Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan.
Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan. It was to make life
easier of new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want, Texas.
Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic
with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech
Texan, Michael Garfield. You know how I always start the second hour of
the show, which is pretty much halfway through the show. You listen to
me a long time, twenty plus years. I got my stick? How
do I start the second hour of my show? It's halfway to happy Well,
guess what. This is the time of the year where I can finally
say it's halfway through Happy Hour of twenty twenty four. That's right, people,
it is finally the first part of July and we are halfway through this
year. How's your year been? Talk to me here? Seven one three,
two, one two, five, nine to five. Oh, listen,
I know it's slow, it's hot, it is nasty, it is
slow. You have nothing else to do? Why don't you join me?
As we do? Kind of a mid year update of the High Tech Texan
Show. Not a ton of things going on in the technology world. We
are about to hear some announcement officially of some new Samsung Bubble devices. I
for one, as a Samsung Android fan, I'm very excited about that.
But other than that, it's the dol drums of summer. I mean,
sports kind of suck right now overall. I mean football, you know,
training camp's not even started. Basketball, NBA is Ova. Not a hockey
fan, but the Stanley Cup is actually kind of that's done. I mean,
yeah, We've got the Paris Olympics coming up at a week or two
or three, whatever it is, and I'm not really excited. Yeah,
Simon Bile's local Houston girl. She does well, but it's the Olympics.
I hardly know anybody even participating in the thing. So what do we do?
Man? We just sit inside the air condition, We do a radio
program, you call me, you tweet me, you x me, you
threads me, you Facebook me, and we or we sit in the pool
sipping some sides. And throughout these two hours, I'm probably gonna give you
an opportunity, an idea or two of giving you some nice recipes. You
see. The show is so much more than technology. It started out as
the High Tech Texas Show. Actually, officially the name is still the High
Tech Texan. But if you do follow me on social media unless you're blocked,
you will find out I do so much more than just technology. I
test drive car. Oh, I've got a beautiful vehicle that I've been test
driving this past week. It is it is. It is luxury. Actually,
one of the most interior, interior luxurious vehicles that I have ever been
in. And I've been testing vehicles for well over fifteen years. It is
awesome. Stay tuned, I'll tell you what that is. We've got if
you're a gamer, a few interesting games. How about a streamer, I'm
nothing but a stream right, anything good to watch? I guess we've got
Hard Knocks just started. I don't know if you care about the New York
Giants, but I'm finding myself rewatching. This is how bored I am.
I'm rewatching old shows that have been on for the fifteen sixteen years. I
don't know why I'm flipping through Max and I found one of my favorite shows
of all time. Actually, I love this show so much that the opening
theme song to the show I stole for about five or six years the opening
theme song for my show. It is Entourage. I'm watching that again.
I mean, that's how bad it is. Anybody did anybody see the new
Beverly Hills top not so f just came out on Netflix, and my buddies
using a password that I was borrowing, I expired, so I still haven't
seen ax l F. So somebody that can give me the play by play
on that, I'd love to hear from you. Calum calub Is, my
man, he is you have nothing else to do on the first, you
know, first few weeks of July, My man, you just sit here.
Yeah, you're right. This is at least IR pays the er conditioning.
This is not a this is not a bad deal. If you're hot
and you're schmitzy outside, let's just come inside the iHeart Radio studios and we're
all good. I do want you mentioned something that I guess we should say
happy birthday or happy anniversary too, because it was almost one year ago exactly.
Do you remember what happened one year ago? The first week or two
of July, there was a new launch of a new app that out of
the Blue really set the wor on fire. Amazing amount of downloads overnight.
It just appeared on your app store or your iTunes or whatever you call it,
and you downloaded. And this was gonna be the killer. This was
gonna be the Twitter killer, the ex killer. Folks. Do you remember
it was one year ago that we were introduced to Threads. It's it's from
Meta, which is the the over the big corporation, the company that owns
Facebook and Instagram and what's app. It's called Meta, and they pushed out
Threads, the app, and an attempt to take on the platform that we
now know as X and at a time, mister Zuckerberg he said that he
hoped it would turn into a public conversations app with over a billion people on
it. And that was a quote right there. What was in California?
And I don't even know why I thought. I think I got a press
release. Somebody inside Info gave me the idea that Michael he got a download
this thing. Within hours, I was watching the account of how many millions
of people signed up, and in the first day, Threads saw over thirty
million sign ups. Had to be a record of some some time. The
app now one year in has over one hundred and seventy five million monthly users.
And this is according to Zuckerberg. Yay, but x mister Elon Musk
says there's over six hundred million monthly users on map. And I'm not going
to go back and board, but I want to talk about threads. Did
you sign up for threads? Because I signed up for threads and I spent
the next day or two and I was listen. I'm never on vacation,
but I was out in Cali on the left coast, and I was doing
a lot of interviews. Michael, is this going to be the Twitter killer?
It was tough to evaluate, and I remember my first thoughts were because
so many people. I mean, this was the talk for about a week,
week and a half. I mean, this was the summer dull drums
work. I mean it was over. I mean it took up a good
part of July. All people were talking about was threads. Because then again
I just told you there's nothing going on sports or you know, just nothing's
happening. There's no big packt lodges. I believe I kept saying this.
Finally, because I've seen a number of different attempts of other companies trying to
dethrone Twitter, and when Elon Musk took it over man, it was getting
dog. People were dropping off, he was ticking off advertisers. There was
too much politics nor one of that, and Threads was the sweet place,
the nice place where you didn't have to read about COVID nineteen. You didn't
have to read about politics. And for the first month or two or the
rate, I didn't see anything quote unquote bad about it. There was nothing
controversial. Come to think of it, I'm trying to think what was even
on there because that earliest version, the earliest iteration of threads, to me
now feels a little bit off, maybe a little bit broke. Okay,
there wasn't a web version. There was a number of different missing features.
If indeed it was going up against Twitter or X and a year in,
I'm still really not clear what threads actually is for. I actually had this
conversation with somebody about a week ago too. Do you use threads? I
downloaded Threads. Threads is on the homepage of my phone, right next to
X and my Instagram and my Facebook. How many social media outlests we need?
Because Hound for pound Dolliver if you look at it Threads, it really
is almost exactly to some extent on the surface, just like Twitter X you're
right, eat something. It's two hundred and forty characters or so. You
put a picture and you wait for comments. And I remember saying, man,
we may never use Twitter. People are saying I'm done. Twitter's gone.
X is gone. I'm sorry. A year later, one of the
first apps that I use in the morning. I wake up in the morning
to get my new I just kind of scroll through Twitter. I can't tell
you the last time I opened Threads. Maybe it's not going to be that
quote unquote public square for less angry conversations. How do we fix that.
I'm gonna take a break right now. If you indeed are on Threads,
why don't you juicer jump up? And then maybe I'll start reading it again.
At High Tech Text and I was able to grab that same moniker like
I have across social media. H I G H T e H T e
x A at High Tech Text and hey, we got a big show,
fun show. We got a gift card too, to give way. We
are going to have a really nice interview of how to really dress nicely.
You ever had a custom suit, a custom sport code made, got a
gabin dasher, got a guy who's gonna give us the inside secrets. So
what's so special about having closed made specifically for you. I'll give you a
review of an unbelievable vehicle that I've been driving here with the past week.
And who knows what I'm gonna talk about because I have to fill two hours.
Michael garthon it is called the High Tech Text Show. I hope you're
inside over you're to pool as we are the halfway point of twenty twenty four,
halfway to half the hour, and I don't hope everybody had a very
good July fourth holiday, hope. I hope everybody's having a good summer as
we're in the middle of the dol jums of the summer. You got ready
for you're ready for football season. I mean, the NFL is trying to
jump start the NFL. Really it's in a cycle of twelve months a year,
but I would say it's about eleven months. I ain't not much happened
in the world of NFL. I do know that Hard Knocks. What is
it about a six week program on max HBO that started I don't care.
