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Speaker 1: So can we say summer has officially started? We look
Speaker 1: at the calendar this weekend, it is June. For all
Speaker 1: of you kids across Texas who were out of school,
Speaker 1: good for you. And for all of you listening outside
Speaker 1: of Texas, especially on the least coast, you're probably not
Speaker 1: out of school yet. Sucks for you. One of the
Speaker 1: mini perks that we have living in Texas and going
Speaker 1: back to the days when I was in grade school,
Speaker 1: always got out sometimes in May, while the counterparts around
Speaker 1: the country they have to go all the way through
Speaker 1: early to mid June. Yes, I know, but then again,
Speaker 1: you guys start later after Labor Day. But whatever, it is,
Speaker 1: game time. Happy summer too. I guess if you're celebrating
Speaker 1: June twenty, first Solstice day, whatever the longest day of
Speaker 1: the year. We were still three weeks or so until
Speaker 1: we hit that day. But hey, listen, Memorial Day, OVA,
Speaker 1: that's past. Hope you had a really good Memorial Day.
Speaker 1: We've got Father's Day coming up. Yes, I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Father's Day things. This is one of the many
Speaker 1: things that I talk about on the High Tech Textan show.
Speaker 1: So however you are celebrating, if you're having a nice
Speaker 1: ice cream cone, if you're having a nice cold pop
Speaker 1: while listening to my show. Maybe out in the sun
Speaker 1: by the pool. Pretty cool. I mean, you could be
Speaker 1: listening to music. You could be listening to your summer tunes.
Speaker 1: By the way, what's the song of the summer for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five? I got a few. Sadly we can't
Speaker 1: play them because we have no budget for licensing of music.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to hum it and hope we don't
Speaker 1: get sued. But however you are consuming my show, maybe
Speaker 1: it's through your EarPods, maybe it's through your big speaker
Speaker 1: while you're sitting outside by the pool. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: If you're not listening live, I do imagine and thank
Speaker 1: you for downloading the podcast. Every show a two hour
Speaker 1: show that we do every weekend for well over twenty years.
Speaker 1: It is immediately put on the podcast by Calum Ree Callum,
Speaker 1: how are you happy? I guess Callum? Is this summer
Speaker 1: to you? If you don't know Callum is. I've worked
Speaker 1: with Callum for so long. Right now, dude, let me
Speaker 1: describe him. Dude looks like Jesus. And I say this
Speaker 1: with all due respect. How long is your hair? Calum?
Speaker 1: Is it a problem during the summer? I mean, how hot? Listen?
Speaker 1: I got hair. Don't don't get me wrong, but my
Speaker 1: hair ain't nearly as long as yours. Bro? Do you
Speaker 1: just do you ever put it in braids or just
Speaker 1: step corn rows or something? Because it's pro He's gonna
Speaker 1: get hot out here. Happiest summer Michael Garfield is the
Speaker 1: day and today on the show, we're going to cover
Speaker 1: a number of different things. Along with your phone calls
Speaker 1: at three four six twenty nine Texan three four six
Speaker 1: two nine T e X A N. You can call
Speaker 1: me answer, ask me questions. Michael, dad's day's coming up?
Speaker 1: Should I get him this? What do you think about
Speaker 1: this phone? I know you always talk about cars and
Speaker 1: trucks and SUVs and easy. He's what your opinion. I
Speaker 1: am here for you, but we are going to talk
Speaker 1: about a bill little politics over you I built in
Speaker 1: the state of Texas that would ban social media for
Speaker 1: miners a minor, that's right, Texas bill. Is it going
Speaker 1: to pass? I will tell you what it would mean
Speaker 1: if you were under eighteen years old, and if kids
Speaker 1: who are under eighteen already don't have a contentious relationship
Speaker 1: with their parents. So far, this is not going to
Speaker 1: ease up. This is not gonna help it out because
Speaker 1: this could means parents it could just rip out and
Speaker 1: delete their kids' social media accounts. And I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I may I may be leaning in favor of this thing.
Speaker 1: So stand by for that automatic self driving cars way Mo,
Speaker 1: which is one of Google's sister companies. This is the vehicles.
Speaker 1: It's like a ride sharing service if you will, where
Speaker 1: you get in a car and there is no driver,
Speaker 1: it's driverless PSALM. I see them in Los Angeles. I
Speaker 1: see him in San Francisco, Austin not too long ago.
Speaker 1: Got them everywhere that my show is heard terrestrially, including
Speaker 1: Houston and San Antonio, in Dallas. Get prep people, got
Speaker 1: some news because way Mo, the driverless vehicles are coming
Speaker 1: to our cities. I got thoughts on that, would you
Speaker 1: trust them and ride on them? And by the way,
Speaker 1: good luck with Houston streets man. Have you got some potholes?
Speaker 1: They got? They got some traffic I don't. They may
Speaker 1: put waymou out of business. And also, since it is
Speaker 1: summer at least almost summer, depending on how you define it.
Speaker 1: I do have a number of different reviews which actually
Speaker 1: could I guess share the idea that Father's Day coming up?
Speaker 1: I tested. I actually did a video for my Fox
Speaker 1: seven in Austin, Texas segment I reviewed two high tech
Speaker 1: barbecue girls. That's right, people, Are you ready for a
Speaker 1: I to take over your backyard? Uh huh, high tech
Speaker 1: barbecue grill? Gone the days of waiting for the charcoal
Speaker 1: to start up on that little tiny weber Nope, uh huh.
Speaker 1: Push of a button, check it on the app. You
Speaker 1: got the chicken, you got the steak, you got the ribs,
Speaker 1: you got the pork butt you got. No, I did
Speaker 1: not call you a pork but I'm just letting you
Speaker 1: know what could be done on these grills where you
Speaker 1: really don't have to know anything about grilling. Not a thing,
Speaker 1: just some of the many things that we got for
Speaker 1: you high Tech text and show. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: how to reach me other than that phone number. You
Speaker 1: can follow me on social media the app if you
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Speaker 1: Tech Texting. Hi g h T E C h T
Speaker 1: E x A N. That's the website. You can look
Speaker 1: through all my videos that I do when I pop
Speaker 1: up on weekly for all you Austinites and if you're
Speaker 1: listening Fox seven every Monday morning, I'm on there with
Speaker 1: a tech reviewer, tech News pop on Great Day Houston
Speaker 1: in the Houston area sweek days, Channel eleven CBS. Yes,
Speaker 1: put a little makeup on me. Do my hair? You
Speaker 1: know I I do like me. Some I do like me.
Speaker 1: Some fashion and fits made for TV people made for
Speaker 1: I talk about geeky stuff. I do not dress like
Speaker 1: a geek. That's about the only thing I got going
Speaker 1: for me. Well my hair, I got going that for
Speaker 1: the two. You can see all that on high Tech
Speaker 1: Texan dot com. And I will see if I can
Speaker 1: quickly put up that link to this video that I
Speaker 1: did We're about a four minute little segment where I'm
Speaker 1: reviewing to high tech barbecue grills that that dad may want,
Speaker 1: that grads may want. Don't forget his graduation day. You
Speaker 1: know what I talk about kids, school being over for
Speaker 1: all of you. I guess through you know other kids
Speaker 1: who I still think if you graduate high school, you're
Speaker 1: a kid before you go off to college. You graduate college, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're a young adult. So if you're a kid, if
Speaker 1: you're a young adult, congratulations for graduating. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: want a gift? Do you want Do kids want gifts
Speaker 1: or do kids want money? When I graduated high school,
Speaker 1: I did I even get gifts? Number one boy. Boy,
Speaker 1: that's going back in the day. I don't think I
Speaker 1: got money. I was preparing to go to school in college,
Speaker 1: so I guess I need this stuff from my dorm.
Speaker 1: And there was not a lot of technology back in
Speaker 1: the early eighties. Man, I just dated myself right there.
Speaker 1: But nowadays, if you graduate college, I assume you want
Speaker 1: money because A if you don't have a job and
Speaker 1: welcome to the twenty first century, or B maybe you
Speaker 1: do have a job, congratulations and let me know if
Speaker 1: you're hiring. So I can work for you. You're moving
Speaker 1: into an apartment, You're gonna need some extra cash. I
Speaker 1: don't know, let me know. Three four six twenty nine texts,
Speaker 1: and I do have some neat ideas for graduation gifts
Speaker 1: to a friend of mine, a good longtime friend of ours.
