WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.400 Is Michael Garfild. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:15.720 Michael Garfield is here with a high tech textis items to make life easier 3 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:25.679 to some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael 4 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:32.719 Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your 5 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:41.039 gadgets. You heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio. Add now your high tech Texan. 6 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:47.159 Michael Garfield. Already hot, people, Stay inside if you can put 7 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:51.520 the sunscreen on. I sound like my parents. I rarely use sunscreening. 8 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.320 If I'm outside, I'll sit in the pool. It was a nice, 9 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.640 cool cocktail. And I know it's just a little before noon. Should you 10 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.759 be listening live? Still nasty hop? And I got two hours to entertain 11 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:08.159 you, ask and answer you questions. One week before Father's Day. Raise 12 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:11.519 your hand if you're a daddy, or raise your hand if you thank you 13 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.319 I had daddy, or not sure you're a daddy. Dad's Day guests, 14 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.480 we've already been through Mother's Day. Last month, we've been through grad season. 15 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:25.000 Graduation season, dads, it's your return. I actually have some interesting 16 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:27.959 ideas. This is what I do I'm a consumer lifestyle guy. It is 17 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.840 called the High Tech Texan Show. Yeah, maybe I'll follow in some technological 18 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:37.280 wonders, but there are many other gifts that are not so technological, that 19 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:42.879 are edible, consumable, visitable. Just to give you some ideas, because 20 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:47.760 it's our tourk all the dads do not get a lot of love over the 21 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.159 years. AF Early Father's Day to you. Michael is the name. There 22 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.200 is Calum Reid on the other side of the glass. We are here for 23 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.400 you. You know the deets. If you want to call in ask questions. 24 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.760 Maybe you're researching some some cars and audibobile and let me help you out. 25 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.120 If you haven't followed me on social media, if you heard me last 26 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:12.080 week, I've been rolling around and a pretty large vehicle this past week. 27 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:15.879 I'll give you the breakdown a little pip to see if this is something that 28 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:21.879 you want to get dad, or maybe get yourself. That is the GMC 29 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:28.800 Hummer ev that's right? Is it an oxymoron? Is it ironic? Or 30 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:35.159 is a little Hubris with a little green built in at Electric Hummer? It 31 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.159 is massive, it is quiet, it is fast, it is roomy, 32 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:42.520 and it ain't cheap. I will review that. This is one of the 33 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:45.840 things that I do for so many years. Phone number here if you want 34 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:52.400 to participate seven one three two one two five nine to five. Oh, 35 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.039 that is how you will get me. Just call me Garth. You can 36 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:59.400 follow me on social media. Hi tech text and spell the whole thing out. 37 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.520 Hi g h T E C h T e x A N bad news. 38 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:09.960 We've got another one of your favorite streaming services raising subscription prices once again. 39 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:14.039 I don't know when this thing is going to end. And we'll also 40 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:21.400 going to talk about something that happened a quarter century ago this week at where 41 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:28.680 were you twenty five years ago when Napster was created? You know, we 42 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.879 we it was man. You talk about controversy, the new way to listen 43 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:37.319 to music, to download music, to ilegally get music for free without paying 44 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:40.000 the license. You know we can kind of. We didn't laugh at it 45 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.879 then. We thought it was pretty cool. But I will tell you why. 46 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.599 I'm going to give you four ways that I can think of that Napster 47 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:53.560 changed the music industry. And if you are not twenty five years old, 48 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:57.919 and you're younger than that and you consume them music kids, you have no 49 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.240 clue how we used to get music. I mean, unless your parents, 50 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.599 like me, have cassette tapes that are now decorations hanging on the wall, 51 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:12.199 ceed jewel cases, reel the real tapes other different ways. Now pretty much 52 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:15.079 as we rent music as we can download it. But there are services like 53 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:20.040 our radio, Spotify and other things like that where Napster really changed it. 54 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:25.079 So I'll take you a little back in the day to tell you how that 55 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:28.120 works. Other than that, we may have a one or two gift cards 56 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:31.439 to give away. We do think are good friends at Cabo Bob's. Really 57 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:36.519 good burritos and tacos for locations across the Houston area. It's out of Austin, 58 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:40.439 Austin. Anything that comes out most everything that comes out of Austin's pretty 59 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:44.639 good. I say this because my mom was born in Austin, and I 60 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.680 agree. And me and my parents and my son and my grandparents. We 61 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:53.639 graduated from the University of Texas. Cobo Bob's they have graciously donated some gift 62 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.240 cards for me to give away, so stand by, we will do that. 63 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:02.639 And also if you follow stuff and you follow business, we have a 64 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.959 company that has been escalating in value over the past several years thanks to AI. 65 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:14.560 This past week it has overtaken Apple. The value of this company is 66 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:19.920 the second most valuable company in the United States, only behind Microsoft. Microsoft 67 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.959 has won Apple was number two, Apples number three right now. If you 68 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.680 don't know what it is, I will tell you that sometime during this show. 69 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.040 But other than that, here we go Dad's Day. I got a 70 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:35.040 number of different questions and emails throughoutwig Garf. You know, listen, I'm 71 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:39.319 not ready to get Dad or I don't want to get myself a new TV. 72 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:42.040 I don't eat it yet, and I already have enough phones and I'm 73 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.759 fine with my phone. What else is? There's what's unique? I really 74 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.800 can't get Dad flowers? I can you know, can I get Dad something 75 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:55.120 that's that little edible thing with the fruit? Why can't you get Dad flowers? 76 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.079 Well, I mean I'm trying to think I do I want? I 77 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.959 mean I wouldn't want flowers. Really, I like flower I mean I really 78 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.519 don't need flowers. I'm just on my dude living alone. I mean, 79 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:09.000 they brighten up the place. Edible subscriptions now standby, I'm not gonna tell 80 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.079 you how to get edible gummies. I guess that's what they are. Nope, 81 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.360 Nope, not gonna do that. There's a lot of things that you 82 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.639 could eat, and I saw a list of food and drink subscriptions. Don't 83 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:23.639 sleep on the don't sleep on subscriptions. You know, as if you go 84 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:27.680 back to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, cousin Eddie had one of the greatest lines 85 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.040 ever. It's the gift that keeps on giving year round, Clark that it 86 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:34.600 is, Edward that indeed it is. It's a subscription now, not the 87 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:39.360 Jelly of the Month club, which actually would be pretty cool. There's a 88 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.240 lot of subscription that you could subscribe to clothing every month, you know you're 89 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.279 gonna get a T shirt, you're gonna get a surprise box. But I 90 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.399 saw a few that actually caught my eye, one of which is our dear 91 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:53.519 friend James Simpson, our beer guy, our beer guru, whose radio program 92 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:57.560 is on Sundays right here on K Perce at nine fifty am. There's a 93 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:00.839 beer subscription. There is a beer subscription, and I like this thing. 94 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.920 It's called well there there's several of them. But when I ran across and 95 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.959 again, I'm not endorsing this I don't know anything about it, even though 96 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:11.040 I do like beer. Actually, actually I have a whole list of beer 97 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:18.000 clubs. One is called beer Drop beer Drop. What are the differences between 98 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:25.040 this and other beer subscriptions is Dad can pick the beer styles. Dad goes 99 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.240 online and he says, hey, I want something happy, fruity or dark 100 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:32.759 or Belgian. Then after that this company is going to source some interesting about 101 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:36.879 small badge bruise from a whole selection of micro breweries around the country and they 102 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:42.720 will send them to Dad each month. There's a few levels of subscriptions. 103 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.680 That looks like you can give Dad three months of beer Drops, ten beers 104 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:51.000 each that'll last to Dad maybe an afternoon. Looks like it's about one hundred 105 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:56.040 and forty four dollars. Just sign up. That's pretty good and then let 106 00:07:56.079 --> 00:08:00.759 me see. There's other beer clubs out there. I do like that idea. 107 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.839 There are. Here's something called the Craft Beer Club, the Hopheads Beer 108 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.639 Club, the Rare Beer Club, brew Vanna. There's a different number of 109 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.160 it. They're all different levels too, But just an idea. If Dad 110 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.480 likes a little brew haha, give Daddy something. And by the way, 111 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.800 if you're thinking of something for me since for over two decades, which is 112 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.360 a generation. Which in those two decades, I've had three boys of myself. 113 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.959 If you want to give me a little something something that would I like 114 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.120 that. I mean I don't need anything technological, as you know, a 115 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:35.159 little beer subscription would be nice. You probably should know the address here at 116 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.919 iHeartRadio in Houston. If not, DM me and I will give you a 117 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.639 better way to to hit me up. Look at me pandering? Well, 118 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.360 Hell, they don't pay me here. I gotta do something. We're gonna 119 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.039 take break and emby one when we come back. I got some other ideas 120 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.799 for dads. If you want to chime in and tell me what you're thinking 121 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.000 of getting dad. You actually can hide your name, you disguise your voice. 122 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.080 Hey, Dad is listening. To surprise him. But we are going 123 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.279 to have some fun along with some others in differ ways here Michael Garfield. 124 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:13.720 It is called the High Tech Texan Show. It's anyway some ideas for Dad's 125 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.679 day. Because this is what I do. I don't talk politics. I 126 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.039 yeah, I'll dabble in sports too, but I talk about products. I'm 127 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.399 your consumer lifestyle guy, started out twenty two years ago, telling you which 128 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:30.159 computer to buy, which laptops were good? And then two thousand comes in, 129 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:31.679 Well you know about two thousand two, two thousand and three, two 130 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.360 thousand and four. Oh, well we've got this thing called digital TV I 131 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.039 definition TVs. Oh should you get an LCD or you should get a plasma? 