Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfild Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan three decades helping
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Speaker 2: It is June of my Friends, which means one thing.
Speaker 2: I'm ready for my Father's BA and I'm sure you
Speaker 2: are too if you are a father coming up. What
Speaker 2: do we gotta We got about two weeks. People, take
Speaker 2: care of your dad's I hope my dad is not
Speaker 2: listening in Dallas right now because we were going to
Speaker 2: go through at some point. I love this show, taking
Speaker 2: your questions in your calls of the technology or non
Speaker 2: technology Father's Day gifts, and oh, by the way, if
Speaker 2: you're a graduate, I've got some stuff for you too.
Speaker 2: Michael is the name if you haven't figured that out
Speaker 2: the long running High Deck Textan show. Yes, we do
Speaker 2: talk and answer your questions and give you some recommendations
Speaker 2: on products that go beep and buzz and they need
Speaker 2: charging in batteries. But I also talk about and review cars.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I was in a big, old, unbelievable expensive Mama.
Speaker 2: If you are interested in getting dad, or you're graduate
Speaker 2: a one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars big ol'd mama electric suv, I've got the thing
Speaker 2: for you. I was in the Cadillac Escalade IQ Luxury
Speaker 2: Too version. By the way, yes it is not cheap,
Speaker 2: but pound for pound every week, I as you probably know,
Speaker 2: if you're a longtime listener, I do test drive a
Speaker 2: brand new vehicle from random manufacting. Not random, but dozens
Speaker 2: of different manufacturers. It's not up to me to choose.
Speaker 2: They actually send it to me. I don't get paid.
Speaker 2: It's my two cents. Done it. For fifteen years, I
Speaker 2: have done about a thousand and I'm not kidding. If
Speaker 2: you multipled out a thousand different vehicle reviews, evs, SUV,
Speaker 2: sports cars, many evans, it goes on and on or not.
Speaker 2: This year twenty twenty, we're almost halfway through twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: This probably my top three or four vehicle that I've
Speaker 2: driven in terms of luxury man, they have some features
Speaker 2: in this thing that that even blew me away. I
Speaker 2: will give you that full review of my thoughts. Why
Speaker 2: maybe you need to start saving some shekels to uh
Speaker 2: and then maybe maybe just I know, sell two or
Speaker 2: three of your kids, morgage your entire home. This this
Speaker 2: vehicle is so big you probably could live in here
Speaker 2: if you live alone. We will talk about that. I'm
Speaker 2: let me give you the phone number to start everything off.
Speaker 2: Callum read on the other side of that glass. He
Speaker 2: may answer your phone calls. If he doesn't, and if
Speaker 2: it rolls over to voicemail, leave a voicemail. We have
Speaker 2: a right to play your voice and I can then
Speaker 2: answer your questions. We don't want to keep you holding
Speaker 2: too much. Three four six two nine eight three nine,
Speaker 2: which is three four six twenty nine texts in Just
Speaker 2: call say hi, ask me some questions. If you want
Speaker 2: to wish Dad an early happy Father's Day, leave a
Speaker 2: message to talk to me. I will give Dad a
Speaker 2: shout out like You can also reach me on social media,
Speaker 2: which I try to have corded the market, which not really,
Speaker 2: but I do have a nice following thanks to you.
Speaker 2: I am on x follow me high tech texts and
Speaker 2: Hi g h T E C h T e x
Speaker 2: A N Facebook unless I have walked you more than
Speaker 2: happy to hear from you some of the things that
Speaker 2: we are going to talk about. Last last week I
Speaker 2: talked semi extensively about in Austin what cotwall this state
Speaker 2: legislature was going on. There was a bill that would
Speaker 2: have banned social media from miners under eighteen years old.
Speaker 2: That bill did not pass Earlier this week. I will
Speaker 2: tell you why, what could it have meant? Also tell
Speaker 2: you why now maybe the time to buy a phone.
Speaker 2: That's right, despite all the tariffs and all the threat
Speaker 2: of tariffs coming in from other countries, including China. I
Speaker 2: got I'm reading some reports and I'm sipping through the
Speaker 2: you know, the reading inside the tea leaves. If you want,
Speaker 2: this may be the good time to get your butt
Speaker 2: out and buy the phone. Maybe a late Mother's Day gift.
Speaker 2: Maybe you don't want to get that graduate Hey, you know, listen,
Speaker 2: I had to go all through high school with this
Speaker 2: crappy hand me down phone, you know, mom, dad, grandmother
Speaker 2: or something. Don't you think it's time for me to
Speaker 2: get a phone. I will tell you about that. I
Speaker 2: got some cool apps to help your life, you know,
Speaker 2: be a little bit more seamlessly. And also, don't forget
Speaker 2: this is a big time of the year now that
Speaker 2: it's summer for people to move, buying new homes, renting
Speaker 2: new homes. I get this question pretty often, certainly this
Speaker 2: time of year more than others. When you move out
Speaker 2: of a home, what do you do with the smart
Speaker 2: home technology? Do you move it with you? Do you
Speaker 2: leave it for the next homeowner? If you own the
Speaker 2: house and then you sell it, can you take some
Speaker 2: of it? How tough is it to remove thermostats, smart
Speaker 2: light bulbs, change your pass world passwords? What's the process
Speaker 2: of teaching the new owner how to use this stuff?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you obligated to give them lessons on well,
Speaker 2: how to use this, how to use that? Very good questions.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about some of the things in your home
Speaker 2: that you may forget that's smart. You may have even
Speaker 2: forgot that there, You may even forgot how to use
Speaker 2: them yourself. And so we will get through that sometimes
Speaker 2: between now and in the NBA's show, which is about
Speaker 2: two hours from right now. So whether you're listening in Houston,
Speaker 2: San Antonio, Dallas, terrestrially sometime this weekend, or if you're
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Speaker 2: can also listen to the podcast once we finish this
Speaker 2: two hour show. My man Callum he puts it up
Speaker 2: not on the burg but he puts it somewhere on
Speaker 2: a server that you can download and listen and send
Speaker 2: it to your friends over and over again. We do
Speaker 2: have one or two gift cards to give away. We
Speaker 2: love restaurants now that school is out, now that the
Speaker 2: cost of living and the cost of meals continue to escalate.
Speaker 2: I bang on doors of my good friends who own restaurants, going, hey, man,
Speaker 2: can we give some stuff away? Yes, we do. We
Speaker 2: do have some gift cards from Cobo Bob's. Oh, just
Speaker 2: one of my favorites. I love Cobo Bob certainly. Four
Speaker 2: locations in Houston, eight or nine in Austin. We've got
Speaker 2: some in San Antonio, none in Dallas, so you can
Speaker 2: travel should you end it up there. Bred Zeppelin too,
Speaker 2: if you've never been to Bread Zeppelin. Oh that's phenomenal salads,
Speaker 2: bread fresh break. We've got that for you too. I
Speaker 2: will take your calls. Looks like we've got a few
Speaker 2: on the line, but you do have to hold on
Speaker 2: to the second segment, so don't go anywhere again. Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield is the name Garf. If we are tight three
Speaker 2: four six twenty nine Texan. When we come back, I
Speaker 2: will tell you where to see me. This coming Monday morning,
Speaker 2: I do a regular weekly TV actually several TV gigs.
Speaker 2: I will be showing off a good four or five,
Speaker 2: maybe six fun products to give you some Father's Day
Speaker 2: gift ideas. Even though I'll kind of bury the lead
Speaker 2: and tell you what I'm gonna show off and think
Speaker 2: to give you some ideas. Some of them aren't too expensive.
Speaker 2: Some of them Dad may want. Some of them Dad's
Speaker 2: never even heard of. But I'll tell you what. They're
Speaker 2: gonna be much better than the typical Father's Day gifts
Speaker 2: that I used to give my father, which were a
Speaker 2: sleeve of golf balls and a coffee mug, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, my kids, if you are of a certain age,
Speaker 2: gave me the same thing too. My kids, I got
Speaker 2: a tie which I don't wear, and a coffee mug
Speaker 2: which I don't drink coffee. We're gonna personalize things for
Speaker 2: you a little bit here on the High Tech Texting Show,
Speaker 2: it is mister Michael Garfield. I do thank you for
Speaker 2: tuning in. Fire up, hang on, we'll be back in
Speaker 2: a be a minute. On the Hiway Saxon Show, I
Speaker 2: want to get things started off quickly. Told you I
Speaker 2: got a few things to give away. Man, Why plots around, man,
Speaker 2: Let's just take it. Put the pedal to the battle. People.
Speaker 2: I'm men. Give you a call, give me your phone number,
Speaker 2: call on number ten. What do you want to give away? First?
Speaker 2: Let's do bread bread Zeppelin. I know locate you if
Speaker 2: you're in Houston. They got one location, at least one
Speaker 2: location that I know of that I go to quite regularly.
Speaker 2: It's on Highway fifty nine Southless Freeway, right inside the Loop,
Speaker 2: right across from the Oasis of Love. Yes, you never know,
Speaker 2: Joel Ostein could walk in there too. They ask for
Speaker 2: some money to actually get one of the sandwiches, but
Speaker 2: you can treat him to lunch with this gift card.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a is it a fifteen or a
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Speaker 2: care of lunch or dinner. You go in, you get
Speaker 2: one of their wonderful salads. If you want their bread sandwich,
Speaker 2: they think they bake this fresh French bread and then
Speaker 2: they kind of take the the chewy. They hold it
Speaker 2: out if you will, so it's hollow. They shove one
Speaker 2: of fifteen made salads whichever you want, and so when
Speaker 2: you eat it, you're eating like, you know, this awesome
Speaker 2: caesar salad with chicken, but it's wrapped around this bread.
