,
they have watches, Rolex watches. Mama need a Rolex watch. That's right,
What time is it? I got one? I don't. I have
a male Rolex watch. Actually, US Coins enjoy it. If you're listening
outside of the Houston market, if you have coins, if you want to
deal with them, they are absolutely incredibly trustworthy. Trust me. You can
even do it online US Coinsandjewelry dot com. Go see him. They're open
six days a week and on the seventh day, they rested, just like
Chick fil A, Hobby Lobby, Cabo bobs at a few other folks.
But we do think it so that there's one day. And by the way,
dads may want to get dad a little gift to rate Texas the State
of Texas memorabilia flags. I need stuff. Love that place, said,
going into kill some time and browse and buy a lot of stuff. As
we do continue what we call here the High Tech Taxi Show, talking about
streaming and more so subscriptions. May think of how many subscriptions that you have.
When I hear the words subscriptions, I'm old school enough to think,
oh, it's a magazine subscription, maybe a subscription to a newspaper, because
that's the way I grew up in the seventies and the eighties. Thinking well,
I mean TV was, you know, over the air, we watched
that. But then we had cable, and you do subscribe to cable.
But just we never call the subscriptions. It's just we had a magazine subscriptions.
Now there are subscriptions to so many things, including subscriptions, yes,
to streaming services. And I let into that right before the break. If
you're just tuning in. How if you're an NFL fan, you're now going
to have to subscribe to no less than four different streaming services to watch a
full season YouTube Tvpacock, Amazon, Netflix, ESPN Plus, they're all out
there. Times did you subscribe for something You're thinking, Oh, I'm test
it out for thirty minute. At thirty minutes, I'm gonna stead up for
thirty days and then if the thirty days you'll forget. That happened to me,
That happened to me recently. What was I testing out? Well,
I was testing out it was a Was it Spotify? No, it was
YouTube Music. I think they got me. And you gotta be careful because
I listened there's YouTube Music. It's a free app and you can listen to
free songs. But if you look it, sometimes a box pops up and
says yes or no and you don't read it. And that box, I
think specifically said hey, would you liket to thirty day trial and will bill
you? After that, I clicked yes, thinking it was going to go
away. Guess what, I accidentally signed up for freaking YouTube. So I'm
thinking, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna cancel it, and I put a
little reminder in my calendar, but sometimes I don't even see it. So
I got busted for a month before I that reminded me when I saw my
credit card, I'm like, come on, man, but how many of
you forgot about There was a survey. There's a tech company called Bengo bangl
and they recently did a survey on subscription and they included subscriptions of all kinds
of categories streaming video, retail, music, gaming, news, health and
fitness, home internet, box, physical goods that you get a box like
the Jelly the month, club education. In all but two of these categories
retail and streaming video and demand. This firm found out that Texans led all
other states and the national average and the percentage of consumers who have subscriptions.
People, are you willing to pay all these recurring bills? They also get
I got a number for you. They found that on average, Texans have
six subscriptions, which I saw that I'm thinking that's kind of low. Texans
have six subscription which cost an average of twelve hundred dollars over the course of
the year, and that's the most in the US, and that's far above
the national average. Of nine hundred and twenty four bucks. Is that some
of the higher outlay may be attributable to the level of subscriptions that we text
and seek, But the survey fail that the textants were more likely than other
Americans to cancel a subscription if it included advertisements. Okay, what am I
saying over here? Well, I think it suggests that you may be paying
a lot of recurring bills for things that may not be so much of a
need as they are a want. Ah. Yes, the classic need versus
want taught my kids this. It's a topic of the Garfield household. Growing
up. Kids. Let me tell you what need is versus wanting something.
There's a decent chance that you might not even want some of the services for
which you're repeatedly paying. It may be just you've forgotten you even signed up
for Americans are spending billions on stuff they forgot to cancel. I want you
to think about that. There was a paper last year I think it was
a researcher, may have been from A and M. It said that when
people are forced to pay attention and actively re up their subscriptions because their credit
card expired, there was a sharp abnormal drop and subscriber retention rates. If
that's the only way you remember by your credit card expiring people, you should
have your credit card expire on a monthly basis. If you have your subscriptions
set up on auto pay, periodically check the price because they can go up
fast when you're not looking. Maybe a good idea to set an annual date,
like you know, the day after Tack Day. Check your subscriptions if
you really still want them and you want to keep paying for them. What's
a wors think about it right now? How many streaming services do you have
that you watch? Oh? You know during COVID Man that was perfect Disney
Plus launch during COVID I mean that's all we did. We stayed home.
I mean it got millions, tens of millions of initial subscribers. You may
not watch it anymore or I forgot I had that. I guess the easiest
way is go look at your credit card bill and again just a little consumer
news for it. Look at your credit card bill and what is recurring or
not? I try not to recur a lot of things. I do have
Amazon and that's sixteen bucks, and I still probably don't even the BROI on
that still may not even be worth it. I have k ole sadly,
also, I just signed up one I'm a new Peloton or I have Pelot,
I have a Peloton bite, and so I have to pay for that
a month. I'm like, a man, is that worth it? But
that I mean you have to sometimes the way I look at things, it's
like, all right, I'm gonna pay for this, but instead of doing
something else, is it worth it? Okay? So instead of a gym
membership, which I really I don't never belong to a I belong to a
country club which has a gym, but out of a gym membership, right,
instead of a gym membership, I'm gonna pay my monthly Peloton bill because
I'm still getting my shits in, I'm still working out. Sometimes you have
to justify things like that. So the skin a little psa little public service.
An now it's but for you people, go take some time maybe here
as the kids are getting out of school, maybe early summer, pin to
paper, just do it all that how much subscription you're paying you, I'm
probably gonna save you a lot of money. And so I'm more than happy
to take a little commission for that anything else I can do for you,
give me a shout. Michael Garfield is the name. Callam Reid, go
a head to start playing some music and punching us out of here into a
break. When we come back, it's the bottom of the hour. I
kind of tease this, but cassette players, and you kind of know my
age or any when I told you I grew up in the seventies and the
eighties as a young little high tech texting, but cassettes were the rage.