This year it's the New York Giants. Does not matter to me. I
did see something that's very interested interesting. I guess for the July fourth weekend,
most people who work, if you do work, you got July fourth
off, and it was weird. It was a Thursday this year. I
know a number of people, just anecdotally, who had to work that Friday,
July fifth? Did you have to work? Did anybody have to work
that for? So you get off, you get a day off on Thursday,
and you're laying around, You're putts around, it's one hundred and five
degrees in the sun. You're having a few coldy you're having a lot of
coldies, some marks and bruskies. Whatever you're having. Oh man, we're
gonna have a good day. Oh I gotta go to work the next day.
And for those of you who drive to work, I guess the good
point is there was not a lot of people on the road on Friday,
July fifth. Getting doing it from your office number one in Houston. There's
not a lot of people on the road in the summertime because people get the
hell out of town as they should. They go to Colorado or something.
But then you get Saturday and Sunday off. I was on man, that
was I should have been a four day weekend. Should have been dad.
I guess the only thing worse is is when July fourth falls on a Wednesday.
July fourth and I guess New Year's Eve helped me when am I missing
over? Here are the only two. They're the two most celebrated holidays where
Americans for the most part do get off of work. But it's not on
a specific day of the week. I guess obviously. I guess Christmas is
in there at Christmas in there too, but people usually get the whole week
off for Christmas date tickets the end of the year. So New Year's Eve
can fall on in New Year's Day can f on a Wednesday. July fourth
can fall on Wednesday, and you still have to work either the two days
before two days after Thanksgiving, we know allys is on that Thursday. Generally
we get the Friday off. Christmas people usually get that last week off.
Ah, what about two by Shava passover? Young Kipper always falls Dude,
Young Kipper is on Texas Oklahoma weekend, And what there's a dilemma for me
now in the world am I gotta go to the Texas. Oh you go,
oh you get and not have a futcher scorny dog. There's my dilemma
that I'm worrying about three months ahead. I digress people, And the reason
I bring this up? Where was I going? The reason I bring this
up, it's how many days a week do you work? Generally? Here
in America, we work five days a week. That's what my father did,
That's what his father did. For nations. Generally, people are five
days a week. If even here at our radio program on Monday through Friday.
If you have a week day program like my buddy rod Ryan at our
sister station here at the Buzz Dana Tyson here at Sunday ninety nine, we
go on and on and on. I used to have a weekday talk show
also here, Monday through Friday. You have five days. Well, guess
what. There's a country who said, screw it, we're doing a six
day week. Then he guesses, calub alum, that's you have talked to
you about. Come on, Helm, did he ask which country introduced just
introduced a six day work week? Now? I love this country. I
visited this country once. It is parts of it are the most beautiful places
I've ever been to an earth, and parts of it are old and ugly,
so I'm still debating whether I should move there. Ladies and gentlemen,
A six day work week has just been instituted in Greece. Do you know
why? Because it's the word Greece. If you think about it, They've
given us some pretty good ideas in the past. I think they gave us
democracy. I think they created geometry. I'm kind of hoping this latest invention
does not catch on. It's a six day work week, I'm not kidding
yet. New regulations took affecting Greece just about a week or two ago.
It extends the typical forty hour work week to forty eight hours per week for
private businesses providing around the clock services. Okay, now let's break that.
What is a private business providing round the clock services? Well, I mean
here in media radio we broadcast twenty four to seven. Actually, the iart
is private business, is not a publicly owned company. Okay, so there's
one. Oh good. So now instead of working two hours a week,
I'm a good to forty eight hours a week. This is the first of
their kind rules in the European European Union, and they're doing this to boost
the Greek economy, because I still think the economy and Greece sucks from it's
in a decade long slump. It's good or bad. I think that the
new rules really flying the face of a broader trend towards shorter work weeks.
Because here I think the four day work week is gaining with some mo it's
getting some momentum. Am I wrong? Almost one third of US businesses are
considering cutting their work week down. This is according to a survey of CEOs
by KPMG. This is a few months ago. I have different I have
questions. This is why I am here for you. If you're going to
cut down to a four day work week, are you only paying for four
days? I assume you are your sallets, I mean for years salo He
said this based on a five day work week and maybe two weeks vacation,
you know, on the first year, and it goes on and on and
on. Well, if you're only four days a week, maybe you're I
mean, you're going down what twenty percent? You're gonna cut your Are you're
gonna cut your salary? Twenty percent? Would you be willing to take that
seven one three, two one two five nine five ooh Snichel Garfield. I
get down to the hot topics, the hard hitting topics. Speaking away,
I also do travel. I said, Greece has is one of the most
beautiful spots I've ever been to. But also it's it's like that there's spot
that I did not like. Hey, listen, my job is to throw
up my opinion. I give a review and recommendations. Two thousand and eight,
I believe, yeah, two thousand and eight. I want on a
cruise. I wanted a uh it was. We went out of bars It
was a family cruise. Kids were relatively young. Went out of Barcelona.
We went to like twelve countries. I mean, I don't know, it's
been eight countries in twelve days. Twelve countries and eight days. I forgot
what it was. We go to Greece and we went to two Greek islands.
We went to Santorini and Miconos. Absolutely two of the most gorgeous spots
I have ever been to, Like gorge Santorini built up on top of a
hill, but in Micanos it was just clean. It's all white, very
greeklike stuff. It was awesome. We didn't go to Athens. E times
is an old, dirty town. It's like an odt, you know what
I'm saying, not an ODB. It's just old and dirty. Of course
it's old. I'm not freaking. We drove by where the Olympics started.
We saw the Parthenon, which was you know, it was neat Hey,
we saw the Parthenon. You know something I studied as a kid in school.
It's just it was just kind of a if you're if you're from Greece.
I'm not trying to rag on you, because there are some absolutely horrific
places here in the United States. I was just not a big fan of
Athens per se. Other than that, Greece it's the word. I love
to go back, and I love to broadcast my program for me. He's
seven one three two one two five nine five zero brapa le Mitchello from Italy
olive oil. I remember the whole thing. It was most of it was
good. Where am I going? This is what we do here in the
middle of summer eight? Well, well, I will take a break when
we come back. Count on as on because Amazon Prime days. Amazon's pretty
smart Amazon used to have one day in the middle of summer called Amazon Prime
Day, where pretty much that everything was discounted for Amazon Prime members. It's
a garage sale to clear the garage, to clear their warehouse and get ready
for the holiday. Zazon now it's Prime Days, it's two days, and
it's perfectly situated right here in the middle of July where there's no football and
no more the real sports bej now, so I'm gonna saw some of the
deals, even though it doesn't start to July sixteenth and seventeenth. I will
give you a deal or two that that you need to be watching out work
should you be a Prime member. Garf is the nickname. It's called the
High Tech Text and shows name is Michael Garfield. But you probably know that
since that big booming voice that just introduced me out of the commercial that's here,
that is Calum Reid. He is pushing the buttons, enjoying the year,
conditioning as we all should have no clue when rain is gonna come.
Uh, why don't you make an interactive and call me say what's up?
A big shout out right now to us coins and jewelry. Hey, you
know what if you don't have a lot of things to do. How about
taking up a hobby coin collecting? Hellum, you know what coin? Do
you know? The official word of a coin collector, a coin expert is
it's a new mismatist. Mit no, no, you can still wear clothes.