Speaker 2: You can also get a bread bull if you want
Speaker 2: to too. Phone number seven one three two one two
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Speaker 2: got a winner. We got a winter. Don't worry. We
Speaker 2: got another gift card to another another wonderful restaurant next hour.
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Speaker 2: to actually promote, you know, kind of. We want to
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Speaker 2: hang over here you'll see how we work. I do
Speaker 2: not geek out. I rarely talk about megabytes and gigabytes.
Speaker 2: We make, we make tech, we make technology sexy. It's
Speaker 2: it's it's tech yology for the high tech Texan. I
Speaker 2: actually should trademark up. We should put that on a
Speaker 2: T shirt tech Yology. Of course, I don't have AI.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have a Texas accent. Does anybody
Speaker 2: think I have a Texas accent? I know my mother's
Speaker 2: got a Texas actor. She's from Austin. Talks a letter
Speaker 2: with that Texas trying very cute. I grew up on TV.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised I don't have a Cuban accent because I
Speaker 2: grew up watching I love Lucy Now. But it's tech
Speaker 2: yaw ledge here on the High Tech Textan show. Uh.
Speaker 2: Last week I talked quite a bit about this. I
Speaker 2: try not to delve into politics, and I'm serious about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's very you know, if I talk politics,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get myself in trouble because I just don't
Speaker 2: know much about politics. But there are some political things
Speaker 2: that obviously revolve around technology products, gadgets, and you know
Speaker 2: how you know the government oversees them. You know, the
Speaker 2: TikTok ban. Obviously there is there going to be a
Speaker 2: bann or not. That's a government. That's a pop political
Speaker 2: thing too. Right, Well, there was a bill last week
Speaker 2: in the legislature of the state of Texas that would
Speaker 2: have banned social media for minors for kids under eighteen.
Speaker 2: Exis was poised to pass into law what would have
Speaker 2: been in one of the most restrictive sets of social
Speaker 2: media rules for miners, pretty much making it illegal for
Speaker 2: those under eighteen to be on social media. But breaking news,
Speaker 2: it failed, actually failed on a technicality when the legislature
Speaker 2: ended its session just ahead of a key vote. You see,
Speaker 2: this is why I just don't get into politics. Man.
Speaker 2: All this stuff is rigged, isn't it. House Bill one
Speaker 2: eighty six. It would have prohibited miners from creating new
Speaker 2: social media accounts on things like TikTok and Instagram and
Speaker 2: x see. The legislation also would have required age verification
Speaker 2: for everyone else creating a new account, I don't care
Speaker 2: if you're forty or fifty or sixty, you would have
Speaker 2: had to verify your age. But under this legislation, parents
Speaker 2: could ask for a miner's social media account to be
Speaker 2: deleted and a platform would be required to remove it
Speaker 2: within ten days. The lawmakers who supported the bills that
Speaker 2: it would hound through the mental health harm that social
Speaker 2: media hoses to team. The bill did pass in the
Speaker 2: House of Representatives, needed to pass the Texas Senate and
Speaker 2: get a signature from Governor Greg Abbott. Now, there was
Speaker 2: a similar law that passed in Utah last year, but
Speaker 2: it was blocked a few months later. It did not pass.
Speaker 2: Would have gone to defect September first, and let me
Speaker 2: stop here and if you want a weigh in, feel
Speaker 2: free hit me on social media because I'm over eighteen.
Speaker 2: See what I did there? Three four, six, twenty nine
Speaker 2: texted let's let's look at this two ways. Imagine this
Speaker 2: thing would have passed. And your if your a parent
Speaker 2: listening to one now, or your grandparents and in someone
Speaker 2: in your family under eighteen lives and breathe on social media,
Speaker 2: which they probably do. They didn't take their phone off,
Speaker 2: the fun away from their face. They're always looking down
Speaker 2: their thumbs and all kind of hurt, and they're and
Speaker 2: slings up because all they do is they're they're tiktoking
Speaker 2: away and their Instagram away to everything. Imagine if they've
Speaker 2: been on there two, three, four, five years but they're
Speaker 2: still under eighteen years old. Imagining them after you delete
Speaker 2: legally their social media account. If this had passed, Take
Speaker 2: the temperature in your house, how heated of a battle
Speaker 2: would it have been between mom and dad and the
Speaker 2: teenage son or daughter. And then you do it. You
Speaker 2: got two or three kids who you have wiped out
Speaker 2: and deleted the history of their TikTok, Instagram and X.
Speaker 2: That alone scares me. Talk about mental health harm, I'm
Speaker 2: talking physical health harm. If our parents, man, I put
Speaker 2: my running shoes on it, just get ready to roll, baby.
Speaker 2: That's number one. But then let's say leok's look at
Speaker 2: the older folks. Okay, I mean listen, If you're of
Speaker 2: age right now, odds are I'm guessing you probably have
Speaker 2: at least one social media account. I have a lot
Speaker 2: of them. I don't have TikTok. For example, I'm not
Speaker 2: on TikTok. Let's say all of a sudden one day that, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna jump on the barnwagon. Man, I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: the final, final, final social media account that I never have.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get TikTok. Well, gosh, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: get on that. I'm gonna have to bear. What am
Speaker 2: I supposed to do? I don't know the age verification process?
Speaker 2: Am I gonna have to now take a photo of
Speaker 2: my driver's license and upload it to TikTok, which I
Speaker 2: know is currently owned by a Chinese company. Oh? I
Speaker 2: want to do that? I'm not sure. That's a tough one.
Speaker 2: Those are the effects in my mind. And that's just
Speaker 2: I'm dead. That's just top of the heap that's coming
Speaker 2: to mind right now. I mean, this law, it's been
Speaker 2: challenged in courts and provisions, and not only here Texas,
Speaker 2: as I said in Utah. So I don't know who
Speaker 2: started it, what what have I made? But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, I guess do we take a
Speaker 2: breather or do and as we get the break over here,
Speaker 2: do you fight the fight again September when legislation starts again,
Speaker 2: are you like, well, let's get it on because I
Speaker 2: don't want my kid on there legally, you know what.
Speaker 2: And here's my final thought about this. And my kids
Speaker 2: are in their twenties and my oldest is gonna be
Speaker 2: thirty one this year. I didn't have to live through
Speaker 2: this is social media when they were young wasn't merely
Speaker 2: as big to all my three boys. I don't have
Speaker 2: any girls. I have three boys, so I didn't have
Speaker 2: I I never had to worry, you know. My concern was,
Speaker 2: at what age do they get a cell phone? At
Speaker 2: what age do they get their own computered? Are they
Speaker 2: allowed to take their own computer lap up in their
Speaker 2: room without mom and dad looking over their shoulder? Do
Speaker 2: we want to get driver's license? Things like that. It
Speaker 2: is so tough being a parent today. It's it's I
Speaker 2: can't even imagine. I have empathy for you parents right
Speaker 2: now who have teenage kids, of the mental potential harm
Speaker 2: that they see by going on social media. It stressed.
Speaker 2: It does stress me out. I use it a lot
Speaker 2: for my business. I there are so many other people
Speaker 2: who do similar things to what I do. They review
Speaker 2: technology and they write blogs, they do with other step
Speaker 2: and to me, it's like how do they beat me
Speaker 2: to the punch? How do they get this press release?
Speaker 2: And I didn't get this press release. I had this review,
Speaker 2: but I was not supposed to publish it until this
Speaker 2: time because I was under an embargo. It stresses me
Speaker 2: out just for that. I'm not even I'm not even
Speaker 2: in high school where things get even more heated. And
Speaker 2: you know how this person looks at me over here
Speaker 2: and I have too much makeup on ever hair, and
Speaker 2: my hair is done of it. It's very, very tough.
Speaker 2: God bless your parents. You have a tough battle. Did
Speaker 2: this failure of house build one eighty six, which would
Speaker 2: have prohibit and made it illegal for those under eighteen
Speaker 2: to be in social media? Did it help or hurt
Speaker 2: you raising your kids? Phone number three four six twenty
Speaker 2: nine texts. As we continue a wonderful show hanging there,
Speaker 2: don't move family time on the high tech textan show.
Speaker 2: I'll explain Michael Garfield, I hope for having a good weekend.
Speaker 2: If you're listening on the weekend, not only across Texas
Speaker 2: but around the world, thank you for tuning in or
Speaker 2: downloading the radio show. It's actually a radio show that's
Speaker 2: been recorded which then is on a podcast, So it's
Speaker 2: actually a radio show. Kids, if you don't know what
Speaker 2: radio is, it's like a podcast, but it's live or
Speaker 2: plausibly live that is broadcasted over the airwaves. That's what
Speaker 2: a radio is. But then it's recorded and then you
Speaker 2: get downloaded via iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple or wherever. Award winning
Speaker 2: podcast or heard these kids that are And it's sad
Speaker 2: when the next generation they don't even know it radio is.
Speaker 2: I actually got into the side note over here this
Speaker 2: it's I I love talking about generations because when I
Speaker 2: cover and recommend and try to make you understand how
Speaker 2: rapidly the world of technology and gadgets and laws and
Speaker 2: rules and and just everything works, there's there is a
Speaker 2: generation there. There are my parents who are are in
Speaker 2: their eighties and who are very very smart. I mean
Speaker 2: I learned most everything that I got from my dad,
Speaker 2: who's an electrical engineer, and I mean he built, you know, televisions,
Speaker 2: he did he's kicked back of the day. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's very well tuned to what's going on. And then
Speaker 2: we've got my generation Gen X, Generation X if you will, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: so we you know it was we he did not
Speaker 2: go to college with cell phones. We had him after college.
