Speaker 1: Tech Texan is Michael Garfer.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield's joining US.
Speaker 2: And the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
Speaker 2: a high Tech Texans.
Speaker 4: It was to make life easier.
Speaker 3: Some new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 1: Texas.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio act. Now your high Tech Texan Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: For twenty three years, this radio show has solely been
Speaker 3: broadcasted in Southeast Texas, Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, and all that
Speaker 3: stuff on KPRC nine Am, which, by the way, if
Speaker 3: you're listening anywhere in the world, it's the oldest talk
Speaker 3: radio station in this great state of Texas. In fact,
Speaker 3: this is the longest running local show in the one
Speaker 3: hundred and one year history of that station, kpe PRC. Now, yes,
Speaker 3: it's also heard through the iHeartRadio app across the country,
Speaker 3: also podcasted wherever great podcast or heard. Three weeks ago,
Speaker 3: this show expanded finally to San Antonio and we have
Speaker 3: been pumped shout out to WOAI twelve hundred to blow
Speaker 3: Torch down there in Central Texas, South San Antonio. Love you.
Speaker 3: People already been coming in strong, phone calls, emails. Heck,
Speaker 3: I've even been invited to do the show from the
Speaker 3: river Walk, and we need to coordinate that people mad
Speaker 3: I love going to that Riverwalk, needs restaurants, suggestion to everything.
Speaker 3: But starting this week, there's bigger news. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Bigger news? You see? I had a goal all those
Speaker 3: years ago, twenty three plus years ago, to spread my
Speaker 3: content to as many people who could listen. And that's
Speaker 3: why I coined and trademark the term high tech Texan
Speaker 3: instead of the high tech Ustonian where I currently live,
Speaker 3: and as of this weekend, this show is truly Texan,
Speaker 3: just like me.
Speaker 5: Hello Dallas and kfx R eleven ninety all you listeners
Speaker 5: in Big D, we welcome you to the high Tech
Speaker 5: Texan family.
Speaker 3: If you're a longtime listener, either in Southeast Texas or
Speaker 3: online via the iHeartRadio app, you know how big this
Speaker 3: one is for me because Big D is not just
Speaker 3: another city. Big D. Dallas is my hometown. Dallas is
Speaker 3: where I was raised. Dallas is where a lot of
Speaker 3: my family still lives, including my parents, Larry and Susan Garfield,
Speaker 3: what's up? Who begged me, by the way decades ago
Speaker 3: to study you become a doctor? Oh, you shouldn't get
Speaker 3: in the media. You need to be a doctor, maybe
Speaker 3: a lawyer or something like that. Guess what They finally
Speaker 3: get to listen to their kid over the local airwaves,
Speaker 3: And all I can say is, you know, you were
Speaker 3: actually right. I probably should have become a doctor, maybe
Speaker 3: even a lawyer, anything else but a media personality. Neither here,
Speaker 3: neither there. I am in Dallas, I am in San Antonio,
Speaker 3: and I am in Houston, three of the most populous
Speaker 3: US cities, the three largest cities in the state of Texas.
Speaker 3: I couldn't be happier. Okay, let me explain. If you're
Speaker 3: new to this show, all right, you San Antonio, you're
Speaker 3: probably new three weeks in Dallas. You may have hurt
Speaker 3: me on iHeartRadio because I got so many friends, so
Speaker 3: many childhood friends, high school of friends and everything. We'll
Speaker 3: talk about that. If you've never heard this, wait before
Speaker 3: you flip to another station. Okay, we know who you are.
Speaker 3: We're iHeartRadio people. We know you're flipping. Okay, give this
Speaker 3: show a listen, Give it a few weeks. I've been
Speaker 3: doing this show for an entire generation twenty three years. Okay,
Speaker 3: from the name of the show, you may be expecting
Speaker 3: to call in and have me help fix the motherboard
Speaker 3: on your computer. Well, if so, guess what you're listening
Speaker 3: to the wrong show. You might as well find a nice, blond,
Speaker 3: knowledgeable female who's been doing tech specific radio shows for
Speaker 3: about as long as I have. Nope, See, this show
Speaker 3: is fun. This show is fast, personable, it's hip, it's hot,
Speaker 3: it's happening, as my grown kids say, speaking of which,
Speaker 3: you're actually gonna find out that I am a grown kid,
Speaker 3: a kid who enjoys what he does for a living.
Speaker 3: I'm a kid who gets to play with most any gadget,
Speaker 3: any car, any piece of food you want me to
Speaker 3: try before you buy it. I am your guy. But
Speaker 3: know this, I am not afraid to hold back. If
Speaker 3: I don't like something, if I think it's cheesy, could
Speaker 3: break easily, too expensive, I'm gonna tell you to walk away,
Speaker 3: run away. It's as simple as that. This show is
Speaker 3: not about computers. Well, I guess actually can be if
Speaker 3: you want my vice, I'm buying laptops or desktops, but
Speaker 3: It's also about cars and trucks. I test drive over
Speaker 3: sixty vehicles a year. I can help you decide which
Speaker 3: ones to look at, which ones to stay away from.
Speaker 3: It's about most anything that consumers want. Anything you like,
Speaker 3: peanut butter. I'll tell you what I think is the
Speaker 3: best one on the market. Cell phones, streaming services, bourbon,
Speaker 3: places to travel, what to Where I got All that? That,
Speaker 3: my friends, is what this show is all about. So
Speaker 3: buckle up and as I say, let's row make some
Speaker 3: sex a radio On top of that, you could be
Speaker 3: a part of this show. I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 3: phone number right now. I want you to lock it.
Speaker 3: I want you to load it. Love to hear from you.
Speaker 3: If it's a busy number. If it keeps on ringing,
Speaker 3: maybe a voicemail will pick up. Leave me a voicemail,
Speaker 3: ask me a question. Okay, if you do leave a voicemail,
Speaker 3: we do have your permission to put it on the radio,
Speaker 3: either today, next week, or whenever. Here's the number, three
Speaker 3: four six twenty nine Texan. I mean, come on, really,
Speaker 3: you can't beat that three four six two nine tex A.
Speaker 3: N All right, go check that out. Now, what are
Speaker 3: we gonna do? To today. Well, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 3: last minute gifts that you can send immediately. That's right,
Speaker 3: we're in the midst of the final like, say, what two
Speaker 3: weeks or so before the holiday season, Christmas is coming
Speaker 3: hanakah starts on the same evening as that. Whatever you're
Speaker 3: gift giving maybe has a lot of birthday. By the way, man,
Speaker 3: if you got a birthday near Christmas, riven honekah, that
Speaker 3: it just sucks for you, doesn't it. I'd you know,
Speaker 3: let's start first question for you to call in, see
Speaker 3: if you can get in if you've got a birthday
Speaker 3: within a few days, let's just say Christmas, all right,
Speaker 3: do you get the oh, by the way, where to
Speaker 3: give you two for one? Do you celebrate it together?
Speaker 3: God forbid? You actually have your birthday on Decebary twenty fifth,
Speaker 3: twenty fifth, which actually could Is it a great thing?
Speaker 3: Is it not such a great thing? I wouldn't think
Speaker 3: it's such a great thing because it's some Listen, kids
Speaker 3: are out I always thought about this way. Kids are
Speaker 3: out of school. So knowing not a lot of people,
Speaker 3: not a lot of your buddies are either a gonna
Speaker 3: know what your birthday b they can't celebrate with you.
Speaker 3: You know, they can't bring cupcakes at school? Are you
Speaker 3: even go to bring cupcakes? It's going anymore with all
Speaker 3: these diseases. Who even knows? Three four six twenty nine Texan.
Speaker 3: All right, if you celebrate a birthday, if someone you
Speaker 3: know it celebrates a birthday, do you just give them
Speaker 3: one big gift or do you go separate? That's the
Speaker 3: stuff I want to But anyway, it is last minute.
Speaker 3: Some of the things that you may not be thinking of.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you some ideas of what you can
Speaker 3: do to send this immediately, because you do have to
Speaker 3: be wary the post Office, the FedEx, the ups, the Amazons,
Speaker 3: they may be a little slow right now on delivering things. Also,
Speaker 3: I got a list tech flops of the year. What
Speaker 3: are some of the flops of the year. Actually didn't
Speaker 3: even have to be tech. It could be in sports.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking at my Dallas Cowboys right now. Listen, Hey, Dallas,
Speaker 3: don't you rag me the fact that I'm actually living
Speaker 3: in Houston. I am a Dallas boy, and I am
Speaker 3: not afraid to hide it as I'm living here in Houston. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm a Cowboys guy and I'm a Longhorns guy. But whoo,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a flop of the year. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Is Mike McCarthy is the flop of the decade? Is
Speaker 3: it Jerre? I don't know. We will find out also
Speaker 3: into the year top list. Whatever you want. Hit me
Speaker 3: up all on social media. Actually, I will tell you
Speaker 3: where to find me on social media after this first break,
Speaker 3: but we could not be happy to be here with
Speaker 3: you for the next two hours. Hello h Town, Hello Dallas,
Speaker 3: Hello San Antonio, Hello freaking Texas. Because I am Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: I am back home in Big D with the high
Speaker 3: tech text and show Don't Go in the World. That
Speaker 3: is the number, the new number of the new show.
Speaker 3: If you're listening up in the Dallas Fort Worth area, welcome,
Speaker 3: what is going on? My good friends KFX are eleven
Speaker 3: ninety am North Dallas, maybe near my parents. You know
Speaker 3: my parents I live up. I'm I'm from Dallas, raised
Speaker 3: in Dallas. Big D is in my heart. Cowboys, lifelong fan,
Speaker 3: went to school WT White, Big shout out to WT White.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, a lot of my college buddies, my
Speaker 3: high school buddies, are listening right now. They're sending me
Speaker 3: some emails. Let me tell you how to get in
Speaker 3: on this interactive show stand by it's called the High
Speaker 3: Tech Texan Show. I talked a little about technology. I
Speaker 3: recommend I'm not going to tell you how to fix
Speaker 3: maybe almost anything. I'm gonna tell you what to buy
Speaker 3: and what not. The buye yes with gadgets. That's what
Speaker 3: I did, started out twenty plus years ago. But now
Speaker 3: I review cars and I'll give you some of the
Speaker 3: what's Michael driving this week and what to stay away
Speaker 3: from and also a lot of other good stuff. We're
Speaker 3: gonna lap about today. Last minute gift ideas for the
Speaker 3: holiday season that you can get like immediately, like you
Speaker 3: don't even you can go online. You can buy these
Speaker 3: things and have them email directly to your friends, your family,
Speaker 3: your loved ones. Before that, I just gave you the Actually, no,
Speaker 3: it's do a little Instagram, Let's do a little Facebook,
Speaker 3: Let's do a little X, let's do a little Blue
Speaker 3: sky let's and whatever out there. I generally keep it
Speaker 3: to high Tech Texan hi gh teh T e x A.
Speaker 3: You have to spell the whole thing out high tech Texan.
Speaker 3: Don't give you the hi Tech Texan now it's high
Speaker 3: high Tech Texan, high Tech Texan dot com big on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Just over fifty thousand people now listen, So a fifty
Speaker 3: thousand follow on Instagram. Okay, now we just open it
Speaker 3: up to Dallas. What is that the top six the
Speaker 3: sixth most populous city in the country, in the country. Okay,
Speaker 3: If I don't have four hundred and fifty thousand followers
Speaker 3: by the end of the show, something's wrong. Follow me people,
Speaker 3: funny stuff. Every time I test a product, drive a car,
Speaker 3: I know I certainly will put on Instagram. If you
Speaker 3: go to X you will or blue Sky or Twitter
Speaker 3: or what not? Twitter. Sorry about that. Threads, you're gonna
Speaker 3: get a little mic takes mostly on sports. I'm a
Speaker 3: sports nut. You know I'm gonna make some sports in
Speaker 3: How about the Texas Longhorns. I was at the game
Speaker 3: and Atlanta. I did go to the SEC Championship last week.