132 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.440 Then the iPhone comes out with two thousand and seven. It's like, 133 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.919 oh, this is gonna change all right. Now there's now there's the iOS, 134 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.240 Apple operating system, and now there's this thing called Android, and now 135 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.559 there's hundreds of fun I have expanded people. Now we've got cars, trucks, 136 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:03.200 hummers, pickups, beer clubs. If I really am the consumer, 137 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:09.039 I shop, I want to save you money. I've got some interesting ideas. 138 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:13.120 And we've already celebrated Mother's Day. Gave you some good ideas. Grag 139 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:18.519 graduates, hope you got your grad something like for us Dad's Finally it's a 140 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.399 day for us. We got one more week or so until Dad's Day. 141 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:24.960 I gave you some ideas. How about a beer club, a subscription beer 142 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:30.679 club. Getting some emails also from you folks of what to get Dad. 143 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.240 Apparently you guys do like a subscription. I think subscription clubs are pretty fun 144 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:37.879 because it's the gifts that keeps on giving year round. Clark, it really 145 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:43.039 does. Here's a subscription somebody said, Michael, here's a subscription box with 146 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:48.200 hot sauce. Now I like that. Now you're in Texas, ME like 147 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.320 you some hot sauce. I have got so many freaking types of bottles of 148 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:54.799 hot sauce it's not even funny. I just collect over the years, and 149 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.159 a lot of companies send me some hot sauce so I can taste, because 150 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.480 I mean, I do like it. Here is why I love this name. 151 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.000 And again, not endorsement. Somebody just sent me this, Micel. 152 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:11.519 I've tried something called the Fuego Boxga f u e g o fuega as an 153 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:16.120 infuego good idea. If your dad's a hot head, this may be for 154 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.960 you. Starts at thirteen bucks a month. I guess this for one bottle 155 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:26.279 thirty bucks a month or three bottles is a better deal. Each hob and 156 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:31.159 arrow, hot sauce, hot honey, spicy garlic seasoning. Okay, I 157 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.120 dig that. I dig that hot sauce in a box. Now, I 158 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.440 will tell you if you want to get these subscription boxes, you need to 159 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.440 hop on it right now. I mean, as I speak, it's seven 160 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.000 and a half days away before Father's Day, and I guess if you hurry 161 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.679 up in order that maybe you can get an online certificate. But it would 162 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.879 be pretty cool to get to box number one for Father's Day. Anybody getting 163 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:58.320 the typical golf balls? You know, when I was a kid growing up 164 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.799 in the seventy there were only a few things that really Dad's got, one 165 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.919 of which was a sleeve of golf balls. That's right, a whopping three 166 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:15.639 balls of golf balls, and maybe it said World's Greatest Dad, World's greatest 167 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.679 golfer. That's pretty good. I mean, my dad did golf, does 168 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.320 dig golf. I mean he does not golf anymore, but he did golf 169 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.639 and I and I at some point I probably got him. I know what 170 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.759 I probably did. I probably went to the the driving range and I just 171 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.159 picked up three golf balls and I gave it to him, and I took 172 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.519 him, I took out I think I'm sharpie, and I played, you 173 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:41.039 know, world's greatest Dad. Three balls sometimes would last me one a hole. 174 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:45.600 I tee off and they're gone zo. The other thing that you would 175 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:50.000 get Dad, you would get Dad of Coffee mug, world's greatest Dad. 176 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.320 At some point I may have done that. He may be listening right now 177 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.080 and iHeartRadio. He's up in Dallas. I don't know if I got him 178 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.639 the world's greatest Dad mug. He loves golf, he drinks coffee. I 179 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.919 don't drink coffee. So my kids really had a bad time getting me. 180 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.919 Getting me gifts. Back of the day, then you would get that. 181 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:11.600 And this is something that dads don't get nowadays. I'm telling you right now. 182 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:18.360 Dads used to get ties, a necktie because most dads back in the 183 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:26.320 seventies, they wore suits with a tie. And you probably didn't pick it 184 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:28.600 out. Maybe mom help you pick it out, or something you get does 185 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.200 you don't see ties anymore. I'm trying to think the last time other than 186 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.080 a funeral, and which is just a bad taste. I don't see a 187 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:41.519 lot of ties anymore. It's very it's very I'm rarely. I think I've 188 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:45.600 worn one tie was at a black tie event not long ago, and I 189 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:50.600 wore a tie, which it looks good with the tuxedo. But there's no 190 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:52.519 ties. What else was the typical thing? And then you would go to 191 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.559 school. And here's the problem with Dad's dead. Dad's days in June and 192 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:00.600 mid June, there's no school, there's no elementary schools. School's gone, 193 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.279 but Mother's Days in May and schools in and you go to your art class 194 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.960 and you make mom a little macaroni necklace? Right? Who made mom a 195 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.480 colorful macaroni necklace? Right? Who made you? Take it? You take 196 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.000 your hand and you trace it like a turkey. I know you do that 197 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.440 for Thanksgiving Day, and that fear is the five ways I love you. 198 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:26.360 Now, it's no fair man, because the teachers helped make Mother's Day gifts. 199 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.279 I mean they don't make most of them didn't make Father's Day gifts because 200 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.440 you know, when school's out the end of May, you have to hide 201 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.480 it somewhere. Then you're you're gonna forget where it is. And so I 202 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.879 never got a lot of school stuff. I didn't make my dad a lot 203 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.600 of school stuff. When I grew up. What did I get? See? 204 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:48.799 I have three boys. Gosh, I feel bad. Actually I don't 205 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.159 feel bad because none of them listen to the show. So I can rag 206 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.480 it. I'm I will say. As they've gotten old over the past, 207 00:14:54.960 --> 00:15:00.440 six, seven, eight years were to some semblance, they actually do have 208 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.120 money. They've made, they're making money right now. It invariably they give 209 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:09.960 me something that deals with sports and something he deals with the Texas long Horns, 210 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.240 the Cowboys, the Texas Rangers, or the Dallas Mavericks. Last year 211 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.240 was it? Last year? I got a I got a Luca gun Chicks 212 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:26.720 school jersey, which, by the way, I have whipped out this week 213 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:31.159 because my Dallas Mavericks are in the finals right now, so I haven't won. 214 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.000 I look horrible in tank tops, which are with the basketball gear. 215 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:39.600 I have to wear a T shirt, you know, because of my arms 216 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.960 are kind of hary. But I don't care, man, I'm just man. 217 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.200 I'm prantsing around this city and I'm like, hey, Luca, maybe 218 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:48.840 seventy seven, bring it home. Got the Texas on my birthday. I 219 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.600 got the Texas ran my birthdays in February, Texas Rangers World Championship cap and 220 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.960 T shirt. I've got Texas Longhorns, everything that you can think of. 221 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:02.159 I got almost too many Cowboys stuff, Dallas stars. I don't have any 222 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:04.559 dallastars. I'm not the biggest hockey fan, so that get Dad something for 223 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:10.799 sports. Get dad some for sports. What else is over ear subscriptions? 224 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:14.600 Here's a hello, Michael. I got my dad last year. I got 225 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:18.919 him a subscription of Global Spices. I think the name of the company was 226 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.919 called the Raw Spice Bar. They send you a few ounces of spice or 227 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:27.960 spice blend, lots of neat stuff japan Indian spices. I think it was 228 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:32.399 twelve fifteen dollars a month. That's a good idea. Hey, if dad's 229 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.960 a cook Global Spice subscription, we'll see. What was the name of it 230 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.200 was called Raw Spice Bar. I don't know anything about it, but I 231 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.519 think that's pretty cool. Let's see. How about grilling accessories. By the 232 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:51.960 way, last week I had said that I put my Big Green Egg up 233 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.840 for sale. I've had a Big Green Eggs five years or so, and 234 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:02.679 I really liked the Big Green Egg. It's a ceramic Commata style grill smoker 235 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.680 charcoal and I used it quite often. But I rated when I got into 236 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:10.480 and I've got I got a Kammata Joe right now. I've got the the 237 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:18.039 high tech Kammata Joe with the built in wireless thermometer, with an app that 238 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:19.839 will send you all the information and did it. So I don't need two 239 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:26.880 of these things. So I went on Facebook Marketplace and I sold my my 240 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.400 big green egg and now I got a command of Joe. But grills are 241 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:32.960 good, and if you don't want to spend too much, how about a 242 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:37.680 grill accessory. There actually is a wire there's a wireless app. A meat 243 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:41.000 thermometer. There's several meat thermometers, because the last thing you want to do 244 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.480 is have Dad burn the freaking meat. There's something called meter m E A 245 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.000 T E R. I have two of these things. I think that on 246 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.359 the second version it's called Meter two. It's just a little probe. It 247 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:55.839 looks like a pencil or pen It's a metal probe. You stick it into 248 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:56.880 the meat and you can cook on it, grill it, smoke it, 249 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.839 whatever it come. It's Bluetooth built in that bluetooth directly to your phone with 250 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.880 an app tells you when to take it off when the rest the chicken or 251 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.440 INNDO when the rest of fisher meat. Is pretty cool. Some accessories too, 252 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.680 So Dad's Day gifts. I hope I gave you some ideas. We 253 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:14.720 have one week to go. If I'm thinking of anything else, that I 254 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.079 h If you think of something else that I missed, you give me a 255 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:21.440 shout seven one three two one two nine five zero coming up. What's the 256 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:26.160 name of the company that just took over Apple as a more valuable company into 257 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:32.079 three trillion dollars? And how come I did not buy stocking this thing? 