Speaker 2: To this generation, millennials will do whatever. I don't know,
Speaker 2: Jim ABC, whatever you call these kids nowadays, I mean
Speaker 2: they were born with I think they popped out of
Speaker 2: the womb and I you know, I think they already
Speaker 2: had a datas and sell his phone plan already already,
Speaker 2: you know they're subscribe to it. So I want to
Speaker 2: talk about TV. I was watching with a buddy of
Speaker 2: mine who who was He's also in radio. He was
Speaker 2: in TV with me. Actually, my very first job in
Speaker 2: local TV was on Channel two in Houston, the NBC affiliate,
Speaker 2: back in two thousand. I was on the morning show
Speaker 2: where I created the high tech text and my friend
Speaker 2: Don was the was a morning anchor, and we continued
Speaker 2: this day to be good friends. He was over at
Speaker 2: my house earlier this week and he's he's older than me.
Speaker 2: He's a good he's a good fifteen years older than me.
Speaker 2: Doesn't know. He does not look like it and he
Speaker 2: certainly doesn't act like it. And we were watching the
Speaker 2: Nightly News at five thirty Central time here on NBC,
Speaker 2: which as of last Friday was called NBC Nightly News
Speaker 2: with Lester Holt I've long watched five thirty news. It's
Speaker 2: the national news. I go back to the heater Jennings
Speaker 2: Dan rather those times, those were journalists, man, that was
Speaker 2: the time, without a doubt. And then recently, obviously we've
Speaker 2: got David you were on ABC. But the Lester Holt,
Speaker 2: I'm a big Leicester Holt fan. Lester Holt, if you
Speaker 2: didn't know, retired from the NBC Nightly News, not from NBC,
Speaker 2: but he as of last Friday, he is not no
Speaker 2: longer the anchor and managing editor. Tom Yamas is the
Speaker 2: new nightly news anchor and managing editor as the last Monday.
Speaker 2: So if you look in the your online guide at
Speaker 2: five point thirty on NBC, you're gonna see NBC Nightly
Speaker 2: News with Tom Yamas. I like Tommy Yamas. He's been
Speaker 2: a good reporter. I've seen him do it and so
Speaker 2: I've watched him in the first few days of this week.
Speaker 2: So my buddy and that we were done and I
Speaker 2: were just watching these things and we're talking about who
Speaker 2: watches the nightly news. I don't want you to think
Speaker 2: about this, And if you want to weigh in people
Speaker 2: you know, feel free you can email me. Michael Garfield
Speaker 2: at iHeartMedia dot com. You can call in right now
Speaker 2: three four six two nine eight three nine six, or
Speaker 2: go to you find me on x You can find
Speaker 2: me on Instagram or whatever on High Tech Texas. Who
Speaker 2: watches it? I watch it. My buddy Don watches it.
Speaker 2: Because we're fifty and older and we're kind of talking
Speaker 2: about do kids don't even know? I don't think nightly
Speaker 2: news exists. My three boys, maybe my oldest is thirty,
Speaker 2: he's aware of it. But generation, the new generation, they
Speaker 2: don't consume news like that. They may not even have
Speaker 2: a TV. They get their news TikTok, scrolling Instagram, listening
Speaker 2: to a podcast, rumor at the coffee shop, even though
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be drinking coffee if you're under freaking eighteen
Speaker 2: at least. But that's just old school me. But that's
Speaker 2: what they do do. They watch the nightly news and
Speaker 2: sit down. And then we're watching the nightly news and
Speaker 2: we talked about how much it's changed, you know, let's
Speaker 2: go back. I go back to Peter Jennings, who was
Speaker 2: I mean to me that he was ABC News and
Speaker 2: Dan rather CBS, uh, and it's it's those were the
Speaker 2: times in the days where there was nightly news and yes,
Speaker 2: there was death and there was destruction and whatever. Now
Speaker 2: NBC always ends it with and the good news tonight,
Speaker 2: which okay, I can see what they're trying to do.
Speaker 2: They're trying to position or what will. But nowadays it
Speaker 2: was look at the opening. Do you if you listen
Speaker 2: to the top of my show thirty minutes ago when
Speaker 2: I opened it up, did you hear when ie how
Speaker 2: I opened the show? And what we do in media,
Speaker 2: we learn you have to tease. It's called the tea's
Speaker 2: You have to give people a little idea of what
Speaker 2: you're gonna hear and what you're gonna watch. And my
Speaker 2: teas was it's Father's Day, it's graduate, it's graduates. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna talk about some of the things to review, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about Oh, by the way, now maybe
Speaker 2: the time to buy a phone, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: And by the way, do you have a smart home?
Speaker 2: If you're getting ready to move, do you take the
Speaker 2: smart features out of your home and move them with
Speaker 2: you or you leave it? That was a tease and
Speaker 2: I will pay them off between now in the next
Speaker 2: hour and twenty minutes, I'll talk about it the nightly
Speaker 2: news on NBC go. I'd love them. It's only thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: There was a solid two minutes, if not two and
Speaker 2: a half minutes of the tease donning a dun dun
Speaker 2: donner a dun dun d day, Good evening, I'm Tom
Speaker 2: Yamas tonight on the NBC. And even five seconds here boom,
Speaker 2: tornadoes sweeping across a scrunchy boom, the fire bomber in Colorado. Boom,
Speaker 2: Trump did this, boom, Elon must did this. But and
Speaker 2: it kept going on. I'm like, are you gonna start
Speaker 2: the freaking news? Then they do about four I tell you,
Speaker 2: I three stories. The second story is alive reporter somewhere
Speaker 2: where they do a talk back. Tommy almost ask them
Speaker 2: a question. Then there's the commercials. Let's talk about commercials. Listen.
Speaker 2: I love commercials. Commercials are the reason we exist on radio.
Speaker 2: By the way, we're gonna take a commercial break, probably
Speaker 2: in about another five minutes, and we do appreciate you
Speaker 2: shopping and taking our advice of whatever you hear. By
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Speaker 2: that's where you need to go. You see, sweet simple,
Speaker 2: we get in and out. Now I go back to content.
Speaker 2: That's why commercials exist. You know what type of commercials
Speaker 2: almost solely or on the nightly news. Think about it.
Speaker 2: Pharmaceutical ads. Pharmaceutical ads. This person's got indigestion, this person's
Speaker 2: got a prostate issue. This person can't conceive this person
Speaker 2: getting whatever it is. Why it's because the demographic of
Speaker 2: who watches the freaking nightly news. Anybody who's of age
Speaker 2: forty fifty sixties and you keep on going. They're on
Speaker 2: some sort of a mitigation. Why not reach where you're
Speaker 2: going to exactly? I dig it. I don't mind. It's
Speaker 2: other than you know, it's it's free. I don't pay
Speaker 2: a subscription specifically for NBC, ABC and CBS to watch
Speaker 2: the MIV news. Yes, I play a subscription for my cable.
Speaker 2: I can get it for free over the air. It's
Speaker 2: what you get. You are not paying for this radio
Speaker 2: station right now. It is free. Our gift to you,
Speaker 2: thank you Marconi for creating radio. It is free. All
Speaker 2: we ask is that you take a few minutes of
Speaker 2: time each hour and just listen to our commercials and
Speaker 2: then we get back into content. Anyway, maybe this is
Speaker 2: a rant. It's just times have changed. And I guess
Speaker 2: the what Don and I and these two curmudgety old
Speaker 2: got Well I'm not old. But anyway, we came to
Speaker 2: surmise that at what point does national TV news and
Speaker 2: for that point, maybe local TV news just not exist?
Speaker 2: And I'll open it up as we get to a
Speaker 2: commercial break coming up here. At what point are is
Speaker 2: the technology that you use on a regular basis doesn't exist?
Speaker 2: Cars and vehicles or technology. That's why I review them,
Speaker 2: and I have reviewed them for fifteen years. If you
Speaker 2: have a new car that's certainly fifteen years old and
Speaker 2: with one hundred percent, well certainly ten years old and
Speaker 2: no more the bells, the whistles, the cameras, the sensors,
Speaker 2: it is technology on top of technology. It helps us
Speaker 2: to drive, It helps us try to avoid res and
Speaker 2: accidents and incidents with the safety features what have you.
Speaker 2: But when will it become obsolete that we don't dip
Speaker 2: behind the driver's wheel. When aren't we in that driver's seat?
Speaker 2: And that's where the self driving veles come in, folks.
Speaker 2: That's a segue because when we come back, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about self draw self driving vehicles, specifically ride
Speaker 2: sharing vehicles. Ride sharing because the state of Texas, I'm
Speaker 2: not saying, was one of the last to adopt it.
Speaker 2: But if you are in the major cities of Houston,
Speaker 2: in Dallas, and absolutely Austin, and Austin is the key
Speaker 2: out of ground because driverless ride sharing companies are all
Speaker 2: over the place. And that's right if you haven't seen
Speaker 2: them around Houston. Way Moo is one of them, just
Speaker 2: launched in Houston, in Dallas too, But we're gonna talk
Speaker 2: specifically about Austin and a few more cities. Would you
Speaker 2: trust that would you get behind a car? And in
Speaker 2: your lifetime would you ever buy a vehicle that doesn't
Speaker 2: even have a steering wheell it just lets AI and
Speaker 2: robots and really the hand in trust of God to
Speaker 2: get you from point A to point B. That's some
Speaker 2: of the things where we happen about it right here.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is the name. It is Deep high Tech
Speaker 2: Texan Shoo money. How I go down one path, I
Speaker 2: start talking and then I go just got a zig zag.
Speaker 2: Michael Garthur. We're back the final segment, this first hour
Speaker 2: of the High Tech Texting Show. Happy first full week
Speaker 2: of June, two weeks to Father's Day. And I don't
Speaker 2: even know if I'd even recommended one Father's Day get
Speaker 2: yet I'm getting on your emails, what phone, what TV?