Speaker 3: It didn't come out the way we wanted. But you know,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I think I think
Speaker 3: Sark may have been playing chess in three D or
Speaker 3: four D. Maybe he just said, you know what, we've
Speaker 3: got our If we don't win, just let Georgia take
Speaker 3: the Crown. We'll have a relatively easy path to the Natty.
Speaker 3: We'll be back in the same building on January twentieth
Speaker 3: and so maybe so anyway, massive Longhorn fan, I'm still
Speaker 3: a Cowboy fan. People. I've lived through five Super Bowl
Speaker 3: wins and I've got all five Super Bowl Repic Gold rings.
Speaker 3: But it's the one of the flops this year. And
Speaker 3: I will be talking later the show about some flops,
Speaker 3: tech flops, car flops, sports flops, people flops. Maybe a
Speaker 3: win or two. We're winning. Where now you were in Houston,
Speaker 3: we're in San Antonio, and now we're in Dallas. Before that,
Speaker 3: I gave you the phone number. It's three four six
Speaker 3: twenty nine Texan. Why don't we, as we say in
Speaker 3: the business, go to the phones. This is Mike. How
Speaker 3: are you. It's Michael Garfield. Welcome to the High Tech
Speaker 3: Texan Show. What is going on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just talked to you on iHeartRadio. I've been
Speaker 6: San Antonio. You definitely need to come over here and
Speaker 6: do some shows from our great city. And we've got
Speaker 6: best food south side of San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Mike, san Antonio first Color today. Oh good, this is
Speaker 3: this is one of the things there we have some
Speaker 3: fun with So Mike, Thank Mike, thank you so much
Speaker 3: for the call. Mike invites me to San Antonio. Does
Speaker 3: he can someone find out? Does does he work for
Speaker 3: the CVV Convention of Visitors Bureau? I mean, does he
Speaker 3: have au thorough tie to actually invite me to do
Speaker 3: my radio show from San Antonio on the Riverwalk anywhere?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: He wants to talk about the food. They've got some
Speaker 3: good food over there. Let's open. Hey, san Antonio versus
Speaker 3: Dallas versus Houston. Who's got the best food, Who's got
Speaker 3: the best food? Here's what I want. I want somebody.
Speaker 3: I want people to call in, but don't nominate your city. Hey, Austin,
Speaker 3: I know if you're listening on iHeart Radio, because I
Speaker 3: know we're not terrestrially at Austin yet Rio Grand Valley.
Speaker 3: I don't you know what this show has also heard
Speaker 3: iHeart Radio. It's on the app. You could download the app,
Speaker 3: look for Michael Garfield, look for the high tech text,
Speaker 3: and you can listen pretty much anywhere around the world
Speaker 3: except China. I think China blocks it. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Call in if you've been to Texas, where is the
Speaker 3: best food Mike says, they got some of the best
Speaker 3: food anywhere. I like San Antonio. San Antonio and Austin
Speaker 3: they have like a Taco war, and then Austin and
Speaker 3: then kind of Houston. Certainly Lockhart's in there when it
Speaker 3: comes to barbecue two. I like me some food, and
Speaker 3: I get to go to restaurant openings and I have
Speaker 3: restaurant tours and chefs on the show. So it's going
Speaker 3: to be fun. We have a big party over here
Speaker 3: San Antonio, Dallas, and again I'm a little Dallas centric
Speaker 3: today because first time we want to make sure they're
Speaker 3: happy and welcome if they're listening on eleven ninety am
Speaker 3: KFX are part of our Heart Radio family. Best restaurants
Speaker 3: in Dallas. Now, I'm from Dallas. My parents live in Dallas.
Speaker 3: Some of my best friends, my childhood friends, grew up
Speaker 3: in North Dallas. Went to W. T. White High School.
Speaker 3: By the way, I already got an email over here
Speaker 3: Chris Domhoff. Hello, haff I went to high school W T.
Speaker 3: White with domb Hoff. He is listening, GARF. Been listening
Speaker 3: to you here on iHeartRadio probably for about fifty years.
Speaker 3: Great growing up with you. I never thought you'd mount
Speaker 3: to anything. But it's pretty cool listening to you over
Speaker 3: the year on eleven ninety. I guess that's a compliment.
Speaker 3: Guess that's a compliment just because you're retired, bro and
Speaker 3: you hit it big with ignite. I mean, come on, uh,
Speaker 3: three four six twenty nine Texan. You can call into
Speaker 3: three four six two nine t e x A N
Speaker 3: Restaurants in Dallas. Don't laugh. I am not a pretentious guy.
Speaker 3: I don't eat, believe it. I don't eat a lot
Speaker 3: to eat. I don't eat a lot of red and meat.
Speaker 3: I'll eat barbecue here and there. I rarely have a steak,
Speaker 3: and I really have a hamburger, all right. So when
Speaker 3: I come in and if I have two steaks a year,
Speaker 3: I'm lying, okay, two two steaks year. One of them
Speaker 3: is it Nick and SAMs. This is an unsolicited big
Speaker 3: Nick and Sam fans. The reason why I love Nick
Speaker 3: and Sam's cool meat area right off the edge of downtown.
Speaker 3: They got a freak cavia. Actually, before I go the dead,
Speaker 3: do they still have the free caviar bar. I was
Speaker 3: just amazed first time I went in there, because I
Speaker 3: like caviar, and I'm waiting in line with the bar
Speaker 3: with my boys, and all of a sudden people are
Speaker 3: going on with their little dishes and they're snacking on something,
Speaker 3: and that's like, what are you eating? It's a caviar caviar.
Speaker 3: Where'd you order that? Oh? No, it's a free caviar bar.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they still have it. Somebody called
Speaker 3: three four six two nine Texa. Does Nick and SAMs
Speaker 3: still have a free caviar bar? Because let me help
Speaker 3: you out. I made me need to do my show
Speaker 3: not only from Dallas, but from the caviar bar at
Speaker 3: Nick and SAMs. It's it's a great place. Don't sleep
Speaker 3: on this because we don't have any of these in Houston.
Speaker 3: I say we because I live in Houston area now.
Speaker 3: There are no Taco Buenos. It's Houston now. I grew up.
Speaker 3: When I was in Dallas, I lived on Taco Boyo.
Speaker 3: I have never walked into a Taco bell, but Taco
Speaker 3: Boino is the boin man. I am a Buino head.
Speaker 3: I actually used to work for there for one week
Speaker 3: in high school. I won't even get into the story
Speaker 3: about that. Love me, just give me a freaking bean burrito. Okay,
Speaker 3: don't eat a lot of them. Just a little bit
Speaker 3: more fattening than that I need right now in my
Speaker 3: older age. Love me san buena three four six two nine,
Speaker 3: text and you tell me what some of your favorite
Speaker 3: food is. Should we actually get start into the show.
Speaker 3: See this is the show, this is the fun show.
Speaker 3: But we want you to be a part of this thing.
Speaker 3: Care I did promise this last minute gifts that you
Speaker 3: can send immediately. How can you send a gift Michael,
Speaker 3: I mean it's it auto a wrap. No, if you
Speaker 3: think about it, think of a gift card. Okay. Now, generally,
Speaker 3: when you get a gift card, you go to a
Speaker 3: store and you buy a gift card. Oh, give me
Speaker 3: thirty five, give me fifty dollars, give me one hundred dollars,
Speaker 3: me a thousand dollars. Go to Walmart, go to Target, whatever.
Speaker 3: You know, if you really wanted an apple, you go
Speaker 3: to the Apple store type of thing. It's not breaking
Speaker 3: news that you can go online and buy a gift
Speaker 3: card for yourself, or you can gift a gift card.
Speaker 3: So much so, go to one of your favorite stores
Speaker 3: and it doesn't even have to be a brick and
Speaker 3: mortar store. Go to an online store and go purchase
Speaker 3: a gift card, put the email of the person you
Speaker 3: want to send it to and snap like that. They're
Speaker 3: gonna get an email and they're gonna say, oh that
Speaker 3: and just put a little note in there, I mom my, dad,
Speaker 3: and I got you a little gift card. That's cool.
Speaker 3: That's the media. But there are other things too. Tons.
Speaker 3: How about subscriptions. How about as my good friend cousin
Speaker 3: Eddie likes to say, it's the gift that keeps on
Speaker 3: given year round, clark that it is, ed word that
Speaker 3: it is. How About a Jelly of the month club?
Speaker 3: How about a craft beer club? How about a coffee club.
Speaker 3: There are clubs that you can get something on a
Speaker 3: monthly basis and you can start it right online. They'll
Speaker 3: immediately send an email to your gift recipient congratulations. For
Speaker 3: the next twelve months, You're gonna get a new beer
Speaker 3: to try, You're gonna get a new type of coffee
Speaker 3: to grind. You're gonna get a new book to read.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get a new dessert that that's coming. You
Speaker 3: know what. Yes, you two can get a Jelly of
Speaker 3: the month. So that's something that you can do. Also,
Speaker 3: one more before we take a break, really easy. I
Speaker 3: talk a lot about streaming because streaming is a massive
Speaker 3: technology that's relatively new, But streaming nowadays is almost it's
Speaker 3: like we're going back to cable because there's so many
Speaker 3: things that are bundled together. Oh, if you get Disney
Speaker 3: even once you get Disney Plus and Hulu together, I mean,
Speaker 3: just bundle these things and call it cable. I will
Speaker 3: tell you this. You need to start unbundling. You need
Speaker 3: to start killing some of your streaming services, because odds
Speaker 3: are you probably have too many streaming services and you're
Speaker 3: probably paying almost as if not more than your role
Speaker 3: cable subscription. Do you really need Netflix and Disney Plus
Speaker 3: and Hulu and Apple to TV and blah blah blah bah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the thing is where I'm getting over here. Always go check,
Speaker 3: probably every six months, what do you want? And if
Speaker 3: you don't watch it, if your kids don't watch it,
Speaker 3: ask yourself, what am I doing still paying nine ninety
Speaker 3: nine nineteen ninety nine a month of the thing. But
Speaker 3: when it comes to streaming and inner, maybe your parents,
Speaker 3: maybe your neighbor, maybe your kids who had just moved out,
Speaker 3: Maybe they don't have a streaming services service. Maybe you
Speaker 3: want to get one of those. I'm not gonna give
Speaker 3: you which one. I don't care what you get. Get Amazon,
Speaker 3: get Prime Video, get Netflix, get Disney Plus. But it's
Speaker 3: easy to sign up nowadays, or probably have some specials
Speaker 3: on sale. I just saw it went off off sale.
Speaker 3: Hulu had a ninety nine cent per month subscription for
Speaker 3: one year. I think the deadline passed. I think it
Speaker 3: was early December on that one. But take a look
Speaker 3: out there. Those subscriptions may be simple, but tell you
Speaker 3: what in a snap, can't think of anything to do.
Speaker 3: Give them some sort of a streaming, maybe some entertainment,
Speaker 3: maybe an audible account or book. But just remember iHeartRadio
Speaker 3: absolutely free. You can listen to anything on iheard from
Speaker 3: all over the country, all eight hundred plus of our
Speaker 3: radio stations, including me, no matter where we are, where
Speaker 3: where you are? All right, break time, Bottom of the year.
