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Speaker 3: We well, well, whichwas the weekend after Christmas and all
Speaker 3: across the airwaves most everyone still sleeping.
Speaker 2: Oh my, what an outrage. You should be listening to
Speaker 2: the High Tech Texan because if you have gifts to return,
Speaker 2: you won't be a sweaton. No, my name is Michael.
Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning in. We've got a pack show, so
Speaker 2: start calling in on Samsung, on Hummer, on Amazon we go.
Speaker 2: So buckle up, my friends, and let's start this big schizo.
Speaker 2: And with that the final high Tech Texan show of
Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty four. And you know what that
Speaker 2: means if you're a long time listener. It's the weekend
Speaker 2: after Christmas, the first show after Christmas, middle of Hanukkah.
Speaker 2: As we stand also right now and something tells me
Speaker 2: you got a few gifts and you just don't love them,
Speaker 2: and so what do you do? Well? For the past
Speaker 2: month and I have I have been telling you gifts, suggestions,
Speaker 2: what you should get, what you should ask for. But
Speaker 2: for some reason, your loved one, someone gave you little
Speaker 2: something something that they didn't listen to my advice. And
Speaker 2: it just so well, this is the opportunity for you
Speaker 2: to call them. You do you know, post something online,
Speaker 2: tweet me, email me, whatever youone do. Hey, garf, guess
Speaker 2: what I got this and it's a piece of crop.
Speaker 2: I'm going to return it. What should I get instead?
Speaker 2: Now it could be you like the category. Okay, maybe
Speaker 2: it's a nice wireless microphone and what oh it wont
Speaker 2: to DJI might do? Now? You got a phone, you
Speaker 2: got a phone case, you got a TV, you got
Speaker 2: a car, you got an suv? All right, I just
Speaker 2: don't love it, but I needed something. You think I
Speaker 2: can return it within three days? The lemon law. I
Speaker 2: still have the receipt. There's a gift receipt. What can
Speaker 2: we do? This is what I'm here for. We always
Speaker 2: have a little fun with it because we're always have
Speaker 2: a little pep in our step for some reason. You
Speaker 2: you were probably not working these last few days of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. But I do it for you. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you how to get in love hearing from you.
Speaker 2: I check your voicemails, I listen to them, ilay them online.
Speaker 2: I'll play them on air three four six twenty nine
Speaker 2: Texan three four six two nine. Spell it out t
Speaker 2: e x A n AS in high Tech Texan. That
Speaker 2: is me. Michael is the name. Big shout out for
Speaker 2: those listening across the state of Texas terrestrially KPRC nine
Speaker 2: fifty AM in Houston, the Mighty Mighty eleven ninety in
Speaker 2: Big d Dallas Fort Worth, and then news Radio twelve
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Speaker 2: markets covered, we've got all the suburbs. If you're not
Speaker 2: in those cities, you may be listening online. You know,
Speaker 2: you could take this show everywhere you go. And that
Speaker 2: did not happen well over twenty twenty plus years ago
Speaker 2: that I started this show. It was only over the air.
Speaker 2: Now we've got these things called apps. Now we have streaming,
Speaker 2: so you can download the iHeartRadio app, which by the way,
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Speaker 2: Some of the things we're gonna be yapping about today,
Speaker 2: my favorite some of my favorite apps of the year. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to play this game alone. I want
Speaker 2: you to chime in, which is why I've given you
Speaker 2: the number three four six twenty nine Texan. I will
Speaker 2: give you an email. Try Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2: Tell me some of your favorite apps, and you know what,
Speaker 2: we can actually do this. We can actually extend it
Speaker 2: to a few things. I'm gonna tell you some of
Speaker 2: my favorite apps, which may give you an idea of
Speaker 2: what to download with the play around with it on
Speaker 2: your new phone. You get some extra time off before
Speaker 2: you get back to work. But also give me some
Speaker 2: of your favorite other products. Did you get something that
Speaker 2: just blew you away? Was it headphones? Was it ear Pause?
Speaker 2: Was it an Iron? Was it a steamer. And I
Speaker 2: say this is because these are the these are some
Speaker 2: of the products that I have been playing and testing
Speaker 2: with for the past few weeks, so they're top of mine.
Speaker 2: But we can go beyond that. What was your favorite food?
Speaker 2: Got a favorite restaurant? Because you listen, I'm I'm done
Speaker 2: with Texas based guy, high Tech Texan. We're now in
Speaker 2: the three largest cities in Texas. I know my Burrito's,
Speaker 2: I know my Tacos. I know my Brecky Tacos too.
Speaker 2: You want to get in love to hear you? Three
Speaker 2: four six two nine t e x A N. Michael's
Speaker 2: the name. I'm gonna tell you here, give me a
Speaker 2: few minutes. Because I don't rant a lot. I'm just
Speaker 2: one of those you know, I don't really diss a
Speaker 2: lot of things because there are so many products out
Speaker 2: there that there's just and I'm not a I'm not
Speaker 2: a hater. I don't really diss a product. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you some of the reasons why you shouldn't get it.
Speaker 2: I've never said I hate product. I've never really said
Speaker 2: don't buy a product. But I'm sorry, if you could
Speaker 2: just I have to end the year with this and
Speaker 2: give me to the start of the next break here,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you at least reason number one
Speaker 2: hundred why I, and I use the word I, Michael Garfield,
Speaker 2: why I will not buy an electric vehicle. Just it.
Speaker 2: Just if you're a longtime listener. I review cars, I
Speaker 2: review trucks. Matter of fact, got to thank a good
Speaker 2: friend of mine, Jerry Reynolds, the car Pro guy. I
Speaker 2: sat in for Jerry last weekend. If you were in
Speaker 2: one of the sixty plus markets around the country, a
Speaker 2: three hour radio show it's called the Car Pro Show.
Speaker 2: Gave you my thoughts on my favorite vehicles that I
Speaker 2: tested this year. On any given year, I test drive
Speaker 2: sixty or seventy brand new vehicles. I get them at
Speaker 2: least on a weekly basis. These do not come from dealerships.
Speaker 2: These come directly through manufacturers. I am not paid to
Speaker 2: talk about them. It is all my thoughts, which means
Speaker 2: I can ream them or I could love on them.
Speaker 2: It is totally and that's why Jerry said, Garth, I
Speaker 2: trust your opinion. You do the same thing I do.
Speaker 2: We're both members of the Texas Auto Writers Association. Really
Speaker 2: fun got a lot of questions about cars, what to buy,
Speaker 2: their kids or they're in the you know, should they
Speaker 2: trade in something right now? My car was in a wreck,
Speaker 2: and what should I get my kid just left the school?
Speaker 2: Now I want to downsize the vehicle. I got that going.
Speaker 2: But I also will tell you about electric vehicles. There's there,
Speaker 2: there are, There are some reasons you may want to
Speaker 2: get them. But for me, in my lifestyle where I
Speaker 2: am right now, where my kids are grown, and it
Speaker 2: is just me living alone, and I like the freedom
Speaker 2: to get in my vehicle and turn the nission on
Speaker 2: and drive as far away in just a few hours
Speaker 2: from Houston to Dallas to San Antonio. I could go
Speaker 2: to Lake Charles. I could go a lot of places
Speaker 2: where I don't need to stop and worry about running
Speaker 2: out of electricity on that battery, trying to find a
Speaker 2: battery charger, waiting an hour plus time, and spending a
Speaker 2: good amount of money to charge that thing which happened
Speaker 2: to be a few days ago. So stand by. If
Speaker 2: you may enjoy this, You may hop on the bandwagon.
Speaker 2: You may call and say, dude, what are you talking about? Man,
Speaker 2: suck it up, you need to plan your trip out, gotcha.
Speaker 2: I will tell you why I will not be buying
Speaker 2: an ev MA sway you may not. I'll let you
Speaker 2: hear about that. Cees. The Consumer Electronics Show is just
Speaker 2: around the corner. I'll be there and is it one week?
Speaker 2: About a week, week and a day. I will be
Speaker 2: out in Las Vegas. Another reason why you need to
Speaker 2: follow me on instad Graham period Hi g h T
Speaker 2: E c h T e x A N high tech Texan.
Speaker 2: I am going to be uploading videos of stuff that
Speaker 2: you do not need intoenty twenty five. That's right, the
Speaker 2: world's largest consumer tech show, my twenty second, twenty third
Speaker 2: year that I'll be there. I will be broadcasting. I
Speaker 2: have a radio and a TV booth brought on from
Speaker 2: that Las Vegas convention floor. I will be covering it. Also.
Speaker 2: I will be bringing some samples, some demos the companies
Speaker 2: give me, and I will be giving them away to you,
Speaker 2: maybe on the air right now. But if you follow me,
Speaker 2: if you quote, if you comment, when you see me
Speaker 2: post a drone or post something, Hey Michael Man, I
Speaker 2: love that? And how do I win that? How can
Speaker 2: I enter that? That's why you see I'm easily She
Speaker 2: doubled my fifty thousand followers to one hundred thousand between
Speaker 2: now and the end of the year. But hurry up,
Speaker 2: we just got a few days or so. Michael is
Speaker 2: the name. Three four six two nine Textan. We are
Speaker 2: going to continue and stand by. Buckle your seatbelt, my friends.
Speaker 2: If you're interested in NV you may do a U
Speaker 2: turn because I'm just not happy right now. It is
Speaker 2: the High Tech Textans Show. Come right back?
Speaker 1: What off?
Speaker 2: What off?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 2: You might think, Gardee, we call this the High Tech
Speaker 2: Texians Show. It is about consumer products. It's about returning
Speaker 2: you're all day gifts. Now as we do the show
Speaker 2: just a few days after Christmas of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: this is the final show of this year. If you're
Speaker 2: new to the show, because we just got added on
Speaker 2: in San Antonio on WOAI eleven ninety in Dallas. That
Speaker 2: expands the listening audience a long time. It's been twenty
Speaker 2: three years in Houston on KPRC nine fifty of the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio Network. We thank you. But if you're new to
Speaker 2: it is we have some fun. I am not gonna
Speaker 2: tell you how to fix your computer. I don't do that.
Speaker 2: I will tell you I'll recommend a new computer. I'll
Speaker 2: recommend a laptop. I'm gonna answer you. You're gonna ask
Speaker 2: me a question. I'm going to answer with a question.