Speaker 2: What car? Oh? I got it? I got one about
Speaker 2: someone wants to car wants me to Okay, there are
Speaker 2: suggestion there about the BUYO more than I could answer.
Speaker 2: That's the standby. I was talking about kids and families
Speaker 2: and generations. How technology skips this generation, how the generation
Speaker 2: or two before is they don't know what a newspaper
Speaker 2: you know? It goes on and on. I was getting
Speaker 2: with this. I saw this. I have three of my
Speaker 2: longtime very good friends, their neighbors. I grew up with them,
Speaker 2: all of our kids pretty much the same age. There
Speaker 2: was like four families that hung out together, and I
Speaker 2: was one of the families, and these three other families
Speaker 2: that those three of the four families now have one
Speaker 2: of the kids who are engaged to be married. And
Speaker 2: it all happened within about a month and a half
Speaker 2: of each other. Recently, I am the only one. None
Speaker 2: of my kids have got engaged and I'm cool with that.
Speaker 2: There's no rush whatsoever. So we got weddings next year.
Speaker 2: Got boom, boom boom. We got three weddings next year. Simpoint,
Speaker 2: who are the same age as my kids? Which is fine.
Speaker 2: I mean they're they're in their upper twenties and they're
Speaker 2: all working, and then that's fine, that's great. They should
Speaker 2: be started family. Great. Byway, we're going to you know,
Speaker 2: I got I gotta start. It's so sad going the
Speaker 2: wedding alone. Anybody want to go to a wedding with
Speaker 2: me next year? Stand by? Say look, this is my
Speaker 2: on air dating app instead of online dating app. Hey,
Speaker 2: that's actually a good idea. Tell them right dead down
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna start a segment. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: start the first on air. Does anybody ever do an
Speaker 2: on air dating app? I don't know. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: that anyway, got three weddings next year, And what do
Speaker 2: you what do you get for presents? Something that I
Speaker 2: certainly know of because my job is to suggest gift giving.
Speaker 2: But I saw this, I guess you've been out of
Speaker 2: the loop. I don't go to a lot of weddings.
Speaker 2: And here's the headline I'm gonna I'm gonna give credit
Speaker 2: to the USA today. Forget the registry. Belples want wedding
Speaker 2: guests to help with their home down payment. Number one,
Speaker 2: the average wedding cost. Anyone, any guesses, and he guesses
Speaker 2: over under the average cost? Think about it? Yeah, five seconds.
Speaker 2: What's the cost average wedding? Thirty six thousand dollars? Average
Speaker 2: home down payment? Buy a home? What's the average home
Speaker 2: down payment? Anyone hint? It's more than a wedding anyone?
Speaker 2: Fifty five thousand dollars. This is according to real estate data. Okay,
Speaker 2: rising interest cost inflation? All right, can you have? Can
Speaker 2: you have a wedding averaging thirty six dollars? Then you
Speaker 2: want to buy a home? Fifty five thousand dollars? Just
Speaker 2: put down payment. So apparently there's a rising number of
Speaker 2: engaged couples who want cash for a house from their
Speaker 2: wedding guest. Hey, forget about the air fryers. Hey, you
Speaker 2: know that fancy gravy bowl that we want registered to,
Speaker 2: you know, for over there at at the store. Nope,
Speaker 2: don't worry about it. I need a blender. Oh, I
Speaker 2: want a blender in some kitchen towels. Ah, I want
Speaker 2: some cold, hard cash because we want to put a
Speaker 2: house for sale. Here's a survey. Six thousand couples were registered.
Speaker 2: Eighty seven percent are asking for cash, forty one percent
Speaker 2: specifically requesting it for a home down payment. Man, times
Speaker 2: have changed. I guess now instead of recommending which type
Speaker 2: of air fryer or blender, or which I can do,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, well, here's a good mortgage rate. Why
Speaker 2: don't you go with this bank, And I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: ahead and deposit something for you. It's just it's just cold,
Speaker 2: you know what, people I I I love gift cards.
Speaker 2: If somebody wants to get me a gift, I love
Speaker 2: a gift card because I can use it for whatever
Speaker 2: I want. But a lot of people think it's just
Speaker 2: so impersonal. I want to give something that they will
Speaker 2: that you really want. Really, I don't want to look
Speaker 2: a gift horse in the mouth. But I had a
Speaker 2: had a birthday earlier this year, and and I am
Speaker 2: not kidding it. I got a nice little amount of gifts.
Speaker 2: I probably got a dozen gifts or so. I didn't
Speaker 2: ask for these gifts. Whatever, We've really good friends. Every
Speaker 2: single gift was a bottle of bourbon? Why? Because they
Speaker 2: know I love bourbon. I'm a bourbon kind of sewer.
Speaker 2: I collect bourbon, I display bourbon, I teach bourbon cool.
Speaker 2: And most all of them were small brands I have
Speaker 2: yet never heard of, and I've wanted to try. It's
Speaker 2: just awesome. And I sat there the next day counting
Speaker 2: my blessings just to have friends like that in the thoughtfulness.
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking, man, how much more bourbon do I need?
Speaker 2: I mean, I got more bourbon that I could actually
Speaker 2: host a wedding or do it by myself. Maybe you know,
Speaker 2: I would have liked some running shoes from my cabin.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe there is something, I mean, gift car
Speaker 2: would be nice. Gosh. I hope nobody who gave me
Speaker 2: a bottle of bourbon is listening right now, because I
Speaker 2: love you, and I thank you, and come over and
Speaker 2: have a drink with me. The point is it's just
Speaker 2: mortgage down payment for mortgages. Yes, it's cold, but the
Speaker 2: point is I can appreciate these kids who actually wanting
Speaker 2: to move move into a home and trying to do
Speaker 2: things that will help them. It is not cheap. There
Speaker 2: is nothing really that is inexpensive in the world, and
Speaker 2: certainly what is going down in the United States of
Speaker 2: our great America. Why not how many times there is not?
Speaker 2: It may be again, I haven't had a kid who
Speaker 2: got married yet or got engaged yet, but all three
Speaker 2: of my buddies who has kids getting who just got
Speaker 2: they got engaged, every single one, and easily with the
Speaker 2: past ten fifteen years. When I have other friends who've
Speaker 2: gotten their kids are getting engaged. I don't know if
Speaker 2: the joke or not, but they always say I offered
Speaker 2: him money instead of a wedding. They could have a
Speaker 2: money or they could have a wedding, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a joke. It's like wedding like that.
Speaker 2: But apparently, at least the friends I hang out with,
Speaker 2: they all want a wedding. They want the bride to
Speaker 2: be wearing wine, they want to walk down the AIP
Speaker 2: doesn't need to be fans, he doesn't need to be extravagant.
Speaker 2: Maybe they want to have only fifteen to twenty people.
Speaker 2: Some of them they want four hundred people whatever. Nope,
Speaker 2: they want it. And there's the parents shaking their heads.
Speaker 2: I told them I'd give I'd write them a check instead.
Speaker 2: Of the wedding. Nope, you know kicks. Uncle Gurphy's got
Speaker 2: the little news for you. Over here you found your
Speaker 2: love of your life. Hopefully take the freaking money. Mom
Speaker 2: and Dad want to help out. Parents want to help out,
Speaker 2: and you think you want a wedding that averages what
Speaker 2: did I just say? Thirty six thousand dollars? Even if
Speaker 2: mom and Dad offer you half in cash, Hey, you
Speaker 2: could up with thirty six dollars the wedding or just
Speaker 2: you know, screw it. Was just I don't want to
Speaker 2: go through the rigg road. Just here, take take eighteen thousand,
Speaker 2: Take three, take the cash, take the cat, have some
Speaker 2: friend and then come out to my house and celebrate
Speaker 2: with bourbon. Once again. Michael Garfield to freaking rescue, figuring
Speaker 2: out your life for you. What else I can do?
Speaker 2: I hope you had the good first hour. Next hour,
Speaker 2: I promise to get down to the nitty gritty. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you some ideas for Dad's day. I'm going
Speaker 2: to tell you why now may indeed be the time
Speaker 2: to buy a phone, despite the fact that tariffs may
Speaker 2: be here. And then I'll give you some phones together.
Speaker 2: There's a TV somebody wants to know about a car.
Speaker 2: I'll give the car this dude who wrote me an email.
Speaker 2: I'll actually read the email. I'll suppress the name though.
Speaker 2: I want to hang out with this dude. He hadn't
Speaker 2: bought a car in eighteen years. I'll tell you how
Speaker 2: much you getting ready to spend on the car. All
Speaker 2: back I'll give away, and your questions coming up an
Speaker 2: hour two A deep Ideas.
Speaker 1: It's Michael Garfield, Michael Garfield, Garfields joining us and the
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texans. It
Speaker 2: was to make life.
Speaker 1: Easier some new technology.
Speaker 2: So Michael Garfield has something you might want.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping
Speaker 1: you make magic with your gadgets, occurred worldwide on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield halfway through.
Speaker 2: The high Tech Texts and people. One hour down, one
Speaker 2: hour ago, which means we are half wait happy hour.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about the first week of June? People,
Speaker 2: it's happy hour all day, open up by the fool, listening,
Speaker 2: having a cocktail, not driving as you should. I talked
Speaker 2: about bourbon this last segment, but I love bourbon. I'm
Speaker 2: a bourbon. I'm a bourbon snob. I'm happy to say it.
Speaker 2: It's the only thing I'm snobbish about. Really. I collect bourbon.
Speaker 2: I drink bourbon. Bourbon is not a it's not a
Speaker 2: drink to drink at the pool. It's just to me.
Speaker 2: Try to avoid bourbon in any brown water during the day.