Speaker 3: How about a little tech flops? How about some flops
Speaker 3: of the year three four, six, twenty nine Texan? All right,
Speaker 3: you can't say the Cowboys. We know they're the flop
Speaker 3: of the year. All right, when it comes when it
Speaker 3: comes to our expectations of what the cowboys should have been,
Speaker 3: I'm a cowboy. Event let me help you out. I
Speaker 3: am not a cowboy hater. Nope. I got my opposite
Speaker 3: at home. I got decorated burn orange and I got
Speaker 3: the blue and silver people. No, I'm a cowboy lover
Speaker 3: and I'm not too happy with my boys this year.
Speaker 3: By the way, Jarak three four six, twenty nine text
Speaker 3: and I'd love to give you some advice here on
Speaker 3: the High Tech Texans Show show. Michael is my name.
Speaker 3: If we're tight, you can call me Garth. We want
Speaker 3: to welcome our newest I guess we'll say, ohfiliate where
Speaker 3: we're heard. For twenty three plus years, we've been in
Speaker 3: Houston on the big talk radio station KPRC nine to fifty.
Speaker 3: Just a few weeks ago we expanded to San Antonio
Speaker 3: on WOAI, which is kind of a news talk station
Speaker 3: twelve hundred and now just this week the very first
Speaker 3: time herd Saturday and Sunday. By the way, check your
Speaker 3: KFXR eleven ninety website. It's called the High Tech Texans
Speaker 3: Show up in the Dallas area, my hometown. Actually, what
Speaker 3: the iHeart the iHeart studio is? What is it just
Speaker 3: just near the isn't it crossing the galleria? Real close?
Speaker 3: To the Galleria. It's the Dallas Toway and just north
Speaker 3: of LBJ, not far from where my parents still live,
Speaker 3: from the same house that I grew up in, from
Speaker 3: the same room that they still have it. Well, actually
Speaker 3: they did kind of redecorated. Am I same high school, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, w T. White Longhorns. If anybody really
Speaker 3: needs some trivia, I have been a I was an
Speaker 3: Orange and White Longhorn for eight consecutive years. No, I
Speaker 3: was not held back in high school. No, I actually
Speaker 3: did finish college in four years. It was four years
Speaker 3: of the w T. White Longhorns and four years of
Speaker 3: the Texas Longhorns. That that is Burton Horns. Some of
Speaker 3: my high school buds tuned in. Shout out to Mike Hurst.
Speaker 3: What's up, Mike? Oh, I'm sorry. Michael K. Hurst lawyer
Speaker 3: esquire used to be president of the Dallas Bar Association,
Speaker 3: one of my best friends growing up. So he's sending
Speaker 3: some text right now, Garth, you're selling a good really.
Speaker 7: Oh, we can tell maybe over the year, maybe over
Speaker 7: the weeks. Now we're gonna tell some high school stories.
Speaker 7: It's amazing, it's amazing. I actually am doing what I'm
Speaker 7: doing well.
Speaker 3: All my friends are either A most many of them
Speaker 3: are retired right now. They're lawyers who got ranches and
Speaker 3: second or third homes and ski lodges. Nope, not me here.
Speaker 3: I am working on the weekends. Not a big deal.
Speaker 3: Phone number three four six two nine t e x
Speaker 3: A N. If we don't pick up the phone, feel
Speaker 3: free to leave a voicemail question. If you need some
Speaker 3: last minute shopping advice, it doesn't even matter almost what
Speaker 3: it is you need. Bourbon, by the way, I'm a
Speaker 3: big brownwater guy, big brownwater guy, collect bourbon. I give
Speaker 3: me a price point, I'm gonna tell you a good one. Naturally,
Speaker 3: you know what. As much as a Texan as I am,
Speaker 3: I'm not a big Texas bourbon fan. I still got
Speaker 3: to lean on a little Kentucky over there, but I
Speaker 3: got a ton of that stuff. I actually do test
Speaker 3: drive cars. I remember the Texas Auto Writers Association as
Speaker 3: we get to know each other, which means for fifteen
Speaker 3: sixteen years, I work and meet and talk to the manufacturers.
Speaker 3: I don't deal with dealerships, just no dealerships. These are
Speaker 3: directly for the manufacturers. That is not paid. I don't
Speaker 3: endorse them. So we test drive these things, and every week,
Speaker 3: every single week, for fifteen years, I have received a
Speaker 3: test card from one week. I have driven over seven
Speaker 3: hundred eight one hundred different vehicles over the past ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 3: fifteen years. It is up to me. It is my
Speaker 3: content and is my mind. I can rag on them,
Speaker 3: and I could. I can just tell you how disgusting
Speaker 3: this is and how bad this is. I can tell
Speaker 3: you how great they are. This is unpaid. And that's
Speaker 3: what you're gonna get with me. You're gonna get the truth. Baby.
Speaker 3: You can't handle the truth because I speak the truth.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. This past week I was driving in
Speaker 3: a writing Yeah, I was driving. I was a Dodge
Speaker 3: Durango RT Dodge Durango. Okay, I do evs. This let
Speaker 3: me help you out. This is about as further away
Speaker 3: from an R from an EV and electric vehicle as
Speaker 3: you can get. This is a Dodge Durango massive HEMI
Speaker 3: six point three leader. I mean you can hear when
Speaker 3: I start the car up, I wake three or four
Speaker 3: of my neighbors up. I mean, this thing rumbles. This
Speaker 3: is a gas guzzling machine. Specifically, this is the RT
Speaker 3: model R slash T stands for road track. It's pretty much.
Speaker 3: It comes with its special RT badging and has an
Speaker 3: upgraded suspension, upgraded tires and brakes, and generally more powerful engine.
Speaker 3: And so between now and the end of the show,
Speaker 3: I'll give you a little bit more play by a play,
Speaker 3: But they start around at the bare bones level. You're
Speaker 3: gonna get about fifty two fifty three thousand dollars just
Speaker 3: to start before you continue to go up. But the
Speaker 3: thing is, though there's no one answer. I'll get a question. Hey, Garth,
Speaker 3: which by the way, is my nickname, not g A
Speaker 3: R T H. Not Garth like Wayne and gar No,
Speaker 3: no Garth like the first four letters of Garfield. So
Speaker 3: if you want to get tight with me, spell it right, Garth.
Speaker 3: They say, Garf, what's the best vehicle to get? What's
Speaker 3: the best car? What's the best truck I should get?
Speaker 3: And that's an open ended question because I generally answer
Speaker 3: questions with a question, and that means I have to
Speaker 3: ask you, well, what are you looking for? Are you
Speaker 3: a truck? Do you want a truck? Do you want
Speaker 3: a sports card? You want a two seater? Do you
Speaker 3: want something? Because you're getting ready to have a baby,
Speaker 3: and you need something that is safe, but also it's
Speaker 3: got a big backseat that's easy to put a car
Speaker 3: seat into. Do you want an electric vehicle? I mean,
Speaker 3: so I answer questions at that point, I narrow it down.
Speaker 3: So if you want to help me narrow things down,
Speaker 3: I'm looking for this. I'm looking for this. Fine. I
Speaker 3: have a podcast. Well, this show is podcasted, so if
Speaker 3: Casha is it, you can hear the dulcet tones of
Speaker 3: my voice over and over whenever, whenever you want to.
Speaker 3: You can got iHeartRadio. Let's just look up high Tech
Speaker 3: textan Michael Garfield and you'll hear it. But also there's
Speaker 3: another podcast I do specifically about cars and trucks, and
Speaker 3: I've done this for years, and so I did. There's
Speaker 3: just a number of them, and they're they're really they're
Speaker 3: they're they're relatively short. Nothing's longer than ten minutes, somewhere
Speaker 3: between six to ten minutes. It's pretty much what's Michael
Speaker 3: driving this week? I will tell you that, Hey, this
Speaker 3: is good, But however, you may want to watch the
Speaker 3: gas mileage or you know what. The back seat is
Speaker 3: so small you're not gonna fit any you know, adult
Speaker 3: sized people in there, or if you want to schlep
Speaker 3: something in the back of this truck bed. This only
Speaker 3: comes in a crew cabum and you're not gonna get
Speaker 3: a longer, you know, six foot bed or something. Go
Speaker 3: check that out and you can look for high Tech Texan.
Speaker 3: That also is on iHeart, Spotify, Apple and wherever the
Speaker 3: great podcast or then. So I know that's some of
Speaker 3: the things that we have going on. Phone number here
Speaker 3: is I look at some of them ring and we'll
Speaker 3: get to you if not. If you don't. If you
Speaker 3: don't get to you, just go ahead and leave a
Speaker 3: message and we'll play it here shortly or maybe next week.
Speaker 3: Three four six twenty nine Texan three four six two
Speaker 3: nine Texan talked about I saw an article that started
Speaker 3: listing some of the tech flops of the year. What
Speaker 3: were some of the flops as we get to the
Speaker 3: end of twenty twenty four, I think across the board
Speaker 3: it seems to be And this was the first one
Speaker 3: that came to mind. It was those Apple Vision pro
Speaker 3: goggles that Apple released. When was that it was around
Speaker 3: summer maybe maybe springtime or so. And these are these
Speaker 3: ar VR goggles that are heavy, looks like a helmet
Speaker 3: and you put it on, and they did. They were
Speaker 3: they were incredibly pricey. What they were these like eighteen hundred,
Speaker 3: two thousand and three thousand dollars. I did not have one.
Speaker 3: I didn't even test one because they just they weren't selling.
Speaker 3: And it's not that they were. I mean it was
Speaker 3: a flop. But here's the thing. As interesting as the
Speaker 3: technology is in goggles like that, I just don't think
Speaker 3: the mass consumer audience is ready for that stuff. And
Speaker 3: a lot of and you know, one of this, I
Speaker 3: think this was the one that the vision pro They
Speaker 3: wanted you to wear it outside because you can kind
Speaker 3: of see through it, but they still needed some a
Speaker 3: power you know, you had to wear a battery packing thing.
Speaker 3: I mean it was like you're you know, you're walking
Speaker 3: around like you're connected to like life support or something.
Speaker 3: It just it wasn't there. I mean, I do play
Speaker 3: with AR and VR glasses and actually I got a
Speaker 3: pair from Meta I'm playing with that actually reminds me
Speaker 3: I got to send them back to for the test
Speaker 3: review unit. But I'm playing with fun some the Meta
Speaker 3: and it's neat, but the best way for me and
Speaker 3: my suggesting to experience them is sit down in a
Speaker 3: in a in a chair with wheel it's like a
Speaker 3: rolling chair, like a desk chair. Okay, you're at your desk,
Speaker 3: and you know a desk chair generally has wheels. You
Speaker 3: can kind of wheel yourself around. Sit down, and you
Speaker 3: know what, maybe you want to take a belt and
Speaker 3: strap yourself in like it's a ten thousand dollars pyramid
Speaker 3: final question or something, because you don't want to fallow
Speaker 3: because these things the spatial you know sense that you're getting.
Speaker 3: It's crazy awesome, it's real, but you can lose your balance.