Speaker 2: What are you trying to do with it? Is it
Speaker 2: for a student? Maybe you do want a laptop? Is
Speaker 2: it for an elderly person who doesn't travel and they
Speaker 2: just want something to play some games? They need a
Speaker 2: big screen. I may give you an all in one
Speaker 2: desktop to do. I have a lot, a lot of
Speaker 2: ammunition to give you some ideas. If you want a vehicle,
Speaker 2: Oh do I I review vehicles fifteen years. I have
Speaker 2: reviewed cars fifty to fifty two plus cars every single year.
Speaker 2: What is at eight hundred nine hundred vehicles? I have
Speaker 2: driven the good and the bad, the ugly. Let me
Speaker 2: give you the phone number right now and buckle up
Speaker 2: because we're going to have it's story time here. But
Speaker 2: it's three four six twenty nine text, and I got
Speaker 2: some voicemails. If we don't pick up and you hear
Speaker 2: a beat, leave a voicemail. We do have the right
Speaker 2: to play that later in the show the following week.
Speaker 2: And I've got a few actually to play. But bear
Speaker 2: with me over here. I want to see if I
Speaker 2: could just recollect what happened to me this week, and
Speaker 2: it's about It's about a vehicle. Long story short. Every
Speaker 2: single week, every single week, I get a vehicle that
Speaker 2: is driven up to my house. This is this is business.
Speaker 2: People don't cry from your Argentina. And this is not
Speaker 2: a humble brag. This is an fact fact. I review
Speaker 2: cars and trucks and whatever it is. There is a
Speaker 2: third party company that works with manufacturers, not dealers. Manufacturers
Speaker 2: the directment. Most of them are obviously in Michigan everyone.
Speaker 2: They deliver a car pretty much every Thursday to me.
Speaker 2: They give me the keys, I give them the other keys.
Speaker 2: They swap it out. I have one week to test
Speaker 2: drive this vehicle, Okay, I try to take it obviously.
Speaker 2: I drive highways and byways. Sometimes they'll take them off road.
Speaker 2: I have done pickup trucks, electric vehicles, sports cars, minivans,
Speaker 2: sprinter vans, Sedan's suvcuvs goes on and on and on,
Speaker 2: all right, and I make notes, I take pictures. I
Speaker 2: put this on my Instagram high tech textan by the way,
Speaker 2: and I have my favorites. Tonight's die and I don't
Speaker 2: like some If if one vehicle is good for somebody,
Speaker 2: odds are that vehicle may be good for another type
Speaker 2: of demographic another person. So if I don't specifically like
Speaker 2: it for me where I am right now, well, listen,
Speaker 2: I don't have any kids. I don't need a big
Speaker 2: old minivan or something. Someone's gonna want them any vans,
Speaker 2: So I do keep an open mind. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to electric vehicles, I've got to love hate, mostly
Speaker 2: hate relationship with that thing. I like electric vehicles because
Speaker 2: they are sexy, nicely designed, they are super fast, they
Speaker 2: are quiet, and to some extent, maybe they're a little
Speaker 2: bit more green. However, there's a lot of non green
Speaker 2: stuff and evs. We're not gonna get into the politics
Speaker 2: right now. But the problem with me is not so
Speaker 2: much as an evy itself. It's the charging infrastructure that
Speaker 2: we have in these United States of America. It is
Speaker 2: just not ubiquitous enough. I need a charger on a
Speaker 2: every single street corner, just like we have a gas station.
Speaker 2: That's part one, Part two. I could fill up a
Speaker 2: tank of gas as I have because I have been
Speaker 2: driving gasoline power cars for without giving out my age,
Speaker 2: well over forty years. All Right, You fill up a
Speaker 2: tank of gas, it takes anywhere between four minutes to
Speaker 2: eight minutes, maybe ten minutes, depending on how big of
Speaker 2: a tank you got. You pay, you get out, you're
Speaker 2: on the road, all right, you stop at a buckets
Speaker 2: or something, Yeah, you're screwed. You're gonna spend another hour.
Speaker 2: You're spending another five hundred dollars. But neither here nor
Speaker 2: there you get an electric vehicle. Okay, you better tack
Speaker 2: on about twice the amount of time that you plan
Speaker 2: to get from a to because if you're going anywhere
Speaker 2: over two hundred, two hundred and fifty maybe three hundred miles,
Speaker 2: you are screwed because you now are gonna have to
Speaker 2: pull out like the old fashioned trip tick and plan
Speaker 2: your trip because at some point you are gonna have
Speaker 2: to stop and you're gonna have to recharge that car.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to hunt for a place to go
Speaker 2: charge that vehicle, and your better hope it's a level three,
Speaker 2: a really fast super or a hyper fast charger. If not,
Speaker 2: you're gonna sit there and it's gonna be a slow
Speaker 2: trickle charge. Maybe there's three or four cars already using those.
Speaker 2: At that point, you're gonna wait to even pull up
Speaker 2: your car, and then you're gonna back your car in
Speaker 2: because you forgot that you're charging port was on the
Speaker 2: other side. Then you got to wait another thirty forty
Speaker 2: five minutes, an hour, hour and a half to charge
Speaker 2: your car, and you hope it goes to one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Do you see where I'm going right now? It's a pain.
Speaker 2: Let me give you my review. This past week, I
Speaker 2: was excited when a Hummer EV holed up in front.
Speaker 2: That's right. Last week I had a Hummer Eve. Okay,
Speaker 2: h three sexy, one hundred and seven thousand dollars. The
Speaker 2: tops can come off. Does the crab walk? It's huge,
Speaker 2: It's a looker. I love the lights. It fits well,
Speaker 2: it is cool, interesting enough as big as this bad
Speaker 2: boy is, because you think it could be all battery.
Speaker 2: The max range that I could see it was about
Speaker 2: three hundred miles. Okay, generally I don't travel three hundred
Speaker 2: miles or so. But you know what I decided to
Speaker 2: do because at night or two nights before Christmas, I
Speaker 2: went with the buddy and I live in the Houston area,
Speaker 2: and we said, you know what, let's go to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Lake Charles, Louisiana maybe about one hundred and ninety miles away,
Speaker 2: takes about two hours and fifteen minutes. And I said,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take this thing well before I go, and
Speaker 2: I was gonna spend the night before I went. Had
Speaker 2: to find a charger because I don't have a charger. No,
Speaker 2: I had to find a charger in charge this thing.
Speaker 2: Do one hundred percent. Now I have range anxiety, Yes
Speaker 2: I do. I have range anxiety. And that range anxiety
Speaker 2: means I have to look at that range. It's gonna
Speaker 2: go down to ninety percent, sixty forty percent. At that
Speaker 2: point I start schitzing. It gets down to twenty percent.
Speaker 2: Now I'm screwed. So I'm thinking we're gonna drive directly.
Speaker 2: It's got three hundred mile range, only about one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty maybe two hundred miles. Whatever it is, I'm
Speaker 2: still gonna have some mileage on there. There's got to
Speaker 2: be a charger or two or ten of them at
Speaker 2: this big hotel. And I'm gonna call out this hotel.
Speaker 2: Stayed at the Golden Nugget. Golden Nugget, stayed there many
Speaker 2: times since it's opened ten years ago. Really nice hotel,
Speaker 2: really good, good restaurants. Now got a sports book it's
Speaker 2: all good. Drive all the way over there, make it.
Speaker 2: Maybe that I have about I have no clue why,
Speaker 2: because I was using the air conditioning and use it
Speaker 2: and blasting the radio. I get there. Maybe I had
Speaker 2: about twenty twenty two percent of my battery left. Maybe
Speaker 2: I had I don't know, fifty miles, sixty miles and
Speaker 2: maybe less than that. Pull in to the garage is
Speaker 2: the golden nugget. I'm driving on Level one looking for
Speaker 2: the charger. Level two. I'm going through all I go
Speaker 2: through the parking lot, can't find a freaking charger. Pull
Speaker 2: up to the valet, I asked the nice kids, Hey, man,
Speaker 2: where's a charger. They see I'm in an electric comer.
Speaker 2: They look at me and they smile and they're like,
Speaker 2: we don't have chargers here. And I look them and
Speaker 2: I'm I may have thrown out a cussword. You are
Speaker 2: the freaking golden nugget. A beautiful, relatively new hotel. You
Speaker 2: have people driving from the state of Texas. I know
Speaker 2: a lot of them have EVS. You don't have a charger, No, sir,
Speaker 2: we don't. This point, I'm really starting to fits. At
Speaker 2: this point, my appetite's gone I'm no, I'm losing weight
Speaker 2: already because I don't eat when I just I get ticked.
Speaker 2: Where's the nearest charger? Well, there's one in the target
Speaker 2: parking lot, and you have to go around here, and
Speaker 2: there's the U turn and there's the circle and then
Speaker 2: you're gonna turn right over here? Is it open to
Speaker 2: You're kidding me, so in a way, I didn't worry
Speaker 2: about it. We park, We gamble, go to dinner, Vican
Speaker 2: Anthony's cost that an armaal leg gamble a little wake up.
Speaker 2: So now buddy's sleeping. I'm thinking I need to get
Speaker 2: I need to take care of this thing. We take
Speaker 2: care of that. I drive now and I'm watching every
Speaker 2: every foot that I'm driving and every percentage that this
Speaker 2: my battery goes down. I drive to this target parking lot.
Speaker 2: I find out that the target parking lot has a
Speaker 2: slew of chargers. Uh oh, they're only Tesla charges. Tesla
Speaker 2: chargers do not fit into the regular right, I said,
Speaker 2: regularly the chargers okay with the charge coupling system, say okay,
Speaker 2: gun work. Then I'm thinking I'm really screwed. Wait a minute.
Speaker 2: I look on the map. Just in the same parking lot.
Speaker 2: Here's a company called Rivian, And if you don't know Rivian,
Speaker 2: in Rivi makes a truck and it's an electric truck
Speaker 2: and it uses the same type of charger that the
Speaker 2: Hummer does that most of the other cars do. Right,
Speaker 2: super fast, super speeding everything. Go all the way to
Speaker 2: the Rivian thing, plug it in, get ready to punch
Speaker 2: something to give my credit card. We're sorry. These Rivian
Speaker 2: network chargers only work on Rivians at this place. At
Speaker 2: this time, I'm looking for a brick to throw through
Speaker 2: the window of this Hummer, not because I don't like
Speaker 2: the Hummer, because I am ticked, because I don't know
Speaker 2: what to do. Now. If that's not enough, I'm going
Speaker 2: to finish the story and we're going to see if
Speaker 2: I've ever made it that to Uston. We'll finish after the.