Speaker 1: Their son just graduated medical school. He's a doctor. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be a doctor. I'll tell you what I got him,
Speaker 1: because that dude's gonna be working his butt off, just
Speaker 1: like if you're a lawyer. Those first few years of
Speaker 1: lawyering and doctor are not funny. Not the route that
Speaker 1: I took, and definitely not the route any of my
Speaker 1: three boys tick. That's what's on the lineup today. Listen,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for tuning in. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: some fun, probably gonna give something away. I got a
Speaker 1: restaurant gift guards coming out, like you know what. Don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere wherever you're listening, stick text. I don't shows
Speaker 1: a month, payot or defending where you're listening. If you're
Speaker 1: up in the Dallas area and you're listening on Sunday,
Speaker 1: June first, it's my first show of gym. No matter
Speaker 1: how you look at it, A happy summer. Michael Garfield
Speaker 1: is the name. It is this high tech textan show.
Speaker 1: I swear I'm not going to geek out. I do
Speaker 1: recommend answer your questions when it comes to really cool
Speaker 1: tech products and cars and travel and fashion and bourbon
Speaker 1: and cigars. It's pretty much whatever I want to yap
Speaker 1: about or whatever you know, it's I have a knowledge
Speaker 1: that's it's vast. It may not be deep deep deep
Speaker 1: deep deep, but at the top level. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for a dad Father's Day graduation gift, no matter what
Speaker 1: type of category, I could be your guy. Love to
Speaker 1: hear from you. Phone numbers three, four, six, twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Textan If you are too shy as Kaja Goo Goo
Speaker 1: sings back in the eighties, if you're too shy a call,
Speaker 1: always send me an email. Michael Garfield spell the whole
Speaker 1: thing out at iHeartMedia dot com. When I just side
Speaker 1: note Garfield. By the way, everybody should know g A
Speaker 1: R F, I E L D. I wonder what's happening
Speaker 1: in this world. And I'm gonna and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you why. And I'm serious. I have encountered over the
Speaker 1: past few years when I check into a hotel or
Speaker 1: put my name down for a reservation or something, and
Speaker 1: I say my last name, and I'm a meticulous, old
Speaker 1: school guy. When it comes like, okay, let me make
Speaker 1: sure you got my first name, Michael. Amazing how many
Speaker 1: people jack up the Michael. Is it m I C
Speaker 1: H E A No, it's not. It's a el. But
Speaker 1: then I go Garfield. I always spell a man. Just
Speaker 1: make sure you get it right. But then if they
Speaker 1: don't hear me, I will. I will say one of
Speaker 1: two things. Garfield like the cat, which most every single
Speaker 1: person seems to know and understand, very famous cat created
Speaker 1: by what the comic you know, comic creator Jim Davis
Speaker 1: back in the I think it was late seven. I
Speaker 1: am no relation to Garfield the cat. If I was,
Speaker 1: I would not be wasting my weekend on the radio. No, sir,
Speaker 1: I would own an island. But before I use the cat,
Speaker 1: I say one more thing. Hi, my name is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: G A R FI E L D like the President.
Speaker 1: You would be amazed the looks I get, President of what?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, how old are you? And I guess
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a poll right now before bearing
Speaker 1: the lead. We've had forty five forty six presidents. I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know what number Trump is account of
Speaker 1: twice whatever like that. Does anybody no history that there
Speaker 1: was actually a president James A. Garfield? I think in
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty one he was assassinated. He was only president
Speaker 1: for like six months. But I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: But when I went to school, way before AHI was created,
Speaker 1: we had to learn about history, how the United States
Speaker 1: was founded, our government, and pretty much. I think we
Speaker 1: had to memorize all presidents. And I guess maybe there
Speaker 1: were only thirty eight presidents or something when I was
Speaker 1: in grade school or something. But I thought it was
Speaker 1: pretty cool because there was a president who had the
Speaker 1: same last name as I do. Just if you're under thirty,
Speaker 1: you may not know that. Now it's unbelievable. I checked
Speaker 1: into a hotel two or three years ago, and I
Speaker 1: guess it was a young girl at the front desk,
Speaker 1: and I'm with two of my boys and I'm like, yeah, Garfield,
Speaker 1: Like they like the president. She thought I was from
Speaker 1: freaking out of space. President. You don't know there was
Speaker 1: a president of the United States and them Garfield. No,
Speaker 1: that was one. Another one came about two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying names to protect the innocent over here.
Speaker 1: It was a receptionist at a dime's office. And probably
Speaker 1: I guess she was thirty no more than certain, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably thirty thirty two thirty five tops, same thing. Garfield
Speaker 1: like the president, president of what? And I don't want
Speaker 1: to be rude, man, but I'm like, are you kidding me? Then?
Speaker 1: I say, do you not know there was a president
Speaker 1: James Garfield back in the eighth and No, I didn't
Speaker 1: know they was the twentieth president. No, I did not
Speaker 1: know that. Anyway, I digress a little history, a little
Speaker 1: street for you young kids out there. There was a
Speaker 1: there was a Harrison, President Harrison. There was a you know, Lincoln.
Speaker 1: There was only like what four presidents I think who've
Speaker 1: actually been assassinated or died in office. Lincoln was one,
Speaker 1: Garfield was one, McKinley was one. Kennedy was that may
Speaker 1: be it. That's the good I guess the Garfield claimed
Speaker 1: to fame. In order, we've got the cat, we've got
Speaker 1: an assassinated president. Weed down the list. There's Michael Garfield,
Speaker 1: the high tech Texan show phone number. Here is this
Speaker 1: is why you listen to me. People. This is why
Speaker 1: you listen. Three four six two nine t e x A.
Speaker 1: And I actually will give away a gift card. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give away a restaurant gift card here next hour
Speaker 1: may probably so much. I want to talk about this
Speaker 1: though social media. There is a bill in our great
Speaker 1: state of Texas that would ban social media for miners.
Speaker 1: There is a Texas law that would allow parents to
Speaker 1: request the deletion of social media accounts for those under
Speaker 1: eighteen years old. Not passed, but it soon may pass
Speaker 1: into a law making it illegal for those under eighteen
Speaker 1: years old to be on social media. It is House
Speaker 1: Bill one eighty six. And I say this because I
Speaker 1: really want to hear your opinion. Okay, I'm not massively
Speaker 1: in favor, I'm not massively against it. I'm just the
Speaker 1: news guy over here. But it is technology. It is
Speaker 1: social media that I follow very closely, and it's my state.
Speaker 1: I would not be affected because all three of my
Speaker 1: kids are over eighteen. I am over eighteen, so personally
Speaker 1: to me, it don't matter. But let me tell you
Speaker 1: about this, and I want to hear from you. Say,
Speaker 1: if you are under eighteen, hey, call me man, We'll
Speaker 1: put you on the radio three four six, twenty nine textan,
Speaker 1: I have an idea what you kids will say if
Speaker 1: you're under eighteen. I'm more interested with out the respect
Speaker 1: in the parents who have kids under eighteen? Do you
Speaker 1: want them on social media? Because this House Bill one
Speaker 1: eighty six would not only throwhibit miners from creating new
Speaker 1: social media accounts TikTok, Instagram x, but will car age
Speaker 1: verification for everyone else who's creating a new account. If
Speaker 1: this goes to law, parents could request a minor's social
Speaker 1: media account be deleted in the platform, they'd be required
Speaker 1: to remove it. Why is it here, Well, there's lawmakers
Speaker 1: who's I need to get this lawmaker on it. A
Speaker 1: few of these lawmakers on here to talk about they
Speaker 1: support this bill because they say it will counter the
Speaker 1: mental health harm that social media poses to teens. That's why.
Speaker 1: And I know we're up against the break over here.
Speaker 1: But is that the only reason? And I'm not leading
Speaker 1: you down another path of and this is a true,
Speaker 1: true question. Is it just the mental health? Because I
Speaker 1: know for a fact social media can pose a threat
Speaker 1: to mental health, to peer to peer pressure, to bullying,
Speaker 1: to look at me, look at me. The bill's already
Speaker 1: passed in the House of Representatives in Texas, still needs
Speaker 1: to pass the Senate and needs to get a sig
Speaker 1: from Governor Greg Abbott. But I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: A similar law passed in Utah last year. It was
Speaker 1: later blocked by a federal judge, and there's also a
Speaker 1: legal battle going on the same thing in Florida. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I will tell you when the bill
Speaker 1: would go into effect if it's passed in one of
Speaker 1: the ramifications. But in the meantime, love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Here's the phone number. If we don't pick up because
Speaker 1: we're just innundated, leave a voicemail. We do have the
Speaker 1: right to play your voice, but I want to hear
Speaker 1: from you. This is what we do. It's a very
Speaker 1: interactive show. Three four six two nine Texan three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine ten x Am. It is Michael Barfield
Speaker 1: and yes I'm over eighteen and on social.