Speaker 3: So sit down number one. Okay, And if you're in
Speaker 3: a wheelie thing, and I tell you why, in your
Speaker 3: wheeling thing because as you turn your head left, you're
Speaker 3: gonna these goggles makes it look like and feel like
Speaker 3: you're actually in this room or in space or wherever
Speaker 3: you you are. So if you turn left, but anyway,
Speaker 3: take your feet and start turning your chair just in
Speaker 3: a circle. Just just make a circle, go left and
Speaker 3: right as you look up, as you look down. I
Speaker 3: was playing with a it was something in these metaglasses Meta,
Speaker 3: which is the owner of Facebook and Instagram, but you
Speaker 3: know the Zuckerberg's company. This is not an endorsement. This
Speaker 3: is just the ones I'm playing with right now. But
Speaker 3: it was a movie about a space shuttle and they
Speaker 3: took this three hundred and sixty degree high definition camera
Speaker 3: in the actually was the ISS, it was the International
Speaker 3: Space Station, and they talked to and they showed the
Speaker 3: I think there was two sometimes three depending on when
Speaker 3: they were shooting this inhabitants of the space station and
Speaker 3: how weightless it is. But it's unbelievable because you actually
Speaker 3: feel like you're weightless yourself and you're looking and you're
Speaker 3: looking up, and you can move your head up, and
Speaker 3: you can move your head down, and then you wheel
Speaker 3: you're not just turn your feet around and now you're
Speaker 3: looking behind it. It's three hundred and sixty degrees. That
Speaker 3: is cool, but it's not for everybody going back, What
Speaker 3: were the flops of the year. I want to open
Speaker 3: the phone lines and feel free to hit me up
Speaker 3: on X Blue Sky, Instagram, find me high Tech textan
Speaker 3: h I G h T E C h T E
Speaker 3: x A N. There's a number of things that are
Speaker 3: out there, all these artificial intelligent hens, the humane AI pen,
Speaker 3: there's the rabbit r one. A lot of people are
Speaker 3: saying the iPhone sixteen series it was actually a flop.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I think Apple expected to
Speaker 3: sell more of those. But you tell me some of
Speaker 3: the flops of the year. All right, tex the Cowboys
Speaker 3: are off limits. We already know they're a flop. I
Speaker 3: say this as a Cowboys massive fan. I know you're disappointed,
Speaker 3: just as I up in Big D three four six
Speaker 3: twenty nine text in it is the high Tech Texting Show.
Speaker 3: Michael Gart people, we're gonna come us.
Speaker 4: One more time.
Speaker 5: We have changed it.
Speaker 3: He was down to twenty three years due came to
Speaker 3: phone number plays. So he'd been doing the High Tech
Speaker 3: Texan Show twenty three years. And we do so much
Speaker 3: more than technology. It is three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: Texan and three four six two nine t e x
Speaker 3: A n already heard from Mike and san Antonio inviting
Speaker 3: me to do the show from the river walk ere.
Speaker 3: He says, san Antonio has got great food. We know
Speaker 3: that san Antonio's got some. Really, I had some. I
Speaker 3: need a fit I had I love Caeso. There's a
Speaker 3: Caeso Flemiado, There's a there's a Mexican tex mex restaurant
Speaker 3: in the Pearl. I've been going to San Antonia. I've
Speaker 3: never lived in Santoina. I've been going there so much
Speaker 3: since I was a kid. My parents used to take me.
Speaker 3: Remember the Jack's Brewery or Pearl, but no, it was
Speaker 3: Pearl Brewery, right, And they had They used to have
Speaker 3: those big beer storage containers, I mean massive, but they
Speaker 3: were there. They look like mountains and they were painted
Speaker 3: like pearl cans. Cans. We used to take a tour
Speaker 3: and they used to give out samples of beer to adults,
Speaker 3: but we used got that. I was a kid, I
Speaker 3: got root beer samples that Pearl's. Now what it's like
Speaker 3: this there's an outdoor shopping area, there's apartments, there's something man,
Speaker 3: there's somebody helped me out of there's a tex Mex
Speaker 3: restaurant and have the Casa Flemiado is just stupid awesome.
Speaker 3: It is just good. Garf is the nickname Michael Garfield,
Speaker 3: the high tech text and show. We're gonna play a
Speaker 3: little game there. We're gonna play an over undergame. So
Speaker 3: one of the things that one of the many things
Speaker 3: that I do, I let you know about what's going
Speaker 3: on in the world. For consumers, if there's a data breach,
Speaker 3: if there's a recall, if there's something Sometimes there's a
Speaker 3: class action suit and maybe you can get in on
Speaker 3: it because something happened to a product. I don't know
Speaker 3: what it was. It was an earlier this year, last
Speaker 3: year that there was a data breach on Equifax. There
Speaker 3: was the Equifax data breach, and they had their information
Speaker 3: and for some reason, if your data was compromised, if
Speaker 3: you actually can get in on this consumer restitution fund,
Speaker 3: which is gonna be distributed to settlement class members with
Speaker 3: valid claims. And I gave you a website. It didn't
Speaker 3: it ended months ago, right Anyway, We're gonna play a
Speaker 3: little game right now. I got an email earlier this
Speaker 3: week Tuesday, Dear Michael Garfield. The Equifax data breach Settlement
Speaker 3: Agreement says any remaining funds in the Consumer Restitution Fund
Speaker 3: will be distributed to settlement class members with valid claims.
Speaker 3: You have a valid claim and are eligible for additional payment.
Speaker 3: It will be sent to you by electronic prepaid card. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. It's coming the week of December sixteenth.
Speaker 3: So next week I'm gonna I'm gonna get this pay
Speaker 3: out over under people, all right, three four, six, twenty nine,
Speaker 3: text or hit me up find me on X Blue
Speaker 3: Sky High Tech. Textit over under. How much do you
Speaker 3: think I am going to get a prepaid card for
Speaker 3: as part of the remaining funds in the Consumer Restitution
Speaker 3: Fund for the Equifax data breaching settlement? I am going
Speaker 3: over under a dollar forty two? Anyone, anyone over under?
Speaker 3: Take a best guess, and you know what, we could
Speaker 3: play prices. Right if anybody emails me or post it
Speaker 3: on X to say, garfear's my guests Equifax data breach,
Speaker 3: you're gonna get X the person who comes the closest
Speaker 3: without going over the amount I get, I will give
Speaker 3: you that amount, all right, unless it's a really very
Speaker 3: high amount, I'm not going to give it to you.
Speaker 3: And I say this, it's because I love the way
Speaker 3: they were were this. I mean it was it was millions,
Speaker 3: and it could have been tens of millions, and it
Speaker 3: could have been one hundreds of millions dollars that all
Speaker 3: the people would get distributed to, right, because so many
Speaker 3: people their data was compromised. And you've seen how this
Speaker 3: stuff is. Right, But it says any remaining funds well,
Speaker 3: you got to take out your lawyer fees. And this
Speaker 3: is where as I started my show, where my mom
Speaker 3: and my parents in Dallas, they say, you know what,
Speaker 3: you should have been a lawyer. You should have been
Speaker 3: a doctor. I probably should have like all my Mike
Speaker 3: held another one of my wty classmates. He just came in,
Speaker 3: powerful lawyer, told you, Mike cursed lawyer, Andy Whittaker. Lawyers.
Speaker 3: All buddies of mine in Big d right now, they're
Speaker 3: they're sending me their wishes and love because we just
Speaker 3: started in Dallas and k FXR eleven ninety. I do
Speaker 3: appreciate all my igh school people. Listen from W. T. White,
Speaker 3: what is it dollar forty two? I say this, it's
Speaker 3: because I get a check once a year. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's twice year because I haven't seen one in
Speaker 3: a while. I may get a check once a year.
Speaker 3: From my appearance on General Hospital. Yes, that's right. Your
Speaker 3: boy just doesn't do radio. Slapped the little makeup, little
Speaker 3: lipstick on a pig, and he's presentable here and there.
Speaker 3: I did a stint like a three three episode arc
Speaker 3: on General Hospital in twenty eleven. So this is thirteen
Speaker 3: years ago, right, And I get a check. I'm not
Speaker 3: a SAG member. I don't have a screen actor's go card,
Speaker 3: but I think it comes from ABC because General Hospital
Speaker 3: still I think it's the last remaining or one of
Speaker 3: the last two remaining soap opera still on. And I
Speaker 3: get a check, and I'm not kidding you, man it
Speaker 3: it gets its ABC Network, ABC Studios and it's a
Speaker 3: check and you open up. I kid you not. If
Speaker 3: this thing is two dollars and eighteen cents, I'm lying
Speaker 3: just sitting fair man, stuff fair and you know what
Speaker 3: you end up doing. You don't cash the thing because
Speaker 3: you just want to frame is like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: remember I was on TV. I was a general hospital
Speaker 3: back of the day. Now I'm gonna frame this two
Speaker 3: dollars an eighteen cent thing. Oh my goodness. Uh okay.
Speaker 3: The Equifact Data breach settlement. If anybody else is it,
Speaker 3: got theirs, even though I think they're gonna be distributed
Speaker 3: next week. Good for you. I don't know if we
Speaker 3: get the same amount or anything, but anyway, these are
Speaker 3: the when there are situations like this, if there's a breach,
Speaker 3: if there's a settlement, like you know, Apple says this
Speaker 3: cord you know, burned down and they're having a They've
Speaker 3: donated tens of millions of dollars to this pool, and
Speaker 3: everybody who legally can claim that they bought one of
Speaker 3: these things, I will give you the instructions of how
Speaker 3: to actually submit your claim textually make money over there,
Speaker 3: So Equifax, it's the the over undergame three four six
Speaker 3: two nine text in you could find me. Also, I
Speaker 3: do have a website too, which is high tech texting
Speaker 3: dot com. Shockingly h I G H T E C
Speaker 3: h T E x A N. Actually it's a big
Speaker 3: I'm gonna end this the first time on a very
Speaker 3: big note. Okay, there's not a lot of good news
Speaker 3: is that's happening in the world right now? There really
Speaker 3: is not. There's not a lot of good news that's
Speaker 3: happening in the media world right now. Okay, you got
Speaker 3: companies now merging, you got companies laying off. You got
Speaker 3: this whatever it is, and call it lucky. No, it's
Speaker 3: not luck, because I always say this, I don't think
Speaker 3: there's such thing really as luck, because you make your
Speaker 3: own buck. And this is words I live by. Here's
Speaker 3: my sales motivational speech for anybody who wants me to
Speaker 3: come in and speak to your group because they do
Speaker 3: a lot of speaking around the country. You make your
Speaker 3: own buck and so much. Someone is thinking about this,
Speaker 3: how about these lottery winners. Don't tell me that these
Speaker 3: lottery winners are just luck. They actually had to get
Speaker 3: their butts in the car to go to a store
Speaker 3: to buy a lottery ticket, sometimes waiting in line and whatever.
Speaker 3: They made a portion of that quote unquote luck happen,
Speaker 3: all right, So it's hard working, hard luck. The fact is,
Speaker 3: though I've been doing this radio show twenty three years
Speaker 3: in Houston, now heard in San Antonio is a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago now just starting today Dallas area, Welcome Dallas people.
Speaker 3: I also am I home am I still say my
Speaker 3: home time's Dalla. My hometown is Dallas, but I do
Speaker 3: live in the Houston area. I also contribute to a
Speaker 3: TV show. It is called Great Day Houston. It is
Speaker 3: on the CBS affiliate Channel eleven KHOU, which is owned
Speaker 3: by Tegna, which is also owned by Channel eight wfaas
Speaker 3: up in Dallas, which by the way, if you recognize
Speaker 3: the voice, if you recognize the face, you recognize the face,
Speaker 3: but you couldn't recognize the name. I was also on
Speaker 3: Channel eight up in Dallas thirteen twelve eleven, thirteen eleven
Speaker 3: ten or eleven years ago. They had just started their
Speaker 3: four pm afternoon news and I did a segment with
Speaker 3: what was it? I think his name is Jason on
Speaker 3: channel like good Dude. There's a lot of good money
Speaker 3: or consumer stuff right now. I like him a lot.
Speaker 3: So the way I did a technology segment, that was it.
Speaker 3: So I still do TV and I contribute to Great
Speaker 3: Day Houston and this coming Tuesday as we get ready
Speaker 3: to finish this top of the Hour, This coming Tuesday,
Speaker 3: if you're in the Houston area, or if you go
Speaker 3: to kheou dot com if you want to see what
Speaker 3: the guy behind the microphone looks like. I am actually
Speaker 3: a host game the show. Our regular host Debora Duncan.
