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Michael Garfield. Already hot, people, Stay inside if you can put
the sunscreen on. I sound like my parents. I rarely use sunscreening.
If I'm outside, I'll sit in the pool. It was a nice,
cool cocktail. And I know it's just a little before noon. Should you
be listening live? Still nasty hop? And I got two hours to entertain
you, ask and answer you questions. One week before Father's Day. Raise
your hand if you're a daddy, or raise your hand if you thank you
I had daddy, or not sure you're a daddy. Dad's Day guests,
we've already been through Mother's Day. Last month, we've been through grad season.
Graduation season, dads, it's your return. I actually have some interesting
ideas. This is what I do I'm a consumer lifestyle guy. It is
called the High Tech Texan Show. Yeah, maybe I'll follow in some technological
wonders, but there are many other gifts that are not so technological, that
are edible, consumable, visitable. Just to give you some ideas, because
it's our tourk all the dads do not get a lot of love over the
years. AF Early Father's Day to you. Michael is the name. There
is Calum Reid on the other side of the glass. We are here for
you. You know the deets. If you want to call in ask questions.
Maybe you're researching some some cars and audibobile and let me help you out.
If you haven't followed me on social media, if you heard me last
week, I've been rolling around and a pretty large vehicle this past week.
I'll give you the breakdown a little pip to see if this is something that
you want to get dad, or maybe get yourself. That is the GMC
Hummer ev that's right? Is it an oxymoron? Is it ironic? Or
is a little Hubris with a little green built in at Electric Hummer? It
is massive, it is quiet, it is fast, it is roomy,
and it ain't cheap. I will review that. This is one of the
things that I do for so many years. Phone number here if you want
to participate seven one three two one two five nine to five. Oh,
that is how you will get me. Just call me Garth. You can
follow me on social media. Hi tech text and spell the whole thing out.
Hi g h T E C h T e x A N bad news.
We've got another one of your favorite streaming services raising subscription prices once again.
I don't know when this thing is going to end. And we'll also
going to talk about something that happened a quarter century ago this week at where
were you twenty five years ago when Napster was created? You know, we
we it was man. You talk about controversy, the new way to listen
to music, to download music, to ilegally get music for free without paying
the license. You know we can kind of. We didn't laugh at it
then. We thought it was pretty cool. But I will tell you why.
I'm going to give you four ways that I can think of that Napster
changed the music industry. And if you are not twenty five years old,
and you're younger than that and you consume them music kids, you have no
clue how we used to get music. I mean, unless your parents,
like me, have cassette tapes that are now decorations hanging on the wall,
ceed jewel cases, reel the real tapes other different ways. Now pretty much
as we rent music as we can download it. But there are services like
our radio, Spotify and other things like that where Napster really changed it.
So I'll take you a little back in the day to tell you how that
works. Other than that, we may have a one or two gift cards
to give away. We do think are good friends at Cabo Bob's. Really
good burritos and tacos for locations across the Houston area. It's out of Austin,
Austin. Anything that comes out most everything that comes out of Austin's pretty
good. I say this because my mom was born in Austin, and I
agree. And me and my parents and my son and my grandparents. We
graduated from the University of Texas. Cobo Bob's they have graciously donated some gift
cards for me to give away, so stand by, we will do that.
And also if you follow stuff and you follow business, we have a
company that has been escalating in value over the past several years thanks to AI.
This past week it has overtaken Apple. The value of this company is
the second most valuable company in the United States, only behind Microsoft. Microsoft
has won Apple was number two, Apples number three right now. If you
don't know what it is, I will tell you that sometime during this show.
But other than that, here we go Dad's Day. I got a
number of different questions and emails throughoutwig Garf. You know, listen, I'm
not ready to get Dad or I don't want to get myself a new TV.
I don't eat it yet, and I already have enough phones and I'm
fine with my phone. What else is? There's what's unique? I really
can't get Dad flowers? I can you know, can I get Dad something
that's that little edible thing with the fruit? Why can't you get Dad flowers?
Well, I mean I'm trying to think I do I want? I
mean I wouldn't want flowers. Really, I like flower I mean I really
don't need flowers. I'm just on my dude living alone. I mean,
they brighten up the place. Edible subscriptions now standby, I'm not gonna tell
you how to get edible gummies. I guess that's what they are. Nope,
Nope, not gonna do that. There's a lot of things that you
could eat, and I saw a list of food and drink subscriptions. Don't
sleep on the don't sleep on subscriptions. You know, as if you go
back to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, cousin Eddie had one of the greatest lines
ever. It's the gift that keeps on giving year round, Clark that it
is, Edward that indeed it is. It's a subscription now, not the
Jelly of the Month club, which actually would be pretty cool. There's a
lot of subscription that you could subscribe to clothing every month, you know you're
gonna get a T shirt, you're gonna get a surprise box. But I
saw a few that actually caught my eye, one of which is our dear
friend James Simpson, our beer guy, our beer guru, whose radio program
is on Sundays right here on K Perce at nine fifty am. There's a
beer subscription. There is a beer subscription, and I like this thing.
It's called well there there's several of them. But when I ran across and
again, I'm not endorsing this I don't know anything about it, even though
I do like beer. Actually, actually I have a whole list of beer
clubs. One is called beer Drop beer Drop. What are the differences between
this and other beer subscriptions is Dad can pick the beer styles. Dad goes
online and he says, hey, I want something happy, fruity or dark
or Belgian. Then after that this company is going to source some interesting about
small badge bruise from a whole selection of micro breweries around the country and they
will send them to Dad each month. There's a few levels of subscriptions.
That looks like you can give Dad three months of beer Drops, ten beers
each that'll last to Dad maybe an afternoon. Looks like it's about one hundred
and forty four dollars. Just sign up. That's pretty good and then let
me see. There's other beer clubs out there. I do like that idea.
There are. Here's something called the Craft Beer Club, the Hopheads Beer
Club, the Rare Beer Club, brew Vanna. There's a different number of
it. They're all different levels too, But just an idea. If Dad
likes a little brew haha, give Daddy something. And by the way,
if you're thinking of something for me since for over two decades, which is
a generation. Which in those two decades, I've had three boys of myself.
If you want to give me a little something something that would I like
that. I mean I don't need anything technological, as you know, a
little beer subscription would be nice. You probably should know the address here at
iHeartRadio in Houston. If not, DM me and I will give you a
better way to to hit me up. Look at me pandering? Well,
Hell, they don't pay me here. I gotta do something. We're gonna
take break and emby one when we come back. I got some other ideas
for dads. If you want to chime in and tell me what you're thinking
of getting dad. You actually can hide your name, you disguise your voice.
Hey, Dad is listening. To surprise him. But we are going
to have some fun along with some others in differ ways here Michael Garfield.
It is called the High Tech Texan Show. It's anyway some ideas for Dad's
day. Because this is what I do. I don't talk politics. I
yeah, I'll dabble in sports too, but I talk about products. I'm
your consumer lifestyle guy, started out twenty two years ago, telling you which
computer to buy, which laptops were good? And then two thousand comes in,
Well you know about two thousand two, two thousand and three, two
thousand and four. Oh, well we've got this thing called digital TV I
definition TVs. Oh should you get an LCD or you should get a plasma?