Speaker 4: Book the hour that High Tech Days.
Speaker 2: I don't bought him at the story time with Mike,
Speaker 2: if you're just two moving when I was telling a
Speaker 2: story about electric vehicles. I've been test driving this past week,
Speaker 2: which I do and review the new twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: Homer H three ev it's an electric vehicle. And the
Speaker 2: reason in the end of the day is why reason
Speaker 2: number one hundred. Why I will not buy an EV
Speaker 2: I live in Houston. I'm gonna speed you up. I
Speaker 2: live in Houston. I drove with a buddy to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Speaker 2: I get there, spend the night a few days ago.
Speaker 2: I'm down to about twenty percent battery. I get to
Speaker 2: the hotel. Golden Nugget does not inexplicably, they do not
Speaker 2: have an EV charger nothing. I do not know how.
Speaker 2: If Tillman, we love you, baby. If you or your
Speaker 2: people you need, I will, I'll partner with you. I
Speaker 2: will build a network of VV chargers. There. You need
Speaker 2: an EV charger. People drive from Texas to go gamble.
Speaker 2: You need it anyway, I need to. I wake up
Speaker 2: early in the morning. My buddy's still sleeping. I'm out
Speaker 2: searching the city of Lake Charles, Oh. And Lake Charles
Speaker 2: is a bute people. I'm looking for a charging a charger.
Speaker 2: I find one. It's a Tesla charger, doesn't work on
Speaker 2: the Hummer. I find another one. It's a Rivian charger,
Speaker 2: doesn't work on the Hummer. Now I'm looking out on
Speaker 2: the map. Now the map on the GPS. You could
Speaker 2: it'll map out all the evs, and I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 2: I know car dealer. It's a Monday morning, Monday car
Speaker 2: dealerships are open. Well, actually yeah, it's it's Louisiana. Car
Speaker 2: dealerships could be open seven days a week. In textas
Speaker 2: they're open six days a week. Maybe I'll go to
Speaker 2: a car dealership. So I see something it's called and
Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of third party charging companies. There's
Speaker 2: charge Point, Electrify America Vygo, it goes on and on
Speaker 2: and on. I like Electrify America. Electrify America, I know,
Speaker 2: generally has a level three. Level three is the highest level.
Speaker 2: The level one is when you plug it into your
Speaker 2: one ten volt wall. I mean that's a trickle charge.
Speaker 2: Level two it's like a hair drive here, a washer dryer.
Speaker 2: The dryer plug faster. If you have a plug at
Speaker 2: home in your garage, ogs or you have a level two,
Speaker 2: still gonna take six seven hours, eight hours maybe to
Speaker 2: bloat up overnight, gotcha. But level three you can get
Speaker 2: pretty much one hundred percent in an hour hour fifteen,
Speaker 2: depending how low you are. It ain't cheap either. So
Speaker 2: in a way, I see this Electrify America and it's
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes away. Now I'm wondering do I have fifteen minutes?
Speaker 2: Do I have twenty miles or thirty miles in this
Speaker 2: vehicle to get there? Because if not, I'm freaking stuck
Speaker 2: in sulfur Louisiana. I ten, I'm screwed. I go all
Speaker 2: the way, and now I mean I got no air
Speaker 2: conditioning on I I got no radio. I'm conservating every
Speaker 2: ounce of that freaking battery. I make it all the
Speaker 2: way to Electrify America. And interesting enough, Electrify America they
Speaker 2: had four No, no, they had eight chargers. And it's
Speaker 2: in a parking lot of a Walmart, which generally they are,
Speaker 2: and I'm fine with that. I live on the southwest
Speaker 2: side of you. If I need a charger, I'll go
Speaker 2: to an Electrify America. I have an account, I get
Speaker 2: an app, I put my credit card in. I hope
Speaker 2: no car is already charging itself. I hope all these
Speaker 2: chargers are fully loaded and they're not broken. And then maybe,
Speaker 2: if I'm lucky, I can get that out of there
Speaker 2: thirty forty five minutes at a certain percent. I don't
Speaker 2: even care about one hundred percent. I'd make it to
Speaker 2: Electrify America. It's now like nine fifteen in the morning,
Speaker 2: cold morning. There is an empty slot. Generally there's a
Speaker 2: fast there's a ultra fast charger, and for the first time,
Speaker 2: I've never seen one of these things, there's a hyper
Speaker 2: fast charger. And I'm like, yes, I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: have time to putts around. I want to get back
Speaker 2: to the hotel. I want to gamble a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Hopefully I've got enough juice in the vehicle and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get back. So in a way, I have to
Speaker 2: back it in a crazy way because the cord would
Speaker 2: not reach. So here I am at nine thirty nine
Speaker 2: to twenty in the morning, and I am at Walmart,
Speaker 2: and the Walmart's kind of packed because it's a few
Speaker 2: days before Christmas. Put my app I get in there
Speaker 2: and cross my fingers. It works. It's starting charge. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you just tuning in, I am now ten minutes
Speaker 2: into the story of why I will not buy an Evy.
Speaker 2: I am now ruined. Well, I'm not done yet. I've
Speaker 2: not wasted it entire morning. I'm worried about it the
Speaker 2: night before, so I'm not concentrating and having a good
Speaker 2: time at the casino betting on the Cowboy game last Sun.
Speaker 2: And no, no, no, I'm worried about Am I going
Speaker 2: to get home? It's on my mind? Okay that you
Speaker 2: see where I'm going with over here, So I plug
Speaker 2: it in. Well, now I have I have so low.
Speaker 2: The estimated time of charging was an hour. Well, what
Speaker 2: am I going to do? Well? This is why the
Speaker 2: Walmarts and stores of the world love having chargers in
Speaker 2: the parking lots, because you ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 2: except get your button to that store and shop and
Speaker 2: buy crap that you don't need. Well, I showed them
Speaker 2: because I've wasted a lot of money at Walmart's. Every
Speaker 2: time I've charged my vehicle before I walked around for
Speaker 2: a freaking hour. I didn't buy one freaking thing. So
Speaker 2: take that Walmart, all right, You still make commission off
Speaker 2: of me whatever I paid, which I will tell you
Speaker 2: how much I paid. Well, while you're charging, you can
Speaker 2: monitor from your app what percentage at. So it's going
Speaker 2: pretty fast. Now for those of you under who understand
Speaker 2: what kilowatts and how they work and how fast they go.
Speaker 2: This old tra no, this was a hyper fast. This
Speaker 2: could charge up to and you have to use those words.
Speaker 2: Up to three hundred and fifty kilowatts per hour. That
Speaker 2: is fast. It really really is if you can get that,
Speaker 2: because generally I've seen seventy five, seventy eight, maybe eighty
Speaker 2: kilowatts an hour. It's like, I'm not saying it's a
Speaker 2: water dripping but imagine now we're at what four times faster,
Speaker 2: four to five times faster, Well, it goes up to
Speaker 2: three fifty. Well, the max I was getting was about
Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy kilowats p hour. I'll take it.
Speaker 2: It was still going forty five am, rolls around, ten o'clock,
Speaker 2: rolls around. Now I'm fifty minutes. Now I'm fifty five minutes. Finally,
Speaker 2: as it gets to the end, it slows down. It
Speaker 2: uncharged it two hundred and seventy kilowatts an hour, three hundred.
Speaker 2: It goes down to charges like thirty five kilowatts an hour,
Speaker 2: nice and small, just to top it off, just to
Speaker 2: top it off. I have no clue why they need
Speaker 2: to top it off. It's not like it's gonna overflow
Speaker 2: with gas, but they're just good. They just topped it off.
Speaker 2: Now finally I stop. I'm at a hunt, am I
Speaker 2: even one hundred? I think I'm ninety eight percent bat
Speaker 2: on my Hummer Rev. I now got have him back
Speaker 2: to two hundred and eighty miles range. I have wasted
Speaker 2: over one hour in the morning just sitting at the
Speaker 2: charger walking around Walmart, on top of another half an
Speaker 2: hour forty five minutes going to try to even locate
Speaker 2: and find and drive to three different locations to find
Speaker 2: a charger that works. Look at the app. Anybody guess
Speaker 2: how freaking much I spent four an hour charging at
Speaker 2: a hyper speed. Mm hm not fun, Nope, not at all.
Speaker 2: Let me pull up my receipt over here. Oh and
Speaker 2: not only that, do you know how much money I
Speaker 2: was wasting Electrify America. I have like a sinking fund,
Speaker 2: and every time it deposits ten dollars in there, I'll
Speaker 2: get a text ten dollars was just charged to your
Speaker 2: credit card? During that hour, I got no less than eight,
Speaker 2: maybe nine different text ding ten dollars is added, ding
Speaker 2: ten dollars added. I walked out of there. Here's my bill.
Speaker 2: Max charging was only two hundred and fifty four kilowatts.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even two seven. I was lying. I sucked
Speaker 2: up one hundred and forty two kilowatts an hour. That's
Speaker 2: a lot of powers. Because I was really low with
Speaker 2: the sales tax. I paid for that hour eighty five dollars. Folks,
Speaker 2: Electricity in Texas and Louisiana is more than gasoline. Now
Speaker 2: you go to California, it's vice versa. Gasoline is very
Speaker 2: expensive on the West Coast, electricity is not that much.
Speaker 2: I paid eighty five dollars wasted in an hour and
Speaker 2: a half, two hours of that morning, worried about it
Speaker 2: all that night. Finally get back to the hotel. I
Speaker 2: gamble a little, lose a little bit more. Check out,
Speaker 2: load it up, get in the hummer, make it all
Speaker 2: the way back to Houston, make it home. Peace out.
Speaker 2: That's it. I do not know how you could live
Speaker 2: with an ev I'm not ragging her, but let me
Speaker 2: tell you this, this is what I do. I'm not
Speaker 2: a hater. Let me tell you some certain cases why
Speaker 2: an EVY was good for me. No way, I did
Speaker 2: not need that heartache. I did not need the worry.
Speaker 2: I didn't need the potential wrinkles and gray hair that
Speaker 2: that issue gave me. Evs are fine in generally, I
Speaker 2: would say if you have two vehicles at home, if
Speaker 2: you are married, you live with somebody, make sure one
Speaker 2: of your cars is gas powered. Then you can get
Speaker 2: the EV car, and whoever has the EV vehicle, use
Speaker 2: that just to go play around the neighborhood. Take the
Speaker 2: kids to school, take them horseback riding, take them to
Speaker 2: swim practice, take them cheerleading practice. You come home and
Speaker 2: you charge it in your garage. Maybe you have an
Speaker 2: office within thirty forty miles of yourself cut. Hopefully you
Speaker 2: have a charger at home. Hopefully you have one extra office.