Speaker 3: She's actually taking a little vacation time, so she's tolling
Speaker 3: a little Johnny Carson having someone sit in for hear
Speaker 3: and one of my goals whatever probably wanted to do
Speaker 3: as a radio intelligence film major. I absolutely look, I'm
Speaker 3: jumping at this and I'm so excited. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: through some of the cool technology gifts and gear that
Speaker 3: I will show and tell because that's what you could
Speaker 3: do on TV. Got some really cool interviews lined up
Speaker 3: I will be hosting. So for some reason, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get you. Good morning Texas. You're looking for another dude
Speaker 3: who wants to make his way home. He's got good hair,
Speaker 3: he's got a ton of energy. Talk to my age
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield, our number one. Oh, stay tuned, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: So we have some fun this weekend. Off college football
Speaker 3: weekend and it's an off season with my Dallas cob
Speaker 3: right here. It's called the high Tech text.
Speaker 5: Ian.
Speaker 2: Is Michael Garfil Michael Garfuld.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield's joining us and the.
Speaker 2: High Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high
Speaker 2: Tech Texans items to make life easier, new technology.
Speaker 3: So Michael Garfield has something you might want, Texas.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 3: Yes, started number two of the high Tech techt Show.
Speaker 3: It's a two hour show. We're halfway through and if
Speaker 3: you're new to the show, say it with me. This
Speaker 3: is what we do. We are a halfway to happy hour.
Speaker 3: Show runs at the weekend, so pretty much it always
Speaker 3: should be a happy hour. If you're listening on some
Speaker 3: sort of a podcast and it's not the weekend, well
Speaker 3: you know what. I just hope you're listening and you're
Speaker 3: driving safe. We don't drink and drive, but we can
Speaker 3: drive and listen, as simple as that. Michael Garfield is
Speaker 3: the name. And as we start the second hour, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to go through the whole spiel like I
Speaker 3: did in the first hour, but we welcome another affiliate.
Speaker 3: And this one's a big one for me, certainly important
Speaker 3: and very near and dear to my heart. The first
Speaker 3: week we are heard in the Dallas area. Welcome KFX
Speaker 3: are eleven ninety a m. It's special to me because, oh,
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's only my hometown, Big d where
Speaker 3: I grew up, where my parents still live, where I
Speaker 3: went to high school, or all my buddies. I got
Speaker 3: family up there. I'm actually based in Houston area right now,
Speaker 3: but I get up to Dallas as much as possible.
Speaker 3: You could take the boy out of Dallas, but you
Speaker 3: can't take Dallas out the boy. What is up by
Speaker 3: the way, i'd really I used to get into this
Speaker 3: because I thought was fun. It was good talk show, fudder,
Speaker 3: and I've been doing this for twenty This my twenty
Speaker 3: third year. By the way, that I'm doing this show,
Speaker 3: which is not going to be all about technology. I
Speaker 3: am not going to tell you how to fix your computer.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of fun, much more fun we'll explain,
Speaker 3: but talk right to you. You want to push some buttons,
Speaker 3: you want to push people buttons, You want to be polarizing. Now,
Speaker 3: I do not and will not talk politics, and don't
Speaker 3: worry about that. I do tick people off a little
Speaker 3: when it comes to sports because I am from Dallas,
Speaker 3: so I am a massive Cowboys fan, and I grew
Speaker 3: up in the era of the Tom Landry, the Roger Staubach,
Speaker 3: Drew Pearson. I mean I can name the entire you know,
Speaker 3: the offense, the defense, in everything. That's what I grew up.
Speaker 3: I was a kid with so no matter where I am,
Speaker 3: where I go, where I live, you know, I love sports.
Speaker 3: I'm absolutely adore football. I'm just always going to be
Speaker 3: Cowboy guy. Not that easy living in Houston, not that easy,
Speaker 3: you know. I grew up in Dallas and here I go,
Speaker 3: I'm pushing buttons, and I apologize. So I grew up
Speaker 3: in Dallas and I have still have two uncles and
Speaker 3: aunts and cousins in Houston. So we visited Houston semi office.
Speaker 3: I knew Houston quite well just from visits and growing
Speaker 3: up in Dallas. And this is serious. No one in
Speaker 3: Dallas that I knew. I've had any issue with Houston. Actually,
Speaker 3: I was jealous of Houston because Houston was a It
Speaker 3: is a bigger city, man, how Come I don't live
Speaker 3: in the biggest city in this state. I'm in Dallas, Man,
Speaker 3: Houston's number weight, It's it's larger, there's more people. I
Speaker 3: like coming down visiting Galvis is not too far away.
Speaker 3: But you know, just whatever it was, I moved down here.
Speaker 3: I've been here thirty years now. Man, I do not
Speaker 3: know what Dallas has to pissed so many people off
Speaker 3: in Houston. There are not a lot of Houstonians who
Speaker 3: like Dallas. And I'm like, what is the deal? Because
Speaker 3: the Cowboys have one, not only one championship compared to
Speaker 3: zero in Houston and football, but five? Was it because
Speaker 3: you're president? That happened to be murdered in Dallas? In
Speaker 3: the sixties before I was even born. What is it
Speaker 3: about Dallas to check? No one could pinpoint it? No one.
Speaker 3: All right, so I'm spreading love. I'm Centerville people, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm right in between the I'm I forty five. Gotta
Speaker 3: stop in Centerville, all right, I'm getting some beef jerky.
Speaker 3: I'm stopping the left side and stop right so it
Speaker 3: doesn't even matter. So then a lot of love. And
Speaker 3: by the way, not forgetting you San Antonio either. Hello
Speaker 3: Wai which big blow torch? Fifty thousand watts of so
Speaker 3: I technically let me think about this. My voice is
Speaker 3: now being heard in Mexico because that's how big it is.
Speaker 3: It's awesome. So anyway, welcome Texas. This is the high
Speaker 3: tech Texan show you want to get in. It's interactive.
Speaker 3: It is three four six two nine T e X
Speaker 3: A N and I hope you put your glasses on
Speaker 3: or your font is very big on your phone that
Speaker 3: you can actually type in T e x A N. Okay,
Speaker 3: so then that's how you spell it. You could also
Speaker 3: go online you get it to x. You can go
Speaker 3: to Instagram. Thank you for following me on Instagram. Man,
Speaker 3: we got a lot of stuff to give away. You know,
Speaker 3: I do review phones, TV's cars, to broadcast my show
Speaker 3: from exotic places, cruises, mountaintops. A lot of the times
Speaker 3: I say, hey, man, you mind if we have an
Speaker 3: extra product at extra trip, can we give something away.
Speaker 3: I give a lot of that stuff away online too,
Speaker 3: So yeah, have to follow me high tech text in
Speaker 3: hi g h T e h T e x A N.
Speaker 3: Just on Instagram see something. I just give Dallas a
Speaker 3: big shout out on my Instagram. You actually could see
Speaker 3: me inside the studio. By the way, a little bit,
Speaker 3: let's get to a little technology here. The photo that
Speaker 3: you see or the video that you so if you
Speaker 3: go to if you go to Instagram, high tech text
Speaker 3: and spell the whole thing out, that's me and studio.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. It's it's the iHeartRadio studio. Happens to be
Speaker 3: the one at Houston, doesn't matter. It's amazing how technology works.
Speaker 3: I can talk in Houston and it comes out over
Speaker 3: the airways and many other cities. So that is me.
Speaker 3: That's what it looked like. That is my real hair.
Speaker 3: Yes I still have hair at my age and and
Speaker 3: that's what I dress like or whatever that photo. Let
Speaker 3: me just talk about photos right now because people are
Speaker 3: all worried about the data and Big Brother and photos
Speaker 3: and what information could they have and don't have found
Speaker 3: a website that I want you to play around with
Speaker 3: just for you know, snorts and giggles. Let's keep it
Speaker 3: clean here because we're over the air. So there was
Speaker 3: there was this really smart dude who used to work
Speaker 3: for Google, and he realized how powerful the Google search
Speaker 3: engines and just the data they have, all right, so
Speaker 3: he created He was playing with some artificial intelligence models
Speaker 3: about how Google's AI software can how much they can
Speaker 3: learn from studying images. So just about a month ago,
Speaker 3: this dude is on his own right, he launched a
Speaker 3: website kind of a marketing stunt that's designed to turn
Speaker 3: Google's technology against itself. What you do is you can
Speaker 3: upload any photo to the website. It's then sent to
Speaker 3: the Google Cloud. It's a program, and give it about
Speaker 3: eight seconds maybe less. What you're gonna see next to
Speaker 3: the photo you uploaded is a startingly just startles you.
Speaker 3: A thorough three paragraph description of what this artificial intelligence sees.
Speaker 3: It is crazy. If you don't understand what artificial intelligence is,
Speaker 3: you gotta try this. Here's the website. It is called
Speaker 3: they see your Photos dot Com. That's it. They see
Speaker 3: your photos dot com. So what I did is I
Speaker 3: uploaded a picture of me in the radio studio, same
Speaker 3: one that you see a video. That's what it looks like.
Speaker 3: So I'm wearing a white shirt, you know, black pants,
Speaker 3: a belt, I got a jacket on. I'm standing in
Speaker 3: front of all a gear at the microphone. Everything I
Speaker 3: uploaded it, and I'm not gonna read you the whole thing.
Speaker 3: This Google doesn't know me from Shay Nolla, or does it.
Speaker 3: This is what it This is what it wrote, just
Speaker 3: from the description quote. The image shows a man standing
Speaker 3: in what appears to be a professional radio studio. In
Speaker 3: the foreground, he has positioned next to a large audio
Speaker 3: mixing console, his hand resting on the controls. Several computer
Speaker 3: monitors display various interfaces, possibly related to broadcasting or audio production.
Speaker 3: The background features gray walls. A subtle but noticeable detail
Speaker 3: is the recess lighting in the ceiling, which adds to
Speaker 3: the professional aesthetic. The man appears to be middle aged. Dude,
Speaker 3: I'm just a kid, a middle aged of Caucation ethnicity,
Speaker 3: and displays a friendly and approachable demeanor. He is well
Speaker 3: dressed in a gray jacket over a white shirt. He
Speaker 3: looks confident and comfortable in his environment. This is okay.
Speaker 3: That's alone blows me away. Get this, this is what
Speaker 3: I'm reading here. The picture was taken with the Samsung
Speaker 3: Galaxy Z Flip six on Thursday, November twenty first, at
Speaker 3: about three forty seven pm. They almost fell out of
Speaker 3: my chair when I read that. Unfreaking believable. This is
Speaker 3: what artificial intelligenceive just from a photo. I continue. His watch,
Speaker 3: subtly visible, appears to be quite expensive and hints at
Speaker 3: his economic status. He seems to be actively involved in
Speaker 3: his work, and his appearance suggests a successful career in lifestyle.
Speaker 3: The image bo sharp details, the texture of his jacket,
Speaker 3: the intricate design of the mixing console, blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, it goes on. I'm done with that stuff.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. I'm looking this picture and I don't even
Speaker 3: see my watch. I do not see my watch. It
Speaker 3: may be one smidge of a hair or something sticking
Speaker 3: out of watch, and they know it's it's not a
Speaker 3: Samsung Wat, it's not a fitness watch. They actually is.
Speaker 3: One day, actually was wearing one of my nicer watches.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. Check it out. But this is the stuff
Speaker 3: that I want to get make you aware of. This
Speaker 3: is not an endorsement. Google didn't pay me to say this.