258 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.119 I got that maybe something to give away, Michael Guardfield. It's called a 259 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:41.720 high tech texting shot, just like this is a low hanging swud. I 260 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.440 forgot about this as a Dad's Day gift. Last week I popped by US 261 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.880 Coins and Jewelry, had a good sit down talk with mister Kenny Duncan, 262 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:53.680 one of the proprietors, second generation proprietor of US Coins and Jewelry, And 263 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:57.279 as you can imagine, there are coins galore. If you're a coin collector, 264 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:00.279 good time to start coin collectors. If you're a parent and want to 265 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.119 get your kids started, it's a really good time to sell your coins, 266 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.680 gold coins, silver coins. You don't know what you're sitting on. So 267 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:08.839 I'm sitting back in his office and I'm doing an interview because his father, 268 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:14.759 Kenny Duncan, Sr. Who started the company innineteen eighty five, who's still 269 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.599 there. He was just named by a magazine as the new mismatist of the 270 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:25.559 century. That's pretty strong man. Anytime your name is something of the century, 271 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:29.119 that's pretty cool. And it's all at US Coins and Jewelry. It's 272 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.119 on Katie Freeway, which is I ten just outside of Loop six' ten, 273 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:37.200 so it's a Katie Freeway at Voss Road of the south Side, massive 274 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.000 complex. You can go in. You can get dad, some coins you 275 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:45.440 can get if Dad likes anything like Texas memorabilia, state flags of Texas, 276 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:51.240 old state flags, maybe some poppies of the old Declaration. You know Texas, 277 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:53.000 you know's a nation and they got a lot of that stuff there. 278 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.759 Good sports cards you can buy and sell sports cards too. If Dad wants 279 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:02.079 a rollie little Rolex what time is it there too, Just had a really 280 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:04.559 good conversation, so a big, big idea for US Coins and Jewelry. 281 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.880 They are open every day of the week except Sundays. They do the Chick 282 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:11.880 fil A model, so they are open right now probably listening to me in 283 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:17.400 the background. Lots of security, so feel free to schlap in all your 284 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:21.319 coins. I have seen coins being rolled in on wagons because there's so many. 285 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:26.240 They will pay you absolutely fair, if not top dollar for what you 286 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.039 have and you should be set to go. But they're good to tell them 287 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.519 you heard it on the Michael Garfield chill. There's a number of other Michaels 288 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:36.279 who pimp for him. But make sure the Garth high Tech tax in. 289 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:38.640 I know they'll take care of everybody, but they'll definitely take care of you 290 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:45.200 too. Sosta againts. If we're talking any idea, who here anybody out 291 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.279 there is a big stock buy and sell stocks. I'm not a big stock 292 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:53.559 market guy. Shind site. Listen. I don't want to talk hindsight, 293 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:59.680 because hindsight we'd all be retired billionaires. If you could see in the future, 294 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.160 be a multi multi billionaire retired. If I could see in the future 295 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:04.720 and then go back in time, I can actually tell you who won the 296 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:11.119 first fifty eight Super Bowls and the score done. It's like I'm biff and 297 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:15.960 back to the future too. I can tell you which stocks, oh man, 298 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:18.559 I totally should have bought Yahoo back in the day. Remember when Apple 299 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.960 was trading for nothing and now look at it right now, got some stock 300 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:29.200 is which you probably already heard. Apple has been the second most valued company 301 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:37.160 in the United States. Microsoft partly number one, well over three trillion dollars. 302 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:42.599 We now have number two. Apple temporarily maybe forever is now number three. 303 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:48.680 There is a company called Vidia E n No, it's not even in 304 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:52.559 and here's he spy. It's envy. I D I A and I have 305 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.000 a lot of envy. I should have bought this. It's a it's a 306 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.839 chip making giants, a micro chip making giant just hit a market capital is 307 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:03.720 A have three trillion dollars, just over three trillion dollars, putting it just 308 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:08.720 ahead of Apple, which is right at three trillion dollars. In Vidia seems 309 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:15.359 to be dominating the AI race with his flag chip flat easy for you flag 310 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:22.119 ship chip. It's called the H one hundred ship. We need chips, 311 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:27.400 chipsy. If you want artificial intelligence, you need fast chips. Microchips Hey 312 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:32.799 as the thing to do. They are now well over three trillion dollars. 313 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:41.000 Look in May they report in video reported making fourteen billion dollars. I'm gon 314 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:47.559 account of all the chips it's selling. In May, they only trail behind 315 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:52.640 Microsoft. Now they have a three point one five trillion cap. By next 316 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.160 week when I update you in video. I'm serious. They may be number 317 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:03.200 one. Stock is about twelve hundred twenty dollars per share, even though they 318 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.359 plan on splitting it. Actually, actually they just split it this weekend. 319 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:15.359 It's a lot of money, man, more valuable than Apple. So in 320 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:19.000 hindsight, do you have it? Why didn't you tip me up? I 321 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.920 don't. I don't do it. I probably could have talked a lot about 322 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:26.680 stock over the past twenty years of technology because I have I have seen ideas. 323 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.599 I've interviewed people who just had this, Oh that's so crazy idea. 324 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.319 It's nothing, and then you know, they got up in the adventure capital. 325 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:36.920 Then all of a sudden it's worth you know, literally a billion dollars, 326 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:38.079 some of them a one hundred millions dollars. Hey, Michael, you 327 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:41.160 want to get in. I'm just so conservative when it comes to that, 328 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.440 and I'm just such an idiot one or am I? Because if if I 329 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.319 invested everything, nine out of ten, if not more more than nine out 330 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:51.960 of ten, maybe ninety five out of one hundred to these companies, I 331 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.440 would have invested and they would have got belly up certain way. Congratulations to 332 00:23:56.519 --> 00:23:59.680 Nvideo. I'm not giving you any tips is it going to go? I 333 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:02.000 know, is only gonna grow. It's the only thing I'm gonna know. 334 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.359 Speaking of going back in time, twenty five years ago, where were you? 335 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.640 Where were you? How did you consume music? Twenty five years ago? 336 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.599 All right? So it's nineteen ninety nine, all right, great year 337 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:18.519 for Prince's song, even though it came out a decade Even before that, 338 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:25.799 twenty five years Napster launched. Who remembers Napster? Now? I have three 339 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:30.079 boys, one of which is going to be twenty four, So he's twenty 340 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:33.359 three. He has no clue what naptures. Maybe my oldest, who's gonna 341 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:36.720 be thirty this year, maybe he kind of heard of it. Maybe not. 342 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.079 If you're younger than twenty seven or thirty, odds are you don't know 343 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:47.079 what napture is? People. Napster was one of the biggest paradigm shifts companies 344 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:52.400 you could ever imagine. It was founded by these kids. It was two 345 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:56.839 dudes, a Sean Parker and Sean Fanning, and it was a milestone how 346 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:03.559 Internet could connect users and allow for content sharing. But the big snag back 347 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:10.799 then it was online piracy. It was an online network and let you download 348 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:15.920 music tracks for free. Pretty cool. All it did was totally change the 349 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:22.640 entertainment industry, the entire entertainment industry. You probably don't remember the influence it 350 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:26.519 adds because the first version of Napster was it was really brief, launched June 351 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:32.000 first, nineteen ninety nine, and the recording industry sued to have it shut 352 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:36.640 down, and then over the next few months Napster fought for it's life in 353 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:41.039 court. And then people continue to rip CDs. Oh there's a if there's 354 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:45.079 a tervya I haven't heard, let's take a CD, let's put it into 355 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:48.599 your computer and we're gonna rip it. Rip it means to copy it, 356 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.799 to duplicate it, and then you take that music to put the tracks onto 357 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.039 your computers, and then you upload it onto a file sharing network so anybody 358 00:25:56.039 --> 00:26:00.240 else get download them. So technically all my buddies or anybody in the world 359 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:07.400 could with their CD of whatever was hot back then. But the songs up 360 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:11.440 on a file server share I out of the blue can download it. Boom, 361 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:14.079 I just got a song and I didn't pay Jack squat Man. Those 362 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:18.200 were the good old days. Good old day. Napster grew from about twenty 363 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:23.920 million users in two thousand to about eighty million users at its peak. But 364 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:27.359 it really wasn't just a file sharing service. It was it was an infinite 365 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:34.000 digital jukebox. It was free. I mean, it was awesome, and 366 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.119 but Napster paved the way for stream and I was thinking about this, It 367 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.119 paved the way for streaming. Napster finally shut down about a year later, 368 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.839 was July or two years two July two thousand and one, company bankrupt. 369 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.680 It re emerged as a subscription service at that By that time, Apple had 370 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.160 opened its iTunes store for consumers. Steve Jobs had the idea. He goes 371 00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:56.400 to all the record companies and he says, hey, listen, I want 372 00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.599 I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Here's a price point ninety nine cents a song. 373 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.319 Boom, Everybody bought it. I love the idea, and that was 374 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:11.160 it. Nothing captured the idea to the extent of these original Napster digital downloads, 375 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.000 music streaming services. Think about this Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora, 376 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:21.119 Spotify title. They were all foreshadowed by Napster. It was an online 377 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:26.079 distribution model that paved the way for everything. It was good, but it 378 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:33.240 just did it in a technically a legal way because the recording industry had bad 379 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:40.880 opinions of Napster, of networks allowed users to distribute music anonymously. It went 380 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:45.880 beyond the quote fair use of shared copyright work with friends, and they weren't 381 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.079 paying the artists. And I do get that artic and I'm serious, artists 382 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:56.759 need to get paid. And artists like Metallica and Doctor Dre they filed their 383 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:02.319 own copyright infringement suits again Snaps. At that point, it was just almost 384 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:06.799 too much. At the end of the day at federal court they disagree with 385 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:11.440 Napster's contention that users were simply space shifting their music. I'd like that Napster 386 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:18.799 had to pay about twenty six million dollars to settle all these lawsuits and after 387 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.200 that, boom, it's all paid now it's a subscription right now. But 388 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:30.480 it started a wave of technological change. I think classrooms colleges should teach this 389 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:36.400 of how something started and how a paradigm shift could alter one of, if 390 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:42.319 not the largest industries in the world, the entertainment industry quickly. Napster is 391 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.920 still around it actually, Napster is still playing tunes. It's a subscription service, 392 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:49.119 but it's just got a small fraction of the market. Apple, Amazon, 393 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:55.160 Spotify, YouTube, I I Heart still out there too, currently home 394 00:28:55.240 --> 00:29:00.640 by a privately held consortium, and it's like eleven bucks a month. But 395 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.960 if you remember the napsterre days, I'm gonna take a break right now. 396 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.559 Got a Napster story. How many songs? What's the most amount of songs 397 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:11.279 that you ever downloaded at a time. I've got a library that's still I 398 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:17.759 think sitting somewhere on my R drive. That's thousands and thousands of songs. 