Speaker 2: Charge it, charge it, charge it and get back. But
Speaker 2: if you rely on hey, let's go take a road
Speaker 2: trip this weekend. Let's go up to Austin to watch
Speaker 2: a UT game. Maybe your kids at school, maybe you
Speaker 2: go to college station. I don't know wherever you go.
Speaker 2: You're gonna need to plan this thing out. You're gonna
Speaker 2: need to go. You're gonna need to figure out where,
Speaker 2: and you better hope a charger is available. You better
Speaker 2: hope it's at full speed. You better hope you've got
Speaker 2: some extra cash for that electricity you gotta pay for,
Speaker 2: and then you're on your way. It's just it was
Speaker 2: crazy that that is in twenty three years. That could
Speaker 2: have been my first two segment tirade I've ever done.
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna open the phone lines three, four, six,
Speaker 2: twenty nine textan anybody feel free to jumping down load
Speaker 2: on your experiences, good or bad when it comes to
Speaker 2: something like that. But reason easily number one hundred and
Speaker 2: I got more of why I won't buy any EV.
Speaker 2: That was my weekend. Hey, happy Honka, Marry Chris Mess
Speaker 2: We're gonna come back. I'll tell you some of my
Speaker 2: favorite apps of the year. Got some questions and answers.
Speaker 2: We've got some phone calls. Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 2: It is called The High Tech Text of Shocks, the
Speaker 2: High Deck Dex and shit boy, I'm looking at the emails.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, people are just I could I appreciate
Speaker 2: you enjoying my humor and story telling senses If you
Speaker 2: just tuned in, I spit the last two segments talking
Speaker 2: about one of the reasons that I personally personally will
Speaker 2: not buy an EV. Don't hate on me if you
Speaker 2: have an EV. I'm not against evs, but for me,
Speaker 2: where I am in my life, my lifestyle, the kids
Speaker 2: are gone and I need to travel. I want to
Speaker 2: get in the car when I get gassed. I don't
Speaker 2: want to wait. I have ADHD I need let's go,
Speaker 2: let's roll, Let's snap snap. But I broke down to
Speaker 2: this past weekend when I just took a road trip
Speaker 2: and I was freaking out because I thought I was
Speaker 2: just I could not find a battery charger. It just
Speaker 2: it happens. We need a better, better way of better process.
Speaker 2: Not so much the chargers need to be more ubiquitous
Speaker 2: in the world. They needed faster, they need to be faster.
Speaker 2: Waiting an hour it's just too much, man, how much
Speaker 2: you know much we already spend it BUCkies? My goodness,
Speaker 2: I think I think maybe big Charger in Big Bucky
Speaker 2: got together and said, you know what, we're just going
Speaker 2: to make sure that we screw these people and make
Speaker 2: more wait another hour, do that three times in that day.
Speaker 2: You spend much money of BUCkies, you going to actually
Speaker 2: pay for a in actually new vehicle. Let me give
Speaker 2: you the phone number here people. Also, the email is
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield at dieheartmedia dot com. Uh it is three
Speaker 2: four six two nine text and UH, if you call
Speaker 2: that number, this is what happens. You've got mail.
Speaker 5: Hi John, just trying to get your thoughts on backing
Speaker 5: up a PC or laptop. What you would recommend going
Speaker 5: to the cloud, having something in an external storage unit
Speaker 5: of some nature, what have you? So, just trying to
Speaker 5: get your thoughts on, kind of from scratch, how would
Speaker 5: you bet back up your information on your PC?
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, absolute, great question. This is a question,
Speaker 2: and thank you John. Appreciate that he called three four
Speaker 2: six twenty nine text. And this is a question that
Speaker 2: I don't get merely as much as when I started
Speaker 2: this program. I started this show twenty years ago. Man,
Speaker 2: it's how do you store your information? What's the cheapest
Speaker 2: way to do it? What's the most secure way? I
Speaker 2: answer that on the regular basis. I don't answer it anymore,
Speaker 2: but I'm more than happy to take this on for you.
Speaker 2: Wants to know what seems better if you're storing or
Speaker 2: backing up information on your PC? Do you go cloud storage?
Speaker 2: Do you maybe get an external hard disk drive and
Speaker 2: put it on your next to your desk and then
Speaker 2: just transferred to via cable. Well, if you asked me
Speaker 2: this fifteen years ago, I easily would have said absolutely,
Speaker 2: get an external hard disk drive, and even today, these
Speaker 2: hard drives, they're relatively inexpensive. You can get a terribius
Speaker 2: two terabytes, three terabytes, one hundred dollars or so. That
Speaker 2: is really nothing. I mean they used to be measured
Speaker 2: in megs and gigs and now they're terabytes. I mean
Speaker 2: that's a lot of information. But I'm going to make
Speaker 2: a case for cloud storage. I am because I'll start
Speaker 2: with this. Backing up important files and data remains absolutely important. Vital,
Speaker 2: v it vital, even though I can't spell. Even with
Speaker 2: all the security and hardware issues, you have to back
Speaker 2: it up because your hard disk on your computer, your laptop,
Speaker 2: it may fail, it may get an attack from malware. Now,
Speaker 2: hopping data to an external hard drive, it was time consuming,
Speaker 2: it was cost effective. Though the landscape has changed. And
Speaker 2: let me tell you what. Let's look at cloud storage
Speaker 2: versus external storage. Number one, the universal access. If you're
Speaker 2: setting up a backup, it is really simple to go
Speaker 2: to a cloud storage. Maybe you call it iCloud, maybe
Speaker 2: you call it one draw, maybe you call it x drive,
Speaker 2: maybe you call it dropbox. Whatever. Cloud storage and backup
Speaker 2: technology wins easily when it comes to the accessibility because
Speaker 2: once you transfer files from your computer up to the cloud.
Speaker 2: And when I say cloud and at listen, I apologize.
Speaker 2: I hate using that term. It's not I am not
Speaker 2: a meteorologist. Don't look up and oh is that a
Speaker 2: serious or a serious or nimbus? No, I'm not. It's
Speaker 2: not a cloud. The cloud is a server that is
Speaker 2: off site that you really don't see. It's just up
Speaker 2: in the air, floating somewhere. Just kind of think of
Speaker 2: it that way. It's actually a secure server run by
Speaker 2: a company. Bottom line. To transfer files to and from
Speaker 2: the cloud, all you need is an Internet connection, period, photos, smartphone, tablet.
Speaker 2: You can do it from anywhere, even without Wi Fi.
Speaker 2: All right. Now you can access it from anywhere you're
Speaker 2: on the road. You need the file, okay, if you
Speaker 2: have it, if you put it on your external hard
Speaker 2: drive on a terabyte next at your home or office.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna do you today, too good, is it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: So Number one cloud when it comes to access Number two. Security.
Speaker 2: Security used to be a major flaw with cloud storage,
Speaker 2: all right, because some cloud providers losers. They were being
Speaker 2: hacked and everything. Cloud storage security it's come a long way,
Speaker 2: it really has. Most secure cloud systems now use virtually
Speaker 2: uncrackable Advanced encryption standard. Actually it's two fifty six bit
Speaker 2: aees that you don't care about. Apologize for throwing it
Speaker 2: out there, but it's advanced encryption standard, all right. It
Speaker 2: protects your data before it even leaves your device, so
Speaker 2: that's one. I trust it too. There's another one, the
Speaker 2: sink technology. One of the biggest vantages to cloud storage
Speaker 2: is you can keep your files backed up all the time,
Speaker 2: and that's thanks to sinking technology. It runs in the
Speaker 2: background on your device and it automatically uploads any new
Speaker 2: or modified files. Every photo you take Boom, you can
Speaker 2: set it where it automatically backs up. So if immediately
Speaker 2: you lose your phone, everything that you just took as
Speaker 2: a photo, it's on the cloud too. Bottom line, I
Speaker 2: think now there's a little question that cloud storage is
Speaker 2: the best way to back up your data. I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna get more peace of mind the ability to
Speaker 2: back up your data continuously from any device. In fact,
Speaker 2: it may not be too long before physical hard drives
Speaker 2: may just become another casually of oh I remember this,
Speaker 2: it's not working now. To be sure, if you want
Speaker 2: suspenders and a belt, if you're be prepared eagle scout
Speaker 2: like me, sure use a cloud and also use a
Speaker 2: hard drive. I on my desktop at home have not one,
Speaker 2: but two hard drives. I transfer these every time I
Speaker 2: get a new computer desktop computer every few years. All
Speaker 2: I need to do is take this hard drive, plug
Speaker 2: it in. I can down upload it that way. But
Speaker 2: even if the cloud goes down, even it's something I
Speaker 2: know now, not only do I have a copy of
Speaker 2: my stuff down cloud, I also have it on a
Speaker 2: hard drive too. But you don't need that. But again,
Speaker 2: if all you worry worked out there, if you've got
Speaker 2: something precious, all your family and the mentos, the videos,
Speaker 2: go ahead and do it down God great question. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that we've got one more hour to go thro it.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I'm actually going to tell you
Speaker 2: a little something about Apple, and I don't talk about Apple.
Speaker 2: It's a rumor, but Apple really getting into the smart homes.
Speaker 2: They're trying to infiltrate it. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: or you like, though, what Apple rumored device is going
Speaker 2: to do. I will tell you what that is on
Speaker 2: the other side, along with a few of the things
Speaker 2: that I think I'm going to see in about a
Speaker 2: week and a half at Consumer Electronics show that I
Speaker 2: know you're not gonna want and you're not gonna afford.
Speaker 2: So we played the game. People, it is Michael Garfield,
Speaker 2: high Tech Texting. Happy in the Year.
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Speaker 2: and majored in communication, and I can come up with stuff.
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Speaker 2: I get a lot of voicemails for some reason. We
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Speaker 2: next week or two three four six two nine Texan,
Speaker 2: And a big shout out over the ears to Houston, Dallas,
Speaker 2: and San Antonio terrestrially, and if you're not in any
Speaker 2: of those cities, well sucks for you. People. We don't
Speaker 2: have state income tax here in Texas. You may be
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Speaker 2: Uh where do we start like that? My people ask
Speaker 2: me some of my favorite apps of the year, Well,
Speaker 2: I like tuna, tartar, nachos are good? Oh? Apps not appetizer?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, thanks Callum? Callum is my guy over here?