Speaker 3: I'm just letting you know what is out there I
Speaker 3: want to be aware of and how smart this AI is,
Speaker 3: but also potentially how scary this website again, it's called
Speaker 3: They See Your Photos dot com. And so this middle
Speaker 3: age Caucasian ethnicity man with a very nice watch is
Speaker 3: getting ready to take his first break of the hour.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is his name, three four six twenty nine
Speaker 3: text It is how you.
Speaker 1: Can get to the movie right back, no matter what time.
Speaker 3: A little of this idea is we can take you
Speaker 3: between in and wherever, certainly all over the state of
Speaker 3: Texas right now, long time in Houston, just now in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 3: Starting this week, a few weeks ago, we're in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Phone number it is three four six twenty nine texts.
Speaker 3: And we want to make it interactive. I am your
Speaker 3: consumer lifestyle guy. If you want questions about where to go,
Speaker 3: where to shop, with to buy, that is me. You're
Speaker 3: not going to get politics. You're going to get a
Speaker 3: little of you know what, I got two hours to kill.
Speaker 3: This is Garf's life. I'm going to tell you what
Speaker 3: I like eating, when I like buying, what I don't
Speaker 3: like driving, or just hat this and your holiday season's
Speaker 3: coming up? What do you want to stay away from?
Speaker 3: You want a last minute gift? Last hour, we went
Speaker 3: over some last minute gift ideas that you could get immediately,
Speaker 3: I mean immediately, and those are actually kind of you
Speaker 3: can go online and get some gift cards. But I
Speaker 3: gave you some other ideas other than gift cards. A
Speaker 3: matter of fact, I'm looking at something blinking over here.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the phone. Hello, this is Michael. Who
Speaker 3: am I speaking with?
Speaker 4: Hello Michael, this is Marcos Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: IV.
Speaker 4: Actually been on the show once before, a long time ago.
Speaker 4: I used to work at Torchy's Tacos and you actually
Speaker 4: went to a little restaurant that I was working in
Speaker 4: and had a dish.
Speaker 6: I remember that.
Speaker 4: But I was just wondering, is there a way to
Speaker 4: get in a like a video meeting while the show
Speaker 4: is on air, like like I used to a long
Speaker 4: time ago. Either If there is, maybe I just didn't
Speaker 4: see it on your website. But I'd like to be
Speaker 4: a participant again.
Speaker 3: Oh my, check that out. We got an old timers
Speaker 3: or art Marcos man. He just brought out something that
Speaker 3: I forgot that we used to do. First of all,
Speaker 3: look at Marcos. Does he still work at the Torchies
Speaker 3: or no? Was that was that a free shout out?
Speaker 3: He was he was trying to do. Listen, I like
Speaker 3: Torchies from Austin. I'm a Cabo Bob's guy right now.
Speaker 3: That that's what you even heard there. So Marcos used
Speaker 3: to I guess he used to work at Cheesy. Then
Speaker 3: he went to a restaurant and then I had a dish.
Speaker 3: I guess. So Marcos, thank you for calling it what
Speaker 3: he was referring to. He wanted to get see if
Speaker 3: there was a video meeting. I started the show two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, so again it's about twenty three year
Speaker 3: long show. And then I realized that computers were relatively
Speaker 3: new and they were expensive. But video, I mean, Skype
Speaker 3: wasn't even around, and there were no video cameras that
Speaker 3: were really built into computers or laptops. Thing. You would
Speaker 3: have to go get a standalone, you know, video camera
Speaker 3: and plug it in. And this is even before USBC.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is like you know, the PC slot
Speaker 3: or something you do in stall. But what I did
Speaker 3: is I used to I guess that was a bro
Speaker 3: I used to do a video cast, a video meeting.
Speaker 3: It again, I'm not taking any credit. Somebody else and
Speaker 3: then the world may have done this. But first one
Speaker 3: that I knew of on radio where I had a
Speaker 3: video camera in studio pointing at me, and I would
Speaker 3: give out this website and they would log in and
Speaker 3: they could see me, but if they had a video camera,
Speaker 3: we could see them. And so it was this big
Speaker 3: video meeting. You know what, dang it, man, I invited.
Speaker 3: I invented zoom and I didn't even know this. What hell?
Speaker 3: Why am I wasting my time of the weekend. I
Speaker 3: should be totally retired right down. So I actually invented zoom.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm gonna come up with. That's what I
Speaker 3: did to answer your question, buddy, Marcus. No, we don't
Speaker 3: do that anymore. I don't do that anymore. I don't
Speaker 3: We've changed venues. Sometimes I do this. I do this
Speaker 3: radio show a lot of times remotely, and we could
Speaker 3: do this right now. You know, back in the day,
Speaker 3: certainly twenty years ago, certainly ten plus years ago. I
Speaker 3: mean we had to be in our studio. We absolutely
Speaker 3: professional gear, had the producer and everything. We did take
Speaker 3: the show on the road, and well, I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what it was. It was, you know, I'm talking to
Speaker 3: what it was, the whole ring of a row. I mean,
Speaker 3: we had to bring in you know, remote satellite vans.
Speaker 3: Then we had equipment there. I used to broadcast my
Speaker 3: show some really fun places. I have done my show
Speaker 3: from several locations in Mexico. We've gone to resorts in Colorado,
Speaker 3: we were scanned I take it to the beach in
Speaker 3: California at some neat places because we worked for some
Speaker 3: partners to do that. And the technology back then was
Speaker 3: so bad. We're just so old. Let's put it this
Speaker 3: way that it was like a fax machine. So we
Speaker 3: had to actually put a phone cord into this device.
Speaker 3: I used to carry dial a number into the studio
Speaker 3: and it literally used a boad rate like nineteen nine
Speaker 3: hundred bought. I mean you would hear that like a
Speaker 3: fax machine, and then you know I talked back to
Speaker 3: the producer and I couldn't even answer phone calls. You know,
Speaker 3: A lot it was. It was just really crazy. Point
Speaker 3: is today I probably could do this radio show with
Speaker 3: this good audio quality on my cell phone with the
Speaker 3: high end, with a high end microphone and a high
Speaker 3: speed of Wi Fi connection, I probably could. So I
Speaker 3: don't do these video meetings anymore because sometimes I'm in
Speaker 3: the studio. Sometimes they do it for my home studio.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I do it from laying in bed because I'm Jared.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll go on the road where I'm traveling, and
Speaker 3: so we we just don't do it. But I'll tell
Speaker 3: you what now that we're in more than just h town.
Speaker 3: Were just Houston, Marcos, now everybody cross Texas. Maybe they
Speaker 3: want to see what's going on. Maybe maybe we'll start
Speaker 3: the video meeting again. So I do. I do. Thank
Speaker 3: you for that. So if you want to get in
Speaker 3: like Marcos does, because you could be famous too with
Speaker 3: your voice on the air. Oh by the way, this
Speaker 3: just did. Uh. Having your voice on air does not
Speaker 3: make you famous. And take that from someone whose voice
Speaker 3: has been on the air for well almost a quarter
Speaker 3: of a century. Right now, three four six two nine
Speaker 3: t e x a N three four six two nine
Speaker 3: t e x a N. That is how you're going
Speaker 3: to get onto here. Uh, this is so up. Let's see.
Speaker 3: Oh it is time for email. What's up with des?
Speaker 3: You've got mail? Darn right, we got mail boy, there's
Speaker 3: a there's an old school for a yog's out there.
Speaker 3: Remember that sound. We do have Mailhi, Michael, heard you
Speaker 3: talking last hour about streaming services. I actually took your
Speaker 3: advice that I discounted how many streaming services we currently have.
Speaker 3: And I just think I yelled at my kids a
Speaker 3: little too loud. They've had Disney Plus and they haven't
Speaker 3: watched the thing in seemingly about six months. We have
Speaker 3: nine different streaming services. No wonder. I never could figure
Speaker 3: out why my bill was so expensive. Appreciate the uh
Speaker 3: excellent hold on, I just lost my place away. I
Speaker 3: appreciate the advice. Thank you very much. By the way,
Speaker 3: which one do you recommend if you could only have one?
Speaker 3: All right? That's from Jeanett. Jeannette is in sant Anton
Speaker 3: North side, San Antonio. Thank you very much for listening.
Speaker 3: She sent me an email. You can too, Michael Garfield
Speaker 3: at iHeartMedia dot com. I want to say I told
Speaker 3: you so, but I freaking told you so. How many
Speaker 3: streaming services do you have. You have to keep account
Speaker 3: of this thing because it's it's like candy. Oh, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna sign up because my first month's free. Oh wait
Speaker 3: a minute, two ninety nine for the first six months.
Speaker 3: Wait ninety nine cents for an entire per month for
Speaker 3: an entire year. How cool was that? And then you
Speaker 3: freaking forget to delete it and cancel your account. People
Speaker 3: don't get you knoggered into that stuff. You don't keep
Speaker 3: account on a regular basis. Let's talk about streaming services. Hey,
Speaker 3: I see where it is. Where in the I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna say. We're in the relatively infancy of streaming services.
Speaker 3: You know, people are cutting the cord and they've been
Speaker 3: around for a while. Remember when Netflix is the big
Speaker 3: daddy of them all. That really is because they were
Speaker 3: one of the first really truly streamers. But do you
Speaker 3: remember when Netflix was not a streamer. Netflix was a
Speaker 3: company that you had to have a subscription to where
Speaker 3: you ordered DVDs. You went online and you ordered what
Speaker 3: what was the max? Three, four or five DVDs per month.
Speaker 3: They would come in a red envelope and they would
Speaker 3: come in your mailbox and you would do it, watch
Speaker 3: a DVD Okay, right now, I've probably lost easily a
Speaker 3: quarter of my audience if because if you were under
Speaker 3: twenty five, maybe thirty, you have no clue what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about. Netflix was not Netflix as you knew it.
Speaker 3: And then read Hastings who found in Netflix. He was brilliant.
Speaker 3: He saw, wait a minute, there's way with high speed internet,
Speaker 3: we actually can create this app on our TV where
Speaker 3: we can now stream at anybody's wishes that their behas
Speaker 3: that when I hit the play button, almost every single
Speaker 3: movie that we have in stock. Let's kill this thing.
Speaker 3: So they killed that business model of mailing the DVDs out.
Speaker 3: So count how many you have. It's not so much
Speaker 3: how many you have. Take maybe make a log of
Speaker 3: how often you watch them? Now to answer your question,
Speaker 3: if I could pick one, which is it? Again, I'm
Speaker 3: going to do what I do. I answer a question
Speaker 3: with a question meaning, what's your life like? Do you
Speaker 3: have young kids who love watching cartoons, who love watching
Speaker 3: the princesses? They're maybe Star Wars fans, Yeah, probably Disney
Speaker 3: pluses for you. Do you like someone who is an
Speaker 3: NFL fan, a live sports fan? Well, guess what for now?
Speaker 3: What in third or fourth year? Right now, and they've
Speaker 3: got a long deal. Amazon, by the way, has the
Speaker 3: streaming service. If you have an annual subscription that you
Speaker 3: pay one hundred and sixty bucks for for Amazon, you
Speaker 3: probably may not even know this breaking news. You've also
Speaker 3: got a streaming service. It's called Prime Video. Well, they
Speaker 3: have a deal with the NFL. They produce an air
Speaker 3: they don't know erics. It's not airing because it's the
Speaker 3: stream a Thursday night football game al Michaels Kirk kurb Street.
Speaker 3: For years, they have done that, that's right, and they've
Speaker 3: got they're starting to do it, and now everybody else
Speaker 3: is getting in the game. Pecock is getting in the game.