399 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:19.480 Hell, I can start my own radio network too. Phone number here is 400 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.960 seven one three two one two five nine five ozho when we come back, 401 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:26.920 got to give away for you, and actually I'm gonna give you a few 402 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.240 ways that Napster changed the music industry, just absolutely changed it. Here on 403 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:38.200 a high tech Texan show, we're keeping promises as I did, and I 404 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.559 really did. If you know me, I do keep my promises. I 405 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.279 am a man of my word. I do not over promise, I do 406 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.480 not lie. I am your guy. And if you know me, truly, 407 00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.039 that's how I roll people. Here, Mike, listen, name Michael 408 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.799 Garfield. It is called the High Tech Text and Show Happy Early Dad's Day. 409 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.519 As promised is where I'm getting to gonna give away a little something something. 410 00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:04.640 Who wants an Early Dad's Day gift or to give to Dad or screwage, 411 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.400 just keep it for yourself. A twenty five dollars gift card to Hobbo 412 00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:12.160 Bob's. If you're not familiar with Cobo Bob's, look it up. Four 413 00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:17.160 locations around Houston right now and hopefully they're going to expand. It is a 414 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:22.440 phenomenal kind of a make your own burrito taco casadia place. They overstuff them. 415 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.319 You don't need to sit there and go to the line with your video 416 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.799 camera to catch him and put them on TikTok no. No, they do 417 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.319 a great job. I love the company top to bottom. I got the 418 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:38.200 opportunity to talk to the founder, whose name ironically is not Bob Cobo Bob's, 419 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:41.519 just what he does for employees and how they have they use. They 420 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.599 use a Commata Joe to smoke and cook, the meats, the steak meats, 421 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.759 the barber CooA, the the brisket, the the chickens. Phenomenal. 422 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:53.079 Call it number nine. Right now, you're gonna get a gift card seven 423 00:30:53.200 --> 00:31:00.599 one, three, two one two five nine five oh two one two five 424 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:04.200 nine five. Oh, calum, we'll get your information, and happy early 425 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:11.160 Father's Day for you. We're talking about Napster too. There there's a certain 426 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:15.599 age group who understands or have heard the term napster. Napster was it in 427 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:25.559 the late nineties when it it tarly changed the entertainment industry, but without a 428 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:29.680 doubt, the music industry was a file sharing service that launched twenty five years 429 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.839 ago. And that's why I'm talking about quarter of a century. And before 430 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:37.680 then. I again kid growing up in the seventies and certainly lived everything in 431 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.799 the eighties. That's where I had so many cassettes that you would pop into 432 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.079 your stereo deck of your car or your house. Then we went to CDs 433 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.920 and the CDs. You know, we had a CD player in the car, 434 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:51.599 there's a CD player in your home or your apartment, whatever it is. 435 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.720 And then after that that almost was the end of digit of actual physical 436 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:04.319 media physical I mean things you actually can touch. A CD disc it's physical, 437 00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:08.279 A cassette is physical, a record, an LP is physical. At 438 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:15.799 that you downloaded downloading was so prevalent. I was. We moved into a 439 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:22.640 house let me give you a year and two thousand three, two thousand, 440 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.680 two thousand and three, two thousand and four. We're moving into a house 441 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.039 that was already built, and the house may have been five years old. 442 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.960 It was a nice house. It was like six bedrooms to stories. We 443 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:37.319 were put a pool in there and everything. But again, I was high 444 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:42.559 tech text and in this house was not as high tech because technologically advanced Cat 445 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:49.079 six wired homes weren't really built in the late nineties and Wi Fi really wasn't 446 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.559 as prevalent it were as fast or as secured as it is today. So 447 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:57.720 you had to actually wire your home with category six wire, big thick wire 448 00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:00.519 that you know, you plug in with an Ethernet thing. And then if 449 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.599 you have a relatively new house right now, maybe twenty years, that's that's 450 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:08.599 generally what's in your walls. There's Cat six kits Category six wire. So 451 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:14.599 I had a company come out and they busted over fifty holes into the sheet 452 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:16.519 rock of this new home. I'm not kidding you, little tiny eils, 453 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:21.039 and they would pull cable and I had them pull this cable into every room, 454 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:28.759 my office, uh, the bedrooms, the kitchen, the kitchen wall. 455 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:30.599 I had them. I'm not kidding you. I had Tom install a 456 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:35.759 CAT five outlet, CAT six outlet, or a CAT five or CAT six 457 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:39.200 outlet in my garage. And this company is like, why do you want 458 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:42.359 a garage? Well, back then, in two thousand and three, two 459 00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:46.119 thousand and four, I thought I had an idea of where technology in streaming 460 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:51.240 was going, since I parked my car in the garage and I knew that 461 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:53.880 physical media was coming to an end. There's no more CDs, there's no 462 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:59.119 more tapes. I knew that cars were gonna have potentially a hard drive, 463 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.680 and I figured maybe one day cars are going to have a Category five Cat 464 00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:10.760 five, a CAT six cable in your car to upload songs into the hard 465 00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:14.280 drive. So I said, you know what, let's just put a CAT 466 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:15.760 five, Just put it, just put an internet out let, them call 467 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:20.760 it that internet outlet in the garage. Turns out and never came to that. 468 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.599 But it turns out I put a freaking TV and internet and table in 469 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:27.559 my garage. If you're building a homeline, and I get this, if 470 00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:32.880 you're building a home, always overthink it. You do not know where technology 471 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:37.039 is going because it changes. It used to change generation to generation, because 472 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:40.280 I'm talking twenty to twenty five years ago, which is the definition of a 473 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:47.079 generation. Technology now changes every few years. So whatever technology is out there, 474 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:50.519 if you're building a when you're building it, when you're upgrading a home, 475 00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:52.800 take a look at that. But I'm gonna go back to Napster. 476 00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:59.480 It introduced digitally delivered music, and that's why I thought I was ahead of 477 00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:07.239 the gamers. Art was big, Napster was made. It was underground hobby 478 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:10.599 and it was software and whatever it was, but it was this is how, 479 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:15.280 this is how we get it right now. That hasn't changed in twenty 480 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.679 five years. If you're listening to me on iHeartRadio, you can listen by 481 00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:22.920 now stream radio stations from all over the United States of America. You can 482 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:28.199 to listen to my Houston based show almost anywhere in the world. I say 483 00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:31.119 almost because I don't think China lets it in there, but almost. If 484 00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:35.880 you want to download songs or having unlimited supply of streaming songs, you could 485 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.599 pay a fee what is it, nine ten eleven dollars on iHeart or many 486 00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.159 other subscription services, and you can listen. You don't get to go to 487 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.119 the record store. It's a record store. Kids digitally delivered music. That 488 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:51.440 was one of the things Napter changed, but Napster changed how music is sold 489 00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:58.320 sold. In nineteen ninety nine Napster was launched, music CD sales were twenty 490 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:01.920 three billion dollar. I want you to think of that. Twenty three billion 491 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:13.039 dollars. Nearly eighty eight percent of recorded music revenue was CD sales. All 492 00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:17.880 right. It was massive back then, and then by twenty twenty three, 493 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:24.239 last year, five hundred and thirty seven million. It went from twenty three 494 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:29.519 billion in twenty years, it goes down to five hundred and thirty million. 495 00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:34.440 Still something, but it's nothing. We don't buy a lot of stuff physically 496 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:42.000 right now. Napster also disrupted how artist made a living. Artists relied on 497 00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.760 sales of recorded music to keep their craft, and Napster it really led to 498 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:52.360 the come out against it as a business model. They did. If a 499 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.840 band sold ten thousand copies of an album, maybe it could earn fifty thousand 500 00:36:54.880 --> 00:37:00.599 dollars in revenue. But now people were download they were getting getting for free. 501 00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.960 What happens? I heard something the other day. I heard nowadays the 502 00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:10.239 only way or the key way to make music if you're an artist is to 503 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:15.960 go on tour is to go on tour, you almost break even. If 504 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:20.199 you make an album, you go on tour. The bigger the tour, 505 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:24.360 the better. Taylor Swift, Beyonce, you too, Laughing all the way 506 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:29.760 to the bank. Absolutely changed the paradigm. Shift to models. And finally 507 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:35.920 it wasn't just music. Napster ushered in the future of streaming music, but 508 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:40.400 also movies too. It was movies. It was the connections. We stream 509 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:45.920 so many things today. Most consumers get their music from streaming services, and 510 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:47.559 we get our movies, and we get our td from streaming services. To 511 00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:54.679 all because two young dudes back in the late nineties, the two seans, 512 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:00.679 the kids who did things illegal, changed it. So keep dreaming, people, 513 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:02.199 but keep it legal. If you will. We have a winner for 514 00:38:02.199 --> 00:38:06.840 the Cabo Bobs. One more hour. We may give another one away coming 515 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:13.000 up next. Dairy Queen comes out with a new bullet, several new Blizzard 516 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:15.400 flavors. Why do they do this to me? Why do they torture me 517 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:19.920 just when I try to lose weight? The greatest dessert known to man, 518 00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:22.960 This is an unpaid endorsement pound for Bound. The greatest dessert ever is it 519 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:29.280 Darry Queen Blizzard go freaking new flavors too. Not a good thing. Well, 520 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:30.599 it's a great thing, but it's not a good thing. Also, 521 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:36.719 Google Maps just came out with something new. And if you're in New York 522 00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:38.239 for some other big city and you need to use a public restroom, this 523 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:43.000 is going to come in and make so much fun. Here. Michael Garfield 524 00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:58.800 is a day Hi Tech dex and show. I is Michael Garfield. Michael 525 00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:02.239 Garfield. Michael Garfield joining us in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is 526 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:07.920 here with a high Tech Texans. It was to make life easier some new 527 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:17.239 technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might like. Michael Garfield is your 528 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:28.440 high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets occurred worldwide 529 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:34.880 on the iHeartRadio Actors. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Wait 530 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.119 a halfy hour here on the Michael Garfield program. That means we're halfway through 531 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:43.639 the show. It is a nice, hot early June Saturday. I hope 532 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.920 you are enjoying something nice and cool in the pool. We got one more 533 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:52.119 hour here for you to go. One way to cool down is ice cream. 534 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:58.559 Well, I think most everyone loves ice cream. I understand some people 535 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:02.840 have an in into ice cream or an intolerance to dairy. And I do 536 00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:07.840 feel sad for you because ice cream is great? Is the problem with with 537 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:15.159 with me? And actually anything that's fattening, I try to stay away from 538 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:17.480 it. I mean, listen, I'm not getting younger, and I mean 539 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:22.280 I'm I'm dude. I'm taking Peloton classes like their M and m's. I 540 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.159 watch what I eat. I mean, I really don't eat eat ice cream. 541 00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:28.960 If I can eat anything, I mean I probably would have ice cream. 542 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:31.320 Listen without you know, I was gonna say without naming products. I 543 00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:37.800 mean certain, it's tough to say it without Bluebell here in Texas or anything 544 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:42.159 else. It's it's good, it melts. Where are there? Where are 545 00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:45.119 the ice cream trucks? By the way, ice cream? You know? 546 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:50.119 The little ding? Oh? Is it one of the greatest does skit from 547 00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:53.280 Eddie Murphy? Was it? That? Was that Eddie Murphy raw or or 548 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:58.480 delirious mom ice drunk quarter Here he goes on, get you get your brother 549 00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:01.599 oasted toasted on the wall. Oh, those are phenomenal. I don't see 550 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:05.519 a lot of ice cream trucks right now. The point is ice cream is 551 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.559 great. This is not a commercial, I wish it was, but dairy 552 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:14.280 Queen, which is an institution. It really is. If you do live 553 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:16.079 near a dairy Queen, dairy Queen's, it's interesting of where they are and 554 00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:22.280 where they aren't. Dairy Queen has to me again unpaid endorsement. Dairy Queen 555 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:27.280 if you're listening, or Warren Buffet, whoever owns it, just this is 556 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.639 you know how to get a hold of me. Dairy Queen has the greatest 557 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.559 dessert known to man. I absolutely love dairy Queen blizzards. Blizzards have been 558 00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:39.199 around for a long long time. It's it's not a shakes. It's ice 559 00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:45.920 cream in a cup mixed in with one of many, many many things, 560 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:52.840 cookies, cookie does, mint, chocolate chip, candy bars, I filling, 561 00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:55.559 I mean dog here. I don't even know what they put it. 562 00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:59.559 It's anything they put in it. You could put anything in a blizzard and 563 00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:01.480 it's got. I will eat almost anything that blues except mayonnaise. I would 564 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:06.880 not eat mayonnaise anything. So I get it. I get an email from 565 00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:12.440 the the pr team at at Dairy Queens last Wednesday, and they're very nice. 566 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:14.880 Uh, and I'll read it down. I want to read the whole 567 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.599 thing. Good afternoon. This summer DQ restaurants in Texas, they're turning up 568 00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:23.760 the heat. But six yummy new flavors people, And I'm saying this as 569 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:28.639 a PSA. This is a public service announcement to you if you do like 570 00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:31.199 this, and I'm opening up a discussion too. Seven one three, two, 571 00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:36.639 one two five nine five. Oh, I need to note your favorite 572 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.519 dessert in the history of the world. But don't tell me Mom's apple. 573 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.400 Buy something that you can just go buy because I'm doing fast food stuff right 574 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:51.760 now. Let me give you the six flavors of dairy Queen blizzards. Here 575 00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:54.440 we go, and I'm gonna tell you yay or nay. This is a 576 00:42:54.519 --> 00:43:00.400 new one new that you have to use the word new, new picnic peach 577 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:06.760 cobbler blizzard. I don't like peach, not for me. Sorry, now 578 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:15.679 in it butter cookie dough party blizzard. You had me at peanut butter. 579 00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:19.599 I actually probably would eat mayonnaise if it had a peanut butter on it. 580 00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:24.480 Peanut butter, not even arguably, is the greatest food known to man. 581 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:30.239 Don't come at me, Do not calling to bake me. Don't even talk 582 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:35.639 to me if you don't agree in it. Butter cookie dough party but I 583 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.719 don't even know. Hold on, maybe maybe I click this. What is 584 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:42.920 a party blizzard? Maybe it's got the ingredients over here I need to know. 585 00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:45.639 Uh No, I have a picture of it, peanut butter cookie part 586 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:52.519 It looks like there's confetti or sprinkles in there. Oh my goodness, I'm 587 00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:54.000 like a cow. Of course, of course they don't. It's in the 588 00:43:54.039 --> 00:44:01.800 calorie town number three, the new Ultimate cookie Blizzard. I got to see 589 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:05.519 a picture of this. What's an ultimate cookie lizard? Look ultimate? It 590 00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:13.000 looks like it looks like uh oreos. It looks like chocolate chip cookies. 591 00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:16.920 But it looks like kind of a chocolate ice cream, which I like chocolate 592 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.519 ice cream better than ben. Oh, you're idiot. I should actually rid 593 00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:29.960 Oreo chips, ahoy and nutter butter toss up? Toss up. Okay, 594 00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:32.360 I'm two for three right now, uh and then we have three more. 595 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.199 It doesn't have the word new. Maybe these have been around Brownie blat brownie 596 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:42.880 batter blizzard. That sounds familiar. I think I used to get brownie battered 597 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:47.320 blizzard because I like Bronie's frosted animal cookie. Get it? Speaking of anywhere? 598 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.800 Get they get at it? They frosted animal cookies? Are you kidding 599 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.960 me? Remember those little things, the pink and white things you would get. 600 00:44:55.480 --> 00:45:00.679 They're christed up. There's a picture of it. They are. They're 601 00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:02.719 freaking frosted. It looks like it's pink ice cream. Okay uh? And 602 00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:09.760 then finally hot and candy. I'll pass on that. I don't like cotton. 603 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:15.199 Yeah, it got candy sticky. I'm sure this sin is sticky. 604 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:19.320 But dude, I'm looking at this brownie bat because this brownie batter it is 605 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:27.400 one hundred percent of chocolate ice cream. So I'm held hostage and I could 606 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.199 pick one. Do I go brownie batter in a butter cookie? Dough party? 607 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:39.400 Ultimate cookie? Okay? I'm eliminating ultimate cookie because I love peanut butter, 608 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.599 but by looks I have to go with brownie batter and don't get said 609 00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:52.880 calm? Can we get? And the funny thing is they wanted to know, 610 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:57.079 Oh, Calum, you're not gonna like me? Love it to give 611 00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.079 you the final sentence of this of the press release, which flavor can we 612 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:09.320 bring you to experience next week. I didn't respond. Oh wait, wait 613 00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:14.840 we still in the air. Sorry, callum, Maybe it's not delayed. 614 00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:19.280 I'll see if they can bring some by. I'll see the I don't need 615 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.159 this. Hold on real quick before we get out of here. I am 616 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:30.000 going to look at calories in DQ blizzard and I know this can range anything 617 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:35.920 nutrition facts. How many calories do you give blizzard frosted animal cookie? Oh? 618 00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:39.400 Good? Only twelve hundred and ninety awesome that's for large though, you 619 00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:42.840 go many and it's four hundred two. Who in the world is going to 620 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:46.039 get a mini am I into tiny? It's a freaking Dixie cup? Which 621 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:50.800 ooh public service? Which blizzard from Dairy Queen has the least calories? The 622 00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:55.599 Oreo cookie Blizzard only has three hundred and thirty? Very nice, by the 623 00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:01.920 way, Oh my, I just go what is the unhealthiest thing at Dairy 624 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.920 Queen? You ready for this brownie cookie dough Blizzard? Fifteen hundred and ten 625 00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:10.280 calories worth it? Absolutely worth it. Here's the thing. I'm losing weight. 626 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:15.000 I'm on the peloton. If I can lose I'm gonna get I have 627 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:17.800 a number in my head, but I'm not telling you what it is if 628 00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:22.719 I can get to this number at some point during the summer. So I've 629 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:25.639 got easily ten pounds to go. Oh, I can do it. I 630 00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:30.400 can do it by fourth in July. I am going to eat a blizzard 631 00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:31.280 on the air. Not that you care, but that's how good it is. 632 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:35.039 I know way does a public trips announcement could have been a ten minute 633 00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:37.280 commercial for Dairy Queen, but I swear it wasn't. I don't think Dairy 634 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:40.039 Queen actually does radio commercials. When we come back, well between now and 635 00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:44.159 the end of the show, I will give you some really good healthy calories 636 00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:49.079 to get with a Cabo Bob's Gift Certificate gift card, and also something new 637 00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.719 came out of Google. And who wants to fit? Who wants to hear 638 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:58.800 what Garth's driving this week? You like hummers? You like a GMC hummer? 