Speaker 2: It's just not you don't want to mix that with sun,
Speaker 2: and it's just you don't want to do that. And
Speaker 2: actually you probably never want to drink bourbon. It is
Speaker 2: so people think it's a quiet taste, it's a sipping
Speaker 2: thing and it'll get you jacked up. And that's not
Speaker 2: a pun because Jack Daniels is not a bourbon. And
Speaker 2: if you know anything about anything, you know that is
Speaker 2: a true fact. Michael with a name, Michael Garfield. Let
Speaker 2: me give you a phone number to say hi, ask questions.
Speaker 2: Father's Day is coming up, by the way. If Dad
Speaker 2: likes bourbon brown water, why don't you love to hear
Speaker 2: from you? More than happy to give you a few
Speaker 2: brown a few brand suggestions. I just don't do tech.
Speaker 2: I do bourbon. I do spirits three four six twenty nine,
Speaker 2: Texan three four six two nine eight three, nine two six,
Speaker 2: Hello to Houston, San Antonio in Dallas. If you're listening
Speaker 2: terrestrially over the era radio on iHeartRadio. If nine you
Speaker 2: can download the iHeartRadio app, which you may already have,
Speaker 2: and you're listening to me somewhere around the world. It
Speaker 2: is a worldwide show speaking of spirits, found a new
Speaker 2: spirit to drink. It is a It's a rum. I
Speaker 2: like rum, very very sugary, obviously, because by nature it's
Speaker 2: either you know, it's either molasses, believe it or not.
Speaker 2: Most all rooms are made up from molasses. Some you're
Speaker 2: gonna find pure sugar. Can uh. This is not an
Speaker 2: endorsement over there, but CARDI happens to make this and
Speaker 2: I do not. There may be other brands that make it.
Speaker 2: It is called it's a dragonberry flavor. I'm not getting you,
Speaker 2: and I think I don't even know is dragonberry an
Speaker 2: actual fruit? Somebody googled that for me. I think my
Speaker 2: vegan son likes dragon bearer. I'm not sure. I don't
Speaker 2: even know, but I don't know what dragon bear is.
Speaker 2: It's it's dairy, fake flavored. It's very sweet because it's rum. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's good it's good. Put a little lemonade in there.
Speaker 2: Put a little diet grape soda. Oh, it's good. That's
Speaker 2: that is. That's a pool time drink. Don't drink brown
Speaker 2: water during the day. Drink something like that. Something sweet,
Speaker 2: you know, Pi nikolata is whatever like that. I like
Speaker 2: this dragonberry type of thing. Just a little something from
Speaker 2: me to you. Three four six twenty nine. Texan Father's
Speaker 2: Days coming up this coming Monday, if you were in Austin,
Speaker 2: I will be on Fox seven as I am every
Speaker 2: Monday morning with my little high Tech Texan Report segment.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be showing off a number of different
Speaker 2: Father's Day gift ideas. Some of them are not too expensive.
Speaker 2: Nothing's really really too I mean, I'm not showing off
Speaker 2: a car. Nothing's too expensive. One of which is a
Speaker 2: brand new tablet and is not an iPad because I
Speaker 2: really don't do Apple things. And I'm allowed to say
Speaker 2: it right now because I was under embargo. I couldn't
Speaker 2: say or even mention it until last Thursday of June fifth,
Speaker 2: But now I had I've had it for at least
Speaker 2: a week and a half, but I couldn't talk about it.
Speaker 2: I can now I'll be showing off. It's a company
Speaker 2: called one plus, which I'm very familiar with. I like
Speaker 2: one plus O N E P l U S. It
Speaker 2: is a company out of China. I have at least
Speaker 2: the last two iterations of their smart watch, which I
Speaker 2: really like. I also have passed two or three of
Speaker 2: their phones. I think they're on the one plus thirteen
Speaker 2: great Android phone, like not. They just came out with
Speaker 2: their third version of their tablet. It is called the
Speaker 2: one plus Pad three brilliant Android based tablet, great bright screen,
Speaker 2: easy to use. I've got a little an e pen,
Speaker 2: a little electric pencil that I could sit there, and
Speaker 2: I don't use those things a lot. I think that's
Speaker 2: an oh. By the way, you don't need to spend
Speaker 2: extra on that. I also got a little uh detachable keyboard,
Speaker 2: which is nice. I particularly don't use tablets for typing
Speaker 2: massive things. I usually I use tablets mostly when I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I always take it on a plane because that's it.
Speaker 2: I got a twelve inch high colored bright screen touchscreen
Speaker 2: to watch movies, live TV and everything when I'm on
Speaker 2: my Southwest Airlines. Uh. Really good battery of life for this,
Speaker 2: and very durable and in certainly when you look at
Speaker 2: the price, you know, compared to you know, the iPads, these,
Speaker 2: I think these these, I think it run's about I
Speaker 2: think it's six hundred dollars chick out. It's one plus
Speaker 2: dot com one plus three. That's what it is now.
Speaker 2: They're always gonna have some specials in deal too. That's
Speaker 2: one of the things I'm gonna talk about. Get that
Speaker 2: a tablet don't have the new fangles setting up computers
Speaker 2: or laptops side, but they also have lap Do you
Speaker 2: want a laptop and all on one computers? I got
Speaker 2: that too. What else am I bringing? I am bringing
Speaker 2: some headphones. Dad may want some headphones. Dad may not like.
Speaker 2: But these are also for graduates too. Dads and grads.
Speaker 2: They may not want earbuds, they want headphones full have us.
Speaker 2: You do not need to spend an arm in a
Speaker 2: leg for headphones. Oh yeah, you gotta have the Beat.
Speaker 2: Gotta have the Beat headphones Apple all they know you
Speaker 2: really don't. No, So I got a pair that I've
Speaker 2: been using that are very comfortable. They are full cans
Speaker 2: as we say, which means they go over your ears.
Speaker 2: They're padded, they are yes, they're wireless and they are
Speaker 2: active noise canceling, and right now they're no more than
Speaker 2: about eighty eight dollars. And as I go to this website,
Speaker 2: I think there's even a code you can use. It
Speaker 2: is from a company called the onemore dot com. The
Speaker 2: number one mo O r E. It's the one more
Speaker 2: so no flow pros n s O n O f
Speaker 2: l O w SO no flu pro wireless active noise canceling.
Speaker 2: They sound great, they fold up. They come in a
Speaker 2: case USPC chargeable, eighty eight bones, really good sound ratio,
Speaker 2: ultra wide frequency, good response, high performance headphones, immersive sound,
Speaker 2: active noise canceling, which means a baby crying on the
Speaker 2: plane and you rarely can hear the thing. Eighty eight bucks.
Speaker 2: It's not cheaper. Okay, that's what I do. I trying
Speaker 2: to save your money. Over here. I had, Oh here's
Speaker 2: what I'm not gonna bring. I ran that this was
Speaker 2: this ran last week and I can't bring these here
Speaker 2: because they're in my backyard. Dad is a barbecue griller.
Speaker 2: Right real quickly, I reviewed not one, but two high
Speaker 2: tech barbecue grills. High tech I played with a Hamada Joe,
Speaker 2: but specifically the newest version called the Connected Joe. That's
Speaker 2: a with a k Ao n N. It's the whole
Speaker 2: Connected Joe. It's got this little brain. It's got a
Speaker 2: little digital readout, it's got the probes. It sets the temperature.
Speaker 2: It's got an app that uses AI. You can pull
Speaker 2: up a menu going I want barbecue, chicken, skewers, whatever,
Speaker 2: and you put it on the app. It automatically sends
Speaker 2: it to the grill. It knows when to put it on.
Speaker 2: It beeps and tells you when it's ready. Not cheap.
Speaker 2: It's about two thousand dollars. It's very heavy Connected Joe,
Speaker 2: but it's a Commodo style cooker. You can cook, you
Speaker 2: can cook desserts, you can actually make it a real grill.
Speaker 2: Very nice, not cheap. The other one from a company
Speaker 2: called brisk It, very cute. Right, two words b r
Speaker 2: I sk brisk It Okay, brisk it grills. You go
Speaker 2: to brisk you know, brisket grill. So it's a brisket
Speaker 2: grills dot Com I reviewed that one five hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars or so. This is a pellet grill, just
Speaker 2: like your trigger, but this also has a little smart
Speaker 2: AI artificial intelligence app tell it what you want. That's
Speaker 2: my first time I've ever used a pellet grill, and
Speaker 2: I've had this thing for a few months and I
Speaker 2: did a side by psych comparison, did about a four
Speaker 2: and a half five minute TV segment. If you want
Speaker 2: to see it, go to my website high tech Texan
Speaker 2: dot com. H I G H T E C H
Speaker 2: T E x A N. Also, I believe it or not,
Speaker 2: I actually have a YouTube channel too. Look for Michael
Speaker 2: Garth to look for high Tech Texan AKA. You could
Speaker 2: see it and it shows you the difference between the two.
Speaker 2: They're very simple to use, obviously, be brisket pellet much cheaper,
Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty versus the two thousand. But these
Speaker 2: things then now it's almost two it's almost too tough
Speaker 2: to jack it up. To screw it up. You really
Speaker 2: have to be an absolute horrific person in the kitchen
Speaker 2: or in the outdoor grill who apps has no attention span,
Speaker 2: because when the app buzzes andes says get that piece
Speaker 2: of meat off the grill, you disregard. No, no, just listen
Speaker 2: to it. Effortless. Actually, I think that's one of the slogans.
Speaker 2: It's an effortless would pellet grill to brisket? So do
Speaker 2: I something to get dad? And the meat thing is snap.
Speaker 2: Remember when charcoal grills, you're still like, take forever to
Speaker 2: fire up. Nope, these things far up in just an instant.