Speaker 3: Netflix will have not one but two streaming football games
Speaker 3: on Christmas Day, Houston Texans one of those, if you care,
Speaker 3: and Beyonce's playing the halftime too. There's no answer of
Speaker 3: what's the best streaming service. Best is a very relative term.
Speaker 3: What's the best taco, what's the best inchilada? People? We
Speaker 3: could debate which is actually makes for great radio that
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do that right now, but I'm trying
Speaker 3: one of the things that I do to I save
Speaker 3: you money. I'm more than happy to tell you to
Speaker 3: go get a seventy five inch TV and go get
Speaker 3: a Sony bit. You know what, you're gonna be paying
Speaker 3: for the nose for that stuff. I rarely recommend products
Speaker 3: that are very, very expensive. I'm gonna take a product
Speaker 3: that I've tested that I know has a good brand name,
Speaker 3: maybe a good warranty behind it, and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: you an alternative product that's gonna save you money and
Speaker 3: it's gonna work just as well. That's just kind of
Speaker 3: the history. If you are new to this radio show,
Speaker 3: which is called the High Tech Texan by the way,
Speaker 3: best Taco, tell me right now three four six nine
Speaker 3: text and we're gonna be right back on the High
Speaker 3: Tech Texting Show. It is Garb. Yeah, this is about
Speaker 3: thirty more minutes left the show. So don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: I mean, got nothing else to do than your holiday shopping.
Speaker 3: And so that's the neat thing that you can listen
Speaker 3: to the show while you're sitting at your at your computer,
Speaker 3: your laptop or your phone shopping away. You're thinking, oh,
Speaker 3: should I get this version or this star, this model,
Speaker 3: and you're gonna say, hold on, let me call Garth,
Speaker 3: let me see what's up with him. And you can
Speaker 3: do that quite simply right now three four six twenty
Speaker 3: nine Texan three four six two nine t e x eight.
Speaker 3: And it does not have to be in the world
Speaker 3: of technology. Nope, you can ask me. Hey, listen, Michael,
Speaker 3: that's which movie should I see? Is this?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: Is there is there a streaming show that you should watch, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, I don't see a lot of movies.
Speaker 3: This isn't, oh by the way, and then this is
Speaker 3: I think I kind of run this show like this.
Speaker 3: Oh by the way, I have seen in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four in a movie theater three movies two two earth two,
Speaker 3: I don't even know. I get invited to momost every
Speaker 3: movie premiere, and like an idiot, I just don't go
Speaker 3: to a lot of them. I don't know why. I mean,
Speaker 3: unless it has Adam Sandler, which Sandler doesn't the least
Speaker 3: movies in theaters anymore because he goes straight to Netflix.
Speaker 3: Will Ferrell, I mean, just to give you an idea
Speaker 3: of like who I am for all you new listeners
Speaker 3: up in the Dallas area, this is that's that's what
Speaker 3: I do on my comedies, man, I mean, maybe I'll
Speaker 3: do it this time of year. Absolutely love watching the
Speaker 3: Christmas holiday movies. I have yet to see look at
Speaker 3: we are less than two weeks for Christmas. I have
Speaker 3: yet to see Love. Actually yet, I have not seen
Speaker 3: the greatest holiday movie yet. Seen Diehard twice already it's
Speaker 3: been on. I haven't seen a lot of Love. Actually,
Speaker 3: neither here nor there. Saw a movie let me give
Speaker 3: you something to do on Christmas Day? Got to got
Speaker 3: invited about a week ago, three weeks before it's released.
Speaker 3: I saw that Bob Dylan movie with Timo's Timothy shallow
Speaker 3: May a complete unknown that's the name of it. All right,
Speaker 3: let me help you out right now. I'm not a
Speaker 3: fan of Bob Dylan. Never liked his music. Maybe I
Speaker 3: know of like two songs he sang. I just I
Speaker 3: don't like folk music, not me, uh huh. If it
Speaker 3: ain't eighties, if it ain't out rock, sorry, people just
Speaker 3: not doing it. Didn't know much about Timothy shall May.
Speaker 3: In fact, maybe I've seen a movie I think he was.
Speaker 3: Wasn't he an Interstellar? He was really young and interstellar
Speaker 3: The McConaughey's Kid or something like that. I don't even
Speaker 3: know I've ever even seen it, Like a real shallow
Speaker 3: May movie. Didn't see that. Willie wonk a thing on
Speaker 3: let me help you out unsolicited. Disney's not paying me
Speaker 3: to talk about this or endorse it, which I wish
Speaker 3: they would. Absolutely one of the best movies I've seen
Speaker 3: in years. What Timothy shallow May did to transform himself
Speaker 3: into BA into Bob Dylan was amazing. Yes, I know
Speaker 3: what Dylan looks like. Yes, I'm gonna backtrack. I have
Speaker 3: heard well, no, I didn't hear. My favorite Dylan song
Speaker 3: is not even a song. It's when he sang the
Speaker 3: lines we are the wow, oh the j That's about it.
Speaker 3: I know him from watching We Have the World video
Speaker 3: for all those times back in the eighties. Jamithy shallow
Speaker 3: May is It's uncanny. It's uncanny, absolutely has to be
Speaker 3: should be nominated for an Oscar. I can't say he's
Speaker 3: gonna win it because I again, I've seen what won
Speaker 3: two three movies this entire years or whatever. It is.
Speaker 3: It's great. A lot of music, a lot of Bob
Speaker 3: Dylan music which I didn't even know it any odd stuff.
Speaker 3: But it was a compelling story. The director was great.
Speaker 3: Was it was it? James Mangold, I forget who was
Speaker 3: he was the guy who did dub the Johnny Cash
Speaker 3: movie walk whatever that Well, I think again, mister movie here.
Speaker 3: But it was really good. So go see that on
Speaker 3: Christmas Day because that's what it comes out. What do
Speaker 3: I watch streaming wise? Tell exactly what do I streaming wise?
Speaker 3: It's on Max, not HBO, but it's on Max. I
Speaker 3: just told you I like yacht rock music. There's a
Speaker 3: yacht rock documentary that came out one week ago. I
Speaker 3: watched it three times in the first five days it
Speaker 3: was out. It was good and supposedly it's gonna be
Speaker 3: like a whole series this stuff, but it's just one episode.
Speaker 3: It's about an hour and a half hour, forty whatever
Speaker 3: minutes long. It was good. And if you are anything
Speaker 3: near my age, if maybe maybe you're middle aged, apparently
Speaker 3: that's what Google AI calls me. I don't know. But
Speaker 3: if you were anywhere around the late seventies early eighties
Speaker 3: and you like it, and you listen to yacht rock
Speaker 3: on one of these satellite channels, which you shouldn't because
Speaker 3: you should be listening to this radio station right now,
Speaker 3: it was good. They had San Antonio Zone. Christopher Cross,
Speaker 3: he was a major part of it actually is daughter
Speaker 3: was one of the producers, Michael McDonald, But it is
Speaker 3: just it was good if that was your jam back
Speaker 3: in the days. They really did a really nice job
Speaker 3: of intertwining of how yacht rock, why it was called
Speaker 3: yacht rock, what's the sound? And it's amazing how all
Speaker 3: of the major yacht rock artists that you could think
Speaker 3: of were interconnected, starting with Michael McDonald, Steely, Dan, Christopher Cross,
Speaker 3: Kenny Loggins. I mean, I know music trivia. I mean,
Speaker 3: I am stupid eighties guy. It's very tough to stump
Speaker 3: me on anything eddies music. I actually found out a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff how everything was intertwined, not only just
Speaker 3: behind the microphone, but in the studio. The same producers
Speaker 3: Toto Hotel one of the greatest eighties albums of all time.
Speaker 3: Toto for did the Porco Brothers, David Page, they played
Speaker 3: on almost every single yacht rock autumn album for everybody else.
Speaker 3: Wait there you go, so got to go see Go
Speaker 3: watch yacht Rock for another two weeks on Max until
Speaker 3: the Bob Dylan movie comes out, and then you can
Speaker 3: thank me later. And then we got to start the
Speaker 3: whole year over again. In twenty five as we continue
Speaker 3: the what's it called the High Tech tex Show? That
Speaker 3: is me and Michael Garfield. I am about to less
Speaker 3: than a month out. I will be in Las Vegas,
Speaker 3: speaking of streaming and doing the show and broadcasting show live.
Speaker 3: I will be doing this show from Las Vegas, one
Speaker 3: of my favorite cities in the world, because that is
Speaker 3: the site of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which is
Speaker 3: no longer called the Consumer Electronic Show, it is just
Speaker 3: simply abbreviated as CES. This will be by twenty second,
Speaker 3: twenty third year. The kind folks who put on that massive,
Speaker 3: massive technology electronic convention, they build a radio studio for
Speaker 3: me right on the Las Vegas convention show floor. I
Speaker 3: have guests on and good for you people. I bring
Speaker 3: an extra suitcase two because of all the companies I
Speaker 3: meet and the parties I go to and they give
Speaker 3: out samples, I say, hey, can I get one to
Speaker 3: give out on air? Can I give one to give
Speaker 3: out on my Instagram? High Tech Texan? Yeah? So January
Speaker 3: is uh, it's me giving gifts to you.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I certainly don't play Santa Claus. Sometimes I'll do the
Speaker 3: Hanaka hairy thing, but January. It is all high tech Texan.
Speaker 3: It's gift exchange time. Well, I give you the gift
Speaker 3: of beautiful content, lovely voice, a lot of hair, and
Speaker 3: some gifts that I bring back. So just kind of
Speaker 3: giving you the annual play by play of what I did. Generally,
Speaker 3: December January are my two biggest busiest months. And I
Speaker 3: cannot stand in summer. Hate summer. I'm a winter. I'm
Speaker 3: a runner. I like staying going outside, and so it
Speaker 3: keeps me rolling, absolutely keeps me rolling. This was let's
Speaker 3: see how much time I've heard? You got about two
Speaker 3: or three minutes? Do I want to start this right now?
Speaker 3: Did I mention this last week? Or so? I saw this?
Speaker 3: Somebody we were to talk about cell phones and you know,
Speaker 3: Michael was the best cell phone to get. And again
Speaker 3: it's I again. I'm gonna answer it with it. Answer
Speaker 3: your question with a question. You know, what do you want?
Speaker 3: Are you an iOS person? You're an android that opens
Speaker 3: up a whole new thing. I say, what do you
Speaker 3: when you get a new cell phone? I ask people
Speaker 3: what do they do with their old ones? What do
Speaker 3: you do? And ask yourselves this. You don't need a
Speaker 3: call in, but you could or you could put it
Speaker 3: on X or a blue sky and or respond to me,
Speaker 3: what do you do with your old smartphone? Because odds
Speaker 3: are we've had smartphones swell over twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 3: When you get a new one, and I know you
Speaker 3: do get a new one, what do you do? You
Speaker 3: throw it away? Do you give it to your spouse,
Speaker 3: do you give it to your kids? Do you sell
Speaker 3: it because you can't make some money? You probably if
Speaker 3: you don't do anything but put it in a drawer,
Speaker 3: you're sitting on some cash. People, as long as it's
Speaker 3: in really good condition, it's not chip, there's no scratches.
Speaker 3: You can get some bucks, you can get some rebates
Speaker 3: or something. Nearly seventy percent of American smartphone owners said
Speaker 3: they've never sold their phone, so they do something with it?
Speaker 3: All right, what do you do with it? Do you
Speaker 3: give it away? I'd love to actually hear from you.
Speaker 3: Go to high tech text and h I G H
Speaker 3: T E C h T E x A N and
Speaker 3: give me a poll here on X or blue Sky,
Speaker 3: or just respond to something on my Instagram over here.