Then the iPhone comes out with two thousand and seven. It's like,
oh, this is gonna change all right. Now there's now there's the iOS,
Apple operating system, and now there's this thing called Android, and now
there's hundreds of fun I have expanded people. Now we've got cars, trucks,
hummers, pickups, beer clubs. If I really am the consumer,
I shop, I want to save you money. I've got some interesting ideas.
And we've already celebrated Mother's Day. Gave you some good ideas. Grag
graduates, hope you got your grad something like for us Dad's Finally it's a
day for us. We got one more week or so until Dad's Day.
I gave you some ideas. How about a beer club, a subscription beer
club. Getting some emails also from you folks of what to get Dad.
Apparently you guys do like a subscription. I think subscription clubs are pretty fun
because it's the gifts that keeps on giving year round. Clark, it really
does. Here's a subscription somebody said, Michael, here's a subscription box with
hot sauce. Now I like that. Now you're in Texas, ME like
you some hot sauce. I have got so many freaking types of bottles of
hot sauce it's not even funny. I just collect over the years, and
a lot of companies send me some hot sauce so I can taste, because
I mean, I do like it. Here is why I love this name.
And again, not endorsement. Somebody just sent me this, Micel.
I've tried something called the Fuego Boxga f u e g o fuega as an
infuego good idea. If your dad's a hot head, this may be for
you. Starts at thirteen bucks a month. I guess this for one bottle
thirty bucks a month or three bottles is a better deal. Each hob and
arrow, hot sauce, hot honey, spicy garlic seasoning. Okay, I
dig that. I dig that hot sauce in a box. Now, I
will tell you if you want to get these subscription boxes, you need to
hop on it right now. I mean, as I speak, it's seven
and a half days away before Father's Day, and I guess if you hurry
up in order that maybe you can get an online certificate. But it would
be pretty cool to get to box number one for Father's Day. Anybody getting
the typical golf balls? You know, when I was a kid growing up
in the seventy there were only a few things that really Dad's got, one
of which was a sleeve of golf balls. That's right, a whopping three
balls of golf balls, and maybe it said World's Greatest Dad, World's greatest
golfer. That's pretty good. I mean, my dad did golf, does
dig golf. I mean he does not golf anymore, but he did golf
and I and I at some point I probably got him. I know what
I probably did. I probably went to the the driving range and I just
picked up three golf balls and I gave it to him, and I took
him, I took out I think I'm sharpie, and I played, you
know, world's greatest Dad. Three balls sometimes would last me one a hole.
I tee off and they're gone zo. The other thing that you would
get Dad, you would get Dad of Coffee mug, world's greatest Dad.
At some point I may have done that. He may be listening right now
and iHeartRadio. He's up in Dallas. I don't know if I got him
the world's greatest Dad mug. He loves golf, he drinks coffee. I
don't drink coffee. So my kids really had a bad time getting me.
Getting me gifts. Back of the day, then you would get that.
And this is something that dads don't get nowadays. I'm telling you right now.
Dads used to get ties, a necktie because most dads back in the
seventies, they wore suits with a tie. And you probably didn't pick it
out. Maybe mom help you pick it out, or something you get does
you don't see ties anymore. I'm trying to think the last time other than
a funeral, and which is just a bad taste. I don't see a
lot of ties anymore. It's very it's very I'm rarely. I think I've
worn one tie was at a black tie event not long ago, and I
wore a tie, which it looks good with the tuxedo. But there's no
ties. What else was the typical thing? And then you would go to
school. And here's the problem with Dad's dead. Dad's days in June and
mid June, there's no school, there's no elementary schools. School's gone,
but Mother's Days in May and schools in and you go to your art class
and you make mom a little macaroni necklace? Right? Who made mom a
colorful macaroni necklace? Right? Who made you? Take it? You take
your hand and you trace it like a turkey. I know you do that
for Thanksgiving Day, and that fear is the five ways I love you.
Now, it's no fair man, because the teachers helped make Mother's Day gifts.
I mean they don't make most of them didn't make Father's Day gifts because
you know, when school's out the end of May, you have to hide
it somewhere. Then you're you're gonna forget where it is. And so I
never got a lot of school stuff. I didn't make my dad a lot
of school stuff. When I grew up. What did I get? See?
I have three boys. Gosh, I feel bad. Actually I don't
feel bad because none of them listen to the show. So I can rag
it. I'm I will say. As they've gotten old over the past,
six, seven, eight years were to some semblance, they actually do have
money. They've made, they're making money right now. It invariably they give
me something that deals with sports and something he deals with the Texas long Horns,
the Cowboys, the Texas Rangers, or the Dallas Mavericks. Last year
was it? Last year? I got a I got a Luca gun Chicks
school jersey, which, by the way, I have whipped out this week
because my Dallas Mavericks are in the finals right now, so I haven't won.
I look horrible in tank tops, which are with the basketball gear.
I have to wear a T shirt, you know, because of my arms
are kind of hary. But I don't care, man, I'm just man.
I'm prantsing around this city and I'm like, hey, Luca, maybe
seventy seven, bring it home. Got the Texas on my birthday. I
got the Texas ran my birthdays in February, Texas Rangers World Championship cap and
T shirt. I've got Texas Longhorns, everything that you can think of.
I got almost too many Cowboys stuff, Dallas stars. I don't have any
dallastars. I'm not the biggest hockey fan, so that get Dad something for
sports. Get dad some for sports. What else is over ear subscriptions?
Here's a hello, Michael. I got my dad last year. I got
him a subscription of Global Spices. I think the name of the company was
called the Raw Spice Bar. They send you a few ounces of spice or
spice blend, lots of neat stuff japan Indian spices. I think it was
twelve fifteen dollars a month. That's a good idea. Hey, if dad's
a cook Global Spice subscription, we'll see. What was the name of it
was called Raw Spice Bar. I don't know anything about it, but I
think that's pretty cool. Let's see. How about grilling accessories. By the
way, last week I had said that I put my Big Green Egg up
for sale. I've had a Big Green Eggs five years or so, and
I really liked the Big Green Egg. It's a ceramic Commata style grill smoker
charcoal and I used it quite often. But I rated when I got into
and I've got I got a Kammata Joe right now. I've got the the
high tech Kammata Joe with the built in wireless thermometer, with an app that
will send you all the information and did it. So I don't need two
of these things. So I went on Facebook Marketplace and I sold my my
big green egg and now I got a command of Joe. But grills are
good, and if you don't want to spend too much, how about a
grill accessory. There actually is a wire there's a wireless app. A meat
thermometer. There's several meat thermometers, because the last thing you want to do
is have Dad burn the freaking meat. There's something called meter m E A
T E R. I have two of these things. I think that on
the second version it's called Meter two. It's just a little probe. It
looks like a pencil or pen It's a metal probe. You stick it into
the meat and you can cook on it, grill it, smoke it,
whatever it come. It's Bluetooth built in that bluetooth directly to your phone with
an app tells you when to take it off when the rest the chicken or
INNDO when the rest of fisher meat. Is pretty cool. Some accessories too,
So Dad's Day gifts. I hope I gave you some ideas. We
have one week to go. If I'm thinking of anything else, that I
h If you think of something else that I missed, you give me a
shout seven one three two one two nine five zero coming up. What's the
name of the company that just took over Apple as a more valuable company into
three trillion dollars? And how come I did not buy stocking this thing?