Speaker 2: Check that out when we come back, your calls, your questions,
Speaker 2: and a review of the vehicle of the week that
Speaker 2: I was driving. I'm a high take text show, just
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Speaker 2: do thank you for that. I do drive cars and vehicles,
Speaker 2: and I test drive them every single week. I do
Speaker 2: not get paid for this, and so I can rag
Speaker 2: on them or love them whatever you want. Looking for
Speaker 2: a dad's a grads a gift present? Well, who's got money?
Speaker 2: How much money would you be willing to spend on
Speaker 2: your dad? Probably not as much as if dads or
Speaker 2: moms spend on graduation gifts, because I've seen I've seen
Speaker 2: some parents give give graduations some cars. How much do
Speaker 2: you want to you want to spend one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty hundred, forty hundred fifty doll Well, if not, ere Muffett,
Speaker 2: because we got about two or three minute conversation. Because
Speaker 2: I last week was driving around the twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: had a lac Escalade. IQ heard of that one. You've
Speaker 2: heard of the Cadillac Escalade. This is the Escalade, which
Speaker 2: is a big Mama three to row seven passenger suv. Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, the IQ means it's all electric, that's right.
Speaker 2: I was in an electric massive suv four hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty mile range between charges, seven hundred and fifty horse
Speaker 2: power with that two hundred and five kilowatt battery. First
Speaker 2: thing I noticed was how big this is. And by
Speaker 2: the way, I pulled up to the galleria this week
Speaker 2: and some couple walking to the car literally stopped look
Speaker 2: at me and they yelled, hey, hey, I love your car,
Speaker 2: And of course I said, huh thanks. Little do they
Speaker 2: know that I had to turn it in two days
Speaker 2: later because I get these things only for one week.
Speaker 2: Point is it's a head turner. You look around the
Speaker 2: outside and it is big. These wheels sixty one psi
Speaker 2: they hold I think like forty four inch wheels. They're huge,
Speaker 2: tons of rome. But it had some features in there
Speaker 2: would blew me away, one of which I sit in.
Speaker 2: And you know how those infotainment screens, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: you could touch you can see it's in the gently
Speaker 2: in the middle, so it's the driver and the passenger
Speaker 2: can reach and touch it, and you could radio, and
Speaker 2: you've got the air conditioning and the seats and everything
Speaker 2: like that. Yes, this has the center touch screen, but
Speaker 2: across the entire dashboard right above it, from the left
Speaker 2: side to the right side, the left pillar to the
Speaker 2: right pillar, there is an entire curved fifty five inch
Speaker 2: diagon to display. It goes all the way from left
Speaker 2: to right, anything that you need to know. It's got
Speaker 2: the heads up display for the driver. He shows how
Speaker 2: fast you're going, It shows your RPM, it shows you
Speaker 2: whatever you're listening to on the radio. Everything on the
Speaker 2: right side the passenger, right above the glove box. You
Speaker 2: know what exactly, there's a TV. There's a TV screen.
Speaker 2: There's a monitor where the passenger can plug in his
Speaker 2: or her phone via HDMI or stream something to the
Speaker 2: phone and watch TV. Uh you're thinking of gosh, isn't
Speaker 2: it illegal to have a TV or a monitor in
Speaker 2: the front seat. Yes, but thanks to a very unique screen,
Speaker 2: the driver cannot see what's on the passenger scene because
Speaker 2: it's you know, kind of got a little coating over there.
Speaker 2: So now the passenger has their unscreen. The two seats
Speaker 2: in back, which are facing the back seats of the
Speaker 2: front driver and passenger, they have their own screens about
Speaker 2: what twenty inches wide, so they can watch it and
Speaker 2: generally kids sit back there. Yes, there's Wi Fi. Yes,
Speaker 2: there's Bluetooth. There's so many controls. Oh wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm not even done out of the front seat. Let's
Speaker 2: get back in the front seat. It's so big and heavy.
Speaker 2: Sometimes these doors are massively, very tough to either open
Speaker 2: or close, so in way the first two times I
Speaker 2: get in it, I sit there and I've got long arms,
Speaker 2: and I reach it. I'm pulling. The door closed a
Speaker 2: little heavy, and it gets almost to close. It kind
Speaker 2: of stops itself, and then the last inch or two
Speaker 2: kind of closes itself. I'm like, oh wow, this is
Speaker 2: nice because I don't need to slam this thing. It
Speaker 2: closes and locks it by myself. What I found out
Speaker 2: it does better than that. All you need to do
Speaker 2: is reach out and just touch the freaking door. The
Speaker 2: entire door closes. You don't even need to start it.
Speaker 2: It starts and finishes the closing the doors. And when
Speaker 2: you hit from the outside, you just kind of touch
Speaker 2: the thumb little thing and just like instead of pulling,
Speaker 2: the door opens up itself. Pretty pretty cool. Oh wait
Speaker 2: a minute, I'm not done. It's got a massive moonroof sunroof. Moonroof.
Speaker 2: Now it doesn't open and slide open. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: I don't use moon roof too much. Generally moonroofs they
Speaker 2: have this thing that slides to block the sun. Sometimes
Speaker 2: they're manually. You have to reach up. You gotta slide
Speaker 2: all the way back. Nowadays cars they have front to back,
Speaker 2: very long moon roofs and sun roofs, and so there's
Speaker 2: no way that you can physically slide it back. If
Speaker 2: you're in the driver's seat, it's not gonna reach other back.
Speaker 2: So they have little buttons you could do it all right.
Speaker 2: This one does not have anything that slides back. So
Speaker 2: I get in the car and I look up and
Speaker 2: I see this massive, long, beautiful moonroof. I mean it
Speaker 2: goes from the fire. I mean this thing must easily
Speaker 2: must be four and a half five feet long of
Speaker 2: beautiful plate glass. I'm looking up and I'm seeing the
Speaker 2: sun and everything, and I'm looking at I'm trying to
Speaker 2: figure out it's too sunny, man, How do I slide
Speaker 2: this thing to get closed? And looking I still can't
Speaker 2: figure it out. I even had to freaking go online
Speaker 2: in Google. How do you close the moon roof on
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty five Cadillac Escalade IQ doesn't come with one. Nope,
Speaker 2: It's got a button which is not easy to find
Speaker 2: on the infotainment screen. As you touch it, the glass
Speaker 2: is tinted, it becomes darker itself. Mah, you could say
Speaker 2: it's like seventy five percent darkness, one hundred percent darkness,
Speaker 2: zero percent darkness. Oooh who. It's got supercrews, which means
Speaker 2: you could take your hands and your foot off the
Speaker 2: wheel when you're driving on certain highways and byways around
Speaker 2: the country. A lot of GM lot of cars have
Speaker 2: that too, because it's an electric vehicle. It's got a front,
Speaker 2: which means it's got a trunk in the front trunk
Speaker 2: which we call a front. It's got a massive well
Speaker 2: behind the third row seat. There's decent storage. You put
Speaker 2: the third row seat down, you got really good stories.
Speaker 2: You put the second and third row streets down. You
Speaker 2: got a king sized bed back there. You could fit
Speaker 2: not kidding you. I like the long range four hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty miles on a single charge, this interior forty
Speaker 2: speaker sound system with the fifty five inch touch green
Speaker 2: which I told you, I mean it's huge. It's got
Speaker 2: a wheelbase of about one hundred and thirty six inches.
Speaker 2: It is very heavy. Weighs ever nine thousand pounds, which
Speaker 2: does a lot of that is battery. It can toe,
Speaker 2: can toe about eight thousand pounds. But it's fast because
Speaker 2: it's electric. Goes from zero sixty and what they say,
Speaker 2: and I didn't time at four point seven seconds. You
Speaker 2: imagine a nine thousand pound vehicle going zero sixty and
Speaker 2: four point seven seconds. The one I particularly had it
Speaker 2: was called the Luxury two. That's there. That's another model
Speaker 2: has a little red V, the letter V on the
Speaker 2: steering wheel. And I'm looking at this thing. What is it?
Speaker 2: What is this the thing? And why is it read?
Speaker 2: It's the V mode. It's velocity max. Hit this little
Speaker 2: V button, A little V icon is gonna appear on
Speaker 2: your driver information center. It's gonna give you even more
Speaker 2: horsepower and more torque to make it faster. I only
Speaker 2: tried it once, and I'd made sure I was on
Speaker 2: a five lane highway and there was no one around me.
Speaker 2: Got speed racer. All this can be yours kids, if
Speaker 2: you graduate, you get the doctor gree and someone spends
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Now again, listen, I
Speaker 2: had the one that has packed with absolutely every accouterment
Speaker 2: that you can have. But this thing was a monster,
Speaker 2: easily one of the top three vehicles I have driven.
Speaker 2: This is not paid. I don't. I'm not gonna tell
Speaker 2: you where to go get it because I don't even
Speaker 2: know a Cadillagic dealership. This is what I do. If
Speaker 2: they deliver these cars every week. Next week, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be in probably a Chevy next week, I'm gonna probably
Speaker 2: be the w the week after that. I'm a number second.
Speaker 2: I drive all this other stuff. But dang man, who
Speaker 2: it was pretty cool? Mom and Pop? What do you
Speaker 2: think you gonna get it? Talk to me over here,
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield. We're gonna be back. When we come back,
Speaker 2: time to give away something. We're gonna give Dad a
Speaker 2: Cobo Bob gift card. I'll tell you how to win that,
Speaker 2: and also a little bit more cars. If you have
Speaker 2: a Ford, uh oh, your car may have just been
Speaker 2: recalled with something you don't know. I will tell you
Speaker 2: top that right here on the High Tech Texans Show. Hey,
Speaker 2: some of you have sat and listened to me for
Speaker 2: the last hour and a half. I gotta reward you
Speaker 2: all right, who wants something? Hey Dad, Happy Early Father's Day. Graduates.