No, no, it's a new mismatist versus a philatal list, which
is what I am. That's someone who collects stamps. Okay, easy does
it? Easy? Does it? In US coins and jewelry. It has
been around for two generations. I happened to Roll and why I'm on there
at least once a month, Bobby once every three weeks. Kenny and Matt
Duncan. They are the two partners. They're the sons of the owner that
has been around since nineteen eighty five. I did a video on Instagram and
I actually it was kind of a test. I like having fun with these
guys. I just walk it in and looking at the watches, jewelry obviously,
but they're really unbelievable when it comes to coins. They are some of
the country's leading new mesmatist in terms of you bring your coins in and they
can look at them and they could give you a value of what those coins
are. And I was always wondering how do they do that? I mean,
is there a machine? But they they are years and years and years
and they study it. So I made a ninety second video. If you
haven't followed me yet on Instagram high tech texting h I G h T E
C h T e x A N follow me unless I've already blocked you,
you can't. I did a video and I brought coins in to Matthew Duncan
and I plopped them on the counter and I said, I just asked him.
I said, hey, what are the first things that you look at
to value a coin? And you know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
I'm gonna blow the lead right here. I'm actually gonna got ruin it for
you. Even though you should watch the video because I'm losing weight and I
had a really nice shirt on. They he looks at the year and if
it's a silver coin, if it's a silver half dollar, and if it's
it's a quarter, it's a higher percentage of silver for coins that were minted
before nineteen sixty five, so right before Generation X there were something. So
if you have a quarter that was minted three nineteen sixty five. Instead of
being worth a quarter, it's probably worth almost five dollars. You laugh,
but you don't know. And I have a ton of chit. I don't
know why, but I have one of those change coin holders in my closet,
and over the year, every time I come home, I empty my
pockets and they go into the little wrappers of the pennies and the dimes nickels.
I'n't got a ton of quarters. I swear, I'm holding my hand
up right now. I come home from US Coins and Jewelry and I go
through all my quarters to fought to see if anything was from ninety. The
closest I can was nineteen seventy. I had a nineteen seventy quarter on me.
But I'll tell you what It's something if you do have a coin collection,
if you want to sell your coins to see what they're worth, they
go to US Coins and Jewelry dot com. Go in and say you've heard
it on the Garfield Show. Because there's maybe another Michael or two or three
who actually promotes it. But let him know that you listen to the garf
Show. Go look at the rolocks is, Go look at the Texas memorabilia.
Go look at the sports cards and memorabilia. They are great. They're
on Katie Freeway write at vass the south side of Austin, and they're just
awesome. They are not open on Sundays. They obviously have Chick fil A
actually still their business model, but they are open six days a week,
and they are listening to me right now. So I appreciate the nice folks
at US Coins and Jelry. They will not be participating in Amazon Prime Days,
even though they do give you some great deals at US Coins and Jewelry.
For Amazon Prime Days, we have to call it plural, call listing
plural right now because it is two days this year, July sixteenth, July
seventeen. People, if you were an Amazon Prime Time remember you are going
to get some discounts and some things. It was about a week or two
ago. They're already releasing. You know. There's some sits online that says,
hey, you know, they get ready because these are some early deals
that you can get, and a lot of the deals that you can get
are the best deals that you're going to get out to tea right now are
Amazon products themselves made by Amazon, including the Amazon Fire stick, the Amazon
Fire TV, the Amazon Kindle, the Amazon Echo which is all exa sorry
to just set off your ale accepp. Those are going to be discounted the
most. I see a little of Apple stuff coming down here, which I
really don't care about. Amazon has a fire TV down bar. Soundbars are
good, gives you some great sound. Little, you know, kind of
a center speaker. Generally one hundred twenty dollars. One is gonna be on
sale for one hundred dollars, so you get a little percentage off there.
Here is an Amazon Fire TV forty three inch four K TV, normally for
fifty four hundred and fifty bucks. It's gonna be sliced ninety dollars down to
three hundred and sixty bucks. You can imagine how TVs are so cheap nowadays.
They are so inexpensive nowadays. My first I had a fifty inch I
love telling this story. My kid did two thousand and three. Two thousand
and three, digital TVs first came out. In the first some of the
first flat screen high def TVs came out. I had a fifty inch Hitachi
retail twelve thousand dollars. I am not using hyperbole. Look that word up.
It was I didn't pay twelve thousand. It was twelve thousand for a
fifty inch. You're gonna get a fifty inch now easily for four hundred dollars
if it's on sale. So that's another Prime one other Prime Day deal.
I saw this. There is a Kindle maybe, but Kindle maybe. I
read books Kindle. This sax is a pretty good deal. You know.
Kindle was the very first e reader. It wasn't really sexy. It's it's
really there's a nice handheld, small size, and it uses e or digital
ink. It's not color. It's kind of black and white, which makes
it actually very simple to read outside the sun. People want to listen.
Hey, if you read books, Michael, it's the best, you know
reader. Should I get a tablet if you want it? Just for books?
Don't don't laugh, do not sleep on the Kindle. And there's several
different versions of the Kindle. But on Amazon Prime Day on July sixteenth,
there's a really good offer here. Prime members you can have three months of
a free Kindle unlimited subscription. That's an exclusive deal. It's gonna save you
thirty six dollars. Thirty six dollars you get three months of Kindle unlimited for
us, all the books you could read. There's four million book titles.
Win. I'm gonna be a little tip if you're deciding on what and this
is a tip I give we probably ten eleven, twelve years ago when these
kindles first came out, and then the iPad came out. Should I get
an iPad? Should I get a Kindle? Should I get a Google tablet
or something like our Samsung Tap. Look at the app store, look at
bookstore, find out what titles they have. To me, that's the way
to go, because maybe there's a certain publisher that doesn't work with a tindle
or work with Apple. Look at the titles. I will tell you in
the Kindle library they have about four million book titles. They have access to
magazines and comic books, and I mean they have audio books over there.
The three months. I think once the three months are up, the subscription
is gonna renew at the usual rate of twelve dollars per month. But I'll
tell you what three months is three months, and so that that's one of
the things you should look at. So I give me another week, how
about this? Because I'm not gonna I get press releases. Hang on and
make sure you follow me on threads. May make sure you follow me on
x high Tech text and I will be putting links to some of the better
at least in my opinion, Amazon Prime Days that will be happening July sixteenth
and seventeenth. One of the few subscriptions I have streamers I have, I
do have Amazon Prime. I rarely buy anything from Amazon Prime. I actually
use Amazon I watch Prime Video. That's pretty much what I mostly use it
for, certainly knowing that the NFL has the Thursday Night games and a few
Christmas Day games coming up on Amazon Prime Video. All right, we're gonna
take a break, final break of the first hour. Hope you were cool.
I do, thank you for hanging in. Guess what company filed for
bankruptcy. Something tells me you used this company. You use the services of
this company, and you still may walk by this every time you walk into
a grocery store. It's still there, but it may not be working because
they are bankrupt. I'll tell you what that is after the break. Going
through some emails and some people who are xing and tweeting and sending me dms
and what have you, while I do a radio show. You see I
can do that. People, It's amazing what Adhd does. See. I
don't know, you know, I've always you know, I've always also wanted
to be ambidextrous too. You know what, I'd give my left arm to
be ambidextrous. Dad jokes here all the all day, all the time.
Here on the Michael Garfield Show. Happy Midsummer. It's our Midsummer high tech
textan show where not a lot of things are happening in the world of its
Actually, well, are a lot of things happening in the world other than
the heat and hurricane season. There's an election coming up, but the sports
are kind of quiet. But we are here for you. Gotta give away
a gift card to Cabo Bob's Cobo Bob. I haven't been eating a lot
lately, but when I eat, man, I'm a Cobo Bob's two three
times a week. Great. It's out of Austin for locations here. Tell
them what you want on your burritos, your tacos, You take it to
go, you eat in the wh there's but oh it's so good. Next
down, Raya have a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's thank them
for h hokuss up with that? Uh, let's see Samsung Unpacked is happening.