I got that maybe something to give away, Michael Guardfield. It's called a
high tech texting shot, just like this is a low hanging swud. I
forgot about this as a Dad's Day gift. Last week I popped by US
Coins and Jewelry, had a good sit down talk with mister Kenny Duncan,
one of the proprietors, second generation proprietor of US Coins and Jewelry, And
as you can imagine, there are coins galore. If you're a coin collector,
good time to start coin collectors. If you're a parent and want to
get your kids started, it's a really good time to sell your coins,
gold coins, silver coins. You don't know what you're sitting on. So
I'm sitting back in his office and I'm doing an interview because his father,
Kenny Duncan, Sr. Who started the company innineteen eighty five, who's still
there. He was just named by a magazine as the new mismatist of the
century. That's pretty strong man. Anytime your name is something of the century,
that's pretty cool. And it's all at US Coins and Jewelry. It's
on Katie Freeway, which is I ten just outside of Loop six' ten,
so it's a Katie Freeway at Voss Road of the south Side, massive
complex. You can go in. You can get dad, some coins you
can get if Dad likes anything like Texas memorabilia, state flags of Texas,
old state flags, maybe some poppies of the old Declaration. You know Texas,
you know's a nation and they got a lot of that stuff there.
Good sports cards you can buy and sell sports cards too. If Dad wants
a rollie little Rolex what time is it there too, Just had a really
good conversation, so a big, big idea for US Coins and Jewelry.
They are open every day of the week except Sundays. They do the Chick
fil A model, so they are open right now probably listening to me in
the background. Lots of security, so feel free to schlap in all your
coins. I have seen coins being rolled in on wagons because there's so many.
They will pay you absolutely fair, if not top dollar for what you
have and you should be set to go. But they're good to tell them
you heard it on the Michael Garfield chill. There's a number of other Michaels
who pimp for him. But make sure the Garth high Tech tax in.
I know they'll take care of everybody, but they'll definitely take care of you
too. Sosta againts. If we're talking any idea, who here anybody out
there is a big stock buy and sell stocks. I'm not a big stock
market guy. Shind site. Listen. I don't want to talk hindsight,
because hindsight we'd all be retired billionaires. If you could see in the future,
be a multi multi billionaire retired. If I could see in the future
and then go back in time, I can actually tell you who won the
first fifty eight Super Bowls and the score done. It's like I'm biff and
back to the future too. I can tell you which stocks, oh man,
I totally should have bought Yahoo back in the day. Remember when Apple
was trading for nothing and now look at it right now, got some stock
is which you probably already heard. Apple has been the second most valued company
in the United States. Microsoft partly number one, well over three trillion dollars.
We now have number two. Apple temporarily maybe forever is now number three.
There is a company called Vidia E n No, it's not even in
and here's he spy. It's envy. I D I A and I have
a lot of envy. I should have bought this. It's a it's a
chip making giants, a micro chip making giant just hit a market capital is
A have three trillion dollars, just over three trillion dollars, putting it just
ahead of Apple, which is right at three trillion dollars. In Vidia seems
to be dominating the AI race with his flag chip flat easy for you flag
ship chip. It's called the H one hundred ship. We need chips,
chipsy. If you want artificial intelligence, you need fast chips. Microchips Hey
as the thing to do. They are now well over three trillion dollars.
Look in May they report in video reported making fourteen billion dollars. I'm gon
account of all the chips it's selling. In May, they only trail behind
Microsoft. Now they have a three point one five trillion cap. By next
week when I update you in video. I'm serious. They may be number
one. Stock is about twelve hundred twenty dollars per share, even though they
plan on splitting it. Actually, actually they just split it this weekend.
It's a lot of money, man, more valuable than Apple. So in
hindsight, do you have it? Why didn't you tip me up? I
don't. I don't do it. I probably could have talked a lot about
stock over the past twenty years of technology because I have I have seen ideas.
I've interviewed people who just had this, Oh that's so crazy idea.
It's nothing, and then you know, they got up in the adventure capital.
Then all of a sudden it's worth you know, literally a billion dollars,
some of them a one hundred millions dollars. Hey, Michael, you
want to get in. I'm just so conservative when it comes to that,
and I'm just such an idiot one or am I? Because if if I
invested everything, nine out of ten, if not more more than nine out
of ten, maybe ninety five out of one hundred to these companies, I
would have invested and they would have got belly up certain way. Congratulations to
Nvideo. I'm not giving you any tips is it going to go? I
know, is only gonna grow. It's the only thing I'm gonna know.
Speaking of going back in time, twenty five years ago, where were you?
Where were you? How did you consume music? Twenty five years ago?
All right? So it's nineteen ninety nine, all right, great year
for Prince's song, even though it came out a decade Even before that,
twenty five years Napster launched. Who remembers Napster? Now? I have three
boys, one of which is going to be twenty four, So he's twenty
three. He has no clue what naptures. Maybe my oldest, who's gonna
be thirty this year, maybe he kind of heard of it. Maybe not.
If you're younger than twenty seven or thirty, odds are you don't know
what napture is? People. Napster was one of the biggest paradigm shifts companies
you could ever imagine. It was founded by these kids. It was two
dudes, a Sean Parker and Sean Fanning, and it was a milestone how
Internet could connect users and allow for content sharing. But the big snag back
then it was online piracy. It was an online network and let you download
music tracks for free. Pretty cool. All it did was totally change the
entertainment industry, the entire entertainment industry. You probably don't remember the influence it
adds because the first version of Napster was it was really brief, launched June
first, nineteen ninety nine, and the recording industry sued to have it shut
down, and then over the next few months Napster fought for it's life in
court. And then people continue to rip CDs. Oh there's a if there's
a tervya I haven't heard, let's take a CD, let's put it into
your computer and we're gonna rip it. Rip it means to copy it,
to duplicate it, and then you take that music to put the tracks onto
your computers, and then you upload it onto a file sharing network so anybody
else get download them. So technically all my buddies or anybody in the world
could with their CD of whatever was hot back then. But the songs up
on a file server share I out of the blue can download it. Boom,
I just got a song and I didn't pay Jack squat Man. Those
were the good old days. Good old day. Napster grew from about twenty
million users in two thousand to about eighty million users at its peak. But
it really wasn't just a file sharing service. It was it was an infinite
digital jukebox. It was free. I mean, it was awesome, and
but Napster paved the way for stream and I was thinking about this, It
paved the way for streaming. Napster finally shut down about a year later,
was July or two years two July two thousand and one, company bankrupt.
It re emerged as a subscription service at that By that time, Apple had
opened its iTunes store for consumers. Steve Jobs had the idea. He goes
to all the record companies and he says, hey, listen, I want
I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Here's a price point ninety nine cents a song.
Boom, Everybody bought it. I love the idea, and that was
it. Nothing captured the idea to the extent of these original Napster digital downloads,
music streaming services. Think about this Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora,
Spotify title. They were all foreshadowed by Napster. It was an online
distribution model that paved the way for everything. It was good, but it
just did it in a technically a legal way because the recording industry had bad
opinions of Napster, of networks allowed users to distribute music anonymously. It went
beyond the quote fair use of shared copyright work with friends, and they weren't
paying the artists. And I do get that artic and I'm serious, artists
need to get paid. And artists like Metallica and Doctor Dre they filed their
own copyright infringement suits again Snaps. At that point, it was just almost
too much. At the end of the day at federal court they disagree with
Napster's contention that users were simply space shifting their music. I'd like that Napster
had to pay about twenty six million dollars to settle all these lawsuits and after
that, boom, it's all paid now it's a subscription right now. But
it started a wave of technological change. I think classrooms colleges should teach this
of how something started and how a paradigm shift could alter one of, if
not the largest industries in the world, the entertainment industry quickly. Napster is
still around it actually, Napster is still playing tunes. It's a subscription service,
but it's just got a small fraction of the market. Apple, Amazon,
Spotify, YouTube, I I Heart still out there too, currently home
by a privately held consortium, and it's like eleven bucks a month. But
if you remember the napsterre days, I'm gonna take a break right now.