Speaker 4: Media, guys said nothing else.
Speaker 2: To you on this first day.
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Speaker 1: the last day of May, first day of June, depending
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Speaker 1: this thing Calum read over here as soon as the
Speaker 1: show is ovah, he puts it up in the podcast,
Speaker 1: so you can go back and listen to your hearts
Speaker 1: content of all the reviews for cars, for Barbie Good,
Speaker 1: grills or TVs, I don't know. We got dad's grads
Speaker 1: coming up. I am here for you. I want to
Speaker 1: finish the subject that that we were just yapping about
Speaker 1: at parents in Texas. There is a there's a bill
Speaker 1: just roaming around Austin Capitol that have turned into a
Speaker 1: law would allow parents to request the deletion of social
Speaker 1: media accounts for those under eighteen. It is just a bill.
Speaker 1: It has passed in the House of rep still needs
Speaker 1: to pass in the state Senate. Still need to get
Speaker 1: a signature from my governor. Thoughts on this from parents
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine, Texan Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia
Speaker 1: dot com. I'll read it X hit me x dot com.
Speaker 1: High Tech texanspelled the whole thing out. Yes or no.
Speaker 1: Something tells me, if you're under eighteen, you're gonna I
Speaker 1: can't believe they would do this. No, I'm gonna fight
Speaker 1: my parents. No, I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: all goth and like myself in the room until I'm eighteen.
Speaker 1: They can't stop me. Fight the power or fight the
Speaker 1: good fight. Parents are like, you know what, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe a junior she'd get off Facebook
Speaker 1: or Instagram or TikTok. Maybe I'll get a little more
Speaker 1: FaceTime with him or her. I think there's out of
Speaker 1: doubt that there's one hundreds, no doubt there's two sides.
Speaker 1: There may be some parents who said no, no, I
Speaker 1: want my kids on social media. If this bill has passed,
Speaker 1: it would go into effect on September first of this year,
Speaker 1: and then on January first, twenty twenty six. They could
Speaker 1: be enforced with kennalties. All right, now, this is going
Speaker 1: to be voted on this coming week. It's the deadline
Speaker 1: for legislator to pass it. Is it's Monday? I think
Speaker 1: it's June second. Is that June second. Yeah, it is Monday. Come.
Speaker 1: The reason being lawmakers who support it quite simply say
Speaker 1: it is going to counter the mental health harm. That's
Speaker 1: the reason. Trying to think of any other reason mental health.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that, because there is look at me,
Speaker 1: look at me? Look how many followers, Look how many likes?
Speaker 1: Why is this person prettier than I am? Why are
Speaker 1: they getting to do this? There's bullying. There is pressure
Speaker 1: that social media has brought on that I know. When
Speaker 1: I was under eighteen, that's one major thing I didn't
Speaker 1: have to deal with. Social media came along. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to say Facebook, I mean, I get, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go my Space because whatever. But I
Speaker 1: think Facebook was the one that really took off two
Speaker 1: thousand and one, two thousand and two, two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: An adult, My kids were under eighteen when it started.
Speaker 1: One was five years old, and certainly he didn't have
Speaker 1: an account at that point. But there is pressure. But
Speaker 1: there's also pressure for adults too, in your job, in
Speaker 1: your neighborhood. There's there's a lot of pressure. We put
Speaker 1: it all, I think on the social media companies. What
Speaker 1: is it up to parents and I again, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: move on to the subject because I don't want to
Speaker 1: get too intense to this thing. But I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just interested, and I'm getting emails over here, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking anecdotically, just real quickly as I'm thumbing through my
Speaker 1: emails Michael Garfield ihartmedia dot com, I assume that well,
Speaker 1: actually a lot of the here's like ten of them
Speaker 1: already right now. Yes, I'm a parent. I'm a parent
Speaker 1: of this. I'm a parent of a seventeen years old
Speaker 1: I'm a parent of the I actually I would like
Speaker 1: to see tighter you know, rules and regulations where I,
Speaker 1: as a parent, do have to say so of what
Speaker 1: my kids can and can't do online. The only thing
Speaker 1: I remember as a dad of younger kids, and again,
Speaker 1: this is a different time. Social media was not nearly
Speaker 1: as prevalent as it is today. I will go back
Speaker 1: to the late nineties and my youngest son, he was
Speaker 1: born in two thousand, so let's go all the way
Speaker 1: to two thousand and five, two thousand and six, seven, eight, like, okay,
Speaker 1: so when my oldest was probably ten, twelve, thirteen years old,
Speaker 1: they weren't on social media. Heck, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if I was on social media back then. But the
Speaker 1: biggest concern, and this is, yeah, my radio show was
Speaker 1: about four or five years into it back then, and
Speaker 1: the biggest question that I got for parents. It wasn't
Speaker 1: about cell phones. That came a little later, Hey Michael,
Speaker 1: what age is appropriate for my kid to get a
Speaker 1: cell phone? It was about computers. And that was the
Speaker 1: biggest suggestion that I had. It Again, this goes to harkinsta.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shay howl long. I'll be doing the show.
Speaker 1: This harks back in time. We as a family back
Speaker 1: in late nineties, I think we had one, maybe two computers.
Speaker 1: It was they were expensive relatively, they were two thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: They had to get a monitor and whatever like that.
Speaker 1: And then the question was, well, how you And there
Speaker 1: was websites and I don't even know if Google was around.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know what we were doing
Speaker 1: on websites back then. Should my kids get on the
Speaker 1: web the internet? That was the question one social media
Speaker 1: and my advice to them back then, and this is
Speaker 1: what I did. I didn't really mind if my kids
Speaker 1: got on the web. They played a lot of the games,
Speaker 1: the video games, whatever. But I made sure, as as
Speaker 1: a parent of young adults, that they did not have
Speaker 1: a computer, desktop, or a laptop in their rooms. We
Speaker 1: put the family computer in a in our family room
Speaker 1: where the TV was, and everything on a desk, so
Speaker 1: mom and dad could walk by the kids on the
Speaker 1: computer and watch and monitor what they did. That And again,
Speaker 1: a funny thing. It was only twenty years ago or
Speaker 1: so that we have come so far. I can almost
Speaker 1: guarantee that every parent does not know to the full
Speaker 1: extent or even have a clue what their kids are
Speaker 1: doing in their own rooms with their phones. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that it's all bad, but they're spending so much
Speaker 1: screen time anyway. That's that's it. I do want to
Speaker 1: move on here, but I just thought that was interesting
Speaker 1: because it is our state, and I care about our state.
Speaker 1: I care about our kids. I care. I have three
Speaker 1: wonderful boys, and I'm not taking full credit for that.
Speaker 1: But I wasn't a Matt.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 1: I was not in one of those intense parents, but
Speaker 1: I was just listen, we cope, we do the right thing.
Speaker 1: There is no manual for raising a kid, and you
Speaker 1: even know there's what to expect when expecting. I think
Speaker 1: I read that thing. But other than that, you just
Speaker 1: you cross your fingers and you hope you and you
Speaker 1: hope your kids come out. Maybe our government, our state government,
Speaker 1: thinks they know why it's best. And that's why it's
Speaker 1: up to you to talk to you representatives. And you've
Speaker 1: got probably the next day or day to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Phone number three four six twenty nine, Texan. One more thing,
Speaker 1: one more, one more, one more little kid thing? Which
Speaker 1: what generation are you? You know there's baby boomers, gen X,
Speaker 1: gin y gen Z. Right, I saw this gen Z.
Speaker 1: How old are gen Z? I guess my kids? I
Speaker 1: guess my son born in ninety four might have another
Speaker 1: son born in ninety seven. I guess they're gen Z
Speaker 1: said they're thirty years anywhere between twenty to thirty years old.
Speaker 1: I guess they're they're gen Z. They have a they
Speaker 1: have a new side hustle to make a little bit money.
Speaker 1: And you know what they're doing. They're they're not selling plasma.
Speaker 1: They're not selling they're not going to the blood donation center.
Speaker 1: That's what we did. I guess when when we need
Speaker 1: a little extra cash. Now, they're they have no problem
Speaker 1: selling their data, their data, their personal data, giving companies
Speaker 1: deeper insight into their lives. That's right. There's this new company,
Speaker 1: new product actually it's called verb dot ai that's buying data,
Speaker 1: buying deata and more young people. And again I'm reading
Speaker 1: a pull over. They're willing to give their personal data
Speaker 1: much more than their parents are. So this company, it's
Speaker 1: actually it's Generation Lab, that's it's it's a youth polling company.