Speaker 2: You can go get a snack, because I know it
Speaker 2: ain't cheap to go get some lunch to dinner. Cabo
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Speaker 2: lots of them all around Austin, four of them here
Speaker 2: in the Houston area, one in San Antonio, Dallas. Hopefully
Speaker 2: you're gonna get one soon. Doesn't matter. You can win
Speaker 2: it as long as you're listening. Your number ten. You
Speaker 2: got a twenty five dollars gift card Cabo BaHaB seven one, three, two, one, two,
Speaker 2: five and nine five. Oh, thanks to my good friends
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Speaker 2: But these cards are good all across the state. If
Speaker 2: you can find the Cabo Bob's, go in you go
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Speaker 2: to anything in life. I mean I'm not. I love
Speaker 2: my bourbon, I'm not addicted to bourbon. I love a ESPN,
Speaker 2: I'm not addicted to it. I'm closed. But I'm addicted
Speaker 2: to their Destata chips. Love. There are tortilla chips that
Speaker 2: are just absolutely fried right there. They are so thick.
Speaker 2: Get some queso, get some guacamole, Get the freshly made
Speaker 2: tortillas right in front of your eyes. Choose from five
Speaker 2: different tortillas, and you could put chicken, which is made
Speaker 2: by the way, on a kamata. Joe told you ten
Speaker 2: minutes ago I was reviewing it. Come out of Joe
Speaker 2: for Father's Day. It's the kamata TOAs the smallest men.
Speaker 2: They got chicken, they got beef, they got barbo CoA,
Speaker 2: they've got fish fried fish. Oh, it's phenomenal. We have
Speaker 2: a winner. Stop calling seven one. I'm not gonna give
Speaker 2: you the fun number. Thank you. Each week for a
Speaker 2: while we've given out a Cobo Bob gift card, and
Speaker 2: so odds are you're gonna see me generally you're gonna
Speaker 2: see me one on the southwest side of Houston. I
Speaker 2: am there way too much with my tortilla chip fresh
Speaker 2: tortilla chip fetish. That's what I was at, a fetish.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a problem and I need to
Speaker 2: stop that body by K s O and Chips. That's
Speaker 2: actually a T shirt I have here. It is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: It's called the High Tech Texan Show. I just gave
Speaker 2: you a pretty extensive full review of the Ultimate Father's
Speaker 2: Day Gift or Dad's or graduation Gift. It was the
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty thousand dollars plus Cadillac Escalade IQ,
Speaker 2: which is the three row, seven seat electric vehicle. If
Speaker 2: you just missed that, give me about twenty or thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: It will be on iHeartRadio app where you can listen
Speaker 2: to the repeat podcast of this show. Thank you, Callum Reid.
Speaker 2: Just look for high Tech Texan or Michael Garfield. Listen
Speaker 2: to that. But I do cover the tech car industry,
Speaker 2: certainly the car industry too. Ford just issued a major
Speaker 2: recall due to a rearview camera glitch. Oh man, I
Speaker 2: thought technology was here to help us. Now they're glitching
Speaker 2: for us. How many does this effect? Oh not too
Speaker 2: many cars? Just one point one million vehicles. They just
Speaker 2: recalled due to a rearview camera gletch. Does your Ford
Speaker 2: have a rearview camera? So apparently Ford models released across
Speaker 2: three years here to have an issue affecting the usability
Speaker 2: of the review camera features software era. Apparently they couldn't
Speaker 2: fix this over the air. They couldn't fix this with
Speaker 2: a software update. You may have to want to bring
Speaker 2: it in. Yes, some are electric, Yes some are hybrid.
Speaker 2: It was a problem that could result in accidents in
Speaker 2: property damage. As I read this just word for word.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I get it right. Was
Speaker 2: released between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five. Were
Speaker 2: named in the recall, which Ford did submit to the
Speaker 2: National Highway Transportation and Safety Association. So has it been recalled?
Speaker 2: Let me quickly run through these things. Actually it's not
Speaker 2: as many as they thought. Let me just give you
Speaker 2: some brands. If you have a Ford Bronco A F
Speaker 2: one fifty and Ford Edge between twenty twenty one and
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, recalled Ford Escape F two, fifty f three,
Speaker 2: fifty f four to fifty f five to fifty f
Speaker 2: six hundred of it. You didn't even know that? Make
Speaker 2: does Released in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: recalled Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator twenty twenty two, twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three and twenty twenty four recalled Ford Ranger, Ford Mustang
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four recalled in the Ford mock e released
Speaker 2: between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three, recalled sorry
Speaker 2: about that. Don't know how long they were just they
Speaker 2: were named. They will be updated by a dealer free
Speaker 2: of charge. You may have gotten a letter. If not
Speaker 2: think about that. Go to the website. It is the
Speaker 2: NHTSA dot gov, n h ts A dot g o V.
Speaker 2: That's where you actually should bom mark that thing. Check
Speaker 2: out your vehicle, no matter what it is. But that
Speaker 2: was that was the fourth thing I hate hearing that
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have I ever, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think of if I really I have one card
Speaker 2: that I've had for twenty years and I don't remember
Speaker 2: having it recalled. But it's such a pain because back
Speaker 2: in the day you had to take it to a dealer.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, you gotta get off work and
Speaker 2: you gotta think and you gotta leave it. Then how
Speaker 2: long is it take bh.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah if it's generally nowadays they can
Speaker 3: do software updates over the air, which means if you
Speaker 3: have like on Star or whatever type of service that you.
Speaker 2: Have, you get down it. It's it's like a radio.
Speaker 2: I mean your your your car receives radio signals. Your
Speaker 2: car can receive you know, satellite radio signals. Your car
Speaker 2: can receive data. They could be downloaded and upgrading. A
Speaker 2: lot of the other stuff can't. And apparently this one
Speaker 2: may not have it gosh, hey, they to actually say that.
Speaker 2: If you do have questions about cars, if you oh
Speaker 2: one more, got an email, got an email from uh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna His name is Kurt. Kurt is in Houston.
Speaker 2: Kurt is in Houston. Let me let me give you
Speaker 2: the I want to say this Barbadim. Kurt responded to Kurt.
Speaker 2: I answered this because I answer almost all these calls.
Speaker 2: Where is Kurt? If you want to email me, you
Speaker 2: can go to actually on my website. Oh here it is,
Speaker 2: go to website high tech Texting dot com and you,
Speaker 2: you know, send an email to Michael. This is from Kurt. No.
Speaker 2: I'm yeah, we're gonna call hi Kurt. Let's just keep
Speaker 2: it at that. Hey, Garth, my wife wants to splurge
Speaker 2: on our first new car in eighteen years. What do
Speaker 2: you think about the Mercedes S five eighty. It's only
Speaker 2: about one hundred and ten thousand dollars. I think your
Speaker 2: wife is gonna like that, Kurt. Hell, yeah, man, you
Speaker 2: don't buy a car in eighteen years save up now.
Speaker 2: The S five eighty a very good car, and actually
Speaker 2: it's the flagship model of the S Sedan series. It
Speaker 2: is a good car. It is comfy. It is very
Speaker 2: powerful for what it is. The only and this is
Speaker 2: what I responded to him, the only thing that sticks
Speaker 2: out to me when I did see it, sit in
Speaker 2: it and test drive it quickly. I'm not a fan
Speaker 2: of and I'm not just harping on Mercedes, but Mercedes
Speaker 2: does this more than other manufacturers nowadays because of that beautiful,
Speaker 2: full large color infotainment screen with the touch screens. Right,
Speaker 2: they're removing buttons, physical buttons and knobs. Yes, I'm an
Speaker 2: og I'm the old guy. I like a knob to
Speaker 2: turn up the volume and turn down the volume. I
Speaker 2: like the buttons that push. I don't care if they
Speaker 2: have haptic feedback. I like the program man. Maybe they
Speaker 2: don't program my radio stations, but air conditioning. I want
Speaker 2: to be able to touch all this stuff. You're not
Speaker 2: seeing these on a lot of vehicles. They think they're
Speaker 2: gonna save money by not putting knobs, and they're gonna
Speaker 2: put all the information that the buttons and a menu
Speaker 2: and a sub menu and then in a sub sub
Speaker 2: menu on that touch screen. And that Mercedes S by
Speaker 2: eighty is one of those. I mean you have to
Speaker 2: drill down to get to some of the most mundane things,
Speaker 2: like to store radio station, you could probably have to
Speaker 2: push eight buttons, which, by the way, one of the
Speaker 2: things I didn't actually tell you, and don't laugh. The
Speaker 2: Cadillac Escalade IQ, the massive suv that I was in
Speaker 2: last week that I reviewed. I tried to open the glovebox.
Speaker 2: And I've seen this on probably once out of every
Speaker 2: fifteen vehicles that really really new ones, high tech ones.
Speaker 2: You know how to open a glovebox. Almost in every
Speaker 2: glovebox you've ever been in, there is a latch that
Speaker 2: you just gotta pull the glovebox falls open. The Cadillac
Speaker 2: Escalate IQ, the electric vehicle, does not have any latch.
Speaker 2: There is no button. You cannot physically pull, touch, push
Speaker 2: something anywhere near the glovebox. So how in the world
Speaker 2: do you open it? It took me a minute or two.
Speaker 2: Guess what. Go to the infotainment screen, find the proper screen,
Speaker 2: and then hit menu, sub menu, go down and boom.
Speaker 2: That's right, you have to touch the touch screen to
Speaker 2: open the glovebox. I don't like that. That's a pain.
Speaker 2: Is that going to stop me from buying a car? No?
Speaker 2: But dang it to pain. It really really is but anyway, Kurt,
Speaker 2: for example, thank you so much. Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
Speaker 2: dot com. That's how you're gonna find me. Do you
Speaker 2: want something? I don't care. If it's a car, I
Speaker 2: don't care. If it's a barbecue grill, I don't care.
