Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfer.
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Speaker 1: Why don't you begin the twenty third year of the
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan show a Happy New Year, Lassia Latova,
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Speaker 1: we appreciate that. First time here all we're gonna have
Speaker 1: some fun. I swear I'm not gonna tell you how
Speaker 1: to fix your computer, despite what you think with the
Speaker 1: high tech texts and is about, I ain't doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy who's gonna entertain you for maybe two
Speaker 1: hours unless we're preempted by basketball and whatever market you're in.
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Speaker 1: give you some tips. We're gonna take your calls, your questions,
Speaker 1: because yes, you probably got some holiday gifts that you
Speaker 1: know what. Yeah, I appreciate my kids. They love me.
Speaker 1: They gave me a little something something. I don't want this, man,
Speaker 1: this is a piece of crap. Ah No, no, Michael,
Speaker 1: what should I return it for? One of the many
Speaker 1: things that I could do for you? And I just
Speaker 1: don't do tech gadgets. However, this next week, week and
Speaker 1: a half, two weeks are gonna be a little tech
Speaker 1: centric and I'll tell you why. But I do. I
Speaker 1: do trucks, I do fashion. I actually got me some
Speaker 1: new athletic leisure. It's called athleisure. That's what the word is, where,
Speaker 1: you know, lose a little weight in that last year,
Speaker 1: hoping to keep it off in this new year, so
Speaker 1: I gotta look fit. If you don't believe me, you
Speaker 1: could check out the things I post an I video
Speaker 1: and I take photos. You can go to the website
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan spell the whole thing out. If that's okay,
Speaker 1: High Tech t e x a n high Tech Texan
Speaker 1: dot com Instagram close to fifty thousand followers. Can we
Speaker 1: hit fifty five thousand before the end of the show.
Speaker 1: It's up to you. People start off the New Year
Speaker 1: right and follow me high Tech Texan. I am on X,
Speaker 1: I am on Blue Sky, I'm on threads. I you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little trepidation of how much I post war
Speaker 1: and when I am not on TikTok, something I never
Speaker 1: ever did. Just no reason for the other is just
Speaker 1: do I really need another social media platform? Plus, is
Speaker 1: TikTok going to be around? We are less than three
Speaker 1: weeks allegedly from it being banned in the United States. However,
Speaker 1: your incoming future president United States has just asked Congress
Speaker 1: to push back the January nineteenth date to ban TikTok
Speaker 1: until after the inauguration. I don't know, maybe he just
Speaker 1: wants people making videos of his inauguration.
Speaker 3: Me.
Speaker 1: I would rather TikTok be around a few extra days
Speaker 1: because in the same night of inauguration, it is the NATTY,
Speaker 1: the National Championship for college football, and let's hope our
Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns are there. We are just one game away
Speaker 1: to see if our Horns play in the National championship
Speaker 1: woo past few weeks. Man, tell you what I wish,
Speaker 1: spitz a idea. I had a decent and a nice
Speaker 1: holiday season, you know, spin it s all the kids
Speaker 1: here and there. Well, I'll tell you what my longhorns woo.
Speaker 1: They put me my blood pressure, my blood pressure up
Speaker 1: and down, especially during that last Peach Bowl. It was tight. However, Dallas,
Speaker 1: the Horns, actually sorry, Arlington Horns are coming to you
Speaker 1: later this week in the Cotton Bowl versus the Ohio
Speaker 1: State again. Big football guy right over here. Hey, let
Speaker 1: me give you the phone number. It's an interactive radio show.
Speaker 1: Anybody want to call him? It's three four six twenty
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Speaker 1: goes to voicemail, we do have the right to record
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Speaker 1: answer your question. So leave a voicemail saying Garth, you
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Speaker 1: what I would like you to review and or just
Speaker 1: a typical question. How you know is that your real hair? Yes?
Speaker 1: It is. By the way, how old are you going
Speaker 1: to be this year? Not going to tell you, but
Speaker 1: you may even figured it out on my birthdays next month.
Speaker 1: It's the milestone. But you know whatever, we move on
Speaker 1: three four, six, twenty nine t e XA. And with
Speaker 1: that we are going to start a number of things
Speaker 1: because these these three months of the year, let's see,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go November, December and January always have been
Speaker 1: my busiest of the year, always and generally if you
Speaker 1: have a real job versus kind of like a fake
Speaker 1: job like I do in the media, these are the
Speaker 1: slowest month, right, Yeah, it take some time off. We're
Speaker 1: gonna vacation, We're gonna go skim, We're gonna go to
Speaker 1: Mexico whatever, like, no, no, no. This is a holiday
Speaker 1: shopping season where I have to pop on a number
Speaker 1: of outlets all across the country regularly. You know, this
Speaker 1: is the great last minute buys. This is the steal today.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to buy a car, you
Speaker 1: know before December thirty first, this is what you should
Speaker 1: be looking for. So I have been busy and it
Speaker 1: doesn't stop on January first. No, it continues because I
Speaker 1: am leaving on yet play this weekend once I hang
Speaker 1: up to my from because I am off to my
Speaker 1: annual johnt to Alas Vegas folks. It is the annual CEES,
Speaker 1: which used to be called the Consumer Electronic Show. Now
Speaker 1: they just go by CEES. This will be my I
Speaker 1: think this is about my twenty second or twenty third
Speaker 1: year I have been to Vegas and you have to
Speaker 1: train for CES. It is the world's largest technology trade show,
Speaker 1: and actually it's one of the world's largest trade shows period.
Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty hundred and eighty thousand people from
Speaker 1: all over the world. They do go to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: It is not open to the public. You need to
Speaker 1: be number one. You need to be a product manufacturer.
Speaker 1: You need to be a buyer, you know, to buy
Speaker 1: the products. You need to be in the media. And
Speaker 1: I do appreciate the folks at the Consumer Electronic Association
Speaker 1: they put it on. They really do treat us or
Speaker 1: we in the media quite well. They have long built
Speaker 1: a radio and TV studio for me and many other
Speaker 1: media folks and organizations right on the floor of the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Convention Center. And I say this is because
Speaker 1: for those of you who have never been to CEES,
Speaker 1: for those of you who saying, oh man, I'd love
Speaker 1: to go to CEES, it's there's good parts and there's
Speaker 1: tough parts. With the thing there, it is so much
Speaker 1: to consume because there's so much walking. It takes up
Speaker 1: the entire Las Vegas Convention Center. It takes the Venetian
Speaker 1: Convention Center over there. There's ballrooms, there's private parties, there's
Speaker 1: there's suites of just information. There's dinners, there's breakfasts, there's speeches,
Speaker 1: there's brunches. You really have to know pan this thing out,
Speaker 1: and you know, I've got lot. I literally have a spreadsheet.
Speaker 1: So I am going to make it simple and bring
Speaker 1: this stuff for you, which is why you should highly
Speaker 1: suggested follow me on all the social media's high tech texts,
Speaker 1: and I'm probably gonna do a lot of the Instagram
Speaker 1: because that's cool. It's easy for me to shoot some
Speaker 1: video quickly uploaded and show you a lot of the
Speaker 1: things that you know, what you probably don't need, don't want,
Speaker 1: can't afford this coming year. And that's the point of CEES.
Speaker 1: Every year. It's in early January, is because companies from
Speaker 1: all over the world will they bring their products. A
Speaker 1: lot of them will hit the showroom for so they
Speaker 1: will be on sale. A lot of them are concepts,
Speaker 1: a lot of them are just research and development. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are just hey, look at me over
Speaker 1: here waving a flag. I want you media people to
Speaker 1: cover me and mention me. I kind of sift through
Speaker 1: all that BS. Is this something that you really want,
Speaker 1: really need? Is it going to change your life? And
Speaker 1: so I already have an idea of what is going
Speaker 1: to be shown there in terms of categories and specific products,
Speaker 1: and I'll run through that, and I'll say this before
Speaker 1: we take our first break. If you see something to
Speaker 1: see a report, Hey, you know this is neat Feel
Speaker 1: free to reach out to me via some of these
Speaker 1: social channels and email, which you'll find on my website,
Speaker 1: high tech Textion dot com. Hey Michael or Garf if
Speaker 1: we're tight, go buy this booth or did you see
Speaker 1: this or did you hop in this concept car or
Speaker 1: whatever and see if you can check this out and
Speaker 1: give me the play by play. I will try to
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Speaker 1: is not what we do. We have too much fun.
Speaker 1: Michael's the name, Michael Garfield, my man, Calum ree Callum.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you, brother? Do you have a
Speaker 1: good one? You did Santi give anything good? I know
Speaker 1: I gave you. Did you kill that? The bottle of
Speaker 1: hoots that I gave you? Did you like that? I'm
Speaker 1: rye Okay, you deserve it. He keeps. He keeps the
Speaker 1: machines well oiled and running. If you want to talk
Speaker 1: to him, he may callum. Decide you in the mood
Speaker 1: to pick up some phone calls? Maybe maybe okay, number here.
Speaker 1: It's it's an interactive calling show. If you want to
Speaker 1: ask questions of what to buy? Is this a good
Speaker 1: Is this a good time of year to get a TV?
Speaker 1: Knowing that football playoffs, super Bowls about a month away?
Speaker 1: Good question. I'm more than happy to give you a
Speaker 1: model or two or three three four six twenty nine
Speaker 1: Texan three four six two nine t e x A N.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield. If we don't pick up, the voicemail should
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Speaker 1: I can listen and play it for you. I will
Speaker 1: be I got a busy weekend for me. I got
Speaker 1: a pack for CEESH the old Consumer Electronics Show, which
Speaker 1: which it's in Vegas, and it starts well, I fly
Speaker 1: out Sunday afternoon. I gotta actually watch the Cowboy game
Speaker 1: on on the plane, hopefully they show it. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then it is walking over under the number of steps
Speaker 1: I take in a single day walking around the massive
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Convention Center, the Venetian Center Center and all
Speaker 1: these other parties over under is twenty thousand steps. And
Speaker 1: I am not kidding you. And I usually take a
Speaker 1: Screenshotah okay, it's a humble brag of how many steps
Speaker 1: I walk on a given day. I've got a train
Speaker 1: for this thing. Now. I'm a runner peloton watch it.