Speaker 1: They have this product called verb dot ai. They're offering
Speaker 1: people cash fifty bucks more per month depending on you know,
Speaker 1: on their use, other factors or whatever, to download a
Speaker 1: track are on their phones. And once it's on your phone,
Speaker 1: it tracks things like what you browse, what you buy,
Speaker 1: what streaming app you use, allegedly all anonymously. Apparently, it
Speaker 1: doesn't track things like activity or bank account. They're doing
Speaker 1: this for money. It's so funny. I'm not old guy
Speaker 1: yelling at the clouds on his lawn ride now, but man,
Speaker 1: the generation gap that my generation at now, I'm Generation X,
Speaker 1: I'm gen X versus gen Y, gen Z gin the
Speaker 1: two thousand, dot com or whatever you call these kids.
Speaker 1: But eighty eight percent of gen Z is open to
Speaker 1: sharing personal information. With social media companies. That's twenty points
Speaker 1: higher than older generations. Apparently they don't mind really being
Speaker 1: tracked with their websites and apps. Okay, that's cool. I
Speaker 1: mean meaning that they're not doing anything illicit. Kids, And
Speaker 1: now in break time, right now, kids, let me tell
Speaker 1: you a little business, little negotating policy. Hold out for
Speaker 1: more than fifty bones. Your valuable is much more. If
Speaker 1: you're a date, is much more valuable than fifty bucks
Speaker 1: a month. People, Come on, millennials, come on, gen z ears,
Speaker 1: go at least for five hundred dollars a month. All right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, O man, automatic drug. You know
Speaker 1: I review cars and trucks and SUVs every single week
Speaker 1: for fifteen years. I drive one. I am not paid.
Speaker 1: It is pure content. It is not an endorsement. So
Speaker 1: I know how to rag on them, and I know
Speaker 1: how to love on them. How about a driverless vehicle?
Speaker 1: How about it? Would you drive it? And guess what?
Speaker 1: My three big cities in Texas way moo. That's right,
Speaker 1: that self driving automatic robotic vehicle. They are coming to
Speaker 1: your sit k this summer. You're to sit in the back.
Speaker 1: Say more about les. Travel season is upon us for
Speaker 1: the fighting the crowns. Good luck to you, Thank you
Speaker 1: for down you know what. Download the iHeartRadio app, Spotify wherever,
Speaker 1: World class podcast I heard. Listen to my show All
Speaker 1: you Want here as we celebrate the summer season. Last
Speaker 1: day of May, first day of June. Whenever you're listening
Speaker 1: to this thing. Michael Garfield is the name I do
Speaker 1: cover the travel industry too, was it last yea? Last
Speaker 1: week we had somebody from United Airlines had a representative
Speaker 1: kind of runs all of their customer service. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty big deal. Man based here in Houston. I appreciate
Speaker 1: Andy coming on the show to talk about how they
Speaker 1: handle and some of their new apps. And they were
Speaker 1: using Apple Trackers to track their bags and they've got
Speaker 1: an app, you know, just all this other stuff. I
Speaker 1: flew earlier this week and on Southwest Airlines. I am
Speaker 1: I am loyal which is why we have the loyalty programs.
Speaker 1: I'm United American Southwest. I got Delta Loyalty program Southwest
Speaker 1: man as a Dallas boy growing up, someone who literally
Speaker 1: has been flying Southwest probably since I was six years old,
Speaker 1: as an a list preferred member. That's me big changes people.
Speaker 1: This week, it is over you knew it was coming,
Speaker 1: but it was this past Wednesday. I actually flew on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the last day that Southwest let you bring on two
Speaker 1: free bags. It all changed a few days ago. Southwest
Speaker 1: Airlines began charging thirty five dollars for your first check bag.
Speaker 1: It'll end of the longtime policy offering the flyers for
Speaker 1: free luggage, thirty five bucks for your first bag, forty
Speaker 1: five dollars for your second bag. Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: if you're a member, if you're an A List or
Speaker 1: an A List Preferred, you're still getting free bags.
Speaker 3: Ha.
Speaker 1: I still get two free bags as long as I'm
Speaker 1: an A List Preferred, and I get two free drinks,
Speaker 1: and I get one hundred percent bonus on all my
Speaker 1: flat miles. That's actually you know what. I don't do
Speaker 1: online dating? Really I probably should. That's I also have
Speaker 1: a companion pass man. That's what that should be on
Speaker 1: a profile. Hi, how you doing? My name is Michael.
Speaker 1: I'm a Southwest Airlines A List Preferred. I am a
Speaker 1: Companion pass holder. Would you like to be my companion?
Speaker 1: I'll buy you a drink or two and bring up
Speaker 1: to two bags. Ain't gonna costume nothing, honey, somebody gets South.
Speaker 1: But I'd love to talk to Southwest Airlines marketing people.
Speaker 1: You know what, I know the United, I know people
Speaker 1: United too. I'm going to get an official airline on
Speaker 1: the High Tech Texan. I mean, why not listen? My
Speaker 1: show is in Houston, It's in Dallas, and it is
Speaker 1: in San Antonio. The three cities, the Southwest Airlines, the
Speaker 1: triangle that her gellaher created it in. Why is Southwest
Speaker 1: not a sponsor mine? United? You're in there to bidding war.
Speaker 1: Talk to my people. Southwest also rolling out basic economy fairs.
Speaker 1: That's gonna replace There's no there's not gonna be anyone
Speaker 1: to get away options anymore. They're gonna be basic economy fairs.
Speaker 1: They do not have assigned seats yet. That is coming
Speaker 1: next year in twenty twenty six. I also saw this
Speaker 1: and I'm just one more travel over thing. Speaking of United,
Speaker 1: they actually made a little change this year. Question for
Speaker 1: you phone number here on the Michael Garfield Show All
Speaker 1: Around the World three four six, twenty nine Texan as
Speaker 1: I do cover the travel industry. Question how early do
Speaker 1: you get to the airport to check in for your flight?
Speaker 1: And let's just say it's a domestic flight, how early
Speaker 1: there are something. I think the older you get, you
Speaker 1: get there earlier. I think my parents now if they fly,
Speaker 1: they will get there the day before, I mean two
Speaker 1: hours before, one hour before. United Airlines they just change
Speaker 1: it's check in deadline for domestic flights. They now you
Speaker 1: have to be checked in forty five minutes before departure
Speaker 1: starts this coming week. Before that, it was just thirty
Speaker 1: minutes you have to check in. They say it's for
Speaker 1: greater consistency for their customers. Whatever. I want to know this.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't check in to their flight more than less
Speaker 1: than twenty four hours? I mean, I know on Southwest
Speaker 1: I'm automatically checked in because I'm an a list preferred
Speaker 1: I think, what seventy two hours beforehand? But I want
Speaker 1: to get a low boarding number on Southwest, I want
Speaker 1: to get a fifteen, a sixteen, a seventeen, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And I guess other ones. I guess United. I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I have all my documents, I
Speaker 1: have the app downloaded. I want to get the QR code,
Speaker 1: just scan on the thing. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: a big deal. It's just fifteen minutes. These airlines are
Speaker 1: just to continue to change, change change man. I also
Speaker 1: saw this. I guess we're just going to do a
Speaker 1: I will talk about way Mo cars next hour to
Speaker 1: stand by. One more thing, Apparently United Airlines just also
Speaker 1: did a partnership deal with Jet Blue. What's the deal
Speaker 1: over here there? They can I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a code sharing type of thing, but you could share
Speaker 1: your miles that I've I have never flown Jet Blue
Speaker 1: in my life. Jet Blue. I'm listening to you. You
Speaker 1: actually you could also get into the negotiations as the
Speaker 1: official airline of the high tech taxan jet Blue. I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about Jet Blue. I assume it's a
Speaker 1: decent airline. I like their planes. I like the logo
Speaker 1: on the planes. It's all I know that they've combined.
Speaker 1: And then they're not renaming. They created a program. They're
Speaker 1: not renaming Jet Blue. I don't think it's official merger.
Speaker 1: They're just they're combining loyalty points or something of that nature.
Speaker 1: But they're calling this new shareable program blue Sky Jet
Speaker 1: Blue United Sky. Okay, finn, Oh wait a minute, isn't
Speaker 1: that the name of a social media app in Blue Sky?