Speaker 2: Is run? You said apps?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 2: I mean bottomless chips. They're good, you know, maybe a
Speaker 2: little French onion soup. Good apps? Oh? Apps? Okay. So
Speaker 2: when it comes to technology, all right, we'll tell you
Speaker 2: what we're gonna get. If you I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: two or three or four of mine that I can
Speaker 2: think of as I'm cruising my phone. Maybe give you
Speaker 2: something to download if you've got a new phone for
Speaker 2: the holidays. But also if you have something to share,
Speaker 2: what was your favorite app? Your favorite product? Three four
Speaker 2: six two nine T e x A N Michael Garfield
Speaker 2: at iHeartMedia, Twitter x Blue Sky, high Tech text and
Speaker 2: Spell the whole thing out and also Instagram growing even more.
Speaker 2: That's where I give away. When I talk about something,
Speaker 2: let's see if we can give it away. And I
Speaker 2: do a lot of that stuff on Instagram, and I
Speaker 2: show you a lot of the videos that I'm playing
Speaker 2: with a lot of shiny new apps this past year.
Speaker 2: Every app is going to revolutionize your life, all right.
Speaker 2: Some will stick to the basics, some of them will
Speaker 2: go overboard. Some of them are confusing, some of them
Speaker 2: cost money, some of them are worthless. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of one of the apps that I have probably used
Speaker 2: more than anything else. And I've had this over have
Speaker 2: I had it over a year? I may have but
Speaker 2: one I still like and I'm gonna throw an ash
Speaker 2: recovery here. It's a video editing software. I do a
Speaker 2: lot of video editing when it comes to Instagram, and
Speaker 2: probably the easiest video editor that is so simple that
Speaker 2: when I show this to some of my cohorts in
Speaker 2: the TV business who like me, learn to edit on
Speaker 2: a real Avid edit machine and splice tape and everything
Speaker 2: is just unbelievable. How how far editing has come. My
Speaker 2: favorite editor that I use, and again not paid whatsoever.
Speaker 2: I wish they paid me. None of this stuff is paid.
Speaker 2: This is just my opinion. Cap Cut c Apcut. It's
Speaker 2: good for Android, it's good for iOS. It's a video
Speaker 2: adding it is simple it is for on the go creators.
Speaker 2: The only thing that you may want to be weary
Speaker 2: and leary about. This company is owned by the same
Speaker 2: company that owns TikTok. That same company TikTok, which may
Speaker 2: be banned the United States the next few weeks. Byte
Speaker 2: Dance owns cap cut. I don't own I've never my
Speaker 2: life downloaded TikTok. I use most every other social app.
Speaker 2: I just don't use TikTok. I don't use I don't
Speaker 2: not use a double negative, I don't not use TikTok
Speaker 2: really top of mind because it's owned by a Chinese company,
Speaker 2: byt dance, because I use I'm playing with two phones
Speaker 2: right now that are Chinese owned companies. I use cap cut,
Speaker 2: which is owned by the exact putty bite Dance that
Speaker 2: has issues. I just never wanted to use tech doc.
Speaker 2: It's just maybe I thought initially it was just for
Speaker 2: the young crowd. I know it's not anymore. I just
Speaker 2: I don't really have the time or wherewith all do
Speaker 2: even download another social media but cap cut simple, I
Speaker 2: like it. I use the free of it edition. There
Speaker 2: is a pro edition. You could do so many things.
Speaker 2: That's number one. What else do I like, what else
Speaker 2: do I use? Let's see, I use Android a lot,
Speaker 2: and I have been pretty impressed with their What's called
Speaker 2: Gemini and what Google Gemini is. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: a chat GPT. It's an AI assistant and it gives
Speaker 2: you access to a lot of different AI models out there.
Speaker 2: One of the recent updates and one of the things
Speaker 2: that I'm playing now is like a virtual chat. Instead
Speaker 2: of just asking you a question, you literally can have
Speaker 2: a conversation with this thing. So you ask a question
Speaker 2: Google Gemini, but you download for free and there is
Speaker 2: an upgrade version too. You ask it a question and
Speaker 2: they give you kind of an answer, but then you
Speaker 2: still have another question. Will you ask a question again
Speaker 2: on top of that one? And they're going to come
Speaker 2: back and I'm not going to say debate, but they
Speaker 2: go back and forth. At Rick's works really good. I
Speaker 2: thought that was neat too. What is another one I like?
Speaker 2: Let's see, I did make a list over here. Here's
Speaker 2: one that's called flighty fli ght Y and what it is.
Speaker 2: It's going to tell you every single thing about your flights,
Speaker 2: real time updates, alerts, delay predictions, so you're always going
Speaker 2: to be one of the first to note and rebook.
Speaker 2: It's easy to use, easy to read, and it works
Speaker 2: very well. Along with that, I have another one over here.
Speaker 2: It's called a Ward wallet. I've been using this one.
Speaker 2: You sign up for free, and what this does attracts
Speaker 2: your credit cards, your loyalty points, your travel plans, and
Speaker 2: the secure account that you can get right in your
Speaker 2: pocket on your phone. Yes, I use Google Wallet too,
Speaker 2: that does my credit cards, my low few points. But
Speaker 2: this because it adds in a little bit of travel.
Speaker 2: I like this also Award Wallet, and they've got partnerships.
Speaker 2: I think this has got a partnership with everything from
Speaker 2: Capital One to Chase, to Hilton, to City to Marriott,
Speaker 2: Bank of America, and it goes on and on and
Speaker 2: so it's a it's a free service and they're tracking
Speaker 2: everything from dining to cruises to trains to credit cards
Speaker 2: and what have you. And so those Let's see if
Speaker 2: I can think of one or two more where I
Speaker 2: can think of before we get the break over here,
Speaker 2: which is three four six twenty nine textan as I
Speaker 2: see some phone calls getting ready to come in, uh,
Speaker 2: photo and answers. Some people want to I, you know
Speaker 2: what for a long time, my favorite photo. It's not
Speaker 2: AI really, I mean, it just enhances your photos. It
Speaker 2: will make the colors brighter. It can, you know, do
Speaker 2: a number of different things. I like snapseed free, snap
Speaker 2: seed long use that. But there's another one I saw
Speaker 2: called Radiant Imagining Radiant Imagine. I'm going make shure you no,
Speaker 2: not Radiant Photo Radio. Let me give you the exact
Speaker 2: website Radiantimagining Labs dot com, Radiant and I guess you
Speaker 2: could download the app at Radiant Photo. This one may
Speaker 2: be paid. I did try this. I think I got
Speaker 2: just a kind of one or two type of thing,
Speaker 2: little bit more intricate where you have to start checking
Speaker 2: and unchecking some boxes. To me, it's not a simplest napstream.
Speaker 2: But cameras are really good. They're getting better. But sometimes
Speaker 2: you take it real fast, you have a filter, there's
Speaker 2: smudges on your lens, or you want to sex it
Speaker 2: up as I call it. You may want to, you
Speaker 2: may I want a photo and answer. So those are
Speaker 2: the few I have. We're gonna take a break. You
Speaker 2: tell me what are some of your best apps. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield is the name Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com
Speaker 2: three four six, twenty nine text, all right, when we
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Speaker 2: where to place it in their home? Because it's a
Speaker 2: new type of router. You may have this type of
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Speaker 2: twenty four Hi, you're new to the show. If you're
Speaker 2: in San Antonio, Dallas, you have no clue who I am,
Speaker 2: where you've been people who've been in Houston for twenty
Speaker 2: three years. I do want to think my boss is
Speaker 2: something that I am thankful for this year and only
Speaker 2: took freaking two decades. Brian Erickson, Eddie Martini. They are
Speaker 2: with iHeartMedia. They've long been my bosses. They say, garf Man,
Speaker 2: you got some good BS, which, by the way, I
Speaker 2: really do have good BS, which, by the way, I
Speaker 2: have a BS degree, which by the way, does not
Speaker 2: stand for Bachelor of Science. If you know what, i'maiah.
Speaker 2: They said, you know what, You've been doing this for
Speaker 2: two decades in the Houston area. You know, the biggest
Speaker 2: city in Texas fourth largest in the country. You know what,
Speaker 2: let's let's put you in some other markets across Texas.
Speaker 2: And so my hometown of Dallas where my parents can
Speaker 2: terrestrially listen to me on eleven ninety am. And also
Speaker 2: San Antonio, fun town, great city. What's up twelve hundred WAI.
Speaker 2: I do, thank you, and that's nice to have you
Speaker 2: guys part of the family. I'm hearing a lot from
Speaker 2: you and some really nice comments. You guys are very sweet.
Speaker 2: I'm getting for Clymped. Two or three weeks ago, I was,
Speaker 2: I was, I was playing a game. I like playing
Speaker 2: the over undergame and I was playing the over a
Speaker 2: under game on the Equifax. Anybody heard of Equifax. Equifax
Speaker 2: had a breach and this is where you know, you
Speaker 2: check your your credit and everything was last year or two,
Speaker 2: and the government made them settle with most everybody who
Speaker 2: was affected in anybody who put a request in to
Speaker 2: get money back, and I think Equifax in the US
Speaker 2: court settled that Equifax would have to pay four hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five million dollars divided among everybody who put
Speaker 2: in a claim. And I've I've played these before. You know,
Speaker 2: Apple does this oh, we have to pay out one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars and you end up getting about fourteen tents.
Speaker 2: So anyway, four hundred twenty five million dollars months ago,
Speaker 2: and you can't do it anymore because my information was
Speaker 2: actually breached, and I put an acclaim and I guessed,
Speaker 2: guessed the over under was it like fourteen dollars and
Speaker 2: ten cents or something like that? Well, guess what I
Speaker 2: got an email? I got an email man, and it
Speaker 2: did I know exactly? They told me how much I got?