Speaker 1: You know. I'd like to think, I mean relatively good shape,
Speaker 1: certainly for my age. I'll tell you what this takes
Speaker 1: a toll. I mean you are go, go go. I
Speaker 1: mean it's you know, you had no time to you know,
Speaker 1: to change outfits. It's so you know, I got to
Speaker 1: wear me some tennis shoes and just just go, go go.
Speaker 1: But I do it for you people. I do it
Speaker 1: for you. I bring and here's something that you're going
Speaker 1: to love. If is certainly if you're new to the show.
Speaker 1: I generally bring one to two empty suitcases and I
Speaker 1: kind of fold them up, you know, just the soft
Speaker 1: side of what's to Vegas. Because I bring back toys, golow,
Speaker 1: I bring back demos. I bring back sample products that
Speaker 1: companies sometimes will give out the journals like me and
Speaker 1: they say, hey, listen, this is not for you. Why
Speaker 1: don't you give them to your followers on social media?
Speaker 1: Since we know you have so many followers, maybe you
Speaker 1: want to give them on the radio. So this is
Speaker 1: why you follow me. People. You go to High Tech
Speaker 1: Text and h I G H T E C H
Speaker 1: T E X A N on Instagram, on as and
Speaker 1: we give out a lot of stuff there, some of
Speaker 1: the things that I think, and I'm kind of give
Speaker 1: you a play by play of all the emails and
Speaker 1: invites because I got a media pass and you know,
Speaker 1: they want me to stop by this booth, that booth whatever.
Speaker 1: I think some of the trends that are going to
Speaker 1: be around at CES this year, next or this coming week.
Speaker 1: Certainly in twenty twenty five, AI is going to get
Speaker 1: even more pervasive in all areas that I'm walking around
Speaker 1: on the on the CEO show floor. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: going to likely get the slew of new processors and laptops.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be wearables, trackers, There's gonna be bathroom appliances,
Speaker 1: massage chair. Oh, those massage chairs. I'm not getting you.
Speaker 1: I gotta I got a press release invite to some booth,
Speaker 1: and you know, they try to entice you because there's
Speaker 1: over ten thousand different companies, products, pitches and everything in
Speaker 1: this four day you know, massive convention across Vegas, and
Speaker 1: they have to get our attention. Where are we gonna go?
Speaker 1: But there's this one company's massage here, uh you know here,
Speaker 1: dear Michael Hougtak text and no, we want to invite
Speaker 1: you to uh this booth at this time. Please make
Speaker 1: an appointment for a complimentary massage. We're gonna put you
Speaker 1: one of our massage chairs and it's gonna do this
Speaker 1: and this and stretch you and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: It is. It is pretty nice I just don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of time. I mean it might good. I'll
Speaker 1: sit there for five to six minutes and massage here.
Speaker 1: I'll take a video and I'll i'll feature some of
Speaker 1: the new things. Is it heated? Does it? And uh,
Speaker 1: you know? Does it touch?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: Doesn't massage your calves when you're walking. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, but a lot of massage chairs. But
Speaker 1: these it's not just geeky things. It is smart home.
Speaker 1: There's a massive area that continues to grow for smart homes,
Speaker 1: everything from the smart cameras to the even smarter doorbells
Speaker 1: using AI and so when you ring the doorbell, it'll
Speaker 1: recognize somebody's face and it'll announce to you homeowner of
Speaker 1: who's there. There's a lot of that stuff. There's going
Speaker 1: to be TVs too. TV. I think people associate cees
Speaker 1: with high definition TVs, and it really was to some extent,
Speaker 1: even though TV's now are so ubiquitous and you can
Speaker 1: get TVs relatively inexpensive, but I remember when HDTVs and
Speaker 1: flat screens really were first announced to the masses. And
Speaker 1: I'm let's go back to two thousand and one, two
Speaker 1: thousand and two or three you know, when digital TV
Speaker 1: was mandated by the FCC, they were there were fifty inches,
Speaker 1: maybe there was a sixty inch one, and they were
Speaker 1: very expensive. They were, you know, thicker and heavier than
Speaker 1: what they are now. But I mean, you couldn't walk
Speaker 1: around the CES show floor in Vegas without getting a
Speaker 1: sunburn down each aisle because these TVs were just bright
Speaker 1: and blaring and glaring and right in your face. I mean,
Speaker 1: these fifty inch TVs, I'm not kidding you were fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars back in the day. You can get a
Speaker 1: fifty inch TV right now for maybe two hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars, probably even cheaper than that,
Speaker 1: depending on what brand and what time of year. But
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some you know, a new line of lcdtvs.
Speaker 1: LG always does something crazy. I saw this year. They're
Speaker 1: already you know, they have a bendable oled, a forty
Speaker 1: five inch bendable gaming monitor, curve screens, screens that will
Speaker 1: roll up. There's a c through screen that I think
Speaker 1: LG is coming up and it turns what it is
Speaker 1: is if you live in a high rise apartment, for example,
Speaker 1: if you live in a beach, have a beach house. Well,
Speaker 1: and the only place to set a TV is like
Speaker 1: right in front of the window. Well, you have a
Speaker 1: picturesque window. What it's going to block your pretty view? Well,
Speaker 1: when it's turned off, it'll now allow it to be
Speaker 1: see through. You could see through it. It's something you need.
Speaker 1: Probably not. Is it going to be expensive, You dang straight,
Speaker 1: it's going to be expensive. But this is this is
Speaker 1: this stuff. This is the candy that they dangle in
Speaker 1: front of us our eyes. So we can then go
Speaker 1: back on our TV programs like I'm going to do
Speaker 1: and our radio show is going, oh my goodness, this
Speaker 1: is you know, absolutely not what I expected. And now
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's really going to buy this thing.
Speaker 1: Cars and Trucks several years ago, to me, Cees turned
Speaker 1: into kind of the de facto auto show. Most all
Speaker 1: the major auto manufacturers generally have a presence over there,
Speaker 1: and not just American cars. You're going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of the foreign cars, a lot of Chinese companies
Speaker 1: who have a lot of the inexpensive electric vehicles which
Speaker 1: when they if and when through tariffs they're allowed to
Speaker 1: be shipped to the United States. There's not going to
Speaker 1: be as cheap, but uh, they're they're they're interesting to me.
Speaker 1: I cover the car and truck industry very very closely,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm impressed with love some of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But then the world of politics and tariffs and shipping
Speaker 1: and trade get into the way. It's like, man, can't
Speaker 1: we just all you know, we are the world? I
Speaker 1: mean some of the products that are made outside of
Speaker 1: the US, and I love me and some America. Do
Speaker 1: not get me wrong. I will prote promote American products.
Speaker 1: I will prote American companies. I'll it's certainly Texas based companies.
Speaker 1: It's in my freaking moniker. I'm the high tech text
Speaker 1: and so many smart companies in Texas and here America.
Speaker 1: But there really are brilliant companies around the world that
Speaker 1: I think a lot of American companies borrow, for lack
Speaker 1: of a better word, from to make their products. But
Speaker 1: they can be cheaper overseas. Will they be shipped here?
Speaker 1: In tariffs? I don't know. The new administration in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. They they go, you know, they'll move into
Speaker 1: the White House here in a few weeks. But we
Speaker 1: shall see. But I will see some products that I
Speaker 1: will be ooing and aweing about uh if anybody still
Speaker 1: cares about, you know, micro chips whatever. I don't really
Speaker 1: get into the geeky what is you know, it's in
Speaker 1: Vidia versus a m D. There's next generation GPUs and
Speaker 1: all these cool new Radion seven thousand cars that are
Speaker 1: cards that you put into your computers. I'll look at it,
Speaker 1: I'll get into it. I'm pretty much what is it
Speaker 1: going to mean to you? Is it going to meet
Speaker 1: faster computers and cheaper computers and their laptops going to
Speaker 1: get even lighter without without a do. I expect to
Speaker 1: see some really neat new ones. I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: a SU's as US. They are a Taiwan manufacturer of
Speaker 1: a laptops that I spent some time with them last
Speaker 1: year with their design company of you know how they
Speaker 1: get things, continue to be thinner, continue to be lighter,
Speaker 1: continue to have AI in it. I will be going
Speaker 1: to a press conference with them to report back and
Speaker 1: see what's up. And then there's medicine there. I'm getting
Speaker 1: so many emails and invitations and press releases of new
Speaker 1: hearing aids and hearing tests that you can get over
Speaker 1: the counter there's updates you know for some of these
Speaker 1: you know ear pods that will help you know with
Speaker 1: your hearing health for you. You know, the biggest audio
Speaker 1: companies around you know, Sendheiser for example, they make great
Speaker 1: earbuds and great headphones. You know, they launch new models.
Speaker 1: You know they're coming out with stuff and you know
Speaker 1: they're you know, got to have you know, how to
Speaker 1: improve hearing, and you know to stop it. You know,
Speaker 1: you know of keeping the tunes you know so loud
Speaker 1: that can you know, damage your ears, you know how
Speaker 1: you know however, you know, young or whatever age you are.
Speaker 1: I think electricity, the growth of electric cars right now,
Speaker 1: it's nearing about ten percent of new models that are
Speaker 1: sold you know states, but they're gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of new concept vehicles today is going to be all over.
Speaker 1: Hyundai is always you know, already sending me emails and emails.
Speaker 1: You got to stop by this. But you know there's
Speaker 1: also these concepts like you know VT o ls, you know,
Speaker 1: vertical takeoff and landings. These these drones that at some
Speaker 1: point in our lives will carry people Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation.