I still have most all of my cassettes and and my CDs set players are
coming back. That's a bad news for you. Watch that. I got
eight parrots. I got a nightmare that I'm gonna bring back for you.
This was pretty big, knew man. It was a press release. Mom
was this. This came out two or three days ago, and it brought
back flashbacks from me as a as a parent, as a dad raising my
kids. I was I was a little too old for this, but as
a dad, I spent many, many a time in this establishment, and
luckily they serve beer. It was the only way I actually could have could
have could have just really just plowed my way through. Chuck eat Cheese.
That's right, people, did you really know about Chuck E Cheese? I
just I just wanted to mention this Chucky No, it's not closing, and
yes there still are Chuck E Cheese. I live within. There's two Chucky
Cheeses each within six minutes of me. Lucky Cheese is removing all of its
animatronics by the end of this year. People, if you grew up in
the eighties, the nineties or the oughts, you have fond memories of going
to Chuck E Cheese celebrate birthday parties, maybe because your parents took it as
a tree, but a huge part of going to Chuck E Cheese, people
was watching Munches Make Believe band, the freakyest band, the creepiest nightmarish things
you have ever seen, nightmares with that animatronic band used to go and I
used to listen to who created this? Damn it? Who was in the
band? It was like the freaking Beatles. It was Chuck E Cheese,
mister munch where my kids jasper tea jowls. There was the dude in the
drums the past Pasqually, Pasqually of the chef, and there was one chick.
Was she the lead singer. Hell any they would see those songs that
day would get the Birthdays Star. Remember the Birthday Star song, Oh My
Go three. I had three boys people. I said, they let's let's
go to Chuck E Cheese. Like, don't you want to go to like
a I don't know, a dynamite factor or something. No, we're gonna
go to Chuck E Chee. Oh god. So there there's these these life
size three four five six foot tall robotic They move their mouth and it they
just clang clang clang clang, kind of Oh my gosh, Chuck E Chiese.
Apparently I don't know. They're getting into the twenty first freaking century.
Finally they are removing them because they're having an aggressive transformation. This is a
quote from their CEO. Oh my goodness, so wow, it's it's it's
sad. It's a sad day. I'm sitting Shiva for Chuck E Cheese.
In the band, mister munch kids want to play more nowadays with screen based
entertainment and what they're going to do. They're taking down these animatronics. They're
breaking up the band. It's pretty much what they're doing, and they're gonna
be replaced with a band that's playing on a giant screen and a digital dance
floor. So your questions, and this is why I go deep. I
look inside things. Number One, I want to buy these animatronics. I
want the whole freaking band, and I want to set it up in my
living room, right in the corner, right next to my bar. I
want people coming in hanging at Garf's crib, football watch parties wherever I do.
I want them coming in and then they're gonna go, what in the
world is freaking Henrietta Hippo or whatever her name is, Henny Chicky Poozy When
you're hey, man, Garf a squally on drums? Heah man, what's
up that love? I mean, there's hundreds of these, there's hundred locations
that they're taking. They gotta be up for sale, Folks. Keep it
out of eBay for that for me, because I may want to buy these
things. And here's the thing, this actually may be great marketing. I
am a listen you can break me down a lot of ways. I am
I a radio broadcaster. AM I a TV out of media personality, am
I an mc do. I am I a reviewer, consumer technology reviewer,
bring me. I'm a marketing guy. I came up with my high tech
texted moniker. I work with companies to help market their products. I'm a
market again. Let me tell you that this could be the greatest marketing move
in a long time. Chuck E. Cheese is breaking up the band and
I'm just gonna throw it out here. Do not be surprised. Within two,
three, four, five years there's going to be a reunion tour.
Just saying, the Chucky Freaking Cheese reunion Tour. Hey, the Who and
the Stones have done it for thirty plus years, We're getting the band back
together. I'm serious. This is this is brilliant t shirts, concerts,
pepperori rolls, stale bread, thin crust pizza, the taste like shoe leather.
It just it's the whole thing. Sitting shiver for Chuck E. Cheese.
Thoughts on this seven one three, two, one, two, five
nine five up be it traumatized by the Chucky Cheese animatronics. It's really is
a childhood rite, a passage if you think about it. I mean,
the kids, what do kids have left right now? I'll say, come
on, where do you take your kids? Right now? I digress Michael
Garfield. This is called the high tech Taxi show. Let me digress and
go back in time too, we did. I didn't go to Chuck E
Cheese as a kid, and obviously a young young kid in the seven nineteen
seventies error. But by the time the eighties, the late seventies and early
eighties came wrong, I was listening to music and I am very much into
music, which I still dress like and act like and listen to music like.
I'm still from the nineteen eighties. And cassett players that was all the
rage because set players. Kids. If you don't know what a cassette player
is, either a come over to my with your parents. I'm just not
that I want to bring kids. Go on gruge, go online, go
google it because we did not have Google in the eighties. L we didn't
have Google until you know, to the two thousands. But cassette tapes were
a way to listen to music portably. Well. You didn't have to you
know, schlep a record player and have these big, you know, vinyl
LPs that went around and are reel to real disc or eight track tapes.
No, there were cassettes and you used to listen to little earphones on them,
kind of like a walk man. And there were home cassette players too
that you can get really high five sound. That made way of to CDs,
which made way to m P three's, which now makes way to streaming.
And that's what it is. But guess what, there's another new Vinyl
records came back a few years ago and for real audio, it's a series.
There is nothing like listening to vinyl. You know, put the needle
on the record, and I've lost so much of my audience right now.
You have no clue what I'm talking about, but it's it's it's analog,
but it still sounds great. There's a new analog challenger because cassette tapes apparently
are coming back. They've you know, those tapes which have been in my
garage and my kids sit there laugh at me with what's what's all these dusty
things? I think they may have a second lease on life. That's right,
because there's new portable pairs players a little tight pick that's coming on the
market. I was at CS earlier this year January. It was a consumer
electronics show, and you know, listen, they I see so many headphones
and digital audio players. I actually saw a portable cassette player or two or
three. There's there's one from a company called I need know how to pronounce
it f I I oh, sea, let's just call it that. And
it kind of looked like a walk man. Then it's it's small, it's
about the size of a cassette and it's got play fast forward rewind sound quality.