Speaker 2: Any guesses? Four hundred twenty five million dollars goes out
Speaker 2: to the folks of the United States whose information and
Speaker 2: Equifax credit was was hatched. Yes, sir, if anybody wants
Speaker 2: coke zero and maybe a coffee, my twenty one dollars
Speaker 2: in nineteen, well got juke covered twenty one nineteen. Not
Speaker 2: only did I get twenty one nineteen. I don't get
Speaker 2: that in cash. I don't get that in check. Oh no,
Speaker 2: they email me a prepaid CARDO people, I'm protecting my
Speaker 2: phone baby right now because in my Google wallet, I
Speaker 2: gots me a prepaid card for twenty one bones and
Speaker 2: nineteen cents. It's how I roll life. Is fair, people,
Speaker 2: life is absolutely fair. How cool is that? Well? I
Speaker 2: was closed? All right? Well we got three four six
Speaker 2: two nine te x A N. That's the phone number here,
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Speaker 2: you don't hear anybody, it's a voicemail, leave a voicemail.
Speaker 2: We have the right to actually to play it. But
Speaker 2: we also read your you know what we read. We
Speaker 2: read your emails. We absolutely read your emails, and you
Speaker 2: know what. Let's start with one because somebody has sent
Speaker 2: me a little something to Michael Garfield Didiheartmedia dot com.
Speaker 3: You've got mail.
Speaker 2: This one comes in from Jonah. Jonah is in Bernie, Texas.
Speaker 2: What's up there? You go one of our newer markets.
Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in. Jonah says, hey, dear Michael,
Speaker 2: I actually listened to you on app and I've heard
Speaker 2: you for many, many years. I asked you a question
Speaker 2: years ago about a router, and you talked to me
Speaker 2: about this Mesh system router that apparently use. I got
Speaker 2: one and it works.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of upgrading mine right now because it's a
Speaker 2: few years old. And I want to see what your
Speaker 2: recommendation is or is there a place in my house
Speaker 2: that I may want to relocate it to to get
Speaker 2: me higher speeds because it doesn't seem that my speed
Speaker 2: of the Internet transfer is high enough. What are your
Speaker 2: thoughts level? Listen to your show, glad you're here on WAI. Well,
Speaker 2: there you go. Mesh routers, Well, it's a mesh router
Speaker 2: is a type of Wi Fi router? All right, And
Speaker 2: we know what Wi Fi is. Odds are you have
Speaker 2: a Wi Fi router at home that you either buy
Speaker 2: maybe you rent from your Internet service provider. But the
Speaker 2: routers themselves, they're not all the prettiest gadget to look at.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you hide it in a corner, maybe in a
Speaker 2: closet where people don't sit there and look at it.
Speaker 2: But then again, there's another type of system. There's a
Speaker 2: mesh system. And the easiest way for me to describe
Speaker 2: what a mesh system, it's a multi point system. Here's
Speaker 2: my analogy. This is how the cell phone industry works.
Speaker 2: You know what a cell phone tower looks like When
Speaker 2: you're driving around anywhere in this country of the world,
Speaker 2: you're on the phone. What's happening is your phone is
Speaker 2: connecting to the nearest cell phone tower wherever you are.
Speaker 2: But as you keep driving down the road and highway,
Speaker 2: that cell phone tower hands off your call to the
Speaker 2: next cell phone tower and to the next one to
Speaker 2: make it close. What that does that cell phone tower,
Speaker 2: it really is like a repeater from the various self
Speaker 2: data network. That's what a mesh system is. In your house,
Speaker 2: there is a Wi Fi router where the Internet comes
Speaker 2: in and it's throwing out a signal to this little
Speaker 2: tiny repeater that sometimes you can have two, three, four
Speaker 2: of them around your home and it bounces off these
Speaker 2: and it makes this signal stronger. Yes, it could be
Speaker 2: called a bridge, but now they're called mesh system because
Speaker 2: if you close your eyes and pretend like you're in
Speaker 2: a tom Cruise Sneaky, you know, you know movie or
Speaker 2: something like Mission Impossible, there's this imagine a mesh system
Speaker 2: overlapping signals and airwaves that is just meshing and covering
Speaker 2: every single aspect of your home inside and out, and
Speaker 2: so you've got constant coverage. That's why mesh systems work well.
Speaker 2: I like them a lot. I have a mesh system
Speaker 2: and I've tested a lot of these things. They're multi devices.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you can plug these things into directly into the
Speaker 2: outlet on the wall. Sometimes they're the same color. You
Speaker 2: really can't see these things. But if you've got a
Speaker 2: two level, three level house, you've got a large outside
Speaker 2: your back and you can't get the signal up. Try
Speaker 2: a mesh system. You can get these from one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five, two hundred, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Really no way reason to go whether two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars or so. There's a lot of them. But
Speaker 2: you got a good question, Jonah, do you actually need
Speaker 2: a new mess system? Because Number one, when you position
Speaker 2: a router in your home or office or somewhere, you
Speaker 2: really need to think about where you're placing it. You
Speaker 2: want to consider where that router, where those satellite extenders are. Okay,
Speaker 2: some of the guidelines move your main router. First things First,
Speaker 2: you want the main router in your setup to be
Speaker 2: located as centrally in your home as possible. That's the
Speaker 2: same approach you're going to take with you even just
Speaker 2: have a single router. Routers put out a Wi Fi
Speaker 2: signal in all directions. So placing your router in essential
Speaker 2: location within your home. It's going to make the most
Speaker 2: out of your connection. If you hide it in the closet,
Speaker 2: it's that signal has a lot farther to go. It's
Speaker 2: got to go through your clothes, it's got to go
Speaker 2: through a door. It may be in the back of
Speaker 2: your house, through a bedroom. To even get out of
Speaker 2: your house, then you've got a brick wall, and that
Speaker 2: thing is very tough going to going through brick walls too.
Speaker 2: In terms of the signal mesh systems, same thing. The
Speaker 2: strength of the connection near your extenders is largely going
Speaker 2: to depend on the strength of the incoming signal from
Speaker 2: that main router. So the stronger connection between those two,
Speaker 2: it's going to ensure you're hitting the fastest Wi Fi. Now,
Speaker 2: your options for moving the roder may seem limited by
Speaker 2: that location of your modem and the incoming wiring for
Speaker 2: your home's Internet connection. Maybe you get an extra long
Speaker 2: ethernet and cable that could come in handy. It could
Speaker 2: move it away. Don't laugh. Even moving your router one two, three,
Speaker 2: four feet away from where it is may help. Try
Speaker 2: not to keep it directly to your computer, Try not
Speaker 2: to keep it near a microwave. Try not to keep
Speaker 2: it next to a baby monitor because sometimes those frequency
Speaker 2: can frequencies can overlap. You'd be amazed how stronger or
Speaker 2: how weaker actually, depending on where you move it, that
Speaker 2: your router is going to work. So a good rule
Speaker 2: of thumb keep it the way. Keep the devices in
Speaker 2: your mess set up no more than two rooms away
Speaker 2: from each other. It's gonna vary from home to home.
Speaker 2: Furniture that can also block Wi Fi signals too. Try
Speaker 2: not put anything bulky. Don't put like the you know,
Speaker 2: any China cabinets, maybe not like a big old sofa
Speaker 2: or something like that. Avoid dead zones. I told you
Speaker 2: to watch out for closets, right, don't put a dead zone. Finally,
Speaker 2: how do you tell run a speed test? You know
Speaker 2: there's diagnostic tools in your messages routers app right, but really,
Speaker 2: there are so many free services online that you could do.
Speaker 2: I think one's called speed test dot net or something
Speaker 2: like that, totally free. Go stand in a certain part
Speaker 2: of your house and hit this and hit a button.
Speaker 2: You're gonna wait thirty seconds. Maybe it's gonna download something
Speaker 2: and it'll show you how fast, how many megabits, how
Speaker 2: many gigabits. For second, your speed is keep moving your
Speaker 2: router around, stay in your same place, and try that
Speaker 2: test again. And when you find one of the fastest,
Speaker 2: if not the fastest place, then keep it there. There
Speaker 2: you go, and let me give you it real quickly.
Speaker 2: But we've got a break before I give you a
Speaker 2: few brands. I use Amplify, a m P L I
Speaker 2: Fi Amplify. I use that for a while. It's good.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good just as good ones, if
Speaker 2: not better ones. TP Link, net Gear Link, Sis makes
Speaker 2: a nice one. EO E E R O d Link.
Speaker 2: They've long made routers too, Aris A R R I
Speaker 2: S they make those things too. Do some research. Maybe
Speaker 2: this is something you want to return right now that
Speaker 2: you got for Christmas, Honika, that you don't want, but
Speaker 2: you know what, you got more and more people using
Speaker 2: your wifie. You got kids there, You want a strong
Speaker 2: Wi Fi network and you should be set to go.
Speaker 2: So I hope that answers Jonah, Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your question. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. Just
Speaker 2: a few more segments when we come back. What I
Speaker 2: expect to see at the Consumer Electronics Show and oh
Speaker 2: by the way. I saw something at CES last year.
Speaker 2: It was a TV. These TVs that you think we
Speaker 2: don't need that TV? What does it do now that
Speaker 2: other TVs can't? Well, it just came out and boy
Speaker 2: does this one have a price tag? Pretty much you
Speaker 2: could choose to have a television or a very nice automobile.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you about that on the side. Yeh's could
Speaker 2: be more secondents left in this year of the high
Speaker 2: tech texting the show Michael Garfield, thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2: Happy uh hope you had a really nice Christmas? I
Speaker 2: really do and happy Honka. So technically, well, it depends
Speaker 2: on when you're listening. And we got maybe what the
Speaker 2: third or the fourth night light? Those candles Honika very
Speaker 2: late this year, which means you still have time to
Speaker 2: get something you don't want. Are you people celebrating who
Speaker 2: celebrated Christmas? You got your gift, man, you better live
Speaker 2: with it or you better call in and let me know.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Michael, I need to return this day. I
Speaker 2: got I got the gift for see what do I
Speaker 2: what should I get? I can do that too. I
Speaker 2: can tell you something else to get. Three four six
Speaker 2: twenty nine, Texan anybody. I guess the holiday movies are
Speaker 2: over right now. It took me almost it took the
Speaker 2: last minute because my favorite holiday is love, actually absolutely
Speaker 2: love it. I generally see it a few times each
Speaker 2: season before this week started. I don't think I saw
Speaker 2: it once, but I ended up seeing at least I
Speaker 2: hit it three times. All I want for Christmas is
Speaker 2: it shut up. I love that movie. I didn't see
Speaker 2: Charlie Brown this year. Saw Home Alone. I saw Home Alone, too,
Speaker 2: lost in New York a few times, didn't find Home Alone,
Speaker 2: saw post alone. I what else did I see? I
Speaker 2: didn't see. I saw Fred Claus was on. I seemed
Speaker 2: like ten minutes in the movie. I didn't get into
Speaker 2: Fred Claus. Didn't see I saw Rudolph okay good, Rudolph
Speaker 2: is always good. Didn't see The Year with Out of
Speaker 2: Santa Claus. I mean, I guess that's it, man, I
Speaker 2: guess I have to wait or I can actually go
Speaker 2: on YouTube and see the whole thing. I did see
Speaker 2: a movie, though, now I could talk about this right now.