Got a Napster story. How many songs? What's the most amount of songs
that you ever downloaded at a time. I've got a library that's still I
think sitting somewhere on my R drive. That's thousands and thousands of songs.
Hell, I can start my own radio network too. Phone number here is
seven one three two one two five nine five ozho when we come back,
got to give away for you, and actually I'm gonna give you a few
ways that Napster changed the music industry, just absolutely changed it. Here on
a high tech Texan show, we're keeping promises as I did, and I
really did. If you know me, I do keep my promises. I
am a man of my word. I do not over promise, I do
not lie. I am your guy. And if you know me, truly,
that's how I roll people. Here, Mike, listen, name Michael
Garfield. It is called the High Tech Text and Show Happy Early Dad's Day.
As promised is where I'm getting to gonna give away a little something something.
Who wants an Early Dad's Day gift or to give to Dad or screwage,
just keep it for yourself. A twenty five dollars gift card to Hobbo
Bob's. If you're not familiar with Cobo Bob's, look it up. Four
locations around Houston right now and hopefully they're going to expand. It is a
phenomenal kind of a make your own burrito taco casadia place. They overstuff them.
You don't need to sit there and go to the line with your video
camera to catch him and put them on TikTok no. No, they do
a great job. I love the company top to bottom. I got the
opportunity to talk to the founder, whose name ironically is not Bob Cobo Bob's,
just what he does for employees and how they have they use. They
use a Commata Joe to smoke and cook, the meats, the steak meats,
the barber CooA, the the brisket, the the chickens. Phenomenal.
Call it number nine. Right now, you're gonna get a gift card seven
one, three, two one two five nine five oh two one two five
nine five. Oh, calum, we'll get your information, and happy early
Father's Day for you. We're talking about Napster too. There there's a certain
age group who understands or have heard the term napster. Napster was it in
the late nineties when it it tarly changed the entertainment industry, but without a
doubt, the music industry was a file sharing service that launched twenty five years
ago. And that's why I'm talking about quarter of a century. And before
then. I again kid growing up in the seventies and certainly lived everything in
the eighties. That's where I had so many cassettes that you would pop into
your stereo deck of your car or your house. Then we went to CDs
and the CDs. You know, we had a CD player in the car,
there's a CD player in your home or your apartment, whatever it is.
And then after that that almost was the end of digit of actual physical
media physical I mean things you actually can touch. A CD disc it's physical,
A cassette is physical, a record, an LP is physical. At
that you downloaded downloading was so prevalent. I was. We moved into a
house let me give you a year and two thousand three, two thousand,
two thousand and three, two thousand and four. We're moving into a house
that was already built, and the house may have been five years old.
It was a nice house. It was like six bedrooms to stories. We
were put a pool in there and everything. But again, I was high
tech text and in this house was not as high tech because technologically advanced Cat
six wired homes weren't really built in the late nineties and Wi Fi really wasn't
as prevalent it were as fast or as secured as it is today. So
you had to actually wire your home with category six wire, big thick wire
that you know, you plug in with an Ethernet thing. And then if
you have a relatively new house right now, maybe twenty years, that's that's
generally what's in your walls. There's Cat six kits Category six wire. So
I had a company come out and they busted over fifty holes into the sheet
rock of this new home. I'm not kidding you, little tiny eils,
and they would pull cable and I had them pull this cable into every room,
my office, uh, the bedrooms, the kitchen, the kitchen wall.
I had them. I'm not kidding you. I had Tom install a
CAT five outlet, CAT six outlet, or a CAT five or CAT six
outlet in my garage. And this company is like, why do you want
a garage? Well, back then, in two thousand and three, two
thousand and four, I thought I had an idea of where technology in streaming
was going, since I parked my car in the garage and I knew that
physical media was coming to an end. There's no more CDs, there's no
more tapes. I knew that cars were gonna have potentially a hard drive,
and I figured maybe one day cars are going to have a Category five Cat
five, a CAT six cable in your car to upload songs into the hard
drive. So I said, you know what, let's just put a CAT
five, Just put it, just put an internet out let, them call
it that internet outlet in the garage. Turns out and never came to that.
But it turns out I put a freaking TV and internet and table in
my garage. If you're building a homeline, and I get this, if
you're building a home, always overthink it. You do not know where technology
is going because it changes. It used to change generation to generation, because
I'm talking twenty to twenty five years ago, which is the definition of a
generation. Technology now changes every few years. So whatever technology is out there,
if you're building a when you're building it, when you're upgrading a home,
take a look at that. But I'm gonna go back to Napster.
It introduced digitally delivered music, and that's why I thought I was ahead of
the gamers. Art was big, Napster was made. It was underground hobby
and it was software and whatever it was, but it was this is how,
this is how we get it right now. That hasn't changed in twenty
five years. If you're listening to me on iHeartRadio, you can listen by
now stream radio stations from all over the United States of America. You can
to listen to my Houston based show almost anywhere in the world. I say
almost because I don't think China lets it in there, but almost. If
you want to download songs or having unlimited supply of streaming songs, you could
pay a fee what is it, nine ten eleven dollars on iHeart or many
other subscription services, and you can listen. You don't get to go to
the record store. It's a record store. Kids digitally delivered music. That
was one of the things Napter changed, but Napster changed how music is sold
sold. In nineteen ninety nine Napster was launched, music CD sales were twenty
three billion dollar. I want you to think of that. Twenty three billion
dollars. Nearly eighty eight percent of recorded music revenue was CD sales. All
right. It was massive back then, and then by twenty twenty three,
last year, five hundred and thirty seven million. It went from twenty three
billion in twenty years, it goes down to five hundred and thirty million.
Still something, but it's nothing. We don't buy a lot of stuff physically
right now. Napster also disrupted how artist made a living. Artists relied on
sales of recorded music to keep their craft, and Napster it really led to
the come out against it as a business model. They did. If a
band sold ten thousand copies of an album, maybe it could earn fifty thousand
dollars in revenue. But now people were download they were getting getting for free.
What happens? I heard something the other day. I heard nowadays the
only way or the key way to make music if you're an artist is to
go on tour is to go on tour, you almost break even. If
you make an album, you go on tour. The bigger the tour,
the better. Taylor Swift, Beyonce, you too, Laughing all the way
to the bank. Absolutely changed the paradigm. Shift to models. And finally
it wasn't just music. Napster ushered in the future of streaming music, but
also movies too. It was movies. It was the connections. We stream
so many things today. Most consumers get their music from streaming services, and
we get our movies, and we get our td from streaming services. To
all because two young dudes back in the late nineties, the two seans,
the kids who did things illegal, changed it. So keep dreaming, people,
but keep it legal. If you will. We have a winner for
the Cabo Bobs. One more hour. We may give another one away coming
up next. Dairy Queen comes out with a new bullet, several new Blizzard
flavors. Why do they do this to me? Why do they torture me
just when I try to lose weight? The greatest dessert known to man,
This is an unpaid endorsement pound for Bound. The greatest dessert ever is it
Darry Queen Blizzard go freaking new flavors too. Not a good thing. Well,
it's a great thing, but it's not a good thing. Also,
Google Maps just came out with something new. And if you're in New York
for some other big city and you need to use a public restroom, this
is going to come in and make so much fun. Here. Michael Garfield
is a day Hi Tech dex and show. I is Michael Garfield. Michael
Garfield. Michael Garfield joining us in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is
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a halfy hour here on the Michael Garfield program. That means we're halfway through
the show. It is a nice, hot early June Saturday. I hope
you are enjoying something nice and cool in the pool. We got one more
hour here for you to go. One way to cool down is ice cream.