Speaker 1: I signed up for a Blue Sky. It you know,
Speaker 1: kind of goes after ex Twitter type of thing. I
Speaker 1: know they could trademark it, because they don't. It's an
Speaker 1: airline type of thing. It's a cool name. It's confusing.
Speaker 1: What's your blue what's your blue Sky? I think I'm
Speaker 1: high tech Texan dot blue Sky dot com. I think
Speaker 1: I don't use blue Sky a lot, but they call
Speaker 1: the Blue Sky Mergers. There's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: people flying. Just be patient. People, be patient. That's my
Speaker 1: travel update, brought to you by nobody right now. Oh,
Speaker 1: but I want to make this a regular second man,
Speaker 1: especially this summer. I like all you travel information and
Speaker 1: again all the tech year that you need, all the
Speaker 1: rule wireless tags for bag trackers, traveling international, got some hotspots,
Speaker 1: got some Wi Fi hot spots. Eye on your dot.
Speaker 1: Look about the number one more time. As we end
Speaker 1: our number one it is three four six twenty nine techan.
Speaker 1: When we come back, I promise to talk about this
Speaker 1: driving vehicles ride sharing vehicle that you may have seen
Speaker 1: or heard in other cities around the country, all over LA,
Speaker 1: A lot of them all over San Francisco, but they
Speaker 1: are coming to Texas. Some are even molding that as
Speaker 1: I speak that come helping the other side.
Speaker 5: Hanging there.
Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfer.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 2: In the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texas items
Speaker 1: to make life easier technology.
Speaker 2: And Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texas three decades helping
Speaker 3: you make magic with your gadgets. Heurd worldwide on the
Speaker 3: iHeart Radio Act. Right now, you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: One hour down, one hour to go, which means we
Speaker 1: are halfway through the high Tech Texan show. Say it
Speaker 1: with me here on the first day of maybe of June,
Speaker 1: last day of May. We are a halfway at a
Speaker 1: happy hour, and I hope you are having a happy
Speaker 1: hour where it's gonna get to be one hundred degree
Speaker 1: real quick man, Welcome to Texas. Michael Garfield is the
Speaker 1: name phone number here. One hour we'll do dads and grads,
Speaker 1: gift suggestions, a lot of other really interesting news in
Speaker 1: the world of tech, but also consumer lifestyle. Three four six,
Speaker 1: twenty nine Texan. If you are laying by the pool
Speaker 1: having a nice coldie, should you be twenty one years
Speaker 1: and above? I do thank you save one for me
Speaker 1: because in about an hour from right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I get an invite. You know, got a
Speaker 1: new bathing suit and a new swimsuit. I'm ready to
Speaker 1: go for you. I did see this non alcoholic beer.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever tried those things? Non alcoholic beer to me
Speaker 1: is in the same category as caffeine free soda, meaning
Speaker 1: what's the point? And actually I think that would be
Speaker 1: a good name for a non alcoholic beer. It a
Speaker 1: already be one because I love crazy beer names. What's
Speaker 1: the point? Brew? But anyway, not the point. Non alcoholic
Speaker 1: beer is on track to overtake it al as the
Speaker 1: second largest beer category category by volume worldwide this year.
Speaker 1: This is a new projections from this industry tracker IWSR,
Speaker 1: who attracts beer something. Overall beer volume fell about one
Speaker 1: percent last year, but volume for his non alcoholic beer
Speaker 1: it grew nine percent worldwide non alcohol and I know
Speaker 1: some of the brands I don't even know if I've
Speaker 1: ever tried non alcoholic beer. You know why? Because what's
Speaker 1: the point? I'll tell you the point. So I just
Speaker 1: got back from visiting to my boys live in La.
Speaker 1: Thirty year old twenty four year old kids nowadays are
Speaker 1: not drinking nearly what they used to, and certainly in
Speaker 1: my generation. I say, kids, I apologize because you do
Speaker 1: have to be twenty one at least in this day
Speaker 1: of Texas. All my kids are above twenty one. But
Speaker 1: these Generation Z millennials, whatever you want to call them,
Speaker 1: they're not drinking as much. And I find that interesting.
Speaker 1: And apparently this and note, but I just saw that
Speaker 1: non alcoholic beer is projected to over become the second
Speaker 1: largest beer category. I guess it's gonna overtake a light
Speaker 1: beer or something. I don't even know, but they drinking.
Speaker 1: And I can prove this My thirty year old vegan,
Speaker 1: by the way, which is neither here nor there, because
Speaker 1: there's vegan beer and you can drink like that. He's
Speaker 1: not drinking Ardie Pooper because you know what, I'm a
Speaker 1: dad man. Let's got a beer. Let's go watch it
Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs. Let's go watch it. No mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have some water. My twenty four year old,
Speaker 1: he graduated college what three years ago, wasn't ever a
Speaker 1: None of my kids were really really big alcoholic drinkers,
Speaker 1: which is great and proud of that, but uh, I
Speaker 1: know he used to drink it. And I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I'm here for a while and I
Speaker 1: got this Airbnb and We're gonna hang out at the beach.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get some beers and you know, maybe
Speaker 1: some tequila stuff, like what do you want?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe I'll have a beer here and there,
Speaker 1: but that's it. And I'm like, yo, I do I
Speaker 1: know you don't have a lot of alcohol. You you
Speaker 1: know you expensive lived in California. I'm gonna buy your
Speaker 1: groceries everything. Man, I'll stalk up your liquor cabinet. Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm good. It's crazy, is it? It's good, I guess.
Speaker 1: But have you found this to be true with your kids? Anyway?
Speaker 1: That's found that interesting as I travel the world. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Michael is the name. While I was in LA. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a hard segue right now, driving around there
Speaker 1: are in LA in California, lots of EV's, lots of
Speaker 1: electric vehicles. There's also a lot of autonomous self driving
Speaker 1: rideshare of cars, and you've heard about them, one of
Speaker 1: which is Waimo. I've seen way Moo before. They're in Austin.
Speaker 1: They launched in Austin on a limited basis about a
Speaker 1: year ago, but in La they these Waymo vehicles were
Speaker 1: almost everywhere. I mean every I don't know. It seemed
Speaker 1: like every few miles. Be it on a highway, be
Speaker 1: it at a stoplight. Here is this beautiful Jaguar car.
Speaker 1: It's the Jaguar I Pace. It's an electric vehicle, souped
Speaker 1: up that you can't miss. They're white with radar on top,
Speaker 1: with this two little you know, spinning light ar which
Speaker 1: is a type of radar type of thing on the sides.
Speaker 1: You can't miss this stuff. And if you look inside
Speaker 1: the tinted windows, the ain't no driver. The first time
Speaker 1: you ever see a vehicle without a driver, you are
Speaker 1: kind of freaked out. For me, it was about eight
Speaker 1: years ago. I mean I was in San Francisco. I'm
Speaker 1: leaving the airport, driving up the highway into the city
Speaker 1: of San Francisco. I look over from my Uber, which
Speaker 1: was being driven by a real person, and there was
Speaker 1: no one driving in a car. Crazy. You don't see
Speaker 1: these a lot in Texas. Oh guess what people Waymos
Speaker 1: driverless feet. Yes, it's the fleet. They've been around in
Speaker 1: Austin for a while. They're coming to all my terrestrial
Speaker 1: cities who listen to this radio show over the air, Houston,
Speaker 1: San Antonio, and Dallas. And let's start with Houston. Houston,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be seeing these freaky things because driverless vehicles
Speaker 1: from Weimo, which is Google's sister company, they're gonna be here.
Speaker 1: They're doing this kind of a road trip. Weymo's bringing
Speaker 1: about ten vehicles. They're gonna be driving around some Houston neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: some of the interstates, and it's gonna be freaky. Dicky
Speaker 1: san Antonio, I believe they just started this little media tour,
Speaker 1: and Dallas, I believe it's coming to you too. It's
Speaker 1: not permanent as in now I know Waimo in the
Speaker 1: Houston test market. It's gonna be done by the end
Speaker 1: of summer. I guess the question is, are you read
Speaker 1: day for this? Would you step inside in the back
Speaker 1: seat tours locked telling it from an app where you
Speaker 1: want to go from point A to point B unlike
Speaker 1: any other ride sharing app, have a no driver there
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine, Texan. Because it is coming,
Speaker 1: I need to get in touch with Waymo teams because
Speaker 1: I actually want to do his TV story on this thing,
Speaker 1: and also maybe do some videos. I've been in a
Speaker 1: Waimo before, but now that it is here in my
Speaker 1: state on a larger basis than just Austin, I want
Speaker 1: to check this thing out. By the way, I think,
Speaker 1: way moo, they should be scared of Houston drivers. Am
Speaker 1: I wrong about this? Am I wrong? The streets Listen,
Speaker 1: it ain't no city street, no big city. They're now perfect,
Speaker 1: you know, as potholes or his bumps. Houston already has
Speaker 1: a pretty bad relationship with driving. You mix in some
Speaker 1: driverless cars, it's a big obstacle, baby. I mean, do
Speaker 1: they give you like a volume you or something when
Speaker 1: you step in. It's gonna be a stressful experience. You're
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be some you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some probably accidents here. I will say there's there in Houston.