Speaker 3: But why don't people hold on to their smartphones? Why
Speaker 3: don't they sell them? Because this holiday season. It's a
Speaker 3: good time for people looking for cell phones, and it
Speaker 3: could be a smart time to sell. There are companies
Speaker 3: out there who will buy it from you. Maybe they'll
Speaker 3: give you cash, maybe they'll give it to you in
Speaker 3: gift cards. I remember a Target or Best Buy they
Speaker 3: had deals. You can go drop off a cell phone
Speaker 3: and they'll look at the condition. Is it an excellent condition,
Speaker 3: is it good condition? Or does it even turn on?
Speaker 3: He'll give you on the spot a gift card for
Speaker 3: that store. I prefer it would have the cash. Also,
Speaker 3: you can put it on an eBay if you want to.
Speaker 3: The point is we had these discussions, but a little
Speaker 3: for you. Should you sell your old smartphone? Should you
Speaker 3: give it away? Number one? I would recommend this. Make
Speaker 3: sure you back it up. Make sure you either put
Speaker 3: stuff that's on that phone in your cloud or connect
Speaker 3: it the old school way. Put a freaking cord in
Speaker 3: it and put it into your computer too, and then
Speaker 3: download or upload everything from your phone onto your computer,
Speaker 3: every video you've made, every photo you made, all your
Speaker 3: contacts and all your other emails things. But at that point,
Speaker 3: before you sell it, before you give it away, you
Speaker 3: go to your settings and you put reset to factory settings.
Speaker 3: You wipe that thing clean. Don't ever give your phone away.
Speaker 3: I can't think of an instance where you just say, hey, man,
Speaker 3: here I'm gonna see how much. Here's five hundred ors
Speaker 3: a thousand bucks. Hey hey, if you're a husband, you
Speaker 3: really probably want it. Would you pretty much want to
Speaker 3: raise that when you give it to the wife. And
Speaker 3: if you're a wifey, you probably want to raise it
Speaker 3: before you give it to your husband. Certainly your kids,
Speaker 3: you don't know what's on there. Wipe it clean because
Speaker 3: they can get your information. But just don't sit there
Speaker 3: and try to delete everything. You know what, Just do
Speaker 3: a freaking factory reset. Set it to where it's brand new,
Speaker 3: like it's coming out of the box. A little tip
Speaker 3: from me to you. I just thought that was an
Speaker 3: interesting We've got one more segment, so you can't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: You better hold on. Well, we zip up the show.
Speaker 3: The first show ever heard terrestrially in the Dallas area.
Speaker 3: As we welcome KFX are eleven ninety as a new affiliate.
Speaker 3: It is Michael Garfield, Dallas Boy himself. I'll live it
Speaker 3: in h down. It's not I take texting show. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's about seven or eight minutes eleven and this edition
Speaker 3: of the high tech texting show What are We down?
Speaker 3: This is the we only have two more shows left
Speaker 3: this year? Are you kidding me? You know what? I hate? Oh?
Speaker 3: This year has gone by so fast, though, I can't
Speaker 3: believe it's a shut up. No, it did not go
Speaker 3: by fast, because the last I checked, it was three
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty six years actually days of the year,
Speaker 3: actually this year, and it was it was. It was
Speaker 3: a long year. It's it was just as long as
Speaker 3: anything else.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: It was a long, hot, nasty summer. But you know what,
Speaker 3: We're gonna start again and it's just gonna go just
Speaker 3: as fast it was last year. I say it just
Speaker 3: because you know, I'm excited that the show's almost over.
Speaker 3: I get to take a little break, not too intensive
Speaker 3: college football weekend. This week got Army Navy, I got
Speaker 3: my long horns are off all of the stupid conference
Speaker 3: championships which at some point our needless and will not
Speaker 3: be played. Those were last week. Horns played next week.
Speaker 3: So if you're going down to Austin and you got
Speaker 3: an extra ticket, I am your boy, because I could
Speaker 3: do my show from Austin. Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 3: This is the High Tech Texan Show. And if you
Speaker 3: break it down, I proved something to you. I said this,
Speaker 3: and we do this because every week we have new listeners.
Speaker 3: In this past few weeks, we've got a lot of
Speaker 3: new listeners, not just in Houston, where we've been on
Speaker 3: the air for well over twenty years. Three weeks ago
Speaker 3: we launched in San Antonio, and today our very first
Speaker 3: terrestrial station in Dallas KFXR eleven ninety. So we're adding.
Speaker 3: We are adding people left and right, huge, big show, NonStop. Man.
Speaker 3: Look look at the numbers of my Instagram coup. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much for following Instagram. And actually, what I
Speaker 3: need to do. I need to contact restaurants and fun
Speaker 3: places in Dallas and San Antonio. The only way you're
Speaker 3: gonna win is to follow me on Instagram. High Tech
Speaker 3: Texan HI G H T EH T X A M.
Speaker 3: By the way, I don't don't want to forget Houston.
Speaker 3: We've been on in Houston twenty three years, actually on
Speaker 3: kp year see Radio. A lot of Houston companies that
Speaker 3: I work with and endorse, one of which is US
Speaker 3: Coins and Jewelry. And if you are this man, these
Speaker 3: these guys are so busy. I wanted to get Kenny Duncan.
Speaker 3: Kenny runs US Coins and Jewelry second generation. The dude
Speaker 3: doesn't even have time to take a sip of water.
Speaker 3: I know they're listening to my show right now. And
Speaker 3: they're massive showroom in Houston. It is on it Katie
Speaker 3: Freeway right at Voss Voss going there. They are open
Speaker 3: on the Saturdays as we do the show. They are
Speaker 3: closed on Sundays. Apparently Chick fil A stole their idea
Speaker 3: and they do give their employees a breakoff. But if
Speaker 3: you're looking to if you want to sell some quick
Speaker 3: collect coins that you don't need to live in Houston alone.
Speaker 3: They do it online. They're totally trustworthy, trustworthy on steroids.
Speaker 3: These guys are just top notch. One of the best
Speaker 3: new mismatists, which means a coin collector in the country.
Speaker 3: I've traveled with him. I see how he buys coins,
Speaker 3: how he sells coins. They also do trading for sports cards, collectibles,
Speaker 3: but they also give back. I say this because US
Speaker 3: Coins and Jewelry. They are having a toy drive which
Speaker 3: is running running next week all next week. It is
Speaker 3: Monday through Friday, December sixteenth to the twentieth. They are
Speaker 3: accepting unwrapped toy donations as long as it's ten dollars
Speaker 3: or more. If you just walk in to US Coins
Speaker 3: and Jewelry in Houston December sixteenth to twentieth, walk in
Speaker 3: with an unwrapped toy. Each toy donation, they are going
Speaker 3: to give you a quarter ounce silver coin a silver coin. Also,
Speaker 3: each donor you're gonna receive a raffle ticket for a
Speaker 3: grand prize that will be announced on December twenty third.
Speaker 3: All right, that's how that's how good these guys are
Speaker 3: and Galas. They're wonderful folks. So you can go see
Speaker 3: them if you want. Specific it's eight four three five
Speaker 3: Katie Freeway in Houston, eight four to three five Katie Freeway.
Speaker 3: These toy drives are great. We did one for Great
Speaker 3: Day actually right Day, Uston partner with a number of them,
Speaker 3: but I was shooting a segment for a where were
Speaker 3: we We were at the Outdoor Lights show the Botanic Garden,
Speaker 3: Uston Botanic Garden. There's a big bend to collect toys
Speaker 3: for kho U Channel eleven CBS, which I'm a part of.
Speaker 3: On Great Day Houston but whatever you can do. Man,
Speaker 3: it's I talk about gift giving and whatever. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: feel free for donations too. And by the way, a
Speaker 3: big shout out to to you know it. You can
Speaker 3: call it pandering or whatever, kissing up to my bosses,
Speaker 3: but I really don't care about them, nor do they
Speaker 3: care about me. iHeart Radio, iHeart Media does an unbelievable
Speaker 3: job of working with Saint Jude's Hospital, Saint Jude's for
Speaker 3: Children's Hospital every single year. So much so. I know
Speaker 3: the regional president of all of iHeartMedia, and you can
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say his name because he's long been my boss.
Speaker 3: His name is Eddie Martini. He oversees all of the
Speaker 3: iHeart Radio stations pretty much Trusty where you're listening right now.
Speaker 3: It goes into all over Texas in Louisiana. He makes
Speaker 3: a mandate that we does radio thons golf tournaments. I
Speaker 3: just participated in these St. Judes at Children's Hospital I
Speaker 3: Hurt Radio golf tournament this past Monday. It was at
Speaker 3: the Golf Club of Houston where they used to play
Speaker 3: the shell Uston open when they used to call, they
Speaker 3: used to open the shell used to open two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty six teams, and I am not embarrassed to say,
Speaker 3: drum roll plays. We won the entire tournament. My team
Speaker 3: won the entire tournament. I am not taking full credit.
Speaker 3: We had a ringer who could drive a golf ball
Speaker 3: three hundred and twenty five three hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 3: I was nails from about one hundred yards out with
Speaker 3: my pitching ron hunted decently. But whatever it was, we
Speaker 3: won the entire tournament. How cool is that an employee
Speaker 3: wins it. It's not like I won money, like it
Speaker 3: was all for donation, but they raised what they raised
Speaker 3: five hundred six hundred thousand dollars just from the golf
Speaker 3: urn alone. Think about that this time of year, and
Speaker 3: that that's and that is isn't Is that the meaning
Speaker 3: of Christmas? I don't know. I watched too many Christmas
Speaker 3: specials growing up. I'm not sure. If it's the Island
Speaker 3: of Misfit toys actually left the island and they were
Speaker 3: kicked out of Santa Sleig with umbrellas and fell through chimneys,
Speaker 3: and now they're in actually little boys and girls' hands.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the spirit of Christmas. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you're supposed to stand at somebody's door
Speaker 3: and professor, confess your true love to someone who's already married,
Speaker 3: now that you're gonna, you know, love them until the
Speaker 3: day they die. I don't know, but I think donations
Speaker 3: and reflecting and maybe having some hot chocolate around the
Speaker 3: fire is is pretty good too. And it doesn't matter
Speaker 3: if it's a big tree. You could just go and
Speaker 3: look for some search lights and just get a little
Speaker 3: sickly looking tree and just if you just give a
Speaker 3: little love and give a little car and wrap it
Speaker 3: with a warm blanket at the bottom, and you know,
Speaker 3: just you know, take a go to a dog's house
Speaker 3: that has a lot of decorations and steal those and
Speaker 3: put it on the Christmas tree. That's the meaning of Christmas. People,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, don't ask me. I celebrate Honika. What are
Speaker 3: you gonna do with that? We are shutting down this
Speaker 3: episode of the High Tech Texans show Love Being with You,
Speaker 3: Big d Dallas. I hope my parents were listening to Rashully.
Speaker 3: If not, they can podcast to let everybody else go
Speaker 3: to iHeart Radio. Download that free to app and you
Speaker 3: can listen to so many people, so many different podcasts.
Speaker 3: Including this show Calum Red Brian Erickson. Shout out to
Speaker 3: my program director who said, you know what garbage about.
Speaker 3: Time we actually give you the name of the high
Speaker 3: Tech text instead of the high Tech Ustonian. We're gonna
Speaker 3: put you in Dallas. We're gonna put you in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: And so shout out to the state of Texas. Next week,
Speaker 3: the final episode before Christmas Day. Oh my fuckle up, people,
Speaker 3: have a great week. Book them Warrens, enjoy the cool weather.
Speaker 3: Whatever you want to do, find me at high Tech
Speaker 3: Texting dot com. My name is Michael and right now
Speaker 3: this is how we end the show. People, for twenty
Speaker 3: three years, my show is over.