Speaker 1: They're pledging to actually launch these, you know e VT
Speaker 1: o L services in twenty twenty five air taxis for
Speaker 1: lack of a better better term, I'm gonna see and
Speaker 1: sit in some of those things. Uh, there's going to
Speaker 1: be satellite phones, you know. You know Apple just not
Speaker 1: long ago they introduced their emergency s OS via satellite
Speaker 1: I think that was in the iPhone fourteen a few
Speaker 1: years ago. Well, now you know they're expanding it. You know,
Speaker 1: Qualcom a component maker, you know they're trying to bring
Speaker 1: you know, those similar capabilities to Android devices, to Google
Speaker 1: as launched a satellite calling in their Pixel nine phones, Starlink,
Speaker 1: you know SpaceX, you know elon the Texas Man they
Speaker 1: have you know, gone live already in New Zealand. T
Speaker 1: Mobile opened up you know, beta signups for it's Starlink
Speaker 1: powered satellite cell service. This year, I'm going to see
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of those things. Soundbars are big,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to add those to give
Speaker 1: better sound projectors, I expect to come back with at
Speaker 1: least one or two or three projectors that are getting
Speaker 1: really small, really a short throw meanings you can keep
Speaker 1: them right very close to your wall. For one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty inch screen picture. I'm going to give a
Speaker 1: few of those away. If I get him, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give them away to you, ladies and gentlemen. There's
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Speaker 1: the year to find I think my new favorite streaming
Speaker 1: TV series. And the reason why is because I don't
Speaker 1: have Netflix. I do not have a membership because Netflix,
Speaker 1: earlier last year they really cut down on password sharing
Speaker 1: and I couldn't share passwords from some of my family members.
Speaker 1: So I said, screw it up not watching Netflix. So
Speaker 1: I go visit my son, my oldest son. He lives
Speaker 1: out in LA and I spent a few days with
Speaker 1: him over the holiday break, and he has Netflix, and
Speaker 1: so I started binging this show Fell in love with
Speaker 1: There was only one season and I watched all ten
Speaker 1: episodes like in two days. Nobody wants This, Oh loved It.
Speaker 1: Kristen Bell and Adrian Brody I think is his name.
Speaker 1: It's about an interfaith marriage about the rabbi and shiksa
Speaker 1: who didn't get mad and the family didn't want it.
Speaker 1: It was hilarious. It's a funny rom com. It's a
Speaker 1: meet cute type of thing. As the girls say. It
Speaker 1: was really good and to me that overtook my other
Speaker 1: favorite streaming show, which was on Hulu Only Murders in
Speaker 1: the Building. I've watched Only Murders in the Building for
Speaker 1: a few years. Right now, I love it. I think
Speaker 1: it's really smart. I like the way to do it
Speaker 1: the season four and I wasn't up to snuff as
Speaker 1: the first few seasons and so nobody wants this my
Speaker 1: favorite streaming show this past year, which when they come
Speaker 1: out with season two, I'm going to need to try
Speaker 1: to borrow somebody's password on Netflix where you can invite
Speaker 1: me over and I'll bring potato, lotkeys and matsa. So
Speaker 1: that's if you want something to watch while you still
Speaker 1: have nothing to do before you go back to work,
Speaker 1: you can check that out. However, this weekend, the weekend
Speaker 1: of January fourth and fifth, and depending on when you
Speaker 1: are listening to this show, I do have a little
Speaker 1: treat for you. Actually I don't have a treat for you.
Speaker 1: I will give you the information from Apple who has
Speaker 1: a treat for you. Because this weekend Apple TV Plus,
Speaker 1: which is a streaming service, they are offering free. They're
Speaker 1: opening up their original TV shows and movies. So if
Speaker 1: you've never seen some of the Apple original series like
Speaker 1: ted Lasso or Shrinking or Severance the Morning Show, you
Speaker 1: better change your weekend plans because it's pretty much Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday of this weekend free streaming of its original
Speaker 1: series and there's zero required subscription. That's not bad, that's
Speaker 1: nice of it to do. It's I think they're doing
Speaker 1: this in part to a more subscribers to a streaming platform.
Speaker 1: Because and I follow the streaming industry, I'm the one
Speaker 1: who tells you people, you're probably paying too you need
Speaker 1: to cut off some of your streamers because you probably
Speaker 1: don't watch them, and you're paying too much money. Because
Speaker 1: the competitors of it, I mean Prime and Hulu and
Speaker 1: Peacock and Max, it goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think this coming year there is going
Speaker 1: to be a shakeout, there's going to be a consolidation
Speaker 1: of streaming options. But Apple really has been lagging behind.
Speaker 1: I mean, they spent billions of dollars I believe, and
Speaker 1: they've invested over the past several years of creating a
Speaker 1: TV in a movie studio to come up with some stuff.
Speaker 1: So they're offering a full weekend of open access to
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus. But I think it's just their original content,
Speaker 1: like some of the movies, like like the shows. I
Speaker 1: was able to watch ted Lasso. I think Apple TV
Speaker 1: still you're allowed to share passwords. So was about a
Speaker 1: year ago, last year something, maybe a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago. I watched ted Lasso, Love ted Lasso, that
Speaker 1: was great, rumor as they're making another season. I saw Severance.
Speaker 1: I saw the first episode of Severance. That was freaky deeky.
Speaker 1: I didn't dig Severance. Love Adam Scott got the me.
Speaker 1: I ran into Adam Scott in Austin earlier this year.
Speaker 1: And just a funny comedian. That's what he really is.
Speaker 1: By by by Trey. It's just a freaky, deeky thing.
Speaker 1: But I will there's one people tell me to watch.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched Shrinking. Anybody ever watched Shrinking? Give me
Speaker 1: a shout? Three four six twenty nine, Texan set. The
Speaker 1: Harrison Ford Peter whatever his name is, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: supposed to. It's supposed to be pretty funny. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have time, but I've got a pack
Speaker 1: and I got to get out of here for ces.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's that's it's me giving you a little
Speaker 1: something something if you have nothing to do the two
Speaker 1: football games on Saturday. You got Cowboys playing on Andrew
Speaker 1: Texan's playing on Sunday, so you may not have enough
Speaker 1: time to watch that thing. Phone number here three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine T e X A N Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: is his name? Already given out the twenty dollars gift
Speaker 1: card to Total Wireless to help you something. We've got
Speaker 1: more of those interesting things to give away. Speaking of TV,
Speaker 1: who watched Dick Clark New Year's Rock and Eve with
Speaker 1: Ryan Seacrest. A lot of people, they like, twenty million
Speaker 1: people watch that every year. Here's the thing. There was
Speaker 1: a football game on there was on December third foot
Speaker 1: that was That was the Boise State Penn Steak game
Speaker 1: that ended. And then generally it's not the If you're
Speaker 1: of age and you just don't want to go out
Speaker 1: anymore because you realize that New Year's Eve is amateur night,
Speaker 1: you do stay at home and you sit on a
Speaker 1: couch and you turn the TV on, and Guy Lombardo
Speaker 1: is not on anymore. And then you've got Dick Clark's
Speaker 1: New Year's Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Then I
Speaker 1: think CNN has something too. But the Dick Clark thing
Speaker 1: has long, long, since the late seventies, has been like
Speaker 1: the leader, so many people watch it. Here's what I
Speaker 1: want to know. I it's number one. It's if you
Speaker 1: go out, it's generally on in the background. If you
Speaker 1: go to somebody's house party, you want to turn it
Speaker 1: on in the Central time zone right before eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: so you could see the ball drop. Why is this
Speaker 1: no knock on anybody? Dick Clark was a god to me,
Speaker 1: a leader. I mean, he was the ultimate one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I want to get into this media.
Speaker 1: Number One, I now am the youngest teenager or the
Speaker 1: oldest teenager in the world. He was just unbelievable with
Speaker 1: American Bandstand. He was radio, he was TV, he was
Speaker 1: just a host. I loved it. He passed away. Ryan
Speaker 1: Seacrest comes in, very talented, dude, does everything that I
Speaker 1: would want to do. Why is it? Why is it
Speaker 1: if anybody gainst me this and maybe I'll give you
Speaker 1: a gift to Why is it still called Dick Clark's
Speaker 1: New Year's Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest? Rest in peace,
Speaker 1: Dick Clark, You've been gone for a while, it's still Clark.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dick Clark had a TV production company. They
Speaker 1: still may be around, they still may produce it. But
Speaker 1: at some point, if I ask my youngest son, who's
Speaker 1: twenty four, do you know who Dick Clark is? He
Speaker 1: probably would think it's a porno film. He probably has
Speaker 1: no clue who Dick Clark is, knows who Ryan Seacrest is.
Speaker 1: Dick Clark's New Year's Rocket gave At some point, don't
Speaker 1: you think they have to change that? I mean, if
Speaker 1: I ever retire from this show, it's the High Tech
Speaker 1: Text Show with Michael Garfield. Would one of my three
Speaker 1: boys take it over? Would it be Michael Garfield's High
Speaker 1: Tech textan show with Adam Garfield? Would it know? You
Speaker 1: know what? Callum? Do me a favorite? You know, let's
Speaker 1: get with our iHeart Bosses. I think I need that.
Speaker 1: In the clause, I think I need that in the
Speaker 1: Sante Claus, the Hanika Harry clause in my contract right now,
Speaker 1: that's my God's in my vision war for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I need to start a legacy for this show. It's
Speaker 1: going to be called Michael Garfield's High Tech Texting Show
Speaker 1: with whoever takes it over. And it would be nice
Speaker 1: if you know what. Screw it, damn straight, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do nepotism. I got three boys. I need to take
Speaker 1: care of them. Oh my god. That conversation came up
Speaker 1: a lot over the holiday season. You know, whether it's
Speaker 1: we're watching the Christmas Day football games with the great
Speaker 1: Iron Eagle, who's a great play by play announcer, and
Speaker 1: on the other game it was his son. All right,
Speaker 1: it was a Noah Eagle, who I think is the
Speaker 1: next great play by play that's his son. Geez, wonder
Speaker 1: how I got that job. Then I flip over at
Speaker 1: NBC Sunday Night Football and there he is. There's Chris Collinsworth,
Speaker 1: great analyst, right, he's your color man, former Cincinnati Bengo
Speaker 1: wide receiver receiver Florida Gators. Been doing it forever. Oh
Speaker 1: wait a minute, who is one of the host before
Speaker 1: Sinnight Football. It's his son, Jack collins Worth. Nepotism. It's
Speaker 1: it's rampant, especially in the media business. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if any of my three kids even want to
Speaker 1: do this. They study it, but it's gonna be Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield high Tech Textan Show with either Justin Josh or
Speaker 1: Adam Garfield unless color Ni Murdine wants to call it
Speaker 1: and win the spot to host this show. I'm kidding
Speaker 1: right now, do you have to take a break. Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield's High Tech Texan Show will continue right after this.