Speaker 2: I saw a movie at the beginning of December, and
Speaker 2: I was under embargo not to give it a review
Speaker 2: until it came out Christmas is here. It opened Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: Did anybody see A Complete Unknown? That's the new movie
Speaker 2: about Bob Dylan starring Timothy Shanna may So. I saw
Speaker 2: that movie. And I get to see a lot of
Speaker 2: media screening movies, just like I get, you know, when
Speaker 2: I review a lot of products I am sometimes I'm
Speaker 2: under embargo. I cannot talk about it, to read about
Speaker 2: a post about it, yap about it until the embargo lifts. Well,
Speaker 2: the same thing. I saw this in early December weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and I've been sitting on it. It is a fantastic
Speaker 2: It's an unbelievable movie. And I'm gonna say this. I
Speaker 2: am not a Bob Dylan fan, never as much as
Speaker 2: a music fan I am. I never got into Dylan.
Speaker 2: I really don't like folk music. But what Timothy shallow
Speaker 2: May did, and I didn't even know much about Timothy
Speaker 2: shallow May never so Wonka Ornither or Doune or whatever
Speaker 2: they did do, he literally transformed himself. I mean, he
Speaker 2: was al Pacino into Scarface, he was Val Kilmer into
Speaker 2: Jim Morrison the Doors. He was I mean, unbelievable. It did,
Speaker 2: it was great. I think he did his own singing too,
Speaker 2: It's worth it, especially if you're Dylan fan. A little long,
Speaker 2: very heavy on the Dylan songs, which I didn't know
Speaker 2: a lot of them, but it was it was good.
Speaker 2: I really really like it. So no, there's my two
Speaker 2: cents on that three four six, twenty eight nine Texan.
Speaker 2: Any other movies or shows that I need to download?
Speaker 2: I am here for I promised you this Apple. You're
Speaker 2: gonna learn that I don't talk about Apple a lot.
Speaker 2: I'm more of an Android. Yeah, what an away. Apple's
Speaker 2: trying to get into these smart smart home business stronger
Speaker 2: and stronger. There's a latest development, and as with anything
Speaker 2: with Apple, it's all rumor. You never know. Rumor. They're
Speaker 2: reportedly we're apparently their Apple is going after the ring doorbell.
Speaker 2: Apple is reportedly working on a smart doorbell wait for it,
Speaker 2: that unlocks for household members that it recognizes, and it's
Speaker 2: going to use allegedly advanced facial recognition technology that wirelessly
Speaker 2: connects to a dead boat lock. The doorbell would unlock
Speaker 2: the door for people it recognizes, So it's kind of
Speaker 2: like face ID on your iPhone. Now, if this is coming,
Speaker 2: it ain't gonna be for another year or so. But
Speaker 2: when I heard about this. I'm like, okay, it makes
Speaker 2: sense because it's aligning with Apple's vision to deepen its
Speaker 2: footprint in this smart home market, because Apple has long
Speaker 2: lag behind Google and Amazon in that smart home market.
Speaker 2: Many how many of you have the Amazon Echo? How
Speaker 2: many you have a Google Nest? I got both of them,
Speaker 2: I've got right now. I got a Google door Bell,
Speaker 2: I've got one two, I got two Amazon Nests. I
Speaker 2: got three to four Google Nests and Echoes and there
Speaker 2: everywhere there are. But listen, to be fair, there are
Speaker 2: already smart locks that use facial recognition. But Apple is like, ooh, well,
Speaker 2: we have great commitment to user privacy. We're not going
Speaker 2: to sell it to anybody else. I think. I also
Speaker 2: heard they're developing an in home security camera to rival Google, Nest,
Speaker 2: Amazon Ring and whatever. But I think a move if
Speaker 2: they do this into the security camera market can also
Speaker 2: boost the adoption of their iCloud subscriptions and things like that.
Speaker 2: So we shall see. I know, I guarantee I will
Speaker 2: not see that at SES. Apple does nothing at the
Speaker 2: Consumer Electronics Show zero. They always have their own events.
Speaker 2: They always launched whatever they want, So I can't tell
Speaker 2: you about that, but there was a massive smart home section.
Speaker 2: I'm going to come back with everything from smart toilet,
Speaker 2: smart refrigerator, smart dishwashers, smart cameras, and smart Who knows
Speaker 2: every year I get something else, and so I will
Speaker 2: bring those back. Maybe maybe companies will mail them to
Speaker 2: me and they'll say, Michael, you've got a nice listener base.
Speaker 2: You've got a lot of followers on your Instagram. Why
Speaker 2: don't you give something away. I'm like, I will, but
Speaker 2: you got to follow me on Instagram. My men, my
Speaker 2: men and women, my kids listening right now. High Tech
Speaker 2: Texan spell the whole thing out I expect right now.
Speaker 2: I want people popping on follow, follow, follow Instagram. They're funny.
Speaker 2: I'd make sure little funny videos I do contesting it
Speaker 2: is high tech t e X A N SO. I
Speaker 2: think home the home technology market is going to be
Speaker 2: a big thing. I'm going to see in Vegas in
Speaker 2: about a week and a half for my twenty third
Speaker 2: Consumer Electronics Show. I will be broadcasting radio show segments,
Speaker 2: TV snippets from out there. Another reason to follow me
Speaker 2: on x high tech textent on Instagram, High Tech Texan.
Speaker 2: I'm going to see a lot of vehicles the years
Speaker 2: ago CES has been I'm a de facto automobile show. Obviously, Yes,
Speaker 2: a lot of electric vehicles, a lot of drones, drone taxis.
Speaker 2: They're going to have all these things that make it
Speaker 2: look like, oh, this thing is out and about right now.
Speaker 2: Like I sat in a taxi with like a quad
Speaker 2: copter last year. This thing is on it. It's neat.
Speaker 2: But this is so work on the design drawing board.
Speaker 2: My kids are there, My kids' kids may not even
Speaker 2: you know, have any of these things. And so I'll
Speaker 2: see a lot of stuff in the automobile industry and AI.
Speaker 2: I think those are the two letters that are going
Speaker 2: to be very prevalent out there. And there's other two
Speaker 2: letters too. There's the two letters that have always been
Speaker 2: prevalent with Kidsumer Electronics show, and that is TV, as
Speaker 2: in televisions now. When I first went out twenty whatever
Speaker 2: years ago, that was the advent of digital TV and
Speaker 2: high definition TV. This is where the new TVs are
Speaker 2: rolled out. This is where rollable TVs are rolled out.
Speaker 2: That's right. Some manufacturers actually make rollable They roll in
Speaker 2: and scroll up and you don't even see them until
Speaker 2: you need a button and they roll out and they
Speaker 2: you've got a TV everything. There's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: inch TVs, there's projection TVs, there's TVs you don't need.
Speaker 2: There was a TV the size of a king size
Speaker 2: mattress back in the day. It sold for one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars of them. Can you not? Well? Last year
Speaker 2: one of the most sought after TVs was just hitting
Speaker 2: the market, but we didn't know if it was actually
Speaker 2: going to come through. Well, it took almost a year.
Speaker 2: A year, It took a year because they just went
Speaker 2: on the market. LG a manufacturer of many things, including TVs.
Speaker 2: They just came out with it's called the signature OLED
Speaker 2: T O LED, which is O lead, which is organic
Speaker 2: light emitting diode, which no one cares about. This looks
Speaker 2: like it came out of the Minority Report. If you
Speaker 2: remember that great Tom Cruise movie where you could you know,
Speaker 2: you take your finger in the glove and you start
Speaker 2: moving things on the screen. Well anyway, but you can
Speaker 2: also see through it. It was unveiled. It's a seventy
Speaker 2: seven inch display. It's a great TV four K video
Speaker 2: but with a flick of a button, it could be transparent. YEP,
Speaker 2: it's like a see through pane of glass that then
Speaker 2: transforms into a high resolution video display. So now you're
Speaker 2: asking why in the world do I want this? Very
Speaker 2: few scenarios. Generally, if you hang a If your high
Speaker 2: definition TV is hanging on the wall right now, it's
Speaker 2: hanging above your fireplace, who cares if it's transparent? What
Speaker 2: are you going to see the wall behind it? Well,
Speaker 2: pretty much the reason that you want something if you
Speaker 2: place your TV somewhere in front of a window. Maybe
Speaker 2: you live in a condo, maybe you live in a
Speaker 2: high rise, and the only place to put it is
Speaker 2: in front of a window, but you don't want the
Speaker 2: window to be blocked. You want to see what's going
Speaker 2: on out the window. You could place something like this
Speaker 2: in front of the window, and when the TV is off,
Speaker 2: you make it transparent. Now you can see straight through.
Speaker 2: Oh good. Part two? Would you spend? You ready for this?
Speaker 2: Over under? You got ten seconds? How much would you
Speaker 2: spend the LG signature LEDT Would you spend sixty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars on it? Or would you like to pitch a
Speaker 2: kid through college or maybe buy a car? Yep, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of money. Give it a year, it'll
Speaker 2: be six hundred dollars. No, I'm kiding, it's that conna
Speaker 2: be that cheap. But this is the stuff that that
Speaker 2: I see a sees man. It's crazy. Who knows what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see this year? Maybe a foldable TV that
Speaker 2: fits in the pall in your hand but it folds
Speaker 2: out into one hundred and twenty inch TV. We shall see,
Speaker 2: you will hear, you will see what if you follow
Speaker 2: me on Instagram. One more segment to go this year,
Speaker 2: as we wind up and pack up the bags for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, don't go even but that music comes
Speaker 2: the beginning of the final segment of the final show
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four marks the twenty third year I've
Speaker 2: been doing this high tech text in program most all
Speaker 2: of it, actually all of it in Houston on k
Speaker 2: PARC nine to fifty am. And really this was it
Speaker 2: was kind of a neat little banner year. Certainly towards
Speaker 2: the end of the year for me, our program director
Speaker 2: directors here at I Heart they expanded it. They said, Garth,
Speaker 2: you've been doing You've been doing it a long time.