639 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:02.199 Who wants an electra commer probably be the biggest oxymoron in the history of 640 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:05.519 vehicles. I had one this past week, and I'll tell you how it 641 00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:14.920 was on the old gar Hi Tech text and shoves tweak Kia. Along with 642 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.159 me answering your questions and emails about what should I buy. Oh, by 643 00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:22.519 the way, you're going through some dad's to day gifts. First hour if 644 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.079 you want to hear that a good friend Callum reed to hear only of the 645 00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:29.559 side of the the glass who pushes buttons and produces a lot of stuff here 646 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:32.159 for us. He is going to put the entire show on podcasts. You 647 00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:36.639 can go to iHeartRadio, download the app, look for kp r C. 648 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:39.159 You can look for Michael Garfield. Then you can hear the first hour of 649 00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:43.400 what should Dad get? Here's an idea. If you got some extra cash, 650 00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:49.039 how about getting Dad a brand new gmc hummer. Oh wait a minute, 651 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:52.280 Dad likes He didn't he didn't like these gas guzzling behemoths. Hey, 652 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:59.199 no worry, Dad Hummer now comes out with an electric version, an oxymoron 653 00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:05.559 of all OxyS. Right, man Hummers came out Schwarzenegger War, golf War. 654 00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:09.960 These are big, they're beastly, they're ghastly, they're they're they're scary, 655 00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:14.960 they're loud, they're gas guys. Let Oh no, no, Now 656 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.840 there is a very super quiet type because it doesn't have a gas engine. 657 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:22.639 It's got a motor. Oh wait a minute, the one I got to 658 00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.840 drive has three motors. It is time for me to talk about what's Scarf 659 00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.639 driving this week. Every week I do get the opportunity to test drive one, 660 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:36.320 if not two, sometimes three per week a vehicle, for me to 661 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:38.840 tell you about it, for me to love on it, or for me 662 00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:44.239 to crap on it. This is not even sponsored by anybody. These do 663 00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.360 not come from a dealership. I'm not promoting a dealership. So if there's 664 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:51.599 one dude I trust, it is me when it comes to vehicles. The 665 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:53.880 nice folks at GMC, and they are nice folks. I have a long, 666 00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:59.719 nice relationship with GMC. By the way out of Michigan, they decided 667 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:04.400 to, hey, let's like Garf play in the relatively new twenty twenty four 668 00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:10.559 Hummer EV. The electric vehicle, specifically the three X is what it is, 669 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:15.480 and there's several different versions of it. And I'm sitting here wondering and 670 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.760 then Dad's days coming up. If you want you know my thoughts at EV's 671 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.039 I'm not the biggest EV fan only because I am not a fan of the 672 00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:29.960 charging system in the United States of America. There's not enough available chargers. 673 00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:34.840 They're too slow. I have range anxiety and it's just it's so much easier 674 00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.440 to stop almost anywhere in the world to get gas versus plugging things out. 675 00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:40.920 So that's my I'd like EV's. I just don't like the way they charge 676 00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:45.280 right now. So there's my thoughts. But if you want an ED, 677 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:51.280 that makes sense since you may shy away from the GMC hum or. EV. 678 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:58.440 You want something that's efficient, may not be for you. Want something 679 00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:01.199 that's affordable, not for you. Happy Father's Day. If you want to 680 00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:07.400 spend about one hundred and five to one hundred and ten thousand dollars on the 681 00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:14.239 vehicle that I was driving this past week head turn factor eight out of ten. 682 00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:19.880 That's high me neighbors, my neighbors. My neighbors must think I'm a 683 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:25.519 drug dealer. Every week a company comes up to my front door and they 684 00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:29.599 give me a new car, a new vehicle. They switch out my own 685 00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:30.440 one, they give me a new one. Here's the Key's Michael, and 686 00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.880 he's like, what's this dude? Do I kid? Because I've been here 687 00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:36.800 seven years, I know all my neighbors, but like, what are you 688 00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:42.119 driving this week? Man? And I roll around some of some unbelievable new 689 00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:47.639 Corvette C eight mid engine sexiest car gover driven ten out of ten. I'm 690 00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:52.119 driving down the highway, people are videotaping me. Sometimes I'm driving in the 691 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:58.800 Kia super Ruled two weeks ago. Very good cars. I don't even get 692 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:05.119 a glance heads. It's one of my rating factors. This hummer ev stands 693 00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:09.599 out. It's big, massive need. Out of ten people, whoo, 694 00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:14.159 what is this thing? Tell me about it? That was good. But 695 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:20.599 it's huge and it's wide. It's a very wide vehicle. Parking spaces in 696 00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.599 Texas are, for the most part, depending where you are, they are 697 00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:31.079 designed. The lines are drawn a little larger, a little wider the parking 698 00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:35.559 space is in other parts of the country because there's so many pickup trucks of 699 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:39.280 so many large vehicles in Texas. That's a fact. But even when I'm 700 00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:42.480 parking in these white spots, I'm like, oh my god, I think 701 00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.719 I think I'm scooching over the line over here. I mean, this thing 702 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:50.639 has got not one, not two, but three wiper blades. He'd obviously 703 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:54.719 rain this past week and so I used them. I'm sitting so up high 704 00:52:54.800 --> 00:53:01.199 and think I'm driving a bus. It's huge. It's rooming in front and 705 00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:06.440 in back, it's great you want to schlep something in the back. It's 706 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:09.320 only got two rows, but that third rogue that that third that cargo space 707 00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:14.079 in the back. When you open up the tailgate, which opens left to 708 00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:16.000 right, does not open top to bottom, left to right. The spare 709 00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:21.960 tire back there. It's got a nice space to hold several suitcases, easily 710 00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:24.920 get fit my golf clubs. Fold the second row down. I could probably 711 00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:30.800 camp back there. Good space, but when you're driving it is wide, 712 00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:34.119 so you have to watch the blind spots that it's it's it's a little tough 713 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:39.480 over there. But it's heavy, and the reason why it's heavy is the 714 00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:46.000 reason why evs are heavy. It's called a battery pack. Batteries a lot 715 00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:51.800 of the times are heavier than the engine. This literally has no engine. 716 00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:58.440 You open the the hood what we typically call that front hood and guess what's 717 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:02.400 in there. Storage space. It's called I call it, A lot of 718 00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:08.360 people call it a fronk, a front trunk. GMC calls it an e 719 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:19.480 trunk. Whatever. Not huge. It's there to hold probably get six eight 720 00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:24.559 grocery bags from AGB. But the one I had has sky panels on it. 721 00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:27.559 You could take these four there's two in the front, two in the 722 00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.679 back. They're like moon roofs, but they're glass or the glass plastic sky 723 00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:34.760 panels that you can look up. You could take each individually, one of 724 00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:38.199 these off and you can storm them in the e trunk the fronk under the 725 00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:44.719 hood. That's pretty cool. But then Beanery itself is underneath the vehicle, 726 00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:47.639 and it is massive. It's a very large battery, which is a good 727 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:52.840 thing in one sense. It's a two hundred and five kilowade battery that gives 728 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.920 you more miles of range, allegedly up to three hundred and fifty miles of 729 00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:04.320 range, and that is a good number in today's range knowleage for EBS Well, 730 00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:10.880 I love that old. These batteries aren't light. The truck weighs over 731 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:17.079 nine thousand pounds. Don't get me wrong. Because it's electric, and because 732 00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:21.679 it's got three motors, you can go to zero to sixty and like three 733 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:25.280 seconds. It is super fast. But hold on to your dear life when 734 00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:29.280 you try to stop that thing, because you're stopping over nine thousand pounds. 735 00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:34.639 It drives very smoothly, though I will tell you that the turning ratio and 736 00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:38.599 the radius is actually amazing for the size of it. Two Inside, it's 737 00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:43.400 got GM Super Cruise, which is that advanced driver assistant feature. I like 738 00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:45.199 it. It's pretty cool. You take your hands and I've talked about this 739 00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:49.280 several times for the past month or two. You take your hands off the 740 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:53.119 steering wheel, you take your foot off of the throttle of the gas pedal, 741 00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:58.400 and technology with the cameras and the GPS. You go down some highways 742 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:01.440 that have been premapped. You don't need to do anything. It changes lanes 743 00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:10.400 by itself. It's good interior, semi luxurious. I must say the dash, 744 00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:14.280 the door panels, the center consoles, They've got a little leather. 745 00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:17.480 The seats are cooled. I like that they're heated to which I don't care 746 00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:22.320 for six figures. I think that I'm a Masushie coming there with a massace 747 00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:28.119 function, but they don't. You love the touch screen thirteen point four inch 748 00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:30.360 touch green. It's a horizontal mounted too. Yes, it's got Android. 749 00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:34.960 Yes, it's got applecar Play graphics that really need to You could see the 750 00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:38.320 pitch and the yaw and the roll, so you could take this thing off 751 00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:43.599 off road, off track. It's got built in Google software. You know, 752 00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:45.679 I'm a Google guy, which is Android too, so you could say, 753 00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:51.599 hey, hey Google, there's Google Maps included there. Good digital cluster 754 00:56:51.719 --> 00:56:54.159 two off roading is I didn't take it off roading as nice, but but 755 00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:59.400 the tires are absolutely massive, which is awesome too. But the thing is 756 00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:04.360 though, it's got three hundred and twenty five, three hundred and thirty, 757 00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:07.480 three hundred and fifty miles. Okay, good. I didn't have to charge 758 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:12.159 it, but I've heard stories that you got to charge these things a while 759 00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:15.039 to fill up your battery with a level one or a level two charger. 760 00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:22.920 It's a lot. It's a cool truck, it's a cool ev it's a 761 00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:28.239 head turner. It is meat. It's one hundred and ten thousand dollars. 762 00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:30.039 If you've got money, if you take this thing off road, if you 763 00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:34.280 want to be ostentatious, you want to have a little Hubris, go get 764 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:38.480 it for me. Not an everyday car, too big to park, certainly, 765 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:43.639 probably too big and too expensive even charge for batteries. But damn GMC, 766 00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:46.360 they're on this something. There's also a pickup judge Version two. Thoughts 767 00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:50.280 in this thing? Do you have one? Do you agree or disagree? 