Speaker 1: It's like that boy, the high Tech Texting Show. Michael.
Speaker 1: The shout out to all people listening. In one of
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Speaker 1: It's three four six twenty nine and X A N.
Speaker 1: Did you or your kids get a new phone this
Speaker 1: holiday season? At iPhone or so? If your kids got one,
Speaker 1: it's you know, I get a lot of this from parents, going, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if my kid's too young for a phone,
Speaker 1: I don't want to you know, you know he or
Speaker 1: she you know, you know taking off into the room
Speaker 1: or you know with I'm not looking at it. What
Speaker 1: are they surfing on. Can you know they get calls
Speaker 1: by spams? Can they get hacked? It's a very good question,
Speaker 1: very valid point. A little stat for you, by the way,
Speaker 1: from the Entertainment Software Association, about sixty two percent of
Speaker 1: US children's children's from ten to seventeen years old, they've
Speaker 1: they asked for electronics or tech items like smartphones or
Speaker 1: smart watches this past holiday season. And you probably maybe
Speaker 1: if you're a parent, you got your kids one personal
Speaker 1: technology devices from Apple. They're among the most used in
Speaker 1: the United States. So if your child is getting if
Speaker 1: you got an iPhone, or if you really want to
Speaker 1: review or think about, you know some recommended parental tips
Speaker 1: of what it do when it comes to kids in smartphones.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm here for. One of the many things
Speaker 1: that I'm here for when it comes to smartphones and
Speaker 1: parental settings. Let's start with this. Do not assume that
Speaker 1: once the options are set that they don't need to
Speaker 1: be checked regularly because kids are smarter than the average bearer.
Speaker 1: Boo boo, yes they are. Don't assume that it's bulletproof
Speaker 1: childproof because tech companies told you they are. Not the
Speaker 1: case a lot technology it's always evolving. The features changed
Speaker 1: just as quickly the expectations for how a child reacts
Speaker 1: response to those changes. You may need to re evaluate
Speaker 1: it all right, the boundaries Number one what you need
Speaker 1: to do. And again, I am a parent. My kids
Speaker 1: are now in their twenties and ones of them went
Speaker 1: in their thirties two. But I had to live this,
Speaker 1: you know, a decade, a decade and a half to ago.
Speaker 1: Setting parental controls shouldn't happen alone. Don't do it in
Speaker 1: a vacuum. You need as a parent to make a
Speaker 1: conversation with your kiddos. You need to review the settings
Speaker 1: and you see how it all works together. You got
Speaker 1: to tell the kids the risk, what's allowed, what's not allowed,
Speaker 1: with who they can react to, with who they can communicate,
Speaker 1: and you need to set some rules for the device. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not the greatest parent in the world. You maybe
Speaker 1: you're not, but at least I have a really good
Speaker 1: relationship I've always had with my kids and they've never
Speaker 1: as far as I know, they never stepped over their boundaries. Okay, nobody,
Speaker 1: you know, No Feds every came knocking at the doors.
Speaker 1: I never found anything elicited or legal on their phones. No,
Speaker 1: that's why I got to keep my phone away from them.
Speaker 1: But parents real quickly. Some specific settings to check out
Speaker 1: on maybe an Apple device Number one. On parents who
Speaker 1: have an Apple device. You can create a family group,
Speaker 1: and then you can set up a child account where
Speaker 1: parental controls can be accessed and you can monitor the uses.
Speaker 1: You can also approve all the purchases like in the
Speaker 1: app store. You could choose to share a child's location,
Speaker 1: sharing information with additional family members. You as a parent,
Speaker 1: can set up you set up a child account. Right,
Speaker 1: It's not hard whatsoever. Just go in the settings and
Speaker 1: just set up a child account. At that point. I
Speaker 1: always tell people I really do. Some of my advice
Speaker 1: is you look over their screen time settings. One of
Speaker 1: the most important settings that I recommend is look at
Speaker 1: the screen time. How much time do kids, well even
Speaker 1: parents yourself spend in front of the screen. You could
Speaker 1: set limits for how long apps can be used individually
Speaker 1: or by a group. You can monitor usage. You can
Speaker 1: get weekly activity reports kids. They can reques has more
Speaker 1: time for an app? They can send you a request
Speaker 1: all right, or you can approve it. Go in your settings,
Speaker 1: go look at screen time settings and other parental controls
Speaker 1: in there. You may want to set it downtime. You
Speaker 1: can use downtime to block certain apps or notifications for
Speaker 1: specific blocks of times. You can make gaming all the
Speaker 1: games off limits at bedtimes on weekdays. Then you can
Speaker 1: use restrictions. Look at your restrictions. Go to restrictions into
Speaker 1: your settings. Parents can prevent their kids from installing new
Speaker 1: apps and making an app purchases. It's the last thing
Speaker 1: you need to do when they're playing Candy Crash and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're getting a bill on your
Speaker 1: credit card, you know, for another eight hundred dollars. Parents
Speaker 1: can set up their kids devices to limit adult content,
Speaker 1: open only websites that the parents select. These are here
Speaker 1: all right. Point is, and this has been going on
Speaker 1: since I've been doing the show for twenty years, which
Speaker 1: is it was great for me back then because twenty
Speaker 1: years ago my kids were very, very young, and I
Speaker 1: had to go through this thing too. And I don't
Speaker 1: have the answer. Hey, Michael, what age is it proper
Speaker 1: for my kid to get a phone? Not up to me,
Speaker 1: Not up to me, ma'am. Sorry, I don't know. For me,
Speaker 1: I know I have boys and as I have my
Speaker 1: first son, and then my second so and then the
Speaker 1: younger kids seemed to grow up faster than the old
Speaker 1: than the older ones, right, because they learn they hang
Speaker 1: around their older brothers and older sisters. So maybe the
Speaker 1: younger kid gets something a little at a younger age
Speaker 1: than the older one did. Sorry, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm also the oldest of my family too, and so
Speaker 1: you know, I had I had to suck it up
Speaker 1: and go through that way. So I don't have specific answers.
Speaker 1: These are only guidelines, but I would do want to
Speaker 1: let you know that the technology products out there, as
Speaker 1: much as parents may pooh pooh them and oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: they're so bad, there are ways to make them safer.
Speaker 1: Notice I didn't say they're amazed to wake them safe. No, nothing,
Speaker 1: hardly anything can be made safe nowadays, anything online, your information, online, cars,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's it's they're as safe as
Speaker 1: they could be. But then again it's up to the driver.
Speaker 1: But as parents try to be responsible, you're getting ready
Speaker 1: to you know, getting kids of age. Maybe they're seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten eleven, maybe they're thirteen fourteen? How is it time
Speaker 1: for their first phone? Is it time for their first laptop.
Speaker 1: You know, should I keep the laptop? Can they take
Speaker 1: it in their room? Do I keep it? Make them
Speaker 1: keep it out in the public area so I can
Speaker 1: kind of walk behind and see what's going on. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the world of parent one kids. Ain't easy being parent,
Speaker 1: It's not you know, it's not easy. Well, doing another
Speaker 1: hour of the show, but I am here for you
Speaker 1: our number one OVA the High Tech Tax Show. Hopefully
Speaker 1: wherever you are in your jurisdiction, your local listening marketing community,
Speaker 1: you can listen to that hour number two. For some
Speaker 1: reason we are signing off or early. Go to iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: You can hear of the second hour coming up right
Speaker 1: after this on the Tech Textan Show. Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: my friends. Right is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfields joining in the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
Speaker 1: It has to make life easier technologs, So Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: has something you might want.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iheartwadio.
Speaker 2: After now You're high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield, We go,
Speaker 2: let's start our number two.
Speaker 1: And say Happy New Year. Is the second hour of
Speaker 1: the High Tech Texan Show. We are halfway through the
Speaker 1: show and I'll say it for the first time this year,
Speaker 1: we are a half way to happy hour. One of
Speaker 1: the odds that you do not even know what date
Speaker 1: it is right now. It happens every year the last
Speaker 1: two weeks of the year. It is was Christmas on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. It's just you're sitting in your pajamas for
Speaker 1: two weeks. You don't know what time it is. Odds
Speaker 1: are if you're listening this weekend and this coming Monday,
Speaker 1: you have to go back to back to school or
Speaker 1: back to work for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 1: Sucond up. It's called a shower, people, and it's actually
Speaker 1: called clothes, real clothes, not just your pajamas. That's how
Speaker 1: we do it. Michael is my name, Michael Garfield. It's
Speaker 1: called the High Tech Textan Show, starting out the first
Speaker 1: of full year with three big markets, not just Houston
Speaker 1: that I've been in on KPRC nine to fifty am
Speaker 1: for twenty three years or so. Also welcome San Antonio,
Speaker 1: Wai and Dallas eleven ninety am. My hometown and so
Speaker 1: all across Texas. We're going to give you tips, questions,
Speaker 1: and answers when it comes to consumer lifestyle products. I
Speaker 1: do cars and trucks just as much as I do technology.
Speaker 1: I ended the year it was pretty cool, kind of
Speaker 1: a checked a box or two off of things I
Speaker 1: never done. I got to sit in and fill in
Speaker 1: for my buddy Jerry Reynolds. He is the car Pro Guy,
Speaker 1: the Car Pro Show. He's heard in sixty markets. He
Speaker 1: took some time off and because, like Jerry, I test
Speaker 1: drive sixty or seventy different vehicles a year. I'm a
Speaker 1: member of the Texas Auto Writers Association. I just get
Speaker 1: the opportunity to test write these things. I kind of
Speaker 1: know what to look for, what not to look for,
Speaker 1: what to guide you in and out of. I got
Speaker 1: to sit in and for him for one of his
Speaker 1: three hour shows. That was neat. So if you are
Speaker 1: in the market for a new vehicle, you can, I
Speaker 1: don't know, call me, Hey, Garf, I want a sports car.
Speaker 1: I'm now an empty nester, so much of the minivan.