Speaker 2: You haven't been kicked out of the airways by the
Speaker 2: FCC yet let's just go. You throw you on WAI
Speaker 2: twelve hundred in San Antonio and kay FNX eleven ninety
Speaker 2: the Mighty Mighty eleven ninety in Dallas for worth. It's
Speaker 2: neat My hometown is in Dallas where I grew up. Parents,
Speaker 2: still their family, a lot of friends. Now they can
Speaker 2: hear my wonderful voice that is doing this for twenty
Speaker 2: years that they grew up with. Still got my hair,
Speaker 2: People's at my age. I still got my hair and
Speaker 2: I'm flying it in Dallas. It's really cool. Shout out
Speaker 2: to all my high school are still there w T
Speaker 2: white longhorns in Dallas. That's where I went to high school.
Speaker 2: So many friends. It's a banner year or two on
Speaker 2: other fronts for me personally. Continue to got my health.
Speaker 2: I dropped a good amount of weight, not that I
Speaker 2: really needed to, but I picked up I'm a longtime
Speaker 2: marathon runner. I started getting into stationery biking, which helps
Speaker 2: my knees and it's a whole different heart rate thing.
Speaker 2: And you know, I just even made sure my diet
Speaker 2: was even better. Dropped a good amount of weight, spent
Speaker 2: most of my money this year on my tailor in
Speaker 2: buying new clothes, which I was very proud of. Too.
Speaker 2: Into the year comes around, I'm doing much more television
Speaker 2: here in Houston. We have a radio. We have a
Speaker 2: TV show called Great Day Houston on the Technist station,
Speaker 2: and I believe there's a Technist station in Dallas, channel
Speaker 2: eight WFAA. I think there's a Technist station in San Antonio?
Speaker 2: Is that even WAI TV? I can't be sure. It's
Speaker 2: the morning show and I have been a correspondent for
Speaker 2: a while. I got to sit in and fill in
Speaker 2: his host not too long ago, and I hope to
Speaker 2: keep that up again. Slap a little bakeup on me,
Speaker 2: and I guess maybe I don't know, maybe the TV
Speaker 2: station channel eleven CBS here uses AI to make me
Speaker 2: look even younger. Who know, who knows? But it was
Speaker 2: fun alas I have three wonderful kids still and I'm
Speaker 2: still single, so I got well. Almost everything went right
Speaker 2: this year. Maybe twenty twenty five will be different neither. Nonetheless,
Speaker 2: whatever situation you are in, wherever you are, however you're living,
Speaker 2: I hope twenty twenty four was great. I hope it
Speaker 2: was prosperous. But let's hope twenty twenty five is going
Speaker 2: to be better. It's going to hope world peace is
Speaker 2: going to be I hope the economy. Let's hope our
Speaker 2: health situation and diseases and everything just go by the wayside.
Speaker 2: We don't know. We are just fighting and we're hanging
Speaker 2: on to the world as we know it. But hopefully
Speaker 2: we're going I'm gonna be here with you for the ride,
Speaker 2: and so I do appreciate that. Not gonna get out
Speaker 2: the phone number anymore. I don't think we have any
Speaker 2: more time for calls going through some of the other
Speaker 2: last you know emails over here, Michael. Hey, this is
Speaker 2: from Jessica. Jessica is in Dallas, North Dallas. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 2: we just first picked you up two weeks ago. Great
Speaker 2: hereing you in Dallas. Didn't know you were actually from
Speaker 2: Dallas because I've heard you on iHeart Radio before. Look
Speaker 2: forward to what you're going to see at the Consumer
Speaker 2: Electronics Show. I always laugh at all the crazy most
Speaker 2: expensive things that come out and never buy it, but
Speaker 2: I do trust your opinion and anxious to see what
Speaker 2: you say from Vegas. Thank you so much. I was
Speaker 2: very nice of you Jessica about that. Michael, Is this
Speaker 2: the year you're going to finally get the iPhone and
Speaker 2: suck it up. I know you long have been an
Speaker 2: Android phone. What do you think I am probably gonna mind.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a bold prediction that I am not
Speaker 2: going to switch to the iPhone again. I've had one iPhone.
Speaker 2: I've had the very first iPhone. I was the first
Speaker 2: person to buy Buy I bought it when it was
Speaker 2: launched in Houston way back in two thousand. It was
Speaker 2: June twenty seven, teen twenty eight, two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: I believe I was the first person in line at
Speaker 2: the AT and T store in Houston. At because it
Speaker 2: was exclusively for the first five years iPhones were only
Speaker 2: sold on the AT and T network. I paid six
Speaker 2: hundred dollars for it. I wanted to try it. It was,
Speaker 2: without of doubt, a paradigm shift. It was glass, it
Speaker 2: had no physical buttons. It was wonderful, and from then
Speaker 2: on I went back to Android. I'm an Android, honk.
Speaker 2: I get to try I have at any given time.
Speaker 2: I've probably got five, six seven different androids from many
Speaker 2: many difff come buddies. I've got two androids I am
Speaker 2: holding right now that are under embargo. I told you
Speaker 2: what an embargo was. I signed a lot of things
Speaker 2: where I can play with things, but I can't say anything.
Speaker 2: And so give me about another week, week and a
Speaker 2: half and I can tell you which new androids I'm
Speaker 2: playing with and they're prett day prettday cool. So we
Speaker 2: can do that. So not really gonna gonna get into
Speaker 2: the iPhones. Michael, I heard you ragging on EV. Oh,
Speaker 2: come on, I wasn't. I guess what I was ragging
Speaker 2: on EV's I heard you talking about electric vehicle cars
Speaker 2: now were number one. If somebody gave you an electric vehicle,
Speaker 2: would you drive it? Oh it's a good question. If
Speaker 2: someone gave me an EV, I would drive it. But
Speaker 2: I would absolutely make it my second car. If you've listened,
Speaker 2: If if you're just douning in, let me kind of
Speaker 2: give you a little something to kill some more time.
Speaker 2: Go back and listen to our number one of my show.
Speaker 2: When we're done, Callum who make sure that the show
Speaker 2: goes on all the stations, and he puts it on
Speaker 2: the bird and puts it on the podcast. Go to
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio dot com look for high Tech text and the
Speaker 2: spell or Michael Garfield. Listen to our number one because
Speaker 2: I went not one, but two segments with a story.
Speaker 2: I did a two segment month. This is about It's
Speaker 2: about a fifteen minute story of this past week of
Speaker 2: me driving an electric vehicle from Houston to Lake Charles,
Speaker 2: Louisiana and almost in pretty much freaking out because I
Speaker 2: couldn't find an electric charger. I finally found one. That
Speaker 2: is one top reason of why I personally personally will
Speaker 2: not buy an EV. Again, there's no other adult in
Speaker 2: my house, not married. I only have one car I
Speaker 2: test to. I have a ton of other cars. Answer
Speaker 2: the question if somebody gave me an EV, yeah, I
Speaker 2: would drive it. I would make sure that it is
Speaker 2: my huts, it around town. I'd go from my house
Speaker 2: to h g B. I would just maybe go to
Speaker 2: the office, maybe go to the gym. That's it. But
Speaker 2: if I'm going I'm going up to Big D. I'm
Speaker 2: going to San Antonio to meet and greet and talk
Speaker 2: to all your listeners out there. Ain no way I'm
Speaker 2: even getting behind in EV. Just it's not for me.
Speaker 2: I'm too ADHD, I have arrange anxiety. It's just absolutely
Speaker 2: not going to work. So there's really nothing else I
Speaker 2: can say about that. So it's when I talk to
Speaker 2: wrap everything up. Either you're new to the show, these
Speaker 2: are my opinions, and these opinions are expressed on what
Speaker 2: I like. I have lived almost six decades. I actually
Speaker 2: have I loved six decades. I came close to I've
Speaker 2: always been a consumer. I love going to the grocery store.
Speaker 2: I love looking at the shopping aisles. I love looking
Speaker 2: at colors. I know you know how these companies market
Speaker 2: to people, those serial companies, to car companies, to the
Speaker 2: soda companies, to the clothing companies. I know what's good.
Speaker 2: I know it's bad. I like to think I know
Speaker 2: some false advertising of what things. Is this really going
Speaker 2: to change your life or not. I used to work
Speaker 2: on used to be on QVC. My job was to
Speaker 2: see the good things in life, why this product can
Speaker 2: potentially change your life and make it better for you.
Speaker 2: I look at products a little differ than you do,
Speaker 2: and I will give you my opinion. I will give
Speaker 2: you my opinion of a great product, and if I
Speaker 2: find one just as good in the same category but
Speaker 2: save you money, I'm leading with that one. That's the
Speaker 2: way Michael Garfield rolls. And if you're new to this
Speaker 2: we're gonna have some fun. So with that, I do
Speaker 2: want to thank my big boss is Eddie Martini, who's
Speaker 2: the regional president, the big dog of iHeart Radio down
Speaker 2: here in the southern part of the United States, Texas.
Speaker 2: To my big boss who sits behind that in the
Speaker 2: carpeted office, pushes some buttons and tells people what's going on.
Speaker 2: But he was the opportunity to give me a much
Speaker 2: larger audience in Texas this year. Thank you also to
Speaker 2: Big Brian Erickson Callum read. Without you, this show could
Speaker 2: not be done. He pushes the buttons every day. All
Speaker 2: my friends Ralph Garcia, Deborah Duncan, and the folks at
Speaker 2: Channel eleven CBS. We're am on Greek Day Houston and
Speaker 2: everything I do. Thank you so much. My kids they
Speaker 2: don't listen justin Josh and Adam. They're doing their own
Speaker 2: little influencer thing and they don't even think about me
Speaker 2: and the brother. But they don't give me tips. I
Speaker 2: need more tips from these kids. More importantly, I have listenings.
Speaker 2: I have more listeners now in three of the largest
Speaker 2: cities in the United States of America, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas,
Speaker 2: and we love you I'm gonna leeg you lead. Happy
Speaker 2: New Year, enjoy the rest of Hunter Magle talk, hook
Speaker 2: them Horn. Maybe next year is the Cowboys year that
Speaker 2: these are my loves too. My name is Michael Paulkiller.
Speaker 2: This is why I think that's the show and we
Speaker 2: will talk to you next year. On the half of everybody,
Speaker 2: My show and my year are over.