768 00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:52.159 I'm here for you thirty four minutes seven one three, two, one two 769 00:57:52.199 --> 00:58:01.719 five nine five though we come back. Michael Garfields thirty more minutes to go, 770 00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:07.039 Happy Summer, Happy second Saturday in June twenty twenty four. If you're 771 00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:13.480 listening live kp RC Radio nine fifty am, I got a few open phone 772 00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:15.840 lines that I'm at. You know what, let's let's clog the phone lines 773 00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:17.920 right now, just to make sure you're awake, Calum Color nine right now. 774 00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:22.519 Who wants a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bobs? Oh my 775 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:25.760 goodness, I love them. Tacos, chicken taka to, Hey, don't 776 00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:30.079 sleep on the fish that got this lightly fried fish. Oh, and you 777 00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:32.920 can make you can you can choose from five tortillas. Oh no, just 778 00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:37.880 not just one tortilla. Oh, they got the tomatillo. They've got to 779 00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:43.440 smoke each eddar for locations calling number nine seven one three two one two five 780 00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:46.480 nine five. Oh, Cabo Bob's that is for you. Congratulations, whoever 781 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:51.559 you are to win. I was just talking about Google. I was I 782 00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:54.480 was giving the I was talking about Hummer ev and there's Google built in and 783 00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:58.280 you can push a button and you can say the wake up word words, 784 00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:05.559 which is did Jeremy I say a softie? Because here in studio I have 785 00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:08.400 a Google mess right here, and it's gonna listen to every word I said 786 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:10.559 it. I don't even know if you heard it in the background. When 787 00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:15.519 I said those wake up words, it started talking to me. Does that 788 00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:19.719 ever happen to you when you just say the word alexa? Say, I 789 00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:21.840 don't have an Alexa here, so I just I know I just screwed your 790 00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:22.880 Alexa up, but I don't have one in the studios, so ha ha, 791 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:29.440 Sorry. Do you know how to stop it from listening to every word? 792 00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:32.320 And I just thought about this because it is to happening to me Because 793 00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:36.960 advertisers, all the people who buy the data, they know a lot about 794 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:40.639 you. They don't need to listen to discover your secrets. But you better 795 00:59:40.679 --> 00:59:45.440 believe they are listening right now. Yeah. Are you worried about your security? 796 00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:49.559 Your privacy? Uh? Big big tech companies are not worried about it. 797 00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:53.639 But someone's always listening. Somebody's watching me. There's a hidden there's actually 798 00:59:53.639 --> 00:59:58.320 if you have a Google account, there's actually a hidden feature in your Google 799 00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:05.360 account that is snagging audio recordings from your web and app activity and all the 800 01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:08.679 interactions that you have with your digital assistance. Not that Google's gonna tell you 801 01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:15.039 they're only listening for commands to boost marketing efforts. I technically it's a breach 802 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:19.039 of privacy and that could lead to way more problems like that. You need 803 01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:21.320 to put you need to do. You need to put the digital ear mops 804 01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:24.400 earmufs. You're smarter than Google people. Let me tell you how to do 805 01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:29.440 it. I'm gonna talk slow so your Google can understand too. Open the 806 01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:34.840 Google, open your smartphone and go to your Google app, Google Google App. 807 01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:38.360 But now you want you to collect manage your Google account. Manage your 808 01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:44.599 account, and there's a little tab that says data and privacy. Then you 809 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:46.840 go to history. Man, look at your history man. It knows everything 810 01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:52.320 what you're doing. Then you select web and app activity. Odds are you're 811 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:57.320 gonna see a blue check mark next to that voice and audio activity setting. 812 01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:02.719 Oops, better unchecked that. Oh boh, go to web in activity, 813 01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:09.679 uncheck it. Boom magic audio recordings from all of your interactions with Google Surge 814 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:14.239 and all the maps and all your assistant They are now not saved to your 815 01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:19.119 Google account, and they won't get saved on Google see on your Google servers 816 01:01:19.159 --> 01:01:23.360 either, Boom, anything else I can help you with. Now, he's 817 01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:28.079 not gonna wipe out any of the previously saved audio recordings. You have to 818 01:01:28.159 --> 01:01:31.000 do that separately. You still have to go to your data in privacy and 819 01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:37.440 your Web in act activity and your managing activity, and you have to delete. 820 01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.239 You could do You could do it all at once. You could delete 821 01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:45.480 one of them, You could do it all the time. We talked about 822 01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:52.519 this a lot when when first assistants came out Amazon Alexa was that was really 823 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:54.159 the first one at home. And then there's Siri, and obviously there's Google 824 01:01:54.199 --> 01:01:57.559 two, and then there's Big Speed, and there's I mean, all these 825 01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:00.679 other names are coming up. But are they listening to you? They are 826 01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:02.960 listening to you, you don't want to The thing is, though, if 827 01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:06.360 you don't want to listen to it, unplug it, don't use the dang 828 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:08.400 thing. But there are some steps, Like I just told you, you 829 01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:12.239 have to go into your setting to you you really sometimes have to dig down 830 01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:19.440 into those settings and turn them off. But sometimes when you turn these settings 831 01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:22.800 off of a lot of things, even your phone you're not going to get 832 01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:25.400 the benefit of using a phone. I use this analogy all the time. 833 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:30.280 Michael, How can we be one hundred percent sure that the big companies are 834 01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:32.679 not stealing our data? They don't know anything. Oh well, that's easily. 835 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:36.199 Just turn off your phone, never turn on. Well, guess what, 836 01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:39.440 your phone becomes a brick. There's no use having a phone. Sometimes 837 01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:44.159 you have to have GPS on. Well is the company tracking me? Well 838 01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.440 maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But the fact is I use Google 839 01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:51.400 Maps a lot of the time. I know where I'm going, but I 840 01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:53.599 actually use it for traffic, real time traffic. Let me help you out. 841 01:02:53.880 --> 01:02:59.199 If my GPS is not turned on, it don't know where I am. 842 01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:01.280 It ain't gonna give me the fastest route, it ain't gonna tell me 843 01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:04.639 how to get around the traffic, and ain't gonna tell me nothing. So 844 01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:10.000 yes, I acquiesce I collect GPS. Do you think I'm concerned that someone 845 01:03:10.039 --> 01:03:15.000 in Google, someone of the servers is going to be tracking me from my 846 01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:17.679 home in Fort Benn County because I'm going to Dairy Queen, about six miles 847 01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:20.880 away, just to get a new blizzard. Uh huh. See what I 848 01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:22.239 did it's called the call back. Earlier in the show, I'm really not 849 01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:28.400 going to dry quick. Don't that worry. I don't sneak around. The 850 01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:30.360 thing is, though, if they do know how many times a week I 851 01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:34.280 do go to the grocery store, they do know how many times a week 852 01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:36.239 I do go to my office, or how many times a week I stop 853 01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:39.400 at a specific uh fast food place or a clothing store. Guess what they're 854 01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:44.119 gonna do. They're gonna start serving me ads going, Hey, I know 855 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:45.199 you go to the SaaS food place. Here's if I want to do want 856 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.719 Oh you go to this, you go to this men's shop. Apparently you're 857 01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:52.159 looking for suits and men's clothes and shirts. Let me start serving you some 858 01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:57.880 ads. There's it's that's money to them. Eyeballs are money, just like 859 01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:01.599 ears are money to us here in the radio business. We want your ears, 860 01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:04.360 we want your mind. Because what we do we do two things. 861 01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:09.519 And I'm quoting the general manager of our market, the great Eddie Margini. 862 01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:13.840 We entertain you and then we tell you where to shop. But that's a 863 01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:16.119 good thing. I do tell you where to shop because I'm the guy who 864 01:04:16.159 --> 01:04:18.800 researches. I go tell you to go to US coins and Jewelry. I'm 865 01:04:18.840 --> 01:04:21.440 not just saying that out of my you know what. I know there are 866 01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:25.280 good deals and I know there's some cool stuff there. We give you some 867 01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:28.360 entertainment, make you laugh, give you some ideas to think about. And 868 01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:30.360 oh, by the way, I'm gonna go tell you where to get a 869 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:31.599 new roof. I'm gonna go tell you where it gets a new concrete. 870 01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:34.119 If you want a new guarding center, I'm gonna tell you where that is 871 01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:40.320 to. That's what we do earballs money and we do thank you for your 872 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:43.800 ears congratulations. We do it with winner for the Cabo Bobs. By the 873 01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:45.079 way, I'm gonna tell you where to eat. Go to Cabo Bob's. 874 01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:49.000 I go to the one the meadows of the southwest side of town. It's 875 01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:54.760 near the gallery on San Filippe, not too far from that HB on Fountain 876 01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:57.800 View. There's one in Cypress, and there's one in Katie, and there's 877 01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:02.280 several in Austin. Cabo Bob's some who is it and don't count don't tell 878 01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:06.079 me his name is Bob. It's Janet. Congratulations Janet, Janet, you 879 01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:11.039 want it? Twenty five dollar gift card to Cabo Bob's let me give you 880 01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:14.719 a hit to day coming up. Okay, we'll get that to you. 881 01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:17.039 Give it the Dad's say love you still lie check I did twenty five dollars 882 01:05:17.039 --> 01:05:21.280 with a taco the damn good tacos by the way, really good tacos. 883 01:05:21.960 --> 01:05:26.400 So there you go. That is the deal with Google. One more time. 884 01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:30.480 Speaking of Google Maps, Google Maps can tell you a lot of stuff. 885 01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:32.400 And I love Google Maps and I use Google. I don't use Ways, 886 01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:38.440 I don't use Apple Maps, I don't use Yahoo Maps. I have 887 01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:41.719 an Android phone. Google's built in. I'm used to it. I use 888 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:45.679 Google Maps. They have a ton of things. There's a lot of different 889 01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:48.239 layers in Google Maps. You can put traffic on. You can put toll 890 01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:50.360 ways. If you don't want to drive on a toll way, you can 891 01:05:50.440 --> 01:05:55.079 uncheck it. You can have everything whether do I want to go through rain 892 01:05:55.159 --> 01:05:58.679 or whatever it is. There's a new layer that you can add in Google 893 01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:03.280 Map. I think it is in New York City right now, but it's 894 01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:09.519 going on. Apparently public restrooms aren't easy to find in New York City. 895 01:06:09.719 --> 01:06:13.159 Some most of them aren't clean. So you're at the mercy of like sneaking 896 01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:17.119 into a hotel or a restaurant or a store. New there's a new something 897 01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:21.960 on Google Maps. There's a new layer. It's called You're in Luck and 898 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:30.280 I see what they did here. You're as in you are in different in 899 01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:35.480 luck. You're in luck as in urine. You see what they did their 900 01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:40.840 bathroom. I see what you did. You're in luck, You're in trouble. 