Well, I think most everyone loves ice cream. I understand some people
have an in into ice cream or an intolerance to dairy. And I do
feel sad for you because ice cream is great? Is the problem with with
with me? And actually anything that's fattening, I try to stay away from
it. I mean, listen, I'm not getting younger, and I mean
I'm I'm dude. I'm taking Peloton classes like their M and m's. I
watch what I eat. I mean, I really don't eat eat ice cream.
If I can eat anything, I mean I probably would have ice cream.
Listen without you know, I was gonna say without naming products. I
mean certain, it's tough to say it without Bluebell here in Texas or anything
else. It's it's good, it melts. Where are there? Where are
the ice cream trucks? By the way, ice cream? You know?
The little ding? Oh? Is it one of the greatest does skit from
Eddie Murphy? Was it? That? Was that Eddie Murphy raw or or
delirious mom ice drunk quarter Here he goes on, get you get your brother
oasted toasted on the wall. Oh, those are phenomenal. I don't see
a lot of ice cream trucks right now. The point is ice cream is
great. This is not a commercial, I wish it was, but dairy
Queen, which is an institution. It really is. If you do live
near a dairy Queen, dairy Queen's, it's interesting of where they are and
where they aren't. Dairy Queen has to me again unpaid endorsement. Dairy Queen
if you're listening, or Warren Buffet, whoever owns it, just this is
you know how to get a hold of me. Dairy Queen has the greatest
dessert known to man. I absolutely love dairy Queen blizzards. Blizzards have been
around for a long long time. It's it's not a shakes. It's ice
cream in a cup mixed in with one of many, many many things,
cookies, cookie does, mint, chocolate chip, candy bars, I filling,
I mean dog here. I don't even know what they put it.
It's anything they put in it. You could put anything in a blizzard and
it's got. I will eat almost anything that blues except mayonnaise. I would
not eat mayonnaise anything. So I get it. I get an email from
the the pr team at at Dairy Queens last Wednesday, and they're very nice.
Uh, and I'll read it down. I want to read the whole
thing. Good afternoon. This summer DQ restaurants in Texas, they're turning up
the heat. But six yummy new flavors people, And I'm saying this as
a PSA. This is a public service announcement to you if you do like
this, and I'm opening up a discussion too. Seven one three, two,
one two five nine five. Oh, I need to note your favorite
dessert in the history of the world. But don't tell me Mom's apple.
Buy something that you can just go buy because I'm doing fast food stuff right
now. Let me give you the six flavors of dairy Queen blizzards. Here
we go, and I'm gonna tell you yay or nay. This is a
new one new that you have to use the word new, new picnic peach
cobbler blizzard. I don't like peach, not for me. Sorry, now
in it butter cookie dough party blizzard. You had me at peanut butter.
I actually probably would eat mayonnaise if it had a peanut butter on it.
Peanut butter, not even arguably, is the greatest food known to man.
Don't come at me, Do not calling to bake me. Don't even talk
to me if you don't agree in it. Butter cookie dough party but I
don't even know. Hold on, maybe maybe I click this. What is
a party blizzard? Maybe it's got the ingredients over here I need to know.
Uh No, I have a picture of it, peanut butter cookie part
It looks like there's confetti or sprinkles in there. Oh my goodness, I'm
like a cow. Of course, of course they don't. It's in the
calorie town number three, the new Ultimate cookie Blizzard. I got to see
a picture of this. What's an ultimate cookie lizard? Look ultimate? It
looks like it looks like uh oreos. It looks like chocolate chip cookies.
But it looks like kind of a chocolate ice cream, which I like chocolate
ice cream better than ben. Oh, you're idiot. I should actually rid
Oreo chips, ahoy and nutter butter toss up? Toss up. Okay,
I'm two for three right now, uh and then we have three more.
It doesn't have the word new. Maybe these have been around Brownie blat brownie
batter blizzard. That sounds familiar. I think I used to get brownie battered
blizzard because I like Bronie's frosted animal cookie. Get it? Speaking of anywhere?
Get they get at it? They frosted animal cookies? Are you kidding
me? Remember those little things, the pink and white things you would get.
They're christed up. There's a picture of it. They are. They're
freaking frosted. It looks like it's pink ice cream. Okay uh? And
then finally hot and candy. I'll pass on that. I don't like cotton.
Yeah, it got candy sticky. I'm sure this sin is sticky.
But dude, I'm looking at this brownie bat because this brownie batter it is
one hundred percent of chocolate ice cream. So I'm held hostage and I could
pick one. Do I go brownie batter in a butter cookie? Dough party?
Ultimate cookie? Okay? I'm eliminating ultimate cookie because I love peanut butter,
but by looks I have to go with brownie batter and don't get said
calm? Can we get? And the funny thing is they wanted to know,
Oh, Calum, you're not gonna like me? Love it to give
you the final sentence of this of the press release, which flavor can we
bring you to experience next week. I didn't respond. Oh wait, wait
we still in the air. Sorry, callum, Maybe it's not delayed.
I'll see if they can bring some by. I'll see the I don't need
this. Hold on real quick before we get out of here. I am
going to look at calories in DQ blizzard and I know this can range anything
nutrition facts. How many calories do you give blizzard frosted animal cookie? Oh?
Good? Only twelve hundred and ninety awesome that's for large though, you
go many and it's four hundred two. Who in the world is going to
get a mini am I into tiny? It's a freaking Dixie cup? Which
ooh public service? Which blizzard from Dairy Queen has the least calories? The
Oreo cookie Blizzard only has three hundred and thirty? Very nice, by the
way, Oh my, I just go what is the unhealthiest thing at Dairy
Queen? You ready for this brownie cookie dough Blizzard? Fifteen hundred and ten
calories worth it? Absolutely worth it. Here's the thing. I'm losing weight.
I'm on the peloton. If I can lose I'm gonna get I have
a number in my head, but I'm not telling you what it is if
I can get to this number at some point during the summer. So I've
got easily ten pounds to go. Oh, I can do it. I
can do it by fourth in July. I am going to eat a blizzard
on the air. Not that you care, but that's how good it is.
I know way does a public trips announcement could have been a ten minute
commercial for Dairy Queen, but I swear it wasn't. I don't think Dairy
Queen actually does radio commercials. When we come back, well between now and
the end of the show, I will give you some really good healthy calories
to get with a Cabo Bob's Gift Certificate gift card, and also something new
came out of Google. And who wants to fit? Who wants to hear
what Garth's driving this week? You like hummers? You like a GMC hummer?