Well, it's they're they're getting ready to release some information on their new
mobile devices. I kind of got a sneak peak, which I can't say.
I'm under embargo, but I will be playing with some of their mobile
devices, some that could be regular, maybe they'll full I don't maybe sympletel
time, maybe some of this jewelry. I don't know a lot of rumors
out there, so I never really can't say anything, Like I really can't
say anything but that. Maybe I could be bribed and someone's got it's got
a nice cold beer for me. You know where to find me right now?
Bad news man. Guess guess who went bankrupt? Guess who went bankrupt?
Yeah, we talk about I talk about streaming. I was just talking
about streaming before the break. You know I have Amazon, which includes Prime
Video. Uh, there's so many other streamers. You got Disney, Disney
Plush, you got Hulu, you got Roku, you got Netflix, you
got Max, HbA, you can get a you got Boo, you got
Peacock Olympics. You're coming up before there was streaming. How would you watch
your movies? You probably watched them on DVDs, which you probably got through
the mail from Netflix. That's how Netflix started. People think, oh,
Netflix is the streamer. Well, Netflix actually started by mailing DVDs and red
envelopes that you had to watch and return within three days. Remember those old
at Bultman chair. Uncle Garfy's got some stories for it. That's how it
worked. But along with Netflix, there was another service that you can get
immediately by just going to a local grocery store, convenience store, walking right
up to it, putting a dollar, two dollars, three dollars in,
and boom, it was a vending machine. It would pop right out.
How many times do you still walk into HB or I don't know, some
convenience store and see Fox. Yes, that red vending machine. That was
you pick what I said. I didn't. They were outside of McDonald's,
I think, correct me if I'm long people, do you remember them being
outside of McDonald's, which I think McDonald's owned a large percentage or a certain
percentage of that company, which is pretty It was smart back then. You
hey, man, hey, honey, kids, you want to go to
White what movie you want to watch. Let's go get a DVD. Well,
blockbusters are dead. Let's go to the vending machine. Oh, there's
one right up here at McDonald's. Oh let's just go in and get a
few Big Max and some freaking McNuggets while we're at it. It was like
a lost leader. It was brilliant. I go to a chip, I
got one of my agp's that I go to. I'm not kidding you.
It still has a red box that I have used. Well, I've walked
PI. It's been there for fifteen plus years. I'm not twenty years.
It's bankrupt. It's bankrupt. Red Box itself was acquired by another company about
a year ago, and now it's over. They have filed for Chapter eleven
bankruptcy protection. They had a net loss last year of six hundred and thirty
six million dollars. Wonder why it's not a joking matter, because they have
there's obviously if it's so many people. They laid off a lot of people,
They suspended their medical di benefits, they miss payroll, people didn't get
paid, So certainly not a joking matter. When any company goes belly out
some point, it seems companies have outlived their time. I made a reference
to Blockbuster. There are very few people right now who are over certainly twenty
years old. Let's put it this way, sir, under twenty years old,
who have a clue what the word blockbuster is. They don't remember Blockbuster.
My youngest son's twenty four, just turned twenty four. He I don't
know. I don't know. I should ask him. I don't think he
remembers Blockbuster. My oldest son, he'll be thirty coming up soon, and
he'll probably remember going to Blockbuster with me on a Friday night, like pretty
much the whole country did, browsing through the section in trying to get a
VHS that we had to be kind and rewind to return. They're gone,
and it looks like we're doing the same of DVDs. Who has I mean,
do you still does anybody still have a DVD player that is not in
their garage, that's actually plugged into their TV set, their audio video system,
and you use it on a semi regular basis. Do you use it
three times a year? Man? I don't know. I'm pretty sure I
have a DVD player somewhere in my garage. Then again, I also have
a record player. Somewhere in my garage. I still have my cassette deck.
What we called a jam box back in the eighties, was it,
man? That was it? If you didn't have a jambox, a Panasonic
jam box, you popped your cassette in and you walked around. Man,
you were pimp king strutting doing some breakdancing. I didn't know the break dancing.
That somewhere still in my garage. I know. I'm a hoarder.
Red Box dats around nine hundred and seventy million dollars. What am I missing?
We got a really about two more minutes left in this hour seven one
three two one two five nine five. Oh, if you're too shy to
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High tech textans bubble whole thing out h I G H P E H T
E X A M. What is something that you liked, you used,
maybe you grew up with for several years, maybe a generation, maybe a
half a generation. And I'm gonna call red Box in there too. That
is just it's just not there anymore. And why are there still? Right?
I mean I'm not chelling you. I walk into HGB. There's this
one I go to on the southst side of the HOTWN and there's a red
box. Look at it. Sometimes I don't stop. I'm like, oh,
there's the red box, and I don't think about it. I've never
seen anybody use it. Why is it still there? I mean, if
you break into the we I mean listen. I mean I on a hot
day and I don't have it. I don't I don't have a dollar,
two dollars? How much? It's like, how much is a sod?
How much is a coke? Cost? Now too? But I break into
the vending machine if I was thirsty, and break into the red box actually
to return all my DBDs. Times are changing, people, Times aren't changing.
Twenty two years though, I'm still here, not a lot of cracks
in my face though. One hour down or jazz about halfway to half the
hour of the high de Dex and show I take it is Michael Garfield.
Michael Garfield. Michel our Field's joining us and the high tech Texan. Michael
Garfield is here with a high tech Texan items to make life easier, your
technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield, is
your high tech Texan three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. I
heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
Just like it's halfway through the year of twenty twenty four, halfway through
the halfway to happy hour on the show. Also what is up? Thank
you for tuning in the middle of the summer. It's our summer special brought
to you by actually nobody. We need to find a sponsor for that,
colum so let's let's work on that. Seven one three two point two five
nine five zero. Michael Garfield, thanks for you. In the first hour,
had a lot of fun, talked a little about the upcoming Amazon Prime
Days just in case you want to spend some of your hard earned money on
really just maybe a deal or two, but a lot of crap. As
I say, the Amazon Prime Days is something that's Amazon's done almost every single
year, right in the dead middle of summer as a garage sale. They
got they got to move this stuff out of the warehouses that just doesn't sell
year round, so they can make more room for other crap that we don't
need. During this upcoming oh A Day season. I know, I'm marsh
some things we actually do need and I get asked so often and in so
many places, by so many different people in so many different ways. Technology
advice, Yes, it's it all started here. It actually started on TV
where people used to write letters into the tvst I was on channel too,
KPRC, the NBC affiliate here when I started the illustrious media career of mine
in the year two thousand. That email was certainly around. I didn't get
a ton of it, but people used to write emails to the station.
Hey, Michael, what do you think about this? Can you further explain
what Wi fi actually is? Then I moved over to radio clear Channel Radio,
which is now iHeart Radio, and I was on all eight of our
local stations, including KPRC Radio, which is no affiliation currently with kp r
C TV. It's a long story. Emails started to come in, even
though I did get some hate mail, emails started to come out. And
then when I'm out and about, I do a lot of things in and
around not only the city of Houston, but across the country. I speak,
I had motivational sales speeches, whatever, and Obviously it's based on technology.
So I get a lot of tech questions, and I kind of liken
myself to a doctor. You know, you're at a party. You go
up and you meet a doctor. Oh you're a doctor, Hey, doc,
let me ask you a question. You know, I've got this kind
of pain in my arm. It's the same thing high tech texting. Hey
man, what kind of phone you have? Hey, I'm trying to get
a computer. You know, what what should I get? Listen. I
don't lie whatsoever. I this is what I want to do. I'm more
than happy to help if I can't. And I say this, it's because
I got asked about a laptop computer. And I don't get that question too
often either. People they're keeping their laptops longer. Laptops are relatively inexpensive.
They don't need my assistance or whatever. But this one came from my cousin.