Is there? You can buy these things right now here is there's another
company called We Are Rewind. We assessed the end of the company, so
we are a realisted What my question is why it's it's it's you know,
I just like just like Jurassic Park, you know, it's it's We shouldn't
be asking, oh, but why why do we even need this? CDs?
They were indestructible, that's how they were marketed. And then bye bye
the cassettes. I mean, if you look at it, it's a plastic
case. There's a thin magnetic tape in there. That's the weak point because
how many times has for adults right now, if you're over forty or fifty,
how many times has your tape been eaten by a machine or unspooled?
And then you take a pencil and you have to rewind it you. That's
right. Apparently they're that's a odd thing. Yesterday's tailor's with makes cassettes right
now, go on like you get them on eBay and whatever. How much
of these babies, uh these things forty dollars or so. There's that that
theofiio and that's about one hundred and nine dollars. I'm looking right over here.
I just thought it was interesting. Not people. People may say,
I'm all order, I do hesitated to throw some stuff away. I have
every cassette that I ever bought or was given as a gift in the eighties
and they're sitting in my garage and they're probably worked from the sun, hundreds
of them. And I have my mixtapes too. I gotta take a break
over our wall. Come back, let me tell you what a mixtape as
kids, because you really, I'm gonna tell your young kids you missed out
on a lot. I also have all my CDs, which I actually took
the jewel cases and I've made a piece of art of it in my home.
All my CDs, like eleven foot tall. I took all my duel
cases, all from the eighties, and there's a piece of eleven foot tall
art that's hanging my wall, which actually I probably should go and give up
this whole media thing and become an artist. I've already to come back,
Michael Garfield. I'm gonna tell you how a mixtape works. You can call
me and you can tell me what is a piece of technology that I just
missed. But maybe one day it'll come back. I think the list is
pretty short. High tech taxi shell could be right back. Big shout out
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for their partnership. Here. As we continued the high tech text and show,
I was talking about cassette. That's cassette tapes. Apparently slowly but surely,
maybe making you a comeback sound of like albums, vinyl records in turntables
and help they made a comeback come back a few years ago. And even
my of my youngest son, who's he was twenty three, he bought somebody
gave him a record player, and now he's getting into albums, LPI albums,
and I guess he goes to these secondhand shops and buy some of them,
and they'll call me and ask me because a lot of them are from
the eighties, the nineties or the two thousands. Obviously he was even born
for a lot of that time. But I still have a lot of my
records that I had, and I didn't have a ton of records. I
had much more cassette tapes and certainly more CDs, but I still have my
record That's the one thing I don't keep in my garage. Kids, People
do not keep your final albums in your attic or in your garage you're anywhere
hot, incuston, because at some point we're gonna have a little meltage going
down there. I keep this in my closet, but it was neat because
he went through my album collection, probably earlier this year, and he took
some of them, which I loved because they were just sitting in my closet
so he could listen to him. And you know, my stuff is it's
all eaies. It's the only vinyls I have is absolutely from the eighties.
I mean he did you know Lionel Ritchie, he took just you know night
Ranger. I mean these you know stuff that you know I had early ages,
but before we flipped the cassettes in CDs, it was cool. But
cassettes are coming back. But one thing I want, I want to kind
of want to stir some memories here because I'm a memory. Yeah, some
music. Music, And I've always said this music is incredibly important to me.
Music, my bump music over here. Before we couldn't start playing real
music because we don't have the money to license it. That's my company.
I used to could play all the music I wanted and most of my bump
music from the eighties because that was the best time of my life. I
went to high school, I went to college in the eighties. That's where
I found my love for for the media of a radiotellivision and film, which
is my but that's my what I got my degree in uh MTV. It
began in nineteen eighty one. That's what we grew up. At some point
you said, hey, did you hear that new song? And then it
became then it became hey did you see that new song? It's worth style,
it's it's really changed culture the eighties. It's on the map. And
so that's that's why I have all of you know, the medium media from
there. But one of the things that I did is not only could you
go out and buy real albums from every single artist that hear, they sold
blank tapes. Now, they did not sell blank vinyl where you could actually
make and record anything on your vinyl record. But when it came real to
reel you could do that. But I'm not even getting that. You could
do this with cassette tapes. You would go buy blank cassette tapes. You
would then record things. So if you could record an album, and if
you hooked everything up correctly to your high five, you had and here's your
high five stereo. All right, So you had your you had a record
player, you had a cassette tape, you had the tutor potentially an amplifier.
So as long as you hit record on that cassette tape. It would
record whatever input was in there. So let's say you wanted to make a
cassette tape of an album that you already have, so you could then take
that cassette tape anywhere. You could put it in your walk. Man,
you could put it in your car because cars used to have these things called
cassette players, and you hit record. Then if you're really cocky, you
had you could record radio and people right now. The greatest compliment anybody could
ever give me is, hey man, Michael, I'm recording you right now
on your radio show. Because this is what we as kids used to do.
We would record radio, not so much talk radio, am radio,
but we would listen to our FM radio and we would listen for songs,
and you would record songs off the radio, and I spend, okay,
it's not even hours. Here's of my life waiting for the DJing to shut
up so I can hit record, and you've got a time it right to
record the entire three and a half four minute song, and then you shut
it down just as he started the back talking back and back announce it.
You would do this on and on and you would tell these mixtapes in my
garage right now, and I should really post this put on my Instagram to
have all the comments. I have thirty forty over the years, different mixtapes.
Each one is sixty or ninety minutes of every song, and again it
goes back to each other early eighties and a lot of the time sometimes you
didn't hit it right, you would get the DJ. And so I have
Ron Chapman, one of the DJ that I grew up with in Dallas,
on the famed KVIL. I have his voice on my cassette. That's why
I wanted to be KAVL was the He was the first greatest disc jockey.