Speaker 1: I need something fast and sexy and snappy. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: is it now time to get an EV I heard
Speaker 1: evs aren't selling so well. GARF should is hybrid better
Speaker 1: than an EV right now, these are the questions I'm
Speaker 1: more than happy to answer, at least try to answer.
Speaker 1: And it's interactive, and so I'm going to give you
Speaker 1: a phone number here that you should just lock and
Speaker 1: load three four six twenty nine textan three four six
Speaker 1: two nine t e x eight in. If we don't
Speaker 1: pick up, voicemail should pick up and you could leave
Speaker 1: a voicemail and we we do have the right to
Speaker 1: do anything with that. Now I'm not going to use
Speaker 1: AI and change your voice, but no, well, we can
Speaker 1: replay it and then answer your question that way, and
Speaker 1: so I'll want you to give that a try. Some
Speaker 1: of the uh A lot of people were commenting on
Speaker 1: my instagram, I'd love my an well. I enjoy my Instagram.
Speaker 1: It's how I relate and I can show you the
Speaker 1: videos of some of the cool products cars, whatever I'm
Speaker 1: testing or f I'm traveling, you can follow me. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for following me at High Tech textan
Speaker 1: h I G h T E c h T e
Speaker 1: x A N. I highly recommend you start following me
Speaker 1: because when I come back from CEES next week Consumer
Speaker 1: Electronics Show. I'm gonna have a Santa bag worth filled
Speaker 1: of new demos and to and products that I'm going
Speaker 1: to have to give away to my listeners and my
Speaker 1: social media followers, and so some of the things that
Speaker 1: I will videotape or you know, do some live streams
Speaker 1: on my Instagram, I will be giving those away. And
Speaker 1: if you follow and like and make a comment and
Speaker 1: you're snarky and cute and fun enough, you could win.
Speaker 1: So that's why you need to follow me. High tech
Speaker 1: texts and spelled the whole thing out. Anyway, I got
Speaker 1: some comments. I posted some of my travels over the
Speaker 1: past week or two. I went to a Los Angeles
Speaker 1: two of my kids live in Los Angeles, and I
Speaker 1: visited him and I got to see one night. I
Speaker 1: went to a venue which I believe is the future,
Speaker 1: even while it's not the future, because it's actually now
Speaker 1: the future of sports watching. And if you're in Dallas
Speaker 1: right now, you may have been to the one in Dallas.
Speaker 1: You may have heard what it is, because there's only
Speaker 1: two right now in the world. One's in la and
Speaker 1: ones in the great city of North Dallas. It is
Speaker 1: called cosm anyone anyone Coosam. It's kind of a joint
Speaker 1: named smushy name between the cosmos and a stadium. And
Speaker 1: it's the same technology that's used in a planetarium. You
Speaker 1: know what a planetarium is. You go in and there's
Speaker 1: this big rounded dome. You look up and you can
Speaker 1: see the stars and whatever. Well, there's a company that
Speaker 1: runs the software technology for a lot of planetariums, and
Speaker 1: they have built their own, literally built their own facility.
Speaker 1: It's called Cosm. Cosm one in Dallas and one in
Speaker 1: LA A new one is opening in Atlanta very soon,
Speaker 1: and then Detroit. It is a sports watching venue. And
Speaker 1: it blew me away. And this is not an advertisement.
Speaker 1: I don't endorse these people even know Cosm. If you're
Speaker 1: listening in Dallas right now, I should be, as the
Speaker 1: high tech Texan who covers this industry, I should endorse you.
Speaker 1: It was dang cool.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can describe it. It is
Speaker 1: a stadium like facility in one end of it that
Speaker 1: is built inside of a dome, not unlike a planetarium,
Speaker 1: but unlike a planetarium, which really just has a clear,
Speaker 1: empty painted roof dome where a projector projects stars and things.
Speaker 1: This is an eighty five foot curved dome with LED panels,
Speaker 1: millions and millions of LEDs they could project images. In
Speaker 1: many cases, it's mostly sports games through their own proprietary
Speaker 1: cameras that are out a game in up to twelve K. Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't even get four K for the most part,
Speaker 1: even though your TV probably can get four K. This
Speaker 1: is twelve K. So you sit down and generally you
Speaker 1: have to there's an interest fee. You have to buy
Speaker 1: a seat or a couch or whatever, and they show
Speaker 1: a specific game inside this dome. Now, I was there
Speaker 1: the night of the Dallas Mavericks versus the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 1: This was I think the day after Christmas, and I
Speaker 1: am sitting down inside this dumb and I literally think
Speaker 1: I am at the stadium. It is almost almost It's
Speaker 1: not three hundred and sixty degrees, but it's at least
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can imagine one hundred and eighty degrees.
Speaker 1: Because there's several cameras that COSM installs and maintains in
Speaker 1: many of these basketball and football stadiums. There is one
Speaker 1: at mid court, there is one under each basket, and
Speaker 1: I think there's a fourth one kind of up in
Speaker 1: the stands. They don't use that one a lot. And
Speaker 1: you literally think you're on the on the floor. You're
Speaker 1: sitting on the floor. I've actually sat on the floor
Speaker 1: several times of a basketball game. My feet were on
Speaker 1: the woods. I just happened to know a few nice
Speaker 1: people who have invited me of it. This was pretty
Speaker 1: much almost the same experience. I am not kidding you.
Speaker 1: I was. The camera was positioned so low on that floor,
Speaker 1: and I thought I was right there because of the
Speaker 1: quality of the camera. Jason Kidd, Mavericks coach, was standing
Speaker 1: in my way. I wanted to tell them, dude, move,
Speaker 1: that's how what it was cool. That isn't And there's
Speaker 1: three levels. You could sit on the floor. You could
Speaker 1: sit on the second level, which to me I probably
Speaker 1: is the best one. There's a third level. They've got bars.
Speaker 1: It's an entertainment thing. There's another end of it. It's
Speaker 1: called the Hall or the Great Hall. It's a one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty foot long led ribbon of a screen
Speaker 1: and it is a looks like a sports book on steroids. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you couldn't gamble in LA and you can't gamble on
Speaker 1: those in Texas. At some point when they open gambling.
Speaker 1: Here's what I feared. I'm gonna wind up this this
Speaker 1: my speech over here. You really should check it out.
Speaker 1: It's worth it. If you're living in Dallas, if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, at some point you're traveling to La
Speaker 1: Hopefully there's gonna be They're gonna be built in many,
Speaker 1: many cities. I particularly want to invest in this company,
Speaker 1: that's how cool it is. But this is the future.
Speaker 1: So much so if I was an NFL or an
Speaker 1: NBA or a sports owner where I rely on a
Speaker 1: lot of my revenue from selling tickets, which are not
Speaker 1: cheap NFL tickets, I would be worried that I am
Speaker 1: never gonna sell tickets again, because to me, it is
Speaker 1: just almost as just as an unbelievable atmosphere to sit
Speaker 1: in the cosm and watch it. You this was free parking,
Speaker 1: didn't have to pay for parking, didn't have to fight
Speaker 1: eighty thousand plus people for a for a parking spot.
Speaker 1: To get in and out. The prices of food nah,
Speaker 1: probably just as high. You know, I had some nachos
Speaker 1: with or whatever it was. But the experience is there,
Speaker 1: and if these things get more ubiquitous, sports stadiums and venues.
Speaker 1: They may not have to be built to have eighty
Speaker 1: or one hundred thousand people. They may be smaller because
Speaker 1: this technology, with the cameras in the twelve K, it's
Speaker 1: coming here. Just my two cents. These are the things
Speaker 1: that I cover. I will review again. Not endorsement, but COSM.
Speaker 1: You're pretty cool. Talk to me three four six twenty
Speaker 1: nine texts and three four six two nine techs and
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield. You got questions about that? I am here
Speaker 1: for you. We continue the show right after this three
Speaker 1: four twenty nine Texan. If for some reason anybody out
Speaker 1: there still understands what a CALED radio show is, it's
Speaker 1: three four six two nine T e x A N.
Speaker 1: If we don't pick up, leave a voicemail will play
Speaker 1: it for you. Most people now try to interact on
Speaker 1: social media, which is just as fine. Here a high
Speaker 1: Tech Texan h I G H T E C H
Speaker 1: T e x A N. Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 1: I've been doing it for well over two decades now.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, I guess, and we're now moving into
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth decade that I have been quote trademarked
Speaker 1: the High Tech Texan and relatively new to the Dallas
Speaker 1: Airway is on eleven ninety am and twelve hundred AMWOAI
Speaker 1: in San Antonio. Great to have you folks along for
Speaker 1: the ride. Hope you're understanding now after about a month
Speaker 1: being on the air that I am not the guy
Speaker 1: who's going to tell you to I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: don't call me and say my computer's broken and I
Speaker 1: think it's the motherboard. Can't tell me how to fix this.
Speaker 1: When I started this show and my idea for creating
Speaker 1: initially which started to be a technology show to guide
Speaker 1: people on what products to buy in speaking at a
Speaker 1: very easy to understand term without using megabytes and gigabytes,
Speaker 1: I never wanted to be and I never was the
Speaker 1: guy who was like, well, this is what you need
Speaker 1: to do to reove the motherboard and how to put
Speaker 1: more ram your thing. Now it's easier for me to
Speaker 1: tell you, you know what, go buy a freaking new
Speaker 1: laptop or a desktop. I'm going to tell you which
Speaker 1: one to buy. Give me your budget. Is it for you,
Speaker 1: is it for your kid? Do you want it for
Speaker 1: work or business? To be more powerful and speedy and quick. No,
Speaker 1: I'm the guy who's going to tell you what to buy.
Speaker 1: And then since then I've expanded to mini consumer electronics,
Speaker 1: and so I do cars and trucks whatever. Oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, speaking of cars and trucks, it's time for
Speaker 1: what's Michael driving this week? Callum, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: Calum Reid, who is my main man, who helps with
Speaker 1: this show and across the entire network here do me
Speaker 1: favorite because Callen does a lot of the production stuff.
Speaker 1: Can we can can I get one request this year?