My cousin, she lives here in Houston, and well, absolutely,
she's my I guess she's my second cousin. She's my mom's first cousin.
So she's she's in her late sixties. I believe she could be early.
Said no, no, no, no, no, she's late sixties,
I guess, and she texted me, and you know, she's so cute,
funny, she seems to him, Michael, this is your cousin.
I'm like, I know this, got a question. I need a laptop,
and I need something really simple. I really just kind of want to
go online and do a few things and whatever, and then what can you
do to help me? So obviously I'm the guy who's trying to I always
show the answer where I give you some products, I don't want to give
you the most expensive thing out there, because there's there's so many opportunities to
save money for this product. For the product. So I set there in
thought for a minute or two, I'm thinking, well, she may be
she may want a chromebook. Now, if you don't know what a chromebook
is, a chromebook, it's a form factor of a laptop. But a
chromebook uses the Google operating system. It's not Microsoft operating system, and it's
not an Apple operating system. So it's cheaper, it's more affordable. It's
an affordable laptop. They are lightweight. They're made by several manufacturers. Google
HP makes one, Lenovo makes one, Acer makes one, Dell makes one,
Asis makes one, there's there's a number of different ones, and they're
just not They don't come with a lot of blokeware. They don't come with
all the other software that that Microsoft Windows may be packed with. But when
you're using you know, generally you think there's two types of laptop computers.
There's Microsoft Windows and there's there's Apple with the Mac MacBooks. Those have specific
software which obviously you have to license what have you. Well, if you
don't have you have to need those licenses, the software licenses, they become
cheaper. In fact, I'm just playing around on a search right now.
I see this cannot be right. I see a del phone book. I'm
clicking on this just to make sure because I don't want to give out bad
information. This, this honestly can't be true. Here is a Dell laptop
from Walmart dot com for fifty three dollars. This is used though this is
okay. I knew that was going on, So that's used. Here is
here's an HP Chromebuck for sixty dollars. All right, there may be used
at the point. At the point is you can get brand new ones for
easily one hundred and fifty dollars. One hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars
where to eat the day day cheap on those things. So no, I
text her back. I said, hey, hey, what do you think
about this? Here's a growbuck. Apparently she knew what a chromebuok goes,
and she says, well, I'm actually may want to use a little Microsoft
Excel and some Microsoft word. Oh okay, cock dog, no, now
you tell me. So at that point we have to go up in price,
and so I did some research and it's then you get to go to
you know, you got a price point of still not too bad. You
can get a Windows based where I am not said, she's not getting an
Apple that nobody needs an Apple, No one needs to pay that much and
they're more confusing. So obviously I'm sticking to Microsoft Windows. It's something for
two fifty three fifty. If you really want something, you can get a
three thousand and five thousand dollars laptop. She doesn't want that because she's not
a gamer. At least I didn't ask her if she's a gamer. So
no, I don't know what she ended up getting, but there are there
are a ton of different opportunities when it comes to different products and I have
to, you know, figure out, you know, what's right and what's
not right for people. And I have to, you know, I have
to qualify that question. But asking more questions. She also says she wants
a printer too. Printers gets in a whole nother gang. And the first
question is I answer, or even I ask myself, is how much do
you want to print? I have a wireless printer at home. I've got
a really neat total compack small. I don't even sometimes I lose it on
my shelf. It's an HP Tango. If you could take a look at
it, it's not expensive whatever. If I print a ten pages a month,
maybe a lie, I don't print that that much at all. If
you have an office, if you have a smaller business that you meant to
print, you need to sign things. Yeah, you're gonna need you know
something that you're not going to be drinking the ink. Had another question.
I was talking to a good buddy of mine, the eye doctor to the
Stars, doctor Alan Panzer, Uh doctor P calls me earlier this week,
and he was talking about printing. He actually uses these tanks, these printing
tanks, and he was having an issue that they weren't working, and I
told him I have actually never used those printer tanks because I don't print that
much. I generally stick with the printing cartriges that come with it. I
have an HP because I don't use a lot of ink. I have a
I have the black ink cartridge, and I have the coloring cartridge. I've
seen those printer you know ink. They're containers. I think what Shaquille O'Neil
I think was what I did the EPs and commercials or something. But they're
big tanks. Has anybody actually had luck with those printer tanks. They're larger
bottles of different colors that you can hook up to your printer, and they
don't cost nearly as much. Because printer ink or printer cartridges are akin to
razor blades, buy the razors, actually give away the razors and sell the
blades. That's a phenomenal business. BALL usually give away printers HP. Every
episode should give away the printers, just to make sure you're gonna write the
printer inc the same thing. So anyway, that's how kind of I determine
what type of advice and if you have any advice on printer even printers,
I'd actually like to hear from you. You see what you think? We're
gonna take break number one a hour number two. Mister Michael Garfield coming back
and has promised I got to get rid of one of these gift cards ers.
So who wants to win something? Calum You ready for the phones to
light up? Owl about a twenty five dollars gift card Totabo Bob's. What
a fun, great restaurant. Some of the best freshly made steak or chicken,
tacos, fajitas you we can call it. It's a quick service restaurant.
It's out of Austin. If you're familiar with the four or five locations
at Austin, I think there's one in San Antonio. There are now at
least four here in the Houston area. I am there at least twice a
week. If you follow me on Instagram, you can see how I go
through the line. I tell them I want the chicken, maybe I want
a little of the fried fish. But the neat thing is five different types
of tortillas that they press and heat right in front of you. Oh my,
the tomatillo. They have a smoky cheddar. It's it is so good.
Twenty five dollars gift card Cobo Bob's seven one three two one two five
nine five. Oh, calling Humber nine, how about that calem give that
thing away? Two one two five nine five Oh you are the next winner
of a Cobo Bob's gift card. I do thank you to their Uh they're
I'm not gonna say it's a partnership there. We're just kind enough. They
know I'm a big fan. So they said, Michael, we're not going
to feed you because you're not eating a lot, you're losing a little white.
You're looking great. And once you just give this way, make somebody
else, uh you know, give them some protein, happy to do it,
happy to do it, so we'll get a winner on that thing.
Time to talk about cars and trucks right now. You know. One of
the things that I do is I get to test drive some really brand new
sometimes never seen sometimes not even on the market yet really need cars. I'm
in trucks. I'm a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association, which means
I deal with manufacturers. I mean the you know the previous segment I was
telling you about. My job is to give advice of telling you what to
buy and sometimes where to buy it. When it comes to cars and automobiles,
this is and it's it's totally it's my opinion. It's unpaid endorsement,
which I really don't like dealing. But alas, I don't deal in dealerships.
Okay, if you like what I said that no dealing in dealerships.
I can review vehicles. They come straight from the manufacturers, which means I
use, I can dis on them, I could love on them, but
I'm not going to recommend a dealership. I don't endorse a dealership. I
don't have deals with dealerships, and so it's totally up to me. So
if you like something I hear about, go figure out where dealership is.
And so I'm gonna give you the true ups and downs of the things that
I did, the things that I like and that I don't like. This
past week or so, I've been riding around one of the most luxurious vehicles
I have been in in a long time, Mediavior. Certainly on the inside.
I have been riding around at a twenty twenty four Lincoln. Let's write
a Lincoln Nautilus. Now, if you haven't seen a Lincoln Nautilus, it's
an suv. It's a two row suv. Several different levels of Lincoln.
You can you can start yourself with a Lincoln, you know, get these
things for around fifty to fifty five thousand dollars, and then at some point
you start getting the upscale, upgraded versions, the different badges, if you
will. Well, I happen to be in the Lincoln Nautilus black label.