Speaker 1: Traffic is bad. Only of a city that is worse.
Speaker 1: I do think is La just because it's La is
Speaker 1: so big, so much bigger than Houston area wise, people wise,
Speaker 1: very rarely is there just a straight shot up and
Speaker 1: down the four oh five five or whatever. It is.
Speaker 1: La is bad Houston. You're number two to me, these
Speaker 1: cars work on AI. They learn from human behavior. Houston's
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be a really terrifying fleet of
Speaker 1: autonomous vehicles prime to rule the road was be ready
Speaker 1: for it. Let me know if you're ready to hop
Speaker 1: in that car three four six twenty nine text and
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is the name. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get away a gift car to a arrest or.
Speaker 1: Run stand by for that to be the perfect caller.
Speaker 1: H And also, hey, summer, I know you should be outside,
Speaker 1: but I saw a whole cool list of streaming deals deals.
Speaker 1: May I want you to cut your cord? Now's the
Speaker 1: time to do it before football season. There's some good
Speaker 1: deals out there. Again, I'm not getting paid. This not endorsement,
Speaker 1: but I would tell you a big old mama list
Speaker 1: of new streaming deals to get your toe in the
Speaker 1: water for trying something. When it comes to streaming TV,
Speaker 1: it is Garth right now. Oh. Also, by the end
Speaker 1: of the hour and the show gonna review two high
Speaker 1: tech barbecue grills. Are you ready for AI to take
Speaker 1: over your backyard? This is how much content I have
Speaker 1: for you back, mister Michael Garfield. You don't need to
Speaker 1: call me mister. We're tight. Just call me GARF G A.
Speaker 1: R F. Got about forty more minutes in the show.
Speaker 1: Lots to talk about still, I got a few things
Speaker 1: to give away, little gift cards standby for that. I
Speaker 1: have to talk about cars. Been testing, you know, fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Every week I get a brand new car just for
Speaker 1: one week. Sadly that I don't get to keep it.
Speaker 1: I've driven over one thousand vehicles, suvsvvs, evs, sports cars, minivans,
Speaker 1: you name it. If you are in the market for
Speaker 1: purchasing one. If you want my opinion, I am here
Speaker 1: for you. Send me an email. Michael Garfield. iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 1: See if you can get into the phone lines three
Speaker 1: four six twenty nine Texan, I will. What was I
Speaker 1: in this past week? I had a Nissan Frontier, which
Speaker 1: is a mid size hiccup truck.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 1: It's good. Not the sexiest thing I've ever driven when
Speaker 1: it comes to mid sized trucks, but I do like
Speaker 1: the size. I kind of like mid size trucks personally
Speaker 1: a little bit more than the quarter time of the
Speaker 1: full size trucks, just in terms of number one. They're
Speaker 1: much easy to park because mid size much smaller. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have to worry about the clearance,
Speaker 1: you know, the six foot eight inch Clarence going in
Speaker 1: underneath the parking garage that I've always you know, get
Speaker 1: a little nervous every time I'm in a big truck.
Speaker 1: It's they're they're cheaper, without a doubt. I don't haul
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I just don't, you know, schlep
Speaker 1: or a toe, a lot of things. That's why for me,
Speaker 1: if I had to get a truck, personally, i'd get
Speaker 1: a mid sized truck. But rest assured people, I've done
Speaker 1: everything from the Ford to the RAM, to the Toyotas
Speaker 1: to the Cheves, the GMC's. I got all the pickup
Speaker 1: trucks under my belt. So I am here for you.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that with that. What I also like,
Speaker 1: you know, some of these stories that you guys send me,
Speaker 1: because you know, I like talking about whatever that you know,
Speaker 1: the world I feel like, especially if it comes to
Speaker 1: food and funny things. Real quickly I saw this, there
Speaker 1: was a this is brilliant. This is like I work
Speaker 1: for a comp Well, listen, I'm an entrepreneur. I also
Speaker 1: work for iHeartRadio. I also have these TV stations, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of on a contract basis, so I personally don't
Speaker 1: have an expense account. I've always wondered what it's like
Speaker 1: to have an expense account because a number of my
Speaker 1: buddies and a lot of my contacts who work for
Speaker 1: real companies, they have credit cards and they can expense everything.
Speaker 1: Like damn man, you mean you could just you take
Speaker 1: clients and you don't even have to see the bill
Speaker 1: and your you know, your accounting team takes care of it.
Speaker 1: It's just, yes, I'm jealous, obviously, I understand how some
Speaker 1: accounting works that you know, you really have to justify
Speaker 1: that you're going out to dinner or you're you're having
Speaker 1: a meal, or you're taking people to lunch whatever, or
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't get meals. You have to buy office expenses,
Speaker 1: or you have to you know, hotels or specifically travel
Speaker 1: whatever it is. This is beautiful. There is a burger
Speaker 1: shop in Toronto, never heard of it. It's called Good
Speaker 1: Fortune Burger. They renamed some of their menu items to
Speaker 1: sound like office supplies so they can help remote workers
Speaker 1: potentially expense meals through their work accounts. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this made right here. Here is a
Speaker 1: double meat burger, tomatoes, cheese slaw. I mean it looks great.
Speaker 1: Twelve dollars and fifty Canadian whatever it is. But the
Speaker 1: name of it so when it prints out on the
Speaker 1: receipt is ergonomic aluminum laptop stand. And actually I'm kind
Speaker 1: of hungry right now, so I want to order the
Speaker 1: silicone keyboard cover, which, by the way, is a build
Speaker 1: your own burger, but make your boss pay and you
Speaker 1: can customize it. Anyway. Here's one call. There's this is
Speaker 1: a chicken sandwich. It looks phenomenal with a side of
Speaker 1: called wired earphones with Mike just the us. If you
Speaker 1: want to say, if you want to side a fries
Speaker 1: USB wired mouse, his dad is absolutely studdying. That is
Speaker 1: stunningly brilliant. Anyway, we continue. This is this is this
Speaker 1: is how I run the High Tech Texan Show. It
Speaker 1: is great to have you here. I did promise what
Speaker 1: if I oh, yeah, summer you should be outside. I
Speaker 1: saw a list of streaming deals. There's nothing really to
Speaker 1: do for the next two months. When it comes to television.
Speaker 1: NBA season is about to end. If you're a baseball fan,
Speaker 1: good for you. You can watch baseball. I'm personally not the
Speaker 1: biggest baseball fan, even though I'm a massive sports fan,
Speaker 1: So you have to look at you know, TV shows
Speaker 1: are kind of in reruns and repeats, but you know
Speaker 1: streamers constantly have things coming out on my on my
Speaker 1: X account. I'll do it high Tech Texan h I
Speaker 1: G H T E C h T E x C
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put this list up here. I found
Speaker 1: a list of streaming deals deals. Because streaming services start,
Speaker 1: they can add up to be much more expensive than
Speaker 1: a cable bill, which mine is well over three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: And you know what, screw you, Exfinity. I'm getting ready
Speaker 1: to kill this thing too. But the point is, here's
Speaker 1: something from Peacock. Get to get one year for twenty
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Speaker 1: to talk about cars. There's a few features that you know,
Speaker 1: that start stop feature of a car when your engine
Speaker 1: turns off and turns on. Got some inside info in that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it bugs people. It kind of bugs me too,
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Speaker 1: If you want a little a little fast, tex mechs
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get everybody else fat to make me
Speaker 1: look thinner. It's there's my game plan. Michael Garfield. It
Speaker 1: is the High Tech text and show. We have recommended
Speaker 1: a number of different things about your tech and Father's
Speaker 1: Day is coming up over the next two weeks. We'll
Speaker 1: talk more about Father's Day gifts, guides. If you're getting
Speaker 1: data car and if you are, I want to be
Speaker 1: friends with you. But if somebody is looking for a car,
Speaker 1: there's so many different features in a car, and I
Speaker 1: really do. One of the reasons, actually, the reason I
Speaker 1: started reviewing cars and trucks and vehicles fifteen years ago
Speaker 1: is I realized that they are indeed nothing but technology
Speaker 1: they built. They are built on technology. The technology features
Speaker 1: they have nowadays, with the the cameras, the bird's eye view,
Speaker 1: the backup camera, just the the the engines, the the
Speaker 1: ev the electricity type of thing. It's tech, tech tech.