If you're from Dallas area from the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties, you know
who Ron Chapman is. But that's what I listened to, and I mean,
it was just it was phenomena I like on mixtapes. And I'm gonna
end the story right here. You could take a pin and you would take
the little paper out of the cassette so you would write down which songs are
on there, and I would name it and the name of my mixtapes,
the name of Michael's mixtapes. I should have been Michael's mixtapes. It was
called Awesome Songs. And if any of my buddies are listening on i R
Radio anywhere around the country right now, if you've got I grew up with
the in Dallas and we I talked to a lot of my buddies. They
knew I had awesome songs, and I started numbering them and I used Roman
numerals because I was also a Super Bowl fan. I have awesome songs one,
two, three, four, five, six, se of eight and
I'm in it went all the way. He's into my thirties. Awesome songs
thirty two, thirty four, thirty five. I need to pull these out.
But what I did, You actually can digitize these things. I have
a device and you could probably find these on the ebag. I have a
device where a cassette. It's a physical cassette players about the size of a
toaster rubbish ball toaster or something, and it has an output that is USB.
Plug it into your computer, You hit and it's it's a one to
one. You have to hit play. Listen to the old thing in real
time while you're hitting record on an MP three. It's a pain in the
you know, what But it's a way to digitize old songs. People.
I just did a massive wayback machine here on the high Tech Texting Shot,
I will step into the twenty first inur in the way back, I got
a review of a phone, Google Pixel eight a just came out. Google
Pixel makes great Android phones, got some really neat AI features and also one
of the things I've been playing with, I got a This was not around
in the nineteen eighties. This was not around three years ago. I have
a pair of smart glasses. Ray Band just came out about six months ago,
with a pair of smart glasses that you wear these sunglasses. It listens
to you. It's got a camera and a video camera hands free. Oh
it's sneaky. Deekey. I'll tell you if it's worth the money. All
that so much more on the flood high Tech Texting Show right here on KPORC
nine fifty eight. I'm an iHeartMedia. Is Michael Garfer. Michael Garfield.
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Act. Now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield, you look at black
people. Thank you for listening to our number one of the high Tech Texan
show. This begins our number two. And I may not be the greatest
mathematician, but pretty much halfway through the show say with me, we are
halfway to happy hour. You know, you know what if it's If it's
just after twelve noon, should you be listening? Love? It is happy
hour? If it's the repeat at twelve fifteen in the morning, twelve to
ten in the morning. See you know what it's You've had a long happy
hour either way. Michael is the name Michael Guarfield, but doing it for
twenty three years, the longest running live local radio program on this heritage station,
which just turned ninety nine years old. Left ninety nine years old,
kap or see. I've been doing this almost a quarter of that time off.
That's why I talk about everything that happened in the eighties at a fun
first hour, talk about cassette players. They're kind of on the comeback.
There are companies. Now we're making cassette players, and there are the music
labels. They're making cassettes just like they're making final albums. Again, it's
not the highest quality audio by uni stretch of the imagination, certainly since we
now have well there's CDs obviously, which were better. Now they're streaming,
which is even better. It takes you back in time. It takes you
back in dime, doesn't it. Also this hour I got a review of
the new Google Pixel eight. Good. There's no iPhones released right that.
There's always new Android forms being released. Google Pixel eight great. AI features
that which is very nice. And also next segment unless I sneak it in
this segment, I'm wearing this new there's these smart glasses ray Band, great
sunglass company. Meta. You've heard of Meta. That's the company that owns
Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp. They got together and they created a few years
ago they came out with a pair of smart glasses and was version one.
It was called the Facebook Stories Glasses. Version two came out late last year,
six months ago or so, and now they're called the ray Ban Meta
Smart Class. I have a pair for the past week or so, and
I got him from my eye Doctor to the Stars in Houston. Doctor Alan
Panzer, great eye doctor, uses more technology to check your eyes in anybody
else. He's in the bel Air area if you want to go see him.
He also obviously has a sunglass and glass shop in there. But anyway,
he got these. He's let me use them. Uh, and they're
pretty neat. I'll review those two. That's that's right. I am.
I'm always watching you and I'm always recording you because these these glasses they have
a camera and a video camera built in. You don't know. You don't
be careful when you're talking to me, people, because you don't know if
I'm recording it. So I got this. I do want to mention this.
I like, I like talking about food and sports, and this is
what we do here. And then since it's lunchtime, as we plausibly do
this thing live. I saw a story two days ago which absolutely hit a
interesting weakness as a as a when he plus your radio guy, there are
things called evergreen topics, and when sometimes when we and the my elk here
on the radio or media, we run out of things to talk about about
new topics or whatever, we sometimes lean on what we call evergreen topics.
What's an an evergreen topic is just a topic. It's a conversation, it's
a debate that's really never going to be solved. But for talk radio,
it gets the phones ringing. It's let me think about this. There's always
one side and there's the other side, and you know, maybe it's like,
here's an example, should chili have beans? Yes or no? Seven
one three two one two five nine five Oho call drove right now. The
radio HOS takes a stance. Callers agree, callers disagree. This radio says,
abs a frickling not there. This is Texas. Ain't no beans should
be in chill? Next topic, that's an evergreen can't till two hours talking
about that. Another one that resembrings this up is is a hot dog a
sandwich? It's a rhetorical question. I don't want a debate about this right
now, but I saw this story and that was a log leader you gotta
listen to this is a hot dog a sandwich? There's a better question that
we should ask. Is a taco and a burrito a sandwich? I want
you to think about this, that taco and a burrito, are they sandwiches?