901 01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:44.679 There is a layer on Google Maps where you could find more than one 902 01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:49.440 thousand public restrooms located in New York City. It's not awesome, people, 903 01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:53.280 I've been doing this for twenty two years, and you know I'd love to 904 01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:57.679 see paradigm shifts of how Wi Fi started, and how the advent of napster 905 01:06:58.159 --> 01:07:01.280 twenty five years ago, this week to paradigm shift to music. I love 906 01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:05.679 seeing how laptops now or just as are small as cell phones, and which 907 01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:09.639 used to be in cell phones with the size of laptops. No, no, 908 01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:13.039 no, I'm here to actually ragging the fact that in my twenty two 909 01:07:13.119 --> 01:07:15.920 years of existence, I'm now telling you that you can find a public restroom 910 01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:19.320 on Google Maps. That's what I'm here for. That's what I'm here to 911 01:07:19.400 --> 01:07:23.840 entertain you. It's unbelievable. It's good stuff. Final break coming up over 912 01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:27.840 here, I will take your calls. I will tell you a subscription service 913 01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:31.320 that you watch on a regular basis. Guess what they're raising prices again, 914 01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:35.360 getting we're getting priced out of streaming. It's not so fun. Which one 915 01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:38.599 do you want to drop? But I'll tell you which one is raising its 916 01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:41.960 prices And this is a pretty big one too. Final lap coming up Michael 917 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:49.719 Darfield, the high Tech Decks and show. I'll segment we do thank you 918 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:54.239 for hanging around this show. Where odds are you may learn something, odds 919 01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:57.760 are you may learn nothing, but you may laugh. Because that's it's really 920 01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:00.559 what we're here for. To entertain you and tell you where to s maybe 921 01:08:00.559 --> 01:08:03.960 give away a few things. And also this particular epitode episode give you a 922 01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:08.800 little idea of what the shop for dad Dad's day. Hey, if your 923 01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:15.039 dad is single and they do and not Mary not going out, you tell 924 01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:16.199 dad to get on a dating app. I get this all the time, 925 01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:21.239 Michael. You need to get on a dating app as technologically advanced as I 926 01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:27.720 am. I just I don't know. I'm a really You're never gonna beave 927 01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:30.520 this. I don't want to get into it. I'm an incredibly shy person. 928 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:35.039 I am an introverted extrovert. Do you give me a radio microphone, 929 01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:38.760 you give me a TV camera, I will smile and I'll talk for hours 930 01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:42.279 upon it. You have me go up and try to talk to someone of 931 01:08:42.279 --> 01:08:45.119 the female persuasion. And I'm telling you, especially the females who I know, 932 01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:48.520 and then my dude's also my buddies, they know. It just ain't 933 01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:51.880 happen. And I just don't feel like getting on an app. But maybe 934 01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:58.039 I should move to Japan. This is an interesting story I saw coming out. 935 01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:03.800 Apparently people in Japan they want people having babies. They want to to 936 01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:09.880 do hupples up and get married. Yeah, you know, it's bad enough 937 01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:12.920 when your mom asked why you're not married and she tries to say that yep. 938 01:09:13.239 --> 01:09:19.199 If you live in Tokyo, the government they're going to help you find 939 01:09:19.239 --> 01:09:27.640 someone to have some babies with because this city of Tokyo they just launched their 940 01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:30.359 own dating app the city. Imagine the city of Houston doing this, but 941 01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:35.600 the city of Tokyo have launched a dating app because they've learned that seventy percent 942 01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:41.920 of people who want to get married, they're not attending any events or joining 943 01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:46.359 apps to meet a partner, and they want to give them a gentle push 944 01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:53.760 to find one. So if you want to do this in Tokyo, you 945 01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:58.880 have to prove you're legally single and you're willing to marry, and plus you 946 01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:04.319 have to provide proof of income. I'm not thinking this is a dumb idea 947 01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:08.239 and this, believe it or not, it's all part of a response to 948 01:10:08.359 --> 01:10:12.479 Japan's declining birth rate. Japan had more than twice as many deaths as burst 949 01:10:12.560 --> 01:10:15.439 last year. They want, they want kiddos over there. Okay, not 950 01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:17.680 making this story about me, but good news, bad news. I ain't 951 01:10:17.720 --> 01:10:21.560 having no more kids. Breaking news, Nope, I'm three and out people. 952 01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:26.720 They're all in their twenties. I'm done though with that. But I 953 01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:30.119 don't know if I because I I don't get on dating apps, but if 954 01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:33.399 I would get on one, that that that that someone in the chicks to 955 01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:39.680 they legally have to prove their single and they're legally willing to get married, 956 01:10:40.079 --> 01:10:43.720 and they have to provide proof of their income. Okay, I may be 957 01:10:43.840 --> 01:10:46.840 down with that, maybe down with that. How do you prove you're willing 958 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:50.560 to marry you have to? Is it? It's like a blood squear? 959 01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:57.600 I mean, how that's iffy to me? Hey, I'm ready, I 960 01:10:57.640 --> 01:11:01.159 am and want to remain. And I'm telling you this and I meet it 961 01:11:01.159 --> 01:11:04.760 from my art. It is the government gonna believe me, because government don't 962 01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:12.039 believe an easy. I am legally single. I would like to see. 963 01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.319 Uh, it would be fun actually if you on these dating apps. And 964 01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:18.279 actually there's some dating apps that may actually have you put there. I don't 965 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:21.399 know. I really don't know if if you're an expert in dating apps here 966 01:11:21.399 --> 01:11:26.399 in the United States that don't have a lot of time seven one three two 967 01:11:26.399 --> 01:11:29.560 one two five nine five Oho, if I can get to I will. 968 01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:32.279 Do you have to put your income on these things? I mean it's a 969 01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:35.600 are you running for president? We're legally have to put your income, but 970 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:40.640 over the past few presidents ago you just said, screw it, we're not 971 01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:45.039 gonna put our income out there. It's Japan. Look at you, Look 972 01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:47.199 at you. I'm not having a kid, so I guess i'd like to 973 01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:49.600 visit Japan. I hear it's a nice thing. Well, how did I 974 01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:54.479 get on this tangent? I'm not even sure I know I was good to 975 01:11:54.520 --> 01:11:58.000 Gobut wasn't gonna talk about one more things? Uh No, I'm not gonna 976 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:00.840 take no time for any more calls over here. That's day gift one more 977 01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:02.079 time? Oh I just got one, Michael. I know this is not 978 01:12:02.159 --> 01:12:04.720 a sexy Dad Day gift, but every time I go to my parents' house, 979 01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:09.399 they have the worst WiFi in the world. I don't even want to 980 01:12:09.439 --> 01:12:12.640 go visit my parents, but I love my parents. Can you help me 981 01:12:12.840 --> 01:12:15.840 think of a great gift for my parents, even if it's a Wi Fi 982 01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:19.359 Ralph router? Okay, this is Julie, Julia's and Pairland. You don't 983 01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:24.359 laugh. Jules. By the way, are you single? You want to 984 01:12:24.359 --> 01:12:28.359 get married? And by the way, what's your in gam? I see 985 01:12:28.399 --> 01:12:32.920 what they did there? I need a picture first. What hey, it 986 01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:36.439 may be time to I've talked about this before. How old is your WiFi 987 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:41.319 router? And do you even have a WiFi router? And if you go 988 01:12:41.439 --> 01:12:45.279 to your parents' house and some of you know what I'm talking about, your 989 01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:50.159 shad yet their WiFi A is not existent or be it sucks? There are 990 01:12:50.239 --> 01:12:56.720 new ones out there. There's Wi Fi seven, There's Wi Fi six is 991 01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:02.760 more widespread. But Wi Fi has been around at the consumer level right when 992 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:05.720 I started my high tech taxtionhit I'm gonna go back two thousand and one, 993 01:13:05.800 --> 01:13:09.800 two thousand and two. I remember I'm on Channel two and I did a 994 01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:14.520 segment on Channel two, and I remember explaining what Wi Fi was, and 995 01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:16.720 I used to I used to ask a great trivia question. And by the 996 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:19.880 way, this is a great bar trivic question. What does wi fi stand 997 01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:25.319 for? The correct answer is nothing. It is a made up term. 998 01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:29.079 It does not stand for wireless fidelity. It was a play on the term 999 01:13:29.359 --> 01:13:32.800 hi thigh high fidelity back when LP records came out in the sixties and seventies. 1000 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:38.039 Wi Fi stands for nothing. Boom you went by. Anyway, Wi 1001 01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:42.920 Fi routers they are prevalent, they are getting faster, and they're actually spreading 1002 01:13:43.199 --> 01:13:45.880 their signals out further. Julie, if your look, I don't know what 1003 01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:49.279 your budget is, but on the low end, that will give you a 1004 01:13:49.359 --> 01:13:57.239 few models a few manufacturers. Netgear makes a good budget router for under one 1005 01:13:57.319 --> 01:14:00.840 hundred dollars. I think you can get that on Amazon. There's another one 1006 01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:02.960 that I've used for I test this out a few years ago. It's called 1007 01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:10.960 TP link as in toilet paper ice, TP dash l IGENK. They have 1008 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:14.159 some that's under one hundred dollars too, But then again TP also makes some 1009 01:14:14.279 --> 01:14:16.880 high ends mesh systems too. You can find those. Some of them are 1010 01:14:16.880 --> 01:14:19.960 two hundred and three hundred dollars. If you have if mom or Dad, 1011 01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:25.199 if you have a big area to cover a big house, a big warehouse, 1012 01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:30.119 might I suggest a mesh Wi Fi system. Just go look for the 1013 01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:32.159 word. Mesh. Generally comes with a Wi Fi router, you know, 1014 01:14:32.199 --> 01:14:36.199 with the little antenna's, but it also comes with one or two little repeat 1015 01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:40.960 satellites. And what it does is you put these little satellite little things, 1016 01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:43.760 you plug them in around your home if you've got a two or three story 1017 01:14:43.840 --> 01:14:46.920 home, and it creates this wireless mesh network. It's kind of like our 1018 01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:50.640 cell phone data system, I mean our cell phone system. There's towers all 1019 01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:55.399 over cities and it creates a mesh system wherever you go, wherever you're drive, 1020 01:14:55.479 --> 01:15:00.159 if you're in a parking lot, you're relatively going to get decent l 1021 01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:02.279 phone service. This mesh system is the same thing. It covers your house, 1022 01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:06.000 it covers just outside your house. Some mesh systems are so powerful you 1023 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:10.960 could probably light up a very small neighborhood too, And so TP link is 1024 01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:15.439 one. Asis actually makes one. It's a very fast gaming router. Netgear 1025 01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:17.920 very expensive net Gear has one. I think about four hundred dollars. I 1026 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:23.439 wouldn't spend over four hundred dollars on any Wi Fi system. I'd spend at 1027 01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:27.000 least eighty five maybe one hundred dollars, but I wouldn't go four hundred because 1028 01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:29.960 you can get yourself something in the middle. So how about that, Julie, 1029 01:15:30.239 --> 01:15:33.039 Happy Father's Day to daddy. Let me know what you get. I 1030 01:15:33.159 --> 01:15:35.359 do have to end the show. Calum, you are not a dad, 1031 01:15:35.399 --> 01:15:38.359 but I met your dad. Callum, I met your dad. Remember I 1032 01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:40.960 gave you. I gave you a bottle of bourbon and you and your dad 1033 01:15:41.039 --> 01:15:43.319 killed it, like in an hour. I may have to do that again. 1034 01:15:44.079 --> 01:15:46.159 Michael Garfield is the name. I am a father of three. Love 1035 01:15:46.279 --> 01:15:49.840 my boys. They don't listen because they're sleeping right now. Hopefully I did 1036 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:54.119 not put you to sleep. 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How about those Dallas 1045 01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:30.720 Mavericks, whatever your rook you root for, just stay cool, be safe. 1046 01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:33.399 My name is Garth. We'll talk to you next week. Right now, 1047 01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:35.880 my show is Oh Bob