Speaker 1: Can we get a Can we just get a sounder
Speaker 1: of what's Michael driving this week? You know, maybe like
Speaker 1: a car zooming? Well, of course if it's electric, there'd
Speaker 1: be no So what's Michael driving this week? Because each
Speaker 1: week I do get to test drive a car. Not
Speaker 1: from a dealership, Nope, I work directly with manufacturers. They'd
Speaker 1: not pay me to talk about this, which means I
Speaker 1: can rag on them. I could love on them. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you my really true, true, honest
Speaker 1: thought and honest opinion. So what's Michael driving this week?
Speaker 1: This past week I was in a twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: Infinity q X eighty And if you don't know what
Speaker 1: that is, it is one big mama of a vehicle.
Speaker 1: It is akin to its sister company Nissan, the Nissan Armada,
Speaker 1: which is a very large three row suv. Now, the
Speaker 1: particular when I was in I was in the new
Speaker 1: version of the twenty twenty five QX eighty. But the
Speaker 1: specific badge you the model, it was called the Sensory
Speaker 1: That's right, there's a sensory addition, not that you need
Speaker 1: the Century edition and that includes the you know, different
Speaker 1: you know packages, you know with the soft interior lighting
Speaker 1: and the premium cargo and you know, this thing's got
Speaker 1: an umbrella holder and the premium paint and everything.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's just it's the Sensory package. But just a quick
Speaker 1: play by play, this is what I do. It is massive.
Speaker 1: I'm a six foot tall guy, and you know, generally
Speaker 1: if I'm standing next to a six you know suv
Speaker 1: they're a little taller than me, I kind of take
Speaker 1: a little hop up and I can see over it do.
Speaker 1: This thing is I had to check the clearance when
Speaker 1: I'm driving underneath, you know, into a parking garage. It's
Speaker 1: it's quite tall, which is great for a headroom, all right.
Speaker 1: It makes it very easy to get in, not only
Speaker 1: the second row, but the third row. And that's something
Speaker 1: you need to consider if having a three row vehicle
Speaker 1: is it's it's nice, it's cool. If you want something.
Speaker 1: If you've got a lot of kids, you ever tried
Speaker 1: getting back into a third row of some of these things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need to actually make your body do origammy.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work. If you have a car seat, Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, bless you. If you have to put car
Speaker 1: seats in the third row, almost impossible. But if you
Speaker 1: want to carry adults, you know, maybe you're a realtor
Speaker 1: and you drive, you slet people around to see, you know,
Speaker 1: properties all the time. You know, you know, maybe if
Speaker 1: you have a big office and you guys got a
Speaker 1: lunch on a regular basis, Hey I'll drive. Let's get
Speaker 1: all these people in here. This is one of the
Speaker 1: most comfortable and easiest to get into third row seats
Speaker 1: third row vehicles that is on the market in my
Speaker 1: opinion right now, it's the Infinity QXCD. Again, the Nissan
Speaker 1: Armada has it too, the Infinity. It's the I'm going
Speaker 1: to use the term it's the luxury, premium, higher level
Speaker 1: brand than the Nissan Armada. So you take Nissan. Almost
Speaker 1: a lot of the vehicles that Nissan makes, they sex
Speaker 1: them up and they charge more money, and they put
Speaker 1: nicer leather and you know, some features in there in
Speaker 1: the Infinity and most most all brands do this. I
Speaker 1: mean exactly, look look at Chevy, you look to GMC,
Speaker 1: you look at Toyota, you go to Lexis. It's almost
Speaker 1: the same thing. But here it's we have the Infinity.
Speaker 1: This one as a Monster three and a half liter.
Speaker 1: It was a V six twin Turbero engine says it's
Speaker 1: rated up to four hundred and fifty horse power, which
Speaker 1: is pretty big. It got up to speed quite well,
Speaker 1: had a has a nine speed automatic, transmissions automatic. It's
Speaker 1: got paddle shifters if you really want to, you know,
Speaker 1: get it up there. Four wheel drive if you wanted to.
Speaker 1: Mine actually had a four wheel drive. The suspension was
Speaker 1: nice in because because it's so tall and it's it's
Speaker 1: semi wide, but it's not like it's a truck or
Speaker 1: a hummer wide like that. You know, you could think,
Speaker 1: I hope the suspension is not going to be too bouncy.
Speaker 1: The electronic air suspension was quite nice. It was really
Speaker 1: good ride. It also has what's called the dynamic digital suspension.
Speaker 1: You could tow this thing up to eighty five hundred
Speaker 1: pounds because this is a big vehicle in itself. Love
Speaker 1: the wheels had twenty two inch aluminum alloy wheels, and
Speaker 1: so when you're rolling by, it looks good inside, very nice.
Speaker 1: It's got the neat little you know, well, it's got
Speaker 1: root well on the outside. It's got the roof rails,
Speaker 1: it's got the lighting path of the mud lights. You
Speaker 1: open that you open up and at night there's this
Speaker 1: light that shines directly down on the ground, so you
Speaker 1: see where you're getting in. Those are called mud lights here.
Speaker 1: But when you get in, you could customize all of
Speaker 1: the lights. My son, not that he's a little kid,
Speaker 1: he was playing around and he learned how to turn
Speaker 1: the interior lights to different colors. Purple my favorite color,
Speaker 1: no to infinity. You probably want to include burn orange.
Speaker 1: If you want to sell a little little born in
Speaker 1: the state of Texas. Maybe you want to get some
Speaker 1: college colors just to stay away from a room. But
Speaker 1: they wish they did have burn orange. But the seats
Speaker 1: were comfortable. I drove this back and forth to Houston
Speaker 1: to Austin in back. It was a pleasure. It was
Speaker 1: a treat. Massaging chairs didn't use that feature too much.
Speaker 1: That the massage chairs, I will tell you a bugaboo
Speaker 1: of mine that to get to them, to get to
Speaker 1: some of the controls, including the massage chairs, you had
Speaker 1: to dig down into the touchscreen menu to get to it.
Speaker 1: I think Infinity, if you're listening to me, it would
Speaker 1: be easier to put some of the features like again
Speaker 1: a massage chare or even the ambient lighting, like I said,
Speaker 1: a little higher up in the menu instead of digging
Speaker 1: down into a sub menu and a submuse in a
Speaker 1: sub menu to put it on. Listen if that's my
Speaker 1: biggest bugabooon, I love that word. You've done very well
Speaker 1: with with this ride. The technique Nissan Slash Infinite. They
Speaker 1: always do a nice job with safety. They have the
Speaker 1: pro pilot assists and they have everything from they also
Speaker 1: because this is so big and people, I guess a
Speaker 1: lot of people haven't seen this yet. I'm so used
Speaker 1: to it because all the most of the vehicles that
Speaker 1: I drive have this. If you look at the rear
Speaker 1: view mirror, you know, traditionally a rear view mirror is
Speaker 1: a rear view mirror. It's a mirror that's stuck on
Speaker 1: the front windshield and you glance up at it and
Speaker 1: you could look through the you're through your vehicle, which
Speaker 1: sometimes maybe be eight nine, sometimes ten feet long. You've
Speaker 1: got to look through the vehicle out the backglass to
Speaker 1: see who's behind you. Nowadays, the rear view mirror is
Speaker 1: not a rearview mirror. It's actually a rearview camera, and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's freaky deeky. The first time you see this,
Speaker 1: maybe the first ten times you see this, and the
Speaker 1: first time you drive it. It's there's a depth perception
Speaker 1: you got to get used to for long vehicles, for
Speaker 1: SUVs right now. And this is smart if you really
Speaker 1: think about it. Instead of having a rear view mirror
Speaker 1: that's stuck in the front of your windshield, now measure
Speaker 1: what's the distance between your front windshield and your rear windshield.
Speaker 1: If you've got an suv like this, this infinity has
Speaker 1: got to be easily easily ten eleven feet long. So
Speaker 1: now you've got to look. If it's just a rearview mirror,
Speaker 1: you've got to look through you know, here comes You
Speaker 1: got to look past the front seat, past the second
Speaker 1: row seat, past the third row seat, and then out
Speaker 1: the rear view mirror, then behind that to see what
Speaker 1: cars are driving behind you. Nowadays they mount a camera
Speaker 1: on the back of the vehicle. So now that rearview
Speaker 1: camera is now shooting backwards and it's projecting in this
Speaker 1: rearview mirror. So as a driver, you're looking up in
Speaker 1: this rear view camera. You're not seeing ten to twelve
Speaker 1: feet behind you through the vehicle then no, No, you're
Speaker 1: seeing directly a vehicle behind you, and you can tell
Speaker 1: what's kind of TV monitor quality, and so it's really weird.
Speaker 1: Now to be sure, there is a switch that you
Speaker 1: can go back and forth. If you don't like the mirror,
Speaker 1: you can go to the camera. If you don't like
Speaker 1: the camera, you can go back to the mirror. I
Speaker 1: am now after test driving vehicles, so often I'm cool
Speaker 1: with having this camera, but when people sit and they
Speaker 1: look at it, U's going, oh my gosh, how's that work?
Speaker 1: So no way, this has that rearview mirror in the
Speaker 1: rearview camera. So that's just another explanation of something that's
Speaker 1: out there. Bottom line, I do like this a lot.
Speaker 1: It's not the greatest when it comes to fuel economy
Speaker 1: just because it's so big. It's rated at sixteen in
Speaker 1: the city, nineteen on the highway, so it's seventeen miles combined.
Speaker 1: That is for the Infinity QX eighty. Let's give you
Speaker 1: a price here real quick s. I'm gonna look at
Speaker 1: the rooney. I'm gonna do some cheating over here. Woo
Speaker 1: hello head anyone anyone over under play the quickly over
Speaker 1: under game for the twenty twenty five Infinity QX eighty
Speaker 1: MSRP without a lot of the options ninety nine thousand,
Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifty bones the way I drove it
Speaker 1: with all the options, the propilet assists, the lighting packages.
Speaker 1: I drove a one hundred and seven thousand dollars vehicle.