Well, a judge in Indiana thinks, so this story. There was
a ruling that just came down from a legal battle that's been going on for
two years. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, there was a strip mall that
planned to open up. There was a restaurant that wanted to open there and
it was called the Famous Taco Mexican Grill. Just a local Mama ba the
Famous Taco Mexican Grill. The planning commission rejected his bid to open this place
because, according to agreement with a local condo association nearby, only alcohol free
restaurants that did not allow outdoor seating and only sold quote made to order or
subway style sandwiches unquote were allowed to open at that location. So there was
a lawsuit. The agreement I think was put in place to keep some national
fast food chains from opening in the strip mall down to get that whatever it's
cool by local but the Famous Taco Restaurants was ruled it is now permissible into
the terms of the original written commitment that here it comes. Tacos and burritos
are our Mexican style sandwiches and the original written of commitment does not restrict potential
restaurants to only American is en style sandwich is unquote folks seven one three two
one two five nine five. Oh, you haven't thought about that, have
you? No, we do eat. Is a hot dog a sandwich?
If you think about it, I'll go wrapped in a bread like substance.
Maybe it's fried, maybe it's not. How about a brito corn flour yep,
could be bread. It's not a what redefine as an American style sandwich
with their ear's two pieces and that's it. I'm down with this fight me
people. Hot Dogs not a sandwich. Britos tacos are a sandwich. I
think yeah, Cayleum, we can go ahead and take the rest of the
the show off. I think the calls are gonna light up the or it's
right now. I'm hungry. By the way, when we come back.
Speaking of tacos and Britos, got a gift card for you, the Great
Hobbo Bob's four locations in Houston. I have a twenty five dollars gift card.
We'll do that next segment, so you then can go get a I'm
there easily two to three times a week. It is great. You go,
you pick it up. You order massive burrito, bulls, tacos,
soft shell tacos too. You can watch the tortillas being pressed right there.
Five different kinds of tortillas that you can pick Ancho, chili, fire,
milk, flower. Oh, it's phenomenal. Got a gift card for it.
And guess what they're sandwiches. We are meet people right here on the
High Tech Testing Show. I know why you people hung around. You want
to win something lunchtime. Right now we were talking about I've never seen the
phones go crazy right now? Cal should even answer these just I lost them
to give their answer. Is it taco and a burrito? Are they sandwiches?
Just I just wanted just an anecdotal on the screen. Yes or no?
What say? I say? They're sandwiches, their Mexican style sandwiches.
There's your new evergreen topic. Chili should have no beans of the Great State
of Texas. Hot dogs are not sandwiches. Tacos and burritos sandwich What a
you gonna do about it? Seven one three, two, one two five
nine five. Oh, I give you that number right, go ahead and
clear the lines. I'm gonnaell why we're gonna give some pick away? All
right? I'm gonna give away a sandwich. I'm giving a white sandwiches right
now. Cabo Bob's love this place. I found them in Austin years ago.
They have several locations. They have now infiltrated Houston four locations. There's
one near Katie, there's one in Stafford the Meadows on the southwest side,
there's one of the Gallery area, and there's one of the Northwest. SI
I go to Cabo Bob's. I got a twenty five dollars gift card twenty
five bones so you can get tacos burritos, and you can call them sandwiches.
You don't have to call them sandwiches. Do whatever you want. They're
good stuff. Call her number nine go seven one three two one two five
nine five. Oh, callum see if you can have pick a runner seven
one three two one two five five. Oh if you're getting a busy signal,
folks, I'm sorry about that. You you missed it. I thought
that that was pretty neat. So no way, Yes, I told you
I was gonna give away some money stuff. Let's tell you about these glasses
I'm playing with. Let me tell you about these glasses. So I test
things all the time, and if you follow me on Instagram saying goes on
one if you're not blocked, it is a high tech Texan h I g
h t E c h t e x a n high tech Texan. Read
it. Follow me and you can win things too. Actually, I think
I gave away some I way a lot of this stuff that I review on
Instagram too, if you should follow me. Also been playing with these these
glasses and they're smart glasses, their sunglasses. So ray Band got together with
Meta Meta with Jones, Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and they have these the
second version of these smart glasses. Now, let's go back in time where
you maybe remember something about ten years ago called Google Glass. Google Google came
up with a pair of glass is that you could wear. But they were
they were smart. They had a camera built in, little tiny camera.
It was like one of these hidden cameras you see on these hidden shows,
and you know, the news reporters would go and and you know, try
to sneak some stuff like it where you could record video, you can take
a photo, but also you could see things on the screen and like one
of the eyes they had a little tiny because they're so close to your eyes.
You know, if it were a pair of glasses. You know,
glasses themselves are less than one inch from your eyes, so if there's a
speck of dirt, it looks like a big speck of dirt. And they
also had this little tiny monitor where you can actually surf a web page again
ten years ago, and it looks like it was like one hundred and twenty
eight screen. It was so big. It was a beta model, it
was tests. They sold these things for a thousand dollars. I actually got
a buddy of mine bought one. I tried to mind to play with them
for an hour or two eat too expensive for what they were ahead of their
time ten years ago. People didn't like the security effect, like what do
you mean you can videotape meant anything just by looking at me? Didn't work
fastboard and there's several other iterations of them on the market right now. But
ray Ban is a very big it's the biggest name when it comes to sunglasses.
Meta it's a very big name when it comes to technology. So they
have these out right now, and they came out about six or seven months
ago. This particular version. They had several different styles of sunglasses. One
of which is the classic wayfarer wave. I've never been a wavefairer surfing kind
of dude. I mean, it's it's very Tom Cruise, risky business type
of stuff. It's just they're very big, heavy, just they don't look
good on my face, but they protect your eyes or whatever. So my
eye doctor, doctor Alan Panzer, the eye doctor to the Stars as I
called him on the show for years and years. He's in bel Air right
on his Loop six tended Bissonet. Great eye doctor comes on this sh but
this dude spends more money buying new technological devices for his office so he could
see inside your eyes all the way to your brains. If you need an
eye doctor, I really do recommend doctor Allan Panzer. But when you walk
into a typical eye doctor, he's got a whole line of eyeglasses style designs
that obviously he could make it to prescription glasses. They also sell sunglasses.