Speaker 1: And I do over a thousand different vehicles on a
Speaker 1: weekly basis. I test drive. I do not get paid
Speaker 1: these or not endororsed. They're my true thoughts, and so
Speaker 1: if you do are in the market for something of
Speaker 1: a vehicle, I'm more than happy to give you my
Speaker 1: thoughts and opinions. But some I have found of these
Speaker 1: little tiny features in cars, well not find it, but
Speaker 1: the features in cars I scratch my head, want to
Speaker 1: know is it worth it? Who came up with this idea?
Speaker 1: One of which was and this has been around for
Speaker 1: all many years. Do you have a car or vehicle
Speaker 1: that has start stop technology? Start stop which means you're
Speaker 1: rolling along driving your engine, your hybrid engines is everything.
Speaker 1: It's cool, it's running. You get to a stoplight and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden your engine shuts down when you
Speaker 1: hit the brake and and you're just stopped and then
Speaker 1: it restarts when the break is released. That's called start
Speaker 1: stop technology. Was told and understood it to be, well,
Speaker 1: it's going to conserve gas, it's going to idle really
Speaker 1: to shut the engine off, and it'll save you know,
Speaker 1: the it'll help the environment. The EPA administrator is the today.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it's it's this. You know, we're
Speaker 1: not going to be you know, the combustible and there's
Speaker 1: the fog is not going to be up there and
Speaker 1: everything coming out of the exhaust pipe. It's in sixty
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, it was in sixty five percent
Speaker 1: of vehicles. Okay, it's been around since at least twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: As I'm looking here, well, guess what the EPA. Who
Speaker 1: is this EPA, the EPA chief. His name is Lee Zelden.
Speaker 1: I need we need to get Lee on the No,
Speaker 1: we need to get Lee Zelden on my show here.
Speaker 1: Apparently he's not a fan of this technology right now.
Speaker 1: He calls it quote a climate participation trophy. He said
Speaker 1: that the EPA proved it, but everyone hates it. So
Speaker 1: the EPA is going to fix it. What does this
Speaker 1: mean now the EPA. I will make this clear, the
Speaker 1: EPA does not mandate start stop technology. It doesn't mandate
Speaker 1: it because you know, most all cars that you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of guards don't have it. But regarding the
Speaker 1: future of this technology, I I mean, given that the
Speaker 1: EPA already provides extra fuel economy credits to automakers that
Speaker 1: adopt it, they may cut those if anything. I just
Speaker 1: don't at the bottom line for automakers dealing with cost issues,
Speaker 1: I think the EBA's positioning on this start stop feature,
Speaker 1: it could prompt some car companies to phase out this
Speaker 1: technology sooner than later, and many might find that, you know,
Speaker 1: fighting for a feature that really isn't that popular with
Speaker 1: car buyers probably isn't worth the battle with the administration.
Speaker 1: With the EPA. I don't know if you got thoughts
Speaker 1: on this, does it matter? Do you like it? Am? I?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. This is what I am
Speaker 1: just throwing out ideas and to give you the updated news.
Speaker 1: Told you I do get the drive cars I had.
Speaker 1: I had two vehicles last week, one of which I
Speaker 1: told you was a Nissan Frontier mid size truck. There
Speaker 1: are a number of different trucks that fit the mid
Speaker 1: size category. These are not the F one fifties are
Speaker 1: those are you know what we call half tons all right?
Speaker 1: Half ton trucks or quarter ton trucks or full size truck.
Speaker 1: There are mid size trucks. The number one best selling
Speaker 1: mid sized truck is the Toyota Tacoma. Okay, by far,
Speaker 1: There's the Ford Maverick. There's the Chevy Colorado. There's that
Speaker 1: Nissan Frontier. Chevy Colorado's sister, which is it's the GMC Canyon.
Speaker 1: These are smaller vehicles. I personally like these because I
Speaker 1: don't haul things. They're easier to maneuver, They're much easier
Speaker 1: to part. It's still has a bed, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: not as long as the full size you know, six
Speaker 1: foot or longer. Beds. But if you want up you
Speaker 1: know Carrie's you know, schleps some wood or suitcases or
Speaker 1: moving some sort of furniture up. They're they're they're good
Speaker 1: for you. The nissuand Frontier decent. It's got good features
Speaker 1: us It's not as comfy as and sexy. Dare I
Speaker 1: say as other mid sized vehicles. I think a set
Speaker 1: I think to me the sexiest mid size in terms
Speaker 1: of the the nice seats, the infotainment, the comfortability. Probably
Speaker 1: and again this is nothing I talk about is paid whatsoever?
Speaker 1: These In my opinion, I like the GMC Canyon, GMC Canyon.
Speaker 1: The GMC is the higher end versions of Chevy. Because
Speaker 1: Chevy also makes the Colorado. The Chevy Colorado the GMC Canyon,
Speaker 1: pound for pound, are the same vehicle. It's built on
Speaker 1: the same frame. It's gotta be the GMC. They have
Speaker 1: a little bit more up rated things inside the pad
Speaker 1: of things. Now, Chevy Colorado that's one of the top four,
Speaker 1: top five better selling ones. They are less expensive than
Speaker 1: the GMC CanYa, which is why that's better selling too.
Speaker 1: If you're looking to get a Nissan Frontier and there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of mid sized pickup trucks out there,
Speaker 1: mid size pickup trucks. Right, there's there's an Honda Ridge line,
Speaker 1: which I think I'm getting a Honda Ridge line next week,
Speaker 1: which is interesting. I'm going back to back mid sized trucks.
Speaker 1: You should you may want to consider it. It runs
Speaker 1: about forty forty three thousand dollars, certainly much cheaper than
Speaker 1: your big half tons or you know, full sized pickup trucks.
Speaker 1: So that's when I had the other vehicle that I
Speaker 1: was in. I was in a Mazda Miada. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Masda still makes these little cars. Oh is it a
Speaker 1: Masda mare people? I will tell you that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you. I'm telling you like it is. This is
Speaker 1: what I did. It was the Mazda Miata Club RF.
Speaker 1: It was a hard top convertible, which not only I
Speaker 1: like convertibles, was good. You know, when it's in the
Speaker 1: hot summer in a few months, I really don't like
Speaker 1: driving around in the convertible because it's it is hot
Speaker 1: and nasty in Texas. But in this case, I needed
Speaker 1: this top to be off because I am a six
Speaker 1: foot tall dude and I barely fit in this Mazda
Speaker 1: Miada Masdi Miada has been around for at least a generation, right,
Speaker 1: if not two generations. They are I'm gonna use the
Speaker 1: word cute. It's a cute. It's a cute car. It's
Speaker 1: a head turner. Oh look at that little thing. They're
Speaker 1: not expensive. This, believe it or not, was one of
Speaker 1: probably the very few stick shift cars that I get
Speaker 1: in a given year. I do not recommend nor enjoy
Speaker 1: driving a stick shift car in traffic. And if you're
Speaker 1: driving on a daily basis, Sir, Leantown's like Houston, Dallas,
Speaker 1: San Antonio where my where my radio show is hurt terrestrially.
Speaker 1: You do not want to You don't want to sit
Speaker 1: on that clutch. Then you got to put it into neutral,
Speaker 1: Then you gotta shift it into first, then you gotta
Speaker 1: go back. It is a pain. This is the smallest
Speaker 1: vehicle I have ever driven, and I get I get
Speaker 1: a mozzed to me out of probably once every two years.
Speaker 1: I smile, but I also frown at the same time
Speaker 1: during the week that I have it. It's just very
Speaker 1: low for me to get into and it is extremely tight.
Speaker 1: I have long arms, right, This thing is so small
Speaker 1: that when I put my right arm elbow when I
Speaker 1: rest it on the center console between the driver the
Speaker 1: passenger seat. Obviously, I have to use my right hand
Speaker 1: to to switch shift gears because it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a manual gearshift, but the radio control and the control
Speaker 1: for the infotainment system it's further back, so I have
Speaker 1: to slide my arm back to reach it. But there's
Speaker 1: no room in the back to slide it because that's it.