They caught a bla it sounds like a Scotch, doesn't. No, it's
not. It's not a Scotch, but it is a black label rolls up
in front of my house because it's delivered each each Thursday, I get a
car that rolls up, a vehicle that rolls up in front of my house,
and they give me the keys, and I get to have it for
a week. And I'm looking at it and it's it's kind of a it's
a monotone color, kind of a dark grayish type of thing. Well,
I love the grill, the twenty two inch wheels. They're very big,
kind of nondescript. And maybe it's just because it's just one monochrome to me,
dullish color. All right, anyway, get inside, man, I
stepped inside a freaking rocket ship to the future. This is I can't say
I'm looking into the future because the future is now. The display on how
everything is laid out on the dashboard it's crazy. And I took some video
and I posted it on my Instagram high tech text and h I G h
T E C H T E T E x A N. This looks like
it could be an electric vehicle, because electric vehicles they do kind of go
all out on how they're laid out internally. Then you know, they got
a big twelve inch touchscreen, which now we're kind of used to seeing.
This is totally different. This does have a center infotainment touchscreen. I believe
it's ten to twelve inches, but that's not what's crazy. It has.
Now I'm gonna try to give you the play by play, but this is
what we professionals do. We're to explain it on the radio. Imagine you're
sitting in the driver's that you're sitting in the passtreet and you're looking out of
the windshield. All right, Well, you have a dashboard, and the
dashboard generally it's it's a little curvature, just the way the cars are built,
and it's kind of flat. Most of them are flat. Right on
top of the dashboards, you could see right out the window. Well right
on the dashboard left to right, there is an elongated, very horizontal,
if you will, forty eight inch screen that goes from the left side of
the vehicle, right where the the state inspectrum goes, all the way to
the right side the right a pillar where the passenger seats sits. It's maybe
only five inches high, but it is forty eight inches long. People,
it is a four foot long display, and it is gorgeous. It is
bright, and you can make this thing do anything you want. So right
in front of you, Yes, you've got the odometer, you've got the
speed dometer, you've got got all the info that you need. A little
right of that, you've got your map, your navigation map, and the
navigation map. Now it's a little bit more on the on your eye level,
because it's right on. It's on the lower part of the windshield.
Now correg me, this is not projected onto the windshield. It's actual a
video screen that is built into the car. So technically you can call it
part of the dashboard because right above that there is the windshield. Then after
that you could configure anything you want. You could put the weather, you
could put the time, you could put a clock up there. You've got
the radio, you've got the trip monitor, maybe the trip one oh domeinter
the trip too O dometer. But it is right displayed in front of you
like you're as you see in movies that you're in an airplane or a rocket
ship, and it just blew me away. At that point, you can
set the color scheme. Now this isn't new, and you getn't get the
higher end cars with the ant. It's called ambient lighting, and you're mostly
gonna see this at night when it's dark, but you could set the ambient
lighting to kind of a more purple hue. Maybe it's an orange, maybe
it's a yellow, maybe it's a great It changes everything. It's it's unlike
anything I've seen. So I gotta give some props to Lincoln on their Nautilus
for having this just really incredible display. And to me, it's like this
is it's very futuristic. We're gonna see the things on more and more vehicles,
and Lincoln just did one heck of a job. The steering wheel is
interesting. It's not a round steering wheel, and it's not a racing steering
wheel. A racing steering wheel. Generally, the the top art is round,
but the bottom is flat. Gives you a better grip, it doesn't,
You know, when you turn it you can get your hands around that,
you know, a little easier, you know, when you're turning corners.
This is kind of a it's almost a bow tie shape, if that
makes sense. It's a little bit more rounder than a boat, more rounded.
It's more round than a bow tie. But it's kind of an elongated
horizontal of handlebar. Point is there's a theme that goes inside. I think
I have a redwood theme. It's a calming presence that makes you think just
because it's a dark it's not a dark, it's it's kind of an off
red maroon pattern on the seats. It is interesting some of the crazy features
it has built in, Like I'm not gonna call it perfume, but since
not dollars and cents but sc nts. It's got three different scent cartridges that
you can interchange, and it'll make your cabin smell like a forest. It'll
smell like fresh linen, it'll smell like clouds. If you don't clouds,
I mean this thing is pimp pimp. This is the black label. We'll
tell you it runs about seventy eight thousand dollars eighty thousand dollars. But it's
a very nice, luxurious vehicle. Is it worth it? Not sure?
It rides very well, it's got very good pickup, it's got a nice
engine. But it is two rows. It's almost large enough if you look
at it from the outside that it could have a small third row seat.
It doesn't, but it does allow for a very large cargo space. It's
got the automatic tailgate that lifts up when you put that. Even when you
put the second row down, you could fit a lot of cargo space in
there. But overall, it's been a while since I've been in a Lincoln,
which is part of the Ford family, the Lincoln Nautilus black label.
It's neat. If you ever happen to drive by a Lincoln dealership, go
inside and just take a look at the Nautilus and order take a look at
some of the stuff that I'm putting on my social media because it's actually very
interesting. Good job, Lincoln Nautilist. I applaud you. Speaking of luxury
coming up, you ever thought about getting anything custom a custom made suit,
a custom made coat. They're not as expensive as you would think. And
I'll tell you what the quality and the way that actually you could design your
colors, the lapels and things are very interesting to actually make it look like
you no need to buy anything else off the rack. I found a great
habitashery over here. We're gonna go through the process of how he makes his
clothes and what makes me look so good when I'm walking around. I'm pimping
on stage coming up here on the High Tech TEXTI show, we are back
at it. Michael Garkiels is the name Summer or whatever day you may be
listening to it. Should you be live, happy Saturday, if you're listening
to this on iHeartRadio or podcast, don't matter when you're listening to it,
but that's from listening. That's what counts. I have so many followers and
which I'm grateful for. Thank you for everybody out there following me at High
Tech Text and on Instagram and Facebook. And I get a lot of comments
over the years about my clothes, and I you know, it's not that
I'm a clothes horse, but I want to make sure I have always worn
really nice clothes. And one of the reasons why is because I talk a
lot about technology, and you think about it, you know, you think
I would dress like a geek, right, Well, I do so much
TV. I get on you know, on stage and stuff. It's the
last thing I want to do is you know, look like a geek.
And so I you know, I put a lot of effort and time and
money and style, you know, information into what I wear, including some
of these sport codes. And over the past few months, I've been collecting
some really need sport codes that have been custom made for me. And I
never in my life but I actually would have anything custom made for me.
But at the end of the day, it sits unbelievably, they're not nearly
as expensive as I thought, you know, custom suits or coach would wear.
And I get him right here by a gentleman who is mister Houston,
and he's so mister Houston, and he's so mister habitat Serie. I love
the moniker, I love his website. I love the name of this company.
It quite simply is Houston Suit Guy aka Steve Springer, who I've known
for quite a while. I want to bring him in and we're going to
talk a little fashion here in the middle of summer. Steve something telling me
right now, you're wearing a sport coat, correct or not? You know,
it's it's the job. You've got to always have a sport code.
I can't go I can't go to the grocery store and not have a sport
coat because you never know who you're going to run into, and you want
that best first impression every time matter which it is by the way, here
in July of twenty twenty four, it's very hot. But how often do
you get stopped by people going, hey, nice coke? Because I know
it's happened to me a lot lately, you know it does. It happens
a lot. And it's not because necessarily that the jackets that I make or
wear are flashy or in any way crazy. It's just that when somebody is
wearing something that looks nice, is put together well, people notice, and
so I think that's important. Biggest compliments I think I continue to receive.
And this is years and years and years. It's nice when I wear I
love really cool, fashionable shirts, lots of buttons, and you see how
I dress, and then I may not wear a ton of sport coades.
Even though I'm doing it now, I really find it a compliment when not
women come up and tell me that the suit or the shirt looks good.
It's when dudes come up and seriously say, hey, where'd you get that?