Speaker 1: Woo woo. That is not cheap. However, for some reason,
Speaker 1: you still like the size and you want something that
Speaker 1: you can look at a similar one. Look at the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Nissan Armada, which is built in the
Speaker 1: same frame and may not have a lot of the
Speaker 1: premium coruiterments, but those started about fifty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Maybe looking that way, but anyway, I do appreciate the
Speaker 1: nice folks at Prestige Otto. Nice folks at Infinity for
Speaker 1: let me drive this. If you want me to drive
Speaker 1: something you haven't tried, hit me up. Michael at high
Speaker 1: Tech Texting. This is the high Tech Tech Issue show
Speaker 1: earn all across the country on our Heart Radio.
Speaker 3: Getting hungry as we did this show.
Speaker 1: This is what happens man. I'm about an hour and
Speaker 1: what hour and a half into the show, got about
Speaker 1: thirty more minutes. It's I need some sustenance. Baby needs
Speaker 1: some And wherever you are, wherever you were listening, and
Speaker 1: maybe lunchtime and maybe dinner time, you may be listed.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this on podcast, Michael Garfield the
Speaker 1: High Tech Textan Show, it is time to start off
Speaker 1: the new year with some yummy continued the new year
Speaker 1: with some yummy food. I'm such a Cobo Bobs fan.
Speaker 1: And if you if you're in Dallas, it sucks for
Speaker 1: you because there are no Cobo Bobs in Dallas. There's
Speaker 1: one in San Antonio. If you're listening in Austin somehow
Speaker 1: on iHeart Radio that's the home base Houston. There's four
Speaker 1: of them. I'm such a Cobos Bob's fan it's not
Speaker 1: even funny real quick. They started in Austin. There's one
Speaker 1: near UT campus. And when I visited my son with
Speaker 1: the past four four or five six years, always took
Speaker 1: them right near the Attorney House Rio Grand you're thirty
Speaker 1: second Street, there was this Cabo Bob's and it's you
Speaker 1: go in, it's it's fast casual. You know, you go
Speaker 1: through the line and they make you make your own burritos.
Speaker 1: You tell them what you want in your burrito, or
Speaker 1: you or your taco, or you make a case of
Speaker 1: dilla or the nachos and type of thing. But the
Speaker 1: way they do it, and I saw this when I
Speaker 1: was going through the line. It's the meat that not
Speaker 1: only is the chicken and now he's brisket. Not only
Speaker 1: is their steak, but they smoke them on these Kamata Joe's,
Speaker 1: which is kind of like a big green egg, but
Speaker 1: it's a Kammata style cooker. The meat is abstintively phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And the neat thing is you get to choose your
Speaker 1: freshly made tortilla. It's not walling. When you go to
Speaker 1: these other joints. It's like, oh, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: flower tortilla. No, there's like ancho chili, and there's like
Speaker 1: five flavors, buttermilk flour. You could choose right there. You'll
Speaker 1: watch them press it, You'll watch them heat it up,
Speaker 1: and you go down the line. Love it. Cobbo Bobs,
Speaker 1: I'm starving. Tell you what right now? How would you
Speaker 1: like to win? Is it twenty five dollars? I got
Speaker 1: a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bobs. Whoo
Speaker 1: call her number nine seven to one three two one
Speaker 1: two five nine five. Oh, better, hurry up, calls fast
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two five nine five.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I cannot leave until about thirty more minutes out of
Speaker 1: the studio and then I will roll over to my
Speaker 1: Cobo Bobs. Uh, the one I have in Houston. And
Speaker 1: actually I was in Austin last week and I went
Speaker 1: to not one, but two in Austin. I am not kid.
Speaker 1: I went to three different Cabo Bobs two cities within
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. I'm a pimp. Maybe it's how it is,
Speaker 1: and we have a winner. Ova, stop calling, sorry you
Speaker 1: didn't win, Suck it up, it's go worth it to
Speaker 1: just go buy your own tacos. And Britos Cabo bo
Speaker 1: Oh so freaking good as we continue the High Tech
Speaker 1: Texan Show. And you could find me on almost all
Speaker 1: social media, certainly Instagram. Would you better follow me? You
Speaker 1: know what, I've given away Cabo Bob's gift cards on
Speaker 1: my Instagram, on my X account h I g h
Speaker 1: t E c h t E x A N. You
Speaker 1: will not find me on TikTok because I do not
Speaker 1: have TikTok. And it's not because of any political or
Speaker 1: I'm afraid anybody's gonna steal anything. It's just when TikTok
Speaker 1: came around, I was already on Facebook, and already on
Speaker 1: X or Twitter, already on Instagram, and already on LinkedIn,
Speaker 1: and and it's just it was on and on. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't need this. And I guess when TikTok started,
Speaker 1: it was a young man's game. It was the young
Speaker 1: kids game, you know, my my kids were in there,
Speaker 1: along with Snapchat, which I'm those are the two ones
Speaker 1: I'm not on. I'm not on Snapchat either. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't need it. TikTok has really grown into something big,
Speaker 1: something phenomenal. I still, to this minute, have never hopped
Speaker 1: on it, and that point made you move. Because there
Speaker 1: is a law potentially going to be banning TikTok in
Speaker 1: the United States. Is it going to take effect?
Speaker 2: Is it not?
Speaker 1: I know this is going to be a topic of
Speaker 1: late night hocktail bar chatter next week at the Consumer
Speaker 1: Electronics Show where I'll be.
Speaker 2: But the.
Speaker 1: Law requiring a ban or a sale of TikTok is
Speaker 1: set to take effect on January nineteenth, just what two
Speaker 1: and a half weeks away, And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: one day before Trump's inauguration. Well, President future president Trump
Speaker 1: again apparently doesn't want this. Whether he likes TikTok or not,
Speaker 1: maybe he wants to be talked about on social media
Speaker 1: because Trump has asked the Supreme Court to delay the
Speaker 1: law that could ban TikTok until after his inauguration, after
Speaker 1: on one day. Is it gonna happen? Is it not?
Speaker 1: I don't out now. Trump's stance on TikTok is much
Speaker 1: different from the one he took in his first term,
Speaker 1: because he pursued a ban of the app in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: He also floated the idea that Microsoft could work out
Speaker 1: a deal so the Treasury of the United States gets
Speaker 1: a lot of money. I don't even know with that man,
Speaker 1: But anyway, he reversed his opinion on a TikTok ban
Speaker 1: during his second campaign. He said that banning TikTok would
Speaker 1: make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be the
Speaker 1: enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.
Speaker 1: Apparently he does not get along with Mark Zuckerberg. Probably
Speaker 1: Elon Musk does not either, But anyway, he has asked
Speaker 1: for the Supreme Court to say, you know what, let's
Speaker 1: delay this thing. So January nineteenth may not be the day,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. I'm not on TikTok. However, there
Speaker 1: is something just as big happening on January twentieth Inauguration day.
Speaker 1: It ain't inauguration. It's the National Championship, which hopefully our
Speaker 1: University of Texas Longhorns will be playing in. That's a
Speaker 1: big day, man, And I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: political people out there. God love you who listen to
Speaker 1: the show. Good for you, And you couldn't give to
Speaker 1: shakes of anything to care that. There is a football game,
Speaker 1: the football game, the culmination of this year's college football season,
Speaker 1: that is taking place the same night when Trump is
Speaker 1: going to be dancing the night away, going to all
Speaker 1: the balls in Washington, d C. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I will be in Hotilenta with Matthew McConaughey. All right,
Speaker 1: rooting on the the Texas Longboards a big month, big
Speaker 1: month after that. Then I have a big birthday a
Speaker 1: few weeks later. Absolutely nobody. I don't even really care
Speaker 1: about that. Speak continue the High Tech Texans Show. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: not politics. That was just a fact. Just like facts.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about football. I just happen to have something
Speaker 1: that has to do with TikTok and that's all I
Speaker 1: am talking about here. Congratulations to Jonathan Jonathan is in
Speaker 1: jonathanan san Antonio won the Coboos give card promotion. Good
Speaker 1: for you. There is one Cabo Bob in San Antonio.
Speaker 1: Good for you. This is what we do to give
Speaker 1: things away for all you kids out there. If anybody
Speaker 1: has it, is anybody parent having a kid born this year,
Speaker 1: this year, in twenty twenty five, because there is a
Speaker 1: new name for this generation and it starts this year.
Speaker 1: Raise your hand. If you're a baby boomer. I am
Speaker 1: not a baby boomer. I am a gen Xer, which
Speaker 1: came after baby boomer. I'm a gen X I made
Speaker 1: If you really want to figure out how old I am,
Speaker 1: and let's go do your research. I made generation X
Speaker 1: by thirty four days. If I was born thirty four
Speaker 1: days earlier, I would be boomer. I just made it
Speaker 1: gen X. And then there was gen Y, and then
Speaker 1: there was gen Z, and then there's a millennium. There's
Speaker 1: a new name as of a few days ago, because
Speaker 1: if you are born, if babies are born starting New
Speaker 1: Year's Day of twenty twenty five, you now are a
Speaker 1: member of here's the new name. You are generation beta
Speaker 1: b Eta beta, beta, beta, alpha, beta, Gamma. Oh it,
Speaker 1: generation beta. It will include kids born this year through
Speaker 1: twenty thirty nine. There you go, There you go. If
Speaker 1: you think about it, their parents mostly will hail from
Speaker 1: gen Z, like my son's gen Z. He's not having
Speaker 1: a kid yet. And even the youngest millennials you know,
Speaker 1: going back to from nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: these gen Z kids are having babies now their generation
Speaker 1: beta beta. Some demograph demographer, demographer, a guy who does demographics.
Speaker 1: His name is Mark mccrindall. He coined the name generation
Speaker 1: Alpha for people born between twenty ten and twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and so he said, screw it, let's just keep going
Speaker 1: down the Greek alphabet. And now in twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: you are Generation Beta test. I guess it's just that
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep going Down's is when is? Isn't it
Speaker 1: gonna be when they get to Omega? When everybody is?