Who wants an electra commer probably be the biggest oxymoron in the history of
vehicles. I had one this past week, and I'll tell you how it
was on the old gar Hi Tech text and shoves tweak Kia. Along with
me answering your questions and emails about what should I buy. Oh, by
the way, you're going through some dad's to day gifts. First hour if
you want to hear that a good friend Callum reed to hear only of the
side of the the glass who pushes buttons and produces a lot of stuff here
for us. He is going to put the entire show on podcasts. You
can go to iHeartRadio, download the app, look for kp r C.
You can look for Michael Garfield. Then you can hear the first hour of
what should Dad get? Here's an idea. If you got some extra cash,
how about getting Dad a brand new gmc hummer. Oh wait a minute,
Dad likes He didn't he didn't like these gas guzzling behemoths. Hey,
no worry, Dad Hummer now comes out with an electric version, an oxymoron
of all OxyS. Right, man Hummers came out Schwarzenegger War, golf War.
These are big, they're beastly, they're ghastly, they're they're they're scary,
they're loud, they're gas guys. Let Oh no, no, Now
there is a very super quiet type because it doesn't have a gas engine.
It's got a motor. Oh wait a minute, the one I got to
drive has three motors. It is time for me to talk about what's Scarf
driving this week. Every week I do get the opportunity to test drive one,
if not two, sometimes three per week a vehicle, for me to
tell you about it, for me to love on it, or for me
to crap on it. This is not even sponsored by anybody. These do
not come from a dealership. I'm not promoting a dealership. So if there's
one dude I trust, it is me when it comes to vehicles. The
nice folks at GMC, and they are nice folks. I have a long,
nice relationship with GMC. By the way out of Michigan, they decided
to, hey, let's like Garf play in the relatively new twenty twenty four
Hummer EV. The electric vehicle, specifically the three X is what it is,
and there's several different versions of it. And I'm sitting here wondering and
then Dad's days coming up. If you want you know my thoughts at EV's
I'm not the biggest EV fan only because I am not a fan of the
charging system in the United States of America. There's not enough available chargers.
They're too slow. I have range anxiety and it's just it's so much easier
to stop almost anywhere in the world to get gas versus plugging things out.
So that's my I'd like EV's. I just don't like the way they charge
right now. So there's my thoughts. But if you want an ED,
that makes sense since you may shy away from the GMC hum or. EV.
You want something that's efficient, may not be for you. Want something
that's affordable, not for you. Happy Father's Day. If you want to
spend about one hundred and five to one hundred and ten thousand dollars on the
vehicle that I was driving this past week head turn factor eight out of ten.
That's high me neighbors, my neighbors. My neighbors must think I'm a
drug dealer. Every week a company comes up to my front door and they
give me a new car, a new vehicle. They switch out my own
one, they give me a new one. Here's the Key's Michael, and
he's like, what's this dude? Do I kid? Because I've been here
seven years, I know all my neighbors, but like, what are you
driving this week? Man? And I roll around some of some unbelievable new
Corvette C eight mid engine sexiest car gover driven ten out of ten. I'm
driving down the highway, people are videotaping me. Sometimes I'm driving in the
Kia super Ruled two weeks ago. Very good cars. I don't even get
a glance heads. It's one of my rating factors. This hummer ev stands
out. It's big, massive need. Out of ten people, whoo,
what is this thing? Tell me about it? That was good. But
it's huge and it's wide. It's a very wide vehicle. Parking spaces in
Texas are, for the most part, depending where you are, they are
designed. The lines are drawn a little larger, a little wider the parking
space is in other parts of the country because there's so many pickup trucks of
so many large vehicles in Texas. That's a fact. But even when I'm
parking in these white spots, I'm like, oh my god, I think
I think I'm scooching over the line over here. I mean, this thing
has got not one, not two, but three wiper blades. He'd obviously
rain this past week and so I used them. I'm sitting so up high
and think I'm driving a bus. It's huge. It's rooming in front and
in back, it's great you want to schlep something in the back. It's
only got two rows, but that third rogue that that third that cargo space
in the back. When you open up the tailgate, which opens left to
right, does not open top to bottom, left to right. The spare
tire back there. It's got a nice space to hold several suitcases, easily
get fit my golf clubs. Fold the second row down. I could probably
camp back there. Good space, but when you're driving it is wide,
so you have to watch the blind spots that it's it's it's a little tough
over there. But it's heavy, and the reason why it's heavy is the
reason why evs are heavy. It's called a battery pack. Batteries a lot
of the times are heavier than the engine. This literally has no engine.
You open the the hood what we typically call that front hood and guess what's
in there. Storage space. It's called I call it, A lot of
people call it a fronk, a front trunk. GMC calls it an e
trunk. Whatever. Not huge. It's there to hold probably get six eight
grocery bags from AGB. But the one I had has sky panels on it.
You could take these four there's two in the front, two in the
back. They're like moon roofs, but they're glass or the glass plastic sky
panels that you can look up. You could take each individually, one of
these off and you can storm them in the e trunk the fronk under the
hood. That's pretty cool. But then Beanery itself is underneath the vehicle,
and it is massive. It's a very large battery, which is a good
thing in one sense. It's a two hundred and five kilowade battery that gives
you more miles of range, allegedly up to three hundred and fifty miles of
range, and that is a good number in today's range knowleage for EBS Well,
I love that old. These batteries aren't light. The truck weighs over
nine thousand pounds. Don't get me wrong. Because it's electric, and because
it's got three motors, you can go to zero to sixty and like three
seconds. It is super fast. But hold on to your dear life when
you try to stop that thing, because you're stopping over nine thousand pounds.
It drives very smoothly, though I will tell you that the turning ratio and
the radius is actually amazing for the size of it. Two Inside, it's
got GM Super Cruise, which is that advanced driver assistant feature. I like
it. It's pretty cool. You take your hands and I've talked about this
several times for the past month or two. You take your hands off the
steering wheel, you take your foot off of the throttle of the gas pedal,
and technology with the cameras and the GPS. You go down some highways
that have been premapped. You don't need to do anything. It changes lanes
by itself. It's good interior, semi luxurious. I must say the dash,
the door panels, the center consoles, They've got a little leather.
The seats are cooled. I like that they're heated to which I don't care
for six figures. I think that I'm a Masushie coming there with a massace
function, but they don't. You love the touch screen thirteen point four inch
touch green. It's a horizontal mounted too. Yes, it's got Android.
Yes, it's got applecar Play graphics that really need to You could see the
pitch and the yaw and the roll, so you could take this thing off
off road, off track. It's got built in Google software. You know,
I'm a Google guy, which is Android too, so you could say,
hey, hey Google, there's Google Maps included there. Good digital cluster
two off roading is I didn't take it off roading as nice, but but
the tires are absolutely massive, which is awesome too. But the thing is
though, it's got three hundred and twenty five, three hundred and thirty,
three hundred and fifty miles. Okay, good. I didn't have to charge
it, but I've heard stories that you got to charge these things a while
to fill up your battery with a level one or a level two charger.
It's a lot. It's a cool truck, it's a cool ev it's a
head turner. It is meat. It's one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
If you've got money, if you take this thing off road, if you
want to be ostentatious, you want to have a little Hubris, go get
it for me. Not an everyday car, too big to park, certainly,
probably too big and too expensive even charge for batteries. But damn GMC,
they're on this something. There's also a pickup judge Version two. Thoughts
in this thing? Do you have one? Do you agree or disagree?