Because I know for a lot of men, a lot of them don't
care, especially here in Houston, they wear T shirts and it's just kind
of a town where you wear blue jeans. Ever, But when they sincerely
say, at a sharp board, did you get it? Do you find
more in your business? Is it the men? Do they not care as
much? Do they care as much as the women? But I think it's
odd that it's I find it more flattering when the guys say, hey,
man, nice stuff. Absolutely, you know, I think, like you
said the Moniker Houston suit guy on Instagram, I actually get more comments,
more questions from guys all the time, because quite honestly, when a guy
walks in the store, if you've ever thought about it, you go clothes
shopping, what do you do? You see things on mannequins and you say,
wow, that looks really good. I want that. For most guys,
it's hard to go and find things, put things together kind of sort
it out in a way that makes sense. And a lot of guys we're
really busy. So when you go into your closet, you want to know
that the first thing that you grab is going to look really, really good,
no matter what it is. Most of us have three or four outfits,
maybe even just two or three. That is kind of our go too,
And it doesn't matter where we're going, what we're doing. Why do
we grab those two or three outfits over and over. It's because that's what
we feel good in. We feel confident when we wear it. And so
I always ask people when that they, you know, kind of start the
consultation process with me and learning about custom clothing. I said, what would
it be like for you? Would it be mind blowing? Would it be
life changing if that every item in your closet you had that same confidence and
feel about every time you grabbed it out of there, no matter what it
was, And it would open up your world to a much larger wardrobe.
And you know, it's it's kind of that Dion Sanders thing. You'll look
good, you feel good, you feel good, you play good, you
play good, they pay good. That's kind of that's kind of that whole
world of having that first impression and being confident when you meet somebody. It
doesn't matter if it's in business, doesn't matter if it's just in person,
talking to new people, meeting new people, relationships, whatever it is.
When you when you look good and feel good, you're more confident and it
shows is proving time. Steve Springer is his name, Houston Suit Guy.
You can google it and social media everywhere you'll find and we'll get more than
that. How'd you get started in this business? So for years I actually
spent time in kind of the kind of the menswear world, big box stores,
you know, and I got a little bit of a little bit of
taste of what custom men'swear was like at some level, and I realized that
custom menswear is where that you get to actually build relationships. I get to
sip with someone like yourself like we did, and understand about you, how
you wear clothes, what you do when you put a sport code on.
Is it just date night? Is it that I'm in front of a camera,
Is it that I'm you know, I just want to elevate my game.
I would just want to better feel better. So all of those things
are very important. You know, somebody might come in and say, you
know, hey, I'm I sell BMW's, you know, for instance,
and I have to be in a suit every day, and I want the
best looking suit out there, and so they picked these really expensive, beautiful
fabrics and I'll tell them, look, you know, that might not actually
be the right fabric for you. And the reason is you're in and out
of cars all day. I'm going to make you a suit that's really beautiful,
that's going to show you off in your best light, but it's not
going to be maybe quite as expensive because we need something that's a little bit
more bulletproof for what you do. So it's all about the personal experience and
being able to understand what you want, what your goals are in developing a
wardrobe. And so you know, for me, like I said, it's
transitioning from those those big box stores and really stepping out on my own.
You know, COVID was was really that that factor that made it all happen.
And you know, it's it's interesting. My very first client, very
first client as a with Bluefine Men's Wear was actually a KPRC Frank Billingsley Rank.
He he you know, had known him for several years and he called
me and said, hey, it looks like your stores closed. Man,
I we know what's going on. And I said, well, they've closed
down all these stores, you know, due to COVID, but just so
happens, you know, in the background. I've been working on this for
a while now and I've got all my fabrics from Italy and England. And
he said, well, can you come over? And so I went over
to his house and he bought a couple of suits. And that has just
absolutely become, you know, kind of the best ever. Building on those
relationships and having clients that have really really good experiences that have become honestly some
of my best friends. Love Frank. I don't think he's gonna be wearing
a lot of suits anymore. Has he just retired? Very very lucky guy
Steve Springer joining me here for the next few minutes, known as the Houston
Suit Guy custom made Suits. Talk about the process. I like the process.
I have never been through a custom making a sport code or suit process,
and I tell you what it was. It was simple. But Steve,
I got to say, it was kind of fun because I got along
with you to design some stuff. Obviously you took my measurements, and at
that point it was let's go shopping through all of these fabrics. And in
your office, I know you just have swatches and swabs and books and books
and books of different fabrics thick than the color patterns. I know what colors
I like and which was awesome because when I go used to go shopping off
rack in stores, it's like I'm gonna have to buy something they got here.
That's it. It may not have been truly truly garf stop. You
made design. Let's put it this way. You do you help me design
garf sport codes because I like color. I like things because I'm on stage
and I'm on TV. I need something that pop. And so whether it
say a purple, which is my favorite color, a purple sport coder blazer
beautiful and uh and then you talked about, well this one has you know,
a little you know, patch style of pockets on the whole thing.
It's you actually guide me through the process. You look at my skin tone,
this is gonna pop. That was the neat one on win experience.
And that's I think what you profess. You are one on one you custom
make these for everybody. But yes, from the from the way that we
started is we we basically say, like I said, the the consultation piece,
let's figure out what you're looking for. And then once we've kind of
got that built out in our mind what your your goals are, then we
start to select fabrics. And these are all fabrics that are imported from Italy
and England like Xenia, Laura, Piana and you know all those really really
great fabric mills, Fox Brothers out of England, Hudtersfeld, really really great
you know, cloth, top quality, beautiful, beautiful cloth, and so
we start from a quality product and then and then we start to build out
the design together. Houston Sue guy. I'll tell you what, Steve,
We'll get you out here on this and we're going to go to the email
over here. So it's funny, I got it. This is from Jeanette,
which is a female. She goes great topic right now because my husband
dresses like generally, how long does it take to make a sport code?
Which is actually I think it's a fair question. Sure, typically I want
to have about six weeks. That's that's you know, So it's a real
easy process to set up an appointment with me. Most the best scenarios to
set up appointment with me and my design center which is in the Houston Heights,
and that's that's just a really easy process there. And after we design
it and I start into the production. It takes typically about six weeks.
And then as soon as everything is I've done the whole QC process on the
finished garments, then I will send you a message to schedule a final fitting
appointment, which you know ninety nine percent of the time you want. You
try it on in the dressing room, everything is perfect and you'll leave with
the garment that day. If there's any tweaks or adjustments that are needed,
typically takes two to three days, and then you'll have your your suit or
tucks makes sense, and we end it with this, as we quote Saturday
Live, it is better to look good than to feel good, and I
absolutely look good. You look good every time we're wearing anything that is made
by you. People want to get a hold of you. What's the easiest
way. So the easiest way is to go either to Instagram through Houston suit
Guy, or you can go directly to my website houstonsuit Guy dot com,
or you can go to bluefinemenswear dot com. Either way works. You'll get
there. There's a there's a message button, or you can call me.
I'll put my put my phone number out there, seven one, three,
six five nine ninety twenty eight. You can call or text that number.
Texting is better obviously just because of volume. But if you can send me
a text or or just go straight to the website, there's a way to
contact me right there, or you can send me a direct message on Instagram.
Houston Suit Guy, Suit Guy, and for all the people. Every
time I happen to wear some of these sport codes out there, when people
do come up and say where did you get that? I have a pocketful
of your business starts that I give him, and you know I do because
I get a lot of comments every time I'm out in one of your great
sport codes. Steve Springer, Houston suit Guy. Loved the branding and love
what you do. Congrats and your success, my man. I can't wait
to order a few more coming up here. Thank you for your time and
dress well. Mia Migo, you too. Take care Michael. That is
Steve. What cool is that? I mean literally, people, I mean
I never thought I'd have anything that was custom and it was so freaking simple.