Speaker 1: Will there be a world? Who knows? Who knows? I
Speaker 1: think generation axis? You know, gen X, sexy, you know
Speaker 1: Jim yd do whatever is? No? I still think you
Speaker 1: know I'm a Gen X? Or is it the great
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is it the Baby Boomers? Or what
Speaker 1: was the one before that? With Tom brocaw coined the
Speaker 1: greatest generation? Was it was World War two or something
Speaker 1: like that. I don't even know. But there was a
Speaker 1: silent generation back in the nineteen twenties. If anybody has
Speaker 1: a better term for generation beta, phone lines were open
Speaker 1: three four, six, twenty nine texts and you can call
Speaker 1: me right now, tell me if I generation beta? If
Speaker 1: if that's if? It was good about it? I just
Speaker 1: thought I threw that out there. I thought that was,
Speaker 1: you know, interesting. Uh, maybe maybe I will have a
Speaker 1: grandkid who is a generation A beta a beta locker,
Speaker 1: a babe, a beta kid, I hate a kidd, and
Speaker 1: I beta beta kid. Tell you what, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: one final break right now. If you're listening in and
Speaker 1: around the Houston area, we may have to take a
Speaker 1: sign off break over here because I think we have
Speaker 1: a is it a host? Is it a Houston Rockets
Speaker 1: or Houston Couber's or the uh basketball game going on?
Speaker 1: If you're in Dallas, Antonio, nowhere else around the world,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the final fifteen minutes here of the
Speaker 1: High Tech Taxing Show. I do appreciate you. Happy New Year.
Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere when there's you have to final second
Speaker 3: here on the old High Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 1: Thank you for hanging in there. Happy New Year. First
Speaker 1: weekend of January of twenty twenty five, starting up my
Speaker 1: twenty third year of doing this. New to the Dallas
Speaker 1: area and eleven ninety am, New to San Antonio, WAI
Speaker 1: twelve hundred and thank you for a long time listeners
Speaker 1: in and around Houston. Kp RC nine fifty am. You
Speaker 1: can hear this on iHeart Radio. You're just tuning in.
Speaker 1: You missed all the fun stuff. What I expect to
Speaker 1: see and find and bring back from cees. Starting early
Speaker 1: next week Consumer Electronics Show, you can go download the
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Speaker 1: you're already already getting rid of podcasts. Soon as we
Speaker 1: sign off. You can go to iHeart Radio and look
Speaker 1: for High Tech Texan or Michael Garfield or whatever radio.
Speaker 1: Trust your radio station you're listening on here in Texas
Speaker 1: and you can listen to the full two hours of
Speaker 1: fun stuff. And remember, kids, I have a BS degree
Speaker 1: and it does not stand for Bachelor of Science.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: I talk the truth, but I just you know it's
Speaker 1: good BS. It's united. I talk. I answer questions, answer
Speaker 1: your phone calls, give out the I'll give out the
Speaker 1: number one more time. May not be able to get you,
Speaker 1: but it is a voicemail and you can leave a
Speaker 1: voicemail question whatever you want. Three four, six, twenty nine
Speaker 1: hex and t X A N. Congratulations to whoever won
Speaker 1: the Cabo Bob's Gift Card and the Total Wireless Victor
Speaker 1: Gift Card. We give those out on a regular basis
Speaker 1: and hopefully we made your new year off to a
Speaker 1: right start. Do you know whose New year did not
Speaker 1: get off to a very good start. You know who
Speaker 1: did not have a good week. It's Ford, the Ford
Speaker 1: Motor Company. Yikes. Earlier this week their x account allegedly
Speaker 1: was hacked and they quickly pulled it down. But it
Speaker 1: was something to the effect of Gaza and Israelis and
Speaker 1: Ford quickly took that thing down and they issued, you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of an apology that that was not us,
Speaker 1: it was hacked or whatever. And whether it was hacked
Speaker 1: or not, and I'm going to give them the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt saying it was hacked instead of some
Speaker 1: crazy employee whose last day was December thirty. First, it
Speaker 1: still resonates, it was out there in the media. And
Speaker 1: then number two and this was sad the tragedy that
Speaker 1: happened in New Orleans with the truck going through Bourbon
Speaker 1: Street and killing so many people. It was just horrible
Speaker 1: and not a good way to wake up on January
Speaker 1: first to a new year. The truck was a Ford Lightning.
Speaker 1: It was an ev It was a Ford Lightning, which
Speaker 1: actually I believe was rented in the Houston area. And
Speaker 1: again I am not speculating, not doing anything. I'm just
Speaker 1: giving the facts of Ford is having a very bad week.
Speaker 1: And the shots of the photos, let me put it
Speaker 1: this way, the photos of the truck that finally came
Speaker 1: to a rest somewhere on Bourbon Street, it clearly showed
Speaker 1: it was a Ford and it was a Ford Lightning,
Speaker 1: which is an EV. So I think they said they
Speaker 1: were cop cooperating with the authorities or something. And I'm
Speaker 1: not blaming Ford whatsoever. It's just the dude who rented
Speaker 1: it happened to rent it Ford Lightning, which is interesting
Speaker 1: because if he rented it in Houston and went to
Speaker 1: New Orleans, that dude easily had to stop at least
Speaker 1: two times somewhere on Ien and sit there at a
Speaker 1: charging station for about an hour to get that thing done.
Speaker 1: And if you listen to my rap if you listen
Speaker 1: to my show from a week or two ago, where
Speaker 1: I test drove a Hummer EV from Houston to Lake Charles,
Speaker 1: and I went into a ten minute diatribe of why
Speaker 1: I'm probably in my personally, I'm not getting an EV
Speaker 1: because I had a hard time in Lake Charles finding
Speaker 1: a charging station that then killed an hour and fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes of my time away from the gambling tables, and
Speaker 1: it cost me eighty five dollars to charge it up. No, no,
Speaker 1: and so that anyway we'll we'll leave it at that.
Speaker 1: Ford just not having a good week. I am going
Speaker 1: to be hanging out with I don't know is Ford.
Speaker 1: I need to check. Will Ford be at CS. There
Speaker 1: will be a lot of vehicle manufacturers this coming week
Speaker 1: at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you do follow me
Speaker 1: on Instagram x Facebook, you're going to see a lot
Speaker 1: of posts. If you want me to specifically see something
Speaker 1: that you read about or hear about, or see on
Speaker 1: some national media. A lot of national media will be there.
Speaker 1: I will have a broadcast booth specifically mine High Tech
Speaker 1: Texan situated in one of the Las Vegas convention floor halls.
Speaker 1: Generally I'm right next to right near CNN and Fox
Speaker 1: and CNBC and tech Crunch and all this other stuff. It's,
Speaker 1: you know, it's nice opportunity to mix and mingle with
Speaker 1: my filo media folks, get interviews with some other people
Speaker 1: who do what I do. Their opinions are generally different
Speaker 1: than my opinions, and also have interviews on with manufacturers
Speaker 1: who are out there, who are rolling out there refrigerators
Speaker 1: with touch screens and things that you may not need
Speaker 1: or may not afford speaking with here. Here, here's one more.
Speaker 1: Somebody has sent me this. Hey a Garth, I know
Speaker 1: you're going to see, yes, see what your thoughts on
Speaker 1: in this? And you know why the companies keep coming
Speaker 1: out with products that we don't need as a consumer.
Speaker 1: That's from Jessica. Jessica's in the North part of Dallas.
Speaker 1: She's listening. It's a good point. She sent me this
Speaker 1: link and I saw this and I'm I'll probably walk
Speaker 1: through the LG booth. LG, you know, they make so
Speaker 1: many things. They make refrigerators, they make kitchen appliances, they
Speaker 1: make big TVs, they make phones. LG is going to
Speaker 1: launch its latest microwave oven. It is an LG signature
Speaker 1: model and it features a twenty seven inch touchscreen display
Speaker 1: on a microwave. Let us never be with al screens people.
Speaker 1: The test green display is being described as an immersive
Speaker 1: entertainment experience right in your kitchen. Microwave also connects to
Speaker 1: Wi Fi for streaming content and it has built in speakers.
Speaker 1: You know, finally I could watch stuff during the ninety
Speaker 1: seconds it takes popcorn to pop And this is why
Speaker 1: I go to cees to wrap up this show to
Speaker 1: get content on things that are smirkish, laughable, going, people,
Speaker 1: do we really need this? And that's the way I
Speaker 1: cover products. I'm a serious person because I understand you're
Speaker 1: putting your heart earned money into products that you want
Speaker 1: my opinion of don't ever mistake or get me wrong
Speaker 1: on that. That comes first. But there's ways for me
Speaker 1: to deliver, to deliver content where okay, maybe it's a
Speaker 1: little tongue in cheek, Hey this is good. I'm not
Speaker 1: the guy I used to be, the guy who comes
Speaker 1: back from ces going this is the greatest, Ignorerald, the
Speaker 1: like goodness. There's a high definition TV, and there's a
Speaker 1: new computer and there's a printer. This is I am
Speaker 1: now very very jaded. I take things at arm's length, going, hey,
Speaker 1: this is nice. I know what they're doing. They're trying
Speaker 1: to get some press, some ink, some digital ink of
Speaker 1: people like me in the media to talk about this
Speaker 1: so I can mentioned the word LG, which I just did.
Speaker 1: What is it right? And is it real for consumers?
Speaker 1: Odds are a lot of the stuff that I'm going
Speaker 1: to see are not. But it's still fun and it's
Speaker 1: funny and It's something to kick off the year, which
Speaker 1: I have done almost almost half my life, maybe forty
Speaker 1: percent of my life. As I get into the twenty second,
Speaker 1: twenty third year, that I do that. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe if I could fit in a twenty seven inch
Speaker 1: touchscreen display microwave oven in my carry on back, I
Speaker 1: will give that away. And that's what Next week I
Speaker 1: will be coming to you from Las Vegas. I will
Speaker 1: be pre recording some of some interesting interviews. But if
Speaker 1: you want to follow along the p by p the
Speaker 1: play by play as I call it, absolutely I do.
Speaker 1: Thank you for following me on the social media, specifically
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Speaker 1: Those guys are great, happy, happy, healthy New Year to you,
Speaker 1: and I look forward to talk to you every single weekend,
Speaker 1: right here on whatever station or whatever means you're listening
Speaker 1: to it. My name is Michael Garfield, and right now
Speaker 1: the first show of twenty twenty five is over.