I'm here for you thirty four minutes seven one three, two, one two
five nine five though we come back. Michael Garfields thirty more minutes to go,
Happy Summer, Happy second Saturday in June twenty twenty four. If you're
listening live kp RC Radio nine fifty am, I got a few open phone
lines that I'm at. You know what, let's let's clog the phone lines
right now, just to make sure you're awake, Calum Color nine right now.
Who wants a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bobs? Oh my
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nine five. Oh, Cabo Bob's that is for you. Congratulations, whoever
you are to win. I was just talking about Google. I was I
was giving the I was talking about Hummer ev and there's Google built in and
you can push a button and you can say the wake up word words,
which is did Jeremy I say a softie? Because here in studio I have
a Google mess right here, and it's gonna listen to every word I said
it. I don't even know if you heard it in the background. When
I said those wake up words, it started talking to me. Does that
ever happen to you when you just say the word alexa? Say, I
don't have an Alexa here, so I just I know I just screwed your
Alexa up, but I don't have one in the studios, so ha ha,
Sorry. Do you know how to stop it from listening to every word?
And I just thought about this because it is to happening to me Because
advertisers, all the people who buy the data, they know a lot about
you. They don't need to listen to discover your secrets. But you better
believe they are listening right now. Yeah. Are you worried about your security?
Your privacy? Uh? Big big tech companies are not worried about it.
But someone's always listening. Somebody's watching me. There's a hidden there's actually
if you have a Google account, there's actually a hidden feature in your Google
account that is snagging audio recordings from your web and app activity and all the
interactions that you have with your digital assistance. Not that Google's gonna tell you
they're only listening for commands to boost marketing efforts. I technically it's a breach
of privacy and that could lead to way more problems like that. You need
to put you need to do. You need to put the digital ear mops
earmufs. You're smarter than Google people. Let me tell you how to do
it. I'm gonna talk slow so your Google can understand too. Open the
Google, open your smartphone and go to your Google app, Google Google App.
But now you want you to collect manage your Google account. Manage your
account, and there's a little tab that says data and privacy. Then you
go to history. Man, look at your history man. It knows everything
what you're doing. Then you select web and app activity. Odds are you're
gonna see a blue check mark next to that voice and audio activity setting.
Oops, better unchecked that. Oh boh, go to web in activity,
uncheck it. Boom magic audio recordings from all of your interactions with Google Surge
and all the maps and all your assistant They are now not saved to your
Google account, and they won't get saved on Google see on your Google servers
either, Boom, anything else I can help you with. Now, he's
not gonna wipe out any of the previously saved audio recordings. You have to
do that separately. You still have to go to your data in privacy and
your Web in act activity and your managing activity, and you have to delete.
You could do You could do it all at once. You could delete
one of them, You could do it all the time. We talked about
this a lot when when first assistants came out Amazon Alexa was that was really
the first one at home. And then there's Siri, and obviously there's Google
two, and then there's Big Speed, and there's I mean, all these
other names are coming up. But are they listening to you? They are
listening to you, you don't want to The thing is, though, if
you don't want to listen to it, unplug it, don't use the dang
thing. But there are some steps, Like I just told you, you
have to go into your setting to you you really sometimes have to dig down
into those settings and turn them off. But sometimes when you turn these settings
off of a lot of things, even your phone you're not going to get
the benefit of using a phone. I use this analogy all the time.
Michael, How can we be one hundred percent sure that the big companies are
not stealing our data? They don't know anything. Oh well, that's easily.
Just turn off your phone, never turn on. Well, guess what,
your phone becomes a brick. There's no use having a phone. Sometimes
you have to have GPS on. Well is the company tracking me? Well
maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But the fact is I use Google
Maps a lot of the time. I know where I'm going, but I
actually use it for traffic, real time traffic. Let me help you out.
If my GPS is not turned on, it don't know where I am.
It ain't gonna give me the fastest route, it ain't gonna tell me
how to get around the traffic, and ain't gonna tell me nothing. So
yes, I acquiesce I collect GPS. Do you think I'm concerned that someone
in Google, someone of the servers is going to be tracking me from my
home in Fort Benn County because I'm going to Dairy Queen, about six miles
away, just to get a new blizzard. Uh huh. See what I
did it's called the call back. Earlier in the show, I'm really not
going to dry quick. Don't that worry. I don't sneak around. The
thing is, though, if they do know how many times a week I
do go to the grocery store, they do know how many times a week
I do go to my office, or how many times a week I stop
at a specific uh fast food place or a clothing store. Guess what they're
gonna do. They're gonna start serving me ads going, Hey, I know
you go to the SaaS food place. Here's if I want to do want
Oh you go to this, you go to this men's shop. Apparently you're
looking for suits and men's clothes and shirts. Let me start serving you some
ads. There's it's that's money to them. Eyeballs are money, just like
ears are money to us here in the radio business. We want your ears,
we want your mind. Because what we do we do two things.
And I'm quoting the general manager of our market, the great Eddie Margini.
We entertain you and then we tell you where to shop. But that's a
good thing. I do tell you where to shop because I'm the guy who
researches. I go tell you to go to US coins and Jewelry. I'm
not just saying that out of my you know what. I know there are
good deals and I know there's some cool stuff there. We give you some
entertainment, make you laugh, give you some ideas to think about. And
oh, by the way, I'm gonna go tell you where to get a
new roof. I'm gonna go tell you where it gets a new concrete.
If you want a new guarding center, I'm gonna tell you where that is
to. That's what we do earballs money and we do thank you for your
ears congratulations. We do it with winner for the Cabo Bobs. By the
way, I'm gonna tell you where to eat. Go to Cabo Bob's.
I go to the one the meadows of the southwest side of town. It's
near the gallery on San Filippe, not too far from that HB on Fountain
View. There's one in Cypress, and there's one in Katie, and there's
several in Austin. Cabo Bob's some who is it and don't count don't tell
me his name is Bob. It's Janet. Congratulations Janet, Janet, you
want it? Twenty five dollar gift card to Cabo Bob's let me give you
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Give it the Dad's say love you still lie check I did twenty five dollars
with a taco the damn good tacos by the way, really good tacos.
So there you go. That is the deal with Google. One more time.
Speaking of Google Maps, Google Maps can tell you a lot of stuff.
And I love Google Maps and I use Google. I don't use Ways,
I don't use Apple Maps, I don't use Yahoo Maps. I have
an Android phone. Google's built in. I'm used to it. I use
Google Maps. They have a ton of things. There's a lot of different
layers in Google Maps. You can put traffic on. You can put toll
ways. If you don't want to drive on a toll way, you can
uncheck it. You can have everything whether do I want to go through rain
or whatever it is. There's a new layer that you can add in Google
Map. I think it is in New York City right now, but it's
going on. Apparently public restrooms aren't easy to find in New York City.
Some most of them aren't clean. So you're at the mercy of like sneaking
into a hotel or a restaurant or a store. New there's a new something
on Google Maps. There's a new layer. It's called You're in Luck and
I see what they did here. You're as in you are in different in
luck. You're in luck as in urine. You see what they did their
bathroom. I see what you did. You're in luck, You're in trouble.