Speaker 1: There's only two seats. The trunk maybe held two bags
Speaker 1: of groceries. And because it's kind of an open air thing,
Speaker 1: it's kind of loud, very tough to hear bluetooth even
Speaker 1: when the top is up. And Mazda, I'm just not
Speaker 1: a fan of their infotainment system. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: not there. The graphic user, the user interface is not there.
Speaker 1: It's handy, a fun car. If you are a smaller person,
Speaker 1: I would not recommend it on it as a daily
Speaker 1: drive if you're over five and a half feet tall,
Speaker 1: maybe five seven five eight tops. But if you're on
Speaker 1: a budget, they don't cost that much and you're you
Speaker 1: don't have any kids, you don't want to schlup a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff in the back and you certainly don't
Speaker 1: play golf because the ain't no way you're fitting golf clubs
Speaker 1: in this thing. You can go check out the Mas Tomada.
Speaker 1: But other than that, ah as at least a little
Speaker 1: older demographic and the taller demographic mos to meauta fun
Speaker 1: but not as practical as I was like for somebody
Speaker 1: in my space and time in life right now? Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? There? You go those that if you
Speaker 1: want me to review a vehicle you haven't tried, you
Speaker 1: haven't heard me talk about. First of all, go to
Speaker 1: my website high Tech Textion dot com and go find
Speaker 1: a podcast. Go to I Heartrady to look for height
Speaker 1: High dash Tech Texan hih dash Tech. You will see
Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of my podcast
Speaker 1: no more than ten minutes long, of me reviewing cars.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you want me to try and
Speaker 1: you test drap something and you haven't add finals a
Speaker 1: segment coming up, don't go anywhere, give something away and
Speaker 1: we'll wrap it up. Michael Garth though High Tech Textan
Speaker 1: show less than ten minutes or so. Before we get
Speaker 1: out of here, we'll let you back into your beautiful
Speaker 1: first weekend of June or last day of May, depending
Speaker 1: when you're listening to this across these state of Texas
Speaker 1: and around the world on the iHeartRadio show. I want
Speaker 1: to follow up one more thing I teased about the
Speaker 1: cars industry. Obviously, I review, I test drive vehicles on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis, and I do, honestly think I really
Speaker 1: enjoy hearing from you. Hey, Michael, I heard your recommendation
Speaker 1: about this vehicle. My wife and I went out and
Speaker 1: bought this thing. I love it. My kids like the backseat.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Just think that's what I do. It is sadly it
Speaker 1: is not paid because we like paid things here in
Speaker 1: this industry. This is pure content, which is why I
Speaker 1: can give reviews like I just did for the Mazda Miata,
Speaker 1: where I just did not give it a glowing review
Speaker 1: because it's just a little too small for me. There's
Speaker 1: just some features I didn't like. But anyway, go podcast it,
Speaker 1: Callum read appreciate everything you do. Callum. He'll put this
Speaker 1: up on the iHeartRadio podcast when we're done. You can
Speaker 1: listen to the whole show. One more thing, though I do,
Speaker 1: I do test drive evs. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: into my normal spiel where yes, you know me, you've
Speaker 1: listened to me. I really like EV's. I think they're
Speaker 1: sexy cars. I think they're super fast. I think they're neat,
Speaker 1: But I personally wouldn't get one because I do not
Speaker 1: like the battery charging infrastructure that we have currently in
Speaker 1: the United States. And that's true. Okay, I don't want
Speaker 1: if I live in Houston, I want to go visit
Speaker 1: my parents in Dallas. I want to get in the
Speaker 1: car and I want to roll up by forty five
Speaker 1: without stopping. Okay, I don't want to have to stop
Speaker 1: in Centerville. I don't want to have something Fairfield. Cross
Speaker 1: my fingers that I can find a charger, then wait
Speaker 1: an hour and a half and get on my merry way.
Speaker 1: I have ADHD. I'm not like that. We got a roll. However,
Speaker 1: some news saw something that gm GM. They're unveiling a
Speaker 1: new groundbreaking EV battery technology and they're trying to be
Speaker 1: first to the mark with this stuff in the United States.
Speaker 1: It's a lithium manganese rich battery cell. That's right, folks,
Speaker 1: get ready for another acronym. It's called LMR Lithium manganese
Speaker 1: rich prismatic battery cell. It's going to be used in
Speaker 1: evs starting in twenty twenty eight. Oh good, only three
Speaker 1: more years. Apparently they're going to be less expensive, they
Speaker 1: use less expensive minerals, they're lighter, and they're more cost effective. Awesome,
Speaker 1: great press release words. SIS mean GM you were going
Speaker 1: to lower the cost of your evs. Ah tell me that?
Speaker 1: Tell me that. It doesn't say here they're going to
Speaker 1: be charging faster though. Nope. Let me look because that's
Speaker 1: what I care about. I like the fact that manufacturers
Speaker 1: are trying to come up with solutions to make batteries lighter,
Speaker 1: because the light of the battery is the light of
Speaker 1: the car is. The longer, the more mileage you can
Speaker 1: get because it's it's you know, it's not tearing as
Speaker 1: much low, Get it cool. I hope they store more
Speaker 1: energy in there so you can get more range instead
Speaker 1: of just two hundred and fifty miles, maybe three hundred
Speaker 1: fifty miles if you're lucky. That's good. Charge the thing faster.
Speaker 1: I mean China a month ago, month and a half
Speaker 1: ago evs everywhere you're doing there are scentives for Chinese
Speaker 1: consumers inhabitants to purchase evs versus gas vehicle byd which
Speaker 1: is the one of the major manufacturers over there who
Speaker 1: produce relatively inexpensive evs, much cheer than we get here
Speaker 1: in the United States. They're coming up with a battery
Speaker 1: that allegedly can charge in ten minutes. They have cars
Speaker 1: with batteries that are swappable, meaning you roll up to
Speaker 1: a gas station or a service station like entity store
Speaker 1: and they will take your battery out and they will
Speaker 1: swap it. It's kind of like a propane tank switch.
Speaker 1: You're ready to go. You don't need to wait around.
Speaker 1: That is what's going to get me to purchase in EV.
Speaker 1: But I think evs are great for a second car,
Speaker 1: and if you don't need to drive far, keep it
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood. If you've got a charging you know,
Speaker 1: infrastructure inside your house and your office. Good, it's all yours.
Speaker 1: Go get an EV if you want my recommendation, and
Speaker 1: I test drive and EV probably have at least once
Speaker 1: a month. So I am here for you with that.
Speaker 1: What else before we wipe up the show and get
Speaker 1: you out of here. For all you Apple fans, I
Speaker 1: don't talk about Apple a lot. I really don't. Apple
Speaker 1: is going to start renaming allegedly. I have to say allegedly,
Speaker 1: because they're just rumors. They're going to be renaming their
Speaker 1: operating systems. What are we are? We're on iOS eighteen
Speaker 1: something like that. Well coming out you know obviously July
Speaker 1: in the fall, there's going to be an E that's
Speaker 1: when they release the new iPhones and everything, and that's
Speaker 1: when they release a new operating system. And what they
Speaker 1: do is they come up with it. They just increasing
Speaker 1: in a number. We're at iOS eighteen right now, so
Speaker 1: you're expecting iOS nineteen to come. Nope, Apple, Look at
Speaker 1: what they're doing. One of, if not the world's largest
Speaker 1: company that you think knows consumers. They're doing something consumer friendly.
Speaker 1: They starting this fall, are going to change their numbering system.
Speaker 1: They are going to make it in sync with what
Speaker 1: year it's released. So the next announcement, the next stepdate
Speaker 1: is going to be iOS twenty six because next year
Speaker 1: is twenty twenty six. Look at you wonder where they
Speaker 1: got that idea, maybe because that's how cars are numbered.
Speaker 1: This is the twenty twenty five version of the mas
Speaker 1: de Miata. Next year we're gonna get a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six Nissan Frontier. It's exactly how sports video games like
Speaker 1: college football two K, Madden twenty six. That's how that's like,
Speaker 1: good job for you. By the way, Samsung, which maybe
Speaker 1: one of the last times I ever mentioned Samsong. Long story,
Speaker 1: Samsung began naming its flagship smartphone releases by their launch years,
Speaker 1: like five years ago. They remember it. They had a
Speaker 1: Galaxy S ten back in twenty nineteen. The next year, boom,
Speaker 1: it was the Galaxy S twenty because it was twenty
Speaker 1: twenty for you. But just it just makes things cleaner,
Speaker 1: it makes things simpler, which is how I do. Tell
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