So he carries these ray Ban Meta Smark glasses and he says, hey,
you got to come try these things out. So he's he let me play
with these pair, which I've been playing for three or four five days,
and they're interesting. They I don't love the style of the Wayfarers. I
understand why the three or four different stylings. They have to be kind of
thick because there's software built inside of them. And so I'll describe him here.
They are Wayfarer style. These actually are radiant. Is it gradient?
Is that what there is? They change So if I walk outside, they'll
like sunglasses, they'll change a little into a darker shade. Inside it's just
clear lass. Yes, you can make these into prescriptions. And what they
are is they have two speakers built into the arm pieces, if you will,
you know, I call them the arm rockers. They go over your
ears. So you've got a Bluetooth connects to your phone Bluetooth wise, so
your phone has to be within thirty feet of you or so. And you
can listen to songs. You can talk on the phone, you can listen
to your podcast, you can listen to iHeartRadio right now. You can wear
these things. But walking out with the parasunglasses and you can hear and the
sound is great. I gotta tell you, sound as bad. There's microphones
built in. There's microphones built in, so you can talk in the phone.
So now what I'm describing, it's a pair of glasses with a microphone
built in, speakers built in near the ear, and you're set to go.
So also it has a it's a meta AI. Meta has its own
artificial intelligence type of thing, and so you actually can say the words like
hey Meta, just like you can do Siri and Google and Alexa and all
this other fun stuff, and you can ask it questions. You can just
ask. You don't even to take your phone out. You say, Hey
Meta, what's the weather today? Hey Metta, what's the greatest radio show
hit in the history of talk radio nine to fifty k years? Hi tech
text show? You just ask it. That's neat too. But the key
feature is, I think the interesting feature is there is a camera built in.
Now. The camera on this one specifically is just over your left temple.
It's on the left eye where the sun glads the freight the face of
the sunglass, your left eye sunglass meets that rocker arm, that arm that
goes over your left ear, very small, very dinky millimeters and it's a
camera. It's roughly, it's pretty good. It's got pretty decent megapictures.
It is not as good as your your your camera phone, but it could
take a photo and it could take videos. That's right. All you need
to do hands free is walk around and you could videotape your point of view,
your POV, whatever you're watching, whatever you're saying. It also takes
a photo too. You do that because also has a little shutter over the
right temple. There's a little tiny button if you want to take a photo,
you just take your finger up there and you just push it down and
it goes. Well, you could turn the sound off. That starts the
video, stops the video, and it takes a photo. Now, how
do you stop security? Whoa wait a minute. One of the things is
security. I don't want to be People don't want to walk around and potentially
have themselves videotaped just by someone having a conversation. Well, on the right
side of the glass that you're looking at, if someone's looking at you,
there is a light, small light that flashes very brightly white. It flashes
white, and every time you're reporting or every time you're taking a photo,
it flashes white. So you know, and I don't think you could turn
this thing off. It's a safety feature, which I understand and I appreciate.
It's a safety feature that someone's gonna look at you, going why is
that white light flashing? And you could say, uh no, I just
you know, I'm just getting excited. You're actually a videotaping on it.
These things are three hundred dollars at least for this pair, and I'm still
playing with it. But my question is it worth it? These will and
here's the answer within thirty seconds sixty seconds. These come in handy in several
different aspects, which I'm still trying to come up with more aspects. And
if you could think of any, let me know. Number one, when
I review a product, when I do these, what's called the open box,
open boxing, the open box ceremony. I need two hands. I
get a box. A lot of people say, oh if look at the
packaging. And then when I test drive cars for a living, well,
it's tough to drive with one hand and hold my phone, which is the
camera. Well, now I can put these glasses on hit record. I
don't need to touch it. Think the audio is phenomenal where I'm talking over
what I'm ever I'm looking at. I then could take this in one up
in automatic and inherently, because it's owned by Meta, it automatically send can
send these videos or photos directly to your face. Becre eats to brand.
My son was playing with these. He has an older pair from another model
for about three or four years ago. He does a lot of fun videos.
He's an Instagram influencer and all this other fun stuff. He plays foot
he plays flag football by wearing these things. It's really kind of cool watching
from his point of view of how he's catching the ball and running and dodging
Dac with his neat little things, neat little perspectives. Maybe you want to
videotape your kids crawling or something like that. Three hundred dollars. You decide
if they're worth it, But I think they're pretty neat open phone calls.
Right now, we're going to take a break. A bottom of the hour
seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. I'm looking at
you. I'm always to you. If somebody's watching me on Saturday early afternoon
here in used in seven to one three two one two five nine five oh.
It is called the Michael Garfield Show, sometimes called the High Tech Texting
Show. But you know what, I talk about any dang thing I want
to, and I answer all your questions whatever you want to talk about.
What's Michael dry? I think, what's Michael eating this week? Where's Michael
Travelight? I need a TV show, man, I need a TV show
people to follow a day in the life of Garf. It's how it works.
Let's take a little phone call over here. We got a few people
on hold. Hello, this is Elliott Elliott. How you doing. It's
Garf? What's going on? Garf? What's up? Elliot? Hel Elliott
Wood? Is this my man? Yeah? It sure, it is?
How we're What you doing? What are you doing? Shouldn't you be working
downtown to Garden Grace right now? Look? I am, I am,
I'm here. We're kind of between lunch and dinner. So I had a
moment. I was listening to your show and just had to call in and
tell you about some things we had coming up. I know you're a big
celebrity, but we've got an event next week with a huge celebrity. I
wanted to invite you to and invite all your listeners to you. Okay,
this is called free pimping people. And only because I've known this guy for
like almost twelve years. He's a good music quire for to buy Elliott Wood,
Guard and Grace. One of the absolute finest restaurants here in Houston is
downtown. They called us. It's much more than a steakhouse Elliott, much
more because even eat the red meat, that's how good it is, your
fish and everything else. Right, absolutely, Yeah. We're founded by one
sleep tattooed celebrity chef out Hawaii named Troy Guard. So we've got a lot
of other creative dishes. We have a sushimi program in seafood, and we
get to celebrate a lot of that next week, along with another culinary celebrity
named Rocco di Spirito, who has a new fookbook out called Everyday Delicious.