Speaker 2: If it's just any old question. Coming up the final
Speaker 2: segment day of the High Tech Texting Show. Do you
Speaker 2: use voice to text yet? Do you use your voice
Speaker 2: to text or you still use your thumbs? It's an
Speaker 2: app actually that's gonna make voice to text a lot smarter,
Speaker 2: even smarter than the app that you have not testing
Speaker 2: your phone, but also your desktop too. Talk about that
Speaker 2: final segment coming out pre Father's Day, pregraduation, little segment,
Speaker 2: little show, yeah called the high Tech text It's Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Look at this. We made it to the final one,
Speaker 2: final segment of this week's first week of June High
Speaker 2: Tech Texting the Show. Next week we're gonna do the
Speaker 2: same thing one week to go at well, it's actually
Speaker 2: two weeks from Father's Day, and I know a lot
Speaker 2: of graduations are happening, and I do sincerely congratulations tell
Speaker 2: them the people listen. I got a cousin second cousin
Speaker 2: of mine in Florida just graduated fifth grade. Her great
Speaker 2: you know, my uncle and aunt there. You know, her
Speaker 2: grandparents went all the way from Texas to visit the
Speaker 2: fifth grade graduates. I mean, it's whatever, you graduating from
Speaker 2: fifth grade, high school, college, getting ready to get on
Speaker 2: your own. Seriously, congratulations in good luck, I mean, and
Speaker 2: I have to say it. You know it used to
Speaker 2: be good luck. Now it's like good luck. That's sad.
Speaker 2: You have to actually put that stink on him, man,
Speaker 2: because good luck. With what's going on in the world,
Speaker 2: in the economy right now, I'm not gonna give out
Speaker 2: the phone number because I do want to get to
Speaker 2: a few things that I did promise told you right
Speaker 2: now that don't if you're thinking about buying a smartphone,
Speaker 2: tariffs are coming. You know what's gonna happen. Now may
Speaker 2: not be a good time to wait. This actually could
Speaker 2: be a decent time to buy a phone. And I'll
Speaker 2: tell you why. I was looking at some of the
Speaker 2: numbers over here. The US and China.
Speaker 4: They're going to drive smartphone shipment growth despite these tariffs,
Speaker 4: which means China makes these phones, they're mostly going.
Speaker 2: To be shipped to the US in China, but there's
Speaker 2: not there the shipman. You know, you generally think, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna make more and more of these phones. We're
Speaker 2: gonna ship them. Oy uah. The growth is only going
Speaker 2: to be point six percent year over year because of
Speaker 2: the economic challenges. It's gonna it make cost more money
Speaker 2: to make these phones. Are people gonna be buying the phones?
Speaker 2: You know? You go back to April second. I think
Speaker 2: when all of a sudden it was the first tariffs
Speaker 2: are coming out here in the United States, there was
Speaker 2: so much uncertainty, and I think there still is more uncertainty.
Speaker 2: So what this means in terms of availability and prices,
Speaker 2: I think less people are buying over the past what
Speaker 2: two months ins April second, they haven't been buying phones.
Speaker 2: And now that a lot of these smartphone manufacturers they
Speaker 2: may not be making a lot anymore. Now maybe the
Speaker 2: time before the price is go up, not even just
Speaker 2: because of tariffs. Now maybe the time to buy it.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell you which ones to buy. There's
Speaker 2: a number of them over there. I mean Google Pixel
Speaker 2: just came out, they had their nine and a lot
Speaker 2: of the iPhone is seventeen coming out later this year,
Speaker 2: that could be obvious. You know, the iPhone seventeen when
Speaker 2: it comes out in October, it could boost shipments and
Speaker 2: sales because last year was the iPhone sixteen was the
Speaker 2: top selling smartphone for that first quarter of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five globally. My guess is the twenty iPhone seventeen uh grades,
Speaker 2: they're expected to do fairly well. But you can't control
Speaker 2: growth protections, you can't control cell fie prices. Whatever is
Speaker 2: important that you have to do is best for your wallet.
Speaker 2: So if you're thinking you're buying a cell phone, now,
Speaker 2: maybe the time so graduate you're graduating, graduating college because
Speaker 2: you had the same phone for four years, mom and dad.
Speaker 2: Or if you're buying it you're pulling your money together,
Speaker 2: now maybe the time to do it. You don't want
Speaker 2: to wait till later, because I still I can't. No
Speaker 2: one's gonna protect what's happening with the tariffs, what's happening
Speaker 2: with the growth. So that's number one I wanted to
Speaker 2: talk about. So I talk about this and I don't
Speaker 2: have a lot of time to get into it. I
Speaker 2: really do apologize. I talk about moving. This is the
Speaker 2: time of the year when people move. What do you
Speaker 2: do if has this happened to you? You're moving? What
Speaker 2: do you do with all of these smart home features
Speaker 2: that you have built in and baked into your house?
Speaker 2: Moving the loan could already be a huge issue, a headache.
Speaker 2: You throw in all the connected gadgets that you have,
Speaker 2: your doorbells, your thermostat, your cameras. Do you need a
Speaker 2: factory reset them? Do you need to uninstall them? Do
Speaker 2: you take them with you? Deciding what to do with
Speaker 2: your smart home when you move, it just adds a
Speaker 2: whole other layer of complexity to what's already difficult. How
Speaker 2: about that smart lock? Did you put a smart lock
Speaker 2: on your front door? What do you do with the
Speaker 2: old wine? Are you gonna take your smart luck off
Speaker 2: and take it to your new house? What about all
Speaker 2: the smart lighting? I mean, when I moved to my home,
Speaker 2: I upgraded everything to LED. That's all I have is
Speaker 2: smart lighting. You know I don't need to leave it
Speaker 2: over there, But some of you you self installed it.
Speaker 2: Did you take the dumb lighting put it in your garage?
Speaker 2: Just do it while you put the smart lighting up?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna get reverted back? Is it better to
Speaker 2: replace your thermostat with a non smart one, or you
Speaker 2: know what, Dad, screw it, just leave it, buy a
Speaker 2: newer version for your home, speakers, smoke alarms. The list
Speaker 2: goes on and on and on. Listen. We could talk
Speaker 2: about this and debate about this, but you know, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, if you have to really spend time unscrewing
Speaker 2: things from the ceiling, and if you have all these
Speaker 2: smart light fixtures and light bulbs, that's a lot of time,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of pain. They may be in the
Speaker 2: realtor contract going hey, this light fixture is it is
Speaker 2: what it is. You can't replace that after we sold it.
Speaker 2: A lot of this stuff is negotiated in that contract too.
Speaker 2: I haven't bought a home. Last time I bought was
Speaker 2: eight years. But nowadays they they may say anything. It
Speaker 2: is a physically attached to the wall, to the front,
Speaker 2: to the outdoors, which means all of your outside cameras,
Speaker 2: it means that video door bell, that smart lock. You're
Speaker 2: stuck with. If the technology and I'll end the conversation
Speaker 2: with this, but if the technology that you have has
Speaker 2: been installed or around your home for a good four
Speaker 2: years and five years for the most part, leave it
Speaker 2: because there are upgraded versions of almost every single product.
Speaker 2: What used to be a wired camera so you can monitor,
Speaker 2: they're now wireless. If you had a wireless camera from
Speaker 2: five years ago, it may have been two K. Now
Speaker 2: they're four K, if not even higher than that. There's
Speaker 2: faster in longer range Wi Fi systems. There are better
Speaker 2: speakers that are probably less expensive than the ones that
Speaker 2: you wired or you wirelessly put in your home. Things
Speaker 2: to consider when you're buying it, just because if life
Speaker 2: isn't hard enough, I just thought I did. Was this
Speaker 2: something a buddy of mine because he's getting ready to move,
Speaker 2: and he asked me questions about I take this, and
Speaker 2: then we got into a deep conversation, a really good
Speaker 2: conversation about that. So maybe you know you want to
Speaker 2: think about that. And finally, one other thing. When you're
Speaker 2: on your text, do you use voice text? Your phone
Speaker 2: may inherently use your voice text, like I have an
Speaker 2: Android phone, and I you know, I can actually sit
Speaker 2: there and use my voice. There's also apps to help
Speaker 2: you with this. Somebody wrote in and they said, hey, listen, Michael,
Speaker 2: should I trust this? There's something called whisper flow, and
Speaker 2: I thought they spelled the word whisper wrong, but it's
Speaker 2: wisp R. I haven't downloaded it, but I did a
Speaker 2: quick review on this thing. What it does it let
Speaker 2: you dictate text on your phone. And according to this
Speaker 2: this gentleman who actually sent me to the email, he said,
Speaker 2: it actually works very well and it's very simple, and
Speaker 2: he only has it for the iPhone. He may not.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's even actually available for the Android yet,
Speaker 2: but again I don't have an iPhone. That's probably one
Speaker 2: of the reasons why I haven't done it. Actually checked
Speaker 2: it out. But the point is, use voice text as
Speaker 2: much as you can, but before you send it, take
Speaker 2: a glance to make sure that it got everything spelled correctly.
Speaker 2: I am extremely anal when it comes to the punctuation periods,
Speaker 2: the explanation points, the commas, and everything else. I don't
Speaker 2: want just typical leaving it to AI because it's a
Speaker 2: bad reflection. Again, it's like I'm not an English major.
Speaker 2: But I'm very very intricate with that thing. So away, well,
Speaker 2: next week we'll get into a little bit more text
Speaker 2: voice to text. Believe me, right now, what you deserve
Speaker 2: at the past, dour was actually my voice where I
Speaker 2: actually talked as we wind the show down. Michael Garfield
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