There is a layer on Google Maps where you could find more than one
thousand public restrooms located in New York City. It's not awesome, people,
I've been doing this for twenty two years, and you know I'd love to
see paradigm shifts of how Wi Fi started, and how the advent of napster
twenty five years ago, this week to paradigm shift to music. I love
seeing how laptops now or just as are small as cell phones, and which
used to be in cell phones with the size of laptops. No, no,
no, I'm here to actually ragging the fact that in my twenty two
years of existence, I'm now telling you that you can find a public restroom
on Google Maps. That's what I'm here for. That's what I'm here to
entertain you. It's unbelievable. It's good stuff. Final break coming up over
here, I will take your calls. I will tell you a subscription service
that you watch on a regular basis. Guess what they're raising prices again,
getting we're getting priced out of streaming. It's not so fun. Which one
do you want to drop? But I'll tell you which one is raising its
prices And this is a pretty big one too. Final lap coming up Michael
Darfield, the high Tech Decks and show. I'll segment we do thank you
for hanging around this show. Where odds are you may learn something, odds
are you may learn nothing, but you may laugh. Because that's it's really
what we're here for. To entertain you and tell you where to s maybe
give away a few things. And also this particular epitode episode give you a
little idea of what the shop for dad Dad's day. Hey, if your
dad is single and they do and not Mary not going out, you tell
dad to get on a dating app. I get this all the time,
Michael. You need to get on a dating app as technologically advanced as I
am. I just I don't know. I'm a really You're never gonna beave
this. I don't want to get into it. I'm an incredibly shy person.
I am an introverted extrovert. Do you give me a radio microphone,
you give me a TV camera, I will smile and I'll talk for hours
upon it. You have me go up and try to talk to someone of
the female persuasion. And I'm telling you, especially the females who I know,
and then my dude's also my buddies, they know. It just ain't
happen. And I just don't feel like getting on an app. But maybe
I should move to Japan. This is an interesting story I saw coming out.
Apparently people in Japan they want people having babies. They want to to
do hupples up and get married. Yeah, you know, it's bad enough
when your mom asked why you're not married and she tries to say that yep.
If you live in Tokyo, the government they're going to help you find
someone to have some babies with because this city of Tokyo they just launched their
own dating app the city. Imagine the city of Houston doing this, but
the city of Tokyo have launched a dating app because they've learned that seventy percent
of people who want to get married, they're not attending any events or joining
apps to meet a partner, and they want to give them a gentle push
to find one. So if you want to do this in Tokyo, you
have to prove you're legally single and you're willing to marry, and plus you
have to provide proof of income. I'm not thinking this is a dumb idea
and this, believe it or not, it's all part of a response to
Japan's declining birth rate. Japan had more than twice as many deaths as burst
last year. They want, they want kiddos over there. Okay, not
making this story about me, but good news, bad news. I ain't
having no more kids. Breaking news, Nope, I'm three and out people.
They're all in their twenties. I'm done though with that. But I
don't know if I because I I don't get on dating apps, but if
I would get on one, that that that that someone in the chicks to
they legally have to prove their single and they're legally willing to get married,
and they have to provide proof of their income. Okay, I may be
down with that, maybe down with that. How do you prove you're willing
to marry you have to? Is it? It's like a blood squear?
I mean, how that's iffy to me? Hey, I'm ready, I
am and want to remain. And I'm telling you this and I meet it
from my art. It is the government gonna believe me, because government don't
believe an easy. I am legally single. I would like to see.
Uh, it would be fun actually if you on these dating apps. And
actually there's some dating apps that may actually have you put there. I don't
know. I really don't know if if you're an expert in dating apps here
in the United States that don't have a lot of time seven one three two
one two five nine five Oho, if I can get to I will.
Do you have to put your income on these things? I mean it's a
are you running for president? We're legally have to put your income, but
over the past few presidents ago you just said, screw it, we're not
gonna put our income out there. It's Japan. Look at you, Look
at you. I'm not having a kid, so I guess i'd like to
visit Japan. I hear it's a nice thing. Well, how did I
get on this tangent? I'm not even sure I know I was good to
Gobut wasn't gonna talk about one more things? Uh No, I'm not gonna
take no time for any more calls over here. That's day gift one more
time? Oh I just got one, Michael. I know this is not
a sexy Dad Day gift, but every time I go to my parents' house,
they have the worst WiFi in the world. I don't even want to
go visit my parents, but I love my parents. Can you help me
think of a great gift for my parents, even if it's a Wi Fi
Ralph router? Okay, this is Julie, Julia's and Pairland. You don't
laugh. Jules. By the way, are you single? You want to
get married? And by the way, what's your in gam? I see
what they did there? I need a picture first. What hey, it
may be time to I've talked about this before. How old is your WiFi
router? And do you even have a WiFi router? And if you go
to your parents' house and some of you know what I'm talking about, your
shad yet their WiFi A is not existent or be it sucks? There are
new ones out there. There's Wi Fi seven, There's Wi Fi six is
more widespread. But Wi Fi has been around at the consumer level right when
I started my high tech taxtionhit I'm gonna go back two thousand and one,
two thousand and two. I remember I'm on Channel two and I did a
segment on Channel two, and I remember explaining what Wi Fi was, and
I used to I used to ask a great trivia question. And by the
way, this is a great bar trivic question. What does wi fi stand
for? The correct answer is nothing. It is a made up term.
It does not stand for wireless fidelity. It was a play on the term
hi thigh high fidelity back when LP records came out in the sixties and seventies.
Wi Fi stands for nothing. Boom you went by. Anyway, Wi
Fi routers they are prevalent, they are getting faster, and they're actually spreading
their signals out further. Julie, if your look, I don't know what
your budget is, but on the low end, that will give you a
few models a few manufacturers. Netgear makes a good budget router for under one
hundred dollars. I think you can get that on Amazon. There's another one
that I've used for I test this out a few years ago. It's called
TP link as in toilet paper ice, TP dash l IGENK. They have
some that's under one hundred dollars too, But then again TP also makes some
high ends mesh systems too. You can find those. Some of them are
two hundred and three hundred dollars. If you have if mom or Dad,
if you have a big area to cover a big house, a big warehouse,
might I suggest a mesh Wi Fi system. Just go look for the
word. Mesh. Generally comes with a Wi Fi router, you know,
with the little antenna's, but it also comes with one or two little repeat
satellites. And what it does is you put these little satellite little things,
you plug them in around your home if you've got a two or three story
home, and it creates this wireless mesh network. It's kind of like our
cell phone data system, I mean our cell phone system. There's towers all
over cities and it creates a mesh system wherever you go, wherever you're drive,
if you're in a parking lot, you're relatively going to get decent l
phone service. This mesh system is the same thing. It covers your house,
it covers just outside your house. Some mesh systems are so powerful you
could probably light up a very small neighborhood too, And so TP link is
one. Asis actually makes one. It's a very fast gaming router. Netgear
very expensive net Gear has one. I think about four hundred dollars. I
wouldn't spend over four hundred dollars on any Wi Fi system. I'd spend at
least eighty five maybe one hundred dollars, but I wouldn't go four hundred because
you can get yourself something in the middle. So how about that, Julie,
Happy Father's Day to daddy. Let me know what you get. I
do have to end the show. Calum, you are not a dad,
but I met your dad. Callum, I met your dad. Remember I
gave you. I gave you a bottle of bourbon and you and your dad
killed it, like in an hour. I may have to do that again.
Michael Garfield is the name. I am a father of three. Love
my boys. They don't listen because they're sleeping right now. Hopefully I did
not put you to sleep. This is called the High Tech Text and Show.
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Day. Stay cool out there where your son's screen. How about those Dallas
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