It's a New York Times best seller and an Amazon bestseller. So he is
joining our very own chef Troy Guard to have an evening of pass bites and
cocktails, just celebrating all of these new recipes that he's focused on in his
book, along with the magical talents of Chef Troy. Here on the patio
actually at the what we call a horseshoe bar at Guarden Grace, go dispirito.
Look, let me think, he and I know it's I'm not the
biggest celebrity chef guy other than Troy Guard, who is my favorite by the
way, But Rocco he was one of the early ones. He was one
of the first ones when it comes to the chef's on TV. Is all
right? That is absolutely correct? Yeah, he honestly it's probably like one
of the pioneers of doing the reality chef restaurant shows. Literally his show was
called The Restaurant in New York City. Uh, he had that for quite
some time. I think he was even GQ's Man of the Year at some
points. Yeah, I was art the guy. Yeah yeah, lopular man.
I know you're avery popular guy. But yeah, so Rocos still a
little this is neat because I you do these things several times a year.
You always have is this one of your collabs? You call it a collab
with all the Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's a collab. Yeah,
you know. We we had one with Andrew Zimmer last December. So this
is this next big one coming up with rocoa spirdo. Uh we do.
We've got others in the hoppers, some other really neat things coming up down
the down the way. Uh, you know, got a pink and white
party. I got to tell you about here in a little bit too.
That's going to happen in June, on June sixth. But first one in
the opera is is this one? This is actually next week. It is
on May twenty third at five o'clock. It's it's tickets are only seventy five
dollars and it comes with a signed an autographed copy of his new cookbook,
Every Day Delicious. So hell of you know pas sob it? Yeah?
Okay, so first of all, I you know, I think I've been
to every single one of these you've done in the several years that you knowing
ex Well, it's just a good for those of people who have never been
to Garden Grays downtown. It's it's we'll give the addresses on Dallas Street.
But it is you're two, it's massive. How many square fore you got?
Oh man? It is fifteen thousand square feets two stores downstairs, and
you're always passing out food? Are you? Are you gonna do the few?
Ye? What a drink? You're gonna drinks? A few drinks are
included along with some past bytes and stuff. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so
we've got a couple of drinks that are going to be showcased. We just
won a couple of awards at this last event called Top Taco. We as
a modern steakhous actually won people's choice on the taco at Top Taco. So
we're gonna that's gonna be one of our past bites. Uh it ruled Ribby
Taco with a bone marrow saltsa macha. It's gonna be amazing. We're gonna
do the Lime and the Coconut, which is the cocktail that won that same
events, and we'll have all of our signature cocktails available. You can choose
one. We're gonna give out a couple of drink tickets so they can choose
what they want. And we're gonna have a few bites from Rocco's cookbook as
well. We're gonna do a tuna crudo, a short rib, a chicken
sattee, just a lot of really fun small bites that we can pass and
everybody can enjoy and really get to mingle. They're gonna get to meet all
the chefs. They'll get to meet Chef Rocco, Chef Troy Guard. It's
gonna be a lot of fun. Oh So, and they geta and they
get the cookbook for that price too, and you get the cookbook. Yeah,
autographed, autographed cookbook. I know how to you know, do you
know how to devalue things really quickly? Let me also autograph it after all,
Rocco. At that point you're gonna have to give that thing. That's
pretty cool, all right. It's always great to hear from you. So
it's next Thursday, the twenty third garden Grace, yep, and you have
to pre bye. And what's the website's garden? So yeah, you can
go to Guardandgrace dot com and that will link you to open table. If
you have an open table app on your phone, you can just navigate to
Guarding Grace Houston through open Table. The tickets are pre purchased through open table
or that through the website. And uh, that's gonna be on the list
here at the door. So as long as you've got that taken care of,
we're gonna be expecting you seventy five dollars plus taxing gratuity. It's gonna
be a lot of fun. As soon as I get off this radio show,
I will purchase one. Uh maybe a guest, I don't know,
I should raffle off who should be my plus one. I don't know.
Oh, this is definitely a vent. You want to take some plus unex
just give me a lot of fun rock. That's pretty cool, right,
so next Thursday, I've no I tell you what if you think about it,
especially dads you like to cook good early Father's Day gift the autographed copy
of his book. That's pretty cool. Oh that is a great ada.
I didn't even think of that one. Look at the great idea is coming
from me. I love it. You miss Mother's Day, so screw that.
Yeah, alright, so good Gardy Grace Rocker Spirito. And I was
about that you said something about the pink and white party. This is the
time it's Jillian mayor are you doing it again this year? Because that is
always long to arts? When is it asking to be a lot of fun?
So we're doing that on June sixth. It will be again on the
Horseshoe Bar patio. So just a celebration of all wines that are white and
pink. We're gonna have eight or nine different vendors there giving out samples of
their best, their most delicious wines. We'll again do some passed bites,
a couple of cocktails. So that's just a patio party. You know,
everybody's gonna dress in pink and white. You know, think kind of like
white linen night or whichever. You know, everybody's gonna have the same attire
on. It's gonna be a celebration of the patio celebration the summer. Everybody's
gonna have a lot of fun. So that's June six. That are nothing
better than hanging on a patio in early June in Houston, my friend.
But you know what, it's always wine because there's some cold cocktails and cold
wine coming. So I love that stuff. Yep. We got a tent,
we got fans, we got cocktails. It's gonna be a lot of
fun. Well good, all right, everything else going on? You?
Any technology advice? What kind of phone are you using? That? Oh?
Man? I actually just got the new Pixel eight fro from Google.
What do you think? Though? I love it, man, love it.
I'm still learning how to use it. I'm still learning about all the
different AI features and the photos and how it edits them and how it,
you know, pops up all these suggestions I never even heard about. So
it's pretty That's why we get along. Because you're an Android guy, So
I really appreciate you tuning in for two decades. But the good thing Google
makes strong phones. The new Pixel eight, they really packed in a ton
of AI features. You know. Actually, the next what next Thursday,
I'll see if I get there early, I'll show you a really cool trick
or two. When you take a photo, you actually can move around a
person to make aus you know, pretend like they're on standing on the top
of your head. You don't need things that you know, the kind of
kids would like to so good. The man has taste in wine, in
steak and events and also technology. Elliott Wood, ladies and gentlemen, if
you need o't thank you so much. It's always a pleasure talking to you.