And I'm not going to, you know, give out his government or
information. But he's got some other than Flank. He's got some pretty famous
clients, some of which I just want to hang around his shop to just
watch him come in and out. Steve Springer check it out of Houston suit
Guy. All right, this is called the High Tech Text Show KPRC Radio
nine fifty am, not only in Houston but around the world. And iHeartRadio.
Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. We made it almost.
We got about eight more minutes of the show. Oh man, indulgence of
summer. I do thank you for hanging in there. Hey, also,
thanks so much to Houston Suit Guy. If you just turned our chat,
it's it's pretty listen. I talk so much more about technology. It's it's
you know, it's the world according to Garf. It's whatever I want to
yap about. And I always like spotlighting entrepreneurs, local businesses. And you
know, he is a one man band who just decided to break away from
the big box stores of not Medastrius Shmata and does a week call it which
is clothing or rags and created is his own place, Houston Suit Guy,
Houstonsuit guye dot com. And he tell you what he did. He just
actually just texted me. He goes, Hey, Garth, thank you so
much for the opportunity to speak. By the way, if anybody mentioned your
name, I'm going to give them ten percent off anything. How about that?
So, Houston Suit Guy, if you someone you know wants a custom
suit a custom sport code, check it out. It's absolutely worth getting measured,
picking out all your fabrics and you could save ten percent twenty plus years
the industry. And this is good. This is the most famous thing that's
ever happened to me. Is I've become a coupon. My name is cue
pot ten percent. If you mentioned Michael Garfield, so give him it.
Really good stuff. Not going to give out the phone number anymore. We
do have a winner for the Cabo Bob's gift card we gave away two segments
ago. Congratulations to the winner, whoever that is. That You're going to
be eating well at one of the four Houston area Cabo Bob's location. It's
actually almost lunchtime for me. I actually may have to run up there.
And get a little snacky poo if I need to what other things I want
to head, I'm gonna go through some emails. Oh my, a lot
of it, a lot of traveling going on. And I got two three
emails, one of which in the last hour asking me about international phone plans.
One of the best phone plans because they're traveling internationally. It's the third
question, similarly like that that I've got this pass week using your phone internationally.
It's a little it's it's no longer as simple as just popping in a
different SIM card. And if you know what a SIM card, the sim
card is a little tiny, physical little card. It's a little electronic card
that you can pop in and pop out of your phone. That's something you
have to use, a little pen, a little almost like a needle that
comes with it. That for years and years phones at that actually is your
phone number. So whoever your carrier is, Verizon, T Mobile, eighteen
T whatever it is, they send you this little tiny card and you pop
it in and that's the phone number, and it keeps a lot of your
data and things on there. And so when you get a new phone,
quite simply over the years, all you need to do is pop that little
SIM card out which is your phone number, put it into phone, and
you're set to go. Now, newer phones now have don't have the physical
card. They have an electronic sim. It's called the E's an e SIM.
It's not an E SIM. Car is just an e SIM. It
is kind of confusing. But as summer travel heats up, you do have
some questions on what's the what's the best phones with international plans. I'll try
let me see if I let see if I can take two or three minutes
before we get out of here to explain this. I'll focus on US carriers,
United States carriers, UH, and a lot of that could be applied
to traveling in other countries. I have this is there. I have no
skin in the game. I have no endorsement with anybody. I'm just looking
at rates. I don't care who you use, all right, you may
like one, you may not like one, but just just quickly anecdotal scanning
the if you really Globe Trot frequently take a look at Verizon's unlimited Ultimate Plan.
It's their most premium plan. It's unlimited kind of takes a page from
T Mobile's playbook. As international texting has data and over about two hundred country
all right, now, it's data and texting. It does not include voice.
But here's the thing you can get around voice because nowadays, really if
you ask me, and I haven't traveled a ton internationally, but I've never
done anything. I've never upgraded my phone because Wi Fi is so over existed,
it's so ubiquitous in libraries, cafes, restaurants, airports, hotels,
resorts. If you're on Wi Fi, you can use WhatsApp, you can
use FaceTime. Other messaging apps has voice culling features. I used to get
a Wi Fi calling Verizon has something called mix and match plans for different lines
on your account, and that could be helpful for you. If you're on
a family plan. That means if you have one line on an ultimate for
the month you'll be traveling, you can keep the other lines on a more
affordable plan, So that that's one opportunity too. So to determine where you
want to go, do a little Google search, what country you're traveling in.
Who's your provider? If it's If it's T Mobile, go to the
T Mobile website. Does it work? Does it include extra minisc a lot
if you're going to Mexico or Canada. I believe I don't quote me,
but some of these plans actually include Mexico in Canada, so you don't even
need to upgrade. There's another good one for international plans. T Mobile has
something called the Magenta Max. The Magenta Max, it has a high speed.
The other thing is you may if you get a hot spot. If
you know what a hotspot is, If your phone has a hot spot and
it's included maybe in your unlimited plan, you can actually light up your phone
to become a hotspot. And your party who travels with you, maybe at
your family kids, whoever, they can actually glomb off of your hot spot.
Tell them to turn on their Wi Fi. Get onto your Wi Fi
because you're broadcasting from your hotspot. That's another secret too, Latin America.
If you're going to Latin America, Number one, take me. I got
a new passport at and T Unlimited Premium maybe the best for you. And
it's and then there's roaming versus local sim cards. The big reason that I'm
come to talk a little bit about roaming is because most common ways US people
you probout United States consumers still buy their phones. It's through wireless carriers and
installment plans, and to keep people from taking advantage of subsidized phones leaving for
other providers, the carriers lock their phones to their networks until you finish your
two or three year installment plans. And so sometimes you can go to another
country if you have a lock phone, and you could go get a SIM
card to temporarily put in point is the world is getting smaller when it comes
to communication. Well, last year I went to South Korea and I didn't
do a derned stand and I use mint Mobile. I don't even use one
of the big three. I use mint Mobile. By the way, if
you want a discount for mint Mobile, pop me a direct message or send
me an email, because I have a discount for you, because it's already
inexpense enough. Now mint Mobile is now solely owned by T Mobile, but
mint Mobile, I have a discount that i'd probably get you. Just happy
to actually share that with you, but it's I'm not gonna blast it out
right now. But I didn't even upgrade a mint Mobile because I knew on
the airplane I flew United they had Wi Fi and that actually got when I
got on Wi Fi. It lasted all over the Pacific Ocean until I landed
in South Korea. South Korea got to the airport, there was Wi Fi.
Didn't have Wi Fi and the bus of the cab, but once I
got to my hotel resort, I had Wi Fi. I went to a
convention center because it was a big press conference I went to for Samsung.
They had Wi Fi. I went to restaurants, they had Wi Fi.
You just don't need a ton of that stuff. The world is getting smaller.
And I'll tell you what, in the twenty two plus years I have
been doing this pace, the world continues to get small. This what used
to be a local radio station, a local radio program here in Houston on
KPRC, the signal. We have a five thousand watt station. Yes,
it was barely able to reach north of the Woodlands. It got halfway to
Austin. Certainly, it covered Galveston, and it got not to the Louisiana
border, and that was it. Nowadays, you download the iHeartRadio app and
I have a worldwide radio show. And I do thank you for listening that
for all these years, twenty two years and going. I want you to
continue to have a great summer. Thank you Callum Read for putting this on
the podcast. I'm going to take a few days off. I'm doing some
traveling. Don't stalk me, people, but follow me on social media because
I'm doing more and more videos and tips to that don't keep you happy,
not just about tech, but cars, travel, bourbon, clothing, fashion,
or whatever else I actually feel like doing. Hey, stay fool,
seriously, drink hydrate. For all of us who've been a part of the
show, I do thank you for tuning in. My name is Garth Garfield,
and she is the High Detection show Happy Middle of Summer because right now,
this particular episode is over.