And I look forward to seeing you next week here at Garden Grace for
the event with Chef Rocket of Spirito. As you see, Pepy, you
listen, you get opportunities, you get invites, and you get all the
information that you need. Elliot Wood, appreciate it, my man. I
will see you next Thursday and Guardandgrace dot com. I'll go to Spirito.
All the sluts downtown here in Houston. All right, Uh, listen,
We're gonna take a break one open phone on seven one three two one two
five nine five. Oh, give me a shout and your voice will be
all over there across Houston, round the world behindh Art Radio. Always liked
taking phone calls from you folks. Thank you Elliott for giving your shop good
hearing from you. And it's the last segment and I'm not gonna give out
the phone number. Not sure if we have time for you, because I
still have to wrap up and I got to feel those things to yap about
here. Congratulations to who is that was that? Jane? Jane is on
the northwest side. She won the Cabo Bob's gift card. Good for you.
It's callum. I'm just adding go to We were looking at the phones
and all the response of what made the phone ring? You know I liked
it. I prepare for this show man. I got topics of that,
and I know I got giveaways. It's the number one topic we had today.
Is a taco and a burrito a sandwich? Are they sandwiches? I
take the answer, yeah, at least according to it. If you've missed
this, this was a story I talked about thirty minutes ago. A judge
in Indiana has ruled at a taco in a brito are indeed sandwiches. They
are Mexican style sandwiches. Which is allowing a restaurant to open up this Mexican
taco shop only because the landlord and a strip mall said only sandwich shops could
open. It's it seven grade man, where was this topic twenty years ago?
Because after twenty years, my only evergreen topics are should beans be in
chili? And our hot dogs is sandwich? No? But I think tacos
and britos are sandwiches. It's enough of the Michigan. As we wind up
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and have some hypopus pel are we thank you for your patronage there. I
want to talk about have I kind of covered everything and I only have about
five more minutes. About the cars? You know, I get to test
drive cars vehicles every single week, not from a dealership but directly from the
manufacturers. This is all my opinions. I can rag on them all I
want, I can love on them all I want. I was in what
was I? I was in at Superaru WRX. Anybody ever heard of that
one? I wasn't even familiar with this. I liked super Rus. This
was a sports type of car. And it has a stick shift. It's
a manual transmission. I test drive no less than sixty to seventy different vehicles
in a year. Every single week I get at least one, if not
two vehicles I test drive it one to two per year are stick shift.
I hate stick shifts. I'm sorry, No, I know how to drive
driven a stick shift. My first car was a dick shift. They can
be fun when you're on the open road by driving a stick shift in traffic.
Get out of here, people, no, sir, not happening.
Open listen. I raced racecar. I've been on race tracks. Man,
you can get it going, But daily driving, I just I just can't
do it. I like the car. Forty five thousand dollars or so.
It's you know, it's gotten me. It is zippy, it's a great
warranty, good back seats, dice actual trunk. See it's not a CUV
and SUV. It's not a hashback. You don't see these a lot.
They may even make these in a non manual one. I like automatics the
way to go when you're in traffic. What we actually may have a have
another ever bring top I guess people could people could digress and actually disagree with
me evs though there was some big news in the EV's and this is really
not the time, as I closed the show, but this is a good
show since I don't talk politics, but I thought this was interesting that the
Biden administration did something very interesting into that sting earlier this week. When it
comes to electric vehicles. Now, whether you like or love or hate electric
vehicles, and I have my thoughts on this. If you're a longtime listener,
you know my thoughts on electric vehicles. But electric vehicles they're not selling
too much right now American electric I mean there's American made electric vehicles, and
there's some made around the world, including Chinese. The Biden administration and not
too much on friendly terms with China as of late, they now want to
put another towering wall of tariffs to block Chinese electric vehicles from coming into the
country and eating into American automaker's lunch. So the government announced that tariffs and
Chinese vehicles are going to quadruple from the existing to one hundred percent. If
you think about it's going to make prohibitively expensive to sell them in the United
States, jacked up terroristly. It's reflecting a significant escalation in this US China
trade war. There's a lot of conflict. Here's the thing, Chinese evs.
And there are a dozen different Chinese EV companies. Odds are you have
not heard of most of them, if not all of them. I'm familiar
with them because I cover the industry. They are high quality, and they're
pretty low cost because they do have heavy government subsidies. The average cost of
an EV in the United States write them on forty seven thousand dollars China twenty
eight thousand dollars. Rud or bad. Listen. I'm not doing this into
politics, but let me help you out if any government administration, this current
one, the one before, the one after it, whatever it's going to
be, if they really want to make the world green and everything all eco
friendly, If the US wants to increase EV adoption and the main barrier right
now. It's the high cost why block cheaper models from entering the US park.
I don't want jobs to go away to America. I don't, But
what's the imperative and biggest point here. These tariffs now are gonna make it
virtually we're the only thing that we can afford our US cars. Yay,
seriously love US cars. But man, if all the hey we're gonna go
green, we're gonna have all these batteries made, and you have battery chargers
made, there's still a relatively few ev adoption over there because of the current
cost of these things. I want you to think about that. You have
a week to think about that, and talk with me next week, where
again I will answer your phone calls and give away some stuff because we have
so much fun. Seven one three dive no no, no more phone calls.
I'll give you my email Michael at high Tech texsm dot com on the
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much everybody else here at iHeart Media and Houston the home base over here,
appreciate you have a fun weekend PGA Championship Golf. Whatever you're gonna do,
be safe, watch the weather, Congrats to Mother's Day, grads and dads
and everything, and we'll do it next week. My name is Michael Garfield.
It's the High Tech Taxing Show, and right now my show is over.